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New sanctions
target Russians
STRONGEST RESPONSE YET FROM TRUMP
Lawmakers: Not enough to punish election interference
BY A NNE G EARAN
AND E LLEN N AKASHIMA
The Trump administration on
Thursday took its strongest ac-
tion to date to punish Moscow for
interfering in the 2016 election,
imposing fresh financial sanc-
tions on Russian government
hackers and spy agencies.
The administration also for-
mally backed Britain’s claims
that Moscow is almost certainly
to blame for a chemical toxin
attack against a former Russian
spy living in England who was
found comatose along with his
daughter earlier this month.
The sanctions were the first
such actions taken under legisla-
tion passed nearly unanimously
last year by Congress and follow
months of criticism that the
JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES
White House has been slow to
Vehicles are trapped under a bridge that was installed just days ago to connect Sweetwater with Florida International University. counter Russian aggression. But
the steps taken Thursday fell well
short of the full penalties Con-
a narrow list of targets rather
than the broader range of indi-
viduals and entities believed to
have played a role in Russia’s
efforts to interfere in the elec-
tion.
In both cases, pressure from
Congress and allies helped nudge
the White House toward a stron-
ger response. Republicans have
joined Democrats in urging the
administration to penalize Rus-
sia more strongly, while suggest-
ing that President Trump set
aside concerns about examining
the election interference that he
initially dismissed as a “hoax.”
Lawmakers have been telling
the White House for months that
RUSSIA CONTINUED ON A12
Trump stands by remarks
President defends his sharp words
about U.S. trade partners. A13
Allies support U.K. in spy case
U.S., France and Germany say

New bridge collapses at Fla. college gress authorized and focused on Russia likely source of attack. A12

At least 4 killed as cars

Fatal failure
The 960-ton pedestrian bridge that collapsed Thursday near Florida
and to make it safer for students
to cross a frenetic roadway.
Trump plans to replace
crushed under Miami
pedestrian span
International University was part of a construction project to connect
the bustling Miami college with the city of Sweetwater.
“It was going to be a signifi-
cant project,” Sen. Marco Rubio
(R-Fla.) said Thursday night. “To
McMaster, maybe others
Planned bridge
see it on the ground and under-
neath it those who died and who A SHLEY P ARKER,
BY both that the three-star Army gen-
were injured is a tragedy.” J OSH D AWSEY, eral is not humiliated and that
BY F RANCISCO A LVARADO, Florida Int’l University Sweetwater He said the cause of the col- P HILIP R UCKER there is a strong successor lined
S USAN S VRLUGA, lapse will be fully investigated. AND C AROL D . L EONNIG up, these people said.
F AIZ S IDDIQUI Collapsed section of bridge “The victims and their families The turbulence is part of a
AND A ARON C . D AVIS deserve to know what went President Trump has decided to broader potential shake-up under
wrong. There will be an extraor- remove H.R. McMaster as his na- consideration by Trump that is
miami — At least four people Road Road Water dinary review into what the er- tional security adviser and is ac- likely to include senior officials at
were killed when a pedestrian rors were and what led to this tively discussing potential re- the White House, where staffers
bridge hailed for a novel con- Note: Illustration based on project models and pictures of the bridge catastrophic collapse,” Rubio placements, according to five peo- are gripped by fear and un-
struction method collapsed Sources: FIU, Munilla Construction Management, said. ple with knowledge of the plans, certainty as they await the next
Thursday over a busy road west FIGG Bridge Engineers THE WASHINGTON POST Juan Perez, director of the preparing to deliver yet another move from an impulsive president
of Miami, crushing eight vehi- Miami-Dade Police Depart- jolt to the senior ranks of his ad- who enjoys stoking conflict.
cles and leaving rescue workers hospitals, a fire department offi- 1:30 p.m. ment, said Thursday night that a ministration. For all of the evident disorder,
racing to free victims from cial said. Vehicles were stopped The bridge was designed to number of families would face Trump is now comfortable with TRUMP CONTINUED ON A14
chunks of concrete and snapped at a red light when the bridge, connect the city of Sweetwater “a sad outcome” and that a ousting McMaster, with whom he
metal. which weighed more than with the sprawling campus of homicide unit would investi- never personally gelled, but is will- Trump’s new firing style
Nine survivors were taken to 950 tons, crashed down about Florida International University BRIDGE CONTINUED ON A10 ing to take time executing the He says he thrives on conflict, but
move because he wants to ensure avoids personal confrontation. A14

After a mass shooting, the Syrians flee Damascus suburb amid onslaught
torment of motive lingers BY L IZ S LY
AND L OUISA L OVELUCK
BY W ILLIAM W AN This week, prosecutors said
AND M ARK B ERMAN they would seek a death sentence beirut — Thousands of people
for 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, say- streamed out of the Eastern
Long after the sirens, vigils ing the rampage “was committed Ghouta suburb of Damascus on
and cable news debates, the in a cold, calculated, and pre- Thursday in the first exodus from
question remains. meditated manner.” that besieged enclave, after Syr-
It nags at survivors and their In coming months, Cruz — ian forces stormed a town in the
families. It haunts investigators who police say confessed to the biggest remaining rebel strong-
as they comb through the gun- Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory hold near the capital.
man’s belongings, text messages Stoneman Douglas High School The throngs swarming out of
and the scattered pieces of his — will be scrutinized in granular the town of Hammouriya fore-
life. detail by detectives, lawyers and shadowed the chaos that may lie
Even as our attention as a forensic psychiatrists. All of ahead as loyalist forces advance
society fades, the mystery of them will try to answer some into the remaining rebel-held ar-
motive lingers like an open, for- form of this question: Why? eas, home to an estimated
gotten wound until the next “You want to do everything 393,000 people, according to the
shooting, the next cycle of grief, you can for the families, and United Nations.
outrage and desperate search for that’s the question that is being The departures came after an
answers. asked. Why my son? Why my overnight blitz of airstrikes that
In Parkland, Fla., investigators daughter? Why was this person left civilians and fighters scram-
have an unusual opportunity to ripped from me for this senseless bling to escape, residents and
answer that question after a high act?” said Daniel J. Oates, who human rights monitors reported.
school massacre left 17 dead, was police chief in Aurora, Colo., Syrian state television said
because the suspected shooter when a shooter in 2012 tossed 10,000 people had fled to
OMAR SANADIKI/REUTERS
remains alive — a rarity in these tear-gas grenades into a movie government-held territory by
kinds of mass shootings. SHOOTER CONTINUED ON A11 People leave the town of Hammouriya in Eastern Ghouta, outside the Syrian capital. SYRIA CONTINUED ON A8

In THE NEWS Trump’s charges that al-

THE NATION
Republicans are not
ready to concede defeat
in a House special elec-
tion in Pennsylvania. A2
The ACLU filed a class-
action lawsuit in Wash-
ington alleging that the
Trump administration
is illegally detaining
nine asylum seekers. A2
The FDA took the first
TONI L. SANDYS/THE WASHINGTON POST concrete action to re-
duce nicotine in ciga-
Hello, goodbye The Redskins introduced Alex rettes and make them
Congress has one week
to pass a $1.3 trillion
spending bill and avoid
a government shut-
down. Here’s what you
need to know. A4
THE WORLD
Peru’s Congress voted
to reopen impeachment
proceedings against
President Pedro Pablo
Kuczynski. A6
In Brazil, nostalgia is
growing for the law and
lies aren’t contributing
enough. A8
THE ECONOMY
Toys R Us’s failure can
be explained simply:
Not enough babies
were being born in the
countries where it
operated. A15
Saudi Arabia’s crown
prince aims to lure
American investors, but
the location may not
charm them. A16
THE REGION
painkillers, citing the
costs in services and Inside
human lives. B1
The D.C. Council’s WEEKEND
chairman said that, de-
Happier hours
spite his objections, he The D.C. spots that pair
won’t try to block a
discounts with cheffy food
Metro funding deal. B1 and high-quality drinks.
District officials faced
ST YLE
questions from advo-
2, with a publicist
cates concerned that ac-
A toddler’s viral moment
celerated closure plans
with Michelle Obama puts
for a shelter will put
a mom to the test. C1
some homeless families
at risk. B5
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Smith, above, as their new quarterback, as the less addictive. A3
Progressive Austin
Vikings did the same with Kirk Cousins. D1
wonders: Would more
have been done if the
Pledge to parents Mayor Muriel E. Bowser
first bomb had exploded
promised to rebuild trust in public schools in the white part of
during her State of the District address. B1 town? A3
order, but not the bru-
tality, of dictatorship. A6
NATO members in-
creased defense spend-
ing for a third straight
year, but that’s unlikely
to allay President
A small town in Mary-
land enacted an eight-
fold property tax in-
crease, and business
owners are suing. B1
Alexandria is suing
sellers of prescription
correspondent and edi-
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ACLU lawsuit says Trump administration is illegally jailing asylum seekers

BY M ARIA S ACCHETTI by a gang in Haiti that beat him, also said it wants to slash the Obama also detained asylum said he fled to the United States
set his motorcycle ablaze and immigration court docket of seekers — including Damus, the after receiving death threats and
A lawsuit filed in U.S. District threatened to kill him for criticiz-
Group wants president to 600,000 cases in half by 2020. Haitian teacher who is a plaintiff having a gun pointed at his head,
Court in Washington on Thurs- ing a politician. He won his asy- follow policy permitting The ACLU lawsuit is filed in the lawsuit — the ACLU said spent three months in U.S. deten-
day alleges the Trump adminis- lum case — twice — but has spent against the Department of Home- the number who are released tion — which he described as
tration is illegally jailing asylum 16 months in detention, most
pre-hearing release land Security and its sub-agency, while their cases are pending has “hell” — before he gave up and
seekers with credible cases for recently in Ohio, while the gov- Immigration and Customs En- plunged under the Trump admin- went home.
months on end in an attempt to ernment appeals. forcement, which detains immi- istration. Beyond detaining immigrants,
deter them and others from seek- Other plaintiffs are Alexi Mon- immigration judge, lawyers said. grants, and the Justice Depart- The lawsuit said 96 percent of Sessions also recently issued a
ing refuge in the United States. tes, an 18-year-old gay man ha- While awaiting those hearings, ment, which runs the immigra- release requests at five U.S. Immi- decision that eliminated a re-
The American Civil Liberties rassed and beaten in Honduras they have been jailed for months. tion courts where immigrants gration and Customs Enforce- quirement that asylum seekers
Union and other groups filed the and who has a relative in Vir- “The fact that we are doing this can seek bond hearings. ment field offices — Detroit, El get a full hearing before an immi-
class-action lawsuit on behalf of ginia; Abelardo Asensio Callol, a to people . . . is really outrageous,” ICE spokeswoman Sarah Ro- Paso, Los Angeles, Newark and gration judge. He is considering a
nine detained asylum seekers 30-year-old software engineer said Michael Tan, a New York- driguez said the agency does not Philadelphia — were denied dur- separate matter that could affect
from Haiti, Venezuela and other from Cuba who refused to join the based staff attorney for the ACLU. comment on pending litigation. ing President Trump’s first eight asylum applications from people
countries. They are asking a judge Communist Party or rally for the “What they’re doing here is using The Justice Department also de- months in office. The ACLU esti- fleeing criminal gangs.
to order the administration to now-deceased Cuban leader Fidel detention to send a message that clined to comment. mates that more than 1,000 asy- Based on the 2009 directive,
follow a 2009 policy that allows Castro; and, an unnamed father asylum seekers need not apply Asylum is a provision in federal lum seekers were detained in the Obama administration re-
officials to release foreigners of two from Mexico who said a and they’re not welcome here in law that allows foreign nationals 2017 in those field offices. leased thousands of asylum seek-
while they await their immigra- drug cartel kidnapped his two the United States.” to seek permanent residency and The ACLU says it is not at- ers who had passed their credi-
tion court hearings, a process that brothers and threatened to kill The legal challenge comes as eventually, citizenship, if they tempting to interfere with the ble-fear interviews. But in re-
can take years. him and his family. the Trump administration engi- have a fear of persecution based government’s right to detain peo- sponse to a surge of border cross-
Among the plaintiffs are Ansly All were initially deemed to neers a wide-ranging review of on their race, religion, nationali- ple who are flight risks or who ings in his second term, the
Damus, a 41-year-old ethics have had credible stories and are the nation’s immigration policies ty, political opinion or “member- pose a danger to society. Instead, administration began locking up
teacher who said he was attacked entitled to a hearing before an and asylum fraud, which it ship in a particular social group,” they said, they want the govern- women and children from Cen-
blames in part for a backlog in the a broad category that has includ- ment to consider each case indi- tral America who illegally crossed
immigration courts of more than ed people fleeing gang activity, vidually and release people who the border, prompting a lawsuit
600,000 cases, triple the number domestic violence or other cir- do not pose a risk while their from the ACLU.
H A P P ENI NG TO D A Y in 2009. cumstances. cases are pending. A federal judge in that case,
For the latest updates all day, visit washingtonpost.com. Attorney General Jeff Sessions The process often starts at an Lawyers argue the Trump ad- which was also filed in the Dis-
said last year that the asylum airport or a land border when a ministration’s approach is endan- trict, issued a preliminary injunc-
system is being “gamed” by for- person requests asylum and is gering lives by forcing people to tion, saying it was likely unlawful
All day Group of 20 finance ministers and central eigners and “dirty immigration interviewed by a federal officer choose between staying and risk- to jail the women and children in
bankers meet through Tuesday in Buenos Aires. Visit lawyers.” Instead of a lifeline to who decides whether the claim ing danger or fleeing and endur- the civil immigration system to
washingtonpost.com/world for developments. people in peril, he said, it had seems credible and then refers ing severe conditions while jailed prevent others from crossing.
become an “easy ticket to illegal the case to an immigration judge. in the United States. The Obama administration
8:30 a.m. Housing starts are expected to have declined to entry into the United States.” Although the federal govern- Last year, Martín Méndez Pine- then relaxed its policy.
1.284 million in February, down from 1.326 million the The Justice Department has ment under President Barack da, a journalist from Mexico who maria.sacchetti@washpost.com
previous month. For details, visit washingtonpost.com/
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Tentative steps toward recount in tight Pa. race

They sent letters to election offic- candidates file in the new districts
es in Allegheny and the district’s created by a court ruling that
For now, Republicans other counties requesting that struck down a Republican-drawn
await tally of provisional ballots and voting machines be electoral map. The state’s GOP
preserved, a step often taken be- legislative majority is also waiting
and overseas ballots fore a recount or challenge. for the Supreme Court and a
“We are waiting for provisional three-judge panel on a lower court
ballots to be counted,” said Jesse to rule on their challenges to the
BY D AVID W EIGEL Hunt, a spokesman for the Na- new map, which was drawn by
AND M IKE D E B ONIS tional Republican Congressional Pennsylvania judges who were Rick Saccone Conor Lamb
Committee. “We are not ruling out elected as Democrats.
Democrats have declared victo- a recount.” The map issues may be resolved outlets — although not the Associ-
ry in the race for Pennsylvania’s On Thursday, House Minority before the winner of the race in ated Press — have declared him
18th Congressional District, but Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) be- the 18th District is official. Ac- the winner. Fewer than 500 mili-
GOP nominee Rick Saccone has gan her weekly news conference cording to Wanda Murren, a tary, overseas and provisional bal-
not conceded — and Republicans by congratulating Lamb, but hint- spokesman for the Pennsylvania lots are left to be counted, leaving
have taken some tentative steps ed at the Republican recount Department of State, the state will Saccone with no path to victory
toward seeking a recount. threat. not certify the election until unless a substantial human error
Attorneys for Saccone have “We’re very excited about wel- March 26 at the earliest, after all was made in the unofficial vote
asked for “immediate injunctive coming a new member to the military, overseas and provisional count.
relief” in federal court after a caucus,” she said. “Hopefully that ballots are counted. The new con- Bob Branstetter, a spokesman
campaign lawyer was not allowed will be very soon.” gressman from the 18th District for the Saccone campaign, said
to observe the counting of ballots Pennsylvania’s postgame dra- will have little to do until the that there had been no further
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Exploding packages tap into old tensions over Austin’s racial segregation
BY E LI R OSENBERG
austin — Interstate 35 runs
north through the heart of Austin,
an informal but symbolically po-
tent line that divides the thriving
city.
The wide swath of concrete, six
lanes thick at many points, demar-
cates the separation between af-
fluent and predominantly white
neighborhoods on the city’s west
side — including its downtown
and the University of Texas cam-
pus — and the east, which has
been home to black and Latino
residents historically.
The three package bombs that
have exploded in the city this
month, killing two people and in-
juring two others in attacks that
police say are linked, share at least
one other thing in common: They
hit black and Latino families east
of I-35.
Police have said they are inves-
tigating whether the incidents
were racially motivated. But an
uncomfortable question has
emerged that touches on deep and
long-standing racial wounds in a
city that prides itself on its pro-
gressivism: Would authorities
have taken the first bomb — which
exploded March 2, 10 days before
the other two — more seriously
had it exploded on the west side?
“A lot of us are just kind of tired
of the discrepancies,” said Fatima
Mann, the executive director of
Counter Balance: ATX, an activist
organization that works with low-
income and minority groups in
the city. “We know that if these
bombings would have happened
on the west side, there would have
only been one. They would have
locked down the community and
made sure it wouldn’t happen
again.”
Others have echoed the point,
wondering why a week and a half
passed — and two other attacks
occurred — before police said peo-
ple should be wary of suspicious
packages. And they wonder why
FDA moves ahead with ‘historic’
effort to reduce nicotine in cigarettes
BY L AURIE M C G INLEY
The Food and Drug Administra-
tion on Thursday took the first
concrete action to reduce nicotine
in cigarettes to make them much
less addictive, opening a regulatory
process described by the agency’s
top official as a “historic first step.”
Commissioner Scott Gottlieb
unveiled an “advance notice of pro-
posed rulemaking,” the earliest
step in what is likely to be a long,
complicated effort to lower nico-
tine levels to be minimally addic-
tive or nonaddictive.
The notice, to be published Fri-
day in the Federal Register, in-
cludes new data published in the
New England Journal of Medicine
on Thursday. That FDA-funded
analysis found that slashing nico-
tine levels could push the smoking
rate down to 1.4 percent from the
current 15 percent of adults. That
in turn would result in 8 million
fewer tobacco-related deaths
through the end of the century —
which Gottlieb termed “an undeni-
able public health benefit.”
The evaluation was based on a
nicotine level of 0.4 milligrams per
cigarette, FDA officials told report-
ers during a teleconference. The
standard cigarette has about 10 to
14 milligrams of nicotine.
Many adults try to quit smoking
each year but fail because nicotine
is such an addictive substance, said
Mitch Zeller, director of the FDA’s
Center for Tobacco Products. Cut-
ting the nicotine level would not
only help aspiring quitters to suc-
ceed, it also could keep young peo-
ple who may be experimenting
with cigarettes from becoming ad-
dicted, he said.
The nicotine notice will be open
for public comment for 90 days.
FDA officials are seeking input on
what the maximum nicotine level
in cigarettes should be and wheth-
er such a limit should be imple-
mented all at once or gradually.
Nicotine levels can be manipulated
by leaf blending, chemical extrac-
tion and genetic engineering.
Other critical issues that will
need to be addressed, according to
officials, include the potential for
an illicit trade in high-nicotine cig-
arettes and whether addicted
smokers would compensate for
lower nicotine levels by smoking
more. After the comment period
ends, officials will decide whether
to move forward with a formal
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Police Chief Brian Manley speaks to reporters near where a package bomb injured 75-year-old Esperanza Herrera on Monday. Police are
investigating whether race was a motive in three bombings this month, all on the east side of town, which is mostly made up of minorities.
the perpetrator is still at large.
“If this happened in West Aus-
tin, then they would know by
now,” said T.L. Wyatt, publisher of
the Villager, a weekly newspaper
in East Austin. “They didn’t give
much attention to it.”
The Austin Police Department
took days to tell the public the
March 2 explosion that killed a
39-year-old construction worker,
Anthony Stephan House, had
been caused by a package. And
police initially classified it as a
suspicious death, not a homicide.
“We can’t rule out that Mr.
House didn’t construct this him-
An FDA-funded analysis found that slashing nicotine levels could
lower the adult smoking rate to 1.4 percent from today’s 15 percent.
proposal.
Thursday’s action follows Gott-
lieb’s announcement last summer
that the agency would pursue a
comprehensive plan on tobacco
and nicotine regulation in an effort
to avert millions of tobacco-related
deaths. Smoking is at an all-time
low in the United States, and tobac-
co use among young people is also
at historically low rates. Still, smok-
ing causes 480,000 deaths annual-
ly in this country.
The 2009 Tobacco Control Act
gave the FDA the power to regulate
tobacco, though not to ban it.
Matthew Myers, president of the
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids,
an antismoking group, said that
Thursday’s action will have “enor-
mous significance” — provided
that quick FDA action follows to
develop and adopt a final rule.
“It would be the most significant
public health proposal we have
seen from the U.S. government in
the last 20 years,” he said. No regu-
latory agency in the world has seri-
ously proposed reducing nicotine
in cigarettes, he said.
“While this issue has been dis-
cussed conceptually for years, this
is first time we have a government
agency saying it is achievable, feasi-
ble and can be implemented in a
way that doesn’t cause serious neg-
ative consequences,” Myers said.
Robin Koval, chief executive
and president of Truth Initiative,
another anti-tobacco group, also
praised the effort, calling it a “a
serious, strong response.” But it
will be important for the FDA also
to move forward on other fronts,
she said, including on new
e-cigarette rules that were delayed
last summer by Gottlieb.
self and accidentally detonate it,
in which case it would be an acci-
dental death,” Assistant Chief Jo-
seph Chacon said at the time.
“How messed up is it that police
can make it seem like the person
did it themself?” Mann said. “It’s
insulting and offensive and tir-
ing.”
At a forum hosted by the Austin
Justice Coalition and Black Lives
Matter Austin on Thursday night
to discuss the explosions, one at-
tendee asked Police Chief Brian
Manley about his assistant chief’s
earlier statement.
“I apologize the department
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In discussing his comprehen-
sive tobacco strategy on Thursday,
Gottlieb said he sees “a historic
opportunity” to use nicotine reduc-
tion as a way to move smokers from
conventional cigarettes to prod-
ucts that provide nicotine without
the serious health hazards posed
by burning tobacco. Those alterna-
tive nicotine-delivery products in-
clude e-cigarettes or nicotine re-
placement therapies.
A spokesman for cigarette mak-
er Philip Morris International said
the company was still reviewing
the agency’s advance notice. The
firm previously had expressed
support for Gottlieb’s nicotine reg-
ulation plan, which he said “en-
courages the development of in-
novative new tobacco products
that may be less harmful than
cigarettes.”
James Figlar, executive vice
president of research and develop-
ment for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco,
said in a statement that he looks
forward “to working with FDA on
its science-based review of nico-
tine levels in cigarettes and to
build on the opportunity of estab-
lishing a regulatory framework
that is based on tobacco harm
reduction and recognizes the con-
tinuum of risk.”
The FDA also said Thursday
that it plans soon to issue two
other advance notices: one on the
role that flavors, including men-
thol, play in the use and cessation
of use of tobacco products, and the
other on the regulation of premi-
um cigars.
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put that out there because that
was not appropriate,” he said, add-
ing that he had apologized to
House’s family, as well. “It may
have been something that needed
to have been evaluated, but it’s not
something that needed to be said
publicly.”
In another line of inquiry with
potential racial undertones, po-
lice sought to determine whether
House’s death was cartel-related.
Mark McCrimmon, a defense at-
torney, said a client who had been
arrested in a drug raid in the
neighborhood weeks before was
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investigation into the bombing.
Police have since moved away
from those theories, though they
have yet to name a suspect or a
motivation for the bombings.
Susana Almanza, the director
of Poder, a nonprofit that works
on urban issues in East Austin,
said those early steps were a sign
of bias.
“It’s still the racism that exists
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creation of a “Negro District,” a
policy later compounded by
redlining, the practice of denying
services to residents based on
race.
Despite its reputation as a pro-
gressive haven, the city has some
of the highest rates of income
segregation in the country, ac-
cording to a series by the Austin
American-Statesman newspaper.
Those old tensions are in-
flamed by gentrification: Amid
rising rents and property taxes,
the black population has declined
in recent years, even as the city has
grown larger.
Still, there are positive signs in
the city, activists say.
Mayor Steve Adler created a
task force in 2016 to work with
community leaders to address
racism, and the reports it has pro-
duced have not pulled punches.
Chas Moore, the executive di-
rector of Austin Justice Coalition,
said Manley called him twice this
week — first about the bombings
and then to let him know that
three officers had been indicted
on use-of-force charges in a sepa-
rate case.
Still, there is a disconnect be-
tween the peripheral neighbor-
hoods where the bombings hap-
pened and the hedonistic world of
the South by Southwest festival
downtown, where big-name con-
certs, talks, exclusive parties and
bars packed with revelers churn
every day.
On Thursday, police opened
the block where 75-year-old Es-
peranza Herrera had been in-
jured while caring for her moth-
er on Thursday for the first time
since the explosion. Orange
spray-painted circles, what in-
vestigators often use to mark
evidence, dotted the street,
stretching far down the block
from where the bomb went off.
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Trump considering Fox News co-host to replace Shulkin as head of VA
BY L ISA R EIN
Fox News personality Pete Heg-
seth, a conservative voice on vet-
erans’ policy, has emerged as a
leading candidate to replace em-
battled Veterans Affairs Secretary
David Shulkin, who has fallen
from favor with the Trump admin-
istration, according to people
with knowledge of the matter.
Hegseth, 37, is co-host of “Fox &
Friends Weekend,” a platform he
has used to push his vision of a
health-care system with a drasti-
cally smaller government foot-
print and a larger share of private
care. He has railed against
Shulkin and members of Congress
in both political parties for their
moderate approach to offering
veterans access to private doctors.
Hegseth is an Iraq War veteran
who was previously executive di-
rector of the conservative advoca-
cy groups Vets for Freedom and
Concerned Veterans for America,
which is backed by the billionaire
industrialists Charles and David
Koch.
Concerned Veterans has
proved to be an influential force in
the administration. But Hegseth’s
views on reforming the troubled
agency are considered extreme
even by some Republicans in Con-
gress, and it is unclear if he could
win Senate confirmation if Presi-
dent Trump decides to fire
Shulkin.
Hegseth has been a confidant of
Trump’s. The president watches
his Fox News show and frequently
calls him to discuss veterans’ pol-
icy. Hegseth has dined at the
White House and, during an Oval
Office meeting between Trump
and Shulkin last week, the presi-
dent called Hegseth to seek his
counsel on pending legislation
that would expand private care.
Trump has not met with Heg-
seth about the job. But the presi-
dent has soured on Shulkin, the
only Obama-era holdover in his
Cabinet, amid widely reported
turmoil within VA’s senior ranks.
The president has told aides he
may replace Shulkin as part of a
A briefing
on the
$1.3 trillion
budget bill
Some answers on what
Congress plans to do
to avoid a shutdown
BY M IKE D E B ONIS
Here we are, once again: Feder-
al spending is set to expire on
March 23, leaving Congress a
week to negotiate and pass a bill to
keep the government open for
business.
As of Thursday, Republicans
and Democrats had yet to agree on
what is expected to be a massive
$1.3 trillion piece of legislation,
leaving Americans with more
questions than answers about
what Congress plans to do to avoid
a third government shutdown this
year. Here are a few:
Q: Why are we doing this again?
Didn’t Congress just pass a mas-
sive budget deal?
A: Your memory is not failing
you. On Feb. 9, President Trump
signed the Bipartisan Budget Act
of 2018, which increased federal
spending by roughly $300 billion
over the next two years and ended
a brief shutdown. But in Congress,
there is a distinction between bud-
geting and appropriating — that
is, setting top-line levels of overall
spending and actually directing
the money to specific agencies and
programs are two different mat-
ters. So as part of the budget deal,
Congress gave itself another six
weeks to work out microscopic
details of spending taxpayer mon-
ey and write an “omnibus” appro-
priations bill, which packages
smaller regular appropriations
bills into one larger bill, funding
the whole of the federal govern-
ment.
Q: What are the major out-
standing issues?
A: There are a lot of differences
between Republicans and Demo-
crats at this point, though they
should be resolved in the coming
days. The crucial flash points are
border security, immigration pol-
icy and abortion rights, with a few
other issues at play — including
health care and one major infra-
structure project.
To move the bill through the
House and Senate before the gov-
ernment shuts down at 12:01 a.m.
next Saturday, a deal will have to
be reached and a bill released by
early next week. Otherwise Con-
gress could be forced to pass an-
other short-term extension of cur-
Pete Hegseth, former executive director of Vets for Freedom and now co-host of “Fox & Friends Weekend,” gets on an elevator for a
meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in December 2016.
broader shake-up that began
Tuesday with his firing of Secre-
tary of State Rex Tillerson.
Other possible candidates to
run VA include Jeff Miller, a re-
tired Republican congressman
from Florida who was chairman
of the House Veterans’ Affairs
Committee and now works as a
lobbyist, according to sources
close to the administration. While
the president discussed the tur-
moil at VA in a meeting Monday
with Energy Secretary Rick Perry,
Perry told reporters Wednesday
that he is not interested in the job
and that he is not considered a
candidate.
Hegseth, reached late Wednes-
rent funding levels.
Q: What does immigration
have to do with federal spending?
A: Even though it’s only March,
the omnibus is likely to be the last
must-pass bill Congress takes up
before the November midterm
elections, so lawmakers are ex-
ploring attaching all sorts of pet
priorities to it. Even though at-
tempts to address the cancellation
of the Deferred Action for Child-
hood Arrivals (DACA) program
and Trump’s demands for a border
wall have so far fizzled, the issue
continues to be litigated as part of
the spending negotiations. The
Trump administration has floated
attaching a short-term DACA ex-
tension for young immigrants
paired with border wall funding,
but there seems to be little enthu-
siasm for the deal on Capitol Hill
— especially since Trump’s DACA
cancellation is tied up in court.
But other immigration-related
issues are at play: Liberal Demo-
crats do not want any additional
money for immigration enforce-
ment included in the spending
bill, while conservative Republi-
cans are pushing for language that
would allow the Trump adminis-
tration to pull federal money from
“sanctuary cities” that do not co-
operate with federal immigration
authorities.
Q: What about health care? And
why is abortion at issue?
A: Congressional leaders are ex-
ploring whether to attach funding
that would help health insurers
lower premiums on the plans they
sell on the exchanges set up under
the Affordable Care Act. Those
payments have been controversial
among conservatives, who consid-
er them unfair subsidies used to
prop up former president Barack
Obama’s health-care law. But with
Republicans unable to pass an
alternative of their own, there is
growing desire in the GOP to move
forward with the payments.
There is a catch: Republicans
want expansive restrictions to en-
sure the money is not used to
subsidize plans that offer abor-
tions, and Democrats are balking
at their proposed language, argu-
ing that it goes beyond an abortion
compromise struck when the ACA
was passed.
There are other disputes rooted
in abortion politics, as well: House
Republicans are pushing for lan-
guage that would allow the Trump
administration to direct federal
family planning and teen preg-
nancy prevention grants to groups
that promote sexual abstinence.
Democrats are opposed to that
provision, as well as policy
“riders” that would block funding
for health-care providers that per-
form abortions, allow health-care
providers to opt not to perform
procedures they find morally ob-
jectionable and bar funding for
scientific research using fetal tis-
sue.
Q: What else could cause prob-
lems?
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day, declined to comment. A for-
mer infantry soldier, he told The
Washington Post last week that
Shulkin “has talked a good game
on Choice,” referring to an exist-
ing program that allows veterans
to see private doctors, but with
restrictions. “But he’s sided with
the permanent bureaucracy, the
traditional veterans’ groups and
the unions.”
A Minnesota native, Hegseth
was vetted to run the sprawling
veterans’ agency after Trump was
elected in 2016. But he was consid-
ered too inexperienced to run the
government’s second-largest bu-
reaucracy, which employs
360,000 people. He also is disliked
A: A very expensive tunnel un-
der the Hudson River. Key con-
gressional leaders — especially
House Appropriations Committee
Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen
(R-N.J.) — are pushing to have the
bill direct $900 million to the
Gateway Program meant to im-
prove rail travel between New Jer-
sey and Manhattan. But the fund-
ing appears to have a fierce oppo-
nent in Trump, who sees the proj-
ect as a Democratic priority —
particularly for political rival
Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), the
Senate minority leader — and is in
no mood to rubber-stamp it.
Trump has told House Speaker
Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) that he
would veto the omnibus if the
Gateway funding is included, and
Ryan told a group of GOP lawmak-
ers from New Jersey and New York
on Wednesday that the president’s
opposition could derail the spend-
ing bill.
One key Republican advocate of
the project, Rep. Peter T. King
(R-N.Y.), buttonholed Trump on
Thursday at a St. Patrick’s Day
The crucial flash points
on the massive spending
bill are border security,
immigration policy and
abortion rights.
luncheon on Capitol Hill, and ar-
gued on behalf of the project. He
would not tell reporters afterward
whether his lobbying had suc-
ceeded in preserving the funding.
“It was a very friendly conversa-
tion,” King said. “He heard how
important it is, and that’s as far as I
can go.”
Q: What other goodies might
get thrown into the bill?
A: A number of tax provisions
could find their way into the bill,
including fixes to the Republican
tax overhaul that passed in De-
cember. One closely watched fix
involves a drafting error that has
left some agricultural businesses
eligible for a key tax break while
others are exempt. A bipartisan
group of lawmakers led by Rep.
Kristi L. Noem (R-S.D.) is pushing
to attach legislation that would
require online retailers to collect
sales tax based on the location of
their customers, but there is fierce
opposition in some corners.
Meanwhile, a handful of lawmak-
ers are pushing for a provision
that would allow the Export-
Import Bank of the United States,
which has been hamstrung by po-
litical fights that have left it with-
out a functioning board, to return
to full operations, but congres-
sional leaders appear unlikely to
add the measure.
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by traditional veterans’ advocacy
groups, which fear a downsized
VA and a privatized system, and
which would probably mount a
strong campaign against his nom-
ination.
Shulkin, 58, a physician and
former hospital executive who ran
the Veterans Health Administra-
tion under President Barack
Obama, won unanimous Senate
confirmation last year. He has
racked up a number of bipartisan
wins for the administration in
Congress but has clashed with
VA’s senior political appointees
installed by the White House. The
core issue on which they disagree
is the degree to which veterans
Despite Trump’s vow to curb donors’
influence, vacancies remain on FEC
BY M ICHELLE Y E H EE L EE
More than a year into his
presidency, President Trump has
shown little interest in beefing
up the Federal Election Commis-
sion, the agency that could serve
as a key player in his avowed
agenda to reduce the influence of
moneyed interests on politics.
So far, Trump has nominated
just one new commissioner to fill
the two open spots on the panel.
He has the opportunity to name
an entirely new slate. The re-
maining four commissioners are
serving on expired terms, two of
which ended as long as a decade
ago.
If one more leaves without
being replaced, the FEC will lack
a quorum and be effectively para-
lyzed.
As a presidential candidate,
Trump blasted the influence of
wealthy donors, criticized oppo-
nents for skirting limits on coor-
dinating with their super PACs
and said he would overhaul the
“rigged” campaign finance sys-
tem.
A chorus of advocates — both
liberal and conservative — is
urging Trump to fulfill his cam-
paign pledge by appointing new
commissioners.
“A weak FEC really contributes
to filling the swamp, not draining
it,” said John Pudner, executive
director of the group Take Back
Our Republic, which aims to
build conservative support for
reducing the influence of wealthy
interests in politics.
The White House declined to
comment.
Trump’s opportunity to re-
make the FEC comes as two
high-profile matters involving
the president are pending before
the commission.
The agency is working on new
rules that would require greater
transparency about the sponsor
of online ads, a response to
Russian interference in the 2016
elections. And the FEC must
decide how to handle a recently
lodged complaint alleging that a
payment to an adult-film star
who claims to have had an affair
with Trump broke campaign fi-
nance rules.
The stakes are high because
the FEC is responsible for enforc-
ing federal election regulations.
It audits reports submitted by
campaigns of their spending and
fundraising and investigates
complaints filed against federal
candidates and their campaigns.
Commissioners serve six-year
terms but can continue serving
until a replacement is named.
But these “holdover” commis-
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should be able to seek private care
at government expense. About 30
percent of VA’s medical appoint-
ments are now handled by private
doctors.
The tensions spilled into public
view in February following an in-
vestigation by the agency’s inspec-
tor general, who admonished the
secretary for a business trip he
took to Europe with his wife and
top staff.
Shulkin could not be reached
for comment. During testimony
Thursday on Capitol Hill, he was
asked by lawmakers whether he’s
become distracted by the feud or
faced pressure from the adminis-
tration to privatize veterans’ care.
sioners can resign at any time.
Already, the shorthanded pan-
el — split between two Republi-
can members, one Democrat and
an independent who caucuses
with Democrats — struggles to
come to decisions. The law re-
quires four votes for any action,
and members are often dead-
locked along party lines.
FEC Chairwoman Caroline
Hunter, a Republican who was
appointed in 2008 and whose
term has expired, declined to
answer whether the vacancies
have affected the operations of
the commission.
As a presidential candidate,
Trump expressed his disgust with
the power of big donors, calling
super PACs that can take unlimit-
ed donations a “total scam.” In
2016, he said super PACs backing
his primary opponents amount-
ed to “buying an election,” calling
it a “broken system.”
“He is somewhat unique in
that he was elected as a Republi-
can presidential candidate while
talking about money in politics
issues,” said Matthew Sanderson,
who served as a campaign
finance lawyer for the 2008
McCain-Palin ticket. “I thought
there might be some opportunity
for him to do something.”
Last year, Trump nominated
conservative Texas lawyer James
E. “Trey” Trainor III to the panel,
but the Senate has not scheduled
a confirmation hearing. It’s un-
clear when more nominations
will be made.
Per tradition, the president
defers to the opposition party’s
leader in the Senate to make
recommendations for nominees
from his party. Advocates say
Trump and Senate Minority
Leader Charles E. Schumer
(D-N.Y.) could be taking a more
active role if they wanted to move
the process along.
The last Democratic commis-
sioner resigned a year ago, but
aides to Schumer declined to say
whether he has suggested a re-
placement. Schumer’s spokes-
man Justin Goodman said the
senator is working with the ad-
ministration to make recommen-
dations for all the open minority
seats on regulatory bodies.
Don Stewart, spokesman for
Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell (R-Ky.), said McCon-
nell “is looking forward to con-
firming FEC commissioners who
will protect the First Amend-
ment in the important arena of
political speech.”
It may take the resignation of
one more commissioner and loss
of quorum to prompt urgency,
said Lawrence Norton, a former
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The secretary said that he remains
focused and that the only pressure
he faces is “to fix this system.”
It’s unclear how long Shulkin
plans to stay in the job, though.
His allies say he is focused on
moving the Choice legislation
through Congress and on signing
the first phase of a massive con-
tract to overhaul VA’s outdated
electronic health records system.
A sticking point has been how a
new system would connect veter-
ans’ medical records with those of
private doctors.
Hegseth has been critical of
some senators whose votes he
would need for confirmation. As
the Senate debated legislation to
expand the Choice program in
November, he tweeted about Sen-
ate Veterans’ Affairs Committee
chairman Johnny Isakson
(R-Ga.): “Worst part about this is
that so-called Republican @Sena-
torIsakson voted WITH socialist
@SenSanders to block MORE
health care choice for veterans.
Sanders wants to trap vets in
@DeptVetAffairs and so do
Swamp creature ‘Republicans’
like Isakson.”
Asked to comment on a possi-
ble Hegseth nomination, Isakson
spokeswoman Amanda Maddox
said, “We don’t comment on hypo-
theticals.”
The Koch political network has
announced plans to spend sub-
stantial money to target incum-
bent Democrats in the 2018 mid-
term elections, among them Sen.
Jon Tester (Mont.), the commit-
tee’s ranking Democrat.
Tester, a Shulkin supporter,
said in a recent statement, “Right
now, what the veterans of this
country need is a leadership team
at VA and in the White House who
will help us . . . improve access to
quality VA health care. That
means we need a Secretary who
works for our veterans, not for the
Koch brothers.”
lisa.rein@washpost.com
Josh Dawsey, Philip Rucker and
Ashley Parker contributed to this
report.
FEC general counsel.
The last time that happened
was in 2008, when only two of
the six seats were filled at the
start of a presidential election
year.
The two commissioners still
held meetings, but there was a
backlog of complaints, Norton
said. Then, once new commis-
sioners were confirmed, there
was a “ramp-up time” as they got
adjusted to their new roles,
which led to further delays, he
said.
“It’s certainly foreseeable that
we could be in the same position
soon once again in an election
year,” Norton said.
GOP election law lawyer Char-
lie Spies, who served as counsel
for Mitt Romney’s 2008 presi-
dential campaign, said he hopes
to see Trump appoint “rule of
law” commissioners with the
same fervor with which he has
appointed conservative judges.
Trump demonstrated the pow-
er of small donors in his cam-
paign, Spies said, by hauling in
impressive amounts of low-
dollar campaign contributions
and using social and earned me-
dia rather than paid advertising.
“On a wide range of campaign
finance issues, I think President
Trump comes out looking very
good compared to the competi-
tion,” Spies said, referring to
Democrats.
A week after his inauguration,
Trump signed a far-reaching eth-
ics policy on lobbying. Several
campaign finance experts said
they viewed it as a sign that
Trump was preparing to make
broader changes to the financing
of elections.
After he became president,
Trump continued to criticize the
role of donors: “I used to be a
donor. Used to get everything I
wanted,” he said during a May
2017 speech.
But last week, he reportedly
dined with wealthy donors at the
home of a prominent Washing-
ton lawyer, a sign that he is
hewing more closely to his pred-
ecessors in his attitude toward
major contributors.
Trevor Potter, a former Repub-
lican FEC commissioner and
founder of campaign-finance ad-
vocacy group Campaign Legal
Center, said he hopes that things
will change under Trump this
year.
“I am hopeful that he will turn
to those issues in the second year
of his term, now that he has dealt
with tax cuts and health care and
substantive legislative issues in
the first year,” Potter said.
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Nostalgia grows for dictatorship in Brazil
In a nation wearied by crime and widespread political corruption, some advocate for temporary military control
BY M ARINA L OPES
sao paulo, brazil — The mili-
tary dictatorship that ruled Brazil
four decades ago maintained law
and order through systematic
brutality. Nearly 500 people were
killed or simply disappeared. But
at a political rally outside Sao
Paulo last week, the air was thick
with nostalgia for that era of
terror.
Several hundred people in
army camouflage and police
T-shirts shouted their admiration
for the soldiers who carried out
the kidnappings and murders au-
thorized by the regime.
“Thanks to you, Brazil did not
become Cuba!” they chanted,
some snapping salutes. “Brazil
first, God above all.”
The dictatorship-era generals
were also accused of deploying
electric shocks, beatings and psy-
chological torture in their two-
decade-long effort to cement
power and ward off communism.
But as a crime wave rocks some of
the country’s largest cities and a
corruption scandal engulfs its po-
litical elite, some Brazilians see
them as the last champions of
public order.
“During the dictatorship, there
was safety. That doesn’t exist to-
day,” said Marcelo Freitas, a
42-year-old former army officer
at the rally who said he was shot
in the eye 10 years ago during a
mugging. “If we want to clean up
the country, we need the mili-
tary.”
On average, seven people are
violently killed every hour in Bra-
zil, according to government fig-
ures. In 2016, the country regis-
tered a record rate of 29.9 homi-
cides for every 100,000 people,
nearly six times that of the United
States.
Freitas, who wore a leather
patch over his blinded eye and a
camouflage T-shirt, said he
dreams of safer streets for his
5-year-old son and would support
a return to a military regime.
He is not alone. Nostalgia for
the dictatorship is growing. An
estimated 43 percent of the popu-
lation supports a temporary re-
vival of military control, accord-
ing to a 2017 poll, up from 35 per-
cent in 2016. The figure is espe-
cially high among young people,
many of whom say they are disil-
lusioned with democracy and
with Brazil’s scandal-tainted poli-
ticians.
Brazil isn’t the only country
where democracy is losing its
glow. In the United States, just
30 percent of people born in the
1980s say they believe it is “essen-
tial” to live in a democracy, as
opposed to 72 percent of people
born before World War II, accord-
ing to a study published in the
Journal of Democracy in 2016.
Fear of violence, whether it be
terrorism or street crime, has
fueled support for authoritarian
parties and bolstered populist
leaders with tough-on-crime,
anti-immigrant platforms
around the world, from President
Rodrigo Duterte in the Philip-
pines to Chancellor Sebastian
Kurz in Austria.
But the flirtation with authori-
tarianism may be especially omi-
nous in Brazil, where wobbly
democratic institutions are still
recovering from the dictatorship
that held the country in its grip
from 1964 to 1985.
Last month, President Michel
Temer ordered the military to
take over security in Rio de Janei-
ro after a spike in crime soured
BRAZIL
Rio councilwoman,
driver shot to death
A popular Rio de Janeiro
councilwoman was shot in the
head four times by assassins,
police said Thursday, a brazen
killing that shocked Brazil.
A police official said Marielle
Franco, 38, and her driver,
Anderson Pedro Gomes, were
killed Wednesday night while
sitting in a car with tinted
windows. The official spoke on
the condition of anonymity
because he was not authorized to
discuss the case publicly.
Press officer Fernanda Chaves
also was wounded in the attack
in the Rio neighborhood of
Estacio de Sa. Earlier, Franco had
attended an event focused on
empowering young black
women.
Elected in 2016, Franco was a
member of the left-leaning
Socialism and Liberty Party
known for her social work in
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: An inflatable figure of Jair Bolsonaro, who is running for president of Brazil; Bolsonaro supporters at a rally
for him; the candidate, who has made public statements of admiration for the dictatorship era, speaks during a ceremony this month.
Carnival celebrations. The move
was widely denounced as a dan-
gerous precedent — although it
was also seen as a smart response
to the growing base of voters
calling for law and order.
“This sentiment is in the air
and is being exploited. The inter-
vention in Rio is an attempt by
the president to explore that feel-
ing — the nostalgia, the feeling
that the military is an anti-politi-
cal, tough, external body,” said
Pablo Ortellado, a public policy
professor at the University of Sao
Paulo. “Depending on how the
intervention goes, if it succeeds in
even appearing to reduce crime,
it could generate a dangerous
wave of militarism.”
For many of Brazil’s millenni-
als, disillusionment with democ-
racy has resulted in a rejection of
the leftist groups that governed
Latin America for the past two
decades, according to Renato Sér-
gio de Lima, president of the
Brazilian Forum on Public Secu-
rity.
“The left is the only reference
that [millennials] have for politi-
cal power, because it has ruled for
most of their politically conscious
life. That government is being
poor, marginalized communities
and outspokenness against
police violence.
Protests were planned in
several cities later Thursday, and
Franco’s party called for a march
in Rio de Janeiro on Friday.
— Associated Press
SLOVAKIA
Prime minister resigns
in wake of slayings
Slovak Prime Minister Robert
Fico and his government
resigned Thursday amid a
political crisis triggered by the
slayings of an investigative
journalist and his fiancee.
President Andrej Kiska
accepted the resignation and
asked Deputy Prime Minister
Peter Pellegrini to form a new
government. The move is meant
to keep the three-party coalition
in power and avoid the
possibility of an early election.
Fico, who has led three Slovak
governments, said he had no
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destroyed by corruption, so what
is the alternative?” Lima said.
Four years into a corruption
investigation that has traced a
local carwash kickback scheme
up to the highest echelons of
government, Brazilian democra-
cy is facing its worst legitimacy
crisis since the dictatorship. The
scandal has tarnished more than
100 of the country’s top politi-
cians, including the current pres-
ident and two former ones, and
left few viable candidates for the
presidential elections in six
months.
Jair Bolsonaro, an outspoken
senator from a fringe party, has
emerged as one of the only aspir-
ing contenders with both charis-
ma and a clean record. A former
soldier, he became famous for
challenging his rivals and the
media to find proof that he has
been involved in corruption.
Bolsonaro has paired his un-
blemished record with a tough-
on-crime platform and public
statements of admiration for the
dictatorship era. He is not calling
for a return to military dictator-
ship, but he has done so in the
past and talks up its law-and-
order values. In 2016, he eulo-
DIGEST
plans to leave politics. “I want to
be an active chairman of a
political party,” he said.
His resignation came after
tens of thousands of Slovaks
joined protests across the
country last week to demand the
government’s resignation and an
investigation into the shooting
deaths of Jan Kuciak and
Martina Kusnirova. Kuciak was
writing about ties between the
Italian mafia and people close to
Fico when he was killed.
— Associated Press
SOUTH SUDAN
U.N. threatens arms
embargo, sanctions
The U.N. Security Council
demanded an immediate end to
fighting in South Sudan on
Thursday and threatened to
consider an arms embargo and
sanctions to prevent warring
parties from violating a
December cease-fire deal.
A U.S.-drafted resolution,
gized the late Col. Carlos Alberto
Brilhante Ustra, a convicted tor-
turer, as he cast his vote to im-
peach then-President Dilma
Rousseff, who was jailed and tor-
tured during the dictatorship.
According to the latest polls, he
has the backing of 18 percent of
prospective voters, trailing only
former president Luiz Inácio Lula
da Silva, who is at 37 percent but
may be barred from running be-
cause of a corruption conviction.
Bolsonaro has since made
headlines for other brash state-
ments, including calling a fellow
senator not worthy of being raped
and saying he could not love a gay
son.
The similarities to the style of
the U.S. president are not lost on
Bolsonaro, a self-proclaimed
Trump supporter, or his fans.
“They fought a crooked media
in the United States and got
Trump elected. We can do the
same here!” Douglas Garcia, a
24-year-old international rela-
tions student, yelled into a mega-
phone at the rally. The crowd
cheered.
In February, Garcia planned a
Carnival parade in honor of Ser-
gio Fleury, a police officer ac-
adopted unanimously, also
expressed the council’s intention
to consider sanctions “against
those who take actions that
undermine the peace, stability,
and security of South Sudan.”
The resolution extends the
mandate of the U.N.
peacekeeping force in South
Sudan until March 15, 2019, and
maintains the 17,000-troop
ceiling, including a regional
protection force of up to 4,000
troops and 2,101 international
police personnel.
In 2013, two years after South
Sudan gained independence
from Sudan, the country plunged
into ethnic violence when forces
loyal to President Salva Kiir, a
Dinka, started battling those
loyal to Riek Machar, his former
vice president who is a Nuer.
— Associated Press
Mugabe calls ouster a “coup”:
In his first interview since being
forced from power in November,
former Zimbabwean leader
Robert Mugabe described his
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cused of torturing and murdering
prisoners during the dictatorship
era. More than 1,600 people re-
sponded with interest on Face-
book before a local judge shut the
event down.
For Garcia, the parade did not
represent a call for a new military
dictatorship but a celebration of
standards of behavior that have
been lost. “I recognize that under
the military regime there was less
impunity, more security,” he said.
Some supporters of Bolsonaro
cite that same distinction, saying
they see in him an opportunity to
elect a military-style leader with-
out an actual military interven-
tion.
“These kids hear their parents
talking about the dictatorship
and claim to support it, but they
don’t know what they are saying,”
said Maria Aparecida Carvalho,
67, who remembers the era well.
“We’ve already been through that.
I don’t miss it.”
The retired mechanical engi-
neer woke up at 5 a.m. to go and
see Bolsonaro at last week’s rally.
“He supports Brazil’s tradition-
al values,” she said. “The Judeo-
Christian values of our people.”
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removal as a “disgrace.” In a
program aired Thursday,
Mugabe, 94, told South African
broadcaster SABC that he was
pushed out by the military,
which staged a takeover that led
to his resignation after 37 years
in power. “It was a coup d’état,”
he said. “We must undo this
disgrace.” Mugabe spoke at his
mansion in a suburb of the
capital, Harare. The military
intervention was hugely popular
in Zimbabwe and led to
impeachment proceedings by the
ruling party against Mugabe. He
was replaced by ex-confidant
Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Unions plan rail strikes: French
rail unions said Thursday they
had agreed to call a wave of
rolling strikes starting April 3,
affecting 36 days over three
months, to protest the
government’s bid to reform the
state-run rail operator SNCF. The
strikes will be held on two
consecutive days out of every
five, the unions said. On
. FRIDAY, MARCH 16 , 2018
Legislators
back move
to impeach
Peru leader
BY F RANKLIN B RICENO
lima, peru — Peru’s Congress
has voted by a wide margin to
reopen impeachment proceed-
ings against President Pedro Pab-
lo Kuczynski, thrusting the Ande-
an nation into renewed political
turmoil as it prepares to host
President Trump at a regional
summit less than a month away.
It’s the second time lawmakers
have threatened to remove the
former Wall Street investor over
his ties to the Brazilian construc-
tion giant Odebrecht, which is at
the center of Latin America’s big-
gest corruption scandal.
In December, Kuczynski nar-
rowly avoided being voted out of
office after a small opposition
faction, including the son of then-
jailed former president Alberto
Fujimori, abstained from voting.
Days later, Kuczynski pardoned
Fujimori from a 25-year jail sen-
tence for human rights abuses
during his decade-long rule.
But analysts say Kuczynski’s
chances of survival look slimmer
now. The deeply unpopular presi-
dent has become increasingly iso-
lated as onetime allies abandon
him and polls show a majority of
Peruvians want him out.
“He’s going to have a lot more
difficulty,” said Eduardo Dargent,
a political-science professor at
Pontifical Catholic University of
Peru.
The measure adopted Thurs-
day asks Kuczynski to go before
Congress next week. It had the
support of 87 lawmakers — the
same number needed to oust the
president on grounds of “moral
incapacity.” Fifteen lawmakers
opposed, and 15 abstained.
At the heart of the president’s
troubles is $782,000 in payments
that Odebrecht made to Kucyzns-
ki’s private consulting firm more
than a decade ago. For months,
Kuczynski had denied having any
political or business ties with
Odebrecht, even as three of his
predecessors were under probe
for allegedly taking bribes from
the company.
Odebrecht has admitted to
paying $800 million in bribes to
officials across Latin America, in-
cluding $29 million to politicians
in Peru, as part of a 2016 plea deal
with the U.S. Justice Department.
The scandal has jolted Peru,
where two former presidents
stand accused of accepting mon-
ey from the construction empire.
Analysts say this latest chapter
could hurt the nation’s economy.
In less than a month, Peru is
scheduled to host Trump and
other leaders for the Summit of
the Americas, whose main theme
is how to combat corruption in
the Western Hemisphere.
After Thursday’s vote, Prime
Minister Mercedes Aráoz said the
attempt to oust Kuczynski “de-
stroys Peru’s image as a country
built on clear, democratic rules.”
Kuczynski has denied wrong-
doing and says he won’t step
down. If removed, he would be
replaced by Vice President Mar-
tín Vizcarra, a former governor
serving as ambassador to Canada.
“As I’ve said from the begin-
ning, I don’t have anything to
hide,” Kuczynski tweeted Thurs-
day. “And I am willing to testify
with absolute transparency.”
— Associated Press
Wednesday, the French
government backed a bill to fast-
track through parliament a
shake-up of the debt-ridden
SNCF, including ending the right
to jobs for life and cutting early-
retirement provisions.
U.N. calls on Yemen to ensure
aid: Responding to what it calls
the world’s worst humanitarian
crisis, the U.N. Security Council
on Thursday urged the warring
parties in Yemen to ensure that
aid gets to all affected areas,
citing U.N. estimates that over
22 million people need food,
medicine and other help. A
statement approved by the 15
council members expressed
“grave concern at the continued
humanitarian impact of the
conflict on civilians,” which has
led to outbreaks of cholera and
diphtheria and the threat of
famine. It said the number of
Yemenis needing assistance has
risen by 3.4 million since last
year.
— From news services
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NATO members boost defense spending, but that’s unlikely to satisfy Trump
BY M ICHAEL B IRNBAUM
brussels — NATO Secretary
General Jens Stoltenberg said
Thursday that alliance members
increased their defense spending
in 2017 for a third consecutive
year, amid complaints from Pres-
ident Trump that only a handful
of the 29 allies are meeting their
pledges.
The numbers were unlikely to
allay Trump’s anger over his per-
ception that Europe is taking the
U.S. defense umbrella for grant-
ed. No additional countries met
NATO’s defense spending goals
last year, and only four — the
United States, Britain, Estonia
and Greece — reached the mark,
although more are expected to
get there in 2018.
Lagging European defense
spending has frustrated U.S. offi-
cials for years, but in the Trump
era, the numbers have taken on
outsize importance.
Countries registering short-
falls face threats from Washing-
ton, including the prospect that
the United States might not come
to their defense. Some of Trump’s
economic advisers have said that
exemptions to new steel and alu-
minum tariffs might be grant-
ed only to countries that spend at
least 2 percent on defense.
“All allies are stepping up, do-
ing more in more places in more
ways,” Stoltenberg said as he
unveiled NATO’s annual report.
NATO countries — not includ-
ing the United States — collec-
tively spent an estimated
1.45 percent of their annual eco-
A child sleeps in a bag in Eastern Ghouta, Syria. By midafternoon Thursday, state television said, 10,000 people had fled to government-held territory. An equal number of people moved in the other direction.
Syrians flee in first major exodus from besieged enclave
SYRIA FROM A1
midafternoon. An equal number
of people fled in the other direc-
tion, racing across fields to re-
main behind rebel lines because
they feared being detained by the
government, residents said.
This latest government ad-
vance came as Syria marked the
seventh anniversary of the upris-
ing against President Bashar al-
Assad, which began with peaceful
protests before quickly mutating
into a raging war.
The fight for Eastern Ghouta is
turning into one of the bloodiest
battles yet, with at least 1,540
people killed and nearly 6,000
injured since the U.N. Security
Council adopted a resolution
mandating a 30-day cease-fire
nearly three weeks ago, according
to figures provided by the Eastern
Ghouta health directorate.
As the scenes on Thursday
demonstrated, the war that al-
ready has claimed the lives of as
many as half a million people is
far from over. The Syrian Net-
work for Human Rights, which
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks Thursday in Brussels. He joined the condemnation
of a nerve-agent attack this month in England that British officials believe was carried out by Russia.
nomic output on defense last
year, still short of the 2 percent
agreed to by national leaders in
2014 as a 10-year target.
That was the year Russia’s
annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean
Peninsula sparked fears in Eu-
rope that the continent was badly
prepared for a traditional ground
war with Russia, once NATO’s
reason for being.
The report comes as Britain
counts only civilian casualties,
said in a report Thursday that
217,764 civilians have been killed
since the first peaceful protests in
March 2011. Huge numbers of
men also have died fighting for
both sides in a conflict that has
drawn foreign powers into a
scramble for influence over the
strategic country, located at the
heart of the Middle East.
Although Assad loyalists have
recaptured much of the area they
lost to the rebels, the opposition
still controls about a fifth of the
country. The mostly Islamist reb-
els have controlled the Eastern
Ghouta cluster of towns and vil-
lages since the earliest days of the
revolt. Although loyalist forces
have now seized more than half of
the enclave, the main population
centers remain with the rebels,
raising fears of even worse blood-
shed ahead.
Far from halting the violence,
the cease-fire resolution has
seemed only to intensify the gov-
ernment push to recapture the
enclave. The offensive has accel-
erated despite appeals from the
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says it believes Russia carried out
a nerve-agent attack on its soil
this month, a case the alliance
described as the first instance of
chemical weapons being used
offensively against a member na-
tion since its founding after
World War II.
British diplomats on Wednes-
day outlined their concerns
about the attack to their NATO
peers, but they stopped short of
international community and
warnings from the Trump admin-
istration that the United States is
prepared to take unilateral mili-
tary action to enforce the truce.
Throughout the day, state tele-
vision broadcast live coverage of
columns of families leaving Ham-
mouriya, clutching luggage and
sacks of flour. The first people to
leave limped out on foot, men
bowed under heavy suitcases,
women carrying children and
torn plastic bags of clothes.
An injured, blood-soaked man
was carried by relatives on a
stretcher. An elderly man pushed
his wife in a wheelchair; another
herded a dozen cows, another a
flock of sheep.
By midafternoon, the trickle
swelled to a flood as buses, pick-
up trucks and Syrian army vehi-
cles showed up in the town, and
people piled on board, now bring-
ing furniture and mattresses.
They were joined by others flee-
ing in their cars, creating a crush
of people, vehicles and animals
that clogged the road leading out
of the enclave.
YVES HERMAN/REUTERS
triggering a formal alliance re-
sponse.
“The substance used is one of
the most toxic ever developed,”
Stoltenberg said. “The attack was
a breach of international norms
and agreements. This attack was
unacceptable. It has no place in a
civilized world.”
He added that the higher
spending will help alliance mem-
bers defend against and respond
A few carried portraits of As-
sad, declaring their allegiance to
the government. Some walked
silently past the camera, while
others paused to speak, thanking
the Syrian army and denouncing
the rebels.
“Thank God, this is because of
the Syrian army and our leader,
Doctor Bashar. May God save him
and destroy the terrorists,” one
man said.
A woman said the rebels had
shot her son because her husband
and other son worked for the
Syrian military. “May God not
forgive them,” she said.
Several said that they had
wanted to leave earlier but that
the rebels had prevented them
from doing so. “They made our
veins run dry with fear,” said one
woman. “We are talking from our
hearts, and we thank President
Bashar for ridding us of the
terrorists.”
The live broadcast was punctu-
ated by the roar of warplanes
overhead and the crashing thuds
of explosions as the bombing of
the enclave continued elsewhere.
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to chemical attacks of the type
unleashed in Salisbury, which
targeted a Russian who had spied
for Britain.
This year, eight countries are
expected to meet NATO’s 2 per-
cent goal: Britain, Estonia,
Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Po-
land, Romania and the United
States. In 2017, Poland narrowly
missed the cut — at 1.99 percent
of its annual economic output —
after its economy grew faster
than it had expected when it
made its defense spending plans.
Under pressure from the Unit-
ed States, NATO members have
pledged to create road maps of
how they will meet the goals by
2024.
Policymakers who were in-
volved in the 2014 negotiations
that ended with the spending
commitments said that the 2 per-
cent figure was chosen in part to
galvanize public discussion, not
because it was a magic number
that would signal NATO had
reached a state of readiness.
“It was a judgment about what
level could be set that was politi-
cally at least somewhat credible
and at least somewhat achievable
and therefore had some mobiliz-
ing power about it,” said Adam
Thomson, who was British am-
bassador to NATO until 2016 and
is now director of the European
Leadership Network, a security-
focused think tank.
“Nobody could quite have ex-
pected the way it has been taken
up in such an unsophisticated
fashion by Trump, but that, too,
has had a real impact,” he said.
Hammouriya had been one of a
handful of towns in Eastern Gh-
outa that had staged pro-Assad
demonstrations in recent days,
calling on the government to
reclaim the area, the rebels to
leave and the bombing to stop.
But the government continued
to advance. Activists said they
counted more than 300 airstrikes
on Eastern Ghouta on Wednes-
day, with most of them concen-
trated on Hammouriya.
A man who escaped behind
rebel lines described in a Skype
call a desperate scramble to flee
toward those areas for people
who feared being detained by the
government for their association
with the revolt against Assad’s
rule.
“I escaped through some fields.
There was intense bombing
around me. I saw six helicopters
around me, and they were bomb-
ing,” said the man, who works as a
journalist in the area and spoke
on the condition of anonymity
because he fears for his safety.
“The escape was like being
born again because the ordeal felt
. FRIDAY, MARCH 16 , 2018
Leaders of countries that do
not meet the goals sometimes say
the raw numbers fail to fully
capture defense commitments.
Efficient spending and a willing-
ness to contribute troops to
NATO missions are also an im-
portant measure, some of them
say. In Germany, which lags on
hard military spending, leaders
say their extensive development
aid commitments contribute to
global security.
The United States still spends
the lion’s share on defense in the
alliance — 68.7 percent of the
total in 2017. That reflects its
role as the foremost global super-
power. The United States spent
3.57 percent of its overall eco-
nomic output on defense last
year.
Other countries have dramati-
cally ramped up their spending, a
reflection of U.S. pressure that
started well before Trump was
elected and a sense of vulnerabili-
ty after the annexation of Crimea.
Romania poured an extra
34.8 percent into its spending last
year. Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania,
Spain and Luxembourg also re-
corded significant jumps.
Although most countries have
boosted their spending, a handful
have made cuts. Belgium, a na-
tion of 11 million that hosts NATO
headquarters, cut defense spend-
ing by 0.73 percent last year,
reducing its outlay in the area to
0.9 percent of its economic out-
put. Greece and Britain also reg-
istered declines, although both
are still meeting their pledges.
michael.birnbaum@washpost.com
OMAR SANADIKI/REUTERS
so dangerous,” he said. “There
were so many people. Women,
children, young men, civil de-
fense workers — they were all
moving through the fields. Then
one by one, we moved through
destroyed buildings to escape.”
Residents sent desperate pleas
for help over social media as the
bombs fell, saying ambulances
were unable to reach the wound-
ed.
“Whole families are killed.
Their bodies are in the streets. No
one can help due to the bombing,
and the shelters are burning with
children and women and fami-
lies,” according to a message post-
ed on a social media group by
Nour Adam, an activist in Eastern
Ghouta who said he had received
the description from a friend
inside Hammouriya. Two hours
later, he said, his friend stopped
answering the phone.
liz.sly@washpost.com
louisa.loveluck@washpost.com
Zakaria Zakaria in Istanbul and Heba
Habib in Stockholm contributed to
this report.
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Iran nuclear deal may be first casualty of Tillerson’s ouster at State Dept.
BY C AROL M ORELLO
The nomination of Mike
Pompeo to be the next secretary
of state signals President Trump’s
determination to quit the land-
mark Iran nuclear deal, which
could cause it to unravel, accord-
ing to national security and arms-
control experts.
If Pompeo is confirmed, Trump
will have at his side an adviser
who is equally as hard line on
Iran and a harsh critic of the 2015
multilateral agreement between
the United States and other world
powers.
“Now you have the appoint-
ment of someone who has made it
an article of faith that the Iran
deal is a bad deal that needs to be
ripped up,” said Robert Malley,
who is president of the Interna-
tional Crisis Group and helped
broker the Iran negotiations un-
der the Obama administration.
“It may well be the first casualty
of Tillerson’s ousting will be the
end of the Iran deal.”
Trump comments unsettle S. Korea
BY J OHN H UDSON
South Korean officials placed a
volley of phone calls to the State
Department and Pentagon in re-
sponse to a suggestion by Presi-
dent Trump that he might link
U.S. military support for South
Korea to the outcome of trade
negotiations with its longtime
ally.
“We have a very big trade
deficit with them, and we protect
them,” Trump said at a private
fundraiser in Missouri on
Wednesday, according to an au-
dio recording obtained by The
Washington Post. “So we lose
money on trade, and we lose
money on the military. We have
right now 32,000 soldiers on the
border between North and South
Korea. Let’s see what happens.”
In an effort to dispel confusion
over the comments, a White
House official said that the presi-
dent “did not suggest removing
American forces from South Ko-
rea” but that his administration
remained committed to improv-
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relationship for the benefit of
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Pompeo has frequently ex-
pressed scorn for Iran, which he
once characterized as “a thuggish
police state” and a “despotic the-
ocracy.” Just before Trump named
him to head the CIA, Pompeo
tweeted that he looked forward to
“rolling back” the nuclear deal,
which he called “disastrous.”
As secretary of state, Pompeo
will have to certify whether Iran
is meeting its nuclear commit-
ments under the deal, as required
every 90 days under U.S. law.
Rex Tillerson, who was fired
Tuesday as secretary of state,
always concluded that Iran was
complying as international moni-
tors have reported, although not
in its “spirit.” He had urged the
president to stay in the agree-
ment to preserve leverage over
Iran’s ballistic missile testing and
other actions not covered under
the agreement. Although they
disagreed on many foreign policy
issues, Trump mentioned only
the Iran deal in explaining why he
thought it was time for Tillerson
U.S. workers.
U.S. defense officials and dip-
lomats fielded direct calls from
the Korean Embassy in Washing-
ton, but their agencies struggled
to form a public response to
Trump’s comments, which carry
significant political and security
consequences for South Korea.
“We refer you to the White
House for comment,” said a State
Department spokesman.
Pentagon spokeswoman Dana
W. White also referred questions
to the White House. “Our focus is
that our relationship with South
Korea is the strongest it has ever
been,” White said. “There is no
space between Washington and
Seoul, and we’ll continue to sup-
port them and work together.”
Trump’s remarks came as ne-
gotiators from the United States
and South Korea were set to meet
Thursday in Washington to dis-
cuss a revision of the U.S.-Korea
Free Trade Agreement, also
known as KORUS. In the past,
Trump has vowed to cancel the
deal if Seoul refuses to help
reduce the U.S. trade deficit be-
tween the two. Last year, the U.S.
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After Trump named Pompeo as
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tion for Defense of Democracies,
tweeted that Pompeo is “Exhibit
A” of Trump’s seriousness about
walking away from the deal if
there is no agreement to amend
it.
“Now he has a secretary of
state who 100 percent shares his
views on the nature and gravity of
the Iranian threat and the fatal
flaws of the JCPOA,” Dubowitz
said in an interview, using the
initialism for the deal’s official
name. “Now there is no daylight
between the president and the
secretary of state.”
Pompeo is expected to have his
confirmation hearing in April,
the month before a May 12 dead-
line for Trump to decide whether
to reimpose sanctions that were
suspended in exchange for Iran’s
acceptance of limits on its nu-
clear program. However, nothing
would prevent Trump from with-
goods trade gap was $23 billion.
Differences over economic is-
sues has put a strain on the
U.S.-South Korea relationship
just as the White House plans to
organize a historic summit be-
tween Trump and North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un, the first
such leadership meeting of the
two countries, which are long-
time adversaries.
In response to Trump’s deci-
sion to impose tariffs on steel
and aluminum imports, South
Korea pledged to “deploy all
possible means” to forestall the
action.
Harry J. Kazianis, an Asia
expert at the Center for the
National Interest, said South Ko-
rea is highly sensitive to any
threats, implicit or not, to alter
its military relationship with the
United States.
“For Seoul, any challenge to
the U.S.-South Korea alliance is
an existential threat to their
security — period,” he said.
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drawing at any time before then.
A U.S. pullback probably would
kill the deal outright, even if the
Europeans and other parties to
the agreement strive to keep it
alive. That is because other coun-
tries, businesses and financial
institutions would be inclined to
curb their interactions with Iran,
eroding any motivation for Iran
to stay in it.
Russia, another signatory to
the deal, has said the agreement
would collapse if one party with-
draws. Some Iranian officials
have said the same, although
others hope to stick with it be-
cause it has ended the country’s
economic isolation.
But Deputy Foreign Minister
Abbas Araghchi, who was a mem-
ber of the Iranian negotiating
team, said that “if America with-
draws from the nuclear deal, Iran
will follow suit,” Iranian media
reported.
On Monday, Behrouz Kamalva-
ndi, a spokesman for the Atomic
Energy Organization of Iran, said
Gambling habit said to lead to firing
BY C AROL D . L EONNIG
AND J OSH D AWSEY
President Trump’s personal as-
sistant, John McEntee, lost his
White House job this week be-
cause an investigation found he
was a frequent gambler whose
habit posed a security risk, accord-
ing to two people familiar with his
departure.
A background investigation
found that McEntee bet tens of
thousands of dollars at a time,
making him unsuitable for a sensi-
tive position close to the presi-
dent, according to a person with
knowledge of the situation. There
was no indication his gambling
was illegal, but there was concern
that the 27-year-old could be vul-
nerable to outside influence, the
person said.
McEntee declined to comment.
The Wall Street Journal first
reported the concerns about
McEntee’s gambling.
McEntee who served as the
president’s “body man” after
Trump’s election, was escorted off
the White House grounds Monday
after being notified that he was
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it could step up its production of
enriched uranium within two
days. Ali Khorram, a former Ira-
nian diplomat, writing in his
column in the daily newspaper
Arman, called Pompeo “cowboy-
ish in character and eager to start
a war similar to the war with
Iraq.”
One potential lifeline for the
Iran deal comes Friday in Vienna.
Britain, China, the European
Union, France, Germany, Russia
and the United States will meet
there at the International Atomic
Energy Agency headquarters for
a meeting of a committee tasked
with settling issues that arise.
The United States will be rep-
resented by Brian Hook, the State
Department’s head of policy plan-
ning. Hook has been negotiating
with Europeans on possible
“fixes” to the deal, primarily in-
volving Iran’s ballistic missile
program, support for militant
groups such as Hezbollah and
sunset clauses that cause various
limitations on Iran to expire years
being let go. McEntee was “very
upset” to learn he was being termi-
nated, according to one person,
and complained he had done
nothing improper.
White House press secretary
Sarah Huckabee Sanders earlier
this week declined to offer an ex-
planation for his departure, say-
ing, “We don’t comment on per-
sonnel issues.”
McEntee was a starting quar-
terback at the University of Con-
necticut and then worked as a
production assistant at Fox News.
He joined the Trump campaign as
a volunteer in July 2015 after dog-
gedly writing to the campaign’s
website asking for a job. When no
one responded, he offered to take a
position responding to website
email, according to Trump advis-
ers. He eventually was hired as trip
director, overseeing preparations
for campaign events. “I bought
into the message,” McEntee told
Bloomberg News in 2015 of his
decision to join Trump. “I was sick
of the career politicians.”
After Trump’s victory, McEntee
was named as the president’s spe-
cial assistant and personal aide.
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Those periodic conclaves often
are used for sideline meetings
between delegations from the
United States and Iran.
Some analysts say that Pompeo
may moderate some of his criti-
cisms of the nuclear deal if he
becomes secretary of state and
slips into the role. As a member of
Congress and then head of the
CIA, he never carried the respon-
sibility of coming up with solu-
tions to his criticisms.
“The logic of the situation re-
mains the same, no matter what
Mr. Pompeo may want to do or
Mr. Trump would like to do,” said
Daryl G. Kimball, head of the
Arms Control Association. “It
makes no sense for America to
blow up the Iran nuclear deal,
create a new nuclear crisis and
undermine the president’s new
diplomatic initiative to start
North Korea on the path to denu-
clearize. If Mike Pompeo is worth
his salt, he will point this out.”
carol.morello@washpost.com
When he joined the White House,
he reported in his personal finan-
cial disclosure two primary assets:
a bank account containing
$100,000 to $250,000 and an-
other containing $15,000 to
$50,000.
McEntee’s cousin, Zac McEn-
tee, serves as personal assistant to
Treasury Secretary Steven
Mnuchin. John McEntee’s firing
came as White House Chief of Staff
John F. Kelly has sought to speed
up the background investigations
of staffers still awaiting security
clearances.
Two White House advisers said
they learned about McEntee’s
gambling habit after his dismissal.
His hasty exit from the White
House upset a number of staffers
in the building, who described
him as a loyal aide who deserved a
more ceremonious departure.
On Tuesday, Trump’s reelection
committee announced that McEn-
tee would join the campaign as a
senior adviser for operations.
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gate.
Perez declined at an earlier
news conference to discuss
whether stress tests had been con-
ducted on the bridge, which
crossed Southwest Eighth Street.
“It will be days before we have
answers,” he said. “This will be an
intensive investigation. Right
now, we are still in search-and-
rescue mode.”
On Thursday evening, Robert
Sumwalt, chairman of the Nation-
al Transportation Safety Board,
said at a news conference in
Washington that a team was head-
ed immediately to Miami to inves-
tigate. Asked if the agency knew of
deficiencies with this type of
bridge, he said he did not know of
any. But he said if investigators
determined there were problems,
they have the ability to issue ur-
gent recommendations.
He said the agency had been
told construction workers were
on the bridge at the time of the
collapse. “There’s a lot we don’t
know,” he said, and much they
intend to find out. “We will be
there tonight, and we will start
talking to people tonight.”
A news release from Florida
International University on Sat-
urday had touted the bridge’s
“first-of-its-kind” construction
method, and hailed the perma-
nent installation of the bridge’s
main span. It stretched 174 feet
and weighed 960 tons, according
to the release, and was built using
what are called “Accelerated
Bridge Construction” methods
being worked on at the university.
“This method of construction
reduces potential risks to work-
ers, commuters and pedestrians
and minimizes traffic interrup-
tions,” the release said.
When the bridge was installed,
crews using an automated proc-
ess lifted the span from its sup-
ports, turned it 90 degrees across
eight lanes and lowered it in place,
the release said. The university
said it was the largest pedestrian
bridge moved by that method,
known as self-propelled modular
transportation, in U.S. history.
“This project is an outstanding
example of the ABC method,”
Atorod Azizinamini, chairman of
FIU’s civil and environmental en-
gineering department, said in the
release. “Building the major el-
ement of the bridge — its main
span superstructure — outside of
the traveled way and away from
busy Eighth Street is a milestone.”
Last year, the Miami Herald
reported that an FIU student was
killed while crossing Southwest
Eighth Street.
The university, a major state
school that has experienced bur-
geoning enrollment in recent
years, had announced Wednesday
it would begin issuing fines as
part of a pedestrian safety cam-
paign to help protect students
walking to campus. The new
bridge was scheduled to be com-
pleted in early 2019.
The main builder of the bridge,
Munilla Construction Manage-
ment (MCM), is a major South
Florida construction firm that has
been hired to rebuild express-
ways, update part of Miami Inter-
national Airport and construct a
new test track for Miami’s Metro-
rail system.
Increasingly, MCM also has
successfully bid on federal con-
tracts, winning almost $130 mil-
lion in work since 2013. The larg-
est contract is for building a
school at Guantanamo Bay Naval
Station.
MCM is a major contributor to
politicians in Miami-Dade County
and has been involved in dozens
of lawsuits over the past decade,
but often for much smaller issues.
This month, the firm was sued for
damages when a “makeshift
bridge” collapsed under the
weight of a security worker using
it to access a restroom at Miami
International Airport. The man
suffered injuries to his elbow,
House Democrats say they have proof State Dept. staff ousted for disloyalty
BY K AROUN D EMIRJIAN
AND C AROL M ORELLO
Two top House Democrats
said Thursday that they have
proof the Trump administration
engaged in an intentional effort
to rid the State Department of
career officials they suspected of
being “disloyal” to President
Trump, citing documents a whis-
tleblower gave to the panel.
The ranking Democrats on the
House Foreign Affairs and Over-
sight and Government Reform
committees sent a letter to
White House Chief of Staff John
F. Kelly and Deputy Secretary of
State John Sullivan, writing that
they received documents “indi-
cating that high-level officials at
the White House and State De-
partment worked with a net-
work of conservative activists to
BEFORE, TOP: The main span of the pedestrian bridge is positioned Saturday to connect Sweetwater to Florida International University.
AFTER, ABOVE: The 960-ton bridge’s collapse Thursday crushed eight vehicles and sent rescue workers racing to free victims.
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shoulder and wrist, according to
court records.
MCM has up-to-date business
licenses and no recent code-
enforcement violations reported
to state authorities. Recent in-
spection reports for the site of
Thursday’s collapse were not im-
mediately available.
The company could not im-
mediately be reached for com-
ment Thursday evening. In a
statement on its Facebook page,
MCM said: “Our family’s thoughts
and prayers go out to everyone
affected by this terrible tragedy.
The new UniversityCity Bridge,
which was under construction,
experienced a catastrophic col-
lapse causing injuries and loss of
life. MCM is a family business and
we are all devastated and doing
everything we can to assist. We
will conduct a full investigation to
determine exactly what went
wrong and will cooperate with
investigators on scene in every
way.”
According to the university,
FIGG Bridge Engineers, a division
conduct a ‘cleaning’ of employ-
ees they believed were not suffi-
ciently ‘supportive’ of President
Trump’s agenda.”
In the letter, they asked for
additional documents and com-
munications about staffing deci-
sions and for interviews with a
number of senior White House
and State Department officials
appointed by Trump.
The list of officials they want
to speak with includes the de-
partment’s chief and deputy
chief of staff, director and depu-
ty director of policy planning,
and White House adviser and
liaison. The committee also
wants to interview the presi-
dent’s deputy assistant for presi-
dential personnel, Sean Doocey,
and deputy White House counsel
Makan Delrahim.
The whistleblower’s evidence
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of Tallahassee-based FIGG Engi-
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walkway.
appears to confirm a report from
last year in Politico that Sahar
Nowrouzzadeh, a State Depart-
ment staffer who worked on the
Iran deal, was reassigned after
critical stories about her ap-
peared in conservative media.
“Over the past year, we have
heard many reports of political
attacks on career employees at
the State Department, but we
had not seen evidence of how
extensive, blunt, and inappro-
priate these attacks were until
now,” Reps. Elijah E. Cummings
(D-Md.) and Eliot L. Engel
(D-N.Y.) wrote in the letter.
There is also evidence that
several more career staffers be-
yond Nowrouzzadeh were tar-
geted, according to a congres-
sional aide who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to dis-
cuss complaints involving per-
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The firm is behind dozens of
suspension, arch and beam bridg-
es across the United States, in-
sonnel matters.
The aide said several such
employees had been temporarily
assigned to the National Secu-
rity Council, where some com-
plained to national security ad-
viser H.R. McMaster that they
were being set up for their jobs
to be terminated.
Most of the targeted employ-
ees had worked on Obama ad-
ministration initiatives no lon-
ger supported in the Trump
administration, such as the Iran
deal, or were considered insuffi-
ciently loyal to Trump and his
agenda.
After McMaster intervened to
stop the inquiries, the aide said,
a White House official contacted
the State Department to press
his suspicions with senior aides
to Secretary of State Rex Tiller-
son. It is not clear that Tillerson
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cluding the Penobscot Narrows
Bridge in Maine and the Bob
Graham Sunshine Skyway Bridge
that crosses Tampa Bay.
FIGG released a statement
Thursday afternoon saying it was
“stunned by today’s tragic col-
lapse of a pedestrian bridge that
was under construction over
Southwest Eighth Street in Mi-
ami. Our deepest sympathies are
with all those affected by this acci-
dent.
“We will fully cooperate with
every appropriate authority in re-
viewing what happened and why,”
the engineering firm said. “In our
40-year history, nothing like this
has ever happened before. Our
entire team mourns the loss of life
and injuries associated with this
devastating tragedy, and our
prayers go out to all involved.”
Asked if the construction meth-
ods might have factored into the
collapse, Ron Sachs, a spokesman
for FIGG Engineering, said he
could not provide any details on
the collapse beyond the statement
issued by the company.
approved or knew of the email
exchanges between his aides as-
sessing the politics and loyalties
of these State Department staff.
In their letter, Cummings and
Engel detailed some of the ex-
changes from the whistleblow-
er’s documents, including emails
in which Trump-appointed sen-
ior staff referred to certain de-
partment employees as “turn-
coat,” “associated with previous
policy,” “Obama/Clinton loyal-
ists not at all supportive of
President Trump’s foreign policy
agenda,” and “a leaker and a
troublemaker.”
The documents they cited also
contain communications be-
tween administration officials
and Trump supporters outside
the White House, such as former
House speaker Newt Gingrich.
In one email Gingrich forwarded
. FRIDAY, MARCH 16 , 2018
“They’re in a fact-finding
mode” along with authorities, he
said of the company. “They’re
stunned and certainly in mourn-
ing.”
Sachs said he believed there
would be a comprehensive inves-
tigation involving authorities, in-
cluding the federal Occupational
Safety and Health Administra-
tion.
“We’re going to cooperate with
any and all of those,” he said.
Experts say the Accelerated
Bridge Construction method in-
volves an integrated system of
pieces designed to stand as a com-
plete structure, but must be sup-
ported during construction.
Amjad Aref, a researcher at the
University at Buffalo’s Institute of
Bridge Engineering, said failures
can be catastrophic.
“The loss of stability is a sudden
thing, it doesn’t give a warning,”
said Aref, whose work involves
designing Accelerated Bridge
Construction projects.
Aref said the construction
method has become popular over
the past decade. He would not
speculate about the cause of the
collapse. In general he said, the
process works this way:
“You bring three pieces, three
blocks, each block is really strong
and [does] their job but if they are
not connected properly, they
might not stand,” he said. “The
idea is in every design you want to
take the load from the superstruc-
ture, the bridge surface, all the
way to the ground safely.”
A collapse, he said, would indi-
cate “the system was not com-
pletely connected or supported.”
Before the structure is finished,
Aref said, crews should ensure
that each of its components is
secured by cabling or other sup-
porting mechanisms.
He said self-propelled modular
transportation, the method of in-
stalling the bridge section, is com-
mon in Europe. The mechanism
would typically involve loading
the span onto wheeled heavy ma-
chinery that places the main span
between the supports, turns and
hydraulically lifts it into place.
The bridge was funded through
a federal TIGER grant, according
to the university, a recession-era
program created under the
Obama administration that pays
for road, rail and other projects.
The role of FIU’s Accelerated
Bridge Construction University
Transportation Center in its con-
struction was unclear. The lab
says on its website that it received
federal funding in September
2013 after the U.S. Department of
Transportation recognized a joint
funding proposal submitted by
FIU, Iowa State University and the
University of Nevada at Reno. The
funding enabled the schools to
“dive further into their mission
of ” researching Accelerated
Bridge construction, the site says.
The center received a second
round of U.S. DOT funding in
December 2016, the site says.
The sudden collapse of the
bridge caused alarm in the sur-
rounding neighborhood.
Alexander Concha, 36, and Ivy
Polanco, 23, were about to have
lunch at Panther’s Boulevard
Cafe, about a block away from the
bridge. Suddenly, they heard wail-
ing sirens and helicopters buzzing
overhead. “Our first reaction was,
we hope it’s not the bridge,” Con-
cha said. “On the side where it
collapsed, it didn’t seem very se-
cure. It seemed very unsafe.”
The bridge collapse happened
during Florida International’s
spring break.
“It’s very lucky that we are on
spring break and that this didn’t
happen during rush hour,” said
Polanco, who is an FIU student. “It
could have been so much worse.”
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Mark Berman, Alice Crites and
Michael Laris contributed to this
report.
to Trump-appointed State De-
partment officials, another
booster, David Wurmser, sug-
gested “cleaning house” at the
State Department.
On Thursday, State Depart-
ment spokeswoman Heather
Nauert denied that any career
officials had been targeted for
their views.
“Those on staff who have been
here for many years, I have
found them almost blind to
politics,” Nauert said. “They may
not always like the policy that
they are asked to advance on
behalf of this administration
and the American people, but
my personal experience has been
that people have done that and
handled it in a very professional
manner.”
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‘I’m constantly asking: Why? What kind of person would do this?’

SHOOTER FROM A1
theater and began firing indis-
criminately into the fleeing
crowd, killing 12. “We’re all hu-
man beings; we strive for expla-
nation.”
Cruz was indicted last week on
17 counts of premeditated mur-
der and 17 counts of attempted
murder. As he appeared in court
Wednesday for arraignment,
tens of thousands of students
were marching out of classrooms
to decry gun violence, and far
more are expected to gather next
week for a protest in Washing-
ton.
Officials, however, have been
unable to explain the motive
behind last month’s shooting. A
portrait has emerged of Cruz as a
troubled young man with a pat-
tern of alleged violence and un-
nerving behavior. But when
asked what may have driven him
to violence, Broward County
Sheriff Scott Israel has simply
responded: “Pure evil. Pure evil.”
Of the long list of mass shoot-
ings in recent years, Aurora’s
offers the best hints for what will
come next in Florida.
Like Parkland’s accused
school shooter, the Aurora gun-
man, James Holmes, had no clear
motive, showed signs of mental-
health problems before his at-
tack and, perhaps most relevant,
he also survived to stand trial.
In 2014, after two years of legal
motions and delays, a court as-
signed a forensic psychiatrist
named William H. Reid to meet
with Holmes for a series of
interviews over the course of two
months. The interviews were in-
tended to assess Holmes’s sanity
and his state of mind leading up
to and during the shooting, but
they also presented perhaps the
best chance anyone would have
to figure out what exactly drove
him — and what drives others —
to commit such senseless, devas-
tating rampages.
“The why isn’t always a legal
question,” Reid said in a recent
interview. “But of course, it’s
what everyone wants to know.”
The killer’s own words
Reid asked to have Holmes
transferred to a quiet, empty unit
of the Colorado Mental Health
Institute for their first meeting.
There would be no shackles or
handcuffs on him. Nor any
guards in the room. Reid said he
arranged the furniture to sit
slightly off-center across from
Holmes so that Holmes could
look him in the eye but also look
In his diary presented as evidence in his 2015 trial in Colorado, James Holmes asks a question perhaps even he couldn’t answer: “Why?”
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Isaah Jean, 14,
was injured during the Feb. 14 shooting at the school. Officials have
not been able to explain the motive of alleged shooter Nikolas Cruz.
it would prevent his suicide, and
10 percent by his broccoli-like
hatred.
Reid, however, said he found
those answers lacking.
“You could call them excuses
in a way, because they don’t make
sense,” he said. “People break up
with their girlfriends every day;
that doesn’t mean they become
killers. They struggle with de-
MATT MCCLAIN/THE WASHINGTON POST
pathologists at Stanford Univer-
sity. But they found nothing
unusual aside from high blood
pressure and bad teeth.
In the absence of definitive
answers, experts who research
mass shootings talk instead in
terms of patterns.
In a 2004 study, a psychiatrist
named Paul E. Mullen conducted
in-depth interviews with five
COLORADO JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT/ASSOCIATED PRESS
POOL PHOTO BY RJ SANGOSTI/DENVER POST/ASSOCIATED PRESS
James Holmes, sentenced to life without parole for killing 12
people in an Aurora, Colo., theater, expressed an aversion to other
people, a feeling akin to the way some people hate broccoli.
Over time, the search for mo-
tive, the couple argue, becomes
the motive.
In Mullen’s 2004 Australia
study, for example, mass killers
spoke chillingly of their desire
for fame, with one saying he was
“going for the record” in his
violence. The men, Mullen con-
cluded, craved a manner of death
that would bring them fame
coupled with the aura of power
and evil.
“When we engage in an obses-
sive questioning of why a shooter
did it, we are granting their exact
wish,” said Park Dietz, one of the
country’s foremost forensic psy-
chiatrists.
Over the past three decades,
Dietz has evaluated more than a
dozen mass murderers, includ-
ing the Charleston shooter
Dylann Roof. And for Dietz, there
is no mystery surrounding their
motives.
The specifics may vary from
case to case, he said, but the
broad strokes always boil down
to two elements: “First is the
blaming of others for their own
suffering or the suffering of
someone they care about. The
second is their quest for immor-
tality.”
While sitting through the Au-
rora shooter’s trial, Caren Teves
heard one comment from her
son’s killer that became seared
into her memory: “He said he
didn’t think he could make a
mark on the world with science,
but he could become famous by
blowing up people.”
In the years since, the couple
have formed a group called
No Notoriety, to persuade news
media not to overpublicize mass
shooters. While the debates on
gun control and mental health
after such shootings are impor-
tant, Caren Teves said, “This one
factor is the easiest one to fix. It
doesn’t take an act of Congress.
We just stop saying his name.”
In recent years, she has
stopped searching for a defini-
tive motive. “You come to realize
that the ‘why’ is not going to
bring your son or mother or
brother back,” she said.
Instead, she focuses on the last
moments of her son’s life. Five
years ago, when the Aurora gun-
man began his massacre, Alex
Teves, 24, lunged toward his
girlfriend, shielded her from the
bullets and saved her life.
For Caren Teves, it is her son’s
motives in the movie theater that
night — and not the killer’s —
that now matter most.
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Katie Zezima contributed to this
report.

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away if he chose. pression and impulses; that Australian mass shooters, who
“I got you some juice,” Reid doesn’t mean they become kill- had killed more than 50 people
told him as they sat down. “They ers. These things are associated among them. He found several

said you like juice.”
Over the course of nine meet-
ings — more than 22 hours
locked in with the accused killer
— Reid probed Holmes on his
childhood, his studies as a PhD
student and virtually every as-
pect of Holmes’s life leading up
to the shooting.
In videos of those interviews,
Holmes said he had thought of
killing others for months, even
years before. He said that as a
child, he resented his family’s
move to San Diego — becoming
so upset that he tried to cut his
wrist with cardboard. He said he
chose to study neuroscience
partly in the hope of understand-
ing his own struggles.
A breakup with his then-girl-
friend months before the shoot-
ing upset him, Holmes said. He
was worried he might commit
suicide and believed he could
prevent that by taking other
people’s lives.
He talked of a strange belief
that took shape in his mind, in
which he could earn a point for
every person he killed. He want-
ed to gather those points, but he
said he wanted to avoid earning
points by killing children. (At the
movie theater, he ended up kill-
ing one child and wounding
others.)
He described feeling an aver-
sion to other people. Not a mur-
derous rage, but a cold, dismis-
sive hate. He hated others, he
explained, the way some people
hate broccoli.
Before he opened fire on
July 20, 2012, Holmes had
sketched out in chilling detail his
plan of attack, Reid noted. Writ-
ing in a brown wire-bound note-
book, he ruled out using bombs
or biological agents as too com-
plicated. He mapped out differ-
ent theaters and decided to lock
the doors to maximize casualties.
The notebook — much of it
written in cold, calculating lan-
guage — includes seven consecu-
tive pages in which a single word
is written over and over, growing
larger and larger until the loopy
cursive practically screams off
the page: “WHY?” “WHY?”
“WHY?”
Toward the end of their inter-
views, Reid asked Holmes what
he believed caused him to kill
others. Holmes boiled it down to
hard numbers: 45 percent was
caused by his belief in the point
system, another 45 by the feeling
with the action, but they are not
predictive.”
Oates, the former Aurora po-
lice chief, said he, too, thinks
authorities never got a real ex-
planation. In 2015, Holmes was
found guilty and sentenced to
life in prison without parole.
After all those grueling ses-
sions with Holmes, after writing
an entire book on the matter to
be published this year, Reid said
he understands the public frus-
tration with the lack of answers.
“We want to settle the ques-
tion in our minds,” he said. “We
want to be able to explain this
world because that makes it
somehow safer, and we don’t
have to be afraid every time the
lights go down in a theater, every
morning that our kids leave for
school. But the truth is that the
answers aren’t easy.”
Looking for patterns
Megan Greene has found her-
self searching online at all hours
for new clues since the Las Vegas
shooting.
She hid behind a truck when
the first shots rang out on Oct. 1.
As a survivor, she struggles with
guilt and panics at the sound of
fireworks and school bells. Ther-
apy and anxiety medication have
helped. But the unanswered
question has continued eating
away at her.
“I’m constantly asking: Why?
What kind of person would do
this?” said Greene, who lives in
Simi Valley, Calif.
She found herself asking that
in moments of silence, sitting
alone in her house. For a while,
she was obsessed with reading
every account of the shooting,
believing something hidden be-
tween the lines might explain the
horror she witnessed.
Some mass killers leave little
doubt to motive.
The avowed white suprema-
cist who killed nine black parish-
ioners inside a Charleston, S.C.,
church in 2015 bluntly laid out
his racist reasons in writings and
a confession.
But in many shootings, like
the one in Las Vegas, answers are
elusive.
Authorities say they still have
no idea, after months of exhaus-
tive investigation, what drove
the Las Vegas gunman to kill
58 people. In desperation, police
even sent the shooter’s body and
brain in recent weeks to neuro-
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overlapping characteristics: All
described feeling that the world
was persecuting them. They
were rigid, socially isolated and
obsessive. They tended to be
bullied as children and fascinat-
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ed with guns. All also exhibited
signs of general depression, but
not diagnosable clinical depres-
sion.
“Often these are people who
have personality traits like anger,
but they don’t have diagnosable
conditions that would allow you
to commit them to a hospital,”
said Phillip Resnick, who served
as a forensic psychiatrist in cases
including the Oklahoma City
bomber, Timothy McVeigh, and
the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski.
In the wake of such killings,
there is often a rush to point to
mental illness as an explanation,
but Resnick and almost all psy-
chiatrists say that knee-jerk reac-
tion is wrong.
In a 2015 study that examined
235 people who committed or
tried to commit mass killings,
only 22 percent of them could be
considered mentally ill. A differ-
ent study two years ago, pub-
lished in the journal Annals of
Epidemiology, found that “the
large majority of people with
mental disorders do not engage
in violence against others, and
that most violent behavior is due
to factors other than mental
illness.”
“We like to think that anyone
who kills others is somehow
mentally ill,” Resnick said. “But
you have to remember, people
kill for all sorts of reasons. They
kill for profit or love or greed.”
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study has found in common with
them is their desire for infamy.”
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U.S. pairs sanctions, firmer condemnation of Moscow for nerve-agent attack
RUSSIA FROM A1
Russia will surely try to expand
its interference in the upcoming
congressional midterm elections.
Sen. Robert Menendez (N.J.),
the senior Democrat on the Sen-
ate Foreign Relations Commit-
tee, called the sanctions an-
nouncement a “long overdue re-
sponse” but noted that the ad-
ministration has failed to
implement six other mandatory
provisions of the law enacted last
year, including penalties affect-
ing Russian defense and other
industries.
“I expect to see additional
sanctions in short order against
specific Russian entities respon-
sible for undermining our de-
mocracy,” he said in a statement.
“The longer we wait, we know the
Russian government will contin-
ue to shift resources to other
propaganda factories that spew
disinformation and lies.”
Menendez also said the Obama
administration had already im-
posed sanctions on many of those
on the Trump administration’s
list. The White House also faced
criticism that it muddied its re-
sponse to the election interfer-
ence by saying the penalties were
also in response to Russia’s
cyberattack last year against
Ukraine and other countries,
which officials have character-
ized as “the most destructive and
costly” in history.
White House press secretary
Sarah Huckabee Sanders would
not say Thursday whether the
administration considers Russia
a friend or foe, instead turning
the onus on Moscow.
“Russia’s going to have to
make that determination.
They’re going to have to decide
whether or not they want to be a
good actor or a bad actor,” Sand-
ers said. “I think you can see from
the actions that we’ve taken up
until this point, we’re going to be
tough on Russia until they decide
to change their behavior.”
The penalties on 19 Russians
were expected after a top admin-
istration official had pledged,
under critical congressional
questioning last week, that the
administration would act within
a week to use the mandate Con-
gress had approved last summer.
The penalties also partly mir-
ror the investigation pursued by
special counsel Robert S. Mueller
III. Thursday’s list included 13
people who had been indicted by
Mueller, meaning they were al-
ready subject to legal jeopardy
that is more serious than the
sanctions.
A senior administration offi-
cial said the timing of Thursday’s
announcements reflected the
completion of months of work to
U.S., France and Germany join U.K. in pointing to Russia for toxin attack
BY K ARLA A DAM
AND M ATTHEW B ODNER
london — The United States
and two major European allies
on Thursday formally backed
Britain’s claims that Russia likely
was responsible for a chemical
toxin attack against a former spy
living in England, calling it the
“first offensive use of a nerve
agent” in Europe since World
War II.
The joint statement from the
leaders of France, Germany, the
United States and Britain sig-
naled a further ratcheting of
international pressure on Russia
that has been mounting since
former double agent Sergei Skri-
pal and his daughter, Yulia, were
found comatose on March 4.
In the statement, the four lead-
ers said they shared the view of
British investigators that “there
is no plausible alternative expla-
nation” for the attack. They add-
ed that “Russia’s failure to ad-
dress the legitimate request by
the U.K. government further un-
derlines its responsibility.”
Prime Minister Theresa May
had asked Moscow to explain
how Novichok, a military-grade
nerve agent developed by Russia,
came to be used in the town of
Salisbury. She posited that either
Russia was directly involved or it
had lost control of a chemical
weapon. Moscow responded to
the ultimatum with scorn and
sarcasm, ultimately blowing off
May’s demands.
“It is an assault on U.K. sover-
eignty and any such use by a state
party is a clear violation of the
Chemical Weapons Convention
and a breach of international
law,” the four leaders said in their
statement, released by May’s of-
fice.
“It threatens the security of us
all,” they added, without spelling
out any possible further reprisals
by the United Kingdom and its
allies.
Asked by reporters Thursday
whether Russia was behind the
attack, President Trump said, “It
looks like it.”
President Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday during his talks with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.
prepare the sanctions and the
collective desire among the Unit-
ed States and allies to respond
quickly to the “atrocious hostile
act” against the former spy in
England.
Separately on Thursday, the
Department of Homeland Secu-
rity and the FBI issued a report
describing sophisticated Russian
government attempts to target
U.S. and European power plants,
nuclear facilities, airports and
other critical infrastructure for
cyberattacks.
It characterized the activity as
“a multi-stage intrusion cam-
paign by Russian government
cyber actors,” while describing in
minute detail how the digital
assailants “staged malware, con-
ducted spear phishing, and
gained remote access into energy
sector networks.”
The report indicated that the
attackers appear to have pene-
“I expect to see additional sanctions in short order against specific Russian entities responsible
for undermining our democracy. The longer we wait, we know the Russian government will
continue to shift resources to other propaganda factories that spew disinformation and lies.”
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), the senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
British Prime Minister Theresa May, center, talks with dignitaries Thursday in Salisbury, where Sergei
Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were found comatose after an apparent nerve agent attack on March 4.
“I spoke with the prime minis-
ter, and we are in deep discus-
sions — a very sad situation,”
Trump said. “It certainly looks
like the Russians are behind it,
something that should never,
ever happen.” He added that his
administration was taking the
attack “very seriously.”
The next move could come
from Moscow, which is expected
to respond to Britain’s retaliatory
expulsion of 23 Russian diplo-
mats.
“The answer will come very
soon, I assure you,” Foreign Min-
ister Sergei Lavrov said Thurs-
day. “You know that we, as polite
people, will first communicate
this response to our British col-
leagues.”
In Britain, May received wide-
spread support for her decision
to expel the 23 Russians believed
to be involved in espionage and
to suspend high-level meetings
EZ SU
trated the networks of key indus-
trial sites in the United States
and Europe, suggesting they
could shut down or disrupt those
systems with relative ease.
It repeated the key findings
shared by the agencies in July,
when they said that there was no
evidence the hackers penetrated
or damaged the core systems that
control operations at the infra-
structure sites and that public
safety was never in jeopardy.
While the administration
joined Britain and other allies
Thursday in condemning Russia
for the attack in Salisbury, Eng-
land, that left the former spy and
his daughter comatose, it has not
said whether it plans any retalia-
tion against Moscow. Britain has
expelled Russian diplomats in
protest.
After days in which the admin-
istration had not fully affixed
blame over the incident, U.N.
TOBY MELVILLE/POOL/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
between British and Russian offi-
cials. The left-leaning Guardian
wrote in an editorial that May
was right to set out a “measured
retaliatory response.” The right-
leaning Daily Telegraph said the
prime minister could have gone
further, but nonetheless praised
her response as “commendably
robust.”
Analysts said that while May
did announce concrete measures,
she was also holding back in the
event that Britain wanted to esca-
late its response later on.
The British government will
want to have “weapons in the
armory,” said James Nixey, head
of the Russia and Eurasia pro-
gram at Chatham House, a Lon-
don-based think tank.
On Thursday afternoon, May
made her first appearance in
Salisbury since the attack, speak-
ing there with officials and resi-
dents.
Ambassador Nikki Haley blasted
Russia during a Security Council
session Wednesday. Her remarks
were approved by White House
officials but went further than
other officials had gone at that
point.
“The United States believes
that Russia is responsible for the
attack on two people in the
United Kingdom using a mili-
tary-grade nerve agent,” Haley
said, accusing Russia of violating
international law.
“If we don’t take immediate
concrete measures to address
this now, Salisbury will not be the
last place we see chemical weap-
ons used,” Haley said. “They
could be used here in New York
or in cities of any country that
sits on this council.”
Haley has been among the
administration’s toughest voices
about Russia, especially over its
actions in support of Syrian Pres-
“We do hold Russia culpable
for this brazen, brazen act and
despicable act that’s taken place
on the streets of what is such a
remarkable city,” she told the
BBC after viewing the site where
the Skripals were found slumped
over on a park bench — one of
several areas that remain cor-
doned off as police continue their
investigation.
Officials and pundits in Mos-
cow have issued a steady stream
of denials and counterclaims, a
tactic that continued Thursday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry
Peskov said that President Vladi-
mir Putin met with members of
his national security council
Thursday for a “detailed discus-
sion” on the situation with Brit-
ain. “Extreme concern was ex-
pressed in connection with the
destructive and provocative posi-
tion taken by the British side,” he
said.
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ident Bashar al-Assad, but her
criticism rarely seemed part of a
concerted administration policy
to address what Secretary of
State Rex Tillerson said was a
deliberate Russian effort to ex-
pand its influence at U.S. ex-
pense.
Sanders also issued a pointed
statement Wednesday that en-
dorsed Britain’s expulsion of Rus-
sian diplomats.
“This latest action by Russia
fits into a pattern of behavior in
which Russia disregards the in-
ternational rules-based order,
undermines the sovereignty and
security of countries worldwide,
and attempts to subvert and
discredit Western democratic in-
stitutions and processes,” Sand-
ers said in one of the administra-
tion’s most comprehensive cri-
tiques to date. “The United States
is working together with our
allies and partners to ensure that
Lavrov reiterated that the alle-
gations were “boorish and un-
founded.” The actions taken by
the British “go beyond the limits
of elementary rules of decency,”
he said, while asserting that Rus-
sia has attempted to handle the
matter in a civilized manner.
Russia’s deputy foreign minis-
ter, Sergei Ryabkov, told the In-
terfax news agency later Thurs-
day that Russia ceased develop-
ment of new chemical weapons
immediately after joining the
Chemical Weapons Convention,
which was signed in 1993. He also
insisted that neither Russia nor
its predecessor, the Soviet Union,
developed a nerve agent called
Novichok, and he dismissed the
accusations as a pretext for the
United States to delay the final
destruction of its chemical weap-
ons stockpiles.
Russia declared last year that
it had finished destroying its
chemical weapons stockpiles and
chided the United States for lag-
ging behind. A 2012 deadline
called for complete destruction
of the weapons, but both sides
failed to meet it. The United
States has said it intends to finish
the process by 2023. Novichok
was believed to have been devel-
oped in the late 1980s, as the
Soviet Union was negotiating the
convention, to skirt the agree-
ment’s requirements.
Russia has also asked Britain
for access to the poison and its
victims, 66-year-old Skripal and
his 33-year-old daughter. Both
are reported to remain in comas.
Skripal was jailed in Russia in
2006 for selling state secrets to
British intelligence but he was
released in 2010 as part of a
high-profile spy swap.
When asked how Britain
might respond to any retaliation,
British Defense Secretary Gavin
Williamson said that Russia
“should go away; it should shut
up.”
He was taking questions after
a speech announcing a $67 mil-
lion investment in a new chemi-
cal weapons defense center.
In Brussels, NATO Secretary
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this kind of abhorrent attack
does not happen again.”
The United States and two
major European allies on Thurs-
day called the toxin attack the
“first offensive use of a nerve
agent” in Europe since World
War II.
The joint statement from the
leaders of France, Germany, the
United States and Britain sig-
naled a further ratcheting of
international pressure on Russia
that has been mounting since
former double agent Sergei Skri-
pal and his daughter, Yulia, were
found comatose on March 4.
In the statement, the four
leaders said they shared the view
of British investigators that
“there is no plausible alternative
explanation” for the attack. They
added that “Russia’s failure to
address the legitimate request by
the U.K. government further un-
derlines its responsibility.”
Trump had said at the outset of
his administration that he want-
ed to improve the disastrous U.S.
relationship with Russia that he
inherited from the Obama ad-
ministration, a foreign policy
goal that could help the United
States achieve its own objectives
in the Middle East and else-
where.
Russia’s role in the election
quickly overshadowed the rela-
tionship. Trump claims there was
never any collusion between
Moscow and his campaign, but
critics say his anger over what he
has called a “witch hunt” has
colored the administration’s larg-
er approach to Russia.
Max Bergmann, a former
Obama administration official
who heads the investigative Mos-
cow Project at the Center for
American Progress, called Thurs-
day’s sanctions “a baby step” that
does not suggest the administra-
tion intends to use much of the
authority it has to go after Rus-
sian interference.
“Actually, this is not even a
baby step,” Bergmann amended.
“This is a mirage to make it look
like they have implemented sanc-
tions.”
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) com-
mended the sanctions announce-
ment, but like other lawmakers
he urged the administration to go
further.
“Russia’s continued attempts
to undermine international or-
der and to create destabilizing
conditions must fail,” Banks said.
“I will continue to support the
robust use of all elements of U.S.
national power to counter Rus-
sian aggression.”
anne.gearan@washpost.com
ellen.nakashima@washpost.com
Nick Miroff contributed to this
report.
General Jens Stoltenberg said the
defense alliance stands ready to
provide support to Britain. Rus-
sia is responsible for a “blurring
of the line between peace, crisis
and war,” Stoltenberg said, call-
ing the Kremlin’s behavior “de-
stabilizing and dangerous.”
So far, Britain has held back
from triggering NATO’s one-for-
all, all-for-one collective defense
clause that would activate a coor-
dinated military response from
the 29 member nations. NATO
officials have suggested that the
nerve-agent attack probably does
not rise to that level. But the
alliance is engaged, Stoltenberg
said.
British national security advis-
er Mark Sedwill briefed NATO
ambassadors on Thursday.
“What happened in Salisbury
was the latest in a clear pattern of
reckless and unlawful behavior
by the Russian state and con-
cerns the whole alliance,” he said
afterward.
Stoltenberg will meet Monday
with British Foreign Secretary
Boris Johnson.
Writing in The Washington
Post on Thursday, Johnson said
that “all responsible nations
share an obligation to take a
principled stance against this be-
havior,” which he characterized
as part of a larger pattern of
“reckless behavior” by Putin. The
nerve agent, Novichok, was se-
lected for a reason, he said.
“In its blatant Russian-ness,
the nerve agent sends a signal to
all who may be thinking of dis-
sent in the intensifying repres-
sion of Putin’s Russia,” Johnson
wrote. “The message is clear: We
will find you, we will catch you,
we will kill you — and though we
will deny it with lip-curling
scorn, the world will know be-
yond doubt that Russia did it.”
karla.adam@washpost.com
Bodner reported from Moscow.
Michael Birnbaum in Brussels,
James McAuley in Paris and Philip
Rucker and Brian Murphy in
Washington contributed to this
report.
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Assailed for remarks on trade, Trump doubles down on claim about Canada
BY J OSH D AWSEY
AND D AMIAN P ALETTA
The Trump administration
came under fire Thursday after
President Trump delivered a
fundraising speech in which he
railed against U.S. allies as un-
trustworthy and boasted that he
had made up information about
the U.S. trade deficit in a meeting
with Canadian Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau.
In a 30-minute speech to do-
nors in Missouri, Trump made a
blistering attack against the Eu-
ropean Union, China, Japan and
South Korea, accusing them of
ripping off the United States for
decades and pillaging the U.S.
workforce, according to a record-
ing of the private event obtained
by The Washington Post. He also
seemed to threaten to withdraw
U.S. troops stationed in South
Korea if he didn’t get what he
wanted on trade with Seoul, an
ally.
Trump and White House offi-
cials on Thursday defended the
off-the-cuff remarks, which come
as the administration seeks to
renegotiate major trade agree-
ments, impose tariffs on steel and
aluminum imports and engage in
high-stakes negotiations with
North Korean dictator Kim Jong
Un.
“The president was accurate
because there is a trade deficit
and that was the point he was
making,” said White House press
secretary Sarah Huckabee Sand-
ers, who later referred to a figure
that includes only goods and not
services. “He didn’t have to look at
the specific figures.”
Some of Trump’s most pointed
remarks were aimed at Trudeau,
saying he insisted to the Cana-
dian leader that the United States
runs a trade deficit with its neigh-
bor to the north without knowing
whether it was true.
“Trudeau came to see me. He’s a
good guy, Justin. He said, ‘No, no,
we have no trade deficit with you,
we have none. Donald, please,’ ”
Trump said, mimicking Trudeau,
according to audio of the private
event in Missouri obtained by The
Washington Post. “Nice guy, good-
looking guy, comes in — ‘Donald,
we have no trade deficit.’ He’s very
proud because everybody else,
you know, we’re getting killed.
“. . . So, he’s proud. I said,
President Trump has come under fire for remarks he made about trade partners during a fundraiser in Missouri on Wednesday. Trump
said that he made up information about the U.S. trade deficit in a 2017 meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, above.
‘Wrong, Justin, you do.’ I didn’t
even know . . . . I had no idea. I
just said, ‘You’re wrong.’ You
know why? Because we’re so stu-
pid.”
Then, Trump claimed that a
staffer told him he was correct.
‘Well, sir, you’re actually right. We
have no deficit, but that doesn’t
include energy and timber . . . .
And when you do, we lose $17 bil-
lion a year.’ It’s incredible.”
In fact, the Office of the United
States Trade Representative says
the United States has a trade
surplus with Canada. It reports
that in 2016, the United States
exported $12.5 billion more in
goods and services than it import-
ed from Canada, leading to a
trade surplus, not a deficit.
In response to this article,
Trump on Thursday went on Twit-
ter to reiterate his assertion. “We
do have a Trade Deficit with Cana-
da, as we do with almost all
countries (some of them mas-
sive),” he tweeted. “P.M. Justin
Trudeau of Canada, a very good
guy, doesn’t like saying that Cana-
da has a Surplus vs. the U.S.
(negotiating), but they do . . . they
almost all do . . . and that’s how I
know!”
In Ottawa, Canadian govern-
ment spokesmen repeated U.S.
government statistics pointing
out that Canada has a trade sur-
plus with its American neighbor.
“Canada and the United States
have a balanced and mutually
beneficial trading relationship,”
said Adam Austen, a spokesman
for Canadian Foreign Minister
Chrystia Freeland, pointing to of-
ficial U.S. statistics.
The Canadian ambassador to
Washington, David McNaughton,
tweeted a similar message, add-
ing that the figure included en-
ergy and lumber — countering
Trump’s insistence otherwise.
Bruce Heyman, U.S. ambassa-
dor to Canada under President
Obama, wasn’t as charitable.
The president was in Missouri
on Wednesday night to raise mon-
ey for Josh Hawley, who is taking
on Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) in
November’s midterm election. He
called McCaskill “bad for Mis-
souri and bad for the country,” but
he barely spoke about Hawley.
Instead, he talked about himself
— bragging about his 2016 elec-
tion win and lavishing praise on
himself while ticking through a
list of U.S. allies that he said are
taking advantage of the United
States.
He described the North Ameri-
can Free Trade Agreement as a
disaster and heaped blame on the
World Trade Organization for al-
lowing other countries to take
advantage of the United States on
trade.
He said South Korea had got-
JUSTIN TANG/ASSOCIATED PRESS
ten rich but that U.S. politicians
never negotiated better deals.
“We have a very big trade deficit
with them, and we protect them,”
Trump said. “We lose money on
trade, and we lose money on the
military. We have right now
32,000 soldiers on the border
between North and South Korea.
Let’s see what happens.”
“Our allies care about them-
selves,” he added. “They don’t
care about us.”
Trump spoke as his White
House tried to pick up the pieces
after a special election in a west-
ern Pennsylvania congressional
district that Trump won by 20
points in 2016. Pollsters said the
results showed how Trump was
dragging down the Republican
Party, but the president took none
of the blame. He said the Republi-
can candidate, Rick Saccone,
would have lost by a wider margin
without his support — Trump
held a rally for Saccone over the
weekend. And he said the Demo-
crat, Conor Lamb, won the seat
because he was “like Trump” but
that Lamb would vote with House
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-
Calif.).
Trump also portrayed his deci-
sion to meet with North Korea’s
leader in coming months as mak-
ing history and besting his pred-
ecessors while lamenting his me-
dia coverage.
“They couldn’t have met” with
Kim, he said, after mocking presi-
dents Barack Obama and George
W. Bush. “Nobody would have
done what I did.”
“They say, ‘Maybe he’s not the
one to negotiate,’ ” he said, mock-
ing the voice of a news anchor.
“He’s got very little knowledge of
the Korean Peninsula. Maybe he’s
not the one. . . . Maybe we should
send in the people that have been
playing games and didn’t know
what the hell they’ve been doing
for 25 years.”
He also railed against China’s
trade practices and, in one puz-
zling anecdote, accused Japan of
using gimmicks to deny U.S. auto
companies access to its consum-
ers.
“It’s called the bowling ball
test; do you know what that is?
That’s where they take a bowling
ball from 20 feet up in the air and
they drop it on the hood of the
car,” Trump said in reference to
Japan. “And if the hood dents,
then the car doesn’t qualify. Well,
guess what, the roof dented a
little bit, and they said, nope, this
car doesn’t qualify. It’s horrible,
the way we’re treated. It’s horri-
ble.” It was unclear what he was
talking about.
His comments were among his
most protectionist to date and
didn’t identify a single benefit the
United States receives from its
trading relationships.
The “free-trade globalists,” he
said, are against his trade moves
because “they’re worldly people,
they have stuff on the other side.”
Gary Cohn, the president’s top
economic adviser, recently quit
over the tariffs and was derisively
labeled by his critics as a globalist.
josh.dawsey@washpost.com
damian.paletta@washpost.com
Alan Freeman in Ottawa and Erica
Werner in Washington contributed to
this report.

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A14
For Trump, ‘You’re fired’ moments just a TV memory
As president, the many
ousters have been
carried out in other ways
BY M ARC F ISHER
Before the wall, before “Crooked
Hillary,” before “I alone can fix it,”
what many Americans knew about
Donald Trump was summed up in
one blunt catchphrase: “You’re
fired.”
Trump’s signature line from his
NBC reality show, “The Appren-
tice,” was, in quintessential Trump
style, improvised. He blurted it out
during the taping of his first show,
and the crew instantly knew it had
a winner.
Now, Trump is again being
viewed as a leader given to fre-
quent, dramatic sackings, this time
with far more than ratings at stake.
From national security adviser Mi-
chael Flynn’s departure less than a
month into the new administration
to this week’s firing of Secretary of
State Rex Tillerson, the parade of
departures has become a different
kind of prime-time drama, raising
questions about whether Trump is
draining the swamp or creating
dangerous instability.
Although the number of depar-
tures is unusual, the biggest change
in how Washington operates is the
way in which Trump has gone
about swapping out personnel.
Tillerson learned that he was
being fired via a presidential tweet.
FBI Director James B. Comey
found out he was sacked last year
by seeing a headline on cable news.
Last summer, Chief of Staff Reince
Priebus’s White House career end-
ed when other top officials hopped
out of the black Suburban SUV that
was carrying them from Air Force
One back to Washington, leaving
Priebus the lone passenger in a
vehicle that then peeled out of the
president’s motorcade.
In these and many other cases
over the first 14 months of Trump’s
administration, there was no
“You’re fired” moment, at least not
from the president. Presidents of-
ten outsource the unseemly busi-
ness of firing people to their chief of
staff, but “what’s really unusual
about this president is the public
humiliations,” said Kathryn Dunn
Tenpas, who studies presidential
transitions at the Brookings Insti-
tution. “I’ve never seen a president
criticize his staff so publicly and
individually.”
The high-velocity spin on the
White House’s revolving door
stems in part from “an insurgent
campaign that shunned experi-
Trump planning to replace McMaster, and perhaps other White House aides
TRUMP FROM A1
Trump feels emboldened, advisers
said — buoyed by what he views as
triumphant decisions last week to
impose tariffs on steel and alumi-
num and to agree to meet with
North Korean leader Kim Jong
Un. The president is enjoying the
process of assessing his team and
making changes, tightening his
inner circle to those he considers
survivors and who respect his un-
conventional style, one senior
White House official said.
White House press secretary
Sarah Huckabee Sanders pushed
back late Thursday on Twitter:
“Just spoke @POTUS and Gen
H.R. McMaster. Contrary to re-
ports they have a good working
relationship and there are no
changes at the NSC.”
Before The Washington Post re-
port was published, a White
House spokesperson checked with
several senior White House offi-
cials and did not dispute that the
president had made a decision.
White House Chief of Staff John F.
Kelly — who has personally been
eager to see McMaster go —has
also told White House staff in re-
cent days that Trump had made up
his mind about ousting McMaster.
Just days ago, Trump used Twit-
ter to fire Rex Tillerson, the secre-
tary of state whom he disliked, and
moved to install his close ally, CIA
Director Mike Pompeo, in the job.
On Wednesday, he named con-
servative TV analyst Larry Kud-
low to replace his top economic
adviser, Gary Cohn, who quit over
trade disagreements.
And Trump signaled Thursday
that more personnel moves were
likely. “There will always be
change,” he told reporters. “And I
think you want to see change. I
want to also see different ideas.”
This portrait of the Trump ad-
ministration in turmoil is based
on interviews with 19 presidential
advisers and administration offi-
cials, many of whom spoke on the
condition of anonymity to offer
candid perspectives.
The mood inside the White
House in recent days has verged
on mania, as Trump increasingly
keeps his own counsel and senior
President Trump’s Cabinet looks on during the State of the Union speech early this year. Many of the president’s appointees who have left
or been pushed out departed not because of policy differences, but because Trump did not connect with them or did not trust them.
ence” and in part from the presi-
dent’s tendency to “value loyalty
over qualifications,” Tenpas said.
She has calculated that first-year
staff turnover in the Trump White
House is more than triple that of
Barack Obama’s administration
and double that of Ronald Rea-
gan’s.
Trump’s approach to manage-
ment may be new to the White
House, but it’s not surprising to
those who have worked for him for
decades.
Longtime executives in Trump’s
business empire say that although
he successfully constructed a popu-
lar conception of himself as a
tough, blunt truth-teller, the
“You’re fired” image was always a
caricature.
On “The Apprentice,” the deci-
sions about which contestant to
jettison came not from the mercuri-
al chief executive at the big, gleam-
ing desk, but from the program’s
producers, according to people
who worked on the show. Trump
got his instructions on whom to
sack via a prompter on his desk that
was made to look like a phone.
And in real life, in more than four
decades at the helm of his family
business, Trump did sometimes
make a show of taking charge by
aides struggle to determine the
gradations between rumor and
truth. At times, they say, they are
anxious and nervous, wondering
what each new headline may
mean for them personally.
But in other moments, they ap-
pear almost as characters in an
absurdist farce — openly joking
about whose career might end
with the next presidential tweet.
White House officials have begun
betting about which staffer will be
ousted next, though few, if any,
have much reliable information
about what is actually going on.
Many aides were particularly
unsettled by the firing of the presi-
dent’s longtime personal aide,
John McEntee, who was marched
out of the White House on Tuesday
after his security clearance was
abruptly revoked.
“Everybody fears the perp
walk,” one senior White House
official said. “If it could happen to
Johnny, the president’s body guy,
it could happen to anybody.”
Trump recently told Kelly that
he wants McMaster out and asked
for help weighing replacement op-
tions, according to two people fa-
miliar with their conversa-
tions. The president has com-
plained that McMaster is too rigid
and that his briefings go on too
long and seem irrelevant.
Several candidates have
emerged as possible McMaster re-
placements, including John Bol-
ton, a former U.S. ambassador to
the United Nations, and Keith Kel-
logg, the chief of staff of the Na-
tional Security Council.
Kellogg travels with Trump on
many domestic trips, in part be-
cause the president likes his com-
pany and thinks he is fun. Bolton
has met with Trump several times
and often agrees with the presi-
dent’s instincts. Trump also thinks
Bolton, who regularly praises the
president on Fox News Channel, is
good on television.
Some in the White House have
been reluctant to oust McMaster
from his national security perch
until he has a promotion to four-
star rank or other comfortable
landing spot. They are eager to
show that someone can serve in
the Trump administration with-
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dispatching underlings in public,
humiliating fashion. But those
were the exceptions. At the Trump
Organization, he didn’t fire many
people and, when he did, he only
rarely took the action himself, gen-
erally leaving the dirty work to his
deputies.
Trump has frequently explained
the turnover in his operations by
saying that he thrives on chaos and
controversy. He has been quick to
criticize or humiliate members of
his administration in public — he
peppered Tillerson with disdainful
tweets and leaks, just as he had
with Comey, Priebus and Jeff Ses-
sions, who remains in the role of
attorney general.
Yet some of those who have been
subjected to harsh public critiques
stay on in their jobs. And many of
those who have left nonetheless
remain loyal to Trump both public-
ly and privately — a pattern that has
continued throughout his career, as
fired staffers come back to work for
him years later.
“Some people just haven’t
synced well with him, but they still
support his goals and philoso-
phies,” said Sean Spicer, Trump’s
first press secretary, who quit after
six months in the position. “I ap-
proached my job in a very tradition-
President Trump reportedly considers national security adviser
H.R. McMaster too rigid and feels his briefings go on too long.
out suffering severe damage to
their reputation.
There has been a death watch
for McMaster for several weeks.
After NBC reported on March 1
that Trump was preparing to re-
place him, the White House dis-
missed that report as “fake news”
— but over the past 48 hours,
officials told The Post that Trump
has now made a clear decision and
the replacement search is more
active.
McMaster is not the only senior
official on thin ice with the presi-
dent. Veterans Affairs Secretary
David Shulkin has attracted
Trump’s ire for his spending deci-
sions as well as for general disor-
der in the senior leadership of his
agency.
Others considered at risk for
being fired or reprimanded in-
clude Housing and Urban Devel-
opment Secretary Ben Carson,
who has generated bad headlines
for ordering a $31,000 dining
room set for his office; Environ-
mental Protection Agency Admin-
istrator Scott Pruitt, who has been
under fire for his first-class travel
at taxpayer expense; and Interior
Secretary Ryan Zinke, whose
agency spent $139,000 to renovate
his office doors.
Meanwhile, Education Secre-
tary Betsy DeVos drew attention
this week when she stumbled
through a pair of high-profile tele-
vision interviews. Kelly watched
al way, as Rex did. And the presi-
dent is a very untraditional disrupt-
er. But even after you’re gone, he’s
very helpful and looks after people
who’ve been part of the team.”
Tenpas’s study of turnover in the
Trump White House concluded
that the staff volatility is so high in
part because the president dis-
dained people with government ex-
perience and was unwilling to hire
those who had opposed him during
the campaign.
Trump promised a break with
business as usual, a government-
wide housecleaning that would en-
tail plenty of departures. But his
time in the White House has been
notable for the number of sackings
from within his own roster of ap-
pointments. Many of those who
have left or been pushed out de-
parted not because of policy differ-
ences, but because Trump did not
connect with them or did not trust
them.
“There’ll always be some degree
of turnover because that’s who he
is,” Spicer said. “But it will be less
over time because he’s really start-
ing to get a handle on the type of
people he needs to push his agen-
da.”
Like the contestants on “The Ap-
prentice,” many of those who have
JABIN BOTSFORD/THE WASHINGTON POST
DeVos’s sit-down with Lesley Stahl
of CBS’s “60 Minutes” with frustra-
tion and complained about the
secretary’s apparent lack of prepa-
ration, officials said. Other Trump
advisers mocked DeVos’s shaky
appearance with Savannah Guth-
rie on NBC’s “Today” show.
Kelly’s own ouster has been
widely speculated about for
weeks. But two top officials said
Trump on Thursday morning ex-
pressed disbelief to Vice President
Pence, senior advisers and Kelly
himself that Kelly’s name was sur-
facing on media watch lists be-
cause his job is secure. Trump and
Kelly then laughed about it, the
officials said.
But others in the West Wing say
Kelly’s departure could be immi-
nent, and Mick Mulvaney, director
of the Office of Management and
Budget, has been mentioned as a
possible new chief of staff.
The widespread uncertainty
has created power vacuums that
could play to the advantage of
some administration aides.
Pompeo, who carefully cultivat-
ed a personal relationship with
the president, had positioned
himself as the heir apparent to
Tillerson, whom Trump had long
disliked.
Similarly, Pruitt has made no
secret inside the West Wing of his
ambition to become attorney gen-
eral should Trump decide to fire
Jeff Sessions, who he frequently
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JABIN BOTSFORD/THE WASHINGTON POST
suffered embarrassing endings to
their short tenures over the past
year had the great disadvantage of
not having spent much time
around their boss before this job.
They therefore lacked the skills
honed by executives who worked
for Trump for decades. Most of his
inner circle in the Trump Organiza-
tion had, contrary to popular im-
pressions of the president, devoted
most of their working careers to
what was often portrayed to the
public as a virtual one-man show.
Those who stayed with Trump
say they learned how to let him vent
when he was angry. They knew how
to appeal to his delight in appear-
ing to be unpredictable. They knew
not to challenge him in public but
rather to master the art of hanging
out in his office long enough to
subtly make their case and, most
crucially, get him to believe that
some alternative to his stated view
was also his idea.
“At some point, you have to un-
derstand your boss,” Spicer said.
“You either cut against the grain or
you understand how he operates.”
Those who have enjoyed long
tenures with Trump say they
learned early on that if they could
balance his craving for respect and
loyalty against his desire to project
derides for recusing himself from
the investigation of Russian inter-
ference in the 2016 election.
White House officials have
grown agitated that Pruitt and his
allies are privately pushing for the
EPA chief to replace Sessions, a job
Pruitt has told people he wants.
On Wednesday night, Kelly called
Pruitt and told him the president
was happy with his performance
at EPA and that he did not need to
worry about the Justice Depart-
ment, according to two people fa-
miliar with the conversation.
With Hope Hicks resigning her
post as communications director,
the internal jockeying to replace
her has been especially intense
between Mercedes Schlapp, who
oversees the White House’s long-
term communications planning,
and Tony Sayegh, Treasury Secre-
tary Steven Mnuchin’s top com-
munications adviser.
Trump enjoys watching his sub-
ordinates compete for his approv-
al. Many of the rumors are fueled
by Trump himself because he com-
plains to aides and friends about
other staffers, or muses about who
might make good replacements.
“I like conflict. I like having two
people with different points of
view,” Trump said last week, rap-
ping his fists toward one another
to simulate a clash. “I like watch-
ing it, I like seeing it, and I think
it’s the best way to go.”
Shulkin, meanwhile, is facing
mounting trouble after The Post
first reported that he and his wife
took a sightseeing-filled trip to
Europe on taxpayer funds, includ-
ing watching tennis at Wimble-
don. Shulkin is now facing an in-
surrection at his own agency, with
tensions so high that an armed
guard stands outside his office.
Another episode haunting
Shulkin was a trip to the Invictus
Games in Canada last September
with first lady Melania Trump’s
entourage. Shulkin fought with
East Wing aides over his request
that his wife accompany him on
the trip because he was eager for
her to meet Britain’s Prince Harry,
who founded the games, accord-
ing to multiple officials familiar
with the dispute.
The first lady’s office explained
. FRIDAY, MARCH 16 , 2018
strength, they could sometimes get
their way.
“The funny thing was that if you
played him right, you could often
win,” said Barbara Res, who ran
Trump’s construction operations in
the 1980s. “He needed to be stroked
all the time and told how smart he
was. Every decision process was
clouded by his sense that he knows
more than anybody else. But you
could work with that: The way we
got things done was to approach
him with an idea and make him
think it was his. It was so easy.”
While he built his reputation as a
savvy dealmaker who relished con-
flict, Trump has rarely tolerated
open dissent. Rather, he tells his
executives that he expects them to
rally around and defend him
against reactions stirred up by his
various provocations.
From his stunning dismissal of
Comey last May through the flurry
of recent firings, Trump has sought
to define his brand as leadership
that moves swiftly and unilaterally,
embracing controversy because it’s
a surefire way to dominate the
news.
He has called himself a “ratings
machine,” and he has always re-
warded those who enhanced that
role and punished those who
sought to share the limelight.
Since the 1970s, Trump has been
quick to push out people who spoke
out against him, contradicted him
in public, claimed credit for some-
thing his company had achieved or
behaved in ways he considered dis-
loyal.
The hierarchical structure of the
federal bureaucracy was never go-
ing to be a comfortable place for
Trump. Before taking office, Trump
told a group of visiting Silicon Val-
ley executives that it would be sim-
ple to work with him: “You’ll call
my people, you’ll call me,” he said.
“It doesn’t make any difference. We
have no formal chain of command
here.”
But once he got to Washington,
Trump found himself without close
aides who knew when to yield to
him and how to push him without
sending him over the edge.
And as his presidency has faced
pressure from low popularity rat-
ings, dangers around the world and
a constant drumbeat of an investi-
gation into allegations of wrongdo-
ing by his campaign, he has gotten
rid of or threatened people for fail-
ing to embrace his policies, embar-
rassing him, or being what he con-
sidered weak or insufficiently sup-
portive.
“I listen to people,” Trump wrote
in one of his books, “Think Like a
Billionaire,” “but my vision is my
vision.”
marc.fisher@washpost.com
there was not room on the plane
for Shulkin’s wife, and officials
said the secretary was unpleasant
during the trip.
Shulkin said in an email sent by
a spokeswoman: “These allega-
tions are simply untrue. I was hon-
ored to attend the Invictus Games
with the First Lady and under-
stood fully when I was told that
there wasn’t any more room for
guests to attend.”
A leading contender to replace
Shulkin is Pete Hegseth, an Iraq
War veteran and Fox News per-
sonality who is a conservative
voice on veterans policy, officials
said.
White House officials said there
are several reasons Trump has not
axed Cabinet members with
whom he has grown disenchant-
ed: the absence of consensus picks
to replace them; concern that
their nominated successors may
not get confirmed in the divided
Senate; and reluctance to pick al-
lied senators or House members
for fear of losing Republican seats
in special elections, as happened
last year in Alabama.
Amid the disarray, White House
staff are training Cabinet secretar-
ies and their staffs on ethics rules
and discussing new processes to
prevent mistakes. William J.
McGinley, who runs the White
House Office of Cabinet Affairs,
and Stefan C. Passantino, a deputy
White House counsel, have met
individually and in groups with
Carson, Pruitt, Shulkin, Zinke and
other Cabinet secretaries to im-
press upon them the importance
of changing behavior.
Simply following the letter of
the law is not enough, administra-
tion officials said. Trump and Kel-
ly demand that their Cabinet sec-
retaries be mindful of political op-
tics and the bad headlines that
come with misbehavior.
“Even if the legal guys sign off
on it,” one official said, “you still
step back and say, ‘Does this make
sense optically?’ ”
ashley.parker@washpost.com
josh.dawsey@washpost.com
philip.rucker@washpost.com
carol.leonnig@washpost.com
Greg Jaffe contributed to this report.
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If not for enormous debt, Toys R Us might have survived, analysts say
After private-equity
takeover, retailer starved
itself to pay off $5 billion
BY A BHA B HATTARAI
When Toys R Us announced
Thursday it would be closing or
selling all of its 800 U.S. stores,
analysts offered many reasons for
the company’s demise: stale
stores, a hard-to-navigate website
and increasing competition from
the likes of Walmart, Target and
online retailers.
But it encountered perhaps its
biggest challenge, bankruptcy
lawyers and retail experts say,
when two private-equity firms
and a real estate investment trust
bought the company in 2005 as
part of a leveraged buyout and
took it private. In the process, they
loaded the toy store chain with
roughly $5 billion in debt.
“It was a heavy load that was
ultimately too much to overcome,
especially as they began to fall
behind in other ways,” said Jim
Silver, chief executive of the toy
review website TTPM. “They had
solid results, but not the kind of
substantial growth necessary to
carry that kind of debt.”
Ever since, the company has
struggled to repay the debt, hand-
ing over $400 million a year, often
at the expense of turning a profit.
Recently, it had begun burning
through $50 million to $100 mil-
lion in cash each month as it tried
to dig its way out, according to
court documents filed Thursday.
Toys R Us is owned by three com-
panies — the private-equity firms
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Bain
Capital, and the real estate firm
Vornado Realty Trust. The firms
did not immediately respond to
calls and emails seeking com-
ment.
The big-box chain is just the
latest example of a private-equity-
backed retailer that is paying the
price for debt-laden deals dating
back years, if not decades. Among
those that have recently filed for
bankruptcy are Gymboree, BCBG
Max Azria, Limited Stores, Rue21,
Sports Authority and Wet Seal, all
of which had large debt loads.
Also on Thursday, iHeartMe-
dia, the country’s largest radio
company — purchased 10 years
ago in a leveraged buyout by Bain
Capital — filed for bankruptcy,
citing $20 billion in debt.
“Those deals might have made
sense at the time, but the world
has evolved,” said Philip Emma,
market was hot, sales were boom-
ing and the housing market was
taking off. But all of those things
have since come crashing down in
various ways.”
Perhaps the first domino to
fall, analysts say, was the depart-
ment store chain Mervyn’s,
which went out of business and
closed all of its stores in 2008,
just four years after it was pur-
chased by a group of investors
including private-equity firms
Sun Capital Partners and Cer-
berus Capital Management. (In
2012, the firms agreed to pay
$166 million to Mervyn’s credi-
tors to settle a lawsuit alleging
that the private-equity compa-
nies fraudulently profited from
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the retailer’s demise.)
Toys R Us joins a string of retailers that were taken over by private- A year later, KB Toys — which
equity firms and then collapsed in part because of their debt load. was also purchased in a leveraged
buyout by Bain Capital — closed
all of its stores after two bankrupt-
cy filings. A number of other re-
“They had solid results, but not the tailers, including Linens N Things
and Steve & Barry’s, also had a
kind of substantial growth necessary similar fate.
“It’s a perfect storm that’s led to
to carry that kind of debt.” one bankruptcy after another,”
Jim Silver, chief executive of the toy review website TTPM said Craig Barbarosh, an attorney
at Katten Muchin Rosenman who
specializes in corporate bank-
ruptcies. “These deals from that
an analyst for Debtwire. “Toys R retailers that went private at the era were made under extremely
Us . . . [was] part of that wave of peak of the market. The real estate aggressive — perhaps not even
realistic — assumption, and that’s
what we’re seeing again with Toys
R Us.”
In 2005, though, executives
were hopeful that the Toys R Us’s
new owners would help breathe
life into the childhood staple that
spanned generations, which was
just beginning to deal with in-
creased competition from Wal-
mart and its rivals.
“These new owners have em-
braced our strategy,” John H. Eyler
Jr., the company’s chief executive
at the time, told The Washington
Post in 2005. “Toys R Us is going to
be around for a long time.” (Eyler
received $65.3 million on the
completion of the deal.)
But analysts say Toys R Us did
little to reverse its fortunes. It
continued to lose customers to
big-box chains that promised low-
er prices and more convenience,
as well as to neighborhood bou-
tiques where children could get
personalized attention and
hands-on experience.
“There has been no strategy at
Toys R Us,” Silver said. “They
talked about making stores small-
er, about making them bigger,
about adding more experiences,
or combining toys with Babies R
Us. But nobody ever had a plan to
make it work.”
abha.bhattarai@washpost.com

Company’s failure had roots not only in falling sales but also falling births
There are endless
Wonkblog reasons a big-box
toy store would
ANDREW
VAN DAM collapse during a
retail apocalypse
— and Toys R Us
acknowledged a number of
them in its most recent annual
filing: the teetering tower of
debt incurred by its private-
equity owners, competition
from Amazon.com, Walmart
and Target.
They even wrung their hands
about app stores, labor costs and
potential tariffs raising the costs
of the imported goods they sell.
But one risk stood out. Toys R
Us said there just weren’t
enough babies:
“The decrease of birthrates in
countries where we operate
could negatively affect our
business. Most of our end-
customers are newborns and
children and, as a result, our
revenue are dependent on the
birthrates in countries where we
operate. In recent years, many
countries’ birthrates have
dropped or stagnated as their
population ages, and education
and income levels increase. A
continued and significant
decline in the number of
newborns and children in these
countries could have a material
adverse effect on our operating
results.”
It may not have been the
biggest existential threat
confronting Geoffrey the Giraffe
(the store’s mascot), but it’s the
one with the broadest
implications outside of the
worlds of toys and malls.
Measured as a share of
overall population, U.S. births
have fallen steadily since the
Great Recession. They hit their
lowest point on record in 2016
— the most recent year for
which the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention has
comparable data.
Even adjusted for the aging
population and declining share
of women of childbearing age,
U.S. fertility rates are at all-time
lows.
That’s problematic for Toys R
Us, which also operates the
Babies R Us stores. The
company claims in its annual
report that income is linked to
birthrates, and it appears to be
right.
The change in the number of
children born in the previous 12
years (and thus sitting right
within the Toys R Us
demographic) tracks closely
U.S. birthrate factors at play. The same
economic forces that encourage
Live births per 1,000 residents people to have children may
also encourage them to splurge
30 on toys, for example.
But it’s nonetheless apparent
that Toys R Us’s fortunes rise
20 and fall with the population of
its target market.
12.2 And that’s why the company’s
10 demise should worry the rest of
us.
Toys R Us focuses on kids, so
0 it’s feeling the crunch from
1909 2016 declining birthrates long before
the rest of the economy.
Source: Centers for Disease Control But it’s just a matter of time
and Prevention before the trends that toppled
THE WASHINGTON POST the troubled toymaker put the
squeeze on businesses that cater
to consumers of all ages.
with the company’s changing The smaller generation of
annual revenue. children whose lackluster toy
There are, to be sure, other consumption brought down
Geoffrey the Giraffe will be
adults soon.
They’ll become the prime-age
consumer spenders that drive
U.S. economic growth.
And the generation after
them will be smaller still, after
accounting for a slight bump
from the generational fallout of
the baby boom.
Eventually, unless the country
does something significant to
encourage larger families or
immigration, that narrowing
base of the population pyramid
will crawl upward.
In the end, Toys R Us will just
have been the first of many
businesses of all descriptions
facing the same hard
demographic truth: Economic
growth is extremely difficult
without population growth.
andrew.vandam@washpost.com

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Apple has tips for parents wrestling with screen time, but still no new tools
BY H AYLEY T SUKAYAMA
Shareholders and parents
have been asking Apple for
months to address how addictive
smartphones are and to offer
tools to deal with the problem.
Late Wednesday, Apple posted a
new resource page outlining
what parents can do now to
monitor their children's’ iPad
and iPhone use.
There are no new features on
the resource page, although Ap-
ple in January said that it is
working on “new enhancements”
Landing U.S. investors a tall order for Saudi crown prince
BY S TEVEN M UFSON
Saudi Crown Prince Moham-
med bin Salman arrives in the
United States next week to kick off
a tour of the pillars of the U.S.
economy — including meetings
with Silicon Valley technology
leaders, Los Angeles entertain-
ment executives, oil industry fig-
ures in Houston and captains of
finance in New York.
Mohammed, who will see Presi-
dent Trump on Tuesday, is striving
to woo foreign investment and
know-how to Saudi Arabia to cre-
ate jobs and diversify an economy
that relies almost entirely on ex-
ports of oil. Those initiatives are
key parts of his reformist Vision
2030.
Selling American investors on
Saudi Arabia is a tough business.
During a visit to Riyadh in May,
Trump touted what he described
as nearly $200 billion of commer-
cial and military agreements with
the kingdom. They included sales
of equipment and investment go-
ing in both directions. Nine
months later, only a tiny number
of the vaunted deals have come to
fruition.
Investors may be even more
skittish because of a recent crack-
down on Saudi Arabia’s business
elite orchestrated by the crown
prince. Though Mohammed has
portrayed the crackdown as an
attack on corruption, Western in-
vestors are concerned about
whether it demonstrates weak-
ness in the rule of law. The Saudi
government extracted billions of
dollars and in some cases entire
enterprises in exchange for the
business executives’ release from
detention in Riyadh’s Ritz Carlton
hotel.
“The crown prince needs to do
some reassuring of the interna-
tional business and financial com-
munities in the wake of the Ritz
Carlton detentions of last year,” F.
Gregory Gause, a professor of in-
ternational affairs at Texas A&M
University, said in an email.
Other people familiar with Sau-
di Arabia expect that episode to
fade away.
Maybe. Even before the crack-
down, the World Bank ranked
Saudi Arabia 92nd in the world for
the ease of doing business. Permits
and paperwork are burdensome.
Cross-border trade is practically
impossible. And the kingdom
lacks a clear bankruptcy law, mak-
ing it hard to recover money if a
weak local partner goes out of
business.
Seeking advice and influence in
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Ford to focus on SUVs,
hybrids in overhaul
Ford executives on Thursday
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product portfolio from passenger
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reduce development and
manufacturing costs — moves
aimed at boosting Ford’s profit
and share price.
At a news briefing near the
company’s Dearborn, Mich.,
headquarters, CEO Jim Hackett
said Ford’s previously stated
margin target of 8 percent “now
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the overhaul of its product lineup
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Ford is overhauling itself for
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lematic tech use — a response to
investors asking for more “choic-
es and tools to help [parents]
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using your products in an opti-
mal manner.”
Instead, the page lists a num-
ber of Apple settings, including
parental controls that let grown-
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use and prevent children from
buying items without permis-
sion. Apple also outlines how to
use do-not-disturb modes for use,
for instance, while doing home-
He aims to energize deals still dormant after Trump touted them last year
Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives at the British prime minister’s residence at 10 Downing Street, London, on March 7.
the United States, the kingdom
over the years has signed up a raft
of lobbyists, lawyers and consult-
ing firms, including Akin Gump,
the Podesta Group, BGR Group,
the Hohlt Group, Squire Patton
Boggs, Qorvis, Hogan Lovells and
King & Spalding. But many of
those lobbyists privately express
frustration at the challenges of
working with Saudi officials.
Restrictions on films could
dampen Hollywood’s appetite for
engagement. Hotel chains might
be intimidated by the difficulty of
doing business in the kingdom.
Trump’s list of U.S.-Saudi trans-
actions included $110 billion of
military deals and $80 billion of
commercial sales, according to a
spreadsheet a White House offi-
cial provided to The Washington
Post at the time. But some of those
were not solid deals to begin with;
the list included memorandums of
understanding and letters of in-
tent. Some were first floated dur-
ing the Obama administration.
“There seems to have been very
little progress on implementing
vehicles. General Motors said
Thursday that it will invest
$100 million in two suburban
Detroit factories to begin
commercial production of self-
driving versions of Chevrolet Bolt
electric cars for use as robo-taxis.
Jim Farley, Ford’s president of
global markets, said the
automaker plans to shift
$7 billion of investment to sport-
utility vehicles from cars and, by
2020, field a North American
lineup of eight SUVs.
Coming out of the 2008
financial crisis, Ford pushed fuel-
efficient cars for the U.S. market.
Now, the automaker is driving
toward a near-term future in
which cars account for only
14 percent of its volume, with
SUVs and trucks growing to about
86 percent of North American
sales.
Ford also plans to take on Tesla
with a performance-oriented
battery electric utility vehicle in
2020 — the first of six new pure
electric vehicles due by 2022 as
part of Ford’s planned $11 billion
investment in electrification.
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work or for teens behind the
wheel.
It also tries to make a case for
how iPhone and iPads can help
parents, including information
on how they can use mobile
devices to track children or use
them to quickly access medical
information.
The new page does not directly
address the issue of how long
children spend on screens.
Children’s advocates for years
have called for parents and tech
companies to think more critical-
ly about how kids are using
specific deals,” Gause said. “There
was a formal announcement to
Congress of a $500 million deal
earlier this year, but that is a small
percentage of the amount an-
nounced during the visit.”
The biggest deal was $28 billion
for integrated air and missile de-
fense, combat ship, tactical air-
craft and rotary wing technologies
and programs from Lockheed
Martin. So far, nothing has been
delivered, and the agreements
“are currently working their way
through the approval processes in
both governments,” said Maureen
Schumann, a spokeswoman at
Lockheed Martin.
The State Department notified
Congress on Oct. 6 that it had
approved a possible sale to the
government of Saudi Arabia of an
anti-ballistic missile system, the
Terminal High Altitude Area De-
fense (THAAD), for an estimated
$15 billion, but there is no solid
contract.
If the past is any indication, that
could take a while. The THAAD
sale was not a new idea at the time
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iHeartMedia files
bankruptcy plan
IHeartMedia, one of the
world’s largest radio companies,
is seeking bankruptcy protection
as part of an agreement with its
lenders to reduce debt it took on
to become a privately held
company.
The company formerly known
as Clear Channel
Communications said Thursday
that it will operate its businesses
as usual while it restructures its
finances under Chapter 11
protection to reduce debt by more
than $10 billion.
IHeartMedia, based in San
Antonio, operates 858 broadcast
radio stations in more than 150
markets in the country. It also
runs big live events such as the
iHeartRadio Music Awards.
Though iHeartMedia has a
large online presence and its
iHeartRadio app is popular for
streaming music, it faces stiff
competition from Spotify, Apple
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of Trump’s visit. The Saudis have issued a blanket hold on sales of
expressed interest in the system military equipment to countries in
for several years, and President the six-member Gulf Cooperation
Barack Obama approved the sale Council over a dispute between
— in principle — at a summit at Qatar and other GCC members.
Camp David in 2015. Saudi Arabia is a GCC member.
Other parts of the Lockheed But on Feb. 8, Corker wrote to
Martin package are even further then-Secretary of State Rex Tiller-
off. There was to be a joint venture son that he was lifting his objec-
to finish building 150 S-70 Black tion to weapon sales to countries
Hawk helicopters for Saudi Ara- engaged in anti-terrorism activi-
bia, an arrangement that was fore- ties.
cast to generate 450 jobs in Saudi An aide to Corker who spoke on
Arabia. the condition of anonymity to
But the venture has not ad- comment freely said Corker had
vanced past a letter of intent, made exceptions for a wide variety
Schumann said. of commercial and defensive non-
“What the Saudis and the ad- lethal military sales. The aide said
ministration did is put together a that just four proposed sales total-
notional package of the Saudi wish ing $2.9 billion to Saudi Arabia
list of possible deals and portray were subject to the hold and have
that as a deal,” Bruce Riedel, a since been cleared. That amounts
senior fellow at the Brookings In- to less than 3 percent of the
stitution, said in a blog post. “Even $110 billion in sales announced
then the numbers don’t add up. It’s last May in Riyadh.
fake news.” At the time of Trump’s visit to
A State Department represen- the kingdom, General Electric also
tative said the delay in military announced $15 billion in “new
sales was linked to Sen. Bob Cork- agreements” with Saudi Arabia.
er (R-S.C.), who nine months ago The projects would span the king-
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The chief of the Yawanawa ethnic group in Brazil is preparing for
the World Economic Forum on Latin America in São Paulo, where
leaders from government, business and civil society will gather.
services. Spotify, which recently massive debt, which it amassed
filed for an initial public offering, when private equity firms
said Thursday that its shares will Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain
begin trading on the New York Capital led a buyback of publicly
Stock Exchange around April 3. held shares to take the company
The reason for iHeartMedia’s private in 2008.
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features except calls, texts, map-
ping apps and photos.
“This isn’t just an Apple issue,
but among Silicon Valley compa-
nies, Apple is [in] the best posi-
tion to address it,” protester Di-
vyahans Gupta told Business In-
sider.
The company has not offered
any details on what new features
may be coming down the road.
Apple is expected to show off its
next mobile operating system at
its Worldwide Developers Con-
ference, which starts June 4.
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dom’s power, health care, energy
and mining sectors, as well as
skills training and digital analytics
running on Predix, GE’s software
platform for the “industrial Inter-
net.”
The package also was to include
a partnership with Saudi Aramco,
the national oil and gas company,
to generate $4 billion in efficiency
savings by digitizing its opera-
tions.
But few of GE’s agreements
have gelled. One exception: In
June 2017, the company signed a
joint-venture agreement worth
$270 million with the Saudi firm
Dussur to move some turbine re-
pair operations to the kingdom.
Another: GE software to put medi-
cal records online is being intro-
duced at three hospitals around
the kingdom.
Companies focusing on the en-
ergy industry have been waiting
for the construction of a King Sal-
man “energy park.”
Schlumberger, one of the
world’s leading oil-field services
companies, said it would become a
“key anchor tenant” in the devel-
opment and would manufacture
products for land drilling rigs. It
said the first phase of the project
was planned to be completed by
the end of the month.
But the biggest items on the
Trump administration’s list of
“deals” were, in fact, investment
funds looking at projects in the
United States and other parts of
the world. The funds had been in
the works since before Trump took
office.
In one, the Saudi Public Invest-
ment Fund pledged to invest
$20 billion in a $40 billion private-
equity fund run by the Blackstone
Group and focusing on U.S. infra-
structure. The Trump administra-
tion inflated the deal list by count-
ing this commitment as a $40 bil-
lion “deal.” But the Saudi share is
only half of the $40 billion and will
not be drawn down until the fund
has a pipeline of projects. So far,
Blackstone has recruited some in-
vestors, including senior execu-
tives to manage the fund, but it has
yet to make the first investment.
The Saudi PIF has also pledged
to invest up to $45 billion in Soft-
Bank’s $100 billion technology-fo-
cused Vision Fund, which is ex-
pected to invest heavily in the
United States. SoftBank is a Japa-
nese company. The Trump admin-
istration included the entire
amount of the $100 billion fund in
listing the commercial deals
signed during the president’s trip.
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A year on, president has yet to pick science and technology adviser
BY T ONY R OMM
More than a year after entering
the White House, President
Trump still has not selected his top
science and technology adviser,
leaving unfilled a critical policy
post that guides the administra-
tion on issues as varied as artificial
intelligence, climate change and
cancer research.
Although the White House
maintains that it is unconstrained
in its work — and has staffed up to
tackle such challenges as closing
the country’s Internet-access gaps
— the vacancy still troubles policy
experts, who say they believe that
Trump would be best served by
someone who could double as an
emissary to the academic and en-
gineering worlds.
“Symbolically, it signals science
and technology is at the table in
the administration’s policymak-
ing,” said Kumar Garg, who was an
innovation policy aide under Pres-
ident Barack Obama. “But also
substantively, because the science
adviser is the principal who gets
invited to senior strategy meet-
ings . . . on critical topics like bios-
ecurity, cybersecurity, how do we
make sure America remains com-
petitive against China and Russia
in emerging technology?”
Technically, the White House
has two major science and tech-
nology posts. The first is the direc-
tor of the Office of Science and
Technology Policy (OSTP), which
has a broad remit that includes
coordinating the country’s vast
federal research budget. The sec-
ond is the assistant to the presi-
dent on science and technology, a
title that is supposed to afford its
bearer access to the person occu-
pying the Oval Office. Often, those
roles are held by the same person,
and under Obama, the responsi-
bilities fell to John P. Holdren for
eight years.
Since Holdren’s departure, the
posts have remained vacant. But
Trump’s aides have actively sought
new leadership for months. One of
the candidates under consider-
ation is Kelvin Droegemeier, an
expert in extreme weather and
meteorology from the University
of Oklahoma, according to three
people familiar with the presi-
dent’s thinking but not authorized
to speak publicly. The people said
others are in the running.
The White House and the OSTP
declined to comment. Reached
this week by email, Droegemeier
declined to comment.
Under Trump, the White House
generally has operated with a
much smaller complement of sci-
ence and technology staffers than
it did under Obama. The OSTP
counts about 50 aides today, com-
pared with the roughly 130 Obama
had tapped before leaving office.
Some of that is by design, as Trump
has sought to scale back the size of
government. But some of it is the
result of the president’s at-times
icy relationship with liberal-lean-
ing Silicon Valley, where top tech-
nology executives and engineers
— experts who could have formed
his policy ranks — have become
SUE OGROCKI/ASSOCIATED PRESS some of his biggest public critics.
Kelvin Droegemeier, a meteorology expert from the University of Among Trump’s tech policy ad-
Oklahoma, is reportedly a candidate for the White House position. visers is Michael Kratsios, a for-
mer aide to venture capitalist Pe-
ter Thiel who joined the adminis-
tration in its early days to serve as
deputy chief technology officer.
The White House has retained
other policy staffers recently who
focus on artificial intelligence and
education, and at the OSTP, they
have advanced early initiatives
that have satisfied tech giants in
Silicon Valley and beyond. That
includes efforts to speed up the
arrival of 5G, the next generation
of ultra-fast, wireless Internet
service for smartphones and other
devices.
At the same time, critics have
bristled as the president has pro-
posed budgets that would slash
federal programs that seek to com-
bat global warming, which Trump
described in 2013 as a “hoax.” And
Trump’s decision last year to with-
draw the United States from a
worldwide carbon-reduction trea-
ty, the Paris climate accord, drew
outrage from hundreds of busi-
ness leaders in technology and
other industries.
For that reason, veterans of the
White House maintain that
Trump needs a full-time, senior
expert with the same sort of access
afforded to his top aides in defense
and economics.
“I’m happy they are staffing up,”
said Kei Koizumi, an assistant di-
rector at the OSTP under Obama
who is a visiting scholar at the
American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science.
But, Koizumi added: “I remain
concerned for them to be fully
effective. There’s no substitute for
leadership that can back their
work and make sure they are lis-
tened to.”
If the White House proceeds
with Droegemeier, it would add to
its ranks a highly experienced me-
teorologist with government ex-
perience. He has served as Okla-
homa’s secretary of science and
technology, and he aided the U.S.
government’s National Science
Board under presidents George W.
Bush and Obama.
Publicly, Droegemeier has ad-
vocated for sustained federal re-
search spending, even as Trump at
times has pursued cuts. Mean-
while, Droegemeier has come to
the defense of at least one of
Trump’s current nominees, Rep.
Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.), whose
views on climate change prompt-
ed Democrats to block his nomina-
tion to lead NASA.
Droegemeier could be nominat-
ed to run the OSTP, or he could be
appointed to serve solely as assis-
tant to the president for science
and technology. The latter post, if
it is uncoupled from the OSTP,
doesn’t require Senate confirma-
tion. In that case, Trump might be
spared periodic, high-profile
showdowns with his Democratic
critics on Capitol Hill, who are
itching to challenge him on global
warming and related debates.
Previously, the White House
considered turning the OSTP over
to Jim O’Neill, a Silicon Valley
investor who also has ties to Thiel,
according to two of the three peo-
ple who spoke on the condition of
anonymity. O’Neill is no longer in
the running, they said.
tony.romm@washpost.com

DJ D-Sol is the electronic music artist who might soon be leading Goldman Sachs
BY R ACHEL S IEGEL
Before closing out his radio
show on SiriusXM, a DJ named
Liquid Todd gave a shout-out to
another artist whose remix of
Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop” was
about to debut.
“This is actually a New York
City-based DJ named D-Sol. It’s a
side gig, as well,” Liquid Todd said,
before breaking into a laugh.
“Look him up.”
DJ D-Sol turns out to be David
Solomon, the president and co-
chief operating officer of the in-
vestment banking giant Goldman
Sachs. He also happens to be the
recently christened front-runner
to succeed Lloyd Blankfein as
Goldman Sachs’s next chief execu-
tive.
Associates say Solomon, 56,
claimed the inside track to be the
public face of the Wall Street icon
in part because of his outgoing
personality. Having a side hustle
as a DJ certainly didn’t hurt, based
on the comments from some of his
4,212 followers on DJ D-Sol’s Ins-
tagram account.
“Good to see that even though
you have an intense career you still
find time to hit the decks and play
the tunes!” wrote one commenter.
“Good luck on your new role at
Goldman too!!” wrote another.
Solomon’s job moonlighting be-
neath the strobe lights was report-
ed earlier by the New York Times.
His public Instagram account
gives some lens into DJ D-Sol’s
stage life. In one post from Sep-
tember 2017 at the Electronic Mu-
sic Awards in Los Angeles, DJ D-
Sol is dressed in all black, save for
thick white headphones and white
sneakers. He taps his right leg to
the beat of his electronic dance
music remix as his right hand gen-
tly manipulates a board of sound
dials and cables. Orange strobe
lights reflect off his bald head.
In another post, DJ D-Sol sports
a pink hat and a gray T-shirt, focus-
ing intently on the screens and
dials churning out the beat. He
seems wholly unfazed by the scene
right below him: a glistening Ba-
hamas beach and a patio filled
with tan, bikini-clad tourists hoist-
ing drinks and selfie sticks.
Solomon has also started exper-
imenting with vinyl, which he de-
scribed in a post as “old school . . .
but very cool.” He recently per-
formed at a New Year’s Eve party in
the Bahamas and at the hip Man-
hattan nightclub Up&Down,
where he came on stage at 11 p.m.
Sebastian Norena, director of
special events at the Butter Group,
which owns Up&Down, said Solo-
mon doesn’t just stick to one music
format — like hip-hop, Top 40 or
EDM — but uniquely mixes songs
across formats and release dates.
“David has the ability to bring
David Solomon, who moonlights as a disc jockey, is the front-
runner to become Goldman Sachs’s next chief executive.
people together and make them
have a good time with his music,
no matter who they are or how old
they are,” Norena said.
Solomon joined Goldman
DAVID PAUL MORRIS/BLOOMBERG NEWS
Sachs as a partner in 1999. He was
named to be the firm’s sole presi-
dent and chief operating officer
after Solomon’s other co-COO and
co-president, Harvey Schwartz,
announced his retirement. Solo-
mon’s path to one of the most
coveted jobs on Wall Street seems
all the more definite given that
days before news of Schwartz’s
retirement, the Wall Street Jour-
nal reported that Blankfein could
step down as soon as the end of the
year.
Solomon, dubbed by some to be
Goldman’s “culture guy, ” has pro-
moted gender diversity at the firm,
pushed to improve working hours
of young employees and empha-
sized work-life balance.
“David’s always believed that
having a wide range of outside
interests leads to a balanced life
and makes for a better career,” Jake
Siewert, the global head of corpo-
rate communications at Goldman
Sachs, told The Washington Post.
“He’s preached that regularly to
younger employees in the firm and
tries to lead by example.”
rachel.siegel@washpost.com

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Interior agency touts oil rigs, cowboys on ‘vision cards’

Staff at Bureau of Land
Management is asked to
wear them as goals shift
BY D INO G RANDONI
AND J ULIET E ILPERIN
The Bureau of Land Manage-
ment has distributed an unusual
new accessory for some of its
employees to wear: A card with an
image of an oil rig on one side and
cattle ranching on the other.
The cards, which feature art-
work then-acting director Mike
Nedd commissioned after Presi-
dent Trump took office, reflect the
bureau’s renewed focus on energy
and agricultural development on
public lands.
Under the Obama administra-
tion, the bureau had promoted
recreation and conservation on
public lands, but this imagery has
receded from the agency’s official
messaging over the past year.
On the side with the oil rig, the
cards state the agency’s mission is
to “sustain the health, diversity,
and productivity of the public
lands for the use and enjoyment
of present and future genera-
tions.” On the other side, above
two men riding horses with herd-
ing dogs and cattle in the back-
ground, the bureau says its goal is
to “improve accountability to our
stakeholders, and deliver better
service to our customers.”
In an email Thursday, bureau
spokeswoman Michelle Barret
said “employees have been given
vision cards, which the BLM has
had off and on over the years.”
Wearing the cards, she said, is
voluntary.
The sprawling division of the
Interior Department oversees
245 million acres of public land,
mostly in the Western United
An oil drilling rig operates in Williston, N.D. The Interior Department has begun promoting the oil and gas industry under President Trump.
States and Alaska, where bureau
employees often encounter mem-
bers of the public. Critics, particu-
larly in Western states, say the
agency has unduly limited access
and development on publicly
owned land.
Nedd commissioned artwork
last year that would highlight oil
and natural gas drilling, mining
and grazing on public lands, ac-
cording to an Interior official who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity out of fear of retaliation.
The official noted that Neil
Kornze, the bureau’s director
from 2014 to 2017, had put up
posters in the hallways at Interi-
or’s main headquarters to cel-
ebrate national monuments on
agency land. Several of those
posters have since been removed
and replaced with the images
Nedd ordered. The new work is
“part of an ongoing series that
focuses on the BLM’s multiple-
use mission,” Barret said, adding
the artwork was done in-house.
The advocacy group Public
Employees for Environmental
Responsibility (PEER) obtained
images of the cards from bureau
employees and provided them to
The Washington Post, which in-
dependently confirmed their dis-
tribution.
“These mandatory vision cards
are both hokey and disempower-
ing, as they are designed to reduce
public servants to walking talking
points,” PEER Executive Director
Jeff Ruch said in a statement.
While the bureau said wearing
the cards was not mandatory,
some employees said they felt
pressured to do so.
The manager of at least one
office outside Washington gave a
“directive” to workers to wear the
cards, according to a bureau em-
ployee who also spoke with The
Post on the condition of anonym-
ity to avoid reprisal.
Ruch said his organization
learned of the cards from people
at two bureau field offices. “Su-
pervisors gave the orders verbally
DANIEL ACKER/BLOOMBERG NEWS
as they distributed the cards,”
Ruch said, “advising that employ-
ees must clip them to their lan-
yards or otherwise display.”
Barret, the bureau spokeswom-
an, stressed that “no order has
been given by the Washington
office that employees have to
wear these.” If managers or super-
visors are telling employees that
they must wear these, she contin-
ued, “they are mistaken.”
The cards appear to fit in with
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s
goal of improving the reputation
of the bureau out West.
“When you see a BLM truck,
the first thing that I would like the
public to think about is land man-
agement,” Zinke told the Senate
Energy and Natural Resources
Committee during a budget hear-
ing Tuesday. “When you see a
BLM light go on behind you, I
would like the public to think
about maybe there’s a lost kid out
there [and] not get a ticket on a
county road.”
“It’s about public trust,” Zinke
said, adding that “heavy-handed-
ness has led to a breach of trust,
especially out West.”
Two former Obama adminis-
tration officials — Kornze and
David J. Hayes, Interior’s deputy
secretary in the Obama and Clin-
ton administrations — both said
they were not aware of any simi-
lar display cards during their time
in office.
“The oil rig says it all,” said
Hayes, who has become a fre-
quent critic of Trump’s environ-
mental policies.
Since Trump entered the White
House and installed Zinke to head
Interior, the bureau has sought to
loosen regulations on oil and gas
drilling on lands it manages and
reduce the cost and complexity of
domestic energy production.
In December, for example, the
bureau said it will suspend a rule
meant to limit the leaking of
methane, a powerful greenhouse
gas, from oil and gas rigs on
federal lands.
This is not the first change in
the bureau’s public image under
Trump. In April, the agency up-
dated its website, which had been
redesigned at the end of the
Obama administration, to change
the main image from a picture of
backpackers looking at a scenic
bluff to a man gazing at a strip of
coal.
The current site has a slide
show at the top that features
pictures illustrating various func-
tions of the department.
dino.grandoni@washpost.com
juliet.eilperin@washpost.com

During Sunshine Week, shining a light on Trump’s information darkness

If sunshine is the
best disinfectant,
President Trump
must pray for
rain.
He and his
Federal administration
Insider have a gloomy
JOE record when it
DAVIDSON comes to
transparency, a
particularly
lamentable situation during
Sunshine Week, which ends
Saturday. Started by the
American Society of News
Editors (ASNE), the observance
began in 2005 to celebrate
openness and transparency in
government.
But what’s to celebrate under
Trump?
ASNE has “significant
concerns with the level of
transparency demonstrated by
the Trump administration,” said
Kevin M. Goldberg, the
organization’s legal counsel.
“Public data that was once
available even without a
Freedom of Information Act
request has disappeared from
public view, a trend of restricting
access to government officials —
especially those in agencies
dealing with science and defense
issues — has continued, and
some forward-looking programs
designed to improve the flow of
information to the public that
were created by prior
administrations have been
discontinued.”
“Transparency is in danger,” he
added by email, “when it is
needed most.”
Before he ran for president,
Trump sounded like a champion
of transparency, declaring in a
2012 tweet that Barack Obama
was “the least transparent
President — ever — and he ran on
transparency.”
Setting aside the dubiousness
of that declaration, the current
president is beating Obama on
the transparency-deficit front.
“It’s President Trump who, in
the first 400 days of his
Administration, has instituted a
culture of secrecy in the
Executive Branch and the White
House,” said a report issued by
Rep. John Sarbanes (D-Md.),
chairman of the Democracy
Reform Task Force.
Trump’s approach to
transparency was defined before
he became president. Unlike
Obama, Trump refused to release
his tax returns. That violated
decades of custom and tradition
that his predecessors followed.
The refusal to release his tax
returns remains Trump’s most
notable example of opaqueness,
but it certainly is not alone. The
current restraining order
preventing porn actress Stormy
Daniels, who received $130,000
in hush money from a Trump
attorney, from talking about her
alleged decade-old affair with the
president is another.
“While every administration
has erred on the side of secrecy,
under the current administration
we have witnessed a rapid
erosion of openness, the
crumbling of norms, frequent
and ongoing disparagement of
the media, as well as efforts to
stonewall information requests,
manipulate data, and suppress
facts,” said “Closing Democracy’s
Window,” a report issued Friday
by Open the Government, a
coalition of groups favoring open
government.
To mark Sunshine Week,
examples of darkness have been
catalogued by Rep. Elijah E.
Cummings (Md.), the top
Democrat on the House
Oversight and Government
Reform Committee, in “a broad
review of the unprecedented
secrecy of the Trump
administration.”
“The Trump Administration is
shrouded in secrecy — hiding
foreign meetings, conflicts of
interest, and self-dealing that
benefit President Trump and his
family,” Cummings said by email.
“The American people deserve to
know how the President and his
businesses are profiting from the
presidency. Unfortunately,
congressional Republicans
continue to wall off the
Administration from real
oversight.”
Committee Chairman Trey
Gowdy (R-S.C.) did not respond
to a request for comment.
Cummings released his review
on Monday, the same day he sent
letters to the Treasury
Department and the Trump
Organization, the conglomerate
owned by the president, seeking
information about foreign
payments to the business. The
White House, the Office of
Management and Budget, and
the Trump Organization also did
not respond to requests for
comment.
Other items on Cummings’s
list of “secrecy in the Trump
administration” include:

Trump’s decision to keep White
House visitor logs secret,
“reversing the Obama
Administration’s policy of
voluntarily disclosing logs of
visitors to the White House. A
lawsuit forced President Trump
to release at least some of those
records.”

A “dramatic increase in
Freedom of Information Act
lawsuits.” There were 671
lawsuits in 2017 after Trump was
inaugurated that January,
compared with 448 in 2016,
Obama’s last full year in office,
according to Justice Department
data.

Secret regulatory task force
members. “Many agencies have
refused to disclose the identities
of individuals serving on
Regulatory Reform Task Forces
that President Trump required
each agency to create.”

Withholding documents about
the October ambush in Niger
that killed four U.S. service
members. Cummings requested
a briefing, “but the White House
has refused to even talk about the
incident.”

Withholding information about
private jet travel by
administration officials.
Cummings and Gowdy requested
documents, “but the White
House has stonewalled the
Committee.”
While all administrations have
issues with transparency, Trump
is vying to be the champion of
opacity.
“The growing culture of
unwarranted secrecy is
increasingly the rule rather than
the exception,” said Lisa
Rosenberg, executive director of
Open the Government. “At the
White House and in many
agencies, transparency seems to
be perceived as an enemy rather
than an indispensable ally in the
service of safeguarding our
democracy.”
joe.davidson@washpost.com

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tweet, “should not equivocate on
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nominee. John McCain under-
stands that. Why doesn’t Dianne
Feinstein?”
The Intelligence Committee is
scheduled to begin considering
Haspel’s nomination in April.
karoun.demirjian@washpost.com
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Putin can’t talk his way out Housing and Urban Development
Before: HUD’s mission is to create strong, Proposed: HUD’s mission is to ensure Americans

R
ussian President Vladimir Pu-
tin told NBC’s Megyn Kelly
this month that in using pow-
er, you “must be ready to go all
the way to achieve the goals.” Now, it
seems, Putin has gone all the way too
far.
Putin’s aggressive use of covert ac-
tion to settle scores hit an internation-
al tripwire after the poisoning of a
former Russian spy and his daughter
in the quiet British cathedral town of
Salisbury. An outraged Britain was
joined Thursday by France, Germany
and the United States in condemning
the use of the banned Soviet-era toxin
known as Novichok.
A joint statement denounced the
attack as “the first offensive use of a
nerve agent in Europe since the Second
World War” and called it “a breach of
international law” that comes “against
the background of a pattern of earlier
irresponsible Russian behavior.” That
strong language warrants action by
NATO and the United Nations.
The Trump administration, after a
year of mealy-mouthed, temporizing
statements, also announced sanctions
Thursday against Russia’s “malicious
cyberattacks.” The sanctions, target-
ing five Russian organizations and
19 people, will have little practical
effect beyond those already in place.
What matters is that President Trump
finally seems to have eased, at least for
the moment, his dubious defense of
Putin. “It certainly looks like the Rus-
sians were behind it,” he said of the
poisoning. “. . . We’re taking it very
seriously.”
So how can the United States and its
closest allies alter Putin’s behavior, if
they’re truly serious about holding
Russia to account? The answer, say
several former senior CIA officials, is
to use America’s network of alliances
to put Russia under strain. Putin has
been playing a weak hand well, but the
high cards remain in Western hands.
Russia’s greatest vulnerability is its
dependence on sales of oil and gas.
Here, the United States is uniquely
positioned for payback. Consider the
ways in which Trump could stress
cultivated a relationship with Moscow
as well as Washington. The UAE’s sustainable, inclusive communities and quality have access to fair, affordable housing and opportu-
military leader, Crown Prince Moham-
med bin Zayed, should stand with his affordable homes for all. HUD is working to nities to achieve self-sufficiency, thereby strengthen-
American friends now. And Qatar, strengthen the housing market to bolster the ing our communities and nation.
with one of the world’s biggest gas
reserves, can appease Trump and economy and protect consumers; meet the need for
show the West that it’s a reliable friend quality affordable rental homes; utilize housing as a
by playing the energy card as well —
offering Russia’s gas customers deals platform for improving quality of life; build
that are too good to refuse. inclusive and sustainable communities free from
Russia’s outrageous behavior in Syr-
ia should be on the table, too. Moscow discrimination, and transform the way HUD does
betrayed the Syrian Kurds, its long- business.
time allies, when it withdrew its forces
in January from the Afrin enclave and
allowed Turkey to attack Kurdish forc- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
es there. The slaughter of civilians in
Afrin has been almost as grim as in Before: USCIS secures America’s promise as a na- Now: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Ghouta, east of Damascus. Incredibly,
when asked about chemical weapons tion of immigrants by uniting families, administers the nation’s lawful immigration
use in Syria, Putin told Kelly: “One providing refuge, fostering economic prosperity, system, safeguarding its integrity and promise by ef-
wants to say, ‘Boring.’ ”
Russia has been getting a pass for promoting citizenship, and protecting our nation ficiently and fairly adjudicating requests for
the Syria carnage, thanks partly to its immigration benefits while protecting
manipulation of Turkey and its quiet
liaison with Israel. But this back- Americans, securing the homeland, and
channel hedging of bets needs to stop. honoring our values.
If the United States is serious about
altering Russian behavior, it must or-
ganize a new coalition of the willing.
For NATO allies and Israel, participa- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
tion should be mandatory.
Putin seems to think he has found Before: The Consumer Financial Protection Now: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is
the sweet spot of deniability. Kelly Bureau is a 21st century agency that helps a 21st century agency that helps consumer
pressed him about last month’s indict-
ment of 13 Russians, led by Putin’s consumer finance markets work by making rules finance markets work by regularly identifying and
oligarch pal Yevgeniy Prigozhin, for more effective, by consistently and fairly enforcing addressing outdated, unnecessary, or
meddling in the U.S. election. Putin
responded contemptuously: “I have those rules, and by empowering consumers to take unduly burdensome regulations, by making rules
heard about some of them . . . but they more control over their economic lives. more effective, by consistently enforcing
are just individuals, they do not repre-
sent the Russian government. . . . federal consumer financial law, and by
There are some names, so what?” empowering consumers to take more control
Putin used the phrase “so what”
nine times during the interview. That’s over their economic lives.
his tell. He thinks he can get away with
it, based on his experience over the
past 18 years in power. He hacks CHRISTINE EMBA
political campaigns around the world
and insists he’s blameless because, as
he told Kelly, “the Internet is yours.”
He cynically manipulates the battle-
field in Syria, causing thousands of
Editing out democracy
civilian deaths there, and pretends he

Russia on the energy front.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed
bin Salman visits Washington next
week. “MBS,” as he’s known, has a
quiet deal with Moscow to limit oil
production sufficiently to keep prices
above $60. If MBS truly wants to
reciprocate Trump’s friendship, he
should suspend this oil deal to punish
Russia for its unacceptable actions.
A united front should include the
United Arab Emirates, which has also
has a peace plan. When he gets caught
cheating, he throws up his hands in
mock innocence.
By his reckless actions, Putin has
sharply raised the price of his admis-
sion to the club he needs to join if his
dreams of a revived Russia aren’t come
crashing down around him. Putin says
he wants to talk. Okay, let’s talk. But
first, Putin needs to start cleaning up
the mess he has created.
Twitter: @IgnatiusPost
S
pare a moment to think of HUD.
What comes to mind? If it’s afford-
able housing or anti-discrimina-
tion policy, Ben Carson would like
to redirect your attention — and that of
the department itself.
A memo leaked to HuffPost last week
revealed that the housing secretary has
plans to change the mission statement of
the Department of Housing and Urban
Development, by stripping out the phrase
“free from discrimination” and cutting
references to “quality homes” and “inclu-
sive communities.” A new, shorter state-
ment will emphasize “self-sufficiency”
dramatic break with its predecessors,
there are a few paths it can take to shift the
machinery of government. The bluntest
options are to fire existing personnel and
cut the budgets of the operations it dis-
agrees with. More insidiously, political
leaders can slowly reorient the priorities
of organizations under their purview. In
the first year of his presidency, Trump has
tried all of the above, yet his administra-
tion’s work in the last category has man-
aged to fly largely under the radar.
How many of us have noticed? Let’s be
honest. As a single offering within the
smorgasbord of outrages that make up the
of rule enforcement.
But these shifts matter for the rest of us,
too.
Mission statements can seem like cor-
porate pabulum, but there’s a reason or-
ganizations have them — they clarify in-
ternal perspective and communicate it to
the world. As HUD’s own assistant secre-
tary for public affairs put it in announcing
the proposed revision, “A mission state-
ment describes an organization’s purpose,
what it intends to do, and whom it intends
to serve.” Changing missions has real-
world ramifications. What does it mean
when the State Department is no longer in

North Korean lessons and “opportunity,” in line with Carson’s

stated distaste for desegregation initia-
tives and intense fear that someone might
accidentally feel comfortable in public
BY W ILLIAM J . P ERRY But suppose my skepticism is mis- housing.
placed and we can actually negotiate It’s not the first such change to take
Trumpian news cycle — Trade war! Nu-
clear threats! Russian interference! Sur-
prise firings! — the prospect of bureau-
crats changing some agency boilerplate
seems minor. One can understand why
these quiet shifts in phraseology have rare-
the business of democracy promotion?
When the federal consumer protection
bureau privileges cutting regulations for
companies over protecting citizens? The
answers are important.
In a press briefing this past summer,

I
n 1994, former president Jimmy
Carter met with officials in Pyong-
yang to negotiate the denuclear-
ization of North Korea. In 1999, I
met in Pyongyang to negotiate the
denuclearization of North Korea. Now,
nearly 20 years later, it seems possible
that President Trump could meet with
Kim Jong Un to negotiate the denucle-
arization of North Korea. There are a
few lessons that this administration
can learn from the successes and fail-
ures of those previous attempts.
The first and most fundamental is
that North Korea, at a very high cost, is
pursuing a nuclear program to ensure
the survival of its regime. Second,
North Korean leaders are not crazy.
They are despotic, they are ruthless,
they are cruel to their own people —
but they are not irrational. Their intent
is to stay in power.
Third, the regime is not driven by
ideology. Basically, North Korea can-
not afford an ideology that does not
support the overarching goal of sus-
taining its regime. As a result, its
denuclearization. How will we verify
it? Verification is critical in any arms-
control agreement, but particularly so
with North Korea, given its history of
breaking agreements. We do not know
how many nuclear weapons are opera-
tional or under construction. We do
not know where all the nuclear facili-
ties are located. And counting war-
heads is fundamentally difficult, par-
ticularly in a country rightly called the
“Hermit Kingdom.”
Our nuclear treaties with the Soviet
Union counted operational missiles,
which we could verify, and inferred the
number of warheads, which we could
not directly verify. To this day, the
United States does not know how
many nuclear warheads Russia has in
reserve or storage, and the error in our
estimates could be in the thousands.
So it would be a fundamental mistake
to believe that we can reliably verify a
treaty by which North Korea agrees to
dismantle all of its nuclear weapons
and not build more.
However, just because we can’t ver-
place under the watchful eyes of President
Trump’s agency appointees. Last month,
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Ser-
vices eliminated the phrase “America’s
promise as a nation of immigrants” from
its mission statement; in the new version,
CIS is focused on “securing the home-
land.” This past summer, officials at the
State Department scrubbed the word “de-
mocracy” from theirs.
They’re just words, you might be tempt-
ed to say. Talk is cheap in the Trump
administration, especially when it comes
to actual policy. But these mission modifi-
cations are actually significant interven-
tions. We shouldn’t let them sneak past.
When a new political regime comes into
power, especially one wishing to make a
JOE SCARBOROUGH
We will survive this fire drill
ly made front-page news, especially when
there are porn-star payoffs to cover.
So it makes sense that many of the
alarms were first sounded on small blogs
or over email, by industry watchers and
concerned career employees. Devex, a me-
dia site for aid workers, first flagged
changes to the U.S. Agency for Interna-
tional Development’s mission statement,
which reorients the agency’s ambitions
away from ending extreme poverty to
pushing countries off aid. An alert former
advisory board member tweeted that the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
had added a line to its mission statement
making “identifying and addressing out-
dated, unnecessary, or unduly burden-
some regulations” its top priority, instead
Trump senior policy adviser Stephen Mil-
ler sparred with a reporter over the mean-
ing of the Statue of Liberty, noting that the
famous poem on its base — “give me your
tired, your poor, your huddled masses” —
was a late addition and implying that it
was not representative of America’s true
position on immigration. The outrage that
followed demonstrated how much even
symbolic language matters, that the rhet-
oric and meaning we embrace as a country
define who we are.
The redefinitions within federal agen-
cies are happening more quietly than this,
but many are just as radical. Words mat-
ter. Trump’s appointees haven’t forgotten
that — and neither should we.
Christine.Emba@washpost.com

leaders are quite flexible in the means
they use to achieve that goal. A corol-
lary of this is that they are not bound by
ethical or moral standards, so an
agreement is not really binding for
them. If they see some advantage in
breaking an agreement, they will, par-
ticularly if they can do so clandestinely.
Fourth, while they do value eco-
nomic incentives and will bargain for
them, they will never trade regime
survivability for economic benefits.
These lessons call into question
whether the United States can ever
achieve its stated goal of denucleariza-
tion, now that North Korea has a
nuclear arsenal. What could we offer
the country that would persuade it to
give up its nuclear arsenal and remain
confident of staying in power? Would
American security assurances do that?
I offered them such assurances in
1999, and they were very interested. But
at that time, they did not have a nuclear
arsenal and could not have been sure
they would be able to build one. So they
were not considering giving up a nu-
clear arsenal but rather were consider-
ing giving up the right to try to build
one. Even so, it was a hard sale. So I have
a high degree of skepticism that North
Korea will really negotiate away the
nuclear arsenal it now has, even though
South Korean officials have claimed
Pyongyang is open to it.
ify a denuclearization agreement
doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have any
agreement. Given that North Korea
has a nuclear arsenal, we must con-
tain and deter that arsenal. We can
strengthen our containment by reach-
ing an agreement with North Korea
on a testing ban and a ban on any
transfer of nuclear technology or
components. Such an agreement
would not be as desirable as denucle-
arization, but it could be negotiated,
and, once negotiated, it could be veri-
fied. Even with this lesser agreement,
verification is not simple, especially
with the ban on transfer. With this
ban, we would need to negotiate in-
trusive inspection features, such as
we negotiated years ago with the
Soviet Union.
Useful results can be obtained from
negotiations but not the results being
advertised. My fear is that the negotia-
tions will be a failure because we will
enter into them with unrealistic ex-
pectations. Even so, I believe that a
deal can be had that will significantly
improve our security. We should not
let the best be the enemy of the good.
The writer was U.S. defense secretary from
1994 to 1997. This column was produced
by The WorldPost, a partnership of the
Berggruen Institute and The Washington
Post.
T
he American experiment has sur-
vived slavery, the Civil War, a Great
Depressions, 32 recessions, two
world wars, a ghastly flu pandemic,
the global rise of communism, the horrors
of Hitlerism, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Viet-
nam, Watergate and 9/11. Yet many of my
friends still fear that our resilient republic
will not survive the malevolent reign of an
inept reality TV star.
They are wrong.
That is not to say that those fears are
unfounded. President Trump has repeated-
ly shown contempt for the rule of law,
disrespected strategic alliances, smeared
the free press, dismissed democratic tradi-
tions and disregarded common decencies.
The language he uses while attacking feder-
al judges and political reporters borrows
more from Benito Mussolini than Benjamin
Franklin. And although the United States’
democratic institutions have shown their
resilience over the past year, Trump’s disre-
gard for constitutional norms has come at a
cost.
One college student home for spring
break this week passionately argued to her
parents and me that “Trump proves democ-
racy doesn’t work anymore.” That suburban
insight lines up neatly with recent polls
showing that younger Americans are more
skeptical of democracy’s staying power than
their parents. But even older Americans
have their doubts. Maybe that’s why Ama-
zon’s bestseller lists have been peppered
with titles such as “How Democracies Die”
and Hannah Arendt’s classic “The Origins of
Totalitarianism.”
In a political culture defined by tribalism
and paranoia, harsh partisan reactions to a
disruptive president are hardly surprising.
Last year, 51 percent of Republicans told
pollsters that former president Barack
Obama was born outside the United States.
During George W. Bush’s presidency, more
than half of Democrats said they believed
Bush was complicit in al-Qaeda’s 9/11 at-
tacks. And though I’ve spent my adult life
assuring Republican and Democratic
friends alike that American democracy will
survive their chosen party’s defeat, the past
two years have challenged even my own
sanguine views.
Still, I remain resolute in my faith that the
dysfunctional presidency of Donald Trump
will eventually prove that no man is above
the law and that no president is beyond the
reach of James Madison’s Constitution.
Robert S. Mueller III, Rod J. Rosenstein, the
federal judiciary, America’s free press, white
voters in suburban Pittsburgh, black voters
in rural Alabama, determined women in
Northern Virginia and millions of other
citizens organizing for November’s momen-
tous midterms can best explain to our disil-
lusioned daughters and sons why we will
survive this democratic fire drill.
This week, NBC News’ Vaughn Hillyard
interviewed a former Republican mayor
from the conservative Pennsylvania district
that appears to have just elected Conor
Lamb to Congress. When asked how he
would vote, the GOP leader said for the
Democrat, because “we need a good man in
Congress.” That interview brought to mind
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Mea-
cham’s praise of George H.W. Bush’s leader-
ship style:
“There is greatness in political lives dedi-
cated more to steadiness than to boldness,
more to reform than to revolution, more to
the management of complexity than to the
making of mass movements. Bush’s life
code, as he once put it in a letter to his
mother, was ‘Tell the truth. Don’t blame
people. Be strong. Do your best. Try hard.
Forgive. Stay the course.’ ”
That is not the course Americans find
themselves on today. But if the past decade
has taught us anything, it is that voters
quickly correct the country’s direction
when events demand change. Just as voters
checked George W. Bush’s power by putting
Democrats in charge of Congress, Obama
spent his last six years in the White House
vexed by Republican majorities in both
chambers.
While those checks and balances have
long frustrated presidents in both parties,
that is exactly how the Founders envisioned
their American experiment working. It is
also why a shortsighted political day trader
such as Trump is doomed to fail in Washing-
ton.
joe.washpost@gmail.com
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ABCDE
Homeland Security fails the decency test
For no reason, a 7-year-old girl is taken from her mother — for four months.
W
HO KNOWS why Homeland Security
agents in Southern California forcibly
separated a 7-year-old Congolese girl
from her mother last fall, flew her
2,000 miles to Chicago, where she was placed at a
facility for unaccompanied minors, and kept her
there for more than four months? Who knows why
the girl, who is credibly reported to have been
traumatized, has been permitted to speak with her
mother, only recently released from a detention
center near San Diego, just a handful of times in the
intervening four months? And in the absence of any
evidence of wrongdoing by the mother, who present-
ed herself to U.S. officials when she crossed the
border from Mexico, who knows why the govern-
ment has continued to keep parent and child apart?
The Department of Homeland Security has de-
clined to comment on the case of the two asylum
seekers, known in court filings as Ms. L and S.S. But a
spokesman said in a statement that agents may
separate children and adults if they suspect the child
Mr. Putin’s
punishment
New sanctions on Russia are good,
but it will take a lot more than that
to protect U.S. elections.
F
OR A presidency marked by reticence to criti-
cize Russia, Thursday offered a change of tone.
The White House signed on to a multinational
statement condemning Russia for poisoning
people on British soil with a military-grade nerve
agent. Meanwhile, the Treasury Department unveiled
sanctions against five Russian organizations and
19 Russian nationals in response to Kremlin-backed
meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Both moves are welcome — but, unless they hint at
much bigger things to come, and soon, they also are
inadequate. These measures alone will not deter
Russian President Vladimir Putin from interfering in
America’s 2018 elections, nor from engaging in the
variety of aggressive attacks on the West that Russia
continues to perpetrate.
The statement, co-signed by France, Germany and
Britain, concluded that it is “highly likely that Russia
was responsible” for the chilling nerve-agent attack
against Sergei and Yulia Skripal in southern England,
which put them in the hospital in critical condition
and sickened others nearby. “There is no plausible
alternative explanation,” the allies insisted, noting
that Russia’s refusal to cooperate with British author-
ities underlines the Kremlin’s probable guilt. This
honesty is good. It must be followed by action.
In announcing the sanctions, Treasury Secretary
Steven Mnuchin cited the “ongoing nefarious attacks
emanating from Russia,” including election interfer-
ence and cyberattacks. The Treasury Department
targeted the sanctions at the Internet Research Agen-
cy, a Russian troll farm responsible for much of the
Russia-backed 2016 election interference, and at
Russian spy agencies, freezing their assets and block-
ing Americans from doing business with them. There
is no doubt the sanctions are well-deserved.
Yet, as Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) noted Thurs-
day, “Nearly all of the entities and individuals who
were sanctioned today were either previously under
sanction during the Obama Administration, or had
already been charged with federal crimes by the
A half-step toward fixing the GOP tax law
Democrats’ plan would raise $1 trillion by undoing giveaways — but then spend it all.
T
HE REPUBLICAN tax plan enacted into law
in December accomplished some useful re-
forms — limiting housing subsidies; a more
competitive top corporate tax rate — at the
expense of disproportionately benefiting upper-
income Americans and blowing a large hole in the
federal deficit. Over the next decade, the legislation
will leave the U.S. government $1.5 trillion more
deeply in debt than it would have been otherwise.
Democrats quite rightly condemned this, but mostly
without offering a specific alternative. Now the
Senate’s Democratic caucus has come forward with a
plan to correct the inequities of the Republican plan
and to recoup roughly two-thirds of the lost revenue.
Obviously, it has no chance of passage. As a conversa-
tion-starter, though, it has its virtues — with one
large caveat.
The Democrats’ proposal would raise roughly
$1 trillion over the next 10 years by restoring the top
marginal rate on individual income to 39.6 percent,
which it was before the GOP cut it to 37 percent; this
L O CA L O P I N I O N S
Names can change. History can’t.
The March 12 Metro article “Confederates divid-
ed” missed one of the most significant facts in the
history of education in Virginia:
Virginia public schools were shut
down in fall 1958 to avoid integra-
tion. In the Northern Virginia Andrew Johnson did not
counties, schools were reopened
in a few days using local and glorify Robert E. Lee
federal money. Public schools in at
least one county were closed for as and Jefferson Davis,
long as five years. White students
went to “academies,” often located and neither should we.
in church basements, and many
black students received no educa-
tion at all from 1959 to 1964. The fact that
“Lee-Davis opened as an all-white high school . . . in
1959” flew directly in the face of Brown v. Board of
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may be a human-trafficking victim. “If we are unable
to confirm this relationship [between adult and
child],” said the spokesman, Tyler Houlton, “we must
take steps to protect the child,” including placing her
in a facility for unaccompanied children.
In this case, DHS’s effort to establish Ms. L’s guilt
by insinuation failed, and its stated concern for the
child’s protection and well-being has been exposed
as phony. For four months, no testing was performed
to establish the woman’s maternity. And when,
following a lawsuit filed on their behalf, the two were
finally subjected to DNA testing this month, the
result was unequivocal: Ms. L is the mother of S.S.
That finding has been met with silence by DHS.
The department, having originally expressed indig-
nation at the idea that it would separate children
from their parents for any reason other than the
child’s welfare, has been rendered speechless.
U.S. officials who interviewed Ms. L when she
crossed the border made a preliminary finding that
she had a plausible claim for asylum, based on her
TOM TOLES
Special Counsel.” In other words, the sanctions do not
represent a dramatic change in U.S. policy. “With the
midterm elections fast approaching,” Mr. Warner
added, “the Administration needs to step it up, now, if
we have any hope of deterring Russian meddling in
2018.”
The Trump administration could start by slap-
ping more sanctions on Russian oligarchs and oth-
ers in Mr. Putin’s inner circle. Treasury released a list
of potential targets in January. It should finally
make better use of it. The Russian threat also
demands that the Trump administration push much
would raise $139 billion of the $1 trillion total. It
would repeal the Republican bill’s near-elimination
of the alternative minimum tax (AMT) for high
earners (raising $429 billion), restore the previous
estate tax law ($83 billion), raise the corporate rate
from 21 percent to 25 percent ($359 billion) and end
the carried-interest loophole for investment firms
($12 billion). All of this would hit rich individuals
and corporations yet would not significantly undo
the growth-enhancing impact of the Republican bill.
A 25 percent corporate rate is internationally com-
petitive and not much higher than the 22 percent
that Republican Sens. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Mike
Lee (Utah) were willing to accept at a certain point in
the debate. Indeed, the Democrats could save several
hundred billion dollars more, and reduce complexi-
ty, by repealing the new breaks for “pass-through”
entities. That might even be preferable to Demo-
crats’ restoration of the AMT.
In any case, the Democrats’ plan reminds every-
one how much more fiscally responsible, and equita-
Education, the case that the Supreme Court decided
in 1954, and was an intentional slap in the face to
those who supported integration.
Changing the name of Lee-
Davis High School does not erase
history. It simply acknowledges
that Confederate Gen. Robert
E. Lee and President of the Con-
federacy Jefferson Davis may have
used the reasoning that they were
defending their homeland when
they were, in fact, traitors to their
country. President Andrew John-
son pardoned them. He did not
glorify them, and neither should we. We should let
the past stay buried with them.
Carla Dean Day, Potomac Falls
account of having fled what the lawsuit, filed by the
American Civil Liberties Union, said was “near
certain death” in Congo. Despite that, she was
detained until the lawsuit and ensuing publicity
prompted her sudden release last week.
In a class-action suit, the ACLU asserts that the
Trump administration has separated children from
their parents in more than 100 cases, even though
the department says it does not “currently” have a
policy on the matter. If it seems unthinkable that the
administration and Homeland Security Secretary
Kirstjen Nielsen would carry out a practice so cruel,
one likely to inflict long-term harm on children,
think again: DHS officials, including Ms. Nielsen’s
predecessor, John F. Kelly, now the White House
chief of staff, have said they believe it would be an
effective means of deterring asylum seekers.
If DHS has subjected this small girl to trauma as a
warning to other asylum seekers, it is an unconscio-
nable means to an end. If that is not the reason, then
what is?
harder to obtain funding, intelligence and other
support for states seeking to secure their election
systems. And the president should express full
support for the special counsel investigation into
Russian actions.
Encouragingly, Mr. Mnuchin said Thursday that he
intends to impose additional sanctions “to hold Rus-
sian government officials and oligarchs accountable
for their destabilizing activities by severing their
access to the U.S. financial system.” With U.S. primary
races already underway, time is fast running out to
deter Russian interference.
ble, the Republican tax plan could have been without
sacrificing its most important reform goals. That is,
until you consider what Democrats propose to do
with this additional revenue: spend it, all of it, on a
massive new infrastructure program that would
cover everything from roads to veterans’ hospitals.
The Democratic plan, therefore, is not a true
infrastructure “pay for”; it just shifts about $1 tril-
lion in federal borrowing from the tax cuts to
spending. The federal deficit would still be $1.5 tril-
lion more 10 years from now than it would have been
before the passage of the GOP bill.
No doubt the Democrats would argue that infra-
structure spending spurs economic growth, and
there’s some truth to that, just as there’s some truth
to GOP claims that corporate tax cuts spur private-
sector investment. Yet the case for a massive new
fiscal stimulus is weak with the economy at full
employment, whether it’s done through tax cuts or
infrastructure spending. Democrats should adjust
their proposals accordingly.
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The opioid crises
The March 10 editorial “Another painful truth
about opioids” cited a Veterans Affairs study showing
that opioids are not effective for managing long-term
back pain as evidence that “the opioid epidemic’s
roots lie in a wave of permissive prescribing of
opioids that turns out . . . to have been unjustified
even as good pain management practice.”
Such a broad inference was challenged by Anne
Fuqua’s March 11 Outlook essay, “Which is the bigger
crisis: Addiction or pain?” Ms. Fuqua, a former nurse
who was diagnosed with a severe neurological disor-
der that responded only to opioids, saw her doctor
increasingly frightened by the anti-opioid campaign
to the point that he left pain management altogether.
It was extremely hard for her to find another doctor
willing to prescribe opioids for her pain. She keeps
track of reports of pain sufferers who have killed
themselves because they were not able to tolerate
their pain, now more than 100: “Just a few years ago,
discussion of suicide was rare in the community of
pain patients. Now I see it on online bulletin boards,
in article comments and in online groups dedicated
to the subject.”
Perhaps there are two crises: addiction and pain.
Trading fewer addicts for more pain patients or
trading fewer pain patients for more addicts are false
choices. We should advocate solutions that address
both crises.
Michael Yaphe, Vienna
Regarding Megan McArdle’s March 9 Wash-
ington Forum essay, “The ‘moral hazard’ in the
opioid crisis”:
Naloxone saves lives, but it does not treat addic-
tion. On its own, it cannot prevent overdoses or
addiction-related crime, nor can it resolve the opioid
epidemic. The problem highlighted by the working
paper Ms. McArdle mentioned is not that naloxone
encourages people suffering from addiction to take
risks; it is the lack of good treatment options
available to individuals with opioid addiction. Medi-
cation- assisted treatment is lifesaving for opioid
addiction, yet few receive it following an overdose.
Most are simply released upon revival and medical
stabilization.
Pervasive stigma against addiction is responsible
for the lack of available treatment. As a society, we
continually fail to treat addiction as we treat other
diseases. Naloxone is akin to a defibrillator, which
can restart a patient’s heart but won’t cure underly-
ing heart disease. It is difficult to imagine that
defibrillators would be described as a moral hazard
for individuals who do not make lifestyle changes to
reduce their risk of heart disease.
We must stop searching for a “silver bullet” to
address this crisis and recognize that a comprehen-
sive approach is needed. If we don’t provide effective
treatment to individuals who suffer an overdose, we
are not using naloxone to its full potential.
Lindsey Vuolo, New York
The writer is associate director of
health law and policy at the
National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse.
Well done, Mr. Scott
Regarding the March 11 Politics & the Nation
article “Fla. governor breaks with NRA, signs new
gun law in response to Parkland”:
Hurrah for Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) for signing
the gun legislation. Hurrah that he threw off the
chains of slavery to the National Rifle Association.
May all governors and lawmakers do the same.
Down with the tyranny of the NRA!
Carla Galiano, Burke
‘Good news’ only for some
The production workers and distribution agents
who hustled to make sure that Robert J. Samuelson’s
op-ed made its appearance on readers’ doorsteps
well before dawn might offer insight into “today’s
pessimism,” which Mr. Samuelson regards as over-
blown [“Good news! The optimists are striking
back,” op-ed, March 12]. Manufacturing and circula-
tion jobs are demanding but incredibly satisfying.
They offer the people who hold them a lucrative
living and a sense of participating in an important
enterprise. But the majority of those positions are
gone, eliminated by the rise of digital news and
operational efficiencies.
While there is a strong case to be made that the
world is economically better off as a result of the past
few decades of innovation, we cannot afford to
dismiss the strain on those whose livelihoods were
ended, often midcareer, by these same forces.
Mr. Samuelson listed as challenging “costly welfare
states.” I would submit that the real challenge is our
failure to harness the enormous productive power
that Mr. Samuelson rightly celebrated to make sure
that no one’s life is irrevocably ruptured and that no
one is left behind.
Victor A. Capece, Bowie
Cheaper, cleaner energy
Regarding the March 9 front-page article “From
scorn to payday: Dominion’s big play”:
Dominion Energy may indeed wield too much
clout in Richmond for a regulated monopoly, but a
close examination of the final bill passed by the
Virginia General Assembly and sent to the
governor reveals sweeping changes to Virginia’s
costly and polluting status quo. That includes
significant energy efficiency investment to lower
emissions and Virginia electric bills, currently the
10th-highest in America, especially helpful to low-
income Virginians struggling to pay energy costs;
solar and wind investments to catch up with and
possibly exceed much of the country in clean
energy; and the types of 21st-century grid technol-
ogies that ensure cleaner, cheaper energy delivery.
These improvements were not in the unaccept-
able form Dominion originally proposed, but they
now are, thanks to the hard work of stakeholders
and lawmakers who will continue to keep a
watchful eye on Dominion to ensure the page
keeps turning toward a better and cleaner
Virginia. And that’s not a special interest. That’s in
everyone’s interest.
Dawone Robinson, Washington
The writer is Northeast/Mid-Atlantic director
of energy affordability for the
Natural Resources Defense Council.

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MAX BOOT
Russia’s
war against
the West
W
hat if they had a war and only
one side showed up? Russia
has been waging war on the
West for at least 10 years, and
the West hasn’t bothered to notice. This is
not, to be sure, a conventional war, with
Russian tanks invading Poland or Rus-
sian missiles hitting Pittsburgh. Mos-
cow’s kind of war is more subtle and yet
all the more effective — precisely because
it does not compel an overwhelming
response.
The war arguably began in 2008 when
Russia invaded Georgia, a pro-Western
country that sent troops to Iraq and
Afghanistan and was anxious to join
NATO. Rather than punishing Vladimir
Putin for his aggression, the Obama ad-
ministration later responded with a “re-
set” of relations. Putin was emboldened
to aggress again: In 2014, his “little green
men” — uniformed Russian soldiers with
their insignia removed — invaded
Ukraine. He annexed Crimea and turned
eastern Ukraine into a Russian proxy
state. This time the United States and
Europe did respond with sanctions — but
not strongly enough to dissuade him.
In 2014, a Russian antiaircraft missile
shot down a Malaysian airliner over
Ukraine, killing 298 people. Instead of
apologizing and paying restitution, Putin
spread crazy conspiracy theories blaming
the shoot-down on Ukraine, the CIA or
some other culprit. In 2015, Putin entered
the Syrian civil war to help a criminal
regime commit war crimes against its
own people. Not satisfied with killing
Syrians, last month Russian mercenaries
attacked a base that held U.S. forces in an
apparent attempt to drive the United
States out of Syria.
To prevent an effective response from
the West, Putin brazenly intervened in
the 2016 U.S. presidential election to help
defeat Hillary Clinton, a critic, and elect
Donald Trump, a fan. He has also med-
dled in European elections to help pro-
Russian candidates. The Russians even
fomented an unsuccessful coup to try to
prevent Montenegro from joining NATO.
While helping his supporters, Putin
has not hesitated to eliminate his critics,
both at home and abroad. BuzzFeed re-
ported last year that Putin may have
killed 14 people in Britain and at least one
in the United States. In 2006, according to
a British inquiry, two Russian agents
murdered former Russian intelligence
officer Alexander Litvinenko by spiking
his tea with radioactive polonium-210.
Last week, another Russian turncoat,
Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia,
were poisoned in Britain with another
exotic weapon — a Russian nerve agent
known as Novichok. That Putin is taking
so little care to conceal his “wet work”
suggests that he wants to send a message:
This is what happens when you cross me.
Putin has little reason to fear retribu-
tion because he has suffered so little to
date. After Russia’s assault on U.S. democ-
racy, President Barack Obama expelled
35 Russian diplomats. Putin responded
by eliminating more than 750 positions at
U.S. diplomatic outposts in Russia. Now
British Prime Minister Theresa May has
expelled 23 Russian diplomats. Putin will
retaliate in kind. But he couldn’t care less.
What might get his attention is an over-
whelming response led by the United
States.
The Trump administration has now
joined Britain, France and Germany in
decrying the “first offensive use of a nerve
agent” in Europe since World War II,
while the Treasury Department has sanc-
tioned the Russian hackers accused by
special counsel Robert S. Mueller III of
having taken part in the subversion of the
2016 U.S. election and other cyberattacks.
It’s a start, but not much more than that.
President Trump still has not personal-
ly called out Putin in the way he has
assailed everyone from Alec Baldwin to
New York Times reporter Maggie
Haberman. Trump has begrudgingly al-
lowed the sale of weapons to Ukraine but
won’t enforce the sanctions passed by
Congress. In 2012, Congress enacted the
Magnitsky Act to sanction Russians in-
volved in human rights abuses. Obama
sanctioned 44 individuals under the law;
Trump only five.
Trump’s unwillingness to criticize
Putin makes you wonder what hold the
Kremlin has over him; the Steele dossier
looks more credible all the time. But no
one is alleging that May has been compro-
mised, and her actions are just as pusil-
lanimous.
What would the West do if it were to get
serious about Russian aggression? Putin
and his cronies have billions of dollars
stashed in the West. London is a particu-
lar favorite of Russian exiles. Freeze the
money. Seize the properties. Hurt them
where it counts. The United States can
also designate Russia a state sponsor of
terrorism, just like North Korea, which
also used a nerve agent for an assassina-
tion abroad. Stop treating Russia like a
legitimate state: Putin has already been
kicked out of the Group of 8 gatherings;
he can be removed from the G-20, too.
Kick Russia out of the SWIFT system,
denying Russian banks access to interna-
tional monetary transfers. Invoke NATO’s
Article 5 collective-defense clause.
There is a rich menu of retaliatory
options — none of which would risk a
nuclear war in spite of Putin’s saber-
rattling. Empty words aren’t enough.
Stronger action is needed to make the
Russian strongman realize he can’t win
this undeclared war without a fight.
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Students march toward the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., on Wednesday, as part of the National School Walkout.
A second-grader pointed a gun
at me. I’m glad I wasn’t armed.
BY J ENNIFER R ICH
W
hen I began teaching, I
taught second grade.
Pokémon cards were pop-
ular then, and children
often brought them to school to trade
at recess. One day, a boy kept playing
with his cards during class time. After
two warnings, I told him that I was
going to hold his Pokémon cards until
the end of the day. His response? “I
don’t care. I have a gun, and I’ll shoot
you.” He calmly pulled a gun out of
his desk and pointed it at me.
I have tried to imagine what might
happen in this scenario under Presi-
dent Trump’s “arm the teachers”
proposal. I can spin out two possibili-
ties. In the first, I’d be one of the
20 percent of teachers who would be
trained and armed. I would pull out
my previously concealed weapon and
aim at a child. In the tension of the
moment, I would, perhaps, shoot
him.
Alternatively, another adult in my
school would be armed. I would send
up an alert, and a grown-up with a
gun would enter my classroom with-
in moments. He or she would see a
young Hispanic child pointing a gun
at a white, female teacher, with a
room full of terrified, cowering chil-
dren. The student holding the gun
would, perhaps, be shot.
Let’s say, in either of these scenar-
ios, this young boy escapes with his
life. In both, I would have lost the
trust of my students. I would have
become another source of fear.
What happened, instead, is some-
thing that could only have happened
18 years ago. It was the post-
Columbine era, certainly, but it was a
world before school shootings felt . . .
commonplace.
CATHERINE RAMPELL
Governing is more than just cutting taxes
J
ust months ago, Republicans got
away with a massive upward redis-
tribution of wealth, raiding
$1.5 trillion from the Treasury and
sticking future generations with the
bill.
Now, they’re going for more.
On Wednesday, President Trump tout-
ed his ginormous, sloppily drafted,
deficit-financed tax cuts, written under
cover of night without benefit of hearings
or experts. The whole thing was so much
fun, he said, that he hopes to do it all again.
This year.
“We're actually going for a phase two
which will help — in addition to middle
class, it will help companies and it's going
to be something I think very special,”
Trump said in Missouri. “Kevin Brady is
working on it with me, Congress is work-
ing, the Senate's working.”
Brady (R-Tex.), the chairman of the
House Ways and Means Committee, con-
firmed another tax-cut bill was in the
works.
“We think even more can be done,” he
gushed on Fox Business News.
Larry Kudlow, Trump’s incoming Na-
tional Economic Council director, has
likewise declared his excitement to be
slashing taxes further. During a CNBC
interview, he said the next round should
make the individual cuts permanent and
add a cut to taxes on capital gains. Capital
gains, which refer to profits on sales of
capital assets such as stocks or land, had
gone untouched in the law that passed in
December (though they already receive
preferential treatment, mind you).
This is all pretty rich. In all senses of the
word.
Nearly two-thirds of the tax cuts Re-
publicans passed in December will go to
the top income quintile this year, accord-
ing to the Tax Policy Center. Further cuts,
EZ RE
I walked up to the student, a boy I
liked who often wore an impish grin
along with his pressed school uni-
form, whose hair was always gelled
carefully, who had a sweet sense of
humor, put one hand on his face to
distract him, and said, “Oh, you don’t
want to do that, sweetie.” With my
other hand, I reached out and took
the gun by the barrel, and pulled it
away from him. I called the office.
Help came. I found out three things
later: The gun belonged to his dad. It
was not loaded. He’d learned his
behavior by watching his dad threat-
en his mom.
Now, I teach the teachers — that is,
college undergraduates planning a
career in education. Each semester, it
seems, there has been a school shoot-
ing, and I tell them this story. I also
tell them that I have had to talk to
elementary school classes, as well as
my own young children, about school
shootings. I give them guidelines for
those discussions. They take notes. I
have become very good at having this
conversation with my college stu-
dents; it is my least favorite skill.
My students are hopeful and brave
and funny and smart and caring,
eager to be the best teachers they can
be. These young men and women will
have students coming to them hun-
gry, homeless and abused. They will
have students who have parents di-
vorcing, who are adjusting to new
siblings, and who experience bless-
ings and disasters, illnesses and bul-
lying. These young teachers will also,
of course, have to help 25 students
each year learn to read, to add, and to
understand how flowers grow and
what it means to be a part of a
community. Some children in their
classes will have mental-health
needs, some will have physical needs,
especially if they target capital gains, are
likely to be similarly plutocratic: House-
holds making more than $1 million ac-
count for about two-thirds of all capital-
gains income, according to IRS data.
This scheme is also coming from a party
that once upon a time — way back in 2016,
when a Democrat held the White House —
decried out-of-control deficits.
Yet somehow we are already on track to
have a trillion-dollar deficit this year,
thanks to the recently passed tax law and
additional spending increases. This fiscal
flip-flop is astonishingly ill-timed, espe-
cially when you consider where we are in
the business cycle. For most of the past
70 years, deficits fell when unemployment
improved; today, with unemployment at a
mere 4.1 percent, we’re engaging in huge
deficit-financed stimulus.
Meanwhile, precisely because the econ-
omy has been improving, the Fed is rais-
ing interest rates. This is yet another
factor that makes swelling our debt so
dangerous right now.
Rising debt, paired with rising interest
rates on that debt, means that interest
costs — that is, what the government
spends servicing our debt — will be the
fastest-growing part of the federal budget
over the next decade. We are on track to
incur trillion-dollar interest payments
soon, according to a recent projection by
the Committee for a Responsible Federal
Budget.
Bafflingly, the party of fiscal conserva-
tism has looked at all these factors and
decided: Yup, now is definitely the time to
dump even more tax cuts on the federal
tab.
The question is: Why? Why gorge on
more tax cuts, especially now?
Sure, public perception of the new tax
law has improved from the bottom-of-the-
barrel ratings it received in December. But
STEVE APPS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
some will need extra attention for no
diagnosable reason. Each child is
part of a family, and that family might
need extra support, as well.
I encourage my students to debate,
to learn, to engage whatever strate-
gies work so that each child in their
care knows that he or she is valued,
and that he or she is safe. I will never,
ever advocate that my students arm
themselves.
Teachers are not soldiers or police
officers. Schools are not battle-
grounds.
The tools I give my students will
not solve all their problems, but they
are a start. I encourage them to use
their gut, to teach with empathy and
heart. I remind them that it is more
important to be kind than to be right,
and a little bit of extra time goes a
long way.
There is so much that teachers
need to keep a school safe. We need
time to focus on students, to listen to
them and to help them listen
thoughtfully to one another. We need
books to engage student imagina-
tions, to teach them about the better
worlds that they can create. We need
paper, pencils and crayons. We need
music, theater and history, as well as
science, math and technology. We
need the tools to talk about the fear
our children feel when they learn of
another school shooting.
There is one thing we do not need,
both because we are horribly
ill-equipped to handle the awesome
responsibility of taking a life, and
because it would shatter the culture
of trust within a classroom, and that
is a gun.
The writer is an assistant professor in the
College of Education at Rowan University
in Glassboro, N.J.
approval ratings have leveled off since
January, with only about 4 in 10 Ameri-
cans saying they like it.
The GOP’s likely loss in Tuesday’s Penn-
sylvania special congressional election, in
a district Trump carried by nearly
20 points in 2016, should also temper
Republicans’ enthusiasm for further tax
cuts.
The tax bill was the party’s only major
legislative achievement last year, and so,
understandably, Republican ads in the
Pennsylvania race showcased the new
policy.
At least at first.
For the first two weeks of February,
two-thirds of broadcast TV ads promoting
Republican candidate Rick Saccone high-
lighted the GOP tax plan, a Politico analy-
sis found. But over subsequent weeks,
fewer and fewer ads even mentioned tax-
es, and by early March they were virtually
nonexistent.
Apparently even in the reddest of red
districts, tax cuts for rich people and
corporations just didn’t resonate.
The problem for Republicans, of
course, is that at this point, tax cuts are the
only thing they stand for. As conservative
commentator Robert Novak once put it,
“God put the Republicans on Earth to cut
taxes. If they don't cut taxes, they have no
overriding rationale for existence.”
It’s true. They can toss some red meat to
the base — Saccone’s closing argument in
Pennsylvania was that liberals hate God —
but the only actual policy they can reliably
line up behind is cutting taxes. Especially
with a president whose views on virtually
everything else (including guns, immigra-
tion, health care) change from minute to
minute.
The only thing left is to throw more
good money after bad.
crampell@washpost.com
A21
MICHAEL GERSON
The reign of
randomness
I
t is a natural tendency to examine
presidential decisions for what
ideological content or policy direc-
tion they indicate. What does the
removal of Secretary of State Rex Tiller-
son signal about President Trump’s view
of U.S.-Russia relations? What does the
sudden acceptance of a summit with
Kim Jong Un reveal about Trump’s
approach to diplomacy and military
force?
The answer to these and similar
questions: Not much. They assume a
process of reflection and planning for
which there is no evidence. Trump
seems to fire people when they defy him,
displease him or look bad on television.
“This guy never gets a good story about
him,” Trump is reported to have com-
plained of Tillerson. Trump’s shift in
North Korean policy was, by all ac-
counts, a spur-of-the-moment sort of
thing — less like a high-stakes diplomat-
ic gambit with nuclear implications and
more like, hey, what the hell, let’s have
breakfast for dinner. The decisive White
House meeting with South Korea’s na-
tional security adviser Chung Eui-yong
began with flattery of the president
(what White House meeting doesn’t?)
and included an assurance from Chung
that Kim was “frank and sincere.” This
was enough for Trump to accept a
summit on the spot.
We should hope that Mike Pompeo is
wonderful at his new job and that a new
approach to North Korea ends up suc-
ceeding. But it is difficult to view either
change as evidence of something bigger.
Trump’s guiding principles are a disdain
for precedent, a preference for institu-
tional chaos and an invincible trust in
his own instincts.
The best interpretive
framework to understand
Trump’s leadership is
psychological, not ideological.
This means that the best interpretive
framework through which to under-
stand Trump’s leadership is psychologi-
cal rather than ideological. One would
think that a president with historically
low poll numbers, facing an investiga-
tion by special counsel Robert S. Mueller
III of growing seriousness, heading (in
all likelihood) toward a disastrous mid-
term repudiation that could lead to his
impeachment, and presiding over an
administration run on the management
principles of Maximilien Robespierre
might be acting out of desperation. On
the contrary, White House insiders indi-
cate that Trump’s increasingly flailing
decisions are the function of a president
gaining in confidence. Having decided
that he has gotten the hang of the job,
Trump has lost patience with opposition
and constraints. He seems not fright-
ened but giddy.
What does this mean for Trump’s
presidency? Paradoxically, the man with
complete trust in his own instincts is
easily manipulated. Because Trump
lacks historical and ideological ground-
ing for his views, the content of his
instincts often seems determined by the
last person who captures his attention.
This was true of Chung, who could
quickly sell a massive change in U.S.
diplomatic strategy in East Asia to a
leader who knows little about diploma-
cy, strategy or East Asia. But Trump
came away from the meeting convinced,
I imagine, that the whole thing was his
idea. The rootless are easily shifted, as
everyone from the leaders of China to
the hosts of “Fox & Friends” has discov-
ered.
The most damaging implication of all
this is obvious. The world is a complex
and chaotic place. People in the White
House, including the president, need to
control what limited amount is under
their control. And this requires a work-
ing White House policy process, giving
the most serious possible scrutiny to
presidential decisions. The failure of
past decisions is not an excuse for the
reign of randomness. It is absurd to
argue that, because the past 30 years of
Korean policy haven’t succeeded, a new
policy should be chosen by throwing a
dart at a dartboard.
Trump unbound is having one further
effect. It is adding to a squalid atmos-
phere of autocracy from which the
United States has traditionally been
exempt. The president insists on humili-
ating those who displease him. And
everyone, eventually, displeases him.
Those who delay this fate the longest are
bootlicking mediocrities — the survival
of the sycophants. The surest path to
political advancement is to be a member
of the ruling family or to praise the
president on television. Loyalty matters
far more than competence or character.
And even that, in the end, is never
enough.
At the center of the presidency is a
total vacuum of idealism. And always
there is a cloud of chaos surrounding the
president, who revels in the kind of
power demonstrated by breaking and
mocking.
Republicans can no longer dismiss
this as evidence of inexperience. It is
getting worse as a failing president
becomes more confident of his own
judgment. And more disconnected from
reality.
michaelgerson@washpost.com
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Alexandria Store owners on the D.C. border say Seat Pleasant Dissent
sues drug is pushing them out to make way for development

sellers for to Metro

opioid woe
BY R ACHEL W EINER
AND S HIRA S TEIN
The city of Alexandria, Va., is
suing sellers of prescription
painkillers, saying drug addic-
tion has killed scores of residents
and overwhelmed city services.
Alexandria is asking $100 mil-
lion from the companies, which
include manufacturers, distribu-
tors and pharmaceutical provid-
ers.
The city joins dozens of state,
county and city governments
across the country that have
taken opioid providers to court
to argue that the companies that
profited so much from the drugs
should help pay for their destruc-
tive effects. Montgomery and
Prince George’s counties in
Maryland are among those who
have sued opioid manufacturers
and distributors.
Hundreds of federal lawsuits
have been consolidated before
U.S. District Judge Dan Polster in
Ohio, who is trying to reach a
settlement between the two
sides. The Department of Justice
recently intervened, demanding
its own reimbursement for the
money the federal government
has spent dealing with opioid
abuse.
But many more suits, includ-
ing Alexandria’s and another
filed on behalf of Dickenson
County in rural Southwest Vir-
ginia, are being pursued in local
courts. It’s one of two lawsuits
against pharmaceutical firms
filed in Virginia on Wednesday,
the first ones in a state where
overdose deaths have been on
the rise. In 2016, 1,138 people
died of opioid overdoses in Vir-
ginia, and 1,217 deaths are esti-
funding
dropped
D.C. COUNCIL CHAIR
ACCEPTS VA. PLAN
Top city officials support
$178.5 million allocation
BY R OBERT M C C ARTNEY
A threat to derail a regionwide
Metro funding plan dissolved in
less than 24 hours as D.C. Council
Chairman Phil Mendelson said
Thursday that he wouldn’t let his
objections to the deal prevent it
from being approved.
Mendelson (D) and five other
council members sent a letter to
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) late
Wednesday saying the city should
give Metro only $167 million a
year in new, permanent funding.
That was at odds with Bowser’s
support of a Virginia plan, ap-
proved in a historic vote Saturday,
PHOTOS BY BONNIE JO MOUNT/THE WASHINGTON POST
calling for the District to contrib-
Steven Franco speaks with customers Wednesday at his Discount Mart in Seat Pleasant, Md. His city property taxes last ute $178.5 million as its share of a
year jumped from $5,991 to $55,019. He says business owners didn’t know about a hearing before the tax was approved. total of $500 million.
Mendelson’s position triggered
a quick backlash from Metro sup-
After their taxes skyrocketed, porters, including business, labor
and church groups, and he
backed off Thursday morning.
“The District will support Met-
business owners sue Md. town ro funding,” Mendelson said in a
tweet responding to a Washing-
ton Post story that disclosed the
dispute. “I regret that a better
deal for our taxpayers was not
met. . . . There is nothing wrong
with fighting for a better deal for
BY R ACHEL C HASON “All of these dollars are neces- taxpayers, but there will not be a
sary for us to provide efficient and fight in the Council.”

S
mated in 2017. everal business owners are effective services for the residents Two council members who
The Alexandria lawsuit argues suing the small town of of Seat Pleasant,” Grant said in an signed the letter — Mary M. Cheh
that pharmaceutical companies Seat Pleasant, Md., for an October interview with NBC4 (D-Ward 3) and Brianne K. Na-
lied about the addictiveness of approximately eightfold Washington. deau (D-Ward 1) — said they also
prescription narcotics while dis- property tax increase they allege But according to the city’s char- would support fulfilling the en-
tributors ignored the flow of pain is unlawful and designed to shut ter, special assessments can be tire $178 million obligation.
pills onto the black market. It down their businesses. levied on properties only if the Following the council’s shift,
also alleges that managers of The owners of a discount mar- The businesses affected by the funds will specifically benefit Bowser pledged in her State of the
health-care benefits encouraged ket, a Chinese takeout restaurant tax are in an area that has long those properties — for purposes District speech Thursday evening
cheap opioid prescriptions while and a liquor store say officials struggled with crime and such as building curbs or paving that the District would go along
discouraging addiction treat- violated the city’s charter and poverty. sidewalks — and if property own- with the Virginia plan.
ment or the sale of drugs that are state and federal laws when they ers are given advance notice and “Along with the mayor of Met-
harder to misuse. created an ordinance that sent to Prince George’s County. “It’s the right to appeal. ro, [board chairman] Jack Evans,
Several companies named as the property taxes of certain busi- backward economic thinking.” “They’re violating their own we’re going all-in and fully fund-
defendants denied the allega- nesses soaring. Mayor Eugene W. Grant, a law,” Franco said. ing Metro at $178 million — the
tions and said they have worked Steven Franco, who owns the fierce and at times controversial A pretrial hearing is scheduled amount the District needs to con-
closely with the Drug Enforce- discount market, said the “special politician who made headlines for April 2. tribute to finally solve the dedi-
ment Administration, doctors revitalization” tax is a part of an two years ago for governing from In court filings, Seat Pleasant cated revenue problem that has
and prosecutors to combat opi- attempt by Seat Pleasant’s leaders a pop-up tent after he was ousted officials maintain that they fol- held the system back for years
oid abuse. to lower the value of the proper- from City Hall, declined to com- lowed proper procedure in enact- and years,” Bowser said.
The flood of prescription opi- ties so the city can buy the build- ment through a spokeswoman, ing the ordinance and did not With the District’s top leaders
oids across the country led to an ings for its own use. citing the pending litigation. violate the city’s charter. City at- now backing the Virginia plan,
increase in illegal heroin use, the “You can’t attract business like His 2018 budget says the spe- torney Jason DeLoach said attention turns to whether Mary-
lawsuit alleges, that has put a this,” said Franco, whose city cial revitalization tax on five busi- Thursday that Seat Pleasant is land will go along. The Democrat-
burden on police, courts, jails property taxes last year jumped ness owners will “benefit the en- drafting a proposed settlement ic-dominated House of Delegates
and social services. from $5,991 to $55,019, dwarfing tire city” by generating more than agreement, but he added: “We has passed a bill that would give
There were nine fatal overdos- the $18,269 property tax he pays $250,000 in new revenue a year. LAWSUIT CONTINUED ON B2 Metro $150 million a year, and
es in Alexandria last year in a city Gov. Larry Hogan (R) has en-
of about 160,000 people, accord- dorsed it. But the Virginia plan
ing to officials. At least 44 city calls for Maryland to contribute
OPIOID SUITS CONTINUED ON B4 FUNDING CONTINUED ON B2

A Washington tradition Mayor promises to rebuild trust in public schools

of putting children last
You’ve got to
admit, we do an
excellent job of
putting kids last
in the nation’s
capital.
Petula I am not even
Dvorak talking about the
hundreds of
teens, regularly drilled in how to
hide from an active shooter, who
joined a national student
walkout Wednesday. They
converged on the Mall to beg
policymakers to finally do
something to keep murderous
gunmen out of their schools. But
the craven bunch on Capitol Hill
are too busy kowtowing to the
NRA to do much of anything.
No, this is about the city
officials at a hearing down the
street who spent the day talking
Wariness over shelter closure:
Some say it is moving too fast. B5
about a massive asbestos
removal project that began last
month next to the city’s largest
family homeless shelter at the
former D.C. General Hospital.
There will not be a march for
these kids. Heck, there will not
even be a shelter when this
project is done.
The asbestos abatement, right
around the corner from the
children’s only playground,
happens to be on a building that
the city is offering to Amazon for
a proposed and much coveted
second headquarters.
Of course, city officials swear
the Amazon bid (Jeffrey P.
Bezos, founder and chief
executive of Amazon.com, owns
The Washington Post) has
absolutely nothing to do with
the rush to get rid of the
asbestos then get rid of about
250 families — including
DVORAK CONTINUED ON B2
BY P ETER J AMISON
AND F ENIT N IRAPPIL
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D)
pledged to strengthen oversight of
the District’s public schools dur-
ing her State of the District speech
Thursday night, saying that trust
in the education system “needs to
be rebuilt” after debilitating scan-
dals.
Bowser’s remarks during her
annual address were perhaps her
most candid and wide-reaching
acknowledgment of problems
that over the past three months
have shaken the public schools in
the nation’s capital and tarnished
the city’s national image as a lead-
ing laboratory of education re-
form.
Those problems have included
a federal investigation into inflat-
ed graduation rates, allegations of
enrollment fraud at a marquee
public high school and the forced
resignation of Bowser’s hand-
picked schools chancellor, Ant-
wan Wilson, after his family im-
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) delivers her State of the District
address at the University of the District of Columbia.
properly enrolled his daughter at a
high school with a waiting list of
more than 600 students.
“There have been bumps in the
road. Frankly, there have been
MARVIN JOSEPH/THE WASHINGTON POST
some pretty significant bumps,”
Bowser said. “But now the Band-
Aid has been ripped off, and we
understand better than ever the
challenges we face.”
Bowser said the schools had
made progress over the decade
since former mayor Adrian Fenty
and his chancellor, Michelle Rhee,
set out to overhaul the school sys-
tem by rewarding teachers and
administrators based on test
scores, graduation rates and other
metrics. But she acknowledged
that project needs renewed atten-
tion.
“I recognize that there is trust
that needs to be rebuilt between
our school system and parents,
and systems of accountability and
oversight that need to be rein-
forced and reviewed,” she said, a
line that brought a scattering of
disruptive shouts from the audi-
ence.
However, she described no spe-
cific new policies or initiatives to
fix the problems that have rocked
the school system.
The mayor’s remarks on educa-
tion came toward the end of an
address that announced no major
legislation and was largely vale-
ADDRESS CONTINUED ON B8
B2
Lawsuit alleges racial, religious discrimination
LAWSUIT FROM B1
think we’re on solid legal footing
here.”
The Seat Pleasant council in-
troduced the tax ordinance on
May 8 and adopted it a week later,
after a public hearing that Franco
says he and other property own-
ers didn’t know about. None of
the council’s seven members re-
sponded to interview requests.
The buildings involved in the
lawsuit are clustered near the
intersection of
Martin Luther
King Jr. High-
way and East-
ern Avenue,
which strad-
dles the Dis-
trict line in an
area that has
Mayor Eugene long struggled
W. Grant with crime and
poverty.
Franco — whose crowded store
sells a wide variety of things
including clothes, snacks and
computers — said prostitutes and
drug users often stand in his
parking lot. A store manager
wears a gun on his hip and a
badge showing he is a special
police officer.
“I’m all for improvement. . . .
Based on its geography, this area
could be a powerhouse,” said
Franco, whose family has been in
the discount-store business for
decades and had a store in the
Skyland area of Southeast Wash-
ington that closed to make way
for new development. “But this is
not how you do it.”
Franco is white and Jewish. Si
Qiang and Chang Lin Chen, who
own Jerry’s Carryout and the li-
quor store, are Chinese. Their
lawsuit raises the question of
whether the leaders of Seat Pleas-
ant, which is 86 percent black, are
discriminating against them on
the basis of religion and race. An
African-American-owned barber-
shop in the cluster of buildings on
MLK Highway was not asked to
pay the special tax, Franco said in
an interview.
DeLoach called allegations of
Mendelson drops funding objection
FUNDING FROM B1
$167 million.
Many Democratic legislators
and Metro supporters in Annapo-
lis are pushing for the Senate to
raise Maryland’s contribution
and then persuade the House and
Hogan to support it.
The short-lived disagreement
in the District sprang from the
city’s longtime dissatisfaction
with a Metro cost-sharing formu-
la under which the city pays a
larger share of the region’s subsi-
dies than Maryland and Virginia.
The formula is based on factors
that include population, rider-
ship and number of Metro sta-
tions. It is a primary basis for the
plan approved in Richmond, un-
der which Virginia would give
Metro $154 million a year on
condition that Maryland provides
$167 million and the District com-
mits to $178 million.
The Mendelson letter reiterat-
ed previous arguments that the
formula is unfair to the city, partly
because the District has fewer
residents than Northern Virginia
and the Maryland suburbs and
only about a third of Metro’s track
miles and ridership.
The council members who
signed the letter said the three
jurisdictions should each contrib-
ute the same amount — $167 mil-
MARYLAND
Montgomery police swarm area in response to a likely hoax
BY D AN M ORSE
Elementary school administra-
tor Charlie Chalfant was at his
desk in the District on Thursday
when his wife Rachel, who teach-
es at the same school, walked in
with an odd message:
Police in Montgomery County
had just called her. They said a
man had called them to say he
was in a home, where he’d shot
someone. The address he had giv-
en was the Chalfants’ townhouse.
Chalfant knew their only child
was at day care.
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Owner Jerry Chen prepares food at Jerry’s Carryout. The 64-year-old said he has been at the location for 35 years. His daughter said the
tax could “destroy everything my family has built.” “Why did they pick on us?” she asked. “Why?”
discrimination “ridiculous.”
“We take offense to that — it is
not what the city is doing,” he
said.
The Chens’ city property tax
increased from $1,705 to $14,033
at one property and from $2,137
to $17,147 at the other. Their
daughter, Kathy Chen, said the
tax could “destroy everything my
family has built over more than
A plan from Virginia’s legislature calls for the commonwealth
to provide $154 million in dedicated funding to Metro each year.
lion annually — to reach the
$500 million target Metro says is
needed to ensure safety and reli-
ability.
The letter also confirmed pub-
licly that some of the new money
would come from increases in the
city’s sales and property taxes,
and possibly other taxes.
Virginia and Maryland have
defended the cost-sharing formu-
la, noting that the District has 40
Metro stations, compared with 26
in Maryland and 25 in Virginia.
The formula will become more
favorable for the District, and
more costly for Virginia, when
new stations open with comple-
Still, what if two people for
some reason had gotten into their
family’s home?
That was the police concern as
well, Chalfant learned after talk-
ing to them.
As it turned out, more than 40
officers swarmed the Chalfants’
neighborhood on Ferrara Drive in
the Wheaton area. Chalfant drove
there to give officers a front-door
key. A SWAT team went in and
found no one, leading police to
say the incident appears to have
been a hoax.
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30 years.”
Her 64-year-old father is so
worried that he is having trouble
sleeping, she said. “We love this
community, and that’s why we’ve
never left,” she said. “Why did
they pick on us? Why?”
The lawsuit filed by Franco and
the Chens — and another filed
later by MLK LLC, which owns a
vacant building across the street
SALWAN GEORGES/THE WASHINGTON POST
tion of the second phase of the
Silver Line, which will extend
Metro to Dulles International Air-
port and into Loudoun County.
Bowser and council member
Evans (D-Ward 2), who chairs
both the council’s Finance and
Revenue Committee and the Met-
ro board, have supported the
$178 million amount — although
Bowser’s office did not confirm
that publicly until late Wednes-
day.
They want to avoid scuttling a
regional accord to provide Metro
with dedicated funding for the
first time since the subway
opened in 1976. Virginia Gov.
police said, probably was a “swat-
ting,” when prank callers fake an
emergency that draws a SWAT
team response to storm a house or
building.
Swatters use different call-
routing methods to make it ap-
pear they’re calling in a legitimate
emergency while trying to avoid
being detected later as a fraud.
On Thursday, the caller called a
district police station, not the
county’s central 911 line where
calls can be more easily traced.
“We took it seriously,” Capt.
Paul Starks, a police spokesman,
— alleges the city has violated
state and federal laws by depriv-
ing the property owners of their
right to due process and equal
protection under the law.
The properties will be sold in a
county auction in May if the busi-
ness owners do not pay the tax.
Franco said he so far has declined
to pay because he did not want
the city to have the additional
Ralph Northam (D) has signaled
he will sign the Metro bill ap-
proved by the General Assembly,
although he plans to propose
amendments to change the
sources of funding.
In addition to Mendelson,
Cheh and Nadeau, the letter was
signed by council members Ken-
yan R. McDuffie (D-Ward 5), Vin-
cent C. Gray (D-Ward 7) and Da-
vid Grosso (I-At Large).
Cheh, who chairs the council’s
transportation committee, said
she signed it in hope of encourag-
ing Bowser to open negotiations
with Hogan and Northam to get a
better deal for the city. “The idea
behind the letter was to give
[Bowser] some basis to at least
open the door to talking to the
other jurisdictions,” Cheh said.
“Now that the mayor has said
we’re going to pay the higher
amount, I’m not going to frustrate
that. I do wish we had taken the
opportunity to at least open the
conversation about a fair alloca-
tion.”
Nadeau echoed that point, say-
ing, “At the time I joined the letter,
it seemed there was an opportu-
nity to get a better deal for Dis-
trict taxpayers, but that window
has closed.”
Grosso, Gray and McDuffie de-
clined to comment.
Mendelson said in an inter-
view, “Once the mayor said she
was going with the higher num-
ber publicly, that’s the end of the
debate.”
said of the response. “We have no
choice.”
He ticked off the dangers and
resources the hoax calls consume:
officers and hostage negotiators
speeding to the scene, heavily
armed SWAT members taking po-
sitions, officers entering a house
not knowing fully what awaits
them. “You’re putting a lot of
people in harm’s way,” Starks said.
He said investigators are work-
ing to find the caller: “We’ll be
backtracking, electronically de-
termining how this call came in —
in an attempt to determine the
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funds, but he is prepared to fork
over his money if needed to avoid
his business being sold.
“The last thing I would do now
is consider the city to buy this,”
said Franco, whose family also
owns a Discount Mart in Langley
Park. “They should have sat down
and talked to me, and we could
have worked something out.”
rachel.chason@washpost.com
Mendelson provided more de-
tail about his position in his
tweets, saying that over 10 years,
the District would pay $245 mil-
lion more than Virginia, and
$115 million more than Maryland.
“This is money that could go to
critical D.C. services,” he tweeted.
Within hours, Mendelson’s let-
ter had drawn strong criticism
from Metro supporters who have
been advocating more funding.
Clergy from the Washington
Interfaith Network phoned and
texted D.C. Council members to
urge them to support full funding
at $178 million.
Metro’s largest union, Amal-
gamated Transit Union Local 689,
said Mendelson’s letter “will de-
rail dedicated funding negotia-
tions and is a disservice to riders
and the taxpaying public who
deserve a safe, affordable and
reliable Metro.”
The Federal City Council, an
influential business and civic
group, faulted Mendelson for his
position Wednesday and wel-
comed the shift Thursday.
“The [D.C. Council] Chair-
man’s willingness to support pro-
viding the District’s share, at the
$178 million level, is a construc-
tive step towards achieving true
reform for Metro and sends a
strong signal to prospective em-
ployers that D.C. is committed to
its economic future,” said W. Ed-
ward Walter, the organization’s
chairman.
robert.mccartney@washpost.com
identity.”
By 2 p.m., Charlie Chalfant was
back at Murch Elementary in
Northwest Washington, where is
dean of students.
In a previous career, from 2008
to 2011, he worked as a deputy for
the Norfolk Sheriff’s Office. He
said he understood why the police
responded so strongly and empa-
thized with them about being
misled.
“I gave them my keys,” Chalfant
said, “and they took care of busi-
ness.”
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. FRIDAY, MARCH 16 , 2018
PETULA DVORAK
Homes are
what these
kids deserve
DVORAK FROM B1
hundreds of children — living in
the shelter.
To be fair, the effort to close
the shelter actually predates the
effort to lure Amazon to D.C. It
was a campaign promise made
by D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser
(D). God knows, it is long
overdue. The place, situated
next to the jail, a methadone
treatment clinic and the former
morgue, is a total dump, still
haunted by the ghost of Relisha
Rudd. Relisha was 8 when she
disappeared in 2014 in the
company of a shelter janitor.
Her body has never been found.
The plan to spread the
families experiencing
homelessness across the city
among six smaller, more
intimate shelters is humane and
reasonable.
But only three of those six
planned shelters, which will
house about 130 families, will be
ready by the end of the year. The
other three shelters will not be
finished until next summer.
Meanwhile, the city is
spending about $80,000 a day —
around $30 million a year — on
motel rooms for families who do
not fit into the shelter. That is
bound to grow exponentially if
D.C. General shuts down before
the smaller shelters are ready.
We have been here before.
In 2006, about 130 families
were crammed into D.C. Village
— an abandoned nursing home
near the city’s sewer plant.
It was filled with vermin, and
none of the things that made it
an inhumane nursing home had
changed before it became a
family shelter.
It finally closed in 2007, and
attorneys at the Washington
Legal Clinic for the Homeless
said they were thrilled.
“But solving the homelessness
problem is not as simple as
draining the swamp that is
D.C. Village. Homelessness is
more like a stream,” warned
Sczerina Perot, who ran the
clinic.
At the time, Perot told The
Washington Post that until more
affordable housing was created
in Washington’s real estate
market, “more people will
become homeless every day and
It is the kids
we need to think of.
The kids did not
ask for any of this.
will need help from the District
government to keep their kids
safe and to keep from living in
cars and in abandoned
buildings.”
Instead of subsidized
apartments, most of those
families ended up at another
abandoned health-care facility
— D.C. General.
Why were they moved out of
D.C. Village in 2007?
WMATA needed that space as
a bus shelter.
Sound familiar?
Unless the smaller shelters
are really ready, pushing
homeless families out of D.C.
General may lead to disaster
again.
The kids do not deserve this.
They do not deserve mice and
rats. They do not deserve to live
with no hot water or fixed
address. And they do not
deserve to play next door to a
jail, a morgue and a methadone
clinic.
As usual, I will get scores of
comments from people
impatient with these family’s
situations. They will excoriate
single moms, they will explain
that D.C. is just too expensive
and these families need to move
out to the suburbs.
They will say these people all
made bad choices.
But it is the kids we need to
think of. The kids did not ask for
any of this.
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MARYLAND
Senate budget adds education money
Approved plan also aims
to cut burden caused by
changed federal tax code
BY R ACHEL C HASON
AND O VETTA W IGGINS
The Maryland Senate unani-
mously approved a $44.5 billion
budget Thursday that allocates
$200 million in new education
funding, using additional tax rev-
enue that state residents are ex-
pected to pay as a result of
changes in the federal tax code.
Gov. Larry Hogan (R) had pro-
posed changing state law to fully
offset an estimated $400 million
in additional state taxes Mary-
landers would have to pay as a
result of changes on the federal
level affecting which state tax
deductions residents can claim.
But lawmakers opted for an
increase in standard deductions
that would reduce the extra tax
burden to $200 million, rather
than eliminating it altogether.
Maryland Senate Budget and
Taxation Committee Chair Ed-
ward J. Kasemeyer (D-Baltimore
County) said fewer than 10 per-
cent of residents would see a net
increase in their overall taxes as a
result of the changes approved by
the Senate.
Committee members viewed it
as their job to make “sound fiscal
decisions,” he said, including to
fund proposals expected from the
Kirwan Commission, which is
MARYLAND
Cummings is recovering at home from an infection
BY J ENNA P ORTNOY
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings
(D-Md.) is recovering at home in
Baltimore after a 10-week absence
from Capitol Hill for treatment of
a knee infection. Aides do not
know when he will return.
Cummings, the senior Demo-
crat on the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee,
has been missing from the day-to-
day action on the Hill even as his
staff pressures the GOP-
controlled House to hold Presi-
dent Trump accountable.
Last month Cummings, 67,
filed paperwork to seek a 13th
term in Congress. Four Democrats
and five Republicans are running
in the 7th Congressional District,
which includes much of the city of
Baltimore and parts of Baltimore
and Howard counties.
Cummings was admitted to
Johns Hopkins Hospital on
Dec. 29 with a bacterial infection
in his knee. Within a few weeks, he
moved to an inpatient rehabilita-
tion facility associated with Hop-
kins, and then returned home.
The congressman is “taking
MARYLAND
Proposed Montgomery budget keeps taxes steady
Schools would also get
a boost under outgoing
county executive’s plan
BY J ENNIFER B ARRIOS
Montgomery County property
taxes would largely remain
steady and schools would receive a
bump in funding under County
Executive Isiah Leggett’s proposed
operating budget — his last as
he finishes his third and final
term.
Leggett (D) presented the
$5.56 billion spending proposal to
the Montgomery County Council
at a meeting Thursday morning,
noting that the county continues
to grapple with the uncertainties
in tax revenue posed by federal tax
restructuring.
“This budget is not the easiest
one we’ve had,” Leggett said at a
news conference. “There are some
challenges in our midst.”
Under the proposal, the proper-
ty tax rate would decrease by
2 cents, to 98 cents per $100 of
assessed value. Increased property
values in the county mean taxes
would increase by $27 for the
owner of a home valued at the
county’s median price of
$400,000.
In a letter to Council President
Hans Riemer (D-At Large) accom-
panying the budget, Leggett wrote
that keeping tax revenue at the
county’s charter limit — the
amount the county is allowed to
collect each year — is “appropri-
ate,” referencing the 8.7 percent
studying how to make education
in the state more equitable.
“This fund demonstrates our
commitment to education excel-
lence now and in the future,”
Kasemeyer said.
The Senate bill restored more
than $110 million that was cut by
Hogan, including $10 million for
school safety grants, $5 million
for violence-prevention initia-
tives and more than $20 million
for providers serving the elderly
and children in foster care.
“The budget passed today has
its priorities in the right place,”
said state Sen. Richard S. Madale-
no Jr. (D-Montgomery), vice-
chair of the budget and tax com-
mittee.
The spending proposal now
goes to the House of Delegates.
The Senate budget bill, which
eliminates the state’s structural
deficit, also proposes allocating
nearly $40 million to address
Maryland’s opioid epidemic. It
would provide a 2 percent salary
increase for state employees be-
ginning Jan. 1, 2019.
“We are encouraged to see the
Senate take this important first
step,” said Hogan spokeswoman
Amelia Chasse. She said the
spending proposal would be
Maryland’s fourth consecutive
balanced budget with no tax in-
creases, one for each year Hogan
has been in office.
On the Senate floor, where the
budget proposal was approved
45-0, its passage was celebrated
as a bipartisan success.
“Not everybody likes every-
thing that’s in it, but it was an
Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) has been absent from Capitol Hill
for the past 10 weeks because of health problems.
meetings by phone and is in con-
stant contact with Members and
staff,” according to a statement
from his office.
“He is continuing with in-home
physical therapy and his doctors
tax hike the council approved two
years ago.
The county’s school system
would receive $2.59 billion under
the proposal — $19 million more
than what is required by the state
and the full amount of funding the
Board of Education had requested.
The money would go to increased
services, such as more prekinder-
garten slots, extra extended-year
programs at “highly impacted” el-
ementary and middle schools, and
more summer and extended-day
programming, among other mea-
sures.
Montgomery College would re-
ceive an additional $2 million over
the state requirement — the same
increase Leggett had proposed in
2017.
The election-year budget cycle
— three sitting council members
are running for Leggett’s seat,
while five are running for reelec-
tion — is being watched closely,
especially by the Montgomery
County Education Association.
The teachers’ union last week
issued a partial set of council
endorsements in its politically in-
fluential “Apple Ballot” but said it
would delay endorsements in sev-
eral races that include candidates
who are sitting county council
members — the county executive
contest among them — until the
budget process is complete.
Leggett proposed increasing
grants to three health and human
services nonprofit organizations
by $2.2 million to accommodate a
minimum-wage increase the
county council approved last year.
“This total will continue to rise
as the County minimum wage con-
tinues to increase,” Leggett wrote.
effort of bipartisanship,” said Sen.
George C. Edwards (R-Garrett), a
member of the Senate Budget and
Taxation Committee. “It’s one of
the best budgets I’ve seen in the
long time I’ve been here.”
When Edwards thanked Kase-
meyer, who is retiring at the end
of the year, the Senate gave him a
standing ovation.
Maryland lawmakers also ad-
vanced bills Thursday that would
address sexual harassment in the
General Assembly, require casino
revenue to be spent on public
education and put questions
about sports betting and educa-
tion funding before the voters in
November.
The House gave final passage
to a bill that would put a referen-
dum on the November ballot to
legalize sports betting at Mary-
land casinos and racetracks if the
Supreme Court lifts the ban on
sports betting in most states. The
Senate has not acted on the bill.
The Senate gave preliminary
approval to a bill that asks voters
to decide whether the state con-
stitution should be amended to
create a “lock box” on casino
revenue. Such a change would
require the state’s share of casino
money to be spent on public
education starting in 2020.
That vote came after a long
debate over an amendment of-
fered by Sen. Gale H. Bates (R-
Howard), a former teacher, which
would set aside $125 million to
spend on security enhancements
in schools. Bates said the money
would be used to add metal
detectors, panic buttons and se-
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have assured the Congressman
that they expect his full recovery.
He will adhere strictly to his doc-
tors’ direction as to when he will
return to the Hill,” the statement
said.
The recommended budget
would increase the county’s re-
serve fund to $492.6 million, with
the goal of reaching 10 percent of
the county’s budget in reserves by
2020.
“As we learned in the depths of
the Great Recession, a substantial
reserve is essential to weathering
unexpected economic down-
turns,” Leggett wrote.
But the budget does not reflect
the local impact of the Tax Cuts
and Jobs Act, the federal tax bill
that Congress passed in December.
“It is likely that income tax
revenues will remain volatile as
the effects of federal tax reform
unfold over the next one to two
years,” Leggett wrote, adding that
his budget “includes no adjust-
ments to anticipate the effects” of
tax restructuring.
The council in January ap-
proved a savings plan that includ-
ed $53.3 million in cuts to the 2018
budget after the county received a
lower amount of income taxes in
November than expected.
But that plan doesn’t go far
enough, Leggett said, adding that
he is recommending that the coun-
ty reduce its contribution to the
employee retirement trust funds
by about $21 million “as a one-time
measure to strengthen reserves
and for temporary budget relief.”
“The current fiscal situation is
not the result of a declining econo-
my, but likely a one-time event
driven by speculation on changes
to tax law,” he wrote.
The budget proposal also in-
cludes a 4.5 percent increase in
water and sewer rates included in
the Washington Suburban Sani-
tary Commission’s spending pro-
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curity cameras. Hogan offered a
similar proposal in a separate bill
that has not moved out of com-
mittee.
The Senate rejected the
amendment, with some senators
saying that adding the idea to a
bill that requires a constitutional
amendment did not make sense.
Madaleno said the state has
already added millions of dollars
to improve school safety. Other
measures that specifically ad-
dress school safety are awaiting
action by legislative committees.
The Senate blocked a late-filed
bill from Sen. William C. Smith
(D-Montgomery) that would pro-
hibit certain weapons on college
campuses. A similar bill was
heard in a House committee ear-
lier this week.
A bill designed to strengthen
the legislature’s policy on sexual
harassment cleared a key hurdle,
winning unanimous approval in
the House Rules Committee. The
measure is expected to be taken
up by the full House on Friday.
The bill would make numerous
changes to the General Assem-
bly’s anti-harassment policy, in-
cluding requiring an independ-
ent investigator to handle certain
sexual harassment complaints,
requiring the state Ethics Com-
mission to provide anti-sexual-
harassment training to lobbyists
and requiring the Department of
Legislative Services to list on its
website the names of lawmakers
who attend such required train-
ing.
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ovetta.wiggins@washpost.com
Reps. Gerald E. Connolly
(D-Va.) and Carolyn B. Maloney
(D-N.Y.) are fulfilling Cummings’s
committee duties in the mean-
time, and the congressman has
participated in a few meetings via
conference call.
Cummings’s wife, Maya Rock-
eymoore Cummings, ended her
campaign for governor in early
January, citing “personal consid-
erations.”
The congressman was away
from Washington for about three
months last summer and fall after
surgery to repair a heart valve,
followed by an infection and com-
plications from surgery.
Upon his return to Capitol Hill
in September, he told his staff that
he was more motivated than ever
to take on the White House.
“I’ve often said, don’t ask the
question, ‘Why did it happen to
me?’ but, ‘Why did it happen for
me?’ ” he said about his heart
surgery and recuperation. “I am
thoroughly convinced, and you
will never convince me otherwise,
that what I have gone through was
for a purpose.”
jenna.portnoy@washpost.com
posal.
The county council, which ulti-
mately sets the budget, will hold
hearings on it next month and
must pass a final budget by
June 1.
jennifer.barrios@washpost.com
THE DISTRICT
Synthetic drug sickens
D.C. jail workers
More than a dozen employees
at the D.C. jail complex fell ill
Thursday after a package
addressed to an inmate was
opened containing a synthetic
drug, according to District
officials.
Four workers in the mail
room were immediately taken to
MedStar Washington Hospital
Center, and three decided to go
later. Nine others were treated
at the jail site in the 1900 block
of E Street SE. Officials
described the symptoms as
relatively minor.
Officials had said at an
afternoon news conference that
the substance initially tested
positive for fentanyl.
But Doug Buchanan, the fire
department’s spokesman, said
more comprehensive tests
Thursday night determined it
was a synthetic cannabinoid
known as K2.
That drug, much of it
produced in labs in China, has
been a cheap way to get high
and resulted two years ago in a
spike in overdoses.
— Peter Hermann
and Clarence Williams
Man who apparently
shot himself is ID’d
A man who authorities said
fatally shot himself Wednesday
near the National Postal
Museum has been identified as a
57-year-old from Falls Church,
Va., according to D.C. police.
Charles Scott Berridge was
pronounced dead at the scene of
the 1:30 p.m. shooting in the
first block of Massachusetts
Avenue NE, between North
Capitol and First streets near
Union Station.
Police said a gun was
recovered from the scene and
the death is being investigated
as an apparent suicide.
Authorities did not comment on
why the man may have shot
himself. In addition to having
lived in Northern Virginia,
public records show that
Berridge, who often went by
Scott, once lived in an
apartment building a few blocks
from Union Station.
— Peter Hermann
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VIRGINIA
Body found inside
burning vehicle
Authorities are investigating
“a suspicious death” after a body
was found in a burning vehicle
Thursday at a Prince William
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A citizen called 911 and
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MARYLAND

Ship’s disappearance 100 years ago remains a mystery

Baltimore-bound naval
vessel carried 309 men
and an unfamiliar cargo
BY T IM P RUDENTE
There should have been a clue:
a distress call on the radio, a
shard of wooden lifeboat, even a
sailor’s cap. How could 309 men
and their ship, a naval vessel
bigger than a football field, just
vanish?
One hundred years ago Tues-
day, the USS Cyclops was due to
steam up the Chesapeake Bay
and dock in Baltimore at what is
now Port Covington.
The ship still hasn’t shown up.
Its eerie absence is an endur-
ing mystery, fueling fantastical
theories of the Bermuda Triangle,
giant squids and German spies.
The truth is, no one knows what
became of the Cyclops or its crew
— sailors such as Thomas Lee of
West Baltimore; Adam Siewierski
of Canton; and Burt Asper, a
doctor who practiced at Shep-
pard Pratt.
There was no ceremony for
them Tuesday. Memories of the
Proteus-class collier — it hauled
coal — have faded. The only
known monument to the ship is a
plaque that hangs in France.
And yet, in this era of high-tech
discovery — when explorers have
found a World War II cruiser
sunk in the Philippine Sea and an
aircraft carrier lost in the Coral
Sea, when forensic anthropolo-
gists conclude that bones found
on a Pacific island probably be-
longed to the missing aviatrix
Amelia Earhart — the old hope
returns that the Cyclops might be
found.
“In terms of loss of life and size
of ship, it’s probably the last great
mystery left unresolved,” said
James Delgado, the renowned
underwater explorer.
Built in Philadelphia, steel-
hulled and immense, the Cyclops
splashed in as the Navy’s biggest,
fastest fuel ship. About 540 feet
long, 65 feet wide, the ship could
haul 12,500 tons of coal and
steam 15 knots. Its winches could
send 800-pound bags of anthra-
cite along cables. Huge clamshell
Marvin Barrash of Kent Island, Md., the great-nephew of a firefighter aboard the lost USS Cyclops. He
spent years researching the ship, amassing Navy records, ship logs, dispatches and photos.
buckets could lift two tons of coal
in a single mouthful.
“A monster collier,” newspa-
pers called it. “A floating coal
mine.”
Launched in May 1910, the
ship was designed to refuel the
Navy fleet — grueling and dan-
gerous work. The coal in the
cargo hold was prone to catching
fire. Cables snapped. Bucketfuls
tumbled to the deck.
The sailors steamed out of
Norfolk and down the Atlantic
Coast to U.S. bases in Cuba, Haiti
and Puerto Rico.
With U.S. entry into World War
I in April 1917, the Cyclops, outfit-
ted with 50-caliber guns, deliv-
ered doctors and medical sup-
plies from Johns Hopkins Hospi-
tal to Saint-Nazaire, France.
Months later, the ship arrived
in Brazil to load 10,000 tons of
manganese ore. Denser and
heavier than coal, the ore for
steelmaking was unfamiliar car-
go for the crew. The heavily laden
vessel voyaged to Barbados, re-
supplied for nine days at sea,
Beverly Jones and Herbert Price, Barrash said. “I want the 309 to
two city boys just 17 years old. be at rest, as well as the families.
Today, only scattered remind- It’s something everybody needs:
ers speak of them. At Baltimore’s some resolution.”
Loudon Park Cemetery, one Underwater explorers have
gravestone reads: “T. Vernon Lee, dived for the prized wreck for
lost on the U.S.S. Cyclops.” In decades, but a succession of re-
Baltimore’s War Memorial, their cent, splashy discoveries brings
names are inscribed in marble renewed hope to the hunt. To-
with those of other Marylanders day’s crews employ devices that
killed during WWI. And in can detect the magnetic field of a
Halethorpe, an American Legion washing machine buried in sea
post bears the name and photo of mud. Their sonar can sweep the
one sailor, Dewey Lowman. depths like a flashlight. Year after
Little is known about the year, the number of shipwrecks
19-year-old from Arbutus, a fire- still lost dwindles.
fighter aboard the Cyclops. “The shortlist keeps getting
“People have asked me over the shorter these days as technology
years; I can’t really tell them steps in,” said Delgado, the ex-
much,” said Edgar Lowman, of plorer. “Things can be found. It’s
Halethorpe, his 86-year-old just a question of time and mon-
nephew. ey.”
Fifteen Marylanders disap- Delgado and researchers from
peared with the ship, most of the National Oceanic and Atmos-
them young men without wives pheric Administration an-
or children. nounced two years ago that they
The loss became a discomfit- had found the Baltimore-built
ing episode for the Navy, says tug USS Conestoga, missing since
Marvin Barrash of Kent Island, 1921, outside San Francisco Bay. A
the great-nephew of another ship research crew led by Microsoft
firefighter. co-founder Paul Allen said last
“The whole existence of the August that it had found the USS
TIM PRUDENTE/BALTIMORE SUN ship has been swept under a rug,” Indianapolis, a Navy cruiser tor-
he said. “It wasn’t like it was lost pedoed in the Pacific late in
in a glorious battle. It just kind of World War II. Last week, Allen’s
fell off the face of the Earth.” crew said it had found another
then steamed off for the steel- heavy ore have ruptured the hull, Barrash spent more than a vessel beneath the Coral Sea: the
yards of Baltimore. It was March sinking the ship instantly? Did decade researching the Cyclops, World War II aircraft carrier USS
4, 1918. the unfamiliar cargo leak fumes amassing Navy records, ship logs, Lexington.
The Cyclops was never seen that poisoned the crew? U-boat dispatches, photos, even a sooty These deep-pocketed, well-
again. torpedoes could have sunk the bag of manganese ore. In 2010, he equipped research crews haven’t
The search was exhaustive: ship, but where was the debris? published a 700-page history of taken on the hunt for the Cyclops
Navy cruisers scoured the trade Rough seas could have swamped the ship. Now, he’s working with — at least, not publicly. But solo
routes, scouted the beaches, in- it, but there was no storm, and no the office of U.S. Rep. Andy Harris explorers sometimes write Bar-
spected remote bays. Crews radi- distress call. German raiders (R-Md.) to erect the Cyclops’s first rash, believing they have found
oed the lost ship day after day, but could have captured the ship, monument. the ship.
nothing — no reply, no debris, not taken the crew hostage and “As a Navy veteran, I feel I have A Navy diver thought he locat-
even an oil slick. Out in the West steamed home with their prize, a duty to honor the crew mem- ed it off Virginia’s coast in the late
Indies, the ship had vanished. but the Cyclops lacked fuel for a bers on the USS Cyclops who 1960s. Bad weather forced him
In June 1918, then-Assistant transatlantic voyage. never returned home to Balti- up, and crews never found the
Navy Secretary Franklin D. Wilder theories emerged of sea more, and the families they left wreck. Excitement grew over a
Roosevelt announced the ship monsters, mutinies and meteor- behind,” the Baltimore County wreck upside down off Florida’s
and its 309 men were presumed ites. The loss of the Cyclops — Republican said in a statement. coast, but it turned out to be a
lost at sea. It was the greatest loss along with the later disappear- Barrash believes a cascade of German fuel ship from World
of life unrelated to combat in U.S. ance of five Navy torpedo bomb- failures doomed the Cyclops. One War II.
naval history. ers known as “Flight 19” — gave of two engines broke. The ship A treasure hunter in the Do-
“There has been no more baf- rise to the ship-swallowing lore of was unbalanced by the heavy ore. minican Republic sent Barrash
fling mystery in the annals of the the Bermuda Triangle, a myth At night, with the deck battened photos last year of a newly dis-
Navy than the disappearance last roundly debunked today. down and crew asleep, a big wave covered shipwreck. The Cyclops
March of the U.S.S. Cyclops,” Still, there were no answers for rolled the Cyclops. The huge col- was found, this diver declared.
Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels the families of the Baltimore lier, Barrash figures, eludes ex- Barrash noticed the doorknobs
wrote. “There has not been a sailors — seamen such as Charles plorers because it sank into the bore markings from Glasgow and
trace of the vessel, and long-con- Holmes, who left behind a wife Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest the dishes showed European
tinued and vigilant search of the and infant son on Presbury part of the Atlantic. The trench crowns.
entire region proved utterly fu- Street; Edward Dresbach, who cleaves the ocean floor across Out there, somewhere, the
tile.” wrote cheerful letters to his nearly 1,000 miles. great collier remains.
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obituaries
Advocates for homeless are wary
of sped-up plans to close shelter MICHAEL GETLER, 82

BY F ENIT N IRAPPIL
Advocates for the homeless
agree with Mayor Muriel E. Bows-
er that D.C. General, the city’s
mega-shelter for homeless fami-
lies, is hazardous and needs to be
replaced with smaller, modern fa-
cilities in neighborhoods across
the District.
But they say the mayor’s plan to
close D.C. General this year and
start demolishing some nearby
buildings next month — before
replacement shelters are ready —
poses even greater risks to home-
less families.
At a hearing Wednesday, advo-
cates said they feared that home-
less families would be rushed into
substandard housing or denied
shelter so that Bowser (D) — who
is seeking reelection — could
make good on a 2014 campaign
promise to shutter the notorious
D.C. General.
“If D.C. General is closed in a
way that risks the health and safe-
ty of the families who live there
and other families who need shel-
ter in D.C., then the injustice of
placing families there in the first
place will be compounded, not
alleviated,” said Amber Harding, a
lawyer with the Washington Legal
Clinic for the Homeless.
Several lawmakers also seemed
skeptical that the administration
was acting in the best interest of
homeless families. And they ques-
tioned why the Bowser adminis-
tration is now moving to shut
down D.C. General, when it has
maintained for years that the
mega-shelter could not be closed
until the replacement sites were
built.
Only three of the six replace-
ment shelters, in Wards 4, 7 and 8,
are scheduled to open this fall.
The city official who oversees
homeless services said that the
mayor always wanted to close D.C.
General by 2018 and that it was
now possible because of a recent
dip in the number homeless fami-
lies and the creation of more op-
tions to house families elsewhere.
“We have been able to create a
plan that will work, that will serve
families better and serves that ini-
tial goal within that initial time-
line,” said Laura Zeilinger, direc-
tor of the D.C. Department of Hu-
man Services.
The plight of residents at D.C.
General captured the city’s atten-
tion after the disappearance of
8-year-old Relisha Rudd in 2014. It
highlighted long-standing prob-
lems at the converted hospital,
where residents complained
about a lack of privacy, unsanitary
conditions and concerns about
personal safety. Earlier this
month, the main building lost hot
water for a weekend.
D.C. General — which currently
houses more than 200 families —
THE DISTRICT
The D.C. General shelter in Southeast Washington, shown in 2014.
District officials hope to close the converted hospital this year.
will stop taking new residents in
May. The city, which already
spends about $30 million a year
on motel rooms for homeless fam-
ilies when there is no space at the
shelter, will increase its use of
motel rooms while waiting for the
remaining shelters to open next
year.
That is better than keeping fam-
ilies in a partially occupied, dilapi-
dated shelter, Zeilinger said.
But some questioned that as-
sumption. “Hotels where we
house homeless families are not
well connected to transportation
or services,” said council member
Robert C. White Jr. (D-At Large).
“That’s likely to cause even more
unstability for families, particu-
larly children who already have
gone through too much.”
City officials stressed that the
goal was to get homeless families
into permanent housing, not mo-
tels. Caseworkers are ramping up
efforts to help residents find
apartments using rapid-rehous-
ing vouchers, which are good for a
year to give recipients time to get
jobs and become self-sufficient.
Many landlords will not accept
the vouchers, but the city is hoping
to entice them to participate, by
offering to pay the cost of missed
rent payments and any damage to
units.
But advocates are also con-
cerned that the city will steer shel-
ter residents toward unscrupu-
lous landlords who allow their
units to fall into disrepair. “I want
to ensure families are not pres-
sured into housing that does not
meet their needs in order to meet
the deadline,” said council mem-
ber Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8).
“These are our residents, and
these are our family members.”
Lawmakers said they were also
concerned that the mayor’s plan to
start in April the demolition of
smaller, vacant buildings that sur-
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round D.C. General would expose
children and families to lead, as-
bestos and other dangerous sub-
stances. They pressed administra-
tion officials to explain why demo-
lition could not wait until the fam-
ilies left.
City officials said that they
would be vigilant to protect resi-
dents during demolition and that
razing the entire campus at once
could also be dangerous.
“Small, bite-size chunks is the
safest way to do a demo of this
size,” said Brian Butler of the De-
partment of General Services,
which manages city real estate.
“We are confident this can be done
safely.”
Some advocates questioned
whether the administration is
closing D.C. General to help bol-
ster the city’s bid to lure Ama-
zon.com, which is searching for a
location to build a second national
headquarters. Part of the D.C.
General campus is among the sites
offered by the city for a portion of
the headquarters.
“If this rush to close D.C. Gener-
al without any regard for those
black families, without any regard
for black children, is to make way
for yet another white billionaire,
you can expect to be held account-
able,” said Aja Taylor of Bread for
the City, referring to Amazon
founder Jeffrey P. Bezos (who also
owns The Washington Post).
Administration officials have
denied any link between Amazon
and closing D.C. General. Council
member Brianne K. Nadeau (D-
Ward 1), who chairs the Commit-
tee on Human Services, which
held the meeting, said she did not
think Amazon was a factor.
“My sense is if that site is used
for Amazon, it’s not for years down
the road. D.C. General would have
already closed,” Nadeau said. “I’m
just not sure it’s the point today.”
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Editor turned ombudsman delivered
tough-love critiques of Post, PBS
BY B ART B ARNES
Michael Getler, a Washington
Post foreign correspondent and
editor who later led the Paris-
based International Herald Tri-
bune and served as an incisive
in-house media critic at The Post
and PBS, died March 15 at a hos-
pice center in Washington. He
was 82.
The cause was complications
from bile duct cancer, said his
wife, Sandra Getler.
A former Navy aviator and
defense-magazine writer, Mr.
Getler joined The Post as a mili-
tary affairs reporter in 1970 dur-
ing the waning years of the Viet-
nam War. He later chronicled
Cold War tensions from Bonn, the
capital of West Germany. In sub-
sequent editing roles, including
as assistant managing editor for
foreign news, he directed cover-
age that resulted in two Pulitzer
Prizes for international reporting.
But he achieved his greatest
public renown as an ombudsman,
a sensitive and often thankless
role that entails critiquing col-
leagues for the tone, tastefulness
and fairness of their stories —
while seldom satisfying the most
vehement outside critics.
His time as Post ombudsman,
from 2000 to 2005, coincided
with intense scrutiny of the media
for their coverage of the dead-
locked 2000 presidential election,
the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist at-
tacks, and the polarizing wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq.
Mr. Getler became known for
sharp observations that became
the talk of the newsroom — and
other newsrooms. The New York
Times reported that work virtual-
ly came to a standstill when Mr.
Getler’s criticism — “lobbed like
hand grenades” — became avail-
able internally before it ran in the
Sunday paper.
“Like an Old Testament proph-
et,” read a Times profile of Mr.
Getler, “this respected journalist
has come back . . . to thunder at
his people about their wayward
ways.”
The article cited his displea-
sure with a piece in The Post’s
Style section on Florida Secretary
of State Katherine Harris, a Re-
publican who played a decisive
role in the 2000 election recount,
that opined, “One of the reasons
Harris is so easy to mock is be-
cause she, to be honest, seems to
have applied her makeup with a
trowel.”
Mr. Getler called the cutting
quip “a classic example of the
arrogance of journalists that un-
dermines people’s confidence in
the media.”
After his contract at The Post
expired, Mr. Getler moved to PBS
as the broadcasting system’s first
ombudsman. His appointment
BILL O'LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST
Washington Post ombudsman Michael Getler in 2001. Getler held
that role for five years at The Post and then for 12 years at PBS.
was a reporter and editor for guy, for him the news event was
trade publications specializing in just the beginning, not the end, of
defense, aviation and space. his intellectual interest.”
Mr. Getler said his favorite sto- In 1993, Mr. Getler headed an
ry at The Post was covering the internal Post newsroom task
1979 visit of Pope John Paul II to force that criticized the newspa-
his native Poland, the pontiff’s per as having a “confrontational
first such visit since his election to and male-dominated” environ-
the papacy a year before. The trip, ment in which minority journal-
Mr. Getler later told PBS talk- ists “do not seem to rise through
show host Charlie Rose, felt pal- the ranks.”
pably momentous, “the begin- The 90-page report made sev-
ning of a sense that something eral recommendations, including
was really happening” to loosen the appointment of a deputy man-
the communist grip on Eastern aging editor to direct recruit-
Europe. ment, training and career devel-
After a stint covering national opment. Mr. Getler was appoint-
security and a year as a reporter in ed to fill that job in 1993. It was the
London, Mr. Getler was named No. 3 position in the newsroom.
foreign editor in 1985 and subse- “I’d like to make sure that the
quently assistant managing edi- next Woodward and Bernstein in
tor for foreign news. American journalism come to The
During his tenure, Glenn Fran- Washington Post, whether they’re
kel’s reportage of the first Pales- white or African American or La-
tinian uprising and Caryle Mur- tino,” he told the paper at the
phy’s dispatches from Kuwait time.
during the Persian Gulf War won After leaving The Post in 1996,
Pulitzers. Mr. Getler served four years as
Two of the entries in Frankel’s executive editor of the Interna-
Pulitzer package stemmed direct- tional Herald Tribune, which was
ly from questions raised by Mr. then owned jointly by The Post
Getler. One was about Palestinian and the New York Times. The
children throwing rocks at Israeli Times obtained sole ownership in
soldiers; the other was an account 2003 and has since integrated the
of Israel’s secret military opera- paper into its other products.
tion in Tunis to assassinate a In 2013, The Post replaced the
leader in the Palestinian Fatah role of independent ombudsman
movement. with a reader representative, a
“Mike was innately curious,” staff member who fields ques-
Frankel wrote in an email. “He tions and complaints. Mr. Getler
saw very young Palestinian kids — was named to the City College
4 or 5 years old — throwing stones Communications Alumni Group’s
on a CNN report and wanted to Hall of Fame in 2014.
know what it was about: Who, if Survivors include his wife of
anyone, was directing them, what 59 years, the former Sandra
did it say about the depth of anger Curhan of Washington; two chil-
in the West Bank and the creation dren, Warren Getler of Washing-
of a new generation of resistance ton and Belinda Getler of San
to occupation?” Francisco; a sister; and four
“He read the day-to-day piece- grandchildren.
meal coverage of the assassina- Dan Morgan, a retired Post re-
tion and aftermath — with Israeli porter and editor, described Mr.
officials applauding the deed but Getler as someone who “believed
refusing to confirm they were journalism is a calling, almost a
responsible — and wanted some- priesthood,” and did not have
thing deeper and more authorita- “much tolerance for people who
tive,” Frankel added. “Although he are not doing their best.”

A partial picture of harassment costs followed complaints that PBS

newscasts displayed a liberal bias.
During his 12 years on the job, Mr.
had a reputation as a hard news newsobits@washpost.com

Getler drew periodic attention for

BY F ENIT N IRAPPIL
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser in
December ordered 30,000 city
employees to undergo training to
prevent sexual harassment, but
her administration could not say
how many misconduct allega-
tions had been made against gov-
ernment employees and how
much taxpayers had paid in relat-
ed settlements.
Since then, 94 percent of city
workers have completed the
training, and the mayor’s office
and the D.C. Council have been
able to offer a partial accounting
of the costs of sexual harassment
in the past two years.
The Bowser administration
says the city has spent $295,000
since 2015 to resolve three law-
suits — two against the D.C. police
force and one involving female
Department of Corrections em-
ployees alleging that male co-
workers exposed themselves, of-
fered promotions for sex and mis-
treated women who complained
about harassment.
The list did not include one of
the most high-profile sexual ha-
rassment cases against the city, a
27-year complaint that the city
settled last year for $90,000. It
also did not include several cases
disclosed by city agencies to the
D.C. Council, including a
$350,000 settlement in October
involving the D.C. police depart-
ment.
Aides to Bowser (D) acknowl-
edge they do not have a full grasp
of the sexual harassment prob-
lem. “We operate under a decen-
tralized system where agencies
receive and process these types of
actions, among others,” Bowser
spokeswoman LaToya Foster said
Wednesday. “As a result, we have
to manually collect the data.”
Going forward, the city is set-
ting up a system to track new
sexual harassment complaints
and settlements.
Seven of the D.C. Council’s 11
committees ask agencies under
their purview to list sexual ha-
rassment complaints and settle-
ments as part of annual oversight.
A review of those documents by
The Washington Post identified
at least 28 sexual harassment
complaints made in the past two
years reported by agencies, which
deemed at least four of them to be
unfounded.
Comprehensive data is crucial
to curbing misconduct, experts
on sexual harassment say.
“Unless you know the scope of
the problem, it’s very difficult to
know whether your approach to
sexual harassment prevention
and correction is working,” said
Avi Kumin, a Washington lawyer
who has represented plaintiffs in
sexual harassment cases against
the District.
D.C. officials are hoping sexual
harassment will decline since the
workforce underwent training
dealing with inappropriate con-
duct. At a cost of $71,800 to the
city, the vast majority of the Dis-
trict’s 1,500 supervisors went
through in-person training, while
rank-and-file workers completed
an online course.
Since December, 28,652 out of
30,411 employees under the may-
or’s authority have received train-
ing, according to the city officials.
Most of the stragglers had a
valid reason for not completing
the training, such as going on
medical leave or quitting their
jobs.
But 539 workers face discipline
if they do not finish the sexual
harassment training by the end of
this week, Foster said.
“We will continue to be known
as a government and a place of
employment that is fair to all
people, where all people can excel
and be rewarded for their talents
and skills and that is free of sexual
harassment,” Bowser said in an
interview this month.
Kumin said the city should be
paying close attention to which
agencies attract the most harass-
ment complaints and which su-
pervisors are repeatedly accused
of turning a blind eye.
“Maybe the online, one-size-fit-
all training is not going to do the
trick,” Kumin said.
Agencies provided a varying
level of details about sexual ha-
rassment complaints to lawmak-
ers.
D.C. Public Schools said it has
received eight sexual harassment
complaints in the past two years.
The school system said it investi-
gated the complaints and took
“appropriate action,” with no
elaboration.
D.C. police reported settling
two sexual harassment cases last
year for $525,000 and receiving
five complaints. One allegation is
still under internal investigation,
and the department deemed an-
other to be unfounded. In other
cases, two people accused of ha-
rassment left the department be-
fore they could be punished and it
was unclear whether the accused
in another case faced disciplinary
action.
The D.C. Public Library system
disclosed a pending lawsuit and a
sexual harassment complaint
from December still under inves-
tigation. A library employee also
complained in August that a co-
worker showed a nude photo she
shared with him to others. He
denied doing so, and the com-
plaint ended with management
discussing appropriate work be-
havior with both workers.
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challenging powerful forces in-
side and outside the media. Professional Engineers since 1993
He denounced the PBS Kids
Sprout network’s 2006 firing of
Melanie Martinez, host of “The
Good Night Show,” for having ap-
peared years earlier in videos lam-
pooning public service announce-
ments for teen sexual abstinence.
The firing, Mr. Getler wrote,
had “too much of a whiff of after-
the-fact loyalty oaths and purity
checks on performers.”
In forceful commentaries in
2011 about Chevron, the primary
corporate underwriter of “The
PBS NewsHour,” Mr. Getler
plowed through company finan-
cial reports and spoke to experts
to argue that the oil conglomerate
made misleading and “trouble-
some” statements in its sponsor-
ship messages touting its role as a
force for good in the community.
“I support their basic right to EVERY TIME IT RAINS
advertise or help sponsor pro-
grams, and I have no green-
eyeshade credentials that make
me certain their statement is in-
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BERNARD ‘LEFTY’ KREH, 93
Bernard “Lefty” Kreh holds up one of the 126 species of fish he
caught in his lifetime in this undated photo.
World-renowned angler
and outdoors writer
Fisherman also was
known for inventing
a revolutionary fly
BY M IKE K LINGAMAN
He fished with U.S. presidents,
business executives and com-
mon folks, cast his line on every
continent but Antarctica, and
cranked out 32 books revered by
anglers all over the globe. To the
end, Bernard “Lefty” Kreh was
recruiting new sportsmen, reel-
ing them in as he did the 126
species of fish that he landed in
his lifetime, from the Monocacy
River in Maryland to the Amazon
watershed.
Mr. Kreh died March 14 at his
home in Cockeysville, Md. He
was 93.
The cause was congestive
heart failure, his family said.
World-renowned and a mem-
ber of three fishing halls of fame,
Mr. Kreh baited hooks with Pres-
idents Jimmy Carter and George
H.W. Bush, writer Ernest Hem-
ingway, golfer Jack Nicklaus and
baseball player Ted Williams.
He fished for marlin in Cuba
with Fidel Castro and, at 90,
fished in the Bahamas with
newscaster Tom Brokaw, actor
Michael Keaton and rock star
Huey Lewis. Mr. Kreh was also a
former outdoors writer at the
Baltimore Sun.
“Lefty was one of the greats
who, no matter how far up the
food chain he went, would an-
swer your questions whether you
were Jimmy Carter or John
Smith off the street,” said Tony
Tochterman, co-owner of the
“Watching him cast,
with that fluid flowing
motion, evoked a sense
of relaxed power.
Lefty always said,
‘Most people cast so
hard they look like
monkeys hoeing
cabbage.’ He’d tell you,
‘Cast any harder and
you’ll tear your
underwear.’ ”
Joe Evans, editor of
Chesapeake Bay magazine
Fells Point tackle shop where Mr.
Kreh bought his first fly rod. “He
lived to expand his knowledge of
fishing to the next generation.”
In 2015, at a ceremony at
which he received the American
Museum of Fly Fishing Heritage
Award in New York, Brokaw paid
homage to Mr. Kreh, who was in
the crowd.
“In all the years that I have
been watching great athletes,
everybody from Michael Jordan
to . . . Sandy Koufax and others,
who were at the top of their
game, we are in the presence of a
master of his craft,” Brokaw said.
Inventive to a fault, Mr. Kreh
often thought outside the tackle
box. He designed a fly, “Lefty’s
Deceiver,” so revolutionary that
it was celebrated on a first-class
BALTIMORE SUN
stamp by the U.S. Postal Service
in 1991.
Each March, for 18 years,
Maryland has hosted the Lefty
Kreh Tie Fest, a popular fly-
fishing exhibition. In 2012, the
state christened the Lefty Kreh
Fishing Trail, a seven-mile
stretch along a pristine trout
stream in Gunpowder Falls State
Park, northwest of Baltimore.
Mr. Kreh was Will Rogers in
waders, fellow anglers said.
“Watching him cast, with that
fluid, flowing motion, evoked a
sense of relaxed power,” said Joe
Evans, editor of Chesapeake Bay
magazine. “Lefty always said,
‘Most people cast so hard they
look like monkeys hoeing cab-
bage.’ He’d tell you, ‘Cast any
harder and you’ll tear your un-
derwear.’ ”
Bernard Victor Kreh was born
Feb. 26, 1925, in Frederick, Md.
He was 6 when his father died,
and he helped pay family bills by
selling catfish he’d caught at
night, by lantern light, on the
Monocacy.
After graduating from Freder-
ick High, he joined the Army
during World War II and fought
in the Battle of the Bulge.
He worked for 18 years at Fort
Detrick, where he was acciden-
tally exposed to anthrax and, as a
result, had a strain of the virus
named for him. In 1947, Mr. Kreh
purchased his first fly rod and
reel — a Pflueger Medalist — at
Tochterman’s. That reel is now
on display at the American Mu-
seum of Fly Fishing in Man-
chester, Vt.
“He could cast a fly line into a
paper cup at 25 yards, but he’d
never boast about it,” said Candy
Thomson, public information of-
ficer for the Maryland Natural
Resources Police and former out-
doors writer for the Sun.
Eventually, Mr. Kreh moved to
Florida, where he ran the Miami
Metropolitan Fishing Tourna-
ment and covered the beat for
the Miami Herald. In 1972, he
returned to Maryland as out-
doors columnist for the Sun, a
job he held for 18 years.
Retired Baltimore Orioles star
Boog Powell remembers fishing
with Mr. Kreh at a tournament in
Miami 40 years ago.
“We were on a boat, pitching
up and down in 30-mile-an-hour
winds, when Lefty spotted a
school of mackerel 20 yards
away,” Powell said. “Within two
minutes, he had his fly rod out
and had hooked a 12-pounder. I
couldn’t even stand up on the
boat, but Lefty was like a rock;
nothing could move him.”
Mr. Kreh appeared on TV
shows and in videos, and gave
countless clinics and lectures to
spellbound crowds, large and
small. His goal was environmen-
tal at heart.
“The more people we can get
out there to fish, the better this
world will be,” he’d say. “If they’re
not there, they won’t care.”
His wife of 65 years, Evelyn
Kreh, died in 2011. Survivors
include two children, Larry Kreh
of Glen Arm, Md., and Victoria
Huffman of Athens, Ga.; five
grandchildren; five great-grand-
children; and a great-great-
grandchild.
If he slowed with age, few
noticed. Several years ago, Mr.
Kreh told Evans that he’d just
attended his last high school
reunion. The reason?
“Too awkward,” Mr. Kreh said.
“Everyone talked about life in the
rest home or playing shuffle-
board. When they asked what I
was doing, I said, ‘I just got back
from fishing in the Amazon.’ ”
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IN MEMORIAM
BROWNER
KIMBERLY ANN BROWNER
Happy 41st Birthday Kim!
I love and miss you more and more every day.
Lovingly, Mom, your cousin, Michael
and your cat, Demetrie
CLAVIJO
ADEN XAVIER CLAVIJO
3/16/05-3/16/05
Happy 13th Birthday
Love, Your Family
COKAS
EVELYN COKAS
In loving memory of my dear sister, Evelyn
Cokas, who passed away six years ago today,
March 16, 2012. You are and always will be in
my thoughts and prayers.
A wonderful sister,
with a smile as the sun shines,
and a heart of pure gold,
your memory will never grow old.
Caring and kind in all your ways.
Sincere and just in all your days.
Evelyn, I love you and miss you very much.
Your sister, Mary
WOODARD
The Rev. GEORGE H. JACK WOODARD
August 16, 1926 - March 16, 2013
The passage of time has only slightly dimmed
my sorrow. My love and admiration remain
unchanged.
Your devoted wife, Lucila
DEATH NOTICE
BARNES
HELEN SCROGGINS BARNES
September 23, 1942 – February 14, 2018
Helen Scroggins Barnes was the oldest child
of the late Audrey Curtis Scroggins and Amy
Carney Scroggins, of Fayetteville, NC. She
earned degrees from St. Andrew’s Presby-
terian College, Presbyterian Hospital School
of Nursing in Charlotte and Texas Woman’s
University. She worked as a nursing instructor
and most recently as a nurse working on
issues related to the elderly in Prince George’s
County. She was known across the region
for her work on elder abuse, hoarding, and
dementia. She was always an advocate for the
vulnerable in society.
She is survived by her husband of over 51
years, James A. Barnes; by two children, Mary
A. Barnes and Curtis C. Barnes, College Park,
MD; by her sister, brother, in-laws and multiple
nieces, nephews, and honorary grandchildren
all of whom held a special place in her heart.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. at
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church,, 4512 College
Ave., College Park, MD 20740 on Saturday
March 17. In lieu of flowers, gifts may be made
to the church or to a charity of your choice,
especially those who work with the aging and
vulnerable. The family may be reached at 4611
Drexel Rd., College Park, MD 20740.
BLANE
MARY JANE BLANE (Age 95)
Passed away peacefully Friday, January 26,
2018. Born Elgin, Illinois, January 13, 1923.
Loving wife to the late Robert Blane; mother
of Valerie Blane of Silver Spring, MD; sister
of Gwen Sevier of Irvine, CA. Also as well as
many nephews and nieces.
A Celebration of Life will be held on Sunday,
March 18, 2 p.m., Ebinger Chapel, Wilson
Health Care Center, Asbury Methodist Vil-
lage, Gaithersburg, MD 20877
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to
Music Department, North Bethesda United
Methodist Church, 10100 Old Georgetown
Rd., Bethesda, MD 20814.
www.northbethesdaumc.org
Memories and Directions:
www.InterFaithFunerals.com
BUC
VIVIAN EMILY BUC
Of Alexandria, VA. Died peacefully March
11, 2018 at age 62 after a battle with
lymphoma. Much-loved sister of Nancy L.
Buc and Lawrence G. Buc (Leigh Houck);
aunt of Jason S. Buc (Hannah Murphy Buc),
Alexander D. Buc, and Leo C. Buc (Megan
Watson); and great-aunt of Samantha,
Michaela, and Ari. Memorial service will
be held on Saturday, March 17 at 11 a.m.
at Joseph Gawler’s Sons, 5130 Wisconsin
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016. In lieu
of flowers, please send contributions in
Vivian’s memory to Washington Nationals
Youth Baseball Academy or the ACLU.
CARR
JOHN FISHER CARR
(Age 96)
Passed away on March 14, 2018. Loving
husband of Ruth, father of Douglas (Julie),
Jeffrey, and Elizabeth (Denis), and grandfather
of Spencer, Stefan, and Chloe. Graduated from
Williams College and Harvard Law, served in
WW II as a navy fighter pilot, surviving a night
crash water landing and long swim. Retired
in 1986 from Grumman, (now Northrop Grum-
man) as Vice Chair. Served on various boards in
New York and District of Columbia.
Services will be held at Maplewood Park Place
at a later date. Donations can be made to the
Sierra Club Foundation, Sierra Memorials, 2101
Webster St, Suite 1300 Oakland, CA 94612
CARSON
GERALDINE CARSON (Age 71)
Peacefully transitioned on Saturday, Mach 10,
2018. Loving mother of James Bradner (Kristal),
Stacy Bradner, Lisa Cusaac (Marc) and
Chrishaun Fitzgerald (James); devoted sister
of Vivian Goodman. Also survived by a host of
other relatives and friends. Family will receive
friends on Monday, March 19, wake, 10 a.m.;
Celebration of Life, 11 a.m. at the Galilee
Baptist Church, 2101 Shadyside Ave., Suitland,
MD. Interment Harmony Memorial Park. Ser-
vices by FREEMAN.
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CODERRE
KATHLEEN L. CODERRE
Kathleen Louise "KiKi" McCarthy Coderre, 69,
passed away on March 7, 2018 in Jacksonville,
Florida. She grew up in Rockford, Illinois and
resided in both Virginia and Florida. Kiki retired
from Xerox Corporation after 25 years working
as a systems analyst in both Richmond, Vir-
ginia and Jacksonville, Florida. Prior to that
she taught Social Studies and English. During
her career and retirement, she generously
devoted her considerable energies and skills
volunteering with Pohick Church, Gunston
Hall and Mount Vernon in Virginia and with
the Jacksonville Symphony Guild, Food Bank
and Alzheimer's Association in Florida.
Kathleen was the daughter of Robert and
Dorothy McCarthy of Rockford, Illinois. She is
survived by her loving husband of 34 years,
David; a sister, Patricia Williams of Iowa City,
Iowa and nephews, Jonathan Williams of O'Fal-
lon, Missouri and Michael Williams of Iowa
City, Iowa. The viewing will be held on Monday,
March 19 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Mountcastle
Turch Funeral Home, 4143 Dale Blvd., Wood-
bridge, Virginia 22193. Funeral services will
be held on Tuesday, March 20 at 1:30 p.m.
at Pohick Church in Lorton, Virginia. Burial
will follow at the Pohick Church cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made
to Pohick Church (www.pohick.org) or the
Jacksonville Humane Society (www.jax-
humane.org) or the Sulzbacher Center
(www.sulzbachercenter.org) for the homeless
also in Jacksonville.
COOK
MARJORIE WELLS COOK
(Age 92)
Of Aldie, VA, completed her earthly jour-
ney on March 13, 2018. Marjorie was pre-
deceased by her husband, Wallace Cook,
and sons, Wallace Cook, Jr., an infant,
and Timothy Cook. Surviving Marjorie are
her daughters, Barbara Stiverson, Debbie
Cook, and Linda (Mark) Albimino; grand-
children, Michael and David Stiverson,
Brittany and Garrett Cook; and great-
grandchildren, Amanda, Abby, Livi, and
Luke Stiverson.
Born on May 5, 1925 in Shadyside, Ohio,
Marjorie moved to Washington, DC after
high school graduation and took a job
with Western Union sending and receiving
messages. She met and then married
Wallace and lived briefly in South Carolina
before settling in northern Virginia.
Marjorie’s most cherished role was being
a Mom. In addition, she helped her hus-
band with his moving and storage busi-
nesses, and later was a legal secretary for
the Army JAG Corps.
A memorial service will be held on Sat-
urday, March 17 at 2 p.m. at Centreville
Baptist Church, 15100 Lee Highway, Cen-
treville, VA 20120. The family will greet
visitors beginning at 1 p.m. Interment will
be held at a later date and will be private.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a dona-
tion in Marjorie’s memory to Centreville
Baptist Church or First Christian Church,
75 east 39th Street Shadyside, OH 43947.
D'ABADIE
ERIC J. D'ABADIE
Ocotber 18, 1962 - March 3, 2018
Officers and members of Local
#26 are hereby notified of the
death of Eric J. D'Abadie. Friends
may call at Pierce Funeral Home,
9609 Center St., Manassas, VA,
where viewing will be held on
Saturday, March 27, 2018 from 2 to 3 p.m.
J.F. Dabbs, F.S.
DEATH NOTICE
DONAHUE
THOMAS REILLY DONAHUE, III
Thomas Reilly Donahue, III passed away on
March 11, 2018 in Arlington, VA at the age
of 58.
Tom leaves behind his adored daughters,
Erin (Richmond, VA), Megan (Peachtree City,
GA), Mary Clare (Peachtree City, GA) and
his former wife, Emily Donahue (Peachtree
City, GA); his father and stepmother Tom
and Rachelle Donahue (Washington, DC)
and his sister and brother-in-law, Nancy
Donahue and Tom Fogarty (Annandale, VA),
as well as his nieces and nephews and
many friends. He is preceded in death by
his mother, Natalie Donahue.
Tom was born on July 17, 1959 in Paris,
France. He graduated from Gonzaga Col-
lege High School in 1977 and Fairfield
University in 1983 with a degree in Politics.
He married Emily Donahue in 1990.
Early in his career, Tom served as an aide
to Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Tom was a
highly respected public relations executive
with a specialty in crisis communications.
Over the course of his career, he worked
for Ogilvy, Delta Air Lines, Porter Novelli,
Matlock Advertising, AIM Sports Reputation
Management, BlinkNow and founded Don-
ahue & Associates.
A funeral is scheduled for noon on Saturday,
March 17, 2018 at Our Lady Queen of Peace
Catholic Church in Arlington, VA. All are
welcome to attend and celebrate Tom’s life.
In lieu of flowers, please send donations to
BlinkNow or The Flax Trust.
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DORFMAN
JULIUS DORFMAN
On Thursday, March 15, 2018,
JULIUS DORFMAN of Boca
Raton, FL, formerly of Silver
Spring, MD. Beloved husband
of Sylvia Grace Dorfman;
devoted father of Harold and
Berel Dorfman and father-in-law of Michal
Dorfman; dear brother of Bea (Moe) Rosen-
berg; cherished grandfather of Fiona, Rabbi
Yonatan (Elisheva), Moshe and Chana; and
great-grandfather of Akiva and Miriam.
Graveside funeral services will be held
on Friday, March 16, 2018, 2 p.m. at Mt.
Lebanon Cemetery, Adelphi, MD. Shiva will
be observed at the home of Berel Dorfman.
Memorial contributions may be made to
Young Israel Shomrai Emunah. Arrange-
ments entrusted to TORCHINSKY HEBREW
FUNERAL HOME, Washington, DC, 202-541-
1001.
ECK
ETTA K. ECK
On Sunday, March 11, 2018,
Etta Kimche Eck of Chevy
Chase, MD and Glenview,
IL. Beloved wife of the late
Gerry Eck; devoted mother
of Susan Eck Perlman, and
Melvin Eck; loving sister of
Estelle Kay, the late Aaron
Kimche, the late Jeanette
Cohen. Also beloved grandmother to
Matthew (Virginia) Perlman, Cassie Perl-
man, Marissa Perlman, Dimitri Eck, Brynna
Eck; great-grandmother ("GG" ) to Asher
Van Perlman; many beloved nieces,
nephews, grand-nieces and grand-
nephews. Private graveside service on Fri-
day, March 16, 2018. Family will be receiv-
ing friends on March 16 at 12 noon at
the residence of Joann and Jim DiMeglio.
Memorial contributions may be made to
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Services entrusted to Sagel Bloomfield Dan-
zansky Goldberg Funeral Care.
www.sagelbloomfield.com
EDWARDS
MILDRED EDWARDS
Entered into eternal rest on Saturday, March
10, 2018. She is survived by five grandchildren,
Sheelena, Alicia, Mildred, Robert and Nuertey;
six great-grandchildren and a host of other
relatives and friends. Mrs. Edwards will lie in
state at The Sanctuary at Kingdom Square,
9033 Central Ave., Capitol Heights, MD on
Tuesday, March 20 from 10 a.m. until service at
11 a.m., officiating minister, Pastor Anthony G.
Maclin. Interment at Harmony Memorial Park.
www.stewartfuneralhome.com
FIGARD
MARY ELLEN KNOX FIGARD
The last of the beautiful Knox girls has passed
away on Sunday, March 11, 2018. Mary Ellen
Knox Figard was born on August 27, 1923 to
Samuel Lee Knox and Elsie Irona Corley in
Groesbeck, Texas.
She was preceded in death by her parents,
10 siblings; and her beloved husband, Ross.
She is survived by her four children, D’ann
Atkinson (Steve), Reginald Figard (Deborah),
Linda Showers (Roy-deceased), and Janet
Brutcher (Samuel); two granddaughters, Tara
and Kelly Figard.
Graveside services will be held 1 p.m., Sat-
urday, March 17, 2018 at Mount Comfort
Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia. Mrs. Figard is
entrusted to Valley Funeral Home, 1609 Peters
Creek Road, Roanoke, Virginia, 540-562-1182.
FRIEDMAN
ANNETTE S. FRIEDMAN
Of Chevy Chase, MD, passed
away peacefully on March
14. “Cookie” was born Jan-
uary 26, 1933 in Wash-
ington, DC. Beloved wife of
the late Robert B. Friedman,
beloved mother of Lisa
Twigg (Roger), Debra Bernhardt (David)
and Mark Friedman (Shari). Devoted Gram
to Jay, Joshua, Brooke and Kayla. Beloved
sister to the late Betty Wolf, cherished
aunt to her many nieces and nephews.
She will be missed by many dear friends.
Services on Sunday, March 18, 11 a.m.
at Ohr Kodesh, 8300 Meadowbrook Lane,
Chevy Chase, MD, 20815. Burial to follow
at King David Cemetery. In lieu of flowers,
the family requests donations be made
to Montgomery Hospice or the Edward J.
Friedman Foundation, Inc. The family will
be sitting Shiva through Monday night at
the home of Mark and Shari Friedman.
GILBERT
FRANK GILBERT
The Washington DC Boxing Hall of
Fame members regret the passing of
inductee Frank Gilbert.
Ken Sprouse, President
Bobby Magruder, Treasurer
GILLIAM
JOHN THEO GILLIAM
Passed away on March 1, 2018.
Services on Saturday, March 17,
10 a.m. viewing, 11 a.m., service
at 6503 Old Branch Ave., Temple
Hills, MD 20748. Services by Reese
Funeral Professionals.
GRIESER
ROBERT CHARLES GRIESER
(Age 63)
Of Alexandria, VA passed away unexpectedly
from sudden complications of the flu on March
12, 2018. Robert was born in Brooklyn, NY on
January 3, 1955 to Alfred and Mary Grieser,
who preceded him in death. Devoted father
and husband and a loyal friend to many, Robert
dedicated more than 30 years of service to the
Federal Bureau of Prisons at the Department
of Justice, where he served as Chief Adminis-
trative Officer and most recently as Chief of
Federal Prison Industries’ Recycling Business
Group. Robert was a pioneer in correctional
industries and helped build the National Cor-
rectional Industries Association from its early
days as a volunteer organization, where he
served as president in the late 1990s.
An avid traveler, Robert had a special love
for the Austrian Alps, where he met his wife,
Martina, nearly 40 years ago. Robert is survived
by his wife, his two sons, Justin and Benjamin,
his sister, Carol Fischer (Warren), and many
loving relatives and friends. The family will
receive friends at Everly Wheatley Funeral
Home, 1500 W Braddock Rd., Alexandria, VA,
from 10:30 to 12:30 p.m., Saturday, March 17,
followed by a 1:30 p.m. celebratory mass at
the Basilica of Saint Mary, 310 S Royal St.,
Alexandria, VA. Burial at Ivy Hill Cemetery.
. FRIDAY, MARCH 16 , 2018
DEATH NOTICE
HAMMOND
CAROLYN DELORES HAMMOND "Lois"
On Friday, March 9, 2018. Survived by family
and friends. Visitation 9 a.m., Service 11 a.m.
on Monday, March 19, 2018 at Trinidad Baptist
Church (New Location), 6611 Walker Mill Rd.,
Capitol Heights, MD 20743. Services entrusted
to Henry S. Washington and Sons.
HUGHES
EUGENE HUGHES "Thunder"
The Washington DC Boxing Hall of
Fame members regret the passing of
inductee Eugene Hughes.
Ken Sprouse, President
Bobby Magruder, Treasurer
JAMES
JESSE JAMES "Boe Boe"
Passed away Friday, March 9, 2018. He
leaves to cherish his memories, brothers,
sisters, nephews, nieces, cousins and
friends. Funeral services will be held on
Saturday, March 17, 2018 at Marshall-
March Funeral Homes, 4217 9th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20011, Viewing held from
9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Funeral held at 11 a.m.
Interment Washington National Cemetery,
Suitland, MD.
KENKEL
Dr. JOSEPH F. KENKEL
Dr. Joseph F. Kenkel of Bladensburg, MD died
peacefully on March 12, 2018, one month from
his 88th birthday. He is lovingly remembered
by his wife, Lois Kenkel (Reeves); his brother,
Hon. James Kenkel (Janice Kenkel); his son,
Hon. Joseph Kenkel (Ann Klug) and grand-
daughters, Ursula, Heidi and Anneliese of
Toronto; his daughter, Eileen Kenkel (Ed Lee)
and grandson, Michael of Vancouver; his
daughter and daughter-in-law, Lisa Kenkel and
Melanie Mahtani of Palo Alto, CA; his step-
son, Don Wiggins (Suzanne Wiggins) and
grandsons, Sebastian and Tobias of German-
town MD; his step-son, John Wiggins (Kath-
leen Moriarty) of Bloomery, WV; and by his
grand nieces and nephews and extended
family across the US, Canada and Israel.
A funeral for family and friends will be held
at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 17 at St.
Matthews's Episcopal Church, 5901 36th
Avenue, Hyattsville MD. A celebration of life
for extended family will be held later in the
spring.
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KOLKER
IRENE S. KOLKER
On Thursday, March 15, 2018,
IRENE S. KOLKER of Rockville,
MD. Beloved wife of the late
Morris H. Kolker; devoted
mother of Elaine (the late
Michael) Horwitz and Allan
Kolker; dear grandmother of Deborah
(Jason Goldberg) and Jeremy Horwitz and
great-grandmother of Meirah. Graveside
funeral services will be held on Sunday,
March 18, 2018, 11 a.m. at Mt. Lebanon
Cemetery, Adelphi, MD. Shiva will be
observed, Monday and Tuesday, 6:30 p.m.
at Congregation Har Tzeon Agudath-Achim.
Memorial contributions may be made to
Congregation Har Tzeon-Agudath Achim,
1840 University Blvd., West, Silver Spring,
MD 20902. Arrangements entrusted to
TORCHINSKY HEBREW FUNERAL HOME,
202-541-1001.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 16 , 2018 . THE WASHINGTON POST
DEATH NOTICE
LAWRENCE
MICHELLE DIANE LAWRENCE
Passed away on Sunday, March 11, 2018.
Mother of Turkieta Mathis and Shanté
Lawrence. Memorial Service, Saturday, March
17, 1:30 p.m. at HENRY S. WASHINGTON &
SONS FUNERAL HOME, 4927 Nannie Helen Bur-
roughs Ave., NE, Washington, DC.
LOUISON
JEROME FRANCIS LOUISON
Jerome Francis Louison passed away March
9, 2018 after a long battle with cancer. He
was born November 14, 1944 in Austin,
MN to Ruth and Clifford Louison. He spent
most of his childhood in Rapid City, SD.
He was in the Navy from 1964-71 and
served on the USS Long Beach during the
Vietnam War. He worked in the nuclear
power industry after the Navy until 1993
when he pursued his woodworking passion
full time opening Louison Woodworks in
MD. He built custom furniture, collaborated
with other furniture makers and taught
classes until his illness. He was an avid
golfer and loved to play the saxophone.
He is survived by his loving wife of 16
years, Lynn Yasny Louison, his beloved
children Randy Louison and Elyse Schry, his
beloved stepchildren Sarah Coupe, Anita
Coupe, Julie Adamson, Brenda Pokorny,
Holly Murphy, and Kristina Fauntleroy, and
12 grandchildren. Memorial Service for
Jerome will be Saturday, March 17 at 2 p.m.
at the Paint Branch Unitarian Universalist
Church, 3215 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi,
MD 20783.
In lieu of flowers donations can be made
to the church or Holy Cross Home Care
and Hospice in Silver Spring https://trinity-
healthathome.org/make-a-donation
McKOY
GAYLORD V. McKOY
The officers and members of
Pythagoras Lodge #9, F& AM PHA,
are notified of the death of Brother
Gaylord V. McKoy. Wake Saturday,
March 17, 9 a.m. until time of
service at 10:30 a.m., when
Masonic services will be performed at
Epiphany Episcopal Church, 3111 Ritchie Rd.,
Forestville, MD. Brothers are to assemble at 10
a.m.
Donald A. Tapp, W.M.
Alonzo Wannamaker, Secy.
McNAMARA
JAMES JOSEPH McNAMARA "Mac"
James “Mac” Joseph McNamara, 77, of
LaPlata, MD passed away on March 9, 2018
at the Washington Hospital Center in Wash-
ington, DC. Born on May 6, 1940 in Pitts-
burgh, PA to the late James J. McNamara, Sr.
and the late Agnes (Joyce) McNamara, Mac
is also predeceased by his brother, Patrick
McNamara. He is survived by his son,
James J. McNamara, III (Marina); daughter,
Bridget McNamara; brothers, Steve McNa-
mara (Linda) and John McNamara
(Antoinette); companion Sabrina Givens;
two nieces; two nephews and three grand-
children. Mac was employed as a police
officer (47 years) with the Metropolitan
Police Department. He loved being a police
officer and enjoyed spending time with his
family and friends and taking long drives.
Visitation will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. and
from 6 to 9 p.m. on Sunday March 18,
2018 at Arehart-Echols Funeral Home, PA,
211 St. Mary’s Ave., LaPlata, MD. A Funeral
Mass will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Monday
March 19, 2018 at the Sacred Heart Catholic
Church, 201 St. Mary’s Ave., LaPlata, MD.
Interment to be held in Pittsburgh, PA.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in
Mac’s memory to HEROES, Inc. 1200 29th
St. N.W. Washington, DC 20007.
Online condolences to the family can be left
at arehartechols.com.
PIERCE
DANIEL JOHN PIERCE
Daniel John Pierce, age 75, of Dale City, VA
passed away peacefully on March 14, 2018.
Daniel was born to the late Charles and Ruth
Pierce in Washington, DC on October 30,
1942. After serving our country in the US
Navy, Daniel continued his service as a civilian
working for the Navy for 50 years. Daniel
is survived by his loving wife of 46 years,
Catherine "Cathy" (Downer) Pierce; cherished
daughters, Heather (Damian) Breland and Jen-
nifer (Jay) Jordan; his five dear grandchil-
dren, Colin, Pierce, Tyler, Summer Hope; and
beloved brothers, Donald (Christine) Pierce
and Joseph Timothy Pierce. Daniel joins in rest
his brother, Charles "Dicky", who predeceased
him. Daniel was a devout Catholic and long-
time active member of both Holy Family
Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus
in the third and fourth degree. One of Danny's
many gifts was that he never met a stranger,
he was everybody's friend. He was an avid
sports fan of the Redskins and Nationals, loved
woodworking, gardening, and most of all he
loved spending time with his grandchildren.
The family will receive guests on Sunday,
March 18, 2018 at Mountcastle Turch Funeral
Home, 4143 Dale Blvd., Dale City, VA 22192
from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. The funeral
Mass will be held on Monday, March 19,
2018 at 10:30 a.m. at Holy Family Catholic
Church 14160 Ferndale Rd., Woodbridge,
VA 22193. Interment to follow at Quantico
National Cemetery.
APPEL
STEVEN APPEL
1949 - 2018
On Friday, March 2, 2018, Steven Appel
of Washington, DC and Chestertown, MD,
formerly of Niskayuna, NY, died suddenly.
Steve was born on June 29, 1949 in Brooklyn,
NY to Ralph Appel and Rose Drogin Appel. He
was 68 years old.
Steve’s abiding passion was music. During
the past few years, Steve started taking jazz
guitar lessons from a masterful musician,
attended jazz guitar camps, and had an arch
top guitar made to his specifications. He
wrote his first song this year, and enjoyed a
guitar lesson on his last full day before his
death.
Steve was also an avid hockey player, and
started the Brooklyn College club hockey
team.
He was a patient teacher, a daily reader of
the New York Times, knew something about
almost everything, and felt that family was of
the utmost importance. He was also a strong
supporter of Israel.
www.fhnfuneralhome.com
DEATH NOTICE
PLATT
DOUGLAS NEIL PLATT
On Monday, March 12, 2018,
DOUGLAS NEIL PLATT of
Rockville, MD. Loving brother
of Marc Platt and the late Ellen
(surviving, Charlie) Hudson;
cherished uncle of Ian and Jen-
nifer Hudson. Graveside services will be
held on Monday, March 19, 2018, 11 a.m. at
King David Memorial Garden, Falls Church,
VA. Memorial contributions may be made
to the Revitz House or to the Jewish Foun-
dation for Group Homes. Arrangements
entrusted to TORCHINSKY HEBREW FUNER-
AL HOME, 202-541-1001.
ROBINSON
GERTRUDE ROBINSON (Age 97)
Entered eternal rest February 28, 2018. She
will be greatly missed. On March 17, 2018
viewing 10 a.m. and service 11 a.m. at St. Paul
Temple Church of God in Christ, 3420 16th St.
NE, Washington, DC. Interment, March 19 at
Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery.
SEARCY
DEBORAH R. SEARCY
Members of the Association of
Retired Police Officers of DC. are
notified of the March 13, 2018
death of Deborah R. Searcy. She
was an OFF with MPD-COMM when
retired on November 30, 1994.
SINGLETON
Reverend ISRAEL B. SINGLETON
"Benni"
On the evening of Sunday, March 11, 2018,
surrounded by family and friends, Benni
entered into eternity. He was the devoted
husband of Dr. Carole Singleton and the dedi-
cated sire of two offspring, Cheryl and Darryl.
After having outlived his older sisters, Vyvyan
and Eugenia, he is additionally survived by
his six grandchildren. Services will be held
Friday, March 16, 2018. Viewing beginning
at 9 a.m. until time of service 11 a.m. at
Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, 4606 16th
Street NW, Washington, DC. Interment George
Washington Memorial Cemetery. Arrange-
ments by McGuire.
www.mcguire-services.com
SUTTON
DOROTHY SHIRLEY SUTTON (Age 92)
Entered into eternal rest on Sunday, March 4,
2018. She was preceded in death by her son,
Steven and daughter, Vanessa. She leaves to
cherish her precious memory, her four sons,
Frederick, Emerson, Timothy and Donald; two
daughters, Donna and Patricia; eight grand-
children, 11 great-grandchildren, one sister,
Mauline Jordan; a daughter-in-law, Pamela; a
son-in-law, Samuel; nieces, nephews, great-
nieces, great-nephews and a host of many rela-
tives and friends. Family will receive friends on
Saturday, March 17 at FORT LINCOLN FUNERAL
HOME, 3401 Bladensburg Rd., Brentwood, MD
from 12:30 p.m. until time of service at 1:30
p.m. Interment Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
www.fort-lincoln.com
TAYLOR
KIM MARIE TAYLOR
Suddenly on Friday, February 23, 2018. She
was a lifelong resident of Washington, DC and
a proud graduate of Ballou Senior High School,
Class of 1980. She is survived by her daughter,
Crystal J. Taylor; parents, Henry L. and Sarah
F. Taylor; brothers, Henry L. (Marcia) Taylor and
Michael A. Taylor; and many other relatives.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday,
March 17, 2018 at Stewart Funeral Home,
4001 Benning Rd., NE, Washington, DC 20019.
Visitation at 1 p.m. until time of service at 2
p.m. Interment private.
WADE
LENA WADE
On Wednesday, March 7, 2018, Lena S.
Wade of Washington, DC. Beloved mother
of Robert Lee, Giovanni P. Wade (Juanita),
Gervanni P. Wade (Teresa), Selena Connor
(Darrin), Mary Brown (Allen), Richelle Brown
(Mark), and the late Gary Wade and Gwen-
dolyn McCannon; and the Caring sister
of Mary Lee and Leon Stewart. She also
leaves to cherish her memory a host of
grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces,
nephews, family and friends. Lena was
very loving, giving, funny, and full of life.
She had a heart of gold and touched the
hearts of all those she came into contact
with. Visitation will be held on Saturday,
March 17, 2018 from 10 a.m. until the time
of service, 11 a.m. at Faith Presbyterian
Church, 4161 South Capitol Street, SE,
Washington, DC. Interment will follow at
Washington National Cemetery, Suitland,
MD.
Steve did his undergraduate work at Brook-
lyn College and received his MBA from Rens-
selaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. His
work on political campaigns while in high
school and college led to a multi-year career
in public policy, polling, and qualitative
research.
Steve has left behind his beloved wife of
over 38 years, Kathryn Kuhmerker Appel,
his “wonderful daughter,” Carolyn Appel, his
sister Susan Honeyman (Len), many nieces,
nephews and cousins, and untold numbers
of life-long and newly-made friends. He is
already missed.
A service was held on Thursday, March 8,
2018 at 11 a.m. at Fellows, Helfenbein &
Newnam Funeral Home, 130 Speer Road,
Chestertown, MD. Interment was in Crump-
ton Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contribu-
tions may be made to radio station WAMC
in Albany, NY or to the Jewish Federation of
Northeastern New York.
DEATH NOTICE
WILLIAMSON
GWENDOLYN OLIVIA WILLIAMSON
Entered into eternal rest on Monday, March 5,
2018. She is survived by her mother, Evelyn
Williamson; two sons, Joseph Walker and
Lukiya Walker; sister, Jackie Fletcher and a host
of other relatives and friends. Ms. Williamson
will lie in state at Craig Memorial Community
Church, 5305 Farmingdale Pl., Capitol Heights,
MD, Saturday, March 17 from 10 a.m. until
service at 11 a.m. Interment private.
www.stewartfuneralhlome.com
DEATH NOTICE
BOYCE
WALTER BOYCE, JR.
"Bud"
Peacefully on Sunday, March 11, 2018, resident
of Lanham, MD. Loving husband of 74 years to
Joretta Boyce; father of Janet M. Petway, the
late Walter W. Boyce, Roland Boyce and Joan
M. Lewis. Also survived by nine grandchildren;
16 great-grandchildren and one great-great-
grandchild and a host of other relatives and
friends.
Visitation will be held 10 a.m.; service, 11 a.m.,
Saturday, March 17, 2018 at Corinthian Baptist
Church, 6705 Good Luck Rd., Lanham, MD.
Interment Washington National Cemetery.
www.jbjfh.com
CABIGAS
EMERITA ALANSALON CABIGAS
(Age 79)
On Monday, March 12, 2018, of
Silver Spring, MD. Beloved wife
of the late Osmundo Cabigas;
daughter of the late Jose and
Balbina Alansalon; mother of
Juanita Linda Allen and Joseph
(Jennifer) Cabigas; step-mother of Corazon
(John) Landicho; grandmother of Saman-
tha, Nicole, and Theodore Allan, Soledad
Cabigas, Thomas (Lisa), James (Kathlyn),
Ann, Edward (Joan), and Theresa Landicho;
great-grandmother of Marc, Alex, Carmen,
Sean, Gregory, John, and Carolyn Landicho.
Also survived by many loving family and
friends.
Relatives and friends may call at Holy
Redeemer Catholic Church, 9705 Summit
Ave, Kensington, MD on Saturday, March 24
from 9 to 10 a.m., where Memorial Mass
will follow at 10 a.m. Interment private.
Memorial contributions may be made to
the Little Sisters of the Poor, Jeanne Jugan
House, 4200 Harewood Road, NE, Washing-
ton, DC 20017.
www.COLLINSFUNERALHOME.com
DUMAS
WILLA RAWLS DUMAS
On Wednesday, March 7, 2018 in Fairfax, VA.
Willa Dumas is survived by her sister, Geneva
J. Arrington and a host of other relatives and
many, many friends. Services will be held
on Monday, March 19 at Metropolitan AME
Church, 1518 M Street, NW, Washington, DC.
AKA "Ivy Beyond The Wall Service will be
at 9 a.m., The Links Incorporated Memorial
Service at 9:30 a.m. Viewing begins at 10
a.m., followed by a funeral service at 11 a.m.
Interment in Arlington National Cemetery at a
later date. Rev. William H. Lamar, IV, officiating.
Arrangements by Greene Funeral Home,
Alexandria, VA.
DUNCAN
TERRY SCOTT DUNCAN
MARY JO DUNCAN
Terry Scott Duncan passed June 17, 2017 from
cancer. Mary Jo Drozdowski Duncan passed
March 13, 2018 due to bleeding in the brain.
They attended the Air Force Academy and
each served for eight years obtaining the rank
of captain. Terry later ended his career at the
National Reconnaissance Office where he was
the Director of Communications. Mary Jo went
on to finish her career at Orbital ATK as an
electrical and flight software engineer. Their
passing is bitter sweet because they were
the most loving and supportive people you
could ever meet but the love that they shared
between one another was so great it was hard
to imagine them being apart.
Mary Jo's viewing will be March 16 from 6
to 8 p.m. at Money and King's funeral home
in Vienna, VA. They will both be interned in
Arlington National Cemetery at a later date.
They are survived by their four children, Katy,
Grace, Michael and Joseph Duncan as well
as their parents, Terry and Dean Duncan and
Joseph and Kathryn Drozdowski.
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DEATH NOTICE
HUGHES
MARJORIE F. HUGHES, M.D.
Marjorie F. Hughes, M.D. died peacefully on
March 3, 2018 at the age of 92. She was
a longtime resident of Arlington County,
where she raised her six children and
served as the Chief of School Health Ser-
vices for 35 years. She was born in Sch-
enectady, NY in 1925 and is survived by
her sister, Charlotte Elbert of Hillsborough,
NJ and her children, Michael Hughes of
Chicago, IL, Eric and Louise Hughes of
Atlanta, GA, Christine and George Wysor
of Winchester, VA, Jeffrey and Roseanne
Hughes of Manassas, VA, Paul and Colleen
Hughes of Arlington, VA, and Marjorie Lam-
oso of Virginia Beach, VA. She is also
survived by her 12 grandchildren.
Family services will be private. A public
remembrance gathering will be held on
Sunday, April 8, 2018 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the
Knights of Columbus in Arlington. In lieu of
flowers the family requests that donations
be made to the Marjorie F. Hughes Fund
for Children and sent to the Arlington Com-
munity Foundation, c/o Marjorie F. Hughes
Fund for Children, 818 N. Quincy St. Suite
103, Arlington, VA 22203.
KENNEDY
WILLIAM MARSHALL KENNEDY, SR.
On March 11, 2018, in Springfield, Virginia.
Born September 29, 1917, in Butler, Penn-
sylvania. Bill was preceded in death by his
wife of 70 years, Barbara Flick Kennedy. Bill
attended Penn State for two years before
transferring to Allegheny College, where he
met Barbara, the love of his life. He received
an A.B. from Allegheny College(1941) and
an MBA from Case Western Reserve Uni-
versity in the early '50s. A self-employed
CPA, he also taught accounting at Case
Western Reserve University and Baldwin
Wallace College. He was active in church
and civic organizations throughout his life.
He enjoyed golfing, bridge and swimming.
He swam regularly until he was almost 99
years old.
Bill was a World War II veteran, serving in
the MPs and then the accounting office in
Italy. He kept a diary of his war experiences
which he self-published in 2010, Sergeant
Kennedy's World War II Diary. The diary
captures his lifelong enthusiasm for new
experiences, and the love of his bride. Bar-
bara and Bill shared that love and optimism
for life with their growing family.
He is survived by his loving children, William
M. Kennedy, Jr. (Jane) and Jean Kennedy
Wheelock (Stephen), his grandchildren
Judith A. Kennedy (Jonathan Osmundsen),
Douglas W. Kennedy (Tara), Jennifer B.
Wheelock (Dylan Cockell), Emily J. Whee-
lock-Davis (John A. Davis, Jr.), four great-
grandchildren. and half-brothers Ralph M.
Kennedy and Paul Kennedy. A memorial
service will be held at Greenspring Village
Chapel in Springfield on Saturday, March
17, 2018, at 2 p.m. Memorial contributions
may be made to Little River Endowment
Fund, 8410 Little River Turnpike, Annandale,
Virginia 22003, or Greenspring Scholar
Fund, 7410 Spring Village Drive, Springfield
22150, or a charity of your choice.
KIRK
EVELYN KIRK (nee Hodges) (Age 102)
Born in Rocky Mount, Virginia on September
27, 1915 and grew up in Roanoke, Virginia.
Married John Harrison Kirk (deceased) October
22, 1942. She has been a resident of Alexan-
dria, VA since 1947. Died February 28, 2018.
She is survived by her two daughters, Kathy
Richards (Harold) of Purcellville, Virginia, Mary
Kirk of Annapolis, Maryland, five grandchildren
and eight great grandchildren. She was much
loved by family and friends.
MOORE
GINGEREE M. MOORE
(Age 95)
Resident of Washington, DC departed this
life peacefully on March 13, 2018. Leaving
behind five devoted children. Charles
Moore III, Lagretta Moore, Bernadette Wil-
son, Monica Abdul Saleem (Anwar), Grace
Moore-Keys (Will). One deceased daughter
Sylvia Lee. 10 grandchildren, eight great-
grandchildren. And a host of relatives and
friends. The service will be held Saturday,
March 17, 2018 at Universal Mortuary, 411
Kennedy St, NW, Washington, DC 20011.
Visitation with the family 10 a.m. until timer
of funeral service 11 a.m.
DEATH NOTICE
PETRUZEL
MAREIKE KAREN PETRUZEL
Passed away peacefully March 2, 2018 fol-
lowing an extended illness surrounded by
her beloved husband of 44 years, Bill, and
their son, Oliver. She is also survived by her
nine-year old granddaughter, Addison Petruzel.
Mareike was born on January 9, 1950, and
raised in Wildflecken, Germany, along with nine
brothers and sisters. It is there that she met her
husband to be in 1972, married in 1973, and
welcomed their son, Oliver, in 1974.
Between 1974 and 1999, Mareike worked
as an accountant for several companies in
Virginia and New Jersey -- eventually becoming
the Financial Controller for a technology firm
based in Arlington, Virginia.
Following her retirement, Mareike’s lifelong
love for animals led to her and Bill fostering
more than 40 pitbull puppies, as well as per-
manently adopting several dogs of their own.
She dedicated most of her free time to working
with dog rescues and pet owners throughout
the area – to include the design of many
memorial websites for owners whose pets had
passed away. It was during this time that she
became affectionately known as “Magicwolf”
throughout many communities dedicated to
animal rescue. Also renowned for her home
repair abilities, Mareike could fix almost any-
thing.
A celebration of Mareike’s life will be held
on Saturday, March 24, at Jefferson Funeral
Chapel in Alexandria, Virginia, from 2 to 4 p.m.
EST. In lieu of flowers Mareike's wishes were
that donations be made in her name to Bob-
bie's Pit Bull Rescue, Fredricksburg, VA.
DEATH NOTICE
de CASANOVA
CARLOS MANUEL SERA
de CASANOVA
Died peacefully at his home on Sunday,
March 11, 2018. He was born on May 16,
1919, in Holguin, Cuba. He immigrated to
the U.S. in 1940 looking for adventure, new
opportunities and most of all, to become an
American. He served in the Army Air Corp
in the European Theater of operations during
WWII.
After the War, he returned safely to Wash-
ington, DC and met, courted and married
his lovely sweetheart, Berta Ramona (Mona)
Fernandez. She was also from Holguin and
just happened to be visiting Washington. She
was the daughter of Diego Fernandez, a
formidable man who had served with
FERGUSON
ELISABETH CARLTON
HART FERGUSON
September 2, 1930 - March 12, 2018
Elisabeth Carlton Hart Ferguson (Nina), 87,
of Fairfax died peacefully Monday, March 12,
2018 in Concord, NC.
On Sunday, March 18 the family will receive
visitors at the Fairfax Memorial Funeral
Home from 3 to 6 p.m. The celebration
of her life will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday,
March 19 at the Historic St. Mary’s Church,
11095 Fairfax Station Road, Fairfax, VA, with
interment at the church cemetery to follow
immediately.
Mrs. Ferguson is survived by her two sons Dr.
Michael R. B. Ferguson, DDS and Dr. Sean C.
N. Ferguson, DDS ; and grandchildren Ryan
T. R. Ferguson, Colin M. C. Ferguson, Evan
J. P. Ferguson, Matthew G. Ferguson and
Nicholas H. Ferguson.
Born September 2, 1930 to the late Henry G.
Hart and Elisabeth C. Roop, she is preceded
in death by her husband Robert A. Ferguson.
ISELIN
DAVID FACHER ISELIN
The world lost a loving and courageous soul
when David Facher Iselin died unexpectedly
from cardiac arrest on March 3, 2018. David
was born on March 10, 1989, the first son of
his loving parents, Lauren and Harold. David
was a native of Albany, NY and attended
Bethlehem Central schools and spent many
summers at Camp Skylemar in Maine. David
was active in the Congregation Beth Emeth
youth group and served as an officer. In 2011,
David graduated from Vassar College. While
there, he was a member of his house team
and co-chaired the senior gift campaign. As
a co-chair, David was privileged to speak at
the commencement – an honor of which he
was quite proud. Following graduation, David
worked in a series of jobs in Washington, DC
before attending American University Busi-
ness School from which he graduated in
2017.
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DEATH NOTICE
SALTSMAN
MARION (née Malloy) SALTSMAN
Of Chevy Chase, Maryland, died on February
1, 2018, at age 87. Born in Rye, New York, on
June 30, 1930, Marion’s passion for languages
led her to earn degrees in French literature
from Mount Holyoke College and Middlebury
College. Her 55-year marriage to the late
Joseph Irl Saltsman, a foreign service officer,
was an adventure that took her around the
globe to Iran, Morocco, France and Switzer-
land. She is survived by a sister, Frances
Kiehnle, of Seabeck, Washington; two daugh-
ters, Karen Price, of Thornton, Colorado, and
Kirstie Saltsman, of Kensington, Maryland; and
two granddaughters. She was buried alongside
her husband at Arlington National Cemetery.
SCHMIDT
YVONNE McVAY SCHMIDT (Age 91)
Died peacefully March 11, 2018. Born in
Australia, she was an accomplished classical
pianist and artist who traveled extensively
and had a zest for life. After jobs in London
and Montreal, she settled in Washington and
worked at the Indian Embassy and Williams and
Connolly. Yvonne was joyfully reunited later in
life with Susan Jaquet, the daughter she had
given up for adoption. Survivors also include
son-in-law, Philippe Marciniak; grandchildren,
Alexandra and Christopher Marciniak, and
devoted friends, Kim Truitt and Marcia Jovine.
A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday,
March 17, 3:30 p.m. at Forest Hills of DC, 4901
Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20008,
where memorial donations may be made in
Yvonne’s name.
distinction during the Cuban war of indepen-
dence, known here as the Spanish American
war. Carlos showed great personal courage
in marrying, without first getting permission,
Diego's favorite daughter and then coming
back to Cuba to present himself and his new
wife to his impressive father-in-law.
Once Castro took over Cuba, Carlos and
Berta dedicated countless hours and funds
assisting Cuban refugees in acquiring visas,
shelter and jobs. He also consistently con-
tributed to numerous charities benefiting
Native Americans, Veterans, and many
others.
Carlos always believed that caring for his
family was his most important mission in life.
He is survived by his children, Nancy, Arthur
(Cornelia), Albert and Alejandro (Eve) and
many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
He will be greatly missed by family and
friends.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made
in his name to Wounded Warrior Project, PO
Box 758517, Topeka, Kansas 66675-8517 or
Friends of the National World War II Memorial,
921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, Suite 316,
Washington, DC 20003.
Services will be held at St. Patrick's Catholic
Church, 4101 Norbeck Rd. Rockville, MD on
Friday, March 16 at 11 a.m. Inurnment will
be at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, 3809 Georgia
Ave. Silver Spring, MD and a meal of mercy
will be held at 1 p.m. at Glen View Mansion at
Rockville Civic Center Park, 603 Edmund Dr.
Rockville, MD.
Like her siblings before her Mrs. Ferguson
attended university and earned her degree.
Following graduation she migrated north
with her brother to Washington, D.C. where
she eventually met her husband. The couple
eventually settled in Fairfax to raise their two
sons while she worked for the United States
Postal Service as an EEO claims investigator.
Upon retirement Mrs. Ferguson became very
active with various organizations. She held
offices in the Ancient Order of Hibernians
at St. Mary’s of Sorrows and the National
Association of Retired Federal Employees
(NARFE). Her and her late husband were
active in the Meals on Wheels organization
and multiple other charitable activities.
After moving to North Carolina Mrs. Fergu-
son loved to go to her grandsons’ sporting
events where she could definitely be heard
cheering them on. She lived her life with
an infectious energy and enthusiasm. She
was always ready for an adventure and had a
fantastic sense of humor that could light up a
room.
Elisabeth was an original. A woman with a
tremendous heart who loved deeply and was
loved in return. She was the product of a
generation that valued responsibility, honor,
faith and family. Virtues which she passed
along and will not soon be forgotten. She
had an unique ability to make everyone she
met feel like they mattered, because to her,
they truly did.
A special thanks to the caregivers at The
Gardens of Taylor Glenn for their compas-
sion, care and love for both Elisabeth and
her family. All of you provided years of
warmth, care and comfort for both Robert
and Elisabeth. Thank you.
Condolences may be offered at
www.fairfaxmemorialfuneralhome.com
At the time of his death, David was working
as the business development manager for
Destination DC and loved being part of the
Destination DC team. He also taught religious
school at Temple Sinai. David was a huge fan
of The Tony Kornheiser Show.
David faced much adversity in his short life.
He suffered from Crohn’s disease and a
rare kidney ailment. David faced his health
challenges with courage and good spirit. He
never let his ailments get him down and
he maintained an optimistic and cheerful
attitude. He persevered and was always a
wonderful son and big brother as well as
a loyal friend. Always thoughtful of others
and mindful of his own health issues, David
donated his organs to those in need.
In 2016, David met his soulmate, Abby Him-
melrich. Abby and David were a perfect fit,
and her family welcomed David with open
arms. David and Abby were busy planning
their future together even on the day that
David died. Abby’s family welcomed David
into their family and he loved being part of it.
David is survived by his parents, Lauren and
Harold; his loving brothers, Alex and Michael;
his grandfather, Alan Iselin; his loving aunts
and uncles, Gayle, Joanne (Don) and Marcy
(Mark); his cousins Sam, Max, Corey (Jamie),
Justin (Maggie) Dana, Julia, Jacob, Evan (Chris-
sy), Glenn (Jenn) and Dana (Rob), his great
nieces, Isla, Ellie and Zoe as well as by Abby
and her loving family. David was adored by
his grandparents, Barbara Iselin and Lois and
Marvin Facher and his aunt, Linda Richards,
and his uncle, John Engel, who predeceased
him.
There will be a memorial service for David
at Temple Sinai on March 18th at 2:30 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that con-
tributions be made in memory of David to
the Congregation Beth Emeth CBEYG Fund,
Albany, NY.
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Bowser pledges to strengthen oversight of public schools

ADDRESS FROM B1 the mayor who passes up on the sign last month amid public out-
opportunity to demolish it,” she rage that his family skirted the
dictory. Bowser is approaching said. notoriously competitive citywide
the end of her first term in office The mayor vowed to close the school lottery to enroll his daugh-
with secure prospects for reelec- shelter during her 2014 campaign, ter at a high school with a waiting
tion: She has raised more than replacing it with smaller neigh- list of more than 600 students.
$2 million in campaign funds and borhood shelters throughout the After stepping down, Wilson as-
so far has no serious challengers. city. That plan is underway, with serted that he had informed Bows-
By many measures, the District three of the six planned shelters er of the transfer in October, con-
is thriving. The city has money to expected to open this year. tradicting the mayor’s statements
give away — and it has, converting Bowser originally planned to that she was unaware of it.
excess revenue into tax breaks for give the address at Duke Ellington Ivonne Johnson, a retired D.C.
its residents. Its population has School of the Arts, an acclaimed public schools employee who
grown by roughly 15 percent in the magnet school in Northwest that joined the protesters before the
past seven years, according to cen- recently underwent a $170 million speech, said she sees the gradua-
sus estimates, and hit a milestone renovation — $100 million over tion scandal as an outgrowth of a
of 700,000 last month. Crime has budget. But after recent revela- school system that has been overly
dropped dramatically in many tions of suspected enrollment focused on juicing its numbers to
neighborhoods. fraud at the school, the mayor show progress.
Bowser highlighted those suc- relocated her speech to the Uni- “Just like the mayor has done
cesses in her speech but also ad- versity of the District of Columbia. nothing about housing, I don’t
dressed less welcome facts of life A Bowser spokeswoman said think she has done anything about
in the city she leads, such as stub- the venue had been changed be- education,” said Johnson, a 74-
bornly high homelessness, gentri- cause of better parking and year-old Northeast resident who
fication that has squeezed out public-transit access at the univer- lives with her daughter and grand-
poor and middle-class families, sity, which hosted the State of the son. “She has all the responsibility,
and high rates of infant and ma- District address last year. But the and I would like to see the school
ternal mortality. abrupt change of plans under- board back, because you are ask-
Immediately before Bowser’s scored the extent to which the ing someone to run a school sys-
speech, a group of about 50 pro- mayor is maneuvering to cope tem who has never taught . . . nev-
testers gathered outside to decry with scandals in the city’s school er been a principal and doesn’t
what they said is growing income MARVIN JOSEPH/THE WASHINGTON POST system. have degrees in education.”
inequality on the mayor’s watch. Protester Aja Taylor speaks to a crowd gathered Wednesday outside the University of the District of The enrollment scandal came Eugene Puryear, a 32-year-old
The demonstrators — a mix of Columbia to protest Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) as she gave her State of the District speech inside. after an investigation, commis- activist and frequent critic of the
young progressives, older black sioned by the Office of the State mayor, said the school troubles
residents and clergy members — In her address, the mayor said District’s only public hospital was said she will announce a “partner- Superintendent of Education, only hardened his view that the
had a variety of complaints, in- she plans to introduce legislation forced by regulators to close its ship” this year to build a hospital showing that more than one-third mayor’s priorities are misplaced.
cluding increased water bills and this year that would ensure better nursery and delivery rooms after for Southeast Washington on the of last year’s high school graduates “It’s very problematic when you
cuts in bus routes. “It’s in a state of prenatal and neonatal care. She medical errors in the treatment of campus of St. Elizabeths Hospital. should not have received diplo- see almost all of the mayor’s top
inequity,” said Akela Crawford, a said the bill would put more mon- a pregnant woman who died, The mayor also highlighted her mas because of chronic truancy aides without much thought to it
33-year-old advocate for the ey into programs that reduce pre- along with her baby. The closure plan — which has recently drawn and other problems. With more abusing the placement system,”
homeless who lives in Southeast term births, set up a system for left women east of the Anacostia criticism from some council mem- rigid enforcement of academic Puryear said. “You start to think
Washington and came for the pro- tracking health outcomes for new- River without a hospital in which bers and advocates — to demolish standards in place, less than half it’s not so much about improving
test. “You can’t talk about D.C. borns, and establish an advisory to give birth or seek prenatal care. the city’s main family homeless of the class of 2018 is on track to education, but making the num-
without talking about that. But body that will suggest policies for That hospital, United Medical shelter at the former site of D.C. graduate, according to D.C. public bers look good so you can claim
the focus is always on Amazon and improving the health of mothers Center, has also struggled through General Hospital. schools officials. you are improving education for
the Wharf and all the nice, new and babies in the District. financial problems and allega- “That shelter is an embarrass- Wilson, the former schools your reelection campaign.”
things going up.” That proposal comes after the tions of mismanagement. Bowser ment to our city, and I will not be chancellor, was also forced to re- peter.jamison@washpost.com

VIRGINIA

Northam backs Wexton for Congress ning it by six.

Northam presided over the
state Senate as lieutenant gover-
Wexton, the only elected official
running in the Democratic pri-
mary, is a former prosecutor with
ning. Deep Sran, an educator,
dropped out of the race last
month.
nor during Wexton’s Senate serv- roots in Loudoun County, where In addition to Northam, Wex-
BY J ENNA P ORTNOY trict is expected to be among the publican in the House, despite con- ice. most Democrats in the district ton was endorsed by Democratic
most competitive in the nation. sistently being won by Democrats “I saw her tenacity on the Sen- live. Reps. Gerald E. Connolly and A.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam The district includes Loudoun in statewide and national races. ate floor where we fought together Her biggest competition in the Donald McEachin.
on Thursday endorsed state Sen. County and parts of Fairfax and Northam’s support could give to expand Medicaid and stood up primary comes from anti-human- “I have seen firsthand the dedi-
Jennifer T. Wexton, one of seven Prince William counties, as well as Wexton (Loudoun) a boost in the to the gun lobby,” Northam said in trafficking activist Alison Fried- cation the Governor has to the
Democrats running for the party’s Clarke and Frederick counties to district, which he won easily in a statement. “From the Virginia man, Army veteran Dan Helmer, people of Virginia,” Wexton said in
nomination to challenge Rep. Bar- the west. As the closest thing to a last year’s gubernatorial election Senate to my campaign for Gover- former federal prosecutor Paul a statement, “and I look forward to
bara Comstock (R) in a congres- battleground district in the region, — widely seen as a referendum on nor, Jennifer Wexton has always Pelletier and communications continuing our partnership to bet-
sional race targeted by both major it attracts more than its share of President Trump. In the 2016 elec- had my back and I know she will strategist Lindsey Davis Stover. ter serve Virginia families when I
parties. activists and donors. It’s a swing tions, Trump lost in the district by fight even harder for Northern Physician Shadi Ayyas and sci- am in Congress.”
Northern Virginia’s 10th Dis- district long represented by a Re- 10 points, despite Comstock win- Virginia families.” entist Julia Biggins are also run- jenna.portnoy@washpost.com
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MOVIE REVIEWS IN WEEKEND

Weekend



 7 Days in Entebbe A famed 1976 hostage-rescue mission, with a metaphor for Israeli foreign policy. 26

 Tomb Raider Heroine Lara Croft and the graphics surrounding her evolved, not all for the better. 27

Foxtrot A portrait of a soldier’s mourning family, with a metaphor for Israeli foreign policy. Deja vu? 28

THE TOP

Hollywood
2-year-old Parker appeared awestruck by a painting of is missing
Michelle Obama. Her mom is awestruck by the attention.
link in roles
of heroines
In “Tomb Raider,”
which opens
Friday, Alicia
Vikander channels
her inner Indiana
Jones, with a dash
Ann of Rambo thrown
Hornaday in: affecting just
the right number
of scrapes and cuts and a no-
nonsense gaze, she vanquishes
small armies of men with just her
wits, physical strength and a
quiver full of arrows.
Vikander presents an earthier,
more realistic version of Angelina
Jolie’s impossibly voluptuous
video-game heroine Lara Croft —
a character that launched a
hugely successful franchise
around the same time Milla
Jovovich started kicking tush in
the “Resident Evil” spinoffs. As
the daughters of such action
heroines as Sarah Conner in “The
Terminator” and Ellen Ripley in
“Alien,” and the godmothers of
Charlize Theron’s Furiosa in “Mad
Max: Fury Road,” these hard-
bodied heroines have become
familiar cinematic tropes, one
side of a coin that includes the
unapologetic bitch, most recently
personified by Frances
McDormand in “Three Billboards
Outside Ebbing, Missouri” and
Allison Janney in “I, Tonya.”
It’s telling that both
performances earned an Oscar
this year: Each seemed to tap
into the same vein of inchoate
anger that propelled both the
outcome of the 2016 election and
CAROLYN VAN HOUTEN/THE WASHINGTON POST the response to it. And there’s no
denying the subversive frisson
inspired by watching actresses go
full harridan, especially when it

A brush with viral fame comes to traditional ideas about

BY H ELENA A NDREWS- D YER
Jessica Curry is still processing. The
mom of two, whose daughter Parker be-
came an online sensation after a photo of
the toddler — awestruck by Michelle
Obama’s portrait — went very, very viral,
has spent the past two weeks juggling juice
boxes and giant expectations.
“When I go into my phone and I look at
pictures of Michelle Obama carrying my
little girl around on her hip as if she were
her own, I’m like, ‘What is going on?’ ”
Curry, 29, said during a recent phone inter-
view.
Since Parker’s photo began orbiting the
social media globe on March 1, mother and
daughter have spent 45 minutes with the
former first lady in her downtown D.C.
office, appeared on CNN and flew to Los
Angeles on Wednesday to chat with viral-
After Jessica Curry took
2-year-old Parker to see
the new painting of
Michelle Obama at the
National Portrait Gallery,
a photo of Parker gazing
at the artwork went viral.
kid whisperer Ellen DeGeneres.
And there’s that word again — viral. It
sounds ominous and clinical, like some-
thing catchy, something you protect your
littles from as Curry did for the early part of
Parker’s young life.
In those pre-toddler years, Curry — a
stay-at-home mom in Washington who
writes a parenting blog called Happy
Mama Happy Babies — didn’t post photos
female agency and the approving
male gaze. Next to McDormand’s
literal bomb-thrower, Meryl
Streep’s aristocratic Katharine
Graham, who came into her own
of her daughter’s face online. So what was in “The Post” and claimed her
her gut reaction to the photo with thou- due far more quietly, had nary a
sands upon thousands of likes from strang- chance.
ers? To be honest, she was bothered. As cathartic as badasses and
“We’re talking about a picture of my bitches can be as expressions of
daughter who’s just 2,” said Curry, whose female power on screen, both for
soft Sunday-school-teacher voice belies actors and audiences, that
her fierceness. “So when I see this picture paradigm feels just as played out
floating around with my kid, I’m like, as the damsels in distress and
‘Whoa. This is a lot.’ ” HORNADAY CONTINUED ON C6
A lot — that’s a common refrain for
Curry these days. The media attention? A
lot. The emotions? A lot. The pressure? A
lot.
Just over 24 hours after the museum visit,
the photo began racking up more shares
and likes and hearts. Curry decided to reach
out to a friend who works in public rela-
tions. She told the mom of two not to worry.
That this would all probably blow over in a
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Wilma Mankiller is the subject

of a PBS documentary.

BOOK WORLD
Heart and swagger in this family saga
BY M ICHAEL L INDGREN
Luis Alberto Urrea’s “The
House of Broken Angels” is a
big, sprawling, messy, sexy, rau-
cous house party of a book, a
pan-generational family saga
with an enormous, bounding
heart, a poetic delivery and plen-
ty of swagger. It’s not perfect — in
fact, even its flaws are big — but
it stays with you, and it stands as
a vital reminder of the value of
fiction in defining the immigrant
experience.
The noisy swirl of Urrea’s
novel revolves around the dying
patriarch Miguel Angel “Big An-
gel” de la Cruz when three gener-
ations gather over the course of a
weekend for a final valedictory
celebration. His mother recently
dead, Big Angel himself is on the
way out after an outsize life of
danger, romance and striving.
Orbiting him is a proliferating
solar system of children and
relatives, and with them a galaxy
THE HOUSE
OF BROKEN
ANGELS
By Luis Alberto
Urrea
Little, Brown.
326 pp. $27
of feuds, slights, alliances, re-
sentments, flirtations and mem-
ories. “Every man dies with se-
crets,” Big Angel thinks to him-
self, nearing his epiphany. He
might have added that every
man’s death brings forth secrets
in others.
This is hardly a fresh setup —
the big ethnic gathering as plot
engine is a fairly tired device —
but Urrea’s embrace of it is so
ardent, and his execution of it so
energetic, that he blows right
past any reservations about orig-
inality. The most technically im-
pressive element of this spiraling
group narrative is how the story
rotates among the various family
members, weaving their dispa-
rate voices, with effortless com-
mand, into a kind of Hispanic
fugue of memory and desire.
More than once while reading
“House,” I thought of James
Joyce’s “The Dead,” another ka-
leidoscopic fable of family life
that skillfully mixes perspec-
tives.
I cannot remember a recent
novel that was so energetically
promiscuous in its embrace of
the senses, one that brought
forth such a riot of sounds and
smells and tastes, of butterscotch
and pounding “Tijuana mariachi
techno” and “the white-with-
heat horizon.” A bravura passage
about halfway through is practi-
cally a little aria of scents re-
membered from a long-ago mo-
torcycle ride. And the frequent
interjections of colloquial Span-
BOOK WORLD CONTINUED ON C6
Another gutting of a big-city newspaper
Jesse Aaron Paul
could hardly
believe his good
fortune when he
started his
internship at the
Margaret Denver Post in
Sullivan 2014 not long
after he
graduated from Colorado
College.
“I felt like I had reached the
end of the yellow brick road,”
Paul, now 25, said, describing
his first day at the paper with its
history of Pulitzer Prizes, its
beautiful downtown building
(“like a beacon”), and its
nationally regarded top editor,
Greg Moore, who hired him at
summer’s end and who dubbed
him “Super Jesse.”
That all came crashing down
on Wednesday when newsroom
employees were summoned to
an all-staff meeting at the
paper’s headquarters, no longer
downtown but at the printing
plant in an outlying county.
After round after round of
cutbacks in recent years at the
hands of its hedge-fund owners,
the staff thought there might be
a small number of buyouts
offered. There wasn’t much left
to cut, after all.
Top editor Lee Ann
Colacioppo, who has been at the
paper for almost 20 years, gave
it to them straight — and the
news was far worse than
expected.
The Post, already a shadow of
its once-robust self, would be
making deep layoffs: another 30
jobs.
“Sobs, gasps, expletives,” was
how Paul, who covers politics,
described the stunned reaction.
“The room went silent — we
were blindsided by the
numbers,” said AAron
Ontiveroz, a 33-year-old
photographer who has been on
that award-winning staff for
seven years, watching its ranks
drop from 16 photographers to
six.
The newsroom would be
below 70 positions: a startling
drop from a time not much
more than a decade ago when
the Post and its rival, the Rocky
Mountain News, together had
more than 600 journalists.
(The papers were in a joint
operating agreement until the
Rocky went out of business in
2009.)
“It’s painful — there’s a knot
in my gut to see what we built
up over time torn down in this
relentless way,” Moore told me.
He was the paper’s top editor
from 2002 to 2016, when he
stepped away, disheartened by
what he called the “harvesting
strategy” by the paper’s parent,
Digital First Media, which in
turn is owned by a hedge fund,
Alden Global Capital — one of
the most ruthless of the
corporate strip-miners
seemingly intent on destroying
local journalism.
I tried to talk to someone in
Alden’s New York headquarters
on Wednesday to ask about the
apparently counterproductive
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The Reliable Source

Helena Andrews-Dyer and Emily Heil

SURREAL ESTATE

Scott Stewart was in the final

stages of purchasing a house
when a pal sent him a February
Washington Post article about a
new listing on Q Street NW.
A history buff with a special
fondness for the Kennedy clan,
TY WRIGHT FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Stewart couldn’t pass up the house
where John F. Kennedy met Anthony Scaramucci
Jacqueline Bouvier in May 1951, at
a small garden party held by
Charles and Martha Bartlett, the
home’s renters at the time. Stewart, ‘The Art of
a managing partner in a senior
living investment and development
firm, put in an offer the day the
the Mooch’?
house hit the market.
“I like to think that the first In July, former Goldman Sachs
couple . . . talked longingly about guy Anthony Scaramucci exited the
their first date and the house,” White House after a record week and
Stewart said. “It’s neat to be a half as communications director.
woven into that fabric.” In the months since, “the Mooch”
According to Stewart, the has entertained several odd post-
sellers, who had owned the house 1600 Penn jobs. He was scheduled to
since 1987, were looking for a host “TMZ on TV” for a day (did
buyer who would be a steward of anyone catch that?), he floated the
the home’s unique past. idea of his own media outlet (the
“My mom had a deep Scaramucci Post) and showed up on
appreciation for the Kennedys, “Dr. Phil.” Talk about stretching your
and that certainly rubbed off on 15 minutes (or 11 days).
me,” he said. Somewhere in all that media
The empty-nester, who is ROBYN BECK/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES blitzing, Scaramucci was also
downsizing from a McLean shopping a book about his blink-
residence, plans to incorporate a LOVE, ETC. and-you’ll-miss-it time in the
midcentury motif into the decor White House, but his proposal
and embrace historic elements,
including a rotary-dial phone that
he’ll display near the entry.
But the focus will be the patio
Don Jr., wife Vanessa to split never got off the ground.
That was four months ago.
Now, a book is now on the
horizon. “The Blue Collar
area, site of the fateful meeting President” is set to hit shelves in

D
between the future first couple. ivorcing: Donald Trump Jr., remain our top priority. We ask for father-in-law’s State of the Union September, according to the New
“I envision having a lot of Rob 39, the eldest son of your privacy during this time.” address, an occasion that drew York Post. “It’s an entrepreneur
Roys and Old Fashioneds out President Trump, and his Just Wednesday, the New York Trump Jr.’s younger brother Eric , writing about an entrepreneur
there,” Stewart said. wife, Vanessa, 40. Post reported that the Trumps and his wife, Lara , as well as their who has now ascended into the
— Sarah Polus “After 12 years of marriage, we were on the rocks. A separation half sister, Tiffany Trump . In a presidency,” Scaramucci told the
have decided to go our separate had long been speculated about — video posted to Instagram stories, paper. Don’t expect fresh dirt or a
ways,” the couple said in a joint Don Jr., a prolific user of social the siblings and their spouses — peek into the chaos of the Trump
statement emailed from a media, had lately been posting sans Vanessa — gathered at the White House. Scaramucci is still
spokeswoman. “We will always have pictures of family life in which his Kalorama home of Ivanka Trump firmly Team Trump, and the book
tremendous respect for each other wife was notably absent. and Jared Kushner before plans to lay out the commander
and our families. We have five Fueling the idea of a rift, heading to the Capitol to listen to in chief’s managerial style.
beautiful children together and they Vanessa was a no-show to her their father’s speech. “I have seen him up-close and
personal and I know he has very
good intentions and, being an
Donald Trump Jr. and his wife, Vanessa, attend the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July 2016. entrepreneur, I am actually very
SOTHEBY’S Speculation about a marital rift between the two had been growing. comfortable with his operating
The Q Street NW home where style,” Scaramucci said, “despite
JFK met Jacqueline Bouvier. the fact that I’m a casualty of it.”

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Mom sees “I get to spend all my time with

my family making high-quality
MARGARET SULLIVAN

exposure as
memories,” Justin said. “So enjoy
your day job.”
A hedge fund strips
E
ngagement, branding, influ-

‘an honor’ ence are all vocabulary

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day or two. No need to panic. Life
would be back to normal soon.
“I was like, ‘Okay, if you say so.’
Tomorrow we can go back to our
regular scheduled programming,”
Curry said. Then Obama’s office
called.
In the meantime, Curry connect-
ed with Ben Hines, the man who
snapped Parker’s photo. He sent
Curry a heartfelt explanation/apol-
ogy via Facebook. He hadn’t meant
to invade the Currys’ privacy.
That same day, the media re-
quests rolled in. “Not, like, one or
two,” Curry said, “but 10 or 15.”
A candid moment caught on
someone else’s camera suddenly
thrusting your tiny human under
a potentially harsh spotlight that’s
nearly impossible to control? Most
parents don’t plan for that. Curry
certainly didn’t, but now that it’s
here, the self-described “millenni-
al mama” is trying to wade
through the surreal to get to some-
thing concrete.
This photo of Parker Curry, 2, staring at the painting of Michelle
Obama at the National Portrait Gallery was an Internet hit.
san National University in South
words in households such as
the McClures’. But there is one that
is banned: fame.
“We don’t even use that word,”
Ami said.
The Kellys have a similar stance
on the notion of fame, mainly be-
cause life, for the most part, has
returned to their version of normal.
“She has no sense that she’s
some weird global celebrity,” Kelly
said of Marion, who just turned 5
and could be heard squealing in
the background as Mom and Dad
tried to conduct an interview they
hope will be their last.
“I hope it can be some happy
memory,” Kim said of the entire
viral experience.
Parker is just getting started.
While Curry and her fiance nev-
er planned to have Parker and her
1-year-old sister, Ava, in “any spot-
light of any kind,” the fact remains
that the kids are cute. Parker is
bubbly, being trumpeted online as
an IRL embodiment of black girl
magic. So yes, the kid has a publi-
BEN HINES cist now, Aba Kwawu, a woman of
color and mom of two whom Cur-
ry contacted after being over-
whelmed by “the unbelievable
McClure twins among its Top In- amount of attention.”
its papers for parts
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strategy of endless cuts but was
told no one was there to speak
to the news media. When I
asked to be connected to
managing director Heath
Freeman’s office, the
receptionist hung up on me.
Digital First is wreaking
similar havoc all over the
country.
Its ownership of Bay Area
papers in California has
brought the staff of 16 regional
papers (including the San Jose
Mercury News) from a
combined 1,000 editorial
employees to about 150 — and
that was before recently
announced cutbacks of an
additional one-third, according
to the East Bay Express.
The Boston Herald was just
bought out of bankruptcy by
Digital First, causing Joshua
Benton, writing in the Boston
Globe, to offer a stark analysis:
“Just short of setting the
serving the metro area, where
she grew up reading the Post.
Investigative stories such as
this past Sunday’s exposé of
abuses at Colorado’s “sober-
living homes” — which already
has the state legislature
promising reform — will
become even more important in
the pecking order.
And routine coverage will
take a further back seat — “it’s
been a long time since we sat
through every City Council
meeting,” she said.
But as every journalist
knows, it’s often normal beat
reporting and apparently
unexciting meetings that can
generate the most important
leads. And that kind of
coverage also has the
immeasurable benefit of letting
public officials know that
someone is watching.
Someone is still watching in
Denver. In Boston. In San Jose.
But for how much longer?
“I don’t understand the

C
urry could take notes from oth-
er parents who’ve gone before
her and Parker, who has been
dubbed “Portrait Girl.” Remember
Robert E. Kelly? No? How about
“BBC Dad”? Exactly. Kelly and clan
unwittingly struck Internet gold
last year when his then-4-year-old
daughter, Marion, and 9-month-
old son, James, crashed an inter-
view that dad, a foreign affairs ex-
pert, was conducting with the BBC.
The Kellys, completely uninter-
ested in fame, were overwhelmed
by the avalanche of attention
threatening to bury them hours
after that clip went viral. So they
turned off their phones.
“It was just insane,” recalled Kel-
ly in a phone interview from South
Korea. Media requests were coming
from Israel and Brazil. DeGeneres’s
team left multiple messages. Re-
porters were showing up at Kelly’s
job, at his parents’ house in Ohio, at
his aunt and uncle’s in New York.
After some discussion, Kelly
and his wife, Jung-a Kim, made
the decision to do a grand total of
three media appearances: an in-
terview with the BBC, the scene of
the crime; one with the Wall Street
Journal, because Kelly had a
Korea, where Kelly works.
The “family blooper” reel seen
round the world celebrated its an-
niversary this week. During that
time, they got some “offers,” most
of which never panned out. The
Kellys have appeared on a few
South Korean family shows and
were paid to do an ad for Johnson
& Johnson. Their daughter, Mari-
on, whose general cuteness (those
glasses!) started it all, will star in
her own children’s book out this
year. But there was no major fi-
nancial windfall.
Although the moment might
seem unreal, the potential to make
money certainly isn’t. Several fam-
ilies have banked on the kind of
viral fame that the Kellys
shunned. Take the McClures, a
family of five from New Jersey
whose 4-year-old twins, Alexis and
Ava, have more than 800,000 You-
Tube subscribers and 1.3 million
Instagram followers. All that in-
fluence came from a video that
mom Ami shot of the twins getting
angry at dad Justin for eating all
their snacks. Other videos, which
the family says they were docu-
menting just for fun, followed suit.
“We’re doing well,” Justin said
fluencers of 2017. They recently
closed a deal with Walmart. Now
Justin, a filmmaker and photogra-
pher, works on the family brand
full time. Ami, a comptroller on
maternity leave after the birth of
their son, Jersey, is considering
leaving her job as well. They won’t
talk specific numbers, but on the
low end, when the family began
monetizing their channel with ads
and branded content, the Mc-
Clures pulled in $15,000 a month.
New York talent agent Keith
Bielory, who represents the Mc-
Clures, explained that how much a
digital star makes is contingent on
several “verticals,” including audi-
ence size and engagement. Online
personalities draw income from
ads, sponsored content, multi-vid-
eo deals and exclusive campaigns.
One YouTube video could net its
star more than the average Ameri-
can makes in a year.
“We’ve seen a single video go for
six figures,” said Bielory, of
Abrams Artists. “It’s a lot, but it’s
really good content.”
Though for the most part they
steer clear of negative comments
on their social media posts, they
have an answer to the “What kind
For now, Curry chooses to see all place on fire, being bought by business plan,” said Paul, the
of this as “a blessing, an honor.” Digital First is about the worst once-starry-eyed Denver Post
“At the end of the day, if she is outcome possible,” he writes. intern, who is awaiting word
inspiring people, I am glad to “It’s less the Herald being saved on his fate. “How does cutting
share her,” Curry said. “She amaz- than the Herald being stripped off a leg help you keep
es me and inspires me every day, for parts.” running?”
and who am I to keep that from Colacioppo, the editor in margaret.sullivan@washpost.com
other people?” Denver, choked up as she told
If any financial boost comes me by phone that she will do
For more by Margaret Sullivan,
from Parker’s online fame, the her best to keep her paper visit wapo.st/sullivan
family would be open to it, she
said, “for the sole purpose of secur-
ing Parker’s financial future.”
In the meantime, there is one
benefit that Curry discovered
while diving down the rabbit hole
of the Internet, usually a no-no in
these situations.
“When you become a mom, es-
pecially a first-time mom, there is
a lot of self-doubt, like: ‘Uh, am I
doing this right? I hope I’m doing
this right.’ ” she recalled, getting
choked up all over again. So the
messages she’s received from
strangers praising Parker (“She’s
amazing!”) and cheering on her
parenting (“Keep it up!”) have
been particularly affirming.
“To have people who don’t
know me . . . compliment me on
something I take very seriously,”
Curry said through tears, “it’s just AARON ONTIVEROZ/DENVER POST/GETTY IMAGES

friend there; and one news confer- of the family’s financial situation. of nightmare stage parent makes very touching.” Noelle Phillips consoles fellow reporter Elizabeth Hernandez on
ence for the Korean outlets at Pu- Forbes Magazine named the money off their kids?” question. helena.andrews@washpost.com Wednesday during an announcement of layoffs at the Denver Post.
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THEATER REVIEW

‘Escape to Margaritaville’ is a beach party that’s sorely missing all the fun
BY P ETER M ARKS
new york — Yes, Jimmy Buffett,
it’s your own damn fault.
Oh, I know, you had help in the
commission of “Escape to Marga-
ritaville,” the lamely antiseptic
musical that had its official
Broadway opening Thursday
night at the Marquis Theatre.
But it’s your songs that book
writers Greg Garcia and Mike
O’Malley have spun into this in-
sufferably dumb show, about a
beach bum guitarist who falls
for an environmental scientist
while his bartender buddy suf-
fers flashbacks filled with tap-
dancing life insurance agents.
(Yup, you read that right.)
“Escape to Margaritaville” also
features, for reasons that won’t
be parsed here, leggy clouds
sashaying right out of a discard-
ed Rockettes number; a fe-
male sidekick who flies on cables
to the cheeseburger station at a
Cincinnati wedding rehearsal
dinner; and enough bad jokes to
stock a late-’60s sitcom. Example:
“I was addicted to the hokey
pokey,” says the bartender, played
by Eric Petersen, “but I turned
myself around.”
The musical, directed (inexpli-
cably) by Christopher Ashley,
who won a Tony last season for
his work on “Come From Away,” is
built around the Buffett song that
practically everyone knows, the
especially catchy one that
goes, “Wasted away again in Mar-
garitaville.” It’s deployed as the
Act 1 finale, and the lyrics are
used as such a literal guideline
that one of the characters is
actually “nibblin’ on spongecake”
as the number begins.
“Wasted” was always the oper-
ative word in the song; it put you
in mind of a hard-luck guy with
three days’ stubble getting happi-
ly stoned in some Caribbean dive
bar. The prim prescriptions of
“Escape to Margaritaville” don’t
allow for any scene that coarsely
colorful. The squeaky-clean tale
has the toned playboy, one Tully
Mars (Paul Alexander Nolan),
falling hard for Alison Luff ’s
workaholic Rachel after she ar-
rives at the Margaritaville Hotel
with bride-to-be Tammy (Lisa
Howard). The usual romantic ups
and downs follow, and pretty
soon Rachel is back in Ohio and
pining for Tully, who meantime
has become a big-time recording
artist, singing Jimmy Buffett bal-
lads and wearing Jimmy Buffett
Hawaiian shirts.
I was about to add: And even-
tually all is right in Margari-
taville. But it isn’t. How could
Buffett and company, in this fun-
starved beach party, so deleteri-
ously have taken their eye off
the ball? Oh, speaking of, at the
end of the show, hundreds of
beach balls are dumped on
the audience. One of them rico-
cheted off the top of my head. It
was the only thing all afternoon
in the Marquis Theatre that I
didn’t see coming.
peter.marks@washpost.com
Escape to Margaritaville, music
and lyrics by Jimmy Buffett, book by
Greg Garcia and Mike O’Malley.
Directed by Christopher Ashley.
Choreography, Kelly Devine; sets,
Walt Spangler; costumes, Paul
Tazewell; lighting, Howell Binkley;
sound, Brian Ronan; orchestrations,
Michael Utley; music supervision,
Christopher Jahnke. With Don
Sparks, Rema Webb, Andre Ward.
About 2 hours 20 minutes. $59-
MATTHEW MURPHY $169. At the Marquis Theatre, 210 W.
Lisa Howard, Eric Petersen and the cast of “Escape to Margaritaville,” now playing on Broadway. As 46th St., New York. Call 877-250-
one might expect, the musical features plenty of cheeseburgers and Hawaiian shirts. 2929 or visit ticketmaster.com.

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with the movements of the evidence on today’s orchestra pro-

A lithe Brahms in an unexpected NSO debut Brahms, the contrasts were

BY A NNE M IDGETTE
Making a debut with a major
orchestra is never easy. Making it
as an 11th-hour substitute, in
Brahms’s epic second piano con-
certo — one of the longest concer-
tos in the repertoire — is going to
remain in Inon Barnatan’s mind
for a very long time.
When Yefim Bronfman, the
scheduled soloist for the National
Symphony Orchestra’s concert
program that opened Thursday
night, was forced to withdraw
“due to side effects from a recent
dental procedure” (the program
note said), the Israeli pianist was
tapped to step in, in the same
piece, with the same conductor,
Gianandrea Noseda.
It may have been Barnatan’s
NSO debut, but certainly not his
first time at the Kennedy Center,
much less in Washington; he’s fre-
quently appeared here with artists
from Alisa Weilerstein to the Balti-
more Symphony Orchestra. And
the huge concerto was clearly in
his fingers, with a couple of stum-
bles. So it was an assured debut,
The pianist Inon Barnatan played Brahms’s second piano concerto
on Thursday when Yefim Bronfman was forced to cancel.
and one much welcomed by the
public — but not, to my ear, an
imposing one. This Brahms was
lithe and sinewy, even angular, a
little bouncy in the first move-
ment, a little down-to-earth in the
ethereal passages of the third.
Still, this 50-minute work is not an
easy thing to get performance-
MARCO BORGGREVE
ready at short notice, however
often one has played it before, and
Barnatan deserved his ovations.
It was also fortunate that he got
them, since his encore was a high-
light of the evening. In a rare
gesture of collegiality from a solo-
ist, the pianist teamed up with
David Hardy, the NSO’s principal
blurred.
The compass needle remained
grams. But by the two Slavonic
dances (Op. 46, nos. 2 and 3), the
dancers’ feet, so to speak, had
turned toward Central Europe, grown audibly weary, and things
cellist, whose long languid if with Hungarian dances by began to drag. And the Dance of
slightly plodding solos set the tone Brahms, Slavonic dances by Dvor- the Seven Veils is far from vintage
for the concerto’s third move- ak, “Dances of Galanta” by Kodaly, Strauss. Noseda’s remarks from
ment, to play the Andante from and the Dance of the Seven Veils the podium matched the music: a
Rachmaninoff’s cello sonata as an from Salome by Strauss to finish it nice thing, but overlong.
encore. Barnatan, who has long off. The pieces were lovely and I The program repeats Saturday
experience as a collaborative pia- enjoy Noseda’s penchant for in- night and Sunday afternoon.
nist, often took a back seat to cluding the light with the heavy, anne.midgette@washpost.com
Hardy, letting the cellist shine as
they gently batted the pretty melo-
dy back and forth, and the result
was a delight.
And the curiosities of the
Brahms stemmed in no small part
from the conductor. Noseda is a
narrator and a dramatist, but not a
ruminator, and while his perform-
ances can be electric, there’s an
underlying coolness that didn’t
bring out Brahms’s ruddy warmth
— despite the promising opening
from Abel Pereira, the principal
horn. The piece was certainly fleet
and brisk, but never quite drew a
proper breath.
The second half of the program
was a potpourri of shorter, lighter
pieces — dances, to be precise — as
a counterweight to the massive
introduction. However, there
were so many of them that they
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RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

NEITHER SIDE VULNERABLE

NORTH
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Opening lead —  A
CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ MIKE DU JOUR MIKE LESTER
T o end the week, go to
work on this defensive
problem. As East you open
1NT, and South bids two
hearts. Players use various
conventional gadgets to
compete over a 1NT opening,
but South’s bid shows hearts.
His hand won’t be too strong
since he did not double 1NT
for penalty.
West leads the ace of
diamonds, you signal with RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JAMES ALLEN
the seven, and he leads the
deuce to your jack. South fol-
lows with the four and five.
How do you continue to
win six tricks?
South seems to have four
diamonds and probably
has six hearts. If he has
two spade losers and the
singleton ace of clubs, you
may take two spades, three
diamonds and your ace of LIO MARK TATULLI MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
trumps. But if declarer has
just one low spade, you will
need an extra trick — almost
surely in diamonds.
To cash the king and lead
a fourth diamond won’t work.
Lead a low diamond at Trick
Three to let West ruff. If he
is on the ball, he will lead a
trump next, and you will take
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loser.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
 6  K Q 10 9 4 3
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Both sides vulnerable. You
deal and open two hearts
(weak). Your partner raises
to three hearts, and the next
player bids three spades.
What do you say?
ANSWER: Though you
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may feel an urge to bid four
hearts, your opening call was
descriptive, and you must
keep silent. Partner’s three
hearts did not invite game; it
was an additional pre-empt.
Pass. He knows about what
you have; let him make the
partnership decisions.
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BIRTHDAY | MARCH 16
This year you greet
a new beginning,
though you might
not be conscious of
it right away. If you are single,
many admirers surround you.
Choosing the right person
will take talent, but it is a
strong possibility that you
will find him or her. If you are
attached, avoid becoming too
me-oriented, as it can happen
DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY easily with your imagination
soaring. A fellow Pisces
demonstrates how he or she
cares.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
A new beginning becomes
possible if you are willing to
share more of your thoughts.
You might feel uncomfortable
with some of the changes you
see, but you are convinced
that you need to adapt to
them.
TAURUS
(APRIL 20-MAY 20).
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL Zero in on a long-term desire.
It might be difficult to manifest
what you want. How you view a
friendship could change, given
some time. You and another
person do not see eye to eye;
avoid a power play.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
Reach out to a loved one.
Sometimes you find yourself
in power plays that you can’t
seem to get out of. Know when
you have had too much of this
type of interaction. Your caring
attitude lights up your day as
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK well as others’.
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
Make it OK to say little right
now, especially if you feel as if
you are wandering from topic
to topic. Allow your creativity
to emerge, and your life will
flow in a more positive way.
Recognize when you have
gone overboard.
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
Your need for excitement
marks your plans. Get through
your to-do list, which might be
DUSTIN STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN STAN LEE & LARRY LIEBER
intimidating to others, but not
to you. You have more energy
than many of those around
you, and it becomes evident
during the day.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
You could be too tired to
continue on your chosen
path. Take a break, defer to
someone else and feel free to
do your thing. A friend might
interfere with your focus, but
you won’t mind his or her
distraction.

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(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
Stay mellow, despite the
pressure you feel from
someone else. You need
to honor your own needs
and desires right now. Your
creativity and unusual ideas
draw more inspired people
toward you.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
You might want to get past
a problem, yet you’ll need to
make an effort to do so. You
could get caught up in some
negative thoughts that will
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT slow down your progress.
Positive thinking helps you to
see the possibilities, as long as
you can relax.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
If you get past an immediate
problem, which could involve
money, you will be able to
be more focused. Trust your
ability to bypass conventional
thinking when you need to.
Investigate what is going on in
your personal life.
CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
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You make a difference by
clearing out an ongoing issue.
You notice how controlling and
challenging you have become.
Know that this attitude won’t
always work in your favor. Your
ability to detach is what makes
you a success.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
Stay in control of your financial
situation. You could feel as if
certain parts of your life are
spinning out of control. You
will see life from a clearer
perspective once you focus on
BEETLE BAILEY MORT, BRIAN & GREG WALKER PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS the costs of various areas of
your life.
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
You feel in sync with the
moment. Others see you as
a leader. Your response to a
challenging person or financial
matter could be to ignore it
for now. You can do that, but
expect to receive a strong
reaction from others.
— Jacqueline Bigar
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In Urrea’s ‘The House of the Broken Angels,’ a hyper-Latino celebration

BOOK WORLD FROM C1
ish are not just tokens of cross-
cultural street cred; they add
such music and verve to the
prose that after a while even the
most timid Anglo reader will feel
like sneering and tossing off fiery
oaths.
Urrea’s hand in conjuring this
family is so sure, and his prose so
joyful, that it takes a while for
some reservations to surface, but
they do. The pace slackens no-
ticeably as the book approaches
its ending, a situation which is
made worse by the introduction
of an appallingly misplaced plot
thread that nearly spoils the
book’s denouement.
And for all its flamboyance,
Urrea’s novel has an uncertain
relation to ethnic identity. The
book’s secret protagonist is the
father figure’s half brother, inev-
itably named “Little Angel,” who
brings an outsider’s perspective
and a measure of ambivalence
to the festivities. A self-exiled
half-American college professor
— and proxy, one suspects, for
the author — he is distrusted by
the rest of the family, who don’t
“like his ease with that world of
fancy pale” people up north.
Little Angel is tormented by a
desire to prove himself fully
Hispanic, not just the “culture
thief ” and “fake Mexican” his
family sees.
This dichotomy, which has
manifested in Urrea’s fiction
before, finds a paradoxical re-
lease in the novel’s full-throated
enactment of a Latinx culture,
one so exuberant that it begins
after a while to feel . . . perfor-
mative, perhaps even to the
edge of caricature. The women
are all sensual and hot-tem-
pered, the men macho and pro-
fane; the de la Cruz family is
poor, but happy. It’s not a
shallow, lazy set of cliches — it’s
JOE MAZZA
Luis Alberto Urrea conjures his
characters with a sure hand.
a powerfully imagined, fully
inhabited set of cliches. Torn
between his independence and
his heritage, Urrea enacts,
through his creation, a hyper-
Latino celebration so extreme
that it erases this painful dis-
junction. In doing so, the book
raises uncomfortable, if fasci-
nating, questions: Is finding
parallels between an author and
his characters ever legitimate?
Is there a hierarchy of ethnic
authenticity? Is it possible to
over-perform identity? Does it
even matter?
These questions may seem
arcane in this largely positive
review, but the problems they
suggest are inextricably linked
to the novel’s central virtues.
That’s okay, though. A flawed if
ambitious and energetic book,
one that troubles and questions
and confronts, is more admira-
ble than one that is highly
polished but timid. “The House
of the Broken Angels” falls em-
phatically into the former cat-
egory. It is a book about a
celebration that is, itself, a cel-
ebration.
bookworld@washpost.com
Michael Lindgren is a frequent
contributor to The Washington Post.

ANN HORNADAY That you keep your community, supremely Wilma-esque values).
and you keep understanding that We can see evidence of similar

Better way the paradigm of life is a circle,

not a pyramid, not a hierarchy.
That we are linked, not ranked.”
reframing in “Wonder Woman” —
in which Diana’s superpowers of
empathy and direct action are

to bulk up It’s the addiction to ranked-

not-linked thinking that still
informs most cinematic
directly related to Wilma’s
superpower of listening and
ground-level practicality — and

heroines depictions of power, whether it’s

HORNADAY FROM C1
helpless love interests of yore.
What was once liberating now
feels limiting, reducing our
notions of power to hysterically
pitched burlesques or tough-as-
males drag. Are these really —
still — our best options?
One answer to that question
can be found in the documentary
“Mankiller,” a film about Wilma
Mankiller, the first woman
elected principal chief of the
Cherokee Nation. As a young
person who was relocated from
her ancestral home in Oklahoma
to California, Mankiller came of
age during the 1960s and 1970s,
when the Native American,
labor, civil rights and women’s
movements were helping
millions of Americans find their
voices. After returning to
Oklahoma, Mankiller overcame
her self-doubt to become a
brilliant community organizer,
working with often mistrustful
tribe members to help bring
social and economic change,
whether in the form of badly
needed water lines or
horticultural businesses. (The
film, which was directed by
Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, is airing
Wilma Mankiller, center, in a scene from the documentary “Mankiller,” overcame self-doubt to become a
brilliant community organizer and the first woman elected principal chief of the Cherokee Nation.
on PBS throughout March.)
Interestingly enough,
“Mankiller” was produced by
Gale Anne Hurd, whose movies
“The Terminator” and “Aliens”
helped make Sarah Conner and
Ellen Ripley household names.
Those heroines, she said at a
February screening of
“Mankiller” at the Athena Film
Festival, “don’t realize the power
and the strength and the
leadership abilities they have
within themselves. And that was
very much, I think, [Wilma’s
story]. Wilma always considered
herself an ordinary person. She
overcame extraordinary
challenges and found that ability
within her to inspire others.”
In the movie about her life, the
soft-spoken Mankiller, who died
in 2010, credits her success to an
ever-widening set of “reciprocal
relationships” and an instinct for
resolving difficult issues “in the
least divisive way possible.” As
someone who led by empowering
others, one observer notes,
Mankiller “turned the telescope
WILMA MANKILLER FOUNDATION
around,” exemplifying how much
can be accomplished simply by
letting go of ego and allowing
those affected by a problem to
identify and solve it.
It’s just that kind of power
that Gloria Steinem said made
her at first a fan and then a close
friend of the Cherokee leader. At
the Athena screening in New
York, Steinem — who appears in
the film — described Wilma’s
enduring legacy of “representing
one’s values, and seeing that they
influence every act that you do.
wielded by men or women.
Having been formed by images of
Great Men, lone rangers,
righteous vigilantes and Mr.
Smiths going to Washington,
movies habitually reduce history
and heroism to single-person
“arcs.” For one thing, it’s more
practical, and easy to digest for
an audience. Not incidentally,
linear, zero-sum ethos fits neatly
into mythologized American
ideals of individualism and
rugged self-sufficiency — which
are just as bogus when they’re
embodied by a woman as by a
man. “Hollywood, like most of the
country, is still defining power as
power over,” Steinem noted at the
“Mankiller” screening. “And
Wilma, and many others, defined
power as power to.”
Is it possible to reimagine a
new iconography of power,
untethered to archaic paradigms
of virility and conquest? Can we
make inclusive circles as sexy and
inherently cinematic as top-down
pyramids? Some recent screen
heroines point the way. In Ava
DuVernay’s “A Wrinkle in Time”
the film’s heroine, Meg Murry,
embarks on a classic hero’s quest
and survives not by brute
strength or deploying massive
firepower but through
intelligence, intuition and
embracing her own faults (all
especially “Black Panther,” in
which the ferocity of Danai
Gurira’s Dora Milaje warrior is
offset by Lupita Nyong’o’s more
communicative and collaborative
diplomat and Letitia Wright’s
brainy problem-solver, Shuri.
These are all small, one-step-
forward hints of progress at a
time when women’s
representation in front of and
behind the camera promises new
ways of understanding heroism,
and at a time when our most
ubiquitous images of power are
collective, whether in the form of
the #MeToo movement or
#NeverAgain: Imperator Furiosa,
meet Emma González — and the
thousands of students she has
helped galvanize.
“I have never, ever, ever in my
life seen the degree of organic,
self-willed, diverse, not-gonna-
go-away activism that I see now,”
Steinem noted, “objectively,
quantitatively, energetically [or]
spiritually.” The question now is
whether Hollywood can turn the
telescope around and discover a
new kind of heroine, capable of
evolving beyond muscles,
machisma and mimicking the
good guy with a gun.
ann.hornaday@washpost.com
Mankiller will air on MPT at 1 p.m.
on March 25 and on WHUT at 9 p.m.
on March 27.

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Mr. Smith o∞cially comes to Washington, eyeing a title

This team just might have some stability Redskins welcome former Chiefs QB
with signal caller for first time in years along with wide receiver Richardson
Less than five quarterback, someone who has BY L IZ C LARKE quarterback. “That’s what we’re
minutes into his more past than future in the all chasing. . . . We’re chasing that
introductory NFL, completely comfortable After 13 NFL seasons and three ultimate dream; we’re trying to
news conference with his present. Pro Bowl selections, quarterback find a way. That’s the challenge
Thursday We can’t yet say how the trade Alex Smith still has what he feels for me.”
afternoon, Alex for Smith — consummated in is a glaring omission on his résu- Looking on from the second
Barry Smith casually late January, completed just this mé — one that challenges and row was Washington Redskins
Svrluga removed his right week because of the NFL’s odd excites him more than ever at age owner Daniel Snyder, who knows
hand from the logistical rules — will work out. 33. a good bit about that challenge.
lectern in front of him, which he Anybody who has drawn “Never won a championship. Smith, whom the Redskins ac-
had been clutching. He slid it conclusions based on news I’ve never won a Super Bowl,” quired in a Jan. 31 trade with
into the pocket of his fit-for-the- conferences held in Ashburn Smith told a packed auditorium Kansas City for a third-round
occasion, I-was-just-guaranteed- understands the risks that lie Thursday at Redskins Park, tack- draft pick and their most promis-
$71 million blue suit. And there within. ling head-on the source of his ing defensive back, Kendall Full-
he stood, in control, the What we can say is that TONI L. SANDYS/THE WASHINGTON POST motivation when he was formally er, will become the 17th quarter-
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For Caps,
Hokies are one and done a rare
third win
in a row
CAPITALS 7,
ISLANDERS 3
Oshie ends goal drought
as team extends streak

BY I SABELLE K HURSHUDYAN

new york — Jaroslav Halak

swung one leg and then the other
over the bench wall as Christo-
pher Gibson skated out of the
New York Islanders’ net. The
Washington Capitals watched
and waited, grateful that it was
the other team swapping goalten-
ders this time as the game started
to get out of hand.
The Capitals picked apart the
NHL’s worst defensive team, scor-
ing five goals on their first 12 shots
en route to a 7-3 win. Goaltender
Philipp Grubauer, making his
fourth straight start as typical
No. 1 Braden Holtby continues his
“reset” period, finished with 35
saves for his third straight win.
It’s the first time Washington has
won three straight games in more
than two months.
“I thought tonight we did a
great job,” forward T.J. Oshie said.
“Obviously, as per usual here late-
ly, it starts with Grubi back there.”
The Capitals host the Islanders
on Friday in the second game of
this home-and-home back-to-
back set, and Holtby is scheduled
to get his first start in more than a
week. The 2016 Vezina Trophy
winner was last in net March 6 in
ROB CARR/GETTY IMAGES Anaheim, Calif., where he allowed
Alabama’s Collin Sexton scored 14 of his 25 points in the final 6:48 against Virginia Tech. The Crimson Tide will challenge top-seeded Villanova on Saturday. three goals on the Ducks’ first
nine shots before being pulled
early in the second period, the
U-Va. can’t let injury stop it NCAA TOURNAMENT
Rise and shine
ALABAMA 86,
third time he had been yanked
from the net early in six starts.
from breaking through Mamadi Diakite’s moment is now VIRGINIA TECH 83 The team then turned to Grubau-
er to be the interim top goalie
for No. 1 seed Virginia. D7 while Holtby took some time to
charlotte — The black splint Arizona is out BY R OMAN S TUBBS work on his game.
on De’Andre Hunter’s left wrist Buffalo shoots down that Arizona- But on Thursday night at Bar-
looks like an innocuous thing. It Kentucky second-round game. D7 pittsburgh — Virginia Tech had bullied Ala- CAPITALS CONTINUED ON D5
looks like assistance to heal a bama guard Collin Sexton for much of Thurs-
sprain or to calm down carpal Chicago hope day’s East Region first-round game, forcing the Islanders at Capitals
tunnel syndrome. For certain, it Loyola Chicago stuns No. 6 seed hottest player in college basketball to offer Today, 7 p.m., NBCSW, NHLN
Jerry does not make you immediately Miami at the buzzer. D8 visible demonstrations of frustration. He flailed
Brewer shiver and fear this is a bad omen his arms. He shook his head. He begged for foul
One and not yet done
for another Virginia calls.
For Texas’s Bamba, Mizzou’s Porter,
disappointment in the NCAA tournament. But when the final horn sounded, Sexton was
it’s watch ’em while you can. D8
Nevertheless, Hunter has a broken wrist, a grinning, knowing that he had endured the
crack just painful enough to end the season of U-Md. women open on the road Hokies’ pack-the-lane defense in Alabama’s 86-
the Cavaliers’ versatile ACC sixth man of the For first time since 2007, Terps will 83 win. Sexton finished with 14 of his 25 points in
year, an unwelcome development just not open tournament at home. D10 the final 6:48, including a crucial turnaround
worrisome enough to dredge up depressing jumper with 1:58 remaining that gave the
memories of Justin Anderson’s broken finger Virginia vs. UMBC Crimson Tide a much-needed cushion to hold on
and appendectomy leading up to the 2015 Charlotte against the Hokies.
tournament or Isaiah Wilkins’s illness last year. Today, 9:20 p.m., TNT The Hokies had done enough on the offensive
The next thing you know, you’re pondering all of end to win their first NCAA tournament game
Virginia’s recent NCAA letdowns, and then Full schedule, TV times, D7
since 2007: They shot 56 percent from the field,
dread invades. By the time your mind stops received a combined 36 points from their
twisting, you have almost forgotten that backcourt, hit nine three-pointers and found
Virginia is the No. 1 overall seed — the most countless transition opportunities by forcing 17
unflappable of Coach Tony Bennett’s three No. 1 Alabama turnovers.
BREWER CONTINUED ON D7 HOKIES CONTINUED ON D9
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The Capitals’ T.J. Oshie, right,

ended a 19-game drought with
two goals against the Islanders.

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EARLY LEAD
Neymar’s
tribute
to Hawking
is o≠ mark
BY C INDY B OREN
The world mourned the death
of Stephen Hawking, the British
theoretical physicist who bravely
suffered since age 21 from a de-
generative motor neuron disease
similar to amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Hawking, who died at the age of
76, was a symbol of courage as he
lived in his wheelchair, his body
contorted by the disease.
His death did not go unnoticed
by one world-famous athlete, al-
though perhaps it should have
gone unremarked upon. Neymar,
who is sidelined as he recovers
from foot surgery, tweeted in Por-
tuguese to his nearly 39 million
followers: “You have to have a
positive attitude and get the best
out of the situation you are in.
Stephen Hawking”
While that certainly is true and
is a worthy salute, the photo ac-
companying the message — of
Neymar smiling in a wheelchair —
angered many people.
As several on social media
pointed out, Neymar will recover
from his restricted mobility; his
wheelchair confinement is only
temporary. That hardly compares
to Hawking’s decades-long ordeal.
Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl
pointed out that Neymar is social-
media savvy but seemed to miss
the mark here. Plenty of people
sided with Neymar, though, with
one user replying to Wahl: “I don’t
think he necessarily tried to mock
Hawking here.”
Wahl went on to explain why he
thought Neymar was off-base. “It’s
the height of self-centeredness to
put Hawking’s death in terms of
yourself,” he tweeted. “Neymar’s
temporary wheelchair situation is
profoundly minor compared to
the lifetime wheelchair situation
Hawking had. I’m sure Neymar
meant no harm, but come on.”
Neymar, the world’s highest
paid soccer player, is expected to
be out six weeks after having sur-
gery to repair a fractured metatar-
sal in Paris Saint-Germain’s
Feb. 25 match. He is expected to
recover fully for World Cup play
this summer.
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QUOTABLE
“I told him he’d look
good in pinstripes.”
AARON JUDGE,
Yankees slugger, commenting on
Orioles infielder Manny Machado
after the two teams played in a spring
training game Wednesday. Major
League Baseball issued a warning to
the Yankees, saying Judge’s
comments could be construed as
tampering. Machado is set to be a
free agent after this season.
(Via Early Lead)
D I G ES T
SOCCER
Welbeck helps Arsenal
reach Europa quarters
Danny Welbeck celebrated
his England call-up by scoring
twice as host Arsenal defeated
AC Milan, 3-1, on Thursday to
cruise into the Europa League
quarterfinals, 5-1, on aggregate.
Hakan Calhanoglu put Milan
in front after 35 minutes at
Emirates Stadium with a long-
range effort.
Welbeck, named to England’s
squad earlier in the day for this
month’s friendlies against the
Netherlands and Italy, tied it for
Arsenal from the penalty spot.
Granit Xhaka then scored in
the 71st minute before Welbeck
made the game safe with four
minutes left.
In other Europa League play,
German powerhouse Borussia
Dortmund suffered a surprise exit
at the hands of Salzburg, playing
to a scoreless draw in Austria to
fall, 2-1, on aggregate; Fernando
Torres’s two goals helped Atletico
Madrid win, 5-1, over host
Lokomotiv Moscow to advance on
aggregate, 8-1; and CSKA Moscow
knocked out Lyon after winning
the second leg in France, 3-2.
CSKA Moscow and Lyon tied, 3-3,
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Chicago’s Soldier Field held a viewing party for a U.S. World Cup match in 2014. The city will not be part of the 2026 bid.
City list shrinks in World Cup bid
BY S TEVEN G OFF
The North American campaign to
host the 2026 World Cup will submit its
formal bid Friday without two high-
profile cities, Chicago and Vancouver,
which withdrew because of financial
concerns.
The effort by the United States,
Canada and Mexico is locked in a tight
race with Morocco ahead of FIFA’s vote
June 13 in Moscow.
The number of qualified venues
speaks to the bid’s strengths. But the
absence of Chicago — the third-largest
U.S. market and home to the U.S. Soccer
Federation — and Vancouver —
Canada’s Pacific jewel and site of the
2015 Women’s World Cup final — stood
out when the list of potential cities was
trimmed to 23 from 32 on Thursday.
Both were stronger contenders to
make the final cut and host matches.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s
office said in a statement that “FIFA
could not provide a basic level of
certainty on some major unknowns that
put our city and taxpayers at risk. The
uncertainty for taxpayers, coupled with
FIFA’s inflexibility and unwillingness to
negotiate, were clear indications that
further pursuit of the bid wasn’t in
Chicago’s best interests.”
Eight years ago, Chicago dropped out
of the United States’ failed 2018/2022
World Cup bid despite having hosted
the 1994 World Cup opening match and
ceremonies at Soldier Field.
British Columbia Tourism Minister
Lisa Beare said in a statement the
province could not agree with the terms
of the host contract. She cited the “risk
of shouldering potentially huge and
unpredictable costs.”
FIFA requires host cities to meet a
long set of requirements, including tax
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8 p.m.
on aggregate, but CSKA advanced 10:30 p.m.
on the away goals rule.
Marseille, Lazio, Leipzig and
NHL
7 p.m.
Sporting also advanced.
The draw will be held Friday.
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In Columbus, Ohio, Stanford 1 p.m.
4 p.m.
sophomore Katie Ledecky, a
Bethesda native and five-time MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Olympic gold medalist, won the Noon
500-meter freestyle for a second
consecutive year at the NCAA 12:30 p.m.
women’s swimming and diving 1:20 p.m.
championships. 1:50 p.m.
Ledecky’s time of 4 minutes 2:30 p.m.
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26.57 seconds outpaced the field
3:50 p.m.
by more than eight seconds. . . . 4:20 p.m.
Georgia hired former Indiana 6:45 p.m.
coach Tom Crean as its men’s 7 p.m.
basketball coach, only five days
after firing Mark Fox. 7:15 p.m.
Crean was 356-231 in 7:15 p.m.
9:15 p.m.
18 seasons at Marquette and
9:30 p.m.
Indiana from 1999 to 2017. . . .
Venus Williams beat Carla
9:45 p.m.
Suarez Navarro, 6-3, 6-2, to
reach the semifinals of the BNP
Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Angelique Kerber, 6-0, 6-2.
Calif., where she first broke out In the men’s quarterfinals,
as a 16-year-old qualifier in 1997. Borna Coric of Croatia upset
Williams, 37, has never No. 7 seed Kevin Anderson, 2-6,
reached the final of the desert 6-4, 7-6 (7-3). Coric next faces
tournament, and to do she will No. 1 Roger Federer, who
have to get by 20-year-old defeated Chung Hyeon, 7-5, 6-1,
Russian Daria Kasatkina, who to equal his career-best start of
dispatched former No. 1 16-0 from 2006. . . .
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SOCCER INSIDER
North America aiming
to stage the event in 2026;
D.C., Baltimore could host
exemptions.
Washington and Baltimore are
among 17 U.S. cities remaining in
contention. Canada and Mexico have
three apiece. FedEx Field in Landover is
the suggested D.C. venue, though a
different stadium would enter the mix if
the Redskins build a new complex
before 2026. M&T Bank Stadium, where
the NFL’s Ravens play, is the Baltimore
site.
If the North American bid is
successful, 16 cities would stage
matches, said John Kristick, executive
director of the United Bid Committee.
The United States would host 60 games
and Canada and Mexico 10 apiece.
Mexico probably would get to use three
venues and Canada two or three, leaving
the United States with 10 or 11.
“I don’t think there has been a more
comprehensive bid ever submitted for a
sports event,” Kristick said.
Kristick stressed the strength of the
potential venues and the fact that no
new stadiums would need to be built
specifically for the World Cup. If
victorious, Morocco would have to
invest in major infrastructure projects.
“This is a bid based on reality and
certainty,” Kristick added.
Besides the stadiums, more than
150 facilities in the three North
American countries would be made
available for use as training centers.
The United Bid Committee,
representing the three North American
soccer federations, will deliver a bid
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winner A.J. Foyt, 83, was
hospitalized after he was
attacked by Africanized killer
bees while working on his ranch.
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EARLY LEAD
ESPN boss
resigned
because of
drug use
BY M ATT B ONESTEEL
John Skipper cited a years-long
“substance addiction” in an-
nouncing his sudden, unexpected
resignation as ESPN president in
December, declining to elaborate
further in the email he sent to the
network’s employees. But in an
interview with ESPN authority
Jim Miller published Thursday by
the Hollywood Reporter, Skipper
admitted that he has been a long-
time yet casual user of cocaine
and said he decided to resign after
a person who had sold him the
drug threatened to extort him in
December.
“They threatened me, and I
understood immediately that
threat put me and my family at
risk, and this exposure would put
my professional life at risk as
well,” Skipper told Miller. “I fore-
closed that possibility by disclos-
ing the details to my family, and
then when I discussed it with
[Bob Iger, president of ESPN par-
STACY THACKER/ASSOCIATED PRESS ent company Disney], he and I
agreed that I had placed the com-
pany in an untenable position
and, as a result, I should resign.”
Skipper, 62, said he never used
cocaine while he was on the clock
at ESPN, nor did he ever use the
drug with a fellow employee. In
fact, he called his cocaine use
book of almost 1,000 pages, plus “quite infrequent,” a byproduct of
thousands more of contracts and other him growing up “wanting to be
agreements, to FIFA headquarters in countercultural.” Since his resig-
Zurich. nation, Skipper has received ther-
The committee projects more than apy and treatment and has not
5.8 million tickets would be sold, used the drug “for a long period of
generating in excess of $2 billion in time.”
ticketing revenue. “I never allowed it to interfere
The 2026 World Cup will be the with my work, other than a
largest, with 48 teams instead of 32 and missed plane and a few canceled
80 matches instead of 64. morning appointments. I’ve nev-
The other U.S. metro areas on the er been a daily user. My use over
shortlist are Boston, New York, the past two decades has, in fact,
Philadelphia, Nashville, Cincinnati, been quite infrequent,” he said. “I
Atlanta, Orlando, Miami, Kansas City, judge that I did a very good job
Dallas, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles, and that it did not get in the way of
San Francisco and Seattle. my work. I worked hard. I worked
Mexico’s representatives are Mexico smart. I worked all the time.”
City, Guadalajara and Monterrey. On Dec. 13, a Wednesday, Skip-
Toronto, Montreal and Edmonton are per addressed a large gathering of
on Canada’s list. ESPN employees, expressing con-
Minneapolis, Charlotte, Detroit, Las fidence about the network’s fu-
Vegas, Phoenix, Salt Lake City and ture after a rocky few years. Two
Tampa are no longer under days later, he decided to reveal the
consideration. extortion plot to Iger. The follow-
The North American bid was initially ing Monday, he announced his
seen as a heavy favorite to defeat resignation, admitting that he
Morocco, but with U.S. worldwide had put Iger “in an untenable
popularity dropping since the 2016 position.”
presidential election, the race has “Look, it was inappropriate for
tightened. The bid also must persuade the president of ESPN and an
voters that using three countries will officer of the Walt Disney Co. to be
not result in logistical problems; the associated in any way with any of
only time more than one country hosted this,” Skipper said.
the World Cup was 2002 (Japan and Skipper said he had learned to
South Korea). become “a master of compart-
With full support expected from the mentalization” to hide his cocaine
African bloc, FIFA’s largest, Morocco use from friends, family and co-
will have a head start in the voting. The workers and that he was “careful”
North American bid will need to secure in his pursuit of the drug. But the
the Americas, then win over enough person who threatened to extort
countries in Europe and Asia. was not someone Skipper had
steven.goff@washpost.com previous dealings with.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 16 , 2018 . THE WASHINGTON POST
Nats still getting feel for future of pitching staff
BY C HELSEA J ANES
west palm beach, fla. — One
morning this week, on the back
fields where the sounds of bats
and balls punctuate the slow hum
of cars rolling by, the future of the
Washington Nationals’ pitching
staff populated three fields buzz-
ing with intrasquad activity.
Six teams of Nationals minor
leaguers faced off on three fields
as scouts ping-ponged from back-
stop to backstop, looking at ros-
ters that could tell them who they
were seeing. Nationals executives
moved from field to field, too,
checking with those scouts for
radar gun readings now and then,
asking each other exactly who
was pitching where. The future
was on display. But right now, in a
departure from their organiza-
tional norm, no one seems to
know exactly what that future
looks like.
The Nationals have traded
away more than 20 young pitch-
ers since 2012. They have traded
eventual big leaguers Felipe Rive-
ro, Robbie Ray, Alex Meyer, Brad
Peacock and Nick Pivetta. They
have traded prospects Lucas
Giolito, Reynaldo Lopez, Dane
Dunning and Jesus Luzardo.
They have traded touted pre-
prospects such as McKenzie Mills
and Tyler Watson. They have trad-
ed all of them over the past six
seasons, all while maintaining
the second-best ERA among ma-
jor league pitching staffs in that
span.
But the Nationals are starting
to feel the effects of those deals.
They read about them in publica-
tions such as Baseball America,
whose top 100 prospect list did
not include a Nationals pitcher
for the first time in six years. They
feel it as they look at contenders
for their fifth starter’s spot. In an
alternate universe, Giolito, Lopez
and others would be competing,
with a healthy Joe Ross as a
favorite and Erick Fedde linger-
ing as still-progressing depth. In
this one, A.J. Cole is the current
favorite to fill that spot, and after
being rushed to the big leagues
out of necessity last season, Fedde
could be required to handle it
sooner than later.
“We like our pitching depth at
the high, mid- and low levels,”
said General Manager Mike Riz-
zo, who is all but contractually
obligated to say so.
“You’ve got guys like Seth
Romero and Wil Crowe at the
bottom of our minor league sys-
tem. But you’ve got Jefry Rodri-
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Murphy not ruled out
for Opening Day
Mike Rizzo wouldn’t do it. Dave
Martinez wouldn’t do it. Daniel
Murphy didn’t talk to reporters
Thursday in West Palm Beach,
Fla., but so far he hasn’t been
willing to do it either. Despite
all the indications that Murphy
will need more time to rebuild
than the two weeks remaining
between now and Opening Day,
no one with the Washington
Nationals will rule him out just
yet.
“I’m not going to rule him out
because he’s progressing really
well,” said Martinez, the
Nationals’ manager. “You just
never know with these things.
SPRING TRAINING NOTES
Yankees’ Judge warned of tampering after recruiting Machado
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Major League Baseball told
New York Yankees slugger Aaron
Judge his comments attempting
to recruit Baltimore shortstop
Manny Machado violate the
sport’s tampering rules, and Judge
said he has learned the lesson.
When the Yankees played the
Orioles in Sarasota, Fla., on
Wednesday, Judge encountered
Machado on the field before the
game.
“Adding him to our lineup that
we’ve already got, it’d be some-
thing special,” Judge told report-
ers. “I told him, ‘You’d look good in
pinstripes.’ ”
Judge added: “He just kind of
laughed it off. Didn’t really say
much.”
Machado is eligible for free
agency after this season, part of a
class that includes Bryce Harper
and Josh Donaldson.
Major League Baseball said in a
statement: “We have been in con-
tact with the Yankees. They com-
municated to us that Mr. Judge’s
off the cuff comments were not
Erick Fedde, shown here with catcher Pedro Severino last month, has been rushed along out of necessity.
guez and Luis Reyes at the upper
parts of it. We think that other
than the national publications
that don’t have people in their
top 100, we like the guys that are
coming, and when they get here,
you guys will like them, too.”
Rodriguez and Reyes, hard-
throwing right-handers, are not
Giolito and Lopez. Wander Suero
is probably the next homegrown
reliever to get his chance, but he is
26. None of them are pinging
around national radars. All of
them are promising. None of
them are riveting.
First-rounder Romero would
be the one pulling the spotlight
his way, but he was sent home for
repeated curfew violations. Rizzo
said he will have to prove “he
deserves the honor of being here”
before he can return.
So for those bustling around
the back fields, all the can’t-miss
talent was concentrated in young
position players, while uncertain-
ty and curiosity lingered around
every mound. The Nationals
spent nine of their first 10 picks in
last year’s draft on pitchers, the
first two on Romero and Crowe.
They are spending more and
more money internationally on
pitchers. They are trying to re-
build their minor league depth, a
process that requires patience,
vigilance and optimism.
“We don’t really try to put a tag
on a guy until they get to Double
A,” pitching coordinator Paul
Menhart said. “They’re just gain-
We just want to make sure he is
100 percent right.”
His general manager struck a
similar tone.
“I think we’re optimistic.
Those feelings will change when
we see . . . this week will be
important for him,” Rizzo said.
“. . . Obviously we’re not going
to rush him. Opening Day is just
a day. We’re not going to rush
him and force-feed him into
anything.”
Rizzo said Murphy is running
with his full body weight,
though he is still using
treadmills as far as anyone has
seen. He has been taking
groundballs on the field for a
week but isn’t moving laterally.
He is hitting on the field but not
quite moving perfectly.
Still, the idea that Murphy
will be ready to play in what
probably will be chilly
Yankees slugger Aaron Judge, above, told reporters that he said to
the Orioles’ Manny Machado, “You’d look good in pinstripes.”
appropriate and not authorized by
the club. They will speak to him to
make sure that this does not hap-
pen again.”
Judge and General Manager
Brian Cashman had a brief con-
versation about the matter.
ing experience, learning the game
of pro baseball, learning how to
pitch every fifth day or every
other day. . . . It’s not fair for us to
make an assessment on some of
these kids because they’re still
dipping their toes in the pool.”
The Nationals don’t make any
mechanical alterations to their
pitchers in the months after they
are drafted. When young pitchers
get back from the offseason, they
judge them on whether they com-
pleted their first professional
throwing program — not their
results. And for years now, the
Nationals have made a point of
letting pitchers be themselves
when they get them.
“We aren’t going to change arm
slot. The scouts, who we trust
immensely, drafted these kids.
We’re going to see what he is,”
Menhart said. “We tend not to
overcoach, and I think that’s a
major part of why we’re so suc-
cessful in developing quality big
leaguers with any round. We treat
everybody equally. We really do. I
can say that with a straight face,
too. We treat everyone as future
big leaguers, whenever they’re
drafted.”
And so, on those back fields,
longtime Nationals front-office
staples Bob Boone, Spin Wil-
liams, Mark Scialabba, Doug Har-
ris, Menhart and others wan-
dered the fields, looking at what
they might have.
They watched a big 6-foot-7 kid
they took in the 36th round from
NATIONALS NOTES
Cincinnati temperatures two
weeks from Thursday feels a
step above optimistic and a step
below ludicrous.
Martinez and Rizzo also share
optimism about Adam Eaton’s
and Michael A. Taylor’s Opening
Day readiness, and that seems
more reasonable.
Both Taylor (right side
tightness) and Eaton (torn
anterior cruciate ligament)
played in a minor league game
Thursday, and Martinez hinted
that both will be back in the
lineup this weekend.
Eaton is scheduled to start
playing in big league games next
week.
“We’re very optimistic for
those two guys,” Rizzo said.
“They’ve had plenty of at-bats.”
Taylor and Eaton both played
the field in a minor league game
Thursday.
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“It just kind of came up in pass-
ing,” Judge said Thursday. “Now I
know. You learn something new
every day.”
Judge said the phone call from
Cashman lasted about 30 seconds
and the GM told him: “Here’s a
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Auburn, Gabe Klobosits, pound
the strike zone like a more experi-
enced pitcher. A promising lefty
named Taylor Guilbeau, whose
in-game glasses recall Tyler Clip-
pard, has caught the eye of rival
scouts.
Right-hander Sterling Sharp
continues to impress, though he
is still too slight to say for sure
what he might be. Right-hander
Joan Baez has the mound pres-
ence and repetitive delivery of a
big leaguer, but that has yet to
yield consistent results. Second-
rounder Crowe has impressed
with his polish since he debuted
for the organization last summer.
Rail-thin Jackson Tetreault hit
the mid-90s all morning and
should gain velocity as he gains
muscle. The list of pitchers with
promise goes on and on.
Ryan Zimmerman came back
from a few at-bats on the back
fields and told Rizzo he was im-
pressed, that a few guys he saw
there had big league stuff. But
asked whether he thought he
could pinpoint a major leaguer
from the group, the 13-year vet-
eran balked.
“Big league pitchers don’t al-
ways have the best stuff. It’s that
they learn how to pitch a little
bit,” Zimmerman said. “Those
young guys, so many of them have
great fastballs or great sliders.
You have to be able to pitch.”
And pitching takes practice.
But pitching doesn’t lend itself to
practice like hitting or fielding.
Taylor singled in his first at-
bat, then took off trying to steal
second base — an effort
rendered futile by a strikeout at
the plate but one indicative of
his comfort.
Ryan Zimmerman, who is not
battling any injury as far as he
has said, did not hit in those
games Thursday — though he
has been taking at-bats there
this spring.
None of those three are in the
lineup for Friday’s game.
Milone roughed up
Tommy Milone threw two
innings Thursday and allowed
three runs on five hits in what
could be his final Grapefruit
League start of the spring.
The veteran left-hander
entered camp as a dark-horse
contender for the fifth spot in
reminder that you can’t do this
and have a good night.”
“And I said, ‘All right, see you
tomorrow,’ ” Judge said.

ORIOLES: Baltimore slugger
Mark Trumbo will start the season
on the 10-day disabled list with a
strained right quad.
Manager Buck Showalter said
Trumbo will miss a minimum of
three weeks.
Trumbo missed a week with the
quad injury and returned to ac-
tion Wednesday against the Yan-
kees. He felt discomfort after the
game and had an MRI exam.
Trumbo, who led the major
leagues in home runs with 47 in
2016, hit 23 homers last year.

REDS: Cincinnati hired for-
mer Boston Red Sox manager
John Farrell as an internal scout
who will evaluate players already
in the system.
Farrell was fired by the Red Sox
after they lost in the division series
for the second straight year, falling
to the Houston Astros. Buddy Bell,
who was hired by Cincinnati as a
vice president and adviser in the
offseason, reached out to Farrell
Young pitchers cannot just throw
and throw and throw. They have
to experience things. They have to
learn.
According to Scialabba, the Na-
tionals’ director of player devel-
opment, the organization’s gener-
al plan for pitching development
is to hold players back at the
lower levels, making sure they
understand the fundamentals be-
fore they climb to Class AA. Once
they get there, they are fair game
for a big league call-up, as the
Nationals are willing to rush the
higher levels. Ross, Giolito and
others got the call from Class AA.
Often, those fundamentals mat-
ter more at the higher levels than
they did at the lower ones.
“They would pound ideas like
commanding the fastball inside,
being able to throw all your off-
speed pitches for strike. You’re
like, ‘Oh, I don’t need to do that,’ ”
said Fedde, who struggled in his
first big league stint last season.
“Then you get to the big leagues
and you’re like, ‘Whoa, I’m glad
we worked on that for a couple
years.’ There’s pitches you can get
away with at lower levels that you
just can’t here.”
Even the top pitching pros-
pects, such as Fedde, are no sure
things. The Nationals have paid
the price for contention, sending
many of their surest pitching
prospects away for surer big
league talent as needed. Most
people in the organization talk
about this with a mix of pride and
helplessness. On the one hand,
they have developed enough ma-
jor league pitching to sustain a
contender for more than half a
decade — and trade plenty away,
too. On the other hand, their
pitching depth could look a lot
different if it weren’t for those big
league deals, though those had to
be made, too.
“For me, it’s not very difficult to
watch guys go because it’s ulti-
mately helped our big league
team get better,” Menhart said.
“Our job as player development is
to give these kids that we get
through the draft value to help
our big league club. That could be
doing it personally or being a
piece to a very vital trade. That’s
our job.”
Recently, they have developed
as many trade chips as they have
future Nationals contributors.
Now they must rebuild, though
who they will build around re-
mains to be seen, and no one can
say when the next wave will be
ready.
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the rotation, a race led by A.J.
Cole, who is trailed closely by
Erick Fedde.
Milone had not allowed a run
in eight innings before
Thursday. He is pitching to a
2.70 ERA in 10 spring innings.
Strasburg looks sharp
Stephen Strasburg joined Eaton
and Taylor in the minor league
game, in which he threw about
70 pitches over five innings and
threw 10 more pitches in the
bullpen afterward.
He looked sharp and paired
with Miguel Montero, who is
being shuffled from starter to
starter as if he needs to get to
know them all for Opening Day.
Montero is not on the 40-man
roster. He is a contender for the
backup catcher’s job.
— Chelsea Janes
about the scouting role.

RAYS: Chris Archer was
picked as Tampa Bay’s Opening
Day starter for a franchise-record
fourth consecutive season.
Archer is set to pitch against the
Red Sox on March 29 at Tropicana
Field. The 29-year-old right-hand-
er is 1-2 with a 3.57 ERA on Open-
ing Day.
Archer will tie James Shields for
most Opening Day starts for the
franchise.

RED SOX: David Price made
his delayed spring-training debut
for Boston, allowing one hit over
four scoreless innings in a 7-5 win
over Toronto in Fort Myers, Fla.
Price struck out five and walked
one. An elbow injury limited to a
career-low 11 starts last season.

CUBS: Chicago released vet-
eran reliever Justin Grimm.
The 29-year-old right-hander
was a part of teams that made
three straight National League
Championship Series appearanc-
es and won the World Series in
2016. But he struggled last season
with a 1-2 record and 5.53 ERA in
50 appearances.
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NFL NOTES
Benson
dies at 90;
Saints face
uncertainty
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Tom Benson, a successful auto
dealer who brought the New Or-
leans Saints their only winning
seasons and the “Benson Boogie,”
has died. Benson, who also owned
the NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans
since 2012, was 90.
The NFL and NBA teams an-
nounced Benson’s death Thurs-
day. He had been hospitalized
since Feb. 16 with flu symptoms.
Benson made his mark in pro
sports with the Saints, whom he
bought in 1985 when it appeared
the club would be sold to out-of-
state interests and perhaps moved
out of Louisiana. He paid $70 mil-
lion for the team, which is now
worth close to $2 billion.
Benson’s business acumen
helped turn the Saints from a per-
ennial also-ran into a contender —
and the 2009 NFL champion. Yet
his ownership also was less flatter-
ingly marked by the 2012 bounty
scandal and by rumors Benson did
not want to bring the team back to
New Orleans after Hurricane Ka-
trina devastated the city in 2005.
Benson’s death came on the
heels of an acrimonious family
split that has caused uncertainty
about the future of his clubs. Ben-
son made it known in January
2015 that he wants his third wife,
Gayle, to inherit control of the
Saints and Pelicans. But Benson’s
disowned daughter, Renee, and
her two children, Rita and Ryan
LeBlanc — who had long been in
line to take over his businesses —
have vowed to prove he was ma-
nipulated against them while in a
mentally enfeebled state.

RAIDERS: Oakland shuffled
wide receivers, signing free agent
Jordy Nelson and releasing Mi-
chael Crabtree.
Nelson signed a two-year con-
tract worth a reported $15 million
after the Raiders spent more than
a day meeting with the former
Green Bay Packers star.
Oakland cut ties with Crabtree
after three seasons and also signed
former Tampa Bay Buccaneers
running back Doug Martin to a
one-year contract.

DOLPHINS: Miami released
three-time Pro Bowl center Mike
Pouncey, 28, as part of its offensive
line makeover.
The Dolphins also acquired
center Daniel Kilgore in a trade
with the San Francisco 49ers, and
four-time Pro Bowl guard Josh
Sitton agreed to terms on a two-
year deal that could be worth near-
ly $18 million including incen-
tives, said his agent, Jack Reale.
Miami also signed former New
England Patriots wide receiver
Danny Amendola and former
Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver
Albert Wilson.

PATRIOTS: The Cleveland
Browns traded cornerback Jason
McCourty to New England, reunit-
ing him with his twin brother,
Devin. The Browns also sent a
seventh-round pick to the Patriots
to get a sixth-rounder in return.
Jason McCourty, 30, spent one
season in Cleveland after eight
with the Tennessee Titans. He
started 14 games and led the
Browns with three interceptions.
Devin McCourty has spent all
eight years of his NFL career with
the Patriots.

PANTHERS: Carolina and
unrestricted free agent defensive
tackle Dontari Poe agreed on a
three-year, $28 million deal, a per-
son familiar with the situation
said. The person spoke on the con-
dition of anonymity because the
move had not been announced.
The 27-year-old Poe played five
seasons for the Chiefs and went to
two Pro Bowls after being selected
11th overall in the 2012 draft. Poe
spent last season with the Atlanta
Falcons and had 39 tackles and
21/2 sacks.


JETS: New York filled two
holes with the signings of running
back Isaiah Crowell and kicker
Cairo Santos.
Crowell, 25, signed for three
years and $12 million. He will help
replace veteran Matt Forte, who
recently retired. Crowell had
3,118 yards rushing and 21 touch-
downs with 96 catches for
770 yards and a score in his four
seasons with the Browns.
Santos, the NFL’s first Brazil-
ian-born player, had been with the
Chiefs since 2014 before being re-
leased early last season.

JAGUARS: Former Indian-
apolis Colts wide receiver Donte
Moncrief signed a one-year,
$7 million contract with AFC
South rival Jacksonville.

BENGALS: Cincinnati
agreed to a one-year deal with
oft-injured tight end Tyler Eifert
and a three-year deal with punter
Kevin Huber, holding on to two of
its unrestricted free agents.
D4
Redskins welcome Smith, Richardson
REDSKINS FROM D1
back to start a game for the
Redskins since Snyder bought the
once-proud franchise 19 years
ago. In that time, Snyder has just
six winning seasons, three NFC
East titles and nothing remotely
resembling a Super Bowl run to
show for it.
Whether Smith can deliver the
Super Bowl title that Snyder cov-
ets is far from clear. To his credit,
the veteran quarterback, who
agreed to a four-year, $94 million
contract extension that runs
through 2002, offered no promis-
es or sweeping pronouncements
Thursday when asked what he
brings to the team — other than
hard work and the drive to get
better in every facet of his play.
“There’s certainly no areas
where I’m good enough,” said
Smith, who is coming off the most
impressive season of his career —
one in which he set personal bests
for total yards (4,042), touch-
down throws (26) and passer
rating (104.7). “You’re constantly
trying to work on all of it.”
Smith said he was impressed
by the organization’s “desire to
win from top to bottom” and
enthused about the variety of
Coach Jay Gruden’s offense. “I
like to be kind of the Swiss Army
knife, be able to take advantage of
a lot of different things,” Smith
said.
The 6-foot-2, 217-pound Smith
appears an ideal fit for Gruden’s
pass-heavy scheme — smart, ac-
curate, versatile, with the bonus
of improvisational skill outside
the pocket and a willingness to
throw the deep ball.
Gruden positively glowed
when asked about Smith’s attri-
butes.
“He has all the traits you need,”
said Gruden, the first coach to
earn a fifth season under Snyder.
“There’s not a trait that [you say],
‘Oh, I wish he had this!’ He can
throw the ball down the field —
he proved that. He can obviously
escape pressure when he needs to
(Gruden still chafes over a scram-
ble Smith made against the Red-
skins in Kansas City’s 29-20
come-from-behind victory in
Week 4 last season). He’s efficient
with the ball. He protects the
football. He’s accurate, and he’s
tough mentally and physically.
Definitely has all the tools we
need to work with.”
Smith succeeds Kirk Cousins,
who played the past two seasons
under the NFL’s franchise tag
after failing to reach a long-term
deal with the team. Shortly before
Smith met reporters and an audi-
ence of Redskins officials and
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QB brings a sense of stability to District
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Smith’s arrival kills off the game
we have played in these parts
since the turn of the century.
Pick a year, and follow the
timeline. In 2006, Joe Gibbs —
version 2.0 — benched veteran
quarterback Mark Brunell in
favor of rookie Jason Campbell.
The position in Washington has
been in some measure of flux for
what seems like eternity because
it was Todd Collins, not
Campbell, who took the
following year’s team to the
playoffs. It was Donovan
McNabb, not Campbell, who first
took snaps when Mike Shanahan
arrived as coach in 2010. It was
Rex Grossman who replaced a
benched McNabb and John Beck
who . . . who cares? At some
point, it was just too much.
It never ended. Maybe it has
now. It’s March. We can hope.
“I certainly feel like, as a
quarterback, I can do a lot,”
Smith said in an auditorium at
Redskins Park that was filled
with the team’s staff and
sponsors. “I like that. I like to be
kind of the Swiss Army knife.”
One blade that he must pop
out — in any NFL city but here in
particular — will have to be used
as a rudder. He is a 12-year
veteran who will begin work in
his third market. There’s no
question he hasn’t faced — not
about his own ability, not about
his team’s success, not about
anything. That means there’s no
controversy around which he
hasn’t had to tiptoe. It’s valuable
experience. His immediate
predecessors didn’t really have it.
The midweek media
availabilities of Robert Griffin
III, back in 2012, went from
insightful, must-watch glimpses
into the development of a can’t-
miss star to delicate high-wire
acts, the circus down below,
unrelenting. Griffin had to learn
all this as a 22-year-old rookie.
Kirk Cousins, who replaced
Griffin and will be replaced by
Smith, rode shotgun as Griffin
became a sideshow, then had to
navigate questions about his
Former Seahawks wide receiver Paul Richardson, with Redskins
executive Doug Williams, signed a five-year, $40 million deal.
invited guests, Cousins gave his
own introductory news confer-
ence in Minnesota, having signed
a three-year fully guaranteed con-
tract with the Vikings worth
$84 million.
At the outset of Thursday’s
proceedings at Redskins Park,
senior vice president of personnel
Doug Williams — who earned
MVP honors for delivering the
second of the team’s three Super
Bowls under coach Joe Gibbs —
made clear that the focus was on
the future.
“We’re not looking in the
rearview mirror,” Williams said.
“We’re going forward.”
The hope is that Smith will
provide the stability the Redskins
lacked with Cousins, whom they
were ambivalent about signing
long-term and who showed little
interest in staying in Washington.
The hope is also that Smith and a
high-powered offense will revive
interest among a flagging fan
base, anchoring its most impor-
tant position for the next three,
four or more years. For many, the
glory days of the franchise have
become a distant memory. The
team has advanced past the first
round of the playoffs just twice in
the past 20 years.
Now comes Smith, who repre-
sents an investment in experi-
ence and stability.
“The whole situation with Kirk
had really spiraled out of control,”
former quarterback Joe Theis-
mann, who led the Redskins to
own future, his commitment to
Washington, his intentions in
free agency. Their words were
incessantly parsed. It was,
frankly, tiresome.
Maybe Smith can relieve us all
of that. There is a place to debate
how a quarterback who turns 34
in May will age over the course of
his contract, which doesn’t
expire until after the 2022
season. But let’s assign some
meaning to a moment where
none may exist: Standing at that
lectern Thursday, sliding his
hand into the pocket of that suit,
Smith’s entire demeanor said, “I
got this.”
“For quarterbacks, there’s so
many different things that
happen, that come up in a
situation, in a game, over a
season, and I think you have to
be able to handle all of that,”
Smith said. “Some of them are
physical, some of them are
mental, and some both.”
With that, there is an
understanding that when things
go wrong, the quarterback will
have the most questions to
answer. This is not new territory.
Nothing’s a surprise.
For now, too, so many
questions that have defined
recent Washington offseasons
are eliminated. Griffin’s health
and job security. Cousins’s
development and long-term
desires. The team’s evaluation of
either of them. Killing off those
story lines has an impact, from
the front office to the fan base.
“You’re not always looking
down the road, who’s going to be
our quarterback here next year?”
Coach Jay Gruden said.
There will be a time for that
again. But for now, enjoy the
break.
“I don’t think the fans really
understand when you talk about
stability, when you know the guy
that’s going to be leading your
team is going to be in your locker
room for the next three to four to
five years, that’s a good feeling,”
said Doug Williams, the team’s
senior vice president of player
personnel. “Now [Washington’s
players] can relax and even
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their first Super Bowl victory
under Gibbs, said in a telephone
interview. “It was time for a
change — time for Kirk, and
congratulations to him, and time
for the Redskins to be able to
move past the last couple years of
uncertainty. Now you have the
most important position on the
field solidified.”
Also Thursday, the Redskins
introduced former Seattle wide
receiver Paul Richardson, their
latest acquisition, who signed a
five-year, $40 million deal. A
friend of former Redskins wide
receivers DeSean Jackson and
Pierre Garcon, with whom he
shares an agent, Richardson said
he sought to reflect elements of
both their games, blending
breakaway speed with toughness.
Like Richardson, Smith said he
was eager to get to work.
“Certainly as you get older, you
realize the opportunities more,”
Smith said. “You cherish it more
because you realize that there’s an
end for everybody, and that ex-
cites me — that challenge. Can we
find a way? Can we find a way to
come together and get it done?”
Note: The team also made a
move to address its defense,
bringing back interior linebacker
Zach Brown with a three-year
contract worth up to $24 million.
Brown led the Redskins last sea-
son with 127 tackles despite miss-
ing the final three games because
of injury.
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during the season don’t have to
worry about whether our fearless
leader’s going to be here next
year.”
We’re just getting to know
Smith up close, and a
relationship between a city and
its quarterback needs time to
develop. This is a feeling-out
process, and Smith spent his 15-
minute media availability
Thursday saying the right things.
He praised his new team’s
commitment to winning “from
top to bottom,” even though he
has done far more winning than
his new team during his previous
stops in San Francisco and
Kansas City. He talked up aspects
of Gruden’s system that he said
he would enjoy. He spoke of his
desire to win a championship,
making it clear that is a team
pursuit.
More importantly, though,
Smith made it clear that he
understands the parameters of
his job, that talking means
nothing if he doesn’t perform.
Thursday was an exercise, a
necessary one, because he is now
this town’s and this team’s focal
point. But he knows his words
are just words, that his
commitment and character will
have to show in other ways.
“There’s nothing I’m going to
say, nothing anybody’s going to
say that’s going to prove that,”
Smith said. “We got to go do it.
We’ve got to go win games. We’ve
got to play well.”
Over the course of his career,
Alex Smith has played well. Last
year, he may have played better
than he ever has. On his first
public day as the quarterback in
Washington — a day on which he
didn’t take a snap or throw a
pass — the way he carried
himself showed that, at least for
a moment, he brings meaningful
experience and reassuring
stability to a position that, since
the turn of this century, has
teetered in this town. Enjoy it
while it lasts.
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Morris: Wizards not ready
Forward says team needs to up its intensity with 13 games left before playoffs
BY C ANDACE B UCKNER
boston — Several of the Wash-
ington Wizards described their
125-124 victory in double over-
time over the Boston Celtics in
brave terms. They fought back,
one said. They battled this one
out, another suggested. But after
a long Wednesday night that
required three starters to log at
least 42 minutes, Markieff Morris
sat in front of his locker and
shunned the hero’s tale.
Morris, making eye contact
with the carpet and speaking in
his low monotone voice, ex-
plained the Wizards’ motivation.
“We were getting embar-
rassed,” Morris said. “So basically
we just had to dig deep and figure
out how to get back into the
game.”
Less than 24 hours before this
win, Morris was sounding the
alarm. The Wizards had lost to
the Minnesota Timberwolves,
and their defensive mistakes and
poor execution had brought into
question the team’s preparedness
for playoff-like basketball with
only a few weeks remaining in
the regular season.
“The atmosphere is not there
yet,” Morris admitted.
Even though the Wizards (39-
30) clawed out of a 20-point
deficit and saved face by refusing
to bend to a Celtics lineup miss-
ing six players, Morris still did
not feel his team showed it was
playoff ready.
“Not the start of the game. If
you’re down 20 in the playoffs
and if you don’t got LeBron
James and Steph Curry and those
guys, it’s almost locked in for a
[loss], especially on the road,”
Morris said. “The start of the
game was [expletive]-poor from
us.”
The postseason is quickly ap-
proaching, and the Wizards, who
are waiting on the return of a
healthy John Wall, have just
13 more games to address their
recent rash of turnovers and de-
fensive problems. After the win
over Boston, just the Wizards’
third in the past eight games, the
looming playoffs overshadowed
the glow of victory.
“We need guys to play their
minutes harder. That’s it. You
know what? It’s time,” Coach
Scott Brooks said. “It’s time for
guys to come off the bench and
play better. It’s time for our start-
ers to have better starts, and it’s
also time for our team to play well
together and not just have a first
and second unit. It’s a team, but
they all have to do their part, and
it’s all connected with one an-
other.”
While the Wizards need to
improve — over the past eight
games, the team ranks in the
bottom third of the league in
defensive rating and turnovers
per game — a strong, late push in
March and April may not ensure
playoff success.
Celtics Coach Brad Stevens
needs only to look back a few
years to disprove the notion that
a team that catches fire before the
postseason will stay hot into the
first round.
In Stevens’s second season as
coach, Boston concluded the reg-
ular season with a six-game win-
NBA ROUNDUP
Toronto extends winning streak to 10
RAPTORS 106,
PACERS 99
A SSOCIATED P RESS
DeMar DeRozan scored
24 points, Jonas Valanciunas add-
ed 16 points and 17 rebounds, and
the Toronto Raptors rallied late to
get past the Indiana Pacers, 106-
99, on Thursday night in Indian-
apolis for their 10th straight vic-
tory.
The Raptors need one more
win to tie the franchise’s longest
winning streak. They haven’t lost
since Feb. 23 and broke a tie with
the 2016-17 squad for longest road
winning streak, which is now at
eight.
But it sure wasn’t easy on a
night Darron Collison scored
22 points and Al Jefferson had a
season-high 20 for Indiana.
ROCKETS

 101, CLIPPERS
96: James Harden scored
24 points, Eric Gordon added 23,
and Houston outlasted visiting
Los Angeles.
The Clippers scored six straight
points, with four from Austin Riv-
ers, to cut the lead to a basket with
less than a minute left. But on the
next possession, Harden stepped
back and knocked down a long
two-pointer with Rivers in his
face to make it 100-96.
It was Houston’s third consecu-
tive win.
THE WASHINGTON POST
Markieff Morris and the Wizards have won just three of their past
eight games but remain in the running for a top-three seed.
WIZ ARDS’ NEX T THREE
vs. Indiana Pacers
Tomorrow 7 NBCSW
at San Antonio Spurs
Wednesday 9:30 NBCSW, ESPN
vs. Denver Nuggets
March 23 7 NBCSW, NBATV
Radio: WFED (1500 AM)
ning streak — even earning two
victories over the Cleveland Cava-
liers, the team it would face in the
playoffs. Then the first round
started.
“And got swept in four,” Ste-
vens said.
Now in his fifth season, Ste-
vens views the 82 regular season
games and the playoffs as sepa-
rate challenges.
“Everybody gets a new lease on
life when that regular season
ends and the playoffs start. The
key is to be in it, to be as healthy
as you can be, obviously, but then
to maximize the guys that are on
your roster to play as well as you
can,” Stevens said. “Clearly, the
Wizards are going to be even
better when John gets back.
When John’s full go and if he gets
a couple games under his belt
before the playoffs, that’s really
76ERS 118, KNICKS 110:


Joel Embiid had 29 points and
10 rebounds, Ben Simmons fin-
ished with a triple-double, and
Philadelphia used a big final peri-
od to rally past New York at Madi-
son Square Garden.
The 76ers, who hold the sixth
spot in the Eastern Conference
playoff race, trailed by 13 points in
the third quarter before storming
back in the final period.
Simmons finished with
13 points, 12 assists and 10 re-
bounds.

HORNETS 129, HAWKS
117: Dwight Howard scored 20 of
his season-high 33 points in the
second half, Nicolas Batum had a
triple-double and set a career
high with 16 assists, and Charlotte
won in Atlanta.
Kemba Walker added 24 points
for Charlotte, which kept its slim
playoff hopes alive.
Taurean Prince finished with
22 points for Atlanta, the worst
team in the East at 20-49.

BULLS 111, GRIZZLIES
110: Antonio Blakeney made two
of three free throws with 1.8 sec-
onds left as visiting Chicago sent
Memphis to its 19th straight loss.
On the game’s final play, the
Grizzlies got the ball to Marc
Gasol for a baseline fadeaway that
was long. JaMychal Green tipped
it in but after the horn, although it
appeared to be basket interfer-
ence anyway.
Zach LaVine led the Bulls with
. FRIDAY, MARCH 16 , 2018
GERALD HERBERT/ASSOCIATED PRESS
going to help him and help them.
Everybody knows how good they
are. Everybody knows how much
of a challenge they are to play
against. I think that that stuff — I
think we can all write a narrative
that maybe will show itself true,
but oftentimes it resets itself.
“I just think the playoffs are a
whole new thing.”
According to Stevens, the Wiz-
ards won’t necessarily have to go
on a long winning streak to
become playoff ready. Even so,
there are still remaining games
that could propel them into the
postseason.
On Saturday night, the Wiz-
ards play the Indiana Pacers for
the third and final time. Since the
teams have split the previous
matchups, the winner Saturday
in Washington will own a tie-
breaker — a significant note con-
sidering Indiana and Washington
are hovering around the four and
five seeds and could meet in the
first round.
“We got to realize the playoffs
are right around the corner. It’ll
be here in a snap of a finger,”
Wizards guard Bradley Beal said.
“Every team that we play is a
playoff team. . . . We got to use
that as a trump card, that being
beneficial to us moving forward
and we can get better and be
ready to go come playoff time.”
candace.buckner@washpost.com
20 points while playing only three
quarters.
SPURS 98, PELICANS 93:


LaMarcus Aldridge scored
25 points, Dejounte Murray had
18 points and 12 rebounds, and
San Antonio overcame another
late rally to beat New Orleans at
home.
New Orleans was playing hours
after learning Pelicans owner
Tom Benson had died. Benson
was hospitalized with the flu on
Feb. 16 and never recovered.
Anthony Davis finished with
21 points and 14 rebounds but
fouled out after playing 36 min-
utes.

NUGGETS 120, PISTONS
113: Nikola Jokic had 23 points,
12 rebounds and 10 assists for his
eighth triple-double of the season
as Denver’s playoff hopes received
a much-needed boost with a vic-
tory at home.
The fading Pistons dropped
their 11th straight road game de-
spite Andre Drummond scoring
21 points and grabbing 17 re-
bounds.
JAZZ 116, SUNS 88: In Salt


Lake City, Donovan Mitchell
scored 23 points and Rudy Gobert
had 21 points and 13 rebounds to
lead Utah to its eighth consecu-
tive win.
Joe Ingles scored 17 points, in-
cluding four three-pointers, and
Jae Crowder added 12 for the Jazz,
which has won 20 of its past
22 games.
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NHL ROUNDUP GOLF ROUNDUP

Atkinson’s hat trick powers Columbus to sixth victory in a row With a 68,
BLUE JACKETS 5, Woods is
and Columbus are one point
ahead of idle New Jersey, which
tals, however, hold the tiebreaker
with two games in hand.
Boston in Sunrise, Fla.
Making his first start in six
nipeg defeated Chicago.
Connor Hellebuyck turned
FLYERS 3
down four
holds a wild-card spot.
If the playoffs began Friday, the
Flyers would finish third in the
Tristan Jarry made 17 saves for
his 14th win of the season as start-
er Matt Murray remained side-
games, Reimer earned his third
shutout of the season. Nick Bjug-
stad had a goal and an assist, and
away 25 shots in his 36th win,
increasing his franchise record.
Predators lose Jarnkrok
A SSOCIATED P RESS

Cam Atkinson scored a hat trick

to lead the surging Columbus Blue
Jackets to their sixth straight vic-
tory, 5-3 over the host Philadel-
phia Flyers on Thursday night.
Oliver Bjorkstand and Boone
Jenner also scored for the Blue
Jackets, who tied Philadelphia for
third place in the Metropolitan
Division.
Claude Giroux, Andrew Mac-
Donald and Shayne Gostisbehere
scored for the slumping Flyers,
who dropped their seventh in the
past eight games. Philadelphia
at Bay Hill
division based on tiebreakers
while the Blue Jackets would get
the first wild card. Both teams
have 11 games remaining.
Blue Jackets goalie Sergei Bo-
brovsky made 27 saves.
PENGUINS 5, CANADIENS


3: Patric Hornqvist’s second goal
of the game gave Pittsburgh the
lead in the third period, and the
visiting Penguins went on to beat
Montreal.
Phil Kessel, Evgeni Malkin and
Bryan Rust also scored for Pitts-
burgh, which remain tied with
Washington in points atop the
Metropolitan Division. The Capi-
lined with a concussion.
Artturi Lehkonen, Paul Byron
and Nicolas Deslauriers scored for
the Canadiens.
MAPLE LEAFS 5, SABRES


2: James van Riemsdyk had two
goals and an assist to lead Toronto
to a victory in Buffalo.
Connor Carrick, Tyler Bozak
and Patrick Marleau also scored
for the Maple Leafs, and Curtis
McElhinney stopped 38 shots.
Van Riemsdyk has five goals in
the past two games.
PANTHERS

 3, BRUINS 0:
James Reimer tied a season high
with 46 saves to lead Florida past
Vincent Trocheck and Aaron Ek-
blad also scored.
Anton Khudobin stopped
25 shots for the Bruins.
AVALANCHE

 4, BLUES 1:
Nathan MacKinnon had two goals
and an assist, Semyon Varlamov
stopped 44 shots, and Colorado
prevailed in St. Louis.
Mikko Rantanen also scored
twice to help the Avalanche win its
third straight to move into the first
wild-card spot in the Western Con-
ference, one point ahead of Dallas.
JETS

 6, BLACKHAWKS 2:
Kyle Connor scored twice to reach
25 goals this season, and host Win-
The Nashville Predators an-
nounced that forward Calle Jarn-
krok will miss the rest of the regu-
lar season with an upper-body in- A SSOCIATED P RESS
jury.
Jarnkrok was hurt Tuesday Henrik Stenson had a hot put-
night in a 3-1 win over Winnipeg ter, a much quieter crowd and a
when he was checked by Jets for- one-shot lead in the Arnold Palm-
ward Andrew Copp during the er Invitational in Orlando.
third period. Jarnkrok went to the One week after Stenson re-
locker room and was seen wearing turned from his winter break and
a sling around his right arm leav- spent two days with Tiger Woods
ing the arena. and his raucous crowds, he made
The forward had tied his career birdie on half of the holes at Bay
high with 16 goals and had a ca- Hill for an 8-under-par 64, his
reer-high 35 points. lowest round ever on the course
the King built.
PGA Tour rookies Aaron Wise
and Talor Gooch each shot a 65.

Capitals C AP I TAL S ’ N E X T TH R E E

vs. New York Islanders

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Wise missed a six-foot birdie putt
on the final hole.
Woods again brought out big
crowds in the unseasonable chill

win their at Philadelphia Flyers

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Thursday morning and gave them
quite a show. He hit a tee shot that
was out of bounds by inches. He
atoned for that with a 70-foot bird-

third Sunday

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ie putt. And he wound up with a
68, his best opening round since
he returned this year from a fourth
back surgery.

straight Tuesday

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CAPITALS FROM D1
clays Center, the Capitals ben-
efited from the opposing team’s
goaltending struggles. Capitals
Coach Barry Trotz said he expect-
ed the game to have a playoff feel
because the Islanders are desper-
ate for points, presently on the
outside of the postseason picture,
and the contest was a shootout
early. Against a New York team
that has allowed a league-worst
3.51 goals per game, Washington
scored three goals on nine shots
in the first period.
“The Islanders just gave us a lot
of room to skate on from the
beginning,” forward Andre Bura-
kovsky said. “I mean, my first
three shifts, I was skating around
and around and around with the
puck and making plays. We didn’t
really expect that out of them. We
were expecting a little bit harder
pressure when we had the puck.
But, yeah, they just gave us a lot of
ice to skate on.”
The Islanders are also one of
the NHL’s most talented offensive
teams, and they opened the scor-
ing. New York center Tanner Fritz
skated around the back of the net,
dishing the puck to the slot, where
Brock Nelson scored with a point-
blank shot on Grubauer 2:19 into
the game. But then Washington
tied the game when Lars Eller
beat Gibson with a wrist shot
from the right faceoff circle. That
was Eller’s 16th goal, matching
his career high set seven years ago
with Montreal.
T.J. Oshie said of ending his goal drought in the first period, “If that one didn’t go in, I don’t know.”
New York’s defensive lapses
worked wonders for some of
Washington’s forwards. Oshie
had gone 19 games without a goal,
and his last even-strength goal
was Dec. 22 — 33 games ago.
Oshie had been getting his
chances lately, finishing with five
shots on goal in Washington’s last
game, but his drop in production
from last season, when he scored
a career-high 33 goals, has stung
considering the 31-year-old
signed an eight-year deal this past
summer worth $5.75 million a
year.
Before this game, Trotz reunit-
ed Oshie with center Nicklas
Backstrom and Burakovsky, a trio
that had been successful in the
second round of the playoffs last
season. Less than a minute after
Eller’s goal, Oshie barreled
toward Gibson on a two-on-one
rush with Burakovsky. His 13th
goal of the season lifted the Capi-
tals to a 2-1 lead. Oshie also would
score Washington’s seventh goal
of the game, an empty-net tally.
“I actually bobbled [Burakov-
sky’s] pass a little bit, but it found
the back of the net,” Oshie said of
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his first goal. “It was a great play
by him. If that one didn’t go in, I
don’t know. I don’t know what
would’ve happened.”
The Islanders tied the game
60 seconds later, when Andrew
Ladd scored on a rush with center
Mathew Barzal. In an apparent
theme for the evening, Ladd
snapped a 25-game drought with
the goal. But then defenseman
Dmitry Orlov put the Capitals
ahead again with his career-high
ninth tally, turning Ladd inside
out as he drove to the net and
sneaked a puck past Gibson with
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Capitals 7, Islanders 3
WASHINGTON ......................... 3 2 2 —
N.Y. ISLANDERS ...................... 2 0 1 —
FIRST PERIOD
Scoring: 1, N.Y. Islanders, Nelson 16 (Fritz, Pulock), 2:19.
2, Washington, Eller 16 (Connolly, Vrana), 10:32. 3,
Washington, Oshie 13 (Backstrom, Burakovsky), 11:29.
4, N.Y. Islanders, Ladd 10 (Barzal, Eberle), 12:29. 5,
Washington, Orlov 9 (Kuznetsov, Wilson), 17:17. Penal-
ties: Kempny, WSH, (unsportsmanlike conduct), 12:49.
SECOND PERIOD
Scoring: 6, Washington, Burakovsky 9 (Niskanen, Jera-
bek), 3:12. 7, Washington, Backstrom 18 (Orlov, Kuznet-
sov), 10:22 (pp). Penalties: Niskanen, WSH, (interfer-
ence), 0:29; Clutterbuck, NYI, (slashing), 8:35; Wilson,
WSH, (roughing), 18:08.
THIRD PERIOD
Scoring: 8, Washington, Carlson 13 (Ovechkin, Kuznet-
sov), 15:41. 9, N.Y. Islanders, Pulock 7 (Fritz), 16:33. 10,
Washington, Oshie 14 (Backstrom, Orlov), 18:06. Penal-
ties: None.
SHOTS ON GOAL
WASHINGTON ......................... 9 8 5 — 22
N.Y. ISLANDERS .................... 12 14 12 — 38
Power-play opportunities: Washington 1 of 1; N.Y.
Islanders 0 of 3. Goalies: Washington, Grubauer 11-8-3
(38 shots-35 saves). N.Y. Islanders, Gibson 1-1-2 (12-7),
Halak 18-22-6 (9-8). A: 10,740 (15,795). T: 2:27.
a poor angle.
Washington didn’t turn back
from there. The Burakovsky-
Backstrom-Oshie trio got on the
board once more when Burakov-
sky deflected a point shot from
defenseman Jakub Jerabek in the
second period. That ended a sev-
en-game goal drought for Bura-
kovsky and also was the first point
with Washington for Jerabek, ac-
quired just before the trade dead-
line. A power-play goal from
Backstrom 10:22 into the second
period prompted Halak off the
bench to relieve Gibson.
“I thought it came easy for us
today,” Trotz said. “. . . It was a
little bit of luck going our way a
little bit.”
isabelle.khurshudyan@washpost.com
“I feel like I’m not really think-
ing as much around the golf
course,” Woods said. “I can just see
and feel it and go.”
Each week has been a little bet-
ter for Woods, and Stenson saw
7 the progress last week. The 41-
3
year-old Swede typically takes a
month off between the Middle
East swing and the Florida swing,
and he returned last week to a
grouping of Woods and Jordan
Spieth. That didn’t bother him as
much as his poor putting.
Bay Hill provided a change in
both areas.
“It’s great to see him back com-
peting, but it was a little loud out
there last week,” Stenson said. “But
that comes with the excitement of
having him back and seeing him
play well, so I thought it was great.
. . . I guess it’s nice to get a little bit
of a breather at times, though.”
It really helps to be putting well,
especially on pure greens at Bay
Hill that already had a yellow hue
to them. He spent the weekend at
home in Orlando working with
Phil Kenyon, his putting coach,
and it seemed to help. Stenson
took only 20 putts, tying his per-
sonal best.
He ran off five straight birdies
around the turn, and he followed
his lone bogey at the par-3 14th with
two birdies and a 10-foot par save.

LPGA TOUR: Karine Icher
and Chella Choi each shot 5-under
67 in chilly and windy conditions
to share the first-round lead in the
Founders Cup in Phoenix. Ariya
Jutanugarn was a shot back with
Inbee Park, Lizette Salas, Cydney
Clanton, Mariajo Uribe and Hee
Young Park in the event that hon-
ors the 13 women who founded the
LPGA Tour in 1950.

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scoreboard

B A S K ET B A L L HOCKEY GOLF

NBA Nuggets 120, Pistons 113 Duke 89, Iona 67 Texas Tech 70, NHL PGA Tour
EASTERN CONFERENCE DETROIT ............................. 29 22 33 29 — 113 Iona (20-14) Stephen F. Austin 60 EASTERN CONFERENCE ARNOLD PALMER INVITATIONAL
DENVER .............................. 33 32 33 22 — 120 Edogi 5-8 1-2 11, Casimir 3-9 1-2 9, McGill 3-7 3-4 10, At Bay Hill Club & Lodge in Orlando
ATLANTIC W L Pct GB Lewis 4-9 0-0 10, Crawford 0-6 2-2 2, Williams 1-1 0-0 2, Stephen F. Austin (28-7) METROPOLITAN W L OL PTS. GF GA
Gilmore 0-2 2-3 2, Holyfield 4-8 1-3 10, Charles 1-5 0-2 3, Purse: $8.9 million
x-Toronto ...................................51 17 .750 — DETROIT: Ennis III 2-6 0-0 5, Griffin 9-21 3-3 26, Griffin 9-12 3-4 21, Kensmil 0-0 0-0 0, Seaforth 1-2 0-0 2, Washington .................. 40 23 7 87 216 205 Yardage: 7,419; Par 72 (36-36)
x-Boston ....................................46 22 .676 5 Drummond 9-18 3-8 21, Smith 4-7 0-0 8, Bullock 7-12 0-0 Much 0-4 0-0 0, Svandrlik 0-2 0-0 0. 26-60 Totals 10-14 Canete 5-8 6-6 17, Harris 4-12 3-4 12, Nieminen 0-0 2-2 2, Pittsburgh ..................... 41 26 5 87 237 218
Bain 0-0 0-0 0, Bogues 4-11 5-8 14, Comeaux 0-1 0-0 0, First Round
Philadelphia ...............................37 30 .552 131/2 17, Johnson 1-4 0-0 3, Tolliver 3-4 0-0 9, Moreland 0-2 67. Columbus ...................... 38 28 5 81 198 198 Henrik Stenson .................................. 33 31 — 64 -8
New York ...................................24 45 .348 271/2 0-0 0, Buycks 8-15 5-6 22, Kennard 1-3 0-0 2. Totals Augustin 0-0 0-0 0. 18-47 Totals 19-28 60. Philadelphia .................. 35 25 11 81 208 210
Duke (27-7) Aaron Wise ........................................ 31 34 — 65 -7
Brooklyn.....................................21 47 .309 30 44-92 11-17 113. Texas Tech (25-9) New Jersey ................... 36 26 8 80 212 211 Talor Gooch ........................................ 33 32 — 65 -7
Carter 4-8 1-1 9, Bagley 10-15 1-2 22, Allen 6-14 0-1 16,
DENVER: Chandler 0-6 0-0 0, Millsap 6-12 0-0 14, Jokic Gray 2-5 0-2 4, Odiase 0-0 0-0 0, Evans 6-10 10-10 23, Carolina ......................... 30 29 11 71 188 218 Jimmy Walker ................................... 35 32 — 67 -5
Duval 7-11 1-1 19, Trent 6-12 0-0 16, DeLaurier 0-0 0-0 0,
SOUTHEAST W L Pct GB 8-15 5-6 23, Murray 9-17 3-5 26, G.Harris 5-7 1-1 11, Zh.Smith 4-8 1-2 10, Culver 2-5 2-2 6, Hamilton 1-4 0-2 2, N.Y. Rangers ................. 32 32 7 71 205 227 Rickie Fowler ..................................... 34 33 — 67 -5
Robinson 1-2 0-2 2, White 0-0 0-0 0, Bolden 2-2 1-1 5,
Washington ...............................39 30 .565 — Lyles 3-4 2-2 9, Plumlee 1-2 0-1 2, D.Harris 3-6 5-5 12, Za.Smith 4-5 1-2 9, Francis 2-4 0-0 5, Stevenson 2-9 2-4 N.Y. Islanders ............... 30 30 10 70 225 252 Bryson DeChambeau ......................... 34 33 — 67 -5
Vrankovic 0-0 0-0 0, O’Connell 0-2 0-0 0, Goldwire 0-1 0-0
Miami.........................................36 33 .522 3 Barton 8-16 6-8 23, Beasley 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 43-85 22-28 0. Totals 36-67 4-8 89. 6, Webster 0-0 0-0 0, Moretti 2-4 0-0 5. Totals 25-54 Patrick Reed ....................................... 33 35 — 68 -4
Charlotte....................................30 39 .435 9 120. 16-24 70. ATLANTIC W L OL PTS. GF GA Tiger Woods ...................................... 35 33 — 68 -4
Orlando ......................................21 48 .304 18 Halftime: Duke 53-39. Three-point goals: Iona 5-24 Tampa Bay .................... 48 18 4 100 257 198 Byeong Hun An .................................. 34 34 — 68 -4
Three-point Goals: Detroit 14-27 (Griffin 5-8, Tolliver (Lewis 2-4, Casimir 2-6, McGill 1-3, Seaforth 0-1, Halftime: Stephen F. Austin 30-27. Three-point goals:
Atlanta.......................................20 49 .290 19 Stephen F. Austin 5-14 (Charles 1-1, Holyfield 1-2, Boston ........................... 44 17 8 96 232 179 Billy Horschel ..................................... 35 33 — 68 -4
3-4, Bullock 3-5, Johnson 1-2, Buycks 1-3, Ennis III 1-4, Svandrlik 0-2, Much 0-3, Crawford 0-5), Duke 13-30 Toronto ......................... 42 22 7 91 239 204 Brian Harman .................................... 35 33 — 68 -4
Kennard 0-1), Denver 12-28 (Murray 5-8, Millsap 2-4, (Duval 4-5, Trent 4-9, Allen 4-10, Bagley 1-1, O’Connell Canete 1-3, Bogues 1-4, Harris 1-4), Texas Tech 4-16
CENTRAL W L Pct GB (Francis 1-2, Evans 1-2, Zh.Smith 1-2, Moretti 1-3, Gray Florida ........................... 35 26 7 77 208 212 J.B. Holmes ........................................ 34 34 — 68 -4
Jokic 2-5, Lyles 1-1, D.Harris 1-3, Barton 1-5, G.Harris 0-1, Goldwire 0-1, Robinson 0-1, Carter 0-2). Fouled out: Montreal ....................... 26 33 12 64 182 226 Brandon Harkins ................................ 34 35 — 69 -3
Indiana .......................................40 29 .580 — 0-1, Chandler 0-1). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Detroit None. Rebounds: Iona 26 (Edogi 9), Duke 37 (Carter 8). 0-1, Hamilton 0-2, Stevenson 0-2, Culver 0-2). Fouled
Cleveland ...................................39 29 .574 1/
2 out: Charles, Holyfield. Rebounds: Stephen F. Austin 31 Detroit .......................... 26 32 11 63 180 211 Justin Rose ........................................ 31 38 — 69 -3
41 (Drummond 17), Denver 45 (Jokic 12). Assists: Assists: Iona 16 (Casimir 6), Duke 24 (Allen 9). Total Ottawa .......................... 25 33 11 61 193 240 Graeme McDowell ............................. 35 34 — 69 -3
Milwaukee .................................36 32 .529 31/2 Detroit 30 (Griffin 9), Denver 26 (Jokic 10). Total Fouls: fouls: Iona 16, Duke 12. A: 18,757 (19,758). (Harris 8), Texas Tech 40 (Zh.Smith 8). Assists: Stephen
Detroit .......................................30 38 .441 91/2 F. Austin 9 (Charles, Harris 3), Texas Tech 14 (Evans 5). Buffalo .......................... 22 36 12 56 167 229 Zach Johnson ..................................... 35 34 — 69 -3
Detroit 20, Denver 15. Technicals: Drummond. A: 18,697 Tommy Fleetwood ............................. 34 35 — 69 -3
Chicago ......................................24 44 .353 151/2 (19,155). Total fouls: Stephen F. Austin 23, Texas Tech 21. WESTERN CONFERENCE
Technical fouls: Nieminen. Rory McIlroy ...................................... 32 37 — 69 -3
WESTERN CONFERENCE Emiliano Grillo ................................... 35 34 — 69 -3
Kansas 76, Penn 60 CENTRAL W L OL PTS. GF GA
Ernie Els ............................................. 36 33 — 69 -3
SOUTHWEST W L Pct GB Nashville ....................... 45 14 10 100 225 174
Jazz 116, Suns 88 Penn (24-9) Winnipeg ...................... 42 19 10 94 236 187
Sam Burns ......................................... 34 35 — 69 -3
x-Houston ..................................54 14 .794 — Bubba Watson ................................... 35 35 — 70 -2
Brodeur 6-16 1-4 14, Rothschild 0-1 1-2 1, Betley 3-9 0-0 Minnesota ..................... 39 24 7 85 217 203
New Orleans ..............................39 29 .574 15 PHOENIX ............................ 23 20 23 22 — 88
8, Woods 4-6 0-2 10, Foreman 4-9 1-4 10, Jones 1-2 0-0 3, Houston 67, San Diego St. 65 Colorado ........................ 38 24 8 84 224 204
William McGirt .................................. 35 35 — 70 -2
San Antonio ...............................39 30 .565 151/2 UTAH .................................. 20 36 25 35 — 116 Hideki Matsuyama ............................ 36 34 — 70 -2
Dallas .........................................22 46 .324 32 McManus 0-0 0-0 0, Goodman 0-1 0-0 0, Silpe 0-0 0-0 0, San Diego St. (22-11) Dallas ............................ 38 26 7 83 205 190
Donahue 0-0 0-0 0, Wood 4-12 2-2 14, MacDonald 0-0 0-0 Ryan Armour ...................................... 37 33 — 70 -2
Memphis ....................................18 50 .265 36 PHOENIX: Warren 8-18 3-3 19, Bender 2-5 2-2 7, Len 1-3 McDaniels 4-11 9-12 18, Pope 4-8 3-8 11, Kell 4-14 4-5 12, St. Louis ........................ 37 28 5 79 192 186
0. 22-56 Totals 5-14 60. Paul Goydos ....................................... 36 34 — 70 -2
1-2 3, Payton 2-3 0-0 4, Booker 3-18 5-5 12, Dudley 2-2 Watson 3-10 1-4 9, Mitchell 1-2 1-2 3, Montana 2-4 0-0 5, Chicago ......................... 30 33 8 68 201 213
Marc Leishman .................................. 35 35 — 70 -2
0-0 6, Jackson 6-11 4-6 17, Chriss 2-5 0-0 4, Peters 0-2 Kansas (28-7) Rooks 0-0 1-2 1, Schakel 0-0 2-2 2, Hemsley 2-5 0-0 4. Matt Every ......................................... 35 35 — 70 -2
NORTHWEST W L Pct GB
0-0 0, Ulis 3-8 0-0 8, Daniels 1-1 0-0 2, Harrison 2-6 2-6 6, Lightfoot 3-5 3-4 9, Mykhailiuk 3-8 2-2 10, Vick 5-7 2-2 20-54 Totals 21-35 65. PACIFIC W L OL PTS. GF GA Tyrrell Hatton .................................... 36 34 — 70 -2
Portland .....................................42 26 .618 —
Reed 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 32-83 17-24 88. 14, Graham 9-24 8-9 29, Newman 5-12 0-0 10, De Sousa Vegas ............................ 45 20 5 95 238 195 Kevin Chappell ................................... 34 36 — 70 -2
Oklahoma City ...........................41 29 .586 2 Houston (27-7)
Minnesota..................................40 29 .580 21/2 UTAH: Ingles 6-13 1-2 17, Favors 2-8 1-2 5, Gobert 8-11 1-2 0-0 2, Sosinski 0-0 0-0 0, Azubuike 0-0 0-0 0, Garrett Brady 0-0 0-0 0, D.Davis 4-14 1-2 9, Robinson 2-3 0-0 5, San Jose ........................ 38 23 9 85 207 192 Sam Horsfield .................................... 37 33 — 70 -2
Utah ...........................................39 30 .565 31/2 5-6 21, Rubio 5-15 0-2 12, Mitchell 10-21 1-4 23, O’Neale 1-3 0-0 2, Teahan 0-0 0-0 0, Young 0-0 0-0 0, Cunliffe 0-0 Gray 12-25 11-15 39, C.Davis 2-10 5-5 9, Grant 0-0 0-0 0, Los Angeles .................. 38 26 6 82 203 177 Beau Hossler ...................................... 36 35 — 71 -1
Denver........................................38 31 .551 41/2 1-6 4-4 7, Crowder 5-10 3-4 15, Niang 0-1 0-0 0, Jerebko 0-0 0. Totals 27-61 15-17 76. White 1-1 0-0 2, Zanna 0-1 1-2 1, Harris 1-1 0-0 2, Brooks Anaheim ....................... 35 24 12 82 198 193 Kyle Stanley ....................................... 36 35 — 71 -1
2-5 1-2 6, Udoh 0-0 0-0 0, Exum 3-7 4-6 10, Burks 0-0 0-0 0-4 0-0 0. Totals 22-59 18-24 67. Calgary .......................... 35 26 10 80 198 206 Padraig Harrington ............................ 37 34 — 71 -1
Halftime: Kansas 33-26. Three-point goals: Penn 11-29 Edmonton ..................... 30 35 5 65 196 226
PACIFIC W L Pct GB 0. Totals 42-97 20-32 116. (Wood 4-12, Woods 2-3, Betley 2-4, Jones 1-2, Brodeur Grayson Murray ................................. 36 35 — 71 -1
Halftime: Houston 39-29. Three-point goals: San Diego Vancouver ..................... 25 37 9 59 183 231 Tyler Duncan ...................................... 37 34 — 71 -1
x-Golden State...........................52 16 .765 — Three-point Goals: Phoenix 7-16 (Dudley 2-2, Ulis 2-2, 1-3, Foreman 1-5), Kansas 7-17 (Graham 3-8, Mykhailiuk St. 4-16 (Watson 2-4, McDaniels 1-2, Montana 1-3, Arizona ......................... 23 35 11 57 167 222
L.A. Clippers...............................37 30 .552 141/2 2-3, Vick 2-4, Newman 0-2). Fouled out: None. Rebounds: Ryan Moore ........................................ 34 37 — 71 -1
Jackson 1-1, Bender 1-4, Booker 1-4, Chriss 0-1, Harrison Mitchell 0-1, Pope 0-1, Hemsley 0-2, Kell 0-3), Houston Charley Hoffman ............................... 36 35 — 71 -1
L.A. Lakers .................................31 37 .456 21 0-1, Peters 0-1), Utah 12-36 (Ingles 4-9, Crowder 2-5, Penn 30 (Brodeur 9), Kansas 38 (Lightfoot 11). Assists: 5-13 (Gray 4-6, Robinson 1-1, Brooks 0-1, C.Davis 0-5). x-late game
Sacramento ...............................22 47 .319 301/2 Penn 16 (Brodeur, Rothschild, Foreman 3), Kansas 11 Alex Noren ......................................... 35 36 — 71 -1
Rubio 2-6, Mitchell 2-7, O’Neale 1-2, Jerebko 1-4, Exum Fouled out: White, D.Davis. Rebounds: San Diego St. 39 Jason Kokrak ..................................... 36 35 — 71 -1
Phoenix ......................................19 51 .271 34 0-1, Favors 0-2). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Phoenix (Graham 6). Total fouls: Penn 13, Kansas 14. (Pope 11), Houston 36 (D.Davis 9). Assists: San Diego WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
Tom Hoge ........................................... 35 36 — 71 -1
51 (Len, Jackson 9), Utah 53 (Gobert 13). Assists: St. 11 (Kell 4), Houston 5 (Robinson, C.Davis 2). Total Toronto 6, Dallas 5 (SO) Curtis Luck ......................................... 34 37 — 71 -1
x-clinched playoff spot Phoenix 14 (Harrison, Ulis 3), Utah 29 (Rubio 11). Total fouls: San Diego St. 19, Houston 25. N.Y. Rangers 4, Pittsburgh 3 (OT) Kevin Na ............................................. 35 36 — 71 -1
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS Fouls: Phoenix 25, Utah 20. Technicals: Chriss, Mitchell, Ollie Schniederjans ............................ 36 35 — 71 -1
Ingles. Ejected: Chriss, Dudley. A: 18,306 (19,911). San Jose 4, Edmonton 3 (OT)
Gonzaga 68, New Jersey 8, Vegas 3 James Hahn ....................................... 36 35 — 71 -1
Orlando 126, Milwaukee 117
Anaheim 3, Vancouver 0 Chris Kirk ........................................... 36 35 — 71 -1
Washington 125, Boston 124, 2OT North Carolina Greensboro 64 Alabama 86, Virginia Tech 83 Luke List ............................................ 34 37 — 71 -1
Sacramento 123, Miami 119, OT THURSDAY’S RESULTS Nick Taylor ......................................... 36 36 — 72 E
Bulls 111, Grizzlies 110 UNC Greensboro (27-8) Alabama (20-15)
Golden State 117, L.A. Lakers 106 Robert Gamez .................................... 35 37 — 72 E
Dickey 5-10 0-2 10, Smith 2-10 0-0 4, Kuiper 3-9 0-1 7, Hall 5-5 0-0 10, Key 0-2 0-0 0, Ingram 2-5 4-8 9, Sexton Washington 7, N.Y. Islanders 3
7-14 10-14 25, Jones 3-4 0-0 6, Reese 0-1 0-0 0, Smith 4-5 Hunter Mahan .................................... 36 36 — 72 E
THURSDAY’S RESULTS CHICAGO ............................ 22 30 26 33 — 111 Alonso 6-17 3-4 16, Troy 8-11 0-0 16, Galloway 1-3 0-0 3, Columbus 5, Philadelphia 3 Tyrone Van Aswegen ........................ 34 38 — 72 E
MEMPHIS ........................... 29 23 23 35 — 110 Collins 0-0 0-0 0, Massey 1-2 2-2 4, Miller 2-5 0-1 4, 0-0 8, Petty 6-9 2-2 20, Johnson 3-5 2-3 8. 30-50 Totals
Toronto 106, Indiana 99 18-27 86. Toronto 5, Buffalo 2 John Huh ............................................ 36 36 — 72 E
Sykes 0-0 0-0 0. 28-67 Totals 5-10 64.
Charlotte 129, Atlanta 117 CHICAGO: Nwaba 3-6 4-5 10, Vonleh 3-10 0-0 7, Lopez Pittsburgh 5, Montreal 3 Whee Kim .......................................... 36 36 — 72 E
Gonzaga (31-4) Virginia Tech (21-12) Florida 3, Boston 0 Billy Hurley III .................................... 38 34 — 72 E
Philadelphia 118, New York 110 2-3 0-0 5, Dunn 3-7 0-0 6, LaVine 4-12 10-10 20, Zipser Blackshear 3-5 2-4 8, Wilson 0-1 0-0 0, Robinson 6-8 6-6
1-3 2-2 4, Valentine 5-8 0-0 15, Portis 6-11 2-2 17, Felicio Williams 8-12 3-9 19, Tillie 1-6 0-0 2, Melson 2-5 0-1 4, Winnipeg 6, Chicago 2 Martin Laird ....................................... 36 36 — 72 E
Chicago 111, Memphis 110 Norvell 3-12 7-8 15, Perkins 7-14 0-0 16, Hachimura 1-6 19, Bibbs 6-12 2-2 17, Alexander-Walker 5-12 2-4 15, Sean O'Hair ........................................ 35 37 — 72 E
Houston 101, L.A. Clippers 96 3-4 3-6 9, Payne 3-9 0-0 8, Blakeney 2-7 5-8 10. Totals Horne 2-6 1-2 5, Hill 2-3 0-0 4, Bede 4-5 0-0 9, Jackson 1-1 Colorado 4, St. Louis 1
35-80 26-33 111. 2-4 4, Kispert 3-4 1-3 8, Jones 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-59 Patrick Rodgers ................................. 36 36 — 72 E
San Antonio 98, New Orleans 93 13-25 68. 0-0 2, Clarke 1-1 1-2 4. Totals 30-54 14-20 83. Detroit at Los Angeles, Late Keegan Bradley .................................. 36 36 — 72 E
Denver 120, Detroit 113 MEMPHIS: Martin 6-12 3-4 16, Green 7-13 0-0 15, Gasol Nashville at Arizona, Late Francesco Molinari ............................ 38 34 — 72 E
Halftime: Gonzaga 32-23. Three-point goals: UNC Halftime: Virginia Tech 43-41. Three-point goals: Ala-
Utah 116, Phoenix 88 7-14 5-7 21, Evans 8-18 4-5 25, Brooks 4-12 5-5 15, bama 8-18 (Petty 6-8, Ingram 1-2, Sexton 1-5, Key 0-1, Harris English .................................... 39 33 — 72 E
Parsons 0-3 0-0 0, Davis 3-6 0-0 6, Weber 1-2 0-0 2, Greensboro 3-22 (Galloway 1-2, Kuiper 1-4, Alonso 1-7, FRIDAY’S GAMES
Portland 113, Cleveland 105 Johnson 0-2), Virginia Tech 9-18 (Bibbs 3-5, Alexander- Charles Howell III .............................. 37 35 — 72 E
Simmons 0-1 2-2 2, Selden 2-5 2-2 8, McLemore 0-1 0-0 Troy 0-2, Smith 0-7), Gonzaga 5-23 (Perkins 2-7, Norvell
Walker 3-8, Bede 1-1, Clarke 1-1, Robinson 1-3). Fouled N.Y. Islanders at Washington, 7 Austin Cook ....................................... 37 35 — 72 E
FRIDAY’S GAMES 0. Totals 38-87 21-25 110. 2-8, Kispert 1-2, Hachimura 0-1, Tillie 0-2, Melson 0-3).
out: Blackshear, Robinson, Bede. Rebounds: Alabama 25 Dallas at Ottawa, 7:30 Danny Willett .................................... 36 36 — 72 E
Fouled out: Dickey. Rebounds: UNC Greensboro 39
Three-point Goals: Chicago 15-41 (Valentine 5-7, Portis (Ingram 7), Virginia Tech 19 (Horne 4). Assists: Alabama Nashville at Colorado, 9 Stewart Cink ...................................... 36 36 — 72 E
Boston at Orlando, 7 (Dickey 11), Gonzaga 33 (Williams 13). Assists: UNC
3-6, Payne 2-5, LaVine 2-7, Lopez 1-1, Blakeney 1-4, 19 (Sexton 6), Virginia Tech 14 (Robinson 7). Total fouls: San Jose at Calgary, 9 Bud Cauley ......................................... 34 38 — 72 E
Brooklyn at Philadelphia, 7 Greensboro 7 (Alonso, Troy, Massey 2), Gonzaga 7
Vonleh 1-6, Zipser 0-1, Nwaba 0-1, Dunn 0-3), Memphis Alabama 18, Virginia Tech 22. Technical fouls: Virginia Lucas Glover ...................................... 39 33 — 72 E
Dallas at Toronto, 7:30 (Perkins, Tillie 2). Total fouls: UNC Greensboro 22, Detroit at Anaheim, 10
13-35 (Evans 5-9, Selden 2-5, Brooks 2-6, Gasol 2-6, Tech coach Buzz Williams. Doc Redman ....................................... 38 34 — 72 E
L.A. Clippers at Oklahoma City, 8 Gonzaga 14. Minnesota at Vegas, 10:30
Green 1-3, Martin 1-5, Parsons 0-1). Fouled Out: None. Collin Morikawa ................................. 36 36 — 72 E
Miami at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 Rebounds: Chicago 42 (Vonleh 10), Memphis 47 (Green, SATURDAY’S GAMES Alex Cejka .......................................... 36 37 — 73 +1
Sacramento at Golden State, 10:30 Gasol 10). Assists: Chicago 23 (Payne 5), Memphis 27 Kevin Streelman ................................ 39 34 — 73 +1
(Evans 9). Total Fouls: Chicago 23, Memphis 22. A: Buffalo 89, Arizona 68 Chicago at Buffalo, 1 Ian Poulter ......................................... 36 37 — 73 +1
SATURDAY’S GAMES 16,511 (18,119). Rhode Island 83, Edmonton at Florida, 2 HaoTong Li ......................................... 34 39 — 73 +1
Buffalo (27-8) New Jersey at Los Angeles, 4
Atlanta at Milwaukee, 6 Oklahoma 78 (OT) Smart 2-3 0-0 4, Harris 10-20 0-0 23, Clark 10-14 2-2 25, Montreal at Toronto, 7
Houston at New Orleans, 7 Massinburg 6-11 2-2 19, Jordan 1-1 0-0 2, McRae 1-1 0-0
Oklahoma (18-14) Philadelphia at Carolina, 7
Indiana at Washington, 7
Blazers 113, Cavaliers 105 Doolittle 3-7 2-2 8, McNeace 5-8 4-7 14, Young 9-18 7-8 3, Agorioge 0-0 0-0 0, Johnson 0-0 0-0 0, Perkins 4-9 2-3
Ottawa at Columbus, 7
BAS E BALL
Charlotte at New York, 7:30 13, Bertram 0-0 0-0 0, Moultrie 0-1 0-0 0, Reese 0-0 0-0 0,
28, McGusty 4-9 1-2 9, James 2-7 0-0 5, Manek 2-10 0-0 Boston at Tampa Bay, 7
Dallas at Brooklyn, 7:30 CLEVELAND ....................... 29 25 23 28 — 105 4, Lattin 1-3 0-0 2, Odomes 1-5 2-4 4, Lazenby 0-0 0-0 0, Graves 0-1 0-0 0, Caruthers 0-1 0-0 0. 34-62 Totals 6-7
Cleveland at Chicago, 8 PORTLAND ......................... 29 30 29 25 — 113 Shepherd 2-2 0-1 4. 29-69 Totals 16-24 78. 89. N.Y. Rangers at St. Louis, 8 Astros 12, Nationals 3
Denver at Memphis, 8 Minnesota at Arizona, 9
Rhode Island (26-7) Arizona (27-8) HOUSTON AB R H BI WASHINGTON AB R H BI
Minnesota at San Antonio, 8:30 CLEVELAND: James 15-25 4-9 35, Hood 2-6 0-0 5, Green Ayton 6-13 2-5 14, Ristic 7-8 2-2 16, Alkins 4-9 0-0 8, San Jose at Vancouver, 10
5-12 5-6 16, Hill 3-5 0-0 8, Korver 7-13 2-2 19, Zizic 0-1 Berry 2-6 1-2 5, Terrell 4-15 2-2 13, Robinson 3-8 1-4 8, Sprnger dh 3 0 0 0 T.Trner ss 2 0 1 0
Sacramento at Utah, 9 Dowtin 4-9 0-1 8, Matthews 6-14 1-1 16, Langevine 5-8 Trier 4-15 2-2 10, Jackson-Cartwright 3-9 0-0 7, Lee 1-1
0-0 0, Holland 2-3 0-0 5, Clarkson 6-12 1-2 14, Smith 1-3 2-2 4, Pinder 3-3 0-0 6, Smith 0-1 0-0 0, Randolph 1-2 0-0 G.Stbbs ph 2 0 0 0 Stvnson lf 3 0 0 0
Detroit at Portland, 10 4-6 14, Garrett 1-5 1-2 4, Russell 5-12 2-2 15. Totals
0-2 3. Totals 41-80 12-21 105. 3, Akot 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 29-64 8-11 68. Bregman 3b 2 2 2 0 Kndrick 2b 2 0 1 0
Golden State at Phoenix, 10 30-77 12-20 83. Avalanche 4, Blues 1 Trompiz ph 1 0 0 1 Rynolds 3b 1 1 0 0
PORTLAND: Harkless 6-10 3-4 17, Aminu 4-8 0-0 11, Halftime: Buffalo 40-38. Three-point goals: Buffalo
Nurkic 3-9 1-4 7, Lillard 7-20 9-9 24, McCollum 12-24 2-2 Halftime: Oklahoma 35-31. End Of Regulation_Tied 69. COLORADO .............................. 2 1 1 — 4 C.Crrea ss 3 2 1 0 B.Hrper rf 2 0 0 0
Three-point goals: Oklahoma 4-20 (Young 3-9, James 15-30 (Massinburg 5-8, Clark 3-5, Perkins 3-6, Harris 3-9, J.Arauz ss 2 1 1 1 M.Serra rf 2 0 0 0
29, Davis 0-1 0-0 0, Collins 1-3 0-0 2, Napier 3-7 0-0 7, McRae 1-1, Moultrie 0-1), Arizona 2-18 (Randolph 1-1, ST. LOUIS ................................. 0 1 0 — 1
Turner 5-10 0-0 11, Connaughton 2-4 0-0 5. Totals 43-96 1-3, Odomes 0-1, Manek 0-3, McGusty 0-4), Rhode Island Gnzalez 2b 3 2 2 2 A.Rndon 3b 1 0 1 0
Raptors 106, Pacers 99 15-19 113. 11-28 (Terrell 3-5, Russell 3-6, Matthews 3-8, Garrett Jackson-Cartwright 1-4, Ristic 0-1, Smith 0-1, Alkins FIRST PERIOD Ry.Birk 2b 1 1 1 0 Dmnguez 1b 2 1 1 1
1-3, Robinson 1-4, Dowtin 0-2). Fouled out: James. 0-2, Ayton 0-2, Akot 0-2, Trier 0-5). Fouled out: None. Reddick rf 3 0 2 2 Wieters c 2 0 0 0
TORONTO ........................... 25 24 28 29 — 106 Three-point Goals: Cleveland 11-33 (Korver 3-8, Hill 2-4, Rebounds: Buffalo 30 (Harris 7), Arizona 30 (Ayton 12). Scoring: 1, Colorado, MacKinnon 34 (Landeskog, Rant- K.Tcker pr 2 1 2 1 Brignac 2b 1 1 0 0
Rebounds: Oklahoma 50 (Doolittle 12), Rhode Island 37
INDIANA ............................. 27 30 22 20 — 99 Holland 1-2, Smith 1-2, Hood 1-4, Green 1-4, James 1-4, Assists: Buffalo 13 (Clark 7), Arizona 13 (Alkins 5). Total anen), 10:11. 2, Colorado, MacKinnon 35 (Barrie, Rant- T.White 1b 3 1 1 1 M.Adams 1b 2 0 0 0
(Langevine 10). Assists: Oklahoma 13 (Young 8), Rhode
Clarkson 1-5), Portland 12-35 (Aminu 3-6, McCollum fouls: Buffalo 15, Arizona 11. anen), 13:03. A..Reed ph 3 0 1 1 Sverino c 1 0 0 0
TORONTO: Miller 1-2 2-2 4, Ibaka 5-13 0-0 13, Valanciu- Island 16 (Terrell 5). Total fouls: Oklahoma 18, Rhode
3-10, Harkless 2-4, Napier 1-2, Connaughton 1-2, Turner Island 17. SECOND PERIOD Mrsnick cf 2 0 0 1 V.Rbles cf 2 0 0 0
nas 5-14 5-5 16, Lowry 3-10 4-4 13, DeRozan 8-15 6-7 24, 1-3, Lillard 1-8). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Cleveland D.Fsher cf 1 0 0 0 Sanchez ss 2 0 0 0
Miles 3-9 1-2 10, Siakam 5-7 2-2 12, Poeltl 1-1 2-2 4, 34 (James 14), Portland 50 (Nurkic 10). Assists: Scoring: 3, St. Louis, Edmundson 7 (Jaskin, Parayko), L.Pyano cf 1 0 1 1 R.Rburn lf 2 0 0 0
VanVleet 1-4 0-0 2, Wright 3-5 2-4 8. Totals 35-80 24-28 Cleveland 17 (James 6), Portland 26 (Lillard 9). Total Florida 77, St. Bonaventure 62 9:15. 4, Colorado, Rantanen 24 (Landeskog), 16:29. M.Stssi c 2 0 0 0 Perkins cf 1 0 0 1
106. Fouls: Cleveland 21, Portland 15. Technicals: Cleveland Ohio St. 81, South Dakota St. 73 E.Gttis ph 2 1 1 0 Wi.Difo dh 2 0 1 0
coach Cavaliers (Delay of game), Portland coach Trail St. Bonaventure (26-8) THIRD PERIOD
INDIANA: Bogdanovic 1-10 3-3 6, T.Young 6-13 0-0 13, To.Kemp lf 3 0 1 1 Kieboom ph 1 0 0 1
Blazers (Defensive three second) 2. A: 19,806 (19,393). S. Dakota St. (28-7) Stockard 5-12 4-5 14, Ikpeze 1-2 1-2 3, Taqqee 1-3 2-3 4, Scoring: 5, Colorado, Rantanen 25 (MacKinnon,
Turner 1-2 0-0 2, Joseph 2-7 1-2 6, Oladipo 8-19 1-1 18, J.Kmmer lf 2 1 1 0
Daum 9-20 4-6 27, Flatten 0-3 0-0 0, King 2-5 0-0 4, Adams 2-6 7-8 11, Mobley 3-13 3-4 10, Griffin 2-5 4-6 9, Landeskog), 19:18.
Robinson III 1-2 0-0 2, Booker 0-5 0-0 0, Jefferson 9-15 TOTALS 41 12 17 12 TOTALS 31 3 5 3
Jenkins 4-17 6-6 16, Tellinghuisen 3-7 2-2 10, Theisen Ngalakulondi 1-2 0-0 2, Lee 0-0 0-0 0, Brockington 1-1 3-4
2-3 20, Collison 8-11 3-6 22, Stephenson 4-9 2-2 10.
0-0 0-0 0, Key 6-10 0-0 16, Severyn 0-1 0-0 0. 24-63 5, Galatio 0-0 0-0 0, Kaputo 1-4 1-2 4. 17-48 Totals 25-34 SHOTS ON GOAL
Totals 40-93 12-17 99. HOUSTON 300 040 005 — 12
Totals 12-14 73. 62.
Three-point Goals: Toronto 12-32 (Lowry 3-7, Miles 3-7, Warriors 117, Lakers 106 COLORADO .............................. 8 9 6 — 23 WASHINGTON 000 000 003 — 3
Ohio St. (25-8) Florida (21-12) ST. LOUIS ............................... 13 10 22 — 45
Ibaka 3-8, DeRozan 2-5, Valanciunas 1-1, VanVleet 0-1, Late Wednesday E: Arauz (1), Harper (1). DP: Houston 0, Washington 2.
Tate 3-4 1-2 8, Bates-Diop 7-19 6-6 24, K.Wesson 0-1 0-0 Hayes 1-2 0-0 2, Chiozza 3-9 2-2 8, Koulechov 8-17 0-0 Power-play opportunities: Colorado 0 of 1; St. Louis 0 of
Siakam 0-1, Wright 0-2), Indiana 7-24 (Collison 3-4, LOB: Houston 14, Washington 7. 2B: Arauz (1), Gonzalez
L.A. LAKERS ....................... 23 32 27 24 — 106 0, Williams 8-15 4-4 22, Jackson 8-19 0-3 20, A.Wesson 20, Hudson 6-14 2-4 16, Allen 2-8 2-2 7, Bassett 2-3 0-0 4, 2. Goalies: Colorado, Varlamov 19-13-6 (45 shots-44
T.Young 1-4, Oladipo 1-4, Bogdanovic 1-4, Joseph 1-4, (3), Reddick (1), Kemmer (1), Dominguez (3). SB:
GOLDEN STATE .................. 26 29 34 28 — 117 0-6 2-2 2, Potter 0-0 0-0 0, Dakich 1-7 2-2 5, Jallow 0-1 Stone 2-8 3-4 9, Gak 0-0 1-2 1, Okauru 2-3 2-2 7, Fava 0-0 saves). St. Louis, Allen 21-20-2 (22-19).
Turner 0-1, Booker 0-1, Stephenson 0-1, Robinson III Dominguez (2). CS: Kemp (2). SF: Trompiz (1), Marisnick
0-0 0. Totals 27-72 15-19 81. 0-0 0, Ballard 1-1 1-2 3, Krause 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 27-65
0-1). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Toronto 58 (Valanciu- (2).
nas 17), Indiana 35 (Jefferson 12). Assists: Toronto 20 L.A. LAKERS: Caldwell-Pope 4-13 3-4 13, Randle 8-10 6-9 Halftime: 43-43. Three-point goals: S. Dakota St. 13-31 13-18 77.
22, Lopez 8-15 2-3 20, Ball 3-11 1-3 8, Thomas 6-14 3-3 HOUSTON IP H R ER BB SO
(DeRozan 7), Indiana 17 (Collison, Joseph 4). Total (Daum 5-10, Key 4-5, Tellinghuisen 2-4, Jenkins 2-8, Halftime: Florida 27-22. Three-point goals: St. Bonaven- Maple Leafs 5, Sabres 2
Fouls: Toronto 19, Indiana 25. Technicals: DeRozan. 20, Wear 1-6 2-2 5, Williams 1-4 0-0 2, Zubac 0-2 0-2 0, King 0-1, Flatten 0-3), Ohio St. 12-40 (Jackson 4-9, Keuchel (W, 1-0) 5 4 0 0 1 2
ture 3-19 (Griffin 1-1, Kaputo 1-3, Mobley 1-9, Adams
Caruso 2-2 0-0 4, Ennis 5-6 1-2 12. Totals 38-83 18-28 Bates-Diop 4-13, Williams 2-4, Tate 1-1, Dakich 1-7, TORONTO ................................ 2 2 1 — 5 Rondon 1 0 0 0 0 3
0-3, Stockard 0-3), Florida 10-32 (Koulechov 4-10, Stone
106. Jallow 0-1, A.Wesson 0-5). Fouled out: Tate. Rebounds: BUFFALO ................................. 1 1 0 — 2 Smith 1 0 0 0 0 1
2-5, Hudson 2-8, Okauru 1-1, Allen 1-5, Chiozza 0-3).
GOLDEN STATE: Durant 10-19 5-5 26, Looney 4-8 3-4 11, S. Dakota St. 33 (King 9), Ohio St. 44 (Bates-Diop 12). Fouled out: Stockard. Rebounds: St. Bonaventure 37 McHugh 1 0 0 0 0 3
Assists: S. Dakota St. 8 (Key 4), Ohio St. 15 (Jackson 5).
FIRST PERIOD Boshers .1 1 3 3 3 1
Pachulia 4-8 2-3 10, Cook 5-11 2-2 13, Young 6-13 3-3 18, (Taqqee 13), Florida 33 (Stone 8). Assists: St. Bonaven-
Total fouls: S. Dakota St. 15, Ohio St. 15. A: 11,662 Scoring: 1, Toronto, van Riemsdyk 30 (Rielly, Brown), Dorris .2 0 0 0 2 1
Hornets 129, Hawks 117 Casspi 7-8 1-4 15, Boucher 0-1 0-0 0, Bell 1-1 4-4 6,
(12,480).
ture 10 (Brockington, Taqqee, Adams 2), Florida 19
3:39. 2, Toronto, van Riemsdyk 31 (Gardiner, Polak),
McGee 0-2 2-2 2, Jones 0-0 0-0 0, Livingston 6-8 1-1 13, (Chiozza 11). Total fouls: St. Bonaventure 19, Florida 21. WASHINGTON IP H R ER BB SO
CHARLOTTE ....................... 33 30 34 32 — 129 Iguodala 1-1 0-0 3. Totals 44-80 23-28 117. 6:39. 3, Buffalo, Reinhart 18 (Rodrigues, Wilson), 14:29
(pp). Milone (L, 0-1) 2 5 3 3 2 2
ATLANTA ........................... 23 32 24 38 — 117 Three-point Goals: L.A. Lakers 12-37 (Thomas 5-9, Lopez Gott 1 1 0 0 0 2
CHARLOTTE: Kidd-Gilchrist 5-5 1-2 11, Williams 7-9 0-3 2-5, Caldwell-Pope 2-7, Ennis 1-1, Wear 1-4, Ball 1-8, Loyola Chicago 64, Miami 62 Michigan 61, Montana 47 SECOND PERIOD Solis 1 1 0 0 0 1
17, Howard 13-20 7-8 33, Walker 6-14 6-6 24, Batum 4-9 Randle 0-1), Golden State 6-20 (Young 3-8, Iguodala 1-1, Adams 0 0 4 3 4 0
Cook 1-3, Durant 1-7, Boucher 0-1). Rebounds: L.A. Scoring: 4, Toronto, Carrick 4 (Marleau, Nylander), 6:22.
0-1 10, Bacon 0-1 0-0 0, Kaminsky 3-8 3-7 11, Hernan- Loyola Chicago (29-5) Montana (26-8) Grace 2 2 0 0 1 2
Lakers 33 (Randle 10), Golden State 50 (Pachulia 12). 5, Toronto, Bozak 11 (Marner, van Riemsdyk), 14:10
gomez 0-0 0-0 0, Monk 3-8 0-0 7, Stone 0-0 0-0 0, Lamb Krutwig 4-6 3-4 11, Richardson 0-1 0-0 0, Townes 3-7 1-2 Akoh 1-6 0-0 2, Krslovic 2-5 1-2 5, Moorehead 1-5 1-2 3, Doolittle 1 1 0 0 1 1
Assists: L.A. Lakers 25 (Ball 11), Golden State 25 (pp). 6, Buffalo, Pominville 12 (Ristolainen, Rodrigues),
3-8 3-3 11, Graham 2-5 0-0 5. Totals 46-87 20-30 129. 7, Custer 5-10 0-0 14, Ingram 5-14 0-1 13, Jackson 6-12 Oguine 5-11 4-4 15, Rorie 6-17 1-1 15, Pridgett 3-11 1-2 Kintzler 1 2 0 0 0 1
(Durant 6). Total Fouls: L.A. Lakers 19, Golden State 24. 19:01 (pp).
0-0 12, Skokna 1-1 0-0 2, Williamson 2-4 0-2 5, 7, Falls 0-1 0-0 0. 18-56 Totals 8-11 47. Guillon .2 5 5 5 2 0
ATLANTA: Prince 8-18 0-0 22, Collins 7-10 5-7 21, Technicals: L.A. Lakers coach Lakers (Delay of game). Satterwhite 0-0 0-0 0. 26-55 Totals 4-9 64. THIRD PERIOD Romero .1 0 0 0 0 0
Dedmon 2-5 1-2 5, Schroder 7-18 2-2 17, Dorsey 4-9 0-0 Michigan (29-7)
11, White III 0-2 0-0 0, Cavanaugh 3-5 4-4 11, Muscala Miami (22-10) Livers 0-2 0-0 0, Wagner 2-6 0-0 5, Simpson 2-3 0-0 5, Scoring: 7, Toronto, Marleau 23, 19:16. Umpires: Home, Carlos Torres; First, CB Bucknor; Sec-
2-7 1-2 5, Taylor 4-8 3-7 11, Lee 5-8 1-2 14. Totals 42-90 Huell 5-7 1-3 11, Lykes 3-11 3-4 10, Walker 5-12 0-1 12, Abdur-Rahkman 3-11 4-7 11, Matthews 7-13 6-8 20, ond, Paul Nauert; Third, Ben May.
17-26 117. Newton 5-8 1-1 11, Lawrence 2-3 0-0 4, Waardenburg 0-0 Teske 0-2 2-4 2, Poole 1-2 0-0 3, Brooks 1-1 0-0 2, SHOTS ON GOAL
Kings 123, Heat 119 (OT) 0-0 0, Izundu 1-3 3-4 5, Vasiljevic 4-5 0-0 9. Totals 25-49 Simmons 3-3 0-1 6, Robinson 2-4 2-2 7. Totals 21-47 TORONTO .............................. 18 8 13 — 39
Three-point Goals: Charlotte 17-33 (Walker 6-10, Wil- 8-13 62. 14-22 61. BUFFALO ............................... 11 19 10 — 40
liams 3-5, Lamb 2-3, Batum 2-4, Kaminsky 2-4, Monk Late Wednesday
1-3, Graham 1-4), Atlanta 16-36 (Prince 6-12, Lee 3-5, Halftime: 28-28. Three-point goals: Loyola Chicago 8-21 Halftime: Michigan 31-28. Three-point goals: Montana Power-play opportunities: Toronto 1 of 3; Buffalo 2 of 5. S OC C E R
MIAMI ............................ 31 21 27 32 8 — 119 (Custer 4-6, Ingram 3-8, Williamson 1-2, Richardson 0-1, 3-15 (Rorie 2-7, Oguine 1-3, Pridgett 0-1, Falls 0-1, Goalies: Toronto, McElhinney 9-4-1 (40 shots-38 saves).
Dorsey 3-6, Collins 2-3, Cavanaugh 1-2, Schroder 1-4, SACRAMENTO .............. 24 35 32 20 12 — 123
Dedmon 0-2, Muscala 0-2). Rebounds: Charlotte 45 Jackson 0-2, Townes 0-2), Miami 4-9 (Walker 2-6, Moorehead 0-3), Michigan 5-16 (Simpson 1-1, Wagner Buffalo, Lehner 14-25-9 (38-34).
(Howard 12), Atlanta 46 (Prince 10). Assists: Charlotte Vasiljevic 1-1, Lykes 1-2). Fouled out: Lawrence. Re- 1-1, Poole 1-1, Robinson 1-3, Abdur-Rahkman 1-6, Livers MLS
MIAMI: Babbitt 0-3 0-0 0, J.Johnson 7-11 4-4 18,
30 (Batum 16), Atlanta 30 (Schroder 8). Total Fouls: bounds: Loyola Chicago 24 (Ingram 7), Miami 30 (Huell 0-1, Matthews 0-3). Fouled out: Falls. Rebounds: Mon-
Adebayo 2-9 2-2 6, Dragic 11-21 8-9 33, T.Johnson 5-10
Charlotte 21, Atlanta 27. Technicals: Howard. 7). Assists: Loyola Chicago 19 (Richardson 8), Miami 11 tana 33 (Moorehead 9), Michigan 35 (Matthews 11).
0-0 14, Winslow 4-12 0-0 10, Olynyk 4-13 3-4 13, EASTERN W L T PTS GF GA
Ellington 7-19 2-2 22, McGruder 1-1 0-0 3. Totals 41-99
(Waardenburg 4). Total fouls: Loyola Chicago 14, Miami Assists: Montana 7 (Oguine 3), Michigan 11 (Simpson Blue Jackets 5, Flyers 3
13. A: 15,802 (19,200). 4). Total fouls: Montana 21, Michigan 14. Columbus .........................2 0 0 6 5 2
19-21 119. COLUMBUS .............................. 3 1 1 — 5 New York City FC .............2 0 0 6 4 1
76ers 118, Knicks 110 SACRAMENTO: Jackson 4-7 0-0 9, Randolph 9-16 2-4 22, PHILADELPHIA ........................ 1 2 0 — 3 New York .........................1 0 0 3 4 0
Cauley-Stein 3-10 4-4 10, Fox 9-14 2-5 20, Bogdanovic FIRST PERIOD Philadelphia .....................1 0 0 3 2 0
PHILADELPHIA .................. 32 28 23 35 — 118 5-14 2-2 14, Koufos 3-4 0-0 6, Mason 3-6 5-6 11, Temple
TRANSACTIONS New England ....................1 1 0 3 2 3
NEW YORK ......................... 32 36 23 19 — 110 2-3 0-0 5, Hield 9-16 4-4 24, Carter 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 48-94
Seton Hall 94, N.C. State 83 Scoring: 1, Columbus, Bjorkstrand 11 (Milano, Jones), Atlanta United FC ............1 1 0 3 3 5
19-25 123. N.C. State (21-12) 9:41. 2, Columbus, Jenner 9 (Johnson, Vanek), 9:52. 3, Orlando City .....................0 1 1 1 2 3
PHILADELPHIA: Saric 7-13 3-4 21, Covington 5-8 0-0 15, MLB Philadelphia, Giroux 26 (Konecny, MacDonald), 11:34. 4,
Yurtseven 1-4 0-0 2, A.Freeman 12-19 6-7 36, Beverly D.C. United .......................0 1 1 1 2 4
Embiid 11-21 5-7 29, Simmons 5-11 3-8 13, Redick 5-14 Three-point Goals: Miami 18-43 (Ellington 6-17, T.John- Columbus, Atkinson 14 (Panarin, Werenski), 18:08.
0-5 0-0 0, Johnson 5-9 0-1 12, Dorn 5-14 5-8 18, Baltimore Orioles: Named Scott Lewis vice president of Chicago ............................0 1 0 0 3 4
6-9 18, Ilyasova 3-13 1-2 9, Johnson 0-1 1-2 1, McConnell son 4-8, Dragic 3-4, Winslow 2-3, Olynyk 2-6, McGruder
L.Freeman 4-4 5-11 13, Abu 0-2 0-0 0, Batts 1-2 0-0 2, strategy and analytics. Montreal ..........................0 2 0 0 3 5
1-3 0-0 2, Belinelli 4-7 2-2 10. Totals 41-91 21-34 118. 1-1, J.Johnson 0-1, Babbitt 0-3), Sacramento 8-24 SECOND PERIOD Toronto FC .......................0 1 0 0 0 2
(Randolph 2-4, Bogdanovic 2-5, Hield 2-7, Temple 1-1, Hunt 0-2 0-0 0. 28-61 Totals 16-27 83. Boston Red Sox: Reassigned C Oscar Hernandez to minor
NEW YORK: Hardaway Jr. 3-13 2-2 9, Beasley 11-16 1-3 league camp. Scoring: 5, Philadelphia, Gostisbehere 11 (Couturier,
24, Kanter 5-11 4-6 14, Mudiay 5-12 2-2 12, Lee 6-10 3-4 Jackson 1-2, Fox 0-1, Mason 0-1, Cauley-Stein 0-1, Seton Hall (22-11) Provorov), 0:14 (pp). 6, Columbus, Atkinson 15 (Savard),
Carter 0-2). Fouled Out: Winslow. Rebounds: Miami 53 Nzei 1-1 0-0 2, Delgado 4-7 5-8 13, Powell 4-12 10-12 19, New York Yankees: Reassigned RHP Chance Adams to WESTERN W L T PTS GF GA
16, Hicks 0-2 1-2 1, O’Quinn 7-9 1-3 15, Ntilikina 0-1 0-0 minor league camp. 3:23. 7, Philadelphia, MacDonald 6 (Sanheim, Konecny), Los Angeles FC ................2 0 0 6 6 1
0, Burke 7-11 1-2 16, Dotson 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 45-87 (Adebayo 16), Sacramento 43 (Randolph, Cauley-Stein Carrington 6-14 11-13 26, Cale 1-3 2-2 4, Mamukelashvili 12:23.
9). Assists: Miami 26 (J.Johnson 7), Sacramento 23 0-0 0-0 0, Sanogo 4-6 1-2 10, Rodriguez 8-14 2-2 20, Toronto Blue Jays: Optioned OF Dwight Smith Jr., and Vancouver ........................2 0 0 6 4 2
15-24 110. RHP Taylor Guerrieri to Buffalo (IL). Houston ...........................1 1 0 3 5 2
(Randolph 4). Total Fouls: Miami 23, Sacramento 21. Gordon 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 28-58 31-39 94. THIRD PERIOD
Three-point Goals: Philadelphia 15-37 (Covington 5-7, Technicals: Dragic, Koufos. A: 17,583 (17,608). Chicago Cubs: Released RHP Justin Grimm. San Jose ...........................1 0 0 3 3 2
Saric 4-8, Ilyasova 2-5, Embiid 2-5, Redick 2-8, McCon- Halftime: Seton Hall 51-41. Three-point goals: N.C. Cincinnati Reds: Named John Farrell internal scout. Scoring: 8, Columbus, Atkinson 16 (Savard, Panarin), Minnesota United ............1 1 0 3 4 4
nell 0-1, Belinelli 0-3), New York 5-20 (Dotson 1-1, Burke State 11-30 (A.Freeman 6-8, Dorn 3-7, Johnson 2-6, Washington Nationals: Optioned RHP Wander Suero and 19:59. LA Galaxy .........................1 1 0 3 3 3
1-2, Beasley 1-2, Lee 1-3, Hardaway Jr. 1-8, Ntilikina 0-1, Batts 0-1, Abu 0-1, Yurtseven 0-1, Hunt 0-2, Beverly OF Rafael Bautista to Syracuse (IL). Sporting KC ......................1 1 0 3 4 5
0-4), Seton Hall 7-21 (Carrington 3-5, Rodriguez 2-6, SHOTS ON GOAL Dallas ...............................0 0 1 1 1 1
Mudiay 0-1, Hicks 0-2). Fouled Out: Beasley. Rebounds:
Philadelphia 53 (Saric 12), New York 44 (Beasley 13). NBA leaders Sanogo 1-1, Powell 1-7, Cale 0-1, Gordon 0-1). Fouled NFL COLUMBUS .............................. 8 14 7 — 29 Real Salt Lake ..................0 1 1 1 2 6
Assists: Philadelphia 29 (Simmons 12), New York 26 Through Wednesday’s games out: Mamukelashvili, Delgado, Beverly, Johnson, Yurt- Chicago Bears: Signed LB Aaron Lynch to a one-year PHILADELPHIA ........................ 9 9 12 — 30 Colorado ...........................0 1 0 0 1 2
(Beasley 7). Total Fouls: Philadelphia 21, New York 25. seven. Rebounds: N.C. State 33 (Dorn 12), Seton Hall 38 contract. Signed WR Allen Robinson, TE Trey Burton, Power-play opportunities: Columbus 0 of 1; Philadelphia Seattle .............................0 1 0 0 0 1
A: 18,894 (19,812). SCORING G FG FT PTS. AVG. (Sanogo 10). Assists: N.C. State 14 (Johnson 4), Seton WR Taylor Gabriel, K Cody Parkey and QB Chase Daniel. 1 of 3. Goalies: Columbus, Bobrovsky 31-21-5 (30 Portland ...........................0 2 0 0 1 6
Hall 12 (Delgado 4). Total fouls: N.C. State 30, Seton Hall Cincinnati Bengals: Agreed to terms with TE Tyler Eifert shots-27 saves). Philadelphia, Lyon 2-2-0 (18-18),
Harden, HOU ..................... 59 542 515 1831 31.0 23. A: 14,390 (15,000).
Davis, NOR ........................ 60 621 394 1684 28.1 on a one-year contract and P Kevin Huber on a three-year Mrazek 12-12-4 (10-6). A: 19,354 (19,543). T: 2:23. SATURDAY’S MATCHES
Antetokounmpo, MIL ....... 64 641 430 1746 27.3 contract.
Cleveland Browns: Traded DB Jason McCourty and the Houston at D.C. United, 1:30
Rockets 101, Clippers 96 James, CLE ........................ 67 689 302 1802 26.9
219th pick in the 2018 draft to New England for the Chicago at Minnesota United, 2
Lillard, POR ....................... 60 514 390 1613 26.9
Durant, GOL ...................... 60 562 313 1594 26.6 Villanova 87, Radford 61 205th pick in the 2018 draft. Terminated the contract of Penguins 5, Canadiens 3 Columbus at Philadelphia, 2
L.A. CLIPPERS .................... 26 25 23 22 — 96 DB B.W. Webb. Waived DL Ricky Ali’ifua and Collin
Curry, GOL ......................... 50 418 272 1317 26.3 Toronto FC at Montreal, 3
HOUSTON ........................... 28 19 31 23 — 101 Radford (23-13) Blevins, OL Zach Banner and Joseph Cheek, LB Jeremy PITTSBURGH ........................... 2 1 2 — 5
Westbrook, OKC ............... 68 645 350 1721 25.3 Orlando City at New York City FC, 3:30
Polite 3-10 0-0 6, Phillips 1-4 3-4 5, Jones 3-12 5-6 11, Cash, WR Sammie Coates, DB Trevon Hartfield and RB MONTREAL .............................. 2 1 0 — 3
L.A. CLIPPERS: Thornwell 3-9 0-0 6, Harris 13-24 0-0 29, Cousins, NOR .................... 48 406 294 1210 25.2 Vancouver at Atlanta United FC, 7:30
Booker, PHX ...................... 53 452 284 1334 25.2 Bradford 3-5 0-0 9, Hicks 4-8 2-2 13, Owens 0-0 0-0 0, Josh Rounds. Signed DBs T.J. Carrie and Terrance
Jordan 4-9 0-0 8, Rivers 10-18 0-1 20, L.Williams 6-18 2-3
Mitchell, TE Darren Fells, OL Chris Hubbard and Donald
FIRST PERIOD San Jose at Sporting KC, 8:30
14, Dekker 0-2 2-2 2, W.Johnson 0-4 0-0 0, Harrell 5-6 0-2 Irving, BOS ........................ 60 534 232 1466 24.4 Butts 1-3 0-0 2, Holland 0-2 2-2 2, Bolstad 0-0 1-2 1,
Cooper 0-0 0-0 0, Saunders 0-1 0-0 0, Cousin 0-2 0-0 0, Stephenson, RB Carlos Hyde and DL Chris Smith. Traded Scoring: 1, Montreal, Lehkonen 9 (Petry, Galchenyuk), New York at Real Salt Lake, 9
10, Teodosic 1-3 0-0 3, Evans 2-4 0-0 4. Totals 44-97 4-8 DeRozan, TOR ................... 67 555 394 1581 23.6
96. Oladipo, IND ...................... 62 536 254 1461 23.6 Fields 4-11 0-0 9, Tanner 1-1 0-0 3. 20-59 Totals 13-16 DB 3:15. 2, Montreal, Byron 17 (Gallagher, Galchenyuk), SUNDAY’S MATCH
Embiid, PHL ...................... 55 459 317 1292 23.5 61. Detroit Lions: Signed LBs Christian Jones and Devon 6:31 (pp). 3, Pittsburgh, Kessel 29 (Rust, Brassard),
HOUSTON: Ariza 2-10 0-0 5, Tucker 1-7 0-0 3, Capela Kennard. 10:05. 4, Pittsburgh, Hornqvist 21 (Malkin, Letang), Seattle at Dallas, 5
Beal, WAS ......................... 69 593 255 1610 23.3 Villanova (31-4)
9-16 1-2 19, Paul 3-13 5-6 11, Harden 7-16 8-9 24, Mbah a Green Bay Packers: Signed DL Muhammad Wilkerson 14:33.
Williams, L.A.C. ................ 65 485 363 1503 23.1 Spellman 4-8 0-0 10, Paschall 4-7 1-1 11, Booth 3-4 2-2 SATURDAY, MARCH 24
Moute 3-8 3-4 10, Nene 1-3 2-2 4, J.Johnson 1-4 0-0 2, and CB Herb Waters. Traded CB Damarious Randall, a
Walker, CHA ..................... 66 502 302 1500 22.7 10, Brunson 7-9 0-0 16, Bridges 5-10 0-0 13, Samuels 0-1 SECOND PERIOD
Gordon 8-13 0-0 23. Totals 35-90 19-23 101. 2018 fourth-round pick and a 2018 fifth-round pick to the New York City FC at New England, 1:30
Aldridge, SAN ................... 61 533 263 1354 22.2 1-2 1, Leibig 0-0 0-0 0, Cosby-Roundtree 4-4 2-3 10,
Three-point Goals: L.A. Clippers 4-18 (Harris 3-6, Teo- Cleveland Browns for QB DeShone Kizer, a 2018 fourth- Scoring: 5, Pittsburgh, Malkin 40 (Letang, Crosby), 10:30 Portland at Dallas, 3:30
Delaney 0-1 0-0 0, Heck 0-0 0-0 0, Grace 0-0 0-0 0, round pick and a 2018 fifth-round pick.
dosic 1-2, W.Johnson 0-1, Evans 0-1, L.Williams 0-2, FIELD GOALS FG FGA PCT. DiVincenzo 2-4 1-2 7, Kennedy 0-0 0-0 0, Gillespie 2-4 4-4 (pp). 6, Montreal, Deslauriers 8 (Drouin, Carr), 12:57. D.C. United at Columbus, 6
Thornwell 0-2, Rivers 0-4), Houston 12-41 (Gordon 7-9, Jacksonville Jaguars: Signed WR Donte Moncrief to a
Capela, HOU .................................. 366 559 .655 9. Totals 31-52 11-14 87. one-year contract. THIRD PERIOD Minnesota United at New York, 7
Harden 2-8, Ariza 1-4, Tucker 1-5, Mbah a Moute 1-6, Sporting KC at Colorado, 9
Jordan, L.A.C. ................................ 296 456 .649 Halftime: Villanova 44-23. Three-point goals: Radford Kansas City Chiefs: Agreed to terms with P Dustin Scoring: 7, Pittsburgh, Hornqvist 22 (Hagelin, Du-
J.Johnson 0-3, Paul 0-6). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds:
Adams, OKC .................................. 375 591 .635 8-24 (Bradford 3-5, Hicks 3-6, Tanner 1-1, Fields 1-4, Colquitt on a three-year contract. moulin), 12:24. 8, Pittsburgh, Rust 12 (Oleksiak, Horn- LA Galaxy at Vancouver, 10
L.A. Clippers 45 (Jordan 18), Houston 50 (Capela 12).
Harrell, L.A.C. ................................ 253 399 .634 Saunders 0-1, Butts 0-1, Cousin 0-2, Polite 0-2, Jones Miami Dolphins: Signed WR Danny Amendola. Re-signed qvist), 18:07.
Assists: L.A. Clippers 16 (Teodosic 4), Houston 20
Kanter, NYK .................................. 381 632 .603 0-2), Villanova 14-27 (Bridges 3-6, Booth 2-2, Brunson LS John Denney.
(Harden 7). Total Fouls: L.A. Clippers 21, Houston 13.
Gibson, MIN .................................. 367 630 .583 2-3, DiVincenzo 2-3, Paschall 2-4, Spellman 2-5, Gillespie Minnesota Vikings: Signed QB Kirk Cousins to a three- SHOTS ON GOAL
Technicals: L.A. Clippers coach Clippers (Defensive three
Collins, ATL ................................... 259 448 .578 1-2, Samuels 0-1, Delaney 0-1). Fouled out: Hicks. year contract.
second), Thornwell, Paul. A: 18,055 (18,055). PITTSBURGH ......................... 11 18 10 — 39
Randle, L.A.L. ................................ 417 732 .570 Rebounds: Radford 30 (Polite 8), Villanova 31 (Spellman New York Giants: Signed T Nate Solder and LB Kareem TE NNI S
MONTREAL .............................. 9 4 7 — 20
Valanciunas, TOR .......................... 307 545 .563 7). Assists: Radford 10 (Jones 4), Villanova 20 (DiVin- Martin.
Favors, UTA ................................... 324 577 .562 Power-play opportunities: Pittsburgh 1 of 2; Montreal 1
cenzo 8). Total fouls: Radford 17, Villanova 16. New York Jets: Signed RB Isaiah Crowell to a three-year
Howard, CHA ................................. 417 747 .558 of 1. Goalies: Pittsburgh, Jarry 14-6-2 (20 shots-17
contract and K Cairo Santos to a one-year contract. ATP/WTA
Spurs 98, Pelicans 93 Whiteside, MIA ............................. 276 502 .550 Oakland Raiders: Signed RB Doug Martin, WR Jordy
saves). Montreal, Niemi 5-7-4 (38-34). A: 21,302
Towns, MIN ................................... 523 953 .549 (21,288). T: 2:27.
NEW ORLEANS .................. 26 32 15 20 — 93 Nelson, FB Keith Smith, S Marcus Gilchrist, LB Tahir At Indian Wells (Calif.) Tennis Garden
SAN ANTONIO ................... 37 23 18 20 — 98 James, CLE .................................... 689 1269 .543 Whitehead and TE Derek Carrier. Released WR Michael Purse: Men: $7.97 million (Masters 1000)
Simmons, PHL ............................... 447 834 .536 Kentucky 78, Davidson 73 Crabtree. Re-signed TE Lee Smith. Women: $8.65 million (Premier)
NEW ORLEANS: Moore 5-9 0-0 11, Davis 8-19 5-5 21, Davidson (21-12) San Francisco 49Ers: Traded C Daniel Kilgore and a 2018 Panthers 3, Bruins 0 Surface: Hard-Outdoor
Mirotic 3-12 0-0 6, Rondo 2-6 2-2 6, Holiday 9-23 4-5 24, THREE-POINTERS 3FG 3FGA PCT. Aldridge 4-17 3-3 12, Michelsen 2-4 0-0 5, Grady 4-14 7-8 seventh-round draft pick to Miami for a 2018 seventh-
Miller 1-4 0-0 3, Okafor 2-4 2-2 6, Clark 6-11 2-2 16, round draft pick. Signed DL Jeremiah Attaochu to a BOSTON ................................... 0 0 0 — 0 MEN’S SINGLES
Ingles, UTA .................................... 172 381 .451 16, Gudmundsson 6-14 3-4 21, Pritchett 2-2 0-0 6, Jones FLORIDA .................................. 2 1 0 — 3
Liggins 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 36-90 15-16 93. Thompson, GOL ............................. 206 466 .442 0-0 0-0 0, Magarity 5-7 1-2 11, Wynter 0-0 0-0 0, Collins one-year contract. QUARTERFINALS
Korver, CLE .................................... 154 350 .440 0-0 0-0 0, Reigel 1-3 0-0 2. 24-61 Totals 14-17 73. Tennessee Titans: Agreed to terms with RB Dion Lewis FIRST PERIOD
SAN ANTONIO: Green 2-11 0-0 5, Anderson 2-5 2-2 6, on a multiyear contract. Borna Coric, Croatia, def. Kevin Anderson (7), South
Aldridge 11-27 3-3 25, Murray 8-13 1-2 18, Mills 2-12 3-4 Collison, IND ................................... 72 166 .434 Africa, 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-3).
Kentucky (25-10) Washington Redskins: Signed WR Paul Richardson. Scoring: 1, Florida, Ekblad 14 (Bjugstad, Dadonov), 6:25.
8, Gay 2-3 0-0 4, Bertans 0-1 0-0 0, Gasol 3-4 2-2 8, Augustin, ORL ................................. 97 225 .431
Richards 1-1 0-0 2, Knox 8-16 9-11 25, Washington 5-8 Re-signed LB Zach Brown. 2, Florida, Bjugstad 16 (Dadonov, Matheson), 9:06.
Forbes 2-4 0-0 5, Parker 3-12 0-0 8, Ginobili 2-7 6-6 11. Bullock, DET .................................... 97 225 .431 WOMEN’S SINGLES
1-2 11, Gilgeous-Alexander 5-13 9-10 19, Diallo 3-4 2-2 8,
Totals 37-99 17-19 98. Durant, GOL .................................. 157 365 .430 COLLEGES SECOND PERIOD
Killeya-Jones 2-5 4-5 8, Gabriel 0-1 1-2 1, Green 2-3 0-0 4. QUARTERFINALS
Horford, BOS ................................... 85 198 .429
Three-point Goals: New Orleans 6-16 (Clark 2-3, Holiday Totals 26-51 26-32 78. Fordham: Named Mike Burchett offensive coordinator/ Scoring: 3, Florida, Trocheck 27 (Barkov, Yandle), 14:07
Tatum, BOS ..................................... 87 203 .429 Daria Kasatkina (20), Russia, def. Angelique Kerber (10),
2-5, Miller 1-1, Moore 1-2, Rondo 0-1, Mirotic 0-2, Davis Nowitzki, DAL ............................... 123 289 .426 Halftime: Kentucky 34-24. Three-point goals: Davidson quarterbacks coach, James Lenahan outside linebackers (pp). Germany, 6-0, 6-2.
0-2), San Antonio 7-26 (Parker 2-3, Forbes 1-1, Murray Curry, GOL ..................................... 209 493 .424 11-33 (Gudmundsson 6-11, Pritchett 2-2, Michelsen 1-3, coach and Chris Batti wide receivers coach.
1-2, Ginobili 1-3, Mills 1-6, Green 1-8, Gasol 0-1, Aldridge Georgia: Named Tom Crean men’s basketball coach. SHOTS ON GOAL MEN’S DOUBLES
McCollum, POR ............................. 165 390 .423 Grady 1-5, Aldridge 1-9, Magarity 0-1, Reigel 0-2),
0-1, Anderson 0-1). Fouled Out: Davis. Rebounds: New Hill, CLE ........................................... 74 175 .423 Kentucky 0-6 (Green 0-1, Gabriel 0-1, Diallo 0-1, Knox Georgia Tech: G Josh Okogie plans to enter the NBA BOSTON ................................. 14 12 20 — 46
Orleans 53 (Davis 14), San Antonio 52 (Murray 12). draft. FLORIDA ................................ 10 10 8 — 28 QUARTERFINALS
Porter Jr., WAS ............................. 112 265 .423 0-3). Fouled out: Washington, Reigel. Rebounds: David-
Assists: New Orleans 18 (Holiday 7), San Antonio 16 Towns, MIN ..................................... 99 235 .421 son 26 (Magarity 6), Kentucky 34 (Gilgeous-Alexander Illinois: Announced men’s basketball F Leron Black will Power-play opportunities: Boston 0 of 4; Florida 1 of 2. Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, and Horacio Zeballos, Argentina,
(Parker, Anderson 4). Total Fouls: New Orleans 18, San McDermott, DAL ............................. 76 181 .420 8). Assists: Davidson 12 (Gudmundsson 3), Kentucky 11 not return next season. Goalies: Boston, Khudobin 15-5-4 (28 shots-25 saves). vs. Gilles Muller, Luxembourg, and Sam Querrey, United
Antonio 14. Technicals: New Orleans coach Alvin Gentry, Miller, NOR ................................... 124 297 .418 (Gilgeous-Alexander 8). Total fouls: Davidson 22, Ken- Mississippi: Named Kermit Davis men’s basketball Florida, Reimer 16-13-5 (46-46). A: 16,067 (19,250). T: States; Oliver Marach, Austria, and Mate Pavic (3),
Davis. A: 18,418 (18,418). tucky 19. coach. 2:35. Croatia, vs. Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez, Spain.
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ncaa tournament
SOUTH REGION

In stunner,
No. 13 seed
Bulls rout THURSDAY’S RESULTS

Wildcats Midwest Region (in Pittsburgh)

10
7
Oklahoma
Rhode Island
78 (OT)
83
15 Iona 67
BUFFALO 89, 2 Duke 89
ARIZONA 68
South Region (in Dallas)
BY T IM B ONTEMPS 14 Wright State 47
3 Tennessee 73
boise, idaho — When this NCAA 11 Loyola Chi. 64
tournament field was announced,
6 Miami 62
there was plenty of talk about how
difficult of a draw the Arizona West Region (in Boise, Idaho)
Wildcats were handed. There was
the potential matchup with Ken- 13 UNCG 64
tucky — a fellow preseason top- 4 Gonzaga 68
five team — in the second round. 12 S. Dakota St. 73
There was a mouthwatering po-
tential meeting in the Sweet 16 5 Ohio State 81
with No. 1 overall seed Virginia.
What wasn’t discussed, howev- Midwest Region (in Wichita)
er, was a first-round loss to Buf- 16 Pennsylvania 60
falo. Yet that’s exactly what hap- 1 Kansas 76
pened.
The No. 13 seed Bulls authored PHOTOS BY JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST 9 N.C. State 83

the biggest upset of the tourna- “He played great in the ACC tournament, and I expect him to keep playing that way,” Virginia’s De’Andre Hunter said of Mamadi Diakite. 8 Seton Hall 94
ment’s first day, hammering the
fourth-seeded Wildcats, 89-68. East Region (in Pittsburgh)
“I can’t say enough about our
guys,” Buffalo Coach Nate Oats
said. “I thought we had a shot.
“I didn’t think we’d win it like
Diakite’s smooth shot is now a big one 16
1
9
Radford
Villanova
Alabama
61
87
86
that, but I thought we could win 8 Virginia Tech 83
this game.” With Hunter out with a broken wrist, U-Va. reserve and Guinea native will be counted on more
The Bulls (27-8) did it in style, South Region (in Boise, Idaho)
too, getting a combined 67 points BY G ENE W ANG ment. “Guys like Mamadi and 12 Davidson 73
from a trio of guards — senior Wes Marco [Anthony] and Nigel
Clark, who led all scorers with 25, charlotte — A cluster of televi- [Johnson], guys who’ve come off 5 Kentucky 78
as well as 23 from junior Jeremy sion cameras surrounded De’An- the bench for us, and De’Andre 13 Buffalo 89
Harris and 19 from junior C.J. dre Hunter in the locker room before, certainly have to be ready.” 4 Arizona 68
Massinburg. Buffalo, the Mid- Thursday afternoon, shortly be- Diakite’s statistics have been up
American Conference’s regular fore the Virginia men’s basketball virtually across the board from West Region (in Wichita)
season and tournament cham- team was set to practice at Spec- last season, most notably at the
pion, shot 54.8 percent from the trum Center in advance of its free throw line, where he’s 24 11 San Diego St. 65

field and went 15 for 30 from
three-point range — including
9 for 14 from behind the arc in the
second half.
“It’s simple,” Clark said. “It’s
just making shots no matter who
is out there. It’s the same as in the
MAC. . . . It’s the same three-point
line, so we just have the same
confidence and not worry about
who is on the defensive end.”
Arizona (27-8), the Pacific-12’s
regular season and tournament
champion, fell apart under the
onslaught. After senior center Du-
san Ristic scored with 17:22 re-
maining to give the Wildcats a
46-45 lead, Buffalo went on a 10-2
run to turn a game that had gone
back-and-forth throughout the
first half.
After Arizona cut it to 60-55
with 12:11 remaining, Buffalo
went on a 19-5 run over the next
eight minutes to effectively re-
move any suspense, allowing for
NCAA tournament opener.
As Hunter addressed the cir-
cumstances that led to the broken
left wrist that will force him to
miss the tournament, to his left,
with nary a microphone pointed
at him, sat Mamadi Diakite, the
6-foot-9 reserve presumably in
line to receive many of Hunter’s
minutes during Friday’s game
against No. 16 seed Maryland Bal-
timore County (24-10) in the
South Region round of 64.
Diakite is accustomed to being
out of the spotlight, yet team-
mates and Coach Tony Bennett
frequently trumpet just how im-
portant Diakite has been on the
way to top-seeded Virginia’s re-
cord-setting 31-2 season, even if
others outside the program are
not as quick to recognize those
contributions.
“I think he’s going to play
great,” Hunter said of the redshirt
sophomore. “He played great in
percentage points better. His 56 6 Houston 67
percent shooting from the field 14 Montana 47
ranks second among the Cavaliers 3 Michigan 61
in the regular rotation, and he has
increased his scoring and re- East Region (in Dallas)
bounding averages.
A deceptively smooth shot- 14 SFA 60
maker, Diakite has converted 3 Texas Tech 70
more than his share of memorable 11 St. Bona. 62
baskets this season, including a
6 Florida 77
handful against Syracuse’s vaunt-
ed 2-3 zone defense during a 59-
Virginia Coach Tony Bennett said reserves such as Diakite, Marco 44 victory Feb. 3 at the Carrier FRIDAY’S GAMES
Anthony and Nigel Johnson have to be ready as the games dictate. Dome. West Region (in Charlotte)
One of his five field goals came
munication a chore, much less will come. You’ve just got to keep courtesy of an off-balance turn- 10 Providence 12:15 P.M.
absorbing basketball terminolo- working hard.’ around jumper while falling out 7 Texas A&M CBS
gy. “I kept working on my English of bounds with the shot clock 15 Lipscomb 2:45 P.M.
But Diakite used every oppor- skills, and I also kept working on expiring. He added another long
tunity to learn the language, all my basketball skills, and I’m able jumper while drifting almost be- 2 N. Carolina CBS
the while working on his game to communicate with people, and hind the backboard that swished
and ensuring his grades would be I’m also at the spot where I have to through early the second half. East Region (in Detroit)
on track to gain acceptance to step up. Not only me but the whole In the ACC tournament semifi- 15 CS Fullerton 12:40 P.M.
Virginia, which he chose after a team, we have to step up together.” nals, Diakite produced a high- 2 Purdue TRUTV
competitive recruiting process. Diakite has been particularly light-reel moment with a reverse
During that transition, he said, efficient recently, scoring at least dunk, part of his six straight 10 Butler 3:10 P.M.

the many post mortems on Ari-
zona’s season to begin.
“With us being a MAC team, it’s
easy to look at us as a team that
can’t compete with a high major
with four NBA prospects,” Clark
said. “But we watched enough
film and got our confidence up
overnight. We knew we could play
with these guys and came out and
played hard.”
Buffalo will now move on to
face fifth-seeded Kentucky here
Saturday.
tim.bontemps@washpost.com
the ACC tournament, and I expect
him to keep playing that way.”
Filling the void left by the in-
jured ACC sixth man of the year is
manageable for Diakite, who has
faced far greater challenges.
Four years ago, he elected to
move to the United States from
Guinea, where he first developed
an interest in basketball. Through
mutual contacts in Africa and the
United States, Diakite arrived at
Blue Ridge High, roughly 20 miles
from Charlottesville, speaking no
English, thus making basic com-
the gym provided a comfortable
space in an unfamiliar land and
helped ease the transition of be-
ing thousands of miles from his
family members, including three
younger brothers who still live in
Guinea.
“Coming here without being
able to speak the local language
was a hard thing to do for me,”
Diakite said. “Communication
was the biggest part, but I’ve put-
ting in the work, and the coaches
have been leading me through the
up and downs, saying, ‘Your day
nine points in four of the past five points that opened Virginia’s first 7 Arkansas TRUTV
games and shooting 17 for 28 double-digit lead in a 64-58 win
(61 percent) over that stretch. He against Clemson. East Region (in San Diego)
had consecutive double-figure “I mean, he’s a very skilled big 13 Marshall 1:30 P.M.
performances in the quarterfinals man,” Virginia starting center
4 Wichita State TNT
and semifinals of the ACC tourna- Jack Salt said. “You don’t see that
ment while providing a comple- with guys that are 6-9, 6-10, to 12 Murray State 4 P.M.
mentary interior defensive pres- have that kind of touch. He defi- 5 West Virginia TNT
ence to senior forward Isaiah nitely can make those kind of
Wilkins, the ACC defensive player shots, and we see that in pickup South Region (in Nashville)
of the year. and one-on-one when we go 15 Georgia State 2 P.M.
“The game will dictate what against him.
you do,” Bennett said about Di- “Yeah, he can definitely do 2 Cincinnati TBS
akite’s projected playing time that.” 10 Texas 4:30 P.M.
throughout the NCAA tourna- gene.wang@washpost.com 7 Nevada TBS

South Region (in Charlotte)

JERRY BREWER 9 Kansas State 6:50 P.M.
8 Creighton TNT

Virginia can’t let one broken wrist keep it from breaking through 16
1
UMBC
Virginia
9:20 P.M.
TNT

Midwest Region (in Detroit)

BREWER FROM D1
seeds — and all of a sudden, the
Final Four again seems so
remote.
What’s the truth? Well, there’s
the hunt for championships for
as long as he’s in Charlottesville.
But to break through and
finally get to the Final Four? To
go beyond and hoist the trophy?
The Cavaliers have to be ready
weeks ago that completed an
improbable 67-66 victory in
which the Cavaliers scored five
points in the final nine-tenths
of a second.
It was one of those victories
regular season was no fluke. one in the locker room since he
Virginia looks to have a difficult first became a head coach at 14 Bucknell 7:10 P.M.
path to the Final Four, but you Washington State. He still 3 Michigan St. CBS
can nearly guarantee one thing receives text messages from 11 Syracuse 9:40 P.M.
about this team: If the Cavaliers former players who tell him,
don’t win the South Region, it “Keep knocking, Coach.” The 6 TCU CBS

no doubt that the Cavaliers’
championship quest became
significantly more complicated
because Hunter’s impact is
greater than his averages of 9.2
points and 3.5 rebounds
suggest. But if Virginia is truly
the best team in college
basketball and not merely a
regular season wonder, it
should take more than this
injury to ruin what it has
established this season.
Bennett’s methodical team
enters the tournament with an
unforeseen hole to either fill or
hide, but if it wants to finally
ace March Madness, this should
be considered just the first test
of whether it has the flexibility
to survive.
Here’s the difference between
dominating the regular season
and conquering the ultimate
challenge of the wildest single-
elimination tournament in
sports: In March, you must be
adaptable. Virginia has perhaps
the best system and culture in
college basketball, and
Bennett’s consistent approach
means the program will be in
for anything, and when
anything has happened in the
past to Bennett and Co., the
unknown has won. But this is a
different squad, and the coach
has only become more
seasoned. Another opportunity
for the program to show its
growth begins Friday against
UMBC.
“You can’t control the
timing,” Bennett said of
Hunter’s injury. “Those things
happen. I think there’s enough
in that room.”
Even Hunter would agree.
He’s disappointed that he won’t
play in the tournament for a
second straight season, but he
won’t let himself or his team
feel defeated. Last year, he
redshirted as a freshman. This
season, he became Virginia’s
most diverse weapon. At 6-foot-
7 and 222 pounds, he can play
four positions. He’s capable of
running the offense and
defending in the post. He’s an
efficient scorer. He’s fearless. He
was the star of Virginia’s play of
the season: a buzzer-beating
three-pointer at Louisville two
that makes you believe a team is
destined to do something
special. So what happens when
destiny breaks its wrist?
“I don’t think of it that way,”
Hunter said. “There’s no ‘Why’d
this happen to me?’ or ‘Here we
go again.’ I was really
disappointed, but there’s
nothing I can really do about it
right now. So I’m going to be the
biggest cheerleader in the
games, and I just try to
encourage them and be positive.
“I think we’re really prepared,
even without me. We played
against great competition in the
ACC and out of conference. I
think we’re ready. We played
some tough home and road
games. We’ve been down late
and come back. We experienced
a lot this season and should be
ready.”
I like the substance behind
Virginia’s 31-2 record. It has
been tested and responded with
amazing results, including an
undefeated conference road
record, a 17-1 overall mark in the
ACC and a conference
tournament title to prove the
won’t be because they beat
themselves. Someone has to
beat them. Someone has to
outlast them. Someone has to
grind and probably play its best
game.
If Virginia wants to maximize
its potential without Hunter, it
must be an agile version of
itself. This is the best-planned
team in America. But at some
point, it will have to do
something off script. The
Cavaliers’ challenge isn’t to
handle the pressure of being a
No. 1 seed or the burden of
needing a Final Four
breakthrough. They need to be
comfortable when the
tournament makes them
uncomfortable.
“I’m a huge believer that
pressure is just a figment of
your imagination,” sophomore
guard Kyle Guy said. “If you feel
pressure, then pressure exists.
This team is so focused and well
prepared and well coached that
we just stay humble and we
don’t get too high or too low.”
Bennett is referencing the
door knocker again. He has kept
point is that you don’t change
West Region (in Nashville)
fundamentally. You just evolve
and remain persistent. That’s 16 Tex. Southern 7:20 P.M.
the only way Bennett will get to 1 Xavier TBS
a Final Four because that’s the
9 Florida State 9:50 P.M.
only way he knows.
“You keep knocking, and 8 Missouri TBS
sometimes the door gets
slammed in your face,” Bennett Midwest Region (in San Diego)
said. “Sometimes you knock, 13 Charleston 7:27 P.M.
and it opens an inch, and you 4 Auburn TRUTV
try to put your foot and
shoulder in there and keep 12 N.M. State 9:57 P.M.
knocking and trying to bust 5 Clemson TRUTV
through that door. That’s the
mentality.” All times Eastern
Here’s the thing, though: Online: Check out our
Most homes have windows, too.
interactive bracket for a
And they have multiple doors
that can be knocked down. full breakdown of all the
That’s the subtle variation that matchups:
Virginia’s consistent program washingtonpost.com/bracket
must recognize. It will never
change, but it has to possess the
flexibility to see multiple points
of entry. Only one thing
matters: breaking through. Just
find a way inside.
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SOUTH REGION
Worth the wait: Ramblers win on three at buzzer
LOYOLA CHICAGO 64,
MIAMI 62
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Donte Ingram hit a three-point-
er from the March Madness logo
just before the buzzer, lifting Loy-
ola Chicago over Miami, 64-62, in
a Thursday thriller in Dallas to
celebrate its first NCAA tourna-
ment appearance in 33 years.
Ingram’s long shot from well
above the key came after Lonnie
Walker IV missed a free throw
with a chance to give the Hurri-
canes a three-point lead with nine
seconds remaining.
The Ramblers (29-5), seeded
11th in the South Region, matched
the school record for wins from
their 1963 national championship
team in their first NCAA trip since
they lost to Patrick Ewing and
Georgetown in the Sweet 16 in
1985. They advanced to face Ten-
nessee on Saturday.
Loyola was boosted by a pre-
Bamba, Porter not ready
for their one to be done
BY C HUCK C ULPEPPER
nashville — In the category of
19-year-old human beings being
savvier than 19-year-old human
beings used to be, two tall test
cases have alighted here. They’re
peripatetic, polished and at home
in their own skins. They have been
spotlighted for so long that the
idea of 20-odd iPhones extended
to pick up the sounds emanating
from their mouths seems routine.
Upon a planet believed to have
as many as 10,000 mock drafts,
they navigate a mock-draft world
with reasonable aplomb.
“It’s almost impossible to not
know where you are in the mock
draft because people always say,
‘Mo, they have you projected at
so-and-so.’ I’m like, ‘Cool,’ ” said
Mohamed Bamba, the charismat-
ic 6-foot-11 Texas freshman.
“I don’t look at them at all, no. I
mean, I see them, but I don’t go
seek them out,” said Michael Por-
ter Jr., the personable 6-10 Mis-
souri freshman. “People tag you,
on my Instagram, people tweet
’em at you.”
The as-yet-undetermined NBA
teams will pick them third and
fifth, seventh and fourth, fourth
and seventh, sixth and fifth, third
and fifth, fifth and seventh, de-
pending upon which list you study
or don’t study. Before that, these
latest titans of the peculiar Ameri-
can habit of one-and-done will get
their little flicker of NCAA tourna-
ment half-life in games Friday,
with Texas (19-14) a No. 10 seed in
the South Region against No. 7
Nevada (27-7) and Missouri (20-
12) a No. 8 seed in the West Region
against No. 9 Florida State (20-11).
Bamba semi-famously missed
three late-season games with an
injured toe; Porter famously
missed 30 to have a microdiscecto-
my procedure on his L3 and L4
spinal disks. Bamba returned in
the Big 12 tournament to play
14 minutes with 10 points and four
rebounds; Porter returned in the
Southeastern Conference tourna-
ment to play 23 minutes and shoot
5 for 17. There’s a sense either of
them could pull a Stephen Curry
turn and help send their teams
Davidson-ing through a few
rounds, as happened in 2008, and
there’s a sense that sense might
prove unrealistic, even if sports
fans would never be unrealistic.
“It’s too late in the game for the
guy to . . . change it to fit him,”
Missouri Coach Cuonzo Martin
said of Porter. “He has to fit in to
what the guys are doing. I think
he’ll do a good job with that.”
What’s established already,
though, is that their presences ra-
diate — for a guy who joined the
world in May 1998 (Bamba) and a
guy who joined the world in June
1998 (Porter). It’s partly the polish
formed by confidence forged by
mastering frontiers, as when Bam-
ba, born to Ivorian immigrants in
Harlem, went to high school in
New Hampshire and then in Penn-
sylvania, and Porter, born to two
former college basketball players
in Missouri, went to high school in
Missouri and then in Seattle.
On a dais in front of reporters
Thursday, Bamba, famed for a
wingspan said to approach eight
feet, replied to a Nevadan reporter
by beginning, “I’m not taking any
questions from Nevada natives,
sorry.” While this joke landed
somewhere between a raging suc-
cess and a thud, it was the charm-
ing attempt that mattered.
He went on to answer that Ne-
vada sort of resembled Texas Tech
game prayer from its team chap-
lain, 98-year-old Sister Jean Dolo-
res Schmidt. She has held that post
for more than two decades and,
sitting courtside in her wheel-
chair, received hugs from the
Ramblers when it was over.
“I said we wanted to get that big
‘W’ up there, and we did,” she said
in a postgame TV interview.
The sixth-seeded Hurricanes
(22-10) led most of the second half
in their third straight trip to the
tournament but couldn’t pull
away in the final minutes and lost
in the first round for the second
straight year.
The buzzer sounded as In-
gram’s shot went in, and the Ram-
blers celebrated wildly in front of
their raucous fans wearing ma-
roon-and-gold scarfs in the Ameri-
can Airlines Center sections
across from their bench.
But officials put 0.3 seconds
back on the clock, forcing Loyola
to gather on the bench and post-
poning the celebration until after
a desperation full-court pass
bounced away harmlessly.
of the Big 12, in being “kind of like
positionless both offensively and
defensively.”
Since jetting to Texas and Coach
Shaka Smart last summer, Bamba
said: “Skill-wise, I think my game
is night-and-day from June 1. I’m
just playing out there. I’m shoot-
ing with confidence. I’m getting
into post moves, using my body
more. It’s just fun being out there
imposing my will.”
He averaged 30 minutes per
game, 13 points, 10 rebounds. He
blocked 108 shots. Astute observ-
ers liken him to a newly hatched
T-Rex who will need to decide the
caliber of his hunt. Teammates
liken him to pure joy, as when
Jacob Young said: “Great person-
ality. Very friendly. Very funny. Mo
is my guy. I can’t get enough of Mo.
He never pushes you off. He’s al-
ways there to help you. . . . A hell of
a guy. A hell of a guy.”
In the doorway of the Missouri
locker room, the presence of Por-
ter wrought an inconvenient
thicket. Waves of questions came
at him as they would if he already
manned the NBA itself. He ad-
dressed his apparent new haircut.
(“It’s not really that new. I just
brushed it down.”) He told of the
art of limiting the voices in his
head. (“I’m pretty good at taking
what people say and just putting it
to the side and focusing on what’s
important for me and the team.”)
He gauged his percentage of re-
covery at 70 percent, an increase of
five percentage points from his
self-diagnosis after the loss to
Georgia in the SEC tournament.
He reported about the growth
of his teammate and brother, Jon-
tay Porter, the SEC’s co-sixth man
of the year. (“Sometimes he thinks
he knows better than everybody
else. But that’s a thing he’s really
grown in. I knew if anybody was
going to get that out of him, it was
going to be Coach Cuonzo.”) He
reported about his regular texts
from Curry during his yawningly
long recovery. (“Be patient. Don’t
worry about what people say
about you.”) He told of scoring
65 points in a game at age 7.
He updated listeners on his shot
after the 5-for-17 showing, of the
importance of “shooting in the
gym until I’m tired so that when
I’m tired in the game it’s still a
consistent jumper. Really just on
my balance on my jumper. I
watched a film of the last game. I
was fading a lot. Everything was
short. I’ve just got to stay in my
shot, especially right now when I
don’t have my full power, got to
stay in those shots and knock
them down.”
At one point, he even advised,
“Fruit’s a natural anti-inflamma-
tory, so it’s going to help you recov-
er real quick.” That’s when he, a
vegetarian “trying to go more ve-
gan,” raised in a family with seven
siblings and zero meat, started
delving into the details of his ba-
nana smoothies, a knack he
gleaned from a physician, Doug
Graham, a friend-of-a-family-
friend who actually came from
England and cooked for the Por-
ters last summer.
“I try to get, like, 10 bananas a
day, and I drink bananas, just
straight bananas and water. And it
just helps me stay energized, so
shout-out to Dr. Graham.”
Is there enough time for a col-
lege legacy, for players such as
Porter and Bamba, in this tourna-
ment flicker?
Reasoned Porter, “It depends
on how we do in the tournament.”
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Clayton Custer hit a tying three
in the final two minutes and led
Loyola with 14 points on 4-for-6
shooting from long range. Ingram
finished with 13 points.
Walker scored 12 for Miami.
TENNESSEE 73, WRIGHT


STATE 47: Admiral Schofield had
15 points and 12 rebounds as the
third-seeded Volunteers (26-8) ad-
vanced to the second round with a
victory over the 14th-seeded Raid-
ers (25-10), with Tennessee Coach
Rick Barnes back in familiar terri-
tory in Dallas.
Lamonte Turner had 19 points
and a career-high nine assists for
the Vols (26-8), Southeastern Con-
ference co-champions in the regu-
lar season.
Tennessee did not have much
trouble with Wright State, the Ho-
rizon League tournament cham-
pion making its first NCAA ap-
pearance since 2007.
Barnes is 5-0 in NCAA tourna-
ment games at American Airlines
Center, about a three-hour drive
from the University of Texas. He
led the Longhorns to 16 appear-
Oklahoma’s Trae Young, driving against Rhode Island’s Fatts Russell, scored 28 points Thursday in what could be his final college game.
Star belonged on big stage, even if Sooners didn’t
pittsburgh —
Trae Young’s
college basketball
career began
quietly Nov. 12,
when he scored
John 15 points in a 108-
Feinstein 89 Oklahoma
victory over
Omaha. It almost certainly
ended Thursday afternoon at
PPG Paints Arena, 2.5 seconds
after he slipped the ball to
teammate Jamuni McNeace for
one final, futile assist.
It was too little, too late,
Rhode Island walking away with
an 83-78 overtime victory in the
opening game of the NCAA
tournament’s first round.
And so, barring a miracle,
ended the remarkable journey of
one of the most gifted basketball
players to put on a college
uniform.
When the draining game was
finally over, Young went to the
end of the handshake line, head
down, staring for a moment at
the scoreboard as if he could
somehow will the result away.
The first person he encountered
from Rhode Island was Coach
Dan Hurley, who wrapped him in
a hug and whispered in his ear
for several seconds.
“I just told him it was a
pleasure to compete against
him,” Hurley said. “I’ve been on
the court as a player and a coach
against some great players, but
he’s unique.” He smiled. “He’s
like Barry Sanders. Every time he
gets the ball you think he’s going
to score a touchdown.”
Young took the college game
by storm early this season,
leading the nation in scoring
(27.4 points per game) and
assists (8.8), making shots and
passes that left opponents
gasping as Oklahoma raced to a
14-2 start after finishing 11-20 a
year ago.
“I made the mistake of
watching some of their early
game tapes first,” Hurley said. “I
didn’t sleep for a day-and-a-half.”
ances in 17 years, with four NCAA
wins in the home arena of the
NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, before
switching “T’s” and shades of or-
ange three years ago.
Loudon Love led Wright State
with 12 points and nine rebounds.
KENTUCKY 78, DAVID-


SON 73: Fifth-seeded Kentucky
(25-10) topped 12th-seeded David-
son (21-12) in Boise, Idaho, despite
failing to make a three-pointer,
snapping a nation-best streak of
1,047 games with a three that be-
gan in 1988.
The Wildcats went 0 for 6 from
behind the line.
UNLV now holds the longest
streak at 1,040 games.
Kevin Knox had 25 points for
Kentucky, which pulled away after
Davidson, also nicknamed the
Wildcats, tied the score at 54 with
8:01 left.
Davidson made 11 three-point-
ers, led by six from Jon Axel Gud-
mundsson, who had 21 points.
Kentucky will next face 13th-
seeded Buffalo, which stunned
fourth-seeded Arizona, 89-68.
But teams figured out
Oklahoma. They played Young
physically and double-teamed
him often. All of a sudden he was
human, and the Sooners went
4-11 to enter the NCAA
tournament.
If he has a weakness, it is that
he sometimes tries to make too
much happen, the product of
having a less-than-great team
around him. That’s why the
Sooners, even with the best
player in the country, faded.
Young’s numbers Thursday
were typical for him: 28 points,
seven assists, five rebounds and
six turnovers. He played 39 of the
game’s 45 minutes, limited only
by two first-half offensive fouls —
the second being the type of silly
touch fouls the NCAA has fallen
in love with the past two years —
that forced Coach Lon Kruger to
sit him for six minutes.
“We didn’t talk before the
game about holding him under a
certain number of points,”
Hurley said. “We talked about
limiting his shots. Our goal was
to hold him to 15 shots. He had
18 for the game, including
overtime, so that’s pretty good.”
E.C. Matthews, the Rams’
fifth-year senior, hit the three-
point shot with 1:52 left in
overtime to give Rhode Island
the lead for good at 74-72, but the
real hero was freshman point
guard Fatts Russell, who came
off the bench and played most of
the second half, scoring 13 of his
15 points while making life as
difficult as possible for Young.
“I told him when I recruited
him that when I went to the
Peach Jam [an elite AAU
tournament] two summers ago,
the only point guard I had seen
who was better than him was
Trae Young,” Hurley said. “He
told me I was wrong.”
Russell isn’t as good as Young,
but Thursday he was good
enough, most notably with the
score 52-50 after Matthews hit a
three-pointer to give the Rams
their first lead since 19-18.
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Clayton Custer and Ben Richardson were in a joyous mood after the
Ramblers prevailed in their first NCAA tournament game in 33 years.
Russell sneaked up on Young
after he took the ensuing
inbound pass and stole the ball
from him. Then, without a
teammate in sight, he buried a
three for a 55-50 lead, forcing
Kruger to call a timeout.
“Coach always tells me to be
myself when I go in,” Russell
said, grinning. “Myself is very
confident.”
The Sooners scored the first
three points of overtime, but
with Rhode Island closing off the
lane and daring Young to shoot
from way beyond the arc or put
the ball in the hands of his
teammates, the Rams went on a
7-0 run that proved decisive,
with Matthews’s three-pointer
being the most critical moment.
Young missed two heaved three-
pointers — the kind he often
made this season — and then
tried to find his teammates. But
with the season on the line, they
couldn’t finish. Young was 9 for
18 from the field; the rest of the
Sooners were 20 for 51, including
1 for 11 from three-point range.
When it was over, Young
accepted all the hugs from the
Rhode Island players, then
headed for the tunnel. His
coaches all waited for him,
perhaps to thank him for the
season he had given them. The
network TV camera never left
him as he jogged to the tunnel.
Young grew up in Norman,
Okla., so Kruger saw him play
throughout his high school
years. He knew he had
something special on his hands
by the time Young committed to
OU. He just didn’t know how
special.
“I knew he was exceptional,”
Kruger said. “But I don’t think I
could have anticipated what this
season would be like.” He paused
and smiled. “After all, there’s
never been a season quite like
the one he just had. I think
considering everything that
happened, he handled himself
remarkably well.”
Young is 6-foot-2 and is listed
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generously at 180 pounds. When
he trails his teammates onto the
court, he looks like a manager
who has been allowed to suit up
as a special treat. But when the
ball gets into his hands, it is like
watching a basketball magic
show.
Hurley, who grew up in the
shadow of older brother Bobby,
watching him win two national
championships at Duke while
becoming the NCAA’s all-time
assists leader, found himself
flashing back 25 years watching
Young.
“He wears number 11 like Bob
did,” he said. “At times it was
almost eerie out there because
he’s so quick with the ball and so
daring like Bob.” He smiled. “Of
course Bob could never shoot the
ball like that.”
Hurley played in an era when
almost all college players stuck
around for four years. Young
plays at a time when any star
who sticks around for a
sophomore season is seen by his
peers as some sort of failure.
Young said all the right things
after the game about how proud
he was of his teammates, about
how much he looked forward to
next season with only one senior
— Khadeem Lattin —
graduating. Understandably, he
was thinking only of his team in
the aftermath of the loss.
Then he added, “I’ll sit down
with my parents in the next
week, and we’ll talk the whole
thing over.”
There isn’t much doubt about
the decision the Young family
will reach. Which is why it was
sad to see Young leave the
building Thursday. Oklahoma
may not have belonged in the
NCAA tournament, but Trae
Young certainly did.
It’s a shame for all of us that
his college career lasted just four
months.
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Zach Norvell Jr. (15 points), Rui Hachimura and No. 4 seed Gonzaga will face Ohio State on Saturday.
Experience carries Bulldogs
BY T IM B ONTEMPS
boise, idaho — The Gonzaga
Bulldogs long ago shed the label
of being a small-time program.
That will happen when a team
reaches the NCAA tournament
20 consecutive times and when it
holds the nation’s longest streak
for advancing past the tourna-
ment’s opening round.
For large stretches of Thurs-
day’s game between the fourth-
seeded Bulldogs and No. 13 seed
North Carolina Greensboro,
however, it looked as if that
streak might come to an end —
never more so than when Spar-
tans senior forward Jordy Kuiper
cleaned up a missed shot and
scored with 1:46 remaining to
give UNC Greensboro a two-
point lead.
But just when it looked as if
the Bulldogs were about to suffer
the kind of upset that put them
on the map in 1999, the experi-
ence that comes with being a
fixture in March Madness — and
the ability to cope with the stress
that it brings — made all the
difference.
So while UNC Greensboro
made a series of mistakes in the
final 1:40 that determined its
fate, Gonzaga kept its decade-
long streak of advancing intact
with a 68-64 victory at Taco Bell
Arena.
“No, it doesn’t get any easier,”
Gonzaga Coach Mark Few said
afterward. “These first-round
games are hard. They’re really
hard. And I think people get a
little misled when they see the
seed numbers up there. . . . That’s
a really good team that we were
fortunate enough to beat.”
For 38 minutes, the Spartans
(27-8) looked as if they had every-
thing it took to become the first
Cinderella story of this year’s
tournament. Despite Gonzaga
(31-4) doing precisely what it
hoped by forcing UNC Greens-
boro into a long game from
behind the three-point arc — it
went 0 for 13 from three-point
range in the first half and 3 for 22
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Foul ending helps Buckeyes advance Evans leads Red Raiders’ late surge
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Ohio State is not a three-point
shooting team. The Buckeyes
don’t take a lot, don’t make a lot.
Back in the NCAA tournament
for the first time in three years,
the Buckeyes went all-in on the
three, casting it up 40 times. The
last couple they tried, both by
Kam Williams, helped push Ohio
State into the round of 32.
Williams made a tiebreaking
four-point play with 1:36 left,
then added three free throws af-
ter being fouled on another three-
point attempt, lifting Ohio State
to an 81-73 victory over South
Dakota State in the West Region
on Thursday in Boise, Idaho.
Fifth-seeded Ohio State (25-8)
traded three-point attempts with
South Dakota State — 71 com-
bined in all — before reeling off
16 straight points to build a 13-
point second-half lead.
The scrappy Jackrabbits
fought back with a late run, scor-
GONZAGA 68,
UNC GREENSBORO 64
for the game — Greensboro was
able to hang around.
That almost entirely was due
to the Spartans’ ability to relent-
lessly attack the paint and score
— which they did repeatedly in
the second half as the teams
traded baskets in what was a
highly entertaining game.
“We’re a spread team,” said
UNC Greensboro Coach Wes Mil-
ler, a 35-year-old who is already
in his seventh season and who
probably will be a hot name on
the coaching carousel this spring.
“We try to open the floor up and
let the guys go.”
That was the strategy that left
the Spartans on the verge of a
major upset. But it also wound up
being their undoing.
The play of the game unfolded
with 1:05 remaining. After
Kuiper’s putback was followed by
Gonzaga’s Silas Melson missing
the front end of a one-and-one
with 1:21 remaining, UNC
Greensboro had a golden oppor-
tunity to take a two-possession
lead and put the game away.
Instead, the Spartans failed to
get a shot off. Junior guard Dem-
etrius Troy tried to deliver an
ambitious alley-oop to a cutting
James Dickey on the baseline.
But when Dickey couldn’t corral
it, the ball went out of bounds
and back to Gonzaga. And after
the Bulldogs answered with a
jumper from redshirt junior
guard Josh Perkins with 54 sec-
onds left to tie it at 64, UNC
Greensboro never led again.
“I don’t think any of our [play-
calls] were bad calls, but you
think, ‘What if ?’ ” Miller said. “I
think that’s what you do in this
situation as a player and coach.
“People say, ‘Man, you were
pretty gutsy when you threw that
lob.’ Demetrius and James,
they’ve connected on a lot of lobs
this year, and we weren’t going to
be afraid tonight. We were going
OHIO STATE 81,
SOUTH DAKOTA ST. 73
ing 10 straight points to tie it at 70.
Ohio State, which was tied for
287th nationally with 612 three-
point attempts, went 12 for 40
from the arc.
Keita Bates-Diop had 24 points
for the Buckeyes, who will face
Gonzaga in the round of 32 on
Saturday. The Bulldogs steam-
rolled Ohio State, 86-59, at the
PK80 Invitational in November.
HOUSTON 67, SAN DIEGO


STATE 65: Rob Gray drove for a
wind-milling layup that just trick-
led over the rim with 1.1 seconds
left, and Trey Kell’s off-balance
three-pointer at the buzzer was
no good, giving the sixth-seeded
Cougars a victory over the 11th-
seeded Aztecs in the first round of
the NCAA tournament in Wichi-
ta.
Devin Watson had just tied the
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to come out swinging.”
And while UNC Greensboro
certainly did that, that aggres-
sion cost the Spartans multiple
times. After Perkins made the
game-tying jumper, Miller opted
to have his team attempt to score
quickly to set up a potential final
shot. But junior guard Francis
Alonso wound up getting stuck
and launched an ugly shot off the
side of the backboard.
Then, after Gonzaga redshirt
freshman Zach Norvell Jr. buried
what proved to be the game-win-
ning three-pointer with 20.8 sec-
onds remaining, Alonso was
called for an offensive foul on the
ensuing possession.
“We didn’t execute in the last
minute and a half,” Miller said.
“We’ll have to go through the film
and look at that.”
It is precisely because Miller’s
team didn’t execute in those final
90 seconds that the Spartans are
headed back to Greensboro and
Gonzaga will remain here to face
No. 5 seed Ohio State — which
outlasted No. 12 seed South Da-
kota State. Gonzaga is seeking its
fourth consecutive trip to the
Sweet 16.
That’s not to say that Gonzaga
was perfect. It missed four
straight shots in the paint in the
final 90 seconds that nearly cost
it the game, and the Bulldogs
needed a dose of luck when a
potential game-tying three-
pointer by Marvin Smith went
halfway down before rattling out.
But when a team has been in
these positions so many times
before, it knows what it needs to
do to survive and advance. And
for the next 12 months, the UNC
Greensboro Spartans will be
forced to sit and think about
what could have been if they had
handled those final moments
better.
“I looked at Coach and said,
‘We’ve got this. I trust you, and
we’re trusting each other,’ ” Per-
kins said.
“I’m glad I’m here with this
guy, and we’re not done yet.”
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game for the Aztecs with a turn-
around three-pointer, his second
in a matter of seconds, when Gray
dribbled up floor with 29 seconds
left. He allowed the clock to tick
down to six seconds before cross-
ing over, scooting under two de-
fenders and scooping up his shot.
The layup gave him 39 points
and the Cougars (27-7) their first
tournament win since 1984.
Jalen McDaniels had 18 points
to lead San Diego State (22-11).
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 61, MONTANA
47: Charles Matthews had
20 points and 11 rebounds, the
Wolverines locked down on de-
fense, and third-seeded Michigan
beat the Grizzlies in Wichita.
Michigan (29-7) trailed by 10 in
the opening minutes, struggled to
get into rhythm until late in the
first half and never really went on
a big run to seize control of the
game.
The Wolverines advanced to
face No. 6 seed Houston on Satur-
day in the round of 32.
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Virginia Tech’s Justin Robinson was despondent after fouling out. He tallied a team-high 19 points.
Hokies can’t slow down Tide’s Sexton
HOKIES FROM D1
But defense became this
team’s identity late in the season,
and it was part of their downfall
at PPG Paints Arena. Virginia
Tech simply didn’t have an an-
swer down the stretch for Sexton
or his ability to facilitate. He
finished with six assists, and his
patience helped set up a number
of opportunities for teammates,
including John Petty (20 points).
Alabama, which shot 60 per-
cent from the field, will meet No.
1 seed Villanova on Saturday. The
Wildcats easily handled No. 16
seed Radford earlier Thursday.
Virginia Tech Coach Buzz Wil-
liams had tinkered with his
team’s defensive approach in ear-
ly February, and it paid off with
low-scoring wins over Clemson,
Virginia and Duke in the final six
weeks of the season. But Wil-
liams also knew Sexton, who
entered Thursday averaging 25.5
points on 52 percent shooting
over his previous four games,
could stretch that defense like
few other players.
The Hokies looked more than
prepared, throwing multiple
players at Sexton from the outset.
It helped that Sexton also became
a little erratic early — over one
90-second stretch, he committed
two offensive fouls on push-offs,
including a shove to Virginia
Tech guard Justin Robinson that
sent Sexton to bench with 12:22
remaining before halftime.
Sexton came back onto the
floor nearly four minutes later to
find his team trailing against the
hot-shooting Hokies, who hit 17
of 25 from the field in the first
half and 7 of 9 from three-point
range in the first 20 minutes. Yet
even as Sexton went 1 for 4 from
the field in the first half for just
three points, he did record four
assists, including a dump-off
pass to forward Petty for a three-
pointer that beat the buzzer and
cut Virginia Tech’s lead at the
break to 43-41.
A year after making the NCAA
tournament for the first time in
10 years, Virginia Tech made its
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Keenan Evans scored 19 of his
23 points after halftime, and third-
seeded Texas Tech surged late to
top No. 14 seed Stephen F. Austin,
70-60, on Thursday night in Dallas
in the first round of the NCAA
tournament.
The Big 12 runner-up Red Raid-
ers (25-9) closed the game on a
13-2 run. Evans drove for a layup
with 3:58 left, putting Texas Tech
ahead to stay.
When Evans split through de-
fenders with just over a minute
left, he paused briefly to give a
quick pose to the camera under
the basket.
Evans had only four points in
the first half, all on free throws
while going 0 for 4 from the field.
But he also ignited the highlight
play of the night, chasing down an
offensive rebound past midcourt
and then throwing an alley-oop
pass to 6-foot-5 freshman Zhaire
Smith, who made a 360-degree
first back-to-back trip to the field
since the 1985-86 season.
Petty tied the game at 52 with
five straight points, first on a
three-pointer assisted by Sexton,
followed by a pair of free throws.
Then Sexton got redemption
against Robinson, drawing an
offensive foul call and stalking on
the court after it appeared he was
hit in the mouth on the play. But
he still looked out of sorts offen-
sively, uncharacteristically miss-
ing a pair of free throws on the
ensuing possession.
Williams was also worried
about the number of broken
plays in this game, about giving
Alabama second and third op-
portunities. His concerns were
justified — Alabama finished
with 10 second-chance points on
10 offensive rebounds. Perhaps
the Crimson Tide’s most impor-
tant broken play came with just
under 10 minutes remaining
when Sexton lost control of the
ball in the lane, only to watch it
fall into the hands of his team-
mate, Avery Johnson Jr., who tied
the game at 61 with a short
jumper.
Sexton muscled his way into
the lane for a layup on the next
possession, and gave Alabama a
68-64 lead with 6:48 left with a
pair of free throws. A couple
minutes later, he knocked in a
lucky jumper that first bricked
off the back of the iron to extend
the lead to six.
Even as Virginia Tech pulled
back within two on a layup by
Nickell Alexander-Walker, even
as it swarmed Sexton at every
turn in the final minutes, its
defense couldn’t come up with
the critical stops that had been
the centerpieces of its February
run. Sexton helped set up a dunk
for Donta Hall, then assisted on
another three-pointer by Petty on
the next possession. And it
seemed as if he was rewarded
with an isolation on the left
perimeter with just over two
minutes remaining and his team
clinging to a five-point lead. He
knocked down the turnaround
jumper as Williams just shook
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S.F. AUSTIN 60
spin in the air while completing
the dunk.
Texas Tech will play Florida on
Saturday after the Gators ousted
St. Bonaventure late Thursday
night.
Stephen F. Austin (28-7), the
Southland Conference tourna-
ment champion, led by eight
points early in the second half and
was trying to take down a Big 12
opponent in an NCAA opener for
the second time in three seasons.
The Lumberjacks beat West Vir-
ginia in their last tournament ap-
pearance two years ago before los-
ing to Notre Dame.
Ivan Canete had 17 points to
lead Stephen F. Austin, while
Shannon Bougues had 14, Kevon
Harris 12 and TJ Hoyfield 10.
Evans’s go-ahead basket began
a run that included another dunk
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his head on the sideline.
Virginia Tech got a final
chance with less than a minute
left, trailing 78-74, when Robin-
son came up with a steal out of a
timeout. But he was called for a
charge on a drive to basket, and
Williams was slapped with a
technical for protesting the call.
Sexton went to free throw line,
made 1 of 2, then flashed a smile
at a section of Crimson Tide fans,
as if he were telling them every-
thing would be okay.
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Villanova rolls over Radford
Jalen Brunson scored
16 points, and the top-seeded
Wildcats hit 14 three-pointers in
an 87-61 romp over the No. 16
Highlanders in Pittsburgh.
The Highlanders (23-13) posed
no threat at becoming the first
16 seed to knock off a No. 1 in the
tournament.
Villanova (31-4) played to
near-perfection for the first
30 minutes, and everyone played
a role. Mikal Bridges had
13 points, Eric Paschall scored 11,
and Omari Spellman had
10 points and seven rebounds.
Radford, out of rural south-
western Virginia, must have felt
as if it were playing against ace
pop-a-shot players. Villanova led
69-37 with 11:45 left and was
shooting 75 percent (25 for 34)
overall and 60 percent (12 for 20)
from three-point range.
At one point, Brunson had
12 points on 5-for-6 shooting.
Radford? Just 10 points on 4 for
20 from the floor.
Villanova started the game
shooting 13 of 16. For those who
struggle with math, that’s a crisp
81 percent. Phil Booth, Bridges,
Brunson and Donte DiVincenzo
all hit three-pointers in succes-
sion to blow open the game.
“They are a No. 1 seed for a
reason. But this team right here
is special,” Radford’s Christian
Bradford said. “We’re a champi-
onship team for a reason. We
never thought in our mind that
we couldn’t come back.”
— Associated Press
by Smith on a pass from Justin
Gray and a three-pointer from the
right corner in front of the Texas
Tech bench by Florida transfer
Brandone Francis.
The Red Raiders got their first
NCAA tournament win since
2005, when they advanced to the
Sweet 16 under then-coach Bob
Knight.
FLORIDA 77, ST. BO-


NAVENTURE 62: In Dallas, Egor
Koulechov scored 20 points, and
the Gators ended the Bonnies’
postseason run two days after
their first NCAA tournament vic-
tory in 48 years.
Jalen Hudson scored 16 points
and Chris Chiozza had 11 assists
for the sixth-seeded Gators (21-12),
who have reached the Elite Eight
the past five times they have been
in the tournament.
A whirlwind week finally
caught up with the Bonnies (26-8),
who finished at 35 percent shoot-
ing. Courtney Stockard led St. Bo-
naventure with 14 points.
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For first time in a while, Terps start this show on the road
Fifth-seeded Maryland alters its mind-set as it prepares to face the Tigers in its first NCAA opener outside of College Park since 2007
A VA W ALLACE
Maryland women’s basketball
Coach Brenda Frese has a mantra
she likes to repeat to her team
before away games.
“Anytime you go play on the
road, Coach’s big thing is you have
to be 10 points better,” senior
guard Kristen Confroy said
Wednesday afternoon at Xfinity
Center, wearing a ball cap and
sweats instead of her practice uni-
form as the team prepared to load
a charter bus for a ride to Raleigh,
N.C.
“Whether it’s playing against
home-court officials or the crowd,
whatever it may be, you’ve got to
be better on the road.”
That’s the state the Terrapins
hope to be in as they open the NCAA
tournament away from College
Park for the first time since 2007.
No. 5 seed Maryland hit the
road for the 300-mile bus ride to
North Carolina State’s Reynolds
Coliseum to play No. 12 seed
Princeton in the first round at
12:30 p.m. on Friday. The winner
will face the winner of Friday’s
second game between No. 13 Elon
and the host, fourth-seeded North
Carolina State, on Sunday.
The Terps are hoping the rare
tournament-opening road trip
makes them a sharper team on
court.
“It’s the environment, obvious-
ly. The crowd’s going to be rooting
for the home team, whatever it
may be, so it really is your staff,
your team, and that’s it,” Confroy
said. “That’s who’s rooting for you,
and I think it’s an added element
of a mind-set that we’re on the
road — it’s us against everybody.
And in many ways, that helps you
come out with more fire and
spark.”
Maryland (25-7) is in the habit of
playing on the road at this point; six
of its past seven games have been
on road or neutral courts, and three
ended in defeat. The worst of the
bunch was a 19-point loss at Min-
nesota on Feb. 18 in which the
Terps committed 14 turnovers and
caught the Golden Gophers toward
the end of a seven-game winning
streak at home.
But Maryland has gained plen-
ty of road experience since then,
and Frese is pleased with how her
team has played.
Their overall record away from
Xfinity Center is 13-4. That gives
MIDWEST REGION
Bagley-led Blue Devils
cruise into second round
DUKE 89,
IONA 67
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Mike Krzyzewski keeps wring-
ing his hands about his team’s
youth. And then Duke and its
roster of NBA-bound freshmen
get on the floor against a more
experienced opponent and the
Hall of Fame coach’s fears largely
vanish.
Having Marvin Bagley III cer-
tainly helps.
The ACC player of the year did
whatever he wanted against
game but overmatched Iona,
pouring in 22 points to go with
seven rebounds in his NCAA
tournament debut as the Blue
Devils pulled away for an 89-67
victory on Thursday in Pitts-
burgh.
The 6-foot-11 freshman for-
ward made 10 of 14 shots in
32 minutes — even making his
lone three-point attempt — as
Duke rolled into a second-round
Midwest Region matchup with
seventh-seeded Rhode Island on
Saturday.
This is “what we’ve had to go
through the whole year, you
know, the first road game, the
first conference game, the — you
know, the first 10 minutes of
game, you know, all of those
things,” Krzyzewski said. “So this
is a first for them.”
Bagley included.
“I woke up and felt a little
anxious,” Bagley said. “I was just
anxious to play. When the first
game came on, I was watching it
a little bit until we left the hotel.
From there it was time to lock in.”
After some early issues with
the Gaels, that wasn’t a problem.
Duke allowed seasoned if un-
dersized Iona (20-14) to hang
around for most of the first half,
then tweaked its zone defense
enough to disrupt the Metro
Atlantic Athletic Conference
tournament champions. Bagley
and some solid shooting and
“Going into my last [tournament] has given me a unique perspective that I haven’t had in the past. I’m looking forward to it,” senior guard Kristen Confroy said.
the team confidence before an-
other road trip, and Frese is happy
that Raleigh is within driving dis-
tance for fans and family members
of several of her players.
Still, with just three full days to
prepare for Princeton, Frese
hasn’t spent too much time fret-
ting about location. Maryland has
played the Tigers twice in pro-
gram history, in November 2007
and in the second round of the
2015 NCAA tournament, when the
Terps beat the previously unde-
feated Tigers, 85-70, in College
unselfish play by the Blue Devils
backcourt trio of Grayson Allen,
Trevon Duval and Gary Trent
took care of the rest.
Allen and his two freshmen
teammates combined for
51 points and 18 of Duke’s 24 as-
sists. Each of them made four
three-pointers, and when the
Gaels came out to challenge,
Bagley and Wendell Carter Jr.
had plenty of room to go to work
inside. The Blue Devils out-
rebounded Iona 39-29 and out-
scored the Gaels in the paint
46-30.
Roland Griffin led Iona with
21 points off the bench.
SETON HALL 94, NORTH


CAROLINA STATE 83:
Khadeen Carrington scored
26 points and Desi Rodriguez
added 20 as the eighth-seeded
Pirates won a foul-filled first-
round matchup in Wichita.
Myles Powell added 19 points
and Angel Delgado scored 13 for
Seton Hall (22-11), which will play
top-seeded Kansas on Saturday.
Allerik Freeman hit six three-
pointers and had 36 points to
lead the Wolfpack (21-12), which
made the tournament for the
first time in three years. Torin
Dorn added 18 points and 12
rebounds.
The only thing that slowed
down the high-scoring, up-and-
down matchup was the whistles.
The teams combined for 53 fouls,
resulting in 66 total free throws.
Seton Hall had two players foul
out, and N.C. State had three.
KANSAS 76, PENNSYLVA-


NIA 60: Devonte Graham ignit-
ed the sluggish Jayhawks, pour-
ing in 29 points for the region’s
top seed in a first-round victory
in Wichita.
Lagerald Vick added 14 points
for Kansas (28-7), which trailed
the Ivy League champion by 10 in
the early stages before going on a
19-2 run late in the first half to
take control.
A.J. Brodeur had 14 points to
lead the Quakers (24-9), but he
was just 6 for 16 from the field
and committed five turnovers.
EZ SU
ncaa tournament
Park.
Tigers Coach Courtney Bang-
hart won national coach of the
year that season. This year, she
comes to Raleigh with the Ivy
League tournament champion-
ship, a team that shoots 43.3 per-
cent from the field and a few famil-
iar faces in Maryland natives Bella
Alarie (National Cathedral
School), Abby Meyers (Whitman
High) and Qalea Ismail (Patterson
Mill in Bel Air).
Frese and Confroy described
Princeton (24-5) as a fundamen-
For Princeton’s Alarie, playing U-Md. means more
BY A VA W ALLACE
raleigh, n.c. — Bella Alarie felt
a wave of emotions when she
learned that her 12th-seeded
Princeton women’s basketball
team would be playing No. 5 seed
Maryland in the opening round of
the NCAA tournament Friday. She
was proud of Princeton for beat-
ing Penn in the Ivy League tourna-
ment championship game and
earning an automatic bid to the
NCAA tournament, and she was
excited to play on the biggest stage
of her career as a sophomore, after
the Tigers went to the women’s
NIT last year.
But more than anything, the
Bethesda native and daughter of
former Washington Bullets for-
ward Mark Alarie was looking for-
ward to proving herself to all those
who would be watching back
home.
Because of her father and her
success in high school playing for
National Cathedral, where she
was a first-team All-Met, Alarie is
fairly well-known in basketball
circles throughout the Washing-
ton region. But for those who ha-
ven’t followed her career at
Princeton, the lanky, 6-foot-4
wing has become a star. Last sea-
son, she became one of four fresh-
men in program history to start
every game and ended the season
earning the Ivy League’s rookie of
the year honor.
For her encore, she was recently
named conference player of the
year after averaging a team-high
13.3 points and 9.6 rebounds
while blocking 75 shots this sea-
son.
“Because we are playing Mary-
land, I think a lot more people
back home are going to be watch-
ing the game,” Alarie said Wednes-
day after the team landed in Ra-
leigh. “That does really give me an
extra boost. I really do want to
prove myself and show that I have
gotten better since high school.
I’m so proud to be on this team
and wear the Princeton uniform
but also be able to represent my
home town at the same time.”
Coming out of high school, Ala-
rie had natural talent but was thin
and timid, unsure even of which
position she would play in college.
Her father had raised her to be a
tally sound, hyper-disciplined
team with a crafty offense.
“They’re a really high IQ, really
smart passing team,” Frese said.
“We’re going to have to defend the
three; they can score the ball really
well.”
Maryland’s focus will be match-
ing that discipline Friday after-
noon, which is partly why, as of
Wednesday, the team hadn’t ex-
plicitly started incorporating any
of Princeton’s offense or defense
into practice.
“I think the coaches started
Bella Alarie, daughter of former Washington Bullet Mark Alarie, was the Ivy League player of the year.
guard, not wanting his daughter
to be thought of as nothing more
than a post player because of her
height.
His foresight paid off. At Prince-
ton, Alarie has added 20 pounds,
which helps her be more assertive
on the court, and studied defense.
The result is a skilled defender
who shoots 49.2 percent from the
field and is a three-point threat.
When Maryland Coach Brenda
Frese was asked whether the Terps
had faced a player like Alarie all
season, Frese drew a blank.
She couldn’t think of any player
she knew of in women’s basketball
who has a skill set and natural
ability quite like Alarie’s. The first
name she thought of — though she
acknowledged the level of play
was dramatically different — was
Candace Parker.
Washington Mystics Coach
Mike Thibault, in Raleigh to call
this weekend’s game for ESPN,
said Alarie and her father came by
Mystics practices sometimes dur-
ing the summer to watch Elena
Delle Donne and Emma Meesse-
man, two other versatile players
with games similar to Alarie’s.
For Princeton Coach Courtney
Banghart, getting that type of raw
ability out of high school made
Alarie a steal of a recruit.
THE WASHINGTON POST
working it in a little bit, but they
didn’t tell us anything,” Confroy
said. “They’re really fundamental,
so for us, it’s staying disciplined
and staying within Maryland bas-
ketball, which I think is why we
did practice the way we did yester-
day. If we play our standard, we’ll
be all right, but if we start to play
into their hand a little bit, that
could bring us some trouble.”
The team planned to go over
Princeton’s film Wednesday night
after it settled in Raleigh.
Before then, Confroy was look-
“She’s a funny kid to talk about
because a lot of coaches in the
country are asking how I got Bella,
and I say, ‘Well, she was 20 pounds
lighter, and you all thought she
was a toddler,’ ” Banghart said be-
fore the Tigers’ practice Thursday.
“So she’s gotten a lot physically
stronger. Her body is more pre-
pared for the rigors of the high-
level competitive game that this is.
“When she came to us, she was
really a guard. A very long guard,
but now she’s becoming a ’tween-
er, and I think with two more
years’ development, I think there
will be a lot of people at the next
level that are going to be hoping to
get her.”
Against Maryland, Banghart is
depending on Alarie to embrace
the role of go-to scorer as she has
all season. In practice Thursday,
Banghart directed play after play
to run through the sophomore,
encouraging Alarie to shoot
layups higher to give herself a
better chance of outreaching op-
ponents for a rebound. She re-
minded the team that it has a
special weapon in a trained guard
who stands a head taller than the
rest of her teammates.
“Who’s the tallest girl on the
court?” Banghart asked when Ala-
rie was passed up for a shot. The
. FRIDAY, MARCH 16 , 2018
KATHERINE FREY/THE WASHINGTON POST
ing forward to a long bus ride with
her teammates to get her mind
right. She didn’t want to take the
trip for granted.
“Really, for me, it’s my last tour-
nament. This could be one of the
last times I pack my bag,” Confroy
said. “You do it so often that you
forget how much you should be
excited for it, you know what I
mean? Going into my last one has
given me a unique perspective
that I haven’t had in the past. I’m
looking forward to it.”
ava.wallace@washpost.com
CHRIS SZAGOLA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
team’s second-leading scorer, Les-
lie Robinson (who happens to be
Barack and Michelle Obama’s
niece), pointed at her teammate
and simply replied, “Bella.”
The Terps will have a few play-
ers to watch in addition to Alarie,
such as Robinson; freshman Abby
Meyers, another former All-Met
from Whitman High who averag-
es 9.3 points in 17.1 minutes for the
Tigers; and junior guard Qalea
Ismail, another Maryland native.
Frese is preparing for a little
extra fire on court from the three
local players in particular. She
knows playing against the Terps in
front of family and friends and a
local audience watching on televi-
sion back home adds extra mean-
ing. She expects a fight from Alarie
and the Tigers.
“To work so hard all year to even
make it to the NCAA tournament,
we’re just so proud of ourselves
that we made it this far,” Alarie
said. “For me, coming in I didn’t
really expect to start or really even
know what to expect at all out of
my basketball career here. But the
stars kind of aligned for me. It
worked out really well. . . . We’ve
gotten this far. I don’t think we’re
nervous. We’re just excited for the
opportunity.”
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Legal Notices
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc.
Estate of Walter Riley
Defendant
Case No. 2016 CA 002723 R(RP)
By Oral Ruling Granting Plaintiff’s
Publication entered in the above
referenced case on February 13,
2018 the Plaintiff, by undersigned
counsel, hereby inform interested
parties as follows:
There is now pending before the
District of Columbia Superior Court
an action case number 2016 CA
002723 R(RP) seeking to affect title
to the property now or formerly
owned by Walter Riley located at
805 Floral Place, NW, Washington,
DC 20012. A copy of the action is
available in the Clerk's office of the
Court. A written answer, including
any claims or defenses must be
filed with the District of Columbia
Superior Court Civil Branch, 500
Indiana Ave. Washington DC 20001
on or before the 1st day of May,
2018.
Samuel I White PC
600 Rockville Pike, Suite 100
Rockville MD 20852
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Official Notices
Montgomery County, Maryland
Department of Permitting Services (DPS)
PUBLIC NOTICE
DPS 3% Enterprise Fund Stabilization Increase
The Department of Permitting Services is required to calculate the
Enterprise Fund Stabilization Factor each year to be applied on July
1 of the upcoming fiscal year to each fee set under Executive
Regulations 11-17, 26-16, 20-07AM, 15-16 12-12, and County
Council Resolution 18-317. The EFSF is the factor by which the fee
calculation is adjusted, up or down, to cover DPS labor and operating
costs and to manage the DPS reserve policy under the 2002 Principles
of the Fiscal Management of the Permitting Services Fund. The
Enterprise Fund Stabilization Factor proposed for Fiscal Year 19 is to
be 1.03 which is an upward adjustment of 3%.”
Written comments, and questions may be directed to Barbara Suter,
DPS 255 Rockville Pike, 2nd Floor, Rockville, MD, 20850. Telephone
240-777-6244, or email Barbara.Suter@montgomerycountymd.gov.
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Public Notice
Howard University Hospital is apply-
ing for a Certificate of Need to
acquire and utilize a DaVinci Robot
in the operating rooms. A Letter of
Intent will be filed with the District
of Columbia State Health Planning
and Development Agency (SHPDA).
The DaVinci Robot will be housed
at Howard University Hospital. For
additional information contact the
SHPDA at 202 442-5875.
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Capitol Paving of D.C., Inc.
Capitol Paving is soliciting qualified
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– Bid Opening 3/19/2018
SAK Construction, LLC is seeking
Minority Business Enterprises
(MBE), and Women Business Enter-
prise (WBE) for the St Mary’s Coun-
ty-Patuxent Park Water Sewer Rehab
Phase 4.
The project bids on March 21th at
2:00 PM local time. All negotiations
must be completed by March 20th.
Subcontracting opportunities
include but are not limited to: The
work includes but is not limited to
the following:
The project consists of water and
sewer system rehabilitation. Water
rehabilitation consists of construc-
tion of approximately 5,700 linear
feet of 8-inch DIP water main, 25
8-inch gate valves, approximately
120 water house connections, 11
fire hydrants and appurtenances,
abandonment of the existing 8-inch
water line and associated water
service connections. Sewer rehabil-
itation includes the installation of
150 linear feet of new 12-inch PVC
gravity sewer, rehabilitating approx-
imately 5,075 linear feet of 8-inch
sanitary sewer using cured-in-place
liner, and replacement of approx-
imately 110 sewer house connec-
tions. The work is located primari-
ly on Franklin Road, Midway Drive,
and Essex Drive (west of Saratoga
Drive); and Ranger Road, Enterprise
Road and Hancock Road in the
Patuxent Park Subdivision, Lexing-
ton Park, Maryland.
Please advise if your firm is inter-
ested in seeking this opportunity.
Please contact Lawrence Smith at
lsmith@sakcon.com (443) 297-1935
or by fax at (433) 297-1901 to dis-
cuss this subcontracting opportuni-
ty.
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Public Sale Notices
IN ORDER TO ENFORCE ITS LIEN
FOR UNPAID RENT, AMERICAN
SELF STORAGE WILL SELL AT A
PUBLIC AUCTION ON Thursday
03/22/18 AT 12:00PM NOON,
FOR CASH, THE CONTENTS OF
THE FOLLOWING
UNITS/SPACES
002- M.Byrd
033- P.Moore
110- M.Davenport
118-N.Krakora
262- C.Brown
280- R.Dumar / D. Dumar
351- R.Williams
356- R.Williams
387- J.Jackson
453- C.Dill / R.Kinard
535- A.Rimmer
651- B.Bigelow
928- R.Dumar / D.Dumar
2309- J.Mariotti
2312- C.Pollard
2517- P.Willhite
2519- P.Deak
Sale to be held at
American Self Storage
4551 Eisenhower Ave
Alexandria, VA 22304
(703)-823-2300
03/22/2018 at 12:00pm.
Montgomery County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
MARYLAND
James E. Clarke
Renee Dyson
Brian Thomas
Hugh J. Green
Patrick M. A. Decker
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiffs
V.
The Estate of Edward Moriarty
Defendant(s)
Civil No. 432733V
NOTICE PURSUANT
TO MD RULE 14-215 (A)
ORDERED, by the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County, Mary-
land, this 27th day of February,
2018, that the foreclosure sale
of the property described in the
deed of trust docketed herein
and located at 11222 Valley View
Avenue, Kensington, Maryland
20895, made and reported
by James E. Clarke, Renee Dyson,
Brian Thomas, Hugh J. Green, and
Patrick M. A. Decker, Substitute
Trustees, Be RATIFIED and CON-
FIRMED, unless cause to the con-
trary be shown on or before the
29th day of MARCH, 2018; pro-
vided a copy of this Order be
inserted in The Washington Post,
once in each of three (3) succes-
sive weeks before the 29th day of
MARCH, 2018.
The Report of Sale states the
amount of the sale at $679,500.00
BY THE COURT:
Barbara H. Meiklejohn
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Montgomery County, Md.
MATL558132
Orlans PC
PO Box 2548
Leesburg, Virginia 20177
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Montgomery County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
MARYLAND
James E. Clarke
Renee Dyson
Beth Thomas
Erin M. August
Hugh J. Green
Patrick M. A. Decker
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiffs
V.
Robin M. Hudspeth and
Stuart L. Hudspeth
Defendant(s)
Civil No. 426988V
NOTICE PURSUANT
TO MD RULE 14-215 (A)
ORDERED, by the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County, Mary-
land, this 28th day of February,
2018, that the foreclosure sale
of the property described in the
deed of trust docketed herein and
located at 2817 Kingswell Drive,
Silver Spring, Maryland 20902,
made and reported by James E.
Clarke, Renee Dyson, Brian
Thomas, Erin M. August, Hugh J.
Green and Patrick M. A. Decker,
Substitute Trustees, Be RATIFIED
and CONFIRMED, unless cause to
the contrary be shown on or
before the 30th day of MARCH,
2018; provided a copy of this
Order be inserted in The Wash-
ington Post, once in each of three
(3) successive weeks before the
30th day of MARCH, 2018.
The Report of Sale states the
amount of the sale at $307,700.00
BY THE COURT:
Barbara H. Meiklejohn
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Montgomery County, Md.
MATL558470
Orlans PC
PO Box 2548
Leesburg, Virginia 20177
March 9, 16, 23, 2018 12169615
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
MONTGOMERY COUNTY,
MARYLAND
James E. Clarke
Hugh J. Green
Shannon Menapace
Christine M. Drexel
Beth Thomas
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiffs
V.
Constance Robinson
Randi A. Robinson and
Walden W. Robinson
Defendant(s)
Civil No. 440975V
NOTICE PURSUANT
TO MD RULE 14-215 (A)
ORDERED, by the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County, Mary-
land, this 28th day of February,
2018, that the foreclosure sale
of the property described in the
deed of trust docketed herein
and located at 18441 Crownsgate
Circle, Germantown, Maryland
20874, made and reported
by James E. Clarke, Hugh J. Green,
shannon Menapace, Christine M.
Drexel and Brian Thomas, Substi-
tute Trustees, Be RATIFIED and
CONFIRMED, unless cause to the
contrary be shown on or before
the 30th day of MARCH, 2018;
provided a copy of this Order be
inserted in The Washington Post,
once in each of three (3) succes-
sive weeks before the 30th day of
MARCH, 2018.
The Report of Sale states the
amount of the sale at $394,715.30
BY THE COURT:
Barbara H. Meiklejohn
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Montgomery County, Md.
MATL578593
Orlans PC
PO Box 2548
Leesburg, Virginia 20177
March 9, 16, 23, 2018 12169613
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY
MARYLAND
DIANE S. ROSENBERG
MARK D. MEYER
JOHN A. ANSELL, III
KENNETH SAVITZ
JENNIFER ROCHINO
SYDNEY ROBERSON
Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
4340 East West Highway
Suite 600
Bethesda, MD 20814
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiff(s)
v.
Wilson Sauceda
Sandra J. Cole
a/k/a Sandra J. Sauceda
13656 Harvest Glen Way
Germantown, MD 20874
Defendant(s)
Case No. 436969V
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given this 27th
day of February, 2018, by the Cir-
cuit Court for Montgomery Coun-
ty, Maryland, that the sale of
13656 Harvest Glen Way, German-
town, MD 20874, made and report-
ed, will be ratified and confirmed,
unless cause to the contrary
thereof be shown on or before the
29th day of March, 2018, provided
a copy of this notice be inserted
in a daily newspaper printed in
said County, once in each of three
successive weeks before the 29th
day of March 2018. The Report
of Sale states the amount of the
foreclosure sale price to be
$76,000.00.
Barbara H. Meiklejohn
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Montgomery County, MD
March 9, 16, 23, 2018 12169607
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Montgomery County Montgomery County Prince Georges County Prince Georges County Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
HEISE JORGENSEN & STEFANELLI P.A. NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE OF PROPERTY TRUSTEE'S SALE
18310 Montgomery Village Avenue, Suite 400 LOCATED AT
Gaithersburg, MD 20879 5211 LANSING DRIVE, TEMPLE HILLS, MARYLAND 20748 6002 Maria Avenue, Suitland, MD 20746
(301) 977-8400
SALE TO BE HELD AT THE
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY COURTHOUSE DUVAL WING ENTRANCE,
Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
Known as 14735 MAIN STREET, premises known as 6002 Maria Avenue, Suitland, MD 20746.
UPPER MARLBORO, MARYLAND 20772
25910 RIDGE MANOR DRIVE, UNIT 1000-M, DAMASCUS, MARYLAND 20872 By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed of Trust,
MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2018
By virtue of the power and authority contained in a certain Deed of Trust AT 11:00 A.M. dated December 23, 2009, and recorded in Liber 31396 at
from Shereen Jaouni to G. Michael Dufour, Trustee, dated September 28,
2005 and recorded in Liber 31059 at Folio 161 among the Land Records In execution of a certain Deed of Trust dated June 1, 2009 executed Page 247 among the land records of the COUNTY OF PRINCE
for Montgomery County, Maryland, the undersigned substituted trustees by Metropolitan Washington Orthopaedic Association Chartered 1975 GEORGE'S, in the original principal amount of $194,596.00.
(by virtue of Deed of Appointment between Housing Opportunities Employees’ Pension Plan, formerly known as Rida N. Azer, M.D., P.A.,
Commission of Montgomery County, Maryland, successor in interest to Employees Pension Plan and recorded June 8, 2009 among the land Upon default and request for sale, the undersigned trustees
Weichert Financial Services (the "Beneficiary"), and said trustees recorded records of Prince George’s County, Maryland in Liber 30684, folio 137 will offer for sale at public auction at the Courthouse for the
among the Land Records of Montgomery County) will, on (the "Deed of Trust") securing John Marshall Bank (the “Noteholder”),
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2018 at 9:05 O'Clock, A.M.
default having occurred in the payment of the debt secured thereby, and COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE'S, at the front of the Duval Wing
being instructed to do so by the Noteholder, the undersigned Substitute of the Courthouse Complex located at 14735 Main Street, Upper
offer for sale at public auction at the front door of the Montgomery County Trustee will offer for sale at public auction at the Circuit Court for
Judicial Center, 50 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20850, all of Prince George’s County, Duval Wing Entrance, 14735 Main Street, Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20772, on March 27, 2018 at 2:00 PM, all
Marlboro, Maryland, 20772, on March 19, 2018 beginning at 11:00 a.m.,
the property and improvements thereon conveyed by said deed of trust,
described as 25910 Ridge Manor Drive, Unit 1000-M, Damascus, Maryland the real estate (and improvements thereon) known as 5211 Lansing Drive,
that property described in said Deed of Trust including but not
20872, Tax Identification No. 12-03232532 (the "Property") and more fully Temple Hills, Maryland 20748 and designated as Property Tax ID No. 09- limited to:
described in the Deed of Trust. 0859967 and more particularly described as follows:
Tax ID# 06-0565309
TERMS OF SALE: The Property, which is improved by a dwelling, will All that certain lot or parcel of land situate in the County of Prince
be offered for sale, subject to matters known and unknown, in an "AS George’s, State of Maryland, and being more particularly described
IS, WHERE IS" condition with no warranty of any kind and will be sold as follows: Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and
and conveyed by the Substitute Trustees subject to all encumbrances, is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants,
Lot Numbered Three (3), Block Lettered “P”, Section Numbered
rights, reservations, covenants, conditions, easements, restrictions, and
statutory liens, if any, having priority over the Deed of Trust, as they
Seven (7), in the subdivision known as “WESTCHESTER ESTATES”, as conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may
per Plat recorded in Plat Book WWW-71, Plat No. 4, among the land
may lawfully affect the Property. The risk of loss or damage to the records of Prince George’s County, Maryland. affect same, if any.
Property shall be borne by the successful bidder from and after the
date and time of the sale. Obtaining possession of the Property shall AND BEING the same property conveyed to Rida N. Azer, M.D., P.A., TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
be the sole responsibility of the successful bidder. A deposit of Eight Employees Pension Plan by Deed from Edward H. Murray and Sara
Thousand Dollars ($8,000.00), in the form of certified check or cashier's L. Murray, his wife, dated August 23, 1979, recorded August 27, or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
check, (the "Deposit") at the time of sale will be required at the time of 1979, in Liber 5146, at folio 639, among the land records of Prince balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum
sale. The Beneficiary is not required to make a Deposit. The balance
of the purchase price for the Property, together with interest at 5.625%
George’s County, Maryland. Rida N. Azer, M.D., P.A. Employees
Pension Plan changed its name in 1984 to Metropolitan Washington from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
per annum from the date of sale to the date of settlement, shall be Orthopaedic Association Chartered 1975, a Maryland corporation. TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
paid in cash within fifteen (15) days after final ratification of the sale of Sale shall also be made subject to all encumbrances, rights, reservations,
the Property by the Circuit Court, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE WITH conveyances, leases, conditions, easements, restrictive covenants, and
on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
REGARD TO ALL OF PURCHASER'S OBLIGATIONS. Taxes, water, sewer,
ground rent, condominium fees, and/or homeowners association dues, if
all recorded and unrecorded liens, if any, having priority over the Deed will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
of Trust, as they may lawfully affect the property. All loss or damage to by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners
applicable, will be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed thereafter by the property sold from and after the time of sale and before settlement
the purchaser. All other public charges and assessments payable on an
annual basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges will
shall be at the risk of the successful bidder. Real estate taxes and all association dues and assessments that may become due after
other public charges and assessments shall be adjusted for the current
be adjusted for the current year to date of sale and assumed thereafter year to the date of sale and the purchaser shall be responsible for the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
by the purchaser. All costs of conveyance, including transfer taxes and Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
recordation taxes will be paid by the purchaser. If any successful bidder
payment of such taxes and charges beginning on the date of sale. All
income and expenses to be adjusted for the month of settlement to
fails for any reason to complete settlement as provided above, the Deposit date of settlement, and purchaser to assume all expenses thereafter. taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
shall be forfeited and applied to the costs of the sale, including Substitute
Trustees' fees, and the balance, if any, shall be delivered to the Beneficiary
The Substitute Trustee shall be liable for only those security deposits, if are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
any, and such income, if any, as the Substitute Trustee may have in his
to be applied by the Beneficiary against the indebtedness secured by, actual possession on the date of settlement. Cost of all documentary the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
and other amounts due under, the Deed of Trust in accordance with the
Deed of Trust or applicable law or otherwise as the Beneficiary shall elect.
stamps, grantor, recordation and transfer taxes, notary and examination
of title fees will be paid by the purchaser. If the Substitute Trustee is
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
Forfeiture of the Deposit shall not limit any rights or remedies of the unable to convey the property as described above, the Purchaser's sole purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees
Substitute Trustees or the Beneficiary with respect to any such default.
If the Property is resold after any such default, such re-sale shall be at
remedy at law or in equity shall be limited to a refund of its deposit.
Upon such refund of the deposit to the purchaser, the sale shall be void
are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms
the risk and the cost of the failing bidder, and the failing bidder shall and of no effect, and the purchaser shall have no further claim against of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit.
be liable for any deficiency between its bid and the successful bid at
the resale as well as the costs of conducting such re-sale. In the event
the Substitute Trustee, the lender or the other Beneficiaries (as defined
below).
Trustee's File No. 17-270165.
the Substitute Trustees do not execute a deed of conveyance or other
necessary settlement documents, the purchaser’s sole remedy shall be The property will be sold (i) together with any and all furniture, fixtures Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees.
the refund of the Deposit. In the event the Substitute Trustees are unable and equipment located on the property and not owned by any tenant
to convey marketable title or in the event the borrower entered into a thereof; (ii) subject to and together with all recorded easements, SHAPIRO & BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
repayment plan, reinstated or paid the loan off prior to the sale, or if for
any other reason, the undersigned did not have the right to sell, the sale
agreements, rights of way, charges, liens, mechanic's and materialmen's
liens, reservations, and other encumbrances, covenants, restrictions and Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797
is null and void and the purchaser is not entitled to any legal or equitable conditions affecting the property and not subordinate to said Deed
remedy other than return of the Deposit without interest and any and all of Trust, if any, including without limitation, environmental conditions
other claims of the purchaser are hereby released. Additional terms and (including wetlands, riparian rights, protected species), all applicable
conditions to be announced at the time of sale. All inquiries regarding federal, state and local laws, ordinances and regulations affecting the
property, and other matters which would be disclosed by an accurate
the sale should be directed to Stephen B. Jackson, Substituted Trustee.
survey or inspection of the property; and (iii) subject to rights of tenants
STEPHEN B. JACKSON and STEVEN P. HENNE
not subordinate to said Deed of Trust, if any. No representation or
Substitute Trustees warranty, expressed or implied, is made as to whether any tenants,
March 9, 16, 23, 2018 12168677 subtenants or other parties in possession are actually in possession
and/or paying rent. www.hwestauctions.com
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Montgomery County Prince Georges County The property will be sold in "AS IS, WHERE IS" condition, without recourse.
MARCH 9, 16, 23, 2018 12165553
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN THE CIRCUIT COURT The information contained herein as to the nature and description
FOR THE COUNTY OF FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY or use of the property have been obtained from sources deemed TRUSTEE'S SALE
MONTGOMERY, MARYLAND MARYLAND reliable and believed to be accurate when given; provided, however,
neither the Substitute Trustee nor the Noteholder, nor their respective 15020 Newcomb Lane, Bowie, MD 20716
KRISTINE D. BROWN, et al. JOHN E. DRISCOLL, III, et al agents, successors and assigns (collectively, the "Beneficiaries") make
Trustee(s) Plaintiffs, Substitute Trustees Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
any representations or warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to
Plaintiff(s) the property, or any tenancies or parties in possession, including without
v.
limitation, the descriptions, use, dimensions, quantities, square footage,
premises known as 15020 Newcomb Lane, Bowie, MD 20716.
vs. ANDREA HILL A/K/A By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed of
parking, tenancies, structural integrity, physical condition, construction,
MARIE COLETTE AHOU ANDREA D. HILL extent of construction, workmanship, materials, habitability, zoning,
Defendant(s) CURTIS HILL environmental condition, or fitness for a particular use or merchantability
Trust, dated October 10, 2006, and recorded in Liber 27377 at
Mortgagor(s) Defendant(s) of all or any part of the property or the improvements located thereon. Page 101 among the land records of the COUNTY OF PRINCE
CIVIL NO. 418965V
Civil Action No. CAEF17-39087 TERMS OF SALE GEORGE'S, in the original principal amount of $382,950.00.
NOTICE NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THIS
CASH. A bidder’s deposit of up to ten percent (10%) of the sale price Upon default and request for sale, the undersigned trustees
Notice is hereby given this 12th (the “Deposit”) by certified or cashier’s check may be required by the
27th day of February, 2018 by the day of March 2018, by the Circuit Trustees for such bid to be accepted. The Trustees reserve the right to will offer for sale at public auction at the Courthouse for the
Circuit Court for the COUNTY OF
MONTGOMERY, Maryland, and by
Court for Prince George's County, prequalify any bidder prior to the sale and/or waive the requirement of the COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE'S, at the front of the Duval Wing
Maryland, that the sale of the prop- Deposit. Immediately after the sale, the successful bidder shall execute
the authority thereof, that the sale erty mentioned in these proceed- and deliver a memorandum of sale with the Trustees, copies of which of the Courthouse Complex located at 14735 Main Street, Upper
made by Kristine D. Brown, Wil- ings and described as 14304 Kath- shall be available for inspection immediately prior to the sale, and shall Marlboro, Maryland 20772, on March 27, 2018 at 2:00 PM,
liam M. Savage, Gregory N. Britto,
R. Kip Stone, Trustees, of the Real
leen Lane, Brandywine, MD 20613,
will be ratified and confirmed
deliver to the Trustees the Deposit and the memorandum of sale. The
balance of the purchase price, together with interest at eight percent per all that property described in said Deed of Trust including but
Property designated as 14522 annum from the date of sale to the date of settlement, shall be paid by
Wexhall Drive, Burtonsville, MD,
unless cause to the contrary there-
the Purchaser. Settlement shall occur within thirty (30) days after the
not limited to:
of be shown on or before the
20866, and reported in the above sale date, TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE with regard to the Purchaser’s
entitled cause, will be finally rati-
12th day of April, 2018, provided a
obligation.
Tax ID# 07-0745810
copy of this NOTICE be published
fied and confirmed, unless cause
to the contrary thereof be shown
at least once a week in each of Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and
three successive weeks in some /s/ Joseph F. Jackson
on or before the 29th day of newspaper of general circulation Substitute Trustee
is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants,
March, 2018, next; provided a
copy of this order be inserted
published in said County before
the 12th day of April, 2018.
/s/ Genevieve C. Bradley conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may
Substitute Trustee
in THE WASHINGTON POST, 1150
The Report of Sale states the
affect same, if any.
15th Street, Washington DC, MD FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:
published in said COUNTY OF
MONTGOMERY once a week for
amount of the sale to be
$284,750.00.
Joseph F. Jackson, TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
Substitute Trustee
three successive weeks before Sydney J. Harrison #619 (703) 485-3535 or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
the 29th day of March, 2018.
Clerk of the Circuit Court For 8200 Greensboro Drive, Suite 820 balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum
The report states the amount of Prince George's County, Maryland McLean, Virginia 22102
the sale to be $177,790.10
from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
March 16, 23, 30, 2018 12170905 March 2, 9, 16, 2018 12168414
Barbara H. Meiklejohn TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
851 851
Clerk of the Circuit Court For
Montgomery County, Maryland
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT Prince Georges County Prince Georges County on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN THE CIRCUIT COURT will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
Feb19, 26, March 5, 2018 12169010 MARYLAND
FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners
851 JOHN E. DRISCOLL, III, et al MARYLAND MARYLAND
Prince Georges County Plaintiffs, Substitute Trustees JOHN E. DRISCOLL, III, et al JOHN E. DRISCOLL, III, et al association dues and assessments that may become due after
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
v. Plaintiffs, Substitute Trustees Plaintiffs, Substitute Trustees the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
MARYLAND
ANTHONY L BURKS
KHALILAH BURKS
v. v.
Defendant(s)
JOHN C. STEWART CAROL MCKENZIE taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
JOHN E. DRISCOLL, III, et al Defendant(s) Defendant(s)
Plaintiffs, Substitute Trustees Civil Action No. CAEF17-26168 Civil Action No. CAEF15-32505 Civil Action No. CAEF14-22347
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
v. NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
IN RE: 9216 CRANDALL ROAD Notice is hereby given this 12th Notice is hereby given this 12th Notice is hereby given this 13th
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
LANHAM, MD 20706 day of March 2018, by the Circuit day of March 2018, by the Circuit day of March 2018, by the Circuit purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees
Court for Prince George's County, Court for Prince George's County, Court for Prince George's County,
AND Maryland, that the sale of the prop- Maryland, that the sale of the prop- Maryland, that the sale of the prop-
are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms
ALL OCCUPANTS erty mentioned in these proceed-
Defendant(s) ings and described as 5028 Leland
erty mentioned in these proceed- erty mentioned in these proceed- of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit.
Drive, Oxon Hill, MD 20745, will
ings and described as 9225 Fowler ings and described as 15940 Trustee's File No. 17-269744.
Civil Action No. CAEF17-35958
be ratified and confirmed unless
Lane, Lanham, MD 20706, will be Alameda Drive, Bowie, MD 20716,
NOTICE cause to the contrary thereof be
ratified and confirmed unless
cause to the contrary thereof be
will be ratified and confirmed
unless cause to the contrary there-
Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees.
Notice is hereby given this 13th shown on or before the 12th day of shown on or before the 12th day of of be shown on or before the
day of March 2018, by the Circuit April, 2018, provided a copy of this April, 2018, provided a copy of this 13th day of April, 2018, provided a SHAPIRO & BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
NOTICE be published at least once
Court for Prince George's County,
a week in each of three successive
NOTICE be published at least once copy of this NOTICE be published Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797
a week in each of three successive at least once a week in each of
Maryland, that the sale of the prop-
erty mentioned in these proceed- weeks in some newspaper of gen-
eral circulation published in said
weeks in some newspaper of gen- three successive weeks in some
ings and described as 9216 Cran- eral circulation published in said newspaper of general circulation
County before the 12th day of County before the 12th day of published in said County before
dall Road, Lanham, MD 20706, will April, 2018.
be ratified and confirmed unless April, 2018. the 13th day of April, 2018.
cause to the contrary thereof be The Report of Sale states the
The Report of Sale states the The Report of Sale states the
shown on or before the 13th day of amount of the sale to be
amount of the sale to be amount of the sale to be
April, 2018, provided a copy of this $184,000.00. $182,000.00. $290,000.00.
NOTICE be published at least once
Sydney J. Harrison #619
a week in each of three successive Sydney J. Harrison #619 Sydney J. Harrison #619 www.hwestauctions.com
Clerk of the Circuit Court For Clerk of the Circuit Court For Clerk of the Circuit Court For
weeks in some newspaper of gen- Prince George's County, Maryland MARCH 9, 16, 23, 2018 12167907
eral circulation published in said Prince George's County, Maryland Prince George's County, Maryland
County before the 13th day of March 16, 23, 30, 2018 12170904 852 857
April, 2018.
March 16, 23, 30, 2018 12170798 March 16, 23, 30, 2018 12170935 Anne Arundel County Howard County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN THE CIRCUIT COURT IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
The Report of Sale states the FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
amount of the sale to be FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY FOR HOWARD COUNTY
$365,250.00. MARYLAND FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
MARYLAND
MARYLAND
Robert E. Frazier, et al.
MARYLAND
JOHN E. DRISCOLL, III, et al JOHN E. DRISCOLL, III, et al BENJAMIN P. SMITH, et al.
Sydney J. Harrison #619 Plaintiffs, Substitute Trustees Substitute Trustees Substitute Trustees
Clerk of the Circuit Court For Plaintiffs, Substitute Trustees JOHN E. DRISCOLL, III, et al
Plaintiffs, Substitute Trustees Plaintiff(s)
Prince George's County, Maryland v. v.
Versus vs.
March 16, 23, 30, 2018 12170947 GORDON A. TROTZ v. FRANK A. CARDASCIA
BRENDA A. TROTZ JAMES R. PEYTON Defendant(s) CFMW LLC, et al. 5565 STERRETT PLACE, LLC, et al.
Defendants
Defendant(s) Defendant(s) Civil Action No. CAEF17-06325 Defendant(s)
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY Civil Action No. CAEF15-00433 Civil Action No. CAEF17-33834 No. C-02-CV-16-001307 Civil No. 13-C-17-111771
NOTICE
MARYLAND NOTICE NOTICE NOTICE PURSUANT
Notice is hereby given this 13th NOTICE TO RULE 14-305(c)
James E. Clarke
Hugh J. Green
Notice is hereby given this 12th
day of March 2018, by the Circuit
Notice is hereby given this 12th
day of March 2018, by the Circuit
day of March 2018, by the Circuit
Court for Prince George's County, Notice is hereby issued this Thurs-
Shannon Menapace day, March 1, 2018 that the sale Pursuant to Rule 14-305(c),
Court for Prince George's County, Court for Prince George's County, Maryland, that the sale of the prop- Notice is hereby given this 8th
Christine M. Drexel Maryland, that the sale of the prop- Maryland, that the sale of the prop- erty mentioned in these proceed- of the property in the proceed-
ings mentioned, made and report- day of March 2018 by the Circuit
Brian Thomas erty mentioned in these proceed- erty mentioned in these proceed- ings and described as 6414 Fair-
Substitute Trustees ed by Thomas W Hodge, Substitute Court for Howard County, Mary-
ings and described as 10607 Terra- ings and described as 9805 Lake born Terrace, Hyattsville, MD land, that the sale of the property
Plaintiffs co Terrace, Cheltenham, MD 20623, Pointe Court, Unit 204, Largo, MD 20784, will be ratified and con- Trustee.
mentioned in these proceedings,
will be ratified and confirmed 20774, will be ratified and con- firmed unless cause to the con- BE RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED,
v.
trary thereof be shown on or
made and reported by Benjamin
unless cause to the contrary there- firmed unless cause to the con- unless cause to the contrary there- P. Smith, of the the trustees here-
The Estate of Melecio S. Soriano, of be shown on or before the trary thereof be shown on or before the 13th day of April, 2018, of be shown on or before the 2nd
surviving tenant by the entirety of 12th day of April, 2018, provided a before the 12th day of April, 2018, provided a copy of this NOTICE be day of April 2018 next; provided,
in, will be ratified and confirmed,
unless cause to the contrary
Filomena Soriano, and Florence C.
Kogok and Michael E. Kogok as
copy of this NOTICE be published
at least once a week in each of
provided a copy of this NOTICE be
published at least once a week in
published at least once a week in
each of three successive weeks
a copy of this Notice be inserted
in some newspaper published in
thereof be shown on or before
the 16th day of April, 2018, pro-
Trustee of the Melecia S. Soriano
Revocable Living Trust created by
three successive weeks in some
newspaper of general circulation
each of three successive weeks
in some newspaper of general cir-
in some newspaper of general cir-
culation published in said County
Anne Arundel County, once in each
of three successive weeks before
vided a copy of this Notice be
inserted in some newspaper pub-
Declaration of Trust dated Novem- before the 13th day of April, 2018.
published in said County before culation published in said County the 2nd day of April 2018 next. The lished in said County once in
ber 13, 2007 the 12th day of April, 2018. before the 12th day of April, 2018. report states that the amount of
Defendant(s) The Report of Sale states the each of theree successive weeks
The Report of Sale states the The Report of Sale states the amount of the sale to be sale of the property at 1484 Snug before the 9th day of April, 2018.
Harbor Road, Shady Side, MD 20764
Civil No. CAEF17-40895 amount of the sale to be $355,162.51.
NOTICE PURSUANT $258,700.00.
amount of the sale to be
$96,000.00. to be $250,750.00. The report states the amount of
the sale to be $7,000,000.00. The
Sydney J. Harrison #619
TO MD RULE 14-215 (A) Sydney J. Harrison #619 Sydney J. Harrison #619 Clerk of the Circuit Court For /S/Robert P Duckworth property sold has the following
Clerk of the Circuit Court For Clerk of the Circuit Court For Prince George's County, Maryland Circuit Court for street address: 5565 STERRETT
ORDERED, by the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, MD PLACE, COLUMBIA, MD 21044.
Prince George's County, Maryland, Prince George's County, Maryland Prince George's County, Maryland March 16, 23, 30, 2018 12170945
this 9th day of March 2018, that March 16, 23, 30, 2018 12170901 March 16, 23, 30, 2018 12170907 Mar 9, 16, 23, 2018 12169903 Wayne A Robey
the foreclosure sale of the proper- Clerk of the Circuit Court
ty described in the deed of trust Howard County, MD
docketed herein and located at
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5602 Galloway Drive, Oxon Hill, Home delivery is convenient. to home delivery. Home delivery 300 E. Lombard St. 18th Flr.
Maryland 20745, made and report- Baltimore, MD 21202
ed by James E. Clarke, Hugh J. makes good is convenient. March 16, 23, 30, 2018 12171019
Green, Shannon Menapace, Chris- 1-800-753-POST
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before the 9th day of April, 2018,
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amount of the sale at $133,100.00.
Sydney J. Harrison #619
1-800-753-POST
Clerk of the Circuit Court For
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851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
TRUSTEE'S SALE
310 Rollins Ave, Capitol Heights, MD 20743
Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 310 Rollins Ave, Capitol Heights, MD
20743. By virtue of the power and authority contained in a
Deed of Trust, dated July 9, 2007, and recorded in Liber 28349
at Page 510 among the land records of the COUNTY OF PRINCE
GEORGE'S, in the original principal amount of $352,500.00.
Upon default and request for sale, the undersigned trustees
will offer for sale at public auction at the Courthouse for the
COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE'S, at the front of the Duval Wing
of the Courthouse Complex located at 14735 Main Street, Upper
Marlboro, Maryland 20772, on March 27, 2018 at 2:00 PM,
all that property described in said Deed of Trust including but
not limited to:
Tax ID# 18-2048049
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and
is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants,
conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may
affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum
from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due after
the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees
are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms
of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit.
Trustee's File No. 17-270970.
Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees.
SHAPIRO & BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797
www.hwestauctions.com
MARCH 9, 16, 23, 2018 12167905 MARCH 9, 16, 23, 2018
TRUSTEE'S SALE
8524 Paragon Ct, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772
Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 8524 Paragon Ct, Upper Marlboro, MD
20772. By virtue of the power and authority contained in
a Deed of Trust, dated September 28, 2006, and recorded
in Liber 26196 at Page 062 among the land records of the
COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE'S, in the original principal
amount of $260,000.00. Upon default and request for sale, the
undersigned trustees will offer for sale at public auction at the
Courthouse for the COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE'S, at the front
of the Duval Wing of the Courthouse Complex located at 14735
Main Street, Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20772, on March 27,
2018 at 2:00 PM, all that property described in said Deed of
Trust including but not limited to:
Tax ID# 15-1745421
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and
is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants,
conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may
affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum
from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due after
the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees
are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms
of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit.
Trustee's File No. 17-267187.
Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees.
SHAPIRO & BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797
www.hwestauctions.com
MARCH 9, 16, 23, 2018 12167697 MARCH 9, 16, 23, 2018
TRUSTEE'S SALE
4626 21st Street, Mount Rainier, MD 20712
Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 4626 21st Street, Mount Rainier, MD
20712. By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed
of Trust, dated March 16, 2005, and recorded in Liber 21923 at
Page 334 among the land records of the COUNTY OF PRINCE
GEORGE'S, in the original principal amount of $297,000.00.
Upon default and request for sale, the undersigned trustees
will offer for sale at public auction at the Courthouse for the
COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE'S, at the front of the Duval Wing
of the Courthouse Complex located at 14735 Main Street, Upper
Marlboro, Maryland 20772, on March 27, 2018 at 2:00 PM,
all that property described in said Deed of Trust including but
not limited to:
Tax ID# 17-1889492
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and
is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants,
conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may
affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum
from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due after
the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees
are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms
of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit.
Trustee's File No. 17-268996.
Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees.
SHAPIRO & BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797
www.hwestauctions.com
MARCH 9, 16, 23, 2018 12167492 MARCH 9, 16, 23, 2018
851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
TRUSTEE'S SALE
11701 CAROL ANN CT, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 11701 CAROL ANN CT, Upper Marlboro,
MD 20774. By virtue of the power and authority contained
in a Deed of Trust, dated April 30, 2007, and recorded in
Liber 28421 at Page 368 among the land records of the
COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE'S, in the original principal
amount of $436,800.00. Upon default and request for sale, the
undersigned trustees will offer for sale at public auction at the
Courthouse for the COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE'S, at the front
of the Duval Wing of the Courthouse Complex located at 14735
Main Street, Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20772, on March 27,
2018 at 2:00 PM, all that property described in said Deed of
Trust including but not limited to:
Tax ID# 15-1767789
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and
is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants,
conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may
affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum
from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due after
the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees
are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms
of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit.
Trustee's File No. 17-266521.
Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees.
SHAPIRO & BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797
www.hwestauctions.com
12167491 MARCH 9, 16, 23, 2018
TRUSTEE'S SALE
7724 Fishing Creek Way, Clinton, MD 20735
Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 7724 Fishing Creek Way, Clinton, MD
20735. By virtue of the power and authority contained in
a Deed of Trust, dated December 16, 2005, and recorded
in Liber 24372 at Page 696 among the land records of
the COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE'S, in the original principal
amount of $252,000.00. Upon default and request for sale, the
undersigned trustees will offer for sale at public auction at the
Courthouse for the COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE'S, at the front
of the Duval Wing of the Courthouse Complex located at 14735
Main Street, Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20772, on March 27,
2018 at 2:00 PM, all that property described in said Deed of
Trust including but not limited to:
Tax ID# 09-3037702
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and
is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants,
conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may
affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum
from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due after
the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees
are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms
of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit.
Trustee's File No. 17-268971.
Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees.
SHAPIRO & BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797
www.hwestauctions.com
12166789 MARCH 9, 16, 23, 2018
TRUSTEE'S SALE
1917 Jennings Mill Drive, Bowie, MD 20721
Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 917 Jennings Mill Drive, Bowie, MD
20721. By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed
of Trust, dated October 25, 2010, and recorded in Liber 32126
at Page 316 among the land records of the COUNTY OF PRINCE
GEORGE'S, in the original principal amount of $680,811.00.
Upon default and request for sale, the undersigned trustees
will offer for sale at public auction at the Courthouse for the
COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE'S, at the front of the Duval Wing
of the Courthouse Complex located at 14735 Main Street, Upper
Marlboro, Maryland 20772, on March 27, 2018 at 2:00 PM,
all that property described in said Deed of Trust including but
not limited to:
Tax ID# 07-3592334
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and
is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants,
conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may
affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum
from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due after
the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees
are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms
of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit.
Trustee's File No. 17-268063.
Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees.
SHAPIRO & BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797
www.hwestauctions.com
12166697 MARCH 9, 16, 23, 2018
OPQRS
851 851
Prince Georges County Prince Georges County
TRUSTEE'S SALE
14215 LUSBY RIDGE ROAD, Accokeek, MD 20607
Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 14215 LUSBY RIDGE ROAD, Accokeek,
MD 20607. By virtue of the power and authority contained
in a Deed of Trust, dated October 27, 2010, and recorded
in Liber 32168 at Page 271 among the land records of the
COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE, in the original principal amount
of $304,415.00. Upon default and request for sale, the
undersigned trustees will offer for sale at public auction at the
Courthouse for the COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE, at the front
of the Duval Wing of the Courthouse Complex located at 14735
Main Street, Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20772, on March 27,
2018 at 2:00 PM, all that property described in said Deed of
Trust including but not limited to:
Tax ID# 05-3681210
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and
is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants,
conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may
affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum
from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due after
the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees
are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms
of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit.
Trustee's File No. 17-263988.
Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees.
SHAPIRO & BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797
www.hwestauctions.com
12166384
TRUSTEE'S SALE
1727 Village Green Dr, Unit Z-40, Landover, MD 20785
Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 1727 Village Green Dr, Unit Z-40,
Landover, MD 20785. By virtue of the power and authority
contained in a Deed of Trust, dated August 29, 2007, and
recorded in Liber 28598 at Page 710 among the land records
of the COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE'S, in the original principal
amount of $119,200.00. Upon default and request for sale, the
undersigned trustees will offer for sale at public auction at the
Courthouse for the COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE'S, at the front
of the Duval Wing of the Courthouse Complex located at 14735
Main Street, Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20772, on March 27,
2018 at 2:00 PM, all that property described in said Deed of
Trust including but not limited to:
Tax ID# 13-1459593
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and
is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants,
conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may
affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum
from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due after
the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees
are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms
of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit.
Trustee's File No. 17-265174.
Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees.
SHAPIRO & BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797
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12165561
TRUSTEE'S SALE
15804 Buxton Place, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 15804 Buxton Place, Upper Marlboro, MD
20774. By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed
of Trust, dated April 4, 2007, and recorded in Liber 28476 at
Page 393 among the land records of the COUNTY OF PRINCE
GEORGE'S, in the original principal amount of $428,000.00.
Upon default and request for sale, the undersigned trustees
will offer for sale at public auction at the Courthouse for the
COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE'S, at the front of the Duval Wing
of the Courthouse Complex located at 14735 Main Street, Upper
Marlboro, Maryland 20772, on March 27, 2018 at 2:00 PM,
all that property described in said Deed of Trust including but
not limited to:
Tax ID# 03-3654480
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and
is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants,
conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may
affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum
from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due after
the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees
are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms
of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit.
Trustee's File No. 17-269749.
Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees.
SHAPIRO & BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797
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12502 NATHANIEL OAKS DRIVE,
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12165755 In
in the original principal amount
of $570,000.00, with an annual
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TRUSTEE'S SALE
860 NEPTUNE AVENUE, Oxon Hill, MD 20745
Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 860 NEPTUNE AVENUE, Oxon Hill, MD
20745. By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed
of Trust, dated October 6, 2004, and recorded in Liber 20898
at Page 533 among the land records of the County of Prince
George's, in the original principal amount of $49,970.00.
Upon default and request for sale, the undersigned trustees
will offer for sale at public auction at the Courthouse for the
COUNTY OF PRINCE GEORGE'S, at the front of the Duval Wing
of the Courthouse Complex located at 14735 Main Street, Upper
Marlboro, Maryland 20772, on March 27, 2018 at 2:00 PM,
all that property described in said Deed of Trust including but
not limited to:
Tax ID# 12-1291160
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and
is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants,
conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may
affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum
from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due after
the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees of Sale for any Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this
are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms
of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit.
Trustee's File No. 17-267996.
Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees.
SHAPIRO & BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797
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MARCH 9, 16, 23, 2018 12167901 execute their right to reinstate or payoff the subject loan,
852
Anne Arundel County 852 Anne Arundel County knowledge, this Contract shall be null and void and of no effect,
TRUSTEE'S SALE
1191 Hammond Lane, Odenton, MD 21113
Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by water rent, condominium fees and/or homeowner association
premises known as 1191 Hammond Lane, Odenton, MD 21113. dues, all public charges/assessments payable on an annual
By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed of basis, including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges, if
Trust, dated October 17, 2006, and recorded in Liber 18430 applicable, shall be adjusted to the date of sale and assumed
at Page 669 among the land records of the COUNTY OF ANNE thereafter by the purchaser. Purchaser shall be responsible
ARUNDEL, in the original principal amount of $400,000.00. for obtaining physical possession of the property. Purchaser
Upon default and request for sale, the undersigned trustees will assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the date
offer for sale at public auction at the Courthouse for the COUNTY of sale forward. If the Substitute Trustee(s) are unable to convey
OF ANNE ARUNDEL, at 8 Church Circle, Annapolis, Maryland, insurable title for any reason, the purchaser(s) sole remedy in
on March 27, 2018 at 4:00 PM, all that property described in law or equity shall be limited to a refund of the aforementioned
said Deed of Trust including but not limited to:
Tax ID# 04-403-02768450
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and is the return of the deposit without interest. (File # 573988)
is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants,
conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may
affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum
from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due after
the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser. A181, A316, A311, A182, A183, A425, A426, A461, A463
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer MARCH 9, 16, 23, 2018
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees
are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms
of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit.
Trustee's File No. 17-266053.
Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees.
SHAPIRO & BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200, Maryland,
Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797
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TRUSTEE'S SALE
1520 WINTERBERRY DRIVE, Arnold, MD 21012
Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 1520 WINTERBERRY DRIVE, Arnold, MD
21012. By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed
of Trust, dated February 24, 2006, and recorded in Liber 17592
at Page 429 among the land records of the COUNTY OF ANNE
ARUNDEL, in the original principal amount of $272,744.75.
Upon default and request for sale, the undersigned trustees will
offer for sale at public auction at the Courthouse for the COUNTY
OF ANNE ARUNDEL, at 8 Church Circle, Annapolis, Maryland,
on March 27, 2018 at 4:00 PM, all that property described in
said Deed of Trust including but not limited to:
Tax ID# 03-166-90039085
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and
is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants,
conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may
affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum
from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due after
the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees
are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms
of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit.
Trustee's File No. 17-269581.
Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees.
SHAPIRO & BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797
www.hwestauctions.com
12165752 is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants,
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TRUSTEE'S SALE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE OF
5927 OAKLAND PARK DRIVE,
HERNDON, VA 20171 BURKE, VA 22015
execution of a Deed of Trust In execution of a Deed of Trust
in the original principal amount
of $620,000.00, with an annual
EZ FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2018
852 852
Anne Arundel County Anne Arundel County
ORLANS PC
1602 VILLAGE MARKET BLVD. SE, SUITE 310
LEESBURG, VA 20175
703-777-7101
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE
OF IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY
5903 Lynbrook Road
Baltimore, MD 21225
Under a power of sale contained in a Deed of Trust from
MELISSA QUINLAN, dated April 3, 2015 and recorded in
Liber 28238, folio 098 among the Land Records of ANNE
ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD, default having occurred thereunder
(Foreclosure Case docketed as Case No.C-02-CV-17-003610;
Tax ID No.502203033200 ) the Sub. Trustees will sell at
public auction at the ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY COURTHOUSE,
located at 8 CHURCH CIR, ANNAPOLIS, MD 21401, on
MARCH 28, 2018 at 11:15 AM
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
thereon situated in ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD and more
fully described in above referenced Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an "as is" condition and subject to
conditions, restrictions and agreements of record affecting the
same, if any and with no warranty of any kind.
Terms of Sale: A deposit $16,500.00 will be required at the
time of sale, such deposit to be in CERTIFIED CHECK OR
BY CASHIER'S CHECK, CASH WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash within ten
days of final ratification of sale by the Circuit Court for ANNE
ARUNDEL COUNTY. Time is of the essence as to the purchaser.
If the purchaser defaults, the deposit shall be forfeited and the
property shall be resold at the purchaser's risk and expense.
The purchaser waives personal service and accepts service by
first class mail and certified mail addressed to the address
provided by said Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum
sale including a Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of
the Property.In the event of a resale, the defaulting purchaser
shall not be entitled to receive any benefit from the resale,
including, but not limited to, additional proceeds or surplus
which may arise therefrom. Interest to be paid on the unpaid
purchase money at the rate pursuant to the Deed of Trust Note
from the date of sale to the date funds are received by the
Substitute Trustees. There will be no abatement of interest in
the event additional funds are tendered at the time of sale or
any time prior to settlement or if the settlement is delayed
for any reason. In the event that the Secured Party executes
a forbearance agreement with the borrower(s) described in the
above-mentioned Deed of Trust, or allows the borrower(s) to
prior to the sale, with or without the Substitute Trustee's prior
and the Purchaser's sole remedy shall be the return of the deposit
without interest. Purchaser shall pay for documentary stamps,
transfer taxes and settlement expenses. Taxes, ground rent,
deposit without interest. In the event the sale is not ratified
for any reason, the Purchaser's sole remedy, at law or equity,
JAMES E. CLARKE,
HUGH J. GREEN,
SHANNON MENAPACE,
CHRISTINE M. DREXEL,
BRIAN THOMAS,
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
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HEISE JORGENSEN & STEFANELLI P.A.
18310 Montgomery Village Avenue, Suite 400
Gaithersburg, MD 20879
(301) 977-8400
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE
Known as
5711 PHILLIPS STREET, BALTIMORE, MARYLAND 21225
By virtue of the power and authority contained in a certain Deed
of Trust from Francis P. Gunde to Thomas F. McDonough and Robert
S. Handzo, Trustees, dated December 4, 2007 and recorded in Book
20184 at Page 614 among the Land Records for Anne Arundel County,
the undersigned substituted trustees (by virtue of Deed of
Appointment between Maryland Department of Housing and Community
Development, Community Development Administration, as successor in
interest to Southern Trust Mortgage, LLC (the "Beneficiary") and said
trustees recorded among the Land Records of Anne Arundel County) will,
on
THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2018 at 11:30 O'Clock, A.M.
offer for sale at public auction at the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court,
located at 7 Church Circle, Annapolis, Maryland 21401, all of the property
and improvements thereon conveyed by said deed of trust, described as
5711 Phillips Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21225, Tax Identification No. 05-
693-16857430 (the "Property") and more fully described in the Deed of
Trust.
TERMS OF SALE: The Property, which is improved by a dwelling, will
be offered for sale, subject to matters known and unknown, in an "AS
IS, WHERE IS" condition with no warranty of any kind and will be sold
and conveyed by the Substitute Trustees subject to all encumbrances,
rights, reservations, covenants, conditions, easements, restrictions, and
statutory liens, if any, having priority over the Deed of Trust, as they may
lawfully affect the Property. The risk of loss or damage to the Property
shall be borne by the successful bidder from and after the date and
time of the sale. Obtaining possession of the Property shall be the sole
responsibility of the successful bidder. A deposit of Twenty-Five Thousand
Dollars ($25,000.00), in the form of certified check or cashier's check,
(the "Deposit") will be required at the time of sale. The Beneficiary is
not required to make a Deposit. The balance of the purchase price for
the Property, together with interest at 6.50% per annum from the date
of sale to the date of settlement, shall be paid in cash within fifteen (15)
days after final ratification of the sale of the Property by the Circuit Court,
TIME BEING OF THE ESSENCE WITH REGARD TO ALL OF PURCHASER'S
OBLIGATIONS. Taxes, water, sewer, ground rent, condominium fees,
and/or homeowners association dues, if applicable, will be adjusted to the
date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. All other public
charges and assessments payable on an annual basis, including sanitary
and/or metropolitan district charges will be adjusted for the current year
to date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. All costs of
conveyance, including transfer taxes and recordation taxes will be paid by
the purchaser. If any successful bidder fails for any reason to complete
settlement as provided above, the Deposit shall be forfeited and applied to
the costs of the sale, including Substitute Trustees' fees, and the balance,
if any, shall be delivered to the Beneficiary to be applied by the Beneficiary
against the indebtedness secured by, and other amounts due under, the
Deed of Trust in accordance with the Deed of Trust or applicable law
or otherwise as the Beneficiary shall elect. Forfeiture of the Deposit
shall not limit any rights or remedies of the Substitute Trustees or the
Beneficiary with respect to any such default. If the Property is resold
after any such default, such re-sale shall be at the risk and the cost of
the failing bidder, and the failing bidder shall be liable for any deficiency
between its bid and the successful bid at the resale as well as the costs
of conducting such re-sale. In the event the Substitute Trustees do not
execute a deed of conveyance or other necessary settlement documents,
the purchaser’s sole remedy shall be the refund of the Deposit. In the
event the Substitute Trustees are unable to convey marketable title or in
the event the borrower entered into a repayment plan, reinstated or paid
the loan off prior to the sale, or if for any other reason, the undersigned
did not have the right to sell, the sale is null and void and the purchaser
is not entitled to any legal or equitable remedy other than return of the
Deposit without interest and any and all other claims of the purchaser are
hereby released. Additional terms and conditions to be announced at the
time of sale. All inquiries regarding the sale should be directed to Stephen
B. Jackson, Substituted Trustee.
STEPHEN B. JACKSON and STEVEN P. HENNE
Substitute Trustees
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TRUSTEE'S SALE
378 Forest Beach Rd, Annapolis, MD 21409
Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 378 Forest Beach Rd, Annapolis, MD
21409. By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed
of Trust, dated May 22, 2007, and recorded in Liber 19140
at Page 021 among the land records of the COUNTY OF ANNE
ARUNDEL, in the original principal amount of $867,000.00.
Upon default and request for sale, the undersigned trustees will
offer for sale at public auction at the Courthouse for the COUNTY
OF ANNE ARUNDEL, at 8 Church Circle, Annapolis, Maryland,
on March 27, 2018 at 4:00 PM, all that property described in
said Deed of Trust including but not limited to:
Tax ID# 300027379965
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and
conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may
affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 7.65% per annum
from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments

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interest rate of 8.875000% dated interest rate of 3.750000% dated

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on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments

ARE YOUR
September 3, 2004, recorded
among the land records of the
Circuit Court for the COUNTY OF
FAIRFAX as Deed Book 16513,
Page 0741, the undersigned
October 17, 2005, recorded
among the land records of the will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
Circuit Court for the COUNTY OF
FAIRFAX as Deed Book 17914, by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners
Page 1186, the undersigned

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appointed Substitute Trustee will
offer for sale at public auction
all that property located in the
COUNTY OF FAIRFAX, on the cour-
To place your
EXTRA CASH? legal notice in the MOVING OUT?
thouse steps at the front of the
Circuit Court building for the
County of Fairfax located at 4110
Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, Vir-
ginia on April 11, 2018 at 2:30 PM,
the property with improvements
to wit:
Tax Map No. 0354-15-0013
Classified section: THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A
DEBT COLLECTOR.
CLASSIFIED CLASSIFIED
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A
Call: bidder's deposit of 10% of the
sale price, will be required in cash,
certified or cashier's check. Set-
tlement within fifteen (15) days
KLMNO 202-334-7007 KLMNO
of sale, otherwise Trustees may
forfeit deposit. Additional terms
to be announced at sale. Loan
type: Conventional. Reference
Number 18-272437.
appointed Substitute Trustee will association dues and assessments that may become due after
offer for sale at public auction the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
all that property located in the
COUNTY OF FAIRFAX, on the cour- Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
thouse steps at the front of the taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
Circuit Court building for the
County of Fairfax located at 4110 are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, Vir-
ginia on April 18, 2018 at 2:30 PM,
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
the property with improvements property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
to wit: purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees
Tax Map No. 077-3-04-0232 are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms
THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A
DEBT COLLECTOR.
of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit.
Trustee's File No. 15-247308.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A
bidder's deposit of 10% of the
sale price, will be required in cash,
certified or cashier's check. Set-
Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees.
tlement within fifteen (15) days
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Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797
of sale, otherwise Trustees may
forfeit deposit. Additional terms
to be announced at sale. Loan
type: Conventional. Reference
Number 18-271922.

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TRUSTEE'S SALE
7712 East Classic Court aka 7712 Classic E CT,
Severn, MD 21144
Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 7712 East Classic Court aka 7712 Classic
E CT, Severn, MD 21144. By virtue of the power and authority
contained in a Deed of Trust, dated July 24, 2004, and recorded
in Liber 15664 at Page 234 among the land records of the
COUNTY OF ANNE ARUNDEL, in the original principal amount
of $372,000.00. Upon default and request for sale, the
undersigned trustees will offer for sale at public auction at the
Courthouse for the COUNTY OF ANNE ARUNDEL, at 8 Church
Circle, Annapolis, Maryland, on March 27, 2018 at 4:00 PM,
all that property described in said Deed of Trust including but
not limited to:
Tax ID# 04-211-90080116
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and
is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants,
conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may
affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum
from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due after
the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees
are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms
of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit.
Trustee's File No. 17-269531.
Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees.
SHAPIRO & BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797
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TRUSTEE'S SALE OF
2547 JAMES MONROE CIRCLE,
HERNDON, VA 20171
In execution of a Deed of Trust
in the original principal amount
of $368,000.00, with an annual
interest rate of 3.500000% dated
December 30, 2005, recorded
among the land records of the
Circuit Court for the COUNTY OF
FAIRFAX as Deed Book 18100,
Page 130, the undersigned
appointed Substitute Trustee will
offer for sale at public auction
all that property located in the
COUNTY OF FAIRFAX, on the cour-
thouse steps at the front of the
Circuit Court building for the
County of Fairfax located at 4110
Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, Vir-
ginia on April 18, 2018 at 2:30 PM,
the property with improvements
to wit:
Tax Map No. 0251 20 0031
THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A
DEBT COLLECTOR.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A
bidder's deposit of 10% of the
sale price, will be required in cash,
certified or cashier's check. Set-
tlement within fifteen (15) days
of sale, otherwise Trustees may
forfeit deposit. Additional terms
to be announced at sale. Loan
type: Conventional. Reference
Number 16-255842.
PROFESSIONAL FORECLOSURE
CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA, Sub-
stitute Trustees, C/O SHAPIRO &
BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford
Road, Suite 200, Manassas, Vir-
ginia 20109 (703) 449-5800.
March 16, 23, 2018 12169474
TRUSTEE'S SALE OF
7015 MARGUERITE CT,
ANNANDALE, VA 22003
In execution of a Deed of Trust
in the original principal amount
of $200,000.00, with an annual
interest rate of 4.750000% dated
October 4, 2007, recorded among
the land records of the Circuit
Court for the COUNTY OF FAIR-
FAX as Deed Book 19646, Page
661, the undersigned appointed
Substitute Trustee will offer for
sale at public auction all that
property located in the COUNTY
OF FAIRFAX, on the courthouse
steps at the front of the Circuit
Court building for the County of
Fairfax located at 4110 Chain
Bridge Road, Fairfax, Virginia on
April 11, 2018 at 2:30 PM, the
property with improvements to
wit:
Tax Map No. 0603 18 0091
THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A
DEBT COLLECTOR.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A
bidder's deposit of 10% of the
sale price, will be required in cash,
certified or cashier's check. Set-
tlement within fifteen (15) days
of sale, otherwise Trustees may
forfeit deposit. Additional terms
to be announced at sale. Loan
type: Conventional. Reference
Number 18-272751.
PROFESSIONAL FORECLOSURE
CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA, Sub-
stitute Trustees, C/O SHAPIRO &
BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford
Road, Suite 200, Manassas, Vir-
ginia 20109 (703) 449-5800.
March 9, 16, 2018 12168870
TRUSTEE'S SALE OF
5604 WILLOUGHBY NEWTON DR,
UNIT 18,
CENTREVILLE, VA 20120
In execution of a Deed of Trust
in the original principal amount
of $244,120.00, with an annual
interest rate of 7.000000% dated
April 6, 2006, recorded among
the land records of the Circuit
Court for the County of Fairfax
as Deed Book 18453, Page 0344,
the undersigned appointed Sub-
stitute Trustee will offer for sale
at public auction all that property
located in the County of Fairfax,
on the courthouse steps at the
front of the Circuit Court building
for the County of Fairfax located
at 4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fair-
fax, Virginia on April 18, 2018
at 2:30 PM, the property with
improvements to wit:
Tax Map No. 054411070018
THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A
DEBT COLLECTOR.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A
bidder's deposit of 10% of the
sale price, will be required in cash,
certified or cashier's check. Set-
tlement within fifteen (15) days
of sale, otherwise Trustees may
forfeit deposit. Additional terms
to be announced at sale. Loan
type: Conventional. Reference
Number 17-268767.
PROFESSIONAL FORECLOSURE
CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA, Sub-
stitute Trustees, C/O SHAPIRO &
BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford
Road, Suite 200, Manassas, Vir-
ginia 20109 (703) 449-5800.
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TRUSTEE'S SALE OF
2375 EMERALD HTS CT,
RESTON, VA 20191
In execution of a Deed of Trust
in the original principal amount
of $135,000.00, with an annual
interest rate of 8.300000% dated
August 28, 2002, recorded among
the land records of the Circuit
Court for the COUNTY OF FAIRFAX
as Deed Book 13310, Page 1860,
the undersigned appointed Sub-
stitute Trustee will offer for sale
at public auction all that property
located in the COUNTY OF FAIR-
FAX, on the courthouse steps at
the front of the Circuit Court build-
ing for the County of Fairfax locat-
ed at 4110 Chain Bridge Road,
Fairfax, Virginia on April 18, 2018
at 2:30 PM, the property with
improvements to wit:
Tax Map No. 026-1-11-4-A-0091
THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A
DEBT COLLECTOR.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A
bidder's deposit of 10% of the
sale price, will be required in cash,
certified or cashier's check. Set-
tlement within fifteen (15) days
of sale, otherwise Trustees may
forfeit deposit. Additional terms
to be announced at sale. Loan
type: Conventional. Reference
Number 18-273073.
PROFESSIONAL FORECLOSURE
CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA, Sub-
stitute Trustees, C/O SHAPIRO &
BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford
Road, Suite 200, Manassas, Vir-
ginia 20109 (703) 449-5800.
March 16, 23, 2018 12170564
873
Prince William County
TRUSTEE'S SALE OF
1785 WIGGLESWORTH WAY,
WOODBRIDGE, VA 22191
In execution of a Deed of Trust
in the original principal amount of
$57,400.00, with an annual inter-
est rate of 10.500000% dated Jan-
uary 4, 2005, recorded among the
land records of the Circuit Court
for the COUNTY OF PRINCE WIL-
LIAM as Deed Instrument Number
200501050002664, the under-
signed appointed Substitute
Trustee will offer for sale at public
auction all that property located
in the COUNTY OF PRINCE WIL-
LIAM, on the Court House steps
in front of Main Entrance for the
Circuit Court building for the
County of Prince William located
at 9311 Lee Avenue, Manassas,
Virginia on April 17, 2018 at 4:00
PM, the property with improve-
ments to wit:
Tax Map No. 8392-51-1041
THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A
DEBT COLLECTOR.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A
bidder's deposit of 10% of the
sale price, will be required in cash,
certified or cashier's check. Set-
tlement within fifteen (15) days
of sale, otherwise Trustees may
forfeit deposit. Additional terms
to be announced at sale. Loan
type: Conventional. Reference
Number 18-272863.
PROFESSIONAL FORECLOSURE
CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA, Sub-
stitute Trustees, C/O SHAPIRO &
BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford
Road, Suite 200, Manassas, Vir-
ginia 20109 (703) 449-5800.
March 16, 23, 2018 12170567
TRUSTEE’S SALE OF
14606 Featherstone Gate Drive
Woodbridge, VA 22191
In execution of a Deed of Trust
in the original principal amount
of $318,995.00, dated April 29,
2016, recorded among the land
records of the Circuit Court for
Prince William County on May 3,
2016, as Instrument Number
201605030032395, the under-
signed appointed Substitute
Trustee will offer for sale at public
auction, at the main entrance of
the courthouse for the Circuit Court
of Prince William County, 9311 Lee
Ave, Manassas, VA on April 20, 2018
at 9:30 AM, the property described
in said deed of trust, located at
the above address and briefly
described as: Unit 26, Phase 3,
FEATHERSTONE STATION CONDO-
MINIUM, as set forth in Declara-
tion of Featherstone Station Con-
dominium, recorded as Instrument
Number 201505180038236, as
amended in Instrument Number
201509250080283, as further
amended in Instrument Number
201603160018364, and any and all
prior and/or subsequent amend-
ments thereto, and as set forth
on any plats recorded therewith,
among the land records of Prince
William County, Virginia. Tax ID:
8391-57-0106.01.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bid-
der’s deposit of $12,000.00 or 10%
of the sale price, whichever is
lower, will be required in the form
of a certified or cashier’s check.
Cash will not be accepted as a
deposit. Settlement within fifteen
(15) days of sale, otherwise Trustee
may forfeit deposit. Additional
terms to be announced at sale.
This is a communication from a
debt collector. This notice is an
attempt to collect on a debt and
any information obtained will be
used for that purpose.
(Trustee # 575300)
Substitute Trustee: ALG Trustee,
LLC, C/O Orlans PC PO Box 2548,
Leesburg, VA 20177, (703) 777-
7101, website:
http://www.orlans.com
Towne #: 5000.0065
March 16, 23, 2018 12167394
855
Charles County
TRUSTEE'S SALE
102 WHISTLESTOP COURT, La Plata, MD 20646
Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 102 WHISTLESTOP COURT, La Plata, MD
20646. By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed
of Trust, dated July 22, 2016, and recorded in Liber 9468 at
Page 396 among the land records of the COUNTY OF CHARLES,
in the original principal amount of $342,388.00. Upon default
and request for sale, the undersigned trustees will offer for
sale at public auction at the Courthouse for the COUNTY OF
CHARLES, at 200 Charles St (in the Breezeway between Circuit
& District Courts), LaPlata, MD, on March 27, 2018 at 12:00
PM, all that property described in said Deed of Trust including
but not limited to:
Tax ID# 01-091263
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and
is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants,
conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may
affect same, if any.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash
or certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The
balance of the purchase price with interest at 6.00% per annum
from the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners
association dues and assessments that may become due after
the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees
are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms
of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit.
Trustee's File No. 17-270030.
Kristine D. Brown, et al., Substitute Trustees.
SHAPIRO & BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200,
Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797
www.hwestauctions.com
MARCH 9, 16, 23, 2018
873
Prince William County
TRUSTEE’S SALE OF
4205 Kenton Circle
Dumfries, VA 22025
In execution of a Deed of Trust
in the original principal amount
of $218,776.00, dated April 19,
2012, recorded among the land
records of the Circuit Court for
Prince William County on April 19,
2012, as Instrument Number
201204190036754, the under-
signed appointed Substitute
Trustee will offer for sale at public
auction, at the main entrance of
the courthouse for the Circuit Court
of Prince William County, 9311 Lee
Ave, Manassas, VA on April 20, 2018
at 9:30 AM, the property described
in said deed of trust, located at
the above address and briefly
described as: Lot T-3, Section 4-B,
MONTCLAIR, as the same appears
duly dedicated, platted and
recorded in Deed Book 1372 at
Page 1543 and corrected in Deed
Book 1407 at page 745, among
the land records of Prince William
County, Virginia. Tax ID: 8191-50-
6867.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bid-
der’s deposit of $11,000.00 or 10%
of the sale price, whichever is
lower, will be required in the form
of a certified or cashier’s check.
Cash will not be accepted as a
deposit. Settlement within fifteen
(15) days of sale, otherwise Trustee
may forfeit deposit. Additional
terms to be announced at sale.
This is a communication from a
debt collector. This notice is an
attempt to collect on a debt and
any information obtained will be
used for that purpose.
(Trustee # 576321)
Substitute Trustee: ALG Trustee,
LLC, C/O Orlans PC PO Box 2548,
Leesburg, VA 20177, (703) 777-
7101, website:
http://www.orlans.com
Towne #: 5000.0733
March 16, 23, 2018 12168684
TRUSTEE’S SALE OF
14690 Fox Glove Court
Woodbridge, VA 22193
In execution of a Deed of Trust
in the original principal amount of
$211,105.00, dated November 27,
2013, recorded among the land
records of the Circuit Court for
Prince William County on Decem-
ber 3, 2013, as Instrument Number
201312030115963, the under-
signed appointed Substitute
Trustee will offer for sale at public
auction, at the main entrance of
the courthouse for the Circuit Court
of Prince William County, 9311 Lee
Ave, Manassas, VA on April 13, 2018
at 9:30 AM, the property described
in said deed of trust, located at
the above address and briefly
described as: Lot Fifty-Six-A (56-
A)(Erroneously known of record as
Lot Fifty Six (56) in Prior Deed),
Section T-Six (T-6), Dale City, as
the same appears duly dedicat-
ed, platted and recorded in Deed
Book 942 at Page 533, resubdivi-
sion in Deed Book 1216 at Page
694, among the Land Records of
Prince William County, Virginia. Tax
ID: 8291-06-5633.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bid-
der’s deposit of $11,000.00 or 10%
of the sale price, whichever is
lower, will be required in the form
of a certified or cashier’s check.
Cash will not be accepted as a
deposit. Settlement within fifteen
(15) days of sale, otherwise Trustee
may forfeit deposit. Additional
terms to be announced at sale.
This is a communication from a
debt collector. This notice is an
attempt to collect on a debt and
any information obtained will be
used for that purpose.
(Trustee # 573227)
Substitute Trustee: ALG Trustee,
LLC, C/O Orlans PC PO Box 2548,
Leesburg, VA 20177, (703) 777-
7101, website:
http://www.orlans.com
Towne #: 5000.0946
March 9, 16, 2018 12167344
TRUSTEE'S SALE OF
12595 YARDARM PL,
WOODBRIDGE, VA 22192
In execution of a Deed of Trust
in the original principal amount
of $211,450.00, with an annual
interest rate of 4.000000% dated
February 7, 2011, recorded
among the land records of the
Circuit Court for the County of
Prince William as Deed Instrument
Number 201102080011359, the
undersigned appointed Substi-
tute Trustee will offer for sale
at public auction all that property
located in the County of Prince
William, on the Court House steps
in front of Main Entrance for the
Circuit Court building for the
County of Prince William located
at 9311 Lee Avenue, Manassas,
Virginia on April 17, 2018 at 4:00
PM, the property with improve-
ments to wit:
Tax Map No. 8393-13-5849
THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A
DEBT COLLECTOR.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A
bidder's deposit of 10% of the
sale price, will be required in cash,
certified or cashier's check. Set-
tlement within fifteen (15) days
of sale, otherwise Trustees may
forfeit deposit. Additional terms
to be announced at sale. Loan
type: VA. Reference Number 18-
272079.
PROFESSIONAL FORECLOSURE
CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA, Sub-
stitute Trustees, C/O SHAPIRO &
BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford
Road, Suite 200, Manassas, Vir-
ginia 20109 (703) 449-5800.
March 16, 23, 2018 12168692
855
Charles County
12165756
873
Prince William County
TRUSTEE'S SALE OF
9101 PORTNER AVENUE,
MANASSAS, VA 20110
In execution of a Deed of Trust
in the original principal amount
of $156,750.00, with an annual
interest rate of 5.875000% dated
May 6, 2004, recorded among the
land records of the Circuit Court
for the COUNTY OF PRINCE WIL-
LIAM as Deed Instrument Num-
ber 200406100079113, the under-
signed appointed Substitute
Trustee will offer for sale at public
auction all that property located
in the COUNTY OF PRINCE WIL-
LIAM, on the Court House steps
in front of Main Entrance for the
Circuit Court building for the
County of Prince William located
at 9311 Lee Avenue, Manassas,
Virginia on May 1, 2018 at 4:00 PM,
the property with improvements
to wit:
Tax Map No. 100-17-00-D-9101
THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A
DEBT COLLECTOR.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A
bidder's deposit of 10% of the
sale price, will be required in cash,
certified or cashier's check. Set-
tlement within fifteen (15) days
of sale, otherwise Trustees may
forfeit deposit. Additional terms
to be announced at sale. Loan
type: FHA. Reference Number
18-272467.
PROFESSIONAL FORECLOSURE
CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA, Sub-
stitute Trustees, C/O SHAPIRO &
BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford
Road, Suite 200, Manassas, Vir-
ginia 20109 (703) 449-5800.
March 9, 16, 2018 12168873
876
Loudoun County
TRUSTEE'S SALE OF
42365 GREEN MEADOW LANE,
LEESBURG, VA 20176
In execution of a Deed of Trust
in the original principal amount
of $528,000.00, with an annual
interest rate of 6.000000% dated
February 26, 2003, recorded
among the land records of the
Circuit Court for the County of
Loudoun as Deed Instrument
Number 20030303-0018379, the
undersigned appointed Substi-
tute Trustee will offer for sale
at public auction all that property
located in the County of Loudoun,
on the courthouse steps in front
of the Circuit Court building for
the County of Loudoun located at
18 East Market Street, Leesburg
Virginia on April 11, 2018 at 9:30
AM, the property with improve-
ments to wit:
Tax Map No. 185-40-7262-000
THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A
DEBT COLLECTOR.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A
bidder's deposit of 10% of the
sale price, will be required in cash,
certified or cashier's check. Set-
tlement within fifteen (15) days
of sale, otherwise Trustees may
forfeit deposit. Additional terms
to be announced at sale. Loan
type: Conventional. Reference
Number 18-272810.
PROFESSIONAL FORECLOSURE
CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA, Sub-
stitute Trustees, C/O SHAPIRO &
BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford
Road, Suite 200, Manassas, Vir-
ginia 20109 (703) 449-5800.
March 9, 16, 2018 12168694
TRUSTEE'S SALE OF
47550 RIPPLING DR,
STERLING, VA 20165
In execution of a Deed of Trust
in the original principal amount of
$96,400.00, with an annual inter-
est rate of 5.250000% dated May
3, 2002, recorded among the land
records of the Circuit Court for
the COUNTY OF LOUDOUN as Deed
Book 2175, Page 0187, the under-
signed appointed Substitute
Trustee will offer for sale at public
auction all that property located
in the COUNTY OF LOUDOUN, on
the courthouse steps in front of
the Circuit Court building for the
County of Loudoun located at 18
East Market Street, Leesburg Vir-
ginia on April 11, 2018 at 9:30 AM,
the property with improvements
to wit:
Tax Map No. 82-E16-56
THIS COMMUNICATION IS FROM A
DEBT COLLECTOR.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A
bidder's deposit of 10% of the
sale price, will be required in cash,
certified or cashier's check. Set-
tlement within fifteen (15) days
of sale, otherwise Trustees may
forfeit deposit. Additional terms
to be announced at sale. Loan
type: Conventional. Reference
Number 17-265230.
PROFESSIONAL FORECLOSURE
CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA, Sub-
stitute Trustees, C/O SHAPIRO &
BROWN, LLP, 10021 Balls Ford
Road, Suite 200, Manassas, Vir-
ginia 20109 (703) 449-5800.
March 9, 16, 2018 12168874
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SALE
3051 Copeland Lane, Oakton, VA 22124 2 Brentwood Lane,
MARCH 27, 2018 Fredericksburg, VA 22405
Trustees’ Notice of Sale of valuable residential property commonly known
as 3051 Copeland Lane, Oakton, VA 22124. By virtue of a certain Deed By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed of Trust dated
ALEX COOPER AUCTIONEERS, INC. of Trust dated September 16, 2014 and recorded October 14, 2014, in February 21, 2017, and recorded at Instrument Number LR170005357 in
the Clerk’s Office for the Circuit Court for Stafford County, VA, securing
4910 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Suite 100 Deed Book 23829, Page 1004 among the land records of Fairfax County,
a loan which was originally $215,710.00. The appointed SUBSTITUTE
Washington, DC 20016 Virginia, and at the request of the party secured thereby, the appointed
(202) 364-0306 SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES, Michael L. O’Reilly and Nancy J. O’Reilly will offer TRUSTEE, Commonwealth Trustees, LLC will offer for sale at public auction
at the front steps of the Judicial Bldg, Circuit Court for Stafford County,
www.alexcooper.com for sale, at public auction, at the Fairfax County Circuit Court, 4110 Chain
1300 Courthouse Road, Stafford, VA on:
Bridge Road, Fairfax, VA 22030, on Tuesday, March 27, 2018, at 2:00
HEISE JORGENSEN & STEFANELLI P.A.
18310 Montgomery Village Avenue, Suite 400 p.m., the following-described premises, situated in Oakton, County of May 14, 2018 at 10:00 AM
Gaithersburg, MD 20879 Fairfax, Virginia, and designated as and being now known for taxation and
assessment purposes as 3051 Copeland Lane, Oakton, VA 22124, Tax improved real property, with an abbreviated legal description of That
(301) 977-8400
Map. No. 047-2-49-0001, and more particularly described as: certain tract or parcel of land located in the County of Stafford, Virginia,
and more particularly described as follows:
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE'S SALE OF VALUABLE
COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Lot One (1), OAK MANOR, as the same appears duly dedicated, platted
and recorded in Deed Book 10576 at Page 1857, among the land records Lot 309, Section 4, Hickory Ridge, at the same is duly dedicated, platted
Known as
of Fairfax County, Virginia. and recorded in Plat Book 24, Page 168 among the Land Records of
RESIDENCE INN HERNDON Stafford County, Virginia, and as more fully described in the aforesaid Deed
315 ELDEN STREET Terms of Sale: ALL CASH. A Deposit of $20,000.00 or 10% of the sales of Trust.
HERNDON, VIRGINIA 20170 price, whichever is less, will be required at time of sale; such deposit to
TERMS OF SALE: The property will be sold “AS IS,” WITHOUT REPRE-
be in cash, certified check, cashier’s check, or such other form as the
By virtue of the power and authority contained in a certain Amended
trustees may determine, in their sole discretion. The property will be SENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND AND SUBJECT TO conditions,
and Restated Deed of Trust and Security Agreement from Herndon Lodge, restrictions, reservations, easements, rights of way, and all other matters
sold subject to the first trust held by Wells Fargo Bank N.A. The property
LLC ("Owner") to Lawyers Title Realty Services, Inc., Trustee, dated May
is sold in AS IS condition. All conveyancing, recording, recordation tax, of record taking priority over the Deed of Trust to be announced at the time
8, 2007 and recorded in Book 19319 at Page 0046 in the Clerk's Office of sale. A deposit of $20,000.00, or 10% of the sale price, whichever is
transfer tax, etc., at cost of purchaser. The balance of the purchase price,
of the Circuit Court for Fairfax County, Virginia (the "Deed of Trust"),
due in cash, certified check, or cashier’s check shall accrue interest at lower, in cash or cashier’s check payable to the SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE will
the undersigned Substituted Trustee (by virtue of Deed of Appointment be required at the time of sale. The balance of the purchase price, with
between the secured party, U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee, the rate of 6% per annum from date of sale to the date of receipt of
interest at the rate contained in the Deed of Trust Note from the date of
the balance of the purchase price. Terms of sale to be complied with
as successor-in-interest to Bank of America, National Association, as
within fifteen (15) calendar days from date of sale, otherwise trustees sale to the date said funds are received in the office of the SUBSTITUTE
successor-by-merger to Lasalle Bank National Association, as Trustee TRUSTEE, will be due within fifteen (15) days of sale. In the event of default
for Morgan Stanley Capital I Inc., Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through reserve the right to forfeit deposit, readvertise and sell the property at
by the successful bidder, the entire deposit shall be forfeited and applied
Certificates, Series 2007-TOP27 (the "Noteholder") and the Substitute the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser; or without forfeiting deposit,
to the costs and expenses of sale and Substitute Trustee's fee. All other
Trustee, which Deed of Appointment was recorded on January 31, 2018, trustees may avail themselves of any legal or equitable rights against the
defaulting purchaser. Time is of the essence. If trustees cannot convey public charges or assessments, including water/sewer charges, whether
in Book 25315 at Page 0746. in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court for
Fairfax County, Virginia) will, on title, purchaser’s sole remedy is a return of deposit. Further terms and incurred prior to or after the sale, and all other costs incident to settlement
to be paid by the purchaser. In the event taxes, any other public charges
TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2018
particulars may be announced at the time of sale.
have been advanced, a credit will be due to the seller, to be adjusted
at 3:30 O'Clock, P.M. Michael L. O’Reilly, Substitute Trustee from the date of sale at the time of settlement. Purchaser agrees to pay
Nancy J. O’Reilly, Substitute Trustee the seller's attorneys at settlement, a fee of $445.00 for review of the
offer for sale at public auction at the front main entrance to the Fairfax
For further information contact Nancy J. O’Reilly, The O’Reilly Law Firm, settlement documents.
County Judicial Center, 4110 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, Virginia 22030,
all of the fee simple interest of Owner in the property and improvements 761-C Monroe St., Suite 200, Herndon, VA 20170. 703-766-1991 Additional terms will be announced at the time of sale and the successful
conveyed by said Deed of Trust and described therein as follows: March 16, 23, 2018 12167630 bidder will be required to execute and deliver to the Substitute Trustees
a memorandum or contract of the sale at the conclusion of bidding.
Beginning at a point on the northerly right-of-way line of 877 C JOBS
Grove Street, said point marking the southwesterly corner Spotsylvania County FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:
of Agro Sevilla USA, Inc.; thence with the northerly right-of- Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
TRUSTEE SALE
way line of Grove Street S89°10'35"W, 127.89 feet to a point (Attorney for the Secured Party)
marking the most easterly corner of Outlot "A," New Dominion 5900 Woodberry Farm Road, 4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
Technology Park; thence with the northeasterly line of said Orange, VA 22960 Newspaper Delivery Bethesda, MD 20814
Outlot "A" N65°10'35"W, 267.28 feet to a point marking the Spotsylvania County Carriers are needed 301-907-8000
southeasterly corner of Outlot "B," vacated Buchanan Drive; www.rosenberg-assoc.com
thence with the easterly lines of said Outlet "B," 381 Elden In execution of a Deed of Trust to deliver
in the original principal amount of March 16, April13, 20, 2018 12170383
Street LLC and Elden Street LLC Nl4°07'49"E, 744.43 feet
$780,000.00, dated May 11, 2006
to a point on the southerly right-of-way line of Elden Street
(Route 606); thence with the southerly right-of-way lines of recorded in the Clerk's Office of The Washington N JOBS N JOBS
the Circuit Court of the Spotsylva-
Elden Street the following courses: S72°16'04"E, 70.98 feet;
with a curve to the left, whose radius is 5,267.42 feet and nia County, Virginia, in Document Post
whose chord is S73°05'06"E, 150.26 feet, an arc distance No. LR200600017701, default hav-
ing occurred in the payment of
of 150.26 feet; S73°54'08"E, 101.06 feet and Sl9°50'56"E, for the following
31.31 feet to a point on the westerly right-of-way line of the Note thereby secured and
Herndon Parkway; thence with the westerly right-of-way lines at the request of the holder of
said Note, the undersigned Sub-
areas:
of Herndon Parkway the following courses: S16°04'21"W, 10.00
feet; with a curve to the left, whose radius is 1,100.00 feet stitute Trustee will offer for sale at
public auction at the entrance to For routes in
and whose chord is S08°18'26"W, 297.25 feet, an arc distance
of 298.16 feet; N89°27'29"W, 30.00 feet; S01°13'28"E, 69.67 the Spotsylvania County Judicial Newspaper Delivery Carriers
feet and N87°00'34"E, 30.00 feet to a point marking the most Center, 9107 Judicial Center Lane,
Spotsylvania, on April 3, 2018 at
are needed to deliver
northerly corner of Agro Sevilla USA, Inc.; thence with the
12:00 PM the property described
Suitland, Oxon Hill
westerly line of Agro Sevilla USA, Inc. S14°17'35"W, 348.74
feet to the point of beginning, containing 6.3942 acres of land. in said deed, located at the above
address and briefly described as:
and Temple Hills, MD The Washington Post
Address: 315 Elden Street, Herndon, Virginia 20170
Lot 13, Woodberry Farms, with
for the following areas:
Parcel ID: 017-1-02-0007
improvements thereon. Call Mr. Howard
In addition to the fee simple interest and pursuant to the Deed of Trust
and the financing statement recorded with the Virginia State Corporation Subject to any and all covenants, at 301-627-2408 For Routes in
Commission as Instrument No. 0705147105-2, as amended by Instrument conditions, restrictions, ease-
No. 1801163968-5 (collectively, the Financing Statement") there will be ments, and all other matters of College Park, Lanham & Hyattsville, MD
record taking priority over the
offered for sale at the same time and under the same terms herein (i)
any and all buildings, structures, improvements or appurtenances now Deed of Trust, if any, affecting the Excellent part-time
Call Robert Garner
erected on the above-described land and premises, (ii) all equipment, aforesaid property. income!
apparatus, machinery and fixtures of any kind or character forming a TERMS OF SALE: CASH: A deposit Reliable transportation 301-490-2032
part of said buildings, structures, improvements or appurtenances, (iii) of $20,000.00 or 10% of the sales
any furniture, furnishings, equipment, machinery and other personal price, whichever is lower, cash or required.
property owned by Owner, or in which Owner has an interest and certified check will be required Excellent part-time income!
located in, upon or about the above-described land and premises and at the time of sale, but no more
any buildings, structures or improvements thereon, (iv) other customary than $10,000.00 of cash will be Reliable transportation required.
hotel equipment and other property of every kind and nature, tangible accepted, with settlement within
or intangible, owned by Owner, or in which Owner has an interest, fifteen (15) days from the date of Newspaper Delivery
(v) all other rights and interests, located upon the above described sale. Sale is subject to post sale
real property, or appurtenant thereto, or used in connection with the confirmation that the borrower Carriers are needed
operation, enjoyment and occupancy of the property, including any
leases of any of the foregoing or leases affecting the use, enjoyment or
did not file for protection under to deliver
the U.S. Bankruptcy Code prior to
occupancy of the property and all contracts involving or relating to the the sale which affects the validity
property (collectively defined in the Deed of Trust and referred to herein of the sale, as well as to post-sale The Washington
as the “Property”). confirmation of the status of the
The Property is improved by twenty-two (22) separate buildings which loan with the loan servicer includ- Post
ing, but not limited to, determi-
collectively house approximately one hundred sixty-eight (168) hotel
guest rooms, more or less, associated meeting, banquet, and hotel nation of whether the borrower
facilities, an outdoor swimming pool, an outdoor sports court, and entered into any repayment for the following
approximately one hundred eighty-four (184) parking spaces, collectively agreement, reinstated or paid off
the loan prior to the sale. In any
areas: Newspaper Delivery Carriers
known as the Residence Inn Herndon.
such event, the sale shall be null
The Property shall be offered for sale, subject to, matters known and void, and the Purchaser’s sole For routes in are needed to deliver
and unknown, in “WHERE IS” and in “AS IS” condition without any remedy, in law or equity, shall be
covenant, warranty as to condition, express or implied, and without the return of his deposit without Upper NW area The Washington Post
any representations or warranties as to the accuracy of the information interest. Additional terms may be
furnished to the prospective bidders by the Substitute Trustee or any announced at the time of sale.
in D.C. for the following areas:
other party and without any other representations or warranty of
Pursuant to the Federal Fair Debt
any nature and conveyed by Substitute Trustee's Deed subject to all Collection Practices Act, we
encumbrances, rights, reservations, covenants, agreements, conditions, advise you that this firm is a debt Call Dan Santos at For Routes in
easements, restrictions and statutory liens, if any, having priority over the
Deed of Trust, as they may lawfully affect the Property.
collector attempting to collect the 240-912-7978 Crofton/Davidsonville
indebtedness referred to herein
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Property shall be and any information we obtain Cape St. Claire/Arnold
sold subject to the rights, if any, of parties in possession and without will be used for that purpose. Millersville
representation or warranty as to (i) condition of title to the Property, (ii) SAMUEL I. WHITE, P.C., Excellent part-time
Substitute Trustee
the nature, condition, structural integrity, or fitness for a particular use
of any improvements, fixtures or personal property included within the This is a communication from a
income! Call Joe Shojamanesh
Property and the ability to procure insurance for the Property, (iii) the debt collector. Reliable transportation 410-340-7791
environmental condition of the Property or the compliance of the Property
with federal, state and local laws and regulations concerning the presence
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: required.
or disposal of hazardous substances, (iv) compliance of the Property with SAMUEL I. WHITE, P.C. (30726) Excellent part-time income!
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the Americans with Disabilities Act or any similar law, (v) compliance of
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23462 Reliable transportation required.
the Property with any zoning laws or ordinances and any and all applicable
safety codes. Acceptance by the purchaser of a Substitute Trustee's Deed 757-457-1460 - Call Between
shall constitute a waiver of any claims against the Substitute Trustees or 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Newspaper Delivery
the Noteholder concerning any of the foregoing matters. The Substitute
Trustees and the Noteholder disclaim all warranties of any kind, either
or visit our website at
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warranty relating to the zoning, structural integrity, physical condition,
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tute Trustee, Noteholder, nor any other party makes any warranties or
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representations of any kind or nature as to the transferability of the name
"Residence Inn," Residence Inn Marriott” or "Residence Inn Herndon." Aviation training. Financial aid
The purchaser shall be required to sign a Memorandum of Sale (as herein for qualified students – Career for the following
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assigns, for any condition of the Property that may not comply with Maintenance Newspapers carriers
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limitation, any laws, regulations and rulings relating to environmental
contamination or hazardous wastes. Such agreement also shall provide C JOBS
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should permit such a claim to be made against the Substitute Trustee
and/or the Noteholder, or their respective agents, successors and assigns, & Rockville, MD in
such agreement shall serve as the overwhelming primary factor in any Newspaper Delivery
equitable apportionment of response costs or other liability. Nothing in
this paragraph shall release, waive or preclude any claims the purchaser Carriers are needed Don Money at DC, MD and VA area.
may have against any person in possession or control of the Property. to deliver 301-674-0010
The Property shall be sold subject to all conditions and dedications
contained on the subdivision plats, easements, liens, conditions, restric-
tions, rights of redemption, rights of entry, covenants, encumbrances, and The Washington Excellent part-time Great part-time income opportunity!
any other agreements affecting the same having priority over the Deed
of Trust, and subject to all existing housing, building and zoning code Post income! Transportation required.
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or with respect to the Property, and subject to all matters that an accurate
survey or physical inspection of the Property might disclose. The risk of for the following required.
loss or damage to the Property shall be borne by the successful bidder areas: To apply, go to
from and after the date and time of the sale. Obtaining possession of the
Property shall be the sole responsibility of the successful bidder. Tech Jobs deliverthepost.com
A deposit of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000.00), in the For routes in
form of certified check or cashier's check, (the "Deposit") will be required Multiple openings in Hern-
at the time of sale. The Noteholder, or its subsidiary or affiliate is not don, VA. Travel is not
Arlington, VA
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required to submit a deposit. The Substitute Trustee reserves the right (i) required but candidates
to waive or modify the deposit requirement; (ii) to approve or disapprove
the creditworthiness of any bidder or final purchaser; (iii) to withdraw all
Call must be willing to relocate
to unanticipated locations
or part of the Property from sale at any time prior to the termination of 703-580-7916 across the country.
bidding; (iv) to keep the bidding open for any length of time; (v) to reject
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NO
adjusted to the date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser.
BS deg. & 5 yr. of prog.,
All other public charges and assessments payable on an annual basis,
including sanitary and/or metropolitan district charges will be adjusted for
required. post BS exp., Foreign deg.,
the current year to date of sale and assumed thereafter by the purchaser. equiv., or any suitable combo
All costs of settlement and conveyance, including without limitation, of educ, training &/or exp. is
examination of title, all recordation taxes and charges, all transfer taxes acceptable.
and charges (including, but not limited to the grantor's tax), title insurance
premiums, notary fees, settlement fees and all other costs incident to Newspaper Delivery Sr. Software Developer
settlement shall be paid by the purchaser. Carriers are needed (SSD022818ERP): Design, &
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If the successful bidder fails for any reason to complete settlement as to deliver query performance tunings
provided above, the Deposit shall be forfeited and applied to the costs of
the sale, including Substitute Trustee's fees, and the balance, if any, shall & develop SSIS packages &
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be delivered to the Noteholder to be applied by the Noteholder against The Washington server agent jobs & other
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as the Noteholder shall elect.
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Forfeiture of the Deposit shall not limit any rights or remedies of the
Substitute Trustee or the Noteholder with respect to any such default. If
for the following or rltd & 2 yrs exp. or w/
the Property is resold after any such default, such re-sale shall be at the areas: BS deg. & 5 yr. of prog.,
risk and the cost of the defaulting purchaser, and the defaulting purchaser post BS exp., Foreign deg.,
shall be liable for any deficiency between its bid and the successful bid at
equiv., or any suitable combo
the resale as well as the costs of conducting such re-sale. For routes in of educ, training &/or exp.,
Immediately upon conveyance by the Substitute Trustee of the Property is acceptable. Mail resume
to a purchaser at foreclosure, all duties, liabilities, and obligations of the
Bladensburg,
NO
w/ref job code to HR Dept,
Substitute Trustee, if any, with respect to the Property so conveyed shall
be extinguished. In the event the Substitute Trustee does not execute Riverdale and ERP Cloud Technologies, LLC
a deed of conveyance or other necessary settlement documents, the 2551 Dulles View Dr #350,
purchaser's sole remedy shall be the refund of the Deposit. In the event Lanham, MD Herndon, VA 20171 HE MEANS
the Substitute Trustee is unable to convey marketable title or in the event
the borrower entered into a repayment plan, reinstated or paid the loan
off prior to the sale, or if for any other reason, the undersigned did not Call Monique Out-of-Town
have the right to sell, the sale is null and void and the purchaser is not Reddy at Real Estate
YES
entitled to any legal or equitable remedy other than return of the Deposit
without interest and any and all other claims of the purchaser are hereby 301-728-0459 DELAWARE New Move-In Ready
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by reference, all the terms and conditions contained herein. The form
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The descriptive information contained herein was obtained from sources
deemed to be reliable, but is offered for informational purposes only.
required. Wake up to
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suggestions St. Patrick’s Day with
from Tom Guinness
Sietsema to a Guinness has become the
couple subbing default beverage on St. Patrick’s
out an Day, so why not spend the 17th
extravagant drinking at the Guinness Open
wedding. 12 Gate Brewery in Halethorpe,
Md.? The flagship Guinness and
sister brands, such Foreign Extra
Stout and Harp Lager, are still
produced in Dublin, but on St.
Patrick’s Day, the five-month-old
brewery will debut a new
Maryland-made stout, brewed in
conjunction with Guinness’s
Irish team. Proceeds from
tickets, which allow entry for a
Music two-hour window, will be
Nils Frahm; donated to charity.
Justin
When: Saturday from 11 a.m. to
Timberlake;
8:30 p.m.
Billie Eilish;
Brandy; Big Where: Guinness Open Gate
K.R.I.T. 5 Brewery, 5001 Washington
Blvd., Halethorpe, Md.
newguinnessbrewery.com.
Exhibits
“Women Tickets: $5. Beers priced
House” shows individually. J. LAWLER DUGGAN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
how, for males Performed as scheduled: The Blazen Divaz of Idaho dance at last year’s festival.
and females,
“architecture is
not neutral,” as National Cherry Blossom Festival opening weekend
a curator Earlier this month, the National Park Service predicted that peak bloom of the cherry
says. 24
blossoms — when at least 70 percent of the pink flowers around the Tidal Blossom are
blooming — would be March 17-20. The festival was scheduled to begin March 20, so
organizers moved the start up four days to allow visitors to enjoy the most colorful
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weekend of the year. That decision now looks hasty — the Capital Weather Gang is now
A tap room at the Guinness
Brewery in Maryland. predicting that the peak will be at the end of the month, and maybe into April — but it
will allow visitors to celebrate the season at the Tidal Basin this weekend, even if the
trees aren’t cooperating. Rangers will be on duty and hosting informational programs
Movies ‘Sights and Sounds of at 1 and 3 p.m. daily. Live entertainment runs from noon to 6 p.m., and includes big
An improved Ireland Today’ band, blues and rock groups, and Indian, Mexican and hip-hop dance performances.
Lara Croft in Irish arts organization Solas Nua
Families can check out arts and crafts stations and special activities both days.
the newest — Irish for “new light” — has
“Tomb Raider.” organized “Sights and Sounds of
When: Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
27 Ireland Today,” an exhibition of
Where: Tidal Basin Welcome Area, 1501 Maine Ave. SW. nationalcherryblossomfestival.org.
contemporary video works by 21
Admission: Free.
Irish artists in the former trolley
tunnels under Dupont Circle.
Friday’s opening-night reception
features a talk with curator

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Jackie Hoysted, Andy Johnson of
the Corcoran School of Art and
Design and artist Jonah King,
whose work is featured.
Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Day Arts
On the cover Festival begins with cartoons
Bar Charley and coloring for all ages until
general noon. Short films will play on
manager Chris continuous loop throughout the
Donovan day. Stick around for poetry (2 to
shakes up his 4 p.m.), a traditional jam session
Hip-Hop at the Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center’s 35th anniversary screening of
“Wild Style,” the first film to examine hip-hop’s early
years in New York, is sold out. But there are other
opportunities to enjoy hip-hop at the Kennedy
Center this weekend: A “Wild Style” dance party
after the movie, in the arts center’s atrium, features
sets by Grand Wizard Theodore, the DJ credited with
inventing scratching technique, and Grandmaster
Caz of the Cold Crush Brothers. On Saturday, the
Environmental Film Festival
With its militaristic-sounding theme — “Stories From
the Frontlines” — the 26th annual roundup of 100-
plus eco-centric films makes it sound like the
natural world is under attack, and maybe it is. Many
of the messages of this year’s films, part of the
largest environmentally themed festival in the world,
are about those on the offensive in the fight against
such problems as rising sea levels (“Anote’s Ark,”
Friday at 7 p.m. at National Geographic) and food
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bar making a (6:15 to 7:15 p.m.) and indie Millennium Stage welcomes Shabazz Palaces, the waste (“Wasted! The Story of Food Waste,” Saturday
Hunter singer Hannah McPhillimy (8 to eccentric duo featuring Ishmael Butler of Digable at 7 p.m. at the Carnegie Institution for Science).
Gatherer. 9:30 p.m.). Planets and instrumentalist Tendai “Baba” Maraire,
When: Through March 25.
who meld hip-hop, reggae and funk into complex
When: Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday
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and intricate soundscapes. Where: Theaters, museums and embassies around

from 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Where: Dupont Underground,
19 Dupont Cir. NW. solasnua.org.
Tickets: $10 Friday, $15
Saturday.
Washington. dceff.org.
When: Friday at 9 p.m., Saturday at 6 p.m.
Tickets: Prices vary. Some screenings are free.
Where: Kennedy Center, 2700 F St. NW. kennedy-
center.org. — Fritz Hahn and Michael O’Sullivan
Admission: Free.
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March 23 La Grande Fête

This party has a French accent: D.C.’s annual Francophonie Cultural
Festival ends with an evening event at La Maison Française at the Embassy
of France. At La Grande Fête, you’ll learn more about the culture of French-
speaking countries and regions across the globe, and that includes trying
food and drink from more than 30 embassies. The soundtrack is global,
too, as DJ Princess Slaya plays music from Africa, Europe and the
Caribbean.
7 to 11 p.m. La Maison Française at the Embassy of France, 4101 Reservoir Rd.
NW. smithsonianassociates.org. $40.

April 4-6 Nederlands Dans Theater

The Nederlands Dans Theater, renowned for its boundary-pushing modern
dance, makes its Kennedy Center debut next month. Beyond the avant-
garde aesthetic, the sets for the Dutch company’s performance sound
mind-bending, too. In “Shoot the Moon,” revolving black-and-white walls
form three rooms, each containing its own love story as dancers perform to
music by Philip Glass. Then there’s “Singulière Odyssée,” a reflection on
travel that features music by Max Richter and is set in an art deco train
station as dancers stream in and out.
7:30 p.m. Kennedy Center, 2700 F St. NW. kennedy-center.org. $19-$69. CHRISTOPHER MUELLER/SIGNATURE THEATRE

Nancy Robinette in the play “John,” about a couple’s stay at an increasingly unsettling inn.

April 5-8 Damaged City April 3 ‘John’

D.C.’s sixth annual festival devoted to hardcore punk is scheduled for the
first weekend in April this year, with shows across the city, including at All
Souls Unitarian Church, the Black Cat and the Northeast art space Hole in
the Sky. Damaged City’s packed lineup draws such punk bands from the
region as D.C.’s Guilt Parade and Baltimore’s Turnstile along with artists
from throughout the world. The pre-show and Sunday main shows are sold
out, but some tickets will be available at the door.
Various times and locations. damaged-city.com. $5-$35.
If you’re more inclined to think of homey bed-and-breakfasts as creepy rather than relaxing, you might
be the target audience for Signature Theatre’s “John.” Playwright Annie Baker sets her tale in a B&B in
Gettysburg, Pa., where a young couple from Brooklyn heads for what’s supposed to be a romantic
weekend — until a few eerie occurrences and a strange innkeeper force them to examine the fissures
in their relationship.
Through April 29. Signature Theatre, 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. sigtheatre.org. $40-$94.
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Avant-garde composer Nils Frahm bridges neoclassical composition and techno grooves, and for
his latest album, “All Melody,” he stripped instruments and tunes down to bare snippets.
spellbinding
sound bites
Nils Frahm
Show: Friday at 8 p.m. (doors) at the 9:30 Club. 202-265-0930. 930.com. $25.
BY C HRIS K ELLY
A
cross Nils Frahm’s dozens of albums, col-
laborations and soundtracks, there’s of-
ten a high concept uniting them all. On
“Felt,” the Berlin-based composer, pianist
and producer attached felt to the strings of his
piano; on “Screws,” he performed with just nine
fingers because there were four screws in his
broken thumb.
True to its title, Frahm’s latest album, “All
Melody,” is his most deceptively high-concept yet:
He wanted to hear what melodies would sound
like in his expansive new studio at Berlin’s legend-
ary Funkhaus. “I wanted to hear choir, I wanted to
hear trumpet, I wanted to hear cello,” he says. But
along the way, the project became something
different. “In the end, I treated them in the way I
treat my synthesizer.”
That meant reducing whole sessions to snippets
— 2 to 4 percent of what had been recorded. “I was
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waiting for these magical moments, and I’m pretty
critical with that,” he says. “I wanted to only pick the
parts that were special.” The results are, at times,
delicate and intimate; at others, baroque and over-
whelming. Frahm bridges the mythical Bifröst from
neoclassical composition to minimal techno
grooves, finding magic with a choir’s wordless
chant, precise percussion or spare piano pieces in
which the listener can hear the mechanics of per-
formance in virtually three-dimensional detail.
Those details come alive in concert as Frahm
interprets the album, trying to re-create what
worked in the last performance while incorporat-
ing new ideas, a tour-long process that he com-
pares to opening a bottle of wine. “When you open
it too early, it doesn’t taste good, and if you open
too late, it doesn’t taste good either,” he says.
Here’s hoping his concert at the 9:30 Club is
during the part of the tour when “everything is in
full blossom.”
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4 more concerts to catch
BY B RIANA Y OUNGER
Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake’s first self-
reinvention from boy-band heart-
throb to solo pop star has served
him well for more than a decade.
This year, though, Timberlake de-
cided to write a more rural chap-
ter of his life that would ostensi-
bly trade Hollywood glitz for his
humble Tennessean beginnings.
The result was the album “Man of
the Woods.” Described by Timber-
lake as “Americana with 808s,”
the fusion of arena pop and funk
with down-home lyrics got luke-
warm reviews. The exclamation
point on his transition was his
hyped (and some say disappoint-
ing) appearance at the Super
Bowl, which ultimately helped
him land the No. 1 spot on the
Billboard 200. Timberlake is
nothing if not a well-oiled ma-
chine of infinite star power — no
matter what output it’s set on.
Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at Capital
One Arena.
capitalonearena.monumental
sportsnetwork.com. $160-$344.
Billie Eilish
At just 16 years old, singer-
songwriter Billie Eilish is teeming
with promise. As is the case of
many rising young stars, her story
began with a song uploaded to the
Internet in 2016. “Ocean Eyes,” a
ballad produced by Eilish’s broth-
er, was seemingly an overnight
smash; its ethereal synth lines
combined with the airy gentle-
ness of her voice sounded like
something out of a dream. The
Los Angeles native approaches
her music with a flippant self-
awareness only a teenager could
have, an “accept me or don’t”
attitude that fuels her creatively.
(“If I make music and people hate
it, you know, whatever. I’ll die
someday, and one day they will,
too,” she recently told the Los
Angeles Times.) Eilish has been
heralded as the future of pop and
the genre’s next It Girl — praise
that’s not over the top. Tuesday at
7:30 p.m. (doors) at the Black Cat.
blackcatdc.com. Sold out.
Brandy
In a sea of incredible singers
past and present, Brandy has
earned the title “Vocal Bible.” Her
signature rasp combined with
otherworldly techniques makes
her voice an instrument unto
itself, praised by peers and critics
alike. Brandy hasn’t released a
full album since 2012’s “Two Elev-
en,” but her influence has reached
a wide array of artists, from the
Red Hot Chili Peppers and So-
lange to Sam Smith and Rihanna.
Of late, Brandy has taken her
talents to Broadway, playing Rox-
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Justin Timberlake at the Brit
Awards last month in London.
The pop icon brings his folksy
new sound to town next week.
ie in the musical “Chicago,” and
was said to have been in the
studio as recently as last year. But
the singer is a draw even when
she isn’t dropping new music.
Thursday at 9 p.m. at the Howard
Theatre. thehowardtheatre.com.
$49.99-$79.99.
Big K.R.I.T.
Big K.R.I.T., which stands for
King Remembered in Time,
makes it cool to be Southern. Not
cosmopolitan Atlanta Southern,
but down-home, Meridian, Miss.,
Southern. His music is a potent
mix of soulful, laid-back rap and
head-nodding lyrical finesse. In
2010, after signing a deal with Def
Jam, Big K.R.I.T. seemed poised
to become one of rap’s biggest
stars, but despite two acclaimed
albums, sold-out shows, and
high-profile co-signs in and out-
side the music industry, that nev-
er fully materialized. In 2016, he
announced that he had gone in-
dependent, and last year he re-
warded fans with a double fea-
ture, “4Eva Is a Mighty Long
Time.” The album showcased a
freer artist who is finally ready to
claim his crown on his own terms.
Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Fill-
more. fillmoresilverspring.com.
Sold out.
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Nineties R&B singer Brandy
and her influence on R&B can
still be heard on the airwaves.
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Where to score a seat to watch March Madness
BY F RITZ H AHN

March Madness tip-off times

are both amazing and frustrating.
Amazing, because who doesn’t
love an excuse to sneak out of the
office at noon to watch a college
basketball game? But frustrating
when the nearest lunch spots
don’t have TVs that will let you
follow a bracket-busting 4-13 up-
set.
Serious basketball fans will be
heading to one of the area’s top
sports bars to follow the action on
dozens of big-screens. These
spots are different: watering
holes from downtown to Tysons
to Annapolis, all of which open
daily before noon for your game-
viewing and day-drinking needs.
They’re organized below, starting
with the earliest riser.

Town Center Market

Need to pick up a growler of
beer at 6 a.m.? Town Center Mar-
ket in Riverdale Park has you
covered, combining early hours
with one of the best craft beer
selections in Prince George’s
County. It also sells five-ounce
samplers and full pints, as well as
wines by the glass. There are TVs
indoors and a large patio seating
area, with food trucks on hand
during major events. (If you’re
sitting outside, head next door to
Dumm’s for pizza and overstuffed
subs.) 4705 Queensbury Rd., Riv-
erdale Park. towncentermarket.
MICHAEL STAVARIDIS
net.
Plenty of bars across the region open early, perfect for cheering your college hoops team. The bar at Barrel and Bushel, for example, which
Barrel & Bushel is inside the Hyatt Regency hotel at Tysons Corner, opens at 6:30 a.m. With happy hour starting at 2, it could make sense to book a room.
Just steps from an entrance to
Tysons Corner Center, Barrel & ten sell more booze during the
Bushel, which has a focus on lunch shift — between 10 a.m. and
Southern cuisine, Virginia craft 1 p.m. — than at happy hour. 331
beer and Kentucky bourbon, Pennsylvania Ave. SE.
opens at 6:30 a.m. on weekdays
and 7 a.m. on weekends. (It helps Old Ebbitt Grill and Clyde’s res-
that it’s attached to a Hyatt Re- taurants
gency hotel.) Another benefit of Clyde’s and its sister restau-
arriving early: Happy hour begins rants, including the Old Ebbitt
MARCH 16, 2018

at 2 p.m. 7901 Tysons One Pl., Grill, are fixtures around the area,
Tysons Corner. barrelandbushel. because you know what you’re
com. going to get: classic bar food,
including burgers and oysters, in
Crystal City Sports Pub an upscale saloon atmosphere.
The three levels packed with All Clyde’s locations are open at 11
more than 100 TVs have made a.m. during the week and earlier
Crystal City Sports Pub a magnet on weekends. The venerable Old
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for college alumni groups watch- Ebbitt, a tourist destination near

ing football and basketball, but the White House, beats that by
the sprawling bar’s not just for opening at 7:30 a.m. for breakfast
game days: Doors open at 8 a.m. on weekdays and 8:30 a.m. on
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daily. 529 23rd St. S., Arlington.
ccsportspub.com.
Tune Inn
The beloved Capitol Hill dive,
known for its taxidermy as well as
being a hangout for off-duty con-
gressional staffers, opens at 8
a.m. with all-day breakfast and, if
you choose, cold beer and shots of
whiskey. Bartenders say they of-
weekends. Old Ebbitt Grill: 675
15th St. NW, ebbitt.com. Clyde’s:
Locations vary, clydes.com.
Westover Beer Garden
The Westover Market is a solid
neighborhood market and deli,
but the real attraction is the sliver
of a beer garden, which opens at
KRIS CORONADO
11 a.m. Monday through Saturday
Bluejacket is the top title contender in Navy Yard owing to its strong lineup of beers on draft. MARCH CONTINUED ON 7
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On the Town EZ

MARCH FROM 6 150, Ashburn; 2750 Gallows Rd., before some games. Doors open
Vienna. blackfinnameripub.com. at 11 a.m. daily. 300 Tingey St. SE.
and at 9 a.m. on Sundays. Stop in bluejacketdc.com.
for one of the local craft beers on Blackwall Hitch
tap, sit at a picnic table and watch The nautically themed restau- The Bottom Line
games on the large TVs, or snack rant originated in Annapolis’s This basement-level hole-in-
on sandwiches from the in-house Eastport neighborhood before the-wall has been a downtown
butcher shop. Pro tip: If it rains, opening a second location on the hideaway for almost four dec-
head a few doors down to the Alexandria waterfront. Both have ades, thanks to basic but satisfy-
divey Forest Inn, which opens at 9 great views to go with the seafood ing bar food, rotating daily spe-
a.m. 5863 Washington Blvd., Ar- and drinks — don’t miss the roof- cials and friendly bartenders. It
lington. westovermarketbeer top deck in Annapolis. 400 Sixth opens daily at 11:30 a.m. — the
garden.com. St., Annapolis; 5 Cameron St., barstools are filled quickly after
Alexandria. theblackwallhitch. — and at noon on Sundays. 1716 I
Blackfinn Ameripub com. St. NW. thebottomlinedc.com.
All three of the chain’s local fritz.hahn@washpost.com
outposts — Ashburn, Merrifield Bluejacket
and downtown near Farragut A go-to choice before Nationals
Square — open at 11 a.m. The games, Bluejacket has 20 house- Shuckers prepare oysters at Old
dining room offers views of nu- made beers on draft and up to five Ebbitt Grill, which opens for
merous large TVs, as well as daily more on cask, a large bar with breakfast every day of the week.
lunch specials. 1620 I St. NW; communal tables, and a cool pa- All of the Clyde’s locations set a
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43781 Central Station Dr., Suite tio with outdoor TVs and a grill tip-off time of 11 a.m.

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Shoot the Moon (Glass/León & Lightfoot)

The Statement (Belton/Pite)
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A Peruvian
MARCH 16, 2018
BY T IM C ARMAN
N
o matter how many times
you look under a wing, or
investigate the backside
delight gets a of your breast meat, you
won’t find them at Chicken +
Whiskey: The juicy clumps of
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herbs and spice that hide in the
small joints of birds at most pollo
Venezuelan spin a la brasa outlets are nowhere to
be found here. The only blemish-
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es found on these specimens are
the browned and bronzed sec-
tions of skin produced in the
kitchen’s charcoal ovens.
Juicy pollo a la brasa benefits from the chef’s Your first instinct is to think
smooth moves at Chicken + Whiskey that Enrique Limardo, the mag-
nificent chef behind Alma Cocina
Latina in Baltimore, has gone
minimalist with Peruvian chick-
en. Your first bite won’t immedi-
ately change your mind: The
breast meat is juicy beyond all
expectation but not flaccid-juicy
the way overbrined chicken can
be. There are suggestions of cum-
in and garlic, practically dream-
like in their fleetingness and
formlessness. The bird is funda-
mentally savory, as if it were
engineered that way, like MSG in
poultry form.
It was only after talking to
Limardo that I learned his secret.
He doesn’t take herbs, spices and
other aromatics and pulverize
them into a paste to slather onto
his birds. Instead, he creates a
paste of aji amarillos — the fruity
hot peppers central to Peruvian
cooking — and adds it to a brine
along with garlic, rosemary, raw
sugar cane, vinegar, cumin, gar-
lic, dark beer and no doubt other
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DIXIE D. VEREEN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
If you go
CHICKEN + WHISKEY
1738 14th St. NW, 202-667-2456,
chickenandwhiskey.com.
Hours: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday-
Thursday; 11 a.m. to 3 a.m. Friday
and Saturday.
Nearest Metro: U Street/African-
American Civil War Memorial/
Cardozo, with a 0.4-mile walk to
the restaurant.
Prices: $1.50 to $5.99 for sides;
$7.99 to $21.99 for chicken strips,
sandwiches and chicken.
Chickens on the spit at Chicken
+ Whiskey, where chef Enrique
Limardo has borrowed flavors
and dishes from his homeland
of Venezuela.

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flavoring agents. His chickens
luxuriate in this saltwater bath
for at least 12 hours, and some-
times as long as 24.
“It’s a very powerful brine,”
Limardo explains. “For me, it’s
better to put everything in the
brine so everything goes into the
meat.”
The technique explains the
chicken’s sleek appearance, free
of the seasoning clusters that
cling like barnacles to the pollo a
la brasa found in the Washington
suburbs. For a chef who has trans-
formed Venezuelan cooking into
grand, impressionistic, Twombly-
like masterworks, it should come
as no surprise that Limardo has
found a way to alter the complex-
Adam Strasberg, top, chats with a friend at Chicken + Whiskey. The
charcoal-chicken joint casts a wide net, including having a secret
bar lurking behind a refrigerator door. Tiritas de pollo, left, deep-
fried chicken strips, go best with the rocoto hot sauce. The reina de
chicharron stuffs an arepa with pulled chicken and avocado.
ion of Peruvian chicken without
shattering its inherent delicious-
ness.
Yet Chicken + Whiskey doesn’t
come across as a twee interpreta-
tion of a strip-center pollo a la
brasa shop, even though it incor-
porates some of the very elements
you’d expect of a cheffy charcoal-
chicken joint, including a speak-
easy with dozens of whiskeys
available in two-ounce pours. The
front space, more or less, mimics
the basic layout of its suburban
counterparts: narrow, counter-
focused, bright as an interroga-
PHOTOS BY DIXIE D. VEREEN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
tion room. The place has the
pulse of Latin American grill,
even if it has the budget of the
Star Restaurant Group. (Al-
though I do wish the owners had
invested in a few tables, which
facilitate conversation better
than the uncomfortable counter
seats.)
The 14th Street shop casts a
wider net than your
standard-issue Peruvian chicken
outlet. Credit Limardo for Chick-
en + Whiskey’s scope. The chef
borrows a few flavors and dishes
from his Venezuelan homeland.
Some are easy to spot (the reina
de chicharron), others are next to
impossible to detect (the raw
cane sugar added to the chicken
brine to help caramelize the skin).
But either way, the additions are
not a stretch: Venezuela has a
long tradition of rotisserie chick-
en, Limardo says, though likely
nicked from Peru.
In fact, one reason Limardo
decided to join the Chicken +
Whiskey team was because, back
in his mother country, the locals
will knock back a finger or two of
blended Scotch whisky (yes, no
“e” when the bottles come from
Scotland) with their rotisserie
birds. The chef urged the brass at
Star to make the pairing more
explicit with their project, but he
lost the argument. As such, no
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chicken shall pass through the
walk-in cooler door that leads to
the whiskey room.
“There are going to be bones
everywhere,” Limardo says, by
way of explanation.
You enter a whole different
world in the back bar, like Doro-
thy in “The Wizard of Oz” but in
reverse. You move from the sun-
ny, Technicolor environs of the
chicken shop to the dark, flicker-
ing domain of small-batch hooch
and bittersweet Boulevardiers.
It’s easy to get drunk on this space
— and in this space, with its
generous stock of whiskies. I’d
suggest a pour of Navazos Palazzi
Spanish Malt Whisky, aged in
Palo Cortado sherry casks, a
smooth sip with a hint of candied
cherry. Knock it back with a lager,
and you may find yourself at peak
tipsiness, happy but not blotto.
Back in the fluorescent side of
the building, the options are
more limited. You can’t go wrong
with Limardo’s chicken, which an
employee will hack up to your
desired portion size and meat
preference. Would I like crispier
skin? Yes, but that’s a matter of
timing: You want birds fresh from
the oven, not held until the skin
sags. Do I miss those little explo-
sions of spice found on standard
Peruvian birds out in the ’burbs? I
confess I do. But I adore (and
respect) Chicken + Whiskey’s
take on hot sauce, which ditches
minced jalapeños for Peruvian
rocoto peppers, making for a
more complex and blistering bite.
Limardo puts chicken to use in
other dishes. The tiritas de pollo
are thick, fried sticks of cassava-
breaded breast meat, better when
dipped in the rocoto hot sauce
than the accompanying Chicken
+ Whiskey barbecue sauce, a con-
diment that reeks of cloves. The
pollo frito, a cassava-breaded pat-
ty slipped into a brioche bun with
aji amarillo mayo and other gar-
nishes, is the far superior way to
enjoy white meat. The chef even
stuffs charcoal chicken and an
avocado spread into a Venezuelan
arepa rarely found in these parts:
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a pocket made out of deep-fried
pork crackling. The dish is so
wrong — and so good.
True to its approach, Chicken +
Whiskey draws inspiration from
a wide range of sources for its
sides. With its sofrito base, the
black beans are sweet, rich and
rewarding. The basmati-rice-
based arroz chaufa gets its kick
from soy sauce and rice vinegar, a
nod to the Chinese ingredients in
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Peruvian chifa cuisine. Even the
yuca fries here get a dusting of
Tajin, the invigorating seasoning
with its roots in Mexican cooking.
MARCH 16, 2018
Now . . . if only I could have my
chicken and sides with a shot of
whiskey. Limardo says that may
happen with the next Chicken +
Whiskey, still in the planning
stages.
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adaptation of “Don Carlo” in more than 20
years. The Kennedy Center, 2700 F St. NW.
kennedy-center.org. 7:30 p.m. Through
Saturday. $45-$280.
WU MAN AND THE HUAYIN SHADOW
PUPPET BAND Wu plays a Chinese lute as
the Chinese band performs shadow
puppetry. George Washington University's
Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st St. NW.
lisner.gwu.edu. 8 p.m. $25-$45.
SATURDAY
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Gianandrea Noseda conducts works by
Brahms, Strauss, Kodály and Dvorák; soloist
Yefim Bronfman performs Piano Concerto
No. 2 in B-flat major. The Kennedy Center,
2700 F St. NW. kennedy-center.org. 8 p.m.
Through Sunday. $15-$89.
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC: SPIRITED
BRAHMS Violinist Melissa White performs
Brahms’s Violin Concerto in D major. Music
Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman
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p.m. $23-$76.
Through April 22. $35.
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Advance reservations are recommended.
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Bach’s “St. John Passion.” National
Presbyterian Church, 4101 Nebraska Ave.
NW. bachconsort.org. 3 p.m. $10-$69.
TUESDAY
THEO HOFFMAN AND BRADLEY MOORE
The baritone and pianist perform
selections from Schubert, Fauré, Mahler,
Zemlinksy, Barber, Ives and others.
Presented by Vocal Arts DC. The Kennedy
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The Takács Quartet play works by
Beethoven, Shostakovich and Mozart. The
Kennedy Center, 2700 F St. NW. kennedy-
center.org. 7:30 p.m. $55.
THURSDAY
BORIS BEREZOVSKY The pianist
performs selections from Rachmaninoff,
Prokofiev and Scriabin. The Kennedy
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Storied musical satirist “Weird Al” Yankovic will ditch his usual props and costumes and perform non- 7:30 p.m. $60.
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I never miss reading your with the bonus of an arty interior
columns and chats, but I’ve been is Daikaya Izakaya, where none
away from D.C. for years. I’m of the popular rice bowls are
bringing my daughter up to the more than $14.
March for Our Lives, and we
need an idea for one more Q: Wife’s 50th birthday is on the
dinner. We’re vegetarian, but horizon. Want to surprise her
otherwise are adventurous with a dinner in a restaurant’s
eaters. I already have private room with another five or
reservations at Bindaas and six couples. What are some of
Zaytinya. The last time we came your favorites?
up you sent us to Zaytinya A: Not sure what your budget or
(wonderful!) and Roofers Union cuisine preferences are, but I
(not impressed). Any ideas? would be thrilled if someone
A: Check out Unconventional toasted me in a private space at
Diner near the convention Arroz (Moroccan-Spanish), Del
center. It’s the handiwork of Mar (Spanish), the just-reviewed
David Deshaies, who worked for Little Pearl (modern American)
the late Michel Richard, and it or Sfoglina (Italian). I’d also be
offers some clever meatless thrilled to be 50 again, but that’s
options, including kale nachos, a subject for another time and
mushroom spring rolls and a space. . . .
DIXIE D. VEREEN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
vivid chickpea stew.
The jumbo lump crab cakes at Old Maryland Grill in College Park are plump specimens, spiced with Q: My fiance and I have decided
Q: My husband’s birthday is at just a hint of Old Bay Seasoning — a delicious birthday gift for a crab lover. to forgo a traditional wedding
the end of the month. When I ceremony/reception and are
asked him where he wants to go A: Try Old Maryland Grill in equally delicious boardwalk reasonably priced in Chinatown. planning to have a civil
for dinner, he replied, “Any place College Park for plump crab fries. We’re both fairly adventurous ceremony at the D.C. courthouse
with a good crab cake.” Where do cakes, seasoned with just a eaters, so no limitations in that followed by a celebratory dinner
you recommend? suggestion of Old Bay, and Q: Last week, you wrote about regard. for just the two of us that
Noma in Copenhagen. I A: The place you want to go for ASK TOM CONTINUED ON 13

HANDMADE
absolutely enjoyed reading the
article, even if my budget might
never let me travel to Denmark

HEAVEN
just for dinner. So, for a person
living in the area, where might I
go for a Noma-like experience?
Obviously, not for the whole
experience, but for pieces of it?
A: I guess the idea that comes
closest to what Noma is doing —
hyperlocal food, interesting
presentations, etc. — is chef
Tarver King’s at the Restaurant
at Patowmack Farm in
Lovettsville, Va. I find what he’s
doing with textures and aromas
— animal pelts as table dressing,
smoke to carry you back in time
— very interesting, and in
keeping with the farm property
he’s on.

Q: We are going to be in
Bethesda this weekend and
Metal by Richard Kolb

wanted to know if you had any

recommendation for brunch
beyond the usual suspects (Jaleo
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and Kapnos Kouzina)?

A: Grilled fish tacos, butternut
squash pizza and quinoa johnny
cakes are part of the mindful
menu at True Food Kitchen.
250+ Except for the noise, the dining
room is inviting.
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ASK TOM FROM 12 Head to Lapis in Adams sent out, he explains: “The
Morgan for a spread of Afghan concept was always meant to be
evening. We eat out in D.C. starters, a variety of vegetarian a more intimate and casual grill.
frequently (Estadio and Himitsu dishes or a bowl of stew, I think we can achieve that
are favorites) and are looking for reasonably priced. The vision in another space, which
an extra special restaurant to restaurant offers outdoor I’m actively looking for.” Stay
mark the occasion. Price is a dining and a weekend brunch. tuned, in other words.
nonissue, and our only dietary Meanwhile, yes! to more
restrictions are no dairy and no ASK TOM CONTINUED ON 14
pork. I’m aiming for a fun and both times on a weeknight, and
lively atmosphere and am also it was pretty full and lively. I
hoping to find a restaurant thought the food was very good,
within D.C. proper so we can although it was a little slow
walk or take an Uber to a bar coming out of the kitchen.
afterward. My first thought was A: I was a big fan of Victor
Minibar, but I’d love to hear what Albisu’s cooking at Del Campo,
you think about that choice and too! While he’s turning the space
any other suggestions you might into two Mexican ideas — one
have. casual, one refined and
A: I love Minibar, but it’s such dinner-only — he left open the
an interactive experience, I don’t possibility of relaunching Del
think I’d recommend it for a Campo somewhere else.
wedding dinner. Save it for an In a statement his press rep
anniversary, maybe? Instead,
aim for the intimate alcove table
at Maydan, a table overlooking THE NATIONAL PARKS
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feel like one area the D.C. dining
scene struggles with is the
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existence of go-to, reliable and
well-established neighborhood SUN, MARch 18
dining spots. I live around the
corner from Mintwood Place,
Johnny’s, Tail Up Goat, etc., but
can’t afford to go to any of those
places more than once every
month or two and I usually
reserve them for special
occasions. Are there any spots
you could recommend within
walking distance that don’t STEPHEN JAY
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new-thing sheen to them, are DIXIE D. VEREEN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
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A: Have you been to Lapis, the don’t mention the price range
well-received Afghan restaurant you’re after, but the stews, for Q: Do you know why Del Campo
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someone as creative and
ambitious as Albisu.
Q: What do you think is the best
way to ask restaurant
management to turn down loud
music? I am a little old lady, and
it seems that managers think I
am trying to spoil everyone’s fun!
I just want to talk to the people
at my table.
A: Why not say what you just
told me? “I don’t want to spoil
anyone’s fun, but I’d really like to
hear my companions.” A tip:
Restaurants tend to be easier on
the ears on the early side of the
evening.
Q: Could you inform restaurant
owners that we’re well past the
point at which it should be
considered appropriate to only
put changing tables in the
women’s room at a restaurant?
Having to change an infant on
the bathroom floor is absolutely
disgusting and unsanitary, and I
swear the next time I go to a
place like this, I’m changing my
daughter on the bar.
A: Uh, please don’t do that! I like
the approach at the Tavern at
Rare Steak and Seafood on I
Street NW: Multiple (handsome)
unisex restrooms with changing
tables. Let’s hope the idea
catches on.

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Breathing new life into Nat Turner’s tale
BY G EOFFREY H IMES
N
athan Alan Davis had no
intention of writing a
play when curiosity led
him to read “The Confes-
sions of Nat Turner” in 2015. This
was not the 1967 novel by William
Styron, but rather the 1831 jail-
house confession taken down by
Thomas Gray from Turner him-
self as he awaited the gallows
after leading the largest slave
rebellion in U.S. history. Davis,
the 38-year-old playwright of
“Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea,”
expected a political justification
for that bloody, failed effort.
Instead he found a religious
testimony: black angels and
white demons wrestling in a
darkened sky, Egyptian hiero-
glyphics inscribed on leaves, and
the voice of the Holy Ghost telling
Turner he had been chosen for a
special mission.
When Davis learned that the
jailhouse was in Jerusalem, Va.
Nathan Alan Davis revisits the rebellion leader’s
‘Confessions’ in a play at Forum Theatre
(since renamed Courtland), he
couldn’t resist the poetic possibil-
ities. He took advantage of a
fellowship from the New York
Theatre Workshop to write “Nat
Turner in Jerusalem,” which the
workshop staged in the fall of
2016. Now the show is getting its
second production at Forum
Theatre in Silver Spring.
“I was expecting something
along the lines of Nat Turner
saying, ‘I didn’t want to be a slave,
so I rebelled,’ ” Davis says. “But
what’s actually in the pamphlet is
very prophetic, claiming that God
wanted him to carry out this
rebellion. That this all takes place
in Jerusalem seemed almost too
perfect, but it was the truth.”
The entire play takes place in
Turner’s cell on the night of Nov.
10, 1831. In the morning, he will
be hanged in the courthouse
square. Turner (Jon Hudson
Odom) receives two visitors:
Gray, who has already sent “The
Confessions” to the copyright of-
fice but who is back with more
questions; and an unnamed jail-
er, who banters with Turner while
adjusting his shackles. Both
white men are played by Joseph
Carlson.
The white guard is horrified by
the violence, but he finds Turner a
likable, charismatic personality, a
description supported by the his-
torical record, Davis says. Pulled
in one direction and then the
other, the jailer becomes a surro-
gate for the audience.
“I was wondering who else
might be in Nat’s cell besides
Gray, and I thought, ‘Of course,
the guard,’ ” Davis says. “He
comes from a different class of
society than Thomas, so the
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guard relates to Nat in a different
way. By having one actor embody
If you go
NAT TURNER IN JERUSALEM
these two white men, you’re see-
ing that it’s not their personalities Forum Theatre at the Silver Spring
that determine how they respond Black Box, 8641 Colesville Rd.,
THE WASHINGTON POST
to Nat, but rather their social Silver Spring. 301-588-8279.
roles and status.” forum-theatre.org.
Coming on the heels of the Dates: Through April 7.
2016 movie about Turner, “The
Birth of a Nation,” and numerous Prices: $18-$38.
references to him in hip-hop
songs, interest in his story seems
greater than ever.
“Some historians maintain
that Nat’s rebellion radicalized
politics at both extremes,” says
Davis, one of 25 playwrights com-
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missioned to write a work for
Arena Stage’s “Power Plays” series
examining each decade of Ameri-
can history. “The slave states be-
MARCH 16, 2018
came more restrictive and more
repressive, and the abolitionists
became more outspoken. That
helped lead to the Civil War. So Nathan Alan Davis, above,
there’s always room for another brings his play to Silver Spring.
look at him.” It takes place the night before
goingoutguide@washpost.com Nat Turner is to be hanged.
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OPENINGS
ALABAMA STORY The regional premiere of
Kenneth Jones’s play about a children’s
picture book that sparked a heated civil
rights debate between a Alabama state
senator and a librarian. Washington Stage
Guild at the Undercroft Theatre, 900
Massachusetts Ave., NW. 240 582-0050.
stageguild.org. Opening Thursday. $20.
BROADWAY CENTER STAGE: IN THE
HEIGHTS Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-
winning musical about Washington Heights.
The Kennedy Center, 2700 F St. NW. 202-
467-4600. kennedy-center.org. Opening
Wednesday at 8 p.m. $69-$175.
FEMININE FOLKLORE: ANYTHING IN
BETWEEN This devised-theater series
explores the taboos, assumptions and
stories of black women exploring life and
relationships. Anacostia Arts Center, 1231
Good Hope Rd. SE. 202-631-6291.
anacostiaartscenter.com. Opening Friday at
8 p.m. $20.
LOVE IN THE TIME OF COLORING Heather
Frank’s solo cabaret debut looks at romance
and desire in the age of selfies. Capital
Fringe Trinidad Theatre, 1358 Florida Ave.,
NE. 866-811-4111. capitalfringe.org. Opening
Thursday. $20.
MINUET ON THIRD An elderly woman on
the verge of eviction suddenly discovers
she’s the rightful owner of the island of
Manhattan. Best Medicine Rep Theater, 701
Russell Ave., Gaithersburg.
bestmedicinerep.org. Sunday at 3 p.m. Free.
MACHO MENOS Playwright Angel Vázquez
explores the issue of domestic violence from
the various family members’ perspectives.
In Spanish; no English subtitles. GALA
Hispanic Theatre, 3333 14th St NW. 202-
234-7174. en.galatheatre.org. Opening
Saturday at 8 p.m. $30.
SALON SERIES: THE CAKE Baker and cake
decorator Della feels conflicted about her
Bible Belt life when she receives a lesbian
wedding cake request. Everyman Theatre,
315 W. Fayette St, Baltimore. 410-752-
2208. everymantheatre.org. Opening
Monday at 6 p.m. $20-$80.
TRANSLATIONS Irish dramatist Brian Friel’s
1980 play about British efforts to impose its
language and customs on the Irish in the early
19th century. Studio Theatre, 1501 14th St.
NW. 202-332-3300. studiotheatre.org. CAMERON WHITMAN
Opening Wednesday. $20-$85.
Kurt Boehm and other cast members perform a number from “Chicago.” The long-running Broadway musical, a satire of crime, fame and
ONGOING fortune in the Roaring Twenties, has songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb (“Cabaret”). At the Andrew Keegan Theatre through April 7.
ADULT ENTERTAINMENT The Klunch
presents a comedy by Elaine May, about April 1. $20-$55. THE PRINCESS AND THE PAUPER: A VOLCANO - TALES OF EL SALVADOR A CONTRADICTION DANCE: LITTLE WHITE
some porn stars who tire of their profession HOLD THESE TRUTHS Playwright Jeanne BOLLYWOOD TALE A Bollywood spin on bilingual musical for children ages 5-10. LIES A collection of new dances exploring
and enlist a Yale-educated cameraman to Sakata’s drama about Gordon Hirabayashi, Mark Twain’s classic story. Music by Ashwin GALA Hispanic Theatre, 3333 14th St NW. the “little white lies” that shape our thoughts
write a movie script for them. Caos On F, 923 a Japanese-American who was imprisoned Subramanian, directed by Janet Stanford. 202-234-7174. en.galatheatre.org. Through and behaviors. Choreographed and
F St NW. 202-215-6993. theklunch.com. during World War II for disobeying an Imagination Stage, 4908 Auburn Ave., Saturday. $10-$12. performed by Contradiction Dance Theatre
Through March 31. $25-$75. internment order. Arena Stage, 1101 Sixth Bethesda. 301-280-1660. WILLY WONKA The Roald Dahl musical, and guest performers. Anacostia Arts
ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, St. SW. 202-488-3300. arenastage.org. imaginationstage.org. Through Sunday. $15- presented by VSA Loudoun, is directed by Center, 1231 Good Hope Rd. SE. 202-631-
HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY A Through April 8. $91-$111. $30. Karlah Louis, with musical direction by 6291. anacostiaartscenter.com. Thursday at
play based on the popular book by Judith NAT TURNER IN JERUSALEM An original THE RAID Idris Goodwin’s historical drama Carma Jones and set design by Penny 8 p.m. Through March 24. $20.
Viorst. Directed by Cara Gabriel. work by Nathan Alan Davis that depicts the pits abolitionists John Brown and Frederick Hauffe. Franklin Park Performing and Visual DANCE SALONS A dance inspired by the
Recommended for all ages. Adventure final night of slave rebellion leader Nat Douglas against each other. Anacostia Arts Center, 36441 Blueridge View Lane, National Portrait Gallery exhibition
Theatre MTC, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Turner. Forum Theatre, 8641 Colesville Rd, Playhouse, 2020 Shannon Pl. SE. 202-290- Purcellville. 540-338-7973. “Portraits of the World: Switzerland” by
Echo. 301-634-2270. adventuretheatre- Silver Spring. 301-588-8279. forum- 2328. anacostiaplayhouse.com. Through franklinparkartscenter.org. Through Sunday. Dana Tai Soon Burgess. National Portrait
mtc.org. Through March 31. $19.50. theatre.org. Through April 7. $18-$38. Sunday. $15-$40. Free. Gallery, Eighth and F streets NW. 202-633-
BALLOONACY A lonely old man develops an HECHO EN PUELTO RICO A comedy written THE SNOW QUEEN Our Learning Theater 1000. npg.si.edu. Saturday at 2 p.m. Free.
unexpected friendship with a red balloon. and performed by Ãngel Vázquez. Performed Ensemble performs the fairy tale by Hans MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP AND SILK
Best for ages 1-5. Imagination Stage, 4908 in Spanish. GALA Hispanic Theatre, 3333 Christian Andersen. Creative Cauldron, 410 COMEDY ROAD ENSEMBLE: LAYLA AND MAJNUN
MARCH 16, 2018

Auburn Ave., Bethesda. 301-280-1660.
imaginationstage.org. Through April 8. $12.
BECOMING DR. RUTH Naomi Jacobson
stars as America’s favorite sex therapist, Dr.
Ruth Westheimer. Directed by Holly Twyford.
Theater J, 1529 16th St. NW. 202-777-3210.
edcjcc.org. Through Sunday. $30-$69.
CHICAGO The long-running Broadway
musical about crime, fame and fortune
features songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb
. FRIDAY,
14th St NW. 202-234-7174.
en.galatheatre.org. Through Friday. $30.
RENÉE FLEMING VOICES: UTE LEMPER'S
PARIS DAYS, BERLIN NIGHTS The German
singer and actress renowned for her
interpretations of the work of Kurt Weill
performs a collection of songs that journey
through Europe and Argentina, featuring the
Vogler Quartet. The Kennedy Center, 2700 F
St. NW. 202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
S. Maple Ave. Falls Church. 703-436-9948.
creativecauldron.org. Through March 25.
$12-$18.
THE TEXAS HOMECOMING REVOLUTION
OF 1995 Best Medicine Rep’s latest play
takes place at a suburban high school,
where a student commits an unspeakable
act to the Texas flag during homecoming.
Best Medicine Rep Theater, 701 Russell
Avenue, Gaithersburg. bestmedicinerep.org.
TAKE LAUGHTER WITH YOU! The second
annual benefit show features family-friendly
comedy for adults and kids and circus arts.
Joe's Movement Emporium, 3309 Bunker
Hill Rd. Mount Rainier. 301-699-1819.
joesmovement.org. Opening Saturday at
5:30 p.m. $20.
FIGHTING IMPROV SMACKDOWN
TOURNAMENT (FIST) The 12th annual
competition pits improv teams against one
Based on an ancient Persian tale, Layla and
Majnun tells a story of passion and tragic
love. The Kennedy Center, 2700 F St. NW.
202-467-4600. kennedy-center.org.
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Through March 24.
$29-$99.
SPILLING INK Spilling Ink draws from
classical South Indian dance forms of
Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi to capture
the creative and destructive forces of the

(“Cabaret”). Andrew Keegan Theatre, 1742
Church St. NW. 202-265-3767.
keegantheatre.com. Through April 7. $55.
EVERY BRILLIANT THING A boy attempts to
cure his suicidal mother’s depression by
making her a list of all the best things in the
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Through Friday. $39-$79.
SHE KILLS MONSTERS Playwright Qui
Nguyen presents a story about young Agnes
Evans, who journeys into an imaginary world
of homicidal fairies and nasty ogres. Howard
Community College, 10901 Little Patuxent
Through March 25. $25.
THE WINTER'S TALE One of Shakespeare’s
final plays, directed by Aaron Posner. Folger
Theatre, 201 East Capitol St. SE. 202-544-
7077. folger.edu. Through April 22. $35-$79.
THE WIZ Kent Gash directs the Tony Award-
another in a March Madness-style
tournament. Audience members choose the
winners. Source Theatre, 1835 14th St. NW.
202-204-7800. witdc.org. Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Through March 25. $15-$18.
THE SECOND CITY'S LOOK BOTH WAYS
Hindu goddess Durga. Dance Place, 3225
Eighth St. NE. 202-269-1600.
danceplace.org. Saturday at 8 p.m. Through
Sunday. Free.
SWAN LAKE The Moscow Festival Ballet
showcase the traditions of Russian grand

world. Olney Theatre Center, 2001 Olney-
Sandy Spring Rd., Olney. 301-924-3400.
olneytheatre.org. Through March 25. $49-
$74.
FRANKENSTEINSet in 19th-century
Switzerland, this classic tale of horror details
the ill-fated experiments of young Dr.
Frankenstein. Bowie Playhouse, 16500 White
Marsh Park Dr., Bowie. bctheatre.com.
Through March 25. $17-$22.
GODSPELL NextStop Theatre Company
presents Stephen Schwartz’s musical,
based on parables from the New Testament.
NextStop Theatre Company, 269 Sunset
Park Dr., Herndon. 866-811-4111. Through
Pkwy., Columbia. 410-772-4800.
howardcc.edu. Through Sunday. $5-$10.
THAT PART IS TRUE A psychological thriller
about a D.C. activists collective. Logan
Fringe Arts Space, 1358 Florida Ave. NE.
Through Sunday. $15.
THE BECKETT TRIO A series of short plays
by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. Atlas
Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. 202-
399-7993. atlasarts.org. Through April 8.
$10-$35.
THE GOSPEL AT COLONUS The Oedipus
tragedy told gospel-style by WSC Avant Bard.
Gunston Arts Center Theater II, 2700 S. Lang
St., Arlington. Through March 25. Free-$35.
winning musical adaptation of “The Wizard
of Oz.” Ford's Theatre, 511 10th St. NW. 202-
347-4833. fords.org. Through May 12. $28-
$71.
THE WOLVES Sarah DeLappe’s play about a
girls’ teenage indoor soccer team. Part of
the Women’s Voices Theater Festival. Studio
Theatre, 1501 14th St. NW. 202-332-3300.
studiotheatre.org. Through Sunday. $20-
$106.
THIS LITTLE LIGHT A comedy from writer-
actor Jennifer Falsetto about time, age and
technology. Venus Theatre, 21 C St., Laurel.
202-236-4078. venustheatre.org. Through
April 1. $15-$40.
BEFORE TALKING The Chicago-based
improv group returns with an evening of
sketch comedy and political satire. The
Barns at Wolf Trap, 1635 Trap Rd., Vienna.
877-965-3872. wolftrap.org. Thursday.
Through March 25. $27-$32.
DANCE
CINDERELLA The Moscow Festival Ballet
production features 50 dancers performing
the classic fairy tale. Hylton Performing Arts
Center, 10960 George Mason Cir.,
Manassas. 703-993-7759. hyltoncenter.org.
Friday at 8 p.m. Through Sunday. $34-$56.
ballet in this performance of Tchaikovsky’s
balelt. George Mason University Center for
the Arts, 4373 Mason Pond Dr., Fairfax. 703-
993-8888. cfa.gmu.edu. Saturday at 8 p.m.
$34-$56.
THREE WORLD PREMIERES The
Washington Ballet presents three
commissioned performances, with
performers from the American Ballet
Theatre and the Alvin Ailey American Dance
Theater. Choreography by Clifton
Brown, Gemma Bond and Marcelo Gomes.
Harman Center for the Arts, 610 F St. NW.
202-547-1122. washingtonballet.org. Friday
at 7:30 p.m. Through Sunday. $40-$118.
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END-OF-DAYLIGHT SAVINGS
THE WASHINGTON POST
Happy hours in D.C. that pair generous discounts with cheffy food and quality drinks

DEB LINDSEY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

. FRIDAY,

BY F RITZ H AHN

A
ll happy hours are not created equal. Some bars are content to take $2 off their $13 cocktails or Cocktails at Bar
MARCH 16, 2018

knock a buck off craft beers. Others let you relive your college days with dollar cans of Natural Charley,
Light and shooters you could pay for with pocket change, if that still sounds like a good idea. including two
But if you’re making the effort to travel across town to meet friends or a date after work, you draft Tiki drinks,
want great value. These D.C. happy hours are all worth the trek, no matter where your office is: are $6.
They go above and beyond the usual discounts found at many downtown bars — and some
even last all night.
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BAR CHARLEY
1825 18th St. NW.
barcharley.com
WHE N: Monday from 5 p.m. to
12:30 a.m., Tuesday to Thursday
from 5 to 6:30 p.m., Friday from 4
to 6:30 p.m.
SPECIALS: $6 cocktails, $2 off
wine, $3.50 beers, discounts on
various bar snacks, from fries to a
butcher’s-cut steak.
Dark, cozy and everything
you want in a neighborhood bar,
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Bar Charley can get a little busy
at peak times — especially Mon-
days, when happy hour runs all
night, and office groups and first
dates vie for the prime spots in
the bay window. The draw: eight
classic cocktails for $6, includ-
ing a well-made daiquiri and
Jack Rose, and a pair of Tiki
drinks on tap. (The bourbon-
heavy Suffering Bastard is a bet-
ter bet than the sweet,
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too-pineappley Mai Tai.) To keep
happy hour from turning into
hungover morning, the kitchen
sends out $6 plates of Korean
barbecue wings and $8 bowls of
coconut curry mussels. Note:
There’s a reason everyone in this
basement bar is ordering Old
Fashioneds and Moscow Mules.
Stick to the classics.
CO L ADA S HOP
1405 T St. NW.
coladashop.com
W H EN : Monday to Friday,
4 to 7 p.m.
SPECIALS: $2 off cocktails, $2
empanadas.
Colada Shop’s Cuban cock-
tails are already some of the best
deals around the bustling 14th
Street strip: On the regular
menu, most drinks cost $8. But
its happy hour is even more
wallet-friendly, with $2 off all
cocktails and $2 empanadas. (At
these prices, it’s basically “Buy a
drink and get a free empanada.”)
Grab the couch in the vibrantly
colored backroom, sip a rum-
and-apricot Hotel Nacional or
the silky-smooth daiquiri, and
snack on the house-baked spin-
ach-and-cheese empanada. Be-
fore long, you’ll be grooving to
bolero and son tunes, closing
your eyes and imagining you’re
in warmer climes.
BAR CHARLEY BY CAROLYN VAN HOUTEN/THE WASHINGTON POST
D.C . B RAU
3178 Bladensburg Rd. NE.
dcbrau.com
WHEN: Friday from 3 to 11 p.m.
SPECIALS: Half-price beers.
There is no better place to
drink beer than a brewery, be-
cause you’ll never find a fresher
pint anywhere else. Although
the stripped-down tasting room
at D.C. Brau doesn’t quite have
the atmosphere of your favorite
bar, it does have a deal that’s
better than at most centrally
located watering holes: Every
Friday, all beers are half-price
from open to close. That means
$2.50 for a pint of Public Pale
Ale, Brau Pils or even the vaunt-
ed On the Wings of Armageddon
double IPA — maybe the cheap-
est it’s ever been. Some beers are
more expensive: The Stone of
Arbroath Scotch Ale aged in
Willett bourbon barrels costs a
whopping $3.50, which is still
less than you’d pay for a Bud
Light at a typical sports bar.
Although there’s no food avail-
able, you can BYO or have pizza
delivered and purchase growl-
ers or six-packs on your way
home.
D.C. REYNOLDS
3628 Georgia Ave. NW.
dcreynoldsbar.com
WHEN: Monday to Saturday, 5 to
9 p.m.
SPECIALS: Buy any drink, get
one free.
D.C. Reynolds didn’t invent
the idea of BOGO — buy one, get
one — but its popularity has
made it such a staple on Georgia
Avenue that other bars in the
neighborhood have started of-
fering the same deal. (I don’t
care about the relationship be-
tween imitation and flattery as
long as we all get cheaper drinks
because of it.) The way it works
is simple: Settle in at the scruffy
bar or on a stool at the long
counter on the patio. Order a
drink — D.C. Reynolds is better
than average with local craft
beers and Kentucky whiskeys —
and the bartender will give you a
ticket that can be redeemed for a
second drink when you’re fin-
ished with the first. There are
rules: You can’t mix-and-match
beverages — the free drink has
to be the same as the first — and
one member of a pair can’t just
buy one drink and give the free
one to their other half. Still, it’s
hard to beat this offer’s value
and long window.
COLADA SHOP BY DEB
COLADA SHOP BY CAROLYN V
E AT B A R
415 Eighth St. SE.
eat-bar.com
WHEN: Monday to Thursday, 4 to
7 p.m.; Friday, noon to 7 p.m.
SPECIALS: $4 beers, wine,
cocktails and appetizers.
Happy hours on Capitol Hill
have a reputation: Lobbyists,
congressional staffers and in-
terns flock together for cheap
domestic beers and basic bar
food. Eatbar, which stocks its
free jukebox with the Clash and
Trouble Funk, is cut from a
different cloth. The rotating
beers come from ultrahip brew-
ers, including the Veil, Aslin and
Oxbow. Cocktails might feature
añejo tequila or house-made ha-
banero syrup. The snacks, under
the direction of Red Apron
Butcher’s Nate Anda, have in-
cluded a miniature patty melt
with Sriracha mayo, a caramel-
ized Angus meatloaf slider, a
BLT fried chicken slider and
loaded chili cheese fries. It’s
definitely worth a detour to Bar-
racks Row — especially with the
extended hours at week’s end.
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Weekday
discounts
don’t have to
mean stale-
flavored suds
and humdrum
Taco Tuesday.
Places that go
above and
beyond for
happy hour
include Bar
Charley, far
left; Colada
Shop, center,
with cocktails
such as the
Babalú,
mojito and
LINDSEY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST EATBAR BY DEB LINDSEY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
daiquiri; D.C.
Reynolds;
Eatbar, top
left; and Joe’s,
bottom left.

VAN HOUTEN/THE WASHINGTON POST D.C. REYNOLDS BY FRITZ HAHN/THE WASHINGTON POST JOE’S BY SCOTT SUCHMAN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

J OE’ S STONE CRAB OYAMEL P I Z Z E RI A PARAD I S O SUSHI TARO VINOTEC A

750 15th St. NW.
joes.net/dc
WHE N: Daily, 2:30 to 6:30 p.m.
SPECIALS: Half-price cocktails,
wine, draft beers and oysters; dis-
counted raw bar, sandwiches and
snacks.
If you’re looking to impress a
date at happy hour, Joe’s fits the
bill: The landmark Union Trust
Bank, one block from the White
House, has been transformed
401 Seventh St. NW.
oyamel.com
W H EN : Monday through Friday,
4 to 6 p.m.
SPECIALS: $2 tacos, $4
appetizers, $5 beer, $6 wine, $7
margaritas.
There are plenty of Taco Tues-
day happy hours around town.
But when you’re craving some-
thing more original and authen-
tic than ground beef and shred-
GAME ROOM
3282 M St. NW. (entrance in the
back, off Potomac Street NW)
eatyourpizza.com
WHEN: Monday to Thursday, 5 to
7 p.m.
SPECIALS: $3 off draft beers,
$3 off wine by the glass, $7 appe-
tizers, $12-$18 pizzas.
The basement beer bar at
Pizzeria Paradiso’s Georgetown
location underwent a signifi-
1503 17th St. NW.
sushitaro.com
WHEN: Monday through Friday,
5:30 to 7 p.m.
SPECIALS: Half-price regular su-
shi and most alcoholic drinks.
D.C. foodies are used to lining
up outside Bad Saint, Rose’s
Luxury or Little Serow before
opening time to guarantee a
seat. But lining up early for
happy hour sounds unusual —
1940 11th St. NW.
vinotecadc.com
WHEN: Daily from 5 to 7 p.m.
SPECIALS: $5 glasses of wine,
$5 beers, discounted cocktails
and small plates.
Wine lovers know the trepi-
dation of going to happy hour
and finding a menu that offers
house red or a discounted pinot
grigio with no details of vine-
yard or vintage. Talk about a roll

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into a classy restaurant with
soaring marble columns, a black
granite bar and a mezzanine
with views of it all. The place
attracts a suited expense-ac-
count crowd, except at happy
hour, when the half-price deals
are the draw. Regional craft
beers are $3.50, fancy wines by
the glass range from $4.50 to
$12, and signature cocktails, in-
cluding a stellar Old Fashioned
ded cheese melted onto a giant
flour tortilla, head to José An-
drés’s Mexican outpost in Penn
Quarter. The weeknight “Hora
Feliz” features a selection of $2
tacos — such as shredded beef in
a spicy red chile sauce; barbe-
cued pork with sour orange and
pickled red onion; and vegetari-
an refried beans with a chile-to-
mato salsa — on house-made
corn tortillas. Paired with $4
cant makeover in January, add-
ing skee-ball, pinball and video-
game machines to become the
Game Room. It’s a comfortable
place to hang out over a few
rounds of shuffleboard or Big
Buck Hunter, especially given
the specials: All eight of the
rotating craft taps are $3 off,
which means you’ll pay $3 or $4
for choice brews from Dogfish
Head, Ocelot and Union. Pair
until, that is, you’ve experienced
Sushi Taro. The gem of a Japa-
nese restaurant near Dupont
Circle is a cut above other sushi
happy hours around town, with
two gleaming pieces of Japanese
wild snapper nigiri for $6, or
rolls starting at $3.50. (There
are restrictions about which
beverages are half-price, so
make sure you ask before you
order.) The catch about this hap-
of the dice. That’s not the case at
the decade-old Vinoteca, where
the daily happy hour menu of-
fers a selection of 10 to 15 wines
from France, Chile, Italy and
Spain and lists the vintages (pri-
marily 2015 and 2016 on a recent
visit) and grapes used. Non-
oenophiles can partake of a pint
of Peroni or the “spirit and mix-
er” combo of the day. A menu of
happy hour bites ($7-$16), in-

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and full-bodied Moscow Mule,
are $6. Complement the drinks
with half-price oysters or an-
other snack, such as an Alaskan
king crab roll or deviled eggs
topped with lobster (each
$4.95). The early start time
makes this attractive for sneak-
ing out of the office.
appetizers, including ceviche,
free chips and addictive salsa,
and you’ve got an affordable
dinner to go with the well-made
margaritas and mojitos. The
only downer is that it ends so
early.
your brews with a personal pie
or appetizers, and you’ll have
plenty of fuel for one more
round of Mortal Kombat 3.
py hour: It’s valid only at the
11-seat bar. Your best bet is to
show up early — some people get
in line before 5 p.m. — or around
6:30 p.m. to try your luck for the
second seating. It’ll be worth the
wait.
cluding $10 arancini, aren’t as
much of a bargain as the wine.
When the weather warms up,
the deals are available in the
private courtyard, next to the
bocce court.
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Mar 9,10,16,17, 23 & 24
Rob Urbinati’s @ 8 pm
Death By Design Mar 11,18 & 25 @ 2 pm
THEATRE
Noel Coward meets Agathat Christie in Aldersgate Church
this delightful and mysterious mash up of Community Theater www.acct
the classic British comedy with murder! 1301 Collingwood Rd. $12 - $15 online.org
Come see who done it! Alexandria, VA 22308 for details

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Now Extended make life wonderful? A thousand? How
thru April 1! Olney Theatre Center "singular and
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Final 2 weeks The Music and Magic of beloved British MetroStage With Michael
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Avant Bard presents Gunston Arts Center Pay What You
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Colonus Sat & Sun at 2:00 pm. hope and redemption for our time. Sat at 2:00 pm
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Puerto Rico…¡WEPA! As a student prepares to leave Puerto GALA Theatre
Hecho en Rico to escape the economic crisis, he 3333 14th Street, NW In Spanish
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The Kennedy Center Added Shows:
This record-breaking interactive solve-
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Shear Madness Tuesday–Friday at 8 laughing as they try to outwit the Student Rush Available Wed at 5PM
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MARCH 16, 2018

Waterford Old School Great classical

$35 adult music in
Led by violist Miles Hoffman, the 40222 Fairfax St. $15 historic village
American Chamber Players perform a Waterford, VA.
The American Sunday, March 25, sparkling program of music for strings, Info and tickets at
student one hour from
Chamber Players 4 PM children 12 DC. Subscrip-
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John Philip Sousa Band

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Conservatory Members--competition winners, soloists, Congregational Church
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and chamber musicians--will present a 1 Westmoreland Circle,
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Unitarian Universalist
Two of the greatest works of music Church of Arlington
Sat, March 24, 2018 featuring the lush sounds of the strings. Guest host:
Strings Fever: 7:30pm 4444 Arlington Blvd. $36 Gen Monique
Arlington, VA 22204
Brahms and Johannes Brahms:String Sextet No. 2
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Schlesinger Concert Hall
Conducted by Capt. Ryan Nowlin and Northern Virginia
Marine Band special guest 25th Director Col. John Community College
Bourgeois, USMC (ret.), this program FREE, no
Living History: Sunday, March 25
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Washington Bach Consort Featuring: Robert Petillo, Evangelist National Presbyterian $25-$69, Free
St. John Passion, Jason Widney, Christus Church 18 & under pre-concert
Sunday, March 18, 2018 Katelyn G. Aungst, soprano 4101 Nebraska Ave, NW $10, lecture
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Matthew Dirst, Conductor Matthew Loyal Smith, tenor www.bachconsort.org your age Free parking
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Vocal Arts DC Presents

Theo Hoffman, Abendphantasie: Songs about nightfall
Kennedy Center
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by Schubert, Brahms, Mahler, Fauré, Brit- $50 vocalarts
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Dumbarton Concerts
Performing in venues large and small, Dumbarton United
Dumbarton Concerts the trio always delights their audiences. Methodist Church
3/17/18 at 4 p.m. Whether it’s the haunting Danny Boy or $42 Adults
Celtic Tenors 3/17/18 at 8 p.m. exhilarating classics, they are known for
3133 Dumbarton St. NW
$39 Senior
202-965-2000
Vocal Trio Washington, DC 20007
their professional, sparkling and good 202-965-2000
humored performances. Dumbartonconcerts.org

National Chamber Players Pendleton Hall

Tuesday, March 20 Episcopal High School Free! 703-933-4135
Dohnanyi and Concert Begins at Dohnanyi: Serenade in C Major No tickets episcopal
7:45pm Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G Minor 3900 W Braddock Road required highschool.org
Shostakovich Alexandria, VA 22302
MUSIC - CHORAL
Join the all-star professional choir, The St. Columba’s Church $30 at the
Thirteen, as they explore the music of 4201 Albemarle St. NW door Post Concert
Bach Reflections March 17, 2018 7:30PM Bach, his ancestors and those inspired Washington, DC 20016 $25 in Reception!
by him. www.TheThirteenChoir.org advance
OPERA
Family ties fray and unravel in Verdi's
Verdi's spectacle of forbidden passion, political
"Don Carlo" intrigue, and shattering betrayal set at Kennedy Center Tickets
Tonight at 7:30 the height of the Spanish Empire. More Opera House available
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Libretto by Joseph Méry last staged this grand masterpiece in four or call (202) 467-4600 Box Office
and Camille du Locle acts, and now a solid-gold cast heralds
its return in this stunning new production.
Rimsky- Sun Mar. 18 at 3:00 Set in 12th Century Novgorod, Russia. Randolph Road Theater
$15 - $40 Tickets online
Performed in Russian with supertitles, 4010 Randolph Rd.
Korsakov’s Fri Mar. 23 at 7:30 with Olney Ballet and Four Seasons Silver Spring
See and at the
Sadko Sun Mar. 25 at 3:00 website door
dancers. www.belcantanti.com
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Ronald Reagan Building Discounts avail-
Orange is the Fridays & Saturdays A musical, political satire. 1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW able for groups
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M USE U M S
OPENINGS
DO HO SUH: ALMOST HOME A major
installation of the artist’s “Hub” sculptures
— representations of thresholds and
transitional spaces from places he has lived
— along with a group of semitransparent
copies of household objects called
“Specimens.” Opening Friday. Smithsonian
American Art Museum, Eighth and F streets
NW. americanart.si.edu.
ONGOING
ART MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAS
“Palimpsestus: Image and Memory,”
through March 25. An exhibition of 70
works produced between 1900 and 2014
including that of 30 artists from 10
countries of the Colección Memoria,
Mexico, curated by Alejandro de Villota
Ruiz, with OAS collection works. “Art of the
Americas,” through Oct. 28. Modern and
contemporary Latin American and
Caribbean permanent collection highlights.
201 18th St. NW. museum.oas.org.
DUMBARTON OAKS MUSEUM “Early
Acquisitions: Bliss Collecting in Paris and
London, 1912–1919,” through March 31. An
exhibition of the acquisitions of Robert and
Mildred Bliss, collected when they lived in
Paris from 1912 to 1919, including artworks
and unusual, decorative objects that were
newly available via avant-garde art dealers,
including medieval, Islamic and pre-
Columbian artworks. 1703 32nd St. NW.
doaks.org.
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
MUSEUM AND THE TEXTILE MUSEUM
“Binding the Clouds: The Art of the Central
Asian Ikat,” through July 9. An exhibition
focused on the complex dyeing technique
from the region that is now Uzbekistan,
known as abrband (binding the clouds). 701
21st St. NW. museum.gwu.edu.
HILLWOOD ESTATE, MUSEUM AND
GARDENS “The Artistic Table,” through
June 10. An exhibition of historic tables
designed by Hillwood curators and inspired
by 18th- and 19th-century French and
Russian models, on view in the 44-foot
dining room and the adjacent breakfast
room. 4155 Linnean Ave. NW.
hillwoodmuseum.org.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE
GARDEN “Brand New: Art and Commodity
in the 1980s,” through May 13. An
exhibition of about 150 works by 66 artists,
including Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger,
Ashley Bickerton, General Idea, Julia
Wachtel and Peter Halley that explores the
pivotal point in the 1980s when art became
a commodity and artists became brands.
Seventh Street and Independence Avenue
SW. hirshhorn.si.edu.
KREEGER MUSEUM “Reinstallation of the
Permanent Collection,” through Dec. 31,
2019. Guest curated by modern art
historian Harry Cooper, the reinstallation of
the collection introduces works that have
not been on view for several years. Phase I
of the reinstallation comprises the
museum’s main floor galleries and focuses
on 19th- and early-20th-century paintings
and works on paper. Phase II of the
reinstallation, opening in the lower galleries
in 2018, will focus on the museum’s
postwar and contemporary art holdings,
including a bold vertical canvas by abstract
expressionist Hans Hofmann, as well as the
museum’s collection of West African masks.
2401 Foxhall Rd. NW. kreegermuseum.org.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS “Echoes of the
Great War: American Experiences of World
War I,” through Jan. 5, 2019. An exhibition
that commemorates the centennial of the
Great War through depictions of the U.S.
involvement in and experience of it —
via correspondence, music, film, recordings,
diaries, posters, photographs, scrapbooks,
medals, maps and materials from the
Veterans History Project. 101 Independence
Ave. SE. loc.gov.
MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE Includes five
floors of exhibits of ancient biblical
manuscripts, including an array of texts on
papyrus, Jewish texts, including the world’s
largest private collection of Torah scrolls,
medieval manuscripts, as well as
Americana such a Bibles belonging to
celebrities. 400 Fourth St. SW.
museumofthebible.org.
NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM
“Artist Soldiers,” through Nov. 11. An
exhibition that examines the work of
professional artists who were recruited by
the U.S. Army and were considered the first
true combat artists, along with the artwork
of soldiers, including Jeff Gusky’s photos of
stone carvings made in underground
shelters, that provide a unique perspective
MANDA KOWALCZYK/SMITHSONIAN’S NATIONAL POSTAL MUSEUM/COURTESY LULU BELLE (WOLFE) SMITH COLLECTION, GIFT OF ELLEN MERTENS, WOMEN’S
“In Her Words: Women’s Duty and Service in World War I” at the National Postal Museum includes
Army nurse Lulu B. Wolfe’s identification card and ID tag while she was stationed in France circa 1918.
on the First World War. Sixth Street and
Independence Avenue SW.
airandspace.si.edu.
NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM “Making
Room: Housing for a Changing America,”
through Sept. 16. An exhibition of
developers’, architects’ and interior
designers’ answers to the changing housing
needs because of shifts in demographics
and lifestyle. At the center of the exhibition
is a full-scale, flexible dwelling that
illustrates how a small space can be
adapted to meet many needs. It comprises
two living spaces that could be used
independently or combined to form a larger
residence. 401 F St. NW. nbm.org.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART “Michel
Sittow: Estonian Painter at the Courts of
Renaissance Europe,” through May 13. An
exhibition of some 20 works representing
most of Sittow’s oeuvre, including a possible
collaboration with Juan de Flandes.
“Outliers and American Vanguard Art,”
through May 13. An exhibition of some 250
works that explore three distinct periods in
American history when the art of
mainstream and outlier artists
intersected. It includes works by Charles
Sheeler, Christina Ramberg and Matt
Mullican and works by self-taught artists
Horace Pippin, Janet Sobel and Joseph
Yoakum. Sixth Street and Constitution
Avenue NW. nga.gov.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, EAST
BUILDING “In the Tower: Anne Truitt,”
through April 1. An exhibition of works by
the postwar-era sculptor who designed
simple geometric structures of painted
wood, including seven sculptures, two
paintings and five drawings. “Jackson
Pollock’s ‘Mural,’ ” through Oct. 28. This
exhibition of works by Pollock has at its
center a special installation of one of his
murals on loan from the University of Iowa
Museum of Art. Originally commissioned by
Peggy Guggenheim for her New York City
townhouse, it is Pollock’s largest work at
nearly 20 feet long. 440 Constitution Ave.
NW. nga.gov.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MUSEUM “Tomb
of Christ: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Experience,” through Dec. 31, 2018. An
immersive 3-D experience of the Church of
the Holy Sepulchre. Built in the 4th century
by the Emperor Constantine, the church sits
on the site where many scholars believe the
crucifixion of Christ took place. “Day to
Night: In the Field with Stephen Wilkes,”
through April 29. An exhibition of more than
1,500 time-lapse images taken from a fixed
vantage point over the course of 15 to 30
hours from sunrise to sunset of four ancient
bird migrations around the globe. 17th and
M streets NW. nationalgeographic.org.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN
AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE
Ongoing exhibitions, through Jan. 1, 2020.
focusing on a diversity of historical subjects
including the transatlantic slave trade, the
civil rights movement, the history of African
American music and other cultural
expressions, visual arts, theater, sports and
military history. 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. nmaahc.si.edu.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART
“Healing Arts,” through Jan. 1, 2020. An
ongoing exhibition of paintings and
sculptures from the permanent collection
that attempt to counter physical, social and
spiritual problems including global issues
such as the HIV/AIDS crisis. “Visionary:
Viewpoints on Africa’s Arts,” through Nov. 4,
MEMORIAL FOUNDATION COLLECTION
2020. An ongoing exhibition of some 300
works of art from more than 30 artists that
offers a broad spectrum of visual
expression. 950 Independence Ave. SW.
africa.si.edu.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN
HISTORY “City of Hope: Resurrection City
and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign,”
through Dec. 28. An ongoing exhibition that
marks the 50th anniversary of the
assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. with
never-before-seen photographs and original
artifacts from Resurrection City, the small
community set up in Washington for the
nation’s poor. 14th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW. americanhistory.si.edu.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN
INDIAN “Americans,” through Sept. 30,
2022. An exhibition of 350 objects and
images that explores the prevalence
of American Indian names and images
throughout American culture: from the
Tomahawk missile to baking powder cans,
to the stories of Thanksgiving, Pocahontas,
the Trail of Tears and the Battle of Little
Bighorn. Fourth Street and Independence
Avenue SW. nmai.si.edu.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE
ARTS “Women House,” through May 28. An
exhibition of photographs, videos,
sculptures and room-like installations built
with materials such as felt and rubber
bands from more than 30 global artists who
envision the idea of home as a place of
liberation rather than solely of comfort and
nurturing. A sequel to the project
“Womanhouse,” developed in 1972 by Judy
Chicago and Miriam Schapiro. 1250 New
York Ave. NW. nmwa.org.
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY “Portraits
of the World: Switzerland,” through Nov. 12.
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On Exhibit PG
An exhibition that features the work,
“Femme en Extase,” a portrait of the Italian
dancer Giulia Leonardi by the Swiss painter
Ferdinand Hodler. The work embodies the
Swiss modernist approach of emotional
expression through bodily movement — a
theory known as eurythmics — which
transformed dance in America. Eighth and F
streets NW. npg.si.edu.
NATIONAL POSTAL MUSEUM “In Her
Words: Women’s Duty and Service in World
War I,” through Aug. 5. An exhibition of
letters and artifacts from World War I of four
women that demonstrate details of their
life, duty and service in the war, where in
great numbers, women officially served in
and alongside the military in ways that
revolutionized women’s work. 2
Massachusetts Ave. NE.
postalmuseum.si.edu.
NEWSEUM “The Marines and Tet: The
Battle That Changed the Vietnam War,”
through July 8, 2019. An exhibition of 20
large-format photographs of John Olson, a
photographer with Stars and Stripes who
spent three days with the Marines at the
1968 Battle of Hue in the Vietnam War. Hue
was one of more than 100 cities and
villages that North Vietnamese forces
struck with a surprise attack on the holiday
known as Tet. 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
newseum.org.
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM
“Tamayo: The New York Years,” through
Sunday. An exhibition of 42 paintings
portraying modern Mexican subjects that
trace the artist’s development. Eighth and F
streets NW. americanart.si.edu.
SMITHSONIAN ARTHUR M. SACKLER
GALLERY “The Prince and the Shah: Royal
Portraits from Qajar Iran,” through Aug. 5.
An exhibition of about 30 works from the
Freer and Sackler collections, including
recent gifts and acquisitions, of painted
portraits and studio photographs from
Qajar-era (19th century) Iran when rulers
used portraiture to convey monarchical
power. 1050 Independence Ave. SW.
asia.si.edu.
SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF
NATURAL HISTORY “Objects of Wonder,”
through Jan. 1, 2019. The exhibition
includes the “Blue Flame,” one of the
world’s largest and finest pieces of gem-
quality lapis lazuli; Martha, the last known
passenger pigeon; the Pinniped fossil, a
fossil of one of the earliest members of the
group of animals that includes seals, sea
lions and walruses; and the 1875 Tsimshian
House Front, one of the best examples of
Native Alaskan design artwork. “Narwhal:
Revealing an Arctic Legend,” through Jan. 1,
2019. An exhibition on the research and
collaboration by Inuit and scientists on the
narwhal reveals the latest in scientific
knowledge on the animal and illuminates
the interconnectedness between people
and ecosystems. 10th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW.
naturalhistory.si.edu.
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION “Ten
Americans: After Paul Klee,” through May 6.
An exhibition that explores the role of Swiss
artist Paul Klee (1879–1940) in the
development of mid-20th century American
art, featuring work by Klee in dialogue with
Adolph Gottlieb, Norman Lewis, Robert
Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Jackson
Pollock, Theodoros Stamos, Mark Tobey,
Bradley Walker Tomlin, William Baziotes
and Gene Davis. 1600 21st St. NW.
phillipscollection.org.
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL
MUSEUM An ongoing exhibition spanning
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three floors offers a chronological narrative
of the Holocaust through photographs, films
and historical artifacts. 100 Raoul
Wallenberg Pl. SW. ushmm.org.
U.S. BOTANIC GARDEN “Wall Flowers:
Botanical Murals,” through Oct. 15. An
exhibition of botanical murals. “Orchid
Spectrum,” through April 8. An annual
exhibition of thousands of orchids, including
those unique and rarely seen from the U.S.
Botanic Gardens’s and Smithsonian
Gardens’s extensive plant collections. 100
Maryland Ave. SW. usbg.gov.
U.S. NATIONAL ARBORETUM “Sakura
Orihon: Diary of a Cherry Blossom Journey,”
through April 8. An exhibition of orihon
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sketchbooks by Ron Henderson, who
recorded his experience following
blossoming cherry trees from south to north
in Japan, celebrating the cherry blossom
culture there. 3501 New York Ave. NE.
usna.usda.gov.
MARCH 16, 2018
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS “The
Horse in Ancient Greek Art,” through July 8.
An exhibition of Greek vases, sculpture and
coins from the 8th through the 4th
centuries B.C. that explores the significance
of the horse in ancient Greek culture and
imagery of the horse in ancient myth, war,
sport and competition. 200 N Blvd.,
Richmond. vmfa.museum.
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Idyllic — or imprisoning? Look closer.

In time for #MeToo, a
new show explores
spaces women occupy
BY M AURA J UDKIS

W
hen curators were or-
ganizing a show called
“Women House” more
than two years ago,
they didn’t know it would land in
the midst of a national movement
to drive away sexual harassment
and a political moment rooted in
women’s righteous anger. Then
#MeToo went viral, and the show,
which opened this month at the
National Museum of Women in
the Arts, took on additional heft.
The exhibition is about wom-
en’s desire to be recognized, lis-
tened to, respected. But it’s in a
different domain: While #MeToo
arose from an outcry over the way
women are treated in the work-
place, “Women House” focuses on
the home. And a woman’s home
life and work life are inextricably
intertwined. Take Sheryl Sand-
berg’s famous advice from “Lean
In”: “The most important career
choice you’ll make is who you
marry.”
What “Women House” is really
about is the space women occupy,
and how it can both empower and
entrap them. The home is a sanc-
tuary and a prison — depicted in
some works as a cage that women
are scratching to get out of, or a
wall they have to break down.
It’s about “how architecture is
not neutral, it’s politicized and
gendered,” says Orin Zahra, an
assistant curator at the museum.
“It can apply both in the public
sphere and the private sphere.”
The show is an homage to the
original “Womanhouse,” a land-
mark 1972 Los Angeles exhibition
organized by Judy Chicago and
MARCH 16, 2018

Miriam Schapiro, founders of the

California Institute of the Arts
Feminist Art Program. Female
artists took over a dilapidated
mansion and turned it into an
installation and performance
space. Only women were permit-
ted inside on the first day. The
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SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM/GENE DAVIS MEMORIAL FUND

namesake “Women House” is its
continuation, expanded to repre-
sent a wider demographic of
women artists. It originated at
bears outside the window. It’s not
the only source of danger. A few
“Dollhouse,” by Miriam
Schapiro, was featured
It’s “the idea that the kitchen,
traditionally a woman’s space, is
If you go
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the Monnaie de Paris, under cura-
tors Camille Morineau and Lucia
Pesapane.
Schapiro’s “Dollhouse,” the
only piece on display from the
original 1972 exhibition, tethers
this show to its origins. It looks
like the child’s plaything from
afar, but up close, you can see
hazards lurking throughout the
space: spiders and snakes, and
feet away is Mona Hatoum’s
“Home,” an installation set be-
hind the kind of steel cables used
to keep zoo animals from escap-
ing their enclosures. It’s a tableau
of everyday kitchen items — a
grater, a colander, a potato mash-
er — but with a live electrical
current running through them,
which emits a menacing hum that
fills the room.
at a landmark exhibition not nurturing at all. Here, it’s very WOMEN HOUSE
of feminist art in Los threatening,” Zahra says. National Museum of
Angeles 46 years ago, the The work in “Women House” Women in the Arts
inspiration for the ranges from the ’60s to the pre- 1250 New York Ave. NW.
current one at National sent, and some sections feel more 202-783-5000. nmwa.org.
Museum of Women in firmly rooted in historical expec- Dates: Through May 28.
the Arts. tations of women as homemak-
ers. A part of the show called Prices: $8-$10.
“Desperate Housewives” exam-
ines the myth of the idealized
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homemaker, whose smile and

perfectly coiffed Betty Draper
hair conceal a simmering anger.
It feels more like resignation in
Birgit Jurgenssen’s “Kuchen-
schurze [Housewives — Kitchen
Apron],” a self-portrait of the art-
ist wearing an oven — more like
becoming an oven — with the
open door revealing a bun inside,
and in Karin Mack’s “Bugeltraum
[Iron Dream],” a series of photo-
graphs of a woman ironing
clothes and then lying on the
ironing board with a shroud over
her face, as if it were a gurney. But
it’s a flash of rage in Martha
Rosler’s “Semiotics of the Kitch-
en,” a video in which the artist
displays kitchen implements as if
she were on a cooking show, but
uses them to stab wildly at the air
or bang the table.
When the home isn’t a trap, it
can be a refuge. We see domestici-
ty as a sanctuary in Zanele Muho-
li’s “Katlego Mashiloane and Nos-
ipho Lavuta, ext. 2, Lakeside, Jo-
hannesburg,” a tender 2007 pho-
tograph of a same-sex South
African couple kissing in their
kitchen, where they can escape
homophobia.
That portrait is one that shows
how “Women House” represents
a more diverse group of artists
and subjects than its predecessor
did. The first exhibition, true to
its era, dealt with the entrapment
of white American middle-class
domesticity, but “Women House”
gives a voice to global political
activism. The home is a symbol of
resistance in Sue Williamson’s
series of photographs of an Egyp-
tian town where families are at
risk of being displaced. William-
son interviewed the residents,
and her photographs are of their
words, which she painted on their
walls, such as “Tell your people.
This place is perfect.”
The pieces that deal with
ZANELE MUHOLI/PRIVATE COLLECTION
chores like ironing and vacuum-
ing belong to a different era, and
at first glance, it might be hard for A portrait of Katlego
a young woman of 2018 to relate Mashiloane and Nosipho

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to these disillusioned domestic Lavuta, above, in Johannesburg
goddesses. Unlike them, she has a by photographer Zanele Muholi
job outside the home and other and the “Modern Chess Set,” by
things to worry about, including Rachel Whiteread, are at the
whether her boss is a groper — new show at the National
and she can order UberEats and Museum of Women in the Arts.
program her Roomba to do the
vacuuming. But even though the Cabinet With Collection,” a self-
setting is different, the show is a portrait where the artist tucks
reminder that, especially for pre- herself into an armoire shelf,
vious generations, “the house was along with miniature statues
the workspace for many women from pop culture and antiquity,
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because they were imprisoned in like the Venus of Willendorf. Just-

the house,” says Morineau, the esen has written about her strug-
curator. And doubly so for female gle to balance career and family,
artists, who worked out of home and in this portrait, she is “shelv-
MARCH 16, 2018

studios. ing it” — putting her work on

“Women artists are making hold, tucking herself away. But
commentary on the status of their her pose, with her hand and foot
workplace and the circumstances emerging from the cabinet, sug-
of them working in a male-domi- gests she won’t be in there for
nated field,” Zahra says. Like long.
RACHEL WHITEREAD/LUHRING AUGUSTINE/LORCAN O’NEILL/GAGOSIAN GALLERY
Kirsten Justesen’s “Portrait in maura.judkis@washpost.com
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7 Days in Entebbe



BY M ICHAEL O ’ S ULLIVAN
‘7
Days in Entebbe” is, as its
name suggests, a pretty
conventional ticktock of
the 1976 hijacking of an
Air France jetliner en route from
Tel Aviv to Paris by members of
the Popular Front for the Libera-
tion of Palestine and the Red
Army Faction, a German leftist
group. Or it would be convention-
al, were it not for the fact that the
movie opens with a startling snip-
pet of a performance by Israel’s
MARCH 16, 2018
Batsheva Dance Company, mak-
ing you wonder, for a second,
whether you have stumbled into a
screening of “Step Up 6” by mis-
take.
The footage of the dance “Kyr,”
a 1990 work by noted Israeli
choreographer Ohad Naharin,
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features several dancers seated in
a semicircle. Clad in the generic
black suits and conservative
headcoverings of ultra-Orthodox
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Judaism, they explode from left to
right, in sequence, from their
seats, throwing themselves ec-
statically to their feet, as one
dancer, in the middle of the
group, collapses onto the floor in
a heap, ruining the precision and
symmetry of the arc.
And then the movie, by direc-
tor José Padilha, known for his
2014 reboot of the politically
When policy
follows the
scripted steps
The retelling of a real-life airplane hijacking in 1976
uses an unexpected motif to frame Israeli diplomacy
charged action film “RoboCop,”
begins in earnest, cutting to the
hijacking, which brought more
than 200 passengers, including
84 Israelis, to Uganda’s Entebbe
Airport. Over the course of 100
minutes or so, the fact-based dra-
ma, in reasonably gripping fash-
ion, follows the week-long show-
down between the hijackers, in-
cluding Germany’s Brigitte Kuhl-
mann and Wilfried Böse
(Rosamund Pike and Daniel
Brühl), and the Israeli govern-
ment. Finally, after most of the
hostages have been released —
except for the Israelis, the crew
and a few French travelers —
Israel sends in a team of comman-
dos to storm the airport.
Padilha cuts back and forth
between Uganda and Israel, with
occasional flashbacks to Ger-
many, where the hijacking was
planned, and Yemen, where its
perpetrators received military
training. Infighting — among hi-
jackers over strategy, and be-
tween Israeli Prime Minister Yit-
zhak Rabin (a marvelous Lior
Ashkenazi) and Defense Minister
Shimon Peres (Eddie Marsan)
over whether to negotiate — lends
drama to the standoff. For several
days, nothing happens, as the
hijackers demand that Israel and
other countries release prisoners
and Israel sticks to its long-stand-
ing refusal to negotiate with ter-
rorists. Meanwhile, military ac-
tion is considered, although that
is fraught with risk.
Woven throughout “Entebbe”
are scenes taken from rehearsals
for the dance performance that
opens the movie. One of the danc-
ers (Zina Zinchenko) — the one
who falls — is the girlfriend of an
Israeli soldier (Ben Schnetzer)
who has been recruited for the
rescue operation. Although their
story delivers a message — “I fight
so you can dance,” he tells her,
somewhat predictably — it is a
minor one in the scheme of
things.
Rather, the dance itself makes
a much more powerful, and ulti-
mately poetic, point. On the most
superficial level, it is a blunt
metaphor for the elaborate chor-
eography of the rescue operation,
which entailed its own intense
rehearsals, undertaken in a scale
mock-up of the Entebbe airport
that had been re-created back in
Israel. “Entebbe” is, by this read-
ing, a fairly standard glorification
of Israeli military prowess. On a
subtler level, however, the dance’s
themes of conformity and devia-
tion resonate powerfully with the
movie’s true theme, which ques-
tions whether Israel’s robotic
LIAM DANIEL/FOCUS FEATURES
Rosamund Pike and
Daniel Brühl star as
Brigitte Kuhlman and
Wilfried Böse in a fact-
based drama about Israel
and its long-standing
refusal to negotiate with
terrorists.
stance of non-negotiation has
been effective, in the long run. If
the nation never talks with its
enemies, Rabin asks Peres, how
can there ever be peace?
Although that question is artic-
ulated only toward the end of the
film, it hangs, unspoken, over the
entire movie, lending what would
otherwise be a pedestrian thriller
a subtle but potent punch. Over
the closing credits, we watch an-
other one of Naharin’s works,
called “Last Dance,” which fea-
tures one dancer, in the fore-
ground, contorting himself in ag-
onizingly angular gyrations as a
second dancer runs in place in the
background, seemingly going no-
where, but with a singular, unbro-
ken focus.
michael.osullivan@washpost.com
PG-13. At area theaters. Contains
violence, some mature thematic
material, drug use, smoking and
brief strong language. 107 minutes.

Tomb Raider
  
A woman’s work is never done
A video game’s fearless
heroine keeps escaping
death, but for what?
BY S TEPHANIE M ERRY
Lara Croft in the new “Tomb
Raider” reboot looks like a hero-
ine of the moment. Gone are the
Daisy Dukes and knee-high boots
of Angelina Jolie’s 2001 version of
the character. This incarnation,
played by Oscar winner Alicia
Vikander, wears a hoodie and
cargo pants, spending her days
biking around London delivering
food — when she’s not brawling at
the kickboxing gym.
You’d never know she’s the heir
to a massive fortune. In fact, Lara
could cash in at any time, but to
do that she’d have to admit that
her father, Lord Richard Croft
(Dominic West), a businessman
and adventurer who went miss-
ing seven years earlier, is dead.
This Lara is spunky and fear-
less, with a mind of her own.
That’s nice to see, but what does it
matter in a movie that’s dull when
it’s not inexplicable, and is rid-
dled with bad dialogue and worse
special effects?
It tells you something that one
of the most exciting scenes is the
bike race that takes place in the
movie’s opening minutes. Lara
volunteers to be the fox on a
two-wheeled imitation of a hunt,
where dozens of bike messengers
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Movies EZ
Ratings guide
Masterpiece





Very good




Okay



Poor


Also reviewed
Foxtrot
A family deals with
loss in an Israeli
drama. 28
Leaning Into the
Wind: Andy
Goldsworthy
A documentary
profiles an artist
whose medium is
nature. 28
Plus
Common Sense
ILZEK KITSHOFF/WARNER BROS. PICTURES/METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES Media 32
Opening next
week
Lara’s time on the island is Isle of Dogs is a
action-packed, but strangely low-
stakes, partially because it’s un-
stop-motion
animation by Wes
certain what exactly will happen Anderson.
if Vogel finds what he’s looking
for. Even Lara doesn’t believe in
Giant robots battle
whatever magic her father feared,
so what’s the harm? monsters in Pacific
All the same, she stays busy: Rim Uprising.
parachuting off the top of a water-
fall and engaging in hand-to- Ramen Heads is a
hand combat with a man four documentary about
times her size; scaling a cliff while noodle soup.
bleeding profusely; and going up
against all those automatic weap- A garden gnome
ons, armed with nothing but a mysteriously
bow and arrow. As soon as one disappears in
impossible scenario ends, an- Sherlock Gnomes.
ILZE KITSHOFF/WARNER BROS. PICTURES/METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES
other comes along to test just how
THE WASHINGTON POST
ABOVE: Mathias Vogel (Walton Goggins), right, is the villain in far an audience can suspend its A girl cannot
this tedious, CGI-loaded reboot of a franchise inspired by a ’90s disbelief. It doesn’t help that the tolerate sunlight in
game. TOP: With a pal (Daniel Wu), Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) computer-generated action is so the teen romance
drops in on an island for action-packed, low-stakes adventures. obvious that it’s as if the movie Midnight Sun.
were paying homage to its video-
pursue her, weaving among buses of Japan’s first queen, who, ac- game source. Charlotte Rampling
and lorries. The chase thrills be- cording to legend, was some kind Norwegian director Roar
stars in Hannah.
cause — unlike the rest of the film of homicidal sorceress. Before Uthaug has had past success with
— it looks real. disappearing, Richard warned nail-biting suspense, as in his
Soon after, Lara heads off to that if the wrong people found the well-received 2015 disaster movie Teens plot to out a
more exotic locations in search of tomb before him, it could lead to “The Wave.” He can’t quite repli- pedophile in
her missing father. After stum- global catastrophe. After crash- cate that same tension here, how- Flower.
. FRIDAY,
bling onto a few clues as to his landing on the island, it doesn’t ever. Watching a tiny-but-tough
whereabouts, she heads to Hong take long for Lara to figure out woman survive one danger after Unsane is a
Kong, where she meets the son of who her dad was referring to. another tests not only our creduli- psychological thriller
the last person likely to have seen Mathias Vogel (Walton Goggins) ty, but our patience. from Steven
MARCH 16, 2018
her dad alive (Daniel Wu) and is the sort of cackling cartoon stephanie.merry@washpost.com Soderbergh.
persuades him to captain his ship villain who might unleash a su-
into dangerous waters, toward pernatural plague on the world — Paul, Apostle of
the uninhabited island that was especially considering all the help PG-13. At area theaters. Contains Christ tells the story
Lord Richard’s last known desti- he has from his army of thuggish sequences of violence and action, of one of Christ’s
nation. machine-gun-wielding merce- and some strong language. 115 followers.
The island contains the tomb naries. minutes.
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Leaning Into the Wind



Portrait of an artist exploring the nature of nature
BY A NN H ORNADAY
In 2001, filmmaker Thomas Rie-
delsheimer made “Rivers and
Tides: Andy Goldsworthy,” a capti-
vating, visually rich documentary
about the British sculptor known
for land-art creations and museum
installations (including one at the
National Gallery of Art). “Leaning
Into the Wind” catches up with the
sculptor 15 or so years later, still
foraging quarries, meadows, bogs
and forest floors for his materials,
still creating disruptions within
built and natural environments
that feel both organic and shocking,
conveying both reassurance and a
sense of faint unease.
Although Goldsworthy was in
his 40s during “Rivers and Tides”
and is in his 60s now, Riedelsheim-
er doesn’t probe his subject on what
has changed. Assisted by his now-
grown daughter Holly, Goldswor-
thy doesn’t stop to reflect much on
how his ideas about impermanence
— always embedded within his
work — have shifted with his own
proximity to mortality. Instead, the
talking-head segments of “Leaning
Into the Wind” feature Goldswor-
thy reflecting on his early influenc-
es (including the coastal city of
Morecambe, England, where he
soaked up atmosphere during his
Foxtrot




Elegant drama doesn’t sidestep the contradictions of Israel
BY A NN H ORNADAY
In “Foxtrot,” an intriguing jew-
el box of a film, Israeli writer-di-
rector Samuel Maoz creates an
elegant allegory of self-examina-
tion and the unmaking of myth,
MARCH 16, 2018
employing symbolism, theatrical-
ity and misdirection to question
some of the most reassuring sto-
ries his home country tells itself.
With a fluent mix of irony and
sincerity, Maoz interrogates —
gently, but with unwavering insis-
tence — the rituals of a country
. FRIDAY,
mired in the moral contradic-
tions of occupation and its own
defensive crouch. As the title sug-
gests, the movie’s characters are
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caught up in a dance only partial-
ly of their own making, doomed
to repeat steps they didn’t choose
and that get them precisely no-
where.
As “Foxtrot” opens, a prosper-
ous Tel Aviv architect named Mi-
chael Feldman (Lior Ashkenazi)
and his wife, Daphna (Sarah
Adler), are visited by two soldiers
who tell them their son Jonathan
British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, known for land-art creations, is silhouetted against the sky in the
documentary “Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy,” by Thomas Riedelsheimer.
studies at a nearby college, and,
later, working on farms); environ-
mental change (the yellow elm
leaves that he uses to gild his most
eye-catching installations are rap-
idly disappearing); and the exqui-
site liminal connection he’s been
pursuing over the course of his ca-
reer, whether between nature and
culture, control and futility or beau-
has been killed. For the next
several minutes, we bear intimate
witness as Michael numbly an-
swers questions and submits to
the ministrations of his visitors,
who express a notable interest in
his water intake. At first Michael
listens quietly as the soldiers ex-
plain the nuts and bolts of the
funeral, a piece of regimented
stagecraft more rooted in formu-
laic hagiography than genuine
remembrance. In time, his glazed
confusion gives way to anger
when he realizes that no one can
tell him precisely where, how and
why his son died.
Relayed in a series of quiet,
intensely focused scenes that
seemingly play out in real time,
this initial sequence — step one?
— gives “Foxtrot” firm grounding
both in realism and stylized meta-
phor. It quickly becomes clear
that Maoz, who favors occasional
but pointedly Godlike overhead
shots, isn’t afraid to give his
themes added visual oomph in
terms of design and framing.
From the boxlike structure of the
ty and decay.
Far more satisfying than Golds-
worthy’s own observations are the
images of the artist at work. Fol-
lowing with his camera at a dis-
creet distance or elevated angles,
Riedelsheimer frames both the
process and resulting work with
care and sensitivity. Trailing Gold-
sworthy from Brazil, Spain and
Michael and Daphna (Lior Ashkenazi and Sarah Adler) cope with the death of their soldier son in
“Foxtrot,” a jewel box of a movie that bursts with integrity and tough honesty about Israeli honor.
Feldmans’ prosperous apartment
to the motif of nesting boxes that
repeats from hallway to floor tile
to the art on the walls, his charac-
ters are unmistakably trapped,
whether within past guilt or re-
flexive notions of nationalism
and honor.
These ideas come to a head in
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY/MAGNOLIA PICTURES
France to New Hampshire, San
Francisco and Scotland (his ad-
opted home), “Leaning Into the
Wind” chronicles the creation of
thrilling new works, including a
tree trunk encased in a marvelous-
ly cracked fondant of local clay; an
intervention involving reeds,
thorns and moss that bursts with
whimsy and solemnity; and an
“Foxtrot’s” next section, where we
meet the young Jonathan Feld-
man in the days leading up to the
announcement of his death. As-
signed to a desolate outpost kit-
ted out with antique computers
and decades’ worth of cigarette
butts, Jonathan (Yonatan Shiray)
and his fellow soldiers while away
installation called “Sleeping
Stone,” whose egglike shape — a
Goldsworthy standard — is both
womblike and sepulchral.
Gorgeously photographed, and
with a minimalist score by Fred
Frith, “Leaning Into the Wind”
offers viewers a welcome chance
to consider the work of an artist
who defies the recent commodifi-
cation cult to embrace the ephem-
eral and the nominally “worth-
less.” (He’s given to lying down on
the sidewalk in the midst of a
rainstorm, using his prone body as
a human stencil to create momen-
tary street graffiti.) Goldsworthy’s
raw materials are no less than
time, memory and the nature of
nature itself. Of all the sequences
in “Leaning Into the Wind” that
capture the artist’s singular stand-
ing, perhaps the most eloquent is
when he and Holly are meticu-
lously applying moistened leaves
and flower petals to a stone stair-
case in what looks like Edinburgh.
A troupe of tourists tramps by,
looking on with vague curiosity,
unaware that they’re passing a
national treasure.
ann.hornaday@washpost.com
PG. At Landmark’s E Street
Cinema. Contains brief strong
language. 93 minutes.
GIORA BEJACH/SONY PICTURES CLASSICS
the time playing first-person
shooter games, telling stories and
inspecting the cars of Palestinian
travelers cautiously encountering
yet another irritating — or poten-
tially deadly — checkpoint.
It’s during this sequence that
“Foxtrot” engages in alternately
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Love, Simon

 
Coming out, into a mostly warm embrace
BY M ARK J ENKINS
The unnamed American sub-
urb where “Love, Simon” takes
place is as generic as “Call Me By
Your Name’s” setting of Crema,
Italy, is specific. Yet both places
prove to be remarkably sunny
locales for an earnest teenager to
come out as gay.
The first major-studio roman-
tic comedy with a teen protago-
nist who’s closeted, “Love, Simon”
is basically a sitcom counterpart
to last year’s Oscar-nominated
“Call Me” — down to the culmi-
nating heart-to-heart with a spec-
tacularly affirmative parent. Di-
rected by Greg Berlanti (“Daw-
son’s Creek”) and scripted by Eliz-
abeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker
(“This Is Us”), the movie is well-
made and likable, without any
major missteps. It’s also just a
little bland.
“Love, Simon,” which does in-
clude more conflict than the Ita-
ly-set romance, isn’t exactly
“Moonlight,” the similarly
themed drama that won best
picture last year. Simon (Nick
Robinson) has doting, liberal-
minded parents (Jennifer Garner
and Josh Duhamel) and a sup-
portive, racially integrated set of
male and female friends. The
boy’s upscale home and well-
funded, clique-free high school
harbor annoyances, but no actual
The Death of Stalin



Creator of ‘Veep’ sharpens his satirical stings for strongmen
BY C HRISTOPHER K OMPANEK
The style of humor in satirist
Armando Iannucci’s latest film,
“The Death of Stalin,” is a fright-
fully uneasy one. Sight gags and
slapstick erupt from a pervasive
atmosphere of dread and terror.
In one early scene, an orchestra
conductor is so overcome with
worry that a wiretap may have
caught him disparaging the titu-
lar dictator’s musical discern-
ment that he faints, thwacking
his head on a metal bucket. Just
moments before, Stalin (Adrian
McLoughlin) had phoned in a
request for a recording of the
performance. But because it’s for
live radio, it hasn’t been taped,
causing the producer (Paddy Con-
sidine) to sheepishly hold the
studio audience hostage for a
repeat performance. They ap-
plaud wildly — knowing that
their very existence is at the plea-
From left: Jorge Lendeborg, Nick Robinson, Alexandra Shipp and Katherine Langford in “Love,
Simon.” For being a “first” for the genre of romantic comedies, the high-school movie feels tame.
threats.
Simon doesn’t fear coming out
so much as he resents the need to
do so, according to one funny
sequence. But he is intrigued
when a schoolmate declares him-
self gay in an anonymous online
post. Simon begins to exchange
emails with the other kid, known
sure of an unpredictable mad-
man.
A replacement conductor —
still in his bathrobe — is dragged
in from his home, where he as-
to him as “Blue,” under the
pseudonym “Jacques.” While ea-
gerly speculating on his corre-
spondent’s identity, Simon falls
for Blue.
Improbably, Simon leaves one
of his unsent emails on a shared
computer at school. It’s found by
nerdy, needy Martin (Logan Mil-
sumes that the knock on his door
is the secret police coming to haul
him off to prison (or worse). As he
leaves his building, many of his
neighbors are also being violently
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ler), the movie’s closest thing to a
villain. Even Martin isn’t really
malicious. He is, like Simon, a
slave to unrequited love — besot-
ted with Simon’s pal Abby (Alex-
andra Shipp), star of the school’s
awkward production of “Caba-
ret.”
Martin blackmails Simon into
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maneuvering Abby toward ro-
mance. To do this, Simon deceives
not just Abby, but also his other
buddies, Leah and Nick (Kather-
ine Langford and Jorge Lend-
eborg Jr., in underwritten roles).
Because Simon is otherwise
exemplary, his treachery makes
him a bit more interesting. But
the boy’s betrayal of his pals feels
less like a character flaw than a
writerly contrivance.
As is typical of high-school
movies, “Love, Simon” is stuffed
with pop songs, including several
by Bleachers, whose lead singer
and songwriter Jack Antonoff
served as music consultant. Also
featured are a few mid-’60s tunes
whose inclusion is partly ex-
plained by making Simon a vinyl
buff with retro tastes. (He dresses
up as John Lennon for a Hallow-
een party and at one crucial
moment has the Kinks’ “Waterloo
Sunset” on his turntable.)
Simon’s love for rock of the
British Invasion is unpersuasive,
but then so are all his passions.
Like the movie about him, Simon
is pleasant, well-meaning and cu-
riously devoid of adolescent hor-
monal tumult.
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PG-13. At area theaters. Contains
mature thematic elements, sexual
references, strong language and
teen partying. 109 minutes.
From left: Dermot Crowley,
Paul Whitehouse, Steve
Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor in
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the newest movie by Armando
Iannucci, the director of “In the
Loop” and HBO’s “Veep.”
Party secretary Nikita Khrush-
chev (Steve Buscemi) has his wife
write down everything he says —
along with the dictator’s reaction
— studying the ever-evolving list
to refine his behavior. Central
Committee member Vyacheslav
Molotov (Michael Palin) is such a
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loyalist that when Stalin’s goons
imprison his wife, he assumes she
deserved it. (This sets up a pain-
fully funny moment, later in the
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film, when the two are reunited
after Stalin’s death, which occurs
early on, precipitating the power
struggle that is the basis of the
plot.)
As Stalin’s deputy, Georgy
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In Tel Aviv, sharing a flat
and societal struggles
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“This is the last thing I need
before the municipal elections.”
So says a character in “In Be-
tween” upon learning that his
daughter is a lesbian. The com-
ment — coming from a Palestin-
ian Christian elected official —
paints the Tel Aviv-set drama as a
soap opera, set among conflicting
mores in the Palestinian commu-
nity of Israel. While the film, from
the Hungarian-born, Israeli-
based Palestinian filmmaker
Maysaloun Hamoud, at times
seems to unspool a laundry list of
such timely issues as female sexu-
ality and the oppression of wom-
en, one key performance brings
those struggles to life.
The movie opens with a Mus-
lim matron waxing a young wom-
an’s legs and telling her how to
satisfy a husband. The Old World
advice stands in contrast to the
young women at the story’s cen-
ter, who are anything but satisfied
with tradition.
Goldstone



Once upon a time in the Outback: A noirish missing-person tale
BY M ICHAEL O ’ S ULLIVAN
A noirish, Western-flavored
thriller set in the Australian Out-
back, in a provincial community
where no one seems capable of
giving a straight answer to a
direct question, “Goldstone” is
less concerned with solving the
missing-person case that is its
ostensible subject than it is with
MARCH 16, 2018
maintaining its cynical tone.
Written and directed by Ivan
Sen, the film takes place in and
around the town that lends the
film its title, a dusty backwater
seemingly consisting of a diner, a
whorehouse and a jail. Surround-
ing it are a few trailers housing
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cious gold-mining company, and
the equally modest homes of the
indigenous people who once
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called the land theirs. It is not a
story of justice, but of a kind of
standoff between good and evil.
Initially, there seems precious
little of the former.
That’s especially true as mani-
fested by the town’s one police-
man, Josh (“Chronicle’s” Alex
Russell), a young man who can be
bought with something as simple
as an apple pie, proffered by the
“In Between” follows the lives
of three Palestinians sharing an
apartment: Laila (Mouna Hawa),
a successful lawyer who loves to
party; Salma (Sana Jammelieh), a
music instructor and DJ whose
Christian family doesn’t know
she’s a lesbian; and Nur (Shaden
Kanboura), a devout Muslim col-
lege student studying computer
science.
Tensions flare when Nur, who
wears a hijab, moves in with the
more secular, liberal Laila and
Salma. But the three roommates
eventually bond in opposition to
Nur’s abusive fiance (Henry An-
drawes). As Nur, Kanboura deliv-
ers a performance that is the most
varied and effective of the movie’s
three stars, growing from the shy
newcomer to become the story’s
moral center and heart.
The debut feature from
Hamoud, “In Between” has been
playing the festival circuit since
2016, but it is only now being
released in the United States, per-
haps to capitalize on the #MeToo
Alex Russell, left, and Aaron Pedersen. “Goldstone” was up for Australia’s top award for movies.
town’s mayor, a woman with the
smile of a grandmother and the
warmth of a snake (played by the
great Jacki Weaver of “Silver Lin-
ings Playbook”). As the film
opens, Josh has just detained a
drunken traveler named Jay (Aar-
on Pedersen), who turns out to be
a detective investigating the dis-
appearance, six months ago, of a
young Chinese woman fleeing
From left, Sana Jammelieh, Shaden Kanboura and Mouna Hawa play Palestinian roommates sharing
an apartment in the Palestinian community of Tel Aviv.
moment. Although “In Between”
depicts a nation in crisis, it’s a
crisis that’s viewed through the
intimate lens of family dinners,
where generations struggle over
from the brothel where she and
others like her appear to have
been brought against their will.
The fact that Jay is both Ab-
original and a cop puts him in bad
stead, not only with Goldstone’s
racists, but with the Aboriginal
residents, who don’t take kindly
to officials of any color. At the
heart of the story is the relation-
ship between Josh, who is white,
conflicting values. As Laila, Salma
and Nur navigate these uncharted
waters, it is friendship, Hamoud
suggests, that will guide them.
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and Jay, which evolves, in the
course of the film’s slow burn,
from mistrust to grudging re-
spect.
Released in Australia in 2016,
the film was nominated for sev-
eral prizes, including best pic-
ture, by Australia’s Academy of
Cinema and Television Arts. Sty-
listically, it feels like a cousin of
the socially conscious contempo-
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Unrated. At the Avalon. Contains
strong language and rape. In
Hebrew and Arabic with subtitles.
103 minutes.
rary Westerns of writer-turned-
director Taylor Sheridan, whose
screenplay for “Hell or High Wa-
ter” deals with a similar relation-
ship between a white cop (Jeff
Bridges) and his Native American
partner (Gil Birmingham), and
whose directorial debut, “Wind
River,” centers on the investiga-
tion of a murder on an Indian
reservation.
Sen spins this mesmerizing
yarn unhurriedly, even up to the
point where its many tangled
threads — sex trafficking, cultural
oppression and the all-too-com-
mon complicity of the oppressed
— threaten to break apart in an
explosion of violence. “Gold-
stone” is punctuated by striking
aerial photography, underscoring
a sense of the tale’s place in the
larger cultural context. Ultimate-
ly, though set in the remote Aus-
tralian bush, “Goldstone” is
grounded in the vivid familiarity
of the here and now.
michael.osullivan@washpost.com
R. At Landmark’s West End
Cinema. Contains violence, strong
language and mature thematic
material. 110 minutes.

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Believe the hype: Chadwick
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to watch, and deeply important.
(PG-13, 140 minutes, contains
prolonged sequences of action
violence and a brief rude gesture.)




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Timothée Chalamet and Armie
Hammer give sensitive, self-
assured performances during a
torrid Italian summer. (R, 132
minutes, contains sexuality, nudity
and some coarse language.)



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Set in Mexico during the Day of the
Dead, the animated movie honors
a culture that’s often overlooked.
(PG, 103 minutes, contains
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Proving why he’s one of our
greatest screen actors, Gary
Oldman plays the British leader,
facing the decision of his life. (PG-
13, 125 minutes, contains some
mature thematic material.)
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Bruce Willis plays a “Punisher”-
style vigilante in this remake of the
1974 pulp classic starring Charles
Bronson as a man driven to
vengeance by the murder of his
wife. (R, 107 minutes, contains
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The Chilean actress and trained
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grieving lover in an unconventional
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amusing and sobering flights of
absurdism, whether in the form
of an impromptu pas de deux
with a machine gun, the sight of a
camel making its languorous way
under a bobbing guardrail or the
faded painting on the side of the
abandoned ice cream truck that
serves as the soldiers’ home base,
its decaying mural of a smiling
blond woman a frayed index of
compromised values on a much
larger scale. (Members of the Is-
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Based on a 1936 classic children’s
book, the film fattens up a Spanish
bull’s world but keeps him sweet.
(PG, 106 minutes, contains rude
humor, action and some thematic
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Rachel McAdams stars in this
raeli government have criticized
“Foxtrot” for its unfavorable de-
piction of the Israeli military and
its treatment of Arab citizens.)
This is a part of the world, Maoz
tells us, where a fleeting moment
of exquisite connection can, with
the wrong timing, give way to
similarly brief but far more sense-
less carnage.
There’s lots of fainting in “Fox-
trot,” which is appropriate for a
film in which twists and turns
abound — some welcome, some
tragic. Graced by superb perform-
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Don’t look for historical accuracy —
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Hugh Jackman. (PG, 105 minutes,
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David Oyelowo plays a mild-
mannered businessman whose trip
ances, especially from Ashkenazi
and Adler, this gentle but devas-
tating portrait bursts with integ-
rity and tough honesty, even in its
most lighthearted moments. Al-
though Maoz seems to be too
sensitive an artist to have suc-
cumbed to the fatalism he ob-
serves so thoughtfully, he still
makes a convincing case, if not for
hopelessness, at least for healthy
pessimism. As Jonathan and his
brothers in arms bivouac in an
abandoned shipping container,
their isolation and torpor increas-
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Treasury Department facility during
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from action-movie impresario Rob
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“XXX”). (R, 100 minutes, contains
strong language throughout,
violence and sexuality.)
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ingly giving way to paranoia, they
play a game of rolling a can down
its precariously slanted floor. It’s
not a stretch to guess what the
filmmaker means when one of his
characters notes that sooner or
later, “We’ll end up sinking com-
pletely.”
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sexual material including graphic
images, and brief drug use. In
Hebrew, Arabic and German with
subtitles. 113 minutes.
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Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor)
should be next in line, but
Stalin’s brutal enforcer Laven-
tri Beria (Simon Russell Beale)
has already begun his savage
plotting for power. Beale, who’s
known as a great Shakespear-
ean stage actor, plays Beria like
Iago, jumping from one betray-
al to another. In a more tradi-
tionally constructed comedy,
he’d play the straight man, act-
ing as a foil to the comic antics
of Buscemi, Palin and Tambor.
But while Iannucci whips up a
fever-pitch frenzy, his film,
based on a 2017 graphic novel,
is not a farce, but a tragicome-
dy. The dark elements are too
corrosive to be tempered by
laughter.
When Stalin’s deranged son
pulls out a gun in a crowd of
mourners surrounding his fa-
ther’s coffin, there’s a palpable
fear that he might actually kill
someone. This dampens the
humor in a series of one-liners
(penned by Iannucci, with co-
screenwriters David Schnei-
der and Ian Martin).
Throughout the film, comic
moments are derailed by jar-
ringly violent outbursts (or
the threat of them).
Remembering the uproari-
ous laughter of Iannucci’s “In
the Loop” (2009) and the TV
series “Veep” can create a
longing for more humor than
Iannucci is willing to dole out
here. But the filmmaker
doesn’t seem to mind if he
steps on the joke. He has a
serious point to make about
the dangers of surrendering
truth in the face of power.
When power is based on
whim and blind loyalty, that
creates an untenable atmos-
phere, the film argues, placing
ideology on shaky moral foot-
ing. One minute, Beria is glee-
fully passing out death lists,
with sadistic instructions,
and the next minute he’s re-
tracting them as the political
landscape shifts.
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It’s not surprising that the
film was banned in Russia,
where Vladimir Putin appears
to be following in the footsteps
of the dictator who is being
lampooned here, suppressing
speech and allegedly eliminat-
ing his critics. But Iannucci has
other Western targets in his
sights as well. By implication,
“The Death of Stalin” is about
all power-hungry leaders with
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shifting ideology and demands
of absolute loyalty.
Anyone else sound famil-
iar?
MARCH 16, 2018
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R. At Landmark’s E Street and
Bethesda Row cinemas.
Contains crude language
throughout, violence and some
sexual references. 97 minutes.
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Expect frequent mild action —
ray guns, lightning, characters
(including small children) frozen
in place as hostages and held
captive. (Spoiler alert: The
villain is vanquished when he’s
pelted with muck.) Another
sixth-grader bullies the hero and
his friend, mashing a large bug
into his victim’s hair and face.
Words like “booger” and “fart”
are used to get laughs. Some sad
moments relate to Rod’s father
MARCH 16, 2018
disappearing three years earlier
in a turbulent storm. But overall,
it should be okay for kids who
are comfortable with real vs.
pretend violence. (89 minutes)
On DVD.
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Age 13+
Affecting, lovable rom-com about
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homophobic teens tease and
prank Simon and another gay
student, calling them “f-g,”
“fruity” and “she.” And in the
school cafeteria, they climb on a
table and mime anal sex.
Administrators and fellow
students alike condemn the
display and support Simon and
the other student, ultimately
cheering when two gay students
kiss (there’s other kissing, too).
Teens drink beer and play
drinking games at a party; one
comes home drunk, and his
parents decide not to do
anything because he didn’t drive
drunk and came home by curfew.
One joke refers to huffing paint,
others to masturbation, sex acts
and Grindr. But overall, sex is
referred to in not-very-graphic
terms. A boy blackmails Simon
to get time with Simon’s cute
female friend, and Simon goes
along with it. He later atones,
but the friend rightfully feels
exploited. Language includes
“dumba--,” “s---,” “g--D---” and “a-
-hole.” All of this said, the movie
is positive and affirming, with
messages of courage, integrity
and empathy. Characters are
accepting of all of their friends’/
family members’ traits,
including being gay, and are
loving and supportive. (109
minutes)
Tomb Raider (PG-13)
Age 14+
Noisy, violent reboot feels like a
wasted opportunity.
“Tomb Raider” is a reboot of
the video-game-based Lara Croft
action series, which also inspired
two previous movies. The
violence is largely bloodless but
very intense, with lots of guns
and shooting, arrows, fighting,
beating, bludgeoning, stabbings,
crashes and explosions. Lara
Croft (Alicia Vikander) takes a
lot of physical punishment, often
crying out in pain or terror. She
also kills people with no
repercussion or remorse. Lara
wears a tight tank top
throughout (paralleling the
games), but otherwise, sex isn’t
an issue. Language includes a
few uses of “s---” and a couple of
cutoff uses of “f---.” A secondary
character is said to be drunk and
later nurses a hangover. The
movie is very noisy and, alas, not
much fun, although it does stress
the value of sacrifice and
perseverance. But die-hard Croft
fans — and/or viewers hungry
for female-driven action movies
— will probably give it a chance.
(115 minutes)
Ladies First (TV-G)
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Inspiring but cautionary
documentary about a female
archer from India.
“Ladies First” is a short
documentary about Deepika
Kumari, a young woman who
overcame extreme poverty to
become the top-ranked female
archer in the world — and India’s
best hope for Olympic gold. She’s
a great role model for
overcoming gender stereotypes
and negative messages and
becoming an accomplished
athlete on the world stage.
Positive messages focus on
working hard to achieve your
goals and finding a way to go on
after defeat and disappointment.
Cautionary themes, on the other
hand, include the lack of support
that female athletes in India
receive and whether, as a
country, it can achieve all that it
might without devoting some
resources to supporting young
women’s efforts. Cultural
insights into Kumari’s
background, ingrained social
sexism and India’s women’s
archery program provide
educational value. Although
there’s no content of concern for
little ones, Kumari’s story may
not hold younger kids’ attention.
The only violence is a man who
smilingly admits that he used to
beat his sister for working
outside the home. In English and
Hindi with dubbing. (39
minutes)
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5612 Connecticut Avenue
Aircraft Carrier: Guardians
of the Seas 3D (NR) 11:00-
7 Days In Entebbe (PG-13)
(!) 11:20-2:10-4:40-7:40-
A Wrinkle in Time (PG)
11:40-1:05-2:15-4:45-
The Hurricane Heist (PG-13)
CC: 12:20
I Can Only Imagine (PG)
12:20-3:10-6:00-9:00
Death Wish (R) 2:45-8:15-
10:55
Death Wish (R) 12:45-3:30-
6:00-8:30-11:10
The Hurricane Heist (PG-13)
(!) 2:15-8:45
AMC Loews A Fantastic Woman (Una 1:15-3:30 10:30 7:15-9:15 I Can Only Imagine (PG) CC: Love, Simon (PG-13) 11:00- Gringo (R) 12:00-5:25 Gringo (R) 9:45 Death Wish (R) (!) 11:45-
Georgetown 14 mujer fantastica) (R) 1:30- Dream Big: Engineering Our The Hurricane Heist (PG-13) Tomb Raider (PG-13) 10:30- 1:25-4:00-6:35-9:10 1:40-4:25-7:15-10:05 I Can Only Imagine (PG) Annihilation (R) 9:30 2:45-5:45-9:00
3111 K Street N.W. 4:30-7:30 World: An IMAX 3D Experi- CC: 12:50 8:15-9:45-11:05 Love, Simon (PG-13) CC: 7 Days In Entebbe (PG-13) 10:30-1:30-4:20-7:15-10:00 I Can Only Imagine (PG) Love, Simon (PG-13) (!)
Black Panther (PG-13) CC: In Between (Bar Ba- ence Please Call Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) CC: Bow Tie Annapolis Mall 11 12:50-4:15-6:55-9:40 11:10-1:45-4:25-7:05-9:50 Love, Simon (PG-13) 11:00- 12:15-3:30-6:45-9:45 12:00-3:30-6:45-10:00
10:45-2:00-5:00-8:00-10:40 har)12:30-3:00-5:30-8:00 Journey to Space 3D (NR) (!) 11:50AM Kirrak Party (Telugu) (NR) The Hurricane Heist (PG-13) 2:10-4:10-7:15-10:15 Love, Simon (PG-13) 11:15-
Black Panther in Disney Landmark
10:25-11:50-2:05 Tomb Raider: The IMAX 2D
1020 Westfield Annapolis Mall
The Strangers: Prey at Night CC: 1:00-4:00-7:00-10:00
6:20-11:35 Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) 2:00-4:45-7:45-10:45 VIRGINIA
Digital 3D (PG-13) CC: Experience (PG-13) CC: (!) Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) 1:45-9:45 The Hurricane Heist (PG-13)
4:00-9:40
Atlantic Plumbing Cinema
807 V Street, NW MARYLAND 1:20-7:10
(R) 10:20-12:35-2:50-5:05-
7:45-10:10
Landmark
Bethesda Row Cinema 11:05-2:00 Tomb Raider (PG-13) 6:45 7:15
AMC Courthouse Plaza 8
2150 Clarendon Blvd.
Red Sparrow (R) CC: 1:00- Black Panther (PG-13) 7235 Woodmont Avenue Tomb Raider: The IMAX 2D 7 Days In Entebbe (PG-13)
4:15-7:30-10:00 Red Sparrow (R) CC: 1:00- AFI Silver Theatre
1:55-7:45
Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) Experience (PG-13) 12:55-
Regal Rockville Center
11:30-2:15-5:15-8:00-10:45 Black Panther (PG-13) CC:
4:00-7:00-10:00 Cultural Center 12:00-6:15 The Shape of Water (R) CC: 4:00-7:00-10:00
Stadium 13 1:30-4:30-7:30-10:30
Game Night (R) CC: 8633 Colesville Road The Greatest Showman (PG) Peter Rabbit (PG) 10:00- 1:30-4:20-7:20-10:00 199 East Montgomery Ave Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13)
12:15-7:10 Annihilation (R) CC: 11:45- CC: 10:05-3:30-6:15 5:30-11:00 Black Panther in Disney
12:10-2:25-4:40-6:55 The Leisure Seeker (R) CC: Regal Germantown Digital 3D (PG-13) CC:
Tomb Raider (PG-13) CC: 2:20-4:55-7:25-9:50 The Shape of Water (R) The Strangers: Prey at
2:00-7:05-9:30 Jumanji: Welcome to the Thoroughbreds (R) 9:10- 1:20-4:00-7:10-9:45 Stadium 14 Night (R) 11:15-1:30-4:15- Tomb Raider: The IMAX 2D 6:30-9:30
11:30-2:10 Black Panther (PG-13) CC: Jungle (PG-13) 1:05 20000 Century Boulevard Experience (PG-13) 11:00-
10:50 6:45-9:15 Peter Rabbit (PG) CC:
The Shape of Water (R) CC: 11:00-11:15-1:50-2:10-4:40- Darkest Hour (PG-13) Three Billboards Outside
Tomb Raider (PG-13) (!) Ebbing, Missouri (R) CC: The Strangers: Prey at Night 1:45-4:30-7:15-10:00 12:45-5:00
1:10-4:10-7:15-10:15 5:00-7:30-7:45-10:20-10:30 1:50-6:45 Tomb Raider (PG-13) Black Panther (PG-13)
11:10-5:00-10:50 3:00-9:15 1:00-3:20-7:45 (R) 10:45-1:00-3:30-6:00- 11:00-11:30-2:15-2:45-5:30- Red Sparrow (R) CC: 1:45-
A Wrinkle in Time (PG) CC: Tomb Raider (PG-13) CC: Three Billboards Outside UA Snowden Square
11:25-2:00-4:35-7:10-9:45 Ebbing, Missouri (R) Tomb Raider: The IMAX Black Panther (PG-13) Lady Bird (R) CC: 5:40- 8:30-11:00 6:00-8:45-9:15 Stadium 14 4:45-7:15-10:10
10:00-11:00-12:45-1:45- 2D Experience (PG-13) (!) 10:05-11:00-1:05-2:00- 10:05 Black Panther (PG-13) 9161 Commerce Center Dr Game Night (R) CC: 2:15-
4:30-6:15-7:20-9:00 A Wrinkle in Time (PG) CC: 11:30-4:20 Black Panther in Disney
10:30-4:10-10:10 3:15-4:05-5:00-7:05-8:00- The Party (R) CC: 1:50-7:50 11:00-12:30-2:15-3:45-5:30- Digital 3D (PG-13) 1:45- The Strangers: Prey at Night 5:40-7:50-10:30
Call Me by Your Name (R) 11:30-1:55-4:20-6:50-9:30 Phantom Thread (R)
Gringo (R) 9:00 9:00-10:05 7:00-8:45-10:15 5:00-8:15 (R) 10:30-12:45-3:20-5:45- A Wrinkle in Time (PG) CC:
CC: 1:40 4:30-9:15 Foxtrot (R) 1:30-4:10-
Landmark E Street Cinema
L'orage africain: un conti- Annihilation (R) 9:35 A Wrinkle in Time (PG) 7:00-9:50 Jumanji: Welcome to the Peter Rabbit (PG) 11:45- 8:20-10:45 3:00-7:00-10:30
A Wrinkle in Time in Disney 555 11th Street NW
nent sous influence 5:15 AMC Loews 10:10-11:10-12:55-1:55- 7 Days In Entebbe (PG-13) Jungle (PG-13) 12:15- 2:00-4:30-7:00 Black Panther (PG-13) A Wrinkle in Time in
Digital 3D (PG) CC: 11:15 Leaning Into The Wind Rio Cinemas 18 3:45-4:45-6:30-7:30-9:20- CC: 1:40-4:30-7:30-10:00 3:30-6:30 Red Sparrow (R) 11:45- 10:30-11:45-1:45-3:15-4:45- Disney Digital 3D (PG) CC:
The Post (PG-13) CC: I Will Not Bear Tomorrow (I
(PG) CC: 1:10-3:20-5:30- Won't Bear No More) 7:15 9811 Washingtonian Ctr. 10:20 Darkest Hour (PG-13) CC: Peter Rabbit (PG) 11:00- 3:00-6:15-9:30 6:30-7:50-9:40-10:50 1:30-4:15
2:50-8:00 7:40-9:50 Death Wish (R) 11:40-2:40- 3:50-9:40 1:30-4:15-6:45 Tomb Raider (PG-13) 11:00- Death Wish (R) CC: 1:30-
Thoroughbreds (R) CC: Her Broken Shadow 9:45 Red Sparrow (R) CC: 12:30- Black Panther in Disney
7 Days In Entebbe (PG-13) 5:20-7:55-10:30 The Death of Stalin (R) CC: Red Sparrow (R) 11:30- 1:15-2:00-4:15-5:00-7:15- Digital 3D (PG-13) 10:00- 4:00-8:00-9:30
5:40-10:45 3:40-6:50-10:00 3:00-6:30-10:00
CC: 1:30-4:30-7:30-10:00 AMC Academy 8 Love, Simon (PG-13) 1:10-2:00-3:30-4:40-6:30- 8:00-10:15 1:00-4:10-7:10-10:10 Love, Simon (PG-13) CC:
Annihilation (R) CC: 10:50- Three Billboards Outside 6198 Greenbelt Road A Wrinkle in Time (PG) CC:
11:15-12:25-1:50-4:35-6:20- 7:40-9:10-10:05 Tomb Raider (PG-13) Game Night (R) 1:45-4:45- Peter Rabbit (PG) 10:20- 1:15-4:15-7:10-10:15
4:45-7:35-10:20 Ebbing, Missouri (R) CC: The Strangers: Prey at Night (!) 11:00AM 7:20-9:55 10:45-12:15-3:15-4:45-6:15- 7:30-10:15 12:50-3:30-6:20 7 Days In Entebbe (PG-13)
Gringo (R) CC: 10:45 1:00-6:30 (R) CC: 10:45-2:15-4:30- I Can Only Imagine (PG) CC: Old Greenbelt Theatre 7:45-9:15
(!) 11:20-2:10-4:50-7:30- Tomb Raider (PG-13) 10:15- A Wrinkle in Time (PG) Red Sparrow (R) 11:30- CC: 1:00-4:00-7:00-9:45
I Can Only Imagine (PG) CC: The Death of Stalin (R) CC: 6:45-10:30 1:00-4:00-7:15-10:15 129 Centerway Game Night (R) 11:45-2:30- 11:00-1:30-3:45-4:30-7:15- 2:45-6:10-9:20
Black Panther (PG-13) CC: 10:10 5:15-8:00-10:45 AMC Hoffman Center 22
12:00-2:40-5:20-8:00-10:45 11:30-12:30-2:00-3:00-4:30- Black Panther (PG-13) 2:00- 9:30-10:00 Tomb Raider (PG-13) 10:40-
10:40-11:45-1:40-2:45-4:40- Love, Simon (PG-13) CC: (!)
Bow Tie Harbour 9 206 Swamp Fox Rd.
Love, Simon (PG-13) CC: 5:30-7:00-8:00-9:30-10:30 5:00-8:00 A Wrinkle in Time (PG) A Wrinkle in Time in Disney 11:15-1:30-2:15-5:15-7:30- The Strangers: Prey at Night
11:10-1:50-4:30-7:10-9:50 2474 Solomons Island Road
11:15-2:00-4:45-7:30-10:15 I, Tonya (R) CC: 4:00-9:45 5:45-7:45-8:45-10:45
Fifty Shades Freed (R) 2:10- Regal Bowie Stadium 14 10:45-1:30-2:45-4:15-7:00- Digital 3D (PG) 1:00-6:30 8:10-11:00 (R) CC: 12:40-2:50-5:10-
7 Days In Entebbe (PG-13) Phantom Thread (R) CC: Peter Rabbit (PG) CC: 10:45- AMC Loews 9:45-11:00 Death Wish (R) 11:15AM Game Night (R) 12:30-3:00- 7:30-9:50
CC: 11:30-2:20-5:10-7:50- 3:30-9:15 1:00-3:30-6:00-8:25 St. Charles Town Ctr. 9 4:40-9:50 15200 Major Lansdale Blvd
A Wrinkle in Time in Disney
The Post (PG-13) 11:00- The Strangers: Prey at Gringo (R) 11:15AM 5:30-8:00-10:40 Black Panther (PG-13) CC:
11:15 Call Me by Your Name (R) Red Sparrow (R) CC: 10:56- 11115 Mall Circle Digital 3D (PG) 12:00- Love, Simon (PG-13) 11:30- A Wrinkle in Time (PG)
1:00-4:00-7:15-9:00 4:30-7:30 Night (R) 12:25-2:50-5:30- 5:30-8:15 11:30-2:00-2:45-3:30-5:15-
Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) CC: 1:00-6:45 The Strangers: Prey at Night
I Can Only Imagine (PG) 7:55-10:25 2:30-5:15-8:00-10:45 10:10-12:00-1:15-3:00-6:00- 6:00-8:30-9:15-10:15
CC: 5:10 The Shape of Water (R) CC: Tomb Raider (PG-13) CC: (!) (R) CC: 10:00-2:30-4:45- Death Wish (R) 11:15-2:00- 7 Days In Entebbe (PG-13) 7:00-8:50
Tomb Raider: The IMAX 2D 1:15-4:15-7:15-9:55 11:15-7:30-10:15 7:15-9:30 10:40-1:20-4:20-7:20-10:00 Black Panther (PG-13) 4:45-7:30-10:30 Black Panther in Disney
The Greatest Showman (PG) 12:05-1:10-2:10-3:00-3:10- Gringo (R) 9:15 11:30-2:15-4:45-7:45-10:30 A Wrinkle in Time in Disney Digital 3D (PG-13) CC:
Experience (PG-13) CC: 9:55 A Wrinkle in Time (PG) CC: Black Panther (PG-13) CC: 4:20-5:20-6:20-7:40-8:40- Love, Simon (PG-13) 11:00- Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) 11:00 Digital 3D (PG) 4:00-9:50 12:15-7:00
Landmark
10:45-4:15-9:30 11:30-7:15
Black Panther (PG-13) West End Cinema 11:45-3:00-6:15-9:30 9:40-10:45 Operation Red Sea 9:45 Death Wish (R) 10:50-1:20- The Greatest Showman (PG)
12:00-6:00 Jumanji: Welcome to the 1:45-4:30-7:15-10:00
2301 M Street NW A Wrinkle in Time in Black Panther in Disney Jungle (PG-13) 10:10 Jumanji: Welcome to the Regal Waugh Chapel
3:50-6:45-9:30 CC: 1:20-3:50-6:25-9:05
Black Panther in Disney Disney Digital 3D (PG) CC: Digital 3D (PG-13) CC: 9:45- Jungle (PG-13) 12:50-4:00 9:30
The Hurricane Heist (PG-13) Gringo (R) 10:00AM Fifty Shades Freed (R) CC:
Digital 3D (PG-13) 1:00 Goldstone (R) CC: 1:30- 1:30-7:00 3:45-7:00-10:15 The Shape of Water (R) Stadium 12 & IMAX
4:30-7:30-10:00 10:00-6:30 Peter Rabbit (PG) 1:00-3:50- Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) 1419 South Main Chapel Way I Can Only Imagine (PG) 5:40-10:30
Tomb Raider (PG-13) Death Wish (R) CC: 11:00- Peter Rabbit (PG) CC: 11:15- 6:30-9:10 10:15-1:15-4:15-7:15-10:00 Jumanji: Welcome to the
3:10-9:15 A Fantastic Woman (Una 1:35-4:15-6:55-9:45 2:00-4:45-7:30
Call Me by Your Name 1:45-10:45 The Strangers: Prey at Night Love, Simon (PG-13) 11:00- Jungle (PG-13) CC: 6:20
(R) 1:40 Red Sparrow (R) 12:30-
A Wrinkle in Time in Disney mujer fantastica) (R) 1:15- Gringo (R) CC: 10:45 Jumanji: Welcome to the 3:40-6:50-10:00
Kirrak Party (Telugu) (NR) (R) 10:55-1:10-3:25-5:50- 2:00-5:00-7:40-10:20 Peter Rabbit (PG) CC: 11:20-
Digital 3D (PG) 3:30 4:15-7:15-9:45 Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) CC: Jungle (PG-13) CC: 1:00 Three Billboards Outside 11:45-3:15-6:45-10:15 8:15-10:50
Darkest Hour (PG-13) CC: Ebbing, Missouri (R) 12:50- Tomb Raider (PG-13) 12:10- The Hurricane Heist (PG-13) 1:55-4:20-7:00
Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) (!) 2:00-4:45 Game Night (R) CC: 10:00 Regal Hyattsville Royale Black Panther (PG-13) 9:00
1:45-9:15 3:30-9:30 1:30-4:30-6:00-7:30-10:30 11:20-12:40-1:40-3:50-4:50- Red Sparrow (R) CC: 11:40-
10:15-8:15 Tomb Raider (PG-13) CC: (!) Gringo (R) 10:50-6:40 Game Night (R) 6:40-9:30
Stadium 14 Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) 2:45-6:15-9:30
Tomb Raider: The IMAX 2D Oh Lucy! 4:45-7:00
AMC Center Park 8 7:00-8:00-10:10-11:10
4001 Powder Mill Rd. 6:45-9:45 The Hurricane Heist (PG-13) A Wrinkle in Time (PG)
6505 America Blvd. 4:30-10:30 Game Night (R) CC: 12:50-
Experience (PG-13) 1:10- Black Panther in Disney
The Strangers: Prey at Night A Wrinkle in Time (PG) CC:
Medal of Honor Theater - The Strangers: Prey at 3:10-5:40-8:05-10:25
1:30-3:50-9:20 12:20-1:45-3:20-6:10- Digital 3D (PG-13) 6:00-9:20 Xscape Theatres
4:05-7:00 NMMC 10:30-1:15-4:00 Red Sparrow (R) 9:50- 7:45-9:20 Night (R) 1:30-3:45-6:15- The Shape of Water (R) CC:
(R) CC: 11:30-2:45-4:45- Jumanji: Welcome to the Brandywine 14
A Wrinkle in Time in Disney 8:30-10:45
18900 Jefferson Davis Highway
AMC Loews Uptown 1 8:15-10:20 A Wrinkle in Time in 12:55-4:00-7:10-10:15 Jungle (PG-13) 11:40-2:50 7710 Matapeake Business Dr 12:40-6:15
3426 Connecticut Ave N.W. We, the Marines (NR) Black Panther (PG-13) CC: Disney Digital 3D (PG) CC: Game Night (R) 10:10-12:40- Digital 3D (PG) 4:45-10:35 Black Panther (PG-13) Peter Rabbit (PG) 11:30- The Strangers: Prey at Night Tomb Raider (PG-13) CC:
10:00-11:00-12:00-1:00- (!) 11:40-1:45-5:00-7:15- 6:30-9:15 3:10-5:40-8:10-10:40 Death Wish (R) 1:15-4:15- 12:30-1:00-1:30-3:35-4:15- 2:05-4:35-7:05 11:00-3:00-9:00-9:30
Black Panther (PG-13) CC: 2:00-3:00-4:00 4:55-6:40-7:30-8:00-9:45- (R) CC: 11:00-1:40-4:20-
12:30-3:40-7:00-10:30 10:30 Death Wish (R) CC: 11:30- Annihilation (R) 10:30-1:10- 7:20-10:15 7:00-10:30 A Wrinkle in Time (PG) CC:
2:30-5:15-8:00-10:30 10:45-11:05 Tomb Raider (PG-13) 12:25-
AMC Mazza Gallerie
Regal Gallery Place Black Panther in Disney 4:10-7:00-9:40 Gringo (R) 7:00 3:20-9:10 Black Panther (PG-13) CC: 11:15-12:45-2:15-3:45-6:45-
Stadium 14 Digital 3D (PG-13) CC: 3:00- I Can Only Imagine (PG) CC: 7 Days In Entebbe (PG-13) Jumanji: Welcome to the
10:50-1:50-4:50-7:50-10:50 8:00-9:45
5300 Wisconsin Ave. NW
6:15-9:30 (!) 11:15-2:15-5:00-7:45- 11:40-2:20-5:00-7:40-10:30
I Can Only Imagine (PG) Jungle (PG-13) 12:45-3:35 Game Night (R) 10:50-
Black Panther (PG-13) CC:
701 Seventh Street NW 1:20-4:10-7:10-10:10 Peter Rabbit (PG) 1:35- 2:35-8:00 Peter Rabbit (PG) CC: 10:35- A Wrinkle in Time in
The Strangers: Prey at Night Red Sparrow (R) CC: 12:00- 10:30 Cinemark Egyptian The Hurricane Heist (PG-13) 4:00-6:30 A Wrinkle in Time (PG) 1:30-4:40-7:20 Disney Digital 3D (PG) CC:
1:50-3:30-5:00-6:30-8:00- (R) 11:30-1:45-4:00-6:15- 3:15-6:30-9:45 Love, Simon (PG-13) CC: (!) 9:50 5:00-10:45
9:30-10:00 24 and XD Red Sparrow (R) 1:15-4:30- 12:15-1:45-3:00-4:30-5:45- Red Sparrow (R) CC: (!)
9:00-11:15 Tomb Raider (PG-13) CC: (!) 9:30-12:15-3:15-6:00-9:00 7000 Arundel Mills Circle Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) 8:30-10:00-11:15 11:30-2:40-6:10-10:00 Thoroughbreds (R) CC:
Peter Rabbit (PG) CC: 12:10- 7:45-11:00
2:30-4:50-7:10
Black Panther (PG-13) 3:15-9:00 Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) CC:
Tomb Raider (PG-13) 3:00-9:00 Game Night (R) 2:00-4:45- A Wrinkle in Time in Disney Tomb Raider (PG-13) CC: (!) 3:15-8:10
12:35-2:50-3:45-5:45-7:00- A Wrinkle in Time (PG) CC: (!) 11:30-12:30-3:30 3:20-9:10 Regal Cinemas Majestic 7:15-10:00 Digital 3D (PG) 10:45-7:15 8:20-11:05 Three Billboards Outside
Red Sparrow (R) CC: 1:10- 8:40-10:05-11:35 (!) 11:30-1:30-7:00 Ebbing, Missouri (R) CC: 9:05
4:20-7:30-10:40
ArcLight Bethesda I Can Only Imagine (PG) Stadium 20 & IMAX Death Wish (R) 5:10-10:30 A Wrinkle in Time (PG) CC:
(!) 9:50-10:20-11:20-12:10- Death Wish (R) CC: 11:45-
Tomb Raider (PG-13)
Black Panther in Disney A Wrinkle in Time in Disney 7101 Democracy Boulevard 11:15-2:00-4:45-7:30-10:15 900 Ellsworth Drive 1:00-2:00-4:00-5:00-7:00- Gringo (R) 9:35
Tomb Raider (PG-13) CC: (!) Digital 3D (PG-13) 10:45- Digital 3D (PG) CC: (!) The Greatest Showman (PG) Love, Simon (PG-13) 10:55- The Strangers: Prey at Night 8:00-11:00 I Can Only Imagine (PG) 1:00-2:10-2:50-4:30-5:30- 2:20-4:55-7:40-10:20
12:30-5:05-10:35 1:50-4:55-8:15-11:20 4:15-9:40 6:50-7:30-9:10 Annihilation (R) CC: 1:30-
Game Night (R) CC: 12:00- Red Sparrow (R) 11:15- Death Wish (R) CC: 2:05-
10:50-1:45-4:35-6:30 1:40-4:30-7:20-10:15 (R) 11:05-1:20-3:35-5:50- A Wrinkle in Time (PG) 1:45- 11:10-1:50-4:40-7:30-10:20 4:10-6:50-9:30
Peter Rabbit (PG) 10:00- Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) 8:10-10:40 3:15-4:45-6:00-7:30-10:15 Love, Simon (PG-13) 11:00- Game Night (R) CC:
10:20 2:20-5:25-8:30-11:35 4:35-7:20-10:00 3:20-9:00 Gringo (R) CC: 3:40-9:10
11:55-2:50-5:30-7:00 12:25-6:15 Death Wish (R) 1:15-3:55- 1:45-4:30-7:15-10:05
A Wrinkle in Time (PG) CC: Death Wish (R) CC: (!) 9:40- I Can Only Imagine (PG) CC:
Jumanji: Welcome to the Gringo (R) CC: (!) 12:15 Black Panther (PG-13)
(!) 1:30-4:10-7:00-11:00 Game Night (R) 11:30-2:05- Tomb Raider (PG-13) 12:00-12:55-2:10-3:15-4:15- 6:45-9:30 Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) 11:00-12:30-1:40-3:30-4:20-
Jungle (PG-13) 11:55AM Love, Simon (PG-13) CC: (!) 5:55-8:05-10:30 3:20-9:10 5:15-6:30-7:30-8:30-9:45- A Wrinkle in Time in Disney 6:15 12:50-3:40-6:40-9:40
Love, Simon (PG-13) CC: 11:45-2:30-5:10-7:50-10:30 The Shape of Water (R) 7:10-9:00-10:00
Tomb Raider (PG-13) Gringo (R) CC: 11:00
MARCH 16, 2018

2:20-5:00-7:40-9:35
Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) CC:
(!) 2:20-7:50
Albert Einstein Planetarium -
National Air & Space Museum
6th Street & Independence Ave SW
To Space and Back 11:00AM
Dark Universe Space Show
(NR) 11:30-12:30-1:30-2:30-
. FRIDAY,
12:50-2:00-3:40-6:30-8:00-
9:20-11:00
Game Night (R) 12:15-2:40-
5:05-7:30-9:55
A Wrinkle in Time (PG)
10:50-1:30-3:25-4:05-6:40-
8:35-9:15
A Wrinkle in Time in Disney
Digital 3D (PG) 12:30-6:00-
Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) 10:45-11:35 Digital 3D (PG) 12:30-8:45 Tomb Raider: The IMAX 2D Love, Simon (PG-13) CC:
Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) CC: 1:40-3:45-6:20 12:25-6:15 Gringo (R) 9:00 Experience (PG-13) 11:00- I Can Only Imagine (PG) CC: 11:30-1:00-2:15-5:15-8:00-
(!) 12:30-6:00
Black Panther in Disney
(!) 10:00-12:40-3:10-5:40- 10:40
A Wrinkle in Time (PG) Hoyt's West Nursery Digital 3D (PG-13) 7:55- Love, Simon (PG-13) 1:45- 1:55-4:50-7:45-10:40
AMC Columbia 14 10:10-5:35-8:00-10:15 11:15 4:30-7:15-10:15 8:10-9:20 7 Days In Entebbe (PG-13)
Cinema 14 Regal Westview
10300 Little Patuxent Pkwy Thoroughbreds (R) 10:05- 1591 West Nursery Road Jumanji: Welcome to the The Hurricane Heist (PG-13) Stadium 16 & IMAX The Hurricane Heist (PG-13) CC: 11:35-2:10-4:45-7:20-
Jungle (PG-13) 12:25-3:25 6:45-9:45 CC: 12:20-6:20
The Strangers: Prey at Night 4:00-9:20 The Strangers: Prey at Night 5243 Buckeystown Pike 10:05
(R) CC: 2:40-5:05-7:25-9:40 Death Wish (R) 11:35-9:10 Peter Rabbit (PG) 11:20- Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) 10:00 The Strangers: Prey at Love, Simon (PG-13) CC: (!) The Hurricane Heist (PG-13)
(R) CC: 12:00-2:50-5:05- 11:50-2:30-5:10-8:00-10:40 CC: 1:10-3:50-6:30
Black Panther (PG-13) CC: Gringo (R) 3:30-10:45 7:35-9:50 11:45-2:30-4:55-7:35 Regal Night (R) 11:30-2:30-5:30-
9:50-11:00-12:55-4:00-4:50- Annihilation (R) 12:10-4:30- Red Sparrow (R) 11:00- Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) CC:
Black Panther (PG-13) CC: Laurel Towne Centre 12 8:15-10:50
7:00-10:00-10:40 7:10-9:40 12:40-4:20-7:45-11:05 CC: (!) 2:20 12:00-6:00
12:00-1:00-3:10-4:10-6:20-

11:10 14716 Baltimore Avenue Black Panther (PG-13)

3:30-4:30
Journey to the Stars (NR)
12:00-1:00-2:00-3:00-
4:00-5:00
One World, One Sky: Big
Bird's Adventure (NR)
THE WASHINGTON POST
Thoroughbreds (R) 12:00-
2:30-5:15
Gringo (R) 7:30
I Can Only Imagine (PG)
11:20-1:55-4:30-7:05-9:40
Love, Simon (PG-13) 11:50- Tomb Raider (PG-13) 12:05- The Strangers: Prey at Black Panther (PG-13) CC: Tomb Raider: The IMAX 2D
Black Panther in Disney 7:20-9:30-10:20 11:45-12:30-1:15-3:00- 9:30-10:10-12:30-1:10-3:30- Experience (PG-13) CC:
Digital 3D (PG-13) CC: 6:25 12:30-2:20-3:15-4:50-5:50- 3:00-5:00-6:00-8:00-9:00- Night (R) 11:30-2:00-4:30- 3:45-4:30-6:15-7:00-7:45-
Jumanji: Welcome to the 4:10-6:30-7:10-9:30-10:10 1:15-4:15-7:15-10:15
Peter Rabbit (PG) CC: 10:35- 6:45-7:20-8:20-9:50-10:55 Jungle (PG-13) CC: 9:05 9:30-11:00 7:00-9:30 10:15-11:15
Tomb Raider (PG-13) CC: Black Panther (PG-13) 1:15-
1:10-3:50-6:30 Game Night (R) 11:15-4:05- Black Panther (PG-13)
7 Days In Entebbe (PG-13) Peter Rabbit (PG) CC: 12:00- The Greatest Showman (PG) (!) 11:40-3:50-5:00-7:40-
Red Sparrow (R) CC: 11:30- 11:10-2:45-5:10-7:35-10:00 2:15-4:30-6:45 6:45-9:05 11:15-12:30-2:30-4:00-5:40- 1:00-4:15 4:30-7:45-10:45
9:50-10:20

10:30AM
Angelika
Pop-Up at Union Market
550 Penn Street NE - Unit E
Oh Lucy! 11:30-1:30-3:30-
5:30-7:30-9:30
A Fantastic Woman (Una
mujer fantastica) (R)
2:50-7:00
Lady Bird (R) 11:05-1:00-
5:00-10:00
Red Sparrow (R) 11:00-
1:45-4:30-7:15-9:15
Love, Simon (PG-13) 11:20-
2:10-4:50-7:40-10:30
The Hurricane Heist (PG-13)
10:15
Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13)
11:00-5:00
Annihilation (R) 10:55-1:45-
4:30-7:15-10:00
Smithsonian - Lockheed
Martin IMAX Theater
601 Independence Avenue SW
D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D
(NR) 12:25-2:40
2:50-6:20-9:50 Black Panther (PG-13) Red Sparrow (R) CC: 12:30- The Shape of Water (R) 7:30-8:55-10:35 Peter Rabbit (PG) 11:15- AMC Potomac Mills 18
Tomb Raider (PG-13) CC: 10:25-11:15-12:15-1:15- 1:45-4:40-7:40 2:00-5:00-7:30
4:05-7:10-10:10 Peter Rabbit (PG) 10:25- iPic Pike & Rose 2700 Potomac Mills Circle
2:05-7:50 2:10-4:10-5:15-7:05-8:10- Game Night (R) CC: 2:45- A Wrinkle in Time (PG) 2:00-4:30 Red Sparrow (R) 12:45- 11830 Grand Park Avenue
The Strangers: Prey at Night
Game Night (R) CC: 10:35- 9:55-10:50 11:30-1:00-1:50-2:20-3:05- Red Sparrow (R) 11:45- 4:00-8:00-11:15
5:10-7:40-10:05 The Strangers: Prey at Night (R) CC: 11:10-1:30-3:50-
3:50-9:10 Red Sparrow (R) 11:25- Tomb Raider (PG-13) CC: 4:30-5:10-5:50-7:10-8:45- 3:00-6:30-10:00 Tomb Raider (PG-13) 12:00- (R) (!) 2:00-5:15-8:00-10:45 6:00-8:10-10:20
A Wrinkle in Time (PG) CC: 2:35-5:00-7:50-9:00 10:05
12:45-4:20-7:05-9:50 Tomb Raider (PG-13) 10:45- 2:45-8:15 Black Panther (PG-13) Black Panther (PG-13) CC:
10:15-11:15-1:00-3:45-4:45- Tomb Raider (PG-13) 11:45- The Shape of Water (R) CC: A Wrinkle in Time in Disney 12:45-3:45-4:45-7:45-10:45 Game Night (R) 12:30-3:15- 11:30-3:15-7:15-11:00 10:30-11:45-1:55-3:00-4:00-
6:30-9:15-10:15 2:25-5:05-7:45-10:20 3:30-6:30-9:20 Digital 3D (PG) 12:15-11:30 Game Night (R) 11:00- 5:45-8:30-11:00 Red Sparrow (R) 11:00-
5:00-6:15-8:15-9:30-10:10
A Wrinkle in Time in Disney The Hurricane Heist (PG-13) A Wrinkle in Time (PG) CC: Thoroughbreds (R) 10:15 7:00-9:45 A Wrinkle in Time (PG) 2:30-6:00-9:45 Black Panther in Disney
Digital 3D (PG) 2:00-7:30 CC: 10:20-1:55 12:15-1:15-2:15-3:50-4:50- Annihilation (R) 11:35-2:35- A Wrinkle in Time (PG) 11:00-12:15-1:45-3:45-6:30- A Wrinkle in Time (PG) (!) Digital 3D (PG-13) CC:
I Can Only Imagine (PG) CC: A Wrinkle in Time in Disney 6:25-7:25-9:00-10:00 5:20-8:15-11:10 10:30-1:15-3:15-5:00-8:00- 7:30-9:15 12:15-3:45-7:00-10:15 11:15-5:30-8:45
(!) 10:40-1:30-4:15-7:00-9:35 Digital 3D (PG) 12:35-3:05 Death Wish (R) CC: 12:10- Death Wish (R) 12:45-3:40- 9:15-10:50 A Wrinkle in Time in Disney Tomb Raider (PG-13) (!) Jumanji: Welcome to the
Love, Simon (PG-13) CC: (!) Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) 2:40-5:15-7:45-10:15 10:00 A Wrinkle in Time in Disney Digital 3D (PG) 4:45-10:15 12:30-4:00-7:30-11:15 Jungle (PG-13) CC: 10:15-
10:50-1:40-4:30-7:20-10:20 1:10-4:05 Gringo (R) CC: 12:40 Gringo (R) 10:50 Digital 3D (PG) 12:15-6:15 Thoroughbreds (R) 10:00 Gringo (R) (!) 11:15-5:30 3:30-6:20
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202-737-4215. nga.gov. FAMILY FUN MOVIE NIGHTS 202-633-1000. hirshhorn.si.edu/ 633-1000. hirshhorn.si.edu/ WILD STYLE Friday at 7 p.m. $25.
CITY OF THE SUN Saturday at 2 Through April 20. Free. Stacy C. exhibitions-events/. exhibitions-events/. The Kennedy Center, 2700 F St.
p.m. Free. National Gallery of Art, Sherwood Center, 3740 Old Lee I CAN ONLY IMAGINE Friday. REELABILITIES FILM FESTIVAL NW. 202-467-4600. kennedy-
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calendar/film-programs/winter18/ OF PIET OUDOLF Saturday at 4:30 landmarktheatres.com. Fairfax. FEMALE DIRECTORS FROM ASIA
city-of-sun.html. p.m. Through Wednesday. Free. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.'S SPECIAL EVENTS: WINTER 2018 Through March 23. Free. Freer
DIRECTED BY MICHAEL CURTIZ National Gallery of Art, East LEGACY ON SCREEN Through April Through March 25. Free. National Gallery of Art, 1050 Independence
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AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville 202-737-4215. nga.gov/calendar/ Colesville Rd., Silver Spring. 301- Constitution Ave. NW. 202-737- WPFS: UHF (1989) + BIZARRE
Rd., Silver Spring. 301-495-6700. film-programs/winter18/oudolf.html. 495-6700. afi.com/silver. 4215. nga.gov. MUSIC TELEVISION + WELCOME
afi.com/silver. FROM VAULT TO SCREEN: NEW AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL WAYNE & FORD Saturday. Through TO THE FUN ZONE Monday at 7
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Through March 25. Free-$35. March 31. Free. National Gallery of Theatre, 8633 Colesville Rd., Silver 8633 Colesville Rd., Silver Spring. 18th S. NW. 202-319-9353.
Various locations around Art, East Building, 440 Constitution Spring. 301-495-6700. afi.com/ 301-495-6700. afi.com/silver. smokeandbarreldc.com.
Washington. dceff.org. Ave. NW. 202-737-4215. nga.gov. silver. WES WORLD: THE FILMS OF WES
EVERYMAN AT THE PARKWAY: HUMAN FLOW Saturday at 2 p.m. RAT FILM Sunday at 2 p.m. Free. ANDERSON Monday. Through April

MOVIE DIRECTORY Friday, March 16, 2018

Peter Rabbit (PG) CC:
11:50-2:20-4:50-7:20
Red Sparrow (R) CC:
12:10-3:20-6:30-9:40
Game Night (R) CC: 12:05-
2:35-5:10-7:40-10:00
Tomb Raider (PG-13) CC:
1:00-7:10
Death Wish (R) CC: 11:15-
2:00-4:40-7:25-10:15
A Wrinkle in Time (PG) CC:
11:15-1:15-4:10-5:00-7:00-
9:45-10:45
Thoroughbreds (R) CC:
1:05-9:30
Annihilation (R) CC:
11:20-4:45
Gringo (R) CC: 10:05
I Can Only Imagine (PG)
CC: 11:30-2:15-5:00-7:45-
10:30
Love, Simon (PG-13) CC:
10:30-1:15-4:00-6:45-9:35
The Hurricane Heist (PG-
13) CC: 2:05-7:30
7 Days In Entebbe (PG-13)
CC: 10:30-1:10-3:40-6:20-
9:00
Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13)
CC: 2:30-9:45
Black Panther (PG-13)
1:10-7:15
Tomb Raider: The IMAX 2D
Experience (PG-13) CC:
12:00-3:00-6:00-9:00
Tomb Raider (PG-13)
10:15-4:15-10:30
A Wrinkle in Time in
Disney Digital 3D (PG)
2:10-8:00
AMC Tysons Corner 16
7850e Tysons Corner Ctr
The Strangers: Prey at
Night (R) CC: (!) 10:25-
Gringo (R) CC: (!) 9:40-
12:20
Annihilation (R) CC: 5:05-
10:40-12:50
Love, Simon (PG-13) CC:
(!) 10:40-1:30-4:30-7:15-
10:00-12:40
Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13)
CC: (!) 9:10-12:10
Tomb Raider: The IMAX 2D
Experience (PG-13) CC:
(!) 10:00-1:00-4:00-7:00-
9:55-12:45
Black Panther (PG-13)
2:00-8:10
Tomb Raider (PG-13) (!)
11:05-5:10-11:15
I Can Only Imagine (PG)
CC: (!) 10:50-1:35-4:15-
7:05-9:45-12:25
7 Days In Entebbe (PG-13)
CC: (!) 9:35-12:15-2:55-
5:30-8:05-10:45-11:55
AMC Worldgate 9
13025 Worldgate Drive
The Strangers: Prey at
Night (R) CC: (!) 12:40-
2:55-5:10-7:25-10:00
Black Panther (PG-13) CC:
12:00-3:10-6:15-9:30
Red Sparrow (R) CC:
12:30-3:30-6:05-9:05
Tomb Raider (PG-13) CC:
(!) 5:30-8:15
Game Night (R) CC: 1:05-
3:45-6:40-9:15
A Wrinkle in Time (PG) CC:
(!) 12:10-2:50-6:00-9:00
Death Wish (R) CC: 1:50-
4:25-7:00-10:00
I Can Only Imagine (PG)
CC: (!) 2:00-4:40-7:20-9:40
Love, Simon (PG-13) CC: (!)
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Angelika Cobb Village 12 Leesburg Rave Cinemas Black Panther (PG-13) Regal Regal Kingstowne 7 Days In Entebbe (PG-13) Death Wish (R) 11:30AM
Film Center Mosaic 1600 Village Market Boulevard Fairfax Corner 14 + Xtreme 12:40-3:50-7:05-10:10 Fairfax Towne Center 10 Stadium 16 & RPX 1:40-4:20-7:00-9:30 Gringo (R) 10:00
2911 District Ave The Strangers: Prey at 11900 Palace Way Fifty Shades Freed (R) 4110 West Ox Road 5910 Kingstowne Towne Ctr
The Hurricane Heist (PG- Love, Simon (PG-13) 11:10-
Foxtrot (R) (!) 10:15-12:45- Night (R) 11:25-1:30-3:40- The Strangers: Prey at 11:55-2:35-5:15-7:55-10:25 The Strangers: Prey at The Strangers: Prey at 13) 8:10 12:20-3:30-6:40-9:40
3:15-5:45-8:15-10:45 8:20-10:30 Night (R) 11:40-2:15-5:20- Jumanji: Welcome to Night (R) 12:30-2:55-5:15- Night (R) 12:35-3:05-5:30- Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13)
The Leisure Seeker (R) (!) Peter Rabbit (PG) 11:45- 8:15-10:45 the Jungle (PG-13) 1:35- 7:40-10:05 8:15-10:35 10:50 4:20-10:20
12:20-4:45 2:00-4:20-6:50 Black Panther (PG-13) 4:25-7:15 The Greatest Showman Black Panther (PG-13) Tomb Raider: The IMAX 2D Regal Virginia Gateway
The Shape of Water (R) I Can Only Imagine (PG) 10:45-2:00-3:05-5:10- Red Sparrow (R) 12:30- (PG) 12:10-2:50-5:30-8:10 12:10-1:20-3:10-4:20-6:15- Experience (PG-13) 1:00- Stadium 14 & RPX
11:45-7:15 11:30-2:10-4:45-5:45-9:30 8:30-9:35 3:35-6:50-9:55 Peter Rabbit (PG) 12:05- 7:30-9:30-10:30 3:50-6:45-9:40 8001 Gateway Promenade Place
Thoroughbreds (R) (!) The Hurricane Heist (PG- Black Panther in Disney Aithe 2.0 (NR) 12:15-3:05- 2:30 Peter Rabbit (PG) 1:30- Regal Potomac Yard
2:30-10:15 Digital 3D (PG-13) 11:50-6:205:50-8:45 3:50-6:30 The Strangers: Prey at
13) 10:35 Red Sparrow (R) 12:40- Stadium 16 Night (R) 11:05-1:20-3:50-
Annihilation (R) 3:00-5:40- Love, Simon (PG-13) 11:50- Jumanji: Welcome to the Darkest Hour (PG-13) 1:25- 3:55-7:20-10:30 Red Sparrow (R) 12:15- 3575 Potomac Avenue
4:15-7:20-10:20 3:30-6:40-9:45 7:50-10:00
8:20-10:55 2:25-5:10-7:40-10:15 Jungle (PG-13) 1:45-7:30 Game Night (R) 1:30-4:20- The Strangers: Prey at
Red Sparrow (R) 11:00- Red Sparrow (R) 12:35- Black Panther (PG-13)
Game Night (R) 2:45-5:05- Tomb Raider (PG-13) 7:10-10:00 Tomb Raider (PG-13) Night (R) 11:05-1:20-3:35- 10:15-11:00-1:15-2:00-4:15-
2:00-5:00-8:00-11:00 7:35-10:00 4:20-7:40-10:50 12:45-3:45-7:00 4:00-7:00 6:05-8:20-10:40
Game Night (R) 11:35-
The Shape of Water (R)
Game Night (R) 12:05-2:45- Black Panther (PG-13) 12:15- 5:00-7:15-8:00-10:15-11:00
Love, Simon (PG-13) (!) Red Sparrow (R) 12:00- Tomb Raider (PG-13) 4:55-7:50-10:45
11:55-2:40-5:20-7:55-10:25 11:35-5:15-10:55 4:55-10:15 5:15-7:45-10:20 The Greatest Showman
3:00-7:15-10:25 1:00-1:55-3:30-4:15-5:00- (PG) 10:45-1:25-3:55-6:50
Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) (!) Thoroughbreds (R) 11:55- Padmaavat (Padmavati) A Wrinkle in Time (PG)
The Shape of Water (R)
Tomb Raider (PG-13) 12:50-1:50-4:40-6:30-7:30- 6:45-7:30-8:30-10:00-10:45 Jumanji: Welcome to the
10:45-4:15 2:20-4:50-7:05-9:45 (Hindi) (NR) 11:30-2:50- 12:40-3:35-6:25-9:15
11:40-1:10-2:20-3:50-5:00- 6:20-9:50 10:20 Black Panther in Disney Jungle (PG-13) 11:30-
Black Panther (PG-13) 7:00-7:50-9:40-10:30 Death Wish (R) 11:05-1:50- A Wrinkle in Time in
Thoroughbreds (R) Digital 3D (PG-13) 11:30- 2:20-5:20
10:00-1:15-4:30-7:30-10:35 4:35-7:35-10:20 The Shape of Water (R) 1:50-4:45 2:45-6:00-9:15
Death Wish (R) 2:50-10:35 12:25-3:30-6:30-9:35 Disney Digital 3D (PG) Peter Rabbit (PG) 10:40-
A Wrinkle in Time (PG) (!) Gringo (R) 10:55-4:40- Death Wish (R) 1:40-4:30- Peter Rabbit (PG) 11:00-
Gringo (R) 12:10 3:40-9:20 7:15-9:50 12:50-3:15-6:15
11:30-2:15-4:45-7:45-10:20 10:25 A Wrinkle in Time (PG)
Love, Simon (PG-13) 12:00- 12:10-3:00-5:30-8:00
Tomb Raider (PG-13) (!)
Black Panther (PG-13)
Annihilation (R) 11:00- 12:35-4:05-6:15-7:00-9:45 Gringo (R) 9:20 Red Sparrow (R) 10:35-
11:35-1:00-2:35-4:00-5:30- 2:40-5:20-8:00-10:40 Red Sparrow (R) 12:30- 1:35-4:35-6:30-9:40
1:30-7:00-9:45 7:20-8:45-10:20 1:55-4:55-8:00-11:00 A Wrinkle in Time in I Can Only Imagine (PG) 4:10-7:25-10:30
Disney Digital 3D (PG) 7 Days In Entebbe (PG-13) 12:45-3:45-7:05-10:05 Tomb Raider (PG-13)
Black Panther (PG-13) XD: 1:20-4:10-7:00-9:50 Tomb Raider (PG-13)
Bow Tie A Wrinkle in Time (PG)
12:55-4:10-7:20-10:40 3:25-9:05 Love, Simon (PG-13) 1:05- 11:10-12:25-1:25-4:20- 11:15-2:15-5:15-8:15
Reston Town Ctr 11 & BTX 11:20-12:20-1:55-4:30- Game Night (R) 8:05-10:40
I Can Only Imagine (PG) Gringo (R) 10:05 The Hurricane Heist (PG- 4:10-7:20-10:15 6:15-7:15-10:10
11940 Market Street 5:20-7:10-8:00-9:45 Pari (Hindi) (NR) 1:10-4:20- 13) 10:45 Death Wish (R) 10:25-
10:50-1:35-4:25-7:15-9:55 7 Days In Entebbe (PG-13) Game Night (R) 11:15-1:35-
Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) Tomb Raider (PG-13)
Love, Simon (PG-13) 11:25- 7:30-10:30 Regal Fox 12:30-3:15-6:10-9:05 4:00-6:40-9:20 12:55-3:30-6:00-9:00
11:00-8:00 11:40-2:20-5:00-7:50-10:30 Gringo (R) 9:10
2:05-4:45-7:25-10:05 Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety Stadium 16 & IMAX The Hurricane Heist (PG- The Shape of Water (R)
Tomb Raider (PG-13) 2:00- (NR) 11:45-2:55-6:05-9:10 13) 7:40-10:45 I Can Only Imagine (PG)
5:00-10:50
Manassas 4 Cinemas Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) 22875 Brambleton Plaza 12:20-3:25-6:55
8890 Mathis Ave. XD: 10:15 I Can Only Imagine (PG) The Strangers: Prey at Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) A Wrinkle in Time (PG) 11:10-1:50-4:40-7:20-10:10
Thoroughbreds (R) 10:10- 11:40-1:00-3:50-6:30-9:15 1:00-10:00 Love, Simon (PG-13) 10:50-
12:50-3:20-6:00-8:15-10:35 Black Panther (PG-13) Kirrak Party (Telugu) (NR) Night (R) 11:40-1:45-4:00- 11:20-12:50-3:40-4:55-
11:20-2:45-6:15-9:40 7 Days In Entebbe (PG-13) 6:30-7:45-9:20-10:35 1:40-4:20-7:10-9:50
Gringo (R) 2:40-5:30-11:00 11:30-2:10-4:50-7:30; 1:35-
6:15-8:30-10:45 Tomb Raider (PG-13)
2:20-4:55-7:30-10:10 3:00-6:00 The Hurricane Heist (PG-
The Hurricane Heist (PG- 4:15-7:00 Tomb Raider (PG-13) XD:
Black Panther (PG-13) A Wrinkle in Time in Disney
10:35-1:25-4:15-7:10 The Hurricane Heist (PG- 11:45-1:00-3:00-4:15-6:15- A Wrinkle in Time (PG) Digital 3D (PG) 2:05 13) 9:15
13) 10:40-3:50-6:40 Tomb Raider (PG-13)
13) 2:15-7:35 Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) 11:15
1:15-2:40-3:55-5:20-6:45- Death Wish (R) 11:50-2:30-
Three Billboards Outside Ebb- 11:30-1:50-4:10-6:30-8:50 Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13)
Raid (Hindi) (NR) 11:50-
7:30-9:30-10:45
8:00-9:35 5:20-7:55-10:40
ing, Missouri (R) 1:10-9:10 A Wrinkle in Time (PG) 2:25-8:05 The Greatest Showman Tomb Raider (PG-13)
12:00-2:15-4:30-6:45-9:00 3:00-6:10-9:20 A Wrinkle in Time in Gringo (R) 9:50 10:30-1:30-4:30-7:30
Black Panther (PG-13) Regal Ballston Common Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) 10:00 (PG) 1:15-3:45-6:30
Disney Digital 3D (PG) I Can Only Imagine (PG) A Wrinkle in Time (PG)
10:20-1:20-4:20-7:30-10:40 The Hurricane Heist (PG- Stadium 12 Tholiprema (Tholi Prema) Jumanji: Welcome to the
12:00-10:45 12:00-2:50-5:40-8:25-11:00 10:20-11:20-1:05-2:05-
Game Night (R) 11:10-1:50- 13) 11:30AM 671 N. Glebe Road Jungle (PG-13) 12:45-
(NR) 12:10-3:20-6:35-9:40 Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) Love, Simon (PG-13) 11:00- 3:45-4:45-6:45-7:45-9:20
4:40-7:10-10:10 3:30-6:30
Rave Cinemas The Strangers: Prey at Kirrak Party (Telugu) (NR) 12:00-9:00 1:40-4:25-7:00-9:50 A Wrinkle in Time in Disney
Red Sparrow (R) 12:00- Centreville 12 Night (R) 10:35-12:50-3:25- 11:25-2:30-5:45-9:00 Peter Rabbit (PG) 12:45- Digital 3D (PG) 10:20
3:15-5:45-8:15 Regal Manassas The Hurricane Heist (PG-
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12:50-3:05-5:20-7:35-9:50- 1:40-4:20-7:00-9:45 Regal Stadium 14 & IMAX 13) 10:20 Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) 10:30
12:10 A Wrinkle in Time (PG) Black Panther (PG-13) Black Panther (PG-13) Red Sparrow (R) 12:15-
Dulles Town Center 10 3:30-6:45-10:00 11380 Bulloch Drive Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13)
Black Panther (PG-13) CC: Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) 10:50-1:30-4:10-6:50-10:00 10:00-11:00-1:00-2:05- 10:10-11:15-12:25-1:20- 21100 Dulles Town Circle 3:20-9:10
Smithsonian - Airbus
CC: (!) 12:30-3:15 2:20-3:35-4:40-5:40-6:45- Game Night (R) 12:15-2:45- The Strangers: Prey at IMAX Theater
10:10-11:25-1:15-3:10- Love, Simon (PG-13) 4:00-5:05-7:00-8:05-10:10-
10:30-11:50-1:40-4:30- 11:05 7:45-8:45-9:50-10:45 The Strangers: Prey at 5:30-8:00-10:30 Night (R) 12:45-3:00-5:15- Regal 14390 Air & Space Museum Pkwy
4:20-5:25-7:30-9:30-10:35- Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - Night (R) 11:50-2:45-5:45- 7:45-10:00 Springfield Town Ctr 12
11:30 7:20-8:20-10:30 Peter Rabbit (PG) 11:20- The Greatest Showman Tomb Raider (PG-13) 3:00- D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D
(PG) 10:20-1:10-3:50-6:30 8:05-10:20
One Loudoun
20575 East Hampton Plaza 7 Days In Entebbe (PG-13) 1:40-4:15-6:50 6:00-9:00 Black Panther (PG-13) 6500 Springfield Town Ctr (NR) 11:10-2:20
Black Panther in Disney Black Panther (PG-13) 12:30-1:30-2:30-4:00-5:20- The Strangers: Prey at
Digital 3D (PG-13) CC: 11:20-1:55-4:50-7:40-10:20 Tomb Raider (PG-13) Red Sparrow (R) 11:25- A Wrinkle in Time (PG) A Beautiful Planet 3D (G)
Black Panther (PG-13) Tomb Raider (PG-13) 3:00-6:40-9:55 12:00-1:00-3:00-4:00-6:00- 12:30-1:45-3:15-4:30-6:00- 7:15-8:30-10:15 Night (R) 12:30-2:50-5:20- 12:35
9:00-6:25-12:35 11:10-2:40-3:20-6:00-7:20- 10:05-11:05-12:50-1:50- 7:00-9:00-10:00 Jumanji: Welcome to the 7:50-10:15
10:00-1:00-4:00-7:00-9:50 3:35-6:20-7:20-9:05 Tomb Raider (PG-13) 7:15-10:00 Aircraft Carrier: Guardians
Jumanji: Welcome to the 9:40-10:50
10:00-11:30-1:00-2:30- The Greatest Showman Jungle (PG-13) 2:45-5:30 Black Panther (PG-13) of the Seas 3D (NR) 10:20-
Jungle (PG-13) CC: 10:55- Game Night (R) 11:40-2:25- Cinema Arts Theatre Game Night (R) 10:05- (PG) 2:30-4:45 A Wrinkle in Time in Disney
Peter Rabbit (PG) 12:30- 11:40-12:10-3:00-3:40-
12:30-2:55-5:20-7:45-10:20 4:00-5:30-7:00-8:30 Digital 3D (PG) 8:45 1:30-3:10
1:55-7:50 5:25-8:30-11:25 9650 Main St Peter Rabbit (PG) 12:45- 4:30-6:50-9:10 6:10-6:50-9:30-10:10
Peter Rabbit (PG) CC: 9:20- Tomb Raider (PG-13) Thoroughbreds (R) 9:10 Death Wish (R) 1:30-4:15- Dream Big: Engineering
Red Sparrow (R) CC: A Wrinkle in Time (PG) 6:15-8:45 Red Sparrow (R) 1:10-4:15- Black Panther in Disney
11:45-2:15-4:50-7:10 10:15-1:15-4:15-7:10-9:55 10:45-11:45-2:20-3:55- Gringo (R) 10:45AM 7:00-9:45 Our World: An IMAX 3D
8:00-11:15 Red Sparrow (R) 12:10- 7:20-10:30 Digital 3D (PG-13) 12:50- Experience Please Call
Red Sparrow (R) CC: 9:25- Red Sparrow (R) 12:25- 4:55-6:30-7:30-10:25 Annihilation (R) 1:40-4:20- 3:15-6:30-9:45 Thoroughbreds (R) 9:15
The Shape of Water (R) Tomb Raider (PG-13) 2:20- 4:10-7:30-10:40
. FRIDAY,

12:45-4:05-7:20-10:50
Tomb Raider (PG-13) CC:
(!) 2:30-8:30
Game Night (R) CC:
9:55-12:20-2:50-5:15-7:45- Annihilation (R) 3:20-9:20
10:05-12:30
4:00-6:20-9:55
A Wrinkle in Time (PG)
10:45-1:50-4:55
Tomb Raider (PG-13)
CC: 10:00 A Wrinkle in Time in 7:20-10:10 Gringo (R) 9:00 Journey to Space 3D (NR)
Tomb Raider (PG-13) 5:10-8:00 Peter Rabbit (PG) 10:55- 12:00
A Wrinkle in Time (PG) Disney Digital 3D (PG) I Can Only Imagine (PG) 12:00-2:15-7:45-10:30 Love, Simon (PG-13) 11:45- The Shape of Water (R) 1:50-4:30-7:10
CC: 9:40-12:00-2:15-4:35- 1:20-9:10 10:15-1:15-4:15-7:15-10:15 Game Night (R) 8:15-10:40 2:30-5:15-8:00-10:45 University Mall Theatre
Love, Simon (PG-13) 10:30- A Wrinkle in Time (PG) 1:50-4:40-7:40-10:20 Red Sparrow (R) 11:50-
7:00-9:20 Annihilation (R) 9:20 The Hurricane Heist (PG- A Wrinkle in Time (PG) 3:20-6:30-9:45 10659 Braddock Road
1:30-4:30-7:30-10:30 11:45-2:00-5:00-7:30-10:15 13) 10:45
The Leisure Seeker (R) I Can Only Imagine (PG) 12:50-2:10-4:50-6:15-7:30- Tomb Raider (PG-13) Star Wars: The Last Jedi
CC: 9:45-12:10-2:30-4:50- 10:40-1:25-4:20-7:15-9:55 7 Days In Entebbe (PG-13) A Wrinkle in Time in Disney 7 Days In Entebbe (PG-13) 10:10 (PG-13) CC: 7:00-10:05
11:00-1:10-2:00-5:00-7:20-
MARCH 16, 2018

A Wrinkle in Time (PG) CC: 12:10-3:40-6:20-9:25 7:20-9:35 Love, Simon (PG-13) 11:15- 11:20-2:15-5:15-8:00-10:40 Digital 3D (PG) 4:15 12:00-2:30-5:00-7:45-10:15 Coco (PG) CC: 12:15-4:45
A Wrinkle in Time in 8:00-10:50
(!) 11:10-12:40-2:00-4:40- A Wrinkle in Time (PG) The Post (PG-13) CC: 1:55-4:30-7:05-9:50 Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) Death Wish (R) 1:30-3:30-
10:00
Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) Disney Digital 3D (PG) Game Night (R) 2:05-4:40- Jumanji: Welcome to the
6:10-7:25-10:10 11:25-12:00-3:00-7:00- 5:05-7:40 Raid (Hindi) (NR) 12:25- 6:45-9:30 12:00 3:30-9:00 7:40-10:30 Jungle (PG-13) CC: 12:00-
A Wrinkle in Time in 10:15 Gringo (R) CC: 9:55-5:10-9:50 3:45-7:35-10:50 Regal Countryside Gringo (R) 11:00 Kirrak Party (Telugu) (NR) Death Wish (R) 1:15-3:45- A Wrinkle in Time (PG) 2:30-4:50-7:30-9:55-12:00
Disney Digital 3D (PG) CC: Thoroughbreds (R) Lady Bird (R) CC: 10:00-12:05 Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) Stadium 20 Love, Simon (PG-13) 11:50- 12:30-3:45-7:00-10:15 6:30-9:20 12:00-1:20-3:10-6:00- Paddington 2 (PG) CC:
(!) 9:45-3:30-9:05 12:40-6:40 Foxtrot (R) CC: 9:50-12:15- 4:35-10:05 45980 Regal Plaza 1:45-4:30-7:15-10:10 Tomb Raider: The IMAX 2D Gringo (R) 10:40 7:00-9:00 12:05-2:20-4:35
Death Wish (R) CC: 12:00- Love, Simon (PG-13) 10:25- 2:40-5:00-7:30-9:45 Kirrak Party (Telugu) (NR) The Strangers: Prey at Night Tomb Raider 3D (PG-13) Experience (PG-13) 1:30- Love, Simon (PG-13) 12:40- A Wrinkle in Time in Disney The Post (PG-13) CC: 2:25-
3:00-5:35-8:15-10:55 1:20-4:20-7:40-10:35 Oh Lucy! 12:20-2:45-7:50 12:15-3:25-6:35-9:45 (R) 1:40-4:00-6:25-8:40 5:15 4:30-7:30-10:30 3:10-5:40-8:15-10:45 Digital 3D (PG) 4:00-9:50 7:15-9:35-12:00
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