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at risk with laws stir
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defendant
unionize her Starbucks. worry,
candidate
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america9s institutions have republican-led state legisla-

been attacked repeatedly over the tors and their allies have mount-
past half-dozen years, thanks ed a far-reaching and coordinat-
principally to the conduct and ed effort to pass a record wave of
actions of Donald Trump. The new measures restricting gay and
next 18 months could further un- transgender rights. almost no as-
dermine confidence in democra- pect of life is untouched.
cy and the rule of law as the among the roughly 60 laws
former president seeks a return to enacted in nearly half of u.S.
the white House while defending states this year are limits on what
himself against federal and state children can read about lGBTQ
criminal charges. people, whether trans youths can
Not since the Vietnam war in participate in school athletics,
the 1960s or perhaps the mid-19th what trans or nonbinary adults
century before the Civil war has can wear in public, which bath-
the country9s governing structure rooms and pronouns they can
faced such disunity and peril, giv- use, and whom doctors can treat.
en the unprecedented nature of a Trans americans make up less
federal criminal indictment of a than 1 percent of the population.
former president compounded by But this year, they are facing
the fact that Trump has been heightened scrutiny. The backers
charged by the Justice Depart- of the restrictions say they want
ment in the administration of the to protect children. Conflicts over
Democrat who defeated him in lGBTQ rights have spilled into
2020 and who is his likeliest the streets, school board meet-
general-election opponent in ings and store aisles. Drag story
2024, if Trump is nominated hours and Pride Month displays
again by the republican Party. are now occasions for protests,
Scholars, legal experts and po- vandalism and even violence.
litical strategists agree that what Conservative pundits and elected
lies ahead is ugly and unpredict- LAuren PetrAccA for the WAshinGton Post officials regularly cast lGBTQ
able. Many fear that the 2024 people as a threat to children and
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exi rizzo was cleaning dishes in the back had worked for nearly eight years was deter- ing anti-lGBTQ campaigns of the
Slow start: Biden9s reelection of her Starbucks store on March 31 when iN BuffalO, New yOrk mined to fire her. and rizzo thought she knew 1970s.
campaign begins to take shape. a6 she noticed that her manager was print- why: She was one of 49 baristas from across all of this led the Human
ing a document, her hands shaking. Buffalo who sent a letter to the company9s chief rights Campaign this month to
<i9m getting fired,= rizzo, 25, told her executive in august 2021 informing him that issue a state of emergency for
co-workers through her store headset. they were seeking to form a union. lGBTQ americans 4 the first in

Congress Her boss called her over a few seconds

later. <This is not my favorite day,= the
manager began. rizzo hit record on her
TOP: Starbucks employees
celebrate their victory in a
Today, there are about 320 unionized Star-
bucks stores in the united States 4 a rare bright
spot for the shrinking labor movement. But the
the nonprofit9s more than 40-year
history. it also has prompted the
architects of anti-trans laws, who
seeks crash phone. even though she had signed rizzo9s
notice of separation, the manager told rizzo
unionization vote in 2021 in
Buffalo ABOVE: Lexi Rizzo
gains have come at a price, union officials said.
Only 13 of the workers who signed the original
say they have <maxed out= at the
state level, to set their sights on

course on AI that she had hoped the company would not

dismiss her.
<it honestly kills me,= she told rizzo.
leaves for a potluck with other
fired Starbucks workers. Rizzo,
a shift supervisor who was
Buffalo organizing letter are still with the
company.
rizzo, a shift supervisor, had seen the union
passing federal restrictions. Both
sides agree that the battle over
lGBTQ rights is likely to intensify
from insiders for months, rizzo had clocked in before
dawn convinced that the company where she
active in the unionization push,
was fired in March.
as a solution to so many of the problems that
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when rep. Jerry McNerney

took over the House caucus dedi-
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2018, his colleagues were not all
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members to attend our meetings,=
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makers from the 435-person body. AND T ERRENCE M C C OY of their indigenous community, diers reached the wreckage two
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enthusiasm, too. Brussels was ex- sign of distress came 35 minutes 11 months 4 were preparing for a adult were dead. But there was no
panding efforts to regulate the into the flight. new life with her husband in Bo- sign of the children. The collision
technology in 2020, but when <Mayday, mayday, mayday!= pi- gotá. had barely damaged their seats 4
Dragos Tudorache, a romanian lot Hernán Murcia radioed Co- But now they were all hurtling and the discovery of a diaper, a
member of the european Parlia- lombia9s air traffic control system. toward the forest canopy. half-eaten piece of fruit and small
ment who co-leads ai work, con- <My motor9s failing. i9m going to <i have a river to my right,= footprints sparked an unreason-
tacted the u.S. caucus, there look for a place to land.= Murcia said, according to a pre- able hope: Could they still be
seemed to be little political mo- The single-propeller six-seater liminary crash report. <i9m going alive?
mentum. stuttered over a vast, largely unex- to touch down on water.= even in this country of magical
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governMenT from A1
election will not overcome the
distrust of many Americans in
their government and its pillars,
almost no matter the outcome.
<A constitutional democracy
stands or falls with the effective-
ness and trustworthiness of the
systems through which laws are
created and enforced,= said Wil-
liam Galston of the Brookings
Institution. <If you have funda-
mental doubts raised about those
institutions, then constitutional
democracy as a whole is in trou-
ble.=
The indictment in the case in-
volving Trump9s retention of clas-
sified government documents
coming in the midst of a presiden-
tial campaign raises legal ques-
tions about what might happen if
he were to be convicted and elect-
ed. Could Trump pardon himself?
Could he serve as president after a
conviction? Could he run for of-
fice from a prison cell? Depending
on events, those could become
ripe for adjudication.
on top of those legal questions
are big issues confronting the
country. With other investiga-
tions continuing 4 one into
Trump9s role in the Jan. 6, 2021,
attack on the U.S. Capitol and in
the fake electors scheme, and the
other looking at his efforts to
overturn the Georgia results of
the 2020 presidential election 4
more damage might be inflicted
on these democratic institutions
by the battering likely to take
place between now and the inau-
guration in 2025.
<It seems obvious and clear
that it9s going to be worse and
probably much worse, but the
form it might take and what that
extreme reaction looks like is very
hard to predict,= said Jack Gold-
smith, who served in the Justice
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George W. Bush and now is a
professor at Harvard Law School.
<Convicted or not, nominee or
not, we can assume [Trump] is
going to inflame this to the maxi-
mum and his supporters will in-
flame this to the maximum.=
for the past three years, Trump
has sought to shred long-standing
trust in the country9s electoral
process, claiming falsely that the
2020 election was rigged and sto-
len. With no supporting evidence
to buttress those claims, public
opinion surveys suggest that
Trump nonetheless has persuad-
ed millions of republican voters
that President Biden was not le-
gitimately elected. Election deni-
alism now infects a large portion
of the republican Party.
With the new indictment,
Trump is again taking direct aim
at the integrity of law enforce-
ment agencies, the judicial sys-
tem and, ultimately, public faith
in the rule of law. He did this as
president, and now, in the after-
math of his 37 charges in the
documents case 4 to which he
pleaded not guilty 4 he has esca-
lated those attacks in an effort to
discredit the Justice Department
and the fBI, claiming he is a
victim of a politicized <witch
hunt.=
This is not the first time the
political and legal systems have
been tested together. But past
comparisons are imperfect be-
cause the state of the country has
changed. As a result, institutions
of government are more fragile.
That heightens the risks to the
country this time.
The 2000 presidential election
between George W. Bush and Al
Gore ended in a virtual tie, lead-
ing to a bitter recount in florida
that ultimately resulted in the
Supreme Court9s 5-to-4 decision
that effectively awarded the presi-
dency to Bush, who received a
narrow electoral college majority,
although Gore had narrowly won
the national popular vote.
This was a stress test by any
measure. Gore was gracious in
defeat, even though he disagreed
with the court9s decision, showing
a willingness to put the country
and its institutions above his per-
sonal ambitions and disappoint-
ments.
Benjamin Ginsberg, a republi-
can lawyer, was working with the
Bush team in florida at the time
and pointed to the different con-
ditions then. <faith in institutions
was the only way you would ap-
proach that,= he said. <That is
clearly no longer the case. Both
candidates [in 2000] were going
to accept the results no matter
how fraught the situation. This is
really different and unprecedent-
ed.=
Watergate is another example
of the system under stress. In that
case, then-President richard m.
Nixon chose to resign in August
1974 rather than remain in office
and face almost-certain impeach-
ment and conviction. But that was
in part because prosecutors en-
joyed the trust of the public and
Nixon was not prepared to go
against that.
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pretty broad consensus in the
legitimacy of what the prosecu-
tors were doing,= Goldsmith said.
<That9s not in today9s politics.=
Nixon was pardoned by his
successor, Gerald ford, and to this
day is the only president to have
received one. Early into his term
as president, Trump consulted ad-
visers about the reach of his par-
don powers, and whether he
could pardon himself in connec-
tion to then-special counsel rob-
ert S. mueller III9s investigation
into russian interference in the
2016 election.
The Constitution says the pres-
ident has the authority <to grant
reprieves and pardons for offens-
es against the United States.= No
president has ever pardoned him-
self, and the question of whether a
president legitimately holds such
power has never been tested in
court.
michael Gerhardt, a law profes-
sor at the University of North
Carolina, said the text of the Con-
stitution cannot be read to give
the president that authority.
<When you grant something, you
are giving it to someone else,=
Gerhardt said. <It can only be
sensibly read to convey that the
president has the power to give
somebody else the pardon, not
himself.=
Ken Gormley, the president of
Duquesne University and an ex-
pert on the Constitution, the pres-
idency and the pardon power,
agreed. <The idea of a self-pardon
runs counter to the entire pur-
pose of a pardon under the Con-
stitution,= he said.
Nixon asked the Justice De-
partment for advice on this ques-
tion during the Watergate scan-
dal. In response, the office of
Legal Counsel said emphatically
that the president cannot pardon
himself. <Under the fundamental
rule that no one may be a judge in
his own case, it would seem that
the question should be answered
in the negative,= mary C. Lawton,
the acting assistant attorney gen-
eral, wrote in a brief 1974 memo.
Lawton went on to suggest,
however, that the president could
use the 25th Amendment to de-
clare himself temporarily unable
to perform the duties of his office.
In that case, the vice president
would become acting president
and <as such he could pardon the
president. Thereafter the presi-
dent could either resign or re-
sume the duties of his office,=
Lawton wrote.
Gerhardt pointed to legal
scholarship that suggests the 25th
Amendment is intended to ad-
dress disabilities such as physical
or mental impairment, and not
impairment that is due to a legal
problem. But those novel legal
questions never have been litigat-
ed, and if Trump did attempt to
pardon himself 4 or leave it to his
vice president 4 the issues could
end up before the Supreme Court.
Nothing in the Constitution
prevents a presidential candidate
from campaigning or serving as
president while under indictment
or post-conviction, although
some crimes are disqualifying. In
1920, Eugene V. Debs ran as the
Socialist Party candidate while
serving time in federal prison for
speaking out against the draft
during World War I. He received
nearly a million votes.
Another question that has aris-
en is what crimes would legally
preclude someone from holding
office. Among them are: <Conceal-
ment, removal, or mutilation gen-
erally,= which makes illegal the
willful theft or destruction of any
government document. Under
federal law, committing that
crime is punishable by up to three
years in prison and disqualifies
someone from holding any office
in the country.
When law enforcement offi-
cials searched Trump9s mar-a-La-
go property in August 2022, the
warrant listed three crimes that
may have been committed to jus-
tify the search of the former presi-
dent9s residence. The law that
bars someone from being presi-
dent, U.S. Code 2071, was one of
them.
Ultimately, however, in the in-
dictment, federal prosecutors did
not accuse Trump of committing
this crime. None of the crimes
that federal prosecutors formally
accused Trump of committing
would prevent him from being
president.
Still another legal question is
whether a former president is
immune from criminal liability
for actions taken while in office.
The federal case involving classi-
fied documents did not involve
things done when Trump was
president. The New York case in-
volving hush money paid to an
adult-film actress, in which
Trump was charged with falsify-
ing business records to conceal
the payment, involved actions
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taken before and during his presi-
dency.
Two pending investigations,
special counsel Jack Smith9s
probe involving Trump9s role
leading up to the attack on the
U.S. Capitol and fulton County
District Attorney fani T. Willis9s
examination of Trump9s efforts to
overturn the 2020 results in Geor-
gia, are examining actions carried
out while he was president.
Nixon was sued for damages in
a civil case after firing a civilian
employee. The Supreme Court, in
a 5-to-4 decision in Nixon v.
Fitzgerald, ruled in his favor, say-
ing that a president had absolute
immunity from liability for civil
damages when acting in his offi-
cial capacity.
<If either of those indictments
[in the pending investigations]
move forward, there9s going to be
this question of whether Nixon v.
Fitzgerald extends beyond civil
liability to criminal liability,= said
Vikram Amar, the dean of the
University of Illinois College of
Law.
Putting aside these future ques-
tions, Amar sees an immediate
threat in the cases involving
Trump, a threat to the role and
power of evidence and the public9s
belief in evidence. <You can9t have
a criminal system unless evidence
is going to matter, and you can9t
have elections if evidence doesn9t
matter,= he said.
Amar said he worries about the
documents case because, he esti-
mated, <There are 30 to 40 per-
cent of America that would never
think Trump9s conviction was fair,
no matter what the evidence
shows. They9ve made up their
minds that this is a witch hunt.=
The indictment of Trump in the
documents case represented a no-
win decision for Smith and Attor-
ney General merrick Garland,
who appointed the special coun-
sel and allowed the charges to go
forward.
In the estimation of many legal
experts, declining to charge
Trump, given the preponderance
of evidence laid out in the indict-
ment, would have sent a signal
that former presidents, or at least
this former president, are above
the law.
But the indictment provided
Trump an opening to attack feder-
al law enforcement and to further
erode his political supporters9
trust in the institutions of govern-
ment.
The possibility of an indict-
ment in the Jan. 6 investigation
adds another layer of risk. Gold-
smith sees that case as more
fraught legally than the docu-
ments case and therefore poten-
tially harder for prosecutors to
win. It also carries additional po-
litical consequences. <Doing two
cases at once, will it be seen as
piling on?= he said. <Will it be seen
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as making things worse?=
Biden also is under investiga-
tion by a special counsel, for hav-
ing classified documents in his
possession. The facts of the case
are very different from those of
the one involving Trump, includ-
ing the fact that Biden and his
team appear to have cooperated
fully with federal officials. So, too,
did former vice president mike
Pence, who also had classified
documents in his possession after
leaving office.
The Pence matter was closed
without any charges being
brought. The investigation in-
volving Biden continues. If Biden
is not prosecuted, Trump is likely
to claim, and many of his follow-
ers probably would accept, that
there were two standards of jus-
tice at work, despite the differenc-
es in the facts.
one other investigation will af-
fect the political debate. That in-
volves Hunter Biden, the presi-
dent9s son, and is probing possible
violations of tax and gun laws.
federal investigators are said to
be nearing a charging decision in
that case. Would indicting the
current president9s son do any-
thing to convince Trump and his
followers that the justice system is
fair?
Attacks on the legitimacy of
government institutions are most
virulent on the political right, led
by Trump. But many on the left
also have doubts, especially about
a Supreme Court that now has a
solid conservative majority and
whose rulings in cases including
Dobbs v. Jackson Women9s Health
Organization, which ended the
constitutional right to abortion,
have inflamed the political de-
bate.
These are likely to be the condi-
tions throughout the coming elec-
tion year. By any measure, this
represents a gloomy prospect for
restoring a thriving democracy.
<At the level of national politics
and presidential politics, things
do feel quite fragile, and I don9t
have much reason to think we9re
about to turn the corner in 2024,=
said Archon fung, a professor at
Harvard9s Kennedy School of Gov-
ernment who studies issues of
democracy.
Some experts see small reasons
to be hopeful. The institutions of
government proved to be largely
resilient in the face of Trump9s
attacks during his presidency, al-
though Goldsmith said he worries
about what might happen if
Trump is elected to another term.
Trump has vowed retribution
against his adversaries and would
be likely to be surrounded in
office by aides who would help
him execute his wishes.
others say that at the local
level, there are signs that citizens
of differing political views are
determined to try to prevent atti-
tudes in their communities from
becoming inflamed. Ginsberg
said he and Bob Bauer, a Demo-
cratic lawyer and former White
House counsel, are working with
local officials to help assure elec-
tion safeguards and to educate
the public about them.
many of Trump9s critics wish
that through the legal process, the
former president were somehow
disqualified from serving again as
president. The counterargument
to that is that questions about his
fate and the country9s future prob-
ably would be better answered at
the ballot box than in the court-
room.
A conviction and a decisive
defeat at the ballot box might
force Trump from the political
scene and cause the republican
Party to move in a different direc-
tion, although in an era of close
elections, the prospect of 2024
producing a blowout in either
direction remains doubtful 4 and
even that would not necessarily
cleanse the system.
<The country functioned after
the Civil War,= Galston added,
<but it was a long time before the
system was drained of the politi-
cal poisons of the Civil War.=
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Poll: Black Americans more upbeat but fear worsening racism
Post-Ipsos survey finds
rise in optimism and
financial well-being

BY T IM C RAIG,
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An overwhelming share of
Black Americans think the U.S.
economic system is stacked
against them and a slim majority
believe the problem of racism will
worsen during their lives, accord-
ing to a Washington Post-Ipsos
poll that explored the attitudes of
the country9s second-largest mi-
nority group.
The poll finds that Black adults
worry they are marginalized and
under threat by acts of hate and
discrimination in their day-to-day
lives. Most also say it is more
dangerous to be a Black teenager
now than when they were teens.
Nonetheless, nearly half of
Black Americans say it9s also a
<good time= to be a Black person in
the country, up from 30 percent in
2020 when the United States was
gripped by political divisions dur-
ing Donald Trump9s presidency
and from 34 percent last spring
after a white supremacist killed 10
Black people at a Buffalo grocery
store. The poll was conducted
among more than 1,200 Black
adults over two weeks in late April
and early May.
The rise in some optimism
comes amid an uptick in financial
well-being. The poll finds 31 per-
cent of Black Americans say their
financial situation has gotten bet- MATT MCCLAIn/THe WASHIngTon PoST

ter over the past year, up from
25 percent in 2022. Nearly 8 in 10
Black Americans say their financ-
es have been stable or improved in
recent years. Still, Black Ameri-
cans are less likely than White
Americans to rate their finances
positively.
Fewer Black Americans also re-
port that they have been treated
with less respect or received poor-
er service because of their race
than they did in 2011, although
most say those incidents still oc-
cur at least <once in a while.=
When it comes to the nation
more broadly, however, Black
Americans are uneasy over the
nation9s political and cultural en-
vironment and believe most
White Americans don9t trust
them. Follow-up interviews with
respondents show a variety of fac-
People at Black Lives Matter Plaza in D.C. on April 16. A Washington Post-Ipsos poll found that half of respondents say it9s also a <good time= to be a Black person in the
United States, up from 30 percent in 2020 when the United States was gripped by political divisions during Donald Trump9s presidency.
of 4 Black adults are <very= or About half of Black Americans say racism will get
<somewhat= concerned about worse over the rest of their lifetimes
states stopping the teaching of
Black history, and nearly 7 out of Q: over the rest of your life, do you think the problem of racism in
10 are concerned about public America will...
schools banning books that touch
on the topic of racism, including get better get worse Stay about the same Skipped
nearly half who are <extremely
concerned.= Just over 7 in 10 are
Black Americans overall 11% 51 37
concerned about states stopping
public schools from teaching the Age 18-29 13 47 38
history of racism in America.
About half of White Americans Age 30-39 13 43 41
overall say they are concerned
about each of these. Age 40-49 10 53 35
Black Americans are more in-
clined to sense a gulf of distrust, Age 50-64 8 57 33
with 8 in 10 Black Americans say- Age 65+ 11 49 38
ing White people trust Black peo-
ple <not too much= or <not at all= in JoSHuA LoTT/THe WASHIngTon PoST

tors fueling these concerns about
the future 4 a rise in hate groups,
gun violence, and new laws in
Florida and other states regulat-
ing the teaching of Black history
and racism.
These concerns suggest 4 even
as 86 percent of Black Americans
say they are very or somewhat
satisfied with their lives 4 the
cumulative impacts of extremism
and political tension is driving
widespread worry about the fu-
ture of race relations.
<Yeah, you can get jobs and you
can work up to a certain standard
of living,= said Renay Roberts, 40,
who settled in Atlanta about two
decades ago from Jamaica and
works in the health-care industry.
<But it9s fear. It9s the constant fear
& And it9s all about race. =
Roberts mentioned specifically
the Republican-led backlash to
movies and books with Black
characters as well as her belief
that growing numbers of mass
shootings are motivated by racial
bias. She said she also fears her
two teenage sons could be harmed
by police or become victims of gun
violence.
<I fear for them every day,= Rob-
erts said. <I tell them, 8Don9t cover
your head with a hood, and try to
get home before dark.9 Why is it
more different for us than any
other race?=
In the Post-Ipsos poll, 69 per-
cent of Black Americans say it is a
<more dangerous= time today to
be a Black teenager than when
they were the same age. Just 4 per-
cent say it is a less dangerous time
while 25 percent describe the en-
vironment for teenagers as being
<about the same.=
Nearly 6 in 10 Black adults say
they are very or somewhat wor-
ried they or someone they love
will be attacked because they are
Black.
Asked about the April shooting
of a Black 16-year-old in Kansas
City by an 84-year-old White man
after the victim approached the
wrong house when trying to pick
up his younger siblings, 85 per-
cent say it is a sign of broader
problems in the treatment of
Black people by White people,
compared with 54 percent of
White Americans who say this.
On other fronts, as well, there
were sharp differences between
the views among different racial
and ethnic groups.
The Post-Ipsos poll finds 3 out
the United States overall. Seven in
10 White Americans feel that
Black people distrust White peo-
ple.
Concerns about public stances
in certain states extend to Black
Americans9 belief that they are not
getting a fair shake from the coun-
try9s political system.
Over 6 in 10 Black adults say
they were worried when GOP law-
makers in the Tennessee House
voted this spring to expel state
representatives Justin Jones and
Justin Pearson, both Black Demo-
crats, for leading a gun-control
rally at the Capitol. They later
were reinstated to the body after
votes by local officials.
Nearly 8 in 10 Black Americans
also say they have <very little= or
just <some= political power in the
United States.
Jerry Slaten, 75, of Union City,
Tenn., said he fears the United
States is sliding backward in race
relations compared with gains in
the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Slaten
said he believes individual states,
including his own, are creating
policies that foster new racial divi-
sions.
<There are a lot of decent Euro-
pean Americans, but they don9t
have the courage to stand up, most
of them, so we suffer,= Slaten said,
adding that states such as <Ten-
nessee and Florida and Texas and,
to some, Virginia, are becoming
states that are not where we
hoped to be.=
But Slaten, an Army veteran
who retired in 2010 after working
in a seed factory, believes some of
the challenges facing Black Amer-
icans <are self-inflicted,= includ-
ing not doing more to combat gun
violence in predominantly Black
neighborhoods.
<We can9t blame [White Ameri-
cans] for everything,= said Slaten,
who grew up in northwestern Ten-
nessee during segregation. <Some
of this we just have to blame on
ourselves.=
On economic matters, Black
Americans offer a mixed, and nu-
anced, outlook about the state of
the country and their personal
finances. Although 74 percent of
Black Americans describe the na-
tion9s economy as <not so good= or
<poor,= a smaller 43 percent de-
scribe their own financial situa-
tion that way.
Six in 10 Black Americans say
not having enough savings is a
financial stress and nearly as
People protest the plan of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to cancel
Black Americans more positive about whether it's a Advanced Placement courses on African American studies.
good time to be a Black person in America today
many say their income is insuffi-
Q: In general, do you think it is a good or a bad time to be a Black cient, but most do not feel that
person in America? student loan debt, housing or
child-care costs pose a major chal-
good time Bad time lenge. Asked about the U.S. eco-
Shooting
targeting nomic system, 81 percent say it is
80% Black <stacked against Black people,= up
people in from 44 percent who said the
Bufalo same in 2011.
60% Black Americans today are
49% nearly evenly split on whether it
matters more to get an education
40% 48%
and work or to come from money
and know the right people to get
ahead in the United States: 49 per-
20% cent say getting a good education
and working hard will matter
more to getting ahead in life,
0%
2020 2021 2022 2023 while 48 percent say coming from
money and knowing the right peo-
note: Skipped not shown. ple matters more. In 2011, nearly 8
in 10 said getting a good education
and working hard mattered more.
More Black Americans say their ûnancial situation has Lester Lowe, a resident of the
been getting better now than in 2022 affluent northwestern Indiana
town of Crown Point, said Black
Americans today have far more
<opportunities= to advance them-
getting better Staying the same getting worse Skipped selves economically if they seek
them out. Lowe, 57, is a former
2022 25% 52 22 small-business owner who transi-
tioned into the cybersecurity field
2023 31 47 20 about a decade ago.
<In previous eras, lack of oppor-
note: Totals may not equal 100 because of rounding.
tunities, lack of equality, were sub-
stantial, and you literally had a
ceiling where you could go and
what you could do or who you
About 8 in 10 Black Americans say America's could even be,= he said. <And while
America is not equal by any
economic system is stacked against them stretch of the imagination, today a
Q: Do you think America's economic system is... lot of those barriers have been
removed.=
Stacked against Black people Fair to everyone Yet despite his optimism about
economic opportunities for him-
other/neither/no opinion/Skipped self and his seven children, Lowe
worries that the United States
won9t make strides to combat rac-
80% 81%
ism over the course of his life.
<Unfortunately, as a result of
60% the Trump era, we may have even
taken a step back,= said Lowe, a
political independent. <I thought
40% before that, we were moving in a
positive direction.=
20% Trump9s presidency, he said,
15% <exposed something that was un-
derlying= that many Black Ameri-
0% 4% cans previously <couldn9t see.=
2010 2015 2020 Now, Lowe fears some of the vot-
Source: April 28-May 12, 2023, Washington Post-Ipsos poll of 1,225 Black adults with an error
ers who embraced the former
margin of +/- 3.5 percentage points. 2006 and 2011 Post-KFF phone polls with response president feel more comfortable
option "stacked against blacks". error margins are larger among subgroups. harboring open animosity toward
minorities, and that makes him
eMILY guSKIn / THe WASHIngTon PoST pessimistic.
<The ideologies and mindsets
seem to be so entrenched,= Lowe
said. <And the people that hold on
to those views, and hold those
values, are insisting on not just
entrenching themselves, but also
teaching those ideologies and
those same views to their chil-
dren.=
But Lowe mostly views racism
<as a state problem.=
<Everyone is looking for the
president to do something for Af-
rican Americans, but the real
problem is at the local level, and
the state level, and that is where
the real work has to be,= Lowe said.
In their own workplaces,
82 percent of Black employees say
the environment is <excellent= or
<good= when it comes to being
welcoming. Large majorities rate
their workplaces positively for
stopping racial discrimination
(76 percent) and paying Black and
White workers equally (74 per-
cent). A smaller majority, 65 per-
cent, gives their workplace posi-
tive marks for promoting Black
workers.
Beyond work, however, 17 per-
cent of Black Americans say they
often feel treated with less respect
or feel as if they received bad
service at a restaurant or some
other store because of their race.
Roberts, the Atlanta resident,
said racism is not something she
experiences at work, in her di-
verse neighborhood or even
<within 10 miles= of her house
during her day-to-day activities.
Still, she can9t shake the sense
that the country is sliding back-
ward, and feels she and her family
are more at risk today than in the
past.
<Before, I felt like if I didn9t do
anything bad to anyone, I
wouldn9t have anything to fear,=
she said. <But that is not the case
anymore.=
The Post-Ipsos poll was conducted
online through the Ipsos
KnowledgePanel from April 28 to May
12, among a random national sample
of 1,225 non-Hispanic Black adults
and a partially overlapping sample of
1,18 u.S. adults overall. Results
among Black Americans have a
margin of error of plus- or minus-
3.5 percentage points; the margin is
three points among Americans
overall.
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Trump vows to end
8birthright citizenship.9 It
is unlikely that he could.
<As part of my
plan to secure the
border on Day
One of my new
term in office, I
will sign an
The Fact executive order
Checker making clear to
Glenn federal agencies
Kessler that under the
correct
interpretation of
the law, going forward, the
future children of illegal aliens
will not receive automatic U.S.
citizenship.=
4 Former president Donald
Trump, in a statement, May 30
Nearly five years ago,
President Donald Trump told
Axios he would soon issue an
executive order that would
prevent the children of
undocumented immigrants from
automatically obtaining U.S.
citizenship. The executive order
also would have halted what
Trump called <birth tourism,=
the practice of some women
traveling to the United States on
a nonimmigrant tourist visa
specifically to give birth, thus
securing U.S. citizenship for
children who would be raised
overseas.
Trump never issued the
executive order. Instead, he only
directed the State Department to
issue a rule that attempted to
crack down on birth tourism by
giving visa officers the authority
to deny visas to women whose
primary purpose for traveling
appeared to be giving birth in
the United States. The Trump
campaign claims <tens of
thousands= of women do this
every year, but the most recent
data from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
indicates that only 5,636 babies
were born to foreign
nonresidents in 2021 4 a figure
possibly affected by the
pandemic. That number also
could include multiple births to
the same woman. In 2019, the
CDC recorded 10,042 babies
born to foreign nonresidents.
Senate Republicans like and respect Tim Scott 4 they9re just not backing him
His fellow
@PKCapitol Republican
Paul Kane colleagues can9t
say enough good
things about Sen.
Tim Scott (R-S.C.).
<He9s admired by both sides of
the aisle here,= Sen. Thom Tillis
(R-N.C.) said Thursday.
<Tim Scott is very much
appreciated and loved,= Sen. Mitt
Romney (R-Utah) said
Wednesday.
<I think the world of Tim
Scott,= Sen. John Barrasso (R-
Wyo.) said earlier this spring.
Yet none of them has actually
endorsed Scott9s bid for the 2024
presidential nomination. Almost
a month since formally entering
the race, Scott has just two
colleagues backing his bid: South
Dakota Sens. Mike Rounds and
John Thune.
All told, 35 Senate
Republicans remain on the
sidelines of the 2024 contest,
more than 70 percent of the
caucus, and it9s crystal clear that
many are paralyzed by the fear
that former president Donald
Trump might seek revenge if
they publicly support someone
else.
Today9s Senate GOP ranks are
adrift in a broader Republican
realignment in which their
traditional conservative ideology
feels increasingly marginalized.
They don9t comport with
Trump9s America First worldview
calling for a retreat from global
leadership and opposing the
strong defense of Ukraine
against Russia. In their last
legislative act during his
presidency, 40 Senate
Republicans joined 41
Democrats to override Trump9s
veto of the 2021 Pentagon policy
bill.
A few days later, 43 GOP
senators voted to affirm
President Biden9s 2020 election,
while only eight objected. So far,
just 10 Senate Republicans have
endorsed the ex-president9s bid
to return to the White House.
While most were too afraid to
convict him during his 2021
impeachment trial, many GOP
senators believe Trump is a
political anchor weighing down
their party9s chances of winning
the majority.
In Scott, they have a candidate
whose personal story and policy
beliefs fit what the traditional
GOP9s messaging has been
preaching for decades: He grew
up in a single-parent home and
overcame poverty to eventually
make history as the first Black
Trump knows that any such
executive order would be quickly
challenged and that ultimately
the Supreme Court would weigh
in. What9s changed is that Trump
believes he now would have the
votes at the court to win a
showdown over the legality of
the order, having substituted
Amy Coney Barrett for the late
Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Here9s a guide to the issue.
There is enough ambiguity that
legal scholars say the outcome is
not entirely clear, but Trump
would face stiff challenges.
A 125-year-old precedent
Only about three dozen
countries permit birthright
citizenship, and most are in the
Americas 4 a legacy of the
colonial period, when European
powers sought to quickly
populate lands in the New
World. In the United States, the
right to citizenship upon birth in
the country is rooted in the first
sentence of the 14th
Amendment: <All persons born
or naturalized in the United
States, and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, are citizens
of the United States and of the
state wherein they reside.=
The 14th Amendment was
adopted in 1868, repudiating the
Supreme Court9s 7-to-2 decision
in Dred Scott v. Sandford, an
1857 ruling that denied
citizenship to people of African
descent born in the United
States.
Some have debated whether
the phrase <subject to the
jurisdiction thereof = indicated
some limits on this right, but in
1898, the Supreme Court ruled
that this right to citizenship
covered Wong Kim Ark, who was
born in San Francisco to Chinese
nationals legally residing in the
United States. The justices listed
only a handful of exceptions to
birthright citizenship, such as
the children of foreign
diplomats, children born on
foreign ships, children
belonging to hostile armies on
Republican elected from the
Deep South to the Senate, where
he9s championed free-market
principles for conquering
economic hardship.
Yet only Thune and Rounds
have stepped forward to endorse
Scott. And North Dakota9s
senators, Kevin Cramer and John
Hoeven, are the only other
Senate Republicans to endorse a
candidate not named Trump,
bowing to tradition in support of
their state9s governor, Doug
Burgum, who has little name
recognition and is a very long-
shot bid.
<A lot of them, they don9t want
to get on the wrong side of
Trump,= Sen. Lindsey O. Graham
(R-S.C.) said Thursday, laughing
out loud about how often that
happens.
What about Scott? <Tim9s a
great guy,= Graham said.
Apparently, not great enough
for him to endorse his home-
state colleague. Graham, who
prides himself on defending the
military, is going with Trump
despite the ex-president9s
opposition to defending Ukraine,
and even though Scott9s anti-
Russia position is more closely
aligned with Graham9s on what
he considers a critical national
security issue.
<I9ve got a bunch of friends in
this race 4 and I just jumped in
the deep end of the pool with
Trump because I think he
deserves another shot,= Graham
said.
Thune is aware that many
Senate Republicans are looking
over their shoulder to see if a
Trump-inspired challenger is
lurking.
<There9s some primary politics
there,= he explained.
Rounds and Thune, having
won reelection in 2020 and 2022,
respectively, need not worry
about a primary for several
years. They followed their heads
and their hearts to endorse the
candidate who they think best
represents their own views and
has the chance to actually win
the general election.
Rounds sat next to Scott on
the Senate Banking Committee
for years, Thune worked closely
with Scott on the Finance
Committee9s 2017 tax-cut
legislation.
When it became clear Scott
would jump into the 2024 race,
Thune asked Rounds what he
thought.
<I think he9s the right guy for
the job, positive. He9s the closest
to a [new] Ronald Reagan, in
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aboard the 1885 Tall Ship Wavertree at the South Street Seaport in Manhattan on Wednesday.
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Wong Kim Ark in a photograph
from a federal immigration
investigation conducted under
the Chinese Exclusion Act.
American territory, or <children
of members of the Indian tribes
owing direct allegiance= to their
tribes.
<The Amendment, in clear
words and in manifest intent,
includes the children born,
within the territory of the
United States, of all other
persons, of whatever race or
color, domiciled within the
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) has 140 current and former state officials supporting his presidential bid 4 but
no endorsements from Gov. Henry McMaster, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham or the state9s House contingent.
terms of his excitement, his
ability to communicate, his
forward-thinking, his
understanding of defense issues,
his understanding of business,=
Rounds recalled telling Thune.
Then he added one extra
incentive. <None of us are ever
going to be ashamed of
supporting him,= Rounds said.
Officially, Scott9s campaign
remains happy with the
endorsements that he has racked
up so far, with a deeper emphasis
on state and local officials who
are closer to grass-roots activists
who can turn out voters in
primary elections. On Monday,
he rolled out 140 current and
former officials backing Scott
from his home state, which is a
<I think he9s the right
guy for the job, positive.
He9s the closest to a
[new] Ronald Reagan &
None of us are ever
going to be ashamed of
supporting him.=
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), one of
two senators to endorse Scott
United States,= Justice Horace
Gray wrote for the court. He
noted: <To hold that the
Fourteenth Amendment of the
Constitution excludes from
citizenship the children, born in
the United States, of citizens or
subjects of other countries
would be to deny citizenship to
thousands of persons of English,
Scotch, Irish, German, or other
European parentage who have
always been considered and
treated as citizens of the United
States.=
No dispute in recent court
rulings
In a somewhat related case,
Plyler v. Doe, the court in 1982
said Texas could not exclude the
children of undocumented
immigrants from public schools.
<No plausible distinction with
respect to 14th Amendment
8jurisdiction9 can be drawn
between resident aliens whose
entry into the United States was
lawful, and resident aliens
whose entry was unlawful,= said
the majority opinion by Justice
William J. Brennan Jr.
The ruling was 5 to 4, but the
minority opinion mostly
objected to the court9s appearing
to set public policy. The dissent
agreed that the 14th
crucial early primary and the
first political test in the South.
Yet Scott hasn9t scored one
endorsement among South
Carolina9s six House
Republicans, its other senator or
Gov. Henry McMaster (R).
McMaster, Graham and three
GOP congressmen back Trump,
while Rep. Ralph Norman (R-
S.C.) supports former governor
Nikki Haley.
<We came to Congress the
same year. We were roommates
for a little over three years here
and when we first got here. He9s
a dear friend,= Rep. Jeff Duncan
(R-S.C.) said of Scott. <I9m excited
about him being in the race and I
think his message is one America
needs to hear.=
Duncan considers several
others in the race as friends and
plans to stay out of the primary.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.)
remains officially neutral but
often praises Haley.
Some GOP senators see Scott
as strategically trying to avoid
looking like an establishment
favorite. <He has not asked for
endorsements,= Romney said.
<He has not come to our group
and said, 8Hey, everybody help
me.9=
Romney acknowledges that
the <endorsement primary=
mattered during his 2008 and
2012 presidential bids.
<That was the old days.
Donald Trump got no
the washington post
ShANNoN StAPletoN/reuterS
Amendment applied to U.S.-born
children of undocumented
immigrants, noting that Texas
provided schooling to those
children.
Similarly, in 19859s INS v.
Rios-Pineda, the court
unanimously agreed that two
undocumented immigrants
<asserted substantially= that
their being deported would be
<an unlawful de facto
deportation of their citizen
child,= further indicating
support that birth in the United
States automatically provides
citizenship.
Legislation might not pass
muster, either
Another complication for
Trump in seeking changes
through an executive order is
that the Justice Department9s
Office of Legal Counsel in 1995
said Congress could not restrict
birthright citizenship even
through legislation.
Birthright citizenship is in the
Constitution, so the only way to
change it is by constitutional
amendment, Assistant Attorney
General Walter Dellinger wrote.
<There can be no question that
children born in the United
States of aliens are subject to the
full jurisdiction of the United
SeAN rAyford for the WAShiNgtoN PoSt
endorsements when he ran the
first time and won the
nomination,= Romney said. <So
it9s like, okay, do you want to look
like you9re the one that has all
these endorsements? No, you
want to look like you9re the
fighter from the outside.=
Some Republicans want to see
how the campaign unfolds
before tipping their hand. <I9m
going to wait and see where they
are with messaging after the first
debate,= Tillis said. <Generally
speaking, I may not get in the
primary, but if there9s a very clear
difference, and one that makes a
difference in North Carolina
doing its part on the electoral
map, I9ll consider that later.=
Some Republican senators
understand that, in terms of
appealing to the conservative
activist types, they are persona
non grata.
<I9m just simply not going to
comment on the candidates.
We9ve got a bunch of them and
I9m just simply gonna stay out of
it,= Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell (R-Ky.), a frequent
target of Trump9s ire, told
reporters on Wednesday.
<My endorsement would be a
kiss of death, quite literally. Well
not literally, but figuratively,=
Romney joked.
It9s true that Trump
obliterated the early-
endorsement favorite in the 2016
campaign, former Florida
. sunday, june 18 , 2023
States,= he said. <And, as
consistently recognized by
courts and Attorneys General for
over a century, most notably by
the Supreme Court in United
States v. Wong Kim Ark, there is
no question that they possess
constitutional citizenship under
the Fourteenth Amendment.=
Similarly, a Trump court
appointee has raised objections
to trying to make an end run
around the 14th Amendment.
<Birthright citizenship is
guaranteed by the Fourteenth
Amendment,= James C. Ho,
whom Trump later appointed to
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
5th Circuit, wrote in a 2006 law
review article. <That birthright
is protected no less for children
of undocumented persons than
for descendants of Mayflower
passengers.= He reiterated those
points when state legislators
sought to pass state-level
legislation that would have
denied citizenship to U.S.-born
children of illegal immigrants.
<Opponents of illegal
immigration cannot claim to
champion the rule of law and
then, in the same breath,
propose policies that violate our
Constitution,= Ho wrote in a 2011
op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
Mark Krikorian, the executive
director of the Center for
Immigration Studies, which
advocates for tighter
immigration policies and is
frequently cited by Trump, said
he suspected even this Supreme
Court would not look favorably
on the policy changes that would
result from such an executive
order. Such policies could
include the State Department9s
not issuing passports to children
born without at least one parent
who was a U.S. citizen or green-
card holder, or the Social
Security Administration9s not
issuing Social Security numbers
to newborns in the same
situation.
<Even this Court wouldn9t
uphold them, ruling that this is a
matter at least for legislative
change, if not a constitutional
amendment,= Krikorian wrote in
an email. He said he personally
would prefer a system in place in
Australia, where citizenship is
denied at birth (the infant
inherits the same visa status as
the parents) but then is granted
if the child lives in the country
for the first 10 years after birth.
governor Jeb Bush. But it9s also
true that the Republican
establishment then never
coalesced around a backup
alternative to Trump.
Some big-name Republicans,
including Scott and Haley,
drifted to Sen. Marco Rubio
(Fla.) as the sort of next-
generation Republican who
could speak to a diverse nation.
Others, including Graham, who
originally loathed Trump, rallied
to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) hoping
that his staunch conservatism
could peel off some of Trump9s
support from those voters.
Instead, Trump marched to
the nomination on the back of a
divided GOP establishment. He
won most states with a plurality
as the vote totals of Cruz, Ohio
Gov. John Kasich and Rubio
usually combined for a greater
tally.
In 2016, Thune and Rounds
sat out the competitive phase of
the GOP primary and endorsed
just before Trump easily won
South Dakota9s June primary.
Thune revoked his endorsement
that fall after The Washington
Post published Trump9s
comments bragging about
assaulting women when he was a
reality TV star.
Thune and Rounds tried to
accommodate Trump as
president, happily supporting
his tax-cut agenda and his
Supreme Court choices. They
voted to acquit in both
impeachment trials, but have
increasingly opposed his more
recent legal and political travails.
So they decided not to sit this
one out.
Thune said his pitch 4 <in
subtle and not so subtle ways= 4
to his Senate colleagues focuses
on potentially broad appeal:
<Optimism, hope, aspirational.=
He9s also reminding colleagues
how Trump and nominees
embracing his approach have
lost in the critical battleground
states and left the GOP in the
minority in the Senate.
Rounds still believes that
endorsements can matter,
especially for such a little-known
figure like Scott. If enough
senators get behind him and
introduce him to their state9s
voters, it might change things.
<The more of us who say we
know him, we know him
personally, and we think he
would be a great president,
maybe that starts to turn it to
where more people actually take
the time to look at him,= Rounds
said.
sunday, june 18 , 2023
Trump9s trip to a Cuban expat
landmark in Miami splits patrons
BY D ANIELLE P AQUETTE
MIAMI 4 She called it a <second
home,= the place she used to split
flaky guava-filled pastries with her
late father.
Then Lourdes Fernandez
watched a live stream of former
president Donald Trump9s motor-
cade roll straight from his Tuesday
arraignment at the federal court-
house in Miami to Versailles, a
beloved restaurant in the Cuban
exile community.
<I felt my stomach turn,= said
Fernandez, a 51-year-old copywrit-
er and editor who grew up in the
area. <I thought I was going to be
sick.=
Supporters had crammed the
porch, chanting <Trump 2024= by
the walk-up coffee window where
she ordered pastelitos de guayaba.
Cameras trailed the former presi-
dent onto the green-and-white
checkered floor inside, recording
pastors and a rabbi 4 among
other special guests searched by
Secret Service agents 4 who
prayed over him in Spanish.
<I don9t know if I9ll ever be able
to go back there again,= Fernandez
said. <Trump is not just a regular
politician, in my opinion. He9s a
criminal.=
The scene at the Little Havana
landmark where presidential
hopefuls are known to shake
hands provoked intense reactions
from Cuban Americans tracking
the spectacle from around the
block to thousands of miles away.
Some praised Versailles for host-
ing a politician they saw as <anti-
communist= and wrongly accused.
Others pledged to boycott the
gathering space they9d long cher-
ished, condemning the enthusias-
tic reception of someone accused
of undermining national security.
Over the past five decades, Ver-
sailles has hosted candidates
across the ideological spectrum.
But for some in today9s hyper-
charged political environment,
opening the door for what
amounted to an unofficial Trump
rally after two indictments
crossed a line.
<It9s not as if he was charged
with breaking a dish in the White
House,= said Marisel Morales, 66, a
former senior official appointed
by both Bush administrations. <He
was charged with putting the na-
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tional security of the United States
in danger.=
Seeing him celebrated at Ver-
sailles, she said, <is an insult to the
country that took us in.=
As Florida has veered right,
Trump has maintained a grip on
greater Miami, where MAGA gear
is commonly spotted. A recent
Florida International University
poll of Cuban Americans who vote
Republican in South Florida
found that nearly 60 percent
wanted to see him run again for
office. Roughly a third of Miami-
Dade County residents have Cu-
ban roots.
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4 election results, Heat wins 4
Versailles has historically served
as a hub for togetherness. Thou-
sands streamed to the restaurant
to cheer the death of Fidel Castro.
And politicians head there to con-
nect with the Cuban American
community. Past diners include
George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and
John McCain. Trump dropped by
in 2016.
<Our founder, my father-in-law,
was adamant: No matter what
their political views are, whoever
wants to come, they9ve always
been welcome to come,= said Rick
Estrada, who is married to one of
the owners, Jeannette Valls Ed-
wards. <It9s a meeting house for
open ideas, and the First Amend-
ment is something we hold dear.=
Dozens of Trump9s admirers,
wearing MAGA hats and waving
American flags, flocked to the res-
taurant as a motorcade shuttled
him from the courthouse five
miles away. Some followed min-
ute-by-minute developments on
their cellphones.
When he finally made his way
to Versailles, the crowd was ready.
Some chanted <USA!= and <Don-
ald Trump!= Others sang <Happy
Birthday,= in honor of him turning
77 on Wednesday. Carines Monca-
da, an opinion host for Americano
Media, a Spanish-language con-
servative radio and streaming
news service, joined dozens in
praying next to Trump on the
bakery floor.
She9d interviewed him the day
before, she said, and worried
about what the indictment meant
for the country. So, Moncada, a
Venezuelan American, had sum-
moned religious leaders to Ver-
sailles to pray for him, choosing
the restaurant because it9s a <land-
mark= for Hispanics.
<Why would you criticize a
prayer event?= Moncada asked.
<People wanted to pray for him.=
Among the fans was Anthony
DeCubas, a 24-year-old boxing
trainer who9d gotten the tip that
Trump would appear from a Cu-
ban exile news channel his grand-
mother watches. His love for
Trump didn9t spring from any one
policy or position, he said. It was
more of a gut feeling.
<He9s got this spark,= DeCubas
said.
Life seemed more chaotic since
Trump left office, he added: the
war in Ukraine, the rising cost of
everyday goods &
<I felt like Trump was keeping
world peace,= he said.
On his arm was his grandmoth-
er, 80-year-old Yolanda Morejon,
fanning herself in the 90-degree
heat. She thought President Biden
was too soft on Cuba9s one-party
government. She called Trump
<anti-communist= and worried
that authorities were unfairly tar-
geting him.
Many in the crowd, including
Morejon, had fled Cuba in the
1960s or descended from someone
who had as Castro9s henchmen
executed opponents and confis-
cated property. To her, Trump9s
indictment bore traces of authori-
tarian crackdowns on dissent in
some Latin American nations.
Outside the courthouse, one of his
lawyers described the case as <the
type of thing you see in dictator-
ships like Cuba and Venezuela.=
<I don9t want to see that happen
here,= Morejon said.
Trump9s popularity among Cu-
ban Americans isn9t driven only by
beliefs that he9s the victim of some
left-wing witch hunt, said Michael
Bustamante, a historian at the
University of Miami focused on
the community. Nor is it just the
product of Republicans accusing
Democrats of pushing socialism,
which is particularly effective, he
said, at triggering fear in these
households.
<It9s this vision of America he9s
selling,= said Bustamente, whose
father is Cuban. <What Trump
sells is this uber-capitalism, the
complete and utter opposite of
everything they perceive they left
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Former president Donald Trump greets supporters and patrons at Versailles in Miami on Tuesday
minutes after pleading not guilty to federal charges.
behind.=
He was dismayed to see footage
of a Sky News reporter getting
kicked out of the Versailles bakery
after shouting at Trump, <Are you
ready to go to jail?=
The crowd booed. People yelled,
<Get her out of here= and <out, out,
out!= Michael Caputo, an ex-
Trump official who9d helped orga-
nize the Versailles visit, leaned
close to her and yelled, <You stupid
b-----.= (His reaction was <unartful-
ly expressed,= Caputo told The
Washington Post. The Sky News
reporter declined to comment.)
<Hardly the embodiment of tol-
erating dissent,= Bustamente said.
Fernandez, the copywriter and
editor, saw the clip, too. How many
times had she walked across that
same green-and-black checkered
floor? A thousand? More? She9d
never seen anyone so angry in
there.
As a Democrat, she said, Repub-
licans visiting Versailles in the
past hadn9t bothered her. But pull-
ing up fresh from an arraignment
was no typical campaign stop. She
teared up thinking about how
much she9d miss the place.
<The Cuban atmosphere, the
delicious food 4 when you go, you
feel like you9re with extended fam-
ily,= she said.
Her father, who died a year-and-
a-half ago, had been friends with
the founder, Felipe Valls Sr., a
Cuban businessman who9d started
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over in South Florida after Castro9s
regime seized his enterprises back
home. Some of her happiest mem-
ories involve those guava pastries.
She9d read that Trump hadn9t
taken a bite of anything. The Mi-
ami New-Times reported that he9d
said <food for everyone!= and then
neglected to pick up the bill.
(<Don9t know anything about
that,= said Estrada, the co-owner9s
husband.) Meanwhile, someone
had offered him a cafecito, a Cu-
ban coffee, and he declined.
Versailles9s owners didn9t re-
spond to requests for comment.
<It was all for show,= Fernandez
said, <and it was a betrayal. He
claims to be anti-communist but
in every other way, he9s a wannabe
dictator.=
Carolina Camps, president of
Cuban American Women Sup-
porting Democracy, a nonpartisan
advocacy group, would have rath-
er seen a town hall. A debate. Not
people chanting <Trump 2024=
and <f--- Joe Biden.=
<Not this fanaticism,= said the
retired pharmaceutical executive,
77. <They look like they9re pos-
sessed.=
Politicians should be scruti-
nized 4 not worshiped, she said.
<We9ve seen these 8rallies9 be-
fore,= she said. <Fidel did it.=
Giancarlo Sopo, 40, rejected the
comparisons to the types of politi-
cal prosecutions seen in authori-
tarian Latin American countries.
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The Republican media strategist
from Miami, who led Hispanic
advertising for Trump in 2020,
followed the scene at home on
television.
<Comparing it to the regime9s
persecution of dissidents is a slap
in the face to every single Cuban
American, especially those of us
whose families have literally shed
blood in this 64-year tragedy,= said
Sopo, whose grandfather died in
state custody. (Nowadays, he said,
he backed Florida Gov. Ron De-
Santis.)
When Morales, the former Bush
administrations appointee, visit-
ed Miami from Washington, she
liked to fill her suitcase with Cu-
ban snacks from Versailles and
other eateries.
Dining at the restaurant was a
family tradition, she said. Her fa-
ther, a Cuban journalist, had lost
his job for speaking out against
Castro. As a kid, she9d helped him
sell poundcakes in Havana to get
by. Then the family landed in
South Florida.
She9d voted Republican most of
her life, weary of too much govern-
ment control. In recent years, Mo-
rales identified as an Independ-
ent. She9d never been fond of
Trump, but now, she wanted the
justice system to hold him ac-
countable.
So she made her stance clear on
Twitter: She9d never again dine at
Versailles.
A6
In Philadelphia, fire-ruined stretch
of I-95 will reopen within two weeks
BY L ISA R EIN
A section of Interstate 95 in
Philadelphia that collapsed last
weekend after the fiery crash of a
gasoline tanker truck will reopen
to traffic in the next two weeks,
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro
said Saturday after joining Presi-
dent Biden on a helicopter tour
of the vital East Coast artery.
<We are going to get traffic
moving again, thanks to the
extraordinary work that is going
on here,= Shapiro (D) said during
remarks at Philadelphia Interna-
tional Airport after the flyover,
which included members of
Pennsylvania9s congressional
delegation and the city9s mayor.
<We will have I-95 reopened
within the next two weeks.=
Biden said the federal govern-
After a slow start, Biden9s campaign begins to take form
Early endorsements offer
a boost while some say
donations have lagged
BY M ATT V ISER
AND T YLER P AGER
PHILADELPHIA 4 President
Biden came here on Saturday
seeking to inject new urgency
into his nascent reelection cam-
paign, rallying a group of union
organizers and framing a mes-
sage that he hopes will win him
another four years: that he inher-
ited a series of disasters and has
gone a long way toward making
things better.
It was just one mile and four
years removed from the site
where then-candidate Biden for-
mally launched his 2020 cam-
paign. But this time it has been
more of a slow walk toward
reelection, with his campaign
infrastructure only now begin-
ning to take shape.
Biden9s fundraising efforts,
which got off to what insiders
describe as a disappointing start,
are just beginning to pick up. He
is starting to name more senior
staffers, but has yet to open a
campaign headquarters. His
events over the past week have
started to provide a window into
the campaign, as he has hosted
core Democratic groups at the
White House and boasted of
some early endorsements.
On Saturday, Biden sought to
continue that sense of accelera-
tion as he held a rally with the
AFL-CIO, the nation9s largest fed-
eration of unions.
<We9ve got a fight on our
hands, and my question to you is
simple: Are you with me?= he
said as a crowd of about 2,000,
clad in colored T-shirts to repre-
sent their respective trades,
cheered and chanted, <Let9s Go,
Joe!=
Biden cast his presidency as
one that inherited a struggling
economy, a devastating pandem-
ic and frayed global alliances 4
and responded by creating jobs,
taming inflation and reigniting
diplomacy. <I didn9t come into
office with a theory, I came into
office with a plan,= he said more
than once.
A day earlier, Biden demurred
when asked if the rally should be
viewed as his campaign kickoff 4
<I kicked it off a long time ago,=
he said 4 but on Saturday morn-
ing he said, <I9m excited about 4
this is the beginning of some-
thing big, in terms of changing
the economic balance.= Asked
whether he expected the cam-
paign to grow nasty, he respond-
ed, <Well, it depends on who the
nominee is.=
Two months after quietly an-
nouncing his candidacy with a
video, Biden is running without a
traditional campaign operation.
While the Republican race re-
sembles a slugfest between for-
mer president Donald Trump
and his rivals, Biden9s operation
is drifting ahead at a slower pace,
betting that it can rely heavily on
the Democratic National Com-
mittee9s infrastructure for sup-
port until later in the summer
and into the fall.
<The campaign is still building
out because there9s no reason for
us to have a full-fledged cam-
paign,= said a senior Biden advis-
er, speaking on the condition of
anonymity to discuss campaign
strategy. <We don9t feel that we
have to be out there campaign-
ing, mostly because we don9t
have an opponent.=
This approach 4 in essence,
campaigning without a cam-
paign 4 allows Biden to stock-
pile money that he can spend
later when the race heats up and
he has a clear opponent. But the
slow ramp-up may also make it
ment would fully reimburse the
state for the first phase of the
reconstruction, then contribute
90 percent of the cost after that.
<There9s no more important
project to the country right now
as far as I9m concerned,= the
president said, noting that the
work crews are unionized. <The
people of Philadelphia, I want to
say that we9re with you. We9re
going to stay with you= until the
work has been finished.
I-95 is the main north-south
highway on the East Coast and is
vital to commuters, truckers and
other travelers. It has been
closed since June 11 after a
tractor-trailer hauling gasoline
tried to round a curve on a ramp
off the highway and flipped onto
its side underneath a vital over-
pass that carried 160,000 vehi-
President Biden speaks to union members in Philadelphia on Saturday. Some worry that his fundraising effort hasn9t been robust enough.
Supporters cheer for Biden at the Philadelphia rally, which was the first of his reelection campaign.
harder for Biden to define his
rivals early in the process, and it
could be risky to rely on others to
set up the ground operation for a
reelection where turnout will be
critical.
The Biden campaign has fewer
than a dozen full-time staffers,
while the DNC has about 300.
The campaign is still working
out of the DNC9s headquarters in
Washington, though staffers
have started scouting office
space in Wilmington, Del., and
one official said they expect to
open an office later this summer.
The DNC has also taken the lead
in gathering opposition research
on Republican presidential
hopefuls and responding to their
message.
Meanwhile, Biden9s events at-
tract at least some attention
because he is the sitting presi-
dent.
<Joe Biden doesn9t need a big
campaign operation right now,
and it would be a waste of
resources to try to build one,=
said Lis Smith, a Democratic
strategist who worked on Barack
Obama9s 2012 reelection cam-
paign. <It9s very smart to rely on
the DNC, and the DNC is in a
very different position than it
was at this point in 2011. And
that is a very good thing for the
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cles a day.
The rebuilding of the overpass
will be expedited with the use of
2,000 tons of lightweight nug-
gets of recycled glass that Penn-
sylvania officials announced they
would bring to the site in the
coming days to fill in the col-
lapsed area. The glass will be
piled in the void to bring it to
surface level, clearing the way for
construction crews to repave the
road relatively quickly.
A permanent replacement
bridge is expected to be built
next to it so traffic can be
rerouted while the exit ramp is
rebuilt, officials said. Completing
that work is expected to take
months.
matt Viser in Philadelphia
contributed to this report.
Democratic Party.=
But those involved concede
the operation is hardly running
at full speed.
<I9m not here to tell you that
the race car is already built and
it9s out running laps on the
track,= DNC executive director
Sam Cornale said in a statement
to The Washington Post. <I am
here to tell you that the chassis
is, thanks to President Biden, in
incredible shape 4 and that is
what the Biden-Harris campaign
is building on top of.=
Still, the reelection effort ap-
pears to have gotten off to a
particularly slow start in raising
money. Biden9s campaign has not
yet hired a national finance di-
rector, frustrating some donors
and advisers who feel the presi-
dent9s aides should have final-
ized the fundraising apparatus
before launching the campaign.
The 24-hour period after
Biden officially announced, usu-
ally a moment of excitement that
spurs a surge in donations, was
<extremely underwhelming,= ac-
cording to multiple people
briefed on the campaign9s financ-
es.
Democrats say the Biden cam-
paign is unlikely to struggle in
the long term to raise money,
especially if Trump is the Repub-
President Biden, joined by Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), left, and Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), examines
samples of the lightweight recycled glass that will be used to help expedite rebuilding of the overpass.
lican nominee. Rather, they wor-
ry that the sluggish early fund-
raising may signal a lack of
enthusiasm around Biden9s re-
election. National polls show a
majority of Democratic voters
prefer someone other than Biden
to be the party9s presidential
nominee, although they still pre-
fer him by a wide margin to
Trump or another Republican.
The campaign is now scram-
bling to deliver a respectable
quarter of fundraising 4 the
period ending June 30 4 as
Biden, Vice President Harris,
first lady Jill Biden and second
gentleman Doug Emhoff traverse
the country over the next two
weeks to participate in more
than 20 fundraisers.
The Biden campaign declined
to comment on its fundraising
numbers, but it will be required
to disclose those details after the
quarter ends.
There are other signs Biden9s
campaign has decided in recent
days to quicken its pace, includ-
ing the announcements of sev-
eral key staffers who will start
next month.
Among them are Michael Tyler
as communications director and
T.J. Ducklo as a senior communi-
cations adviser. Ducklo worked
on Biden9s 2020 campaign and
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<Joe Biden doesn9t need
a big campaign
operation right now,
and it would be a waste
of resources to try to
build one.=
Lis Smith, a Democratic strategist
joined the White House as a
deputy press secretary, before
resigning a few weeks later after
it emerged that he had inappro-
priately berated a reporter. Tyler
has worked at the DNC as well as
the 2020 presidential campaign
of Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.).
Rob Flaherty, the White House
digital director, is slated to move
to a senior role on the campaign
in coming weeks, a person famil-
iar with his plans said.
The Biden campaign also has
been aggressively touting a slew
of endorsements. The support of
labor and environmental groups
is hardly surprising for a Demo-
cratic president, but Biden offi-
cials argue the early backing will
let the campaign to draw on the
groups9 expansive organizing
network.
And Biden himself is holding
more events with a political or
campaign flavor, including four
fundraisers scheduled for next
week during a trip to California.
At a fundraiser Friday in Con-
necticut, Biden was alternately
optimistic about the current
state of politics 4 saying the
recent debt ceiling negotiations
showed that Washington <is not
as vitriolic & as it has been= 4
and sharp in his criticism of the
Republican presidential candi-
dates. <Did you ever think we9d
go through a time when the
number two contender on the
other team was banning books?=
he said in reference to Florida
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).
Throughout the past week,
Biden also used the trappings of
his office to court groups vital to
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tom bReNNeR/ReuteRs
his own campaign.
On Tuesday night, he hosted a
Juneteenth concert at the White
House. <I9m just so pleased, so
pleased to be able to have this
celebration on the South Lawn
on Juneteenth. And again, thank
you, thank you, thank you. You
fill my heart in a way you9ll & .=
He seemed too emotional to
complete the sentence and his
daughter handed him a tissue.
The next night, Biden spoke to
the League of Conservation Vot-
ers, where he received endorse-
ments from several leading envi-
ronmental groups. On Thursday,
he hosted a festive screening on
the South Lawn of the White
House for <Flamin9 Hot,= a new
film about a Mexican American
janitor who influenced the food
industry. As Biden praised the
country9s diversity and an audi-
ence member called out, <We9re
here to stay,= the president re-
sponded, <You9re damn right you
are.=
On Friday, he traveled to Hart-
ford, Conn., to speak before an
auditorium filled with gun con-
trol advocates. He grew impas-
sioned in talking about the topic,
one year after he worked with
Republicans to pass the first gun
control bill in years, though GOP
lawmakers continue to block
more sweeping measures.
<Prayers are fine & but it9s not
going to stop it,= Biden said of
gun violence. <We have to take
action. We have to move, have to
do something.=
On the Republican side, in
contrast, the conversation was
dominated last week by the fed-
eral charges against Trump for
allegedly mishandling classified
documents. On Tuesday, as
Trump was appearing in federal
court, Biden was meeting in the
Oval Office with NATO Secretary
General Jens Stoltenberg.
While the Trump case could
come to dominate the 2024 cam-
paign, the 2023 White House has
studiously avoided questions
about it, hoping to deflect any
suggestion that the case is politi-
cal 4 and to present a split-
screen of Biden as a statesman
and Trump as a defendant.
Asked if Biden had been
briefed on the case, White House
press secretary Karine Jean-
Pierre said, <I9m just not going to
speak to it from this podium.= As
Biden later left a meeting with
diplomats, he had a diplomatic
answer when asked if he would
comment on the arrest of his
predecessor: <No.=
But one emerging feature of
the reelection campaign is the
first lady9s willingness to be more
blunt than her husband. <They
don9t care about the indictment.
So that9s a little shocking, I
think,= she said Monday of Re-
publicans9 willingness to contin-
ue supporting Trump.
On Tuesday, during a fundrais-
er near San Francisco, Jill Biden
said the 2024 election is a choice
between <corruption and chaos=
under Trump and stability under
her husband. In Los Angeles the
following day she added, <We
know what9s in store if these
MAGA Republicans win because
we9ve all lived through this.=
Biden9s strength as a candi-
date in 2020 was not in generat-
ing enthusiastic support, but in
presenting himself as a compe-
tent alternative to the Republi-
can nominee. He became a vessel
for much of the anti-Trump senti-
ment among Democrats, along
with independents and disaffect-
ed Republicans.
But in his 25-minute speech
here on Saturday, Biden never
mentioned Trump and barely
even alluded to him, instead
focusing on his own record.
<I9ve been at this a long time,=
he said. <I can honestly say, I9ve
never been more optimistic.=
Pager reported from Washington.
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Feeling unsafe, LGBTQ families ûee Florida
DeSantis and his GOP allies at the Capitol have championed laws targeting the community, a sharp turn in a state that had been far friendlier
BY L ORI R OZSA
ORLANDO 4 Arlo Dennis has de-
cided on a deadline to get their
family out of Florida: July 1.
That is the day a slate of new
laws signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis
targeting the LGBTQ community
take effect. Doctors will be al-
lowed to deny care based on their
moral beliefs. The use of preferred
pronouns will be banned in public
schools. And children will be
barred from attending drag
shows, among other measures.
One law that prohibits gender-af-
firming health care for transgen-
der people under the age of 18 is
already being enforced.
The Republican governor vying
to become president in the 2024
election championed the bills as
part of his <Florida Blueprint.= His
critics call it <the slate of hate.=
For Dennis, they add up to a
difficult but urgent decision to
flee. <I9m a trans adult. I have
gender-nonconforming children,
and these laws are just so specifi-
cally targeting our communities
that I don9t feel like my parenting
relationship is going to continue
to be respected,= Dennis said. <We
just low-grade don9t feel safe.=
A tectonic shift in how the LG-
BTQ community perceives its wel-
come is underway in a state famed
for both a vibrant gay history in
pockets such as Key West and a
past filled with examples of intol-
erance and aggression. While
some of the new legislation builds
on previous laws, gay rights advo-
cates say they are alarmed by the
sheer number of bills and the
increasingly hostile rhetoric from
DeSantis and Republican state
lawmakers, who have champi-
oned the legislation as making
Florida safe for children and
standing up for parental rights,
echoing a theme frequently used
on the campaign trail by DeSantis.
In recent weeks, several civil
rights groups have issued travel
advisories for Florida, warning
LGBTQ tourists to reconsider
plans to visit the Sunshine State.
The overall impact of the laws
make Florida <openly hostile
toward African Americans, peo-
ple of color and LGBTQ+ individ-
uals,= the NAACP, the oldest civil
rights organization in the nation,
said in its warning in May.
Two Florida communities have
canceled annual pride parades out
of concern that they will uninten-
tionally break a new law that
makes it a third-degree felony to
have a child present at <an adult
live performance.= Some transgen-
der families are placing their chil-
dren in private schools. And a
growing roster of LGBTQ families
and individuals are opting to leave.
NBA superstar Dwyane Wade
announced that he had moved his
family to California in part be-
cause he feared his transgender
teenage daughter <would not be
accepted or feel comfortable= in
Florida. A NASA engineer left for
Illinois after concluding the new
bills amount to the state <attempt-
ing to erase trans people.=
Those who cannot afford to re-
locate are turning to GoFundMe
to raise money to leave a state they
say has become a dangerous place
for them and their children. Advo-
cates for transgender Floridians
have started Transit Under-
ground, an informal coalition to
help connect those leaving with
volunteers who offer transporta-
tion and temporary housing.
<We9re telling allies who say we
should not leave, but stay and
fight, that trans people can9t live
in a state of genocidal terror,= said
Lakey Love, a founder of the Flori-
da Coalition for Transgender Lib-
eration, which is supporting Tran-
sit Underground.
DeSantis and his staff have dis-
missed the growing backlash.
Christina Pushaw, a former De-
Santis spokeswoman who now
works for his presidential cam-
paign, posted a tweet in response
to a survey indicating LGBTQ
families are leaving the state with
a single emoji: a waving hand. The
governor likened the travel advi-
sories to <a stunt= and has insisted
the purpose of the laws is to <let
our children be children.=
<We have a very crazy age that
we live in. There is a lot of non-
sense that gets floated around,=
DeSantis said to a crowd of sup-
porters at the Christian Cam-
bridge School in Tampa in May.
<What we have said in Florida is,
we are going to remain a refuge of
sanity and a citadel of normalcy.=
8People became complacent9
Florida is home to several cities
famed for embracing gay life and
culture but, as with many states,
its history with the LGBTQ com-
munity has been uneven.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the
Johns Committee, a state-spon-
sored investigative panel, target-
ed civil rights activists suspected
of ties to communists. Its work
eventually homed in on Florida
universities. A 1959 report by the
Gwen Gehlhausen, right, embraces Arlo Dennis at their home in Orlando in May. The Dennis family has three parents, all of whom are transgender, and two children who do
not identify as male or female. The family has decided to leave Florida after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed new laws related to the LQBTQ community that take effect on July 1.
group alleged that <homosexual
professors were recruiting stu-
dents into 8homosexual practices9
and they in turn were becoming
teachers in Florida9s public-school
system and recruiting even
younger students.=
A decade later, former beauty
queen Anita Bryant launched
what some now see as a precursor
to the DeSantis-backed measure
critics call <don9t say gay,= which
bars classroom lessons related to
gender identity and sexual orien-
tation in K-12 public schools. She
championed a crusade known as
<Save Our Children= to overturn a
local ordinance in Miami that pro-
hibited discrimination against
LGBTQ people in housing, work
and private education, arguing it
infringed on her rights as a parent.
Despite that complicated past,
gay pride flourished in parts of the
state. Glamorous hotels and res-
taurants catering to the gay com-
munity sprang up in Miami Beach
in the 1970s and remain fixtures
today. Thousands flock to Key
West for Pride Month and New
Year9s Eve, when the island city
does a ball drop hosted by a drag
queen.
There and elsewhere, many
have felt the worst was behind
them, particularly after the Su-
preme Court recognized same-sex
marriage in 2015, said Scott Gal-
vin, director of Safe Schools South
Florida, which works with LGBTQ
youths. <We thought, 8We9ve ar-
rived, the struggle is over,9= said
Galvin, who is also a longtime
North Miami City Council mem-
ber. <As a result, people became
complacent.=
Even after the 2016 Pulse night-
club shooting, many in the gay
community felt a sense of solidari-
ty. The outpouring of grief and
support flowed into Orlando from
across the political spectrum, in-
cluding from DeSantis, who in
2019 attended a memorial event
with his wife, Casey.
<Even people who were not LG-
BTQ felt attacked,= Dennis re-
called after a gunman killed 49
people in the gay nightclub. <After
Pulse, I remember hearing a man,
he looked like a regular good old
boy, say, 8These are my gays. Don9t
mess with them.9=
When DeSantis last year signed
the Parental Rights in Education
Act, what critics call the <don9t say
gay= bill, Galvin said he was taken
aback. He saw schools ordering
teachers to remove rainbow flags
and safe space stickers from their
classrooms. Some teachers began
pulling books like <And Tango
Makes Three,= a picture book
about two male penguins who
form a family, from their book-
shelves, fearful of getting into
trouble.
Then he was hit directly: Mi-
ami-Dade County schools, which
for 20 years had welcomed Gal-
vin9s nonprofit to host an annual
empowerment day for LGBTQ
students, refused to authorize the
event this year, citing the new law.
<When all of this started, we
had a hard time motivating people
in the LGBTQ community who
don9t have children,= Galvin said.
<You know, you9re 35 years old and
eZ re
you9re hitting up the clubs, life is
great, so what happens in schools
doesn9t affect you, right?= Now, he
said, <they9re starting to realize
that we9re all under attack.=
The state had shifted further
right politically, as evidenced by
the double-digit reelection of De-
Santis in November. And while
the governor set his sights on the
Republican presidential nomina-
tion, his allies in the legislature
introduced a new crop of bills
placing restrictions on transgen-
der people.
A fight over 8childhood itself 9
The bills aimed to establish
some of the strictest provisions on
gender-affirming care and how
gender identity is addressed in the
classroom. Whether they would
pass was not in doubt. With a
Republican supermajority in the
legislature, most of the signature
proposals from DeSantis easily
advanced. But public hearings
were contentious.
Tsi Day Smyth, who is nonbina-
ry and has a transgender child,
spoke often at the hearings, an act
of protest they called exhausting
and dispiriting. <You9re looking at
legislation meant to erase people.
And when you enter that room,
you feel like they9ve already
erased you,= Day Smyth later re-
called in an interview.
During a hearing over a bath-
room bill, state Rep. Webster
Barnaby (R) lashed out against
those speaking against the legisla-
tion, likening them to people who
are <happy to display themselves
as if they were mutants from an-
other planet.=
<The Lord rebuke you, Satan,
and all of your demons and all of
your imps who come parade be-
fore us,= Barnaby said, looking at
the speakers, including Day
Smyth. <That9s right. I call you
demons and imps who come and
parade before us and pretend that
you are part of this world.= Barna-
by briefly apologized several min-
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signs bills at a Christian school in Tampa in May. <What we have said in Florida
is, we are going to remain a refuge of sanity and a citadel of normalcy,= he said at the ceremony. He had
previously shown support for the LGBTQ community at a Pulse nightclub shooting memorial in 2019.
Arlo Dennis said there has been a feeling of dread because of laws
directed at transgender families like theirs. One of their children,
Hazel, spoke on her fear: <I don9t want to get shot.= Above, a photo
of the family on their recent trip to Disney World.
utes later, but Day Smyth said the
message coming from Republican
lawmakers was clear: Trans peo-
ple are not welcome here.
The harsh rhetoric continued
even after the bills were passed. At
a bill signing event in May, DeSan-
tis was joined by Rep. Randy Fine
(R), who sponsored some of the
anti-LGBTQ legislation. Fine lik-
ened the bills as part of a broader
war of good against evil. <There is
evil in this world, and we are
fighting it here today,= Fine said.
<The fight that we have had here
in Florida is about the fundamen-
tal nature of childhood itself.=
8Taking us back 100 years9
The new laws already appear to
be having a chilling effect. Florida
is home to about 95,000 transgen-
der adults, according to an esti-
mate from the Williams Institute
at the UCLA School of Law, and
while the vast majority are likely
to stay, a number like the Dennis
family are taking steps to leave.
According to GoFundMe, there
has been a surge in fundraisers
created to support trans people
looking to relocate to more LG-
the washington post
PhoToS by ThomaS SimoneTTi for The WaShingTon PoST
BTQ-friendly states since May
2022. So far this year, more than
$200,000 has been raised on the
platform to support trans people
and their families looking to leave
Florida.
Among those deciding to leave
is Eleanor McDonough, who was
the only out trans woman working
in the state legislature. She served
as an aide to state Democratic
Rep. Rita Harris, but she left after
the session ended in May, con-
vinced that there is <no indication
that the Republican supermajor-
ity is going to stop anytime soon.=
Some Republican lawmakers
told McDonough they did not be-
lieve in all of the anti-trans rheto-
ric and legislation, but she said
they told her they felt they had to
support DeSantis in his policies or
see their own legislative priorities
killed. <They found it hard to
make eye contact with me at the
end,= McDonough said. <They
would just look away from me,
almost like they felt shame on
their part for what they were do-
ing.=
The anti-LGBTQ turn is evident
beyond the halls of power in the
. sunday, june 18 , 2023
capital of Tallahassee. On May 17,
the day DeSantis signed his slate
of LGBTQ-focused bills, someone
hacked an electronic street sign in
Orlando, across town from where
the Dennis family lives. The sign
had been put up for an upcoming
marathon.
Hackers changed the language
to read: <KILL ALL GAYS.=
<What is happening now is tak-
ing us back not 50 years, but 100
years,= said Caitlin Ryan, a found-
er of the Family Acceptance Proj-
ect at San Francisco State Univer-
sity in California. <It is extremely
destructive.=
Still, many are also vowing to
stay and defend their rights, gath-
ering to protest at the state Capitol
and showing up at pride events.
Tens of thousands gathered the
first weekend in June in Orlando
for the annual Gay Days events at
Walt Disney World kicking off
Pride Month of June.
<I have trans friends who are
leaving the state,= said Joseph
Clark, chief executive of the Gay
Days event. <People don9t feel safe
right now. They don9t feel wel-
come. But I think that is more of a
reason to do what we9ve been do-
ing on an annual basis for more
than 30 years.=
8We can9t stay in Florida9
For the Dennis family, normal-
cy is a family made up of three
parents, all of whom are transgen-
der, raising two children. Hazel is
12 and Sparrow is 5. Dennis said
both their children are gender-
creative, a term that describes
people who do not identify as a
man or a woman. Dennis said
there is a feeling of dread now
because of laws directed at trans-
gender families like theirs.
When Sparrow was born, Den-
nis, 35, said they would be a <they-
by,= a baby whose gender was not
advertised to the world. Gaining
acceptance and affirmation for
that choice was difficult, Dennis
said, even in Orlando, a city whose
voters have consistently elected
liberal politicians over the past
decade. <Not everyone is accept-
ing,= Dennis said. <I don9t need my
neighbor to like me. But I need
laws to protect me.=
Hazel quickly chimed in with a
remark that hinted at the fear the
family lives with because of anti-
LGBTQ laws and hostile rhetoric
in Florida. <For instance, I don9t
want to get shot,= Hazel said. Den-
nis said they do not want their
children to endure hatred.
The parents got together and
consulted a map of the country
showing states that have LGBTQ-
friendly policies. They picked
Maryland, and they are moving
there in early July.
Dennis needs medication for
their transition, which has also
become more difficult in Florida
for adults. Dennis has been a com-
munity organizer in Orlando and
said they will miss <the tenacity
and the creativity and the resil-
ience of community.=
<It feels like I9m jumping off a
sinking ship and being like, well, I
got my life raft, y9all take care of
yourselves,= Dennis said. <But we
can9t stay in Florida.=
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LGBTQ activists
work to turn tide
LGBTQ from A1
as another presidential election
approaches.
Still, Erin reed, an activist and
content creator who publishes a
daily newsletter on anti-LGBTQ
legislation, said queer and trans
people remain hopeful. They9ve
endured discrimination in the
past, and this time, they have a
bigger community and a raft of
new knowledge, including some
gleaned from abortion rights ac-
tivists who have navigated simi-
lar fights since the Supreme
Court overturned Roe v. Wade
last year.
<The story of LGBTQ history is
a story of resilience through com-
munity,= reed said. <No matter
how much they keep turning the
dial on the cruelty and the ex-
tremeness of these laws, trans
people still exist. We9re not going
anywhere. We remain undaunt-
ed.=
A cultural shift
on the right and the left
Across the country, LGBTQ ac-
tivists say they have told them-
selves one thing over and over
this year: We9ve been here before.
Though some might think so-
cial progress is a straight line up,
historian Hugh ryan said policy-
makers have often moved to cur-
tail rights after periods of social
liberation. ryan, the author of
LGBTQ history books including
<When Brooklyn Was Queer,= not-
ed that New York passed its first
specifically anti-gay law, a cruis-
ing ban, 100 years ago, <immedi-
ately after [a] moment that is so
progressive, it is still referred to
as the Progressive Era.=
In the 970s, ryan said, a few
years after the Stonewall riots,
florida9s Dade County passed
housing and employment protec-
tions for gay people, a move that
prompted florida citrus pitch-
<Things get better, and they get
worse, and they get better, and
they get worse, and they change.
We9re sort of in a constant pendu-
lum struggle.=
This newest swing right began,
in part, after the Supreme Court
legalized same-sex marriage in
2015. Lawmakers filed more than
250 discriminatory bills the fol-
lowing year, up from 85 the year
before the Obergefell v. Hodges
decision. Though some of those 4
including a mississippi measure
to allow state employees, service
providers and others to deny
service to LGBTQ people 4 even-
tually became law, policymakers
backed off an anti-trans bill in
North Carolina. After Donald
Trump became president, the
number of bills dwindled.
Before 2020, no state banned
trans girls from participating in
school sports or trans youths
from accessing transition-related
health care. Then, a few weeks
after the coronavirus shuttered
most of the country, Idaho be-
came the first to pass a sports ban.
elizabeTh FranTz For The WashingTon PosT
Arkansas passed the nation9s first
ban on gender-affirming care the
following year, and in that year9s Georgia to Arizona ran on anti- year after signing and promoting
legislative sessions, the number LGBTQ platforms. the country9s first Parental rights
of anti-LGBTQ bills across the Terry Schilling, president of in Education bill 4 a piece of
country ramped up again, to 268. the American Principles Project, legislation critics dubbed the
By the spring of 2023, that num- said his group began focusing on <don9t say gay= law. But cam-
ber had surged past 400, accord- transgender issues after North paigning on anti-trans policies
ing to a Washington Post analysis Carolina rescinded a 2016 meas- hasn9t helped every candidate.
of data from the American Civil ure that required trans people to Drag critic Kari Lake lost in Ari-
Liberties Union and the move- use a bathroom that matched the zona. Herschel Walker lost in
ment Advancement Project gender on their birth certificate. Georgia after running on a plat-
(mAP). The group had invested in 2022 form to ban trans women from
Whereas previous anti-LGBTQ campaign ads not because of a women9s sports. And Janet Prota-
efforts focused on one issue 4 cultural shift on the right, but on siewicz defeated a conservative
marriage, say, or military service the left, he said. challenger for a spot on the Wis-
4 this year9s onslaught stunned <They went toward kids, teach- consin Supreme Court, even after
Logan Casey, mAP9s senior re- ing them weird things in school, the American Principles Project
searcher, in its scope and <cruel taking away parental rights, put- PAC spent nearly $800,000 to
creativity.= ting kids on puberty blockers and defeat her with anti-trans ads.
<This moment is unlike any cross-sex hormones, teaching The issue may lack resonance
before, given the truly wild kids that boys can become girls for swing voters. Although con-
breadth and scale of the attacks,= and girls [can become] boys,= servatives have expressed waning
Casey said. Schilling said. <Put aside the mer- support for transgender inclu- PeTula Dvorak/The WashingTon PosT

woman and Christian crusader
Anita Bryant to launch <Save our
Children,= a campaign that both
overturned the ordinance and
cast gay people as predators who
would <recruit= children.
<There9s no straight progress
forever forward,= ryan said.
Conservative groups including
the American Principles Project
and America first Legal also col-
lectively spent at least $50 mil-
lion airing anti-trans ads in 25
states in the 2022 election, ac-
cording to the Human rights
Campaign, and politicians from
its of their arguments and wheth-
er or not they9re right. This is new.
This is different.=
Schilling and others have
pressed on with an anti-LGBTQ
agenda despite mixed political
results. florida Gov. ron DeSan-
tis (r) handily won reelection last
sion in the military and in wom-
en9s sports, just 8 percent of peo-
ple nationwide closely followed
anti-trans bills last year, accord-
ing to the Pew research Center.
After michigan republicans
lost all three branches of govern-
ment to Democrats in November,
TOP: Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr (D), center, and her
fiancée, activist Erin Reed, left, both trans women, mingle during a
Pride celebration this month at the White House. <Given the
growing awareness that I9m seeing about what9s at stake in our
country, I feel hope that change is possible,= Zephyr said.
ABOVE: A Pride display at a party store in Prince George9s County,
Md. Target and other big-box stores have embraced LGBTQ-themed
merchandise, but some have also received backlash.

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the party9s chief of staff ascribed
the defeat in part to the cam-
paigns9 reliance on similar ads.
<There were more ads on trans-
gender sports than inflation, gas
prices and bread-and-butter is-
sues that could have swayed inde-
pendent voters,= Paul Cordes
wrote in a memo to the state GOP.
<We did not have a turn out
problem 4 middle of the road
voters simply didn9t like what
[Republican gubernatorial candi-
date Tudor Dixon] was selling.=
Schilling allowed that his
group9s efforts weren9t enough to
overcome some electability is-
sues, but he said they made signif-
icant inroads. American Princi-
ples9 polling showed that the non-
profit9s ads swayed tens of thou-
sands of voters in Arizona,
Virginia and Wisconsin, Schilling
said.
<I can assure you that if the ads
weren9t effective in persuading
voters, I wouldn9t be running
them,= Schilling said. <I9ll just let
my record speak for itself and
where the American people are.=
Targeting hospitals
and adults
About 22 states now ban trans
people from competing in wom-
en9s sports, and teachers in nearly
a dozen states can no longer
affirm students9 gender, accord-
ing to MAP. And at least 19 have
passed bans on transition health
care for minors, despite the fact
that all major medical associa-
tions oppose such restrictions.
Conservatives have succeeded
in passing these bills, in part, by
showcasing a small group of de-
transitioners who have flown to
multiple states to testify that they
felt abused and fast-tracked by
gender-affirming doctors. Law-
makers and activists alike have
accused those doctors of <muti-
lating= minors.
Only a handful of hospitals
have released their numbers, but
those that have been show that
transition-related surgeries on
minors are rare. An internal re-
view at the Transgender Center at
Washington University in St. Lou-
is found that just six of the hospi-
tal9s 1,165 transgender patients
younger than 18 had undergone
gender-affirming procedures
since 2018, and all of them were
chest surgeries. A Reuters analy-
sis of insurance claims found that
while 42,167 young people nation-
wide were diagnosed with gender
dysphoria in 2021, just 282 had
top surgery that year.
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Lawmakers and conservative
activists have successfully pres-
sured hospitals in Mississippi,
Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas
to stop treating transgender chil-
dren.
Republicans have begun to tar-
get gender-affirming care for
adults, too. Florida9s DeSantis es-
sentially cut off access for trans
adults in the spring by imposing
rules so strict that activists esti-
mated 80 percent of trans adults
in the state could no longer get
hormones. And in April, Missouri
Attorney General Andrew Bailey
(R) issued an emergency ruling
for regulations so stringent that
most trans adults would have lost
access to hormones. Bailey later
abandoned the ruling, but trans
Missourians like Casey, the re-
searcher at MAP, say the proposal
hurt in ways they can still feel.
<Even when we win, even when
these bills don9t become law, the
bills are still causing harm that
can be very long-lasting and diffi-
cult to shake for many people,=
Casey said.
Conservatives have spoken
openly about their plans to esca-
late, according to Ari Drennen, a
trans woman who monitors anti-
trans rhetoric in conservative me-
dia as LGBTQ program director
for Media Matters for America, a
liberal watchdog group.
In April, conservative pundit
Matt Walsh urged his Twitter fol-
lowers to pick a <woke= company
to <target . . . with a ruthless
boycott campaign. Claim one
scalp then move onto the next.=
The next month, shoppers began
harassing Target employees over
the store9s Pride collection, even
though the big-box company has
sold similar merchandise for
more than a decade.
And Daily Wire commentator
Michael Knowles, who earlier
this year said that <transgender-
ism must be eradicated from pub-
lic life entirely,= said in May that
conservatives have to make Pride
symbols <culturally toxic= as part
of a grander plan to <come back in
with more political force to ban
some of this stuff.=
These campaigns have led to
boycotts, canceled Pride festivals
and hundreds of protests, Dren-
nen said, in part because more
than half of Americans don9t
know a trans person. Polls show
that voters who know transgen-
der people are less likely to sup-
port restrictions on them. But
many anti-LGBTQ bills ensure
that trans people won9t become
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more visible, Drennen said. banned both say the bans feel
Sports, for instance, are one of similar. Colleen McNicholas,
the main ways young people chief medical officer for Planned
build community, Drennen said. Parenthood in the St. Louis re-
Lawmakers have said they gion, said that in both instances,
pushed bans on trans competi- conservative groups and lawmak-
tors because they want to ensure ers homed in on a vulnerable and
competition is fair for women stigmatized population, then bul-
and girls, but those laws exclude lied the providers who care for
trans youths from participating them by making those doctors
in one of their school9s most pub- seem <unqualified, self-serving
lic spheres. and, in some capacity, immoral.=
<Not knowing a trans person is <It is painfully obvious to us
what enables that propaganda to that they are using the same
take hold,= Drennen said. <Once playbook, but in an expedited
trans people become fully inte- time frame,= McNicholas said.
grated as members of their com- When the Missouri attorney
munity, as their visible neighbors, general began targeting transi-
co-workers, family members, it9s tion care in the spring, McNicho-
that much harder to paint a pic- las9s clinics were able to mobilize
ture of us as terrifying monsters.= without hesitation in large part
because they9d learned how to
The role of Roe and the courts adapt after Missouri banned
For Drennen and others, this abortion last year. The clinics
era is directly connected to the added appointments, and staffers
fight that abortion rights activists worked overtime. They prepared
have waged for decades over themselves for potential litiga-
bodily autonomy. The map of tion, and they sent the highest-
states that have banned abortion risk clients over the river to Illi-
since Roe fell is nearly identical to nois. After Roe fell, southern Illi-
the map that shows which states nois became a hub for people
have banned gender-affirming forced to travel for abortion care,
care for minors this year. and McNicholas said she expects
Doctors in states that have the region will see an influx of
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After Dade County passed protections for gay people in the 1970s,
Anita Bryant launched an anti-gay <Save Our Children= campaign.
<There9s no straight progress forever forward.
Things get better, and they get worse, and they get
better, and they get worse, and they change. We9re
sort of in a constant pendulum struggle.=
Hugh Ryan, a historian, noting that policymakers have often moved to curtail
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<The same phenomenon that
happened with abortion care
happened with trans care,= Mc-
Nicholas said. <We had to be
ready to quickly use all of the
resources we have to make sure
folks knew what care they could
get, where they could get it and
for potentially how long they
could get it.=
In another parallel with the
post-Roe landscape, 13 states, in-
cluding Maryland, Illinois and
New Mexico, have recently
passed explicit protections for
transgender people, according to
Reed.
As most states wrap up their
legislative sessions, Schilling, the
executive at the American Princi-
ples Project, said his group has
probably <maxed out= on state
legislative wins. The group plans
to turn its focus toward federal
policies as the presidential elec-
tion nears.
Meanwhile, LGBTQ activists
say they are eager to see what will
happen in the courts. This month
a judge declared Tennessee9s drag
ban unconstitutional, and courts
in Arkansas, Alabama and Flori-
da have temporarily blocked
medical bans from taking effect.
Activists believe that at least one
of the health-care cases will even-
tually make it to the Supreme
Court, and they9re not sure how
the justices will rule.
Some say they9re hopeful that
Bostock v. Clayton County, a 2020
decision that protects gay and
trans employees from discrimina-
tion, will serve as precedent for
future LGBTQ cases, but activists
say the high court9s decision to
overturn a decades-old precedent
like Roe has left them feeling less
optimistic.
In the spring, near the end of a
painful and record-breaking leg-
islative season, Reed and her fian-
cée, Montana state Rep. Zooey
Zephyr (D), went for a walk in
western Montana. The year had
marked an era of unprecedented
success and oppression for the
women, both of whom are trans.
Reed had become a go-to pundit
for PBS and other news outlets,
but she9d endured <swatting= at-
tempts and daily online harass-
ment. Zephyr had started the
session as Montana9s first trans
state lawmaker. She had ended it
working from a bench outside the
House of Representatives after
her colleagues barred her from
the chamber for criticizing a pro-
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Still, as the women walked,
Zephyr said that <it was hard to
feel anything other than hope.=
Even in Montana9s most con-
servative reaches, every few min-
utes, people stopped to tell Zeph-
yr they disagreed with her col-
leagues9 anti-trans policies and
actions. They included security
guards and National Guard mem-
bers, lifelong libertarians and
people who told Zephyr they9d
voted for Trump twice. Each one
told Zephyr they supported her.
<Given the growing awareness
that I9m seeing about what9s at
stake in our country, I feel hope
that change is possible,= Zephyr
said.
After Reed flew home to Mary-
land, she said she continued to
find promise in an unlikely place
4 Louisiana. Last month, a Re-
publican lawmaker there bucked
the Southern trend and refused to
advance out of committee a ban
on gender-affirming care. State
Sen. Fred Mills said he9d voted to
kill the ban because a Louisiana
Health Department report
showed that each year very few
minors went on puberty blockers,
just a few dozen started cross-sex
hormones and none on Medicaid
underwent surgery.
<My decision was really, really
based on the numbers,= Mills told
the Louisiana Illuminator. <All
the testimony I heard by the
proponents that children are get-
ting mutilated, I didn9t see it in
the statistics.=
A different committee even-
tually pushed the bill through,
but as Reed followed Mills9s deci-
sion, she couldn9t help but think
of her childhood. Reed grew up in
south Louisiana, and when she
was a child in the 1990s, her
classmates bullied her. She wasn9t
able to come out until she was 30.
But the environment was chang-
ing, she believed.
Late last year, a trans teenager
from a parish close to Reed9s
hometown wrote to say her class-
mates had nominated her to the
homecoming court. She sent
along a celebratory picture as
proof.
<I cried because I remember
how hard it was for me,= Reed
said. <To see a trans girl in small-
town Louisiana not only being
accepted but celebrated and
loved, seeing her driven on the
back of a car with her dad around
the football stadium, waving at
everybody, that9s how change
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Lacking their own knowledge, lawmakers turn to Silicon Valley for AI expertise
CONGRESS from A1
has triggered a frenzy among
Washington lawmakers to draft
new laws addressing the promise
and peril of the burgeoning field.
When Tudorache visited Wash-
ington last month, he witnessed a
tumult of activity around AI and
attended a bipartisan briefing
with openAI CEo Sam Altman.
<There is a different mood,=
Tudorache said in an interview.
But tackling the swiftly evolv-
ing technology requires a sophis-
ticated understanding of compli-
cated systems that back AI, which
sometimes confound even ex-
perts. Congressional salary caps
that pale in comparison with Sili-
con Valley9s sky-high paychecks
make it difficult to retain staff
technologists, putting lawmakers
at a disadvantage in getting up to
speed 4 a goal that has become
increasingly urgent as the Euro-
pean Union has leaped ahead of
Washington, advancing robust AI
legislation just last week.
To catch up, members of Con-
gress and their staffs are seeking a
crash course on AI. With Senate
majority Leader Charles E. Schu-
mer (D-N.Y.) preparing to unveil a
plan Wednesday for how Con-
gress could regulate AI, lawmak-
ers are suddenly crowding into
briefings with top industry execu-
tives, summoning leading aca-
demics for discussions and taking
other steps to try to wrap their
heads around the emerging field.
Lawmakers9 gaps in technical
expertise have provided an open-
ing for corporate interests. Execu-
tives motivated to develop AI
without hindrance are flocking to
Washington, eager to lend a hand
in lawmakers9 education 4 and
influence policy. Schumer said his
office has met with close to 100
boundaries= for the future of AI.
<There9s no way a non-industry
person can understand what is
possible. It9s just too new, too
hard. There9s not the expertise,=
Schmidt told NBC. <There9s no
one in the government who can
get it right. But the industry can
roughly get it right.=
other industry leaders are tak-
ing a different tactic, blitzing Con-
gress with their vision for how
Washington should regulate their
companies. Altman in may had
private meetings and a dinner
with lawmakers, where he dem-
onstrated 4 to their amusement
4 how his company9s ChatGPT
could write a speech for them to
deliver on the chamber floor.
Smith has given legislators a les-
son on the technical stack that
underpins generative AI models
like ChatGPT, including comput-
ing infrastructure and applica-
tions. And Smith recently un-
veiled his blueprint for AI regula-
tion at a speech in Washington
attended by half a dozen lawmak-
ers.
The stereotyped view that Con-
gress doesn9t understand technol-
ogy 4 bolstered by high-profile
gaffes in key tech hearings 4 is
<outdated,= Smith said, adding
that he is <optimistic= about Con-
gress9s ability to keep pace with AI
advances.
regular briefings have impart-
ed a more formal education. Sen-
ate and House leaders have host-
ed AI discussions with mIT pro-
fessors, where they reviewed the
basics of how AI works and exam-
ined challenges with the technol-
ogy, including how it can exacer-
bate existing biases.
At a Tuesday briefing with mIT
professor Antonio Torralba orga-
nized by Schumer9s office, some
lawmakers asked basic questions,
leagues9 tech acumen was irre-
deemably deficient.
<To be honest, Congress doesn9t
know what the hell it9s doing in
this area,= Cruz said, donning ear
buds as he video-conferenced into
a Politico tech summit. <This is an
institution [where] I think the
median age in the Senate is about
142. This is not a tech-savvy
group.=
Sen. mark r. Warner (D-Va.),
who previously worked as a ven-
ture capitalist, brought in re-
searchers and industry leaders to
speak to senators after Schumer9s
all-member briefing. His guests
included a mix of experts, includ-
ing microsoft9s chief scientific of-
ficer, Eric Horvitz, Center for Se-
curity and Emerging Technology
Executive Director Dewey mur-
dick and Deputy National Secu-
rity Adviser Anne Neuberger, ac-
cording to Warner spokeswoman
rachel Cohen.
<Lots of us are all on different
paths of our learning curve,= War-
ner told reporters Tuesday.
JaBin BoTsfoRd/The WashingTon PosT
The uptick in AI briefings and
strong attendance is a major shift
for Congress, where a handful of Some argue that concerns
members 4 some of whom hold about the lack of technical exper-
degrees in computer science 4 tise on Capitol Hill have been
have long struggled to capture the overblown, saying lawmakers
attention of their peers. Congress have already introduced bills that
hosted its first hearing on AI in could address most issues with
2016, according to Cruz, who said generative AI, including data pro-
he chaired the session. House law- tection and algorithmic audit
makers launched an AI caucus in bills.
2017, and their Senate counter- <Congress9s job is not necessar-
parts launched a similar initiative ily to know the ins and outs and
in 2019. nuts and bolts of every single
The rise of generative AI has technology that they regulate,=
finally awakened interest in such said Anna Lenhart, who worked
efforts. rep. mark Takano (D-Ca- on tech policy for rep. Lori Trah-
lif.) said AI is going to impact an (D-mass.). <Their job is to un-
<every jurisdiction of Congress,= derstand the impact of technol-
and argues that lawmakers need ogy on society, the risks and the
to respond by reviving the Capi- benefits.=
tol9s tech think tank, the office of Lawmakers can seek tech as- RiCky CaRioTi/The WashingTon PosT

outside experts, including <CEos
of companies who do AI, scien-
tists, AI academics, leaders in the
industry of many different view-
points, and critics of AI= 4 among
them microsoft President Brad
Smith and Tesla CEo Elon musk.
This charm offensive has left
some consumer advocates uneasy
that lawmakers might let the in-
dustry write its own rules 4
which some executives are out-
right recommending. In an inter-
view this spring, former Google
CEo Eric Schmidt argued that the
industry, not the government,
should be setting <reasonable
including how AI learns and
where it gets data, said Sen. Jacky
rosen (D-Nev.), a former comput-
er programmer who left the ses-
sion early.
<They are putting a lot of time
and effort into coming up to speed
on AI,= said Aleksander madry, an
mIT professor who spoke at a
briefing in April arranged by
House Speaker Kevin mcCarthy
(r-Calif.). madry has since gone
on a professional leave and is
working at openAI.
Sen. Ted Cruz (r-Tex.) has ex-
pressed skepticism about these
efforts, suggesting that his col-
Technology Assessment, which
lawmakers defunded during par-
tisan battles in the 1990s. Takano
plans to introduce a bill next
month to fund the office, along
with Sen. Ben ray Luján
(D-N.m.), who sits on the Com-
merce Committee.
<What is missing in Congress is
a repository of expertise that is
more in an anticipatory mode,
that has quicker turnarounds,
that can deliver responses more
quickly,= Takano said. <We want to
have expertise that is not tainted
or connected to commercial inter-
ests.=
sessments from the Government
Accountability office and Con-
gressional research Service. Zach
Graves, the executive director of
the foundation for American In-
novation, said GAo9s resources
have made gains in recent years,
resulting in better preparation for
tech hearings, such as the one
with Altman.
<They clearly did a lot more of
their homework,= Graves said.
Still, some worry that the re-
cent flurry of corporate lobbying
on AI has pushed lawmakers un-
comfortably close to the industry
they9re aiming to regulate.
TOP: The U.S. Capitol in November. The overnight success of
ChatGPT has triggered a frenzy among lawmakers to draft
legislation addressing the promise and perils of artificial
intelligence. ABOVE: From left, Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), John
Cornyn (R-Tex.), Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.)
during a news conference in Washington last month.
Unlike clashes with the CEos of West said executives like
facebook and Google, lawmakers9 Google9s Schmidt are fueling the
chummy hearing with Altman perception that AI is too difficult
was a reflection of how effective for Congress to grasp.
intimate events, like his private That, she said, is <a convenient
dinner, have been, said Sarah narrative that positions account-
West, the managing director of ability out of the hands of the
the AI Now Institute and a former people that the public has vested
senior adviser on AI at the federal it in 4 and into the hands of the
Trade Commission. industry that is benefiting.=
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Barista led push to unionize her Starbucks. Now she9s ûred.

BARISTA from A1

plagued her family and her coun-

try. Like most of her co-workers,
she had grown up in an era of
historic inequality, raised by par-
ents who struggled to pay their
bills. She emerged from the pan-
demic and the labor shortage it
spawned with a new sense of her
worth and a determination to
wrest back some power from her
corporate bosses.
now her fight had reached a
critical moment with implica-
tions for service workers nation-
wide, the people at the core of
america9s working class. at issue
was whether these workers
would be able to organize and
press their employers for higher
wages, steadier hours and better
benefits.
only 6 percent of private-sec-
tor workers nationwide belong to
unions, the lowest rate in nearly a
century. the Starbucks union
drive was raising existential ques-
tions for the labor movement.
Was organizing large numbers of
service workers even possible?
did unions have a place in the
modern american economy?
in the back of rizzo9s Star-
bucks, away from the customers
getting their late-morning caf-
feine fix, her manager was strug-
gling to finish her sentences and
maintain her composure. nearly
two months earlier, on feb. 4,
rizzo had closed the store at
7:30 p.m. and the following morn-
ing slept through her alarm, leav-
ing her 57 minutes late to a 5:30
a.m. opening shift. the mistake
triggered an investigation, the
manager said.
<i think my hardest part is that PhoTos by Lauren PeTracca For The WashingTon PosT

you9ve been a partner for so long,=
she continued. Starbucks execu-
tives regularly refer to their hour-
ly workers as <partners.=
<You care about this store,= said
the manager, who asked not to be
named, fearing public backlash.
<You care about the people in it,
and that9s the heartbreaking &
You9re a great employee to me,
and i value everything. &= the
boss took a deep breath. <i wanna
give you a hug,= she told rizzo,
wrapping her arms around her.
<i9ll be back. i9ll fight,= rizzo
replied. <don9t you worry.=
She tucked her balled-up green
apron under her arm and strode
into the cafe, where her co-work-
ers were waiting and crying.
rizzo hugged them and then
glanced down at her separation
paperwork. Her final misstep had
occurred on march 1.
according to the document,
she had been <1 minute late= to a
6 a.m. shift.
wo days before rizzo was
Lexi Rizzo is comforted by her partner, Phil Wright, shortly after testifying at a National Labor Relations Board hearing in Buffalo on April 18. Rizzo said the experience was
dehumanizing. <They9re trying to make these implications that I9m a bad person who doesn9t care about my job, and I know that9s not true,= she said.
tects workers9 rights, has strug-
gled to hold on to staff members
amid deep budget cuts. Since
2010, it is down about 520 em-
ployees, or 30 percent of its work-
force. the primary penalty that it
can impose on companies for
dismissing pro-union employees
4 reinstatement with back pay 4
has been a paltry deterrent, labor
advocates said.
and so in late march, senators
were largely reduced to cajoling
and shaming Schultz into obey-
ing federal law. Schultz began the
hearing by telling lawmakers that
his company <had not broken the
law= and that his workers did not
need a union. unions, he said,
were for companies that abused
their employees, not Starbucks,
which offered health coverage,
stock options and free online col-
lege through arizona State
university. <We do nothing that is
nefarious,= he said. <We put our

T fired, Howard Schultz, the

company9s billionaire
founder, was summoned to Wash-
ington to testify before the Sen-
ate.
His forced appearance before
the Health, education, Labor and
pensions committee was an indi-
cation of the importance of the
Starbucks union drive and the
crisis facing the labor movement.
the vast majority of the coun-
try9s working class does not toil
on the factory floor with a union
to look out for their interests.
most work in the country9s ever-
expanding low-wage service
economy.
increasingly, those workers are
trying to unionize. the Starbucks
drive has inspired similar orga-
nizing efforts at retailers such as
trader Joe9s, apple, rei and
chipotle 4 as well as fierce resis-
tance from Schultz and his team.
in the last year, judges have
ruled that Starbucks violated u.S.
labor laws more than 130 times
across six states, among the most
of any private employer nation-
wide. the rulings found that Star-
bucks retaliated against union
supporters by surveilling them at
work, firing them and promising
them improved pay and benefits
if they rejected the organizing
campaign.
the company has blamed the
union9s negative influence for a
higher rate of employee attrition
at stores that have organized, and
it has denied wrongdoing. <Star-
bucks has always been a different
kind of company and, while not
perfect, we consistently do what9s
right for our partners, our cus-
tomers and business,= the compa-
ny said in a statement.
Starbucks9s anti-union cam-
paign has been most intense in
Buffalo, a working-class city
where the union drive began. in
early march, an administrative
law judge found Starbucks had
committed <egregious and wide-
spread misconduct= in Buffalo
and ordered the coffee giant to
rehire seven <unlawfully dis-
charged= employees.
it9s against the law to fire work-
ers for organizing. But as rizzo
and the other Starbucks workers
were learning, there9s also little to
stop companies from doing it.
the national Labor relations
Board, the federal agency that
oversees union elections and pro-
people first & and we have the
track record to prove it.=
the company9s generosity,
Schultz maintained, was born of
his own childhood struggles.
When Schultz was 10, he said, his
father slipped on a patch of ice,
broke his hip and ankle, and was
<promptly fired= from his job as a
truck driver. the setback <frac-
tured our family,= he told the
senators, and decades later in-
spired him, as Starbucks9s ceo, to
build the kind of company that
would give his workers a <chance
at a better life.=
the republicans on the com-
mittee praised Schultz for creat-
ing tens of thousands of jobs and
building a global corporation.
the democrats, meanwhile,
warned him that the company9s
past generosity didn9t give it free
rein to break federal labor laws.
and they tried to convince him
that his unionizing workers were
no different from his dad.
<Your father had no rights, and
your family paid the price. that9s
how your workers now feel,= Sen.
edward J. markey (d-mass.) told
him. <these workers are just like
your father.=
rizzo9s childhood was marked
by frequent evictions and parents
who served prison sentences for
drug-related crimes. at 17, she
dropped out of high school and
found work at a Starbucks in
naples, fla. She was promoted to
shift supervisor, and in 2017, ea-
ger to escape the poverty and
disorder of home, moved to
Buffalo to live with her cousin.
<Having a drug-addicted parent
puts you in the position of being
their parent,= rizzo said. <i had to
take care of my mom. She didn9t
take care of me.=
rizzo settled in Buffalo and got
hired at Starbucks no. 23917,
which sat beside a busy six-lane
road, sandwiched between sev-
eral chain hotels and Buffalo
niagara international airport.
Starbucks offered a solid wage.
She earned about $23 an hour as a
shift supervisor, though she
sometimes struggled to get full-
time hours. the job also brought
stability. <the first family envi-
ronment i9ve ever experienced,=
she said. rizzo got her ged and
earned a bachelor9s degree in
biology from arizona State
through Starbucks9s free online
college program. Her managers
Rizzo prepares to leave for a dinner with other fired Starbucks workers on April 15. Rizzo and the other workers hope that legal action
against the company will help them get their jobs back, but attorneys have said it9s unlikely that will happen in the next year.
at her store to sign union cards, Shortly after the union push
expressing support for an elec- was announced, the company
tion. the company responded by had promised to raise wages and
doubling the number of employ- institute credit card tipping. She
ees at her store to more than 40 in reassured her co-workers that she
an attempt to dilute the voting wouldn9t be angry if they voted
pool, according to the judge9s against the union.
ruling in the Buffalo case. <We9ve been treated as dispos-
Starbucks also flooded the Buf- able for a long time, and i want us
falo market with dozens of man- to be worth more to this compa-
agers from around the country. in ny,= she wrote in the group chat.
rizzo9s store the extra bosses <i9m not stuck on how that hap-
donned headsets 4 even when pens for us. i just know we de-
they weren9t serving customers 4 serve better.= in december 2021,
so that they could monitor the rizzo9s store and another on
workers9 conversations, the judge elmwood avenue in Buffalo vot-
found. Starbucks officials said ed to become the first u.S.
that the changes were necessary Starbucks to unionize.
to help underperforming stores, their early improbable victory
an argument the judge deemed caught the attention of baristas in
Photographs of Starbucks employees who have been fired are not credible. dozens of cities around the coun-
displayed in the Starbucks Workers United office in a converted Sometimes they ordered rizzo try, who petitioned for their own
Ford factory in Buffalo. The primary penalty that the National to stop talking about the union votes. congratulations poured in
Labor Relations Board can impose on companies for dismissing with her co-workers, according to from the likes of Sen. Bernie
pro-union employees 4 reinstatement with back pay 4 has been a testimony from rizzo and other Sanders (i-Vt.) and rep.
paltry deterrent, labor advocates said. workers. as the election ap- alexandria ocasio-cortez
proached, Starbucks slashed her (d-n.Y.).
praised her dedication to her would help workers negotiate pay store9s hours, making it difficult rizzo knew that the company
store and co-workers. <Lexi was raises and more reliable hours, for longtime employees to pay was still determined to crush the
an exemplary partner,= said david which were frequently cut in Jan- their bills. Some of the workers union and that winning a con-
almond, one of her former man- uary and february when custom- blamed the union drive. tract could take years. But she felt
agers in Buffalo. <She loves coffee er traffic slowed. rizzo didn9t <it was bad before, but that9s as if she were fighting for some-
and Starbucks with all of her know much about organized la- not even comparable to the chaos thing bigger than herself, her
soul.= bor beyond the experience of an it is now,= one of the baristas store or even Starbucks. She ex-
in august 2021, rizzo was aunt who worked as a Southwest complained in the employee text pected that politicians and celeb-
among the first Starbucks em- airlines flight attendant. But her chain as the election approached. rities would pressure the coffee
ployees in Buffalo to join the long history with Starbucks, her <i just want to make coffee and giant to bargain with them in
nascent union9s organizing com- calm manner and edgy look not think about it after work.= good faith. She believed the
mittee. rizzo hoped a union helped her win over co-workers. <We can9t work here without nLrB and the federal courts
would yield better health insur- rizzo9s wardrobe came from sec- feeling suffocated,= another baris- would force the company to fol-
ance. even though she had been ondhand clothing stores. She ta wrote. low the law.
covered by the company9s plan, a wore a stud in the space between <the general feeling is simply She imagined that if they suc-
stack of medical bills, totaling her nose and upper lip. Sleeves of that we f---ed ourselves,= a shift ceeded, other service workers at
more than $5,000 for multiple tattoos covered her arms. supervisor added. the Washing- places such as mcdonald9s and
surgeries, sat on the same book- <We9ve got the cool baristas on ton post is not naming the work- Burger King would also seek to
shelf as her college diploma. <at our side,= one of her colleagues ers to protect them from possible unionize. <Starbucks is banking
some point i stopped opening recalled thinking when she reprisals. on us giving up,= she said in an
them,= she said of the bills. <i told walked into the organizing com- rizzo fought to win back their interview a few weeks after her
myself that i9d worry about them mittee9s first meeting. support, reminding them that store voted to unionize. <We9re
when i was healthy.= Within a week, rizzo had per- their efforts were already produc- not going to.=
She also hoped the union suaded all of the hourly workers ing results. continued on next page
sunday, june 18 , 2023 . the washington post
TOP: Lexi Rizzo waits to testify outside a hearing room for the National Labor Relations Board in
Buffalo on April 18, while Ethan D. Balsam, right, a member of the Starbucks defense team, waits
inside. ABOVE: Starbucks Workers United organizer Richard Bensinger comforts Rizzo as they ride
the elevator after Rizzo testified at the hearing. Starbucks lawyers questioned Rizzo about several
incidents in which she was late for work. Rizzo testified that she suffered from migraines that were
caused by prescription medications used to treat her chronic endometriosis.
frOM PrEViOus PaGE
izzo had little sense of how
R starbucks would fight. Na-
tionwide, the union said,
starbucks has dismissed more
than 200 employees who backed
the union drives. in his senate
testimony, schultz said the com-
pany had not targeted pro-union
workers. <starbucks Coffee Com-
pany unequivocally has not bro-
ken the law,= he told lawmakers.
shortly after the union cam-
paign launched in the summer of
2021, managers began citing
rizzo for minor dress code infrac-
tions 4 small rips in the knees of
her jeans, an unauthorized sui-
cide awareness button on her
apron 4 that she said were previ-
ously never an issue. The compa-
ny reassigned rizzo from closing
shifts, which she had worked for
her entire career, to opening the
store as early as 4:30 a.m. in 2021
she was late to three shifts and
then went 12 months without any
incidents of tardiness. in august
2022, rizzo said she was suffering
from a migraine that hit her <like
a truck= and didn9t wake up for
her 4:30 a.m. opening. she rose to
a concerned co-worker banging
on her door around 9:45 a.m. and
immediately called and texted
her manager.
<i am so sorry from the bottom
of my heart,= she wrote. <i feel
awful.=
<i know,= the manager replied.
<accidents happen, just happy
you are ok.= The store remained
closed that day until noon.
The company gave her a <final
written warning,= the step before
dismissal, and changed her
schedule a few weeks later. she
was now often responsible for
closing the store at 7:30 p.m. or
8:30 p.m. friday and then reopen-
ing at 5:30 a.m. saturday. Because
she lived about 30 minutes away,
she would have to wake up for
work only eight or nine hours
after returning home. rizzo said
she was the only person at her
store, other than the manager,
assigned to close and then open.
When rizzo complained, her
store manager told her that she
didn9t have any other workers
who could take the shifts. a star-
bucks official, who was author-
ized by the company to speak on
the condition of anonymity, said
rizzo had asked her manager for
at least 30 hours a week because
she was <financially struggling.=
The new schedule was an attempt
to meet her needs, the official
said.
The final written warning
meant that rizzo was now one
mistake away from being fired.
she worried constantly about not
waking up for her shift, which
made it even harder to fall asleep.
<i walk into work every day feel-
ing like i might be walking into
my own execution,= she told The
Post in December 2022.
Her solution, she said, was to
try harder than anyone in her
store. <if i can just tough this out,
if they need me enough, if i9m
perfect every day, then they can9t
fire me,= she recalled thinking. as
a teenager rizzo had struggled
with anorexia, which she said was
a product of her chaotic child-
hood and feeling as though she
had no control over her life. amid
all the stress, her eating disorder
returned.
for the first time in years, she
began seeing a psychiatrist and
taking prescription medication
for her condition.
in early february of this year,
she closed the store on a friday
night and overslept, leaving her
57 minutes late for her opening
shift the following morning.
Nearly two months later, on
March 31, she was fired. rizzo9s
separation document cited her
lateness in early february, which
the company said was the cause
of her firing. it also included four
other instances in which she was
an average of 2 minutes and
40 seconds late.
in a statement, starbucks said
rizzo was <a valued and contrib-
uting shift supervisor & Had it
not been for continued punctuali-
ty issues that impacted her peers
and customers she would still be
employed.=
for rizzo, the dismissal
couldn9t have come at a worse
time. Her longtime partner had
been hit by a car while biking two
weeks earlier, shattering his knee
and wrist and leaving him unable
to walk or work his bartending
job. rizzo9s job was their only
source of income. Her situation in
that moment was reminiscent of
schultz9s story of his father9s inju-
ry and firing. The starbucks CEO
had told it dozens of times in
speeches, books and before Con-
gress.
No one at starbucks, though,
seemed to hear the echo. Even
after rizzo9s firing, the company
continued to level new allega-
tions, unrelated to her dismissal.
a starbucks official accused her
in an interview of falsifying time
logs to cover for her lateness. <she
could have been fired for that,=
the official said. <That9s an integ-
rity issue.=
The company cited only one
example. store video showed riz-
zo arriving at work at 5:36 a.m. on
feb. 26 of this year. rizzo wrote
5:34 a.m. as her start time in the
log. rizzo said she had spent the
two minutes in the parking lot
waiting for her co-worker to ar-
rive. (starbucks employees aren9t
permitted in the store alone.) a
text message from the day backs
up her account. <i9m running
late,= her co-worker had written
her around 5:20 a.m.
in the days after she was fired,
rizzo applied for food stamps,
Medicaid and unemployment
benefits. in the near term there
wasn9t much she could do to fight
back. No celebrities were urging a
boycott of the company. No sena-
tors were demanding that star-
bucks rehire her. rizzo filmed a
video that was posted to the
union9s TikTok page and got
about 640,000 views.
<What would you say to
Howard schultz?= one of her col-
leagues prompted.
<You have hundreds of thou-
sands of people giving everything
that they have so you can make
another dollar,= she replied.
<Then you treat us like dirt. it9s
disgusting.=
rizzo wasn9t the only union
supporter in Buffalo under scruti-
ny. Less than an hour after rizzo
was dismissed, starbucks manag-
ers issued a written warning to
Gianna reeve, a 22-year-old shift
supervisor who had traveled to
Washington and confronted
schultz as he left the senate hear-
ing room. <Don9t have this be your
legacy!= she called out to him.
Two days after schultz9s hear-
ing on March 29, reeve received a
disciplinary notice for closing
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<The company is not really suffering. The people
who are really suffering are all the people that I
love and care about.=
Lexi Rizzo, former barista
blinds and turning off lights at
her store while it was still open to
customers. The alleged incident
had occurred in late January. a
starbucks official declined to ex-
plain why the company had wait-
ed more than 60 days to disci-
pline reeve. Her written warning
said that she had failed to <create
a clean, welcoming, safe environ-
ment= in the store. reeve, who
still works for starbucks, said she
had no memory of the day but
worried she too would soon be
fired. <The floor is made of egg-
shells,= she said.
sometimes rizzo wondered if
unionizing was worth the strug-
gle. The bargaining sessions with
the company over a first contract
were going nowhere 4 most last-
ed less than 10 minutes before the
starbucks attorneys walked out.
Each side was accusing the other
of negotiating in bad faith. <The
company is not really suffering,=
rizzo said. <The people who are
really suffering are all the people
that i love and care about. i think
about everything that my store
partners have been through be-
cause of what i started and, yeah,
i have a lot of moments of doubt.=
shortly after rizzo9s firing, her
former co-workers voted unani-
mously to launch a two-day
strike. The company brought in
managers to run the drive-
through. rizzo and her co-work-
ers stood in the store parking lot
and tried to persuade customers
to turn away. Eventually, the man-
agers called the police, who
shooed the striking workers
down the street. rizzo knew none
of it was enough to hurt
starbucks, which had reported
record sales in the first quarter of
2023 and had recently an-
nounced plans to grow its foot-
print in China to 9,000 stores.
n mid-april, a dozen fired
I starbucks workers met for a
potluck at the union9s Buffalo
offices in a converted ford facto-
ry. Nearly 18 months earlier, rizzo
had gathered with her colleagues
in the same century-old building
to celebrate the new union9s first
win.
When the victory was an-
nounced, rizzo, who was tracking
the vote count on a legal pad,
leaped into the air and shouted
with joy. Now she was holding a
dish of mashed potatoes in the
parking lot with three of her fired
colleagues who had celebrated
alongside her that day. They were
waiting on a person with the key
to the union offices.
<is everyone fashionably late?=
one of the workers asked.
<That9s why we all got fired,=
rizzo joked.
Most of the former workers at
the potluck were going to testify
in the coming week at a second
starbucks trial in Buffalo. The
judge9s ruling in the first trial,
issued about a month before riz-
zo was fired, concluded that
<starbucks9 widespread coercive
behavior & had permeated every
store in the Buffalo market.=
This time the NLrB complaint
consisted of more than 30 charg-
es, including 10 cases of star-
bucks allegedly firing workers in
Buffalo for union activity.
<This is the trial where i get my
job back,= said sam amato, a
34-year-old shift supervisor who
was dismissed last summer after
13 years with the company.
<are you excited?= rizzo asked.
<More nervous,= he replied.
amato was fired last summer
after his short-staffed store
switched to drive-through-only
operations without management
approval. The shift supervisor
who preceded amato at work said
that she alone had ordered the
change and locked the cafe doors
while amato was rushing to serve
customers. amato, a prominent
union supporter, was the only
person fired. starbucks officials
said that because amato had be-
gun his shift, he was in charge
and therefore responsible. They
also noted that amato had re-
ceived a <final written warning=
for an unrelated incident that
occurred nearly two years earlier.
Even if the judge ruled in
amato9s favor, starbucks could
appeal, and the government9s
lawyers told him that it was un-
likely he would get his job back
before next year. still, after
months of waiting, he was eager
for his day in court. <i9m hoping
it9ll be therapeutic,= he told rizzo.
rizzo would also be testifying
at the trial about last summer9s
final written warning, which the
board was asking the judge to
expunge. Her firing probably
would be part of a third trial in
the future.
The former starbucks workers
drank wine, ate lasagna and
talked about schultz9s senate ap-
pearance. amato had been in the
hearing room that day, one of a
dozen or so workers sent by the
union. He was sitting just a few
yards from Mellody Hobson, the
chair of the company9s board,
who was clad in a starbucks green
blazer. amato had looked up her
instagram account, which was
packed with pictures of artists
and liberal icons, such as Maya
angelou and shirley Chisholm.
He had wanted to tell her in
person that day how much he
loved his job and how his firing
had left him feeling angry and
depressed. But Hobson had left
the room before he had the
chance. in an email, Hobson said
that she was <completely un-
aware= anyone was trying to
speak with her and that she
backed the company.
The fired workers9 potluck was
drawing to a close. <i wonder how
much they know about us?=
amato asked, thinking of Hobson
and schultz.
<i think they know everything,=
said Victoria Conklin, who was
fired last summer after five years
with starbucks. The NLrB was
also calling for her to be reinstat-
ed.
in the interim, she had found
work as an Olive Garden waitress.
around 10 p.m., the fired work-
ers drifted out to the parking lot.
rizzo hugged amato. They had
been friends since she moved to
Buffalo six years earlier. she had
rushed to his store to support him
on the day he was fired and
picketed with him and his co-
workers in the parking lot after-
ward. <Good luck with your testi-
mony,= she told him. amato
waved and drove off.
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hree days later, on april 18,
T rizzo was sitting in the wit-
ness chair being questioned
by starbucks9s attorney about her
record at the company and the
incident last august that had led
to her final written warning.
The union9s lawyer told her
that the starbucks attorney
would try to fluster her and make
her lose her temper on the stand.
<i9m going to talk to him the way i
would to any man who9s angry
because his latte isn9t right,= she
told herself. she hoped she
wouldn9t cry. rizzo wore black
jeans with small rips in the knee.
The starbucks attorney question-
ing her was clad in a dark gray
suit.
<isn9t it true that you received
multiple time and attendance
corrective actions in the years
that you9ve been working for
starbucks?= the lawyer began.
<i worked there for a very long
time.= rizzo replied. <so prob-
ably.=
The lawyer handed her a cor-
rective action form that detailed a
<documented coaching= for tardi-
ness six years earlier and asked
rizzo if she recalled it. rizzo
looked at the piece of paper for
several seconds. <This was so long
ago that i don9t remember it
happening, personally,= she told
him. <But that9s my signature.=
The cross-examination contin-
ued for about 45 minutes. The
lawyer pressed her to explain a
half-dozen incidents of lateness
amassed over the course of more
than 1,000 workdays since she
started with the company in 2015.
On one of those days, rizzo9s text
messages showed that she was
late because she had been admit-
ted to the hospital, where she was
kept overnight.
Eventually, the lawyer arrived
at the morning in question:
aug. 28, 2022.
rizzo talked about going to
sleep with a migraine, waking to a
co-worker banging on her door
and calling her store manager to
apologize. <i was in a full-blown
panic,= she testified. <i started
sobbing uncontrollably.=
The starbucks attorney asked
if she had ever sought an accom-
modation from the company for
her migraines, and rizzo ex-
plained that they were a byprod-
uct of prescription medication
she had been taking for severe
abdominal pain caused by her
chronic endometriosis, a condi-
tion in which tissue similar to the
lining of the uterus grows outside
the uterus. she said she had
called starbucks9s human re-
sources department but was told
that her pain was too <irregular
and erratic= and that there wasn9t
anything the company could do
for her.
<i could go on an indefinite
medical leave or try to keep work-
ing,= rizzo testified, <and that9s
what i did because i couldn9t
afford not to work.= several
months later she got a hysterecto-
my, she said, and the pain went
away.
The judge asked her if she
needed a break. she wiped her
eyes with a tissue and took a deep
breath. after a few more ques-
tions, her time on the stand was
done. she hugged the union9s
lawyer and another starbucks
worker in the hallway outside the
courtroom.
for rizzo, the court proceed-
ings weren9t therapeutic or em-
powering. The entire day felt de-
humanizing, as if her nearly eight
years with the company, her med-
ical problems and her physical
pain had been reduced to nothing
more than malingering and scat-
tered incidents of tardiness.
<They9re trying to make these
implications that i9m a bad per-
son who doesn9t care about my
job, and i know that9s not true,=
she said.
The judge is expected to rule
this summer on whether
starbucks will have to remove the
final written warning from
rizzo9s personnel file. Even if
rizzo prevails, starbucks can ap-
peal that ruling. Last month, the
NLrB9s New York office found
merit to the charge that she was
fired for her union activity and
indicated that it will file a com-
plaint seeking her reinstatement,
according to the union9s lawyer.
rizzo will have to return to
court for a third trial and is likely
to face the same questions from
the same group of starbucks law-
yers. at best, a year 4 more likely
two 4 will pass before the courts
rule, the appeals have been ex-
hausted and rizzo is potentially
eligible to get her job back.
rizzo had believed that there
were laws that could protect her
and her colleagues. Now, she said,
she knew how the system really
worked. she rode down the eleva-
tor and rushed past the building
security guards out onto the side-
walk. she was no longer crying.
she was livid.
<i wanted to scream,= she said.
<i honestly wanted to scream.=
instead, she got in her car and
drove home. she needed to make
a résumé. she needed to find a
job.
alice crites and Lauren Kaori gurley
contributed to this report.
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A cry for change
as more scandal
rocks Los Angeles
Fourth time in four years
that corruption-related
charges have been filed
BY R EIS T HEBAULT
The city council in the nation9s
second-largest municipality is a
hot mess.
This will not come as news to
the 3.8 million residents of Los
Angeles, who this past week wit-
nessed for the fourth time in four
years corruption-related charges
brought against a sitting or for-
mer council member.
The accusations against South
L.A. representative Curren Price
Jr. are only the latest to rock a
scandal-plagued City Hall. The
case against Price, who has denied
charges of embezzlement, perjury
and conflict of interest, was filed
eight months after a leaked audio-
tape exposed the racist remarks
and backroom dealings of top city
leaders, spurring one council
member9s resignation and an-
other9s ostracization.
Then, there are the recent
guilty pleas and convictions of
three other ex-council members,
rounding out a group of disgraced
former city officials that is large
enough to field a basketball team.
Voters in Los Angeles are exasper-
ated, and analysts say their trust
in the city9s institutions is erod-
ing.
Now, multiple efforts are un-
derway to reform the Democratic-
controlled city council, with sug-
gested changes ranging from the
incremental to the structural. But
unlike past attempts to address
what many say is a broken system,
this time the call is also coming
from inside city hall, with key
council members on board. While
details are still being debated, two
of the most seismic changes 4
establishing an independent com-
mission to draw council district
lines and expanding the size of the
council itself 4 appear more pos-
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ventions, the proposals would
amount to a massive overhaul of
local government at a time when
many here are hungry for change,
and a reshaping of future political
representation in one of the coun-
try9s most diverse multiracial re-
gions. But the activists, academics
and officials pushing for them are
battling an entrenched power
structure and a uninterested pub-
lic accustomed to broken promis-
es.
<I believe that in every crisis
there9s an opportunity,= Paul
Krekorian, the city council presi-
dent, said in an interview. <And I
feel this is the time when the
momentum is here, the commit-
ment is here, for us to really make
changes that people in previous
councils would not have been able
to make.=
Lately, how to fix Los Angeles
has been a popular subject in
committee meetings both formal
and advisory. Krekorian, who as-
sumed the presidency after his
predecessor resigned amid fallout
from the leaked recording, is lead-
ing a council group on governance
reform, which has crisscrossed
the city to hold listening sessions
on the biggest ideas.
Krekorian9s committee will ul-
timately suggest language for pro-
posals that will end up on local
ballots next year if a majority of
the council approves them. At the
same time, a brain trust of six
leading Los Angeles scholars is
working on its own set of recom-
mendations meant to guide the
council9s policymaking. The inde-
pendent group released its draft
report on Thursday, proposing 10
new city council members, two
independent redistricting com-
missions and more teeth for the
ethics watchdog.
<The moment is now for
change,= said Ange-Marie Han-
cock, who co-chairs the panel,
which is known as the L.A. Gov-
ernance Reform Project.
Of all the suggestions, an inde-
pendent redistricting committee
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Los Angeles City Council President Paul Krekorian holds a news conference to discuss action <to preserve public trust= following the filing
of charges against Los Angeles Council member Curren Price Jr.
appears most likely to succeed.
While the state has turned over
redistricting to an independent
commission, the L.A. city council
has held onto the power to draw
its own district lines, a setup that
in recent decades has become in-
creasingly contentious and rife
with political influence. The ex-
plosive leaked audio captured a
part of this process, revealing law-
makers haggling over boundaries
while using crass and offensive
language.
Supporters of independent re-
districting say removing the
council from the equation will
make lawmakers more account-
able and prevent them from ma-
nipulating districts to influence
the outcome of elections.
<I can guarantee as sure as I9m
standing here we will advance a
proposal to the ballot for the peo-
ple to vote on that will provide
truly independent redistricting,=
Krekorian said. <I can9t say exactly
what the details of it are going to
be, but that is going to happen for
sure.=
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Price has denied charges of embezzlement, conflict of interest and
perjury.
The future of the other major
pillar of reform 4 increasing the
number of city council members,
effectively weakening the power
of each of them 4 is less certain.
Krekorian said he believes the
council will put some version of
expansion on the ballot in 2024,
but described its odds of winning
majority support from voters as
<more dicey.=
By sheer numbers, the city of
Los Angeles could be considered
the country9s least representative.
Its 15 council members have more
than 260,000 constituents each,
giving them by far the largest
districts in the nation. If the dis-
tricts were cities, they9d be larger
than Richmond and Boise, Idaho.
Meanwhile, New York City has 51
council members, each with an
average of 166,000 constituents,
and Chicago has 50, working out
to about 54,000 constituents per
member.
Critics of the current arrange-
ment, including many of the
council members themselves, say
it gives elected officials too much
power, and makes them less re-
sponsive to average constituents
and more reliant on big donors.
Yet the size of the council has
not changed since 1925, despite
the city9s dramatic population
growth in the near-century that
followed. Past attempts to in-
crease council size in the 1970s,
980s and 990s failed, as voters
overwhelmingly rejected the idea
of more politicians. But one im-
portant shift since the last at-
tempt came in 2015, when former-
ly off-year elections were aligned
with statewide and federal elec-
tions to spur turnout.
<I think things have changed,=
said Raphael Sonenshein, who
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass delivers her first State of the City address on April 17. Bass was elected
to her first term as mayor last November.
the washington post
Ringo h.W. Chiu/AP
helped lead the last major revi-
sion of the city charter in 1999 and
is now the executive director of
the Haynes Foundation, which
supports social science research
in L.A. <The city electorate is more
diverse, younger and election
dates have been moved to even
numbered years. I wouldn9t say
having more politicians is popu-
lar, but representation is very
popular.=
The group of academics, of
which Sonenshein is a part, sug-
gested the council expand to 25
members, including four elected
to at-large, citywide seats. Many
activists have lobbied for an even
higher number, or multimember
districts like those recently ap-
proved in Portland, Ore.
But reformers will have to con-
vince the public of reasoning that
at first may sound counterintui-
tive: The answer to corrupt politi-
cians is more politicians.
Residents appear open to the
idea, with 61 percent of registered
voters saying they would favor
<I feel this is the time ...
for us to really make
changes that people in
previous councils would
not have been able to
make.=
Paul Krekorian,
Los Angeles City Council president
. sunday, june 18 , 2023
DAmiAn DovARgAnes/AP
increasing the size of the council
in a poll late last year by the Los
Angeles Times and a group of
nonprofits.
One key to bolstering this sup-
port will be significantly strength-
ening the city9s ethics commis-
sion, said Rob Quan, an organizer
with Unrig L.A., a coalition of
community organizations and ac-
tivists.
<If we9re going to be asking
people to embrace more politi-
cians, we9ve got to be delivering
more accountability and it has to
be a real, tangible thing,= Quan
said, pointing to a sweeping pack-
age of suggested ethics reforms
introduced last year that has been
stuck in committee and has not
received a hearing.
The package would guarantee a
budget for the ethics commission,
so it no longer has to seek approv-
al from the lawmakers it regu-
lates, and it would give the com-
mission the ability to place policy
recommendations directly on the
ballot.
In November, Angelenos reel-
ing from the leaked tape scandal
elected Karen Bass as mayor,
choosing an experienced Demo-
cratic politician who projected
competence and stability and who
promised to clean up local govern-
ment. During the campaign, Bass
supported independent redis-
tricting. She said that she did not
then favor enlarging the city
council, but would like to see the
idea more thoroughly researched.
In recent months, activists and
officials desperate to increase vot-
er engagement and trust have also
pushed to tighten the city9s lobby-
ing code and have suggested ideas
like <democracy vouchers,= a pro-
gram growing in popularity that
would give all voters a number of
city-paid vouchers to donate to
candidates of their choosing, an
attempt to increase political par-
ticipation across income levels
and decrease the power of big
donors.
<There9s not going to be one
silver bullet,= said Godfrey Plata,
the deputy director of LA For-
ward, a community advocacy or-
ganization.
But the drumbeat of city hall
controversies has opened a win-
dow to make real change, he said,
and now the city has a chance to
undo policies that have marginal-
ized many.
<We9re being given the opportu-
nity right now to write rules that
benefit us,= Plata said. <And we
have to seize this opportunity.=
emily guskin in Washington
contributed to this report.
DAmiAn DovARgAnes/AP
sunday, june 18 , 2023 . the washington post
King Charles III, center, rides back to Buckingham Palace after Trooping the Colour. He was accompanied by his son Prince William and two of his siblings, Princess Anne and Prince Edward.
BY W ILLIAM B OOTH
LONDON 4 For some, it was
perhaps bittersweet, another sign
that a new era has begun, as
Britain celebrated the official
birthday of King Charles III on
Saturday with a military parade
called Trooping the Colour. It was
his first as sovereign, starring
1,400 soldiers, 400 musicians,
and the show-stealers, 200 hors-
es.
The play was the same, but the
actors had changed. There were
the huge drum horses, the farri-
ers with glinting axes and the
buglers. The Mall from Bucking-
ham Palace to Horse Guards Pa-
rade grounds was a sea of red
tunics.
The crowds were respectable 4
but not huge.
They9ve been doing this for
more than 260 years 4 since
George II 4 and they are very
good at it.
For the past seven decades, this
was the annual honor bestowed
upon Queen Elizabeth II 4 and
last year the celebration was an
especially big one, marking her
Platinum Jubilee.
She died in September at her
castle in Scotland. Then there was
her funeral, with 10 days of
mourning, and afterward, the
coronation of Charles at West-
minster Abbey in May.
The royal family has been on
near-constant display over the
past year. Not only has the crown
been passed, but Prince Harry
and his wife, Meghan, the Duch-
ess of Sussex, have dominated
headlines, with the release of
their self-produced six-hour
documentary for Netflix and Har-
ry9s best-selling memoir, <Spare.=
The book alleged that his father,
Charles; brother, Prince William;
and stepmother, now Queen Ca-
milla, took active roles in press
attacks against the couple, who
now live in the United States.
Harry and Meghan did not
attend.
Anyway, no golden carriage
ride for Charles this time.
At 74 years old, Charles rode on
horseback throughout the two
suDan
Airstrike in Khartoum
kills 17, officials say
An airstrike in Sudan9s capital
on Saturday killed at least 17
people, including five children,
health officials said, as fighting
continued between rival generals
seeking to control the country.
The attack in Khartoum was
one of the deadliest of the
clashes in urban areas of the
capital and elsewhere in Sudan
Britain9s King Charles takes the reins
for Trooping the Colour celebration
At his first parade marking his 8official birthday,9 the November-born monarch rides on horseback
hours of parading. He reviewed
the troops, offering up smart sa-
lutes, his face mostly obscured by
the tall black bearskin cap on his
head and the chin strap below his
bottom lip.
King Charles and Queen Camilla wave to the crowd from the balcony of Buckingham Palace after the parade. Prince William and
Catherine, the Princess of Wales, stand behind them. Neither Prince Andrew nor Prince Harry participated in the festivities.
between the military and a
powerful paramilitary group
known as the Rapid Support
Forces.
There was no immediate
comment Saturday from either
side of the conflict on the strike,
and it was not clear whether the
attack was by warplanes or a
drone. The military9s aircraft
have repeatedly targeted RSF
troops, and the RSF has
reportedly used drones and
antiaircraft weapons against the
military.
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A lifelong equestrian, a former
polo player, the new king looked
confident in the saddle, his white-
gloved hand steady on the reins of
his steed, named Noble, a gift to
the palace from the Royal Cana-
D ige s t
The fighting broke out in mid-
April, capping months of
increasing tensions between the
leaders of the military and the
RSF.
Saturday9s strike hit the
Yormouk neighborhood in
southern Khartoum, where
clashes have centered in recent
weeks, according to Sudan9s
Health Ministry.
The area houses a military
facility that is controlled by the
army.
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dian Mounted Police.
Charles is the first king to
appear at the birthday parade
since 1950, the last year King
George VI attended. Elizabeth ap-
peared, side saddle, in her sick
PolanD
LGBTQ+ marchers
demand equal rights
Tens of thousands marched
through the streets of Warsaw
on Saturday to demand equality
for LGBTQ+ people, as the
community eyes upcoming
Polish elections in which gay
rights could play a prominent
role.
The country9s ruling
conservative nationalist Law and
father9s place in 1951. George died
in 1952. Elizabeth last rode in the
trooping in 1986, though she con-
tinued to ride privately at her
estates well into her 90s.
On Saturday, Charles was ac-
alastaIr grant/aP
Justice (PiS) party has focused
on opposing what it calls <LGBT
ideology= in previous campaigns.
With an election in October or
November looking tight, activists
expect PiS to use issues like
same-sex marriage and teaching
about LGBTQ+ issues in schools
to mobilize socially conservative
voters in the predominantly
Catholic country.
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Pakistan leaves 12 dead: A bus
traveling on a highway in
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companied on horseback by his
son and heir Prince William, the
Prince of Wales, and two of the
king9s siblings, Princess Anne, the
Princess Royal, and Prince Ed-
ward, the Duke of Edinburgh.
The disgraced Prince Andrew
was nowhere to be seen.
In the parade, the <colour= re-
fers to a flag featuring the uni-
form color and insignia of a par-
ticular army unit. Before modern
communications, <Regimental
Colours= were used as rallying
points in battle, helping soldiers
figure out where they needed to
be and distinguishing their unit
from others. The <trooping= bit
refers to young officers assigned
to march between ranks of troops
displaying their flag.
And though the parade cel-
ebrates his <official birthday,= the
June date is just a chance to offer
summer procession. Charles9s
real birthday is Nov. 14, 1948.
The BBC host of these ceremo-
nies, Huw Edwards, pronounced
the whole show <very, very smart.=
One of his guests reported that
afterward, the horses are reward-
ed with <recovery rations,= in-
cluding carrots and apples. The
king and queen might have some-
thing stronger.
No soldiers fainted, as the skies
were overcast and temperatures
in the high 70s. Earlier in the
week, while practicing, at least
three troops crumpled in the heat
on hotter days.
In a carriage rode the new
Queen Camilla, wearing a kind of
bearskin fascinator hat. Beside
her was Catherine, the Princess of
Wales, and her three children,
George, Charlotte and Louis, age
5, who provided the photogra-
phers with an image of the day, by
holding his nose.
Perhaps it was the horses.
After returning to Buckingham
Palace, the king and queen and
senior working royals appeared
on the balcony to wave to the
crowds as Royal Air Force heli-
copters, jets and historical air-
planes flew in formation over-
head. It appeared a slimmed-
down group portrait, intentional
and not.
Pakistan9s Punjab province
overturned after its brakes failed
Saturday, killing at least 12
people and leaving eight others
injured, police and health
officials said. Saqib Waheed,
spokesman for the federal
Motorway Police, said the bus
was traveling from the capital,
Islamabad, to the eastern city of
Lahore when its brakes failed.
The crash happened about 85
miles from the capital on a sharp
turn in the Salt mountain range.
4 From news services
A18 eZ re the washington post . sunday, june 18 , 2023

Singer in German band

Rammstein faces sexual
assault accusations
BY K ATE B RADY
AND L OVEDAY M ORRIS
BERLIN 4 The lead singer for
German rock band Rammstein,
known for its provocative stage
shows featuring bondage gear
and wild pyrotechnics, is facing a
police investigation into allega-
tions of sexual assault.
Following allegations from a
24-year-old fan that she was
drugged and woke with unex-
plained bruises after a concert last
month in Vilnius, Lithuania, at
least half a dozen women have
come forward with accusations
against frontman Till Linde-
mann, 60, in the German press.
They describe a system at con-
certs whereby fans are recruited
to have sex with the Rammstein
singer and then feel pressured
into sexual acts or are sexually
assaulted with little to no recollec-
tion of events.
<It has been repeatedly claimed
AFp/Getty imAGeS that women at 8Rammstein9 con-
A boy is comforted Saturday at the scene of an attack at the Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School in Mpondwe, Uganda. certs were drugged with knock-
out drops or alcohol to enable our
in front of the barriers from which
women are allegedly chosen to
meet with the lead singer.
<She asked my age and where
I9m from, once I confirmed she
then sent me a link to a WhatsApp
group,= Lynn tweeted. <All girls
were asked to send a selfie, with 8I
want to pre party9 or 8I want to
after party,9 or both,= she said.
According to Lynn, she attend-
ed both. At the pre-show party, she
had a few drinks, including a
group tequila shot with Linde-
mann, before her memory faded,
she wrote.
She recalled being led under
the stage to meet Lindemann dur-
ing intermission. When she told
the singer that she would not have
sex with him, he reacted angrily
and left in a rage, she wrote. She
went on to attend a later after-
show party. In the morning, she
found bruises on her body and
called the police.
In the weeks that followed, the
band was repeatedly hit by similar
accusations involving the appar-
ent <casting= of women to have sex

At least 37 killed in attack in Uganda school client to perform sexual acts on

Suspected militants also
abducted 6, set fire to
campus, officials say
BY K ELSEY A BLES,
V ICTORIA B ISSET
AND A ARON G REGG
Suspected militants killed at
least 37 people and abducted six
others in an attack on a school in
western Uganda, authorities said
Saturday.
The raid in Mpondwe, near the
border with the Democratic
Republic of Congo, took place late
Friday, according to Defense Min-
istry spokesman Felix Kulayigye,
who said five rebels set fire to the
school9s campus and looted its
food stocks.
When military forces arrived on
the scene at Lhubiriha Secondary
School, <the school was found
burning with dead bodies of stu-
dents lying in the compound,=
Kulayigye, a brigadier general,
said in a statement.
The local mayor, Selevest
Mapoze, gave an even more grim
account to the Associated Press,
saying 41 people had been killed.
Some of the victims suffered fatal
burns in a dormitory that the at-
tackers set on fire, Mapoze said,
and others were shot or hacked to
death with machetes.
According to Kulayigye, the sus-
pected attackers were rebels from
the Allied Democratic Forces
(ADF), an extremist group that
has ties to the Islamic State and
operates in Uganda and across the
border in Congo. He said Ugandan
forces were <pursuing the enemy
to rescue those abducted and de-
stroy= the group.
The U.S. mission in Uganda said
Saturday that it was <deeply sad-
dened to learn of the heinous at-
tack= and offered condolences to
the victims9 families. In a state-
ment, the United Nations
Children9s Fund condemned the
violence it said took place on <the
same day gazetted to commemo-
rate the Day of the African Child.=
On Twitter, Bobi Wine, a rap-
per-turned-opposition leader,
said he hopes <investigations can
begin in earnest so that the perpe-
trators of this crime face justice.=
The attackers spent two nights
in the area in western Uganda
before the assault, Maj. Gen. Dick
Olum, commander of the
Ugandan forces operating in
Congo, told residents at the site,
the Daily Monitor newspaper re-
ported.
After the raid, the rebels forced
the abducted students to help
them carry the looted food toward
Congo9s Virunga National Park,
according to Kulayigye. Law en-
forcement joined the military in
pursuit as the rebels fled in the
direction of the park, police said.
The attack was the latest atroci-
ty blamed on rebel groups operat-
ing out of Congo9s eastern region,
with violence sometimes spilling
over the border with Uganda.
The Kivu Security Tracker, a
conflict-mapping project run by
New York University and Human
Rights Watch, recorded 3,850 in-
dividuals killed in 730 attacks at-
tributed to the ADF in Congo9s
eastern region since 2017. In
March, the ADF killed 36 people in
a raid on a village in Congo9s North
Kivu province, the AP reported.
On Monday, 114 asylum seekers
4 70 of whom were children 4
crossed the border from Congo to
Uganda, fleeing what Uganda9s
Red Cross Society said were sus-
pected ADF attacks in Congo9s
Kasindi, about six miles from
Mpondwe. They later returned
home after Congolese forces as-
sured them it was safe to do so.
It was unclear why the school
them,= Rammstein9s lawyers said
in earlier this month, threatening
legal action against accusers.
<Without exception, these allega-
tions are untrue.= The lawyers did
not immediately respond to a re-
quest for comment on the police
investigation.
But after weeks of stories in the
German media, Berlin prosecu-
tors on Wednesday launched an
investigation into Lindemann <on
the basis of several criminal com-
plaints filed by third parties,= a
spokeswoman for Berlin prosecu-
tion confirmed to The Washing-
ton Post in a statement. The probe
centers on <allegations of sexual
offenses and the distribution of
narcotics,= the statement said.
A day later Universal, the
group9s record label, announced
that it was <suspending coopera-
tion= with the band <until further
notice.= Lindemann9s book pub-
lisher has also cut ties.
In the first statement from a
band member, drummer Chris-
toph Schneider said in social me-
dia post Friday that the accusa-
tions had <deeply shaken= the
band and he believed nothing ille-
gal had taken place. But he then
appeared to distance himself
with Lindemann.
<I9m very glad this is being tak-
en seriously and investigated, it9s
a relief we are finally being heard,
given all the bad news we9ve had
these last few weeks,= Lynn told
The Post via Instagram, adding
that she had personally heard
from dozens of women with simi-
lar experiences.
A woman named as Kaya R.,
one of five women who spoke to
the German daily Süddeutsche
Zeitung, said she was invited to
meet Lindemann after a concert
in her hometown of Vienna in
2019. She told the newspaper she
was aware that there was a <sexual
component= involved but as-
sumed nothing would happen
against her will.
She said she doesn9t remember
getting to the hotel room, where
she fell unconscious and awoke
with Lindemann <on me.=
It is unclear exactly how many
women have come forward, as
some have spoken to other outlets
anonymously. Lindemann9s law-
yers have accused the media of
<failing to research and collect
sufficient evidence= and not re-
porting in a <balanced and objec-
tive manner.=
The allegations have sparked a

DONE
was targeted, but Olum told re- from Lindemann9s <private par- broader debate in Germany about
porters that the ADF could be ties.= consent when it comes to sex
lashing out under pressure. After <Things seem to have hap- between stars and fans. Germany

RIGHT
a spate of suicide bombings in
2021, Uganda9s military launched
joint air and artillery strikes
against ADF camps in Congo, in
cooperation with Congolese forc-
THE FIRST TIME. es. That mission, dubbed Opera-
tion Shujaa, was extended last
year.
<They are under huge pressure,
7 WINDOWS
¥ and so this is what they have to do:
show the world that they are still
pened that, although legally okay,
I personally don9t think are right.
Certain structures have grown
that went beyond the limits and
values of the other band mem-
bers. It is also important to us that
Till9s parties are not confused
with our official after-show par-
ties,= he said in his statement. <Till
has distanced himself from us in
recent years and created his own
remained relatively untouched by
the global #MeToo movement that
took off in 2017, but there have
been some high-profile cases in
recent years.
There has also been renewed
scrutiny of Lindemann9s often
controversial lyrics and writing.
His poem <Wenn du Schläfst=
(<When you Sleep=) prompted a
huge debate in Germany when it

7 SIDING
there, and show the world that bubble.= was released in 2020.
¥ they can still do havoc, which they
did,= Olum said Saturday.
Founded in 1994 with roots in
the East German underground
<I like to sleep with you when
you sleep, when you don9t stir at
7 DOORS
¥ The attackers used tactics em-
ployed by the ADF in previous
punk rock scene and influenced
by U.S. bands such as Kiss and
all,= the poem begins, in German.
<And that9s just how it should be

7 TRIM
campaigns, he said. Anthrax, Rammstein is one of (how it should be so that it9s fun).
¥ <What happens is every time we
put the ADF under a huge pres-
Germany9s best-known musical
exports, with sales of more than
A little Rohypnol in the wine (a
little Rohypnol in the glass). You
7 TILE & FLOORING
¥ sure & they try to pull us back to
our area, to see if they can divide
20 million albums. The band plays
to packed stadiums on both sides
can9t move at all. And you9re sleep-
ing, it9s a blessing.= Rohypnol has

7 VANITIES
and divert our forces,= Olum said. of the Atlantic, a feat virtually been used as a drug to incapaci-
¥ <They come in very small numbers
4 five, ten 4 and do such may-
unheard of for any other German-
speaking band. Their 1997 hit <Du
tate someone for purposes of as-
sault.
7 COUNTERTOPS
¥ hem; kill, maim, rob. And in so
doing, they think they9ll divert us.=
Hast= made it to No. 20 on Bill-
board9s U.S. Mainstream Rock
At the time of the poem9s publi-
cation, Lindemann9s publisher
7 ACCESSIBILITY
The ADF, which was founded by chart. Kiepenheuer & Witsch defended
¥ Ugandan exiles in Congo in 1995 But it is their provocative stage him.
& MORE with the aim of toppling Uganda9s
government, has a history of at-
shows for which the band is per-
haps best known. In 1999, Linde-
But on June 2 the publisher
severed ties with the Rammstein
tacks throughout the region, in- mann and keyboardist Flake singer, citing <a porn video in
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educational institution. In 1998, and lascivious behavior after a sexual violence against women=
the group raided a college in west- show in Worcester, Mass., during that features the singer9s poetry
ern Uganda, killing 80 students which Lindemann simulated anal anthology, the publishing house
and abducting 100 others, accord- sex with Lorenz using a fake phal- said.
ing to the Daily Monitor. lus. In its own statement suspend-
Since then, the United States, Shelby Lynn, the 24-year-old ing ties, Universal said, <The alle-
United Nations and Ugandan and from Northern Ireland who first gations against Till Lindemann
Congolese governments have all came forward with allegations of shocked us and we have the great-
accused the group of waging vio- being spiked at a Rammstein con- est respect for the women who
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sunday, june 18 , 2023 . the washington post
Blinken arrives in Beijing amid deep ûssures in U.S.-China relations
BY J OHN H UDSON
BEIJING 4 Antony Blinken be-
came the first secretary of state to
visit China in five years on Sunday
as he arrived in the country for
two days of high-stakes meetings
aimed at stabilizing a relationship
under historic stress.
His hosts previewed the tense
visit with multiple rebukes of the
United States, accusing Washing-
ton of engaging in <irresponsible
bullying= and living under the <il-
lusion= it could deal with China
from a <position of strength.=
China9s foreign minister, Qin
Gang, warned Blinken that he
should <show respect= during a
pre-trip phone call, and made
clear his view that Washington
alone was responsible for the
abysmal state of relations.
But U.S. officials said Blinken
remained hopeful that the two
nations could move beyond feud-
ing rhetoric and make progress on
establishing regular lines of com-
munication 4 a modest objective
given the many existing disagree-
ments over trade, human rights,
Taiwan, Hong Kong and cyberse-
curity.
Last month, President Biden
predicted a thaw in China9s anger
over the U.S. downing of its high-
altitude surveillance balloon in
February. The White House has
indicated that Blinken9s trip could
unlock meetings between U.S. and
Chinese officials, including a lead-
er-to-leader engagement with
President Xi Jinping.
<I9m hoping that over the next
several months I9ll be meeting
with Xi again, and talking about
legitimate differences we have but
also how & to get along,= Biden
told reporters before leaving to
Philadelphia.
When asked about Blinken9s
frosty welcome from Chinese offi-
cials, a senior State Department
official said that the secretary is
<well aware of the current state of
the bilateral relationship= and un-
derscored that both sides would
be <candid= in expressing their
concerns.
Blinken arrived in the early
morning with a full agenda: meet-
ings with Gang; the Communist
Party9s top foreign policy official,
Wang Yi; U.S. business leaders;
American embassy personnel; ex-
change students; and potentially
Xi himself.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Beijing early Sunday. American officials said Blinken is
hopeful the United States and China can move beyond feuding.
Besides improving communi- with the role of peacemaker on the
cations, Blinken9s team is interest- Middle East and the war in
ed in working on increasing the Ukraine.
number of commercial flights be- The diplomatic streak has Bei-
tween the United States and China jing projecting confidence and in-
and finding ways to lessen the U.S. dependence, but it can ill afford a
fentanyl crisis given that many of long standoff with Washington.
the narcotic9s precursors come Facing an economic slowdown,
from China, said the senior State soaring youth unemployment and
Department official, who like oth- an anemic investment climate,
ers spoke on the condition of ano- Chinese officials are keen to host
nymity to discuss sensitive diplo- Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen
matic planning. and Commerce Secretary Gina
Blinken will square off with his Raimondo to address U.S. tech-
counterparts at Beijing9s famed nology restrictions on China and
Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, a lav- other economic matters. As part of
ish complex that hosted President this pro-business push, Xi met
Richard M. Nixon a half-century with Microsoft co-founder Bill
ago during his historic outreach to Gates on Friday 4 a meeting that
China. followed visits to Beijing by JP-
Like then, the United States has Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon,
driven the push for engagement Starbucks CEO Laxman
with China 4 but the power dy- Narasimhan and Tesla and Twitter
namic has shifted dramatically in CEO Elon Musk.
the intervening decades. But rather than acquiesce to
Many times wealthier and more Chinese preferences that top U.S.
globally connected than it was in economic advisers travel first, the
the 1970s, China has been flexing White House insisted that Blink-
its diplomatic muscles recently, en, one of Biden9s closest confi-
brokering a rapprochement be- dants, be the first to Beijing, ac-
tween regional rivals Saudi Arabia cording to people familiar with
and Iran, hosting French Presi- the negotiations.
dent Emmanuel Macron and Eu- As a result, Chinese officials
ropean Commission President Ur- view the Blinken visit as a neces-
sula von der Leyen, and flirting sary step to unlock follow-on
eZ re
leah Millis/Pool/reuters
meetings with more immediately
desired officials who focus on eco-
nomic matters, analysts said.
<The most that can be hoped for
is the Blinken visit sets the stage
for later visits by Secretaries Yel-
len and Raimondo,= said David
Dollar, a senior fellow at the
Brookings Institution. <China9s
concerned about various trade
and technology restrictions but
[Blinken9s team] are not the right
people to negotiate on those is-
sues.=
Overall, U.S. officials are tele-
graphing low expectations for the
trip and downplaying the likeli-
hood that it will be the start of a
major rapprochement.
<We9re not going to Beijing with
the intent of having some sort of
breakthrough or transformation
in the way that we deal with one
another,= Daniel Kritenbrink, the
top U.S. diplomat for East Asia,
told reporters on Wednesday.
Chinese officials have set an
even lower bar, accusing Washing-
ton of sending mixed messages
about where it wants to take the
relationship. <The U.S. side asks
for communication on the one
side, yet on the other, suppresses
and contains China by every possi-
ble means,= said a spokesperson
for the Chinese Foreign Ministry
last month.
Over the course of the visit,
Blinken will be pushed in several
different directions from key play-
ers inside and outside of his meet-
ings.
Top Republicans in Congress
are already second-guessing his
decision to travel to China. <Once
we9re there, we9re beholden to an
entirely new process of conces-
sions because of the pressure to
present 8deliverables,9= said Rep.
Mike Gallagher (Wis.), the chair-
man of the Select Committee on
the Chinese Communist Party, in a
column for the Wall Street Jour-
nal.
Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), the
chairman of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, criticized
Blinken for not imposing new
penalties and export controls on
China, and instead pursuing
<fruitless talks.=
But during Blinken9s meetings
with U.S. business leaders, he is
expected to receive encourage-
ment for pursuing a more accom-
modating approach to China,
which has been furious at the
Biden administration9s penalties
on Chinese companies and re-
strictions on sensitive technol-
ogies, including advanced semi-
conductors.
Given the $700 billion in trade
between the United States and
China, the U.S. business commu-
nity <remains focused on the im-
portance of the relationship,= said
the senior State Department offi-
cial.
<U.S. businesspeople are likely
to ask for a reduction in tensions
so there is lower risk and lower
acrimony for their businesses in
China,= said Daniel Russel, a Chi-
na expert at the Asia Society.
The most urgent goal for U.S.
officials is restoring military-to-
military channels with Beijing fol-
lowing multiple dangerous close
calls in recent months, including a
near-collision of warships near
Taiwan and an aggressive fighter
jet flyby over the South China Sea.
Beijing recently rejected a U.S.
offer for Defense Secretary Lloyd
Austin to meet his Chinese coun-
terpart, Li Shangfu, doubting the
<sincerity= of the invitation. Chi-
nese officials are still upset about
punishments the United States
imposed on Li in 2018 for buying
arms from Russia. They also view
A19
Washington9s deployment of air
and naval assets to the South Chi-
na Sea as an affront to China9s
sovereignty, and believe that im-
proving communications with
Washington will simply make the
Pentagon more comfortable oper-
ating in East Asia, say analysts.
<The United States has gotten
very used to using international
waters and airways to do intelli-
gence and reconnaissance for dec-
ades,= said Michael O9Hanlon, a
military scholar at the Brookings
Institution. <We do this constantly
20 miles off the Chinese coast 4
and they9re typically not 20 miles
off our coast.=
<We Americans like it that way
4 we don9t really believe in play-
ing fair or having a level playing
ground when it comes to who gets
to snoop on whom,= he added. <All
this stuff is going to stay tense.=
Despite the opposing outlooks,
Blinken9s team believes it can
make progress with China on in-
creasing at least some official en-
gagement on the trip. <I can say
with great confidence there is a
recognition on both sides that we
do need to have senior-level chan-
nels of communication,= said the
senior State Department official.
A key question during Blinken9s
visit is whether the deep mistrust
between U.S. and Chinese officials
spills into public as it did during
their first meeting in Alaska,
shortly after Biden took office.
With nationalist sentiment run-
ning high in both countries, nei-
ther side can be expected to back
down or shrug off a perceived
slight. Observers will be watching
whether Blinken reiterates his
view that China is carrying out
genocide against the country9s Uy-
ghur minority in Xinjiang prov-
ince 4 a charge Beijing strenuous-
ly denies.
While Chinese officials may re-
frain from any public scolding of
Blinken while appearing next to
him, state media outlets are un-
likely to hold back.
<I expect that the Chinese me-
dia will continue to be uncharita-
ble to Secretary Blinken during
and after the visit,= said Ryan
Hass, a China expert and former
Obama administration official.
<It9s going to be a test of discipline
for Secretary Blinken and his team
to tune out the noise and focus on
the message that the Chinese are
conveying behind closed doors.=
A20
COLOmBIa from a1
children might have the skills to
survive in the jungle. But this was
a notoriously dangerous stretch,
infested with jaguars and venom-
ous snakes.
finally, after more than five
weeks of searching, the children
were found alive. Even baby Cris-
tin, who9d turned 1 in the forest.
They had survived the seeming-
ly impossible. first, the plane
crash that had killed the adults.
Then 40 days in the most inhospi-
table of environments.
But their battles were far from
over.
The crash
The travelers were midway
through their 95-minute flight on
may 1 when the plane vanished
from tracking systems. The search
began immediately, with a days-
long walk into the forest. A team of
six Indigenous men led by Edwin
Paky, 36, swung machetes to hack
a path, making progress toward
the site.
They knew the forest well
enough to be confident. But also
well enough to be wary.
This was one of the densest,
wettest, least explored corners of
the Amazon basin, an interlude
wedged between the Caquetá and
Apaporis rivers in southern Co-
lombia. The air was humid; the
terrain, sodden.
But the terrain wasn9t merely
uncomfortable; it could be dan-
gerous. In the years since the 2016
peace deal that ended a hal-
f-century of conflict between the
paramilitary revolutionary
Armed forces of Colombia and the
government, a sense of optimism
had given way to resentment. The
fArC had been largely disman-
tled. But the government was slow
to make good on its end of the
deal: measures to relieve poverty
in conflict-torn rural areas that
had long suffered state neglect.
Guerrillas were rearming; new
groups were mustering.
The result: a region now <com-
plex and extremely insecure,= said
Carlos Lasso, a security analyst at
the Alexander Von Humboldt Bio-
logical resources research Insti-
tute in Bogotá.
Days into the search, Paky in-
jured his knee. He was limping
behind the others when he heard
the shout: <The plane!=
The fuselage stuck out of the
ground like a stalagmite.
They could smell the bodies. In-
side the cabin, murcia was on top of
mucutuy, both dead. As was the
third adult, the Indigenous leader
Herman mendoza Hernández. But
there were also signs of life: The
plane door was open. Several bags
were outside. An improvised camp
4 little more than a bed of twigs 4
lay near the wreckage.
To Paky, it was obvious. The kids
were alive.
a survivor at age 13
A phone rang in Bogotá. A
gaunt black-haired woman re-
ceived news that filled her with
anguish, but also hope. maría fáti-
ma Valencia9s missing daughter
had been found dead. But her
grandchildren were still unac-
counted for and may have wan-
dered into the forest.
In their Indigenous community
near Araracuara, Valencia, 63, saw
the children often. She knew they
were strong. They had to be 4 they
lived in a region of Colombia al-
most entirely disconnected from
the central government. No cell
service. No electricity. No roads.
The only means of travel? Walking
paths and rivers. The nearest
highway was three hours by boat
and three more on foot.
<A place the state has completely
forgotten,= said manuel miller ra-
noque, mucutuy9s husband and the
father of her two younger children.
Lesly, the oldest child, was
raised to survive. Like other Hu-
itoto children, she knew from a
young age how to walk in the
jungle, fish its waters, which fruits
to eat and which to avoid. At 13,
she lived as an adult. While her
parents worked, she cared for her
younger siblings, her responsibili-
ties leaving little time for mischief
or mirth.
<A very smart girl,= miller said.
<Very serious. Short-tempered.
responsible.=
If anyone had the strength and
cunning to survive the jungle, her
family believed, it was Lesly.
8my God, what is this?9
Gen. Pedro Sánchez was less
sanguine. The head of Colombia9s
Special operations Joint Com-
mand, he was admired for his
competence and organizational
capacity. But he had never taken
on a mission, dubbed operation
Hope, like this.
It took more than two weeks to
locate the plane. from there, they
calculated how far the children
might walk in a day to establish a
search perimeter. Its size was
stunning: more than 160 square
miles, in a forest so dense that
visibility was less than 60 feet.
And so wet it would rain more
than 16 hours per day.
most daunting of all, the chil-
dren were moving targets. They9d
have to comb the same quadrants
repeatedly.
Soldiers of the Colombian air Force give medical attention to the surviving children while they are transferred to Bogotá by plane.
How the Amazon plane crash children survived the jungle
<This was my most difficult,
most complicated mission,= he
said.
His team invented new search
methods, stringing up construc-
tion tape with whistles attached so
the kids could signal them. They
set up a loudspeaker and a light to
orient rescuers and save them
from getting lost themselves. They
determined that sound carried
more than 2 miles, so they blasted
a message, recorded by Valencia in
their Indigenous language, telling
them to stay put. And they
dropped food they hoped the chil-
dren would find.
Within days, nearly 200 re-
sponders 4 a mix of Colombian
special operations and Indig-
enous volunteers 4 had ventured
into the forest. Sánchez was en-
couraged. They found evidence of
the children. The diaper and top of
a baby bottle were uncovered near
the site.
By may 20, Sánchez was con-
vinced they were close. They9d
found footprints. He told his supe-
riors they were hours from finding
the kids. Then a massive rain
drenched the forest. The foot-
prints were washed away. The trail
was lost.
<my God,= Sanchez remem-
bered asking: <What is this?=
Lost and alone in the forest
Lesly knew her mother was
dead. mucutuy was lying motion-
less. So were murcia and mendo-
za. But elsewhere in the wrecked
cabin, her siblings were stirring.
She pulled her baby sister from
her mother9s arms and brought
her other siblings out of the
wreckage, she told her grandpar-
ents. She held one of her brother9s
diapers to a gash in her head, her
grandparents told The Washing-
ton Post.
outside the plane, Lesly set up a
basic camp, stringing a towel and
a mosquito net to provide shelter.
They stayed one day, maybe more.
At one point, she told her grand-
parents, her younger brother
asked when their mother was go-
ing to wake up. Lesly, uncertain
whether he understood their
mother was dead, said she didn9t
know.
Lesly decided to leave the
wreckage, in search of a water
source. She gathered the provi-
sions she could find: 11 pounds of
yuca flour, scissors, the mosquito
net and the baby9s bottle. Then the
four children set out to find a river,
relying on little more than a web-
bing of branches strung overhead.
The forest didn9t scare Lesly,
she told her grandparents. Nor did
its animals. But now it was
strange. She heard her grand-
mother9s disembodied voice 4 the
searchers9 broadcast 4 but didn9t
understand. Was Valencia in the
helicopter she saw passing over-
head? She made out other voices
in the forest but was nervous to go
to them. She was afraid she9d be
punished for leaving the plane
site. To muffle the baby9s cries, she
put a hand over her mouth.
They didn9t have much food.
Lesley rationed baby Cristin9s
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the crash. he9d struck his daughter. At times,
calamar <Tenemos hambre,= Lesly said. mucutuy said, the children hid in
We9re hungry. the forest while their parents
They found the last child, 5- fought.
year-old Tien, lying on the ground miller, asked by Colombian me-
50 feet from the others. dia if he attacked the children9s
miraûores <my mom died,= he said. mother: <Verbally, yes. Physically,
El Rosal <But your grandmother is look- very little. We more fought with
ing for you,= one of the Indigenous words.=
Plane crash site carurú
rescuers said. <We9ll take you to To The Post, he said: <Yes, we
may 1 at approx. 7:44 am her.= mistreated each other verbally,
Children discovered but I never left her in bed for hours
2 miles from
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June 9 fátima Valencia and Narciso had given her.=
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tal in Bogotá. It was soon mobbed She blamed him for her daughter9s
with press and officials. Another death. Security in their Indig-
battle was beginning to take enous community wasn9t as bad as
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may 1 at 6:42 am
on one side was magdalena miller cast his in-laws as oblivi-
mucutuy9s husband. miller had ous. <They9ve never worried about
50 milEs
participated in the search. out- anything,= he told The Post. <How
side the hospital, he told reporters are they going to fight for custody
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that an armed group tried to re- of the children?=
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cruit the older children and The sides set their differences
threatened his life. To escape the aside for a moment Wednesday
threat, he wanted to bring the morning in the hospital. fátima
milk. When it ran out, she dropped ened, depleted. on the 39th day, family to the capital. Valencia had fallen ill after seeing
the empty bottle onto the forest many were ready for a break. After the crash, he said, his wife her grandchildren and was admit-
floor. Her siblings complained of But two men, Dairo Kumariteke had lived for four days. In her ted to the hospital. Now she was
abdominal pain. The children and Eliécer muñoz, felt confident. dying words, he said, she told the on the phone, talking to the kids.
found some of the food dropped by one of the elders had taken yagé kids to find their father. Her voice was quiet, nurturing.
the searchers and foraged for and seen the children in a vision. miller said his family, not his <Don9t be sad, because you9re
seeds and fruits. But it wasn9t Then came the faint sound of a in-laws, should take care of the with me, my girl,= she told Soleiny.
enough. baby crying. The searchers children. <You9re beautiful, my precious.=
As hunger was closing in, time stopped and listened. <They didn9t grow up next to the She asked for Lesly. The girl9s
was running out. Another wail. grandmother,= he told The Post. voice was low and flat.
<I think those are the children!= on the other side were mu- <oh, my girl, don9t be sad,= the
8Those are the children!9 Kumariteke said, he later told re- cutuy9s parents. mucutuy and mil- grandmother cooed. <Don9t think
The Indigenous scouts prayed porters. ler had shared a combustible, un- of anything. Just stay there and
to the spirits of the forest, taking They rushed toward the sound. happy union. Now her parents eat, sleep, rest. All right?=
the hallucinogen yagé in the hope And then there they were 4 dirty, called their son-in-law an abuser
it would help them find the chil- skeletal, weakened, but alive. and a liar. marina Dias in brasília contributed
dren. They had been injured, sick- Lesly was holding Cristin, now 1. Narciso mucutuy told Colombi- to this report.
sunday, june 18 , 2023 . the washington post
Dana Milbank
As Trump is arraigned, Republicans
honor the insurrectionists
onald Trump could not have asked for a
D nicer arraignment-day celebration.
During the very same hour in which the
former president surrendered to federal
authorities in Miami, his Republican allies in the
House were, in their most visible and official way yet,
embracing as heroes and martyrs the people who
sacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in hopes of
overturning Trump9s election defeat.
In the Capitol complex, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.),
with sidekick Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.)
and four other far-right lawmakers, held a <hearing=
that honored participants in the riot, family mem-
bers of Jan. 6 rioters and organizers of the attempted
overthrow of the 2020 vote.
Technically, Gaetz couldn9t call such a hearing,
because he isn9t a committee chairman. But House
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who is trying to win back
the support of extremists such as Gaetz, let it happen
anyway.
Gaetz did his all to make the proceedings look
official. There were congressional seals on his
nameplate and on the big screen behind him. A
meeting room in the Capitol visitor center was
arranged to appear like a committee room, with
lawmakers facing the witnesses. Gaetz advertised
the <field hearing= as part of how <the 118th Con-
gress is investigating the weaponization of the
federal government.=
He impersonated a chairman 4 <you are recog-
nized,= <thank you for your testimony,= <I9ll recognize
myself [for] questions,= <her time has expired= 4 and
the others played along (<thank you for the opportu-
nity to testify,= <I yield back=). Gaetz said testimony
could be used <for the official record [of the] House=
or for <work in the Judiciary Committee, upon which
I serve, or the Oversight Committee.= C-SPAN carried
the proceedings live.
The invited witnesses?
" The wife of Ronald McAbee, who is awaiting trial
for allegedly attacking a police officer and dragging
him into the mob while wearing a black vest that
said <SHERIFF.=
l Underwear model John Strand, sentenced to
two years and eight months for being part of the mob
that breached the Capitol on Jan. 6 and pushed past
police officers.
l Activist Brandon Straka, sentenced to home
detention and probation and fined for his Jan. 6
actions.
l The aunt of Matthew Perna; Perna killed himself
while awaiting sentencing for his role in breaching
the Capitol.
l Ed Martin, an organizer of the <Stop the Steal=
effort leading up to Jan. 6.
l And Jeffrey Clark, the Trump Justice Depart-
ment official who tried to get states to toss the
election results.
The lawmakers hailed them all.
<To all of you, my condolences,= said Rep. Paul
Gosar (R-Ariz.), who added tenderly that <you know
how I feel about Ashli= Babbitt, the woman police
shot as she breached the last line of defense
protecting lawmakers in the House chamber.
<This is heartbreaking,= added Rep. Ralph Nor-
man (R-S.C.), <the way you all have been treated.=
Greene added <my deepest sympathy for each of
you, and all the pain and suffering that you9ve all had
to go through because of this government.= She told
them that they were the victims of <sick, evil people=
and that she and other lawmakers had a <constitu-
tional duty to object to Joe Biden9s fraudulent
electoral college votes because we all believed that
the election had been stolen.=
Gaetz opened the hearing with a video suggesting
FBI culpability in the Jan. 6 attack. He claimed he
<became aware of evidence= that the Justice Depart-
ment had evidence of <fraud in the election= but
Trump Attorney General <Bill Barr was suppressing
evidence.=
Gosar blamed the attack on <people undercover,
whether it be antifa, FBI, whatever.= Norman sug-
gested that the FBI was framing people who weren9t
involved in the attack.
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Tex.) offered his view that
people in charge in the Capitol (Democrats, presum-
ably) <hid the intelligence= showing that an attack
was coming. <It9s like they wanted this to happen.=
Nehls added that <I believe Ashli Babbitt was
murdered that day,= and he said he hopes Trump will
return to power and send the officer who shot her
before a grand jury.
From the witness table came howls of <wrongful
conviction= and <fascism.= From the dais came a cry
of <tyranny.= From both came attacks on judges,
juries and prosecutors. Audience members were
wearing T-shirts saying rioters had been <murdered
by Capitol police.= In the hallway, keeping the peace,
were two Capitol Police officers, guarding the people
accusing them of murder.
sunday opinion
From left, Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.)
and Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) at an event Gaetz hosted at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday.
Straka, who on Jan. 6 yelled <go, go, go= to the mob
as they tried to breach the Capitol and <take it, take
it= when rioters grabbed a shield from a police
officer, <testified= to Gaetz9s panel that <we, the
defendants of Jan. 6, need to be able to have some
sort of voice.=
And now they have that voice: the feckless House
Republican leaders who let last week9s abomination
occur.
n the Senate, Republican leaders have voiced
I little support for Trump, with GOP whip John
Thune (S.D.) calling the charges <very serious=
and Sen. John Cornyn (Tex.) calling them <not good.=
But in the House, McCarthy has shown no such
fortitude, hewing closely to the Fox News assess-
ment of the situation, as expressed in an on-screen
<news alert= last week: <Wannabe dictator speaks at
the White House after having his political rival
arrested.=
McCarthy began by calling the indictment a
<brazen weaponization of power= and a <grave
injustice.= He threatened to block funding for a new
FBI headquarters in retaliation. Last week, he
accused Biden of stealing classified documents from
a secure facility, and he said Trump9s handling of
documents (piled in a bathroom) was superior to
Biden9s (in a garage) because <a bathroom door
locks.=
Will Trump avail himself of the privacy-lock
defense? And will anybody have the heart to tell
McCarthy that garage doors have locks? Or that
bathroom doors lock only from the inside?
McCarthy is acting, as he often does, out of
weakness. Taking an honorable position on Trump,
as his Senate counterparts did, would antagonize the
far right and could topple his historically weak
speakership.
And so, there is nobody to tell the looniest
members of his caucus to take it down a notch 4 just
as there was nobody to tell Gaetz et alia not to hold a
<hearing= glorifying insurrectionists.
There is nobody, for example, to tell Rep. Clay
Higgins to cut it out. The Louisiana Republican, who
has militia ties and previously threatened violence
on social media, tweeted this message about Trump9s
arraignment in Miami: <This is a perimeter probe
from the oppressors. Hold. rPOTUS has this. Buckle
up. 1/50K know your bridges. Rock steady calm. That
is all.=
Most won9t recognize such QAnon codes:
<rPOTUS= means Trump is the <real= president,
1/50K is a military map scale, and <know your
bridges= is a reference to preparing attack points,
author Jeff Sharlet, an authority on extremism, has
explained.
Scary? Now consider that this dangerous hooligan
is the chairman of the border security subcommittee
of the House Homeland Security Committee.
or a group purporting to be concerned about
F the <weaponization of government,= House
Republicans sure seem intent on turning
their own corner of the federal government into a
tactical nuke.
On the same day as Trump9s arraignment, far-
right first-term representative Rep. Anna Paulina
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) on June 8.
Luna (R-Fla.), previously best known for her cre-
atively written résumé, introduced a <privileged
resolution= to censure and fine Rep. Adam Schiff
(D-Calif.) $16 million for his role in leading Trump9s
first impeachment. House Majority Leader Steve
Scalise promptly pledged to <help it pass= 4 and put
it on the floor Wednesday afternoon.
Luna, full of confidence that her attack on her
senior colleague would prevail, told Politico9s Olivia
Beavers before the vote that she was acting against
Schiff <at the suggestion of a member of leadership.=
Scalise, GOP whip Tom Emmer (Minn.) and GOP
Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) all voted with
Luna. Alas for her, 20 Republicans retained more
integrity than their leaders and joined with Demo-
crats to kill Luna9s censure gambit.
It was a temporary reprieve for good sense.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) last week threatened
to use the same <privileged-resolution= procedure to
bring articles of impeachment against President
Biden to the House floor. She joins a crowded
impeach-Biden field: At least 11 House Republicans
have introduced or co-sponsored impeachment arti-
cles against the president.
But first comes the impeachment of Homeland
Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The pro-
ceedings began last week. They9re just not allowed to
call it <impeachment= yet.
<We haven9t even gotten to that word,= Homeland
Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.)
said at a news conference Wednesday, making
quotation marks with his fingers.
Green was unveiling the GOP9s don9t-call-it-
impeachment inquiry, a <five-phase deep dive=
authorized by McCarthy that would prove Mayorkas
<has been willfully derelict= and <disregarded his
oath.= Explained Green: <We9re going to get more
information about the failures of this secretary, and
when we9re done we9ll make a recommendation to
the Judiciary Committee.=
It9s yet another move by McCarthy to placate the
hard right. Reps. Pat Fallon (Tex.), Andy Biggs (Ariz.),
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Greene and Higgins have introduced articles of
impeachment with a combined 68 co-sponsors. But
Republicans don9t have the votes to impeach 4 in
part because they don9t have the goods on Mayorkas.
Illegal crossings of the southern border have
dropped 70 percent from their record highs, despite
the end of pandemic border restrictions. That9s due
in part to toughened Biden administration policies,
including restrictions on asylum. Heightened en-
forcement has also led to the seizure of record
amounts of fentanyl.
Still, Green kicked off the proceedings with a
Trumpian flourish. <Murderers released into the
United States! Rapists released into the United
States!= he shouted in the House television studio.
<One-hundred-seven thousand dead Americans . . .
Alejandro Mayorkas9s policies are the cause of all of
this!=
Disagreement with Mayorkas9s 4 and therefore
Biden9s 4 policies doesn9t qualify as <high crimes
and misdemeanors.= Those trying to weaponize the
government against Mayorkas are going to need a
better weapon.
emember when House Republicans cared
R about the federal debt? That was so two weeks
ago.
During the debt ceiling standoff, McCarthy said
he was fighting to relieve the crushing burden of the
federal debt on future generations, insisting <it9s got
to end now.=
But last week, the House Ways and Means Commit-
tee passed a three-part bill that would, over the next
three years, add $325 billion to the federal debt,
according to calculations made by Congress9s Joint
Committee on Taxation. That would more than wipe
out the $186.1 billion saved over the same period by
the debt deal 4 which Republicans had nearly tanked
the economy to achieve just two weeks earlier.
<Republicans, including those on this committee,
held our entire U.S. economy hostage, purportedly
because you9re concerned about Washington spend-
ing and our national debt,= Rep. Mike Thompson
(D-Calif.) protested at the day-long markup of the
bills. <But now, less than two weeks later, you
brought before us a bill that would add over a trillion
dollars to our national debt.= The trillion-dollar
figure comes from the Committee for a Responsible
Federal Budget, a think tank that calculated that if
temporary tax cuts in the bill were made permanent
(as often occurs), the bill would actually add $1.1 tril-
lion to the debt through 2033.
How to explain this sudden change of heart about
the federal debt? Rep. Greg Murphy (R-N.C.) tried
objectivism.
<I9m slogging through right now . . . a 1957 book
written by a lady named Ayn Rand, called 8Atlas
Shrugged,9 = said Murphy, who apparently just dis-
covered the 20th-century champion of self-interest.
He cautioned that <it9s very laborious= but <a
wonderful lesson.=
Perhaps he was taken by Rand9s admonition to
<never live for the sake of another man.= That could
account for the House GOP9s approach to this year9s
appropriations bills.
McCarthy, in one of his many efforts to placate
the far-right dissidents in his caucus, last week
agreed to jettison the spending levels he and Biden
agreed to in the debt deal. House Republicans will
now try to slash spending even further 4 essential-
ly reneging on the agreement after just two weeks
and putting the government on course for a
shutdown this fall.
fter an appalling spate of mass shootings, the
A House finally took action on guns last week.
Republicans passed, largely along party lines,
a bill making it easier to obtain firearms.
Specifically, they voted to strike down new regula-
tions on <stabilizing braces= that make handguns
more powerful and deadly 4 and have been used in
several recent massacres.
The primary sponsor of the legislation was
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.), a gun dealer by trade. If
that conflict of interest weren9t jarring enough, the
Republican floor leader for part of the debate was
Rep. Thomas Massie (Ky.), known for his Christmas
card showing each member of his family holding an
AR-style weapon.
Massie, railing against gun-free zones, told the
House about a former aide whose husband was shot
in a bar. She couldn9t fire back, as she had left her
own gun in her car because <the sign said 8No Guns
Inside9 because they served alcohol.=
An incredulous Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.)
took issue with Massie <suggesting that it9s okay for
people to carry guns into bars when they are drunk.=
Added McGovern: <This place is crazier than
usual.=
All week, it was demonstrably so.
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How much did Congress lose by defunding the IRS?
Way more than we thought.
he White House and Congress recently
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agreed to claw back more than $20 billion
earmarked for the Internal Revenue Service.
This deal was, ostensibly, part of a grand
bargain to reduce budget deficits.
Unfortunately, it9s likely to have the opposite
effect. Every dollar available for auditing taxpayers
generates many times that amount for government
coffers 4 and the rate of return is especially astonish-
ing for audits of the wealthiest Americans, according
to new research shared exclusively with The Post.
A team of researchers at Harvard University, the
University of Sydney and the Treasury Department
examined internal IRS data for approximately
710,000 in-person audits from 2010 to 2014. They
found that because wealthy people generally have
more complex tax returns, auditing them costs more.
The IRS employees auditing the rich earn higher
wages and spend much more time per audit; over-
head costs add up, too.
The typical audit for someone in the bottom half of
the income distribution costs just over $5,000, for
instance, whereas an audit for someone in the top
0.1 percent costs nearly triple that, or around
$15,000.
But the revenue collected per audit is also higher
for the wealthy. Enormously higher: Whereas audits
of the bottom half of the income distribution bring in
just shy of $5,000, the audits of the top 0.1 percent
typically recover about $95,000.
In other words, the average return on investment
is much better.
Another way to think about this: On average, the
direct revenue collected from audits exceed costs by
a factor of 2 to 1. But, that payoff varies by income.
For money spent auditing the bottom half of taxpay-
ers, the IRS only roughly broke even.
Meanwhile, the agency pulled in $3.18 for each
dollar spent auditing the top 1 percent, and $6.29 for
the top 0.1 percent.
These figures take into account any agency re-
sources spent on appeals, collections, etc., as well as
the fact that some lucky taxpayers ended up owing
no additional money after the audit process was
completed.
And even those eye-popping numbers understate
how much money we9re leaving on the table by not
fully enforcing tax law. That9s because the biggest
bang for the buck comes from what happens well
after the audit concludes.
In the years after a taxpayer gets audited, they
start paying much more in taxes voluntarily. Maybe,
post-audit, they stop taking some dodgy deductions
(counting a personal car as a business expense, for
example). Or they start reporting income they had
previously accepted off the books.
These kinds of changes might happen because the
taxpayer in question had previously made an honest
mistake. Then again, maybe they had been deliber-
ately cheating Uncle Sam and were chastened by
being caught.
Either way: They begin paying more of what they
owe.
These additional taxes equal about three times the
revenue raised from the initial audit, on average,
over the 14 years of data the researchers had access
to. So in other words, the biggest returns from doing
more audits come from deterrence effects. (That9s
why, incidentally, the IRS has historically publicized
its big tax fraud cases in the weeks before Tax Day,
when most Americans are filing their returns.)
That multiplier 4 three times as much revenue
from deterrence effects as from the initial audit 4 is
relatively consistent across the income distribution,
with both rich and poor adjusting their post-audit
tax habits significantly. Which still means that in raw
dollar terms, auditing the rich has bigger payoffs.
Consequences of the deal
to claw back money from the IRS
So what do these numbers tell us about Congress9s
decision to claw back money from the IRS? They
suggest that existing projections for long-term costs
likely underestimate the massive hole this policy will
blow into federal budgets.
Usually, the Congressional Budget Office (among
other scorekeepers) assumes relatively modest ef-
When Queen Elizabeth left, she took the happiness with her
s another American presidential race begins,
A I find myself missing the queen, who was the
last of a dying breed, royal or otherwise, and a
monument to what we used to call class
without fear of offense.
Elizabeth II9s departure from her mortal coil has
left a void. The upside is that it distracts from <hating=
everyone in the American presidential queue. While I
don9t really hate anyone, if you stay in journalism long
enough, you discover one day that there9s no one left
to like. This will be my 12th presidential race, which
sounds to me a small number, given the degree of my
malaise.
The similarities between our nation of migrant
mutts (speaking of my own ancestors), who fought to
extract themselves from monarchical control, and the
descendants of that same monarchy have amounted
to approximately zero 4 until now. Without Eliza-
beth, the royals are at least as common as the rest of
us, and further proof that privilege does not endow
happiness.
King Charles and his mirthless seedling Harry
have this nonroyalist fixated as never before.
Throughout the latter years of the queen9s reign, I
sometimes wondered why she wouldn9t step down
and allow her eldest son to assume the throne before
he, too, grew old. Alas, Elizabeth knew what she was
doing. She knew her own son well enough and wasn9t
letting go of that crown.
How sad she must have been to realize that her
embarrassing brood would inherit and sadden the
kingdom. Exceptions among the younger generations
are the Prince and Princess of Wales, William and
Kate (and their three children), who seem to be cut
from the same cloth as Elizabeth. If only Charles and
Camilla would retire to the Waldorf Towers, as the
Duke and Duchess of Windsor had the decency to do.
Nothing makes me an expert on royalty, fond as I
ez re
Wealthy people generally
have more complex tax
returns, so auditing them
costs more.
|e average cost includes ûxed
overhead costs and agency resources
spent on appeals, collections, etc.
But the typical audit of a
wealthy taxpayer brings in
much higher revenue, too.
This means that though
auditing the wealthy looks
expensive at ûrst, the
average return on
investment is much better.
That9s just the upfront
return. An even bigger bang
for the buck comes from
deterrence effects after the
audit is over.
Data for the top 1 percent of the income
distribution is excluded because deterrence
efects are statistically imprecise in small
subsets of the data.
It9s reasonable to wonder
whether the IRS will
actually target the
highest-income shirkers.
Past budget cuts led the IRS
to dramatically cut back on
auditing the wealthy.
Data is based on initial releases from irs,
not accounting for late corrections.
source: boning, et al. 2023. irs audit rate data from trac.
King Charles III stands aboard the Flying Scotsman train in celebration
of its 100th anniversary on June 12 in Pickering, England.
am of the Royal We. I am, however, a student of
human nature and recognize that the royals are a
miserable lot, largely because they9re so useless.
People naturally want to strive; without striving,
idleness leads to trouble.
Which brings us to Charles III, the most unhappy
king because, at the end of the day, being king isn9t a
great job for him. Just a guess. As king, Charles has
encountered a truth and a principle. The truth about
life is that satisfaction comes from the journey, not
the destination. The Peter principle says that being
the washington post . sunday, june 18 , 2023
opinion
fects on voluntary compliance from ramping up IRS
average cost per audit, by income percentile
in-person audits, 2010-2014 enforcement. Again, the authors instead find the
opposite.
For the top
average cost per audit for What9s more, budget analysts usually assume that
0.1 percent
the bottom 5 percent each additional dollar you give to IRS enforcement
$15,000
$5,100 will have a little less bang for the buck than most of
$30,000 the dollars spent before it 4 that is, IRS agents have
probably already gone after all the low-hanging fruit,
$20,000
and whatever additional audits they do will have
$10,000 smaller and smaller payoffs. Economists refer to this
$0 phenomenon as <diminishing marginal returns.=
0-5th 50-55 90-95 99-99.9 This team of researchers determined that this
conventional wisdom is likely wrong, too.
income percentile
poorer richer They looked at the consequences of the huge cuts
to the IRS9s enforcement budget that began in 2010.
Audit rates plummeted (by about 40 percent
overall, within four years), but the agency did not
average revenue over cost per audit, $90,000
cut back on the audits with the lowest ROI. Instead,
by income percentile for whatever reason, it cut a lot of the highest-bang-
in-person audits, 2010-2014 for-the-buck audits. Based on the agency9s past
prioritization of audits, and the way its internal
$60,000
costs are structured, the authors found no evidence
of diminishing marginal returns.
For every additional dollar spent auditing people
Revenue in the top decile of the income distribution, the
$30,000
government can expect to get 12 times that amount
$20,000 back.
$10,000 Twelve! As any tax-dodging billionaire can attest:
It9s pretty hard to beat that return on investment.
$0 Cost
0-5th 50-55 90-95 99-99.9
income percentile
poorer richer
For every additional dollar spent
auditing people in the top decile
how much the iRS gets back for each dollar spent
auditing, by income percentile
of the income distribution,
For the top 0.1 percent
in-person audits, 2010-2014 $6.29 the government can expect to get
For the top 1 percent
12 times that amount back.
irs9s return on investment
for the bottom 50 percent $3.18
$2
$0.96 Now, it9s reasonable to worry that a newly flush
IRS might not actually concentrate its additional
dollars on the highest-ROI audits. Audits of million-
$0 aires (and megacorporations) have dramatically
0-5th 50-55 90-95 99-99.9
declined in recent years, according to data from
Syracuse University9s Transactional Records Access
income percentile
poorer richer Clearinghouse.
Certainly, Republicans have fearmongered that
the IRS will devote all its new money to deploying
<armies= of gun-toting IRS agents to hound honest,
in the years aver a taxpayer gets audited, they start middle-class taxpayers. So what evidence do we have
paying much more in taxes voluntarily that the agency will pursue higher-earning, higher-
ROI tax-shirkers instead?
how much the irs gets back for each dollar spent auditing,
For one, President Biden, Treasury Secretary
by income percentile
Janet L. Yellen and others have pledged to raise
audit rates only on households earning more than
$5 $400,000 (which is close to the top percentile,
expected revenue in this study9s data). Two, the agency is now
equipped with better information about how to
in the next 14 years
spend its dollars most efficiently, thanks to this new
research.
$0 initial audit revenue <The evidence suggests going after higher- income
taxpayers has higher returns, and that9s reassuring
0-5th 50-55 85-90 95-99 given the recent policy focus on auditing wealthy
income percentile individuals,= says Ben Sprung-Keyser, one of the
poorer richer
study9s co-authors and a co-director at Policy Im-
pacts, a research organization based at Harvard that
promotes standardization in policy analysis. He and
|e iRS has audited fewer millionaires in recent years his colleagues also found that auditing top earners
percent of tax returns audited by year raises revenue more efficiently than does increasing
their tax rates.
12%
individuals with Which means rather than soaking the rich
more than $1 million through higher tax rates, perhaps we should merely
in income
enforce existing law.
9%
In any case, the revenue Congress just agreed to
leave on the table by rescinding $20 billion from the
6% IRS9s long-term budget could be substantial. Based
all individual on that 12-to-1 multiplier found in this study for
3% taxpayers marginal returns from auditing high earners, that
could mean Congress just gave up about $240 billion
1.8%
0% 0.3% in revenue, for a net cost to the budget of $220 billion
2010 2015 2020 ($240 billion - $20 billion cut from the IRS budget =
$220 billion).
So much for trying to reduce deficits.
kathleen paRkeR
When Queen Elizabeth performed similar func-
tions, she carried an aura of duty. Charles9s aura is that
of a peevish old man who9s just tasted a lemon. The
sourness, dear Charles, is karma, and its name is
Harry.
If the Fates are in charge, they9ve sent Harry to
punish Charles in a purgatory of endless humiliation.
The prince recently was in London to testify in court
against the villainous media that led to his mother9s
death and that, he says, continues to badger him and
his bride. Harry, who apparently loves to talk about
himself, was in high dudgeon, as usual. The palace
reportedly worried about what he might say under
oath. Royals aren9t supposed to speak under oath not
because they might lie but because they might let slip
a truth.
Harry seems not to understand the leading role he
plays in his own misery. He has engaged the media in
a folie à deux, a shared madness in which neither can
quit the other. But deep down, Harry9s rage may be
against Charles. On some level, he knows his father
helped along his mother9s early death.
But stiff upper lip, Charles! It9s time for your
wpa pool/getty images
birthday parade, where you get to dress up and ride a
horse. On Saturday, the military extravaganza known
as Trooping the Colour celebrated Charles9s
75th birthday, the first of his reign, with hundreds of
good at one job doesn9t mean that you9ll be good at a horses and soldiers performing battlefield drills to
higher one. military music. The royal family will appear on a
Environmentalist was a palatable role for a polo- balcony (don9t they always?), and the Royal Air Force,
playing prince. He excelled at it and did valuable to which Charles once belonged, performed a <fly-
work. As a ribbon-cutting king, though, he9s as stale as past.= It was surely a jolly time for all, except perhaps
a leftover scone. To wit: Charles recently attended a for Charles, who will still be Charles.
plaque-unveiling to mark the 50th anniversary of the We Americans might be a nation of miscreants,
North Yorkshire Moors Railway. A photo shows a fools and sinners, but at least we don9t pretend to
rather wooden monarch, pinched and unsmiling as thrones. For that, we have Britain9s monarchy. And,
he meekly waves from the driver9s cab of the Flying thanking you for your indulgence, I feel much better
Scotsman, which was marking its 100th anniversary. now. Bring on the clowns.
sunday, june 18 , 2023 . the washington post
To his ûnal days, my father
always knew how to pull ob the landing
BY P AUL H ENDRICKSON
A
ll my life, my father was a flyer. That9s not
quite right. He wasn9t flying at the end.
He lived to be nearly 85. But even deep
into his 70s, I was unafraid to go up with
him, to wonder at his skills.
I9m looking at some yellowed notes dated August
1983. He had retired from his 30-year career at
Eastern Airlines. By then, it had been almost four
decades since he was strapped into the cockpit of
his P-61 Black Widow night fighter on Iwo Jima in
the last days of World War II.
He came over from suburban Chicago to visit. My
wife, Ceil, was pregnant with our first child. He flew
his single-prop Beechcraft Debonair into a private
airfield in Bowie, Md. By the time I got there, he had
already landed and parked the Deb, as he always
called her, and was busy tying her down, putting the
foam rubber in the nose cowl.
I walked out to the tarmac, spiked with grass
coming up through cracks of the asphalt. Bean
patches bordered the runway. The flyboy, who had
grown up on a sharecropper9s farm in western
Kentucky in the 1930s, and whose formal education
had stopped at high school, had on a blue-mesh ball
cap with <Big Bend, Texas= on the crown. He was
wearing a silver and aqua cowboy belt, white socks,
ortho shoes. The flyer had just gotten back down
safely again, something he9d probably done 10,000
times in his life.
O
n the second day of his stay with us, we
decided to go flying. On the way out to the
airport, we talked of this and that. He told me
of an accident with a knife he9d had in the kitchen a
few days earlier. <I tried to cut off my thumb.
Figured I didn9t need it.= I pestered him for more. He
shrugged. <I was cutting something with a knife and
clean missed it, can you believe it?=
At the field, we untied the Deb. He shoved the
nose-cowl foam at me. I didn9t know where he
wanted me to store it. He made three turns around
the plane, moving faster, talking louder. <Well, son, I
don9t see anything a-hangin9 or a-bangin9, so we
better go while we got our nerve up.= I had heard
him say that so many times.
We ran down the checklist and took off and flew
down toward Annapolis, which he kept calling
<Anna-nappolis,= and then out over the Chesapeake
Bay and the big silver spans of the Chesapeake Bay
Bridge. It was a gorgeous day for flying. We turned
inland and flew over Maryland farmland. He said he
wanted to stay clear of air traffic close to the city. He
said he wanted to keep out of the path of airliners
coming into and taking off from National Airport.
<Us little guys have no business being around these
big jets, Paul,= he said. Little guy? He9d once
commanded some of the biggest jet airliners in the
sky. Hundreds of times in his Eastern career, he9d
flown into National, shooting the river approach,
which is to say snaking southward down the
Potomac and curving her in just this side of the
Washington Monument. I remember once, as a
teenager, riding family pass on an Eastern flight
when my dad was up in the cockpit, arcing and
curving and captaining and smoothing her onto
those tight runways at National like somebody
working with a hand trowel. I was so proud. My
father had just done that.
After about an hour up, we headed back. I think
we were at about 4,000 feet. He seemed a little
unsure where the airport was. <Funny as hell, Paul,
the other morning when I came in, I was having
trouble finding it. I had plotted it out on the maps. I
called air traffic control. I said, 8Where is the thing?
I should be right on top of it.9 Guy said, 8Keep
a-pushin.9=
I spotted the field before he did 4 it was up ahead
of us two or three miles. <Say, you9re getting pretty
good up here, aren9t you?= he said, looking over at
me, his voice grown soft.
ike so many sons, I9ve spent long stretches of
L my life trying to reassemble the life of a man
who both awed and scared me for almost as
long as I knew him, which was close to 60 years.
He was 26, with a wife and two babies back home,
when he9d risked his life on <Iwo,= which is all I9d
ever heard him call it. One of those babies was me.
His plane9s name was the Rita B. That was my
mom9s name. (The B stood for Bernardine.) He9d had
the words painted in bright, curvy white on the
glossy black nose of his sleek and poisonous
three-crew warship. The Black Widow, from
Northrop Aircraft Inc., was the first operational
warplane of World War II to have been built
specifically as a night fighter. Her M2 Browning
machine guns, mounted in a rotating 360-degree
turret atop the fuselage, could fire 800 rounds per
minute. She had 20-mm cannons. She could carry
500-pound bombs. Like my dad, the P-61 had
entered the shooting war very late. There was a
mystique about her. I think it had to do with the
dark. <Fighting the night,= I used to hear my dad say.
From mid-March 1945 through V-J Day, he flew
75 missions in the Rita B, roughly 175 hours of
logged time. What I9ve come to believe is that my
father was basically scared out of his skull the whole
time he was on Iwo Jima. He was just a boy over
there, as they all were, or nearly so.
ometimes the beveled mirror of memory is
S hard to stare into.
He could come home from a two- or
three-day airline trip and put down his bags and get
a report from our mom that my older brother,
Marty, and I had been bad. He9d jerk us upstairs by
the shirt collar to the many-windowed sunroom at
the back of the house. Sometimes he9d still be in his
uniform. It was such a beautiful uniform, with the
medallion of a red falcon on the brim of his hat, and
his starched light blue dress shirt with the epaulets
on the shoulders, and his dark blue woolen uniform
itself with the gold buttons on the jacket.
He9d order us to take down our trousers and
jockey underpants while the belt came off. He9d
have us lie over the bed, face down. It was the terror
of waiting. Our crying and begging would begin
before the whipping started. Marty and I would
sniffle our way to sleep in the twin beds in that
sunroom.
All these decades later, I can never glimpse a belt
out of its beltloops without shivering. And yet I have
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Joe Paul Hendrickson on Iwo Jima, spring 1945.
Sept. 20, 1944, the day Paul Hendrickson9s parents, Rita and Joe Paul, said goodbye
as his dad went off to war. Paul is being held by his mother, and his brother Marty is standing.
courtesy of Paul HendrIckson
Left: Joe Paul Hendrickson, middle, on Iwo Jima in 1945 in front of the Rita B. Right: The
Northrop P-61 Black Widow was the first operational U.S. warplane designed as a night fighter.
Joe Paul and Paul Hendrickson on their porch in Takoma Park, Md.,
in October 2000, three years before Joe Paul9s death.
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a deeper understanding, even a forgiveness, about
that belt. Or I think I do.
entucky. I remember him telling me of how he
K was once sitting on the tongue of a wagon in a
sweltering Union County hayfield when over-
head came this terrible roar, and then this huge
shadow darkening the earth all around him. His
voice grew soft, as if recounting a gauzy dream.
<It was a Ford Trimotor, Paul. It was silver. It flew
right over top of me. I was out there all alone. I
would have gotten the strap for sitting on that
tongue instead of working. I heard it coming before
I could see it. It came over the rise. It seemed about
a hundred feet over my head, as if it was going to
land and pick me up, or maybe drop a ladder down.
I could make out the pilot in the little window on the
side of the fuselage under the wing. Must have been
about 932. I was 14 or 15. It went right on past me, the
noise just huge. I was trembling. It landed in a big
pasture on the other side of town. The next day, the
people who owned it, and who were barnstorming it
through the countryside, along with a biplane that
was doing acrobatics, started taking people up for a
dollar a ride. I got a ride. I have no idea where I got
that dollar. A dollar? Who had a dollar? After, when
I told my folks I was someday going to fly airplanes,
my mother said, 8Joe Paul, if you want to commit
suicide, why don9t you just go out there and jump off
the barn?9=
am remembering that time we went on a fly-in
I fishing trip to Canada. It was long after he had
retired. A bunch of old Eastern pilots were going,
and a few were bringing their sons. <Paul, there9s
water up in Canada man has never fished in.
They9ve got muskie and walleye and northern pike
and largemouth bass waiting up there for us.=
It was sleeting when we got into the air. He got up
to 5,000 feet and decided to come down to 4,000.
Big chunks of ice were thwacking off the wings. He
said, <Snow? Who the hell needs it? On Memorial
Day? Let9s get the hell out of here and go to Texas.=
But the weather cleared. The fishing and hunting
resort had its own 2,800-foot grass landing strip. He
came in right on the dime 4 and handed the
landing strip some change.
Flying home, we went into Minneapolis-St. Paul
International Airport so I could catch a commercial
flight back to Washington. He was visibly tense. The
air controllers brought him in on an outer runway.
He had both hands on the wheel. He was leaning
forward. I had maps and approach plates in my lap
4 he had thrust them over at me about an hour after
we had lifted off from the grass at Eagle Lake.
<Little hectic, isn9t it?= I said, after we got back
down and he had taxied her off the main runway.
<You9re damn tootin9. Anytime you go into a
major.=
There were big airliners all around us. We were a
little puddle-jumper. Only, this was my old man at
the stick. Who had been at Iwo Jima. Who, for 30
years, in any kind of weather, had flown in and out
of those intense Chicago rookeries named Midway
and O9Hare.
hat was in the late 1980s. Over the next years,
T as his health slowly declined, our relationship
grew better, more open. The flyer kept flying.
But a quadruple bypass and valve replacement in
1994 effectively put an end to his solo days.
In October 2002, he turned 84. The following
March, we were talking on the phone. <Paul, it9s time
for me to leave the earth,= he said, just stating a fact.
In mid-April, I learned he was in the hospital and
that they9d found a tumor in his stomach. Marty was
living nearby.
My kid brother, Mark, flew in from Illinois, my
little sister, Jeannie, from Ohio.
We were all in the room when his chief doctor
walked in. The doctor, who knew my dad pretty well
and admired him, said: <Joe, I know you like things
straight, so here is the straight: I9ve studied the
X-rays. We9ve gotten the latest labs. One problem
cancels out the other. We can9t operate on the tumor
in your stomach because your heart would never
take it.=
I couldn9t see my dad9s face. From behind, I saw
him nod. He was nodding almost before the doctor
was done. He said 4 and not weakly: <Right. Okay. I
understand.= It was as if he9d just been briefed in the
big squad tent in the low-wattage Ready Room at
South Field on Iwo Jima. He had received his
orders. I thought to myself: This hard and often
uncommunicative and occasionally violent man 4
which is to say the figure I had known through my
childhood until I could escape from home for the
seminary at 14 4 is now showing me how to die. He
had been all those things through my childhood,
yes, but he had also been all the other things,
teaching me, by example more than word, about
self-discipline, about completing a task, about
self-respect, about honoring one9s obligations. He
was about to complete a task now, about to honor an
obligation.
The night fighter died in the dark. When it was
light, Jeannie called me in Philadelphia. That
afternoon, I went out to my local trout stream, at
Valley Forge, where George Washington headquar-
tered the Continental Army in that terrible winter. I
had on my waders and fishing vest and boots, and
my fly rod in my hand, and my net hanging from a
lanyard on my back. I didn9t fish. I just sat on the
bank and watched the water purl over the clean
stones.
We buried him five days later, at a family plot in
my mom9s hometown of Xenia, Ohio. His stone is
there with his name on it, and my mom9s. Jeannie
arranged for a local stonecutter to do a rendering on
the marble of a Black Widow above the words
<WWII Pilot Night Fighter CPT.= You can see the
propellers on those Double Wasp 18-cylinder radial
air-cooled Pratt & Whitney engines. The wheels are
down. Only thing, you can9t quite tell whether the
Rita B is just lifting off, with the wheels about to
retract, or about to land, with the wheels locked in
place. I9ve decided it9s the latter. My father is
feathering her in, getting back down one more time.
Paul Hendrickson, a former Post reporter, teaches
nonfiction writing at the university of Pennsylvania. His
memoir about his father, <fighting the night: Iwo Jima,
World War II, and a flyer9s life,= will be published next
spring.
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l E TT ER s T O T hE E D ITO R
Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington on March 29. letters@washpost.com

Mr. Blinken9s China goal: Back off the golf course, Navy
It9s time for Navy leadership to once
and for all put an end to the discussion
James B. Comey9s assertion at his sur-
prise July 5, 2016, news conference that
three out of approximately 30,000 of the
emails bore classification markings. Mr.

Restart the dialogue about another golf course on Greenbury

Point in Annapolis. The environmental-
ists don9t want it, the community doesn9t
want it, and the Navy, which already has a
Comey did say this, but he was wrong.
There is more to the story.
The next day, the State Department
admitted that the markings were applied
beautiful course, doesn9t need it. in error. And at a House hearing on July 7,
At a low moment in relations, two major powers should get talking again. Greenbury Point lies across the Severn Mr. Comey testified that the markings
River from the Naval Academy on a piece of were not clear and that the secretary
ECRETARY OF STATE Antony Blinken9s two-day their first terms. President Bill Clinton made the trek early property that the community enjoys. Fami- could have reasonably inferred that the

S trip to China, beginning Sunday, is his first since

assuming office and the first by a U.S. secretary of
state since Mike Pompeo went in 2018. That is too
long a hiatus for the top diplomats of the world9s two
largest economies, and top two trading nations, to have
in his second.
The long period without a high-level trip to China
comes at an intense period of competition between
Washington and Beijing, as the Biden administration
attempts to formulate a China policy that both acknowl-
lies enjoy it for walking, running, fishing or
simply enjoying the flora and fauna that
punctuates Greenbury Point9s beauty.
Greenbury Point is one of the few places
in Anne Arundel County that allows pub-
documents were not marked as classi-
fied. Finally, a review ordered by then-
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of the
State Department9s email practices con-
cluded that none of the approximately
high-level visits. It9s past time for a resumption of edges the interconnectedness of the two economies while lic access to the Chesapeake Bay. The 30,000 Clinton emails in the review were
dialogue. also recognizing that China under Mr. Xi has become a Chesapeake Bay has almost 12,000 miles marked as classified.
The lengthy pause can be partly chalked up to China9s more outwardly belligerent power with a vision for of shoreline, and only 2 percent is publicly Though the Trump documents seized
rigid pandemic restrictions: The country largely closed reshaping the world order. China is challenging American accessible. by the FBI were incandescently marked
itself to outside visitors under its now-abandoned <zero and Western dominance 4 or what it calls <hegemony= 4 A feasibility study to examine building as classified, not a single one of the
covid= strategy. But the five-year gap is also a reflection of in everything from the international financial systems and a second golf course at Greenbury Point former secretary9s emails was.
the increasingly fraught relationship between the two the U.S.-led security architecture in Europe and the Pacific. has many citizens concerned. Hopefully, a David E. Kendall, Washington
superpowers and how mutual suspicion and finger-point- In the months between Mr. Blinken9s postponed visit feasibility study will look at public senti- The writer is counsel to former
ing have replaced regular dialogue and open channels of and now, the Biden administration has lobbied allies such ment. Since 1845, the Navy has enjoyed an secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
communication. as Japan and the Netherlands to join the United States in outstanding relationship with the com-
Relations, always tense, began to deteriorate when restricting the sale of key chip manufacturing equipment munity. Why would the Navy want to
then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) decided to to China. The United States has moved to shore up military throw that relationship to the wayside Remember, Mr. Trump lost
visit Taiwan in August, a trip we argued at the time was alliances in the Asia-Pacific region, including with the and incur the wrath of the community?
ill-timed and unwise. China responded with live-fire other countries of the <Quad,= Japan, India and Australia, Leadership has many principles, in- There has been much written about
military exercises around Taiwan and a freeze in most and to expand base access agreements with the Philip- cluding <do the right thing.= The right former president Donald Trump9s hold on
official contacts with the United States. There were hopes pines. The Biden administration is also forging ahead with thing for Navy leadership in this case is his base and how his fellow aspirants for
for a thaw in relations in November, when President Biden its Indo-Pacific Economic Framework agreement between very clear: Direct those who continue to the Republican presidential nomination
met Chinese President Xi Jinping for more than three a dozen countries but purposely excluding China. pursue another golf course to stop. It9s won9t criticize him for fear of losing those
hours of talks in Bali, Indonesia. The two leaders agreed on China sees these moves collectively as an effort to clearly the right thing to do. To do other- voters, as in Dan Balz9s June 11 The Sunday
little but the importance of continuing discussions among encircle the country and contain its rise. The United States wise is running into shoal waters with the Take column, <Pence poses 20249s critical
top officials. That was supposed to start with a Blinken counters that it intends to compete with China while community. question: The Constitution or Trump?=
visit to Beijing in February. avoiding veering into conflict or outright confrontation. Let9s focus on designing and building Someone should remind these candidates
The sight early this year of a Chinese high-altitude As China and the United States both seek to end their more badly needed ships 4 not golf that Mr. Trump lost the popular vote and
surveillance craft drifting across the continental United mutual dependency on each other, Washington has said its courses. the electoral college big in 2020 (and he
States, until it was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean 4 strategy now, as stated in the Group of Seven summit in Tom Jurkowsky, Annapolis lost the popular vote in 2016), and that the
and the political uproar it caused in this country 4 made it Hiroshima, Japan, last month, emphasizes <de-risking, not The writer retired as a Republicans should be worried about the
virtually impossible for Mr. Blinken to continue with the de-coupling.= China regards those two as the same thing. rear admiral from the U.S. Navy. rest of this country9s voters, the majority
trip. There was concern the trip might be postponed again The two sides need to lower the temperature and get of whom strongly rejected Mr. Trump. It9s
when the White House early this month confirmed a Wall talking again. The risk of a misunderstanding leading to about American voters, not just Trump
Street Journal report of a Chinese spy base in Cuba. an inadvertent mishap is too great. Last month, a Chinese A better prison reform voters.
In the meantime, relations have soured further, leaving J-16 fighter jet flew dangerously close to the nose of an It9s hard to consider any of the Republi-
the State Department to lower expectations for this trip American RC-135 surveillance plane over the South China Regarding the June 11 editorial <End can nominees who have so little spine
and warn against expecting any significant break- Sea. This comes after a similar incident of American and the dysfunction in America9s prisons=: or integrity that they can9t call out
throughs. Chinese aircraft coming close in December. There9s one obvious way we can make Mr. Trump.
High-level U.S. diplomatic visits like this to China used One visit to China by America9s top diplomat will not be federal prisons better: reducing their pop- Suzanne Patrick, Silver Spring
to be routine. Hillary Clinton visited China seven times enough to get relations back on track, and the State ulations. The Bureau of Prisons could
during her four years as secretary of state. Now, absent Department is right to downplay expectations. But it9s then focus on improving conditions, rath-
some major breakthrough, there is a real possibility that essential to renew dialogue 4 especially military-to- er than spending billions on the confine- Let9s not mess with books
Mr. Biden will become the first U.S. president not to visit military talks. Keeping channels of communication open ment and medical care of people who no
China since Jimmy Carter normalized relations in 1978. is essential, among adversaries and competitors. A high- longer pose a risk to the community. The June 14 editorial <21st-century
Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George level visit, the kind that used to be routine, is a good place I served 33 years of a life sentence in editors should keep their hands off 20th-
W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump all visited in to start. federal prison before receiving compas- century books= was spot-on, citing sub-
sionate release under the First Step Act. I stitution of the word <queer= with <pecu-
have seen firsthand how many aging peo- liar= in the works of Ursula K. Le Guin
ple in prison could safely come home. because it means something different

A toast to India, and a word with Mr. Modi Going forward, the Bureau of Prisons
should adopt policies to align its compas-
sionate release practices with federal
these days.
I wonder what Robert Frost would
have thought. His famous poem <Stop-
courts and stop rubber-stamping denials. ping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,= with
The Indian leader9s retreat from democracy should be raised on his state visit. Almost everyone who has received com- one of the most distinctive rhyme
passionate release has done so from feder- schemes of any poem in the English
RIME MINISTER Narendra Modi of India has India9s roughly 200 million Muslims and other minorities. al courts. language, contains these lines:

P come to the United States regularly since he was

first elected in 2014. But his arrival at the White
House on Thursday will be his first state visit,
including a South Lawn welcome, a state dinner and an
address to a joint session of Congress. The United States
Recent Hindu festivals were marred by violence sparked
when Hindus in processions passed through Muslim
neighborhoods brandishing weapons and shouting anti-
Muslim slogans. The government at all levels has adopted
laws and policies that systematically discriminate against
The bureau should also fulfill its legal
obligation to fully implement the First
Step Act. People remain in prison longer
than necessary because the agency is fail-
ing to provide adequate programming for
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
How about:
can and must strive to strengthen ties to India during this Muslims, and authorities in some states demolished people to earn time credits and is calculat- My little horse must think it odd
visit, but it cannot remain silent about Mr. Modi9s worri- property of Muslims in response to protests. Increasingly, ing credits incorrectly. To stop along a trail untrod
some democratic backsliding. the authorities act with impunity, and they are rarely held Finally, Congress must pass the biparti- Between the woods and frozen lake
The case for India as a bulwark against China has never to account. Vigilante attacks go unpunished. san Safer Detention Act and the First Step And in the dark I see him nod.
been more urgent. India 4 one of the world9s fastest-grow- At the same time, Mr. Modi has led a broad assault on Implementation Act. The former corrects What fun, changing the words of a
ing economies, the most populous nation, a digital power- freedom of expression and dissent. Journalists are under an error in the First Step Act that excludes dead man! But I have better things to do
house and a seven-decade-old democracy, however imper- intense pressure, some have been arrested, and others the oldest and sickest people in federal with my life.
fect 4 has immense potential as guardian and pacesetter have been subjected to online harassment. The govern- prisons from receiving compassionate re- Edward Blanton, Arlington
for a free and open Indo-Pacific region. President Biden ment controls many media outlets with close ties to the lease and reauthorizes a home-confine-
will talk with Mr. Modi about enhanced cooperation in owners, as well as with direct orders about what to print or ment program for elderly individuals. The
defense, clean energy and space, as well as climate change, broadcast. It has sought to take down social media posts it latter would expand on the success of the U.N. should abolish the veto
health security and trade. does not like. In reaction to a BBC documentary about First Step Act by making key components
Some frictions are unavoidable. Mr. Modi has called for Mr. Modi and his relationship with the nation9s Muslims, retroactive, among other reforms. Regarding the June 12 news article
a cease-fire in Ukraine without condemning Russia9s the government attempted to block people from streaming People age out of crime. Let9s create <U.S. seeks to expand developing world9s
invasion. Mr. Biden should also press Mr. Modi to halt it and then sent tax agents to raid BBC offices in New Delhi more opportunities for second chances to U.N. influence=:
India9s weapons sales to the military junta in Myanmar, and Mumbai. reflect that. As commendable as President Biden9s
prolonging and deepening a bloody civil war. These and Also alarming is Mr. Modi9s crackdown on nongovern- William Underwood, Washington call for more permanent seats on the U.N.
other bilateral issues should not be difficult for Mr. Biden mental organizations and civil society activists, forcing The writer is a senior fellow Security Council for developing coun-
and Mr. Modi to navigate. them to comply with burdensome accounting for foreign at the Campaign to End Life tries is, that is neither the most urgent
What will be more troublesome for Mr. Biden is to raise funding. A fresh example was recently described in The Imprisonment at the Sentencing Project. nor the most important reform needed to
the retreat from democracy by Mr. Modi and his dominant Post: Indian tax authorities simultaneously raided three save the United Nations from lapsing
Bharatiya Janata Party. Under the banner of a majoritarian nonprofit organizations that the government believed into insignificance in an increasingly
Hindu nationalism, they have unleashed violence against were critics of Gautam Adani, one of India9s richest men The Clinton emails polarized world.
Muslims and other minorities, eroded press freedoms and and a political ally of Mr. Modi. The raids were a case study The one reform that would achieve
suffocated independent civil society. The president needs in how the Modi government uses state power to crimp its Ruth Marcus9s June 14 op-ed, <Don9t that goal is the same one that would
to be tactful. Mr. Biden and others who meet Mr. Modi critics. confuse Clinton9s emails with Trump9s guarantee that every member country is
should convey to him that democracy and respect for None of these actions befit the world9s most populous boxes,= did an excellent job of pointing held accountable for its actions: namely,
human dignity are force multipliers for India9s rising democracy. There will be a strong temptation by the White out the differences between the facts abolishing the veto power in the Security
stature in the world and for dealing with its challenges at House to bring up the issue only privately and keep public alleged in the federal indictment of Don- Council. That would make it much hard-
home. A weakened democracy, or a shell of one, will remarks upbeat. A private conversation is definitely worth- ald Trump and the relevant facts in the er for a single country, however powerful,
portend a weakened India. while. But Mr. Biden should also say something openly, as investigation into former secretary of to defy the rest of the world, dramatically
Specifically, Mr. Modi should be encouraged to brake the the leader of one major (imperfect) democracy to another. state Hillary Clinton9s emails. However, increasing the chances for world peace.
spiral of communal violence and toxic hate directed at Friends have an obligation to speak the truth to friends. Ms. Marcus quoted then-FBI Director Mohamed A. Jalloh, Gaithersburg

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alexandra Petri
I love
Trump,
but vote for
me instead
<I think it would be terrible for the
country to have a former president
in prison for years because of a
documents case. So I would be in-
clined in favor of a pardon.=
4 Republican presidential
candidate Nikki Haley
<The weaponization of federal law
enforcement represents a mortal
threat to a free society. We have for
years witnessed an uneven appli-
cation of the law depending upon
political affiliation. . . . Why so
zealous in pursuing Trump yet so
passive about Hillary or Hunter?=
4 Republican presidential
candidate Ron DeSantis
<Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepre-
neur and activist who is running
against Donald J. Trump for the
Republican nomination, told re-
porters outside the courthouse in
Miami on Tuesday that he had
reached out to other presidential
candidates to urge them to commit
to pardoning the former president
if they win in 2024.=
4 the New York Times
irst off, this prosecution is
F politically motivated, and I
do not support it. You know
what I do support, whole-
heartedly? Donald Trump! Take
this moment to distance myself
from him? I would never. Our
hearts beat as one. Or rather, his
heart leads, and my heart follows. I
admire him so much.
Yes, I am running against him
for president, but only in the most
ploddingly literal sense. I see my-
self as running with him in a big
field, and who can even say what
kind of race it is? Maybe it9s not a
competition at all! Maybe I am just
here because I wanted to run with
Donald Trump, because he is the
most perfect, godlike being ever
glimpsed on this Earth, and we are
all blessed to live in the same era
that he does!
If he took any classified docu-
ments home with him, it is just
because he loves souvenirs! And
that9s not a crime! I mean, what he
is accused of is, technically, a crime,
but loving souvenirs, that9s not a
crime! But if it even is a crime, it9s
not the bad kind of crime! It9s the
good kind, like Theranos, or em-
bezzlement. Look, if you were not
allowed to just take things home
with you because they seemed neat
and you wanted to show them off to
your friends without facing any
consequences, the British Museum
would be completely empty. And
people love the British Museum!
I love Donald Trump and I would
gladly give him one of my kidneys,
and one of my wife9s, and also a
bonus kidney that I would obtain
through unclear means! He hung
the moon and is holding the Earth
on his shoulders as we speak. He
cups the whole world in his large,
capable hands. He is my rock. He is
my sky. He is the wind at my back
and beneath my wings, and he is
my Wonderwall.
Do I have anything negative to
say as he is being indicted? For
putting our national secrets and
the lives of our intelligence person-
nel at risk? Yes, I do have some
negative things to say 4 about
those prosecuting him! Oh, about
Donald Trump?
Here, let us go behind a tree. Can
anyone see us? Here, let us open
this trap door and go down into this
cellar. No, deeper; I still see some
rays of daylight! Let us descend
into this mine shaft. Put on this
hard hat. Are we through the shale
and into the slate yet? No? Let us
drill down a little deeper. Can any-
one hear us? Come closer, I will
whisper it to you:
He has perhaps, perhaps, been
4 controversial? Yes, yes, some
people (inferior minds!) say he is
too controversial! Perhaps, they
say, this controversy is a distraction
from the issues. But I, I do not say it!
I say, <I love Donald Trump!= Yes,
let us return to the surface, and I
will say it loud and strong! You will
notice that I am saying it louder
and better than anyone else! I love
him more than words can wield the
matter! Dearer than eyesight,
space or liberty! You will put that in
your podcast, won9t you? That I
loved him the most?
Donald Trump has never done
anything wrong, ever, in his life,
except possibly being too lumi-
nously perfect, and too right? So
right that maybe, possibly, the
American people9s eyes are grow-
ing weary of such brightness, and
they might seek a less brilliant suc-
cessor? No, I dare not say it. They
are surely not tired of him. And I
am the least tired of all! I9m glad
he9s dominating the news cycle! I9m
clapping and smiling! I love him
and I love how things are going!
Anyway, please vote for me in-
stead of him as president! Thanks!
Cormac McCarthy at his home in New Mexico on Aug. 12, 2014.
You didn9t edit Cormac McCarthy.
You read him.
BY G ARY F ISKETJON
or devoted readers, the death of a
F writer can spark a memory: Here
was someone who seemed to
speak to them directly, almost
personally. And so has it been for me
these recent days with Cormac McCarthy,
who first entranced me in 1979 with
<Suttree,= which immediately sent me
racing back to his first three novels 4 all
published by Random House (where I
worked as an assistant) and edited by
Albert Erskine, whose other enthusiasms
included William Faulkner, Eudora Wel-
ty, Ralph Ellison and Malcolm Lowry.
Naturally, I idolized Albert and, in
what was then a small company, came to
know him even as he gradually retreated
from office life. His last hurrah with
Cormac was <Blood Meridian,= whose
monumental shock and awe intensified
my devotion to his work and provoked
critical acclaim, though Cormac9s reader-
ship remained ludicrously tiny.
My own contact with Cormac began
when I brought <Suttree= back into print
as a paperback. In these years, we met on
occasion, significantly at Albert9s funeral,
and forged the beginnings of a friendship
that eventually resulted in my becoming
his editor at Knopf. Before long, Cormac
delivered the manuscript of <All the
Pretty Horses,= which became a phenom-
enal success in 1992.
While I have always considered editing
a strictly private conversation, I9ve lately
found myself recalling the pleasures of
my maiden voyage with Cormac. His
mastery of not only a prose style like no
other but also the particularities of every
aspect of the lives he created before us on
the page 4 the weather, the landscape,
Biden should pardon Trump. Really.
BY M ARC A . T HIESSEN
AND D ANIELLE P LETKA
n his 2020 victory speech, Joe Biden
I declared that <to everything there is a
season 4 a time to build, a time to reap,
a time to sow. And a time to heal. This is
the time to heal in America.= If he wants to
deliver on his promise to heal the country,
he could do so with one action:
Pardon Donald Trump.
On the merits, the case against Trump is
damning. And it doesn9t take a close reading
of the federal indictment to understand that
the former president9s problems are of his
own making. He allegedly showed a writer
classified material about Iran, saying, <This
is secret information. Look, look at this.=
And he obstructed the FBI9s efforts to recov-
er classified material in his possession, even
allegedly telling his lawyer, <Wouldn9t it be
better if we just told them we don9t have
anything here?= Had he simply returned the
documents, as Mike Pence did when it
became clear he had classified papers,
Trump almost certainly would not have
been charged, as Pence has not been. His
misconduct was egregious, irresponsible
and probably criminal. Anyone else would
be seeking a plea bargain.
But his indictment has also put our na-
tion into uncharted territory. The threshold
for the sitting president9s administration to
indict the leading candidate of the opposing
party should be extraordinarily high. High
enough to mitigate the suspicion held by
80 percent of Republicans and almost half
the nation, per ABC News-Ipsos polling, that
these charges are politically motivated. In-
deed, millions of Americans believe that our
legal system is being weaponized against
Trump 4 and, by extension, against them.
Most Americans don9t look at this indict-
ment in a vacuum. They see it in the context
of the decisions not to prosecute Hillary
Clinton for her mishandling of classified
information; the Trump-Russia collusion
investigation, which paralyzed our country
for two years over a conspiracy theory; two
impeachments and Trump9s politicized in-
dictment by Manhattan District Attorney
eZ
the occupations, the history behind it all.
How the dialogue tells you vividly who
these characters are. The sly or ribald
comedy on so many pages, the utter
horror on others. The relentless current
that carries you through the story, the
surprises and sorrows and comforts that
sustain and expand it.
Simple things, as when one boy asks
another, <Where9d you get a gun like
this?= and the answer9s <At the gettin9
place.= Or how a father ends an unhappy
conversation with his disgruntled son by
glancing at a newspaper and saying,
<How can Shirley Temple be getting
divorced?= And narrative at once elo-
quent and matter of fact: <Shrouded in
the black thunderheads the distant light-
ning glowed mutely like welding seen
through foundry smoke. As if repairs
were under way at some flawed place in
the iron dark of the world.= Followed by
<It9s fixin to come a goodn, said Rawlins.=
Seeming juxtapositions that constitute a
style of flexibility and grace.
Editing9s just a more relentless and
specific form of reading in which you
read a book more closely than any sane
person would ever think of doing. And an
editor9s responsibility to the author is to
note page by page everything that crosses
one9s mind, pro or con, large or small, that
might prove useful. Only the writers can
make those calls, or come up with the best
solutions to anything that also seems
troublesome to them. Having made my
various points, I never look back to see if
any changes were made because I9m just
an enthusiastic bystander.
Early on, I sensed that Cormac wasn9t
accustomed to a persnickety style of
line-editing, though his responses to it
reflected good humor rather than aggra-
Alvin Bragg; and the suppression of the
Hunter Biden laptop story that could have
damaged Joe Biden and aided Trump9s 2020
campaign. They see a troubling pattern, and
they are not wrong.
The dangers this poses to our democracy
are obvious.
Millions will see Trump9s prosecution as
illegitimate, and any conviction as unjust.
That will further erode public confidence in
our judicial system and the principle of
equal justice under law.
A Trump trial would be one of the most
divisive events in the history of our republic.
It would set a new precedent 4 and create
enormous pressure on the next Republican
president to go after President Biden, his
family and other Democrats.
And to remedy what harm? Despite
Trump9s best efforts to obstruct them, feder-
al agents recovered the documents he un-
lawfully possessed. And nothing in the in-
dictment indicates that the intelligence in
Trump9s possession was obtained by foreign
governments or intelligence services.
There9s another risk, too. Trump might be
acquitted. All it takes is one juror and Trump
walks. If that happens, University of Califor-
nia at Berkeley law professor John Yoo told
us, then <the Justice Department will have
single-handedly handed the presidency to
Donald Trump.=
Whether righteous or not, the decision to
prosecute Trump has opened a Pandora9s
box. It is in Biden9s power to close it 4 by
pardoning his predecessor.
Trump wouldn9t have to admit he did
anything wrong. But pardoning him also
does not mean absolving Trump of responsi-
bility for his actions. Biden should instruct
special counsel Jack Smith to produce a
report 4 much like those issued by special
counsels Robert S. Mueller III and John
Durham 4 laying out his findings in meticu-
lous detail. He should put the evidence of
Trump9s misconduct before the American
people, not just a Miami jury, and let them
render judgment on the former president at
the polls 4 as they did in 2020.
In pardoning Trump, Biden would be a
true statesman. Sparing the country the
Re
BeOWulf SHeeHan
vation. When I queried an exchange of
dialogue that struck me as tin-eared? <It
can9t be helped, it9s what they said.= When
I wondered why <1872= was sometimes
spelled out, contrary to the <Chicago
Manual of Style,= he said such dates
should always be spelled out, <though
I9m sure this isn9t what you were looking
for.=
But it sure as hell was, because consis-
tency is my only concern when authors
have carefully composed their own style
manuals.
Actual writing9s obviously something
editors don9t see, and certainly Cormac
never showed me anything that wasn9t
complete. Yet once, early in <The Border
Trilogy,= I9d begun editing when he grew
unhappy with a later scene involving
grievous violent injury and considerable
medical detail 4 hardly unusual in his
novels. He wrote and rewrote until a third
draft (if memory serves) satisfied his
concerns. I was fascinated to see how
artfully he edited himself along the way.
Readers know his novels are replete
with death and long discussions of its
cost and meaning. Cormac had clearly
given it plenty of thought 4 and laughed
when I quoted Beckett9s dictum, <The day
you die is just like any other, only shorter.=
Of course, Cormac offered some dictums
of his own, and one from <The Crossing=
has spoken to me directly ever since I
read it in manuscript, and it is certainly
germane now. <Faces fade, voices dim.
Seize them back, whispered the sepul-
turero. Speak with them. Call their
names. Do this and do not let sorrow die
for it is the sweetening of every gift.=
Gary fisketjon was an editor at alfred a. Knopf
from 1990 to 2019.
ordeal of a trial would go a long way toward
repairing the nation9s frayed political fabric.
He would display the kind of leadership that
has been missing in Washington. And he
would drive Trump crazy. With one action,
Biden would eliminate the narrative of a
<deep state= conspiracy that is helping to
fuel Trump9s political comeback.
Some will argue that Trump9s problems
are not Biden9s. The White House has insist-
ed that the buck stops with Smith, the
special counsel appointed by Attorney Gen-
eral Merrick Garland. That9s wrong. Smith
works for the attorney general, who in turn
works for the president. The buck stops with
Biden. He is the boss, and on his order, the
<weaponization= of the executive branch
against a former president and political
rival 4 and the consequent loss of faith in
American government 4 could be stopped.
To be sure, Biden would face blowback.
Democratic strategists recognize that far
from damaging Trump, the legal assaults
against the former president will likely
benefit him in the 2024 primaries; and
many believe Trump to be the Republican
easiest for Biden to beat in next year9s
general election. Others think Biden has
already been too moderate; progressive
hard-liners will no doubt say the president
could lose his party9s left flank if he hands a
get-out-of-jail-free card to his predecessor.
And there are plenty of Democrats (and a
few Republicans) who believe that pardon-
ing a man who, a priori, appears so guilty
would only further erode American respect
for the rule of law.
But none of these political factors should
be part of the president9s consideration of
Trump9s legal future. This isn9t about
Trump. It is about the nation. It is within
Biden9s power to restore norms that have
been torn apart by both Trump and his
opponents. If ever there were a time to heal,
this is it.
Marc a. Thiessen is a Post contributing columnist
and senior fellow at the american enterprise
Institute. Danielle Pletka is a distinguished
senior fellow at aeI. They co-host a podcast,
<What the Hell Is Going On?=
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george F. Will
The high court
puts Native
children
in danger
ecause of Thursday9s Supreme
B Court blunder 4 an act of mis-
placed judicial restraint 4 the
lives of some Indian children
will be unnecessarily miserable, and
sometimes shorter, than they would be
without an excrescence on U.S. law
called the Indian Child Welfare Act.
This especially unpleasant manifesta-
tion of identity politics will continue to
multiply broken hearts and bodies.
The ICWA9s defenders say it concerns
not race but a political category, the
rights of tribes. This is a distinction
without a difference, as the ICWA is
applied. The government recognizes
574 tribes, which the ICWA treats as
fungible. All of them base membership
eligibility solely on biological rather
than cultural or political facts.
Predicated on generic Indianness,
the ICWA makes children 4 all of whom
are U.S. citizens 4 sacrificial playthings
of race-mongers bandying rhetoric
about tribal <integrity= and <coherence.=
Penetrate the fog of such abstrac-
tions, and the ICWA is starkly incom-
patible with the nation9s foundational
proposition: Rights inhere in individu-
als, not groups.
The ICWA, which repellently calls chil-
dren tribal <resources,= is about enhanc-
ing tribal power rather than protecting
children9s welfare. It allocates group enti-
tlements based on biology, as did Ger-
many9s 1935 Nuremberg Laws, one of
which was <The Law for the Protection of
German Blood and German Honor.=
About the case decided Thursday:
The biological mother of a Navajo child
identified as A.L.M. and his sister, called
Y.R.J., supported their being raised by
Chad and Jennifer Brackeen, neither of
them Indians, in Texas, far from the
Navajo Nation. This nation, however,
wanted the siblings separated, and the
sister sent to another state to live either
with a great-aunt or an unrelated Nava-
jo couple.
The court, divided 7-2, chose not to
strike down the ICWA. Justice Amy
Coney Barrett wrote: The ICWA <re-
quires a state court to place an Indian
child with an Indian caretaker . . . even if
the child is already living with a non-
Indian family and the state court thinks
it in the child9s best interest to stay
there.= That accurate description should
have sufficed to dictate a different ruling.
Barrett writes unhelpfully that Con-
gress has <plenary= but not <absolute=
power to legislate regarding Indians.
Otherwise, Congress could disregard
the Constitution, including <equal pro-
tection of the laws,= concerning Indians.
But the court now allows that. Could
Congress forbid Indians from leaving
their tribes, marrying outside the tribe,
adopting non-Indian children, etc.? The
seven justices might say yes.
During oral argument last November,
Brett M. Kavanaugh said this case in-
volved tension between, on the one
hand, <respect for tribal self-govern-
ment= and tribes9 difficult histories, and,
on the other hand, <the fundamental
principle we don9t treat people different-
ly on account of their race or ethnicity or
ancestry.= Now he has joined the court
majority in abandoning that principle.
The ICWA shreds federalism princi-
ples. Fifty states have child protection
systems whose overriding concern is
<the best interests of the child.= The
ICWA makes this consideration subor-
dinate to the child9s relationship with a
tribe. On Thursday, the court ratified
this federal interference with child-
welfare proceedings in state courts.
Dissenting against race-based cus-
tody proceedings, Samuel A. Alito Jr.
rightly rejects <ICWA9s attempt to control
local judicial proceedings in a core field
of state concern= 4 <child custody, foster
care, and adoption.= Also dissenting,
Clarence Thomas acerbically notes that
<not one= of the federal government9s
constitutionally enumerated powers jus-
tifies intruding on those state concerns.
The ICWA was enacted to stop the
wicked practice of forcing assimilation
by removing Indian children from non-
Indian families. Now it functions to
yank even thriving Indian children
from nurturing non-Indian families, in
barbaric homage to Indian <blood.=
This means that Declan Stewart and
Laurynn Whiteshield and others died
unremembered.
Declan was 5 when beaten to death in
2007 by his mother9s live-in boyfriend.
Oklahoma, responding to his fractured
skull and severe bruising between his
testicles and rectum, had earlier re-
moved him from his mother9s custody.
The Cherokee Nation objected. The
state, knowing the ICWA9s bias toward
tribal rights, relented. Declan died of a
beating a month after being returned to
his mother.
Laurynn was 3 when living in foster
care with a North Dakota minister,
Jeanine Kersey-Russell, who tried to
adopt her. The Spirit Lake Sioux tribe,
invoking the ICWA, got Laurynn sent to
a reservation in 2013 and the custody of
her grandfather. Within six weeks she
was dead, thrown down an embank-
ment by the grandfather9s wife, who had
a record of child abuse.
This was carnage from identity poli-
tics. More will come from the court9s
decision allowing children to be treated
like tiny trophies of tribal power.
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boldface names in entertainment history, including Jimmy stewart, Walt
Disney, Michael Jackson, elizabeth Taylor and sammy Davis Jr. It9s also the

the afterlife?
Not even Ken Jennings has the answer.
But his book is a tour of some possibilities.
BY N ICHOLAS C ANNARIATO IN GLENDALE, CALIF.
place Ken Jennings happened to visit for the first time on the day he found out
Alex Trebek had died. ¶ I met Jennings at the cemetery on a sunny April day to talk about
his new book, which is all about the afterlife. If that sounds unexpected, it all started at an
airport bookstore. <I saw one of those bucket list travel books,= he said. <I was looking at it
upside down, and I thought it said 8A Thousand Destinations to Die Before You see.9 I
came out of the bookstore and I told my friends at the gate, 8I think I have an idea for a
book.9= ¶ The idea would become <100 Places to see After You Die.= In it, the <Jeopardy!=
host 4 and the show9s all-time winningest champion 4 surveys ideas from around the
world about what happens to us after we die. see Jennings on B7

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B2
The dead hover so closely
around Lorrie Moore9s
mournful new book that it
feels more like a séance than
a novel. Even the long title 4
Ron
Charles
<I Am Homeless If This Is Not
My Home= 4 seems
determined to linger.
But readers among the
living may be reluctant to take on such a
necrotic tale. Suspended somewhere
between Moore9s celebrated short stories
and the novels she publishes every decade
or so, this slender book is haunting and
cursed.
If you read <A Gate at the Stairs,= one of
my favorite books of 2009, you9ll never
forget that grotesque moment when the
narrator climbs into a loved one9s coffin to
say goodbye. Beware: Moore9s new novel
shows the bereaved settling in the grave for
a much longer embrace.
The story opens in 2016, just a month
after homemade bombs placed around New
York have reignited memories of 9/11. While
the traumatized city tries once again to find
its equilibrium, a high school teacher named
Finn arrives from Illinois with his own
conspiratorial fears and a litter box that
once belonged to his landlady9s cat. Single
and recently suspended from his job, Finn
has driven across the country to see his
older, more successful brother, Max. But he
hasn9t come for advice. Max is lying in a
hospice dying of cancer.
Strands of tragedy and absurdity are
twisted into Moore9s DNA. Every sigh is
inflected with a macabre smirk. When Max9s
oncologist retires, the doctor half-
apologizes, half-complains, <I didn9t know
you9d live this long.= Approaching his
brother9s room, Finn realizes that there9s no
security at the front desk because, after all,
<what did they need protection from in a
place like this?=
An attempt to reassemble Mary Shelley9s monstrous magic
BY T ALYA Z AX
ow might someone cope with becom-
H ing a mother in a world on the brink of
apocalypse?
If you are Mary Shelley, a teenage mother
living through a summer when volcanic ash
darkened the sky for days on end, you write
<Frankenstein,= one of the most compelling
tales ever told about the horror of creating
life.
If you are the protagonist of Louisa Hall9s
new novel, <Reproduction,= living through
the terror of the Donald Trump years, the
coronavirus pandemic and the ever-escalat-
ing climate crisis, you try to write a modern-
day version of <Frankenstein= 4 one that
captures the horror of creating life in a
particularly contemporary way.
But Louisa Hall is not Mary Shelley, and
<Reproduction= is not <Frankenstein.= The
novel begins powerfully: The unnamed nar-
rator moves with her husband from New York
to Montana while mulling Shelley9s painful
experience of pregnancy and motherhood,
which influenced, at least to the narrator9s
eye, much of her literary output. Hall has a
way with sentences that toe the line of
dreamy and despairing, and it9s easy to feel
lulled by the atmosphere she creates, that of
an uncomfortably lovely nightmare.
That infective ambiance might have been
enough to propel a less pointed novel about
pregnancy. As it is, Hall9s explicit invocations
of Shelley9s masterpiece undermine <Repro-
duction.= The narrator tries to write a novel
EZ EE
Hitting the road with
his semi-dead girlfriend
For Moore, <the bardo of the hospice= is a
mordant metaphor for human existence, a
place where laughter isn9t the best medicine,
it9s the only medicine: All we9ve got left is a
collection of bedpans and deadpans.
In that sense, Finn is a classic Moore
character, clinging to witty lines about the
wallpaper in a world so dark he can barely
see the walls. Knowing that Max has
exhausted his treatment options, Finn
struggles to come up with the right stories
to entertain him. <They should be anecdotes
that were amusing,= he thinks. <But they
should not make the dying laugh in a way
that made them want more of life. The dying
should laugh wearily in a way that said, OK.
OK. Enough.= Finn succeeds so well with his
patter of zany personal misfortunes that his
brother, ravaged by futile rounds of chemo,
finally says, <I feel sorry for you, man.=
Remarkably, at this point in <I Am
Homeless,= we9re just at death9s
antechamber. The real horror lies ahead 4
and exceeds whatever might befall Max.
While Finn is in New York, the love of his
life, a severely depressed young woman
named Lily, drowns herself in a hospital
room shower back in the Midwest.
By now, some of you may be thinking this
novel isn9t the summer pick-me-up you
need.
Indeed, Moore is writing in a treacherous
emotional realm here, and her story moves
with no more predictability than a wraith.
about Shelley and goes to the doctor for
routine pregnancy checkups. She notices,
with something of an outsider9s distant
interest, the dire state of the world around
her. At some point, a scientist friend shows
up, allowing her to explore a 2023 version of
the anxieties about technological advance-
ment that so dramatically infuse Shelley9s
work. But, in large part because the thrills of
<Frankenstein= haunt <Reproduction,= it is
hard not to read Hall9s novel without wonder-
ing what all that evocative ambiance is
building toward.
The answer is, unfortunately, not much, as
the narrator rotates through maternal preoc-
cupations. She compares motherhood to life
on another planet, reflects on nausea during
pregnancy and marvels over the possibilities
embodied by a <little baby.= It9s too bad. Hall
comes close to giving meaningful voice to the
<Groundhog Day= quality of new parenthood:
The world suddenly shrinks, as do the
everyday actions that seem important within
it. But the result is a novel that seems to be
always circling its own ideas, never closing in
on them.
Perhaps that9s the point. Shelley9s experi-
ence of parenthood was one of constant
endangerment. She had already lost one
child, a daughter, before she began <Franken-
stein= and understood that to give birth 4
whether to a human baby or a monster 4 was
to put your world up for profound disruption,
if not destruction. The risks that haunt
<Reproduction= are different; they are fo-
cused on the work of conceiving a child. The
the washington post
Fiction
Laced through the sad events of Finn9s
double grief are old letters written after the
Civil War by a woman who kept a
boardinghouse. These two storylines
intersect glancingly, but they never mesh in
some all-explaining revelation. Instead,
Finn9s ordeal and the intrigue described in
the antique letters simply sit alongside each
other, chapter after chapter, maintaining a
strange tension like items in one of Joseph
I AM Cornell9s boxes.
hoMeless If But for all the novel9s rumination on
ThIs Is NoT mourning, the plot9s physical motion is
My hoMe incessant. The moment Finn hears about
By Lorrie moore Lily9s suicide, he turns away from his dying
Knopf. brother and drives 17 hours back home to
193 pp. $27 deal with the details of her death. Along the
way, he considers the exhausting, infuriating
challenge of loving someone determined to
kill herself.
The Canadian writer Miriam Toews
brought just the right notes of wit and
pathos to this subject in her brilliant 2014
novel, <All My Puny Sorrows.= That
heartbreakingly realistic story 4 which I
adored but would never subject myself to
again 4 forces the reader to dwell in the
claustrophobic dread of a loved one9s self-
destruction. Moore9s approach is more
impressionistic, far more gothic and
ultimately more perplexing.
When Finn visits Lily9s grave, she9s there
waiting for him in the oversize red shoes she
wore for her job as a clown who cheered up
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novel is full of grief, but grief at the loss of
something not yet known. It makes a certain
kind of sense that its way of examining its
sorrow is more diffuse than Shelley9s was. It is
hard to find focus in mourning the yearned-
for idea of a person.
It becomes more difficult to see Hall9s
novel9s lack of focus as meaningful, however,
Louisa Hall once she attempts to mirror Shelley9s portrait
invokes of the dangers of scientific advancement.
<Frankenstein= That effort centers on a narrative reveal that
in her pointed comes across as nearly an afterthought 4 an
novel about excuse, even, to justify the narrator having so
pregnancy. much interest in what she sees as Shelley9s
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aLLa DrEyviTsEr/THE WasHingTon PosT
sick children. But her appearance isn9t
presented as a vision or a metaphor. <She
smiled at him with a mouth full of dirt,=
Moore writes with ghoulish grittiness. <She
seemed simultaneously sinister and
comically benign.= Lily9s eyes are <dead bone
buttons.= Her torso is starting to leak and
bloat. Silverfish scurry through her tangled
hair.
<The dead prefer the company of the
living,= Lily says. <Better light banter.= Her
heart may not be beating, but mirth still
pumps through her veins.
<I guess death9s kind of a spectrum,= she
explains. <I9ve let myself go a little.=
So, Lily is not quite dead, Finn is not quite
devastated, and this is not quite serious.
These two crazy kids from different sides of
the grave amble along for another 100 pages
on their spectacularly weird road trip. Their
sex scenes might evoke Patrick Swayze in
<Ghost,= but with Lily9s bloated torso
smelling like <a casserole of rot,= the vibe is
much more Edgar Allan Poe.
As their trip progresses, Finn imagines
<he could talk her into life,= but it seems just
as likely that the novel9s nervous jokes might
finish her off for good. When Lily fails to
respond for a while, he asks, <Are you
ghosting me?= Could the cold ground be
more uncomfortable than these puns? Is this
really a reckoning with the enigma of
depression, suicide and grief, or is it an
elaborate performance of denial?
Moore calls Finn9s experience a <strange
late dusk dream, which was like a daydream
but with more solidity, less light, and more
doubt.=
Lily isn9t so sure what9s happening. <Is
this a zombie movie?= she asks. <Is it a rom-
com? Perhaps it9s a documentary.=
Your guess is as good as mine, Lily.
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preoccupation with motherhood.
But while the reveal may have little impact
on Hall9s story, its political implications are
alarming. Women9s fertility, as Hall9s narrator
repeatedly and unhappily notes, is too weap-
onized an issue to avoid thinking about when
pregnant, or when trying to become so. And
yet her story concludes with its own weap-
onization of fertility, one that is distressingly
easy to read as a warning against fertility
techniques that transgress against the so-
called <natural.=
That9s not to invalidate concerns about the
potential reach of fertility science. But Hall
draws a heavy-handed corollary between the
mind-set of the desperate would-be parent
and that of the coldly experimental Victor
Frankenstein, who never stops to consider
whether reanimating a stitched-together
corpse might be harmful. It leaves an uncom-
fortable taste. None of it is wrong, exactly, but
it feels poorly thought-through, in a way that
makes the rest of <Reproduction= seem less
thoughtful, too.
Hall9s ideas about the monstrousness of
making another life can be revelatory: I
thought for days about her description of the
pain of labor causing <a frantic, evil loneli-
ness.= <I am alone and miserable,= Franken-
stein9s monster said, more bluntly, in <Fran-
kenstein.= He understood what <Reproduc-
tion= sometimes forgets: It is when we pursue
seductive theories at the cost of humanity
that things begin to fall apart.
Talya Zax is an editor at the Forward.
sunday, june 18 , 2023 . the washington post
Cycles of racial progress and violence
With each step forward comes a backlash, writes Wesley Lowery, who examines the rise in hateful incidents since the Obama years
BY B ECCA R OTHFELD
I
s racism a social blight or a personal
defect? Amid the frictions of recent
years, slick thinkers like Robin DiAngelo
have proposed, often in the same breath,
that racism is at once a systemic prob-
lem to be tackled by communities and a moral
failing to be exorcised by acts of private
penance. In <American Whitelash: A Chang-
ing Nation and the Cost of Progress,= Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery re-
veals the tensions latent in our common
conceptions of racism by probing recent
surges in white-supremacist violence.
The central premise of <American Whitelash=
is that <each step toward a more racially just
society, each step toward triumph gained by the
anti-racist side of the struggle, each periodic
collection against the unfulfilled pledges of the
American promissory note, in turn, sparks a
backlash 4 a pull back on the rope 4 from the
unjust system9s beneficiaries and boosters.=
Whitelash, then, takes on different and histori-
cally specific forms as Whiteness expands to
<accommodate waves of new members= and
contracts to exclude formerly secure constitu-
ents. Italian Americans, now comfortably as-
similated, faced brutal whitelash in the early
1900s 4 and, as Lowery has frequent occasion
to remind us, the inclusion of Ashkenazi Jews as
White is still contested, often bloodily, by
neo-Nazis.
Lowery9s book is not a comprehensive
history of White resentment in America 4
such a study would surely be many times as
long 4 but an incomplete examination of the
most recent wave of hatred and recrimina-
tion. It begins on the eve of Barack Obama9s
election, when the air was laced with opti-
mism that seems naive in retrospect. For one
thing, Lowery writes, Obama9s presidency
revealed the shortcomings of the <8black faces
in high places9 politics that had taken hold in
the decades since the civil rights movement.=
Far from representing a radical break with
American politics as usual, the 44th president
<hedged and stood tall in two-sides-ism,= as
the poet and essayist Camonghne Felix ob-
served in an essay from which Lowery quotes.
Even worse, Obama9s election infuriated
and emboldened the country9s most poison-
ous reactionaries: <At least two prominent
white supremacist organizations 4 Storm-
front and the Council of Conservative Citi-
zens 4 saw their websites crash due to the
flood of online traffic that came their way
following Obama9s victory.= An uptick in
racially motivated hate crimes soon followed.
No wonder the president who assumed office
in 2016 was the white supremacists9 candi-
date of choice.
Lowery explains that criminologists sort
perpetrators of racial violence into three
categories: <thrill-seekers,= like teenagers
who use epithets in an effort to shock and
provoke; <reactive attackers, who lash out
suddenly at perceived enemies such as immi-
grants or LGBTQ people=; and <mission-ori-
ented attackers, the avowed ideologues who
carry out calculated attacks.=
<American Whitelash= focuses almost ex-
clusively on lone wolves in the second
category. Four of the six incidents it chroni-
cles at length occurred during the Obama
administration, two during Trump9s. This
distribution is as instructive as it is unexpect-
ed: Even during the apparently (to a certain
kind of blinkered liberal, anyway) halcyon
days of the Obama presidency, dark forces
were at work. A teenager who had been
radicalized by white supremacists online
stabbed an Ecuadoran immigrant on Long
Island in 2008; a veteran skinhead opened
fire at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., in
If misinformation
acts like a virus,
is there a vaccine?
BY T ROY J OLLIMORE
he English poet John Milton once asked,
T rhetorically: <Who ever knew truth put
to the worse, in a free and open encoun-
ter?= Were such a question to be asked now, all
of us would put up our hands. Every day we see
true claims rejected in favor of false ones,
often, indeed, wildly absurd ones. Large seg-
ments of the American population believe that
climate change either is not occurring or is not
caused by human activity, that the federal
government and the media are controlled by
Satan worshipers who are running a massive
child trafficking operation, that the 2020
presidential election was rigged, that the coro-
navirus is linked to 5G mobile towers. To say
that the evidence is minimal in each case
would be far more than kind. Yet somehow
that does not seem to matter.
Unsurprisingly, given the scale of the prob-
lem and its potential ramifications, misinfor-
mation has become a hot research topic.
Sander van der Linden, a social psychologist at
Cambridge, is one of many to take it up. His
goal, as he tells us in <Foolproof: Why Misin-
formation Infects Our Minds and How to Build
Immunity,= is not merely to understand what
misinformation is and how it works, but to
develop ways of resisting it and stemming its
spread. To use his preferred metaphor, he aims
to devise a way to inoculate people against the
misinformation virus.
The first step is to understand why we are
vulnerable to misinformation and how it
spreads. Part One of the book examines some
nonFiction
2012; an outspoken neo-Nazi committed a
mass shooting at a Jewish community center
in Overland Park, Kan., in 2014; and white
supremacists took up arms against Black
Lives Matter protesters in Minneapolis in
2015.
In light of these antecedents, the two
episodes in the book that transpired after
2016 4 the notorious rally in Charlottesville
in 2017 and a racially motivated murder in
Maryland that same year 4 come to seem like
ameRiCaN
continuations, even culminations.
Whitelash
Lowery writes that his book is <an attempt
a Changing
to put human faces on the relentless cycle of
Nation and the
violence that has defined American history,=
Cost of Progress
and the attempt succeeds. He is a lively
by Wesley Lowery
narrative reporter with a keen eye for detail,
Mariner.
and his prose can be devastatingly vivid. The
256 pp. $29.99
mother of Oscar Grant, a Black man shot by
the police in Oakland, Calif., in 2009,
crouched over her son9s hospital bed and
Protesters <tried to talk him out of dying.= When the
march in father of a Black man stabbed by a white
Minneapolis in supremacist saw state troopers approaching
May 2020 his house, his <heart sank to his waist.=
after the police But when Lowery moves from narrative to
killing of conceptual territory, he is on shakier ground.
George Floyd. <A central question during the years that
Such followed the 2008 election was how much the
movements for era9s racially inflammatory rhetoric was incit-
racial justice ing 4 or, at the very least contributing to 4
often spark those acts of racial violence,= he writes. A
backlash, second core conundrum concerns <how to
writes Wesley balance the rights of most Americans 4 even
Lowery. American racists 4 to free speech and free
of the limitations of the human brain, things
that make it less effective than it might other-
wise be in making such judgments: its use of
rules of thumb, for instance, or its preference
for simple and <sticky= claims over complicat-
ed and nuanced accounts. Part Two focuses on
human society, and in particular our contem-
porary society, and its susceptibility to misin-
formation spread. Misinformation is not a
new phenomenon, of course, but social media
has clearly contributed to its dissemination.
Much of this may seem familiar, but in Part
Three, van der Linden attempts to develop a
technique for increasing resistance to misin-
formation. He argues that by giving people
misinformation in a weakened form 4 that is,
exposing them to the kinds of manipulative
strategies employed by misinformation pur-
veyors 4 we can trigger their natural defenses
against it. This <prebunking= can be delivered
in a variety of ways. Van der Linden and his
collaborators have, for instance, experimented
fOOlPROOf
with online video games in which you pretend
Why
to run your own fake-news empire. But as he
misinformation
points out, it can also be done around the
infects Our
dinner table at home, on an individual basis.
minds and
There are some reasons for concern. It is
how to Build
possible that the same techniques could be
immunity
used by misinformation spreaders to <pre-
by sander van
bunk= the truth? In fact, this has already
der Linden
happened. As the philosophers Endre Begby
norton.
and C. Thi Nguyen have pointed out, politi-
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cians and media figures like Newt Gingrich
and Rush Limbaugh have frequently used
what Begby terms <evidential preemption,=
augmenting their claims with the prediction
that these claims will be attacked and criti-
cized by their political opponents, and warn-
ing that these critiques should be ignored.
When the prediction turns out to be true, as of
course it does given that the original claims
were false and often outrageous, their sup-
porters take the truth of the predictions as
further evidence of the speaker9s reliability.
The fact that prebunking can be used to
help spread rather than combat misinforma-
tion points to a serious limitation of the virus
eZ ee
anToine Lyers
expression with the government9s sacred
responsibility to ensure the safety and secu-
rity of the rest of society.= In other words, how
do we weigh our interest in preventing hate
crimes against our interest in restricting the
state9s ability to monitor the populace (partic-
ularly given that the biggest expansion of the
American surveillance apparatus in recent
memory disproportionately targeted people
of Middle Eastern origin)? These are thorny
and vital questions 4 but although Lowery
repeatedly raises them, he never ventures
answers.
More frustratingly, <American Whitelash=
contains little contextualization that might
help us relate horrific but uncommon acts of
extremism to the mundane mechanics of
metaphor: We do not actually have an immune
system for misinformation, and there is good
reason for this. Unlike viruses, there is nothing
inherent in false information that ought auto-
matically to trigger any sort of natural re-
sponse on the part of the brain. Any piece of
information might be true. Whether it is
depends not on the nature of the information
but on the nature of the world.
Suppose someone claims that a certain
presidential election was rigged by one side.
Depending who the relevant parties are, and
what the facts of the matter are, the claim
might or might not be misinformation. But we
would have to look at the world, i.e. the facts, to
see whether this was so. There is nothing in the
claim itself to signal whether it is reliable.
After all, people have tried to rig elections in
the past, sometimes successfully, while other
elections have been perfectly legitimate. There
is nothing inherently absurd, or false, about
the claim itself.
How do we navigate such problems? Large-
ly through trust. Since we cannot possibly
check everything (or even very much) out for
ourselves, we fall back on a system of networks
and institutions that do much of the checking
for us. Unfortunately, since the mid-20th cen-
tury, entities such as tobacco and fossil fuel
companies have constructed a shadow infra-
structure of think tanks, <research= institutes
populated by fake experts, book publishers,
websites, and television and radio stations,
oriented not toward truth but toward pushing
particular agendas. These institutions are par-
asitic on the trust that has been built up by
legitimate authorities, even as they attempt to
undermine and hijack that trust.
There is a long history to all of this, and
though <Foolproof= touches on some of the
details, the full narrative remains mostly off-
stage. That is unfortunate, because we need
this kind of knowledge to understand why
misinformation is so rampant and harmful in
our society. Focusing on common techniques
of manipulation 4 discrediting, emotional
appeals and impersonation are among those
B3
TiM gruber for The WashingTon PosT
racism 4 to mass incarceration, to income
inequality, to voter suppression, to White
flight, to police brutality. We never learn
exactly how pervasive neo-Nazism has be-
come in America or how often full-fledged
fanaticism springs out of, or shades into, the
more quotidian but equally (if not more)
harmful brand of bigotry practiced by a much
broader swath of White Americans. The
political philosopher Tommie Shelby has
pointed out that even well-meaning people
can <perpetuate oppression= by performing
actions that impose <an unnecessary, system-
ic, and undeserved burden= on another group
of people 4 actions that <have this result
whether or not they are performed with a
racist heart.= How we feel matters less than
how we structure the world. Personal atone-
ment is not an adequate solution to patently
public problems.
If the issue at stake is whitelash 4 defined
as <a pull back on the rope= from <the unjust
system9s beneficiaries and boosters= 4 then
the phenomenon9s most harmful incarna-
tions are not dramatic but bureaucratic.
Gerrymandering and mass deportations of
undocumented immigrants, both of which
proceeded apace during Obama9s presidency,
can be more broadly consequential than hate
crimes, at least in terms of scale. As usual, the
less theatrically evil villains are all the more
chillingly effective.
Becca Rothfeld is the nonfiction book critic for
The Washington Post.
van der Linden mentions 4 will enable us to
recognize some misinformation, but not all of
it. He refers to these as parts of <the DNA
structure of misinformation,= but again, this is
precisely the wrong way to think about it. Just
as misinformation is not a virus, it has no DNA.
After all, legitimate information providers
also discredit their opponents, and they some-
times engage in emotional appeals: A fake think
tank set up to sow seeds of doubt about climate
change should be discredited, and emotional
appeals are critical to social-justice efforts. Look-
ing for <impersonation,= meanwhile, is useful
only if we already have a way of distinguishing
reliable authorities from unreliable ones. That is,
it presupposes an ability to detect misinforma-
tion, rather than enabling us to do so.
This is not to say that prebunking has no
value. Understood in the right way, it is
probably our best strategy for winning the
misinformation wars. Teaching students to
recognize logical fallacies and unpersuasive or
manipulative reasoning is the main goal of
courses in logic and critical thinking, as well as
philosophy more generally. Much the same is
true of other academic disciplines: Students
who study 20th-century history, for instance,
will be exposed to, and will learn to see
through, the kinds of arguments and emotion-
al manipulation that were used to justify the
Holocaust to the German public. In other
words, prebunking is at the heart of liberal arts
education.
Unfortunately 4 and this, too, is part of the
crucial historical narrative that <Foolproof=
ignores 4 such education has been marginal-
ized, where it has not been entirely eliminated,
in favor of a conception of education as career
training. The rise of misinformation was a
predictable and, tragically, avoidable outcome
of such decisions. It is hard to think that the
situation will improve if society continues to
follow this dangerous course.
troy Jollimore is a philosopher and poet who
teaches in the philosophy department at California
state university in Chico.
B4
8Factory Girls,9
by Michelle Gallen (2022)
Ron Charles, fiction critic
I enjoyed Michelle Gallen9s debut novel,
<Big Girl, Small Town,= immensely, but last
fall when her second book, <Factory Girls,=
came to America, I foolishly skipped it.
Fortunately, my wife and my younger
daughter read it, and their praise made me
realize what a mistake I9d made. This time
around, Gallen tells the hilariously frank
story of Maeve Murray, a teenager in
Northern Ireland during the Troubles. As
Maeve waits for her high school exam
results and fantasizes about the life she9ll
lead in college, she takes a miserable
ironing job in a local shirt factory. In
addition to the drudgery of the work and
the sexual aggression of her English super-
visor, there9s the abiding shock of working
right alongside Protestants, with all their
alien ways. Although grief hangs over her
family and the threat of violence keeps the
whole town on edge, Maeve and her pals are
determined to have a life. This reads like a
darker, often tougher version of Lisa Mc-
Gee9s TV series <Derry Girls,= but with the
same heart of gold.
mEhdi EL GuEddAri
Michelle Gallen, author of <Factory Girls.=
8The Quiet American,9
by Graham Greene (1955)
John Williams, Book World editor
There are few things I love more than the
podcast <Backlisted,= in which co-hosts
Andy Miller and John Mitchinson have
extended conversations with guests about
books, frequently obscure ones. It combines
enthusiasm, discernment and even erudi-
tion in a completely convivial way. The show
recently returned from a well-deserved hia-
tus 4 <Welcome to the first in what we are
calling our third season,= the team wrote on
its website, <(the first one lasted for 109
episodes, the second a mere 68).= The first
show back was about Graham Greene and,
uncharacteristically, divided its focus
among multiple books. I9d read a couple of
Greene9s novels many moons ago, but I own
several others that I9ve been meaning to get
to for a while, and I9m reaching an age when
<meaning to get to= starts to sound a little
spooky. <Backlisted= inspired me to read
<The Quiet American,= as well-known as any
of Greene9s books, and for good reason. Its
superficial pleasures 4 expertly paced
scenes, biting dialogue, a Hall of Fame last
line 4 are first-rate; the articulateness of its
prescience about American involvement in
Vietnam and the rest of the world is aston-
ishing.
8The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine,9
by Alina Bronsky;
translated by Tim Mohr (2010)
Nora Krug, editor
This is not a cookbook or an insensitive
treatise about Russian women. It9s a novel
about mothers and daughters and other
entanglements, both personal and politi-
cal. At its center is Rosa, an imperious
woman who meddles in her daughter9s life
to comic extremes. Is Rosa terrible? As the
novel unfolds, the answer becomes less
clear. Rosa wants what all mothers want 4
what9s best for her child. In this case, that
means getting her out of Russia and into a
happier, safer life in Germany. The plotline
seems to reflect the life story of its author,
who was born in a small town at the foot of
the Ural Mountains and now lives in
Germany. Bronsky, which is a pseudonym,
toys with these themes in several other
works, including <Broken Glass Park=
(2008) and <Baba Dunja9s Last Love= (2015),
which I also read 4 and enjoyed 4 in
preparation for our review of her latest
book, <Barbara Isn9t Dying.=
8Sag Harbor,9
by Colson Whitehead (2009)
Sophia Nguyen, news and features writer
With Colson Whitehead, you can pick
between zombies, John Henry, the World
Series of Poker, the demons of American
history and some unforgettable elevators,
so I know it sounds prim, or perverse, to
recommend him in straight realist mode.
But as I was looking for a book to get me in
the mood for summer, I turned to <Sag
Ez EE
Book World
What Book World
writers and editors
are reading now
BY W ASHINGTON P OST S TAFF
In Staff Picks, Book World editors and writers share what
they9ve been reading off the clock.
Harbor,= his novel set in the upper-middle-
class Black enclave in the Hamptons. <Sag
Harbor,= nominally about teen brothers Ben
and Reggie, left to their own devices in their
family9s vacation house, is, like lots of
coming-of-age novels, about everything and
nothing: It9s about jobs scooping ice cream,
still having your braces on, inescapable
nerdiness, the thirst to be cool. It9s about
boredom and misadventures that seem
endless precisely until they9re not. (And
when you9re done, I recommend day-trip-
ping through reviews from when it was
originally published 4 a cultural and politi-
cal moment that feels impossibly far away.
Were we ever so young?)
8Mating,9
by Norman Rush (1991)
Becca Rothfeld, nonfiction book critic
I recently read Norman Rush9s gloriously
extravagant novel <Mating= for the fifth or
sixth time (I9ve lost count). This time
around, I was preparing for a podcast on it
that will come out next month. The ques-
tion we try to address on the podcast is
whether the central relationship in <Mat-
ing,= which follows a pair of anthropolo-
gists in an egalitarian and matriarchal
commune in the Kalahari Desert (a conceit
every bit as incredible as it sounds), is even
briefly perfect. My line is that it is 4 and my
meta-line is that the novel celebrates utopi-
anism in both love and politics. The egali-
tarian commune that the male anthropolo-
gist has founded is hopelessly idealistic, as
is the brand of love that the book9s un-
named and unabashedly cerebral female
michAEL LionSTAr
Norman Rush, author of <Mating.=
the washington post
iLLuSTrATion By JAvi AznArEz for ThE WAShinGTon PoST
narrator craves: <Equal love between peo-
ple of equal value, although value is an
approximation for the word I want. & Why,
even in the most enlightened and beauti-
fully launched unions, are we afraid that
we hear the master-slave relationship mov-
ing its slow thighs somewhere in the
vicinity?=
Equal love is difficult, but I cling to the
belief that Rush9s narrator and her par-
amour are collaborators in very fleetingly
achieving the impossible, for the admit-
tedly partial reason that I am invested in
their success. (You9re talking to a person
who made her now-husband read <Mat-
ing= in preparation for our marriage.) It
could be argued that other books and films
address the pressing question of equal
love, among them <Pride and Prejudice=
and <His Girl Friday.= But I have never
found another work of any kind that so
explicitly states that it is an ideal we
cannot afford to give up. I know, rationally,
that <Mating= is probably not the best
book I9ve ever read, but I can9t help but
believe it to be, probably because I find it
the most moving. Maybe equal love is
impossible. But why should we settle for
the merely possible when we could de-
mand the perfect?
8Tuck Everlasting,9
by Natalie Babbitt (1975)
Jill Pellettieri, editor
My children are old enough now that our
nightly reading typically consists of us
doing so on our own, but every once in a
while, we9ll opt to read something aloud
together. My daughter and I recently found
ourselves with a weekend alone, so we
picked up <Tuck Everlasting,= a deeply
moving middle-grade novel by Natalie Bab-
bitt that tells the story of an unlikely
friendship between 10-year-old Winnie and
the Tuck family. The Tucks have a secret:
They will live forever. When Winnie discov-
ers this, the family pleads with her not to
tell 4 no one else can know about the magic
spring that granted them eternal life.
<Tuck Everlasting= raises profound ques-
tions about life, death and growing up:
What would you do if you had a chance to
live forever? Babbitt is a master storyteller
who knows her audience. There is no
talking down to her readers, no simplifying
the complexities of life, no pat, happy
ending, because in the Tucks9 world, that is
impossible. I will not give anything away,
but sensitive readers beware 4 tears may
be shed.
For years, my mom was a fifth-grade
teacher, and this book was a favorite of hers
to teach. My daughter and I read from her
old teaching copy, complete with notes
neatly scripted in the margins. My daugh-
ter got a kick out of answering her grand-
mother9s discussion prompts, as if she were
right there reading it with us. <Debate: Is
immortality a blessing or a curse?=
. sunday, june 18 , 2023
8Seven-Day Magic,9
by Edward Eager (1962)
Jacob Brogan, editor
I picked up Edward Eager9s <Seven-Day
Magic= almost by accident last month
while resting in the valley between the
daunting peaks of another book9s chapters.
(Okay, fine, it was Norman Rush9s <Mat-
ing,= which I have since finished and which
is very impressive, yes.) I was hoping for
something charming, and it is, but I was
also surprised by how ingenious and wise
it is.
In brief, <Seven-Day Magic= follows a
group of eager young readers who check
out a mysterious, untitled volume from the
library. When they finally crack it open,
they find that it contains a faithful record
of their own day, repeating the very lan-
guage with which Eager9s own book begins,
only to lead them into a seemingly real
adventure 4 featuring a hungry dragon,
hapless peasants and a cranky but kind
witch 4 that appears to take place in the
prehistory of Frank L. Baum9s Oz novels.
From there, they find themselves pulled
from one story to the next 4 visiting the
fictional worlds of Laura Ingalls Wilder
and Eager himself, among others 4 guided
only by the children9s own wishes about the
kinds of stories they love and long for.
This metafiction is wholly free of preten-
sion. It revels in the ways books both
connect us to one another and help us
make sense of our individual desires. As its
playfully moving ending demonstrates, Ea-
ger understands better than most why
readers of all ages see themselves in stories
4 and how they find themselves through
them.
8The Making of Another Major
Motion Picture Masterpiece,9
by Tom Hanks (2023)
Becky Meloan, editorial aide
Last month I drove to work with Tom
Hanks. Well, sort of 4 I listened to his first
novel on my commute, and it felt like
having America9s favorite actor share his
expertise as we breezed down Canal Road.
Following the making of a superhero
movie over decades, from conception to
postproduction, Hanks narrates the
charmingly old-fashioned story while one
talented actor after another 4 Peter Gere-
ty! Ego Nwodim! Holland Taylor! 4 deliver
engaging performances as production as-
sistants, makeup artists and bona fide
Hollywood stars. Filling a post-pandemic
demand for easygoing, feel-good enter-
tainment, Hanks9s homespun tale portrays
a world where the characters are plucky,
like each other <a helluva lot= and know
how to get things done. In this faux reality,
misbehavior is shown with all the subtlety
of <Goofus and Gallant,= but for lovers of
moviemaking, no matter. Hard work and
talent will always save the day, and some-
times a happy ending is just what the
audience wants.
PAScAL LE SEGrETAin/GETTy imAGES
Actor 4 and now, novelist 4 Tom Hanks.
8Mary and Mr. Eliot:
A Sort of Love Story,9
by Mary Trevelyan and Erica Wagner
(2023)
Michael Dirda, columnist
I9ve read and written a lot about T.S. Eliot
in the last few years and thought I was done
with this prim, unhappy, deceitful hypo-
chondriac, who just happens to be one of my
favorite poets. But I9m glad to have spent an
evening with <Mary and Mr. Eliot: A Sort of
Love Story,= by Mary Trevelyan and Erica
Wagner. Trevelyan was Eliot9s confidante
and dinner companion during the 1940s and
early 950s, came to love him and was cruelly
hurt when the 68-year-old abruptly married
his 30-year-old secretary. As edited, with
valuable commentary by Wagner, Trevely-
an9s letters and diaries blend gossip, decla-
rations of love, Eliot9s table talk and, not
least, a remarkable woman9s shrewd obser-
vations. For example, when Eliot wanted
sympathy, usually undeserved, Trevelyan
notes that he would put on his <distraught
refugee face.= Trevelyan would be familiar
with the real thing, or close to it: As the
warden of the international Student Move-
ment House and later an adviser to overseas
students at the University of London, she
would have looked into many truly confused
and homesick faces.
sunday, june 18 , 2023 . the washington post eZ ee B5

Book World

In the famous opening reportedly even more complicated, 1935

sentence of his 1836 essay, mystery, <Obelists Fly High.= It begins with
<Nature,= Ralph Waldo an epilogue and ends with a prologue.
Emerson declared that <Our Christianna Brand9s <Green for Danger=
age is retrospective.= If true was made into a notable 1946 film with
once, this hardly seems so Inspector Cockrill played by Alastair Sim
Michael anymore in a digital era of (best known as Scrooge in a beloved screen
Dirda relentless future shock. But for version of <A Christmas Carol=). The book
devotees of old-time detection, itself is a tour de force of misdirection.
recent publishing does seem surprisingly Picture a World War II hospital out in the
retrospective, even nostalgic. British Library country, under constant stress as it cares for
Crime Classics, Library of Congress Crime people wounded in the never-ending German

Classic mysteries are

Classics, American Mystery Classics, Soho
Crime, Locked Room International, Stark
House Press, Crippen & Landru and several
others have been zealously reissuing hard-to-
find whodunits from the crime genre9s early-
to-mid-20th-century heyday. Why? In part
because wise readers, weary of constant
social media chatter and discord, know they
can always find quiet and refreshment in
improbably complicated stories about
murder.
The only real problem is choice. Suppose,
like me, you enjoy Japanese honkaku, those
<orthodox= mysteries that pay homage to
Golden Age puzzles by outdoing them in
imaginative complexity. This year three
honkaku masterworks have just been
translated into English: Seishi Yokomizo9s
<The Devil9s Flute Murders,= Yukito Ayatsuji9s
<The Mill House Murders= (both from
Pushkin Vertigo) and Masahiro Imamura9s
<Death Within the Evil Eye= (from Locked
Room International). Having previously read
Ayatsuji9s homage to Agatha Christie, <The
Decagon House Murders,= and Imamura9s
<Death Among the Undead,= the latter set at a
country hotel barricaded against an army of
zombies, I know their new books will be
breathtakingly ingenious. As for Yokomizo,
who died in 1981: He has been called the
Japanese John Dickson Carr, which is
endorsement enough for me. Earlier this
spring, I much enjoyed <The Kindling Spark=
(Crippen & Landru), which gathers Carr9s
surprisingly accomplished juvenilia. That
book9s editor, Dan Napolitano, also provides
a superb introductory essay surveying the
writers who most influenced this
grandmaster of the locked-room howdunit.
After my usual waffling, I finally decided
to save the honkaku for later this summer.
Instead, I settled down last week with recent
reissues of C. Daly King9s <Obelists at Sea=
(Penzler/American Mystery Classics) and
Christianna Brand9s <Green for Danger=
(Poisoned Pen/British Library Crime
Classics). Both are pleasingly complicated
period pieces, prefaced with fact-filled
introductory essays by Martin Edwards, our
leading historian of detective fiction. The
having a moment
King, first published in 1932, is set on an
ocean liner crossing the Atlantic to England;
the Brand first appeared in 1940 and takes
place at a makeshift military hospital during
World War II.
What is an obelist? According to the
original publisher9s explanatory note, <an
Obelist is one who harbors suspicions.=
Several figures in King9s novel fit this
definition, but at center stage are four
psychologists, of differing schools, who are
traveling by sea to an international
conference.
In the novel9s first chapter, an officer of the
SS Meganaut is conducting a cocktail-hour
competition in which passengers bid for
various numbers, hoping to acquire the one
that will match the distance in nautical miles
the ship will travel the next day. While
sipping drinks at a table with his daughter
Coralie and two young men, the wealthy
financier Victor Timothy Smith consistently
outbids a lawyer named de Brasto for the
number 634. Smith starts doing it again for
the number 640 when the lights suddenly
fail, a woman9s voice is heard outbidding
both gentlemen, a chair crashes to the floor,
and a single shot echoes through the
darkened room. When the lights come back
on, de Brasto is standing with a gun in his
hand. Smith has been shot in the heart, and
the beautiful Coralie appears to have fainted
from shock.
An open-and-shut case, one would think.
But de Brasto 4 a shady lawyer on the outs
with the mob 4 claims that, just as the
electricity failed, he glimpsed the contract
killer who9d been on his trail. In self-defense,
he instinctively pulled out his own gun, and
both men fired almost simultaneously. De
Brasto maintains that it must have been the
bullet of this now-vanished assassin that
struck Smith 4 though he finds it mystifying,
albeit a relief, that a professional somehow
missed his intended target. In fact, medical
examination reveals an oddity to the dead
financier9s wound: Smith appears to have
been shot twice in precisely the same place.
There9s also an additional puzzle in the case:
Who could have wrenched a valuable string
of pearls from Coralie9s neck during the
blackout?
Such is King9s initial setup, but matters
turn out to be far more complicated than
that. Way more complicated.
So the Meganaut9s Captain Mansfield turns
to the four psychologists on board for help.
Conditioned behavior, an inferiority complex,
the will to power, neurological or even
digestive disorders, racial prejudice: Could
any or all of these be relevant to the crime
and its solution? A second murder further
thickens the plot.
With its extravagant cast of characters,
several delicious improbabilities and some
almost kitschy psychological theorizing,
<Obelists at Sea= sails right along, delivering
highly agreeable light entertainment. I
haven9t even mentioned the alluring
cardsharp Madame Sudeau, Captain
Mansfield9s comical breakfasts, the
disappearing body, Coralie9s secret or some
astonishing conversations about the nature
of love and marriage. Experienced readers of
detective fiction will probably guess several
key plot points long before the various
obelists do. No matter. I look forward to
someday reading King9s second, and
bombing raids. Three principal doctors are
doing their best to keep up: a sexually
charismatic Harley Street surgeon, an elderly
general practitioner whose life was blighted
by the hit-and-run death of his only child,
and a young anesthesiologist, now under a
cloud following an operation that went
wrong through no fault of his own. Assisting
them are various nurses and young women
who have volunteered. In between surgeries
and changing bandages, love affairs have
blossomed and wilted, promises have been
made and hearts left broken.
One night an old gent is brought in after a
bomb has destroyed the local pub. The next
day, just as he9s being wheeled into the
operating theater, he suddenly, half-
deliriously shouts, <Where have I heard that
voice?= During the relatively simple
procedure something goes inexplicably
wrong with his breathing, and he dies on the
table. Naturally, a pro forma investigation is
required, and in due course Inspector
Cockrill 4 imagine a British Columbo 4
realizes that the patient has actually been
murdered. But how? By whom? And why? In
a tragic sense, the war itself is the ultimate
cause.
Only seven flawed but essentially likable
people ever saw the old man, yet one of them
must be the killer. As Cockrill9s investigation
continues, the murderer strikes again, this
time carefully leaving the victim9s body laid
out in a soiled and torn hospital gown.
While the modus operandi in the initial
murder seems pretty obvious, I doubt many
readers will guess the person Cockrill finally
arrests 4 or what happens afterward. Still,
pay attention to the background information
in the book9s opening chapter. Not that it9ll
do you any good. After all, there9s a reason
<Green for Danger= is counted as one of the
most dazzling 4 and poignant 4 mysteries of
all time.
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.=

BY NORA KRUG She has no parents, no siblings (her one

brother, like her mother, killed himself ),
n her new memoir, <George,= Frieda her marriage is crumbling, and her job as a

I Hughes rarely mentions her famous

parents, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.
But their absence 4 in life and art 4
underscores this poignant and often funny
story about, of all things, her relationship
with a magpie.
Yes, a magpie. That loud, often destruc-
tive animal many consider a pest 4 and a
close relation to the crow, a bird that,
perhaps coincidentally, was the subject of
a collection of poems by Ted Hughes
(<When Crow cried his mother9s ear/
Scorched to a stump=).
Frieda Hughes happened upon this
particular magpie on a Saturday morning
in May 2007. A storm had knocked its nest
from a tree on her property in Wales. While
in her garden, Hughes noticed <a small
feathered scrap & its stumpy wings were
like a bundle of fan-sticks still awaiting
fluff.= Without skipping a beat, she came to
its rescue. Never mind that its nostrils
were full of fly eggs (this book is not for the
squeamish) or that <it looked torn in
places, like a bloodied rag.= Into her hands,
home and heart it went.
Hughes had recently moved from Lon-
don into a rambling country house with
her soon-to-be-ex-husband and three dogs.
As big as it was, her house was still not
enough for a magpie, which, after all, is
meant to live outdoors and fly. But Hughes,
who had once taken in as many as 13 cats
until realizing <they killed things,= was
undaunted. She named the bird George,
brought him worms, and built him a
makeshift nest crafted out of a T-shirt and
a pink salad bowl that she placed in a dog
cage.
Her dogs 4 Widget, Mouse and Snickers
4 grew accustomed to their new sibling.
The husband 4 referred to throughout as
<The Ex= 4 was at first uninterested, then
came to loathe George; Hughes says he saw
George as <the competition= for her affec-
tion and love.
He was not wrong. Hughes doted on
George as if he were a sick child, an ailing
parent or a worried spouse. <George was
the new guest and I was besotted by what
appeared to be his rapidly developing little
bird-personality,= she writes. <He was
helpless and needed me, and now my
purpose was to keep him alive.=
The task required a great deal of time,
attention and patience, and Hughes was all
in. When she ran out of worms, she made him
pellets of minced meat. She helped him drink
milk from a tiny glass. When she thought he
wanted company, Hughes put George on her
lap or her hand while she did chores or
worked. <I realized that everything took twice
as long with a magpie hanging off me,= she
writes, <but I also wanted to make the most of
every minute.= When she lets George out of
the house for the night, she wakes up the next
morning expectantly, calling for him over and
over till he comes back to the kitchen
window: <If he9d been big enough, I9d have
thrown my arms around him and hugged
him.=
It doesn9t take a degree in psychology to
see that George was filling a hole 4
perhaps several 4 in Hughes9s life. (Talk
about broken-wing syndrome!) Her child-
hood was marked by loss and uncertainty.
The poet and
poetry columnist for the Times (London) is
unsteady.
<I felt as if the ground on which I stood
was constantly changing and shifting,= she
explains of her life after her mother died,
the magpie: in 1963, <and that if I looked away for just a
minute, then looked back, the landscape
would have altered, and I9d have a whole
other universe to acclimatize to.= Her
A love story father, she writes in what qualifies as a
grand understatement, <found it difficult
to settle.= By the time she was 13, Hughes
had attended 12 schools. <My father would
follow his girlfriend, or an idea or an
apparent urge to move somewhere he
could escape the associations of his past or
forge a new and brighter future.= His
<peripatetic lifestyle,= she explains, <meant
that I never had my few clothes all in one
place, or my books (I did not have toys), or
make friends (I did not have any real
friends). Wherever he went my younger
brother, Nick, and I followed, like two
trailing limbs.= (That last line, like a lot of
others in the book, sounds like something
her mother would write.)
Also: Her father was not keen on pets, or
at least keeping them long. Hughes9s book
includes a menagerie of the animals she
had 4 and lost 4 during her early years: a
goat <that got pregnant and produced a
bad-tempered Billy-the-kid when Dad took
us away and left it with a local farmer=; a
tabby cat that <went feral because Dad
kept taking us away and leaving it to the
mercy of the neighbor=; another cat that
<had to be rehomed because Dad thought
it was bad luck=; a beloved badger called
Bess who dug her way out of her mud-and-
straw abode; and the <tadpoles that I kept
in an enormous blue-and-white glazed
bowl beneath my old iron bed,= which she
set free when they began to develop legs
because she <couldn9t bear the idea of
someone vacuuming my bedroom and
accidentally hoovering up half-developed
frogs.=
Is it any wonder that Hughes grew so
attached to George the magpie?
Hughes doesn9t wonder. Part of the
charm of this book is that the author
doesn9t dwell on her pain or her past or the
reasons why. On a spectrum of people-ani-
mal memoirs, the book falls closer to Helen
Macdonald9s <H Is for Hawk= than John
Grogan9s <Marley and Me.= Still, it is not
especially cerebral or didactic, and that is
not meant as a criticism. It9s a passionate
george book about unconditional love and com-
A Magpie mitment. It9s also fast-paced and suspense-
Memoir ful, full of amusing anecdotes, poems and
By Frieda Hughes9s sweet drawings of George.
Hughes Like the parent of a human child,
Avid Reader Hughes eventually must face the reality
Press / Simon & that George will have to leave the nest for
Schuster. good. Without giving too much away,
272 pp. $28 suffice it to say that her memoir illustrates
the truth of the nursery rhyme about how a
magpie can serve as a good or a bad omen
illuStRAtion And PHotoS FRom FRiedA HugHeS depending on how many you see: <One for
sorrow, two for mirth.= Hughes experi-
FROM TOP: A drawing by Frieda Hughes of George as a hungry chick. Hughes, a poet ences both emotions, if not in equal
and painter, poses with some of her artworks. George perches on a cup of yogurt. measure.
Nora Krug is an editor and writer in Book
World.
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Literature, activism and famous friends
Rose Styron, wife of novelist William and an advocate for human rights, tells all
BY M ARION W INIK
O
n their first date, Rose and William
Styron had a memorable third
wheel: Truman Capote. This was
Rome, 1952, in a basement bar near
the American Embassy. Rose, who
had initiated the meeting with Styron, won-
dered if, like Capote, Bill might be gay, but
she soon found out otherwise. Rose and Bill
married the following year in Italy, took a
months-long honeymoon with plenty of
friends visiting, then returned to live in New
York, where, she writes, <I savored our
satisfying sex life, intimate meals, separate
writing areas.=
The separate writing areas were short-
lived, as Rose was soon immersed in raising
four children. Marriage and motherhood had
a chilling effect on her budding literary
career. When she met Styron she had a
master9s degree in creative writing from
Johns Hopkins and two <tentative= book
contracts, but her pursuits were stifled by her
husband9s lack of interest. <He wasn9t in-
volved in my work. It hurt my feelings a lot at
first, but I put it down to his writer9s natural
narcissism,= she says before admitting that
she <basically didn9t write until he died.= A
book of poems published by Viking in 1973
was the result of Jerzy Kosinski9s snooping in
her desk and insisting he take the pages he
found to his girlfriend to have them typed up.
That book, <Thieves9 Afternoon,= was fol-
lowed by a few others published sporadically
over the years, most notably <By Vineyard
Light,= with Craig Dripps, a poetic and
photographic homage to the island where she
lives. Instead, Styron turned her attention to
activism on international human rights,
becoming a founding member of Amnesty
International. In <Beyond This Harbor,= Sty-
ron, 95, looks back at her life before, during
and since her marriage to the Pulitzer
Prize-winning novelist who was both her
anchor and her obstacle.
Styron9s memoir gets off to a terrific start
with an anecdote that reminds readers right
off that she is more than just Styron9s wife:
Around New Year9s 1974, Rose and her
daughter Susanna were in a hotel swimming
pool in Chile, batting around a big red beach
ball with some new friends. In fact, the
purpose of this innocent-looking game was
so that these women could whisper details to
Styron about how their husbands were being
tortured. Styron and her daughter were not
mere tourists in Chile but were there to
gather information about Augusto Pinochet9s
<dirty war= for Amnesty.
While Styron knew that everything she
did in Chile was being watched by govern-
ment agents, she had yet to fully compre-
hend how dangerous her information-gath-
ering mission was. If she had, she confesses,
she might not have brought her teenage
daughter along, though the latter9s fluency
in Spanish was a big help, and her perspi-
cacity saved the day during their flight from
the city.
From there, the book unfolds chronologi-
cally, as Styron takes us back to her privileged
Depression-era childhood in a secular Jewish
family in Baltimore. Educated at the local
Friends School, she credits her Quaker educa-
tion for her dedication to activism and
service. By Chapter 3, she9s graduated from
Wellesley, gone on to study poetry at Harvard
and Johns Hopkins, and has met Styron and
many of his illustrious friends.
As much as the author may have hoped to
avoid giving this impression, marriage to
William Styron sounds like quite a slog. Yes,
he was a great lover, as she notes more than
once, but he was also the man who invented
the depression memoir 4 <Darkness Visible=
4 and the toll taken by his two major
breakdowns and terrible experience with
electroshock treatments came on top of his
basically just being an old sourpuss. She
reports, for instance, that he rarely attended
any of their kids9 activities and that a
psychologist friend recently called his par-
enting <egregious.=
Her way through life was significantly
eased by dozens of friendships and social
connections. In the summer of 1965, Rose
became lifelong friends with Mia Farrow
and her then-boyfriend, Frank Sinatra, who
was <great fun.= Her circle also includes
seemingly every major writer and intellectu-
al of the 20th century, among them Peter
Matthiessen, Sandy Calder, Arthur Miller,
Mike Nichols, James Baldwin, Art Buch-
wald, Katharine Graham, Carly Simon, the
Clintons and many more. She has sharp
words about a few: Lillian Hellman cheated
at Scrabble and <was always trying to
18 sUNday | 3 P.M. Cassandra A. Good discusses <first
family: George Washington9s heirs and the making of
America= with Stephen Hammond at politics and prose,
5015 connecticut Ave. nW. 202-364-1919.
19 MONday | 7 P.M. David Santos Donaldson discusses
<Greenland= with Reggie Bailey at politics and prose.
20 TUesday | 6:30 P.M. John Rennie Short discusses
<A history of cartography: from Stone Scratches to crisis
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smithsonianassociates.org. $20-$25.
7 P.M. Anne Hull discusses <through the Groves: A
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separate Bill and me.= Norman Mailer tried
to inveigle his dinner guests into an orgy,
and not long after wrote a cruel letter to
Styron, breaking off their friendship. Philip
Roth may have told his biographer that Rose
had forgiven him for failing to visit Bill in
his final months, but he was wrong about
that. <Bill was truly saddened by Philip9s
absence,= she says.
And for those who don9t remember how
she feels about Henry Kissinger, she offers a
reminder: A few years ago, at the 90th
birthday party for diplomat William Luers,
she was mortified to see the former secretary
of state seated across the table from her, so
she hid: <I grabbed the big vase of flowers
decorating the middle of the table and pulled
it right in front of me so we did not have to
look at each other.= Thus culminates her
almost comic determination to dodge him as
he continually pops up in her social circle on
Martha9s Vineyard.
The opening chapter in Chile is probably
the most adventurous of the adventurous
tales promised in her subtitle. The book also
l I Te r ary Cal e Nd ar
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21 WedNesday | 7 P.M. Garrett Neiman discusses
<Rich White men: What it takes to uproot the old Boys9
club and transform America= at politics and prose.
7 P.M. Cynthia Manick discusses <no Sweet Without
Brine= with Tafisha Edwards and Steven Leyva at politics
and prose at union market, 1270 fifth St. ne. 202-544-
4452.
22 ThUrsday | 7 P.M. Anne Hull discusses <through
the Groves= at Scrawl Books, 11911 freedom dr. Reston.
703-966-2111.
7 P.M. Marita Golden discusses <the new Black Woman:
loves herself, has Boundaries, and heals every day=
includes what turns out to be a characteris-
tically incisive precis of the situation in
Chile 4 she does the same, later in the book,
with Yugoslavia and Cuba 4 as well as
details of the horrors she turned up while
there, the basis of articles she wrote for the
New York Review of Books and Ramparts.
Later chapters with titles like <Impromptu
Dinner Parties, Martha9s Vineyard and
Havana= and <Selling Roxbury, Life on the
Vineyard Fulltime= contain too many repet-
itive stories about her many friends and
their pursuits. Still, Styron clearly took to
heart the lessons of stewardship and com-
munity she absorbed from the Quakers,
expressing them over decades of activism
and friendship. She has lived a life in
interesting times, among legendary charac-
ters, a life well worth telling 4 and reading
4 about.
Marion Winik, host of the npR podcast <the
Weekly Reader,= is the author of numerous books,
including <first comes love= and <the Big Book of
the dead.=
JeAnnA ShepARd/VineyARd GAzette
with Amber Thornton at politics and prose.
7 P.M. Jeff Benedict discusses <leBron= with Timothy
Bella at politics and prose.
23 frIday | 7 P.M. lGBtQiA+ poetry is presented and
discussed for pride poetry night at politics and prose.
24 saTUrday | 5 P.M. Polly Stewart discusses <the
Good ones= with Angie Kim at politics and prose.
7 P.M. Susan Suleiman discusses <daughter of history:
traces of an immigrant Girlhood= at politics and prose.
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Washington Post
Paperback bestsellers
couRteSy of the AmeRicAn
BooKSelleRS ASSociAtion
fIC TIO N
1 TrUsT (Riverhead, $17). By hernan
diaz. in this pulitzer prize-winning
novel, an excessively wealthy family
with a secret is the catalyst for
examining how stories can shape the
truth.
2 The MIdNIGhT lIbrary (penguin,
$18). By matt haig. A regretful woman
lands in a library where she gets to
play out her life had she made
different choices.
3 The seVeN hUsbaNds Of eVelyN
hUGO (Washington Square, $17). By
taylor Jenkins Reid. A hollywood icon
recounts the story of her glamorous
life to a young reporter, and both
discover the cost of fame.
4 The lasT ThING he TOld Me
(marysue Rucci, $17.99). By laura
dave. looking for answers about her
husband9s disappearance, a wife and
her recalcitrant stepdaughter
discover shocking secrets.
5 IT eNds WITh Us (Atria, $16.99). By
colleen hoover. A woman questions
her relationship with a commitment-
phobic partner when her old flame
appears.
6 MeeT Me aT The laKe (Berkley,
$18). By carley fortune. A chance
encounter brings together two
strangers who have an outsize effect
on each other9s lives.
7 a COUrT Of ThOrNs aNd rOses
(Bloomsbury, $19). By Sarah J. maas.
A threat is growing over a magical
land where a huntress is being held
captive.
8 The sONG Of aChIlles (ecco,
$17.99). By madeline miller. the
legend of Achilles retold through the
lens of his friend patroclus.
9 IT sTarTs WITh Us (Atria, $17.99).
By colleen hoover. After separating
from her abusive husband, a woman
considers whether to rekindle her
first love.
10 daIsy JONes aNd The sIX
iVAn cRoScenco/Ap (Ballantine, $17). By taylor Jenkins
Reid. A behind-the-scenes portrayal
of the rise of a 1970s rock group
followed by the band9s infamous
breakup.
NON fIC TIO N
1 KIllers Of The flOWer MOON
(Vinatge, $17). david Grann. A look at
the fBi9s investigation of native
American deaths in 1920s oklahoma.
beyONd ThIs 2 CryING IN h MarT (Vintage, $17).
harbOr By michelle zauner. A Korean
adventurous American indie rock star chronicles
Tales of her relationship with her mother and
the heart their shared culture.
By Rose Styron
Knopf. 3 haPPy-GO-lUCKy (Back Bay,
336 pp. $32 $18.99). By david Sedaris. essays
from the best-selling author detail his
experiences with the pandemic.
4 braIdING sWeeTGrass (milkweed,
$20). By Robin Wall Kimmerer.
essays by an indigenous scientist
offer lessons in reciprocal awareness
between people and plants.
5 QUIeTly hOsTIle (Vintage, $17). By
Samantha irby. in a collection of
humorous essays, the best-selling
writer addresses life9s uncomfortable
situations.
6 The bOdy KeePs The sCOre
(penguin, $19). By Bessel van der
Kolk. A scientific look at how trauma
can reshape a person9s body and
brain.
7 sOlITO (hogarth, $18). By Javier
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zamora. A poet who fled el Salvador
William and
when he was 9 tells the story of his
Rose Styron in
migration to the united States.
1960 with two
of their 8 all abOUT lOVe (morrow, $16.99).
children, By bell hooks. the first volume in the
daughters iconic feminist9s <love Song to the
Susanna, 5, nation= trilogy considers compassion
and Polly, 2. as a form of love.
LEFT: Rose
Styron in 9 The bOOK Of delIGhTs (Algonquin,
Martha9s $17.99). By Ross Gay. essays about
Vineyard, finding joy written by a poet over the
where the course of a year.
author and
activist lives. 10 The daWN Of eVeryThING
(picador, $25). By david Graeber and
david Wengrow. An anthropologist
and an archaeologist challenge
modern scientific principles of human
cultural evolution.
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What the end of life says about the meaning of life
Jennings from B1
It9s written in the form of a travel guide, with an
eclectic mix of 100 accounts, ranging from my-
thology and religion to ideas floated in books,
movies and TV shows. In the introduction, Jen-
nings suggests that readers dip in and out of the
book, consulting it as a <post-bucket list.=
Threaded throughout are comic asides and
passing insights in the form of information
boxes with headings such as <meet the Locals,=
<When to Go,= <Best to Avoid,= <Time-Savers=
and <off the Beaten Path.= The book9s tone is
light and irreverent, sometimes bordering on
shticky. But ultimately it reads a lot like what
you expect in a book by Jennings: long on
knowledge and mercifully short on claims
about the grand truth of things.
<The miracle of life and consciousness seems
already so unusual to me that it seems like such
a waste if that all just sparks for some shorter
time and then vanishes,= Jennings said. <We
would love to believe that that9s not true and
that it9s not just such a brief flowering. of
course, the other attractive thing about it is that
we9re never going to know.=
Jennings has been interested in death and
the afterlife for as long as he can remember.
Part of his interest when he was a child
stemmed from the fact that he hadn9t yet
experienced any deeply personal losses. <And
so,= he said, <a lot of my formative experiences
with death were fictional characters, like Spock
dying, mr. Hooper dying, Jean Grey from the
X-men. That9s the kind of American experience
with death. You talk about it more with Big Bird
than with your own loved ones sometimes.=
Jennings describes himself as <a generalist
who loves knowing a tiny bit about a million
things.= The book stems from his interest in
how <people9s ideas about their own culture
and priorities change= based on how they see
the next world.
of course, how exactly one sees the afterlife is
tricky. In the book, Jennings nods, if only
obliquely, to the elephant in the room: The
afterlife is the speculation of living people who,
you know, haven9t died before. He expresses
skepticism with dollops of dry wit, which can
feel reflexive but do usefully lighten some very
serious, even grim material.
Take, for instance, Islam9s version of hell,
Jahannam, which is similar to other hells.
Jennings describes it as <a series of vast rings=
in a <crater on the underside of the world,=
consisting of <seven different layers of torture,
called Inferno, Blaze, flame, furnace, fire,
Hellfire, and Abyss.= He walks readers through
the process that might end in a stay there:
<Don9t be alarmed when two blue-black beings
with red eyes and terrifying tusks appear to you
in the grave. These are the angels munkar and
Nakir, and they9ve come to ask you three ques-
A far, far better fate for Dickens illustrations
BY R ON C HARLES
uring the coronavirus pandemic, an
D independent scholar named michael
John Goodman got fed up with the
missing or poor-quality illustrations in mod-
ern versions of Charles Dickens9s novels.
That editorial failure seems particularly
unfortunate given that Dickens got his start
as a fiction writer by producing text to
accompany a set of comic drawings by
robert Seymour. And throughout his re-
markable career, Dickens continued to work
<i Am Hospitably Received by Mr. Peggotty,= an illustration for <David Copperfield= by Hablot Knight Browne, or <Phiz.=
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tions: 8Who is your God?,9 8What is your reli-
gion?,9 and 8Who is your prophet?9 We recom-
mend going with 8Allah,9 8Islam,9 and 8muham-
mad9 as your answers here.=
Heaven in Islam is called Jannah, which
means <garden= or <paradise.= Jennings ob-
serves how <most traditional heavens are
bright and sunny,= but in Jannah things are
more sensuous: <There are aromatic rains of
rosewater, while all the cooling water you can
drink bubbles up from springs smelling of
camphor and ginger.=
But the afterlife is also about our need for
abiding connection. Jennings said that part of
what motivates his own hopes for it is possible
reunion with the people he9s known and loved.
with illustrators such as George Cruikshank
and Phiz to enhance most of his novels.
Determined to do something about that
faded legacy, Goodman began looking for the
best early copies of Dickens9s novels that he
could afford. Then he scanned the illustra-
tions, cleaned them up digitally and uploaded
them to his website.
The copyrights expired many years ago. As
Harold Skimpole says in <Bleak House=: <I
only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.=
And now so are the illustrations.
The result is the Charles Dickens Illustrat-
eZ ee
MOvIeSTOre/ShuTTerSTOcK
NelSON/OrION/KOBal/ShuTTerSTOcK
<When you think about what you can take with
you,= he said, <it9s clearly not material things.
But it might be the relationships you have. I
would like to think that that continues.= There
might not be anything more human than feel-
ing that our bonds with each other are eternal.
Jennings does some of his most entertaining
writing in the less-devout sections of the book:
those that address how literature, movies and
TV have dealt with the subject. one example is
his (most excellent) account of the movie <Bill
and Ted9s Bogus Journey.= To escape Death in
the movie, Jennings writes, you can give him a
<melvin, which is a most egregious type of
wedgie,= or <you9ll need to challenge Death to a
contest, like the game of chess from Bergman9s
ed Gallery (charlesdickensillustration.org),
which is available for anyone to browse,
download and share. It9s a delightful collec-
tion 4 a good reminder that illustrated novels
have a vibrant history.
Goodman writes, <If this website encourag-
es users to read more Dickens (or to further
explore the work of one of the artists), then it
has done a very satisfactory job.=
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8The Seventh Seal9 4 and win. Be warned that
Death has only been defeated once 4 and he
was a super-poor sport about it.=
Another conception of the afterlife from
Hollywood is even more surprising: Iowa. In
<field of Dreams,= long-dead baseball players
emerge from cornfields to play again with the
living. Even if the well-rendered schmaltz of
the movie is too much for some palates, credit
where credit is due: The vast openness of Iowa9s
landscape is an inspired choice for a portal to
100 PlAceS
the beyond.
To See AfTer
I asked Jennings if his faith 4 he9s a member
You Die
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
A Travel Guide
Saints 4 informed his thoughts about the sub-
to the Afterlife
ject. He said that <coming from a Latter-day
By Ken Jennings
Saint background, there9s a real emphasis on
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that it9s not just a static cloud, but that you could
still learn things and do things.= To him, it9s an
attractive part of the faith, <that the afterlife is
not just a reward. It9s not just the dessert, but
there9s something to do and places to go.=
That9s in part why he chose to write his book
in the form of a travel guide, since such books are
all about <the vibe of a place,= he said. <You9re
trying to convey not just what time the bars close
or how regular the buses are, but you9re really
trying to convey what you know, what is the
spirit of the place that you can9t get at home. And
I guess that9s exactly what9s implicit in how we
think about God, too. What can you get from him
that you can9t get from your loved ones, your
king, your boss, your favorite YouTuber? must be
something. or else, why God?=
Which is to say that religion is important in
his life, but more in the present moment than for
reasons having to do with the hereafter. Jen-
nings consults it, he said, as a way to wonder:
<What kind of person am I going to be today? I
think that might be unusual, for a religious
person to tell you that. I should be fixated on my
Ken Jennings, heavenly reward maybe, but I9m not. maybe
top, at Forest that9s a sign of a less robust or certain faith.=
Writing the book has changed him, too.
Lawn
Memorial <Years and years of working on this book,= he
Park in said, <and the funny thing is, I now find myself
glendale, thinking about the afterlife all the time. What-
Calif. His new ever the end is, whether it exists or not, that9s
book explores got the meaning of life in it.=
conceptions of The cemetery was closing as Jennings and I
death and the walked back to our cars. There was a sense of an
afterlife in ending. It was only for a short time, in a place of
religion and the dead, talking eternity with the king of
pop culture, earthly knowledge, but I felt there was a sereni-
including in ty to our conversation. Yet throughout, he kept
movies such as getting phone calls. He was polite and apolo-
<Field of getic about them, but whatever they were
Dreams,= about, they seemed urgent. Acutely aware of
middle, and our surroundings, I didn9t ask who it was.
<Bill and Ted9s
Bogus Nicholas cannariato is a writer and teacher in
Journey.= chicago.
charleS dIcKeNS
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BeNJI NATe

FRIENDSHIP,
CHAOTIC
AND SWEET
BY R ACHELLE H AMPTON

enji Nate9s frothy <Girl Juice= sur-

B prised me into genuine laughter

within the first four pages. Two of the
four 20-something housemates
whose antics populate the gemstone-
colored pages of Nate9s comic novel are sitting
at a bar trying to decide whether a tattooed
man across the room is hot. It9s a familiar
conundrum, one that takes a turn into delight- GiRl Juice
fully silly terrain. By Benji Nate
The two girls, Bunny and Nana, first agree Drawn &
that their target, yes, gives <big dirtbag energy.= Quarterly.
The fact that he9s still <kinda hot tho= isn9t 188 pp. $24.95
enough. They need more evidence, which
comes in the form of knuckle tattoos that read
<SEX FIEND.= But that data point only proves
to be more confounding: The tattoo is <either
completely monstrous or very hot,= Bunny de-
duces. Finally, Nana asks, <How gross are his
fingernails?= The next panel features two im-
maculately manicured hands, SEX FIEND em-
blazoned across them. If you9re one of the girls
whom Nate wrote <Girl Juice= for, you9ll be able
to hear exactly the delighted pitch at which
Bunny and Nana exclaim <He9s hot! He9s hot!!!=
<Girl Juice= began as a webcomic that Nate
posted to her Instagram account, and it9s easy to
see the internet9s ephemeral hand in the slice-of-
life vignettes that make up the majority of the
book. The capers that drive <Girl Juice= toggle
between the relatable (finding the perfect outfit
to be <hot and fun in ur ex9s eyeline=) and the
ridiculous (an exorcism takes up the latter half
of the book). It moves with the frenetic pace of a
TikTok For You Page, and there9s an irresistibly
shareable quality to Nate9s depiction of the kind
of intimacy that is instantly familiar to anyone
who has lived with a close friend.
Nate9s winsome foursome consists of Bunny,
who is unequivocally the main character 4
both of the book and of her life 4 and perhaps BeNJI NATe
too aware of it. Most of the story, insofar as
there is one, is driven by her crises. Most of
these come in the shape of men, though there is with a nonchalant confession from Nana that is Whether they9re working at a human register to take photos of pages to send to various
a memorable incident when Bunny thinks the impossible to summarize but involves a child- or flirting with the supernatural, Nate9s stories friends, often because they reminded us of our
house is haunted, only for the medium she hood birthday party, a balloon animal and sexual revel in that peculiar form of intimacy forged shared experiences when we9d lived together at
hires to conclude that the only bad vibes to be imprinting. By the end of <Girl Juice,= Nana9s not more through proximity than preexisting kin- one time or another. It was surprising, then, to
found in the house are Bunny9s own. In the TOP: A self- only dating a literal clown, much to Bunny9s ship, the kind most often made necessary by a find out from an interview that Nate did with
parlance of the internet, Bunny is bimbo repre- portrait by dismay, but her wardrobe has slowly morphed lack of funds, a partner or both. The liminality of Publisher9s Weekly that she9s never had female
sentation. But Nate never lets her readers slip Benji Nate. into what can only be described as Pierrot chic, such arrangements can lead to one of two out- roommates. <I9ve always wanted them,= she said,
into underestimating Bunny, who turns out not ABOVE white ruff included. comes. The friendship can either break down, <and I thought this was what it could be like.= For
only to be deeply religious despite her hyper- RIGHT: Sadie and Tallulah, who are dating each unable to bear the strain of the accountability anyone else who9s ever thought the same or who
sexuality 4 but (spoiler) entirely correct about Panels from other, round out the quartet. The former is a that cohabitating requires. Or, if you9re lucky, for just wants to reminisce, <Girl Juice= offers a
the house being haunted. her comic no-nonsense pink-haired punk who turns out a few short months or years the friendship glimpse into the worlds that girls create for
Then there9s Nana, who, at first glance, is the novel <Girl to be the mom friend of the group. The latter is sometimes takes on the aura of an endless themselves, in all their heartfelt absurdities.
quiet artist foil to Bunny. So it comes as a surprise Juice,= about an aspiring content creator whose commit- sleepover where you9re never quite sure whether
when she ends up with one of the funniest arcs in four 20- ment to her online persona eventually invites you want to call your mom to come pick you up Rachelle Hampton is a culture writer for Slate and
the book, one that demonstrates Nate9s deft abili- something an attention-seeking demon into the house or keep whispering until dawn. host of the internet culture podcast <In Case You
ty to build character through costume. It begins housemates. that requires the aforementioned exorcism. Reading <Girl Juice,= I found myself wanting Missed It.=

One of the joys of reading science fiction
and fantasy is discovering a made-up world
that feels so rich and well-imagined, you want
to stay there forever. An immersive setting
needs more than cool scenery: It has to
include a well-thought-out history, rules for
how things work and a strong sense of place. If
any of those things fail, you9re out of luck.
So it9s delightful to encounter four new
books that take place in fictional worlds that
are downright irresistible.
Case in point: <Ink Blood Sister Scribe= by
Emma Törzs weaves an intricate mythos
around a simple idea: spell books written in
human blood. Two sisters, Joanna and Esther,
have been separated for 10 years by a
mysterious threat, and meanwhile the
sensitive Nicholas has been bleeding himself
to write more magic books for his uncle.
Before you know it, there are mirror-portals,
vampire volumes, feuding libraries and a
whole secret world concealed inside our own,
built around complicated family legacies.
<Ink Blood Sister Scribe= keeps the
surprises and twists coming, revealing more
hidden layers (though at times, the backstory
starts to feel more urgent than the main plot).
Through it all, Törzs stays grounded in her
characters9 emotional lives, including their
tangled family relationships but also their love
for the books in their care. By the end you9ll
gladly follow these people anywhere.
If you9re craving something more bizarre,
<The Archive Undying= by Emma Mieko
Candon will drop you headfirst into a dazzling
kaleidoscope of weirdness. In Candon9s world,
S cie Nc e F icT iON
by Charlie Jane Anders
AI gods used to rule cities, but now they9ve
become <corrupted,= leaving behind giant
killer robots (or mechas) and a few human
survivors with special powers (called <relics=).
You might have to read <The Archive
Undying= twice to make sense of the often
bewildering plot, but the damaged, tender
characters will make it worth your while.
Chief among them is Sunai, a chaotic empath
who sleeps with random men, ignores
warnings and can never resist opening his
heart to people who9ve already hurt him. (We
really need more reckless empaths in our
adventure fiction.) Candon laces the whole
thing with lovely prose like: <Both their brains
are riddled with scars earned by enduring the
faithless whim of the universe, hopped up on
their ill-advised impulse to survive.=
Young women disguising themselves as
men to survive a patriarchal world is an age-
old trope. It9s natural to wonder: Are these
characters transgender or merely doing what
it takes to survive? Two recent works treat this
ambiguity in rich, thought-provoking ways,
while also crafting magical reflections of real-
life history.
In <She Who Became the Sun= by Shelley
Parker-Chan, Zhu Yuanzhang stole her dead
brother9s identity and rose to become the
Radiant King in a world based on Yuan
dynasty China. The second half of the duology,
<He Who Drowned the World,= is even better
than the first, pitting Zhu against a host of
other characters who also chafe against
patriarchal gender roles, including the eunuch
Ouyang and Wang Baoxiang, an effeminate
man. Zhu9s relationship to her gender identity
grows more complex the second time around,
complicating her feelings about leadership.
The true magic of this duology lies in how
Parker-Chan injects sweetness into what could
be a standard grim-and-bloody story of throne-
chasing. These novels beautifully capture the
feedback loop wherein queer-coded characters
are reviled, which drives them to unbearable
viciousness, which in turn fills them with self-
loathing. Parker-Chan9s characters struggle to
break this cycle, and the nuance with which
they9re portrayed makes us root for them. In the
end, Parker-Chan seems to suggest, power
belongs not to the most ruthless but to those
who are most successful at self-forgiveness.
In <Relentless Melt= by Jeremy P. Bushnell,
Artie Quick works as a salesgirl at Filene9s
department store in 1909 Boston, but by night,
Artie wears men9s clothing and studies to
become a detective. With the help of the
patrician Theodore, Artie uncovers a
supernatural mystery involving kidnapped
girls and a tree that doubled in size overnight.
Artie and Theodore make a delightful pair,
and it quickly becomes apparent that Artie9s
male clothing is no mere costume.
A lot of the fun of <Relentless Melt= comes
from watching the clever-but-naive Artie
discover the ugly reality of detective work and
the corruption of Boston9s establishment. As in
<Ink Blood Sister Scribe,= a simple conceit gives
rise to an ornate picture, full of conspiracies
and dense lore. <Relentless Melt= passes the
ultimate test of world-creation: The more you
learn, the more you still want to discover.
charlie Jane Anders is the author, most recently,
of <Promises Stronger Than Darkness.= She9s won
the Hugo, Nebula and other awards.

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Redistricting upends everything in Virginia9s legislative primaries
BY G REGORY S . S CHNEIDER
AND L AURA V OZZELLA
RICHMOND 4 Virginia voters
face a rare opportunity this year
to remake the General Assembly
from top to bottom, with their
first big taste of change coming in
Tuesday9s primary elections in
several districts across the state.
It will be the first time voters
have encountered the state9s new
electoral maps, which were
drawn under supervision of the
Supreme Court of Virginia after a
bipartisan panel appointed by
rETrOPOLIS
Burials of two,
once enslaved,
thought to be
Md.9s oldest
Bones exhumed this spring to
save them from the elements
An overdue honor for the 8father of Black basketball9
If you ask Brian
Hanlon about
edwin Bancroft
Henderson, he
will speak with an
theresa
ease and
enthusiasm that
Vargas will make you
think he has long
admired him. He will tell you
about the barriers Henderson
pushed through as a young
scholar and he will tell you about
the accomplishments Henderson
accumulated as a longtime
educator.
He will also tell you that he
knew nothing about Henderson
several years ago.
<I had never heard of him,=
Hanlon told me on a recent
afternoon.
That confession is not unusual
when it comes to Henderson.
Despite the important roles he
played in sports, education and
civil rights, he is not someone
many of us learned about in
history class. We were never
taught about the doors he
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ing a wave of retirements and
guaranteeing at least a third of
Changes guarantee at both chambers will be rookies.
least a third of both So while all elections hold po-
tential for change, this year <ev-
chambers will be rookies ery dial is turned up to 11,= said
Rich Meagher, a political analyst
at Randolph-Macon College in
the legislature failed to reach Ashland.
agreement. He pointed to a bumper crop of
The new boundaries for the fresh candidates on ballots
House of Delegates and Senate around the state, including a his-
put incumbent lawmakers in new toric number of Black candidates.
districts, pitted some veterans <I think that what we9re seeing
against one another and created with all of these new candidates is
wide-open new districts, trigger- an increased opportunity for peo-
BY M ICHAEL E . R UANE
He was buried beside the St. Mary9s River
about 300 years ago, his hands folded over his
stomach, his spine bearing the signs of the
hard labor of the enslaved. A groove in one of
his teeth where he clenched his pipe was still
there.
She was buried on her side, as if sleeping, a
few yards away. One of her teeth had been
intentionally altered, most likely in Africa,
experts said, before she was forced into
enslavement in Maryland.
They were exhumed this spring to save
them from the elements, and archaeologists
have now declared that they are among the
oldest African American burials ever found in
the state.
<Together they represent two of the earliest
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the university of the District of columbia on Saturday will unveil a statue of edwin bancroft
Henderson, who dedicated his life to pushing for more athletic opportunities for young black people.
rETrOPOLIS
as a doting father, george
Washington championed
education and fretted over
his children9s love lives. c5
ple to run & but also for voters to
find someone that they feel repre-
sents them,= said Debora Wake,
president of the League of Wom-
en Voters of Virginia.
<It does look like we9re going to
have some significant growth= in
the Virginia Legislative Black
Caucus, said state Sen. Lamont
Bagby (D-Richmond), who leads
the caucus. His calculations sug-
gest that regardless of partisan
outcomes around the state, the
caucus will not shrink from the 22
members it had for most of this
year9s General Assembly session
PHoTos by Craig Hudson for THe WasHingTon PosT
tOP: A team excavates the remains of two enslaved
people at a site in St. Mary9s city. AbOVe: A data
management specialist works on the site.
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and is likely to grow. That9s true
even though Bagby himself is
facing a primary challenge from
Democrat Katie Gooch, who is
White.
Nominees for most of the 100
House contests have already been
chosen through internal party
contests or by default in cases
with no competition for the nod.
But 24 House districts around the
state will hold primaries Tuesday.
Republicans will pick nominees
in nine of those districts and
Democrats in 16, overlapping in a
single district, the 84th, for a
BOOk ExcErPT
Jesuits sold the enslaved
to save Georgetown
Catholic order pushed forward with sale of 272
people despite opposition from their own priests
BY R ACHEL L . S WARNS
This is an excerpt from <The
272: The Families Who Were
Enslaved and Sold to Build the
American Catholic Church= by
Rachel L. Swarns. Published this
week by Random House, an im-
print and division of Penguin
Random House.
The sky darkened as the moon
obscured the sun. enslaved peo-
ple looked up on that sweltering
September afternoon in 1838 and
saw a blazing red ring of light
surrounding the moon like a
shimmering halo.
Some prayed that such heav-
enly spectacles meant their liber-
ation was near. Others viewed
them as omens, signs of agony to
come. On the St. Inigoes planta-
re c
OBITuarIES
as simon & schuster Ceo,
richard e. snyder, 90,
oversaw the publisher9s
exponential growth. c8
competitive Suffolk-area seat.
In the 40-seat Senate, fully half
are up for primary elections. Re-
publicans will choose seven can-
didates Tuesday and Democrats
will pick 15. Both parties will have
overlapping primaries in two
swing districts, the 27th in the
Fredericksburg area and the 29th
in Prince William and Stafford
counties.
Democrats are holding nearly
twice as many primary elections
as Republicans 4 a trend that9s
held for many years. Democrats
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Getting
tougher
on fare
evaders
cities take harder
line as crime soars
Policing revamps losing
favor over transit safety
BYJ USTIN G EORGE
AND H EIDI P ÉREZ- M ORENO
A push to hold police account-
able, reduce incarceration and
prioritize alternatives to manda-
tory minimum sentences after
George Floyd9s murder is giving
way to calls for more law and
order as rising violence in cities
and transit systems unsettles
even the staunchest of liberal
strongholds.
The Chicago Transit Authority
hired nearly 100 private security
guards equipped with 50 canines
last fall to help monitor turn-
stiles. In New York, Mayor eric
Adams (D) launched a <Subway
Safety= plan that includes more
police <addressing the fare eva-
sion and disorder that contrib-
utes to an unsafe environment,=
he wrote in February.
In the Washington region, the
most clear sign yet of the pendu-
lum swinging back is a renewed
focus on fare evasion that began
in November, when Metro Tran-
sit Police restarted enforcement
that had been largely dormant
for years after accusations that
police escalated minor situations
into violent confrontations and
disproportionately policed sta-
tions in Black neighborhoods.
In Northern Virginia9s Lou-
doun County, leaders are moving
toward making fare evasion a
crime after Metro extended its
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tion in southern Maryland, the
Mahoney sisters needed no celes-
tial sign to know of the darkness
that lay ahead.
The sisters, Louisa Mahoney
and Anny Mahoney Jones, had
been sold, along with scores of
other Black people enslaved by
the nation9s most powerful Jesuit
priests. The leaders of the Catho-
lic order were convinced that the
sale was the only way to save
Georgetown College, the nation9s
first Catholic institution of high-
er learning, from being crushed
by its debts. even opposition
from many of their own priests
did not deter them from the
steps they were about to take.
The Jesuits had made a list of
the people they planned to sell:
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Opponents say fare crackdowns empower police to make unnecessary stops
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rail footprint to the county seven
months ago. In D.C., which drew
national attention when city
leaders decriminalized fare eva-
sion five years ago, a council
member this month proposed
helping transit police officers
enforce the offense, which has
proliferated during the pandem-
ic.
The shift is playing out within
transit systems across the coun-
try amid a pandemic-era rise in
violence and social disorder that
is making its way onto the na-
tion9s rail and bus systems. While
increased telework has dented
transit agency budgets, leaders
say renewed enforcement inter-
est has less to do with recovering
lost fare money, with budget
concerns increasingly taking a
back seat to worries over passen-
ger safety.
At the same time, the moves
have concerned D.C. civil rights
activists who protested transit
police tactics for years, long ac-
cusing the department of concen-
trating efforts at stations in large-
ly Black communities. They say
police are regaining power to
make unnecessary stops that too
often escalate into arrests, use of
force, injuries and long-lasting
legal consequences for riders
that outweigh an unpaid fare.
<A big police presence around
a very minor offense of not
paying at the fare gate is just
caustic to communities of color
in the way that it9s been en-
forced,= said Jonathan Smith,
senior special counsel for the
Washington Lawyers9 Committee
for Civil rights. The group has
called for improvements in fare
gate designs to deter fare eva-
sion.
In 2019, the D.C. Council over-
rode a mayoral veto and made
fare evasion a civil offense pun-
ishable only by fines, similar to a
parking ticket. It followed com-
plaints of biased policing from
residents and activists, who
showed statistics indicating tran-
sit police were concentrating en-
forcement at stations that pri-
marily serve Black riders. Police
and metro officials said the sta-
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offenses, but council members
were troubled by stops that
turned into arrests or clashes
with police.
City leaders left transit police
with the power to issue tickets for
fare evasion but didn9t give them
authority to require that suspects
provide officers with their legal
name or address. Without proper
identification, a ticket cannot be
enforced, transit police say.
Before the pandemic, D.C.
Council members hesitated to
resolve the oversight, but that
has changed in the past year as
crime has risen steadily in the
transit system. Aggravated as-
saults are up 26 percent com-
pared with the same time last
year, metro Transit Police crime
statistics show. Larceny is up 90
percent, while pickpocketing and
purse-snatching is up 84 percent.
robberies are up 127 percent, and
destruction/vandalism is up 110
percent. Incidents involving
weapons violations, indecent ex-
posure, fondling and trespassing
have also risen. rail ridership has
also been on the rise in recent
months.
Five people have been killed
on metro property this year, in-
cluding two teenagers in separate
incidents in may, as well as a
metro worker who tried to inter-
vene during a shooting rampage
in February. No homicides had
occurred in the transit system at
the same time last year.
The surge mirrors crime in-
creases in many cities nation-
wide, including D.C., which re-
corded 100 homicides quicker
this year than any in the past two
decades. Transit officials note a
link between nonpaying riders
and violent crime on the system.
<The vast majority of crimes
on metro are committed by indi-
viduals who enter the system
without paying their fare,= metro
spokesman Ian Jannetta said in a
statement.
Transit officials say fare eva-
sion enforcement might have
prevented violence in may, when
police found two semiautomatic
handguns and brass knuckles on
a man who failed to comply with
an ID check at Arlington County9s
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Fare evasion citations issued this year through June 11
In addition, Metro Transit Police also investigated 194 offenses or
suspected crimes on top of fare evasion. Those included 41
warrant-related offenses and nine weapons-related offenses.
0 200
Alexandria 28
Arlington County
D.C. 188
Fairfax County 52
Montgomery County
Prince George's County
Pentagon City station.
Virginia law requires detained
suspects to provide police with
their legal name, address or other
identifying information. That9s
not the case in D.C., metro offi-
cials say, in part because fare
evasion is no longer a crime. In
maryland, people do not have to
identify themselves, according to
the American Civil Liberties
Union, but police can detain
someone if they suspect danger
or that a crime has been commit-
ted.
Council member Brooke Pinto
(D-Ward 2), chair of the Commit-
tee on the Judiciary and Public
Safety, introduced a bill earlier
this month that would require
people stopped for fare evasion
to provide police with their name
and address. The metro Safety
Amendment Act allows police to
detain someone who refuses to
give up their name and issue a
fine up to $100.
The proposal comes after the
council became part of a national
political debate on criminal jus-
tice reform when it proposed a
sweeping overhaul of the Dis-
trict9s criminal code. The Senate
took the rare step of overruling
the city in rejecting the changes,
saying they were too soft on
crime. Council members, includ-
ing Pinto, said critics ignored
sentencing enhancements and
other nuances.
Pinto said she supports keep-
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people.
Smith pointed to other transit
systems that have seen reduc-
tions in fare evasion by redesign-
ing turnstiles to be taller or
harder to climb over. Another
400 600 800 solution, activists say, is making
transit less expensive or free.
metro has acknowledged fail-
ures in its recent $70 million
395
replacement of fare gates system-
wide, which included installing
gates that were easy to jump over
or squeeze through. The transit
system is spending $35 million to
236 modify gates with sturdy, 5-foot-
tall doors.
827 Transit agencies in Boston,
New York, San Francisco and
JUSTIN GEORGE / THE WASHINGTON POST Philadelphia also have added
taller fare gates or turnstiles to
combat fare evasion.
ing fare evasion a civil offense but The D.C. Council, meanwhile,
wants police to have the ability to passed a law in December to
enforce it to protect metro work- make metro bus rides in the
ers and passengers. She pointed District free by subsidizing the
to recent shootings and killings service. metro board members
at stations and on trains, saying and mayor muriel E. Bowser (D),
metro officials have said most however, rejected the plan. Bows-
offenders get into the system by er questioned the cost of the
evading fares. service while metro officials said
<It9s a public safety concern,= they didn9t want to create an
Pinto said. <In Virginia and inequity between D.C. riders and
maryland, people who have out- those in maryland and Virginia.
standing warrants or who have meanwhile, metro this month
committed violence in the system is starting a low-income fare
are able to be stopped if they program that reduces fares in
fare-evaded.= half for anyone who qualifies for
The increased enforcement federal Supplemental Nutrition
comes as metro faces more than a Assistance Program benefits.
$700 million shortfall next year Budget shortfalls during the
because of a rise in telework. fourth year of the pandemic are
Strengthening fare evasion en- part of the equation for transit
forcement also would help to agencies as they seek to recoup
limit fare losses and restore order lost revenue. There9s been an
and trust in metro, Pinto said, so increased desire to recover more
riders feel safe enough to return. ridership and fares as agencies
Safety from crime is the biggest run out of federal coronavirus aid
concern riders have about the that helped them avoid signifi-
metro system, according to a cant cuts.
Washington Post-Schar School metro has said fare evasion
poll conducted earlier this year. accounts for more than $40 mil-
Under Pinto9s proposal, a per- lion in lost fares a year system-
son could be detained only until wide, which is less than 2 percent
their identification is known, at of the agency9s $2.4 billion oper-
which time the person would be ating budget.
released. Harold Stolper, who studies
Around the time D.C. decrimi- fare evasion enforcement and
nalized fare evasion, the Wash- policing at Columbia University,
ington Lawyers9 Committee re- said the offense has been a way to
leased data showing 91 percent of divert attention from financial
citations and summons related to crises and blame problems on
the offense were issued to Black those who don9t pay. Budgetary
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pressures helped New York ratio-
nalize putting hundreds more
police officers on patrol in the
subway system, he said.
Stolper said riders themselves
also are going through budget
constraints. Fare evasion, he said,
is an economic issue that should
be solved through affordable fare
programs for low-income resi-
dents rather than rampant en-
forcement.
<You can9t police away poverty
and economic need,= he said.
Dorothy m. Schulz, a retired
criminal justice professor at New
York9s John Jay College of Crimi-
nal Justice, said lower-income
riders 4 as well as bus operators
4 also deserve to feel secure on
public transit.
<Their safety is not being really
considered,= she said. <There is a
realization that the people are
frightened.=
In suburban Washington9s
Loudoun County, leaders have
debated for months whether to
make fare evasion a crime or a
civil infraction. Last fall, metro-
rail9s Silver Line was extended
11.5 miles while adding three
stations 4 including one at
Dulles International Airport 4 in
the county.
County supervisors recently
decided fare evasion should be a
crime, forwarding a proposal to
add the offense to the criminal
code while hosting public hear-
ings.
Loudoun County Supervisor
matthew F. Letourneau (r-Dull-
es), who is also a metro board
member, said there are many
reasons for metro to enforce fare
evasion, including returning or-
der and security to stations, as
well as demonstrating that the
agency is capable of managing its
own finances.
But the real intent, he said, is
to tamp down acts of violence.
<The greater motivation for
metro now is the desire to try to
cut down on crime on the sys-
tem,= he said. <I told my col-
leagues last week, 8You know, I9m
not interested in necessarily
what the penalties are.9 We don9t
need to send people to jail. But
we do need to know who they
are.=
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cL o S I NGS
In observance of Juneteenth, here
are government closings, parking
restrictions and transit schedules
for the d.c. region.
Which banks, federal
offices and courts are
closed?
Banks: most closed.
Federal government offices:
closed.
Post offices: No mail delivery
except for express mail.
courts: closed except for adult
arraignments, juvenile referrals in
the district.
What traffic and
parking restrictions will
be in place?
district: No city parking
enforcement.
Maryland: meters not enforced in
montgomery and prince George9s
except at National Harbor.
Virginia: meters not enforced in
Arlington and the city of
Alexandria.
Will schools be closed?
district: closed.
Maryland: closed.
Virginia: closed.
Will libraries be
closed?
district: closed.
Maryland: closed.
Virginia: closed.
Will local government
offices be closed?
district: closed.
Maryland: closed.
Virginia: closed.
What is the schedule
for transit and
transportation
services?
metrorail is on a Saturday
l
schedule from 5 a.m. to midnight
with off-peak weekday fares in
effect. metrobus will operate on a
Saturday supplemental schedule.
metroAccess has regular service
but subscription trips are canceled.
l Ride On is on a modified holiday
schedule.
l dASH is on a Sunday schedule.
l Fairfax connector is on a holiday
schedule.
l cUe is on a modified weekday
schedule.
l The bus (prince George9s) is on a
regular schedule.
l pRTc OmniRide is on a regular
schedule but OmniRide express is
not running.
l Loudoun bus has service only on
the local lines and Silver Line
connector.
l mTA commuter bus is running
Route 201 only on a weekend
holiday schedule.
l mARc is running the penn Line
only on a Sunday schedule.
l VRe is running on an <S=
schedule.
MARyLANd
Teens arrested, charged Saturday9s pleasant haze softened the day
in fatal carjacking of student
BY J ASMINE H ILTON
Two teens have been arrested
and charged in the fatal shooting
of a Wise High School student that
occurred during a carjacking in
the Forestville area in May, Prince
George9s County police said
Friday.
Lavelle Harris, 18, of
Washington, is charged with first-
and second-degree murder,
armed carjacking and related
counts in the killing of Kendall
Batson, 18, of District Heights,
police said.
Another teen, a 17-year-old boy
from District Heights, is charged
with conspiracy to commit first-
and second-degree murder,
armed carjacking and related
counts. Both teens are being held
without bond at the county De-
partment of Corrections, police
said.
Batson was a 12th-grade stu-
dent, according to a letter from the
principal at Wise.
Officers responded about 6:35
p.m. on May 11 to the parking lot of
North Forestville Elementary
School on Ritchie Road, police
said. They found Batson with a
gunshot wound. He died at a hos-
pital shortly after. No one else was
injured, according to police.
Police recovered surveillance
video from the elementary school
and recreation center, which cap-
tured both carjackings that hap-
pened about the same time, and
interviewed witnesses, according
to charging documents.
For pinsetters, duckpin
bowling meant 8Duck9!
By the autumn of
1942, the United
States had been at
war for nearly a
year. Every sector
John of American
Kelly's society was feeling
Washington the strain. The
War Department
was conscripting
soldiers for the
conflict, weapons factories were
running around-the-clock and
bowling alleys across the country
were wondering if they9d be able
to stay in business.
It wasn9t only that their male
customers were being drafted.
Alleys were also losing a critical
part of their human
infrastructure: pinsetters.
These were the employees who
reset the bowling pins and rolled
back the bowling balls in the days
before automation. In
Washington, the primary game
was duckpins: smaller, squatter
pins knocked down by
cantaloupe-size balls, of which
bowlers could roll three per
frame.
Pinsetters were also known as
pin boys. In segregated
Washington, they were mostly
young, African American men.
Help-wanted ads seeking
pinsetters ran under a <Colored=
banner in the classified sections
of District newspapers.
It was an occasionally
dangerous job. Pinsetters worked
in the <pit= at the end of the lane.
They usually covered two
adjacent lanes, responsible for
positioning the fallen pins, then
hopping up out of the way,
MARyLANd
Ex-NSA staffer sentenced for Jan. 6 Capitol riot
BY R ACHEL W EINER
A 24-year-old moved to Mary-
land to work for the National
Security Agency six months be-
fore joining the attack on the U.S.
Capitol with followers of a move-
ment whose founder is known
for espousing white-supremacist
views, according to court filings.
Paul Lovley was sentenced
Tuesday to two weeks incarcera-
tion for illegally demonstrating in
the Capitol.
<All I can do is take responsibil-
ity for my actions, learn from this
experience, and move on with my
life,= Lovley said in a letter to the
court. <This entire situation has
served as a wake-up call4some-
thing that forced me to truly
reflect on what is important in
life, what types of things to avoid
engaging with going forward, and
the dangers of cognitive disso-
nance.=
He said he came to the area
from California for his <first-ever
serious job= and did not know
anyone.
According to prosecutors, Lov-
ley was working in information
technology for the NSA before
A group of friends, which in-
cluded the teens suspected in Bat-
son9s death, were gathered at the
elementary school, according to
the charging documents. Another
group, who police said were vic-
tims, arrived in a Honda, and Bat-
son joined that group shortly after.
One of the suspects, armed with
a rifle, demanded that one of the
victims give up the Honda. That
victim gave up the keys, and later
the other victims in that car were
forced to exit, according to the
charging documents.
A second suspect, armed with
what appeared to be a handgun,
grabbed and struggled with Bat-
son, who was seated in the back of
the Honda, for his keys, police said
in the charging documents
<You9re not going to take my
keys,= Batson said, according to
the charging documents. He
broke free and ran back to his
BMW. The second suspect fol-
lowed Batson and tried to pull him
from the open driver9s door before
fatally shooting him.
Both suspects fled, one in the
Honda and the other in the BMW,
police said.
The next day, police found both
cars abandoned in Capitol
Heights, according to the charg-
ing documents. Batson and the
teens charged in his death did not
know one another, police said.
It was not immediately clear
whether Harris has an attorney,
according to online court records.
Previous efforts to reach Bas-
ton9s family were unsuccessful.
sometimes sitting on a ledge at
the back, sometimes straddling
the wall between the lanes.
They didn9t always move
quickly enough. Pinsetters were
occasionally struck by balls or by
flying pins. <Once in a while a boy
will have to have a few stitches
taken in his head,= an alley owner
told the Washington Evening
Star.
Pin boys, like newsboys, were
among the child laborers
spotlighted in the early 1900s by
photographer Lewis Hine. And
as late as 1951, the U.S.
Department of Labor was
complaining that preteens were
working as pinsetters. A report
noted that one 12-year-old had to
have a finger amputated after it
became caught between two
bowling balls.
Most bowlers wanted
pinsetters to be quick. The best
were. Cosey Durant, the most
highly regarded pin boy at the
Hi-Skor Bowling Alleys on 13th
Street NW, moved, wrote the
Star, like <a gigantic dancing
spider, the arms whisk over the
end of the alley and in
approximately 13 motions the 10
scattered pins have been
reassembled for further
punishment.=
To the annoyance of bowlers,
not all pinsetters were as adept
as Durant. If you were on a roll,
so to speak, you didn9t want a
sluggish pin boy ruining your
momentum. In 1918, the Star
gently admonished bowlers who
abused pinsetters:
<Last night we were bowling
and the pinboy did not set up the
Prosecutors say this security video shows Paul Lovley, left, and
Joseph Brody, center, inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Jan. 6. The NSA referred ques-
tions about his employment to
the Justice Department, which
did not return a request for com-
ment.
The night before the riot, the
government said, Lovley hosted
at his Maryland home four
friends he met at an event for
<America First,= a movement
founded by Nick Fuentes, who
has been banned from most social
media platforms for repeated rac-
the ReGIoN
BY M ARTIN W EIL
Haze can blur lines, erase
distinctions and soften sharp
edges. The sort of haze present in
our skies on Saturday seemed to
have that effect, and in that way
appeared to foster a sense of
summer as a time to relax and
shed strictness.
Experts attributed at least part
of Saturday9s haze in Washington
to faraway wildfires. In great
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A pinsetter at a D.C. duckpin bowling alley in 1943. During World
War II, bowling alley owners bemoaned personnel shortages.
pins fast enough to suit us and association worked quickly to nip
we felt peeved and yelled at him the action, threatening to hire
to wake up and step lively. Then replacements. The strike wilted.
we found out that pinboy had Owners did make one
been in the pit, working two concession. The rate for working
alleys, for Six Consecutive Hours. Sunday was raised to 4 cents per
We were ashamed of ourselves game.
because we had forgot that he Once the United States
was human 4 and tired.= entered the war, money wasn9t
The anecdote ended with the the issue, bodies were. There
bowler giving the pin boy a weren9t enough pinsetters to go
quarter. <You should have seen around. Competition for
the gleam of appreciation in that pinsetters became fierce. In
boy9s eyes.= Washington, some owners sent
In Washington in 1938, the cars to pick up pinsetters, then
standard pay for pinsetters was 3 drove them back home at night.
cents a game. That was down a The proprietors of the Ice
penny from pre-Depression days. Palace 4 which boasted 57 lanes
On the evening of Nov. 15, 1938, (and a skating rink) on
30 pinsetters walked off the job Connecticut Avenue NW 4 tried
at the Lucky Strike Alleys at 14th something radical: female
and Riggs NW. They wanted a pinsetters, who were quickly
one-penny raise. dubbed <pinettes.= Like the
The local bowling alley owners majority of male pinsetters in
Lovley entered the Capitol build-
ing a few minutes after the first
breach, according to court rec-
ords. Along with other rioters,
they went into House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi9s office and onto the
Senate floor. After about 40 min-
utes, they left the building; pros-
ecutors say one of Lovley9s friends
then assaulted a police officer
with a metal barricade and
helped destroy reporters9 equip-
ment.
That friend, Joseph Brody, is
charged with multiple felonies
and is the only member of the
JUSTIce depARTmeNT cHARGING dOcUmeNTS
group who has not pleaded guilty.
Lovley9s phone was picked up
in a Google location search; the
FBI was then able to identify the
ist and antisemitic remarks. The others because they used Venmo
Justice Department in other cas- to pay Lovley back for a Domino9s
es has described Fuentes, who pizza order the night of Jan. 5.
was outside the Capitol on Jan. 6 All five also went together to
but is not charged in the attack, as the Nov. 14, 2020, pro-Trump rally
<a public figure known for mak- in Washington, according to the
ing racist statements, celebrating court record.
fascism, and promoting white su- Defense attorney David Be-
premacy.= He gained national nowitz said Lovley is no longer
prominence after dining with for- associated with the <America
mer president Donald Trump in First= movement. In court filings,
late 2022. Benowitz said Lovley has moved
The five young men including again and has a new job.
ous. But Saturday9s haze seemed more it seemed that a thin gray
as much picturesque as any- curtain hung in the air, softening
thing. line and color.
Leaders in many areas often Each hour, the National
advise of an intent to provide Weather Service records visibili-
perfect clarity. ty. The maximum is 10 miles. On
Saturday seemed to say a bit of Saturday it was often cut to six
ambiguity, perhaps the sort asso- miles or seven.
ciated with summer air, may be While haze may have been
unavoidable. most notable, Saturday had oth-
The farther we cast our glanc- er features, among them that it
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the less transparency seemed to thy member of a series of such
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Washington, they were Black.
Wrote The Washington Post,
<It9s really quite a sight to see
those girls doing their job 4 they
try terrifically hard 4 and the
young Negro women of
Washington who are stepping in
to fill the jobs of men are to be
congratulated for their
patriotism, as they are certainly
doing fine war work.=
By 1943 in Chicago, the
number of pinboys had fallen to
1,500 from 4,000. Alley owners
insisted they9d tried female
pinsetters but, one owner said,
<they can9t take it.= The local
bowling association had another
idea: Thousands of German,
Italian and Japanese POWs were
interned in the United States.
Surely some of them could do the
job.
The pinsetter drought
continued after the war. But the
job itself was threatened. The
future arrived in March of 1953,
when bowlers assembled at
Clarendon Bowling Center on
Irving Street in Arlington for the
national duckpin
championships. It was the first
time duckpins were
automatically set in a bowling
alley.
Inventor Kenneth Sherman
said his robot pin boy was more
accurate, faster and easier on the
pins than a human.
<And, of course,= Sherman told
journalists, <no bowler wants to
see a boy hit by a flying pin or get
poor marks in school because he
sets pins instead of doing his
homework.=
Bowlers did notice one
difference: For whatever reason,
in the first few years after
automatic pinsetters came into
use, average scores among top
duckpin bowlers dropped by
about two points. Revenge of the
pin boys?
L o c AL d IGe St
the dIStRIct
Teenager fatally shot
overnight in D.C.
A 14-year-old boy was fatally
shot in Southeast Washington
early Saturday, police said.
About 12:50 a.m., officers
responded to a report of a
shooting in the 2600 block of
Sheridan Road SE. The officer
found the boy suffering from a
gunshot wound. He was
pronounced dead at the scene.
The victim was identified as
Stephon Shreeves of Southeast.
No further information about
the shooting was immediately
available.
4 Justin Wm. Moyer
VIRGINIA
Man slain in Fairfax
City is identified
A man who was found dead in
Fairfax City last week was
identified Friday as Luis
Barahona Reyes, and Fairfax City
police said they were
investigating his death as a
homicide. No suspects were in
custody Friday evening.
Barahona Reyes, 50, lived in
Fairfax City, Sgt. Lisa Gardner
said. She said an autopsy Monday
determined that he had suffered
<severe trauma to the upper
body,= but she declined to be
more specific about the cause of
death. No family members of the
victim could be immediately
located.
Gardner said Barahona Reyes
was found by construction
workers about 9:20 a.m. June 10
in a trash receptacle in the 9700
block of Fairfax Boulevard, just
west of Fairfax Circle, near a store
being built there. Police said at
the time there was <no reason to
believe there is a threat to the
community.= Gardner said Friday
that she could not disclose
whether police had a suspect but
that <it seems like an isolated
incident.=
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Man posing as ICE o>cer arrested, faces rape charges
BY J ASMINE H ILTON
A 26-year-old man has been
arrested and charged with rape
after posing as a U.S. Immigra-
tion and Customs Enforcement
officer and threatening a Hispan-
ic woman with deportation in the
oxon Hill area, Prince George9s
County police said friday.
Victor Antonio reed, of Wash-
ington, is charged with first- and
second-degree rape, impersonat-
ing a law enforcement officer, a
firearms offense and related
counts, police said. He was iden-
Virginia legislature9s primaries upended by state9s redistricting
VIrgInIa from C1
see open primaries as <good for
party-building and generating
energy around the winners,= said
mark J. rozell, dean of the Schar
School of Policy and Government
at George mason University.
republicans, on the other
hand, <have long worried about
crossover voting in a state with no
party registration and have tend-
ed to prefer more closed nomina-
tion processes,= he said.
But in one especially hard-
fought contest in a deep-blue
Senate district south of rich-
mond, conservative radio host
John fredericks and others have
been urging republicans to vote
in the Democratic primary for
state Sen. Joseph D. morrissey
(D-richmond) over former del-
egate Lashrecse Aird because
morrissey favors more restric-
tions on abortion.
This year, liberal Democratic
candidates are taking the wide-
open field as a chance to mount
challenges against more centrist
incumbents, rozell said. <The
progressives have simply grown
weary of long-term incumbents
who they see as too moderate, too
beholden to business interests, or
too willing to compromise.=
That9s especially clear in
Northern Virginia, where two
veteran Democratic senators are
in tight races against more out-
spokenly liberal challengers
heavily backed by Clean Virginia,
a political action group intended
to counter the political sway of
the state9s largest utility, Domin-
ion Energy.
In the 35th District, Sen. David
W. marsden (D-fairfax) faces
Heidi Drauschak, who describes
herself as a <good-governance ad-
vocate.= Sen. George L. Barker
(D-fairfax) is up against fairfax
County School Board member
Stella Pekarsky in the 36th Dis-
trict, in the western part of the
county, which includes Chantilly
and Centreville.
Although they have been in the
Senate for many years 4 Barker
since 2008, marsden since 2010 4
redistricting has put them in ter-
ritory that is mostly new. They are
among 23 Senate candidates who
either serve or have served in the
legislature and are now running
in districts where more than half
the territory is new to them,
according to data compiled by the
nonpartisan Virginia Public
Access Project.
Another tough fight in
Northern Virginia pits Sen.
Jeremy S. mcPike (D-Prince
William), who joined the Senate
in 2016, against Del. Elizabeth r.
Guzman (D-Prince William), who
set her sights on richmond9s up-
per chamber after redistricting
paired her with a powerful Black
Democrat in the House.
Maryland
Judge tosses lawsuit alleging
violation of inmates9 labor
BY C ASSIDY J ENSEN
A federal judge dismissed a
class-action lawsuit by partici-
pants in a Baltimore County jail
program who said the county vio-
lated wage laws by not paying
them overtime or minimum wage
for their work at a Cockeysville
recycling plant.
michael A. Scott, an Essex resi-
dent who served a sentence at the
Baltimore County Detention Cen-
ter from December 2019 to march
2020, initially filed a lawsuit in
January 2021 in U.S. District
Court. It became a class action.
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tified and taken into custody
after a traffic stop in Temple Hills
on Thursday, according to police.
Police said detectives were noti-
fied on Tuesday at about 8:15 p.m.
of a sexual assault in the 5400
block of Saint Barnabas road in a
shopping center parking lot.
The victim was walking to her
vehicle when reed, who identified
himself as an ICE agent, came up to
her in a silver sedan, displaying a
badge and instructing her to enter
his car. He threatened to deport her
if she did not get in, according to
the charging documents.
Longtime Democratic Sen. r.
Creigh Deeds, tripled up with two
republicans under the new
maps, moved from Bath County
to Charlottesville to run in the
11th District. The new district
overlaps considerably with his
old one, but Deeds, who joined
the Senate in 2001 after nine
years in the House and was his
party9s nominee for governor in
2009, faces a vigorous challenge
from Del. Sally L. Hudson (D-
Charlottesville), a University of
Virginia labor economist who
joined the House in 2020.
running in a new district can
be beneficial to both a candidate
and his or her constituents, said
meagher, the randolph-macon
analyst.
<They9ve been forced to go out
and campaign more than they
might otherwise and to connect
with voters,= meagher said. If they
survive, <they9ll be more connect-
ed with their district &[and] they
might act a little differently than
they did before.=
Incumbents who face a pri-
mary challenge and survive, he
said, are likely to feel stronger
than ever because they tri-
umphed with a new set of con-
stituents. Similarly, if one party or
the other wins control of both
houses of the legislature this fall,
that party is going to feel a power-
ful sense of mandate, he said.
<They9ll be able to say this is
the new order,= he said 4 either
repudiating republicans9 strong
showing in the 2021 elections or
doubling down on it.
for Gov. Glenn Youngkin (r), a
potential 2024 presidential con-
tender who9s been saddled with a
divided Capitol, the fall elections
will determine whether he gets
the allies he needs to enact his
conservative agenda 4 including
a 15-week ban on abortion.
With that in mind, republi-
cans are taking a cautious ap-
proach in some primaries, ac-
cording to veteran richmond po-
litical analyst Bob Holsworth.
Hardcore conservatives are chal-
lenging incumbents, but the GoP
establishment is favoring more
mainstream candidates in com-
petitive districts with an eye
toward challenging Democrats in
the Nov. 7 general election.
<The republican side has a
race or two that could be very
instrumental to the determina-
tion of who controls the Senate,=
Holsworth said. Democrats are
defending a 22-18 margin in that
chamber and Youngkin has
amassed a gigantic war chest to
try to flip it.
Holsworth points to the Senate
primary between Del. Tara
Durant (r-Colonial Heights) and
matt Strickland as one that could
determine whether republicans
can flip the chamber. He thinks
Strickland, a firebrand grilled-
U.S. District Judge Stephanie A.
Gallagher ruled last week that the
workers detailed to the recycling
plant are not employees under the
fair Labor Standards Act, the feder-
al law governing overtime and min-
imum wage for most U.S. workers.
Under the county jail9s volun-
tary work program, workers were
paid $20 for 10 to 12 hours a day of
manual labor at the single-stream
recycling plant run by the county9s
Department of Public Works, ac-
cording to the lawsuit.
Scott was serving a jail
sentence for two misdemeanor
charges of theft under $100 and
Catchy tune: Free tickets to Rodrigo y Gabriela on June 25 at 9:30 Club
the pop/rock and nuevo flamenco duo dropped new album In Between Thoughts&A New World in April. <Rodrigo y
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once the victim entered his
car, police said reed threatened
her with deportation again and
began to show her videos of
<people being arrested by ICE
Agents.= The woman grew <terri-
fied= and offered to give reed
money <so that he wouldn9t de-
port her,= the documents said.
<The defendant then demand-
ed the victim to give him the
money. The victim complied out
of fear and gave the defendant
$100,= police said in the charging
documents.
Then, reed told her to per-
House of Delegates members on the steps of the Virginia Capitol. In the state9s 40-seat Senate, half of
the seats are up for primaries and 24 House districts around the state will hold primaries Tuesday.
cheese restaurateur who defied
pandemic restrictions, could be
less electable in the general elec-
tion in the right-leaning 27th
Senate District, which includes
the city of fredericksburg and
parts of Spotsylvania and
Stafford counties.
<You9ve seen the republican
establishment come in very, very
strong for Durant, largely be-
cause they9re worried that they9ll
lose the race if Strickland is the
nominee,= he said.
for similar reasons, Holsworth
said, the establishment has <got-
ten heavily involved= in support-
ing Del. Emily m. Brewer (r-Isle
of Wight) over former NASCAr
driver Hermie Sadler in the red-
leaning 17th District, which
stretches from the Hampton
roads region to Southside Vir-
ginia.
otherwise, though, the GoP
primaries have given no sign that
republicans are reconsidering
former president Donald Trump9s
place as the party9s standard-
bearer. At least three republicans
running for Senate participated
in Trump9s <Stop the Steal= rally
in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.
(They all say they did not enter
the Capitol with rioters.) They
have not faced criticism from
their rivals for continuing to pro-
mote Trump9s false claim that
President Biden stole the presi-
dency.
<Who can be the Trumpiest 4
that9s what that election is about,=
Holsworth said, referring specifi-
cally to the race in the heavily red
1st Senate District in the north-
ern Shenandoah Valley, which
fourth-degree burglary, according
to court records.
The lawsuit said the county also
used a temporary staffing agency
at the plant, and the temp workers
were paid minimum wage and
overtime for the same work.
While courts have held general-
ly that prisoners are not protected
by the federal labor law, the
fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Ap-
peals has not ruled on off-site
work, Gallagher wrote in an opin-
ion last week.
The Third Circuit found the law
did apply in the case of child-
support debtors in Lackawanna
County, Pa., who worked at a
privately-operated recycling cen-
ter while incarcerated.
Gallagher wrote that the pro-
gram at the Cockeysville plant
served a rehabilitative purpose be-
cause it provided structure, work
experience and pay, <albeit very
See details at washingtonpost.com/my-post.
form sexual acts <if she did not
want to get deported,= charging
documents state.
reed <motioned with his head
drawing the victim9s attention to
a black handgun= in the back seat
when she tried to refuse, accord-
ing to the charging documents.
reed allowed her to leave his
car after the sexual assault and
she called for help, police said.
<ICE Ero Baltimore takes a
victim-centered approach to im-
migration enforcement in order
to facilitate access to justice and
victim-based immigration ben-
features one of the three Jan. 6
attendees, Del. David A. Larock
(r-Loudoun). Larock, one of
eight republicans vying for the
nod, also penned a letter to Vice
President mike Pence asking him
to nullify the commonwealth9s
slate of presidential electors.
Two other Jan. 6 attendees
running for Senate: Del. John J.
mcGuire III (r-Goochland) in the
10th Senate District, a heavily
republican swath that stretches
west from the richmond suburbs
through rural areas nearly to
Lynchburg; and Sen. Amanda f.
Chase (r-Chesterfield), the self-
described <Trump in heels= run-
ning in the 12th District, which
covers parts of Chesterfield
County and Colonial Heights.
Chase faces two republican
challengers, former senator Glen
Sturtevant and Tina ramirez,
who leads a nonprofit focused on
religious freedom. Sturtevant,
who in the past supported the
Equal rights Amendment and a
gun-control bill, has moved
sharply to the right on guns,
agreeing with Chase and ramirez
in a public forum that he would
support loosening restrictions on
machine guns.
In two cases, primaries are
pitting pairs of incumbents
against each other. Democratic
senators Lionel Spruill Sr. (Chesa-
peake) and L. Louise Lucas
(Portsmouth) are locked in a
tough nominating contest in
Tidewater, and ultraconservative
republican delegates Wren Wil-
liams, a lawyer who worked for
Trump9s legal team challenging
the 2020 vote count in Wisconsin,
little,= but she also acknowledged
that the county <operated the facil-
ity as a business and benefited
from using cheaper inmate labor.=
The recycling facility generated
$41 million in revenue between
January 2014 and December 2020,
Gallagher9s opinion said, although
the county contends that figure
doesn9t include all costs.
Gallagher wrote that the work
program more closely resembled
work done inside prisons because,
although the county benefited
from cheap labor, that economic
advantage ultimately flowed to
the county and its jail rather than
a private third-party employer.
While the lawsuit argued the
plaintiffs needed to be paid mini-
mum wage to buy needed items like
toiletries and clothes to keep warm
in the open-air recycling facility,
Gallagher wrote that the federal
wage law is not meant to address
the washington post
efits by noncitizen crime vic-
tims,= ICE Ero Baltimore Acting
field office Director Darius
reeves said in a news release.
<Absent exceptional circum-
stances, ICE will refrain from
taking civil immigration enforce-
ment action against victims of
crime who come forward with
pertinent information.=
Police said there are no addi-
tional reports <of this nature=
involving reed at this time. It
was not immediately clear
whether reed has an attorney
according to online court records
bob bRown/RiChmonD times-DisPAtCh /AP
and marie march, another Jan. 6
attendee, face each other in a
contentious primary in the rural
counties west of martinsville.
Wake, of the League of Women
Voters, said some voters have
been confused by all of the
change this year. In many cases,
<the person they9re used to seeing
on their ballot isn9t on their bal-
lot,= she said.
The league had spent years
lobbying for Virginia to change
its old system of drawing political
maps, which left it in the hands of
whichever party controlled the
legislature. Three years ago vot-
ers approved a state constitution-
al amendment that created a bi-
partisan commission to draw the
maps. Partisan jockeying left the
commission unable to complete
its duties in 2021, throwing the
matter to the state Supreme
Court.
Wake said that despite some
rough edges this year as the new
map takes hold, the ultimate out-
come will pay benefits for many
years.
<We knew that this first one
was just going to be messy, be-
cause you can9t un-gerrymander a
state without it being messy,= she
said. <But the opportunity for
voters is a big win.=
And she emphasized that pri-
mary elections are crucial to the
process. In cases where a district
leans heavily toward one particu-
lar party, <the primary is when
you9re going to have the best shot
at selecting the candidate who9s
going to ultimately win in No-
vember. That9s why it9s so impor-
tant to vote in the primaries.=
prisoners9 living conditions.
A former supervisor at the recy-
cling plant said he <[looked] the
other way= while workers from
the jail took food off the conveyor
belt to eat because the bologna
sandwiches they were given were
insufficient, according to court
documents.
The corrections department in
some cases also failed to provide
sufficient clothing, Gallagher
wrote.
The plaintiffs plan to appeal
the case to the U.S. Court of Ap-
peals for the fourth Circuit.
<As sure as the sun rises, we9re
going to appeal,= their attorney,
Howard B. Hoffman, said
Wednesday. <This is not a fight
that is going to end swiftly.=
Hoffman questioned the rehabil-
itative value of the work program,
which he said took workers away
from substance-use recovery class-
. sunday, june 18 , 2023
Maryland
Bus crash in
downtown
Baltimore
injures 15
BY H EIDI P ÉREZ- M ORENO
AND J USTIN W M. M OYER
A bus crashed into a building in
downtown Baltimore on Saturday
morning, injuring 15 people, po-
lice said. fire officials said none of
the injuries were life-threatening.
About 10:20 a.m., police re-
ceived a report of a crash involving
a mass transit bus and two civilian
vehicles in the 400 block of North
Paca Street, a Baltimore police
spokesperson said in an email.
The area is less than a mile from
the Inner Harbor.
An investigation showed that a
maryland Transit Authority bus
collided with a Lexus at North
Paca Street at West mulberry
Street, the spokesperson said. The
bus then struck a Nissan and a
building in the 500 block of West
franklin Street, according to the
spokesperson.
About 15 people were injured,
the spokesman said.
The cause of the crash was not
immediately known, authorities
said.
Baltimore City fire Depart-
ment spokesman Kevin Cart-
wright told the Baltimore Sun that
bystanders and spectators report-
ed <that there were vehicles speed-
ing . . . and the mTA bus, in an
effort to avoid being a part of that,
collided into this building.=
At the scene, it appeared the
two vehicles crashed through the
intersection and into the 501, a
residential apartment complex.
The affected area was an empty
storefront below the building9s
residential floors.
rose Weaver, 63, was waiting to
get her hair done at Short Cutz, a
barbershop in Seton Hill, when
she heard a screeching crash.
She and a handful of other
women at the salon ran to North
Paca Street to view the scene,
which she described as a gray
Honda Civic bent into a traffic
cone.
<We had no idea what was going
on,= she said.
Brenda m. fletcher, who owns
the hair salon, said she witnessed
two people 4 a woman in her late
30s and a girl who looked to be
around 10 years old 4 escape the
vehicle after sustaining injuries.
The woman was bleeding from her
head, which fletcher believed was
due to the car9s air bags deploying.
Witnesses brought her towels to
cover the wounds while she cried,
fletcher said, and the girl also
reported knee pain.
Ufuoma Agarin, who has lived
at the 501 for five years and was
inside her apartment when the
crash occurred, said she didn9t
hear the crash from the third floor.
The crash punched a gaping
hole in the building9s west en-
trance right next to Trinacria, an
Italian deli and market.
John Bauer, who works as a chef
at the more than 100-year-old
establishment, was checking out
merchandise when he heard the
crash. He ran outside and called
911.
Bauer was worried that the
market had been impacted. While
the 501 is newly renovated, the
building where Trinacria is locat-
ed is much older, and the business
can9t afford to renovate after a
high-impact crash.
<This is my home,= Bauer said.
Corinne Dorsey contributed to this
report.
es and other jail programming, and
argued that paying subminimum
wage gave the county an unfair
advantage over private waste man-
agement companies.
<my practice concentrates on
unpaid wages, not prison inmate
rights, but this case has really
opened my eyes to the plight and
the conditions of inmates,= he said.
Baltimore County hired out-
side law firm Nelson mullins riley
and Scarborough in 2021 to serve
as co-counsel on the case.
<The county is satisfied with
the court9s ruling, which speaks
for itself,= said county spokesper-
son Erica Palmisano.
The jail9s work details at the
recycling center stopped while
the lawsuit was ongoing, Gallagh-
er wrote. Palmisano said Wednes-
day no county inmates are work-
ing at the recycling plant now.
4 Baltimore Sun
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rEtroPolis look for someone of <good sense

4 good dispositions 4 and the

George Washington was means of supporting you in the

way you have been brought up.=
When Nelly told Washington that

a founding father and a she had no intention of falling in

love and planned to remain <El-
eanor Custis Spinster,= he took

dad like any other time away from his presidential

He didn9t have biological children, but he raised
several 4 and worried about their grades
BY C ASSANDRA A . G OOD
Two weeks after George Wash-
ington9s death in December 1799,
the American statesman Gou-
verneur Morris rose before a rapt
crowd of mourners in New York
and declared of the late first
president: <AMERICANS! He had
no child BUT YOU, and HE WAS
ALL YOUR OWN.=
Washington was and is widely
admired as the father of the
country, but Morris9s statement
ignored a well-known fact: While
Washington had no biological
descendants, he raised a number
of children. This famous father
was not some godlike, detached
paternal figure. Loving and ten-
der, Washington was closely in-
vested in his girls9 love lives 4
and couldn9t, for the life of him,
get his boys to finish college.
When Washington married
Martha Dandridge Custis in 1759,
she brought two young children
from her first marriage with
them to Mount Vernon: 5-year-
old John <Jacky= Parke Custis and
3-year-old Martha <Patsy= Parke
Custis. When the children were
young, Martha made many of the
parenting decisions, but as Jacky
reached adolescence, Washing-
ton stepped in.
At 14, Jacky was <a boy of good
genius,= Washington wrote, but to
his frustration, Jacky was far
more focused on hunting, fine
clothes and girls than on school-
work. At 19, Jacky announced his
engagement to 15-year-old Elea-
nor Calvert, and Washington was
not happy that Jacky would mar-
ry before finishing college and
becoming financially independ-
ent. He sent Jacky to King9s Col-
lege (now Columbia) in New York
City to try to at least delay the
match, but Jacky dropped out
and got married anyway. Wash-
ington conceded defeat and said
he had <yielded, contrary to my
judgment.=
By then, he had also been worn
down by the loss of stepdaughter
Patsy, who died at 17 from what
was likely an epileptic seizure.
Washington, who had paid for all
sorts of doctors and treatments to
try to help her, knelt by her
bedside praying while she lay
dying.
Washington got a second
chance at fatherhood, however, at
the end of the American Revolu-
tion. Jacky had ventured to York-
town in November 1781 and was
struck down by camp fever, leav-
ing his young wife a widow with
four children ages 5 and younger.
George and Martha took in baby
George Washington <Wash=
Parke Custis and 2-year-old
Eleanor <Nelly= Parke Custis; the
Marquis de Lafayette, whom
Washington saw as another ad-
opted son, reported that Wash-
ington <love[d] them with great
tenderness.= Washington wrote
in 1784 that he took pleasure in
watching Wash, <fat & saucy as
ever,= ride a toy horse <with a
degree of boldness which will
soon do honor to his horseman-
ship.=
Several years later, Washing-
ton was juggling the demands of
fatherhood with those of the
presidency, which he took on in
1789. Nelly and Wash lived with
their adoptive parents in the
president9s house, first in New
York and then in Philadelphia.
The kids accompanied the Wash-
ingtons to parades and ceremo-
nies, and as she got older, Nelly
entertained prominent guests by
playing harpsichord.
But living as young celebrities
4 with enslaved people who were
forced to wait on them and obey
their commands 4 made it easy
for Nelly and Wash to become
spoiled. Moreover, Martha was
particularly indulgent with the
children; especially when it came
to Wash, she seemed unwilling to
provide discipline and boundar-
<He liked to see us gay
and happy. I have often
made him laugh
heartily at the relation
of my frolics and
difficulties.=
Eleanor <Nelly= Parke Custis,
george Washington9s
step-granddaughter, detailing his
softer side in a letter to a friend
George and Martha Washington raised children from her first
marriage and grandchildren, whom Washington loved <with great
tenderness,= according to the Marquis de Lafayette.
ies. Wash9s tutor wrote in a letter
that his young charge was on his
way to becoming <extremely dis-
gusting= and that Washington
saw it <with pain.= But Washing-
ton worried that imposing disci-
pline on Wash would upset Mar-
tha and refused to step in.
As Washington attempted to
make sure that Wash completed
the education Jacky never had,
the frustration that welled up
might have felt familiar. Wash-
ington admitted that <From
[Wash9s] infancy, I have discov-
ered an almost unconquerable
disposition to indolence in every
thing that did not tend to his
amusements.= In other words:
Wash was lazy.
Still, Washington sent him to
Princeton and finally applied
some discipline. In stern, formal
letters, he made clear his high
expectations and implied that his
affection was dependent on
Wash9s behavior and perform-
ance at school. He was doomed to
be disappointed. Wash was ulti-
mately asked to leave Princeton
for misbehavior. Refusing to give
up, Washington sent him to St.
Library of Congress
John9s College in Annapolis,
where the young man tried to
repeat his father9s history by
forming a secret engagement. At
least this time, Washington was
able to stop the marriage. But he
couldn9t keep Wash in school, and
Wash returned home with no
college degree. Washington was
0-for-2 in getting sons through
college.
Fortunately, he had much
smoother relationships with Nel-
ly and her elder sisters, Betsey
and Patty. The elder girls had
been raised by their mother, but
they, too, looked on Washington
as a father figure. To Nelly, Wash-
ington was <the most affectionate
of Fathers,= and his love for Be-
tsey convinced her that she was
his <best loved child.= When they
reached young adulthood, he
didn9t have to get them an educa-
tion, but he wanted to make sure
they made good marriages. Wash-
ington tailored his advice to each
of the girls9 personalities.
To the passionate Betsey, he
offered a reminder that <love is
too dainty a food to live upon
alone= and that she needed to
duties to write her a long letter
pointing out the hubris of her
remarks. Love was <an involun-
tary passion,= Washington said,
and it was likely to strike whether
she liked it or not. Once that
happened, what should she do?
He proposed a list of questions to
ask herself and signed the letter
wishing her <every blessing,
among which a good husband
when you want, & deserve one.=
Washington also expected the
girls to share their feeling and
fears in courtship with him.
When Betsey surprised the whole
family by getting engaged to an
older man whom they didn9t even
know she was courting 4 and
who failed pretty much every
criterion her step-grandfather
had shared with her for a spouse
4 Washington was hurt that she
hadn9t confided in him. However,
he approved of the marriage and
reminded her, <You know how
much I love you.=
Nelly was more forthcoming,
sharing with him the love letters
she received when she was court-
ing. He was delighted when Nelly
married his nephew Lawrence,
and he gave the couple a piece of
his Mount Vernon estate.
As much as she loved him,
Nelly Custis knew that Washing-
ton could come off as cold or
forbidding. But he had a softer
side.
<He liked to see us gay and
happy,= she recalled as an adult,
in a letter to a friend, noting that
<I have often made him laugh
heartily at the relation of my
frolics and difficulties.=
Fatherhood for Washington
was not always a laughing matter,
but it brought the highs and lows
any parent experiences. Today, it
perhaps helps cast him in a more
honest, human light: not just as
founder but as general, president,
enslaver and dad.
And if even he struggled to get
his kids to do their homework,
there9s some comfort in that for
parents everywhere.
Cassandra a. good is a historian and
author of the new book <first family:
george Washington9s Heirs and the
Making of america.=

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A story of the families enslaved by the
Jesuits and sold to save Georgetown
gEOrgEtOwn from C1
272 enslaved men, women and children
who labored on their maryland planta-
tions.
The prospective buyers were promi-
nent men from Louisiana: Henry John-
son, a congressman and defender of
slavery who9d once served as governor,
and Jesse Batey, a doctor who had
established himself as a planter.
When the two men had disembarked
from the stagecoach that carried them
from Washington to the countryside of
southern maryland just a few months
earlier, they had found rev. Thomas
mulledy, the former president of
Georgetown who now ran the Jesuit
province, waiting to give them a tour of
the plantations and the scores of people
he9d put up for sale.
At St. Inigoes, one of the Jesuit
plantations in St. mary9s County, the
enslaved numbered more than 80 peo-
ple. There were toddlers and young
mothers, young men in the prime of
their lives, middle-aged couples, and
elderly men and women.
Harry mahoney, Louisa and Anny9s
father and the patriarch of the extended
mahoney clan, was described as the
oldest enslaved person on the planta-
tion. He had worked faithfully for the
Jesuits for decades, hidden the church9s
wealth during the War of 1812, and
secured a pledge that his family would
never be sold. Would the Jesuits keep
that pledge?
His daughter Nelly seemed safe. She
was working in Alexandria, Va., helping
the Jesuit priest who was tending the
flock at St. mary9s Church. But what
about his wife, Anna? What about the
rest of his children? one of his sons,
Gabriel, a blacksmith, was married to a
woman on another plantation. Would he
be safe?
After weeks of haggling over price,
mulledy, Johnson, and Batey had come
to an agreement. They met in Washing-
ton, to put the deal into writing: 272
men, women, and children 4 many of
whom belonged to families that had
been enslaved by the Jesuits for genera-
tions 4 were to be sold for the sum of
$115,000, roughly $422 per person. The
handwritten agreement, signed by all
three men, ran to eight pages.
There were the financial details, of
course 4 a payment plan in installments
with interest 4 and there was a delivery
plan, which described when and how
the enslaved people would be handed
over. The men agreed that $25,000
would be paid on the delivery of the first
group of 51 people, who were to be
shipped to the port of Alexandria <as
soon as practicable.=
Johnson and Batey did get some
assurances written into the agreement
to ensure that they would be protected if
the enslaved people turned out to be
sickly or older 4 and therefore less
valuable 4 than mulledy claimed. The
priest promised to reduce the price of
the enslaved people purchased <for such
difference in age, or for such defects as
shall lessen their value= and to go to
arbitration if the parties could not come
to an agreement on a reasonable reduc-
tion in price.
The three men signed the document
one after another 4 first mulledy, then
Batey, then Johnson 4 setting into
motion the machinery of what would
become one of the largest documented
slave sales of the time.
The rest of the enslaved were to be
delivered between oct. 15 and Nov. 15.
But nearly half of the agreement was
devoted to scores of names, those of
nearly every enslaved person owned by
the Jesuits: grandfathers such as Isaac, a
65-year-old man enslaved on the White
marsh plantation; children such as
francis, an 8-year-old boy enslaved at St.
Thomas manor; mothers such as Susan,
a 20-year-old woman, and her 7-year-old
daughter.
mulledy, in his zeal to wrap up the
deal, failed to mention that several of
the men listed in the agreement had run
away and no longer lived on the planta-
tions. The agreement also failed to note
that a number of the enslaved on the list
had spouses who were owned by other
slaveholders and that rome had or-
dered the Jesuits not to separate such
couples.
The document provided the first hint
that mulledy was prepared to do what
many Jesuits viewed as unconscionable
and immoral: to break up families, if
necessary, to get the money he needed to
save Georgetown, founded in 1789 and
destined to become one of the nation9s
elite universities.
The people most deeply affected by
the deal were miles away, laboring at St.
Inigoes and the other Jesuit plantations
in maryland. The sale document includ-
ed only their first names, but to one
another, they were the Queens, the
Goughs, the Hawkinses, the Campbells,
the Butlers, the Browns, the Dorseys,
and the Wests. And all of them had been
sold, including, despite the decades-
long pledge, the mahoneys.
Within days of the agreement being
signed, Horatio Trunnell, the man hired
to handle the roundup, headed out to St.
Inigoes. He and his men arrived without
warning and swept through the planta-
eZ
loUiSiAnA STATe ARCHiveS
From left, descendants of enslaved people, Sandra green thomas, Patricia Bayonne Johnson, Zeita Kemp, Melissa
Kemp, Karran Harper royal and Joseph Steward stand with georgetown University President John Degioia at the
ceremony in September 2016 to announce atonements for the 19th-century history of enslaved people at the college.
tion rounding up frantic families, about
41 people in all. The youngest were
toddlers. The oldest were two men, both
aged about 45, both with wives and
children.
one of those men was robert mahon-
ey, Harry9s oldest son. A similar roundup
took place at the White marsh planta-
tion, where nearly a dozen people were
forced to leave their homes and their
extended families. Word spread from
one estate to another, radiating through
the enslaved communities and the small
circle of clergy responsible for the
plantations.
<Without any notice or preparation
the slaves were seized violently and by
heathen hands,= father Thomas Lilly
wrote in a letter to rome, describing
what had happened at St. Inigoes and
White marsh. <They were treated as
animals in every respect.=
Their destination was the port in
Alexandria, where they would be impris-
oned as they waited to board the Uncas,
the ship that would carry them to
Louisiana. The 155-ton, two-masted ship
had been purchased in 1836 by William
H. Williams, a slave trader based in
Washington.
During the very week that robert
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SoCieTy oF JeSUS/BooTH FAmily CenTeR FoR SpeCiAl ColleCTionS/GeoRGeTown UniveRSiTy
ABOVE: A page from the
agreement between Jesuit
leaders and two men from
Louisiana for the sale of 272
enslaved people in 1838 that
went ahead despite protest by
some priests. LEFt: Henry
Johnson was a congressman
from Louisiana who was one of
the buyers in the deal. rIgHt:
thomas Mulledy was the former
georgetown president who
initiated and closed the deal to
secure funds to pay down debt
that was owed by the college.
The 272: The Families
Who Were Enslaved
and Sold to Build the
American Catholic
Church
By Rachel l. Swarns
Random House.
352 pp. $28
the washington post
GeoRGeTown UniveRSiTy
linDA DAviDSon/THe wASHinGTon poST
mahoney, his family, and the others
were imprisoned in the port city, Wil-
liams announced in the pages of the
Alexandria Gazette that his ship would
be sailing <for NEW orLEANS.=
No record has survived of robert9s
thoughts as he and the others descended
into the hold of the ship. But on June 29,
the newspaper carried the news of the
ship9s departure: <Sailed, June 28, Brig
Uncas, Cross, New orleans.=
mulledy was visiting St. Inigoes when
the news of the Uncas9s departure
appeared in the newspaper. The follow-
ing day, he dedicated his mass to the
<poor negroes,= but his prayers did little
to assuage the outrage of the priests who
managed the Jesuit plantations.
<It is with the greatest pain of spirit
that I take up the pen,= Lilly wrote.
<Those men, I believe, had assured
humane and Christian treatment, but I
discovered their nature,= he continued.
<What distress! What a scandal not only
for the Catholics, but also for the
Protestants! many of them detest this
sale as much as possible. And it will
dispense such a wound to this religion
and to this order.=
Worse still, he wrote, was the news
that it was only the beginning, that the
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<remaining entirety= of the enslaved
population had also been sold. It was
only a matter of time before the slave
traders returned for the rest.
Could rome have <permitted and
approved= such an inhumane plan?
Could Jan roothaan, the superior gener-
al of the Society of Jesus, better known
as the Jesuits, have given such a horrific
sale his blessing?
mulledy was well aware of the outrage
bubbling up among his fellow priests,
particularly those stationed on the plan-
tations. And the stress of what priests
would later describe as the ugly business
of selling human beings was clearly
taking its toll. mulledy felt so <fatigued=
and <unwell,= as he recorded in his
journal, that on five occasions that
summer he did not officiate at mass.
Still he remained unbowed, and in
August, he struck back against his
critics. In a defiant letter to roothaan,
he addressed the mounting criticism of
his leadership. He dismissed Lilly and
the other priests criticizing him on the
plantations, suggesting that their objec-
tions to the sale stemmed from their
self-serving distress at losing their au-
thority over scores of enslaved people.
<In no way is this matter pleasing to
them,= he wrote, <because they will not
be the great masters they were before,
but I hope they will be better Jesuits.=
Jesuit administrators, meanwhile,
made careful note of the money that
poured into their accounts that summer,
and where that money went.
<8000 to Archbishop of Balt. to
extinguish debt,= reads a line in one of
the Jesuit cashbooks, describing a pay-
ment made to the Bishop of Baltimore to
settle an old claim.
The rest of the down payment 4 some
$17,000 4 went to Georgetown. That
hefty sum would help pay down the
debts that mulledy had incurred during
a building campaign. And more money
4 much more 4 would be coming into
the province over the next decade,
mulledy informed rome, as Johnson
and Batey made good on their payments
to the Jesuits in annual installments.
While money flowed into the Jesuit
coffers, the priests and enslaved people
on the plantations prayed and waited.
only about 30 people remained at St.
Inigoes9s Black community. They had
witnessed the end of the world as they
knew it. But the trauma wasn9t over. All
of them 4 the young, the old, the
married, the single, the strong, the
feeble 4 had price tags on their heads.
That knowledge haunted the two
sisters, Louisa and Anny, as they cooked
and cleaned for the priest who lived in
the manor house, comforted their elder-
ly parents and tended to the young
children who still laughed and frolicked,
innocent of what was to come.
They had grown up together, the
youngest girls in a sprawling family, and
they had prayed, as many enslaved
people did, that their family would
remain intact, that they would always
stay together. But soon, they knew, the
members of their community would be
rounded up and shipped down South,
far from the world they knew and the
people they loved. Any day now, any
minute now, the slave traders would be
coming. Who would be taken next?
roothaan had ordered mulledy to
keep families together and warned that
missteps might provoke divine retribu-
tion: <It would be better to suffer
financial disaster than suffer the loss of
our souls with the sale of the slaves.=
mulledy carried the weight of that
warning with him as he prepared him-
self for the journey. But it did not
dissuade him.
on oct. 31, 1838, about six weeks after
the luminous solar eclipse appeared in
the sky, he picked up his diary. <Set out
for St. Innigoes,= he wrote.
At the plantation, father Joseph Car-
bery, another priest who opposed what
mulledy was doing, got word: The slave
traders were coming.
In a flagrant act of defiance against
his superior, the priest sought out
members of the mahoney family. run!
Carbery told them. run!
Louisa ran with her mother. Anny
gathered her children.
But for Anny, the news came too late.
She and her two young children, Arnold,
who was about 8 or 9 years old, and
Louisa, who was about 6, were herded
together with the rest of the enslaved
people who would be loaded on the ship.
Harry, now an old man and the
patriarch of the family, was spared. But
it was the bitterest of blessings. He had
done all he could to keep his family safe,
trusting in the pledge from the Jesuits
that the mahoneys would never be sold.
He had raised his children and
watched his grandchildren grow,
buoyed by the belief that they would all
remain together. His wife and his daugh-
ter, Louisa, had managed to hide in the
woods and return safely to the planta-
tion after the ship set sail. But the rest of
his family was being wrenched apart.
In June, his oldest son had been
stolen from him. Now two of his daugh-
ters, Anny and Bibiana, and his grand-
children were being taken, torn from
their homes and marched away from St.
Inigoes, all of them victims of the
mundane brutality of American slavery.
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African American burials in St. Mary9s are among Maryland9s oldest
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. . . if not the earliest individuals
of African descent ever studied in
Maryland,= said Travis Parno, act-
ing executive director of Historic
St. Mary9s City, the organization
that conducted the dig about 70
miles southeast of Washington.
The burials may have hap-
pened as early as the 1680s, he
said in a recent telephone inter-
view. <And at the latest, probably
1730s.=
The dig was conducted to save
the remains, which had already
been damaged by uprooted trees
and erosion at the river, he said.
The woman9s burial was first
identified in the 1970s. The man9s
was identified in 1980. Both were
left mostly in place because they
weren9t then under threat, Parno
said.
The project was undertaken
with the support of the local
African American community.
<If we didn9t disinter them,=
much could have been lost, said
Kelsey R.M. Bush, a member of
the Chancellor9s Point Working
Group, the community advisory
team: <Not understanding the
story . . . [not] understanding
how hallowed the ground actual-
ly is.=
<Now we can put them at rest,=
he said in a recent telephone
interview. <And celebrate their
spirit and perseverance and . . .
that root from which we all came.=
Bush, who is also Community
Affairs Liaison at St. Mary9s Col-
lege of Maryland, said too often
the dark story of slavery has been
ignored in the teaching of the
country9s history.
<Growing up down here and
Theresa Vargas
Edwin Bancroft Henderson, unsung hero of Black basketball, ûnally gets his due
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yanked open or the doors he
constructed when none existed.
But this weekend is a time we
set aside to celebrate fathers,
and it seems a fitting moment to
talk about a historic father figure
who is finally getting the
recognition he deserves.
Henderson has been called
both the <father of Black
basketball= and the <grandfather
of Black basketball,= and soon, a
statue will immortalize him in
the nation9s capital.
on Saturday, the University of
the District of Columbia will
unveil a statue of the
Washington native who created
space for Black athletes to excel
at a time when they couldn9t
even watch White players
perform in some venues.
Henderson was the first Black
man in the nation certified to
teach physical education in
public school, and he is credited
with bringing basketball to the
Black community. He also
formed the nation9s first rural
branch of the NAACP in 1918 in
Virginia and his activism led
him to receive threats from the
Ku Klux Klan, including a letter
that warned he would be <borne
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visiting [historic sites] it was one
of those things that you never
envisioned yourself as being part
of the picture,= said Bush.
<We need to tell truth,= he said.
<We need to fund things like
anthropology and archaeology
. . . Without them we don9t really
understand ourselves.=
Bush said his family roots go
back many generations in St.
Mary9s, and his great-grandfather
on his father9s side was born into
slavery in Alabama.
<I wonder what my ancestors
would think of me being em-
ployed here and getting paid to
work here on land that they toiled
on and spilled blood on,= he said.
<This is a very special place for me
in a different sort of way.=
The bones discovered along the
river on land owned by the state
of Maryland are now in the His-
toric St. Mary9s City laboratory.
The plan is to have them under-
go examination at the Smithso-
nian Institution9s National Mu-
seum of Natural History, in Wash-
ington, and then be properly re-
buried. Those arrangements have
not yet been made.
Douglas owsley, the museum9s
curator of biological anthropolo-
gy, said the structure of the man9s
face and skull, and the woman9s
altered tooth, indicate that the
two people were of African
descent.
He said the alteration was in an
upper front tooth and that other
teeth, which are missing, were
probably also modified.
Scholars have identified dental
alteration as a cultural practice in
Africa that shows up in some
burials of the enslaved.
<I think this is a game-chang-
to a tree nearby, tied stripped
and given thirty lashes.=
Hanlon, a sculptor who has
captured the likeness of sports
legends and historic greats for
institutions across the country,
created the statue of Henderson
for UDC. When we spoke, he
described it as an <important
historical marker.=
<Sports history is American
history, and it9s profoundly true
in the piece we9re talking about
today,= he said. <This historical
marker is both of those 4 it9s
American history and it9s sports
history.=
In recent years, Hanlon and
his team have completed statues
in the Washington region of Earl
Lloyd, Dominque Dawes and
Harriet Tubman. Hanlon said
Henderson joins those <pillars=
and together they make up a
<wonderful array of dynamic
characters who were pioneers.=
They also, he said, show that
the national landscape is
changing when it comes to
whom people want to see put on
platforms.
<We thought we would do one
person of color as a pioneer per
year out of my studio,= Hanlon
said. <It9s turned into five.
Equally important is I thought I
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Part of a clay pipe found during a recent archaeological dig in St.
Mary9s County. The man recovered had a <pipe facet= in one tooth.
<There is just so much history here and in addition
to being Maryland stories, these are national
stories & [and] key to that national narrative.=
Travis Parno, acting executive director of Historic St. Mary9s City
ing discovery for Historic St.
Mary9s City [and] for Maryland,=
Parno said. <These are two indi-
viduals who went unrecorded in
the historical record= but who
now add to the story of the period.
The first permanent White
settlers came to what is now St.
Mary9s City, in southern Mary-
land, in 1634. Enslaved Africans
arrived soon after.
<From the early 1630s, we
know there were enslaved people
here,= Parno said. <Enslavement
would do one female athlete a
year, because the whole
landscape has been void of
female athletes. Last year, we did
four. I think next year will be
even better.=
When we pass by statues
something unique happens. We
are forced to pause, if only for a
moment, and think. They push
us to consider who that person
was and what they achieved that
made them worthy of that
permanent marker. That the
faces on our statues are now
representing a broader scope of
people is a positive development
because it expands the picture of
our collective history. It also
allows more individuals to see
glimpses of themselves in those
figures, and by doing that, offers
more people a nudge toward
greatness.
<There were a lot of voices 4 a
lot of female voices, a lot of
Latino, Asian and African
American voices 4 that have
been part of the creation of
America that we don9t know
about, because there weren9t
these huge monuments
enshrined to them,= Rodney
Trapp, vice president of
advancement for UDC, said.
<And so, their history and their
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began from the outset= and
spread dramatically over next few
decades.
The exhumation comes a few
weeks after Parno9s team and an-
thropologists from the Smithso-
nian unearthed the remains of a
teenage boy with a broken leg
who is believed to be among
Maryland9s first White colonists.
And in 2021, Historic St. Mary9s
City announced that its experts
had found the outlines of the
long-lost fort that was erected by
legacy and their
accomplishments have been
forgotten.=
He said the university is proud
that the statue of Henderson is
part of a larger movement
toward more equitable
representation: <Everyone
deserves to be validated and
have their voices heard and have
images and statues that look like
them and tell their story.=
UDC officials asked that I not
reveal photos of Henderson9s
statue before the unveiling, but I
have seen it and I can tell you
this: When the statue is finally
made public, it will show
Henderson as a young man
holding a basketball and
standing on a court. It will
depict a moment in his life when
possibilities and challenges
remained in front of him, not
unlike the students who will
pass by it on campus.
Trapp said he hopes students
who see it think about
Henderson9s resilience and
consider the courage it took for
him to press forward into the
unknown and the uncomfortable
and ignore the naysayers who
said, <oh, this is not for you.
You9re not built for this.=
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the first colonists. The two en-
slaved persons were buried about
a mile and a half from that site.
<It speaks to the incredible
archaeological legacy of St.
Mary9s City,= Parno said in an
email. <There is just so much
history here and in addition to
being Maryland stories, these are
national stories . . . [and] key to
that national narrative.=
The original 150 colonists, in-
cluding many English Catholics
fleeing Protestant persecution,
arrived at St. Mary9s on two ships,
the Ark and the Dove, in late
March 1634.
The settlement, which was the
colony9s first capital, was aban-
doned after the government
moved to Annapolis in the 1690s.
But before the move, the Mary-
land legislature in 1664 enacted a
comprehensive slave code 4 the
first in English-speaking North
America, Parno said.
It decreed that <people of Afri-
can descent are going to be en-
slaved for life, and their children
for their lives as well,= he said.
Funeral rites <were one of the
few [activities] enslaved Africans
were allowed to conduct on their
own, without any interference
from the enslavers,= Henry M.
Miller, Maryland heritage scholar
with Historic St. Mary9s City, said
in an email.
The exhumed man is thought
to have been in his early 30s when
he died, but he had the deteriorat-
ed spine of a man in his 50s, Parno
said.
<That9s someone who did a lot
of hard work in their life, a lot of
backbreaking work,= he said.
The man also had a <pipe facet=
in a tooth, a groove worn by a clay
school that later became UDC,
and he learned about basketball
while studying at Harvard9s
Dudley Sargent School of
Physical Training. In 1907,
Henderson and his future
brother-in-law went to a
White-only YMCA in D.C. to
watch a basketball game and the
athletic director ordered them to
leave, according to a 2013
Washington Post Magazine piece
that tells Henderson9s story.
Months later, Henderson staged
the first known basketball game
for Black players in D.C., and
shortly after that, he started
raising money to open the city9s
first YMCA for the Black
community.
To tell Henderson9s full story, I
would need more than the space
of this column. But what9s
important to know is that he
dedicated his life to pushing for
more athletic opportunities for
young Black people. He
eventually formed the nation9s
first public school athletic league
for Black students, allowing
them to compete in basketball,
baseball, soccer, and track and
field.
In 2022, UDC named its
sports complex after Henderson
and launched a fund to raise
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pipe he smoked 4 perhaps one of
his few pleasures.
The man was buried with care,
his hands folded, his body facing
the water 4 <almost looking out
at the mouth of the river,= Parno
said, maybe <toward the avenue
home.=
Bush, of the community group,
said: <He9s facing down river to-
wards Africa,= as if those who
buried him were saying, <we9re
sending you back.=
But several centuries later, the
river had come too close and
erosion had already carried away
the man9s lower legs.
<This was a case of preserva-
tion,= Parno said. <We felt we had
to do this project, and we only
moved forward with it with the
blessing of members of our com-
munity who said, 8No, we need to
save these burials.9=
The woman was buried on her
side. She was 24 to 27 years old
and had a modest build.
Decades before, a nearby tree
had fallen, its roots knocking
loose the modified tooth, which
was recovered and saved.
The two people were probably
of the same generation, or per-
haps a generation apart, Parno
said, both condemned to short,
harsh lives in captivity.
It is possible that other burials
may already have been lost to the
river, and that others may be
nearby, the experts said.
Either way, Bush said: <This
could be a place that you could
come and know that you could
directly commune with individu-
als who we know were brought
directly from the homeland to
here, and were interred to return
back to that same place.=
money for scholarship
opportunities and the creation of
the statue, which will stand
outside the complex. Days ago,
the school remained about
$20,000 short of its $300,000
goal.
<It9s been a challenge, to be
quite honest, because E.B
Henderson is not a household
name,= Trapp said of the
fundraising effort. <A lot of folks
don9t know who he is. We
reached out to a lot of folks in
the sports community and they
were like, 8E.B. who?9=
He confessed he hadn9t heard
about Henderson before a
university trustee started
sharing his story.
<We feel like this is our own
Katherine Johnson from the
movie 8Hidden Figures,9= Trapp
said of the Black mathematician
whose work helped send
astronauts into orbit. <People
didn9t know about these African
American mathematicians and
engineers who helped NASA in
some of the early explorations of
space until that movie came out.
So, we9re hoping this statue that
is being erected on our campus
in honor of an alumnus of the
university will help bring
attention to his story.=
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richard e. Snyder, 90
Executive helmed rise of Simon
& Schuster as publishing power
BY A SSOCIATED P RESS
Richard E. Snyder, a visionary
and imperious executive at Si-
mon & Schuster who in boldfaced
style presided over the publish-
er9s exponential rise during the
second half of the 20th century
and helped define an era of con-
solidation and growing corporate
power, died June 6 at his home in
Los Angeles. He was 90.
His death was confirmed by
his son Matthew Snyder. The
cause was not immediately avail-
able.
Mr. Snyder helped make Si-
mon & Schuster one of the largest
publishing houses in the world
and belonged to a cohort of
executives who transformed the
industry.
When he joined Simon &
Schuster as a sales assistant in
the early 1960s, publishing hous-
es were mostly privately owned,
some still run by their founders.
By the time he was forced out in
1994 by Viacom, Simon & Schus-
ter9s parent company, the pub-
lishing house and such rivals as
Random House and HarperCol-
lins were under corporate owner-
ship and had bought out numer-
ous former competitors.
As president of Simon & Schus-
ter starting in 1975, and chief
executive from 1978 to 1994, Mr.
Snyder built a modern company
in ways at times too modern for
the world of books. Simon &
Schuster9s revenue multiplied
from around $40 million annual-
ly in the 1970s to more than
$2 billion by the mid-1990s, mak-
ing it at the time the country9s
largest publisher, a position now
held by Penguin Random House.
Bestsellers during Mr. Snyder9s
reign included Mary Higgins
Clark9s crime thrillers and Pulit-
zer Prize winners such as David
McCullough9s <Truman= and Lar-
ry McMurtry9s <Lonesome Dove.=
Mr. Snyder also was an early
advocate for electronic publish-
ing and computerizing business
operations, and he vastly expand-
ed Simon & Schuster by purchas-
ing such educational companies
as Prentice Hall and Esquire,
spending more than $1 billion
overall on acquisitions.
<You cannot be a publisher any
longer without also being a busi-
nessman,= Mr. Snyder told the
New York Times in 1984. <The
thought that you can publish just
because you love books is a sure
prescription for failure.=
The New Yorker labeled Mr.
Snyder a <warrior-king,= and for-
mer Simon & Schuster editor
Robert Gottlieb recalled his
<Ahab-like determination to see
Simon & Schuster outgrow
Random House.=
Colleagues who departed the
company shared stories about his
profane, peak-volume tirades, al-
though Gottlieb would note that
<this famously difficult man
could command loyalty, respect
and even affection.= Another Si-
mon & Schuster editor, Michael
Korda, wrote of Mr. Snyder9s
<skin-deep= commitment to liter-
ary fiction 4 because <most of it
loses money.=
Simon & Schuster did publish
Philip Roth, Graham Greene and
Joan Didion, among others, and
Mr. Snyder played a direct role in
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As president and CEO, Richard
E. Snyder helped grow Simon &
Schuster as one of the largest
publishing houses in the world,
transforming the industry.
making the company a favorite
home for the inside story on
Washington.
In the fall of 1972, as the
Watergate affair was taking off,
Mr. Snyder personally lobbied
Washington Post reporters Bob
Woodward and Carl Bernstein for
a book on their coverage of the
scandal, which became <All the
President9s Men.=
He met them at the Hay-
Adams hotel in Washington, on a
day they had erred on a key fact
about President Richard M. Nix-
on9s chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman,
and convinced them to publish
with Simon & Schuster 4 even
though a rival was offering more
money.
<Dick looked us straight in the
eye and he was very direct and I
felt we9d get his total backing,=
Woodward told the Times in
1992. <I was right. If he9d ever
ducked, or flinched or blinked, I9d
say so. But he never has. He9s
brave. He cares. He always does
what he says he9ll do. And he9s
tough, tough, tough.=
Released in June 1974, two
months before Nixon9s resigna-
tion, <All the President9s Men=
was a landmark in American
publishing, a book-length inves-
tigative work on a sitting presi-
dent and his administration. It
spent months on bestseller lists,
was adapted into an acclaimed
movie of the same name, and
helped launch a wave of timely
political releases 4 including
Woodward and Bernstein9s coda
on the Nixon years, <Final Days=
(1976) 4 that has continued to
the present day.
Woodward and Bernstein re-
called Mr. Snyder as a publisher
who always stood by them.
<Dick was brave and he was
tough 4 a visionary who under-
stood that, like our great editor at
the Washington Post, Ben Brad-
lee, the buck stopped with him 4
and he would never waver, even
under threats from a sitting Pres-
ident,= they said in a joint state-
ment after Mr. Snyder9s death.
<That commitment also extended
to an enduring friendship as a
mentor and avuncular presence
for us throughout Dick9s life.=
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signed up memoirs by such fallen
Nixon officials as John Dean,
John Ehrlichman and John
Mitchell, along with books by
Nixon himself and Ronald Rea-
gan, whose memoir was released
just months before Simon &
Schuster published Kitty Kelley9s
notorious <Nancy Reagan,= which
suggested the former first lady
had an affair with Frank Sinatra.
Woodward has stayed with Si-
mon & Schuster for decades, his
long run of No. 1 sellers including
<Veil,= <Plan of Attack= and the
Trump-era <Fear.= Some of the
country9s most popular histori-
ans, including McCullough and
fellow Pulitzer winner Doris
Kearns Goodwin, were longtime
Simon & Schuster authors.
Mr. Snyder rose and fell by the
hard and random rules of corpo-
rate culture. His power grew even
as the company changed owner-
ship and organization several
times, but soon after Viacom
purchased Simon & Schuster in
1994, he was fired for not being a
<team player,= and his career
never recovered.
He attempted to revive the
children9s imprint Golden Books,
for which he worked early in his
career, but the business went
bankrupt and within a few years
was sold.
Richard Snyder was born in
Brooklyn on April 6, 1933. He
would remember himself as a
poor student in a house without
books who expected to join his
father9s overcoat business.
When his father turned him
away, he found work as a trainee
at Doubleday, where his immer-
sion in numbers and the fine
print of contracts set him apart.
Within two years, he was at
Simon & Schuster. Doubleday
fired him, he later told the Times,
for <telling them how wrong they
were doing everything.=
Mr. Snyder was a 1955 gradu-
ate of Tufts University in Massa-
chusetts. He endowed a lecture
series there, with Woodward
among the speakers. In the late
1980s, he helped establish the
nonprofit National Book Founda-
tion, which presents the National
Book Awards.
Mr. Snyder9s four marriages
ended in divorce. His first wife,
according to the Times, was Ruth
Freund.
He and his second wife, Joni
Evans, whom he hired as director
of subsidiary rights and who rose
to head the trade book division at
Simon & Schuster, spent years as
a power couple of publishing.
Their separation in 1986, Evans9s
departure for Random House
and their subsequent divorce
prompted a torrent of news cov-
erage about their relationship
and its undoing.
Mr. Snyder was later married
to Laura Yorke, also a veteran of
the publishing industry. He was
married most recently to Terresa
Liu.
According to the Times, Mr.
Snyder9s survivors include two
children from his first marriage,
Matthew and Jackie; two sons
from his third marriage, Richard
Jr. and Coleman; and two grand-
children.
the Post contributed to this report.
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IN MEMORIAM
FLOWERS
JESSIE FLOWERS
HAPPY FATHER9S DAY
Your life was a blessing.
Your memory a treasure.
You are loved beyond words,
and missed beyond measure!
Love, your children
HICKS
JUTTA BIELEFELDT HICKS (Age 79)
March 24, 1944 - June 13, 2023
Jutta Bielefeldt Hicks of Boston passed
away peacefully on June 13 with her
children at her side. Predeceased by her
husband, Coleman S. Hicks; survived by
her brother, Christian Bielefeldt; daughter,
Darlington (Toni) P. Hicks; son, Christian B.
Hicks; and four grandchildren. A celebra-
tion of life will be held at a later date. Do-
nations in lieu of ûowers may be made to
On the Rise, Inc. (www.ontherise.org).
HILL-STEWART
BEULAH MARGARET HILL-STEWART
7/14/1919 - 6/18/1986
Loving memory of Nanny
who God called home 37
years ago. We will always
keep you in our heart.
<2Good2B4Gotten=
Love, Gwen (Edwina).Marquita and Family
<In Jesus Name=
JONES
CLIFTON WILLIAM JONES
Thinking of You, Dear Dad,
this Father9s Day
The afterglow of smiles and love
that you have left behind,
I pray my life may echo them
as happy laughing times.
And when the day is done,
and the sun has tried all tears,
I will meet you there, with smiles and love,
And we will sing and dance and
Praise the Lord for all Eternity.
Your Loving Daughter, Cliftine
(cliftinejonesltd@gmail.com)
<This is the Day that the Lord has made;
Let us Rejoice and be Glad in it.= Psalm:
118:24
PAIEWONSKY
SABINA REISFELD PAIEWONSKY
June 20, 1932 4 August 30, 1977
A Woman of Valor
Dearly loved,
profoundly missed,
an inspiration always.
POWERS
PHILIP W. POWERS
MARCH 21, 1925 3 OCTOBER 22, 2003
Happy Father9s Day, Dad! We miss you&
Love always,
Your Family
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SHORT DEPALMA
GEORGE DEPALMA
JUNE 4, 1951 - MAY 18, 2023
George Ralph DePalma died in Fountain
Hills, Arizona on May 18, 2023. The cause
of death was cancer. Formerly a resident of
Northern Virginia; he is survived by his wife
of 48 years, Anne Bazuin DePalma of Foun-
tain Hills; his sister Regina, of Falls Church;
his brother Gregory, of Alexandria; and his
nephews Adam and Anthony. Services and
interment private. Donations in his mem-
ory may be made to American Indian Col-
lege Fund (collegefund. org) or HALO Ani-
mal Rescue (halo rescue. org).
DILLON
JAMES N. SR AND OLLIE W. SHORT
Happy Birthday, Mother! TIMOTHY DILLON
Happy Father9s Day, Father! Beloved husband, father, brother, uncle,
From James N. Short, Jr., Betty Sanders, and friend passed away on June 10, 2023
Tahira Lessey and the Short Family DC in Maricopa, AZ, where he had lived and
served as the de facto mayor for the last
three years. He was 76. He was a fourth
generation native of Washington, DC, and
lived most of his life there and in Maryland.
DEATH NOTICE Tim started his long news career during his
active duty with the U.S. Air Force as the
editor of the Stars and Stripes newspaper.
ARNOLD Subsequently he was a photojournalist for
the Maryland Independent, the Washing-
ton Evening Star, and USA Today. Tim was
a member of the White House Press Pho-
tographers Pool covering the Reagan, H.W.
Bush, Clinton, and Bush administrations
and served for a decade as Chairman of
the Senate Press Photographers9 Gallery.
He covered wars in several countries and
was nominated for a Pulitzer for his work
in Somalia. He was an outstanding pho-
tographer who was well respected by his
colleagues and was also very handsome.
He is survived by his wife, Marie Dillon, son,
John Dillon (Brooke), daughter, Kelley Dillon
(Brian Beutler), mother-of-his-children,
Katherine Dillon, grandchildren, Riley and
Jack Dillon, brothers, Thomas Dillon (Su-
san Fitzgerald) and Matthew Dillon, sisters
Carroll Dethrow (John), Dori Dillon, Theresa
Koper (George), Barbara Bryant (Ed) and
Sheila Westrem, and several nieces and
nephews.
MARY B. ARNOLD A Funeral Mass will be held on July 13,
It is with great sadness that the Arnold 2023 at 10:30 a.m. at Saint Mary9s Church
family announces that Mary B. Arnold died located at 109 Duke of Gloucester Street,
peacefully among close family on May 31, Annapolis, MD 21401. Burial will be in Ar-
2023, at Rejuvenation Assisted Living in lington National Cemetery at a later date.
Silver Spring, Maryland. Mary was born Following the service, a memorial recep-
in Washington, DC, January 28, 1932, and tion will be held at the Eastport Demo-
lived an amazing life. cratic Club at 525 State St. Annapolis, MD
A memorial service will be held Saturday, 21403 from 12 to 3:30 p.m. The family asks
June 24, 2023 at Michigan Park Christian
Church, 1600 Taylor Street, NE., Washing-
that in lieu of ûowers donations be made
to hospice.
ton, DC, 20017. Visitation, 10 a.m., Service,
11 a.m.
BITZER DUPREE
DONALD PHILLIP DUPREE
Entered into eternal rest on Saturday, June
10, 2023. He is survived by brothers, Den-
nis Ray Dupree, Sr. and James Paul Dupree,
ûve sisters, Geraldine Hines-Perry, Mary
Moody, Rachel Dupree-Grant, Carol Ann
Dupree and Rochelle Denise Bayoh; a host
of other relatives and friends. Mr. Dupree
may be viewed at Stewart Funeral Home,
4001 Benning Rd., NE on Friday, June 23
from 10 a.m. until service at 11 a.m. Inter-
ment at Harmony Memorial Cemetery.
DAVID BITZER
(Age 87)
On Thursday, June 15, 2023. He is survived
by his loving wife, Sarah, his children Re-
becca Bitzer Ostrow (Michael), Carolyn
Bitzer (Suraj), Laura Morfessis, Linda Davis
(Dana), and Leslie Rutten, two brothers
Scott Hankla (Mary Pat) and Lorenzo (Ren)
Hankla (Faye), seven grandchildren, two
great-grandchildren, and a host of other
relatives and friends. A celebration of life
will be held on Saturday, July 8, at Cheverly
United Methodist Church at 2 p.m. In lieu
of ûowers, donations may be made to the
church.
DEATH NOTICE
BRANDT HANRAHAN
JOSEPH BRANDT
Joseph Brandt of Rockville, MD passed
away on June 14, 2023, at the age of 78. He
is survived by his children Kenneth Brandt,
Rebecca Roy, Allison Berdeguez and Jessi-
ca Subin; grandchildren Joey Brandt, Emilia
Roy, Asher and Charlotte Berdeguez; and
brother Alan Brandt. Funeral services will
be held at Garden of Remembrance Me-
morial Park in Clarksburg, MD on Tuesday,
June 20, 2023 at 11 a.m. Please sign the
family guestbook at:
www.DeVolFuneralHome.com
CHADWICK
MARY PETRONI HANRAHAN
April 21, 1927- June 7, 2023
Mary passed away at Ingleside Rock Creek
in Washington, DC at age 96. She was pre-
ceded in death by her loving husband Lar-
ry, parents Maddalena and Gino, and broth-
er Romeo. She was an amazing Aunt Mimi
to Carla Solberg, Elise Kamp, and Marissa
Coor. Cathy and Jim Jubert, John Coughlan,
Steve Coughlan, and Ann Ramsey were
honored to be her nieces and nephews,
as were Kevin, Brian, and Glenn Hanrahan.
She had many grand nieces and nephews
as well.
Mary worked with the State Department in
foreign service in Japan, and later with her
husband for three years in Korea, then set-
tling in American University Park. She en-
joyed volunteering at the National Gallery,
arts, music, and ûowers, and gave to many
AVALEEN CHADWICK <Jill= charities. She had many special friends in-
On June 10, 2023, Jill passed away peace- cluding Anne Buxley and family and Mary
fully in her sleep at Buckingham9s Choice Lee at Ingleside. Special thanks to her won-
in Adamstown, MD. She had celebrated her derful aids Zehra and Esther and the many
100th Birthday in March. A memorial ser- kind people of Ingleside. A service will be
vice will be held Sunday, June 25. Complete held at Ingleside Rock Creek, 3050 Military
Obit with memorial service information Ave., NW, in building 8 on June 24 at 11
and written tributes are available at a.m. to honor both Mary and Larry (who
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DEATH NOTICE
HEALY
BRIAN D. HEALY
Brian D. Healy age 59, on Wednesday June
7, 2023, formerly of Kensington, MD. Lov-
ing son of Joe and Peggy Healy; brother
of Mary M. Healy, deceased, Eileen Healy-
Bain (Patrick) and Jacqueline Healy Green
(Trey) and uncle to Connor and Riley Bain
and Ella and Joe Green. Mass of Christian
Burial will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday,
June 23, 2023 at St. Ann Catholic Church,
691 Garûeld Parkway, Bethany Beach. DE.
where a visitation will begin at 10 a.m. A
graveside service will be held at 11:30 a.m.
Tuesday, June 27, 2023, at Gate of Heav-
en Cemetery Silver Spring, MD. In lieu of
ûowers, the family suggests contributions
in Brian9s name to St. John9s College High
School, 2607 Military Road NW, Washing-
ton, DC 20015. Online condolences may be
sent by visiting
www.melsonfuneralservices.com
KAY
FRED W. KAY (Age 79)
Passed on peacefully to be with the Lord,
May 11, 2023. Service of Rememberance
on Saturday, June 24, 2023, 1 p.m. at Grace
Bible Church, 9920 Lanham-Severn Rd.,
Seabrook, MD 20706. See youtube.com@
gracebc for livestreaming.
KNEECE
ROLAND ROYCE KNEECE JR. (Age 83)
Roland Royce Kneece, Jr. passed away
peacefully on June 7, 2023 surrounded by
his loved ones. Royce was the only child
of Roland Royce Kneece, Sr. and Katherine
Kneece of Spartanburg, SC. He earned a
B.S. and M.S. in Applied Mathematics from
Georgia Tech, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics
from the University of Maryland. He was
president of his TKE fraternity and served
in the Army ROTC. He and Nancy Jane
Smith were married 31 years, raising two
children together. For the majority of his
career he served as a Defense Analyst
working in the Pentagon. A renaissance
man, Royce9s interests included abstract
painting, skiing, golf, sailing, cello and trav-
el. He is survived by his life partner of 16
DEATH NOTICE
LEE
ROLAND E. LEE
Roland E. Lee of Potomac, MD, formerly
Beltsville, MD passed away on May 3, 2023.
Survived by his wife, Catherine, ûve chil-
dren, 12 grandchildren, ûve great-grand-
children, and two sisters. He is preceded
in death by parents, two sisters, and his
eldest daughter. A Memorial Service will
be held at the Chinese Community Church,
500 I Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001
on Saturday, June 24, 2023 at 11 a.m. with
reception following. In lieu of ûowers, me-
morial contributions may be sent to the
Chinese Community Church.
MOUTON
CYRIL JAMES MOUTON JR.
Entered into eternal rest on Friday, June
2, 2023. Beloved father of daughters, Dan-
ielle Mouton and Verselle Mouton (prede-
ceased). He is survived by grandchild, Levi
Goodwin; six sisters, Jacquelyn Cathey, Pat
Farrell, Barbara Winston, Linda Hollingshed
and Camille Mouton; and a host of other
relatives and friends. On Wednesday, June
21, 2023, viewing at 10 a.m. until funeral
service, 11 a.m., at Stewart Funeral Home,
4001 Benning Road, NE, Washington, DC
20019. Interment at Quantico National
Cemetery. Online condolences may be
offered at
www.StewartFuneralHome.com
MURPHY
ELIZABETH W. MURPHY
Elizabeth W. Murphy died on Mother9s Day,
Sunday, May 14, 2023, in Laurel, Maryland
at the age of 96. She had been a resident
of Laurel since 1956. She was born in Mich-
igan on February 11, 1927. She is survived
by her two children, son Philip Murphy,
daughter Janet Murphy Pena, son-in-law
Manuel <Mike= Pena, cousins Joan Sand-
ers, Duane Ingraham, Helena Kaczynski,
and nieces and nephews. Those loved
ones who have predeceased her are her
husband, Francis Murphy, her brother John
Wilcox, her parents Elsie and Clare Wilcox,
and many cousins. A memorial service is
planned for Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 1
p.m. at the Laurel Presbyterian Church.
Donations in the name of Elizabeth Mur-
phy can be made to: Laurel Presbyterian
Church, 7610 Sandy Spring Rd, Laurel, MD
20707
NYMAN
ERIC W. NYMAN
June 10, 2023, Eric W. Nyman of Arlington,
Virginia, died suddenly at Virginia Hospital
Center. He leaves behind a wife, three chil-
dren, and six grandchildren. No services
are planned. In lieu of ûowers, donations
may be made to either Virginia Hospital
Center, Inûnite Legacy, or Anatomy Gifts.
DEATH NOTICE
ROBINSON
EMMA MAE MCKENNEY ROBINSON
Emma Mae McKenney Robinson, depart-
ed this life on Thursday, June 8, 2023.
She leaves to cherish her memories four
children; Kenneth Robinson, Charlotte
Holden, Vernon (Michelle) Robinson and
Michele Morris; a host of grandchildren/
great-grandchildren; family and friends.
Celebration of Life services will be held
Tuesday, June 20, 2023, viewing 9:30 to
10:45 a.m., services 11 a.m. at Maple
Springs Baptist Church, 4131 Belt Road,
Capitol Heights, MD 20743, Interment Ft.
Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood, MD. Ar-
rangements by Taylor9s Funeral Home,
Washington, DC.
STAKE
REBECCA ANNE STAKE
Rebecca Anne Stake <Becky=
83 of Silver Spring, Md passed
away peacefully in the compa-
ny of family, on June 11, 2023.
She was the beloved wife of
the late Michael Joseph Stake.
Loving mother of Dawn Green (Steve),
Kathleen Majeed (Mike), Michelle Stake,
Tracy Guthrie (Ben), and Shannon Stake
(Greg). Sister to Linda Curtis. Loving grand-
mother of 11 and great-grandmother of
two. Services will be held at St. Peter9s Par-
ish in Olney, MD on Tuesday, June 20, 2023,
with Visitation at 10:30 a.m. and Funeral
Mass at 11 a.m. Interment will follow at
Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Silver Spring,
Md. In lieu of ûowers, memorial contribu-
tions may be made to So Others May Eat
(S.O.M.E.) at www.some.org or to Mont-
gomery Hospice-Casey House at www.
montgomeryhospice.org. Arrangements by
Cole Funeral Services.
www.colefuneral.com
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WRIGHT
GWENDOLYN B. WRIGHT
On Friday, June 9, 2023 Gwendolyn B.
Wright peacefully transitioned at INOVA
Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA. She
is preceded in death by her husband,
Francis C. Wright and daughter, Valerie A.
Morton. She leaves to mourn her passing,
her daughter, Synathia D. Wright; her son
Francis C. Wright; one grandson, DeVonn
Morgan; two granddaughters, Renee and
Alexis Morton; two great granddaughters,
Kehlani Jones and Ayanna Courtney, in
addition to a host of other relatives and
friends. A viewing will be held at Shiloh
Baptist Church, 10704 Gunston Rd, Lor-
ton, VA on Monday, June 19, 2023 from
6 p.m. until 8 p.m. and Tuesday, June 20,
2023 from 10 a.m. until time of service at
11 a.m. Interment, Shiloh Baptist Church
Cemetery. Arrangements by Phillip Bell Sr.
and Winona Morrissette-Johnson Funeral
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EARLEY
JOSEPH EMMET EARLEY
Dr. Joseph Emmet Earley, 91, Falls Church,
VA. passed away at his home on Saturday,
June 10, 2023 after a long battle with cancer.
He was born in 1932 in Providence, Rhode
Island to Margaret Doran and Daniel Earley.
A proud graduate of Providence College,
Joseph received his Ph.D. in Physical and
Inorganic Chemistry from Brown University.
He served as a First Lieutenant in the United
States Army Chemical Corps.
A member of the faculty at Georgetown
University beginning in 1958, Joseph was
a Professor of Chemistry at Georgetown
often serving in leadership roles. He was
a proliûc author and contributor for books
and publications in science and philoso-
phy. Joseph was a Life Member in both the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science and the American Philosophical
FAULKNER
SHEILA CATHERINE FAULKNER
(Age 89)
Sheila Catherine Faulkner of Falls Church,
passed away on June 6, 2023 from com-
plications of COPD. She is survived by her
loving husband of 66 years, William Faulkner,
daughters, Lisa O9Hara, Kimbal Trahan, Gillan
Waugh, six grandchildren, her brother Niel
Spillane, two nephews and a niece. She was
raised in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY by her
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Society. He was an Emeritus Member of the
American Chemical Society. From 2000 to
2015, Joseph was President of The Everan
Foundation with a focus on Irish historic
preservation.
Joseph is survived by his wife of 67 years
Shirley A. Earley and his three sons and their
wives; Thomas and Karen, David and Nellie,
Joseph and Laura. Joseph was the loving
grandfather to seven grandchildren; Megan,
Ben, Katie, Jack, Jacob, Annmarie and Cole.
Joseph enjoyed spending time at Deep
Creek Lake, MD as an avid sailor, following
his grandchildren9s sporting events and sup-
porting the Georgetown Hoyas and Prov-
idence Friars. He was a community leader
with a wide range of interests including
service as a CCD instructor, church choir
member and service to the Falls Church
community.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
A visitation will be held at the Murphy Fu-
neral Home in Falls Church on Tuesday, June
20 at 11 a.m., with funeral services to be
held at St. James Catholic Church on Tues-
day, June 20 at 1 p.m. with burial to follow at
St. James Cemetery.
In lieu of ûowers, memorial contributions
can be made to Catholic Charities of the
Diocese of Arlington, Goodwin Hospice and
Catholic Relief Service
parents, Treva, and Joseph Spillane. After
working at Young & Rubicam in New York
City, she took a job at the U.S. Department
of State in Washington, DC where she met
her future husband. Together, they raised
their children in Iraq, Cambodia, Hong Kong,
Laos, Tanzania, and Falls Church. They also
traveled throughout Europe, China, New-
foundland, and the U.S. During much of
her government career, she was the ofûce
manager and scientiûc conference meeting
planner at the US Naval Observatory, Time
Management Services. She was highly intel-
ligent and not reluctant to speak her mind.
She was creative, with a particular passion
and talent for making and collecting minia-
tures. She was a member of the National
Association of Miniature Enthusiasts, and
an editor of its Tiny Tattler publication. She
was a brave and determined ûghter, always
willing to face challenges head-on. Her
life9s motto was <Here we go laughing and
scratching.= She is deeply missed and will
be lovingly remembered.
Services at Arlington National Cemetery will
be announced at a later date.
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utes/Sheila-Faulkner

years Marsha Patrick, his two daughters

Jane (Cate) Catherine Wnek (Christopher)
and Emily Elizabeth Whittaker (Michael),
grandchildren Tucker and Finn Wnek, and
Brooke and Charlie Whittaker. A service
and reception will be held at St. Francis
Episcopal Church in Great Falls, VA on July
8, at 11 a.m. Contributions in his memory
may be made to Doctors without Borders.
Demaine Funeral Home, Springûeld, VA is
handling the arrangements.
www.demainefunerals.com
KORBA
CMDR. MICHAEL JOHN KORBA SR.
US. NAVY (RET.)
Commander Michael John Korba, Sr.,
(Mike) age 79, of West Grove, PA, died on
June 14, 2023. Beloved husband of Alice
Carmen Korba for 50 years; father of Leigh
Maxson (Mike), Erin Weseloh (Liam) and Mi-
chael Korba, Jr. (Laura); grandfather of ûve
and brother of Joyce Dreeland and the late
Helen Cesari.
A viewing will be from 9:30 to 11 a.m.
with a Catholic prayer service at 11 a.m.
on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at the Long-
wood Funeral Home & Cremation of Mat-
thew Genereux, 913 East Baltimore Pike,
Kennett Square. Interment at future date in
Arlington National Cemetery.
OSBORNE
JESSE L. OSBORNE (Age 85)
Jesse Levi Osborne of Winchester, VA died
on Tuesday, June 13, 2023, at his home.
Mr. Osborne was born on March 7, 1938,
in Sterling, Virginia, the son of the late
Jesse Franklin Osborne and Zollie Frances
Reeves Osborne.
He married Zelma Lucille Fletcher Osborne
on June 7, 1958, in Herndon, Virginia. They
were married for 64 years. Mrs. Osborne
died on August 29, 2021.
He worked in Northern Virginia for many
years as a Carpet Installer until he went to
work for Fairfax County Public Schools and
then retired.
Mr. Osborne served in the United States
Army. In the late 19509s, Mr. Osborne
spent time at the Drag Race in Manassas,
VA. You know how it was at that time. Lov-
ing to race those 19579s Chevy. He enjoyed
watching Nascar with his wife and son.
He was a member of the American Legion
and the Herndon Moose.
Mr. Osborne is survived by a son, Charles
Allen Osborne of Winchester, VA and a sis-
ter, Gladys Nice of Fairfax, VA. and a host of
nieces and nephews.
Preceding him in death are ûve sisters, Bet-
ty Trammel, Merle Durst, Marjorie Brown,
Linda Faye McClaughry, and Sarah Cobble;
and three brothers, James Osborne, Webb
Osborne, and Charles Osborne.
Visitation will be held at Enders and Shirley
Funeral Home in Berryville, VA on Tuesday,
June 20, 2023 from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m.
Graveside services will be held on Wednes-
day, June 21, 2023 at 11 a.m. at Sterling
Cemetery in Sterling, VA.
In lieu of ûowers a donation to: Special
Olympics Foundation: A Basketball Chang-
es Lives. Special Olympics: Attn: Web Gifts,
2600 Virginia Ave. NW, 11th Floor, Washing-
ton, DC 20037.
To view the obituary and send condolenc-
es online, please visit
www.endersandshirley.com
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December 18, 1927 - June 5, 2023
Lloyd W. Thorson of Georgetown, Washing-
ton, DC, died peacefully on June 5, 2023.
Born in Geneva, IL, he was a graduate of
the University of Illinois, a Fulbright Schol-
ar, received an MBA from Columbia Uni-
versity, and was a veteran of the United
States Army. Lloyd served as an Economic
Advisor for the World Bank for most of his
career and spoke multiple languages. He
worked around the globe including Turkey,
Ethiopia, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Indonesia,
and Romania. An adventure enthusiast, he
traveled extensively throughout the USA
and internationally. He is survived by cous-
ins, nieces and nephews, and a large group
of devoted friends. A funeral will not be
held, but a celebration of his life will hap-
pen this autumn.
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family on Thursday, June 15, 2023. She is
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C. Rector; daughters Dr. Michelle Rector
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KAMP
a Master of Education from University of
Buffalo, and a Juris Doctor from William and
Mary9s Marshall Wythe School of Law. She
moved from Buffalo to Newport News, VA,
when Arthur was called to active duty in the
US Air Force in 1972. She taught school for
one year in Newport News, VA, and prac-
ticed law for 43 years in partnership with
her husband, including the last 22 years
with the Newport News, Virginia law ûrm of
David, Kamp & Frank, after which she and
her husband retired to Reston, Virginia, to
be close to their children and grandchildren.
She served as president of the Newport
News Education Foundation, the Newport
News Bar Association, and the Peninsula
Women9s Network, and was a member of
the Oyster Point Rotary Club. Barbara was
also an adjunct law professor at William and
Camilla Thrash (Alvin) Graves and Aretha
Thrash; 12 grandchildren; 18 great-grand-
children; her siblings Eartha Hudson, Ben-
jamin Davis and John Melvin Davis; and a
host of other relatives and friends. Friends
may call at the Mt. Jezreel Baptist Church,
317 N. Payne Street, Alexandria, VA 22314
on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 from 10 a.m. un-
til time of service at 11 a.m. Rev. Anthony
Oliver, ofûciating. Interment in Ivy Hill Cem-
etery. Services entrusted to Greene Funer-
al Home, Inc.
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DR. WILLIAM F. WINE
Dr. William <Bill= F Wine was born August 7,
1934, in Arlington Virginia, to Russell and
ond you in the
Virginia (Faulkner) Wine. He died May 31,
2023, at his beloved home in Callao, Virgin-
ia. He loved his children and grandchildren,
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WEBSTER
in 1955, he had a two-year stint in the Navy,
and then continued his education at the Uni-
versity of Virginia School of Law where he
graduated in 1960.
Kenly had a storied legal career starting with
the New York ûrm Cadwalader, Wickersham
& Taft. He then became a federal prosecutor
in Washington, DC, and later served as Princi-
pal Deputy General Counsel and Acting Gen-
eral Counsel of the Army. He received the
Army Distinguished Civilian Service Award,
among other recognitions. Three phases of
private practice followed Kenly9s govern-
ment service. Beyond legal work, he took
pride in his role as a co-founder of Princeton

BARBARA HAYS KAMP

Barbara Hays Kamp, a brilliant, beautiful,
kind, loving, funny, and spectacular wife,
mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, and
aunt, died on June 4, 2023. She was prede-
ceased by her mother, Amelia Burg Hays.
She is survived by her father, Harry B. Hays,
her husband of almost 55 years, Arthur J.
Kamp, her children, Sara Kamp Collins and
her husband, Scott Collins, and Nathaniel
Hays Kamp and his wife, Elizabeth Edelman
Kamp, her grandchildren, Maya Collins, So-
phia Collins, Michael Kamp, Benjamin Kamp
and Caroline Kamp, her siblings, David Hays
and Joanne Marasco, Thomas Hays, M.D.
and Ellen Friedland, James B. Hays and Ruth
Mathewson Hays, and numerous nieces and
nephews.
Barbara attended Kenmore East Senior High
School and earned a Bachelor of Arts and
Mary9s Marshall Wythe School of Law and a
member of the Board of Directors of numer-
ous other organizations. Her leadership and
intelligence were recognized by so many
organizations.
Barbara and Arthur traveled through much
of Europe, became certiûed scuba divers at
Barbara9s suggestion, and dived in much of
the Caribbean. Barbara loved ûowers, and
loved gardening, baking, and walking with
her husband through Reston, but most of
all she loved spending time with her family.
There will be a celebration of her life, in Res-
ton, in July, and a separate celebration of her
life, in Buffalo, New York, where she grew
up. The locations and times will be avail-
able at www.adamsgreen.com/ The family
requests that remembrances be made in
the form of contributions to Cornerstones
in Reston.
ûshing, time on his boat, and gardening,
and was a devoted friend who loved his
community and neighbors.
Bill is survived by his sister Karen, his chil-
dren, Tara (Bill) Muilkens, Bill (Kristin) Wine,
Jr., Elizabeth (Stephen) Gunther, Chris
(Kathryn) Wine, and Mary Courtney (Scott
Calliham) Wine, and was <Grumps= to his
surviving grandchildren Courtney, Nolen,
Julia, Charlotte, Andrew, Jackson, Wyatt,
Ella, and Lauren, as well as the mother of
his children, Rae Brann Wine.
Bill was preceded in death by his parents
and his sister Betty Walton.
A small private service may be held at a
later date.
For a full version of the obituary, as well
as to leave online condolences, please visit
www.welchfuneralhomeva.com
Directory. AlumniCorps and board member of the Ron
Brown Scholar Program.
We grieve the loss of his exceptional, inimi-
table character and spirit but also celebrate
ROBERT KENLY WEBSTER in knowing his legacy will continue to shape
Born May 16, 1933, in New York, NY, passed the many lives he touched. He was a man
To be seen in the away on May 26, 2023 in Washington, D.C. at of great integrity, industry, tenacity, wisdom,
the age of 90. He is survived by his family, humor, intellect, and accomplishment and
Funeral Services son Timothy Webster (Valerie Mann) of Ar- truly lived a full life.
lington, VA, daughter Kimberly Webster (Da-
Directory, please call vid Cella) of Evanston, IL, and adoring grand-
children Alexandra, Katherine, Maia, Kira, and
A memorial service will be held on June 24 at
3 p.m. at Joseph Gawler9s Sons in Washing-
ton, DC. See Joseph Gawler9s Sons website
paid Death Notices Aiden. He was predeceased by his loving
spouse of 60 years, Sally I. Webster. for service and donation information and a
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at 202-334-4122. Kenly9s life centered around family, friends,
and work with Washington, DC as home
base for nearly 60 years. He grew-up in
Englewood, NJ, graduated high school from
Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, and at-
tended Princeton University. After graduating
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MALLON
LINDA DIANE MALLON
Linda Mallon, age 69, of Washington, D.C.,
loving wife, beloved mother of three, grand-
mother of two, friend of so many 4 and,
we think she would want us to emphasize,
fervent daughter of New Jersey 4 died of
breast cancer May 25, at home with her
husband.
She is predeceased by her parents, Paul and
Helen (Ross) Mallon of Basking Ridge, N.J.; a
pet cemetery9s worth of much-loved cats,
who likely knocked her down with excite-
ment upon her arrival in the hereafter; and
Gordon Lightfoot.
Linda grew up in Basking Ridge, the daugh-
ter of a nurse and a WWII G.I.-turned-banker;
she inherited her mother9s deeply ingrained
drive to help and serve others, and her fa-
ther9s implacable sense of hard work and
integrity (but perhaps not his math skills).
Didn9t matter: The girl could write. She grad-
uated from the University of Pennsylvania
with an English B.A. in 1975 and began her
career as a reporter for the Morristown (later
Morris County) Daily Record, where she was
known for her love of cats, books, and vo-
cabulary. (To quote a former colleague, when
she moved on, <the newsroom lost its chief
unailurophobic user of big words.=)
The Record is also where she met her future
husband, John Mueller. He was smitten from
the start; she was galled that he stole her
beat. Love ultimately won over annoyance.
She eventually followed him to the District,
and the two married in 1979. They had three
children, Christian, Peter, and Lucy, in neat,
three-year increments. Linda was a very or-
ganized woman.
And again, a writer. Turned editor. She was
great at taking topics that would lower a lay
person9s heart rate, and making them ac-
cessible 4 even fascinating. She knew how
to ferret a good story out of anyone, from a
tight-lipped dinner companion to a nonage-
narian.
From 1980 to 1989, she was an editor for
Modern Maturity, the AARP ofûcial magazine,
eventually leading the Washington Bureau
for ûve years. With the birth of her third child,
she left to be home with the kids, but picked
up a position as a book reviewer for USA To-
day, regularly writing bylined reviews of adult
contemporary and young adult ûction. Every
month, stacks of unproofed galleys arrived at
her doorstep, an awesome thing for a child
to wander through, and she ûled reviews
peppered with more than a few bon mots
that would make their way onto dust jackets.
As in: <Jack and Sarah are as delicious a cou-
ple as Rhett and Scarlett. The three-hankie
ending to their long love affair will deûnitely
make you give a [very mild expletive].=
In 2000, Linda went back to full-time work at
the American Academy of Actuaries, where
MONRO
CHARLES BEDELL MONRO JR.
<Chuck= (Age 84)
On April 21, 2023, Charles (Chuck) Bedell
Monro, Jr., passed away peacefully at Sen-
tara Hospital in Woodbridge, Virginia after
a hard-fought battle with end-stage COPD.
While COPD weakened him over the years,
he was still active and busy, living his very
best life until just days before his passing.
Chuck was the born in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania and was the only child of Charles Be-
dell Monro, Sr. and Marjory Boyd Hill Monro.
At an early age, his family relocated to the
Washington, DC area, where he was raised
in the Kenwood neighborhood of Bethesda,
Maryland. Chuck attended Landon from
third through eleventh grade and graduated
from Bethesda Chevy Chase Highschool in
1954. He went on to Tennessee Tech Univer-
sity and ûnished his college years at the Uni-
versity of North Carolina and was a lifelong
Tar Heel fan.
Chuck proudly spent his entire career with
Lockheed Martin Corporation. He worked
in various roles within Lockheed, with the
most memorable time spent serving as the
Director of Airlift Programs, with primary
responsibility for the C-130J aircraft. When
asked, Chuck would say that he was an
airplane salesman, but his work involved
lobbying and contracting for this critical,
<workhorse= aircraft to supply the US mil-
OLSON
WILLIAM ARTHUR OLSON <Bill=
William (Bill) Arthur Olson, of Woodbridge,
Virginia 4known to many as <Grandpa=4
passed away on June 15, 2023 from cancer.
Bill9s 90 years were ûlled serving others and
his community. He was known for his mag-
netic, caring, and humble persona. His kind-
ness towards others and passion for just
causes will be missed by all that knew him.
Bill was born on October 19, 1932 to Myrtle
(Wall) Olson and Arthur William Olson in Min-
neapolis, MN. He graduated from Roosevelt
High School (Minneapolis) and completed
his Bachelors (Animal Husbandry) and Doc-
torate of Philosophy (Physiologic Chemistry)
at the University of Minnesota. Additional-
ly, he participated in the University9s ROTC
program and later served 15 years in as an
Army reserve ofûcer.
On August 11, 1956, Bill and JoAnn Cather-
ine Heebl were married. They had a loving
marriage and raised three children; Kristi
Jo, Gwendolyn Ann, and Jonathan William.
The family enjoyed the outdoors and spent
much of their time camping, hiking, and
traveling back to Minneapolis to be with
family. Bill and JoAnn were supportive and
active in the churches they attended.
Bill worked in the animal drug industry until
he landed at Hazleton Labs (later Covance)
and moved his family to Reston, Virginia in
1969. Four years later, in 1973 he started
his own regulatory consulting services, Cen-
ter for Regulatory Services (CFR Services),
focusing on FDA and EPA regulated prod-
ucts. The company celebrated their 50th
anniversary this year. Bill9s work ethic and
steadfast focus on regulatory compliance
attracted both domestic and international
clients.
In 2002, Bill permanently moved his compa-
ny and home to Prince William County, Vir-
ginia, and became engaged in this new com-
munity. Bill was deeply passionate about
historic and environmental preservation. He
enjoyed sharing his passion with others and
mentored over 50 Boy Scout Eagle Projects
focused on ensuring local parks and ceme-
teries were maintained for others to enjoy.
Additionally, he served on the PWC Historic
Committee. Bill9s commitment to preserve
local historical sites led him to be a faithful
supporter of the Historic Prince William Or-
ganization and their work. He assisted, and
furthered, Ron Turner9s effort on cemetery
preservation in the county. Bill prided him-
self on keeping a watchful eye on the ûve
hundred small cemeteries across Prince
William County, and was often referred to as
<Mr. Cemetery= across the county.
His dedication to environmental preser-
vation led him to form the Prince William
Conservation Association with the help of
Kim Hosen and countless others. The As-
sociation assisted in the Preservation of
DEATH NOTICE
she was ûrst managing editor of member
publications, then editor-in-chief of Contin-
gencies, the Academy9s ûagship magazine.
Under her stewardship, the publication
won several awards, including the SNAP
Excel Gold. She requested that then-sena-
tors Barack Obama and John McCain write
articles deûning their competing visions for
the future of healthcare. (Both complied.)
She worked with actuaries to analyze why
it makes perfect mathematical sense that
celebrities die in threes, or how football
coaches can use game theory to rethink the
fourth-down risk, or why you9re wrong about
the answer to the Monty Hall problem. She
published an investigative piece on Franz
Kafka9s day job as a multiline insurance ad-
juster, which concluded that, despite grum-
bling, he probably actually liked it. She com-
missioned illustrations from the late Reuben
award-winning editorial cartoonist, Richard
Thompson. If you pause the movie <About
Schmidt= at the exact right point, you can
see an issue she edited next to Jack Nichol-
son9s meaty face.
In 2002, she ofûcially became a published
book author with <Franklin9s Daughters: Pro-
ûles of Penn Women,= which she co-wrote
with her long-time friend, editor, and writing
partner, Anita Sama. Published by the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania Press to mark the 125th
anniversary of the ûrst women students at
Penn, it depicts the struggles and successes
of the University9s female pioneers.
Her last job, before a long-awaited and
much-deserved retirement, was as Senior
Retirement Communications Advisor for the
National Rural Electrical Cooperative (NRE-
CA).
In her spare time, Linda loved to read, swim,
and hike. She and her daughter walked a
120-kilometer section of the Camino de San-
tiago from Ferrol to Santiago de Compostela
(known as the <Camino Inglés=) in the sum-
mer of 2016. She volunteered with numer-
ous organizations, including So Others Might
Eat and D.C. Central Kitchen, stafûng vehi-
cles that delivered meals to unhoused peo-
ple throughout the city. She served on her
church9s Arts Council, designing programs
that reliably placed posteriors in pews, and,
as its chair, shepherded with a ûrm hand the
scheduling of visual art exhibits with musi-
cal performances. She took inordinate joy
in spoiling her grandkids and over-valorizing
her children9s accomplishments. She ûn-
ished every New York Times Sunday cross-
word puzzle and boasted an enviable Wordle
score.
Perhaps it was because she won the genetic
lottery (born in New Jersey), but it needs to
be said: Linda Mallon was the soul of the par-
ty, the ûzz in our lives, the one to sit by, the
plural cats9 pajamas, warmth itself.
She is survived by her husband, John, broth-
er Stephen and his family, three children
and their spouses, two grandchildren, her
beloved Aunt Margaret and Uncle Joe Hey,
countless other loved and far-ûung family
members, and many friends.
Services will be held at National United
Methodist Church, Metropolitan Memorial
Campus, 3401 Nebraska Ave NW, July 15,
2023, at 2 p.m, with a reception to follow.
She will be interred at Congressional Ceme-
tery. In lieu of ûowers, contributions may be
made to So Others Might Eat. For more infor-
mation, please visit: Lindamallon.com
itary. He had an incredible work ethic and
was deeply proud of his service with Lock-
heed Martin and the aircraft he devoted his
career to support.
In 1975, Chuck married his forever love,
Betty Love Roberts Monro. Together they
shared pride in their careers, love for travel
and most importantly their devotion to fam-
ily and friends. They were incredible, loving,
supportive parents to daughters, Laurie and
Shari. Betty, the social chairperson, kept
Chuck connected with family and friends.
Together they loved to host parties at their
homes in Bethesda, Bryce Mountain, Alex-
andria, and later in life on the Occoquan Riv-
er. They were generous with their time and
home, often housing family and friends for
extended stays during times of need.
Central to Chuck and Betty9s everyday life
through the years was their love of their
dogs, cats, and rabbits. With too many to
mention, the ûrst and most memorable
were Mufûn the cat and dogs, Biscuit and
Crumpet (<the bread phase=). Chuck9s great-
est passions in life were boats, cars, and
football. He watched football 24/7, was an
avid Washington football fan, bought a new
car nearly every year and spent time either
building boats or contemplating building
one. In retirement, he built his last mahog-
any Chris Craft boat and enjoyed his days
cruising in front of their forever home.
Chuck is survived by his daughters Laurie
Howell and Shari Dow (LJ Alefantis), grand-
children Dustin Howell (Erica), Ryan Howell
(Alyssa) and Paige Dow, and great-grand-
daughter Jade Howell. He was predeceased
by his beloved wife, Betty Love Roberts
Monro (January 2, 2018) and his parents
Charles Bedell and Marjory Boyd Hill Monro.
A memorial service will be on Saturday,
June 24, 2023, at 1 p.m. at All Saints Church,
14851 Gideon Drive, Woodbridge, Virginia
22192. A reception will follow at the family
home.
In lieu of ûowers, please consider a dona-
tion to the ASPCA Homeward Trails Animal
Rescue, 11116 Fairfax Station Road, Fairfax
Station, Virginia 22039, (703) 249-5066.
Merrimac Farm Wildlife Management Area,
a jewel in Prince William County, and contin-
ues to have a conservation presence across
the Rural Crescent.
Once Bill found a cause to his liking, he was
unrelenting in his support; a few examples
are the preservation of the Slave Quarters
at Grace UMC, the creation of the Jennie
Dean Memorial in Manassas, and the his-
torical markers for Clover Hill, Bacon Race
Cemetery, the Washington-Rochambeau
Road and others. Bill was a philanthropist
and supported a number of organizations
that furthered democracy, preservation of
history, equality, access to education and
provided international assistance. He em-
braced his Grace United Methodist Church
(Manassas, VA) family.
Bill9s deepest passion was his family and
cherished time spent with them. Together
with his family they enjoyed many amaz-
ing trips (Galapagos being the most mem-
orable), long walks, days spent maintaining
trails at local parks and in preparation for
the annual Blue Bell festival, adventures
with his grandchildren, and especially vis-
its coloring, cuddles and laughing with his
great grandchildren.
His beloved wife, JoAnn Catherine Olson,
passed away on April 2, 2006. Bill was also
predeceased by his parents, his sister, Betty
Jean (Olson) Spofford, and his brothers-in-
law (Raymond Heebl and Donald Heebl).
He is survived by his sister Audrey (Olson)
Gruver (Duane Gruver); and sister-in-law
Karen (Heebl) Johnson (Richard Johnson)
and by his children Kristi Olson Smedley
(Michael Smedley), Gwendolyn Olson Phil-
lips, and Jonathan William Olson (Jennifer
Wray); his grandchildren Kjersti Smedley
Oliver (Eric Oliver), Garrett William Smedley
(Sarah Black), Schuyler Jefferson Phillips
(Hannah Meyers); Calvin Wray Olson, Cal-
lie Ann Phillips, and Livia Wray Olson; and
great-grandchildren Brady Ryan Oliver, Rhys
William Oliver, Joanna Lynn Phillips, and Wil-
liam Woodson Smedley.
The family will receive friends on Tuesday,
June 20, 2023, from 10 to 11 a.m. at Grace
United Methodist Church, 9750 Wellington
Road, Manassas. Funeral Services will begin
at 11 a.m. in the church sanctuary with The
Rev. Drew Colby and The Rev. Rudy Tucker,
Jr. ofûciating. Interment will take place in
the Bacon Race Cemetery, Woodbridge, VA.
Bill enhanced and impacted the lives of
many; his legacy will live on through his
family, the organizations he served, and
those to which he was a role model. Dona-
tions in his honor can be made to Prince Wil-
liam Conservation Alliance (PWCA) or Grace
United Methodist Church, Manassas.
Please sign the guestbook at
www.bakerpostfh.com.
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DEATH NOTICE
BALLMAN
FRANCES HURST BALLMAN
<FRANKIE=
Frances <Frankie= Hurst Ballman, a beloved
member of her community, passed away
peacefully in her home on May 28, 2023, in
Vero Beach, Florida, at the age of 92. Born
on February 13, 1931, in Baltimore, Mary-
land, Frankie was the daughter of Annie Pot-
ter Sprague Watson Hurst and John E. Hurst.
Frankie was known for her kind, generous,
and loving nature. She was a passionate
BARBER
BRUCE HUMISTON BARBER
NAVAL ARCHITECT
Bruce Humiston Barber, 85, nn, a retired na-
val architect died at home June 14, 2023
after an illness of four months. Formerly
of Schenectady and Glens Falls, New York,
he had been a resident of Northern Virginia
since 1962.
Mr. Barber had worked for the U.S. Coast
Guard and the National Oceanic and At-
mospheric Administration (NOAA) until his
retirement. He began employment in the
Design Branch of the Coast Guard9s Naval
Engineering Division in 1961 following his
graduation from the University of Michigan.
he was involved in the design of most of
the Coast Guard vessels built in the 19609s
and 19709s and was head of the Hull Section
for several years before leaving to work for
NOAA in 1976.
At NOAA, Mr. Barber was the technical ad-
viser for naval architecture in the ûeet oper-
ations ofûce, which at that time operated up
to two dozen government research vessels.
From 1990 until his retirement in 1997, he
CALDWELL
NATHANIEL FRENCH CALDWELL JR.
(Age 68)
Nathaniel French Caldwell, Jr. passed away
on the morning of June 8, 2023, at his home,
surrounded by his family with Patty, his
wife of 46 years, holding his hand. Known
to friends and family as French, he was the
son of the late Nathaniel French Caldwell,
Sr. and Gaynelle Williams Caldwell. He is sur-
vived by his wife, Patty; one daughter, Eliza-
beth; three sons, Lee, Randolph, and Joseph;
three grandsons, Marxer, Odin, and Adrian;
three brothers, Russell, Bruce, and Clay; and
two sisters, Gaynelle and Shirley.
DALE
JOHN EARL DALE
John Earl Dale, 58, of Dallas passed away on
Monday, June 12, 2023, at home of an unex-
pected complication from Long COVID.
John was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son
of Patricia Smith Dale and the late Donald
Glen Dale of West Palm Beach, Florida. John
spent the last 30 years in the Wyoming
Valley area. He was a selûess person and
reaped extreme pleasure from helping oth-
ers. John loved to cook for others, putting
his heart into everything he made. When
called upon for assistance, John was always
the ûrst to arrive. He was an <old soul=, as
evidenced by his demeanor and ability to
bring a sense of calm to those around him.
Prior to moving to the Dallas area, John lived
in Virginia, where he maintains friendships
to this day. He worked with Special Needs
children during his stay in Virginia. That job
contributed to John being who he was as an
adult. He was also a truck driver and a me-
chanic during his short stay on Earth.
John worked for several years locally as a
maintenance Technician at the Woodlands
Inn & Resort in Plains Township, where
he still has many dear friends. He left the
Woodlands to pursue his dream of being self
employed as a handyman.
John enjoyed ûshing, which he called his
LOMBARD
JOSEPHINE LOMBARD <Jo= (Age 91)
Of Springûeld, Virginia, passed away peace-
fully on June 13, 2023. Beloved wife of 65
years to David Lombard; loving mother of
Suzanne Lombard, Jonathan Lombard, Rob-
in Lombard, Patricia Lombard Mabry, and
Katherine Lombard; adored grandmother of
Jenny (Kammer) Dunn, Jacqueline (Lombard)
Shu, Noah Mabry, Andrew Newman, Sam
Lombard, Justin Kimble, and Erin Kimble;
and great-grandmother of Sierra Dunn, Riley
Dunn, Luke Shu, Ronan Shu, and Autumn
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supporter of various charitable organiza-
tions, including the Florence Crittenton
Home for unwed mothers (National Critten-
ton Foundation), the American Heart Asso-
ciation, the Young Woman9s Club of Chevy
Chase, Maryland, The Holton-Arms School,
and the Landon School.
Frankie was an accomplished sportswoman
and a lifelong competitor in tennis, golf, and
skiing. She competed at both Congressio-
nal Country Club and Grand Harbor in Vero
Beach, Florida, leaving a lasting impression
on her fellow athletes.
Frankie is survived by her loving husband
of 64 years, George, her daughters Debbie
Ballman Jones (Randy), Lynda Hurst Ballman,
Kimberly Ballman Stroud (Ted), and her son
Benedict George Ballman, Jr. (Kiersten). She
is also survived by her two brothers, John E.
Hurst (Letty) and W. Bladen Lowndes III (Sal-
ly), and eight cherished grandchildren.
A Memorial Service will be held in her honor
at St. Francis Episcopal Church in Potomac
on Wednesday, November 22, at 3 p.m. A re-
ception will follow at Congressional Country
Club. In lieu of ûowers, the family requests
that donations be made to Compassion In-
ternational 3 Child Sponsorship Program
(https://www.compassion.com). Frankie will
be deeply missed by all who knew her, but
her legacy of kindness and generosity will
live on.
was also engaged in NOAA ûeet moderniza-
tion activities.
He was a member of the Society of Naval
Architects and Marine Engineers and the
American Society of Naval Engineers.
His passion for sailing included 25 years of
sailing on the Chesapeake Bay in his 25-
foot Cape Dory sailboat, the Nancy Dawson,
which was named for an old sailors9 drink-
ing song. He sailed from a marina in Shady
Side, Maryland, up until 2021 when he felt
it was time to pass his boat to a younger
generation of sailing enthusiasts. He knew
the Bay9s inlets like the back of his hand
and was never happier than when he was
anchored in a quiet cove.
Mr. Barber was an avid photographer and
woodworker. He was also a 3-time mara-
thon runner and a softball enthusiast. He
was a 25-year member of the Northern Vir-
ginia Senior Softball league. One of his team
managers recalled Bruce as <the nicest man
you9ll ever meet.= He was a 3-time NVSS
All-Star as well. He was also an avid fan of
the Michigan Wolverines and the Washing-
ton Nationals.
His marriage to Louise Cataldo ended in di-
vorce, but the marriage gave him the two
children who made him the proudest father
imaginable: his daughter Laura and son
Mike.
His second wife, Sharon Shay, died in 2010.
Survivors include his wife Marjorie Craig
Barber, his daughter Laura Barber Tonel-
son and son-in-law Jed Tonelson of Gaith-
ersburg, Maryland; his son Michael Barber
and daughter-in-law Erin Barber of Aldie,
Virginia; his brother David Spear Barber of
Moscow, Idaho; four grandchildren: Daniel
(ûancee Ariana) and Matthew Tonelson (wife
Jordan) and Ryan and Sophie Barber; and
step-daughter Kelly Craig of Philadelphia.
A memorial service is being planned for Oc-
tober 29, at the Waterford in Springûeld, Vir-
ginia, where Mr. and Mrs. Barber held their
wedding reception in 2012.
He graduated from the Naval Academy in
1977 with a B.S. in oceanography; from Old
Dominion University in 1987 with a Master9s
in International Studies; from the Naval War
College in 1990; and from Northeastern Uni-
versity in 2018 with a PHD in Law and Policy.
From 1977 to 1994, he served his country
with honor and distinction in the submarine
force. After retiring at the rank of Com-
mander, he led a distinguished professional
career, becoming a leading voice in the area
of governance risk compliance, and worked
at Carson and Associates, Gartner, Archer
Integrated Risk Compliance, among other
companies.
Beyond his educational and professional ca-
reer, French was a dedicated father. He had
a passion for the Boy Scouts that began at
a young age, and continued as each of his
sons entered scouts. He loved to travel with
his wife Patty, and enjoyed touring Europe
with his daughter when she lived there. He
was a sailing enthusiast, and throughout his
life, he always sought adventure. Profes-
sionally, his proudest accomplishment was
that of serving his country during his long
Naval career.
Nathaniel French Caldwell, Jr. will be deep-
ly loved, deeply missed, and his spirit will
forever live on in the hearts of his family
and friends. A viewing will be held at Little
Flower Church on Massachusetts Avenue in
Bethesda, MD, on June 23 from 10:30 a.m.
to 12 noon immediately followed by a me-
morial service.
morning ministry, thanking God for the day
and the opportunity to be there. He also en-
joyed smoking meat, cooking, and tending
to his new business. But most of all, John
loved to love his wife, Nancy. He would live
each day to help her, and he was there for
her every need. Not a day went by that he
didn9t tell her how much he loved her. She
wanted for nothing, as he fulûlled every de-
sire. He will leave a giant hole in her heart
where he resided for the past 25 years. John
gave Nancy wings and Nancy gave John
roots.
Surviving in addition to his mother are his
wife, Nancy Raspen Dale, sisters Jackie Mill-
er and her husband John of Beaufort, South
Carolina, Susan Hungler and her husband
Steven of Hialeah, Florida, brothers Daniel
Dale of West Palm Beach, Florida, Randall
Dale and wife Holly of Tar Heel North Car-
olina, and numerous nieces and nephews.
John loved all of his family and took particu-
lar joy in being the 8cool uncle9.
A celebration of John9s life will be held in
the near future. In lieu of ûowers, please
forward monetary memories to the Luzerne
County SPCA, 524 East Main Street, Wilkes
Barre, PA 18702
Funeral Arrangements have been entrusted
to the Charles L. Cease Funeral Home, 634
Reyburn Road, Shickshinny.
Shu. She is predeceased by her husband,
David, and her daughter, Suzanne.
Mrs. Lombard taught piano, music theory,
and composition for many years and was
a longstanding member of the Northern
Virginia Music Teachers Association. She
had a Masters in music and a lifelong love
of classical and 20th-century works. She
composed original pieces for chamber
groups, choirs, and orchestras, played cello
in the McLean Symphony, and was active in
the Washington-area Friday Morning Music
Club. She painted birds and other wildlife in
watercolor, and was active in the Hartwood
Foundation, which serves disabled persons
in the area. She was a member of St. Dun-
stan9s Episcopal Church in McLean before
joining St. Bernadette Catholic Church in
Springûeld.
A memorial service will be held on Satur-
day, June 24, 2023 at 1 p.m. in the chapel
at Greenspring Village, 7410 Spring Village
Drive, Springûeld, VA 22150. A funeral ser-
vice will be held at a later date.
In lieu of ûowers, memorial contributions
can be made to Hartwood Foundation, Inc.,
3702 Pender Drive, Suite 410, Fairfax, VA
22030.
www.hartwoodfoundation.com.
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DIFFELL
CHRISTOPHER DIFFELL
Christopher John Diffell passed away quietly
after a lengthy illness on June 14, 2023, on
what would have been his mother9s 99th
birthday. Christopher was born in Washing-
ton, DC on July 2, 1960, the seventh child
of Dorothy Murphy Diffell and Clifford Diffell.
He attended St. Philip9s and Morningside El-
ementary Schools and Benjamin D. Foulois
Junior High before graduating from Central
High School in 1977. Christopher went on
to attend Humboldt University in Berlin,
Germany and received his diploma from the
University of the District of Columbia. While
in school, he had a number of jobs, including
one with the Red Cross. He later worked
for the District of Columbia as an interpreter
and parole ofûcer and then for the Feder-
GUIDI
DORIS JEANNE GUIDI
On Tuesday, June 6, 2023, Doris <Jeanne=
Guidi passed away peacefully at her King-
sport, Tennessee home. Born October 23,
1928, in Washington, DC, she moved to An-
nandale, Virginia at the age of ten. Jeanne
met the love of her life, Vincent, when she
was fourteen. They married in 1947 and re-
sided in their Annandale home for 73 years
until Vincent passed away in 2020.
Jeanne was an energetic, friendly person
with an incredible memory of family history
and events. She was a devoted wife, mother,
sister, aunt, grandmother, honorary Italian
cook, and gifted storyteller. Her homemade
pilgrim outût, complete with bonnet, was an
HOCHBERG
JANE WOLF HOCHBERG
Jane Wolf Hochberg passed
away peacefully on Friday, June
16, 2023.
She was born on April 27, 1943,
to Arthur and Bobbie Wolf in
Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, her teen
years were marked by tragedy, with the
death of her mother shortly before her 14th
birthday. Arthur remarried shortly thereafter,
only to die a scant two years later. Jane and
her two younger brothers were raised by
their stepmother, Elma Kahn Wolf, who con-
sidered them her children, and whose family
considered them their family, as well. Jane
suffered tragedy a third time at age 20 when
her youngest brother, Tommy, died of a com-
STRAUSS
CHARLOTTE STRAUSS
<Cookie= (Age 75)
Charlotte (Cookie) Strauss of
Annandale, VA. passed away
Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Be-
loved daughter of the late Arthur
and Reva Strauss; sister to Sid-
ney Strauss, (Jessica) Jaffa, Israel
and Michael Strauss (Jane), Scottsdale, AZ;
loving mother to Nina Strauss, Richmond,
VA. Charlotte was born in Chicago, IL re-
TREFRY
RICHARD G. TREFRY
LTG., U.S. Army (Ret.)
Lieutenant General Richard G. Trefry, 98, of
Clifton, Virginia passed away February 25,
2023 at home with loving family and his wife
of 53 years, Jacquelyn, by his side.
General Trefry was originally from Massa-
chusetts, born in Newburyport and raised
in Marblehead. He attended Dartmouth Col-
lege and after completing his freshman year,
was drafted into the U.S. Army in June 1943.
One of his ûrst assignments was in Green-
land, where he was part of a weather team
that advised General Eisenhower on the
weather conditions for D-Day. He entered
West Point and graduated in 1950. He went
on to serve in Germany, Korea, and Vietnam.
He also served as the Defense Attaché to
Laos. One of the highlights of his career was
being selected as the Inspector General of
the Army in 1977. In this position, he rev-
olutionized the organization, restructuring
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al Court Services and Offender Supervision
Agency.
Christopher had a big heart and was kind
and compassionate to everyone he met.
He loved plants and gardening, had a great
knowledge of plants, and was always ready
to exchange a plant with anyone. He was
an avid reader and enjoyed reading many
books and newspapers. Christopher had an
afûnity for languages, was ûuent in Spanish,
and encouraged the learning of a second
language.
Christopher will be missed by his friends and
family. He leaves behind his three brothers,
Mark, Jerome (wife, Catherine), and James
(wife, Cheryl) plus three sisters, Katherine
(husband, Paul), Patricia (husband, Timothy),
and Mary Ellen. In addition, Chris is mourned
by six nieces and nephews, and eight grand
nieces and nephews. The family also wants
to thank Christopher9s dear friend, Juergen
Tooren, for the love and support he gave to
Christopher for many years.
A viewing will be held at Shrine of the
Most Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church
in Washington, DC on Wednesday, June 21,
from 10 to 11 a.m., with Mass at 11 a.m.
Burial will follow at St. Paul9s Rock Creek
Cemetery in D.C. Arrangements provided by
Joseph Gawler9s Sons Funeral Home.
Please consider donating to the charity of
your choice in Christopher9s memory.
www.josephgawlers.com
annual Thanksgiving hit!
Jeanne graduated from Fairfax High School
and worked at Woodward & Lothrop9s
Department store. She began attending
Annandale United Methodist Church as a
young girl, sang in the adult choir 52 years,
and served on the Altar Guild 25 years. She
worked for the Fairfax County Police De-
partment-Crossing Guard division, retiring
after being <on the street= for 25 years.
Known as Nanny to her family, Jeanne is
survived by her two daughters - Pat Sherfey
and Karen Guidi; sister Betty Guilietti (Joe)
and brother Robert Woolfenden (Gloria); four
grandchildren-Brian (Emily), Kevin (Regan),
Vincent (Erin) and Veronica; great-grand-
children, Andy, Kayla (Tim), Jonny (Jordan),
Colin, Mackenzie, Ryan, Jack, Meredith,
Landon, Owen, Luca and Theodore; and
great-great-grandchildren - Elizabeth, An-
thony, Juliana and Jameson. Her brothers,
Ronald Woolfenden, Donald Woolfenden and
sister, Joan Oliver preceded her death.
The family would like to extend special
thanks to Dr. Eugene Shmorhun and staff for
32 years of loving medical care.
A memorial service will be held Saturday,
July 1, 2023, 11 a.m. at Annandale United
Methodist Church, Annandale, VA followed
by burial and reception at the church. Loving
donations can be made to Annandale United
Methodist Church or Annandale Volunteer
Fire Department, Station 408.
plex and rare disease.
However, Jane refused to let any of this de-
ûne her. She met her future husband Phil at
age 23, while they both worked at the Feder-
al Communications Commission. She loved
life; loved to travel either with friends or with
Phil alone. In the last few decades, they trav-
eled throughout the U.S. and in fact all over
the world, including China, India, Japan, the
Far East, Western and Eastern Europe, and to
South America.
Jane loved art, serving as a docent at the
National Gallery of Art for 31 years, leading
tours of both the East and West Wings for
school children.
But anyone who knew her knows that abso-
lutely nothing brought her more happiness
than her two children and ûve grandchildren.
She shared every bit of news about them
with anyone she could and did it as soon as
she was given the ok by the family.
Jane is survived by her husband of 55 years,
Philip, her children, Abigail (Stephen) Shan-
non and Jeffrey (Mindy) Hochberg, and her
grandchildren, Aidan, Emma, Clare, Jessica
and Owen. Funeral services will be held on
Tuesday, June 20, 2023, 10 a.m. at Washing-
ton Hebrew Congregation, 3935 Macomb
St., NW, with interment to follow at King
David Memorial Gardens. Shiva details to
be announced. Memorial contributions may
be made to Children9s Charities Foundation
(ccfdc.org).
www.sagelbloomûeld.com
ceived her bachelor9s degree at Northern
Illinois University after which she moved
to Hartford, CT and began her career as a
primary grade educator. She received fur-
ther degrees from Central Connecticut State
and an MEd from George Mason. Charlotte
moved to Washington, DC and began a 31
year career in the training, consulting, advis-
ing ûelds ending with 14 years in the Human
Services Department at George Mason Uni-
versity. At the various stops in her career
Charlotte made lifelong friends who loved
and admired her as a kind, funny, intelligent,
emotional, loving soul. Charlotte was a
wonderful, adored Aunt to eight and a great-
Aunt to 15. From a young age Charlotte was
involved in the Jewish community beginning
with BBG in Chicago thru Beth El Hebrew
Congregation. Interment was held at King
David Memorial Gardens, Falls Church, VA.
In lieu of ûowers, memorial contributions
may be made to Beth El Hebrew Congre-
gation, Alexandria, VA or the Diabetes Foun-
dation or a charity of your choosing. Please
view and sign the family guestbook at
www.jeffersonfuneralchapel.com
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and recognizing the need to address prob-
lems from a systems perspective, helping to
improve force management, which in turn
effected Army readiness.
After retiring from 33 years of active duty,
General Trefry was selected to serve as
Military Assistant to President George H. W.
Bush, and as Director of the White House
Military Ofûce. After departure from the
White House, General Trefry founded the
Army Force Management School at Fort Bel-
voir. In addition, he was a dedicated advo-
cate for Army families and soldier programs
and supported many Army organizations
and initiatives.
In 2006, General Trefry was recognized by
West Point as a Distinguished Graduate for
his contributions to the Army and the em-
bodiment of Duty, Honor, and Country. Addi-
tionally, in 2009, the Secretary of the Army
established a Lifetime of Service award in
his name, recognizing his devotion, leader-
ship, and exemplary service to the Army for
over 65 years. General Trefry was the inau-
gural recipient.
Throughout his life, General Trefry recog-
nized the importance of education, men-
torship and leadership. With his depth of
knowledge and experience he contributed
to innumerable advisory boards, including
Army Emergency Relief and the American
Military University. Additionally, he was a
Senior Fellow for The Association of the
United States Army. Taking every opportuni-
ty to teach and educate, General Trefry had
a great empathy for others, a love for the
Army and gratitude for the extraordinary life
he had.
General Trefry will be buried in Arlington Na-
tional Cemetery on June 21, 2023, at 1 p.m..
Services will begin at the Old Post Chapel
followed by full military honors. For more
information, please visit
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IN MEMORIAM
DEOUDES
MARGARET MCINTYRE DEOUDES
August 5, 1945 - June 18, 2020
Margie, Mom, after all our years together,
life without you is not the same.
We will embrace and cherish
your memories forever.
Logan, John, Demetri and Family,
Relatives and Friends
ELLIOTT
ARCHIE ELLIOTT III <Artie=
DECEMBER 8,1968 ~ JUNE 18, 1993
Our hearts are still broken even after 30
years. It9s difûcult to believe there was NO
JUSTICE as we shed rivers of tears.
We love you today even more
As we loved and cherished you many years
ago.
We are proud to carry on your legacy
through The Archie Elliott, III Scholarship
Fund. Won9t you donate to the Fund to
help send minority high school graduates
to HBCUs for the coming school year. Call
240.271.5884
In Loving Memory,
Your mother Dorothy Copp Elliott; your
father, Archie Elliott, Jr.; your brothers
Aaron and John and family members
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DESSOUKY
DR. DESSOUKY A. DESSOUKY
Dessouky A. Dessouky, MD, PhD, of Charlot-
tesville, died unexpectedly on April 7, 2023
in a pedestrian accident in Cairo, Egypt. He
was visiting family and friends at the time.
Dr. Dessouky was born in Mit Ghamr, Egypt,
on January 18, 1932, and was a graduate
of Ain Shams University in Cairo where he
KEMP
LOIS MARIE HOYLE KEMP
Of Annandale, Virginia. Lois Marie Hoyle
Kemp passed away peacefully, surrounded
by family on June 7, 2023, from complica-
tions of Alzheimer9s disease. Born on July
2, 1933 to Norman L. Hoyle and Doris A.
(Lambert) Hoyle, and raised in Washington,
DC. She graduated from The Academy of
the Holy Names, and Immaculata College,
and began working at Georgetown Univer-
sity Hospital. She met her future husband,
James F. Kemp (Jim) and was married on
September 10, 1960. The couple settled in
Arlington, Virginia. Jim9s career in the U.S.
Air Force took the couple to Los Angeles,
California and Ewa Beach, Hawaii, before re-
turning to Northern Virginia in 1967, where
they made their home and raised their sev-
en children.
Lois was an avid gardener, enjoyed playing
her piano, strumming her ukulele, tap danc-
ing and attending the Kennedy Center, in
between chauffeuring her children to vari-
ous athletic, school and social events. Lois
cherished spending time with her family and
the many dear friends she made throughout
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BEASLEY
DURRAN LEONARDO BEASLEY SR.
<Randy= (Age 61)
Succumbed to a long battle with cancer
on May 8, 2023, with his loving family at
his bedside. He joins his father, Leon Bea-
sley and brother Monroe Swann in eternal
and peaceful rest. He leaves to cherish his
precious memory the love of his life and
the mother of their children, Nadine Bea-
sley, his mother, Eunice Williams, (step-fa-
ther Samuel), brother, Alex Beasley, sons,
Durran Beasley, Jr, Xavier Beasley and
daughter, Mia Beasley, and ûve grandchil-
dren. A prayer vigil and Funeral Mass will
be held at the St. Mary9s Catholic Church of
Piscataway, Clinton, MD, on June 22, 2023,
starting at 9:30 a.m. Interment Trinity Me-
morial Gardens Cemetery.
KESSENICH
JEROME OTTO KESSENICH
Jerome Otto Kessenich, 86, passed away
Friday, May 19, 2023 surrounded by his
family. Jerry was a long-time resident of
Fairfax and Loudoun Counties. A service
honoring his memory will be held at Arling-
ton National Cemetery at a later date. A
complete obituary can be found at
www.colonialfuneralhome.com
obtained his medical degree and trained in
obstetrics and gynecology. He came to the
US in 1961 and earned a PhD in anatomy
at Tulane University after which he was ap-
pointed assistant professor of anatomy at
Georgetown University. He trained further
in ob-gyn at Georgetown and served in that
department as a practitioner, researcher
and teacher for over 30 years. He was also
active at VHC (Arlington Hospital) in practice
and in directing Georgetown students and
residents in their ob-gyn training. In 2000 Dr.
Dessouky retired as Professor of Obstetrics
and Gynecology.
Dr. Dessouky married Caroline Justice in
1969 and they lived in McLean, VA for 28
years, raising their family. He is survived by
Caroline and their three beloved sons and
their families: Dean and Alanna Dessouky
of Washington, DC and their children Lillian
and James; Neal and Dr. Elizabeth Dessouky
of Mill Valley, CA and their son Sam; and Alex
and Hilary Dessouky of Santa Barbara, CA
and their daughters Lyle and Sasha.
Following a prayer service at the Islamic So-
ciety of Central Virginia, a private burial was
held on April 14, 2023, at Monticello Memo-
ry Gardens Cemetery.
her life, who enjoyed her irreverent wit and
sense of humor. Her door was always open
and friends of her children found a second
home at the Kemp house, where Lois wel-
comed them with open arms and a seat at
her table.
Lois returned to work in 1985 as a Unit Sec-
retary in the Pediatric ICU of INOVA Fairfax
Hospital. Lois9 love of children and her abil-
ity to work under pressure in demanding
environments served her well and she was
a valued member of the team until her re-
tirement. Lois was a devoted grandmother.
She loved being surrounded by her grand-
children, whether attending their sports
events, school programs, graduations or
baking their birthday cakes- the list is end-
less. Lois was a beautiful person, who was
an amazing wife, mother, grandmother and
cherished friend to all who knew her. She
will be missed dearly.
She was preceded in death by her loving
parents, Norman and Doris and her sister
Patricia. She is survived by her husband
of 63 years, Jim, her brother, William Hoyle
(Joyce) and her children, John (Donna),
Christopher (Rob), Timothy (Emily), Daniel,
Kathleen, Matthew (Meredith), Mary (Alex);
and her grandchildren, Patrick, Ian, Haley,
Elizabeth, Lily, Jack, Madeline, Isabel, Leo
and Augustus. Lois is also survived by many
loving nieces, nephews and cousins.
A funeral service will be held on June 21,
2023 at Fairfax Memorial Funeral Home,
with visitation at 12 p.m. and services at 1
p.m. A reception will immediately follow
at the Tower Club, 8000 Towers Crescent
Drive, Suite1700, Vienna, VA. Interment will
be at Arlington National Cemetery at a fu-
ture date.
In lieu of ûowers, donations can be made
in memory of Lois to So Others Might Eat-
SOME.org.
www.fairfaxmemorialfuneralhome.com
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ROBINSON
MATTIE ROBINSON
(Age 100)
On Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Mattie Robinson (nee Ander-
son) transitioned peacefully
at her home. She leaves to
cherish her memory beloved
son, Dr. Christopher C. Robin-
son, Jr., daughter-in-law, Karolyn Robinson,
granddaughter, Christina Robinson, a host
of other relatives, associates and friends.
On Wednesday, June 21 a visitation will be
held from 10 a.m. until the hour of service
11 a.m. at the Shiloh Baptist Church 1500
- 9th st. NW Washington, DC. Interment in
Charlotte Court House, VA. Condolences to
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FROST
CLIFFORD BRIAN FROST
1956 - 2023
Clifford Brian Frost, age 66, a remarkable
man of immense compassion, grace and
talent passed away on May 14, 2023, sur-
rounded by his family. He was born to Don-
ald and Francis Frost in Sioux City, Iowa. Cliff
was a longtime resident of Darnestown,
Maryland. He spent his formative years in
Fulton, Missouri where his athletic excel-
lence earned him a wrestling scholarship
to University of Missouri. Cliff transferred
to the University of South Florida where he
obtained his B.S. degree in Chemistry. While
pursuing a career in science at Fort Detrick,
Cliff discovered his afûnity and passion for
computers and marathon running. Deter-
mined to expand his expertise, Cliff contin-
ued to Johns Hopkins University where he
earned his M.S. in Computer Engineering.
Cliff9s love for his children Ian and Kather-
ine knew no bounds. They were the light of
his life, and he cherished every moment he
ROMER
BRUCE FRANKLIN ROMER
Bruce F. Romer, of Bethesda, Maryland,
passed away on Saturday, June 10, 2023, af-
ter a brief illness. He was 78. At the time of
his death, he was surrounded by his family,
and he is survived by his wife Kay Bowman
of Bethesda, his children Laurel (Jason War-
holic) Romer of Madison, Wisconsin, and Bri-
an (Jennifer) Romer of Monrovia and grand-
children: Alex, Molly, Ryan, Jacob, Braeden
and Emily; and was preceded in death by his
grandson Eric and stepson Luke Ryan Bow-
man.
Bruce was born in Detroit, Michigan on Octo-
ber 14, 1944, to Benjamin Romer and Mildred
Goetzke Romer.
Bruce was a dedicated public servant and
relished work in local government. He served
for twelve years as Chief Administrative Ofû-
cer of Montgomery County, Maryland man-
aging operations of Maryland9s largest local
government. Prior to his service for Mont-
gomery County, Bruce had been the City
Manager in Rockville, Maryland. And before
that, the City Manager in the following local-
ities: The City of Davenport, Iowa, the City of
Sidney, Ohio, and the City of Brighton, Mich-
igan. For ten years, he served as Vice Presi-
dent for Administration at Westat, Inc. at its
headquarters in Rockville and was a member
of the company9s Ethics Compliance Com-
mittee.
Bruce was a member of the International
City/County Management Association (ICMA)
which represents professional local gov-
ernment managers throughout the United
States and in other countries. He was elected
SMITH
DONALD READE SMITH
A resident of Kensington, MD since 1963,
Don was the ûrst of two sons born to Robert
G. Smith and Dorothy K. Idle in New York City
on September 8, 1933. Don9s middle name
comes from Reade St. where his mother ran
a lunch counter in the early 19309s. The mid-
dle name has been passed down to Don9s
ûrst son and one of his grandsons.
His family moved to Alexandria, VA in 1943
where he graduated from George Washing-
ton High School with perfect attendance.
He then attended University of Florida
where he met Katharine Beall at WRUF the
on-campus radio station. They were mar-
ried in 1953, one year before he graduated
with a communications degree.
In the following 11 years the couple had ûve
children including two sets of twins. They
also moved across the country twice. In
1963 the family settled in Kensington. Don
lived in the same house for 60 years.
Don served in the Army from 1954 to 1956
as a broadcast specialist at Fort Huachuca,
AZ. In 1957 he joined the radio/television
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WILKINS
MILDRED A. WILKINS (Age 99)
Passed away peacefully on June 7, 2023.
Preceded in death by her husband, Lo-
renzo H. Wilkins, Sr., and daughter Doris
P. Rucker. She is survived by two children,
Lorenzo H. Wilkins, Jr. and Betty C. Wilkins;
two grandchildren, eight great-grandchil-
dren, two great-great-grandchildren, and
countless extended family and friends.
Service will be held on Wednesday, June
21, 2023 at McGuire Funeral Home, 7400
Georgia Ave. NW, Washington, DC. Visita-
tion 10 a.m., Service 11 a.m. Interment at
Solon Cemetery in Middleburg, VA.
www.mcguire-services.com
spent with them. In 2001, Cliff found love,
happiness and partnership when he mar-
ried Lorice Kassatly, and added her children
Michael and Karilyn to their now blended
family. Lorice was an unwavering pillar of
strength and love throughout Cliff9s coura-
geous battle with Parkinson9s disease. Cliff
embraced life to the fullest. He loved run-
ning, biking, beekeeping, traveling, comput-
ers, the outdoors and shared these passions
with his friends and family.
Cliff dedicated over two decades of his life
to building and running his company, Uni-
Networks, Inc. Cliff9s intelligence was noth-
ing short of awe-inspiring. It was not just
Cliff9s professional achievements that made
him extraordinary. His kindness, sense of
humor, smile and gentle nature were the
cornerstones of his character. Whether
lending a listening ear, coaching along the
sidelines of his children9s wrestling, swim
team, track, or equestrian events. Cliff9s
generosity, sense of adventure and heart
were endless.
Cliff, may you rest easy and know that you
are so very loved.
Cliff is survived by his wife, Lorice Frost; sis-
ters Donna and Jackie; brothers Barry and
Phillip; children Ian (Claire DiPiero) Frost,
Katherine (Brandon) Richgruber; stepchil-
dren Michael (Laura) Mason and Karilyn
(Samuel) Kesaris; grandchildren Naomi,
Penelope and Ryan; and numerous nieces
and nephews. Cliff was predeceased by his
parents Donald and Francis Frost, brothers
Roger and Richard.
A celebration of life will be held in late sum-
mer. In lieu of ûowers, remembrance gifts
in Cliff9s honor may be made to https://par-
kinsonfoundation.org/ or https://hospice-
carelc.org/
President of the Association and served as
Chair of ICMA9s Committee on Professional
Conduct which enforces the Association9s
Code of Ethics for Professional local govern-
ment administrators.
He has served in leadership positions with
the Metropolitan Washington Council of
Governments, the Greater Washington Board
of Trade, the National Associations of Coun-
ties, the District of Columbia Sewer and Wa-
ter Authority and the Maryland Municipal
League. He was on the Board of Directors of
the Rockville Chamber of Commerce, SEEC
(for People with Developmental Disabilities)
and other community associations. He was
a volunteer news reader at the Metropolitan
Washington Ear.
At the time of his death, Bruce was Chair
of the Montgomery County Maryland Ethics
Committee and worked at WAMU 88.5 Radio.
Bruce9s undergraduate degree was received
from Wittenberg University. He received a
Master of Government Administration de-
gree from the Wharton Graduate School at
the University of Pennsylvania.
His hobbies included playing tennis, traveling
and staying connected to the community.
He was a 40-year resident of Montgomery
County and was previously married to Car-
olyn Webb Romer.
Those who were honored to know Bruce
personally or professionally remember him
as a shining example of a man born to lead
with passion and compassion.
To his family, he was the perfect balance of
strength, wisdom, warmth, generosity and
good humor. Bruce/Dad/Grandpa/Pop was
the man to turn to if you needed guidance.
Whenever questioning how to do something
the right way, his family often asked WWDD
(What Would Dad Do?) His sense of humor
was much appreciated and intact even in his
ûnal days. His funny quips and alternate pro-
nunciations of words was a source of great
fun for the grandkids, especially. He was
a wonderful provider and ALWAYS strived
to show everyone a good time. He was the
quintessential host and life of the party.
A memorial service will be planned at a later
date. In lieu of ûowers, contributions may be
made to WAMU 88.5 Radio.
news staff at Washington Post-owned sta-
tions in Jacksonville, FL. He became radio
station manager at WMBR in that city and
was transferred to Maryland in 1962 to the
parent company9s headquarters at WWDC.
He later joined a WWDC-owned afûliate,
Broadcast Electronics, Inc., in Silver Spring,
and became its executive vice president.
In 1972, he took a position at Veterans Ad-
ministration Central Ofûce managing the
agency9s public information broadcast ser-
vices. In 1976 he gained a master9s degree
in public relations from American University.
At VA he progressed to other assignments
that included director of VA9s national news
ofûce and kept very busy during the VA9s el-
evation in 1989 to Cabinet status. In 1997,
he retired as deputy director of the Dept. of
VA9s Ofûce of Public Affairs and received the
department9s Exceptional Service Award,
VA9s highest honor.
Besides work and parenthood, Don enjoyed
baseball, military concerts, and many pet
cats. He had a passion for home and car
repair. His golden years were when he and
Kay were grandparents, and he loved the
many family get togethers locally or at his
house on Chesapeake Bay.
Don was in good health and stayed quite
active until very recently. He died without
prolonged unease, on June 10, 2023 with his
entire family.
His brother, Leonard Robert (Wink) Smith
predeceased him in 2003. His wife Kay
passed in 2020. He is survived by his chil-
dren Ken, Lynne, Paul, Gary and Brian, his
grandchildren Katie, Sarah, Natalie, Tony,
Charlotte, and James, and his daughters-in-
law Teresa, Ann, Doreen and Katie and Sar-
ah9s mother AnneMarie.
A memorial service is planned for Septem-
ber 9, 2023 at Parklawn Cemetery in Rock-
ville, MD.
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MASON
PHILLIP H. MASON
Phillip H. Mason of Charlottesville, VA
passed away on June 12, 2023 after a brief
illness. He was predeceased by his parents
Roy C. Mason and Leslie Bell Kerr Mason,
brother Roy Mason and wife Joan J. Barnett
Mason. He was born July 29, 1936 in Cleve-
land, Ohio and was a graduate of Case West-
STACKHOUSE
DONNA ORDEMAN STACKHOUSE
(Age 79)
Donna Ordeman Stackhouse Annapolis, MD,
formerly of Potomac, MD passed away at
Ginger Cove Assisted Living in Annapolis,
MD on June 12, 2023. Mrs Stackhouse was
born in Albany, CA on May 24, 1944 and was
the daughter of the late Harry Ordeman and
Marie (Schmidt) Ordeman.
Mrs. Stackhouse graduated from Oakland
High School in Oakland, CA. She earned
a B.S. in Business Administration from the
University of California at Berkeley in 1967.
In her 30 year career with IBM, Mrs. Stack-
TAYLOR
LONNIE P. TAYLOR
We are deeply saddened to announce the
peaceful passing of Lonnie P. Taylor on Tues-
day, June 6, 2023, after an extended but he-
roically-embraced illness.
Born on July 13, 1958 in Washington, DC, to
Magdalene S. Taylor and Leroy Hinton Tay-
lor (deceased), Lonnie was a shining and
steady inspiration to countless souls. His
wise counsel and constant support extend-
ed across many generations and virtually
every sphere of inûuence. He was happiest
around his family, and his family was happi-
est around him.
In his early youth, Lonnie was educated
in the DC Public Schools. He then brieûy
attended Gonzaga College High School be-
fore attending Mackin Catholic High School,
where he graduated with honors. He earned
a Bachelor of Business Administration from
the George Washington University, and a Ju-
ris Doctorate from The Georgetown Univer-
sity Law Center.
Lonnie9s interest in national politics sparked
at a very early age, when he ûrst began
working in the ofûce of U.S. Senator Jacob
K. Javits (R-NY) as a high school intern. Sen.
Javits personally took him under his wing,
and hired Lonnie while he ûnished his se-
nior year of high school. Lonnie continued
to work for Sen. Javits while pursuing his
business degree from George Washington
University, and upon graduation, began
working as a Senior Legislative Assistant for
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) while attending
Georgetown Law School at night. Continu-
ing to elevate in seniority across Capitol
Hill, Lonnie became Chief of Staff for U.S.
Congressman Jack Buechner (R-MO). Lonnie
also served with distinction in the Presiden-
tial Administration of George H.W. Bush, as a
senior administrator for Congressional and
Intergovernmental Affairs in the General
Services Administration.
Lonnie9s remarkable accomplishments in
the public sector led him toward a variety
of leadership positions in the business, legal,
and executive search industries. He served
as Senior Vice President of Congressional
and Public Affairs and Chief Lobbyist at the
U.S. Chamber Commerce, Vice President of
External Affairs at Sprint Nextel, Vice Presi-
dent of Federal and State Relations at Nex-
WOOD
CAPTAIN ALLEN WOOD
US NAVY (RET.)
Allen Wood, age 87, made his ûnal <change
of station= move on November 29, 2021,
when he was promoted to glory. Prior to
that, he spent a full 30-year career in the
United States Navy and retired to his home
in Arlington Virginia, where he lived for more
than 30 years, often entertaining gatherings
of friends in his legendary back yard, under
two gazebos that were designed for that
very purpose.
A native of Dunbar, Wisconsin, Allen moved
to Hebron, Illinois as a young boy. The fourth
in a family of eight children, he learned
about hard work during the 13 years he
helped on his Dad9s farm. In addition to
working on the farm, Allen and his brother
were caddies at the neighboring golf course
earning money to put themselves through
college. While in high school, Allen received
his varsity letter in football, was voted Prom
King, elected Class President, and was the
Class Valedictorian.
After graduation from Hebron High School,
he attended Blackburn University where he
earned a degree in economics in 1958. Allen
was also the Valedictorian of his graduating
class at Blackburn College. He was Class
President all four years and was chosen as
a member of the work committee on the
Blackburn work plan - which is the highest
non-academic honor a student may gain
at the college. He also participated in the
school newspaper, where in one of his last
editorials summed up his philosophy that
carried him well throughout his naval career
and life: <I sincerely hope this paper contin-
ues to step on toes when they should be
stepped on and toss a rose here and there
when it is called for.=
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ern Reserve University. Phillip was active in
the Civil Rights movement and held numer-
ous positions involving Civil Rights, including
work for the Department of Justice. He was
subsequently employed by the Central Intel-
ligence Agency until his retirement.
Phillip loved ûshing, gardening, woodwork-
ing, Sudoku and was an avid reader. He was
an unapologetic romantic whose favorite
author was Sandra Brown. He also read
books by James Patterson, Michael Connel-
ly, Lee Child and David Baldacci.
Phillip leaves to mourn, his cherished, lov-
ing, and devoted wife of 31 years, Nanita
C. Mason, four children Yolanda A. Townes
(Billy Ray), Phillip H. Mason, Jr., Neal A. Ma-
son (Lori), Windy J. Mason Leslie (Lawrence),
Mark C. Jefferson, stepson. Brothers Paul
L.R. Mason and Michael Mobley (AnnieRose),
nine grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren,
and one great-great-granddaughter, and a
host of relatives and friends.
Funeral will be held on June 24, 2023, Spring
Branch Community Church, 1500 N. Great
Neck Rd., Virginia Beach, VA 23454. Viewing
10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Funeral 11 a.m. Interment
Princess Anne Memorial Park Cemetery,
1110 N. Great Neck Rd.,
Virginia Beach, VA 23454.
house worked in Administration, Managerial
and Marketing/System Analyst positions at
headquarters and marketing divisions loca-
tions throughout the country. She received
numerous achievement awards. She retired
in 1998.
Mrs. Stackhouse was a member of Phi Mu
Sorority, New Annapolitans, the Panhellenic
Club of Annapolis, and Anne Arundel Wom-
en Giving Together (AAWGT) Philanthropic
Organization.
She is survived by a brother Richard C. Or-
deman of Vienna, VA, and a twin sister Dena
L Foster of Scottsdale, AZ, one nephew Eric
C. Foster also of Scottsdale; plus two step-
sons Kendal C. Stackhouse of Reading, MA;
and John Stackhouse of Leonardtown, MD;
two step-daughters, Kathryn A. Stackhouse
of
Silver Spring, MD; and Mary Jeanette Stack-
house, of Randolph, MA. She was preceded
in death by her husband Kendal Stackhouse.
A Memorial Service will be held at Lasting
Tributes Funeral Care, located at 814 Best-
gate Road in Annapolis, on Thursday, June
29, with the gathering beginning at 2 p.m.
followed by the service at 3 p.m.
In lieu of ûowers, memorial contributions
may be made to the National Kidney Foun-
dation by visiting www.Kidney.org, or by
mail to P.O.Box 40544, Bay Village, OH,
44140.
To leave online condolences please visit
www.LastingTributesFuneralCare.com
tel, Co-chair of the Government Relations
Practice of the law ûrm of Powell Goldstein,
Managing Partner of the executive search
ûrm of Heidrick & Struggles, Managing Di-
rector at Boyden Global Executive Search,
Managing Director and lead of the Govern-
ment Relations and Public Sector Practice
for Diversiûed Search, President & CEO of
the National Jobs Corps Association, and a
variety of other signiûcant positions. Lon-
nie9s work ethic was unparalleled, as was
his driving desire to provide guidance, sus-
tenance, support, and a <leg-up= to those in
need, particularly the disenfranchised and
the unseen, as well as young people who
were just beginning their careers.
Lonnie was deeply involved in a number of
civic and community organizations, serving
in various leadership capacities. He served
as Chairman of the Boards of Youth Service
of America and the Washington Area Coun-
cil on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, as well as
a Member of the Board of Directors of the
International Social Service USA, The Wash-
ington Scholarship Fund, the Bryce Harlow
Institute of Business and Government Af-
fairs.
But for Lonnie, family always came ûrst.
He and his wife Kristin raised two beautiful
children together, Lonnie Paul Taylor II and
Mary Elizabeth Taylor, both of whom grew
into loving, responsible adults and who will,
always and forever, remain a source of deep
parental pride.
Lonnie was equally committed to (and
ûercely protect of) his large extended family
of thirteen siblings, all of whom were raised
and nurtured by his proud and incredibly re-
gal mother, Magdalene S. Taylor, the miracu-
lous family matriarch who, at 95, remains a
constant and unwavering source of strength
and grace. He is also survived by several
generations of loving nieces, nephews, and
cousins, as well as legions of loyal friends
throughout the nation and across the globe.
Our Lonnie will forever be remembered for
his quick smile, his brilliant mind, his large
heart, his contagious laugh & and for sing-
ing the made-up lyrics to his favorite songs
in a loud and happy voice, for all to hear.
Finally, ultimately, Lonnie was a man of God,
deeply fortiûed by his faith and grounded in
the glory of our Lord and Savior. This unwav-
ering faith is what gave grace, mercy, and
perfect peace to his ûnal transition. Now our
Lonnie is free, forever wrapped in everlast-
ing and absolute joy.
Lonnie P. Taylor lived his life beautifully. And
it will be this beautiful life we will celebrate
with boundless joy and immense gratitude
on Friday, June 23, at the Cathedral of St.
Matthew the Apostle, 1725 Rhode Island
Avenue, Washington, DC. Visitation: 9 a.m.
Funeral Service: 10 a.m.
If desired, family and friends may send ûow-
ers to St. Matthew9s Cathedral, or make a
memorial contribution to the Georgetown
University Black Law Students Association
by going to https://bit.ly/DonateToGULaw-
InMemoryOfLonniePTaylor. (Scroll down to
select <Other,= and indicate <Georgetown
University Black Law Student Association, in
memory of Lonnie P. Taylor.=)
www.mcguire-services.com
Following graduation from Blackburn, he
was accepted into Harvard Law School
where he completed one year before
changing his career path and entering the
Navy. He later received a master9s degree
in business administration (MBA) from the
University of Pittsburgh.
Allen wanted everyone to know how much
he enjoyed his 30-year Navy career. He had
experience serving with the <lighter-than-
air= (blimp) aviators in Lakehurst, New Jer-
sey, the nuclear Navy (USS Enterprise CVA-
65 aircraft carrier) and the space support
Navy (USS Iwo Jima LPH-2), the ship that
recovered the astronauts of Apollo 13 and
the spacecraft off Pago Pago, Samoa. During
his last six years of active duty, he had the
honor and privilege of directing the Navy9s
worldwide Morale, Welfare and Recreation
programs. This encompassed all recreation
and athletic programs, social clubs, child
development centers, ûtness facilities, ûy-
ing clubs, and the Navy Band. He often ex-
pressed to friends and family that the most
rewarding part of his MWR tour was the
new emphasis on child development pro-
grams and centers. Saying he was blessed
with a superb staff, they adopted the motto:
<Child by Child, We Build our Nation.=
Allen retired from the United States Navy
on July 1, 1988. His medals and decorations
included the Legion of Merit, the Defense
Meritorious Service Medal, a Navy Commen-
dation Medal with Combat <V= (2), a Combat
Action Ribbon, a Navy Unit Commendation,
a Meritorious Unit Commendation, the Viet-
nam Service Medal (3), and the Vietnam Gal-
lantry Cross with Palm Unit Citation.
Allen was preceded in death by his mother
and father, Vera and John Wood, and six of
his siblings: Jack Wood, Jeanne Ritter, Doug-
las Wood, Gordon Wood, Patricia Feldt, and
James Wood. He is survived by his sister Viv-
ian Sommer of Jensen Beach, Florida, and
more than a dozen nieces and nephews.
His family remained very important to him
throughout his life - treasuring his time with
them; and they in turn treasured their time
with him whenever he returned home for
visits and reunions. He was also survived
by his longtime and close friend Alfred
(<Chuck=) Smith, who passed away in North
Carolina in November 2022. Donations in
memory of Captain Allen Wood should be
made to the Navy Marine Corps Relief So-
ciety, a 50l(c)(3) located at 875 N. Randolph
Street, Arlington Virginia 22203. [Tax EIN: 53-
0204618]. Captain Allen Wood will be buried
with full military honors at the Arlington Na-
tional Cemetery on Thursday, June 22, 2023
at 11 a.m.
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SPORTS sunday, june 18 , 2023 M2 d

teNNiS SOccer SOccer
In Germany, Maryland9s Frances Tiafoe is one victory The U.S. men have lined up a full-time coach at last. D.C. United again gets burned with its goalkeeper out
away from his first tournament title on a grass court. d2 Lifting the Nations League trophy is next on their list. d8 of position during a 2-1 home loss to Real Salt Lake. d8

U.S. Open
could end
someone9s
drought
In L.A., Fowler, McIlroy
and Schauffele have shot
at major breakthrough

BY C HUCK C ULPEPPER

LOS ANGELES 4 Golf, a concoc-

tion with a fiendish knack for
saying no, might well stand ready
to spend sunday saying a mighty
yes to someone who has spent
recent years hearing no often.
That9s because a kinetic leader
board after three rounds of the
123rd U.s. Open at Los angeles
country club brimmed with
long-familiar contenders the four
major golf tournaments have
snubbed 4 or snubbed of late.
They snub more than they nod,
after all.
Yet the snubbing might stop for
somebody really sick of it if the
sEE u.s. OpeN ON d2

U.S. Open, final round

MIChAeL CIAGLo FoR The wAShINGToN PoST Today, 1 p.m., NBC
<i9m not just a football guy,= said new Colorado coach deion sanders, who sported a cowboy hat at the Buffaloes9 spring game in april. <i9m a conduit of change.=

It9s 8Coach Prime9 time
W Power Five9s bright lights
hen football prospects enter the
University of colorado9s sleek re-
cruiting lounge, they9re led
toward floor-to-ceiling windows. There,
just below, is the Buffaloes9 stadium, Fol-
som Field. Beyond that are the sandstone
buildings that give the campus the feel of a
Tuscan villa, and past that are the eastern-
most peaks of the Front Range.
Next on the tour are the old trophies
and photographs 4 reminders of confer-
ence titles, a Heisman Trophy and a
national championship, all collected a
lifetime ago. The display is well choreo-
graphed, the opening act of a show.
Finally, players are invited to sit in the
center of a tufted wraparound sofa, their
parents on either side, and face three
empty armchairs. Then they wait, that
period of anticipation before the headlin-
er steps onstage.
beckoned Sanders, and he9s
running the show his way
BY K ENT B ABB
iN BOULdER, cOLO., aNd JacKsON, Miss.
Finally, the doors open.
<couché!= says deion sanders, speaking
French to the Belgian Malinois panting in
his crate near the windows. Lie down.
such canine linguistics are just one
more unexpected dimension of one of the
most gifted and consequential athletes of
all time.
also a lifetime ago, sanders became a
household name as a two-sport star, eight-
time Pro Bowl pick and two-time super
Huggins
steps down
following
Bowl champion. He wore a bandanna and
jewels, electrified audiences and at times
enraged them as he inspired a generation
of brash cornerbacks. He collected a few
nicknames along the way, but he preferred
DUI arrest
<Prime Time= because he treated NFL
games not just as athletic contests but as BY S PENCER N USBAUM
america9s biggest, most dazzling show. AND E LLA B ROCKWAY
<Nobody cares about yesterday,= he says
from the center armchair. The prospect9s West Virginia men9s basketball
would-be position coach usually sits at coach Bob Huggins announced
sanders9s left, the primary recruiter at his his resignation saturday night
right. sanders is the Buffaloes9 first-year and said he intends to retire fol-
coach, a newcomer in these parts, and he9s lowing his arrest on a charge of
doing some redecorating. <i9m not just a driving under the influence.
football guy. i9m a conduit of change. Huggins was arrested Friday
Everywhere i went in my life, i was a night in Pittsburgh. Per the city9s
conduit of change.= police blotter, he failed standard
Now, at 55 and robbed of his once-silky sobriety tests and was taken into
gait, sanders 4 or <coach Prime,= as he custody without incident.
sEE saNders ON d6 <My recent actions do not rep-
resent the values of the University
or the leadership expected in this
role,= the 69-year-old said in a
sEE HuggiNs ON d5

For Morant, punishment Rested Irvin impresses,

will outlast his suspension
Ja Morant has
made one prudent
decision during
his gun-
brandishing, rep-
tarnishing
Jerry backslide: He
Brewer saved the
foolishness for his
own time. Better to be reckless
on instagram with your buddies
than at a team facility. That9s the
only thing that prevented the
NBa hammer from swinging
with full force at the troubled
star.
Given his run of atrocious
judgment, the smidgen of
common sense can be his
participation trophy.
congratulations, Ja: You were
just good enough to avoid a
suspension lasting a half-season
or longer.
On Friday, the NBa settled on
a 25-game punishment for
Morant after investigating his
second gun-waving incident of
the year. some pundits
speculated about harsher
discipline, but this is not a light
penalty. Morant will be
unavailable for nearly one-third
of the Memphis Grizzlies9
82 games next season. He will
forfeit about $7.6 million of his
$33.5 million salary. and he will
have to do work 4 real work this
time 4 on himself because NBa
commissioner adam silver
alluded to unspecified
sEE Brewer ON d2
but Nats9 bullpen falters
MarliNs 5,
NatioNals 2
Miami improves to 5-0
over its NL East rival
BY A NDREW G OLDEN
Eleven days after his previous
start and five days since his spot
in the rotation was skipped, a
rested and refreshed Jake irvin
ran toward the Nationals Park
mound saturday afternoon
ready for another crack at a big
JoNAThAN NewToN/The wAShINGToN PoST
league lineup.
<a fresh arm, a fresh mind,= said Jake irvin, who allowed one run Five innings later, after strik-
over five innings against the Marlins in his first start in 11 days. ing out the Miami Marlins9 Bryan
de La cruz looking, the rookie
pumped his fist while walking
toward the dugout. it was exactly
the kind of outing that the
26-year-old needed to get his
confidence back.
irvin looked stronger as the
game progressed and limited the
Marlins to one run on four hits.
But chad Kuhl, whom irvin re-
placed in the rotation, walked in
the go-ahead run in the seventh
inning as the Marlins knocked
around the Washington bullpen
en route to a 5-2 victory.
Miami (40-31) has won all five
of the teams9 matchups this
sEE NatiONals ON d3
Marlins at Nationals
Today, 1:30 p.m., MASN
D2 EZ M2 the washington post . sunday, june 18 , 2023

Di g e s t goLF

tennis
For the first time, Tiafoe
makes grass-court final
Frances Tiafoe will contest his
first grass-court final after the
Hyattsville native outlasted
Marton Fucsovics in a marathon
tiebreaker Saturday at the
Stuttgart (Germany) open.
Tiafoe won their semifinal, 6-3,
7-6 (13-11), after saving six set
points in the tiebreaker. Trailing
11-10, Tiafoe won the next three
points, sealing the victory with a
stinging return.
<Crazy match, crazy second set.
I9m just happy to get through,=
Tiafoe said. <I wasn9t relaxed in
that tiebreak at all.=
Tiafoe will play Jan-Lennard
Struff in Sunday9s final after the
home favorite rallied past Hubert
Hurkacz, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.
Tiafoe has a 2-4 win-loss record
in finals. He won his last final in
April in Houston on clay against
Tomás Martín etcheverry.
Hungary9s fucsovics came
through qualifying and upset
American Taylor Fritz in the
quarterfinals friday. His return
game was lacking against Tiafoe
as he failed to force a single break
point.
Struff is 0-2 in finals. . . .
The first all-British final on the
WTA Tour in 46 years will play
out in England at the grass-court
Nottingham open.
After Katie Boulter beat
Heather watson, 6-4, 7-5, in the
first all-British semifinal on the
tour in 48 years, Jodie Burrage
piled on more history by edging
Alizé Cornet of france, 7-5, 7-5.
Either Boulter, ranked 126th,
or Burrage, ranked 131st, will
become a first-time tour winner.
The last all-British final in 1977
saw Sue Barker beat Virginia
wade in San francisco.
Boulter9s third straight win
over Watson ensures she will
return to the top 100 for the first
time since 2019. She could move
into the top 80 if she downs
Burrage in the final. Boulter, 26,
has beaten Burrage, 24, in both of
their previous matches. . . .
In Den Bosch, Netherlands,
ekaterina Alexandrova will
defend her Libema open title
against fellow russian and top
seed Veronika Kudermetova
after both reached the final of the
grass-court event without
dropping a set all week.
Alexandrova, seeded fourth,
beat Aliaksandra Sasnovich of
Belarus, 6-1, 7-6 (7-1), by
converting three of her five break-
point chances. She denied all five
for Sasnovich.
Alexandrova will be playing for
her fourth WTA singles title
Sunday. She beat Kudermetova in
the semifinals here last year.
Kudermetova, a tournament
top seed for the first time,
knocked out unseeded Viktoria
Hruncakova of Slovakia, 6-3, 6-2.
CoLLege BAseBALL
Danny Corona delivered a go-
ahead two-run single in the
eighth inning as Wake forest
opened its first College World
Series in 68 years with a 3-2 win
over Stanford.
The top-seeded Demon
Deacons were held to three hits
and one run before storms caused
a 1-hour 28-minute delay in the
seventh inning.
When play resumed, the
Deacons squeezed out enough
production to win their first game
in omaha since they won the
national championship in 1955.
Wake forest (53-10) will play
LSU on monday night to
determine control of Bracket 2.
Stanford (44-19) meets Tennessee
in an elimination game monday.
In the night game, paul Skenes
struck out 12 and carried a
shutout into the eighth inning,
and LSU (49-15) held on for a 6-3
victory over Tennessee (43-21).
The right-hander ran his
season strikeout total to 200, the
first college pitcher to reach that
mark in 12 years.
Brayden Jobert homered,
tripled, doubled and drove in two
runs for the Tigers, who led 5-0
after seven innings.
AUto rACing
In Elkhart Lake, Wis., Colton
Herta of Andretti Autosport
earned pole position for Sunday9s
IndyCar Series race at road
America by posting a fastest lap of
1 minute 40.1945 seconds on the
14-turn, 4.014-mile road course.
pato O9ward qualified second
and was followed by Alex palou,
Josef newgarden and Alexander
rossi. . . .
Two-time reigning formula
one champion Max Verstappen
won the 25th pole of his career in
qualifying for Sunday9s Canadian
Grand Prix in montreal.
Verstappen has won five of
seven races this season.
nico Hülkenberg of Haas
initially qualified second but
hours later was handed a three-
place penalty on the starting grid
for violating rules during a red
flag. He now will start fifth.
Fernando Alonso of Aston
martin moved up from third and
will start alongside Verstappen.
mercedes teammates Lewis
Hamilton and George russell
will start on the second row.
MisC.
Jewell Loyd scored a career-
high 39 points, Seattle made
17 three-pointers, and the Storm
beat the Dallas Wings, 109-103, in
WNBA action in Arlington, Tex.
Seattle9s victory overshadowed
a career-high 41-point
performance by Arike
Ogunbowale of the Wings.
ezi Magbegor made all four of
her three-point attempts and
finished with 15 points for Seattle
(3-7), and Mercedes russell
contributed 12 points and
10 rebounds.
Satou Sabally added 25 points
for Dallas (5-6), and natasha
Howard had 20 points and
10 rebounds. . . .
The death on Wednesday of
ray Lewis III, the son of two-
time Super Bowl champion ray
Lewis, was the result of a
suspected overdose, according to
the Casselberry (fla.) Police
Department.
Lewis died after officers were
called to a central florida home
and found him unconscious in a
bedroom, according to police.
Lewis, reported to be 28 years
old, played cornerback at his
father9s alma mater, miami, for
two seasons before transferring to
Coastal Carolina in 2015. He later
played at Virginia Union.
4 From news services
Third straight 67 puts Yang in lead at LPGA event
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Amy Yang birdied all five
par-5s at Blythefield and shot her
third straight 5-under-par 67 to
take the third-round lead Satur-
day at the meijer LPGA Classic in
Belmont, mich.
Yang rebounded from bogeys
on the par-3 11th and 13th to
birdie the par-5 14th, par-4 17th
and par-5 18th to reach 15-under
201 on the tree-lined course.
Trio seek
to end their
dry spells
in majors
U.S. Open from D1
winner turns out to be rickie
fowler, who is tied for the lead
with Wyndham Clark at 10 under
par after some dramatics on
No. 18; rory mcIlroy, who loomed
one shot back after adding a 69 to
his 65 and 67; or even Xander
Schauffele, who spent the first
hole Saturday taking three shots
to exit a fairway bunker 4 the
first two caromed backward and
won the empathy of all golfers 4
yet who stands five shots off at 5
under.
Those three may own the many
hearts who ache for multimillion-
aire golfers everywhere. fowler
has gone all 47 previous majors of
his career without winning one,
and he started missing them en-
tirely earlier this decade when his
form plummeted. mcIlroy hasn9t
won one in his past 32 tries after
winning four of out of 15 at one
point. And Schauffele just
reached his 25th major looking
for his first win despite a record
aglow with 10 top-10 finishes.
of course golf, being rude and
all in general, might opt for the
two other players who frequented
the top five during a third round
played in the preposterously sun-
ny sun of Los Angeles. It might
nod at Clark, a 29-year-old sleek
and bearded Coloradan in his
seventh major ever who scored a
maiden win on the PGA Tour last
month in Charlotte and said he
had had moments <multiple
times this year where I catch
myself daydreaming about win-
ning.= or it might look to Harris
English, the 33-year-old Georgian
in his 26th major who has played
the U.S. open quite well 4 fourth
at Winged foot in New York in
2020 and third at Torrey Pines
near San Diego in 2021.
Clark spent Saturday at or near
the top and got over a groaner of a
chip on No. 12 that went 2 feet 9
inches, according to the official
stats. He hung around despite
some malfeasance on No. 17 that
led him to someplace the mowers
don9t visit and caused a drop and
a bogey. He replied to that with an
approach on No. 18 that should
<All week my ball-striking has
been really good,= Yang said. <I
was giving myself good chances
out there. I was a little bit off with
putting speed during the round,
made a couple mistakes, but I
tried to stay patient and just keep
trying throughout the round.=
The 33-year-old Yang has won
all four of her LPGA Tour titles in
Asia 4 the LPGA Keb-HanaBank
in 2013 in her native South Korea
and the Honda LPGA Thailand in
rickie Fowler, who is 0 for 47 in majors for his career, plays his tee
shot on no. 13 en route to a 70 and a share of the third-round lead.
have included violin accompani-
ment, starting at 170 yards and
ending at 6 feet 2 inches. When he
made that putt and fowler
missed a four-footer stunningly,
Clark went from two back to tied
atop. English reached 10 under at
one point 4 one of only four
players to get there this week of
surprising birdie frequency 4
then bogeyed Nos. 11, 12, 14 and 18
to retreat to 6 under while hope-
ful.
Don9t look now, but golf might
even hurl more hosannas upon
Scottie Scheffler, the 2022 mas-
ters champion and No. 1 player in
the world. As he stood Saturday
amid the fairway at No. 17, the
toughest hole on the course this
week, Scheffler remained in the
second tier of the leader board, at
a not-bad 4 under yet mired all
week in the bubbling-under cat-
egory. That9s before he struck the
kind of beauty that can portend
larger beauty. It landed on the left
edge of the green, began rolling
and stated its clear intent to dunk
itself straight into the cup from
196 yards.
That brought him rapidly to 6
under, and the 22-foot putt he
steered in for birdie on No. 18 got
him to 7 under and some serious
contention. It left him with a 68
that looked fine as this 126-year-
2015, 2017 and 2019.
The tournament in the Grand
rapids area is the final event
before the major Women9s PGA
Championship next week at Bal-
tusrol and the U.S. Women9s
open at Pebble Beach, which
starts July 6.
<I know [the Women9s PGA] is
coming, and another two weeks
after that U.S. open is coming,=
Yang said. <Always doing my best
to win my first major out there. If
rICHArD HEATHCOTE/gETTy IMAgES
old course with its first major
continued its evolution through
the week from tame (Thursday)
to less tame (thereafter).
<No, could not see the ball go
in,= Scheffler said, <but there was
a nice crowd there on the grand-
stand behind the green. I saw
where it landed, and I thought it
could funnel out to the green and
I9d have a look for birdie. And
then you could see everybody as
the noise started to kind of rise,
got excited, and then they erupt-
ed.=
All along, this has felt like
fowler9s tournament, the way he
streamed to the first 62 in the
barbed-wired history of this
event Thursday, to the way he
added a 68 on friday and reached
18 birdies in his first 36 holes (the
most at that stage in any U.S.
open since Gil morgan crafted 14
at Pebble Beach in 1992), and the
way this week has cemented his
molt from a career downturn at
the start of this decade that left
him often absent or half-forgot-
ten at majors.
Now, with six top-10 finishes
this season, he has reached that
point where he utters things such
as <I wouldn9t be in this position
had I not gone through the last
few years.= He added: <I have a
better understanding of every-
I play well this week, it9ll definite-
ly give me good confidence going
into a major.=
Ashleigh Buhai, the South Af-
rican who won the Shoprite
LPGA Classic last week in New
Jersey, was a stroke back with
second-round leader Ayaka fu-
rue of Japan and Xiyu Lin of
China.
The 34-year-old Buhai fol-
lowed a bogey on 17 with an eagle
on 18 for a 66.
U.s. open
After three rounds at L.A. Country Club
TO PAr
T1
T1
Wyndham Clark
rickie Fowler
-10
-10
3 rory McIlroy -9
4
5
Scottie Scheffler
Harris English
-7
-6
T6 Dustin Johnson -5
T6 Xander Schauffele -5
thing. I know more about my
swing, myself, my mental ap-
proach.=
When he birdied the par-5 No. 1
after knocking it from 76 yards to
five feet, he reached 11 under and
looked as if he might run off
some. Through the day he lost the
lead, nibbled back and got it
again. It did not hurt when, on
No. 13, he went ahead and made
your everyday, run-of-the-mill 69-
footer for a third birdie on the day
and a 21st on the tournament. All
went well until that last par putt
and a rare groan.
mcIlroy9s gilded plight after all
this time might have gotten its
best reflection in his comment
here, <No one wants me to win
another major more than I do,= a
statement that might have over-
looked golf writers desperate to
stop typing about the drought.
His drives here have coaxed a lot
of gasps, and he opened Saturday
with a good, old 388-yarder along
the left fairway on No. 1.
He birdied that after his 17-
footer for eagle said hello to the
hole and then edged off to the left,
and he, too, looked capable of
running off a bit. He birdied No. 3
to boot and reached 10 under. But
after he bogeyed No. 4, he staged
his own sea of steadiness, parring
10 of the next 12 holes.
His partner in a starry duo,
Schauffele, staged more of a car-
nival, starting with that bunker at
No. 1 when he looked forlorn in
the sand, two shots caroming
backward and the second one
almost smacking him. He wound
up bogeying that par-5, a feat
after the sand follies, then bogey-
ing Nos. 3 and 5 to plunk to 5
under, then birdieing Nos. 6, 8
and 9 to get back to 8 under, then
bogeying Nos. 13, 14 and 17 to fall
back to 5 under.
It left him tied for sixth with a
quiet Dustin Johnson, and it
made it end up looking as if this,
too, probably wouldn9t be
Schauffele9s long-awaited week to
win 4 not that he doesn9t know
how to hear the word <no.=

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The Athletics and Royals are scuffling in place and racing toward ignominy
BY N EIL G REENBERG
The 2023 mLB season already
has given us some terrific teams
and standout performances. The
Tampa Bay rays started off
strong, winning their first
13 games, and still have the best
record in baseball. The surpris-
ing Arizona Diamondbacks are
attempting to go from 110 losses
to 100 wins in just two years.
Aaron Judge, last year9s home
run king, is among the major
league leaders again despite two
trips to the injured list with 19
homers in 49 games, while two-
way star Shohei ohtani of the Los
Angeles Angels continues to per-
form at an elite level at the plate
and on the mound.
Buried beneath the buzz are
two teams struggling to remain
competitive, much less relevant.
With cheerless win-loss records
of 19-52 and 18-50 entering the
weekend, the oakland Athletics
and Kansas City royals are in a
two-team race to decide which is
the worst team in baseball. Just
how bad is it going to be for these
struggling franchises?
Let us first set some bench-
marks for baseball futility. The
1916 Philadelphia Athletics own
the modern-era record for fewest
wins in a season. They went
36-117 that year and finished 541/2
games out of first place. Their
.235 winning percentage is quite
a bit worse than what the A9s
(.268) and royals (.265) have
managed this season. As for the
worst win-loss records since 1962
4 when major League Baseball
introduced the 162-game season
4 let9s introduce the 1962 New
York mets (40-120), 2003 Detroit
Tigers (43-119), 2018 Baltimore
orioles (47-115) and 2019 Tigers
(47-114).
Losing 100 or more games in a
season has not been rare of late.
In fact, four teams 4 the Wash-
ington Nationals, Athletics, Cin-
cinnati reds and Pittsburgh Pi-
rates 4 lost at least 100 games
last season. There probably won9t
be four 100-loss teams this sea-
son, but oakland and Kansas City
entered the weekend on pace to
lose about 119 games.
If they manage to hit that
estimate, it would easily be the
highest loss total by the two
worst teams in a season in the
past 60 years, eclipsing the 223
total losses by the mets and
oPS, a comprehensive measure
of a player9s offensive contribu-
tion. Pitchers can be evaluated
using fielding independent
pitching (fIP), a metric that
focuses on factors a pitcher can
control, such as strikeouts,
walks, home runs and hit-by-
pitches. oPS and fIP won9t cap-
ture every nuance of on-field
performance, but they are suit-
able for helping us assess how
poorly these teams have per-
formed.
fielding is a little more diffi-
cult because some of the more
comprehensive metrics 4 ulti-
mate zone rating, defensive runs
saved and so on 4 are not
chARlie Riedel/ASSociATed pReSS
available for all the years in
The Athletics and the Royals are on a futile pace not only to exceed question. In their stead, we can
100 losses but to become two of the worst major league teams ever. use the total number of errors for
a season, a measure that is far
Chicago Cubs in 1962. als, by comparison, are on pace from perfect but can at least offer
oakland is also on track to for just the 19th-worst run differ- an estimate of fielding prowess.
have the worst run differential ential since teams started play- To make the comparisons easier
over the past six decades. The A9s ing 162 games. for seasons with a different num-
had been outscored by 196 runs of course, that is only one way ber of teams, we will award one
through 71 games 4 a whopping to put the futility of this year9s point to the worst team in a
2.8 runs per game 4 which, if Athletics and royals in context. particular statistic, two points to
sustained, would move them past Another is to look at how they the second-worst team and so on.
the 2003 and 2019 Tigers and the perform in various hitting, pitch- Entering the weekend, the
1962 mets for the worst run ing and fielding metrics. for Athletics ranked last in fIP and
differential since 1962. The roy- hitting we can look at each team9s last in oPS, with only five teams
committing more errors. The
royals have issues with pitching
(eighth-worst fIP) and in the
field (15th-most errors), but their
most glaring problem is a woeful
.676 oPS, the fourth-worst mark
in 2023.
Based on those rankings, as
well as their other on-field met-
rics, the Athletics edge out the
royals as the team that probably
will finish with baseball9s worst
mark 4 and possibly put its
name in an unfavorable part of
the record book.
oakland could indeed get
there. Its average ranking across
the these three categories is easi-
ly the lowest in the majors this
season. If sustained, it would
place the 2023 Athletics in the
top 20 of historically bad 100-loss
teams.
But give the A9s some credit:
They recently put together a
seven-game winning streak that
included back-to-back victories
over the rays. In baseball, even
the worst teams get hot 4 or at
least warm. Still, probably the
best oakland fans can hope for is
a 65-win season, with 55 victories
or fewer 4 and well over 100 loss-
es 4 a more probable outcome.

Irvin rolls nAtionALS on deCk

vs. Miami Marlins

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nATionAls from D1
season after going 15-4 against
the Nationals last year. Washing-
ton (27-42) has dropped 10 of
12 overall.
<A fresh arm, a fresh mind,=
said Irvin, who called it <fantas-
tic= to be back on the mound.
<Going out there and taking it all
in, competing pitch to pitch and
just feeling good doing it.=
manager Dave martinez
skipped Irvin9s turn in the rota-
tion during his team9s three-
game visit to defending World
Series champion Houston; a day
off and a postponement allowed
the Nationals9 other four starters
to pitch on normal rest. Irvin had
Tommy John surgery that
scrapped his 2021 season, so
martinez is opting to be cautious
with his workload.
That gave Irvin a chance to
reset after he came out of the
gates firing to start his major
league career, allowing one run
across his first two outings. He
did show command issues in
those outings, walking seven.
Those issues became more ap-
parent over his next five starts,
leading to short outings and
plenty of runs 4 Irvin allowed
19 in that stretch.
After throwing a bullpen ses-
sion in Houston, Irvin said the
hiatus not only gave his body a
break but also provided his mind
a chance to reset after a <whirl-
wind= of a first month in the big
leagues. Irvin used the extra time
to tweak his mechanics but ulti-
Chad Kuhl, third from the right, loaded the bases in the seventh inning, then issued a walk and threw a wild pitch to put the Marlins up 3-1.
mately said pitching better came
down to having improved focus.
In his first two innings Satur-
day, it didn9t appear much had
changed. Irvin threw a first-pitch
strike to just one of the first eight
batters he faced. He allowed
back-to-back hits to Jesús Sán-
chez and Joey Wendle in the
second. After a sacrifice fly
brought Sánchez in, Irvin walked
the next batter. But he struck out
Garrett Hampson and got Luis
Arraez 4 who leads the majors in
hitting at .388 and went 5 for 5 in
the marlins9 win friday 4 to
ground out, keeping miami9s
lead at 1-0.
After that, Irvin was more in
control. He allowed a single but
faced the minimum in the third
inning. In the fourth, he navigat-
ed a Luis García throwing error
that put runners on second and
third instead of starting an in-
ning-ending double play; Irvin
got Nick fortes to pop up before
striking out Hampson again. The
Nationals answered in the bot-
tom half when Joey meneses9s
single brought home Jeimer Can-
delario.
Irvin finished with a clean
fifth, his best inning of the day.
He walked two and struck out
four over 88 pitches 4 and after
that rough start, he threw a
first-pitch strike to 10 of his final
13 batters.
<He said he needed that little
bit of a breather,= martinez said.
<And hopefully we get him on the
JoNAThAN NeWToN/The WAShiNgToN poST
right track. He needs to build off
the last three innings he pitched
today, and we9ll see what goes on
five days from now.=
from there, martinez didn9t
have his best relief options avail-
able. mason Thompson and Carl
Edwards Jr. were down after
pitching Thursday and friday.
Hunter Harvey and Kyle
finnegan were available only if
the game was tied or the Nation-
als took the lead.
Jordan Weems threw a one-
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two-three sixth before Kuhl en-
tered for the seventh. He loaded
the bases on two walks (one
intentional) and a single. He
then walked Jorge Soler on four
pitches, nearly hitting him with
the last one. After that, Kuhl got
ahead 0-2 on De La Cruz but
then threw a wild pitch to put
the marlins up 3-1.
<It9s the inconsistency of
where I9m at,= Kuhl said. <It9s
release point with my fastball. I
think the slider9s been really
good 4 just hasn9t been in the
zone enough.=
The Nationals stuck to the
script and provided little run
support. CJ Abrams grounded
out with two runners on to end
the seventh. Washington had
runners on the corners with no
outs in the eighth; Candelario
rolled into a double play that
scored a run but also cleared the
bases and short-circuited the
threat.
In the ninth, Thaddeus Ward
allowed a two-run single to De La
Cruz. Kuhl and Ward combined
to walk five. on an afternoon
when the Nationals got all they
could have wanted from their
young starter, their shorthanded
bullpen couldn9t help him.
<The walks, the walks,= marti-
nez lamented. <We talk about it
all the time 4 a bad combination
when you walk guys.=

Wake Forest9s last College World Series run sparked religious fervor, protest
BY S COTT A LLEN
The top-ranked Wake forest
baseball team beat Stanford, 3-2,
on Saturday at the College World
Series in omaha in the North
Carolina school9s first
appearance in the eight-team,
double-elimination tournament
since it won the national title in
1955. Bad weather led to a delay
of 1 hour 28 minutes in the
Demon Deacons9 opener, but it
didn9t spark the kind of contro-
versy that erupted when Wake
forest took the field on the Sab-
bath 68 years ago and overcame
several additional obstacles en
route to the championship.
The 1955 Demon Deacons, led
by fifth-year coach Taylor San-
ford, won the ACC title before
defeating rollins College and
West Virginia in the District 3
playoffs to clinch their second
appearance in the College World
Series, which was in its ninth
year. Wake forest finished as the
runner-up to Texas in 1949.
Nothing in omaha would
come easily for Sanford9s squad.
Lightning forced the team9s plane
to take a circuitous rout to
Nebraska, and by the time the
Demon Deacons arrived Thurs-
day night, five hours later than
expected, they had missed a
much-anticipated steak dinner.
Wake forest9s ace, three-sport
standout Lowell <Lefty= Davis,
didn9t travel with the team be-
cause he was enrolled in summer
classes and in danger of being
ruled ineligible for the basketball
season if he didn9t improve his
grades. School officials agreed to
allow Davis to take a later flight
to omaha for the weekend, pro-
vided he was back in time for
class monday.
Sophomore right-hander Jack
mcGinley started Wake forest9s
friday morning opener against
Colgate. The Demon Deacons
managed only two hits but pre-
vailed, 1-0, behind mcGinley9s
four-hitter in a game that fea-
tured an hour-long hail and rain
delay in the sixth inning. The
College World Series wouldn9t
invest in an infield tarp until
1965.
rain postponed all of Satur-
day9s scheduled games, pushing
Wake forest9s second game
against Colorado State College,
which stunned favored Southern
California, 2-1, in its opener, to
Sunday night. The news that
Wake forest, which was founded
by the Baptist State Convention
of North Carolina as the Wake
forest manual Labor Institute in
1834, would play on Sunday was
not well received by religious
leaders back home.
According to the Durham Sun,
the rev. Dennis Hockaday, pastor
of the first Baptist Church in
Durham, devoted part of his Sun-
day sermon to the issue. While
Hockaday acknowledged that
there were <worse things= some-
one could do on Sunday than play
baseball, he suggested that the
members of his congregation fol-
low his lead and send telegrams
to Wake forest9s president, Har-
old Tribble, in protest.
<We trust the newspaper re-
port that the college baseball
team will play on this Lord9s Day
is in error,= Hockaday9s own tele-
gram to Tribble read. <This action
would be against the principles
of all the Baptist churches which
support the college. This action
by our college will weaken our
witness in the communities we
serve. We know we can count on
you to take appropriate action.
forfeit of the game is preferable
to forfeit of the principles of
Christianity.=
Tribble, who was attending the
graduation exercises of the Bow-
man Gray School of medicine of
Wake forest College in Winston-
Salem, confirmed that his office
had received a number of tele-
grams.
<It was too late for me to do
anything about it, officially,= Trib-
ble told the Sun. <If I had known
about this Sunday game, I would
never have given permission for
it to be played.=
<It9s a regrettable incident 4
for the players, the schools and
the Baptists,= Hockaday said.
Any attempts by Tribble to
stop the Demon Deacons from
playing Sunday might have
proved futile.
<We were going to play, and
nobody was going to tell us any-
thing different,= mcGinley told
the Winston-Salem Journal last
month.
Davis made the most of his
brief stay in omaha and his only
start in the College World Series,
allowing four hits in a 10-0 win
over Colorado State before re-
turning to summer school. Clean-
up hitter Tommy Cole, who hit a
team-leading seven home runs in
1955, was injured in the win.
<I9m pretty sure [Wake forest
Athletic Director Jim] Weaver
didn9t let the president know we
were playing on Sunday, but it
was good that we won,= catcher
Linwood Holt told the Journal.
Wake forest suffered its first
defeat of the tournament, a 9-0
loss to Western michigan, the
next day. The Demon Deacons
responded with a 10-7 win over
the Broncos. Sophomore pitcher
Johnny Stokoe pitched brilliantly
in a 2-0 win over oklahoma A&m
to advance Wake forest to a
winner-take-all game against
Western michigan.
Back in North Carolina, con-
troversy lingered. Before the
championship game, Durham at-
torney r. Bruce White criticized
Tribble9s leadership.
<I do not raise the question of
whether it is right or wrong to
engage in an athletic contest on
Sunday,= he told the Sun. <I do
emphatically raise the question
of what kind of president we have
who does not know what the
college9s representative team is
doing?=
White, perhaps speaking for
all Demon Deacons fans, also
wondered why the school refused
to fly Davis, the team9s ace, to
omaha for the final game.
<It seems to me that arrange-
ments could be made for him to
make up his classes at night for
the time lost, especially with the
collegiate baseball championship
at stake,= White said. <Lefty9s
presence there tonight could be
the difference between winning
and losing the championship, in
my opinion.=
Bill Walsh, a right-hander who
missed most of the season with
an arm injury, started the decid-
ing game, but he lasted only three
innings. Trailing 6-3 after four
innings, Wake forest tied the
score with a three-run fifth. Luke
mcKeel scored the go-ahead run
in the Demon Deacons9 7-6 tri-
umph on Holt9s two-out single in
the top of the eighth. mcGinley,
working on short rest, pitched 41/3
innings in relief to earn his third
win of the tournament.
<It9s the happiest moment of
my life,= Sanford told reporters
afterward. <No coach ever had a
greater bunch of boys. They are
the greatest group of kids I9ve
ever coached, and I9m proud of
them. They fought hard and de-
served to win.=
A crowd of about 500, includ-
ing Tribble and Davis, greeted the
team at raleigh-Durham Airport
upon its return.
<Wake forest9s triumph in the
1955 NCAA College Baseball
World Series becomes all the
more remarkable when you con-
sider the problems the battlin9
Baptists had to overcome on their
way to the first national team
championship ever won by a
collegiate athletic squad from
North Carolina,= Jack Horner of
the Durham Herald-Sun wrote
the next day. <It9s doubtful if any
team ever faced as many handi-
caps in winning a national title.
. . . In short, the Taylor Sanford-
coached Deacons had the heart,
the guts and the will to win. And
they didn9t let anything stop
them.=
Sanford resigned in January
1956, citing a <feeling of insecuri-
ty= over his position. Despite
returning most of its roster, Wake
forest finished fourth in the ACC.
In 1958, BYU, which is owned
and operated by the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
qualified for the College World
Series for the first time but for-
feited its spot because of its
no-Sunday-play policy. In 1963,
the NCAA adopted the <BYU
rule,= which allowed it to adjust
championship schedules to ac-
commodate schools opposed to
Sunday competitions. By the
1970s, Wake forest was playing a
few games a year on Sundays.
The Baptist State Convention of
North Carolina voted to sever
formal ties with the school in
1986.
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atlanta 45 26 .634 4 8-2 W-5 Milwaukee 36 34 .514 4 4-6 W-2 x-arizona 42 28 .600 4 7-3 W-1 tampa Bay 51 23 .689 4 6-4 L-1 Minnesota 36 35 .507 4 5-5 W-1 texas 43 27 .614 4 3-7 W-1
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Miami 40 31 .563 5 7-3 W-3 cincinnati 36 35 .507 2 8-2 W-7 Los angeles 39 32 .549 31/2 4-6 L-2 Baltimore 43 27 .614 6 6-4 L-2 x-cleveland 32 37 .464 3 5-5 L-1 houston 39 32 .549 41/2 3-7 L-3
philadelphia 37 34 .521 8 8-2 W-5 pittsburgh 34 35 .493 11/2 2-8 L-5 san Francisco 38 32 .543 4 8-2 W-6 New York 39 31 .557 10 4-6 L-2 chicago 31 41 .431 51/2 4-6 W-1 Los angeles 40 33 .548 41/2 7-3 L-1
New York 33 37 .471 11 1/
2 3-7 L-1 chicago 33 37 .471 3 7-3 W-5 san diego 34 36 .486 8 6-4 W-1 toronto 39 33 .542 11 5-5 L-1 detroit 29 40 .420 6 3-7 L-1 seattle 34 35 .493 81/2 5-5 L-1
Washington 27 42 .391 17 2-8 L-2 st. Louis 28 43 .394 81/2 3-7 W-1 colorado 29 44 .397 141/2 3-7 L-4 Boston 35 35 .500 14 5-5 W-2 Kansas city 19 51 .271 161/2 1-9 W-1 oakland 19 54 .260 251/2 6-4 L-4
x-Late game x-Late game

Marlins 5, nationals 2 Brewers 5, pirates 0 twins 2, tigers 0 no tE s

maRLINS ab R h bI bb So avG Wade Miley pitched five Minnesota9s bullpen
Arraez 2b ............4 1 1 0 1 0 .388 scoreless innings in his re- teamed up for a three-hit-
Soler dh ..............2 0 1 1 3 0 .260
De La Cruz lf .......5 0 1 2 0 2 .273 turn from the injured list ter, alex Kirilloff delivered rEd sox-yankEEs tilt
Cooper 1b............5 0 0 0 0 2 .227 and Joey Wiemer homered an rBi single in a break- at fEnway postponEd
Sánchez rf...........4 1 1 0 0 0 .270
Wendle ss...........4 0 2 0 0 0 .250 to lead Milwaukee over through fifth inning, and With rain in the forecast in
Davis cf...............2 1 0 1 1 0 .259 pittsburgh. the twins beat division ri-
Fortes c...............3 1 1 0 1 1 .234
val detroit.
Boston, saturday9s clash
Hampson 3b........3 1 0 0 1 2 .237 Wiemer9s 10th home
totaLS 32 5 7 4 7 7 4 run, a two-run shot off José de León started
of the aL east rivals was
Mitch Keller, staked Miley with two perfect innings for postponed and will made
NatIoNaLS ab R h bI bb So avG
Thomas rf ...........4 1 1 0 0 2 .287 and the Brewers to a 2-0 the twins, who opted for an up as part of a split
García 2b.............4 0 2 0 0 1 .280 doubleheader sunday.
Candelario 3b......4 1 2 0 0 0 .256
lead in the third inning. all-reliever game to give
Meneses dh ........4 0 1 1 0 1 .297 pIRatES ab R h bI bb So avG their rotation a break dur-
S.Garrett lf .........3 0 0 0 1 0 .254 pErsonnEl dEpt.
Smith 1b .............4 0 0 0 0 0 .269 McCutchen dh.....4 0 1 0 0 1 .262 ing a stretch of 16 games
Adams c ..............3 0 1 0 1 2 .271 Reynolds lf..........4 0 1 0 0 1 .278
without a day off. Brewers: activated Lhp
Robles cf.............4 0 1 0 0 1 .289 Joe rf...................4 0 0 0 0 1 .247
Abrams ss...........3 0 0 0 0 2 .215 Santana 1b .........3 0 2 0 1 0 .235 tIGERS ab R h bI bb So avG
Wade Miley (lat strain)
Hayes 3b.............4 0 1 0 0 1 .257 and dh/oF Jesse Winker
totaLS 33 2 8 1 2 9 4 Castro ss.............3 0 0 0 0 0 .259 Vierling rf ...........4 0 0 0 0 1 .262
Torkelson 1b.......3 0 0 0 0 0 .235
mIamI............. 010 000 202 4 5 7 0
Suwinski ph ........1 0 0 0 0 1 .239
Carpenter lf ........3 0 0 0 0 1 .260
(cervical strain) from the
Bae cf..................4 0 1 0 0 1 .269
WaShINGtoN 000 100 010 4 2 8 1
Mathias 2b .........1 0 0 0 2 1 .231 Báez ss ...............3 0 0 0 0 2 .230 injured list.
E: García (3). Lob: Miami 8, Washington Hedges c .............3 0 0 0 0 1 .175 Maton 2b ............3 0 1 0 0 0 .158
6. 2b: Wendle (7), Candelario (21), Short 3b..............2 0 0 0 1 0 .267 cubs: placed iNF patrick
totaLS 31 0 6 0 3 8 4 Cabrera dh ..........3 0 1 0 0 0 .230
Thomas (17). 3b: García (2). RbI: Davis
(8), Soler (41), De La Cruz 2 (37), Mene- Rogers c ..............2 0 0 0 0 0 .174 Wisdom on the 10-day iL
bREWERS ab R h bI bb So avG McKinstry ph ......1 0 1 0 0 0 .247
ses (35). SF: Davis. with a right wrist sprain.
Yelich lf...............3 1 1 0 1 1 .266 Marisnick cf........2 0 0 0 0 1 .194
maRLINS Ip h R ERbb So NpERa Winker dh ...........4 0 0 0 0 3 .196 Haase ph.............1 0 0 0 0 0 .221
B.Garrett ..........6 4 1 1 1 8 903.88 Adames ss ..........3 1 1 0 1 0 .203 totaLS 27 0 3 0 1 5 4
dodgers: 1B Max Muncy
Okert ................ 2/3 1 0 0 0 0 71.93 Tellez 1b .............3 0 1 2 0 1 .232
Floro ................. 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 104.28 Miller ph-1b ........1 0 0 0 0 1 .294
was placed on the iL with
tWINS ab R h bI bb So avG
Scott .................1 2 1 1 0 1 142.91 Urías 2b ..............3 0 0 0 0 1 .097 a strained left hamstring.
Puk ...................1 0 0 0 1 0 132.18 Tapia rf ...............3 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Buxton dh ...........4 0 0 0 0 3 .206
Perkins ph-rf ......1 1 1 1 0 0 .265 Solano 1b............3 0 0 0 1 1 .286
NatIoNaLS Ip hR ER bb So NpERa
Anderson 3b .......3 0 0 0 1 2 .225 Correa ss.............4 0 0 0 0 1 .211 Guardians: called up c
Irvin...................5 41 1 2 4 885.25 Caratini c ............3 1 1 0 0 1 .264 Farmer 2b ...........3 0 0 0 0 1 .264 Bo Naylor, the team9s top
Weems..............1 00 0 0 0 132.16 Wiemer cf...........3 1 1 2 0 0 .215 Lewis 3b .............2 1 0 0 1 2 .273
Kuhl ..................1 12 2 3 2 277.93
totaLS 30 5 6 5 3 11 4
Castro lf..............2 1 1 0 1 1 .254 prospect, from class aaa
Ward .................2 22 2 2 1 415.61 Kirilloff rf............3 0 1 1 0 1 .274
Kepler rf..............0 0 0 0 0 0 .192 columbus and put rhp
Wp: B.Garrett (3-2); Lp: Kuhl (0-4); S: pIttSbURGh . 000 000 000 4 0 6 0
Jeffers c..............3 0 0 1 0 0 .228 triston McKenzie on the iL
Puk (9). Inherited runners-scored: Floro mILWaUKEE . 002 020 01x 4 5 6 0
Taylor cf..............3 0 1 0 0 1 .228
1-0. Ibb: off Kuhl (Arraez). Wp: Kuhl. t: Lob: Pittsburgh 7, Milwaukee 5. 2b:
2:37. a: 33,334 (41,376). totaLS 27 2 3 2 3 11 4 with a sprained elbow.
Reynolds (20), Tellez (5). hR: Wiemer
hoW thEy SCoREd (10), off Keller; Perkins (2), off Hernan- dEtRoIt ........ 000 000 000 4 0 3 0 Marlins: placed 3B Jean
dez. mINNESota.. 000 020 00x 4 2 3 0
maRLINS SECoNd pIRatES Ip h R ER bb So ERa Lob: Detroit 1, Minnesota 4. 2b: Cabre-
segura on the 10-day iL
Jesus Sanchez singles. Joey Wendle
doubles. Jesus Sanchez to third. Jona- Keller ................... 5 5 4 4 3 7 3.62 ra (9), Taylor (8). with a hamstring strain.
than davis out on a sacrifice fly, Joey R.Contreras ......... 2 0 0 0 0 1 6.34 tIGERS Ip h R ER bb So ERa
Wendle to third, Jesus Sanchez scores. Hernandez ........... 1 1 1 1 0 3 2.63
Wentz.................. 6 2 2 2 1 9 6.82
Nick Fortes walks. Garrett Hampson bREWERS Ip h R ER bb So ERa Alexander ............ 2 1 0 0 2 2 4.93
called out on strikes. Luis Arraez MorrY Gash/associated press
grounds out. Miley ................... 5 2 0 0 2 4 3.28 tWINS Ip h R ER bb So ERa to da y
Strzelecki ......... 12/3 1 0 0 0 1 4.88
marlins 1, Nationals 0
Milner................. 1/3 1 0 0 1 0 3.12 De León................ 2 0 0 0 0 2 3.38
NatIoNaLS FoURth
Luis Garcia grounds out. Jeimer Can- Peguero ............... 1
Megill .................. 1
1
1
0 0 0 0 2.77
0 0 0 3 3.65
Tasteful accessorizing Pagán................ 12/3
Headrick ........... 21/3
0
1
0 0 0 0 4.06
0 0 1 2 2.53
delario doubles. Joey meneses singles, Stewart ............... 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.82 nl games
Jeimer Candelario scores. Stone Garrett Wp: Miley (4-2); Lp: Keller (8-3). Inher- Milwaukee9s Blake Perkins sports a celebratory cheesehead in the dugout after blasting a pinch-hit homer Jax ....................... 1 1 0 0 0 0 3.60
walks. Joey Meneses to second. Domi- ited runners-scored: Milner 1-0. hbp: Duran................... 1 1 0 0 0 1 1.33 maRLINS at NatIoNaLS, 1:35
nic Smith grounds out. Stone Garrett Keller (Urías). t: 2:14. a: 37,283 in the eighth inning against the Pirates on Saturday. The host Brewers went on to secure a 5-0 victory. Wp: Headrick (1-0); Lp: Wentz (1-7); S:
out at second. (41,700). W-L ERa tEam
marlins 1, Nationals 1 Duran (9). t: 2:06. a: 26,950 (38,544).
Luzardo (L) 5-5 4.17 9-5
maRLINS SEvENth
Jonathan Davis walks. Nick Fortes sin- Corbin (L) 4-7 4.80 7-7
gles. Jonathan Davis to third. Garrett
Hampson flies out. Luis Arraez is inten-
tionally walked. Nick Fortes to second.
Jorge Soler walks, Luis arraez to sec-
Braves 10, rockies 2
Matt olson hit a grand
slam in the first inning, and
rangers 4, Blue Jays 2
Josh Jung and Jonah
heim hit back-to-back hom-
cardinals 5, Mets 3
adam Wainwright
pitched into the seventh in-
cubs 3, orioles 2
oRIoLES ab
Hays lf ...................4
R
1
h bI bb So avG
2 0 1 1 .312
Hyde is not savoring RoCKIES at bRavES, 1:35
Anderson (R) 0-0 2.72 4-2
ond, Nick Fortes to third, Jonathan da-
vis scores. Jorge Soler to second, Luis
arraez to third, Nick Fortes scores. Bry-
an De La Cruz strikes out swinging. Gar-
homer-happy atlanta rout-
ed colorado for its fifth
ers and adolis García had
his MLB-leading 10th out-
ning for his 198th win, paul
Goldschmidt hit a two-run
Rutschman dh-c ....4
Santander rf..........4
Henderson 3b-ss...3
Urías 1b-3b............4
1
0
0
0
1 2 1 0 .281
0 0 0 2 .259
1 0 1 1 .237
0 0 0 0 .265
his return to Wrigley Morton (R) 5-6
CaRdINaLS at mEtS, 1:40
Liberatore (L) 1-2
3.60

5.14
6-7

1-3
rett Cooper called out on strikes. straight win. field assist among three de- homer, and st. Louis Hicks cf..................3 0 1 0 1 2 .304
marlins 3, Nationals 1 McCann c ...............2 0 1 0 0 0 .194 Carrasco (R) 2-3 5.71 4-4
NatIoNaLS EIGhth ozzie albies, eddie rosa- fensive gems as texas snapped a six-game losing
O'Hearn ph-1b.......2 0 1 0 0 0 .342
Lane Thomas doubles. Luis Garcia sin-
gles. Lane Thomas to third. Jeimer Can-
rio and orlando arcia also turned back toronto. streak by beating New Mateo ss ...............3
Frazier ph ..............1
0
0
0 0 0 0 .231
0 0 0 1 .229
Cubs 3, orioles 2 pIRatES at bREWERS, 2:10
Ortiz (R) 1-3 4.64 2-4
delario grounds out. Luis Garcia out at went deep for the National García threw out Vladimir York.
Ortiz 2b .................3 0 0 0 0 1 .219
second, Lane thomas scores. Joey Men- League-leading Braves, Guerrero Jr. at the plate to Jordan Walker also went Lester ph ...............1 0 0 0 0 1 .211 Peralta (R) 5-6 4.74 6-7
eses strikes out swinging. BY N ATHAN R UIZ
marlins 3, Nationals 2 who have scored 42 runs end the first inning, and his deep for the cardinals. totaLS 34 2 7 2 4 9 4 GIaNtS at dodGERS, 4:10
maRLINS NINth
Nick Fortes strikes out swinging. Gar-
during their winning streak. leaping catch on the warn- CaRdINaLS ab R h bI bb So avG CUbS ab R h bI bb So avG CHICAGO 4 Brandon Hyde has many fond memo- Webb (R) 5-6 3.15 6-8
rett Hampson walks. Luis Arraez sin- RoCKIES ab R h bI bb So avG ing track ended the fifth. Donovan rf ......... 5 1 2 1 0 0 .259 Tauchman cf......... 2 1 0 1 1 1 .280 Gonsolin (R) 4-1 1.93 5-4
gles. Garrett Hampson to second. Jorge Goldschmidt 1b.. 4 1 2 2 1 2 .287 Hoerner 2b ........... 4 0 2 2 0 1 .288 ries of Wrigley Field. As a member of the Chicago
Soler walks. Luis Arraez to second. Gar- Profar lf .................. 4 0 0 0 0 1 .239 bLUE JayS ab R h bI bb So avG Suzuki rf............... 4 0 0 0 0 0 .269
Arenado 3b......... 5 0 0 0 0 2 .273 Cubs9 front office and coaching staff, he watched the
rett Hampson to third. bryan de La Cruz Tovar ss.................. 4 0 1 0 0 1 .255 Happ lf.................. 4 0 0 0 0 1 .266
Springer rf...........4 0 2 0 0 0 .255 Contreras c......... 3 0 0 0 0 0 .201
McMahon 3b........... 4 0 1 0 0 2 .271 Swanson ss .......... 2 0 1 0 1 1 .264 organization endure a rebuild and end a champion- nl scores
singles, Jorge Soler to third, Luis arraez Merrifield 2b .......4 0 1 0 0 0 .306 Jor.Walker lf ...... 3 1 1 1 1 1 .295
scores, Garrett hampson scores. Gar- Montero 1b............. 0 0 0 0 0 0 .179 Bellinger 1b .......... 3 0 0 0 0 1 .267
Bichette ss..........4 1 1 0 0 0 .316 Mercado lf.......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .310 ship drought of more than a century.
rett Cooper grounds out. Bryan De La Díaz c ...................... 3 0 0 0 0 1 .295 Morel dh ............... 3 0 0 0 0 1 .292 FRIday9S RESULtS
Guerrero Jr. dh ....3 0 2 1 1 0 .284 Gorman 2b ......... 4 0 0 0 0 1 .240
Wynns c.................. 1 0 0 0 0 0 .200 Miami 6, at Washington 5
Cruz out at second.
Jones rf................... 3 1 0 0 1 1 .324
Varsho lf..............3 1 2 1 0 0 .231 DeJong ss........... 4 0 1 0 0 2 .228 Gomes c................ 3 1 1 0 0 2 .271 The Baltimore Orioles9 manager chuckled before
marlins 5, Nationals 2 Kirk ph.................1 0 0 0 0 0 .253 Edman cf ............ 4 2 1 0 0 1 .235 Mastrobuoni 3b.... 2 1 0 0 0 1 .148 at N.Y. Mets 6, St. Louis 1
Grichuk cf ............... 3 0 0 0 1 0 .292
Chapman 3b ........4 0 1 0 0 2 .264 Burleson dh........ 3 0 0 0 0 1 .219 totaLS 27 3 4 3 2 9 4
Saturday9s game as he noted that during batting at Atlanta 8, Colorado 1
Moustakas 1b-3b ... 4 1 2 1 0 1 .257 at Milwaukee 5, Pittsburgh 4
Jansen c ..............4 0 0 0 0 0 .210 Carlson ph-dh..... 1 0 1 1 0 0 .248 practice the day before, fans in the bleachers yelled
Alfaro dh................. 3 0 0 0 0 2 .000 San Francisco 7, at L.A. Dodgers 5 (11)
Biggio 1b .............3 0 0 0 0 1 .185 totaLS 36 5 8 5 2 10 4 baLtImoRE... 000 020 000 4 2 7 0
Montes 2b .............. 1 0 0 0 0 0 .188 out to his son, Colton, remembering that the boy
Espinal ph............1 0 0 0 0 1 .207 ChICaGo........ 002 010 00x 4 3 4 1
nl leaders Castro 2b-p............. 3 0 2 1 0 0 .271 SatURday9S RESULtS
Kiermaier cf ........3 0 0 0 0 0 .282 mEtS ab R h bI bb So avG E: Hoerner (4). Lob: Baltimore 9, Chica- had tossed balls out to them years before.
totaLS 33 2 6 2 2 9 4 Miami 5, at Washington 2
Entering Saturday9s games. totaLS 34 2 9 2 1 4 4 Nimmo cf ............4 1 1 1 1 1 .285 go 4. 2b: Hoerner 2 (11), Gomes (3). hR: at Milwaukee 5, Pittsburgh 0
bRavES ab R h bI bb So avG Marte rf ..............4 0 1 0 1 2 .261 Rutschman (10), off Steele. RbI: But this weekend9s series probably won9t be at Atlanta 10, Colorado 2
battING RaNGERS ab R h bI bb So avG McNeil 2b............4 0 0 0 0 0 .273 Rutschman 2 (31), Hoerner 2 (33), recalled in a similar fashion. With a 3-2 defeat, St. Louis 5, at N.Y. Mets 3
Acuña Jr. rf..........4 1 1 0 1 1 .326 Tauchman (9). CS: Hoerner (2). SF:
Arraez, Mia ...................................... .390 Semien 2b ...........4 0 0 0 0 2 .279 Pham lf ...............4 0 1 0 0 1 .252 San Francisco 15, at L.A. Dodgers 0
Albies 2b .............5 2 2 1 0 2 .263 Tauchman. S: Mastrobuoni. Baltimore heads into Sunday9s finale of the three-
Acuña Jr., Atl ................................... .327 Seager ss.............4 1 2 1 0 0 .348 Baty 3b ...............4 0 2 0 0 1 .236
Riley 3b ...............5 1 2 0 0 1 .265
Freeman, LA .................................... .325 Lowe 1b...............4 0 1 0 0 1 .276 Álvarez c.............4 0 1 0 0 0 .237 oRIoLES Ip h R ER bb So ERa game set looking to avoid getting swept by a
Murphy c .............2 0 1 0 0 1 .287
Castellanos, Phi ............................... .315 A.García rf...........3 1 2 0 1 1 .260 Vogelbach dh ......3 1 1 0 1 1 .210 Gibson ................. 6 3 3 3 2 7 3.94
d'Arnaud pr-c ......3 1 0 0 0 0 .272
Carroll, Ari ....................................... .308 Olson 1b ..............4 1 1 4 0 0 .229
Jung 3b................3 1 1 2 1 0 .280 Canha 1b .............3 0 0 0 0 1 .241 Baker ................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.34 Chicago Cubs team that entered the meeting in
Stott, Phi ......................................... .301 Ozuna dh .............2 1 0 0 2 0 .241
Heim c .................4 1 1 1 0 1 .279 Guillorme ss .......4 1 2 2 0 1 .240 Coulombe ............ 1 1 0 0 0 0 2.70 fourth place in the National League Central. interleague games
Díaz, Col ........................................... .300 Grossman dh.......3 0 0 0 1 0 .228 totaLS 34 3 9 3 3 8 4
Rosario lf.............3 1 2 2 1 0 .256
Duran lf ...............3 0 1 0 1 1 .294 CUbS Ip h R ER bb So ERa The Orioles (43-27) have dropped four of their oRIoLES at CUbS, 1:05
Arcia ss ...............4 2 3 2 0 0 .339
homE RUNS Taveras cf ...........3 0 0 0 0 0 .294 St. LoUIS....... 031 000 001 4 5 8 0 Steele .................. 5 5 2 2 1 4 2.71
Harris II cf ...........3 0 1 1 0 0 .226 past seven series, though they still ended the day W-L ERa tEam
Alonso, NY .......................................... 22 totaLS 31 4 8 4 4 6 4 NEW yoRK .... 100 020 000 4 3 9 1 Merryweather ..... 1 1 0 0 1 1 3.26
totaLS 35 10 13 10 4 5 4
Soler, Mia ........................................... 20
toRoNto....... 100 100 000 4 2 9 1
E: Guillorme (2). Lob: St. Louis 7, New Leiter Jr............... 2 1 0 0 1 2 2.73 tied for the majors9 third-best record. Although Kremer (R) 7-3 4.74 9-5
Schwarber, Phi ................................... 19 CoLoRado .... 000 010 100 4 2 6 0 York 8. 2b: Edman (13), Marte (6), Guil- Alzolay ................ 1 0 0 0 1 2 1.97
Olson, Atl ............................................ 19 atLaNta ....... 423 010 00x 4 10 13 0
tExaS ............ 030 000 10x 4 4 8 0 lorme (4). hR: Goldschmidt (12), off Wp: Steele (7-2); Lp: Gibson (8-4); S:
their pitching improved from Friday9s 10-3 defeat, Taillon (R) 2-4 6.70 2-9
Muncy, LA ........................................... 18
Lob: Colorado 6, Atlanta 6. 2b: Castro
E: Bichette (7). Lob: Toronto 6, Texas 7. Senga; Jor.Walker (5), off Senga; Nim- Alzolay (4). Wp: Gibson. t: 2:32. a: their offense failed to score beyond Adley REdS at aStRoS, 2:10
Betts, LA ............................................ 17 2b: Bichette (15). hR: Varsho (12), off mo (7), off Wainwright; Guillorme (1), 40,605 (41,363).
(8), Arcia (9). hR: Moustakas (4), off El- Rutschman9s fifth-inning home run, a two-run shot Weaver (R) 1-2 6.23 5-5
Dunning; Jung (14), off Richards; Heim off Wainwright.
RbI der; Olson (20), off Seabold; Albies (16),
off Seabold; Rosario (11), off Seabold; (8), off Richards; Seager (10), off CaRdINaLS Ip h R ER bb So ERa off Justin Steele that was the switch-hitter9s second Blanco (R) 1-0 3.86 1-1
Alonso, NY .......................................... 49 Arcia (6), off Seabold. Y.García. Wainwright ...... 61/3 7 3 3 2 3 5.56
Martinez, LA ....................................... 48 bLUE JayS Ip h R ER bb So ERa Pallante .............. 2/3 1 0 0 1 0 4.26
oRIoLES9 LEadERS game-tying home run against a left-hander in three phILLIES at athLEtICS, 4:07
Albies, Atl ........................................... 47 RoCKIES Ip h R ER bb So ERa Entering Sunday9s game.
Gorman, StL ....................................... 46 Seabold ................ 3 9 9 9 1 1 5.88 Richards............... 3 3 3 3 1 2 3.82 Gallegos .............. 1 1 0 0 0 2 3.90
batters avg R h 2b hRRbI bb
games. Rutschman had one home run hitting Wheeler (R) 5-4 3.73 8-6
Francis ...............22/3 1 0 0 3 2 3.68 Hicks.................... 1 0 0 0 0 3 4.30
Olson, Atl ............................................ 46 Hollowell.............. 2 1 1 1 2 2 4.50 O'Hearn .342 13 27 7 5 19 6 right-handed as a rookie in 2022. Harris (L) 2-0 4.84 1-0
Bard ..................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.83 Y.García ...............2/3 4 1 1 0 1 5.83
Freeman, LA ....................................... 46 Cimber ...............12/3 0 0 0 0 1 6.20 mEtS Ip h R ER bb So ERa Hays .312 37 74 18 8 31 16
Lawrence ............. 1 1 0 0 1 0 3.00 Senga ............... 62/3 5 4 4 1 8 3.53 Hicks .304 10 14 2 2 6 9 Baltimore9s bats were otherwise quiet behind GUaRdIaNS at dIamoNdbaCKS, 4:10
ERa Castro .................. 1 2 0 0 0 0 0.00 Rutschman .281 35 72 10 10 31 47
RaNGERS Ip h R ER bb So ERa Brigham............... 1 0 0 0 1 0 4.21
Urías .265 20 41 12 2 20 11
right-hander Kyle Gibson, stranding multiple run- Bibee (R) 2-2 3.91 3-6
Stroman, Chi .................................... 2.46 bRavES Ip h R ER bb So ERa Dunning ............... 6 6 2 2 1 3 2.78 Raley .................. 2/3 3 1 1 0 0 3.09
Steele, Chi ....................................... 2.65 Sborz.................... 2 1 0 0 0 0 2.93 Ottavino ............. 2/3 0 0 0 0 2 3.95 Mullins .263 26 51 12 8 39 28 ners in the second, fourth, sixth and seventh Davies (R) 1-2 5.46 4-2
Elder, Atl .......................................... 2.69 Elder..................... 6 4 1 1 0 4 2.60 Santander .259 31 65 20 9 38 26
Jiménez ............... 1 2 1 1 1 2 3.70 W.Smith .............. 1 2 0 0 0 1 3.00 Wp: Wainwright (3-1); Lp: Senga (6-4); innings as they went 0 for 5 with runners in scoring
Wacha, SD ....................................... 2.89 Vavra .245 9 12 0 0 5 5 RayS at padRES, 4:10
Kershaw, LA .................................... 2.95 Minter.................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 5.51 Wp: Dunning (6-1); Lp: Richards (0-1); S: S: Hicks (1). Inherited runners-scored: Henderson .237 35 47 8 10 26 31 position. The Cubs (33-37) got limited opportunities
Gallen, Ari ........................................ 2.96 N.Anderson.......... 1 0 0 0 1 2 3.49 W.Smith (12). Inherited runners-scored: Ottavino 2-0. hbp: Senga (Contreras), Mateo .231 34 45 9 6 26 11 TBD ---- ---- ----
Wp: Elder (5-1); Lp: Seabold (1-3). t: Francis 1-0, Y.García 1-0, Cimber 2-0. t: Hicks (Lindor). Wp: Hicks, Senga(2). t: Frazier .229 33 51 11 8 31 19 in those situations against Gibson but capitalized. Musgrove (R) 4-2 4.37 5-4
SavES 2:37. a: 39,383 (40,000). 2:42. a: 39,143 (42,136). Mountcastle .227 34 55 12 11 39 12
2:31. a: 41,558 (41,149). 4 Baltimore Sun
Doval, SF ............................................. 18
Díaz, Cin .............................................. 18
Hader, SD ............................................ 16 reds 10, astros 3 royals 10, angels 9 phillies 3, white sox 4, padres 2, rays 0 Giants 7, interleague scores
Bednar, Pit .......................................... 14
Johnson, Col ....................................... 12 Jonathan india hit a two- samad taylor hit a walk- athletics 2 (12) Mariners 3 (11) Blake snell struck out dodgers 5 (11) FRIday9S RESULtS
Finnegan, Was .................................... 11 run homer and Will Benson off single in his MLB debut, 12 over six dominant in-
Williams, Mil ...................................... 11
a go-ahead single by Kyle in his big league debut, Late Friday at Chicago Cubs 10, Baltimore 3
had three hits and two rBi enabling Kansas city to nings in his best outing of Cincinnati 2, at Houston 1
StRIKEoUtS
schwarber gave philadel- Zach remillard drove in the GIaNtS ab R h bI bb So avG Philadelphia 6, at Oakland 1
to power cincinnati past beat Los angeles and snap phia its fifth straight win. tying run in the ninth and the season to lead san di- Wade Jr. 1b.........3 0 0 0 0 0 .272 at Arizona 5, Cleveland 1
Strider, Atl ....................................... 127 Slater ph-lf .........3 1 3 1 0 0 .431 Tampa Bay 6, at San Diego 2
Keller, Pit .......................................... 101 houston for its seventh a 10-game skid. the angels phILLIES ab R h bI bb So avG the winning run in the 11th. ego past tampa Bay. Pederson dh........5 1 1 1 1 1 .277
Gallen, Ari ......................................... 100 straight victory. were up 8-2 in the seventh Estrada 2b ..........4 1 1 1 0 1 .295 SatURday9S RESULtS
Kershaw, LA ....................................... 98
Schwarber lf .......5 0 1 1 1 2 .178 WhItE Sox ab R h bI bb So avG Juan soto hit a sacrifice at Chicago Cubs 3, Baltimore 2
before the royals rallied. Turner ss.............5 1 1 0 1 1 .247 Conforto lf ..........2 0 0 0 2 2 .245
Greene, Cin ......................................... 97 it9s the first time the Benintendi lf .......5 1 4 0 1 0 .276 fly in the fifth and Manny Villar 1b ..............1 0 0 0 0 0 .140 Cincinnati 10, at Houston 3
Bohm 1b..............6 1 1 0 0 3 .271
Wheeler, Phi ....................................... 94 Anderson ss ........1 0 0 0 1 0 .250 Flores 3b .............3 1 1 2 0 0 .258 Philadelphia 3, at Oakland 2 (12)
reds have won seven in a aNGELS ab R h bI bb So avG Harper dh ............6 0 2 0 0 2 .296 Machado drove in a run
Remillard 2b........3 0 3 2 1 0 1.00 Schmitt 3b..........2 0 1 1 0 0 .273 at San Diego 2, Tampa Bay 0
Realmuto c..........3 0 1 0 2 1 .261
row since June 2018, and Moniak rf ............4 0 0 1 0 1 .309 Robert Jr. cf ........6 0 1 1 0 2 .258 with an infield single after Bailey c ...............4 1 0 0 0 1 .311 Cleveland at Arizona, late
Stott 2b...............4 0 1 2 0 0 .300
Renfroe ph-rf......1 0 0 0 0 1 .242 Jiménez dh..........5 1 1 1 0 2 .258 Yastrzemski rf....5 0 0 0 0 3 .247
it9s the longest active win- Clemens rf ..........3 0 0 0 0 1 .248 the padres opened the in-
Ohtani dh............4 1 1 2 1 0 .300 Sheets rf .............4 0 2 0 0 2 .236 Matos cf .............2 1 0 0 3 0 .200
Harrison ph-rf.....2 0 1 0 0 0 .211
al leaders ning streak in the majors. Trout cf...............4 1 2 1 1 1 .252
Marsh cf..............3 0 0 0 0 2 .257
Frazier ph-rf........1 0 0 0 0 1 .217 ning with three consecu- Crawford ss ........5 1 1 1 0 0 .203
Drury 1b-2b ........5 2 2 3 0 1 .263 Vaughn 1b ...........4 0 0 0 1 0 .240
Pache ph-cf .........2 1 0 0 0 0 .310 tive bunts. totaLS 39 7 8 7 6 8 4 al games
Entering Saturday9s games. REdS ab R h bI bb So avG Thaiss c...............4 0 0 0 0 0 .269 Burger 3b ............4 0 0 0 1 2 .237
Sosa 3b ...............5 0 1 0 0 0 .247
Friedl cf...............3 1 0 0 3 0 .307 Wallach ph-c.......1 0 0 0 0 1 .276 Andrus 2b-ss.......5 2 1 0 0 0 .193 snell gave up just two
battING Ward lf................3 2 2 1 1 0 .248 totaLS 44 3 9 3 4 12 4 Zavala c ...............3 0 0 0 0 1 .150 dodGERS ab R h bI bb So avG GamE 1: yaNKEES at REd Sox, 1:35
McLain ss............5 2 2 2 1 1 .328
Bichette, Tor .................................... .317 India 2b ...............5 1 1 2 0 0 .272 Stefanic 2b .........4 1 2 1 0 1 .500 Grandal ph-c........2 0 0 0 0 0 .268 hits, walked three and Betts rf ...............5 1 2 0 0 2 .268
Hays, Bal .......................................... .309 Walsh 1b.............0 0 0 0 0 0 .111 athLEtICS ab R h bI bb So avG Freeman 1b.........6 0 1 1 0 2 .325 W-L ERa tEam
Maile c.................0 0 0 0 0 0 .239 totaLS 43 4 12 4 5 10 4 worked out of jams in the
Yoshida, Bos .................................... .309 De La Cruz 3b ......5 1 2 0 0 0 .256 Rengifo 3b ..........4 1 1 0 0 0 .206 Ruiz cf .................5 0 2 0 1 2 .261 Smith c ...............2 1 1 1 3 0 .293 Schmidt (R) 2-6 4.70 4-10
Merrifield, Tor ................................. .307 Steer 1b ..............4 2 2 0 1 1 .278 Velazquez ss.......3 1 1 0 1 1 .200 Laureano rf .........1 0 0 0 0 1 .220 maRINERS ab R h bI bb So avG fourth and fifth. Martinez dh-lf ....5 1 1 1 0 2 .257
Díaz, TB ........................................... .304 Bleday rf .............4 0 0 0 1 1 .206 Peralta lf.............1 0 1 0 0 0 .270 TBD ---- ---- ----
Stephenson dh....4 0 2 1 1 2 .253 totaLS 37 9 11 9 4 7 4 Crawford ss ...........4 1 1 1 2 0 .245
Ohtani, LA ....................................... .301 Hopkins pr-dh .....0 1 0 0 0 0 .167 Noda 1b...............5 0 1 0 0 3 .246 RayS ab R h bI bb So avG Outman cf...........4 0 2 2 0 0 .233
Rodríguez cf ..........5 1 2 0 0 1 .243 Vargas 2b............4 0 0 0 1 1 .217 tIGERS at tWINS, 2:10
Benson rf ............3 1 3 2 2 0 .264 RoyaLS ab R h bI bb So avG Rooker lf .............2 0 0 0 0 1 .254 Díaz 1b................3 0 1 0 1 2 .304
homE RUNS France 1b ...............5 1 1 0 0 1 .281 Taylor 3b.............1 0 0 0 0 0 .207
Senzel lf..............5 0 0 0 0 3 .244 Brown ph-lf.........3 1 0 0 0 1 .200 Franco ss ............4 0 0 0 0 1 .295 TBD ---- ---- ----
Pratto 1b.............4 0 2 1 1 1 .285 Hernández dh-rf....4 0 2 1 1 2 .257 Busch ph-3b........4 0 0 0 0 2 .174
Ohtani, LA .......................................... 22 Casali c................3 0 0 1 0 1 .164 Bride 3b...............3 0 0 0 0 2 .209 Ramírez dh .........4 0 0 0 0 2 .302
Witt Jr. ss...........5 0 2 4 0 1 .247 Kelenic rf ...............4 0 0 0 0 2 .258 DeLuca cf-lf ........3 0 0 0 0 1 .167 Varland (R) 3-2 4.70 4-5
Judge, NY ............................................ 19 Newman ph-2b ...1 1 1 2 0 0 .271 Kemp ph-2b ........1 0 1 0 0 0 .159 Arozarena lf........4 0 0 0 0 4 .280
Perez c ................5 1 1 0 0 3 .272 Raleigh ph..............1 0 0 0 0 1 .213 Heyward ph-lf ....1 0 0 0 0 0 .233
Alvarez, Hou ....................................... 17 Pérez c ................5 1 3 2 0 0 .248 Paredes 3b..........2 0 0 0 1 1 .257
totaLS 38 10 13 10 8 8 4 Melendez rf ........3 1 1 2 2 1 .218 Suárez 3b...............4 0 1 0 1 0 .218 Barnes ph............1 0 0 0 0 1 .110 aNGELS at RoyaLS, 2:10
Robert Jr., Chi ..................................... 17 Díaz ss ................3 0 1 0 0 0 .208 Walls 2b..............3 0 1 0 1 1 .214
Olivares dh .........5 0 1 0 0 0 .259 Murphy c................5 0 0 0 0 3 .218 Rojas ss ..............5 2 2 0 0 0 .231
Devers, Bos ......................................... 17 Wade pr-ss .........2 0 0 0 0 0 .067 Margot rf ............4 0 0 0 0 3 .259 Anderson (L) 3-1 5.80 8-4
aStRoS ab R h bI bb So avG Blanco pr.............0 1 0 0 0 0 .286 Moore lf .................2 0 0 0 1 2 .000
Burger, Chi .......................................... 16 Peterson 2b-3b ...5 0 0 0 0 1 .224 Mejía c ................3 0 1 0 0 2 .241 totaLS 42 5 10 5 4 11 4
Julks lf ................2 1 0 0 2 0 .249 Garcia 3b.............5 1 1 1 0 0 .254 Ford ph...................1 0 0 0 0 1 .222 Greinke (R) 1-6 4.65 3-11
García, Tex .......................................... 15 Langeliers dh ......4 0 0 0 0 2 .209 Siri cf ..................3 0 0 0 0 1 .222
Altuve 2b ............4 1 4 1 0 0 .278 Lopez 2b .............2 2 1 0 2 1 .213 Pollock lf................1 0 0 0 0 0 .162
totaLS 43 2 8 2 2 14 4 totaLS 30 0 3 0 3 17 4 SaN FRaN. .. 000 000 230 02 4 7 8 3
Tucker rf .............3 0 0 1 0 0 .281 Taylor lf ..............3 2 1 1 2 0 .333 Caballero 2b...........5 0 1 0 0 0 .236 bLUE JayS at RaNGERS, 2:35
RbI Waters cf............3 2 1 1 0 0 .180
L.a. .............. 000 040 001 00 4 5 10 1
Bregman 3b ........3 0 0 0 1 0 .234 phILa. ......... 000 001 000 011 4 3 9 1 totaLS 41 3 8 2 5 13 4 Bassitt (R) 7-5 4.02 8-6
Devers, Bos ......................................... 56 J.Abreu dh...........4 0 1 0 0 1 .231 totaLS 35 10 11 10 7 7 4 padRES ab R h bI bb So avG E: Conforto (2), Schmitt (3), Junis (1),
Alvarez, Hou ....................................... 55 oaKLaNd.... 000 010 000 010 4 2 8 0 DeLuca (1). Lob: San Francisco 10, Los
Diaz c...................4 1 1 1 0 0 .257 ChICaGo...... 010 010 001 01 4 4 12 1 Tatis Jr. rf............3 0 1 0 0 1 .285 Gray (R) 6-2 2.32 7-5
García, Tex .......................................... 55 Peña ss................4 0 1 0 0 1 .252 L.a.................. 020 023 101 4 9 11 1 E: Harrison (3). Lob: Philadelphia 13, SEattLE...... 200 010 000 00 4 3 8 2 Soto lf ..................2 0 0 1 1 2 .255 Angeles 11. 2b: Martinez (18). hR:
Ohtani, LA .......................................... 54 Meyers cf ............4 0 0 0 0 2 .230 KaNSaS CIty 000 200 332 4 10 11 1 Oakland 12. 2b: Ruiz (17), Pérez (3). hR: Machado 3b .........4 0 1 1 0 0 .248 Flores (7), off Graterol. WhItE Sox at maRINERS, 4:10
Semien, Tex ........................................ 53 E: Andrus (4), Caballero (1), Crawford
Kessinger 1b .......3 0 0 0 1 0 .125 Pérez (4), off Strahm. Bogaerts ss..........3 0 0 0 1 1 .264 GIaNtS Ip h R ER bb So ERa
Naylor, Cle .......................................... 50 One out when winning run scored. (10). Lob: Chicago 13, Seattle 12. 2b: Be- Lynn (R) 4-7 6.75 5-9
totaLS 31 3 7 3 4 4 4 E: Wallach (1), Witt Jr. (6). Lob: Los phILLIES Ip h R ER bb So ERa nintendi (16), Sheets 2 (4), Caballero (5), Cronenworth 1b...4 0 0 0 0 2 .211 Brebbia ................ 1 0 0 0 1 1 3.14
Angeles 5, Kansas City 9. 2b: Trout (12), Sánchez ............... 4 1 0 0 1 5 3.24 Suárez (9). hR: Jiménez (8), off Gilbert; Sánchez c.............3 0 0 0 0 0 .207 Walker.............. 11/3 2 0 0 0 0 1.23 Miller (R) 4-3 4.06 5-3
ERa Carpenter dh........2 0 0 0 1 0 .184
CINCINNatI ... 200 120 104 4 10 13 0 Stefanic (1), Waters (1), Witt Jr. (10). Strahm ............. 12/3 2 1 1 0 2 4.05 Crawford (4), off Giolito. Manaea............. 32/3 4 4 4 1 6 5.84
McClanahan, TB ............................... 2.12 hoUStoN ...... 001 001 100 4 3 7 2 hR: Drury 2 (12), off Mayers; Ward (9), Marte.................. 2/3 2 0 0 0 1 7.36 Kim 2b..................3 1 1 0 0 0 .245 Jackson................ 1 0 0 0 0 1 1.42 GamE 2: yaNKEES at REd Sox, 7:10
Rodriguez, Det ................................. 2.13 WhItE Sox Ip h R ER bb So ERa Grisham cf ...........3 1 1 0 0 0 .192
E: Peña 2 (6). Lob: Cincinnati 11, Hous- off Mayers; Ohtani (23), off Clarke; Me- Soto .................... 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 4.88 Ty.Rogers ............ 1 1 0 0 0 0 1.60 Severino (R) 0-1 6.48 3-2
Valdez, Hou ..................................... 2.28 Giolito .................. 5 8 3 2 3 5 3.54 Doval ................... 1 3 1 1 1 1 2.03
ton 6. 2b: De La Cruz (2), Stephenson lendez (6), off Canning. Alvarado .............. 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.98 totaLS 27 2 4 2 3 6 4
Gray, Tex .......................................... 2.32 Santos.................. 2 0 0 0 0 2 2.52 Ta.Rogers ............ 1 0 0 0 1 1 2.96 Bello (R) 3-4 3.78 6-4
(12), Altuve 2 (7). 3b: Benson (2), aNGELS Ip h R ER bb So ERa Kimbrel................ 1 1 0 0 0 2 4.50
Gray, Min ......................................... 2.37 Middleton ..........12/3 0 0 0 1 2 1.80 tampa bay .. 000 000 000 4 0 3 1 Junis .................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 4.12
McLain (4). hR: India (9), off Bielak; Diaz Vasquez............... 2 1 1 0 1 2 1.62
Eovaldi, Tex ..................................... 2.59 Canning ............... 6 3 2 2 2 5 4.40 Bummer.............11/3 0 0 0 1 3 6.65 SaN dIEGo .... 000 020 00x 4 2 4 0
(5), off Greene; Altuve (3), off Gibaut. Hoffman .............. 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.57
Castillo, Sea ..................................... 2.73 Ingram ................ 1/3 2 3 3 2 0 81.0 Scholtens............. 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.89 dodGERS Ip h R ER bb So ERa
Webb .................. 2/3 1 0 0 1 1 1.93 E: Franco (4). Lob: Tampa Bay 7, San
SavES
REdS Ip h R ER bb So ERa athLEtICS Ip h R ER bb So ERa
maRINERS Ip h R ER bb So ERa Diego 6. 2b: Díaz (15), Tatis Jr. (15). Sheehan .............. 6 0 0 0 2 3 0.00 al scores
Greene ................. 6 5 2 2 4 3 3.93 Soriano ............... 1/3 1 3 3 2 0 3.68 Kaprielian ......... 51/3 5 1 1 0 6 6.38 Graterol ............... 1 2 2 2 0 2 2.40
Clase, Cle ............................................ 21 Gibaut.................. 1 1 1 1 0 0 3.24 Devenski.............. 1 4 2 2 0 1 2.49 Gilbert................51/3 6 2 2 3 3 4.31 RayS Ip h R ER bb So ERa
González............. 1/3 2 3 3 1 0 3.93 FRIday9S RESULtS
Moll .................. 12/3 1 0 0 1 3 4.10
Romano, Tor ....................................... 20 Farmer ................. 1 1 0 0 0 0 2.34 Brash....................2/3 0 0 0 0 1 4.08 Eflin ..................... 6 4 2 2 2 5 3.26 Scott................... 2/3 1 0 0 1 1 9.00 at Boston 15, N.Y. Yankees 5
RoyaLS Ip h R ER bb So ERa Erceg.................... 1 1 0 0 0 1 2.87
Bautista, Bal ....................................... 18 Cruz...................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 6.38 Topa ..................... 1 2 0 0 0 0 3.29 Armstrong........... 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00 Robertson............ 1 1 0 0 1 0 6.75 Detroit 7, at Minnesota 1
Long..................... 1 0 0 0 0 0 3.00
Estévez, LA ......................................... 18 Mayers ................ 5 7 6 6 1 1 6.15 Muñoz.................. 1 0 0 0 1 2 0.00 Littell................... 1 0 0 0 1 0 6.35 Ferguson ............. 1 0 0 0 0 0 3.46 Toronto 2, at Texas 1
May...................... 1 0 0 0 1 1 6.23
Jansen, Bos ........................................ 14 aStRoS Ip h R ER bb So ERa Kowar .................. 1 1 1 1 1 1 4.66 Sewald ................. 1 2 1 1 1 1 2.76 Vesia ................... 1 2 2 1 1 2 7.13 L.A. Angels 3, at Kansas City 0
Waldichuk ........... 2 2 2 0 2 1 6.64
Sewald, Sea ........................................ 13 Bielak................ 42/3 5 5 4 3 3 4.37 Clarke .................. 1 1 1 1 0 1 2.90 Speier................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.19 padRES Ip h R ER bb So ERa
at Seattle 3, Chicago White Sox 2
Maton ............... 11/3 1 0 0 1 3 1.57 Barlow ................. 1 1 0 0 0 1 4.21 Wp: Vasquez (2-0); Lp: Waldichuk (1-5); Saucedo ...............2/3 2 1 0 0 0 3.12 Snell .................... 6 2 0 0 3 12 3.48 Wp: Ta.Rogers (3-2); Lp: Vesia (0-4); S:
StRIKEoUtS Stanek ................. 1 3 1 1 0 1 4.76 Chapman ............. 1 1 1 1 2 3 2.96 S: Hoffman (1). Inherited runners- Adcock .................1/3 0 0 0 0 1 0.00 Wilson ................. 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.65 Junis (1). Inherited runners-scored: Ma- SatURday9S RESULtS
Neris .................... 1 0 0 0 2 0 1.24 scored: Marte 1-0, Soto 2-0, Moll 2-1. Martinez.............. 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.80 naea 1-0, Scott 2-2. Ibb: off Scott (Con- at Minnesota 2, Detroit 0
Gausman, Tor ................................... 121 Wp: Chapman (2-2); Lp: Devenski (3-1). Wp: Bummer (2-1); Lp: Saucedo (2-1); S: forto), off Ta.Rogers (Vargas). hbp:
Montero............... 1 4 4 4 2 1 6.67 Ibb: off Moll (Realmuto), off May Hader................... 1 1 0 0 0 2 1.32 at Texas 4, Toronto 2
Ohtani, LA ........................................ 105 Inherited runners-scored: Webb 3-2, De- Scholtens (1). Inherited runners-scored: Manaea (Betts), Scott (Bailey), Fergu-
(Schwarber), off Vasquez (Ruiz), off at Kansas City 10, L.A. Angels 9
López, Min ........................................ 101 Wp: Greene (2-4); Lp: Bielak (3-4). In- venski 3-2. hbp: Soriano (Waters). t: Bummer 1-0, Brash 1-0, Adcock 2-0. Ibb: Wp: Snell (3-6); Lp: Eflin (8-3); S: Hader son (Estrada). t: 3:31. a: 49,074
Waldichuk (Realmuto). t: 3:27. a: Chicago White Sox 4, at Seattle 3 (11)
Castillo, Sea ........................................ 98 herited runners-scored: Maton 3-2. hbp: 3:13. a: 21,056 (38,427). off Bummer (Hernández). pb: Zavala (4). (17). hbp: Snell (Paredes). t: 2:24. a: (56,000).
12,015 (46,847). N.Y. Yankees at Boston, ppd.
Cole, NY .............................................. 98 Neris (India). t: 2:52. a: 40,136 (41,000). t: 3:38. a: 45,188 (47,929). 43,180 (40,222).
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Washington.................................. 6 4 .600 11/2 New England .....................9 3 6 33 31 22 San Diego ..........................6 4 2 20 18 13 thIRD ROUND
Chicago ......................................... 5 6 .455 3 Philadelphia ......................9 5 3 30 28 17 Washington ......................5 1 5 20 15 10
fRIDaY9s ResUlts
Wyndham Clark, United States .......... 64 67 69 4 200 Game 1: Oral Roberts 6, TCU 5
Atlanta ......................................... 4 5 .444 3 Columbus ..........................8 6 4 28 36 26 Portland ............................5 2 4 19 26 14
Rickie Fowler, United States .............. 62 68 70 4 200 Game 2: Florida 6, Virginia 5
Indiana.......................................... 4 6 .400 31/2 Atlanta..............................7 4 7 28 35 29 Gotham FC ........................5 3 3 18 13 10
Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland ........... 65 67 69 4 201
Orlando City ......................7 5 5 26 23 20 Houston ............................4 3 5 17 10 10 sUNDaY9s gaMes
Scottie Scheffler, United States ........ 67 68 68 4 203
west w l pct gb D.C. United ........................6 8 5 23 26 26 Orlando .............................4 7 1 13 10 19 Game 3: TCU vs. Virginia, 2
Harris English, United States ............. 67 66 71 4 204
Las Vegas ..................................... 9 1 .900 4 CF Montréal ......................7 9 1 22 19 27 Louisville...........................2 3 6 12 13 12 Game 4: Oral Roberts vs. Florida, 7 Huggins from D1
Dustin Johnson, United States ........... 64 70 71 4 205
Los Angeles .................................. 5 5 .500 4 Charlotte FC ......................6 8 4 22 25 33 Angel City .........................3 6 3 12 16 22
Xander Schauffele, United States ...... 62 70 73 4 205 tUesDaY9s gaMe
Dallas............................................ 5 6 .455 41/2 New York City FC ..............4 7 7 19 18 23 Chicago..............................3 7 1 10 14 28
Ryutaro Nagano, Japan ....................... 71 67 68 4 206 Game 5: Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 loser, 2 (loser
Seattle.......................................... 3 7 .300 6 New York...........................4 6 7 19 11 16 Kansas City .......................3 8 0 9 11 20
Minnesota .................................... 3 7 .300 6 Toronto FC ........................3 5 10 19 17 21
Bryson DeChambeau, United States .. 67 72 68 4 207 eliminated) statement. <While I have always
fRIDaY, JUNe 9 Tom Kim, South Korea ........................ 73 68 66 4 207
Phoenix......................................... 2 7 .222 61/2 Chicago..............................3 6 8 17 22 27 weDNesDaY9s gaMe tried to represent our University
San Diego 0, at Louisville 0 Cameron Smith, Australia .................. 69 67 71 4 207
Inter Miami CF ..................5 12 0 15 16 24 Game 6 : Game 4 winner vs. Game 5 winner, 2 (winner
Viktor Hovland, Norway ...................... 69 70 69 4 208 with honor, I have let all of you 4
fRIDaY9s ResUlts Min Woo Lee, Australia ...................... 69 65 74 4 208 advances unless Game 7 needed)
satURDaY, JUNe 10
at Washington 88, Phoenix 69 west w l t pts gf ga
at Washington 2, Angel City 1 Hideki Matsuyama, Japan ................... 72 69 67 4 208 thURsDaY9s gaMe and myself 4 down. I am solely
Minnesota 77, at Los Angeles 72 St. Louis City SC ...............9 6 2 29 34 20 Patrick Cantlay, United States ........... 71 71 67 4 209 x-Game 7: Game 3 vs. Game 4 winner, TBD (winner
Los Angeles FC..................8 3 5 29 25 16 North Carolina 5, at Chicago 0 Tony Finau, United States .................. 68 69 72 4 209 advances)
responsible for my conduct and
satURDaY9s ResUlt Seattle ..............................8 6 4 28 24 17 at OL Reign 2, Kansas City 1
Seattle 109, at Dallas 103 FC Dallas ...........................7 6 5 26 21 19
Matt Fitzpatrick, England ................... 71 70 68 4 209 sincerely apologize to the Univer-
sUNDaY, JUNe 11 Padraig Harrington, Ireland ................ 73 69 67 4 209 bRacKet 2
x-San Jose.........................7 5 5 26 21 20 Collin Morikawa, United States .......... 71 69 69 4 209 satURDaY9s ResUlts sity community 4 particularly to
sUNDaY9s gaMes Houston ............................7 7 3 24 20 21 Gotham FC 1, at Houston 1 Sam Burns, United States .................. 69 70 71 4 210
Chicago at Washington, 3 Real Salt Lake ...................6 7 5 23 20 28 at Orlando 3, Portland 1 Eric Cole, United States ...................... 69 70 71 4 210
Game 1: Wake Forest 3, Stanford 2 the student-athletes, coaches and
Game 2: LSU 6, Tennessee 3
Phoenix at New York, noon Vancouver .........................5 5 7 22 27 21
satURDaY9s ResUlts Brian Harman, United States .............. 65 73 72 4 210
MONDaY9s gaMes
staff in our program. I must do
Atlanta at Indiana, 4 x-Portland .........................5 7 5 20 20 24 Tyrrell Hatton, England ....................... 74 67 69 4 210
Connecticut at Los Angeles, 7:30 Sporting KC .......................5 9 5 20 21 27 Angel City 2, at San Diego 1 Russell Henley, United States ............ 71 71 68 4 210 Game 3: Stanford vs. Tennessee, 2 better, and I plan to spend the
Minnesota United .............5 7 5 20 15 22 at North Carolina 3, Orlando 0 Game 4: Wake Forest vs. LSU, 7
Minnesota at Las Vegas, 9 Austin FC ..........................5 8 4 19 18 27
Si Woo Kim, South Korea .................... 67 72 71 4 210 next few months focused on my
OL Reign 0, at Houston 0 Brooks Koepka, United States ............ 71 69 70 4 210 tUesDaY9s gaMe
MONDaY9s gaMes LA Galaxy ..........................3 9 4 13 14 27 Shane Lowry, Ireland .......................... 72 70 68 4 210 Game 5: Game 3 winner vs. Game 4 loser, TBD (loser health and my family so that I can
Colorado ............................2 9 7 13 14 27 sUNDaY9s Matches Keith Mitchell, United States ............. 68 71 71 4 210
No games scheduled.
Washington at Kansas City, 7 Joaquin Niemann, Chile ...................... 68 72 70 4 210
eliminated) be the person they deserve.=
x-Late match weDNesDaY9s gaMe
tUesDaY9s gaMes Gotham FC at Louisville, 4 Justin Suh, United States ................... 69 69 72 4 210
Game 6: Game 4 winner vs. Game 5 winner, 7 (winner
Huggins previously was
Atlanta at Dallas, 8 sUNDaY, JUNe 11 Portland at Chicago, 6 Cameron Young, United States .......... 72 70 68 4 210
Ryan Fox, New Zealand ....................... 68 74 69 4 211 advances unless Game 7 needed) charged with drunken driving in
Connecticut at Seattle, 10 LA Galaxy 1, at St. Louis City SC 1 fRIDaY9s Match Billy Horschel, United States .............. 73 67 71 4 211 thURsDaY9s gaMe 2004, when he was the coach at
Minnesota at Los Angeles, 10 at Portland 1, FC Dallas 0 Denny McCarthy, United States ......... 71 67 73 4 211
Washington at Portland, 10:30 x-Game 7: Game 3 vs. Game 4 winner, 7 (winner
weDNesDaY9s ResUlt Patrick Rodgers, United States .......... 71 69 71 4 211 advances) Cincinnati, and later pleaded no
satURDaY9s Matches Gary Woodland, United States ........... 70 68 73 4 211
Houston 1, at Los Angeles FC 0
Kansas City at Orlando, 7 Dylan Wu, United States .................... 68 70 73 4 211 chaMpIONshIp seRIes contest.
Storm 109, Wings 103 satURDaY9s ResUlts Louisville at North Carolina, 7 Austin Eckroat, United States ............ 71 68 73 4 212 Best of three: x-If necessary friday9s arrest was the second
Tommy Fleetwood, England ............... 73 69 70 4 212 Saturday, June 24: Bracket 1 winner vs. Bracket 2
seattle ................................ 26 29 19 35 4 109 Real Salt Lake 2, at D.C. United 1 OL Reign at San Diego, 10 offseason incident of note involv-
Sergio Garcia, Spain ............................ 70 71 71 4 212 winner, 7
Dallas .................................. 22 25 28 28 4 103 Columbus 1, at New York City FC 1 Andrew Putnam, United States .......... 68 71 73 4 212
at New England 3, Orlando City 1
sUNDaY, JUNe 25
Jon Rahm, Spain .................................. 69 73 70 4 212
Sunday, June 25: Bracket 1 winner vs. Bracket 2 winner, 3 ing Huggins, a West Virginia
seattle MIN fg ft O-t a pf pts Chicago at Gotham FC, 5:30 x-Monday, June 26: Bracket 1 winner vs. Bracket 2
Magbegor 26:16 5-9 1-1 1-5 2 4 15
Los Angeles FC 2, at Sporting KC 1
Houston at Angel City, 8
Sam Stevens, United States ............... 75 67 70 4 212 winner, 7 graduate who had coached his
at Nashville 3, St. Louis City SC 1 Kevin Streelman, United States ......... 72 69 71 4 212
Nurse 32:25 3-9 2-2 0-1 2 3 11
Portland at San Jose, late Charley Hoffman, United States ........ 71 67 75 4 213 alma mater since 2007 and was
Russell 34:09 4-6 4-6 3-10 5 1 12
Dojkic 32:30 3-7 7-9 0-2 7 5 14
Sahith Theegala, United States .......... 74 66 73 4 213 the winningest active coach in
weDNesDaY9s Matches Sam Bennett, United States ............... 67 68 79 4 214
Loyd 38:00 12-21 8-10 3-5 5 4 39 T e nnI S Au TO RAC InG men9s college basketball. Last
New York City FC at Atlanta, 7:30 Nick Hardy, United States .................. 70 69 75 4 214
Horston 15:59 3-5 2-2 0-1 0 2 8
Toronto FC at Cincinnati, 7:30 Sebastian Munoz, Colombia ............... 68 74 72 4 214 month, while appearing on a Cin-
Whitcomb 11:08 3-8 0-0 1-4 1 0 8
Ryan Gerard, United States ................ 69 70 76 4 215
Melbourne 7:30 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Nashville at CF Montréal, 7:30 ATP/WTA
Fankam Mendjiadeu 2:03 0-0 2-2 0-0 0 1 2 Charlotte FC at New York, 7:30
Mackenzie Hughes, Canada ................ 67 73 75 4 215 nASCAR Cup Series cinnati radio show, Huggins used
Yuto Katsuragawa, Japan ................... 69 71 75 4 215
tOtals 200 33-6526-32 8-29 22 20 109 Philadelphia at Orlando City, 7:30 lIbeMa OpeN Gordon Sargent, United States .......... 69 71 75 4 215 scheDUle a homophobic slur while recalling
FC Dallas at Austin FC, 8:30 At Autotron Rosmalen; in Den Bosch, Netherlands Jordan L. Smith, England .................... 70 71 74 4 215 feb. 5: x-Heat Race 1 (Aric Almirola)
percentages: FG .508, FT .813. 3-point goals: 17-34, .500 purse: $723,876 Abraham Ancer, Mexico ...................... 70 72 74 4 216 feb. 5: x-Heat Race 2 (Martin Truex Jr.) a rivalry game between Xavier
San Jose at Houston, 8:30
(Loyd 7-12, Magbegor 4-4, Nurse 3-8, Whitcomb 2-6, surface: Grass Adam Hadwin, Canada ........................ 70 72 74 4 216 feb. 5: x-Heat Race 3, (Denny Hamlin) University and the Bearcats,
Dojkic 1-3, Horston 0-1). team Rebounds: 9. team New England at Minnesota, 8:30
Romain Langasque, France ................. 71 68 77 4 216 feb. 5: x-Heat Race 4, (William Byron)
turnovers: None. blocked shots: 6 (Magbegor 4, Dojkic, Real Salt Lake at St. Louis City SC, 8:30 MeN9s sINgles 4 seMIfINals
Aldrich Potgieter, South Africa .......... 70 72 74 4 216 feb. 5: x-Last Chance Qualifying Race 1 (Michael McDowell) whom he coached from 1989 to
Horston). turnovers: 15 (Loyd 5, Dojkic 4, Magbegor 2, Vancouver at Colorado, 9:30 Jordan Thompson, Australia, def. Rinky Hijikata, Aus- feb. 5: x-Last Chance Qualifying Race 2 (Chase Elliott)
Horston, Melbourne, Nurse, Russell). steals: 4 (Magbe- Sporting KC at LA Galaxy, 10:30 tralia, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3; Tallon Griekspoor (6), Netherlands,
Ben Carr, United States ...................... 70 72 75 4 217
feb. 5: x- Clash at the Coliseum (Martin Truex Jr.)
2005. Huggins later apologized
David Puig, Spain ................................ 69 73 75 4 217
gor, Nurse, Russell, Whitcomb). technical fouls: None. Seattle at Los Angeles FC, 10:30 def. Emil Ruusuvuori, Finland, 6-4, 7-5. Maxwell Moldovan, United States ..... 71 71 76 4 218 feb. 16: x-Duel at Daytona 1 (Joey Logano) and was suspended for the first
Chicago at Portland, 10:30 Jacob Solomon, United States ............ 68 73 77 4 218 feb. 16: x-Duel at Daytona 2 (Aric Almirola)
Dallas MIN fg ft O-t a pf pts wOMeN9s sINgles 4 seMIfINals
Adam Svensson, Canada ..................... 71 70 77 4 218 feb. 19: Daytona 500 (Ricky Stenhouse Jr.) three games of the 2023-24 sea-
Howard 39:06 10-19 0-0 3-10 3 3 20 satURDaY9s Matches Ekaterina Alexandrova (4), Russia, def. Aliaksandra
Sabally 37:55 9-18 6-6 2-7 5 5 25 Sasnovich (7), Belarus, 6-1, 7-6 (7-1); Veronika Kuder- Patrick Reed, United States ................ 72 69 78 4 219 feb. 26: Pala Casino 400 (Kyle Busch) son, agreeing to a salary reduc-
Cincinnati at D.C. United, 7:30 Ryo Ishikawa, Japan ............................ 69 73 78 4 220 March 5: Pennzoil 400 (William Byron)
Brown 29:48 0-2 2-4 3-8 4 3 2 metova (1), Russia, def. Viktoria Hruncakova, Slovakia, March 12: Work United 500 (William Byron) tion and an amended contract.
Burton 17:51 0-2 0-0 0-2 4 4 0 CF Montréal at Charlotte FC, 7:30
6-3, 6-2. March 19: Ambetter 400 (Joey Logano)
Ogunbowale 37:32 13-24 8-8 0-2 3 5 41 Nashville at Columbus, 7:30
March 26: EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix (Tyler Reddick)
In friday9s incident, Huggins
Dangerfield 32:42 6-10 1-2 0-1 3 4 15 Toronto FC at New England, 7:30 MeN9s DOUbles 4 chaMpIONshIp
Siegrist 2:45 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 1 0 Atlanta at New York, 7:30 Wesley Koolhof, Netherlands, and Neal Skupski (1),
LPGA Tour april 2: Toyota Owners 400 (Kyle Larson) registered a 0.21 percent blood
april 8: x-Qualifying Race 1 (Austin Dillon)
Dickey 1:22 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Miami at Philadelphia, 7:30 Britain, def. Gonzalo Escobar, Ecuador, and Aleksandr lpga classIc april 8: x-Qualifying Race 2 (Ryan Blaney) alcohol level 4 more than twice
Kuier 0:59 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 Houston at Austin FC, 8:30 Nedovyesov, Kazakhstan, 7-6 (7-1), 6-2. At Blythefield Country Club; In Belmont, Mich. april 8: x-Qualifying Race 3 (Kyle Larson)
tOtals 200 38-76 17-20 8-30 23 26 103 Chicago at Sporting KC, 8:30 purse: $2.5 million april 8: x-Qualifying Race 4 (Bubba Wallace)
Pennsylvania9s legal limit of
wOMeN9s DOUbles 4 chaMpIONshIp
percentages: FG .500, FT .850. 3-point goals: 10-26, .385
LA Galaxy at Colorado, 9:30 Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara, Japan, def. Viktoria
Yardage: 6,556; par: 72 april 9: Food City Dirt Race (Christopher Bell) 0.08 percent 4 upon taking a
Minnesota at Real Salt Lake, 9:30 thIRD ROUND april 16: NOCO 400 (Kyle Larson)
(Ogunbowale 7-14, Dangerfield 2-4, Sabally 1-5, Howard Hruncakova and Tereza Mihalikova, Slovakia, 6-3, 6-3.
april 23: Geico 500 (Kyle Busch)
breath test, according to the crim-
0-3). team Rebounds: 11. team turnovers: 3. blocked Vancouver at Los Angeles FC, 10:30 Amy Yang ...................................... 67 67 67 4 201 -15
shots: 5 (Brown 2, Burton, Howard, Sabally). turnovers: New York City FC at Portland, 10:30 Ashleigh Buhai .............................. 68 68 66 4 202 -14
april 30: Würth 400 (Martin Truex Jr.) inal complaint obtained by the
May 7: AdventHealth 400 (Denny Hamlin)
10 (Ogunbowale 3, Brown 2, Howard 2, Sabally 2, Kuier). St. Louis City SC at San Jose, 10:30 ATP Ayaka Furue .................................. 66 67 69 4 202 -14
May 14: Goodyear 400 (William Byron) Associated Press. Per the AP, an
steals: 8 (Howard 3, Ogunbowale 3, Brown, Sabally). Orlando City at Seattle, 10:30 Xiyu Lin ......................................... 68 68 66 4 202 -14
bOss OpeN May 20: x-Heat Race 1 (Daniel Suárez) officer observed garbage bags
technical fouls: None. a: 5,020 (7,000). Ariya Jutanugarn .......................... 73 64 66 4 203 -13
At Tennis Club Weissenhof; in Stuttgart, Germany May 20: x-Heat Race 2 (Chris Buescher)
Hyo Joo Kim .................................. 69 65 69 4 203 -13 with empty beer containers inside
purse: $771,996 May 21: x-NASCAR All-Star Open (Josh Berry)
Leona Maguire .............................. 69 65 69 4 203 -13
May 21: NASCAR All-Star Race (Kyle Larson)
Real Salt Lake 2, d.C. united 1 surface: Grass Manon De Roey ............................. 70 65 69 4 204 -12
May 28: Coca-Cola 600 (Ryan Blaney) the vehicle and in its trunk. Hug-
Jennifer Kupcho ............................ 66 69 69 4 204 -12
Lynx 77, Sparks 72 Real salt laKe 1 1 2 sINgles 4 seMIfINals Lindsey Weaver-Wright ............... 66 69 69 4 204 -12
June 4: Enjoy Illinois 300 (Kyle Busch) gins was released from custody
D.c. UNIteD 0 1 1 Frances Tiafoe (3), United States, def. Marton Fucso- June 11: Toyota/Save Mart 350 (Martin Truex Jr.)
Late Friday Carlota Ciganda ............................. 68 66 71 4 205 -11 and is slated to appear for a pre-
vics, Hungary, 6-3, 7-6 (13-11); Jan-Lennard Struff, June 25: Ally 400, Lebanon, Tenn.
first half: 1, Real Salt Lake, Ruiz, 4 (Brody), 41st minute. Emily Pedersen ............................. 67 68 70 4 205 -11
Minnesota .......................... 18 16 24 19 4 77 Germany, def. Hubert Hurkacz (4), Poland, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3. July 2: Grant Park 220, Chicago liminary hearing at a later date,
second half: 2, Real Salt Lake, Musovski, 3 (Gomez), Aditi Ashok ................................... 68 67 72 4 207 -9
los angeles ........................ 19 24 14 15 4 72 July 9: Quaker State 400, Hampton, Ga.
51st; 3, D.C. United, Durkin, 2 (Ruan), 53rd. Hye Jin Choi .................................. 70 67 70 4 207 -9
goalies: Real Salt Lake, Zac MacMath, Gavin Beavers,
DOUbles 4 seMIfINals
Ally Ewing ..................................... 67 70 70 4 207 -9
July 16: Crayon 301, Loudon, N.H. per the police blotter.
MINNesOta MIN fg ft O-t a pf pts Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz (4), Germany, def. Rohan July 23: M&M9s Fan Appreciation 400, Long Pond, Pa.
Carleton 23:15 1-3 0-0 1-5 2 0 2
Tomas Gomez; D.C. United, Tyler Miller, Alex Bono. Bopanna, India, and Matthew Ebden (1), Australia, 7-6
Eun-Hee Ji ..................................... 68 72 67 4 207 -9
July 30: Cup Series Race at Richmond According to the blotter, Pitts-
Yellow cards: Ruiz, Real Salt Lake, 9th; Durkin, D.C. Minami Katsu ............................... 70 72 65 4 207 -9
Collier 38:03 9-13 6-8 2-6 1 1 25
United, 50th; Dajome, D.C. United, 75th; Hines-Ike, D.C.
(8-6), 6-7 (14-12), 10-4. Frida Kinhult ................................. 66 71 70 4 207 -9
aug. 6: FireKeepers Casino 400, Brooklyn, Mich. burgh police observed Huggins9s
Juhász 28:55 3-4 2-6 1-4 3 2 9 aug. 13: Verizon 200 at the Brickyard, Speedway, Ind.
United, 89th; MacMath, Real Salt Lake, 90th+1. Alison Lee ..................................... 67 71 69 4 207 -9 vehicle blocking traffic in the mid-
McBride 31:07 6-9 3-3 0-5 1 1 16 aug. 20: Go Bowling at the Glen, Watkins Glen, N.Y.
Red cards: Birnbaum, D.C. United, 26th. Minjee Lee .................................... 68 67 72 4 207 -9
Mitchell 27:30 1-6 3-4 0-1 3 4 5 aug. 26: Coke Zero Sugar 400, Daytona Beach, Fla.
Banham 25:50 2-5 1-2 0-4 6 3 7
a: 19,215. WTA Stephanie Meadow ....................... 70 69 68 4 207 -9
sept. 3: Southern 500, Darlington, S.C.
dle of the road at about 8:30 p.m.
Real Salt Lake, Zac MacMath; Andrew Brody, Justen Pauline Roussin ............................ 68 68 71 4 207 -9
Milic 14:51 4-9 2-2 0-2 1 4 10
Glad, Jasper Loffelsend (Moses Nyeman, 75th), Brayan
NOttINghaM OpeN Jasmine Suwannapura ................. 68 69 70 4 207 -9
sept. 10: Hollywood Casino 400 , Kansas City, Kan. friday, with the side door of his
Allen 10:29 1-4 0-0 0-2 2 2 3 At Nottingham (England) Tennis Centre sept. 16: Bass Pro Shops Night Race, Bristol, Tenn.
tOtals 200 27-53 17-25 4-29 19 17 77
Vera; Emeka Eneli, Andres Gomez (Bode Davis, 63rd),
purse: $259,303
Mi Hyang Lee ................................ 71 66 71 4 208 -8
sept. 24: AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 400, Fort SUV open and the vehicle sport-
Damir Kreilach, Diego Luna (Maikel Chang, 63rd), Pablo Morgane Metraux ......................... 69 71 68 4 208 -8
surface: Grass Worth ing a flat and shredded tire. Per
Ruiz; Danny Musovski (Ilijah Paul, 84th). Chella Choi .................................... 68 69 72 4 209 -7
percentages: FG .509, FT .680. 3-point goals: 6-19, .316 Oct. 1: YellaWood 500, Talladega, Ala.
D.C. United, Tyler Miller; Steven Birnbaum, Brendan Allisen Corpuz ............................... 71 68 70 4 209 -7 the AP, Huggins told an officer
(Banham 2-4, Allen 1-1, Juhász 1-1, Collier 1-4, McBride sINgles 4 seMIfINals Mina Harigae ................................ 74 67 68 4 209 -7
Oct. 8: Roval 400, Concord, N.C.
Hines-Ike, Gaoussou Samake (Andy Najar, 70th), Derrick Oct. 15: South Point 400, Las Vegas
1-4, Carleton 0-1, Milic 0-2, Mitchell 0-2). team Re- Katie Boulter, Britain, def. Heather Watson, Britain, 6-4, Wei-Ling Hsu ................................ 70 68 71 4 209 -7 that he had been at a basketball
Williams; Chris Durkin (Donovan Pines, 90th+3), Ma- Oct. 22: NASCAR Cup Series Race, Homestead, Fla.
bounds: 7. team turnovers: None. blocked shots: 4 7-5; Jodie Anna Burrage, Britain, def. Alize Cornet, Cheyenne Knight ........................... 66 70 73 4 209 -7
teusz Klich (Erik Hurtado, 46th), Lewis O9Brien, Russell Oct. 29: Xfinity 500, Ridgeway, Va. camp in Sherrodsville, ohio,
(Collier 2, Carleton, Juhász). turnovers: 14 (Mitchell 5, France, 7-5, 7-5. Jeongeun Lee6 .............................. 71 69 69 4 209 -7
Canouse (Ruan, 46th); Christian Benteke, Cristian Da- Nov. 5: NASCAR Cup Series Race Championship,
Banham 2, Carleton 2, Juhász 2, McBride 2, Collier). Ruixin Liu ...................................... 72 70 67 4 209 -7
steals: 6 (Juhász 2, McBride 2, Allen, Collier). technical
jome (Kristian Fletcher, 84th). DOUbles 4 seMIfINals
Xiaowen Yin .................................. 71 70 68 4 209 -7
Avondale, Ariz. which is about 80 miles away; an
fouls: Lynx, 2:01 third. Ulrikke Eikeri, Norway, and Ingrid Neel, Estonia, def. Xu x-Non-points race officer said Huggins was asked
Anna Nordqvist ............................. 70 69 71 4 210 -6
Yifan, China, and Anna Danilina (1), Kazakhstan, 6-4,
Mel Reid ........................................ 71 69 70 4 210 -6
lOs aNgeles MIN fg ft O-t a pf pts Crew 1, new york City FC 1 6-4; Heather Watson and Harriet Dart, Britain, def.
Madelene Sagstrom ..................... 70 72 68 4 210 -6
multiple times what city he was in
N.Ogwumike 33:29 2-9 4-7 0-5 7 4 8 Alicia Barnett and Olivia Nicholls, Britain, 6-4, 6-4.
Stevens 17:54 3-8 0-0 1-7 0 2 8 cOlUMbUs 0 1 1 Sarah Schmelzel ........................... 72 69 69 4 210 -6 nASCAR Cup Series and did not respond correctly.
Hamby 30:06 5-9 2-3 3-9 3 4 14 New YORK cItY fc 0 1 1 Charlotte Thomas ......................... 72 69 69 4 210 -6
Canada 40:00 9-17 2-2 1-3 5 2 22 Na Rin An ...................................... 70 71 70 4 211 -5 pOINts leaDeRs <officers directed the male
first half: None. Lindy Duncan ................................ 72 70 69 4 211 -5 Through Monday.
Cooke 24:55 2-5 0-0 0-1 1 1 5 second half: 1, Columbus, Ramirez, 6 (Matan), 48th bbva OpeN INteRNacIONal De valeNcIa
Brooke Henderson ........................ 69 73 69 4 211 -5
driver on how best to move off the
Kar.Samuelson 20:57 1-2 2-2 0-1 1 6 5 minute; 2, New York City FC, Segal, 2, 90th+5. At Club de Tenis Sporting Club de Tenis Valencia (Spain) 1. Martin Truex Jr, 525.
Thomas 19:22 2-7 0-0 0-2 1 1 5 goalies: Columbus, Patrick Schulte, Evan Bush; New purse: $107,459 Soo Bin Joo ................................... 71 68 72 4 211 -5 2. William Byron, 512. road so they could help with the
Moriya Jutanugarn ....................... 73 69 69 4 211 -5 3. Ryan Blaney, 501.
C.Ogwumike 13:17 2-3 1-2 0-0 0 4 5 York City FC, Luis Barraza, Matt Freese. surface: Red clay
Jeong Eun Lee5 ............................. 71 68 72 4 211 -5 4. Ross Chastain, 501.
flat tire,= the police blotter read.
tOtals 200 26-60 11-16 5-28 18 24 72 Yellow cards: Cufre, New York City FC, 32nd; Parks, New
York City FC, 90th+1; Rodriguez, New York City FC,
sINgles 4 seMIfINals Pernilla Lindberg ........................... 69 71 71 4 211 -5 5. Kevin Harvick, 500. <When they observed him having
Mayar Sherif (1), Egypt, def. Nadia Podoroska (8), Azahara Munoz ............................. 72 69 70 4 211 -5 6. Kyle Busch, 496.
percentages: FG .433, FT .688. 3-point goals: 9-26, .346 90th+7. difficulty maneuvering the SUV
Argentina, 6-1, 6-3; Marina Bassols Ribera, Spain, def. Hae-Ran Ryu ................................. 68 69 74 4 211 -5 7. Christopher Bell, 493.
(Hamby 2-3, Canada 2-5, Stevens 2-6, Cooke 1-2, a: 30,615.
Tamara Korpatsch, Germany, 3-6, 6-3, 6-1. Bailey Tardy .................................. 70 71 70 4 211 -5 8. Denny Hamlin, 462. to allow vehicles to pass, they
Kar.Samuelson 1-2, Thomas 1-6, N.Ogwumike 0-2). Columbus, Patrick Schulte; Malte Amundsen, Mohamed Jennifer Chang .............................. 73 68 71 4 212 -4 9. Joey Logano, 444.
team Rebounds: 9. team turnovers: 2. blocked shots: 1 Ramzdine Farsi, Steven Moreira; Alexandru Matan
(Stevens). turnovers: 12 (Hamby 4, C.Ogwumike 2, (Isaiah Parente, 73rd), Aidan Morris, Darlington Nagbe,
DOUbles 4 seMIfINals Jodi Ewart Shadoff ....................... 71 70 71 4 212 -4 10. Kyle Larson, 440. activated their lights to pull him
Andrea Gamiz, Venezuela, and Aliona Bolsova (1), Spain, Nasa Hataoka ............................... 71 67 74 4 212 -4 11. Chris Buescher, 430.
Cooke 2, Canada, Kar.Samuelson, Stevens, Thomas). Sean Zawadzki; Cucho Hernandez, Christian Ramirez
def. Guiomar Maristany Zuleta de Reales and Jessica Esther Henseleit ........................... 72 67 73 4 212 -4 12. Brad Keselowski, 424.
over. Upon questioning, officers
steals: 6 (Canada 2, N.Ogwumike 2, C.Ogwumike, (Jacen Russell-Rowe, 81st), Yaw Yeboah (Maximilian
Kar.Samuelson). technical fouls: None. a: 5,265 Arfsten, 76th).
Bouzas Maneiro, Spain, 7-6 (7-3), 6-1. Megan Khang ................................ 71 69 72 4 212 -4 13. Tyler Reddick, 420. had strong suspicion to believe
Grace Kim ...................................... 71 71 70 4 212 -4 14. Ricky Stenhouse Jr, 400.
(18,997) New York City FC, Luis Barraza; Tony Alfaro (Gabe Segal, the male was intoxicated.=
Polly Mack ..................................... 70 72 70 4 212 -4 15. Bubba Wallace, 354.
73rd), Brian Cufre (Kevin O9Toole, 78th), Mitja Ilenic So Yeon Ryu .................................. 71 71 70 4 212 -4
(Stephen Turnbull, 78th); Justin Haak, Alfredo Morales ATP Ellinor Sudow ................................ 70 70 72 4 212 -4
16. Alex Bowman, 331. Huggins has a career record of
(Richard Ledezma, 59th), Keaton Parks, Santiago Rodri- 17. Daniel Suárez, 328.
P R O F O OT BAL L guez, James Sands; Gabriel Pereira, Talles Magno
sINgles RaNKINgs Stephanie Kyriacou ....................... 69 73 71 4 213 -3 18. Ty Gibbs, 320. 935-414 (.693) as a head coach,
Through Tuesday. Ines Laklalech ............................... 68 73 72 4 213 -3 19. Michael McDowell, 317.
(Tayvon Gray, 73rd). Yan Liu .......................................... 70 72 71 4 213 -3 20. AJ Allmendinger, 298.
which includes three seasons at
1. Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 7595
uSFL 2. Carlos Alcaraz, Spain, 7175 Maja Stark .................................... 69 73 71 4 213 -3 21. Austin Cindric, 292. NAIA Walsh University, five at
3. Daniil Medvedev, Russia, 6100 Marissa Steen ............................... 69 73 71 4 213 -3 22. Corey LaJoie, 291.
NORth w l t pct pf pa Revolution 3, Orlando City 1 4. Casper Ruud, Norway, 4960 Celine Borge .................................. 72 69 73 4 214 -2 23. Justin Haley, 284. Akron, 16 at Cincinnati, one at
Philadelphia ......................4 5 0 .444 200 235 Allison Emrey ............................... 71 70 73 4 214 -2
Pittsburgh.........................4 6 0 .400 177 178 ORlaNDO cItY 0 1 1 5. Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greece, 4920
Hannah Green ............................... 71 69 74 4 214 -2
24. Todd Gilliland, 279. Kansas State and 16 at West Vir-
New eNglaND 0 3 3 6. Holger Rune, Denmark, 4375 25. Ryan Preece, 269.
Michigan ...........................3 6 0 .333 148 195 7. Andrey Rublev, Russia, 4000 Haeji Kang ..................................... 69 73 73 4 215 -1 26. Aric Almirola, 260. ginia. In his 41 seasons, his teams
New Jersey .......................3 7 0 .300 187 212 first half: None. 8. Taylor Fritz, USA, 3515 Louise Ridderstrom ...................... 71 71 73 4 215 -1 27. Chase Elliott, 247.
second half: 1, New England, Boateng, 2, 51st minute; 2, 9. Jannik Sinner, Italy, 3300 Maddie Szeryk .............................. 68 73 74 4 215 -1 28. Austin Dillon, 223.
reached the NCAA tournament
New England, Bou, 3 (Buck), 69th; 3, Orlando City, 10. Karen Khachanov, Russia, 3125 Arpichaya Yubol ............................ 70 72 73 4 215 -1 29. Harrison Burton, 219. 26 times. He was inducted to the
sOUth w l t pct pf pa
McGuire, 5 (Halliday), 80th; 4, New England, Gil, 7 (Bou), 11. Felix Auger-Aliassime, Canada, 2850 Yuna Nishimura ............................ 71 71 74 4 216 E 30. Erik Jones, 190.
Birmingham ......................8 2 0 .800 287 196 Naismith memorial Basketball
85th. 12. Frances Tiafoe, USA, 2835 Sung Hyun Park ............................ 69 70 77 4 216 E
New Orleans .....................6 3 0 .667 220 174
goalies: Orlando City, Mason Stajduhar, Javier Otero; Christina Kim ................................ 71 71 75 4 217 +1
Houston ............................5 4 0 .556 213 219
New England, Earl Edwards Jr., Jacob Jackson.
13. Cameron Norrie, Great Britain, 2565
Ilhee Lee ........................................ 72 70 76 4 218 +2 Hall of fame last year. His record
Memphis ...........................5 5 0 .500 190 213 14. Hubert Hurkacz, Poland, 2435
Yellow cards: Araujo, Orlando City, 3rd; Halliday, Orlan- 15. Borna Coric, Croatia, 2430 Laura Wearn ................................. 70 72 77 4 219 +3 Formula One over 38 seasons as a Division I
weeK 9 do City, 22nd; Buck, New England, 84th; Edwards Jr., 16. Tommy Paul, USA, 2205
satURDaY, JUNe 10 New England, 90th+4. 17. Lorenzo Musetti, Italy, 2095
caNaDIaN gRaND pRIx lINeUp head coach is 863-389 (.689).
Orlando City, Mason Stajduhar; Michael Halliday, Robin 18. Alex de Minaur, Australia, 1905 World Golf Ranking After Saturday qualifying; race Sunday. <Coach Huggins informed us of
at Pittsburgh 19, Michigan 7 Jansson, Rafael Santos (Ramiro Enrique, 90th+1), Ro- At Circuit Gilles Villeneuve; in Montreal
19. Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, 1730
New Orleans 31, at Memphis 3 drigo Schlegel; Cesar Araujo (Dagur Dan Thorhallsson, 20. Francisco Cerundolo, Argentina, 1655
Through June 11. lap length: 4.36 kilometers his intent to retire and has sub-
sUNDaY, JUNe 11 78th), Felipe Martins (Alexandre de Almeida da Silva
Junior, 90th+1), Martin Ojeda, Mauricio Pereyra (Luca
21. Matteo Berrettini, Italy, 1582 1. ....................... Scottie Scheffler 11.54 thIRD sessION mitted his letter of resignation,
Birmingham 38, at Houston 15 22. Roberto Bautista Agut, Spain, 1530 2. ...................................Jon Rahm 10.41 1. Max Verstappen, Netherlands, Red Bull Racing, 1
at New Jersey 37, Philadelphia 33
Petrasso, 79th); Ivan Angulo, Ercan Kara (Duncan 23. Alexander Zverev, Germany, 1450 3. .............................. Rory McIlroy 8.26 minute, 25.858 seconds.
and we have accepted it in light of
McGuire, 46th). 24. Jan-Lennard Struff, Germany, 1437
weeK 10 New England, Earl Edwards Jr.; Brandon Bye (Omar 25. Nick Kyrgios, Australia, 1375
4. ..........................Patrick Cantlay 7.11 2. Nico Hulkenberg, Germany, Haas, 1:27.102. recent events,= WVU President
Gonzalez, 46th), Andrew Farrell, DeJuan Jones, Dave 5. .......................... Viktor Hovland 6.63 3. Fernando Alonso, Spain, Aston Martin, 1:27.286.
satURDaY9s ResUlts
Romney; Emmanuel Boateng, Noel Buck, Carles Gil, Matt
26. Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria, 1365 6. .....................Xander Schauffele 6.42 4. Lewis Hamilton, Great Britain, Mercedes, 1:27.627. Gordon Gee and Athletic Director
Pittsburgh 26, at New Jersey 6 27. Yoshihito Nishioka, Japan, 1351 7. ................................. Max Homa 5.55
Polster; Gustavo Bou, Bobby Wood (Giacomo Vrioni, 28. Daniel Evans, Great Britain, 1331 8. ........................ Matt Fitzpatrick 5.27
5. George Russell, Great Britain, Mercedes, 1:27.893. Wren Baker said in a statement.
Birmingham 27, at Memphis 20 75th). 6. Esteban Ocon, France, Alpine, 1:27.945.
sUNDaY9s gaMes
29. Denis Shapovalov, Canada, 1290 9. ......................... Cameron Smith 5.07 7. Lando Norris, Great Britain, McLaren, 1:28.046. <We support his decision so that
30. Nicolas Jarry, Chile, 1276 10. .......................... Jordan Spieth 5.04 8. Carlos Sainz Jr, Spain, Ferrari, 1:29.294.
New Orleans at Houston, 4 31. Sebastian Korda, USA, 1220 11. .......................... Will Zalatoris 4.70 9. Oscar Piastri, Australia, McLaren, 1:31.349.
he can focus on his health and
Philadelphia at Michigan, 7 nashville SC 3, 32. Tomas Martin Etcheverry, Argentina, 1201 12. ...............................Tony Finau 4.49 10. Alexander Albon, Thailand, Williams, 1:30.284. family. on behalf of West Virginia
33. Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, Spain, 1195 13. .........................Brooks Koepka 4.43
RegUlaR seasON eNDs Saint Louis City SC 1 34. Botic Van de Zandschulp, Netherlands, 1135 14. ..........................Tyrrell Hatton 4.38
elIMINateD afteR secOND sessION University, we share our apprecia-
35. Ben Shelton, USA, 1069 15. ............................... Sam Burns 4.36 11. Charles Leclerc, Monaco, Ferrari, 1:20.615.
plaYOffs st. lOUIs cItY sc 1 0 1 36. Ugo Humbert, France, 1061 16. .........................Justin Thomas 4.31 12. Sergio Perez, Mexico, Red Bull Racing, 1:20.959. tion for his service to our Univer-
satURDaY9s gaMe NashvIlle 1 2 3 37. Jiri Lehecka, Czech Republic, 1038 17. ....................... Cameron Young 4.14 13. Lance Stroll, Canada, Aston Martin, 1:21.484. sity, our community and our state.
TBD vs. TBD, 8, NBC first half: 1, Nashville, Mukhtar, 11, 11th minute; 2, St. 38. Tallon Griekspoor, Netherlands, 1024 18. ...................... Collin Morikawa 3.98 14. Kevin Magnussen, Denmark, Haas, 1:21.678.
sUNDaY, JUNe 25 Louis City SC, Gioacchini, 7, 41st. 39. Miomir Kecmanovic, Serbia, 985 19. .............................. Sungjae Im 3.73 15. Valtteri Bottas, Finland, Alfa Romeo Racing, . . . In the days ahead, we will
second half: 3, Nashville, Mukhtar, 12 (penalty kick), 40. Maxime Cressy, USA, 975 1:21.821.
TBD vs. TBD, 8, FOX 70th; 4, Nashville, Mukhtar, 13 (McCarty), 75th. 41. Lorenzo Sonego, Italy, 970
20. .........................Kurt Kitayama 3.53 focus on supporting the student-
21. .................. Tommy Fleetwood 3.40 elIMINateD afteR fIRst sessION
Usfl chaMpIONshIp goalies: St. Louis City SC, Roman Burki, Ben Lundt; 42. Emil Ruusuvuori, Finland, 956 22. .................................. Tom Kim 3.25 16. Yuki Tsunoda, Japan, Alphatauri, 1:22.746. athletes in our men9s basketball
satURDaY, JUlY 1 Nashville, Joe Willis, Elliot Panicco, Ben Martino. 23. ................................ Jason Day 3.18 17. Pierre Gasly, France, Alpine, 1:22.886.
Yellow cards: Vassilev, St. Louis City SC, 32nd; Bauer, 24. ....................... Keegan Bradley 2.99 18. Nyck De Vries, Netherlands, Alphatauri, 1:23.137.
program and solidifying leader-
TBD vs. TBD, 8, NBC Nashville, 37th; McCarty, Nashville, 45th+1; Hiebert, St. WTA 25. ..............................Justin Rose 2.98 19. Logan Sargeant, USA, Williams, 1:23.337. ship for our program.=
Louis City SC, 54th; Washington, Nashville, 83rd; Zubak, 26. .................. Hideki Matsuyama 2.96 20. Guanyu Zhou, China, Alfa Romeo Racing, 1:23.342.
Nashville, 87th. sINgles RaNKINgs 27. ............................Shane Lowry 2.91
a: 30,109. Through Tuesday. 28. ...................... Sahith Theegala 2.88
T RAnS ACT I O nS St. Louis City SC, Roman Burki; Lucas Bartlett, Kyle 29. ......................... Corey Conners 2.83
1. Iga Swiatek, Poland, 8940
Hiebert, Jake Nerwinski (John Nelson, 46th), Tim 2. Aryna Sabalenka, Belarus, 8012 30. ........................ Russell Henley 2.72 IndyCar
Parker; Rasmus Alm (Isak Jensen, 80th), Tomas Ostrak 3. Elena Rybakina, Kazakhstan, 5090 31. ..............................Si Woo Kim 2.71
Mlb (Akil Watts, 72nd), Miguel Perez, Jared Stroud (Celio 32. .......................Wyndham Clark 2.68 sONsIO gRaND pRIx lINeUp
4. Caroline Garcia, France, 5025
baltimore Orioles: Recalled RHP Spenser Watkins from Pompeu, 80th), Indiana Vassilev (Aziel Jackson, 80th); 33. .............................Sepp Straka 2.56 After Saturday qualifying; race Sunday.
5. Jessica Pegula, USA, 4905
Norfolk (IL). Optioned RHP Reed Garrett to Norfolk. Nicholas Gioacchini. 34. ......................Denny McCarthy 2.52 At Road America; in Plymouth, Wis.
6. Ons Jabeur, Tunisia, 3961
Detroit tigers: Assigned RHP Trey Wingenter to Toledo Nashville, Joe Willis; Josh Bauer, Daniel Lovitz, Jack 35. ................................ Tom Hoge 2.49 lap length: 4.014 miles
7. Coco Gauff, USA, 3435
(IL) on a rehab assignment. Maher, Shaq Moore; Sean Davis (Taylor Washington, 36. .................... Joaquin Niemann 2.49 (Car number in parentheses)
8. Maria Sakkari, Greece, 3272
Minnesota twins: Recalled LHP Brent Headrick form St. 80th), Randall Leal (Jacob Shaffelburg, 46th), Dax 37. ............................. Adam Scott 2.48 1. (26) Colton Herta, D/H/F, 01:40.1945 (144.223 mph).
9. Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic, 3102
Paul (IL). Optioned RHP Josh Winder to St. Paul. McCarty, Hany Mukhtar (Brian Anunga, 90th+5), Alex 38. .................................Chris Kirk 2.41 2. (5) Pato O9Ward, D/C/F, 01:40.3643 (143.979).
10. Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazil, 2910
Oakland athletics: Selected the contract of INF Tyler Muyl (Jan Gregus, 81st); Teal Bunbury (Ethan Zubak, 39. .......................... Billy Horschel 2.41 3. (10) Alex Palou, D/H/F, 01:40.4930 (143.795).
11. Daria Kasatkina, Russia, 2735
Wade from Las Vegas (PCL). Placed INF Kevin Smith on 46th). 40. .......................... Brian Harman 2.35 4. (2) Josef Newgarden, D/C/F, 01:40.9530 (143.140).
12. Barbora Krejcikova, Czech Republic, 2680
the 10-day IL, retroactive to June 16. 41. ..................................Ryan Fox 2.30 5. (7) Alexander Rossi, D/C/F, 01:41.1854 (142.811).
13. Belinda Bencic, Switzerland, 2630
toronto blue Jays: Assigned RHP Zach Pop to Dunedin 42. ..........................Harris English 2.30 6. (27) Kyle Kirkwood, D/H/F, No Time (No Speed).
14. Veronika Kudermetova, Russia, 2520
(FSL) on a rehab assignment. 43. .........................Emiliano Grillo 2.26 7. (45) Christian Lundgaard, D/H/F, 01:41.0480
15. Liudmila Samsonova, Russia, 2296
chicago cubs: Reinstated LHP Justin Steele from the 44. .............................. Nick Taylor 2.22 (143.005).
15-day IL. Placed INF Patrick Wisdom on the 10-day IL.
Los Angeles FC 2, Sporting KC 1 16. Karolina Muchova, Czech Republic, 2295
45. ...........................Rickie Fowler 2.21 8. (11) Marcus Armstrong, D/H/F, 01:41.1737 (142.828).
17. Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, 2130
Optioned 3B Edwin Rios to Iowa (IL). 46. ........................ Seamus Power 2.14 9. (8) Marcus Ericsson, D/H/F, 01:41.2202 (142.762).
lOs aNgeles fc 0 2 2 18. Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, 2100
colorado Rockies: Recalled RHP Gavin Hollowell from 47. ............................ Patrick Reed 2.08 10. (55) Benjamin Pedersen, D/C/F, 01:41.4989
spORtINg Kc 1 0 1 19. Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, 1967
Albuquerque (PCL). Designated RHP Dinelson Lamet for 48. ....................Kyoung-Hoon Lee 2.05 (142.370).
first half: 1, Sporting KC, Pulido, 5 (penalty kick), 17th 20. Donna Vekic, Croatia, 1773
assignment. 49. ........................ Adrian Meronk 2.02 11. (14) Santino Ferrucci, D/C/F, 01:41.6314 (142.184).
minute. 21. Magda Linette, Poland, 1765
los angeles Dodgers: Selected the contract of LHP 50. ........................... Taylor Moore 1.97 12. (29) Devlin DeFrancesco, D/H/F, 01:41.8277
second half: 2, Los Angeles FC, Maldonado, 1 (Bogusz), 22. Anastasia Potapova, Russia, 1765
Bryan Hudson from Oklahoma City (PCL).
Miami Marlins: Recalled SS Jacob Amaya from Jackson-
ville (IL). Placed INF Jean Segura on the 10-day IL,
48th; 3, Los Angeles FC, Vela, 5 (Long), 90th.
goalies: Los Angeles FC, John McCarthy, Eldin Jak-
23. Madison Keys, USA, 1691
24. Zheng Qinwen, China, 1669
(141.910).
13. (18) David Malukas, D/H/F, 01:41.5204 (142.340).
14. (15) Graham Rahal, D/H/F, 01:41.5121 (142.352).
Retropolis
25. Anhelina Kalinina, Ukraine, 1597
retroactive to June 15. Placed RHP Edward Cabrera on
upovic; Sporting KC, Kendall Mcintosh, John Pulskamp.
Yellow cards: Rosero, Sporting KC, 50th; Bogusz, Los 26. Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russia, 1535 H O CK ey 15. (21) Rinus VeeKay, D/C/F, 01:41.7420 (142.030).
16. (6) Felix Rosenqvist, D/C/F, 01:41.5823 (142.253).
|e past, rediscovered
the 15-day IL, retroactive to June 14. Recalled RHP 27. Bernarda Pera, USA, 1514
Angeles FC, 59th; Biuk, Los Angeles FC, 65th. 17. (77) Callum Ilott, D/C/F, 01:41.8005 (141.948).
Huascar Brazoban from Jacksonville.
Milwaukee brewers: Reinstated LHP Wade Miley from
a: 19,410.
Los Angeles FC, John McCarthy; Julian Gaines (Jesus
28. Elise Mertens, Belgium, 1424
29. Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania, 1342 AHL playoffs 18. (3) Scott McLaughlin, D/C/F, 01:41.7005 (142.088). wpost.com/retropolis
the 15-day IL and OF Jesse Winker from the 10-day IL. 19. (28) Romain Grosjean, D/H/F, 01:41.8529 (141.875).
Murillo, 46th), Aaron Long, Denil Maldonado, Diego 30. Petra Martic, Croatia, 1330
Optioned RHP Tyson Miller to Nashville (IL). Designated calDeR cUp fINals 20. (60) Simon Pagenaud, D/H/F, 01:41.7257 (142.053).
Palacios (Ryan Hollingshead, 46th); Mateusz Bogusz, 31. Zhang Shuai, China, 1324
1B Jon Singleton for assignment. Sent RHP Cam heRsheY leaDs cOachella valleY, 3-2 21. (78) Agustin Canapino, D/C/F, 01:41.9247 (141.775).
Daniel Crisostomo, Erik Duenas, Ilie Sanchez (Carlos 32. Sorana Cirstea, Romania, 1267
Robinson outright to Biloxi (SL). Best of seven; x-If necessary 22. (12) Will Power, D/C/F, 01:41.9275 (141.771).
Vela, 46th); Stipe Biuk, Nathan Ordaz (Yekeson Subah, 33. Marie Bouzkova, Czech Republic, 1258
philadelphia phillies: Recalled LHP Cristopher Sanchez 23. (9) Scott Dixon, D/H/F, 01:42.2745 (141.290).
77th). 34. Paula Badosa, Spain, 1233 Game 1: Coachella Valley 5, Hershey 0
from Lehigh Valley (IL). Optioned RHP Luis Ortiz to 24. (30) Jack Harvey, D/H/F, 01:41.9329 (141.764).
Sporting KC, Kendall Mcintosh; Robert Castellanos, Tim 35. Marta Kostyuk, Ukraine, 1225 Game 2: Coachella Valley 4, Hershey 0
Lehigh Valley. Placed RHP Seranthony Dominguez on the 25. (51) Sting Ray Robb, D/H/F, 01:42.6862 (140.724).
Leibold (Roger Espinoza, 59th), Dany Rosero; Jake Davis 36. Simona Halep, Romania, 1220 Game 3: Hershey 5, Coachella Valley 4 (OT)
15-day IL, retroactive to June 16. Recalled RHP Yunior 26. (06) Helio Castroneves, D/H/F, 01:42.0399
(Johnny Russell, 76th), Gadi Kinda (Khiry Shelton, 37. Bianca Andreescu, Canada, 1202 Game 4: Hershey 3, Coachella Valley 2
Marte from Lehigh Valley as an injury replacement. (141.615).
58th), Nemanja Radoja, Erik Thommy, Remi Walter; 38. Sloane Stephens, USA, 1170 Game 5: Hershey 1, Coachella Valley 0 (OT)
st. louis cardinals: Assigned LF Lars Nootbaar to 27. (20) Ryan Hunter-Reay, D/C/F, 01:44.1738
Alan Pulido, Daniel Salloi. 39. Zhu Lin, China, 1145 Monday9s game: Hershey at Coachella Valley, 10
Memphis (IL) on a rehab assignment. (138.714).
40. Mayar Sherif, Egypt, 1135 x-Wednesday9s game: Hershey at Coachella Valley, 10 S0364 1x3
D6
At Colorado,
8Coach Prime9
is on big stage,
running show
sanDers from D1
prefers 4 is a stirring demonstra-
tion of change. He hobbles
through the lounge and onto the
field, his bandanna replaced by a
10-gallon cowboy hat. When re-
cruits face him, they9re at once
meeting a stranger and a man they
have always known.
<I9ve been in all three seats,=
sanders says. <I9ve been the par-
ent, I9ve been the kid, and I9m the
coach. so I know what each person
is thinking, and that9s very advan-
tageous.=
There9s something interesting
playing out here, and like <Prime
Time= in the 1990s, not everyone
loves it. sanders is carrying the
hopes of a campus and a fan
community desperate to feel na-
tionally relevant for the first time
in decades. He9s also a broader test
of the sport9s traditional, if anti-
quated, paradigm. College sports
have always been transactional,
but that9s something those work-
ing in the industry have never
admitted. As recently as 2019,
when sanders was still an nfL
network analyst and the nCAA
raked in $19 billion in revenue, the
fable of amateurism reigned: Ath-
letes came to school for a free
education, to experience college,
to spend four glorious and mutu-
ally beneficial years learning and
playing ball amid bucolic sur-
roundings.
<I have never heard a kid say, 8I
came here because the campus is
beautiful,9 = sanders says. <I ain9t
never heard a kid say that. In any
place.=
Coach Prime is football9s no. 1
hype man, referring to himself as
the most honest coach in sports. In
three seasons at Jackson state, the
historically Black university
whose football team sanders lifted
to unprecedented heights, he jetti-
soned the folklore. Instead, he
embraced the pioneering 2021
policy that, for the first time, al-
lowed players to be compensated
for the use of their names, images
and likenesses, either by boosters
or the sports car dealership across
town. sanders was paid for his
services; why, he told players,
shouldn9t they be?
He also took full advantage of
the sport9s transfer portal, which,
beginning in 2018, allowed players
to change schools without penalty.
Jackson state went 27-6 in sand-
ers9s three seasons; the Tigers won
two consecutive southwestern
Athletic Conference titles, ap-
peared in the past two Celebration
Bowls (regarded as the national
championship game for HBCUs)
and entered the national conver-
sation for the first time since Wal-
ter Payton carried the ball there.
<You have that lightning rod
and these recruits coming in, and
he brought all our old-head fans
back,= says nuenzo Phillips, a long-
time Jackson state supporter.
<There [was] a renewed vigor and
a sense of hope that, by God, man,
we9ve got Deion sanders in Jack-
son, mississippi.=
still, this being college athletics,
sanders was never more impor-
tant than the school or its mission
or its brand. no single person 4
player, coach or administrator 4
has ever been bigger than the
institution.
not until Colorado hired sand-
ers, anyway.
He was yearning to leave Jack-
son, with its dilapidated facilities
and ongoing water crisis, and
jump to the sport9s big leagues.
The Buffaloes, after 15 losing sea-
sons in 17 years, were aching to feel
the bygone magic of the early
1990s. more urgently, they wanted
to become a bigger participant in a
college sports gold rush as schools
and conferences compete for nine-
and 10-figure media rights deals.
Last year southern California and
UCLA announced they would be
leaving the Pac-12 to join the Big
Ten, with its new broadcast deal
worth more than $7 billion.
This led to a marriage of con-
venience as Colorado arrived at a
reckoning never before seen (or at
least never admitted) in college
football: that the survival of its
brand depended on it being
hitched to a stronger, more incan-
descent one 4 the brand of
<Prime,= savior of programs, icon
with a bust in the Pro football Hall
of fame, spokesman with the iced-
out pendant in the Aflac commer-
cials.
<College athletics has totally
changed,= says Alexis Williams,
Colorado9s senior associate athlet-
ic director. <Twenty years ago, we
were talking about our 8student-
athletes9 and this and that. now it
is really about the money.=
sanders9s cut is $5 million per
year, which makes him one of
the Pac-129s highest-paid but
least-experienced coaches. It
makes the union between school
and coach a controversial and po-
tentially revolutionary one 4 a
Fans at a Colorado basketball game held up signs encouraging Deion sanders to leave Jackson state for their school9s football coach
opening, and he did so, taking son and quarterback shedeur sanders (2) 4 and many others affiliated with the program 4 with him.
look at the future, perhaps, but
undoubtedly a repudiation of the
way things used to be done.
<Why would we even talk about
yesterday?= sanders says during
an interview in the recruiting
lounge. <recruits care about to-
day. How do they fit in today, right
now 4 where we9re headed, where
we9re going.=
He chuckles, scanning the
lounge and the Buffaloes9 ancient
relics of football yesteryear.
<my brother, I don9t look behind
me, man,= he says. Then he smiles.
<only time I do that is when I9m
high-stepping.=
D
uring the summer of 2020,
the murder of George
floyd sparked an HBCU
renaissance. record donations
poured in, applications soared,
celebrities and politicians and
sports teams rushed to under-
write a moment 4 the initial
steps, it seemed, of restoring bal-
ance and funding to schools that
had been left to crumble.
Two moments stood apart:
Howard graduate Kamala D. Har-
ris9s ascent to the vice presidency
and sanders becoming coach at
JsU. <God called me to Jackson
state,= he said that september.
for his introduction on cam-
pus, he was delivered via escalade,
led by a police escort and flanked
by the university9s mighty march-
ing band, the <sonic Boom of the
south.= During his remarks, sand-
ers9s trademark bluster gave way
to emotion.
<Tears of satisfaction. Tears to
establish how proud I am to stand
before my people,= he said. <I said
to stand before my people.=
Within 10 months of the an-
eZ Su
dAvid ZAluboWSki/ASSoCiATed PreSS
nouncement, JsU had received an
estimated $12 million in media
exposure. sanders9s deep-pock-
eted corporate partners commit-
ted millions more. Walmart
pledged $2.4 million for a new
practice field. Gillette donated to
the Tigers9 athletic fund. Under
Armour and riddell provided
equipment. michael strahan sup-
plied custom suits for every JsU
player.
The pandemic pushed JsU9s
2020 season to spring 2021, and
sanders9s first game, a 53-0 win,
was predictably strange. There
was no running water at the sta-
dium after freezing temperatures
crippled Jackson9s century-old wa-
ter system, and a bizarre postgame
controversy overshadowed the
day. sanders claimed during his
news conference that his wallet
and phone had been stolen from
the coaches9 locker room, but the
school said it was a misunder-
standing, leading sanders to insist
on social media the school was
<LYInG.=
<Thank God I had on my neck-
laces,= he told reporters. The items
were recovered and returned.
still, in Jackson that spring,
game days felt like reunions, a
throwback to the 1970s, when the
program produced all-Americans
and nfL stars. sanders embraced
the school9s mantra, <Thee I Love,=
making appearances on <Thee
Pregame show= and leading his
team onto the field as the sonic
Boom blared <Thee= alma mater at
mississippi Veterans memorial
stadium, known locally as <Thee
Vet.=
The following season, a dozen
players from Power five schools
transferred to JsU. Two were
sanders9s sons, defensive back
shilo and quarterback shedeur,
and two others played at Trinity
Christian school near Dallas,
where sanders had been offensive
coordinator during his sons9 high
school careers. But dozens of oth-
ers defected from power confer-
ences, including the mighty seC.
To make room, dozens of JsU
players were encouraged to leave
the program and did. But when
the Tigers go 11-2, who cares about
loyalty? sanders stormed out of
that preseason9s sWAC media day
after a reporter called him <Deion=
instead of <Coach Prime,= but
when every saturday is an all-day
block party, who cares if the coach
is testy about his brand? When the
local newspaper wrote about a
JsU recruit having been charged
with assaulting his girlfriend,
sanders and the school banned
the reporter from covering the
team. But who cares, right, when
the Tigers are winning their first
conference title in nearly a dec-
ade?
<Deion9s message just resonated
with people,= says a former JsU
employee, who, like others in Jack-
son, spoke on the condition of
anonymity to protect relation-
ships with the school and sanders.
<People felt like they could be
heard, and people really rallied
around that. It was a point of
hope.=
And of one HBCU city taking
advantage of a moment. nfL leg-
end Troy Aikman attended a
game. rapper Boosie smoked
weed in the stadium tunnel.
snoop Dogg faceTimed sanders
on the sideline. Attendance
soared. A cynic might bristle at the
fact that sanders9s contract called
the washington post
dAvid ZAluboWSki/ASSoCiATed PreSS
hAkiM WrighT Sr./ASSoCiATed PreSS
MiChAel CiAglo for The WAShingTon PoST
for him to receive 10 percent of all
ticket revenue above 30,000 fans
and a slice of season ticket sales
above 10,000. But so what? Almost
overnight, Jackson state was the
coolest place in college football,
and its coach had hacked the sys-
tem. With sanders in Jackson,
eddie George taking over at Ten-
nessee state and former nfL
coach Hue Jackson going to Gram-
bling, HBCUs were back.
<You really did have fans and
alumni believing: If he sticks
around another year or two, may-
be we could play against a top-25
[football Bowl subdivision] oppo-
nent,= one longtime JsU booster
says. <He was bringing the Black
community back home.=
The nation9s top junior-college
defensive back and the country9s
sixth-best wide receiver signed to
play at JsU. Then Travis Hunter, a
two-way star who had committed
to florida state, flipped and in-
stead signed to play for sanders.
Among his reasons: drawing more
attention to historically Black
schools. And it worked: <60 min-
utes= followed with a feature on
JsU football, and last fall, esPn9s
<College GameDay= broadcast live
from the Vet.
<This is Black history,= sanders
said at the time. <Let9s not take this
moment for granted.=
T
hirty-six days after the
esPn crew left Jackson,
sanders did the same. Colo-
rado announced that it had hired
him on a sunday in December,
and the school9s football ticket
office was like a scene from <The
Wolf of Wall street=: phones ring-
ing, employees fiercely typing as
they recorded another $150 non-
. sunday, june 18 , 2023
refundable deposit, handsets
chirping an instant after being
snapped into their cradles.
<sell! sell! sell!= rick George,
the school9s athletic director, told
the staff when he happened by.
By the end of December, the
school had collected more than
5,000 interest forms for season
tickets, and its customer retention
rate was a record 98 percent. The
Buffaloes9 spring game, to which
the athletic department sold tick-
ets for the first time, was a sellout.
When sanders attended a men9s
basketball game, senior associate
AD Williams says, that program9s
social media accounts and ticket
sales grew, with fans hoping for a
glimpse of sanders if he returned.
school officials call this the
<Prime effect,= and it can be mea-
sured in cash flow, in merchandise
sales and in a few unexpected
ways. When sanders, who grew up
in florida, posted a video that
pointed out a local breakfast joint
didn9t offer grits, local restaurants
quickly added it to their menus. In
march, sanders joined university
chancellor Philip P. Distefano at
the state house and charmed law-
makers preparing to vote on fund-
ing for public education. A month
later, when the university9s
Biofrontiers Institute was inter-
viewing a highly regarded profes-
sor, Distefano didn9t meet with
the candidate because she had
requested a meeting with sanders.
<I9m a closer,= he says.
In fact, his ability to attract
talent and generate hype has cre-
ated an unexpected problem. In
2019, at perhaps the nadir of the
Colorado brand, folsom field was
sold out for a home game against
longtime rival nebraska. other
than the student section, the sta-
dium was a sea of Cornhuskers
white and red, the school9s
#KeepTheredout campaign a dis-
aster. Thousands of Buffaloes fans
had sold their tickets to visitors.
<How did this happen?= George
asked his nonplussed staff.
so when the school hired sand-
ers, with demand for tickets far
outpacing supply, the athletic de-
partment was determined to avoid
a similar fiasco. Which fans had
earned the right to buy tickets?
Instead of the classic first-come,
first-served model, how could Col-
orado weed out the type of ticket
holder who would sell to Arizona
or oregon fans if the price was
right?
The ticket sales department9s
job, therefore, isn9t selling so much
as it is data mining and collecting
information from would-be buy-
ers. If someone attended a game in
the past five years, when the Buffa-
loes went 19-35, or went to a
volleyball or women9s basketball
contest, that person would be giv-
en priority over someone who
hadn9t.
< 8Hey, he9s a Buff fan 4 a real
Buff fan.9 We did rank folks,= says
Williams, who oversees the athlet-
ic department9s marketing and
promotion. <There9s no playbook
for this.=
nor is there for fans told that
they weren9t loyal enough and
couldn9t buy tickets. some reacted
by erupting at the sales staff; a few
issued profanity-laced tirades and
even threats. one emailed George
and Williams a st. Patrick9s Day
poem, a sort of ticketing Hail
mary.
The demand is high, and the
tickets few
But John and Amy won9t be
feeling blue.
For they know their passion, is
as green as clover,
And they9ll support the Buffs,
with hearts brimming over.
Alas, creativity aside, those fans
were denied. While Colorado is
being pickier about who it lets in,
among its many ambitions is that
sanders will somehow attract fans
who have felt unwelcome 4 name-
ly, Williams says, people of color.
Williams, who is Black, says the
alumni of color she knows tend to
skip Buffaloes games; the stadium
and parking lots are filled with
people who don9t look like them
(even as those on the sideline do;
even in Colorado, football teams
are overwhelmingly Black, and
sanders is the program9s third
consecutive Black head coach). As
of last fall, Colorado9s student
body was two-thirds White and
just 2.6 percent Black. Boulder is
home to an even lower percentage
of Black residents.
But unlike mel Tucker and Karl
Dorrell, Williams says, sanders
has those fans9 attention. They
remember him returning punts
and talking smack in the 1990s,
and after his time at Jackson state,
they view him as a champion of
Black opportunity and education.
<now there9s a man leading that
team, being unapologetically him-
self, who talks like me, thinks like
me, so I can come here and sup-
port him,= Williams says. <It9s
tough to break this cycle. But this
hire? The Prime effect? I think
that9ll be the thing to resuscitate
it.=
W
hen George was Colora-
do9s recruiting coordina-
tor three decades ago, he
got prospects9 attention by send-
ing typewritten letters and
newspaper articles about Boulder
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being the nation9s healthiest city.
The staff devoted one day per
week to recruiting, and George
wowed recruits by calling them
from the sideline during games.
<Think Colorado!= was how
George closed his correspondence
back then. This actually worked.
Darian Hagan, michael West-
brook and Kordell Stewart all
signed with the Buffaloes, and the
team won the 1990 national cham-
pionship. four years later,
rashaan Salaam won the Heis-
man, and the Colorado coaching
staff signed players from through-
out the country, with enough tal-
ent to win seven bowl games and
two Big Eight titles in the 990s. It
didn9t hurt, George says, that the
school has the rocky mountains
in its backyard.
<We had to get them here,=
George says. <If we didn9t, we had
no chance.=
There were no recruiting loung-
es then, no private jets whisking
coaches from one place to the next.
During Stewart9s official visit in
1990, he went for a walk. Having
grown up in New orleans, he
marveled at the clarity of the
creek, the crispness of the air, the
way the flatirons stab the sky.
When he got home, he called and
informed George he would be
signing with Colorado.
<The scenery was just night-
and-freaking-day,= Stewart, a for-
mer Pro Bowl pick, says now.
<When you see that stuff, it chang-
es your life overnight. You9d see
that and be like, 8Heck yeah, there9s
a God.9 =
But as the 990s ended, Colora-
do9s advantage waned. Players
were less interested in strolling
the prettiest campus when com-
petitors were offering a weight
room or dining facility that would
help them reach the professional
ranks. Salesmanship, not X9s and
o9s, became the hottest skill in
coaching, and by the early 2000s,
recruiters were calling and texting
players around-the-clock.
Colorado9s profile and ability to
draw top-shelf talent, meanwhile,
crumbled. Coach Bill mcCartney
retired after the 1994 season, and
his replacement, rick Neuheisel,
left after four seasons when Wash-
ington offered him a then-aston-
ishing $1 million per year. Gary
Barnett underachieved, Dan Haw-
kins never had a winning season,
Jon Embree was barely given a
chance (and correctly predicted a
dozen years ago that, as a Black
man, he wouldn9t get a second
shot).
As this was unfolding, college
football9s titans were doing battle
on a new front: facilities. Stadiums
with LED lighting and massive
video boards, locker rooms with
screens and game consoles. By
2016, Clemson had a $55 million
complex with bowling lanes and
laser tag. Three years later, LSU
impressed visitors with $28 mil-
lion in upgrades that added a sleep
pod at every player9s locker. A year
after that, Alabama added <nooks=
with recliners and a room for
cryotherapy.
Coaching staffs were filled with
recruiters, not tacticians, and
head coaches were fundraisers
who could enchant rich alumni
into another mega-donation. That
would help bankroll another new
building, which could draw in top
recruits, which would then in-
crease excitement and sell tickets
and bring in more donations. With
so much money flowing, coaches9
pay skyrocketed; Alabama9s Nick
Saban became the first to make
$10 million per year, and last year
the average salary for fBS head
coaches neared $2 million.
It9s not that smaller schools
couldn9t afford to hire great coach-
es. They just couldn9t afford to
keep them. In 2019, the Buffaloes
lured Tucker, a former NfL defen-
sive coordinator and interim head
coach, to Boulder. But he left after
one season when michigan State,
flush with cash from the Big Ten9s
TV deal, offered him $5 million
per year.
Three years later, with the Buf-
faloes 0-5, Colorado9s AD met with
its chancellor. George wanted to
fire Dorrell and begin courting
replacements. Among the candi-
dates was a surprising one: Deion
Sanders.
<To be honest with you,=
DiStefano says, <I didn9t think that
there was a match here.=
Colorado finished 1-11 in 2022,
its sixth straight losing season.
Though Sanders had never been to
Boulder or even played in an NfL
game in the snow, he was willing
to listen to George.
<I never seen no mountains,
man,= he says. <Haven9t met any
bison, first of all. I haven9t met too
many horses or cows, either.=
George went to Jackson to visit
Sanders. He saw the school9s aging
facilities and considered that
Sanders had somehow lured blue-
chip recruits despite a football
budget of $2.1 million. What could
he do with a department bank
account more than 15 times as fat?
After their meeting, George
called an old friend and asked him
to put in a good word with Sand-
ers. Stewart, close with Sanders
since their NfL days, told Sanders
that Boulder is <the most beautiful
Deion sanders9s impact on the Colorado football program was clear at the team9s spring game April 22. The athletic department
sold tickets to the event for the first time, and it was a sellout. And sanders drew a crowd of his own at the postgame news
conference. His salary is $5 million per year, making him one of the Pac-129s highest-paid but least-experienced coaches.
place in the world.= Sanders
claimed he didn9t care about that.
His concern was this: Would Colo-
rado be willing to let him do things
his way?
<We9re going to do it like no
other,= Sanders says. <We9re going
to do it right.=
Within hours of his introduc-
tion, 24 JSU players entered the
transfer portal, many with their
eyes on Colorado. Sanders9s sons
Shedeur and Shilo, of course, but
also former No. 1 recruit Hunter.
Players who had previously com-
mitted to or signed with the sport9s
recent heavyweights announced
pledges to Sanders, who boasts
that he rarely leaves campus and
almost never travels to high
schools or homes. Colorado
doesn9t own a private jet, George
says, nor did it know how it would
come up with money to pay its
famous new football coach 4 only
that it somehow would.
Sanders doesn9t mind about the
travel, he says, because players no
longer care about where they play
or even mind-blowing facilities.
It9s for whom they play and wheth-
er that coach understands the NfL
and, in the NIL age, the paths to an
immediate piece of an enormous
financial pie.
As an example, Sanders says, a
player recently committed to Colo-
rado without ever setting foot on
campus.
I
n Coach Prime9s America, all
the world9s a reality show, its
players and coaches mere
characters. <You Are Being Photo-
graphed!= a sign reads outside
Colorado9s football meeting room.
The athletic department em-
ploys a 13-person multimedia
team, with videographers and pro-
ducers and graphic artists who
publish daily. Third-party content
creators trail Sanders constantly,
filling three YouTube channels as
the coach just does Deion Stuff,
from lounging with Gunner the
dog to hanging in his office with
Lil Wayne. Several times a day this
material is posted to Sanders9s
Twitter (1.5 million followers) and
Instagram (3.3 million) feeds.
That9s far more than the accounts
of USC9s Lincoln riley, Georgia9s
Kirby Smart and ohio State9s ryan
Day. Saban famously refuses to use
social media.
There9s also a second season in
production of <Coach Prime,= the
docuseries in which, last year,
Sanders revealed he had two toes
amputated after developing life-
threatening blood clots in his leg.
(He might lose his left foot, his
YouTube show disclosed friday.)
revealing as the content may be,
it9s antithetical to the rich tradi-
tion of football coaches being se-
cretive. It9s also Sanders9s pre-
ferred way to sell himself to re-
cruits, donors and sponsors 4 the
most appealing and bankable ver-
sion of himself.
Long ago, Sanders showed a
deft understanding of showman-
ship9s role in sports business.
<Prime Time= wasn9t Deion, he
says, because Deion kept to him-
self, never drank alcohol, never
went to nightclubs. He did, howev-
er, attach himself to at least one
disastrous investment that,
among other things, upended the
lives of young people. Sanders9s
former Dallas-area charter school,
Prime Prep Academy, closed in
2015 amid legal, regulatory and
financial problems that included
$650,000 in debt and multiple
lawsuits. Sanders, the school9s
founder and football coach, alleg-
edly choked the school9s chief fi-
nancial officer during a school
board meeting and was fired and
rehired twice at the school he
claimed would do <good in the
hood.=
<It9s good to say I played for
[Sanders]. I was an athlete for him
at his school,= a former Prime Prep
player told The Washington Post
in 2020, not long after JSU hired
Sanders. <But when you look at it,
it9s just kind of a huge fallacy.=
So, evidently, was the excite-
ment with which Sanders oozed
when he was an NfL Network
analyst, gushing about a game, a
particular play or a superstar he
interviewed on GameDay Prime.
He actually hated it, he says. Sand-
ers coached his kids9 youth foot-
ball teams near Dallas, flew to Los
Angeles in his coaching attire and
spent Sundays on set before flying
back overnight so he could drop
his children off at school.
<I9m a homebody, man,= he says.
<I9m not that guy. I had to be that
guy [on TV] because that9s who I
was on the field. When the lights
are off, I9m not him. I9m in bed by 7,
man.=
When he begged NfL Network
to let him work from home, it said
yes. But when it asked him to take
a pay cut in 2020, Sanders said no.
A month later, he took the Jackson
State job. When he9s coaching,
Sanders says, he is <kind of that
guy.=
It can be difficult, therefore, to
know where Prime ends and De-
ion begins. What9s real and what9s
made-for-TV? Sanders is quick-
witted and speaks in coaching
mottos, some of which rhyme, a
few of which don9t make sense but
nonetheless seem to amuse Sand-
ers. <I9m not a typical coach, man. I
was him before I was he,= he says,
chuckling. <Now that one was
good.=
These are but a few of the many
adjustments transpiring at Colo-
rado as the administration and
wider campus community have
largely deferred to Sanders as they
let Prime cook. If he asks to sit in
on a meeting about pedestrian
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traffic at the Buffaloes9 spring
game or wants to view a working
design of a commemorative poster
that will be handed out to fans or
requests to visit with the marching
band to suggest new songs, no one
tells him no.
<Coach Prime is more 4 is 8in-
vested9 the right word? 4 engaged
than other coaches,= says Wil-
liams, the associate AD.
After Sanders noticed how
bland the food was in the athletics
dining hall, he arranged for John
Tierre, who owns Sanders9s favor-
ite restaurant in Jackson, Johnny
T9s Bistro & Blues, to visit Boulder,
meet with the Buffaloes9 chef and
make a few . . . suggestions. By the
time Tierre went home, the menu
had expanded to include New or-
leans shrimp and grits, cornbread
and beans, peach cobbler. The
beverage choices now included
sweet tea.
<our nutritionist cringes,=
George says.
Sanders may not think such
amenities bring top recruits to
campus, but with players now free
to come and go among football
programs, perhaps they9re key to
retaining them. regardless, Sand-
ers says that with Tierre9s recipes
and a case of his Johnny T9s sea-
soning, the chef is the program9s
comeback player of the year.
on occasion, Sanders even con-
cerns himself with changes to the
actual football team. He neither
designs nor calls plays, operating
as a chief executive not unlike the
man Sanders played college foot-
ball for, florida State9s legendary
Bobby Bowden. He plucked Colo-
rado9s defensive coordinator from
Saban9s staff at Alabama and con-
vinced 37-year-old Sean Lewis to
leave a head coaching job, at Kent
State, to be his offensive coordina-
tor. That commemorative poster
Sanders was so interested in? Both
coordinators are prominently fea-
tured.
Sanders also flouts a modern
push toward postgame recovery,
saying his team practices on Sun-
days because the previous day9s
game is fresh in players9 minds.
for all his media and tech savvy,
Sanders is old school about some
things. He had a sprinting hill and
sand pit installed at JSU, and a
sign outside the Buffaloes9 meet-
ing room prohibits earrings and
hats.
It9s all part of building a culture,
he says, one clearly not for every-
one. He has publicly compared the
players he inherited at Colorado to
furniture and those he would be
bringing with him to Louis Vuit-
ton luggage. During his first meet-
ing with the team in December, in
a widely circulated video, Sanders
encouraged players to <go ahead
and jump in that portal= to make
space for players who would be
signing in the months to come.
<They told everybody to go,=
former Buffaloes wide receiver
Grant Page told the Denver Post in
April.
Page is among 60 players who
entered the portal, almost double
the number of the program with
the second-most roster turnover.
of the 83 players on Colorado9s
roster last fall, 21 remain.
<We don9t weed anyone out,=
Sanders told reporters in April.
<They weed themselves out.=
Is this needlessly harsh toward
college students, even in the
hyper-corporate reality of modern
college football? Do highly paid
football coaches really no longer
have to travel, or is Sanders the
homebody just being lazy? Will it
continue to be enough for Colora-
do to pay Prime to perform for the
cameras if he doesn9t win?
for now, Colorado officials
seem satisfied that a coach and his
employer, in a business whose
many traditions include dishones-
ty, are speaking truthfully 4 like it
or not 4 about their motivations
and plans.
A
thousand miles southeast,
Nuenzo Phillips, the JSU
supporter, drives past the
<WELComE To THEE!= banner
on University Boulevard. He
takes a right onto Walter Payton
Drive, where, in the distance,
construction equipment encir-
cles the Tigers9 new practice field.
<The only tangible thing we
have left,= Phillips says. <We were
a character in the movie of Deion
Sanders.=
Six months after Sanders an-
nounced his move to Colorado,
some Jacksonians are still pro-
cessing it. It9s not that he left,
Phillips says. It9s how he left that
left a hollow feeling. many aren9t
yet willing to talk about it. one
longtime booster won9t discuss
Sanders because, he says, doing so
could <put my business in jeopar-
dy.= others worry about running
afoul of Sanders and his vast net-
work of business associates. The
school9s athletic director, Ashley
robinson, declined an interview
request.
<We got used for two years,= one
of the prominent boosters says.
<He galvanized the people, used
the Lord, used religion, said this
was a 8calling9 and all that other
horse-stuff. You know what they
say: Don9t meet your heroes.=
on the eve of last year9s SWAC
championship game, reports
emerged that Sanders and Colora-
do were nearing an agreement.
The day9s focus, therefore, wasn9t
on the party or the Tigers9 accom-
plishments. It was on Sanders.
JSU beat Southern, 43-24, and as
university and conference officials
were celebrating at the Vet, Sand-
ers was visibly impatient.
<Let9s go, let9s go!= he said, wav-
D7
ing his arms to hurry along the
trophy presentation. By then,
some fans seemed to have accept-
ed Sanders was leaving, serenad-
ing him with the blues song <Keep
on rollin.=
If you wanna go, baby
Go ahead and walk out the door.
A few minutes later, Sanders
did just that. When he reached the
interview room for his postgame
news conference, he found it still
occupied by Southern9s coach. So
Sanders left and returned to cam-
pus.
<It is what it is,= he told players
in an address later posted to Sand-
ers9s Instagram. <In coaching, you
either get elevated or you get ter-
minated. Ain9t no other way.=
Hours later, he posted again:
this time aboard a Colorado boost-
er9s private jet. He was clad in
black and gold, surrounded by
former JSU coaches and Shedeur
Sanders. They were among those
who would join Sanders at Colora-
do, along with Hunter and six
other ex-Tigers. Six of his 10 assis-
tant coaches were with him at JSU,
as were several members of the
school9s training and support staff.
Even Christopher <Uncle Nee-
ly= Neely, a JSU graduate who
hosted the popular <Thee Pre-
game Show,= relocated to Boulder.
This was strike two, fans say. It was
understandable for Sanders to
take another job. But to plunder
the football program? To bring on
Neely, who hasn9t dropped <Thee=
from his show9s name? To contin-
ue, months later, trying to raid the
best of Jackson? Even Tierre, the
local chef, says Sanders keeps try-
ing to get him to move to Boulder,
amid Sanders9s promises to take
the Johnny T9s spice blend nation-
al.
<You can9t steal their culture,
even if you9re one of them,= the
former JSU employee says. <It9s
everything Deion was preaching
against.=
Phillips walks through a gate
and stands on the JSU practice
field. fans have their memories;
the athletic department has the
trophies; the school can still capi-
talize on Sanders9s tenure. re-
cruiting, Phillips says, remains at
an all-time high under new coach
T.C. Taylor. The JSU brand re-
mains strong.
But the practice field needs new
lights. The athletic department
needs a new weight room. The city
still needs a new stadium. Stu-
dents also need access to some of
the most basic resources, includ-
ing clean water. Since 2020, the
city has endured a water crisis, in
part because of the crumbling of
its century-old pipes.
<Just winning games isn9t
enough to erase the disparity, the
racial disparity. Two years isn9t
enough to undo that,= the booster
says. <We need a lot of things, but
those things didn9t happen. And
for a guy who is larger than life like
Deion Sanders, that9s what I ex-
pected. I guess I expected larger
results.=
He pauses, ruminating.
<okay, we got on 860 minutes.9
okay, we got on 8College Game-
Day.9 You put a spotlight on it, but
that spotlight lasted two minutes.
We really needed an influx of
money, not just hope.=
S
anders pushes through the
doors of the recruiting
lounge, into a hallway. Play-
ers and coaches are waiting, and a
man points his phone to resume
recording this experiment and its
architect.
<Experiment?= Sanders scoffs
after a reporter uses the word.
<This ain9t no experiment. You
better check your definition.=
His tone has changed from just
moments earlier, Deion having
given way to Coach Prime. What-
ever this is, will it work? Can
Sanders revolutionize college foot-
ball for the second time? or will he
bail once his sons exhaust their
eligibility or if the florida State job
opens or if building a winner in
the Pac-12 (or the Big 12, which has
reportedly been courting Colora-
do) is too steep a mountain?
Still months before the Buffa-
loes take their first snap under
Sanders, Colorado administrators
are thinking of life beyond Coach
Prime, if not outright planning for
it. The school is acutely aware it
needed the Sanders defibrillator
to shock its brand back to life. But
once it9s detached, whether in
three years or 20, can it keep
pumping?
<That9s why it9s important for us
as an athletic department to not
lose our brand within his,= Wil-
liams says. <Now we9ve resuscitat-
ed fan engagement. How do we
keep these folks engaged and not
just be CU fans because of who the
coach is?=
While Colorado figures it out,
Sanders has captivated another
audience: fans, rival coaches, oth-
er institutions. The story is juicy,
impossible to ignore, the sport9s
newest must-see reality show.
<Hey, Coach,= Sanders calls
toward an assistant as he hobbles
toward an afternoon meeting. <Is
this an experiment we9re doing
around here?=
<Nope,= the staffer says.
Sanders shakes his head.
<Experiment,= he says, chuck-
ling. <This is an opportunity, man.=
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Glad their coach will be back, U.S. men eye a trophy SoCCer roUNdUp

BY S TEVEN G OFF
LAS VEGAS 4 There is much
swirling around the U.S. men9s
national soccer team these days.
The old coach soon will be-
come the new coach, replacing
the second interim coach.
One set of players is here
through the weekend, staying
two blocks off the Strip, where
Saturday the Golden Knights9
Stanley Cup parade rolled. An-
other group is preparing to open
camp Tuesday in Chicago for a
separate competition.
A collector offered the U.S.
Soccer Federation $10,000 for
Weston McKennie9s torn jersey 4
tattered memorabilia embody-
ing the hostility of Thursday9s
rumble with Mexico. (He9s keep-
ing it.) Bruises and hard feelings
remained fresh as the squad
returned to training in the desert
heat Saturday morning.
Amid the chaos, the focus has
remained steady: retaining the
Concacaf Nations League trophy
and claiming regional bragging
rights 4 until, at least, the next
Concacaf drill, the Gold Cup,
unfolds in the coming weeks.
On Sunday night, under the
roof of Allegiant Stadium, the
reigning champions will face ti-
tle-famished Canada in the final.
The United States won the
inaugural Nations League in
2021 and has captured six of the
past 11 Gold Cup titles. Canada
has not appeared in a regional
championship game since it won
the Gold Cup in 2000.
<We want to win the trophy.
We want to lift it,= U.S. forward
Ricardo Pepi said. <So it9s impor-
tant we go in with the same
intensity and the same hunger
that we went in versus Mexico.=
Canada is attempting to re-
main atop Concacaf after finish-
ing first in the World Cup qualifi-
ers en route to its first appear-
ance at soccer9s global spectacle
in 36 years. In the teams9 two
meetings during the last round
of qualifying, the Canadians won
at home in Hamilton, Ontario,
and drew in Nashville.
<We9re the two premier teams
right now,= Canadian defender
Alistair Johnston said. <Mexico is
obviously a great team, but the
U.S. showed they9re a class above
right now. And now it9s our turn
to show we belong at this level as
well.=
Haaland returns, scores
but can9t rescue Norway
from Romelu Lukaku after a de-
ScotlaNd 2, flected shot from Michael Grego-
Norway 1 ritsch gave the Austrians the lead.
Austria remained on top in the
group, three points ahead of Bel-
A SSOCIATED P RESS gium, which has played one fewer
game. Host Azerbaijan drew with
Erling Haaland scored in his Estonia, 1-1, to leave the two teams
return to Norway, but after he was in a tie for fourth. . . .
pulled Saturday, Scotland rallied Vaclav Cerny scored twice in the
for a 2-1 win to keep a perfect Czech Republic9s 3-0 victory at the
record in qualifying for next year9s Faroe Islands to stretch its lead
European Championship. atop Group E to four points.
With the thrilling victory at Albania leaped from the bottom
Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo, Scotland of the group to third with a 2-0 win
is the Group A leader with aims of over visiting Moldova and was lev-
qualifying for back-to-back Euro- el on points with second-place Po-
pean Championships for the first land, which didn9t play. . . .
time since 1996. Second-place Hungary had a
Haaland opened the scoring chance to take the lead in Group G
from the penalty spot in the but fell short in a 0-0 draw at
61st minute. The 22-year-old was Montenegro.
brought down by defender Ryan Host Lithuania held on for a 1-1
LouIS grASSe/geTTy ImAgeS Porteous as they vied to meet an draw with Bulgaria despite having
Weston McKennie won9t play against Canada on Sunday after he received a red card Thursday night. incoming cross from Alexander been reduced to 10 men on a
Sorloth. Haaland hit the resulting 17th-minute red card.
For the U.S. program, the final Robinson said. <He took the Weah said. All three World Cup penalty hard into the bottom left l MLS: Gustavo Bou and Carles
will fall three days after a 3-0 whole team in a really positive host countries receive automatic corner for his first goal in six Gil both had a goal and an assist to
rout of rival Mexico; two days direction and made a really good berths, and without the need to games for club and country since lead New England to a 3-1 victory
after Gregg Berhalter was reap- culture within the group that we qualify, tournaments such as his 35th English Premier League over Orlando City on a rainy night
pointed its coach (effective after all really enjoyed.= these will provide critical oppor- goal against Everton on May 14. in Foxborough, Mass., extending
the Gold Cup); and a day after Only four players were made tunities for growth. Norway Coach Stale Solbakken the Revolution9s unbeaten streak
the players, who are still taking available for interviews Satur- On Sunday, the U.S. team will took off Haaland in the 84th, and at home to nine.
instruction from interim boss day. Attacker Gio Reyna wasn9t be without two starters: McKen- Scotland scored three minutes lat- Neither team scored until Em-
B.J. Callaghan, began answering among them. A lack of playing nie, a midfielder, and right back er. Norwegian defender Leo Skiri manuel Boateng found the net in
questions about Berhalter9s re- time at the World Cup sparked a Sergiño Dest will serve suspen- Ostigard tried to intercept a Scot- the 51st minute. . . .
turn. rift between his parents and sions for red cards received dur- tish pass, but his touch was heavy, Hany Mukhtar recorded a hat
Winger Tim Weah called Berhalter, led to the domestic ing the second-half mayhem and Lyndon Dykes hit the loose trick, and host Nashville SC beat
Berhalter a <father figure= and an violence investigation and put with Mexico. (For its third-place ball past goalkeeper Orjan Ny- St. Louis City, 3-1, upping its un-
<amazing coach.= Weah added, the coach9s candidacy on hold. match against Panama earlier land. Two minutes after that, Scot- beaten run to a club-record
<He is definitely the piece that Those who did speak Saturday Sunday, Mexico also will be down land took the lead when Dykes 10 matches. . . .
puts all this together.= endorsed the USSF9s decision. So two players.) passed to substitute Kenny Gabriel Segal had the equalizer
Berhalter9s contract expired did star forward Christian Pulis- Their absences compound the McLean, who scored his first Scot- in stoppage time, lifting NYCFC to
shortly after the World Cup; after ic on Thursday before the hiring challenge of slowing Canadian land goal since 2019. a 1-1 home draw against the Co-
an investigation of a domestic became official. stars Jonathan David and Al- The defeat dealt a heavy blow to lumbus Crew. . . .
violence incident 30 years ago <It was the right decision,= phonso Davies. How will the U.S. Norway9s chances of qualifying af- Carlos Vela scored in the final
and the hiring of a new sporting center back Chris Richards said. team stop them? <We have our ter the team stumbled when Haa- minute of regulation to give Los
director, the U.S. Soccer Federa- Pepi had a bone to pick with ways,= Weah said with a grin. land was injured. Angeles FC a 2-1 win over Sporting
tion rehired him. Berhalter last fall when he was The Americans and Canadians Georgia won, 2-1, at Cyprus to Kansas City in Kansas City, Kan.,
He appeared at a news confer- left off the World Cup roster. (He have never met in a champion- pull into second place in Group A snapping the club9s six-match win-
ence Friday at the team hotel and hung up on the coach when he ship game. Their rivalry is not as with four points. . . . less streak in all competitions.
left town shortly afterward. In received the fateful call.) On deep-rooted and ferocious as the Portugal has three wins in three l NWSL: Kerolin Nicoli9s goal
collaboration with sporting di- Saturday, Pepi said: <Anything U.S.-Mexico series, but familiari- games in Group J after Bruno Fer- in the 32nd minute was all the
rector Matt Crocker, Berhalter that happened, it9s in the past. ty between the players 4 Weah nandes set up Bernardo Silva for North Carolina Courage needed in
will begin charting a course Now we have new opportuni- and David are teammates at the first goal, then scored twice a 3-0 win over the Orlando Pride in
toward the 2026 World Cup, ties.= French club Lille 4 and the rise himself in a 3-0 victory over visit- Cary, N.C.
which will be held in the United Everyone seems to agree the of the Canadian program have ing Bosnia-Herzegovina. With the victory, the Courage
States, Mexico and Canada. end of the search eliminated a added some bite. It was the 199th international moved into a four-way tie atop the
Berhalter9s first games in his distraction. <If you look at us over the last game for Cristiano Ronaldo, who league with the San Diego Wave,
second term will take place in <I9m happy that it kind of four years, we9ve already put can next aim to be the first man to OL Reign and Washington Spirit,
September. quieted down and we can focus messages out there that we9re 200 international appearances which has a game in hand. . . .
<I think Gregg is the right man on what our main goal is, [which here now and we9re here to stay,= when Portugal plays Iceland on Natalie Jacobs was shown a red
for the job,= left back Antonee is] to progress toward 2026,= Canadian midfielder Atiba Tuesday. card in first-half stoppage time,
Hutchinson said. <Qualifying for Slovakia was two points behind but the Houston Dash still held
a World Cup was huge for us, but in second place in Group J after a the visiting OL Reign to a 0-0
now it9s just missing trophies. We 2-1 win at Iceland, and Luxem- draw. . . .
want to start winning trophies.= bourg rose to third after a 2-0 Mary Vignola scored in the
home win over Liechtenstein. . . . 88th minute to give Angel City a
Concacaf Nations League, final: Belgium fought back to draw 2-1 win in San Diego, denying the
Canada at United States with visiting Austria, 1-1, in Wave a chance to take sole posses-
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Finding a solution but typically effective tactic that tion with Badawi and the league9s
real Salt lake 2,
to ED shouldn9t be so d.c. UNited 1
allows the goalkeeper to charge
out and shut down the opposing
attack. A week after Miller was
decision to appoint the official 4
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BY T HOMAS F LOYD
Outnumbered and down its de-
fensive anchor, D.C. United assert-
ed itself well following Steven
Birnbaum9s first-half red card
against Real Salt Lake on Saturday
night at Audi Field. As the home
team pushed players forward,
moved the ball crisply and eyed
the opposing goal, it didn9t seem
Experiencing ED can be dismayed by its disadvantage.
Then came one swing of Pablo
Ruiz9s left foot.
frustrating and confusing, Collecting the ball in his own
half in the 41st minute, the Salt
Lake midfielder looked up and
but it doesn9t have to be. detected United goalkeeper Tyler
Miller off his line. Dreaming up an
audacious effort, Ruiz launched a
shot from past midfield and
burned while failing to intercept a
pass on the opening goal of a 3-1
loss at Atlanta, the strategy again
backfired on Ruiz9s strike.
<It was just a good hit,= Miller
said. <This is what they9ve asked
me to play, and I9ve embraced it all
season, and now I9ve gotten [beat-
en over the top] once the entire
season in 19 games. These are ob-
viously the risks, but there9s been a
lot of opportunities that I9ve been
able to clear up for the team.=
The tally came 15 minutes after
Birnbaum was tossed. Musovski
chased down a promising through
ball, Birnbaum hauled the striker
to the turf, and referee Malik
Badawi showed the United captain
a red card for denying an obvious
scoring opportunity. Although Mil-
ler seemed close enough to the play
ship 4 on a weekend in which
MLS only scheduled six matches
because of conflicts with national
team games.
Although Rooney agreed with
Birnbaum9s red card, calling it a
<silly decision by Steve,= he object-
ed to the decision not to give Unit-
ed a penalty kick when Salt Lake9s
Brayan Vera took down D.C. sub-
stitute Kristian Fletcher in the
86th minute.
<The referee has made a mis-
take by not giving it, and VAR
have made a mistake by not tell-
ing him to check it,= Rooney said.
<I don9t understand . . . why we
got a USL referee. The guy has
refereed four games in MLS be-
fore. I don9t get it. Where9s the
MLS referees? Because that9s not
good enough. If this league wants

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said. <But I do believe that I would
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nity to score.=
Dájome and Hines-Ike their first
starts of the season as two of five
changes from the lineup that fell
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Musovski wasn9t done causing
problems for United. In the 51st
minute, he beat Brendan Hines-
Ike to the near post and stabbed
home Andrés Gómez9s low cross to
put Salt Lake up by two.
United responded two minutes
later, when Durkin rifled Ruan9s
setup past Salt Lake goalkeeper
Zac MacMath. D.C. defender Der-
rick Williams9s goal-line clearance
in the 58th minute further livened
the home crowd, and Lewis
O9Brien nearly sent Audi Field into
hysteria when his long-range stop-
page-time shot buzzed just wide.
<It9s always difficult going down
[to] 10 men,= Durkin said. <But we
worked our butts off to the last
whistle.=
Here9s what else to know about
United9s loss:
Rooney vents
They took the positions normally
filled by Taxi Fountas, who was
summoned to play for Greece in
European Championship qualify-
ing, and Victor Pálsson, a call-up
to Iceland.
Dájome joined United in an
April trade from the Vancouver
Whitecaps, and Hines-Ike had
logged just one minute in MLS
play since he underwent foot sur-
gery in August.
Midfielder Russell Canouse re-
turned to the lineup for the first
time since he suffered a head inju-
ry in a loss at Toronto on May 27.
He missed several minutes in the
first half with a gash on his face,
then returned after receiving side-
line treatment before coming off
as Rooney changed United9s for-
mation at halftime.

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he scent of sarah excited at that opportunity, that they might be
McLachlan. The idea emerges
early in the first pitch between
Primary Wave, the music pub-
lishing and talent manage-
ment company, and the Cana-
The megadeals able to reengage with some audiences and
reimagine some of my music in a way that I may
not be yet aware of.=
This first brainstorm session took place this
spring, just weeks after Primary Wave, founded
dian pop star, who has sold
more than 40 million albums,
won three Grammys and founded the all-fe-
male Lilith Fair music festival.
There was a time when McLachlan, like so
taking over music by former Arista Records executive Larry Mes-
tel and fresh off a $2 billion infusion from
Brookfield Asset Management, struck a deal to
buy a share of McLachlan9s songs. McLachlan
tuned in from her home in Vancouver, B.C., as
many artists of her stature, wouldn9t have talk turned to obvious hooks for creating new
considered selling even a single chorus to a
private company as a manageable asset. But at
Big-money battles seek back catalogues buzz 4 a Lilith doc in the works, the upcoming
30th anniversary of her career-making <Fum-
55 and nearly a decade past her most recent
album of original songs, McLachlan has been
for songs by Dylan, Bieber and beyond bling Into Ecstasy= 4 and the not so obvious.
Had she considered appearing on <CMT Cross-
frustrated by how her back catalogue has been roads= in Nashville? Did she have song <stems=
managed 4 or in her view, ignored 4 by sony that could be shared with other artists for
Music Publishing. STORY BY G EOFF E DGERS samples? And then there was Eau de sarah.
<They9re banks,= she says of the major pub- That came from chief branding officer Jeff
lishers. <They just hold the material. They don9t ILLUSTRATION BY MARK HARRIS straughn.
actually do anything, as far as I can tell. so I9m FOR THE WASHINGTON POST sEE music publishing oN E14

critic9S notEbook

Masterful artists
knew the messiness
of fatherhood
BY S EBASTIAN S MEE

In his final weeks of high school, my son

began reading saul Bellow9s <The Adventures
of Augie March= for a school assignment. one
night last week he looked up and said, <Dad,
listen to this.=
Then, as if our roles set long ago were
reversed and I had to adjust to a new reality 4
that he would deliver the bedtime stories to
me 4 he began reading:
<I was no child now, neither in age nor in
protectedness, and I was thrown for fair on the
free spinning of the world. If you think, and
some do, that continual intimacy, familiarity,
inSidE and love can result in falsehood, this being
thrown on the world may be a very desirable
even if sad thing. What Christ meant when he
Ranking the best actors called his mother 8Woman.9 That after all she
was like any woman. That in any true life you
in superhero roles E7 must go and be exposed outside the small
circle that encompasses two or three heads in WALLACE COLLECTIOn, LOndOn/BRIdGEMAn IMAGES
MUSic: Using a violin for peace-building E6 sEE fathErs and sons oN E16 rembrandt captured his teenage son in <titus, the artist9s son.=
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in Th e G al l e r ie s

Atypical
approaches, N
ever one to take things lying down,
Joan Konkel has long made
multilevel paintings, often overlaid
with layers of wire mesh that

dynamic
produce shifting patterns and
illusory light effects. Much of her recent work
is more emphatically three-dimensional,
giving it a kinship with the prints of Gail
Shaw-Clemons, some of which pirouette

images
gracefully off the wall. Painter Kelly Posey
also adds another dimension to her work,
although just visually: The depths hidden in
her actually flat paintings can be fully
perceived only through 3D glasses.
Konkel is known for topping her
abstractions with mesh, often folded or
Dazzling exhibits include overlays crumpled, and sometimes with daubs of
of mesh, rainbow rolls and trippy paint atop the netting. There are examples of
that approach in <Dimensional Dialogue,= her
works that pop through 3D glasses Zenith Gallery show. Also included are
entirely sculptural works, whether free-
standing or wall-mounted. Where the local
BY M ARK J ENKINS artist9s paintings often incorporate metal, her
sculptures are sometimes made of pigmented
canvas, so they resemble pictures that have
been dissected and then reassembled in
unexpected configurations. Some of the
smaller ones dangle like curls of peel from a
fruit that9s been pared in a single continuous
motion.
<Totem en Noir= is a tower of stacked,
painted-canvas forms, each roughly square
but floppy rather than hard-edge. Another
standing piece, the blue-and-silver <Crystal
Sprout,= is a column draped loosely with
sheets of diaphanous metal screening held
together by a circular aluminum band near
the top; above this clasp, the mesh strands
appear to splash outward like jets from a
fountain. The result, as in most of the artist9s
creations, evokes uncertainty but also
possibility. Although they9re made of solid

<Coney Island,= by Gail

Shaw-Clemons in her
show <Over the Rainbow:
Color, Value and Form.=

John Woo

She had a loud, nonstop

crunching noise in her head&
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in Th e G al l e r ie s

From left, <Sunflower Confluence= by

Sharon Fishel in the three-artist show
<Sense of Place= and Joan Konkel9s <Mata
Hari= in her show <Dimensional Dialogue.=

stuff, Konkel9s artworks are hymns to ephemer-
ality and change.
Shaw-Clemons is an expert in rainbow rolls,
which in her case is not a kind of sushi. Also
known as a gradient roll, the color effect is
produced by placing daubs of differently hued
ink on a roller and blending the discrete colors
as they9re applied. The D.C. artist9s Pyramid
Atlantic Art Center show, <Over the Rainbow:
Color, Value and Form,= includes two-dimen-
sional examples of the technique. But Shaw-
Clemons moves beyond these smooth color
transitions to create pieces that roll into three-
dimensionality.
The printmaker applies bright inks cleanly
and evenly, sometimes contrasting vividly hued
circles and targets with the same shapes ren-
dered in blacks and grays. <The Promise= stacks
six monochromatic, haloed circles below seven
printed in bold oranges and complementary
blues. The crowning form protrudes above the
top of the paper, which is just one of the ways
Shaw-Clemons breaks free of the picture plane.
sharon Fishel
She also positions gradient-printed sheets of
paper, curled or twisted, atop lower sheets.
Color parries color as curves play against
flatness.
A few of the pieces are all the way off the wall,
displayed in vitrines. These include a multicol-
ored paper model of a sneaker (made in
collaboration with Andy Yoder) and <Coney
Island,= a pink horn flanked and encircled by
additional curved paper segments. Other piec-
es are in an in-between phase, partway betwixt
print and structure. Like the rainbow colors
that brighten them, Shaw-Clemons9s sculptural
prints are in a dynamic state of flux.
In a style as colorful as Shaw-Clemons9s,
Posey9s abstract paintings emulate organic
forms rather than geometric ones. The title of
her DC Arts Center Nano Gallery show, <Micro-
dose,= refers to a small quantity of a mind-alter-
ing drug, and thus to the trippy quality of the
undulating imagery. But <micro= also hints at
the individual size of the central pictures, a
series of 4-by-4-inch squares collectively
Joan konkel
dubbed <Psychedelic Petri Dish.= Their teeming
swirls and spirals suggest organisms visible
only via a microscope.
Instead, the paintings are meant to be
viewed through 3D glasses. Seen that way, the
pictures simulate multiple, overlapping levels
and boast colors so electric they appear to light
up. The local artist9s show overflows the narrow
confines of the Nano Gallery, and includes
larger pieces, some of them round. The bigger
pictures are vibrant, but their added size isn9t
necessary. Posey can conjure an entire cosmos
in a tiny, swarming square.
Joan Konkel: Dimensional Dialogue Through
June 24 at Zenith Gallery, 1429 iris st. nW.
Gail shaw-Clemons: Over the rainbow: Color,
Value and Form Through June 25 at Pyramid
atlantic art Center, 4318 Gallatin st., hyattsville.
Kelly Posey: Microdose Through June 25 at DC
arts Center, 2438 18th st. nW.
Sense of Place
At first glance, only one of the three local oil
painters in the current Fred Schnider Gallery
show seems to be covered by its title, <Sense of
Place.= David Sturtevant offers deadpan views
of what might be ungentrified pockets of
Arlington County. These pictures appear more
rooted in geographic space than the works of
Sharon Fishel, whose paintings of gardens are
more symbolic than literal, and Sean Dudley,
whose photorealist portraits are rendered on
eccentrically shaped wooden panels.
Yet all three contributors can be said to
depict subjective locales. Sturtevant9s gently
impressionist pictures are not of actual sites,
although the low-lying buildings and blacktop
expanses are generically recognizable. The
scenes are commonplace yet endowed with a
certain drama by the compositions, in which
one- and two-story buildings stretch all the way
across the canvas, drawing a firm line between
earth and grayish sky. The breach is almost
violent, although everything else in the paint-
ings is hushed and reassuringly ordinary.
Layered and patterned, Fishel9s colorful pic-
tures look a bit like prints, although they are
actually painted freehand. The artist combines
floral shapes with geometric ones, as well as
nature-derived ornamental motifs, in immer-
sive arrangements that fill the frame. In places,
paint seems to have been partly removed,
giving the surface a weathered look. Fishel
evokes fresh flowers and tattered wallpaper in
the same image-packed field.
Painting mostly faces, Dudley offers hints of
his subjects9 interior landscapes. His neoclassi-
cal style gets a twist from the pictures9 place-
ment on curved pieces of wood that occasional-
ly incorporate metal. One of the few rectangu-
lar works, <Final Girl,= pairs a painting of a
young woman on one side with sheets of
battered steel and copper on the other. The
places Dudley depicts can be as revealing as a
person9s eyes or as impenetrable as a metal slab.
sense of Place Through June 25 at Fred schnider
Gallery of art, 888 n. Quincy st., arlington.

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Beloved Frog and
Toad are introduced
to a new generation
BY O LIVIA M C C ORMACK
8O
nce upon a time,9
said Frog, 8there
were two good
friends, a frog and a
toad.9=
so says Frog in a story from
<Frog and Toad Are Friends,= the
first in the series of children9s
books that chronicles the domes-
tic misadventures of the irrepress-
ible Frog and the phlegmatic Toad.
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It turns out Frog is a natural story-
teller, much like series creator Ar-
nold Lobel, who went on to feature
the unlikely pair in three subse-
quent volumes.
The award-winning books,
aimed at beginning readers, were
written and illustrated by Lobel
between 1970 and 1979. They use
simple illustrations, pared-down
prose and dry humor to tell the
story of the friendship between
the seemingly mismatched duo:
ee the washington post . sunday, june 18 , 2023
television
TOP: Fifty-three years after its
debut on the printed page,
arnold Lobel9s beloved
amphibian duo is starring in an
animated series on apple TV
Plus. BELOW: Lobel sits in his
favorite chair in the early
1970s.
Frog is oscar to Toad9s Felix, ernie
to Toad9s Bert. But through mis-
haps and misunderstandings,
their friendship endures.
now, 53 years after their debut
on the printed page, the duo is
appearing on the small screen in
<Frog and Toad,= an animated se-
ries that premiered in April on
Apple TV Plus. The series is execu-
tive-produced by Arnold Lobel9s
children, Adrianne and Adam Lo-
bel 4 the writer and illustrator
died in 1987 due to complications
from AIDs.
Adrianne and Adam recently
spoke with The Washington Post
about their father9s legacy, the
long-standing popularity of <Frog
and Toad= and why they decided
now was the right time to bring
the characters to television.
(This interview has been edited
for length and clarity.)
Q: How have the <Frog and Toad=
stories evolved for each of you
throughout your lives?
adrianne: Can I tell my frog
aPPLe TV PLus
and toad story, Adam?
adam: I don9t know which one
this is.
adrianne: The one about me
bringing a toad into the house?
adam: so you were the spark
that created it all?
adrianne: Well, there9s a theo-
ry. When we were kids, our par-
ents used to pile us into the car
every summer and go up to Ver-
mont to a house on a lake. I loved
toads and I would collect them.
one day I brought a toad in from
the woods. And my father looked
at the toad in my hand and said,
<oh, what a nice frog you have
there.= And I got really irritated
because I hated that people would
get toads and frogs mixed up. I
said, <This is not a frog, this is a
toad and these are the differenc-
es.= And he said, <oh, okay.= Then
about six months later, he wrote
the first <Frog and Toad= book. so
I9ve always thought I might have
see FrOg and TOad on E5
adam LobeL
FIND
the RIGHT
COMMUNITY
for Your
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MOVE
Or scan
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TOP: Toad, right, voiced by down instantly and said. <Yes.= He

Kevin Michael Richardson, and recited from beginning to end, in
Frog, voiced by Nat Faxon, in verse, a story he had just written
<Frog and Toad.= BELOW: The in his head called <Martha the
apple TV Plus series is based on Movie Mouse,= which is one of my
the award-winning children9s favorite books of his. & It was all
books by arnold Lobel. in rhyme, and he just made it up
in his head.

Q: What about you, Adam? Is

there anything you would like to
FROg aNd TOad FroM E4 share?
adam: There was lots of nice,
sparked the idea to begin with. antique furniture in our living
room. But, then there was this
Q: What about you Adam? sort of ratty, more modern, almost
adam: I was not in the right like rocking [chair]. It was this
demographic when the first one ugly chair 4 looked completely
came out, I was 10 or 11. I liked my out of place. It was his writing
father9s books and he would read chair and he would sit in there
them to us and bounce them off [with] his little copy of Strunk
us. But it was just his job, really & and White9s <The Elements of
When my friends started having Style,= which he carried around
kids and then when I had my own with him like the Bible.
kids, I really realized how great adrianne: And also the
they were. I9d have friends say to thesaurus for when he was doing
me, <Thank God for your father verses. He was a very good actor,
because I have to read the same actually. He read books not only
goddamn book to my kids six his own, but he also read other
times a night. They just want the people9s books. So you9d hear him
same book over and over and over in the afternoon reading very
again. And most of the stuff expressively from the living room,
makes my teeth want to rot. And because he knew that9s how the
your father9s books are great.= I stories would be experienced, for
had the same experience with my the most part.
own kids. adam: He sang, too.
adrianne: He used to do the
Q: Why do you think your father9s stories and these characters and dishes and sing Barbra Streisand
stories have continued to appeal turn it into a giant epic songs.
to audiences decades after they adventure.
were released? adam: Although that took a Q: Is there anything in the series
adrianne: He just hit a chord little while to come around to. I that you9re particularly excited
that resonates with both adults think originally we did want a about sharing with audiences?
and children. They9re like a really feature. Thinking that was sort of, adam: We9re often asked <I9d
good song from the [Great] you know, a more spectacular, like to buy a full-color 8Frog and
American Songbook. We still sing splashy thing. & It just didn9t Toad9 illustration.= They don9t
Gershwin and Irving Berlin, and translate, to write a 90-minute [exist], there is no full color. They
they9re kind of like that. script there has to be volcanoes were done with color separations.
adam: He chose his words very and disasters and flying squirrels. The finished artwork for <Frog
carefully. Writing was an effort It just didn9t work. It wasn9t what and Toad= doesn9t exist except in
[for] him. Illustrating was easy <Frog and Toad= was. the final printing process because
and writing was the hard work. they were plates. & So this is
There was there9s no fluff there, Q: Your father9s stories have really the first instance of <Frog
there9s no wasted anything. created so many cherished and Toad= in color.
memories for families, do you
Q: What drew you to this project have any stories about him that Q: Is there anything we didn9t
and why do you think that it9s you9d like to share? touch on today that you think
important to tell these stories in adrianne: I remember a car would like to tell Frog and Toad
this format now? trip we were taking and [Adam readers?
adrianne: A lot of people have and I] were back seat having a adrianne: I still get fan mail
approached us over the years, and squabble. I was probably sticking from kids who don9t know that
we had one experience with a gum in his hair or something. my father is gone. I just got one
company that was trying to do a And my father, who had been very the other day. It was so sweet and
feature film, and it really wasn9t a quiet for a couple of hours, said, so many people have learned how
happy experience. We realized <Would you like to hear a story?= to read from those books. It9s very
that you can9t take these little APPle tV Plus Photos And of course, we both settled touching.
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ariela Shaker refuses
to let her home fall
out of earshot.
The 33-year-old vi-
olinist from Aleppo,
now a U.S. citizen based in Lon-
don, has made an arduous journey
since 2011, when a violent govern-
ment crackdown set Syria on the
path toward chaos. She is one of
the 6.8 million refugees who have
fled Syria since its descent into
civil war 4 another 6.9 million
remain displaced within Syrian
borders. It9s the world9s largest
refugee crisis; vast enough that it
seems to have evaded our individ-
ual attention.
Meanwhile, the burden grows
heavier: More than two-thirds of
Syria9s population were already in
desperate need of humanitarian
assistance when February9s wave
of devastating earthquakes
claimed more than 46,000 lives
across southern Turkey and north-
western Syria. Since then, refu-
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Lebanon back to Syria.
As the crisis enters its 13th year,
it continues to devastate Shaker,
who remains uncertain if she9ll
ever return to the place that
shaped her as an artist.
In 2008 at age 18, Shaker was
chosen to be the youngest violin
teacher at the Arabic Institute of
Music, a full-time job that she bal-
anced with her other full-time role
as a business administration stu-
dent at the University of Aleppo.
She recalls commuting to teach
her students as bombs destroyed
the city around her 4 the world as
she knew it crumbling and on fire.
Shaker sought asylum in the
United States after surviving the
2013 attacks at the University of
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Violinist Mariela Shaker
fled the Syrian civil war
several years ago. On June
23, she will perform a
World Refugee Day concert
with pianist Riyad Nicolas
at the Kennedy Center.
during a 17-hour bus ride stalled by
bombings and checkpoints where
her violin case received the scruti-
ny of Syrian soldiers. Once free,
Shaker secured a student visa and
earned consecutive scholarships
that allowed her to pursue music
in the United States, first at Mon-
mouth in Illinois, then at DePaul
in Chicago, where she studied
with violinist Olga Kaler.
Since then she has turned to
performing and speaking, using
music to amplify her message
about the plight of Syrians, the
displacement of its people, the
struggle to stay seen and heard. In
2015, President Barack Obama
honored Shaker9s work at the
White House and named her a
Champion of Change for World
Refugees. <It9s about all the girls
who are in my situation,= she tells
me, <who are also fighting every
day to have their voices heard, to
have their dreams and future
back.=
As part of World Refugee Day
(June 20), Shaker returns to Wash-
ington on June 23 for a recital on
the Kennedy Center9s Millennium
Stage in support of UNHCR, the
U.N. Refugee Agency. Shaker will
be accompanied by pianist (and
husband) Riyad Nicolas, who
grew up on the same street as
Shaker in Aleppo.
<Music is everything to me,=
Shaker tells me from her home in
London, where she is founder and
director of Highams Park Music
Academy. <It was a bridge that
saved my life. It connected me to
communities. It9s opened doors
for my future and gave me a voice
to be able to use my instrument as
a tool for peace-building. I can9t
live or travel anywhere if I don9t
have my violin with me.=
This interview has been con-
densed and edited for clarity.
Q: What was the place of Western
classical music when you were
growing up in Aleppo?
A: My mother wanted my brother
and I to explore different
activities, and music was one of
them. Somehow I felt so
connected to the music. When I
got the violin, it felt like
something really precious that I
needed to take care of. I started to
figure it out on my own, before
going to my first lesson, how to
MattHew Holst
sound the theme from the <Ode to
Joy.= I was always getting ahead of
Syrian refugee
myself, demanding my teacher 4
How do I do this? How do I do
that? I started accompanying him
at his performances. He was
aims to express Armenian and exposed me to all
kinds of Armenian music. Now,
with everything happening in
Syria after the war, I connect so
empathy through much to it.
Q: What was the change like,
living in America as a student
her violin artistry while the nightmare unfolded at
home?
A: Dramatic. Monmouth was very
cold, everyone had a car. I did not.
I was barely able to manage. If I
worked hard, I would treat myself
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to go see their parents, their
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summer break, Christmas break,
Easter break. I didn9t have anyone
to go to except my violin. I spent
long hours up past midnight in
my practice room every single
day. English was hard for me,
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writing 5,000-word essays. I9d
never done that. I felt like I was
drowning, sleeping only three or
four hours a day.
Q: How did you make the turn
from performance to advocacy for
refugees?
A: I never thought about it at all,
actually. When I first arrived in
Monmouth, all I wanted was to
practice my violin, playing and
keep a low profile. I was scared 4
my parents were in Syria and I
was scared for their lives for a lot
of things. So I was always locked
away in the practice room.
One day a journalist came from
the Chronicle of Higher
Education and insisted on having
an interview because I was the
only music student at the school.
After that, a lot of other
journalists approached me, a lot
of organizations in the U.S.
reached out for performances.
Everyone at Monmouth knew me
as the shy person, always
awkward, always in the practice
room, and suddenly being out on
the stage, speaking in English 4 it
was a turning point for me.
Since then, I9ve dedicated
myself to the message and the
music because I know how
difficult it is to be a refugee, to be
very far from your own home and,
so many times, not be able to see
your friends or relatives again.
Q: Can you tell me about the
program that you9ll play at the
Kennedy Center?
A: Sure, I9m starting with
Mozart9s Sonata in E Minor for
violin and piano. I9m playing a
piece by [Fritz] Kreisler, the
<Praeludium and Allegro in the
Style of Pugnani.= I9m playing a
piece about the Armenian
genocide called <Krunk= or <The
Crane= by [Armenian priest and
composer Komitas]. Riyad, my
husband, will play Liszt9s
Hungarian Dance No. 2. We9ll
close the program with <Sea
Waves,= a very famous Middle
East piece arranged for violin and
piano by MAias Alyamani.
Q: Do you find that Americans
know what9s going on in Syria? Or
do you feel like you9re
reintroducing them to it every
time you perform?
A: We can be ignorant about
many things in life because
everyone is busy. At the end of the
day, life, even in the U.S., is not so
easy 4 everyone has to work so
hard to make their living.
Music has a way to speak to
your heart before it speaks to your
brain, it can make you feel the
suffering of these people. We hear
on the news numbers, that
thousands of people died here, or
a thousand people are now
refugees there. Music can help
humanize these numbers 4 it
tells everyone that we are not just
numbers. Each one of us has a
story to tell.
Q: That tendency to hear things
in the abstract is something we do
to music, too. So much of the
classical music we enjoy the most
comes from histories of war and
struggle and difficulty 4 but we
tend to hear it as entertainment.
A: Even sometimes for
professional musicians who are at
the top of the game, they9re often
not thinking about the story
behind this music 4 they think
about fingerings, technique,
perfection. But they forget the
simplest message of music:
humanity.
Mariela Shaker and Riyad Nicolas
June 23 at 6 p.m. at the Kennedy
Center Millennium stage. kennedy
-center.org.
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No one ever said being a superhero was easy. ¶ You have to please a fan base oozing with comic book knowledge
and movie critics likely to be looking down on you for taking the role. Only the elite few can do both. ¶ There are
the classics. Men who can fly and billionaires dressed as bats. And then there9s the modern everlasting
interconnectivity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and DC Studios9 ongoing quest to reclaim its former glory, which
have given us a vigilante, a goddess, a billionaire genius and a king. ¶ Our list of the top superhero performances features
exactly that, superheroes. The villains and civilians will have to wait their turn 4 otherwise, yes, J.K. Simmons and Heath
Ledger would absolutely be on here. There aren9t many women, since so few got opportunities until Wonder Woman,
Captain Marvel and Black Widow. Hollywood hasn9t done much better with other marginalized groups, but that9s also
changing with the Spider-Verse movies, and Blue Beetle on the way. ¶ Some critics may think superhero movies are only
about the special effects and interconnected storylines, but the magic still very much remains in watching a character shift
from a comic book panel to the screen. ¶ Here are the best superhero performances of all time, ranked.

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Wesley Snipes as Blade
Back in the 990s, a comic book movie was rarely made unless it
had Batman in it. The lack of mainstream familiarity with Blade
allowed snipes to decide what he wanted to bring to the character
and helped show Marvel it could make movies that matter and
that those movies didn9t have to be PG-13. snipes was an R-rated
Marvel superhero before Deadpool was a thing, just with fewer
laughs and more gore. He played Blade as burdened by both his
humanity and his bloodlust 4 a reluctant killer, hunting the very
thing he was, a vampire, with only a shred of empathy from the
human mother who gave birth to him. snipes9s action-movie
background made him a natural for wielding swords on the hunt,
while his black shades hid demonic eyes that hinted at his
human-vampire hybrid existence.
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Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman
There9s no reason a superhero television show from the 1970s
with the special effects budget of a bag of gummy worms should
make it on this list unless you9re talking about perhaps the most
perfect superhero casting of all time. sometimes you can get the
vibe of this person doesn9t look enough like the hero from the
comics. In the case of Carter, the comics didn9t look enough like
her. In her civilian guise, Carter did an admirable if not totally
believable job of blending in with the crowd. And as a superhero,
she beamed with regality, knowing that all eyes would be on her.
she made those bullet-deflecting bracelets and lasso of truth look
realistic without the help of 21st century CGI, and her Diana
Prince-to-Wonder Woman twirl 4 the removal of glasses, and one
mean hair-whip from ponytail to free-flowing locks 4 remains
iconic to this day.
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Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool
The greatest cinematic superhero of all time will always be
debatable. The funniest cinematic superhero of all time will
always be Deadpool. When 20th Century Fox9s X-Men movies
began losing their appeal because they weren9t a part of the Marvel
Cinematic Universe, Reynolds was able to make them worthwhile
again with his raunchy and violent R-rated franchise. Reynolds9s
comic-book-accurate suit, swords and goofiness screamed <this
guy actually reads the comics.= His Deadpool matters enough that
the first order of X-Men business after the Disney/Fox merger was
making sure Deadpool made it to the MCU in the upcoming
<Deadpool 3.=
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Regina King as Sister Night
King was at the center of HBO9s <Watchmen,= perhaps
the greatest Black superhero story ever produced, in her
role as the cop/vigilante in post-reparations Oklahoma.
Her character was fearless 4 white supremacy9s worst
nightmare 4 before her emotional unraveling and then
conquering of her newly found generational trauma. King
didn9t read a single <Watchmen= comic to prepare so as not
to lean on any influences and bring something wholly her
own. Her performance in a role that wasn9t in the graphic
novel series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons proved that
there is storytelling power in creating new original Black
superheroes for the screen.

8
Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury
The connectivity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe did
not officially begin until Jackson appeared as Fury in its
iconic first post-credits scene at the end of 20089s <Iron
Man,= the ultimate comic book Easter egg. He seemed to
literally jump out of the pages of a comic book given that
his likeness was the inspiration for Fury in Marvel Comics
<Ultimate= line back in 2001. He9s been MCU glue, serving
as the big boss of the Avengers and always coming off as the
authority figure no matter which hero or villain was
sharing the screen. Famously known for some of the best
screaming in show business, Jackson brought more of an
intense calm to Fury, always being the voice of reason
despite knowing just how much danger the universe is in.
He played a strong supporting role in arguably the MCU9s
best film, <Captain America: The Winter Soldier,= and
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finally gets to shine solo in the upcoming <Secret Invasion=
on Disney Plus.

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Hugh Jackman as Wolverine

Jackman was the big bang of the modern superhero
movie movement in Hollywood when he debuted as one of
the most popular comic book characters ever in 20009s
<X-Men.= Then an unknown actor, Jackman at first glance
was too tall and too handsome for the feral role. But he
made Wolverine and his adamantium claws a central
figure in an X-Men movie universe that lasted almost two
decades, until Fox9s merger with Disney put the mutants
under the purview of Marvel Studios. Just getting Wolver-
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Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man
Without Downey looking into the camera and telling the world <I am Iro
there is no Marvel Cinematic Universe. In 2008, he delivered a performance
ine9s hair right was an incredible achievement. Jackman satisfying to a general audience who didn9t know much about Iron Man an
played a loner who didn9t work well with anyone but book fans looking for perfection. Downey didn9t just look the part of M
transitioned into a team player, father figure (to Anna biggest playboy partyer/superhero, he felt the part too. Assured confidenc
Paquin9s Rogue) and, eventually, a leader. His crowning left Downey9s face, whether he was being kidnapped, on a date or ord
achievement was <Logan,= which gave him a chance to cheeseburger 4 it all felt authentic to who Tony Stark should have been on
wear the pain of being an indestructible man on his face. And don9t forget the genius part 4 Downey9s Stark always knew he was the s
For all the gritting, growling and claw-slashing he did over guy in the room and didn9t mind letting you know it, either. Rare is the su
the years to much fanboy acclaim, it was the unexpected on-screen who causes just as much commotion when not in their superhero
happiness in his eyes after finally meeting his end that may Downey was that guy. Add to his swagful repertoire one of the most memora
be his most memorable Wolverine moment. 20Th cEnTuRy Fox/EvERETT collEcTion shocking deaths in superhero movie history.
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Christopher Reeve as Superman
There have been many Supermen over the years, but
they9ll always be compared to the original cinematic Man
of Steel. It9s been almost half a century, and there has still
never been as charismatic and charming a superhero
on-screen as Reeve9s take on Kal-El of Krypton in the 1970s
and 980s. The s-curl. The confidence. The quick changes in
a phone booth. The suit, which is more Adam West than
Henry Cavill but somehow still looks good. Reeve did it all.
As utterly believable as he was as Superman, it seemed
unbelievable how transformative his Clark Kent was.
Reeve9s combed-over hair, big glasses, slouching and
high-pitched voice added up to a mild-mannered reporter

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so under-the-radar you9d never guess he was the greatest
Chris Evans as Captain America superhero ever.

Evans had to go up against his past when taking on this role. Let9s not forget, he
starred in not one but two <Fantastic Four= movies. As the hotheaded, cocky,
immature man-child that is Johnny Storm/The Human Torch, Evans embodied a
bro. But as Captain America he was all pro. Evans was so convincing as a skinny,
CGI-aided weakling Steve Rogers that when he transformed into a muscle machine
of a soldier, it was hard to believe that was actually his body on the screen. His
exhausted call of <Avengers assemble= in <Endgame9s= grand-finale fight against
Thanos just might be the most beloved moment in the history of Marvel Studios. If
Downey is the MCU9s spark, Evans is the heart.

5
Chadwick Boseman as Black Panther
Boseman was everything he needed to be and more in one of the most anticipated
superhero movies ever. <Black Panther= was a worldwide phenomenon, and
Boseman9s King T9Challa of Wakanda was the type of superhero Hollywood had
never seen before. Unconquerable. Inspiring. Unforgettable. Black cool personified
in superhero form. Boseman was a part of Marvel Studios9 strongest cast ever,
leading the way in delivering his lines with an African accent that beamed with
uncolonized pride. He also went up against one of the MCU9s all-time great villains,
Michael B. Jordan9s Killmonger, commanding just as much attention in any scene
they shared. When Marvel Studios was forced to move on with the franchise with
<Wakanda Forever= after Boseman9s shocking death, replacing him was never an
option. It spent the entirety of the sequel honoring Boseman instead.

4
Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man
Maguire was equal parts nerd and savior as high-schooler Peter Parker and
perhaps the most famous Marvel character of all. The sadness in his eyes screamed
<My parents are gone, my uncle is dead, and my aunt can9t pay the rent,= but when
the mask came on, it was all business. Maguire embodied the true essence of
Spider-Man: that a superhero so amazing could also be the kid next door. No
cinematic universes here. And no multiverses. Just one Spider-Man changing
Hollywood forever.

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Michael Keaton as Batman
Name a superhero with a better silhouette. Or a better
car for that matter. You can9t. When Keaton9s Dark Knight
first appeared in 19899s <Batman,= all you could see was
pointy-eared winged darkness descending from the air on
unsuspecting criminals. What followed is still the gold
standard of how to be a superhero in Hollywood. Under
the cape and cowl, with those forever frustrated eye-
brows, Keaton9s millionaire Bruce Wayne was less smooth
playboy and more intentionally awkward to mask his true
on Man,= self, coming off as exactly the kind of recluse you9d expect
e equally to have inherited a fortune from his dead parents. There9s
nd comic never a point as Bruce Wayne that he looks happy 4 he9s
Marvel9s so hurt by the pain that made him a vigilante he can9t even
ce never fake it when he9s not Batman. Keaton spent most of this
dering a movie in his muscular bat-suit (actors didn9t have to hit
n-screen. the gym back then) being intimidatingly silent. But when
smartest he did speak, his bat-whisper might as well have been a
uperhero bullhorn. Also, if they bring you back more than 30 thirty
suit, but ears later to put a bat-suit on you again 4 in this
able and weekend9s <The Flash= 4 you must have done a really
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New parent is sad that
mom isn9t here and mad
that dad9s girlfriend is
Hi Carolyn: I lost
my mom to cancer
in 2019, a little
over a year after
being diagnosed
and going
Carolyn through chemo
Hax and radiation. She
was the most
amazing mother
and we were incredibly close.
I've since gotten married and
we have a baby (he looks so
much like my mom and this
makes me so happy). I have a
strained relationship with my
father, going on for years, and he
was still married to my mother at
the time of her death.
He has been looking to date
since maybe six months after my
mom died. He has been
oversharing his attempts to find
a girlfriend since the beginning,
and it9s been disturbing to hear.
Ever since he found this
girlfriend a couple of months
ago, my dad seems completely
uninterested in my son. He
doesn9t ask for photos, doesn9t
ask about milestones, doesn9t ask
how we9re all doing.
My spouse, son and I are going
back for about a week to the
state where I grew up, mostly to
celebrate my mom9s birthday in
her favorite place, go to the
cemetery, and visit some old
friends of mine. We9re going to
stay with my father for a couple
of nights so he can spend some
time with my son, and I know
he9s going to want to introduce
his girlfriend to him (and me).
I can9t stop getting upset and
resentful that my mom never got
to meet her grandson and that
his girlfriend will meet my son.
My mom would have been the
best grandma, and I9m just
devastated she never got to be
one. How do I approach this
situation when everything about
it upsets me?
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Upset: I9m going to give you my
bona fides before I give my
advice.
My first children were born
eight months after my mother
died. She was 61 and energetic,
so until she was diagnosed with
ALS, I had reasonably envisioned
her as a part of my life for a good
20 years more, or beyond. We
were <incredibly close.=
Shortly after her death, my
father 4 who loves my mother
achingly to this day 4 fell in love
again.
So please know this comes
from a place of sympathy: While
your devastation makes a lot of
sense to me, your cause-and-
effect trail does not.
It is no one9s fault that your
mother got cancer and died
before she could be a wonderful
grandmother to your child.
There is ample room for grief
and frustration and rage at the
universe for its arbitrary cruelty
4 I9m right there with you on
that one 4 but it is absolutely,
profoundly unfair to act out any
of these feelings with your father
or his girlfriend.
Especially the girlfriend. What
exactly has she done wrong,
besides exist?
It9s also unfair to your son to
introduce your emotional
obstacles into his relationship
with his grandfather and the
grandmother figure (I hope) the
girlfriend can be. Your dad might
not be the grampiest grampa out
there, but he9s what you9ve got, so
accept and work within his
limitations.
You9ll undermine yourself, too,
if you yield to your angriest
impulses here. Your mother9s
death is an argument for
nurturing your other family
relationships, not hacking them
out at the root.
As for your dad9s immersion
first in dating and now in his
new relationship, please
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consider an argument for
compassion, or at least patience
with him through this process.
that the proper target for your
blame, rage and despair is not
your dad, not even with all his
When one longtime spouse
begins dating shortly after the
other spouse dies, it9s common
complications 4 and it9s
certainly not your dad9s
girlfriend9s existence. It9s cancer.
for their children to see that as a
form of speaking ill of the dead
4 as if the deceased no longer
Cancer and the jerk universe that
decided she was the one who9d
get a cancer she couldn9t outlive.
matters to their living parent, Therefore, the most useful
and maybe never did. But it9s preparation for your upcoming
often the exact opposite: The trip is grief counseling. One-on-
widow(er)s from the happiest one, group, pastoral, whatever is
marriages often date quickly available soonest and feels right
because they so badly miss the to you. Contact local hospice
love and companionship that providers and cancer support
kept them warm for so long. networks for recommendations,
What comes across to you as an if needed. Caregivers in the end-
insult to your mother9s memory of-life business have seen a lot,
may be the highest possible and they can help to see you
compliment. through this. Your trauma was
Your <most amazing= mother, four years ago, but your child9s
after all, loved and chose and birth may have, understandably,
married and stayed with your renewed and deepened that loss.
dad. She had reasons, no?
So his grief could be driving Write to carolyn hax at
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Dear Amy: Until blaming it on the neighbors neighbor, whom you know works Zeppelin in the garage & you She interrupts conversation to answer.
Ask Amy recently, my across the street. (Not true.) from home. were! do this and then tells me what it
Amy neighbor <Ron= Then they tried to turn it Now, on to your neighbors. If you don9t receive an apology was about. (I don't care what it Dear Amy: Regarding <Grateful
Dickinson and I always got around, blaming my wife for They are demonstrating the very from your obnoxious neighbor was about.) Grandchild= asking for their
along very well. telling me about the FB post. My reason that I am no longer active and want to demonstrate a more I don't have my phone with inheritance from the
Ron works from wife eventually got a halfhearted on Facebook: I couldn9t handle sophisticated way of behaving, me all the time, and I certainly grandparents so they could
home, and I am retired. I enjoy apology, which she said should witnessing how poorly some you might close the circle if you don't interrupt a conversation to <enjoy= seeing the grandchild
working in my garage, house or be directed toward me. people I know personally (and acknowledge that you9re sorry check, unless it is a rare spend it, I think the
yard during the day, usually They said they would many people I don9t know) were this episode has created tension emergency. grandparents would be happier
between 11 and 5 p.m. apologize when they saw me. behaving toward one another. between you. You could add: <In If it wasn't for the phone if they saw a grandchild
While working in the garage, I The next day they <unfriended= Social media platforms like the future, I hope that we can problem, I would probably enjoy successfully provide for themself
will listen to music, and my wife on Facebook and haven't Facebook and NextDoor.com can restore our neighborly traveling with her again. and spend their own money.
sometimes it can be a little loud spoken to us since. become toxic cesspools where connection and talk things out Should I ask her to turn off My grandma would have
because of the tools I am using. Did we do something wrong? people rudely and provocatively personally and respectfully when her speaker and stop answering laughed me out of the house.
Recently Ron posted on We always try to be the best vent 4 drawing others into the there is a problem.= all texts and alerts while we 4 Also Grateful
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it interferes with his job. 4 Upset wouldn9t dream of saying out asked me to travel with her. We 4 Quiet Traveler <kids= say: <Yeah & NO.=
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Sparkling
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the menu
at Saga
BY T OM S IETSEMA

The menu at Saga tells you its patatas

bravas are <not traditional.= Still, it9s a
surprise when chef Enrique Limardo9s ver-
sion of Spain9s popular spicy potatoes shows
up as a thin golden disc hovering over a
brilliant romesco with sunny dots that
smack of fruit and fire. Patatas bravas are
typically cubed, fried potatoes draped with a
combination of olive oil, smoked paprika
and tomato paste. Saga9s spiral is many fine
rings, made with the help of a Japanese
mandoline; the creamy yellow accents turn
out to be a puree of tangerine peel and
habanero.
There9s a lot going on, but it9s all delicious
fun. My server smiles when he shares the
secret ingredient in the romesco: <Crushed
Doritos.= This chips fan laps it up.
Say hola to yet another draw from the
Seven Restaurant Group, a collection of
dining rooms that includes multiple branch-
es of the casual Immigrant Food, the upscale
Imperfecto, Joy by Seven Reasons in Chevy
Chase and the Latin American-inspired
Seven Reasons (poised to close on 14th
Street and reopen elsewhere in the District
this fall). Saga opened in May in the
Ritz-Carlton in the West End, the same
neighborhood as Imperfecto. Too close for
comfort, chef ? The Venezuela native says
he9s giving customers a different experience
at his latest project. Saga taps into his five
years in Spain, where he attended cooking
school in San Sebastian and went on to work
for some of the country9s greatest chefs, no
less than Ferran Adrià and the three Roca
brothers.
Your first taste of the hotel restaurant
should be refreshment from the bar, a chic
vision in white 4 stools, counter, barrel-
vaulted ceiling 4 and the source of such
imaginative combinations as the frothy Saga
cocktail, coaxed from gin, tea, plums, cinna-
mon, honey and egg whites. Like its siblings,
the restaurant offers a descriptive cocktail
menu illustrated with corresponding glass
shapes, a preview that might include a
profile from the bartender: <If a piña colada
had a baby with French toast,= one mixer
said.
The restaurant9s placement in a hotel
presents some challenges: Saga is open
three meals a day, seven days a week, and it
is also responsible for room service. The
dining room staff, smartly dressed in royal
purple jackets, never lets you see them
sweat, though. It helps that the opening
team, including chef de cuisine Mileyda
<Mile= Montezuma, was culled from Limar-
do9s other restaurants, whose service mem-
bers rival the polished pros found at every
Fabio Trabocchi establishment. Ask about
the pan con tomate, another staple of tapas
bars across Spain, and you9re informed that
five kinds of tomato are applied to the
house-baked sourdough, which you can
fact-check by tasting the upgraded classic.
The snack, garnished with a frizzy trail of
parsley, comes with a little atomizer filled
with tomato water, which a server directs us
to spray on the multihued garden. We laugh,
follow orders, and laugh again when I later
find the spritz in my coat pocket and
mistake it for a Tom Ford sample. (I spent
the rest of the day smelling like a Caprese
salad.)
Saga follows the Westend Bistro in this
space, retaining only the windows that wrap
around much of the dining room, pulling in
light by day and capturing a steady stream of PhOTOS by LAurA ChASe De fOrMigNy fOr The WAShiNgTON POST

passersby. The interior, from the same firm

that dressed the handsome Imperfecto, is
intentionally minimalist, a canvas for Li-
mardo9s beautiful creations. Voyeurs want a
table near the glass; privacy seekers should
ask for the curtain-shrouded banquettes
near the visible kitchen. Spanish guitar
music lets us imagine we9re in another world
capital: Madrid.
Diners could be forgiven for thinking
they9re in an art gallery when the octopus
carpaccio is dropped off, a fetching mosaic
strewn with edible flowers and bright lime
zest. The same is true of the plump pickled
mussels, carpeted with pickled carrot coins
and green mango, their tang contrasted with
saffron-bold mayonnaise. I get the sense
tweezers are involved in the making of a lot
of the food. I know a lot of flowers and herbs
are arranged just so here and there. Cured
tuna, ruddy as meat and salty as country
ham, is served in upright curls atop a creamy
whip of goat cheese and fava beans, plus
chickpeas (digging has its rewards), every-
thing encased in a delicate whole-wheat
shell. This is playful food. Saga is the first
restaurant to serve me potato chips with
octopus.
The Spanish accent is reinforced with
rice-based main courses. Saga showcases
short-grained bomba rice, prized for its
ability to absorb liquid without bursting.
The choices reflect different regions of
Spain, and I9m particularly enamored of the
crackling duck confit staged with tangy
tomatoes on a shallow bed of golden rice,
enriched with brown butter, that gets
scraped to the finish. I have yet to try a
skillet I wouldn9t race to shovel again,
although the green bomba, flavored with an
emulsion of parsley and poached hake, was a
touch salty.
If you wonder why eating out has gotten
so expensive, consider, among other details,
the time and people it takes to make so much
of the food at Saga. The suckling pig, for
example, is butchered in-house, cured,
washed, then cooked in a vacuum pack with
seasonings including oranges, rosemary and
garlic 4 a three-day process. Several diners
can feast on the beast, which shows up with
crisp mahogany skin and succulent meat, on
a bed of rice that9s fragrant with fresh
coconut and surrounded by juicy pineapple
chunks, stinging with vinegar. A red pool of
salsa criolla completes the $125 main course.
A few items fail to quicken the pulse. The
croquettes prove surprisingly bland, and
pleasing as it is, steak tartare is a head-
scratcher. I figure the appetizer is there to
appease the less adventurous customer.
Also, the wine prices! Too many hover in the
triple digits 4 putting on the Ritz, if you will.
Did you expect churros for dessert? You
get them at Saga, but like every Spanish dish
before them, the sugared wands have been
reimagined, in this case, with porcini pow-
der on their crisp surface, guajillo in their
chocolate base, and a glass skull as a vase.
Another dessert, another pleasure. A scoop
of soft gianduja 4 think chocolate fudge
crossed with hazelnut velvet 4 is presented
Chef Enrique Limardo9s latest restaurant, Saga in the West End, features artistic presentations such as the inside a clear cloche, shimmering with
pickled mussels under a layer of carrot coins and octopus carpaccio arranged in a mosaic with edible beads of olive oil that flood the mouth and
flowers. Limardo9s other area restaurants include Imperfecto, Seven Reasons and Joy by Seven Reasons. temper the sweetness of the centerpiece. A
tuft of blow-torched cotton candy caps a
flute of tamarillo ice cream, chewy honey-
comb and a foam that mimics crema
Saga catalana.
Lots of restaurants, with another on the
1190 22nd St. NW. 202-480-9892. thesagadc.com. Open for indoor and outdoor dining 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. for breakfast horizon, translate to nonstop R&D, says
daily; 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. for lunch daily; 5 to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 5 to 11 p.m. friday and Saturday Limardo, who creates dishes in his sleep. <I
for dinner. Prices: dinner appetizers $13 to $29, main courses $40 to $190. Sound check: 76 decibels/Must speak dream about it,= he says. So do his grateful
with raised voice. Accessibility: no barriers to entry; ADA-compliant restrooms. fans.
E14 eZ ee the washington post . sunday, june 18 , 2023

music

Catalogue
ûghts take
over music
industry
MuSIC PuBLISHINg from E1

<Have you ever thought about doing a fra-

grance?= he asked. <Is the beauty space some-
thing that you9re open to?=
<In theory,= mcLachlan said and then
paused. <I haven9t thought about it.=
Some call it song management, others royal-
ty acquisition. The managers of this asset class
include mestel, merck mercuriadis (CEo and
founder of Hipgnosis Songs) and round Hill
music9s Josh Gruss, in addition to traditional
publishers such as Universal music Publishing
Group, Sony music Publishing and BmG. The
latter have longer histories and much larger
holdings than the more insurgent indepen-
dents, but they9ve only recently been making
the blockbuster deals on publishing acquisi-
tions.
There was a time when even the biggest stars
4 the Beatles, the rolling Stones and the Beach
Boys 4 watched helplessly as their publishing
was sold to corporations. That changed in the
1970s when songwriters learned the value of
publishing and hired attorneys to protect it.
This new market is something well beyond
that. It9s about a wave of investors, many more
accustomed to speculating on pharmaceuti-
cals or real estate, cracking into territory once
reserved for Casey Kasem. And artists, con-
fronted with this new math, are cashing in.
Where it was once considered almost sacrile-
gious to sell a song, it is now an element of
estate planning for aging artists as singular as
Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Steve Nicks and Sting.
They get a payout and a promise of a cleaner
future, giving their heirs a chance to avoid the
battles that took place after the deaths of Tom
Petty, Prince or Aretha franklin.
<I9m not Bob Dylan, so I didn9t get $400 mil-
lion, but I got a very, very large chunk of
change,= said Lindsey Buckingham, whose
$100 million deal with Hipgnosis included
fleetwood mac songs such as <Go Your own
Way= and <The Chain.= <It just makes things in
the present a bit easier. And you9re not setting
up your kids to be fighting over any sort of
things that haven9t been well defined enough as
to know how they9re going to get passed on.=
In a home office by a swimming pool in Los
Angeles, mercuriadis is working the phone. He
is in his standard uniform 4 black Prada 4 and
pacing as he works through a complication
with a megadeal for Justin Bieber9s catalogue.
It9s not with the artist, who has agreed to sell for
$200 million. It9s with the Wall Street Journal,
phIlIp cheunG foR the WashInGton post
which is trying to scoop the news when
Hipgnosis has already agreed to release it
widely first. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Merck Mercuriadis, CEO and founder of Hipgnosis Songs, has spent more than $3 billion on publishing acquisition, raising
The Bieber deal will make headlines. It9s money via the London Stock Exchange and partnering with the Blackstone investment firm. Larry Mestel, founder and CEO of Primary Wave Music, meets
notable because most of the deals have been for virtually with musician Sarah McLachlan in New York in April, after purchasing a share of McLachlan9s songs. Mestel speaks in 2020 in West Hollywood.
older, established artists. They are surer bets. A
song by Paul Simon or Dylan has been earning a
steady royalty for decades from commercials,
radio (and now streaming) plays and other
licensing agreements. Signing up Bieber
shakes up the system. He9s just 29, and his
future value must be calculated without the
benefit of history.
That9s why mercuriadis9s competitors ques-
tion the deal.
<I don9t think when Justin Bieber is 40 years
old, people are going to go back and listen to
8Baby9 and his catalogue,= Gruss said. <So what
do you do if you buy those rights? If you9re
wrong, it9s a bad, bad investment.=
Gruss, at round Hill, a company traded
publicly on the London Stock Exchange like
Hipgnosis, counts <Calendar Girl= singer Neil
Sedaka, hair metal stars Skid row, and more
recently alt-rock B-listers Lit and Collective
Soul in its stable. Which is how mercuriadis
explains why Bieber is a good buy.
<If you9re buying Lit and Collective Soul,=
mercuriadis said, <those records may be 30
years old, and you can make an argument that,
hey, these have a much longer track record than
8Shape of You9 by Ed Sheeran. But 8Shape of You9
is going to be a much more important record
not only for the next 30 years but for the next 40
years, 50 years, 60 years. I believe the same
thing about great Justin Bieber records that
have been a part of the fabric of our lives for the
JeRRItt claRk/Getty ImaGes foR Island RecoRds
last 15 years.=
Then there is the deal from the Bieber side. A
no-brainer. The economic downturn and rising
interest rates have not been good for Hipgno-
sis, as analysts and competitors have watched
its stock price fall. But Scooter Braun, Bieber9s
manager, saw the economy as an opportunity.
<most wealthy people made most of their
money in a downturn because they were able to
understand that the market always goes back
up,= Braun said. <If you9re a young person, and catIe monck/pRImaRy Wave
sunday, june 18 , 2023 . the washington post
TOP: Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac records in New Haven, Conn., in 1975. The singer and guitarist has struck a $100 million deal for his back
catalogue. <It just makes things in the present a bit easier. And you9re not setting up your kids to be fighting over any sort of things that haven9t been well
defined enough as to know how they9re going to get passed on,= Buckingham said. ABOVE: Creedence Clearwater Revival performs in London in 1970.
you9re able to deploy in a downturn properly,
you could be setting yourself up for life.=
Braun likes Mercuriadis. In 2021, he struck a
deal with him for another one of his clients,
Andrew Watt, for his stake in such songs as
<Señorita= by Shawn Mendes. But Braun didn9t
sign with Hipgnosis out of loyalty.
<We always go to the whole marketplace,=
Braun said. <Merck came forward with the best
offer.=
Mercuriadis, 59, grew up in Canada, fell in
love with Kiss and Aerosmith, and got his start
as a marketing and A&R manager for such
bands as UB40 and Simple Minds. He eventual-
ly got into managing a slate of clients that
included Elton John and Guns N9 Roses. In
2018, he founded Hipgnosis, taking the name of
the famed design firm that designed album
covers for Pink Floyd, Bad Company and Led
Zeppelin in the 1970s.
He keeps his head shaved and poses for
photos by sucking in his cheeks in Zoolander-
esque fashion. His aggressive acquisition ap-
proach 4 he9s spent more than $3 billion on
publishing, both by raising money via the Lon-
don Stock Exchange and partnering with an
investment firm, Blackstone 4 earned him the
title of <music9s most hated man,= as Forbes
called him in a 2021 cover story. But it9s hard to
deny his genuine love of music. Mercuriadis is a
record rat who seems as thrilled to show off a
Japanese pressing of Paul McCartney9s <Ram= as
he is to celebrate a deal worth millions of dollars.
The floor of his office is stacked with audiophile
pressings from the Electric Recording Co., Sam
Records and Analogue Productions.
<He9s a fanatic,= said Chic co-founder and
super-producer Nile Rodgers, who both is man-
aged by Mercuriadis and sold his catalogue to
him. <Merck and I can just spend hours and
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music
hours and hours talking about Eric Dolphy9s
solo on a song. It9s very rare that you find a
<I don9t think
person that musically you feel so comfortable
with.= when Justin
As he9s built the Hipgnosis catalogue, Mercu-
riadis has proved a maddening presence to Bieber is 40 years
competitors. They attack him for opening his
wallet but say he9s not doing much once he9s old, people are
made the acquisition. Mestel says he does not
want to call out anyone by name. But he points
out the range of his own Primary Wave, from
going to go back
working with Detroit-based Shinola to create a
Smokey Robinson wristwatch to producing the
and listen to
Whitney Houston biopic <I Wanna Dance With
Somebody.= 8Baby9 and his
<Most of my competitors sit back, and they
put up their feet on their desk, and when the catalogue. So
phone rings and they answer it, they think
they9ve done a great job marketing,= he said. what do you do if
Mercuriadis notes that Primary Wave ac-
quired and then in 2013 sold its stakes in songs
by the Beatles, Hall & Oates and Bo Diddley to
you buy those
BMG.
<Whether it9s Justin Timberlake or the Leon-
rights? If you9re
ard Cohen estate that I9ve looked in the eye and
said, 8I9m going to be the custodian of these wrong, it9s a bad,
great songs,9 I can keep my promise,= Mercuri-
adis said. bad investment.=
Even during his spending spree, there are Josh Gruss,
some artists none of the independents could Round Hill Music
seduce. Springsteen went with BMG. Dylan
and Sting signed with Universal Music Publish-
ing, which manages more than 3 million songs
and has been around for decades. (Primary
Wave, Round Hill Music and Hipgnosis were
founded in 2006, 2010 and 2018, respectively.)
Marc Cimino, the chief operating officer of
Universal Music Publishing, has heard all of
the arguments made by the leaders of smaller
companies. That big companies only care
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about their younger, hit-making clients. They
manage too many songs, so they can9t possibili-
ty give the legacy catalogue much attention. He
disagrees. Just go see <Dear Mama= on FX, the
series about Tupac Shakur that Universal Mu-
sic Publishing Group produced. He also spoke
about Hipgnosis9s 2021 partnership with
Blackstone Tactical Opportunities, which de-
scribes itself as <the world9s largest alternative
asset manager.=
<The key word there was asset,= Cimino said.
<Right. We look at 8Like a Rolling Stone9 not as an
asset but as a song. That song has changed
people9s lives. We are very clear at Universal that
this is about the art, and this is about the songs,
and this is about the master recordings. It is not
an asset class, and if you9re investing in our
company, you9re investing in it from that per-
spective.=
Art, of course, is a relative term.
This spring, a commercial for the home fix-it
service Frontdoor began circulating with a tune
anyone with an FM radio or MTV in 1985 would
know intimately. Except, somehow the words
were wrong. Yes, <We Built This City,= the No. 1
hit for Starship, had been recast and rerecorded
as <We Fixed This Toilet.=
<I thought it was disgusting and a new low for
the business,= said Jeff Jampol, who manages
Starship but does not control the publishing of
the band9s biggest hit.
He texted Cimino, since Universal adminis-
ters the song.
But Jampol should have been grumbling to
Martin Page, who wrote <We Built This City=
with longtime Elton John collaborator Bernie
Taupin. He was thrilled about the use. Page and
Taupin could have blocked the commercial.
Page first heard about it from his manager.
<I said, 8What9s it about?9= Page said. <She said,
8Plumbing.9 I was like, wow. And when she told
me the amount of money they were going to pay,
you go like, 8Uh, okay.9=
Money can9t buy everything, though. There
are still some prominent artists 4 Joni Mitchell,
for one 4 who retain their publishing. That9s
also the case with John Fogerty, not that the
author of a string of hits for Creedence Clearwa-
ter Revival hasn9t listened to pitches.
This spring, Fogerty walked into his home
music studio in Thousand Oaks, Calif., looking
very much like the guy choogling through
<Proud Mary= at Woodstock in 1969. At 78, he
remains a steady touring attraction, still favor-
ing his trademark plaid button-down shirts.
It has been a good moment for Fogerty. For
decades, he battled Saul Zaentz, the late execu-
tive who had signed Creedence to an onerous
deal at Fantasy Records in the 1960s. It got so
bad that Fogerty couldn9t bring himself to play
his Creedence hits in concert for decades. And in
1985, when Fogerty made a comeback with <The
Old Man Down the Road,= Zaentz sued him for
plagiarizing himself because he felt the song
sounded too much like CCR9s <Run Through the
Jungle.= Fogerty won and in January, with the
help of his wife, Julie, and legendary music
manager Irving Azoff, was able to buy back his
publishing. By then, Fogerty had already taken
meetings with Mercuriadis to consider his op-
tions.
He says now he went to hear the pitch, not to
make a deal.
<Never in my life, not for one minute, have I
ever thought of a song in terms of money, like a
businessman does,= he said. <Let9s say I say to
you, 8You9ve Lost That Lovin9 Feelin99 by the
Righteous Brothers.9 And your reaction is prob-
ably 4 well, if you were anywhere near my age,
you9d go, 8God, what a great record.9 And it
resonates in a way that a new pair of shoes
doesn9t.=
But Julie Fogerty, whom he credits with sav-
ing his career and life when he had fallen into
deep depression over his battles with Zaentz,
kept nudging him to have meetings with poten-
tial publishing buyers.
He liked Mercuriadis. He seemed like a nice
guy. He seemed to care about music and actually
love music.
<But of course, that wasn9t what the meeting
was for,= Fogerty said. <I9ve never gotten to own
my songs. I want to walk around, you know,
maybe with a cane in one hand and a top hat on
my head and go, Yeah, I9ve got 8Proud Mary9
now.=
Back in the McLachlan meeting, Mestel and
his leadership team have gone through a series
of brainstorms. They9ve talked about getting
more of her work sampled by younger artists.
Sam Feldman, her manager, mentions to those
on the Zoom that he would love to get
McLachlan on Howard Stern. He also talks
about her love of the outdoors. That sparks some
excitement from McLachlan, as she asks if there
is the potential for a line of surfboards.
Mestel asks how she feels about social media.
She dropped off because of the vitriol and anger
that seemed to dominate online. He suggests
somebody from Primary Wave take over her
accounts to keep them humming without caus-
ing her stress. And while it seems unlikely to
become a reality, nobody nixes the idea of a
Sarah McLachlan scent. Before she signs off, she
gives what is effectively a pep talk to the team.
<There is no bad idea,= she says. <And I9m
pretty hard to offend. I mean, there are certain
I9m going to say, 8No, that doesn9t work for me.9
But as I said, I just haven9t put my mind to
thinking in that direction ever, really. So I9m
excited at what possibilities you guys can
dream up.=
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Perspectives on
father-artists and
their progeny
FATHERS And SOnS from E1
the same history of love. Try and
stay, though, inside. See how long
you can.=
Hearing my son read this was
intensely uncanny 4 and not just
because <Augie march= is my fa-
vorite novel. It was uncanny be-
cause my son is 18 and, like Augie
in the novel, about to be <thrown
for fair on the free spinning of the
world.= He is ready to leave, that9s
to say.
The problem is, no one else in
our family is quite ready. It9s going
to take some time to adjust.
But that9s okay. To be a father,
after all, is to be in a constant state
of adjustment.
I think rembrandt knew this. A
few months before our son was
born, I was living with his mother
in London, where I loved going to
the Wallace Collection, a gor-
geous house museum in maryle-
bone. one of the Wallace Collec-
tion9s treasures is a painting by
rembrandt of his son Titus.
Titus9s mother was Saskia. She
had four children with rem-
brandt, but Titus was the only one
who made it past infancy. The boy
is thought to have been 16 when
rembrandt painted the picture
now at the Wallace Collection.
That year, 1657, was one of
great adjustment for the artist. It
was also a troubled year. He had
to move to a cheaper, smaller
house after declaring bankruptcy.
As a punishment, the painter9s
guild to which he belonged im-
posed severe constraints on his
activities, so Titus and his step-
mother, Hendrickje Stoffels, set
up a sort of dummy corporation
to manage his affairs, with rem-
brandt as their employee.
I can only wonder how all this
made rembrandt feel. one of the
greatest painters of all time (and
he surely knew this) had been
reduced to penury, humiliated in
front of his son. It couldn9t have
felt great.
The rhetoric around father-
hood is all about capability and
competence. It9s about lines of
influence. Paternal pride. But
that9s all propaganda. There is
nothing so humbling as father-
hood. It9s embarrassing. If you
stick around, your kids see all
sides of you. They hear you snore.
They see your hair fall out. They
see you in weak moments. They
watch, with heightened fascina-
tion, when you get things wrong.
And you do get them wrong.
You reprimand them when they
don9t really deserve it. You fail to
say the right, supportive things at
quite the right time. There are
moments when you sense you
should try to break through the
carapace of evolving independ-
ence to express love, offer emo-
tional support 4 but you rarely
get the timing right. You make
strange decisions under pressure.
It9s ugly. Thank God for moms.
And sisters, too.
In any case, I like to imagine
that rembrandt, when he chose
to paint Titus, was trying to adjust
to his sobering new reality. Paint-
ing him was his way of doing so.
rembrandt liked getting his
sitters to dress up in costume. So
he had Titus don a brown cloak
with a big gold chain 4 deliber-
ately evoking the Venetian por-
traits by Titian, wherein gold
chains are a clear indicator of
elevated status 4 and a large,
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velvety red beret. The paint itself
is thickly textured. Titus9s rich,
glossy hair falls in loose ringlets,
framing his young face. If you9re
familiar with rembrandt9s many
self-portraits, the effect is uncan-
ny, as if time had suddenly gone in
reverse.
Everyone knows that relations
between fathers and sons can be
fraught. (<If we weren9t so alike,=
U29s Bono sang of his father,
<you9d like me a whole lot more.=)
The chiaroscuro in rembrandt9s
painting of Titus evokes that am-
bivalence. But the single dark eye
that9s not in shadow glistens with
filial affection.
The painting, to me, is pure
tenderness. Its poignant impact is
heightened by the knowledge that
Titus would die in a wave of
bubonic plague that swept
through Amsterdam in 1668 4
one year before rembrandt him-
self died.
rembrandt9s portraits 4 espe-
cially his late portraits 4 were a
big influence on the 20th-century
painter Lucian freud. I met freud
not long after moving to London,
in 2001. A few days after our first
lunch, he invited me to his studio
to see a portrait he9d just finished.
I arrived at the address in Holland
Park and followed him up the
stairs into a bare room dominated
by a very tall portrait of a young,
naked man, posing in a corner of
that same room.
It was freud9s son. He was a
trained dancer, tall and thin, and
in the painting he stands, naked,
his chest flat and bony, his ribs
revealed. His long, veiny arms
hang by his side, and his relaxed,
raw-looking hands casually frame
his genitals. His stance lacks the
nAtIonAL gALLery oF Art/sAmueL h. Kress coLLectIon
grace or ease you might expect of
a dancer. His body has an unac-
countable forward lean, making TOP: <Ranuccio Farnese= plague. The disease took his fa-
him appear almost stuck, like one (1541-1542) by Titian. He ther first and then him.
of the thwarted figures in rodin9s was not Titian9s son but the Last year, I took my son to the
<The Burghers of Calais.= grandson of Pope Paul III. National Gallery in D.C. I wanted
In the window we can see a He was 12 when Titian to show him my favorite painting
reflection of the artist holding a painted him. A close look in the world: Titian9s portrait of
paintbrush. In other words, shows his clothes and ranuccio farnese. But it wasn9t
freud9s portrait of his son in- accessories are a little big on on the walls that day, and is still in
cludes a self-portrait. freud, it9s him 4 since big things were conservation.
well-known, was not around dur- expected of him. He would ranuccio was not Titian9s son.
ing the childhoods of most of his be made a cardinal at age 15. But like every boy, he was some-
children (he is said to have had RIGHT: <Freddy Standing= one9s son. And to me, he repre-
14). He occasionally painted them (2000-2001), Lucian sents something at once beautiful
as children, but more often paint- Freud9s painting of his son. and intensely fraught about the
ed them as adults. He was a trained dancer, but condition of being a son, per-
Those sittings 4 and there his stance lacks the grace or ceived by a hyper-aware artist
were many 4 must have been ease one might expect of a who was also a father.
remarkable. freud9s paintings dancer. Visible in the ranuccio happened to be the
took months and often more than window is a reflection of the grandson of Pope Paul III. He was
a year to complete. In each case, artist holding a paint brush. just 12 when Titian painted him.
his adult children (among them In other words, Freud9s His family had sent him to study
several novelists and artists, a portrait of his son includes a with a private tutor in Padua.
fashion designer and a poet) self-portrait. Titian painted this portrait when
spent long hours in his studio, ranuccio came to Venice to be
adjusting, in very unusual cir- installed as prior of a property
cumstances, to a father who had there owned by the Knights of
rarely been present when they malta. (Hence the undulating
were children. As the paintings maltese cross on his cloak, which
advanced inch by inch, the ses- he wears over a red doublet, em-
sions continued day after day, broidered with gold.) The boy
crossing from one season to the holds a glove in one hand, an
next, interspersed with restau- attempt at conveying adult non-
rant dinners, high jinks and ram- chalance. But this is an affecta-
bling conversation. tion, a pose.
The whole experience must In truth, when you look closely
have been deeply disorienting. at ranuccio, everything looks just
Probably very beautiful at times a little too big on him. That9s
yet very difficult at others. freud because big things were expected
was electrifying company: hilari- of him. He would be made a
ous, mischievous, conspiratorial, cardinal at 15 and by the time he
shy. He had an animal alertness, died, at 35, he was bishop of
an oblique take on things and a Naples, ravenna and Bologna.
capacity for surprise that left you But Titian knew he was still just a
questioning everything in your boy, and into his black eyes and
life. He was certainly selfish. But calf-soft face he infused as much
he was a powerful artist, and he tenderness as rembrandt inject-
LucIAn Freud ArchIve/BrIdgemAn ImAges
ed into his painting of Titus.
It is, as I said, my favorite
painting in the world. finding the
painted with tremendous hones-
ty.
picture of Titus and said what he
said more for rhetorical effect
rental projections.
of course, it works in reverse,
words to explain why always feels
difficult. Almost as hard 4 and as
freud also loved rembrandt, than out of conviction. But as a too. Dads might love it when their redundant 4 as finding words to
and loved the Wallace Collection. lesson in the difference between children describe them as their express the love I feel for my
Interestingly, though, he ex- truth-telling and sentimentality, <hero.= But I would rather be seen children. It9s enough to say that
pressed reservations about the his observation is instructive. by those who love me as I really Titian, working almost 500 years
picture of Titus. <rembrandt most of us probably don9t want to am: fallible. mortal. And on some ago, captured something I felt on
loved Titus so much he couldn9t emulate freud9s idea of father- deeper level, helpless. my first day of fatherhood in the
quite do him straight,= he once hood. But it9s good to grasp that if Titian, whom I mentioned ear- maternity ward 4 an intuition
said. In his own work, freud we project too much sentiment lier, was also a father. He had two that I would spend the rest of my
wanted to avoid what he called onto our children, we get them sons. They say his favorite was life as a father adjusting 4 con-
<Titus disease,= or <Titusitis,= by wrong. Indeed, part of being a orazio, who, when he grew up, stantly adjusting 4 and never
which he meant indulgence father is learning to see one9s became his father9s assistant. Like quite being ready for the next
toward a subject one loved too children clearly, released from pa- Titus, orazio died in a wave of stage.
much.
This has always fascinated me
4 the idea, as Bellow put it, that
<continual intimacy, familiarity,
and love can result in falsehood=; If we project too much sentiment onto our children, we get them wrong.
that as an artist you can love a
subject too much, and that so Indeed, part of being a father is learning to see one9s children clearly.
much feeling might get in the way
of your work9s truth-telling pow-
er.
I actually think freud loved the
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der-Verse (PG) OC: 11:30AM Transformers: Rise Of The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Elemental 3D (PG) 12:20 The Flash: The IMAX 2D The Blackening (R) CC: 11:45- 3:00-5:30-8:00-10:30 12:20-3:40-7:00-10:20 (PG-13) 11:40-3:20-6:45-10:20
Beasts 3D (PG-13) CC: 11:30- (PG-13) OC: 4:05 j-hope IN THE BOX 7:00 Experience (PG-13) 12:00-3:30- 5:00-6:00-7:30-8:30-10:00-11:00 Transformers: Rise Of The Adipurush (Hindi) 6:05-10:05 Adipurush (Hindi) 3:10
MARYLAND 2:45-5:45-8:45
Elemental 3D (PG) CC: 3:00-
The Super Mario Bros. Movie SUGA: Road to D-DAY 3:00 7:00-10:30 The Little Mermaid 3D (PG) CC: Beasts 3D (PG-13) CC: 7:00 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 The Super Mario Bros. Movie
AFI Silver Theatre
(PG) 9:00-10:00 The Flash (PG-13) OC: 2:00 Elemental (PG) 10:20-12:20-1:20- 4:00-7:15 Elemental 3D (PG) CC: 9:30- (PG-13) 9:00-12:30-4:00-7:30 (PG) 11:55AM
6:00-9:00 The Little Mermaid (PG) OC: Spider-Man: Across the 4:20-6:10-7:10-9:10-10:10 Transformers: Rise Of The 12:15-6:15 The Little Mermaid (PG) 9:00- Adipurush (Telugu) 11:10-6:50-
Cultural Center
8633 Colesville Road The Flash (PG-13) CC: 9:45- 4:15 Spider-Verse (PG) 10:15-11:35- The Boogeyman (PG-13) 5:10- Beasts 3D (PG-13) CC: 10:00- Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - 12:15-3:30-6:45-10:15 10:35
12:30-4:00-4:30-7:30-8:00-11:00 Elemental (PG) 11:00-1:50-4:40- 12:35-1:35-3:55-4:55-6:15-7:15- 7:40-10:50 1:00-4:00-7:00-10:00 One Loudoun Elemental (PG) XD: 9:30-12:35- The Little Mermaid (PG) 11:15-
Craig's Wife (NR) 10:30AM Spider-Man: Across the Spi- 7:30-10:20 8:15-9:35-10:30 The Blackening (R) 10:00-12:30- Elemental 3D (PG) CC: 12:00- 20575 East Hampton Plaza 3:25 2:40-6:40-9:45
The Great Manhunt (State der-Verse (PG) CC: 9:30-11:45- 4:50-7:40-10:10 Elemental (PG) 11:20-1:55-3:15-
The Boogeyman (PG-13) OC: Regal Germantown 4:00-6:00-10:00 Transformers: Rise Of The The Boogeyman (PG-13) 11:00
12:45-3:15-4:15-6:30-7:30-8:15- 5:10 20000 Century Boulevard Transformers: Rise Of The Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts (PG-13) 12:15-3:30- Elemental 3D (PG) 12:00-8:30 4:50-7:25-9:00
Lynch/Oz 11:00-9:20 9:45-10:15 Beasts 3D (PG-13) 1:50-7:50 The Boogeyman (PG-13)
The Blackening (R) OC: 3:35 Fast X (PG-13) 10:20 Beasts (PG-13) OC: 2:00 6:15-9:30 j-hope IN THE BOX 6:00
Exhibition on Screen: Vermeer Elemental (PG) CC: 10:15-4:00- Elemental 3D (PG) 3:20 6:10-10:00
- The Greatest Exhibition Elemental 3D (PG) 9:00-11:45- Transformers: Rise Of The The Flash (PG-13) CC: 10:00- The Flash (PG-13) 11:40-3:20- SUGA: Road to D-DAY 3:30
7:00-10:00 The Blackening (R) 11:05-1:45-
2:35-8:15-11:00 Beasts (PG-13) 10:20-12:30-1:20- j-hope IN THE BOX 7:00 11:30-1:30-2:30-2:45-5:00-6:00- 7:00-10:45
The Blackening (R) OC: 2:30 j-hope IN THE BOX 6:00 4:30-7:50-10:50 SUGA: Road to D-DAY 3:00 9:15-11:00 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
The Blackening (R) 9:25-12:05- 4:35-7:20-10:05
You Hurt My Feelings (R) 7:20 The Flash (PG-13) OC: 1:00 2:40-5:15-7:50-10:25 Elemental 3D (PG) 12:20
National Theatre Live: Good 4:30 Elemental (PG) OC: 1:00; 12:00 SUGA: Road to D-DAY 3:30 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Spider-Man: Across the Elemental (PG) CC: 10:00-1:00- (PG-13) 12:15-4:00-7:45-9:15
Fast X (PG-13) 9:25-12:45-7:25- Spider-Verse (PG) 11:50-12:50- 3:00-7:00-9:00 Transformers: Rise Of The j-hope IN THE BOX 7:00
National Theatre Live: Fleabag (PG-13) 12:10-3:50-7:20-10:40 The Little Mermaid (PG) 10:15 Beasts (PG-13) 9:35-12:40-3:45-
AMC Loews 10:45 The Flash (PG-13) 10:15-11:00- 3:10-4:10-7:30-9:40-10:40 The Blackening (R) OC: 2:30 Spider-Man: Across the Spi- SUGA: Road to D-DAY 3:00
St. Charles Town Ctr. 9 The Flash (PG-13) XD: 9:00- 12:40-1:30-2:20-3:30-5:00-6:00- Regal Westview & IMAX The Flash (PG-13) OC: 8:30; 6:50-8:25-10:00
der-Verse (PG) 5:30-7:30-11:00 The Flash (PG-13) 10:00-12:40- Transformers: Rise Of The
National Theatre Live: Best of Beasts (PG-13) 11:45-1:10-3:00-
Enemies ENCORE 1:15 11115 Mall Circle 12:20-3:40-7:00-10:25 7:00-7:30-8:20-9:30-10:45 5243 Buckeystown Pike 11:00-6:30 Elemental (PG) 9:35
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 1:20-2:30-4:00-4:40-7:20-8:00- 4:45-6:20-7:45-9:15-10:50
Casablanca (1942) (PG) 5:00 Transformers: Rise Of The Adipurush (Hindi) 2:30 Transformers: Rise Of The AMC Potomac Mills 18 The Flash (PG-13) 10:30-12:30- 10:40
Beasts (PG-13) CC: 4:30-7:30 (PG-13) 9:05-12:35-7:35-11:10 Adipurush (Telugu) 10:40-6:20- Beasts (PG-13) 11:00-2:10-3:10- 2700 Potomac Mills Circle 2:15-4:15-6:00-8:00-9:45 The Flash (PG-13) 11:00-2:30-
Double Feature (NR) 3:45 Spider-Man: Across the Spi- 6:00-9:30; 1:00-1:30-4:30-5:00-
The Flash (PG-13) CC: 9:45- The Little Mermaid (PG) 9:30- 10:30 5:20-8:40-9:50 Fast X (PG-13) CC: 10:15-2:15- Spider-Man: Across the Spi-
AMC Academy 8 10:45-11:30-1:15-2:15-3:00-4:45- 11:15-12:45-7:50-11:05 der-Verse (PG) 9:10-10:50-12:30- 8:00-8:30
The Little Mermaid (PG) 12:00- The Flash (PG-13) 12:40-4:10- 8:10-9:20 der-Verse (PG) 12:00 3:50-7:10-10:30
6198 Greenbelt Road 6:30-8:15-10:00 Elemental (PG) XD: 10:00AM 3:10-6:40-9:50 The Little Mermaid (PG) 11:15AM Spider-Man: Across the
7:40 The Flash (PG-13) CC: 12:30- Adipurush (Telugu) 2:10-6:10- Spider-Verse (PG) 11:30-12:15-
Transformers: Rise Of The Spider-Man: Across the Spi- The Boogeyman (PG-13) 9:20- Elemental (PG) 10:30-1:20-2:40- The Flash: The IMAX 2D Elemental (PG) OC: 10:55AM;
7:00-10:30 10:10 1:40-2:50-3:45-5:15-6:30-7:30-
der-Verse (PG) CC: 10:15-12:00- 11:55-2:35-7:45-10:20 4:20-5:30-7:10-8:15-10:00 Experience (PG-13) 11:10-2:40- Spider-Man: Across the Spi- 11:45AM
1:45-8:00 1:30-2:45-4:45-6:45-10:00 The Blackening (R) 10:25-1:00- Elemental (PG) 9:05-10:35-1:25- 8:45-9:40-10:40
The Blackening (R) 11:20-2:00- 6:10-9:40 der-Verse (PG) CC: 10:00-11:30- The Little Mermaid (PG) 2:50-4:15-5:40-7:05-9:55
The Flash (PG-13) CC: 10:00- The Little Mermaid (PG) CC: 7:10-8:30-9:50-11:05 4:40-7:40-10:10 Regal Manassas & IMAX
11:00-1:00-2:15-4:15-5:30-7:30- 3:30-6:00
Elemental (PG) 11:30-12:20-3:30- 12:30-1:10-2:45-3:45-4:30-6:00- 2:45-6:45
Transformers: Rise Of The Elemental 3D (PG) 11:45AM 6:30-9:20 7:00-7:40-9:15-10:10-10:50 Elemental (PG) 3:00-6:30 Regal Ballston Quarter 11380 Bulloch Drive
8:45-10:45 Elemental (PG) CC: 10:30-4:00- Beasts (PG-13) XD: 12:45-3:50- The Flash (PG-13) OC: 4:00 Spider-Man: Across the Spi- 671 North Glebe Road Transformers: Rise Of The
Spider-Man: Across the Spi- The Blackening (R) 12:10-2:50- Adipurush (Telugu) 5:15-9:10
9:30 7:15-10:35 Spider-Man: Across the Spi- 5:30-8:10-10:50 der-Verse (PG) 2:00-3:45 Transformers: Of The Beasts Beasts (PG-13) 11:50-12:50-3:20-
der-Verse (PG) CC: 10:45-1:10- The Boogeyman (PG-13) CC: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
The Flash (PG-13) OC: 4:40 der-Verse (PG) 10:25-11:30-1:40- Elemental 3D (PG) 9:45AM (PG-13) CC: 11:15-2:40-6:00-9:20 Angelika Film Center Mosaic (PG-13) 11:20-12:10-2:20-3:40- 4:20-6:30-7:30-9:40
4:50-7:10-11:00 8:00-10:30 3:00-4:50-6:30-8:00-9:40 5:30-6:50-8:30-9:50 The Flash (PG-13) 12:00-1:00-
Cinépolis Gaithersburg j-hope IN THE BOX 7:00 The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2911 District Ave
The Little Mermaid (PG) CC: The Blackening (R) CC: 11:15- 1:30-4:30-5:00-7:00-8:30
10:20-1:30-4:40-7:45-10:50
629 Center Point Way Regal Hyattsville Royale SUGA: Road to D-DAY 3:05 (PG) CC: 12:10-6:10 Transformers: Rise Of The The Flash (PG-13) 11:00-12:00-
1:45-10:30 Adipurush (Hindi) 3:40
Elemental (PG) CC: 10:30-4:00- The Little Mermaid 3D (PG) CC: Transformers: Rise Of The 6505 America Blvd. The Little Mermaid (PG) 12:30- The Little Mermaid (PG) CC: Beasts (PG-13) 11:00-1:50-4:35- 1:00-2:30-4:30-6:00-7:00-8:00- The Super Mario Bros. Movie
9:30 Beasts (PG-13) 1:20-5:00-8:00- Fast X (PG-13) 1:00-5:00-8:40 3:50-7:10 10:00-1:15-4:10-7:15-10:20 7:25-10:15 9:30-10:30
11:30-9:15 11:20 Elemental (PG) 12:20-3:20-4:20- (PG) 11:30-2:00-4:40
The Blackening (R) CC: 11:15- Transformers: Rise Of The Transformers: Rise Of The The Flash (PG-13) 10:10-1:40- The Flash: The IMAX 2D Expe- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
The Flash (PG-13) 11:40-2:00- rience (PG-13) CC: 11:00-2:30- (PG-13) 10:20-1:30-5:15-8:30 7:10-9:10 Adipurush (Telugu) 11:40-7:50
Beasts (PG-13) 11:30-12:30-3:10- 6:50-8:30-10:10
Beasts 3D (PG-13) CC: 5:30-8:30 3:20-4:00-7:20-7:40-9:00-11:00 4:10-6:40-7:50-9:50-10:50 Spider-Man: Across the 6:00-9:30 The Flash (PG-13) 10:30-12:30- The Boogeyman (PG-13)
The Little Mermaid (PG) 11:20-
Transformers: Rise Of The Elemental 3D (PG) CC: 1:15-6:45 2:40-5:50-9:20
Beasts 3D (PG-13) CC: 4:15- Spider-Man: Across the The Flash (PG-13) 11:40-12:10- Spider-Verse (PG) 10:00-11:20- Elemental (PG) CC: 4:00 3:45-4:45-7:00-10:00 6:20-10:10
Transformers: Rise Of The Spider-Verse (PG) 11:00-12:00- 12:40-3:00-3:30-4:00-6:20-6:50- 1:20-4:40-8:00 The Flash: The IMAX 2D
10:20 Beasts (PG-13) 11:00-2:15-10:15 The Boogeyman (PG-13) CC: Spider-Man: Across the The Blackening (R) 11:10-1:50-
2:20-6:20-10:00 The Flash (PG-13) OC: 5:00 Experience (PG-13) 11:00-2:30-
Elemental 3D (PG) CC: 1:15-6:45 The Blackening (R) 5:15-7:45 7:20-9:40-10:10-10:40 4:20-8:30-11:00 Spider-Verse (PG) 10:40-12:45- 4:40-7:20-10:00 6:00-9:30
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 The Blackening (R) CC: 12:00- 4:00-7:15-9:30 Elemental 3D (PG) 1:20
AMC Annapolis Mall 11 Xscape Theatres Elemental (PG) 1:15-4:10-6:10-
AMC Magic Johnson (PG-13) 11:20-5:40-9:40 (PG-13) 12:20-3:50-7:10 Brandywine 14 2:30-5:00-7:30-10:00 The Little Mermaid (PG) 10:10- The Flash (PG-13) OC: 3:30
1020 Annapolis Mall Road Capital Center 12 The Little Mermaid (PG) 12:20- The Little Mermaid (PG) 11:10- 7:10-9:10-10:00
7710 Matapeake Business Drive The Little Mermaid 3D (PG) CC: 1:10-4:10-8:00-9:45 Spider-Man: Across the Spi-
Transformers: Rise Of The 800 Shoppers Way 1:40-3:40-7:00-10:20 11:50AM The Boogeyman (PG-13)
12:15-2:20-3:40-6:00-7:15-9:20 Back to the Future (PG) 1:00- Elemental (PG) 11:10-1:45- der-Verse (PG) 11:30-12:30-3:00- 7:15-9:50
Beasts (PG-13) CC: 10:00-1:10- Fast X (PG-13) CC: 9:30 Elemental (PG) 11:20-9:20 Elemental (PG) 11:00-1:50-2:50- 4:00-7:00 Transformers: Rise Of The 4:25-7:10 4:00-6:30-7:30-9:40-10:40
4:10-7:10-10:10 Transformers: Rise Of The The Blackening (R) 11:00-5:20- 4:40-5:40-7:30-8:30-10:20 The Blackening (R) 11:05-1:45-
Fast X (PG-13) 1:55-7:25 Beasts 3D (PG-13) CC: 10:15- Past Lives (PG-13) 1:55-4:30- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 4:35-7:20-10:00
The Flash (PG-13) CC: 9:20- Beasts (PG-13) CC: 1:00-7:00- 8:20-11:20 The Boogeyman (PG-13) 11:00 Transformers: Rise Of The 1:15-4:15-7:15-10:10 7:05-10:00
10:25-12:40-1:40-4:00-5:00-7:20- 9:20-10:10 (PG-13) 10:50-2:10-5:50-9:20 Elemental 3D (PG) 12:20
Elemental 3D (PG) 2:40-6:00 The Blackening (R) 11:20-2:00- Beasts (PG-13) 10:20-12:50-1:30- Elemental 3D (PG) CC: 2:30-8:00 Elemental 3D (PG) 10:20 The Little Mermaid (PG) 11:50-
The Flash (PG-13) CC: 2:10-2:45- j-hope IN THE BOX 7:00 The Flash (PG-13) 8:00
4:50-7:40-10:30 4:10-4:50-7:00-7:40-9:50-10:30 j-hope IN THE BOX 7:00 j-hope IN THE BOX 7:05 3:10-6:40-10:20 Elemental (PG) OC: 3:15
Spider-Man: Across the Spi- 6:15-8:45-9:35 SUGA: Road to D-DAY 3:00 Elemental 3D (PG) 12:00 SUGA: Road to D-DAY 3:00
der-Verse (PG) CC: 9:00-10:00- Spider-Man: Across the Spi- Spider-Man: Across the SUGA: Road to D-DAY 3:00 Regal Dulles Town Center The Flash (PG-13) OC: 3:30
Landmark Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (PG) 9:50-10:30- Transformers: Rise Of The
12:10-1:10-3:20-4:20-6:30-7:30- der-Verse (PG) CC: 12:45-2:45- CMX Village 14 21100 Dulles Town Circle Spider-Man: Across the
9:40-10:40 Bethesda Row Cinema Spider-Verse (PG) 11:50-12:50- 12:20-1:00-1:40-3:20-4:05-4:40- Beasts (PG-13) CC: 11:30-12:15- 1600 Village Market Boulevard Spider-Verse (PG) 11:10-12:40-
4:00-6:15-7:15-9:30-10:30 7235 Woodmont Avenue 3:20-4:20-7:00-8:00-10:15 3:20-6:30-9:30-10:45 Transformers: Rise Of The
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 The Little Mermaid (PG) CC: 6:30-7:10-9:30-10:10 Top Gun (1986) (PG) 3:30 2:50-4:00-6:20-7:40-9:45
The Flash (PG-13) CC: 10:00- Beasts (PG-13) 12:30-3:45-
(PG-13) CC: 9:40-3:30-10:05 The Flash (PG-13) 12:45-4:00- Regal Laurel Towne Centre The Flash (PG-13) 10:00-10:40-
The Little Mermaid (PG) CC:
3:15-9:45
5:00-7:15-8:00 14716 Baltimore Avenue 12:30-1:10-1:50-3:40-4:20-5:00- 12:00-3:30-4:30-7:45-10:00-11:00 Fast X (PG-13) 9:00 6:45-9:45 Regal Springûeld Town Center
The Flash: The IMAX 2D Expe- Elemental (PG) CC: 10:10-11:30- Transformers: Rise Of The The Flash (PG-13) 11:00-12:00- 6859 Springûeld Mall
9:15-12:25-6:50 rience (PG-13) CC: 12:30-3:45- Spider-Man: Across the Fast X (PG-13) 12:30-4:15-7:45 6:50-7:30-8:10-10:00-10:40 Beasts (PG-13) 12:45-2:10-4:10- 2:30-3:30-7:00-9:30-10:30 Transformers: Rise Of The
Elemental (PG) CC: 10:20-3:40- 7:00-10:15 Spider-Verse (PG) 11:30-12:15- Transformers: Rise Of The The Little Mermaid (PG) 11:45- 12:50-1:45-3:30-5:15-6:15-9:00
7:10-8:10 Spider-Man: Across the Spi- Beasts (PG-13) 10:40-12:50-4:00-
9:10 2:30-4:15-5:15-7:00-7:45 Beasts (PG-13) 11:10-12:45-3:50- 3:35-6:35-9:35 The Flash (PG-13) OC: 1:15; 6:45
Elemental (PG) CC: 12:05-1:15- The Flash (PG-13) 1:30-4:45- der-Verse (PG) 11:10-12:45-2:20- 7:10-8:50-10:20
The Boogeyman (PG-13) CC: 4:00-6:45-10:15 The Little Mermaid (PG) 11:45- 5:45-7:15-8:50 The Boogeyman (PG-13) 11:30- Elemental (PG) 5:30 8:00 4:00-5:30-7:30-9:00-10:40 The Flash (PG-13) 11:00-12:00-
1:20-7:00 The Boogeyman (PG-13) CC: 3:00-6:15 The Flash (PG-13) 10:30-11:50-1:00- 5:05-10:35 AMC Shirlington 7 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 1:00-2:30-3:30-4:30-6:00-7:00-
The Blackening (R) CC: 10:00- 1:00-3:30-6:00-8:30-10:30 You Hurt My Feelings (R) 11:00- 2:00-3:30-4:30-5:30-7:00-8:00-9:15 Elemental (PG) 10:50-1:20-3:50- 2772 South Randolph St. (PG-13) 11:30-2:45-6:05 (PG-13) 11:20-2:45-6:30-9:55 8:00-9:30-10:30
1:05-3:10-5:10-7:10 The Little Mermaid (PG) 11:30- 6:40-9:20
The Blackening (R) CC: 12:30- Transformers: Rise Of The Spider-Man: Across the Spi- The Little Mermaid (PG) 11:30- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
The Little Mermaid 3D (PG) CC: 3:00-5:30-8:00 Elemental (PG) 11:00-1:45-7:20 2:30-6:30-9:30 The Little Mermaid 3D (PG) 1:15- Beasts (PG-13) CC: 10:05-1:00- der-Verse (PG) 10:55-12:10-1:15- 3:00-6:15-9:20 (PG-13) 11:30-3:10-6:40-10:10
3:50-9:30 The Little Mermaid 3D (PG) CC: The Flash (PG-13) 1:30 Elemental (PG) 10:50-1:45-3:00- 4:15-7:15-10:15 4:00-7:00 2:00-4:25-5:20-6:45-7:45-8:30 The Little Mermaid (PG) 11:40-
Elemental (PG) 4:30 4:45-6:00-7:30-9:00 The Blackening (R) 11:40-2:10- Elemental (PG) 1:20-4:15-7:10-
Elemental 3D (PG) CC: 1:00-6:30 12:00-6:30 The Flash (PG-13) CC: 11:40- The Little Mermaid (PG) 11:25- 10:10 3:00-6:30-9:50
Transformers: Rise Of The Transformers: Rise Of The Landmark The Blackening (R) 10:40-1:15- 4:30-7:20-8:00-9:40-10:20 12:30-2:50-3:50-6:00-7:10-9:20- 2:30-6:00 Elemental (PG) 10:50-1:40-2:50-
at Annapolis Harbour Center 4:00-6:45-9:20 Elemental 3D (PG) 10:10AM The Boogeyman (PG-13) 10:45
Beasts 3D (PG-13) CC: 12:15- 10:20 The Blackening (R) 11:50-2:25- 4:50-5:45-7:40-8:40-10:40
The Flash (PG-13) 11:30-2:50- 3:15-6:15 2474 Solomons Island Road Unit H-1 Elemental 3D (PG) 12:00 iPic Pike & Rose Spider-Man: Across the Spi- 4:55-7:20 The Blackening (R) 11:05-1:45-
4:35-7:20-10:05 The Blackening (R) 11:20-1:50-
6:10-9:25 Elemental 3D (PG) CC: 2:00- Transformers: Rise Of The j-hope IN THE BOX 7:00 11830 Grand Park Avenue der-Verse (PG) CC: 12:00-1:20- Elemental 3D (PG) 11:10-4:35 4:40-7:20-10:00
Elemental (PG) 9:00-11:40-2:20 4:45-7:30 Beasts (PG-13) 1:10-3:55-6:50 SUGA: Road to D-DAY 3:00 4:30-6:30-7:40-9:40 Transformers: Rise Of The j-hope IN THE BOX 7:00
Fast X (PG-13) 7:45-11:15 SUGA: Road to D-DAY 3:00 Elemental 3D (PG) 11:50AM
The Boogeyman (PG-13) 11:00 Transformers: Rise Of The Spider-Man: Across the Spi- Spider-Man: Across the Transformers: Rise Of The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Beasts 3D (PG-13) 11:15-5:10 j-hope IN THE BOX 7:00
AMC Center Park 8 Beasts (PG-13) OC: 4:00 der-Verse (PG) 10:20-1:15-2:00- Spider-Verse (PG) 10:20-11:40- Beasts (PG-13) (!) 12:15-3:30- (PG-13) CC: 10:00-3:10 The Flash (PG-13) 11:00-11:40- The Flash (PG-13) OC: 6:00 SUGA: Road to D-DAY 3:00
4001 Powder Mill Rd. The Flash (PG-13) OC: 5:30 4:20-7:15-8:00 1:30-3:15-5:00-8:20-9:40 6:45-10:30 The Little Mermaid (PG) CC: 12:20-1:30-2:15-3:00-3:35-4:45- Regal Fairfax Towne Center Spider-Man: Across the Spi-
Transformers: Rise Of The AMC Montgomery 16 The Flash (PG-13) 10:50-12:30- Regal Rockville Center The Flash (PG-13) (!) 11:00-12:30- 10:05-1:10-4:10-7:20-10:25 5:30-6:15-7:00-8:00-8:45 4110 West Ox Road der-Verse (PG) 10:30-11:10-2:10-
Beasts (PG-13) CC: 10:15-1:15- 7101 Democracy Boulevard 1:00-3:30-4:05-5:00-6:30-7:10- 199 East Montgomery Avenue 2:30-3:45-6:30-7:30-10:15-11:00 Elemental (PG) CC: 2:10-7:30- Elemental (PG) 1:00-1:50-3:45- Transformers: Rise Of The 2:40-5:20-6:10-9:40-10:00
4:20-7:15-10:20 Fast X (PG-13) CC: 10:45-4:30- 8:15 Fast X (PG-13) 10:30AM Spider-Man: Across the 10:00 6:30-7:30 Beasts (PG-13) 12:20-3:20- Regal Virginia Gateway & RPX
The Flash (PG-13) CC: 10:00- 10:20 The Little Mermaid (PG) 10:35- Transformers: Rise Of The Spider-Verse (PG) 11:15-12:00- Transformers: Rise Of The Cinema Arts Theatre 6:20-9:30 8001 Gateway Promenade Place
11:30-1:00-2:45-4:30-6:00-7:45- Transformers: Rise Of The 12:35-1:30-3:35-4:30-7:30 Beasts (PG-13) 12:00-1:20-3:10- 3:00-4:15-7:15-10:45 Beasts 3D (PG-13) CC: 10:10 9650 Unit 14 Main St. The Flash (PG-13) 11:10-12:00-
Elemental (PG) 10:30-11:00- Elemental 3D (PG) CC: 11:30-4:50 The Flash (PG-13) 10:10-1:15- Fast X (PG-13) 4:00-10:55
9:15-10:15 Beasts (PG-13) CC: 10:15-11:45- 4:40-6:20-8:00-11:00 The Little Mermaid (PG) 11:30- 2:40-3:30-4:50-6:00-7:00-8:00-
12:45-1:45-3:15-4:15-5:45- The Flash (PG-13) 12:00-3:30-
1:15-4:15-6:15-7:15-9:30-10:15 The Flash (PG-13) 11:20-12:20- 3:15-6:15-9:45 AMC Tysons Corner 16 7:15-10:05 9:30-10:30 7:00-10:30
der-Verse (PG) CC: 10:30-12:45- The Flash (PG-13) CC: 10:00- 6:40-7:20 1:10-1:50-2:50-3:40-4:30-5:10- Elemental (PG) (!) 11:45-2:45- 7850e Tysons Corner Center Persian Lessons (NR) 10:05-1:00- The Little Mermaid (PG) 11:50-
Elemental (PG) 12:20-3:10-4:20-
11:15-11:45-12:30-1:30-2:45- Old Greenbelt Theatre 6:10-7:00-7:50-8:40-9:40-10:30- 6:00-9:15 Fast X (PG-13) CC: 11:20-9:30 4:10-7:10-9:40 3:10-6:40-9:50 7:10-10:10
The Little Mermaid (PG) CC: 4:00-5:00-7:30-8:30-9:45-10:00 129 Centerway 11:10 The Blackening (R) (!) 11:30-3:15- Rise 12:00 Elemental (PG) 10:50-1:40-4:30-
Transformers: Rise Of The The Boogeyman (PG-13) 5:50-
11:00-1:45-4:00-7:50-10:50 Spider-Man: Across the Spi- Spider-Man: Across the Spi- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 7:00-10:00 Beasts (PG-13) CC: 11:45-2:55- Somewhere in Queens (R) 12:15- 7:20-10:10 8:30-11:00
Elemental (PG) CC: 10:20-4:15- der-Verse (PG) CC: 10:45-12:15- der-Verse (PG) 5:00 (PG-13) 11:30-3:30-6:50-10:20 5:15-7:10-8:25-11:30 2:35-7:20 The Blackening (R) 11:00-1:50- The Blackening (R) 11:10-1:50-
2:00-3:45-5:15-7:00-8:30-10:15 Dalíland 2:15-5:15 The Little Mermaid (PG) 10:35- VIRGINIA The Flash (PG-13) CC: 12:00- It Ain't Over (PG) 9:55-2:20 4:40-7:30-10:00 4:50-7:25-10:00
The Blackening (R) CC: 11:45- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Spider-Man: Across the Spi- 2:10-5:20-8:30 AMC Courthouse Plaza 8 6:35-10:05 The Night of the 12th 9:45-2:30- The Roundup: No Way Out 11:20- Elemental 3D (PG) 1:20
2:15-5:00-7:30-11:00 (PG-13) CC: 12:05-3:30-7:05- der-Verse (PG) 2:00 Elemental (PG) 12:10-1:30-3:00- 2150 Clarendon Blvd. Spider-Man: Across the Spi- 7:30-9:50 1:00-3:40-6:30-9:10 j-hope IN THE BOX 7:00
Transformers: Rise Of The 10:25 4:20-5:50-7:10-8:50-10:00 der-Verse (PG) CC: 9:30-10:30- You Hurt My Feelings (R) 10:00- The Flash (PG-13) OC: 1:30 SUGA: Road to D-DAY 3:00
The Super Mario Bros. Movie Phoenix Theatres Marlow 6
About My Father (PG-13) 9:30
Transformers: Rise Of The
Beasts 3D (PG-13) CC: 5:40 3899 Branch Avenue Beasts (PG-13) CC: 1:30-4:30- 11:35-12:55-2:00-3:05-4:20-5:20- 12:05-8:00-9:50 Spider-Man: Across the Spi- Transformers: Rise Of The
(PG) CC: 12:15-2:45-5:15-7:45 The Blackening (R) 11:10-2:00- 7:30 6:30-7:40-8:45-9:55-11:00 Dalíland 9:55-4:50-9:30 der-Verse (PG) 11:30-12:30-2:50- Beasts (PG-13) 10:40-1:40-4:40-
7:00 The Little Mermaid (PG) CC: Transformers: Rise Of The 4:50-7:20-9:50
Beasts (PG-13) 11:00-1:45-7:15- Elemental 3D (PG) 10:40AM The Flash (PG-13) CC: 11:15- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 About My Father (PG-13) 12:20- 3:50-6:10-7:10-9:20-10:20 5:40-7:40-8:40-10:50
AMC Columbia 14
12:00-3:30-6:45-10:00 (PG-13) CC: 12:10-3:40-7:05- 2:05-6:00-9:10 The Flash (PG-13) 10:30-11:00-
10:05 12:00-1:00-3:20-4:20-6:40-7:40- Regal Fox & IMAX
10300 Little Patuxent Parkway Elemental (PG) CC: 10:45-12:00- j-hope IN THE BOX 7:00 9:55-11:00 10:35 The Flash (PG-13) 4:15 12:30-1:00-2:00-4:30-5:30-7:30-
1:30-3:00-4:15-5:45-7:00-8:30- The Flash (PG-13) 12:00-3:15- SUGA: Road to D-DAY 3:00 22875 Brambleton Plaza
6:45-10:00 Spider-Man: Across the Spi- The Little Mermaid (PG) CC: It Ain't Over (PG) 4:40 8:00-9:00-9:50
9:45 Spider-Man: Across the Spi- 11:05-2:25-6:05-9:20 You Hurt My Feelings (R) 4:00 Transformers: Rise Of The Spider-Man: Across the
6:00-9:15 Spider-Man: Across the der-Verse (PG) CC: 12:50-4:00- Beasts (PG-13) 9:50-11:40-2:50-
Spider-Verse (PG) 12:05-3:00-
der-Verse (PG) 10:25-11:50-1:40- 7:10-7:50-10:20-11:00 The Flash: The IMAX 2D Expe- Cinemark Centreville 12 Spider-Verse (PG) 10:50-11:40-
10:10 3:20-5:00-6:40-8:20-10:10 rience (PG-13) CC: 10:00-1:20- 6:10-9:20-10:50 12:40-2:10-3:00-4:10-6:20-7:20-
rience (PG-13) CC: 12:20-3:40- The Boogeyman (PG-13) CC: 6:00-9:05 The Little Mermaid (PG) CC: 6201 Multiplex Drive
7:00-10:15 Regal UA Snowden Square 1:05-4:10-7:20-10:25 4:40-8:05-11:25 The Flash (PG-13) 12:30-4:00- 9:50-10:40
2:00-7:45 The Little Mermaid (PG) 12:30- Transformers: Rise Of The 7:30-11:00
Elemental (PG) CC: 3:00 3:35-6:35-9:30 9161 Commerce Center Drive Elemental (PG) CC: 10:55-1:40- Elemental (PG) CC: 3:20 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
The Blackening (R) CC: 10:00- Beasts (PG-13) OC: 3:15 Adipurush (Hindi) 1:30 (PG-13) 11:20-2:50-6:40-10:15
The Blackening (R) CC: 11:45- 12:30-3:00-5:30-8:00-10:30 Elemental (PG) 11:00-1:30- Transformers: Rise Of The 2:30-5:10-7:00-9:40 The Boogeyman (PG-13) CC: The Flash (PG-13) OC: 1:20
2:15-4:45-7:15-9:45 6:30-9:00 Beasts (PG-13) 11:40-1:10-2:50- The Blackening (R) CC: 11:05- 7:50-10:30 Adipurush (Telugu) 12:20-4:10- The Little Mermaid (PG) 11:50-
Transformers: Rise Of The Spider-Man: Across the Spi- 5:40-8:10-9:40 3:20-6:30-9:40
Elemental 3D (PG) CC: 1:45-7:15 Beasts (PG-13) OC: 3:15 Transformers: Rise Of The 4:20-6:20-7:40-9:20 12:30-3:00-5:30-8:00-10:30 The Blackening (R) CC: 10:05- der-Verse (PG) OC: 3:50
The Flash (PG-13) CC: 5:00-8:15 The Flash (PG-13) OC: 6:15; Beasts 3D (PG-13) 4:30 The Flash (PG-13) 11:00-2:30- Transformers: Rise Of The 12:40-3:15-5:45-8:20-10:55 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Smithsonian -
Adipurush (Hindi) 9:20-5:05
The Blackening (R) 11:30-2:00- 6:00-9:30 Beasts 3D (PG-13) CC: 10:25 The Little Mermaid 3D (PG) CC: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (PG-13) 12:10-3:40-7:15-10:40 Airbus IMAX Theater
3:30-4:30-6:15-9:00 4:45-7:15-9:35 The Super Mario Bros. Movie Elemental 3D (PG) CC: 4:20 9:50-1:00-4:35 The Super Mario Bros. Movie 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway
Cinemark Egyptian 24 and XD (PG-13) 8:30 (PG) 10:10-12:50-3:50
The Flash (PG-13) OC: 1:40 Elemental 3D (PG) 4:00 (PG) 11:10AM AMC Hoffman Center 22 Transformers: Rise Of The The Little Mermaid (PG) OC: Journey to Space (NR) 10:20-
7000 Arundel Mills Circle Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Beasts 3D (PG-13) CC: 9:35- The Little Mermaid (PG) 11:20- 1:05-3:15
Regal Cinemas Majestic 206 Swamp Fox Rd. 4:05 3:00-6:40-10:00
Transformers: Rise Of The (PG-13) 11:30-3:00-6:40 12:45-4:00-10:15 Aircraft Carrier: Guardian of the
9811 Washingtonian Center Beasts (PG-13) OC: 3:05; Stadium 20 & IMAX Elemental (PG) 12:30 Elemental (PG) OC: 12:45 The Flash: The IMAX 2D
The Little Mermaid (PG) 11:50-10:10 Elemental 3D (PG) CC: 11:15- Seas 12:25
900 Ellsworth Drive The Boogeyman (PG-13) 10:50 Experience (PG-13) 12:00-3:30-
Fast X (PG-13) CC: 10:40-4:45- 10:05-11:50-1:25-4:45-6:25-8:05-
Fast X (PG-13) 2:00-5:30-9:10 Elemental (PG) 11:20-12:50-3:50- Fast X (PG-13) CC: 10:00-1:15-
4:30-7:45-11:00
2:10-5:05-8:00-10:45
Transformers: Rise Of The To Fly! (1976) (NR) 10:55-1:45
6:15-9:45 9:45-11:25 5:20-6:55-8:10 j-hope IN THE BOX 7:00 7:00-10:30
Transformers: Rise Of The Transformers: Rise Of The Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts 3D (PG-13) 12:05 The Flash: The IMAX 2D Experi-
The Flash (PG-13) 9:20-10:00- SUGA: Road to D-DAY 3:00 Elemental (PG) 10:20-1:20-2:25-
Beasts (PG-13) CC: 9:45-12:45- 10:35-12:00-12:40-12:55-1:20- Beasts (PG-13) 10:10-12:25-1:25- The Boogeyman (PG-13) 9:50 Beasts (PG-13) CC: 11:00-12:00- Elemental 3D (PG) 11:30-5:10-8:00 4:15-5:20-7:10-10:10 ence (PG-13) 4:05-7:00
3:45-7:00-10:45 3:40-4:40-6:10-7:45-9:10-9:50 The Blackening (R) 11:10-1:50- 3:00-5:00-6:00-8:00-9:00-11:00 The Flash (PG-13) CC: 11:25- j-hope IN THE BOX 6:00 Blue Planet (Il pianeta azzurro)
1:55-3:20-4:00-4:20-5:15-6:40- 4:40-7:20-10:00 2:20-3:30-5:40-7:15-9:10-10:40 The Blackening (R) 11:05-1:45- (NR) 11:30AM
The Flash (PG-13) CC: 12:00- 7:20-7:40-8:00-8:35-10:00-10:40- The Flash (PG-13) 10:00-10:30- The Flash (PG-13) CC: 12:00- SUGA: Road to D-DAY 3:30
Elemental 3D (PG) 2:20 Elemental (PG) CC: 10:20-1:10- 4:35-7:20-10:05 The Dream is Alive (NR) 2:25
11:00-11:20 12:30-1:00-1:30-2:30-4:00-4:30- 6:30-9:45 Transformers: Rise Of The
5:00-5:30-6:00-7:30-8:00-8:30- j-hope IN THE BOX 7:00 4:05-6:55-9:45 Elemental 3D (PG) 9:35AM University Mall Theatres
Adipurush (Telugu) 10:15-2:15- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Man: Across the Spi- Beasts (PG-13) 10:35-1:40-4:45-
9:00-9:30 SUGA: Road to D-DAY 3:00 der-Verse (PG) CC: 11:00-12:00- The Flash (PG-13) OC: 10:40AM 6:20-7:50-9:25-10:55 j-hope IN THE BOX 7:00 10659-A Braddock Road
Spider-Verse (PG) OC: 3:45; Fast X (PG-13) 2:40 SUGA: Road to D-DAY 3:00
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 9:05-9:45-10:55-12:25-1:05- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 1:00-2:15-3:15-4:15-5:30-6:00- AMC Worldgate 9 Spider-Man: Across the Spi- The Flash (PG-13) CC; DVS: 1:15-
(PG-13) CC: 9:30-12:50-4:20- 2:25-4:25-5:55-7:05-7:50-9:25- (PG-13) 1:45-5:20-8:55 The Flash (PG-13) 12:00-12:30- 7:30-8:45-9:15-10:00-10:45 13025 Worldgate Drive der-Verse (PG) 9:30-12:30-2:10- Zara Hatke Zara Bachke 7:15-10:05
7:40-11:00 10:30-11:10 Adipurush (Hindi) 1:50 1:00-3:30-4:00-7:00-7:30-8:00 Adipurush (Telugu) 10:30-2:30- Transformers: Rise Of The 5:30-7:10-8:50-10:30 6:20-9:50 Elemental (PG) CC; DVS: 12:15-
The Super Mario Bros. Movie Adipurush (Telugu) 10:55-2:50- The Super Mario Bros. Movie Spider-Man: Across the Spi- 6:30-10:30 Beasts (PG-13) CC: 9:30-12:30- The Flash (PG-13) 9:00-9:40- Fast X (PG-13) 10:00AM 2:30-7:00-9:20
(PG) CC: 10:45-1:15-3:45 6:45 (PG) 11:10AM der-Verse (PG) 12:10-1:30-3:40- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 3:45-7:00-10:00-10:15 10:00-10:50-12:20-1:00-3:40-4:20- The Flash (PG-13) 11:00-1:00- The Flash (PG-13) OC; DVS: 4:15
The Little Mermaid (PG) CC: Adipurush (Telugu) 5:45-9:40 5:00-6:10-7:10-8:30-9:40 (PG-13) CC: 12:30-4:00-7:30- The Flash (PG-13) CC: 9:45- 4:40-7:00-7:40-8:00-10:20-11:00 2:30-4:30-6:00-8:00-9:30 Spider-Man: Across the
Elemental (PG) 11:00-1:50-4:40-
10:45-2:00-5:15-8:30 7:30-10:20; 5:25; 9:15-10:15-1:05- The Little Mermaid (PG) 10:45- Regal Waugh Chapel & IMAX 11:00 11:30-12:30-1:15-3:15-4:15-6:30- Adipurush (Telugu) 1:10-9:00 The Boogeyman (PG-13) 8:20 Spider-Verse (PG) CC; DVS: 1:00-
11:20-2:30-5:45-9:00 1419 South Main Chapel Way The Super Mario Bros. Movie 7:30-9:30-10:00 The Little Mermaid (PG) 9:25- Elemental 3D (PG) 11:30AM 7:30-10:05
The Flash: The IMAX 2D Transformers: Rise Of The (PG) CC: 10:30-1:00-3:30 Spider-Man: Across the Spi- 12:50-7:20-10:35 Spider-Man: Across the Spi- Elemental (PG) OC; DVS: 4:45
6:00-9:30 Beasts 3D (PG-13) 9:25-1:00- Experience (PG-13) 12:00-3:30- Beasts (PG-13) 10:50-11:20-2:20- The Little Mermaid (PG) CC: der-Verse (PG) CC: 12:00-1:10- Elemental (PG) 9:15-9:45-10:30- der-Verse (PG) 10:30-11:50-2:00- Spider-Man: Across the Spi-
Elemental (PG) CC: 3:30 4:15-7:40-11:00 7:00-10:30 4:50-5:20-8:20-10:50 11:30-12:45-2:45-6:00-9:15-10:30 3:00-4:30-6:15 1:20-2:20-4:10-7:00-9:50 3:20-5:30-6:50-9:00-10:20 der-Verse (PG) OC; DVS: 4:00
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history, attended by 112 Lowers the diïculty
   
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31 Features of Christmas and maintenance of    

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35 Starting line?
36 Course on journalism
and media, attended by
elevator manufacturers
42 Pizza party portion
45 Undertaking
46 ___ down (reduce)
47 Chartered vehicle
50 Sink declogger brand
52 Risk some cash
53 Lockheed Electra 10E
aviator9s ûrst name
55 Vulnerable
57 Course on human
societies and cultures,
attended by rink
athletes
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62 Fish or ham follower
64 <Good one=
65 Flabbergasted
67 Course on written
works across diferent
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German car salesmen
76 Caribbean destination
attended by reporters
from an MSNBC rival
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122 Susan G. ___ 8 On a smaller scale 38 Grp. that Finland joined 70 Hull sealant, once 102 Emulated a food critic
(foundation that funds 9 ___ rights movement in 2023 71 Fire sign of the zodiac (or, really, anybody)
breast cancer research) (neurodiversity 39 Cooking ûuids 72 Societal stressors 103 Undercover ûgures
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phenomena, attended 10 Group of political allies 41 Kill it, as on stage brieûy sudden-death period
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developers <Matriarch of the Blues= 44 Sov drink container 75 Kayaking trip vortex 107 Move, as ûuid through
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126 Establish at the capitol 13 Pathetic sort 48 Engaged in 80 Traditional outdoor 108 Added
127 Removed, as a rind 14 <|at hits really close to 49 <We ___ to be at an party 109 Fixed, as a pet
128 <What9d I tell you?= home= impasse= 81 Poses a question 112 Spreadsheet listing
129 G.I. doctor? 15 Like much vehicular 51 <We weren9t expecting 83 Formal recitation 113 Be in accord
130 Stacks with jacks assistance you!= 84 ___ camp 114 Demonstrating poise
131 Played (with) 16 Potent or present preûx 52 Historical Czech region 85 Ilhan in the House 115 Sitting in a lot, say
132 Teacher9s advanced 17 Lymph ___ (immune near Moravia since 2019 116 MLB Hall of Famer
deg., hidden in system organ) 53 Gelatinous thickener 86 Part of a treasure trove Guerrero, nicknamed
<advanced degree= 18 Smart aleck9s attitude 54 1969 Sinatra album 87 Chihuahua9s bark ___ the Impaler
24 One of two ûips 56 Calistoga9s wine valley 90 CBS spinof set in 117 Computer lab Apple
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Delta9s breakthrough seat
could improve experience
for wheelchair users. F2
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F2
Sometimes you have to be a tourist instead of a traveler
BY N ATALIE B . C OMPTON
To submit a travel hack to The
Upgrade, visit wapo.st/upgrade.
The first sign I was breaking
down was at a fruit stand in
Hanoi. I kept handing the vendor
the incorrect amount of money as
she kept shaking her head and
repeating the price. Finally, she
put both of us out of our misery
by taking the correct amount out
of my hand.
I had done my best Anthony
Bourdain impersonation for
eight days in Southeast Asia:
eating street food on sidewalks,
taking Muay Thai classes, ventur-
ing out of city centers to meet
locals on their farm and try their
mom9s home cooking. I9d spent
A 8tremendous ûrst step9: Delta unveils prototype for wheelchair-friendly seat
BY H ANNAH S AMPSON
John Morris had to see it for
himself.
An accessible travel expert
who uses a power wheelchair,
Morris flew to Hamburg to check
out a prototype of a new airline
seat being unveiled by a subsid-
iary of Delta Air Lines that could
dramatically 4 although not im-
mediately 4 improve the flying
experience for wheelchair users.
In an email from Germany,
Morris called the seat a <tremen-
dous first step in the race to
accommodate disabled passen-
gers9 personal wheelchairs in the
aircraft cabin.= Travelers who use
motorized wheelchairs have been
asking for such a solution for
years as complaints have mount-
ed about damage to chairs that
have to be stowed with luggage.
Last year, U.S. airlines mishan-
dled 11,389 wheelchairs and
scooters, or 1.54 per 100 that were
loaded onto planes.
Delta Flight Products, a sub-
sidiary of Delta Air Lines, showed
off the prototype at the Aircraft
Interiors Expo in Hamburg. The
concept is the result of years of
work, first among a group called
Air 4 All that includes design
studio PriestmanGoode, advoca-
cy organization Flying Disabled,
wheelchair manufacturer Sun-
rise Medical and SWS Certifica-
tion, which works to get approv-
als for airplane interior products.
The consortium has been
working with Delta Flight Prod-
ucts for more than a year but only
recently announced the partner-
ship.
<With their contribution we
have reached a position where we
have a fully working prototype
that DFP can showcase to all
airlines,= Daniel MacInnes, direc-
roughly 38 hours on overnight
trains, sleeping on questionable
bedding and bathing with baby
wipes. By the time I got to Hanoi,
I was ready to throw in the towel
on doing as the locals do.
Somewhere between leaving
the train station, eating pho and
taking a motorbike in the wrong
direction 4 there it was. An oasis
beyond the treacherous traffic: a
tourist trap.
These places aren9t the hole-in-
the-wall mom-and-pops hiding
down an alley; they9re the easy-
to-find spots on the beaten path
with big menus translated into
many languages. Their propri-
etors may charge exponentially
more than a locals-only estab-
lishment, perhaps to cover the
high rent of operating near popu-
This rendering shows an airplane seat prototype that would allow people who use power wheelchairs
to stay in their chairs during a flight. The product is still in the early development stages, Delta said.
tor of PriestmanGoode, said in an
emailed response to questions.
<Having something tangible for
users to test and to demonstrate
brings it much closer to flying,
but no announcements have been
made on the first airline partner.=
The system allows airlines to
keep the designs of their cabins
and lets a standard seat fold up to
accommodate a wheelchair re-
straint. If no wheelchair user is
on board, it can be used like any
other seat. The prototype has
been developed for the front row
of a narrow-body plane and could
fit two power wheelchairs, one on
each side of the aisle, according
to PriestmanGoode. Travelers
eZ ee
ThE UPgrADE
lar sights. Or just because they
can.
But tourist traps aren9t just
bars selling overpriced drinks or
souvenir shops pushing kitsch.
They can be museums and monu-
ments 4 places that hover at the
top of Tripadvisor lists. There9s a
time and place for them, too. As
much as we want to see new
destinations like locals, it would
be criminal not to see some of
their most well-known sites. The
idea of going to northern India
and skipping the Taj Mahal is
absurd.
My tourist trap was a charm-
ing restaurant on Hanoi9s Hoan
Kiem Lake, not far from where
visitors flock to see the city9s
famous water puppet show. It
had a terrace with yellow-striped
would have access to the seat9s
headrest, center console tray ta-
bles and cocktail table.
The system would not make it
possible for travelers to use their
own chairs to get into lavatories;
a manual transfer to the restroom
would be necessary using a small-
er wheelchair. Planes with more
than one aisle need to have an
accessible lavatory, but under an
agreement reached in 2016, sin-
gle-aisle planes will not be re-
quired to offer the same accessi-
bility for years still.
MacInnes said the goal is to be
able to fit as many kinds of power
wheelchairs as possible.
<The reason for the focus on
awnings, and I asked to sit at one
of the tables under a red umbrel-
la. I sloughed off my heavy back-
pack and tough-guy persona; I
finally had permission to rest.
These days, everyone wants to
be a <traveler,= not a <tourist.=
Both mean you9re away from
home, exploring someplace for-
eign to you, but one term has
cachet while the other gets a bad
rap.
But being a <traveler= can be
exhausting. After peeling myself
off my train bunk bed, I trudged
with my backpack (I go carry-on
only 4 no wheels 4 for the
practicality and the bragging
rights) around the neighborhood
in search of lunch before I could
check in to my hotel. Along a
narrow and chaotic road, a pass-
PrIestmangoode
powered wheelchairs is that
those users face the biggest barri-
ers and transfer to a standard
seat is not an option for them as
their wheelchair is an extension
of their body and essential for the
entire journey,= he said in the
email.
In a statement, Delta called the
system <a first-of-its-kind air-
plane seat= but cautioned that the
process was still far from appear-
ing in a cabin.
<This product remains in its
early development stages, with
approximately 18 months of work
and reviews ahead, but Delta will
keep a keen eye on the progress of
this concept being driven by our
the washington post
IllustratIon by mIn heo for the WashIngton Post
ing motorbike caught one of my
backpack straps and nearly
dragged me to the ground into
traffic. Shaken but okay, I finally
found a street-food stall with
enough room for one more, sat
down self-consciously and over-
analyzed how I was eating.
Being a <tourist,= on the other
hand, is freeing. There is no
pressure to be cool. You are
allowed to be a guidebook-toting,
comfortable-shoe-wearing, self-
ie-taking outsider 4 all enthusi-
asm, no shame.
Tourist traps welcome tourists
with open arms. You9re not just
allowed to be there, but they also
want you there. And they have
WiFi, bathrooms and English
menus to prove it.
But there is a line. I wasn9t
subsidiary 4 as we are always
looking for ways to improve the
travel experience for all custom-
ers,= the statement said.
MacInnes said design deci-
sions would be finalized based on
feedback during the expo in
Hamburg, then the application
for regulatory certification would
begin. The seat would then need
to be tested, including in flight
trials.
The seat would be available to
Delta as well as other airlines, but
it9s not clear how long it could
take beyond those 18 months
before such an option could be
available for travelers.
The debut follows a push from
U.S. officials to make air travel
more accessible for wheelchair
users. Last month, a group of
bipartisan senators introduced a
bill that would require the Trans-
portation Department to report
on the type of damage that occurs
to wheelchairs and mobility aids.
<No other form of transporta-
tion 4 trains, buses, boats 4
forces you to give up your mobili-
ty device when you board. The
same ought to be true of airlines,=
Transportation Secretary Pete
Buttigieg said last summer. <So,
in the months and years ahead,
we plan to work toward a new
rule that will allow passengers to
stay in their personal wheel-
chairs when they fly. We know
this won9t happen overnight, but
it is a goal that we have to work to
fulfill.=
Morris, founder of Wheelchair-
Travel.org, said in his email that
the seat9s integrated securement
system <shows promise= in lock-
ing in powered and manual
wheelchairs.
<No wheelchair securement
concept has made it this far in the
design and development process,
. sunday, june 18 , 2023
going to waste an entire meal at
my tourist trap. A snack? Fair
game. I ordered an iced coffee
and a cup of coconut ice cream. I
gazed at the lake, wrote post-
cards, read a few pages of my
guidebook, watched a tourist at
the table next to me ask the
server to take her photo with her
towering sundae. It was glorious.
And instead of being humiliated
by my capitulation, I owned my
decision to embrace my inner
tourist and posted a photo of the
scene on Instagram. Like a tour-
ist.
Once I paid my bill, which was
three times as much as I could
have paid for the same fare else-
where, I felt refreshed. I hulked
my backpack back on and re-
sumed roughing it.
and I believe that it offers a
solution that could one day make
air travel significantly more ac-
cessible to millions of wheelchair
users,= he wrote.
He cautioned that more work
was needed to make sure some
complex rehab power wheel-
chairs like his could be accommo-
dated, but said that the team that
demonstrated the system to him
seemed confident that the major-
ity of wheelchairs could fit in
future versions.
<I9m optimistic about an acces-
sible air travel future!= Morris
wrote.
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Your bug forecast
BY A NDREA S ACHS
Excited for bikini and board-
short season? So are the biting
bugs of summer. Mosquitoes and
other nipping flies, such as horse,
black and greenhead, thrive in
warm environments (80 degrees
is ideal) near a water source, such
as a lake, river or baby pool. Ticks
are also out in full force, hitching
rides on passing hikers. Basically,
every summer vacation destina-
tion is full of bugs.
“In terms of mosquito season, I
think it’s here. It’s upon us,” said
Michael Raupp, an emeritus pro-
fessor of entomology at the Uni-
versity of Maryland.
In tropical locales, bug season
is always in full swing. In cooler
climes, it is shorter but no less
intense. Alaska and Maine claim
the mosquito as their unofficial
state bird, after all. Though cold-
er spring temperatures can delay
the insects’ arrival, once the
weather starts to heat up, the
pests will get busy, breeding and
biting.
“Every year is kind of bad no
matter what, and certainly for
people traveling locally as well as
internationally,” said Laura C.
Harrington, a professor of ento-
mology at Cornell University.
“There are heightened concerns
about mosquito- or tick-borne
diseases.”
Experts say global warming
has been a boon to insects notori-
ous for crashing summertime
outings. Unfortunately for us,
they have been expanding into
new regions and sticking around
for longer.
“With climate change, we’re
definitely noticing changes in ac-
tivity,” Harrington said. “We’re
seeing shifts in the movement of
mosquitoes and ticks into areas
where they hadn’t been before.”
Jessica Ware, associate curator
of invertebrate zoology at the
American Museum of Natural
History in Manhattan, urged
summer lovers to not vilify all
insects. Some are on our side,
such as dragonflies, which eat
mosquitoes. But she understands
our antipathy for the blood suck-
ers.
“It’s okay to hate mosquitoes
and to not want to be bitten by
black flies,” said Ware, who
helped develop the museum’s
new insectarium, “but those are
just a tiny fraction of the million
and a half insect species out
there.”
Here is how to avoid becoming
an all-you-can-eat buffet for some
of the worst biters of summer.
Mosquitoes on both sides
of the Atlantic
Mosquitoes are incredibly an-
noying. They’re also dangerous.
The females — the biting half
of the duo — can transmit a
number of diseases, such as den-
gue, Zika and chikungunya. The
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention has detected all three
illnesses in the United States and
its territories in past years, in-
cluding Florida, Hawaii, Texas,
Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin
Islands.
Malaria is less common in the
United States. Of the approxi-
mately 2,000 annual cases re-
ported domestically, the CDC said
most of the patients contracted
the parasite while traveling in
such malarial hot spots as sub-
Saharan Africa or South Asia.
However, “West Nile is the
most common mosquito-borne
pathogen in the United States,”
Harrington said.
Across the Atlantic, the Euro-
pean Center for Disease Preven-
tion and Control (ECDC) warns of
the rise of mosquito-borne dis-
eases spread by such invasive
species as the Asian tiger, Asian
bush and yellow fever. In 2021,
the organization reported cases
in Greece, Italy, Hungary, Roma-
nia, Spain, Germany and Austria.
Ten people did not survive.
Last year, Northern Italy suf-
fered a rash of West Nile infec-
tions, with the Veneto region
experiencing the brunt of the
outbreak. This year appears more
promising: As of May 31, no E.U.
country or neighboring nation
has reported a human case of
West Nile.
With more than 3,000 species
of mosquitoes worldwide, and
about 200 in the United States,
your bare skin is rarely safe. Some
mosquitoes bite at dusk and
dawn; others prefer dining dur-
ing the day.
“We call them day-biting mos-
quitoes and night-biting mosqui-
toes,” Ware said. “That means you
probably can be bitten any time
of the day.”
To help people prepare for the
outdoors, AccuWeather created a
seven-day mosquito forecast
(bit.ly/accu-activity), which fac-
tors in breeding conditions, ges-
tation periods and weather. Val-
ues range from “extreme” (e.g.,
Miami) to “low” (Provincetown,
Mass.).
“We developed an index that
really looks at what the life cycles
are and how many mosquitoes
there are going to be at any given
time,” said Marshall Moss, vice
president of operations quality
and innovation with AccuWeath-
er. “How long they’ll last varies a
bit on weather. So that is factored
in, too.”
Last May, the company that
makes Off bug repellent intro-
duced a similar tool called
Off!Cast Mosquito Forecast, a col-
laboration between SC Johnson’s
Center for Insect Science, Google
Cloud and Climate Engine. The
service debuted with U.S. destina-
tions and expanded to Brazil in
February, with plans to add more
markets in the future.
Tom Mascari, an entomologist
at the Center for Insect Science,
provided an early summer pro-
jection: “Over the past several
weeks, areas of Florida, including
Fort Myers, Naples, West Palm
Beach, Miami and Fort Lauder-
dale, have seen severe mosquito
activity, while states such as Tex-
as and Louisiana are beginning to
experience very high activity.”
How to combat mosquitoes:
Spray on and cover up
Protect yourself from mosqui-
toes, and their future genera-
tions, by disrupting their breed-
ing grounds: Dump vessels con-
taining standing water, such as
grill covers, sand pails or red Solo
cups. To deflect bites, wear light-
colored clothes that cover as
much exposed skin as possible.
(Mascari said mosquitoes are
drawn to dark garments, the
carbon dioxide you release while
breathing, body heat and lactic
acid.) Before heading out, liberal-
ly spray yourself with a bug
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repellent approved by the Envi- rington said. humans and dog. Even so, you she said.
ronmental Protection Agency. Though ticks are typically should always take precautions If you are worried that you
Raupp chooses his repellent prevalent from April through when playing outdoors. Raupp brought home a highjacker,
based on his setting and amount September, some have been sur- follows a principle he calls “AIR”: throw your clothes into the wash-
of exposure. He uses oil of the viving deep into the shoulder avoid, inspect, remove. er and dry them for 20 to 30
lemon eucalyptus, a botanically seasons. Others never leave. The “If you’re out for a hike, stay in minutes at moderate to high heat.
based product, if he’s puttering American Kennel Club (bit.ly/ the center of the trail,” he said of “This will kill any ticks that came
around the yard for several hours. akc-tick), of all organizations, has the first step. “You’re not going to back with you,” Raupp said.
For tromping through salt a good map of tick seasons by find ticks along a paved pathway Next, conduct a full-body
marshes, he will spray on picari- state. or mulch bed.” search for ticks. Raupp said that
din, which provides six to eight Internationally, the CDC has If you trek through tick-infest- if you can remove a blacklegged
hours of protection. In a tropical documented Lyme disease in a ed terrain, he recommends wear- tick within the first 24 hours,
rainforest, where he is at risk of wide swath in Europe, from ing long pants and “doing the your chances of contracting Lyme
contracting dengue, yellow fever southern Scandinavia to Italy, geeky thing” by tucking them into disease are “infinitesimally
or malaria, he will pull out the Spain, Portugal and Greece, and your socks. Harrington suggests small.”
hard stuff: DEET. from the British Isles to central spraying your shirt cuffs, hat, To extract the tick, pick up a
When choosing a DEET prod- Russia. Central and Eastern Eu- socks and shoes with repellent. pair of tweezers and show no
uct, look for 30 percent concen- rope are the biggest trouble spots. Or buy pretreated clothing. remorse.
tration. You don’t need to go One reassuring fact: Only a few “I treat my shoes like my hik- “Grab the tick firmly behind
much higher. The CDC said levels species of ticks cause diseases in ing boots with permethrin,” the head and twist,” Ware said.
above 5o percent do not provide
additional protection.
Black flies near the water
The pros of black flies: They
are not disease vectors. The cons:
Their bites feel like a hard pinch
from the meanest kid on the
Why waste a week by just
staying the weekend?
playground.
“Black flies are really good at
feasting on us,” Ware said. “They
have mouth parts like a cheese
grater. They make a little scrape
and dab up the blood. It’s very
painful.”
Black flies are found all over
the world. They often congregate
in areas with moving water, such
as streams and rivers, where they
lay their eggs. Only the females
bite, and they dine indiscrimi-
nately.
“You can be bitten anywhere,
but you’re less likely to be bitten
by a horse or black fly in down-
town Manhattan than you would
in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey
or on a river in Upstate New
York,” Ware said.
Harrington said deer flies,
horse flies and greenheads often
terrorize beach areas, and stable
flies breed in seaweed and debris
that washes up on the shore.
“There’s a whole bunch of non-
biting flies that get in your eyes,”
she added.
Black-fly season can run for
weeks or months, depending on
the variety. Many species are out
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8It9s like Starbucks9: Inside Thailand9s legal weed scene
Country sees plenty
of shops crop up after
decriminalization of pot
BY N ATALIE B . C OMPTON
BANGKOK 4 Tucked away from
city traffic in an alley full of
massage parlors, office buildings
and hotels, the place looks like it
could be a cocktail bar. Custom-
ers can sit in leather armchairs or
claim a high stool at the wooden
L-shaped bar. The shelves,
though, are absent of alcohol. In
lieu of the typical bottles and
glassware, there are bongs, roll-
ing papers, grinders and dramati-
cally lit jars of cannabis flowers
such as Critical Purple Kush and
Amnesia Haze, the most popular
strain in the shop.
All the Smoke Lounge is one of
the classier places to get high in
Bangkok.
Thousands of weed businesses
have opened in Thailand since
the country removed the plant
from its list of banned narcotics
on June 9, 2022, becoming the
first country in Asia to decrimi-
nalize cannabis. In that short
time, entrepreneurs such as All
the Smoke owner Rithichai <Mai=
Chaisingharn have changed the
physical landscape of the king-
dom exponentially.
<Weed went from being some-
thing as sinister as heroin to as
innocent as a tomato overnight,=
said Chaisingharn, 39, a lifelong
cannabis smoker who had fanta-
sized about opening a shop akin
to a cigar store.
Now there are swanky bars and
dinner cruises in Bangkok, and
you can find wooden shacks and
beachside lounges on tourist-
filled beaches. They9ve become so
prolific that <it9s like Starbucks,=
said Vanessa Dora Lavorato, 36,
an edible maker and TV host who
visited Thailand in January.
<There9s a pot shop on every
corner.=
Travelers can get a 90-minute
cannabis-themed massage treat-
ment, complete with a soak in an
infused bath, at Anantara resorts,
or book half-day tours of canna-
bis farms. In Bangkok, the canna-
bis tour company Budler (pro-
nounced like <butler) is getting
off the ground, taking customers
to dispensaries, cultural sites and
places to eat.
It9s a far cry from the country9s
previous stance on weed, and
where the drug stands in the rest
of the region.
<Southeast Asia in general has
always been really very strict [on
drugs],= said Bangkok-based au-
thor Joe Cummings, who wrote
the first Lonely Planet guidebook
for Thailand.
Scaling back the
8war on drugs9
Before Thailand criminalized
cannabis in 1935, the plant had
been a standard fixture of cook-
ing and medicine. Cummings
said there was a laissez-faire atti-
tude toward cannabis when he
lived in the country in the 970s
and 980s, even after the country
reinforced its narcotics laws in
1979.
<It was common to see it in
little restaurants, especially boat
noodle restaurants,= he said. <And
you could go down to a dock or
any kind of pier, and the fisher-
men would be smoking openly.=
Over time, the government
grew more serious about its <war
on drugs,= setting fire to millions
of dollars9 worth of marijuana on
the International Day Against
Drug Abuse and Illicit Traffick-
ing. Weed wasn9t as widely avail-
able, but it was easy enough to
find in backpacker hot spots or
red-light districts. Arrests for rec-
reational use were common and
could lead to fines.
But, Cummings said, punish-
ments for possession weren9t as
severe as in neighboring coun-
tries such as Malaysia, Singapore,
Indonesia and Myanmar.
The laws are even lighter today.
And after the government re-
moved the plant from its list of
banned narcotics, more than
4,200 people incarcerated for al-
leged marijuana crimes became
eligible for release.
Weed9s wide reach
On her latest trip to sleepy
Naiyang Beach, less than two
miles from Phuket International
Airport, Marissa Caluzzi found
familiar golden sand, street-food
carts and whistling pine trees.
But something dank was in the
air.
<You can smell it,= said Caluzzi,
56, who has been coming to Nai-
yang Beach from Australia for
decades. <People sit on their bal-
conies and smoke and just come
out on the beach and smoke.=
Smoking in public is technical-
ly illegal, punishable by a public
nuisance fine of $780 or a poten-
tial three-month sentence. In
April, Thailand9s Department of
Health warned that the enforce-
TOP: Argentine tourists Luciano and Daiana inspect the options at Leaf5 in Bangkok in May.
ABOVE: Weed offerings sit on display at Skushi, a dispensary in Phuket that caters to tourists.
ment of the rule would become
more strict.
Cannabis products with over
0.2 percent THC are illegal in
Thailand. (Most U.S. states with
legalized cannabis don9t have a
cap on potency.) Otherwise, any-
one can now buy and consume
weed if they9re over 20 years old
and are not pregnant or breast-
feeding. People can even take
marijuana on planes for domestic
flights.
<I think it is good for tourism,=
said Prawit <Wit= Chankasem, 39,
who has been a tour guide in
Bangkok for 13 years. Weed has
become a huge presence not only
in tourist areas and big cities, but
also in local areas where it is
Chanchanok Suknauvarat smokes in front of his store in Naiyang Beach. <You can smell it,= said tourist Marissa Caluzzi, who has been
coming to Naiyang Beach from Australia for decades. <People sit on their balconies and smoke and just come out on the beach and smoke.=
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uncommon to see visitors or ex-
pats. <I went to some small villag-
es in Thailand and was like, 8Wow,
you have cannabis shops here,9=
Chankasem said.
Chankasem, like some Thai
people, is worried that the wide
availability of the drug could put
children at risk. That concern is
at the center of emerging efforts
to reclassify the plant as a narcot-
ic, arguing that recreational use is
bad for the country.
<They think I9m selling some-
thing that9s killing society,= All the
Smoke9s Chaisingharn said of his
critics.
Opportunity for agriculture
Cummings said demand for
cannabis across the country is so
high <that, even with hundreds
and thousands of acres devoted to
cultivation, right now there9s still
a shortage.= In the six months
after All the Smoke opened,
Chaisingharn said, seven more
weed shops cropped up nearby.
That9s good news for people
like Cha <Ice= Na, 33, a new
cannabis farmer in Rayong, an
eastern province on the Gulf of
Thailand. After suffering from a
motorbike accident before the
pandemic, Na turned to medical
marijuana for pain relief. (Thai-
land has had legalized medical
marijuana since 2018.)
Once he had recovered from
his horrific wounds, Na felt so
the washington post
passionate about marijuana9s ca-
pacity to heal that he started
growing plants himself. He now
has three large rooms and an
outdoor farm where he grows
Wild Thai, which is considered a
rare sativa strain of cannabis.
Every month, he drives into
Phuket to deliver it to Skushi, a
new shop in Old Town that caters
to tourists.
Farming cannabis won9t make
him rich, particularly as the in-
dustry struggles with smuggled
imports, but Na says it pays
enough to support him, his wife,
<Apple,= and their baby. He also
thinks it will inspire repeat visits
from tourists.
<People come to Thailand to
eat good food, & see beautiful
scenery, & relax,= he said. Canna-
bis enhances that atmosphere.
<They9ll come back.=
So much to sample
That was the case for Lavorato,
who visited Thailand to see her
uncle and shoot videos for her
website, the Edibles Club. After
road-tripping from Bangkok to
Hat Yai and island-hopping
among Koh Samui, Koh Tao and
Ko Pha Ngan, <I would go back
tomorrow,= Lavorato said.
For Caluzzi, cannabis wasn9t
the impetus for her vacation, but
sampling it a few times <added an
element of fun= once she arrived.
With recreational use illegal at
home in Australia, she and her
partner, Chris Wessels, 62, decid-
ed to give Thailand9s legal weed a
try. They had about six different
purveyors in tiny Naiyang Beach
to choose from, and after picking
a place and consulting with an
employee, they bought a weed
cookie to share back at their
hotel.
<Oh, it was disgusting,= Caluzzi
said. <That really just made us a
bit giggly, but nothing major.=
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Their next experiment was a
half an inch of a weed brownie 4
<that knocked us out=4 then
some gummy bears. They also
said they tried some hazelnut and
vanilla ice cream <that tasted
nice, but [the high] was very
minor.=
At All the Smoke, Chaising-
harn said, his clientele is 50 per-
cent locals and regulars, and 50
percent walk-ins and tourists, in-
cluding travelers from countries
where weed is illegal who came
explicitly for the pot.
Among them have been a
mother and daughter from Tai-
wan, a hospital director from
Oman, scientists and frat broth-
ers. Many are total beginners.
Others <really know their weed,=
Chaisingharn said.
He sees parallels between
Bangkok and Amsterdam 4 both
are major tourist destinations
that have famous red-light dis-
tricts 4 but doesn9t think it9s a
completely accurate comparison.
<We don9t even regulate weed
like Amsterdam,= he said. <It9s
even crazier.=
How to experiment safely
Lavorato9s advice for exploring
weed in Thailand is to make a
plan for your day: where to go,
what to eat, how to get home.
<You want to be in a safe place
that9s relaxing and there9s food
close by,= she said.
If you9ll need a ride, download
a transportation app such as
Grab, and input your payment
information before you get high.
Consider activities such as get-
ting a massage and going to see
art or popular sites, and <definite-
ly hit the night markets,= she said.
If you9re at the beach, try swim-
ming or snorkeling.
Also consider local customs.
<Thailand is a very religious
country,= said Budler founder
Berga Huang. <So make sure you
don9t bring any cannabis to sa-
cred places like temples.=
And although you may see
people smoking in public, keep
your consumption private to
avoid risk of police intervention.
<It9s more like a courtesy, kind of
like cigarettes,= Chaisingharn
said.
As far as what to smoke, eat or
drink, find a shop or bar that
appeals to you and talk to an
expert on staff. Many places sell
pre-rolled joints that are easy for
beginners. Don9t be shy about
asking questions.
<Most people don9t know about
cannabis the first time they want
to try it out,= Huang said. <A lot of
travelers from Asian countries
where cannabis is super illegal 4
they don9t really know where to
start.=
Note that, although cannabis
products in Thailand are sup-
posed to contain less than 0.2
percent THC, Lavorato said she
has encountered much stronger
edibles during her visit.
<I9m telling you that9s not what
is being sold right now,= she said
of low-dose promises.
You don9t have to avoid edibles
altogether, but you may want to
try Lavorato9s conservative ap-
proach. Eat a nibble, wait an
hour, then eat more based on how
you9re feeling. If you do find
yourself in too deep, Lavorato
recommends <coffee and food.
That is the best thing you can do.=
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Cassidy Crawford, 25, will see 13 shows of Taylor Swift9s Eras Tour, an homage to Swift9s greatest hits. <I think it was just so obvious that it was now or never,= Crawford said.
It9s the summer of concerts 4 and fans are 8going all out9
BY N ATALIE B . C OMPTON
Beyoncé and Bruce Spring-
steen have taken over Europe.
Taylor Swift reigns over the Unit-
ed States. And country legends
Willie Nelson, Shania Twain and
Luke Combs are selling out
shows at home and abroad. That
means even if your social media
feeds are already dominated by
pictures of stadium stages and
festival fields, you can expect
much more concert content from
your friends, family and nemeses
through the fall.
It seems as if everyone is going
to see live music right now 4 and
that9s despite sticker shock for
concert tickets and travel. The
summer of concert travel is coin-
ciding with high travel prices
<across the board,= said Duncan
Greenfield-Turk, managing di-
rector and chief travel designer
for Global Travel Moments. It
won9t be cheap. But fans are
making it work.
Like Bodie Lowe and Cassidy
Crawford, both 25, who are
known as the <resident Swifties=
at the public relations firm
where they work in Austin.
When Swift announced the Eras
Tour, an homage to her greatest
hits with 60-plus stops, the ques-
tion wasn9t if they9d go, but how
many times?
<We were like, 8We9re going all
out,9= Crawford said. <We have
real jobs now. We have credit
cards.=
The co-workers scored two
third-row tickets for Swift9s stop
in Houston for about $550 each.
Then Lowe bought a $600 VIP
floor ticket (which includes a
bunch of merch) for a Los Ange-
les tour date he9ll catch with
college friends. Crawford will see
13 shows, from opening night in
Arizona, to Dallas, to four in L.A.
(She says the average cost of
those tickets was $260.)
Since the tour was announced
in November, Crawford antici-
pated prices would be outra-
geous. She went into her ticket
hunt knowing she could buy
some with savings and pay off
others over time. Instead of get-
ting price-gouged on StubHub
and SeatGeek, Crawford bought
her tickets by tracking Twitter
accounts such as @ErasTourRe-
sell for tickets being resold at
face value, or by finding a friend
with a <Verified Fan= Ticketmas-
ter account who had access to
presales. For concert accommo-
dations, Crawford9s staying with
friends and family or sharing
hotel rooms, taking public trans-
portation where she can. She
tracked airfare prices and
bought flights as early as possi-
ble.
And in this don9t-take-life-for-
granted era, all of that money
and effort is worth it. <I think it
was just so obvious that it was
now or never,= Crawford said.
These concert travelers feel
the same.
Beyoncé in Paris for just
$103 a ticket
Keyarna Pittman, 44, first dis-
covered that concerts are signifi-
cantly cheaper in Europe on a
trip to London in 2018, when she
found tickets to see Beyoncé and
Jay-Z9s On The Run II Tour for
$125 a piece. (In North America,
they averaged $403.) So when
Renaissance dates were released,
Pittman immediately signed up
for the chance to buy tickets in
Paris, then locked in hotel reser-
vations and plane tickets in case
prices surged when tickets went
on sale.
Her plan worked. Pittman and
her husband, Wayne, 51, got
concert tickets for about $103
per person. With their airfare to
Paris from Virginia9s Dulles In-
ternational Airport (including a
10-hour stop in Casablanca, Mo-
rocco, on the way there and an
overnight layover in Istanbul on
the way home), hotels and the
concert, the trip came out to
about $1,000 each.
The couple saw celebrities
such as Kris Jenner and Pharrell
walk by to the VIP area. Better
yet, Beyoncé9s daughter Blue Ivy
came onstage for her first sur-
prise performance of the tour.
<Everybody was screaming,= said
Pittman, an interior designer
and travel agent. <You just feel
like the love in the room from
everybody, all cultures, every-
thing. It was just amazing.=
Three weeks, $30,000 to see
the Boss. Twice.
Not everyone goes to Europe
to save on concert tickets. Last
summer, Greenfield-Turk ar-
ranged an eight-day trip for a
family of four from the East
Coast to the United Kingdom to
see two Harry Styles concerts,
which added up to roughly
$50,000. It would have been
even more to plan the same trip
this summer. <With the pricing
of gigs at the moment . . . and
adding on all the transportation,
. . . things are getting more cost-
ly,= he said.
But money wasn9t an issue for
a client of Susie McMahon, own-
er of Luxurious Journeys. The
travel planner recently coordi-
nated a trip for a father and his
19-year-old son to see Spring-
steen in Barcelona and Dublin
(plus a Springsteen-free stop in
Lisbon) that was close to
$30,000, excluding concert tick-
ets.
The three-week adventure in-
cluded a mix of four- and five-
star hotels such as El Palace in
Barcelona, where, during their
stay, former president Barack
Obama, first lady Michelle
Obama, director Steven Spiel-
berg and Springsteen had dinner
together.
Over $20,000 in Vegas
for Taylor
As the founder of a luxury
travel agency in Fort Worth,
Kaleigh Kirkpatrick usually
plans trips around big sports
bucket-list events such as the
Super Bowl and the Kentucky
Derby. But lately, she has been
fielding concert requests, like
one from the family of three who
wanted to see Swift in Las Vegas.
Between first-class airfare
from Dallas to Vegas, rooms at
the Wynn resort and dinners at
MIDDLE: Mercedes Arielle, a travel and fashion content creator, is pictured outside the Friends Arena
in Sweden ahead of Beyoncé9s first concert of her Renaissance World Tour on May 10. ABOVE: Bruce
Springsteen and Little Steven perform at Parco Urbano G. Bassani on May 18 in Ferrara, Italy.
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hotel restaurants 4 think Hak-
kasan at the MGM Grand and
Picasso in the Bellagio 4 plus a
private SUV on standby for pick-
up and drop-off at $200 per hour,
Kirkpatrick said the three-day
trip totaled well over $20,000.
And that9s not factoring in the
concert tickets, which, even in
the nosebleeds, are going for
more than $1,000. <This client
obviously is not [in a] nose-
bleed,= Kirkpatrick said.
Using miles and points to see
Springsteen in Italy
Two years ago, Mary Willett,
65, and TJ Kozikowski, 60, had a
JoNaThaN NackSTRaNd foR The WaShINgToN PoST
dream getaway to Italy canceled
because of the coronavirus pan-
demic. The New Jersey residents,
both huge Springsteen fans, de-
cided to revive their original trip
plan when they saw the Boss was
touring Europe. They couldn9t
get tickets in Rome but could
snag a pair in Ferrara. They
planned a trip around the show
with stays in Venice, Bologna,
Tuscany and the capital.
The couple used credit card
points to book airfare and Mar-
riott points for a hotel when they
weren9t staying in Airbnbs
(about $100 per night), so they
were able to save significantly on
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key parts of the trip. But there
was one hurdle: With rental car
prices outrageously high, how
would they get from Bologna to
Ferrara for the concert?
Willett crowdsourced the an-
swer from Springsteen super-
fans. <I belong to a Facebook
group called 8Spring Nuts,9 and
they helped a lot,= Willett said. <I
found a bus called Bus for Fun
that left from Bologna directly to
the concert in Ferrara.= Two
round-trip tickets set them back
less than $40.
Mexico to Minneapolis for
a daughter9s first concert
John Peter Larson and his
wife, Nicole, are pulling out all
the stops for their daughter
Carolina9s first concert. For start-
ers, the expats in Mérida, Mexico,
are not just taking their 16-year-
old to see Swift in Minneapolis,
their hometown. They9re also
bringing five of her friends on
the week-long adventure, plus
getting custom-made outfits to
commemorate different Swift al-
bums.
With concert tickets at $350 a
piece, the tailored 9fits (about
$50 each), plus airfare from the
Yucatán for the family (the
friends will pay their way), a trip
to the Mall of America and meals
out, the vacation won9t be cheap,
but it will be memorable.
To round out the tourist activi-
ties, <We9re going to do a day
where the girls are going to go
and volunteer in a commissary
kitchen and help cook food,= said
Larson, co-founder of Delicacies
Jewelry.
A Deadhead with deep
pockets
After playing more than 2,400
concerts, the surviving members
of the Grateful Dead are on their
last tour this summer. Mari Haw-
kins, a luxury travel adviser with
the Travel Leaders Network, got
a last-minute request from a
54-year-old client in New York to
go see them. Not just once, but in
four different cities: San Francis-
co; Chicago; Boulder, Colo.; and
George, Wash.
Hawkins had no problem find-
ing hotels for half of the trip,
even with only a few weeks9
notice. She could easily book
rooms for the client and travel
companions (a different friend
or family member would join
him for different shows) at the
Four Seasons in San Francisco,
and in Chicago at the Gwen. But
<it was really hard to book out-
side of big cities,= Hawkins said.
In Colorado, she had to pull
strings to get him rooms at the
Best Western.
The bill for just business-class
flights (including ones back to
New York between shows), hotels
and ground transportation:
about $10,000.
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What it9s like to travel

as a transgender woman
BY B EA H AYWARD

When my grandfather fell ill in 2021, I immediately booked a cross-country flight to see him. Unfortunately, air travel is a bit
more complicated for me as a transgender person than it is for the average flier. ¶ From worrying that my driver9s license
bearing my birth name and gender might cause a holdup at security to receiving an invasive pat-down by TSA personnel, fly-
ing as a trans woman has been an anxiety-inducing and demoralizing experience. ¶ I9ve always wanted to travel 4 to see new
places, try new foods and learn the languages of the places I9m visiting. But my final visit to my grandfather left me wonder-
ing whether future travel 4 at least by plane 4 may not be in the cards for me.

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prescribing Ozempic for weight loss
BY D ANIEL G ILBERT
The letters from the insurance
company arrived in recent weeks,
bearing a warning to health care
providers who prescribe ozem-
pic, a diabetes drug that has
gained popularity as a weight-
loss treatment.
<The special investigations
Unit has completed a compre-
hensive review of your prescrip-
tion and professional claims,=
said one letter to a Missouri
doctor from insurer Anthem Blue
Cross Blue shield. of the patients
for whom the doctor prescribed
ozempic, the review found that
more than 60 percent lacked
<sufficient evidence= of diabetes,
its Food and Drug Administra-
BusineSS
Brokers confront the impact
of the pandemic9s shift to
remote work as billions in
bank loans are coming due
BY C AROLINE O 9 D ONOVAN
iN sAN FRANCisCo
Tiny homes: Easing Calif. housing woes. G4
tion-approved use. The <educa-
tion letter= warned that prescrib-
ing the drug for other conditions
could put patients at risk, saying
the insurer would refer <suspect-
ed inappropriate or fraudulent
activity & to the state licensure
board, federal and/or state law
enforcement.=
Anthem used the same lan-
guage in other letters, reviewed
by The Washington Post, that
went out to clinicians in New
York and North Carolina, and
their ominous tone signals a com-
ing clash over new drugs that are
upending treatment for obesity.
The drugs, often called GLPs,
are fueling a frenzy among pa-
tients and a gold-rush within the
pharmaceutical industry. Yet
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sunday, june 18 , 2023
How McKinsey9s
failures played
into fall of SVB
Federal regulators call out 8weaknesses9
in the consulting firm9s work for the failed bank
BY T ODD C . F RANKEL
AND D ANIEL G ILBERT
Three years before its epic col-
lapse, highflying silicon Valley
Bank was preparing to join the big
boys of the banking world as it
neared $100 billion in assets. But
sVB needed help to make the leap.
<immediately they decided to
hire consultants,= one former sVB
employee recalled, speaking on
the condition of anonymity to de-
scribe internal decision-making.
<Plug the gap with consultants.=
Among the consultants that
sVB turned to was McKinsey &
Co., the blue-chip management
consulting group with a global
roster of corporate and govern-
ment clients. McKinsey was hired
to identify gaps in sVB9s capital
and risk management programs
4 a job that might have spotted
problems with the bank9s invest-
ment strategy long before the
bank9s failure.
But it didn9t work out that way.
McKinsey9s work for sVB in
2020 and 2021 4 which has not
been previously reported 4 was
sharply criticized by the Federal
Reserve in its sweeping report on
what caused the second-largest
U.s. bank collapse since 2008. The
Fed found that McKinsey had
<failed to design an effective pro-
gram= for assessing sVB9s prob-
lems and produced a report filled
with <weaknesses.=
McKinsey was not identified by
name in the Fed9s postmortem
examination, but a government
official familiar with the regula-
tor9s review who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to discuss
internal details confirmed that it
was the consulting firm. Two for-
mer sVB workers also confirmed
4 things to know following the
Federal Reserve9s rate pause
MarlEna SloSS For thE WaShington PoSt There9s a horror
movie cliché that
feels a lot like the
Federal Reserve9s
recent interest
Michelle
rate pause.
You know how
Singletary it goes. Near the
end of the film,
The Color
of Money there9s a moment
of relief when the
villain has been
taken out, usually in some
Like other commercial landlords and gruesome way.
lenders in downtowns across the coun-
try, 555 California is staring down a
major pandemic downturn in the com-
But then the menacing music
starts. You jump after realizing
the killer is supernaturally still
mercial real estate market. Economists alive, indicating there9s more
warn the situation could portend disas- peril to come.
ter, risking parts of the banking system, That9s the storyline we9re
too. living with the Fed9s relentless
<it9s scary,= a finance worker based at push to beat down inflation.
555 California said, regarding plummet- The Fed left interest rates
ing office building valuations in the area. unchanged last week but
in the more than 20 years she has worked signaled that inflation is still a
in the building, the woman 4 who spoke scary figure in our economy.
on the condition of anonymity because And it suggested the rate pause
her employer doesn9t allow staff to com- may be short-lived.
sEE reAl eSTATe oN g5 <The process of getting
inflation down is going to be a
gradual one,= Fed Chair Jerome
H. Powell said during a news
their high price tags, combined
with the huge population that
could benefit from them, present
a conundrum for insurance com-
panies.
insurers appear to be tighten-
ing rules to prevent off-label pre-
scriptions for now, but that could
change if ozempic and similar
drugs are shown to have broader
health benefits associated with
losing weight 4 benefits that
could save insurers money. The
results of the first such major
study are expected later this sum-
mer.
ozempic only has regulatory
approval for diabetes but it con-
tains the same active compound,
semaglutide, as another drug ap- Debra Tyler pays for her daughter9s prescription at a pharmacy in Killingworth, Conn. After
sEE weighT loSS oN g6 losing insurance coverage for the 12-year-old9s weight-loss medication, Tyler began paying cash.
G
that McKinsey had been hired for
the work later criticized by the
Fed. The revelation comes as Mc-
Kinsey continues to deal with the
fallout from legal settlements
over allegations by state and fed-
eral authorities regarding its dis-
closures in clients9 bankruptcy
cases and its role in advising Pur-
due in marketing the painkiller
oxyContin.
McKinsey said in a statement
that it was hired by sVB for <a
targeted assessment, geared spe-
cifically to the changes in criteria=
as sVB crossed the asset bench-
mark for the nation9s largest
banks, <not a comprehensive risk
assessment.= it identified <multi-
ple significant gaps,= McKinsey
said, but it did not advise the bank
on its investment strategy.
<The suggestion that McKinsey
contributed to the collapse of sili-
con Valley Bank is false and at
odds with the comprehensive
public record,= said DJ Carella,
McKinsey9s director of global me-
dia relations.
After sVB9s failure in early
March, the bank was taken over by
the Federal Deposit insurance
Corporation and sold to First Citi-
zens Bank & Trust. The Post de-
tailed how sVB executives pushed
ahead with a strategy of relying on
longer-term investments in 2020
even as it ran afoul of a key risk
metric and then changed its inter-
nal models to downplay the dev-
astating impact of higher interest
rates on those investments 4 de-
cisions that foreshadowed the
bank9s crash.
The Fed published a 102-page
report on what went wrong at
sVB. The review, conducted by
Michael Barr, the Fed9s vice chair
sEE mCKinSey oN g7
conference Wednesday. <it9s
going to take some time.=
so what does this mean for
your finances?
i had a conversation with
Frank Lietke, executive director
and president at Ally invest
securities, about what9s next in
this horror show, which has
made it more expensive to buy a
home, to purchase a used or
new vehicle, and to pay down
debt.
Here are four takeaways from
the Fed9s recent rate decision.
Consumer prices are still
stubbornly high
Powell said the Fed is <acutely
aware that high inflation
imposes hardship as it erodes
purchasing power, especially for
those least able to meet the
higher costs of essentials like
food, housing and
transportation.=
A year ago, the consumer
price index hit a 40-year high of
9.1 percent on a year-over-year
basis. since then, amid 10
consecutive Fed rate hikes, the
sEE SingleTAry oN g2
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MICHeLLe SINGLeTARY
Holding off on that big purchase? Time might be right, before rate hikes resume.
sinGletary from G1
inflation rate has been moving
down.
Prices rose 4 percent year-
over-year in may, according to
the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
The fed wants to return
inflation to 2 percent.
Don9t view the fed pause as a
sign that we are out of the
rising-rates woods just yet,
Lietke said. The drop in
inflation since last year may feel
like we9re getting relief, but
many consumer goods and
services are still painfully high,
he pointed out.
The cost of used cars and
trucks climbed 4.4 percent.
motor vehicle insurance was up
2 percent. Apparel and personal
care goods also saw increases in
may.
<Price stability is the
responsibility of the federal
reserve,= Powell said. <Without
price stability, the economy
doesn9t work for anyone. In
particular, without price
stability, we will not achieve a
sustained period of strong labor
market conditions that benefit
all.=
Prepare for more rate hikes
Here9s where the chilling
music starts.
<Some further rate increases
will be appropriate this year,=
Powell said.
There could be a rate hike as
soon as July, Lietke said.
<I think the fed realizes
there9s probably going to need
to be more tightening or raising
in rates absent some other
massive economic event to get
that inflation number under
control,= he said. <We see it
persisting now for a longer
period of time into 2023. As
long as that number is still at
that higher level, I think the fed
is going to be pushed and really
nudged to continue to raise
rates.=
Colleague chats with her dad on employer9s Facebook page. Is it cool or weird?
reader: I work
for a quasi-
governmental
public service
organization with
about 400
Work employees. About
Advice 18 months ago, we
KarLa L. set up our first
MiLLer social media
account on
facebook. The
person in charge of social media
writes most of our facebook
posts, which include staff and
facility photos, event
announcements and job
postings. She is fairly
inexperienced, though she has
learned quite a bit since we
started.
In the beginning, this person9s
father would comment on the
organization9s facebook posts
here and there. She never calls
him <Dad,= but he has the same
uncommon last name as hers, so
I am sure many people at our
organization have made the
connection.
Now he comments on nearly
every facebook post, usually just
saying <good job= or <thank you=
or that he9d like to work here
(weird since he lives on the other
side of the country). She then
comments back, but her name
isn9t shown since she is
commenting from the
organization9s account. The
comments are always related to
the posts, but they often include
hearts, emoji and memes.
Sometimes they banter back-
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Buy now, not later
If higher rates are coming,
this means higher borrowing
costs on big-ticket items.
from buying a home to a new
car, locking in a fixed interest
rate now before rates rise again
could save you money in the
long run. The average rate on a
30-year mortgage stood at 6.69
and-forth. one time he said he
knows <someone who works
there,= and she replied that
person must be a <rock star.=
I know it9s all in good fun, but
when does it cross a line? I think
it9s weird and cringey. Also, part
of her overall performance is
based on how much engagement
and how many comments the
facebook page gets. maybe some
people think it9s cute, but the
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percent as of Thursday,
according to freddie mac. A
year ago, the rate was 5.78
percent. But for the same period
in 2021, the 30-year fixed rate
was 2.93.
<Housing has corrected a bit,
but I think that if somebody is
waiting for a 2 to 3 percent
mortgage rate, again, I don9t see
first couple of times my dad did
that, I would thank him but then
kindly ask him to stop.
Karla: my facebook and Twitter
feeds are a random combination
of links to my columns, pictures
of my cats, and free-floating
snark, and they often include
comments from personal friends
and relatives among the
followers. It9s my name and my
face on these feeds, so any
snow day or school day?
stay one step ahead of the weather with the
Capital Weather Gang
that happening in the near
future,= Lietke said. <Given
where rates are expected to go
in July, they could go up again.=
Before making a major
purchase, consider your
personal financial situation.
<If you find your dream house
and it fits into your budget and
it9s good for you or your family,
IstOck
dorkiness reflects primarily on
me, although it9s not hard to
figure out whom I work for.
If I were posting as the official
voice of my employer? Then,
yeah, schmoozing anonymously
with family on the employer9s
feed would be, as my teen says,
kinda cringe. (Although if my
dad were to comment on my
column, he9d do so literally,
mailing me a newspaper
the washington post
WashIngtOn POst IllustratIOn; IstOck
don9t let perfect be the enemy of
the good,= Lietke said.
If mortgage rates fall, you
have the option to refinance.
The same is true if you need to
purchase a vehicle.
And if you can afford it,
splurge. Don9t let your frugality
and your worries about money
rob you of paying for some
clipping with notes scribbled in
the margin.)
In marketing, however, there9s
often a fine line between cringey
and brilliant. for better and
worse, social media makes
companies more accessible to
the public. Algorithms tend to
promote <noisier= accounts, so
some degree of empty-calorie
chitchat makes online sites more
visible 4 and if that chitchat is
entertaining, it attracts a bigger
audience.
from fast-food company
Wendy9s to the police
department in Bangor, maine, a
few social media managers have
managed to strike a balance
between building an amusing,
recognizable brand and
connecting with their target
audience. for all we know, your
co-worker9s story could become
the next viral Buzzfeed post:
<This dad is his daughter9s
biggest hype man, and it9s
adorable.=
or, depending on how much
traffic your organization9s
facebook page gets, her dad-
chats might not even stand out
all that much. If it9s not
interfering with the services you
provide your community, and it9s
helping build buzz, what exactly
is the problem?
for one thing, bantering with
her dad on her employer9s site to
inflate her engagement stats is
not the best use of this
employee9s time. more than that,
hiding behind the organization9s
identity and pretending that her
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wants.
<make trade-offs and
sacrifices, because the minute
you eliminate wants, people can
feel a sense of misery,= Lietke
said.
stick to savings
Things are getting better, but
you may need to pull back on
unnecessary purchases.
In this inflationary
environment, reconsider how
you allocate your income.
With the increase in the cost
of goods and services, more of
your money is going to pay for
necessities. As a result, you
might be considering reducing
or even cutting out saving for
retirement or building an
emergency fund.
<The last thing you want to
do for your long-term plan is to
eliminate savings,= Lietke said.
If you can, don9t let the
higher expenses derail your
savings goals.
Understandably, if you9re
living paycheck to paycheck,
there may not be anything extra
to save. But you can plan for a
time when your financial
situation improves.
Ask yourself: Where do you
want to be in one, three and five
years?
Then make a plan that might
include boosting your job skills
or increasing your income. or
set a goal to save even a small
amount of money every month,
Lietke suggests.
<Little wins have a super
motivating effect on people,= he
said. <It9s about setting up that
plan.=
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dad is a stranger is disingenuous
to outsiders. It9s engagement, but
it9s not genuine or substantive 4
and an organization that serves
the public needs to be both.
I wonder why no one has
directly asked her, <Hey, is that
[Samesurname] guy related to
you?= Assuming you9re right
about his identity, having to
answer that question would clue
her in that people are noticing
her shenanigans. for all you
know, she might be cringing a bit
herself at her dad9s constant
lurking, and a word from her
employer would give her a face-
saving way to tell him to cool it.
or it would provide an opening
for her to explain to her
employer how those interactions
contribute to a larger strategy to
grow your audience and connect
better with your local
community.
That9s a conversation she and
her manager should be having
anyway; if they9re not, a discreet
query to her manager might be
in order. I9m not a fan of tattling
or giving other managers
unsolicited advice, but as a
colleague, you are allowed to
express concerns about making
sure your organization9s public
face is aligned with its overall
mission.
Incidentally, you can find my
columns, cat pictures and snark
on Twitter at @KarlaAtWork
and facebook at
www.Facebook.com/
KarlaLMillerAtWork.
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BY E RICA W ERNER
in LOS AnGELES
hen Heather Millstone
W moved from Baltimore to
Los Angeles and started
house-hunting, she had one ma-
jor goal: A home with a yard big
enough to build another smaller
house so she could rent out one of
the properties to supplement her
income.
A few blocks away, Lali Grewal
and his wife, Anne Marie, made a
similar calculation when they
moved to the city last summer.
They9re now living in a tiny, cozy
home behind a bigger house
they9re fixing up to rent out.
Millstone and the Grewals are
part of a trend that9s busting out
all over the state, and 4 some-
what to the surprise of policy-
makers 4 has potential to play a
significant role in addressing Cal-
ifornia9s housing crisis: the acces-
sory dwelling unit.
Multifamily properties are in-
credibly difficult to build in the
state9s major cities for reasons
including lack of space, environ-
mental laws and neighborhood
opposition. But build an ADU 4 a
small, detached house with its
own utilities and entryway 4 and
practically no one bats an eye.
Multiplied thousands of times
over, as has been occurring in
recent years, and the structures
begin to look like an important, if
only partial, solution to the state9s
affordable housing needs.
<The ability to be able to re-
move barriers and support the
creation of ADUs has been a very
important strategy in our ability
to expand the supply of housing,=
said Lourdes Castro Ramírez,
California9s secretary of business,
Consumer Services and Housing.
<i9ve been very pleased to see how
communities have embraced this
approach, and i think that folks
have been able to recognize the
social, economic and community
benefits of ADUs.=
The numbers tell the tale:
More than 23,000 ADU permits
were issued in California last
year, compared with fewer than
5,000 in 2017 4 which was
around when ADU permitting
began to take off thanks to legisla-
tive and regulatory changes in the
state. The state now requires fast-
er permit approval by localities,
and establishes that cities must
allow ADUs of at least 850 square
feet 4 though many are much
bigger. A number of other bills are
being debated in Sacramento, in-
cluding one by Assemblymember
Phil Ting (D) that would allow
property owners to sell their
ADUs separately from their main
houses.
Los Angeles dwarfed other cit-
ies last year in ADU permitting,
issuing 7,160 in 2022, compared
with 662 in San Diego, the city
with the next-highest total of
ADUs. By comparison, just 1,387
permits were issued in L.A. last
year for single-family homes. The
number of ADU permits issued in
L.A. was second only to the 13,400
permits issued for multiunit
structures.
California isn9t the only state
where ADUs are taking off. Or-
egon has embraced them as well,
as have some cities in Montana,
and Washington state recently
passed a law making them easier
to build. in all, some 40 laws have
been introduced throughout the
country addressing ADUs in one
form or another, although some
are as simple as providing for a
study of the issue, according to
Salim Furth, director of the Ur-
banity Project at the Mercatus
Center at George Mason Univer-
sity.
ADUs offer multiple benefits,
supporters say: They tend to rent
at relatively low prices, and they
can be dropped into neighbor-
hoods that are already densely
populated but that are desirable
because of their proximity to jobs,
public transportation, schools or
other amenities. Although local
ordinances in L.A. and elsewhere
aim to prevent their use as short-
term Airbnb-type rentals, owners
can use them for extra rental
income, or to house friends, fam-
ily or even their own grandmoth-
ers 4 harking back to the original
<granny flat= moniker.
Experts note that even if an
ADU is occupied by someone9s
grandmother, that9s a home left
available elsewhere, while at the
same time keeping extended fam-
ilies together.
<The speed at which ADUs
have been able to scale across the
state has been really surprising,=
said David Garcia, policy director
for the Terner Center for Housing
innovation at the University of
California at Berkeley. <it shows a
pent-up demand from home-
owners to want to do more with
their land,= Garcia said, adding
that <because of California9s af-
fordability crisis a lot of Califor-
nians are personally connected
with someone experiencing hous-
ing insecurity,= leading some
homeowners to want to do some-
thing to help.
Largely because of a lack of
supply, the cost to rent or buy
property in California has be-
come prohibitive for many resi-
dents, with the median rental
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8Granny ûats9 play
cost in the state 41 percent higher
than in the rest of the country,
according to real estate site Zil-
low. Home prices are more than
twice the national average.
surprising role in easing
Homelessness is at crisis levels,
and in recent years California has
begun to see residents flee to
Texas, Florida or other lower-cost
states.
California9s housing woes
The desire to make a personal
contribution to lessen L.A.9s hous-
ing woes is a key motivator for the
Grewals. Lali Grewal has grown
so invested in the success of ADUs
that he started his own company
to help clients build and finance
State and local policies have made accessory dwelling units construction of them.
easier to build, and homeowners are signing up in droves <The way people build wealth
in America is by real estate,=
Grewal said. <The whole idea was
to create more housing 4 espe-
cially in poor neighborhoods.=
The cost to build an ADU can
hover around $300,000, so fi-
nancing can emerge as a barrier
for many homeowners, especially
since banks have little experience
dealing with loans for these rela-
tively new types of structure. A
$100 million state program that
made grants up to $40,000 to
help people with the planning
phase alone was exhausted with-
in months, and with California
experiencing a budget deficit, no
additional state assistance is ex-
pected, at least for now.
nevertheless, a study from the
nYU Furman Center found that
ADUs are being built not in the
wealthiest neighborhoods, but
more often in low- to middle-in-
come areas, and often in places
with relatively good access to
jobs.
<That suggests that it9s not rich
people looking to build pool
houses or work-from-home offic-
es,= said Christopher Elmendorf,
an author of the study at the UC
Davis School of Law. <That9s con-
sistent with the theory that this is
a viable form of development in
places that you may not= other-
wise be able to easily build.
Millstone and the Grewals live
near Dodger Stadium in a neigh-
borhood tucked between the in-
terstate 5 on one side and the L.A.
River on the other. its official
name is Elysian Valley, although
it9s usually referred to as Frog-
town. The area has largely es-
caped gentrification in recent
years, although a couple of cafes
have sprung up to serve the bicy-
clists who ride along the L.A.
River.
For Millstone, making her
ADU feel like part of the commu-
nity was key. Small touches, such
as tiling, hark back to the area9s
Latino roots, while native Califor-
nia plants and materials are
showcased. Although the ADU
occupies a relatively small foot-
print of 650 square feet, high
ceilings and carved terra cotta
breeze blocks give it a roomy look
and allow for airflow. She shares
the space with her two little dogs,
Stevie nicks and Lindsey Buck-
ingham.
Millstone hasn9t yet rented out
the main house on her property,
but she estimates that when she
does put it on the market for full
rental value she can easily pull in
around $5,000 per month.
The ADU is separated from the
main house by a small driveway
and some bushes, making it feel
like a separate residence. <it9s
ideal,= Millstone said.
ADUs may eventually bring
major change to this neighbor-
hood, however. Developers have
recently descended, snapping up
properties for around $800,000
and selling them for twice that
price 4 but only after adding an
ADU.
<it9s creating a lot of value,
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especially in the Frogtown area. A
Heather Millstone built a loft-style accessory dwelling unit in the yard of the home she bought in the Elysian Valley neighborhood of lot of families are moving in so
Los Angeles. ADUs are small, detached homes with their own utilities and entryway. They9ve become hugely popular in the city. they figure, 8Let9s find another
source of income,9= said developer
Jesse Zamora, as he surveyed a
property in the neighborhood
that he9s preparing to put on the
market for $1.6 million. <i think
it9s great. i think we need the
housing.=
Longtime residents note, how-
ever, that acquiring an ADU as a
rental property is not something
to be done lightly.
Grove Pashley built a 1,200-
square-foot ADU 4 the maxi-
mum size set by the state 4
around five years ago, just as the
current ADU wave was starting to
pick up. His property abuts the
river and he has chickens and
ducks sharing space with native
plants.
Pashley said that his ADU has
worked out great 4 he9s had two
tenants in the last four years, and
said he9s cut them a break on rent
because he9s sympathetic to rent-
ABOVE: Lali ers and the high prices in L.A. But
Grewal of Los he9s cognizant of the responsibili-
Angeles is so ty he took on and hopes others
invested in the will be, too.
success of ADUs <i see properties throughout
that he started a Frogtown with ADUs,= Pashley
company to help said. <it9s a commitment to go this
clients build and route because you9re now a neigh-
finance them. bor and a landlord.=
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a construction worker outside a san Francisco office tower that reportedly just sold for $60 million, an 80 percent decrease from the price it sold for four years ago, according to the Wall street Journal.
In cities around the country, commercial real estate faces a reckoning
REal EstatE from G1
ment publicly 4 said she has
never seen it so empty.
Since the pandemic, employers
4 particularly in major cities 4
have been struggling to get their
workers to return to the office,
while others have given up and
allowed workers to go fully re-
mote. That trend is finally start-
ing to catch up with the owners of
office buildings in the form of
rising vacancy rates and declin-
ing property values.
Earlier this month, real estate
data provider Trepp reported
that an estimated $270 billion in
commercial bank loans are com-
ing due in 2023 4 and warned of
the potential for defaults. office
delinquencies spiked in may, sig-
naling a <tipping point,= accord-
ing to manus Clancy, senior man-
aging director at Trepp.
Asked about commercial real
estate concerns in a television
appearance earlier this month,
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yel-
len said she thinks banks are
<broadly preparing for some re-
structuring and difficulties going
ahead.=
In San francisco, the poster
child for the crises facing down-
towns, the owner of a Hilton
hotel in Union Square blamed
vacant offices and a slow return
to work for its decision to stop
paying its $725 million loan earli-
er this month. The property, the
largest hotel in the city, will be
returned to JPmorgan Chase,
which bought the Bay Area9s
failed first republic Bank last
month.
And on monday, the San fran-
cisco Chronicle reported that
Westfield stopped paying the
mortgage on its downtown San
francisco mall and plans to hand
the property back to lenders. The
news follows Nordstrom9s deci-
sion to move out of the once-pop-
ular mall just blocks from Union
Square.
<If office and retail owners are
having trouble generating rental
income because people just aren9t
going into the office and shop-
ping, then it increases the odds
that they aren9t going to be able to
pay back those loans in timely
way,= said mark Zandi, chief econ-
omist for moody9s Analytics.
<That means losses will start to
mount on those loans. And be-
cause the banking and financial
system more broadly is already
struggling with lots of other
problems & there9s going to be
more banking failures.=
Despite the public debate over
return-to-office mandates at ma-
jor companies, experts say office
occupancy will never return to
the levels experienced before
2020. In february, workplace
data company Kastle Systems es-
timated that half of workers in
the United States had returned,
but that figure has stagnated
since.
Wendell Peters, manager at Maison Nico, helps customer Jacqueline Hu last month at the bakery in san Francisco. In the city9s
financial district, many restaurants and stores are shuttered as office vacancies hover around 30 percent, according to CBRE.
That means, in cities around
the country, companies facing
economic head winds such as
inflation and high interest rates
don9t need to be paying for the
same amount of space.
Amazon has pulled back on
developing major real estate proj-
ects 4 including its second head-
quarters, known as HQ2 4 in
Virginia and in Tennessee.
Google pressed pause on plans to
build an 80-acre campus in San
Jose 4 the heart of Silicon Valley.
Comcast, one of the biggest
employers in Philadelphia, is
pulling out of some office build-
ings there. Brookfield, a major
office building landlord in Los
Angeles, has defaulted on more
than $1 billion of commercial real
estate loans in recent months,
according to Bloomberg.
And in D.C., where real estate
firm CBrE reports office vacancy
has continued to increase to
about 20 percent, some landlords
struggling to find tenants are
feeling <desperate.=
Brookfield spokeswoman Ker-
rie mcHugh Hayes said in a
statement that there is still de-
mand for the landlord9s top-tier
office space. <While the pandem-
ic has posed challenges to tradi-
tional office in certain U.S. mar-
kets, this represents a very small
percentage of our portfolio,= she
said.
<We9re always evaluating space
plans to make sure they fit our
business needs and to create a
great experience for employees,=
said Amazon vice president of
global real estate and facilities
John Schoettler. As Amazon em-
braces hybrid work, Schoettler
said the company is committed to
its projects in Virginia, and is
evaluating plans in Nashville as it
continues <learning how these
new habits may impact our office
footprint.=
regarding Google9s San Jose
campus, spokesman ryan Lam-
ont said, <As we9ve stated, we9re
working to ensure our real estate
investments match the future
needs of our hybrid workforce,
our business and our communi-
ties,= adding that the company is
still committed to the city.
Comcast said it is subleasing
the building in Philadelphia to
bring employees together in a
Comcast-owned space. The com-
pany relies on in-person collabo-
ration, added spokesman John
Demming said.
(Amazon founder and former
CEo Jeff Bezos owns The Wash-
ington Post.)
Still, many experts say the
worst can still be avoided. The
issues have been known for a
while, giving lenders plenty of
time to consider what to do.
Banks can always renegotiate
the terms of their loans to land-
lords. The owners of 555 Califor-
nia Street have requested an ex-
tension on their loan, according
eZ ee
to their loan servicer9s march 9
note, as permitted via a common-
ly used clause in their contract.
It9s part of a financial strategy
cheekily called <extend and pre-
tend,= which allows lenders to
spread out the consequences of
defaulted loans over a number of
years.
Vornado and the Trump or-
ganization9s loan servicer, mid-
land Loan Services, declined to
comment. The Trump organiza-
tion did not respond to requests
for comment.
Although cities themselves
could be in trouble because of
property taxes and budget short-
falls, the financial system as a
whole is more protected, said
Brookings Institution fellow Tra-
cy Hadden Loh, who researches
real estate and cities.
<It9s in no one9s interest to have
them all fall into foreclosure at
once, because that could destabi-
lize the banking system,= she said.
<So banks will take what they can
get in terms of payment and work
through this. Everyone is going to
be doing everything in their pow-
er to prevent that from happen-
ing.=
few cities have attracted as
much attention over ongoing dis-
tress as San francisco.
rachel Leamy, who has run
three shoeshine stands here
called the Shoeshine Guild for
more than 20 years, said she9s
been through many booms and
PhoToS by Marlena SloSS For The WaShingTon PoST
busts 4 including the tech bub-
ble of the early 2000s and the
2008 financial crisis.
But now, <it9s a damn ghost
town,= said Leamy, who shines
shoes on the ground-level con-
course of 555 California Street.
Typically, it9s a pretty stable
business. <People need shoe
shines when they9re flush, or if
they need a pick me up, or if
they9re looking for work,= she
said.
She said she9s doing maybe half
the business she was before the
pandemic, and her family is still
relying on food stamps to get by.
<I always wondered what
would make this business obso-
lete,= she said.
In the city9s financial district,
many restaurants and stores are
shuttered and boarded over, as
office vacancies hover around 30
percent, according to CBrE. Last
month, just down the block from
555 California Street, the office
tower at 350 California reported-
ly sold for $60 million 4 an 80
percent decrease from the price it
sold for just four years ago, ac-
cording to The Wall Street Jour-
nal.
The reported seller, mitsu-
bishi9s mUfG Americas group,
did not respond to a request for
comment, nor did SKS Partners,
the group that bought the build-
ing, according to the San francis-
co Business Times.
Stalwarts of the downtown re-
G5
tail scene including old Navy and
Cole Hardware are closing their
doors. And even businesses that
opened flagship storefronts after
the pandemic subsided, such as
high-end furniture store Coco
republic, have announced clo-
sures.
San francisco is uniquely vul-
nerable given the large percent-
age of the population that works
in tech or other industries well-
suited to remote work and a
long-festering homelessness is-
sue the city has failed to resolve.
Banking failures have recently
put an additional unwanted spot-
light on the city, where offices
downtown still bear the name of
the recently distressed Silicon
Valley and first republic banks.
Jay Bechtel acquired real es-
tate for Google for 20 years before
leaving the company in march.
He said he9s worried about San
francisco9s ability to attract
workers back and what the conse-
quences of that could be.
<If you have a building that is
not fully occupied, rents are ei-
ther dropping or nonexistent be-
cause it9s empty and you have no
demand. That9s not a good combi-
nation if you9re a landlord,= he
said. <Clearly that will reduce the
building9s value 4 who9s going to
want to buy a building with
vacancy and low rents?=
In hopes of avoiding a domino-
effect financial crisis, Bechtel
said he hopes lenders will be
willing to renegotiate with land-
lords rather than take over the
buildings. <most of them aren9t
set up to be landlords or real
estate owners 4 they9re banks or
insurance companies,= he said.
If commercial landlords are
forced to hand over the keys to
their lenders, <you9re going to
have a lot of distressed sales,=
Bechtel said. <They9re going to be
selling for cents on the dollar
because & that9s not their core
business. So, hopefully the lend-
ers will understand the situation
that their landlords are in and
rework their terms.=
San francisco still has a num-
ber of top-tier office buildings 4
think big windows, natural light,
green space and fancy amenities
4 that are attracting tenants,
said robert Sammons, a re-
searcher for commercial real es-
tate brokerage Cushman & Wake-
field. But it also has a substantial
number of <obsolete= buildings 4
think fluorescent lights, cubicles
and no air conditioning 4 that he
thinks will probably have to be
torn down.
<Prior to the pandemic, we had
the lowest vacancy rate of any city
in the country,= said Sammons.
The rate was 6 percent, according
to data from the city of San
francisco.
<The market was incredibly
tight across the board,= he said.
<But now the workplace has shift-
ed, and it9s shifted more than
likely permanently.=
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Insurers clamp down on doctors prescribing diabetes drugs for weight loss
wEigHt lOSS from g1
proved for obesity, Wegovy. Be-
cause many insurers do not cover
weight-loss medications, doctors
have ordered ozempic to treat
obesity, a practice known as pre-
scribing <off label= that is com-
mon across health care.
<There9s really no difference
between semaglutide as Wegovy
and semaglutide as ozempic,=
said Angela fitch, president of
the obesity medicine Association
and co-founder of weight-focused
start-up Knownwell. She has seen
a handful of Anthem9s letters and
considers them unwarranted,
saying <these clinicians aren9t
committing any kind of fraud.=
Elevance Health, which oper-
ates Anthem plans, said the let-
ters went to fewer than 150 pro-
viders. The insurer said that in
most cases it won9t cover ozem-
pic unless a patient is diagnosed
with diabetes and has tried an-
other medication to manage it,
but physicians can still prescribe
it. <Nationwide shortages have
occurred due to the large uptick
in off-label prescribing,= the let-
ters state, and patients with dia-
betes <often cannot find the med-
ication in stock.=
America9s Health Insurance
Plans, a trade group, has noted
concerns about side effects and
the cost of GLPs. <The evidence is
still evolving related to how these
medications may impact compli-
cations related to obesity such as
heart disease and diabetes,= said
David Allen, a spokesperson.
There may be no buzzier medi-
cation on the market than GLPs.
They are being popularized by
celebrities, going viral on social
media and transforming the lives
of people who9ve tried everything
over decades to lose weight. They
are also generating windfalls for
pharmaceutical firms big and
small, shaking up the fortunes of
some conventional weight-loss
companies and creating growth
for companies that manufacture
parts needed to inject the medi-
cation.
Such is the craze for GLPs that
they are drawing comparisons to
cultural touchstones like Botox
and Viagra 4 but with the poten-
tial to appeal to a broader cross-
section of patients, and for longer
stretches of their lives. Pfizer has
estimated the GLP market could
be worth more than $90 billion a
year by 2030, up from $25 billion.
New prescriptions for ozem-
pic and Wegovy, made by Novo
Nordisk, have surged by 140 per-
cent and 297 percent, respective-
ly, as of a year ago, according to a
research note from Cowen ana-
lysts. With list prices of more
than $900 a month, GLPs are far
more expensive than older
weight-loss drugs, and some in-
surers are requiring patients to
clear more hurdles before cover-
ing them, according to several
doctors who treat patients for
obesity.
The Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention estimates
that more than 40 percent of
adults older than 60 are obese. At
that rate, treating just 10 percent
of these medicare beneficiaries
with Wegovy could cost $26.8
billion a year, according to a
recent analysis. (federal law
would have to be changed to
allow medicare to cover weight-
loss medications.)
Demand has been so hot that
Novo Nordisk said in early may
that it would cut back on supply-
ing doses of Wegovy for new
patients to preserve the medica-
tion for those already taking it.
the gold rush
In march, a little-known bio-
tech called Viking Therapeutics
published results of a small early-
stage trial that rivaled GLPs al-
ready on the market. Viking9s
share price doubled over a
month, boosting its stock-market
value by $1.4 billion 4 a stunning
jump for such a preliminary find-
ing.
Last month, it was Pfizer9s turn
to ride the weight-loss wave. Af-
ter a publication confirmed pre-
viously disclosed results on one of
its GLP drugs, the drug giant9s
shares surged and added more
than $10 billion to its value.
When investors bet that kind of
money on a drug that might not
even move forward, Evercore ISI
analyst Umer raffat wrote in a
Retropolis
tOP: Debra tyler9s 12-year-old daughter examines her medication at home in Killingworth, Conn. the family9s insurance had covered the
medication that treated her obesity but then dropped coverage, leaving the tylers with difficult financial decisions, given the medication9s
high price tag. the family decided to pay out of pocket for it. ABOVE: Her daughter injects her medication.
research note, <we are clearly in
the hey day of GLPs.=
GLPs that have been approved
by the food and Drug Adminis-
tration have quickly become en-
gines of cash for their developers.
Eli Lilly brought in $568.5 mil-
lion of revenue in the first three
months of 2023 from mounjaro,
its new diabetes drug. Novo Nor-
disk, a Danish company, reported
the equivalent of about $3.5 bil-
lion in sales from ozempic and
Wegovy combined over the same
period.
Developing a drug that can
meaningfully and safely help peo-
ple shed pounds has been a <holy
grail= for the pharmaceutical in-
dustry for decades, analysts say.
The new drugs are man-made
versions of glucagon-like peptide
1, a hormone naturally produced
by the body that helps regulate
blood-sugar levels, make food
pass more slowly through the
stomach and suppress appetite.
The treatment has evolved from
drugs that had been injected
daily to once a week, and drug-
makers are developing a pill ver-
sion.
Part of the excitement for these
new drugs is the potential for
broader health benefits 4 and
the cost savings that could flow
from them. matthew Gilbert, an
endocrinologist at University of
Vermont medical Center, said
GLP drugs are so effective at
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Joe BugleWicz foR the Washington Post
managing diabetes that he9s able The chief executive of Weight- the foundation for healthier pat-
to cut back on prescribing insulin Watchers cautioned that the terns of eating and activity as well
to patients. drugs <are not magic pills,= but as a better quality of life.=
Yet the benefits of GLP drugs the company9s stock jumped 59 The cost and difficulty of find-
can vanish when patients stop percent the day after it an- ing GLPs has spawned a wide
taking them, which could mean nounced it completed a deal that range of marketing efforts by
patients take them for a lifetime. will allow it to sell GLP drugs companies seeking to capitalize
Gilbert said he is not concerned directly to patients. on the drugs9 popularity.
about the long-term safety, but Gary foster, chief scientific of- Shed rx, an Arizona-based
the prospect of lifelong use raises ficer of WeightWatchers, said in a telehealth firm that launched in
a question no one can yet answer. statement that GLPs are a break- January, is advertising <afford-
<Are these drugs going to be safe through, but emphasized the able tirzepatide= for an initial
for someone to take for 30 years?= need to pair them with a behav- $499 a month 4 half the cost of
he said. ioral program. That, he said, <is the list price for mounjaro, the
only fDA-approved tirzepatide
drug. The company can do so in
part because it is ordering it from
compounding pharmacies, which
costs less than the branded-ver-
sion, according to morley Baker,
the company9s chief executive.
<People are looking for an af-
fordable solution,= said Baker,
who said he has no prior experi-
ence in health care but his part-
ners do.
fDA allows only compounding
pharmacies to make products
that are commercially available
when they are in shortage, as is
currently the case for tirzepatide
and semaglutide. The agency re-
cently warned that it has <re-
ceived adverse event reports after
patients used compounded sema-
glutide,= and said patients should
use fDA-approved drugs if avail-
Jim VondRuska/ReuteRs
able.
Saxenda is approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat Baker did not respond to sub-
weight loss, but Ozempic, a diabetes medication, is not. sequent requests for comment.
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. sunday, june 18 , 2023
the glP difference
ozempic has had profound ef-
fects for Barbara Senich, 66, of
North Carolina and rhondalynne
Ware, 59, of Texas. Both struggled
with weight for most of their
lives, tried numerous diets and
underwent bariatric surgery be-
fore trying ozempic.
<I went from feeling like I was
on the edge of a cliff, and I was
this hopeless person, to now feel-
ing like I can control this,= said
Senich, a former pharmaceutical
executive whose struggles with
weight began in the fourth grade.
Ware, who works in account-
ing, said that her weight-loss
success with ozempic <has been
unlike anything else I9ve ever
done.=
But this is where their experi-
ences diverge: Senich has a diag-
nosis of prediabetes, which is
covered by her insurance. Ware
doesn9t.
After Ware9s insurance stopped
covering ozempic, she went
through a succession of other
drugs until she was prescribed
mounjaro, a GLP drug approved
for diabetes but also prescribed
off-label to treat obesity. That was
a game changer for Ware, who
was able to get it for $25 a month
through a coupon from manufac-
turer Eli Lilly. Still, she has strug-
gled to find pharmacies that will
accept the coupon.
<I9ve gone to chain pharma-
cies, small mom-and-pop phar-
macies, I9ve gone out of state,=
Ware said.
Some health plans, like the
Teacher retirement System of
Texas, have been covering
weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy
apparently by mistake. The sys-
tem recently discovered an in-
crease in its members using such
drugs, which it says are excluded
as a benefit, according a letter it
sent to the obesity medicine As-
sociation last month.
<It was not TrS9 intent to
provide coverage for weight loss
and anti-obesity drugs,= the letter
states, adding that doing so
<would require TrS to factor the
costs of such medications into the
premiums charged to all employ-
ees= in its plan.
The American medical Associ-
ation recognized obesity as a
disease in 2013, but treating it is
still shaped by stigma. The condi-
tion was historically viewed as a
problem of lifestyle, diet and
willpower, and many insurance
plans exclude it along with cos-
metic ailments like hair loss.
Some insurers cover off-label
uses of GLP drugs while many do
not.
<The 8eat less, move more9 ap-
proach is really not very effective
for the average person who is
looking for meaningful, sus-
tained weight loss,= said Jaime
Almandoz, medical director of
the Weight Wellness Program at
the University of Texas South-
western medical Center in Dallas.
Almandoz said Eli Lilly had a
coupon for mounjaro last year
available to anyone with com-
mercial insurance, regardless of
whether they had diabetes. That,
coupled with a study on tirzepati-
de last summer showing dramat-
ic weight loss for obesity patients
without diabetes, <led to a huge
uptick in off-label prescribing,=
Almandoz said.
Now he and other doctors have
noticed a trend of insurers man-
dating additional steps and pa-
perwork before they will reim-
burse for GLPs, such as requiring
them to try other less-expensive
weight-loss drugs first.
Taher modarressi, a doctor at
Hamilton Cardiology Associates
in New Jersey, hasn9t experienced
such a tightening of require-
ments but sees a looming colli-
sion. It is the physician9s job to do
what is medically right for the
patient, including prescribing
GLP drugs to treat obesity, he
said. Still, <we would face over-
whelmingly prohibitive systemic
costs= if such medications were
prescribed to everyone who qual-
ifies.
rather than limiting the thera-
py, he argues that the price of
GLPs must go down and cites a
precedent: Amgen, Sanofi and
regeneron slashed the price of
their anti-cholesterol medication
in 2018, aiming to boost use of the
medication. <It9s an approach
that merits serious consider-
ation,= he said.
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Regulators9 report criticizes McKinsey9s work before SVB failure
MCkinSey from G1
for supervision, placed the bulk of
the blame for the bank9s crash on
lax oversight by regulators and
mismanagement by executives.
But the fed report also noted
the outsize role of consultants at
the Santa Clara, Calif.-based bank.
SVB9s rapid growth <far out-
paced the abilities of its board of
directors and senior manage-
ment,= according to the fed, and
so the bank <regularly engaged
consultants to help prepare for
the transition.= Consultants from
mcKinsey were joined by those
from Curinos, Ernst & Young, Ac-
centure and Protiviti, among oth-
ers, according to records.
<The consultants seemed to
outnumber the fTEs [full-time
employees],= the former bank offi-
cial said.
The fed9s report also specifical-
ly criticized the performance of
another consulting firm. Two for-
mer SVB officials and a govern-
ment official said it was Curinos, a
small firm that specializes in
banking. Its work at SVB had been
previously reported.
The flood of consultants at SVB
started in 2020 as the bank faced a
wealth of new responsibilities.
SVB was in the middle of a three-
year period when its assets would
triple to more than $200 billion. It
was as the bank neared that $100
billion milestone that SVB execu-
tives worried the most. SVB would
no longer be a regional bank in the
eyes of regulators 4 it would be an
LfI, a large financial institution.
And regulators would start con-
tinuously monitoring everything
the bank did.
The former SVB official re-
called that a team of regulators on
an early bank visit were stunned
by the lack of employees, asking,
<Where is the treasury staff ?
Where are the risk people?=
In August 2020, mcKinsey was
given the task of completing an
<EPS gap assessment= 4 a meas-
ure of the bank9s ability to meet
the <enhanced prudential stan-
dards= for capital reserves, liquid-
ity and risk management faced by
the nation9s largest financial insti-
tutions, according to the consult-
ing firm and the government offi-
cial.
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ing out expertise from one of the
most influential consulting firms
in the world 4 and a company
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that has come under increasing
scrutiny for the advice it provides.
mcKinsey consults with 60 per-
cent of the world9s 100 largest
banks, according to its website.
Last year, it provided <financial
advisory and consulting services=
to the fDIC, according to a list of
the agency9s vendors. And federal
contract data shows that the U.S.
government has spent more than
$700 million on mcKinsey9s ser-
vices in the last decade.
mcKinsey9s influence extends
even further thanks to its exten-
sive alumni network. The former
head of Credit Suisse, Tidjane Thi-
am, once worked at mcKinsey.
The current CEos of both Citi and
morgan Stanley 4 Jane fraser
and James Gorman, respectively
4 were both mcKinsey partners.
So was Tom Barkin, head of the
federal reserve Bank of rich-
mond.
In 2019, mcKinsey agreed to
pay $15 million to settle Justice
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Department accusations that the
firm failed to adequately disclose
potential conflicts of interest in
bankruptcy court cases it was in-
volved in. Two years later, mcKin-
sey settled investigations into its
role in the nation9s opioid crisis,
striking a nearly $600 million
deal for helping Purdue Pharma
market its oxyContin painkiller.
mcKinsey denied breaking the
law but said it regretted its failure
to recognize the scope of the epi-
demic.
At SVB, regulators realized that
<the firm was not prepared for
EPS= as SVB approached the $100
billion line at the end of 2020. The
bank examiner team for large
banks decided to delay its more
intensive supervision of SVB until
July 2021, according to fed report.
This gave the bank even more
time to prepare.
But the assessment done by
mcKinsey failed to properly iden-
tify the bank9s shortcomings, ac-
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cording to the fed report.
Bank examiners don9t usually
distinguish between the work
done by consultants and bank
staff 4 focusing instead on wheth-
er the work meets regulatory ex-
pectations, according to one for-
mer SVB official and the govern-
ment official.
<The fed is very interested in
seeing banks succeed when they
get to LfI,= the former SVB official
said. <They were trying to help us
as much as possible.=
So it stood out when, in late
2021, as the bank was updating
regulators on its liquidity stress
testing, one banking regulator
asked the SVB team members if
they thought they were getting
their money9s worth from mcKin-
sey, according to one former SVB
official.
The government official said he
didn9t know if a bank examiner
asked that particular question but
that regulators will call out work
John Brecher For the Washington Post
that <is not meeting supervisory
expectations= no matter who does
it.
After that, SVB turned to a dif-
ferent consulting firm to address
the bank9s EPS gaps, according to
the former SVB official. <They
helped stabilize the situation.=
The fed report noted that SVB9s
board and executives, including
its chief risk officer, had <all failed
to recognize= problems with the
original gap assessment and plan
until they were flagged by regula-
tors in late 2021.
This, along with other short-
comings, led both regulators and
SVB officials to conclude that the
company9s then chief risk officer,
Laura Izurieta, <did not have the
experience necessary for a large
financial institution,= according
to the report. She stepped down
from her role in early 2022 and
formally departed the bank later
that year.
Izurieta didn9t respond to a re-
G7
quest for comment.
SVB9s former CEo, Greg Becker,
told a Senate banking committee
in may that he blamed the bank9s
collapse on <a series of unprec-
edented events,= including the
fed9s decision to raise interest
rates repeatedly in 2022. As the
bank grew in size, Becker said,
SVB had hired outside advisers
that included law firms, consul-
tants and investment bankers to
manage risk.
Curinos, like mcKinsey, was not
named in the report. It conducted
a study of how interest rate chang-
es could affect SVB9s deposits, a
key variable in risk models. rising
interest rates can push people to
move their money in search of
higher yields. In April 2022, Curi-
nos9s deposit study, along with
SVB9s own analysis, led the bank
to make <a poorly supported
change in assumption= on what
would happen to the bank9s de-
posits if interest rates rose 4 mak-
ing it appear that this was a rela-
tively safe strategy, although <no
risk had been taken off the bal-
ance sheet,= according to the fed
report.
In march 2023, after a string of
fed rate hikes and rising online
panic about the bank9s stability,
SVB depositors tried to withdraw
$42 billion in a single day. The
bank failed 24 hours later.
Curinos did not respond to a
request for comment. In April, the
company responded to a separate
Washington Post inquiry by de-
clining to comment on whether it
did any work for SVB, adding in a
statement that the company
works with banks and <routinely
analyzes customer behavior to as-
sess the likelihood that their bal-
ances will change based on differ-
ent stimuli, such as interest rates.=
As it gave advice to SVB, mcKin-
sey was also publishing its views
on the broader banking industry.
In february 2021, it produced a
report calling attention to three
<themes= that <deserve fresh at-
tention= from bank boards: cli-
mate change, <cyberrisk= and so-
cial justice. A month later, mcKin-
sey wrote about new fed guidance
for bank boards, telling banks to
create <an aggressive but achiev-
able plan to build out any en-
hancements required to address
gaps.=
After SVB filed for bankruptcy
in march, mcKinsey found itself
among the bank9s many unse-
cured creditors.
According to a court filing, mc-
Kinsey was still owed $2,397,491
for its advice.
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It wasn9t long ago that headlines about worker
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recent months, the job market has swung, with many
companies undergoing layoffs4particularly in the
technology sector. While the market as a whole may
have uncertainties, it9s far from an across-the-board
status, as some local businesses continue to recruit new
employees for a variety of specialties.
Chenega MIOS continues to stand strong, with nearly
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corporation.
While some of the organization9s stability is likely
owed to the nature of its business, much of it is due
to its mission, team9s dedication, and the culture it has
carefully cultivated.
<We lead with the mission: We support and defend the
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<We established in 1971 to sustain the socioeconomic That commitment to country and culture is evidenced
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but also what9s going on with employees9 families and
what9s happening outside of work. We want to ensure
we can look into each other9s eyes and see if we need
to connect one-on-one or set additional time,= shared
Obee of the check-ins.
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A JOBS
Accountant - Req9 BS in Acct
or BZ Admin + 6mn exp as
Acct or Mgmt staff. 40hr/wk.
$62379/yr. CV to Jobsite @
Straffic America, Attn:
Andrew 1953 Gallows Rd
#145, Vienna VA 22182
Account Manager wanted by
insurance co. in Annandale,
VA. Reqs Assoc Deg in Any
Majors. Must speak, read &
write Korean. Resume to:
SMART INSURANCE BY
SOLOMON AGENCY LLC, 7535
Little River Turnpike, Ste 204,
Annandale, VA 22003.
Administrative Assistant
Provide administrative sup-
port to ensure efficient oper-
ation of the company. Answer
phone calls, respond to ques-
tions & requests, take mes-
sages & transfer calls. Sup-
port the team by scheduling &
confirming meetings & other
appointments, filing, typing,
copying, scanning, creating
reports, & entering informa-
tion into databases and
spreadsheets. Open mail &
route it to the appropriate
team member. Draft, type &
send out company correspon-
dence. Order supplies & main-
tain office equipment. FT. 1-yr
exp req. Mail resume to job
location: Hane Restaurant,
Inc. dba Mykonos Grill, 121
Congressional Ln, Rockville,
MD 20852
Aetna Resources LLC, a CVS
Health company, is hiring for
the following role in Chantilly,
VA: Sr. Manager, Application
Development (2488505BR) to
design and develop enter-
prise software applications
and platforms; telecommut-
ing available. Multiple open-
ings. Related degree &/or
experience &/or skills
required for all positions.
Apply online at:
https://jobs.cvshealth.com/ .
Or mail resume to Attn: P.
Messenger, 1 CVS Drive, Mail
Code HR695, Woonsocket, RI
02895. Must reference job
title, location and Req ID.
Aid, Infirmary 3 Wash., DC -
F/T, No exp req9d. Call Ms.
Siegel @ Sisters of the Visita-
tion of Georgetown: 202-337-
3350 Ext. 2313
Antique Car Restoration
Specialist
(Loc: Hyattsville, MD). Analyze
necessary repairs needed to
vehicles & make recommend.
to customers. Req.: 6 mon.
of exp. repairing & restoring
antique motor vehicles. Apply
to T. Kifleyesus, Cross Road
Auto Body, tirfekifleyesus@
gmail.com.
Applications Analyst: Dsgn &
implmnt apps & features.
Perf. app updates & dvlpmt.
Conduct softw update testing
& maint. Must have demon-
strated exp. w/: project man-
agement, EMR components,
clinical CMS workflows,
TIBCO iProcess & Rules
Engine, HL7, HIPAA, SOAP,
Linux, SQL, CCL, Soarian Clin-
icals Application, JSP, &
Servlets. Job in Silver Spring,
MD, allows full remote work
fr anywhere w/in Silver Spring
metro area. Apply to MedStar
Health, Inc. careers web. at
https://careers.
medstarhealth.org/global/
en/job/req13912/
Applications-Analyst ,
or email application to
MedStarHealthSystemand
SharedServicesHuman
Resources@medstar.net,
indicating req. # 13912.
Find an
entry-level
A JOBS
Staff Landscape Architect:
Landscape design, site mea-
surement & plant identifica-
tion. Develop design con-
cepts & construction docu-
mentation. Create landscape
design. Compile & research
all aspects of landscape archi-
tectural work. Min. rqmts:
Master9s Degree in Landscape
Architecture or Architecture.
Knwl. or exp. in preparing
graphics, including site plan
renderings, elevations, & per-
spectives/photo simulations.
Exp. or knwl. in production
of project drawings & speci-
fications, landscape architec-
tural construction documents
& presentation materials. Exp.
or knwl in computer-aided
design drafting for schematic
design. Knwl. or exp. in Pho-
toshop, AutoCAD, InDesign &
Illustrator. Resumes to Job
Loc: Rhodeside & Harwell Inc.,
510 King St, Ste 300, Alexan-
dria VA 22314, Attn: K. Fisher
Assistant Manager wanted by
construction contractor co. in
Sterling, VA. Bach Deg in Any
Majors + 6 mos exp in job
offd. Resume to: Capital Con-
struction of America Inc.,
43720 Trade Center Pl, Ste
130, Sterling, VA 20166.
CrossCountry Consulting, LLC
seeks an Associate Director,
McLean, VA (& various unan-
ticipated locations across the
U.S.) to lead consulting
projects for CrossCountry
clients across a variety of
industries to advise & support
their Finance & Accounting
functions. Job req9s Bach9s
deg in Accounting, Fin, Biz,
Commerce, or rltd & 5 yrs of
exp in any occup. providing
client srvcs in the areas of
financial reporting, opera-
tional accounting &/or finan-
cial auditing. Emplyr will
accept 3 or 4 yr Bach9s deg.
Email cvr ltr & resume to HR@
crosscountry- consulting.com
Associate Fellow, Southeast
Asia Program (Washington,
DC) Research society &
social behavior for SE Asia
Program incl. political, eco-
nomic, business, diplomatic
institutions & security-relat-
ed issues. Write research
reports & grant proposals.
Develop research agenda.
Represent org. to media out-
lets & conferences. Master9s
Asian Studies or related &
2 yrs exp as a researcher
conducting research & policy
analysis on foreign policy,
politics, economics & secu-
rity issues of SE Asia. Please
apply at Center for Strategic
and International Studies
https://careers.csis.org/
opportunities
Senior Associates (Rockville,
MD) Develop artificial intelli-
gence & automated techni-
cal processes. Develop writ-
ten documentation to sup-
port findings & recommen-
dations. Bachelor9s degree in
Accounting, Finance or equiv-
alent. May also require travel
to various unanticipated
client sites nationally. Mail
Resume to TFC Consulting,
Inc. Attn: HRGC 9200 Corpo-
rate Blvd STE 260, Rockville,
MD 20850.
CRA International, Inc. has an
opening for Senior Associate
- Competition in Washington,
DC. Contribute to the design
& conduct of project work,
including coordinating with
clients to procure data &
define analysis scope. Please
mail resumes to Michele D.
Frangella at 200 Clarendon
Street, Boston, MA 02116.
Must reference job
21761.114.3.
B JOBS
B JOBS
Business Manager in Kens-
ington, MD. Plan & manage
business operations; direct
administrative activities;
direct & coordinate financial
& budget activities; evaluate
insurance policies; establish
& implement sales policies.
Bachelor9s Deg in Business
Admin, General Business or
a closely related field + 12
months of exp in job offered
or as General Manager or
Insurance Sales Agent req9d.
Mail resume to: Hazar Finan-
cial Services LLC, Attn: HR,
10543 Metropolitan Ave,
Kensington, MD 20895.
C JOBS
Cashier. Burger King, Urbana,
MD. Duties: receive + dis-
burse money + operate elec-
tronic scanners/cash regis-
ters/or related equipment +
process credit or debit card
transactions + assist w/main-
tenance + cleanliness of seat-
ing + other areas in restaurant
+ stock supplies. Req: No min
reqments. Apply:
chucklers1@aol.com
Commercial Sign
Fabricator/Assembler
Fabricate, assemble, install &
repair signs using materials
such as acrylic, wool, ply-
wood, foam, polycarbonate,
PVC & aluminum. Set up,
operate & maintain CNC, laser
& waterjet machines & use
electrical tools such as jig &
table saws, drills, rivet guns &
sanding tools to make signs.
Use welding equipment to
assemble channel letters. Set
up LED lighting. Travel to job
sites in Wash DC metro area
about once/week. FT. 6 mo
exp req. Mail resume to job
loc: Catchysigns LLC, 3656
Centerview Dr, Ste 11, Chan-
tilly, VA 20151
CONSTRUCTION LABORERS:
Construct, erect, install and
repair structures. Must have
24 months experience in con-
struction labor. M-F, 40 p/wK,
Mail application with this ad
to: J&C Framing, 9600 Croom
Road, Upper Marlboro, MD
20227. Job Loc. Upper Marl-
boro, MD
CONSTRUCTION
DPR in Wash. DC seeks Pre-
construction Mgr. for lg. scale
commercial projects, first
estimate through subcon-
tracts formalized. MS Constr.
Mgmt., Constr. Eng., Civ. Eng.
or rltd., + 3 yrs. exp., or BS CM,
Civ. Eng., Const. Eng. or rltd.,
+ 5 yrs. exp. req'd. Resumes
to careers@dpr.com or online
at https://www.dpr.com.
Must reference Job Number
DC21175
Content Specialist 3 iTalk
Global Communications, Inc.
McLean, VA. Perf9m duties RE
content acquisition+produc-
tion+promotion; mkt analysis.
Req9d: Bachlr9s in Journal-
ism/Commun/rltd field/for-
eign equiv9t + 1y exp w/TV
ad, video production&edit +
Any exp w/content strategy,
Adobe Creative Suite, Python,
HTML, JavaScript, CRM,
media process, RFP, build
original content, distribute on
social pltfm, analyze KPI data,
Excel, and PowerPoint. Send
resumes to hr@italkbb.com
Corcentric, LLC seeks FT
BizTalk Developer in McLean,
VA. Work with the integration
team to create mappings
based on given requirements
and with the Biztalk Admin on
deployments and debugging
issues. Req. Bach. deg. or
equiv. in Comp. Science,
Comp. Engineering, or rel.
field & 3 yrs rel. exp. Apply
at www.corcentric.com
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
Customer Representative:
Comm. with cust. to provide
info. & ans. queries. Write
quotes for auto, home,
renters, condo, boat, motor-
cycle ins. Sell personal lines
of ins. Telemrktng product &
svcs. to cust. Resolv. billing
qns from cust. Min. Rqmts:
High School/ GED. 24 months
exp. in the job offered or as
Customer Service Manager.
Exp. or knwl in resolving cust.
complaints. Exp. or knwl. with
processing forms & applica-
tions. Verif. references. Able
to work OT, incl. weekends
& holidays. Non-smoker on
worksite. Resumes to job loc:
KAP Insurance, LLC, 14100
Darnestown Road, STE. D,
Darnestown, MD-20874.
ATTN: Derek Kaplan.
D JOBS
Data Scientist: develop,
imple data analytics for web
platform. Apply data mining,
modeling; visualize, interpret,
report dynamic/no dynamic
data for busi. decisions. FT.
Req: MS/eqv in Computation-
al finance w/ 2y exp. Job in
Rockville MD. Resume to
Peblla HR, 11820 Parklawn Dr.
Ste 330, Rockville MD 20852.
Dental Lab Manager (German-
town, MD) Direct & coord
activities of dental lab busi-
ness operations incl produc-
tion, pricing, sales & distrib-
ution of products. Supv tech-
nicians for dsgng & repair-
ing dental devices & products.
Reqd BA in Dental Technology.
Mon-Fri. 40hrs/wk. Please
send a diploma, transcript &
resume to Infinia Dental, Inc.,
20410 Century Blvd., # 240,
Germantown, MD 20874.
Post your
résumé and
get found
by employers.
C JOBS
D JOBS
Digital Advertisement
Specialist (Washington DC)
Duties incl: Dvlp, coord, &
execute digital adv cam-
paigns using various ad mgmt
platforms. Accomplish digital
mrktng & sales objectives by
planning, dvlpng, implement-
ing, & evaluating adv, mer-
chandising, & trade promo-
tion progs; Gather data on
competitors & analyze their
prices, sales, & methods of
mrktng & distrib; Dvlp &
implement procedures for
identifying adv needs; dvlp
adv brochures & commer-
cials, sales plans, & product
promotions; Assist w/overall
online adv initiatives, incl
search engine mrktng, social
media adv, banner adv, &
branded content creation;
Assess performance metrics
incl campaign analytics, effi-
ciency metrics, brand met-
rics, customer metrics, &
overall return on investment
for digital adv campaigns, &
make recommendations
based on findings; Coord w/
the sales dept, clients, & inter-
nal technical dept to fulfill ad
campaign goals; & Brief the
mgmt w/ info & proposals
concerning the promotion,
distrib, dsgn, & pricing of co.
products & srvcs. Bach's degr
in Biz Admin, Mrktng or rltd +
1 yr exp in any mrktng-reltd
position is req'd. Must have 1
yr exp analyzing biz dvlpmnt
& monitoring mrktng trends.
Salary $49,899. Email resume
to The Christian Post at
hr@christianpost.com
Director, Material Steward-
ship (Global). International
Copper Association, Ltd.
Bethesda, MD. FT. Recom-
mend, develop, implement, +
conduct well-rounded + ent is traveling. Job in
responsive Health Environ.
Sustainable Dev. (HESD)
Prgrm. w/appx. $5M budget.
Lead Material Stewardship
Team in dev. of HESD port-
folio. Approx. 25% travel inc.
global. Req: Ph.D. or Master9s
deg. in Human Health, Envi-
ron. Science, Environ. Toxicol-
ogy, or Environ. Engineering.
If Ph.D. need 2 yrs exp in
environ. health or sustainabil-
ity programs. If Master9s deg.
need 5 yrs exp in environ.
health or sustainability pro-
grams. Req. 1 yr exp with:
tech. exp. in chemicals mgmt.
regs. in multiple geographic
regions of world; 1 yr exp
w/project budget mgmt + 1 yr
exp w/teams of people from
diverse cultural backgrounds.
Apply to ICA c/o MCI USA,
attention E. Zen, 1660 Inter-
national Drive, Suite 600,
McLean, VA 22102.
Domestic
Caregiver: Provide live-in
physical care for elderly
adults with severe pulmonary
issues & diabetes. Adminis-
ter bedside assistance & per-
sonal care. Drive to & from
medical & other appoint-
ments. Perform housekeep-
ing tasks. Min Rqmts: High
School/GED. Knwl of or exp in
respiratory therapy, nutrition
& medical terminology. Ver-
ifiable ref. Non-smoker on
premises. Able to work over-
time, on wknds and holidays.
Resumes to job loc.: Robert A.
Sheets, 2684 Horton Hill Rd,
Herndon, VA 20171. Attn: R.
Sheets
Child Care, Bethesda, MD.
Assist children w/ eating,
dressing, bathing, tooth
brushing. Monitor play &
advise employer of daily
activities. Organize/ partici-
pate in games & field trips.
Assist in prep'g children's
meals & refreshments. Do
children's housekeeping:
laundry, cleaning, changing
linens. Ensure order in activity
areas. Req: 6 mos exp & ref-
erences. To apply: Send letter
to Ramzi Alami, c/o Yanni, Ste
102, 2141 P St NW, DC 20037
Eldercare Worker, Live-in or
Live-out. Assist elderly
woman in tasks of daily living,
laundry, cooking, shopping &
driving. Req'd: driv. lic.; no
crim. record; min. 1 yr.
domestic exp.; references.;
able to work overtime eves.
& weekends. Prevailing wage.
Apply: (301) 681-9700;
slevtov@aol.com
Housekeeper
Manage, maintain and clean
private home and render per-
sonal services to family mem-
bers. 40hr/wk. Prevailing
Wage. Resume to Tahmina
Rahman 1375 Blairstone Dr.
Vienna, VA 22182
Personal Care Attendant 3
Private Home 3 Reston, VA;
Older couple with vision and
mobility issues need assis-
tance with personal care and
daily activities such as feed-
ing, dressing, grooming,
shopping. Farsi speaking. 2
yrs exp. req9d $33,051/yr.
Resume to sultanad@aol.com
or mail: Hamed Aziz-Sultan
1180 Freedom Dr 3 Reston,
VA 20190
Teen Caretaker. Work w/ 2
teens w/ chronic autoim-
mune illnesses. Provide basic
caretaking: ensure that each
child takes his meds, take
them to dr appts, prepare
food, wash laundry, supervise
hygiene, drive to other com-
mitments. Take to/pick up
from school when they
can attend; supervise school/
tutoring when they can9t. Pro-
vide physical rehab incl
Levine Protocol & general
conditioning. Some night &
wkd coverage req9d when par-
Potomac, MD. Req9d: HS diplo-
ma + 2 yrs exp working w/
kids w/ special needs. Send
resume & 2 ref to H. Harris at
TeenMedAide@gmail.com.
E JOBS
Engineering: AES Clean Ener-
gy Services, LLC seeks Senior
Development Engineer in
Arlington, VA (100% of tele-
work permitted from any-
where in the US) to create
preliminary plant designs, site
layouts, single lines, and rec-
ommend primary project
equipment (turbines, invert-
ers , PV modules, batteries,
etc.) for utility-scale solar PV
and Battery Energy Storage
projects primarily, wind devel-
opment engineering in the
future. Job requires bache-
lor9s degree in Mechanical
Engineering, Solar Engineer-
ing, or related field and 5
years of experience in any
job title involving Mechani-
E JOBS
CNC Manufacturing Engi-
neer: Resp. for dev. 3D mdls,
layout & drawgs., & gen. Bill of
Material. Des. prods. for sheet
metal & FAB procs. Perf.
tolerance analysis to validate
dims., datum sch., designd
gaps & assy. by GD&T acc. to
ASME Y14.5 std. CAM prgm
for CNC laser & turret press
punch. Opt. cutng & punch
toolpaths, mod. G&M codes,
& imp. cut. strategy. Dev.
mfg. methds., & tool. strats
ass. with CNC cut. & punch.,
form. & wield. ops. Prov. mfg.
decision-making info. by calc.
prod., labor, & mat. costs &
est. future req. Keep equip.
opl. by coord. maint. & repair
svcs.; foll. mfr.9s inst.; req.
specl svcs. Min rqmts: Mas-
ter9s Deg. in Mechanical Engi-
neering or Mechanical Engi-
neering Technology. Knwl. or
exp. in Solidworks CAD soft-
ware & Microsoft Office
Suites of Products. Knwl. or
exp. in CNC Programming,
G&M CNC codes & GD&T
ASME Y14.5. Knwl. or exp. in
Mechanical System Design &
Manufacturing Processes. Job
Loc: G & H Metal Works, Inc
DBA G & H Metal Products,
1423 Chestnut Avenue, Hill-
side, NJ-07205. Attn: Eric
Heide.
Charles P. Johnson & Asso-
ciates, Inc. seeks a Water
Resources Designer to design
systems for control and reme-
diation of water, prepare
drawings using CAD, Civil 3D
and ArcGIS, perform stream
design, SWM design, hydro-
logic and hydraulic modeling
including TR-20, TR-55, HEC-
RAS, GIS modeling tasks and
collaborate with specialists to
address environmental prob-
lems. Master of Sci. or Profes-
sional Sci. Master Degree or
equivalent in Water Resource
Management required. Job
Location: Greenbelt, MD. Mail
resume to Charles Johnson, II
at 1751 Elton Rd., Suite #300,
Silver Spring, MD 20903
ENGINEER
Quality Control Civil
Engineer; Michael Nash Cus-
tom Kitchens, Inc.; Fairfax,
VA: Prioritizing, scheduling
completing punch list tasks,
Initiate a process to doc, com-
mun action plans, consult
customers Requests, Assur-
ing , improving customer sat-
isfaction, Optimizing order-
ing, returning or exchanging
orders process timely & on
budget, Controlling ,manag-
ing warehouse materials , re-
organizing to make more
items visible avail, Investigat-
ing open complaints & fol-
low up issues to get them
resolved-Reqs BS in Civil
Engng, or Project Mngmnt -24
mos exp as Civil Eng, Project
Eng or equivt. Understanding
of correlation of architectural,
structural, mechanical & elec-
trical. Knowl of AutoCAD Soft-
ware, QuickBooks & MS
Office. Send res to
sam@michael-nash.com
Equipment Operator: Chantil-
ly, VA; to apply email resume
to Atlantic Contracting &
Material Co., Inc. c/o Angela
Allen to aallen@
acmpave.com
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EXECUTIVE EDITOR
NEWS, DC
Reach Media (Washington
D.C.) Will formulate and give
direction and leadership to
the editorial staff in the US,
aligning staff around a single,
integrated, vision for the divi-
sion; and will provide editorial
and creative leadership and
inspiration to the newsroom
in DC to enhance the
strength, depth and quality
of its services. Must have a
Bachelor9s degree, or foreign
equivalent, in Broadcast Jour-
nalism, Communications,
Film, Media, or related field.
Must have five years of work
experience in leading editorial
teams in broadcast journal-
ism, including experience
with operational and adminis-
trative systems of media out-
lets. Will accept eight years of
professional journalism expe-
rience in lieu of a bachelor9s
degree. Must be able to speak
Farsi and English fluently.
Must be able to work in a
24-hour shift pattern, working
days and/or overnights, as
needed. May be required
to travel to hostile environ-
ments/situations.
May require 0-5% travel.
To apply, send resume to
recruitment@reach.media.
F
JOBS
Finance & Grants Mgr, Wash-
ington, DC. Budgeting/Finan-
cial Modeling. Review expen-
ditures charges to sponsored
awards per sponsors9 regu-
lations & Uniform Guidance
(2 CFR 200). Forecasting/Pro-
jections. Review & approve
Financial Reports. Serve as
admin contact/liaison w/Fed.,
State & private sponsors. Mail
resume to S. Galib, Office of
Global Services, Georgetown
University, Box 571013, Wash-
ington, DC 20057.
Front Desk Reception 3
Brown Insurance Group, Inc. 3
Silver Spring, MD; Intake new
customers, scheduling, cus-
tomer svc, file maintenance.
No exp. req9d $27,581/yr.
Resume to: winston@
browninsurancegroup.com or
mail: Winston Brown 12118
Heritage Park Cir. 3 Silver
Spring, MD 20906
General Jobs
General Manager: Min Reqs:
2 yrs exp. biz dev.; exp. in
short-term rental industry. All
properties in DC Metro Area,
may have to visit sites. CL/R:
Home Sweet City, 1826 18th
St., NW, Washington, DC
20009
H country laws as well as U.S.
JOBS
Hardware Design Engineer for
IonQ Quantum, Inc. DBA IonQ
in College Park, MD. Dsgn.,
simulate, integrate, & test the
circt. brds. & cntrl. elctrncs.
that underpin quantum cmpt-
ng. assemblies. Create
schematics, facilitate device
fbrctn., & dvlp. test prcrdrs. to
lvrge. the quantum behavior
of trapped-ion systems for
cmptr. oprtns. Dsgn. field-
prgmable. gate arrays to
enable quantum systems to
run algrthms. based on the
fully prgmable. mnpltn. of
individual qubits. Provide tch-
ncl. gdnce. during the design-
to-device trnstn. Req. are
Bach. Deg. in Elctrcl. Eng.,
Cmptr. Eng., or a rltd. fld. +
2 yrs. exp. prfrmng 1) low-
noise/high-speed anlg. & dgtl.
circt. brd. dsgn., fbrctn. &
assembly & 2) dgtl. systems
tstng. & analysis + wrkng.
knwldg. of Altium schmtic.
capture & layout tools (e.g.,
OrCAD & Allegro PCB) &
pSPICE circt. smltn. & mdling.
tools. Email resume to Peter
Britt at britt@ionq.co.
Healthcare - General
BIOMEDICAL DATA SPECIAL-
IST @ American Society of
Clinical Oncology (Alexandria,
VA - part-time telecommut-
ing permitted). Apply clinical
knwldge to create insights
from database; SQL scrptng
to query for eval & filtr data
from electronic med health
recs. Reqs: Mast9s in Biostats,
Bioinfo or rel & Academic or
industry exp in a health sci
field OR Bach9s & 2 yrs exp.
Email cvr ltr & CV to:
recruit@asco.org. Reference
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Hospitalist (mult. opns)
Washington, DC: Prov int med
care to pats adm to nonteach
serv by perf phys exams, ord
tests, diagn, & treat pats &
by perf hosp rounds & plan
for disch. Req: MD degree or
equiv. + 36 months ACGME
accred int med resid. Reqs
valid DC med lic & AB cert or
eligib in int med. Reqs 7am
to 7pm shifts ev oth week,
w occas wks of night shifts
from 7pm to 7am. Full-time,
40 hrs per week. Apply online
at https://www.
medstarmedicalgroup
careers.com/jobs/
Hospitalist/Washington_
Washington_D_C_/100/
327631/
I JOBS
HDR Architecture Inc seeks
an Interior Designer in Arling-
ton, VA. Requires: Master's
in Interior Design or Interior
Architecture + 6m exp in inte-
rior design or a Bachelor's
Degree + 3 yrs exp. Required
exp may be professional or
internship exp and must
include: Revit; AutoCAD;
Adobe Creative Suite;
SketchUp or Rhino; Blue-
beam; Enscape; V-ray. Back-
ground chk. May be subject to
pre-empl. drug testing. Apply
at https://bit.ly/Req173845.
Emp. Pd. Ad. EOE.
Invexer Technology, Inc. seeks
a F/T Technical Recruiter to
identify, screen, recruit IT tal-
ents & run the company9s
HR. Master &12 mos. Exp.
Resume to 21351 Gentry
Drive Ste.150, Sterling, VA
20166
IT Professionals: Ent. Lvl to
Sen. Lvl Sftwr Dvlprs are
needed for our Vienna, VA
Ofc. Must be willing to travel
to set up systems to various
clients at unanticipated locs
across the U.S. Pls send
resume, Cvr Ltr., & Sal. Req.
to SLS Solutions, Inc., 8230
Old Courthouse Rd, Ste 200,
Vienna, VA 22182.
K law and (ii) within the U.S.
JOBS
Kitchen Assistant 3 Pakistani
food restaurant need a
kitchen assistant, will not
prepare food, no exp. reqd.
40hr/wk. Mail resume to
Shalimar Charcoal Kabob at
46000 Old Ox Road # 108
Sterling, VA 20166
Kitchen Helper. avail. to work
var. shifts/wknds/holidays.
Chez Francois of Great Falls,
LLC, Great Falls, VA. Reply to
chefjeh@aol.com
L JOBS
Laborer(9 opening) 3 Loudoun
Co. VA Area - F/T, No exp
req9d. Call Ricky @ American
Lawn Brothers 703-327-0583
LANDSCAPE WORKERS: (2
Positions): Landscape or
maintain ground of properties
using hand or power tools
or equipment. It will include
operating skid steers, operat-
ing mini excavators, installing
soils and planting materials,
installing pavers and general
construction labor. Use of
shovels, rakes, hammers, cut
off saws, wheelbarrows and
assorted other hand tools.
L JOBS
Statistics: ICF Macro, Inc.:
Lead Statistician 3 Rockville,
MD. Apply statistical tech-
niques to collect, interpret &
summarize numerical data &
provide insights. Req9s Mas-
ter9s in Stats, Data Sci, or rltd
fld +3 yrs exp in statistician-
rltd role in the fld of survey
research. SAS Advanced Pro-
grammer Cert reqd. Up to
40% telework permitted. ICF
is an equal opportunity
employer that values diversity
at all levels. (EEO / AA 3
Minorities / Females / Veter-
ans / Individuals with Disabili-
ties). TO APPLY: Send resume
identifying Job Code ICF139
to recruiting-tr@icf.com. No
calls.
LEGAL: McGuireWoods LLP
seeks Senior Level Associate,
Government Investigations
and White Collar Crime in
Washington DC. 25% dom and
intrn travel required. Work w/
Partners & McGuireWoods
London Partners to expand
& dvlp the firm9s int9l investi-
gations & anti-bribery & anti-
corruption practices. Reqs JD
or LLM or frgn equiv and 3
yrs of exp advising on & resp
to forgn & US enforcement
authorities9 investigations.
Must be licensed to practice
in the US. Apply by sending
cvr ltr & resume to
cmchugh@mcguirewoods.
com & ref req # 2881.
International Attorney (Dis-
putes and Arbitration) sought
by White & Case LLP in Wash-
ington, D.C. to utilize knowl-
edge of foreign legal systems
to support teams in success-
fully representing Firm's
clients before international
tribunals. Must be admitted
to practice law in a U.S. juris-
diction. Telecommuting may
be permitted up to 2-3 days
per week. When not telecom-
muting, must report to White
& Case LLP, 701 Thirteenth
Street NW, Washington D.C.,
20005. Send resume to:
lateralrecruiting@whitecase.
com. Must specify Ad Code
MLEK.
LEGAL-Fincantieri Marine
Group (FMG) is seeking an
Assistant Counsel at its
Washington DC location.
Duties: Provide legal guid-
ance on general legal
projects; serve as point of
contact (i) regarding interac-
tion with FMG9s Italian par-
ent company and Italian reg-
ulators and lead on projects
involving drafting and inter-
pretation of agreements FMG
enters into governed by EU-
organization on joint projects
with Company's Italian col-
leagues. Requirements: J.D.
from a U.S. law school; license
to practice law in DC or USA.
Must have knowledge of Ital-
ian and EU legal systems as
shown by completion of a law
degree (Giurisprudenza) from
an Italian law school or certi-
fication/authority to practice
law in Italy; travel to Europe to
meet with parent and affiliate
Company 2-3x/year. Email
resumes to:
FMGTalentAcquisition@
us.fincantieri.com
LEGAL-Stinson LLP has F/T
Associate Attorney position
in Washington, D.C. Lgl rsrch,
lgl & logcl analy of lgl theories,
gthr, orgnz, use fcts & mtrls,
attn 2 dtl, draft docs & prob
slvng; hndlng hrngs on lrg
corp inslvncy mtrs & cnsumr
mtrs by cstmrs of lrg insttnl
clnts; Rprsnt clnt at admnstrtv
hrgs; Prep prfs of claim, drft
dmnd ltrs, cmplnts & ansrs,
dscvry rqsts, dpstns, knwldg
of Bnkrptcy Cd & fdrl/lcl rules;
dsput res; Dvlp undrstndng
clnt bus & bnkrptcy

job.
Business Manager 3 Capital
One Services, LLC in Northern
VA; Mult pos avail: Manage
econ rsrch & planning to dvlp
bus strat. To apply, visit
https://capitalone.wd1.
myworkdayjobs.com/
Capital_One and search
The local expert on local jobs "Business Manager" or
"R168931".
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Requires: ABA JD, Bar lcns in
the right job ence involving solar project
design. 15% of travel
the right job the right job Rqrd. Must be able to lift
50lbs and have a means of
DC. Tlcm prmtd 3x/wk. Res
w/i nrml commt dstc to DC
for you. Post your résumé. required. Email resume to
Micah Simpson, Senior Ana-
for you. for you. reliable transportation
to/from work. Job located
offfice. Bkgrd chk rq'd. Apply
at www.stinson.com/careers
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micah.simpson@aes.com.
in Prince William Co. Mail
resume to Ruppert Landscap-
or recruiting@stinson.com
and include resume, law
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M JOBS
Machine Learning Engineer
sought by AstraZeneca Phar-
maceuticals LP / Gaithers-
burg, MD. Investigate innov-
ative machine learning, arti-
ficial intelligence, & statistic
techniques for health data
challenges. Must possess BA
deg, or for equiv, in Biomed-
ical Science, Bioinformatics,
or a rel +3 yrs of exp in the
job off'd or rel. Must possess
3 yrs of exp w/: Analyzing
deep Neural Network models;
Using DL frameworks &
machine learning models. ER
will accept MA deg +1 yr of
exp. Any combo of education,
exp or training is acceptable.
AstraZeneca reqs all US
employees to be fully vacci-
nated for COVID-19 but will
consider requests for reason-
able accommodations as
req'd by applicable law.
Apply: http://www.
astrazenecacareers.com.
Enter "R-168005" as the
"Keyword," & click "Search
Roles." No calls. EOE.
Managers w/ Alvarez &
Marsal Tax in Washington, DC.
Manage tax prvision prep for
quartrly & anual rprting for
both SEC regstrnts & private
entities. Rqmts: Masters deg
or foreign equiv in Accting
or Taxation & min 1 yr of
accting exp. Exp must inclu:
condct9g fincl stmt anlysis;
verfy9g accuracy & cnsistncy
of fincl info; prepr9g reprts by
collct9g, anlyz9g, & summrz9g
operat9g info & trnds; wrk9g
w/ FASB regltions & GAAP;
prepr9g fincl stmt disclosures
under U.S. GAAP; idntfy9g &
anlyz9g root causes of acct9g
discrpncies; & recncil9g var-
ious accts & corect9g vari-
ances. Must have CPA des-
ignation. Apply online
www.alvarezandmarsal.com
Job ID 202301783.
An EOE/AAE employer.
Marketing Assistant, Imple-
ment and coordinate market-
ing and social media strate-
gies. Req: Bachelor's Degree
in marketing, 24mos experi-
ence in marketing, Bilingual
in Spanish, Loc: Rockville MD.
Mail/email resume to Yacub
Law Offices LLC, 77 S. Wash-
ington st, ste 309, Rockville,
MD 20850 or:
amatias@yacublaw.com.
O JOBS
Office Clerk: Alexandria, VA;
to apply email resume to NT
Auto Body Inc. c/o Zohrab
Tikoyan to rtikoyan@aol.com
Order Clerk (Springfield, VA)
F/T - Under close supvn of
the warehouse mgr, receives,
opens, & unpacks cartons,
box or pallets of mdse from
suppliers, & check invoice
against items received.
Receive & process incoming
orders for materials &/or
mdse. When necessary,
process orders via mail,
phone, fax, or other electron-
ic means. Clerk will also need
to check inventory to identify
items to be reordered or
replenished. No education
reqd. 6 mos exp as Admin
Clerk in any field reqd. Email
resume to Crystal Box LLC,
Attn: Ari Kesuma, Owner at:
AKESUMA@
CRYSTALBOXLLC.COM
P JOBS
Poultry Trimmer
poultry trimming; no exp
req'd; 40 hrs/wk; Bonchon
VA, Inc. Fairfax, VA;
bonchoninc@gmail.com
Prep Cook - food prep, no
cooking - no exp 40hrs/wk.
Hubley Group LLC. Vienna VA
HR@cfavienna.com
PRESENTER
Reach Media (Washington
D.C.) Will present or co-
present news programs, bul-
letins, and other news con-
tent. Will anchor or co-anchor
rolling news sequences. Must
have two years of work expe-
rience in television broadcast
news as a Presenter. Must
be able to speak Farsi and
English fluently. Must be able
to work in a 24-hour shift
pattern, working days and/or
overnights, as needed. May
require travel to hostile envi-
ronments/situations. May
require 0-5% travel. Multiple
positions available.
To apply send resume to
recruitment@reach.media.
Principal Associate,
Quantitative Analysis
Credit Risk
Capital One, National Associ-
ation in Northern VA; Mult
pos avail: Lead application of
math & stat methods to col-
lect, organize, interpret, &
sum econ data for quant
modeling projects in spprt of
valuation of risk, capital, &
other stat factors affecting
bus performance. To apply,
visit https://capitalone.wd1.
myworkdayjobs.com/
Capital_One and search
"Principal Associate, Quanti-
tative Analysis Credit Risk" or
"R167577".
Product Designer for IonQ
Quantum, Inc. DBA IonQ in
College Park, MD. Define &
deliver the look, feel, and fnc-
nlty. of the sftwr. tools & web-
sites of the IonQ Quantum
Cloud for use of quantum
cmptrs. from any internet-
cnctd. device. Identify & solve
dsgn. prblms. to provide an
optml. user exp. Create dsgn.
cncpts., wireframes, comps,
& prototypes. Conduct user
rsrch. & usability tests for
users9 prblms. & needs. Req.
are Bach. Deg in Graphic
Dsgn., Comms. Dsgn., or rltd.
fld. + 3 yrs. exp. (1) Creating
concepts, personas, user jour-
neys, storyboards, system
maps, user flows, wireframes,
dsgn. systems, info. archtc-
tre., visual dsgn. comps &
prototypes; (2) plnng. &
prpng. assets for user tstng.
sessions; (3) excutng. user
tstng.; & (4) synthszng. &
docmntng. user tstng. learn-
ings & incrprtng. it into prod-
uct sltns. such as user intrfc.
dsgn. & user exp. dsgn. for
website, mobile & tablet intr-
fcs. + wrkng. knwldg. of vec-
tor graphics editors, proto-
typing tools, & dsgn. tools
& pltfrms. Telecommuting is
prmttd. from a home offc. loc.
anywhere in the U.S. Email
resume to Peter Britt at
britt@ionq.co.
Program Manager
The National Center for State
Courts is a private, non-profit
organization dedicated to the
advancement of justice sys-
tems in the U.S. and around
the world. Their International
Programs Division is seeking
an experienced Program
Manager. Position closes on
Wednesday, June 28th 2023 @
5:00 pm ET. For the complete
announcement & application
process, visit: www.ncsc.org/
jobs. EOE/disability/Veteran.
E&R Services Inc is seeking a
Project Engineer in Lanham,
MD for coordination & plan-
ning of asphalt concrete pav-
ing projects. Supervise
project mgmt specialist.
Reqs: BS degree in Civil Engi-
neer, 24 mths exp in job
offered or rel, + 2 yrs exp. w/
asphalt, concrete pavement
structures & road projects.
Exp. managing government
& authorities processes for
permit approval. Resumes to
emilio@erservicesinc.com
Project Associate sought in
Washington, DC area. Req
Bach deg in Bus Admin or
a rltd field. Work reqs 2-3
int'l business trips per yr to
Western African countries for
2-3 wks per trip. Mail resume
to The Mitchell Group Inc,
1816 11th St NW, Washington,
DC 20001
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P JOBS
Project Engineer
(Washington, DC): Collect
mixture, material & field per-
formance data from various
DoT's & help state agencies
to analyze the data using
advanced statistical tools &
techniques. Prep work plans
& progress reports related to
field testing activities on road
construction. Manage day to
day operations of a Mobile
Asphalt Laboratory & work
w/state agency personnel &
contractors w/onsite filed
testing, asphalt plant opera-
tion & safety. Provide tech
guidance & support to state
agencies & industry partners
by offering virtual training
sessions on benefits of the
adoption of advanced &
emerging technologies for
sustainable pavement con-
struction. Work w/various
subject matter experts & help
different Dept of Transp
(DOT's) research efforts in the
implementation of Balanced
Mix Design (BMD) by analyz-
ing the asphalt mixture test
results & relating them to
their field performance data.
Trvl req'd w/in & out of state.
Reqs a Mstr's deg in Civil
Engrg. Mail resume to HR; Soil
and Land Use Technology, Inc.
1818 New York Ave., NE , Ste.
231, Washington, DC 20002.
Q JOBS
Quantitative Analysis
Market Risk Associate
Capital One Services, LLC in
Northern VA; Mult pos avail:
Assist w/application of math
& stat methods to collect,
organize, interpret, & sum
data in the course of imple-
mentation or validation of
quant models to value & mea-
sure risk on a wide arrange of
bus data (e.g. loans, deposits,
investments, fixed income
securities, mortgages, deriv-
atives, etc.), & calc regulatory
& econ capital. To apply, visit
https://capitalone.wd1.
myworkdayjobs.com/
Capital_One and search
"Quantitative Analysis Market
Risk Associate" or "R169178".
R JOBS
Regional Vice President (Mas-
ter9s w/ 3 yrs exp or Bach
w/ 5 ys exp; Majors: Business
Admin or equiv) - Washington,
DC. Job entails working w/
& reqs exp incl: Working w/
state & local govt. clients in
transforming IT systems using
Salesforce & related tools &
technologies in functional
areas incl 311 systems,
inspections, code enforce-
ment, grants mgmt, & envi-
ronmental health programs;
working w/ offshore &
onshore technical teams;
architecting technical solu-
tions for complex problems
& delivering them to technical
& non-technical audiences;
hands on project mgmt exp
in planning, estimation, exe-
cution, issue & risk manage-
ment, & resource mgmt/allo-
cation; & developing strategic
roadmaps. Relocation & travel
to unanticipated locations
within USA possible. Send
resumes to Incapsulate LLC,
Attn: HR, 650 Massachusetts
Ave NW, Suite 600, Washing-
ton, DC 20001
RESEARCH PROFESSIONAL
The American Immigration
Council in Wash. DC seeks a
Research Professional to per-
form research & analytical
tasks for complex research
projects, produce reports &
develop data. MS Econ, Soci-
ology, Quant. Rsrch, Public
Admin. or other applied social
science, or BS in same sub-
jects + 2 yrs. exp. in similar
role in non-prof. sector.
Remote work permissible.
Apply online at https://www.
americanimmigration
council.org/jobs
RESTAURANT
Silver Diner Development, Inc.
is hiring for the position of
Kitchen Manager, who
assists the GM manage the
Back of the House of the
restaurant. The position
works at the Silver Diner loca-
tion at 3200 Wilson Boule-
vard, Arlington, VA 22201.
Required: 12 mo. rest. mgmt.
exp.; exp. with Micros POS,
Paycom, Compeat, MS Word,
MS Excel and MS Outlook;
Food Safety Cert. & Food Han-
dlers License/Card; TIPS or
other ABC Cert.; exp. with
P&L statements, budgets, and
cost controls; and recom-
mended score on CorVirtus
testing (Employer arranged).
Interested Silver Diner candi-
dates complete application at
https://www.
silverdiner.com/careers
(Select Manager positon)
Questions:
Christopher Shand,
cshand@silverdiner.com
S JOBS
SALES CLERK: Be able to work
the register, assist customers,
ordering, checking and
receiving inventory, stocking,
and answering phone and
customers' questions. Main-
tain, clean and organize stock
areas. Receive payments by
cash, credit cards, or auto-
matic debits. Reconcile cash
and credit and debit receipts.
40hrs/wk, Must be able to
work split shifts including
weekends, OT as needed, be
reliable and trustworthy.
Email Resumes:
siddiqishahed@ gmail.com,
A & E Retail, Inc. dba 7-Eleven
Located: Odenton, MD
Sandwich Artist: Deliver ser-
vices when dealing with prod-
ucts, sales, &amp; catering.
Prep food. Ensure food stor-
age &amp; preparation areas
are maintained according to
Health &amp; Safety & amp.
Audit standards. Comply with
the Food Code of Practice.
Monitor stock levels &amp;
check-in deliveries. Complete
cleaning schedules. Maintain
personal presentation in the
provided. uniform. Min.
Rqmts: High School/GED. Ver-
ifiable references. Able to
work overtime, including late
nights, weekends, &amp; hol-
idays. Non-smoker on work-
site. Resumes to job loc:
Zahra Inc DBA Subway, 6210
Annapolis Rd, Hyattsville, MD
20784 . ATTN: M. Haque
Senior Business Analyst
Capital One Services, LLC in
Northern VA; Mult pos avail:
Conduct rsrch, prepare
reports, & analyze econ data
to dvlp & shape bus strat. To
apply, visit https://
capitalone.wd1.myworkday
jobs.com/Capital_One and
search "Senior Business
Analyst" or "R168933".
Service Coordinator: Super-
vise sched & dispatch of serv
req, small proj & gen man-
power, etc. 2 yrs exp in any
job in which energy-mgmt
controls exp is gained or
equiv edu, elec or HVAC lic,
etc. See https://www.engi-
neeredservices.com/careers/
for descrp9n and req9ts. FT.
Engineered Services
43670 Trade Center Place
Inc
#100 Sterling VA 20166. ATTN:
T. Hess.
Structural Engineer: plan,
design, review structural engi
for constructions. Prep calcu-
lations, doc., liaise w/ archi-
tects, engineers, contractors;
site visit, field reports. FT. Req:
MS/eqv in Civil Engi w/ 1y exp.
Job in Chantilly VA. Resume to
JZSC HR, 43130 Amberwood
Plaza, # 235, Chantilly, VA
20152.
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S JOBS
Supply Chain: BGS LLC. seeks
a Supply Chain Lead in Arling-
ton, VA to mng new proj acti-
vations by performing End-to-
End process def, Export op,
Inter-Market Supply, Logistics
& Master Data activities. Req:
Bach deg or frgn equivt in
Supply Chain Mgmt, Int9l
Trade, Logistics or Industrial
Eng9g + 5yrs of exp in the
job offered or in supply chain
proj mgmt at int9l scale. In
lieu of a bach deg, er will
accept 8yrs of exp in the job
offered or in supply chain proj
mgmt at int'l scale. Exp must
incl: 5yrs of exp in Proj Mgmt
incl collaborating w/internal &
external teams & performing
risk mgmt; 5yrs of exp owning
Master Data set-up in SAP &
analyzing end-to-end process
outcome due to Master Data
issues. 3yrs of exp leading
export activations, handling
export procedures incl inter-
modal transportation, cus-
toms clearance, tariff codes,
doc & incoterms. 2yrs of exp
analyzing, interpreting &
dvlp9g recommendations
from disparate data sources
for cost savings proj; 2yrs of
exp w/ coordination of quali-
ty, regulatory & tech matters;
2yrs of exp working w/ supply
chain processes incl cus-
tomer service, transports,
purchasing & related drivers
incl lead times & key supply
constraints; 1yr of End-to-End
Process Definition of Opti-
mization for Direct-to-Con-
sumer model; 1yr of exp
w/demand & supply planning
processes & sys incl SAP APO
& SNP. 5% dom travel for
bus meetings. Up to 1 day of
telework per week permitted.
Resume to: nestlejobsgm@
us.nestle.com. Job Code
0029. No calls.
T JOBS
Tile Installer: Measure and
install tiles and review blue-
prints. REQ: Daily Travel
throughout DMV (DC-MD-VA).
LOC: Sterling, VA. Mail
resume to: VA Tile, LLC, 710
W Jasper Ct, Sterling, VA
20164, ATT Rutilio Ayala, or
via email rutilio13@gmail.com
V JOBS
VIDEO EDITING MANAGER
Reach Media (Washington
D.C.) Will provide quality, fast
turnaround editing of daily
output, PKG9s, OOV9s and
SOT9s; oversee all technical
operational aspects of AVID
systems 3 reporting technical
issues; and testing software
and problem solving. Must
have a Bachelor degree, or
equivalent, in Broadcast Tele-
vision, Film, Media, Journal-
ism or related field. Must have
one year of experience with
video editing platforms, and
Adobe Premiere Pro or After
Effects. Must be able to speak
Farsi and English fluently. Will
accept eight years of broad-
cast journalism experience in
lieu of a Bachelor degree.
Must be able to work in a
24-hour shift pattern, working
days and/or overnights, as
needed. May require travel
to hostile environments/situ-
ations. May require 1-5% trav-
el. To apply send resume to
recruitment@reach.media.
Visual Designer - Req'd BS in
visual effect or film. 40hr/wk.
$45843/yr. RSM to job site @
Global Food, Attn: John Kim,
10320 Festival Lane, Manas-
sas, VA 20109
W JOBS
WEB DEVELOPER - Entry
Level: Maintain and update
data, firewalls and website.
Monitor security network to
identify problems and devel-
op threat plans/protocols.
Perform tests, risk analysis
and correct problems. Test
backup or recovery plans reg-
ularly and resolve any prob-
lems. Maintain an under-
standing of Web technologies
and Cybersecurity practices.
40hrs/wk, 9 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Bachelor9s Degree in Comput-
er Science or Equivalent, be
reliable, trustworthy and
work independently.
Email Resumes:
bj.totalfashion@gmail.com,
BJ Total Fashion, Inc.
Located: Chantilly, VA
Tech Jobs
Advisor Application
Designer
DXC Technology Services LLC
hiring for Advisor Application
Designer in Ashburn, VA (Ref.
#6645727). Leads team of dvl-
prs by prvding tchncl drction
& gdnc to ensr prdct dlvry.
Cnslts wth mngmnt rgrding
sklls needed for tm cnstructn
fr vrious prjcts. Cndcts tchncl
intrvws fr hring new tm
mmbrs. Rvws cding, tst rslts,
dcmnttn & implmnts prgrms
accrding to the spcfctns prvd-
ed. Pstn rqrs a Bchlr's dgree
or eqvlnt cmbntn of eduction
and exprnc in prgrmming or
applction dvlpmnt, & 8 yrs of
wrk exprnc in prgrmming or
applction dvlpmnt. Will work
at unanticipated client sites
throughout the U.S. Telecom-
muting is permissible. This
position does not supervise
employees. Annual Salary
offer: $157,061. Full-time
hires are eligible to partici-
pate in the DXC benefit pro-
gram. DXC offers a compre-
hensive, flexible, and compet-
itive benefits program which
includes, but is not limited
to, health, dental, and vision
insurance coverage; employ-
ee wellness; life and disability
insurance; a retirement sav-
ings plan, paid holidays, paid
time off; and much more.
Email resume to
globallmobility@dxc.com
resume must include Ref.
#6645727, full name, email,
address & mailing address.
No phone calls. Must be legal-
ly authorized to work in the
U.S without sponsorship. EOE
Application Security
Specialist
Guidehouse Digital LLC,
McLean, VA. Ensure apps
devlpd meet modern cyber-
secrity standards. Req Mas-
ter9s degree or a foreign equiv
in Comp Sci, Comp Secrity,
Comp Engg or a rel & 2 yrs
of rel work exp. May be req
to wrk from an unanticipat-
ed clnt site in the Eastern
Region of the U.S. Telecom-
muting permitted. To apply,
please email resume to:
gh-jobs@guidehouse.com
and reference: VA0010
Automation Engineer
(Rockville, MD) - Work with
application development and
operation teams. May require
to travel/telecommute. Mail
CV/Cov ltr to: Lillie Huff-Suite,
Job Code T3962-00030. TISTA
Science and Technology Corp.
1201 Seven Locks Rd, Suite
350, Rockville, MD
E.O.E.
20854.
Bioinformatics Tech(s). Apply
princs & methods of bioin-
forms to asst scientists in
areas such as pharmac, med
tech, biotech, comp bio, pro-
teomics, comp info sci, bio
& med informs. Apply bioin-
forms tools to visualize, ana-
lyze, manip or interpret mole-
cular data. May build & main-
tain databases for processing
& analyzing genomic or other
bio inform. Reqs Bachelor's in
comp sci, info tech & informs,
statistics, or rltd. Job location:
Psomagen Inc in Rockville,
MD. Send resume w/ cvr lttr
to Psomagen Inc, 1330 Pic-
card Dr. Ste. 103 Rockville,
MD 20850, Attn: Dr. Hong for
interview.
Numero Data LLC has multi-
ple openings for these posi-
tions for Herndon, VA & other
unanticipated loc9n in US:
1. Business Intelligence
Developer: Bach or equiv in
CS/Info Sci/IT/rltd/Engg (any
field)
2. Business Intelligence
Administrator: Bach or equiv
in CS/Info Sci/IT/rltd/Engg
(any field).
For all positions, reloc9n pos-
sible. Resume: <HR, Numero
Data LLC, 620 Herndon Park-
way, Ste 200A, Herndon, VA
20170=
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Business Analyst (CURAM)
Degree in computer related.
MS (2 YRS) OR BS (5 yrs)
experience. Expertise in IBM
Curam Business Analysis &
Design, Business Infrastruc-
ture, IBM Curam Social Pro-
gram Mgmt, Scrum, HP ALM
Quality Center, SharePoint,
Agile methodologies. Trav-
el/Reloc/Partial Remote. Send
Resumes to: Confiminds LLC,
13800 Coppermine Road,
Suite 118 Herndon, VA 20171
Business Analyst, Gather
and analyze data and busi-
ness requirements to facil-
itate various scrum cere-
monies for multiple business
systems and processes. May
need to work in other loca-
tions as required. Master9s in
Commerce, Bus. Admin., Eng.
Mgmt., Comp Sci./App., or
related. Mail resume to HR-
Sapphire Software Solutions,
Inc., 20130 Lakeview Center
Plaza, Suite 400, Ashburn, VA
20147
Business Intelligence Devel-
oper: Design OBIEE & solu-
tions. Using Oracle BI, RPD,
Amazon RDS, JIRA, Conflu-
ence, & More. Req. BS degree
in Electronics Engineering + 5
years9 work experience. Job
location: Arlington, Va.
Resume: Synectics for Man-
agement Decisions. Fax: 703
649 6263
Business Intelligence Analyst
(Data Projects) (Multi Open-
ings w/ Nat9l Placement out
of Loudoun County, VA). Mas-
ter9s Deg in either, Comp,
Eng9g, Info Sys, IT, Mgmt, Bus
or rel9d field. Frgn edu equiv
is acceptable. Any suitable
combo of edu, training or exp
is acceptable. Candidate will
produce fin9l & market intel-
ligence by querying data
repositories & generating
periodic reports & will devise
methods for identifying data
patterns & trends in avail info
sources. Although no exp
is req9d candidate must have
coursework or internship in
Proj Mgmt; & either Data Min-
ing or Data Processing; as
well either Sys Analysis &
Dsgn or Info Sys. Able to
trvl/relo to unanticipated
client sites as needed. 9-5,
40hrs/wk. $122,554/yr. Ref#
BIDP-0922 & send resume to
IQLogg, Inc. 44121 Harry Byrd
Hwy, Ste 245, Ashburn, VA
20147 or resumes@iqlogg.
com. IQLogg, Inc. is an EOE
M/F/V/D.
COMMUNICATIONS: Universi-
ty of Maryland, College Park
seeks Communications Coor-
dinator in College Park, MD.
Participating in the dev of
internal & external comms
plans, campaigns, & projects.
Reqs Bach in Visual Comm
Design or rel & 1 yr exp in
any job title in visual comms
&/or graphic design. Please
apply on-line at https://
ejobs.umd.edu/postings/
search and ref position num-
ber 128429.
Computer: DB USA Core Cor-
poration seeks Assistant Vice
President in McLean, VA to
address info security risks to
Deutsche Bank9s global IT divi-
sion. Req9s: Bachelor9s in Elec-
tronic Eng9g, Comp Eng9g, or
rel. field or equiv, & 5 yrs of
progressively responsible exp
implementing security moni-
toring in a cloud environ &
assisting w/ index & search
head clustering in Splunk.
Prior exp must incl 5 yrs of
progressively responsible exp
using large scale, globally dis-
tributed Big Data apps, Secu-
rity Event info mgmt (SIEM)
tools incl Splunk to discover,
detect, & disrupt cyber
threats, delivering a multi-lay-
ered defense in depth
approach; using technical
documentation incl Key Oper-
ating Procedure (KOP), Key
Operating Document (KOD), &
process documentation using
process automation; con-
ducting security program
planning & implementation of
new controls & techniques
to monitor app for security
threats in the cloud environ
& on-premises; implementing
MITRE ATT&CK framework
mapping & Cyber Kill Chain
for Security monitoring; main-
taining the backlog, Stake-
holder communication & pri-
oritization for Threat Driven
Security event onboarding; &
formulating the audit closure
documentation to record the
remediation efforts & evi-
dence before the deadline for
submission. Apply to https://
careers.db.com/
professionals/search-roles/
#/professional & search by
keyword DB6732567.
Computer/IT: Systems Engi-
neer 3 Marble Systems, Inc.
DBA Marble Systems, Country
Floors, Stone Tile Depot- Fair-
fax, VA 3 Test, maintain, &
monitor computer prgms. and
systs, incl. coordinating the
installation of computer
prgms. and systs. Position
requires: Bach or frgn. equiv.
in Mech. Eng, IT, Comp Sci,
or a related field + 5 yrs.
exp. w/ERP systs. and coor-
dinating of Training Develop-
ment of Team. Any amount of
exp. is also required w/ea. of
the following: Configuring &
using ERP, Managing IT Hard-
ware Support, Hardware Con-
fig. & Diagnostics, Jira Soft-
ware. Send CV to ihsan@
marblesystems.com. Pls ref
code: KUSE.
Computer/IT: Transurban
(USA) Inc. seeks Manager,
Infrastructure and Security
Services in Alexandria, VA
duties incl. Prvde a sustnble,
rlble, effctve, lw-rsk IT systms
infrstrctre spprtng the North
American Tolling Business.
Bach or frgn equiv in IT or
Infrstrctre Mgmt or equiv
through any suitable combo
of edu, exp, and trng det. by
US cred. eval serv. + 3 yrs exp
in eng or IT occ.
Send CV to tmaidencarter@
transurban.com and ref MJM.
Computer/IT: CGI Technolo-
gies & Solutions Inc. seeks
Software Engineer in Fairfax,
VA (& various unanticipated
locations throughout US) to
design, devel, document, test
& debug apps s/w & systs
that contain logical & mathe-
matical soltns. Job req Bach
deg in Comp Sci, Engg, Info
Systems, IT or rel field & 5
yrs in any job title inv exp
analyzing business problems
& assessing the IT solution
& architecture options. Up to
20% telework permitted.
Must be willing to relocate
to various unanticipated work
locations throughout US. All
offers of emp are contingent
upon successful comp of a
background check, which
may incl drug screen depend-
ing on work assignment.
Email resume to recruiting@
cgifederal.com & ref job code
1120.
COMPUTER/IT
Salesforce, Inc. has the fol-
lowing jobs available in
McLean, VA. Related techni-
cal degree required. Full-
time telecommuting per-
mitted. Some travel to
client sites & Salesforce
offices may be required:
"Sr. Experience Consultant
(#JR177698/ 21-9882): Part-
ner w/ project team to create
complex user experiences &
interfaces while taking into
account technical limitations
& opportunities of technolo-
gies used. Req9s: MS(or
equiv.)+2 yrs. exp. Or BS(or
equiv.)+5 yrs. exp. Salary:
$157,296.30 - $183,900.00
per annum.
"Sr. Technical Consultant
(#JR177732/ 21-2170): Dvlp
custom code & integrations
following industry standard
best practices. Req9s: BS(or
equiv.)+3 yrs. exp. Salary:
$111,400.00 - $183,900.00
per annum.
Submit resume to (include Job
#) via Salesforce Career's
webpage: https://rb.gy/
oy8jwr or by email at:
onlinejobpostings@
salesforce.com. Salesforce is
an Equal Opportunity & Affir-
mative Action Employer. Edu-
cation, experience & criminal
background checks will be
conducted.
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Tech Jobs
Computer/IT: Sr. Platform
Engineer 3 Bloomberg Indus-
try Group, Inc. 3 Arlington,
VA 3 Utilize configuration-as-
code & infrastructure-as-
code approaches to develop
tools & processes to enable
automatd deploymnt & moni-
torng of public & private cloud
infrastrctre & applications.
Must have Bach degree or
frgn equiv in Comptr Sci or
Info Tech. plus 4 yrs exp. in
informatn tech occ. Send CV
to: resumes@
bloombergindustry.com & ref:
SPEAS-01
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
systs &/or apps s/w. Job req
Bach deg or equiv in Comp
Sci, Engg, IT or a rel field &
6 yrs in any job title inv IT
exp working with Informatica
PowerCenter. Must be willing
to relocate to various unan-
ticipated work locations
throughout US. All offers of
emp are contingent upon the
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
1015.
Computer/IT: CGI Technolo-
gies & Solutions Inc. seeks
Software Developer in Fair-
fax, VA to research, design,
devel, &/or modify enterprise-
wide systs &/or apps s/w. Job
req Bach deg in Comp Sci,
Engg, Info Systems, IT or a rel
field & 5 yrs in any job title inv
exp in Hadoop, HDFS, Hive,
Pig, HBase, & Map-Reduce.
100% telework permitted. All
offers of emp are contingent
upon successful comp of a
background check, which
may incl drug screen depend-
ing on work assignment.
Email resume to recruiting@
cgifederal.com & ref job code
1189.
Computer/IT: CGI Technolo-
gies & Solutions Inc. seeks
Software Developer in Fair-
fax, VA to research, design,
devel, &/or modify enterprise-
wide systs &/or apps s/w. Job
req Bach deg or equiv in
Comp Sci, Comp Engg, Engg,
IT, or a rel field & 6 yrs in
any job title inv exp designing,
coding, & debugging complex
prog logic for existing or new
apps. Full-time telework per-
mitted. All offers of emp are
contingent upon successful
comp of a background check,
which may incl drug screen
depending on work assign-
ment. Email resume to
recruiting@cgifederal.com &
ref job code 1192.
Cybersecurity Project
Manager (R0003858)
Dsgn, dvlp & implmnt Infor-
matn Security prducts & srvcs
to estblsh Hughes as Mngd
Security Srvce Providr.
Dtrmne rqrmnts from
custmrs (end custmrs, prduct
mrktng & sales org). Write
prduct briefs & specfcatns &
collabrte w/ dsgn, launch
mngmnt, engrng, sales &
mrktng teams to drive new
prduct initiatives. Dfne, dvlp
& launch new analytics capa-
blties & drive beta tstng &
incorprte fdbck to ensure
new enhancmnts/featres
address target use cases.
REQ: Mstr9s degree in Infor-
matn Security & Assurance,
Informatn Technlgy or closely
rltd fld & 6 mnths exp in
informatn technlgy & security
compliance mngmnt/risk
mngmnt framework (RMF) OR
Bchlr9s degree in Informatn
Security and Assurance, Infor-
matn Technlgy or closely rltd
fld & 5 yrs9 exp in informatn
technlgy & security compli-
ance mngmnt/risk mngmnt
framework (RMF). Exp must
incld 6 mnths in each of the
foll: Defense in Depth Archi-
tecture Design & Implemen-
tation; OSI, TCP/IP Reference
model, Access Control Man-
agement System(s); Splunk;
Security network analytics;
Cryptography- Public Key
Infrastructure (PKI); Network
Access Control (NAC); WLAN;
WAN Optimization; Hardware
Security Modules; Next Gen-
eration Firewall; Architecture
Diagram & Process design; &
Access, SQL Server, SQL &
Distributed Databases. Hugh-
es Network Systems, 11717
Exploration Ln, Germantown,
MD 20876. To apply go to
https://echostar.wd5.
myworkdayjobs.com/
echostar. Enter job number
R0003858 into Search Job
field & follow instructions to
apply.
Data Analyst (R0003859)
Extrct informatn from strc-
trd/unstrctrd data sources &
gather data for analysis usng
dscrptve & predctve analytcs.
Trnsfrm & condense data. Dtr-
mine best key metrics to
measure qualty of srvces
Hughes prvids to cnsmrs.
Gather analysis rqrmnts from
internal business groups &
prvide analysis results &
recmmndatns for decision
makngs. REQ: Mstr9s degree
in Business Analytics, Magm-
nt Informatn Systems, Infor-
matn Technlgy, Comp Sci or
closely rltd fld & 2 mnths9 exp
in data analysis OR Bchlr9s
degree in Business Analytics,
Magmnt Informatn Systems,
Informatn Technlgy, Comp Sci
or closely rltd fld & 5 yrs9
exp in data analysis. Exp must
incld 2 mnths in each of the
foll: Python; R; SQL; Tableau;
cloud computing; advanced
analytics & machine learning.
Hughes Network Systems,
11717 Exploration Ln, Ger-
mantown, MD 20876. To
apply go to https://echostar.
wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/
echostar. Enter job number
R0003859 into Search Job
field & follow instructions to
apply.
DATA ANALYST
Risk Span, 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 techniques.
Telecommuting permitted.
Apply @ jobpostingtoday.com
Ref#46883
DATA ANALYST
RiskSpan, Inc. seeks Data
Analyst in Arlington, VA to
support the development of
business requirements and
completion of software test-
ing activities associated with
the delivery of applications
and financial models to
clients. Apply at www.
jobpostingtoday.com (Ref
#85344) for consideration
Data Engineering Specialist
sought by AstraZeneca Phar-
maceuticals LP / Gaithers-
burg, MD. Build fully automat-
ed reusable data pipelines &
operationalize them. Must
possess BA deg or for equiv.
in Comp Eng., Comp Sci, or
a rel. + 3 yrs of prog exp in
role or rel. Must have 3 yrs
of prog resp exp w/ all of
the following: ETL exp build-
ing complex data models/
pipelines/ products; Working
w/ Databricks, Workflows &
Apache Airflow; Building AWS
or Azure cloud-based data
pipeline; Spark; PySpark; Dis-
tributed Computing; AWS
Glue/Cloud Computing; Work-
ing w/ IQVIA Claims, National
& subnational sales; SQL;
Python; Data Ops; Agile
methodologies. Employer will
accept MA deg in a stated
field of study in lieu of a BA
deg. Apply: http://www.
astrazenecacareers.com.
Enter "R-168471" as the
"Keyword," & click
"Search Roles." No calls. EOE.
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DevSecOps Engineer at Viv-
Soft in Herndon, VA. Req.
Master9s in elect. Engr., CS,
CE, sys engr., or related; & 3
yrs exp. in job offered or as a
SWE Dev9per, Cloud Engineer,
or related field. Prior exp.
must include knowledge and
skills in Cloud tools, DevOps,
version control tools. Resume
to HR, VivSoft, 13221 Wood-
land Park Rd, Ste 130, Hern-
don, VA 20171
Eng 3, ML Rsrch Scientist
Comcast Cable Comm, LLC,
Washington, DC. Conduct
rsrch on & apply ML tech-
niques to speech processing;
Reqs: Master9s in CS, any Eng,
or rel & 1 yr post-bach exp (or,
Bach in CS, any Eng, or rel & 3
yrs post-bach exp) automate
data pipeline; & wrk w/ Agile
dev & QA test. Must have
wrkg knowlg of Python & ML
training & techniques, which
can be gained thru edu, rsrch,
exp, or any suitable combo.
Apply to: jacquelin_Branks@
comcast.com Ref Job ID#
0736
ENGINEERING/IT
Vice President w/ Folio Finan-
cial, Inc. in McLean, Virginia.
Production engineering role
responsible for partnering
with various stakeholders on
developing, enhancing, and
maintaining the applications,
systems and workflows that
support the Firm9s global mar-
kets business and clients.
Responsible for delivering dig-
ital services to our Registered
Investment Advisor clients.
Requires: Master9s degree
(U.S. or foreign equivalent) in
Computer Science, Computer
Engineering, Electrical or
Electronic Engineering, or a
related field and three (3)
years of experience in the job
offered or in a related role
OR Bachelor9s degree (U.S. or
foreign equivalent) in Com-
puter Science, Computer
Engineering, Electrical or
Electronic Engineering, or a
related field and five (5) years
of experience in the job
offered or in a related role.
Job Code: 7022082 QUALIFIED
APPLICANTS: Apply at gs.com
and click on "Careers." NO
PHONE CALLS PLEASE. ©The
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.,
2023. All rights reserved.
Goldman Sachs is an equal
employment/affirmative
action employer
Female/Minority/Disability/
Veteran/Sexual Orientation/
Gender Identity.
ENGINEERING
College Board seeks Sr Soft-
ware Engineer to build, test,
deploy & maintain AWS based
apps & complex web-based
apps using javascript, type-
script & python languages.
Requires Bachelor's or for-
eign education equivalent in
CS, Computer Engg or IT + 4
years9 experience performing
software development in iter-
ative development environ.
100% remote from anywhere
in US. To apply, email resume
& cover letter w/job code
SSEAVS in subject to:
lsaldanha@collegeboard.org.
Eng, SW Dev & Eng 3 Com-
cast Cable Comm, LLC,
Reston, VA. Mng Co residntl
custmr relatnshp & contract
info by provide data & custmr
mgt svcs. Reqs: Bach in CS,
Eng, or rel; 2 yr dev Java app
use Spring Framework; dev
Restful APIs; wrk w RDBMS
DBs, incl Oracle & NoSQL DBs,
incl Cassandra, MongoDB &
DocumentDB; dev & deploy
apps in AWS, incl ECS & EC2;
write markup code use HTML,
XHTML, CSS, XML, & JSON;
test sw use Junit, Soap UI,
Putty, & POSTMAN; use
GitHub for versn ctrl; automt
sw bld use Maven, Gradle,
Rally & GoCD Pipeline. Apply
to: Jacquelin_Branks@
comcast.com Ref Job ID#
9100.
Rizontek Inc. has mult. per-
manent F/T openings for
IT/Business Systems/QA/
Business/Lead Analysts, Sales
Engg & Mrkt Research Ana-
lyst. All positions except Mrkt
Research Analysts & Sales
Engg may require re-loc9n. Job
Location: Centerville, VA &
various unanticipated loc9n
throughout the US. Mail
Resumes to: HR at 5900 Fort
Drive, Suite 302, Centreville,
VA 20121 or email at
hr@rizontek.com.
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Tech Jobs
IT
Microsoft Corporation cur-
rently has the following open-
ings in Reston, VA (opportu-
nities available at all levels,
e.g., Principal, Senior and
Lead levels). To access job
posting, visit website address
listed.
Customer Success Account
Manager: Leverage reports,
dashboards, tabular models
& analytical insights to drive
biz success. Telecommuting
permitted > or = to 50%, but
<100%/wk.
https://bit.ly/MSJobs-
Customer_Success_Acct_
Mgr
Multiple positions available.
Some positions req travel
and/or permit telecommut-
ing. For details (if applicable),
including job descriptions &
min reqs, salary range & ben-
efits info, and how to apply,
access job posting using web-
site address listed. EOE.
IT: Next Gen Software Solu-
tions LLC; mult openings;
Ashburn, VA.
Software Engineer: Dsgn,
Res, Create & document
detail dsgn specs & unit test
cases to ens that all bus &
functl reqs are met.
Sr. Software Engineer:
Devel, gath, dsgn, impl, auto-
mate, devel, testing, ID,
define, automate web ser-
vices using rest assure.
Sr. Software Developer:
Possess, perf, lifecycle, resp,
assists, dsgn, rev, rule, Par-
ticipate & ens that the reqs
are achievable w/ less cus-
tomization. All Positions req
trav/relo to var unanticpt
client locs t/o the U.S w/
expenses paid by the employ-
er. Mail res & position to, Job
ID to Attn: CEO, 45150 Russell
Branch Parkway, Suite 203B,
Ashburn, VA, 20147.
IT Positions; ABD Solutions,
Inc: Sr. QA Analyst I: Jobs
loc in Chantilly, VA & var unan-
ticipt locs t/o the U.S. Rev,
eval, & test client/server &
web apps. Gath & eval user
reqs & procedures. Automate
test cases & test plans for
functl & regression testing of
apps. Devel & direct s/ware
syst testing & validation prc-
dures, prgrmmng & docu-
mentation. Trav/relo to var
unanticpt locs t/o the U.S. for
l/t & s/t assigns at client sites.
Req Master9s or frgn equivt in
Comp Sci, Engng (any), or rel.
Job 22ABD02
Sr. Software Development
Engineer in Test. Jobs loc in
Chantilly, VA & var unanticipt
locs t/o the U.S. Rev, eval,
& test client/server & web
apps. Gath & eval user reqs
& procedures. Automate test
cases & test plans for functl
& regression testing of apps.
Devel & direct s/ware syst
testing & validation proce-
dures, prgrmmng & docu-
mentation. Trav/relo to var
unanticpt locs t/o the U.S. for
l/t & s/t assigns at client sites.
Reqs Master9s or frgn equivt
in Comp Sci, Engng (any), or
rel. Job 22ABD03.
Email resume with cover let-
ter to hr@abdsinc.com; EOE
IT POSITIONS: Kodeva LLC
Ashburn, VA & various unan-
ticipated locations through-
out the U.S.
DATA ENGINEERS: Dsgn &
impl Hadoop & NiFi pltfrm
archt & config for custmrs.
Perf pltfrm instaltn & upgrds
for advncd secured cluster
cnfgs. Anlyz cmplx dstrbtd
prod dply, & make recmndtns
to optmz perf. Impl Big Data
solns at scale u/Cloudera data
Pltfrm & Cloudera Dataflw.
Optmz multpl biz crticl entr-
prse data cld envirmnts Skills
req9d: AWS, Azure, GCP,
Python, Docker, SQL, Mon-
goDB & Hadoop.
COMPUTER SYSTEM
ANALYSTS: Gather & create
BRD, tracablty matrix & dsgn
test cases. Anlyz data atrbtes
& integ on power BI for pro-
ceses & nrmlz data u/SSRS
reprt. Work on map docs
w/ETL trnsfrmtns & asist ETL
team w/lodng data. Write SQL
queries & anlyz data. Perf End
to end test for SFTR & SDR
atrbtes for daily reprt to biz
user. Skills req9d: My SQL, Ora-
cle, Python, Jira, Hadoop, MS
Visio, Tableau & Informatica.
Both Jobs: Master9s in Sci,
Tech, Engg (any) w/6 mos exp
in job off9d or rltd occup is
req9d. Mail CV: HR, Kodeva,
LLC. 20755 Williamsport Pl,
Ste 320, Ashburn, VA 20147.
IT Professionals
(Chantilly, VA)
Software Engineers, Business
Analysts, Business Systems
Analysts, Computer Program-
mers, Software Quality Assur-
ance Engineers, Data Devel-
opers, Sr. Business Analysts.
Multiple Positions. May also
require travel to various unan-
ticipated client sites nation-
ally. Send resume to Applet
Systems LLC, Attn: HRGC,
4229 Lafayette Center Drive,
Ste 1750, Chantilly, VA 20151.
Find more jobs.
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exterior, featuring 4+ BR, elevator
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to the Prime Hook Wildlife Refuge.
Broadkill, $2,095,000.
New Price, Rehoboth Bayfront - Lux-
ury 5BR home on Rehoboth Bay
w/ 150ft direct Bayfront & southern
exposure. Recently renovated inte-
rior plus new dock & boat lift.
Rehoboth Beach, $2,990,000.
East of Rt 1 in The Glade - 3BR/2.5BA
bright & sunny contemporary home
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vaulted ceilings, & an open concept
great room. Rehoboth Beach,
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Stonewater Creek - Custom 5BR
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playground. Millsboro, $549,000.
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JOBS H
Tech Jobs
IT Professionals:
Ent. Lvl to Sen. Lvl (multiple
positions) Sftwr Dvlprs, are
needed for our Germantown,
MD office. Must be willing to
travel to set up systems to
various clients at unanticipat-
ed locs. across the nation.
Send resume, Cvr Ltr., & Sal.
Req. to Innovative Soft Ser-
vices Inc at 6465 Reflections
Dr., Ste 130, Dublin, OH
43017.
Principal Solutions Architect;
Reston, VA: Develop technol-
ogy-forward, cutting edge
software solutions to address
the backend and the down-
stream systems including
website and mobile app goals
as well as create and manage
APIs that work across
devices, and multiple external
partners; leverage experience
to support communication
between servers, applica-
tions and databases; among
other duties. Min. BS +10
years of experience. Travel
up to 20%. Full-time position
remote/can be performed
from any location in the U.S.
Send resume to D. Taube, Sr.
Manager, Global Assign-
ments, VW/Electrify America,
2200 Woodland Pointe Ave.,
Herndon, VA 20171. Ref.
PSA-VA. No phone calls
please.
SALESFORCE DEVELOPER II
Skience LLC (Herndon, VA)
seeks Salesforce Developer II.
Req. Masters in comp. sci. or
rel.+ 3 yr exp. in rel. occ. (alt.
Bach. in Comp.Sci. + 5 yrs
exp.) Req. 3 yr exp w/ APEX,
Lightning, Visual Force, SOSL,
SOQL, Work Flows, Process
Builder; Java Script, Lightning
Aura & Web Components;
REST API, JQuery; Eclipse,
ANT, Workbench, BitBucket;
providing Tech Supp; & create
tech docs. If hold Bach deg,
req. 5 yrs exp in above. Tele-
work avail. Approx. 25% dom.
trvl req. To apply, Send
resume to michele.sipes@
skience.com & ref job code:
SDII05.2023.
Senior Consultant (Master9s
w/ 3 yrs exp or Bach w/ 5
yrs exp; Majors: MIS or equiv)
- Washington, DC. Job entails
working w/ & reqs exp incl:
Jira, Confluence, MS Project,
Visio, Tableau, GitHub, Rally,
SharePoint, SQL, Salesforce,
& VMWare; SDLC, agile/scrum
methods, & defining reqs; cre-
ating roadmap for multiple
product mgmt application
releases; analyzing bugs as an
SME; cross-functional coordi-
nation across business units;
advising on info system strat-
egy, policy, mgmt, technolo-
gy advancements, security, &
service delivery; conducting
meetings to resolve bottle-
necks; identifying, document-
ing, & monitoring technology
risks; technical research to
suggest solutions & design,
developing, & integrating sys-
tems. Reloc & travel to unan-
ticipated locations within USA
possible. Send resumes to
Incapsulate LLC, Attn: HR, 650
Massachusetts Ave NW, Ste
600, Washington, DC 20001.
Senior Data Scientist: Build,
implement & maintain predic-
tive models. Develop & main-
tain data driven prgms. Per-
form data analytics & report.
Communicate analytical
insights. Research, develop &
test new modeling techs. Set
& monitor model recalibration
process. Generate ad-hoc
analyses combining disparate
concepts or creating new
approaches. Min. Rqmts:
Master9s degree in Data Sci-
ence or Business Analytics
or Statistics. Knwl or exp. in
programing in R for modeling,
JIRA & Tableau. Knwl or exp.
in Data mining & Analytics,
machine learning & relational
database. Knwl or exp. in
Advanced MS SQL Server for
creating SQL functions. Knwl
or exp. in Data processing
with Python, Database Man-
agement Systems & Big Data.
Resumes to job loc: DataLab
USA LLC, 20450 Century Blvd,
Germantown, MD 20874.
ATTN: A. LaCoste.
Senior Lead Software
Engineer 3 Capital One Ser-
vices, LLC in Northern VA;
Mult pos avail: Lead overall
tech design, dvlpmnt, modifi-
cation, & implementation of
comp apps using existing &
emerging tech platforms.
To apply, visit https://
capitalone.wd1.myworkday
jobs.com/Capital_One and
search "Senior Lead Software
Engineer" or "R168675".
SeviceNow Developer: Bach.
in EE, CS, IT or rel. + 2 yr
exp. Use JavaScript, Angular
JS, CSS, and ServiceNow to
support cloud apps; F/T. Lei-
dos, Inc. Reston, VA. May
telecommute w/in US. CV to
Way.R.Wan@leidos.com & ref.
#6619. Principals only. No
calls/visa sponsorship.
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Tech Jobs
SMTS-Software
Hughes Network Systems LLC
in Germantown, MD. Lead the
design of app solutions for
network mangt/monitoring &
automation for satellite
broadband op9s. Java,
JavaScript, HTML, Angular,
Grails, Ansible, Shell Scripting,
Jenkins. Req9s: Masters in
Comp Sci, Comp Eng or S/W
Eng field & 3 yrs exp or Bach9s
& 5 yrs exp. To view & apply
visit
www.echostarcareers.com
enter job # R0003882 in the
Search Field & follow
instructions.
Ellucian Company L.P. has a
Manager 3 Software Engi-
neering opening in Reston,
VA (Remote /telecommuting
position). Duties include own-
ing all aspects of the team9s
software development deliv-
ery and take a data-driven
approach to manage sched-
ule, resources, and quality.
Collaborate across the Stu-
dent and other solution
domains. Set team9s software
engineering and operation
capabilities. Develop realistic
development goals and
schedules based on scope,
resources, and dependencies
from other cross-functional
teams. Ensure product is
delivered on defined scope,
schedule by collaborating
with cross-functional teams.
Will supervise/manage up to
15 engineers/analysts.
Requires a Bachelor9s or its
foreign equivalent in Comput-
er Science, Comp. Informa-
tion Systems, Electronic/Elec-
trical Engg or related IT field.
Plus 2 years experience in
job or related experience in
leading engineering teams
including mentoring IT engi-
neering team, in working on
large-scale problems, with
on-time delivery for cross-
functional project and with
focus on operational excel-
lence and execution. Send
resume to:
dawn.rowe@ellucian.com.
Sr. S/W Engineer (Reston, VA
or remote from home in the
U.S.) Design, architect, dvlp,
implement, integrate, test,
deploy & support enterprise
level Appian based BPM apps.
Analyze data migrations from
legacy apps to newly dvlped
apps. Master9s in CS, Com-
puter Apps or related field
of Eng. w/3 yrs of exp or
Bachelor9s or equiv w/5 yrs
of progressive exp. Skills in
Appian version 7.x or higher;
Java, J2EE, Ajax, Javascript, JS,
XML, XSLT, HTML, CSS, SOAP,
REST, Weblogic, JBOSS, SQL.
Email resume to
hr@appteon.com
Software Developers (mult
opngs). Gather req9s & specs,
design algrthms & flcrts,
code, trblshtng, tstng &
dplyng apps. 40 hrs/wk,
MS/equiv Comp Sci, Electr
Eng, CIS or rel fld (BS+5 yrs
exp in lieu of MS), 1 yr exp
(or 1 yr exp in rel occup).
Must be willing to trvl reloc
to unanticip locations in US
on shrt notice for extnd time.
Email res w/ ID#437 to
hr@tekorg.com or mail to
Tekorg, Inc., 22636 Glenn
Drive, Suite 203, Sterling, VA
20164.
Software Developers (mult
opngs). Design, code, test,
debug & doc SW. Work w/
SQL Server, MongoDB, Agile,
Scrum, Java, JPA, Angular Js,
Jquery, Jboss, etc. 40 hrs/wk,
MS/equiv Comp Sci, Electr
Eng, CIS or rel fld (BS+5 yrs
exp in lieu of MS). Must be
willing to trvl reloc to unan-
ticip locations in US on shrt
notice for extnd time. Email
res w/ ID#971 to hr@teko-
rg.com or mail to Tekorg, Inc.,
22636 Glenn Drive, Suite 203,
Sterling, VA 20164.
Software Engineer: Degree
in Comp/Eng related. MS
(3YRS) or BS (5YRS) expr in
design & dev of ETL Syst. Expr
in comp. arch, impact analy.
Prod. support, DW projects,
Informatica Intelligent Cloud
Services (IICS), Informatica
Powercenter, Snowflake, ETL
Scripting, AWS Platform. Trav-
el/Relocation/Partial Remote
work. Send Resumes to H.R.,
NEEVSYS INC, 10005 Oakton
Crossing Ct, Oakton, VA
22124. email:
shainan@neevsys.com
Solutions Architect II
Frederick, MD. Dvlp & inte-
grate comp systems, review
existing systems & monitor
new/upgraded systems on
business ops. Create, main-
tain & enhance procedures,
processes & designs for comp
system. Apply online w/Lei-
dos Biomedical Research, Inc.
at https://leidosbiomed.
csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/
4/home/requisition/
2602?c=leidosbiomed
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Sr. Software Developer I;
iZeal, Inc. - Jobs loc in Ster-
ling, VA & var unanticpt locs
t/o U.S. Dsgn, devel, impl,
test, & dploy s/ware apps.
Res, anlyz, & determ info
needs & dtaflow reqs. Gath
& eval user reqs & prcedres.
Trav/relo to var unanticipt
locs t/o U.S. for l/t & s/t
assigns at client sites. Reqs
Master9s or frgn equivt in
Comp Sci, Engng (any), or rel.
Offrd sal $134,000 P/Y. Mail
res w/ cvr letter to iZeal, Inc.,
46090 Lake Center Plaza,
Suite 100, Sterling, VA 20165;
Job 22IZI05; EOE
TECHNOLOGY
Visa Technology and Opera-
tions LLC, a Visa Inc. com-
pany, currently has openings
for: Sr. Cybersecurity Engi-
neer (Multiple Openings)
(REF60583O) in Ashburn, VA.
Job duties include: Provide
analytical application devel-
opment. Create, review, and
implement application, sys-
tems, and data designs. Work
closely with data scientists
and data engineers to build,
design, engineer, and develop
analytical software and ser-
vices that deliver security
functionality and improve
security Efficiency and capa-
bilities through automation.
The estimated salary range
for a new hire into this posi-
tion is $157,061.00 USD
to $221,500.00 USD.; Staff
Network Engineer (multiple
openings) (REF59838L) in
Ashburn, VA. Job duties
include: Responsible for per-
forming network lab testing
and certification both in a
physical and virtual lab envi-
ronment and for validation of
network changes prior to
implementation into Visa9s
Global Network Infrastruc-
tures. Work with the following
teams: Visa9s Global Network
Engineering, Global Network
Architecture, Global Network
Operations to test and certify
network changes and new
designs using network model-
ing tools. The estimated
salary range for a new hire
into this position is
$165,859.00 USD to
$188,300.00 USD. Positions
report to the Employer9s Ash-
burn, VA office and may allow
for partial telecommuting.
Salaries may vary depending
on job-related factors which
may include knowledge,
skills, experience, and loca-
tion. In addition, these posi-
tions may be eligible for an
annual bonus and equity. Visa
has a comprehensive bene-
fits package for which these
positions are eligible that
includes Medical, Dental,
Vision, 401(k), Employee
Stock Purchase Program,
FSH/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid
Time off and Wellness Pro-
grams. Qualified applicants
should apply by emailing
resume to careersus@
visa.com. Must reference
job code.
TECHNOLOGY
PROFESSIONALS
Multiple openings available in
Reston, VA. Wal-Mart is seek-
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ing positions: Quality Engi-
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duties incl but not limited to
dsgn'g, dvlp'g, implementing,
testing & supporting syst's &
bus. apps. For job req'mts &
to apply, visit http://careers.
walmart.com , & apply to any
of the following Job ID #'s
R-1436522, R-1542154,
R-1542229. EOE, AAE.
Windows Engineer
Grove Resource Solutions,
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Adventist HealthCare George Mason University Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Dewberry Westat
Healthcare3We are a faith-based healthcare organization, Education3George Mason University is a university with three Delivery and Transportation3The Washington Metropolitan Engineering3Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional Research3Westat, headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, near
based in Montgomery County, Maryland. We are the largest campuses, each with a distinctive academic focus that plays a Area Transit Authority operates the second largest rail transit services ûrm with more than 50 locations and 2,000 profes- Washington, D.C., is an employee-owned research corporation
employer in Montgomery County with over 6,000 employees! critical role in the economy of its region. At each campus, stu- system and the ûfth largest bus network in the United States. sionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors serving agencies of the U.S. Government, state and local gov-
Our comprehensive approach to caring for our community dents, faculty, and staff have full access to all the university's Safe, clean and reliable, "America's Transit System" transports are our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent ernments, businesses, and foundations. We conduct surveys
includes three acute-care hospitals 3 Shady Grove Medical resources, while duplication of programs and support services more than a third of the federal government to work and mil- and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our cli- and program evaluations, provide statistical research, and offer
Center, White Oak Medical Center and Fort Washington Medi- is minimized through the use of technology. In addition to the lions of tourists to the landmarks in the Nation's Capital. Metro ents. Whether you9re an experienced professional or a new related services. Our multiproject environment provides career
cal Center 3 as well as two Physical Rehabilitation hospitals, main campus in Fairfax, the university has campuses in Arling- has earned a worldwide reputation for security and architec- graduate, you9ll have the chance to collaborate with the best opportunities in health, energy, education, transportation, the
Outpatient centers, Imaging Centers, Urgent Cares, Home Care ton and Prince William Counties. tural beauty. WMATA is clearly the employer of choice for over and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at environment, human services, and the workforce. We combine
Services, Employer Health Programs and Physician& 10,000 area residents. The Authority was created in 1967 by& the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence& the relevant research area expertise&
Security Ofûcer, Evening Team Supervisor (PT, OT, Department of Social Director of Develop- Manager, Security Opera- Operations Research Ana- Trafûc Engineering Intern3 Proposal/Pursuit Manager Field Room Clerk (Hourly)3 Research Assistant3
Shift, Security Services3 SLP), Per Diem, Home Work - Term Instructional ment, Alumni Relations & tion Center (SOC)3 lyst II3Washington D.C. Fairfax (Hybrid)3Fairfax Rockville Rockville
Fort Washington Health3Rockville Faculty3Fairfax Community Engagement3 Washington D.C. Department Marketing Dewberry is currently seek- Dewberry is currently seek- Westat is seeking Field Room Westat is an employee-
Adventist HealthCare seeks Adventist HealthCare seeks The Department of Social Fairfax Department Marketing Statement Are you looking to ing a Trafûc Engineering In- ing a hybrid Proposal/Pursuit Clerks to join its team on a owned corporation provid-
to hire a Security Ofûcer who to hire a Per Diem Home Work at George Mason Uni- The George Mason Universi- Statement: The Washington join a team that is at the cen- tern for Summer 2023 to join Manager to support our Geo- national education study. ing research services to
will embrace our mission to Health Team Supervisor (PT, versity invites applications ty, School of Business, invites Metropolitan Area Transit ter of planning and oversee- our Transportation Group in spatial Technology Services We are seeking energetic, agencies of the U.S. Govern-
extend God's care through OT, SLP) who will embrace for full-time term instruc- applications for the Direc- Authority (Metro) is build- ing Metro's $2B annual capi- our Fairfax, VA ofûce. This is (GTS) group. GTS supports self-motivated professionals, ment, as well as businesses,
the ministry of physical, our mission to extend God's tional faculty (9-month, non- tor of Development, Alumni ing a state-of-the-art cyber- tal budget and $12B six-year an excellent career opportu- Dewberry's geospatial, lidar, who are dependable, have foundations, and state and
mental, and spiritual healing. care through the ministry of tenure-track) at the rank of Relations & Community En- security program to better capital program? The Ofûce nity for an enthusiastic and remote sensing, mapping, good attention to detail, and local governments. Westat's
As a Security Ofûcer you will: physical, mental and spiritual assistant, associate, or full gagement. The position's pri- protect the critical transit of Capital Program Manage- talented individual to join a and technology solutions na- are deadline driven. Respon- research, technical, and ad-
Ensure that security policies healing. As a Team Supervi- professor starting August mary responsibilities include infrastructure supporting our ment (OCPM) is looking for team of outstanding profes- tionally within federal, state, sibilities: 1. Prepare and mail ministrative staff of more
and procedures are& sor, you will: Supervise and& 2023. George Mason has a& working closely with the& nation's capital. The& candidates at the& sionals. This position offers& local, and commercial& out over 3,500 hire& than 2,000 is located at&

The Emmes Company, LLC American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Fairfax County Government Fairfax Water Alexandria City Public Schools
Science3The Emmes Company, LLC established in 1977, is a Associations3The American Speech-Language-Hearing Asso- Government and Public Services3Fairfax County, Virginia is a di- Science3Fairfax County Water Authority (Fairfax Water) is Vir- Education3Alexandria City Public Schools is one of the most di-
privately owned Clinical Research Organization (CRO). We are a ciation was founded in 1925. It is a not-for-proût scientiûc and verse and thriving urban county. As the most populous jurisdic- ginia's largest water utility, serving one out of every ûve Vir- verse school systems in the country and we celebrate that di-
public health focused company that is growing and adding staff professional association for speech-language pathologists, au- tion in both Virginia and the Washington metropolitan area, the ginians who obtain their water from public utilities. Nearly 1.5 versity. Our students come from more than 80 different coun-
regularly in many areas including clinical operations, data man- diologists, and speech and hearing scientists. ASHA is commit- County's population exceeds that of seven states. The median million people in the Northern Virginia communities of Fairfax, tries, speak more than 60 languages, and represent a rainbow
agement, bio statistics, project management, and regulatory ted to the consumers of our services, the more than 42 million household income of Fairfax County is one of the highest in the Loudoun, Prince William and Alexandria depend on Fairfax Wa- of ethnic and cultural groups. They are economically diverse,
as well as corporate positions to support our project needs. We Americans with communication disorders. ASHA's mission is nation and over half of its adult residents have four-year col- ter for superior drinking water. That's 1.5 million friends, neigh- but all are rich in that the residents of Alexandria are dedicated
are committed to ensuring that our newly hired staff receive to ensure that all people with speech-language, and hearing lege degrees or more educational attainment. Fairfax County bors and family members. We don't need any other reason to to ensuring that each and every one of them achieves success.
a positive virtual on-boarding experience and the support they disorders receive quality services from well-educated profes- also is home to an extensive commercial ofûce market and is demand the highest in water quality standards! Chartered in The children of Alexandria have beneûted signiûcantly from the
need to effectively work remotely. Headquartered& sionals. The American Speech-Language-Hearing& a major employment center. Fairfax County& 1957 by the Virginia State Corporation Commission as a& strong support of City Council and the Alexandria&
Ophthalmic Certiûcation Ophthalmic Certiûcation Digital Campaign Manag- Director, Financial Infor- Administrative Assistant Administrative Assistant Plant Mechanic I3Herndon Supervisor, Customer Ser- Special Education Autism Academic Principal3
Project Associate3Rockville Project Manager3Remote er3Rockville mation Systems3Rockville II3Fairfax III3Fairfax Under close supervision of vice Quality Assurance3 Resource teacher (High Alexandria
Ophthalmic Certiûcation Ophthalmic Certiûcation Description The Digital The American Speech-Lan- Under general supervi- Provides support to Logistics the Supervisor, Plant Main- Fairfax School)3Alexandria Job Description: Assists
Project Manager Associ- Project Manager US Remote. Campaign Manager is re- guage-Hearing Association sion, provides the results of at the Department of Family tenance, or an experienced Under limited supervision Job Description: The special the Principal in leading
ate US Remote. The Emmes The Emmes Company, LLC sponsible for the daily man- requires all new employees criminal history searches to Services main administration plant mechanic, performs of the Manager, Customer education resource teacher the instructional program
Company, LLC ("Emmes") is ("Emmes") is a global, full- agement and production of to present proof they are the requesting magistrate, desk. Greets, welcomes, and a variety of semi-skilled Service, provides business of learners with Autism and ensures its alignment
a global, full-service Clini- service Clinical Research assigned email campaigns fully vaccinated against CO- probation staff, police de- directs visitors and custom- corrective and preventive process and functional ex- Spectrum Disorder at the with division regulations
cal Research Organization Organization dedicated to and enewsletters. He or she VID-19 when they start work. partment order or other of- ers appropriately. Routes in- industrial mechanical main- pertise to the Customer secondary level develops for curriculum design and
dedicated to excellence in excellence in supporting has a thorough understand- Currently, <fully vaccinated= ûcial criminal justice agency. dividuals to meeting rooms, tenance work in the mainte- Service Department, includ- success for the students' assessment. Provides and
supporting the advancement the advancement of public ing of email campaign best is deûned as someone that Maintains accurate ûle sys- accepts shipments and nance, repair and operation ing Contact, Revenue Man- with Autism in academics, promotes a state-of-the-art
of public health and biophar- health and biopharmaceuti- practices, development, and has received both doses of tems and updates defendant packages, and provides gen- of specialized equipment in agement, and Field Services. interpersonal skills, and ac- curriculum and superior in-
maceutical innovation& cal innovation. We believe& production techniques& the Pûzer/Moderna& records& eral information to& a water treatment& Responsible for& tivities of daily living by& structional delivery for&

The MIL Corporation (MIL) The Foundation Schools AARP Capital One Northwest Federal Credit Union
Government Contractor3Established in 1980, MIL provides inno- Education3The Foundation Schools has provided psychoeduca- Associations3AARP is a nonproût, nonpartisan, social welfare Financial Services and Banking3We Don9t Only Think Big Financial Services and Banking3For more than 70 years, North-
vative cyber, engineering, ûnancial, and information technology tional programs for students since 1975. A variety of talented organization with a membership of nearly 38 million. Our aim Things4At Capital One, We Do Big Things.You9re dedicated to west Federal has provided valuable ûnancial products and
services to the federal government. Our subject matter experts staff members is needed to ensure the smooth and successful is to disrupt preconceived notions about aging, turn goals and your career.You deserve professional satisfaction and personal services for our members. We9re dedicated to being a trusted
help advance customer operations through proven tools and operation of the educational and clinical programs at our three dreams into Real Possibilities, strengthen communities and fulûllment. You belong at Capital One. Here, every day brings partner in the ûnancial journey4from childhood savings ac-
methodologies. Dedicated to excellence, service, and support, schools located in Largo, Landover & Gaithersburg, Maryland. ûght for the issues that matter most to people 50-plus and another chance to do impactful work that matters: helping counts to ûnancing a college education, ûrst car, family home,
MIL recognizes that sustained high-quality service delivery is a Our Administrative Ofûce is located in Largo, Maryland. We of- their families; such as health care, employment security and millions of customers conûdently manage their money, build- and retirement savings. Our dedicated, service-oriented team
critical contributor to our success. We are recognized by our fer a supportive working environment, excellent resources and retirement planning. ing stronger communities and delivering truly disruptive tech. is committed to living our WHY: Together, we serve and inspire
clients and industry professionals alike for our integrity, dili- a competitive salary and beneût package. The mission of The You9ll give your all alongside some of the brightest, most resil- to transform lives.
gence, and expertise across our core service areas: Cyber& Foundation Schools is to serve the special education needs& ient people in the industry4and in return, you9ll&
Senior Network Engineer/ Software Engineering, High School Special Behavior Specialist3 State & Community En- Manager, Business Conti- Manager, Product Principal Associate, Pro- Branch Member Service ACH/Wires Specialist3
Architect (Network Senior Analyst3Charleston Education English Teacher- Rockville gagement Manager3Boston nuity3Washington D.C. Management, Card Core cess Management - Non- Representative (Part- Herndon
Engineering, Senior Clearance Required: Ability $2000 Hiring Incentive3 The Foundation Schools is a AARP is the nation's largest AARP is the nation's largest Platform3McLean Associate Labor3Richmond time)3Herndon The ACH/Wire's Specialist
Associate)3Reston to Obtain a Secret. Educa- Largo special education day school nonproût, nonpartisan orga- nonproût, nonpartisan orga- Capital One's Card Core At Capital One, we dare to The primary role of this po- role is to support the inter-
Clearance Required: Top Se- tion Required: BA/BS. US The Foundation Schools is a which delivers innovative nization dedicated to em- nization dedicated to em- Platform team is deûning dream, disrupt and deliver sition is to assist Northwest nal and external members
cret. SCI Education Required: Citizenship: Required. The special education day school school programs and sup- powering people 50 and old- powering people 50 and old- the roadmap that will enable a better way. Our goal is Federal Credit Union to live of the credit union by provid-
BA/BS. US Citizenship: Re- MIL Corporation seeks a Se- which delivers innovative port services for children er to choose how they live as er to choose how they live as our new and well managed simple - bring ingenuity, sim- out our vision to be the life- ing exceptional service and
quired. The MIL Corporation nior Software Engineering school programs and sup- and adolescents with emo- they age. With a nationwide they age. With a nationwide customer experiences and plicity and humanity to an time ûnancial partner for our ensuring all transactions are
is seeking candidates for a Analyst to support a Federal port services for children tional disabilities, autism presence, AARP strengthens presence, AARP strengthens capabilities, leveraging the industry ripe for& member-owners. One of the completed in the most ef-
Senior Network Engineer/Ar- Government client at our and adolescents with emo- spectrum disorders and communities and advocates communities and advocates latest innovations& primary means to achieve ûcient manner. These team
chitect (Network Engineer- Charleston, South Carolina tional disabilities, autism other learning challenges. for what matters most to for what matters most to the this end is to develop a high- members innovate the ap-
ing, Senior Associate)& location. spectrum disorders and& For over 40 years, The& more than& more than& ly effective team of& proach for payment&

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