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of Biden9s
memory high for
stuns aides Trump9s
Special counsel9s D.C. trial
conclusions at odds with
attorneys9 recollections Fencing will be
similar to Jan. 6
BY M ATT V ISER
Aim is for buffer between
President Biden had just spo- courthouse and public
ken with Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin netanyahu the morn-
ing of Oct. 8, agonizing over how to S PENCER S . H SU,
BY
rescue hostages taken by Hamas R ACHEL W EINER
in its bloody attack the previous AND P ETER H ERMANN
day, pledging American assis-
tance, and weighing a volatile situ- U.S. officials are debating how
ation that threatened to spiral out thick of a security blanket they
of control in the Middle East. will wrap around the federal
Shortly after they hung up, the courthouse in downtown Wash-
president9s personal attorney, Bob ington for former president Don-
Bauer, and White House counsel ald Trump9s trial 4 a practical
Ed Siskel arrived at the White and symbolic measure of the
House. The group walked down case9s importance that must bal-
PhotoS by bonniE Jo MoUnt/thE WaShington PoSt
one flight of stairs to the Map ance safety with the ongoing
Room, where Biden was to be in- functions of a city and a public
terviewed by special counsel Rob-
ert K. Hur, who for nine months
had been investigating Biden9s
handling of classified documents.
A radical plan to save a rural oasis courthouse, according to people
familiar with discussions.
Proposed changes for the crim-
inal trial of a former American
Those five hours and 10 min- president include ringing all or
utes of interviews, unfolding over As suburbia expands, a bid to protect Loudoun County9s gravel roads is dividing residents part of the E. Barrett Prettyman
two days, would turn out to be federal courthouse with metal
momentous. But at the time, few fencing, closing or controlling
foresaw how they would blow up BY J USTIN J OUVENAL, sidewalk access for several
four months later 4 not because of B ONNIE J O M OUNT blocks, and temporarily closing
their content, but because Hur AND J AYNE O RENSTEIN neighboring streets in the heart
would repeatedly deride Biden9s of the city, two of the people said.
memory during their time togeth- Allen Cochran shouts <Here we go!= The goal is to create an additional
er. In a long-awaited report issued and the sheep skitter from a weathered security buffer between the pro-
this week, Hur declined to pros- gray barn, bounding into golden after- ceedings inside and the public
ecute Biden over his handling of noon light on a mile-long journey to outside, said the people, who
classified documents but cast pasture. Their beating hoofs sound like a spoke on the condition of ano-
doubt on his memory, threatening sudden downpour on the centuries-old nymity to discuss pending secu-
to upend Biden9s pursuit of reelec- gravel road. rity plans.
tion by dwelling on perhaps his The tableau feels ripped from rural The barriers will pose a visual
biggest political liability. Ireland or even another century, but it is reminder of the police barricades
Hur9s description of Biden9s de- playing out not too far from a Chipotle. erected before the Jan. 6, 2021,
meanor as that of a <well-mean- This is western Loudoun County, Va., attack on the U.S. Capitol and its
ing, elderly man with a poor mem- where the superheated suburban devel- grounds, which sit 300 yards
ory= would infuriate Biden9s aides, opment of the D.C. area runs headlong from the courthouse across an
who saw it as sharply at odds with into a picturesque rural enclave that9s open expanse of the national
what occurred as the president sat been defined by farms and horses for 300 Mall. The preparations come
SEE bIdeN On a6 years. amid rising threats to public offi-
It has become the latest focus of an cials, including judges and pros-
the Fact Checker: What the hur unlikely movement to preserve a slice of ecutors in Trump9s cases, and the
report says on <willful retention.= A4 landscape often thought of as waiting its SEE JaN. 6 On a20
turn for improvement: unpaved roads.
While hamlets in Upstate new York
and elsewhere have taken steps to tOP: a driver waits as allen cochran and his border collies herd sheep, which includes

Hur report9s protect unpaved roads, an ambitious

and unorthodox plan being pushed in
travel on paved and gravel roads, in Hamilton, Va. abOVe: cyclists travel on one of
Loudoun county9s gravel roads. some say putting the roads on the National Register of
ELECtION 2024

critique seen
SEE LOudOuN On a12 Historic Places will ensure that their charm survives suburban onslaught.
Voting o>ces,
as abront fearing worst,
to DOJ norms go on obense
BY P ERRY S TEIN
Liberal billionaire now a leader in anti-DEI crusade to avert chaos
The conclusion laid out in spe- E LIZABETH D WOSKIN free-market system <the most power- Y VONNE W INGETT
cial counsel Robert K. Hur9s final
BY
Bill Ackman used Wall Street tactics ful potential force for good in ad-
BY
S ANCHEZ
report was straightforward: Joe Three years ago, Vivek Ramas- to oust Harvard9s ûrst Black president dressing society9s long-term prob-
Biden mishandled classified ma- wamy called up hedge fund manager lems,= as he once put it. PHOENIX 4 In training poll
terials, though there was not Bill Ackman with an idea: an <anti- Ackman invested $2.5 million in workers for this year9s presiden-
enough proof that he intended to woke= asset management firm that Ramaswamy9s Strive Asset Manage- tial election, Arizona Secretary of
break the law to meet the Justice would combat social justice and cli- ment 4 an early flash point in his State Adrian Fontes is preparing
Department9s high prosecution mate initiatives spreading through personal transformation. By last them for a series of worst-case
threshold. the business world. month, when the hedge fund manag- scenarios, including combat.
But the 345-page report also Though the billionaire power bro- er led a successful campaign to oust His office is coordinating ac-
contained explosive information ker had made a career forcing man- Harvard University9s first Black presi- tive-shooter drills for election
about President Biden9s allegedly agement changes in businesses in- dent, he had fully emerged as one of workers and has sent kits to
faulty memory, overshadowing cluding Wendy9s and JCPenney, Ack- the most powerful 4 and unexpected county election offices that in-
the issue of how he stored sensi- man seemed an unlikely backer for 4 adversaries of a diversity move- clude tourniquets to stem bleed-
tive government materials after his tennis buddy9s project. A longtime ment that has swept society since the ing, devices to barricade doors
his vice presidency ended. Democratic donor, Ackman had 2020 murder of George Floyd, a Black and hammers to break glass
Hur portrayed the president as helped propel the career of Sen. Cory man, at the hands of a White police windows.
an elderly man who shared sensi- Booker (D-n.J.), and his philanthrop- officer. Fontes, a Democrat and Ma-
tive information with his ghost- ic efforts included paying for thou- In hours of interviews with The rine Corps veteran, doesn9t think
writer and struggled to remem- sands of undocumented immigrants Washington Post, Ackman, who is he is overreacting.
ber key details in his life 4 to attend college. Moreover, Ackman Jewish, argued that campus respons- <We recognize the real and
unleashing calls from Republi- had praised the movement Ramas- es to the Oct. 7 attack had been present danger that9s presented
cans that Biden is unfit to serve, wamy opposed 4 known as environ- lackluster compared with the solidar- by the conspiracy theories and
and a furious backlash from Dem- mental, social and corporate govern- ity shown post-George Floyd. To Ack- the lies,= Fontes said. <An ounce
ocrats who said assessments of ance, or ESG 4 endorsing ESG prac- man, the contrast exposed the hypoc- of prevention is really all we can
the president9s memory were in- tices in his 2021 shareholder letter. risy of the movement for <diversity, afford right now, and so that9s
appropriate. But the tumultuous years of the equity and inclusion,= or DEI 4 which what we9re going to do.=
The appointment of a special pandemic had shifted the Wall Street includes race-based hiring goals and Around the nation, those who
counsel is intended to make high- billionaire9s worldview. Like others in diversity trainings he called <un- run voting operations 4 more
profile, sensitive investigations as his uber-wealthy circles, Ackman had healthy= and the <root cause of anti- than a dozen of whom were
independent and apolitical as come to believe that well-meaning semitism.= interviewed by The Washington
possible. But current and former ESG efforts had curdled into some- SEE ackmaN On a10 Post 4 say they are preparing for
tori fErEnc for thE WaShington PoSt
Justice Department officials said thing pernicious, stifling debate, de- the types of disruptions that
the increasing reliance on special stroying careers and undermining <What I want is fairness,= said billionaire hedge NFL: DEi9s <rooney rule= under a legal historically had been more asso-
SEE cOuNseL On a5 the meritocratic values that made the fund manager bill ackman. microscope, on and off field. business SEE eLectION On a15

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the border that has taken place politically fraught as comprehensive package. They another group of senators 4 the and elsewhere. Those migrants
during his time in office. immigration policy. Immigration had the support of President so-called Gang of Eight 4 came have strained the capacity of
White House officials point to policy encompasses national George W. Bush. together to produce an 844-page Northern cities, led to increased
Republicans as the culprits in the security and humanitarian Bush favored comprehensive bill dealing with multiple aspects crime in some places and
latest turn of events, and for good compassion. It brings together reform but, wary of conservative of immigration. prompted outcries for federal
reason. But they could also look the interests of business and opposition, leaned in on the issue One impetus for Republican relief from elected Democratic
of border security, including negotiators was a post-2012 officials.
ordering thousands of National Republican National Committee- The situation in New York and
Guard troops to the border. sponsored autopsy of the party9s border politics generally have
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displaying bona fides on border election. Among the conclusions Tuesday9s special election in New
security and advancing legal was the party9s need to expand its York9s 3rd Congressional District,
status for undocumented appeal to Hispanic voters. once held by former
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crux of the political challenge for measure by a vote of 68-32 and who was expelled by his
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team would make it to the Super as <Pizzagate,= picked up the
Bowl, where, halfway through, Swift conspiracy theory. Posobiec
the couple would endorse Presi- told his 675,000 followers on Tysons Corner Center
dent Biden for reelection, sway- Gettr 4 a controversial social Lower Level near Macy9s, 703-893-4803
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tilting democracy toward an un- Trump senior adviser Jason Mil-
natural conclusion. ler 4 that <the Taylor swift psyop
Perhaps a theory like this was for 2024 has been activated.=
destined to consume all our at- Thirty minutes later, Posobiec when a representative from 8Look what you just made
tention, according to Joseph E. told his more than 2 million the Pentagon <pitched me do9
Uscinski, a political science pro- followers on X, that <The Taylor NATO9s military psyops center on Jan. 10 to 31: The day after
fessor at the University of Miami Swift girlboss psyop has been turning Taylor Swift into an asset Watters9 segment, the Pentagon
who specializes in conspiracy fully activated.= &= refuted the conspiracy theory,
theories. <It gets attention be- The same day Posobiec credit- At 11:11 a.m., Elon Musk, who with healthy dose of annoyance
cause you have the biggest singer ed Ye, the controversial rapper owns X and has promoted dis- and eyerolls. <[A]s for this con-
in the world, the biggest sporting who has feuded with the pop star, credited accounts, responded to spiracy theory, we are going to
event in the world, combined with having <tried to warn us Benz9s inaccurate post. <Doesn9t shake it off,= Deputy Pentagon
with the biggest and most impor- about the Taylor Swift psyop and seem like an effective way to press secretary Sabrina Singh
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tant election in the world,= Uscin- we didn9t listen.= combat 8disinformation,9= Musk said in a statement, employing an
ski told The Washington Post in FROM TOP: Taylor Swift arrives to a Kansas City Chiefs game. By Friday Feb. 9, Posobiec9s wrote to his 171 million followers. obvious reference to Swift9s song,
an email. Travis Kelce celebrates after scoring a touchdown. Their romance posts about Swift had more than By 8 p.m., the video Benz Politico reported.
The theory may also have been has fueled theories that Swift is a DOD psychological operation. 4.5 million views on X. Posobiec surfaced and Musk responded to A day after that denial, popular
manufactured not to fool the did not respond to an email was featured on Fox News. far-right activist Charlie Kirk
masses, but rather, sway just one seeking comment. <Have you ever wondered why, said: <What is the Taylor Swift op,
very specific person. <It seems Back on Dec. 6, another influ- or how, she blew up like this?= because there9s obviously, there is
unlikely that a large segment of ential account picked up the the- Watters asked about Swift, even somebody either using, or de-
the population really believes she <Somebody trying to stir up this controversy in the ory. The <regime has plans to though her record-setting Eras ploying Taylor Swift for a reason=
is part of a psyop,= Barbara Mc- weaponize her just in time for tour was filling stadiums for Kirk said in a video he shared on
Quade, an MSNBC contributor hopes that she refrains from endorsing Joe Biden.= 2024,= End Wokeness told its 2.2 months before the Swift theories Facebook.
and author of the forthcoming Barbara McQuade, an author of a forthcoming book about disinformation million followers on X, which took hold. A constellation of far-right me-
book, <Attack from Within: How include Jesse Watters, MAGA fa- Watters featured a clip from dia personalities also amplified
Disinformation is Sabotaging vorite Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) the same video Benz had shared, the story of the Pentagon9s denial,
America,= told The Post. <I think and former Trump senior advis- then told his millions of viewers, including the Epoch Times, One
it is somebody trying to stir up And added, Swift <could be seen Democrats started before De- ers Stephen Miller and Dan Scav- <The Pentagon psyop unit America News, NTD television
this controversy in the hopes that as a threat to Republicans,= since cember 2019, when Swift publicly ino Jr. pitched NATO on turning Taylor and radio host Larry Elder. For
she refrains from endorsing Joe she has encouraged young people complained about the sale of her Hours later, Miller, who now Swift into an asset, for combating outlets that cater to audiences
Biden.= to vote, and young people tend to music catalogue to a business runs a law firm called America misinformation online.= peeling away from Fox News,
Swift9s following on social me- vote more progressive than their entity whose link to Soros has not First Legal, put his spin on the <So,= Watters asked his audi- <Everything is more evidence to
dia 4 more than 535 million 4 older counterparts. been confirmed. A spokesperson conspiracy. <What9s happening ence that January night, <how9s prove the conspiracy theory is
dwarfs the size of those pushing At the heart of this theory isn9t for Soros9s Open Society Founda- with Taylor Swift is not organic,= the psyop going?= A spokesper- correct,= Juliet Jeske, an inde-
the conspiracy about her. And she a secret government program, or tion told the Wall Street Journal Miller wrote in a post that now son for Fox News did not provide pendent media journalist who
has increasingly been wading open-air election interference. these theories were <preposter- has nearly 4 million views. Miller a comment when asked about writes extensively about Fox
into politics. Swift endorsed Rather, it may all flow out of ous.= did not respond to an email Watters9 segment. News, said. End Wokeness, again,
Democrats in 2018, leading to a old-fashioned sexism, the kind But Loomer9s post, and others seeking comment. Watters posted the segment on posted about the conspiracy the-
spike in voter registrations. In Swift, 34, has been battling like it, got millions of views on X, X, and asked again, <Is Taylor ory late last month, this time
June 2019 she took a public throughout her nearly two dec- formerly known as Twitter. 8You9re talking s--- for the Swift a Pentagon PsyOp asset?= adding as proof, <We all feel it. We
stance against Trump9s LGBTQ+ ade career. And despite the NFL9s Loomer kept posting about hell of it9 By Feb. 9, that post has gotten all know it.= As of Feb. 9 the post
policies and admittedly regretted effort to reach younger and fe- Swift, and in October claimed she Jan. 9: Just after 3 a.m. a short more than 1.6 million views. got more than 6.8 million views.
not endorsing Hillary Clinton. male viewers, it is, according to was part of <a highly organized video was posted on X by Watters9 segment blasted the Others were now describing
Swift endorsed Biden in 2020. McQuade, <very traditional, very political opp ahead of 2024.= Mike Benz, a former Trump ad- chatter into new heights. Within the conspiracy as inevitable. For-
After she posted an Instagram male.= <Perhaps,= she added, ministration official who has about an hour of Watters9 sharing mer Republican presidential can-
story last year encouraging peo- <there are some who take offense 8It9s me, hi, I9m the problem, more than 147,000 followers on his video on X, the Patriot Voice didate Vivek Ramaswamy 4 who
ple to register to vote, traffic to to her intrusion on that world.= it9s me9 the site. reposted it. <Wakey, wakey!= the during his presidential campaign
Vote.org spiked by more than Dec. 6: Early that morning The video shows Benz watch- Patriot Voice told its followers in embraced conspiracies about
1,200 percent within an hour, 8Is it chill that you9re in my Time magazine named Taylor ing a snippet of a 2019 conference a post that has 2.2 million views, Jan. 6, covid and the 2020 elec-
according to its CEO, Andrea head?9 Swift the magazine9s person of organized by NATO, where a re- as of Feb. 9. tion 4 implied the Super Bowl,
Hailey. Sept. 26: An early version of the year. For right wing media search engineer at Johns Hop- Loomer also reposted Watters and Swift9s endorsement of Biden
So when the New York Times this conspiracy was posted online personalities, that was proof. kins briefly mentioned using a segment on X, and said, <Told ya were forgone conclusions.
reported last month that Biden9s by Loomer, who argued Swift9s They quickly labeled her, and her celebrity like Taylor Swift to com- months ago= about Swift. In an Around 2.7 million saw that mes-
campaign was, again, looking for stepped up political engagement accomplishment, a <psyop,= a bat disinformation. <Are you f- interview, Loomer told The Post, sage on X, as of Feb. 9.
Swift9s endorsement, Trump sup- is linked to her fight to regain term popular on the right for --ing kidding me,= Benz yelled <I was more poking fun at Fox
porters had a strong reaction. control of her music catalogue anything they find suspicious into a microphone, claiming it News, kind of, I guess you can say 8Cause karma is my
Some on TV told her not to do it. from George Soros, a major Dem- and claim is orchestrated by pow- was proof NATO <had worked ripping off my original idea that I boyfriend9
Others, online, said it was proof ocratic funder and frequent tar- erful forces. with her in the past.= had proposed.= Loomer added, <I February 2024: The right
powerful forces were up to some- get of antisemitic conspiracies. In Jack Posobiec 4 a former Na- In posting the video, Benz never said she was a pentagon wing figures who kept the con-
thing. exchange for doing one, she9d get val intelligence and far-right me- wrote, inaccurately, that it psyop,= and <I don9t watch the spiracy in circulation may have
The idea started off as laugh- the other. But Swift9s support of dia personality, known for ad- showed <the incredible moment= Super Bowl.= generated clicks and attention for
able and was largely ignored, their brands, but they also in-
when early iterations of it were curred widespread backlash.
tweeted by Laura Loomer, a far- The Pentagon this month is-
right extremist, who started her sued another statement denying
rambling post with this question: the conspiracy theory. <Taylor
<Has @taylorswift13 made a deal Swift is not part of DOD psycho-
with George Soros and Alex Soros logical operation. Period,= Singh,
to get the rights to her music back the deputy spokeswoman at the
in exchange for getting Zoomers Department of Defense said.
registered to vote Democrat Arnold Schwarzenegger, the
against President Trump ahead movie star and former Republi-
of the 2024 Presidential elec- can governor of California who
tion?= has feuded with Trump, mocked
those promoting the conspiracy
8I knew you were trouble theory. <Remember, everything is
when you walked in9 a plant,= he told Variety, mocking
But a darker version of the idea the conspiracy theorists.
became conventional MAGA wis- Comedian Bill Maher told
dom by Dec. 6 when more influ- viewers of his popular HBO show
ential right-wing personalities at- about the conspiracy by prefac-
tacked Swift immediately after ing it with, <The right wing, they
she was named Time magazine9s are just mental.=
person of the year. And within a The most knowing rebuke may
month it became frustratingly have come from Reince Priebus,
unavoidable when on Jan. 9, days the former Republican National
before Kelce9s team had its first Committee chairman who briefly
playoff game, Fox News9s Jesse served as Trump9s White House
Watters stared into a television chief of staff. He told ABC9s <This
camera and asked his million of Week,= that the theory was <a
viewers, <So, how is the psyop powder keg of stupidity.=
going?= However, when asked by host
What would otherwise be a George Stephanopoulos where
heartwarming story of a love ideas like this come from, Priebus
transcending America9s dispa- pointed out: <Look, we live in a
rate cultures has now become an world where division is profit,
example of that disconnect. unity is a loser.=
<Those who use disinformation
to divide us try to demonize that clara Ence morse, Alex horton and
which is other,= McQuade said of Will Sommer contributed to this
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Hur report starts with Biden9s 8willful retention9 of ûles. Then it gets murkier.
<I9ve seen the that he did not willfully disclose Zwonitzer nearly word-for-word.= repeat classified information to fifteen years old,= the report said. and it probably was not.
headlines since the classified information to The report notes that one someone not cleared to receive it. <While there is evidence that
report was someone not authorized to defense Biden would have for some contain national defense Classified materials
released about my receive it. In many cases, the retaining the notebooks is that Afghanistan documents information, in general, they found at Penn Biden Center
willful retention of special counsel decided that the the Justice Department took no The FBI found in Biden9s concern a conflict that is now While moving documents from
documents. This documents were mishandled by action after it was discovered that Delaware garage a cache of over, in a country where there are Biden9s old office at a
The Fact assertion is not mistake 4 or were not especially former president Ronald Reagan documents related to a 2009 no longer any American troops, Washington-based center
Checker only misleading, important anymore, despite the had kept eight years9 worth of Obama administration debate about a subject (the 2009 troop affiliated with the University of
Glenn they9re just plain classification level. handwritten diaries that over whether to send additional surge) that has already been Pennsylvania, staffers discovered
Kessler wrong.= There9s an old saying that a contained classified information. troops to Afghanistan 4 a policy widely discussed in books and boxes containing materials
4 President grand jury would indict a ham In his interview with Hur, Biden step Biden fiercely opposed. The media reports. At a trial, we marked <EYES ONLY= and
Biden, remarks to sandwich; the report certainly brought up the Reagan example. report considers whether Biden expect the defense would strongly classified materials on such
reporters, Feb. 8 indicates that there might be The report says that Biden may have once had the challenge whether the documents foreign policy issues as Iran9s
<Our investigation uncovered enough evidence to obtain an could credibly claim he thought documents in a Virginia home he still contain sensitive national nuclear program and talking
evidence that President Biden indictment regarding Biden9s his notebooks were his personal rented in 2017, given that he told defense information.= points for a Biden call with the
willfully retained and disclosed handling of a handful of the property and that he was allowed Zwonitzer at one point that he Bottom Line: The report Ukrainian prime minister. The
classified materials after his vice documents. But any charges must to take them home after his vice had <just found all the classified concludes it cannot claim that discovery triggered the inquiry
presidency when he was a private be proven in court, and the report presidency. As a result, the report stuff downstairs.= But the report Biden willfully kept this that led to the appointment of a
citizen.= concedes that the evidence is said, <we do not believe there are could not determine precisely information 4 and that it may no special counsel.
4 Executive summary of a insufficient to win a conviction. viable criminal charges against what these documents were 4 longer be that sensitive anymore. <The evidence supports an
report by special counsel Robert So it9s presumably a frustrating Mr. Biden for willfully retaining and thus whether they were innocent explanation for the
K. Hur, who investigated situation for the president 4 he9s classified information in the classified 4 and whether the Handwritten unauthorized retention of those
Biden9s retention of classified not being charged with notebooks.= Afghanistan materials found in Thanksgiving memo documents,= the report says 4
documents when he was out of wrongdoing, but he doesn9t get Biden also retained some Delaware had ever been in A key document found in mainly that staff members forgot
office, released Feb. 8 his day in court to prove his notecards, contending in an Virginia. Biden9s home was a 2009 about them and unwittingly moved
In his fiery news conference innocence. interview with Zwonitzer that <While it is natural to assume handwritten memo to Obama, them out of the West Wing at the
Thursday about Hur9s report, the As a reader service, here9s what they were in a <gray area= and did that Mr. Biden put the sent around Thanksgiving that end of the administration. The
president disputed that the the report says about each not to have to go the National Afghanistan documents in the year, expressing strong report says there is no evidence
report 4 which recommended no specific set of documents Archives. <That Mr. Biden was box on purpose and that he knew opposition to the Afghanistan that Biden reviewed the
criminal charges concerning discovered in the year-long mistaken in his legal judgment is they were there, there is in fact a troop surge. The memo discussed documents or moved them himself.
Biden9s handling of classified investigation and whether Biden not enough to prove he acted shortage of evidence on these a November 2009 State Bottom Line: The report
documents 4 concluded he had willfully retained national willfully, which requires intent to points,= the report concedes. Department cable, and the cable exonerates Biden and blames
willfully retained the documents. defense information or willfully do something the law forbids,= the (Biden quoted from this sentence itself, which is marked staff error.
He quoted from specific passages disclosed it 4 which would be the report says. at his news conference.) <Confidential,= is clipped to the
4 Page 215, for example 4 to basis for criminal charges. The report says that there is Moreover, the report noted memo. Biden told investigators Classified materials found
make the case that the report said evidence that Biden, on three that Biden, as vice president, had he guessed he had held onto the at the University of Delaware
the <exact opposite= of the Notebooks used for a memoir occasions, may have disclosed the right to retain the documents memo for <for posterity9s sake= as In 2011, Biden donated 2,000
executive summary being quoted Biden kept notes on key classified information to at his Delaware home and that he it reflected his position on the boxes of senatorial papers to the
in news reports. meetings and then worked with a Zwonitzer, who did not have regained that right as president. Afghan policy. But he said he did University of Delaware. In 2023,
A large part of the 388-page ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, on a clearance. But, the report says, So he could be charged only with not believe it was classified when an FBI review found five
report is devoted to examining book, <Promise Me, Dad,= which <we do not believe the evidence retaining the documents for the he discussed it with Zwonitzer. documents marked as classified.
whether prosecutors could make covers a 14-month period of his supports charges of willful period in between. Although (The report notes that Bob The FBI also searched 263 boxes
a case against the president that vice presidency during which his disclosure beyond a reasonable dozens of people were Woodward described the memo stored at the Biden Institute,
would result in a conviction. older son, Beau, died. The report doubt.= That9s because Biden, interviewed, <all denied knowing in detail in his 2010 book located on campus, and found
Despite the evidence gathered by says <the evidence shows while speaking to Zwonitzer, that the classified Afghanistan <Obama9s Wars.=) seven marked classified
prosecutors, the report convincingly= that Biden knew indicated uncertainty about documents were in the box, and <Because we cannot prove that documents dated between
repeatedly concludes that it the notebooks contained whether the passages in his all denied knowing when or how he knew the memo was classified November 1979 and June 1980.
would be tough to win a case 4 classified information. notebook that he was reading the box and its contents arrived in when he left office, we cannot <The evidence does not
often because Biden had <During many of the interviews were classified. As a result, <we the garage, or who put them prove that by retaining the memo, establish that Mr. Biden or
reasonable defenses, the facts with his ghostwriter, Mr. Biden conclude that the evidence does there.= Separately, while some he willfully retained national anyone else knowingly removed
were murky or Biden had read from his notebooks nearly not establish that Mr. Biden other classified documents were defense information,= the report or retained the classified
cooperated fully with the verbatim, sometimes for an hour willfully disclosed national found in notebooks at Biden9s says. documents found at the
investigation. or more at a time,= the report says, defense information to home, the report said <the As for the State Department University of Delaware,= the
Indeed, the report says jurors quoting from audio recordings Zwonitzer.= evidence does not show that Mr. cable attached to the memo, the report says. <These documents
could decide that Biden <did not and transcripts. <At times during Bottom Line: This is the Biden knew the classified report concludes that it <does not appear to have been included in
willfully retain= documents these interviews, Mr. Biden took strongest example of Biden documents were in his home, and appear to contain national his Senate papers by mistake.=
related to Afghanistan and steps to ensure that Zwonitzer did possibly mishandling classified it is plausible that they were defense information today, and The report says there is no
national defense information not read or have access to the information. But the report stored there by mistake.= there is no reason to believe it did evidence Biden ever personally
found at his home. It also says classified portions of the concludes that the case would be The report also said that the in 2017.= viewed these documents.
evidence suggests he did not notebooks. & At other times, weak, given the Reagan example many documents may no longer Bottom Line: The report Bottom Line: The report
willfully retain documents found however, Mr. Biden read his notes and given that Biden generally be sensitive. <The Afghanistan concludes that Biden did not exonerates Biden and blames
at the University of Delaware and from classified meetings to appeared to be careful to not documents are now almost think this memo was classified staff error.

An Alabama radio station9s 200-foot steel tower is missing, manager says

Apparent theft forces
AM broadcaster off air
and onto internet

BY P RAVEENA
S OMASUNDARAM

Even after decades of working

in radio, the call Brett Elmore
recently received was more
shocking than any he had fielded
on the air.
His landscaper had noticed a
problem at one of his station9s
properties 4 a 200-foot-tall one,
to be exact.
<The tower is gone,= he recalled
CourtEsy of BrEtt ElmorE
the landscaper saying.
Elmore, the general manager The concrete slab that used to hold the tower. WJLX, the <Sound
of WJLX in Jasper, Ala., was of Walker County,= had been on air since the mid-1950s.
certain he had misheard. The
structure in question was a steel ing near the tower, and the door regular programming. Elmore
radio tower the station had used was left open, Elmore said. Walk- and his colleagues have resorted
to broadcast programs for dec- ing inside, the landscaper also to streaming programs online.
ades. found that the station9s AM trans- Elmore told listeners the tower
<It9s not like it sprouted legs,= mitter, which sends the signal was gone in a Facebook post.
CourtEsy of BrEtt ElmorE
he told The Washington Post. <I through the tower, was gone. <I have heard of thieves in this
said, 8Are you sure you9re at the Brett Elmore, the general manager of the Alabama station WJLX, said its radio tower was discovered <They had wiped out every- area stealing anything,= he wrote.
right spot?9= missing Feb. 2. The police <were as bumfuzzled as I was. I9m still in shock,= he said. thing,= he said. <But this one takes the cake.=
The landscaper was 4 and The station could still broad- Sharon Tinsley, the president
Elmore had heard correctly. On the tower once stood. Since then, Elmore reported the tower9s had seen and showing investiga- cast from its FM frequency, which of the Alabama Broadcasters As-
Feb. 2, only an empty concrete the radio station has been off the disappearance to police that day, tors photos of the site. had equipment at a different sociation, said the station outage
slab and cut wire remained where air. detailing what the landscaper <They were as bumfuzzled as I property in Jasper. WJLX9s 101.5 creates a public safety issue.
was,= he said. <I9m still in shock.= FM is a classic-hits station. <What if there were a crisis
The Jasper Police Department, But the Federal Communica- going on right now that the com-
which is investigating the matter, tions Commission, which over- munity needs to hear information
Build Comfort With said the exact time and date of the
theft were unclear.
sees communications including
radio, denied Elmore9s request to
from local sources on a local radio
station and they can9t?= she said,
WJLX, branded the <Sound of do so, citing a rule prohibiting FM according to ABC 33/40 News.
A Name You Trust Walker County,= has served thou-
sands of listeners in Alabama
translators from operating when
the AM primary station is off air.
As of late last week, Elmore
was awaiting updates from au-
since the mid-1950s, Elmore said. After receiving that FCC notifi- thorities about what might have
The AM station plays a daily 8 cation, Elmore filed a request happened to the tower. But he
a.m. church program, midday with the agency for WJLX to suspects it won9t be recovered in
talk shows from local broadcast- remain silent. The FCC requires one piece.
ers and live high school sports radio stations to get permission <If the tower is found, it9s prob-
coverage. to remain silent for a certain ably in a million pieces,= Elmore
That was until Feb. 2, when the period of time, and it only grants said. <If I had to imagine, it9s
landscaper arrived at a WJLX requests if the reasoning cited is probably been cut up. That9s
property for cleanup work, only <beyond the control of the licens- probably the only way they can
to find the tower that had once ee.= If stations remain silent for transport it.=
jutted far above the greenery sur- more than one year, the FCC For now, Elmore has turned his
rounding the site was nowhere to considers them expired. attention to reaching his listeners
be found. In the week since the tower and again.
The padlock was also missing transmitter disappeared, WJLX <I9ve got to get back on the air
from the small equipment build- listeners have missed out on the yesterday,= Elmore said.
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Biden critique upends DOJ norms in cases with no charges

Counsel from A1 Under department regula- decisions based on a <reasonable special counsel reports would not and struggled to recall the years evidence and mount a defense.
tions, a special counsel submits a probability of conviction.= be made public, given long-stand- of his vice presidency (Biden an- Legal experts said that what9s
counsels to handle such investi- confidential report to the attor- In the report, Harvey said that ing Justice Department guide- grily denied those characteriza- so striking about the Hur report.
gations has upended a central ney general, explaining his or her Hur appeared to include details lines to not comment when pros- tions after the report was re- <It would have been sufficient
principle of the agency: to avoid decisions whether to prosecute about Biden9s memory to show ecutors decline to indict some- leased). to say that we did not have
prejudicing the public against (Justice Department policy pre- how he assessed whether there one. <Perhaps there was some justi- sufficient evidence that he was
people who are not charged. cludes charging sitting presi- was a strong chance that Biden But that9s changed in recent fication for special counsel Hur to acting willfully,= Barbara mc-
<Special Counsel Hur report on dents). It is up to the attorney would, hypothetically, be convict- years. In 2019, special counsel comment on the president9s age Quade, a law professor at the
Biden classified documents is- general to decide whether to ed at trial. Hur wrote that the robert S. mueller III9s investiga- and mental fitness, but I severely University of michigan Law
sues contains way too many gra- make that report public. president9s struggle to recall spe- tion into possible russian inter- doubt it, and the report is not School and former federal pros-
tuitous remarks and is flatly in- When Garland received Hur9s cific details of when and where he ference in the 2016 presidential reassuring in this regard,= Katyal ecutor, said at a public roundta-
consistent with long standing report monday, he could have handled documents would have election helped establish a new said in an email. <It seems gratui- ble on friday. <To instead be-
DoJ traditions,= former Attorney made redactions before he sent it made it harder to convince a jury norm: reports would be made tous and wrong.= smirch his reputation struck me
General Eric Holder, a Democrat, to Congress. President Biden that he deliberately broke the law. public, in an effort to demon- Justice Department declina- as going a bit above and beyond
wrote on social media friday. could have also exerted executive <He never uttered a political strate transparency and that an tion memos 4 which prosecutors what you would expect from an
<Had this report been subject to a privilege and made redactions. word to me or showed an inclina- investigation was thorough and write when they decide not to ordinary prosecutor.=
normal DoJ review these re- But neither did. Had they wanted tion to have politics play a part in fair. pursue charges, essentially end- As a special counsel, Hur9s <le-
marks would undoubtedly have to, legal experts said, they would any decisions that I was making,= Katyal, citing his own role in ing an investigation 4 are virtual- gal outcome is indeed fair and
been excised.= have had to inform Congress, and said Eisenberg, who was not in- creating the special counsel rules, ly never made public. That9s in appropriate,= said Anthony Coley,
Hur9s blistering characteriza- likely would have received in- volved with the special counsel. wrote an op-ed in The Washing- part because Justice Department a former Justice Department em-
tion of Biden has made the report tense backlash from republicans. <I9m sure he didn9t take it lightly. ton Post that year saying muel- guidance says that prosecutors ployee who was the agency9s top
intractable from politics during Congressional leaders are like- That would be atypical of who I ler9s report should be released so should be sensitive to the privacy spokesman when Garland ap-
an election year in which Biden9s ly to ask Hur to testify about the know the man to be.= that the public would <have confi- and reputation of people they are pointed Hur last January. <But
opponents already were focused report. Lawmakers have already Neal Katyal, a former acting dence that justice was done.= not charging. When charged, the editorializing 4 the excessive,
on his age and questioning his asked the Justice Department to solicitor general under President on friday, Katyal questioned criminal defendants have the unnecessary commentary about
mental fitness. release the transcripts and rec- Barack obama, helped craft the Hur9s decision to include Biden9s chance to defend themselves in a an uncharged individual 4 does
Some legal experts say aspects ords of the interviews that were special counsel regulations in the alleged mental lapses during court of law. But when a person is not reflect DoJ9s best traditions.=
of the report have echoes of fBI part of the investigation. 1990s, as a young Justice Depart- hours of interviews, including publicly accused of problematic
Director James B. Comey9s deci- Hur9s report lists many reasons ment lawyer. Katyal said officials that he could not remember the behavior but not charged, they Aaron C. Davis and Ann E. Marimow
sion in 2016 to call Hillary Clin- it would be difficult to convict at the time expected that most year his son Beau died of cancer have no opportunity to present contributed to this report.
ton <extremely careless= as he Biden of willfully mishandling
publicly announced that he classified documents when he
would be closing an investigation was out of office 4 including that
into her use of a private email Biden knew some of his predeces-
server while she was secretary of sors also had kept notebooks with
state. sensitive information, and that KITCHENS | BATHS | ADDITIONS
Comey was a top federal law his handling of his own note-

Remodeling
enforcement official whose agen- books in 2017 showed instances
cy is not responsible for deciding where he <took steps to ensure=
when to prosecute. Unlike Hur, he did not share classified infor-
he was not tasked with issuing a mation with the person helping
report to explain his investiga- him to write a memoir. The report

Seminar
tion. But he broke with fBI proto- said some classified material
col by publicly discussing an in- found in Biden9s possession ap-
vestigation that ended without peared to have been packed up by
charges. And his words im- staff by mistake, and noted that,
pugned Clinton9s credibility as president, Biden quickly hand-
ahead of the presidential election ed over classified material his
in which she was the Democratic aides found last year.
nominee, just as Hur9s report But Hur also used scathing
seems to have done with Biden as details about Biden9s memory
he seeks a second term. lapses to help explain why he was
Attorneys general typically declining to recommend pursu-
name special counsels to lead ing charges against the president
investigations when the public after he leaves office. Among the
could reasonably perceive a con- reasons: Biden9s memory was re-
flict of interest if the attorney portedly so bad that a jury would
general 4 a presidential appoin- struggle to believe he intentional-
tee 4 were to oversee it. A special ly retained the classified informa-
counsel has more independence tion.
from Justice Department leaders <We have also considered that,
than other federal prosecutors, at trial, mr. Biden would likely
but still ultimately answers to the present himself to a jury, as he did
attorney general. during our interview of him, as a
Hur was appointed by Attor- sympathetic, well-meaning, el-
ney General merrick Garland, derly man with a poor memory,=
who promised Congress even be- Hur wrote in the report. <It would
fore he saw the report that he be difficult to convince a jury that
would make as much of it public they should convict him 4 by
as he was legally allowed to do. then a former president well into
Garland named Hur to investi- his eighties 4 of a serious felony
gate classified material found in that requires a mental state of
Biden9s private home and former willfulness.=
think tank office months after he Hur is a well-respected attor-
appointed a special counsel to ney who served as U.S. attorney in
investigate former president maryland and as a senior Justice
Donald Trump9s potential mis- Department official during the
handling of classified materials, Trump administration. When he
as well as Trump9s alleged efforts was appointed special counsel,
to overturn the 2020 election his former colleagues described
results. Garland also appointed a him as fair-minded and apoliti-
special counsel to investigate cal. He vowed to lead the investi-
Biden9s son, Hunter. Both the gation with <fair, impartial, and
Trump and the Hunter Biden dispassionate judgment.=
special counsels have led to crimi- Harvey Eisenberg, a recently
nal charges detailed in federal retired assistant U.S. attorney
grand jury indictments, which who worked with Hur in mary-
contain far less information than land, said that Justice Depart-
special counsel reports. ment rules require prosecuting

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Biden aides recall

probe interview
as routine, dry
Biden frOm A1 ing Hur9s request for the inter-
view, figuring Biden had little to
for voluntary questioning, accord- hide and would benefit from being
ing to two people familiar with the transparent, according to mem-
matter who spoke on the condi- bers of his legal team.
tion of anonymity to recount inter- Inside the White House, work-
nal discussions. Hur cited the ers had converted a space on the
president9s ostensible memory first floor into a secure setting
problems in concluding that he where classified information
would have trouble convincing a could be discussed. Long tables
jury that Biden had willfully mis- were brought into the map room,
handled classified documents. which takes its name from Presi-
In the view of Biden9s team, the dent franklin D. roosevelt9s use of
interviews proceeded in a routine, the space to consult maps and
even dry, manner, as prosecutors track the progress of World War II.
asked Biden where he bought a It is also the room where, in 1998,
particular file cabinet and how President Bill Clinton testified to
certain boxes were packed. independent counsel Kenneth W.
Biden himself was focused at the Starr about his role in the monica
time on more immediate and Lewinsky scandal.
world-shaking matters, having just Biden and Hur sat across from
made a round of phone calls to U.S. each other, each with about four
allies that would affect the roiling aides. Bottles of water sat on the
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situation in the middle East. table. Biden was flanked by Bauer
Biden and his attorneys even to his right and Siskel to his left.
discussed postponing the inter- Hur, who would be asking the ques- recorder that would be recording ments, including those that were Tourists take photos of the limited knowledge of how the doc-
view, but they ultimately decided tions, was accompanied by his dep- the session, listed everyone in the packed up as Biden finished his White House on Oct. 9, one of uments ended up where they did.
against it. They had already uty marc Krickbaum, a former U.S. room, and began matter-of-factly vice-presidential term. Hur asked the two days President Biden He was asked at one point how a
blocked off two days on the presi- attorney for the Southern District interrogating the president. how documents were packed and was interviewed by Robert Hur. binder labeled <Beau Iowa= ended
dent9s schedule and, with the in- of Iowa, and several fBI agents. The topics were straightfor- shipped, and by whom. Biden was up in a well-worn box in his garage
vestigation already dragging on The session started roughly on ward, according to the people fa- asked when he purchased specific that also contained sensitive gov-
much longer than anticipated, time, a rarity for the perennially miliar with the matter and Hur9s file cabinets and what he stored in ernment material. Beau Biden, the
were eager to put it behind them. late Biden. Hur introduced him- later report, tracking years-old them. president9s son, died of brain can-
They never contemplated resist- self, noted the presence of a tape movements of boxes full of docu- There were a few moments cer in 2015.
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GOP9s Mike Gallagher, who voted no

on impeaching Mayorkas, will retire
BY S ARAH E LLISON

Wisconsin Republican Rep.

Mike Gallagher, who served as
chairman of a select committee
dedicated to combating the influ-
ence of the Chinese Communist
Party and was a key holdout in the
recent failed effort to impeach
Homeland Security Secretary Ale-
jandro Mayorkas, said Saturday
that he would not seek another
term in Congress.
In a statement, Gallagher, 39,
invoked the framers of the Consti-
tution who <intended citizens to
serve in Congress for a season and
then return to their private lives.=
<Electoral politics was never
supposed to be a career and, trust
JuSTice DePArTmeNT/AP me, Congress is no place to grow
KeNT NiShimurA For The WAShiNgToN PoST
old,= said Gallagher, who has ad-
you recognized that the questions vocated for term limits in Con- The decision by Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) leaves Republicans
you planned to ask 8relate to events gress. <And so, with a heavy heart, little time to join the race before the Aug. 13 primary.
that happened years ago,9 but I have decided not to run for
nonetheless expressed your hope reelection.= than I could have ever imagined.= who engaged in an apparent last-
that the president would 8put forth Gallagher9s departure gives Re- Along with Sen. Marco Rubio ditch attempt to change his mind.
[his] best efforts and really try to publicans just months to join the (R-Fla.), Gallagher called for ban- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
get [his] best recollection in re- race before the state9s primaries. ning TikTok in the United States (R-Ga.) 4 who has tried multiple
sponse to the questions we ask,9 = Alex Bruesewitz, a Trump ally and had traveled to Taiwan, re- times to force the House to expe-
Biden9s attorneys wrote. <It is hard- with ties to Gallagher9s safely Re- turning to urge his fellow law- dite impeaching Mayorkas 4 was
ly fair to concede that the presi- publican district, had expressed a makers to arm the island robustly seen shouting at Gallagher, along-
dent would be asked about events desire to run against Gallagher in the face of a potential Chinese side Homeland Security Commit-
years in the past, press him to give after his vote on Mayorkas. Roger invasion. tee Chairman Mark Green (R-
his 8best9 recollections, and then Roth, a former Wisconsin state Gallagher, who declined a re- Tenn.), who spearheaded the in-
fault him for his limited memory.= senator, announced Saturday eve- quest to be interviewed, told the vestigation into Mayorkas. Rep.
All that, however, was in the ning that he intends to run for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Jodey Arrington (R-Tex.), a close
future. For the moment, Biden9s seat. he plans to enter the private sec- ally of Speaker Mike Johnson
lawyers felt the interview had Gallagher, a former Marine tor and spend more time with his (R-La.), then animatedly tried to
gone as well as could be expected. Corps intelligence officer who de- young family, which he hoped to persuade Gallagher to flip his vote
And Biden had more urgent ployed twice to Iraq, had served as expand. He told the news outlet as Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.)
SArAh L. VoiSiN/The WAShiNgToN PoST issues. the chairman of the House Armed that his future work will focus on listened in, The Washington Post
FROM TOP: Documents were found in President Biden9s garage. Immediately after the inter- Services subcommittee on cyber, defense policy, in line with his reported.
Special counsel Robert K. Hur cast doubt on Biden9s memory. view concluded, he walked to the information technologies and in- long-standing national security Gallagher told the Journal Sen-
Oval Office to meet with his na- novation and on the Permanent goals. tinel that his decision to leave
theless rejected. position on Afghanistan. And it tional security team and call Euro- Select Committee on Intelligence. Gallagher earlier had not tele- Congress had nothing to do with
Biden told Hur that he had later became discussed &. It be- pean counterparts. He also called He was the youngest chair of a graphed how he would vote on his controversial vote on Mayork-
stayed up late on Thanksgiving, came discussed inside the foreign Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) who was select committee in the modern Mayorkas9s impeachment; after as, and that he was stepping away
writing by hand the only memo policy establishment that I was in Israel, to check on him and see if era, according to his office. he voted no, he was swarmed on for personal reasons and because
that he ever sent solely to Obama recommending it.= there was anything the White The Green Bay Republican has the House floor by his colleagues, he never saw the position as a
and no one else in the government, Emerging from the interview, House could provide. established himself as one of Cap- long-term appointment. He
Hur9s report said. Biden and his team felt the sessions That night, the White House was itol Hill9s top national security joined the House in 2017.
<I was trying to change the presi- had mostly gone as expected. It illuminated in blue and white, the and foreign policy hawks. He was During his time in office, Gal-
dent9s mind, and I wanted to let never occurred to them that Hur9s colors of the Israeli flag, to express generally viewed as a moderate <Electoral politics lagher has occasionally broken
him know I was ready to speak out final report would provide scath- solidarity with an ally that had just member of his conference, and a with former president Donald
& and to really, quite frankly, save ing descriptions of Biden9s ostensi- lost more than 1,000 citizens to a rising star. Gallagher9s decision is was never supposed Trump, as he did when he called
his ass,= Biden told the special ble memory lapses, making his terrorist attack and was about to the latest in a spate of House the former president to call off his
counsel during the Oct. 9 interview. conclusions politically explosive launch a long, deadly war. Biden, retirements in both parties, but to be a career and, supporters as they stormed the
He initially told Hur that he was even as he concluded that no charg- according to a person close to him, especially among Republicans. U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He
not aware he had kept the memo es were merited against Biden for had retired to the residence that <Eight years ago, when I first trust me, Congress is was critical of the insurrection,
after his vice presidency ended in mishandling classified documents. night to work on a speech he would ran for Congress, I promised to but ultimately voted against im-
January 2017. Asked a follow-up The shock of Biden9s lawyers is deliver the next day. treat my time in office as a high- no place to grow old.= peaching Trump.
question, he responded, <I guess I evident in a letter they wrote in intensity deployment,= Gallagher The primary for the House race
Rep. Mike Gallagher, announcing
wanted to hang on to it for posteri- response to the report. Yasmeen Abutaleb, Perry Stein and said in a statement. <We9ve accom- in Wisconsin is Aug. 13, and the
that he will not seek reelection
ty9s sake. I mean, this was my <At the outset of the interview, Tyler Pager contributed to this report. plished more on this deployment filing deadline is June 3.

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retropolis

How Carter G. Woodson turned February into Black History Month

BY D E N EEN L . B ROWN and Frederick Douglass, accord-
ing to the Library of Congress.
In his red-brick rowhouse in Woodson explained the idea
the heart of D.C., the man who behind the celebration. <It is not
would become known as the so much a Negro History Week as
<father of Black history= wrote it is a History Week,= he wrote,
furiously. From a second-floor according to the ASALH. <We
<home office= at 1538 Ninth St. should emphasize not Negro His-
NW, Carter G. Woodson led and tory, but the Negro in History.
orchestrated a movement to doc- What we need is not a history of
ument Black history, dictating selected races or nations, but the
dozens of books, letters, speech- history of the world void of
es, articles and essays promoting national bias, race hatred and
Black people and their place in religious prejudice.=
American history. In 1976, Negro History Week
At 12:15 p.m. on most days, was lengthened to include the
Woodson, who would launch entire month of February. The
what became Black History emphasis on studying Black his-
Month, met with his staff in the tory highlighted the message of
kitchen of the house. He9d give Woodson9s seminal work.
orders and strategize. There was <8The Mis-Education of the
little time to waste. He saw his Negro9 is probably one of the
mission 4 to correct how White most important books ever pub-
people wrote about Black people, lished for African Americans and
and to place Black Americans at for African American history,=
the front and center of American said W. Marvin Dulaney, presi-
history 4 as critical. dent of the ASALH. <The book
<If a race has no history,= lays out that African Americans
Woodson wrote, <it has no worth- have been mis-educated in our
while tradition, it becomes a public school systems.=
negligible factor in the thought <The theory of this book was to
of the world, and it stands in help Black people understand we
danger of being exterminated.= come from a greater society,= said
The house was a hub of Black Karsonya Wise Whitehead, for-
intellectual thought in the coun- mer ASALH national secretary
try. From its rooms, Woodson and who teaches African and
published journals and bulletins African American studies at Loy-
and wrote books. In 1933, he ola University Maryland. <And
published <The Mis-Education of the work we do as parents,
PeTulA DvorAk/The WAshingTon PosT
the Negro,= a collection of arti- teachers and educators should
cles and speeches. The book make sure young Black people
would become a classic, advocat- understand that.=
ing for excellence in the educa- TOP: The Carter G. today,= he said. <Critical race was said to work 18-hour days A quest to ensure that Black
tion of Black students and de- Woodson home on theory, for example.= and rarely smiled in photos, was people understood their past was
manding that school systems 9th Street NW in As the country celebrates prolific. From his bustling house, at the heart of the creation of
across the United States correct Washington. In Black History Month 4 and he published the Journal of Ne- Black History Month, said CeLil-
curriculums designed to deliber- 1976, the house was remains embroiled in bitter de- gro History and the Negro His- lianne Green, author of <A
ately <mis-educate= Black chil- designated a bates over how race and Black tory Bulletin, ran a publishing Bridge: The Poetic Primer on
dren and promote the fallacy of national historic history should be taught in company called Associated Pub- African and African American
white supremacy. landmark, and in schools 4 Woodson9s 91-year-old lishers, and organized the Asso- Experiences.= <If you think you
<One of Woodson9s objectives 2003, Congress text still serves as a template for ciation for the Study of Negro have no history, it9s like being
was to collect and disseminate made it a national racial education and a refutation Life and History, which was later rootless,= she said. <It9s unnatu-
knowledge about Black people historic site. of the notion that these subjects named the Association for the ral. If you think your people
globally,= said Greg E. Carr, chair BOTTOM: Carter should be glossed over. <Wood- Study of African American Life don9t have history, you can do
of the department of Afro-Ameri- G. Woodson in an son flat-out rejects the premise and History (ASALH) and still nothing. The point of Black His-
can studies at Howard Univer- undated that any American history has dozens of chapters through- tory Month is so you can under-
sity. <The continued relevancy of photograph. Among should resort to an Anglo lens,= out the country. stand your history.=
8The Mis-Education of the Negro9 Woodson9s work, he Carr said. <In one chapter in the It was also in this three-bed- She added, <If you are not
was Woodson was really a master is known for book, he said: I don9t understand room house, which Woodson teaching the truth, how is the
of public relations.= launching what why they would devote all this bought in 1922 for $8,000, that country going to be free?=
The book, Carr said, has last- became Black time [in history class] to Europe, he would establish <Negro His- C.R. Gibbs, a historian and
ing relevancy. <When we read History Month. descendants of Europe, and not tory Week= in 1926. The designat- author, said that 91 years after
8The Mis-Education of the Ne- give equal time to the origins of ed week was set for the second <The Mis-Education of the Ne-
gro,9 it is as if he is writing from AP Africans.= week in February to mark the gro,= Woodson9s advocacy for
today about topics being debated Woodson, a stern man who birthdays of Abraham Lincoln teaching Black history is still

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in his annual report for 1941, across America.=

with <1,000 or more manuscripts Hughes told the readers of the
which will be turned over to the Chicago Defender, the promi-
Library of Congress as soon as nent Black newspaper, that if
they can be properly assorted,= they knew of someplace in the
including letters from Douglass country where Negro History
and Booker T. Washington, ac- Week was not being honored or if
cording to the National Park they wanted materials on how to
Service. observe the week, they should
The second floor of Woodson9s write to <Dr. Carter G. Woodson,
house contained a library and his Association for the Study of Ne-
office. Around his desk, Woodson gro Life and History, 1538 Ninth
met with some of the most Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.,
powerful Black women in his- and ask him to send you a list of
tory, including Nannie Helen their publications and photo-
Burroughs and Mary McLeod graphs.=
Bethune. He helped finance writ- Woodson9s parents had been
er and anthropologist Zora Neale enslaved, and Woodson, who was
Hurston9s research and travels born on Dec. 19, 1875, in New
that would later produce <Barra- Canton, Va., worked as a share-
coon: The Story of the Last cropper and in a coal mine
8Black Cargo,9= based on 1927 during his childhood.
interviews with Cudjo Lewis, one He did not begin high school
of the last survivors of the illegal until he was 20, graduating in
transatlantic slave trade from two years. He attended Berea
Africa. College in Kentucky, obtained a
During the 1920s, a young master9s degree from the Univer-
Langston Hughes, who would sity of Chicago and in 1912 be-
become a world-renowned poet came the second African Ameri-
instrumental in the Harlem Ren- can to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard
aissance movement, worked as University. (W.E.B. Du Bois was
an assistant to Woodson in his the first.)
home office, according to the On April 3, 1950, Woodson
Park Service. died in his bedroom on the third
<My job was to open the office floor of the house at 1538 Ninth
in the mornings, keep it clean, St. NW, in the heart of D.C.9s
wrap and mail books, assist in Shaw neighborhood.
answering the mail, read proofs, In 1976, the house was desig-
bank the furnace at night when nated a national historic land-
Dr. Woodson was away,= Hughes mark. In 2003, Congress made it
said, according to the Park Serv- a national historic site.
ice, <and do anything else that <Carter G. Woodson repre-
came to hand which the secretar- sents for us living history and the
FriTz hahn/The WashingTon PosT ies could not do.= importance of knowing whose
African American historian Carter G. Woodson9s home in Shaw. Woodson is known as the <father of Black history,= and his book, <The In February 1945, Hughes shoulders we stand on,= White-
Mis-Education of the Negro,= is credited as a classic today. wrote that America owed Wood- head said. <To be in spaces where
son a debt of gratitude. <For he studied and where great
relevant. <At a time when we ground Railroad: The Secret His- don9t want that history to come the 21st century, the mis-educa- many years now he has labored minds gathered, to have this real
can9t be sure what we will be able tory.= out. We have to guard against tion of the Negro is still going in the cause of Negro history, and connection to history by being
to teach, this makes 8The Mis-Ed- <There are forces in society that.= He added, <If there is a on.= his labors have begun to bear a able to touch it, brings history to
ucation of the Negro9 even more today who don9t want that kind book that should be at the top Woodson9s house served as an most glorious fruit. Year by year life.=
timely,= said Gibbs, whose work of insightful, thoughtful history and most useful at this time, it archive for documents sent from the observance of Negro History
as a historian is featured in the that Carter G. Woodson was would be 8The Mis-Education of Black people across the country. Week has grown,= he wrote. <To- a version of this story was originally
Discovery documentary <Under- chronicling,= Gibbs said. <They the Negro.9 Why? Because even in It had a fireproof safe, he wrote day the week is observed all published on Feb. 1, 2022.

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<When you take on complex multidimensional issues like race in higher education & all you9re
really saying is: I9m a really rich guy ... and I9ve got no shame.=
Paul Barrett, deputy director of the stern center for Business and human Rights at New york University, who attended harvard with Ackman in the mid-1980s

aCkMaN from a1 world and start telling institu-

tions that you don9t have an own-
<Say whatever you want about ership stake in how to behave
me being a powerful person,= properly, when you take on com-
Ackman said. <I don9t want to plex multidimensional issues like
advantage my own group at the race in higher education & all
expense of another. What I want you9re really saying is: I9m a really
is fairness.= rich guy, I9ve got access to com-
A master of making public munications technology and I9ve
companies bend to his vision, got no shame.=
Ackman is translating his Wall In 2012, Ackman took on the
Street tactics to attack the ideol- biggest activist campaign of his
ogy of DEI, which generally as- career against the supplement
serts that including underrepre- maker Herbalife. He argued it
sented groups benefits compa- was a massive pyramid scheme
nies. Ackman says those efforts that preyed on working-class
have in practice become discrimi- strivers. Herbalife disputed the
natory and claims even martin claims.
Luther King Jr. would have op- The dramatic strategy was
posed them. classic Ackman. In an hours-long,
He is creating a think tank, 342-slide presentation, he called
which he describes as a cross Herbalife <a criminal enterprise=
between a research center for his and its CEo <a predator.= He told
curiosities and an incubator of shareholders that his $1 billion
solutions, underpinned by a phi- bet against the company9s stock
losophy he defines as: <Look, I price, known in investing circles
don9t like when people get as a <short,= would be a <death
screwed.= He says he will pursue blow.= He funded Latino activists
his crusade against <discrimina- who had filed a class-action suit
tion in all forms . . . to the ends of against the company and prom-
this earth,= echoing a line from ised any profits would go to chari-
his infamous six-year battle with ty. With his signature odds-be-
the supplement company Herbal- damned confidence, he an-
ife. He communicates with his 1.2 nounced that Herbalife would be
million followers on X 4 a plat- shut down immediately, repeat-
form he rarely used before the ing the claim as if he could will it
pandemic 4 in thousand-plus- into happening.
word screeds written from the It didn9t.
cNBc/NBcU PhOtO BANk/NBcUNIvERsAl/gEtty ImAgEs
elliptical, Ubers and his private Though federal authorities
jet. He wants everyone to know CNBC9s Jim Cramer moderates a panel with Nelson Peltz of Trian Fun Management and Bill ackman. an infamous six-year battle with the charged the company with decep-
that his most popular recent X supplement company Herbalife made ackman a star of CNBC and finance publications. tive practices and bribery, Wall
post has 36 million views. (<Pretty Street was never on Ackman9s
f-----g huge,= he says. <How many side. Icahn, who, like Ackman, is
subscribers does the Washington
Post have?=)
Despite his intention to end
the DEI industry, he has yet to
Billionaire is part of a wave of business Jewish, propped up the compa-
ny9s stock, publicly scolding Ack-
man on CNBC for being a <little
Jewish boy crying= in a school-
speak to someone who works in
the field.
Ackman9s evolution mirrors
many elites who, like the hedge
leaders attacking diversity initiatives yard.
Ackman ended his short bet
against Herbalife in 2018. Natu-
rally, he still believes he is <100
fund manager, see themselves as percent right.=
moderates and not culture war- a self-appointed 8Mr. Fix It9 almost as often as they were right. cruited to lead Canadian Pacific insist Ackman9s campaign In retrospect, he says it was a
riors. Ackman, whose high school He possessed <Golf Channel com- Kansas City, a large railway oper- against DEI is free of cynicism or <mistake= to tie his campaign
The group includes Elon musk, yearbook tagline was <most ver- mentator= good looks and a near- ator. Though wary of corporate ulterior motive. <He9s a very prin- against the supplement maker to
who says he voted for Democrats bose,= has never shied away from blinding emotional attachment raiders, Creel grew to respect cipled person,= Creel said. <He9s a a short sale 4 a lesson he is taking
including Barack obama, Hillary a fight. Close friends in his up- to his investments, sometimes Ackman, who parachuted in from guy who thinks that if the right to his current crusade against
Clinton and President Biden, but scale Chappaqua, N.Y., hometown getting weepy during sharehold- New York in 2012, unafraid to thing isn9t being done, he is going DEI. He said he promised himself
now surrounds himself with a and later Harvard would tease er presentations, according to Liz take on a lazy board that Creel to do it whether it makes people that if he ever took on another
right-wing cohort online and re- him about his persistence and Hoffman9s <Crash Landing: The said was <run like a country club.= uncomfortable or not.= campaign that ambitious, it
cently declared <Diversity Equity competitiveness. Inside Story of How the World9s Even in the brash world of Paul Barrett, deputy director of wouldn9t be bound to money.
and Inclusion= to be <propaganda <Whether it was a Scrabble Biggest Companies Survived an finance, these tactics have rubbed the Stern Center for Business and <Because a rich guy was going
words.= In a recent memo, ven- match or a tennis game, if Bill Economy on the Brink.= many the wrong way. former Human rights at New York Uni- to make a profit & it made people
ture capitalist marc Andreessen lost, you were getting a rematch His reputation for impulsivity Starbucks CEo Howard Schultz versity, attended Harvard with question the credibility of our
named his <enemies= as <ESG,= because Bill is not going to end extended to his support of Book- once called Ackman <despicable,= Ackman in the mid-1980s. While work,= he said.
<social responsibility,= <sustain- the day on a loss,= said a good er. Ackman teared up the first accusing him of leaking company Ackman9s singular determination The Herbalife fight made Ack-
ability,= <socialism,= and <anti- friend from Harvard, who spoke time he heard Booker, then the information to push out the CEo makes sense in the cutthroat man a star of CNBC and finance
greatness.= And Lululemon on the condition of anonymity to mayor of Newark, speak. He soon of JCPenny, a member of the world of Wall Street, Barrett said, publications. But soon he would
founder Chip Wilson, in an inter- avoid associating with Ackman9s promised tens of millions of dol- Starbucks board. Longtime rival it is inappropriate when the tar- take his voice to a larger and very
view last month, said he didn9t fight against DEI. one time she lars to the struggling majority- Carl Icahn, the activist hedge get is the first Black leader of the different stage: Twitter, now X.
care for the <whole diversity and purposefully threw a contest to be Black city, which he9d visited only fund manager, called Ackman the most prominent educational in- Until 2020, Ackman had just
inclusion thing,= arguing that ads able to go home to sleep. a few times. (Booker, who is still most sanctimonious person he stitution in America. 30,000 followers on the platform
showing models with various Ackman, who is worth about close friends with Ackman, de- ever met. A rival investor said <When he is bullying a compa- and had tweeted fewer than two
body types can send the $4.2 billion according to forbes, clined to be interviewed.) he9d <rather hang out with drug ny that he has bought stock in, at dozen times.
wrong message. (<You9ve got to be could be just as relentless for <once he decides what9s right dealers and prostitutes= than least he owns a piece of that But that february, he became
clear that you don9t want certain causes he cared about. He volun- & he doesn9t back down,= said Ackman. company,= Barrett said. <But increasingly anxious about re-
customers coming in,= said Wil- teered as a peer counselor for Keith Creel, whom Ackman re- But Creel and other friends when you go out into the broader ports of a mysterious virus
son.) room 13, Harvard9s mental emerging from China. He discov-
Ackman <has this weird reso- health crisis line, taking calls in ered that the platform was full of
nance, because people are like 4 the 7 p.m.-7 a.m. shift. <Bill has scientists and epidemiologists
he is basically right 4 even if no always been mr. fix It,= said the sharing their views. messaging
one in a real position of power friend, with a <streak of wanting with experts on the platform, he
will say it out loud,= said Sam to fix problems.= became convinced that the virus
Lessin, a former facebook execu- friends say Ackman gets his was about to surge. Ackman pan-
tive who recently ran for a seat on outspoken nature in part from his icked, moving his family and his
Harvard9s alumni Board of over- father, Larry, a real estate execu- elderly parents to his mansion in
seers with support from meta tive. Stephen fraidin, a family the Hamptons.
CEo mark Zuckerberg and op- friend and Yale Law professor, He also saw an opportunity for
poses DEI. said Larry Ackman broke up the a hedge. The market was at an
<If you have experienced and genteel tenor of PTA meetings all-time high, ignoring the im-
understand what excellence real- with comments that were <about pending risk of a major global
ly looks like, then you know that four times more aggressive= than catastrophe. In an emergency
for America9s future & we need the norm. Before Larry died in meeting, Ackman instructed his
excellence,= he added. 2022, his last letter to his son was investing team to buy large
Investor mark Cuban, a strong about the dangers of rising anti- swaths of low-cost financial prod-
DEI supporter, argues that the semitism. ucts 4 known as credit-default
investor class has become newly fraidin, who later drew up the swaps 4 insurance against the
emboldened to attack the move- paperwork for Ackman9s first market failing.
ment, in part because of X, for- hedge fund, remembers him as a <We basically made 2.7 billion
merly Twitter. They are <falling precocious teen whose overflow- in two weeks, from Twitter. And I
into the anti-woke echo cham- ing opinions animated hour-long wasn9t even paying for my sub-
ber,= he said. <Twitter is the glue car rides to NYC for weekend scription,= Ackman said, winking.
that unites them.= enrichment classes. Two years later, when the Per-
Some DEI experts agree that This self-appointed mr. fix It shing Square foundation invest-
certain diversity initiatives have tendency became the hallmark of ed $10 million in musk9s bid to
had a chilling effect on public Ackman9s career. In the mid- buy Twitter, Ackman joked it was
debate. There are many <institu- 1990s, he took a large stake in the a token to repay the billions he
RIchARD DREw/AP
tions where it is impossible to say troubled real estate company that made on the prescient trade.
certain things, and the world is owned rockefeller Center and Though federal authorities charged Herbalife with deceptive practices and bribery, Wall Street In the meantime, Ackman was
divided into oppressor and op- grew frustrated with mismanage- was never on ackman9s side: Carl Icahn propped up the company9s stock. hooked. Not only was the plat-
pressed,= said ralph richard ment. <I watched [the other board form <a powerful research tool,=
Banks, director of the Center for members] make mistake after he said, it was in some ways a
racial Justice at Stanford Law mistake after mistake,= he said. more potent form of communica-
School. Eventually he brought on part- tion than television and share-
But Banks disagrees with crit- ners to buy the company outright. holder letters. He issued covid
ics like Ackman who <think the <That was probably the first warnings. He criticized Biden
solution is to eliminate the entire moment that I realized that, as a and U.S. foreign policy. He sup-
industry,= arguing the outcome shareholder, I could do this better ported Kyle rittenhouse, the 17-
would be a grave setback to limit- than the guy running the compa- year-old who was acquitted after
ed racial progress. <[Ackman] is ny,= he said. killing two protesters at a Black
well-intentioned, but & he can As an activist investor, Ackman Lives matter rally in 2020. (rit-
re-create the same us-vs.-them would take a sizable position in tenhouse is <a civic-minded patri-
dynamics that are the root of so companies, then force changes to ot= who acted in <self-defense,=
many of these problems.= make them more profitable. He Ackman concluded, after watch-
Ackman waves off critics who founded Pershing Square Capital ing hours of testimony one night).
dismiss him and like-minded ti- management, deploying obses- He said vaccine skeptic robert f.
tans as wealthy White men cling- sive research, a nose for under- Kennedy raised <important is-
ing to power. And he rejects the performing stocks and blitzkriegs sues about vaccines.= He started
idea that anyone should judge of loud shareholder letters to to critique ESG.
him by his new right-wing bedfel- push out leaders of more than a Privately, friends worried that
lows. He says that robust debate, dozen companies. Hugely profit- the Twitterverse, and its algorith-
even with people with whom he able turnarounds at food giant mic boosting of right-leaning
vehemently disagrees, is exact- Wendy9s, mall operator General opinions that accelerated in the
ly what society is currently lack- Growth Properties and rail opera- wake of musk9s 2022 acquisition,
ing 4 the very point of his cru- tor Canadian Pacific have helped was having a blinding effect.
sade. make him one of the most promi- Ackman says it has opened up a
If he has a megaphone, he nent hedge fund investors on ORjAN F. EllINgvAg/cORBIs/gEtty ImAgEs world of possibility.
argues, it9s only because people Wall Street. ackman executed a hugely profitable turnaround at mall operator General Growth Properties, <It just sort of leads you to
want to hear what he has to say. Still, his bold bets were wrong owner of Fulton Market. different people over time,= Ack-
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became, and the more ignorant I

realized I had been about DEI, a
powerful movement that has not
only pervaded Harvard, but the
educational system at large,= he
wrote.
Harvard spokesman Jason
Newton told The Post that staff
from the university9s Office of
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and
Belonging can serve on search
committees but <have no authori-
ty= over hiring decisions. He had
no further comment on Ackman9s
crusade. Gay did not respond to a
comment request. A person in-
volved in the presidential search
process, who spoke on the condi-
tion of anonymity to describe it,
said that Ackman9s actions were
<destructive, racist, and repre-
hensible= and that DEI-criteria
had no influence on the hiring
process.
Some of Ackman9s friends and
former classmates have mixed
feelings about his Harvard cru-
sade. They worry his use of X has
caused him to fall in with a group
acting in bad faith. The seemingly
self-satisfied and strident perso-
na he displays on X, satirized
recently by the writer Kurt An-
dersen as <dark-comedy hybrid of
8Succession9 and a Nabokov nov-
el,= doesn9t reflect the loyal friend
who can laugh at himself and will
consider different views, they say.
But others praise what they
argue is a political conversion.
<He9s a guy who has gone through
something of an intellectual
transformation: I don9t know if
he quite recognizes it in himself,=
said Ramaswamy, who recently
dropped out of the Republican
presidential campaign. <The
thing about him is he is very
Josh reynoLds for the wAshInGton Post
receptive to the best arguments,
even if it9s very different from
what he used to believe 4 and
man says. <There9s a whole group that9s a good thing.=
of people who are kind of in deep Ackman, alongside Musk, re-
on this stuff.= cently debated investor Cuban,
By Oct. 7, when news broke that who chastised the men for push-
Hamas had attacked Israel, Ack- ing away diverse talent. (<The loss
man9s followers were ready to of DEI-phobic companies is my
listen. gain,= Cuban said). But Ackman
later spoke privately to Cuban
8What has Harvard become?9 and concluded there is more com-
Ackman says he had never mon ground than difference be-
given much thought to diversity tween them. <Like me, he believes
initiatives until this past fall. He9s in diversity with a lowercase d,=
long been interested in how racial Ackman said, noting he is op-
groups scramble into elite clubs, posed to <DEI= as a <political
writing his Harvard thesis about movement.=
the experience of Asians and Jews Cuban said the conversation
trying to get into the Ivy League. was <very respectful= but that X9s
Though he credits much of the <echo chamber= was <far more
success of his eight-person invest- intoxicating for someone like Bill
ment team 4 which is majority than being on CNBC.=
non-White 4 to its diversity, he Stanford9s Banks says the com-
rejected a proposal for diversity plaints over DEI reflect growing
training at his own company. pains as American institutions
(The team currently has no Black try to become more equal. While
people and one woman.) He rec- researchers have found that di-
ognizes discrimination as a per- verse companies perform better
sistent problem, noting that his financially, DEI consulting is a
father was told as a recent gradu- relatively new industry whose ef-
ate not to apply to Chase bank ficacy is still largely unproven.
because he wouldn9t <make much When conservatives come to
progress= as a Jew. So when Clau- Stanford and complain, <If we9re
dine Gay was named Harvard9s being honest, we9d say, you know,
first Black president over the it9s even worse than you think,=
summer, he was <happy= for Banks adds.
someone other than a White man But he and other DEI experts
to lead the school. say critics like Rufo and Ackman
And Ackman was looking for- don9t represent the entirety of the
Andrew LIChtensteIn/CorbIs/Getty ImAGes
ward to new leadership for other industry. <There is good DEI and
reasons. Despite giving about $50 TOP: After Hamas9s attack, more than two dozen Harvard groups circulated a letter charging the Israeli <apartheid regime= with bad DEI. But what these people
million to Harvard over the last 15 being <entirely responsible.= ABOVE: Then-Harvard President Claudine Gay attends a menorah lighting ceremony in December. are doing is saying, let9s scrap the
years, private tensions had bal- whole thing, and that9s clearly an
looned between Ackman and the close to her, who spoke on the when I started learning about the continued, this is spurred by a you promptly terminate Presi- overcorrection,= Banks said.
university. He says Harvard used condition of anonymity to de- whole DEI thing. Then I started DEI movement that <delineates dent Kornbluth, I promise I won9t <It9s a false claim: that DEI is
a 2017 donation in a way that scribe sensitive conversations, doing a deeper dive.= the world into an oppressor/op- write you a letter.= about flipping the power struc-
violated his specifications, some- described Ackman9s phone call as Ackman9s deep dive involved a pressed framework,= with Jews On Dec. 10, Rufo messaged tures,= said DEI consultant Lily
thing he did not speak about <verbally abusive.= Ackman said lot of learning from X. He began identified as White oppressors, Ackman about an investigation Zheng, noting the reverse racism
publicly at the time. the call was <polite and respect- to read posts by conservative ac- an argument that parrots Rufo9s he was about to publish involving is a <carbon [copy] of arguments
In the days following Hamas9s ful.=) tivist Christopher Rufo and by book. <Do you agree with this plagiarism allegations he had un- against affirmative action from
attack, before Israel9s invasion of <The letter,= a massive 3,138- Aaron Sibarium, an investigative explanation?= he asked his fol- earthed about Gay. Sibarium, a the 970s.=
Gaza, more than two dozen cam- word tweet he also sent to Har- reporter with the right-leaning lowers. Yale graduate, wrote that Gay had But Ackman isn9t stopping. For
pus groups circulated a letter vard, was written in the style of Washington Free Beacon. Rufo, a Four days later, Gay sparked <paraphrased or quoted almost everyone who has called him a
charging the Israeli <apartheid his strident shareholder missives. senior fellow at the right-leaning outrage alongside two other uni- 20 authors without proper attri- racist, he says, there are more
regime= with being <entirely re- He demanded that Harvard think tank the Manhattan Insti- versity presidents, Liz Magill of bution,= and Rufo had inter- people who have thanked him
sponsible for all unfolding vio- release the names of the students tute, has led a high-profile charge the University of Pennsylvania viewed a scholar, Carol Swain, privately. He keeps a stack of
lence.= The letter did not ac- whose groups had signed the against critical race theory, an and Sally Kornbluth of MIT, dur- who accused Gay of plagiarizing thank you letters on his desk to
knowledge the loss of life in the protest letter to block them from academic concept that posits ing a widely criticized hearing on her work. Ackman reposted Rufo, prove it. (He reads from the let-
surprise attack that killed 1,200. Wall Street jobs. structural racism is built into Capitol Hill. Asked whether calls Sibarium and other conservative ters randomly, including one
<What has Harvard become?= <One should not be able to hide American institutions. The idea for the genocide of Jews would activists throughout December, from a doctor and another from a
Ackman asked himself, seething behind a corporate shield when underpins DEI programs and an- violate the school9s hate speech sometimes six times a day. university president). He says he
in disbelief. issuing statements supporting ti-racism seminars, which Rufo policy, Gay answered <it depends By then, Ackman9s own posts is aware of the weight of history
As protests erupted on cam- the actions of terrorists,= he de- argues often label White people on the context.= were being boosted by a business in targeting the first Black Har-
pus, Ackman, whose wife is Is- clared. as oppressors, leading to reverse Ackman went ballistic. Since leader with the biggest mega- vard president, but it doesn9t
raeli, joined a group of outraged Internet sleuths heeded Ack- discrimination. Boosted by last Oct. 7, his X feed had become a phone on the platform: Musk. much matter to him. <I9m an
donors from Silicon Valley and man9s call and published the stu- year9s Supreme Court ruling over- steady stream of Israeli hostage <#DefundHarvard,= wrote Musk, equal-opportunity criticizer,= he
Wall Street to complain. dents9 names. One group blasted turning affirmative action in col- stories, videos of antisemitic inci- who has more than 140 times says.
<I called my friends on the them on the side of <doxing lege admissions, Rufo9s argu- dents on campuses and criticism Ackman9s following, in one of He plans to give more money to
board, and I9m like, I want to trucks= that drove around cam- ments have spurred GOP leaders of Harvard. The day of the hear- several replies to the business- Jewish causes 4 in the past, he
help,= Ackman said. <This thing is pus. Ackman says he mostly op- to ban teaching critical race theo- ing, he tweeted 23 times. man9s posts. said he didn9t think Jews needed
heading for a train wreck. I said, poses doxing but that <students ry in nine states. <She has to go now,= he said of On Jan. 2, Gay resigned from it.
I9d love to sit down with Claudine. should be accountable for their Ackman read Rufo9s book, Gay. The university president got Harvard. It was <distressing to Though he isn9t sure what his
I9d love to sit down with the public statements.= <America9s Cultural Revolution: the same treatment Ackman had have doubt cast on my commit- think tank will do, he says it will
board. Let9s work on this togeth- A few weeks after the attacks, How the Radical Left Conquered dealt so many corporate chiefs 4 ments to confronting hate and to hire the very best people 4 Wall
er. You know I care about the Ackman flew to Boston, meeting Everything,= and messaged with a relentless public crusade 4 only upholding scholarly rigor,= she Street analysts, journalists, aca-
institution.= with professors, a law school and him online. His first X post about this time, he marshaled a giant wrote in her resignation letter, demics 4 to go deep on problems
Ackman was put in touch with a business school class, and hold- DEI was a comment on a video army on X. noting she9d been subjected to <where people have been taken
board chair Penny Pritzker, a ing a listening session for more clip of Amanda Seales, a Black A Wall Street man, he tracked <threats fueled by racial animus.= advantage of,= including <vaccine
phone call he describes as <one of than 200 students. He says the comedian, who argued it was his bets as if watching a stock Ackman posted his own more- safety= and <Why is DEI not
the most disappointing conversa- students shared stories about an- wrong to present Hamas <as this ticker. <One down,= he said when than-5,000-word letter that day, working.= Once they understand
tions I9ve had in my life.= tisemitic incidents that they9d ex- big bad wolf.= news of Magill9s impending resig- too, so long it hit the character the reason for the problems, they
Ackman says he told Pritzker perienced and described a lack of <Is this incredible ignorance, nation broke on Dec. 7. limit for paying users. In it, he will propose solutions, such as a
that he had no choice but to share concern from the administration. conscious avoidance of the truth, <I give this a 95% probability,= reiterated a claim that he had new company or a political cam-
his concerns publicly. Ackman left the meetings dis- or racism?= Ackman posted. He he posted eight minutes later. insider information that the Har- paign.
<Then I literally hung up the heartened and perplexed. <The noted that <a large proportion of <Oddsmakers are now at 99%= vard presidential search commit- <Is there a policy fix? Is shining
phone, sat down on my computer, problem was much worse than I the Hamas supporters & are he wrote the following day. tee had purposefully excluded a spotlight on it going to fix it?= he
and typed Harvard Letter Num- thought,= he said. <So I called members of the black community Then he was on to MIT. <To the candidates who didn9t come from asks, and smiles, half-serious. <Or
ber One,= Ackman says. (Pritzker people on the faculty who I knew and/or other people of color.= MIT governing boards,= he wrote a marginalized group. <The more is this something Bill can handle
declined to comment. A person would confide in me. And that9s <Some have argued,= Ackman on Dec. 10. <Let9s make a deal. If I learned, the more concerned I with a tweet or two?=

Ackman is <a very principled person. He9s a guy who thinks that if the right thing isn9t being done,
he is going to do it whether it makes people uncomfortable or not.=
Keith Creel, whom Ackman recruited to lead Canadian Pacific Kansas City, a large railway operator
A12 eZ Re the washington post . sunday, february 11 , 2024

An unusual drive
to save a vestige
of the country life
LOudOuN from A1 Wheatland, summed up objec-
tions to gravel roads succinctly,
Loudoun goes beyond most oth- calling them relics of a <horse-
ers: put all of the roughly 250 and-buggy era.=
miles of gravel roads that mean- <They are neither quaint nor
der across the county on the charming,= Kauffman told the
National register of Historic supervisors. <They are bone-rat-
Places. tling, teeth-jarring, dangerous,
Loudoun9s system of unpaved dusty nuisances.=
roads is one of the largest in
Virginia 4 surprising given that A secret piece of history
the network is less than 50 miles The Toyota 4runner bumped
from the nation9s capital, and down gravel roads past cows and
that the eastern part of the coun- the azure pastels the Blue ridge
ty is home to a major airport, a mountains set against the sky
metro line and a burgeoning tech near Philomont, Va., a village
hub that features tracts of data settled in the 19th century by
centers. Quakers where residents still go
The county has been among to the general store to send their
the nation9s fastest-growing for mail.
decades 4 its population has Jane Covington asked the
shot up sevenfold since 1980 to driver to pull over just past a
more than 430,000 4 and pres- wheelbarrow-red barn with
ervationists see the plan as a vines creeping up the side and a
last-ditch effort to save the van- faded American flag mounted
Bonnie Jo MounT/The WashingTon PosT
ishing vestiges of rustic life from over its gaping door.
being swallowed by the burbs. Covington, a historic preser-
Supporters say the lanes evoke vationist working with America9s ABOVE: A truck on a gravel
Loudoun9s rural soul, history and routes, popped out and swept road in November. One resident
charm. Detractors see a quixotic her arm toward a muddy ford the says of gravel roads, <They are
quest to thwart the most basic of color of chocolate milk that sub- bone-rattling, teeth-jarring,
steps into modernity. They com- merged Philomont road. Cica- dangerous, dusty nuisances.=
plain of rattling rides to work das thrummed in the surround- LEFT: The historic home Green
and Starbucks that sometimes ing trees. Garden in Loudoun County.
feel like sitting in the seat of a <This is the way they went,= Some homes in the county were
tractor. Covington said. built before the American
The battle has grown unusual- There is no plaque commemo- Revolution.
ly fierce, so much so that Lou- rating the spot, no visitor center BELOW: A gravel road next to
doun County Supervisor Caleb or audio tour, but a pivotal 4 if farmland.
Kershner refers to it as the <road little-known 4 moment in the BOTTOM: Cochran and his
wars.= Similar fights have played Civil War played out here. border collies herd sheep to a
out in other localities across the The forces of Confederate different pasture.
country as the movement to pre- Gen. Jeb Stuart skirmished with
serve unpaved roads has gained Union troops across Beaverdam
traction in recent decades. ford on Nov. 1, 1862, part of a
<You have the old versus the series of desperate attempts to
new,= said Kershner, who grew stave off a bold plan hatched by
up on a gravel road in frederick Abraham Lincoln to decisively
County, md. <Some people want end the Civil War.
that way of life. Some people Lincoln saw an opportunity to
don9t. & It kind of pits neighbor- capture the Confederate capital
hoods against each other.= of richmond, while Southern
forces were out of position and
A living museum beleaguered after the Battle of
A network of roads is an atypi- Antietam, so he ordered the U.S.
cal pick for the National Park Army to march south.
Service9s register, which includes Confederate commander rob-
Abraham Lincoln9s home and the ert E. Lee recognized the peril Unpaved roads in Loudoun County on whether to grant the designa- to washing out. She9s had two flat
Statue of Liberty. Supporters say and had Stuart launch nettling tion would follow. tires driving into work, and it9s
Loudoun9s roads belong there attacks over a number of days. A spot on the register would treacherous for visitors.
because they span the sweep of They held up the Union regi- have major implications for the <We get complaints from cus-
American history. ments long enough that Lee protection of the roads and po- tomers,= Huber said. <A lot of
They envision a one-of-a-kind could maneuver his forces to tentially Loudoun9s growth. If people think we are in control of
<living museum= that unfolds block the union advance. Lin- VIRGINIA the roads are listed, any project the road. They ask us: 8Why
around each bend, whether by coln9s plan failed, he fired his top WEST to pave or alter them that in- haven9t you paved your road?9=
foot, bike, horse or car. Some of general in frustration, and the VIRGINIA volves federal money (and many The Virginia Department of
the earliest roads 4 which pre- war raged on for two more years. LOUDOUN do) would trigger a review. Transportation launched a pilot
date the founding of the country Beaverdam ford remains COUNTY The review would require fed- project about six years ago that
4 follow Native American trails. largely unchanged since that day MARYLAND
eral officials to solicit input put a layer of concrete beneath
A young George Washington tra- 161 years ago. about a project from the public, the gravel to stabilize the road 4
versed others as a surveyor; en- Covington, who is studying Purcellville local government and other in- a sort of middle ground between
slaved people built the fieldstone the twists and turns of Loudoun9s Leesburg terested parties. If the project is paving and not paving.
walls that line some. Armies gravel roads, said that is the found to have an adverse impact Huber said that it has per-
RT. 7
clashed on them during the Civil magic of these routes 4 to see RT. 267
on the road, officials would have formed well and that extending
War. history much as those who lived to explore alternative plans or it would be a happy medium to
many roads still follow their it would have seen it. But she US RT. 15 Ashburn ways to mitigate the damage. improve safety and keep some of
original routes, worn deep into says those chances are fading. Ultimately, they could opt to the aesthetics of unpaved roads.
hillsides and hollows over the Nearly half of Loudoun9s un- Sterling pave a road. But many preservationists aren9t
creeping years. They pass tower- paved roads have been paved Currently, the process for de- convinced that9s the answer.
ing <witness trees,= old oaks and since the 1960s, according to Dulles ciding which gravel roads get Supervisor Kershner, whose
other species that have stood Virginia Department of Trans- Int'l Airport paved is less formal, a complaint Catoctin District is home to
through much of the nation9s life. portation data. of many in the county. many gravel roads, said that he
This bucolic oasis forms a kind of In 2020, a group called Preser- In recent years, supervisors would have to study the historic
recreational trail system for resi- vation Virginia placed Loudoun9s have often placed roads on a list preservation plan more closely
dents and draws tourists and gravel roads on a list of the most 5 MILES
for paving after lobbying by resi- before taking a position on it, but
cyclists who are a boon to Lou- endangered historic sites in the © OpenStreetMap contrib dents that live along them. In that it9s likely the county will
doun9s economy. state. some cases, developers have of- have to forge some compromise
A spot on the register would <We9re coming to a tipping fered money to help defray the in the polarizing debate over
not bar paving outright, but it point countywide on develop- cost of improving roads that whether to pave.
would add hurdles that would ment,= Covington said. <It9s a connect to new neighborhoods, He said he9s looking at making
make it more difficult. little bit at a time, a little, a little, incentivizing paving. the paving decision more objec-
The plan, spearheaded by a and then there9s a point of no tive by creating a scoring system
group called America9s routes, is return.= Some see an unsustainable that takes into account safety,
also a bid to hold on to some- system traffic volume, historical value
thing intangible 4 a kind of life A bid for preservation many say preserving the and other factors. He thinks that
that has all but disappeared in Native Americans blazed Lou- whole system of gravel roads is many gravel roads should be
the pressure cooker of the na- doun9s first routes. Colonists laid incompatible with the emerging saved but that others will need to
tion9s capital. others in the first half of the 18th Loudoun. be modernized.
<It9s a way to slow things down century to connect the frontier to Lacey Huber, vice president of Back on the sheep drive, Coch-
a little bit,= Emily Houston, who more populated areas of the col- Stone Tower Winery in Leesburg, ran and his border collies pushed
is part of the group, said of the onies. Waves of Quakers, Ger- said that she9d love to see many the flock off his farm and into an
gravel roads. <You get to know mans and descendants of British gravel roads preserved, but that adjacent neighborhood of newer
your neighbors. The road is the colonists staked out more routes the unpaved stretch of Hogback mcmansions, where the sheep
center of your community in a over the next 200 years. mountain road that leads to her scampered across well-mani-
way. Everybody is out walking The spiderweb of lanes demar- tasting room is steep and prone cured lawns and driveways with
their dog or riding their horses. cate grants by Lord fairfax, basketball hoops.
one of your neighbors is driving whose family was given a vast A startled resident pulled out
by and you stop for a chat.= tract of what is now Virginia by her cellphone and recorded the
But where some see character, the British crown. They were also surreal juxtaposition of rustic
others see a dirty track, as rutted routes to get grain from mills and suburban that is contempo-
as an old washboard, that grows that once dotted the countryside rary Loudoun.
less appealing with each flat tire to then-new ports like George- <Thanks for this afternoon9s
and trip to the carwash. many town, Alexandria and Baltimore. entertainment!= the woman
recent transplants are drawn by Comparing today9s system with shouted and waved.
tidy subdivisions of new homes an 1853 map shows that many Eventually, the pavement gave
that have sprouted on former remain intact. way again outside the neighbor-
farmland and are more afford- Preservation advocates hood. The sheep ambled around
able than those in D.C.9s inner- cleared a hurdle in 2020 when a bend on foundry road, and it
ring suburbs. They say that the the Virginia Department of His- was as if they had passed
gravel roads can9t safely handle toric resources declared Lou- through a time portal.
the increasing volume of traffic, doun9s back roads potentially eli- on one side of the road, a
and that preserving them could gible for listing on the Virginia stone house built around 1749 by
choke development. Landmarks register and the Na- Quakers Jacob and Hannah Jan-
The fight between these com- tional register of Historic Plac- ney still stood, now appropriate-
peting visions erupted at a Board es. ly named <Time9s End.= The
of Supervisors meeting in Sep- Covington has now embarked sheep scattered into the green
tember, where residents clashed on the painstaking process of pastures on the other side. Coch-
for over an hour over paving a documenting the history and sig- ran looked across the old hollow.
handful of roads 4 including just nificance of the roads and will <The landscape, the topogra-
300 feet of one. one road was submit documents to state and phy, the architecture looks exact-
ultimately taken off the list, and then federal officials for review ly like it did then,= Cochran said.
the decision on others was punt- and a final decision on listing. <If Jacob and Hannah were
ed to this year. She expects to finish those pack- standing up on that hill, they
Barbara Kauffman, who lives ages over the next year or so. would know whose house they
off an unpaved road named old Public hearings and a decision were looking at.=
sunday, february 11 , 2024 . the washington post eZ re A13

Republicans risk becoming the face of surrendering Ukraine to Russia, Putin

Sen. Sheldon joined 47 Democrats in voting for Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), a
@PKCapitol Whitehouse (D- a $40 billion security-and- leadership ally elected in 2022.
Paul Kane R.I.) on Tuesday humanitarian aid package for Some Republicans doubt the
grew despondent Zelensky, with just 11 dire predictions that, if the U.S.
at the idea of Republicans voting no. funding dried up, Russia could
leading a delegation to the On Thursday, just 17 Senate crush the smaller nation.
upcoming Munich Security Republicans, barely a third of <I don9t think Russia has the
Conference as Congress had yet their conference, voted with 50 capability to roll through and
to approve additional money to members of the Democratic take all of Ukraine, much less
help back Ukraine9s war against caucus to move forward on hold it. Before we got aid to
Russia. debate on the national security Ukraine [in 2022], the Russians
Whitehouse summed up his measure. On, Friday one more couldn9t do that,= Sen. Marco
feelings in one word: <Crappy.= Republican voted yes on a Rubio (R-Fla.), the top
By Thursday, however, the tide procedural motion to advance Republican on the Senate
had shifted and a bipartisan the bill. Intelligence Committee, said
collection of 67 senators voted to Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), one Thursday. <I think what it does
open debate on a $95 billion of those voting yes, warned that do is force a negotiated
security measure, with almost his fellow Republicans needed to settlement much more favorable
two-thirds of that directed remain strong in their support to Putin, because he9ll feel
toward Ukraine. A final vote for Ukraine or else their party emboldened and stronger.=
could come by midweek, just as will become the face of surrender Other Republicans say that is
roughly 30 senators are slated to to Putin. naive.
head to Europe. Over the next few days the <There are pivotal times in our
Yes, the deal could still fall debate would end one of two nation9s history when what we
apart in the Senate and its ways, Tillis said. <A sufficient do in this chamber really
prospects in the increasingly number [vote yes] to send it to matters,= Sen. Susan Collins (R-
nativist House remain up in the the House, or Republicans Maine), who co-wrote much of
air, but Whitehouse practically ultimately owning the message the security package, said in a
riCky CarioTi/The WashingTon PosT
had a bounce in his step after from the U.S. Senate that there9s floor speech. <How we vote may
that vote. not enough of us to support Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said that the Senate will be playing into Russian President Vladimir Putin9s well determine whether people
<We may be less empty- Ukraine aid.= hands if it doesn9t take up a measure to provide support for Ukraine before its recess. live or whether they die; whether
handed, TBD,= he said. This Senate debate comes just men and women live under the
The annual security after the European Union problems worse,= Graham told Later Thursday, he got into a that every single day for the last dictates of an authoritarian
conference has long served as an reached a unanimous deal reporters. heated Senate floor debate with two years, but also for the 50- regime or as free people in a
annual show of cross-Atlantic among all 27 member nations to For several years Graham has Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), some countries that are also part democratic nation.=
unity, providing each party9s send $54 billion to shore up served as the co-host of who helped lead the border of this coalition.= Tillis, a member of the Armed
internationalist wing a chance to Ukraine9s government services, Whitehouse9s group, dubbed the proposal negotiations. Graham Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said Services Committee, said
tout its vision of U.S. leadership. providing a rejoinder to far-right <McCain delegation,= in honor of mocked Sinema9s group for a he expects to hear the same Russia9s long-term plan has been
Last year9s security conference critics in Congress who regularly the late Sen. John S. McCain (R- <half-assed effort= at reaching a question from European to wear down American support
saw record-high numbers of U.S. say the E.U. doesn9t provide Ariz.), a legendary presence who border compromise, without counterparts next weekend: for the war and unravel
lawmakers there to show unity enough support for its own used his last several trips to acknowledging that he and his <Can we count on you?= international backing for
against Russian President security. Munich to reassure allies that staff played regular roles in the But those GOP voices are Zelensky.
Vladimir Putin, telling their Many of the 31 GOP opponents Donald Trump9s world view had talks. increasingly drowned out by the <Us leaving here with the
European allies not to worry in the Senate do not want to not taken hold in Washington. Then he held up a large newcomers, such as Sen. J.D. Senate failing to take this up, is
about those vocal Republicans provide funds for Ukraine under On Tuesday, Graham was poster-board with a social media Vance (R-Ohio), who won in exactly what Putin hopes
who were opposed to additional any circumstances, while some ready to strip the contentious post from Polish Prime Minister 2022 after he refashioned happens this weekend,= he said.
funding to Kyiv. said they would only vote to do border provisions and just pass Donald Tusk, who suggested himself from Trump critic to all- <And I9m going to do everything I
<I think there9s been way too so if President Biden accepted the funds to defend Ukraine, Ronald Reagan would be in MAGA theorist. can to prevent it.=
much attention given to a very their exact prescription for Israel and Taiwan. <No matter <turning in his grave= over the Vance plans to deliver that All of this could end up
few people who seem not to be shoring up the U.S.-Mexico how you feel about the border, attitudes of today9s Republicans. blunt message when he goes to nowhere in a very conservative
invested in Ukraine9s success,= border9s migrant crisis. the problems of Ukraine, if not <Shame on you. To the prime his first Munich conference. House, where GOP leaders move
Senate Minority Leader Mitch Some Republicans gave managed well, will make every minister of Poland, I could care <First of all, this war is in your in lockstep with Trump. But
McConnell (R-Ky.) said last conflicting statements that problem we have at home worse,= less what you think,= Graham direct backyard,= he said, Whitehouse remained optimistic
February before heading to served as political head-spinners. he said. shouted. followed by accusing Europeans that Senate leaders were working
Munich. On Tuesday, as a bigger Yet two days later, he reversed This is exactly the opposite of <turning NATO effectively into to include measures that some
But those <very few people= security package fell apart his position, voted against message that Tillis, Whitehouse a welfare client of the United House Republicans want and
grew their ranks, and for the past because of partisan divisions moving to debate the Ukraine- and others want to bring to States.= hopeful that an even larger vote
four months they have bottled up over border rules, Sen. Lindsey Israel-Taiwan package and Munich. Of the 17 Republicans who could come within a few days of
efforts by the Biden Graham (R-S.C.) stuck by his joined the ranks of MAGA <There are people in Ukraine took office after Trump won the the Senate9s final passage of the
administration and traditional long-held view of wanting to senators who want to close the right now in the height of their presidency, just two voted to security measure.
security hawks in Congress to defeat Putin at all costs. border. winter, in trenches, being advance the Ukraine-centered That would make for a much
replenish Ukraine President <If we fail on the border, we <I enthusiastically support bombed and being killed,= Tillis security package: Sen. Mitt more enjoyable trip across the
Volodymyr Zelensky9s weaponry. put our country at risk. There9s Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel, but said. <The signal from the United Romney (R-Utah), who, at 76, Atlantic Ocean.
The bleeding of political no use letting the world fall as I have been saying for months States about whether or not had already served as a governor <I think the Munich Security
support has all come from one apart, because Putin winning in now, we must protect America we9re going to be there is not and his party9s 2012 presidential Conference delegation won9t
side of the aisle. Ukraine doesn9t solve any of our first,= Graham said in an official only important to the morale of nominee before joining the have loads of egg on its face,=
In May 2022, 39 GOP senators problems. It makes all of our statement. those warfighters that are doing Senate five years ago; and Sen. Whitehouse said.

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Much unease in blue states as Supreme Court weighs the Trump ballot case
BY K ARIN B RULLIARD, cessful, attempts to remove U.S.
A RI S CHNEIDER Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene
AND J OANNA S LATER (R-Ga.) and Madison Cawthorn
(R-N.C.) from each state9s 2022
BoUlDER, Colo. 4 Professor ballot under the 14th Amend-
Douglas Spencer began his ment. (The provision was used
Thursday afternoon class at the successfully that same year to
University of Colorado Law pull a New Mexico county com-
School by reading a text message missioner from the ballot for his
he had just received from his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on
13-year-old daughter. the U.S. Capitol.)
Only a few hours earlier, the This spring, the professor will
U.S. Supreme Court had heard walk his students through the
oral arguments in the case that questions at the heart of the
will decide whether Donald Colorado case. Arguments
Trump is eligible to appear on the against applying the 14th Amend-
Colorado ballot in November. ment are <rooted in squeamish-
One of the critical legal questions ness= about the politics of dis-
is whether Section 3 of the 14th qualifying Trump and worries
Amendment bars someone who about undermining the demo-
previously took an oath to sup- cratic process, Bloomberg said.
port the Constitution as <an offi- He disagrees.
cer of the United States= from <It9s anti-democratic in the
returning to office if they engaged same way that we don9t allow
in insurrection. 34-year-olds to be president and I
The message from Spencer9s can9t vote for Barack Obama for a
daughter asked whether he third term,= he said. <It9s a rule
thought Trump had been an offi- about eligibility.=
cer or a holder of office. Yes, he In Boulder, Spencer9s election-
texted back. <That9s what I law class spent nearly 90 minutes
thought,= she replied. <I don9t Thursday parsing the amend-
understand law that much, but ment9s crucial wording.
even I was like, bruh.= Section 3, which he describes
His 70 students 4 five rows of as <not arcane, but just old,= was
them sitting shoulder to shoulder the first topic he brought up when
4 burst out laughing. It was a this semester began in January.
rare moment of levity for a dis- He had assigned background
cussion of complexity and im- reading, and he spent the initial
MelInA MARA/the wAShIngton PoSt
mense import. class discussing a Colorado trial
Until this year, Spencer had The door of the Colorado Supreme Court building in Denver. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case that will court9s finding that Trump had
never taught Section 3. But it is decide whether Donald Trump is eligible to appear on the Colorado ballot in November. engaged in insurrection, the vari-
now a centerpiece of his election ous elements of the constitution-
law syllabus as the high court Weber, a Democrat, said in an national level.= nation9s highest office, Rodriguez cial philosophy, legal precedent, al provision 4 whether an 1868
weighs the case that will shape interview. Yet the court on Thursday said, <creates this feeling of, 8Can I or rule of law,= Menefee said. dictionary might provide a rel-
the race for president, either by Unease over the novel question seemed to foreclose such a bleak even trust the system?9= Even so, he said he believes the evant definition of <insurrection,=
allowing Trump to remain on 4 whether a Reconstruction-era scenario. Stewart listened to the In places like Harris County, Constitution unequivocally bars for example 4 and the legal strat-
state ballots or by derailing his provision barring those who have two hours of arguments and was Tex., the huge, politically blue Trump from running. <Ruling an egies of the briefs in the case
candidacy months before the <engaged in insurrection= from struck by the justices9 near-uni- jurisdiction that includes Hous- insurrectionist ineligible is not before the Supreme Court.
vote. holding office applies to Trump 4 form skepticism. On a scale of one ton, some officials say the damage disenfranchising voters,= he said. Second-year student Django
In a divided nation, the pro- was reflected at the U.S. Supreme to 10, he said, they were at 11. already has been done. <It9s doing exactly what the 14th Bonderman and third-year stu-
found implications of the justices9 Court on Thursday, as both liberal <This is Spinal Tap level,= he Christian Menefee, a Democrat Amendment requires.= dent Jenn Chalifoux-Gene were
pending ruling have sparked de- and conservative justices seemed said. <They9re clearly very, very elected as the county9s top attor- The widely divergent views both surprised on Thursday that
bate and qualms among election highly dubious while questioning skeptical.= ney, has fought state attempts to have been a boon to constitution- the justices hardly touched on the
scholars, legal experts, activists attorneys for the state of Colora- Shanique Rodriguez, who interfere with how it runs elec- and election-law scholars, deliv- question of whether Trump en-
and students of all political do and the Republican and inde- works to improve voter turnout tions. He doesn9t doubt that Lt. ering an urgent, real-world teach- gaged in insurrection. <That
shades. But nowhere may the pendent voters who brought the as executive director of the Mas- Gov. Dan Patrick, a Republican, able moment on a single sentence makes me think they already
tensions be deeper than in blue case there. sachusetts Voter Table, views the would follow through on his that until recently merited only a knew how they wanted to rule on
states and jurisdictions that have <Why should a single state have intense focus on the 14th Amend- threat to try to remove President quick mention or none at all. it and are now just figuring out
firmly rejected Trump in past the ability to make this determi- ment as a real-time civics lesson Biden from the Texas ballot if the <There9s almost no way [the exactly how they9ll get there,=
votes but now wrestle with nation [of who gets to be presi- and the legal tussles over Trump9s Supreme Court sides with the justices] can rule on it that won9t Bonderman said.
whether democracy is better dent] not only for their own candidacy as a healthy sign of Colorado plaintiffs. And he have significant consequences, Chalifoux-Gene isn9t sure
served by punishing him for his citizens but for the rest of the engagement with democracy. doesn9t expect that a ruling one way or the other,= said Scott which outcome is right as far as
efforts to overturn the 2020 elec- nation?= asked Justice Elena Ka- At the same time, she said, she against Trump 4 even by a con- Bloomberg, a University of Maine the law is concerned, but she isn9t
tion results or letting voters de- gan. is concerned that efforts to re- servative-majority court 4 would law professor. satisfied with how the high court
cide his fate this fall. The issues involved have move him from ballots only deep- sway the former president9s deep- Bloomberg normally spends approached the case9s broader
The disagreement has been drawn even more scrutiny of elec- en doubts about the reliability of red base. the second half of his constitu- issues.
mirrored in decisions by courts tion rules, which in recent years elections 4 doubts Trump has <Dan Patrick and the people tional law class focused on the <At what point does an ineligi-
and election officials in some of have faced an onslaught of chal- fueled since his loss in 2020. Talk who follow that form of MAGA 14th Amendment 4 particularly ble candidate get kicked off the
those blue states. Colorado9s Su- lenges and changes. of barring a candidate from the extremism don9t care about judi- its first section, which granted ballot?= she said. <Does it ever
preme Court and Maine9s secre- That <endless battle over the citizenship to formerly enslaved happen? Is the constitutional
tary of state disqualified Trump, rules of the game= worries people and enacted revolutionary provision superfluous? I don9t
while the Minnesota Supreme Charles Stewart, a political scien- due-process and equal rights pro- feel confident that the outcome
Court and California Secretary of tist at the Massachusetts Institute <At what point does an ineligible candidate get tections. For years, the third sec- we get will actually answer those
State Shirley Weber did not. of Technology. He has feared that tion was more of a historical questions.=
<We didn9t have the authority the unprecedented step of bar- kicked off the ballot? Does it ever happen?= oddity.
to just go in and take somebody ring Trump from office would That changed two years ago at Slater reported from williamstown,
Jenn Chalifoux-Gene,
off the ballot. You can9t sit around ignite violence and lead to Repub- students9 request. Bloomberg Mass. Reis thebault in los Angeles,
third-year student at the University of Colorado law School
and talk about somebody else lican reprisals against Democrat- brought in a guest speaker, attor- Molly hennessy-Fiske in houston and
who was cavalier with the law and ic candidates, setting off <a death ney Ron Fein, who was involved danielle Paquette in washington
then become cavalier yourself,= spiral of electoral politics at the in pathbreaking, though unsuc- contributed to this report

How a ghostwriter was ensnared in the Biden classified documents probe

BY A NUMITA K AUR Zwonitzer for an interview and
for records of his work ghost-
President Biden trusted the writing two of Biden9s memoirs,
ghostwriter behind his two the report stated. Zwonitzer
memoirs so much that <at least handed over near-verbatim tran-
three times= he read aloud to him scripts and some audio record-
passages from journals contain- ings, but when reviewing the
ing classified details of Obama- documents, investigators no-
era deliberations, according to a ticed that there were some tran-
special counsel report released scripts with no corresponding
Thursday. audio, according to the report.
Federal investigators last year Zwonitzer9s attorneys told au-
sought the recordings author thorities that before the FBI
Mark Zwonitzer produced dur- contacted the writer, he had
ing his meetings with Biden deleted some recordings of his
around 2016, while they worked conversations with Biden.
together on Biden9s second mem- The ghostwriter then turned
oir. But upon learning of the over his computer and hard
special counsel9s probe in 2023, drive, and consented to a search.
Zwonitzer deleted the audio The FBI was able to recover the
files, according to the lengthy deleted files from a subfolder on
report concerning Biden9s han- the external hard drive labeled
dling of classified documents <audio.=
after leaving the Obama White <We considered whether to
House. charge the ghostwriter with ob-
Zwonitzer, who did not re- struction of justice, but we be-
spond to requests for comment lieve the evidence would be in-
left by phone and email, told sufficient to obtain a conviction
investigators he deleted the files and therefore declined to pros-
as a routine practice to preserve ecute him,= Hur wrote, adding
his client9s privacy. Special coun- that Zwonitzer offered <plausi-
sel Robert K. Hur considered ble, innocent= reasons for his
charges against the writer but actions. <While the ghostwriter
ultimately decided there wasn9t admitted that he deleted the
enough evidence to prove he recordings after he learned of the
intentionally tried to obstruct special counsel9s investigation,
justice. the evidence falls short of prov-
Hur also did not recommend ing beyond a reasonable doubt
charges against Biden on Thurs- that he intended to impede an
day, concluding that the presi- RIChARd Shotwell/InvISIon/AP investigation.
dent had carelessly handled clas- From left, Mark Samels, Edward T. O9Donnell, Nell Irvin Painter and Mark Zwonitzer in Pasadena, Calif., in 2018. President Biden shared Zwonitzer said that when he
sified materials but that the with Zwonitzer passages from journals containing classified details of Obama-era deliberations, a special counsel report says. deleted the recordings, he didn9t
evidence of intent was thin. think they contained classified
Among Hur9s findings was The two men have shared a close Dad.= copies of the notes <so that he after Biden9s aides said they dis- information and he didn9t expect
that Biden had <willfully re- relationship for more than a Zwonitzer became more of a didn9t have to go to [the National covered classified materials when the investigation to involve him,
tained and disclosed classified decade. friend to Biden than political Archives] every day to help write they searched the president9s according to the report. When he
materials to his ghost writer Biden had long been a fan of ghostwriter, Politico reported in this book,= the report stated. home in Delaware and office in deleted the files after learning of
(Zwonitzer) after his vice presi- Richard Ben Cramer9s widely 2021, going as far as referring to Zwonitzer recalled Biden D.C. According to the report, after the probe, investigators had not
dency.= Zwonitzer never held a praised book <What It Takes,= him as the president9s <secret mentioning the need to be care- learning of the special counsel9s yet contacted him, the report
security clearance, and Biden which chronicles the 1988 presi- muse.= ful with the notes due to their appointment, Zwonitzer deleted stated.
knew this, the report added. But dential campaign. So when he The 345-page special counsel possibly classified nature. Mean- his audio recordings of conversa- <I simply took the audio files
Hur said the evidence <does not sought help with his memoir in report released Thursday details while, Biden would also <read his tions with Biden during the proc- subfolder from both the G drive
establish Mr. Biden9s guilt be- 2006, Biden turned to Zwonitzer how Biden saved notebooks from notes from classified meetings to ess of writing <Promise Me, Dad,= and my laptop and slid them into
yond a reasonable doubt.= 4 Cramer9s researcher and his vice presidency and routinely Zwonitzer nearly word-for- which was published in 2017. the trash,= he told investigators,
Biden said at a news confer- <right-hand man.= As the Obama shared the contents with word,= the report stated. <The recordings had signifi- according to the report.
ence Thursday that he did not administration ended, Biden Zwonitzer to aid the memoir- In January 2023, Attorney cant evidentiary value,= Hur
share classified information again tapped Zwonitzer to write writing process. According to a General Merrick Garland ap- wrote in the report. Perry Stein and devlin Barrett
while working with Zwonitzer. his second memoir, <Promise Me, staffer, Biden wanted to take pointed Hur as special counsel FBI agents contacted contributed to this report.
sunday, february 11 , 2024 . the washington post eZ re A15

Tourniquets. Live-shooter drills. Election o>ces get ready.

eLeCtion from A1 elections than President Trump.= letters containing white powdery <mules= had illegally stuffed
Election officials had similar substances 4 some initially them with fraudulent ballots to
ciated with political unrest fears in the days leading up to the thought to be fentanyl. help Biden.
abroad than American elections. 2022 midterm elections, after <We have never done that This time, Pinal officials are
In a year when republicans Trump and his supporters had before,= Dannels said. <It9s a sad boosting internet capacity to
appear on track to nominate for spent two years threatening to state.= stream live footage of the boxes
president Donald Trump, who flood polls and counting stations Across Arizona, officials said online in the hopes it discourag-
continues to deny the results of with partisan watchers and oth- that protecting the integrity of es armed citizens from showing
the last election and is already erwise suggesting they might not the election and the safety of poll up to monitor them.
casting doubt on the integrity of accept the results. In the end, the workers starts with better edu- The county is also preparing to
this one, election officials are election largely went off without cating voters and countering expand the use of GPS devices to
going on offense more than ever a hitch 4 even a personal call false information. track the movements of batches
to try to keep election workers from Trump for protesters to In maricopa, home to Phoenix of ballots and voting equipment.
safe, educate voters on how the show up in Detroit on Election and most of the state9s voters, The tracking system, first tested
voting and counting processes Day had no effect 4 offering county officials have given more during the midterms, was devel-
work, debunk misinformation some hope about the resilience of than 200 tours of the ballot- oped in response to false claims
and hold accountable those who American democracy. counting facility, taking people that emerged in 2020 about vot-
try to disrupt the democratic Still, election officials say they step-by-step through the vote- ing security, including one in-
process. are taking no chances this year, counting process. The county volving a rumor that a school bus
ronda churchill/reuters
They are amping up advertis- particularly with Trump himself attorney9s office added another filled with voting equipment had
ing budgets, increasing training on track to be back on the ballot. Carter Umphress, 18, and Judy Bowen, 79, check in at the polls lawyer to help handle election- been abandoned in a desert
for election workers, learning They say they are willing to try during the presidential primary election last week in Las Vegas. related work, including respond- town. (The bus was carrying
how best to quickly correct false almost anything to counter the ing to efforts to try to obstruct office equipment and had not
information and bolstering coor- mounting efforts to undermine the process. The office was pre- official in maricopa, the state9s voting. been abandoned.)
dination with federal, state and trust in America9s elections. pared for inaccurate information most populous county. There, The county9s GoP-led govern- <We knew that it was just
local law enforcement to better In Colorado, the executive to spread in English and Spanish Trump supporters surrounded ing board plans to operate an rumor and trying to evoke some
respond to threats and harass- board of the county clerks associ- months before the 2024 cycle one of his colleagues outside a emergency communications cen- kind of emotion 4 a negative one
ment. ation sent a letter to elected was upon it. building where ballots were be- ter modeled after systems used at that,= said the county recorder,
The scale of the undertaking officials across the state begging When false claims began tak- ing processed. The colleague had to respond during natural disas- Dana Lewis (r). <But not being
reflects the magnitude of the them to vouch for the integrity of ing hold that Trump would not to be yanked from the angry ters so it can quickly and effi- able to disprove it was very
challenge. After years of Trump9s elections and stand against <dis- appear on Nevada9s february crowd by a sheriff 9s deputy. ciently manage the flow of infor- frustrating.=
relentless attacks on the election honest actors, grifters, and bul- presidential primary ballot be- fontes and others are finding mation, a top official familiar officials are also working to
system, fewer than a third of lies, who deserve only our dis- cause his team forgot to file ways to blunt the harassment with the plans said. In 2020, step up punishments for those
republicans see Biden9s 2020 dain and contempt.= The Decem- paperwork, Aguilar9s office reit- some election workers face. county leaders assigned two em- who seek to undermine elec-
victory as legitimate. many vot- ber letter provided talking points erated to voters in both languag- Those include possibly register- ployees to handle election-relat- tions.
ers who believe that the vote was for officials to share when asked es that Trump and other GoP ing employees9 home addresses ed inquiries from the public. This Arizona Attorney General Kris
rigged cite as evidence a series of about the voting process and candidates had instead chosen to with law enforcement in case year, seven employees are dedi- mayes (D) obtained felony in-
claims that have been repeatedly stated: <Now is the time for participate in a GoP-sanctioned they are targeted by prank calls cated to those inquiries, and dictments late last year against
debunked. New conspiracy theo- courage, not cowardice.= caucus. The office has also hired to emergency services designed county leaders are working on two GoP supervisors in Cochise
ries sprout almost daily, some In michigan, local election three new investigators to probe to draw a police response, a plans to assign as many as 26 County who delayed their gov-
tracing their origins to authen- workers have been trained on allegations of voter fraud, threats harassment tactic known as additional staff to the center. erning board9s acceptance of
tic-looking AI-generated videos. how to de-escalate situations, against election workers and swatting. And as part of an effort The county tested an emergen- midterm election results. The
All the while, election workers and state officials are setting up a other election-related claims. to quickly counter disinforma- cy communications center dur- supervisors have pleaded not
face harassment and threats. texting program so workers can Nowhere is the aggressive pos- tion and misinformation, fontes ing the 2022 midterm election. guilty and have cast the case as
officials say they are realistic quickly contact their bosses and ture more obvious than in politi- is teaching officials and the pub- Those assigned to the center set politically motivated. mayes is
about how much they can do to law enforcement if they are in cal battleground states that de- lic how to spot fake videos and expectations for the public about also investigating republican
counter those trends. danger 4 an idea already imple- cided the last presidential elec- photos generated by artificial the length of time it would take electors who falsely portrayed
<We are never going to get the mented in Georgia. tion and endured attempts to intelligence. to count ballots, as well as de- Trump as the state9s winner in
true believers or the people who <We have to be very mindful of overturn the results. many work- In addition to those statewide bunking volumes of deceptive 2020.
are running the grift,= said matt & not exacerbating a threat be- ers who were on the front lines of efforts, local leaders are making information in both English and That probe could soon net
Crane, a former elections officer yond what it actually is because running the 2020 and 2022 elec- their own plans. In the days Spanish. This year, the county is long-expected indictments, a
who is now the executive direc- we know part of the goal of tions left their jobs because of around the election, the Phoenix- testing technology that would person familiar with the status of
tor of the Colorado County threatening our election officials the hostile environment. Those area sheriff 9s office will intensify embed digital information in on- the investigation said. mayes has
Clerks Association, which advo- is to scare not just them, but our who remain are taking a more surveillance of the county9s bal- line video and photos that would retooled a unit once exclusively
cates for local election officials. voters,= said michigan Secretary proactive approach this year in lot tabulation headquarters by allow the public to distinguish devoted to probing claims of
<Jesus Christ could come and say, of State Jocelyn Benson (D). hopes of a more peaceful process. horseback, drones and other between official government in- election fraud 4 some false 4 to
8No, you9re wrong.9 And these <We9ve been very intentional This is especially true in Ari- methods. In Cochise County, a formation and deepfakes, a per- instead focus on threats against
people would tell Jesus, 8You9re about creating plans to deter, to zona. conservative rural area in south- son familiar with the planning election workers, voting rights
crazy.9= de-escalate and to protect, and When Trump and his support- ern Arizona, officials are plan- said. and ballot access.
A Trump campaign spokesper- also then to let everyone know ers tried to reverse Biden9s 2020 ning to train election workers Pinal County, a conservative She told The Post that her
son responded to this high level none of this is going to deter us victory, Arizona was one of their how to recognize exposure to area that borders metro Phoenix, office <will not tolerate any ef-
of preparation by saying in a from our jobs.= top targets. officials weathered fentanyl, and how to administer was overwhelmed during the forts to undermine our democra-
statement: <Election integrity is In Nevada, Secretary of State death threats and harassment as the overdose-reversal drug, Nar- midterm election by requests for cy.
one of the bedrocks of democra- Cisco Aguilar (D) is regularly they defended the election proc- can, said Sheriff mark Dannels recorded video of ballot drop
cy, and there9s nobody who is a meeting with pastors and neigh- ess and the results it yielded. In (r). Late last year, election offic- boxes, the steel boxes that were Patrick Marley and emily Guskin
bigger defender of free and fair borhood groups to build trust in 2020, fontes was a top election es around the nation received central to the false storyline that contributed to this report.

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The World
BY L ILY K UO AND L YRIC L I

TaiPEi, Taiwan 4 Governments

across East Asia 4 from China
and Taiwan to Japan and South
Korea 4 have been trying to per-
suade women to have more ba-
bies. It9s getting existential: China
is fast running out of the workers
needed to power its manufactur-
ing-focused economy and is fore-
cast to lose as many as 200 million
workers 4 or the entire working
population of the United States 4
by 2050.
Their efforts are failing. Birth-
rates continue to fall. But some
are hoping for a baby boom, or
even a baby boomlet, in the year
ahead as Saturday marked the
start of a Lunar New Year and the
dawn of the Year of the Dragon.
According to Chinese astrology
4 a nearly two-millennia-old sys-
tem with believers casual and fer-
vent across Asia and in Chinese
communities around the world 4
the dragon is the most auspicious
zodiac animal.
As the only mythical creature
of the 12 animals in the Chinese
zodiac, it is considered divine and
powerful. Many believe children
born in the Year of the Dragon are
more likely to be successful and
fortunate all their lives.
Under the system, which as-
signs traits to each animal, some
years are less popular, like that of
the tiger (too fierce), the goat (too
timid) or the snake (seen as ma-
nipulative and cunning). The Year
of the Golden Pig, which has a
decades-long cycle, has also led to
baby booms. Golden Pigs are said
to have lifelong comfort and
wealth.
But no year is as sought after as
the dragon, associated with intel- aFrIadI hIkMal/nurPhoto/getty IMages

ligence, confidence and ambition.

Couples opt for in vitro fertiliza-
tion or schedule Caesarean deliv-
eries to ensure their children are
born in time 4 or even ask doctors
Asia needs a baby boom. Many want boomlet. Postpartum-care nanny
Teresa Tan, whose company
works in Singapore and Malaysia,
said she is booked through Sep-
to delay deliveries. School class
sizes surge during dragon years,
often requiring extra cohorts.
Even heads of state weigh in.
the Year of the Dragon to bring one. tember, with an increase in book-
ings of about 40 percent com-
pared to last year. <There9s defi-
nitely been an impact.=
On Friday, Singaporean Prime With China9s economy in need of workers, officials hope celebrated zodiac period yields a birthrate spike Cathy Tsai, an adviser at Infan-
Minister Lee Hsien Loong urged cix, a postpartum-care center in
citizens to <add a 8little dragon9= to Taipei, Taiwan, said that over the
their families. past few months, clients have
The superstition is not entirely been booking rooms as soon as
baseless. According to a 2019 they are seven or eight weeks
study using data from China, pregnant. Most years, mothers
those born during a dragon year wait until about 12 weeks to book.
were more likely to score higher Mak Ling-ling, a well-known
on university entrance exams and fortune teller in Hong Kong, said
to have a college education. Girls she has also gotten more inqui-
in the cohort studied were also ries, including some from female
more likely to be taller. celebrities she would not name,
But the reason, the study con- about having children this year.
cluded, had nothing to do with the <Everyone is a little rushed try-
cosmos. It was the extra time and ing to have a dragon baby,= she
money that parents spend on said. <The zodiac still has a big
those children. influence on Chinese people9s
<People think that these dragon birthrates, but the issue now is
kids are special and they want to that the economy is bad.=
have special kids, and when they Even more than the zodiac, the
have these kids, they invest in economy is likely the main factor
them and expect great things in affecting the birthrate. Without
from them. And this makes them major improvements in China9s
successful, and the cycle contin- slowing economy or major over-
ues,= said Naci Mocan, a professor hauls, birthrates probably won9t
of economics at Louisiana State improve dramatically.
University and one of the authors <Research suggests that zodiac
of the study. <That9s why this has birth timing tends to affect when
been going on for centuries and rather than how many children
generations.= families eventually have, and
In China, where the Lunar New hence may not help to solve the
Year is the most important annual problem of low fertility,= said Poh
holiday, authorities are hoping Lin Tan, a senior research fellow
this age-old belief will produce a at the Lee Kuan Yew School of
needed spike in births. Hospitals Public Policy at the National Uni-
across China have been sending versity of Singapore, referring to
out timetables and tips instruct- studies done in Hong Kong.
ing couples when to conceive to Huang, the demographer in
have a dragon baby. Beijing, said Chinese policymak-
<Hurry up and seize these few ers have not been ambitious
an MIng/FeatureChIna/aP
months to prepare for a baby enough. <There are no major in-
scientifically,= read one notice centives at the national level, and
from the Huantai Maternity and TOP: Members of the dren. births by about 1 million, to ac- she expected in the past year giv- local governments are relying on
Child Healthcare Hospital in <Shenlung Jakarta,= also In 2023, new births fell for a count for a total of 10 million for en the state of the Chinese econo- small sums of money to provide
Shandong province. known as the Dragon Gods seventh year in a row, to 9.02 the year. (Birthrates have seen my. One couple9s goal was to have subsidies, which is no use at all,=
Zhai Zhenwu, an adviser to the dance group, practice in million 4 about half of what it spikes in previous dragon years, three dragon children. They did he said.
National Health and Family Plan- Jakarta, Indonesia, on was in 2017. At this rate, China9s by almost 300,000 in 2000 and in vitro fertilization and will have Still, age-old beliefs are hard to
ning Commission, told the Chi- Thursday ahead of population of 1.4 billion is expect- 900,000 in 2012, according to Mo- triplets in August. shake. Han Yu, an economist at
nese outlet Times Finance in Jan- Lunar New Year celebrations. ed to decrease to just over half a can9s study.) But she attributes most of the the University of Memphis in Ten-
uary that the <very clear= astro- ABOVE: A nurse takes care of billion by 2100. One clue is an uptick in mar- demand to the pandemic having nessee who worked on the 2019
logical preferences of Chinese cit- newborn babies in a maternity <The belief that the Year of the riages, a trend researchers have forced many to put their lives on study linking parents9 expecta-
izens meant there was <hope= for hospital in the Chinese Dragon brings good luck may seen before previous dragon hold. tions and the performance of
a higher fertility rate this year. province of Anhui in August help some,= said Huang Wen- years. During the first three quar- <A lot of people haven9t been dragon children, would also like
The world9s second-largest 2022. Birthrates are dropping zheng, a demographer and senior ters of 2023, the number of mar- able to get pregnant these three to have a child this lunar year.
economy is on the verge of a in China, bringing the world9s fellow of the Center for China and riages in China increased 4.5 per- years. With the health codes and He may be partial. He was also
population crisis caused by dec- second-largest economy to the Globalization in Beijing. <If the cent compared to the same period all the rules, it was just too much born in the Year of the Dragon and
ades of restricting family sizes. brink of a population crisis. government can think of more a year before and is expected to hassle,= she said, referring to Chi- remembers feeling a little special
Even as China loosened controls targeted ways to encourage fertil- reach 7 million for the year, up na9s strict <zero covid= restric- growing up. <I just feel it9s cool to
4 as of 2021, all married couples ity, it could make as much as a 0.01 from 6.8 million in 2022. tions that tracked residents9 have a dragon baby, especially if
are allowed to have three children percent difference in the fertility Sherry Yang, a consultant who health and whereabouts on their the father is a dragon,= he said.
4 and offered subsidies and in- rate,= he said. connects Chinese women to fertil- phones.
centives, younger generations are Both Huang and Mocan believe ity centers in Kazakhstan, says Elsewhere in Asia, countries regine Cabato in Manila contributed
eschewing marriage and chil- the dragon year could boost new she has gotten more queries than are expecting a dragon baby to this report.

Digest

HUNgARY in a televised message that she MYANMAR major, though tacit, admission Administration Council, came to said, when the Civil Guard craft
would step down from the that the army is struggling to power in 2021 after ousting the was tasked with identifying
President resigns presidency, an office she has held Government activates contain the nationwide armed elected civilian government of speedboats spotted in the
over outcry for pardon since 2022. Her decision came conscription law resistance against its rule. Aung San Suu Kyi. southern port of Barbate. Video
after public outrage when it was Under the 2010 People9s 4 Associated Press footage showed one speedboat
Hungary9s conservative revealed that she issued a Myanmar9s military Military Service Law, passed slamming into the patrol craft in
president resigned Saturday presidential pardon in April government on Saturday under a previous military Two Spanish police officers the port9s waters. The Civil
amid public outcry over a pardon 2023 to a man convicted of activated for the first time a government, men between the killed in boat crash: Two Guard said Saturday that it had
she granted to a man convicted hiding child sexual abuse in a decade-old conscription law that ages of 18 and 45 and women Spanish police officers were arrested eight suspects. Another
as an accomplice in a child state-run children9s home. makes young men and women between 18 and 35 can be drafted killed when a speedboat two officers were hurt, the Civil
sexual abuse case, a decision that <I issued a pardon that caused subject to at least two years of into the armed forces for two suspected of belonging to drug Guard said. Spain9s coast near
unleashed an unprecedented bewilderment and unrest for military service if called up, years, extendible to five years smugglers smashed into their the Strait of Gibraltar is a hot
political scandal for the long- many people,= Novak said on effective immediately. The during national emergencies. patrol craft, Spain9s Civil Guard spot for drug smuggling to
serving nationalist government. Saturday. <I made a mistake.= announcement of the measure The current ruling military said Saturday. The incident Europe.
Katalin Novak, 46, announced 4 Associated Press on state television amounts to a council, called the State occurred late on Friday, police 4 From news services
sunday, february 11 , 2024 . the washington post eZ su A17

Israeli drone strike

inside Lebanon targets
senior Hamas member
As Israel traded cross-border
fire with Hezbollah, it also ramped
IDF reports ûnding up strikes in Rafah in southern
tunnel running under Gaza, killing dozens in overnight
attacks that many there fear are a
U.N. compound in Gaza prelude to a deadlier Israeli
ground offensive.
Israeli Prime Minister Benja-
This article is by Loveday Morris, min Netanyahu said Friday that a
Hajar Harb, Kelsey Ables, <massive operation= was needed
Victoria Bisset and Cate Brown in Rafah to eradicate Hamas. He
said he ordered the Israel Defense
JERUSALEM 4 Israel launched a Forces to draw up a plan to remove
strike Saturday targeting a senior the civilian population from the
Hamas figure deep inside Leba- area, where more than 1 million
nese territory, an Israeli security people are now sheltering after
official said. The target, Hamas fleeing Israeli bombardment else-
recruiter Basel Saleh, survived the where in Gaza, according to the
attack, according to the official, United Nations.
who spoke on the condition of The rights group Amnesty In-
anonymity, but at least two others ternational said that if the remov-
were killed. al order is enacted, it <may
The strike, which Lebanese amount to the crime of forcible
state media said was carried out transfer.= U.N. and other humani-
by drone, hit a vehicle in the Leba- tarian officials warn that Palestin-
nese village of Jadra, about 40 ians crammed into Rafah have
miles north of the border with nowhere else to go.
ePa-eFe/shutterstock
Israel. Two people were killed, ac- <Forcing the over 1 million dis-
cording to Jadra9s mayor, Joseph placed Palestinians in Rafah to Lebanese soldiers stand near a wrecked car Saturday after an Israeli drone strike in Jadra, about 40 miles north of the border with Israel.
Azzi, who said the blast from the again evacuate without a safe
attack was caught by surveillance place to go would be unlawful and that passes beneath UNRWA9s ple countries, including the Unit- l CIA Director William J. Burns
cameras at a nearby gas station. would have catastrophic conse- main headquarters in Gaza City ed States, to suspend funding, is expected to travel to Cairo on
One of the fatalities was a member quences,= said Nadia Hardman, a and was used by Hamas. The mili- plunging the organization into Tuesday to continue negotiations
of Lebanon9s Hezbollah, the mili- refugee and migrant rights re- tary showed journalists from the crisis. over the proposed hostage release
tant group said in a statement. searcher at Human Rights Watch. Associated Press and other outlets deal, with U.S. officials hoping Is-
Saleh, who is responsible for If people are forced to flee what it said was an electrical sup- Other developments rael will respond to Hamas9s latest
Hamas recruitment in the occu- north, where there is widespread ply hub powering tunnel infra- l The body of Hind Rajab, the proposal, according to a senior
pied West Bank, was <injured to an destruction, they will end up re- structure in the area. 6-year-old missing for 12 days administration official who spoke
unknown extent= in the attack, the turning <to devastated areas that Hamas, which seized control of since losing touch with rescue on the condition of anonymity to
Israeli official said. He worked are littered with dangerous explo- Gaza in 2007, maintained a vast workers after her family car was discuss the sensitive talks. The
alongside Azzam al-Akra, a senior sive devices and are virtually unin- network of tunnels in the terri- fired on in Gaza, was found, the official said that Hamas9s propos-
member of Hamas9s armed wing, habitable,= Tjada D9Oyen McKen- tory, which it used to store and Palestine Red Crescent Society al, which it delivered to negotia-
who was killed in a suspected Is- na, chief executive of the aid group smuggle weapons and shield sen- said Saturday. The ambulance dis- tors earlier this week, has <real
raeli strike in Beirut in early Janu- Mercy Corps, said in a statement. ior leaders during conflicts with patched to reach her was also problems= but that the adminis-
ary, according to the official. Aid agencies are already strug- Israel. shelled and the two paramedics tration believes there is a broad
The attack on Saturday came as gling to address the sprawling hu- UNRWA9s commissioner gener- inside were killed. Hind, the sole enough framework in place to fa-
Iran9s foreign minister visited Bei- manitarian crisis in Gaza, which is al, Philippe Lazzarini, said Satur- survivor of the attack in Gaza City, cilitate an agreement.
FamIly Photo/aFP/getty Images
rut, meeting with top Lebanese now seeing <concerning rates of day in a statement that his agency reached emergency dispatchers l At least 28,064 people have
officials and Hezbollah leader acute malnutrition= among chil- was not aware of any tunnel infra- The body of 6-year-old Hind by phone on Jan. 29 and begged been killed and 67,611 injured in
Hasan Nasrallah. Tehran is a key dren, according to the U.N. Office structure under the compound, Rajab, who was missing for 12 for hours to be rescued. Gaza since the war began, accord-
ally and backer of Hezbollah, for the Coordination of Humani- which staff evacuated on Oct. 12, days after losing touch with l Moody9s downgraded Israel9s ing to the Gaza Health Ministry.
which has been engaged in low- tarian Affairs. and that Israel had not formally rescue workers, was found. credit rating Friday and changed Israel estimates that about 1,200
level conflict with Israel since the Israel has also taken aim at the notified UNRWA about the dis- its outlook for the country to nega- people were killed in Hamas9s Oct.
war in Gaza started on Oct. 7. main U.N. organization providing covery. The agency, he said, in- tive, citing the war with Hamas 7 attack.
Foreign Minister Hossein services in Gaza, the United Na- spects the grounds every quarter, about a dozen UNRWA employees and reflecting the ratings agency9s
Amir-Abdollahian warned Israel tions Relief and Works Agency for <but does not have the military of playing a role in the Hamas concern that the conflict could harb and Bisset reported from
against launching a broader war Palestine Refugees in the Near and security expertise nor the ca- attacks on Oct. 7 and shared some become a long-term economic london, ables from seoul, and Brown
in Lebanon. <Iran is against any East (UNRWA), which it says is pacity to undertake military in- of its findings with the United burden. Moody9s downgraded Is- from Washington. yasmeen abutaleb
expansion of the scope of war,= he open to exploitation by Hamas. spections of what is or might be States and other foreign govern- rael9s rating from A1 to A2, which in Washington, Frances Vinall in
said at a joint news conference On Saturday, the Israeli mili- under its premises.= ments that help fund the agency. is still in a category it considers melbourne and lior soroka in tel aviv
with his Lebanese counterpart. tary said it had uncovered a tunnel Last month, Israel accused The allegations prompted multi- <low credit risk.= contributed to this report.




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In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion faces a new challenge 4 ants
Conservancy in Kenya9s Laikipia affecting lions9 behavior.
County. In May 2018, researchers at-
Invasive insects are Acacia ants live in whistling tached GPS collars to six lions in
affecting the food chain thorn trees, which provide them the Ol Pejeta Conservancy. Using
nectar. In return, the ants protect computers, researchers then
in a Kenya conservancy the trees from predators 4 a sym- tracked the lions9 locations in the
biotic relationship. But after big- roughly 140-square-mile protect-
headed ants kill acacia ants and ed savanna.
BY K YLE M ELNICK eat their eggs, larvae and pupae, Lions usually moved fast, and
elephants are no longer warded sometimes in groups, when they
Lions have long stood atop the off and they can break down more were chasing prey. So when re-
food chain, but now a new enemy trees in those areas. Roughly 75 searchers saw a cluster of red
has forced the dominant carni- percent of the conservancy9s trees tracking points on their comput-
vores in Kenya to change their have vanished, Goheen said. ers 4 indicating that multiple
hunting strategies and diets. Another study published in lions were moving quickly
The threat? Ants that are small- May 2019 found that lions killed around the same area 4 they
er than a grain of rice. more zebras in areas of the Ol predicted that lions had hunted
The invasive insects that ar- Pejeta Conservancy that had prey there. Within a few days,
rived in Kenya in the early 2000s, more tree cover. Lions typically researchers drove to the area to
probably due to global shipping hunt zebras by hiding behind record which animal the lions
and international tourism, have trees and chasing them when they had killed and how much tree
caused an <ecological chain reac- approach. cover was nearby. They drove
tion,= according to researchers. Researchers from both studies with an armed security guard in
Big-headed ants kill native acacia worked together to try to connect case an animal attacked them,
ants, which protect trees from their findings to determine researcher Douglas Kamaru said.
elephants and other herbivores in whether the invasive ants were VicToria Zero Researchers continued that
Kenya 4 one of a few African routine for about two years, de-
nations with a sizable lion popu- termining that the six lions they
lation 4 by swarming into the were tracking had killed about
animals9 nostrils and biting when 140 animals. Roughly half of
they try to eat the trees9 leaves, those kills were zebras, which
branches and bark. lions were over two times more
As acacia ants have dwindled, likely to kill in areas with tree
elephants have been able to knock protection than in uncovered ar-
down and eat more whistling eas, the study said.
thorn trees. With fewer trees, li- Despite lions eating fewer ze-
ons have lost the cover they rely bras, researchers don9t expect the
on to stealthily attack zebras, vulnerable species9 population to
their primary prey. dwindle in the conservancy.
The study, which was pub- That9s because lions found a new
lished Jan. 25 in the journal Sci- food source: African buffalo.
ence, found that lions are less While zebras usually run away
likely to kill zebras in uncovered when they spot lions, buffalo of-
areas. They killed 25 percent few- ten fight back, making cover less
er zebras between 2003 and 2020, important before the hunt. Still,
the study said. buffalo aren9t lions9 first choice
<When you have invasive spe- for food, Goheen said. Killing a
cies, they can affect other species zebra takes one or two lions; kill-
that wouldn9t seem to have any- ing a buffalo takes between five
thing to do with the species inva- and 10, Goheen said.
sion in kind of weird, unpredict- As big-headed ants continue to
able ways 4 ways that are hidden, expand in the area, researchers
but very serious,= study co-author said other problems could
Jacob Goheen, a University of emerge. For example, endangered
Wyoming zoology professor, told black rhinos eat whistling thorn
The Washington Post. trees but could lose their food
The findings were a result of source, study co-author Corinna
years of research on animals and Riginos said.
insects in a nature conservancy in <The big-headed ant invasion
Kenya. A study from March 2015 is kind of changing everything,
found that whistling thorn trees, and it takes time for all these
which are native to East Africa dynamics to play out,= Riginos
Brandon Hays
and can grow about 18 feet tall, said. <We9ve already seen evi-
were suffering after big-headed TOP: Lions in Kenya9s Ol Pejeta Conservancy have changed their hunting habits in the past few decades, a study says. ABOVE: Elephants dence of big changes. What hap-
ants had invaded the Ol Pejeta navigate a landscape invaded by big-headed ants. Researchers say the invasive creatures have caused an <ecological chain reaction.= pens next?=

Tesla critic9s campaign returns young couple. <This caused many

tragic accidents when Autopilot
was enabled on roads where Tesla
knows it isn9t safe. Tesla must be

to Super Bowl with 2 new ads held accountable. Boycott Tesla to

keep your family safe.=
O9Dowd9s group said the ads
are airing in D.C., California, Dela-
BY F AIZ S IDDIQUI O9Dowd said he was compelled lence of crashes when its software ware and Michigan.
to bring awareness to the latest is activated. Musk took last year9s Super
A California tech entrepreneur issue with what he calls <the most <The people would have it Bowl attention in stride. <This
is paying more than half a million incompetent software I9ve ever banned if they only knew the will greatly increase public aware-
dollars for Super Bowl ads criti- seen= in part by The Post9s investi- truth, if they only understood ness that a Tesla can drive itself
cizing Tesla for not disabling its gation. O9Dowd founded Green what it would do,= O9Dowd said. (supervised for now)= he tweeted
Autopilot technology outside the Hills Software, which makes oper- <Well, that9s our job. The politi- about last year9s ad.
conditions for which it was de- ating systems for cars and planes. cians aren9t going to move until The company is facing con-
signed, a problem highlighted by <What possible reason is there the public moves.= cerns over stagnating revenue,
a Washington Post investigation that they don9t disable Autopilot The two ads highlight three mounting worries about its ca-
this past fall and later cited in a on roads that they say are not significant crashes alleged to have Jonas JungBluT for THe WasHingTon PosT pacity to deliver long-promised
recall of every Tesla equipped safe?= he asked of Tesla. involved Autopilot. In one, a 17- Dan O9Dowd founded the Dawn Project, which seeks a ban on <Full Self-Driving= technology,
with Autopilot, around 2 million Tesla and its chief executive, year-old was severely injured Tesla9s Autopilot technology. Its footage of the cars running over and Wall Street hand-wringing
vehicles. Elon Musk, did not respond to a when a Tesla struck him at 45 mph child-size mannequins previously led Tesla to issue a cease-and- over the persistent distraction of
It9s the second consecutive year request for comment. Musk9s fol- as he disembarked a school bus in desist letter. its mercurial CEO. It has shed
Tesla critic Dan O9Dowd has run lowers have accused O9Dowd of a North Carolina that had its stop billions in value, down more than
an ad campaign on television9s conflict of interest because one of sign out and warning lights flash- this year9s game shows the crash locations where it was not intend- 17 percent just in the past month.
biggest night. He leads the Dawn Green Hills Software9s customers ing. <Still Tesla does nothing,= the that killed a 50-year-old father in ed to be used. Musk has asked for a larger
Project, a group that has sought a is Mobileye, which develops driv- ad concludes. <Boycott Tesla to 2019 when his Tesla drove under a <Tesla dances away from liabili- stake in the company as a condi-
ban on Tesla9s driver-assistance er-assistance software. O9Dowd keep your kids safe.= semi-truck trailer and the mo- ty in Autopilot crashes by point- tion for <growing Tesla to be a
technology. The latest campaign says his motivation stems purely The ad makes reference to pri- ment a Tesla blew through a stop ing to a note buried deep in the leader in AI & robotics,= saying
is unequivocal: <Boycott Tesla,= it from concerns over Tesla9s tech. or Dawn Project videos depicting sign and blinking lights on a rural owner9s manual that says Auto- that without 25 percent control he
says, following footage of deadly Tesla maintains that its soft- the alleged failure of Teslas to Florida road as it barreled toward pilot is only safe on freeways,= the <would prefer to build products
and severe crashes involving its ware is intended to be used by a react to child-size mannequins in a parked vehicle and flung a commercial opens, pointing to outside of Tesla.= But investors
vehicles. One ad features footage fully attentive driver and argues the road 4 including last year9s young couple into the air, killing federal pleas to restrict it. have not given the idea a warm
of Teslas running over child-size that it is <morally indefensible not Super Bowl commercial, which one of them and leaving the other <Shockingly, Tesla refused,= the reception. In January, a Delaware
mannequins, depictions that to make these systems available to aired weeks before the North severely injured 4 footage first commercial continues, leading judge ruled that an unprecedent-
have previously led Tesla to issue a a wider set of consumers,= citing Carolina crash. published by The Post. In both into footage of the semi-truck ed $56 billion pay package award-
cease-and-desist letter. figures it says show a lower preva- The other ad set to air during cases, Autopilot was operating in crash and the crash involving the ed to him in 2018 was unfair.

HELP DESK

For fans placing online bets on the Super Bowl, here9s how to keep data safe
BY R IVAN S TINSON means knowing how to keep your names 4 especially ones you may ber of reviews. Next, if those num- an alias email address when sign- know your sportsbook helpline as
data and bank account safe. So see as advertisements during the bers seem reasonable and reviews ing up, such as the ones offered by well as its withdrawal policy on
Gambling and the Super Bowl let9s run through what you need to game 4 include DraftKings, don9t seem automated or fake, do Apple or Gmail. winnings and refunds. Double
go hand in hand like nachos and know about online sports gam- FanDuel and BetMGM. Other a quick search on Reddit, Trustpi- Do not link your bank ac- check how bonus bets and any
parties. bling 4 and remember to keep a sites you may come across are lot and the BBB for user issues. count: It sounds counterintuitive winnings attached are handled, as
Ahead of America9s biggest budget in mind. Caesars, PointsBet and BetRivers. Set up two-factor authentica- for a gambling website, but you well. Bonus offers cannot instant-
sports phenomenon of the year tion: Once you pick your sports- want to avoid linking your bank ly be withdrawn for the cash
Sunday, roughly 67.8 million How do sports betting apps What are the biggest risks? book, set up two-factor authenti- account directly. equivalent.
Americans are expected to make a work? These apps can be viewed as a cation, if applicable. Outside of Moody suggests using third- For example, DraftKings does
wager, according to new data Simple. Instead of going to a more valuable target for hackers setting up a strong password, 2FA party payment apps such as Apple not allow users to withdraw win-
from the American Gaming Asso- casino and placing a bet in person, because it9s a richer set of data allows you to verify your identity Pay, Google Pay, Venmo or PayPal nings to a different payment type.
ciation. The total estimated you deposit money via your bank that links back to your bank ac- through another method such as a to place your bets if the app al- Winnings are deposited via the
amount: $23.1 billion dollars, up account or another payment count, says Gregory Moody, pro- text message to your phone when lows. same method used to make the
from the $16 billion last year method into the app9s account. fessor of information systems at you log in from a new device. <The [third parties9] specialty is original bet.
when the Kansas City Chiefs faced From there, the world is your the University of Nevada at Las Sportsbooks offer this extra lay- payment transaction processing. Make sure you9re not forgetting
the Philadelphia Eagles. oyster on how much to wager and Vegas. er of protection, but it might be up They have a whole cyber team set any tax documents.
And betting is no longer just a which bets to place. If you9re going to use sites such to users to turn it on. To do so, go up to detect and deter these types Major wins from sports bets are
casino bookie setup in Las Vegas. But there is a caveat. Your cho- as DraftKings, FanDuel and oth- to your account settings in your of things,= Moody says. And their considered taxable income ac-
Online sports betting is legal in 29 sen app will verify your age when ers, it9s important to keep your preferred app and look for secu- goal is to not get hacked, other- cording to IRS Publication 525.
states and in D.C. Professional setting up your account. In most digital hygiene in mind. rity settings. wise people will stop using their Your chosen sportsbook may be
and casual bettors alike can turn states, you must be at least 21 to If you9re trying to protect your service, he adds. required to generate a Form W-2G
to their smartphones to download participate in legal sports gam- Tips to keep your betting safe privacy, scroll down to the data If you have to link your bank if your winnings meet the criteria.
an app and dream of winning bling. Use a reputable app: If you9re sharing section of your settings account, make sure your account Even if a form such as a W-2G is
parlays. The American Gaming new to online sports betting, and look for <do not sell or share has a strong password attached to not issued, your winnings are tax-
Association expects 11 percent of What are the major ones? searching Google Play or the my personal information= or a it and multifactor authentication; able income and should be report-
adults to place their wagers online A quick internet search of <on- Apple App store for a reputable variation of that phrase. You monitor your banking activity to ed to the IRS, says Eric Bronnenk-
this year. line sports betting= will bring up a option can be daunting. But there might have to search hard to find look for suspicious activity. ant, head of tax at Betterment, a
At the Help Desk, we try to help bevy of websites. Same for if are telltale signs that one app is it, though. You can also look for You also need to know who to digital investment advisory firm.
you make sense of the technology you9re searching on the Apple App better than another. privacy opt-out forms on the contact in case your winnings are
in your life. If you9re going to store or Google Play store. First, see if the app has a high sportsbook website via a desktop stuck in Ethernet limbo. Before Heather Kelly contributed to this
wager on the Super Bowl, that Some of the more popular number of users and a high num- computer or laptop. Finally, use casting your bet, make sure you report.
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Trump trial security could include fencing, closed streets

JAN. 6 from A1

prediction from the leading can-

didate for the republican presi-
dential nomination of <bedlam in
the country= if his criminal cases
damage his candidacy this year.
The planning will fortify a
courthouse on a famous stretch of
Pennsylvania Avenue NW be-
tween the White House and Capi-
tol transited by presidents for
inaugural parades and State of
the Union addresses 4 and by
angry supporters whom Trump
allegedly sent to keep Congress
from certifying Joe Biden9s elec-
toral victory on Jan. 6.
Changes could begin before it
is known whether or when the
Supreme Court will allow
Trump9s trial on charges of con-
spiring to overturn the 2020
presidential election to proceed,
one official said. But more con-
crete actions are likelier in the
weeks ahead of a confirmed trial
date. That date 4 originally
scheduled to be march 4 4 was
formally postponed this month as
an appeals court denied Trump9s
claim that he is immune from
prosecution for official actions
taken while president, and gave
him until monday to ask the
Supreme Court to intervene.
A New York state prosecution
accusing Trump of business fraud
is tentatively set for trial on
march 16.
Several people emphasized
that the scope and timing of the
D.C. security perimeter is still to
be finalized, with some of the
most disruptive potential chang-
es 4 restricting traffic on the busy
Constitution and Pennsylvania
avenue NW corridors 4 not un-
der consideration for now as con-
sultations continue with partici- rICky CArIoTI/THe wASHInGTon PoST

pating agencies.
for a multiweek trial of Trump
in D.C. or elsewhere, <security
plans are going to be much more
robust than the quick, one-day,
in-and-outs= that the public has
seen for Trump9s appearances
over the past year in Washington,
or in New York City, Atlanta or
South florida, where he also faces
criminal charges, U.S. Secret
Service spokesman Anthony Gug-
lielmi said.
<If he9s here for the duration,
you9re not only talking about the
courthouse but where the pro-
tectee will stay, ensuring that area
is fortified and protected,= Gug-
lielmi said. <It9s just a totally
different plan.= Guglielmi de-
clined to discuss details because AnDrew CAbAllero-reynolDS/AfP/GeTTy ImAGeS

security planners don9t have all CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Members of the media wait outside the
the specifics yet. He added, <We9re E. Barrett Prettyman federal courthouse in D.C. for an indictment
going to create the safest environ- of former president Donald Trump on Aug. 1. Security personnel
ment possible for movements of patrol the courthouse roof Jan. 9, when a hearing was held on
the protectee & while creating Trump9s claim of immunity. A protester on Jan. 9. The courthouse,
the least amount of disruption for on Constitution Avenue and Third Street NW near the U.S. Capitol,
the community.= will be the site of Trump9s expected trial on charges of conspiring to
overturn the 2020 presidential election. The trial had been set to
Who is involved in the begin March 4, but the date was recently postponed.
planning?
Trump9s appearance in early
January at the courthouse, where
a panel of federal appellate judg- robb HIll for THe wASHInGTon PoST

es held oral arguments over his

immunity claim, provided a courthouse is coming from a na- courts in consultation with the movements a day, he said. who had been linked to 30 kill- drawn police to the homes of
glimpse of the potential impact to tional judicial security account, Secret Service and D.C. police. Spokesmen for the Park Police, ings. Smith, the special counsel; New
come over a weeks-long trial. with the goal of protecting the The Department of Homeland federal Protective Service and A trial of the former president York Supreme Court Justice Ar-
Police sealed off block-long sec- public and court personnel dur- Security9s federal Protective special counsel Jack Smith de- raises different considerations, thur Engoron, who oversaw a
tions of Third and C streets NW ing a very high-profile legal pro- Service, which guards federal clined to comment. but security plans will probably $370 million civil fraud trial
with bright-orange biodiesel ceeding. The courthouse also has buildings, and the National Park Because there are several agen- draw on past practices, officials against Trump; and Chutkan.
trucks, squad cars and bike racks, received a small amount of design Service9s U.S. Park Police, which cies with jurisdiction <in the said. for example, the anony- Smith, Chutkan and Engoron are
as they did for Trump9s Aug. 3 funding for permanent safety protects the National mall and heart of D.C.,= one official cau- mous jurors in Trump9s civil trials under security protection.
arraignment. Law enforcement modifications from a national some park space and plazas near tioned, it was too soon to say for in New York for sexually abusing The maine secretary of state
patrolled sidewalks and shooed $127.5 million program to harden the court, also are part of the mix. sure what a final security plan and defaming writer E. Jean Car- and the Colorado Supreme Court,
away bystanders while Trump9s courthouses from unauthorized If Trump were still president, might look like. <There are a lot of roll were driven to and from the both of which recently deemed
Secret Service-escorted motor- incursions, through such mea- planning would be led by the players involved. & Nobody is courthouse from an undisclosed Trump ineligible to be on the
cade whisked him in and out of sures as reinforcing windows and Secret Service, current and for- holding a crystal ball.= location for their safety, as were primary ballot in their states un-
the building9s secure under- doors, automating locks and in- mer officials said. Because he is jurors in the recent Jan. 6 sedi- der the Constitution9s insurrec-
ground garage. stalling non-scalable fencing. The not, the marshals Service and How will they protect the tious conspiracy trial of Proud tion clause, received a surge of
Inside, wireless service was in- national program is unrelated to D.C. police have a larger stake in jury? Boys leaders in Washington. threats after Trump lambasted
terrupted and all but one of the any specific case. securing the courthouse and any The courthouse is no stranger Similar precautions are likely them in speeches and social me-
court9s entrances were closed. Security analysts said officials demonstrations or street issues, to high-security events. In June for Trump9s trial, as Smith9s pros- dia posts. A woman was charged
Visitors were screened twice be- are focused on protecting Trump they said. The Secret Service will 2014, federal agents with long ecutors have suggested the court last year with making a voice-
fore being let into the courtroom, and all trial participants, secur- remain responsible for Trump9s guns stood post around the build- and marshals Service consider mail threat to Chutkan, while
while case participants avoided ing the courthouse and its opera- movements to and from the ing for the Saturday arraignment measures <to protect the jury in men have pleaded guilty to lodg-
public hallways and moved be- tions, and ensuring the safety of courthouse, whether from Trump of Ahmed Abu Khattala, who was [Trump9s] case from scrutiny and ing similar threats against Chief
tween the garage and courtroom key players and the public, in- National Golf Club in Sterling, flown into D.C. by helicopter just harassment,= such as arranging Justice John G. roberts Jr. and
using back entrances out of pub- cluding demonstrators, bystand- Va., or the hotel he used to own after sunrise and who was later for jurors to gain <discreet entry Associate Justice Brett m. Ka-
lic view. ers, pedestrians and motorists. near the courthouse 4 where he convicted of being a ringleader in into and out of the courthouse.= vanaugh.
for a longer trial, authorities <The lesson from January 6, stopped before and after Janu- the 2012 attacks on U.S. facilities Neither side has asked for a Trump has not repeated his
plan to expand a security perim- 2021, is to be overly cautious and ary9s appeals court argument 4 in Benghazi, Libya, that killed a jury to remain anonymous from largely ignored calls for support-
eter outside the courthouse with well-prepared in terms of security or elsewhere. U.S. ambassador and three other the parties or be sequestered ers to protest outside courthouses
non-scalable fencing, one person for any event or venue where Guglielmi said engineers, sci- Americans. throughout the trial, although after he was federally indicted in
said. C Street NW, which runs there is even a slight chance of an entists and technicians will ac- Similarly, D.C. cocaine king prosecutors have said they may florida over his alleged obstruc-
between the courthouse and D.C. attack,= said Bruce Hoffman, a count for not just weapons but rayful Edmond III was convicted request additional measures. tion and mishandling of classi-
police headquarters, may be veteran counterterrorism and also physical and environmental by the city9s first anonymous jury fied documents after leaving the
closed, and media trucks may be homeland security fellow at the threats to the courthouse and a after being flown in daily by Protecting judges will be White House and in New York,
barred from staging on a plaza at Council on foreign relations and security perimeter for a trial that helicopter from the U.S. marine paramount where he is expected to face trial
the bend of Constitution and co-author with Jacob Ware of the could last weeks. <of all the cities Corps base in Quantico, Va. Ed- officials also may move the on charges of business fraud for
Pennsylvania avenues NW near new book <God, Guns, and Sedi- in the United States, Washington, mond9s high-security courtroom Trump trial from the usual court- allegedly covering up a hush
the George Gordon meade me- tion: far-right Terrorism in D.C., is among the best equipped, was equipped with bullet-resis- room used by U.S. District Judge money payment made during his
morial. Plans for demonstrators America.= The marshals Service prepared, and accustomed to tant glass and cleared of specta- Tanya S. Chutkan, who is presid- 2016 election campaign. In Geor-
also are being drafted, and for a and other federal agencies <will hosting protectees= and high- tors for his 13-week trial in 1989 ing over the case, for better audio- gia, Atlanta, state and federal law
heavy security presence for any almost certainly put on a visible ranking officials, with security to protect witness and jurors visual capabilities or more secure enforcement officials also spent
verdict. show of force for its deterrent agencies conducting dozens of from his network9s enforcers, access from building entrances months planning for enhanced
<We9re well aware of the impor- value in hopefully prompting out of public view, one person security measures before his in-
tance of finding the proper bal- anyone who might be contem- said. dictment on state election-relat-
ance between security for the plating any kind of disruption to Amid the planning, Attorney ed charges there. Trump has de-
trial and all of its participants, as think twice, since the likelihood General merrick Garland said in nied all wrongdoing.
well as public and media access to of its succeeding given the secu- <If he9s here for the duration, you9re not early January that federal author- Still, U.S. Attorney matthew
the courts and other ongoing rity measures in place will be low ities have seen a <deeply disturb- Graves described the Jan. 6 attack
proceedings,= said Chief U.S. Dis- to nil.= only talking about the courthouse but ing spike= in threats and attacks on the Capitol as <likely the larg-
trict Judge James E. Boasberg, The federal courthouse sits on public officials. Threats and est single day mass assault of law
who along with spokesmen for amid a patchwork of federal and where the protectee will stay, ensuring communications targeting court enforcement officers in our na-
Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan of the D.C. jurisdictions and is sur- personnel quadrupled between tion9s history.= five people died in
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. rounded by security-sensitive that area is fortified and protected.= 2015 and 2022, from 926 to 3,706, the attack or in the immediate
Circuit, the U.S. marshals Service neighbors, including the Cana- according to the marshals Serv- aftermath, and 140 police officers
Anthony Guglielmi,
and D.C. police declined to dis- dian Embassy, D.C. police head- ice. were assaulted. Security analysts
U.S. Secret Service spokesman, on security for
cuss specifics raised by people quarters and courts, U.S. Labor In recent weeks, several bomb say Trump9s trials represent a
former president Donald Trump during his trial in D.C.
interviewed for this report. Department and National Gallery threats were made against state very small portion of possibilities
A U.S. judiciary spokesman of Art. Security decision-making capitols, courthouses and other for election year violence, for
said funding for temporary pe- is driven by the marshals Service government buildings around the which law enforcement will be on
rimeter fencing at the Prettyman and the U.S. district and appeals country, and hoax calls have heightened alert.
sunday, february 11 , 2024 . the washington post eZ Re A21

Teachers played the lottery together for fun. Then they actually won.
BY D ANIEL W U win elated a group of deserving tion that any windfall would tears fall, and how many people munity. Leonora Broome, a re- gossiping in the cafeteria.
colleagues, who pledged to use serve as the group9s retirement [were] yelling and taking selfies tired science teacher, donated 10 <I heard one of them say, 8Man,
For years, a school custodian9s the money to pay bills, fund fund was just a joke, Reynolds and pictures,= Webb said. percent of her share to a Florence did you hear? Thirty of our
voice piped through the loud- dream vacations, and donate to said. They didn9t get into teach- Each teacher received a check soup kitchen used by some Jones teachers won a million dollars,
speakers once the students left their students and community. ing 4 or the lottery group 4 for for $24,000 4 not exactly a school families. Sciaraffia said and if they all quit, we9re not
Rector A. Jones Middle School in <Every one of us is going to give the money. But Reynolds said her retirement fund, but enough to she planned to use her winnings going to have school,9= Reynolds
Florence, Ky., with an invitation back in some way to the kids,= colleagues deserved more pay make a big difference for some. to act on a retirement goal of laughed.
to teachers: The <retirement said Terri Webb, 59, a former and recognition for their work. On the Jones 30 group chat, sending books and supplies to They needn9t worry. A lottery
club= was meeting in a nearby special education teacher at Many teachers at Jones work educators spoke about paying off rural schools in her native Chile. win did not blunt anyone9s pas-
classroom. Jones. second jobs, and it9s common for bills, medical procedures and <I9m able to materialize every- sion for teaching, Reynolds said.
The club gathered to gossip Few teachers remember how those in retirement to be pulled planning summer road trips. thing that I9ve been dreaming of The Jones 30 will be back in their
and bond 4 and split a weekly the lottery group at Jones started. back into substitute teaching. Reynolds set aside money for her for many, many years,= Sciaraffia classrooms. And they9ll continue
purchase of lottery tickets. It But staff at the school have kept it Reynolds9s colleagues are so com- three daughters, including one said. playing the Powerball, numbers
continued for decades, and grew going for over two decades, mitted that they9ve bought shoes who has an upcoming wedding. As news trickled slowly unchanged.
to around 30 current and former steadily bringing new teachers and clothes and covered field trip As Webb predicted, some of through Jones Middle School of <Literally, about an hour ago, I
staffers over the years. They into the fold. costs out of their own pockets for the teachers sent portions of the retirement club9s luck, Reyn- got a text & with a picture of the
played the same numbers every <I remember always doing it,= students in need, she said. their winnings back to their com- olds said she overheard students new tickets,= Webb said.
week, some long after they9d said Paola Sciaraffia, 55, a former <This group of teachers is so, so
retired or moved on from the Jones ESL teacher who has since selfless,= Reynolds said.
school. moved to another school. < & It When Reynolds reported that
The camaraderie was enough became something cool that we the group had won one of the BEFORE
to push aside pipe dreams of
actually winning a prize, until
all had in common and bonded
us.=
Powerball9s top prizes, the usual-
ly sleepy group chat burst into a
A BATHROOM YOU9LL LOVE
one member asked Vice Principal As with any workplace tradi- frenzy. The educators met at a IN AS LITTLE AS ONE DAY
Sharon Reynolds to check the tion, the club 4 now dubbed the restaurant to sign the winning
results of a weekend drawing in <Jones 30= for its 30 participants ticket so that they could split the
late January. Reynolds, 55, read 4 has closely followed rituals. million-dollar prize. The next
the numbers one by one. Every week, the group pools its day, the teachers left school as LIM
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<I started looking,= she said. money to buy $20 worth of soon as classes ended at 2:30 p.m. OFFED TIME

50% OFF
<And we were matching, we were Powerball and Mega Millions and raced south to Louisville to ER!
matching, we were matching.= tickets, with an agreement to claim their prize at the Kentucky

LABOR
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Dana MilbanK

If failure is your only option, you might be a Republican

H
ouse Speaker Mike Johnson has the floor that they had failed <to identify
been on the job for barely more an impeachable crime that Mayorkas has
than 100 days, but he has already committed= and that their actions would
accomplished the impossible. <distort the Constitution= and <shatter
He has made Kevin McCarthy look like a the separation of powers.=
legislative genius. <I think that it lowers the grounds of
The Louisiana Republican has impeachment to a point where we can
amassed a record of failure and dysfunc- expect it to be leveled against every
tion in just three months that his pred- conservative Supreme Court justice, ev-
ecessor labored for nine months to ery future Republican president and Cab-
achieve. And, arguably, McCarthy never inet member,= he told a group of us.
managed to match the level of combined Greene responded with the usual
incompetence and destructiveness that threats. Her colleagues <better pay atten-
Johnson attained this past week alone. In tion to what the American people will
the space of just three days, Johnson: think of them if they don9t vote to im-
l Killed a bipartisan border-security peach,= she warned.
bill, the toughest in decades, that he House Republicans took their articles
himself had demanded and senators had to the floor without even bothering to
painstakingly negotiated. correct errors of fact, such as the part
l Killed off, at least for now, funds to blaming Mayorkas for a policy changed
help Ukraine defend itself against Rus- by the State Department. The debate,
sia9s invasion and Taiwan defend itself three hours in all, was as desultory as the
against China. articles. Only six Republican lawmakers
l Tried to pass military aid to Israel but and 10 Democrats were seated when the
watched it go down to defeat on the clerk read aloud the articles.
House floor. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) re-
l Held a vote to impeach Homeland marked that Trump <told everyone to
Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas drink bleach and take horse medicine
after months of buildup 4 only for it to during covid.=
fail in a dramatic floor vote. Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Tex.) retorted
The last happened on Tuesday in ugly that McGovern had <one of the worst cases
fashion. At a closed-door Republican con- of Trump derangement syndrome.=
ference meeting in the morning, Home- Greene alleged that Mayorkas facilitat-
land Security Committee Chairman Mark ed <the complete invasion of our country
Green (R-Tenn.), who had shepherded the by criminals, gang members, terrorists,
articles of impeachment, said Mayorkas murderers, rapists.=
had to be impeached because <this reptile Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) re-
has no balls to resign.= plied, <She also thinks Jewish space lasers
The reptilian reference, first reported KeNT NishiMura For The WashiNgToN PosT cause wildfires.=
by Politico9s Olivia Beavers, evoked an House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) listens during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Fallon called Mayorkas <a sheep in
age-old antisemitic trope. Biden White sheep9s clothing= and said <we must fire
House official Ian Sams protested the hour and included a mention of just this bum, this second coming of Benedict
<vile= remark about Mayorkas, who is about every conspiracy theory of the Arnold.=
Jewish, adding a line about <reptilian Trump era, and earlier. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) under-
men= from the American Jewish Commit- <Fake dossier!= mined the whole case for impeachment
tee9s glossary of antisemitic terms. <Russia collusion hoax.= when he acknowledged that Mayorkas <is
The vulgarity continued at a news <Deep state.= just obeying the orders of his boss.=
conference later in the morning attended <Witch hunt!= And Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.), with
by two dozen House Republicans, includ- <Woke mob.= Old Testament fire, foretold: <On this day,
ing Republican Conference Chair Elise <Antifa!= it shall be written in the historical record
Stefanik. Ostensibly about a resolution, <Hunter Biden9s laptop.= of the people9s House that . . . Mayorkas
backed by more than 60 House Republi- The purpose, to the extent Republicans has been impeached. So shall it be writ-
cans, declaring that <Donald J. Trump did had one, was to attack the assembled ten. So shall it be done.=
not engage in insurrection,= it devolved journalists (<What we have seen is mass The prophecy didn9t age well.
into the lawmakers hurling insults at the hysteria caused by you, the reckless leftist The debate over aid to Israel wasn9t any
few journalists (including me) who had media,= Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona in- more elevated. Opposition from far-right
come to hear them. formed us) and to rewrite the history of Republicans blocked GOP leaders from
Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.), who last year Jan. 6, 2021. bringing the vote under normal House
distinguished himself by referring to <President Trump and his supporters rules. So Johnson9s team moved to sus-
<colored people= on the House floor, ad- were vilified for doing nothing more than pend the rules, which required a two-
dressed the <cowardly= journalists in the exercising their First Amendment rights,= thirds vote. But Democrats opposed the
room: <You don9t have the balls to write Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-Tenn.) said of bill because it was a naked effort by
the truth!= MaTT MCClaiN/The WashiNgToN PosT the riot, which injured 140 police officers Johnson to bury border security and aid
The House Republicans9 ongoing ob- Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, and resulted in several deaths. to Ukraine.
session with testicles (Reps. Marjorie Tay- points toward a witness during a committee hearing on Jan. 30. Rep. Michael Lawler (R-N.Y.) called
lor Greene of Georgia and Nancy Mace of n Tuesday afternoon, Senate Repub- Democrats <crazy= and <foolish.=
South Carolina have both previously sug-
gested that their male colleagues might
lack these organs) is best left to the Freud-
The first impeachment of a Cabinet
officer in a century and a half had failed in
a 215-215 tie; for procedural reasons, a
Federal Aviation Administration and the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
come shortly thereafter. And lawmakers
O lican leader Mitch McConnell, who
had supported the border-security
legislation as it was negotiated over the
Palestinian American Rep. Rashida
Tlaib (D-Mich.) called Israeli Prime Min-
ister Benjamin Netanyahu a <genocidal
ians. But this much is for sure: On rare lone Republican switched his vote so that have made no discernible progress on any past few months, formally acknowledged maniac.=
occasions when a House Republican does he could call for a revote. <On this vote, the of this. what had been obvious since the text of Finally, they called the votes. Eighty-
show the courage of his convictions, he is yeas are 214 and nays 216,= Johnson said. Instead, they9re using the legislative the compromise was released Sunday. <It9s six-year-old Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), re-
sure to face a political emasculation. <The resolution is not adopted.= process to propagate disinformation. On been made pretty clear to us by the speak- covering from a car accident, came in a
Such was the case with Rep. Mike Democrats cheered. Johnson licked the House GOP leadership9s floor sched- er that it will not become law,= he said. massive neck brace. Seventy-six-year-old
Gallagher (R-Wis.) on Tuesday night. A his lips. ule for this past week was a resolution by And Johnson apparently has no back- Rep. Al Green (D-Tex.), who had just
Princeton- and Georgetown-educated Watching the one-vote defeat, the ex- Greene censuring Rep. Ilhan Omar 4 up plan now that he has killed the undergone surgery, was wheeled in wear-
PhD, a Marine veteran and a committee pelled George Santos asked his former again 4 for remarks Greene said were border-security deal. Leaving the GOP ing hospital clothes and no shoes.
chairman, he had warned his GOP col- Republican colleagues in a post on X, <treasonous.= House Majority Whip Tom caucus meeting Tuesday, Rep. Dan Cren- But the worst casualty was the Repub-
leagues not to <pry open the Pandora9s formerly Twitter: <Miss me yet?= Emmer (R-Minn.) accused the Somali- shaw (R-Tex.) told a group of us that it9s lican whip operation, which miscounted.
box of perpetual impeachment,= and he Responded Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.): born Omar (D-Minn.) of <a direct viola- <unacceptable= to do nothing about the Johnson buttonholed Gallagher privately
became the decisive third Republican <I9ve never missed Santos more. Whoever tion of her oath of office,= saying <she border. Of GOP leadership, he said: <I just in the cloakroom and, when that failed,
vote against Mayorkas9s impeachment, he is.= should resign in disgrace.= wish they . . . had a plan.= the public berating of Gallagher on the
dooming the effort. As Johnson held the On Wednesday, Rep. Tom Massie Republicans were basing their case on They had no plan 4 not for the border, House floor began. Johnson huddled
vote open and Democrats howled for the (R-Ky.) posted on social media that <get- a translation they found somewhere on- not for Israel and Ukraine aid, and not, it with aides, but they came up empty.
vote to be closed with cries of <regular ting rid of Speaker McCarthy has officially line of remarks Omar made in Somali, in turned out, for impeaching Mayorkas. First, the impeachment vote failed.
order,= Republican colleagues encircled turned into an unmitigated disaster.= which she purportedly said she and other GOP leaders had showed how seriously Then, minutes later, the Israel vote failed.
Gallagher along the back aisle. Johnson tried to be philosophical Somali Americans are <Somalians first, they took impeachment by naming <I don9t understand why they don9t
Georgia9s Greene got in his face, clearly when he faced reporters the morning Muslims second,= and that the U.S. gov- Greene herself as one of the impeach- count the votes,= Rep. Ralph Norman
threatening him. Tennessee9s Green after the twin failures on the House floor. ernment <must follow our orders.= But ment managers who would argue the (R-S.C.) said after the debacle.
screamed at him, wagging his index fin- <Democracy is messy,= he told reporters, actual translations showed that Omar case in the Senate. In another display of In his morning-after session with re-
ger. Reps. Virginia Foxx (N.C.), Jodey Ar- and <we9re governing here 4 sometimes had said nothing like this. their sobriety, the official impeachment porters, the rookie speaker blamed
rington (Tex.) and Guy Reschenthaler (Pa.) it9s messy,= and <you9re seeing the messy The fraudulent censure resolution report accompanying the articles of Biden. He blamed Senate Majority Lead-
joined in the berating 4 while Greene sausage making,= and <the process is didn9t get a vote this past week, but impeachment said impeachment was er Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). He blamed
placed a call on her phone. From the first messy sometimes.= Greene is still hopeful. <I haven9t pulled <the process of deporting Secretary May- House Democrats. He blamed it on <the
row of the gallery, I could see Gallagher, The House, which began its workweek it,= she told a few of us. orkas.= Mayorkas, a naturalized U.S. citi- body itself and the place where we9ve
sometimes with mouth agape, sometimes on Monday evening, ended its week on Also awaiting action is a one-sentence zen, immigrated from Cuba as a child. come in this country.= He blamed every-
swallowing hard, as he took in the abuse. Wednesday morning (Democrats had a resolution, sponsored by Gaetz, saying Rep. Tom McClintock (Calif.), one of body and everything, in short, but him-
In the well, Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Tex.), point- retreat scheduled), leaving lawmakers that Trump <did not engage in insurrec- the three Republicans opposed to the self. <I don9t think that this is a reflection
ing at the siege of Gallagher, urged John- just four working days before the next tion= 4 because House Republicans say impeachment <stunt,= as he called it, on the leader,= Johnson said.
son to stall further. But the slashing ges- deadline to keep the government funded so! The resolution was brief, but the event warned his colleagues in a memo and in That might be the most ominous sign
ture Greene made indicated it was all over. on March 1. Deadlines to reauthorize the rolling it out went on for more than an speeches in the caucus meeting and on of all.

Kathleen ParKer

For one brief musical moment, we were the world

<N
ever= is the word I would use the same song at the same time. This was offspring as culturally inferior. 4 and everyone 4 together through What is so striking about the docu-
to describe how often I9ve something of a miracle, but it paled in <Well, it was my era,= I responded with what became a very long night. mentary, besides how young everyone
watched a film of any sort comparison with the process of creating more than a tinge of pride. <You were 1 at After a few hours, the musicians were was, is how human they were. <Check
and smiled like an idiot all the song and gathering a wildly talented the time.= The fact is, nothing since has tired, hungry 4 Al Jarreau was over- your egos at the door,= read the sign on
the way to the end. Sure, I9ve laughed, group of performers from across the touched the creation of <We Are the served 4 and, as someone noted, the the front door of A&M Studios, and it
cried, mused or become deeply depressed United States, inventing solos and har- World.= crowded room was getting <ripe.= seems they did, notwithstanding a few
while allowing directors to have their way monies against the clock, and ending an The documentary walks us through Even so, everyone remained pleasant notable <moments.= Several participants
with me for an hour or two. But smiling all-nighter with a recording for the ages. the process, from Harry Belafonte9s am- enough and patient, considering that said what a thrill it was to meet other
alone in a cozy room transfixed by a TV is bitious idea to the songwriting by Lionel some parts of the song had to be musicians they admired. Stevie Wonder
not a default mode I would cop to. Richie and Michael Jackson (so young!), reimagined in real time. At one point, was silly and funny. Michael Jackson was
The cause of this Mona Lisa pose was to live footage from the Los Angeles Huey Lewis, Cyndi Lauper and Kim shy and deferential. Huey Lewis, among
my watching <The Greatest Night in Pop,= Who wouldn9t smile at such a studio where the recording was done Carnes were asked to harmonize a tricky others who tell the story, talked about
a new documentary from director Bao immediately following the 1985 Ameri- section, a feat that required many tries. how nervous he was for his solo line,
Nguyen (<Be Water=) about the epic gathering of musical gods for can Music Awards. Co-producers Quincy Several of the musicians had one-line which was originally intended for no-
making of the 1985 charity single, <We Jones and Ken Kragen donated their solos, while others sang in the chorus 4 show Prince. The giddy Cyndi Lauper
Are the World.= The song was recorded on a singular, selfless purpose? time away from other projects, as did all including Dan Aykroyd, Bob Geldof, all wondered how she got to be in the room.
Jan. 28, 1985, by more than 40 top the busy people involved. Bruce Spring- the Jackson siblings, Waylon Jennings, The song won many awards and raised
musicians to raise money for famine steen flew out from New Jersey, arriving Bette Midler, Smokey Robinson and John more than $80 million (about $214 mil-
relief in Ethiopia. (From 1983 to 1985, up Who wouldn9t smile at such a gather- too late to collect his award for <Dancing Oates. lion today) for humanitarian aid in
to 1.2 million people starved to death ing of musical gods for a singular, selfless in the Dark,= which had been voted Soloists included Richie and Jackson, Africa and the United States.
there.) purpose? Well, for one, my musically <favorite pop/rock single.= (He didn9t Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Kenny Rog- We rarely get to witness the better
On March 7 that same year, the song astute son. When I urged him to watch stop smiling all night either.) ers, James Ingram, Billy Joel, Diana Ross, angels of anyone9s nature. Watching
was released by Columbia Records, top- the documentary, he demurred and said, The recording event itself was a heroic Dionne Warwick, Willie Nelson, Jarreau, these thoroughly likable supertalents
ping charts in several countries and <Watch 8Slow Horses.9 I feel like I9m effort by Richie, who also hosted the Springsteen, Kenny Loggins, Steve Perry, surrender themselves to the cause of
becoming the fastest-selling American casting good taste into the void.= I awards ceremony, performing twice him- Daryl Hall, Bob Dylan and Ray Charles. saving lives, set to life-affirming music,
single in history up to that time. Imag- suppose I knew the day would come self and winning six awards before With a roster like this, I hate to leave invites a two-hour smile. I think I9ll
ine: Everyone everywhere listening to when I would be viewed by my own dashing to the studio to hold everything anyone out, but the column must go on. watch it again.
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Guacamole is not as green as it seems

HE SUPER BOWL kicks off at 6:30 Eastern stands at roughly 9 pounds per person per year. and two of the biggest U.S. importers.

T time Sunday, by which time tens of millions

of football fans will have settled in to watch
the big game, pitting the San Francisco
49ers against the Kansas City Chiefs (with Taylor
Swift looking on from her luxury box above the
Michoacán9s avocado orchards employ 310,000
people, and the industry supports an additional
78,000 jobs upstream, according to Mexican gov-
ernment figures.
And yet feeding this booming demand has come
The way to prevent further destruction of the
forests 4 which are also the winter homes of
millions of monarch butterflies 4 is to expand the
Agriculture Department9s existing process for
certifying Mexican avocado imports so that it
field). No Super Bowl experience would be com- at an environmental price. Avocado orchards ensures the fruit doesn9t come from illegally
plete without snacks, of course, which in many accounted for about one-fifth of the deforestation cleared land. The USDA already deploys up to
homes will mean tortilla chips in Michoacán between 2001 and 2017. Growers have 100 agents to check for pests in about 50,000
EdiTOriaL dipped into thick green guacamole. cut down or burned pines and oyamel fir trees from avocado orchards, as part of an agreement between
By some estimates, U.S. consumers at least 40,000 and maybe more than 70,000 acres the two governments.
will put away 105 million pounds of avocado 4 the 4 equivalent to the area of more than 50,000 In Michoacán, 85 percent of the growing area is
raw material for all that guac 4 on Sunday. football fields 4 in Michoacán and neighboring certified. It would be relatively straightforward to
We don9t mean to spoil the party, but there9s an Jalisco over the past decade. Daniel Wilkinson, a have the same agents also verify the lands9 legal
environmental downside to it. Approximately policy adviser at Climate Rights International, an status.
80 percent of all avocados consumed in the United advocacy group for the environment and human Mexican environmental officials already pro-
States come from Mexico. Many of them, unfortu- rights, that conducted an exhaustive investigation posed such a strategy to the USDA in 2021. Yet
nately, are grown on land illegally cleared of forests of Mexico9s avocado crop late last year, said virtually Washington hasn9t taken up their suggestion. On
in the states of Michoacán and Jalisco. (Most of the none of the groves that replaced forests over the Wednesday, a group of U.S. senators led by Peter
rest come from California.) So if you9re tucking into past two decades are legal. They lack state authori- Welch (D-Vt.) sent a letter to the U.S. trade
chips and guac on Super Bowl Sunday, you are zation for <land use change.= representative, Katherine Tai, and the secretaries of
probably unwittingly contributing to deforestation Land invasions are common, as is water theft to state and agriculture, Antony Blinken and Tom
in western Mexico. Fortunately, there9s a relatively irrigate thirsty trees. Indigenous activists resisting Vilsack, suggesting expanding U.S. certification to
straightforward regulatory proposal before the expanding avocado production on communal lands combat illegal deforestation in Mexico9s avocado
Biden administration that, if adopted, could allow have been beaten, kidnapped and killed. The industry.
U.S. consumers to indulge their taste for avocado, avocado business has been heavily infiltrated by The Mexican government9s buy-in would be
and Mexican producers to profit from it, without organized crime, which charges farmers for protec- critical, so that U.S. officials are not intimidated as
further harm to fragile ecosystems. tion and controls growers9 access to packing plants. they inspect avocado growers.
To be sure, U.S. imports of Mexican avocados The report from Climate Rights International Even if the United States forbade only future
demonstrate the power of free trade. Avocado points to Mexican government data indicating that illegal deforestation, it would eliminate avocado
exports from Mexico to the United States have big U.S. food distributors buy avocados from growers9 incentive to cut down more trees and burn
grown from virtually zero in 1997, when the United illegally deforested land and sell them to virtually through more forests 4 and give packers and
States lifted a long-standing ban, to $2.5 billion in all the major supermarket chains. The association distributors an incentive to ensure the provenance
the 2022-2023 season. of Mexican avocado exporters did not respond to Fernando llano/ap of their avocados is legit. Deforestation is a complex
Savvy marketing strategies have helped quadru- requests for comment; nor did the main lobby Avocados grow on denuded slopes in challenge, but this regulatory fix seems like low-
ple per capita U.S. consumption since 2000; it now group for Mexican avocados in the United States Michoacan state, Mexico, in 2022. hanging fruit.

LETTErs TO ThE EdiTOr ann TELnaEs until we all became confident that the
100-question fill-in-the-blank test would be a
Delaying Metro9s ûnance woes Hats off to the MAGA majority breeze. <Ah, good,= said the principal.
But there is much more to the story, I insisted.
Regarding the Feb. 6 Metro article <Metro is likely Now that they were all scholars, I assured them
to avoid extreme cuts, but riders can expect higher that each day I would be introducing a new
fares=: predicament that required constitutional
The latest version of the Metro budget falls far analysis, and <you darned well better have
short of what the region needs. Metro is a world-class something to say in class,= I admonished. And
system that deserves the stable and robust support they did.
that can be provided only by dedicated regional Robert Wipfler, Bethesda
funding. Metro might have avoided the most
apocalyptic projections in the short term, but most of George F. Will9s central piece of evidence
the proposed savings amount to borrowing from proving that elite schools are elite no more is that
Peter to pay Paul. Shifting capital funds to the grade-point averages are higher now than in 1967.
operating budget means higher costs down the road. Though I agree that much is broken in our
The bill will come due for delayed maintenance and education system, Mr. Will9s argument seemed
failure to keep up with a growing region9s needs. flimsy. My children went through the Fairfax
Moreover, it is a gamble that preventive maintenance County school system over the past decade, and I
will not face any crises within the next year. It is a can tell you they emerged more educated than I
dangerous wager with potentially devastating was in the 1970s. Most of their high-achieving
consequences for riders, workers and the system. peer group got 49s or 59s on their math
Likewise, freezing wages will put an undue burden achievements and SAT scores above 1400, but
on Metro9s workers. Many have gotten covid and most couldn9t get into their first-choice schools
endured violence against them to keep the system (probably because elite schools continue to
running. Additionally, it will make it difficult to hire artificially limit supply).
the workers Metro needs, especially amid a national My friends often comment that they couldn9t
shortage of workers with commercial driver9s licenses. get into their own alma maters now. In fact,
Metro has tough hiring standards 4 and it should Harvard9s acceptance rate in 1970 was about
because our lives are in the hands of the operators and 20 percent; it9s about 3 percent now. So maybe
mechanics who keep trains and buses running. those higher grade-point averages are real,
Lastly, fares are a big part of WMATA9s budget. But representing a more educated, motivated study
they are already high. Raising them will hobble body. I don9t know. But I don9t think schools in
Metro9s ability to compete for riders against heavily 1967 were elite so much as elitist, when anyone
subsidized highways while disproportionately hitting who had parents with the wherewithal and
low-income and working-class riders9 wallets. means to send them to college did so 4 most of
Maryland, Virginia and D.C. should come up with them rich and White.
the full $750 million Metro needs to make up for the Nancy Huddleston, Manassas
expiration of pandemic aid. And they should create a
dedicated funding stream so that we are never in this
position again. The hole in the Russian sanctions
Ben Ross, Bethesda
The writer is chair of the Maryland The disturbing Feb. 2 front-page article <A
Transit Opportunities Coalition. Kremlin supply line 4 from Taiwan= was one of
the best and most deeply reported pieces I9ve read
in The Post in quite some time. The four reporters
Mr. Trump9s immunity claim ably dug into every reliable source they could find
and determined that there is indeed a commercial
The Feb. 7 front-page article <Appeals court rules connection between Taiwanese makers of
against Trump claim of immunity= described the computer-assisted machine tools and one or more
forces at work in Donald Trump9s appeal of a judicial Russian major weapons manufacturers. This has
ruling that ex-presidents do not enjoy criminal been concealed in part by sending shipments
immunity. It strikes me that there is a contradiction through Turkey and China.
in the possible stances of the Supreme Court on two This hole in the Russian sanctions regime, to
Trump cases. which our ally Taiwan purportedly subscribes,
In the first case, the court9s position on the seems big enough to drive many drones or
14th Amendment question might be that <we are missiles through. That this is happening in a
going to leave it up to the voters as to who may court. On Thursday, it heard former president court9s lost credibility. Helping Mr. Trump through U.S.-friendly (and U.S.-supported) polity is
appear on a federal election ballot and take office. Donald Trump9s ballot disqualification case and delay would be the last nail in the coffin of the shameful. The big question is: How many more
That decision is not the purview of the court or almost certainly will rule, perhaps unanimously, court9s integrity. holes are out there, and who9s looking for them?
Congress, but that of the voters. We don9t want to that Colorado cannot exclude Trump from the David Schlitz, Washington Lee Epstein, Silver Spring
arrogate their rightful electoral power of decision.= ballot. Now the true test comes. The justices soon
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opinion
george F. Will

The ultimate
Vegas wedding:
The big game
and big gaming
mid a tsunami of hyperbole occa-

A sioned by a 1970s Super Bowl,

Duane Thomas, a talented NFL
running back, and no slouch as a
philosopher, asked: <If it9s the ultimate
game, why are they playing it again next
year?= This Super Bowl Sunday 4 60 min-
utes of football slathered with patriotic
treacle and surrounded by examples of this
commercial republic9s distinctive craft
(commercials) 4 will be the ultimate (until
next year) eruption of sports betting. Sun-
day9s game will be played, appropriately, in
Las Vegas.
At the beginning of the 2023 NFL season,
a study for the American Gaming Associa-
tion predicted that almost 50 million adults
would bet on NFL games online, at a casino
sportsbook, or with a bookie. Fifty million
are expected to bet one of those ways on
Sunday9s game, 38 million of them online.
Joel richardson/the Washington Post Television advertisements for online bet-
A full house for the first basketball game 4 a Wizards victory over the Seattle SuperSonics 4 at what was then MCI Center, in D.C. on Dec. 2, 1997. ting services (FanDuel, DraftKings, etc.)
seem as ubiquitous as cigarette commer-
cials were until they were banned to protect

Why Washington9s sports teams people from themselves 4 from an addic-

tive and harmful habit. One should avoid
language that medicalizes too much of life,
but gambling unquestionably can be addic-

should stay in Washington tive. The thrill of risk, and of winning, can
trigger dopamine and endorphin surges.
And today cravings for more can be satisfied
by using devices in most pockets and purs-
es: Smartphones enable dumb decisions.
BY M URIEL B OWSER complete renovation that better connects the arena development that can replace it, no building 4 no Time was, some people took the risk of
to the surrounding neighborhood and businesses matter how new or shiny 4 that can replicate it. gambling because, well, why not? Simply
owntown D.C. is home to some of the most and brings the fan experience closer to the court. Throughout this process, much has been said living involved multiple omnipresent risks

D valuable and iconic gathering spaces in

Greater Washington, the nation and the
world. There is simply no place like it.
In the time since the late Abe Pollin made the
courageous decision to invest in an urban arena and
The result would be a new, more profitable, state-
of-the-art urban arena, with improved corporate
suites and more and better entertainment options.
The city would leverage our AAA bond rating to
borrow without raising taxes or displacing any
about the challenges of city life 4 street artists, for
example, and crime. But I don9t believe for a minute
that9s why Monumental has struck a handshake
deal with Virginia. Their decision was about money
and land. Period. Nor is it true that the District did
4 poverty, disease, wolves, brigands. Per-
haps today many people gamble (or ride
roller coasters) because everyday life lacks
the intense experience of risk. Such gam-
bling is not a degenerate quest for wealth
build an amazing fan experience, Capital One Are- planned capital projects. It is unequivocally a great not try hard enough. At every stage, we put forth the without labor; it is a lust for limited risk
na9s central location has welcomed people from the deal for Monumental, with near total certainty and best deal we could offer at the time we could offer it. without serious danger.
far stretches of the region and world 4 including the lowest performance risk. In fact, the D.C. Coun- On the contrary, Leonsis himself points to the
presidents and members of Congress 4 to catch a cil has already unanimously agreed to advance the goose bumps he got when seeing the undeveloped
concert or game with family, friends and colleagues. deal, making the initial payment to start construc- land as the reason for the move. But Downtown
We9ve seen that arenas are great for cities. That9s tion available within months of the bill9s passage. D.C. is ripe for development, too. Though we can9t Even Disney 4 et tu,
why we9ve invested so much over the years to Our deal would mean Monumental can avoid any currently offer 12 acres of undeveloped land, we
support this one. Since the District began our broken promises, breached leases or potential liti- know there9s great potential to grow an urban Mickey Mouse? 4 owns
partnership with Pollin in 1997, we have provided gation to distract from building the most valuable campus with Monumental and other Leonsis com-
below-market rents and offered millions of dollars regional sports company. It would mean equitable panies right in the core of the city. New York9s an online betting brand,
in tax abatements. In 2007, the District gave the construction spending and our continued support Madison Square Garden is an example of an in-
arena9s ownership group $50 million for building of the Service Employees International Union and place renovation that provided just that. ESPN Bet.
upgrades in exchange for keeping the teams in Unite Here! Local 23 workers who earn good pay We intend to keep our end of the bargain and
D.C. until 2047, an additional 20-year commit- and benefits in D.C. Truthfully, we still don9t know enforce the leases with Monumental that require
ment. The city also built and funded the majority whether the Virginia deal will cross the finish line the Wizards and Capitals to play at the arena But a real danger exists. Ben Krauss,
of a $65 million practice facility and home court or whether this gamble will work. Perhaps this is through 2047 and the Mystics to play in Congress writing for the Slow Boring blog, cautions
for the WNBA9s Washington Mystics, which why Leonsis has not yet signed anything. Heights through 2037. If Monumental goes ahead that for some people gambling is so <highly
opened in 2018. We9re proposing a deal that isn9t just good for and breaks its leases, the short-term impact will be addictive= that psychological and physio-
Although it is true that post-covid work changes downtown but is an exercise in true regionalism. tough, not only on the neighborhood, but on our logical processes displace actual decision-
have meant fewer workers occupying downtown The District has long supported regional govern- entire city. But let me be clear: The city owns the making. This is especially so when bets are
and suburban offices alike, that has not hindered ance in transportation, as funders and governing land under the Capital One Arena and will own the made during in-game excitements 4 a form
Monumental Sports & Entertainment9s success at members of the boards of the Washington Metro- building should Monumental break its lease. of intense fan engagement from which
the Capital One Arena. According to Forbes, the politan Area Transit Authority and the Metropoli- In the long run, the future of the Chinatown teams profit. The $2 billion spent advertis-
Wizards, in which Monumental owner Ted Leonsis tan Washington Airports Authority, and we under- neighborhood is bounded only by our willingness ing online gambling is, Krauss says, work-
purchased a majority stake in 2010 for $310 mil- stand that the regional transportation network is to think big. Our Gallery Place/Chinatown Task ing: <Since 2018, $220 billion= 4 approxi-
lion, are currently worth $3.5 billion 4 an 11-fold also experiencing its own post-pandemic moment. Force is already preparing for multiple paths for- mately the annual gross domestic product
increase in value. Last year, the arena set two We should be building on the current infrastructure ward. I am confident we will create an iconic of Nevada 4 <has been wagered in legal
records: Drake became the first rapper to earn at Gallery Place and Metro Center, not asking the D.C. destination experience akin to Union Market, sports books, with the annual total increas-
more than $5 million in a single U.S. arena concert underfunded Metro system to approve capital ex- the Yards, the Wharf or City Center 4 hopefully ing by an average of 22% year over year.=
and the Premier Boxing Champions broke the penses to accommodate a shifting use that entails with Monumental Sports & Entertainment. I am Krauss notes that some states have tried
all-time gate record for ticket revenue. Despite no new users, just new expenses. Given that the also confident that whether we operate the current 4 good luck with this 4 banning sports
economic headwinds and lean years for both the Virginia site would interrupt Reagan National Air- arena or build something new, we will continue to gambling advertisements reaching people
Capitals and the Wizards, Monumental9s revenue, port traffic on game days, it is also not the moment have a world-class concert venue in D.C. under 21. Or banning celebrity endorse-
valuations and profits are stronger than they have to ask the airport to adjust flight patterns and It9s only right that D.C.9s teams stay in D.C. ments of such gambling. The Supreme
ever been, thanks to fans coming to D.C. schedules, clog already crowded roads or ask travel- Leonsis has previously acknowledged the huge Court, upholding Puerto Rico9s ban on
The city wants to keep that mutually beneficial ers to choose a different airport. responsibility that comes with owning a team, casino advertising, held that reducing gam-
success going, which is why we put forth such a D.C. fans, sadly, are familiar with the broken saying <the teams really aren9t owned by me and my bling is a legitimate government interest.
strong offer to help with the next phase of the arena promise of a shiny new stadium to replace the partners; they9re really owned by the city itself.= But gambling is not dangerous the way
and the surrounding neighborhood. rocking stands of RFK and generations of family Now, I9m not a billionaire, but I do believe it9s smoking is: Cigarettes, the focus of a con-
After negotiating several offers over the better memories. But more broadly, we think fans from possible to have enough money. A great legacy and certed public health campaign for six dec-
part of last year, D.C. offered Monumental all over the region enjoy a night out in the city 4 for reputation, however, are priceless. ades, are harmful when used as intended.
$500 million to be paid in three tranches beginning a ballgame, the theater or dinner at our award- For most who bet, their pastime is harmless,
this year, a deal that would have provided well more winning restaurants. There is no replacement for the writer, a democrat, is mayor of the district of and we should not constrain a large majori-
than half of the estimated $800 million cost of a the energy and history of a city, no sprawling columbia. ty to protect a relatively small minority
from what is called a <disorder of impulse
control.=
In 2017, Commissioner Roger Goodell
said: <We are not changing our position as it
alexandra Petri relates to legalized sports gambling.= In
2018, the Supreme Court struck down a

Taylor Swift has never even tried to hide her sinister plans federal law that prevented states from
permitting sports gambling. Why not, when
45 states and the District of Columbia run
lotteries? Today, there is a sportsbook in the
here has been a lot of talk lately about Taylor spark-smiling can be neutralized, under the pretext of much of the Mediterranean. Washington Commanders9 FedEx Field.

T Swift being involved in sinister conspiracies.

But these conspiracists are way, way off. There
are true conspiracies, yes, but not about merely
reelecting President Biden. Other, more sinister ones
are hiding in plain sight.
wishing to kiss them. Just one operation she boasts of
casually in her early discography.
<I9m feeling 22= (<22=): Commonly misheard. In fact,
Swift is feeling <twenty, two.= Twentieth letter: T. Two: 2.
T2. Terminator 2. Taylor Swift is Skynet.
<Look What You Made ME Do=: In 2016, Maine nearly
went for Donald Trump, awarding him one of its four
electoral votes.
<Got a long list of X lovers= (<Blank Space=): Swift is
making a list of people still active on Elon Musk9s social
Gambling was long considered a sin.
Massachusetts Puritans passed a law
against it in 1638, and in 1935, Grand
Rapids, Mich., jailed a woman who orga-
nized bingo games to support a Catholic
Indeed, you9re hard-pressed to find a line from her <I9m a mirrorball= (<mirrorball=): In this lyric, Swift media site, formerly known as Twitter. charity. Today, promoting gambling is a
discography where she isn9t admitting to something! confesses she is not even a human being but perhaps <Say you9ll remember ME= (<Wildest Dreams=): social policy. Actually, it always has been.
Consider the following lyrics and song titles 4 quickly! some sort of panopticon, obviously linked to the CIA. REMEMBER THE MAINE! Swift remembers the USS The Jamestown settlement, the Continental
4 before she gets to the Super Bowl and brings all her <Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby, and Maine, whose destruction precipitated the Spanish- Army, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton and
diabolical plans to fruition. I9m the monster on the hill= (<Anti-Hero=): Who is the American War. What will it precipitate next? many other institutions and public works
monster on the Hill? Congress, of course. But, then, who <Cried like a baby coming home from the bar= (<Cruel were financed at least in part by lotteries.
<Saying goodbye is death by a thousand cuts= (<Death is the sexy baby? Simple: George Santos. Summer=): This baby, sad he did not pass the bar, can Today, gambling is mainstream in a
by a Thousand Cuts=): What else dies by a thousand <It9s ME, HI, I9m the problem= (Ibid): Swift knows only be a reference to Trump9s legal counsel. nation with about 1,000 casinos, a $9 billion
cuts? The federal bureaucracy, that9s what. Here, Swift which states will be the hardest to win in 2024 and is <Don9t Blame ME=: Is Biden campaigning enough in online betting market and sports media
admits that she is the deep state. listing them by their postal codes. Maine? chattering earnestly about point spreads.
<I9m shining like fireworks over your sad, empty <I9ve been the archer= (<The Archer=): An archer is a <Midnight, you come and pick me up, no headlights= Disney-owned ESPN 4 et tu, Mickey
town= (<Dear John=): In this line, Swift admits she is form of hunter. This lyric confirms Swift9s connection to (<Style=): This is some kind of covert operation, and Mouse? 4 has an online betting brand,
some sort of cryptid or possibly a superweapon. What Hunter Biden. Swift simply admits it in the opening lines of a song ESPN Bet.
else shines like fireworks and empties a town? We all <I9ve been the prey= (Ibid): What is the enemy of about Harry Styles! Speaking of impulse control disorder,
saw <Oppenheimer.= prey? Predators. What are predators? Drones. Here, <Wrapped all of my past mistakes in barbed wire= Super Bowl Sunday is the second-most
<I go back to December all the time= (<Back to Swift confirms her complicity in drone warfare. (<invisible string=): This refers to the secret facility high-calorie day (after Thanksgiving) in a
December=): In this song, Swift admits that she <Betty, I won9t make assumptions= (<Betty=): Of where Taylor Swift9s enemies are kept. nation whose obesity epidemic is producing
possesses the technology for time travel yet is using it to course, the wife of Gerald Ford, our 38th president. Ford <No body, no crime=: Swift admits she knows what many men and women shaped like NFL
go over and over to her failed relationship with one of famously pardoned Richard M. Nixon. Self-explanatory. really happened to Amelia Earhart. interior linemen. The ultimate game is the
the stars of the <Twilight= movie series rather than to <I Bet You Think About ME=: In this song and in <I think he did it but I just can9t prove it= (Ibid): national campfire around which gorging
tend to any more pressing national security needs. Or is many others, we see Swift9s growing preoccupation Swift believes Lyndon B. Johnson was involved in the Americans gather annually. When this
she? with the state of Maine. John F. Kennedy assassination. year9s fire is extinguished by a merciful final
<Drop everything now! Meet me in the pouring rain. <I9m on the bleachers= (<You Belong With Me=): Swift <Are you ready for it?= (< . . . Ready For It?=): Is Swift tick of the game clock, the winner will be:
Kiss me on the sidewalk, take away the pain. I see foretells the Super Bowl. finally ready to unveil her infernal plot at the Super America. It will have a year to recuperate
sparks fly whenever you smile= (<Sparks Fly=): Swift has <Let9s fast-forward to 300 takeout coffees later= (<Is It Bowl? from a day of wretched excess, and only two
noticed that this person (or entity?) poses a danger, Over Now?=): Why 300 coffees? Easy. This is enough <Let the games begin= (Ibid): Yes. days to wait until it hears the loveliest four
emitting sparks when they smile, and she is luring them coffees for all the Spartans and would have changed the <You Belong with ME=: We return to Swift9s preoccu- words in the English language: <Pitchers
(it?) out onto the sidewalk into the rain where their outcome of the Persian Gulf War, redrawing the map of pation with the state of Maine. and catchers report.=
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opinion
erik Wemple

While a King Kong-size

media group could reshape
the Baltimore Sun . . .
ill the Baltimore Sun morph ing for a current mayoral candidate and

W into urban apocalypse porn?

That9s an open question
now that David Smith, the
73-year-old executive chairman of the
sprawling Sinclair Broadcast Group,
supports a group behind ballot initia-
tives. One of those initiatives would
have empowered the public to recall
elected leaders 4 a prospect that Fox45
has floated vis-à-vis first-term Demo-
purchased the daily. As reported in the cratic Mayor Brandon Scott, in part
Baltimore Banner, Smith, who grew up through a preposterous <poll=:
in Baltimore, suggested in a staff meet- Bogus polls at Fox45 provide not only
ing that Sun reporters mimic the work of social media fodder but also sleazy
Fox Baltimore (WBFF/Fox45), a Sinclair material for prodding public officials.
property famous for its dramatized cov- According to an email obtained through
erage of crime. So, it bears considering: a Maryland records request, an anony-
What would a Sinclairized Baltimore mous Fox45 email account 4 news-
Sun look like? polls@foxbaltimore.com 4 blasted this
The Sun is a storied American daily request regarding the city9s Safe Streets
founded in 1837 and the winner of violence-reduction program to Balti-
16 Pulitzer Prizes, not to mention the more officials in July:
largest newspaper in Maryland. It9s not Dear Baltimore City elected officials 3
local TV-style hype to bemoan its possi- Following up on our previous email,
ble tumble down a tendentious rabbit 97% of the viewers who responded to our
hole. No such movement has yet oc- most recent poll said they would like to
curred. <We9re making good progress in see an independent prosecutor investi-
terms of getting to know each other,= gate the Safe Streets program.
said Trif Alatzas, the Sun9s publisher and Give this information, and the ques-
editor in chief. Thanks to the work of tions and concerns brought up at the
Sun staffers, said Alatzas, the newspaper recent Council hearing, why have you
is a <sound business.= An overlooked chosen not to call for an independent
part of Smith9s meeting with Sun staff- prosecutor to investigate Safe Streets?
ers, said Alatzas, is that he emphasized Responses by 8p ET this evening
that <the industry cannot continue on would be appreciated.
this track without innovating, without Thank you,
trying new things.= ---
Armstrong Williams, Smith9s partner FOX45 News
in the Sun purchase, has also been newspolls@foxbaltimore.com
meeting with Sun journalists regarding
the paper9s direction, according to Alat- ox45 produces 101/2 hours of news
zas. Williams9s bio calls him a <a pugna-
cious, provocative and principled voice
for conservative and Christian values in
F per weekday, the better to not mere-
ly expose the underside of Balti-
more but to sensationalize it, to rub it in.
America9s public debate= and a <multi- Newscasts recycle the same grim stories
media wonder= with a history in news- over and over. What grim stories? Last ann Kiernan for the Washington Post

papers, television, radio and cyberspace, summer, Fox45 set out to take a <closer
but that description does a disservice to look= at the impact of crime on attend- Josh Tyrangiel
his varied and occasionally scandal- ance at Camden Yards, home to the
filled history.
There9s an ideological gap at the heart
of this story. The editorial board of the
Baltimore Sun, like those of many Amer-
Baltimore Orioles. The threadbare story
noted that within a 11/2-mile radius, there
had been shootings, carjackings and rob-
beries. In 2019, <a man shot a woman
. . . a 8Mothra vs. Godzilla9
ican newspapers, leans to the left.
Though many TV stations in the country
are driven solely by ratings 4 and
they9re happy to bash politicians of
multiple times three miles away.= Justin
Fenton, a longtime Sun reporter who has
moved to the Baltimore Banner, tweeted,
<Orioles fans weren9t the victims nor do
battle looms over AI
every stripe 4 Sinclair has upended the they have to go anywhere near those
industry by inserting a conservative areas to get in/out of the ballpark!= Two he original <Mothra vs. Godzilla= uct. But generative AI isn9t ordinary tech. contract 4 billions of dollars in recurring
bent to coverage, including persistent
pro-Trump commentary.

ox45 isn9t just any outlet of Sinclair

months later, Fox45 ran a story on thefts
near the ballpark with this line: <Fans
may be filling the stands at Oriole Park
but outside the gates, it9s a season of
T came out in 1964, which means
that even the people who saw it
then can9t remember it. So allow
me to recap. Mothra 4 a moth goddess, so
It9s created through the combination of
hundreds of billions of parameters of
information and language. That makes
extracting the New York Times from Chat-
revenue. And if it can9t get its number, the
company has a proud history of going to
court to defend its principles.
On the other side, OpenAI is at the peak

F Broadcast Group, which owns or

operates 185 stations in 86 mar-
kets. It9s the first in the family, the
survival.=
Reporting on all the awful things
going on in the city can be found under
fertile and nurturing that her brown
speckled-body could be a Goop caftan 4
lays a giant larvae-filled egg off the coast
GPT as impossible as removing the eggs
from a cake. If subjected to disgorgement,
OpenAI could theoretically be forced to
of its <let9s incinerate cash on the way to
market dominance= phase. Everyone is
giddy with possibility, which makes it a
flagship that operates just miles from the Fox45 website heading <City in Cri- of Japan. Godzilla 4 coldblooded stomper eliminate everything it used to train Chat- perfect moment to pay the vig and drop a
Sinclair9s headquarters in Hunt Valley, sis,= the station9s bread and butter. It9s a of things 4 wants to smash the egg. A GPT and start over, essentially killing the one-time sum on the New York Times.
Md. The company is known for the marathon scroll: violent crime, <crime huge battle ensues between the forces of company. The next day9s Wordle: Pwned. But: No large recurring payments. The
conservative bent of its stations, which sprees,= the <juvenile crime crisis,= <esca- creation and destruction. I don9t think any of this is going to last thing OpenAI wants is to become a
became famous in 2018, when anchors lating teen violence,= <surge in teen This is essentially the story the New happen. First of all, OpenAI has a better- royalty administrator, constantly arguing
at the stations mouthed out a scripted violence,= loaded guns, <violent squee- York Times tells in its lawsuit against than-decent fair use argument based on over percentages with every little publish-
Trumpian attack on the American news gee encounters,= a warning from the OpenAI. The Times (Mothra) is a life force ChatGPT9s ability to transform Times er who can claim to have been a part of
media9s <fake stories.= Baltimore is a police union, a $15,000 water bill, Balti- of liberal democracy fighting off a Big articles into something original. (OpenAI ChatGPT9s training. Not only is it a hassle
predominantly Democratic jurisdiction. more9s status as the <dirtiest city in Tech destroyer. OpenAI (Godzilla) has dismisses the Times9s plagiarism claims and a drain on future profits, it9s unglam-
Though Fox45 leans hard to the right, America.= Those scourges must compete already pillaged the Times by using its as a <rare bug.=) Consideration of social orous by Silicon Valley standards.
don9t go thinking it9s just a local version for attention with another Fox45 bug- articles to train ChatGPT without permis- benefit is also part of fair use. That9s why Since filing suit, the Times is doing
of the prime-time blather on Fox News. bear: bike lanes, which draw sneering sion. The suit9s inclusion of ChatGPT news organizations are frequently al- what it does best 4 enjoying its impact in
Its product relies far more on enterprise. scrutiny from the station. In November, results that are near word-for-word rip- lowed to use copyrighted materials or a silent sanctimony. (To be fair, it9s also
Reporters shadow all the major figures Fox45 laid bare its position in an email offs of the New York Times9s stories does poetry scholar can use excerpts of a poem. keeping its ethical wall high; none of the
in the Baltimore government and press to the mayor9s office obtained through a indeed make OpenAI look very stompy. Societally, we9ve decided those are things Times reporters I9ve spoken with have any
them hard for answers to the questions records request: <As you know, FOX OpenAI rejects this premise entirely. we want to encourage. You can debate clue what management is thinking about
of the day. The hustle pays off. Fox45, for Baltimore continues to cover the nega- Why, just recently it was negotiating whether ChatGPT use is a social good, but the case, much to their annoyance.) Mean-
instance, won an award from Investiga- tive impacts of scarcely used bike lanes rights fees with the Times! In a blog post tens of millions of Americans are already while OpenAI has been Jay Gatsby at the
tive Reporters and Editors for a <Project in Baltimore City. Many residents feel written in the tone of a man unsure why White House correspondents9 dinner,
Baltimore= series exposing a scandal these bike lanes are disruptive and a his date left the restaurant, the company buying drinks and striking deals with all
involving the treatment of students with waste of taxpayer dollars. Do you believe says, <Our discussions with the New York the other news organizations it can. The
disabilities in the city9s public schools. Baltimore City should continue using Times had appeared to be progressing NYT vs. OpenAI is the value of those deals is in the very low
One student missed the first 140 days of taxpayer dollars to create new bike constructively. . . . We regard the New millions, but it9s a great show of magna-
school because his school couldn9t pro- lanes?= York Times9 lawsuit to be without merit. only thing people in my nimity toward the Fourth Estate, old
vide a nurse 4 yet his report card Still, we are hopeful for a constructive sport. A perfect way to demonstrate to the
<showed he was marked present n response to questions about specif- partnership with the New York Times and professional life want to talk public and the courts that OpenAI isn9t
33.5 days in the first quarter and earned
grades even though he was never in
class.= The WBFF team 4 Carolyn Peirce,
I ic Fox45 stories, Sinclair spokeswom-
an Jessica Bellucci expressed con-
cern that <there is a specific narrative
respect its long history.=
There are several cases at the intersec-
tion of copyright and generative AI 4
about. And they all have
the same question:
the stubborn one.
What might ultimately drive a settle-
ment 4 and I9d bet one happens in the
Chris Papst, Dwayne Myers, Jed Gamber you are seeking.= She continued: <WBFF Sarah Silverman vs. Meta, Getty Images next few months 4 is that both sides have
and Ray Rogowski 4 brought to light has a steadfast commitment to account- vs. Stability AI 4 but this is the only one a sliver of existential risk. The Times is
<multiple examples of outright corrup- ability reporting, exposing issues within that could tempt Don King out of retire- How does it end? one of the best financial stories there is in
tion, with contractors and the school the community, and seeking answers ment. These are culturally dominant apex the wasteland of American journalism,
system both stealing money by falsifying and solutions for viewers. Our aim is to corporations, with well-earned reputa- but AI has brought huge new unknowns.
reports, all while hurting kids in the help create a safer city, improve public tions for innovation and arrogance. Yet using it. Disgorgement, or even an injunc- Securing its sustainability now seems
process,= according to an IRE write-up. education and the overall quality of life. it9s also an underdog story. The Times is tion, would harm those people as well as smart. OpenAI has already had one near-
Project Baltimore has won many oth- As I9ve stated earlier, we stand by our worth about $8 billion. OpenAI checks in OpenAI. Lastly, the legal process can take death experience, and while a disgorge-
er awards, including three others from journalists and their reporting.= at about $100 billion, while its largest years, during which ChatGPT is likely to ment ruling is hard to imagine, it9s been
IRE: for an investigation of <ghost stu- Baltimore furnishes a station such as stakeholder, Microsoft, is worth 16 Jeff become even more entrenched. Think of forced to admit that ChatGPT is addicted
dents= in Baltimore public schools, an Fox45 a bounty of raw material. It ranks Bezoses. how Uber showed up in cities, nudged out to copyright. <It would be impossible to
exposé regarding a 21-year-old sex of- high among American cities for violent As a journalist who writes about artifi- taxis and never asked forgiveness. You train today9s leading AI models without
fender enrolled in a high school and a crime, its schools turn in some dismal cial intelligence, NYT vs. OpenAI is the don9t have to be righteous to win in court. using copyrighted materials,= the compa-
scam involving so-called church-exempt test scores, and it has hemorrhaged only thing people in my professional life You just have to be inevitable. ny wrote in a submission to the United
schools. That9s impact. residents because of crime, civic dys- want to talk about. And they all have the Timely congressional action also Kingdom9s House of Lords.
And when it comes to impact, Smith function and other factors. Fox45 has same question: How does it end? seems unlikely. If you need this ex- It9s that last bit that leads me to think
has shown a knack for manufacturing it. made the decision to torque all this Elon Musk famously declared that <the plained further, I9d like to direct you to OpenAI is more likely to bend. Now9s the
As reported recently by the Baltimore misery for its programming needs, such most entertaining outcome is the most The Post9s circulation department, time to fix a price for its drug of choice.
Banner, the new Sun owner was a that nary an incident of municipal mis- likely.= This is obviously insane, but it9s where a staffer has a few questions about When the big record labels battled Spoti-
moving force behind a high-profile 2022 fortune squeaks past its anchor desk. solid column-writing advice. So let9s in- why you subscribe. fy, they ended up reaching an agreement
suit against the Baltimore City school Even when newspapers are gasping dulge Musk9s Razor and dive a little That leaves a settlement, which sounds to license music to the platform while also
system. This was an astounding work of for breath and reducing staff, the Sun deeper into the three possibilities: (1) A anticlimactic. But given the parties9 cur- getting 18 percent of the company. Spotify
reportorial laundering: The suit relied doesn9t need a business model powered verdict. (2) Congressional action that rent positions there9s more drama to be didn9t want to do it (and OpenAI would
to a significant degree on revelations by fearmongering, conflicts of interest cleans up copyright law and obviates the found in a negotiation than in slow mo- never go anywhere near that high) but a
from Fox459s reporting; once it was filed, and, in fairness, a history of investiga- need for a verdict. (3) A settlement. tion legal combat. music service can9t exactly live without
Fox45 highlighted it, noting it included tive work. Could that formula even The most entertaining outcome would According to several people familiar music. Neither side has been thrilled with
material reported by the station; the migrate to a daily newspaper? Unlikely. clearly be the New York Times taking its with his thinking, A.G. Sulzberger, chair- the relationship, but it9s a form of mutu-
station didn9t mention Smith9s involve- A Fox45-ified Baltimore Sun would read case all the way to the Supreme Court man of the New York Times Co. and ally assured preservation. Would a 5 per-
ment. In a statement, Fox45 said that the like a cross between a crime blotter and where it proves it9s been the victim of such publisher of the New York Times, believes cent stake in OpenAI, divided proportion-
station9s journalists had <no knowledge= the Daily Caller 4 a local New York Post rapacious harm that the justices, emerg- he has been robbed of billions of dollars of ally among the largest news organizations
of Smith9s role in the suit and that Smith without the gossip. Tabloids, including ing in Tom Friedman mustaches, rule intellectual property. He knows that and book publishers, and rebalanced
was not involved in the coverage of the the New York Post, have labored right unanimously in the Gray Lady9s favor. OpenAI has already ingested the Times9s once a year to avoid too much accounting,
suit. Okay, but suspicions about Sin- alongside other newspapers in the Now the entertaining part: The court content and can9t take it out. A one-time do the trick?
clair9s connection to the suit 4 includ- doomsday media economy of the then agrees with the Times9s demand that payment is a nonstarter, because even if In the movie, Godzilla kills Mothra
ing in a piece by Sun columnist Dan 21st century, which might make it hard OpenAI destroy any chatbot models and OpenAI made a Godfather offer, there9s no with his fiery atomic breath, while Moth-
Rodricks 4 have been circulating for for journalists at the new-look Sun to training data that use copyrighted Times guarantee that today9s windfall won9t one ra9s children wrap Godzilla in silk and get
quite some time. <go make me some money,= as Smith material. This is known as algorithmic day lead to AI swallowing his family their vengeance when he lizard-shuffles
Plus: Smith 4 described by one of my importuned at his meeting with staffers. disgorgement 4 a legal concept to ad- business. Having almost perished in the into the ocean and dies. These would
sources as a combination of Rupert They might struggle even more in dress unlawful gains from algorithmic first wave of AI-powered social media indeed be thrilling outcomes. But with so
Murdoch and the Koch brothers 4 has Baltimore, considering that locals al- sneakiness. An ordinary tech company algorithms, the New York Times sees a much at stake, and apologies to Musk, the
financed a lawsuit against a 2020 may- ready have a site that overplays mayhem might be forced, at significant cost, to chance to soak a tech company for a least entertaining outcome is the most
oral candidate, provided financial back- and touts lame polls: Fox45. remove infringing material from its prod- massive licensing fee on a long-term likely.
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Jonathan Blitzer traces how the shared history of the U.S. and Central America has led to a migrant surge

n the spring of 2014 and on through the M ANUEL R OIG- Blitzer convincingly argues.

I
BY
sizzling summer that year, tens of thousands of F RANZIA <Decades of Central American history were
children crossed the U.s.-Mexico border into crashing down at the U.s. border,= writes Blitzer, a
Texas without their parents. Families from Central new Yorker magazine writer who for years has been
news organizations blasted images of kids America walk alongside the one of the most perceptive chroniclers of a complex
crammed into over-air-conditioned, cage-like U.s. border wall near Sasabe, and often misunderstood bane of U.s. policymakers.
Border Patrol holding pens partitioned by chain- Ariz., after crossing into the Writing with clarity and grace, while avoiding the
link fencing. The youngsters cocooned themselves United States from Mexico mawkish tone sometimes associated with tales of
in shiny silver mylar blankets that resembled in January 2022. the border, Blitzer makes a compelling case that the
hazmat gear or supersize rolls of aluminum foil. <Immigrants have a way of United states and Central America are knit as one.
In isolation, it could have been viewed as yet transforming two places at The poorer nations to the south are dominated and
another familiar crisis in an unending loop of crises once: their new homes and often undermined by the richer nation to the north,
along that contentious border. But, as Jonathan their old ones,= Jonathan which in turn is being shaped in many ways by the
Blitzer writes in his sweeping and insightful book, Blitzer writes in <Everyone migrants who quit those troubled lands and cross
<everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United states, Who Is Gone Is Here.= into the United states.
Central America, and the Making of a Crisis,= those <Immigrants have a way of transforming two
months marked a shift in America9s immigration places at once: their new homes and their old ones,=
conundrum. no longer were the arrests on the Blitzer writes.
border overwhelmingly Mexican migrants. Instead, The themes explored in the book feel all the more
these kids came primarily from the northern relevant as we enter a presidential campaign in
Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras and el which immigration is once again a centrally toxic
salvador. The United states was the site of the crisis issue. Already former president Donald Trump, who
4 and it also bore much of the responsibility for it, see BORDER on B7

RON CHARLES BECCA ROTHFELD SOCIETY FICTION

Kelly Link9s bewitching novel is The history of the lucrative, A mythical beast and the Kristin Hannah9s latest will leave
definitely not a short story. B2 destructive opium poppy. B4 Americans who love it. B5 readers in tears 4 again. B8
B2 eZ ee the washington post . sunday, february 11 , 2024

Fiction

A master
of wondrous
short stories
delivers
a long one ALLA dReyvITSeR/THe wASHINgToN PoST; ISTocK

Kelly Link is a genius. That9s Almost a year after they vanished from town, bodies melt, and the membrane separating magical quality seemed to be that every
not just my opinion. In 2018, Daniel, Laura and Mo find themselves in reality from fantasy is beaten to airy time I picked it up, it had grown longer. It9s
Link won a $625,000 <genius= their high school music room late at night. thinness. This is a novel in which statues not that there are too many chapters; it9s
grant from the MacArthur They9re dressed in costumes from <Bye Bye come to life and people become statues; that too many of them should have been
Foundation. Her strange and Birdie,= which, all things considered, may be couches change colors and then turn into pinched, under the general principle that a
surreal short stories 4 along worse than death. lambs; and a talking cat can swallow itself: manuscript should howl for mercy before
Ron with books published by Small <Something very strange has been <The mouth opened farther, the head turning readers do. Far too much narrative energy is
Charles Beer Press, which she co- happening,= Mo says. itself inside out, rosy wet gullet snapping frittered away on tedious conversations
founded with her husband 4 <But it9s okay now,= Laura insists. <Isn9t it?= together like a fanged coin purse, the voice involving Daniel, Laura and Mo trying to
have transfigured the genre of fabulist No, it9s not okay. And it9s about to get much continuing to speak until there was no cat at figure out what9s happening. Information
fiction. Her 2015 collection, <Get in Trouble,= less okay. all.= The wonders of Hollywood special that should have been sent by airmail
was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. Last fall, The Book <You are as you were,= their music teacher, effects feel like garish imitations next to crawls into town by tortoise. When essential
The Washington Post named her <White Cat, oF Love Mr. Anabin, declares. <I made you out of Link9s sorcery. revelations finally arrive on Page 422, Laura
Black Dog= one of the year9s best works of By Kelly Link yourselves, what you were and had been.= The three reconstituted students are says, <I don9t know why you couldn9t have
science fiction and fantasy. It was the only Random House. Even by the standards of high school music dazzled with horror and confusion when Mr. explained all of this right at the start.= I
story collection to make the list. 628 pp. $31 teachers, Mr. Anabin sounds unusually Anabin explains that they died almost a year wanted to hug her.
With her reputation for wonderment, grandiose. When he waves his hands around, ago. He and Bogomil will let them remain Delay and confusion don9t serve the
every new book by Link arrives trailing he9s not just conducting music; he9s conjuring among the living if they agree to a trial. novel9s fantastical mythology well, either.
clouds of enchantment. And given the living beings from thin air. (He9s mostly good <Something educational,= Mr. Anabin We learn 4 I9m saving you hours here 4
assumption that novels rank higher on the at this, though he does accidentally put one proposes. <Perhaps a series of tests.= that the world beyond this one contains a
scale of being than short stories 4 a fallacy of Laura9s ears on Daniel9s head.) He9s also And so, with a touch of <Buffy the Vampire series of doors. The details are vague, but it
driven mostly by marketing considerations 4 got an extraordinary companion named Slayer= snark, Daniel, Laura and Mo return sounds as though the afterlife is something
Link9s first novel has generated outsize Bogomil that looks like a dog or possibly a to their homes, where they find that their like a storm door display at Home Depot.
interest. She has obliged by delivering an wolf. families have been bewitched into believing Each one of these doors has two guards and
outsize novel. <It opened its jaws and panted,= Link that they weren9t dead but only abroad for requires a special key. A particularly nasty
At 628 pages, <The Book of Love= is a book writes. <It shimmied as if shucking off a too- the year, studying music in Ireland. While goddess named Malo Mogge 4 <a hurricane
to contend with, a tome that thunders: <I Am tight dress, stretching and flexing, emitting dealing with their spellbound relatives, the with a narcissistic personality complex= 4
Not a Short Story!= Adding to its epic aura, little whining noises of discomfort, and then trio must try to pass the cryptic test that Mr. has lost her key, and if it9s not found, she9ll
all the chapters announce themselves as there was a person instead of a dog-wolf- Anabin and Bogomil have set for them and incinerate the town of Lovesend.
parts of some fantastical bible, emblazoned thing, on his hands and knees upon the floor, figure out how they died during their last In other words, this whole enormous plot
with headings like <The Book of Daniel,= <The person mouth split open in an airless yawn.= musical performance. hangs on the fact that Malo Mogge can
Book of Laura= and <The Book of Mo.= Laura notes that he is the handsomest man But of course, they9re also young people command the powers of the universe, but
With this story for adults, Link is wending she9s ever seen, and yet he9s deeply with all their previous anxieties, questions she can9t get an Apple AirTag for her
her way through an old-growth forest of unnerving. <There was something about the and desires. Daniel feels burdened with the keychain. That feels both overly
fantasy novels that stretches from <Harry sound of his dirty feet on the floor that was responsibilities of caring for his many complicated and essentially silly, especially
Potter= to <The Chronicles of Narnia,= the worst thing yet. His expression did not siblings in a chaotic home that9s about to in contrast to the varieties of grief that the
adventures in which a small group of young change, but the sound suggested contact burst at the seams. Laura struggles to get three resurrected students are contending
people must confront a dark challenge and a with the world was agony. As if whatever along with her touchy sister. And Mo, a rare with.
maniacal adversary. But she9s also cutting her Bogomil was made of 4 surely not flesh? 4 African American in Lovesend, is grieving But damn if I didn9t fall back in love with
own distinctly Linkian path by following the rejected the contact even as it occurred. Or the recent loss of his grandmother, a writer this novel during the last 100 pages. As Link
struggles of modern-day teens as they figure did the floor, that unremarkable linoleum, who found fame and fortune in the largely soars toward the end, her wizardry gains
out who they are and who they love in an reject Bogomil? Yes. The whole room, in a White world of romance novels. (The chapter strength. With an eye toward landing the
unstable world shimmering with deception. kind of agony, refuted Bogomil. He was that describes her death is a tour de force perfect finale, the story swells with
The action begins in a swirl of mysteries in smiling. But every footfall was a strike on a that demonstrates once again what a wonder excitement. A spectacular murder and a
the seaside town of Lovesend, Mass. Three bell stopped with mud. A clot of blood Link is in miniature.) little cannibalism don9t hurt either. After all,
friends trapped in some kind of nether realm trembling on a rusted wire.= Surreal moments keep flying through this where would any love story be without that?
4 <a blotted, attenuated, chilly nothingness= There it is: the acidic elixir that makes story as hypnotically as starlings at twilight,
4 have suddenly been returned to life after drinking up Link9s work such an intoxicating but such dazzlement proves difficult to Ron Charles reviews books and writes the Book
eddying around <like conturbations of dust.= treat. In her prose, matter becomes plastic, maintain. Eventually, the novel9s most club newsletter for The washington Post.

Lovers reunite decades later, and their romance is anything but simple
BY J OAN F RANK childbearing ordeals 4 horrifying, riveting 4
and graphic snapshots of the relentless vigils
Roxana Robinson9s stunning new novel, of caring for kids (both toddling and grown).
<Leaving,= cost me some sleep, and continues All the good questions seep through. What do
to reverberate. A study of the complex joy and we owe whom, when allegiances are torn?
pain of late-life love, it is a tour de force and Sarah muses: <What are the rules? Should you
arguably her finest work yet. lie to children, to comfort them? What if you
The curtain opens on intermission at a New promise them that everything would be all
York performance of the opera <Tosca.= Di- right and then it isn9t?=
vorced, 60-year-old art curator Sarah recog- Yes, these characters are cosseted by money.
nizes Boston-based architect Warren, also 60. Robinson is calmly frank about it. When
The pair dated in their youth; Warren is now Warren visits a powerful client in a high-rise
long-married. But past feelings resurface 4 Leaving office: <One whole wall is glass. & The view
this time, more complicatedly. By Roxana itself 4 the height, the bright boats, the pale
The two have dinner, thrilled to find them- Robinson green statue, the sizzling blue water 4 is a
selves in perfect sync as seasoned adults; their w.w. Norton. wealth signifier, like a sable coat.= Though
tastes, passions and accrued wisdom collude 344 pp. $28.99 Sarah recalls an era when she had to put back
and complement. Even walking together groceries she couldn9t pay for, in present tense
<their strides are the same length,= making she and Warren don9t ask about prices; one
Sarah <ridiculously pleased.= A delicious, ma- imagines that their homes resemble old adver-
ture love ignites. tisements for Cutty Sark. But their socioeco-
Realizing that he and Sarah cannot relin- nomic niche enables and defines the principle
quish each other, Warren dutifully sets about of honor so central to this narrative; it frees
seeking a divorce from Janet, the hopelessly them to zero in on questions of moral debt
BeowuLf SHeeHAN
off-key wife he has patiently squired for 34 embedded in their identities.
years. He is conflicted about leaving Janet. And even if their wealth feels at times
<Irrationally, he feels bereft. He is losing her.= He can9t sever it from himself, he can9t be cords.= Likewise, Warren9s body <is sixty years off-putting, Robinson9s writing 4 unfailingly
He wants to <make her understand, so she9ll severed. He can9t lose her.= Broad strokes give old. The thin cluster of hair on his chest is gray clear-eyed, packed with psychological insights
take his side. But he can9t tell her the truth.= way to finessed particulars 4 weather, land- & there are now hollows below the shoulder 4 compels readers to care passionately about
Worse, he risks permanently alienating his scapes, food, paintings, books, music. Robin- bones; gravity tugging at him.= Yet sex proves them. Because of that, the novel9s pressure
beloved only child, Kat, a willful, volatile son brings readers inside the heads of her good: <a kind of explosion of trust.= steadily bears down; Robinson has sown in
grown daughter whose resulting rage is im- leads and their supporting ensembles: their Sarah and Warren narrate their own stories just enough occlusion and uncertainty that its
placable. These and countless other scenes of growing up <in the same community outside in turn, and the full arcs of their long experi- final impact shatters 4 and the aftershocks
confrontation amazed me with their powerful Philadelphia & everyone connected by kin or ence are infused with Robinson9s broad intelli- abide. <Leaving= stands as a wondrous feat, at
eloquence. In Roxana friendship=; their late parents9 stories; their gence. So much is addressed head-on, un- once a cautionary tale, cutaway reveal and
Robinson, whose previous books include Robinson9s new early romance and breakup as college kids; flinchingly: art9s import; architecture9s poten- pageant. I can9t forget it.
<Dawson9s Fall= (2019) and <Cost= (2008), is a novel, a couple the strangeness of aging, of having sex in an tial. Politics, too. The novel is set during the
world-class noticer, delivering observations in who dated in aging body. Sarah wonders <if she will be Obama years, and Warren touchingly insists Joan Frank9s latest books are <Late work: A
sentences that are shapely and sensuous yet college meet enough. & Beautiful enough? Young enough? the president is <doing a great job,= convinced Literary Autobiography of Love, Loss, and what I
brisk. Kat, Warren realizes, <is part of him. & again at 60. There are lines in her face, her neck is getting that <democracy will hold.= Robinson captures was Reading= and <Juniper Street: A Novel.=
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Before Romeo and Juliet, there was Khosrow and Shirin

Obstacles, prohibitions, To get me careless drunk and have your
uncertainties 4 these are fun,
essential to the blossoming A rose to sniff, and throw out when you9re
and continuance of romantic done!
love. They ensure that the When the two first meet, Shirin appears
imagination, rather than more tough-minded than she really is, telling
Michael harsh experience, governs the youthful Khosrow, then living in exile,
Dirda the erotic relationship: that <only when you9re crowned will you
Unable to meet freely, the obtain/ The sought-for prize that you9re so
two lovers construct idealized versions of keen to gain.= She insists on marriage, on
each other, to which they then offer their becoming queen 4 not just another
sighs, tears and hopes for happiness. Little concubine. But when Khosrow does regain
wonder, then, that our most intensely KhoSrow his kingdom, largely through the help of the
romantic stories are largely about yearning & Shirin emperor in Byzantium, he is required to wed
rather than fulfillment: Think of Tristan and by Nezami that sovereign9s devout daughter Maryam,
Isolde, Lancelot and Guinevere, Romeo and Ganjavi, who, Nezami slyly adds, <made a Christian
Juliet, Gatsby and Daisy, Leo Vincey and translated from heaven of his life.= Not surprisingly, Khosrow
Ayesha (from H. Rider Haggard9s <She=). the Persian by is again soon yearning for Shirin.
To that list one should add the Dick Davis She, in her turn, is suffering sleepless
protagonists of two of medieval Persia9s mage Publishers. nights over him when not ravaged by
greatest romantic epics, <Layla and 520 pp. $50 jealousy:
Majnun= and <Khosrow and Shirin,= both by What is my heart that I should care for it?
the poet Nezami Ganjavi (1141-1209). In the I9ve had no joy of it, no benefit.
first, the lovers experience suffering and At times Fate hurts us all, but I9ve no way
madness before transcending the bodily to To halt this pain that9s here day after day;
achieve a spiritual union reminiscent of the Oh, I was happy once, but then I fell
Liebestod (<love-death=) in Wagner9s opera From blissful days to days of endless hell.
<Tristan und Isolde.= Famous all over the How long must I hide all this ceaseless
Middle East, <Layla and Majnun= has also burning!
enjoyed some currency in English: I first When shall I see the end of all this
encountered it in a simplified 1915 yearning?
abridgment gorgeously illustrated by Halfway through this long poem, Nezami
Edmund Dulac. In 2020, this arch-romantic introduces a stonemason, a gentle giant
work was freshly translated by the poet named Farhad, who grows so dazzled by
Dick Davis, and this is now the version to Shirin that he wanders into the desert,
read. After all, Davis firmly established forgets to eat and thinks of nothing but his
himself as our leading translator from adored and unattainable beloved. Medieval
Persian with his stunning 2006 rendering of knights tended to behave this way too, for
the <Shahnameh,= a sprawling historical courtly love easily morphs into religious
epic analogous in importance and influence mysticism.
to Homer9s <Iliad.= Compared with Farhad9s pure devotion,
This year, and just in time for Valentine9s Khosrow keeps on living for pleasure, and
Day, Davis and his publisher, Mage (located once he hears about an apparently
here in Washington), have brought out promiscuous beauty named Shekar, he can9t
Nezami9s other great romance, <Khosrow & get her out of his mind. What follows is one
Shirin,= which draws in part on episodes of the most entertaining sections of the
from the <Shahnameh.= Once again, Davis poem, an example of that universal folklore
emulates the original9s rhyming couplets, motif, the bed trick. After Shekar entertains
this time to tell the story of the last great Khosrow, she sends a maid, dressed to
pre-Islamic king, Khosrow Parviz, and his resemble her mistress, to spend the night
passion for the beautiful but strong- with the blind-drunk king. In the morning,
minded, almost proto-feminist Shirin Shekar innocently settles beside the smug
(pronounced shih-REEN). It9s a fascinating Khosrow, who asks if she9s ever encountered
work that challenges and rewards the Poet Dick Davis, any lover as virile as he is:
modern reader in equal measure. the translator of She said, <Oh, you9re the best, I swear it9s
First, by today9s narrative standards, <Khosrow & true,
Nezami9s style is slow-moving, baroque and Shirin,= also I9ve never seen another man like you!=
flowery. Italo Calvino once compared its translated the But then she adds the kicker:
richness to the glorious excess of <Shahnameh,= an There is one tiny fault we might regret 4
Shakespeare9s <Venus and Adonis.= While ancient Persian Your breath smells dreadful; please don9t
Davis9s English always remains clear, historical epic. be upset!
Nezami revels in litanies of similes and mohAmmAD bATmANGlij for mAGe Pubishers As the poem progresses, Nezami sets up
metaphors, many requiring interpretation. multiple situations in which the two lovers
Almond blossoms, for example, represent argue about their feelings for each other.
pale cheeks; breasts are likened to give advice on how we should live. <Khosrow often drunk, while Shirin doesn9t seem to When an intoxicated Khosrow tries to make
pomegranates (very <Song of Songs=); and a & Shirin= is packed with gnomic sayings, know her own mind. When we first meet this his way into Shirin9s castle, she staunchly
handsome maiden is regularly compared to most often urging us to shun this mutable niece of the ruler of Arman, she9s a bit spoiled keeps the gates locked and guarded, even
a cypress tree. Invaluable endnotes clarify world, practice self-control and aspire to a and used to getting her way. Though she though it9s snowing. Nonetheless, when the
the more obscure meanings. more spiritual way of life. At times, one can weeps and pines for Khosrow, and regularly time is finally right, Shirin overcomes her
Still, Nezami9s expressions, in Davis9s even read the poem as an allegory of, and seems ready to succumb to his imploring pride and sexual reticence, so that she can
English, can be striking on their own, as in invitation to practice, a kind of Sufi advances and his call to <seize the day,= a murmur to her beloved: <Make me the wine
this playful description of nightfall: mysticism: sense 4 a shrewd sense 4 of her own worth you drink tonight.=
<Beneath night9s ebony backgammon Seek peace, then nothingness, and you will inevitably reasserts itself, and she sends him As for Khosrow himself, he gradually
board/ The shining dice of day were safely leave packing. Here9s Khosrow sounding a typical comes to realize that <I9ve spent my days/
stored.= In the exquisiteness of his singing, This earth9s existence, where you9re forced plea: Searching for useless things in useless ways!=
Khosrow9s court musician <could compete to grieve 4 Come through this doorway into happiness Through Shirin9s civilizing love, the self-
with tipsy nightingales.= As for Shirin, she Let the wind take your soul, forsake here, Where life consists of pleasure and success, indulgent king slowly progresses from a
possesses <eyes like life9s dark water,= while sever And let us live tonight, since who can know pointless life to a spiritually meaningful and
<each finger is as slender as a pen/ That Your ties to earth9s foul prison-house What turns of Fate tomorrow9s dawn will selfless one. In the end, not even death will
signs death warrants for a hundred men.= forever. show? separate Khosrow and Shirin.
One lavish section about Shirin9s physical The world9s contemptible, and will desert The king usually then adds how much he
beauty and the pleasures it will someday you. utterly adores Shirin, but she wisely puts no Michael dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist
afford a lover could be summed up in the Third, and most interesting of all, trust in his words: for book world and the author of the memoir <An
self-description of Flaubert9s Queen of Nezami9s hero and heroine aren9t at all the But no, you simply want to have me handy open book= and of four collections of essays:
Sheba: <I am not a woman: I am a world!= earthly paragons they9re said to be. King To sweet-talk when you9re drunk, to crunch <readings,= <bound to Please,= <book by book= and
Second, Nezami is a moralist: He likes to Khosrow is sybaritic, deceitful, boastful and like candy, <Classics for Pleasure.=

In a seaside village, a dark and devilish sibling rivalry

BY K ATHERINE A . P OWERS sary is already within.=
The Widow9s is not the only satanic force at
ichael Crummey, a poet and one of large in Mockbeggar. Her brother, Abe, impul-

M North America9s finest novelists,

has set all six of his novels in his
native Newfoundland, most in the
18th and 19th centuries. His conjuring of the
rawness, cruelty and precariousness of life
sive, unruly and rarely sober, is at the center of
a <spiraling accretion of chaos.= He murders a
man, sets up a brothel, promotes gambling,
fosters drunkenness, provokes a riot, and
beats and maims his wife 4 to mention only a
during this time is detailed and haunting. few of his accomplishments. Further, he has
His new novel, <The Adversary,= is, like his connived at becoming the town9s justice of the
previous, <The Innocents= (2019), set on the peace and bases his rulings solely on his own
unforgiving coast of the Labrador Sea in the interests and whims. Between Abe and the
first half of the 19th century. The earlier book, The Widow Caines9s machinations, Mockbegger
which is marginally and slyly connected to the adverSary has become a theater of enmity, violence and
present one, tells the story of a young or- by michael tribulation. To be sure, there are good people
phaned brother and sister left as sole inhabit- Crummey here too, among them three young people
ants of their late parents9 fishing outpost on an Doubleday. whose stories we also follow; but what is
isolated cove. The children survive 4 barely 4 336 pp. $29 wholesome and decent has little chance of
chiefly by catching and preserving cod that survival in this decidedly postlapsarian world.
they exchange for provisions from a fish Torn apart by these two warring siblings,
merchant9s agent, the Beadle, who sails into the town may be doomed to disappear, as so
the cove twice a year aboard the schooner many human endeavors and cultures already
Hope. As the children grow older, the perils of have. While digging a drain, workmen discov-
their existence are escalated by the dawn of er and open an ancient coffin, revealing to the
urgent but unfathomable sexual feelings. Un- townspeople9s wondering eyes the body of a
fathomable, because the children9s knowledge man in Puritan garb, a relic of an extinct way
is sketchy, gathered haphazardly from Bible and understanding of life. The corpse, clasp-
stories and their parents9 chance remarks. ing a Bible, is wearing a ring engraved with a
ANDrew mACCormACk
They are, in a word, innocents: Adam and Eve winged skull and the words <Death Conquers
in an unabundant Eden. All.= Where another person might consider
<The Adversary= occupies the same time the inscription a reminder of an unhappy
frame but in a small harbor town, called swaggering bully with no talent or appetite for talent.= In his righteous misogyny, the Beadle truth, the Widow finds something quite &
Mockbeggar. Its two leading citizens were, running a business. The visceral hatred be- recoils at her <sulfurous pride and ambition,= different.
until recently, Cornelius Strapp and Elias tween the siblings drives the plot into very feeling at times <it was the Adversary he heard <The Adversary= is a beautifully written,
Caines. Both were fish merchants and ship dark territory. Where the previous novel speaking through her, the Dark One9s cunning immensely powerful and subtly ingenious
owners with far-flung fishing outposts. The brought to mind Adam and Eve, here we have and subtlety.= He is not alone. Aubrey Picco, novel. Its greatest 4 which is to say, most
men had been upstanding and civic-minded Cain and Abel. once Elias9s headman and now the Widow9s, Like his other monstrous 4 revelations are so discreetly
benefactors to the community, but now their After her husband9s death, the Widow cut gazes bleakly out the window after learning novels, Michael offered that you could miss them; but when
businesses have been passed on 4 to Abe her hair and donned men9s clothing, a <devi- she has inherited the business: <There was a Crummey9s latest is you realize them, they practically take your
Strapp, Cornelius9s son, and to Elias9s wife, ant habit of dress= that scandalizes the entire broken line of sea ice pinnacled on the near set in his native breath away. They did mine. And when I
known simply as the Widow Caines. The new town 4 and no one more than Abe9s headman, shoreline by wind and tide and looking like Newfoundland, and turned the last page, I just sat there, utterly
owners are, as it happens, brother and sister. the Beadle, from the earlier book. A <punctili- the outer wall of an Arctic fortress, glowing it shares a stunned by this novel9s terrible force.
The Widow is ruthless, adept at business ous, sanctimonious prig,= he views the Widow against the bay9s dark water. A voice like the connection with his
strategy, domineering and infinitely devious; as an abomination; even her undoubted gift voice of the spirit spoke to Aubrey then. The previous book, <The Katherine a. Powers reviews audiobooks every
Abe is a wastrel and a drunkard, a debauched, for business is to him <almost an infernal fortress walls are useless, it said. The Adver- Innocents.= month for The washington Post.
b4 eZ ee the washington post . sunday, february 11 , 2024

nonFiction

How a fragile ûower, and a colonial cartel, devastated Asia

The problem began with a grow, and the black market continued to
flower, a delicate blossom flourish. <Faced with overwhelming
with a slender stalk. It was a asymmetry in military power, there were
fragile-looking plant, with very few weapons that the colonized could
petals as fine as tissue paper, resort to,= Ghosh observes. <The clandestine
yet it proved to be a opium trade became an instrument of
Becca formidable opponent. resistance,= as well as a way of generating the
Rothfeld As the novelist Amitav wealth that would eventually contribute to
Ghosh demonstrates in his the prosperity of present-day Mumbai. Bihar,
new work of nonfiction, <Smoke and Ashes: on the other hand, remains the poorest state
Opium9s Hidden Histories,= the unassuming in India.
opium poppy is to blame for much of the By the time Britain took charge of Malwa,
devastation that swept through China and opium had become a desirable good in its
India in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Of own right for one simple reason: Millions of
course, the flower did not act alone: British people were violently addicted to it. By the
colonialists and American merchants end of the 19th century, at least 3 to
conspired to wreak havoc alongside it. Still, 10 percent of the Chinese population, and
Ghosh9s impressive history of the opium possibly as much as 30 or 40 percent, were
industry is an attempt to acknowledge <the regular users. Western traders justified their
historical agency of botanical matter= 4 to behavior by appealing to the newly popular
understand the drug <as an actor in its own ideology of the free market. Supply, they
right.= insisted, always chased demand; if they
At first, the opium poppy took a back seat manufactured and sold enormous quantities
to another history-defining plant: tea. The of opium, it was only because the Chinese
British drank it by the gallon and lined their had a preexisting weakness for it (a charge,
coffers by taxing it aggressively. <Through of course, with racist undertones). But as
much of the Industrial Revolution,= Ghosh Ghosh eloquently argues, <Where plentiful
writes, <the finances of the British supplies of opioids exist, they will create
government were heavily dependent on tea, their own demand,= especially when they are
the vast bulk of which came from China.= But backed by a military power keen on
eager British merchants soon encountered a maximizing its profits. Human economic
difficulty: China was uninterested in the laws are no match for the dark designs of the
wares they had to offer in return. As the poppy.
Qianlong Emperor observed in a withering The Western merchants who profited so
letter to King George III in 1793, <We have handsomely from the opium trade were often
never valued ingenious articles, nor do we politely euphemistic about the source of their
have the slightest need of your country9s wealth, probably in an attempt to minimize
FLoRILegIus/uNIveRsaL Images gRouP/geTTy Images
manufactures.= The two commodities that their role in an enterprise that they quietly
did tempt Chinese traders both came from acknowledged to be unjust. Yet the fruits of
other influential plants. The first was cotton; them into a smokable substance. <As recently the villages where they were posted: they the industry are all around us.
the second was a nefarious substance as the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,= could break open doors, raid houses and Among the Americans who dominated the
<harvested from a variety of poppy, Papaver Ghosh explains, <it would take almost an arrest farmers almost at will.= To deter industry were the moguls designated by
somniferum.= entire year for poppy sap to be converted into smugglers, the East India Company hired Oliver Wendell Holmes as the <Boston
China banned the importation of opium as usable opium.= <large numbers of spies and informants= and Brahmins.= As Ghosh remarks wryly, the
early as 1729, for which reason the East India The Indian opium industry was therefore offered them rewards for ratting on their names of these elite entrepreneurs <read like
Company <could not formally or explicitly not the sort of thing that could spring up by neighbors. a litany of the Northeastern upper crust.=
acknowledge that its opium was intended for happenstance, nor was it a time-honored To make matters even worse, the farmers Their descendants included the likes of John
the Chinese market.= But it did not take long feature of life on the subcontinent. Although were so poorly compensated that they Murray Forbes and Franklin D. Roosevelt,
for British capitalists to devise a the British colonial regime worked hard to operated at a loss. <We cultivate the poppy and their predilection for chinoiserie and
workaround: Instead of selling the drug in smOke ANd promote the self-serving myth <that opium under pressure from the Government, Chinese-inspired architecture endures in
China directly, they auctioned it off to AsHes was a traditional Indian drug,= Ghosh shows otherwise we would not do it, and our prayer America9s visual landscape.
<private traders,= who proceeded to smuggle Opium9s that tradition had nothing to do with its is that we may be released from the trouble,= By far the most enduring legacy of the
it into the country. When China attempted to Hidden eventual ubiquity in the country. Before the hundreds of them lamented in a fruitless West9s ill-fated adventure in the opium trade,
crack down in the late 1830s and early 1840s, Histories British established a veritable <narco-state= petition. Meanwhile, in the cities, Indian however, is the opioid epidemic, which has
Britain contrived an excuse to attack. The by amitav ghosh in the 1760s, poppies were not harvested in laborers were compelled to work in hot, killed more than half a million Americans in
first Opium War lasted four years, and when Farrar, straus & India at scale. congested processing plants that were cloudy the last decade alone. To this day, the largest
it ended, the opium trade continued apace. giroux. The enormously lucrative and immensely with opium fumes. And of course, while the opioid-manufacturing plants are located in
In 1860, the British went so far as to pressure 398 pp. $32 destructive regime that emerged had two Indigenous populations in both the cities and India. As <Smoke and Ashes= shows in
the Chinese to legalize the drug, with central seats, one <around Patna= (modern- the countryside languished in poverty, the forceful, even thundering, prose, the Boston
predictably devastating consequences for day Bihar) in eastern India and one in Malwa British official presiding over the Brahmins and the East India Company
local populations. (now, roughly, Mumbai and the surrounding arrangement lived in a luxurious manor. unleashed an evil they could not restrain.
Opium9s analgesic properties have been A 1900 print regions) in the west. The Bihar outpost was The Malwa opium growers fared They believed they could keep opium out of
treasured by physicians for centuries 4 and by the especially exploitative. The farmers who somewhat better, largely because they were their own countries, but, as Ghosh writes,
the drug has been a favorite of courtly elites Japanese artist worked there were permitted to sell poppies fortunate enough to hail from a territory that they did not understand <that they were
as far back as antiquity 4 but recreational Kono Bairei only to agents of the East India Company, maintained its independence for several colluding not only with human criminals but
usage did not become widespread until the depicts an and the infamous Opium Department that decades longer 4 a development that made also with non-human entities that operate on
19th century, when the arduous cultivation opium poppy. reigned over local production was tyrannical, all the difference to the economic fate of a wholly different timescale.= Who can tell if
and refinement process was streamlined and Millions of even proto-totalitarian, determining specifics western India in the long run. British humanity will ever be able to defeat the
industrialized. Poppies require an enormous people were such as <which farmers could grow poppies= authorities did not annex the region until the humble flower?
amount of water and care, and even when addicted to and <how much they could plant.= The early 1800s, and when they tried to protect
the finicky flowers have been coaxed to opium in the department9s employees exercised what their monopoly by banning opium farming, becca Rothfeld is the nonfiction book critic for
bloom, it is no trifling matter to transform 19th century. Ghosh describes as <seigneurial powers in the poppy defied them: Flowers continued to The Washington Post.

ChatGPT isn9t the ûrst 4 8literary robots9 have aided writers for centuries
BY G ABRIEL N ICHOLAS cational applications of artificial intelligence.
Of course, the advent of the computer
efore blocked writers could turn to eventually led literary robots to read and

B ChatGPT for help, they might have

consulted Wycliffe Hill9s 1930s man-
ual, <The Plot Genie.= The genie9s
magic was held in a series of numbered lists
that, according to Hill, collectively contained
write on their own. At last, they could infer
the rules of language themselves, rather than
merely encoding the worldview of a lone
tinkerer. And the first thing computers read,
Tenen says, was literature. Ada Lovelace, the
every story ever told. Simply spin the first computer programmer, described that
cardboard <Plot Robot= wheel (sold sepa- work as a <poetical science.= Much later, the
rately) and generate <a complete plot frame- Markov Chain, a language-generation algo-
work every five minutes.= Perhaps a coffee LiteRARy rithm whose descendants include ChatGPT
taster (Unusual Male Character No. 148) and tHeORy and Google search, was first created to
a dope addict9s sister (Usual Female Charac- fOR RObOts emulate poetry in the style of Alexander
ter No. 50) desire <vengeance against a rival How Pushkin9s epic poem <Eugene Onegin.= Even
in love [but are] opposed by inclement Computers when the U.S. military sought to use auto-
weather= (Problems List Nos. 5, 11). Or Learned generated text as part of its command-and-
maybe a lighthouse tender (Usual Male to Write control approach to managing the Cold War,
Character No. 81) and an attorney (Unusual by Dennis yi it trained the technology to create sentences
Female Character No. 23) are <about to Tenen using Lois Lenski9s 1940 children9s book <The
permit an unrecognized sister to perish in a W.W. Norton. Little Train.= From the beginning, computer
fire= (Crisis No. 159), when all of a sudden 158 pp. $22 science and literature have been mirrored
<advantage is threatened by a race riot= arts, one allowing programmers to express
(Predicament No. 126). logic with symbols, the other allowing writers
The Plot Genie is just one of modern AI9s to use symbols to create meaning.
many distant cousins described by Dennis Yi It9s reassuring to know that while what we
Tenen, a professor of comparative literature consider <intelligence= has always shifted in
at Columbia University and a former Micro- response to technological developments, cre-
soft engineer, in his peculiar history of the ativity has never been extinguished. <Literary
modern chatbot, <Literary Theory for Robots: Theory for Robots= helps us recognize that
How Computers Learned to Write.= Instead of over time, the seemingly extraordinary fades
drawing a line from GPT-3 to GPT-4 to the into the ordinary, becoming yet another tool
yaLe uNIveRsITy, geNeRaL coLLecTIoN, beINecke RaRe books aND maNuscRIPT LIbRaRy
robot apocalypse (as today9s AI alarmists through which we think and write in conver-
tend to do), Tenen stretches much further sation with others. As Tenen writes: <Diction-
into the past and beyond the boundaries of aries, grammars, thesauruses, and encyclope-
computer science, going from medieval Ara- throughout history, discussing them and answer. As with modern chatbots, the futures dias were once hailed as monumental nation-
bic divination circles to 17th-century German their lovable weirdo inventors to trace paral- it imagined for you depended on how you al achievements. Today, they are silently
cabinetmakers to Boeing aviation incident lels with our current AI moment. Tenen never described your problems to it. integrated into digital autocompletion or
reports. totally justifies his larger worldview that As new literary robots came onto the autocorrection tools.=
Tenen9s goal is not only for readers to authors are indistinguishable from the tools scene, they inspired familiar debates, includ- But that feeling of reassurance is fleeting.
understand the contemporary chatbot9s they use to write. But if you take the effort to ing a heated exchange of letters between two While Tenen9s book helps us understand how
predecessors but for them to reimagine their wade through this sometimes confusing, 17th-century Germans: Polymath Athanasius we got here, it doesn9t take stock of where
relationship to the written word. The rise of erratic book, you will be rewarded with Kircher had just invented the Mathematical <here= is and whether it9s where we want to
chatbots, he argues, is just the latest in a something else: the cool, soothing relief that Organ, a large wooden cabinet with movable be. Despite the long arc of technological
centuries-long trend of the line blurring these times are, in fact, precedented. slats that, depending on the manual (or history, it is hard to feel positive about
between authors and the tools they use, As Tenen shows throughout, ours is far <application=) consulted, could be used to chatbots9 effect on creative work, especially
between individual and collective intelli- from the first moment when scholars have compose music, encrypt secret messages or as once-trusted media outlets fill with AI-
gence. <The mistake,= Tenen writes, <was ever attempted to uncover universal rules of write poetry. Kircher sought to convince written sludge and coaxing ChatGPT be-
to imagine intelligence in a vat of private language and then use them to make predic- bad-boy poet Quirinus Kuhlmann that his comes the central task of more creative jobs.
exceptional achievement. Thinking and writ- The zairajah, a tions, answer questions and write stories. invention was a boon to society. Imbuing this It can be comforting to zoom out from the
ing happen through time, in dialogue with a medieval Arabic Without computers to crunch through data cabinet with intelligence, Kircher argued, day-to-day tumult, the better to see our place
crowd,= and we have built technologies to divination circle. It to uncover these rules, however, early author- had made the knowledge of the ages more as part of a larger historical pattern. But
mediate that conversation since writing be- was used to convert engineers had to make up their own. Take for accessible. Kuhlmann, however, argued that should we call that comfort a kind of
gan. questions into instance the zairajah, a 14th-century Arabic intelligence without understanding was wisdom? Or is it just complacency?
Tenen does not go about making this numbers, which divination circle and algorithmic soothsayer. worth nothing. Under the tutelage of the
argument the way one might expect, drawing were then matched The curious could ask the zairajah a question, Mathematical Organ, Kuhlmann argued, a Gabriel Nicholas is a research fellow at the
direct lineages from, say, Noah Webster9s with a series of and their wording would be converted into child could grow up to become only an center for Democracy & Technology and a
dictionary to auto-correct. Instead, he assem- tables to generate numbers and looked up in a web of connected <idiotic parrot.= More than 350 years later, nonresident fellow at the Nyu Information Law
bles a dollhouse of obscure <literary robots= an answer. tables to generate a vague but intelligible similar conversations swirl around the edu- Institute.
sunday, february 11 , 2024 . the washington post EZ EE B5

nonFiction

the secret
history oF
BigFoot
Field Notes on a
North American
Monster
By John
O9Connor
Sourcebooks.
289 pp. $26.99

What the
search
for Bigfoot
teaches us
about
ourselves
AP PHOTOS

BY C ARL H OFFMAN ABOVE: A black- seen and heard ivory bills, a recent multiyear
and-white image effort by the Cornell University Lab of Orni-

S
ome years ago I lived for a time in a from a color film thology yielded 2,000 hours of audio and
rough-hewed plank house on the that Frank White 7.8 million images from remote cameras,
banks of a river in a remote, 10,000- said he took in a searched 44,000 acres by foot and 152,000
square-mile swamp. The village in forest near acres by helicopter, mapped 215 tree cavities
Indonesian New Guinea had no elec- Bellingham, Wash., and took another 1 million photos, and found
tricity, plumbing or stores. It was unconnect- in 1977. <I'd call it a not a single piece of definitive evidence for the
ed to anyplace else by roads, telephone or North American birds. A standing reward of $50,000 for
internet. My hosts were an extended family ape,= White said. information leading to proof of an ivory-billed
who knew 4 intimately, for their entire lives 4 <You can call it a remains uncollected. And that9s for an animal
every person in the village. Yet shortly after Sasquatch or once known to exist. A 7-to-10-foot-tall, biped-
sundown, despite stifling heat and humidity, anything you like.= al, fur-covered, sour-smelling, swift-moving
the patriarch insisted that the doors and LEFT: creature of the American woods?
window shutters 4 there were neither panes Photographer There9s some great stuff here. About myth
of glass nor screens 4 be closed. This was not Roger Patterson and imagination. About the power and impor-
to be trifled with; there was an urgency to it. compares his foot tance of wilderness and wildness to the
Protection from mosquitoes, bats, lizards? No, with a cast he said human psyche. About belief, and the lies our
these creatures of the night flew and crawled he made of a own eyes relay to us each and every day. But
through the two-inch-wide spaces in the floor- Bigfoot footprint in <The Secret History of Bigfoot= is a frustrating
boards, walls and eaves. Finally, I understood. a forested area near read. The Bigfooters O9Connor hangs out with
Other things were out there when the sun Eureka, Calif., in come across as overgrown adolescent nitwits
dropped. Mysterious, mythical, malignant. 1967. Despite many desperate for fellowship and purpose, who
As John O9Connor makes clear in his first claimed sightings, seem to have lost the ability to parse truth
book, <The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field no proof of the from fiction, the real from the imagined, and
Notes on a North American Monster,= the mythical creature seem incapable of metaphor. It9s no coinci-
story of human beings 4 always, everywhere has ever come to dence, O9Connor makes clear, that these dudes
4 is the story of things out there in the night. light. happen to be the same disaffected, middle-
It is an essential human idea, the counter- aged White men who also love QAnon and
weight to civilization and culture, to the another oversize biped who inhabits their
warmth of the fire and community, of a dreams. All of which is no fun at all and gets
wildness, within and without. <We lose some- tedious quickly.
thing profound if we look at wild places and O9Connor makes it worse by wrapping his
don9t imagine a hidden creature there,= a writing in an adolescent asides: <A lazy de-
Bigfooter tells O9Connor. <It9s how we connect scription I9m sticking with=; <There9s a joke to
to the mystery.= be made here about a sausage party that9s
There is an enormous difference, however, quite frankly beneath me=; <There are so many
between the sacred metaphor of something things wrong with that sentence I don9t even
out there, the thing that keeps us home and know where to begin. Let9s just move on.=
that we genuflect to when the mist rolls over a There are way too many of these tics, and they,
dark patch of forest or when thunder cracks, too, soon become tedious.
and the literal search for it. One is fascinating, Ultimately, though, the hunt for Bigfoot
expansive, full of meaning; the other banal reveals much about the poverty of the Ameri-
and reductive. <Mel Skahan, a member of the can psyche. Or, at least, the poverty of the
Yakama Nation in central Washington, told American male psyche, which can9t seem to
me that as a boy, he heard Bigfoot stories from distinguish between fact and fiction. There9s a
his great-great-grandfather,= writes O9Connor. reason Bigfoot is a biped, after all. That big,
<In these tales, Bigfoot was usually an allusive, hairy creature running through the forest on
nonliteral figure. & 8I took these stories as a two legs is always out there and will always be
passing along of symbolic tales,9 Mel said. 8My out there because he9s the wild creature, the
great-great-grandfather never admitted to Wildman, inside of every one of us. The Native
having an actual sighting.9= Americans didn9t go search for it because they
As modern Americans, though, we like our knew better 4 because, as Mel Skahan told
gods literal. These days Pentecostals speak O9Connor, they knew Bigfoot was <allusive.=
directly with Jesus right next to them in the They understood imagination, metaphor,
front seat, and Donald Trump is heaven sent, symbolism and mystery, that there was a place
as any MAGA rallygoer will tell you. From for the sacred and a place for the literal, and
Maine to Washington state to Texas to Massa- keeping them apart is important, in science
chusetts, O9Connor travels from one Bigfoot and in politics, because they play vitally
hunt or convention to another, among men 4 different roles. My impoverished hosts in New
they9re almost all men 4 obsessed with spot- lucky (or conniving) souls have even snapped that bears and moose decompose quickly in Guinea understood that, too. Yes, they closed
ting and interacting with Bigfoot itself. See it a distant, blurry picture that others spend lots the wilderness and seldom leave physical the doors and windows every night, but those
they do, relentlessly 4 the Bigfoot Field of time and money analyzing. traces. Everybody knows what they9ve seen doors and windows had no locks, no bars, no
Researchers Organization maintains a data- Never mind that no Bigfoot scat has ever with their very own eyes. Never mind that fasteners of any kind; nothing that would
base of 75,000 eyewitness sightings since the been found. No skeleton or fur, no DNA of any veteran wildlife biologists O9Connor speaks to actually keep any creature or malignant force
mid-1990s. They hear it knocking on trees, its kind, ever. Never mind that ubiquitous wild- refute these <truths= or that witnesses rou- from entering. Simply closing the door was
preferred method of communication (many life camera traps routinely catch photos of tinely condemn innocents to prison. We see enough. It was the idea that counted.
<researchers= carry baseball bats to knock elusive mountain lions and every other kind of what we want to see. A case in point: the
back and <call= it forth). They see it leaping fauna, but never once one of these commonly extinct ivory-billed woodpecker, whose last carl hoffman is the author of five books, including
across the road, sprinting through the forest. encountered Bigfoots. Everyone knows, the proven sighting was in 1944. Although even <Liar9s Circus,= <The Last Wild Men of Borneo= and
They find its tracks, and occasionally a few obsessives tell O9Connor over and over again, experienced birders keep swearing to have <Savage Harvest.=

Some book clubs meet at cobee shops. This group meets behind bars.
BY R ON C HARLES interest, and so every Friday, Wilson started
meeting for an hour and half with six to 12 men
family member of the dead protagonist. <Is
this going to work?= Wilson wondered. But he
<Reading great They find it super compelling. So do I. Reading
great work out loud in a setting like that is
hen Washington Post reporter <to read great books and have fun talking admired the novel so much he wanted to try. work out loud really moving. My wife tells me every time,

W Scott Wilson moved back to Santa

Barbara, Calif., where he9d grown
up, he hoped to reconnect with the
community. About 18 months ago, he did what
a lot of folks do: He started a book group.
about what great writing means.=
He also gives the men composition journals,
offers prompts based on the books and goes
over their writing with them.
The responses have been heartening, and
<They loved it,= he says. <And when I asked,
8What9s this book about?9 one of the guys
looked at me and said, 8It9s about the lies and
the stories we tell each other to keep being
happy, to keep going on.9=
in a setting like
that is really
8You know, you come back so energized and
enthusiastic.9 I don9t want to be too woo-woo
about this, but there9s something just human
about it. It really does feel like a unique
privilege being among them.=
But Wilson9s book group meets in cell block
East-23 in the county jail. All the members,
the range of books they9ve tackled is striking.
So far, they9ve read more than three dozen
I wish I9d said that.
Wilson, who recently took a buyout from
moving.= But it9s an expensive one, too. Wilson needs
money to buy the men books and journals. If
except him, are inmates. titles, including works by Zora Neale Hurston, The Post, admits that the old jail is grim, scott Wilson, former you9d like to help, you can make a donation to
Wilson was hoping to explore what he9d Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, Tim through no fault of the sheriff, who he thinks is Washington Post his GoFundMe campaign at gofund.me/
learned from his liberal arts education: how to O9Brien, S.E. Hinton and Mary Shelley. amazing. <It just feels sad and hard to go to reporter and jail ada75118.
read great books. <It9s just enriched my life so Wilson was initially skeptical about assign- that place,= he says. book group leader
much over the years,= he tells me, <I wanted to ing Alice McDermott9s <Charming Billy,= which <But every time I go, I come out feeling like a This article was excerpted from our free Book Club
find a way to share that.= won a National Book Award in 1998. The story different person. I feel excited by their excite- newsletter. To subscribe, visit wapo.st/
Sheriff Bill Brown was amenable to Wilson9s is about Irish immigrants, told through a ment. I get to talk about things I love: books. booknewsletter.
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1 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.
2 HOuse Of earTH aNd blOOd
(Bloomsbury, $19). By sarah J. maas. a
half-fae woman and a fallen angel fight a
demonic threat in the first book of the
crescent city series.
3 a COurT Of MIsT aNd fury
(Bloomsbury, $19). By sarah J. maas. a
woman struggles with her loyalty toward
two warring courts.
4 HOrse (Penguin, $19). By geraldine
Brooks. a scientist and a historian bond
over their shared interest in a civil War-era
racehorse and his enslaved groom.
5 eVeryONe IN My faMIly Has kIlled
sOMeONe (mariner, $18.99). By Benjamin
stevenson. a murder takes place at a
family reunion, and everyone is a suspect.
6 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.
7 a COurT Of WINGs aNd ruIN
(Bloomsbury, $19). By sarah J. maas. as
tensions escalate among magical courts,
peacemaking efforts fail and war breaks
out.
8 CHaIN GaNG all sTars (Vintage, $18).
By nana kwame adjei-Brenyah. convicts
fight to the death on a dystopian reality
television show.
9 a lITTle lIfe (anchor, $18). By hanya
Jorm sangsorn/istock
yanagihara. the friendship between four
college classmates endures decades after
their graduation.

6 audiobooks for Valentine9s Day: 10 THrONe Of Glass (Bloomsbury, $19). By

sarah J. maas. an imprisoned assassin is
given the chance to fight for her freedom.

Romantic, raunchy or Regency NONfICTION

1 kIllers Of THe flOWer MOON

BY K ATHERINE A . P OWERS Dain, a.k.a. Lord Beelzebub, is ruining feisty, a brilliant singer and actor known for her (Vintage, $18). By David grann. a look at
outspoken Miss Jessica Trent9s weak-willed enthralling, heart-wrenching performances the fBi9s investigation of native american

I
n the refrain of one of her dyspeptic brother. She lays about herself with acid of opera9s tragic romantic figures, among deaths in 1920s oklahoma.
<love= poems, Dorothy Parker wrote: tongue, he counters with blistering them Madame Butterfly, Tosca and, most
<Scratch a lover and find a foe.= Here, condescension, and suddenly the two find famously, Norma. Here Callas9s famous affair 2 THe HuNdred years9 War ON
clearly, was a woman who didn9t read themselves in a frenzy of passion 4 he with Aristotle Onassis amplifies the passion PalesTINe (Picador, $19.99). By rashid
romances. The transformation of foe ravaging her with his <hard dissolute mouth=; in her performances. She is consumed, khalidi. a historian of the middle east
into lover is a standard device in romance she ravaging back, entranced by <his exalted and eventually anguished by love. As traces events from 1917 to 2017 to argue
novels, especially of the Regency variety, with masculine article.= And soon we9re in for Aristotle, he is a stinker. Lorelei King that the conflict between israel and gaza
<Pride and Prejudice= as the archetype. unquotable territory. Kate Reading, a veteran narrates the book, nicely handling the Greek is a war of colonial conquest.
There are more than two dozen audio of Chase9s novels, narrates most of the book in and Italian accents without sounding
versions of this great novel, some terrible, an austere, cultivated voice excellently suited ridiculous. She also gives the pestilential, 3 all abOuT lOVe (morrow, $16.99). By
some passable and at least three that are to the Georgian period, but she also brings an professional gossip Elsa Maxwell exactly the bell hooks. the first volume in the iconic
beautifully served by their narrators, Juliet intimate boudoir coo to carnal matters, of right note of intrusiveness and ravening feminist9s <love song to the nation= trilogy
Stevenson (Naxos, 14 hours), Rosamund Pike which 4 warning! 4 there are plenty. schadenfreude. This is a big, tragic love story, considers compassion as a form of love.
(Audible Studios, 111/2 hours) and Indira Kiley Reid9s latest novel, <Come and Get made all the more affecting in its audio 4 THe bOys IN THe bOaT (Penguin, $19).
Varma (Penguin, 131/2 hours). It= (13 hours, Penguin), is not a romance but version by the inclusion of stirring musical By Daniel James Brown. the university of
Many more romance novels followed, but is filled with modern romantic predicaments, passages from La Divina9s great roles. Washington9s underdog crew team defeats
these works lacked (at the very least) Austen9s in this case involving sexual preference, race Rachel Ingalls9s <Mrs. Caliban= (Tantor, elite rowers to face hitler9s german
penetration, wit and satiric touch. A credible and teacher-student intimacy. Set chiefly in a 32/3 hours) introduces another species of athletes in the 1936 Berlin olympics.
heir didn9t appear until Georgette Heyer college residence hall, the novel is peopled for romance and, indeed, another species
began publishing, in the 1930s. <Cotillion= the most part by young women in their early altogether. Dorothy is a despondent, 5 braIdING sWeeTGrass (milkweed,
(Penguin, 111/2 hours), one of Heyer9s wittiest 20s. A writer, Agatha 4 White, in her late 30s neglected housewife whose husband, Fred, $20). By robin Wall kimmerer. essays by
Regency romances, presents a miserly and gay 4 comes as a visiting professor to ignores her and is clearly conducting an an indigenous scientist offer lessons in
moneybags, Uncle Matthew, decreeing that teach and to interview college women on affair. One day, as Dorothy is slogging away in reciprocal awareness between people and
the man who marries his adopted niece, Kitty, their views about money. Making her way the kitchen, the door opens, and in walks a plants.
will inherit his fortune. In the running are a into the confidence and eventually the bed of tall, green, froggy-looking creature. This is
censorious clergyman, a good-natured Millie, a Black student, she pays the young Larry, who has escaped a research laboratory 6 CryING IN H MarT (Vintage, $17). By
dullard, a genial dandy and an insufferably woman for letting her eavesdrop on the where he was tortured by a couple of michelle Zauner. a korean american indie
arrogant libertine. Naturally Kitty prefers the conversations of the other residents. scientists, whom he has just killed. Larry is rock star chronicles her relationship with
last, and we sense that the feeling is mutual 4 Unknown to Millie, Agatha embellishes the now wanted by the police. He and Dorothy her mother and their shared culture.
even as the two exchange unfriendly barbs. results and submits them to Teen Vogue 4 fall into a tender love affair and begin a
7 THe bOdy keePs THe sCOre (Penguin,
Much drama, comic and otherwise, ensues, and we get a very bad feeling. This is a fulfilling, clandestine life together.
$19). By Bessel van der kolk. a scientific
all delivered with faultless narrative rhythm morally and ethically complex novel made all Eventually, however, their happiness is
look at how trauma can reshape a
by Raj Ghatak. He pulls off the running jokes the more convincing by narrator Nicole Lewis jeopardized by Larry9s matter-of-fact
person9s body and brain.
and conversational sallies with brio and (who also narrated Reid9s best-selling <Such a approach to bumping off bothersome people.
nimbly captures the range of personalities in Fun Age=). In addition to bringing her own And, as is so often the case when passions run 8 CasTe (random house, $20). By isabel
manner and accent. The novel9s surprise clear, low-timbered voice to general high, the picture darkens dramatically on a Wilkerson. america9s racial divisions are
ending seems to please him just as much as it narration, Lewis is truly outstanding in number of fronts. Amy Landon narrates this examined and reframed as a caste
disconcerts all but two of the novel9s dialogue, perfectly reproducing the speech wonderfully odd story of interspecies system.
characters. and manner of certain young people, their romance in a sweet, low-key voice. She picks
Today9s romances, like ourselves, are less vapidity, upward inflection and mean-girl up Dorothy9s transformation from gloom to 9 eVeryTHING I kNOW abOuT lOVe
decorous 4 which is to say, they put into put-downs. That I, long past the first blush of gladness and confers upon Larry an (harper Perennial, $18.99). By Dolly
words everything Heyer discreetly left out. youth, found the novel utterly engrossing unidentifiable accent, one that might easily alderton. a British journalist shares stories
Loretta Chase is a popular spinner of erotic speaks to the appeal of both book and have come from the briny deep. chronicling her attempts at finding
romances, and <Lord of Scoundrels= narrator. happiness and love.
(Blackstone, 112/3 hours) is a prime example of In Daisy Goodwin9s novel <Diva= katherine a. Powers reviews audiobooks every
her wares. It is 1828 and the Marquess of (Macmillan, 113/4 hours), we find Maria Callas, month for the Washington Post. 10 MasTer slaVe HusbaNd WIfe (simon
& schuster, $19.99). By ilyon Woo. the
true story of an enslaved couple who
escaped to freedom by posing as a
wealthy White man and his manservant.

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LEFT: In the fall of 2018, thousands of people joined a migrant caravan traveling from Central America to the United States. Some rode down a highway in Mexico atop a truck.
RIGHT: Migrants gathered in Matamoros, Mexico, near the U.S. border, in May 2023, as the pandemic-era Title 42 policy expired.

PHoTos By Carolyn Van HouTen/THe WasHInGTon PosT

Migrants hoping to eventually reach the United States camp out in tents at a shuttered club in Tijuana, Mexico, in December 2018.

The tangled roots of America9s border woes

BORDER from B1 temalan government in the 1950s at the in the 1980s by military torturers, in great 2002, romagoza and his co-plaintiffs won a
behest of a U.S. corporation that wanted part because he provided medical assistance $54 million judgment 4 the first of its kind
is closing in on the republican nomination, bigger tax breaks abroad. to demonstrators. romagoza, who was inter- under the torture law.
has asserted that migrants are <poisoning the Blitzer also recounts how, in the early viewed extensively by Blitzer, eventually <Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here= is sure to
blood of our country.= His presumptive Demo- 1980s, one of the more inaptly titled Ameri- made his way to Washington, where he take its place as one of the definitive
cratic opponent, President Biden, has strug- can officials ever 4 the State Department9s volunteered at La Clínica del Pueblo, a accounts of the U.S. and Central American
gled to contain yet another surge of illegal assistant secretary for human rights, Elliott community health center. immigration puzzle, a long and ongoing
crossings or to persuade GoP lawmakers to Abrams 4 tried to suppress information Early on, romagoza made his living by saga with no real solution in sight. As he
pass new immigration laws he supports. And about the massacre of 978 people, including working as a janitor in downtown office traces the calculations and ministrations of
republicans tried to impeach Biden9s home- 477 children, in the Salvadoran village of El buildings. Blitzer shows him dragging his the last three U.S. presidents in particular,
land security secretary, Alejandro mayorkas. mozote. Abrams shamefully attacked the cleaning cart up the stairs rather than using each facing their own crisis, the words of
far from reading like a dry policy tome, credibility of the courageous New York Times the elevator because he9s unnerved by small, rahm Emanuel, who served as President
Blitzer9s book makes its case by telling in vivid and Washington Post reporters who exposed EVERYONE confined spaces 4 in El Salvador, he9d once Bill Clinton9s White House political adviser
detail the stories of a cast of representative the atrocity. Despite the Post and Times WHO IS GONE been forced to lie in a closed coffin for two and President Barack obama9s chief of staff,
figures spread over five decades. There are reports, the reagan administration rewarded IS HERE days by military torturers serving under the seem ever more undeniable: Immigration is
brutal Central American regimes propped up the Salvadoran government with a certifica- The United U.S.-backed government. They9d arrested him <the third rail of American politics.=
by U.S. military aid, frustrated and conflicted tion attesting to its human rights efforts, States, Central and falsely accused him of being a guerrilla And yet, after reading Blitzer9s book, one
U.S. policymakers, relentless U.S. immigra- Blitzer writes. Elsewhere, he describes a America, and commander while he was providing medical can9t help but think that the impossible
tion advocates, and an array of migrants, bizarre scene in the 1980s in which Immigra- the Making of a treatment in a village caught in the crossfire might be possible 4 that maybe, just maybe,
including a Salvadoran graffiti artist trying to tion and Naturalization Service agents tried Crisis of rebels and government forces. this could be fixed. He9s not trying to lay out
skirt the influence of the notorious mara to intimidate U.S.-based activists by slashing By Jonathan romagoza plays an important role in the a set of policy solutions. He9s making a more
Salvatrucha gangs in Los Angeles. Another is their tires. Blitzer quest for accountability for those who com- nuanced plea, a rejection of the <selective
a Honduran woman who was one of the first But some officials come out well in Blitzer9s Penguin Press. mit war crimes. In the early 2000s, he was one amnesia= of politics in favor of a deeper
parents separated from her children under telling, including Joe moakley, a Democratic 523 pp. $32 of three plaintiffs who sued two former understanding of how we 4 as a nation and
policies instituted by the Trump administra- congressman from massachusetts who was <a Salvadoran generals 4 Eugenio Vides Casa- as a region 4 got here.
tion. In a heartbreaking passage, Blitzer case study in political theatricality. A talker, nova and José Guillermo Garcia 4 under a It is a book with a <mission,= he writes, a
writes that U.S. immigration agents <were fighter, schemer, and strategic self-mytholo- U.S. torture law based on the <command nudge for U.S. decision-makers and a plat-
yanking her out of the cell and away from her gizer.= responsibility= doctrine, which holds military form for voices on the other side of the
kids, but her eyes remained fixed on the taut, moakley, who died in 2001, grasped all the leaders accountable for the actions of their border, a <kind of go-between: to tell each
trembling fingers of her boys, who clutched nuances of U.S.-manufactured border crises, troops. Testifying in a federal courtroom, side9s story to the other; to find a way to
her clothes until their grips broke.= once saying, <It9s our bombs, our guns, and romagoza said his tormentors used a torture bring the Homeland Security officials into
Numerous U.S. institutions, bureaucrats our mines that made these people refugees.= technique nicknamed <Dedos Chinos= 4 the housing-complex basement; and to
and presidents come under Blitzer9s disap- But he was stymied in his investigation of the Chinese fingers 4 that involves tying wire allow the migrants in the basement to
proving gaze for supporting savage govern- 1989 killing of six Jesuit priests whom the around a victim9s fingers to cut off circulation. participate, for once, in the privileged
ments responsible for vast numbers of people U.S.-backed Salvadoran regime suspected of romagoza 4 who by then was the director of backroom conversations that decide their
killed 4 many of them poor and Indigenous having ties to rebel groups during that La Clínica del Pueblo 4 described the perma- fate.=
4 during crackdowns on opposition groups country9s civil war. The State Department and nent damage that left him unable to ever Hopefully, those with the power to
THea Traff
and civil wars in the region, all in a misguided CIA were <giving [the Salvadorans] cover,= perform surgery. change things will listen.
quest to vanquish communism or make a moakley concluded. Jonathan more than two decades after covering the
buck at the expense of human rights. Blitzer one through-line in the book is the story of Blitzer trial for The Post, I remember the icicle-cold Manuel Roig-Franzia, a Washington Post
writes, for example, of the CIA, which in a a remarkable Salvadoran physician, Juan looks on the generals9 faces as much as the features writer, formerly served as The Post9s
mostly forgotten episode overthrew the Gua- romagoza, who was driven from his country sound of weeping in the audience. In July bureau chief in Miami and Mexico.

<Decades of Central American history were crashing down at the U.S. border.=
Jonathan Blizer, in <everyone Who Is Gone Is Here=
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alla DreyviTser/The WashingTon PosT

Grab the tissues: Kristin Hannah has a new novel
S TEPHANIE M ERRY hy am I doing this to myself? The son to escape the Dust Bowl and realizes that women go to feel big, messy emotions 4 to

W
BY
thought occurred to me as I California is not, in fact, a welcoming oasis. It9s read heartbreaking works by such authors as
reached the bottom of Page 20 in the in-over-her-head phase that comes right Colleen Hoover while filming themselves
Kristin Hannah9s new novel, <The before the theme song from <The Greatest weeping. It seemed like a strange practice to
Women.= Barely three chapters American Hero= starts playing. me until I started to interrogate my own
in, and already protagonist Frankie McGrath Eventually, Frankie will be the kind of nurse inclinations. I wasn9t prepared to show the
was learning that her charming, mischievous who can work during a blackout with bombs world my tear-streaked face, but was there
older brother had been killed in action in dropping around her and a flashlight clamped something to the idea of being part of a group
Vietnam. <Shot down & in a helicopter & No between her teeth. Still, the thrill of newly that wanted to really feel something? Hannah
remains & all hands lost.= If you9ve read acquired expertise can9t forestall the queasy certainly makes that happen. (True story: I
Hannah9s historical novels, you know that this The Women certainty that, at any moment, the other shoe once teared up just describing the scene in
development will be but one snowflake in a By Kristin will drop. I read <The Women= while hugging <The Great Alone= when Leni9s mother kills a
blizzard of tear-jerking tragedy that will inun- hannah an emotional-support pillow and trying to man to save her daughter9s life. In my defense,
date you over the next 450 pages. st. Martin9s. divine which characters would be sacrificed. and to paraphrase contrite men everywhere, I
Reading Hannah9s books may be a masoch- 471 pp. $30 Hannah9s protective instincts toward her pro- am the mother of a daughter and the daughter
istic pastime, but it9s also a hugely popular tagonists are on par with George R.R. Martin9s. of a mother.)
one. <The Nightingale,= <The Four Winds,= But even if Frankie made it out alive, I knew Hannah got her start writing romance
<The Great Alone,= <Firefly Lane=: Her books there would be many more who wouldn9t. novels 4 <A Handful of Heaven= (1991) has one
are such reliable bestsellers that her publisher Would Frankie9s closest friends, fellow nurs- of those shirtless-man-embracing-a-wind-
is betting big on <The Women= with an initial es Barb and Ethel, survive their tours of duty? swept-heroine covers 4 but even as the pan-
printing of 1 million copies. If Kleenex doesn9t How about Jamie, the dreamy doctor with the demic made readers hungry for happily-ever-
come up with a tie-in campaign, it9s leaving <kind, sad blue eyes=? Or her brother9s best afters, she kept serving up stress and sadness.
money on the table. friend, Rye, a pilot with more than a passing <The Four Winds= came out in early 2021 and
The tragedy that befalls Frankie is multilay- resemblance to Paul Newman? Maybe there9s was an immediate bestseller.
ered, though all of it can be traced back to the some kind of formula: If character X has Y I remember reading the book during that
moment she impulsively volunteers to be an amount of charm, he is 10 times more likely to bleak, isolated time. And while it destroyed
Army nurse in Vietnam. Before she knows die. When the goofy kid from Kentucky is me, it also awoke something that was 4 and
what9s happened, she9s 2nd Lt. Frances wheeled in, cracking jokes about the shrapnel continues to be 4 in short supply: empathy. It
Kevin lynch McGrath, arriving at a 400-bed hospital 60 lodged in his backside, a warning flashed in gave me a new appreciation for what everyday
Kristin Hannah9s heartbreaking stories miles from Saigon. Battling stomach distress my brain: Don9t get attached to this one. people from the past endured; it also gave me
are also reliable bestsellers. and sporting a positively medieval <regulation Which returns me to my original question. perspective for how my own micro-tragedies
panty girdle,= Frankie has no understanding of What is it about Hannah9s tragic tales that fit into the larger framework of history. Han-
what horrors await her. Her first full day keeps me coming back? It9s a doubly interest- nah tells the stories of real but unsung heroes,
in-country, after helicopters swoop in carrying ing query, I think, given reading trends since and when you consider that, the price of a few
dozens of gravely injured men, a medic hands the start of the covid pandemic. In 2020, sobs seems relatively small.
her a boot and, when Frankie realizes a foot is interest in romance novels skyrocketed. Sud- So where does <The Women= land on the
still inside, she vomits and then tells anyone denly, readers, reeling from the uncertainty of Kristin Hannah Cry-O-Meter? Is Frankie9s fate
who will listen that she9s made a huge mistake. simple existence, flocked to the guarantee of a as tragic as French resistance fighter Isabelle
<I shouldn9t be here,= she gasps. happy ending. Rossignol9s? Is there a single line 4 <Not my
A Hannah fan knows this part is nothing to Some of that popularity arose from Book- Leni= 4 that will get the waterworks going
worry about. This is the part in <The Great Tok 4 the bibliophile9s corner of TikTok 4 a years after reading it? I would love to tell you,
Alone= when Leni first moves off the grid to platform that helped novels by Ali Hazelwood, but my screen is getting inexplicably blurry.
Alaska and comprehends the true meaning of Sarah J. Maas and Elissa Sussman become
the term <harsh winter=; it9s the part in <The bestsellers. Stephanie merry is the deputy editor of Book
Four Winds= when Elsa heads west with her But BookTok is also a place where young World.

Cocooned during a nuclear war, the rich must eventually face the fallout
BY M ATTHEW K EELEY ground. The narrator9s affect is introspective fallen birds, lest the sight of a dead creature tion; this edition is the first American one. A
and anesthetized; <everything is still so new offend the guests or its lingering radiation new foreword by <Annihilation= author Jeff
n <Termush,= the Danish writer Sven that what happened can neither be compre- poison them. Even after a world-ending war, VanderMeer situates the book in Holm9s career

I Holm9s 1967 novella, the worst has hap-

pened: Nuclear war has engulfed the plan-
et, and it9s assumed that anyone not al-
ready dead shortly will be. But some small
portion of the population 4 rich, paranoid or
hended by reason nor has it yet been able to
penetrate the subconscious.= They seem most
alive when imagining the world outside Ter-
mush and what it might become after the
catastrophe: <The bee turns its sting on itself;
the rich are different from you and me.
As the days wear on, factions develop within
the hotel9s society, not always organized
around the most noble principles. At one
point, the characters bond over their loathing
as <a highly honored literary realist,= teases out
its similarities to the British <New Wave=
science fiction of the 1960s and reflects on its
enduring, if shape-shifting, topicality. As he
puts it, <Our fear of radiation and immolation
desperate 4 still lives in the relative luxury of a the corn starts to grow downwards and the for a deceitful fellow guest: <This unity abol- has led to climate crisis fear, which has led to
grand hotel estate called Termush. They9ve roots of the trees rise up to search for water ished the painful distance between individu- pandemic fear.=
paid deposits against the apocalypse for years, from the air.= als; hatred and repudiation gave them the In the more than 50 years between its
and the hotel9s management has put their Names and proper nouns are few and far TermuSh strength they needed.= Survivors from the writing and its American publication, <Ter-
money to extensive use, digging bunkers, in- between. We learn the name of one guest, the By sven holm, outside world begin to make their way to mush= has lost none of its power to disturb.
stalling radiation sensors, and putting aside narrator9s occasional companion Monica. Art translated from Termush, at first starving, radiation-poisoned Holm, born in 1940, was a young man when he
years9 worth of food, drink and medicine. by Klee and by Monet clashes on the narrator9s the Danish by and at death9s door. Later arrivals are armed, created the hotel and its inhabitants; he lived
The unnamed narrator has been able to wall. The hotel is situated somewhere on the sylvia clayton angry and organized. What should the resi- until 2019, long enough to witness the climate
register for Termush <because of my private Atlantic coast, though the country goes un- Fsg originals. dents do? Can they help? Should they drive crisis. In this short book, he created something
capital.= The lucky few have waited out the war identified. If we choose to assume the Danish 105 pp. $16, away the intruders? What little assistance the timeless. The enduring relevance of <Termush=
in the hotel9s bunkers. If the horizon flared coast and a male narrator, it9s because the paperback narrator9s peers and the hotel management will depress many readers, but the clarity of its
with mushroom clouds and black rain fell on author is a Danish man. initially offer the new arrivals is premised on prose and the intensity of its vision inspire.
Termush9s grounds, they went unseen and The occasional outbreaks of emotion keeping the paying guests unbothered and the <There is of course no danger of the guests
unheard by the narrator and their peers: among the guests are managed with sedatives, refugees out of sight, but circumstances soon feeling secure,= the narrator reflects, whatever
<None of us had expected that it would happen and the management strives for normalcy by deteriorate. Is a second, smaller apocalypse en pains the management may take. Readers of
so painlessly. I mean that both literally and staging boat outings and a party celebrating route? <Termush= will feel similarly perturbed.
metaphorically.= the anniversary of the hotel9s founding. The The English translation of <Termush,= by the
Now, after six days in the bunkers, they hotel9s security men spend their days hosing acclaimed but now-obscure novelist and critic matthew Keeley is a freelance writer who has
reflect and observe, interrupted by occasional down and decontaminating the grounds. In Sylvia Clayton (1926-1994), appeared in Brit- written for reactor and the los angeles review of
radiation alarms that send them back under- the mornings they collect the night9s deposit of ain two years after the book9s Danish publica- Books.
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About 90 minutes after

masked gunmen opened fire on
one another Thursday outside a
Maryland apartment complex,
killing a toddler and wounding
his mother with stray bullets,
Prince George9s County police
received an intriguing phone call
from a blocked number, accord-
ing to a police affidavit filed in
court.
The caller reported that he
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armed men around the same
time that the deadly shooting
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davit says. It says the caller gave
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charged in the shooting death of
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robbery report, Fuentes was try-
ing to manufacture an explana-
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<This false report created by
Fuentes Jr. is evidence of con-
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first-degree murder and weap-
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late Thursday and early Friday,
police said. Court records did not
list attorneys for them.
The warrant lays out how the
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Holocaust survivor in Md. describes Revised arena bill limits Youngkin9s control
isolating experience of being stateless BY G REGORY S . S CHNEIDER
AND L AURA V OZZELLA
The vote was the first chance for
lawmakers to exert some control
part of the state and create a legal
marketplace for recreational mar-
over the $2 billion proposed proj- ijuana in exchange for the arena.
For a long any other. U.s. citizenship at birth because RICHMOND 4 A House of Del- ect, but the matter still has a long Youngkin9s office did not im-
moment, Henry <I thought I was all alone,= his father at the time was a egates committee on Friday ad- way to go in the General Assembly. mediately respond to a request for
Pachnowski sits in Pachnowski tells me on a recent diplomat with the embassy of vanced a plan for setting up a state The senate Finance and Appropri- comment on Lucas9s move, which
silence as he morning. <I had no idea there Iran. authority to oversee construction ations Committee had been ex- would not kill the arena plan as
considers how it were other people.= That letter left the Northern of a new home for the Wizards and pected to take up its version of the long as the House version remains
feels to live in the A few months ago, I shared Virginia doctor in shock. It also Capitals at Potomac Yard in Alex- bill Monday, but Chairwoman L. alive. Both chambers have been
Theresa U.s. as a person with you the story of an left him in legal limbo. He went andria, but with several changes Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth) an- expected to negotiate details into
Vargas who is stateless. American-born doctor who from believing he was a U.s. to the deal that had been put for- nounced on social media saturday the final hours of the session be-
Then he offers ended up stateless at age 61. He citizen, and held the rights that ward by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R). night that she would not docket fore adjournment March 9.
one word: <empty.= was born at a D.C. hospital and come with that, to not knowing The General Assembly would Youngkin9s proposal because it <is Youngkin, a former college bas-
The 83-year-old Maryland had been issued a birth when he might be able to travel take more control of the authority not ready for prime time.= ketball player, announced a plan
resident is a Holocaust survivor, certificate. But when he went to outside the country again, overseeing the project under the <This is what happens when in December with Ted Leonsis, the
and for most of his life he renew his passport, something whether he would be able to new proposal, transportation executive Branch doesn9t operate owner of Monumental sports &
thought his situation was he had previously done without continue practicing medicine or costs would be paid off with rev- in good faith and doesn9t have entertainment, to bring two ma-
unique. But in recent years, he encountering any problems, he if he would be eligible to receive enue from the arena, and extra respect for the Legislative jor professional sports teams to
has met other people like him received a letter from a state benefits from a social security money would be set aside each Branch,= Lucas wrote on X, for- a state that has none. The arena
who live in the United states but Department official informing system that he had paid into for year to cover maintenance, among merly Twitter. Lucas has been pub- would be the centerpiece of a
don9t belong to this country or him that he had not acquired see VARGAS oN C3 other changes. licly angling to lower tolls in her see ARenA oN C5
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Theresa Vargas

Fear has kept stateless people from speaking out. They are done staying silent.
VARGAS From C1 unacknowledged and thought much about his
unaddressed, and that more immigration status, until he was
decades. people needed to hear from in his 20s and a marijuana
After that column ran, I heard stateless individuals to possession charge caused him to
from many people who were understand what they were lose his green card. He says he
outraged by his situation and going through. would have been deported, but
surprised that officials weren9t <As constituents, we have been no country would claim him.
moving more quickly to rectify silent, living in the shadows, Instead, he spent most of his life
what seemed a unique injustice. unable to participate in without the protection and
I also heard from people who elections, and often too afraid to benefits that come with that
saw in his situation a reflection share our stories,= reads a page permanent U.S. residence status.
of their own. As they viewed it, on the organization9s website He says he worked for decades as
an injustice had occurred, but it that lists its goals. <We are a plumber and an antiques
was not unique. changing this NoW, for we Do dealer and was in his 60s when
<The exact same thing have a human right 4 as defined he realized he couldn9t collect
happened to me,= one person in Article 15(1) of the Universal Social Security.
wrote. Declaration of Human rights: It wasn9t until his 80s that he
<I am also a physician who had 8Everyone has the right to a finally started to receive Social
a similar experience,= another nationality9.= Security. He credits a professor
person wrote. The organization has and his students at the
<I too was stateless and faced advocated for federal legislation Immigrant Justice Clinic at
with the same immigration that would offer stateless people American University with
nightmare,= wrote yet another. more protection and a clearer making that happen. He says
People who were stateless path to citizenship. In 2022, Sen. they got the marijuana charge
described in their emails long, Ben Cardin (D-md.) and rep. expunged from his record and
frustrating legal fights that cost Jamie raskin (D-md.) helped him get his green card.
them money they didn9t have. introduced the Stateless In 2022, California Gov. Gavin
They talked about how their Protection Act, which would Newsom (D) also granted
status had kept them from family have achieved that. The Pachnowski a pardon for a 1967
members and forced them to maryland lawmakers are charge of lewd conduct as part of
limit their life choices. They expected to reintroduce it this an initiative aimed at taking on
spoke of their situations using year. historic homophobia in the
words such as <let down= Ambartsoumian-Clough is justice system. Pachnowski had
<punished= and <anguish.= hoping to see that legislation explained in his request for a
The details of their stories advance. So, too, is Henry pardon that he had <engaged
differed, but what each person Pachnowski. with consensual intimacy with a
Kevin Clough
seemed eager to convey was this: on the day we talk, male partner in a deserted
We exist. Henry Pachnowski, a Holocaust survivor who lives in Maryland, hugs Karina Ambartsoumian-Clough, Pachnowski apologizes several industrial area in his car and was
more than 200,000 executive director of United Stateless. <I thought I was all alone,= Pachnowski says of being stateless. times for getting emotional. one caught by a security guard who
individuals who live in the of those moments comes as he said we had gone against 8God
United States are estimated to be executive director of United because of discriminatory teenager when she realized she describes the day he arrived in and nature.9=
stateless or at risk of becoming Stateless, a grass-roots practices (including nations that was not recognized as a citizen in the U.S. with his mother. He says Pachnowski mentions the
stateless. Yet it remains an issue organization led by stateless won9t acknowledge female this country or in Ukraine. She his Polish parents were forced by pardon in a piece he wrote for
we don9t often hear about. A people, told me recently. <It is a children born to men who don9t said her father died stateless, Nazis into a labor camp in the Washington Blade. The title:
major reason is that the people violation of these people9s human claim them) and were born in and her mother remains Germany and his family later <U.S. should create path to
who are most affected by rights. Our human rights.= the United States to diplomats or stateless. lived in a displaced persons citizenship for 8stateless9 people
statelessness also have the most Ambartsoumian-Clough said parents who didn9t register their Ambartsoumian-Clough and camp. He was 11 when he arrived like me.=
to lose by speaking out about it. statelessness affects people who births. six other people founded United in New York. Pachnowski says he was
They don9t carry the protections were born here, brought here As she tells it, she became a Stateless in hopes of creating a <When we were coming over embarrassed at first to speak
that come with having and have sought refuge here. She <citizen of nowhere= when the space where stateless people on the boat and we entered the publicly about the charge, but he
citizenship 4 of this country or has met people who are stateless country where she was born could come together as a port,= Pachnowski starts to say realizes now that he is not alone.
any. because they came from dissolved. She was a child when community and find legal and before pausing to fight back <I struggled all my life,= he
<It9s a very lonely experience countries that no longer exist, her parents left Soviet Ukraine other support. The website they tears, <my mother hollered, says. <And there are a lot of
to go through this,= Karina were born in countries that and sought U.S. asylum, which created shows they recognized 8Look, there9s madam Liberty.9= people like myself. I just feel
Ambartsoumian-Clough, the didn9t recognize them as citizens they were later denied. She was a that the issue remained mostly Pachnowski says he never more people need to know that.=

maryland

Some sex obenders may be barred from earning credits to reduce sentences
earning diminution credits. ilarly referred to public officials9
The news of LaPere9s death set efforts in recent years to focus on
The proposal would off an uproar in Baltimore. Police rehabilitation through measures
target those serving time say Billingsley also broke into a other than incarceration while
home in the city9s Upton neigh- noting the exceptional circum-
for first-degree crimes borhood days earlier, raping a stances with sex crimes.
woman, dousing her and her <This type of crime, this type of
partner in alcohol, and setting offense, is different. And also the
BY S AM J ANESCH their residence ablaze. offender is different,= Braveboy
<Please, all of us, we need to said, mentioning U.S. Depart-
Two weeks after the family of prevent the violence in our soci- ment of Justice statistics that
Pava LaPere celebrated what ety through whatever means have shown those who commit
would have been the noted Balti- available,= LaPere9s mother, Caro- sex offenses have higher rates of
more entrepreneur9s 27th birth- line LaPere, said while testifying recidivism than others.
day, her parents settled in to a before the House Judiciary Com- <This should not have hap-
hearing room full of lawmakers mittee. pened,= Braveboy said. <She
and spoke of two everlasting The bill would prohibit people should be here with us today. But
missions 4 preserving their serving sentences for first-degree because she is not, it gives us an
daughter9s professional legacy rape or first-degree sexual of- opportunity to make things right
and preventing the kind of vio- fense from earning diminution in the law.=
lence that led to her death. credits to reduce their sentences. opponents of the bill include
<We cannot allow the system If passed, people convicted of Baltimore City9s District Public
that failed Pava to continue,= her those crimes could be released Defender marguerite Lanaux,
father, Frank LaPere, said during only if granted parole by the who said the change would affect
emotional testimony Tuesday be- maryland Parole Commission. only a <narrow= number of peo-
fore the House Judiciary Com- Under current law, people con- ple convicted of sex crimes who
mittee in Annapolis. victed of nonviolent offenses get have a release date.
<This loss is tragic and horrif- 10 days of credits for every Lanaux said removing the mo-
ic, and I firmly believe it could month they9re sentenced to and BriAn Witte/AP tivating factor of diminution
have been avoided.= those convicted of violent crimes Frank LaPere testifies at the General Assembly on Tuesday in Annapolis. His daughter, Pava LaPere, credits would reduce participa-
The bill he and others support get five days of credits per was killed in September. The man charged had been convicted of a first-degree sex offense in 2013. tion in opportunities to learn
would prevent people convicted month. skills needed upon their return.
of certain sex crimes from receiv- Correction officials can then also been outspoken about re- vote. that the credits are valuable <This bill will negatively im-
ing diminution credits, also add or subtract credits based on ducing the opportunity for incar- Individuals serving sentences motivating factors that, while pact individuals who will even-
known as <good time= credits, a variety of factors, such as cerated people to earn diminu- for crimes of violence 4 such as incentivizing prisoners to behave tually be back in the community,=
that allow them to reduce their whether the individual partici- tion credits. rape or murder 4 already earn well, also protect corrections offi- Lanaux said. <Diminution credits
sentences. pates in a work or educational republican legislative leaders diminution credits at lower rates cers. being removed will not prevent
Introduced last month with program. invoked LaPere in the months than other incarcerated people, But Bates also distinguished release. removing the practice of
the backing of key lawmakers Gov. Wes moore (D) has said after her death to say they sup- according to a legislative policy between what he described as offering diminution credits will
and the governor, it was named he supports the idea of the legis- port prohibiting the earning of analysis. potentially impulsive gun crimes not deter or prevent the possibili-
after LaPere, a prominent Balti- lation and indicated that he the credits for individuals con- Those serving sentences for and sex offenses that involve ty of violent crimes.=
more tech CEo who was killed in would sign the bill if it makes it to victed of first- or second-degree first- or second-degree rape in- more thought from the perpetra- In addition to moore9s pledged
September. his desk. murder and ensuring that dimi- volving a victim younger than 16, tor and are committed by people support, Sen. William C. Smith
Jason Billingsley, who is Baltimore mayor Brandon nution credits eliminate no more as well as individuals serving who are more difficult to help Jr. (D-montgomery), the Judicial
charged with murder in LaPere9s Scott and State9s Attorney Ivan than 10% of an aggregate sen- sentences for crimes that require through rehabilitation. Proceedings Committee Chair,
case, was previously convicted of Bates have also backed the legis- tence for crimes of violence. A bill registering as a sex offender for <I was a defense attorney [for] plans to introduce a companion
a first-degree sex offense, in 2013. lation, joining prime sponsor they introduced to that effect, the life, are already prohibited from 20 years. I shied away from these bill and Senate President Bill
He was sentenced to 30 years in Del. Elizabeth Embry (D-Balti- Safe Communities Act, was also earning the credits. cases for this very reason,= Bates Ferguson (D-Baltimore City) said
prison in that case, with all but 14 more City) in announcing the considered by lawmakers in the Bates, like other supporters, said. Tuesday he expected the bill to
years suspended, but was re- measure last month. All are Dem- committee hearing Tuesday. Nei- said he favors giving incarcerat- Prince George9s County State9s pass.
leased in october 2022 after ocrats, though republicans have ther bill has been scheduled for a ed people second chances and Attorney Aisha Braveboy (D) sim- 4 Baltimore Sun

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This dog was trapped in a container bound for Dubai. Now she can be yours.
BY P RAVEENA sound of scratching against met-
S OMASUNDARAM al. When the container door was
opened, Connie9s nose poked out.
The moment Andrea Deoudes <I thought, 8What a <She walked out on her own
laid eyes on Connie, she resolved immediately,= reyes said. <She
to help find her a forever home. survivor to make it was very, very happy to see all of
Deoudes first saw photos of the us.=
2-year-old fluffy brown dog dur- through all of that.9= The shipping container was
ing a late-night facebook scroll. Andrea Deoudes, full of totaled vehicles and car
The pup had been dubbed <Con- founder of Forever Changed Animal parts, Chief Petty officer Corinne
nie the Container Dog= by U.S. rescue and temporary custodian Zilnicki, a Coast Guard spokes-
Coast Guard members who this of Connie woman, said in a statement. It9s
month found her trapped inside a not clear how Connie ended up in
shipping container stacked high the container, Zilnicki said, add-
in the air at the Port of Houston. said. <And there9s already five ing that she may have been living
Connie had been stuck in the puppies alive somewhere else in a junkyard and was accidental-
container without food and water that may be euthanized because ly loaded into the container.
for at least a week, according to they9re not going to be get on the way to an animal shel-
the Coast Guard. adopted.= ter in Pasadena, Tex., after the
Deoudes, the founder of the Coast Guard Petty officer 3rd rescue, reyes said Connie was in
maryland-based forever Class Jose reyes, who helped res- someone9s lap the whole ride.
Changed Animal rescue, figured cue Connie, said the dog9s barking <She just wanted to be pet the
offers to help Connie would be might9ve saved her from being entire time,= he said.
flooding in after the Coast shipped overseas. Johana murillo, the assistant
Guard9s now-viral rescue posts. He and three other Coast manager of the Pasadena Animal
But she and her colleagues still Guard members happened to Shelter, said Connie had no mi-
tried, and on Tuesday, Connie hear her during a routine inspec- crochip and needed to be treated
arrived by plane to Virginia, tion. Normally, they would have for heartworm. They gave her
where she is now staying with skipped that section of the vaccinations and flea- and tick-
Deoudes. Houston-area terminal, but car prevention medication but real-
Now, her goal is to find Connie trouble caused them to stop near ized she required more care,
a safe home in the D.C. area. Connie9s container, reyes said. As murillo said.
<I thought, 8What a survivor to soon as they stopped, reyes and That same day, the Pasadena
make it through all of that,9= said his colleagues heard barking. Animal Shelter received an email
Deoudes, who also works as a minutes passed, and the barks from Deoudes9s colleague offer-
veterinarian. continued. The Coasties frantical- ing to care for Connie. The Texas
Staff treated Connie like a ly tried to find the source, reyes shelter quickly agreed and Con-
celebrity when she arrived at recalled. finally, realizing the nie was flown out to Virginia on
Deoudes9s office Tuesday. Every- only direction they hadn9t looked Tuesday.
one wanted to greet the <Contain- was up, they determined the forever Changed Animal res-
er Dog= and snap photos with her. noise was coming from a contain- cue will care for Connie until her
During an initial exam, er stacked about 25 feet in the air. heartworm treatment is complete
Deoudes found that Connie9s The container was bound for and she gives birth to her litter,
thick fur coat had hidden her Dubai, he said. which will also be closely moni-
malnourishment. There was an- <That was our moment of 8oh tored in the coming weeks. Then
other surprise, too: An ultra- no, we should probably do some- the dogs will all be put up for
sound revealed that the dog was thing about this,9= reyes said. adoption in the DmV, barring
pregnant. The Coast Guard members major health concerns.
<While it seems like a really alerted port officials, who <We know we will find her an
happy thing, it9s also tough be- brought in a crane to start moving amazing home,= Deoudes said.
cause let9s say she has five pup- containers. When the container AnDreA DeouDeS <It9s going to be tough because
pies 4 those are five dogs that will with the dog was lowered, the After at least a week stuck inside a shipping container, Connie was rescued on Jan. 31 by the U.s. Coast we9re going to receive a million
be adopted into homes,= Deoudes barking got louder along with the guard. the 2-year-old dog is now under the care of a Maryland-based animal rescue organization. applications.=

Additional arrests likely in fatal Md. shootout, police say

shooting from C1 have been increasingly living in
fear, describing frequent drug
news conference friday that the and gang activity and little com-
investigation was continuing mensurate activity by police.
and that more shooters may be one resident, who spoke on the
arrested. But detectives had got- condition of anonymity for fear
ten assistance <like no other= in of gang violence, said the com-
the early hours from community plex9s management company,
members who shared photos and Jair Lynch, had hired private
videos of the shooting and security guards to patrol eight
helped identify two of the four hours a day and installed a
suspects who fled the apartment security camera, but that stron-
complex in a gold-colored ford ger measures were needed. The
Explorer that had been stolen, man also said that the apartment
Hale said. building9s main doors do not
<There9s at least two more lock, although individual resi-
suspects in that vehicle, and dences have locking doors.
there9s some other individuals 4 <We are saddened by this terri-
whoever they were firing at 4 ble incident and are cooperating
that we still need to talk to,= Hale fully with the Prince George9s
said. <So we9re not done yet, and County police, who we believe
we won9t get any rest until we [have] been proactive and re-
are.= sponsive to our concerns when
Police said that two groups needed at this property,= a
shot at each other outside an spokesperson for Jair Lynch
apartment complex in the 1400 said. <We continuously evaluate
block of Kanawha Street around opportunities to enhance and
5:30 p.m. Thursday, in what a improve security measures.
witness described as a territorial Since purchasing [the property]
dispute over drug dealing. Jer- in may of 2022, our security
emy and his 17-year-old mother measures have included on-site
were <unintended targets,= po- security guards, a police officer
lice said. that lives at the property, en-
<It was about 20 shots, I don9t hanced lighting, and we are in
know, more or less,= said Norma the process of improving con-
Beltran, a neighbor who said she trolled access into each of the
briefly lived with Jeremy and his buildings.=
mother in 2023 and was devas- Police seemed to already have
tated by the shooting. <We could been investigating at least some
hear the desperate screams of: of the suspects before the gunfire
8Help me! Help me! Help me!9= broke out Thursday, according to
According to the affidavit, fu- the affidavit. A Prince George9s
entes, Turcios and two other police officer <was conducting
JASmine hilTon/The WAShingTon PoST
masked men were captured on surveillance= on the ford Explor-
surveillance video abandoning the apartment complex in Langley Park where 2-year-old Jeremy Poou-Caceres was fatally shot on thursday. According to a police er <shortly before the shooting,=
the ford Explorer about a mile affidavit, one suspect charged in the incident called in a false report of a robbery to try to distance himself from the shooting. the affidavit says. Then, the offi-
from the scene of the shooting. cer <heard multiple gunshots
officers found an AK-47-style Turcios was inside, along with from people who were in the A second witness gave detec- assault, robbery and illegal use and observed two suspects wear-
rifle inside, the affidavit says. a .22 caliber handgun, police apartment where Turcios was tives a video of the shooting of a firearm in 2017, among other ing masks fleeing the scene in
Afterward, fuentes went said. arrested, police said. showing fuentes firing what ap- charges, and fuentes had drug the ford Explorer.= The officer
home and called police at 7:09 fuentes9s story about a stolen one witness <observed Turcios peared to be an AK-47-style rifle possession and theft charges went to Jeremy and his mother
p.m., claiming his cellphone and cellphone was meant to distance and fuentes Jr. in an argument while standing beside the ford from 2017 and 2019 in his crimi- and began to render aid, the
money had been stolen by a him from the shooting, the affi- regarding drug distribution ter- Explorer that he and others used nal history. Attorneys who repre- warrant says.
group of armed men, according davit says. otherwise, <his his- ritory with a group of males as a getaway vehicle, according sented them in those cases did <These are the cases we lose
to the affidavit. With the cell- toric cell phone location data positioned= close to Jeremy and to the affidavit. A third witness not immediately respond to re- sleep over,= Hale said. <We9ll
phone number fuentes provid- would place him at the scene of his mother, according to the to the shooting shared a photo- quests for comment. It was un- never forget these cases, because
ed, police obtained location data the murder.= However, police affidavit. The same witness is graph with police depicting fu- clear from online court records children are not supposed to
that led them to a Langley Park were gathering surveillance pho- quoted as saying that <Turcios entes and another suspect, the on Saturday how those cases die.=
apartment on University Boule- tos, videos and witness accounts and fuentes Jr. both displayed affidavit says. were resolved.
vard, just yards from the shoot- that implicated fuentes in the firearms and shot at the group, Court records show that Tur- residents at the Langley Park ian Shapira and Jasmine hilton
ing scene. shooting, including information striking= both mother and son. cios was previously charged with apartment complex said they contributed to this report.

The DisTricT ruled a homicide. Authorities and K streets NW has been ruled the ground by the suspect and hit andria, the police report lists
said they have not made an not criminal. his head on the pavement,= the him as living in fairfax County.

Virginia man dies days arrest. The incident occurred

about 2 a.m. on feb. 2 in the 1100
block of 15th Street NW.
Police said in a report that
Taneja and the other man in the
altercation had both been at
police report says.
Authorities said Taneja lost
consciousness and was taken to a
Taneja was the co-founder and
president of Dynamo Technol-
ogies, an intellectual technology

after hitting his head in D.C. has recorded 13 homi-

cides this year, two of them
downtown. A former city elec-
Shoto and Akedo, two sister
Japanese restaurants in the mid-
town Center building, a 14-story
hospital in critical condition.
Police said he died five days later.
The report does not say whether
company, according to a compa-
ny spokeswoman.
A representative of Shoto said

altercation downtown tion official was shot Jan. 29 in a

parked vehicle in the 900 block
of K Street NW 4 eight blocks
building of offices, restaurants
and shops at 15th and L streets
NW. Their entrance is along L
Taneja and the man, whom po-
lice said they have not identified,
encountered each other inside
in a statement: <our hearts go
out to the victim9s family during
this incredibly tragic time. The
from where Taneja was assaulted Street. the restaurant. The report also incident in question did not
BY P ETER H ERMANN an altercation outside a restau- 4 and died a few days later. That The report says that Taneja, does not describe the nature of occur at Shoto and the
rant in downtown Washington, shooting was part of a deadly accompanied by two people, left the dispute. restaurant was closed at this
A 41-year-old executive from according to a police report. crime rampage across the region the restaurants about 2 a.m. and relatives of Taneja did not time.=
Virginia died last week days after D.C. police said the death that authorities attributed to one was on 15th Street. An argument respond on friday to interview D.C. police have released a
police say he was knocked to the Wednesday of Vivek Chander man. Another downtown fatal turned into a <physical alterca- requests. While police said in a video of a person of interest in
ground and hit his head during Taneja of Alexandria has been shooting in January near 16th tion= and Taneja <was knocked to statement that he lived in Alex- the case.
sunday, february 11 , 2024 . the washington post eZ sU c5

Amended bill on planned Alexandria arena project heads to full Virginia House
aRena from C1 the project, which calls for $1.5 as negotiations move forward. <We
billion in publicly issued bonds to always reserve the right to take off
12-acre mixed-use complex with a be paid back over 40 years with a that enactment clause,= Del. David
concert hall, underground park- combination of sources: state and L. Bulova (D-fairfax) said during
ing, a conference center, a Wizards local tax receipts from the project, the committee meeting.
practice facility, and monumen- parking revenue, rent payments The revised bill would also prior-
tal9s corporate offices and media from monumental, and the pro- itize using excess revenue from the
studio. ceeds from the eventual sale of project to pay back money spent on
Pitching the potentially legacy- naming rights for the sports and the transportation infrastructure.
making plan at the midpoint of his entertainment district, though otherwise, half of any money that
governorship, with both cham- not for the arena itself. Included in flows back to the state would be
bers of the General Assembly un- the taxes would be a new 10 per- directed into the general fund 4 to
der Democratic control, Youngkin cent state ticket tax that would be used as lawmakers and the gov-
says it would generate $12 billion apply only to that site. ernor see fit 4 and half into the
of economic impact and create monumental would contribute Virginia Housing Trust fund.
30,000 jobs around the state. $403 million upfront. The state It would set aside $7 million a
one key change from the pro- would provide $110 million in on- year, with 2 percent annual in-
posal negotiated by Youngkin, the site infrastructure improvements creases, to cover maintenance, op-
city of Alexandria and monumen- and $200 million in transporta- erational and capital costs for the
tal: The House version of the en- tion funding through a separate arena. And the proposal stipulates
abling legislation calls for expand- agreement between Virginia and that any cost overruns would be
ing the new Virginia Sports and Alexandria that has yet to be nego- the responsibility of monumental.
Entertainment Authority to 15 tiated. Alexandria and monumen- The House bill also requires
members from nine, and gives tal would each contribute $106 monumental to feature Virginia-
more power to the General Assem- million toward building the con- made products at the arena and to
bly to appoint its members. cert venue and parking garage. host at least three intercollegiate
Under Youngkin9s original bill, members of the committee did sporting events every year.
carried by Del. Luke E. Torian (D- not debate the bill, and on a busy The bill next goes to the full
John McDonnell/the Washington Post
Prince William), chairman of the friday night allotted only 10 min- House, where it will be subject to
powerful House Appropriations utes total for supporters and oppo- Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), right, with Ted Leonsis, the owner of Monumental Sports & debate and possible amendments
Committee, the governor would nents in the audience to speak. entertainment, in December at an event to announce plans for an arena in alexandria. before being voted on. All legisla-
appoint six members of the au- While a representative from mon- tion is supposed to pass the cham-
thority and the city of Alexandria umental, two Alexandria City be horrendous.= affairs, also attended the commit- in the project. friday9s proposal ber by Tuesday, which is <cross-
would appoint the other three. Council members and the head of State finance Secretary Ste- tee meeting and said she came was <the first step in a process of over= 4 the deadline for sending
Torian9s new version of the bill, the Virginia Economic Develop- phen E. Cummings, who put to- away encouraged. <We9ve been working to ensure we receive the House bills to the Senate and Sen-
which advanced out of committee ment Partnership spoke in favor, gether the financing package and very pleased to date with the best deal possible for the citizens ate bills to the House.
friday on a 17-3 vote, would let the several Alexandria residents in attended friday9s committee amount of consideration, the hard of the commonwealth,= he said Differences between any bills
legislature appoint five members, <Stop the arena= shirts told the meeting, said he didn9t have a work, particularly among the staff friday in presenting his new ver- passed by the House and Senate
the governor five, Alexandria lawmakers it was a bad deal. comment on the changes pro- here. So we9ll take a look at it and sion of the bill. would be ironed out in conference
three, and monumental and near- <Virginia taxpayers & are on the posed by the House. <I need to don9t expect that we9ll have any It includes a reenactment committee.
by Arlington County would ap- hook for paying off this enormous study it. I haven9t seen it yet,= major concerns,= Dixon said. clause, which means the General <first step in a process,= Dixon
point one member each. debt,= former Alexandria vice may- Cummings said. Torian had said in recent days Assembly would have to pass the said friday, pointing out that she
The bill would not substantially or Andrew macdonald told the monica Dixon, monumental9s that he was looking for ways to bill again next year to put it into hadn9t heard anything about the
change the funding proposed for committee. <Traffic impacts will president and head of external better safeguard Virginia9s stake effect 4 a powerful bargaining tool bill9s status in the Senate.

OBITUARIES
ellen Gilchrist, 88

Droll writer whose stories captured the South, independent-minded women

BY H ARRISON S MITH and <Net of Jewels= (1992), fea- erary festival. <It never occurred contributed commentaries for
tured a group of interrelated char- to me [to have a writing career]. I NPr9s <morning Edition= for about
Ellen Gilchrist, a National Book acters that included rhoda and may have known a few women two years in the 1980s. She later
Award-winning author who chan- her cousin Anna Hand, a cancer- who had careers, but in the world I ranged beyond her typical South-
neled the people and places of the stricken writer. lived in they were looked down on ern milieu in books such as <Ana-
American South in wry and poi- reviewers were mixed on ms. and considered old maids. I basis: A Journey to the Interior=
gnant prose, populating her nov- Gilchrist9s longer fiction, noting thought my primary job was to get (1994), a historical novel about a
els and stories with independent- that she sometimes repeated not married and have children, for runaway enslaved girl in ancient
minded women who 4 like the just the same themes, but the which I was totally unprepared.= Greece, and taught English and
author herself 4 resisted being same episodes. An abortion se- After her second divorce to creative writing at the University
forced into traditional roles as de- quence in <Net of Jewels,= for Walker, ms. Gilchrist went back to of Arkansas in fayetteville.
mure debutantes, wives and moth- instance, was largely taken from school, studying philosophy at Her marriage to Kullman end-
ers, died Jan. 30 at her home in one of her stories in <Dreamy millsaps College in Jackson, miss., ed in divorce. Survivors include
ocean Springs, miss. She was 88. Dreams.= But those critiques where she also took English class- her three sons, marshall Jr., Garth
She had breast cancer, her son hardly bothered her. es from Pulitzer Prize-winning and Pierre Walker; a brother; 18
Pierre Walker said. <There are certain pieces of my writer Eudora Welty. She received grandchildren; and 10 great-
ms. Gilchrist wrote more than work where I know I got it right a bachelor9s degree in 1967. The grandchildren.
two dozen books, including col- the first time, and I just decided to next year, she married frederick Looking back on her career, ms.
lections of poetry, plays, essays use it the way it was,= she told Kullman, a New orleans lawyer. Gilchrist told the reference work
and short stories 4 a shelf full of Publishers Weekly in 1992. ms. Gilchrist became a contrib- Contemporary Authors that she
tales about love, sex, families and Besides, she said, she had big- uting editor at the Vieux Carré wrote almost compulsively.
friendship. Her protagonists were ger concerns than finding new Courier, a New orleans newspa- <I like the feel of words in my
haunted, infatuated, spoiled, de- ways to present old ideas. <What per, and enrolled in a creative- mouth and the sound of them in
luded or besotted, sometimes all I9m trying to do now is make a writing program at the University my ears and the creation of them
in a single book, and turned to art study of existence,= she declared. of Arkansas, where she won a with my hands,= she said. <If that
or alcohol while trying to break <That9s the high ground, but I school poetry prize in 1976. sounds like a lot of talk, it is. What
out of a bad marriage or give perceive it as that. I want it to be Three years later, she published are we doing here anyway, all
meaning to a life that had abrupt- as true to what I know about her first book, <The Land Survey- made out of stars and talking
ly gone fallow. human beings as it can be.= or9s Daughter,= a collection of her about everything and telling ev-
<She writes with a distinctive The second of three children, poems. A short-story class taught erything? The more one writes the
Southern toughness,= Publishers Ellen Louise Gilchrist was born in by author William Harrison clearer it all becomes and the
Weekly once observed, <about peo- Vicksburg, miss., on feb. 20, 1935. persuaded her to try fiction, lead- simpler and more divine. A friend
ple who are selfish, demanding, Her mother was a homemaker, ing to the stories in <Dreamy once wrote to me and ended the
and often cruel to those closest to and her father was a civil engineer Dreams,= which she said she letter by saying: 8Dance in the
them, but who invariably gain the who ran a Caterpillar tractor wrote in a three-month flurry. fullness of time.9 I write that in the
reader9s sympathy with their total dealership. With the success of her early books I sign. It may be all anyone
honesty and fierce need for love.= During World War II, he served story collections, ms. Gilchrist needs to read.=
When she wanted to, ms. Gil- in the Army Corps of Engineers
christ could conjure the feeling of and oversaw the construction of
sweaty summer days in childhood,
drawing on memories of her ado-
airfields and forts, leading ms.
Gilchrist to spend much of her
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in a shotgun apartment wasn9t contract with a major publisher. chotherapy and studying Zen. Her neering student, marshall Walker, Tuesday 9am- 5pm
working out. It was terrible. It Three years later, she won the debut novel, <The Annunciation= in 1955. They had two sons before Wednesday 9am- 5pm
wasn9t working out. Nothing was National Book Award for her (1983), was also drawn in part divorcing. ms. Gilchrist went on Thursday 9am- 5pm
working out.= second story collection, <Victory from her life, telling the story of a to marry and divorce an Alabama Friday 9am- 5pm
ms. Gilchrist was 46, looking to over Japan= (1984). 40-year-old woman who tires of state judge, James N. Bloodworth, Saturday 11am-4pm
transform her life after four mar- <Without much authorial man- living in New orleans with a before remarrying Walker, having
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(1981). Her first work of fiction, it passion,= novelist Beverly Lowry ms. Gilchrist9s later novels, in- ried and have babies,= she said in a Thank you for continuing to trust The Washington Post
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OBITUARIES
CArl Andre, 88

Austere sculptor, minimalist saw his career stall after murder allegations
BY H ARRISON S MITH Asked by one visitor whether death, Mr. Andre theorized to the
he was attempting an elaborate magazine that his wife, who stood
Carl Andre, who helped trans- prank, Mr. Andre demurred. <I <barely five feet,= lost her balance
form the art of sculpture through may be putting myself on,= he said while reaching up to try to close
his floorbound arrangements of during a visit to Hartford. <If I9m the bedroom window during a
granite, metal, timber and brick, deceiving you, then I9ve deceived balmy night that had abruptly
and who became a polarizing fig- myself. It9s possible.= turned cool.
ure in the art world after he was At times, Mr. Andre seemed to A few years later, when asked
accused and later acquitted of be as unorthodox as his sculp- by the Times about the impact
murdering his wife, Cuban Amer- tures. He espoused Marxist politi- that her death had on his life, he
ican artist Ana Mendieta, died cal theories, railing against com- was brief but direct. <It didn9t
Jan. 24 at a hospice facility in New mercial forces that made him <a change my view of the world or of
York. He was 88. kept artist of the imperial class.= my work,= he said, <but it changed
A spokesperson for the Paula He grew a full beard and shoul- me, as all tragedy does.=
Cooper Gallery in Manhattan, der-length hair. He dressed exclu- The youngest of three children,
which represented him, con- sively in bib overalls, explaining Carl George Andre was born in
firmed his death but did not cite a that the garment was the only Quincy, Mass., on Sept. 16, 1935.
specific cause. thing that reliably fit over his His father, a Swedish immigrant,
Across his nearly seven-decade belly. designed freshwater plumbing
career, Mr. Andre was a sculptor His bohemian image only systems for ships. His mother was
as well as a poet, creating more seemed to enhance his stature in an office manager turned home-
than 2,000 sculptures and about the art world, where he reigned as maker.
as many poems, many of them one of the nation9s most intrigu- Mr. Andre said he <got the art
experimental pieces that he re- ing sculptors 4 <the high priest of craze= while studying on a schol-
ferred to as <typewriter draw- Minimal,= as art critic Peter arship at Phillips Academy prep
ings.= His work was cool and Schjeldahl once put it 4 while school in Andover, Mass., where
serene, employing ready-made regularly exhibiting at major mu- he holed up in the school studio to
materials arranged in austere seums. paint in his free time. He briefly
geometric forms, and helped fuel That began to change after the attended Kenyon College in Ohio
the minimalist reaction to ab- early morning of Sept. 8, 1985, 4 the school had shoddy art facil-
stract expressionism and 20th- when his third wife, Mendieta, ities, he recalled, so he stopped
century sculpture more broadly. plunged to her death at age 36, going to class 4 and went home to
Although he started out mak- falling from a bedroom window coPYRiGHt cARL ANdRe/LiceNSed BY VAGA/PHoto: BiLL JAcoBSoN Studio, New YoRk Quincy, where he worked in a
ing monumental constructions in their 34th-floor apartment in ABOVE: Uncarved Blocks, Vancouver, 1975, a sculpture by Carl Andre, whose minimalist art factory and saved enough money
and elevated wood carvings, Mr. Greenwich Village. The couple used geometric forms that tended to be arranged horizontally and low to the ground, as to travel to London. While there,
Andre made his name in the mid- had married eight months earlier, opposed to installations that were placed on pedestals BELOW: Andre with Radial Arm Saw- he stayed with an aunt who took
1960s with works that were reso- to the surprise of friends who had Cut Sculptures, 1959-1960. Andre created about 2,000 sculptures and about as many poems. him to Stonehenge. The trip
lutely horizontal 4 as level as the followed their turbulent relation- helped inspire his vocation as a
rails that he traversed as a one- ship from its beginning in the late sculptor.
time freight conductor and brake- 1970s through public shouting After a stint in the Army, Mr.
man, and as flat as the lake that he matches and a months-long sepa- Andre moved to New York City in
canoed during a pivotal summer ration. 1957. He began making wooden
in New Hampshire. <My wife is an artist, and I9m an sculptures the next year, wielding
<My ideal piece of sculpture is a artist, and we had a quarrel about a saw or chisel to craft timber
road,= he liked to say. the fact that I was more, eh, pieces that, with their geometric
For his sculpture <Lever,= exposed to the public than she patterns and rigorous internal
which brought him to promi- was,= Mr. Andre said in a taped 911 logic, drew comparisons to the
nence in 1966 when it was exhib- call after Mendieta9s death. <And work of Stella, the painter whose
ited at the Jewish Museum in she went to the bedroom, and I studio he shared.
Manhattan, he lined up a single went after her, and she went out For a few years, he supported
row of firebricks against a wall, the window.= his art-making by working for the
137 in all. Within a few years he Mr. Andre later told police that Pennsylvania Railroad. He had
had launched his <Plains= and he was not in the room when she his first solo show in 1965, with an
<Squares= series, crafting check- fell. He was arrested the night of arrangement of nine-foot-long
erboard sculptures made of steel, Mendieta9s death, jailed on Rikers plastic foam beams and girders
aluminum, zinc and magnesium Island and charged with second- that filled the Tibor de Nagy Gal-
plates. Viewers were encouraged degree murder. A group of dealers lery in New York, and his first
to walk across each piece, regis- and friends, including artist retrospective in 1970, at the Solo-
tering changes in texture and Frank Stella, helped him post the mon R. Guggenheim Museum on
sound. $250,000 bail. the Upper East Side. His last
<Through fairly straightfor- After three years of highly pub- large-scale sculpture,
ward means, Mr. Andre re- licized legal proceedings, Mr. An- <5VCEDAR5H,= an assembly of 10
thought what sculpture tradition- dre was acquitted in a nonjury cedar blocks, was exhibited in
ally was, how it worked,= the New trial in 1988. But the case contin- 2022 at Paula Cooper Gallery.
York Times art critic Holland Cot- ued to divide the art world, as Mr. Andre9s first two marriag-
ter wrote in 2014, reviewing a Mendieta9s family, friends and al- es, to Barbara Brown, a school-
retrospective of the sculptor9s lies remained convinced that Mr. teacher, and Rosemarie Castoro, a
work at Dia Beacon in the Hudson Andre had thrown her out the fellow minimalist, ended in di-
Valley. <He dispensed with the window. The family said that vorce. Survivors include his
conventional formal skills. He Mendieta, a sculptor, painter and fourth wife, artist Melissa L.
eliminated the illusion of perma- video and performance artist who Kretschmer, and a sister.
nence, the essence of monumen- had won a Guggenheim grant in When asked about the nature
tal. And he got rid of pedestals, 1980, had been planning to di- of his work, whether there was
the enshrining elevations that set vorce Mr. Andre. They also argued some higher meaning he was try-
sculpture apart from the world.= that a fear of heights would have ing to express, Mr. Andre was
Early on, his work frequently kept her far from the window. equivocal.
inspired more confusion than re- For years after the trial, New <Yes, art is expressive, but it is
spect. When the Tate Gallery in York museums refrained from expressive of that which can be
Britain acquired his 1966 sculp- mounting one-man shows of Mr. expressed in no other way,= he
ture <Equivalent VIII,= a rectan- Andre9s work. The Guerrilla Girls, told Art Forum in 1970. As he saw
gular arrangement of 120 bricks, a feminist art collective, issued a it, minimalism was really about
conservative critics accused the poster calling him <the O.J. of the eliminating the extraneous, in-
museum of wasting taxpayers9 art world.= When Dia Beacon or- cluding cultural references and
money on a <pile of bricks.= One ganized its 2014 retrospective, other suggestions of meaning 4
visitor tossed a bucket of blue dye more than a dozen poets, artists <things that seem to have some-
on the exhibit. and activists organized a <public thing to do with art but don9t have
Mr. Andre9s 1977 installation cry-in,= weeping in the museum. anything to do with art at all.=
<Stone Field Sculpture,= an out- Some shouted <We wish Ana <You have to really rid yourself
door sculpture of three-dozen Mendieta was still alive!= as they of those securities and certainties
boulders that was commissioned were escorted out by guards. and assumptions and get down to
for a public park in Hartford, <It is hard to think of an artist something which is closer and
Conn., drew the ire of local resi- whose career has been so affected resembles some kind of blank-
dents who questioned how he by circumstances that have noth- ness,= he continued. <Then one
could call it art. <It9s just a bunch ing to do with his art,= journalist must construct again out of this
of rocks, little kids could do that,= and art critic Calvin Tomkins reduced circumstance. That9s an-
said the mayor, who declared that wrote in 2011, profiling Mr. Andre coPYRiGHt cARL ANdRe/ARtiStS RiGHtS SocietY/PHoto: HoLLiS FRAmPtoN other way, perhaps, of an art
the sculptor had brought <inter- for the New Yorker. poverty; one has to impoverish
national ridicule= to the city. Looking back on Mendieta9s one9s mind.=

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AFSHAR DUDLEY MACK PASCOE SASSER MONDAY- FRIDAY 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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MAY 13, 1939 - JANUARY 29, 2024 800-627-1150 ext 4-4122
and teacher, left this life on January 28, Llewellyn Patrick Pascoe, 84, died peace- unexpectedly on February 1, 2024 in Me-
2024. He died peacefully at home with his chanicsburg, PA at the age of 86. He was EMAIL:
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family in The Plains, Virginia. born in Des Moines, Iowa and grew up in a retired US Army Colonel and a priest of
Tal was born on March 5, 1940 in New York Denver, Colorado where he attended East the Church of England. Through a long mil-
City. He grew up in New Canaan, Connecti- itary career, he served twice in Vietnam, Email and faxes MUST include
High School. After graduation, he attended name, home address & home phone #
cut, and attended Phillips Exeter Academy Columbia University (B.A.), establishing his in West Berlin, as the defense attaché in of the responsible billing party.
(857) and Princeton University (861) before love of big cities, and the Fletcher School the US embassies in Somalia and Cyprus, Email deadline - 3 p.m. daily
joining the United States Navy in 1962, of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and as the NATO liaison ofûcer in the Greek Phone-In deadline
serving as ûrst lieutenant on a minesweep- (M.A.). Ministry of Defense. As a priest, he served 4 p.m. M-F
er. Upon leaving the Navy, Tal worked as an His education and passion for international many congregations, including St John9s, 3 p.m. Sa-Su
editor for Addison-Wesley Publishing Com- relations led to his ûrst post with the Trea- Montreux, Switzerland, and St James9s,
pany. Moving to Virginia in 1971, he earned sury Department in Paris. Returning home Porto, Portugal. At his retirement from CURRENT 2023 RATES:
a master9s degree in education from Virgin- to Washington, DC between assignments active ministry he was the Archdeacon of (PER DAY)
ia Polytechnic Institute and embarked on he met the love of his life, Mary Virginia Gibraltar. He was an avid coin collector, art-
his long teaching career. Teaching ûrst in Gibb. They married in 1971. She shared his ist, amateur historian, and genealogist. In MONDAY-SATURDAY
the Fauquier County Public School sys- adventurous spirit and for many years they retirement he became active in the Amer- Black & White
tem, then at Powhatan School, he found lived abroad in Saigon, Mexico City and ican Priory of the Most Venerable Order of 1" - $160 (text only)
his permanent home at The Hill School in Rome where Patrick was the U.S. Treasury St John of Jerusalem (the Hospitallers) and 2" - $370 (text only)
Middleburg, Virginia. At Hill he taught En- was made a Knight of the Order in 2017. 3" - $525
DR. DARA S. AFSHAR CHARLES FISKE DUDLEY III (Age 99) Attache. He was gifted with languages and 4" - $575
glish, writing, history, founded Calliope, the enjoyed learning about and living in differ- He is survived by Elaine, his wife of 58
Dr. Dara S. Afshar, 89, passed away peace- On Sunday, February 4, 2024, school9s literary magazine, and coached years; children Howell, Jr, and Alexandra 5" - $725
fully on Friday, February 2, 2024, in Tam- of Kensington, MD. Proud ent parts of the world. ------
sports for over 40 years. In retirement, Patrick continued his inter- Hall (Robert); and grandchildren, Grace Hall
pa, Florida, surrounded by his family. He is 1943 graduate of St. John9s and Joseph Hall. A memorial service will SUNDAY
After school or during the summers, Tal ests researching genealogy, playing tennis Black & White
survived by his wife of sixty years Christa, College High School. Beloved could most reliably be found running for be held at Bethany Village in Mechanics-
his son Steven Afshar, and his daughters husband of the late Barbara and golf, traveling and spending time in 1"- $191 (text only)
long distances on the back roads around Blue Ridge Summit, PA. burg at 11 a.m. on Saturday, February 24. 2" - $405 (text only)
Touran Waters and Martina Reiss, and their S. Dudley; father of Nancy D. his farm, weeding his vegetable garden Interment will be at Arlington Cemetery at 3" - $580
families. Dr. Afshar practiced obstetrics Belmore, Susan Dudley Dietrich (Charlie), He is preceded in death by his parents,
while smoking a cigar, or sitting at the Donald and Marjorie Pascoe, brother Mon- a later date. 4" - $610
and gynecology for 39 years, with privi- Richard S. Dudley (Ruthie), and Norman C. kitchen table with a cup of coffee revis- 5" - $790
leges at Sibley Memorial Hospital, George- Dudley; grandfather of Michael, Chad, Lau- te Pascoe and nephew WIlliam Pascoe.
ing a draft of his most recent poem. He is He is survived by his wife, Virginia; sister-
town University Hospital, and Holy Cross ra, Jessica, and Dana; great-grandfather of survived by Catherine, his wife of 48 years, 6"+ for ALL Black & White notices
Hospital. He loved practicing medicine, and Abigail, Christopher, Brooks, and Ford. Pri- in-law, Patricia Pascoe, brother-in-law,
six children, and nine grandchildren. He is Peter Gibb; niece Sarah Pascoe (Mark), $160 each additional inch Mon - Sat
he will be greatly missed by his family and vate Graveside Service at Gate of Heaven also survived by his sister, Lucy G. Mack, $191 each additional inch Sunday
friends. A memorial service will be held in Cemetery, Silver Spring, MD. Memorial con- nephew Edward Pascoe, great nephew --------------------
and sister-in-law, Barbara A. Gerlach. He is Max, and their families, and caregiver Eliz-
the Washington, DC area at a later date. In tributions may be made to St. John9s Col- predeceased by his brother, John H. Mack, MONDAY-SATURDAY
lieu of ûowers, donations can be made to lege High School at www.stjohnschs.org. abeth Shiloh. Patrick was a loyal friend to Color
and ûrst wife, Mary Tayloe Mack. many throughout his life and will be dearly 3" - $670
the American Lung Association. www.COLLINSFUNERALHOME.com A celebration of Tal9s life will be held at missed for his wonderful stories, dry sense 4" - $725
The Hill School9s Dornin Science Center on of humor and joie de vivre! 5" - $885
April 27. In lieu of ûowers, memorial gifts Service will be March 8, 11 a.m. at All ------
can be made to the Piedmont Environmen- Saints Church, Chevy Chase. SUNDAY
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DEATH NOTICE she and David traveled extensively, includ- February 19, 2024 PLEASE NOTE:
ing a trip to Greece to visit the village of ELISABETH RAYMOND <Betsy=
Stemnitsa, where her father was born. MICHELE ANN MILLER
Michele Ann Miller of Falls Church, VA Elisabeth <Betsy= (Rucker) Wayland Ray- 11 a.m. ~ 3 p.m. Notices must be placed via phone or
passed away peacefully surrounded by mond (Age 83) passed away peacefully on email. Photos must be emailed. You can
Stella was the loving mother of Robert Tuesday, January 16, 2024 in Alexandria,
BEIM (Amy), Peter, and Chris (Rebecca) and de-
voted YiaYia to Nathaniel, Grace, Jesse and
family on January 20, 2024. She was born
in 1944 in Fairûeld, IA, and lived in North- Virginia. Betsy was born in Clarksburg,
WV on February 26, 1940. She was the Photo Deadline:
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Elisha Gibbs. Her beloved husband David
passed away in 2022. Additionally, she is devoted and cherished daughter, sister, daughter of Marshall and Betty Rucker and
sister of Sally (Rucker) Hornick. She was a
1 p.m. debit/credit card.
preceded in death by her brothers Anthony aunt, and friend to many. A gentle loving
spirit to her core, Michele9s zest for life devoted mother, sister, aunt, grandmother,
and John Trembelas and her parents Panos church member and overall loving and ad-
and family was contagious. She was also
and AlkinoiTrembelas (Kontarakies).
quite the entrepreneur with a very suc- mired friend, who will be forever missed.
Betsy enjoyed a long, successful career
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business woman, Michele started her ca- as a Social Worker and Child Therapist at
Home, 300 W. Montgomery Ave., Rockville, her practice in Springûeld, VA. She was a
MD on Wednesday, February 14, 2024 from reer as a receptionist for the US Savings &
Loan League working her way up to VP of voracious reader who enjoyed walking her To place a notice,
4 to 7 p.m. Service will be at Sts. Constan- dogs, traveling, and attending art events
tine & Helen Church, 701 Norwood Rd., Administration for 20 years. Michele also
owned and operated a ûne dining restau- with her many friends. Betsy is survived call:
Silver Spring, MD 20905 on Thursday, Feb-
ruary 15, 2024 at 11 a.m. Interment Gate of rant, BeDuCi, in Washington, DC for many
years. Michele worked up until the time
by sons Matthew Wayland (Jennifer) and
Mark Wayland (Jamie) and grandchildren 202-334-4122
Heaven Cemetery.
of her death most recently as a Project Parker, Landon, Vivi and Harper. In lieu of
ûowers, donations can be made to the
800-627-1150
Expediter with the DCRA in Washington,
Please visit and sign the family guestbook
at: DC. Michele so dearly loved cooking, ûne Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, in
Alexandria, VA. A Memorial Service will be
Ext. 4-4122
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teams, and spending time with her family held on Thursday, February 29, at Goodwin
and friends. In lieu of ûowers, a donation House Alexandria, 4800 Fillmore Avenue. A
may be made to a charity of the donor9s private burial will be held at the Episcopal
choice. A celebration of her life and memo- Church of the Resurrection.
ALEXANDER BEIM rial service will be held at a later date.
LT. COLONEL, U.S. ARMY (RET.)
Beloved husband and father passed away
on November 24, 2023. Born September
DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE
15, 1937 in Riga, Latvia, to Joseph and Ane- GREENE MOSSMAN
la (Januskevics) Beim. Preceded in death
by his son Peter and wife Judith. Survived FUNDERBURK
by son Alex (Deena); daughter-in-law Kay;
granddaughters Brittany (Taylor) and Kira; CYNTHIA MOSSMAN breast cancer research. He served two
and brother George (Caterina). Visitation at Cynthia Mossman (nee Gillis),
of Baltimore, Maryland, passed years as Associate Dean for Student Affairs
Everly Funeral Home, 6161 Leesburg Pike, at HUCM from 1972-1974 and remained
Falls Church, VA on Tuesday, February 13 away on Monday, February
5, 2024, at the age of 73. She active in HUCM9s Alumni Association his
at 5 to 8 p.m. Burial at Arlington National entire life. Bill maintained teaching status
Cemetery on February 14 at 11 a.m. More is survived by her long time
partner, James White; children, at HUCM, Washington Hospital Center and
details at Providence Hospital where he was award-
www.everlyfuneralhome.com Mark (Suelene) Hanson, Roderick Pullen,
Jr., Jeanna PullenGibson, Marc Krause, ed the Caregiver Award in 2013 as a Breast
Sara Mossman (ûancee Erica Allseitz), and Health Champion and served as Chief of
Jacob Mossman; siblings, Jumary West, Surgery from 2000-2002. Bill was devoted
BOTTS Patrick (late Roslyn) Gillis, Marshal (Ritsu-
ko) Gillis, and Bonita (Anthony) Espenosa;
to his patients, and they thrived under his
expert care.
grandchildren, Christopher Pullen, Ryan
RAFE RICHARD BOTTS Bagby-Hanson, Dorion Hanson, Ki Pullen- Bill co-founded the Center for Ambula-
On Thursday, January 11, 2024. He is sur- Gibson, Sydney PullenGibson, Alex Hanson, tory Surgery, Inc. (CASI) in 1977, the ûrst
vived by son Jeremy, daughter Jessica and Christyanna Hanson, Johnathon Hanson, free-standing ambulatory surgery center in
their mother Valerie and a daughter Lisa; and Nathanial Hanson; and great-grand- DEATH NOTICE Washington, DC, and continued as a survey-
or for the Accreditation Association for Am-
a sister Thelma and brother Stanley. Pre- children, Lilly and Luna Bagby. Cynthia was
deceased by his parents Horace, Sr. and predeceased by her parents, Gloria and bulatory Health Care for 30 years.
Gladys and ûve brothers and two sisters.
He was a golf professional from D.C. start-
MARGIE ZOLLA GREENE
On Sunday, January 21, 2024, Margie Zoi-
Lafayette Gillis. ROSENTHAL Bill9s greatest life9s pleasure was his family.
ing at Langston Golf Course and competing la Greene passed away peacefully at The Services at Sol Levinson9s Chapel, 8900 WILLIAM W. FUNDERBURK MD, FACS He married Marilyn Bush in 1960 and was
worldwide for over 50 years. A memorial Charleston Senior Community in Waldorf, Reisterstown Road, Pikesville, MD 21208,
SELMA ZELDA ROSENTHAL August 26, 1931 3 February 1, 2024 blessed with a son and two daughters. In
is planned at Langston to be determined. MD at the age of 99. Prior to moving to On Wednesday, February 7, 13 years, he never missed a father/daugh-
on Monday, February 12, 2024, at 3:30 2024, Zelda Rosenthal of Sil-
The Charleston in 2023, Margie resided at p.m. Please omit ûowers. Contributions in William W. Funderburk, MD, died peacefully ter ûeld day or dinner. He enthusiastically
the St. Paul Sr. Living Community in Capi- ver Spring, MD. Beloved wife at the age of 92 surrounded by his family on cheered for his son9s football and crew
her memory may be sent to St. Judes Chil- of the late Stanley Rosenthal;
tol Heights, MD. Margie is survived by her dren9s Hospital or the Baltimore Humane Thursday, February 1, 2024, at his home in teams. He was a doting grandfather to his
son Ernest Bersienne and a host of nieces mother of Sharon Siegel (Ar- Washington, DC. three grandchildren. He enjoyed traveling
Society. nie Spevack), Lorie Levin, and
and nephews. Margie has been a long- with his children and grandchildren in the
time member of Jones Memorial United Carol (Daniel) Schwartz; Grandma of Mer- Bill (affectionately known as <Fundy=) was U.S. and abroad including trips to France and
Methodist Church in SE, Washington, DC. yl (Eric) Satler, Evan (Dolores) Siegel, Ross born in Lancaster, South Carolina on August Greece as well as a 50th wedding anniversa-
Her services are being held on Monday, (Whitney) Levin, Emily Levin (Kevin), Eric 26, 1931. Bill and his six younger siblings all ry trip to Italy. Bill loved being active, includ-
February 12, 2024, at Marshall-March Fu- (Rebecca) Schwartz, Stacy Schwartz (Josh attended Mather Academy in Camden, SC. ing jogging and cycling in Rock Creek Park,
neral Home, 4308 Suitland Road, 20746. Mitnick), Erica and Alex (Liliane) Spevack; Bill was the only African American Eagle swimming, and hiking. A medical mission in
The viewing is at 10 a.m. followed by the great-grandmother of Blake, Benjamin, Scout from South Carolina chosen to attend 1999 to Nepal morphed into a trek up the
funeral service at 11 a.m. Gideon, Dylan, Chloe, Paige, Miles, Sunny, the 8th World Boy Scout Jamboree in Mois- Mt. Everest trail beyond Base Camp to Ka-
Olivia and Asher; sister of Arnold Feldman son, France in 1947. lapatur at 18,400 feet. In his later years, he
and the late Freda Koen and the late Ruth walked consistently and passionately tend-
Bresler. Graveside service will be held at Bill graduated Magna Cum Laude from John- ed his cherished garden and ûg tree.
Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Adelphi, MD son C. Smith University in 1952 where he
on Sunday, February 11, 2024 at 12 noon. served as President of Beta Kappa Pi Scien- Bill is survived by his wife, Marilyn, children
The family will be receiving at the home tiûc Society, Editor of the University Student William W. Funderburk, Jr., Julie Funderburk
of Lorie Levin in Silver Spring, MD imme- and was a member of the Omega Psi Phi (Brad Johnson) and Christina Funderburk
diately following the service, until 8 p.m., Fraternity. Bill graduated from Howard Uni- Lingelbach (John); three grandchildren, Ca-
KREMER with minyan at 4 p.m. Shiva will resume
on Monday, February 12, 2024 from 3 to 5
versity College of Medicine (HUCM) in 1956
where he was inducted into the Alpha Ome-
sey and Julia Lingelbach and Claire Funder-
burk; his sister, Louilyn Funderburk Hargett
p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. with minyan at 7 p.m. ga Alpha Honor Medical Society and lent and numerous treasured nieces and neph-
Memorial contributions may be made to his beautiful singing voice to the medical ews.
Montgomery Hospice, 1355 Piccard Drive, school9s barbershop quartet. Bill was one of
DEATH NOTICE Suite 100, Rockville MD 20850 (montgome-
ryhospice.org). Services entrusted to Sagel
the ûrst African American surgeons to serve
a two-month tour as a volunteer physician
Per Bill9s wishes, no memorial service is
being held. Donations can be made in the
Bloomûeld Danzansky Goldberg Funeral in Vietnam in 1967. He went on to become name of William W. Funderburk, MD to the
BROWN DEATH NOTICE
Care.
www.sagelbloomûeld.com
an Associate Professor of Surgery at HUCM
while practicing with a prestigious surgical
Howard University Medical Alumni Associ-
ation.
partnership focused on breast health and
RICHARD MARTIN BROWN
Passed away on February 6, 2024. Beloved
son of Allan and Kim Brown; husband BAUMGARTNER
of Christina M. Brown; father of Cassan-
dra and Sophia Brown; Brother of Robert
JOHN
Brown and Samantha Ward (Matthew); un- and nephews.
cle of Carsen Ward; grandson of Dorothy He graduated from the Virginia Military Insti- Hill Farm, which he bought in 1998 in his
Keene and the late Robert Keene, Robert tute in 1966 with a degree in history, though hometown of Washington, VA. There you
Brown, Margaret Anglin and Richard Col- he spent most of his time in the engineering could catch him riding his tractor, mowing
lins. Rick is also survived by many loving building. He was commissioned as an ofû- grass, or hosting events. John generously
aunts, uncles and cousins. cer and served in the Vietnam War in the 1st gave back to his community, with both his
Infantry Division, earning a Bronze Star. He service and his resources.
Visitation on Thursday, February 15, 2024 later switched to the Signal Corps, spending He was preceded in death by his parents,
from 5 to 7 p.m. in PUMPHREY9S COLO- BRUCE EARL KREMER his Army career working with radio and oth- Loring and Ada Mae Anderson; siblings, Lor-
NIAL FUNERAL HOME, 300 W. Montgomery Bruce Earl Kremer (86), of Silver Spring, er communications. He married his wife Bet- ing Anderson Jr., Virginia Herold, Grace All-
Avenue, Rockville, MD. Service on Friday, MD, passed away on January 27, 2024. ty at Fort Bragg (now Fort Liberty) in 1968. man and Donald Anderson.
February 16, 2024 at 11 a.m. in St. Francis Bruce is survived by his children, Dean The family lived in several states, Korea and John is survived by his four children, Michael
Episcopal Church, 10033 River Road, Poto- Kremer (Lori) and Elizabeth Silva, and his Turkey before settling back in Springûeld af- C. Anderson (Carrie) of Fairfax, VA, Jennifer
mac, MD. granddaughters, Emma and Claire Kremer ter he retired from the Army in 1986 and be- A. McWhirter (Jeff) of Leesburg, VA, Stacey
and Ava and Catherine Silva. He was pre- gan his second career in the Washington, DC L. Anderson of Ashburn, VA and Scott M. An-
Full obituary and family online guestbook ceded in death by his wife of 60 years, area, as a government contractor. He spent derson of Fairfax Station, VA; a sister, Alice
www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com Carolyn Mae Kremer, in 2021. 17 years at SAIC, and previously worked for Anderson of Washington, VA; ûve grandchil-
Bruce was born in 1937 to Earl and Flor- TASC and SAC. He retired from SAIC in early dren, Mackenzie, Christian, Tatum, Sawyer
ence Kremer in Philadelphia, PA. After 2023, around the time he turned 80. and Hailey; his former wife and mother of
graduating from Blair High School and He was a private pilot and loved to ûy, with a his children, Christine M. Anderson of Fair-
earning his engineering degree at the Uni- sense of adventure that began in his youth. fax, VA; and numerous nieces, nephews,
versity of Maryland, he worked for over GLENN W. BAUMGARTNER He built his ûrst airplane, an experimental, cousins, and friends.
30 years at the Naval Research Lab. He LT. COL., U.S. ARMY (RET.) with the engine of a Volkswagen. Other MORGAN ANDERSON JOHN (Age 77) A funeral service will be held on Saturday,
When the enjoyed both watching and playing games
of all sorts, from basketball to bridge. In re-
tirement, Bruce loved being at his beach
Glenn William Baumgartner of Springûeld,
Virginia, passed away on February 5, 2024,
at home, surrounded by family and with
airplanes he ûew over the years included a
sailplane and a Pitts, which he ûew in aero-
batic competitions. His go-to plane for many
John Morgan Anderson, 77, of Washington,
Virginia, passed away on January 31, 2024.
John started his career in 1964 with the
March 2, 2024, at 1 p.m. at Jessamine Hill
Farm. The burial and a Celebration of Life re-
ception will immediately follow the service.

need arises, home in Wildwood Crest, NJ, especially

with his children and grandchildren. Me-
morial services are yet to be determined.
hospice care.
He was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 24,
1943.
years was an experimental Thorpe. When he
looked up at a clear blue sky, he would re-
mark that <it9s a good day to ûy.= He also en-
joyed amateur radio, electronics, tinkering in
Interstate Commerce Commission in Wash-
ington, DC. He later joined the management
consulting ûrm A.T. Kearney, Inc., where he
Visitation will be held at the Moser Funeral
Home in Warrenton, VA, on Friday, March 1,
2024, from 3 to 5 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m.
He was preceded in death by his parents,
let families Army Col. John W. Baumgartner and Eliza-
beth Burke Baumgartner. He is survived by
his wife of 55 years Betty Baumgartner of
his garage, kayaking and satellites. He was a
Mr. Fix-It his entire life, using his engineering
skills to solve problems.
became a Vice President and Partner. He
worked there for over 40 years until his
retirement in January 2022. He especially
loved his family which included his beloved
In lieu of ûowers, donations may be made
to the Rappahannock Food Pantry, 11763
Lee Highway, Sperryville, VA 22740; the Rap-
pahannock Benevolent Fund, PO Box 133,
ond you in the the home; daughters Joy Noel Baumgartner
of Chapel Hill, NC and Dawn Baumgartner
Vaughan of Raleigh, NC; sons-in-law Serge
He was also a longtime member of St. Ste-
phen9s United Methodist Church in Burke,
Virginia. He will be buried at Arlington Na-
dog Einstein, his consulting work, and Rap-
pahannock County, where he grew up. He
was an avid storyteller, often sharing tales
Washington, VA 22747; or to the Washing-
ton Volunteer Fire Dept., 10 Firehouse Ln.,
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tional Cemetery at a later date, with service
Funeral Services LENGERMANN
Jaitapker and Jeremy Vaughan; grandsons
Glenn Vaughan, Kiran Jaitapker and Rohan
Jaitapker, and numerous cousins, nieces
information to be announced. In lieu of ûow-
ers, donations may be given to the USO.
of his father, Loring Anderson, Sr. or of his
extensive work and travel adventures. He
was most proud of his home, Jessamine
may be expressed at moserfuneralhome.
com.

Directory. JOSEPH J. LENGERMANN

Dr. Joseph <Joe= Lengermann passed away
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of nearly 44 years, Dr. Roberta Hollander of

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KUHN WILDBORE WITMAN DROITSCH
1988. She practiced with several Washington MAURICE E. WILDBORE (Age 88) Roland arrived to NYC, New York in 1947
law ûrms including Steptoe & Johnson and Of Accokeek, MD died on Tuesday, Febru- with his mother and sister and then moved
Odin Feldman Pittleman. In her early years ary 6, 2024. He was preceded in death by to the Aldrich Rokeby estate where he
as an attorney she worked on landmark cas- his beloved wife Doris. He leaves behind formed lifelong friendships.
es, including the antitrust breakup of the Bell to cherish in his memory three children,
System and Title IX. Wayne Wildbore, Sharon Sweet (Will), and Roland married Helen in 1966, welcoming
Kim Edwards (Jeff); nine grandchildren, daughters Danielle and Nicole. While divorc-
In1989 she established her own ûrm in Mc- four great grandchildren, nieces and neph- ing in 1988, they remained close friends.
Lean, VA and was recognized by her peers ews. A visitation will be held Thursday, Roland is survived by his sister Ingrid, her
as a leader and expert in the areas of Estate February 15, 2024 at Lee Funeral Home husband Lazlo, and nephew Christian. Ro-
Planning and Elder Law, advising senior cit- in Clinton, MD from 4 to 6 p.m. followed land loved his stepchildren, Ria and Gabri-
izens how they can use current law to pro- by a service at 6 p.m. In lieu of ûowers, elle, from his second marriage to Leah. He
tect themselves and their resources. She the family requests donations to Help For was proud of his grandchildren: Callahan,
pioneered the use of Revocable Living Trusts Pets. Interment will take place at Maryland Charlie, Eleanor, Ada Mae, and Abraham.
in the Commonwealth of Virginia. She was a Veterans Cemetery, Cheltenham, MD, at a
frequent lecturer and was published on the later date. After graduating from Canterbury (859) and
topic. She also served as a hotline attorney www.leefuneralhomes.com Columbia College (863), Roland earned a
for AARP9s Legal Counsel for the Elderly, Master9s from Syracuse University in 866 and
Washington, DC Chapter; was a member of a Ph.D. from Georgetown in 876. As Deputy
the Fairfax County, Virginia, D.C., and Ameri- Assistant Secretary at the Department of
can Bar Associations; the Board of Directors LUCY WITMAN (Age 101) Labor, Roland led policy development that
JANET LAMMERSEN KUHN for the Legal Services of Northern Virginia; Family gathered for the passing of Lucy ROLAND GUSTAV FREDERICH JOHANN still beneûts American workers today.
Janet Lammersen Kuhn, one of the pio- and served as the Vice President of the Vir- Witman on the morning of February 7, DROITSCH
neers and leading practitioners of Elder Law, ginia Women Attorneys Association. She was 2024. On January 26, 2024, Roland Gustav Fred- A private family funeral is planned. A me-
passed away at her home in Reston, VA on a column Editor for the National Academy of Beloved wife of Bill Witman, Lucy is sur- erich Johann Droitsch passed away in Salt morial service will be held on March 7 at
November 29, 2023. She was 81 years old. Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA). vived by sons, Greg and Bruce; grand- Lake City, Utah. Born in Berlin, Germany 3:30 p.m. ET at Legacy Village in Salt Lake
children, Ben (wife Coriena), and Emily on November 17, 1941, Roland9s life was City. Contact rsvp@droitsch.com to attend
Ms. Kuhn was born in Los Angeles in 1942, Ms. Kuhn is survived by her husband of 55 (husband Matt); and great grandchildren, marked by a dedication to family and career. in person. Join by Zoom by registering at
to Walter and Marguerite Lammersen, and years, Ira Kuhn of Reston, VA; her son Reed Sawyer, Rosemary, Charlee, and Shenan- https://droitsch.com.
was the third of ûve children. She attend- Kuhn (Karin) of Vienna, VA; her three siblings doah.
ed schools in the San Fernando Valley and Gail Lammersen Belt (Jerry) of Reston, VA, A celebration service will be held at Fairfax
graduated from Rim of the World High School William Barry Lammersen (Linda) of Scotts- United Methodist Church on Saturday, Feb-
in Lake Arrowhead, CA. She graduated from dale, AZ, Julianne Lammersen Baum (George) ruary 17 at 11 a.m.
Marymount College (now part of Loyola Ma- of Potomac, MD; and her ûve grandchildren, In lieu of ûowers, please contribute to Fair-
rymount University) in 1964, where she was
honored as a Curian Scholar, receiving the
Kelly, Ari, Elliot, Mackenzie and Kennedy. She
was preceded in death by her brother Tony
fax United Methodist Church of which Lucy
was a member for 69 years.
SCHERR
Gold Medal for Distinction in Business Ad- Lammersen, her daughter Buckley Anne
ministration. Kuhn-Fricker, and son-in-law Scott Fricker. DEATH NOTICE cially the football and women9s basketball
programs. Cindy was a long-time member
She began her career in Washington, DC The Lammersen and Kuhn families were for-
working for Congressman Alphonzo Bell (R)
of California. She began as a case manager
tunate to have spent quality time with Janet
before her death. She maintained close rela-
CRAYTON of the Junior League of Washington and was
also a dedicated volunteer and supporter of
the National Chapter of the National Multiple
and was quickly promoted to his Legislative tionships with her siblings, in-laws, extended Sclerosis Society. (NMSS)
Assistant and eventually Chief of Staff, one family and friends, and had a genuine inter- erman. He retired after 23 years of military
of the few women to hold such a position in est in everyone9s lives. Ms. Kuhn delighted in service, being stationed at various locations
in the United States, Newfoundland, Pana- Cindy loved to travel and experience dif-
Congress in the 19609s. Simultaneously, she her family9s successes and was a source of ferent cultures. Cindy was especially close
attended and graduated in 1974 with hon- strength and comfort during difûcult times. ma, Vietnam, and the Philippines. He attend-
ed college while he was in the service and to her cousins, William and Patsy Neff and
ors from Georgetown University Law Center She will be greatly missed. their family, cousins Beth and Keith John-
(GULC), where she participated in the GULC received a Bachelor of Science degree in
Math from Rollins College in Florida. After son & their family, her brother-in-law Stan-
Law Journal and was editor in her ûnal year. To celebrate her life, friends and family will ley Scherr and many friends. Cindy enjoyed
gather in Northern Virginia on February 24, military retirement, he was employed by the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- both golf and tennis and was a committed
Ms. Kuhn was admitted to the Bar in the 2024. bridge player and part of several bridge
District of Columbia in 1975, and Virginia in tration (NOAA) National Weather Service as
a meteorologist and computer specialist for groups where she made and maintained a
20 years. wide circle of friends. Cindy was especially
fond of dogs and, in recent years, had owned
Raymond was last stationed at Andrews and loved three small dogs. Her current pet,
Air Force Base, MD, where he settled with Taffy, will move to Massachusetts to live with
his wife, Mary Louise Crayton, and their family members.
children in Camp Springs, MD. He and Mary CYNTHIA MILLER SCHERR
Cynthia M. Scherr, age 76, passed away on She will be interred at Arlington National
MCCAFFREY moved to White Plains, MD in 2016.
Raymond was a fan of baseball and football.
January 31, 2024 succumbing to both Mul-
tiple Sclerosis and Myesthenia Gravis. Born
Cemetery, next to her husband, David.

He enjoyed watching the Baltimore Orioles, in York, PA, she was a long-time resident of In lieu of ûowers, Cindy asked that donations
crystals, and sticking her toes in the sand Washington, Mrs. Scherr most recently resid- be sent in her memory to the National Cap-
at the beach. She and her longtime friends RAYMOND BENJAMIN CRAYTON the Washington Nationals, the Washington
ed in Gaithersburg, MD. Cindy was preceded ital Chapter of the NMSS, 1800 M. Street,
began The Women9s Group years back that Raymond Benjamin Crayton, 92, of White Commanders, and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Plains, Maryland, went to be with the Lord He also enjoyed watching college football. in death by her husband, David B. Scherr. She Suite 750, Washington, DC 20036.
met for monthly lunches and zoom calls to received a degree in International Relations
lean on and support each other through on Friday, February 2, 2024, at his home. His favorite activities were watching Chris-
tian television and detective shows, reading from Goucher College (1969) and a masters A celebration of her life will be held on Sat-
life9s ups and downs. degree (International Affairs) from George urday, March 30, 2024 at 11 a.m. in Villa 400
Born July 15, 1931, in Uniontown, PA, the newspaper, being online, and shopping
Raymond was the son of Earl and Ethel at Amazon. He especially enjoyed being vis- Washington University (1972). Cindy then (Russell Ave) at Asbury Methodist Village, 201
Above all else, Gayle loved her family and had a successful 25-year career at the World Russell Avenue Gaithersburg, MD 20877.
spending time with them. Gayle was a Crayton. Preceded in death by his daugh- ited by family and attending family events.
ter, Elizabeth Miller, he is survived by Bank, working ûrst in the ofûce of the VP,
strong, independent, hardworking woman West Africa region and subsequently in the
whose kind spirit will be missed by all who his wife, Mary Louise Crayton, children, We couldn9t have asked for a better hus-
Angela Eisenbraun and Anthony Crayton, 16 band, father, and grandfather, and will miss ofûce of the Senior VP of Finance.
knew her.
grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren, six him every day.
great-great-grandchildren, and two sisters, Cindy and Dave were enthusiastic support-
In addition to her parents, Gayle was pre- ers of University of Maryland athletics, espe-
ceded in death by her sister Carole Jeanne Lois Null and Louise Tristani. No public services are scheduled. Online
Cross and her husband, Richard <Dick= Mc- condolences may be left at
Caffrey. She is survived by two children: Raised in Mt. Braddock, PA, Raymond joined www.raymondfuneralservice.com
Sarah R. Linder and Adam M. Linder (Terry the Air Force in 1949 and became a Weath-
Isner); three stepchildren: Kellie Meehan
(Brian), Matthew McCaffrey, and Adam Mc-

GAYLE LINDER MCCAFFREY

Caffrey; nine grandchildren: Olivia, Savan-
nah, Erica, Kayla, Morgan, Michael, Sean, GOODMAN SMITH
Gayle Linder McCaffrey, age 79, of Rehoboth Tayler, and Brigid <Birdie=; and three great MICHAEL BRUCE SMITH (Age 77)
Beach, DE passed away on Friday, February grandchildren. DR. NELSON GATES GOODMAN
9, 2024, at The Moorings at Lewes. She was Dr. Nelson Gates Goodman came to the nat- local newspapers. He was raised in an or- Michael Bruce Smith, on February 4, 2024, ences was his life9s work. In recognition of
born on October 30, 1944, in Cleveland, OH, A celebration of life will be set at a later ural end of an extraordinary life, at home, in thodox Jewish household and, although he of Washington, DC. Beloved husband of Bar- these efforts, which impacted the lives of
daughter of the late William and Virginia date. the company of the people who loved him was not particularly religious, he was proud bara Grazulis Smith; father of Gillian Smith thousands of students, Mike was awarded
Cross. most, on February 7, 2024. He was 93 years of his Jewish heritage and a wholeheart- Mullins (John), Douglas Michael Smith (Sar- an Honorary Doctorate of Public Service
In lieu of ûowers, memorial contributions old. ed Zionist. He was a good listener. He was ah); grandfather of Keaveny, Reid, Quinn, from Ohio Northern University in 2010.
Gayle spent most of her life in Alexandria, may be made to the American Cancer So- Nelson spent his youth on Eutaw Place in honest to a fault. He held high ideals, but and Lilla; brother of Eric Smith (Janice) and Mike cherished spending time with his wife
VA where she owned and operated Property ciety. Baltimore City. He graduated from Johns had modest needs. He worked hard, but re- Andrea Smith. Deeply cherished by his niec- Barbara and his family. He was especially
Management Associates for over 20 years. Hopkins Medical School in 1954, then mained humble. He loved poetry and recited es and nephews. proud of his children, Gillian and Douglas, his
She also was an established and well-re- Please visit Gayle9s Life Memorial Webpage served as a U.S. Army physician at the end his favorites by heart. He enjoyed opera. He Mike was born in Hartford, Connecticut on son-in-law, John, and daughter-in-law Sarah.
spected real estate agent in the area. Gay- at of the Korean War. He married his wife, Sue was devoted to his family. August 27, 1946, the son of Ronald and Hil- Mike9s (Papa9s) greatest joy was spending
le loved listening to music, her books, and www.parsellfuneralhomes.com Leavitt, on New Year9s Eve in 1958. They had Nelson was a good citizen of the world, be- degard Smith. He received his undergradu- time with his grandchildren. Whether on
three children. cause he took seriously his obligations to ate degree from Ohio Northern University the Cape or the Chesapeake Bay, Mike was
Nelson was often ahead of his time. He his fellow human beings. His absence is as and Master9s Degree in Education from Bos- happiest on the water with those he loved.
bought his ûrst home in an integration proj- much a loss to those who loved him as it is ton University. Following college, he enlisted In lieu of ûowers, donations can be made to
ect, called Neighbors Inc., in northwest D.C. to those who did not know him. He is pre- in the United States Navy, was stationed in Compassionate Care ALS (ccals.org).
at the height of the civil rights movement. ceded in death by his wife of 58 years, Sue San Diego, California, and served aboard the A Celebration of Life will be held on Febru-
He began his medical practice with one of Leavitt Goodman. He is survived by his only USS Jouett during the Vietnam War. After the ary 22, 2024. For more information, please
MODECKI the earliest Health Maintenance Organi-
zations, in Takoma Park, Maryland, before
sister, Marian Rabinowitz; his three children,
Ellen Goodman Duffy, Diane Goodman and
Navy, he moved to Massachusetts to work
in the school system. He spent his summers
visit
www.JosephGawlers.com
joining a private medical practice in Bowie, Mark Goodman; his son-in-law, Paul Duffy, on Cape Cod enjoying time with his lifelong
ation in 1983. He began revitalizing the as- Maryland where he remained for the next his daughter-in-law, Tatjana Syre Goodman; friends. In 1976 Mike moved to Washington,
sociation by turning an operating deûcit into 40 years. He cared for his patients on a per- and his seven grandchildren; Alex and Sarah DC to join The Washington Center for Intern-
a proût and refocusing its legal, legislative, sonal level, brought his work home, made Duffy; Jemma, Willa and Esme Lehner; Josh ships and Academic Seminars, which he
and regulatory affairs. house calls. and Jessica Goodman. would go on to lead from 2004 3 2016. His
Nelson was an avid runner before it became A memorial service will be held at 12:30 strong belief in higher education and desire
He was then recruited in 1985 to merge two an avocation and before the advent of the p.m. Monday, February 12, 2024, at Temple for students to have transformative experi-
failed thrifts in the DC, MD, and VA areas as running shoe. He was an advocate for the Beth Shalom, 1461 Temple Beth Shalom,
President of Meritor Savings Bank. Under decriminalization of drugs and for the med- 1461 Baltimore Annapolis Blvd., Arnold, MD.
his leadership assets were increased three ical treatment of drug abusers decades be- The service will be live streamed at https://.
times the intended goal in the ûrst twelve
months, making it one of the region9s largest
fore it was an acceptable subject of public
debate. He was a vocal supporter of sensi-
w w w. a n n a p o l i s t e m p l e. o r g / . w o r s h i p /
live-streaming/ SPAFFORD
savings banks. Carl9s time at Meritor was his ble gun control long before Columbine. He There will be an open house for family and
most rewarding challenge. ate salads daily before the invention of the friends immediately afterward at The Re- and Golden Spafford on May 26, 1935. He
salad bar and forever after. serve at Heritage Harbour, 940 Astern Way, grew up in Brush, Colorado and attended
In 1992 Carl accepted the role as President Nelson had strong, smart opinions which Apt. 405. Colorado State University (CSU), where he
of the National Association of Insurance often appeared in the editorial columns of received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical
Brokers, again moving an organization from Engineering. After serving as a Captain in
deûcit to proût within the ûrst year. He con- the United States Air Force, Lloyd received
ceived and held the ûrst World Insurance his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering
Conference involving seven countries as
well as U.S. Senators, Senior Congress-
HEARL from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn,
now part of New York University. He worked
CARL A. MODECKI men, and the Secretary of Commerce, Ron in the aerospace division of General Elec-
Carl A. Modecki passed away peacefully on Brown. He led trade missions to China and paydays, decadent ice cream sundaes and tric (GE) for over 30 years in technical and
February 6, 2024 with loving family by his Japan and was an ofûcial delegate to the Or- tickle ûghts. managerial roles overseeing ballistic mis-
side. ganisation for Economic Co-operation and Among the happy chaos of family and work, sile defense programs and as director of
Development (OECD) in 1994-95. He was a Bill pursued his passion for the golf course, internal research and development for ra-
A colleague once wrote of him, <Carl is my three-time appointee to the Industry Sector doggedly working on his swing and putting dar and sonar programs. Lloyd was also an
standard for how an ethical man should Advisory Committee on Services and Trade skills to prepare for friendly competition adjunct professor at Syracuse University for
behave in our modern, complicated soci- Policy Matters (1992-1998) by the Secretary with family, friends and business associates. 10 years where he taught courses in Radar
ety. His value system, his 8moral compass9, of Commerce. Bill9s curious and creative mind was always Engineering, Sonar Engineering, and Com-
would ût comfortably into the boundaries of busy, ûlling hard drive after hard drive with munications Systems. After retiring from GE
most major religions9 practices, and it never In his last Association role, Carl served as painstakingly-edited absolutely stunning in 1993, Lloyd became a Certiûed Financial
wavers. He approaches his responsibilities President of the International Captive Insur- nature photography. His fascination with Planner where he enjoyed helping people
as CEO, consultant, father, etc. as the var- ance Companies Association achieving ûve nature could be witnessed in deep affection LLOYD SPAFFORD with their investments and taxes.
ious roles require, but also as a teacher& years of continuous growth in membership for his dogs, his brimming bird feeders and On Wednesday, February 7, 2024, Lloyd Spaf- An avid sportsman, Lloyd played baseball at
while understanding that everyone does not and reserves. Carl9s strong work ethic and his fastidiously curated fossil collection. ford, beloved husband and father, passed CSU breaking numerous batting records. He
learn, or at least learn at the same pace. intellect afforded him the above successes Bill graduated from Robert E. Peary High away peacefully at his home in Great Falls, brieûy played semi-pro ball and continued
This is especially remarkable, given his abil- in his career. School in Rockville, Maryland in 1975, Virginia after a long battle with Parkinson9s. playing softball until he was 80. His love of
ity to grasp extremely complex issues. At earned his bachelor9s degree in microbiol- He was 88 years old. Lloyd is survived by sports extended to his children and grand-
the same time, he maintains a positive and Outside of his career he dedicated himself ogy from East Tennessee State University his wife of 67 years, Julia; and four children, children where he proudly coached their
constructive demeanor through the many to philanthropy efforts. He served on the in 1979, and received his doctorate in bio- Michael, Patrick, Timothy, and Jennifer; sev- numerous teams.
difûculties life deals to all of us and I am Board of the National Capital Area Kidney chemistry from University of Tennessee at en grandchildren, Jeremy, Katya, Alexandra, Services and interment private.
convinced that he always knows what his Foundation between 1995-2002. Following Oak Ridge and Knoxville in 1984. Shawn, Cynthia, Monica, and Andrew; and The online guestbook is available at
responsibility is through accessing that hard his retirement, he opted for a more hands- WILLIAM GEORGE HEARL <Bill= He began his exceptional scientiûc career two great grandchildren, Elaina and Roman. www.moneyandking.com
-to-deûne 8moral compass9.= on approach lending himself not only ûnan- William George <Bill= Hearl, passed away as a bench scientist and developed blood- Lloyd was born in Denver, Colorado to Lloyd
cially but also forming deep relationships peacefully on February 5, 2024 at Shady based diagnostics for HIV, HTLV-I and Hep-
Admitted to the Bar in three states, Carl and connections within his community. He Grove Adventist Hospital in Gathersburg, atitis C. In 2000, found Capital Genomix,
was a successful and sought after leader developed his own program for food sufû- Maryland surrounded by his loving family. Inc., a Mayland-based biomarker and drug
in organizational turnarounds earning him ciency, healthcare, and education outreach He had battled melanoma cancer coura- discovery company, and culminated his ca-
a lifetime certiûcation as an Association speciûc to the needs of farm workers in geously for many years, a ûght that he gave reer as the founder and Chief Executive Of-
Executive. Palm Beach County Florida. Carl was an avid
reader of American History which fashioned
his all until the end.
Bill was a loving husband and father, a loy-
ûcer of Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc. In the
highly competitive biotechnology ûeld, Bill
WALSH
Raised in Metuchen New Jersey, he was the the majority of his pro bono and service al friend and a kind, energetic man with a was known for his support and promotion
only child of Charles Modecki and Edith Sa- interests within historically marginalized persistently positive outlook on life. He will of local biotech companies and young and opportunity to study at Oxford University
lomone. Carl attended The University of Ken- communities. be missed by all who knew him. Bill married emerging scientists. as a Rhodes Scholar. When he returned, he
tucky where he earned his BA in Journalism the love of his life, Maureen, in 1979 and to- Bill served on the board of the Maryland obtained a graduate degree in Library Sci-
and interned with the public affairs division Throughout both his career and personal gether they raised a wonderful family while Tech Council, two non-proût organizations ences from the University at Buffalo before
of the National Space Administration. While life, Carl provided mentorship, leadership, Bill established a groundbreaking career in committed to the growth of the Maryland accepting a position overseeing foreign ac-
attending law school at George Washington structure, and that unwavering moral com- the biotechnology ûeld. He was that rare biotech community and the Governor9s Life quisitions at the Library of Congress, where
University, he worked as staff assistant for pass to many; he had an eye for knowing person who was brilliant as a scientist yet Science Advisory Board through 2020. He he worked for over 30 years.
U.S. Representative Silvio O. Conte in 1965 where he was most needed, furthering the also understood how to make a business also supported many philanthropic caus-
and 1966. personal and professional growth of many. successful. es such as 4Ocean, a global organization Michael lived a private life but took plea-
We are all enriched for knowing him; he will Bill9s family could always depend upon him ûghting the proliferation of plastic in the sure in the entertainment of friends with
In 1967 he began his legal career by join- be deeply missed. to provide reassurance and guidance, his world9s oceans, and the Catholic missions many lively conversations over good food
ing the American Automobiles Association9s was the conûdent voice of calm, a ground- in Africa run by the Maryknoll Fathers. He and drink. He loved his cats - Juno, Rocco,
Wisconsin division as legal counsel where Of all the roles he held, the most important ing anchor whenever life turned difûcult. was a Board Member for Hope Connections and Frodo - and enjoyed gardening, often a
his skills helped craft policy preventing twin to him was as a loving father. He took great He also understood that laughter is always for Cancer Support for over 10 years and he familiar sight in his straw hat as he looked
trailers (65-foot double bottom vehicles) on pride in his four children and was actively necessary to heal the human spirit. Family and Maureen donated countless hours to after the trees and plants he helped to
interstate highways. engaged in their many activities including was the most important thing to Bill and as supporting patients and fundraising events. cultivate around his condominium. He had
coaching soccer and serving on various a father and grandfather he always made Predeceased by his father, Thomas. Bill is a passion for Native American art and sur-
Carl joined the Massachusetts Bar Associa- school boards. sure to spend time knowing that life doesn9t survived by his loving wife, Maureen; his rounded himself with books. He viewed life
tion as Executive Director in 1971 where he always give you a second chance to make children, Christopher (CJ), Thomas and Mary with a sense of humor, was always quick
served until 1983. Over his 12 years there He leaves behind his beloved wife and best memories. Kathleen Couillard and her husband, Ryan; to lend a hand, and believed in making the
he built a strong leadership and manage- friend, Margaret Stewart; and four children, His children fondly remember Bill9s excite- his cherished grandchildren, Liam, Noah world a more beautiful place through art,
ment team bringing the organization from a Carl A. <Cam= Modecki Jr., Dr. Kathryn Mo- ment with school science fair projects, and Luna; his mother, Lillian, and his brother, MICHAEL WALSH literature, gardening, and devotion to family
membership of 4,000 and a staff of two to a decki (Richard Holden), Richard Modecki seriously competitive card games, patient Frank. Michael Kerry Walsh, 76, of Burke, VA died in and friends.
membership of 11,800 and a staff of 20 with (Claire Modecki) and Courtney Modecki; his sports coaching, and his famous chili made A service to honor the life of William George his home on December 29, 2023.
a revenue increase of 800%. grandchildren, Reese and Coco Holden and during football season. He also loved to read Hearl will be held on Friday, February 16, Michael was preceded in death by his moth-
Amy and Mason Modecki. to his children and grandchildren, some- 2024, at 11 a.m. at Our Lady of Mercy Cath- Michael was born in Kenmore, NY in 1947 er, father, and brother, Stephen, and is sur-
Seeking new challenges, he moved his fam- times from self-authored and illustrated olic Church, 9200 Kentsdale Drive, Potomac, to Thomas and Amy Walsh. He studied Lib- vived by his three sisters, Sally, Eileen, and
ily to Washington, DC in 1982 and became A private celebration of life will be held at a children9s picture books. His grandchildren Maryland. In lieu of ûowers, please make eral Arts at Hobart & William Smith College. Mary, and their families, and his godson,
President of the Consumer Bankers Associ- yet to be determined date. adored <Pop Pop= and they looked for- donations to Hope Connections For Cancer Upon graduating he took a position working Stephen. Services will be private, with ar-
ward to his chess lessons, treasure chest Support. at the Harvard Library until he received an rangements pending.

KAHN WITHERS
MURDOCK ished grandmother of Madison D. Kahn and hood Education, and from the University of
Charles S. Kahn. the District of Columbia, where she earned
James Murdock; mother, Elizabeth Higgins a Masters Degree in Library Science). Betty
Murdock; son, Bruce; daughter, Mary; and Funeral services will be held on Monday, proudly served her community as an ele-
brothers, Henry and John Murdock. Robert February 12, 2024, at 10 a.m. at Adas Israel mentary educator and librarian for the Dis-
was a graduate of George Washington Uni- Congregation, 2850 Quebec St. NW, Wash- trict of Columbia Public Schools for over 35
versity, Washington, DC and of Washington ington, DC. The service will also be live- years. Her commitment to children extended
and Lee University Law School in 529 where streamed from the Adas Israel website. to her community in Silver Spring, Maryland
he earned his Juris Doctorate9s Degree. He where she was an active member of the PTA
retired as a Federal Administrative Law Interment at Judean Memorial Gardens fol- and an enthusiastic supporter of the Girl
Judge. Robert was a retired U.S. Army Col- lowing the funeral service. The family will be Scouts. Betty was a loyal friend, a compas-
onel. He was a disabled WWII combat vet- sitting Shiva at her late residence. Monday sionate partner, and a second mother and
eran who served in the South Paciûc and in through Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. sister to many in her life. Her spirit will be
the Occupation of Japan. He was awarded deeply missed by all who knew her. Betty
numerous medals during his military ser- Memorial contributions may be made to the was preceded in death by her mother, Lucille
vice. Robert was a lifetime member of the National Kidney Foundation, National Cap- Morman (nee Whitner), her father, Virgil L.
MOAA, JAG Corp., the Veterans of Foreign ital Area, MedStar Georgetown University Morman, and her brother, James W. Morman.
War, Disabled American Veterans, American Hospital - Transplant Institute, or Adas Israel
Legion, American Clan Gregor Society, Sons Congregation. Betty is survived by her loving husband of 57
of the American Revolution, The D.C. Bar As- years, James B. (Bert) Withers; her son Darius
sociation, and U.S. Federal Courts including Among many ûrsts, Toby9s heroic accom- B. Withers (Christie Morris-Withers), and her
the U.S. Supreme Court BAR. TOBY LEVINSON KAHN plishments include being the ûrst multi-or- BETTY L. WITHERS daughter, Samara K. Withers. She was a cher-
Robert is survived by his former wife, Eliz- On Thursday, February 7, 2024, gan transplant recipient in the DC Metro- Betty L. Withers (nee Morman), of Silver ished grandmother to Leila E. Withers and Ian
ROBERT BARNARD MURDOCK abeth Murdock of Virginia Beach, VA; son, Toby Levinson Kahn of Bethes- politan area, the ûrst to receive a pancreas Spring, Maryland, passed away on February J. Withers. Viewing will be held on Saturday
Judge Robert Barnard Murdock, Douglas Murdock of Satellite Beach, FL; da, MD. transplant, and the ûrst to travel halfway 9, 2024, at the age of 80 in Silver Spring, February 17, 2024 at 10 a.m., followed by
died at age 95. He was born granddaughter, Chantal of Fairfax, VA; and across the country for an organ transplant. Maryland. She was born on April 11, 1943, Homegoing service at 11 a.m. at McGuire
February 24, 1928 in Washing- nephew, James Murdock of Bethesda, MD. Beloved wife of Stephen D. in Washington, DC. A native Washingtonian, Funeral Home, 7400 Georgia Ave. NW, Wash-
ton, D.C. He was a resident of Services are pending with burial at Arlington Kahn, devoted mother of Robin Toby was happiest surrounded by family graduated from Coolidge Senior High School, ington, DC 20012. Interment Private.
Satellite Beach, Florida. He was National Cemetery with full military honors. L. Kahn and David A. Kahn (Alexis). Loving and friends. and D.C. Teachers College, where she earned www.mcguire-services.com
predeceased by his father, Rev. www.smithandwilliamskempsville.com sister of Howard M. Levinson (Susan). Cher- a Bachelors of Science Degree in Early Child-
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DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE IN MEMORIAM DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE DEATH NOTICE
GORMAN HALWICK JOHNSON CARNES
Born in Washington, DC, on February 10, Association of the National Capital Area
1960, Buz grew up in Bethesda Maryland, (UNA-NCA).
attended Walt Whitman Highschool, com- Evelyn Falkowski was the ûrst Executive
pleted his undergraduate degree at the Director of UNA-NCA. The Evelyn Falkowski
University of Southern Florida and gradu- Award is the highest honor given each year
ated with a law degree at Catholic Univer- by the UNA-NCA to one of its members, and
sity. Buz distinguished himself personally recognizes outstanding volunteer service.
with his devotion to community service and While living in the greater Washington, DC
professionally by strengthening the banking area, she participated regularly with the
industry through signiûcant legislative and Soka Gakkai International (SGI)-USA DC Bud-
regulatory reforms. dhist Center.
Buz was a devoted husband and father to Emily joined the Lion9s Club International in
his two boys prioritizing family above all. Arlington, VA, and met a fellow Lion, Charles
Throughout his life, Buz has always exempli- Wright Fields, Jr. (Chuck). They became a
ûed <Service Above Self.= couple in the early 2000s, and married on
The family will receive visitors on Febru- November 28, 2017, in Arlington, VA. Emily
ary 19, from 4 to 7 p.m. at Murphy Funer- and Chuck ran Chuck9s plumbing company
al Home, Arlington, VA. On February 20, at from January 2005 until Chuck9s death on
10:30 a.m. a Funeral Mass will be held at June 3, 2021, after which Emily continued
Holy Trinity Catholic Church, in Washing- to run a plumbing business as Monroe Pike
ton, DC, followed by a burial at Columbia THOMAS FRANCIS HALWICK PATRICIA Y. JOHNSON LLC.
JOHN S. GORMAN <Buz= Gardens Cemetery, and a celebration of life
<Tommy= Entered into eternal life on Sunday, Janu- EMILY LOIS CARNES During her charity work with the Lions Club
John <Buz= S. Gorman, Esq., loving husband, following. ary 21, 2024. She was preceded in death Emily Lois Carnes passed away peacefully at of Virginia, she served as District Governor
father, friend and successful government In lieu of ûowers, donations can be directed May 5, 1939 - February 11, 2005 the home of her brother, Nathan, in Wash- (District 24-A), worked with the Lions Eye-
Daddy, you have been gone from my life by her husband of 60 years, John C. John-
affairs and General Counsel, passed away to The John <Buz= Gorman Charitable Trust. son, Sr. She is survived by a devoted and ington, DC, on January 8, 2024, of colon glass Recycling Center of NOVA and was an
peacefully on February 5, 2024 surrounded To view the full obituary and make a dona- for 19 years and I miss you more and cancer. avid Pin Trader at any and all Lions events
more each day. You are in my heart and loving daughter, Deidre L. Johnson. She is
by his family in Arlington, VA after battling tion, please visit also survived by three sisters-in-law, niec- Emily was born in Franklin, Virginia on Janu- she attended. For over a decade, Emily and
brain cancer. www.murphyfuneralhomes.com thoughts always. ary 25, 1954, and moved with her family to Chuck ran the annual Christmas Tree lot
Mommie and Babies es, nephews and a host of extended fam-
ily and friends. On Thursday, February 15, Chapel Hill, NC in 1956. to beneût the Lions Club. Emily was also a
2024, friends may visit with family from 10 Emily attended Chapel Hill/Carrboro staunch supporter of the Arlington Better
a.m. until time of service, 11 a.m. at Uni- schools, the NC School of the Arts where Sports Club, a youth sports league, having
GUNN DEATH NOTICE
versalist National Memorial Church, 1810
16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009.
she studied ûute. At the Berklee College of
Music in Boston, MA she continued her ûute
served as President and on the Board, as
well.
Interment: Parklawn Memorial Park, Rock- studies, met and <jammed= with many jazz Emily is survived by her sister Deborah
he became Director of Expendable Launch ville, MD. musicians such as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Carnes Christie (George); three brothers:
Vehicles and then Director of Space Mission
Success Services. Upon retirement from
CROMER www.marshallmarchfh.com Shorter and Benny Maupin. She encoun-
tered and converted to Buddhism during her
Larry Carnes, Timothy Carnes (Elizabeth)
and Nathan Carnes (Kelly); and nine nieces
NASA he started and was the Managing time in Boston. Emily then returned to North and nephews: Rebecca Christie, Nicholas
Director of Space Consulting Resources Carolina to complete her undergraduate Christie, Drew Carnes, Seth Carnes, Ma-
Group (SpaceCRG) in Washington, DC and degree at NC State University in Computer rie-Christine Carnes, Eldon Carnes, Philip
Cocoa Beach, Florida. He was awarded the Science. Carnes, Jason Carnes and Haley Carnes. Nu-
NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1976
and 1994 as well as the NASA Outstanding
MCHUGH Emily worked as a computer programmer
in Raleigh, eventually moving to the Wash-
merous great nieces and nephews and too
many friends to count.
Leadership Medal in 1992. ington DC area where she worked and Condolences may be sent to Nathan Carnes,
He was very active at the Potomac Squash volunteered for a number of organizations, 3547 Chesapeake Street NW, Washington,
Club where he played squash almost daily including as a secretary for George Wash- DC 20008-2958.
for more than 40 years. It was recently re- ington University and the Cattlemen9s As- A Buddhist memorial service will be held at
named the Charlie Gunn Squash Building sociation, and as the manager of a MOM9s the SGI USA Buddhist Life Center, 3417 Mas-
for his many contributions on the board as cooperative grocery store. sachusetts Ave. NW, Washington DC at 1:30
well as maintenance/upkeep. He was also At a luncheon on Saturday, June 4, 2005, at p.m. on Saturday, February 17, 2024. Fol-
an avid US and world traveler. If he wasn9t Jury9s Hotel (now Dupont Circle Hotel) on lowed by a visitation with family and friends.
cruising or white water rafting with his chil- New Hampshire Avenue NW in Washington, There will be an additional celebration in
dren and grandchildren, he could be found DC, Emily was presented with the <Evelyn Chapel Hill, North Carolina at a later date.
in Russia, Africa, South America and Europe. Falkowski Award= by the United Nations
His true hobby was maintaining his beloved
CHARLES ROWLEY GUNN home and pond on the hill for his ever grow-
Charles <Charlie= Rowley Gunn of Potomac, ing Gunn family.
Maryland and Cocoa Beach, Florida, peace-
fully passed away surrounded by family on
He is preceded in death by his granddaugh-
ter, Kaleigh Adeline Higgins of Potomac, Md. BRUNELL M. CROMER
MONAHAN
February 5, 2024. Born in Washington, DC He is survived by his children Kim (Drew) Peacefully passed away on Sunday, Jan-
on April 23, 1934, he graduated from Wood- Conway of Washington, DC, Patty (Mark) Hig- to know him. His sharp mind, warm heart,
uary 21, 2024. Loving mother of Carla and unwavering loyalty left an indelible mark
row Wilson High School and spent most of gins of Potomac, MD, Meredith (Kyle) Morton Cromer-Butler (James). Also survived by
his life in the DC area. He was predeceased of Potomac, MD, Barbara (Ken) Bossung of on the hearts of those who had the privilege
sister, Jean McLean, brother, WD McLean, of knowing him. The memories we shared,
by his beloved wife Meredith Miller, his Olympic Valley, CA and Charlie (Carole) Gunn eight grandchildren, six great-grandchil-
high school sweetheart. He received his BS of Centreville, VA; 12 grandchildren and six VIRGINIA DONOHOE MCHUGH the laughter we enjoyed, and the moments
dren, and the host of nieces, nephews, oth- of comfort he provided will forever be cher-
and MS in Aeronautical Engineering at the great-grandchildren. er relatives and friends. On Saturday, Feb-
University of Michigan in 1957 and attend- A celebration of his wonderful life will be on (Age 80) ished. He was a shining example of the ex-
ruary 17, friends may visit with the family On Friday, February 2, 2024, traordinary impact one soul can have on
ed the Senior Executive Program at MIT in April 27, 2024 at Manor Country Club. Final from 10:30 a.m., until time of service at
1985. He spent 35 years at NASA ELV and details will be available at a later date. In lieu of Bethesda and Banks O9Dee, those they touch.
11:30 a.m., at 15th Street Presbyterian Maryland.
Space Shuttle management and technical of ûowers please consider donating to our Church, 1701 15th Street NW. Interment
direction. In the 19709s he became Project families favorite community/charity - Main- Regis9 accomplishments were incredible.
Arlington National Cemetery at a later Beloved wife of the late John Having careers and retirements within the
Manager of Delta Launch Vehicle and Land- streetconnect.org. We love this amazing date. Send condolences to
sat-D Spacecraft before becoming Director place in Rockville, Maryland and hope you Joseph McHugh; cherished USAF, NSA, CIA and NRO agencies. He was
www.marshallmarchfh.com mother of Jean Donohoe McHugh (Charlie a devout Catholic and served in many posi-
of Space Shuttle Operations in 1979. In 1987 will too.
Braico), and proud grandmother of John tions within the church. He was a wonderful
McHugh <Mac= Keogh and Robert Emmet person to all that knew him.
Keogh; much loved sister of D. Patrick
JEFFREY Donohoe, Rosemary Donohoe Collopy
(Dan), the late James Aloysius Donohoe
Regis was preceded in death by his grand-
FOWLKES III (Mary Jo), and the late Robert Barry
Donohoe, Sr. (Sharon). Also survived by
son, Sean Patrick Moorer. He is survived by
his loving wife of 64 years, Beatriz. Survived
by this three children: Mary Luisa Requa of
Frances was born in Roanoke, Virginia, many loving cousins, nieces, and nephews. REGIS EDWARD MONAHAN JR. Kilmarnock, VA, Suzanne Gallagher (James)
raised in Catawba, Virginia, and lived most (Age 84) of Spotsylvania, VA, and Michael <Ricky= Mo-
of her life in Arlington, Virginia. She was an Relatives and friends may call at Shrine of nahan of Sterling, VA. He is also survived by
the Most Blessed Sacrament, 5949 West- It is with heavy hearts and a deep sense of
avid reader, enjoyed playing bridge, doing loss that we share the news of the passing of eight grandchildren and three great grand-
needlepoint, and traveling abroad. Frances ern Ave. NW, Washington, DC, on Monday, children.
February 12, beginning at 10 a.m. where Regis, who left this world at 10 p.m. on Jan-
was educated at Madison College where uary 17, 2024. He died peacfully surrounded
she received a business degree, graduating Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated The family plans to hold a private Mass in the
at 11 a.m. Interment Private. In lieu of ûow- by his family.
with honors, and later taught high school near future. In lieu of ûowers, please make a
business classes in Alexandria, Virginia. ers, memorial contributions may be made donation to St Jude Children9s Hospital, per
to The Father McKenna Center or The DC Regis was not just a man; he was a pillar of
Known for her kindness to all and dedica- strength, a beacon of love, and a loyal pres- his request.
tion to her family, she will be dearly missed Chapter of the Christ Child Society.
www.COLLINSFUNERALHOME.com ence in the lives of those fortunate enough
by all who knew her. Her strength of spirit,
intelligence, and grace will be forever re-
membered by family and friends, as well as
the joy she brought to all.
RINARD
Frances was cremated, with her memori-
al service and celebration of life held with
close family on February 3, 2024. Her ashes
WINSTON University.
Following college, he worked at the Senate,
will be spread at a later date within the pri- later at the Congressional Reference Divi-
FRANCES BRICKEY JEFFREY (Age 89) vacy of her family. We will always carry her sion of the CRS in the Library of Congress,
On January 24, 2024, Frances Jeffrey of wonderful memory in our hearts. GERALDINE E. FOWLKES and ended his federal career at the Smith-
Arlington, Virginia passed away at age 89. On Sunday, January 28, 2024, Geraldine E. sonian Libraries.
She is survived by her son Willard Raught Any donations may be made to Capital Car- Fowlkes of Silver Spring, MD, beloved wife All his life Geoff loved the natural world
Jeffrey, III (Jeff), her daughter-in-law Mary ing Health Hospice or the Alzheimer9s Asso- for 57 years of the late Walter E. Fowlkes; and being outdoors. He ran track events in
Van Leuven Jeffrey; her three grandchildren, ciation. mother of the late Walter M. <Chipper= high school and continued to jog daily and
Allison Maryl Jeffrey, Willard Raught Jeffrey, www.murphyfuneralhomes.com Fowlkes, II, went to be with the Lord at participate in charity runs and marathons
IV, and Lauren Frances Jeffrey; her sister Jeri 8 p.m. The family will receive visitors on throughout the DMV, including the Marine
Dickinson, her brother-in-law Robert Dickin- Thursday, February 15, 2024 at The Peo- Marathon, through his 30s and 40s. He hiked
son; and her nephew Scott Dickinson. She ple9s Community Baptist Church, 31 Nor- in the Alps with mountaineer Peter Hebeler.
was pre-deceased by her husband Willard wood Road, Silver Spring, MD 20905 from He had a lifelong passion for ûshing - rivers,
Raught Jeffrey, Jr., her son David John Jeffrey, 10 a.m. until 11 a.m. where her funeral streams, lakes, oceans - you name it, he had
and her daughter Pamela Frances Jeffrey. service will commence at 11 a.m. Service a rod in it, from boat or shore.
at church will be streamed at www.tpcbc. Geoff took every opportunity to travel - driv-
org. Entombment will follow at 1:15 p.m. in ing up into northern Canada, taking the train
Arbutus Memorial Park Mausoleum, 1101 through Europe, visiting cities, beaches, and
Sulphur Spring Road, Baltimore, MD 21227.
LAMOUREUX Mrs. Fowlkes is survived by her sister
Joyce Tutman and a host of relatives and
small coastal towns. For ûfteen years he
enjoyed time away with Jane at their island
friends. Memorial contributions may be
GEOFFREY PARKER RINARD home on Caye Caulker, Belize, where they
for Inspirational Leadership. In 1972, Bob9s On Tuesday, January 2, 2024, made lifelong friends.
made to the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Geoff Rinard died at his home on Geoff is survived by his wife, Jane, and his
experience and leadership skills placed him Online condolences to the family may be JANE LOUISE WINSTON
in the position of Senior Naval Advisor for Jane Louise Winston, 73, died peacefully Capitol Hill. Geoff was the hus- sister, Judith, who are now entrusted with
made at band of Jane Rinard and brother the care of his much-loved kitten, Tilly. He
the U.S. Naval Advisory Group in NHA Trang www.hinesrinaldifuneralhome.com on January 31, 2024, in Sunrise, FL. Jane,
Vietnam. In this capacity, Bob was respon- a Washington, DC native, graduated from of Judith Rinard of Silver Spring, was preceded in death by his parents; a sis-
sible for his team9s efforts in the 11 Corps Woodrow Wilson High School where she MD. ter, Kathleen; a brother, Grant; and a neph-
toward achieving the goals of the Vietnam- was a cheerleader. She attended the Uni- Geoff was born in Mason City, Iowa on Feb- ew, David Parker Bayard.
ization Program for Self-Sufûciency (VPSS). versity of Miami and graduated with hon- ruary 28, 1952 to Park and Phyllis Rinard, Geoff9s ready wit and smile, his warm hands
Bob was the Senior Advisor to Vietnamese ors from the University of Maryland. Jane the youngest of four children. He grew up and heart are deeply missed.
Training Centers, the U.S. Naval Academy, worked for many years for the American in Clear Lake, Mason City, and Des Moines, Family and friends will gather to remember
Harbor Defense and Surveillance Units. His Psychological Association and then ran a Iowa, but graduated from McLean High Geoff and celebrate his life on Thursday,
time in Vietnam and his contributions were successful pet sitting business, PAWSitive- School in 1970, following the family9s move February 29, 2024 at 3:30 p.m. in the chapel
lauded as a tremendous success as under ly PURRfect, Miami, FL. Jane was a passion- to Falls Church, Va during his junior year. At of the Capitol Hill United Methodist Church
his leadership the VPSS program mission, ate fan of the Miami Marlins and the Wash- McLean, Geoff took his ûrst overseas trip to (CHUMC) on Seward Square, Washington,
established in 1956, was declared mission ington Commanders, who went to three what was then the USSR. That trip with his DC 20003. All are welcome.
accomplished and disestablished upon his Super Bowls with her sister. She loved her classmates left a lasting impression on him. Memorial contributions may be made to
departure. dogs, Kirby and Dickens, and was a proud Geoff loved books and cared deeply about the Capitol Hill Community Foundation at
After his tour in Vietnam, Bob returned to Democrat. Jane is survived by her sister, politics, studying literature and political sci- https://capitolhillcommunityfoundation.org/
the U.S. Naval War College, as the Director Carole Winston Wilson, Chevy Chase, MD, ence at Florida Presbyterian College (now donate.
for the Naval Planning and Applications Sub- and her two nephews, Aaron Wilson, Hous- Eckard College) and George Washington www.COLLINSFUNERALHOME.com
study at the Naval Command College. In this ton, TX, and Jonathan Wilson, Washington,
ROBERT J. LAMOUREUX capacity, he directed a select group of 32 DC. Donations can be made to the Good-
CAPTAIN, U.S. NAVY (RET.) international Senior Naval Ofûcers on how man Jewish Family Services of Broward
to prepare themselves for high command
Robert <Bob= Joseph Lamoureux, distin-
guished Commanding Ofûcer, Navy Fighter responsibilities in their home countries.
Throughout the early years of his career,
DEATH NOTICE County, jfsbroward.org. Service private.
STEINER
Pilot, Senior Naval Advisor, Midshipman,
husband, father, and friend passed away Bob9s intelligence, perseverance, and pro-
peacefully surrounded by his loving family
on November 24, 2023 at the age of 90. Bob
fessional acumen distinguished him as a
highly respected and trusted Naval Ofû-
GOETTLICH master9s degree in criminal justice from
American University (1976) and bachelor9s
cer. His commitment to service elevated degree from Georgetown University (1969).
was born on May 3, 1933, to Albert Charles Paul loved the outdoors and enjoyed ûshing,
Lamoureux and Jeannette Roussel Lamou- him to Commanding Ofûcer (CO) of the moved to Naples, FL. to get out of the cold,
USS Charles P. Cecil (DD/DDR- 835) a Gear- but returned to VA in 2015 to be closer to camping, sailing with the Boat Crew, hiking,
reux in Lowell, Massachusetts. He was the cooking, and most of all, his family and dear
eldest of seven children. ing-Class destroyer. CO Lamoureux was her children and grandchildren. Jaci enjoyed
well-liked and respected by the 19 Ofûcers traveling and went on some wonderful ad- friends. Paul will forever be remembered for
Bob lived a rich and fulûlling life as an ador- his ability to connect with every person in
ing and devoted husband, a loving and and 250 enlisted sailors who served under ventures. She loved spending time in the
him. He invested himself in securing all as- sun with her grandchildren, swimming or the room through acceptance, empathy, and
committed father, a proud grandfather, a understanding.
treasured friend, an active volunteer, and a pects of the ship9s performance, including relaxing at the beach reading a book. As the
operations, safety, maintenance, and mo- matriarch of the family, she will be greatly Paul was the beloved son of the late Emil
resolute Naval Ofûcer. His brilliant mind, in- and Grayce Steiner; treasured brother of
fectious charm, and quick wit were revered rale. As CO of the Cecil, he was awarded the missed.
1974 Naval Reserve Association A. Winûeld She is survived by her ûve children, Robert late Sally Kreiner (Fred), Susan Klausner
by all who knew him. He was a masterful (Dave), and Sharon Markstrom; adored
storyteller, whose ability to unintentional- Chapin National Trophy for commanding (Glen) Goettlich of Winchester, VA, Loren
the highest personnel retention of a surface (Goettlich) Yates of Fairfax Station, VA, Bon- brother-in-law of Susan Lebling (Chris Cas-
ly command a room was a true talent. He sels); dear uncle of Fred Kreiner (Julie),
could spin tales of incredible breadth and combatant ship. ni (Goettlich) Ramsdell of N. Ft. Meyers, FL,
In 1959, Bob married Dorothy Ann Norton Lesli (Goettlich) Murden Harbaugh of Gaith- Michael Kreiner (Linda), Beth Kobe (Paul),
depth, usually centered on others who were Jennifer Kreiner (Yolanda Feliciano), David
part of the story. Despite these and many in Marlborough, Massachusetts and over ersburg, MD and Greg Goettlich of Charles
the next eight years was blessed with four Town, WV. She also leaves ûve loving Grand- Klausner (Brittany), Brian Klausner (Lucia),
other noteworthy attributes, many would Marnie Louis (Kenn), Andy Lebling (Maria);
agree that his most enviable characteristic children. As a naval family, they lived in Key children and two Great Grandchildren who
West, Florida, San Diego, California, Marl- she adored. Grandchildren Brianne Goettlich former spouse Ginny; great uncle of many;
was his humble and unassuming nature. He PAUL EDWARD STEINER (Age 77) and beloved companion to Titan.
was a man of faith, honor, loyalty, and love. borough, Massachusetts, Newport, and of Alexandria, VA, Cameron Goettlich of Al-
Portsmouth, Rhode Island, ûnally settling in exandria, VA, Amber Goettlich of Ashville, Beloved husband of Cindy Steiner and lov- A celebration of Paul9s life will be held at a
He was one of a kind. ing father of Sean and Erin Steiner passed later date. In lieu of ûowers, memorial do-
Bob enlisted in the Navy in October of 1951 the Washington, DC area. After several years NC, Jason Yates, Jr of Clarendon, VA, Ricky
with the Ofûce of the Secretary of Defense, JACQUELINE GAUCHER GOETTLICH Harbaugh of Gaithersburg, MD and Great away on January 31, 2024, at the Casey nations made be made to Montgomery Hos-
and subsequently received an appointment House Hospice, Rockville, MD. Paul dedicat- pice, https://montgomeryhospice.org/
to the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating with completing 31 years of service with the U.S. Jacqueline Gaucher Goettlich, 87, of Alexan- Grandchildren, Makenzi Stringfellow, of
Navy and 16 years with McDonnell Douglas dria, VA, beloved mother, grandmother and Madison, VA and Cameron Goettlich, Jr. of ed his life to public service while working as Please sign the family online guestbook at
a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in June a Senior Policy Advisor at the Department www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com
of 1958. (USNA 858 is Great!) He later earned Corporation, Bob and Dorothy retired to Wil- great-grandmother passed away peacefully Arlington, VA. She is predeceased by her
liamsburg, VA. on February 1, 2024 at Greenspring Village ûve brothers: Harry, Phillippe, Thomas, Rob- of Justice during his career. He earned his
a Master of Science in International Affairs
from George Washington University. Until Dorothy died in 2011, they enjoyed a in Springûeld, VA. ert and Jo Paul as well as her beloved grand-
In August of 1958, he reported to ûight full life of golûng, traveling, volunteering, Jaci was born in Windham, CT to the late daughter, Melissa Murden.
training in Pensacola Florida, and later and spending time with their six grandchil- Mae Cheney Gaucher and Harry S. Gauch- Her Funeral Mass will be celebrated on
to Beeville, Texas having been chosen to dren. There were few things more important er, Sr., Esq. She attended boarding school Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 12 p.m.,
enter the student jet training program. In to Bob than family. in Canada and high school at the Academy Good Shepherd Catholic Church, 8710 Mt.
1960, and for the ensuing four years, Bob
distinguished himself as a Carrier based
His love of family continued after Bob met
and married Nelia Heide. Since 2014, Bob
of Our Lady of Mercy, Laurelton Hall in Mil-
ford, CT. She graduated from the University
Vernon Highway, Alexandria, VA. Interment
will follow at Ivy Hill Cemetery, 2823 King THOMPSON
All-Weather Night Fighter pilot. This highly and Nelia have traveled the world together of Connecticut with a degree in Home Eco- Street, Alexandria, VA. A reception will be
specialized distinction involves a no-vis- and lived life to its fullest. Bob often reûect- nomics. She married Robert B. Goettlich and held at The Loft at Lena9s Havana 151, 401 E sional journey commenced with an M.S. in
ibility factor demanding the ultimate in ed on his amazing good fortune to have moved to Alexandria, VA in the early 19609s Braddock Road, Alexandria, VA immediately linguistics from Georgetown University and
precision on board ship and in the air. Bob found such a deep love with Nelia at this where she lived until 2004. She started her following the interment. culminated in a Ph.D. in psychology, leading
ûew in multiple ûghter squadrons, includ- point in his life. Bob and Nelia shared an career as a teacher, but became a stay-at- In lieu of ûowers Jaci9s family suggests a to her retirement as Professor Emerita from
ing Fighter Plane (VF) 101, Naval Air Station abundance of joy, happiness, and compan- home mother while her children were small. donation to the American Heart Association. The George Washington University.
(NAS) Key West, VF 161, USS Independence, ionship during their time together. Later she went on to become both a trav- For an online memorial guestbook, please She married Richard T. Thompson and was
Attack Aircraft Carrier (CVA) 59, NAS Cecil Bob is survived by Nelia, his loving wife of el agent as well as an overnight au pair for visit www.everlywheatley.com. blessed with two sons, Rob and Jim; along
Field, Florida, USS Oriskany, CVA 34, and nine years; and his children, Bernard Lam- families with twins and triplets. In 2004 she with three cherished grandchildren: Isabel,
NAS Miramar, California, VF 21. In 1965, he oureux (Darlene), Teri Fallon (David), Anne Soûa, and Tommy. Rob and his wife, Leslie,
reported to the USS Boston, a guided mis- Lamoureux (Brian Wiersema), and Robert reside in San Diego, CA, while Jim and his
sile heavy cruiser, as a Command Informa- Lamoureux. As well as his grandchildren, wife, Mary, call Waterford, Virginia, home.
tion Center/Anti-Air Warfare Ofûcer, Senior
Air Controller and Public Affairs Ofûcer. This
Bralen Lamoureux, Healy Fallon, MIDN 1/C
Milo Fallon, Jackson Lamoureux Prettyman,
RAMSAY Irene excelled as a nationally recognized
Russian language teacher, textbook devel-
was followed by his direct involvement with Madeline Lamoureux, and Max Lamoureux. oper, and a key ûgure in Russian language
the construction of the USS Truxtun (DL- A service will be held on Saturday, Febru- Mollie Plotkin on May 26, 1939. She was pre- test development. Her focus on psycho-
G(N)35) the only nuclear-powered cruiser in ary 17, 2024, at 1 p.m. at St. Olaf Catholic ceded in death by her beloved brother Phil linguistics research aimed to understand
her class. Subsequently, he was appointed Church, 104 Norge Lane, Williamsburg, Vir- Plotkin. She had been a resident of the DC/ language learning and enhance second lan-
as the Navigation Head for the Truxtun and ginia to honor and celebrate his life. All are VA area since 1960. guage acquisition. She conducted training
was solely responsibility for the ships tran- welcome to attend. Full Military Honors and worldwide for The Peace Corps and consult-
sit from New Jersey, around Cape Horn to Interment will take place at Arlington Na- Cat was an early pioneer in the ûeld of art ed for The Educational Testing Service (ETS).
its destination in Long Beach, California. In tional Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, date to therapy receiving a Masters in Art Therapy Travel was a shared passion within Irene9s
the later part of the 1960s, Bob became a be announced. from George Washington University in the IRENE THOMPSON family, fostering the same enthusiasm in her
student and an instructor at the U.S. Naval In lieu of ûowers, donations may be made early 1970s. She was a dedicated artist With heavy hearts, we announce the pass- grandchildren. Above all, Irene cherished
War College, Newport Rhode Island. His to the Navy League of the United States devoted to working with kids as a special ing of Irene on November 12, 2023. her family and friends.
time in Newport continued as he became (NavyLeague.org) in memory of Captain education teacher (art therapist) in the Fair- Her life began in Harbin, a small town in The family sincerely appreciates your
the Executive Ofûcer (XO) of the USS Wil- Robert J. Lamoureux, USN (Ret). Fond mem- fax County Schools. Cat was an active par- northern China. She later moved to Shang- thoughts and prayers during this difûcult
liam R. Rush (DD-714). During his time as ories and expressions of sympathy may be ticipant in the Friends of Bill W community hai, where she graduated from a Russian time.
XO, he deployed overseas (Sixth Fleet) and shared at developing lifelong meaningful friendships. high school. After World War II, Irene immi- In lieu of ûowers, donations to the humane
was honored with the Navy League Award www.NelsenWilliamsburg.com grated with her parents to Chile and eventu- society are appreciated. Service scheduled
Cat9s smile, laughter and generous spirit will ally settled in the United States. Her profes- for a later date.
be greatly missed by her family and friends.
Remembrances can be made to the Michael
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Rain for Super Bowl Sunday Today Monday Tuesday Wednesday |ursday Friday OF F I C I A L REC O RD
Morning rain P.m. rain Snow and rain Breezy in the Partly cloudy Partly sunny
Rain is more likely than Saturday. It p.m. Temperatures AVERAGE RECORD ACTUAL FORECAST

may be the case that any appreciable

stuff stays south of the city, but
perhaps up to a tenth of an inch
nearby and probably less to the
north. Behind the front, with clouds and some
rain, temperatures head for the low 50s. Any rain
from the day should end at night. It9ll stay cloudy
as lows end up in the upper 30s to mid-40s.
54° 45 ° 50° 41 ° 47° 34 ° 48° 30 ° 49° 38 ° 55° 36 °

FEELS*: 51° FEELS: 49° FEELS: 39° FEELS: 42° FEELS: 46° FEELS: 52°
CHNCE PRECIP: 75% P: 55% P: 80% P: 5% P: 20% P: 10%
WIND: NNE 6312 mph W: SSE 6312 mph W: NNW 10320 mph W: NW 8316 mph W: NNW 7314 mph W: SSW 7314 mph
HUMIDITY: High H: High H: Moderate H: Low H: Moderate H: Low
Tu W | F Sa Su M Tu W | F Sa Su M Tu
Statistics through 5 p.m. Saturday

REGIO N NAT ION Weather map features for noon today.

National Dulles BWI
High 64° 2:43 p.m. 65° 1:26 p.m. 65° 1:59 p.m.
Low 45° 5:49 a.m. 48° 7:39 a.m. 38° 5:09 a.m.
Harrisburg Philadelphia
50/40 Normal 47°/31° 45°/26° 45°/26°
52/37 Record high 68° 1960 65° 2024 66° 2023
Hagerstown Record low 38° 1899 310° 1979 37° 1899
Baltimore
50/40
52/42 Dover Diference from 303yr. avg. (National): this month: +6.8° yr. to date: +3.4°
50/41
Davis Cape May Precipitation PREVIOUS YEAR NORMAL LATEST
Washington Annapolis
46/39 54/45 49/40
52/42 OCEAN: 46°

Charlottesville Ocean City

56/46 52/42
OCEAN: 44°
Lexington
56/43
Richmond
57/44 Virginia Beach
57/46 National Dulles BWI
Norfolk OCEAN: 45°
58/44 Past 24 hours 0.00" 0.00" 0.00"
Total this month 0.01" Trace 0.02"
Kitty Hawk
Normal 0.92" 0.93" 1.00"
60/45
OCEAN: 45° Total this year 5.89" 6.00" 6.79"
Normal 3.78" 3.87" 4.08"
Pollen: Moderate Air Quality: Moderate Snow, past 24 hours 0.0" 0.0" 0.0"
Grass Low Dominant cause: Ozone Snow, season total 7.9" 10.0" 9.1"
Trees Moderate
Weeds Low UV: Low Moon Phases Solar system
Mold Low 1 out of 11+
Rise Set
Sun 7:05 a.m. 5:40 p.m.
Blue Ridge: Today, periods of rain; only in the morning in Moon 8:21 a.m. 8:01 p.m.
T-storms Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Cold Front Warm Front Stationary Front Feb 16 Feb 24 Mar 3 Mar 10
northern parts. High 45 to 49. Winds east3northeast 6312 Yesterday's National World
First Full Last New
Venus 5:35 a.m. 3:16 p.m.
mph. Tonight, cloudy. Low 39 to 43. Winds west3southwest High: Plant City, FL 84° High: Shark Bay, Australia 114° Mars 5:58 a.m. 3:38 p.m.
Quarter Quarter
<310 30s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110+ Low: Daniel, WY 317° Low: Nera, Russia 360° Jupiter 10:21 a.m. 11:56 p.m.
8316 mph. Monday, periods of rain. High 44 to 50. Winds for the 48 contiguous states excludes Antarctica Saturn 7:53 a.m. 6:52 p.m.
south3southwest 8316 mph.
NATIONAL Today Tomorrow Des Moines 45/27/s 48/29/pc Oklahoma City 40/33/r 48/29/s WORLD Today Tomorrow Islamabad 72/43/s 71/44/pc Rio de Janeiro 88/76/s 90/77/s
Atlantic beaches: Today, cloudy; a morning shower in Detroit 43/26/pc 43/29/pc Omaha 47/25/s 47/30/s Addis Ababa 75/57/sh 74/57/r Istanbul 63/54/c 63/51/sh Riyadh 78/50/s 71/51/pc
spots, then occasional rain, drizzle, except periods of rain in Albany, NY 46/28/c 45/28/pc El Paso 51/31/pc 59/32/s Orlando 83/65/pc 85/60/pc Amsterdam 51/42/c 48/40/c Jerusalem 63/49/s 65/51/pc Rome 60/43/r 61/45/pc
the south. High 50 to 58. Winds north 6312 mph. Tonight, Albuquerque 44/23/s 47/25/s Fairbanks, AK 22/37/sn 21/14/pc Philadelphia 50/40/c 50/34/pc Athens 65/58/c 64/50/s Johannesburg 77/57/t 82/60/pc San Salvador 88/66/s 87/67/s
cloudy; a brief shower or two in the south. Low 38 to 44. Anchorage 32/25/c 34/30/sn Fargo, ND 37/23/pc 37/24/c Phoenix 62/41/s 66/42/s Auckland 72/56/pc 74/58/s Kabul 44/22/s 45/21/c Santiago 89/57/s 96/58/s
Atlanta 69/62/r 67/42/r Hartford, CT 49/29/pc 49/31/pc Pittsburgh 48/29/pc 48/32/c Baghdad 76/52/pc 78/51/s Kingston, Jam. 86/76/pc 88/77/pc Sarajevo 57/36/r 53/38/r
Austin 68/41/t 61/38/s Honolulu 79/66/sh 80/66/pc Portland, ME 48/26/pc 42/29/pc Bangkok 91/72/c 92/72/pc Kolkata 84/61/pc 86/63/pc Seoul 43/20/s 50/35/s
Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, rain. Wind northeast 438 Baltimore 52/42/r 51/39/r Houston 75/42/t 58/40/pc Portland, OR 54/43/r 54/34/pc Beijing 55/20/pc 54/22/pc Kyiv 40/37/c 52/43/c Shanghai 61/39/s 63/47/pc
knots. Waves under a foot. Visibility under 3 miles at times. " Lower Billings, MT 47/31/c 48/31/c Indianapolis 47/30/c 43/26/c Providence, RI 51/28/pc 48/32/pc Berlin 50/44/r 50/38/r Lagos 89/79/pc 90/79/s Singapore 89/76/pc 86/77/t
Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, rain. Wind north 6312 knots. Birmingham 72/63/r 69/40/r Jackson, MS 74/57/r 61/37/c Raleigh, NC 65/52/r 60/51/r Bogota 73/44/c 73/47/sh Lima 85/76/pc 86/75/c Stockholm 25/23/c 27/26/sn
Waves 031 foot on the Lower Potomac; 132 feet on the Chesapeake Bismarck, ND 40/21/pc 36/20/c Jacksonville, FL 82/63/c 82/52/r Reno, NV 49/23/pc 50/26/c Brussels 51/41/sh 48/39/sh Lisbon 64/59/sh 67/61/r Sydney 77/67/pc 82/71/sh
Boise 46/31/pc 49/28/c Kansas City, MO 47/28/pc 51/30/s Richmond 57/44/r 53/47/r Buenos Aires 87/74/s 79/59/sh London 50/36/pc 50/40/s Taipei City 70/52/s 72/52/pc
Bay." River Stages: |e stage at Little Falls will be around 4.00 feet
Boston 49/33/pc 46/33/pc Las Vegas 54/37/s 57/40/s Sacramento 60/35/s 60/40/pc Cairo 73/56/c 77/63/c Madrid 44/41/r 60/48/pc Tehran 62/46/pc 63/48/s
today, falling to 3.90 Monday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet. Buffalo 38/29/c 40/29/pc Little Rock 50/45/r 48/36/r St. Louis 49/34/c 39/31/sn Manila 89/75/pc 86/75/s Tokyo 51/39/pc 55/40/s
Caracas 79/65/s 79/65/pc
Burlington, VT 42/31/sn 40/27/c Los Angeles 64/42/s 64/45/s St. Thomas, VI 83/74/s 84/75/pc Copenhagen 40/37/c 39/36/r Mexico City 81/50/s 78/46/pc Toronto 39/27/c 38/27/c
Charleston, SC 77/63/c 72/50/r Louisville 56/41/c 51/33/r Salt Lake City 39/27/pc 44/31/pc Dakar 82/70/s 83/70/s Montreal 39/29/c 37/23/sn Vienna 52/44/sh 53/41/pc
Charleston, WV 52/41/r 56/36/r Memphis 55/49/r 52/35/r San Diego 64/43/s 63/44/s Dublin 48/34/pc 46/37/pc Moscow 19/17/c 28/23/sn Warsaw 53/45/r 50/42/c
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Key: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain,
Washington 3:39 a.m. 8:51 a.m. 4:00 p.m. 9:19 p.m. Cheyenne, WY 36/21/s 41/25/pc Milwaukee 41/28/pc 46/32/pc San Juan, PR 84/73/pc 85/74/pc Frankfurt 52/43/r 51/36/sh Nairobi 83/62/s 84/62/s sh- showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow ûurries,
Chicago 42/27/pc 45/29/pc Minneapolis 40/27/pc 39/26/s Seattle 52/44/r 48/37/pc New Delhi 72/48/pc 72/49/pc sn-snow, i-ice
Annapolis 12:06 a.m. 5:49 a.m. 12:09 p.m. 6:36 p.m. Geneva 48/38/r 49/28/pc
Cincinnati 51/36/pc 46/29/r Nashville 61/50/r 61/36/r Spokane, WA 39/34/sn 43/30/sf Oslo 24/20/c 27/23/sn Sources: AccuWeather.com; US Army Centralized
Ocean City 2:03 a.m. 8:26 a.m. 2:44 p.m. 8:45 p.m. Ham., Bermuda 70/64/pc 70/64/c Allergen Extract Lab (pollen data); airnow.gov (air
Cleveland 40/29/pc 41/31/c New Orleans 75/61/r 64/45/sh Syracuse 40/30/c 42/29/c Helsinki 17/12/c 19/16/c Ottawa 38/29/c 36/23/c quality data); National Weather Service
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SPORTS SunDay, february 11 , 2024 . Section D eZ M2

rYAN JohNSoN for the wAShINgtoN PoSt

Kelce reaches No longer the heroes,

Chiefs live long enough
global status to become the villains
LAS VEGAS 4 in 1976, steven
Chiefs tight end9s romance with Swift made him 8worldwide9 famous, spielberg articulated our
contradictory low tolerance for
but he long ago began courting celebrity and post-football stardom Super Bowl LVIII: success.
Chiefs vs. 49ers <Everybody loves a winner,=
BY A DAM K ILGORE in LAs VEGAs 6:30 p.m., CBS the esteemed filmmaker said,
Jerry <but nobody loves a winner!=
rom his earliest days in professional football player 4 let alone a football player who Brewer As great of a storyteller as

F football, Travis Kelce wanted people to

know him. in a sport that restricts
personalities and shields faces, he as-
pired to get his <out from under the helmet,= he
said. He pursued and planned for fame. But he
doesn9t play quarterback 4 can transcend the
nFL. The clash between the Kansas City Chiefs
and san Francisco 49ers could be the most-
watched American sporting event ever because
Kelce is playing in it. or, rather, because of the
Kevin B. Blackistone: If she
lends her powerful voice to those
opposed to using Native imagery,
taylor Swift could turn the tide. D4
spielberg is, his lament was not
a prescient defense of the Kansas City Chiefs,
the latest sensation to make the grave mistake
of winning too much. Forty-eight years ago,
spielberg was a 29-year-old who thought
did not foresee the vortex of the past five person watching Kelce play in it. O say, can you bet? You can9t <Jaws= was a masterpiece worthy of
months, which transformed him from a super- Kelce9s romance with Taylor swift has wager on the anthem anymore 4 unrestrained appreciation. He allowed a film
star tight end and burgeoning celebrity to a launched him into a different stratosphere of at least legally 4 but it remains
crew access as he watched the Academy
figure of global fascination. He was asked this celebrity. But in the year before he met the Awards nominations. instead of jubilation,
a major draw internationally. D6
past week what the whirlwind taught him. world9s most famous pop star, Kelce had al- the video captured disappointment.
Kelce is an uncomplicated man, and he reached ready jump-started a post-football career un- Though <Jaws= went on to win three oscars,
an uncomplicated conclusion. der the spotlight, launching a podcast, hosting By the numbers: Breaking spielberg didn9t receive a best director
<Being worldwide,= he said, <is way different <saturday night Live= and filming a deluge of down how the 49ers and nomination. He was confused that a record-
than just being famous in Kansas City.= commercials. He openly covets fame, viewing it Chiefs match up in their breaking blockbuster failed to garner the
At the apex of his sport for the fourth time, as a vehicle for life after one of the greatest tight Super Bowl rematch. D8 undisputed critical acclaim befitting the first
Kelce has both become the protagonist of su- end careers in nFL history. movie to surpass $100 million at the box office.
per Bowl LViii and shifted the notion of how a sEE KelCe on d5 sEE Brewer on d6

Missed free throws are costly Complete effort helps Caps stop a six-game slide
as Terps again come up short
Capitals 3,
ohio state 79,
was the Terps9 third in a row, and Bruins 0
it was all but sealed when for-
Maryland 75 (2ot) ward Donta scott had his poten-
tial tying shot blocked with eight BY B AILEY J OHNSON
seconds to go in the second extra
BY G ENE W ANG session. ohio state9s Roddy Gayle BoSToN 4 The Washington Capi-
Jr. had an emphatic run-out dunk tals9 fathers and mentors
CoLUMBUS, ohio 4 one somber to make it official. streamed down a hallway at TD
player after another emerged More than a minute earlier, Garden, offering fist bumps,
from the Maryland men9s basket- ohio state had claimed the lead handshakes and congratulations
ball team9s locker room saturday for good at 77-75 on Bruce Thorn- to everyone they passed.
night following an excruciating ton9s layup through heavy conges- They hardly needed an excuse
79-75 loss to ohio state in double tion in front of a crowd of 13,471 to have a good time during their
overtime. some bowed their that gave the Buckeyes a pro- annual trip behind the scenes, but
heads and stared at the floor on longed ovation when their five- saturday, the Capitals provided
their way to the charter bus. game losing streak ended. one anyway. With a 3-0 victory
others offered sighs of frustra- Despite a game-high 26 points over the Boston Bruins, Washing-
tion as the Terrapins9 vanishing sEE Maryland on d3 ton snapped a six-game skid
nCAA tournament hopes took (0-5-1) by dominating a team that
another crippling blow. Iowa at Maryland entered tied for first in the nHL.
The defeat at Value City Arena wednesday, 8:30 p.m., BtN Charlie Lindgren earned the
shutout, his third of the season, by
making 18 saves.
After his Capitals lost at the
Men9S COLLege BaSKetBaLL prO BaSKetBaLL
Florida Panthers on Thursday de-
the hoyas9 losing streak is the wizards again show spite playing a strong first period
sEE CapiTals on d4
eight after another painful plenty of fight but can9t
home defeat, this time finish strong against the MIChAel dwYer/ASSoCIAted PreSS Canucks at Capitals
vs. No. 1 Connecticut. D3 76ers in a 119-113 loss. D4 T.J. Oshie (77) opened the scoring early in the second period, and washington maintained control. 1:30 p.m., Monumental
d2 eZ m2 the washington post . sunday, february 11 , 2024

THE DAY IN SPORTS

PRO FOOTBALL tournament.
<It was pretty epic,= said a
Chiefs9 roster: Thuney grinning Sahith Theegala, who
on IR, McKinnon active was a stroke back.
Taylor continued to ride his
The Kansas City Chiefs placed fast start after matching the
all-pro left guard Joe Thuney on course record with an 11-under 60
injured reserve and activated to finish his first round Friday.
running back Jerick McKinnon The Canadian completed just six
on Saturday, finalizing their holes on Day 3, with one birdie
roster for the Super Bowl against and five pars.
the San Francisco 49ers. The 35-year-old Taylor is going
The Chiefs ruled Thuney out for his fourth PGA Tour win. The
for Sunday9s game last week former University of Washington
because of a pectoral muscle star lives in the area. He won the
injury he sustained in their Canadian Open last year in a
divisional win at the Buffalo Bills. playoff, which was also a raucous
In his place, veteran backup Nick atmosphere, though nothing9s
Allegretti will get his second start quite like TPC Scottsdale.
in a Super Bowl. Doug Ghim and Andrew
McKinnon remains a long shot Novak were 11 under, with
to play, but the fact that he even Jordan Spieth and Cameron
put himself in position to be Young at 10 under. . . .
active Sunday is noteworthy. He Rasmus Hojgaard, Rikuya
had surgery in early January to Hoshino and Ugo Coussard were
repair a core muscle injury, and tied for the lead after the third
few gave him any chance of round of the Qatar Masters in
making it back this season. . . . Doha, with the top eight on the
Ryan Grubb is expected to leader board separated by just
make the jump from college to the two shots. . . .
NFL and be hired as the Seattle Dustin Johnson won LIV Golf
Seahawks9 offensive coordinator, Las Vegas in windy and chilly
a person with knowledge of the conditions for his third victory on
deal told the Associated Press. the Saudi-funded circuit, pulling
ahead with a birdie on No. 17 and
COLLEGES closing with a par to edge Peter
Uihlein and Talor Gooch by a
Dickinson, Jayhawks stroke.
take battle vs. Bears
PRO BASKETBALL
Hunter Dickinson scored ANDy LyoNS/GeTTy ImAGeS
15 points to lead a balanced attack Dinwiddie catches on
as the No. 4 Kansas men9s Rupp Arena rupture with hometown Lakers
basketball team extended its
Graham Ike and Gonzaga dealt No. 17 Kentucky its third straight loss at home, the Wildcats9 longest such skid since 1966-67.
home winning streak to 18 games Spencer Dinwiddie signed
with a 64-61 win over No. 13 with his hometown Los Angeles
Baylor in Lawrence, Kan. Lakers, finding a new team
The Bears (17-6, 6-4 Big 12) got quickly.
the ball with 14.2 seconds left and The Brooklyn Nets traded
a chance to tie it, but Jayden Dinwiddie on Thursday to the
Nunn9s three-point try from the Toronto Raptors, who waived
corner was short. After Nicolas SPOTLIGHT: O L ymPICS him. By the time he cleared
Timberlake missed the front end waivers, he had already made up
of a one-and-one for the Jayhawks his mind that he was going back
(19-5, 7-4), Ja9Kobe Walter9s
three-point attempt caromed off
the rim. . . .
UCLA9s Catlin, anti-doping pioneer, dies at 85 to Los Angeles.
Dinwiddie, 30, started
48 games this season for the Nets,
Isaac McKneely scored a averaging 12.6 points and
career-high 28 points and Reece BY L ES C ARPENTER the place where codes were cracked on He didn9t want the soldiers to be disci- 6.0 assists. He had returned for
Beekman added a career-best 21 some of the most complicated and plined; he wanted them to get help. his second stint in Brooklyn just
to help Virginia (19-5, 10-3 ACC) Before Barry Bonds, before Russia at undetectable drugs. Ultimately, that led him to sports. The before last year9s trade deadline,
beat Florida State (13-10, 7-5), the Sochi Olympics, before the past four Catlin died of a stroke Jan. 16 in Los deaths of some high-profile athletes coming from Dallas as part of the
80-76, in Tallahassee and extend decades of sports doping scandals and Angeles after a long battle with demen- triggered his interest in anti-doping just package for Kyrie Irving.
its winning streak to eight games. allegations, there was Don Catlin in his tia. He was 85. as the extent of East Germany9s doping
McKneely made 8 of 12 shots UCLA laboratory. Until Catlin opened His son Oliver, who followed his program was being discovered. When TENNIS
from the field, 5 of 7 from three- the United States9 first sports anti-dop- father into anti-doping research, said he Catlin finally left the UCLA lab in 2007,
point range and 8 of 9 from the ing lab in 1982, <bigger, faster, stronger= and his family had struggled to an- it had become a primary testing facility Americans Paul, Giron
free throw line. Jacob Groves was something that came from a bottle. nounce the news. How do you sum up a for several sports and one of the top to play for Dallas title
scored eight of his 10 points in the Steroids and other performance-en- life that dramatically changed sports in places for anti-doping study.
second half for the Cavaliers. . . . hancing drugs were flooding sports, and a way most can9t see? <He was the pioneer of anti-doping, Second-seeded Tommy Paul
Dji Bailey9s 22 points helped there wasn9t much of a way to stop them. Don Catlin didn9t set out to live in a and I think having someone with his and unseeded Marcos Giron won
Richmond (17-6, 9-1 Atlantic 10) Catlin9s lab became the testing center lab. He was a medical doctor assigned by stature and academic background with in straight sets to set up an
top La Salle (11-13, 2-9), 82-65, at for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the military during the Vietnam War to a lab at one of the finest universities of all-American final in the Dallas
home. . . . eventually performed testing for the see if soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital the world, UCLA, brought credibility to Open.
Michael Green III made four U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Commit- were using illegal drugs. The military the scientific side= of anti-doping, said Paul beat No. 3 seed compatriot
three-pointers and scored tee, the NFL, Major League Baseball, the used Catlin9s work to punish the sol- Travis Tygart, the CEO of the U.S. Ben Shelton, 6-2, 6-4, and Giron
17 points as James Madison (22-3) NCAA and many others. It also became diers, which angered him, his son said. Anti-Doping Agency. rolled over a seeded opponent
beat Akron (18-6), 73-59, in a again, beating No. 4 seed Adrian
nonconference matchup in Mannarino of France, 6-1, 6-3, in
Harrisonburg, Va. . . . the semifinals.
Keyshawn Hall9s 25 points and T E L E V I SI O N A N d R Ad I O The 30-year-old Giron, who
six rebounds helped George beat top-seeded American
Mason (16-8, 5-6 A-10) defeat host Frances Tiafoe in the
Davidson (13-10, 3-7), 57-55, in NFL SOCCER quarterfinals, is seeking his first
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18 points for Virginia Tech (13-10, 9 a.m. English Premier League: Arsenal at West Ham » USA Network title came in 2021 in Stockholm.
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5-7 ACC), which fell to Notre 1:30 p.m. Vancouver at Washington » monumental Sports Network, 11:30 a.m. English Premier League: manchester united at Aston Villa
Dame (8-16, 3-10), 74-66, in South WJFK (106.7 Fm) » USA Network
WINTER SPORTS
Bend, Ind., for its third straight
loss. . . . NBA
1 p.m. Concacaf women9s u-17 championship, third place:
Haiti vs. Canada » Fox Sports 2
Win lifts Gut-Behrami
Austin Benigni led the way for 2 p.m. Boston at miami » WJLA (Ch. 7), WmAR (Ch. 2), WSBN (630 Am) 3 p.m. Africa Cup of Nations, final: Nigeria at Ivory Coast » beIN Sports over injured Shiffrin
Navy (8-15, 4-8 Patriot League) mEN9S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 4 p.m. Concacaf women9s u-17 championship, final: united States
with 15 points and four assists in a at mexico » Fox Sports 2 Swiss skier Lara Gut-Behrami
Noon Florida Atlantic at Wichita State » eSPN2 6 p.m. Olympic men9s qualifying: Brazil vs. Argentina » Fox Sports 1
69-67 overtime loss to Army (8-17, Noon Seton Hall at Villanova » CBS Sports Network
came from a long way behind to
4-8) in West Point. . . . 1 p.m. Penn State at Northwestern » Big Ten Network TENNIS win a women9s World Cup giant
James Bishop had 25 points 2 p.m. Rhode Island at massachusetts » USA Network 6 a.m. ATP: dallas Open and Open 13, finals; WTA: Transylvania Open
slalom by one-hundredth of a
and seven assists to lead George 2 p.m. North Texas at Smu » eSPNU and Abu dhabi Open, finals; WTA: Qatar Open, first round second in Soldeu, Andorra, and
Washington (14-9, 3-7 A-10) in a 2 p.m. Tulane at memphis » eSPN2 » Tennis Channel overtake the absent Mikaela
81-73 loss to Loyola Chicago (17-7, 3 p.m. minnesota at Iowa » Big Ten Network 5 p.m. ATP: Cordoba Open, final » Tennis Channel Shiffrin on top of the overall
9-2) at Smith Center. . . . WOmEN9S COLLEGE BASKETBALL standings.
TRACK ANd FIELd
Matt Rogers scored 18 points Gut-Behrami improved from
Noon Louisville at Syracuse » WDCW (Ch. 50), WNUV (Ch. 54) 1 p.m. millrose Games » WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11)
and Matt Mayock added 17 for Noon Saint Louis at Rhode Island » eSPNU
the ninth position after the
American (13-12, 7-5 Patriot Noon Notre dame at Florida State » ACC Network NBA G LEAGuE opening run to edge out New
League) in a 58-56 loss to Holy Noon Vanderbilt at Georgia » SeC Network 3 p.m. Raptors 905 at Windy City » NBA TV Zealand9s Alice Robinson.
Cross (8-17, 5-7) in Worcester, 1 p.m. Iowa at Nebraska » WTTG (Ch. 5), WBFF (Ch. 45) Shiffrin9s teammate AJ Hurt
Mass. . . . 2 p.m. Connecticut at South Carolina » eSPN WOmEN9S HOCKEy finished 0.15 behind in third for
Timaya Lewis-Eutsey scored 2 p.m. North Carolina at duke » ACC Network 2 p.m. Rivalry Series: Canada at united States » NHL Network the American9s first career
11 points to help the VCU women9s 2 p.m. Auburn at missouri » SeC Network podium in GS.
2 p.m. James madison at Ball State » CBS Sports Network WOmEN9S COLLEGE GymNASTICS
basketball team (21-3, 10-2 A-10) Enjoying a three-race winning
3 p.m. maryland at Illinois » Fox Sports 1 4 p.m. North Carolina at North Carolina State » ACC Network
beat St. Bonaventure (4-19, 1-11), streak, Gut-Behrami raised her
4 p.m. Alabama at LSu » eSPN2
54-40, in Richmond for its fourth 4 p.m. Texas A&m at Kentucky » SeC Network
COLLEGE SOFTBALL season9s tally to 1,214 points, five
consecutive win. . . . 4 p.m. Oklahoma State at uCLA » eSPN more than Shiffrin, who is sitting
Kelsey Ransom finished with GOLF out this weekend9s races to nurse
22 points to power Georgetown 1 p.m. PGA Tour: Phoenix Open, final round » Golf Channel a left knee injury. . . .
(16-8, 6-7 Big East) past 3 p.m. PGA Tour: Phoenix Open, final round » WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11) Swiss star Marco Odermatt
Providence (11-14, 5-7), 54-44, at dominated a men9s World Cup
McDonough Arena. . . . giant slalom in Bansko, Bulgaria,
Anna LeMaster had 16 points, to claim his ninth straight win in
Kayla Henning and Laura the discipline.
Nogues each added 14, and
American (9-13, 7-4 Patriot mISC.
League) topped Holy Cross (14-8, straight Asian Cup title for host Liverpool remained in first A sublime second-half position, adopting the change on
8-3), 74-68, at Bender Arena. . . . Qatar in a 3-1 win against Jordan. place after a 3-1 victory over performance from Italian league the third try. Minnesota prevails in
Zanai Barnett-Gay scored The forward struck in the first visiting Burnley, but City is leader Inter Milan saw it win, 4-2, arbitration vs. Gordon
20 points to lead Navy (8-14, 4-7 half of the final and then twice ominously placed on the leader9s at Roma in the teeming rain and GOLF
Patriot) in a 70-58 loss to Army after the break in Lusail to finish shoulder, two points behind with end Daniele De Rossi9s perfect Nick Gordon lost his salary
(10-11, 7-4) in West Point, N.Y. . . . as the tournament9s leading a game in hand and with its record. . . . Taylor takes the lead arbitration case against the
Former Florida women9s tennis scorer with eight goals. superstar attackers back in the Bayer Leverkusen and Coach at 8epic9 Phoenix Open Minnesota Twins and will get a
coach Andy Brandi, whose teams Qatar became the first back-to- groove. . . . Xabi Alonso took a big step raise from $735,400 to $900,000
compiled a .914 winning back winner since Japan in 2000 Vinícius Júnior delivered a toward ending Bayern Munich9s The party at TPC Scottsdale rather than his request for
percentage over 17 seasons and and 2004. It is the fifth nation to stellar all-around performance domination of the German was a rager, with so many $1.25 million.
won three national successfully defend the title, and Jude Bellingham scored Bundesliga with a 3-0 home booze-soaked shenanigans that Gordon, a 28-year-old
championships, died Thursday though Iran won it three times in twice before leaving with an victory. . . . the Phoenix Open had to close the outfielder, second baseman and
following an illness, the school a row from 1968 to 1976. . . . injured left ankle as Real Madrid The fallout from Lionel gates midafternoon and limit shortstop, hit .185 last season
said. He was 72. Erling Haaland and Kevin crushed Spanish league title rival Messi9s failure to play in a club alcohol sales because the course with two homers and seven RBI
De Bruyne 4 both recently back Girona, 4-0, in Barcelona. . . . exhibition match in Hong Kong is was too crowded. in 34 games. . . .
SOCCER from long injury absences 4 Paris Saint-Germain has its spreading, with both of And, yes, there was also some China finished a dominant first
linked up for the clinching goal in mind set on the Champions Argentina9s friendly matches as golf played. week at the World Aquatics
Afif powers host Qatar Manchester City9s 2-0 home win League but still managed to part of a tour of mainland China Nick Taylor had a one-shot Championships with more titles
to repeat in Asian Cup over Everton in what will be a extend its lead to 11 points in the next month canceled by local lead at 13 under par with 12 holes in artistic swimming and diving
worrying sight for the defending French league by rallying past soccer authorities. . . . left in his third round when play Saturday to top the medal table
Akram Afif scored a hat trick English Premier League visiting Lille, 3-1, with a makeshift The U.S. Soccer Federation was suspended because of with 16 golds out of 29.
of penalties to secure a second champion9s rivals. team. . . . made its president a paid darkness at the waterlogged 4 From news services
sunday, february 11 , 2024 . the washington post eZ M2 d3

maryland wrestlinG team duals finals

8From nothing,9 Whitman

completes a perfect run
eryone on the team.=
Before Aron walked onto the
South River falls short mat for his 190-pound bout, he
in 3A, while Damascus asked an alumnus the score. His
team was up just one point,
is the runner-up in 2A needing a boost to help push it
over the finish line. He delivered
with a pin in the final seconds of
BY E MMETT S IEGEL the first period.
After Boshnick won by fall,
Coaches and onlooking wres- Whitman had enough points in
tlers inched closer to the mat hand to forfeit the final two
with every passing second. All matches against Broadneck
that stood between Whitman (11-5). As manon signaled that to
and a maryland Class 4A cham- the officials, the wrestlers behind
pionship was the ever-diminish- him had a chance to contemplate
ing distance between Andy Bosh- the arduous journey to this mo-
nick9s opponent9s shoulders and ment.
the ground. <It9s so rewarding,= senior Ja-
The referee circled the partici- cob Gaum said, a medal dangling
pants on the mat. At long last, he from his neck. <All the heart,
slammed his palm down, and the sweat, blood and tears that we
Vikings leaped into the air in put in the practice room goes
jubilation. unnoticed by everyone else. Then
Whitman9s 33-31 win over when we finally put it all togeth-
Broadneck on Saturday at North er and get to hoist the trophy, it9s
Point High in Waldorf capped an a feeling like no other.=
undefeated season in fitting As the Vikings celebrated, dra-
fashion. ma was unfolding in the Class 3A
<I9ve been so blessed to have final on the other side of the gym.
great men and women wrestle Having trailed by 15 at one point,
for me, and they do all the work. South river battled back and
We wouldn9t be here without evened the score against Lingan-
them, obviously,= said Coach Der- ore with heavyweight Busayo
nICK wAss/AssoCIAted press ek manon, finishing his 18th year Balogun9s win because of an
Samson Johnson, top, and no. 1 Connecticut sent drew Fielder (no. 20) and the careening Hoyas to their eighth consecutive loss Saturday. with Whitman. <. . . They kept injury to his opponent. The two-
their heads in it the entire time, time defending Class 4A champi-
they were focused, and they ons were closing on hardware in

Hoyas have no defense for ugly defeat never let any bad losses get us
down. They just kept on wres-
tling, and they trusted the proc-
ess.=
a new classification, but Lingan-
ore pulled ahead and won, 34-31.
Earlier in the day, Damascus
took care of C. milton Wright in
The Vikings (18-0) failed to the Class 2A semifinals, 39-27,
recording six while dissecting the second half as the crowd of 13,040 of-bounds plays, invariably find- make it out of their region each but was blitzed by Decatur in the
connecticut 89, Hoyas with his deft passing from thinned out. ing holes in Georgetown9s befud- of the past two years. But as wins final, 50-22. The Hornets entered
georgetown 64 the elbow. Tristen Newton had <We were just real mature and dled defense. And it offered a piled up this winter 4 particular- Saturday 17-0 but couldn9t over-
nine stress-free assists and Cam professional to start the game,= considerable contrast to a team ly in a pair of late-season tri- come the Seahawks, who
Spencer matched his career high Connecticut Coach Dan Hurley slogging through another lost meets 4 the team understood it marched to their fifth consecu-
BY P ATRICK S TEVENS with seven for the Huskies, who said. <offensively, defensively, we season. had a chance to go the distance. tive championship.
have won 12 in a row and never just made it really hard on them.= <Nobody9s got time for soft,= <It9s been a long road. I9ve gone Lackey was convincingly de-
Georgetown welcomed its sec- trailed Saturday. Dontrez Styles led Georgetown Cooley said. <Nobody9s got time from nothing to state champion,= feated by South Carroll in Satur-
ond-largest crowd of the season The Hoyas have established an with 23 points, his most since he for bad body language. Nobody9s senior captain Jon Aron said. <To day9s Class 1A semifinal, 56-18.
and the nation9s top-ranked team undesirable pattern over the past had a career-high 26 against got time for listless. I said in the go from last year, being medio- The Chargers lost nine bouts by
to Capital one Arena on Saturday, month: competitive efforts on the mount St. mary9s on Nov. 18. huddles today: I can take missed cre, to being undefeated state either fall or technical fall to the
offering the potential for a lively road and abysmal showings in Sophomore point guard Jayden shots. I can take turnovers. I can9t champs means the world to ev- eventual state champion.
afternoon. Then the Hoyas ar- D.C. A one-point loss at Xavier Epps, who began the day as the take 8Woe is me.9 =
rived 4 to use the term quite was followed by a 90-66 throt- Big East9s No. 4 scorer averaging Whatever help Georgetown
loosely 4 and turned in another tling by Butler. A feisty eight- 18.3 points, was limited to a needs to bolster a defense Cooley
home dud during an 89-64 loss to point defeat at Providence pre- season-low four on 2-for-8 shoot- described as <atrocious= Saturday metro swimminG and divinG Championships
Connecticut. ceded a 91-57 clobbering from ing. apparently will not arrive any
Georgetown (8-15, 1-11 Big
East) has dropped eight straight
games and clinched its eighth
marquette, the Hoyas9 most lop-
sided Big East home loss ever.
Georgetown hung around in
<I always say this: The point
guard, the head coach and the
best player can never have a bad
earlier than the offseason. It9s
also clear that his patience for the
Hoyas9 work on that end 4 they
Senior standouts secure
losing conference record in the
past nine seasons to match its
total from the Big East9s first
Wednesday9s 76-70 loss at Seton
Hall, only to revert to turnstile
defense against the defending
day, and all three of us today were
God-awful,= Cooley said. <I should
have just stayed in bed and had
ranked 293rd out of 362 teams
nationally in Ken Pomeroy9s ad-
justed defensive efficiency enter-
three-peat for Churchill
36 years. And for the first time in national champions, who prob- you coach the damn team.= ing Saturday 4 is nearly exhaust-
school history, the Hoyas have ably would have done just fine As is its custom after most ed. said.
lost three home games in a row by without that kind of help. losses, Georgetown did not make <You have the number one Elkassem edged Wang in the
at least 24 points. Connecticut uncorked a 9-0 players available to speak with team in the country in your build-
Richard Montgomery 100 free, finishing in 44.73. Begin
<I thought we didn9t show up,= run to take an early 19-6 advan- the media. Instead, Cooley was ing on national television,= Cool- wins first girls9 title then won the 500 free in a domi-
Georgetown Coach Ed Cooley tage, prompting a Cooley time- left to offer his assessment of ey said. <We all have to kind of nant 4:25.95, five seconds faster
said. <I can9t believe we were so out. A second 9-0 Huskies spurt another home bludgeoning that look at ourselves here. I9m not
by a narrow margin than the runner-up. Churchill9s
listless, lifeless, not physical, not made it 28-12 and led to another looked quite a bit like the previ- saying we have to be the most night culminated with a victory
connected, not verbal; we didn9t Georgetown timeout. And when ous two. And while he didn9t talented team, but I9ll be damned in the final race, when it set a
communicate. There9s a lot of the next two possessions featured emphasize the wide disparity in if you can9t be the most hungry BY S AM J ANE metros record in the 400 freestyle
reflection that has to go on.= Georgetown9s Wayne Bristol Jr. the ability of the teams, it was team, if you can9t have effort, relay (3:01.57).
for its part, No. 1 Connecticut air balling a three-pointer and an hard to ignore just how crisply energy and enthusiasm. That more than 25 school banners Georgetown Day9s Adriano Ari-
(22-2, 12-1) did show up. Alex undefended Castle collecting a the Huskies went about their starts with me, and I9m account- were draped on the glass walls of oti (1:43.58) broke the metros
Karaban scored 25 points, one Newton feed for a dunk, Cooley business. able to this. And the only people the upper viewing section of the record in the 200 individual med-
shy of the career high he matched took another timeout, his third in Connecticut assisted on 26 of who can fix it are the ones in the Germantown Indoor Swim Cen- ley. He also holds the record for
in the teams9 first meeting last less than five minutes. its 33 field goals. It doubled up room.= ter on Saturday, a mosh of colors the 100 butterfly.
month, and Stephon Castle added The Huskies led 52-28 at half- the Hoyas in the paint, where it and mascots. The favorites took care of busi-
17. Center Donovan Clingan dou- time, and the margin was be- outscored them 48-24. It was Georgetown at Creighton The least flashy flag was a ness on the boys9 side, but the
bled his career-best assist total, tween 20 and 27 for the entire ruthless in running baseline out- tuesday, 8:30 p.m., Fox sports 1 small, white Winston Churchill girls9 competition was much clos-
banner that was subtle compared er. Nearly every individual event
with the rest. Yet that banner was winner was from a different
the only understated aspect of the school. richard montgomery ul-

Late missed free throws prove costly for Maryland Bulldogs9 performance at the
Washington metropolitan Inter-
scholastic Swimming and Diving
timately claimed the team title,
edging past Bethesda-Chevy
Chase and Walter Johnson for its
Championships. Three of their first metros title. The rockets
MarYland from d1 They gave great effort. We9re bat- seniors paved the way to a third won the 200 freestyle and
tling. We9re struggling, obviously, straight metros title. 400 freestyle relays.
from Jahmir Young, the Terps offensively, but we9re giving our- <They could be my college <I literally had those relay
(13-11, 5-8 Big Ten) were left to selves chances to win.= team,= Coach Dennis Witol said. [teams] set since September,= said
sort out all that went sideways In part out of necessity, Willard Seniors Kyle Wang (1 minute Coach Akshay Gandhi, who
down the stretch, especially five shuffled his starting lineup to 38.14 seconds) and Brady Begin jumped into the pool with his
straight missed free throws in the include 6-foot-11 sophomore (1:38.58) got Churchill rolling by team to celebrate. <I looked at a
closing stages of the first over- mady Traore in place of ailing claiming the top two spots in the lot of options, but I came back to
time and the early part of the forward Jordan Geronimo, who 200-yard freestyle. Wang, a this as our best chance.=
second. forward Julian reese did not play and was seen with Northwestern commit, and Be- richard montgomery senior
missed four in a row during that protective black tape around the gin, who is bound for North Caro- Sarah Eliason, a BYU commit,
stretch; maryland went 20 for 30 fingers of his right hand. Willard lina, have made this an annual won a tight 200 Im in 2:02.09.
at the foul line overall. also started Jamie Kaiser Jr. over tradition. They were the top fin- She also won the 100 butterfly
<Just free throws,= said Scott, fellow freshman DeShawn Har- ishers in last year9s 200 free as (54.49).
who had 19 points but missed a ris-Smith. Kaiser failed to score well; Wang finished in 1:39.63 to Blake junior Andrea Dworak, a
pair of foul shots with 48 seconds and committed three fouls in beat Begin that time. Wisconsin commit, won the
left in the second half; maryland 11 minutes, and Harris-Smith, The Bulldogs have a third star, 200 free (1:47.14) and the 500 free
would have had the lead if he coming off the bench for the first too. Nasim Elkassem, a Southern (4:50.99). BCC sophomore Vir-
converted either. <If I had made time, finished with three points California commit, controlled the ginia Hinds won the 100 back-
my two free throws, this wouldn9t on 1-for-5 shooting. 50 freestyle in 20.39. Elkassem stroke (53.36) and the 100 free
even be a conversation. We had Traore made an immediate im- dyed stars into his bleached hair (49.78).
good defense, and they made pact, tipping in reese9s missed Wednesday, and he fit the part Whitman9s Tynan o9Donoghue
some shots we didn9t make. That jumper for the game9s first points. Saturday. and James Skipper were the top
really was it.= He also was on the court during <I came to practice, and [Witol] two boys9 divers. flint Hill9s mi-
other unsightly details in its the Terps9 10-2 surge that opened said, 8Now that you look like this, chayla Eisenberg prevailed on the
latest missed opportunity to a 28-18 lead with 8:02 to play in you have to go win,9 = Elkassem girls9 side.
claim a Quadrant 1 triumph in- the first half. maryland wilted in
KIrK IrwIn/getty IMAges
cluded maryland shooting the closing minutes of the half,
38.7 percent and committing a Jahmir Young had 26 points and seven rebounds for Maryland, failing to score over the last 5:35
dozen turnovers. The Terps also which led for 36 of the game9s 50 minutes but could not get the win. while missing seven field goal
got just nine points from their attempts in a row.
reserves. 1-7 in games decided by four fifth-year point guard missed a Thornton9s basket with five
Thornton led the Buckeyes points or fewer. short jumper with two seconds to seconds left gave the Buckeyes a
(14-10, 4-9) with 24 points, seven <We missed a lot down the play in the first overtime. His 33-32 halftime lead. ohio State
rebounds and four assists, and stretch free throw-wise, but they contested turnaround jumper had not led before his acrobatic
Gayle added 17 points for ohio ran the same plays and they made bounced off the front of the rim in shot capped the team9s nine con-
State Coach Chris Holtmann, shots. We didn9t,= Young said. <We the closing seconds of regulation secutive points over the final
whose job security has been in had numerous opportunities to before Scott collected the offen- 3:35.
question after ohio State win the game, so it9s a tough loss. sive rebound but was unable to <I don9t know. That9d be a
dropped eight of nine since Jan. 6. The whistles didn9t go our way as release a shot as time expired question you9d have to ask the
most recently, the Buckeyes well. There were a lot of things with the score knotted at 68. collective,= Scott said of the Terps9
blew an 18-point lead during a that just built up.= <That9s basketball,= maryland resolve with seven games left in
76-73 home loss to Indiana on The catalyst for some of the Coach Kevin Willard said. <We the regular season, starting with
Tuesday. They mounted a rousing Terps9 most exhilarating wins this gave ourselves opportunities. The Wednesday vs. Iowa. <I know my
comeback against maryland, season, Young was unable to con- thing is we missed our free confidence level. I know I9m capa-
which wasted a double-digit first- vert at the end of the second half throws. All the other stuff is 4 [if ] ble of doing certain things, and I MArCus Chen

half lead, fell to 2-6 against Quad- and in the first overtime with the we make our free throws, we win know my teammates are capable Senior Kyle Wang, a northwestern commit, captured the 200-yard
rant 1 opponents and dropped to score tied in each instance. The the game. I9m proud of them. of doing certain things.= freestyle for a second consecutive year to help propel the Bulldogs.
d4 eZ m2 the washington post . sunday, february 11 , 2024

As Native Americans protest Kansas City9s team, Swift could make a diberence
Jane Fonda, that team drenched in what the club She hasn9t been seen doing it. the Super Bowl on Sunday. I
silver spoon-born imagined to be Native imagery 4 But she has wrapped herself in would wager this weekend9s game
legend of to act like she and they thought the name and colors of the team sets a viewership record simply
Hollywood, Indigenous people behave: in gear emblazoned with an because of infatuation with the
doesn9t talk about moving one outstretched arm, arrowhead. All of which is pop star-football star romance.
one moment of bent at the elbow, up and down to protested home game after home Native Americans in the
Kevin B. hers off the big the beat of piped-in faux game and will be this weekend at Kansas City area fighting against
Blackistone screen that is as American Indian music. our most grandiose sporting the team9s obstinance on this
difficult to forget The act is called the tomahawk event, the Super Bowl, by Native issue called for Swift9s support
as any of her most notable chop. Fans of Kansas City9s groups who point out it is cultural early this season as her romance
moments on it. I know. A football team, swaddled as well in appropriation at best and racism with Kelce blossomed. <We
collaborator of mine asked her. Native American imagery and at worst. remain hopeful that an outside
But she certainly hasn9t moniker, also started doing the They9re right 4 and have been influence like ms. Swift could be
forgotten it, though it was over 30 same the same year. Rumor is ever since they began waging an ally for us in moving the
years ago. they both got it from Florida their fight early in the 20th conversation forward on why the
I9m not referencing her 1972 State9s football team, whose fans century when what is a malicious chop is a racist act,= the coalition
trip to North Vietnam to started the nauseating tradition. practice of mascoting Native Not In our Honor said in a
denounce this country9s deadly But when Indigenous survivors people began, in sports and statement in September. <We ask
and disastrous incursion there. in heavily Native populated beyond. As Native historian Phil Reed HoFFmAnn/ASSoCiATed PReSS for people to learn about our
I9m recalling what she did in the minnesota, where Atlanta Deloria at Harvard pointed out in Kansas City fans have been doing the tomahawk chop, a rallying shared history, the real history of
theater of the most legendary eventually met the Twins in that a just-released documentary I co- cry denounced by Native American groups, for more than 30 years. this country, not the sanitized
sporting event on our calendar 4 year9s World Series, caught wind produced and wrote, <Imagining version many learned in school.
what celebrated Texas of the mockery, they greeted the Indian: The Fight Against who suffered a genocide on this changes mUST be made there. In our culture was stripped from us
sportswriter Blackie Sherrod Fonda et al. with a protest. Native American mascoting,= it land, which is still theirs, and who order for policies to change, we . . . yet our culture continues to be
called the World Serious. <We want Ted Turner to come all began in a period of virulent are marginalized still today. need to elect people who will fight mocked for sport and profit
In 1991, Atlanta was headed to out with some kind of statement racism in this country. Around I9m not familiar with Swift9s against police brutality and despite decades of protest by
the first of four World Series in a to put this ignorant, stupid, racist the time the white supremacist discography. I9m too old and too racism of any kind. Natives and Native organizations
span of six seasons. Fonda, 53 behavior to a stop,= Clyde film <The Birth of a Nation= first Black to be a Swiftie. my music is #BlackLivesmatter.= and recommendations by
then, had fallen so hard for the Bellecourt, the founder of the screened and the Ku Klux Klan America9s classical, jazz. Such as Kansas City9s team name and national psychological,
bon vivant billionaire owner of American Indian movement, said was emboldened enough to <We Insist! max Roach9s Freedom imagery are racist. And Swift9s educational and sociological
Atlanta9s baseball team, Ted at the time. march in Washington. or, as Now Suite.= or Nina Simone9s declaration to fight <racism of any associations.=
Turner, that she retired from <I don9t believe I9ve betrayed comedian Bill Burr piercingly <mississippi Goddam.= kind= was liked by close to a Swift should heed their plea,
acting. their cause,= Fonda responded. <I figured, <You know White people But I am familiar with Swift9s quarter of a million people. for herself and her devotees, if
So, there she was, captured on support them very much. But I9m came up with that in, like, the social media, which has echoed I don9t doubt Swift9s we9re to believe their influence
camera with Turner at one playoff sorry it offends them, and I9m not 1920s when they . . . first got the defiance against racism of seriousness about wanting to can make a difference. And then,
game in Atlanta9s stadium as the going to do it anymore.= sound in movies,= he said once on those works. stamp out racism. But I9d suggest unlike Fonda, she9ll have nothing
team advanced to the World Since megawatt entertainer Conan o9Brien9s TV talk show. In 2020, at the height of the her pointing out the to regret.
Series, seated next to Georgia9s Taylor Swift started dating < 8What do [Native people] sound Black Lives matter movement 4 perniciousness of her boyfriend9s
political power couple, former Kansas City star tight end Travis like?9 They got some moron on the which helped erase the racist team9s name, cultural Kevin B. Blackistone, eSPn panelist
president Jimmy Carter and first Kelce this season and showing up set, and he just goes [screaming]. name of Washington9s NFL team appropriation and and professor at the Philip merrill
lady Rosalynn Carter. And she at his games, she hasn9t had to . . . 8Put some rouge on his face 4 she tweeted: <Racial injustice encouragement of opprobrious College of Journalism at the University
pretended along with the other apologize for mocking Native and have him do it with an ax.9 = has been ingrained deeply into behavior by its fans while more of maryland, writes sports
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Caps put it all together,

blank Bruins to end skid
CApitAls FRom D1
C APitA l s 9 N e x t three
and taking a pair of leads, Coach vs. Vancouver Canucks
Spencer Carbery challenged them
to string together more than one Sunday 1:30 monumental
good period. During their skid,
the Capitals found ways to play vs. Colorado Avalanche
well for 20 minutes at a time 4 Tuesday 7 monumental
whether it was a dominant first
period at Colorado on Jan. 24 in a at Montreal Canadiens
6-2 loss or a resurgent second
period during a 5-2 defeat to mon- Saturday 7 monumental
treal on Tuesday that failed to
spark a comeback 4 but that Radio: WJFK (106.7 FM)
appeared to be all Washington
could sustain. . . . It felt like tonight at least, they
<We9ve just got to find a way to didn9t really have one shift that
dig in and just get another level to they kind of hemmed us in. That
be able to sustain it,= Carbery said was a big thing.=
Thursday. <The first period 4 can Early in the third period,
you make it two? And then can Lindgren stuck out his left pad to
you make it three?= stop a tipped shot by the Bruins9
Washington (23-20-7) made it Charlie Coyle through traffic;
three against the Bruins (32-11-9), Lindgren could barely see the
answering Carbery9s challenge. puck coming, but he made the
<our most complete game of save to keep the Capitals in front.
the year 4 hands down, start to And just seconds later, Strome
finish,= Carbery said. <All the dif- curled a wrist shot under the
ferent areas that we needed to be crossbar off a feed from ovechkin
dialed in in, we were. Pace was on a two-on-one at 3:24 to give
there. Competitiveness. . . . We Washington some breathing
were so connected with every- room. It was the first time the
thing that we did in all three Capitals led by multiple goals
zones. It was impressive from our since they beat St. Louis, 5-2, on
group today.= Jan. 18 4 the last victory before
In the first period, Washington the six-game skid.
niCK WASS/ASSoCiATed PReSS outshot the Bruins 15-4 and gen- <I saw a guy kind of flashing in
philadelphia9s tyrese Maxey drives to the basket against the Wizards on saturday night. the all-star guard scored a game-high 28 points. erated six high-danger scoring front of me. I don9t know if it hit
chances, per Natural Stat Trick. off his stick or his knee or whatev-
But the Capitals could not solve er it was 4 more of a positional

This time, Maxey exposes the defense Jeremy Swayman (25 saves for the
game), and an inability to capital-
ize on early scoring chances has
been their undoing for much of
save there,= Lindgren said.
<[ovechkin] made a really good
pass to Stromer, and he finished it
off. That was a big goal at a big
the season. time.=
the time we kind of snapped into again failed to meet interim Wiz Ards9 Nex t three Late in the opening period, Pacioretty, defenseman John
76ers 119, gear and changed our attitude, it coach Brian Keefe9s call for im- seemingly in retaliation for a hit Carlson and ovechkin found their
Wizards 113 was a little too late,= the Wizards9 proved defense. at dallas Mavericks along the end boards, Boston de- way to the penalty box in the final
Corey Kispert said. He also said he9ll be more fenseman matt Grzelcyk speared 11:30. ovechkin9s minor for hook-
Each team had lost eight of its likely to play a traditional big if monday 8:30 monumental winger max Pacioretty, earning a ing came with just 2:56 to play,
BY S PENCER N USBAUM previous 10 games and was on the Wizards struggle with defen- five-minute major penalty and a and that prompted the Bruins to
the second game of a back-to- sive rebounding late in the game, at New Orleans Pelicans game misconduct to put the Capi- pull Swayman for a six-on-four
All Tyrese maxey needed Sat- back, but the 76ers (31-21) looked but he stuck with Kuzma and Wednesday 8 monumental tals on an extended power play. advantage 4 but they still
urday night against the Washing- plenty spry as zippy drives to the Avdija in the frontcourt because They couldn9t convert before the couldn9t break through.
ton Wizards was a little time to basket by maxey and Kelly oubre they were chiefly responsible for at denver Nuggets period ended, but at 1:05 of the Boston9s goal remained vacant
get going. Jr. built a double-digit lead early the late push. second, Pacioretty 4 who went after the penalty ended, and
Entering the fourth quarter, in the second quarter. <We have to be a defensive Feb. 22 9 monumental down the tunnel after the incident ovechkin hit the empty net to
his Philadelphia 76ers team- Washington (9-43) chipped organization, a defensive cul- but returned after intermission 4 extend his goal streak to four
mates had afforded him that away, pulling within three at ture,= Keefe said before the game. Radio: WTEM (980 AM) found T.J. oshie in the slot to put games, become the NHL9s all-time
luxury, providing a narrow lead halftime as Tyus Jones9s fifth <I think we9re making growth in Washington ahead. oshie ben- leader in empty-net goals (57) and
after his two-point third quarter. first-half three-pointer capped that. We9re not there yet. It9s not coach and security guard in his efited from a shot by captain Alex seal a victory the Capitals desper-
They also had given him space to an 8-0 run in the final 72 seconds fully established.= vicinity along the way. ovechkin that broke Bruins de- ately needed, much to the relief of
operate. of the quarter. Washington remains the only About 15 minutes later, he fenseman Brandon Carlo9s stick, the players and their mentors.
And there, with less than two The close score in part was a team in the NBA without a win reclined in a folding chair at his giving him more space to operate. on Sunday afternoon, Wash-
minutes left and maxey stalking byproduct of circumstance; on the second night of a back-to- new locker, relaxed as all get out. The Capitals didn9t score again ington will host the Vancouver
on the right wing, the Wizards reigning mVP Joel Embiid has back this season (0-9). The loss Without deviating from a broad that period, but they remained in Canucks (34-12-6), who came into
provided a lane. An absence of been out of Philadelphia9s lineup also clinched the franchise9s smile, he talked about opportu- control of the run of play. After 40 Saturday tied with the Bruins
on-ball pressure and late help- since Jan. 30 with a lateral worst pre-all-star-break record nity 4 the chance to do the dirty minutes, the Bruins had just eight atop the NHL. The Capitals know
side defense let maxey weave meniscus injury in his left knee. since it moved to Washington in work for the Wizards and pro- shots on goal. Washington had 23, how tough the challenge ahead is,
forward, then back, then forward He bludgeoned the Wizards for 1973. vide physicality on the interior matching its full-game total from but after winning for the first time
again as he zipped to the hoop. 34, 48 and 50 points earlier this Here9s what else to know about and to reunite with marvin Thursday9s loss. in more than three weeks, it may
With his final basket in a 15- season. the Wizards9 loss: Bagley III after their time togeth- In some games when the Capi- be just a little less daunting.
point fourth quarter 4 a driving The Wizards kept within rea- er in Sacramento 4 and said tals had the lead, they appeared <I9ll just tell you what: As a
layup for an eight-point lead on a sonable distance early in the Holmes joins, doesn9t play before the trade Washington was unprepared to handle a push by goalie, it was so much fun to
night when it seemed every point second half, bouncing back from If Richaun Holmes was at all one of his favorite cities to visit the opponent in the third period. watch the guys in front of me work
of his came with his body splayed the wrong side of a 13-3 run apprehensive about his new situ- and featured a roster that im- But Saturday, Washington largely tonight,= Lindgren said. <This win
out stomach-down on the Capital midway through the third quar- ation, the way a player might be pressed him offensively. remained in control, even though tonight, this shutout, all the credit
one Arena court 4 he put Wash- ter with a 14-5 run in the fourth when asked to uproot his life, he And, his smile growing for the it had to kill three penalties in the in the world goes to the guys in
ington away. that cut their deficit to two. did a fantastic job concealing it final time, he mentioned the final 20 minutes. front of me. I thought the effort,
on a night when Washington9s maxey (28 points, nine re- in the hour before Washington9s chance to be a leader. <We just had a solid game all right from the drop of the puck,
defense flopped, then fluttered, bounds, seven assists) paced loss. <I mean, I think that9s what around,= center Dylan Strome start to finish, was incredible.
the Wizards 4 stop us if you9ve Philadelphia as one of six players The Wizards9 newest addition they want from me,= the 30-year- said. <We didn9t give them much <If we play that way, we9re a
heard this before 4 faltered in in double figures. Buddy Hield, 4 who didn9t play Saturday but old said. <I9m not used to being through two periods at all. Chuck- playoff hockey team. There9s no
the closing minutes against the the 76ers9 marquee deadline ad- joined the team for the first time one of the oldest guys in the ie was good when he needed to be. doubt about it.=
76ers9 maxey and Ricky Council dition, had 23 points. Council after being acquired Thursday locker room, but that9s some-
IV as they fell, 119-113, for their added 19 points and 10 rebounds with a first-round draft pick thing I want to bring and some-
sixth straight loss.
Philadelphia shot 37 for 68 in
off the bench.
Jones led Washington with 25
from the Dallas mavericks for
Daniel Gafford 4 was all smiles
thing I want to do.=
His one caveat about the
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<They were driving by us, and points each) also contributed for on his walk to the locker room, <Look forward to getting him
it built their confidence. And by the Wizards. Still, Washington fist-bumping just about every out here as well,= Holmes said. S0115-2x1
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Kelce courted fame. Now he9s

KeLCe from D1 NfL history, to see <kind of, what9s
possible?=
<The one thing about the NfL, Kelce discovered Gonzalez had
it9s historically short-lived,= Kelce gained between 800 and

experiencing Taylor9s version.

said. <You have to find another 900 yards every year between age
career after this. I didn9t want to 33 and 37. He calculated that if he
wait until the end of my career to were to average about 75 yards per
start finding out what I wanted to game, he could break Gonzalez9s
do after football. It9s always been record and retire at 37, after the
on my mind, trying to find some- 2026 season. Kelce didn9t commit
thing I love. That9s always been a to the pursuit and exhaled deeply
focus 4 getting myself outside of as he allowed, <That9s a lot of miles,
the face mask.= man.= But he was doing the math.
How Kelce will ultimately wield A year later, after a September
his fame is an open question. knee injury and an uncharacteris-
There are <definitely Hollywood tic spate of dropped passes, the
talks out there,= he said, but he has appeal of chasing Gonzalez dimin-
not pinned down exactly what he ished. This past week, Kelce
wants to do or even in what field. A laughed when asked whether the
universe of agents, executives and record remained in the back of his
producers are eager to find out. mind. Playing until 37 no longer
<He definitely could be the next added up.
rock,= said producer and casting <No, it9s not,= Kelce said. <I9d be
director Sheila Conlin, president far-fetched to even believe in my-
and CEo of her own production self to get to that milestone.=
company. <Absolutely. But in his
own style. There9s something real- Figuring out fame
ly super likable about him. He9s At Super Bowl media sessions,
really good looking. He9s not Kelce charmed his way through a
pretty-boy good-looking. He9s kind gantlet. His answers were thread-
of all-American good-looking. ed with his devotion to family and
And I mean, my God, that body.= his appreciation for Cleveland
<I have to tell you, this one Heights, ohio, his hometown.
stands out,= Conlin added. <The Nothing makes him happier, he
other ones still sort of fit their said, than bringing joy to those
football world and do TV. The close to him when he plays foot-
mannings are doing stuff, too, but ball. That group now includes the
they still are known as football world9s most famous entertainer.
players. Travis Kelce is like a Kelce handled questions 4 so
dream for someone like me.= many questions 4 about his rela-
tionship with earnest chipper-
Dreams become reality ness. (What Era are you in? <my
As Kelce settled into his chair Super Bowl Era.=) Given the scruti-
during Super Bowl media night ny of the entertainment press and
monday, he announced, <What a the forensic study Swift9s fans ap-
time to be alive, baby!= ply to every public morsel, land
PatrIck smIth/getty Images
A reporter lobbed the first ques- mines surrounded every one of his
tion: How was he doing? Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, who had his own reality show and hosted <Saturday Night Live= before he began dating pop star answers. He pirouetted around
<I9m livin9 the dream!= Taylor Swift, was his typically disarming self while taking multiple questions about their relationship on Super Bowl media night. them with the same finesse he
The reporter identified herself deploys when finding green grass
as Lisa Guerrero from <Inside Edi- on third and six.
tion.= <It9s a roller coaster I did not
<Nice to meet you, Lisa.= achieved mainstream recogni- cials 4 so many commercials 4 for <I9d probably suggest a few act- unforgiving positions. He has un- expect,= Kelce said. <I9m enjoying
The Chiefs have long under- tion, Kelce starred in a reality Pfizer, Experian and, alongside ing classes for confidence level dergone 10 surgeries, he told WSJ, every single ride, baby.=
stood Kelce9s personality. <This show called <Catching Kelce= in Jason and Donna, Campbell9s and knowledge,= she said. <But he9s and he feels them all constantly. Would Swift be giving him a
isn9t new,= longtime tight ends which women competed, Bache- Chunky Soup. not bad. I could see him on 8Yellow- <I9m always thinking about Super Bowl pep talk?
coach Tom melvin said, laughing. lor-style, for his affection. Nobody Kelce leaned further into his stone.9 This is going to sound crazy, what9s next,= Kelce said this past <No, no,= Kelce said. <She9s fo-
As a rookie, Kelce landed on in- won, least of all viewers. fame. He showed up in glossy mag- but he could be the next magic week. <That9s always a question cused on entertaining the crowd
jured reserve. He spent practices <Whoever thought of it in the azine photo shoots draped in high- mike, you know?= you get when you9re later in your out in, uh, I think it9s Singapore
in the Chiefs9 weight room, which beginning to do his reality show, end fashions 4 Vanity fair in the Conlin said Kelce9s next step career and you start to fall off. So right now? or I think that9s in a few
is separated from their indoor they were on the right track,= Con- summer, WSJ magazine in the fall. will come down to one question: thanks for telling me that I9m not weeks. She9s out in Japan. Tokyo,
practice field by panes of glass. on lin said. <Unfortunately, the show Simply orbiting Kelce is enough to What does he want to do? Kelce is as good as I once was. I9ll tell you maybe. She9s just working hard,
Halloween, Kelce danced by the sucked.= make you famous: the New York still looking for an answer. He what, it9s something you got to entertaining them.=
windows in full view of practicing Kelce moved on to more suc- Times this winter featured his wants football to be part of it. think about. I come into this build- Kelce did not expect he would
teammates, dressed in a head-to- cessful ventures. He launched a managers, college friends Aaron maybe comedy. He loves music ing and these arenas, I come in and ever meet Swift after he took his
toe green spandex suit. podcast, <New Heights,= with his and André Eanes of A&A manage- and has already created a festival work my tail off. I can9t imagine shot on his podcast. That he is now
melvin saw no change in Kelce brother, Jason. It has grown into ment, both of whom declined to in Kansas City. not doing this for as long as I can, dating her, though, he seems to
after he began dating Swift. <It9d one of the most popular sports comment for this story. <I wish there was a clear-cut because I know I9ll miss it when it9s have normalized. He talks about
have been different had they met shows in the medium. When the Then, in September, Kelce men- vision,= Kelce said. <But there9s all said and done. I can9t put a Swift as if she is another member
10 years ago,= melvin said. But Kelce brothers met in last year9s tioned on his podcast that he had never a clear-cut vision for me.= timestamp on how long I9ll play. I of his close-knit tribe from Cleve-
Kelce9s experience and stature Super Bowl, it turned them both 4 unsuccessfully tried to meet Swift know I9m loving every single bit of land Heights.
among the Chiefs allowed him to plus their mom, Donna 4 into when her Eras Tour came to Kan- Not chasing records coming into work right now.= <We9re here, and we9re all hap-
focus on football as tabloids and football superstars. sas City, and a new realm of oppor- When remains as much of a Kelce9s dedication to football py,= Kelce said. <I know that.=
entertainment shows scrutinized on the back of that Super Bowl tunities opened. question as what. At 34, Kelce has has not waned, but his hunger for on Wednesday morning, Kelce
him. title, Kelce fulfilled a dream and <If I was his agent, I would first reached an age at which NfL play- a brand of greatness that only stood up behind a small table,
<He9s very good at compartmen- hosted <Saturday Night Live,= and of all be in heaven,= Conlin said. ers confront the prospect of retire- comes with longevity may have revealing royal blue pants dotted
talizing the different parts of his his performance cast him in a new <He can write his own ticket into ment. abated. Late last season, Kelce be- with white flowers. As he walked
life,= melvin said. <He9s a deep light. anything.= He told WSJ magazine that he came the fifth tight end to surpass away, it somehow seemed easy to
thinker in that respect. He does his <He9s a natural,= Lorne mi- Conlin said Kelce could sup- thinks about retirement <more 10,000 receiving yards. on his believe what he said when he was
best to separate the two so you chaels, creator and executive pro- plant the Kardashians as the face than anyone could ever imagine.= podcast that week, he made a tell- asked whether any part of his on-
really don9t have a distraction. He ducer of SNL, told Vanity fair. <He of reality television. She would His graceful game and the way the ing revelation. He had studied the rushing fame had been difficult
doesn9t bring outside [things] was a presence from the moment recommend he start his own pro- Chiefs often use him as a de facto final five seasons of Tony Gonza- for him:
inside the building.= he walked out.= duction company. She could see wide receiver can make you forget lez, who racked up more career <Nah. I got it all figured out, I
Several years ago, before he Kelce has starred in commer- him as an action-movie star. he plays one of football9s most yards (15,127) than any tight end in think.=
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BY A LEX P REWITT leave prospective gamblers disap-

pointed. <They9re shocked that we
Adam Burns was lounging on don9t offer these propositions be-
his couch in montreal last month cause they saw the over-under on
when he received a message from TV or read it in the news,= Korne-
a colleague, forwarding along an gay said. <Some take it in stride.
NfL-issued news release about Some don9t.=
the upcoming Super Bowl. Jolting The danger of predetermined
up, the sportsbook manager for information leaking is one possi-
gambling website Betonline.ag ble reason states have shunned
flung open his computer and anthem bets. (Even offshore books
sprung into odds-making action. that accept them tend to set <pret-
<right away, within a minute ty small limits= on the amount
after it was announced that reba bettors can wager on these poten-
mcEntire was singing the national tially predetermined novelty
anthem,= Burns said, <I was watch- props, Burns said.) The lack of an
ing all the YouTube videos of any- official, verifiable result is another.
time she9d done it in the past. . . . <We decided to move away from
What9s she wearing? What9s she allowing [these] bets . . . because
doing? How long is she taking? they aren9t based on the outcome
How long does the word 8brave9 of the game or statistics or results
last?= from the game,= said Seth Elkin,
Judging by the hoard of reba- managing director of communica-
related content that hit the inter- tions for maryland Lottery and
net over the ensuing weeks, Burns Gaming. But no matter the root
was far from the only person pre- cause, the ultimate appeal is unde-
occupied with the wagering impli- niable. <If I was in those markets,
cations of the country star9s per- in those parts of the world,= Korne-
formance before Sunday9s game gay said, <I9d probably put it up,
between the Kansas City Chiefs too.=
and San francisco 49ers. for casual bettors, the anthem
<Here9s reba mcEntire national can provide drama in a short span
anthem time history to help Super 4 according to Covers.com, the
Bowl bettors,= one headline read. record for the longest version be-
<Super Bowl 58 national anthem longs to Alicia Keys, in 2003, at
odds, prediction: over/under pick 2:35 4 before the actual drama
gregory shAmus/getty ImAges
for reba mcEntire,= another de- begins. <When we don9t have a
clared. Internet searches on Reba McEntire soared when it was announced that she will sing <The Star-Spangled Banner= on Sunday. stake in the game, we look for it in
Despite common assumption, other ways,= said Dwyer, the VCU
none of the 38 states (plus D.C.) professor. <I think who sings the
where live sports betting is legal
allow people to put money on the
Super Bowl anthem. The last to do
so was maryland 4 a fitting fact
Anthem wagering is 8pure chaos9 national anthem is a big deal, and
it9s one of the first things we see, so
you want to be involved in that
first moment of action.=
given that francis Scott Key began of course, people are only able
writing the song in Baltimore 4 Prop bets on its performance at the big game are illegal in most states but huge internationally to wager money on what the
but on feb. 1, the state revoked its sportsbooks want to post. <It9s a
approval for sportsbook operators creative marketing effort,= said
to offer several well-known cate- Stephen Shapiro, associate chair
gories of off-field wagers, com- according to the American Gam- tors 4 last year. Jay Kornegay, wouldn9t reveal whether he plans of industry experience and laptop of the University of South Caro-
monly known as novelty proposi- ing Association, more than two- executive vice president of sports to do a slow version or a fast one,= access. <my research is literally lina9s Department of Sport and
tion bets. Now maryland bettors, thirds of American adults live in operations at the Westgate Super- the Baltimore Sun reported in just sitting there watching,= he Entertainment management.
like everyone else, can no longer an area with legal live sports bet- Book in Las Vegas, put his number 2007, concluding its story with an said. But in contrast to the coin <The more interesting, unique
wager on the anthem, the halftime ting? The answers point to a patri- much higher. off-key quote from Billy Joel him- toss or the Gatorade color, anthem thing you can come up with, the
show or the color of the Gatorade otic conclusion. <We9re at 68 percent from self: <I won9t say anything because results can, not unlike sports more attention it9s going to grab in
poured on the winning coach. And As Brendan Dwyer, a professor props,= Kornegay said. <When we I might be betting myself.= (Joel9s themselves, swing wildly on the the media. The Super Bowl is such
only Illinois offers an anthem-bet- at Virginia Commonwealth Uni- started putting them up [in the time of 1:30 stands as the fastest of whims of real-time human per- a great platform for that.=
ting loophole, permitting bettors versity9s Center for Sport Leader- late 1980s], it was like 5 percent. the past 25 years.) formance. <You never know: may- And with that allure comes the
to wager on game statistics props ship, said, <There9s something Then we had a huge spike in 995 There has never been an in- be she9ll drag it out, or she9ll just possibility of problems. <As more
compared with the anthem length very American about our most when the 49ers played the Char- stance of insider singing, no an- want to get in and out,= Burns said. states are legalizing sports bet-
4 such as whether the song will popular sport and that song and gers and everyone knew [San them performer busted for betting As the demand for Super Bowl ting, these prop bets will draw in
last longer than the first offensive betting on it.= francisco] would win, so we went on their own literal lines. But scan- props has grown, so, too, has the more consumers,= Shapiro said.
drive 4 according to Illinois Gam- from around 50 propositions to dals have arisen. one was in 2011, pool of available anthem-adjacent <But if it gets out of hand over
ing Board director of communica- A demand for novelty over 100. from that point, it9s been when Christina Aguilera not only novelty bets. But the near-infinite time, what9s the responsibility of
tions Beth Kaufman. The biggest big game on the ticking upward every year.= botched part of the lyrics 4 <what freedom offshore and internation- those that are generating a lot of
Still, the anthem remains a ma- annual sporting schedule has be- The earliest available print ref- so proudly we watched at the twi- al operators have to dream up new money to make sure it9s as safe an
jor draw at offshore and interna- come the largest draw on the na- erences to anthem betting began light9s last reaming= 4 but also props can also lead to fuzzy re- environment for the consumer
tional books housed outside the tional gambling calendar. Per a appearing around the same time. went rogue by adding a <woo= sults. <If reba9s boots are equally and there9s places for people to go
legal limits of <The Star-Spangled recent AGA study, nearly 68 mil- <At last word, the over-and-under after <home of the brave,= boosting red, white and blue, what do we to get help?=
Banner.= Even though both Draft- lion adults across the country are for length of the national anthem, her time by a full second. do?= Burns said. <We say 8primary rather than symbolizing how
Kings and fanDuel stopped tak- projected to wager more than a to be sung by Harry Connick Jr., <A few years ago, we had it as, boot color9 [in the bet], but we unruly props have gotten in a
ing Super Bowl anthem wagers in combined $23 billion 4 upticks of was 1 minute, 48 seconds,= the 8Until they say the end of the word have to make judgment calls. one betting-mad society, though, ex-
the United States this year, the 35 percent and 44 percent, respec- Wilmington (Del.) News Journal 8brave9 for the first time,9 = Burns year we had, 8Will whoever9s doing perts such as Dwyer and Shapiro
industry behemoths continue to tively, from last year 4 on Super wrote in 1992. <Philadelphia col- said. <Now we say, 8first word the anthem show cleavage?9 And it see anthem wagers as more reflec-
post lines for Canadian bettors Bowl LVIII. And more than half of umnist Stan Hochman, an expert spoken to last note.9 Just keeps it was really debatable. So we9ve tive of an unstoppable financial
across the border in ontario. <The those people, about 43 million, are in this field, believes the number is simpler.= graded both winners.= and cultural spectacle. <It just
anthem is our biggest nongame expected to do so at a sportsbook, way too high. most anthems last In 2021, a video of a rehearsal of It9s almost enough to make an shows you how much of a monster
prop, for sure,= Burns said of the on the internet or with a bookie. 11/2 minutes, he says, and only a few Eric Church and Jazmine Sulli- oddsmaker wonder whether the the NfL and the Super Bowl are
Caribbean-based Betonline, <and (The rest engage in more casual reach two minutes. Nervous peo- van9s Super Bowl LV anthem duet trouble is worth it. Not Burns, that you can get people involved in
I9d say it9s been up there with some betting, such as squares with ple sing faster, so Hochman rec- went viral. <Someone was outside however. <The clients love it,= he any aspect surrounding the game
of the game or player props. It9s friends or a party pool.) ommends betting the under.= the stadium, recorded it, tweeted said. <That9s the fun of the Super that catches attention,= Shapiro
that popular.= Whereas the betting public was (Connick clocked in at 2:06.) it, then every Twitter guy in the Bowl 4 just pure chaos.= said.
Dig deeper than the bottom once mostly relegated to point A decade and a half later, the world was saying, 8Go bet,9 = Burns If nothing else, this year9s game
line, though, and broader societal spreads and over-unders, a signifi- practice had become so common said. <So we saw a bunch in a row 8I9d probably put it up, too9 matchup has set the anthem prop
themes emerge. How does the his- cant portion of today9s haul comes that it reached the ears of the and we closed it. That wasn9t ideal for those on the ground in the market on a collision course with
tory of anthem bets inform today9s from wagers beyond the final musician onstage at Super Bowl for us.= Then again, Burns added, world9s betting capital 4 which, that of another ubiquitous mod-
booming prop market? What risks score. According to a DraftKings XLI. <The Piano man said he is <There9s always controversy. No for the first time, is also the site of ern American force.
are involved in posting them? And spokesperson, player, game and aware that an internet betting site matter what, with all these props, the Super Bowl 4 anthem wager- <I almost wish the Chiefs had
why do they continue to generate novelty props totaled 31 percent of . . . has posted an over-under line I9m going to get complaints.= ing becomes a topic of conversa- lost,= Burns said, <just so I didn9t
such attention in an increasingly the company9s Super Bowl handle on the length of his rendition 4 To set the lines, Burns requires tion every year as kickoff draws have to deal with Taylor Swift
saturated landscape in which, 4 the total amount placed by bet- 1 minute, 44 seconds 4 but he little more effort than his 17 years near. often, those conversations props.=

Jerry Brewer mahomes didn9t ask to be colder than ever, all in record
compared to Brady. He didn9t ask time. And amid the noise of

Once heroes, Chiefs now for uncontrollable fawning over

his elastic arm and playmaking
audacity. He isn9t an egotist or
traditional media, social media
and technology, celebrities are
both accessible and unavoidable.

are seen as NFL9s villains clout chaser who needs to

convince you, so early in his
career, that he is the greatest
Problems with all this ubiquity
manifest in the agitation over
everything from the Taylor-Travis
quarterback of all time. But in our romance to the fit mahomes
BREwER from D1 celebrity overexposure, the Chiefs debate-show sports culture, the threw over a penalty at the end of
are aging faster than a Popsicle in argument has begun anyway. It a regular season loss.
In the acerbic way he said a sauna. They seem old in modern only makes it harder to be a There9s little room for
winner! to punctuate his dismay, fame years. It9s not really their winner!, this running tally of mystique, not the type that
you could almost hear the varying fault. What are they supposed to accomplishments intended to michael Jordan maintained
levels of success. do? Lose for the sake of parity? settle the frivolous discourse. But despite his transcendent journey
Greatness is admirable until it Should Patrick mahomes have no one can win those debates, through six NBA championships
starts multiplying. Too many turned down that record especially not mahomes, who with the Chicago Bulls. mahomes
victories lead to too much hype, $450 million contract and all should be left alone to amaze in is whiny. Kelce has a big mouth.
and no one loves a glory shark. those lucrative endorsement real time. The Chiefs get too many favorable
mAtt slocum/AssocIAted press
That9s the reputation the Chiefs deals? Should Coach Andy reid <I mean, I9m not even close to calls, and opponents make dumb,
have acquired outside their fan stop being funny in commercials? <If you win a lot and that causes you to be a villain, then I9m okay halfway,= mahomes said of panicked decisions when facing
base. They are the new apex Should Travis Kelce dump Taylor with it,= two-time Super Bowl champion Patrick Mahomes said. chasing Brady9s seven them. It must be a conspiracy.
predator of the NfL. Swift to appease manly men who championships. <If you ask me So to combat this unstoppable
Six years ago, they were a treat, don9t want to share football? Along with father Time, it took continue their inevitable that question in, like, 15 years, I9ll force, the Kansas City detractors
unveiling a unicorn quarterback To some, the Chiefs have innovation to yank the Patriots retirement migration, mahomes see if I can get close to seven. But will root for the San francisco
to operate an avant-garde offense, become villains, the monster from their pedestal. That9s what a stands as the biggest, in-his- seven seems like a long ways away 49ers, a former dynasty whose
thrilling while thriving. Now, monopolizing all the joy. It is a winner! does for a sport. They are prime superstar in American still.= five Super Bowls are tied for
with a third Super Bowl victory in superficial way to characterize the target. Just as important, they sports. He burst into fame in the With the way we consume second most in NfL history. It has
the past five seasons within reach, the annoyance they instigate. can handle being the target. most spellbinding manner since sports now, seven would seem taken a 29-year title drought for
the team that began as an You want to know what9s worse Shoot for as long as you need to Dan marino, and by his second like 17. the 49ers to rebrand as cute up-
entertaining successor to the than a championship hog? A get good. season running the show, he was We binge ourselves on every and-comers.
exhausting New England Patriots champion by default. During long <If you win a lot and that a champion. In his third, he led marquee team now. There aren9t <I love what one of my mentors
dynasty is also a tired ol9 giant. periods between dominant causes you to be a villain, then I9m the Chiefs back to the Super Bowl, enough synonyms for says,= said linebacker Drue
Their continued prosperity teams, the game often regresses okay with it,= mahomes said. only to be humbled by Brady and unprecedented and best and Tranquill, who is in his first
makes them a victim of public to a stale kind of parity, which mahomes is 28, the same age as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In his greatest to satisfy that desire to season with the Chiefs. <He says
fatigue. belies the assumption that variety Spielberg when <Jaws= was fifth, he became a two-time glorify the present. And strong the praise of man is so fickle. It9s
<for some reason, everybody is more riveting. Every so often, released. He will become the champion, outlasting the reactions go both ways. In this here today, gone tomorrow, up
used to love us,= Kansas City sports need standard-bearers that youngest quarterback to start Philadelphia Eagles in Super climate, it9s just as easy to and down. And so it9s really
defensive tackle Chris Jones said, generate equal amounts of love four Super Bowls on Sunday. No Bowl LVII and engaging in an exaggerate hatred and weariness important to stay grounded in the
answering a question from and hate. Sports need code quarterback under 30 had epic duel with quarterback Jalen about things that have barely things that matter.=
NfL Network9s michael breakers to propel the game accomplished the feat. In six Hurts. And here he is again, this begun. That sounds like something
robinson. <We used to be one of forward. It9s no surprise that as seasons as a starter, he has time with a defense-centered It9s reminiscent of the Golden Spielberg would say now. He is 77,
the most favorite teams. Now the Patriots9 two-decade run thrown for 28,424 yards and team that has prospered as an State Warriors, who went from too wise to be as brazen as he once
everybody9s like, 8We9re ready for ended 4 one in which Bill 219 touchdowns. His regular underdog this postseason, vying refreshing champions in 2015 to a was. He9s still a winner!, a creative
the Chiefs to lose.9 I don9t know Belichick9s defensive game- season record is 74-22. In the for a third title that would vault hate-garnering 73-win team the genius blessed to receive
why, what changed, what planning sorcery complemented playoffs, his team is 14-3. his legend and Kansas City9s next season to, supposedly, the adulation and oscars hardware.
dramatic incidents happened to Tom Brady9s deft quarterbacking It seems as if he9s everywhere, burgeoning legacy to stunning worst thing that ever happened to rapid success distorts
where everybody felt like we brilliance to win six Super Bowls talking with an unmistakable heights. competitive basketball when perception. Longevity refines it.
should lose now, but that9s okay. 4 it spawned appreciation of a Texas accent and delivery reid But if you9ve had enough of the Kevin Durant joined them the Hate the Chiefs right now?
They can continue hatin9. = long-developing era of offensive describes as <froggish.= As long- Chiefs, it will seem like a three- season after that. Answer that question again in,
In this climate of extreme creativity. standing icons in multiple sports ring circus. We manage to be hotter and like, 15 years.
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Scoreboard

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nba nets 123, spurs 103 nhl blues 3, sabres 1 nCaa men nCaa women
eaStern conference San antonio ................... 30 18 27 28 4 103 atlantic gp w l ot pts gf ga St. loUiS ................................. 1 1 1 4 3 SatUrDaY9S reSUltS SatUrDaY9S reSUltS
brooklYn ......................... 33 27 33 30 4 123 Boston ........................ 52 32 11 9 73 178 135 bUffalo ................................. 0 1 0 4 1 eaSt eaSt
atlantic w l pct gb Florida......................... 52 33 15 4 70 167 131 Army 69, Navy 67 (OT) American 74, Holy Cross 68
Boston ........................................ 40 12 .769 4 San antonio: Champagnie 1-5 0-0 2, Sochan 4-9 0-0 8, firSt perioD
Tampa Bay.................. 53 28 20 5 61 182 175 Boston 77, Bucknell 62 Army 70, Navy 58
New York .................................... 33 20 .623 71/2 Wembanyama 7-16 4-4 21, Jones 2-3 2-2 6, Vassell 7-20 Toronto ....................... 50 26 16 8 60 176 162 Scoring: 1, St. Louis, Neighbours 16 (Thomas, Buchnev- Bryant 70, Binghamton 69 Bryant 55, Binghamton 51
Philadelphia................................ 31 21 .596 9 1-1 17, Barlow 1-5 5-6 7, Mamukelashvili 1-1 0-0 2, Detroit ........................ 51 27 18 6 60 180 164 ich), 12:53 (pp). Canisius 73, Iona 69 Bucknell 71, Boston 60
Brooklyn ..................................... 21 31 .404 19 Osman 2-5 2-2 8, Collins 0-2 2-2 2, Kel.Johnson 7-14 2-2 Montreal..................... 51 21 22 8 50 143 180 Clemson 77, Syracuse 68 Buffalo 62, Southern Mississippi 46
Toronto....................................... 19 34 .358 211/2 19, Branham 2-8 0-0 5, Wesley 2-3 2-2 6. totals 36-91 Buffalo........................ 51 22 25 4 48 148 160
SeconD perioD
Colgate 76, Loyola (Md.) 62 Duquesne 57, La Salle 52
20-21 103. Ottawa........................ 48 21 25 2 44 163 173 Scoring: 2, St. Louis, Kyrou 15 (Rosen, Parayko), 4:32. Columbia 83, Brown 69 Fairfield 52, St. Peter9s 46
SoUtheaSt w l pct gb brooklYn: Bridges 4-11 3-3 14, Finney-Smith 1-4 0-2 3, Connecticut 89, Georgetown 64 Fordham 64, Massachusetts 50
Orlando....................................... 29 24 .547 4 thirD perioD Delaware 69, William & Mary 58 Harvard 68, Dartmouth 50
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Claxton 10-15 0-0 20, Simmons 6-7 1-2 13, Thomas 9-19 metropolitan gp w l ot pts gf ga
Miami ......................................... 28 24 .538 2
2-2 25, Bates-Diop 1-1 0-0 2, Watford 2-2 2-2 6, Wilson N.Y. Rangers............... 52 33 16 3 69 170 147 Scoring: 3, St. Louis, Neighbours 17 (Schenn, Kapanen), Duquesne 75, St. Bonaventure 69 Lehigh 70, Lafayette 68 (OT)
Atlanta ....................................... 24 29 .453 5 3-4 0-0 8, Clowney 1-1 0-0 3, Schroder 6-13 0-0 15, Smith Carolina....................... 51 30 16 5 65 171 149 18:03. Fairfield 64, St. Peter9s 62 Loyola (Md.) 64, Colgate 61
Charlotte .................................... 11 41 .212 171/2 Jr. 6-9 0-0 14, Walker IV 0-1 0-0 0. totals 49-87 8-11 123. Philadelphia................ 53 28 19 6 62 156 152 Harvard 77, Dartmouth 59 Maine 67, New Hampshire 48
Washington.................................. 9 43 .173 191/2 N.Y. Islanders ............. 52 22 18 12 56 154 175
ShotS on goal Holy Cross 58, American 56 Mount St. Mary9s 70, Canisius 56
three-point goals: San Antonio 11-34 (Kel.Johnson 3-6, Lehigh 94, Lafayette 90 (2OT) Princeton 67, Penn 54
New Jersey ................. 50 25 21 4 54 169 177 St. loUiS ............................... 11 4 11 4 26
Wembanyama 3-6, Osman 2-3, Vassell 2-6, Branham Loyola Chicago 81, George Washington 73 Rider 58, Manhattan 54
central w l pct gb Pittsburgh .................. 49 23 19 7 53 144 131 bUffalo ................................. 9 14 11 4 34
1-5, Collins 0-1, Jones 0-1, Wesley 0-1, Sochan 0-2, Marist 77, Rider 62 Seton Hall 86, Xavier 62
Cleveland.................................... 35 16 .686 4 Champagnie 0-3), Brooklyn 17-34 (Thomas 5-10, Schrod- Washington ................ 50 23 20 7 53 122 155 power-play opportunities: St. Louis 1 of 2; Buffalo 0 of 3.
Milwaukee.................................. 34 19 .642 2 Columbus.................... 51 16 25 10 42 150 188 goalies: St. Louis, Hofer 10-8-0 (34 shots-33 saves). Maryland Eastern Shore 88, Bryn Athyn 55 Siena 74, Quinnipiac 55
er 3-5, Bridges 3-6, Smith Jr. 2-3, Wilson 2-3, Clowney Merrimack 66, Le Moyne 50 Temple 59, South Florida 55
Indiana........................................ 30 24 .556 61/2 1-1, Finney-Smith 1-4, Claxton 0-1, Walker IV 0-1). Buffalo, Luukkonen 12-13-2 (26-23). a: 16,726 (19,070).
Chicago ....................................... 25 28 .472 11 t: 2:28. Mount St. Mary9s 96, Quinnipiac 79 Vermont 69, UMBC 45
fouled out: San Antonio None, Brooklyn 1 (Finney- central gp w l ot pts gf ga Northeastern 77, Monmouth (N.J.) 65 Yale 66, Cornell 59
Detroit .......................................... 8 44 .154 271/2 Smith). rebounds: San Antonio 41 (Barlow 9), Brooklyn Dallas.......................... 52 32 14 6 70 192 159 Princeton 77, Penn 70 SoUth
weStern conference 41 (Claxton 11). assists: San Antonio 20 (Vassell 4), Colorado...................... 53 32 17 4 68 196 169 Robert Morris 71, Milwaukee 60
Brooklyn 31 (Schroder 12). total fouls: San Antonio 11, Winnipeg .................... 50 31 14 5 67 151 117 stars 3, Canadiens 2 Rutgers 78, Wisconsin 56 Chattanooga 61, Mercer 52
SoUthweSt w l pct gb Brooklyn 23. a: 18,005 (17,732) St. Louis...................... 50 27 21 2 56 144 154 Siena 68, Manhattan 63 Eastern Illinois 105, Morehead State 103 (4OT)
Nashville..................... 52 27 23 2 56 158 164 DallaS .................................... 0 3 0 4 3 Eastern Kentucky 69, Kennesaw State 66
x-New Orleans ........................... 30 22 .577 4 montreal .............................. 0 2 0 4 2 St. Joseph9s 87, Saint Louis 86
Dallas.......................................... 30 23 .566 1/
2 Minnesota .................. 51 23 23 5 51 154 169 Vermont 72, UMBC 70 East Tennessee State 69, Samford 56
Houston...................................... 23 29 .442 7 Arizona ....................... 50 23 23 4 50 149 155 SeconD perioD Yale 80, Cornell 78 East Carolina 70, Charlotte 56
Memphis..................................... 18 35 .340 121/
2 Magic 114, bulls 108 (Ot) Chicago ....................... 52 14 35 3 31 109 183 Florida A&M 71, Texas Southern 57
San Antonio................................ 10 43 .189 201/
2
Scoring: 1, Montreal, Suzuki 16 (Matheson, Caufield), SoUth Florida Gulf Coast 84, North Alabama 42
chicago ....................... 24 26 36 15 7 4 108 0:38. 2, Dallas, Harley 13 (Hintz, Robertson), 3:51. 3, Alabama 109, LSU 92 Grambling State 65, Alabama State 48
pacific gp w l ot pts gf ga Dallas, Seguin 18 (Marchment, Duchene), 4:15. 4, Dallas,
orlanDo ...................... 26 26 28 21 13 4 114 Vancouver................... 52 34 12 6 74 192 137 Appalachian State 109, Toledo 104 (2OT) Liberty 58, Louisiana Tech 53
northweSt w l pct gb Seguin 19 (Marchment, Duchene), 17:45. 5, Montreal, Buffalo 82, Georgia Southern 81 (OT) Lipscomb 94, North Florida 82 (2OT)
Minnesota .................................. 36 16 .692 4 chicago: Caruso 4-6 0-0 9, DeRozan 11-24 5-6 28, Vegas .......................... 52 31 15 6 68 169 141 Slafkovsky 10 (Matheson, Suzuki), 18:37.
1/ x-Edmonton ................ 47 30 16 1 61 166 130 Campbell 95, Stony Brook 77 Memphis 80, Tulane 79 (OT)
Denver ........................................ 36 17 .679 2 Vucevic 12-25 1-2 26, Dosunmu 7-12 0-0 19, White 5-21 Central Michigan 58, Old Dominion 57 Middle Tennessee 73, Florida International 54
Oklahoma City............................ 35 17 .673 1 2-2 14, Craig 1-3 0-0 3, Phillips 0-0 0-0 0, Terry 2-5 0-0 5, x-Los Angeles............. 48 23 15 10 56 152 132 ShotS on goal
Calgary........................ 52 25 22 5 55 163 161 Charleston 80, Drexel 70 Presbyterian 57, Radford 50
Utah............................................ 26 27 .491 101/2 Drummond 1-3 2-4 4. totals 43-99 10-14 108. DallaS .................................... 6 21 11 4 38 Duke 80, Boston College 65 Southern 67, Alabama A&M 60
x-Portland .................................. 15 36 .294 201/2 Seattle ........................ 51 21 20 10 52 142 150 montreal .............................. 6 7 7 4 20
orlanDo: Banchero 5-13 7-8 19, F.Wagner 12-22 7-10 Anaheim ..................... 51 18 31 2 38 132 175 Florida 81, Auburn 65 Texas A&M Corpus Christi 78, McNeese State 64
36, Carter Jr. 3-6 0-0 6, Fultz 2-7 1-1 5, Suggs 5-9 0-0 13, San Jose ..................... 51 14 32 5 33 107 199 power-play opportunities: Dallas 0 of 6; Montreal 0 of 4. Florida Gulf Coast 63, Bellarmine 52 VCU 54, St. Bonaventure 40
pacific w l pct gb Isaac 3-8 0-0 7, Bitadze 2-2 1-3 5, M.Wagner 3-3 0-0 7, goalies: Dallas, Oettinger 18-9-2 (20 shots-18 saves). Furman 65, East Tennessee State 63 Western Kentucky 54, Jacksonville State 45
L.A. Clippers ............................... 35 16 .686 4 Ingles 0-2 0-0 0, Anthony 5-11 3-4 14, G.Harris 1-5 0-0 2. x-Late game Montreal, Montembeault 12-8-4 (38-35). a: 21,105 George Mason 57, Davidson 55 Wichita State 67, Florida Atlantic 56
Sacramento ................................ 30 21 .588 5 totals 41-88 19-26 114. (21,288). t: 2:30. Georgia State 73, Miami (Ohio) 53 Winthrop 55, Longwood 54
Phoenix....................................... 31 22 .585 5 friDaY9S reSUltS Gonzaga 89, Kentucky 85 Wofford 66, North Carolina Greensboro 60
L.A. Lakers.................................. 28 26 .519 81/2 three-point goals: Chicago 12-37 (Dosunmu 5-8, White at Minnesota 3, Pittsburgh 2 Hofstra 81, North Carolina A&T 49
2-11, Caruso 1-2, Craig 1-2, Terry 1-3, DeRozan 1-4, miDweSt
Golden State .............................. 25 25 .500 91/2 N.Y. Rangers 4, at Chicago 3 (OT) senators 5, Maple leafs 3 James Madison 73, Akron 59
Vucevic 1-7), Orlando 13-39 (F.Wagner 5-12, Suggs 3-5, Liberty 65, Louisiana Tech 62 Appalachian State 78, Western Michigan 68
x-Late game Banchero 2-6, M.Wagner 1-1, Isaac 1-2, Anthony 1-5, Edmonton 5, at Anaheim 3 toronto ................................ 1 1 1 4 3 Arkansas State 81, Akron 67
Longwood 84, Winthrop 74
Carter Jr. 0-2, Fultz 0-2, G.Harris 0-2, Ingles 0-2). fouled ottawa .................................. 1 3 1 4 5 Louisiana Monroe 82, Eastern Michigan 76 BYU 69, Cincinnati 57
friDaY9S reSUltS SatUrDaY9S reSUltS Creighton 88, DePaul 59
out: None. rebounds: Chicago 43 (Vucevic 17), Orlando Louisville 79, Georgia Tech 67
at Boston 133, Washington 129 48 (Isaac 12). assists: Chicago 21 (White 7), Orlando 23 Washington 3, at Boston 0 firSt perioD Denver 67, St. Thomas (Minn.) 61
Middle Tennessee 68, Florida International 66
Atlanta 127, at Philadelphia 121 (Banchero 8). total fouls: Chicago 24, Orlando 18. a: St. Louis 3, at Buffalo 1 Scoring: 1, Toronto, Matthews 42 (Marner, Knies), 3:45. Murray State 73, Evansville 70 Drake 79, Illinois State 64
at Toronto 107, Houston 104 19,459 (18,846) Dallas 3, at Montreal 2 2, Ottawa, Giroux 16 (Joseph), 17:53. North Carolina 75, Miami 72 Eastern Michigan 81, South Alabama 69
at Milwaukee 120, Charlotte 84 Calgary 5, at N.Y. Islanders 2 North Carolina Wilmington 95, Hampton 65 Green Bay 71, IUPUI 52
at Sacramento 135, Denver 106 at Detroit 4, Vancouver 3 (OT) SeconD perioD Northern Kentucky 79, Detroit 67 Louisiana Lafayette 54, Central Michigan 51
Miami (Ohio) 80, Georgia State 63
at L.A. Lakers 139, New Orleans 122 Clippers 112, Pistons 106 at Florida 4, Colorado 0 Scoring: 3, Ottawa, Tarasenko 14 (Chychrun, Pinto), Presbyterian 76, Radford 73
Michigan 86, Rutgers 58
at Winnipeg 2, Pittsburgh 1 2:04. 4, Toronto, Knies 9 (Marner, Matthews), 9:43. 5, Richmond 82, La Salle 65
SatUrDaY9S reSUltS Detroit ............................. 30 28 23 25 4 106 Samford 102, VMI 63 North Dakota State 84, Omaha 70
at Carolina 1, New Jersey 0 (OT) Ottawa, Pinto 3 (Zub, Kelly), 11:13. 6, Ottawa, Norris 13 Northern Illinois 91, Georgia Southern 84
Philadelphia 119, at Washington 113 l.a. clipperS .................... 31 18 27 36 4 112 (Batherson), 15:13. South Alabama 75, Northern Illinois 66
at Columbus 4, Tampa Bay 2 Northern Iowa 96, Bradley 61
at Dallas 146, Oklahoma City 111 South Carolina 75, Vanderbilt 60
Detroit: Muscala 0-2 0-0 0, Thompson 5-12 0-0 10, at Ottawa 5, Toronto 3 thirD perioD South Carolina State 78, Chicago State 55 Oakland 67, Robert Morris 65 (OT)
at L.A. Clippers 112, Detroit 106 Duren 5-12 0-0 10, Cunningham 9-18 3-3 22, Ivey 10-21 at Philadelphia 3, Seattle 2 Old Dominion 82, Kent State 76
Scoring: 7, Toronto, Domi 5 (Robertson, Rielly), 5:12. 8, Southern 69, Alabama A&M 62
at Brooklyn 123, San Antonio 103 1-1 23, Brown Jr. 2-5 2-2 8, Fontecchio 8-19 1-1 20, at Nashville 5, Arizona 4 (OT) Texas State 80, Ohio 71
Ottawa, Greig 8 (Pinto), 19:54 (en). Southern Mississippi 86, Western Michigan 54
at Orlando 114, Chicago 108 (OT) Wiseman 2-4 0-0 4, Milton 2-5 0-0 4, Sasser 2-4 0-0 5, Edmonton at Los Angeles, late Troy 78, Kent State 68 Toledo 72, Louisiana Monroe 57
at Charlotte 115, Memphis 106 Umude 0-0 0-0 0. totals 45-102 7-7 106. Virginia 80, Florida State 76 Troy 88, Bowling Green 78
ShotS on goal Villanova 55, Marquette 52
Cleveland 119, at Toronto 95 l.a. clipperS: George 14-24 1-1 33, Leonard 7-18 7-7 SUnDaY9S gameS Wake Forest 83, North Carolina State 79
toronto ................................ 8 12 15 4 35
Indiana 125, at New York 111 24, Zubac 2-3 2-2 6, Harden 4-11 4-4 14, Mann 0-3 2-2 2, Vancouver at Washington, 1:30 ottawa ................................ 10 10 12 4 32 Western Kentucky 70, Jacksonville State 59 SoUthweSt
at Atlanta 122, Houston 113 Plumlee 1-2 4-4 6, Coffey 3-8 4-4 12, Powell 1-3 0-0 2, St. Louis at Montreal, 1 power-play opportunities: Toronto 0 of 0; Ottawa 0 of 3. miDweSt Abilene Christian 66, Utah Valley State 53
at Golden State 113, Phoenix 112 Westbrook 5-10 1-2 13. totals 37-82 25-26 112. goalies: Toronto, Jones 9-7-1 (31 shots-27 saves). Butler 75, Providence 72 Arkansas Pine Bluff 80, Alcorn State 57
monDaY9S gameS Baylor 65, West Virginia 58
New Orleans at Portland, late three-point goals: Detroit 9-30 (Fontecchio 3-9, Brown Ottawa, Korpisalo 13-16-2 (35-32). a: 19,679 (18,572). Creighton 78, Xavier 71
Arizona at Philadelphia, 7 t: 2:25. Drake 74, Bradley 67 Central Florida 69, Texas Tech 64
SUnDaY9S gameS Jr. 2-5, Ivey 2-6, Sasser 1-2, Cunningham 1-3, Milton 0-1, Lamar 70, Nicholls 44
Muscala 0-2, Thompson 0-2), L.A. Clippers 13-39 Calgary at N.Y. Rangers, 7 Houston 67, Cincinnati 62
Boston at Miami, 2 Seattle at New Jersey, 7 Indiana State 73, Missouri State 71 North Texas 78, SMU 65
(George 4-13, Leonard 3-7, Westbrook 2-4, Coffey 2-5, Rice 78, Tulsa 66
Sacramento at Oklahoma City, 3 Harden 2-8, Mann 0-2). fouled out: None. rebounds: Minnesota at Vegas, 10 Iowa State 71, TCU 59
lightning 4, blue Jackets 2 Kansas 64, Baylor 61 South Dakota State 103, Oral Roberts 77
Detroit 57 (Duren 18), L.A. Clippers 35 (Harden 6). Texas 65, TCU 43
monDaY9S gameS assists: Detroit 27 (Cunningham 10), L.A. Clippers 20 tUeSDaY9S gameS Marquette 86, St. John9s 75
tampa baY ............................ 1 1 2 4 4
Washington at Dallas, 8:30 (Harden 8). total fouls: Detroit 19, L.A. Clippers 13. a: Colorado at Washington, 7 colUmbUS .............................. 0 0 2 4 2 Michigan State 88, Illinois 80 weSt
Indiana at Charlotte, 7 19,370 (18,997) Anaheim at Montreal, 7 Mississippi State 75, Missouri 51 Air Force 78, Utah State 72
Philadelphia at Cleveland, 7 Columbus at Ottawa, 7 firSt perioD Nebraska 79, Michigan 59 Boise State 56, Wyoming 42
Chicago at Atlanta, 7:30 Los Angeles at Buffalo, 7 North Dakota State 81, Omaha 79 Central Florida 69, Texas Tech 64
Scoring: 1, Tampa Bay, Paul 14 (Raddysh, Hagel), 15:40
San Antonio at Toronto, 7:30 Pacers 125, Knicks 111 St. Louis at Toronto, 7 Notre Dame 74, Virginia Tech 66 Eastern Washington 62, Idaho 52
(pp).
Purdue 79, Indiana 59 Gonzaga 71, Loyola Marymount 47
Denver at Milwaukee, 8 Tampa Bay at Boston, 7 Oklahoma 66, Oklahoma State 62
inDiana ............................. 26 35 30 34 4 125 SeconD perioD Montana 82, Northern Colorado 73
New Orleans at Memphis, 8 new York ......................... 27 31 24 29 4 111 Seattle at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 Ohio State 79, Maryland 75 (2OT) Northern Arizona 71, Montana State 58
New York at Houston, 8 Carolina at Dallas, 8 Scoring: 2, Tampa Bay, Cirelli 11 (Hagel, Paul), 0:49. South Dakota State 83, Oral Roberts 72 New Mexico 62, Colorado State 46
Golden State at Utah, 9 inDiana: Nesmith 5-12 0-0 13, Siakam 8-13 1-4 19, New Jersey at Nashville, 8 SoUthweSt New Mexico State 66, Texas El Paso 59
thirD perioD
Minnesota at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 Turner 9-9 3-4 23, Haliburton 7-14 4-5 22, Nembhard 3-6 Vancouver at Chicago, 8:30 Portland 78, Pepperdine 46
0-0 7, Jackson 5-6 2-2 12, McDermott 0-1 0-0 0, O.Toppin Scoring: 3, Tampa Bay, Stamkos 22 (Kucherov, Hedman), Arkansas 78, Georgia 75
Detroit at Edmonton, 9 Arkansas State 100, Ohio 87 Portland State 59, Idaho State 53
tUeSDaY9S gameS 3-5 1-2 9, Mathurin 2-6 0-2 4, McConnell 8-10 0-0 16. 0:23 (pp). 4, Columbus, Jenner 14 (Gaudreau, Werenski), Sacramento State 75, Weber State 44
totals 50-82 11-19 125. weDneSDaY9S gameS 12:22. 5, Columbus, Jenner 15 (Gaudreau, Marchenko), East Carolina 84, Texas San Antonio73
Boston at Brooklyn, 7:30 South Florida 69, Rice 65 Santa Clara 70, St. Mary9s (Calif.) 58
Oklahoma City at Orlando, 7:30 Florida at Pittsburgh, 7:30 15:50 (pp). 6, Tampa Bay, Hagel 19 (Kucherov, Cirelli), UC Davis 61, Hawaii 51
new York: Achiuwa 6-6 2-2 15, Hart 2-6 0-0 4, Gibson Texas 94, West Virginia 58
19:12 (en). UNLV 63, Fresno State 49
Miami at Milwaukee, 8 0-4 0-0 0, Brunson 14-25 10-10 39, DiVincenzo 6-15 0-1 San Jose at Winnipeg, 7:30 Texas A&M 85, Tennessee 69
Minnesota at Portland, 10 14, Bogdanovic 3-10 3-4 11, Burks 7-14 4-4 22, McBride Minnesota at Arizona, 9:30 ShotS on goal Texas State 68, Ball State 60
Sacramento at Phoenix, 10 2-4 2-2 6. totals 40-84 21-23 111. Texas Tech 66, Central Florida 59
tampa baY .......................... 13 11 13 4 37
Detroit at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 three-point goals: Indiana 14-29 (Haliburton 4-9, Ne- colUmbUS .............................. 9 14 11 4 34 weSt no. 7 texas 65, tCU 43
smith 3-7, O.Toppin 2-2, Turner 2-2, Siakam 2-6, power-play opportunities: Tampa Bay 2 of 3; Columbus 1 Arizona State 85, Utah 77
Nembhard 1-1, Mathurin 0-1, McDermott 0-1), New York Capitals 3, bruins 0 of 3. goalies: Tampa Bay, Vasilevskiy 17-11-0 (34 Fresno State 68, Air Force 66 texaS ................................ 11 12 26 16 4 65
76ers 119, Wizards 113 10-32 (Burks 4-7, Bogdanovic 2-6, DiVincenzo 2-9, waShington ......................... 0 1 2 4 3 shots-32 saves). Columbus, Merzlikins 9-11-7 (36-33). Northern Colorado 87, Montana 71 tcU ....................................... 6 14 12 11 4 43
Achiuwa 1-1, Brunson 1-5, Hart 0-2, McBride 0-2). boSton ................................... 0 0 0 4 0 a: 18,876 (18,500). t: 2:32. St. Mary9s (Calif.) 76, Portland 51 texas (22-3)
philadelphia ........................ 33 26 31 29 4 119 fouled out: Indiana 1 (Jackson), New York None. Booker 6-12 0-0 13, Jones 2-6 1-2 5, Moore 4-6 1-3 9,
UCLA 61, California 60
washington ........................ 26 30 24 33 4 113 rebounds: Indiana 41 (Jackson, Turner 8), New York 32 SeconD perioD UNLV 80, New Mexico 77 Gonzales 2-6 0-0 5, Holle 4-9 4-4 14, Gaston 4-7 1-2 9,
philaDelphia min fg ft o-t a pf ptS (Hart 10). assists: Indiana 30 (Haliburton 12), New York Scoring: 1, Washington, Oshie 9 (McMichael, Pacioret- Washington 67, Oregon State 55 Muhammad 3-7 0-2 6, Codio 0-0 0-0 0, Maul 1-3 0-0 2,
Harris 32:46 4-14 3-4 1-7 3 1 11
16 (Hart 5). total fouls: Indiana 20, New York 15. a: ty), 1:05 (pp). hurricanes 1, Devils 0 (Ot) Mwenentanda 1-2 0-0 2, totals 27-58 7-13 65
19,812 (19,812) tcU (15-8)
Oubre Jr. 39:05 6-13 3-4 2-7 4 4 16 thirD perioD new JerSeY ..................... 0 0 0 0 4 0
Roberson 3-6 3-6 11, Emma-Nnopu 4-13 0-0 11, Flores
Reed 22:22 6-8 0-0 3-7 1 3 12 carolina ......................... 0 0 0 1 4 1
Hield 36:21 9-16 1-2 1-5 6 3 23 Scoring: 2, Washington, Strome 20 (Oshie, Ovechkin), Virginia 80, florida state 76 1-5 0-0 3, Jovanovic 3-11 4-5 10, Manumaleuga 0-4 0-0 0,
3:24. 3, Washington, Ovechkin 12, 19:33 (en). overtime Clack 0-1 0-0 0, Sylvester 0-0 0-0 0, Davis 0-0 0-0 0,
Maxey 35:50 11-25 3-4 0-9 7 1 28 hawks 122, Rockets 113 virginia (18-5) Hamlin 0-0 0-0 0, Harris 3-8 0-0 8, Moore 0-0 0-0 0, totals
Council IV 29:10 7-13 5-8 5-10 1 2 19 Scoring: 1, Carolina, Aho 19 (Slavin, Necas), 3:40. Minor 1-2 0-0 2, Beekman 7-16 7-11 21, Dunn 0-0 1-2 1,
Martin 23:15 2-3 0-0 1-2 0 3 4
ShotS on goal 14-48 7-11 43
hoUSton ........................... 31 18 35 29 4 113 McKneely 8-12 8-9 29, Rohde 2-5 2-2 8, Buchanan 2-4 0-0 three-point goals: Texas 4-14 (Booker 1-2, Gonzales 1-5,
Payne 21:09 3-8 0-1 0-1 6 1 6 atlanta ........................... 19 38 38 27 4 122 waShington ....................... 15 8 5 4 28 ShotS on goal 4, Groves 4-8 0-0 10, Harris 1-4 0-0 2, Murray 1-1 0-0 3.
boSton ................................... 4 4 10 4 18 Holle 2-5, Maul 0-2), TCU 8-29 (Roberson 2-4, Emma-
totalS 240 48-100 15-23 13-48 28 18 119 new JerSeY ................... 10 13 9 2 4 34 totals 26-52 18-24 80. Nnopu 3-11, Flores 1-4, Jovanovic 0-3, Manumaleuga
hoUSton: Brooks 5-19 2-2 14, Smith Jr. 4-15 0-0 9, power-play opportunities: Washington 1 of 3; Boston 0 carolina ....................... 10 11 10 2 4 33 florida State (13-9)
Je.Green 6-10 3-5 19, Ja.Green 10-22 4-7 26, Thompson 0-3, Harris 2-4). assists: Texas 20 (Gonzales 8), TCU 11
percentages: FG .480, FT .652. 3-point goals: 8-27, .296 of 4. goalies: Washington, Lindgren 10-7-4 (18 shots-18 power-play opportunities: New Jersey 0 of 4; Carolina 0 De.Green 1-1 0-1 2, Miller 3-3 1-2 8, Watkins 4-8 11-12
6-10 0-0 12, Tate 1-2 0-0 2, Bullock Jr. 1-3 0-0 3, Landale (Manumaleuga 6). fouled out: TCU Emma-Nnopu. re-
(Hield 4-9, Maxey 3-7, Oubre Jr. 1-5, Council IV 0-1, saves). Boston, Swayman 16-5-7 (27-25). a: 17,850 of 2. goalies: New Jersey, Vanecek 17-9-3 (33 shots-32 19, Da.Green 2-9 1-1 5, Warley 2-7 2-4 6, Jackson 7-9 2-2
0-3 2-2 2, Holiday 7-10 1-1 18, Williams 4-6 0-2 8. totals bounds: Texas 36 (Jones 6, Muhammad 6), TCU 31
Harris 0-2, Payne 0-3). team rebounds: 11. team (17,565). t: 2:25. saves). Carolina, Kochetkov 13-8-3 (34-34). a: 18,997 17, Corhen 2-2 4-4 8, Spears 0-1 0-0 0, Nickelberry 1-3 0-0
44-100 12-19 113. (Emma-Nnopu 9). total fouls: Texas 12, TCU 15.
turnovers: None. blocked Shots: 4 (Harris, Martin, (18,680). t: 2:31. 2, Bol Bowen 0-1 0-0 0, Gainey 2-3 2-2 6, House 0-0 3-5 3. Technical Fouls_None. a: 3,685.
Oubre Jr., Reed). turnovers: 11 (Harris 3, Hield 2, Maxey atlanta: Bey 8-15 4-4 24, Johnson 8-11 4-4 21, totals 24-47 26-33 76.
2, Oubre Jr. 2, Payne 2). Steals: 8 (Hield 4, Harris 3, Oubre Okongwu 4-10 3-7 11, Murray 9-19 12-15 34, Young 6-16 halftime: Virginia 34-30. three-point goals: Virginia
Jr.). technical fouls: None. Panthers 4, avalanche 0
4-6 18, Bogdanovic 3-12 1-1 8, Bufkin 1-4 0-0 3, Mathews 10-18 (McKneely 5-7, Groves 2-2, Rohde 2-3, Murray 1-1,
waShington min fg ft o-t a pf ptS 1-1 0-0 3. totals 40-88 28-37 122. coloraDo .............................. 0 0 0 4 0 flyers 3, Kraken 2 Harris 0-2, Beekman 0-3), Florida State 2-16 (Miller 1-1, no. 8 Kansas state 69,
floriDa .................................. 2 1 1 4 4 Jackson 1-3, Bol Bowen 0-1, Warley 0-1, Nickelberry 0-2,
Avdija 39:17 9-14 2-2 0-13 5 2 21 three-point goals: Houston 13-43 (Je.Green 4-7, Holiday Seattle .................................. 1 0 1 4 2
Watkins 0-2, Da.Green 0-6). fouled out: Dunn, Watkins,
Oklahoma state 68
Kuzma 37:10 9-17 1-2 0-3 5 5 21 3-5, Ja.Green 2-9, Brooks 2-10, Bullock Jr. 1-3, Smith Jr. firSt perioD philaDelphia ........................ 2 0 1 4 3
Bagley III 14:52 1-7 0-0 0-1 0 1 2 Warley. rebounds: Virginia 25 (McKneely, Buchanan 5), oklahoma State ........... 12 13 28 15 4 68
1-7, Landale 0-1, Thompson 0-1), Atlanta 14-41 (Bey 4-9, Scoring: 1, Florida, Verhaeghe 26 (Barkov, Tkachuk), Florida State 27 (Warley 7). assists: Virginia 18
Jones 30:58 9-14 1-1 0-3 9 2 25 Murray 4-9, Young 2-9, Mathews 1-1, Johnson 1-2,
firSt perioD kanSaS State ................. 15 18 18 18 4 69
10:19 (pp). 2, Florida, Reinhart 39 (Tkachuk, Barkov), (Beekman 5), Florida State 8 (Miller, Watkins, Warley
Poole 29:17 4-8 1-2 1-4 4 4 11 Bufkin 1-4, Bogdanovic 1-6, Okongwu 0-1). fouled out: 16:56 (pp). Scoring: 1, Philadelphia, Laughton 6 (Frost, York), 4:36 oklahoma State (11-12)
Coulibaly 30:10 3-6 7-10 3-5 1 1 13 2). total fouls: Virginia 23, Florida State 18.
None. rebounds: Houston 58 (Ja.Green 14), Atlanta 41 (pp). 2, Seattle, Tatar 7 (Dunn, Larsson), 17:09. 3, Garzon 5-8 0-0 14, Gusters 6-8 1-2 13, Asi 1-9 0-0 3,
Kispert 24:21 2-6 0-0 0-2 0 1 5 (Bogdanovic, Okongwu 7). assists: Houston 22 SeconD perioD Philadelphia, Poehling 7 (Hathaway, Seeler), 18:14 (sh). Heard 6-13 4-7 19, Noble 8-15 0-0 19, Egharevba 0-2 0-0
Shamet 19:01 4-7 0-0 0-1 0 4 9 (Ja.Green 10), Atlanta 25 (Young 8). total fouls: 0, Ebert 0-0 0-0 0, totals 26-55 5-9 68
Omoruyi 8:12 0-4 2-2 2-5 0 3 2 Houston 26, Atlanta 18. a: 17,503 (18,118) Scoring: 3, Florida, Luostarinen 10 (Rodrigues, Kulikov), thirD perioD notre Dame 74, Virginia tech 66 kansas State (21-3)
Wright 6:39 1-3 2-2 1-2 4 0 4 17:52.
Scoring: 4, Seattle, McCann 21 (Dunn, Wennberg), 0:36. Lester 0-4 2-2 2, Brylee Glenn 10-23 0-0 23, Jaelyn Glenn
virginia tech (13-10) 1-3 0-0 3, Gregory 4-10 2-2 11, Sundell 7-11 1-1 16,
totalS 240 42-86 16-21 7-39 28 23 113 thirD perioD 5, Philadelphia, Couturier 11 (Sanheim, Konecny), 5:30.
Beran 3-6 1-2 8, Kidd 1-3 0-0 2, Cattoor 7-16 0-0 18, Maupin 1-2 0-0 2, Sanchez 0-6 0-0 0, Sides 0-0 2-2 2,
percentages: FG .488, FT .762. 3-point goals: 13-34, .382
P RO fO O t b a l l Scoring: 4, Florida, Barkov 12 (Verhaeghe), 9:20. ShotS on goal Collins 1-6 0-0 2, Pedulla 4-12 4-5 13, Nickel 3-5 1-1 9, Walker 4-9 2-2 10, totals 27-68 9-9 69
(Jones 6-8, Poole 2-4, Kuzma 2-6, Avdija 1-4, Kispert 1-4, Poteat 6-8 2-3 14, Rechsteiner 0-1 0-0 0, Young 0-0 0-0 0. three-point goals: Oklahoma State 11-21 (Garzon 4-7,
ShotS on goal Seattle ................................ 10 7 2 4 19 totals 25-57 8-11 66.
Shamet 1-4, Bagley III 0-1, Coulibaly 0-1, Omoruyi 0-1, Asi 1-3, Heard 3-5, Noble 3-6), Kansas State 6-26
Wright 0-1). team rebounds: 11. team turnovers: 2.
nfl playoffs coloraDo ............................ 15 10 10 4 35
philaDelphia ...................... 13 11 14 4 38 notre Dame (8-16) (B.Glenn 3-11, J.Glenn 1-2, Gregory 1-5, Sundell 1-4,
floriDa ................................ 11 24 8 4 43 power-play opportunities: Seattle 0 of 3; Philadelphia 1 Booth 3-5 2-2 8, Davis 1-4 1-2 3, Njie 4-7 3-3 11, Burton
blocked Shots: 8 (Kuzma 4, Bagley III 2, Avdija, Wright). firSt roUnD of 4. goalies: Seattle, Daccord 15-10-9 (38 shots-35 Sanchez 0-2, Walker 0-2). assists: Oklahoma State 19
turnovers: 15 (Avdija 5, Kuzma 4, Coulibaly 3, Poole 2, power-play opportunities: Colorado 0 of 1; Florida 2 of 2. 6-18 4-4 16, Shrewsberry 4-7 0-0 12, Roper 3-4 0-2 7, (Noble 7), Kansas State 14 (Sundell 7). fouled out: None.
SatUrDaY, Jan. 13 saves). Philadelphia, Petersen 2-1-0 (19-17). a: 18,926 Imes 2-2 3-4 8, Konieczny 2-5 0-0 4, Zona 2-3 0-0 5.
Jones). Steals: 7 (Shamet 3, Poole 2, Jones, Wright). goalies: Colorado, Georgiev 27-13-3 (43 shots-39 (19,543). t: 2:35. rebounds: Oklahoma State 41 (Heard 12), Kansas State
technical fouls: None. a: 20,333 (20,356). at Houston 45, Cleveland 14 saves). Florida, Bobrovsky 25-10-2 (35-35). a: 19,304 totals 27-55 13-17 74.
at Kansas City 26, Miami 7 28 (Walker 8). total fouls: Oklahoma State 9, Kansas
(19,250). t: 2:23. halftime: Virginia Tech 39-35. three-point goals: Vir- State 13. Technical Fouls_None. a: 6,848.
SUnDaY, Jan. 14 ginia Tech 8-24 (Cattoor 4-11, Nickel 2-4, Beran 1-2,
Green Bay 48, at Dallas 32 Pedulla 1-2, Rechsteiner 0-1, Collins 0-4), Notre Dame
Mavericks 146, thunder 111 at Detroit 24, L.A. Rams 23
Predators 5, Coyotes 4 (Ot) 7-20 (Shrewsberry 4-6, Imes 1-1, Roper 1-2, Zona 1-2,
Booth 0-2, Konieczny 0-2, Burton 0-5). rebounds:
oklahoma citY ............... 30 32 27 22 4 111 monDaY, Jan. 15 Jets 2, Penguins 1 arizona ........................... 1 1 2 0 4 4
Virginia Tech 27 (Beran 13), Notre Dame 31 (Njie 6).
no. 18 baylor 65,
DallaS .............................. 47 24 39 36 4 146 naShville ........................ 1 1 2 1 4 5
at Buffalo 31, Pittsburgh 17 pittSbUrgh ........................... 0 1 0 4 1 assists: Virginia Tech 13 (Collins 5), Notre Dame 14 no. 22 West Virginia 58
at Tampa Bay 32, Philadelphia 9 winnipeg ............................... 2 0 0 4 2 firSt perioD (Burton 8). total fouls: Virginia Tech 16, Notre Dame 14.
oklahoma citY: Dort 2-7 0-0 5, Jal.Williams 4-10 0-0 weSt virginia ................. 11 15 12 20 4 58
a: 7,394 (9,149).
9, Holmgren 4-7 3-4 13, Giddey 3-14 2-2 11, Gilgeous-Al- DiviSional roUnD firSt perioD Scoring: 1, Nashville, O9Reilly 18 (Nyquist, Forsberg), baYlor .............................. 15 19 15 16 4 65
exander 9-16 7-8 25, Dieng 1-9 0-0 3, Jay.Williams 0-1 SatUrDaY, Jan. 20 12:28. 2, Arizona, Dermott 2 (Zucker, Kerfoot), 13:10.
0-0 0, Pokusevski 0-1 0-0 0, Waters III 3-6 0-0 9, Scoring: 1, Winnipeg, Scheifele 15 (Ehlers), 10:20. 2, west virginia (20-3)
at Baltimore 34, Houston 10 Winnipeg, Niederreiter 13 (Stanley, Schmidt), 15:39. SeconD perioD Blacksten 3-7 1-2 7, Fields 3-10 0-2 9, Harrison 4-12 3-3
K.Williams 0-2 0-0 0, Sarr 3-4 2-3 8, Joe 2-6 0-0 6, at San Francisco 24, Green Bay 21
Wallace 5-11 2-2 15, Wiggins 2-4 2-2 7. totals 38-98 Ohio state 79, 12, Quinerly 4-14 4-4 13, Watson 5-14 2-4 12, Arigbabu
SeconD perioD Scoring: 3, Nashville, Josi 11 (Barrie), 11:39 (pp). 4,
18-21 111. SUnDaY, Jan. 21 Arizona, Guenther 4 (Keller, Zucker), 18:31 (pp).
1-1 0-0 2, Diggs 1-4 0-0 2, Hemingway 0-3 1-2 1, totals
at Detroit 31, Tampa Bay 23 Scoring: 3, Pittsburgh, Rust 13 (Graves, Karlsson), Maryland 75 (2Ot) 21-65 11-17 58
DallaS: Green 2-4 2-2 6, Jones Jr. 3-4 1-2 8, Kleber 3-6 Kansas City 27, at Buffalo 24 14:08. thirD perioD baylor (18-5)
4-4 12, Doncic 9-14 10-13 32, Irving 11-19 1-2 25, Prosper maryland (13-11) Edwards 4-6 0-0 10, Littlepage-Buggs 7-11 0-2 14,
1-2 0-0 2, Washington 6-10 1-2 14, Gafford 7-11 5-6 19, conference championShipS ShotS on goal Scoring: 5, Arizona, Valimaki 2 (Hayton, Guenther), 1:45. Kaiser 0-0 0-0 0, Reese 4-15 5-11 13, Scott 5-9 7-10 19, Andrews 2-8 2-4 7, Blackwell 4-9 4-6 12, Walker 2-7 0-0
Powell 1-1 0-0 2, Hardaway Jr. 4-9 0-0 10, B.Williams 0-2 SUnDaY, Jan. 28 6, Arizona, Schmaltz 14 (Keller, Zucker), 4:07 (pp). 7, Traore 4-6 0-0 8, Young 8-22 6-7 26, Harris-Smith 1-5 0-0 5, Fontleroy 5-8 0-0 12, Felder 1-3 2-2 5, Ferreira 0-0 0-0
pittSbUrgh ........................... 8 16 12 4 36 3, Long 2-4 2-2 6, Batchelor 0-1 0-0 0, Swanton-Rodger
0-0 0, Hardy 4-5 1-2 11, Lawson 2-4 0-0 5. totals 53-91 afc Nashville, Novak 9 (Evangelista, McDonagh), 6:00 (pp). 0, Van Gytenbeek 0-0 0-0 0, totals 25-52 8-14 65
winnipeg ............................. 13 7 11 4 31 0-0 0-0 0. totals 24-62 20-30 75.
25-33 146. 8, Nashville, Forsberg 25 (O9Reilly, Josi), 9:59. three-point goals: West Virginia 5-23 (Blacksten 0-1,
Kansas City 17, at Baltimore 10 power-play opportunities: Pittsburgh 0 of 3; Winnipeg 0 ohio State (14-10)
three-point goals: Oklahoma City 17-47 (Waters III 3-5, of 1. goalies: Pittsburgh, Jarry 14-15-4 (31 shots-29 overtime Fields 3-9, Harrison 1-4, Quinerly 1-3, Watson 0-4,
nfc Battle 4-11 0-0 8, Okpara 2-3 3-4 7, Gayle 4-12 8-8 17, Hemingway 0-2), Baylor 7-18 (Edwards 2-2, Andrews
Wallace 3-7, Giddey 3-9, Holmgren 2-3, Joe 2-4, Wiggins saves). Winnipeg, Hellebuyck 24-10-3 (36-35). a: 15,225 Mahaffey 3-5 0-0 7, Thornton 10-20 2-2 24, Bonner 3-8
1-2, Jal.Williams 1-3, Dieng 1-5, Dort 1-6, Jay.Williams at San Francisco 34, Detroit 31 Scoring: 9, Nashville, McDonagh 2 (Novak, Nyquist), 1-6, Blackwell 0-2, Walker 1-3, Fontleroy 2-3, Felder
(15,321). t: 2:14. 1-2 7, Royal 1-2 3-4 5, Key 2-3 0-0 4, Middleton 0-1 0-0 0,
0-1, K.Williams 0-1, Pokusevski 0-1), Dallas 15-38 1:36. 1-2). assists: West Virginia 13 (Harrison 4), Baylor 16
SUper bowl lviii Hardman 0-1 0-0 0. totals 29-66 17-20 79. (Andrews 6). fouled out: None. rebounds: West Virginia
(Doncic 4-8, Hardy 2-3, Kleber 2-4, Hardaway Jr. 2-6, SUnDaY9S game ShotS on goal halftime: Ohio State 33-32. three-point goals: Maryland
Irving 2-7, Jones Jr. 1-2, Lawson 1-2, Washington 1-4, 33 (Watson 15), Baylor 41 (Fontleroy 10, Littlepage-
in laS vegaS flames 5, islanders 2 arizona ......................... 12 12 6 1 4 31 7-17 (Young 4-8, Scott 2-4, Harris-Smith 1-4, Batchelor Buggs 10). total fouls: West Virginia 18, Baylor 17.
Green 0-1, Prosper 0-1). fouled out: None. rebounds: 0-1), Ohio State 4-17 (Thornton 2-5, Mahaffey 1-2, Gayle
Kansas City vs. San Francisco (-11/2), 6:30 (CBS) naShville ...................... 10 9 17 1 4 37 Technical Fouls_None. a: 4,944.
Oklahoma City 40 (Holmgren 12), Dallas 54 (Kleber 12). calgarY ................................. 1 2 2 4 5 1-4, Middleton 0-1, Bonner 0-2, Battle 0-3). fouled out:
assists: Oklahoma City 23 (Jal.Williams 7), Dallas 30 n.Y. iSlanDerS ...................... 0 0 2 4 2 power-play opportunities: Arizona 2 of 4; Nashville 2 of
6. goalies: Arizona, Ingram 17-12-2 (37 shots-32 saves). Okpara, Mahaffey. rebounds: Maryland 40 (Reese 13),
(Doncic 9). total fouls: Oklahoma City 23, Dallas 23. Ohio State 36 (Mahaffey, Thornton 7). assists: Mary-
firSt perioD Nashville, Saros 20-19-2 (31-27). a: 17,507 (17,113). t:
gOlf 2:36. land 11 (Young 4), Ohio State 9 (Thornton 4). total fouls: no. 19 gonzaga 71,
Scoring: 1, Calgary, Weegar 13 (Coleman, Markstrom), Maryland 20, Ohio State 25. a: 13,471 (18,809).
3:47. loyola Marymount 47
Cavaliers 119, Raptors 95 Pga tour SeconD perioD loYola marYmoUnt ....... 6 10 11 20 4 47
no. 1 Connecticut 89, gonzaga .......................... 15 23 11 22 4 71
clevelanD ....................... 30 37 28 24 4 119 phoenix open Scoring: 2, Calgary, Huberdeau 8 (Sharangovich, Hani- tennis
toronto ........................... 24 23 26 22 4 95 At TPC Scottsdale (Ariz.) 4 Stadium Course fin), 8:38 (pp). 3, Calgary, Weegar 14 (Pelletier, Duehr), loyola marymount (9-14)
purse: $8.8 million 15:16.
georgetown 64 Mark 2-8 1-2 5, Oliver 3-4 1-3 7, Gandy 1-9 0-0 2,
clevelanD: E.Mobley 7-13 2-4 17, Strus 6-11 0-0 14, Yardage: 7,261; par: 71 atP connecticut (22-2) Hamilton 1-9 0-0 3, Inoussa 4-9 0-0 10, Ezeja 3-3 1-1 7,
Allen 9-12 0-2 18, Garland 4-11 2-2 11, Mitchell 5-11 2-2 thirD perioD Karaban 10-14 1-2 25, Clingan 1-4 2-6 4, Castle 8-11 0-0 Hernandez 0-2 0-0 0, Rodriguez 3-7 2-2 9, Sitterud 0-0
15, Niang 5-8 0-0 13, Wade 0-5 0-0 0, Okoro 4-10 3-3 12, SeconD roUnD open 13 17, Newton 1-3 4-4 6, Spencer 3-6 2-2 10, Diarra 1-4 4-7 0-0 0, Wedin 1-1 0-0 2, Yancy 0-1 2-2 2, totals 18-53 7-10
Scoring: 4, N.Y. Islanders, Nelson 22 (Dobson, Palmieri),
Jones 0-0 0-0 0, LeVert 6-8 0-0 13, Merrill 2-3 0-0 6. Sahith Theegala ................................ 65 64 4 129 -13 4:00. 5, Calgary, Coleman 21, 15:59 (en). 6, N.Y. At Palais des Sports; in Marseille, France 6, S.Johnson 5-5 0-0 10, Ball 1-2 0-0 3, Stewart 2-4 1-3 5, 47
totals 48-92 9-13 119. Andrew Novak ................................... 65 65 4 130 -12 Islanders, Pageau 7 (Barzal), 17:28. 7, Calgary, Weegar purse: $778,563 Ross 0-0 0-0 0, Roumoglou 1-1 0-0 3, Singare 0-0 0-0 0, gonzaga (24-2)
Nick Taylor ......................................... 60 70 4 130 -12 15 (Kadri, Huberdeau), 19:38 (en). Surface: Hardcourt indoor Hurley 0-0 0-0 0, A.Johnson 0-0 0-0 0. totals 33-54 14-24 Hollingsworth 2-10 3-4 7, Huijbens 3-8 3-4 9, Maxwell
toronto: Barnes 9-15 5-6 24, Barrett 5-14 4-7 14, 4-6 0-0 11, Kaylynne Truong 5-7 0-0 13, Kayleigh Truong
Poeltl 3-7 0-2 6, Quickley 4-10 0-0 10, Trent Jr. 2-7 0-0 6, Maverick McNealy ............................. 65 67 4 132 -10 89.
ShotS on goal SingleS 4 SemifinalS georgetown (8-15) 2-6 0-0 6, Burton 3-3 0-0 6, Little 0-0 0-0 0, O9Connor 0-1
McDaniels 0-0 0-0 0, Nwora 0-1 0-0 0, Porter 0-1 0-0 0, Doug Ghim ......................................... 65 68 4 133 -9 Ugo Humbert (4), France, def. Hubert Hurkacz (1),
Ryan Fox ............................................ 66 68 4 134 -8 Cook 4-10 4-5 12, Massoud 0-4 0-0 0, Epps 2-8 0-2 4, 0-0 0, Salenbien 3-6 2-2 9, Stokes 5-6 0-0 10, totals
Olynyk 4-10 2-2 11, Brown 1-5 0-0 2, Dick 4-8 3-3 14, calgarY ................................. 8 13 3 4 24 Poland, 6-4, 6-4; Grigor Dimitrov (2), Bulgaria, def. Karen
Scottie Scheffler ............................... 68 66 4 134 -8 Heath 2-4 2-3 6, Styles 8-16 4-5 23, Brumbaugh 2-6 2-2 7, 27-53 8-10 71
Temple 0-0 0-0 0, Agbaji 3-9 2-3 8. totals 35-87 16-23 95. n.Y. iSlanDerS ...................... 6 13 17 4 36 Khachanov, Russia, 6-7 (7-3), 6-4, 7-6 (7-5).
Jordan Spieth .................................... 68 66 4 134 -8 Bristol 2-5 0-0 5, Fielder 2-3 1-1 5, Bacote 0-0 0-0 0, three-point goals: Loyola Marymount 4-25 (Mark 0-4,
three-point goals: Cleveland 14-41 (Niang 3-5, Mitchell power-play opportunities: Calgary 1 of 1; N.Y. Islanders Gandy 0-4, Hamilton 1-7, Inoussa 2-5, Rodriguez 1-4,
Justin Thomas ................................... 69 65 4 134 -8 0 of 1. goalies: Calgary, Markstrom 16-13-2 (36 shots-34 Mutombo 1-2 0-0 2, Montgomery 0-0 0-0 0. totals 23-58
3-6, Merrill 2-3, Strus 2-6, LeVert 1-2, E.Mobley 1-4, Cameron Young ................................. 67 67 4 134 -8 13-18 64. Yancy 0-1), Gonzaga 9-23 (Hollingsworth 0-5, Maxwell
Garland 1-5, Okoro 1-5, Allen 0-1, Wade 0-4), Toronto saves). N.Y. Islanders, Varlamov 6-5-3 (22-19). a: 0 3-4, Kayly.Truong 3-5, Kayle.Truong 2-4, O9Connor 0-1,
Daniel Berger ..................................... 66 69 4 135 -7 (17,113). t: 2:32. DallaS open halftime: Connecticut 52-28. three-point goals: Con-
9-31 (Dick 3-6, Quickley 2-4, Trent Jr. 2-5, Olynyk 1-2, Sam Burns ......................................... 68 67 4 135 -7 At Styslinger/Altec Tennis Complex; in Dallas necticut 9-20 (Karaban 4-7, Spencer 2-4, Roumoglou 1-1, Salenbien 1-4). assists: Loyola Marymount 10 (Gandy
Barnes 1-3, Nwora 0-1, Porter 0-1, Barrett 0-2, Brown Matt Fitzpatrick ................................ 69 66 4 135 -7 purse: $756,020 Ball 1-2, Castle 1-2, Diarra 0-2, Newton 0-2), George- 3), Gonzaga 21 (Kayly.Truong 8). fouled out: None.
0-2, Agbaji 0-5). fouled out: None. rebounds: Cleveland Charley Hoffman ............................... 67 68 4 135 -7 Surface: Hardcourt indoor town 5-15 (Styles 3-6, Brumbaugh 1-2, Bristol 1-3, Epps rebounds: Loyola Marymount 27 (Mark 5), Gonzaga 38
47 (Allen 15), Toronto 40 (Barnes 10). assists: Cleveland Kurt Kitayama ................................... 68 67 4 135 -7 0-2, Massoud 0-2). fouled out: Fielder. rebounds: (Stokes 7). total fouls: Loyola Marymount 15, Gonzaga
36 (Garland 8), Toronto 22 (Barnes 10). total fouls: Jhonattan Vegas ............................... 67 68 4 135 -7 Red Wings 4, Canucks 3 (Ot) SingleS 4 SemifinalS Connecticut 31 (Newton, Spencer 6), Georgetown 27 15. Technical Fouls_None. a: 5,442.
Cleveland 18, Toronto 14. a: 19,800 (19,800) Tommy Paul (2), United States, def. Ben Shelton (3), (Cook 8). assists: Connecticut 26 (Newton 9), George-
vancoUver ..................... 0 3 0 0 4 3
Detroit ............................ 1 0 2 1 4 4 United States, 6-2, 6-4; Marcos Giron, United States, town 10 (Epps, Brumbaugh 4). total fouls: Connecticut
def. Adrian Mannarino (4), France, 6-1, 6-3. 17, Georgetown 19. a: 13,040 (20,356). high sChO O l s
firSt perioD
hornets 115, grizzlies 106 liV golf
Scoring: 1, Detroit, Raymond 14 (Perron, Petry), 0:45.
memphiS ........................... 28 21 27 30 4 106 liv golf laS vegaS corDoba open army 69, navy 67 (Ot) SatUrDaY9S reSUltS
charlotte ....................... 25 33 27 30 4 115 At Las Vegas Country Club SeconD perioD At Estadio Mario Alberto Kempee; in Cordoba, Argentina boYS9 baSketball
Purse: $562,345 navy (8-15)
purse: $20 million Scoring: 2, Vancouver, Hoglander 15 (Hronek, Petters- marYlanD
memphiS: Aldama 5-14 0-2 11, Williams Jr. 6-13 0-0 14, Yardage: 7,089; par: 70 Surface: Red clay Draper 3-8 2-3 9, Fischer 3-5 4-6 11, Benigni 4-14 7-8 15,
son), 1:09. 3, Vancouver, Hronek 4 (Mikheyev, Petters- Inge 4-10 5-7 14, MacDonald 2-7 4-5 8, Woods 1-5 0-0 2, Oxon Hill 70, Northern 51
Jackson Jr. 12-23 0-0 29, Gilyard 2-6 0-0 6, Konchar 4-8 a-Amateur son), 11:10. 4, Vancouver, Pettersson 28 (Suter,
0-0 8, Jackson 7-14 0-1 16, Kennard 3-7 3-3 11, Jemison SingleS 4 SemifinalS Howard 0-4 0-0 0, Rehnstrom 2-5 0-0 6, Summers 0-1 0-0 private
Hronek), 13:27. 0, Kehoe 1-1 0-0 2. totals 20-60 22-29 67.
0-0 1-2 1, Rose 4-7 0-0 10. totals 43-92 4-8 106. final roUnD Facundo Bagnis, Argentina, def. Federico Coria, Argenti- Archbishop Carroll 79, Woodside 60
thirD perioD na, 6-3, 7-5; Luciano Darderi, Italy, def. Sebastian Baez army (8-17) Glenelg Country 75, Gilman 59
charlotte: Bridges 11-13 1-2 25, Miller 7-9 1-1 18, Dustin Johnson ............................. 67 62 69 4 198 -12 A.Johnson 7-12 0-1 14, Scovens 4-10 6-7 16, Cross 2-3
Peter Uihlein ................................. 66 65 68 4 199 -11 (2), Argentina, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.
Richards 6-10 1-2 13, Mann 4-11 0-0 9, Martin 2-7 0-0 5, Scoring: 5, Detroit, Sprong 14 (Veleno, Kane), 2:34 (pp). 1-1 6, Curry 3-8 1-2 9, Small 1-6 3-4 6, Ellis 3-5 1-3 8, girlS9 baSketball
Bertans 3-5 0-0 9, G.Williams 5-11 2-2 15, Curry 1-3 0-0 Talor Gooch ................................... 66 66 67 4 199 -11 6, Detroit, Rasmussen 11 (Fischer, Walman), 7:51. Peterson 3-5 0-2 6, Caldwell 1-2 0-0 2, Blair 0-0 0-0 0, marYlanD
3, Micic 8-12 0-0 18. totals 47-81 5-7 115. Matthew Wolff ............................. 65 66 69 4 200 -10 Davis 0-0 0-0 0, Allenspach 1-1 0-0 2. totals 25-52 12-20
Wta Chesapeake 56, Green Street Academy 12
Jason Kokrak ................................ 65 67 69 4 201 -9 overtime 69.
three-point goals: Memphis 16-44 (Jackson Jr. 5-9, Paul Casey ..................................... 63 70 68 4 201 -9 private
Rose 2-2, Kennard 2-5, Gilyard 2-6, Jackson 2-6, Wil- Scoring: 7, Detroit, Walman 11, 0:23 (ps). tranSYlvania open halftime: Navy 31-30. three-point goals: Navy 5-22
Graeme McDowell ........................ 66 70 65 4 201 -9 (Rehnstrom 2-5, Fischer 1-1, Draper 1-4, Inge 1-4, Friendship Collegiate 61, Anacostia 52
liams Jr. 2-6, Aldama 1-7, Konchar 0-3), Charlotte 16-31 Jon Rahm ...................................... 68 63 71 4 202 -8 At Arenele BNR; in Cluj-Napoca, Romania Mount Zion 66, Quality Education 52
ShotS on goal Benigni 0-2, Howard 0-3, MacDonald 0-3), Army 7-17
(Miller 3-4, Bertans 3-5, G.Williams 3-6, Bridges 2-2, Sebastian Munoz .......................... 67 68 68 4 203 -7 purse: $267,082 Sidwell Friends 62, Pallotti 32
Micic 2-3, Curry 1-3, Martin 1-3, Mann 1-5). fouled out: vancoUver ..................... 8 12 11 0 4 31 Surface: Hardcourt indoor (Scovens 2-4, Curry 2-5, Cross 1-1, Ellis 1-2, Small 1-5).
Adrian Meronk .............................. 67 68 68 4 203 -7 fouled out: Draper, A.Johnson, Curry. rebounds: Navy St. John9s 62, Archbishop Carroll 55
None. rebounds: Memphis 32 (Konchar 10), Charlotte 43 Detroit .......................... 10 8 8 1 4 27
Bryson Dechambeau ..................... 67 62 74 4 203 -7 SingleS 4 SemifinalS 35 (Draper 14), Army 35 (A.Johnson 11). assists: Navy 9
(G.Williams 8). assists: Memphis 33 (Williams Jr. 8), Tyrrell Hatton ............................... 67 67 70 4 204 -6 power-play opportunities: Vancouver 0 of 3; Detroit 1 of wreStling
Charlotte 30 (Mann, Micic 9). total fouls: Memphis 13, 4. goalies: Vancouver, DeSmith 7-3-4 (27 shots-23 Ana Bogdan (8), Romania, def. Jaqueline Adina Cristian, (Inge 5), Army 12 (Small 4). total fouls: Navy 19, Army marYlanD
Caleb Surratt ................................ 67 69 68 4 204 -6 24. a: 4,922 (5,043).
Charlotte 9. a: 17,259 (19,077) Brooks Koepka .............................. 68 67 69 4 204 -6 saves). Detroit, Lyon 13-6-2 (31-28). a: 0 (20,000). t: Romania, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4; Karolina Pliskova, Czech Repub- Whitman 36, Springbrook 33
2:36. lic, def. Harriet Dart, Britain, 6-3, 6-3.
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Super Bowl LVIII

aNalySIS

Breaking down the numbers

for a star-studded matchup
BY N EIL G REENBERG AND A RTUR G ALOCHA

Super Bowl LVIII boasts plenty of intriguing storylines. Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, whose numbers
compare favorably with those of some of the greatest players in NFL history, is seeking his third Lombardi Trophy in five
seasons. San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey, the son of former NFL wide receiver Ed McCaffrey, is
aiming to complete a rare father-son Super Bowl accomplishment. San Francisco Coach Kyle Shanahan, whose father won
two Super Bowls as the Denver Broncos9 coach, could do the same as McCaffrey. For 49ers left tackle Trent Williams, a
victory could cap a storied career, while Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce could add a flourish to a season in which he became
a cultural megastar. Before we learn which of those dream scenarios will become a reality, here is how the teams match up.

aLL StatS are from the 2023 SeaSoN, iNcLUdiNG the pLayoffS. data iS from trUmedia UNLeSS otherwiSe Noted.
photoS by aSSociated preSS, the waShiNGtoN poSt aNd the chiefS9 aNd 49erS9 media GUideS

Chiefs9 49ers9
key players Quarterbacks key players
Patrick Mahomes has created a legacy of winning,
while Brock Purdy is just starting to build his.
both have been efficient in the pocket, able to
avoid trouble and extend plays with their legs.

Passer rating in the pocket

Isiah Pacheco
108.4 7th
123.1 1st Trent Williams
rUNNiNG bacK Left tacKLe

the second-year pro Sack rate when pressured three consecutive first-
carried the ball 268 team all-pro selections

11.8% 14.1%
times for 1,189 yards illustrate his value
and 10 touchdowns protecting the
during the regular quarterback9s blind
season and playoffs. 2nd 3rd side. he has been
he also caught 50 of 55 responsible for two
targets for 271 yards Scramble yards sacks over the past
and two more three seasons combined

213 100
touchdowns. and none this season,
according to pro football
3.0 yards per carry
focus.
after contact 2nd 10th
517 pass-blocking snaps
27 rushes of
this season
10 or more yards
0 sacks allowed

Coaching
andy Reid and Kyle Shanahan are no strangers to success. reid has advanced to the Super bowl in three
of the past five years, and Shanahan has guided his team to the title game twice since he was hired in 2017.
four years ago, Kansas city beat San francisco in Super bowl LiV, making this the ninth Super bowl rematch.

Fourth-down decisions
Rashee Rice Nick Bosa
wide receiVer

rice, a rookie,
established himself as
130 100 edGe rUSher

the 2022 defensive

player of the year has at
one of the chiefs9 top Went for it least seven quarterback
targets in the passing pressures (sacks, hits

23 14
game with 127 balls and hurries) in each of
thrown his way. his two playoff games
this season.
18.4 percent 17.7% 14.0%
of team targets 44 Qb hits
2.4 yards per route run Conversion rate 12.5 sacks
(11th among

52.2% 50.0%
wide receivers)

13th 15th

Chiefs 49ers

Points
Tendency to call a pass based on scored perpercentage
the score: drive Rank
of passing plays when . . .
2.0 10th
leading by two scores or more Within
2.7one score Trailing by two scores or more
2nd Fred Warner
43.6% 9th 59.1% 1st n/a LiNebacKer
Ofense EPa per game
Chris Jones
28.7% 26th -0.2 52.3% 19th 11th 69.7% 8th a surefire tackler with
defeNSiVe tacKLe
exceptional athleticism
+9.2 1st
during the regular and a high football iQ,
season, he produced 75 Tendency to call a pass based warner is credited with a
PassonEPa
theper
situation:
game percentage of passing plays on . . .
quarterback pressures. team-high 28 run stops
+3.7 9th
he has added 10 more First and second downs* |ird and one or two yards |ird and three-plus yards by pro football focus.
pressures during the +8.8 2nd
54.8% 3rd 43.1% 11th 81.3% 6th 152 tackles
playoffs.
50.0% 14th Rush EPa per game 32.1% 23rd 75.5% 17th 4 forced fumbles
25 percent win rate
-3.5 23rd *if the game is within one score.
on pass-rush snaps
+0.9 1st
53 total pressures from
left side (tied for first) expected points added quantiûes the impact on a play or drive by
measuring the change in expected point outcomes. it calculates the
potential points gained or lost based on down, distance and ûeld
position at the start and end of a play.
Offense
Chiefs 49ers X-factor Defense
Most common personnel groupings
Points scored per drive Rank Points allowed per drive Rank
2.0
11
10th
12 13
1.49 2nd
1 rb, 1 te, 3 wr 1 rb, 2 te, 2 wr 1 rb, 3 te, 1 wr
2.7 2nd 1.77 10th
62% 28% 7%
Ofense EPa per game Plays allowed per drive Brock Purdy
-0.2 11th 5.93 26th QUarterbacK
11 12 21 22
6.04 27th
+9.2 1st1 te, 3 wr
1 rb, 1 rb, 2 te, 2 wr 2 rb, 1 te, 2 wr 2 rb, 2 te, 1 wr mr. irrelevant, the
39% 13% 36% 11% TD percentage allowed 262nd and last pick of
Trent McDuffie Pass EPa per game
16.3% 4th
the 2022 draft, was one
corNerbacK +3.7 9th of the finalists for this
a move to the slot +8.8 2nd Taylor Swift 18.6% 11th
season9s mVp award.
cornerback role didn9t eNtertaiNer Coverage tendencies
Rush EPa per game Zone man-to-man
113.0 passer rating
slow him down. he Globally renowned
allowed one reception -3.5 23rd 63.6% 31.2% 13.7 yards
american singer-
per 10 snaps in slot +0.9 1st songwriter with per completion
coverage (tied for fifth numerous chart- 74.7% 20.4%
expected points added quantiûes the impact on a play or drive by
best) and rushed the measuring the change in expected point outcomes. it calculates the topping albums makes
passer 65 times, which potential points gained or lost based on down, distance and ûeld the Super bowl in her
was the second most position at the start and end of a play. Red-zone defense
rookie year.
50.9% 8th
among cornerbacks in
2023, per pro football Most common personnel groupings 114 million album unit 54.7% 14th
focus. 11 12 13 sales worldwide
1 rb, 1 te, 3 wr 1 rb, 2 te, 2 wr 1 rb, 3 te, 1 wr
Goal-to-go defense
11 passes defended 62% 28% 7% 68 weeks at No. 1 on 66.7% 10th
the U.S. billboard 200
5 forced fumbles 69.0% 14th
11 12 21 22 Percentage of opponents' three-and-out drives
1 rb, 1 te, 3 wr 1 rb, 2 te, 2 wr 2 rb, 1 te, 2 wr 2 rb, 2 te, 1 wr
33.5% 16th
39% 13% 36% 11%
33.5% 16th
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sunday, february 11, 2024 Arts&Style ez ee e

frAzer hArrISON/GeTTY ImAGeS

BY B ETHONIE B UTLER, L UIS V ELARDE, A RTUR G ALOCHA AND L ESLIE S HAPIRO

W
hen Bad Bunny opened the 2023 Grammys, it was history in the making 4 Bad Bunny opens the
65th grammy awards
not least because the Puerto Rican rapper was up for album of the year for last February in a
<Un Verano Sin Ti,= the first entirely Spanish-language project to garner a milestone moment for
reggaeton. the Puerto
nomination in the ceremony9s most prestigious category. ¶ <Con mucho cari- rican rapper9s album
ño para todos ustedes,= he said as he launched into a medley featuring <El <Un Verano Sin ti= had
been nominated for
Apagón,= a reggaeton track punctuated with bomba and house interludes, album of the year.
and <Después de la Playa,= a sexy party-starter anchored in Dominican merengue and mambo. ¶
The lively performance was a milestone for reggaeton, the once-underground genre that emerged
Make your own
out of Panama before taking formative turns in early 990s New York and Puerto Rico. Reggaeton reggaeton beat
was center stage at the <Gringo Grammys,= an exciting if overdue acknowledgment of its domi- for this story9s full audio
and video experience, visit
nant force 4 alongside its offshoots including Latin trap, urbano and corridos tumbados 4 in wapo.st/reggaeton.
global pop music. ¶ This is the complex story of a simple sound 4 a beat that has resisted defini-
tion and mutated across artists, borders and subgenres. We talked to artists and experts in and
around the world of reggaeton to discover how that sound has (and hasn9t) changed, and how the
genre has helped define the future of pop music on a global scale. see rEggaEton on E8

MovIes uliette Binoche had already been InsIde

J signed on for a year and a half to the

sumptuous French food film <The

Former lovers Taste of Things,= as co-star after co-

star dropped out, when director Tran Anh
Hung asked her how she felt about acting

reunite after alongside Benoît Magimel.

It was a fraught question, but one
perhaps full of hope and healing.

two decades The movie is a quiet, gastronomic love

story about a cook, eugénie (Binoche),
who has been making beautiful meals for

to heat up the a gourmet, Dodin, for 20 years and some-

times opens the door to her bedroom for
him, but continually turns down his pro-

screen again
TONY LUK
posals of marriage. Tran knew that
Magimel, an acclaimed actor who is huge
in France (winner of three César awards
as well as best actor at Cannes in 2001 for New ballet explores
Michael Haneke9s <The Piano Teacher=),
BY J ADA Y UAN would be perfect for the role, but the Coco Chanel9s life in
49-year-old and Binoche, 59, had well-
AUSTIN hArGrAve fOr The WAShINGTON pOST
known, acrimonious history. light and shadows d7
In 1999, Magimel and Binoche met
Juliette Binoche, who plays a cook in the French film <the taste of playing lovers and literary icons George Subtlety isn9t on the menu at the new
things,= is seen last week at Petit trois restaurant in Los angeles. see BinochE on E11 Grove restaurant in potomac. d13
e2 eZ ee the washington post . sunday, february 11 , 2024

in Th e Gal l e r i e s

Focusing on the
many guises of
the human form
BY M ARK J ENKINS

All the artworks in Touchstone Gallery9s

<Figure= represent some sort of human
presence, but the most vivid pieces are far
from literal. Nathan J. Baker9s <Happening as
Human,= for example, has two very different
aspects. From the front, the scrap-wood
sculpture appears as an elementary outline of
a person, punctuated by two circular cavities.
The side view, however, reveals jagged
wooden shards of varying length that jut
horizontally from the simple form, conveying
dynamism and unpredictability.
The exhibition was juried from a national
call and features entries by more than 80
artists from D.C. and 31 states. The artistic
strategies on display reach from the
archetypal to the autobiographical, with a few
detours into the political.
Joan Stolz9s <Skin in the Game= consists of
64 small square paintings, each a realistic
close-up of part of the face of a member of the
Trump administration or one of its ideological
allies. Stolz is a skilled painter who, at least in
this case, is more interested in depicting
disposition than physiognomy. Many of the
tightly cropped mouths are smirking,
sneering or shouting.
Less specific but equally ominous is a red-
painted stoneware sculpture by Janathel
Shaw, a Touchstone regular. Her <Looking
Beyond the Veil= places an upturned head on
a coffin-like form. If the head is gazing toward
heaven, a less celestial symbol of an afterlife is
bursting from the figure9s boxy torso: a skull
whose white surface and black eye sockets
present a vision of the body stripped of flesh
and vitality.
In keeping with the traditions of figurative
art, many of the artworks depict female nudes
4 but often not traditionally. Esperanza
Alzona streamlines a woman9s anatomy to just
a curved back, cast in shiny aluminum, while
Sally Dion shapes three rounded torsos from
paper, suggesting both solid bodies and gauzy
clothing. In Mike Gordon9s hyperrealist pencil
drawing, the only clue that the woman is
submerged is the way her hair swirls above
her head, floating toward the water9s surface.
Seemingly the least corporeal artwork is a
piece Nicole Maloof calls a <self portrait=: a
mound of industrial-looking pods whose
overall shape vaguely resembles a slumped
body. The capsules were cast from infusion
sets that the artist, who was diagnosed with
Type 1 diabetes at age 4, used to administer
insulin. This invocation of the blood that
flows through Maloof9s own flesh is the show9s
most abstract rendering of the human figure,
but arguably also the most personal.

Figure through Feb. 19 at touchstone gallery, 901

new york ave. nW (online through March 31).
touchstonegallery.com. 202-682-4125.

touchStone gaLLeRy
Lynn Sures <Navigator= by C.S. Corbin, included in the exhibition <Figure= featuring works by more than 80 artists from D.C. and 31 states.
The upward thrusting shapes in Lynn
Sures9s <Catalunya= don9t merely represent
Montserrat, the mountain range that borders
Barcelona. In her statement, the Maryland
artist says the 25 pictures in her Pyramid
Atlantic Art Center show were <generated
from the sensibility of the mountain.= This
claim is bolstered by her method, which has a
geologic quality.
Made while the artist was on location, the
abstracted renderings of the range (whose
name means <serrated mountain= in Catalan)
were executed with pigmented paper pulp,
arranged on wet handmade paper in a
method that resembles painting. Sures
employed two varieties of pulp, abaca or flax.
The former is thinner, fuzzier and more
fabric-like; the latter is thicker and craggier,
qualities the artist emphasizes by embossing
curving fissures into the pulp. These fractures
curl sideways through the pictures like fault
lines in a landscape chiseled by wind and
water.
There are lots of earth tones in <Catalunya,=
but the colors are not strictly documentary.
Lynn SuReS gReg R. StaLey
Sures also employs many blues and some red,
as well as metallic gold and silver. Most of the <Montserrat 1= by Lynn Sures, part of <Catalunya,= her exhibition of 25 works. <Spotted Lanternfly Red Wing= by Elsabé Johnson Dixon.

pulp paintings are horizontal, as befits a species, into a mandala-like circular piece
landscape, but some are upright. Both formats whose patterns revolve around a central black
emphasize verticality, even when that quality circle. Nicole Donnelly punctuates a forestlike
is offset by incised lines that meander from abstraction with real branches of kozo, whose

KOSTAS IS FRED
left to right. Whether seen as boulders, fingers inner bark is used in East Asia to make paper.
or the teeth of a saw, the pulpy forms reach for Among Frederick9s own contributions are
the sky. stylized depictions of <healing stones= in
earthy and often spattered hues.
lynn sures: Catalunya through Feb. 18 at A similar if more subdued color scheme
Pyramid atlantic art center, 4318 gallatin St., characterizes the paper that was handmade
hyattsville. pyramidatlanticartcenter.org. 301-608- by Tongji Philip Qian, in part by pulping
9101. newsprint advertisements from groceries east
Kostas Karametos was born and raised in Athens,
of the Anacostia River.
Greece. Kostas completed his associate degree from The brownish tones are provided by a
Doxiadis College of Art with a concentration in Eternal Paper condiment popular in takeout restaurants in
Interior Design. Kostas led his own remodeling firm Pulp painting is an uncommon technique, D.C.9s African American neighborhoods: a
for 18 years designing and remodeling kitchens, but one practiced in many corners of the concoction the China-born artist9s statement
bathrooms, and other home improvements. He world. That9s demonstrated by <Eternal identifies as <a purportedly Chinese sauce
Paper,= a 20-artist exhibition that includes called mumbo sauce.=
joined the Fred team in 2017, drawn by the contributors originally from Africa, Asia, Two local artists use paper to recast themes
opportunity to utilize his creativity and expertise with Europe and South America. The UMGC Arts familiar from their other work. Cheryl
every project he undertakes. Find out how all 35 of Program Gallery show was curated by veteran Edwards has long drawn inspiration from
us at FRED are here to take on repairs and local printmaker Helen C. Frederick, whose dolls made in pre-colonial Egypt and South
renovations just the way you like it. influence on the area9s paper-oriented art Africa, and here offers images of these
scene is so formidable that Pyramid Atlantic9s figurines painted in multicolored pulp.
gallery is dedicated to her. Claudia <Aziza= Gibson-Hunter uses
The selected artworks address many topics handmade paper in intricate 3D constructions
and incorporate such non-pulp elements as to embody, according to her statement, the
paint, ink, wood, digital printing and found African American yearning for <escape from
objects. But pulp painting and handmade oppression and the return to the motherland.=
paper are common, and the use of plant fiber As the eccentric forms take flight from the
SCHEDULE TODAY! inspires thoughts of organic metamorphoses. wall, the fibrous material roots the artworks
VA 703.691.5500 <The fact that there is change from liquid to in the natural world.
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DC 202.770.3131
that are inherent in the process itself,= writes eternal Paper through May 19 at uMgc arts
ScheduleFRED.com Frederick in her catalogue essay. Program gallery, college Park Marriott hotel &
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Thus Elsabé Johnson Dixon incorporates conference center, 3501 university Blvd. east,
actual wings of spotted lantern fly, an invasive adelphi. umgc.edu. 301-985-7937.
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Great Works, in Focus

When Weegee worked for Stanley Kubrick, things got a little crazy
BY S EBASTIAN S MEE

t seems like it shouldn9t work: Stanley Kubrick, the cerebral

I perfectionist, working with Weegee, the ambulance-chasing

crime photographer of an earlier generation. I had no idea, in
fact, that the two had a seesawing, era-spanning, mutually
beautiful thing going until I saw this photograph by Weegee (his
real name was Arthur Fellig).
It shows the actor Peter Bull in the role of Russian Ambassador
Alexi de Sadesky on the set of Kubrick9s <Dr. Strangelove or: How I
Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.= The photograph is
currently on display at New York9s International Center of
Photography in a 50th anniversary show of works from the
collection.
Early in his career, Kubrick 4 working as a press photographer
for Look magazine 4 had been intoxicated by Weegee9s stark
flashbulb style and shocking subject matter.
This was the 1940s, and Weegee was famous. People were
turned on by his voyeuristic, first-to-the-scene crime photo-
graphs, each one like a dirty martini, flooding the brain with its
chilling mix of agony, ecstasy and fear of getting caught. A book of
Weegee9s work, <Naked New York,= had sealed his lurid reputation.
But by the time Kubrick9s fame was peaking in the early 960s,
Weegee9s flame was guttering. He was reduced to acting in tawdry
exploitation flicks set in nudist camps.
So Kubrick got to thinking. Wanting, perhaps, to repay an
artistic debt, he hired Weegee to take photographs on the set of
<Dr. Strangelove.= It was an arresting move. Renowned as one of
cinema9s most fastidious aesthetes, Kubrick liked to be in control
of every frame. Interesting, then, that what he most liked about
Weegee9s photographs was their rawness, their quality of surprise.
Weegee liked to work with a flashbulb right on the camera. The
technique produced stark, frontal illuminations that were miles
away from the moody chiaroscuro favored by Columbia9s in-house
set photographers. Kubrick loved them.
Weegee took hundreds of photographs for Kubrick 4 including
of the slapstick pie fight with which the film was supposed to end
(until Kubrick changed his mind). They were, according to
Christopher Bonanos in Slate, <the last truly great body of work
Weegee made.=
In this photo, the illumination, the blurred hand and Bull9s
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To satisfy mom, husband Mike Du Jour By Mike Lester

sells out the family dog

Hello, Carolyn! my husband nor I think that is a
We recently invited good idea.
my aging mother- My husband is now pushing for
in-law to come live us to rehome the dog <for a little
with us. We have while,= but I just know <a little
noticed enough while= will turn into <forever.= He is
Carolyn signs of mental calling me cold and uncaring
Hax decline that we toward his mother.
were worried Is there any way I can salvage
about letting her my marriage, my relationship with
live on her own. This was a my mother-in-law and my beloved
compromise I struck with my pet?
husband after I initially suggested 4 Mother-in-Law or the Dog?
sending her to a nursing home.
Well, my husband did all the Mother-in-Law or the Dog?:
communication with her, so What the ever-whatting what.
imagine my surprise when she The answer to rehoming the dog
casually asked when we would be is no, permanently, and not just
giving up our dog! because your husband was out of
Apparently, my husband line in ways I don9t have the word
promised her we would rehome count to do justice.
our well-trained labradoodle, and The answer is no because it is an
he just <forgot= to tell me. I am extreme and harmful
furious at everyone involved, but accommodation to a preference, many of us choose canine your expense. He saw your reaction call his ploy out for the weaselry it no matter how achingly badly she
my mother-in-law refuses to live in not a necessity. companionship over human. coming and chose to sidestep it by is. In marriage counseling, if it9s wants to.
the house with a dog. She says she And his attempt to shift the He blew this. He thought it was a cutting you out of the decision, not his first weasel show. · If she can9t or won9t participate
will live on her own, and neither blame onto you? This is why so good idea to appease his mother at then lying to you by omission. So Declaring the dog issue settled reasonably, then it defaults to those
throws the mother-in-law who can. That includes exploring
negotiations back to the beginning, your legal means to decide for her.
I get that. But that9s where they With the utmost compassion, but
always were. Her running your that9s true for all of you at every
household was a nonstarter, step.
always, whether she was banishing · If she does not meet legal
Fluffy or claiming your bedroom thresholds, then she can make bad
for herself. Anything they agreed to decisions for herself. This is just
after the point he agreed to the how it is.
unreasonable conditions of · She9s more likely to make good
someone in cognitive decline was decisions if you and your husband
all purely fictional gain. Does he are as clear about your boundaries
think this is her last out-there as you are about welcoming her. <It
demand? would be our privilege to care for
It9s awful for people who lose you= (with Husband taking the
their faculties to the point they lead, make sure of it). To any of her
must forfeit their independence. conditions you9re not willing to
Just awful. It is also common and meet: <No,= kindly but firmly and
understandable for people in that without further discussion. Then
position to seize on 4 with an iron either offer something else or talk
grip 4 things they hope to control. again tomorrow. When you9re
It9s also understandable for the present, every time.
most invested witness to this · Can9t stop her from living
heartbreak (her son) to want alone? A wearable alert button and
appeasement so badly, he9ll all the in-home care she can afford.
consider anything, up to and · Husband resists? Then this is a
including weasel tactics that hurt marriage problem.
another loved one (you, Fluffy) · Maybe you didn9t mean it like
whom he figures (incorrectly) he this, but <send her to a nursing
can worry about later. home= is the sound people make
Point being, your family isn9t when they just don9t get it. I put
breaking new ground here. this item last, but the chill of it
But your husband and mother- could explain why this war came
in-law are both choosing for your Fluffy. Call it the golden-
expediency all the way to misery. age rule, that you don9t send Ma
Absolutely, you and your husband where you don9t want your heirs
owe his mother dignity, plus all the sending you.
agency you can reasonably give Assisted living with memory
her. But that always had to be care is often a different story. For
balanced against your own agency. the fuller version of it, especially
They ignored that second part, and costs, consult an elder-care
you9re living the mess they made. manager. There9s an information
It falls to you to steer them, line at eldercare.acl.gov. (I9m
husband first, back to basics: guessing they9ll side with Fluffy,
· Your mother-in-law doesn9t run too.)
your home.
· Anyone with <enough signs of Write to carolyn hax at
mental decline= to warrant tellme@washpost.com. get her column
supportive care no longer gets to delivered to your inbox each morning at
make unsafe decisions for herself, wapo.st/gethax.
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Dickinson
Dear Amy: My wife, kids and
I had a wonderful time
visiting recently with my
sister, her new husband and
their daughter, <Evie,= at their
things.

Dear Amy: Years ago, my neighbor died

suddenly. His wife ran to our door for help
after he collapsed, and we took all the
NO HIDDEN
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home in Florida. My kids love appropriate steps. We called 911, tidied up
getting together with their cousin Evie. the chaos in the house and even found a
I was very bothered that during our time close relative who was camping miles away.
there, Evie always had a vaping pen in her It was an honor to do so. When it was
hand. No matter what else she was doing, obvious the house was filled with family, we

NO HIDDEN
she was constantly vaping. On several dropped off some food for the group to
occasions, I observed her going onto the share. What prompts this question is what
<smoking porch= with her folks and my happened afterward.
wife, and vaping while the adults smoked. Much later, a daughter saw me and
I asked my sister why she allows Evie, apologized profusely for not sending a card
who just turned 15, to do this. She said that of thanks. I was horrified to think my help

ANYTHING.
Evie picked up smoking from her and her also became an etiquette burden to anyone.
husband, and they got her a vaping pen as Most of my help since then has been via
an alternative to cigarettes. My wife also donations, scheduled help, etc. I want to
smokes, but our kids know that there will say, <Please, don9t feel an obligation to send
be major consequences if they are caught a note or anything,= but I wonder if that9s a
smoking or vaping. problem. If someone is compelled, that9s

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My sister and her husband want to take a great. But the entire purpose of helping is to
cruise and asked whether Evie could stay relieve a burden, not add a new one.
with us. We agreed, but how do we deal I9ve even heard of people complaining
with the issue with her vaping, since her due to not receiving a note of thanks for
parents allow it? assistance. If I receive help during a

CALLS.
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difficulties) to keep a log of that and make
Worried: These parents9 choice to hook sure notes go out?
their daughter on vaping nicotine, allegedly 4 Etiquettely Confused
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Dear Amy: In your column, you are always
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dance

tony luK/hong Kong Ballet

A new ballet
dramatizes the life
T
he Chanel logo is one of the world9s ing Winston Churchill.
better-known symbols, adorning With a less-is-more aesthetic (think: little
jewelry, handbags, lipstick and black dress) and practical designs that made it
more. Now the motif has even im- easy for women to dress themselves without a
printed on choreography.
A dance sequence with dancers9 bodies
evoking the famous interlocking C9s is one part
of <Coco Chanel: The Life of a Fashion Icon,=
of Coco Chanel, helper, Chanel created a fashion vocabulary
still in use today. <People don9t realize the
influence she had on fashion, because she is
completely integrated now,= says Jérôme Kap-
now making its North American premiere at
Atlanta Ballet through Feb. 17. The moment is
just one of the ways in which the acclaimed
choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa ad-
dresses the lingering, complex influence of her
deep ûaws and all lan, who designed the set and costumes for
Ochoa9s ballet.
Chanel herself was a sometime ballet-
costume designer, devising garb for Serge
Diaghilev9s Ballets Russes, which she also
subject, the French designer Gabrielle <Coco= BY C ELIA W REN supported financially. There9s a long, fertile
Chanel. overlap between the realms of the catwalk and
A tale of a strong-willed woman whose pas de chat: Fashion heavyweights including
rags-to-riches life (1883-1971) included stun- Christian Lacroix, Prada and Rodarte have
ning success in a business environment domi- designed ballet costumes, and ballerinas such
nated by men, the ballet has potential feminist as Margot Fonteyn have sported couture off-
resonance 4 all the more so because Chanel stage.
brought a new pragmatism, freedom and Choreographer Ochoa does not identify as a
comfort to fashion, liberating women from fashionista; she was interested in Chanel the
their corsets. But a terpsichorean portrait of person, not the brand. Working with artistic
the couturier is also a potentially fraught collaborator Nancy Meckler, Ochoa distilled
project: She was notoriously antisemitic and a Chanel9s story and set it to an original score
Nazi collaborator. composed by Peter Salem (the ballet <The
<It was important to share that dark chap- Crucible=). One scene recalls the hat-making
ter,= Ochoa says. business that launched the designer9s career.
The ballet <opens the door for interpreta- In another, groups of flowerlike dancers con-
tions, for more research, more conversations. jure the development of Chanel No. 5 perfume.
That is what art is supposed to do,= says Kaplan designed more than 180 costumes
Gennadi Nedvigin, artistic director of Atlanta (including multiples), some of which allude to
Ballet, which has co-produced <Coco Chanel= Chanel couture while allowing for dance
with Hong Kong Ballet (where it premiered in movement and avoiding outright duplication.
2023) and Queensland Ballet (where it9s head- <You are close, but you don9t copy,= Kaplan
ed next). says. (The Chanel company has not been
The show has its roots in Ochoa9s profes- involved.)
sional relationship with Septime Webre, Hong The elegantly minimalist black-and-ivory
Kong Ballet9s artistic director. He knew her packaging of Chanel No. 5 was an inspiration
work from the 17 years he spent as artistic for the show9s general look and color scheme.
director of the Washington Ballet, which has In an expressionistic touch, the ballet in-
performed her pieces, and he admired her flair cludes not only a Chanel figure but also a
shoccara Marcus
for creating kaleidoscopic onstage patterns, Shadow-Chanel, who represents her ambition,
surprising partnering moves and dramatic determination and opportunism. <The shad-
atmospheres. After taking the helm of Hong ow is really driving her,= Ochoa says.
Kong Ballet in 2017, he looked for a way to Exploring the darker side of the story, the
collaborate. ballet depicts Chanel9s love affair with the Nazi
A ballet about Chanel had been on Ochoa9s officer Baron Hans Günther von Dincklage in
bucket list. The Belgian-Colombian choreog- occupied France during World War II. Also
rapher has created dances about other tena- portrayed is her effort to exploit the Nazi
cious and complicated real-life women: Eva Aryanization laws to target the Jewish
<Evita= Perón. Frida Kahlo. Maria Callas. Wertheimer family, business partners of hers,
<I love diving into the backstories of people whom she resented for having gained control
to understand what their drive and their fears of her perfume business.
are,= especially women who <had a lot of Beyond the production, Atlanta Ballet has
hardships and a lot of flaws and were judged,= taken steps to acknowledge and contextualize
Ochoa says. (In a separate project, Ochoa will <the very problematic aspects, the very dark
be curating a run of Washington Ballet per- side, of Coco Chanel,= says the company9s
formances this spring.) executive director, Tom West. For example, the
Chanel9s biography has inspired other art, company teamed with the city9s William Bre-
including the 2009 movie <Coco Before man Jewish Heritage Museum for a panel
Chanel= and the 1969 Broadway musical discussion exploring Chanel9s troubling lega-
<Coco,= starring Katharine Hepburn. Ballet has cy.
gotten in on the action before, with choreogra- Webre says the ballet9s lens on gender makes
pher Yuri Possokhov creating a 2019 one-act it a valuable complement to hoary dance
about Chanel for ballerina Svetlana Zakharo- staples.
va. A cottage industry of nonfiction books has <Our classical canon, in ballets like 8Giselle9
mined Chanel9s saga, and she9s a character in and 8Swan Lake9 and 8Sleeping Beauty,9 pre-
shoccara Marcus
Apple TV Plus9s new series <The New Look.= sent[s] a narrow view of women as vulnerable
Her popularity as a topic is no wonder, given creatures who live their lives in relation to a
her meteoric ascent from an impoverished TOP: Dancers make the shape of the Chanel logo in Hong Kong Ballet9s man,= he says. <Coco, by contrast, is a complex,
childhood (spent partly in an orphanage) to production of <Coco Chanel: The Life of a Fashion Icon.= MIDDLE: The Atlanta independent woman 4 with flaws. Deep flaws.
the social stratosphere, where she hobnobbed Ballet9s production of the show, which will also travel to Queensland in But she lived her life on her own terms.=
with royals and aristocrats, artists such as Igor Australia. ABOVE: Atlanta Ballet9s Mikaela Santos as Coco and Fuki Takahashi When it comes to creating ballets, Ochoa
Stravinsky (with whom she had one of her as Shadow, the latter representing Coco Chanel9s ambition and opportunism. says: <I don9t like fairy tales. I like stories about
many affairs), and movers and shakers includ- <The shadow is really driving her,= said the work9s choreographer. real women.=
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allowed for faster beats and <riddims,= as Jamaicans described the modern reggaeton. A broader international audience snapped it up in the early
instrumental accompaniment of a song. 2000s.
DJs would use several vocalists over catchy riddims, changing the sound <Latin hip-hop and reggaeton are coming like a tornado,= one eMI executive told
considerably from the root style of reggae. the new York Times in 2003.
Across the Caribbean, Black Panamanians who had grown up listening to reggae Its epicenter was Puerto Rico. And winds were rising across Latin America and in
were following suit with their own versions, but for a new generation of fans who areas of the United states with large Latino populations: new York, Los Angeles,
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General because of his natural talent for get popular real quick,= Calderón told the new
freestyling. york times in 2003.

El general9s catchy riddims, a digital departure Calderón, who admired public enemy, as well
from traditional reggae, became popular as eric B. & Rakim, balanced party songs and
across latin america in the early 1990s, Dancehall reggae political messages and made his identity as a
influencing the sound of <underground= music JaMaICa Black puerto rican central to his early music.
in puerto rico.

Meanwhile in Jamaica, the duo Wycliffe

<Steely= Johnson and Cleveland <clevie= In 2003, Calderón released his studio debut,
Browne released <poco Man Jam= in 1989, <El abayarde= 4 an electrifying infusion of
featuring the <fish market= instrumental that salsa, plena and bomba, a traditional afro-
they say gave rise to reggaeton. puerto rican genre dating back to slavery on
the island 4 and it became one of reggaeton9s
<It9s basically a keyboard- and drum-driven earliest commercial successes.
rhythm or beat that steely & Clevie produced the album9s singles included <pa9 Que
themselves,= said Wayne Marshall, an retozen,= a classic reggaeton track that Bad
ethnomusicologist at the Berklee College of Bunny samples on <Fina.= the song9s refrain 4
Music in Boston. (attorneys for the duo have <Esto es pa9 ustedes pa9 que se lo gozen=
filed a lawsuit against reggaeton artists for (<this is for you all to enjoy=) 4 is widely
what they say is the unlawful sampling of their referenced in reggaeton songs and has
rhythm. Marshall said he has been become shorthand for the joy fans feel
approached by several parties in the case and listening and dancing to the genre.
has declined to participate.)
davId FrIEdMan/gEtty IMagEs

El general, seen in 2002, influenced the beat became an instant hit across
Puerto rico9s <underground= music. Jamaica, said Marshall, an editor of the book
sCOtt grIEs/gEtty IMagEs
<reggaeton.= as a result, Jamaican dancehall
and reggae producer Bobby digital <borrowed tego Calderón, seen in 2005, mixed
it, licensed it, got the underlying stems= and the next few years brought landmark albums reggaeton with his love for hip-hop.
used it to produce Shabba Ranks9s <dem by don Omar and Ivy Queen, who had broken
Bow,= a homophobic and anti-imperialist track. through the male-dominated genre as the lone
the song became an international hit, female rapper in dJ negro9s the noise. Her Bachata
reaching U.s. shores and Jamaican and third album, <diva,= featured the powerful
panamanian diasporas alike. <Quiero Bailar,= on which Ivy asserts that she Merengue
wants to dance 4 but not go to bed 4 with a dOMInICan rEpUBlIC
love interest.
Influenced Sampled

Reggae en español + Dancehall reggae In the summer of 2004, daddy yankee this era established producers including
nEW yOrK released <Barrio Fino,= which became the first dominican american duo luny Tunes, dJ urba
reggaeton album to debut at no. 1 on the top and Tainy, who broke out with his work on luny
latin albums chart and would go on to become tunes9 <Mas Flow 2.= luny tunes and their
reggae en español musicians working in track with new vocals called <pounder= 4 the best-selling latin album of the decade. the peers fused reggaeton with <more putatively
long Island decided to redo the track in and became another foundational pillar of lead single, <gasolina,= seized the global latin genres 4 bachata, merengue, salsa,
spanish, according to Marshall. the reggaeton. zeitgeist when daddy yankee appeared on maybe even a little cumbia at times,= added
riddim of the new track, <ellos Benia= 4 a <that instrumental is the one that gets Mtv9s <total request live= to introduce the Marshall. this meant that the genre went
literal translation from the Jamaican sampled, and at some point, I think it was song9s music video. <from being heard as and even proclaimed as
patois for <they bow= 4 blended the upwards of three-quarters of every <thanks to this song, the world got to know Black music & to reggaeton latino.=
original beat with elements evoking son, reggaeton song I heard,= said Marshall. In reggaeton,= daddy yankee later told Billboard.
mambo and salsa. panama, the rhythm was such a huge hit
that some simply identified it as the Hip-hop
that same riddim made its way onto a <pounder.= nEW yOrK

reggaeton seemed to reach pop critical mass

when nuyorican rapper n.O.r.E. released <Oye
Mi Canto= (<Hear My song=) a bilingual latin
pride anthem featuring Calderón. <and this is
Underground the first time it9s ever been done,= n.O.r.E.
pUErtO rICO boasts on the track. <Because there9s never
been a rapper doing a reggaeton album and he
In puerto rico, pedro torruellas, known as <playero 38,= which featured many chopped- a veteran.= the song peaked at no. 12 on the
dJ playero, had carved out a reputation up and reassembled samples 4 of reggae Hot 100.
releasing mixtapes with dancehall and hip- rhythms, classic dancehall hits and hip-hop
hop tunes featuring puerto rican tracks 4 and became the main sound of
freestylers, calling it <underground.= underground and what people would come to
playero took <pounder= and released associate later with reggaeton.

It was around this time that reggaeton as an industry was increasingly criticized for
whitewashing. When n.o.R.e. released the music video for <oye Mi Canto= in 2006,
Calderón was notably absent. Instead, the video featured the lighter-skinned Daddy
Yankee. The label9s official explanation was that Calderón had been traveling and that
The release featured freestyles from an up-and-coming artist trying to make a name for Yankee could deliver his breakneck verse on a quick turnaround.
himself: Daddy Yankee. But fans took note.
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Reggaeton
unITed Atlantic
STaTeS Ocean
Gulf of
Mexico

pueRTO
Caribbean RIcO
Sea
Pacific
Ocean
cOlOmBIa

D
espite major hits, reggaeton9s superstars were mostly unknown outside
spanish-speaking audiences. To cross over into the pop mainstream, Latin
artists 4 including selena, Ricky Martin and shakira, whose bilingual album
<Laundry service= in 2001 catapulted her to global fame 4 were expected to make

T
music in english. his time, there was no going back. Reggaeton infiltrated mainstream pop
And by the mid-aughts, some music industry executives had dismissed the genre as a like never before, influencing artists from other international genres,
fad, said Petra Rivera-Rideau, an associate professor at Wellesley College. including flamenco and Mexican corridos, and encouraging unprecedented
But reggaeton had other plans. Between its biggest hits, <Gasolina= and <Despacito,= it collaborations.
made a southern turn to Colombia.

Reggaeton Reggaeton
pUErtO rICO

Bad Bunny, who had racked up collaborations

with the likes of Becky G, Ozuna, Karol G and
cardi B, released his debut studio album, <X
100pre,= in 2018. the record climbed to no. 11
In 2007, rapper nicky Jam, who came to Pop vallenato on the Billboard 200 chart and took
prominence as a collaborator of daddy COlOMBIa reggaeton9s cross-genre collaboration to the
Yankee, moved to Medellín, Colombia, amid next level, with appearances by drake, diplo,
addiction struggles that had derailed his once- ricky Martin and El alfa, the dominican rapper
promising career. Buoyed by the city9s known as the King of dembow.
enduring appreciation for his early hits, he was spaIn
revitalized and inspired by Colombian musical Puerto Rican pop star pedro capó teamed
traditions, including the folk genre vallenato. with farruko to remix <Calma,= which became
His music departed from the hardcore rap he an unofficial anthem for the Washington
had done alongside daddy yankee to a more nationals the year they won the World series.
lyrical, romantic sound.

dIa dIpasUpIl/gEtty IMagEs

Colombian singer Karol g is among

reggaeton9s new generation of stars.
EMMa MCIntyrE/gEtty IMagEs FOr COaCHElla

rosalía shot to global fame with her

By the time the reggaeton pioneer released his flamenco-influenced second album.
comeback album a decade later, Colombia had
established itself as a hub of reggaeton9s global
expansion. a new generation of artists began to Rosalía, who catapulted to international pop
take shape 4 though not without controversy 4 fame following her second album, the
in maluma, Karol G and J Balvin. flamenco-dotted <El Mal Querer,= collaborated
with reggaetoneros including J Balvin 4 on the
El guincho-produced <Con altura= 4 and
Ozuna.

It took more than a decade after the release of <Gasolina= for reggaeton to top the
pop music charts again. This time around, the genre would remain there without the
need for an english translation. When Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee released
<Despacito= less than two weeks into 2017, neither artist thought it would achieve the
success it did.

<When I wrote the song, it wasn9t meant to be a

JasOn KOErnEr/gEtty IMagEs
crossover record. It9s just another song in
spanish,= luis fonsi told Billboard during a the rapper Farruko, who teamed with
red-carpet event. He jokingly added: <then four Pedro Capó to remix <Calma.=
months later= 4 after a certain pop star heard
the reggaeton love ballad in a nightclub in
Colombia and jumped to be on the track 4 <we she went on to release the reggaeton-inspired
release a remix with some guy called Justin album <Motomami= and appeared on an
Bieber.= update of Wisin & Yandel9s <Besos
mojados.= Wisin said he and yandel let
Rosalía take the lead on <Besos moja2=
<because she is from a generation that is going
Pop to bring something new= and <refreshing= to
UnItEd statEs one of the duo9s most beloved hits.

Bieber opened the door to the mainstream

pop stratosphere. the remix was inescapable
4 the first spanish-language no. 1 on the
Billboard Hot 100 since <Macarena,= the most-
streamed song to that point in spotify9s history, The Catalan singer9s rapid success has joined an ongoing discourse about
and seven years later still the second-most- whitewashing in a genre that originated from marginalized Black communities and
watched video on youtube. faced rampant discrimination 4 until it no longer represented those communities.
early underground reggaeton was a dance culture 4 often political 4 and <those
intricacies= have been lost as the genre has moved into the mainstream, said sarah
Bruno, an incoming assistant professor at Michigan state University.
<Reggaeton was always open to bomba and mirrored the older Black Puerto Rican
musical tradition and respected that,= Bruno said, noting that Calderón9s album <el
Abayarde= contained bomba interludes <because that has traditionally been what is
Fonsi, Yankee and Bieber inadvertently changed how Latin music was heard, representative of Black Puerto Rico.= now, she says, <a lot of people who listen to
making the mainstream cross over to the Latin music world and elevating spanish as reggaeton might not ever know what bomba is.=
the new international language of music. With all of the genres that make up the Latin hip-hop landscape, <urbano= has
But it went beyond the superstar remix of <Despacito.= streaming provided a become a catchall term for a wide range of artists.
platform for artists to make a name for themselves before signing a record deal. That <Part of that is an industry thing,= said Marshall, the ethnomusicologist, adding that
was the case with Benito Martínez, who in 2016 started uploading Latin trap songs to the terms <urbano= and <música urbana= came into the lexicon around 15 years ago.
soundCloud as Bad Bunny, with triplet-led bars that Marshall noted evoked the After the <Gasolina= wave, <some artists started to see it as maybe a liability. They
Atlanta group Migos9s signature flow. The former grocery store bagger wanted to didn9t want to be stuck in that box.
make music only in spanish and was steadfast that he could reach global audiences <of course,= he added, <after the 8Despacito9 wave, reggaeton is not such a small box
singing in his native tongue. and people are happy to be in it.= see rEggaEton on E10
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D ec o d i ng R e g g aeto n
Reggaeton

Mexico

RICH FuRy/GeTTy IMAGeS FoR TIKToK

Peso Pluma contributed to the rise of

regional Mexican music on the pop charts.

Artists are joining the ranks from across Latin

America and the Caribbean. In 2023, corridos
tumbados became a go-to genre with the rise
of artists such as Peso Pluma and eslabon
Armado.

MICHAeL LoCCISANo/GeTTy IMAGeS FoR CoACHeLLA

Bad Bunny teamed with trap corridos

pioneer Natanael Cano on <Soy El Diablo.=

Bad Bunny was one of the first artists to work

with trap corridos pioneer Natanael Cano 4
teaming with the Sonora native on <Soy el
Diablo= 4 so it made a lot of sense when he
announced a collaboration with the Texas
band Grupo Frontera.

This triumph of regional Mexican music on mainstream pop charts is unprecedented. <We9re
talking about mostly songs in three-four,= Marshall said, describing Peso Pluma9s traditional
corrido sound. <There are so few songs in three-four or six-eight in the pop world at this point that
it9s pretty unusual.=
One common triple-time rhythm, in fact, can act as a sonic bridge to trap because it evokes the
triplet-heavy Migos flow, Marshall said. <It9s basically the Bad Bunny flow, that triplet kind of style,
except it doesn9t have the same tension because it9s not three against four, it9s three against three.=
<That allows some of these corridos singers to almost sound like Bad Bunny or to sound
hip-hop-adjacent & 8reggaeton-coded,9 in the words of kids today.=

Reggaeton

argentina

JuAN PABLo PINo/AFP/GeTTy IMAGeS

Bizarrap9s collaborations are a nod to EDM

and reggaeton9s long-standing alliance.

Argentina has also crept onto the urbano

<
scene with the rise of DJ-producer Bizarrap,
whose collaborative discography is a nod to
reggaeton9s long-standing alliance with
electronic dance music. His session with
Shakira, a spicy diss track aimed at her ex,
broke a slew of records and won song of the

I owe my year at last month9s Latin Grammys.

flow to God.
And Tego Despite the evolution of reggaeton 4 or perhaps, in part, because of it, in the past few years the
genre9s pioneers have come back in full force. Bruno was thrilled to see Ivy Queen do NPR9s Tiny
Desk, days after receiving the Icon Award at Billboard9s Latin Music Awards; in April, Calderón

Calde.= released his first solo song in years, later winning the best reggaeton category at the Latin Grammys.
Bad Bunny, the new guard9s most innovative star, returned to his trap roots on his latest album,
<Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana,= but he still paid homage to reggaeton, sampling
trailblazers including Calderón, Frankie Boy and Julio Voltio.
<Yo no soy trapero, ni reggaetonero. Yo soy la estrella más grande en el mundo entero,= Bad
Bunny declares on the album9s title track. <I9m not a trap singer or a reggaeton singer. I9m the
Bad Bunny performs during his World9s biggest star in the whole world.=
Hottest Tour at SoFi Stadium in On the same song, he credits a short list of inspirations: I owe my flow to God, he says. And Tego
Inglewood, Calif., in September 2022. Calde.
KevIN WINTeR/GeTTy IMAGeS

About this story

Reporting by Bethonie Butler and Luis velarde. Design, lettering and graphics by Artur Galocha.
Design and development by Leslie Shapiro. Sound engineering and production by Sean Carter.
video by Luis velarde and video production by Isaac Bencid and Gustavo Reggio. editing by Manuel
Canales and Steven Johnson. Copy editing by Mike Cirelli.
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a kitchen-set
love story is an
Sand and alfred de Musset in <the children of
the century= (<Les Enfants du Siècle=). falling
for each other on set had come as a surprise,
epicurean delight if you9ve heard of the <the taste of things,=
which opens in wide release Wednesday, it9s
probably been in the context of the oscars.
but two weeks after shooting ended, he moved Somewhat controversially, france chose this
in. they lived together for five years and have a BinochE froM E1 film over <anatomy of a fall= to be its submis-
daughter, Hana, 24, also an actress. in the 20 sion in the best international film category, its
years since their breakup, though, they had Binoche at Petit Trois restaurant in Los Angeles on Feb. 6. She and co- big hope to win that award for the first time in
been estranged and had not acted together star Benoît Magimel have a daughter but have been estranged for years. 30 years. in the end, <taste= didn9t make the
again. cut in that single category, while <anatomy=
<We talked. of course we talk. We have a has five nominations, including best director
daughter. But we didn9t see each other much,= and best picture.
says Binoche over Zoom from Paris. <and i to reduce the film to just jockeying for
wished we had seen each other. it would have the kitchen of a countryside chalet in anjou, in inside me i was laughing and smiling out of acclaim, though, is to negate the alchemy of
been easier, but that was the way it was.= the western Loire valley, that in 1889 would joy, of enjoying that finally we can stay in the what happens on-screen: the sensual creation
Binoche had given tran (the french-Viet- have been worlds away from the construction same room and that9s fine,= Binoche says. <and of elaborate french dishes, reminiscent of
namese director of <the Scent of Green Papa- of the Eiffel tower in Paris that same year, we can work together and even express feel- <Babette9s feast,= Binoche9s role in <chocolat=
ya= and <cyclo=) her blessing to reach out 4 living out the alternate life of a couple they ings. i was very touched by it. and even more and even fx9s <the Bear,= combined with the
without their Dodin, the movie was dead 4 could have been, cohabitating and working in touched when my daughter saw the film. [We electricity between two talented actors who
thinking that Magimel surely would say no. to harmony across all the years they themselves had] a sense of humor, and that didn9t happen can conjure up their past love and intimacy
her surprise, he agreed. had missed. in life that much. So finally it was happening in and make it palpable through the screen.
and then one day, they found themselves in <to finally to be with Benoît in this kitchen, the film. it9s absurd.= continuED on nExt PaGE
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stepHAnIe BRAnCHu/IfC fIlms

BenAInous/stevens/gAmmA-RApHo/getty ImAges

TOP: Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel in a scene from <The Taste of Things.=
ABOVE: Binoche and Magimel at the 27th César movie awards in Paris in March 2002.
LEFT: Binoche said it was important for her to do the movie <to say thank you to our
French culture, to the countryside, the garden and to the work of cooking.=

magimel were accomplished home cooks, and eating,= Tran says. They9d even take the left-
gagnaire says that Binoche told him it was overs home. His wife, Nu Yên-Khê Tran, was
important for her to do this small movie <to say doing the costumes, and she kept having to let
thank you to our french culture, to the coun- out the seams because everyone kept gaining
tryside, the garden and to the work of cook- weight. Binoche was the only one who lost
ing.= But despite Tran9s insistence that they weight because she was preparing to play Coco
needed a week of rehearsals, the actors gave Chanel in <The New Look,= which premieres
him only half a day. and it was a tense one, the Wednesday on apple Tv plus.
first time they9d had a meaningful interaction While they were filming, at least, Binoche
in decades. (magimel is now married to the and magimel reached a détente. The act of
screenwriter margot pelletier. Binoche has pretending to cook together in that warm
been proposed to three times, she says, but kitchen became a conduit for expressing what-
only at the end of relationships, which seemed ever they needed to one another. <sometimes
silly to her. <it was just a way to retain me,= she you think that life is doing it for you when you
says. <Why ask at the end? Why not at the can9t do it,= Binoche says. <it felt very much like
beginning, when everything was so wonder- that to me, that this film was allowing us to be
ful?=) able to be humans.=
<The fact that they were a couple 20 years
ago was a little bit scary for me because i knew he entire movie is leading up to the

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that they didn9t get along when they split, so it
was quite risky to have them together,= Tran
says. The beginning was difficult. in that first
T making of a single dish, the pot-au-feu, a
quintessentially french beef stew
known as a peasant dish and served in homes
extensive scene, eugénie is cooking for Dodin throughout the country, with regional varia-
and his friends and needs extra hands in the tions. <it9s the french bibimbap. it9s the french
kitchen. magimel jumped in on all kinds of pizza,= gagnaire says.
from previous page sizzling, metal clanging on metal, wood crack- tasks, but Binoche expressed that he needed to in the film, it is Dodin9s way of expressing
ling in the fire. do less 4 otherwise the audience would not his love for eugénie. Watching her parents
When i tell Binoche that a friend of mine, a <i decided not to do what i saw often in understand that eugénie is Dodin9s cook and reconcile and live out a life together on film
critic, said one can tell that magimel is still in movies about food,= says Tran in a telephone Dodin is the hands-off mastermind of the was overwhelming for Hana, who hid in a
love with her, she laughs. interview. <so i cut out of the movie everything dishes. bathroom after watching it and then cried in
<i think there9s love because i think when that is what i call 8the beauty shots9 on the food. <and Benoît took it so badly. i thought, 8This her mother9s arms telling her about the experi-
you love someone once you love the person & i want everything in movement so that we film is going to be a disaster!9= Binoche says. ence. <she was shocked at how much emotion
forever, even though there might be storms can see the food being made through actors, <But actually he melted. and we started eating she went through,= Binoche says. <she didn9t
and tempests and waves,= Binoche says. <The their bodies, their hands, their faces.= an omelet together in the first scene, and at the expect how healing it was.=
feeling is deep, and it9s beyond living together Tran had written the script from the gastro- end of the day, i thought, 8it9s going to be fine.9= Things between Binoche and magimel in
or being together. it9s something deeper.= nomic novel, <La vie et la passion de Dodin- most of the prep and cooking of finished the real world, though, haven9t suddenly
Bouffant, gourmet= by marcel rouff, but he dishes was done by gagnaire9s right-hand chef thawed. <No, it went back to where it was!=
he opening scene is a nearly wordless didn9t know how he would shoot it until he of 40 years, michel Nave, who stood just out of says Binoche, laughing. <it9s not bad at all. it9s

T 30-minute sequence of eugénie cooking

up an extraordinary feast: the clearest of
consommés, turbot cooked in four liters of
arrived on set with his culinary consultant,
three-star chef pierre gagnaire, who created all
the recipes we see on-screen. once gagnaire
frame giving verbal instruction to the actors to
go faster or move on to the next step. Then Tran
cleaned Nave9s voice out of the soundtrack.
just we don9t communicate. so we communi-
cate when we do interviews together. That9s
all. for the moment, that9s the way it is.=
milk, a magnificent vol-au-vent. There are no explained that dishes would need to be served The director had hired hand doubles but never she sounds like she hopes that this is just an
cutaways from the act of creating to a miracu- within five to ten minutes of being made, Tran used them because Binoche and magimel were interlude on their way to a better ending. <i
lously perfect finished product. and it9s settled on a single camera and highly choreo- so eager to do the food assembly themselves. have to accept that everybody is different,= she
steeped in the realistic silence of a working graphed movements, like a ballet. <The actors ate a lot and they quite enjoyed says. <at least we have this film. it9s beautiful.
kitchen. No score; just the sounds of butter Coming into this process, both Binoche and it, because when i said 8Cut,9 they keep on i9m happy for it.=
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DINING

PhOTOS by deb LiNdSey FOr The WAShiNgTON POST

The braised pork belly spends 22 hours in a sous vide cooker before being served with potatoes and cheese banded with bacon 4 the best part of the entree 4 and at least five sauces on the plate.

Too much sparkle, not enough substance in Potomac

Some people are going to like the Grove, the cauliflower, is ordinary eating, despite the
Complicated hard-to-miss new Mediterranean fusion res- creamy teardrops of yellow cauliflower that
dishes often taurant in Cabin John Village shopping center finish it.
in Potomac. That includes locals who don9t There9s nothing subtle about the restau-
look better want to drive to the District or Northern rant, whose outside entrance crawls with faux
than they taste Virginia for dinner, people who enjoy a green ivy and whose interior looks like the
<Barbie= palette and fans of lots of razzle- Cherry Blossom Festival no matter what time
at the Grove dazzle 4 foams, gels and smoke 4 on the of year it is. The walls, ceiling and banquettes
plate. are an explosion of flowers 4 fake, painted or
Other people are going to grouse about the fabric 4 along with multiple neon accents.
latest restaurant from the Alexandria-based <Let it bloom,= reads a message on a wall. Sure,
BY T OM S IETSEMA Common Plate Hospitality group. This in- but no one seems to understand the power of
cludes locals who dream of better nearby moderation. Sparrow says he wanted some-
options for a meal out, people who don9t care thing <bright and clean= to match the chef 9s
to eat inside what looks like a piñata filled cooking. The Grove is definitely & bright.
with flowers and a critic who can9t figure out The service is all over the map, too. My first
how a chef with impressive credentials is visit, a fast-talking, no-nonsense server in-
behind some of the most unfortunate food he9s formed us <weopenedaboutamonthago= and
eaten in several seasons. asked <whatareyouthinkingforwater?= The
José López-Picazo, the Madrid native in the second dinner showed off his opposite: a
Grove9s exhibition kitchen, has worked under server seemingly fueled by a gallon of Red Bull
some of the country9s best chefs: José Andrés and so enthusiastic, he made Taylor Swift
and Fabio Trabocchi at Jaleo and Del Mar in watching her beau play ball inert by compari-
Washington, respectively, and Julian Serrano son. Did I mention the sommelier disputed a
at Picasso in the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas. bottle of corked wine without first tasting it
The starry résumé is one reason the managing herself ? She later agreed it was bad, but the
partner of Common Plate recruited the chef. exchange made for an uncomfortable intro-
<He9s always been the man behind the man,= duction. On the other hand, this messy eater
says Chad Sparrow, whose restaurants include appreciated servers who swooped in and
Augie9s Mussel House, Mason Social and erased the Jackson Pollock I created on the
Urbano. The Grove, he says, puts López-Picazo table, and how kind of the restaurant to lower
front and center. the volume on the music when a friend asked.
One of the eye-grabbers on the menu is (Not every place does that.)
black sausage from Spain, served as four tiny Sparrow says locals are direct with their
towers, each one of them balanced on tomato feedback. To the Grove9s credit, some prices
confit on a powdery crouton crowned with a were slashed when customers complained.
sunny, dime-size quail egg. The appetizer is <This isn9t downtown D.C.,= he says they let
hard to eat in one bite (the eggs slipped off all him know. (The scallops are now $10 cheaper
four pieces) and not worth the trouble: The than after the restaurant sprouted in Novem-
sausage was at once earthy and gummy. Crudo ber.)
is as inescapable as AI. The <Latin fusion= at There are moments, fleeting ones, where I
the Grove features the expected raw fish could see myself coming back: for those veal
(halibut, in this case), but the leche de tigre 4 cheeks, that whole fish, the desserts. Go for
<tiger9s milk= or marinating liquid 4 is so the slender, sugar-sprinkled churros served
thick and fruity it masks the fish, which swims with intense warm chocolate sauce and the
to the table with a savory tuile that distin- fluffy, not-too-sweet cheesecake with a dimple
guishes many of the dishes here. López-Picazo of apricot jam. Both desserts are straightfor-
makes the designs with a mold and flour and ward and satisfying.
egg white, plus tints to make them black On my last visit, I watched a server present
(squid ink), red (beets) or green (chlorophyll). a smoke-filled, globe-size cloche containing
Spain is where a lot of chefs from around lamb shank to a woman I guessed might be
the world go for inspiration, to taste the dining with her husband. For about the time it
future. I count myself lucky to have sampled takes for me to type this vignette, her head was
the novel ideas at trendsetters including Common Plate Hospitality group partner Chad Sparrow wanted to match chef José invisible in the oak-heavy fog. Her husband
Disfrutar in Barcelona. The Grove doesn9t López-Picazo9s cooking with a <bright and clean= dining room at the Grove. couldn9t stop laughing. When the smoke
charge the lofty prices of those master practi- finally disappeared, she seemed less than
tioners, but its output doesn9t taste close to amused.
them, either. My point is, artful and complicat- I went into the Grove as I try to do at most
ed approaches don9t need to get in the way of eggplant and onion and stages them as a Picazo deploys lemongrass, ginger and lime restaurants, with optimism. I left wondering
deliciousness. colorful bar with a hedge of microgreens and zest, which infuse the fish, already meaty and how I could sum up the place in one word.
Look at the pork belly. You9d think 22 hours black dots of the aforementioned charred rich, with spark and which treat recipients to Unforgettable?
in a sous vide cooker would beat a block of vegetables. Veal cheeks cooked to tenderness enticing fragrance. Throw in some aioli and
meat into submission. But the chunk I got, are splayed over finely chopped red cabbage fingerling potatoes and I9m a happy camper 4
propped up by a support of potatoes and that neatly straddles sweet and tang. This well, sans the undercooked carrots that come
cheese banded with bacon 4 the best part of being the Grove, the main course gets some along for the ride.
the entree 4 was dense and tough in parts. I chorizo-colored <air= on top, foam that9s actu- That9s an issue at the Grove. Too many
counted at least five sauces on the plate, which ally orange with carrot and ginger. dishes have something that throws them off 4 The Grove
get lost in translation, plus what looked like a The message: The simpler, the better here. rubbery calamari on a piece of halibut or
7747 Tuckerman Lane, Potomac, Md. 240-386-
miniature Ferris wheel but was in reality High-end hybrid food tends to be compli- chewy thin rings of brioche and guanciale
another tuile. Stop this ride! I9m getting dizzy! cated and labor-intensive. Like many chefs, (<false ravioli,= the chef calls them) around 8369. thegrovemd.com. Open for inside dining
As a well-traveled companion said of one López-Picazo has to compete in a market otherwise delicious bites of braised oxtail, 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday,
night9s spread, <Not as good as they looked.= where experienced workers aren9t plentiful, their richness foiled by biting peppers, ar- 4 p.m. to midnight Friday, 10 a.m. to midnight
The more traditional Spanish plates are and the suburbs are more of a challenge than ranged on buttery mashed potatoes. Some- Saturday and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday.
better bets. Seek out the delicate crystal bread the city. One of the reasons I returned to the times, the principal ingredient is to blame. Prices: dinner appetizers $14 to $28, main
with its light application of crushed tomatoes, Grove initially was because of a main course, Chunks of chorizo and racy minced peppers courses $26 to $75 (whole fish for two). Sound
or the riff on the Catalan classic of grilled or whole dorade, that the top chef revealed from are the best part of a main course of chicken check: 75 decibels/Must speak with raised
roasted vegetables, escalivada. López-Picazo beneath a salt crust at the table. Some chefs inspired by chilindrón, a hearty Spanish stew. voice. Accessibility: No barriers to entry; AdA-
layers slices of charcoal-kissed red peppers, use egg whites to make the salt seal; López- The breast, fenced in with potatoes and compliant restrooms.
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Special Theatrical Engagement
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Turning Red (2022) - Pixar
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The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes
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11:00AM Dune (2021) IMAX Reissue CC: 2) (PG) 12:30 American Fiction (R) 12:40-3:40 Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) 1:40-
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2:30 Anyone But You: The Valentine Peppa's Cinema Party 12:00-2:15 CC: 12:30-8:00 The Beekeeper (R) CC: 1:45-4:15- Anyone But You: The Valentine The Boys in the Boat (PG-13)
6198 Greenbelt Road The Beekeeper (R) 11:10-1:55- Mean Girls (PG-13) 1:10-4:30-
Out of Darkness (R) OC: 3:15 Encore (R) CC: 1:15-4:05-6:45- Turning Red (2022) - Pixar 7:30 Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 12:00- 6:45-9:15 Encore (R) 2:15 1:10-4:15-7:20
Migration (PG) CC: 1:30-4:10 6:20-7:25-9:05-10:10 Special Theatrical Engagement 2:45-5:30-8:30
The Zone of Interest (PG-13) 9:30 Argylle: The IMAX Experience American Fiction (R) CC: 1:15- Migration (PG) 2:10 Poor Things (R) 6:20
12:50-3:40-6:40-9:15 Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) CC: Origin (PG-13) 11:40-7:05 (PG) 1:20-4:10-7:00 Peppa's Cinema Party 12:00- 4:00-7:00-9:15
The Zone of Interest (PG-13) (PG-13) 12:10 Argylle (PG-13) 1:20 Argylle (PG-13) 12:20-4:40-
Argylle (PG-13) CC: 12:55-4:00- 2:00-4:30-7:15 The Goldûnger 12:50-7:15 Table for Six 2 11:00-2:10- 2:00 The Movie Emperor 1:00-4:00-
3:45-9:45
Mean Girls (PG-13) 11:05-1:55- The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes Wonka (PG) 1:10 7:00-7:45-8:00
7:10-9:30 The Book of Clarence (PG-13) Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) OC: 5:30-9:05 Popular Theory (PG) 12:00-4:00 7:00
CC: 1:20-4:10-6:40 7:40-10:30 1-3 (PG) 1:00-6:00 Cinemark The Beekeeper (R) 1:55-4:45-
The Beekeeper (R) OC: 12:45 2:10 Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya Turning Red (2022) - Pixar Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 1:30- 7:35
Argylle (PG-13) CC: 1:00-4:00- The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes 2:25-5:40-9:10 Peppa's Cinema Party 12:00-2:00 Fairfax Corner and XD
American Fiction (R) OC: 3:30 Argylle (PG-13) CC: 12:00-3:15- Turning Red (2022) - Pixar Special Theatrical Engagement 4:15-7:00-9:45 11900 Palace Way Eagle (Telugu) 1:20-4:50-8:30
7:10 1-3 (PG) 11:30-3:40-7:50 Dune (2021) IMAX Reissue 2:00- (PG) CC: 1:40-4:15 The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes
Anyone But You: The Valentine The Beekeeper (R) CC: 1:40- 6:30-9:45 The Movie Emperor 4:00-10:25 Special Theatrical Engagement Fighter (Hindi) 6:05 Mean Girls (PG-13) 12:45-3:45-
Encore (R) OC: 1:40 6:00-10:00 Table for Six 2 12:00-7:00 1-3 (PG) 3:00-7:30 6:45
4:20-7:20 AMC Magic Johnson Yatra 2 10:30 Anyone But You: The Valentine (PG) 12:30-3:10 Wonka (PG) 1:30-4:25-7:20
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - American Fiction (R) CC: 1:10- Capital Center 12 Dune (2021) IMAX Reissue Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - Migration (PG) 10:25-1:00-3:30 The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes
Peppa's Cinema Party 11:30-1:35 Encore (R) 11:30-2:20-5:10-8:10 Jiya 8:00
DC Bryant Street 4:30-7:00 800 Shoppers Way Turning Red (2022) - Pixar Pegasus 2 (Fei Chi Ren Sheng 2) 3:20-7:00
Dune (2021) IMAX Reissue CC:
One Loudoun Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) 10:00- 1-3 (PG) 12:05-4:35
630 Rhode Island Ave NE Origin (PG-13) CC: 6:50 Spider-Man: Across the Spi- Special Theatrical Engagement Anyone But You: The Valentine 20575 East Hampton Plaza 11:00-12:40-1:40-3:20-4:20-7:00 Peppa's Cinema Party 12:30-
3:45-10:00 3:00-7:00 2:30
Before Sunrise (R) 2:30 Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 1:50- der-Verse (PG) CC: 5:00-8:15 (PG) 2:15 Argylle (PG-13) 3:10 Encore (R) 1:50-4:50-7:50 Before Sunrise (R) 2:30 The Boys in the Boat (PG-13)
Casablanca (2023) (PG) 11:30AM 4:40-7:30 The Color Purple (PG-13) CC: AXCN: Paprika - Satoshi Kon Anyone But You: The Valentine Casablanca (1942) (PG) 7:45 10:10-1:10-4:10-7:10 Turning Red (2022) - Pixar
Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya AXCN: Paprika - Satoshi Kon Encore (R) CC: 12:00-2:40-
The Best Man (R) 10:45AM 2:15-8:15 3:40-7:00-10:20 Fest (R) 7:30 Pride & Prejudice (2005) (PG) The Zone of Interest (PG-13) Special Theatrical Engagement
AMC Annapolis Mall 11 Fest (R) 7:30 5:30-8:15 (PG) 12:25-3:15
Poor Things (R) 5:45 Wonka (PG) CC: 2:10 Lover (Tamil) 2:55-10:05 Regal Westview & IMAX 12:15 12:55-3:40
1020 Annapolis Mall Road Regal Germantown Pegasus 2 (Fei Chi Ren Sheng
The Book of Clarence (PG-13) Wonka (PG) CC: 12:20-3:20- Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) CC: Anyone But You: The Valentine 5243 Buckeystown Pike 2) 6:30
Wonka (PG) 6:15 Lal Salaam (Tamil) 11:30-3:00- Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya
2:00-4:30-7:00-9:30 Encore (R) 11:15-4:55-7:45-10:35 20000 Century Boulevard Casablanca (2023) (PG) 11:30AM 6:30 12:10-3:30-6:50
2:45 6:20-9:10 Wonka (PG) 12:40-3:30-6:20-9:20 The Color Purple (PG-13) 12:30-
How to Have Sex 10:45-1:45- Night Swim (PG-13) CC: 2:00- Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13) XD: Fighter (Hindi) 12:50-3:50 Out of Darkness (R) 10:45-12:30- Eagle (Telugu) 6:00 Anyone But You: The Valentine
Migration (PG) CC: 11:30-1:40- Wonka (PG) 11:55AM Migration (PG) 11:50-1:00-2:30- 3:45-7:00 Encore (R) 1:30-4:20-7:25
4:30-7:15 4:30-7:00-9:30 11:00-2:45-6:30-10:15 3:40-6:10 4:30-7:15 Argylle (PG-13) 3:25-6:40
4:00 Migration (PG) 1:00-3:30-6:00
Argylle (PG-13) 7:30 Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) CC: The Book of Clarence (PG-13) Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom Migration (PG) 12:25-3:10-5:40
Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) 11:40- Night Swim (PG-13) 8:30
The Zone of Interest (PG-13) The Beekeeper (R) 11:20-2:05- Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13)
CC: 4:45-7:45 (PG-13) 3:45 Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) 11:50- 3:45 4:50-7:35 1:45-5:45
American Fiction (R) 1:00- 12:00-1:50-4:30-7:10-9:45 2:15-4:50-7:40
4:15-7:45 Night Swim (PG-13) CC: Out of Darkness (R) CC: 2:10- The Color Purple (PG-13) 3:30 2:30-5:10-7:50
Argylle (PG-13) 11:30-6:25-9:40 AMC Potomac Mills 18 How to Have Sex 12:15-3:15- The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes Argylle (PG-13) 2:00-5:30
Origin (PG-13) 11:15-3:00-6:45 7:40-9:40 4:30-6:55-9:15 Wonka (PG) 3:35 Lal Salaam (Tamil) 12:05-4:50- 2700 Potomac Mills Circle 4:45-7:30 1-3 (PG) 12:00-4:40 Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13)
American Fiction (R) 12:30-3:20-
Mean Girls (PG-13) 11:30-2:15- The Boys in the Boat (PG-13) Argylle (PG-13) CC: 2:30-5:45- Migration (PG) 3:50 8:30
6:20-9:10 Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom American Fiction (R) 11:15-1:30- Mean Girls (PG-13) 10:15-1:05- 12:00-3:50-7:40
6:15 9:00 Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) 2:15 Argylle (PG-13) 12:10-1:25-4:45- (PG-13) CC: 11:20-1:40-4:40- 3:00-6:30 3:55-6:45 Argylle (PG-13) 3:40
CC: 4:45 7:10-8:05 Mean Girls (PG-13) 12:20-3:15-
Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13) The Beekeeper (R) CC: 3:30- Night Swim (PG-13) 2:50 6:20-9:20 7:30-10:30 Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13) Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Regal Manassas & IMAX
Out of Darkness (R) CC: 1:15- Eagle (Telugu) 1:30-5:00-8:25 7:00
5:30-6:30 3:35-6:00-8:15-10:30 6:10-8:45 Cinépolis Gaithersburg The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes Spider-Man: Across the Spi- Jiya 6:25 11380 Bulloch Drive
Pride & Prejudice (2005) (PG) American Fiction (R) CC: 3:35- American Fiction (R) 8:05 1-3 (PG) 1:10-6:40 der-Verse (PG) CC: 11:30-5:30 Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) 10:30- Anyone But You: The Valentine Aquaman and The Lost King-
Argylle (PG-13) CC: 11:30AM 629 Center Point Way
10:30AM The Beekeeper (R) CC: 11:35- 6:25-9:15 The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes Turning Red (2022) - Pixar Wonka (PG) CC: 1:30-4:30-7:20- 1:45-8:00 Encore (R) 10:35-1:25-4:15-7:15 dom (PG-13) 1:30-4:50-8:00
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom 1-3 (PG) 2:50-7:30 10:10 Argylle (PG-13) 11:00-1:00-2:45-
Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) 2:10-5:10-7:50-10:25 Origin (PG-13) CC: 2:45-6:00-9:15 (PG-13) 7:30 Special Theatrical Engagement Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13) XD: Wonka (PG) 12:40-3:40-6:45
12:15-7:00 Origin (PG-13) CC: 6:30-10:10 Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 3:15- The Movie Emperor 4:10 (PG) 1:15-4:00-6:45-9:30 Migration (PG) CC: 11:10-2:20- 6:00-6:45 10:55-2:45-6:30 Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13)
Wonka (PG) 1:45-4:45 Turning Red (2022) - Pixar 4:45-7:10-9:40 Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13)
Argylle (PG-13) 11:45-3:30 Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 1:00- 6:10-9:00 Dune (2021) IMAX Reissue 1:50- Argylle (PG-13) XD: 10:05-1:20- 12:00-2:50-5:40-8:20
Poor Things (R) 3:30-7:00 Special Theatrical Engagement Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) CC: 3:30 4:35-7:50
Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) 3:15 3:50-6:40-9:30 Turning Red (2022) - Pixar The Beekeeper (R) 1:00-4:00-7:00 (PG) 1:10-4:00-7:00 5:30-9:15 The Beekeeper (R) 11:50-2:30-
Special Theatrical Engagement Argylle (PG-13) 4:15-5:50-7:50- 11:00-1:45-4:30-7:10-10:00 Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) 5:00 5:20-8:10
Angelika The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes Argylle (PG-13) 12:30-3:15-6:45 Table for Six 2 12:20-3:30-6:50 Regal Ballston Quarter
1-3 (PG) 3:00-7:30 (PG) CC: 5:30 8:40-9:10 Night Swim (PG-13) CC: 11:40- Angelika Film Center Mosaic 671 North Glebe Road Eagle (Telugu) 12:20-3:50-7:30
Pop-Up at Union Market Mean Girls (PG-13) 12:15-3:45- Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya
Turning Red (2022) - Pixar Dune (2021) IMAX Reissue CC: Anyone But You: The Valentine 2:10-4:40-7:20-9:50 2911 District Ave Migration (PG) 12:00-3:00-5:35 The Iron Claw (R) 1:50-5:05-8:15
550 Penn Street NE - Unit E 6:30 12:00-3:20-6:40 Molli and Max in the Future
Special Theatrical Engagement 2:00-5:45-9:30 American Fiction (R) 1:15-3:00- Anyone But You: The Valentine Encore (R) 12:50-3:40-6:30-9:25 Poor Things (R) 1:35-7:05 Night Swim (PG-13) 8:10 Mean Girls (PG-13) 1:10-4:10-
Argylle (PG-13) 3:25 2:50-8:45
The Movie Emperor 3:45-6:45 (PG) CC: 11:50-2:30 AMC Montgomery 16 6:15-7:15 Encore (R) 12:15-3:00-5:50-8:35
Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13) 2:45 The Zone of Interest (PG-13) Poor Things (R) 12:40-4:10-7:40 7:10
Anyone But You: The Valentine 7101 Democracy Boulevard Argylle (PG-13) 12:55 The Teachers' Lounge 12:20-3:20 12:55 Wonka (PG) 12:20-3:40 The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes
Poor Things (R) 12:45 Turning Red (2022) - Pixar Pegasus 2 (Fei Chi Ren Sheng 2)
Encore (R) CC: 11:30-2:10-4:50- Out of Darkness (R) CC: 11:45- Anatomy of a Fall (R) 5:00 Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) 1:30- 1-3 (PG) 12:45-5:10
Argylle (PG-13) 12:30-6:30 Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom Special Theatrical Engagement 1:00-7:20 Xscape Theatres 2:15-4:45-7:15-9:45
7:40-10:20 (PG-13) CC: 12:45-3:45-6:45-9:45 (PG) 12:00-4:15 Brandywine 14 Argylle (PG-13) 1:00 4:20-7:10 Turning Red (2022) - Pixar
American Fiction (R) 1:00- Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13) Argylle (PG-13) CC: 12:45-4:00- The Promised Land (Bastarden) Special Theatrical Engagement
3:35-6:15
Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13) CC: Spider-Man: Across the Spi- Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13) 12:30-4:20-8:10 7710 Matapeake Business Drive Argylle (PG-13) 4:40-8:00
2:45-6:30-10:10 12:45-6:00 7:15-10:30 (R) 10:50AM (PG) 12:30-3:20-6:10
der-Verse (PG) CC: 4:00-7:15 Argylle (PG-13) 3:40 Casablanca (1942) (PG) 1:00- The Beekeeper (R) 12:50-4:00-
Avalon Theatre Argylle (PG-13) CC: 12:30-3:45- Jungle Bunch: Operation The Monk and the Gun (PG-13) Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya
5612 Connecticut Avenue Wonka (PG) CC: 1:15-4:00-7:00- Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) 12:00- AXCN: Paprika - Satoshi Kon 4:00-7:00 Meltdown (Les As de la Jungle 11:00-1:30-4:00-6:30-9:00
7:20
12:50-4:20-7:40
7:00-10:15 10:00 2:45-4:30-7:45 Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom American Fiction (R) 1:40-
Poor Things (R) 1:15-7:15 Fest (R) 7:30 2) (PG) 1:00 The Movie Emperor 7:35 Argylle (PG-13) 11:40-3:00-6:30
AMC Center Park 8 Migration (PG) CC: 12:15-2:45- Greenbelt Cinema (PG-13) 3:55-9:25 4:50-7:50
Regal Hyattsville Royale The Beekeeper (R) CC: 11:20-
American Fiction (R) 2:00- 4001 Powder Mill Rd. 5:15-7:45 129 Centerway The Color Purple (PG-13) 1:05- 2:10-4:50-7:40-10:20
The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes Mean Girls (PG-13) 12:10-3:20- Dune (2021) IMAX Reissue
4:45-7:30 6505 America Blvd. 1-3 (PG) 3:30 12:10-4:00-7:50
Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) CC: American Fiction (R) 2:00-5:00 3:20-4:05-7:10 6:30
The Promised Land (Bastarden) (PG-13) CC: 3:00-7:30 The Color Purple (PG-13) 12:20- AXCN: Paprika - Satoshi Kon Argylle (PG-13) 11:10-4:00-7:00 The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes Anyone But You: The Valentine
12:30-5:30-8:00-10:30 The Zone of Interest (PG-13) Migration (PG) 1:55-4:15-6:25- Fest (R) 2:30
(R) 4:15 The Color Purple (PG-13) CC: 3:30-6:50 8:45 Anyone But You: The Valentine 1-3 (PG) 2:40-6:50 Encore (R) 12:00-2:50-5:35-8:30
Night Swim (PG-13) CC: 10:45 2:30-5:15 Wonka (PG) 1:40-4:40-7:45 American Fiction (R) CC: 12:50- Encore (R) 12:25-3:00-5:30-8:00
National Theatre Live: Dear 4:45 The Boys in the Boat (PG-13) CC: Night Swim (PG-13) 1:25-4:25- Anyone But You: The Valentine Regal Springûeld Town Center
England (NR) 10:30AM Landmark Migration (PG) 12:00-2:30-5:00 3:40-6:45-9:45 Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) 10:40- Encore (R) 12:30-3:30-6:40 6859 Springûeld Mall
Wonka (PG) CC: 1:00-3:45-6:30 12:30-3:30-6:30-9:30 6:55-9:25 The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes 2:10-4:35-7:00-9:25
Bethesda Row Cinema Wish (PG) 12:25-3:00-5:40 Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13)
Landmark Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) CC: Poor Things (R) CC: 1:00-4:15- 7235 Woodmont Avenue The Book of Clarence (PG-13) 1-3 (PG) 3:00-7:30 Aquaman and The Lost King-
Atlantic Plumbing Cinema 2:00-4:30-7:00 10:25 Poor Things (R) 7:20 1:05-6:35 American Fiction (R) 12:35-3:15- 3:10-7:00 dom (PG-13) 12:10-3:40-7:20
Wonka (PG) 1:05-6:15 Origin (PG-13) CC: 12:00-3:20- 5:50-8:30
807 V Street Northwest Argylle (PG-13) CC: 1:00-4:00- Out of Darkness (R) CC: 12:00- Poor Things (R) 1:20-4:10-7:00 Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) 12:10-
2:40-5:10-7:50
Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) 1:00- 6:40-9:50 Origin (PG-13) 10:55-2:00-8:15
AXCN: Paprika - Satoshi Kon Wonka (PG) 12:50-4:30-8:10
Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) 7:00 2:30-5:00-7:30-10:00 3:30-6:00-6:40-8:30-9:10 Fest (R) 7:30 Scrambled (R) 12:30
The Holdovers (R) 3:30 Argylle (PG-13) 12:00-1:10-4:25- Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 12:40- Argylle (PG-13) 1:20
5:00-7:20 The Beekeeper (R) CC: 2:30- Argylle (PG-13) CC: 12:00- American Fiction (R) 1:05-3:45- 3:35-6:30-9:20 CMX Village 14 Poor Things (R) 6:00
Poor Things (R) 1:10-4:05- 5:00-8:00 The Boys in the Boat (PG-13) 6:40-7:40 6:25-9:05 1600 Village Market Boulevard Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) 1:20-
6:30-9:45 1:25-4:00-6:35 Turning Red (2022) - Pixar Regal Dulles Town Center
7:00-8:00 American Fiction (R) CC: 1:45- The Beekeeper (R) 12:05-2:50- Argylle (PG-13) 9:30 4:10-7:00
American Fiction (R) CC: 1:30- The Zone of Interest (PG-13) 5:40-8:15 Special Theatrical Engagement Silver Linings Playbook (R) 3:30 21100 Dulles Town Circle
The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 4:30-7:15 4:30-7:20-10:15 The Beekeeper (R) 1:20-3:50- (PG) CC: 11:50-5:00 Wonka (PG) 12:20-3:00-6:10 Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom Argylle (PG-13) 12:00-3:20-3:50-
1:30 Origin (PG-13) CC: 6:45 2:00-4:45-7:10 Night Swim (PG-13) 8:10 6:20-7:00-8:50-9:30 6:40-7:40
Origin (PG-13) CC: 12:20-3:45- Argylle (PG-13) 4:15-7:05 American Fiction (R) 12:50- Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya Migration (PG) 11:15-1:00-3:25- (PG-13) 6:30
Argylle (PG-13) 1:00-3:50-6:45 Turning Red (2022) - Pixar 5:45 Origin (PG-13) 1:15-4:35-7:35 6:00-9:10 5:45-6:25 Wonka (PG) 12:40-3:40 The Beekeeper (R) 1:30-4:20-
Special Theatrical Engagement Mean Girls (PG-13) 5:00 4:00-7:10 Argylle (PG-13) 1:30-4:40-7:40
American Fiction (R) 1:50- Mean Girls (PG-13) CC: 1:45- American Fiction (R) 1:30- Mean Girls (PG-13) 12:30-3:40- Dune (2021) IMAX Reissue CC: Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) 11:45- Migration (PG) 12:20-3:00-5:30 7:30
4:40-7:40 (PG) CC: 1:30-4:15 4:45-7:45-10:40 Turning Red (2022) - Pixar 11:00-2:45-6:30-10:15 2:20-4:55-7:30 Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) 1:40- American Fiction (R) 12:20-3:30
Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13) CC: 4:05-6:45 6:30 Special Theatrical Engagement
Mean Girls (PG-13) 1:40-4:30- The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes Origin (PG-13) 1:00-3:45-6:30 Anyone But You: The Valentine The Boys in the Boat (PG-13) 4:25-7:10 Mean Girls (PG-13) 1:40-4:40-
1:15-6:00 The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes (PG) 1:45-4:25
7:30 1-3 (PG) 1:30-3:00-7:30-9:00 Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13) 1-3 (PG) 1:00-5:30 Encore (R) CC: 11:30-2:15-5:00- 12:45-3:40-6:35 Argylle (PG-13) 12:10-3:30-8:00 8:00
Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) 2:00 AMC Columbia 14 Turning Red (2022) - Pixar Anyone But You: The Valentine 7:45-10:30 Poor Things (R) 7:55 The Beekeeper (R) 2:15-5:15-8:15 The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes
7:30 AXCN: Paprika - Satoshi Kon Encore (R) 1:10-3:40-6:10- 1-3 (PG) 1:10-6:50
The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 10300 Little Patuxent Parkway Special Theatrical Engagement Argylle (PG-13) 1:10 Fest (R) 7:30 Argylle (PG-13) CC: 3:30-6:45- Argylle (PG-13) 11:40AM Mean Girls (PG-13) 1:00-4:00-
4:50 Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom (PG) CC: 1:15-5:00 8:40-9:20 8:00-10:00 Jungle Bunch: Operation 7:00 Peppa's Cinema Party 1:00-3:30
Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13) Turning Red (2022) - Pixar Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13) Meltdown (Les As de la Jungle
Landmark E Street Cinema (PG-13) CC: 3:15-6:20 Table for Six 2 7:35-10:15 1:45 Special Theatrical Engagement AMC Shirlington 7 The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes Anyone But You: The Valentine
555 11th Street Northwest Wonka (PG) CC: 12:15-3:10- Anyone But You: The Valentine 2:25-6:00 2) (PG) 12:10 1-3 (PG) 12:30-6:00 Encore (R) 12:40-3:35-6:30
Landmark at (PG) 12:40-3:50-7:00 2772 South Randolph St.
6:10-9:05 Encore (R) CC: 1:45-4:30-7:15- iPic Pike & Rose The Beekeeper (R) 11:30-2:00- Argylle (PG-13) 6:45 Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13)
All Of Us Strangers (R) 1:30- Annapolis Harbour Center Anyone But You: The Valentine Migration (PG) CC: 11:15-2:50- 4:45-7:20
4:15-8:00 Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) CC: 10:05
2474 Solomons Island Road Unit H-1 Encore (R) 12:45-3:45-6:45 11830 Grand Park Avenue
5:20-7:50 Anyone But You: The Valentine 11:50-4:00-7:50
2:00-4:30-7:00-9:30 Pegasus 2 (Fei Chi Ren Sheng 2) Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) (!) AXCN: Paprika - Satoshi Kon Encore (R) 2:00-4:45-7:30 AXCN: Paprika - Satoshi Kon
Past Lives (PG-13) 3:00 American Fiction (R) 11:00-1:40- Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13) Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) CC: Fest (R) 7:40 Fest (R) 7:30
To Kill a Tiger 12:15-3:15-7:35 Poor Things (R) CC: 7:30 7:40-10:30 1:20 11:45-2:45-6:00-9:00 Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13)
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Out of Darkness (R) (!) 11:30- Mean Girls (PG-13) 1:15-4:00-
4110 West Ox Road Aquaman and The Lost King-
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5:00-8:10
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Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) 2:10- Peppa's Cinema Party 12:00-2:00 5:40-8:30 Argylle (PG-13) CC: 1:40-5:15- Anyone But You: The Valentine 1-3 (PG) 2:20-6:30
(PG-13) CC: 11:30-8:15 Meltdown (Les As de la Jungle American Fiction (R) 1:10- Encore (R) 1:35-4:15-7:00 Al Harifa (El Hareefa) 4:10-8:00 Out of Darkness (R) 1:00-3:30-
5:00-7:40-10:40 Turning Red (2022) - Pixar
Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) CC: 2) (PG) 2:10 VIRGINIA 8:30
Anyone But You: The Valentine 7:50
Scrambled (R) 9:00 Special Theatrical Engagement
11:45-2:30-5:15-7:45 Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13)
4:30-7:30 The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13) The Beekeeper (R) 12:20-3:40-
Poor Things (R) 11:50-3:10- (PG) CC: 5:00 Origin (PG-13) 1:40-5:20-8:45 AMC Courthouse Plaza 8 1-3 (PG) 3:00-7:30 2:50-6:30; 2:50-6:30 Encore (R) 1:20-4:20-7:30
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6:50-10:10 Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya Mean Girls (PG-13) 1:50-5:00- Turning Red (2022) - Pixar Cinema Arts Theatre Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13)
2:15-4:30-7:00 8:00 Wonka (PG) CC: 1:25-6:50 12:10-4:00-7:00 American Fiction (R) 2:40-
Out of Darkness (R) 1:40-4:50- 7:40-9:30 Phoenix Theatres Marlow 6 Special Theatrical Engagement 9650 Unit 14 Main St. 5:40-8:40
Dune (2021) IMAX Reissue CC: Argylle (PG-13) CC: 11:00-2:15- 3899 Branch Avenue The Chosen: Season 4 Episodes Lisa Frankenstein (PG-13) CC: Argylle (PG-13) 3:30
7:10-9:40 5:30-8:45 (PG) OC: 4:00 Driving Madeleine 12:00-5:00 Mean Girls (PG-13) 11:45-1:20-
The Zone of Interest (PG-13) 2:45-6:30-10:10 Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom 1-3 (PG) 1:00-6:00 1:00-3:00-5:30-8:00 Spider-Man: Across the Spi- The Holdovers (R) 10:05AM Regal Fox & IMAX 4:20-7:20
The Zone of Interest (PG-13) The Beekeeper (R) CC: 10:30- (PG-13) 11:05-1:45-4:30-7:35 Peppa's Cinema Party 12:10-2:10 The Boys in the Boat (PG-13) CC: der-Verse (PG) CC: 12:05-5:10 22875 Brambleton Plaza
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The Boy and the Heron (PG-13) 4:10-6:50 The Color Purple (PG-13) 7:30 Anyone But You: The Valentine 1:05-4:00-7:10 Fighter (Hindi) 3:10-6:35 1:00 Fighter (Hindi) 11:30-3:05-6:40-
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6:00-9:10 1:30-4:15-7:15 5:00-7:35 Dune (2021) Reissue (PG-13) 3:30-5:50-8:10
Argylle (PG-13) 12:40 Origin (PG-13) CC: 11:00AM 10:05 12:15-2:40-7:10 Wonka (PG) 11:15-12:20-3:20 2:50
The Sweet East 1:00-3:40-8:00- Turning Red (2022) - Pixar Argylle (PG-13) 11:30-2:30- 12:20-4:20-8:15 Argylle (PG-13) CC: 1:10-4:20-7:30 Oppenheimer (R) CC: 8:20 The Zone of Interest (PG-13) Hanuman (Hanu Man) (Telugu) Argylle (PG-13) 11:50-7:00
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Cultivating culture
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An Ivory Coast haven hosts DJs, antiques and art | F3

soPhiE garcia For thE Washington Post

Alain Kablan Porquet, founder of the Bushman Café, holds a cocoa pod in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Porquet, a former diplomat, is now a chocolatier who welcomes travelers across the world to his cafe.

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a honeymoon with friends and family? it may still be winter, but it9s time to prep Planning for the park can be so tricky, Fliers alarmed by recent issues are
it9s called a 8buddymoon.9 F2 for summer car adventures. F4 there are classes and videos to help. F5 keeping an eye out for loose screws. F6
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The new must-bring on your honeymoon?

Some of your best friends for a 8buddymoon.9
BY A MBER F ERGUSON weddings, Zac Gideo said. Nay-
la9s two sisters and six of the
Nayla and Zac Gideo jumped couple9s friends flew from Texas
on a ferry after their European to Europe for their wedding over
wedding last fall and traveled to Labor Day weekend.
Capri, Italy, where they ate spicy <People are spending their
salami pizza, hung out at wine time and money to be with you,=
bars and relaxed at resort beach he said. <You can9t just focus on
clubs. yourself.=
It was an idyllic way for the The buddymooners saw their
Texas newlyweds to celebrate the trips as a way of extending their
start of their marriage 4 but they vacation after attending a desti-
were not alone. Eleven of the nation wedding.
Gideos9 friends joined them on Vanderbilt, the relationship
the trip in a twist on traditional scientist, said buddymoons can
honeymoons that are being help couples build community
dubbed <buddymoons.= and strengthen ties with impor-
<We wanted to spend as much tant people in their lives. That9s
time with them as possible be- what Allison Wallace, 27, said
cause when are you around that happened when she was a <bud-
many people that you love in dy= during her best friend9s bud-
such a beautiful place?= Nayla, dymoon in Croatia last year.
the 28-year-old bride, said. She had traveled from Nash-
Some couples, particularly ville to Europe with 11 other
those having destination wed- people. At first, Wallace didn9t
dings, are reimagining honey- know anyone but the newlyweds.
moons. They reveal their post- But after four days of road trips,
nuptial group escapades on Ins- swimming in caves and seafood
tagram and TikTok with photos feasts, she said it felt like she9d
and videos of group hikes, all-day known everyone on the bud-
murder-mystery games, road dymoon for years.
trips and other excursions. Still, the new trend gets mixed
The trend is part of evolving reactions. Godwin said after she
wedding traditions. Reception shared posts from her bud-
staples such as bouquet tosses, dymoon on social media, some
IllustratIon by elena lacey/the WashIngton Post
tiered wedding cakes and toasts <were outraged that we did this.=
are becoming less common. Bud- Sarah Hensley, a relationship
dymoons are another way cou- coach, said she can understand
ples are shaking up tradition that response. There will always
because so many people now live
and travel together before mar-
<The initial [idea] be time for family and friends,
she said, but couples only get one
riage.
<The initial conception of a
of a honeymoon honeymoon.
<Intimate time with your new
honeymoon was a discovery
process,= relationship scientist
was a discovery spouse is so critical,= Hensley
said. There9s so much distraction
Rachel Vanderbilt, who studies
conflict in romantic relation-
process. The usually during the wedding and
you don9t get to focus on each
ships, told The Post. But today,
she added, <the honeymoon is no
honeymoon is no other as much as you like. Cou-
ples should absolutely take alone
longer that really foundational
part of starting your marriage.=
longer that really time before they merge into the
next stage of their life.=
Wedding and travel planners
say buddymoons are rare but
foundational part But not all couples are inviting
friends. Some are creating <fami-
growing in popularity. Marcy
Blume, a luxury wedding and
of starting your lymoons,= too.
Izabela Zukovic, 30, got mar-
event planner in New York, said
she plans about 10 weddings per
marriage.= ried at city hall in a small
ceremony last summer in Copen-
year and a quarter of her high- Rachel Vanderbilt, a relationship hagen. She and her husband paid
end clients tell her they are scientist who studies conflict in for their two families, 16 people
taking buddymoons, which have romantic relationships in total, to join them for a
proliferated since the global nayla chalhoub gIdeo week on their honeymoon in
pandemic. Some of that might be Nayla and Zac Gideo had a buddymoon with their friends after their wedding in Italy last year. Greece. The familymoon includ-
due to <revenge covid travel,= ed parents, siblings, nieces and
said Marisa DeSalvio, a travel nephews ranging in ages from 6
adviser. Blume said. Once the big day buddymoon was like <the com- contestants on <Bachelor in Para- break, then had a full-on vaca- to 68.
<So many people haven9t seen passes, it can leave newlyweds pleting of our wedding.= dise,= rented a big house and tion weekend,= the <Bachelor= <It wasn9t much of a celebra-
each other in years, and so now feeling lonely. Hannah Godwin, 28, had one partied on boats with 10 friends Season 23 finalist said. <We were tion of us.= Zukovic said. <It was
people could be using this as an That9s one of the reasons the of the first viral buddymoon in their Mykonos, Greece, bud- pretty tired, but it was the best more like spending time togeth-
excuse to spend more time to- Gideos decided to make their videos after her August 2023 dymoon. decision.= er.=
gether,= she said. honeymoon a buddymoon. Zac wedding in France. Godwin and <We literally went from wel- Going on a buddymoon is also Now, she said, they hope to
Couples also spend months or Gideo, 29, said while their nup- her husband, Dylan Barbour, come party, to rehearsal dinner, a way to thank guests who travel make the familymoon an annual
longer planning a wedding, tials will always stand out, their whom she met when they were then wedding day, had a one-day long distances for destination event.

Airlines and hotels are courting sober travelers with nonalcoholic options
Zero-proof cocktails are popping up on menus as more people choose to go booze-free or even do a 8dry-tripping9 detox
BY C HRIS D ONG nonalcoholic drinks.=
As for the future of the booze-
Mindful drinking or sober free category? It9s bright, accord-
curiosity isn9t new. However, ing to Jaroschy and his Unfil-
what9s different now is a social tered Hospitality team. <What
acceptance 4 some might even started as a few nonalcoholic
call it a societal embrace 4 of base 8spirits9 has expanded to
no- or low-alcohol products include all sorts of fun aperitivos,
available for travelers on menus amaros and cordials. This opens
in the air and on the ground. As up the toolbox for alcohol-free
a nondrinker myself, it wasn9t options in a wider range of
long ago that ordering a zero- styles.=
proof beverage at a hotel bar
often drew the ire of the bar- chris dong is a freelance travel
tender. writer and credit card points expert
Although there have always based in los angeles. you can follow
been travelers who eschew alco- him on Instagram: @thechrisflyer.
hol for a variety of reasons 4
perhaps because of an allergy,
religious observance or health 4
the growing <booze-free= move-
leFt: alaska aIrlInes; rIght: chrIs dong
ment has extended into tourism, TRa V e l
often as part of a larger trend Alaska Airlines serves Best Day Brewing Kölsch, left, and JetBlue has Mint (Under One) Condition 4 both nonalcoholic beverages.
toward wellness.
Travel booking site Expedia From the airport lounge to provide customers with an on- amenity, like an onboard snack. New York City in the fall, with ð get our newsletter every
said in its annual travel trend the sky& board experience customized to Similarly, Delta Air Lines elite upcoming locations slated for thursday: washingtonpost.com/
report that more than 40 per- On a global scale, cultural and their needs and preferences.= members who receive drink Louisville, Nashville and Ra- newsletters/by-the-way
cent of travelers are likely to religious norms often dictate Besides having Athletic Brew- voucher coupons, each good for leigh, N.C., in the coming ý read us online:
book a detox trip in the next drink menus onboard flights, ing Company9s nonalcoholic Up- one alcoholic beverage, can9t re- months. Hilton is leaning into washingtonpost.com/travel
year, coining the term <dry-trip- including the availability of dedi- side Dawn Golden Ale as an deem them for another booze- the trend that travelers will pivot ð Follow us on Instagram:
ping= to describe the fashion. cated mocktails (or in the case of option in-flight, the Long Island free perk. between alcoholic and nonalco- @bytheway
And because of it, many airlines like Saudi Arabia9s Jed- City, N.Y.-based airline also pro- holic drinks. <We are providing To respond to one of our
brands within the travel space dah-based Saudia, no alcohol at vides a mocktail version of its & and back down on the an uncompromised food and
ground articles: email
are making significant invest- all). popular business-class drink, the beverage experience to our travel@washpost.com,
ments to be more inclusive. Both Emirates and Qatar Air- Mint Condition. On the ground, hotels are guests regardless of routines or call 202-334-7750 or write:
<As recently as five years ago, ways offer a selection of booze- In December, Alaska Airlines expanding their nonalcoholic regimens,= says Adam Crocini,
Washington Post travel section,
this approach might not have free drinks in business and first also debuted a nonalcoholic beer, options. senior vice president and global
been standard practice,= says class, such as a Virgin Cucumber from Best Day Brewing, a San Hyatt launched a program in head of food and beverage 1301 k st. nW Washington, d.c.
Gui Jaroschy, founder of Unfil- Gimlet (on Emirates) or the So Francisco Bay Area craft brewer. late 2021 dubbed <Zero Proof, brands at Hilton. 20071.
tered Hospitality, a bar consul- Jennie, a nonalcoholic cham- The carrier says it9s <the first Zero Judgment= to bring dedicat- Often, however, shifting atti-
tancy firm. pagne (on Qatar) that retails for nonalcoholic beverage to join ed zero-proof beverages to select tudes and change come at the editor: amanda Finnegan
A wide variety of companies, about $50 a bottle. Meanwhile, Alaska9s premium beverage line- Andaz and Thompson properties property level 4 and directly Deputy editor: gabe hiatt
from hotel chains (the Stan- the signature drink on Hong up.= The Kölsch-style beer is across its U.S. portfolio. Mean- from guest feedback. The Four art directors: katty huertas,
dard) to cruise lines (Virgin Kong-based Cathay Pacific is the complimentary in premium cab- while, Hilton is taking the dry Seasons Peninsula Papagayo in elena lacey
Voyages) and even airport Cathay Delight, a blend of kiwi, ins and available for purchase in movement one step further. One Costa Rica, for instance, offers a Photo editor: lauren bulbin
lounges (Capital One), hire Jaro- coconut milk and fresh mint 4 a economy. of Hilton9s newest brands, Tempo whopping 21 mocktail options Staff writers: natalie b. compton,
schy and his team to ensure bar personal favorite. However, airlines have some by Hilton, offers a bar menu with across six food and beverage heidi Pérez-Moreno, andrea sachs,
programming is up to par for More recently, however, air- room to improve their drinking both <Spirited= and <Free-Spirit- outlets. The need to come up hannah sampson
<evolving customer needs.= That lines closer to home have dou- inclusivity efforts, too. For in- ed= cocktails. All nonalcoholic with new offerings came from Copy editor: rachael bolek
means crafting three to four bled down on their zero-proof stance, while purchasing an ex- drinks are designed to mimic guests themselves, says Francis- editorial aide: olivia Mccormack
nonalcoholic cocktails and a offerings. Last May, JetBlue Air- tra-legroom seat on a U.S. carrier those made with alcohol, and co Ribeiro, the property9s direc- Travel advertising: ron ulrich,
selection of nonalcoholic spirits ways became the first U.S. carrier often comes with an alcoholic Hilton has made this program a tor of food and beverage. <We 202-334-5289,
as the new standard for drink to offer a nonalcoholic beer as beverage, that perk usually can9t brand standard. saw an increase in our guests9 ronald.ulrich@washpost.com
menus, says Jaroschy. part of a <continued effort to be traded, for say, another paid The first Tempo debuted in wanting different options for
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CLOCKWISE FROM FAR

LEFT: A worker prepares
cashew nuts coated with
chocolate in the kitchen of the
Bushman Café in Ivory Coast.
The Bushman Café has a
rooftop restaurant space. Alain
Kablan Porquet, the cafe9s
founder, touches dry cocoa
beans. Porquet is one of the first
chocolatiers in Africa to use the
<Anima method,= created by a
Dutch cocoa researcher. Each
room at the cafe, such as
Room 8, has its unique
decoration, chosen by Porquet.

phoToS by Sophie garcia for The WaShingTon poST

The Bushman Café9s rooftop is a place for congregating and sharing ideas.

A home for creatives, culture and

chocolate in West Africa
The Bushman Café is a vibrant refuge in Ivory Coast for those who appreciate art. But if you visit, bring your sweet tooth.

BY S OPHIE G ARCIA of the syncretism of my travels, my encounters, The cafe menu features large dishes served in Ivorians to imitate him. <We must fill this historical
places that I love, with volumes, patina and banana leaves with alloco, attieke and sweet gap,= Porquet said. Instead of Ivory Coast being a
If you9re in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, you may miss a experience lived.= Now a two-story building, the potatoes to accompany chicken <Gaou.= They were resource for wealthier nations, he wants it as a
discreet entrance shrouded by local vegetation, location hosts tourists and passing visitors, provid- created by Chef Yacou. Porquet says that the dishes partner and a member of the international conver-
which hides a giant red door. It9s the entrance to the ing refuge to those who live on-site. feature local products and produce. At least once a sation in luxury goods, art and food.
Bushman Café, a multiuse space with a rooftop In the Bushman Café, there9s an inexhaustible week, a local blues band plays live, and DJ Yo Gio Porquet plans to build a fermentation unit in fall
restaurant, cafe and an eight-room guesthouse. But inventory of antiques, sculptures, designer lamps gets the party going with amapiano, hip-hop and 2024 in Ivory Coast to produce more than 100
people rarely come just to stay, eat and drink. and art. A calabash of piles of white stones and afro-house music. tonnes of fine cocoa, which he plans to sell largely as
The location is a gathering place of diverse plants, each room has its own decor, which Porquet If you visit Bushman, come with your sweet tooth a bulk supply for chocolatiers in Africa and
travelers from across the world who are looking for does himself. But most special is Room 5, trans- because Porquet devotes most of his time to elsewhere. Belgian chocolatiers recently came to
local art, history and storytelling. <It9s like an Ali formed with the artistic directors of the Art Comes creating his own brand of fine chocolate, Bushman the Bushman Café to establish a franchise to sell
Baba9s Cave of artworks= says DJ Praktika, a close First collective, Sam Lambert and Shaka Maido. Cocoaïan. Much like the curation of his communal their fine chocolate in Brussels. <It9s a paradigm
friend of the founder, Alain Kablan Porquet. <Room 5 is the punk part. She9s dark. She9s black. space, he treats cocoa like curating art. He selects shift,= Porquet said.
Porquet has created a haven reminiscent of a living I love black color,= Porquet says. Cloaked by black carefully to bring out the best. To establish Bushman as a premier location for
museum while also trying to revolutionize Ivory lace, the room features a four-poster bed, with a During his research on cocoa, Porquet wrote to chocolate, he brought together many in the cocoa
Coast9s chocolate industry. variation of the painting <Origin of the World= by Dutch cocoa researcher Albertus Eskes and discov- sector to create a competition for the best fine
Porquet, 51, is the son of Ivorian poet Niangoran Gustave Courbet hanging above it. Once the room ered he has his own fermentation method. A chocolate, specifically from Africa. The first World
Porquet and Jeannette Koudou (sister of former was finished, Nigerian singer-songwriter and gui- friendship began, and Eskes stayed for two months Chocolate Initiative Competition will be held in
Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo). He began his tarist Keziah Jones made it his. at the Bushman Café working with Porquet. 2024, and it will aim to challenge the production
career working in the banking sector but found The guesthouse is far from a classic hotel. The Eskes helped Porquet to select the best fine cocoa standards of European chocolate.
himself unchallenged and disconnected. Porquet place hosts concerts and one-man shows and often varieties directly from cocoa fields in Central-West Sitting outside the Bushman on his favorite
later left banking to work in humanitarian aid and has people gathering in common areas. The propri- Ivory Coast, and showed him his <Anima= method, bench, Porquet recalls one of his personal mottos
then joined the diplomatic corps. Once working in etors ask guests to be patient, explaining that there9s which transforms bulk, standard quality cocoa into after telling a visitor to leave with a young cocoa
locations such as Geneva and New York, he longed a need for this vibrant cultural space in Ivory Coast. fine cocoa, without resorting to <Dutching.= The shoot. <Create, mark your time, mark your life and
for Ivory Coast. By the end of 2012, he returned to An 80-year-old New Yorker, Betty, who had been process, used by the Western chocolate industry, the lives of others.=
Abidjan to turn what was once cheap and undevel- traveling alone to West Africa since February 2023, reduces the bitterness, but with it, according to
oped land into a place for creatives in the Riviera 4 said Ghanaian friends recommended the Bushman Eskes, antioxidants and flavors disappear. Sophie garcia is a photojournalist formerly based in
district. Café to her. <For an artist or a person who Africa supplies 70 percent of the world9s cocoa burkina faso. She works between abidjan, paris and
<At the beginning, it was a house for me 4 to appreciates arts, this is the place to go, and the food beans. Porquet9s approach aims to produce the best Dakar. you can follow her on instagram at:
receive my friends.= Porquet explains. <It9s the sum is outstanding= she says. fine cocoa locally, but also to persuade other @sgarcia_photo.
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IlluSTrATIon By hunTer French For The WAShIngTon PoST

You should be planning your summer road trip now

Getting prepared for sunnier days helps reduce future stress while ensuring you9re ready for potential hazards
BY E MILY E DWARDS to electronics.
Even if you9re not sleeping in
In these cold, dark days, a sum- your vehicle or camping, you9ll
mer road trip might be the fur- probably be spending a few days
thest thing from your mind. With- at a time in the car. A cooler, a large
out the need to book a flight or water jug and items for prepping
coordinate other transportation, and storing food are essential for
it9s easy to rely on spontaneity for even one long day on the road.
a last-minute escape once the Be sure to stock up on house-
weather warms up. The beauty of hold items: a small trash can and
a road trip is its structured free- bags, tissues, baby wipes and a
dom: You can do anything you first aid kit are all good to keep on
want, just as long as you are will- hand.
ing and able to drive.
But pushing off your planning 4. Check your vehicle
until sunnier days could affect Don9t forget about a checklist
your vacation down the road. In- for your wheels. A tire pressure
vesting a little time now will go a gauge, jumper cables and a road-
long way toward making the most side tool kit can all come in handy,
out of your summer. even if you9re driving someone
else9s car. And always keep a paper
1. Map your route atlas on hand in case you9re out of
If plotting a course feels daunt- cell service range.
ing, start by clustering destina- ISTock TrAcy BArBuTeS For The WAShIngTon PoST Beyond the typical under-the-
tions that will you give you some- A woman walks on a trail in Big Bend National Park in Texas. Visitors walk along water in California9s Yosemite National Park. hood checks 4 oil, transmission
thing concrete to plan around. fluid, coolant, washer fluid and
Depending on the number of days tractions along these well-tread time to research lesser-known before booking, most park reser- enter. To the National Park Serv- brake fluid 4 be sure to check
you expect to be gone, you can add routes. sights and dig for local sugges- vations open six months in ad- ice9s credit, these required dates your lightbulbs and brake reactiv-
or remove stops along the way. Search for geotags along the tions. By the time you hit the road, vance. cluster around the most popular ity, even in rentals. Spending
For example, a trip through route for crowdsourced advice on you9ll have the confidence to make Most National Parks reserve a weeks and holidays, and there are hours on the road can decrease
three national parks in New Mexi- what to visit while you pass quick (but informed) decisions. few spots per campground as a usually exceptions, like entering a your focus and reaction time, so
co and Texas 4 White Sands, through. Use hiking apps like All first-come, first-serve option. park before 5 a.m., that still allow ensure that the vehicle you9ve cho-
Carlsbad Caverns and Guadalupe Trails to explore what nature rec- 2. Make reservations at They can be impossible to predict, for some flexibility if you can9t sen will be a safe and comfortable
Mountains 4 could be knocked ommendations people have be- national parks so do not rely on their availability score a reservation in time. option.
out in a long weekend. Tack on Big sides national park suggestions. While reserving a spot inside a if you are set on camping inside The biggest investment to
Bend National Park for an addi- Start following accounts of blog- national park isn9t the only way to the park. Note that reservations 3. Buy gear on sale make in your pre-road trip vehicle
tional few days to account for the gers or local experts who post camp near popular nature sites, it often become available at 8 a.m. in January is a great time to take is a new set of tires, especially if
extra mileage and time to explore. about the areas you9re visiting. To is well worth the foresight if you the time zone of that park. Permits advantage of post-holiday and you tend to drive only in the city. If
A classic way to plan a road trip keep yourself from overcommit- can book a few nights ahead of for popular hikes and activities end-of-year sales before summer you9re planning on driving or pull-
is to follow one of America9s best- ting, keep a list of these potential time. also become available at this time gear starts hitting the shelves. ing a camper, van or RV and have
known vacation drives, like Route food, entertainment and nature Every park has its own schedule at recreation.gov. A backpack with a bladder, been putting off upgrading your
66, the Pacific Coast Highway, or stops along the way to reference of openings, reservation require- Timed entry reservations will good walking or hiking shoes, tires, consider buying tires with a
the Lewis and Clark Expedition when you need options. ments and campsite availability, still be required at a handful of and sun protection are all impor- longer tread life or thicker tread
Trail. Though they may seem cli- Whether you9re planning to fol- so the best advice is to closely popular parks during the peak tant regardless of how much for more diverse terrain.
ché, these drives are still famous low a well-known path or keep a track a few parks for announce- summer months: Yosemite, Arch- outdoor activity you9re planning.
for a reason: They capture the looser schedule, try to become ments. While some national parks es, Zion, Glacier, Rocky Mountain, It9s not just the outdoor gear to emily edwards is a writer based in
history of America. You can use familiar with your major way- save a portion of their campsite and Haleakala National Parks will keep an eye on 4 road trip essen- Atlanta. Follow her on Instagram
social media to find modern at- points by April. This will give you reservations to be released a week all require some reservation to tials range from storage options @em_inavan.

The Upgrade

Don9t feel guilty about staying in bed and renting that expensive hotel movie
BY B LAKE T URCK the exploration of the great out-
doors, but about finding luxuries
To submit a travel hack to The that you wouldn9t typically enjoy
Upgrade, visit wapo.st/upgrade. in ordinary life.
On a recent annual holiday There9s an underappreciated
staycation in Brooklyn with my
husband and our goldendoodle, If vacation is comfort in indulging in a movie
in a bed that isn9t your own, in a
we feasted on Peter Luger burg-
ers and watched the holiday all about fashion that9s not typical, with-
out worrying about the daily
classic <Elf = all without leaving
our room. People9s best vacation treating yourself, responsibilities of normal life.
Perhaps on a premium channel,
memories are usually what oc-
curs on the other side of the door, what9s a while wearing a hotel robe and
basking on a luxurious, white
I get it. But some of my most
memorable travels are inextrica- bigger treat bed with the extra fluffy pillows.
It9s a singular experience, differ-
bly linked to staying in and
watching a movie. than staying ent from home and unlike a
movie theater 4 even ones that
I recall one from almost every
trip I9ve taken. During a weekend in with offer in-dining options. To me,
room service and a movie are the
in Mexico with my mom when I
was 18, I was angsty over missing room service perfect duo.
Excursions and adventure
my boyfriend. We found <Break-
fast at Tiffany9s= on TV and and a movie? guides aren9t the only way to
immerse yourself in a new locale.
watched it cuddled up close to- Disappearing into a film can be
gether from a small Cozumel its own adventure. A short es-
hotel. cape in the midst of a bigger
It may not be a popular option, escape.
but there is an underrated joy to Staying still, surrendering to
IlluSTrATIon By MIn heo For The WAShIngTon PoST
be found in this activity. Both my time, relaxation, and the con-
husband and I are film buffs, and stant need continually put upon
early on, cinema was one of our in London inside. We devoured initial night when we essentially 3 a.m., warm from celebratory if I tried. ourselves to stay busy isn9t just a
love languages. In 2012, almost a fish and chips from our fancy did nothing. red wine, and turned on the TV The thought of opting to re- release of pure bliss. It9s also a
year into our relationship, we hotel room as we watched the Five years later, we wandered for background noise. Instead, main in the confines of a room healthy choice with real benefits,
took our first overseas trip to- terrible Dane Cook comedy, the streets of Paris on our honey- we stumbled upon the 1979 Ger- rental may sound unfathomable and one I urge everyone to try on
gether. It was the first time I9d <Good Luck Chuck.= When we moon and explored tiny corners man film <The Tin Drum= and 4 that9s not the point of travel, their next vacation.
ever traveled with a boyfriend 4 reflect on that vacation 11 years of the city. Despite each special became so engrossed in it we right? It9s about maximizing ev-
or man that wasn9t my father. later, we don9t talk about Buck- discovery, I affectionately hold stayed up for two more hours ery moment while away. But Blake Turck is a freelance writer
Upon our arrival, however, he felt ingham Palace or the London space for a quieter moment. The entranced in every subtitled maybe taking a vacation 4 no based in new york city. you can
sick and we spent our first night Bridge as much as we do that night we returned to our suite at word. I couldn9t forget the movie matter where 4 isn9t solely about follow her on X at @styleisland.
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Disney trips are so complicated now that you

need a class to plan one
YouTube videos, TikToks, Zoom classes and 200-page guides are here to help people who are overwhelmed by 8the Most Magical Place on Earth9

BY H ANNAH S AMPSON PlanDisney.

<We know everyone vacations
ob Kayris and his family differently, and with hundreds of

R of six were <dumping a

boatload of money= into a
Disney trip last year and
wanted to make the most of it. So a
few months before the vacation,
iconic Disney attractions and ex-
periences to enjoy at Walt Disney
World, we are listening to our
guests and giving them many
choices and ways to personalize
they took a class about the new their visit to meet their unique
ride reservation system, Genie needs,= Disney World spokeswom-
Plus. an Jacquee Wahler said in a state-
Then right before the trip in ment.
February, they took it again. In a blog post last year, the
<I feel like if you don9t know company acknowledged that
how it works, you9re going to guests want to use the Genie Plus
waste probably two to three days service to plan their days in ad-
before you have a grip on what9s vance of a park visit, not just in
what,= said Kayris, a copy machine real time 4 and said that may be
salesman who lives outside Phila- possible in 2024.
delphia. <Our goal is to give you the op-
Disney has always been a para- portunity to spend less time plan-
dise for planners 4 or nightmare ning in the park and more time
for the disorganized. When is the enjoying your visit with friends
best time to go? How can we save and family,= the blog post said.
money? Is it possible to avoid long
lines? Tips from the experts
David Semanoff, a public rela- Mickelson likes to visit the
tions firm owner who has been parks in late August and Septem-
visiting Disney parks since he was ber, when kids are back in school
an infant, distributes a 10-page and crowds are more manage-
primer to friends with tips on able. <You kind of exchange the
rides, dining, character interac- heat for the crowd level,= she said.
tion and what to do if it rains (<get She plans for midday breaks and
your ponchos and go to the rest days that let her family take
park!=). Reactions to his advice advantage of non-park offerings
can be mixed. at the resorts.
<I think some are already so illuSTrATion bY KATTY huerTAS/The WAShinGTon PoST; iSToCK Her biggest tips are to under-
overwhelmed at the idea of the stand the geography of the parks
trip,= he said. more transparency about the and learn to ignore Disney FOMO
Travel agents, YouTubers, influ- price. At Disneyland, the price (fear of missing out). When book-
encers, bloggers, friends-
with-experience, Disney experts
<I think the thing varies but starts at $30. At Walt
Disney World, prices change ac-
ing Genie Plus, she said it9s impor-
tant to know which rides sell
and paid services like Touring
Plans have filled the knowledge
that people have cording to the day and park; on
Tuesday, for example, the service
out quickly, start with the high-
demand one your family wants
gap and helped frazzled families
figure out their dream vacation
the hardest time cost $17 at Animal Kingdom and
up to $27 at Magic Kingdom or for
and then tackle other attractions
in the same area.
even as the cost has soared. Some
visitors turn to VIP tours that cost
wrapping their multiple parks. The price reached
$39 at Magic Kingdom around
<With Genie Plus, we have nev-
er zigzagged across the park,= she
between $450 and $900 an hour,
plus park admission. Others have
brain around is Christmas, according to Disney
Tourist Blog.
said.
Murphy recommends that
used the service of independent
guides, a practice Disney has been
not knowing how <I think the thing that people
have the hardest time wrapping
guests bring an extra power bank
or cellphone charger when they
cracking down on.
The pandemic added a new lay-
much it costs in their brain around is not knowing
how much it costs in advance,=
go to the parks because they9ll
spend so much time on their
er of complications, though some
of the biggest pain points 4 such
advance.= Murphy said.
David Gordon, a theater jour-
phones. She also suggests people
<play around= with the My Disney
as the need to make reservations ThomAS SimoneTTi For The WAShinGTon PoST
Jacquie Murphy, a travel planner nalist in New York City whose wife Experience app in advance of a
and restrictions on when guests with Kingdom elite Travel Guests ride the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train at Disney World9s Magic works for a Disney subsidiary and trip to Walt Disney World to get
could hop from park to park 4 Kingdom in Florida. gets free tickets, has purchased a familiar with all the features.
went away last month in Florida. $25 quick entry 4 an individual On the day of a Disney World
Then came a fresh upheaval: In- clature of a Disney World trip can nie+, and Lightning Lane Tip & <There is a therapeutic touch Lightning Lane 4 to ride a Star visit, Murphy suggests a triage
stead of the old, free-to-use ride- befuddle. Lightning lanes let you Tricks Facebook Group in 2021 4 woven into everything,= she said. Wars ride on a trip to Disneyland. approach starting at 7 a.m. sharp:
reservation system, the company bypass longer standby lines to get which has more than 200,000 The mom of four kids between And his family used Genie Plus First, join a virtual queue to get
introduced one that costs money, faster entry to a ride. Genie Plus is members now. After several the ages of 3 and 12 created a over the Christmas holiday at Walt on the hottest new rides without
requires early wake-ups and the way you get access 4 unless months, she decided to launch an <Magic Made Easy= course for Disney World to avoid lines for paying extra. Next, use the Genie
drains cellphone battery life. The you9ve paid for an individual light- interactive online class, which $139 as well as shorter free park rides with his young daughter, Plus service (which can be pur-
2021 introduction of Genie Plus, ning lane, which is only available costs $39. guides, a YouTube channel, pod- which he called an <absolute game chased as early as midnight) to
which mobilizes vacationers to re- for certain rides and doesn9t re- <It9s kind of a mixture of a Zoom cast, blog and social media ac- changer.= choose the first attraction you9ll
serve rides starting at 7 a.m. and quire Genie Plus. Those can be and like a remote college class,= counts. Mickelson is not a travel He said he understands Disney hit 4 ideally one that books up
then throughout the day, turned booked at 7 a.m. for resort guests said Andrade, who is based in agent 4 she doesn9t book trips for is trying to get people to use its quickly. Finally, for those staying
vacation organization into a near- and at park opening time for ev- Pittsburgh. <We9ve got a little pop anyone 4 but includes tips on apps. But many parks fans don9t on Disney property, snag up to
competitive sport. And it created a eryone else. Virtual queues for the quiz built in.= choosing an agent, sample itiner- want to view their trip through a two individual lightning lanes.
new lane for tipsters, content cre- newest, hottest rides are free, but Planning forums are full of aries, Disney apps and what hap- small screen. Everyone else has to wait for the
ators, travel advisers and savvy they also open for booking at stressed-out newcomers trying to pens when everything goes wrong. <It9s the one time in my life park to open to reserve those
regulars. 7 a.m. and often fill up quickly. decipher a virtual queue from a <Then I talk about realistic ex- where I want to be looking around slots.
One of those is Brooke Ray- Got all that? lightning lane, and worrying pectations, which is the therapist and taking in all the sights and Semanoff 9s No. 1 tip is to book a
bould, a social media content cre- <I knew it would be complicat- about what happens if the tech- in me,= she said. smelling the flowers,= he said. room at a Disney resort. He said
ator who sells a 200-page digital ed, but I don9t think I could have nology glitches out 4 as technol- She likes her family trips to be <The fact that you have to be so it9s worth the splurge if for no
<Mom9s Guide to Disney World= for imagined the Disney-industrial ogy often does. low-key and flexible with a mix of tethered to your app that you other reason than being able to
$40. Her TikTok on her family9s complex was this complicated,= <I9ve had people call me cry- parks, hotels and other activities. should probably bring an extra pay for a spot on the most popular
early-morning approach to tack- Theresa Brown, a New York City ing,= said Jacquie Murphy, a Still, her husband, Jerod, can9t battery just to make sure you get rides at 7 a.m. Plus, he said, stay-
ling the Magic Kingdom featuring resident who took a family trip to Wilmington, N.C.-based travel help but engage in a modern-day on the one ride you want to get on ing on property keeps <the whole
a 7:20 a.m. arrival at the park with Disney World in August, said in an planner with Kingdom Elite Trav- Disney activity: testing the WiFi is shortchanging the whole Dis- vibe alive= and lets guests avoid
her four sons 4 went viral last year. email. <The sheer brain power just el. Jessica Mickelson, 39, worked speed before 7 a.m. to make sure ney experience.= morning traffic jams.
<There9s an entire system to do- to figure out the Disney lingo and for years as a family therapist and they have a strong connection to Disney has said it is taking cus- His recommendations wrap up
ing Disney World the right way,= landscape is monumental.= now applies those skills to her book reservations right on time. tomer feedback into consider- with perhaps the most challeng-
she said. Kirsten Andrade, a concierge Disney planning business, Well ation and has made some Genie ing tip to follow: <Remember to
travel planner for Favorite Hello Magic. Her tagline is <mini- A costly, time-consuming perk Plus changes. The company creat- have fun! It can be stressful and
Learning the lingo Grampy Travels, saw that need mizing parental stress at the Dis- Murphy sees the value in Genie ed its own team of advice-givers in annoying, so remember to
For the average Joe, the nomen- when she created the Genie, Ge- ney parks.= Plus, but she wishes visitors had 2008, now an online forum called breathe and enjoy.=

U.S. urges travelers to reconsider visiting Jamaica amid spike in violence

BY C OLLEEN G RABLICK 65 murders in the first month of vised to avoid walking or driving
2024, down from 81 during that at night, taking public buses and
U.S. officials are asking visitors same period in 2023. Instances of going to secluded areas. Rogers
to <reconsider travel= to Jamaica sexual assault have also declined. recommended sticking to well-
because of increased crime in the However, rates of shootings, peo- trafficked tourist areas and being
nation. ple injured and robberies have aware of one9s surroundings.
The State Department escalat- increased since this time last year. The office of Prime Minister
ed its warning for Jamaica to a Michael Rogers, a senior intelli- Andrew Holness did not immedi-
Level 3 travel advisory late last gence director at travel security ately respond to The Washington
month, which the U.S. Embassy in firm International SOS, said that Post9s request for comment on the
Jamaica reinforced Feb. 1. An em- travelers should take State De- U.S. advisory. This month, Hol-
bassy statement said violent partment warnings seriously but ness announced that the Jamai-
crimes 4 including armed robber- that violent crime is not primarily can government is taking <stra-
ies, sexual assaults and homicides impacting travelers. In the Baha- tegic and definitive= measures to
4 are common, and it specifically mas, officials said, most of the grow its tourism sector, which
claimed that <sexual assaults oc- violent crime is gang-related, and constitutes about 34 percent of the
cur frequently, including at all-in- none of this year9s killings have country9s economic output and
clusive resorts.= targeted tourists. employs 31 percent of its work-
Officials recently issued a simi- <Importantly, it is not the kind force, according to the Inter-
lar warning for the Bahamas be- of issue that we are seeing directly American Development Bank.
cause of a spate of murders at the affect travelers,= Rogers said, add- In a statement issued by his
beginning of the year, many of ing that visitors are more likely to office earlier this month, the
them gang-related, according to encounter petty crimes, such as prime minister appealed to pro-
AnGelA WeiSS/AFP/GeTTY imAGeS
officials. The Bahamas warning is theft. <From our perspective, we spective tourists. <Come to Jamai-
a Level 2 advisory, meaning visi- would more likely encourage our A Jamaica Constabulary Force officer stands guard in Kingston. The State Department escalated its ca,= he said, <to experience a peo-
tors should <exercise increased clients to, rather than avoid travel, warning for Jamaica to a Level 3 travel advisory. ple who have experienced hard-
caution.= A Level 3 advisory, in the instead to travel safely, or travel ship, who have suffered, but who
State Department9s ranking sys- smartly. We9re not necessarily see- response to spikes in violence. U.S. citizens killed in accidents or able or provide the level of care have conquered. That has a deep
tem, communicates an elevated ing this affect resort properties or In the advisory, U.S. officials homicides frequently wait a year needed. history. That has more to offer to
risk and asks people to reconsider anything of that nature.= also said that local police and or more for final death certificates Medical treatment abroad humanity than just sun, sea, and
their travel plans altogether. Rogers added that violent crime emergency services personnel do to be issued by Jamaican authori- could be expensive, as U.S. health sand.= Those things, he said, <must
The U.S. travel advisory for Ja- isn9t a new issue in Jamaica, and it not <respond effectively= to seri- ties.= insurance (including Medicaid be the essence of our tourism.=
maica was also escalated to Level 3 can be more prevalent in some ous crimes. <When arrests are The notice further warned visi- and Medicare) is not valid over-
in May because of crime. areas than others. Officials in Ja- made, cases are infrequently pros- tors that, should an emergency seas. Those who decide to travel Colleen Grablick is a writer based in
According to the Jamaica Con- maica previously have declared ecuted to a conclusive sentence,= occur, ambulance service and hos- are encouraged to obtain travel- D.C. You can follow her on X at:
stabulary Force, officials recorded regional states of emergency in the statement said. <Families of pital care may not be readily avail- er9s insurance. They also are ad- @colleengrablick.
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Flight emergencies have turned some

fliers into armchair investigators
Passengers are on high alert, tracking flight paths, spotting missing bolts and checking which airplane they might be on

illUsTRATion by MeRediTh MioTke foR The WAshingTon PosT

BY HANNAH SAMPSON details on what is allowed are spelled out

AND EDWARD RUSSELL in a minimum equipment list and config-
<If anything, it puts the passenger at ease and they9re uration deviation list. But still, Horning

S
ocial media is full of complaints said, it makes sense for a flight crew or
from airline passengers 4 dirty
seats, barefoot neighbors, reclin-
not going on a flight for umpteen hours and thinking part maintenance workers to pay attention 4
even if it just means doing a quick visual
ing chairs, waiting for hours on
the tarmac. But sometimes, they
of the wing might come falling off.= inspection 4 if a passenger does flag
something that concerns them.
take on a more nervous tone. Charles Horning, an associate professor in the aviation maintenance <If anything, it puts the passenger at
What is that strange noise? Is that science department at embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, ease and they9re not going on a flight for
smoke? Why is someone putting tape on said about the flight crew inspecting something a passenger says is concerning umpteen hours and thinking part of the
the plane? Are screws missing on that wing might come falling off,= he said.
wing?
While a <see something, say some- Avoiding the Max 9 altogether
thing= approach to terror threats has celed after a British passenger noticed good once-over to make sure there were 8If I9m willing to fly this plane, I9m Daniel Rodriguez was on his way to
been the norm for decades, travelers missing screws. Traveler Phil Hardy, 41, not missing bolts or engines hanging willing to put my family on it9 explore Medellín, Colombia, last month.
often raise the alarm for anything they told Kennedy News and Media agency precariously by a couple of flimsy wires.= Planes are checked for issues before He was flying on Copa Airlines and took
find out of the ordinary. That9s especially that he took photos and alerted a flight every flight. That includes a visual check, the time to check the type of plane he was
true in the wake of the Alaska Airlines attendant after spotting the issue during Flight disasters are still rare or walkaround, by one of the pilots as flying on to avoid any disruption from the
incident on Jan. 5, when a door plug blew the safety briefing, all the while thinking <It9s natural and understandable why well as system checks mandated by the grounding of most Boeing 737 Max 9 jets,
off a Boeing 737 Max 9. of the Alaska Airlines incident. passengers would be concerned,= said numerous checklists that govern flying a which lasted about three weeks.
Though all 177 passengers and crew <This was definitely at the forefront of Hassan Shahidi, the president and CEO commercial airliner. Everything was on schedule until he
survived, the incident has renewed con- my mind, and I9ve watched enough crash of the Flight Safety Foundation, a non- Any potential maintenance issue must showed up at the Copa desk at Chicago9s
cerns about the safety of 737 Max aircraft. investigations to know it doesn9t take a profit that provides safety guidance to be fixed or, if it is not critical, can be O9Hare International Airport. There he
The airliner was grounded in 2019 for lot to bring down a plane and I started to the aviation industry. deferred for a limited period. Deferred found out that his flight to Panama City,
nearly two years after two fatal Max 8 get a bit more worried,= he said. <But we today in the United States maintenance events occur on more than where he would transfer to another flight
crashes in Ethiopia and Indonesia that Despite assurances from the airline have a very safe air transportation sys- half of flights, said several pilots for to Medellín, was canceled because the
killed 346 people. that there was no problem with the wing, tem,= he continued. <We have thousands major airlines who spoke on the condi- airline needed his plane elsewhere be-
The National Transportation Safety Hardy said his partner, Magdalena Bo- of flights that takeoff and land everyday tion of anonymity because they were not cause of the Max 9 grounding.
Board is investigating the Alaska inci- busia, was starting to panic. The couple without any incidents.= authorized to speak publicly. And, on <Even though I wasn9t going to take a
dent and has focused on whether key was able to head to New York for their The last fatal crash of a commercial longer flights over water, like to Hawaii Max 9, what I should have thought more
bolts designed to hold the door in place vacation the next morning after their airliner in the United States was in 2009, or Europe, planes cannot have any de- of was whether that issue was going to
were properly installed. And while the flight was canceled, leaving at 4:30 a.m. a Continental Connection flight operated ferred maintenance items. roll downstream and affect other flights,=
independent agency has yet to release its for the first leg. by Colgan Air that killed 50 near Buffalo. <If I9m willing to fly this plane, I9m Rodriguez said. He ended up calling the
preliminary findings, the Federal Avia- <The thought of the screws was at the The fatal accident rate in the United willing to put my family on it,= one pilot at airline and rebooking his trip for March.
tion Administration has already forefront of my mind but because it was States was 0.006 for every 100,000 flight a major airline said he tells any passenger Since that trip, Rodriguez, who works
launched an audit of Boeing 737 Max pitch black on the flight, I couldn9t see hours from 2001-2017, according to NTSB who voices safety concerns. Asked how at a health-care organization and travels
production line and increased scrutiny anything, which was probably for the data. There were 53,081 flight hours per often they encounter a deferred mainte- about every three weeks, said he regular-
of the plane maker. best,= he said. day in the United States during the nance item, they estimated about half of ly checks what kind of plane he9s flying on
But all the talk of loose or missing bolts The airline and manufacturer, Airbus, period. the time. and whether the airline is affected by the
has made any potential visible issue with said the four missing fastener tops had Asked what travelers should do to stay One common question pilots are asked Boeing Max 9 issues. His reason is sim-
an airplane top of mind for many fliers. no impact on the structural integrity of safe on flights, Shahidi said listening to is when passengers spot what looks like ple: If his flight might be affected, he
Already, a surprising number of travelers the wing or the plane9s ability to operate crew instructions and wearing your seat duct tape on a plane9s wing. This is doesn9t want to get stranded somewhere
think they could swoop in and safely land safely. The screws were four out of 119 on belt are the best ways to ensure safety. actually <speed tape,= which is a special without his laptop and miss work.
a passenger plane in an emergency. And a secondary structure panel that is used Bangs, the former pilot, said passen- adhesive designed and certified to be While popular flight tracking website
there are more tools than ever for passen- to improve the plane9s aerodynamic per- gers should keep their window shades used safely on planes in-flight. While it Flightradar24 has not seen an uptick in
gers to monitor their flights, track the formance. open when taking off and landing to may not look good, the pilots said, it does visits to the fleet pages of airlines that
type of plane they9re flying, notice when Virgin Atlantic said the flight was better see if there are flames or a safe not mean the plane is unsafe. operate affected 737 Max aircraft, accord-
things go awry and even listen to conver- canceled <to provide time for precau- escape in case of an emergency, though Bangs said sensors monitor the health ing to spokesperson Ian Petchenik, many
sations between pilots and air traffic tionary additional engineering mainte- such incidents are rare. That was impor- of a plane9s system and produce <thou- travelers on social media echoed Rodri-
controllers 4 as well as ways to spread nance checks, which allowed our team tant when passengers had to flee a Japan sands of digital bits of information.= guez9s concerns. They said they were
that information widely. the maximum time to complete their Airlines jet after it collided with another <There9s so much more detailed digital checking what type of plane they were on
<A lot of angst out there in the popu- inspections.= plane and burst into flames at the begin- oversight of everything that9s happen- more frequently to avoid potential dis-
lace,= said Kathleen Bangs, a former Still, many fliers shuddered. < ... I have ning of the year. She said it9s also impor- ing,= she said. ruptions to their trips if the aircraft was
commercial airline pilot and spokesper- to examine the plane myself as a passen- tant to count the number of rows to the Charles Horning, an associate profes- out of service.
son for the flight tracking site Flight- ger so i can feel safe,= one person wrote nearest exit, both in front of and behind sor in the aviation maintenance science But some had bigger worries.
Aware. She said the site is seeing an on X, formerly known as Twitter. your seat. department at Embry-Riddle Aeronauti- <I do everything I can to avoid flying on
interest in people searching types of Satire sites have had a field day. The Still, Bangs said she sympathizes with cal University, said a member of the flight the 737-Max airplanes,= one person wrote
aircraft, and Max 9 planes in particular. Shovel, an Australian site, published a watchful passengers. Many years ago, she crew will look for obvious damage or on X, but said it was hard to avoid
Travel booking site Kayak said usage of headline joking that screwdrivers were asked a flight attendant to go to the problems with the tires. Horning, who completely.
its 737 Max filter on flight searches allowed on Boeing flights <To Allow cockpit because she didn9t see the flaps worked for Delta doing line maintenance <I literally check every flight I take to
increased 15-fold after the Alaska Air- Passengers To Help With Maintenance.= on the rear of the wing down as the plane and training for more than 18 years, said make sure it9s not on a 737-MAX,= wrote
lines incident. Conservative site the Babylon Bee wrote was taxiing for takeoff 4 which she said those checks are in addition to more another, reposting a video of the Alaska
A week and a half after the Alaska a fake story in which flight attendants could lead to a crash. detailed regular inspections. incident. <I9ve canceled flights for this
ordeal, a Virgin Atlantic flight from asked passengers to make sure the plane <As a pilot, I9m a control freak myself,= Planes can function safely with some reason before and seeing this makes me
Manchester to New York City was can- had both wings, and give <the cabin a she said. equipment out of order or damaged; feel less like a paranoid idiot.=
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aybe it9s the commercials or the halftime show or to catch a glimpse of Taylor swift. Perhaps
it9s even about the biggest football game of the year. Whatever your reason for hosting a With nine minority head coaches
lined up to lead nFL teams in 2024,
super Bowl party, it9ll cost you. Americans will spend a projected $17.3 billion to eat, drink the Rooney Rule is having one of its
and cheer their way through the national Football League championship between the san Francisco best years ever.
The question now is whether the
49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs, according the national Retail Federation. That9s $86 a person to fill hiring practice 4 and its progeny in
up on wings in buffalo sauce, chips with queso, lots of beer and so much more. It9s also a 4.8 percent corporate America 4 will stay in the
game much longer amid a wave of
spike from the $16.5 billion spent last year and a snapshot of the sticker shock people still find in the legal challenges to workplace diversi-
grocery store even as inflation overall has cooled. once higher, food prices <tend to be very sticky,= said ty, equity and inclusion (DeI) initia-
tives. on Tuesday, a conservative
scott Brown, an agriculture economist at the University of Missouri. They9re vulnerable to multiple legal nonprofit filed a federal civil
factors, including supply chain disruptions, climate change, higher fuel, labor and packaging costs rights complaint against the nFL,
alleging that the rule is illegal.
and ripple effects from the Russia-Ukraine war. But in the past year consumers caught breaks in such <If the national Football League
categories as technology 4 think flat-screen TVs and sound bars 4 and some foods such as poultry. so, truly wants to end discrimination in
the employment process, then the
before locking in your shopping list, here9s what to expect. see super bowl on g3
nFL should stop discriminating in
the employment process, follow the
meritocratic system it displays on the
field, and eliminate the Rooney Rule,=
said Ian Prior, a senior adviser with
America First Legal, the nonprofit
founded by former Donald Trump
adviser stephen Miller.
Through a spokesperson, the nFL
said that it looks <forward to re-
sponding to this complaint and dem-
onstrating that our policies and pro-
grams are fully consistent with the
law and with fundamental notions of

Takeaways from a case of love, marriage and mortgage fraud fairness.=

<We are proud of the work that we
have done to promote equal employ-
ment opportunities for women and
The recent conviction of a provision 4 intended to help struggling The move was to secure a better interest President nick Mosby (D). While you can people of color and the resulting
former Maryland Americans 4 because her travel rate. never know the full extent of what growth in diversity throughout the
prosecutor isn9t just business had experienced <adverse Mosby was convicted of two counts of happens in a marriage, there are many nFL,= the league added, noting that
another story about a financial consequences.= perjury last year in connection with the lessons to glean from a political power <diversity makes us better.=
fallen politician. It9s a Federal prosecutors argued that $40,000 and $50,000 withdrawals from couple who, behind doors, weren9t Hundreds of companies have ad-
cautionary tale about Mosby hadn9t suffered a coronavirus- her City of Baltimore retirement funds. operating as a team. opted some form of the Rooney Rule
Michelle marriage and money. related hardship because it was a Last week she was convicted on the Here are some takeaways from the since 2003, when the league began
Singletary Here9s the backstory. business in name only and not federal charge of making a false Mosby saga that weren9t just red flags compelling teams to interview mi-
The Color Marilyn Mosby, a operational. mortgage application related to the but firework explosions. nority candidates for any head coach-
of Money former Baltimore state9s she was also accused of making false $5,000 transfer. ing position. Many Fortune 500 com-
attorney, withdrew a total statements on her mortgage The criminal aspect of the case was Financial infidelity panies go further, with some requir-
of $90,000 from her applications, including submitting a salacious enough, but it also provided an During the trial, nick Mosby admitted ing that as many as three-quarters of
457(b) retirement account to invest in letter to the lender for a $428,400 intimate look into Mosby9s marital he was hiding crucial financial job contenders come from underrep-
two vacation properties in Florida. condominium in Longboat Key, Fla., finances. Testimony revealed financial information about their tax situation. resented groups, or offering incen-
Typically, someone drawing from a claiming she had received a $5,000 gift secrets, a colossal lack of The IRs had placed a $45,000 lien tives to select them.
retirement account before age 591/2 from her husband. It turns out the communication, and a couple clearly against all properties owned by the now, some legal scholars and con-
would be subject to a 10 percent early money had been transferred from her living well above their six-figure means. couple. servative activists say the hiring prac-
withdrawal penalty. own bank account to her husband9s What a hot mess. A recent Bankrate survey found that tice 4 referred to in the private sector
But Mosby claimed she qualified for a account and then back to her, according Mosby is now divorced from her 42 percent of U.s. adults who are as <diverse candidate slates= 4 could
waiver under a pandemic-related to evidence presented during her trial. husband, Baltimore City Council see singletary on g2 be legally vulnerable, especially since
the supreme Court upended race-
conscious college admissions in June,
sparking a wave of legal challenges
against corporate DeI initiatives.
DeparTmenT of DaTa TeChnoLogy
Kenji Yoshino, a new York Univer-
Parent drop-offs at school soared during the pandemic, Meta safety experts have concerns about the company9s sity law professor and director of the
and bus use fell, but only for some. What9s going on? g4 parental control features 4 like people not using them. g5 Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclu-
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that all is not going well. <green,= <yellow= and <red= de-
married or living with a romantic The IrS mailed dozens of tax pending on their level of risk,
partner have kept or are keeping bills to the couple9s Baltimore with the last being the riskiest.
a financial secret from their home, an expert testified. Jurors <The rooney rule is squarely
significant other. heard testimony that the couple9s in the yellow zone,= Yoshino said
Secret spending is the most mail would be left unopened. in an interview.
common indiscretion. The public defender for mosby That9s because the practice typ-
Thirty percent of Americans tried to argue the former ically allows hiring managers to
admit that they spend more than prosecutor made innocent consider race and gender when
their partner would like. The mistakes because she failed to populating candidate pools,
secrets spanned from fully read the mortgage which could be perceived as a
undisclosed debt, bank accounts documents she signed for the form of discrimination, Yoshino
and credit cards. florida properties. She9s not at said. on the other hand, candi-
Secrecy can severely damage a fault for her husband9s poor dates are not ultimately chosen
relationship. Even if you money management, her lawyer based on those characteristics, so
maintain separate bank argued. there9s a <firewall= between
accounts, be honest and full stop. sourcing and the final decisions,
transparent. (If there is abuse Deception is one thing. But if he said. The practice, he added,
happening, and you9re trying to you don9t read the contracts you has been deemed legal in several
protect yourself, that9s different.) sign and choose to ignore money lower-court cases in the 1990s.
issues in your marriage, you are Yet over the past year, signs
No accountability not innocent. for goodness sake, have emerged that it may again
The mosbys appeared to have mosby is an attorney. be tested in court.
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kept their finances so separate mosby testified she was The Equal Employment op-
that it prevented them from unaware of the unpaid taxes portunity Commission complaint the National Football League will start its 2024 season with nine head coaches who are minorities,
working together. when she submitted the first filed Tuesday contends the including antonio Pierce of the Las Vegas raiders.
His wages had been garnished mortgage loan application in rooney rule violates Title VII of
because of unpaid student loans, July 2020. She also said she the 1964 Civil rights Act and that being challenged in court, and ing slates can be <hit or miss 4 award.
his car repossessed 4 twice 4 thought her husband was the agency should investigate. you can be assured that corporate and if you9ve been achieving your She also argued that diverse
and he often fell behind on making installment payments to <It is abundantly clear that the DEI initiatives that discriminate goals, you9ve been lucky.= slates have so far been legally
mortgage payments, which he the IrS. NfL and its member teams do based on race will soon suffer the The NfL9s use of the rooney safe. <When you look at a lot of
was supposed to handle. The tax debt in question indeed limit, segregate, or classify same fate as affirmative action in rule has produced more misses the employment law, most of it is
opinions abound on whether covered years the couple filed their employees or applicants for academia,= Cotton wrote. than hits in diversifying the NfL9s direct discrimination and has
couples should separate their jointly. employment in ways that deprive The legal scrutiny comes as head coaching ranks, a 2022 nothing to do with diverse slates
finances to avoid fights over Choose to be in the know. at least some individuals of inter- diverse slate practices have ex- Washington Post investigation 4 or you9d see a lot more of it,= she
money. However, some studies Trust, but verify. view and employment opportuni- ploded in corporate America. A found. The number of Black head said. <It just so happens the slate
have shown there is greater If you file a joint tax return, ties specifically because of race, survey of 489 companies by DEI coaches leading the 32 NfL teams is equalized so that a woman and
accountability when couples you and your spouse are jointly color, or sex,= the letter says. consulting firm Diversity mBA has never surpassed 10 in a single a person of color has a chance of
have shared bank accounts. and individually responsible for Similar allegations have been media showed that 85 percent of season. In 2024, there will be nine being hired.=
research from the University the tax and any interest or leveled against programs in cor- respondents had selected job can- minority head coaches, including following the calls for racial
of Notre Dame and published in penalty due on the joint return, porate America. didates using some form of a six Black coaches. justice in the wake of the 2020
the Journal of Consumer even if you later divorce. In January, America first Le- diverse slate policy in 2022 4 up Jonathan Beane, an NfL sen- murder of George floyd, large
Psychology found couples were You can set up an online gal accused pharmaceutical giant from 64 percent in 2012. The ior vice president and the league9s companies came under intense
less likely to splurge when they account with the IrS and view Sanofi of discrimination because survey respondents span 38 in- chief diversity and inclusion offi- pressure to bolster diversity in
had joint bank accounts. your returns and any payments its <diverse slate policy= requires dustries 4 including technology, cer, said he was <pleased= by the their upper ranks 4 including the
<Couple members are more due. at least one person of color and retail and finance 4 and average numbers, but he cautioned that it use of the rooney rule. Among
likely to consider whether their for many people, even highly one woman be considered for an $27 billion in annual revenue. was <one cycle and one place in those companies were the five
partner will judge their purchase educated career professionals, open position. In a pair of Jan. 2 <In the last two decades, it time= and that the league was largest U.S. banks 4 JPmorgan
when spending from a joint (vs. a this money stuff, including taxes, letters addressed to the EEoC really became more formalized,= looking for <sustainable improve- Chase, Bank of America, Citi-
separate) bank account, because can be intimidating and and the office of federal Contract Pam mcElvane, the chief execu- ment.= group, Wells fargo and U.S. Ban-
they feel a greater need to justify complicated. Compliance Programs, the non- tive of Diversity mBA media, said The NfL has enhanced the rule corp, the Wall Street Journal re-
their purchase decision to their Nonetheless, spouses can9t profit accused the company of in an interview. <Now organiza- in recent years. When it was ported in 2021. All said they9d
partner,= researchers wrote. bury their heads in the sand 4 violating federal law and said it tions are creating practices 4 established, in 2003, it required implement a diverse slate hiring
In another paper published in abdicating their fiscal should be investigated. EEoC required practices 4 around di- that only one minority coach be practice or disclose the ones they
the Journal of Consumer responsibility 4 and then complaints can be precursors to verse slates.= interviewed for any open head had in place.
research last year, researchers complain about suffocating lawsuits. Even with the wide adoption of coaching position; now it re- Asked for comment, three of
found, while following engaged consequences should their <These programs have some diverse hiring slates, few people quires two. The rule also has been the banks 4 JPmorgan Chase,
or newly married couples over a partners act irresponsibly. real legal problems,= Prior said in of color helm the largest U.S. extended to general manager and Citigroup and Wells fargo 4 con-
two-year period, that those who an interview. companies. In 2023, eight Black offensive coordinator positions. firmed that they continue to use
merged accounts reported a Passive approval of bad Sanofi said in a statement that CEos led fortune 500 companies, In 2020, following corporate diverse hiring slates. JPmorgan
higher level of satisfaction in decision-making its diversity efforts are <fully com- a record high. America9s lead, the NfL began also noted that it is continually
their relationship than people I9ll end where this case began pliant with the law= and that the But mcElvane9s data, which she offering incentives. If a team los- reviewing its DEI programs for
with separate accounts. 4 the florida homes. company <will continue to strive collects to track companies9 prog- es a minority executive or coach legality.
<We find that couples who I talked to several financial to reflect the diversity of the ress on DEI efforts, shows that to another team, that team re- <As the landscape around DEI
were assigned to have joint professionals about using patients we serve.= diverse slates work best when ceives a third-round compensato- evolves, we continue to review
accounts reported greater workplace retirement accounts Even <nuanced= policies on di- coupled with what mcElvane de- ry pick for two years. If a team our programs and initiatives to
financial harmony over time,= to invest in real estate, even in a verse slates, Prior argued, can scribed as an <accountability loses both a coach and personnel confirm that we have clear, well-
said Jenny olson, one of the co- vacation haven such as florida. violate Title VII of the Civil rights measure= 4 which can be an member, it receives a third-round founded objectives, and that our
authors of the study and an They all said it was a terrible Act, which prohibits employment incentive or penalty tied to a compensatory pick for three approach is appropriately tai-
assistant professor at Indiana decision. discrimination. America first Le- manager9s success in meeting the years. lored and measurable,= the bank
University9s Kelley School of I believe marilyn mosby was gal also has targeted diverse can- company9s diversity goals. But incentives 4 particularly said in a statement. <How we
Business. trying to enrich herself by didate slate policies at mars and for example, 36 percent of the financial incentives 4 tied to support this may evolve, but our
olson said that joint accounts renting out the properties. And Activision Blizzard, which was surveyed companies provided diverse hiring could be legally commitment to DEI remains
predict a more communal view her husband went along with the recently acquired by microsoft. some kind of incentive 4 includ- risky, said Yoshino, the NYU pro- steadfast.=
of the marriage 4 a <we= vs. plan. <We9re in a new era,= Prior said, ing bonuses 4 for meeting diver- fessor. <I would say that is in the Bank of America and U.S. Ban-
<you= and <me.= Couples have one of the benefits of marriage referring to the Supreme Court9s sity goals. on the whole, those red zone,= Yoshino said, adding in corp did not respond to requests
greater harmony over time, she is two heads should be better college admissions ruling. <And companies saw the highest rates a recent Harvard Business re- for comment.
said. than one. Don9t passively ignore these are cases that are going to of women and people of color view article that the practice In a statement, Wells fargo
Having joint accounts isn9t a financial foolishness and start working their way up the promoted to senior leadership. could place preferences on mem- spokeswoman Laurie Kight said
foolproof way to avoid conflicts certainly not illegal behavior. federal courts.= forty-nine percent of the compa- bers of protected groups, such as the bank has <recommitted to our
over money, but at least it In a Jan. 11 letter sent to 10 nies surveyed made hiring deci- particular races or genders, diverse candidate slate guide-
provides transparency. recruiting firms, Sen. Tom Cotton sions based on diverse slates, only which could expose a company to lines with enhancements focus-
If you have a personal finance question (r-Ark.) took a similar position. sometimes using an incentive. legal action. ing on simplicity of process and
Willful ignorance for michelle, please call 1-855-asK- He wrote that he had received While those companies still saw mcElvane said that incentives improving the experience of all
You can9t be held responsible POst (1-855-275-7678). her award- <troubling reports that recruiting people of color moving into sen- don9t always come in the form of candidates, internal and exter-
for a partner who is deceitful. It9s winning column the Color of money is firms are conspiring with compa- ior leadership, fewer women rose money or benefits; rather, they nal.=
easy to hide a bank account or syndicated by the Washington Post nies to exclude 8non-diverse9 can- to those roles. often come in the form of <recog-
debts from your spouse. news service and syndicate and didates from the hiring pool.= Without some sort of incen- nition,= which can include a posi- mark maske contributed to this
But you can9t feign ignorance carried in dozens of newspapers. <race-based hiring policies are tive, mcElvane said, diverse hir- tive performance review or an report.

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SuPer bowl FROM G1

Why Super Bowl parties

are so expensive

Chicken wings Guacamole Drinks

Get those wet wipes ready because chicken wings are cheaper this The crucial ingredient for this game-day staple is heavily reliant on When it comes to your suds and soda, transportation and packaging
year; the average pack is down about $2 from 2023 and $4 since Mexico, which grows most of the avocados sold in the United States, take the biggest swigs. <Beverages are very, very expensive to
2022, according to NIQ. The cost of feed (made of corn and soybeans Anderson said. But the ongoing debate about border security and transport because they9re so heavy and they9re so bulky,= said Neil
4 more on that later) soared in 2022, and chicken farmers cut immigration policy have had implications for trade. The shuttering Saunders, managing director of the analytics company GlobalData.
production as a <response to financial losses,= said David Anderson, of railroad crossings in El Paso and Eagle Pass, Tex., in December, <So if fuel prices are elevated, it causes an issue.= The industry is also
a livestock economist at Texas A&M University. for example, stranded hundreds of millions of dollars in freight. grappling with a trucker shortage tied to working conditions and
<Every time we talk about trade disruptions . . . we9ll see it the low pay. Meanwhile, the price of aluminum 4 the primary material
quickest in the produce section,= Anderson said. Other guacamole in cans 4 hit record highs in March 2022, government data shows,
ingredients such as tomatoes, which are mainly imported from as the war in Ukraine ramped up. In early February, the average
Mexico and Canada, are also affected by trade relations. six-pack of domestic beer ran $9.84, up 3.5 percent from the same
period last year, according to retail data provider Datasembly.
Queso Imported beer added 2.3 percent, to $11.07.
The name says it all 4 cheese is the star of this indulgent dip, and
prices are down relative to last year. Milk production, which
dictates the cost of cheese, has fallen because Americans are
drinking less of it, Anderson said. <We are seeing some effects in
lower prices at retail because we have such low prices at the farm,=
he said.
Salsa
We know tomatoes are usually the star ingredient of salsa, but for
the sake of not repeating ourselves here, let9s assume you9re
stepping it up and making a corn salsa. Corn is incredibly versatile
4 it9s in everything from biofuel to food for humans and livestock
(remember the chickens?). A drought in Brazil 4 one of the United
States9 biggest competitors for corn exports 4 sent prices up in
Chili 2021, prompting some trading partners to turn to the United States
Some love 9em, some hate 9em, but for many (and our recipes team), to fill the vacuum. It became a classic supply-and-demand scenario,
beans are integral to a hearty chili. Droughts in Minnesota and Anderson said. Prices dropped last year, but could surge again, as
North Dakota slashed yields for dry edible beans in 2021, which led analysts predict another dry year in Brazil.
to higher canned and dry bean prices the following year. Prices
eased this fall, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Chips
but haven9t returned to pre-2022 levels. It doesn9t matter whether you prefer tortilla or potato chips, the cost
of snacks is climbing. The average 16-ounce bag of potato chips is up Kitchen supplies
$2 since the start of the pandemic, federal data shows. While some For many hosts, Super Bowl Sunday is a reason to upgrade or
of the increase is tied to ingredient costs, company executives and purchase some new gadgets. <There9s a huge spike in sales of things
industry experts say fuel, labor and packaging are the biggest associated with entertaining right around the Super Bowl,= said
drivers. But consumers are still buying, leaving little incentive for Joan Driggs, vice president of thought leadership at Circana, a
snack conglomerates to lower prices. Salty snack sales, an already market research firm. In the weeks leading up to last year9s Super
high-volume category, swelled more than 14 percent in the week Bowl, sales for meat grinders and mincers surged 143 percent
leading to last year9s Super Bowl, according to Circana. compared with an average week, and slow cookers increased 37
percent. Prices for small appliances inched up during the pandemic,
as consumers sought to enhance their at-home cooking experience,
Saunders noted. And the category continues to hold their attention.
Products that go viral on social media can be especially persuasive
in moving people to go out and buy the newest air fryer to make
their game day treats, he said.

Sliders
These one-handed bites are perfect for game day but come at a
premium: Ground beef costs surged 6.7 percent in December
compared with 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Extreme weather is again at play 4 since mid-2020, droughts from
the northern Plains, across cattle country and into southern states
have left ranchers with <not enough hay and forage to maintain the
beef cattle herd,= Brown said. U.S. beef production fell by 1.2 billion
pounds, or 4.6 percent, from 2022 to 2023, he noted, and the
Agriculture Department forecasts declines will continue this year. Television
The bigger the TV, the better the football-watching experience.
During the early days of the pandemic, as consumers were stuck at
home, many splurged on new entertainment systems. But supply
chain logjams in 2021 left retailers less able to meet demand, Paper goods
leading to higher prices, Saunders said. TV prices surged 30 percent Football-themed napkins and cups, plastic forks, and paper plates
on average, according to Circana, to $469. But in 2022, retailers in team colors are popular this time of year, Driggs said: <People are
over-ordered and consumers pulled back on discretionary spend- trying to create an experience.= Costs have crept up in recent years
ing. Since then, there have been <sharp discounts and some better because commodities like wood pulp 4 which is used to make paper
prices,= he said. The average cost of a TV was $385 last year, down products 4 hit record highs in 2022. Several factors were at play,
11.7 percent from 2022. including increased demand for packaging materials because of
e-commerce and reduced output from U.S. and Chinese paper mills.
As a result, paper napkin prices rose 19 percent from 2022 to 2023,
according to NIQ, while disposable plates jumped 27 percent.

Vegetables
While a veggie tray from your local grocer will save you time, it9ll
probably run you more than doing the slicing and dicing yourself
because of labor and packaging costs, said Rob Dongoski, global
lead for food and agribusiness at consulting firm Kearney. Mean-
while, the war in Ukraine spawned restrictions on the global
fertilizer trade, sending prices near record highs in 2022 and Streaming
causing the cost of carrots, broccoli and celery to tick up. But If you9re a cord-cutter without traditional access to CBS, the
vegetable prices are finally easing 4 down 4.8 percent in December, network carrying the game, you may be considering a subscription
year over year, according to CPI data 4 as other countries boosted to a streaming service. The cost of cable, satellite and live-streaming
exports. services climbed 5.6 percent in December, according to CPI9s Football apparel
year-over-year data. The basic YouTube TV package increased $8, to Whether you9re a 49er faithful or a member of Chiefs Kingdom,
$72.99 a month, and Hulu with ads and live TV climbed $7, to jerseys, T-shirts, hats and other apparel emblazoned with your
$76.99 per month. The stand-alone options, like base-tier Para- favorite team9s logo tend to be more <insulated= than other sectors
mount Plus and NFL Plus, increased a dollar or two to $5.99 and of apparel, Saunders said. <There9s very strong demand, especially
$6.99, respectively. for popular teams.= But that doesn9t mean they9re cheap 4 official
jerseys from the NFL Shop cost $150. Driggs noted that sales
revenue of NFL-licensed apparel for the teams going to the Super
Bowl last year spiked 200 percent. (And that was before Swifties
became enamored with Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce overnight.)

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BY A NDREW V AN D AM department of data weeds of Americans9 transporta-

tion decisions. So, we asked him.

T
he yellow school bus must
be the most iconic means
of transportation in Amer-
ican history. But the operative
School buses are disappearing. Crespi suggested that we con-
sider a new factor: Could bus
ridership be falling because
more people are 4 like the econ-
word in that sentence is <his-
tory.= For the first time on rec-
ord, most American students are
whisked to school in a private
Parents are picking their kids up instead. omist Heggeness 4 moving to
places with poor bus coverage?
After all, college-educated Amer-
icans are substantially more
vehicle. mobile than their less-educated
In 2022, youths of almost ev- aver the pandemic, school-bus use fell, but only among students with more-educated (and likely better-of) parents friends.
ery age shifted from bus to Indeed, data supports this
Buick, with 53 percent of U.S. share of U.s. public and private k-12 students using each mode to get to school share of U.s. public and private k-12 students using each mode to go to school theory. Some of the fastest-grow-
students getting dropped off at aLL U.s. sTUDenTs aT LeasT one ParenT has a no ParenT WiTh a
ing states in the pandemic era
school or driving themselves, ac- BaCheLor9s Degree or higher FoUr-year Degree
are also the ones with the worst
cording to our analysis of the re- bus service, according to data
cently revamped National private from School Bus Fleet, a trade
60% 60% vehicle
Household Travel Survey. The magazine with a self-explanato-
survey, from the fine folks at the ry title. Fewer than a third of
Federal Highway Administra- private vehicle public-school kids in Idaho, the
tion, collects detailed transpor- 50 50 state with the fastest-growing
tation data, including trip logs, School bus child population from 2019 to
from about 17,000 Americans in private
2022, get to school by bus. If we
about 8,000 households. 40 40 vehicle split the country in two 4 the
As carting kids around has be- half with worse bus service and
come the defining act of modern School bus the half with better bus service
parenthood, the K-12 experience 30 30 in the 2018-2019 school year 4
has increasingly revolved we see that the child population
around the school pickup line. School bus in the worse half grew almost
(Don9t bother Googling that. One 20 20 twice as rapidly.
actual example: <Will you be my But fewer than 1 in 10 Ameri-
student loans? Because I9d like cans move their house in a given
to have you around for the rest 10 Bike or foot 10
Bike or foot
Bike or foot year. So Crespi pointed us
of my life.=) toward a bigger factor: remote
For an expert evaluation of work. Flexible workplaces and
public transit
school pickup lines, we called public transit public transit schedules have obviously made
0 0
University of Kansas economist 1969 2009 2017 2022 2009 2017 2022 2009 2017 2022
it easier for Heggeness and her
Misty Heggeness. When she peers to slip away from work
moved from school-bus-saturat- note: ages 5-17; the 1969 data includes 18-year-olds. source: national household Travel survey from the Federal highway administration and cart around the kids.
ed suburban Maryland to the source: national household Travel survey and nationwide Personal Transportation study Not all parents have that
transit-challenged outskirts of (1969) from the Federal highway administration privilege. Among those with a
Kansas City, Kan., Heggeness Students of almost all ages shived to private vehicles as buses vanished, chronic absenteeism has soared bachelor9s degree or higher, 39
discovered her own <deeply per- percent worked remote or
sonal hell= 4 two hours a day share of U.s. public and private k-12 students using each mode to get to school share of public k-12 students who missed at least 10 percent of classes hybrid in December, compared
spent waiting in, or driving to, with just 7 percent of people
an endless queue of SUVs and se- private vehicle, 2017 Year 2018-2019 2021-2022 2022-2023 with a high school diploma or
60%
dans in front of her children9s less, according to our friends at
private vehicle, 2022 D.C. 30% 48% 44%
middle and high schools. the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
As a researcher who measures new Mexico 18 40 39 But if their parents can9t in-
gender inequality and the bur- terrupt their shift at the factory
oregon 20 36 38
dens that mothers face, Hegge- 50 or the Fuddruckers to pick up
ness understands the value of nevada 19 36 35 kids, what are the children of
parents9 time. She even calculat- Colorado 23 36 31
less-fortunate parents doing?
ed how much the district would Given that researchers have
owe her for daily kid deliveries, Florida 20 32 31 found a strong link between
40
if it paid her a going rate 4 Michigan 20 39 31 lower socioeconomic status and
which, of course, it does not. It9s high absenteeism, it seems likely
a lot. Heggeness said she can9t Washington 15 33 30 that some of them have not gone
believe other parents aren9t as hawaii 15 37 30 to school at all.
ripsnorting riled up as she is. 30 Applied economist Michael
<Why is nobody fixing this?= kentucky 18 30 Gottfried, now at the University
she asked us, rhetorically. <Why School bus, 2017 rhode island 19 34 29 of Pennsylvania, called this idea
aren9t parents speaking up?= perfectly plausible. And he
Perhaps answering her own School bus, 2022 illinois 18 30 28 would know: His research into
20
question, she later explained arizona 13 32 28 the causes and consequences of
that <the experiences of the pan- Bike or foot, 2022 absenteeism in America9s
West Virginia 29 28
demic made parents much more schools has been cited just about
willing to put up with these Maine 17 32 27 everywhere. It also has trans-
10
types of shenanigans just to get Bike or foot, 2017
formed him into an unabashed
ohio 17 30 27
the kids back in school.= Then bus booster.
this <really inefficient equilibri- public transit, 2017 north Carolina 16 31 27 <I believe the bus is a lifeline
um & became the new routine.= public transit, 2022
iowa 12 21 26
for students,= he told us.
The coronavirus pandemic ac- 0 He said districts looking to
celerated a shift long in the mak- 6-7 8-9 10-11 12-13 14-15 16-17 Utah 14 27 25 trim spending often see yellow
years old
ing, said Dave Cowan, a genial California 12 30 25 buses as relatively easy to cut,
walking-and-biking-to-school source: national household Travel survey from the Federal highway administration because they don9t directly
booster with the nonprofit Safe south Carolina 13 20 25 involve teaching and protections
Routes Partnership. Fifty years faster-growing, spread-out states struggle to bus kids Mississippi 13 28 24 for support staff are weaker.
ago, feet and pedals dominated But that overlooks their effect on
the school transportation scene, Missouri 13 24 23 attendance.
share of public k-12 students transported daily by school buses
but that depended on schools Louisiana 19 23 <The bus literally takes kids to
being built in the heart of dense school. Like, that is its function,=
neighborhoods. 30% 45 60 75 georgia 13 24 23 Gottfried said. <If we9re con-
<We9ve moved our schools to nebraska 15 24 22 cerned about absenteeism 4
where land is less expensive and which we are 4 we9re literally
more expansive, but less accessi- Massachusetts 13 28 22 getting rid of something whose
ble to those walking and bicy- kansas 14 25 22 job is to take kids to school.=
cling,= Cowan told us. <When we To measure the scope of
south Dakota 14 22 21
build schools on the edge or out America9s attendance crisis, we
of town, we create a long-term Delaware 13 25 21 called Liz Cohen, who read 127
transportation problem because books last year while raising
Connecticut 10 24 20
now we commit to a lifetime of three kids and collecting data on
transporting students to that north Dakota 12 22 20 chronic absenteeism in public
school.= oklahoma 14 20 20
schools at FutureEd, an inde-
A crisis like the pandemic am- pendent think tank at George-
plifies the structural issues we9ve indiana 11 21 19 town University9s McCourt
built into our schools, Cowan Virginia 11 20 19 School of Public Policy.
said. Some bus drivers refused to <While we9ve always had pop-
work because of the health alabama 11 18 18 ulations of kids who attended
threat. Others cashed in on their idaho 21 17 school less regularly,= she said,
commercial drivers9 licenses to <there has really been a seismic
make far more money elsewhere shift since covid.=
note: Based on latest available data; not all states supplied 2022-2023 ûgures. note: not all states share their absenteeism data
in the booming transportation source: Futureed
Cohen and her colleagues
source: school Bus Fleet DeParTMenT oF DaTa / The WashingTon PosT
industry. In recent months, driv- found that a median of 25 per-
ers have been some of the most cent of public K-12 students
in-demand workers in the entire missed more than 10 percent of
country, according to data from the most recently completed
Indeed that compares job open- school year. That9s almost double
ings with their pre-pandemic To speak with Mendoza is to the rate for the school year end-
levels. stumble into the eye of an emis- ing in 2019, according to figures
To papier-mâché over the sions-research hurricane. With from about two-thirds of U.S.
driver shortfall, schools are almost every sentence, he points states and D.C.
slashing bus service, changing to a new analysis underway, a Cohen, Heggeness, Gottfried
hours, canceling days and even new sensor or ventilation system and others agreed that the long-
paying parents to drive their he9s testing, or a new social ex- run cost of students missing
own offspring. Philadelphia, for periment he9s conducting. Much school obviously would be far
example, pays parents $300 a of it focuses on how pollution af- higher than anything schools
month, or $3,000 a year per fects students, schools and com- might be saving by cutting back
household. The program began munities in unequal ways 4 a on bus service.
in 2020 and now includes 16,000 particularly urgent issue in Salt <It might seem obvious, but
students, not far below the Lake, where winter inversions when you don9t go to school,
23,000 students who use yellow along the Wasatch Front trap you9re not going to learn as
buses (but well below the 55,000 dispiriting brown air in a <pollu- much, so you9re going to perform
who rely on public-transit fare tion blister= around the city. less well on tests,= Cohen said.
cards). At one school, Mendoza9s <Your grades are going to go
A little deeper in the transpor- measurements showed that out- down. You are less likely to suc-
tation survey, we found that not side exhaust finds its way into ceed on all sorts of measures.=
all parents were responding to classrooms within 35 minutes to
bus cutbacks by driving their 73 minutes. Once inside, it the department of data runs on
own children. Rising pickups lowers student math and Eng- your quantitative curiosity. What
were driven entirely by parents lish performance, he found. Oth- are you wondering about: What are
like Heggeness 4 those with col- ers have linked long-term expo- the most common thermostat
lege degrees. Before the pan- sure to such pollutants with settings? are kids these days less
demic, about 55 percent of kids childhood obesity, asthma, de- likely to wear coats in cold weather?
with at least one parent who had pression and anxiety, attention- how do U.s. state economies
a four-year college degree were deficit/hyperactivity disorder compare with european states and
driven (or drove) to school. By and myriad other conditions 4 provinces? Just ask at wapo.st/data-
2022, that was 62 percent. Their especially when you include department.
riCky CarioTi/The WashingTon PosT
bus ridership fell by a corre- pollution9s effects on expectant
sponding amount. School buses at the Montgomery County Public Schools depot in Bethesda, Md. In 2022, 53 percent of mothers. if your question inspires a column,
Meanwhile, students whose U.S. students were getting dropped off at school or driving themselves instead of relying on buses. Given its hassles and hazards, we9ll send you an official Department
parents don9t have a four-year why are more educated 4 and of Data button and iD card. This
degree have seen a slight rise in probably more affluent 4 par- week, we owe one to P.W. in north
school bus use. Unlike their The proliferating pickup lines most parents, getting their kids mospheric sciences and internal ents more willing to brave the Carolina who inspired this column by
better-off friends, their use of seem to be driven more by ne- out of the house in the morning medicine at the University of line? Matt Crespi, program di- asking <like landlines and using
private vehicles hasn9t budged. cessity than choice. The ride to for school is not a pleasant ex- Utah, say the long lines of idling rector of the Civic Mapping Ini- checks, are students riding yellow
They9re even walking and biking school isn9t exactly quality time. perience.= And experts like Dan- internal combustion engines tiative at the National League of public school buses approaching
to school less often. Heggeness reminds us that <for iel Mendoza, who researches at- pose an obvious health risk. Cities, spends his life deep in the extinction?=
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technology & innovation

N AOMI N IX

Meta touts its parental controls,

BY

mid scrutiny of social me-

A dia9s impact on kids and

teens, tools that let parents
track their children9s online ac-
tivities have become increasingly
popular. Snapchat,
Google and Discord all have
TikTok,

rolled out parental controls in

but hardly anyone uses them
recent years; last month, Meta
said these features <make it sim- As of 2022, fewer than 10 percent of teenagers on the company9s Instagram platform had enabled
pler for parents to shape their the supervision setting, according to people familiar with the highly scrutinized social media giant
teens9 online experiences.=
But inside Meta, kids safety
experts have long raised red flags
about relying on such features.
And their use has been shocking-
ly infrequent.
By the end of 2022, fewer than
10 percent of teens on Meta9s
Instagram had enabled the pa-
rental supervision setting, ac-
cording to people familiar with
the matter who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to dis-
cuss private company matters; of
those who did, only a single-digit
percentage of parents had adjust-
ed their kids9 settings.
Internal research described ex-
tensive barriers for parents try-
ing to supervise their kids9 online
activities, including a lack of time
and limited understanding of
the technology. Child safety ex-
perts say these settings are an
industry-wide weakness, allow-
ing tech companies to absolve
themselves while requiring par-
ents to do the heavy lifting.
<The dirty secret about paren-
tal controls is that the vast major-
ity of parents don9t use them,=
said Zvika Krieger, the former
director of Meta9s responsible in-
novation team who now works as
a consultant for technology com-
panies. <So unless the defaults
are set to restrictive settings,
which most are not, they do little
to protect users.=
In late January, prominent
tech CEOs 4 including Meta9s
Mark Zuckerberg, Snap9s Evan
Spiegel, TikTok9s Shou Zi Chew,
and Linda Yaccarino of X, former-
ly known as Twitter 4 came
under fire as they testified at a
Senate Judiciary Committee
hearing on the rising risk of child
sexual exploitation online.
Parental controls have taken
off in the technology industry, as
concern rises about children be- WaShIngTon PoST IlluSTraTIon; ShuTTerSTock

coming targets of predators and

being exposed to toxic content.
Months after Meta launched a
parental supervision tool for Ins- Meta spokesman Andy Stone how much time their teens spend process 4 including an invitation instance, Meta offers teens time activity. In one 2020 document
tagram in March 2022, Snapchat said in a statement that the com- on Instagram or be notified when from the teen. Adoption was slow limits and scheduled breaks at called <Parents say they want
followed suit. Though Discord pany has invested in building their teen reports an account, to start, with only hundreds of night. But these settings are parental controls, but actual use
previously condemned supervi- default protections to help teens follows an account or is followed parents initially opting in, one of turned off and must be added by is low,= the authors drew on
sory tools, it launched its own have safe and <age appropriate= by someone. Meta uses a similar the people familiar with the mat- the parent. internal analysis and external
parental controls last year, after experiences online. supervision system for its virtual ter said. <This is a company that9s not research to illustrate some of the
highly classified documents <On top of that, we9ve also reality headset line, Quest. To use the tools, parents have afraid of making decisions on barriers facing adults trying to
leaked on the platform. TikTok created easy-to-use parental su- But there have been steep bar- to navigate a bevy of settings. users9 behalf 4 like there is a manage their kids9 online activi-
also offers parents a way to re- pervision features because par- riers to use. To ensure teens are Tech companies often default to reason why your feed is primarily ty.
strict their teens9 use of the app. ents told us they wanted even being supervised by their actual the lowest possible restrictions, their recommendations,= said Ar- <Parents see digital manage-
The Senate hearing came as more options to shape their parents and not a random adult, which allow engagement and turo Béjar, a former consultant ment as part of parenting, but it
federal and state legislators push teens9 experiences 4 and we want Meta requires a lengthy setup time on the apps to flourish. For for Meta who recently testified is also a lot of WORK! 4 i.e., it
to expand protections for kids to help them,= Stone said. before Congress about the com- requires effort that people don9t
online, including by requiring <Whether it9s via ad campaigns pany9s impact on children. <So I necessarily always want to, can
tech companies to give parents like those in The Washington think it9s a matter of where they give, or comprehend,= the re-
more ways to manage their chil- Post, in-app promotion or events choose to make these decisions searchers wrote. <As such, there9s
dren9s activity. Sens. Richard Blu- with parents, we9re always work- and where they choose not to sometimes a disjuncture.=
menthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha ing to make sure parents know make them.= A separate 2020 Meta report
Blackburn (R-Tenn.) are propos- about and can choose to use these Additionally, supervision tools found that parent supervision
ing legislation requiring plat- features,= Stone said. can lead to tense conversations could be difficult. In homes
forms to let parents manage mi- Stone added that the company between parents and children 4 where parents were more lenient,
nors9 privacy settings, restrict believes the best way to support in some cases exacerbating fric- older teens often limited their
their digital purchases and limit families is for an <industry-wide tion by design. Meta recently younger siblings9 social media
the amount of time they spend on solution that allows parents to launched new tools for parents use. But when parents actively
apps. approve all their teen9s app down- on Quest headset devices, includ- managed their kids9 digital ex-
And Republican-led state leg- loads in the app store itself.= ing a menu of <age-appropriate perience, they had conflict over
islatures such as those in Utah Snapchat spokesman Pete apps= for preteens. But the when and how those limits were
and Arkansas have passed laws Boogaard said, <We want to em- tweens can also easily find apps enforced, according to the report.
requiring tech companies to vet power parents with tools and that they are not eligible to use, <Parents also struggled to ef-
users9 ages and get consent from resources so they can make deci- setting up a potential conflict. fectively enforce limits when
parents before letting teens ac- sions for their teens based on The company <could take on many were considered 8addicted9
cess their sites. A law in Texas 4 their family values.= that responsibility= and restrict to social media/phones them-
the Securing Children Online Meta faced increasing pres- search results, one former em- selves by their children,= the re-
through Parental Empowerment sure to protect young users in ployee said. <But instead, you9re searchers wrote.
Act 4 requires that platforms 2021, after Facebook whistle- saying no, parents, you make that Still, Meta and other tech com-
provide parents with the ability blower Frances Haugen disclosed final call.= panies are unlikely to depart
to alter their children9s settings, internal research suggesting Ins- Despite the slow takeoff, Meta from the parent supervision
restrict their transactions and tagram was hurting teen girls9 saw the tools as a success. The strategy anytime soon. But Con-
limit their screen time, much like mental health. company regularly evaluated gress can evaluate whether their
the congressional bill. Amid the resulting outcry, how the features improved per- services are safe enough for
It9s difficult for parents to Meta released new parent super- ceptions of its products9 safety, younger users, said Vaishnavi J, a
manage older kids9 social media, vision tools, along with a suite of according to the people familiar technology policy adviser who
so teens should use social media updates to protect children with- with the matter. One 2020 inter- was Meta9s head of youth policy.
platforms9 safety tools on their out involving their parents. One nal report on Facebook users <I would argue that parents are
own, said Stephen Balkam, feature nudged teens to take a with problematic social media really stretched thin, and this
founder and CEO of the Family break after scrolling for a set habits said they valued features idea that they9re going to have to
Online Safety Institute, a child amount of time. Other measures like time-management tools, pa- turn on parental controls for
advocacy group that works with aimed to prevent adults from rental controls and a temporary anywhere from three to seven
tech companies on safety issues. finding and messaging teens they no-Facebook mode. apps on their kids9 phones 4 it9s
<An increasing number of parents didn9t already know. Even before Meta released the just really impractical,= she said.
give up at that age, or the kids In March 2022, the company monIque Woo/The WaShIngTon PoST/InSTagram tools, researchers questioned
find ways around= the parental launched an Instagram family A view of supervision settings on Instagram. Meta requires a whether parents had enough cristiano lima-Strong and Will
controls. center, allowing parents to view lengthy setup process to use the features. time to police their kids9 online oremus contributed to this report.

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Pay is the most obvious way employees judge how also help advocate for pay raises for their employees,
much their organization values them. And if they including highlighting their work and ûnding
feel their pay is low, it9s hard to convince them the high-visibility projects.
organization truly cares 3 particularly if the employer Employees are their own best advocates for
is reaping proûts or investing elsewhere. compensation. They can reference external resources
Of course, workers need to make money to provide on average salary and salary ranges for workers in
for themselves and their families. And employees similar jobs, experience and locations. Well ahead
who feel valued by their organization are more of the next pay review period, employees can inform
likely to be engaged and work harder to help the their manager that they will be asking for a raise and
organization succeed. begin assembling a case for why they deserve one.
A system of fair pay is best achieved when implemented If employees receive bonuses based on performance,
across all levels of the organization. they can also work with their manager to help
determine targets.
Leaders determine the total compensation strategy
for the organization. Leaders also can be a voice for The best organizations inform employees what goes
salary range transparency, particularly for managers to into pay, raise and bonus decisions. Employees might
understand the compensation of their employees. If the think individual performance is the only factor, when the
organization cannot increase base pay due to an un- organization9s performance, their salary range, and other
certain company outlook, leaders may want to consider factors might play a role.
offering bonuses tied to company performance. Organizations also should review compensation by
Managers have opportunities to help employees. They department. While an employer might not be able to
can begin by assisting employees in understanding increase everyone9s compensation, some groups might
their total compensation package. Managers can be more deserving than others.
Pay particular attention to differences across gender,
PRINT: racial and ethnic groups. Research suggests that some
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they never leak.
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mos. exp. rel. to pos. working Brown LLC at their loc in get customers to expand MS & 3 years or BS & 5 years.
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Pharmacist, Variable Patient Care Technician
Analytics3Gaithersburg Emergency Department3 Per Diem Night Shift, Day Shift, Med Surg
Part Time Rotating (CNA), Night Shift,
Employer Industry: Healthcare/Location: Gaithersburg/Openings: 5634 Adventist HealthCare seeks Silver Spring Float Pool II3Silver Spring Urology3Silver Spring
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We are a faith-based healthcare organization, based in Montgomery County, to hire an experienced Man- White Oak Medical Center White Oak Medical Center White Oak Medical Center Department3 Silver Spring
ager of Strategic Analytics seeks to hire an experienced seeks to hire an experienced seeks to hire an experienced Fort Washington White Oak Medical Center
Maryland. We are the largest employer in Montgomery County with over Director of Nursing for the
who will embrace our mis- Registered Nurse (RN) for our Registered Nurse (RN) for our Fort Washington Medical seeks to hire an experienced
6,000 employees! Our comprehensive approach to caring for our community includes three acute- sion to extend God's care Emergency Department who Float Pool, who will embrace Med Surg Urology Unit who Center seeks to hire an ex- Patient Care Technician for
care hospitals 3 Shady Grove Medical Center, White Oak Medical Center and Fort Washington Medi- through the ministry of physi- will embrace our mission to our mission to extend God's will embrace our mission to perienced Pharmacist in Fort our Heart & Vascular Unit who
cal, mental and spiritual heal- extend God's care through care through the ministry of extend God's care through Washington, MD who will em- will embrace our mission to
cal Center 3 as well as two Physical Rehabilitation hospitals, Outpatient centers, Imaging Centers, ing. As a Manager of Strategic the ministry of physical, men- brace our mission to extend extend God's care through
physical, mental and spiritual the ministry of physical, men-
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HSCRC regulations, method- Emergency Department you cording to patient population. of care according to patient spiritual healing. As a Phar- Patient Care Technician, you
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George Mason University Housekeeper (Nights)3 Housekeeper (Nights)3 Housekeeper (Nights)3 Policy Program Director of Operations Special Education
Fairfax Fairfax Fairfax Associate3Fairfax and Strategic Initiatives3 Adjunct Faculty3Fairfax
Employer Industry: Education/Location: Fairfax/Openings: 1674 Department: Facilities. Clas- Department: Facilities. Clas- Department: Facilities. Clas- Department: College of Hu- Fairfax Department: College of Edu-
George Mason University is a university with three campuses, each with a siûcation: Housekeeping & siûcation: Housekeeping & siûcation: Housekeeping & manities and Social Sciences Department: College of Hu- cation and Human Develop-
Apparel Wkr 1. Job Category: Apparel Wkr 1. Job Category: Apparel Wkr 1. Job Category: - Center for Climate Change manities and Social Sciences ment. Job Category: Adjunct
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region. At each campus, students, faculty, and staff have full access to all the university's resources, Full-Time. Work Schedule: Full-Time. Work Schedule: Full-Time. Work Schedule: tion: Program Admin Special- Communication. Job Category: Location: Fairfax, VA. Work-
while duplication of programs and support services is minimized through the use of technology. In Full-time (1.0 FTE, 40 hrs/wk). Full-time (1.0 FTE, 40 hrs/wk). Full-time (1.0 FTE, 40 hrs/wk). ist 1. Job Category: Classiûed Administrative or Professional place Type: On Site Required.
Location: Arlington, VA. Work- Location: Arlington, VA. Work- Location: Arlington, VA. Work- Staff. Job Type: Full-Time. Faculty. Job Type: Part-Time. Salary: Salary commensurate
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Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Apprenticeship / Program Lead, Business Cybersecurity Ofûcer Sr. Treasury Analyst3 Technical Skills Project Manager
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/Openings: 184The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority oper- Minimum Qualiûcation: Edu- The Washington Metropolitan opportunity allowing for ûex- is seeking a skilled treasury Minimum Qualiûcations: Edu- for Project Manager with
cation: Bachelor's degree in Area Transit Authority (Metro) ibility between virtual and professional who thrives in cation: High school diploma experience in railcar design
ates the second largest rail transit system and the ûfth largest bus network is building a state-of-the-art a collaborative environment
Education, Vocational Educa- in-person work subject to the or possession of a general and engineers to lead the
in the United States. Safe, clean and reliable, "America's Transit System" transports more than a tion, Management, or related cybersecurity program to Authority's telework policy. to join our treasury team. equivalency diploma (GED) procurement and delivery of
third of the federal government to work and millions of tourists to the landmarks in the Nation's ûeld In lieu of a Bachelor's better protect the critical Department Marketing State- The individual for this posi- Experience A minimum of new railcars for our Nation
degree, a High School diplo- transit infrastructure sup- ment The Washington Metro- tion will use advanced skill four (4) years' experience Capital's Transit System. As
Capital. Metro has earned a worldwide reputation for security and architectural beauty. WMATA is porting our nation's capital. politan Area Transit Authority in Excel to create cash fore- a Program Manager, you will
ma/GED, and four (4), years in the speciûc trade or craft
clearly the employer of choice for over 10,000 area residents. The Authority was created in 1967 by of technical experience in the The Business Applications (Metro) is building a state-of- casts, delineate and track the directly related to urban tran- be responsible for manag-
an interstate compact to plan, develop, build, ûnance and operate a balanced regional transportation related ûeld(s), in addition the Cybersecurity Program Lead the-art cybersecurity& Authority& sit. One, (1), year of previous ing complex railcar projects
experience stated below, will role reports to the Informa- experience delivering training while working with cross-
system in the National Capital area. Construction of the Metrorail system began in 1969. Four area& be considered& tion& and adult education (OJT or& functional&

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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&

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Adventist HealthCare seeks Silver Spring Department: Facilities. Clas- Department: Facilities. Clas- Minimum Qualiûcations: Edu- Washington D.C. Dewberry is currently seek- Dewberry is currently seek- Westat is seeking a technical Westat is an employee-
to hire an experienced Man- White Oak Medical Center siûcation: Housekeeping & siûcation: Housekeeping & cation: Bachelor's degree in The Washington Metropolitan ing a senior graphic designer ing a junior graphic designer Sr. Help Desk Agent to work owned corporation providing
ager of Strategic Analytics seeks to hire an experienced Apparel Wkr 1. Job Category: Apparel Wkr 1. Job Category: Education, Vocational Educa- Area Transit Authority (Metro) with exceptional creative and with exceptional creative and 40 hours per week, Monday research services to agencies
who will embrace our mission Director of Nursing for the Classiûed Staff. Job Type: Classiûed Staff. Job Type: tion, Management, or related is building a state-of-the-art critical thinking skills to serve critical thinking skills to serve to Friday (available between: of the U.S. Government, as
to extend God's care through Emergency Department who Full-Time. Work Schedule: Full-Time. Work Schedule: ûeld In lieu of a Bachelor's de- cybersecurity program to bet- as a key member of its com- as a key member of its com- 9am - 5:30pm) in our Rock- well as businesses, founda-
the ministry of physical, men- will embrace our mission to Full-time (1.0 FTE, 40 hrs/wk). Full-time (1.0 FTE, 40 hrs/wk). gree, a High School diploma/ ter protect the critical transit munications department. The munications department. The ville ofûce, with the ability tions, and state and local gov-
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Associations3The American Speech-Language-Hearing Asso- Government and Public Services3Fairfax County, Virginia is a di- Airport Operations/Management3The Metropolitan Washington Science3Fairfax County Water Authority (Fairfax Water) is Vir- Education3Alexandria City Public Schools is one of the most di-
ciation was founded in 1925. It is a not-for-proût scientiûc and verse and thriving urban county. As the most populous jurisdic- Airports Authority operates a two-airport system that provides ginia's largest water utility, serving one out of every ûve Vir- verse school systems in the country and we celebrate that di-
professional association for speech-language pathologists, au- tion in both Virginia and the Washington metropolitan area, the domestic and international air service for the mid-Atlantic re- ginians who obtain their water from public utilities. Nearly 1.5 versity. Our students come from more than 80 different coun-
diologists, and speech and hearing scientists. ASHA is commit- County's population exceeds that of seven states. The median gion. The organization consists of approximately 1,700 employ- million people in the Northern Virginia communities of Fairfax, tries, speak more than 60 languages, and represent a rainbow
ted to the consumers of our services, the more than 42 million household income of Fairfax County is one of the highest in the ees in a structure that includes central administration, airports Loudoun, Prince William and Alexandria depend on Fairfax Wa- of ethnic and cultural groups. They are economically diverse,
Americans with communication disorders. ASHA's mission is nation and over half of its adult residents have four-year col- management, and police and ûre departments. In addition to ter for superior drinking water. That's 1.5 million friends, neigh- but all are rich in that the residents of Alexandria are dedicated
to ensure that all people with speech-language, and hearing lege degrees or more educational attainment. Fairfax County operating Ronald Reagan Washington National and Washington bors and family members. We don't need any other reason to to ensuring that each and every one of them achieves success.
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edgeable service to ASHA9s customers (members, consumers, you ready to dive into the Fairfax County boasts a top- Bonus)3Washington D.C. $7,500 Sign On Bonus)3 Assists with the daily elec- Fairfax Water has an immedi- Alexandria The School Counselor is re-
and others) by serving as the primary contact for the Ac- heart-pounding world of notch school system, safe Compensation Grade: P10. Washington D.C. trical operations of Fairfax ate opening for a Laboratory The Ofûce of English Learner sponsible for the design, de-
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lent customer relations& charge of the entire project acres of parkland, and bus- Opening Date: February 2, Salary Range: $31.33-$51.69. tribution systems, and related will work under the general ary, accounting, procurement, and evaluation of the com-
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