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Lebanon marks a year since deadly Beirut port explosion Cuomo defiant
as perils grow
PROSECUTORS SIGNAL CRIMINAL PROBES
Confidants expect removal, say governor is in denial
BY J OSH D AWSEY pected to begin in the state Assem-
AND F ELICIA S ONMEZ bly later this summer. Several of
those close to the third-term gov-
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuo- ernor said privately that they be-
mo faced mounting criminal in- lieve the once-powerful Democrat
quiries Wednesday and momen- was in denial about his future.
tum grew in the state legislature “He’s not the kind of guy who
to impeach him in the wake of an will just resign,” said one person,
explosive report by the state attor- who like others spoke on the con-
ney general that found he sexually dition of anonymity to describe
harassed 11 women in violation of internal discussions. “It’s over, but
state and federal law. he won’t admit that yet.”
Ensconced in his Albany man- Even the chair of the state’s
sion, Cuomo remained defiant Democratic Party, Jay Jacobs, a
and declined to resign, assessing longtime Cuomo loyalist, called
with advisers whether there is a for his resignation, saying the gov-
path for his political survival, ac- ernor had “lost his ability to gov-
cording to people familiar with ern, both practically and morally.”
the conversations. His attorney By Wednesday afternoon, Cuomo
has called the report “inaccurate” SEE CUOMO ON A10
and “biased.”
Four current and former advis- At the front: Report paints top
ers said that they expect the gover- aide as one of top defenders. A11
nor to be removed eventually but
that Cuomo intends to fight the The Cuomo quandary: CNN has
impeachment proceedings ex- little to say about anchor’s role. C1
LORENZO TUGNOLI FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Relatives carry photos of 3-year-old Alexandra Najjar, one of the more than 200 people killed in last year’s huge
port explosion, as they take part in a march Wednesday in Beirut. As Lebanese held a day of mourning to mark a For some, extension of
year since the disaster, some protested the government’s failure to properly investigate the blast. Story, A16
eviction ban comes late
BYH AMZA S HABAN, opened. Indeed, some renters
A BHA B HATTARAI have already been evicted or

Redistricting battle kicks o≠ early with lawsuits AND M ARISSA J . L ANG

A last-minute extension of a
could still be evicted in the next
few days if they don’t live in a
county covered by the new evic-
moratorium barring evictions for tion ban.
BY C OLBY I TKOWITZ for the next decade, and which dicating which states would gain covid-struck counties is injecting Early Tuesday, a sheriff rang
Democrats scramble party will emerge with the great- and lose congressional seats. The a new layer of confusion for mil- the doorbell and waited as Brina
The battle over the once- er advantage. Fierce fighting over suit seeks to ensure how courts lions of renters who had been on gathered clothing and medica-
a-decade realignment of legisla- to try to cut into the maps could delay that process play a role in the process, part of the verge of eviction and aren’t tion in duffel bags while her land-
tive and congressional districts is Republican advantages in many states — potentially up- an early effort to shape the rules sure whether they’ve gotten a re- lord changed the locks in the
underway across the country ending 2022 campaigns mid- that will govern how maps are prieve — and for some, it’s too late. Missoula, Mont., apartment she’d
even before new maps have been stream. drawn. When the nationwide morato- lived in since 2015. She and her
drawn, with lawsuits filed in The National Democratic Re- “There is heightened attention rium lapsed Saturday, some states mother, a legal secretary, fell be-
nearly a dozen states, signaling historic deficit when it comes to districting Committee, an advo- and awareness of the damaging and cities had allowed courts to hind on their rent earlier this year
how intense the fight for partisan the bare-knuckle redistricting cacy organization founded by for- effects of gerrymandering, and process legal filings on behalf of after Brina lost her job at Wal-
power in the states and Congress process that Republicans used in mer attorney general Eric H. you’re seeing an increase of litiga- landlords wanting to evict non- mart.
will be in the coming year. 2011 to cement their dominance Holder Jr., filed lawsuits in Loui- tion as a result of the voter paying tenants. The lapse in the SEE EVICTIONS ON A23
Many of the early moves have at state and national levels. siana, Minnesota and Pennsylva- suppression and other election moratorium jump-started that
been made by Democrats, who At stake is how voters will be nia in April, as soon as the U.S. laws passed by Republicans as eviction process Monday when ‘Activists’ in Congress: Liberals
are scrambling to make up a divided into individual districts Census Bureau released data in- SEE REDISTRICTING ON A13 sheriff ’s offices and courts look to keep pressure on Biden. A4

More families of color In recreation, forced adaptation

choose home schooling
about the safety of her family. And
she began to question whether
Reasons for Black, Latino the school her children attended
and Asian parents range was equipped to talk about rac-
ism with young students. Bates,
beyond the pandemic who has a master’s degree in
theology and is now a manager in
the banking industry, did not
BY M ORIAH B ALINGIT learn about systemic racism until
AND K ATE R ABINOWITZ she was in college. Would her
children have to wait that long,
When school buildings were too, to understand the roots of
shuttered last year, Torlecia Bates injustice?
had not given much thought to For Bates’s children, 10-year-
home-schooling her two school- old Kayden, 8-year-old Kaylee
age children. Like a lot of parents, and 3-year-old Kayson, these les-
Bates, who lives outside Rich- sons could not be more critical:
mond, viewed remote schooling The children are descendants of
as a temporary inconvenience Sally Hemings, the enslaved
and had plans to send them back woman whose six children were
as soon as schools reopened. fathered by Thomas Jefferson,
Then something in her shifted. and they live not far from Monti-
Following the murder of cello, the former president’s plan-
George Floyd, Bates, who is Black, tation.
had a panic attack. She worried SEE HOME SCHOOL ON A9
Enjoying the natural world increasingly requires reckoning with climate change
BY G RIFF W ITTE, H ANNAH K NOWLES,
S HEILA R EGAN AND S ERGIO O LMOS
In the vast tract of wilderness that is the
Boundary Waters area of northern Minnesota,
kayakers still ply the glasslike surface. But
they do so beneath a smoke-clogged sky, with
no campfires to warm them on chilly summer
nights.
In California’s wine country, backyard gar-
deners still harvest lush tomatoes and nurture
feathery lavender. But they must use water
recycled from sinks and showers, risking hefty
fines should they dare run the hose amid
crushing drought.
And at sports camps across the Pacific
Northwest, raucous kids still chase one an-
other — and occasionally the ball — as they
sprint from goal to goal. But they’re more
likely to be indoors, forced to retreat from the
CAROLINE YANG FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
inferno-like temperatures raging outside.
Haze from Canadian wildfires hangs over downtown Minneapolis on July 30, “This is what our summers are going to be
coating the Twin Cities region in suffocating air pollution. like moving forward,” said Jason Frazier,
president of Skyhawk Sports Academy. “We
Fleeing Athens fires: Residents leave as Greece battles its worst heat in 30 years. A20 SEE HEAT ON A6

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Northern Virginia
now has enough com- Inside
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THE NATION this year as they seek to the coronavirus to fall
THE ECONOMY LOCAL LIVING
A federal judge pun- influence infrastructure under CDC guidance to
ished two Colorado law- spending proposals. A12 Boeing said it will move Jump-starting
wear masks indoors. B1
yers for filing a “frivo- its Starliner spacecraft Before his campaign productivity
lous” lawsuit challenging THE WORLD off the Florida launch- If your motivation needs
for Virginia governor,
the 2020 election late A Belarusian Olympic pad as inspections con- a boost, here are five
political newcomer
last year. A3 runner seeking asylum tinued a day after the common techniques that
Glenn Youngkin built a
The Senate Foreign Re- after clashing with her launch was scrubbed. A21 can help.
lengthy career at a
lations Committee ad- country’s athletic offi- A court hearing in private-equity firm close ST YLE
vanced legislation to re- cials arrived in Warsaw British Columbia to Washington’s halls of Oops, did we
peal decades-old autho- from Tokyo. A17 marked a crucial phase power. B1
rizations for U.S. mili- The World Health Or- in Huawei executive A bipartisan group in
do it again?
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Middle East. A8 halt to coronavirus against extradition to the has (and hasn’t) changed
troduced amendments
Bronze for Lyles Alexandria’s Noah Lyles Three Democrats in- booster shots through United States. A22 from Britney Spears’s era
to the state’s pandemic
troduced a resolution in September, citing vac- to Olivia Rodrigo’s. C1
earned a medal in the 200 meters and then cine shortages in poorer THE REGION relief bill, lengthening
the Senate to create a With the academic the process. B4
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before the pair pleaded guilty,
the Republican governor
announced Tuesday that Mark
and Patricia McCloskey were
among 12 people granted
pardons on Friday. In June, Mark
McCloskey pleaded guilty to
misdemeanor fourth-degree
assault and was fined $750, and
Patricia McCloskey pleaded
guilty to misdemeanor
harassment and was fined
$2,000. Both agreed to give up
the guns they had brandished in
the confrontation.
Parson, a month after the
confrontation, told local radio
station KFTK he would pardon
the couple if they were convicted.
On June 28, 2020, video and
photographs showed rifle-
wielding Mark McCloskey and
pistol-toting Patricia McCloskey
in front of their mansion as
protesters marched through
their gated community to the
home of Mayor Lyda Krewson
(D) amid nationwide protests
after a police officer killed
George Floyd in Minneapolis.
The images garnered national
attention, prompting President
Donald Trump to speak out in
defense of the couple.
Trump and other Republicans
considered the McCloskeys law-
abiding homeowners defending
their property.
Others saw the couple as
overly aggressive toward
in the lower storage area, which
Mays’s duty station had access to,
according to the court document.
About 160 sailors and officers
were on board when the flames
sent up a huge plume of dark
smoke from the 840-foot vessel,
which had been docked at Naval
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Base San Diego while
Rescue personnel at the New York Fire Department Training undergoing a two-year
Academy — also known as “the Rock” — prepare for a homeland $250 million upgrade.
defense emergency drill involving a chemical, biological, radiological The amphibious assault ship
or nuclear attack in an urban environment on Randalls Island in New burned for more than four days.
York City. The facility is used to train candidates looking to become Left with extensive structural,
firefighters for the New York City Fire Department. electrical and mechanical
damage, the ship was later
scrapped. Estimates to replace it
ran up to $4 billion.
demonstrators. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT Officials investigating the
The couple, both personal ship’s damage found three of
injury attorneys in their 60s, Sailor charged in ship four fire stations on the ship had
faced felony firearm charges
after the display in front of their
fire was SEAL dropout evidence of tampering: Fire
hoses were disconnected and one
marble-faced palazzo home but
ultimately pleaded guilty to
The sailor charged with
starting a fire that destroyed the
was cut.
They also found uncapped
lesser charges. USS Bonhomme Richard last bottles containing small
The McCloskeys said in a year was assigned to the ship amounts of highly flammable
statement that they appreciated after dropping out of training to liquid near the ignition site,
Parson’s “support and his become a Navy SEAL, and he was according to the court document.
steadfast commitment to the 2nd described by some fellow sailors Mays joined the Navy in 2019
Amendment.” as a person who had disdain for and started the grueling training
Mark McCloskey announced the Navy, according to to become a Navy SEAL in
in May that he would run for one investigators. October of that same year. But
of Missouri’s U.S. Senate seats, Details about 20-year-old dropped out five days after
using the images from that tense Ryan Mays and the early starting it in Coronado. He was
faceoff with protesters in his investigation into the worst U.S. reassigned as a seaman and put
campaign ads. warship fire in recent memory on the crew of the ship.
The couple appeared at the were revealed in a search Mays was arrested after a 10-
Republican National Convention warrant unsealed Tuesday in U.S. hour interview with
last August. District Court in San Diego. investigators.
— Meryl Kornfield The Navy confirmed that Mays — Associated Press
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Judge penalizes Colorado lawyers for 2020 election suit
million American voters, alleging truthful and factual allegations
a complicated plot engineered by in our complaint.”
Attorneys are ordered to Dominion; Facebook; its founder He added: “The case has noth-
pay opponents’ legal fees Mark Zuckerberg; his wife, Pris- ing to do with Donald Trump,
cilla Chan; and elected officials and is concerned only with the
for ‘frivolous’ case in four states. They had sought integrity of our Presidential elec-
$160 billion in damages. tions.”
The case was dismissed in Wednesday’s order came as the
BY R OSALIND S . H ELDERMAN April, but Neureiter ruled that judicial system nationally has
the attorneys had violated their been grappling with how to hold
A federal judge in Colorado ethical obligations by lodging it accountable the lawyers who
has disciplined two lawyers who in the first place and by pepper- filed flimsy challenges to the
filed a lawsuit challenging the ing their motions with wild alle- election.
2020 election late last year, find- gations that they had made little In June, a panel of judges in
ing that the case was “frivolous,” effort to substantiate. Legal rules New York suspended the law
“not warranted by existing law” prohibit attorneys from clogging license of former New York may-
and filed “in bad faith.” the court systems with frivolous or Rudolph W. Giuliani, arguing
In a scathing 68-page opinion, motions or from filing informa- that Trump’s personal lawyer had
Magistrate Judge N. Reid Neure- tion that is not true. “communicated demonstrably
iter found that the lawyers made Calling the suit “one enormous false and misleading statements”
little effort to corroborate infor- conspiracy theory,” Neureiter or- that amounted to an ongoing
mation they had included in the dered that the duo must pay the threat to the public. Giuliani’s
suit, which argued there had legal fees of all the individuals lawyers have said they are confi-
been a vast national conspiracy and companies they had sued — dent his license will be restored
to steal the election from Presi- 18 separate entities in all — as a after a hearing.
dent Donald Trump. way to deter future similar cases. Last month, a federal judge in
He particularly called out the Neureiter ordered the defen- Michigan spent nearly six hours
duo, Gary D. Fielder and Ernest dants to compile records show- skeptically questioning a group
John Walker, for quoting Trump ing how much time they had of nine lawyers, including pro-
in their legal filing, which cited a spent on the case and their Trump attorneys Sidney Powell
SARAH SILBIGER FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
presidential tweet that claimed typical billing rates to determin- and L. Lin Wood, as she sought to
without evidence that voting ma- ing how much the two lawyers Rudolph W. Giuliani discusses suits related to the 2020 election results last year. The judicial system determine whether to sanction
chines manufactured by the com- will owe. has been grappling with how to hold accountable lawyers who filed flimsy challenges to the election. them over a lawsuit that sought
pany Dominion Voting Systems “In short, this was no slip-and- to overturn President Biden’s win
had “deleted 2.7 million Trump fall at the local grocery store,” are the stuff of which violent months after the election — In an email, Fielder said the in that state. A ruling is expected
votes nationwide.” Neureiter wrote Neureiter, who was ap- insurrections are made.” Neureiter said a close examina- two planned to appeal the judge’s in that matter soon.
called that allegation “highly dis- pointed as a magistrate judge by While the lawyers attached tion of the testimony showed it order. Other disciplinary actions are
puted and inflammatory” and other judges. “Albeit disorga- affidavits from various people was “notable only in demonstrat- “We were never acting in bad pending before a Wisconsin
said the lawyers made no efforts nized and fantastical, the Com- who alleged the election had ing no firsthand knowledge by faith,” he wrote. He said the case judge and in front of bar associa-
to verify it. plaint’s allegations are extraordi- been rigged — a common tactic any Plaintiff of any election was intended to seek “a peaceful tions in multiple states.
The two lawyers filed the case narily serious and, if accepted as of Trump supporters in the doz- fraud, misconduct, or malfea- and legal method” to address rosalind.helderman@
as a class action on behalf of 160 true by large numbers of people, ens of challenges filed in the sance.” what he termed “the mountain of washpost.com

Trump attorneys blast Justice Dept. for authorizing release of tax returns
that the request by the commit- the Treasury Department to en- was prompted by a House lawsuit scrutiny. last year’s Supreme Court ruling
tee chairman, Rep. Richard E. force a subpoena for Trump’s to compel testimony by former House Democrats say the that congressional subpoenas
Both current and former Neal (D-Mass.), was not legiti- returns from 2013 to 2018, saying White House counsel Donald Mc- Treasury Department and the seeking a president’s information
leaders’ records should mate legislative work but rather Trump alone among recent presi- Gahn over whether Trump ob- House historically have always must be “no broader than reason-
an attempt “to expose the private dents and major party presiden- structed the Russia investigation. agreed that the tax-writing com- ably necessary.”
be protected, filing says tax information of one individual tial candidates had refused to That fight ended when Mc- mittee has authority under a 1924 Trump’s lawyers said Neal’s
— President Trump — for politi- make his tax returns public, Gahn agreed to testify in June, law to obtain tax and audit request “badly fails ” that test, set
cal gain,” Trump attorneys Pat- stonewalled Congress and after the Biden Justice Depart- records to examine how well the in a case involving another House
BY S PENCER S . H SU rick Strawbridge, William S. Con- mounted “an extraordinary at- ment, House Democrats and a IRS is enforcing the nation’s tax panel’s request for eight years of
sovoy and Cameron T. Norris tack” on oversight of the nation’s lawyer for McGahn reached a laws. Trump’s records from accounting
Attorneys for former president wrote. voluntary tax system. compromise. In opposition, Trump’s team firm Mazars USA. The court
Donald Trump on Wednesday “The new OLC opinion does “Numerous investigative re- Similarly last Friday, the Treas- raised six claims Wednesday, ar- ruled that congressional de-
blasted a Justice Department rul- not deny the record of impermis- ports have revealed that Presi- ury Department told McFadden guing the House has failed to mands for a president’s personal
ing that directed the Treasury sible intent, but instead gives dent Trump, through the com- that it intended to comply with show it has a legitimate legisla- papers demand careful scrutiny,
Department to turn over his tax wobbly justifications and shal- plex arrangements of his person- the new OLC opinion for Trump’s tive purpose to obtain the rec- suggesting that lower courts
returns to Congress, formally low reasoning for why the execu- al and business finances, has returns. The time period for the ords. They also argued that under weigh whether other sources can
asking a court to block their tive branch should ignore that engaged in multiple aggressive records requested were modified separation-of-power principles reasonably provide the same in-
release and arguing that records evidence,” Trump’s defense said tax strategies and decades-long by the House in a concession to the law does not authorize the formation, and whether it bur-
of former presidents as well as in a 37-page filing. tax avoidance schemes,” the law- Trump to cover material from House to request returns of a dens a president and may result
presidents should be similarly “The government’s complete suit stated. “Congress and the 2015 to 2020, a range that in- president or former president, from partisan politics, as well as
protected from subpoenas by reversal on the legality of Neal’s Committee, however, have thus cludes his presidential campaign nor to obtain tax records subject whether the evidence sought ad-
lawmakers. requests came, of course, under far been unable to evaluate the and years in the White House. to ongoing audit in an executive vances a valid purpose.
Trump’s lawyers called last President Biden, a Democrat who President’s claims about the IRS’s McFadden set a Wednesday branch agency. Earlier this year, Trump’s tax
week’s decision by the Justice ran against President Trump and audit process or to assess if and deadline for Trump and other His lawyers also argued that records were turned over to the
Department’s Office of Legal made the disclosure of President how President Trump has been parties to lay out a schedule for giving Congress the records sub- Manhattan District Attorney’s
Counsel the latest effort at parti- Trump’s tax returns a campaign able to take inappropriate advan- fresh written arguments. Trump’s ject to an investigation would Office after a separate legal fight,
san retaliation against him by issue,” his defense said. tage of the tax laws.” counterclaim set the clock run- violate Trump’s due-process and and his lawyers said Wednesday
Democrats, and denied that the The new filing marks the latest Trump aides called the effort ning for a new round of litigation First Amendment rights, reward- that Congress could turn to other
House Ways and Means Commit- turn in House Democrats’ long- “presidential harassment” and that could take months or years ing an “effort by one political sources for information needed
tee sought six years of his tax stalled demands for Trump’s fed- an attempt to dig up political to complete, but with parties’ party to harass an official from to pass broad tax law reforms.
returns out of a legitimate inter- eral tax records and appears to dirt, saying that Democrats roles changed. the other party because they They also argued that enforcing
est in closing tax loopholes ex- ensure that legal fights spawned would “never” see his returns. Rather than one political dislike his politics and speech.” the subpoena could unconstitu-
ploited by wealthy Americans. by Trump’s presidency will con- U.S. District Judge Trevor N. branch suing another — the legis- Finally, Trump’s suit claimed tionally weaken every future
The July 30 OLC legal analysis tinue to shape future limits of McFadden froze the case pending lative vs. the executive — Trump that although he is no longer president in dealings with Con-
overturned an April 2019 memo- presidential power and privacy the outcome of a similar multi- as an individual is suing Con- president, a higher separation-of- gress, raising the prospect that
randum by the same office under even though he is no longer in year legal battle testing the bal- gress, arguing the courts should powers test still applies to at- lawmakers could seek to embar-
Trump’s administration. office. ance of powers between a presi- protect a former president and tempts by Congress to obtain a rass them once they leave office.
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Lifted House liberals look to keep up pressure on Biden
As they push priorities,
win on evictions
is considered a blueprint
BY M ARIANNA S OTOMAYOR,
S EAN S ULLIVAN
AND T ONY R OMM
House liberals buoyed by their
successful push to get a moratori-
um on evictions extended said
they plan to keep pressuring the
Biden administration to chart a
leftward course while vowing to
hold party leaders to their prom-
ise to move an infrastructure plan
only if it is accompanied by tril-
lions of dollars in new social-safe-
ty-net spending.
The lawmakers who called on
the administration to extend the
moratorium, after the White
House insisted it did not have the
legal authority to do so, said the
lesson they took away from the
experience is that their activist
backgrounds and methods can
achieve results even as they now
fight their battles from inside the
government.
“Activists are in Congress, so
let’s be clear: Expect for things to
be different than maybe what peo-
ple are used to. We don’t have the
same eyes, the same background
or agenda as some others,” Rep.
Cori Bush (D-Mo.), who slept on
the steps of the Capitol to draw
attention to the moratorium’s
lapse, said Tuesday after the
Biden administration announced
the extension. “We are servant
leaders. We serve first.”
But forcing the administra-
tion’s hand on an eviction ban tied
to the coronavirus pandemic may
be an easier task than ensuring
their priorities do not get short-
changed during the upcoming
legislative fights, with Democrat-
ic moderates in both chambers
wary of the amount of spending
liberals are advocating.
The Senate this week is expect-
ed to pass an infrastructure bill
that resulted from a deal cut by a
bipartisan group of centrists.
House liberals have panned the
bill as falling far short of the
country’s needs, but party leaders
have said it will not be enacted
unless a larger bill that would
spend trillions on education,
child care and climate change is
passed alongside the money for
roads and bridges.
With only a three-vote Demo-
cratic majority in the House, lib-
erals have leverage, but they will
have to decide how hard to push
leaders trying to balance their
concerns against the concerns of
moderate members. Those mem-
bers’ votes will also be needed to
successfully complete the legisla-
tive two-step required to get both
infrastructure and safety-net
spending into law.
Democratic moderates are al-
Following eviction victory, congressional Democrats turn to student loans
Many want temporary
freeze on federal
payments to be extended
BY T ONY R OMM
A torrent of congressional
Democrats is calling on the White
House to extend a soon-expiring
pause on federal student loan pay-
ments, emboldened by their suc-
cess in pressuring the Biden ad-
ministration to approve a new
eviction moratorium.
The current student loan freeze
temporarily spares many stu-
dents from having to make their
typical monthly payments and
sets their interest rates at zero
percent. The policy dates back to
the earliest days of the pandemic,
but it is set to conclude at the end
of September — meaning stu-
dents could see bills again start-
ing Oct. 1.
Fearing some people with stu-
dent loan debt still may be in dire
financial straits, many liberal-
leaning lawmakers in the House
and Senate are urging President
Biden to continue the deferral
period. They point to the arrival of
the new, highly transmissible del-
ta variant of the coronavirus, as
they make the case for additional
protections into next year. Some
of these Democrats are also call-
ing for longer-term measures, in-
cluding the full cancellation of
their remaining debts.
“Time is running out on the
student-loan payment pause,”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.),
who has long advocated for such
relief, stressed on Wednesday.
“The payment pause gives us a
moment to focus on, the same way
the eviction moratorium gave us a
moment to focus on, what’s hap-
pening in this country.”
Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) stands outside the Capitol on Tuesday. Bush slept on the steps to draw attention to the end of the federal pandemic
moratorium on evictions. The Biden administration changed course Tuesday, and many of Bush’s colleagues credited her efforts.
ready agitating for the House to
quickly take up the bipartisan
Senate infrastructure package
rather than waiting for the larger
spending bill to be drafted, which
could take months.
The moderates, many of whom
represent competitive districts,
are eager for a piece of significant
bipartisan legislation they can
champion back home to beat back
Republican accusations that the
party is being run by socialists.
“We urge House leadership to
bring this deal to the House floor
as a stand-alone bill for a vote
immediately following Senate
passage, and the Co-Chairs of the
Blue Dog Coalition oppose any
effort to unnecessarily delay con-
sideration of this critical biparti-
san legislation,” Rep. Abigail
Spanberger (D-Va.), the moderate
Blue Dog Coalition’s co-chair for
communications, said in a state-
ment last week.
Aides to liberal lawmakers said
they are aware of the limits to
their power in a deeply polarized
Washington, especially given the
party’s small majority in both
chambers.
But they also said liberals had
already scored an early victory by
pushing House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Ma-
jority Leader Charles E. Schumer
(D-N.Y.) to publicly pledge that
the infrastructure bill and the
expansion of the social safety net
In recent weeks, the Biden ad-
ministration has signaled it is at
least considering another freeze
on federal student loan payments.
Without a final decision, however,
lawmakers have ramped up their
advocacy — hoping to ward off the
same financial cliff that had
threatened millions of renters un-
til Tuesday.
With the eviction moratorium,
the White House initially said it
lacked the authority to reissue its
policy, which expired at the end of
July, citing an adverse court deci-
sion casting doubt on its constitu-
tionality. The expiration of the
eviction ban exposed renters who
were behind on their bills to the
prospect of losing their homes.
But days of public and private
pressure from Democrats led by
Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) prompted
the Biden administration to re-
verse course, restoring protec-
tions for many Americans facing
financial hardship.
Speaking with reporters after
the decision, members of the con-
gressional Progressive Caucus,
which helped lead the charge, her-
alded the move by the administra-
tion as critical to keeping millions
of Americans housed. In doing so,
they also stressed students and
graduates now need the same sort
of help.
“We’ve been worrying about
the fiscal cliff of these moratoria
expiring,” said Rep. Pramila Jaya-
pal (D-Wash.), the leader of the
caucus, in an interview. She said
she raised the issue with the
White House as she discussed the
fate of the eviction protections
with top aides this past weekend.
“Don’t go to the last minute,”
Jayapal warned. “These are mat-
ters of life and death for people.”
The fight over eviction protec-
tions — and the new campaign
seeking aid for students — comes
at a moment of political ascen-
dance for the Democratic Party’s
EZ SU
“Activists are in Congress, so let’s be clear:
Expect for things to be different.”
Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.)
had to move in tandem, despite
the misgivings of more-centrist
members.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.)
said that earlier this year the Con-
gressional Progressive Caucus,
which she leads, did a vote count
of its members on major parts of
the party’s agenda, allowing the
group to issue an ultimatum that
the two bills had to be tied togeth-
er if either was to pass the House.
“And I can tell you not every-
body was pleased with that,” she
said.
“It was weeks later that the
speaker, who is an incredible vote-
counter, the speaker then took up
that position and Senate Majority
Leader Schumer took up that po-
sition,” Jayapal added. “It was a
very strategic organizing cam-
paign to get that to be the message
of the Democratic Party, which
that did become.”
Asked Wednesday whether she
would hold firm on her plan not to
move forward on the infrastruc-
ture bill until the larger social
spending proposal was complet-
ed, Pelosi told reporters: “Yes.”
The show of force from liberals
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), seen heading to the Senate floor
for a vote on Tuesday, is among those trying to increase pressure.
progressive wing. The new victory
this week has left the bloc of law-
makers galvanized, as they try to
put their stamp on other national
economic debates — including
the still-emerging fights over in-
frastructure investments as well
as a $3.5 trillion budget deal that
includes health care, immigration
and climate-change spending.
The White House declined to
comment, and the Department of
Education did not respond to a
request.
With student loans, the Educa-
tion Department first allowed
borrowers to suspend payments
on their federal debts last March
under President Donald Trump,
seeking to help an estimated 42
million people who found them-
selves at risk of delinquency. Since
then, the U.S. government has
issued two extensions, as federal
officials tried to balance students’
financial needs with the complex-
ity in restarting collections on a
loan portfolio of more than $1.5
trillion.
Democrats maintain the pay-
this week revolved around the
Biden administration’s decision
to say it was allowing an eviction
moratorium to expire, because a
Supreme Court decision from ear-
lier this year prevented it from
unilaterally extending the pro-
gram. Lawmakers complained
the White House did not inform
them of this decision until late
last week, giving them little time
to pass legislation to save the
program.
Bush and other liberal mem-
bers who are new to Congress —
and elected on promises to buck
the conventional way Washington
operates — harshly criticized the
administration while imploring
congressional leaders to stay in
town to work on a solution rather
than adjourning for the summer
recess.
After a few days, the White
House capitulated and an-
nounced it was extending the pro-
gram, with some tweaks, even
though President Biden acknowl-
edged the action may be shut
down by the courts.
Multiple aides to liberal mem-
bers involved said one lesson
JABIN BOTSFORD/THE WASHINGTON POST
ment pause has provided a finan-
cial lifeline to students in need —
while even helping an estimated
2.5 million borrowers repay their
debts in full, and perhaps early, as
a result of the government’s deci-
sion to set interest rates at zero.
Warren joined Democratic Sen.
Edward J. Markey (Mass.) in cit-
ing the statistic last month as they
made the case to the Biden admin-
istration that it needed to an-
nounce another extension of the
policy.
“As the economy recovers from
this unprecedented crisis, bor-
rowers should not be faced with
an administrative and financial
catastrophe just as they are begin-
ning to regain their footing,” the
senators wrote.
In doing so, the two Democrats
also warned that restarting col-
lections as planned in October
threatened to result in undue
hardship for families. They point-
ed to evidence obtained earlier
this year from major servicers,
including Navient, Mohela and
EdFinancial, which showed that
THE WASHINGTON POST
MATT MCCLAIN/THE WASHINGTON POST
learned is to pressure the Biden
administration to act unilaterally
when possible, rather than allow-
ing the White House to kick those
issues to Congress — such as
whether to forgive student loans
controlled by the government.
“We forced the White House to
do better,” Rep. Mondaire Jones
(D-N.Y.) said Tuesday evening
during a news conference in front
of the House steps. “There’s so
much at stake still. We know there
is a looming deadline with respect
to the cause on the collection of
student loan debt and the accrual
of interest and, make no mistake,
that the White House will not be
allowed to say that it didn’t know
that deadline was looming.”
The administration has been
careful to tend to the needs of
liberals when it has drawn their
ire, which has bought Biden some
goodwill.
Many of House liberals’ priori-
ties were included in the $1.9 tril-
lion pandemic relief bill enacted
earlier this year, such as a larger
child tax credit, and the adminis-
tration and congressional leaders
included the Progressive Caucus’
priorities in the social-program
spending package.
“I think the thing I want to
stress here is that the approach
we’ve already taken of identifying
our priorities early, being clear
about our position, has already
led to two significant efforts, two
many borrowers may not even be
aware the moratorium is soon
expiring. Warren and Markey fur-
ther said their investigation had
revealed little contact between
some major lenders and their bor-
rowers about payments, partly
due to a lack of guidance from the
Education Department about the
future of the moratorium.
Their efforts at times have been
met with public silence from the
Biden administration, prompting
lawmakers including Warren,
Senate Majority Leader Charles E.
Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Ayan-
na Pressley (D-Mass.) last week to
try to increase the pressure. Ap-
pearing at a news conference,
Schumer called it one of the “most
effective steps the government
has taken” in response to the pan-
demic. The leader urged the
White House to extend the policy
at least until next spring, but also
encouraged the president to go
further — using his “existing pow-
er” to wipe out some of Ameri-
cans’ debts entirely.
“This pause has actually shown
how important canceling student
debt is to borrowers and to our
economy,” Schumer said. “We’ve
heard about how being saddled
with this debt has affected mil-
lions of Americans’ lives on so
many choices they’ve liked to
make.”
The issue has loomed over
Biden, after a 2020 presidential
cycle that saw some Democratic
contenders promise to seek the
cancellation of some or all of stu-
dents’ debts. Biden has endorsed
efforts to wipe out about $10,000
of students and graduates’ debts,
in a break with progressives, who
want to see even more erased.
More than 60 House and Sen-
ate Democrats urged Biden to
cancel student debt in a letter in
late June, as they issued their own
call to extend the payment mora-
torium in the meantime. But the
. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5 , 2021
significant victories on the recon-
ciliation bill,” Jayapal said during
a call with reporters Tuesday.
A White House official, speak-
ing on the condition of anonymity
to describe internal discussions,
said that the administration con-
tinues to work with liberal leaders
in Congress and advocacy groups
to address their concerns with the
safety-net bill but did not say how
it will improve relationships with
liberals who are now aiming to
pressure Biden on issues he can
tackle unilaterally.
Pelosi has also earned some
goodwill with the caucus for the
role she played in pressuring the
White House to extend the evic-
tion moratorium.
“If we didn’t have Pelosi, if we
didn’t have Schumer pushing and
having those behind-the-scenes
calls, it would have been harder to
get the moratorium done,” Rep.
Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) said in an
interview. “It reinforces some
ideas that we already had, which
is that in order to get legislation
done or continue fighting for
working people, you have to bring
in the outside activism and inside
legislating together.”
The sequence of events this
week was strikingly similar to a
lengthier standoff with the White
House this spring over refugee
policy. In that dispute, Biden
backtracked from his pledge to lift
the cap on the number of refugees
who can enter the country each
year, opting to leave the limit
where the Trump administration
had set it. This angered liberals
and refugee advocates, who kept
pressing him to live up to his
initial promise. Eventually, Biden
raised the cap, and the most vocal
activists and lawmakers attribut-
ed the shift to their relentless
pressure.
The evictions episode also bore
some echoes of the way Biden
responded to demands from lib-
erals that he do more to champion
voting rights in the face of GOP
state legislatures tightening vot-
ing laws. After public criticism
reached a boiling point, Biden’s
Justice Department announced
new actions, and Biden gave a
speech on the topic in Philadel-
phia a few weeks later.
Hiccups along the way, howev-
er, suggest more trouble could be
in store for the president in the
months ahead with the left wing
of his party. There is lingering
dissatisfaction on the left that a
campaign promise to raise the
federal minimum wage to $15 an
hour has yet to be realized. And
they are pressing Biden to do
more on immigration, voting
rights, climate change and gun
control.
marianna.sotomayor@
washpost.com
sean.sullivan@washpost.com
tony.romm@washpost.com
Mike DeBonis and Tyler Pager
contributed to this report.
president at times has sounded a
skeptical note about delivering
the sort of relief his party’s law-
makers seek. Six months ago, for
example, Biden signaled he is not
open to waiving $50,000 in stu-
dent debt, as lawmakers like War-
ren have sought.
“I will not make that happen,”
Biden told a borrower at a town
hall hosted by CNN in Milwaukee
on Tuesday. He later said: “I’m
prepared to write off a $10,000
debt, but not 50 because I don’t
think I have the authority to do it.”
The Justice Department con-
tinues to review the legality of the
matter. In recent days, though,
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-
Calif.) has signaled it is likely up to
Congress to act — a tough propo-
sition given Democrats’ narrow
majorities.
Undeterred, some Democrats
have resumed pushing vigorously
this week. Holding a call Tuesday
to celebrate their victory in
achieving a new eviction morato-
rium, progressive lawmakers spe-
cifically stressed the importance
of helping borrowers in need.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), for
one, called on the White House
and Congress alike to pursue “full
student debt cancellation.”
“We’ve got to have student loan
forgiveness.” said Rep. Barbara
Lee (D-Calif.), a member of the
caucus.
Democrats see reason for opti-
mism in the loan fight, and law-
makers, including Warren, say the
law is on the president’s side in
canceling student debt.
“The eviction moratorium
could have died a quiet death. But
it didn’t because people spoke
out,” Warren said, adding of her
prospects: “That’s what gives me
hope.”
tony.romm@washpost.com
Danielle Douglas-Gabriel contributed
to this report.
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outdoor recreation
HEAT FROM A1
have to adapt.”
Adaptation is, indeed, the
name of the game this summer.
With extreme weather ripping
across the American West — his-
torically large wildfires, unfath-
omably high temperatures, a
megadrought decades in the
making — the reality of a chang-
ing climate has never been so
omnipresent.
At the same time, a country
seeking relief from more than a
year of pandemic-inspired anxi-
ety and isolation has perhaps
never been so desperate to em-
brace recreation in the natural
world.
The result has been a collision
— and, ultimately, a negotiation.
Americans are still getting out
this summer to do all the things
the season is good for. But they’re
making compromises and adjust-
ments, a recognition that human-
driven climate change is not some
abstract notion for the future, but
a determining factor in how
Earth can be experienced today.
“Climate change makes all
these kinds of extreme weather
events that much more probable,”
said Nick Bond, a climatologist at
the University of Washington. “If
you don’t like it, I’m sorry. But
this is probably something that
we’re going to have to deal with
again.”
Some of the shifts Americans
are making in response offer
blunt reminders of the scale of
the climate crisis. Others obscure
it, making it possible to pretend
that nothing much has changed.
On Lake Powell — the nation’s
second-largest reservoir and a
haven for boating enthusiasts —
the bathtub ring along the sur-
rounding sandstone cliffs tells an
unmistakable story.
Two decades of drought have
brought the lake to its lowest-ever
level, with a decline this year that
has been especially pronounced.
“We’ve all known there was a
drought,” said William Shott, su-
perintendent of Glen Canyon Na-
tional Recreation Area, which en-
compasses the lake. “But I don’t
think anyone saw how drastic
this year was going to be. It’s been
very sudden.”
The falling water level has had
consequences: On the late July
day that Shott was speaking, only
two of the lake’s 11 boat ramps
were operational. The others had
been stranded high and dry.
Yet it could have been far
worse: Throughout the summer,
divers and barge operators have
been working furiously to move
marinas closer to the water. Utili-
ty lines have been shifted, too.
Wells have had to be refashioned
to keep water pumping at the
park’s hotels and restaurants.
Next month, a new multimil-
lion-dollar ramp will open so
boaters can reach Lake Powell
even if it hits “dead pool” levels —
a once-unthinkable point that
would render it virtually useless
as a reservoir.
“That’s the type of scrambling
we’re doing here now just to
maintain access,” Shott said.
Hundreds of miles down-
stream, at Lake Mead, it’s a simi-
lar story, with the water level at
the nation’s largest reservoir hav-
ing fallen by a Statue of Liberty-
sized amount. And as with Lake
Powell, workers have been so
busy moving ramps and making
other adjustments that the casual
boater might not even notice.
“There’s still a lot of water
there,” said Chad Taylor, who
directs sales and marketing at
Lake Mead Mohave Adventures,
which manages marinas, motels
and restaurants on the lake. “If it
wasn’t for the bathtub ring, you
wouldn’t know that the lake level
is so low. It just means more
sandy beaches.”
In Missoula, Mont. — a para-
dise for outdoor enthusiasts with
its easy access to national forests
— the wildfire-infused air this
summer has been harder to ig-
nore. It has made the surround-
ing hills hazy and cast everything
under a slight yellowish pall.
“This year is looking like it’s
going to be one of the worst ones,”
said Pam Gardiner, a retired For-
est Service employee in her 70s
who said she checks the air quali-
ty online a couple of times a day.
On a recent Monday, the air
was crossing into “unhealthy.”
She was heading home from a
running club meeting where the
smoke was on people’s minds.
Gardiner said she tries to get
outside a couple hours at a time
for distance training, but lately,
she’s stuck on a treadmill.
“It takes some of the joy out of
summer,” Gardiner said. As she
spoke, she cleared her throat
every few minutes. The smoke
irritates her chronic cough.
Michael Hodges, a 45-year-old
writer and wildlife photographer,
has lived in the Missoula area
since 2014, drawn by the abun-
dant wilderness.
EZ RE
TOP: Smoke from the Dixie Fire
fills the sky late last month
above new construction in
Paradise, Calif., a town
virtually destroyed by a fire
three years earlier.
ABOVE: A man sits with his dog
as he eats lunch June 26 at a
cooling center in Portland, Ore.
This summer, a deadly heat
wave has swept the Pacific
Northwest.
Yet this summer, he said, fire
has put his favorite high-altitude
lakes off-limits. Many roads are
closed. “Typically I can escape the
heat and the smoke by driving to
one of these remote national for-
est spots,” he said. “But it’s so
all-encompassing that that’s off
the table.”
Now he is looking to move.
“This is my home, and I love it,
dude,” he said. “But the smoke —
it’s driving me out.”
The vast scale of the wildfire
threat makes it hard to know
where to go for relief.
More than 1,000 miles east of
Missoula, Minnesota’s Twin Cit-
ies region was coated in suffocat-
ing air pollution last week. Some
of those seeking a break drove
hours north to the shores of Lake
Superior, where they found . . .
more smoke.
“When we got here Thursday
from Minneapolis, it was really
bad,” said Lauren Schroeder, 41,
who was staying at a lakeside
resort. “It smelled like burning
plastic. It’s gotten better, but you
can definitely feel it in the air.”
The thick air made Schroeder
think twice about hiking and
other outdoor activities with her
four kids. “It’s unfortunate be-
cause you come up here for the
fresh air and to get away from the
cities,” she said, “and then you
have to rethink your plans.”
The smoke plus the dry condi-
tions are keeping some people
away entirely. A fire ban in the
THE WASHINGTON POST
“Climate change makes
all these kinds of
extreme weather events
that much more
probable.”
Nick Bond, a climatologist at the
University of Washington
area, which extends west to the
Boundary Waters, has made the
idea of camping unpalatable.
“I have a friend who was plan-
ning to spend nine days on the
Superior Hiking Trail,” said Hans
Krengel, owner of WatersEdge
Trading Company in Tofte, along
the North Shore. “She decided to
cancel her trip.”
To those living in the path of
wildfires, staying home carries its
own peril.
Chris Windbiel packs a bag
every night with her best clothes
and key household items and
keeps it by her bed, along with a
head lamp in case of a wildfire
evacuation order in the Califor-
nia wine country town of Healds-
burg.
In addition to wildfires and
smoke, which have plagued the
town for years, the area is experi-
encing a severe drought, with
mandatory water rationing.
Sprinklers or irrigation are both
. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5 , 2021
KYLE GRILLOT FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
ALISHA JUCEVIC FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
banned, on pain of fines of up to
$1,000 per day.
Windbiel’s husband, John Wi-
est, recently bought a “tote,” a
plastic container for liquids capa-
ble of holding 275 gallons, to take
advantage of the city’s new pro-
gram to deliver free “gray water”
— recycled from other uses —
once a week to residents. “I’m
trying to keep my trees, flowers,
garden and tomatoes alive,” Wi-
est said.
In the water-rich Pacific North-
west, the twin plagues this sum-
mer have been heat and fire.
Frazier, who runs the chain of
sports camps, said in addition to
shifting kids indoors when neces-
sary to avoid record-beating tem-
peratures or unhealthy air, his
programs have moved to earlier
in the day, with more water
breaks and coaches instructed to
be vigilant for signs of overheat-
ing.
And as extraordinary as this
summer has been in the North-
west, he doesn’t expect next sum-
mer — or any summer — to be
fundamentally different.
“That’s the new normal,” he
said. “That’s the way we’re going
to have to conduct business now.”
griff.witte@washpost.com
hannah.knowles@washpost.com
Knowles reported from Missoula,
Regan reported from Grand Marais,
Minn., and Olmos reported from
Portland. Lea Donosky in Healdsburg
contributed to this report.
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(D-Va.) with the help of Sen. Todd
C. Young (R-Ind.), is a marriage of
one noncontroversial measure
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a conflict that ended more than
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Republicans contend that the
2002 Iraq War authorization
should remain on the books to
address potential future threats
in an unstable region.
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any tool that gives us
leverage at a time the
Iranian regime is
increasing its posture
against us, without a
replacement.”
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.)
“I’m loath to remove any tool
that gives us leverage at a time
the Iranian regime is increasing
its posture against us, without a
replacement,” Sen. Bill Hagerty
(R-Tenn.) said.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah),
who co-led the GOP’s campaign
to interview government officials
about repealing the authoriza-
tions, questioned whether the
recent presidential decisions to
withdraw U.S. combat troops
from the Middle East and Af-
ghanistan might make the 2002
AUMF relevant in the future in
ways it is not today.
“Would we under Article II
have the legal authority to go in,
if we’re not there and threat-
ened?” he asked. Article II of the
ton and Chicago — and on pace to
increase further this year in
many places, officials hope ar-
rests like those announced
Wednesday will begin to make a
dent.
Deputy Attorney General Lisa
O. Monaco traveled from Wash-
ington to meet with federal law
enforcement officials who repre-
sent the New York strike force
and joined Audrey Strauss, the
acting U.S. attorney for the
Southern District of New York, to
announce the federal indict-
ments. She stressed the need to
identify the suppliers of weapons
on the illegal gun market.
Trafficking cases “don’t in-
volve truckloads of guns moving
all at once” but rather they hit the
market gradually, Monaco said.
“That nonetheless adds up to
serious public safety risks, and
highlights and identifies the cor-
ridors to go after the sources, and
that’s what this strike force is
about.”
Three defendants named in
the indictment were arrested
Wednesday, and three had been
taken into custody earlier — in-
cluding Duvaughn Wilson, ac-
cused of being the “straw” pur-
chaser who bought a total of 87
guns in 30 transactions with
licensed dealers in Georgia be-
tween last August and April.
In making those purchases,
the indictment says, Wilson at-
tested that the guns were for his
own use. But he allegedly then
provided the guns to co-defen-
dants James Thomas (a.k.a.
Spazz) and Courtney Schloss
(a.k.a. Bway), prosecutors said.
Many of the weapons allegedly
ended up in the possession of
members of the Blixky Gang, a
musically inclined street crew in
Brooklyn, for use in music videos
where guns were brandished
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Constitution establishes the
president as commander in chief
of the armed forces; in that guise,
presidents are assumed to have
the right to dispatch military
force without Congress’s consent
when the United States or its
vital interests come under attack.
Not all Republicans accepted
that logic, however. Sen. Rand
Paul (R-Ky.) challenged his col-
leagues to explain why they
thought it would be a bad thing if
a future president had to seek a
new war authorization from Con-
gress to counter new threats.
“A vote to keep this is really a
vote to allow something as big as
the Iraq War was at its maxi-
mum,” Paul said, reminding his
colleagues that, in hindsight,
many people view the Iraq War
was “a mistake.”
“People say we might not vote
for it — that would be good if we
didn’t vote for another Iraq war,”
he said. “But if there is another
need for a war, come and vote.
When we have been attacked, we
voted overwhelmingly.”
That the debate over Kaine’s
proposal continues to be conten-
tious portends an even more
difficult road ahead as Congress
turns its attention to other war
authorizations that critics be-
lieve have been stretched to justi-
fy military action.
On Tuesday, the State Depart-
ment’s Sherman said that “revis-
ing the 2001 AUMF is appropri-
ate,” and congressional archi-
tects of the repeal effort would
like to see it shelved by the 20th
anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist
attack next month. But almost all
proponents and opponents of the
repeal agree that it cannot be
taken off the books without a
ready replacement — and thus
far, those negotiations have not
reached a conclusion.
Congress in coming days is
scheduled to recess for its tradi-
tional summer break, and is not
expected to return until after the
anniversary.
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along with wads of cash, officials
said. Alleged members of the
group were among those charged
in the indictment.
In February, a gun allegedly
supplied by Wilson was used to
fire at officers in the Bronx,
according to the indictment, and
recovered at the crime scene.
Another gun allegedly purchased
by Wilson was recovered from a
shooting scene, also in the Bronx,
two months later, officials said.
Participants in the gun ring
allegedly used codes associated
with professional athletes to ref-
erence the weapons they were
trafficking.
Strauss said one member of
the group allegedly warned an-
other about law enforcement
stopping buses along their corri-
dor, explaining to the alleged
accomplice “if they find some-
thing” it’s a federal crime.
Law enforcement officials said
investigators have recovered 18
of the 87 weapons that were
allegedly fed to the black market
by Wilson, who was arrested in
Georgia in connection with the
gun purchases on April 23 and
has been released pending trial.
Charges in the superseding
indictment announced on
Wednesday include conspiracy to
traffic weapons, gun trafficking
and interstate travel with intent
to engage in gun trafficking.
Thomas and Schloss also were
arrested before Wednesday.
Defendants Jamel Thomas
and Argam Taj were arrested in
New York on Wednesday morn-
ing, while Ken Alexander, who
also is charged, was arrested in
Massachusetts.
Three defendants — Harlie Ra-
mos, Samuel Taj and Christopher
Machado — are at large, officials
said.
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Senators support a memorial day for more than 614,000 pandemic victims
Warren, who lost brother
to covid-19, sponsors bill
for a national tribute
BY W ILLIAM W AN
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-
Mass.) and two other senators
introduced a resolution Wednes-
day to create a national covid-19
day of memorial, giving momen-
tum to the cause of hundreds of
grieving families to ensure their
loss is not forgotten.
For months, the families of
those who died struggled to find
a single senator to support their
cause, and they converged on
Washington last week to make
their pleas in person.
The activists argue that the
number of Americans killed in
the pandemic — totaling more
than 614,000 — have been ig-
nored by many in the country.
Their loved ones, they say, have
been reduced to a number and a
point of debate amid the ongoing
fight over masking and vaccina-
tion mandates in the United
States.
Creating a national day of
remembrance, they argue, would
not only acknowledge those loss-
es and help families grieve, it also
could unify the country in grief at
a time when it remains bitterly
divided on pandemic response.
“We’re also doing this for fu-
ture generations,” said Kristin
Urquiza, who lost her father last
year. “The lessons we learned
during this pandemic came at
such a high cost. By remember-
ing that loss every year, we’re
passing down those lessons so we
can prevent this level of disaster
from happening again.”
Concerns about bias turn some families to home schooling
HOME SCHOOL FROM A1
“Dealing with everything that
we’re dealing with — with the
social climate, with the political
climate, I could not see putting
my kids back in school. I just
could not,” Bates said.
So last summer she did some-
thing she had scarcely considered
before: She decided to take her
two older children out of school
and teach them herself, all while
caring for their younger sister.
As the new school year ap-
proaches, millions of parents are
eager to deliver their children
back to teachers and put remote
schooling — which wrought an-
ger, frustration and financial tur-
moil for parents who needed to
return to work — behind them.
But for other parents, particular-
ly parents of color, the pandemic
and last summer’s national reck-
oning over race prompted them
to pull their children from tradi-
tional schools entirely, moves
that helped fuel an explosion in
the popularity of home schooling.
The percentage of children in
home schooling has nearly tri-
pled since mid-2019. By May of
this year, the U.S. Census Bureau
found more than 1 out of every 12
students were being home-
schooled.
Even more remarkable are
where those gains came from:
Even though home schooling has
often been considered the do-
main of religious White families,
the most significant increases
were seen among Black, Latino
and Asian households.
Between 2019 and May 2021,
home-schooling rates jumped
from about 1 percent to 8 percent
for Black students — a more than
sixfold increase. Among Hispanic
students, rates jumped from
2 percent to 9 percent. The in-
crease was less dramatic for
White families, where home
schooling doubled from 4 percent
to 8 percent over the same time
period. Between 2016, the year of
the most recently available data
for Asian American families, and
May, home-school rates went
from 1 percent to 5 percent.
With coronavirus vaccinations
widely available and safety proto-
cols in place, educators hope
Black, Latino and Asian parents
— who had expressed the greatest
reluctance to return to class-
rooms — will feel confident
enough to put their children back
in school buildings. But many
have concerns that extend far
beyond coronavirus safety issues,
meaning the upswing could be-
come permanent.
What is driving the shift is
difficult to parse, because of the
dearth of research that focuses on
Black, Latino and Asian families.
But previous studies of Black
home-schooling families found
they were often pushed out of
traditional school systems when
their children encountered racist
treatment in the classroom. In
interviews, Latino families ex-
. THE WASHINGTON POST
Rima Samman talks about the death of her brother as a candlelight vigil for coronavirus victims is held
at the White House Ellipse, on July 26, during a lobbying effort for a day of remembrance.
The group Urquiza co-found-
ed, called Marked by Covid, has
been the driving force behind the
congressional lobbying effort.
Earlier this year, she and other
activists convinced Rep. Greg
Stanton (D-Ariz.) to introduce a
bill in the House of Representa-
tives and got 51 Democratic
members to co-sponsor it. But
without a companion bill in the
Senate, the measure did not
stand a chance of passage.
So Urquiza and others decided
to focus their efforts on Warren,
whose brother died of covid-19
early on in the pandemic.
“Our hearts hurt from every-
thing and everyone that this
Tyce Yorke, 11, with parents Tracie and Shenan Yorke in late June at their home in Hyattsville, Md. Tyce attended an independent school in
Virginia, but amid the pandemic Tracie Yorke decided he should be home-schooled so he could develop a better understanding of his roots.
pressed similar concerns. And
Asian families have sought to
influence their children’s cultural
education.
In many cases, the migration
from mainstream education
shows the rising fears among
parents of color that schools are
failing their children and the
growing awareness of racial dis-
parities in the treatment and out-
comes for children of color. While
the U.S. school system strives to
be “the great equalizer,” inequali-
ty is still deeply embedded in the
nation’s public schools, with
yawning achievement gaps mark-
ing the performance between
White and Asian students and
Black and Latino ones. For par-
ents already frustrated with their
child’s education, the pandemic
provided another reason to give
home schooling a try.
“I feel like the school system is
setting these kids up for failure,
and I don’t want my child being a
part of it,” said Jennifer Johnson,
a former Baltimore schoolteacher
who is now raising — and home-
schooling — her 7-year-old cousin
Donovan Bien. The underfunded
city schools — where three-quar-
ters of students are Black and at
least 58 percent hail from low-in-
come households — are emblem-
atic of the kinds of schools Black
children attend across the nation.
“Baltimore City schools, ever
since they have been established,
have been advocating for ad-
pandemic has stolen from us,”
Warren said in a statement an-
nouncing her senate resolution.
Warren lost the oldest of her
three brothers, Donald Reed Her-
ring, 86, in late April 2020. She
has talked about his death in
detail only a handful of times. In
an interview in the Atlantic last
year, she recounted how she
remained haunted by the fact her
brother died completely alone.
“I just kept imagining what’s
happening to him. Is he afraid? Is
he cold? I kept thinking about
whether he was cold,” she said.
“He died, by himself. That’s the
hard part — really hard part. It’s
hard to process things like this
equate resources — buildings,
materials. But we don’t have
those things,” Johnson said.
Bernita Bradley, an education
activist in Detroit who works
with the National Parents Union,
said the pandemic lay in stark
relief the disparities between the
city and more-affluent suburbs.
After schools closed in March
2020, suburban districts swung
into action and started remote
schooling while Detroit was still
trying to get laptops to students.
“Our kids here were at a stale-
mate, and all we kept being told
was ‘Give us time,’ ” said Bradley,
who home-schooled her daughter
for her senior year after a dismal
start to virtual learning that
spring. “Seriously, it was devas-
tating.”
Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman, a
scholar who is working on a book
about Black home schooling, said
many Black parents fear that
some traditional public schools
will exact a mental and psycho-
logical toll on their children.
“When we talk about being in
spaces where our histories are
continuously distorted or ig-
nored, where a child cannot see
themselves or their ancestors in
the retellings of stories on how
things have been created or devel-
op, that is an assault on your
mental state,” Ali-Coleman said.
“Home schooling becomes a safe
space.”
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because everything is happening
at a distance.”
The resolution would desig-
nate first Monday of every March
as “COVID–19 Victims and Survi-
vors Memorial Day.”
Warren was joined by two
fellow Democrats as co-sponsors:
Sen. Edward J. Markey — War-
ren’s colleague in Massachusetts
— and Sen. Martin Heinrich
(N.M.).
It is unclear how likely it is
that the resolution will win pas-
sage. No Republican in Congress
has endorsed the measure, de-
spite hundreds of calls, emails
and meetings by grieving fami-
lies. Hampering their efforts is
showed that Black home-school
parents sought to escape a system
that they believed treated their
children unfairly. It was some-
thing Mahala Dyer Stewart, a
sociologist and visiting professor
at Hamilton College in New York,
discovered when she interviewed
Black and White home-schooling
families within an unnamed
Northeast metropolitan region as
part of a study conducted from
2014 to 2016.
“I had many stories of Black
boys being framed by teachers in
particular as violent or hostile
when the mother didn’t see where
that was coming from,” Stewart
said in an interview. By contrast,
White mothers were primarily
concerned about catering to their
child’s academic needs and never
expressed anxiety that their chil-
dren were being targeted. “It was
totally different.”
The fear expressed by Black
mothers is hardly unique to that
community.
Tanya Sotelo is Latina and rais-
ing her family in a community
east of Los Angeles. She and her
husband began home-schooling
their autistic son Fox, 8, this year
in part because they began worry-
ing about what would happen
when the boy shed his “cuteness
and smallness.” When Fox grew to
be taller, would administrators
perceive him as a threat when he
is in the midst of a breakdown?
Her fears are rooted in data:
New coronavirus cases, deaths and
vaccine doses in the U.S., by day
As of 8 p.m. Wednesday
CASES
Total 35,366,673
Yesterday 119,613
7-day avg.
Feb. 29 May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. March April May
DEATHS
Total 614,652
Yesterday 643
7-day avg.
Feb. 29 May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. March April May
VACCINE DOSES ADMINISTERED
Total 348,102,478
Yesterday 725,329
Feb. 29 May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. March April May
Note: Yesterday’s vaccine dose total reflects two days’ worth of inoculations.
fear among Republicans that ac-
knowledging people’s suffering
could be construed as criticism of
former president Donald Trump.
In the Senate, such resolutions
in the past have passed without a
vote as long as no senator objects.
But in the House, it could face a
steeper challenge.
In the 1990s, U.S. house lead-
ers adopted a new rule to reduce
the flood of commemorative bills
congressional representatives
were introducing about obscure
people and events in their home
districts. That prohibition could
make the resolution more diffi-
cult — though not impossible —
to pass in the House.
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Black and Latino children and
special-education students are
overrepresented in suspensions,
expulsions and school arrests, for
reasons some attribute to racial
bias.
“There was a lot of discussion
about how disabled children are
disproportionately given deten-
tion, suspended, disciplined, and
how even in some states, you
know, like school resource offi-
cers will actually handcuff or
even take children, you know, put
them in the squad car or what-
not,” Sotelo said.
Cheryl Fields-Smith, an educa-
tion professor at University of
Georgia who has conducted the
most significant research on
Black home-schooling families,
said she worries about what tradi-
tional schooling — including the
dearth of Black history — does to
the psyche of a Black child.
She said the recent efforts to
tamp down on how teachers talk
about race — including passing
laws that ban the teaching of
critical race theory, an intellectu-
al movement that examines the
way policies and laws perpetuate
systemic racism — concern her.
“Cultivating a positive self-identi-
ty for children of all races . . .
means that we have to tell the
truth about our history. It worries
me that somebody is worried
about that and they want to stop
that,” Fields-Smith said. “Right
now, we have to home-school
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“I think this bill is ultimately
going to pass,” said Stanton, who
authored the House bill. “The
families fighting for this are on
the right side of this tragedy, and
they have an army fighting for it.”
Stanton noted his own wife
spent five nights in the hospital
with covid-19: “Everyone’s been
touched by this."
Urquiza said her group plans
to redouble their lobbying efforts
in coming weeks, with the goal of
enacting the memorial day en-
acted in time for March next year.
“For us," she said, “it’s not a
question if we get it passed, but
when.”
william.wan@washpost.com
because the way schools are, most
of them — it’s tearing our children
apart.”
Tracie Yorke was working at
and also sending her son Tyce to
an independent school in Vir-
ginia when the pandemic struck
and forced the school to go re-
mote. Then, as she processed her
anguish and fear after Floyd’s
killing, she decided she wanted
her son to get an education that
would give him an understanding
of and a deep sense of pride in his
roots and teach him why he
would have to carry himself dif-
ferently than his White peers.
“I really wanted something re-
ally focused strongly with social
justice and a focus on African and
African American culture and re-
ally addressing sort of the needs
of students of color,” said Yorke,
who now works as an educational
consultant from her home in
Hyattsville, Md.
So in the past year, Tyce has
taken a hodgepodge of online
courses that covered African crea-
tion myths, the intersection of
science and race, and the history
of Grandmaster Flash and turn-
tablism. Instead of Spanish, he is
learning Yoruba. Yorke teaches
him to challenge Eurocentric his-
torical narratives — such as the
idea that Christopher Columbus
“discovered” the Americas, a
sprawling land mass that had
been populated for at least
20,000 years before his arrival.
The nation’s racial reckoning
prompted soul-searching for
Christynn Morris, a mother of
two whose parents emigrated
from the Philippines. And that
soul-searching led her to decide
to pull her daughters from the
New Jersey private school where
Morris had worked as a music
teacher.
She said she was “just thinking
about the kind of education the
kids are receiving” and won-
dered, “Is their story even going
to be a part of it?”
Come this fall, her daughters
will take Tagalog and Filipino
folk-dancing lessons. And she en-
rolled them in the social-justice-
oriented Black Apple virtual
school.
For Bates, the mother from
Virginia, home schooling has also
brought a sense of freedom. Her
children have a flexible schedule,
allowing them to take breaks
when needed. Her children can
work on their own timelines in-
stead of being tied to a classroom
curriculum, taking breaks or
spending more time on subjects
that trip them up. She is intent on
centering Black history in their
education.
She had been worried that
home schooling would over-
whelm her and her husband. In-
stead, it seemed to have the oppo-
site effect.
“For the first time in a long
time,” Bates said, “I felt extremely
liberated.”
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Cuomo is defiant as public, political support evaporates
CUOMO FROM A1
had no major figures in the state
or national Democratic Party de-
fending him — a precipitous fall
for man once seen as a party star
and White House contender.
The deepening peril for the gov-
ernor was underscored by news
that the district attorneys of Man-
hattan and Westchester County
had sought materials gathered as
part of Attorney General Letitia
James’s investigation, the first
steps toward launching formal
criminal probes. Both offices
sought information about epi-
sodes of alleged harassment by
Cuomo that occurred within their
jurisdictions, including his con-
duct toward a female state troop-
er.
Those inquiries come after Al-
bany County District Attorney Da-
vid Soares announced Tuesday
that his office is pursuing a crimi-
nal investigation of the governor.
An official familiar with the
matter said James’s office would
cooperate with other law enforce-
ment bodies.
Meanwhile, the Judiciary Com-
mittee of the New York State As-
sembly, which has been conduct-
ing its own investigation of the
sexual harassment allegations, is
set to meet Monday, and impeach-
ment articles are expected to be
drafted later this month, accord-
ing to people familiar with the
committee’s work.
The Assembly has the power to
impeach Cuomo with a majority
vote, which under the New York
Constitution would prompt a trial
by the state Senate and a group of
senior state judges. That body
could remove Cuomo from office
by convicting him with a vote of
two-thirds of its members.
On Tuesday, Assembly Speaker
Carl E. Heastie met with fellow
Democrats and announced after-
ward that “it is abundantly clear to
me that the governor has lost the
confidence of the Assembly Dem-
ocratic majority.”
At least 82 of the Assembly’s 150
members — a majority of the body
— support beginning impeach-
ment proceedings if Cuomo
doesn’t quit, according to a tally by
the Associated Press.
“I don’t know of more than a
handful of members that would
vote against impeachment right
now,” a Cuomo adviser said.
The public mood has shifted, as
well: a Marist poll taken Tuesday
night found that 59 percent of
New Yorkers want Cuomo to re-
sign and only 18 percent of Demo-
crats would back his reelection.
Cuomo’s sta≠ sought help from victim advocate in push to discredit accuser
BY M ICHAEL S CHERER
AND J OSH D AWSEY
Days after the first accusation
of misconduct surfaced last year
against New York Gov. Andrew
M. Cuomo (D), his staff began
reaching out to a prominent ad-
vocate for sexual harassment vic-
tims and the head of the largest
gay rights group for guidance as
they mulled how to discredit his
accuser.
This week, an independent in-
vestigation commissioned by
New York Attorney General Leti-
tia James found that the subse-
quent effort by the governor’s
office to undermine the credibili-
ty of former Cuomo adviser Lind-
sey Boylan — by leaking her
private employee records and cir-
culating a draft of a letter that
impugned her credibility —
amounted to “unlawful retalia-
tion.”
Attorney Roberta Kaplan, a
co-founder of Time’s Up Legal
Defense Fund, and Alphonso Da-
vid, the president of the Human
Rights Campaign, are now facing
questions about their role in Cuo-
mo’s aggressive effort to fight
back against his accusers.
Jill Basinger, an attorney for
Boylan, said in an interview
Wednesday that she and her cli-
ent were stunned to read in the
attorney general’s report that
Cuomo’s office consulted with the
advocates as they sought to un-
dermine Boylan’s account.
“We were shocked, just
shocked that the people that were
asked to protect survivors, the
very organizations put in place to
help people, were being weap-
onized against Lindsey,” Basinger
said, adding: “She didn’t know
there were this many people root-
ing against her.”
Kaplan is described in the at-
torney general’s report as confer-
ring with Time’s Up President
Tina Tchen at the request of a
Cuomo adviser about the appro-
priateness of the letter Cuomo’s
aides were preparing to release
that pushed back on Boylan by,
among other things, attacking
her political motivations and de-
nying the legitimacy of her
claims. Top Cuomo aide Melissa
DeRosa, who was legally repre-
A screen in Times Square shows coverage Tuesday of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo after the state attorney general’s office found he had sexually
harassed 11 women. Prosecutors in Manhattan and Westchester County have asked for information regarding Cuomo’s alleged conduct.
Still, Cuomo has remained un-
bowed in the wake of the report’s
release.
In a video address released
Tuesday afternoon, he said he
would continue serving as gover-
nor and defended himself as a
champion of women and victims
of sexual harassment. “The facts
are much different than what has
been portrayed,” he said.
“He is going to take it to the
brink and see if his shamelessness
works, and to see where the As-
sembly really is,” said Jonathan
Rosen, a New York political strat-
egist. Rosen said he did not think
it would work but added that for-
mer president Donald Trump and
other politicians had shown
“shamelessness” can work.
Even some of Cuomo’s longtime
advisers expressed disbelief at his
tone in his video response Tuesday
and a rebuttal document released
by the governor’s office that dis-
puted the characterizations of his
accusers and argued that Cuomo
maintained a “family” atmos-
phere in his office. It included
eight pages of photographs of
Cuomo kissing and hugging other
sented during the investigation
by Kaplan’s law firm, told investi-
gators that Kaplan was “fine”
with the document with some
changes.
In a statement, Kaplan said
that she tried to respond to the
request from the governor’s office
in a way consistent with the
mission of Time’s Up.
“While it turns out the re-
sponse was never published, I
made it very clear that any re-
sponse should never shame an
accuser,” Kaplan said in a state-
ment when asked about her role
in shaping the letter about Boy-
lan. “Given the revelations in the
New York Attorney General re-
port, I support and agree with
Time’s Up that Governor Cuomo
should resign.”
Tchen said in an interview that
while she did not remember the
particulars of what she discussed
with Kaplan, she was angry that
Cuomo’s office had tried to use
that conversation internally to
justify the letter. She said she was
confident that she would have
pushed back on any effort to
attack Boylan.
“You cannot make any attempt
to attack or discredit a person
who has come forward with alle-
gations,” Tchen said. “Had those
parts existed in what was read to
me, I would have said, ‘Do not say
that.’ ”
David — a onetime lawyer in
the governor’s office who called
for his former boss to resign this
week — suggested changes to the
never-released Boylan letter,
which was later leaked to report-
ers, according to the investiga-
tion. He later made an effort to
get signatures for it, even though
he told Cuomo advisers he would
not sign it himself, David told
investigators. He also provided
Cuomo advisers with an internal
memo about Boylan, which he
had retained after leaving the
governor’s office, the report said.
David said in a statement to
The Washington Post that when
he was first approached about the
letter, he was not aware of the
extent of the allegations against
Cuomo.
“Absent all the facts, I chose
not to sign,” David said. “The facts
as outlined in the report are
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officials in public, and a second
exhibit filled with photographs of
other prominent Democratic offi-
cials, including President Biden,
Vice President Harris, House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former
president Barack Obama doing
the same.
“A joke,” said one. “Who would
put that out?” A second person
described it as “insane gaslight-
ing.”
Cuomo remained at the gover-
nor’s mansion Wednesday with
his dog, Captain, while his aides
were at the state Capitol assessing
the political damage, according to
people familiar with the situation.
Key lawmakers, including
Heastie, had not spoken to the
governor in the past 24 hours, they
said.
Some people close to the gover-
nor said he hoped the Assembly
would take a while to impeach
him so he would have time to
fight, and that he believed much of
the public would still want to hear
his side.
But current advisers said the
turn against him in the Assembly
was probably a fatal blow. While
devastating. Seeking our engage-
ment without disclosing all of the
relevant facts about any and all
survivors is reprehensible.”
Cuomo’s office declined to
comment.
Log Cabin Republicans, a con-
servative gay rights group and a
critic of the Human Rights Cam-
paign, called on David to resign
Wednesday for his role in Cuo-
mo’s defense. The release of the
report has also roiled tensions
inside the organization. Employ-
ees at the Human Rights Cam-
paign participated in an extend-
ed and sometimes hostile “open
conversation” on Wednesday
with David, according to a re-
cording of the session obtained
by The Post.
Several people asked David
about his possible resignation,
and multiple people voiced con-
cern about the damage his role in
the Cuomo matter would cause
the organization’s brand.
“I am looking at the issue to
make sure the brand is not in any
way affected,” David said, after
saying that he did not plan to
resign, according to the record-
ing.
The chairs of the Human
Rights Campaign’s two boards of
directors, Morgan Cox and Jodie
Patterson, released a statement
on Wednesday expressing “full
confidence” in David’s leadership
and announcing that his contract
had been extended for five more
years. But a planned publicity
campaign regarding his new con-
tract has been delayed, at David’s
request, and will be rolled out in
the near future so as not to
distract from his call for the
governor to resign, according to
David.
“This falls in the category of no
good deed goes unpunished,” said
Hilary Rosen, a Democratic strat-
egist who serves on the board of
Time’s Up and previously served
on the board of the Human
Rights Campaign. “These leaders
simply did what they always do,
give good advice to politicians to
tell the truth and not attack their
accusers. That clearly wasn’t
good enough for the cesspool that
Cuomo and his office was swim-
ming in. But they stayed away
and it isn’t fair to suggest other-
Cuomo wants to make his case to
individual members and try to
dissuade them from impeach-
ment, it is unlikely to work, they
said. And because the governor
and his team have a history of
tirades against lawmakers — even
allies — they have been unable to
secure any defenders, former ad-
visers said.
One of the only major figures in
New York not to call for Cuomo’s
resignation yet signaled Wednes-
day that he might. The Rev. Al
Sharpton planned to finish a se-
ries of meetings with local officials
in his civil rights group before
weighing in, his spokeswoman
Rachel Noerdlinger said, but she
added that “it is leaning heavily
that they want Gov. Cuomo to
resign.”
Separately, Cuomo remains un-
der investigation by federal and
state authorities on a number of
other issues, including his admin-
istration’s handling of nursing
home deaths during the pandem-
ic, the preferred access that Cuo-
mo family members were given to
coronavirus testing, and work
that state employees did on a
wise now.”
The involvement of both Kap-
lan and David was instigated by
DeRosa in December of last year,
when Cuomo’s advisers were
scrambling to find a way to blunt
the political damage of accusa-
tions about the governor that
Boylan was posting on Twitter,
according to the report. Boylan
would later accuse Cuomo in
detail of sexual harassment in an
online post, saying that he,
among other things, gave her an
unsolicited kiss in his Manhattan
office.
The attorney general’s investi-
gation concluded that her claims
were credible and that the gover-
nor’s behavior toward her was
unlawful.
David was a longtime defender
of Cuomo, helping him success-
fully navigate political crises,
such as when one of the gover-
nor’s top aides was indicted and
convicted of corruption. After
eight years in the governor’s of-
fice, he left to become the head of
the Human Rights Campaign in
2019.
Cuomo’s advisers first contact-
ed David for help with the Boylan
accusations on Dec. 9, 2020, after
Boylan, a former adviser to the
governor and candidate for Man-
hattan borough president, tweet-
ed that Cuomo was “one of the
biggest abusers of all time,” ac-
cording to the report. At the time,
she was the only accuser to go
public with such a claim.
DeRosa asked David for Boy-
lan’s “full file,” the attorney gener-
al’s report said, a reference to
documents related to unrelated
personnel issues that Boylan had
been involved with during her
time as a state employee. When
he was an attorney in Cuomo’s
office, David had counseled Boy-
lan during a personnel complaint
against her and had kept docu-
ments as a copy of his legal record
when he left Albany.
Two days later, David sent doc-
uments related to Boylan to Rich
Azzopardi, a communications ad-
viser to Cuomo, according to the
report.
David said this week that he
did not know the documents
would be leaked.
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memoir about his leadership dur-
ing the pandemic that secured
him a $5 million advance.
People close to Cuomo said his
team was surprised by the release
of the attorney general’s report on
Tuesday, which they learned of
roughly 10 minutes before it was
announced. While Cuomo’s office
had prepared for weeks to rebut
the report, the team was not ready
for some of the accusations, par-
ticularly those related to the state
trooper, whose account was not
previously public.
The trooper, who is in her late
20s, was hired onto Cuomo’s de-
tail after they had a brief ex-
change, even though she had not
yet served the requisite three
years to work on his protective
detail, investigators said.
The report details an alleged
pattern of harassing behavior by
the governor toward the trooper
while she was on duty in various
parts of the state. On several occa-
sions, Cuomo would ask her ques-
tions about her attire, such as why
she did not wear a dress, the re-
port said. She told him it was
impossible to carry a gun while
pose was other than to further
familiarize themselves with the
prior matter,” David said in a
statement. “By law, I am required
to provide my former client, New
York State, with any documents
with regard to my representa-
tion.”
Days later, according to the
report, Boylan tweeted more ac-
cusations against Cuomo, includ-
ing the charge that he had “sexu-
ally harassed me for years.” Az-
zopardi then obtained a separate
copy of the personnel files from
the counsel’s office and started to
give them to reporters in an effort
to raise questions about her cred-
ibility, according to investigators.
Around the same time, Cuomo
aides testified, the governor be-
gan drafting a letter, meant to be
signed by his former staff, that
would raise questions about Boy-
lan’s account.
“The letter denied the legiti-
macy of Ms. Boylan’s allegations,
impugned her credibility, and at-
tacked her claims as politically
motivated,” the report said.
There was significant debate
within the governor’s office about
the wisdom of this tactic, Cuomo
aides later told the attorney gen-
eral’s office.
DeRosa — who told investiga-
tors that she had her own qualms
about the letter — said Cuomo
instructed her to reach out to
“some of the folks on the team.”
Among the people DeRosa con-
tacted was Kaplan, who had
worked with Cuomo’s office in
2019 to extend the statute of
limitations for rape in New York.
DeRosa testified that Kaplan
read the letter to Tchen, a one-
time chief of staff to former first
lady Michelle Obama who now
serves as president of Time’s Up.
“Both of them allegedly sug-
gested that, without the state-
ments about Ms. Boylan’s interac-
tions with male colleagues, the
letter was fine,” the report con-
cluded, citing DeRosa’s testimo-
ny. (Kaplan and Tchen were not
interviewed by investigators.)
DeRosa later relayed their
views to Cuomo, as well as the
fact that many other advisers
thought it was a bad idea, she told
investigators.
A person familiar with Time’s
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wearing a dress.
Cuomo also told the trooper
that his criteria for a girlfriend
was someone who “can handle
pain,” according to the attorney
general’s report.
The governor touched the
trooper inappropriately on sev-
eral occasions, running his finger
down her spine when he was
standing behind her on an eleva-
tor in his New York City office,
according to the report. In an-
other episode, Cuomo allegedly
ran his hand across the trooper’s
stomach as she held the door open
for him at an event on Long Island.
“I felt . . . completely violated
because to me . . . that’s between
my chest and my privates,” the
trooper testified, adding, “But,
you know, I’m here to do a job.”
The offices of both Manhattan
District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.
and Westchester District Attorney
Miriam E. Rocah sought informa-
tion this week from the attorney
general’s office related to Cuomo’s
conduct toward the trooper.
In a letter sent Wednesday to
James’s office, Vance’s office re-
quested the names and contact
information of “two unnamed vic-
tims of potential sex crimes inci-
dents that may have occurred in
New York County.”
One is the state trooper, who
testified that Cuomo engaged in
unwanted touching of her body at
his New York City office. The other
is an individual described as State
Entity Employee #1, who said Cuo-
mo tapped and grabbed her but-
tocks at an event in New York City.
Vance’s office also requested
“any and all investigative materi-
als” related to the incidents and to
any others that took place in Man-
hattan.
Rocah is seeking information
related to the alleged harassment
and unwanted touching of the
trooper when she was stationed at
the governor’s residence in Mount
Kisco, N.Y., in Westchester County,
as NBC News first reported.
According to the attorney gen-
eral’s report, the trooper testified
that during the summer of 2019,
Cuomo asked whether he could
kiss her while she was stationed
outside the residence. Fearing
what would happen if she refused,
the trooper said she froze and
responded, “Sure.”
“The Governor then proceeded
to kiss Trooper #1 on the cheek and
said something to the effect of, ‘oh,
I’m not supposed to do that’ or
‘unless that’s against the rules,’ ”
the report stated.
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Up, who spoke on the condition
of anonymity because they were
not authorized to comment, said
that Tchen and Kaplan believed
the document was an op-ed that
was going to be published by
former Cuomo staffers, including
David.
“We have now learned it was
written by the governor and there
were questions about releasing it,
but none of that was discussed
with Time’s Up officials,” this
person said. “To be clear, no one
asked Times Up about whether to
go out with the document. Times
Up’s role was limited to what is
appropriate and inappropriate to
say when there are these kinds of
allegations.”
Around the same time, David
and other former Cuomo staff
were informed of the letter and
asked if they would sign it, ac-
cording to the report. David de-
clined to sign, since he said it
contained information that he
could not confirm. He said in an
interview that he helped revise
the letter by suggesting the re-
moval of passages that were prob-
lematic. After some revisions, he
agreed to read it to other former
staff members in an effort to get
other signatures, he said.
Investigators in the attorney
general’s office found that DeRo-
sa told other former employees
that David had said he would sign
the letter “if we need him.” David
denied that.
The attorney general’s office
concluded that the letter and the
leaked personnel files were retal-
iatory. The investigators said that
simply distributing the drafts of
the letter, which was never pub-
licly released, had the effect of
improperly discouraging others
who worked for Cuomo or previ-
ously worked for Cuomo from
coming forward with claims
against the governor.
“The responses to Ms. Boylan’s
public allegation of sexual ha-
rassment against the Governor
constituted unlawful retaliation,
in that it was conduct that would
‘dissuade a reasonable worker
from making or supporting a
charge of discrimination,’ ” the
report said.
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Report paints Cuomo
aide as a top defender
BY J OSH D AWSEY
The vivid and lengthy report
released Tuesday detailing exten-
sive allegations of sexual harass-
ment by New York Gov. Andrew
M. Cuomo mentions one aide’s
name 187 times, matched only by
the number of references to Cuo-
mo: top adviser Melissa DeRosa.
Throughout the report, DeRo-
sa is portrayed as a constant
force, taking part in an alleged
effort to discredit one of his ac-
cusers, lining up women and
elected officials to defend him
and even confronting and chas-
tising the governor about his be-
havior at one point.
DeRosa, the daughter of a pow-
erful Albany lobbyist, has long
played an influential role in Cuo-
mo’s orbit, one that has only
grown in recent years with the
departures of other key aides,
according to current and former
administration officials.
Cuomo obliquely defended her
in a video he posted in response to
the investigation, saying women
in positions of authority are treat-
ed worse because of their gender.
“A number of complaints tar-
get female managers, which
smacks to me of a double stan-
dard,” the governor said, adding:
“A strong male manager is re-
spected and rewarded. A strong
female manager is ridiculed and
stereotyped. It is a double stan-
dard. It is sexist. And it must be
challenged.”
DeRosa and her attorney de-
clined to comment on the record
about the report.
In recent weeks, after testify-
ing to the investigators in the
attorney general’s office, DeRosa
posted comments on Twitter
viewed by many Cuomo advisers
as a preemptive defense of how
she would be depicted.
“Haven’t you heard? Women
aren’t allowed to be mad or fight
— being tough and direct makes
you a ‘bitch,’ ” she wrote in one
tweet.
Holding the title of secretary to
the governor, DeRosa is widely
seen in the state as Cuomo’s en-
forcer — someone who engages in
bare-knuckled political brawling
and is known for delivering blis-
tering tirades, according to cur-
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rent and former Cuomo advisers.
“No one is closer to Cuomo in
state government,” said one long-
time Cuomo aide, who like others
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity to avoid incurring DeRo-
sa’s wrath. “If Melissa is scream-
ing at you, the governor is
screaming at you.”
The 38-year-old, who splits her
time between Brooklyn and the
Albany area, started as communi-
cations director in 2013 and be-
came the governor’s top aide in
2017. She was key to helping craft
Cuomo’s response to the corona-
virus pandemic and assisted him
in the writing of a book about his
handling of the crisis, for which
he was paid a $5 million advance.
The role of state employees in the
project is under investigation by
New York state authorities.
DeRosa has regularly touted
her work on behalf of women’s
issues and serves as Cuomo’s
“Chairwoman of the New York
State Council on Women & Girls,”
according to her biography. She
has been featured in various pub-
lications, including in a 2020 Elle
magazine profile, in which she
discussed her pivotal role in the
state’s coronavirus response.
“As long as you know what’s
going on and feel like there’s a
plan that you’re a part of, then you
can galvanize, and survive, and
endure, and get through it,” she
told Elle. “If you don’t, that’s
when you hit real crisis.”
In the report about the sexual
harassment allegations issued by
New York Attorney General Leti-
tia James, DeRosa is alleged to
have played a key role in trying to
discredit one of Cuomo’s accus-
ers, an effort that investigators
said was unlawful retaliation.
And despite the numerous claims
that surface about his behavior
with young female staffers, she is
not depicted as going to lengths
to investigate them.
In December, after former aide
Lindsey Boylan tweeted that the
governor was “one of the biggest
abusers of all time,” DeRosa asked
a former lawyer to the governor
for Boylan’s “full file,” according
to investigators.
Cuomo aides then distributed
Boylan’s personnel record, which
included internal complaints, to a
Melissa DeRosa, a top adviser to New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, attends one of his daily
coronavirus briefings in 2020. The secretary to the governor is widely seen in the state as his enforcer.
number of reporters — actions
that violated laws prohibiting re-
taliation against victims of sexual
harassment, the report said.
In a recorded call between De-
Rosa, another Cuomo aide and
two staffers at the Albany Times
Union, an editor told the gover-
nor’s office that the newspaper
did not want the Boylan file, the
report noted, but it was sent to
the outlet anyway.
DeRosa told investigators she
decided to release the file after
consulting with other staffers,
making the decision that it was
necessary because Boylan’s
claims on Twitter about Cuomo
had grown “more and more esca-
lating.”
At another point, DeRosa cir-
culated a letter to current and
former staff members attacking
Boylan and defending the gover-
nor, asking them to sign the letter,
even as she privately harbored
concerns about releasing it, ac-
cording to the report.
She then sought to secure
50 women to sign a second letter
— at Cuomo’s request — describ-
ing him as “strong, tough, re-
spectful, inclusive and effective”
after the allegations of harass-
ment emerged.
“One woman, who worked in
the Chamber at the time, told us
that she declined to sign the
statement because she did not
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believe the Chamber was an in-
clusive and supportive environ-
ment, and instead thought it was
abusive and toxic,” the report
says.
On another occasion, DeRosa
allegedly asked a former staffer to
call and record a state employee
who had tweeted about Boylan
supportively, looking to ferret out
what further claims might
emerge, according to the report.
The employee, identified in the
report only as Kaitlin, had fielded
uncomfortable comments about
her appearance from Cuomo
when she worked in the gover-
nor’s office, investigators said.
She later transferred to a state
agency.
The former staffer testified
that she called Kaitlin — and
surreptitiously recorded the con-
versation — at the insistence of
DeRosa, who “was looking for
information about if [Kaitlin]
was working with Lindsey [Boy-
lan] or if she had allegations
against the Governor,” the report
said.
The former staffer told investi-
gators that she felt pressured by
DeRosa’s constant calls and texts,
and “was deeply regretful” after
she made the call, the report
stated.
DeRosa did not end up using
the information from the record-
ed call because it was not to the
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advantage of the governor’s of-
fice, the report said.
“I did not think it went well,”
DeRosa told investigators.
DeRosa also tried to squelch a
news story scrutinizing whether
state rules were changed so an
inexperienced female state troop-
er could join Cuomo’s detail, the
report found.
The trooper was repeatedly ha-
rassed by Cuomo, who touched
her back and stomach, kissed her
and made comments about her
appearance, investigators said.
When a reporter from the Alba-
ny Times Union inquired about
how the trooper joined the detail
and whether she had sufficient
experience, DeRosa grew angry.
She told investigators that she
called the editor of the paper and
yelled at him: “You guys are try-
ing to reduce her hiring to being
about looks. That’s what men do.”
In fact, investigators found,
rules were broken: The trooper
had been allowed to transfer onto
the governor’s protective service
detail even though she did not
meet the three-year service re-
quirement. Cuomo then proceed-
ed “to engage in a pattern of
sexually harassing conduct
toward her,” the report found.
A person close to DeRosa said
she believed at the time the story
was sexist.
In March, as more allegations
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about the governor emerged pub-
licly, DeRosa called Larry
Schwartz, the state’s vaccine czar,
and asked him to phone county
executives and inquire whether
they were going to be calling for
the governor’s resignation, the
report said.
Although Schwartz said he
made clear to county officials that
he was not making the calls in his
role as vaccine czar, county lead-
ers told investigators they were
aware of his ability to influence
the distribution of vaccines at a
time when they were urgently
needed. One described himself as
stunned and unsettled by the
conversation.
Two weeks later, DeRosa asked
Schwartz to make another round
of calls to county executives to see
if their positions had changed.
“Ms. DeRosa testified that it
did not cross her mind that the
County Executives might feel
some pressure in receiving a call
from Mr. Schwartz, whose only
role in the government at that
time was the administration and
distribution of vaccines,” the re-
port stated.
Investigators also found that
what they described as the office’s
“toxic” culture was largely fueled
by DeRosa and several other
women. One woman said she
feared being fired if she reported
a bad interaction with the gover-
nor to DeRosa and another senior
staffer.
On occasion, Cuomo would ask
staffers how they were being
treated by the “mean girls,” refer-
ring to DeRosa and others, the
report said.
Cuomo denied using the term
“mean girls,” the report said, but
DeRosa said she had heard him
say it and asked him to stop,
saying she hated that term.
Even as she publicly defended
the governor, there were times
DeRosa castigated him behind
the scenes, the report said.
DeRosa testified that after she
learned that one aide, Charlotte
Bennett, had complained about
Cuomo’s conduct to state officials,
she angrily confronted the gover-
nor while traveling with him in a
car.
“I can’t believe that this hap-
pened,” DeRosa said she told Cuo-
mo. “I can’t believe you put your-
self in a situation where you
would be having any version of
this conversation.”
When the car stopped at a
traffic light, she said, she got out
and walked away.
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Massive economic packages inspire a lobbying bonanza
Thousands of firms that
would benefit from
proposals seek influence
BY T ONY R OMM
AND Y EGANEH T ORBATI
Nearly 2,000 companies and
organizations have lobbied Con-
gress and the administration this
year in an attempt to influence the
contours of major new infrastruc-
ture spending, an effort that is
sure to intensify now that the
Senate is hoping to vote within
days on their version of the $1 tril-
lion public-works package.
The proposal — along with a
still-forming second economic
package valued at $3.5 trillion —
carries high stakes for corpora-
tions that have long pined for
infrastructure improvements and
other federal spending that would
be beneficial to their bottom lines.
The first pot of money could be
used on a broad range of projects
across the country, focusing on
efforts to upgrade the nation’s
roads, bridges, pipes, ports and
Internet connections.
The organizations working to
shape the package — ranging
from powerful trade associations
representing agricultural and en-
ergy giants to small-time firms
working for cities in Alabama and
Kansas — mentioned either “in-
frastructure” or President Biden’s
initial proposal, known as the
American Jobs Plan, on their lob-
bying disclosure forms during the
most recent quarter this year, ac-
cording to an analysis from the
Center for Responsive Politics, a
nonprofit group that tracks mon-
ey and influence in Washington.
Those groups collectively have
spent more than $426 million in
their lobbying efforts, which in-
cludes trying to sway lawmakers
and regulators on far more than
just infrastructure, the center’s
data show. The activity reflects a
dramatic uptick from the same
period one year ago, when more
than 1,300 lobbying operations
sought to target Washington on
infrastructure. Their total spend-
ing on all issues over that period
exceeded $291 million.
Already, these lobbyists have
secured a number of victories. A
push publicly and privately by
conservative advocacy groups in-
cluding FreedomWorks ultimate-
ly helped prompt a bipartisan
group of senators to halt efforts to
increase new funding for the In-
ternal Revenue Service. Some
Democrats, along with the Biden
administration, had hoped to in-
clude the funding boost as a way
of beefing up tax enforcement on
corporations and the wealthy, and
raising government revenue.
“Massive spending bills like in-
frastructure and reconciliation
always offer the potential to reap
big rewards for clients,” said Shei-
la Krumholz, CRP’s executive di-
rector. “Now is when lobbyists
will be going all out to get in front
of members, trying to shape this
legislation.”
This year alone, more than 260
companies and other entities
large and small have hired new
lobbying firms in Washington
specifically on infrastructure, ac-
cording to an analysis of federal
ethics records. That includes Ar-
rival, a little-known electric vehi-
cle manufacturer that in April
retained a former Senate aide to
Biden, Ankit Desai, to lobby on
“charging infrastructure for me-
dium and heavy duty electric ve-
hicles,” among other issues.
In a statement provided by a
spokeswoman, Arrival’s vice pres-
ident for public policy, Richard
Colley, said the company “works
with a broad range of stakehold-
ers to advance the importance of
electrifying the transportation
sector to address the urgent cli-
mate crisis.”
Within corporate America,
meanwhile, the lobbying offen-
sive has been expensive and wide
ranging. Amazon, whose founder
Jeff Bezos owns The Washington
Post, spent nearly $10 million in
the first six months of the year on
a slew of lobbyists who worked on
issues including “electric vehicle
charging infrastructure” and “in-
frastructure investment legisla-
tion,” according to filings. The
Global Infrastructure Investor
Association, which represents fi-
nancial firms like Goldman Sachs,
Blackstone and Morgan Stanley,
lobbied earlier this year on “pub-
lic-private partnerships in financ-
ing state and federal infrastruc-
ture,” its disclosures show.
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Companies wanting influence in shaping new infrastructure
spending proposals have collectively spent more than $426 million
in lobbying efforts on far more than that, an analysis contends.
Amazon did not respond to a
request for comment. Lawrence
Slade, CEO of the GIIA, said in a
statement provided by a spokes-
man that the group engages with
governments to argue for the role
of private capital “in delivering
infrastructure that addresses
global challenges including cli-
mate change, clean energy and
digital communication.”
The lobbying barrage serves to
underscore the wide-ranging na-
ture of lawmakers’ ambitions as
they race to pass two major eco-
nomic packages in the Senate —
all in a matter of weeks.
The first, which targets infra-
structure, puts aside roughly $1
trillion for public works projects
that touch nearly every sector of
the economy. A bipartisan bloc of
lawmakers unveiled their pro-
posed legislation on Sunday.
With it, Democrats are finaliz-
ing a second measure that in-
cludes other categories of spend-
ing Biden supports, including
new money to expand Medicare,
combat climate change and invest
in new family and child-care-fo-
cused programs. At the request of
the White House, lawmakers
hope to finance much of this en-
deavor through tax hikes on cor-
porations and wealthy families, a
move that has only hardened Re-
publican opposition to the idea.
The White House has described
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these two sets of investments as
historic, likening the spending
Biden seeks — and the changes it
can catalyze — to the Great Soci-
ety and New Deal programs in the
shadow of the Great Depression.
But the policies also carry high
stakes for corporate America,
which has long pined for massive
federal investments that would be
beneficial to their bottom lines.
The delicate dance has been on
display since March, when Biden
released his $2.2 trillion infra-
structure plan that raised much of
its funding through tax increases
on large corporations. Organiza-
tions including the U.S. Chamber
of Commerce and the RATE Coali-
tion, a group that represents com-
panies like AT&T, CVS, FedEx and
Toyota, saw much to like in spend-
ing that would make it easier and
faster for them to ship goods. But
they also worked to block any
effort to roll back the tax cuts
enacted under President Donald
Trump.
The RATE Coalition hired
Forbes Tate Partners to lobby
against corporate tax raises, a
firm whose lobbyists include for-
mer aides to the Senate’s top tax-
focused committee. One of the
group’s leading advisers is
Blanche Lincoln, a former Demo-
cratic senator from Arkansas who
served with Biden in the Senate.
Senate negotiators ultimately
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have sidestepped the issue for
now, omitting any tax increases as
part of the $1 trillion infrastruc-
ture proposal they began debat-
ing on the floor Sunday. But the
fight over corporate rates is likely
to resurface, as Biden and his
Democratic allies seek to raise
taxes on corporations and
wealthy families as part of their
upcoming $3.5 trillion reconcilia-
tion package.
For now, though, the absence of
tax increases in infrastructure re-
form has helped lessen the indus-
try opposition. The Chamber even
helped launch a coordinated
Washington effort to push the
legislation called the Coalition for
Bipartisan Infrastructure Invest-
ment, which brought together la-
bor unions as well as business
groups like the National Associa-
tion of Manufacturers, which rep-
resents companies such as Dow
Chemical, ExxonMobil, Caterpil-
lar and Pfizer.
“We’re going to continue to
push until this thing gets done,”
said Ed Mortimer, vice president
of transportation and infrastruc-
ture at the Chamber, in a recent
interview. “This coalition is singu-
larly focused on coming to an
agreement on infrastructure.”
The corporate support for the
infrastructure plan has left some
liberal lawmakers uneasy, feeling
as though businesses are trying to
escape any new financial respon-
sibilities. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-
Cortez (D-N.Y.) pointed to some of
the emerging infrastructure bill’s
provisions, such as beneficial
bond financing and the possible
leasing of public infrastructure to
private entities, as a potential
giveaway that she said should be
“very concerning and should be
concerning to every American.”
“Bipartisan doesn’t always
mean that it’s in the interests of
the public good, frankly,” she said
this weekend on CNN’s “State of
the Union,” adding: “Sometimes,
there’s a lot of corporate lobbyist
giveaways in some of these bills.”
Lawmakers have included a
wide variety of additional funding
mechanisms in their bill. They
have proposed recovering money
from past coronavirus aid pro-
grams, for example, and put for-
ward new efforts to collect unpaid
taxes from cryptocurrency bro-
kers and investors. Their plan also
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proposes higher fees on chemical
manufacturers to help clean up
highly polluted “superfund” sites.
Taken together, Democrats and
Republicans insist that they can
raise enough revenue to cover the
full cost of the roughly $1 trillion
package — a contention some ex-
perts dispute. The financing is
critical to lawmakers from both
parties on Capitol Hill, some of
whom seem disinclined to sup-
port a bill that adds to the federal
deficit.
But those funding mechanisms
have touched off their own lobby-
ing barrage among affected in-
dustries.
The American Chemistry
Council, which represents com-
panies including 3M, Dow, Du-
pont and ExxonMobil, has taken
particular aim at a portion of the
infrastructure package that
would raise the country’s so-
called superfund tax. The group
has sought to stave off a renewal
of those fees, which expired in
1995, arguing it would hurt oil
and chemical companies and that
they shouldn’t be the only indus-
try forced to pay for the wide array
of new public-works spending.
Shortly after Democrats and
Republicans released their blue-
print for infrastructure reform in
June, the council’s top aides met
with White House officials and
began canvassing Capitol Hill. In
its lobbying burst, the trade asso-
ciation has argued that the exten-
sion of the superfund fee techni-
cally violates the parties’ pledges
not to raise taxes on corporations
or Americans making under
$400,000, arguing its imposition
would force members to raise
their prices.
“Whether it’s a car or consumer
electronics or paint or building
materials, all these things are
made with chemicals that are [po-
tentially] being taxed,” said Ross
Eisenberg, the vice president of
federal affairs at the ACC.
Noting the approach is “per-
verse in a way,” Eisenberg added
the lobbying would continue as
lawmakers proceed with debate.
“We’ve carried out a very robust
congressional education cam-
paign to . . . educate members of
Congress on this package,” he
said.
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People walk past the Bicentennial Tower in Erie, Pa., in July 2020. At stake in the redistricting process this year is partisan control of battleground states such as Pennsylvania.
Flurry of lawsuits signals fierce fights ahead on redistricting
REDISTRICTING FROM A1
they attempt to hold on to power,”
said Kelly Ward Burton, the
group’s president. “We are fight-
ing for fair maps that reflect the
will of the voters, and if Republi-
cans attempt to ignore this and
gerrymander their way to power,
we will be ready to sue.”
Other lawsuits over the map-
drawing procedures have popped
up in other states, providing an
early glimpse at efforts on the left
to blunt the GOP advantage.
In Wisconsin, for example, a
citizens group filed a complaint
against Republican state legisla-
tors over their decision to hire
private attorneys for possible
lawsuits related to redistricting.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court
last month sided with the GOP.
“Redistricting has become en-
trenched warfare where lawmak-
ers exert enormous effort and
expense to gain an inch,” said
Michael Li, senior counsel at the
Brennan Center for Justice, a
public policy institute that is part
of New York University Law
School. “Lawmakers have always
attempted to game redistricting,
but we’re seeing a lot of new
tactics this decade because so
much is on the line.”
The process of setting district
boundaries this year comes amid
a national fight over voting rules
— an issue that Democrats hope
will bring new energy and re-
sources to the arcane redistrict-
ing process.
Voting rights advocates warn
that the redistricting battles
could play into efforts to chal-
lenge election results — as Presi-
dent Donald Trump attempted to
do in 2020 — by shaping who is in
control of state legislatures and
Congress when the 2024 presi-
dential results are certified.
Democrats were caught off-
guard a decade ago when Repub-
licans, who had shored up their
majorities in state legislatures
during the 2010 tea party wave,
used their power to shape GOP-
friendly districts in battleground
states such as Pennsylvania,
Michigan, Wisconsin, North
Carolina and Ohio. The new con-
gressional districts gave Republi-
cans the power to stymie much of
President Barack Obama’s policy
agenda.
Republicans say they plan to
make the most of their current
dominance.
Adam Kincaid, the executive
director of the National Republi-
can Redistricting Trust, has said
his group is preparing for “a
decade of even more litigation,”
and to challenge maps it views as
unfairly tilted to the left.
“There will definitely be more
redistricting litigation this dec-
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ade,” he said. “Republicans will
be playing more defense than
offense because we have signifi-
cantly more redistricting control
than Democrats.”
Every state has different cri-
teria for drawing the maps for
state legislatures and House
seats. Since the last redistricting
in 2011, several states have moved
away from a partisan legislative
process and delegated the work
to commissions, though some
serve only in an advisory role and
their maps are not binding.
Of the 37 states where elected
officials will ultimately decide
the shape of congressional maps
this year, 20 are fully in Republi-
can control, eight are held by
Democrats and nine are split.
Redistricting is historically an
opaque process, despite its mas-
sive ramifications for U.S. poli-
tics. Democrats’ tenuous hold on
the U.S. House has raised the
stakes even higher — Republi-
cans need to flip only five seats to
take back the House and block
President Biden’s legislative
agenda in the second half of his
first term.
Democrats are already at a
disadvantage because of popula-
tion shifts. Several Republican-
controlled states, including Tex-
as, Florida and Georgia, are gain-
ing seats in Congress, while
Democratic-run New York, Illi-
nois and California are losing
them, according to census data
released this year. (A more de-
tailed set of numbers is expected
this month.)
In 2011 redistricting, Republi-
cans who had won control of a
majority of state legislatures a
year earlier used their power to
pack Democratic voters into few-
er districts and protect their GOP
majority.
“The gerrymandering that we
saw last cycle was unprecedented
in their sophistication and how
long they endured and defined
the last decade of our politics.
The Republicans were able to
dominate the process without
Democrats fully able to under-
stand what happened until it was
done,” said David Daley, an au-
thor who has written two books
on redistricting.
But, Daley said, “that won’t be
the case this time. Every twist
and turn in every state is going to
be contentious and chaotic and
contested.”
The Democratic group headed
by Holder argued in its suits in
Louisiana, Minnesota and Penn-
sylvania — three states with Re-
publican legislatures and Demo-
cratic governors — that the map-
making will cause gridlock and
that courts should be prepared to
draw the lines.
“These lawsuits are just the
first of many steps we will be
taking in the coming weeks and
months to ensure the redistrict-
ing process is not subverted by
politicians who want to hold onto
power at the expense of fair
representation,” Holder said in a
statement when the suits were
filed in the spring.
In Wisconsin, Democrats tried
to argue that Republican state
lawmakers should not be allowed
to use public funds to fight for
maps that would benefit them.
The decision by the state Su-
preme Court to side with the
Republicans could signal trouble
for Democrats in Wisconsin,
where the courts could have final
say over the maps if the Republi-
can legislature and the Demo-
cratic governor can’t agree on the
lines.
The case “was a preliminary
skirmish before litigation over
Wisconsin’s 2021 redistricting
heats up. We believe that it is an
improper, private purpose, ad-
vancing narrow, partisan aims
instead of the legislature’s insti-
tutional interests; the legislature
has no constitutional authority to
spend taxpayer dollars for private
gain,” said Doug Poland, a
Wisconsin-based election law at-
torney representing Wisconsin
Democracy Campaign, a group
that filed an amicus brief in the
case. “Of course, the legislature
could avoid all of the litigation
and attendant drama by follow-
ing a transparent process to enact
fair, representative districts. Un-
fortunately, every indication sug-
gests they will do the opposite.”
When the lawsuit was filed in
March, Wisconsin Assembly
Speaker Robin Vos (R), the
named defendant, called it “frivo-
lous” and “yet another lawsuit
filed by a liberal attorney.”
The legal landscape has
changed since 2011, leaving fewer
safeguards. The redistricting
conflicts this decade will be the
first since the Supreme Court
struck down a key protection in
the 1965 Voting Rights Act that
required states with a history of
racial discrimination to receive
clearance from the U.S. Justice
Department for changes to elec-
tion laws, including redrawing
maps. This is also the first redis-
tricting since the Supreme Court
in 2019 ruled that federal courts
would not take on partisan gerry-
mandering cases, leaving those
fights to play out in state courts.
The contentious process is fur-
ther complicated by the delayed
and compressed timeline for
map-drawing forced by the coro-
navirus’s impact on last year’s
census. States will not receive
population information needed
to draw districts until next month
— nearly six months later than
EZ RE
Redistricting landscape advantages Republicans
Control of post-census congressional boundaries in each state
Republicans (187 districts) Democrats (75)
Independent commission (96) Single district (6)
Mont.
Ore.
Colo.
Calif.
Texx.
Tex.
Sources: All About Redistricting, Brennan Center for Justice
normal.
Some states may not agree on
district boundaries until after
campaigning for the 2022 elec-
tions is underway, creating a
logistical nightmare for candi-
dates who want to run for Con-
gress or state legislatures but
won’t know who their voters will
be until after the filing deadline.
Some states have filed lawsuits
to extend those deadlines, al-
though not all have been success-
ful. The Michigan Supreme Court
recently denied a request from
the state’s independent redis-
tricting commission asking for
more time to draw the maps. The
Michigan maps are due Nov. 1.
Michigan is one of several
states since 2011 in which voters
shifted the redistricting burden
to independent or advisory com-
missions rather than relying sole-
ly on state legislatures — an effort
to take the politics out of the
A sign in Oshkosh, Wis., last fall encourages voting. Democrats in
Wisconsin argued that Republican state lawmakers should not be
allowed to use public funds to fight for maps that would help them.
Both parties (71) Seat gain
Seat loss
N.Y.
Mich.
Pa.
Ill. Ohio
W.Va.
N.C.
Fla.
Fla.
HARRY STEVENS/THE WASHINGTON POST
process. But the commissions are
facing upheaval as well.
“Even in states that do pass
reforms, you see immediate at-
tempts by political actors to find
weaknesses and to try to exploit
weaknesses in the system,” Li
said. “Having a good, plausible
legal claim is seemingly no longer
[necessary] to file a complaint.”
He pointed to an attempt by
Michigan Republicans in Novem-
ber 2019 to delay creating the
commission on grounds that it
violated free speech and associa-
tion rights because it restricted
those with close ties to politi-
cians, like family, staff and lobby-
ists, from serving as members. A
district court and two appeals
courts have denied that effort.
Tony Daunt, a plaintiff in that
lawsuit and the executive direc-
tor of a GOP redistricting advoca-
cy group in Michigan, said redis-
tricting is “a complex, inherently
DARREN HAUCK FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
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political process” that he thinks
will be slowed by leaving it in the
hands of people with no political
experience.
Michigan is one of only seven
states to have truly independent
redistricting commissions. Other
states’ commissions either have
bipartisan members selected by
politicians or deliver maps that
are not binding.
In Missouri and Utah, two
states where voters approved bal-
lot initiatives in 2018 to depoliti-
cize redistricting, state Republi-
can lawmakers have moved to
weaken them by allowing politi-
cal appointees to draw maps.
The Utah state legislature is
working on a parallel track with
the advisory redistricting com-
mission approved by the voters.
State Rep. Paul Ray, a Republican
who chairs the legislature’s redis-
tricting committee, said he is
open to considering what the
commission produces but thinks
lawmakers have the responsibili-
ty to draw the maps.
But, Ray said, he won’t be
interested in a map that makes
one of the state’s four congres-
sional seats — all now held by
Republicans — vulnerable to be-
ing taken over by Democrats.
Anti-gerrymandering advo-
cates are also wary about wheth-
er New York’s Democratic legisla-
ture will follow recommenda-
tions made by its new advisory
redistricting commission, given
that the state is one of the Demo-
cratic Party’s only chances to
shape districts to its advantage.
Several of the states where
lines were most partisanly drawn
in the past now will be working
within the guardrails of commis-
sions or divided government. But
Republicans still have the upper
hand, with complete control over
the process in politically influen-
tial states such as Florida, Geor-
gia, Texas and North Carolina.
(North Carolina has a Democrat-
ic governor, but he does not have
veto power over the GOP-drawn
maps.)
The growth in all of those
states has come from younger
and non-White voters, groups
that are predominantly Demo-
cratic. Yet Republicans can en-
sure that for the next decade their
seats are fairly secure, thanks to
their sway over the process, ex-
perts said.
“The gerrymandering that
comes out of this cycle is certain
to be just as enduring as 2011,”
Daley said. “The process leading
us there is only going to amplify
the polarization and divisive-
ness.”
colby.itkowitz@washpost.com
Harry Stevens contributed to this
report.
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BY N ADER D URGHAM
AND L IZ S LY

beirut — Lebanon held a day of

mourning Wednesday to mark the
first anniversary of the huge ex-
plosion at the Beirut port that
destroyed much of the city,
wrecked the lives of tens of thou-
sands of people and helped propel
Lebanon’s economy further
toward collapse.
The day also quickly turned into
one of anger as Lebanese gathered
near the port to protest the au-
thorities’ failure to offer an expla-
nation of the cause of the blast or
to hold anyone to account.
At 6:08 p.m., the precise mo-
ment of the explosion, a minute’s
silence was held in honor of the
victims. A bell tolled as the names
of the dead were read over a loud-
speaker to family members seated
in plastic chairs at the site, clutch-
ing photos of their loved ones.
In streets nearby, clashes erupt-
ed between police and demonstra-
tors who were attempting to
march on the nation’s parliament
to protest the failure of the author-
ities to properly investigate the
blast and to take action to halt the
country’s spiraling economic de-
cline. Police fired tear gas and
water cannons as the demonstra-
tors attempted to break through
barricades blocking roads leading
to the parliament. Dozens of inju-
ries were reported.
More than 200 people died,
7,000 were injured and tens of
thousands of homes were dam-
aged in what has been ranked as
one of the biggest nonnuclear ex-
plosions in history. The blast was
caused by a fire that ignited a stash
of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate PHOTOS BY LORENZO TUGNOLI FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

left unattended for more than six

years in a warehouse.
A year later, many questions
remain unanswered, including
what caused the fire, who owned
the ammonium nitrate, why it had
languished for so long at the port
and why no one has been held
responsible. An official investiga-
tion has stalled many times, and
politicians representing the coun-
try’s various factions have rallied
to thwart efforts to interrogate
senior figures.
“Given the scale of this tragedy,
it is astounding to see how far the
Lebanese authorities are pre-
pared to go to shield themselves
from scrutiny,” Lynn Maalouf,
deputy director for the Middle
East and North Africa at Amnesty
International, said in a report
highlighting the lack of account-
ability.
“Revenge, revenge, until the re-
gime falls,” chanted protesters as
they marched through one of the
badly damaged neighborhoods
en route to the port. “The people
want the fall of the regime,” said
another group, echoing the calls of
a protest movement that began in
2019 but has since fizzled as politi-
cal elites have refused to heed calls
for reforms.
Many homes and buildings re-
main in ruins because their own-
Lebanese mourn ers don’t have the money for re-
pairs, or in some cases have left the
country, a daily reminder of the
trauma that still haunts the city’s
blast victims, decry residents.
“It’s been a year and still we
don’t know anything,” said Randa,
lack of answers 41, who gave only one name. She
said her family members were in-
jured when their home in the
Ashrafiyeh neighborhood was de-
stroyed in the blast.
For some, the occasion brought
back terrifying memories. Sister
Marie-Joseph Salameh, 57, was at
the Rosary Sisters Hospital when
the explosion brought ceilings,
masonry and glass cascading onto
patients and staff, badly injuring
her arm. She said she has been
reliving the moment over and
over, especially as the anniversary
approached.
“The wound cannot be re-
moved. You keep reliving this
memory,” she said.
Amar Suliman, 23, a medical
student, said she hoped the anni-
versary would prove to be an op-
portunity to revive popular pres-
sure on the Lebanese authorities.
TOP: People approach the port of Beirut during a “It’s also a day to remember that
demonstration commemorating the first anniversary of the at any given moment, these people
deadly port explosion. ABOVE: Protesters clash with are willing to kill us, to injure us,
security forces near the Lebanese parliament. just so that they continue with
their rule and preserve their cor-
ruption,” she said. “It’s a political
fight, and not just on August 4.”
Initial hopes that the explosion
would jolt the country’s squab-
bling politicians toward a solution
to an economic crisis brought on
by years of corruption and inepti-
tude have faded. Instead, a year
later, the country still has no gov-
ernment to replace the one that
resigned in the wake of the blast,
because politicians have been un-
able to agree on how to distribute
posts among the country’s com-
peting sects.
In the meantime, Lebanon’s de-
cline has accelerated. Its currency
has more than halved in value in
the past year, and is now worth
less than 90 percent of what it was
on the eve of the financial crisis in
2019. More than half the popula-
tion now lives below the poverty
line, according to a report pub-
lished in the spring by the World
Bank, which cited fears that the
country could see civil unrest.
In a reminder that Lebanon
also risks becoming ensnared in
escalating tensions between Israel
and Iran, rockets were fired
Wednesday across the Lebanese
border into Israel, prompting vol-
leys of Israeli artillery fire and
airstrikes into Lebanon. Southern
Lebanon is controlled by the Iran-
backed Hezbollah movement,
which Israel said it held responsi-
ble for the attack.
“Lebanese leaders seem bent on
a stalling strategy, which I regret
and I think is a historic and moral
failure,” said French President
Emmanuel Macron, speaking at
the launch of an international do-
nors conference in Paris that aims
to raise at least $350 million in
humanitarian aid for those Leba-
nese most in need.
But Lebanon needs billions of
dollars to resolve its financial cri-
sis, funds that the international
community has made clear will
not be forthcoming until there is a
government that can implement
political and economic reforms.
The work of forming a govern-
ment that will combat corruption
and stem the decline “has to start
now,” President Biden told the
conference in a videotaped ad-
dress, announcing $100 million in
U.S. assistance. “If the leaders of
Lebanon make that choice, the
United States will be here every
step of the way to support your
efforts,” he said. “We’re there to
help, if you do it.”
nader.durgham@washpost.com
liz.sly@washpost.com
Sly reported from London.

Rockets fired from Lebanon into northern Israel add to regional tensions
BY S HIRA R UBIN
tel aviv — Sirens sent residents
in northern Israel running for
shelter Wednesday after three
rockets were launched from
southern Lebanon, drawing
rounds of cross-border Israeli
artillery fire and escalating a
regional security situation seen as
a test for Israel’s new government.
The relatively small-scale oper-
ation, in which two rockets landed
in open fields near the northern
Israeli city of Kiryat Shemona and
another came down inside Leba-
non, was carried out by Palestin-
ian groups along Lebanon’s south-
ern border, according to Israeli
media. The munitions sparked
blazes in both Lebanon and Israel,
where extreme heat and strong
winds recently have compounded
the risk of wildfires.
The incident unfolded on a day
of national mourning in Lebanon
to mark one year since a huge
explosion obliterated Beirut’s
port, a disaster that has come to
symbolize the country’s crisis of
corruption and negligence.
Israel fired more than 100 shells
into Lebanon, according to Israeli
media reports. It also carried out
airstrikes on the sites from where
the rockets were fired, the military
said early Thursday.
The Palestinian groups have at-
tempted similar cross-border at-
tacks in recent months. They oper-
ate in an area tightly controlled by
the militant group Hezbollah,
which is backed by Iran.
The incident comes days after
Israeli, U.S. and British officials
blamed Iran for a fatal drone
strike against a partly Israeli-
operated oil tanker off the coast of
Oman in the Arabian Sea. Iranian
officials have denied any involve-
ment in the strike.
That attack marked the first
major confrontation with Iran for
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali
Bennett, who took office in June
following a 12-year stint by Benja-
min Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-
serving prime minister. Netanya-
hu is suspected of having
launched a series of attacks target-
ing Iran, including explosions at
the country’s main uranium-en-
richment site and the killing of a
prominent nuclear scientist.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny
Gantz and Foreign Minister Yair
Lapid, who met Wednesday with
ambassadors of U.N. Security
Council countries, said they pro-
vided detailed intelligence infor-
mation proving that Iran struck
the oil tanker last week. They said
Saeed Ara Jani, head of the drone
section of Iran’s Revolutionary
Guard Corps, “is the man person-
ally responsible for the terror at-
tacks in the Gulf of Oman.”
Gantz said Amir Ali Hajizadeh,
commander of the Revolutionary
Guard’s air force, was behind doz-
ens of attacks in the region involv-
ing drones and missiles.
“Iran is responsible for dozens
of terror attacks across the Middle
East,” Gantz said in the meeting.
He further charged that Iran “has
violated all of the guidelines set in
the [2015 Iran nuclear agreement]
and is only around 10 weeks away
from acquiring weapons-grade
materials necessary for a nuclear
weapon.” He added: “It is time for
diplomatic, economic and even
military deeds — otherwise the
attacks will continue.”
Iran denies that it seeks nuclear
weapons and says it has breached
the deal’s limits on uranium en-
richment in response to the
Trump administration’s with-
drawal from the accord and reim-
position of sanctions.
Since last week’s drone attack,
Bennett has tried to rally interna-
tional support against Iran. But he
also said that Israel was prepared
to “act alone” in defense of its
national security.
Netanyahu has repeatedly said
that Bennett, whose fragile coali-
tion is made up of eight ideologi-
cally disparate parties, is too weak
to handle what he called an exis-
tential threat posed by Iran.
“The Iranians need to under-
stand that it is impossible to sit
placidly in Tehran and ignite the
entire Middle East from there.
That’s over,” Bennett said Tuesday.
shira.rubin@washpost.com

DI GEST

IRAN
Two dual nationals get
over 10 years in prison
An Iranian revolutionary
court has sentenced two dual
nationals, German Iranian Nahid
Taghavi and British Iranian
Mehran Raouf, to more than
10 years in prison on national
security charges, their attorney
said Wednesday.
Iran’s elite Revolutionary
Guard Corps has arrested dozens
of dual nationals and foreigners
in recent years, mostly on
espionage and security-related
charges.
Iran has been accused of trying
to win concessions from other
countries through such arrests.
Tehran, which does not recognize
dual nationality, says the arrests
are based on its criminal code and
denies holding people for
political reasons.
In a Twitter post, the two
defendants’ attorney, Mostafa
Nili, said Taghavi and Raouf
were sentenced to 10 years in
prison for “participating in the
management of an illegal group
and to eight months in prison for
propaganda activities against the
regime.”
Taghavi, 66, a human rights
activist who lives in Germany but
kept an apartment in Tehran, was
arrested there in October.
Raouf, 64, a labor activist who
splits his time between Iran and
Britain, was arrested in Tehran on
Oct. 16, according to Amnesty
International.
— Reuters
SOUTH SUDAN
Vice President Machar
ousted as party leader
South Sudanese Vice President
Riek Machar has been deposed as
head of his party and its armed
forces, rival military leaders said
Wednesday, a move that could
pressure an already fragile peace
process.
Machar played a major role in
pushing his partner, President
Salva Kiir, to a peace deal in 2018
and in the subsequent formation
of a unity government following
years of civil war.
But he was stripped of his party
posts after a three-day meeting of
senior leaders of his SPLM/A-IO
movement, who accused him of
undermining reforms and giving
family members strategic posts,
according to a statement from the
party’s military wing.
Machar’s wife, Angelina Teny,
serves as defense minister.
The party’s chief of staff was
nominated interim party leader,
according to the military wing.
South Sudan gained
independence from Sudan in 2011
but descended into fighting two
years later when forces loyal to
Kiir and Machar clashed in the
capital.
That sparked the massacre of
hundreds of civilians in Juba from
Machar’s Nuer ethnic group and a
spiral of brutal ethnic violence
and revenge killings.
The civil war killed 400,000
people and triggered Africa’s
biggest refugee crisis since the
1994 Rwandan genocide.
— Reuters
3 killed when passenger trains
collide in Czech Republic: Two
passenger trains collided in the
southwestern part of the Czech
Republic, killing three people and
injuring dozens. Czech Railways
said a local passenger train and
an international high-speed train
heading from Munich to the
western Czech city of Plzen and
the Czech capital of Prague were
involved. The drivers of both
engines and a passenger were
killed in the crash, which
occurred about 8 a.m. in the town
of Milavce, authorities said. The
regional rescue service said 52
people needed treatment, and
nearby rescuers from Germany
came to help. Transport Minister
Karel Havlicek said human error
was the likely cause of the crash.
He said the driver of the high-
speed train had failed to stop at a
designated location.
Nicaragua said to arrest former
beauty queen seeking office:
Nicaraguan police have arrested a
former beauty queen two days
after she registered as an anti-
government candidate in the
Nov. 7 election, the conservative
Citizens for Liberty coalition said.
It said vice-presidential candidate
Berenice Quezada had been
placed under house arrest and
was being held incommunicado. If
her arrest is confirmed, she would
be the eighth candidate arrested
since May. Quezada was crowned
Miss Nicaragua in 2017 and had
called on citizens to vote against
“the dictatorship” of socialist
President Daniel Ortega, who is
seeking a fourth consecutive term.
16 killed by lightning in
Bangladesh: Lightning killed at
least 16 people who were
traveling to a wedding party in
western Bangladesh and injured
several, including the groom, a
local government official. The
official said the bride was not
with the group when the incident
occurred about 150 miles
northwest of Dhaka, the capital.
He said the group had just left its
boat to take refuge because of a
thunderstorm when the lightning
struck. The annual monsoon is
underway in Bangladesh. Each
year, more than 200 people
are killed by lightning in the
country.
— From news services
THURSDAY, AUGUST 5 , 2021
Belarus Olympian seeking asylum arrives in Poland
Runner feared reprisals
at home after clash with
country’s athletic officials
BY I SABELLE K HURSHUDYAN
AND S IMON D ENYER
moscow — Belarusian Olympic
runner Krystsina Tsimanouskaya
arrived Wednesday in Poland to
seek asylum after refusing to
return to her homeland amid fear
of reprisals from the regime of
President Alexander Lukashenko
as it wages sweeping crackdowns
on dissent.
Tsimanouskaya, who runs the
100- and 200-meter races, had
criticized Belarusian Olympic
officials in an Instagram video
from the Tokyo Games after they
tried to force her to run in a relay
that she had not trained for. She
said those comments led to an
attempt to forcibly send her home
Sunday.
The 24-year-old asked Japa-
nese police for protection at
Haneda Airport in Tokyo and
pleaded for help from the Inter-
national Olympic Committee. Po-
land and the Czech Republic both
offered her asylum.
“I want to thank all Polish
consular and diplomatic staff in-
volved, who flawlessly planned
and secured her safe journey,”
said Poland’s deputy foreign min-
ister, Marcin Przydacz. “Poland
continues to show its solidarity
and support.”
Tsimanouskaya initially land-
ed in Vienna before boarding a
flight to Warsaw, according to
Austria’s Foreign Ministry. In
Warsaw, Tsimanouskaya was to
be reunited with her husband,
Arseniy Zdanevich, who fled
Belarus.
Tsimanouskaya was under po-
lice protection in a VIP section at
Vienna’s airport during her lay-
over.
“The top priority for us is that
Krystsina Tsimanouskaya is safe
now. That is the bottom line,”
Austrian Foreign Minster Alexan-
der Schallenberg said in a state-
ment.
Belarusian security forces have
arrested dozens of activists and
journalists in recent weeks, part
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FEDERAL CHANCELLORY OF AUSTRIA/FLORIAN SCHROETTER/REUTERS
Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, who received a humanitarian visa from Poland, meets with Austrian official Magnus Brunner during a stopover
in Vienna. She had been expected to fly directly to Warsaw but boarded a flight to Vienna instead, for what were called “security reasons.”
dress, making her trademark
heart signal with both hands.
Kolesnikova and Znak were
members of a coordinating coun-
“I want to thank all Polish consular and cil set up by exiled opposition
leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya to
diplomatic staff involved, who flawlessly try to negotiate a peaceful trans-
fer of power. Several more opposi-
planned and secured her safe journey. Poland tion figures were arrested
Wednesday, according to the
continues to show its solidarity and support.” rights group Viasna.
After Belarusian activist Vitaly
Marcin Przydacz, Poland’s deputy foreign minister,
Shishov was found dead in a park
on Krystsina Tsimanouskaya’s arrival in Warsaw
in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on
Tuesday, Ukrainian President Vo-
lodymyr Zelensky instructed se-
curity services to examine any
security threats faced by Belaru-
of continuing crackdowns since protests last year calling on Lu- sian exiles in Ukraine, pledging to
mass protests over the August kashenko to step down, faced a ensure their protection. Ukraini-
2020 presidential election, which closed trial Wednesday with op- an police were investigating
was rejected by the opposition as position colleague Maxim Znak whether Shishov’s hanging was a
rigged in favor of Lukashenko. over claims that they tried to seize murder staged to look like sui-
Leading opposition figure Ma- power. Kolesnikova appeared in cide, but few details of the probe
ria Kolesnikova, who led peaceful court smiling and wearing a black have been disclosed.
Tsimanouskaya received a hu-
manitarian visa from Poland on
Monday and had been in the care
of the Polish Embassy in Tokyo
since then. She had been expect-
ed to be on a direct flight to
Warsaw on Wednesday but
boarded a flight to Vienna at the
last minute.
Alexander Opeikin, executive
director of the Belarusian Sports
Solidarity Foundation, a group
that opposes the Belarusian gov-
ernment, said Poland’s embassy
decided to change the plan for
“security reasons.”
Belarus said Tsimanouskaya
was removed from the national
team because of her emotional
state, but she told the BBC she did
not suffer from any mental health
issues and had not had any con-
versations with physicians at the
Olympic Village.
She told the BBC she was sur-
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prised to be told she had to leave
because she “didn’t say anything
political.” She would like to re-
turn to Belarus “when I know that
it’s safe,” she said. “Maybe I’ll only
be able to return after five or 10
years.”
The International Olympic
Committee launched a formal in-
vestigation into the case Tuesday.
Spokesman Mark Adams said it
has received a written response
from the Belarus Olympic Com-
mittee, “which will obviously now
be evaluated.”
Adams said the IOC opened a
disciplinary commission “to es-
tablish the facts in this case” and
to question two Belarusian Olym-
pic officials — Artur Shumak,
deputy director of the national
track-and-field training center,
and Yuri Moisevich, the national
team’s head coach — “who have
been allegedly involved in this
incident.”
European Union airlines have
been banned from flying over
Belarus since May, when Lukash-
enko sent a MiG-29 fighter jet to
force a civilian plane to land as it
was flying from Athens to Vilnius,
Lithuania. Belarusian authorities
then arrested one of its passen-
gers, Roman Protasevich, the
founder of an opposition media
outlet.
After Tsimanouskaya refused
to fly back to Belarus on Sunday
out of fear for her safety,
Zdanevich, her husband, fled to
Ukraine. Ukrainian Foreign Min-
ister Dmytro Kuleba said on Twit-
ter that the country is “ready to
provide necessary help during his
stay in Ukraine and make him
feel safe despite shocking news.”
The Belarus Olympic Commit-
tee is run by Lukashenko’s eldest
son, Viktor Lukashenko. The IOC
has refused to recognize Viktor
Lukashenko’s election to the post.
No mention of Tsimanouska-
ya’s flight was made on Belaru-
sian official media, which instead
focused on the return of Belaru-
sian Olympic high jumper and
bronze medalist Maxim Nedosek-
ov to Minsk on Wednesday.
isabelle.khurshudyan@
washpost.com
simon.denyer@washpost.com
Denyer reported from Tokyo. Robyn
Dixon in Moscow contributed to this
report.
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WHO wants booster shots halted, citing global disparity
BY E MILY R AUHALA,
H ANNAH K NOWLES,
L ENA H . S UN
AND L AURIE M C G INLEY
The World Health Organization
on Wednesday called for a halt on
booster shots of coronavirus vac-
cines through at least September,
as poorer countries struggle to
access doses, even for high-risk
populations such as health-care
workers and the elderly.
“We cannot and we should not
accept countries that have already
used most of the global supply of
vaccines using even more of it
while the world’s most vulnerable
people remain unprotected,”
WHO Director General Tedros Ad-
hanom Ghebreyesus said at a
news conference.
Tedros said the focus for now
should be meeting the U.N. health
agency’s goal of 10 percent vacci-
nation coverage in every country
by the end of September. So far,
more than 80 percent of vaccine
doses globally have gone to high-
and upper-middle-income coun-
tries that account for less than half
of the world’s population.
The remarks come as the Unit-
ed States and other wealthy na-
tions weigh whether and when
booster shots are necessary and
consider how to balance domestic
calls for additional doses against
growing evidence of an alarming
vaccine gap around the world.
White House press secretary
Jen Psaki on Wednesday said the
WHO was presenting a “false
In reversal, U.K. advises
shots for older teenagers
BY K ARLA A DAM
AND W ILLIAM B OOTH
london — It was a relatively easy
call to vaccinate the elderly
against the coronavirus and keep
them from getting seriously sick.
But as rich countries rapidly work
their way through the age groups,
the vaccination of children is prov-
ing highly emotive and conten-
tious.
That’s especially so in Britain.
Just two weeks ago, government
advisers said that the “minimal
benefits” of vaccinating those un-
der 18 didn’t outweigh the poten-
tial risks. Yet on Wednesday, those
same advisers said 16- and 17-year-
olds should get jabbed as soon as
possible. Though only one dose,
for now. And most younger chil-
dren should still wait.
The new guidance represents a
confusing 90-degree turn that
British teens and their families
must navigate. Even pro-vaccine
parents would be forgiven if their
heads were spinning.
Britain’s Joint Committee on
Vaccination and Immunization
said its revised recommendation
reflected both the state of the virus
in Britain and additional safety
data.
“In the last few weeks, there
have been large changes in the
way COVID-19 has been spreading
in the UK, particularly in younger
age groups,” the committee said in
a statement Wednesday.
It did not specify what about the
spread had influenced the shift in
thinking, but Britain was hit early
and hard by the highly contagious
delta variant of the virus, and be-
cause so many older people are
vaccinated, many of those getting
infected now are young.
The vaccination committee had
previously noted concern about
serious vaccine side effects involv-
ing inflammation of the heart
muscle or the membrane around
the heart, but on Wednesday it
offered further assurance that
those were “extremely rare” and
more of an issue after a second
dose. The committee also cited
data suggesting that one dose
would provide young people with
80 percent protection against hos-
pitalization.
At a Downing Street news con-
Mattel introduces virus-fighting dolls featuring British vaccine developer
BY J ENNIFER H ASSAN
london — British Professor Sar-
ah Gilbert, one of the co-creators of
the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavi-
rus vaccine, has been honored with
her own Barbie doll as part of a
series dedicated to inspirational
women fighting the pandemic.
The doll in Gilbert’s likeness
sports dark-rimmed glasses, long
auburn hair and mirrors her pro-
fessional wardrobe by donning a
navy suit. The creation, Gilbert
said, left her feeling “very strange.”
“My wish is that my doll will
show children careers they may
not be aware of, like a vaccinolo-
gist,” Gilbert said, adding she
wants future generations to be
choice.” The United States an-
nounced Tuesday “an important
milestone” of more than 110 mil-
lion doses donated to the world,
she said, more than all other coun-
tries have shared, combined.
“More needs to happen, but we
believe we can do both,” she said.
In recent months, as a small
number of relatively rich coun-
tries have pressed ahead with cor-
onavirus vaccination campaigns,
the WHO, public health experts
and advocates have urged rich
countries to do more to share dos-
es and increase global supply.
They have stressed, repeatedly,
that the unequal distribution of
doses is not only unethical but
could extend the pandemic by pro-
longing shutdowns and giving the
virus room to spread and mutate
in unvaccinated populations.
Now, the spread of the highly-
transmissible delta variant has
countries with vaccine access con-
sidering third doses before much
of the world has had access to one.
The WHO’s position on boost-
ers is still taking shape. WHO offi-
cials said Wednesday they do not
necessarily oppose giving addi-
tional doses to certain popula-
tions who are not protected by
standard doses.
Bruce Aylward, senior adviser
to the director general, acknowl-
edged that the moratorium may
also need to be extended. “Is Sep-
tember long enough? Not on the
current trajectory,” he said.
Officials in the United States
say booster shots are not needed
ference, government officials were
repeatedly pressed on how much
had actually changed in just two
weeks. “I think people are a bit
confused about this changing ad-
vice,” said one reporter.
Wei Shen Lim, chair of the vac-
cination committee, said the ad-
visers now had a greater certainty
of data that has influenced their
recommendations.
“There is no time to waste in
getting on with this,” said Jona-
than Van-Tam, England’s deputy
chief medical officer, noting that
children will start returning to
school within weeks. “I want us to
proceed as fast as is practically
possible.”
But health policy experts who
have been critical of the govern-
ment’s hesitancy to inoculate
teenagers said officials have been
wasting time while getting to even
this halfway conclusion, under-
mining what is otherwise one of
the world’s most successful vacci-
nation programs.
“The idea of allowing a pretty
much uncharacterized virus tear
through our children is utterly
reckless and irresponsible, espe-
cially because it’s a vaccine-pre-
ventable disease,” said Stephen
Griffin, a virologist at the Univer-
sity of Leeds.
“I’m very pleased that they are
doing this U-turn,” Griffin said. “I
hope once the safety data is in they
go even younger.”
Peter Kyle, the opposition La-
bour Party’s point person on
schools, tweeted that the govern-
ment reversal on vaccines for old-
er teens “is too late to make a
difference to education when
terms starts next month. Govern-
ment have squandered the oppor-
tunity summer offered.”
Britain’s resistance to jabbing
the young has made it an outlier in
the developed world, where most
rich countries are trying to get a
needle into the arms of those un-
der 18 as quickly as possible.
The United States and Canada
have been vaccinating 12-to-17-
year-olds since May. France, Italy
and other countries in Europe be-
gan in June. Germany was some-
thing of a holdout, but this week it
decided to move forward on vacci-
nations for that age group.
Trials are underway to test the
aware that they, too, could work in
the fields of science, technology,
engineering and mathematics
(STEM), in which women have his-
torically been underrepresented.
Lisa McKnight, senior vice pres-
ident and global head of Barbie and
Dolls at Mattel, said, “Barbie recog-
nizes that all frontline workers
have made tremendous sacrifices
when confronting the pandemic
and the challenges it heightened,”
the Guardian reported.
“To shine a light on their efforts,
we are sharing their stories,” she
also said, adding that the company
hoped the series would “inspire the
next generation to take after these
heroes.”
Other dolls created as part of the
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yet. But there is growing concern
among some health officials about
the urgent need to give additional
doses to people with fragile im-
mune systems amid growing con-
cerns about waning immunity in
vulnerable populations and surg-
ing infections from delta.
Some patients are trying to get
additional doses, including those
who are immunocompromised
and are doing so at the recommen-
dation of their doctors, clinicians
have said.
Many patients have “taken mat-
ters into their own hands and
many are proceeding with addi-
tional doses of vaccine as they see
fit,” Camille Kotton, a transplant
medicine physician at Massachu-
setts General Hospital in Boston
and a member of the vaccine advi-
sory board to the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention, said
at the panel’s meeting last month.
In Northern California, the
Contra Costa County health de-
partment notified its providers
July 23 to allow people who want-
ed a booster dose of any coronavi-
rus vaccine to get one if one was
available, only to reverse itself this
week after realizing it was in viola-
tion of Food and Drug Administra-
tion policy, a spokesman said.
The FDA’s existing authoriza-
tion permits only a two-dose regi-
men of the Pfizer-BioNTech and
Moderna vaccines, or a single dose
of the Johnson & Johnson prod-
uct. But the FDA is expected to
give full approval to the Pfizer
vaccine by the end of the summer,
A health worker gives a coronavirus vaccination in London. Officials say 16- and 17-year-olds should get a single dose as soon as possible.
vaccines in even younger subjects.
Last week, President Biden ex-
pressed optimism that children
under 12 would become eligible
for inoculations in the United
States “soon.”
In Britain, regulators author-
ized use of the Pfizer-BioNTech
mRNA vaccine in June for those as
young as 12. But when the experts
on the government advisory panel
delivered their assessment two
weeks ago, they concluded: “Until
more safety data is available and
has been evaluated, a precaution-
ary approach is preferred.”
They approved vaccinations
only for the most medically vul-
nerable 12-to-17-year-olds and
those living with immunocompro-
mised adults.
Some commentators in Britain
have wondered aloud if the reluc-
tance to inoculate younger people
has been driven by concerns about
vaccine supply. The government
has declined to release numbers of
available jabs. But health officials
insist that supply is not a limiting
factor.
Government advisers have em-
phasized the benefits and risks of
series include Amy O’Sullivan, a
nurse who worked in Brooklyn
amid the coronavirus pandemic
and appeared on the cover of Time
magazine’s issue featuring the 100
Most Influential People in 2020.
Audrey Cruz, a doctor in Las
Vegas, was also honored with a
Barbie doll that reflects her, with
tied-back silver hair and bright
blue scrubs.
Canadian doctor and writer Chi-
ka Stacy Oriuwa, who is working to
eliminate racism in the health-care
system, and Brazilian biomedical
researcher Jaqueline Goes de Jesus
were also honored along with Aus-
tralia’s Kirby White, a doctor who
co-created reusable protective gear
for those treating covid-19 patients.
according to a federal official fa-
miliar with the situation who
spoke on the condition of anonym-
ity because the process is ongoing.
Once the Pfizer vaccine is li-
censed, clinicians could recom-
mend additional doses to immu-
nocompromised patients and oth-
er vulnerable people who are more
likely to become seriously ill from
covid-19 and might more readily
spread the coronavirus to others.
Emerging data suggests that an
additional dose in immunocom-
promised people may enhance
disease-fighting antibody re-
sponses and increase the propor-
tion of those who respond to the
vaccines, CDC officials have said.
Debate over the need for boost-
er shots has intensified since Pfi-
zer and BioNTech announced last
month they would seek regulatory
approval for a third shot for all
eligible adults, not just the immu-
nocompromised, amid rising con-
cern about the delta variant.
The companies’ announcement
that they would seek an emergen-
cy-use authorization for a booster
prompted U.S. health officials to
declare that Americans who have
been fully vaccinated do not need
a third shot at this time.
But health officials make a dis-
tinction between boosters for peo-
ple who already have an immune
response after inoculation versus
additional doses for the immuno-
compromised who have failed to
respond fully or at all to the shots.
Other countries are grappling
with questions over boosters. A
vaccination for individual teens.
With the new advice on Wednes-
day, Lim said: “While covid-19 is
typically mild or asymptomatic in
most young people, it can be very
unpleasant for some and for this
particular age group, we expect
one dose of the vaccine to provide
good protection against severe ill-
ness and hospitalization.”
Other public health experts say
it’s not just a question of risk to the
individual but risk for the whole
society. Teens can readily become
infected and spread the virus to
other children and to adults, in-
cluding those who cannot be vac-
cinated for medical reasons.
Lawrence Young, a virologist at
Warwick Medical School, warned
that Britain may never reach pop-
ulation immunity or herd immu-
nity if children are not vaccinated.
Some estimates suggest 85 per-
cent of a population must be vacci-
nated or have had a previous infec-
tion to stop the pandemic, and
people under 18 make up about
20 percent of the British popula-
tion. This pool of unvaccinated
people could keep the pandemic
going on and on, increasing the
According to STEM Women, an
organization based in the United
Kingdom that provides inclusion
and diversity recruitment resourc-
es to employers and young people,
35 percent of STEM students are
women, statistics shared by the
group earlier this year show.
Gilbert has been producing and
testing vaccines for more than a
decade, according to her profes-
sional profile on Oxford Univer-
sity’s official website. She began
working on the coronavirus vac-
cine in 2020 after the original out-
break in Wuhan, China.
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vac-
cine, which Gilbert helped create,
is now widely used to protect peo-
ple around the world from the cor-
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booster campaign is underway in
Israel, where the effort focuses on
adults over 60, and Russia. Clinics
in Moscow started offering boost-
ers in July, amid a surge in cases
and concern about delta.
Parts of Europe appear to be
moving in that direction. The
WHO’s announcement came two
days after Germany said it also
would start offering boosters to
the elderly, the immunocompro-
mised and those who got the As-
traZeneca or Johnson & Johnson
shots, because they may be less
effective than other vaccines.
France also plans to make cer-
tain groups of people — residents
of nursing homes, those over age
75 and people with severe health
conditions — eligible for boosters
in September.
Hungary this month will begin
offering citizens a third dose of a
coronavirus vaccine, Prime Minis-
ter Viktor Orban has said. Spain
and Italy have said residents will
be very likely to need a booster but
have yet to announce firm plans.
In Britain, meanwhile, health
officials have said they are prepar-
ing to offer booster shots in Sep-
tember but are awaiting guidance
from an expert advisory panel.
With global supply scarce, the
booster debate will deepen ques-
tions about how the world should
address the problem.
Since last summer, a small
number of relatively wealthy na-
tions have cut deals with directly
with vaccine manufacturers,
snapping up a disproportionate
potential for new variants of con-
cern.
From a societal standpoint,
Young said, “the benefits of vacci-
nation for the young strongly out-
weigh any risks.”
Some of the most comprehen-
sive studies on the effects of the
coronavirus on children and teens
have come out of Britain, and so
there is global interest in what
Britain is seeing.
Those studies have shown it is
very rare for children to get severe
covid.
Within England, from the be-
ginning of the pandemic through
February of this year, studies cal-
culated that there were about
4 million cases of covid identified
in children, with fewer than 6,000
hospitalizations and 25 deaths.
And while the delta variant is
more contagious, it hasn’t clearly
changed how the virus affects
kids. Some hospital workers in the
United States report anecdotal ev-
idence that the variant makes for
“younger, sicker, quicker” pa-
tients. In Britain, scientists want
to see more evidence.
A preliminary study by Aziz
onavirus.
Last month, the product cel-
ebrated the milestone of distribut-
ing 1 billion doses, although Sir
Andrew Pollard, a professor and
director of the Oxford Vaccine
Group, warned that the crisis is not
over.
“It was hard work and it still is,
but it’s hard work doing something
that really matters,” Gilbert said in
remarks made earlier this year,
adding that a “huge” number of
people joined forces to make the
jab possible in such a short space of
time.
In June, Gilbert was recognized
with a damehood and led Queen
Elizabeth II’s Birthday Honors list,
which championed the “extraordi-
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share of near-term supply and un-
dermining a WHO-backed effort,
known as Covax, to equitably dis-
tribute vaccine.
Covax aimed to deliver up to
2 billion doses this year, with an
eye to vaccinating 20 percent of
the populations of participating
countries in need. To date it has
delivered just under 178 million
doses to 138 countries.
As it became clear that the Unit-
ed States had more than enough
doses for its population, the Biden
administration stepped up its vac-
cine diplomacy, promising to play
a leadership role.
Other wealthy nations have
pledged to share surplus doses,
but supply remains limited — and
diverting supplies to boosters
could make that worse, the WHO
warns.
Asked if nations already provid-
ing extra doses are “failing their
duties,” WHO officials focused
Wednesday on those still weighing
the issue, saying they hoped lead-
ers will hold off.
Tedros urged “concrete” com-
mitments to global vaccination
goals and ventured that the lead-
ers of G-20 countries will deter-
mine the course of the pandemic.
“We need everyone’s coopera-
tion,” he said.
emily.rauhala@washpost.com
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laurie.mcginley@washpost.com
Reis Thebault contributed to this
report.
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Sheikh and colleagues at Public
Health Scotland suggested the
risk of hospitalization was dou-
bled for those infected by the delta
variant, compared with the alpha
strain, first detected in England.
But when the alpha version of the
virus was rampaging, vaccines
were just beginning to be de-
ployed, so comparisons are tricky.
Children can suffer from “long
covid,” but a review in the journal
Nature reported that estimates of
how common it is in children
“vary wildly.”
Wednesday’s new guidance in
Britain prompted an anti-vaccine
campaign on Twitter, under the
hashtag #leaveourkidsalone. But
teens re-appropriated the tag, de-
claring they were eager for the
vaccine.
“maybe the anti-vaxers in
#LeaveOurKidsAlone should lis-
ten to their own advice and leave
us alone??,” wrote one user. “i’ve
been waiting for this vaccine to
help protect my high risk parents
for ages and i’m excited to get it
over and done with.”
karla.adam@washpost.com
william.booth@washpost.com
nary efforts” of those who helped
others throughout the pandemic.
More than 4 million people
worldwide have died amid the
global health crisis, with the Unit-
ed Kingdom — which has had at
least 130,000 deaths — among the
countries most affected by covid-
19.
The United States remains the
hardest-hit country in terms of re-
corded infections and deaths, with
more than 614,00 lives lost to the
pandemic.
In 2019, as part of the company’s
“Inspiring Women” series, dolls
were made to honor Rosa Parks,
Florence Nightingale, Helen
Keller and Ella Fitzgerald.
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Taliban claims attack just that,” he said.

“Taliban leaders continue to say
one thing, namely that they sup-
port of government forces.
The United Nations warns that
the increased violence could re-

on defense minister port a negotiated solution of con-

BY S USANNAH G EORGE
kabul — The Taliban claimed
responsibility Wednesday for an
attack on the acting Afghan de-
fense minister, saying the assault
was in retaliation for escalating
government attacks on Taliban
fighters.
“The suicide attack was in reac-
tion to the actions of … the Kabul
regime” and those “ordering at-
tacks against innocent people,
and bombings of civilian popula-
tions,” said Zabiullah Mujahid, a
Taliban spokesman.
Fighting between the Taliban
and Afghan government forces
has intensified in recent weeks as
the Afghan military has attempted
to retake territory after Taliban
advances following the withdraw-
al of foreign forces.
But Tuesday’s assault marks a
departure from recent large-scale
attacks. Since the United States
and Taliban signed a peace deal
last year, car bombings and shoot-
ings in the Afghan capital have
decreased. Those that have oc-
curred have largely been claimed
by the Islamic State or have gone
unclaimed. Previously, Taliban at-
tacks rattled Kabul on a near
weekly or occasionally more fre-
quent basis.
Acting defense minister Bis-
millah Khan Mohammadi sur-
vived Tuesday’s attack unharmed;
he was not present at the guest-
house when the assault occurred.
For hours after the initial blast,
explosions and gunfights rocked
Kabul in some of the most intense
fighting in the Afghan capital in
months. The Interior Ministry
Members of Afghan security forces on Wednesday watch over the
site of a car bomb explosion in Kabul.
said at least eight civilians were
killed and 20 wounded.
Speaking after the Taliban
claimed responsibility, State De-
partment spokesperson Ned Price
warned that foreign nations
would not recognize or support
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any government in Afghanistan
that seized power through force or
disregarded civilian life.
“It would be a grave mistake for
the Taliban to expect even a de
minimis level of international
support if they were to seek to do
flict,” he told reporters. “Those
words ring hollow when they con-
tinue these types of actions.”
Taliban fighters have increased
pressure on other major Afghan
cities in recent weeks and have
surrounded the government com-
pound in the center of Helmand’s
provincial capital. Only a handful
of government officials remain in
the cluster of buildings that house
the governor and provincial coun-
cil in Lashkar Gah.
Afghan forces have long strug-
gled to hold and retake territory
without close U.S. air support. As
U.S. forces began the last phase of
their withdrawal from Afghani-
stan, Taliban fighters launched at-
tacks, bringing large swaths of ter-
ritory under the group’s control.
The Taliban now controls
roughly half of Afghanistan’s dis-
tricts, according to U.S. officials.
The officials said U.S. warplanes
have stepped up attacks in sup-
sult in record numbers of civilian
casualties this year unless the two
sides agree to a cease-fire. Accord-
ing to U.N. data, the Taliban and
other insurgent groups are re-
sponsible for the majority of civil-
ian casualties in Afghanistan. The
Taliban uses mortars and other
indiscriminate explosives in areas
populated by civilians.
But the heavy use of govern-
ment artillery and airstrikes in
populated areas has also caused a
spike in the number of civilians
killed and injured.
“The Islamic Emirate will not
be silent on such brutal actions,”
Mujahid said in the Taliban state-
ment Wednesday, referring to ci-
vilian casualties caused by govern-
ment attacks. He said the militant
group “will challenge them with
full force.”
susannah.george@washpost.com
Haq Nawaz Khan in Peshawar,
Pakistan, contributed to this report.

Mexico sues U.S. gunmakers, alleging poor oversight fuels weapons tra∞cking and violence
Security experts cite
major roadblocks to
effort prevailing in court
BY M ARY B ETH S HERIDAN
AND K EVIN S IEFF
mexico city — The Mexican
government sued several major
U.S.-based gun manufacturers
Wednesday, alleging that lax con-
trols contribute to the illegal flow
of weapons over the border.
The unusual suit — filed in U.S.
federal court in Boston — seeks
unspecified financial compensa-
tion from the companies but
does not target the U.S. govern-
ment.
Mexican authorities argue
that American-made weapons
have fueled an explosion in ho-
micides in this nation over the
past decade. Around 2.5 million
illicit American guns have
poured across the border during
that period, according to a Mexi-
can government study released
last year. Legal gun sales in
Mexico are tightly restricted.
“If we don’t file a suit like this
and win it, they’re never going to
understand, they’re going to con-
tinue doing the same thing and
we will continue having deaths
every day in our country,” Mexi-
co’s foreign minister, Marcelo
Ebrard, said at a news confer-
ence.
Security experts in Mexico saw
the lawsuit as an attempt to raise
the profile of gun-trafficking is-
sues but one unlikely to lead to a
legal victory. A U.S. law that took
effect in 2005 shields gun manu-
facturers from most civil liability
claims.
The legal action “sends a state-
ment and creates a pressure
point with the Biden administra-
tion,” said Alejandro Hope, a
Mexico City-based security con-
sultant. “But I don’t think the
Mexican government is expect-
ing to win.”
The suit names companies in-
cluding Smith & Wesson Brands,
Barrett Firearms Manufacturing,
Beretta USA, Glock and Colt’s
Manufacturing Co.
In addition to financial dam-
ages — which Mexican officials
estimated could run to $10 bil-
lion if the legal action is success-
ful — the suit also seeks tighter
controls on sales and better secu-
rity features on weapons.
The companies did not re-
spond to requests for comment.
In a statement, the National
Shooting Sports Foundation, a
trade association for the Ameri-
can firearms industry, rejected
the claims that U.S. gun manu-
facturers were negligent.
“These allegations are base-
less,” said Lawrence G. Keane,
the group’s senior vice president
and general counsel. “The Mexi-
can government is responsible
for the rampant crime and cor-
ruption within their own bor-
ders.”
Cross-border trafficking has
created a growing pool of weap-
ons that circulate among armed
groups in Mexico. The most pow-
erful guns go to large drug car-
tels, and older, smaller weapons
find their way into the hands of
lower-level criminals.
“Because of the abundance of
firearms, now every little gang-
ster has AK-47s or Barrett .50s,”
said Ioan Grillo, author of the
book “Blood Gun Money: How
America Arms Gangs and Car-
tels.” “Then there’s the spillover
effect, when cartels send ‘burned
weapons’ to streets and you have
schoolkids buying them.”
The ease with which Mexican
cartels can access military-grade
weapons has fundamentally al-
tered the challenge faced by the
country’s security forces.
“State police and municipal
police have kind of melted away,”
Grillo said. “They’re not going to
fight against guys with .50-cali-
bers,” Grillo said.
If local police are not intimi-
dated, they are often bought off
by crime groups, security ana-
lysts say.
The lawsuit maintains that the
U.S. arms manufacturers “are
conscious of the fact that their
products are trafficked and used
in illicit activities” in Mexico,
according to a document from
the Foreign Ministry.
“Nonetheless, they continue to
prioritize their economic benefit,
and use marketing strategies to
promote weapons that are ever
more lethal, without mecha-
nisms of security or traceability,”
it continued.
The government alleges that
U.S. gunmakers design weapons
that will appeal to Mexican crime
groups — citing, for example, a
Colt .38 Super pistol engraved
with an image of revolutionary
hero Emiliano Zapata. That mod-
el of handgun was used in the
assassination of an investigative
journalist, Miroslava Breach, in
2017.
“It is difficult to read this
complaint without coming to the
conclusion that, as a matter of
ethical business practices, there
is no defense to what these
companies have done,” said
Adam Skaggs, policy director
with the Giffords Law Center to
Prevent Gun Violence.
Still, he said, the case will be
tough to win, because of the
Protection of Lawful Commerce
in Arms Act, which bars most
civil lawsuits against arms com-
panies after their guns are mis-
used. The Mexican government’s
case argues that the 2005 meas-
ure immunizes the gun industry
only from lawsuits involving vio-
lence in the United States.
Arms trafficking is hardly the
only thing fanning violence in
Mexico. The nature of the drug
trade has changed in recent
years, with cartels splintering
into smaller, feuding groups that
have diversified into extortion,
kidnapping and other criminal
activities.
Successive Mexican presidents
have tried to stanch the violence
by overhauling the justice sys-
tem, arresting drug kingpins and
providing job programs to lure
young people away from crime.
But they have achieved few re-
sults. Security analysts say the
government has not had the
political will to carry out a more
profound transformation of the
courts and police.
Mexican authorities said sev-
eral recent U.S. cases had given
them hope their lawsuit could
succeed. Among them was a
judge’s decision that survivors
and relatives of a 2019 shooting
at a California synagogue could
move ahead with a lawsuit
against the manufacturer of the
weapon used in the attack.
U.S. analysts say policy chang-
es such as an assault-weapons
ban and universal background
checks for gun buyers would
reduce trafficking. But the Mexi-
can government, they say, has
come to doubt that those changes
will happen.
“It’s not surprising that they’re
looking for other ways to either
bring awareness to the issue or
correct it,” said Eugenio
Weigend, the director for gun-
-violence prevention at the Cen-
ter for American Progress.
mary.sheridan@washpost.com
kevin.sieff@washpost.com
Sammy Westfall and Taylor Telford in
Washington contributed to this
report.
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Greece battles worst heat in 30 years as wildfires rage
Thousands in Athens flee
as homes burn and
temperatures soar
BY J ENNIFER H ASSAN
Thousands of residents fled
their homes in Athens as forest
fires swept the north of the city,
burning houses, severing elec-
tricity supplies and sending
plumes of thick smoke into the
air as Greece grappled with its
worst heat wave in 30 years.
Emergency services worked to
contain the flames, in part by
sending planes to drop water
from the sky.
Greek officials confirmed
Wednesday that at least 77 peo-
ple had been hospitalized as a
result of the huge blaze in the
Varympompi area of Athens.
Temperatures soared to
115.3 degrees Fahrenheit earlier
this week as Greece recorded its
hottest day on record. Greek
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitso-
takis said this week that the
country was “facing the worst
heat wave since 1987,” during
which more than 1,000 people
died.
George Patoulis, regional gov-
ernor of greater Athens, de-
scribed the fire as “large” and
said the heat had dried out the
landscape, worsening the
conditions. “It will take a lot of
work to get this under control,”
he said Tuesday on state-run
television.
Tens of millions of people have been moving into flood zones, satellite imagery shows
BY T IK R OOT
Tens of millions of people have
been moving into flood zones
around the world. The influx is as
much as 10 times more than
previously thought, and if the
trend continues on its current
trajectory, millions more could
suffer the impacts of flooding,
according to a study published
Wednesday in the journal Nature.
“People die and lose their
homes and livelihood,” said Beth
Tellman, a human-environmen-
tal geographer at the University
of Arizona and lead author of the
paper. The study estimates that
up to 86 million people have
moved into places where there
have been floods, which Tellman
says is only “the tip of the ice-
berg.”
Tellman and her colleagues
collected satellite imagery of 913
large flood events around the
world, from 2000 and 2018. The
database included floods from
rivers, tropical storms, melting
ice and snow, as well as dam or
levee breaks. Researchers then
compared the population of the
flooded areas between 2000 to
2015.
The change in population in
flood zones varied by location. In
Russia and Sri Lanka, for in-
stance, the number of people
living in those areas shrank. Ja-
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“The fire is still raging, its
perimeter is very wide and the
heat load is very strong,” a fire
brigade official said Wednesday,
according to Reuters.
maica stayed about the same. But
many places, such as Bangladesh
and India, saw large increases —
of up to 14.3 million and 44.8 mil-
lion people, respectively.
Overall, the paper found that
the population of flooded areas
grew at nearly twice the average
global rate. Proportionally, as
much as 24 percent more people
lived in those areas by 2015.
Previous estimates, Tellman said,
put the number closer to about
2 percent.
“If people are moving into
places that flood, it’s going to
flood again,” said Tellman, noting
the areas they examined flooded
an average of about three times
since 2000. That, she said, can
lead to not only loss of life and
property, but longer-term set-
backs in economic development.
“It’s only a matter of time.”
The study did not look at why
people might move to flood-
prone areas — though Tellman
said the reasons could range
from migration to urban centers
near water to the affordability of
land in flood-prone areas. It did
find that the issue was particular-
ly pronounced in areas of the
global south, such as sub-Saha-
ran Africa and Southeast Asia,
which Tellman says are seeing
large population growth or in-
creased flooding risk due to cli-
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On Wednesday, Greek emer-
gency services took to Twitter to
warn residents and tourists of
“extreme fire danger” in Rhodes
and Crete, and advised people
“This is a back-burner issue
that people don’t really talk
about,” said Jason Thistleth-
waite, a professor studying cli-
mate risks and extreme weather
at the University of Waterloo in
Canada. “Studies like this shed
light on just how really urgent
the situation is.”
With climate change, migra-
tion and population growth, Tell-
man said, the number of people
living in flood zones is on track to
increase. Using climate models
from the World Resources Insti-
“We can’t be complacent about flood risk.
We’re not acting fast enough.”
Hannah Cloke, professor of hydrology at the University of Reading
tute, the study estimated that
between 2010 and 2030, 57 of 106
countries examined will see such
a jump. That would potentially
expose as many as 179 million
additional people to flooding.
“We can’t be complacent about
flood risk,” said Hannah Cloke, a
professor of hydrology at the
University of Reading in Eng-
land. “We’re not acting fast
enough.”
If anything, Cloke and other
experts say, the paper is underes-
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with potential flood exposure.
The satellite instrument that
the scientists used — called a
Moderate Resolution Imaging
Spectroradiometer, or MODIS —
takes images twice a day. But it
does not work through clouds,
Tellman said, which often accom-
pany flooding, and it does not
necessarily pick up floods that
happen on a shorter time scale,
such as the flash flooding that
recently hit Europe. The 250-
meter resolution of the imagery
also makes it harder to see urban
flooding.
In total, Tellman said, there
were more than 2,000 recorded
flood events that the researchers
didn’t have images for. That
means many more people may be
exposed to floods than this study
captured.
Some see these satellite limita-
tions as problematic for the pa-
per’s findings.
“You compound all those prob-
lems, and you struggle to see if
you can trust the conclusions
they are putting out,” said Oliver
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nou, a journalist living around
20 miles from the fires raging in
Athens.
The fires come following dev-
astating blazes in nearby Turkey,
Wing, chief research officer at the
flood modeling company Fath-
om. He added that advances in
satellite and other technologies
have made better modeling data
available than what is found in
the study. “It’s probably not
something I would use as a flood
modeler myself.”
But others said they would use
the data set, which is publicly
available online. “This gives us
some real data to check our
models against,” said Phillip
Ward, a professor of global water
risk dynamics at Vrije Univer-
siteit in Amsterdam.
Roxy Mathew Koll is a clima-
tologist at the Indian Institute of
Tropical Meteorology. He said he
found the study useful because
climate change models don’t al-
ways take into account human
impacts. Calling the work a
“wake-up call,” he said global-
level analysis like this can help
point to where more precise,
localized modeling is most need-
ed.
The data could also be useful
in the United States. “Our current
regulations are based on histori-
cal data that’s no longer accu-
rate,” said Sandra Knight, an
engineer working on water policy
at the University of Maryland. A
recent U.S. Government Account-
ability Office report found that
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which saw lush green landscapes
blackened by the inferno and
forced residents to flee their
villages.
At least eight people were
killed in the city of Antalya and
parts of the country’s Turquoise
Coast, and livestock across af-
fected areas perished before help
arrived.
Turkish authorities said that
over the past week, rescue ser-
vices had battled to contain more
than 100 fires.
Climate experts blamed rising
temperatures on the widespread
devastation, which was also seen
in Italy, where residents in Sicily
were evacuated, and in Finland,
which saw its worst forest fire in
half a century.
In the United States, record-
breaking heat over the summer
triggered fires and stifling
smoke.
Last month, Greece became
the first country in Europe to
appoint a chief heat officer. In
Athens, Eleni Myrivili will be
responsible for finding ways to
keep the city cool as the world
faces more extreme conditions as
a result of climate change.
The mayor of Athens, Kostas
Bakoyannis, said that finding
ways to navigate the consequenc-
es of the climate crisis was an
issue for cities and countries
worldwide.
“Climate change for our city
means more frequent and dan-
gerous extreme high tempera-
tures for residents and for tour-
ists who are critical for our
economy,” he said.
jennifer.hassan@washpost.com
“do not reflect how climate
change may affect flood risk.”
Tellman hopes scientists will
use her work to improve their
flood models and has been in
touch with insurance companies
that have also expressed interest
in the data. She said she wants to
continue to improve on the study
by adding more detailed satellite,
or radar, data.
But, ultimately, she’d like to
see improvements to public pol-
icy that take into account the
impact of flooding on popula-
tions.
“The countries we expect that
have struggles with flooding
[should] have the financial sup-
port to continue to adapt,” she
said, noting that isn’t always the
case. The Central African Repub-
lic, for instance, had the highest
expected increase in proportion
of population exposed to floods
in the study. But it’s relatively low
on the list of recipients of inter-
national climate adaptation
funds.
Tellman said many other tools
— including zoning restrictions
and managed retreat planning —
could also be used to address the
growing proportion of people liv-
ing in flood zones.
“We can reverse these trends.
It’s not inevitable,” she said.
“Those are human decisions.”
tik.root@washpost.com
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Stranded travelers sleep inside Philadelphia International Airport on Tuesday after Spirit Airlines canceled 61 percent of its flights.
Cancellations continue at strained airlines
Aviation experts cite busy summer season and pandemic’s lingering staff issues as cause of disruptions
BY M ICHAEL L ARIS
Spirit Airlines canceled 60 per-
cent of its flights Wednesday and
apologized to customers for se-
vere disruptions in recent days,
the latest in ongoing issues for air
travelers seeking normalcy as air-
lines struggle to bounce back from
pandemic lows.
The union representing Spirit’s
flight attendants said the Florida-
based company was addressing
the meltdown by using pro-
cedures developed to recover from
hurricanes.
Aviation industry experts said
the busy summer travel season,
combined with lingering impacts
from the pandemic, has compli-
cated airline scheduling and add-
ed to logistical problems. Spirit’s
woes this week are the latest for an
industry strained by rising de-
mand on the heels of a pandemic-
induced slump in travel.
Experts say some carriers are
facing difficulties in arranging pi-
lots, flight attendants and ground
crew to service flights as they re-
cover from historic declines in air
travel, leaving them vulnerable
when more routine problems oc-
cur.
Jon Jager, an analyst at aviation
data firm Cirium and a former
schedule planner for a major U.S.
carrier, said airlines are used to
planning for events such as cycli-
cal weather patterns. But staffing
constraints — as travel demand
outpaces airline employees re-
turning after the worst of the pan-
demic — are creating difficulties
in planning as the end of summer
approaches.
“This is the last best chance for
airlines to make revenue — and
the demand is there,” Jager said.
“People are wanting to travel. This
causes pressure on the airline to
maximize their schedule with few-
er employees available to work
EMPLOYMENT
Survey: Job gains were
weak last month
U.S. companies added far
fewer jobs than expected in July,
indicating persistent hiring
obstacles despite broader
improvement in the economy.
Businesses’ payrolls increased
by 330,000 last month, the
smallest gain since February,
after a revised 680,000 gain in
June, according to ADP Research
Institute data released
Wednesday.
The slowdown in hiring
underscores the challenges of a
full labor market recovery. Firms
are trying to keep pace with an
unleashing of pent-up demand,
but it will take time to fill a now-
record number of open positions.
The hiring deceleration was
acute in leisure and hospitality.
Service-provider employment
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due to pandemic staffing levels.”
Southwest Airlines, the nation’s
fourth-largest air carrier, faced
disruptions in mid-June to around
the July Fourth holiday, spurring a
surge in cancellations and delays.
It came after the airline
notched steep growth in recent
months, with passenger volumes
rising 45 percent between March
and June, Southwest Chief Oper-
ating Officer Michael G. Van de
Ven told investors last month. He
cited technology issues in June
that led to “extreme delays” as the
company also works through
staffing challenges.
Van de Ven said the carrier has
searched for flight instructors to
support training for pilots return-
ing after an extended time away
from the cockpit.
“It feels really good to finally be
in a position where we can add
flights and pick up our operating
momentum,” he said. “It was a bit
messy as we throttled down our
activity and it doesn’t surprise me
that it’s a bit messy as we’re accel-
erating it.”
Most recently, Spirit has been
facing its own far-reaching prob-
lems. The airline canceled more
than 800 flights over two days this
week, including 61 percent of its
Tuesday flights, according to avia-
tion firm FlightAware. The airline
said many of those cancellations
were part of a “thorough reboot of
the network, allowing us to reas-
sign our crews more efficiently
and restore the network faster.”
The company blamed “overlap-
ping operational challenges” for
the issues. It said a combination of
bad weather, computer problems
and staffing shortages caused
“widespread irregularities” — is-
sues exacerbated by high levels of
summer travel and fuller flights
industry-wide.
The Association of Flight Atten-
dants-CWA, which represents
increased 318,000 in July. Jobs in
leisure and hospitality rose
139,000 in July, also the smallest
advance since February.
Payrolls at goods producers
rose by 12,000. Employment at
construction firms increased by
just 1,000 in July.
— Bloomberg News
AUTO INDUSTRY
GM says high prices
drove $2.8B profit
Despite a computer-chip
shortage that temporarily closed
some of its factories, General
Motors made a healthy
$2.8 billion net profit in the
second quarter.
The earnings came even
though GM plants cranked out
200,000 fewer vehicles than they
did during the same period in
2019, the last comparable
quarter before the pandemic.
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nearly 50,000 flight attendants at
17 airlines, including those at Spir-
it, said the airline had an IT outage
Tuesday that prevented employ-
ees from using the crew schedul-
ing system for more than an hour,
compounding other challenges
and stymieing efforts to rearrange
flight plans for flight attendants.
“In an operational breakdown
like this, the airline needs to ‘reset’
in order to recover quicker and
prevent further disruptions that
could last weeks,” the union said in
a statement. “The reset will see
significant cancellations in the
short term, but avoid long term
disruptions.”
That means canceling more
trips and nearly rebuilding the
flight attendants’ schedules from
scratch, said union spokeswoman
Taylor Garland.
American Airlines said it faced
significant cancellations earlier
this week from storms at its Dal-
las-Fort Worth International Air-
port hub.
“It was sustained wind, hail and
rain. It was not a great situation
for the operation,” said American
spokesman Curtis Blessing. “The
result of that has been weather
recovery for the last couple days.”
Scores of diverted planes Sun-
day left crews out of position, he
said, leaving lingering effects.
“We’re coming out of it,” Blessing
said.
FlightAware data indicates
American canceled 377 flights, or
12 percent of its total, on Tuesday.
It canceled more than 100 flights
Wednesday.
Southwest also faced weather-
related delays Tuesday, with 1,215
of its flights — about one-third of
them — coming in late.
“Mother Nature provided chal-
lenges yesterday with convective
thunderstorms around the Den-
ver area and across a large stretch
of the Gulf Coast, southeast, and
DI GEST
The automaker told the same
story as competitors Ford,
Stellantis and others, saying that
high prices and strong demand
for expensive pickup trucks and
luxury SUVs overcame inventory
shortages.
GM also boosted its net
income guidance for the full year
to $7.7 billion and $9.2 billion,
and pretax earnings of
$11.5 billion to $13.5 billion. It
had been $10 billion to
$11 billion.
GM executives said
Wednesday that they expect tight
inventory and high prices to
continue through the year as the
chip shortage lingers into 2022.
Chief executive Mary Barra
cautioned that the fast-spreading
coronavirus delta variant could
cause supply-chain problems
down the road. But she said GM
is managing through the
shortages by allocating scarce
chips to higher-demand vehicles
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Florida,” the airline said in a state-
ment. But it added, “we’re happy
to report that we’re not, currently,
experiencing the same operation-
al disruptions” the airline faced in
June and July.
Spirit said it is working through
“proactive cancellations” that will
enable a quicker reassignment of
crew members.
“As a result, cancellation num-
bers will progressively drop in the
days to come,” the airline said in a
statement. “The last three days
were extremely difficult for our
Guests and Team Members, and
for that we sincerely apologize. We
continue to work around-the-
clock to get our Guests where they
need to be.”
The delays are coming as the
Transportation Security Adminis-
tration said it screened 1,797,120
people Tuesday, compared with
543,601 on the same day last year
and 2,387,115 in 2019. Tuesday’s
total was the lowest checkpoint
volume at the nation’s airports
since June 22.
Tuesday’s dip in screenings
came two days after a pandemic-
era high on Sunday, when more
than 2.2 million passengers
moved through airport check-
points.
The TSA has battled its own
staffing struggles in recent
months, alongside those of air-
lines.
The acting head of the TSA is-
sued a memo earlier this summer
warning that the nation’s largest
airports would face shortages and
asked office workers to volunteer
to assist with checkpoints, such as
managing queues and aiding with
administrative tasks.
The agency has promised recur-
ring monthly bonuses, allowed
part-time workers to become full-
time, adjusted shifts and in-
creased the use of overtime.
michael.laris@washpost.com
such as pickup trucks and large
SUVs.
The average GM vehicle sold
for nearly $44,000 from April
through June, the company said,
and it was up nearly $3,000 over
that in July.
— Associated Press
ALSO IN BUSINESS
Growth in the U.S. services
sector, where most Americans
work, rose to a record pace in
July even as businesses
continued to face challenges in
hiring workers. The Institute for
Supply Management reported
Wednesday that its monthly
survey of service industries rose
to a reading of 64.1 last month,
up from 60.1 in June. It was the
fastest pace since this series
began in 2008. Any reading
above 50 indicates growth in
service industries.
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Boeing to move its
Starliner off the pad
Inspections will continue
inside vehicle integration
facility in Florida
BY D ALVIN B ROWN
Boeing will move its Starliner
capsule from its launchpad in
Florida on Thursday back to the
building where it was stacked
aboard the rocket that was to
carry it to space, Boeing officials
said late Wednesday.
The decision to return the
spacecraft and its Atlas V booster
to what’s known as the vehicle
integration facility (VIF) came
after NASA and Boeing investiga-
tors were unable to determine
what had caused a sensor to
indicate that a valve on the vehi-
cle wasn’t in the proper position,
forcing officials to cancel its long-
awaited launch Tuesday, the com-
pany said.
Boeing said inspections of the
vehicle would continue in the
facility. It gave no timetable for
how long those inspections might
take or whether they would re-
quire separating the capsule from
its booster or disassembling the
spacecraft. Others familiar with
spacecraft engineering suggested
it would undergo a lengthy in-
spection period that could keep it
grounded for several weeks.
“Boeing is working to under-
stand unexpected valve position
indications in the Service Module
propulsion system that led the
company to scrub yesterday’s
launch attempt early in the
countdown,” Boeing said in a
statement.
Boeing said “troubleshooting
of the valves while the Starliner
and Atlas V were on the launch-
pad has ruled out a number of
potential causes, including soft-
ware.” It also said “the severe
storm that occurred on Monday
also appears to be an unlikely
cause, but the team will closely
inspect for water or electrical
damage while the spacecraft is in
the VIF.”
“The team is steadfast in its
commitment to identify root
cause and determine next steps,”
the statement said, quoting John
Vollmer, vice president and pro-
gram manager of Boeing’s Com-
mercial Crew Program. “Develop-
ing solutions in a disciplined
manner and letting the data drive
our planning is critical and the
team is working to ensure our
spacecraft flies when ready.”
A lengthy investigation could
add to what has already been a
humiliating chain of events for
Boeing.
Starliner’s first test flight, in
December 2019, ended when a
software problem put the capsule
in a wrong orbit and forced
ground controllers to bring it
home without reaching the Inter-
national Space Station. Boeing
then rewrote the capsule’s soft-
ware, taking 80 “corrective ac-
tions” and waiting for a launch
window that aligned with avail-
able docking space at the space
station.
In the ensuing 19 months, Boe-
ing’s rival, SpaceX, delivered
three astronaut crews to the sta-
tion.
NASA declined to say when the
next available launch window
might come. “NASA and Boeing
educational assistance at select
online institutions for its front-
line employees. The discounter
said Wednesday that it plans to
spend $200 million over the next
four years to offer workers free
undergraduate and associate’s
degree programs and certificates
in business-oriented majors at
select institutions such as the
Universities of Arizona and
Denver. Like other big corporate
names, such as Walmart, Taco
Bell and Walt Disney Co., Target
is working with Guild Education,
a Denver start-up that negotiates
deals between companies and
colleges for the program.
CVS Health on Wednesday
hedged a bit on its long-term
target for double-digit earnings
growth for next year, pointing to
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will look for the next available
opportunity after resolution of
the issue,” a NASA spokesperson
said via email.
There’s a slim chance the prob-
lem could be fixed this week,
according to aerospace engineers
not affiliated with Boeing or
NASA.
But what’s more likely is a
weeks-long delay as teams at-
tempt to locate the source of the
problem before beginning the
multistep process of fixing it,
putting the pieces back together
and running safety tests.
Boeing attributed the scrubbed
mission to “indications that not
all valves were in the proper
configuration needed for launch.”
Boeing revealed little about the
valves except that they were lo-
cated in the spacecraft’s service
module, the rear portion of the
spacecraft that contains its pro-
pulsion system and is jettisoned
before the capsule returns to
Earth.
The valves in question may be
used to help guide the spacecraft
in the right direction in space,
according to Sven Bilén, a profes-
sor of aerospace engineering at
Pennsylvania State University.
“If your car is misaligned,
you’ll be constantly pulling on
the steering wheel to get it
straight,” he said. “In a spacecraft,
it wouldn’t maneuver the way
that you expect it to. You risk not
getting to the space station, or it
burns up in the atmosphere com-
ing back because it wasn’t orient-
ed the right way.”
Based on the information re-
leased by Boeing, it seems like a
complex issue to solve, Bilén said.
“If the valve is broken, if they
have to pull it out and replace it,
you’re talking weeks at a mini-
mum,” Bilén said. “If it’s a sensor
issue, and it’s easy to replace,” a
relaunch could happen sooner.
But there may be a concern that
“the same issue is on other
valves,” he added.
Boeing was originally sched-
uled to repeat its December 2019
test flight last Friday, but that
retest was postponed after a mis-
fire of thrusters on a Russian
module attached to the Interna-
tional Space Station sent the
space station into a barrel roll.
NASA officials rescheduled that
flight for Tuesday to give it time
to be certain the incident, which
NASA said caused the space sta-
tion to roll over one and a half
times, hadn’t damaged key com-
ponents.
Boeing cannot simply relaunch
Starliner whenever it wants.
NASA determines safe mission
dates and times based on a blend
of factors, including the launch
site availability, room to dock at
the International Space Station,
weather and orbital needs.
“A low Earth mission with spe-
cific timing needs must lift off at
the right time to slip into the
same orbit as its target,” NASA
says on its website. The space
agency also has a SpaceX trip to
the space station set for later this
month and a big mission to study
asteroids associated with Jupiter
no earlier than Oct. 16.
For Boeing, relaunching Star-
liner is critical. NASA has paid
the company more than $4 bil-
lion for developing the capsule
and flights, and any repairs now
are added to the company’s ex-
penses.
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costs as it expects some uptick in
vaccination and treatment costs
and normalization of demand for
non-pandemic health-care
services by the fourth quarter.
CVS also announced higher pay
for some of its employees, saying
it will raise the minimum wage
to $15 an hour effective July next
year, from $11 currently.
Jamie Dimon said he’s
unlikely to be running JPMorgan
Chase in 10 years, but he does see
himself staying for another five
years. “I’m not going to go play
golf and smell flowers,” Dimon
said in an interview with Fox
Business that aired Wednesday.
JPMorgan’s board last month
awarded the bank’s billionaire
chief executive a special gift to
stay on for another “significant
number of years.” The CEO, 65,
also reiterated his prediction
that the U.S. economy is poised
to boom.
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Extradition fight enters final stretch for Huawei’s Meng
Hearing marks crucial
phase for executive and
for Chinese tech giant
BY E VA D OU
AND A MANDA C OLETTA
Weeks before the arrest of
Huawei chief financial officer
Meng Wanzhou in 2018, a book
came out in which she wrote
about the struggle to get the
company’s financial records on a
sound footing.
“Ten years ago, Huawei’s fi-
nance staff were criticized non-
stop,” she wrote, referring to her
father only by his title. “They
were criticized by our CEO Mr.
Ren Zhengfei, by business de-
partments, by customers, and by
employees. We were like a head-
less chicken, running around
aimlessly.”
In the book, “Visionaries:
Huawei Stories,” other employ-
ees of the Chinese tech giant
described the young and inexpe-
rienced finance team, whose al-
leged mishaps ranged from
missed tax payments to possible
accounting fraud. Meng wrote
that they worked hard for years
to professionalize Huawei’s man-
agement.
“We are like a tiny sapling
yearning to grow,” she wrote. “We
are working hard and constantly
improving.”
She may not get another
chance.
Meng’s fight against extradi-
tion to the United States on fraud
charges entered its final stretch
Wednesday, with a crucial court
hearing beginning in Vancouver,
British Columbia. The hearing
could run until Aug. 20, and if
the judge rules in favor of extra-
dition, the decision on surrender
will be made by Canada’s justice
minister.
The arrest of Meng, 49, in
Vancouver thrust Canada into
the geopolitical standoff be-
tween the United States and
China. Her case could also affect
the fates of two Canadian nation-
als who have been held in harsh
detention conditions in China, in
apparent retaliation.
The next weeks could deter-
mine the future of one of China’s
most powerful business families.
Meng has had a rocky relation-
ship with her father, who was
absent for much of her childhood
and divorced her mother. But she
has also been rumored as a
possible successor to Ren’s busi-
ness empire.
Ren has said her situation
can’t be considered over the
national interest.
Trump’s push for rules to make dishwashers faster appears primed to become a washout
BY T ODD C . F RANKEL
President Donald Trump really
got the crowd going last year
when he promised them faster
dishwashers.
“Anybody have a new dish-
washer?” Trump said at the cam-
paign rally in Milwaukee in Janu-
ary 2020, using hyperbole to
claim modern, efficient dish-
washers needed 10 cycles to clean
dishes.
“I’m sorry for that,” Trump
said. “I’m sorry for that. It’s
worthless. They give you so little
water.”
Trump’s administration last
year rolled back regulations on
dishwashers along with shower
Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou leaves the Vancouver home where she is under house arrest to attend a British Columbia
Supreme Court hearing in March. The Chinese tech giant executive is battling extradition to the United States on fraud charges.
The arrest of Meng
thrust Canada into the
geopolitical standoff
between the United
States and China. Her
case could also affect
the fates of two
Canadian nationals
who have been held in
harsh detention
conditions in China, in
apparent retaliation.
Biden administration
plans to reverse changes
embraced by only a few
heads, clothes washers and dry-
ers. The rules relaxed limits on
water and energy use. Trump said
the goal was to give consumers
choices.
But almost no one was clamor-
ing for the changes. Manufactur-
ers did not support them. They
said there was no need. Environ-
mental groups called the new
rules wasteful. Consumer groups
said modern appliances already
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“I would rather withstand at-
tacks for a couple more years and
my daughter to suffer more, than
let China concede something to
the United States for Huawei's
benefit,” he told the Associated
Press in 2019.
Still, Meng’s case has been
under discussion at high diplo-
matic levels. China’s Foreign
Minister Wang Yi raised it with
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy
Sherman in her visit last month.
Meng was detained at a Van-
couver airport in December
2018, at the request of the United
States. The U.S. Justice Depart-
ment alleges that Meng misled
banks about Huawei’s relation-
ship with a subsidiary, Skycom,
effectively tricking them into
violating U.S. sanctions against
Iran.
Huawei’s lawyers say the case
is political and based on misin-
formation.
“Meng Wanzhou has spent
nearly 1,000 days as a pawn in a
geopolitical game of chess,” said
Alykhan Velshi, vice president of
corporate affairs at Huawei.
Meng was born in 1972, when
Ren was still a military engineer
work pretty well.
On Tuesday, President Biden’s
Energy Department said it
planned to reverse the Trump-era
changes. The still-new rules for
dishwashers, washing machines
and clothes dryers would go back
to what they were before Trump.
It comes a couple weeks after the
Energy Department said it was
doing the same with shower
heads.
The agency’s move was ap-
plauded by groups such as the
nonprofit American Council for
an Energy-Efficient Economy.
It was mourned by people such
as Sam Kazman, general counsel
for the conservative-leaning
Competitive Enterprise Institute.
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working far from home. She was
raised by her mother, whose
surname she adopted.
“I wasn’t the type to play
around with my children, play
hide-and-seek and things like
that,” Ren told CNN in 2019. “I
barely took care of them.”
Ren called his young daughter
“Piggy,” a nickname that resur-
faced when she used it to sign an
open letter to him from house
arrest.
Their relationship remained
cool as adults. Before her arrest,
Meng and her father didn’t ex-
change greetings on holidays
and rarely spoke by phone, Ren
told Canada’s CTV National
News in 2019.
Still, she was promoted at
Huawei and helped lead a re-
vamping of the company’s ac-
counting system. Ren has bluntly
denied she could take the helm at
Huawei, saying she lacks vision.
“She does not have that partic-
ular quality that is required for
strong leadership, to point the
way forward like a beacon,” Ren
told the BBC in 2019. “She is not
my successor for sure.”
A different facet of their lives
“I’m disappointed,” Kazman
said. “But we’ve been expecting
this for some time.”
Trump’s dishwasher rule creat-
ed a new class of super-fast dish-
washers with one-hour cycles
that would not be inhibited by
water and energy limitations.
It took effect last October,
shortly before the presidential
election.
But no manufacturer appears
to have made a new dishwasher
that fits the rule.
Same with super-fast clothes
washers and dryers.
Kazman chalked it up to man-
ufacturers expecting a new ad-
ministration would undo the
Trump-era regulatory changes.
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has emerged in court. Meng’s
lavish lifestyle in house arrest
has raised eyebrows — and
drawn unfavorable comparisons
to the plight of the two Cana-
dians, former diplomat Michael
Kovrig and businessman Mi-
chael Spavor, who were arrested
in China in apparent retaliation.
In January, a British Columbia
court was told that Meng was
spending her house arrest in a
seven-bedroom mansion, that
she traveled to designer stores in
Vancouver to shop in private,
and that she had a large Christ-
mas dinner in apparent violation
of coronavirus restrictions. Her
mother, husband and children
have visited her.
Kovrig and Spavor, held in
cramped cells in separate pris-
ons, have been largely cut off
from sunlight, their families and
the outside world since their
arrest on vague charges of spying
on and stealing state secrets. In
the more than 960 days since
they’ve been detained, they’ve
had a handful of calls with their
families — combined — and 25
visits each from consular offi-
cials. Kovrig has passed the time
It was Kazman’s group that
started it all with a petition in
2018 asking the government to
create this new class of appliance.
Dishwasher makers immedi-
ately objected to his idea. They
said consumers were not asking
for this feature. And they said
almost all dishwashers shipped
since 2017 already included a
one-hour option.
Trump also changed the rules
for shower heads, creating a loop-
hole to allow for potentially un-
limited water use.
While the amount of water
used in a shower was still capped
at 2.5 gallons per minute, the
agency gave a new interpretation
of the cap. Water use would be
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by walking in circles, according
to his family.
The “two Michaels,” as they’re
known in Canada, were tried
separately in secret in March.
Verdicts have not been an-
nounced.
Meng, who is represented by a
team of lawyers from across
Canada, has been dealt several
setbacks in her bid to stave off
extradition.
Last year, the Supreme Court
of British Columbia found that
the crimes for which Meng is
wanted in the United States are
also crimes in Canada, satisfying
a prerequisite for extradition.
She has since been seeking to
get the proceedings stayed be-
cause of an alleged “abuse of
process.” Her lawyers have ar-
gued that the case is political,
that her rights were violated
during her arrest and that the
United States’ prosecution of
Meng violates international law.
On Wednesday, Mona Duckett,
one of Meng’s lawyers, began
laying out the last of the abuse-
of-process arguments, arguing
that the case should be thrown
out because U.S. officials misled
Canada about the evidence
against Meng.
The Chinese executive was
dealt another blow last month
when the court denied her re-
quest to admit evidence from
HSBC, including internal bank
reports and email chains be-
tween employees, that her law-
yers had said would “fatally”
damage the U.S. case.
The documents “would no
doubt be valuable to Ms. Meng in
a trial,” Associate Chief Justice
Heather Holmes wrote in the
decision, but they “are not capa-
ble of directly impeaching the
evidence” in the U.S. record of
the case “in a way that could
affect the issues for determina-
tion in the extradition hearing.”
If Holmes rules that there is
enough evidence to commit
Meng for extradition, the ulti-
mate decision would fall to Cana-
da’s justice minister. The vast
majority of extradition requests
from the United States are grant-
ed, but any decision could be tied
up for years in appeals.
In the 2018 book, Meng wrote
that the finance team was be-
coming more proactive in ad-
dressing risks.
“In the past, we would im-
prove only after we were aware
of our weaknesses,” she wrote.
“We would take up our responsi-
bilities, and stumble our way
forward into the light. Today, we
have a plan, and act accordingly.”
amanda.coletta@washpost.com
eva.dou@washpost.com
Pei Lin Wu contributed to this report.
measured per shower head, in-
stead of per shower stall. So a
shower stall could have multiple
shower heads — delivering more
water.
Trump often talked about dish-
washers and shower heads while
on the campaign trail or at the
White House last year.
He also talked a lot about
toilets — how they allegedly do
not work as well, either, because
of efficiency standards. Toilet
manufacturers and product test-
ing firms disagreed with his as-
sertions.
But it did not matter. His
administration never suggested
rules for more powerful toilets.
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Last-minute moratorium on evictions creates confusion
EVICTIONS FROM A1
“We are living paycheck to pay-
check and have no place to go,”
said Brina, who spoke on the
condition that she be identified by
a nickname because she fears
backlash. “Right now, we’re just
trying to see if we can get a hotel
for the night.”
The Missoula County Sheriff’s
Office confirmed that the eviction
took place Tuesday morning.
Brina said the extension of the
moratorium was “too little, too
late” for those like her who were
evicted Monday and Tuesday. No
data is available on numbers of
evictions that occurred during
the lapsed moratorium; however,
The Washington Post talked with
landlords, renters and housing
advocates in five states who con-
firmed evictions had happened or
were imminent.
The last-minute ban appears to
be granting a reprieve to some. In
Volusia County, Fla., for example,
which includes Daytona Beach,
sheriff’s officers had been prepar-
ing to carry out as many as five
court-ordered evictions Wednes-
day. The agency had contacted
landlords, asking them to give
tenants 24 hours’ notice. As the
new Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention order took effect,
agency officials said Wednesday
they are no longer proceeding
with covid-related evictions, al-
though they are carrying out evic-
tions unrelated to the pandemic.
Volusia is considered an area with
high levels of community spread.
The CDC announced the new
order late Tuesday, citing surging
covid cases. It warned a cascade of
evictions could fuel the spread of
infections. The new ban will ex-
pire Oct. 3 and applies to counties
that are “experiencing substantial
and high levels of community
transmission,” according to the
CDC. The order also said that
80 percent of counties would be
covered for the month, because
they are experiencing substantial
or high levels of community
spread as of Aug. 1.
But lapse in coverage and the
new threshold to qualify under
the eviction ban created its own
wrinkles. The ban is good news
for renters behind on payments
throughout much of Florida, the
West Coast and the South, where
the delta variant of the coronavi-
rus has been spreading fast. But
the moratorium creates new geo-
graphic boundaries for evictions,
sending some renters searching
their county’s level of community
spread. While most of the nation
is covered by the new eviction
ban, there are counties in Wiscon-
sin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and
New York protected from evic-
tions next to counties where evic-
tions can continue, because com-
munity spread is considered
“moderate.”
Housing advocates cheered
news of an extension, even if it
was narrower than they hoped.
“This is a tremendous relief for
millions of people who were on
the cusp of losing their homes
and, with them, their ability to
stay safe during the pandemic,”
said Diane Yentel, president of the
National Low Income Housing
Coalition in a statement Tuesday.
More than 6 million renters had
fallen behind on rent, according
to Moody’s data.
Some landlords, however, ex-
pressed mixed feelings.
“I would hope there’s a provi-
sion that would allow renters who
exploit the moratorium to be held
accountable. Those folks should
still be evicted,” said Richard
Brown, who runs the real estate
company Five Eight Holdings and
owns 21 rental units in Connecti-
cut, where counties may be cov-
ered by the new moratorium.
“The moratorium should be in
place for families who need it, and
are trying to do the right thing.”
The stakes are high for some
renters who were on the verge of
being evicted. Throughout parts
of the country, even when the
pandemic-era eviction moratori-
um was in place, it was up to
renters to ask the courts to en-
force the ban.
Samantha Goddard, who is
three months behind on rent, said
Tuesday that she and her dog,
Nugget, were to be evicted by the
end of the week. She wasn’t sure if
the extended eviction moratori-
um would help.
The 44-year-old, who lives in
Edmond, Okla., had been making
ends meet during the pandemic
by picking up odd jobs — $400 a
month as a research assistant, a
few hundred more by taking part
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Samantha Goddard, seen with her dog, Nugget, outside her apartment in Edmond, Okla. She said she wasn’t sure if the extended eviction moratorium would help her.
“It’s just me, and I have nowhere to go. I’m just sitting here, waiting to be served eviction papers.”
in medical focus groups and on-
line surveys. But over the sum-
mer, she ended up with a $500
electric bill that set her back. Now
she owes about $2,000 in unpaid
rent and said managers at the
apartment complex where she
has lived for five years are prepar-
ing to file eviction paperwork.
“It’s like I’ve fallen through all
of the holes in the Swiss cheese
and am lying on the floor,” she
said. “Where do I go from here? I
don’t know.”
Goddard applied for rental as-
sistance from both federal and
local organizations in June but
has yet to hear back about either.
Goddard isn’t sure where she’ll go
next. She doesn’t have family
nearby, and her friends are al-
ready stretched thin.
“It’s just me, and I have no-
where to go,” she said. “I’m just
sitting here, waiting to be served
eviction papers.”
Rajni Shankar-Brown, a pro-
fessor of social justice education
at Stetson University and vice
president of the National Coali-
tion for the Homeless, said the
new order appeared to be more
targeted than an overall exten-
sion of the moratorium. “This is
truly a massive and deeply dis-
tressing crisis, and likely to have
multigenerational effects,” she
said.
In Boca Raton, Fla., Gary Bres-
tle kept an eye on the front door
Tuesday, waiting to see when an
eviction notice might come his
way. Brestle, who lives with his
fiancee and her mother, said they
fell behind on rent after he devel-
oped covid-19 in July.
“Today’s our last day to some-
how come up with $2,000 or lose
our home,” the 28-year-old said,
as he rushed to gather bank state-
ments and pay stubs to complete
his application for emergency
rental assistance. “We have no
extended family. Our car is going
to become our home if rental
assistance does not step in.”
In Mesa, Ariz., Kathryn Tilley,
80, received an eviction notice
last week. Since then, she has
cleared out her two-bedroom
house and put everything in stor-
age while she waits to be forced
out of the home she shares with
her son and dog.
Tilley, who works part time at a
thrift store, was doing fine until
July, when her $1,670 social secu-
rity check failed to arrive. She
couldn’t pay her $765 rent that
month and fell behind on car and
insurance payments. She ap-
peared in court Monday, where
the judge ruled in favor of her
landlord in a matter of minutes,
since she’d missed a rent pay-
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Samantha Goddard, who is three months behind on rent
ment. and on during the pandemic, Last July, the apartment com- ord.
Now she’s just waiting for the working at a restaurant that the plex tried to evict her but she “It ain’t much, but I live here,”
eviction, wondering if each knock pandemic shuttered, as a tech fought it in court, citing the mora- said Mills, who moved to the Gulf
on the door means she’s being support contractor and later as a torium. The judge halted the pro- Coast after a divorce and recovery
kicked out or whether she’ll re- cabdriver. She tried to pay what ceeding until after the moratori- from an opiate addiction. “What
turn from her shift at the thrift she could in rent, but sometimes um had lifted. Now, Mills said, she really gets me is I came here to
store to find that her front door it didn’t cover the full $720 a feels that familiar sense of anxi- restart and build, and this has
has a padlock, like the one that month, she said. After a while, the ety. been crippling.”
recently appeared on the unit management firm stopped ac- After everything, she said, she hamza.shaban@washpost.com
across from hers — even though cepting partial payments, she still might be forced to leave her abha.bhattarai@washpost.com
the federal moratorium was in said. home with evictions on her rec- marissa.lang@washpost.com
place.
“We’re scared,” she said.
“Where are we going to go? I can’t
afford to buy a house and the
prices of rentals are just astro-
nomical.”
The cheapest two-bedrooms
she can find, she said, start at
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know it’s not just me.”
In Central Florida, Timothy Mi-
kus said he’s relieved to be spared,
even temporarily. When his gigs
as a performance artist and edit-
ing for a production company
dried up last year because of the
pandemic, Mikus, 55, got by
through the generosity of friends.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 5 , 2021 . THE WASHINGTON POST
Why our medical
students must
be vaccinated
BY W AYNE A . I . F REDERICK,
V ALERIE M ONTGOMERY R ICE,
D AVID M . C ARLISLE
AND J AMES E . K . H ILDRETH
s leaders of the nation’s only four
A historically Black medical schools,
each of us has arrived at the same
conclusion heading into the coming
school year: We must do everything in our
power to protect the next generation of Black
doctors — starting by ensuring they are all
vaccinated.
We have a lot of reasons to feel confident in
our decision to mandate coronavirus vaccines
for our students. As medical experts, we know
that the vaccines have been thoroughly tested
to ensure their safety and efficacy. No short-
cuts were taken in the process of authorizing
these vaccines for general use. The technology
underpinning the vaccines’ development has
been in the works for decades.
With more than 160 million people in the
United States fully vaccinated, the three coro-
navirus vaccines available in our nation have
proved to be safe and effective, both against
the initial strain of covid-19 and against the
known variants that have emerged.
Last week, more than 50 medical groups
issued a statement calling for health-care and
long-term-care employers to mandate corona-
virus vaccinations for their employees. This
included the National Medical Association, the
American Medical Association, the American
Academy of Family Physicians, the American
Academy of Pediatrics and the American
Public Health Association — groups long at the
heart of organized medicine. Their reasoning
was simple, and consistent with our own:
Vaccination against the coronavirus is crucial
to protecting health-care workers themselves,
but also to protecting their colleagues, families
and patients.
The stakes for the Black medical students
training at our institutions are incredibly high.
Cultivating more Black doctors is essential to
the effort to eliminate health inequities in the
Black community, such as the excess incidence
of heart disease, stroke and diabetes — and the
higher rates of hospitalization and death due
to covid-19.
Black doctors are more likely to work in
underserved communities, focus on issues
that predominantly affect minority patients
and display greater cultural sensitivity when
treating patients of color. That last point is
particularly vital when it comes to overcoming
vaccine hesitancy in minority communities,
which stems in part from deeply rooted
institutional mistrust.
Black Americans continue to be underrepre-
sented in receiving the vaccines, making up
13.4 percent of the U.S. population but only
9.1 percent of fully vaccinated people. After the
many historical and modern-day examples
supporting the widely held belief that our
nation’s social institutions do not operate on
behalf of the Black community’s best interests,
it is unsurprising and understandable that
large portions of the Black community would
hesitate to be vaccinated. In addition, misin-
formation about the vaccines is rampant, and
it can be difficult to discern truth from
falsehood.
The most effective way to overcome this
vaccine hesitancy, and to reduce health-care
inequities more generally, is through diversify-
ing the medical profession.
Research overwhelmingly indicates that
greater diversity in the physician workforce
contributes to an overall increase in the quality
of care for patients. Yet only 5 percent of
doctors in America are Black. Last year, there
were approximately 1,350 Black medical
school graduates, and at least 1 out of 7 of those
newly minted doctors graduated from one of
our institutions.
We understand the outsize role our schools
play in ensuring a diversified medical field.
That is why we are leaving nothing to chance
and vaccinating our students against this
virus.
As the covid-19 pandemic continues to
present a significant threat to Black communi-
ties, we cannot afford to undermine — in any
way — the success of the next generation of
Black doctors. We know that this is one of the
most critical moments for health care in our
nation’s history, and that it is imperative that
Black medical students make it through this
pandemic with their health intact.
And our students are answering the call.
Already, 93 percent of the medical students at
Morehouse and 94 percent of the medical
students at Howard have received their coro-
navirus vaccines. They are returning to our
campuses ready to learn, ready to lead and
ready to help save lives as we continue to fight
this pandemic. They are counted among the
millions of Black Americans who have received
at least one shot of a coronavirus vaccine and
are either protected from the virus or on the
path to immunity.
We must protect our future — whether that’s
our next generation of physicians or our next
generation, more generally. We are calling on
everyone to take a hard, long look at what they
can do to end this pandemic. This may mean
getting vaccinated, encouraging family mem-
bers or friends to do the same, or helping folks
to get answers to the questions they may have.
With cases of the delta variant on the rise,
we must use all our tools to keep our communi-
ties safe. The strongest tool we have is vaccina-
tion. It’s time to roll up your sleeve — so we can
end this together.
Wayne A.I. Frederick is the president of Howard
University; Valerie Montgomery Rice is the
president of Morehouse School of Medicine; David
M. Carlisle is the president of Charles R. Drew
University of Medicine and Science; and James E.K.
Hildreth is the president of Meharry Medical
College.
THURSDAY Opinion
A nurse pulls on a second pair of gloves at Johnston Memorial Hospital in June in Abingdon, Va.
What it will take to stop
the next pandemic
BY E RIC L ANDER
oronavirus vaccines can end
C the current pandemic if
enough people choose to pro-
tect themselves and their
loved ones by getting vaccinated. But
in the years to come, we will still
need to defend against a pandemic
side effect: collective amnesia.
As public health emergencies re-
cede, societies often quickly forget
their experiences — and fail to pre-
pare for future challenges. For pan-
demics, such a course would be
disastrous.
New infectious diseases have been
emerging at an accelerating pace,
and they are spreading faster due to
global travel.
Our federal government is respon-
sible for defending the United States
against future threats. That’s why
President Biden has asked Congress
to fund his plan to build on current
scientific progress to keep new infec-
tious-disease threats from turning
into pandemics like covid-19.
As the president’s science adviser,
I know what’s becoming possible.
For the first time in our history, we
have an opportunity not just to refill
our stockpiles but also to transform
our capabilities. However, if we don’t
start preparing now for future pan-
demics, the window for action will
close.
Covid-19 has been a catastrophe:
The toll in the United States alone is
more than 614,000 lives and has
been estimated to exceed $16 tril-
lion, with disproportionate impact
on vulnerable and marginalized
communities.
But a future pandemic could be
even worse — unless we take steps
now.
It’s important to remember that
the virus behind covid-19 is far less
deadly than the 1918 influenza. The
virus also belongs to a well-
The ‘sludge’ that is clogging our lives
BY R ICHARD H . T HALER
he most important lesson I
T have learned about human be-
havior is quite simple: If you
want to encourage people to
do something, make it easy. If you
want people to sign up for the retire-
ment plan, automatically enroll them
unless they opt out. If you want to
encourage healthy eating, put tasty,
healthful food options in prominent
locations.
In our 2008 book, Cass R. Sunstein
and I called these small interventions
“nudges” because they gently guide
people in the right direction, rather
than force anyone to do anything. But
for every way you can invent to help
people make good decisions, there is a
related strategy that can be devised to
do harm, impede progress or make a
buck.
Before the practice was banned,
some banks would automatically en-
roll people who opened a new check-
ing account with overdraft protection
“as a courtesy” — only to charge hefty
fees when it was used. This is an
example of what we now call “sludge.”
Sludge, which is any unnecessary fric-
tion, is the opposite of helpful.
Unfortunately, we are seeing a lot of
sludge in the world around us — not
just in the private sector but in govern-
ment as well. We should all be engaged
in a mission to seek and destroy sludge
wherever we find it.
One common form of private-sector
sludge involves making it easy to join
but hard to quit, from news subscrip-
tions to gyms. Call it the “Hotel Cali-
fornia” syndrome: You can check out
anytime you like, but you can never
leave. Although you can join or sub-
scribe online with a few clicks, you
must call or engage in an endless
online “chat” to quit.
One reason that companies put
their customers through this torture is
obvious. If quitting is painful enough,
EZ
understood family, coronaviruses. It
was possible to design vaccines with-
in days of knowing the virus’s genetic
code because 20 years of basic scien-
tific research had revealed which
protein to target and how to stabilize
it. And while the current virus spins
off variants, its mutation rate is slow-
er than that of most viruses.
Unfortunately, most of the 26 fam-
ilies of viruses that infect humans
are less well understood or harder to
control. We have a great deal of work
still ahead.
The development of mRNA vac-
cine technology — thanks to more
than a decade of foresighted basic
research — was a game-changer. It
shortened the time needed to design
and test vaccines to less than a year
— far faster than for any previous
vaccine. And it’s been surprisingly
effective against covid-19.
Still, there’s much more to do. We
don’t yet know how mRNA vaccines
will perform against other viruses
down the road. And when the next
pandemic breaks out, we’ll want to
be able to respond even faster.
Fortunately, the scientific com-
munity has been developing a bold
plan to keep future viruses from
becoming pandemics.
Here are a few of the goals we
should shoot for:
The capability to design, test and
approve safe and effective vaccines
within 100 days of detecting a pan-
demic threat (for covid-19, that
would have meant May 2020); man-
ufacture enough doses to supply the
world within 200 days; and speed
vaccination campaigns by replacing
sterile injections with skin patches.
Diagnostics simple and cheap
enough for daily home testing to
limit spread and target medical care.
Early-warning systems to spot
new biological threats anywhere in
the world soon after they emerge
and monitor them thereafter.
some people will just give up. But
there is another motivation, which is
to give the agent the chance to offer
you a special deal. Why should loyal
customers have to periodically spend
an hour on the phone to be sure they
are not overpaying? Businesses should
take note: A reputation for fair dealing
can also retain customers.
Sludge removal can bring societal
benefits — for example, helping en-
courage students from disadvantaged
communities to apply to prestigious
universities willing to offer a free
education to those who qualify.
The University of Michigan sent
letters to high-achieving high school
seniors from low-income families and
guaranteed them full-ride scholar-
ships if they applied and were admit-
ted — no cumbersome financial aid
forms required. Other, similar stu-
dents only received a letter encourag-
ing them to apply but without that
hassle-free path. Enrollments for
those who could skip the forms were
twice those who did have to submit
them.
Governments emit large quantities
of sludge, sometimes referred to as
“administrative burdens.” These bur-
dens are often imposed in the spirit of
living up to the letter of the law. But
thoughtful design can greatly reduce
sludge.
One example involves free or re-
duced-price school lunches. Once, par-
ents had to fill out forms to sign up
their children. Things improved great-
ly when a federal law instructed school
districts to enroll eligible students
directly, based on their households’
participation in the Supplemental Nu-
trition Assistance Program (SNAP),
previously known as food stamps.
Now, the vast majority of children
eligible for SNAP are directly enrolled.
Fewer forms means fewer hungry
kids.
Sludge is also threatening to de-
prive the neediest families of the ben-
RE
KATHERINE FREY/THE WASHINGTON POST
We desperately need to strength-
en our public health system — from
expanding the workforce to modern-
izing labs and data systems — in-
cluding to ensure that vulnerable
populations are protected.
And we need to coordinate actions
with our international partners, be-
cause pandemics know no borders.
These goals are ambitious, but
they’re feasible — provided the work
is managed with the seriousness,
focus and accountability of NASA’s
Apollo Program, which sent humans
to the moon.
Importantly, these capabilities
won’t just prepare us for future
pandemics; they’ll also improve
public health and medical care for
infectious diseases today.
Preparing for threats is a core
national responsibility. That’s why
our government invests heavily in
missile defense and counterterror-
ism. We need to similarly protect the
nation against biological threats,
which range from the ongoing risk of
pandemics to the possibility of delib-
erate use of bioweapons.
Pandemics cause massive death
and disruption. From a financial
standpoint, they’re also astronomi-
cally expensive. If, as might be expect-
ed from history and current trends,
we suffered a pandemic of the current
scale every two decades, the annual-
ized cost would exceed $500 billion
per year. Investing a much smaller
amount to avert this toll is an eco-
nomic and moral imperative.
The White House will put forward
a detailed plan this month to ensure
that the United States can fully
prepare before the next outbreak.
It’s hard to imagine a higher eco-
nomic or human return on national
investment.
Eric Lander is President Biden’s science
adviser and director of the White House
Office of Science and Technology Policy.
efits of the new child tax credit, a
signature program of the Biden ad-
ministration. A key provision of this
new law is that families that do not
earn enough to file a tax return are still
eligible to receive the money. But
unlike those who regularly file a tax
return, the money will not just appear
in their bank account. Unless a house-
hold has been filing tax returns and
have a working bank account, the
Internal Revenue Service has no way
to automatically send them the money.
They have to apply for it via an IRS web
portal. Assuring every American has
access to a free bare-bones bank ac-
count with a permanent digital ad-
dress would help solve this problem.
Indeed, the part of government that
contains the greatest amount of exces-
sive sludge may be the tax system. In
Sweden, people can file their tax re-
turns via text message. Suppose on
Feb. 1 you received a text message from
the IRS saying, “We think we owe you
$2,470. If you agree, reply with 1, and
that amount will appear in your ac-
count.” Roughly 90 percent of Ameri-
can taxpayers have returns simple
enough for this service to be feasible,
but the IRS is legally forbidden from
sending taxpayers such automated re-
turns. If you think that the tax prepa-
ration industry had something to do
with that law being written, you would
not be wrong.
Sludge is annoying. It is costly. In
many if not most cases, it is unneces-
sary. Firms can try to attract and retain
customers through good service rath-
er than maze-like steps to exit. Govern-
ment policies can be designed to be
simple, even for our neediest citizens.
Make that especially for them.
Richard H. Thaler is a professor of
economics at the University of Chicago
and the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in
Economics. His newly revised book with
Cass R. Sunstein, “Nudge: The Final
Edition,” will be published Aug. 3.
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ALYSSA ROSENBERG
The disgraceful
‘Cuomosexual’
phenomenon
s there a more embarrassing recent
I
entry to the American lexicon than
“Cuomosexual?” The expression burst
into the public imagination last spring,
when New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s
briefings on the unfolding covid-19 pan-
demic made him a national icon.
That flush of enthusiasm hasn’t just
faded, it has curdled into the most recent
example of why it’s better to approach
public figures as a citizen than as a fan. It’s
fine to approach the question of the cutest
Beatle or member of BTS with a mindless
ferocity, because the answer ultimately
doesn’t matter. But substituting worship for
scrutiny is unworthy of voters in a democra-
cy — and creates cover for politicians who
fail to serve the people they work for.
As President Donald Trump alternately
flailed and railed against the pandemic last
spring, it was understandable that many
Americans craved honest advice rather than
ad hominem attacks and quack cures. Cuo-
mo (D) and Anthony S. Fauci, the director of
the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, filled that void. Fauci,
who is now 80, became an avuncular grand-
pa figure on the left, while Cuomo turned
into a bizarre sex symbol.
At least some participants in the phe-
nomenon, such as writer Rebecca Fishbein,
recognized that their affection for Cuomo
was a kind of pandemic-induced Stockholm
syndrome.
“I catch myself touching my hair (not my
face!) when he talks about an increase in
testing capacity. I swooned when he told a
reporter he had his own workout routine.”
she wrote last March. “You may think my
brain is poisoned. You are probably correct.”
But figures including Ellen DeGeneres
and “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah stoked
the phenomenon more credulously. “You
should love a leader who engages the people
and remembers that they’re serving the
people,” Noah told DeGeneres in an April
interview. “Cuomosexual” merchandise still
abounds on Etsy, ranging from pink T-shirts
to crudely drawn canvas prints of a shirtless,
ripped governor.
How silly that enthusiasm, or even the
idea of Cuomo as a leader who “remembers
that they’re serving the people,” looks now.
Cuomo scored a $5 million deal for a book
touting his pandemic response even as his
policy of transferring recovering covid-19
patients to nursing homes may have exacer-
bated the crisis. And the specific idea of the
“Cuomosexual” looks even more grotesque
in the context of this week’s damning report
from New York Attorney General Letitia
James that portrays Cuomo as a serial
sexual harasser, charges he has denied.
Cuomo and Fauci are hardly the first
public figures to undergo this peculiar
transformation.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg became the
object of an unseemly cult of personality
late in her Supreme Court tenure. The
affection for the “Notorious RBG” acquired
an edge of condescension: Ginsburg was
simultaneously a powerful inspirational fig-
ure, and beyond reproach even for her
ultimately disastrous decision not to resign
during Barack Obama’s presidency. Valuing
Ginsburg’s principles as much as her per-
son, her jurisprudence as much as her jabot,
ought to mean respecting her enough to
argue with that latter choice, especially. But
the logic of fandom precludes holding its
objects morally accountable even for their
worst mistakes.
This tendency is hardly limited to the left.
More than any other politician, former
president Trump has fully substituted the
dynamics of fandom for those of politics. As
authors including conservative columnist
Matt K. Lewis and Wall Street Journal
White House correspondent Michael C.
Bender argue, Trump’s campaigns func-
tioned as much like jam bands’ endless
tours than they did a conventional political
operation.
“The community that sprang up around
Trump’s rallies was seductive and intoxicat-
ing,” Lewis wrote in a column. “The atten-
dant friends, activity, music (Trump rallies
had a concert-like feel), T-shirts with inside
jokes, and circus-like excitement all contrib-
uted to the delusion that you were part of a
large and important subculture.”
The emphasis on how Trump makes his
followers feel, rather than a sober assess-
ment of his performance as president, has
made him particularly difficult to dislodge
from U.S. politics. But cheering from the
stands is different from practicing citizen-
ship. A fan’s job is to admire and defend the
object of his affection. A citizen’s role is to
judge the public servants they employ. By
converting his base into fans, rather than
mere voters, Trump made it difficult — if not
impossible — for anyone to challenge his
hold on his admirers.
Across the political spectrum, it’s long
past time for Americans to rediscover some
self-respect and to adjust the terms of our
relationships with public figures. Andrew
Cuomo isn’t a hottie. Even if he was, it
wouldn’t matter more than the thousands
of dead New York nursing home residents
or 11 women he allegedly harassed. Your
mileage on whether Trump puts on a great
show almost definitely varies. And no
spectacle is a substitute for basic compe-
tence and dignity.
By all means, enjoy Dwayne Johnson’s
arms, root for the Boston Red Sox, and
worship at the altar of your diva of choice,
be she Dolly Parton or Beyoncé Knowles-
Carter. Fandom has its place and its plea-
sures. But do your job as a citizen, too.
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Mr. Biden and Egypt
Is the president serious about fighting for democracy?
RESIDENT BIDEN’S pledge to put
P advocacy for democracy and hu-
man rights at the center of his
foreign policy is off to a poor start
in a key region: the Middle East. His
administration has already retreated
from his pledge to make Saudi ruler Mo-
hammed bin Salman a “pariah.” It re-
sponded equivocally to the power grab
last month by Tunisia’s president, who
threatens to dismantle the only Arab de-
mocracy — a fault only partly remedied by
a phone call to the would-be strongman
last weekend by national security adviser
Jake Sullivan.
Now the administration is facing a po-
tentially decisive test of whether
Mr. Biden’s rhetoric will be translated into
meaningful action. Secretary of State An-
tony Blinken must determine in the next
few weeks whether to withhold on human
rights grounds $300 million of the $1.3 bil-
lion in military aid annually given to
Egypt. The suspension is mandated by
congressional legislation linking a portion
of the aid to conditions such as releasing
political prisoners and allowing media
freedom. No one disputes that the regime
of Abdel Fatah al-Sissi has failed to meet
A moratorium on the rule of law
Get ready for the courts to strike down the new eviction ban.
MERICANS BEHIND on their
A rent payments may have cheered
when the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention an-
nounced Tuesday a new eviction morato-
rium for most of the nation, this one set
to last until October. With some 6 million
people owing back rent, many of them
victims of covid-19’s sudden economic
damage, there is little doubt about the
need for aid, particularly because people
are about to be thrown out of their homes
just as disease rates are climbing.
But the CDC’s action was almost cer-
tainly illegal. Under pressure from House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and pro-
gressive Democrats, President Biden and
the CDC may have muted accusations
that they failed to stick up for desperate
renters. The administration also may
succeed in giving many Americans a
short reprieve from eviction. But per-
haps not as long as advertised — because
courts may strike it down before October
— and at the expense of the rule of law.
The CDC crafted its new moratorium
after a previous eviction ban expired last
week. The old policy covered the whole
country and had been in place since
September. But Supreme Court Justice
Brett M. Kavanaugh warned in June that
the CDC had “exceeded its existing statu-
tory authority by issuing a nationwide
eviction moratorium” and that it could
not be renewed absent “clear and specific
congressional authorization.” Justice Ka-
vanaugh was the crucial fifth vote that
stopped the court from immediately
striking down the old eviction ban,
giving states an extra few weeks to begin
distributing some $47 billion in federal
rental aid.
The CDC on Tuesday tried to get
around this ruling by issuing a new ban
that covers only areas “experiencing
substantial and high levels of community
transmission.” This amounts to 80 per-
cent of counties. Advocates argue that
the rise of the delta variant may have
changed the court’s thinking and that the
new policy is more closely tailored to the
worsening public health situation. They
also argue that Justice Kavanaugh may
uphold another temporary policy while
Vaccinations are the only way out
Instead of fretting and arguing, let’s wear masks and get our shots.
HE SUMMER of fun has become,
T suddenly, the summer of pan-
demic misery, with case counts
rising, especially in some South-
ern states and unvaccinated areas, driven
by the delta variant. But there is a simple,
effective and proven firewall that will
stop the flames: vaccines. They are free
and available, and they can save lives.
A legitimate source of anxiety that
cropped up recently is the prospect of
breakthrough infections — people get-
ting sick even though they have been
vaccinated. In an outbreak following
crowded July Fourth holiday gatherings
in Provincetown, Mass., 469 people
tested positive, 74 percent of whom had
been previously vaccinated, suggesting
the vaccine firewall had cracked. Of
those, 79 percent had symptoms, mostly
mild. The director of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, Ro-
chelle Walensky, cited the CDC’s study as
one factor leading the agency to call for a
return to indoor masking in public
spaces for vaccinated people. But the
Provincetown study should not be seen
as a sign that vaccines are broken. To the
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EDITORIALS
those tests; to the contrary, it is the most
repressive in Egypt’s modern history. But
Mr. Blinken has the authority to waive the
conditions and deliver the full aid pack-
age, and Cairo’s Washington lobbyists are
working overtime to win that pass.
If the administration yields, it will shat-
ter any notion that this president will
depart from the coddling of Mr. Sissi by
previous administrations, with disas-
trous results for those in Egypt advocat-
ing for basic freedoms — and for
Mr. Biden’s agenda. As Sen. Chris Murphy
(D-Conn.) put it in a speech on the Senate
floor last week, it would “send a bright,
blinking message to the world that Ameri-
ca talks a big game on democracy, but isn’t
willing to do much about it.” Among the
first victims of a retreat would likely be
the dozen political prisoners whose death
sentences were recently confirmed; they
supported the democratically elected Is-
lamist government that Mr. Sissi ousted
in a bloody 2013 coup.
Then there are activists such as Mo-
hamed Soltan, a U.S. citizen who was
imprisoned and tortured in Cairo after
2013 and now advocates for Egyptian
human rights from a base in Washington.
Housing advocates on Wednesday in New York.
federal rental aid money is still only
trickling out.
That is unlikely. The law the CDC relies
on to justify its unilateral eviction ban
authorizes the agency to impose mea-
sures such as “inspection, fumigation,
disinfection, sanitation, pest extermina-
tion, and destruction of animals,” not to
freeze the rental housing market month
after month in nearly the entire country.
Many landlords are themselves desper-
ate, on the hook to keep up their proper-
ties, pay taxes and service loans whether
their tenants pay their rent. Justice
Kavanaugh in June clearly signaled will-
ingness to disregard their plight — and
the law’s limitations — for another few
weeks, not months.
It is not the Biden administration’s
contrary, they are robust. Provincetown
was a jam-packed holiday scene, with
many people indoors in bars and restau-
rants, not wearing masks. Of all those
infected, only seven were hospitalized
and no one died. The vaccines worked.
Look at a chart from the CDC’s
internal presentation that was first
disclosed by The Post. It shows that
vaccinated people have a 25-fold reduc-
tion in hospitalization and death com-
pared with the unvaccinated, and an
eightfold decline in disease incidence. In
another measure, the vaccine was effica-
cious among 91 percent of the fully
vaccinated and 81 percent of the partial-
ly vaccinated. Vaccine breakthroughs
are a known issue, they will happen, but
among the 163 million people who had
been fully vaccinated by July 26, the
CDC reported a minuscule share,
6,587 hospitalizations or deaths, due to
breakthrough infections, and some were
from other causes.
The CDC turnabout on masks caused
confusion, in part because it marked a
retreat from high expectations of a
normal summer, and in part because of
RE
In an attempt to silence him, the regime
has repeatedly arrested members of his
family in Egypt; his father, who was al-
ready imprisoned, disappeared. In a re-
cent visit to Washington, Egypt’s spy chief,
Abbas Kamel, demanded to know why the
U.S. government had not confined
Mr. Soltan to a U.S. prison. It’s stomach-
turning to think that such chutzpah
would be rewarded with a $300 million
exemption.
Cairo’s lobbyists annually trot out the
same tired arguments: that the United
States needs Egypt for help in keeping the
peace between Israel and the Palestin-
ians, for fighting terrorism, for transit of
U.S. warships through the Suez Canal. But
as Mr. Murphy pointed out, in taking
those actions the Sissi regime is merely
pursuing its own vital interests; no brib-
ery should be necessary. By withholding
aid until the regime eases its repression,
the United States would be pursuing what
Mr. Biden has defined as the crucial Amer-
ican interest of advancing democracy in a
fateful global contest with autocracy. The
decision on Egypt will show whether his
commitment to that cause is more than
rhetorical.
BRITTAINY NEWMAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
fault that states have been slow to get
federal rental aid to needy Americans.
But the administration’s only reasonable
options were to push states to get their
acts together and to request that Con-
gress give the CDC the authority it
needed to reimpose an eviction ban.
Indeed, the onus remains on states and
localities; they cannot count on the new
moratorium, issued on shaky legal
ground, to absolve them of responsibility
to aid renters.
If the Trump administration had ig-
nored a direct warning from the Su-
preme Court, Democrats would rightful-
ly line up to condemn the president.
Mr. Biden does not get a pass on the rule
of law because his heart is in the right
place.
fragmented and rapidly changing gov-
ernment advice. But if we are going to
trust the science, that means sticking
with it when conditions change. The
delta variant washed over the United
States in June, and has proved quite
contagious. The average number of
people each infected person passes a
virus to, if nobody were immune and no
one took precautions, is the basic repro-
ductive number. For the original virus
that broke out in Wuhan, China, it was
2.4 to 2.6. The CDC internal presenta-
tion says delta has an R-naught of
between 5 and 9, making it more
transmissible than Middle East respira-
tory syndrome and Ebola, about the
same as chicken pox, and less than
measles, which is ultra-contagious at 15.
Instead of fretting and arguing, let’s
confront delta directly and wear masks
and get vaccinated. At this point vaccine
mandates by many kinds of organiza-
tions are justified; the time for polite
requests has passed. But it should be a
matter of common sense: Mask up and
get vaccinated to save yourself and
everyone else.
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A plan that taxes singles
Regarding the July 27 Metro article
“Bowser pushes D.C. Council to reassess
income tax hike”:
The D.C. Council recently voted to
raise the D.C. income tax on those making
$250,000 or more. D.C. Mayor Muriel
E. Bowser (D) opposes the increase. The
July 23 editorial “The D.C. Council’s rush
to raise taxes” did as well. In their argu-
ments, each overlooked a fundamental
issue: the D.C. income tax system itself.
The D.C. system allows couples filing a
joint federal return to file as individuals.
Maryland and Virginia require filing
with the same status as federal. The
D.C. system is complicated, confusing
and unfair to single people.
Here is why. Take a two-earner couple
with a taxable income of $260,000. When
the couple files D.C. income tax, they do
so as individuals. If one made
$90,000 and the other made $170,000,
they would pay $15,400. A single person
making $260,000 pays $18,900. The sin-
gle person pays $3,500 more.
The differences do not end there.
D.C. allows a couple to allocate deduc-
tions any way they want. That means the
lower earner can assign all tax deductions
to the higher earner. This rule lowers their
tax even more. Again, the system benefits
couples and slights single people.
If D.C. adopted filing status conformi-
ty, it would mean a higher taxable income
base. That, in turn, means D.C. could
raise an equal amount of revenue with a
lower tax rate. Doing so would also
greatly simplify tax administration and
be far fairer to single people. Raising the
tax rate on the current system perpetu-
ates an unfair and byzantine system.
Carl Bergman, Washington
The writer is a former deputy
D.C. auditor.
Advocating for equity
George F. Will’s Aug. 1 op-ed, “America
is morally regressing for ‘equity,’ ” cited
the heroism of former Supreme Court
justice John Marshall Harlan’s embrace of
“the great principle of colorblindness”
and “equality of opportunity” as more
worthy pursuits than recent efforts em-
phasizing racial “equity” that Mr. Will
equated with “race-conscious govern-
ment allocation of social rewards.”
Though Harlan’s dissent in Plessy
V. Ferguson was certainly atypical and
courageous for a White American during
a time of virulent white supremacism,
Mr. Will’s attempted apotheosis of Har-
lan’s 19th-century views as the final word
on race and racism in contemporary
American society is puzzling.
In the United States, White Americans
have been anything but colorblind histor-
ically in using their overwhelming num-
bers to enslave African Americans for
about 250 years, then terrorize, murder
and deprive them of civil rights for 100
more years through lynching, voter sup-
pression, discrimination, segregation,
convict leasing systems, etc., then dither,
unevenly apply and quickly rescind very
limited remedies such as affirmative ac-
tion over 50 more years. It is absurd that
in 2021 Mr. Will would decry pursuit of
“equity” and declare “colorblindness” as
the highest ideal in racial matters.
I applaud those who are willing to see
our country as it is — not as a fairy tale
where we’ve done no wrong but as a
country with flaws and yet enduring ide-
als — and who try to appreciate varied
lived experiences and perspectives. In so
doing, we can challenge ourselves not to
make some arbitrary binary choice be-
tween two ideals but to embrace equal
opportunity and equity (which means
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fairness and impartiality) with regard to
matters of race.
Martin Walsh, Washington
George F. Will’s concern for the ill
effects of government programs on recipi-
ents missed the point of equity. He
wrote, “Government spoils systems, ra-
cial or otherwise, wound their beneficiar-
ies.” Really? My family was not wounded
by the Federal Housing Act. In fact, the
house my parents purchased for $35,000
in 1963 sold for $770,000. And no sur-
prise, my parents are White.
Why is it that the only time I hear about
government programs wounding the dig-
nity of people is when a policy is directed
to help the poor or a group of people
treated unjustly? Do the tax breaks wound
the rich, too? Colorblind equality that does
not counter the real effects of structural
racism, such as redlining, is merely an-
other form of racism.
Katie Murphy, Falls Church
Not in the scope of his duties
Regarding Laurence H. Tribe’s Aug. 1
Sunday Opinion commentary, “Trump’s
luck might be about to run out”:
The Constitution imposes upon the
president a duty to “take Care that the Laws
be faithfully executed” (Article II, Section
3). A president who aids and abets the
obstruction of official congressional pro-
ceedings, i.e., the certification of the elec-
toral college’s votes under Article II, Sec-
tion 1, Clause 3 of the Constitution — or
incites a mob to do so — violates his consti-
tutional duty to execute the laws faithfully.
Such actions cannot reasonably be con-
sidered to be within the “scope of the
employment” of the president of the Unit-
ed States. Just the opposite.
Maurice F. Baggiano,
Jamestown, N.Y.
Our history of torture
Regarding David Ignatius’s excruciat-
ing July 29 op-ed recounting Salem Almu-
zaini’s torture at the hands of the Saudi
government, “A Saudi official’s account of
torture reveals the regime’s brutality”:
I think we can agree that torture is not
only inhumane but also reprehensible
and unacceptable and that nations that
torture should be condemned. Unfortu-
nately, the United States is one of the
nations that are guilty of torture.
We have never had access to a full
accounting of the torture endured at the
hands of the U.S. government in our “war
on terror.” An unredacted Senate torture
report has not been released. No U.S. offi-
cial has ever been held accountable for the
authorization and torture at CIA black
sites or in official U.S. custody in places
such as Bagram prison in Iraq and Guan-
tánamo prison in Cuba. In fact, Gina
Haspel was appointed director of the CIA
even though she had overseen the torture
of prisoners as head of a CIA “black site” in
Thailand.
Until we come to terms with the atroci-
ties committed by our own government in
the specious service of national security,
we will never have the moral authority to
condemn other nations.
Helen Schietinger, Washington
The writer is organizer with Witness
Against Torture.
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The CDC adds
to America’s
institutional
disarray
he still-unfolding story of the
T eviction moratorium might yet
validate the axiom that nothing is
as permanent as a temporary
government program. It certainly dem-
onstrates how the coronavirus pandemic
has exacerbated a preexisting political
ailment — institutional, including consti-
tutional, disarray.
In March 2020, Congress legislated an
eviction moratorium applicable to feder-
ally subsidized housing (about 28 per-
cent of multifamily properties) and ex-
piring in July 2020. In September 2020,
the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-
vention, an executive branch appendage,
suddenly acted as a supplemental legisla-
ture. The CDC declared a ban on evictions
from any rental housing for nonpayment
by individuals making under $99,000 an-
nually or couples making $198,000, who
self-certify having suffered pandemic-
related financial injury. (In 2020, the
median household income was $68,400.)
The Biden administration extended the
ban three times, through July 31.
Saying that evictions would cause peo-
ple to move around, perhaps into con-
gested spaces, the CDC located its author-
ity to adopt a housing policy in a law
empowering it to “provide for such in-
spection, fumigation, disinfection, sani-
tation, pest extermination, destruction of
animals or articles found to be so infected
or contaminated as to be sources of
dangerous infection to human beings,
and other measures.”
The most recent of the federal courts
that have ruled the eviction ban illegal
unanimously held that “other measures”
must be something the moratorium is
not — measures “similar to” those enu-
merated in the same sentence. The court,
anticipating the Supreme Court, said
that Congress must enact “exceedingly
clear language” if it wants to dramatically
enlarge the government’s power over
private property. The court said that
under the CDC’s interpretation of its
power, it “can do anything it can conceive
of to prevent the spread of disease,” even
shuttering “entire industries,” exercising
“near-dictatorial power for the duration
of the pandemic.” Or without a pandem-
ic: Seasonal flus kill thousands annually.
So, the CDC evidently thinks that it can
do things the president clearly cannot
ever do: for example, order a national
mask mandate. And if Congress has em-
powered the CDC to suspend any activity
involving mobility that might spread an
infection, then there is no limit to Con-
gress’s power to delegate to administra-
tive entities essentially legislative power.
As of June, landlords were owed
$27.5 billion in unpaid rents. Almost half
of landlords, who include many minori-
ties, own only one or two rental units.
They continue paying mortgages, proper-
ty taxes, insurance and utilities while the
CDC requires them to house nonpaying
people or risk jail. Landlords can plausibly
argue that the moratorium is a “taking.”
The Constitution says government
shall not take private property “for public
use, without just compensation.” The
concept of “public use” has become al-
most limitlessly elastic. It originally re-
ferred to things (roads, bridges, etc.) the
general public uses. Then, courts expand-
ed it to include combating “blight.” The
Supreme Court’s infamous 2005 Kelo
decision stretched “public use” to encom-
pass government taking one person’s
property to give it to another private
party who would pay higher taxes. If an
eviction moratorium to prevent the
spread of infectious disease fits within
the capacious modern conception of tak-
ing for “public use,” then there must be
compensation for the taking.
State and local governments have
managed to distribute only about $3 bil-
lion of the $46 billion Congress appro-
priated for rental relief. President
Biden’s press secretary says he would
have “strongly supported” yet another
CDC extension of the moratorium, but
“unfortunately” in June, in the pesky
Supreme Court, four justices termed it
illegal. A fifth agreed but said it should
be allowed to expire July 31 — and could
only be extended by “clear and specific
congressional authorization (via new
legislation).”
By ordering yet another extension, as
he did on Tuesday, Biden — who is more
terrified of progressives than he is im-
pressed by the Supreme Court — has
decided to dare the court to make good on
its signaled intent to defend the separa-
tion of powers. Whenever this lawless
moratorium seems about to end, there
will be another wave of media stories, like
last week’s, anticipating a tsunami of
evictions, thereby triggering calls for
what would be a sixth extension. Even-
tually, the memory of normality having
faded, the moratorium would seem nor-
mal and warranted as “social justice”
because evictions might have a “disparate
impact” on minorities, and hence be
evidence of “systemic racism,” even ab-
sent evidence of disparate treatment.
Meanwhile, because of the moratori-
um, surely many tenants who could pay
their rent are choosing not to:
$99,000 earners are among the top
17 percent; $198,000 households are in
the top 11 percent. Also, the moratorium
is, like excessive unemployment benefits,
an incentive for some to remain out of the
workforce. Such are the ricochets of
government, unbridled and gargantuan.
Shontel Brown at a Souls to the Polls rally at Sanctuary Baptist Church on Sunday in Cleveland
JAMES HOHMANN
Biden doesn’t need
to keep caving to the left
oo many politicians, in both
T parties, promise to be “fight-
ers” when they run for office.
But the last thing Congress
needs is more brawling.
That’s what makes Shontel Brown’s
upset victory on Tuesday in an Ohio
special election so refreshing. She beat
Nina Turner, the epitome of smash-
mouth-style liberalism, in a Democrat-
ic primary to fill the House seat vacat-
ed by Housing and Urban Develop-
ment Secretary Marcia L. Fudge.
Brown prevailed by embracing Pres-
ident Biden — and celebrating his
brand of incrementalism. “This is
about making progress, and some-
times that takes compromise,” she said
during her victory speech in a Cleve-
land suburb. “Because when you de-
mand all or nothing, usually you end
up with nothing.”
The crowd of grass-roots activists
cheered the mention of compromise.
Democrats who might be tempted to
torpedo a scaled-back infrastructure
package, on the grounds that it’s not
sweeping enough, should listen.
Biden has to be attentive to the left,
given Democrats’ slim House majority.
But Tuesday’s results suggest he
doesn’t need to contort himself to
placate the party’s progressive wing —
as he’s doing with the extension of the
eviction moratorium — as much as
they demand or he has often deemed
necessary.
A single special election shouldn’t
be over-interpreted. But in the latest
proxy war for the soul of the party, the
pragmatists again beat the ideologues.
After failing to win the presidential
nomination in 2020, the party’s pro-
gressives have suffered a string of
E.J. DIONNE JR.
The lesson for Democrats from Ohio
t should not surprise anyone that
I grass-roots Democrats are united
behind the president who defeated
Donald Trump and wary of candi-
dates who seem more interested in
fighting Joe Biden than in advancing his
agenda.
This is why Cuyahoga County Coun-
cilwoman Shontel Brown defeated for-
mer Ohio state senator Nina Turner in
Tuesday’s special Democratic primary
election for a U.S. House seat centered
on Cleveland.
Brown, 46, had backing from much of
the national Democratic Party as a
down-the-line supporter of the presi-
dent. Turner, 53, is a progressive hero,
but you could argue she lost the race
back in 2020 when she likened voting
for Biden to eating half a bowl of
excrement (not the word she used). In
2016, Turner declined to support Hillary
Clinton against Trump.
It didn’t help Turner’s cause when at a
June event for her, the rapper Killer
Mike suggested it was “stupid” for
House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn
(D-S.C.) to have endorsed Biden in last
year’s presidential primaries. Last
month, Clyburn wryly told a South
Carolina newspaper that he “got in-
volved” on Brown’s behalf “when I was
invited by the Turner campaign.”
Brown’s success is being described as
a victory of “the establishment” over
insurgents and of a “moderate” over a
“progressive.” Though partially true,
the shorthand misses as much as it
reveals.
The divisiveness of Turner’s rhetoric
aimed at others in her party goes far
beyond where most progressive Demo-
crats are. And with the Trump specter
still lurking, the 11th Congressional
District’s primary voters decided to
reward the candidate focused on coop-
EZ
high-profile primary losses to moder-
ate alternatives this year, from another
House special election in Louisiana to
the governor’s race in Virginia and the
mayoral contest in New York City.
Turner, the national co-chair of
Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presiden-
tial campaign and one of his highest-
profile surrogates in 2016, promised to
hold Biden’s feet to the fire and at-
tacked her opponent as a “puppet”
who would go along to get along.
Brown, a county councilwoman, coun-
tered that she’d be more effective as a
“partner” to the president than a thorn
in his side.
Sanders (I-Vt.) headlined a Saturday
rally for Turner. All four members of
the self-described Squad endorsed her.
“Please send me Nina,” Rep. Alexan-
dria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) urged vot-
ers during a swing through the district.
Turner lost by 5.7 percentage points,
even though she outraised Brown
$5.6 million to $2.4 million. She re-
leased an internal poll from May that
showed her leading by 35 points.
A turning point came in June when
Turner appeared alongside Killer Mike
as the rapper said it was “incredibly
stupid” for House Majority Whip
James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) to endorse
Biden before the South Carolina pri-
mary. “The only thing you get is a
federal holiday and nothing tangible
out of it,” he said, referring to June-
teenth. Turner appeared to agree.
That viral moment helped spur
Clyburn, the No. 3 in Democratic lead-
ership, and leaders of the Congres-
sional Black Caucus (CBC) to come out
strongly against Turner. “I just kind of
decided if I’m going to be stupid, might
as well be stupid,” Clyburn told the
erating with a Democratic administra-
tion whose success is a precondition to
routing Trumpism for good.
Anyone doubting that the former
president remains a radicalizing force
within the GOP should consider the
results of the other major Ohio congres-
sional primary on Tuesday. The Trump-
endorsed candidate, Mike Carey, 50, a
coal industry lobbyist, overwhelmed a
talented field of 10 other Republicans.
Carey won 37 percent of the vote in a
district outside Columbus. His nearest
competitor — endorsed by Steve Stivers,
the popular GOP congressman whose
departure forced the special election —
got just over 13 percent.
It needs to be repeated until it really
sinks in: If you look at primary results
over the past five years, Democrats
remain the party in which more moder-
ate candidates can prevail. Republicans,
even when they opt against a Trump-
endorsed candidate here or there, are
much further to the right than Demo-
crats are to the left.
But something else is true, too: Tur-
ner’s defeat does not mean that progres-
sive Democrats are “crushed,” to use the
sort of language popular on Wednesday.
Progressives remain an important force
in the Democratic Party but as part of a
broader coalition. They succeed when
they act as critics inside the tent. They
fail when they are seen as bringing down
the tent.
Ironically, Turner’s defeat came on
the same day that another progressive
Democrat, Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri,
won a big policy victory in pushing the
Biden administration to reimpose a
partial moratorium on evictions.
Bush’s one-person sleep-in on the
steps of the Capitol to dramatize the
plight of the homeless was part of a
broad effort by liberals and the left to get
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State newspaper last week.
Fear was another motivation for
CBC leaders. They privately worried a
Turner victory would embolden addi-
tional radicals to launch primary chal-
lenges against incumbent Black law-
makers in 2022. What happened to
Lacy Clay in Missouri remains top of
mind. The 10-term congressman,
whose father co-founded the CBC, was
defeated in a primary last summer by
activist Cori Bush, who had the sup-
port of Sanders and the Democratic
Socialists of America.
Now a freshman congresswoman,
Bush campaigned with Turner in Ohio.
She made the news this week for
sleeping outside the U.S. Capitol to
protest the lapsed federal eviction
moratorium. Bush is being widely
credited with pressuring the Biden
administration to issue a new ban on
evictions.
Biden had resisted such a move
because, as the president himself ac-
knowledged on Tuesday, it is legally
dubious. “The bulk of the constitution-
al scholarship says that it’s not likely to
pass constitutional muster,” he told
reporters.
This is an unsettling approach for
someone who took an oath to uphold
the Constitution — a statement that
would have enraged liberals had it
come from Donald Trump. And maybe
it’s unnecessary, as a matter of political
calculation. Biden may not be as be-
holden to the left as he thinks.
And that may be the real signifi-
cance of the Ohio results. They show
the leader of the Democratic Party is
not Sanders or AOC. It’s Biden. And he
should start acting like it. At least he
can count on Shontel Brown’s vote.
the administration to act after it first
said that executive action to protect
tenants would likely be overturned by
the Supreme Court. Even if this turns
out to be true, it was a mistake for Biden
to resist offering protection for the
neediest as covid-19 numbers rise again.
That Biden responded to the pressure
is a textbook illustration of how the
Democratic Party now works. Progres-
sives can win a lot of ground for policies
that are popular (see Biden’s entire
spending program) by playing an inside/
outside game.
And the lines between “the establish-
ment” and “progressives” are blurry,
given that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.) was pressuring Biden private-
ly for the moratorium and Senate Major-
ity Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.)
gave Bush “amazing credit” in a floor
speech on Wednesday.
What doesn’t work is wholesale oppo-
sition to Biden and rhetoric that denies
the possibility of agreement across the
Democratic Party’s factions. And the
strategy will fall apart if more moderate
Democrats representing tough swing
districts lose in 2022 and control of the
House shifts to a Republican Party that,
under Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy
(R-Calif.), has become a Trump defense
firm. Carey’s victory in Ohio will only
strengthen the Trump apologists.
For her part, Brown embraced the
role of a politician who delivers the
goods. “I just need to make sure the
people I have been called to serve are
getting the resources they need,” she
said in her victory speech.
For progressives, the lesson of both
Brown’s victory and Bush’s is that they
will deliver far more as critics who
nonetheless remain allies of Biden and
his coalition. Their real adversary is not
the guy in the White House.
A27
LEANA S. WEN
How should
delta change
the way
we live?
t’s been a week since the Centers for
I Disease Control and Prevention is-
sued new masking guidance based
on evidence that vaccinated people
can become infected and transmit the
more contagious delta variant to others.
Many people who thought the vaccines
allowed them to return to pre-pandemic
normal are now asking whether they
need to change how they go about their
daily lives.
While delta does change the risk calcu-
lus, it doesn’t mean that we have go to
back to hunkering down at home. When
deciding which activities to engage in,
vaccinated people should consider two
factors: the medical risk of your house-
hold and the value of the activities to you.
Someone who is vaccinated, generally
healthy, and either living alone or shar-
ing a household with others who are also
vaccinated and healthy might decide that
they are protected enough that they
won’t change anything. According to
CDC data, the vaccinated are approxi-
mately eight times less likely to become
infected than the unvaccinated. Even if
they contract covid-19, chances are excel-
lent that a vaccinated person will experi-
ence symptoms akin to the common
cold; after all, the vaccines reduce the
chance of severe illness by a whopping
25-fold.
But isn’t that the cautionary tale from
Provincetown, Mass. — didn’t revelers
letting their guard down lead to around
965 people becoming infected, including
many who were vaccinated? The CDC
directly cited this outbreak in urging the
vaccinated to resume masking.
That’s one interpretation of the data —
it’s true that vaccines are not bulletproof
armor and breakthrough infections can
happen. Consider, though, that an esti-
mated 60,000 people gathered in Prov-
incetown over the Fourth of July holiday.
Restaurants, bars and house parties were
packed to the brim. Some of the infected
reported prolonged close contact with
others. Another conclusion is that this
was the ultimate stress test of the vac-
cines and they passed with flying colors:
Only about 1.6 percent were infected, just
seven were hospitalized, and no one died.
If the attendees were told of these odds
in advance, it’s likely that many who have
underlying medical problems or are
more risk-averse would have taken addi-
tional precautions. Some might not have
gone. But there will be those who would
still say that the value of the get-together
was so high that they would have taken
the risk and not changed anything.
What about people who might not
worry for themselves, but who live with
unvaccinated or immunocompromised
family members? That’s the situation I’m
in, with two young kids, and my husband
and I are careful because of them. My
advice for those in our situation is to
continue the activities you care about
while reducing risk. Eat at a restaurant
but dine outdoors. Keep your flight plans
but wear a high-quality mask the whole
time. Go to the gym but during off-hours
when you have more space to yourself.
There may be high-risk events that are
worth the possible exposure because of
their value to you. If you can’t take
precautions during the event, quarantine
for at least three days afterward and then
get tested. Maybe you normally avoid
indoor gatherings with unmasked and
unvaccinated people but you make an
exception for your sister’s wedding. May-
be you reduce business travel when you
can but still attend an important in-
person conference. Maybe you’re a
grandparent who took a long-awaited
vacation that involved lots of dining out.
Consider taking additional precautions
before you spend time indoors with
vulnerable family members.
Remember that vaccinated people are
safest around others who are fully vacci-
nated, too. The CDC has not said this, but
I believe a workplace that enforces a
vaccine requirement can make masks
optional if it’s located in a jurisdiction
where that is permitted. If others around
me have an eight-fold lower chance of
getting infected, and I have an eight-fold
lower chance of contracting covid-19
from them, that’s low enough risk for me.
This applies in social settings, too; I’d
attend an indoor dinner party with all
vaccinated people, even if someone there
might be engaged in high-risk behavior.
But I wouldn’t have this person around
my children unless they first quarantine
and test. The only adults in close contact
with our kids are those who also have a
low-risk lifestyle — who spend time with
only vaccinated people and mask in
indoor public places.
Note that my recommendations leave
the decisions to the individual. The
vaccinated constitute a small minority
— some estimate it to be less than 6
percent — of total coronavirus cases.
Israel, which does much better contact
tracing than the United States, reported
that 80 percent of those vaccinated did
not infect anyone in public spaces. Even
if we asked the vaccinated to significant-
ly restrict their activities, it would hard-
ly make a dent in total infections, and it
could be a major disincentive to vaccina-
tion. We should help guide the vaccinat-
ed to make the best decisions for them-
selves and limit any restrictions to those
truly endangering the public’s health —
the people still choosing to remain
unvaccinated.
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BYJ USTIN J OUVENAL,
D AN L AMOTHE
AND D ANA H EDGPETH
The attack began without
warning or provocation, when a
Georgia man stepped off a bus
outside the Pentagon on Tuesday,
stabbed a police officer and strug-
gled with him, the FBI said.
During the melee, Austin Lanz
shot Pentagon officer George
Gonzalez with the officer’s service
weapon, before turning the gun
on himself, the FBI said. Other
Pentagon officers engaged Lanz
and he was killed. The officer later
died.
The account released Wednes-
day was the first detailed descrip-
tion of the encounter, which
prompted a lockdown of the Pen-
tagon and drew a massive re-
sponse from police and fire agen-
cies. Officials said a bystander
also was injured.
An FBI spokeswoman said the
agency was still probing the mo-
tive in the case as the investiga-
tion continues, but Lanz had been
ordered to undergo a mental
health evaluation by a judge in
PENTAGON ASSAILANT HAD TROUBLED PAST
Judge ordered mental evaluation of Ga. man in May
Georgia and had allegedly acted
violently and erratically in recent
months, court and police records
show.
Lanz, 27, was most recently a
resident of Acworth, Ga., the FBI
said. He had tried to enlist in the
Marines but did not make it
through boot camp, a spokesman
said. He also faced a number of
charges that were pending at the
time of the attack outside the
Pentagon. His family did not re-
spond to requests for comment.
Officials at the Pentagon Force
Protection Agency on Wednesday
identified the slain police officer
as Gonzalez, 37. He had been
promoted twice and attained the
rank of senior officer in 2020.
Officials said Gonzalez had
served with the U.S. Army and
was awarded the Army Commen-
dation Medal for his service in
Iraq. He also had stints in the
Transportation Security Adminis-
tration and the Federal Bureau of
Prisons.
Gonzalez’s family released a
statement Wednesday saying he
had an infectious personality, a
big heart and “was fiercely loved
by his family and friends.”
“We are heartbroken over the
death of our son and brother, but
we are so very very proud of the
life he lived,” the statement read.
“George devoted his life to serving
his country; first in the military,
and then, as a law enforcement
officer, he continued to serve by
protecting service members and
citizens of this country.”
Pentagon Force Protection
Agency Chief Woodrow Kusse
said Tuesday that the officer was
attacked on the Metro bus plat-
form shortly before 10:40 a.m.,
shots were fired, and there were
“several casualties.” He said au-
thorities were not seeking addi-
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O∞cials in
N.Va. urge
indoor use
of masks
Region now has enough
virus transmission to fall
under new CDC guidance

BY J ENNA P ORTNOY,
A NTONIO O LIVO
AND T EO A RMUS

All of Northern Virginia — like

most of the rest of the state —
now has enough community
transmission of the coronavirus
to lead local public health offi-
cials to recommend people begin
wearing masks indoors again to
stop the spread of the virus.
While the mask mandate has
been lifted in Virginia, this week,
health directors from Arlington,
Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince Wil-
liam counties and the city of
Alexandria recommended that
residents wear masks indoors in
public settings, regardless of vac-
cination status.
PHOTOS BY CRAIG HUDSON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST “We also encourage continued
efforts to further improve vacci-
nation rates and efforts to main-

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BY P ERRY S TEIN backpacks. Families could also visit a

dentist, get groceries and listen to the New cases in region

M
ario Sykes, 38, is not vaccinat-
ed against the coronavirus.
He figures he doesn’t get sick
much and hasn’t even gone
for flu shots. Lately, he has
been reading news stories about vaccinat-
ed people contracting the virus. And with
changing mask guidance, he isn’t confi-
dent that anyone in charge knows what
they are doing.
His eldest son, 14-year-old Yahir Gonza-
lez, has been receiving emails from his
charter school saying the vaccine is his
best chance for a normal year of high
school. He wants it.
On Saturday, Sykes took Yahir and a
younger son to Ballou High School in
Southeast Washington for a back-to-
school event where children could receive
routine school immunizations and free
Ballou marching band.
And, while they were there, the Sykes Through 5 p.m. Wednesday, 2,470
family and others could get a coronavirus new coronavirus cases were
vaccination from Children’s National Hos- reported in Maryland, Virginia and
pital nurses. the District, bringing the total
When a nurse approached the family, number of cases in the region to
Sykes encouraged his son to ask her 1,222,522.
questions. They inquired about the dan-
D.C. MD. VA.
gers and the rare breakthrough cases as
the nurse explained that the vaccine is safe +58 +695 +1,717
and effective. “We’re having a thorough 50,858 470,605 701,059
debate about this in our house,” said Sykes,
who owns a home renovation company. Coronavirus-related deaths
With the start of the academic year this As of 5 p.m. Wednesday:
month, D.C. officials are rushing to get
TOP: Registered nurse Cathleen Raisher talks with eligible students vaccinated. It’s already D.C. MD.* VA.
Yahir Gonzalez, 14, and his father, Mario Sykes, about too late for youths to receive both shots of +0 +5 +5
vaccination at Ballou High School in D.C. Also listening an authorized coronavirus vaccine before 1,149 9,840 11,541
was Precious Holmes. ABOVE: The teen receives a the start of school. Teens are not yet
routine immunization for school during the event. SEE VACCINES ON B2 * Includes probable covid-19 deaths.

Sudden death puts care center at risk Inside Youngkin’s career at Carlyle
The future that their days with friends and staff their plastic coverings and set BY G REGORY S . S CHNEIDER tial private-equity firms, occupy-
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envisioned still their needs. Kamara was after a lifelong battle with sickle richmond — The first thing Before entering politics, ture in Washington. Far from the
sits in plastic. working to create a similar cell disease. She was 35 and most Virginians know about Re- Va. Republican led firm cliche of a few entrepreneurs
At the outlet for children with leaves behind a husband, two publican gubernatorial nominee working in a garage, Carlyle by
beginning of last intellectual and developmental children, ages 5 and 7, and a Glenn Youngkin is that he is rich.
close to halls of power 1995 had existed for eight years,
Theresa year, she moved disabilities on the other side of nonprofit that her best friend Very rich. boasted a former defense secre-
Vargas the adult day-care the building, and despite the and husband are trying Youngkin has so much money tary as chairman and had ad-
center she pandemic limiting funding and desperately to keep from being that when he retired last year as Youngkin built that wealth. In a vised a member of the Saudi
founded for young adults with the construction hitting snags, lost along with her. co-chief executive of the Carlyle campaign ad, Youngkin de- royal family on a $500 million
intellectual and developmental she was only a few tasks away No one expects to look Group, he could afford to turn scribes joining Carlyle in 1995 investment in Citigroup.
disabilities into a larger from making that happen. through the depths of their best his back on more than $100 mil- when it was a “small start-up,” Youngkin’s successful career at
building, one that would allow Families had already friend’s office files and work lion in unvested stock options. and notes that by the time he the company is both a political
her to pull more names off the expressed interest in enrolling. emails without them, but that’s With a fortune that already became co-CEO, it was a global strength — the central credential
wait list and expand services to Chairs, toys and other how Jacqueline Jewell now topped $300 million, he’s using business powerhouse. for a candidate with no record in
children. equipment had already been spends her days. those resources to help bankroll While the business had only a public office — and a potential
More than a dozen young bought. In the two months since his run for governor, blanketing few dozen employees the year he liability.
adults have come to depend on But on June 3 — before Kamara’s death, Jewell has read the airwaves with early and fre- joined, that description obscures The nature of private equity
the building in Manassas as a Kamara could see any of those through her business plan, quent advertising. the unique nature of Carlyle as itself, which involves buying and
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D.C. scrambles to get teens vaccinated before school starts
VACCINES FROM B1
eligible for the one-shot Johnson
& Johnson vaccine, but officials
hope they can get students a first
dose this summer and administer
a second once they are back on
campus.
They have big challenges
ahead of them. Vaccination rates
in the District among students
ages 12 to 17 are low, particularly
among Black children, who ac-
count for about 65 percent of the
city’s public school population.
Fifty-one percent of White 12-to-
15-year-olds have received at least
one dose, while just 14 percent of
Black youths in the same age
group have received one, accord-
ing to city data.
Among older teens, 47 percent
of White 16- and 17-year-olds are
vaccinated, according to city
data, compared with about
21 percent for Black teens of the
same age.
(Hispanic teenagers have vac-
cination rates similar to their
White peers.)
One of the big hurdles: Many
parents of these teens — Black
men and women in their 30s and
40s — are also unvaccinated.
And the stakes couldn’t be
higher. The daily coronavirus case
rate in D.C. has increased more
than fivefold since early July, with
the virus spreading most among
unvaccinated residents younger
than 35, data shows. In the Dis-
trict, it means that the new cases
are overwhelmingly affecting
Black residents in the most low-
income parts of the city.
In the spring, unvaccinated
students needed to quarantine at
home if they were exposed to the
virus in their classroom. Depend-
ing on health protocols in the fall,
the city risks having unvaccinat-
ed Black students spending more
time at home in quarantine than
their White peers.
“We continue to see disparities
in who is getting infected in the
District of Columbia both from a
race and ethnic perspective as
well as from a geographic per-
spective,” D.C. Health Director
LaQuandra Nesbitt said at a news
conference last week. “Black
youth are three times more likely
to be infected with covid than
their White counterparts.”
Nesbitt said she has the power
to require that students get coro-
navirus vaccinations to return to
school buildings, but she has opt-
ed not to exercise it. Many city
leaders agree with that call, say-
ing that with so many families
N.Va. localities reach ‘substantial’ virus transmission rates
VIRUS FROM B1
tain other mitigation measures to
address this increased disease
burden on our community,” the
health directors said in a joint
letter to area government leaders.
As of Tuesday, the five major
localities in Northern Virginia
were all in the “substantial” cat-
egory, which the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention de-
fines as 50 or more total new
cases per 100,000 people in the
past week. “High” transmission is
100 or more total new cases per
100,000 people in the past week.
Only about a dozen counties in
the state are below this standard,
including Madison and Rappah-
annock.
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser
(D) reimposed a mask mandate in
the District last week — which is
classified as having substantial
transmission — but Virginia Gov.
Ralph Northam (D) and Mary-
land Gov. Larry Hogan (R) have
not done so, instead reiterating
the CDC guidance.
David Goodfriend, the health
director in Loudoun County,
called the surge in Northern Vir-
ginia “troubling.”
While not as bad as in the
winter, the continued increase in
new infections across the region
— to a seven-day average of 1,888
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questioning the safety of the vac-
cines, a requirement right now
could create yet another hurdle to
getting students back in the
buildings.
The city is relying on a patch-
work of trusted community
health providers, school leaders
and activists to share information
about vaccination or hold clinics.
The hope is that beloved schools
and known organizations such as
Children’s National Hospital —
which has been out with its medi-
cal trucks providing roving
health services in Southeast
Washington throughout the pan-
demic — can eventually persuade
families to get the shots.
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D)
also recently announced that up
to 1,200 unvaccinated teens can
get free Air Pods if they are
vaccinated at designated school
sites. A raffle will also award
$25,000 college scholarships to
selected vaccinated teens. They
are giving grants to schools for
outreach.
The District opened vaccina-
as of Wednesday compared with
253 one month ago — points to a
larger burden on the local health-
care system if it continues, he
said.
New hospitalizations are still
low, averaging about 71 daily
admittances in the region this
week, but that could change if
people continue to gather with-
out wearing masks, particularly
those who haven’t been vaccinat-
ed, he said.
“The real challenge is, when
you’re on the curve for covid-19,
you don’t know where exactly the
curve will top out,” he said. “We
don’t want our health-care deliv-
ery system to be overwhelmed.”
Alison Ansher, the health di-
rector in Prince William County,
said the low rate of new hospital-
izations in that county — 0.2
percent for every 100,000 resi-
dents — may change as newly
infected people fall ill.
Fairfax County was the last
major locality in the region to hit
substantial transmission — turn-
ing from yellow to orange on the
CDC map — a change Jeffrey C.
McKay (D), the chairman of Fair-
fax’s Board of Supervisors, said
was inevitable in a region where
people may travel through multi-
ple counties in a day.
The change also underscored
the fact that there are thousands
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Fifty-one percent of
White 12-to-15-year-olds
in the District have
received at least one
dose, while just
14 percent of Black
youths in the same age
group have received
one, according to city
data.
tion to people 16 and older in
April. Youngsters ages 12 to 15
followed soon after. The city also
expanded access, with an ample
supply of shots and vaccine sites
across the city that do not require
appointments.
of schoolchildren younger than
12 in the county of 1.1 million who
are not eligible to receive the
vaccine, putting them at higher
risk for serious illness, McKay
said.
“They are the ones that have
me the most worried right now,”
McKay said.
“The real challenge is,
when you’re on the
curve for covid-19, you
don’t know where
exactly the curve will
top out.”
David Goodfriend, Loudoun County
health director
Last month, Fairfax County
Executive Bryan J. Hill began
evaluating how to implement a
policy to require the county’s
12,500 employees to either be
vaccinated or submit to a weekly
coronavirus test.
Alexandria officials are consid-
ering vaccination requirements
for public employees, but locali-
New York City that will require proof of vaccination for indoor activities.
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But health officials are up
against a young population that
feels it does not need vaccination,
and one that is consuming a lot of
misinformation on the Internet.
There’s also historic mistrust be-
tween the Black community and
the nation’s health-care system
that the city has not been able to
overcome to achieve equitable
vaccination rates among
non-senior residents.
Gabe Perry, a 13-year-old rising
ninth-grader at E.L. Haynes Pub-
lic Charter School, was afraid of
coronavirus vaccination. He saw
false rumors that you could die or
lose a leg.
“I read it on the Internet,” he
said.
When the school sent an email
to parents and families with news
of a vaccine clinic on campus, the
boy’s father signed him up.
Gabe was nervous, so his aunt
took him and his cousins, recent
E.L. Haynes graduates, to the
clinic. All of them received their
first doses together at the school.
“We wanted to support him,”
ties cannot implement wide-
spread mask mandates without
Northam’s say-so.
In the meantime, public health
and elected officials have experi-
enced pushback, especially on
social media, from residents urg-
ing more — or less — action,
sometimes back-to-back.
“I had residents say, ‘Oh there
you go again sowing a panic and
getting everyone freaked out,’ ”
Alexandria Mayor Justin Wilson
(D) said, “and then, a couple
hours later saying, ‘I can’t believe
you’re not taking everything
more seriously. Why are you not
shutting everything down?’ ”
The city’s acting health direc-
tor, Anne Gaddy, said about a
third of city residents who tested
positive in June and July reported
recent travel — a reality that
reflects the challenges of contain-
ing the virus when people are
eager to resume normal activi-
ties.
“Covid doesn’t follow the lines
on a map,” she said.
Although Virginia’s hospitals
are not yet as crowded as harder-
hit parts of the country, positivity
rates of patients are on the in-
crease.
“We’re not super busy but
covid is part of our day in the
emergency room,” said Michael
Silverman, chairman of emergen-
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said Gabe’s aunt, Nicole Winston.
“And all the older people in my
family have [been vaccinated], so
I figured it was my turn.”
E.L. Haynes was providing $25
American Express gift cards to
current students who were vacci-
nated that day. School leaders said
they have known these families
for years and figured that if any-
one can build trust among their
students and parents, it’s them.
At the clinic set up in the
school’s gymnasium, some fami-
lies said they had been waiting for
the school to offer vaccination
before they signed up their chil-
dren.
D’Amonie, a 14-year-old whose
family did not want her last name
to be published, was among those
who attended the clinic on Friday.
Her mother initially was reluc-
tant about vaccination and opted
to wait until she felt it was safe. In
July, once her office said employ-
ees needed to be vaccinated or get
tested weekly, she decided it was
time. And once she was vaccinat-
ed, she allowed her daughter to
cy medicine at Virginia Hospital
Center in Arlington. “It’s definite-
ly back.”
Silverman, who writes a widely
circulated weekly Facebook up-
date about the pandemic, said
three to four weeks ago doctors
and nurses were beginning to
return to “business as usual,” but
the respite was short-lived.
He attributed the increase in
infections in Northern Virginia to
pockets where people are unvac-
cinated and the delta variant,
which he called an “entirely dif-
ferent animal” from the base
strain of the virus.
“It’s more likely to infect you if
you’re unvaccinated, but even if
you’re vaccinated the possibility
of you getting it now is higher
compared to other variants,” he
said.
While Northern Virginia had
“substantial transmission” as of
Wednesday, almost every border-
ing county, where many residents
commute to Northern Virginia,
had “high transmission,” and
some had lower vaccination
rates.
That’s the case in rural Page
County, where area health dis-
trict nurse manager Leea Shirley
said people question masking
guidelines because they say fed-
eral, state and school district
guidelines are always changing.
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get the shots, too.
D’Amonie, a rising sophomore,
wanted to be vaccinated at E.L.
Haynes so she could see the cam-
pus. She started at the school in
Northwest Washington her fresh-
man year but had never been in
the building because of virtual
learning.
The vaccination clinic provid-
ed her an opportunity to see the
school for the first time. “I was
excited to just get in the school
building,” she said.
Fifty-one people were vaccinat-
ed at E.L. Haynes on Friday, in-
cluding 34 students. That’s a big-
ger uptake than other youth-fo-
cused vaccination clinics have
experienced. In June, for exam-
ple, the city had a clinic for adults
and children at Ballou’s high
school graduation. Not a single
person was vaccinated that day.
On Saturday, thousands of peo-
ple poured into a back-to-school
event at St. Elizabeths East Gate-
way Pavilion in Congress Heights
that was hosted by Martha’s Table
and the Monumental Sports &
Entertainment Foundation.
There were backpacks, clothes,
groceries, school supplies and a
booth where people could be vac-
cinated. Community of Hope — a
health center in the neighbor-
hood — was administering the
vaccines, and Imani Marks, the
nursing director, said she saw
many of her patients at the event.
Only a handful of people — and
even fewer teens — were vaccinat-
ed at the event, but Marks said
she was able to talk to people
about the vaccines. Another Com-
munity of Hope worker walked
around the event and asked peo-
ple if they wanted information
about the vaccines.
“We’re having good conversa-
tions about vaccine hesitancy, but
we haven’t had as much [uptake]
as we would want,” Marks said.
“But our biggest goal today is
education.”
Back at Ballou, Sykes and his
son were learning more about the
vaccine.
“The shot will help with the
new variant?” Sykes asked.
“It won’t 100 percent prevent
you from getting it, but if you do,
it won’t be as serious,” replied the
nurse.
Sykes said he would consider
getting the vaccine. He let his son
decide whether he wanted it right
then. They haven’t made any firm
decisions.
“I’m going to do a little more
research,” the teen said.
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“Who are you supposed to be-
lieve? They tell us yes, they tell us
no. Why should I get vaccinated if
I have to wear a mask anyway?”
she said people say.
Some will never change their
minds and others may be swayed
with education, she said.
“You’ve got to break that bar-
rier to make people understand.
It’s hard,” Shirley said.
A team of Federal Emergency
Management Agency volunteers
went door to door but stopped
when residents distrustful of the
vaccine complained they were
being coerced even though the
volunteers carried only litera-
ture, she said.
However, Shirley said their vis-
its to businesses and events, and
expanded availability of the
shots, have lead to an uptick in
vaccinations, from a handful to as
many as 10 to 15 daily.
Brandy Darby, a Virginia De-
partment of Health veterinary
epidemiologist working on the
covid response, said vaccinations
are the best way to prevent infec-
tion and severe disease.
“Masks are great but they’re
not bulletproof. Vaccines add an-
other layer of protection,” she
said.
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Avid consumers of news: Foxes steal papers at night across the D.C. region
Every few years, I
hear about foxes
that are stealing
newspapers. In
2009, it was
happening in
John Alexandria’s
Kelly's Yacht Haven
Washington subdivision,
where a fox (or
foxes) unknown
was plucking The Washington
Post, the Washington Times, the
Examiner and the Mount
Vernon Gazette from in front of
people’s houses.
In 2015, it was Vienna, where
homeowners found a cache of
newspapers under their shed,
dragged there by a fox. Other
readers — from North
Springfield to Round Hill —
chimed in that they, too, were
suffering from newsprint
predation.
The headline writes itself: Fox
news.
This happens often enough
that it isn’t really news: “Dog
bites man” rather than “Man
bites dog.” But this summer has
brought a bumper crop of fox
tales, stretching from Bethesda
to Fairfax County, too many to
be ignored.
Nature is healing and the
foxes are looking for something
to read.
Frank Kohn lives in Fairfax, a
couple of miles east of George
Mason University. When his
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Mandatory vaccines
for some workers
D.C. government employees
who work for the city’s attorney
general will be required to get
vaccinated against the
coronavirus, while the city’s
mayor has not imposed a vaccine
requirement on the vast majority
of the District’s workforce.
Attorney General Karl A.
Racine (D) announced to his staff
Wednesday that they must get
vaccinated by Sept. 13, when their
office is scheduled to resume in-
person work. Employees who
document a medical or religious
reason for preferring not to get
vaccinated, or those who say they
will not get inoculated until the
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either worked in person
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as police officers and trash
collectors — or required
employees to resume working in
person last month. Mayor Muriel
E. Bowser (D) has not required
vaccines for employees, although
she has said she is discussing the
matter with the labor unions that
represent city workers.
Fairfax County is the first
jurisdiction in the region to
require vaccination against the
coronavirus for all of its 12,500-
person workforce.
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newspaper went missing two
mornings in a row, he sprang
into action.
Frank is a wildlife biologist,
so, of course, he has a wildlife
camera. He moved it from the
backyard to the front yard and
was rewarded with eerie night-
vision footage from when it was
dark, as well as color images
captured after sunrise.
“My camera video revealed a
young fox approaching the
paper with something in his
mouth,” Frank wrote. “He puts
that down and takes the paper
out of camera range and then
returns to pick up what he had
left behind.”
What he left behind was
probably that day’s breakfast:
some kind of rodent.
More than one fox has been
involved. Sometimes a fox
doesn’t steal the paper, Frank
said, but pees on it. Everyone’s a
critic.
Wrote Frank: “I hope having
to replace papers doesn’t
negatively affect The Post’s
financial status. Maybe The Post
should consider expanding to
this vulpine demographic and
accepting payments in the form
of rodent carcasses.”
Foxes have been stealing
papers in Bill McCloskey’s
Bethesda neighborhood, too,
stashing them in a den in
Boundary Park on River Road.
Even papers that aren’t stolen
47 miles to the south in Charles
County and 37 miles to the
northwest in Frederick County.
An earthquake with a
magnitude of 2.6 struck in the
Woodlawn area west of Baltimore
on June 25, and a minor
aftershock with a magnitude of
1.7 was recorded two days later.
Neither caused any noteworthy
damage or injuries.
— Associated Press
Flutist’s firing follows
social media rebuke
The Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra has fired its principal
flutist months after distancing
itself from her social media posts
that questioned the safety of the
coronavirus vaccines, the efficacy
of masks and the outcome of the
2020 presidential election.
The orchestra offered only the
broadest outline of its decision to
dismiss Emily Skala, but its
statement suggests there were
multiple violations of multiple
policies. Leaked workplace
emails from Skala also had come
under scrutiny.
BSO President and chief
executive Peter Kjome said the
musician was fired under the
progressive discipline policy
agreed to with the Musicians’
Association of Metropolitan
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imposed upon her over these past
few months for violating several
policies; unfortunately, she has
repeated the conduct for which
she had been previously
disciplined, and dismissal was
the necessary and appropriate
reaction to this behavior,” the
BSO statement said.
The firing comes about six
months after the orchestra
publicly rebuked her for
controversial social media posts.
She had been suspended from
work duties and was notified by
phone Tuesday that she had lost
her job. Skala, who has been with
the symphony for 33 years, has
consulted with lawyers.
When asked about her social
media posts spreading
misinformation about the safety
of the coronavirus vaccine, she
said: “I did all of this basically
because I wanted to protect the
orchestras of the country. I
wanted as few people, as few
musicians, to be lost.”
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Frank Kohn, a wildlife biologist in Fairfax, set up a camera and caught this fox taking a newspaper. In
Bill McCloskey’s Bethesda neighborhood, foxes took papers and stashed them in a den at a local park.
are sometimes mouthed, said
Jennie Fogarty, who lives not
too far away. The plastic bags
wrapping The Post often have
teeth marks on them.
What’s going on? Experts I’ve
spoken to over the years have
told me that foxes are curious, as
interested in playing with a toy
as a dog or a cat. They may like
the mouthfeel of a newspaper.
They may want to adorn their
THERESA VARGAS
‘Nobody does what they do’: Care center faces closure
VARGAS FROM B1
scrutinized her budget and
pleaded with officials for help,
all in an attempt to keep the
nonprofit from shutting down
and leaving the Virginia families
who depend on it with nowhere
to go.
“I don’t know where else the
community is going to get this
kind of care,” Jewell says. She
recalls once asking Kamara why
she chose the work. Kamara told
her she knew how it felt to be
shunned and made to feel a
burden because of her sickle cell
disease. “She went into her field
of work because she never
wanted anyone to feel rejected
for who they were.”
Jewell sometimes talks out
loud to Kamara, and she does so
as we speak on a recent evening
about the business plan she
found tucked in one of Kamara’s
files.
“I’d seen it before, but I
hadn’t read it thoroughly —
forgive me, Nyome,” she says.
“But reading it, I could feel how
much she cared for the
community she was serving. She
was a genius and what she
wanted to accomplish for the
community is so beautiful.”
As she tells it, Kamara, who
was born in Liberia, opened the
Bright Center in 2016 in a
rented space she shared with a
church. She started by serving
eight young adults. In the years
that followed, that number grew
to 152, and the new building was
going to allow her to serve even
more.
Her business plan called for
the center to eventually open a
coffee shop that would offer
some of the young adults an
opportunity to receive job
training and interact with the
public. She also envisioned
bringing in health specialists so
those young adults wouldn’t
have to worry about stepping
into the office of an optometrist
or a speech therapist. And if
families have multiple children
with intellectual disabilities,
opening the other side of the
building would allow siblings to
attend the same center.
“Nyome, how did you do all
this?” Jewell has found herself
asking Kamara often lately.
In the past, Jewell attended
events organized by Kamara,
but she says it was only when
she started looking into how to
keep the center’s doors open
that she realized how difficult it
is to secure funding and how
great the need is for what the
center offers.
After high school, many
young adults with intellectual
and developmental disabilities
are left without services they
have come to depend on, forcing
their parents and guardians to
make difficult decisions: Do
they quit jobs to take care of
them? Do they place them in
assisted-living facilities? Do
they trust a stranger who may
not have the proper training to
come into their homes and take
care of complicated needs?
During the pandemic, the
center was limited to serving
only 10 young adults. Imani
Bush, who is 23 and autistic,
was one of them.
“Nobody does what they do,”
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den with something soft. One
way a mother fox teaches its
young to hunt is by bringing it
bits of food, along with stuff that
isn’t food. Dragging a
newspaper around is a good way
to learn how to drag a squirrel
around.
And don’t forget that foxes
have lived here longer than
people have. They don’t divide
the world into people places and
her father, Phillip Bush, says of
the center. “All I have to do is
get her up in the morning. They
pick her up, they feed her, they
have fun activities — before
covid, they would go on field
trips — and then they bring her
home in the evening.”
His daughter has friends at
the center, he says, and it gives
her the structure she needs to
feel comfortable. It also allows
her parents, who both have full-
time jobs, to work.
“I don’t know what we’ll do,”
Bush says of the possibility that
the center will close. “There’s
nothing like it out there. We’ve
looked. I was on Care.com,
trying to find someone to fill in.
I searched for months.”
Right now, he says, the family
is trying to figure out whether
they would be okay if his wife
has to quit her job. The center
accepts Medicaid waivers, which
makes the family’s cost
significantly less than what they
would have to pay someone with
training to take care of Imani.
“There are so many lives that
are impacted by that center
being there and being open,”
Bush says. “The government
needs to step in, whether
federal or local or state. We
need somebody to come up with
a way.”
He describes his daughter as
being so in tune with other
people’s emotions that if
someone is crying, she will try
to comfort them and then start
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fox places.
McCloskey said one
commenter on his Bethesda
neighborhood’s message list
suggested a solution: getting the
fox a digital subscription to The
Post. Let’s see it drag an iPad
around.
Advice and consent
Good advice needn’t be
complicated. In fact, it probably
JACQUELINE JEWELL
Nyome Kamara and her
husband, Sidikie, were raising
two children, ages 5 and 7,
when she died unexpectedly on
June 3. She would have turned
36 on Thursday.
crying herself. For that reason,
he and his wife have not told
her why Kamara is gone.
Jewell says if she wasn’t
working to save the center, she
would likely be spending her
days crying nonstop. She
describes Kamara as more of a
sister than a friend.
In May, their families went to
Disney World together. Kamara
planned the trip to celebrate her
5-year-old son’s birthday.
Shortly after they returned, she
grew ill enough to become
hospitalized.
On Thursday, she would have
turned 36.
On Friday, the center plans to
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shouldn’t be. The simpler a tip
is, the easier it is to remember.
The District’s Sue Ruff will
never forget a conversation she
had with an exterminator. She’d
called him after a rat came up
through the plumbing and into a
toilet.
“What should I do?” Sue
asked.
“Don’t sit down without
looking,” the exterminator
replied.
Then there was the time Sue
was at a game preserve in South
Africa, preparing to squat in
some brush. The park ranger
said, “If something comes
toward you, don’t run.”
You know, I’m not sure either
of these is an example of good
advice. Still, what pithy advice
will you never forget? Send it to
me — with “Advice” in the
subject line — at
john.kelly@washpost.com.
Hiroshima documentary
“Pictures From a Hiroshima
Schoolyard,” the documentary
mentioned in Wednesday’s
column, was broadcast Sunday
on Maryland Public Television.
Thursday’s 10 p.m. broadcast is
on the MPT2/Create channel. It
is also streaming on pbs.org.
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Twitter: @johnkelly
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hold a fundraiser that will see
food trucks donate their profits
and a reptile expert offer photo
opportunities. But Jewell
already knows the event won’t
raise enough money to save the
center. She has done the math.
Payroll adds up to more than
$21,000 a month, the building’s
rent costs $12,300 a month, and
then there are utility bills and
other expenses.
Hoping that crowdfunding
might help, Jewell created the
Nyome Kamara Fund, a website
where people can donate. At
first she worried that she set the
goal too high and the amount
would scare off potential
donors. Then she saw all the
bills and learned that much of
the pandemic crisis funding set
aside to help nonprofits was
gone, and she realized that she
set the goal too low.
By her calculations, $210,000
is needed to keep the center
open through the year and see
those chairs, toys and
equipment unwrapped and
finally put to use.
“If we lose, we lose, but I just
can’t not try everything,” Jewell
says. “She would never stop. If
the shoe was on the other foot,
she would be doing this and
more for me right now. That’s
just the type of person she was.”
She was the type of person
whose best friend still talks to
her — and hopes to soon tell her
some good news.
theresa.vargas@washpost.com
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Slain Pentagon o∞cer lauded for dedication to service
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tional suspects.
The FBI said Wednesday that
the injured bystander was treated
at a hospital and released.
Gonzalez, a Brooklyn native,
joined the Pentagon force in 2018.
In a statement, officials with the
force said he took to heart the
mission of “protecting those who
protect our nation.”
Gonzalez was a “die-hard Yan-
kees fan” and graduated from
New York City’s Canarsie High
School. He later worked at the
Bureau of Prisons and the TSA,
rising to the rank of lead transpor-
tation security officer before land-
ing at the Pentagon’s police agen-
cy.
In a statement, Pentagon police
officials described him as gregari-
ous and said he was “well-liked
and respected by his fellow offi-
cers.”
Gonzalez also served in Army
artillery as a cannon crew mem-
ber, with time on active duty from
April 2003 to November 2005,
and in the Army Reserve from
November 2005 to March 2011. He
left the service as a sergeant. He
was deployed to Iraq from August
2004 to July 2005, said Lt. Col.
Gabriel Ramirez, an Army spokes-
man.
While deployed in Iraq, Gonza-
lez was a member of 2nd Battal-
ion, 17th Field Artillery Regiment,
Ramirez said.
Gonzalez also received a Korea
Defense Service Medal, indicating
that in addition to his time in Iraq,
VIRGINIA
Law professor sues GMU over
university’s vaccination mandate
BY S USAN S VRLUGA
A law-school professor filed a
lawsuit Wednesday challenging
George Mason University’s coro-
navirus vaccine mandate, arguing
it is unnecessarily coercive and
unconstitutional.
The nonprofit New Civil Liber-
ties Alliance filed the case against
George Mason’s president and
some of its other leaders in the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia on behalf of
Todd Zywicki, a professor at the
university’s Antonin Scalia Law
School.
The lawsuit argues that the
public university has no compel-
ling interest in overriding Zy-
wicki’s personal autonomy and
that because none of the vaccines
approved for use in the United
States has received full Food and
Drug Administration approval,
the school’s policy is in conflict
with federal law.
Robin Rose Parker, a spokes-
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he served a stint in South Korea.
Lanz’s interaction with the mil-
itary was brief.
On Tuesday evening, the U.S.
Marine Corps released a state-
ment saying Lanz sought to join
the Marines on Oct. 9, 2012, but
was “administratively separated
on Nov. 2, 2012 and never earned
the title Marine.”
It was not immediately clear
what Lanz did in the following
years.
In April, Lanz was arrested for
allegedly breaking into a neigh-
bor’s home in Georgia, according
to a police report. The neighbor’s
surveillance camera captured
Lanz walking through the home
holding a crow bar, the report
states.
The neighbor told investiga-
tors that he was planning on
moving because he had had nu-
merous encounters with Lanz
over the previous year and did not
feel safe, according to the police
report.
In one incident, the neighbor
told investigators that surveil-
lance video showed Lanz placing
pornographic images and sexual
notes in his mailbox, according to
the report. On another occasion,
police were called after a com-
plaint that Lanz had placed a
large cardboard sign on the
neighbor’s front porch that read,
“I’m tired of wondering.”
On the day of his trespassing
arrest in April, Lanz was accused
of assaulting two Cobb County
sheriff’s deputies at the local jail.
He also was charged with crimi-
ing understanding of vaccine effi-
cacy and new variants, political
divides and deep pandemic
weariness.
Some universities are mandat-
ing coronavirus vaccination and
other public health measures,
while others are allowing stu-
dents, faculty and staff to choose
for themselves.
And people have pushed back
on both sides of the issue, with
students and faculty on some
campuses calling for stricter re-
quirements and lawsuits chal-
lenging mandates on others.
At the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill on
Wednesday, faculty leaders wor-
ried about a recent surge in covid-
19 cases passed a resolution urg-
ing state university system lead-
ers to give the flagship school’s
chancellor and provost the au-
thority to mandate proof of vacci-
nation and provide guidance on
masking and other protocols.
At George Mason, officials ad-
vised the university community
this summer that all students,
faculty and staff would be re-
quired to give proof that they had
been vaccinated.
Gregory Washington, the uni-
versity’s president, wrote in a
message to campus that the single
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A police vehicle near the Pentagon on Wednesday. Bus traffic was rerouted to Pentagon City, away from
the transit station serving the military headquarters, after the deadly violence at the station Tuesday.
nal damage, riot in a penal insti-
tution, obstructing law enforce-
ment and making terroristic
threats.
The Cobb County Sheriff’s Of-
fice in Georgia confirmed that
Lanz was in custody in April 2021,
but it referred all other questions
about the incident at the jail to the
FBI. The office released a redact-
ed incident report that offered
scant details about what hap-
pened.
In May, a judge granted Lanz
cash bond in the cases, and some
of the charges were dropped. As a
condition of his release, Lanz was
most effective way to avoid the
virus and stop its spread is for
those who can get vaccinated to
do so as soon as possible. “I recog-
nize that a mandate is an extraor-
dinary step to take,” he wrote,
“and one not taken without seri-
ous consideration of the public
health situation and the safety of
our community.”
The lawsuit contends that the
university also notified campus
that those who have not provided
proof of vaccination will be re-
quired to undergo frequent test-
ing, wear masks and practice so-
cial distancing — and that failure
to comply could trigger conse-
quences including termination of
their jobs at the public university.
Zywicki said in an interview
that he would have gotten vacci-
nated if he had not already con-
tracted, and recovered from,
covid-19. He said that he was
advised by his immunologist that
he has strong natural immunity
to the virus now, confirmed by
positive antibody tests, and that a
vaccine is medically unnecessary.
“I would rather rely on the
advice of my doctor,” Zywicki said,
“than mid-level bureaucrats at
Mason who are designing a one-
size-fits-all solution.”
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ordered to stay away from drugs
and alcohol and not possess fire-
arms.
He also was ordered to undergo
mental health and substance
abuse evaluations within 30 days
and not have contact with three
specified individuals, online
court records indicate. Those peo-
ple did not respond to requests for
comment.
It was not clear from online
records whether Lanz had under-
gone the evaluations, and a
spokeswoman for the Cobb Coun-
ty district attorney’s office said
she could not answer most ques-
VIRGINIA
Senators introduce amendments to
covid relief bill, delaying its passage
BY L AURA V OZZELLA
AND K ARINA E LWOOD
richmond — Republicans and a
few rebellious Democrats in the
Virginia Senate teamed up on
Wednesday to reshape plans for
allocating $4.3 billion in federal
coronavirus relief, defying efforts
by Democratic leaders to fast-
track the spending bill they’d
hashed out with Gov. Ralph
Northam.
Democrats who’d hoped to get
the legislation out of both cham-
bers without any tinkering suc-
ceeded in the House. But the Sen-
ate added $189 million to beef up
bonuses for sheriff’s deputies and
correctional staff, and require the
Department of Motor Vehicles to
provide walk-in service again.
And more changes could be
coming from the Senate, which was
expected to work late into the night
Wednesday as it considered a total
of 142 proposed amendments.
Any amendments could slow
the budget’s adoption if the House
and Northam (D) do not agree to
the changes. Northam’s spokes-
woman did not immediately re-
spond to a request for comment.
Del. Mark D. Sickles (D-Fairfax)
said the House and Senate had
agreed not to accept amendments
in order to move the process along
as quickly as possible. But, after
amendments that significantly
impacted the funding proposal
passed in the Senate on Wednes-
day, he said they would definitely
be going into a conference com-
mittee, where legislators from
both chambers would try to hash
out their differences.
“Some of [the amendments] are
reasonable and will be accepted,”
Sickles said. “Some of them will
not.”
Sickles said he doesn’t know
how long it will take to reach an
agreement, but the approval will
take longer than leaders in both
the Senate and House had
planned for.
“We were hoping to make it
quick,” Sickles said. “It’s going to
be slower now than we had
hoped.”
In the name of expediency,
budget leaders in the Democrati-
cally controlled House and Senate
worked with Northam before the
two-week special session to ham-
mer out a plan that they hoped
would get an up-or-down vote in
both chambers — without any
amendments that would slow
down the process of getting a bill
back to Northam’s desk for his
signature.
House Democrats, who have a
55-45 margin in the chamber, took
just two minutes to shut down
Republicans’ attempt to substi-
tute the bill with a plan of their
own on the floor Tuesday. On
Wednesday, without further de-
bate, the House passed the bill in
its original form on a bipartisan
71-to-25 vote.
That plan includes $800 mil-
lion for the unemployment trust
fund, $700 million for rural broad-
band projects and $250 million
for school ventilation systems. It
also sets aside $800 million for
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tions about the case. The charges
against Lanz remained pending
at the time of the attack at the
Pentagon on Tuesday.
Lanz’s attorney in the cases did
not return calls seeking comment.
On Wednesday, Gerald G. Neill
Jr., president of the D.C. Fraternal
Order of Police Lodge #1, said
Gonzalez’s slaying and other re-
cent violent incidents that have
involved law enforcement officers
in the region are concerning.
“A lot of people felt it was a safe
police department,” Neill said of
the Pentagon police force. “We tell
them it’s not. You wear a uniform
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Sen. Janet D. Howell (D) urged the chamber to move quickly on
spending, but also agreed to take up the 142 proposed amendments.
future needs.
“If anyone looks at this pro-
posed budget, there’s no way in
this world any of us, any of us, in
this chamber should vote against
this budget,” House Appropria-
tions Committee Chairman Luke
E. Torian (D-Prince William) said.
But on the other side of the
Capitol, in the closely divided Sen-
ate, Republicans and a few Demo-
cratic allies had the muscle to
force some changes.
Sen. Janet D. Howell (D-Fair-
fax), chairwoman of the Senate
Finance and Appropriations Com-
mittee, urged the Senate to “move
as expeditiously as humanly possi-
ble with the goal of helping our
hurting Virginians and our com-
monwealth’s businesses.”
But she also agreed to take up
all 142 proposed floor amend-
ments. Senators had only begun
slogging through the pile when
one met with success.
Sen. Travis Hackworth (R-Taze-
well), the Senate’s newest mem-
ber, proposed a change to provide
$5,000 hazard-pay bonuses to
sheriff’s deputies and correctional
staff for the next three years. The
original plan, as passed by the
House, provides a $1,000 bonus,
and only in the current fiscal year.
Hackworth’s plan would be no
small adjustment, costing the
state $200 million, up from
$11 million as originally proposed.
Hackworth, who won his seat in a
special election in March, said the
move was needed to help attract
and retain deputies in “vastly un-
derstaffed” sheriff’s departments.
Howell acknowledged that
sheriff’s department pay was a
problem, but said it would be bet-
ter addressed along with State
Police compensation in the regu-
lar session that begins in January,
after a study on the subject is
completed in October. She also
said Northam has already prom-
ised to include money for law
enforcement raises, not tempo-
rary bonuses, in the budget he’ll
propose in December. The one-
time federal funds cannot be used
for raises because they are an on-
going expense.
Howell said her approach
would produce “a truly long-term
solution to a very bad situation.”
But other Senate Republicans
spoke up about a shortage of sher-
iff’s deputies and correctional staff
. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5 , 2021
that says ‘police.’ It’s not safe.”
Gonzalez was not a member of
the D.C. FOP, which has about
8,000 members.
Neill said many of his group’s
members are worried and feeling
stressed.
“There’s a dehumanization of
police across the country, and
that’s hurt these officers,” Neill
said.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
also issued condolences in a state-
ment. He ordered flags at the
Pentagon to half-staff to honor
the slain officer.
“This fallen officer died in the
line of duty, helping protect the
tens of thousands of people who
work in — and who visit — the
Pentagon on a daily basis,” Austin
said. “He and his fellow officers
are members of the Pentagon
family, and known to us all as
professional, skilled and brave.”
The violence occurred at the
Pentagon Transit Center, which is
on the east side of the Pentagon
and is the largest transit hub in
Northern Virginia, according to
the Defense Department.
Metro said it plans to reopen
the Pentagon Metro station and
Pentagon Transit Center on
Thursday morning. The stations
had been closed since Tuesday
morning.
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Devlin Barrett, Justin George, Tom
Jackman, Julie Tate, Emily Davies and
Martin Weil contributed to this report.
in their areas, a situation that some
attributed not just to lagging wages
but the perception that law en-
forcement has been under attack
since the nationwide protests that
erupted over the murder of George
Floyd in Minneapolis police cus-
tody last year.
One senator said police agen-
cies are losing officers to trucking
companies because the pay is bet-
ter. Another said the shortage of
psychiatric beds in the state has
compounded the problem, since
deputies called to intervene in
mental health emergencies some-
times must stay with patients un-
til they can be moved to a psychiat-
ric hospital, taking them off the
streets for hours and sometimes
days on end.
Democrats called a short recess
and upon their return, relented,
with some joining with Republi-
cans to approve the amendment
on a voice vote.
Not long after, the Senate ap-
proved two language amend-
ments from state Sen. Chap Pe-
tersen (D-Fairfax City). Petersen’s
amendments have nothing to do
with how the state will spend the
American Rescue Plan Act funds.
But he was using the budget bill as
a vehicle for legislation.
One Petersen amendment ad-
opted by the Senate would require
the state Department of Motor
Vehicles offices to resume walk-in
service, rather than the appoint-
ment-only model it adopted under
the pandemic. Another that
passed would require the state to
report on how many of Virginia’s
more than 100,000 state employ-
ees continue to work remotely.
Later Wednesday evening, Lt.
Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) stripped a
provision of the bill that would
have allowed collegiate athletes to
get paid by third-party brands for
sponsorships and partnerships.
Similar laws have passed in states
across the country this year after
the NCAA removed amateur pol-
icies that prohibited student-ath-
letes from earning compensation.
At the urging of Republicans, Fair-
fax ruled that the matter was not
germane to the purpose of the
special session, which was called
to address the pandemic, appro-
priate federal funds and elect state
judges.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 5 , 2021
THE REGION
Warner, Kaine tell Senate leaders that restaurants need more covid relief
BY M EAGAN F LYNN
Democratic Sens. Mark R. War-
ner and Tim Kaine of Virginia
called on Senate leadership
Wednesday to take up legislation
that would provide restaurants
with billions more in pandemic
relief after tens of thousands of
them were left out of the last
round of grants, and as the delta
variant threatens to accelerate the
pandemic.
In a letter to Senate Majority
Leader Charles E. Schumer
(D-N.Y.) and Senate Minority
Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.),
Warner and Kaine noted that “de-
mand has far outstripped the
available funding” for the Restau-
rant Revitalization Fund. The vast
majority of applicants across the
country — about two-thirds —
were denied funding because of
the shortage, leaving many lag-
ging behind in recovery even as
widespread vaccination and lift-
ing of pandemic restrictions led
more Americans back to restau-
rants.
“In Virginia and across the
country, restaurants continue to
A political newcomer familiar with the power structure
YOUNGKIN FROM B1
selling companies, has some-
times dogged politicians. Repub-
lican Mitt Romney endured
tough scrutiny over his record in
private equity at the Boston firm
Bain Capital when he ran for
president in 2008 and 2012, with
questions raised about jobs cut
or sent overseas by the firm’s
investments.
Then there’s the character of
Carlyle.
“Republican voters have a soft
spot for successful business-
men,” said Quentin Kidd, a politi-
cal scientist at Christopher New-
port University. But ever since
Donald Trump won the presiden-
cy, he added, the Republican
base has also been enthralled
with anti-establishment outsid-
ers.
“What was appealing about
Trump to Republican voters was
that he had all the success they
found attractive in a business-
man, but it wasn’t establishment
success. In fact, he thumbed his
nose at the establishment. And
Youngkin is sort of the opposite
of that,” Kidd said.
Youngkin generally won
praise as a capable, collaborative
manager from a handful of for-
mer Carlyle executives inter-
viewed for this article — all of
whom spoke on the condition of
anonymity to discuss the closely
controlled company.
But several expressed disap-
pointment that someone whom
they viewed as a serious-mind-
ed business leader has coddled
the Trump base of the Republi-
can Party, such as by being
hesitant to acknowledge that
President Biden was legitimate-
ly elected.
“I wouldn’t have done that,”
said one former Carlyle execu-
tive, adding that Youngkin’s ap-
proach to the campaign — slow
to roll out policy proposals, quick
to support the polarizing former
president — was frustrating. “I’m
not even sure what Glenn’s agen-
da is. . . . But [politics] is a dirty
business, and you’re dealing with
a lot of irrational voters.”
One former Carlyle executive
praised Youngkin’s business ca-
reer but demurred when asked
whether the same admiration
extended to his political activi-
ties.
“I don’t have any insight into
any of that,” this person said,
declining to discuss the topic.
“You don’t see a lot of Carlyle
people coming out and support-
ing him,” another former Carlyle
executive noted.
Youngkin’s campaign declined
to make him available for an
interview for this article. A
spokeswoman for Carlyle de-
clined to comment.
The rich and the powerful
Youngkin, 54, who played bas-
ketball at Rice University in
Houston, earned undergraduate
degrees in mechanical engineer-
ing and management studies be-
fore heading into the business
world. With an MBA from Har-
vard, he worked at McKinsey &
Co. before joining Carlyle in 1995
as an analyst.
The firm had sprouted in 1987
from the legal, political and busi-
ness circles of Washington. With-
in a few years, three people
formed its brain trust: former
Carter administration official
David Rubenstein, former Mar-
riott executive Daniel D’Aniello
and former MCI Communica-
tions executive William E. Con-
way Jr.
At that time, Washington was
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experience decreased sales, crip-
pling staffing shortages, and sig-
nificant debt burdens,” they wrote.
“Hundreds of Virginia restaurant
owners have told us that they may
have to close their doors perma-
nently if they do not receive addi-
tional federal relief.”
In an interview, Warner said
that two or three weeks ago, few on
Capitol Hill were discussing fur-
ther covid-19 relief, especially as
the infrastructure negotiations
and reconciliation package domi-
nated senators’ focus. But now, he
said, if the delta variant continues
to drive cases upward, Congress
may have to consider another more
targeted relief package to prevent
more restaurants and other small
businesses from closing.
“Literally in the last two weeks,
I think there’s been a mind-set
change,” Warner said. “We’ve seen
it in people’s behavior changing,
people starting to re-mask in the
Capitol . . . starting to look with a
little bit more dread about the
delta variant uptick. So what Sena-
tor Kaine and I wanted to do was
put a marker down again to say, we
know there is a lot more need in
a big zero on the national finan-
cial scene. But Rubenstein had
an insight that wound up defin-
ing Carlyle: Rich people and
powerful people like to rub el-
bows with one another. If he
could arrange that, there were
deals to be made.
So they hired former defense
secretary Frank Carlucci as
chairman, beginning a long line
of A-list politicians cycling
through Carlyle as advisers or
executives. Former president
George H.W. Bush, former Brit-
ish prime minister John Major,
former secretary of state James
Baker III — all these heavy
hitters played roles in those early
years, making connections, mak-
ing fortunes.
Initially, the firm’s focus tend-
ed toward buying aerospace and
defense companies, managing
them for a while and then selling
them off.
Carlyle became so synony-
mous with the ruling elite — and
particularly with connections in
the Middle East — that it was
regularly the focus of conspiracy
theories. Its reputation was not
helped by the fact that as the
twin towers fell on Sept. 11, 2001,
a half brother of Osama bin
Laden was attending a Carlyle
conference at a Washington ho-
tel.
A few years after that, the
growing firm made a conscious
turn away from government and
toward the world of business.
Legendary former IBM head Lou
Gerstner came in as chairman,
and Carlyle began expanding far
beyond Washington.
Carlyle’s influence continues
to permeate the halls of power.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H.
Powell is a veteran, as is Nasdaq
chief Adena Friedman.
The firm owns or has owned
companies as diverse as the
Dunkin’ coffee and doughnut
brand, Booz Allen Hamilton,
Getty Images, and the Hertz car
rental agency. Returns on the
funds that buy and sell those
companies sometimes run from
30 percent to 40 percent per year.
The investors who benefit
from those returns are often big
institutions, particularly large
pension systems. The California
Public Employees’ Retirement
System is a major backer of
Carlyle funds, and last year the
Virginia Retirement System
committed up to $1 billion to a
Carlyle investment fund.
Eventually — in 2012 — the
formerly clubby, private firm
went public, selling shares after
a complex transition overseen by
the rapidly rising Youngkin.
The 6-foot-5-inch Virginian
was well-liked by leadership, ac-
cording to interviews with a
handful of insiders, and played
many roles at the firm. He was
elected a partner after only four
years, in 1999, then worked in
London until 2005, setting up
offices around Europe. When he
returned to Washington, Young-
kin led a Carlyle sector that made
industrial investments.
“One thing that enabled him
to rise up through the ranks was
his capacity to absorb informa-
tion. You can shovel gobs of
information into his brain, and
he can analyze it and spit it out in
a useful and comprehensive
manner. Glenn is astounding at
that,” said Christopher Ullman,
Carlyle’s longtime public face as
its director of communications
for nearly two decades before
stepping down in 2018.
The long-term guy
Youngkin moved from the in-
the restaurant area than there are
funds available. . . . There’s not lots
of talk about another covid pack-
age, but unfortunately it may be
necessary.”
The American Rescue Plan — the
major covid-19 relief package
passed this spring — provided
about $28 billion for the Restau-
rant Revitalization Fund, adminis-
tered by the Small Business Admin-
istration. After just two months, the
SBA shut down the program July 2,
having run out of money. It admin-
istered grants to more than 100,000
applicants — but more than
278,000 eligible restaurants and
bars had applied, leaving the vast
majority in a lurch.
Ruth Gresser, owner-chef of
D.C.’s Pizzeria Paradiso, was
among them. She applied for a
grant within 10 minutes of the
portal opening on May 3. She was
elated when it was approved just
weeks later. But Gressen was puz-
zled when no money arrived as
weeks went by.
The SBA’s grant rollout was in
part complicated by a lawsuit filed
by White restaurant owners, rep-
resented by a conservative group
Glenn Youngkin, now the Republican nominee for Virginia governor, speaks in Richmond on May 11.
He was co-chief executive of the Carlyle Group, a private-equity firm, until his retirement last year.
From left: William E. Conway Jr., Daniel D’Aniello and David Rubenstein, seen in 2011, founded the
Carlyle Group in 1987. The firm sprouted from the legal, political and business circles of Washington.
vestment side of the firm into
management in 2008. He helped
oversee the stripping back of
investments that helped Carlyle
ride out the financial crisis,
served as interim chief financial
officer and eventually became
chief operating officer.
Taking on those roles, another
former Carlyle executive said,
was something of a sacrifice for
Youngkin — leaving behind the
more exciting world of deals for
the sometimes thankless task of
corporate operations.
A former member of Carlyle’s
management committee said
Youngkin was willing to play that
role because of his commitment
to “a collaborative culture. . . . He
was one of those principled lead-
ers who sort of did what he was
asked to do and was also inspir-
ing. He would lead town halls,
communicate [across the organi-
zation]. He was not sharp-el-
bowed whatsoever.”
The three founders made a
momentous decision in 2017 to
step back and name successors
to run the company. Because
their partnership had worked so
well, according to insiders, the
three envisioned continuing
with a similar division of duties
at the top.
They chose a newcomer —
Kewsong Lee, a hard-charging
New Yorker — to pair with
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founded by former Trump advis-
ers Stephen Miller and Mark
Meadows. They argued that the
SBA’s prioritization of applica-
tions from certain restaurant
owners — including women, vet-
erans and socioeconomically dis-
advantaged groups — discrimi-
nated against them. A court or-
dered the SBA on June 11 to begin
processing applications for non-
prioritized groups while halting
others. By the time Gresser heard
back from the SBA about her
stalled application, it was only to
notify her of a minor paperwork
error at the end of June. She said
she was given no opportunity to fix
it before the program’s funds were
depleted, causing her to join thou-
sands of other eligible restaurants
that did not get the relief they were
depending on.
“What we thought was going to
happen in May, the RRF funding
helped us all to breathe a little
more, because we thought we
were on this positive road to recov-
ery, and we thought this was going
to help,” Gressen said. “And now
. . . where are we?”
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.)
Youngkin as co-CEO. Each had a
role, with Lee as the aggressive
dealmaker.
“Glenn was the long-term guy.
He’d been there 25 years, he’d
helped the firm grow, been over-
seas,” Ullman said. “He’d seen
how all the pieces fit together. He
was a culture carrier.”
One longtime Carlyle joint-
venture partner, who spoke on
the condition of anonymity to
talk frankly about the firm, said
Youngkin was smart and person-
able but not one to shake up the
status quo. “A phrase that was
kicked around is he’s like Won-
der Bread dipped in whole milk,”
the joint-venture partner said.
His role in management
meant that Youngkin was no
longer driving individual deals,
but he said at a February cam-
paign appearance in Virginia
Beach that he would “own every-
thing” that had happened during
his tenure as a top executive.
As Ullman put it, private equi-
ty is like lion taming — when it
goes well, it’s great; when it goes
wrong, it can be catastrophic.
Carlyle had its share of both
while Youngkin was there. The
firm took a one-third stake in
Dunkin’ in 2006, for instance,
helped manage the brand as it
opened more than 2,000 new
stores across the country and
then took it public in 2012 in a
filed bipartisan legislation in June
to replenish the Restaurant Revi-
talization Fund by $60 billion —
the legislation Kaine and Warner
urged Senate leadership on
Wednesday to move on.
A spokesman for Schumer said
he “absolutely supports replenish-
ing the fund to keep local restau-
rants open and workers em-
ployed.” A spokesman for McCon-
nell did not immediately respond
to a request for comment.
Kathy Hollinger, president and
CEO of the Restaurant Associa-
tion of Metropolitan Washington,
said it’s imperative the legislation
passes, especially as the delta vari-
ant adds yet more uncertainty to
restaurants’ plans for recovery. As
a whole, she said, restaurants in
the Washington region are still
nowhere near their 2019 numbers.
“We knew going in that there
wasn’t enough funding in place
given the high demand and need of
our industry,” she said. “A lot of
people were left behind. We are not
okay with that. It has become an
incredibly polarizing issue, and the
only fix is to fully fund RRF.”
Warner said there probably is
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ASTRID RIECKEN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
deal widely hailed as a success.
BoozAllen, similarly, grew sig-
nificantly after Carlyle took a
majority stake in 2008 and gen-
erated billions for the private-eq-
uity firm after selling shares to
the public. In 2013, Carlyle took a
minority stake in the head-
phones maker Beats, boosted its
national distribution and then
profited when Apple bought the
brand just nine months later.
Carlyle’s stake in the nursing
home chain ManorCare was a
different story. During the five
years of Carlyle ownership, Man-
orCare struggled financially and
exposed its 25,000 patients to
sometimes serious health risks,
according to a Washington Post
investigation in 2018. The firm
declared bankruptcy after Car-
lyle and other investors extract-
ed some $1.3 billion in value and
left behind enormous debt, The
Post found.
Carlyle owned a waste recy-
cling company called Synagro
that went bankrupt in 2013 after
losing several municipal con-
tracts. A former Synagro official
pleaded guilty to bribing a mem-
ber of Detroit’s City Council.
And in an unlikely intersec-
tion with pop culture, Carlyle
drew the ire of Taylor Swift fans
for its role in helping artist
manager Scooter Braun buy out
the singer’s back catalogue,
B5
not an appetite in Congress for
another “broad-based” covid-19 re-
lief package, especially given that
Republicans have been vocally op-
posed to the billions in funds given
to state and local governments. But
Warner said enough Republicans
may get on board with more target-
ed restaurant relief and, he hopes,
his bill to provide relief to minor
league baseball clubs — among
some sectors of the economy com-
pletely left out in previous efforts.
He said it was not likely that
Congress could move on these
items before Labor Day given the
August recess, and that the urgen-
cy probably will depend on the
trajectory of the delta variant.
Gresser said she’s not counting
on anything until the relief money
is in her business’s bank account
this time — but was certain that
without it, some in the industry
may not survive the winter.
“What do we need in order to
make it? That’s the daily puzzle,”
Gressen said. “Every day has been
a puzzle. Without knowing wheth-
er you’re going to get the money,
there’s no relying on it.”
meagan.flynn@washpost.com
prompting Swift to target the
private-equity giant on social
media in a quest to regain con-
trol of her own music.
While those scenarios all un-
folded during Youngkin’s time in
management, insiders said he
was not directly involved. Young-
kin was said to have had a far
more personal role in two signifi-
cant deals involving infrastruc-
ture: the purchase of fossil fuel
pipeline giant Kinder Morgan in
2007, and Carlyle’s successful
effort to win a contract refur-
bishing Terminal One at JFK
airport in New York.
His Democratic opponent in
the governor’s race, former Vir-
ginia governor Terry McAuliffe,
has criticized Youngkin over Car-
lyle’s record, saying the private-
equity firm has done deals that
resulted in jobs being eliminated
or shipped overseas.
The Associated Press reported
last month that Carlyle, under
Youngkin, had invested in com-
panies that moved at least 1,300
American jobs overseas.
But Youngkin’s campaign has
pointed out that McAuliffe him-
self invested in Carlyle, including
a stake worth several hundred
thousand dollars in one invest-
ment fund in the mid-2000s.
A spokeswoman for McAuliffe
said less than $5,000 remains in
that investment and noted that
McAuliffe was a passive investor
— like someone parking money
in a mutual fund — with no role
in business decisions.
No golden parachute
Youngkin’s role at the compa-
ny came to an end last summer. It
was big news in the financial
world when the man anointed by
Carlyle’s founders to carry on
their legacy decided to step down
in September after less than
three years sharing the top job.
Youngkin has said that he felt
compelled to start a new life in
politics, that he saw Virginia as
being “in the ditch” and wanted
to save it.
Two of the four former Carlyle
executives interviewed for this
article said that Youngkin had
long signaled an interest in pub-
lic service and that they were not
surprised by his decision to
leave.
The other two said his depar-
ture seemed to be hastened by
friction with Lee, his co-CEO.
They echoed reports in the finan-
cial press last summer suggest-
ing that Lee’s more hard-charg-
ing nature never meshed with
Youngkin.
“It was pretty well known that
the two of them didn’t get along
that well. . . . There’s always the
shock of it, but it struck me as
totally the right thing to do to get
out,” one former Carlyle execu-
tive said.
There was no golden para-
chute for Youngkin, but he didn’t
need one. In a firm with more
than $230 billion of assets under
management — nearly four times
Virginia’s annual budget — mon-
ey flowed freely to top execu-
tives. Though Youngkin forfeited
more than $100 million in stock
options, he received more than
$12 million in compensation for
2020, $16 million the year before
and $37 million the year before
that, according to filings with the
Securities and Exchange Com-
mission.
Youngkin remains one of Car-
lyle’s top shareholders. A compa-
ny proxy statement from April
listed Youngkin as owning stock
worth more than $335 million at
its recent trading value.
gregory.schneider@washpost.com
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CAPITAL WEATHER GANG
As region’s cool days fade, next week could be the summer’s hottest in D.C.
BY M ATTHEW C APPUCCI
The Mid-Atlantic has been en-
joying a brief break from the heat
and humidity over the past cou-
ple of days, but don’t expect that
welcome reprieve to last long.
Signs are pointing to a reversal of
the upper-air weather pattern
over the Lower 48, spelling a
return to stifling heat, sweltering
humidity and a chance at period-
ic strong storms.
Recent days have brought a
refreshing air mass with high
temperatures near 80 in the
Washington region. It’s been
the coolest stretch since Inde-
pendence Day weekend, when a
strong cold front ushered in an
invigorating air mass from
Canada.
PAULA J. CAPLAN, 74
Psychologist,
author countered
sexism in her field
BY E MILY L ANGER
Paula J. Caplan, a psychologist
who challenged the sexist as-
sumptions that she identified in
her profession — among them, a
tendency to blame mothers for
their children’s problems — in a
decades-long campaign to im-
prove mental health care for wom-
en, died July 21 at her home in
Rockville, Md. She was 74.
The cause was metastatic mela-
noma, said her daughter, Emily J.
Caplan Stephenson.
Dr. Caplan, a clinical psycholo-
gist and longtime professor at the
University of Toronto, embarked
on her career in the early 1970s.
Only a decade earlier, feminist
writer Betty Friedan had identi-
fied in her book “The Feminine
Mystique” a pervasive malaise
among unfulfilled housewives
that she labeled “the problem that
has no name.”
Dr. Caplan, one of several prom-
inent psychologists who sought to
bring a feminist worldview to
their field, argued that for genera-
tions, male psychologists had la-
beled women’s problems with the
wrong name — a systemic failing
that, she argued, resulted in un-
told numbers of women receiving
one diagnosis when they should
have received another, or even
none at all.
She assailed the concept of fe-
male masochism, an idea rooted
in Freudian psychoanalysis ac-
cording to which women take
pleasure in dissatisfaction and
suffering. In her 1985 book, “The
Myth of Women’s Masochism,” Dr.
Caplan sought to demonstrate the
concept’s pernicious effects as it
became ingrained in psychology
and the popular imagination.
Battered women, she noted,
were labeled masochists when in
fact they remained in abusive rela-
tionships to avoid the greater suf-
JO ANN HINCKLEY, 95
Mother of would-be Reagan assassin devoted life to mental health research
BY STAFF REPORTS
AND NEWS SERVICES
Jo Ann Hinckley, who became
an advocate for mental health
research and education after her
son John Hinckley Jr. tried to
assassinate President Ronald
Reagan in 1981, died July 30 at an
assisted-living center in Wil-
liamsburg, Va. She was 95.
Barry Wm. Levine, John
Hinckley’s longtime attorney,
confirmed the death but did not
provide an immediate cause.
Mrs. Hinckley had been her
son’s primary companion as he
transitioned in recent years from
living at St. Elizabeths psychiat-
ric hospital in Washington to
being allowed to live with her
full-time in a gated community
in Williamsburg.
Levine said Mrs. Hinckley de-
voted her life to looking after her
son following his shooting of
Reagan on March 30, 1981. His
spray of bullets — six shots from
a .22-caliber revolver — also hit
White House press secretary
James S. Brady, leaving him
partially paralyzed, and injured
U.S. Secret Service agent Tim
McCarthy and D.C. police officer
Thomas Delahanty.
A jury found Hinckley not
Wednesday marks the last day
of comparatively cool and com-
fortable temperatures. On Thurs-
day the heat will begin to creep
back into the forecast, with highs
near 90 returning by Friday.
A lobe of chilly high-altitude
air has stalled over the Eastern
United States in recent days,
centered near the Ohio and Ten-
nessee Valleys and keeping the
Mid-Atlantic under its cooler
influence. That’s brought a fleet-
ing lull in the steamy summer-
time weather characteristic of
the D.C. region.
To the east, the Bermuda High
is sweeping a stream of sultry air
and deep moisture northward
over the west Atlantic. That’s
been clipping portions of the
Outer Banks of North Carolina as
fering that they feared might
come from leaving — a potential
reprisal from the abusive partner,
loneliness or indigence.
Countering another belief
among some psychologists, she
argued that women who sacrifice
their needs or desires to give more
fully of themselves to their chil-
dren are not bearing out Freudian
ideas of female masochism, but
rather are fulfilling the nurturing
maternal role that society expect-
ed them to play.
“The same behaviors that are
defined as masochistic in women,”
Dr. Caplan told the New York
Times in 1985, “would be defined
quite healthily as sacrificial, or
courageous, or facing realities, or
hard work, in men.’’
Psychology’s mistreatment of
women, according to Dr. Caplan,
extended to pinning blame on
them for the mental disturbances
of their children. Among her clini-
cal colleagues, she noted what she
regarded as a disturbing tendency
to use mothers as psychiatric
scapegoats, a trend she addressed
in her book “Don’t Blame Mother:
Mending the Mother-Daughter
Relationship” (1989).
Reviewing a series of studies
published in the 1970s and 1980s,
she observed that “mothers were
blamed for 72 different kinds of
problems in their offspring, rang-
ing from bed-wetting to schizo-
phrenia, from inability to deal
with color blindness to aggressive
behavior, from learning problems
to ‘homicidal transsexualism.’ ”
Dr. Caplan attracted particular
attention for her opposition to the
official classification of premen-
strual dysphoric disorder, a severe
form of premenstrual syndrome,
in the American Psychiatric Asso-
ciation’s Diagnostic and Statisti-
cal Manual of Mental Disorders, a
widely used guide known as the
DSM. In the first place, she ar-
guilty by reason of insanity, and
he was ordered to live at St.
Elizabeths. Mrs. Hinckley and
her husband, John “Jack” Hinck-
ley Sr., had moved to Williams-
burg to be closer to their son.
John Hinckley was the young-
est of Jo Ann and Jack Hinckley’s
three children. He was 25 when
he shot the 40th U.S. president
outside a Washington hotel.
According to a 1985 book
called “Breaking Points” that the
couple wrote with Elizabeth
Sherrill about their son and the
assassination attempt, Mrs.
Hinckley was ironing and watch-
ing television when a reporter
for The Washington Post called
and said that her son had been
identified as the man who fired
shots at the president.
“Is this your idea of a joke?”
she responded before slamming
down the phone.
At the time of the shooting,
Hinckley was suffering from
acute psychosis and was ob-
sessed with actress Jodie Foster.
Jurors said he needed treatment,
not a lifetime in confinement.
In the years after the shooting,
his parents began to raise money
for mental health research and
education. They founded the
American Mental Health Fund in
EZ RE
well as Cape Cod, where rain
totals of 5 to 6 inches are possi-
ble.
In the coming days, the upper-
air pattern will pull a dramatic
switcheroo, our bowling ball of
upper-level cold replaced by a
ridge in the jet stream, or “heat
dome.” That will shunt the jet
stream northward, steering mid-
latitude storm systems up into
Canada. And it will keep us
parked beneath a stagnant re-
gime of sinking air, sunny skies
and Gulf of Mexico humidity.
In the nation’s capital, Sunday
could feature a high of 92 de-
grees, with 93 predicted Monday
and 94 on Wednesday. Those are
forecasts a week out and could be
a little conservative. If weather
model trends continue, those
obituaries
1998 PHOTO BY KEITH BEATY/TORONTO STAR/GETTY IMAGES
Paula J. Caplan, a longtime professor at the University of Toronto,
assailed the concept of female masochism, according to which
women take pleasure in dissatisfaction and suffering.
gued, PMS symptoms were the
result of natural fluctuations in a
woman’s hormone levels.
“If they had made a decision
suddenly pathologizing a half mil-
lion men, there would be a public
outcry,” Dr. Caplan told the Times
in 1994, expressing her disagree-
ment with colleagues who sup-
ported labeling severe PMS a
mental illness.
The argument in favor of classi-
fying the condition as a mental
disorder, Dr. Caplan’s detractors
said, was that it might encourage
research on the subject and help
affected women feel justified in
seeking help. But in a broader
assessment of psychology, Dr. Ca-
plan maintained that a diagnosis
of mental disorder could, in some
scenarios, bring about real conse-
1984, and it later merged into
another mental health associa-
tion.
In 1986, Mrs. Hinckley said
she and her husband had no idea
at the time that their son was
sick. She said they “knew noth-
ing about mental illness” and
hoped the fund could help “make
something good come out of our
tragedy.”
In 2006, Hinckley eventually
began making visits from the
hospital to his parents’ home.
Those visits expanded in length
over the years.
Mrs. Hinckley was intimately
involved in monitoring her son’s
activities during visits, serving as
his chauffeur before he got a
driver’s license and staying in
contact with mental health pro-
fessionals at St. Elizabeths. Her
husband, a retired oil executive,
died in 2008.
A July 2016 court order grant-
ed Hinckley permission to begin
living with his mom full-time,
and he moved permanently in
September 2016. By that time, his
mental illness had been in full
and sustained remission for dec-
ades, experts said. The judge
overseeing his case wrote that,
with appropriate conditions,
Hinckley was not a danger to
numbers may have to be bumped
upward.
“High temperatures are ex-
pected to reach well into the 90s
with heat indexes nearing 100
Sunday through Tuesday, espe-
cially near and east of I-81,” wrote
the National Weather Service in
Sterling, Va., on Wednesday.
Some models, like the Ameri-
can GFS model, are bullish on the
heat potential — simulating a
high of 97 degrees Sunday and 98
on Monday. The European model
is calling for 99 on Tuesday.
These temperatures could
match or top Washington’s high-
est to date this summer: 97
degrees on July 27.
While those values ought to be
taken with a grain of salt, they
illustrate the potential for a mul-
quences.
“Since the 1980s, when I first
made public my concerns about
psychiatric diagnosis, I have
heard from hundreds of people
who have been arbitrarily slapped
with a psychiatric label and are
struggling because of it,” she wrote
in The Washington Post in 2012.
“About half of all Americans get
a psychiatric diagnosis in their
lifetimes,” she continued, which
“can cost anyone their health in-
surance, job, custody of their chil-
dren, or right to make their own
medical and legal decisions. . . . In
light of the subjectivity of these
diagnoses and the harm they can
cause, we should be extremely
skeptical of them.
Dr. Caplan ultimately conclud-
ed that the DSM should be
Jo Ann Hinckley and her husband, Jack, right, parents of John
Hinckley Jr., along with attorney Barry Levine, center, at court in
Washington in 2003, for a hearing regarding visitation privileges
for their son, who tried to kill President Ronald Reagan.
himself or others.
Since he moved in with his
mother, Hinckley “was grateful
to have been able to reciprocate
in some measure by providing
full-time care for her,” said
Levine, his attorney.
John Hinckley’s brother Scott
had moved to Williamsburg in
THE WASHINGTON POST
tiday stretch of exceptional heat.
Dew points, which measure how
much moisture is present in the
air, will be on the rise, too. They
will approach 70 over the week-
end and likely climb into the 70s
next week. The combination of
heat and humidity will lead to
heat indexes in the triple digits.
Whether temperatures ap-
proach the century mark is a
question of wind direction. A
southwesterly component of the
wind could mean a touch more
moisture sneaking northward,
making it a bit more difficult for
temperatures to climb. Light
westerly flow is ideal for bring-
ing the hottest temperatures in
D.C., since air subsiding over the
Blue Ridge warms. It also pushes
a thin layer of marine air from
“thrown out.”
“In our increasingly psychia-
trized world, the first course is
often to classify anything but rou-
tine happiness as a mental disor-
der, assume it is based on a broken
brain or a chemical imbalance,
and prescribe drugs or hospital-
ization,” she wrote her Post com-
mentary.
Earlier, she had gone so far as to
declare psychology an “overrated”
field.
“Psychologists and psychia-
trists can do wonderful things.
But these days you would think
that there is no such thing as
normal,” she wrote in the Times in
2003. “If you are still grieving a
loved one’s death two months lat-
er, you fit the category of ‘major
depressive disorder.’ Insurance
companies want you quickly fixed,
drug companies have a pill for
every occasion, and friends and
family are too overworked to pro-
vide the irreplaceable support for
grief that is present in other coun-
tries. We are damaging the nature
of friendship, teaching people that
they need experts to treat them for
everything.”
Paula Joan Caplan was born in
Springfield, Mo., on July 7, 1947.
Her father, who worked in real
estate, had served in the military
during World War II and inspired
Dr. Caplan’s later work on behalf
of traumatized veterans who, in
her opinion, society shuttled into
mental health treatment without
deeper interest in their needs.
“Simply sending frightened,
angry soldiers off to therapists
conveys disturbing messages: that
we don’t want to listen, that we’re
afraid we’re not qualified to listen,
and that they should talk to some-
one who gets paid to listen,” she
wrote in The Post in 2004. “The
implication is that their devasta-
tion is abnormal, that it is a men-
tal illness, and this only adds to
their burdens.”
After receiving a bachelor’s de-
gree in English from Radcliffe Col-
lege in 1969, Dr. Caplan enrolled at
Duke University, where she re-
ceived a master’s degree in 1971
and a PhD in 1973, both in psychol-
ogy. Dr. Caplan’s mother, who died
in February at 97, pursued gradu-
ate studies in counseling just as
her daughter began hers.
Dr. Caplan was on the faculty
of the University of Toronto from
1979 to 1995. She later taught at
institutions including Brown
GERALD HERBERT/ASSOCIATED PRESS
2017 and expressed interest in
living with John after their
mother’s death, according to a
risk assessment of Hinckley that
was filed in court last year.
Levine said John Hinckley,
now 66, had already moved out
of his mother’s home before her
death. Hinckley is in the process
. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5 , 2021
the Potomac away from the tem-
perature sensor at Reagan Na-
tional Airport, boosting the odds
the station there will over-
achieve.
In the medium range, late next
week appears toasty, too. NOAA’s
Climate Prediction Center has
already outlined the Northeast
as being at “moderate risk” of
excessive heat.
The weather pattern also looks
to favor a few disturbances that
could bring showers and thun-
derstorms to the Eastern Sea-
board, including the risk for
some severe weather. That likely
won’t occur until mid-August,
with only more isolated showers
and storms cropping up before
then.
weather@washpost.com
University, American University
and Harvard University, where
she was director of the Voices of
Diversity Project at the Hutchins
Center for African and African
American Research.
Dr. Caplan’s books included
“Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A
Woman’s Guide to Surviving in
the Academic World” (1993),
“Thinking Critically About Re-
search on Sex and Gender” (1994,
co-authored with her son, Jeremy
B. Caplan) and “They Say You’re
Crazy: How the World’s Most
Powerful Psychiatrists Decide
Who’s Normal” (1995).
“The same behaviors
that are defined as
masochistic in women
would be defined quite
healthily as sacrificial,
or courageous . . .
in men.’’
Paula J. Caplan, in a 1985 interview
with the New York Times
In addition to her academic
work, she wrote plays and pro-
duced documentary films includ-
ing “Isaac Pope: The Spirit of an
American Century” (2019), about
a 100-year-old African American
veteran of World War II and his
experience of racism through the
20th century.
Dr. Caplan’s marriages to Paul
Mohl and Marcel Kinsbourne
ended in divorce.
Survivors include two children
from her second marriage — her
daughter, of Rockville, and her
son, of Edmonton, Alberta; a
brother; and five grandchildren.
“I love proving and stating that
what men are saying about wom-
en is wrong,” Dr. Caplan once told
the Toronto Star, reflecting on her
work. “There are a lot of myths
that are used to oppress women
that are based on sloppily gath-
ered data, biased theories and
outright misogynism. Mental
health professionals must take
the responsibility to undo the
damage and show what is posi-
tive about women.”
emily.langer@washpost.com
of asking a federal judge in
Washington to grant him release
from various conditions that he’s
been living under.
Jo Ann Moore was born in
Brumley, Mo., on Dec. 7, 1925,
and grew up in Oklahoma City.
She attended the University of
Oklahoma, where she met her
future husband of 61 years at a
school dance. He established
Vanderbilt Energy Corp., a gas
and oil firm that made him a
millionaire. They spent many
years raising the family in the
wealthy North Dallas neighbor-
hood of Highland Park.
In addition to her sons, survi-
vors include a daughter, Diane
Sims; four grandchildren; and
two great-grandchildren.
newsobits@washpost.com
CORRECTION
l The Aug. 3 obituary of psycholo-
gist Albert Bandura incorrectly
said that President Barack
Obama awarded Dr. Bandura a
National Medal of Science in
2014. Dr. Bandura received the
award in 2016.
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DEATH NOTICE
BAILEY
JEFFREY I. BAILEY
Entered into eternal rest on Monday, July 26,
2021. He is survived by his daughter, Rachel
Avant; former wife, Brenda A. Bailey and a host
of other relatives and friends. Mr. Bailey was
preceeded in death by his parents, Ernest F.
and Gladys J. Bailey and brother, Eric Bailey.
Mr. Bailey may be viewed at Stewart Funeral
Home, 4001 Benning Rd., NE on Friday, August
6 from 1 p.m. until 3 p.m. There will be a final
viewing with reflections on Saturday, August
7 at 1 p.m. at J.M. Wilkerson Funeral Home in
Petersburg, VA. Interment is private.
BECKER
DONALD JOSEPH BECKER
Donald Joseph Becker completed 91 revo-
lutions around the Sun on his Earthly jour-
ney before rocketing off on August 2, 2021.
Born in Bellevue, Iowa on November 4,
1929, to Joseph and Dehlia, he continued
on to The University of Iowa graduating
with a JD degree in law. Navigating through
a test flight as a JAG officer in El Paso,
Texas, he landed swiftly on the grounds of
NASA forging a new flight plan which flew
him through Huntsville, Alabama to the final
destination of Washington, D.C. He devoted
nearly 35 years supporting the Mercury,
Apollo, and Space Shuttle programs of
NASA. He is survived by his loving and
devoted wife of 67 years, Donna Joan
Becker; two children, Brent Becker and
Cheryl Butler (David); two grandchildren,
Nicole Schaefer (Tom) and Tavis Butler; and
two great grandchildren, Lucas Schaefer
and Sophia Schaefer. Don and Donna spent
their leisure time traveling the world, and
when at home he enjoyed listening to music
of his era and long-distance bike riding.
Being incredibly handy, he also served as
the neighborhood fix it man. The family has
wished Don farewell privately. Donna is at
their family home, welcoming anyone that
wishes to call or visit and share in their
memories. Memories may also be posted
online at Moneyandking.com
CLEMENTS
PAUL EUGENE CLEMENTS “Gene”
(Age 91)
Went home to be with our Lord on July 29,
2021. He was born to the late Paul Eugene,
Sr. and Ruth Clements on October 9, 1929 in
Illinois.
He left behind his loving wife, Martha Savold
Clements and their combined families. Chil-
dren are Ellen Clements Greene (Donald),
Wayne Clements (Susan), David Savold (Markie)
and Nancy Savold.
Gene worked as a Controller for the Army
Materiel Command and after retiring worked
as an Investigator for the House Appropriations
Committee both in Washington, DC. He was a
very active volunteer for many Lutheran (ELCA)
Church Committees and very active in his
home community of Brookdale, Williamsburg,
VA.
A memorial service will be at St. Stephen
Lutheran Church on Sunday, August 8, 2021
at 3 p.m. or to be viewed live at:
https:www.youtube.com/channel/UCNq5Fg-
B091Edfs6BYDMDHxQ
In lieu of flowers please consider making a
donation in Gene’s name to the Memorial Fund
at St. Stephen Lutheran Church.
FULLER
HUGH FULLER
(Age 78)
Born at Columbia Hospital for Women in Wash-
ington, DC. He graduated from St. Albans
School, attended Virginia Military Institute and
graduated from American University. He
worked at the Security & Exchange Com-
mission. Hugh died peacefully at home on
June 23, 2021. Hugh is survived by his wife,
Georgia Elaine; children H. Robinson Shaw-
Fuller, Teresa E. Fuller; his Shaw-Fuller grand-
children, Nathan, Becca, Daniel and siblings,
Robert W. Fuller IV, Sally F. Sutton, Nancy M.
Fuller. Celebration of Life is at Goodwin House
(S. Jefferson St.) August 8, 2021. In lieu of
flowers please contribute to Goodwin House
Foundation-Staff Support for Citizenship.
GENDELMAN
ISAAC GENDELMAN
On Tuesday, August 3, 2021,
ISAAC GENDELMAN of Silver
Spring, MD. Beloved husband
of the late Goldie Gendelman.
Devoted father of Joycee
(Howard) Giberman and Asher
(Jill) Gendelman. Loving grand-
father of Ari (Jennevieve) and Rachel
Giberman and Moriah, Jessy and Eliana
Gendelman. Dear great-grandfather of
Joshua and Isabelle Giberman. He was
a Holocaust Survivor, and every member
of his immediate family perished in the
Holocaust. Graveside funeral services will
be held on Friday, August 6, 2021, 1 p.m.
at Judean Memorial Gardens, Olney, MD.
Shiva will be announced. Memorial contri-
butions may be made to the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum, www.ushmm.org.
Arrangements entrusted to TORCHINSKY
HEBREW FUNERAL HOME, 202-541-1001.
HINTON
DEATH NOTICE
HYSON
JUANITA CARLESTER HYSON
Juanita Carlester Hyson, 91, beloved wife of
the late Wilbur T. Hyson passed Friday, July 30,
2021 in Bowie, MD. Juanita was born November
19, 1929 in Washington, DC to the late Graham
and Inez Brown.
She attended DC Public Schools and subse-
quently retired from St. Elizabeth’s Hospital as
a Licensed Practical Nurse.
She’s survived by three sons, Bernard, Clinton
and Raymond Hyson, a daughter Wylene McK-
night, a son-in-law, two daughters-in-law, eight
grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren, two
nephews, a niece and a host of other relatives
and friends. She surely will be missed.
Services will held 10:30 a.m. on Monday,
August 9 at 1st Baptist Church of Glen Arden,
3600 Brightseat Rd, Landover, MD 20785
JIMENEZ
GEORGE T. JIMENEZ
Our beloved George T. Jimenez passed away
peacefully on Saturday, July 24, 2021, at the
age of 85. George was a kind and loving
family man, a highly principled executive, an
adventurer, and a lover of the arts. He started
his career in engineering and mathematics as
one of the early experts in computing in the
1960’s. George went on to become CEO and
Chairman of Ace*Comm Corp. from 1983 to
2008, a company he took public in 1996 onto
the Nasdaq stock exchange.
George was an avid skier, marathoner and
mountain climber of Kilimanjaro, 14,000 ft
mountains in Colorado, and a Founding Father
of Opera Naples in Florida. He is survived
by his wife of almost 60 years, Cecilia J.
Jimenez, his children, Celine Jimenez (James)
Crowson and Edward (Eileen) Jimenez, and his
four grandchildren, Maya, Sophia, Julian and
Andrew, who will all miss him dearly.
A memorial service will be held at St.
Bartholomew's Church, 6900 River Rd, Bethes-
da, MD 20817 on Saturday, August 14, at 11
a.m. Interment private.
In lieu of flowers, individuals can direct dona-
tions to St. Bartholomew's Catholic School or
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's
Research.
Please view and sign the family guestbook at
www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com
MALOW
MARY HELEN MALOW
Mary Helen Malow (née Baxter), age 79, of
Fuquay-Varina, NC, passed away on July 12,
2021 with her daughter and son-in-law by
her side.
Originally from Albuquerque, NM, Mary
Helen moved to Washington, DC in 1966
and soon found employment at the Library
of Congress. She also served as a staff
assistant for Senator Clinton Anderson, and
later in life, she worked for Mitretek. Mary
Helen was a talented dancer, avid gardener,
voracious reader, and animal lover. She
volunteered for many years for both SHARE
of McLean, VA and St. Matthew’s Cathedral
and was an active member of the neighbor-
hood where she lived for 45 years. But her
most important and impactful role was as
loving mother to her only child, Jessica.
Mary Helen is survived by her daughter,
Jessica; son-in-law Matt Molesworth; and
step-granddaughters, Ashley and Saman-
tha Molesworth; and brothers, James Bax-
ter and William Baxter.
She is preceded in death by her husband,
Richard Malow; her mother, Lena Baxter
(née Dolzadelli) and father, Robert J. Baxter;
her brothers, Robert J. Baxter, Jr. and John
Baxter; and nephews, Michael Baxter and
Matthew Baxter.
A memorial service for Mary Helen will be
held in October in Albuquerque, NM, where
she will be interred.
An online guest register and additional
information may be found at
www.thomasfuneral.com.
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PHILIPPEN PRACHT SMITH KIMBLE
ELLAREE BEATY PHILIPPEN GORDON BLAINE PRACHT SHARON ELIZABETH SMITH (Age 72)
JOHN CONRAD PHILIPPEN Gordon Blaine Pracht of Forestville, MD, passed Of Silver Spring, MD died July 30, 2021, in
Devoted citizens and resilient contributors to away peacefully surrounded by family on her home, surrounded by her loved ones.
their families and community, teacher Ellaree August 1, 2021. Viewing will be held August 8 Sharie lost her brave and terrible battle with
Beaty Philippen (October 14, 1926 - July 6, at Lee Funeral Home in Clinton, MD from 2 to Metastatic Breast Cancer. She leaves behind
2018) and husband, Naval Veteran John Con- 4 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. Funeral service will be her loving husband, Ronald J. Smith; her devot-
rad Philippen (April 5, 1935 - June 29, 2020) will held at Mt. Calvary Church in Forestville, MD ed daughter, Cara S. Rynning; her brother,
be interred together in honor, at the National on August 9 at 11 a.m. Interment to follow at Howard A. Brown, and two grandchildren,
Cemetery in Arlington, VA on Thursday., August Resurrection Cemetery in Clinton, MD. Hugh T. Rynning and Elizabeth R. Rynning.
5 at 9 a.m. Born on February 7, 1949, to Howard W. and
Rose A. Brown in Manorville, Pennsylvania,
Among the bereaved are son Hans and wife Sharie grew up with a love of the mountains,
Patricia O'Reilly-Philippen of Harrisburg, PA, Allegheny River, and socializing with her many
daughter Leslie Renee and husband David close friends. In 1984, she married the love of
Martone of Silver Spring, Maryland, and Alvin
and Jocelyn Hutchinson of Bethesda, Maryland.
REYNOLDS her life, Ron, and moved to Silver Spring, where
they raised their daughter together. Sharie
Surviving are great grand niece Anastasia was best known for her easy laugh, bright
Krosofsky, devoted nephews Michael, Patrick,
ELEXAMIS REYNOLDS, P.M. smile, and devotion to her friends and family.
Terry, and Kevin O'Shaughnessy (formerly of The officers and members of In her later years her most joyful moments
Roanoke, Virginia) and Robert Philippen and Pythagorus Lodge No. 9, F&AM were spent with her grandchildren, who knew
wife Rose of Massapequa, New York. PHA are notified of the death her as “Mimmy”, and her daughter. Sharie
of P.M. Elexamis Reynolds. Wake will be greatly missed by her friends and MARTHA KIMBLE
Mrs. Philippen was a graduate and lifelong Friday, August 6, 10 a.m. until family. A visitation will be held on August 7, Martha Helen Kimble, age 96, of Silver Spring,
supporter of King University in Bristol Tenn. time of service at 11 a.m., when 2021, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Hines-Rinaldi Maryland passed away Sunday, July 4, 2021.
Mr. Philippen originally of Long Beach, NY Masonic Service will be per- Funeral Home, 11800 New Hampshire Ave., She was a proud Montgomery County School
was inextinguishable in his love and care for formed at Wiseman Funeral Home, 7529 Old Silver Spring, MD 20904. The interment will bus driver for over 30 years. She was also a
her. Mr. and Mrs. Philippen were married 57 Alexandria Ferry Rd., Clinton, MD. Interment follow at 3 p.m. at Union Cemetery, 3001 member of the Methodist and Free Methodist
years and enjoyed the affection of many grand Heritage Memorial Cemetery, Waldorf, MD. Spencerville Road, Burtonsville, MD 20866. Church in Layhill, MD. She was very active
nieces and grand nephews, grandchildren: Ila Michael W. Green, Sr., WM in volunteering at multiple places including,
and Sam Martone, and John, Dara and Chloe Alonzo Wannamaker, Secy. Meals on Wheels, Montgomery General Hospi-
Marie Philippen. Beloved included lifelong tal, and the American Legion, as well as Rosie
friend Dorothy Herndon, countless elementary the Riveter in World War II. She had many close
school students especially Sharon Skinner, and friends and relatives and was happiest when
the Meizell and Burgess families along with DEATH NOTICE she was helping others. A mother of eight sons.
many other co-workers, neighbors and friends She was born at her family home in Tayloria,
Pennsylvania to Roy P Hart and Sarah Wallace
in the Silver Spring and Wheaton, Maryland
area. ABERCROMBIE Hart on May 3, 1925.
She was happily married for 35 years to Hanes
Anson Kimble until his death October 6, 1982.
And Jerry Scaranto four years. She was pre-
deceased by three brothers, one sister, two
PITTMAN husbands and sons, Roy Philip Kimble, Philip
Roy Kimble, Hanes Anson Kimble Jr. (Bo), as
well as a grandsons, Dennis Larry Kimble II and
Philip Roy Kimble Jr.
She is remembered by her sons, Dennis Kimble,
David Kimble, Gerald (Gerry) Kimble, Steve
Kimble and Joseph Kimble. She is also survived
by many grandchildren, great-grandchildren,
and even great-great-grandchildren.
A celebration of life will be held August 14,
DEATH NOTICE 2021 at 2 p.m. at Burntwoods Church, 14135
Burntwoods Rd.,Glenwood, Maryland 21738.
SMITH
DAVID RICHARD SMITH
Of Rockville, MD passed away peacefully on
July 25, 2021, after a brief but fierce battle
with an aggressive form of cancer. Dave was
WILLIAM BOWIE ABERCROMBIE
William Bowie Abercrombie, age 63, died
WYNN
born in Washington, DC on August 9, 1944, peacefully in his home in Ashburn, VA Sun-
and raised in Silver Spring, Maryland. A 1962 day, August 1, 2021, surrounded by his
graduate of Sherwood High School, he went loved ones. Bowie was a man of God, a
on to earn a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from loving father and husband, and a fixer of
ANN L. PITTMAN (Age 59) the University of Maryland, a Master’s degree all things. He was an avid reader of the
Transitioned on Friday, July 9, 2021. Family will in Physics and a Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Washington Post.
receive friends on Saturday, August 7, 2021 for Biology (specializing in Neurophysiology), both
a memorial service from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. from the University of Southern California. Funeral services will be held Saturday,
at Freeman Funeral Services Chapel, 7201 Old After moving back to the DC area in 1981, August 7 at Money & King Funeral home
Alexandria Ferry Rd., Clinton, MD. he most recently worked as a submarine in Vienna, VA. For complete obituary and
sonar software engineer at the Johns Hopkins guestbook, visit
Applied Physics Laboratory before his retire- www.moneyandking.com
ment. He is the beloved husband of Valerie Hu,
loving father of Matthew Hu-Smith, and son of
the late Carroll Smith and Verna Johnson Smith.
He is survived by his brother Donald Smith of
Killeen, TX and his wife Suzy; sister Joan Berish
of Albuquerque, NM and her husband Dave;
nephews Solomon, Matthew, and Jonathan
Smith of Northern Virginia, South Korea, and GLASHOFER
Iowa, respectively; and niece Melissa Smith
of Kentucky. Dave was also a veteran of the
U.S. Army who was stationed at Fort McNair, MIKE WYNN
DC and Fort Myer, VA during the Vietnam Mike Wynn of Ruckersville, VA, passed away
war. Inurnment will be held at a later date July 29, 2021 at Sentara Martha Jefferson
at Arlington National Cemetery. If desired, Hospital in Charlottesville, VA.
contributions may be made in his name to Mike was born in Washington, North Carolina
the American Cancer Society. Please sign the to Robert and Nollie Wynn. He is survived by his
guest book at: spouse, Mary Wynn; daughters, Kim Deem and
DEATH NOTICE www.DeVolFuneralHome.com Sandra Wynn; grandchildren, T.J.Overhulser,
Erica Green, Tyler Ayscue and Logan Ayscue;
and sister, Sheila Campbell of Portsmouth, VA.
MORIARTY He was preceded in death by his brothers,
Robert Wynne and Gary Wynne; and sisters,
Patricia Ferrari and Joann Wright.
Mike's passion was golf. He attended The
University of Houston on a golf scholarship
where he met his wife, Mary. From 1971-1978
he was a player on the PGA golf tour. He
later was Head Professional at Elizabeth Manor
Country Club in Portsmouth, VA and Evergreen
Country Club in Haymarket, VA.
SIDNEY GLASHOFER A visitation will be held on Thursday, August 5,
On July 25, 2021, Sidney
Glashofer of Silver Spring, MD 2021 from4 to 8 p.m. at Ryan Funeral Home,
12819 Spotswood Trail, Ruckersville, VA 22968.
passed away at the age of
87 years after a long battle A memorial and golf tournament will be held at
a future date.
with renal disease, including
four years on dialysis. He is In lieu of flowers, family requests donations be
survived by his wife of 62 years, Miriam,
and three children and their spouses, Lori
made to the Mid Atlantic PGA scholarship fund.
Ryan Funeral Home of Ruckersville, VA is
handling the arrangements.
and Yitzhak; Paul and Sara; and Marc and
Alison, and by seven grandchildren, Adi,
Guy, Tomer, Akiva, Raanan, Natan and
Olivia.
Sid was born in 1934 and grew up in
Philadelphia. He graduated with a degree
JOHN K. MORIARTY in pharmacy from the Philadelphia College
John Klinge Moriarty, age 101, a retired military-political analyst and former colonel in the U.S. of Pharmacy. Upon marrying, he relocated
Air Force, died on August 1, 2021 at his home in Manassas, Virginia after a brief illness. During to the Washington, DC area. He worked DEATH NOTICES
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WWII, he served as a pilot and squadron commander in the United States Army Air Forces. at local pharmacies including Summit Hill,
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Packett’s Lake, Rodman’s, and Giant phar-
nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union, reducing Cold War tensions and bringing about a macies at the Blair and Colesville locations.
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NORMA C. HINTON
Entered into eternal rest on Wednesday, July
21, 2021. She is survived by her three daugh-
ters, Donna Jones, Veronica McDonald, and
Melvetta Dockery; son, Joseph Hinton; three
grandchildren, Antonia Jones, Rodney Jones
and LaDonna Jones; one sister, Grace Jones;
one brother, Daniel Hinton; two brothers-in-
law,, Jerome Jones and Cecil Bowman; a host
of other relatives and friends. Ms. Hinton may
be viewed at Stewart Funeral Home, 4001 Ben-
ning Rd., NE on Monday, August 9 from 10 a.m.
until service a 11 a.m. Interment at Harmony
Memorial Cemetery.
When the
Born in Somerville, Massachusetts to Joseph
McAnneny and Loretta Coyne on March 18,
1944, he grew up idolizing Ted Williams and
the Boston Red Sox, never dreaming they
would take down the “hated” Yankees on their
way to the first of four championships in his
lifetime. He earned his bachelor’s degree at
the University of Connecticut and a Masters
at Penn State University where he met his
wife Susan Kappler. During the Vietnam war he
served in the Army as an intelligence analyst
in Washington, DC and was honored with an
award.
Passionate about economics, he went on to
join the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust
Division as an economist and earned his Ph. D.
in economics at George Washington University.
It was at DOJ where he earned his nickname
“Chief” from his colleagues, many of whom
became lifelong friends. He joined Economists
Inc. in 1984 where he worked on major
antitrust cases including US Steel and Coca
TERENCE JAMES SHEA "TERRY"
Terence James Shea, known as Terry to
his many friends and Pops to the children
and grandchildren who adored him, died
He met the love of his life, Maureen Scanlon
Shea, when she was a George Washington
University student and a lifeguard at the
Volta Street pool in Georgetown. The pair
married in 1954, and remained devoted to
each other for the next 67 years.
They settled in Annandale, Virginia to raise
their four children. Despite his dedication
to an always-challenging career, Mr. Shea
was unwaveringly devoted to his children
and grandchildren and deeply involved in all
aspects of their lives.
He was a fan of poetry, especially that of
the Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Mr. Shea
also enjoyed music, literature, film, politics,
sports (he was a Washington Football Team
season ticket holder since the 1960's and
go Red Sox and Nats!), and oysters. He
was an avid tennis player and lap swimmer
and enjoyed teaching English as a foreign
language (although this resulted in his stu-
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of cancer on July 27 at Goodwin House in
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dents speaking with a Rhode Island accent).
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let families In his later years he would talk about his son
Christopher and daughter Jessica as what he
was most proud of in life. He cherished his
find you in the time with them, carving out time to coach
their youth sports teams and sweating away
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93rd birthday. He faced his final days with his
customary gusto, good humor, and love of
life.
Mr. Shea earned a record number of com-
mendations and awards over the course of
a 50+-year career at the U.S. Department of
State before fully retiring with uncommon
distinction at age 91. As a career Senior For-
eign Service Officer, he served in many roles,
from traveling around the world with foreign
dignitaries to serving in the Carter White
House to being the Acting Inspector General
at USIA, to being appointed the director of
security for all NATO nations in Brussels from
1979 to 1988.
He was born in Newport, RI on July 21,
1928, to James Shea and the former Mary
Johnson. He studied at the Portsmouth Priory
in Portsmouth, RI, then graduated from
Georgetown University in 1952. He spent
two years studying at The Industrial College
of the Armed Forces (ICAF).
his family.
Though Mr. Shea enjoyed an illustrious career
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations
can be made to the Duke Ellington School of
the Arts in Washington, DC.
with the Department of State, what mattered
most to him was family; they always knew
they were totally loved by their Pops. In
addition to his wife, Maureen, Mr. Shea
leaves two daughters, Mary Hayes Shea of
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Oak Hill Cemetery. A celebration of his life is
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Harrisburg Philadelphia
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Baltimore
86/66
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74/57 Annapolis 78/68

88/70 84/68 OCEAN: 72°

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88/65 77/68
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80/68 Reagan Dulles BWI
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THE DISTRICT

U.S. judge rejects claims that Jan. 6 riot defendants are ‘political prisoners’
BY S PENCER S . H SU was there — to interfere with the
democratic process — and what
A federal judge rejected claims he sought to achieve — the dis-
that detained defendants in the ruption of the counting of elector-
Jan. 6 Capitol breach are “politi- al votes,” but noted he was not
cal prisoners” or that riot partici- accused of violence or destruc-
pants acted out of patriotism tion.
before sentencing a Michigan Jackson called the misdemean-
man to six months in prison or plea and sentence just and
Wednesday. sufficient, adding that pandemic-
U.S. District Judge Amy Ber- related lockdown restrictions
man Jackson of Washington said made his jail time harsher than it
Karl Dresch, 41, of Calumet, Mich, would have been otherwise.
was held because of his actions, Comments by Jackson,
not his political views, and that Dresch’s judge and a 2011 Barack
others who joined the attack on Obama appointee, were seconded
Congress as it met to confirm the Wednesday by U.S. District Judge
results of the 2020 presidential Thomas F. Hogan, a 1983 Ronald
election could face prison time. Reagan appointee, who sen-
“He was not a political prison- tenced the Bustles.
er,” Jackson said. “We are not here Hogan said he seriously con-
today because he supported for- sidered jailing Jessica Bustle be-
mer president Trump . . . He was cause her social media posts call-
arrested because he was an en- ing Jan. 6 participants “patriots”
thusiastic participant in an effort were “so inaccurate, so misguid-
to subvert and undo the electoral ed.”
process.” “Patriots are not the ones who
In a deal with prosecutors, attack the operations of Con-
Dresch pleaded guilty to a single gress” or attempt to stop elected
misdemeanor count of parading, lawmakers in both parties from
picketing or demonstrating in the performing their constitutional
Capitol after four other charges duties, Hogan said. “That is revo-
were dropped, including a felony lution, not patriotism.”
count of obstructing an official Hogan noted authorities at-
proceeding of Congress. tributed several deaths to the riot,
Dresch has been jailed since including responding police offi-
his arrest Jan. 19, so the sentence cers who have died by suicide.
is effectively one of time-served, MANUEL BALCE CENETA/ASSOCIATED PRESS “If you listened to the testimo-
and he will be released. Smoke fills a U.S. Capitol hallway as Capitol Police officers confront rioters on Jan. 6. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman ny on the Hill the other day, you
Jackson’s sentencing came Jackson of Washington sentenced Karl Dresch of Calumet, Mich., to six months in prison for his role in the attack. understand the tragedy that has
days after four right-wing Repub- occurred in their lives,” Hogan
lican members of Congress — this case, have any concern about been delivering a cold splash of Northern Virginia couple, Joshua ment searches of his Upper Pen- said, adding that holding those
Reps. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.), deterrence?” Chief U.S. District reality to defendants, including Bustle, 35, and Jessica Bustle, 36, insula home on Jan. 19 turned up responsible may require jail time
Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Louis Gohm- Judge Beryl A. Howell of Wash- some who say they were lied to by ordered Wednesday to 30 and 60 a Russian SKS rifle, two shotguns, for most charged defendants.
ert (R-Tex.), and Marjorie Taylor ington asked in accepting such a Trump or led astray by right-wing days of conditional home con- a Glock pistol and more than 100 But Hogan noted neither Josh-
Greene (R-Ga.) — showed up at plea last Thursday. commentators or social media. So finement, respectively. rounds of ammunition, prosecu- ua Bustle, a real estate agent, nor
the D.C. jail demanding to inspect In Dresch’s case, Jackson said The two others — Dresch and tors said. Jessica Bustle, a vaccine critic and
the treatment of those detained he has the right to vote for whom- Michael Curzio, 35, of central Unlike Curzio, Dresch was also stay-at-home mother, acted vio-
in connection with Jan. 6, whom ever he wants, “but so does every- Florida — have been sentenced to charged with “corruptly . . . ob- lently and spent only a few min-
some Trump supporters have cast one else. Your vote doesn’t count “We are not here today the statutory maximum of six struct[ing]” Congress, a felony utes in the Capitol. He also ac-
as martyrs. any more than anyone else’s. You months in prison or time served. punishable by up to 20 years in knowledged defense arguments
By contrast, in a string of plea don’t get to cancel them out and because he supported Neither was accused of violence prison. Prosecutors said in Face- that the couple has been pun-
and sentencing hearings in the call for a war because you don’t on Jan. 6, but each had a criminal book posts Dresch likened events ished in the court of public opin-
riot cases, federal judges appoint- like the results of the election.” former president record and other factors that U.S. on Jan. 6 beforehand to this coun- ion, in Joshua Bustle’s business
ed by presidents of both parties The judge continued, “You magistrate judges said posed a try’s declaration of independence affairs and in their family life. The
condemned such claims. Some called yourself and the others Trump.” risk of flight, obstruction or dan- from British rule in 1776. couple is relocating to South
have gone further to challenge patriots, but that’s not patriotism. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman gerousness warranting pretrial Afterward, he posted, “We the Carolina for a fresh start, their
U.S. prosecutors’ acceptance of Patriotism is loyalty to country, Jackson, at a sentencing hearing detention. people took back our house . . . lawyers said. Both Bustles apolo-
misdemeanor plea deals for indi- loyalty to the Constitution, not Curzio was the only misde- now those traitors Know who’s gized, and a lawyer asserted they
viduals involved in “terrorizing loyalty to a single head of state. meanor defendant held pretrial, really in charge.” had purged social media from
members of Congress,” forcing That’s the tyranny we rejected on far, about 30 of more than 550 but had a prior conviction for In sentencing papers, prosecu- their lives.
the evacuation of lawmakers and July 4th of 1776.” defendants charged have pleaded attempted murder. Dresch had a tors said in a footnote without “I’m sorry for my actions. I love
violence that authorities have led Dresch declined to address the guilty, and six have been sen- 2013 felony conviction for elud- further explanation that they our country,” Jessica Bustle said.
to several deaths and assaults on court, and his defense’s sentenc- tenced. Five of the latter admitted ing police in a 145-mph vehicle dropped the felony charge “in an “I [don’t] condone and do not
nearly 140 police officers. ing request was not immediately to single misdemeanors involving chase that spanned two states. effort to achieve consistency” agree with anybody who is ever
“Does the government, in unsealed. no violent conduct, and three And despite a ban on felon pos- with other riot cases. Prosecutors violent toward anybody in life.”
agreeing to the petty offense in Judges at sentencings have received probation, including a session of weapons, law enforce- maintained that “he knew why he spencer.hsu@washpost.com
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CNN
hedges on
its Cuomo
quandary
Network is mum about
anchor’s involvement in
legal report on brother

BY E LAHE I ZADI

CNN provided wall-to-wall

coverage of one of the biggest
news stories of the day Tuesday:
the damning report released by
the New York attorney general
that concluded Gov. Andrew M.
Cuomo sexually harassed 11 wom-
en, which led President Biden to
call for the governor’s resigna-
tion.
Among the 179 people inter-
viewed by the independent inves-
tigators was CNN anchor Chris
Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo’s young-
er brother who had advised the
governor and his aides on how to
respond to allegations of harass-
ment.
Chris Cuomo did not acknowl-
edge his involvement in the in-
vestigation or the report’s find-
ings during his prime-time show
Tuesday night. “We’re focused on
covid here, especially until we get
the delta variant under control,”
he said at the top of the program,
before talking about Biden’s han-
dling of the pandemic. Later in
the hour he criticized another
governor, Florida Republican
Ron DeSantis, for his messaging
during the surge of cases in his
state. A spokesman for CNN de-
clined to comment, instead
pointing to past statements Chris
KEVIN MAZUR/WIREIMAGE/GETTY IMAGES CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES Cuomo and the network have
made.
In March, the CNN star apolo-
gized on air for offering crisis
communications counsel after

The pop princess, The Washington Post reported

that he participated in strategy
calls about allegations that his
brother harassed several women.
“It will not happen again,” Chris

then and now Cuomo said on air at the time. “It

was a mistake because I put my
colleagues here, who I believe are
the best in the business, in a bad
spot.”
At the time, CNN had said the

A
merica’s newest pop princess made
her way to the White House press
stand clad in a baby-pink tweed and
plaid skirt suit, chunky white high
heels and black socks. Olivia Rodri-
go, the Disney star turned Billboard sensation,
had met with President Biden and taken a
photo with Vice President Harris before facing
the masses with her signature half-smile to
advocate for vaccination.
Contrast was essential to Rodrigo’s look.
The actress-singer-songwriter’s outfit was
“Clueless” meets punk, her effortlessly calm
demeanor belying some of her debut album’s
most affecting songs, including the aptly titled
opening track, “Brutal.”
In the tune’s first few lines, Rodrigo asks,
“Who am I, if not exploited?” — a line that
Exploitation and
expectations for
Spears, Rodrigo
BY NATACHI
ONWUAMAEGBU
LEFT: Britney Spears at
the 2001 American
Music Awards. RIGHT:
Olivia Rodrigo arrives at
the White House last
month to promote
coronavirus vaccination.
would not have been out of place as the anchor had not been involved in
rallying cry of a protest taking place approxi- the network’s coverage on the
mately one mile away. As Rodrigo addressed allegations but that “it was inap-
the Briefing Room, fans and advocates gath- propriate to engage in conversa-
ered for a #FreeBritney demonstration to call tions that included members of
for Britney Spears, who has spoken out about the Governor’s staff, which Chris
being controlled by her conservatorship, to be acknowledges.” The network had
freed from its restrictive ties. SEE CUOMO ON C3
The eventful afternoon, which took place
last month, proved that if one thing remains
consistent in the music business, it is the
enduring dedication and attention paid to our RIHANNA
young, hit-producing female royalty — and Forbes reports that the singer’s
how we inevitably chew them up and spit them worth $1.7 billion. C4
out.
At a glance, it may not seem as if Rodrigo, 18, CAROLYN HAX
and Spears, 39, have similar journeys to star- Sharing is scaring? A cheater’s
SEE POP STAR ON C2 confidant no longer trusts her. C8
KIDSPOST
What will the Tokyo Olympics be
most remembered for? C8

The 19th is a model of how to amend news coverage Napoleon, from Waterloo
With canapés,
cocktails and
chatter, the
gathering seemed
like a typical
Manhattan media
Margaret party from the
Sullivan Before Times.
It was a kick off
for a nonprofit news site that
would focus on gender politics
and policy: The 19th, named for
the amendment that granted
women the right to vote 100
years earlier. (An asterisk in the
19th’s logo acknowledges that
the amendment initially affected
White women’s voting rights
mostly.)
High-profile women and a
celebratory air filled the living
room of Craigslist founder Craig
Newmark’s 19th-century home in
Greenwich Village that evening.
Two major donors — Newmark
and Kathryn Murdoch, whose
husband, James, is the left-
leaning son of Fox News founder
Rupert Murdoch — gave
eloquent speeches focusing on
women’s issues and rights.
But the date was Feb. 20, 2020.
Within weeks, swaths of the
SEE SULLIVAN ON C2
BOOK WORLD
to watering his garden
BY M ICHAEL D IRDA
Of the making of books about
Napoleon Bonaparte, there
seems to be no end. Two hundred
years after the emperor’s death
in 1821 on the island of St.
Helena, he continues to be the
subject of new biographies and
speculations. His name and icon-
ic image — the bicorne hat worn
sideways, the army greatcoat, the
hand inserted in the vest — are
instantly recognizable the world
over.
Even though ours is an age of
billionaire boy wonders, Napo-
leon’s sheer precocity still daz-
zles: On Nov. 9, 1799, shortly
after his 30th birthday, the for-
mer artillery officer from Corsica
assumed dictatorial powers over
all of France. Five years later, he
crowned himself Emperor of the
French. At 40, “the man on
horseback”— Edmund Burke’s
THE 19TH prophetic phrase — had con-
Erinn Haines, editor at large for the 19th, on video screen, interviews vice presidential candidate quered all of Western Europe.
Kamala D. Harris in August 2020. The news website has expanded its focus beyond just women. When Napoleon’s armies fought
NAPOLEON: A
LIFE TOLD IN
GARDENS AND
SHADOWS
By Ruth Scurr
W.W. Norton.
416 pp. $28.95
and lost the make-or-break Bat-
tle of Waterloo, he was all of 45.
Imprisoned afterward on St. Hel-
ena, the deposed emperor even-
tually died of stomach cancer —
or, possibly, arsenic poisoning if
you’re conspiracy-minded — at a
still-young 51.
What did Napoleon do during
his six-year confinement on that
tiny South Atlantic island? He
grew flowers (the roses died),
planted trees, constructed an
aviary and harvested peas and
beans. An engraving shows him
wearing a straw peasant’s hat
and leaning on a spade. In fact,
contends Ruth Scurr in “Napo-
SEE BOOK WORLD ON C4
C2
For pop stars, expectations shift but challenges remain
POP STAR FROM C1
dom, but the overlaps are there.
Spears’s career launched when
she was a Mouseketeer on Dis-
ney’s “The Mickey Mouse Club,”
while Rodrigo’s rise to fame was
in part propelled by her starring
role on Disney’s “High School Mu-
sical: The Musical: The Series.”
Spears’s most famous songs are
danceable, catchy, bubblegum-
pop hits from the late ’90s and
early 2000s. Rodrigo’s debut al-
bum “Sour” pays homage to that
era with an angsty edge.
But the expectations put on the
two pop stars are drastically dif-
ferent. Spears was never expected
to take a stand on political issues;
her role was to provide earworms
with a side of eye candy. Rodrigo’s
job description, on the other
hand, includes weighing in on
social ills, writing heartbreak an-
thems and (if she so chooses)
posting a picture of herself in a
bikini. Our most popular pop
princesses have certainly evolved.
Or have they? Could it be that
they’re as beholden to the zeit-
geist as ever?
Experts point to a rise in social
media, changing market tastes
and a heightened fixation on indi-
viduality and female empower-
ment as a reason for the change
over the past two decades.
“Hollywood will always give
people what it thinks they want,”
said Mara Wilson, an author and
former child star best known for
her work as the title character in
“Matilda.” “It all comes back to
objectification and turning these
young women into objects to be
consumed. I think now we’re real-
izing with people like Britney
Spears that women are human
beings. They’ve been under so
much control for so long and
they’ve been objectified for so
long. We’re finally having a reck-
oning with that.”
t’s possible that fans and lis-
I teners want their pop stars to
play the role of social justice
warriors — Gen Z is notorious for
naming and addressing issues of
inequity. But it’s also possible that
girl-boss energy, individuality
and unabashed youthfulness are
just trendy right now, in the way
that low-waisted jeans and hyper-
sexuality was 20 years ago.
“The market has always want-
ed options,” said Tonya Butler,
chair of Berklee’s Music Business
and Management department.
“Different women view them-
selves in different ways, and they
just want to be reflected in music.
Unfortunately, the industry didn’t
always offer a lot of options and
that was the problem. Now they
do.”
Of course, there have been
plenty of young female stars along
the way who broke traditional
molds (think Queen Latifah, Lau-
ryn Hill, Alanis Morissette or Avr-
il Lavigne). What it means to be an
“outsider” or to exist within the
“norm” has changed over the
years as individuality has become
increasingly commercialized. In
addition to our usual scantily clad
blond women, we see fame for
green-haired teenagers in over-
sized band tees. Instead of pa-
parazzi photos of underage girls
in clubs, we see girls in tweed
meeting the president.
The more popular female em-
powerment becomes, the more
the music industry will pump out
people to fill that role, said Butler.
Honesty sells, especially when it
comes to youth and heartbreak
(see: any album from Rodrigo’s
inspiration, Taylor Swift).
MARGARET SULLIVAN
For the 19th, a gender and politics website, it’s been one pivot after another
SULLIVAN FROM C1
country were locked down due to
a raging pandemic that hit
communities of color especially
hard. Parties began to seem like
sepia-tinted memories, political
and social anger exploded, and
the fledgling 19th found itself
inventing a new kind of
reporting to confront a new kind
of national turmoil.
On March 13, a 26-year-old
Black woman, Breonna Taylor,
was shot to death in her
Louisville apartment by White
plainclothes police officers who
forced their way in during a drug
investigation. Several weeks
later, a Minneapolis police officer
murdered George Floyd.
Worldwide protests broke out
over racial discrimination, the
2020 presidential election and
its violent aftermath, and
Republican legislation in dozens
of states intended to restrict
transgender rights.
The site’s original focus on
women became much broader.
Soon, the 19th’s stories were
about transgender rights,
LGBTQ issues and the
Pop star Olivia Rodrigo, left, is introduced by White House press secretary Jen Psaki at a press briefing during which the singer appealed
to younger Americans to get vaccinated. Rodrigo’s debut album “Sour” pays homage to the late-’90s era with an angsty edge.
Britney Spears, pictured at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards, is
at the center of a legal battle to be freed from conservatorship.
Industries of all kinds “tend to
commodify us, commodify our
body positivity, our agency, our
female empowerment,” said Ali-
son Trope, director of the Critical
Media Project at the University of
Southern California. “It’s not just
if you’re a person in the [enter-
tainment] industry like Britney
Spears or Billie Eilish. We’re all
being commodified. All of us.”
ex is never out of style, but
S our modern teenage pop
stars appear to be less likely
intersection of race, economic
disparity and gender. This week,
for example, a 19th story
explored why Black women
make only 63 cents for every
dollar White men make.
“This is a markedly different
nation than it was when we
started, and by necessity, we’re a
markedly different newsroom,”
said Emily Ramshaw, the Austin-
based site’s CEO and co-founder.
Both Ramshaw and Amanda
Zamora, the 19th’s publisher and
other founder, have roots at the
Texas Tribune, an early nonprofit
digital-first newsroom.
The site’s coverage of Breonna
Taylor explored whether the
national media initially showed
little interest in her death
because she was a woman.
“They’re killing our sisters just
like they’re killing our brothers,
but for whatever reason, we have
not given our sisters the same
attention that we have given to
Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown,
Stephon Clark, Terence Crutcher,
Alton Sterling, Philando Castile,
Eric Garner, Laquan McDonald,”
Taylor family attorney Ben
Crump told 19th editor-at-large
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to put it overtly on display. It’s
hard to say whether this move is a
direct response to the criticism
Spears and her ilk faced in the
public eye — a protection mecha-
nism of sorts.
“I do think there’s a rebellion
against being sexual when you
don’t want to be,” said Samantha
Stark, creator of the New York
Times’s “Framing Britney Spears”
documentary. “But if the pressure
to not be shamed like Britney is
the reason to not show your sexu-
ality, then that’s really sad.”
“This is a
markedly different
nation than it was
when we started,
and by necessity,
we’re a markedly
different
newsroom.”
Emily Ramshaw, chief
executive of the 19th, a news
website that launched near
the start of the pandemic
Billie Eilish, who’s often seen wearing baggy clothing, defended her
decision to wear a corset for a Vogue cover shoot.
A lot of Spears’s sexuality was a
personal choice, such as the deci-
sion to roll down her pants to
show off her hipbones because
she felt it was sexier, said Stark.
The look was a trend among
teens, but it still managed to
shock the public that “teenagers
do have sexuality.”
Eilish, 19, famously wore bag-
gy clothes that hid her body
shape, so when she posed in a
corset for the June cover of
Vogue, there was pushback, ob-
jectification, anger at her for
Errin Haines.
Eighteen months after the
kickoff party, the 19th can
reasonably be called a success. It
has raised $13 million, attracted
10,500 paying members, and
hired more than 30 staffers.
Although it does not share
audience numbers, it has landed
scoopy interviews, including the
first with Kamala D. Harris after
Joe Biden named her as his
running mate. Politico called the
19th the “the start-up scoring all
the Biden admin. interviews,”
noting that it has also
interviewed prominent
Republican women.
The outlet’s first virtual
summit drew 180,000 viewers.
And when it holds its second one
this month, the speakers will
include Michelle Obama, Demi
Lovato, Billie Jean King and
Nikole Hannah-Jones.
That success hasn’t happened
by standing still. It’s required
one adjustment after another.
The site has dropped some of
what Ramshaw calls “the
baggage of legacy news
organizations” — including the
media’s tendency to treat both
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breaking her self-made image.
Eilish responded by thanking the
magazine’s creative team for “re-
specting my vision,” and told her
fans to “do whatever you want
when you want.” It was her body
on her own terms.
The problem with young fe-
male stars showing skin or pre-
senting themselves in a sexual
light isn’t with them, said Wilson,
now 34, but rather the older men
who feel like they have the right to
comment and lust over underage
bodies. That will happen no mat-
natachi.onwuamaegbu@washpost.com
sides of every controversy as
respectable, even when one isn’t.
Not long after President Donald
Trump and many Republican
lawmakers provoked an
insurrection at the Capitol in
January, for example, the 19th
changed its self-description from
“nonpartisan” to “independent.”
And unlike many established
news organizations, the 19th
encourages its reporters to
bring their own experiences to
their work and writing, rather
than attempt to present
themselves as ideological blank
slates for the sake of old-style
objectivity.
Kate Sosin, for example,
whose job title is “LGBTQ+
reporter,” and who is nonbinary
trans, wrote a first-person piece
in June titled “Why you won’t see
splashy Pride stories at The
19th.” It began:
“I’ve never particularly
enjoyed Pride. My inbox fills with
brand messages for all kinds of
deeply odd rainbow products
(queer cannabis, gay mutual
funds, ‘bisexual fragrance’). Plus,
I’m shy in a crowd. Parades
overwhelm me.” The piece
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ter how much skin is showing, she
said.
“I thought [being less sexual]
would paint less of a target on my
back,” said Wilson, who wrote
“Where Am I Now? True Stories of
Girlhood and Accidental Fame.”
“Unfortunately, I have been sexu-
alized and stalked by people who
only know me from children’s
movies. It still happens.”
ne of the biggest differences
Spears’s respective rises to
fame is the proliferation of social
media. It’s easier to transition
from a media object to a relatable
teenager when you can take con-
trol of documenting your life.
Stars like Rodrigo don’t have to
wait and hope for tabloids to show
their humanity — they can go on
Instagram Live, post a photo with
their friends, show their lunch
and tweet their thoughts.
That being said, the private
lives of our favorite stars are still a
commodity.
When Rodrigo debuted her
single “Drivers License,” fans ob-
sessed over her relationship
with her HSMTM co-star, Joshua
Bassett. Rodrigo has said little
about the source of her inspira-
tion, but in an interview this
January she claimed it was “not
important.” She still hasn’t dis-
cussed her exes publicly, and her
social media presence is mostly
devoid of men. In stark contrast
to Spears’s barrage of questions
and tabloid covers regarding her
relationship with Justin Timber-
lake, Rodrigo appears to have
more control regarding her love
life, and what information she
chooses to share.
The transparency of social me-
dia provides a level of protection.
When pop stars feel unfairly at-
tacked or objectified, they can air
their feelings.
“We don’t know what they were
doing to Britney and Mariah [Car-
ey] and Christina [Aguilera]," said
Butler, the Berklee chair. “Today,
you turn on Twitter or TikTok and
we know what’s going on in every-
body’s business.”
“Transparency is what led to
the shift in treatment,” she add-
ed. “It’s the fact that we can say,
‘Hey, wait a minute, you can’t do
that to her!’ or ‘That’s not fair.’
Thirty years ago, what those
women went through was so
private. But today, I don’t care
how much you want to keep it a
secret. Somebody’s going to tell
on you.”
his summer was pivotal for
year-old made her first big
foray into politics at the direct
request of the White House after
her debut album went platinum,
while the 39-year-old publicly
spoke up in court for the first time
about her conservatorship.
It only makes sense that the
pop stars took to Instagram to
celebrate their wins. Rodrigo,
whose most recent images were
all promotion for “Sour,” upload-
ed a selfie of herself with Presi-
dent Biden and wrote a lengthy
caption about the importance of
vaccines. Spears, in between post-
ing memes with captions alluding
to her legal plight, posted a photo
of herself topless, her arms stra-
tegically placed, with a simple
plant emoji.
Both images received millions
of likes. Both images showed how
differently fame affects people.
Both images proved that there’s
not one right way to be America’s
pop princess.
argued that it’s far more
important to do ongoing
coverage of pressing issues, and
for the site to have a diverse staff
of reporters and editors.
Zamora and Ramshaw said
they want to set the gold
standard for an equitable and
supportive newsroom culture.
The 19th is doing a pay-equity
audit, and unlike many small
start-ups, it has a “chief people
officer” who focuses in part on
countering the employee
burnout that has plagued many
other news organizations.
As for what’s ahead, Zamora
told me she wants to see the 19th
as a presidential debate
moderator, and to expand the
organization enough to help with
the decline of local newspapers.
The goals are ambitious. But
given all that’s happened since
that party at the end of the
world, I wouldn’t bet against
them. The 19th is an object
lesson in how change demands
change, and how to respond.
margaret.sullivan@washpost.com
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Coverage of Gov. Cuomo absent from brother’s time slot

CUOMO FROM C1

also said Chris Cuomo would not

be disciplined.
New York Attorney General
Letitia James issued the 165-page
report Tuesday that detailed find-
ings and interviews with the gov-
ernor’s accusers, his advisers and
himself. It painted the governor’s
office as retaliatory and con-
tained details of several examples
of unwanted touching by Andrew
Cuomo, including allegations he
groped an executive assistant
while hugging her and inappro-
priately touched a female state
trooper he arranged to have on
his security detail.
The governor defended him-
self in a video address he released ED JONES/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

after the report was made public The New York attorney general’s report on Gov. Andrew M.
— which CNN also aired — cast- Cuomo, at far left, was front-page news, but the story was not
ing himself as a champion of covered on the show of CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, at near left.
sexual assault survivors. “The
facts are much different than
what has been portrayed,” Cuomo express contrition” after media ance, calling it an extraordinary
said of the report. “That’s not who reports detailing allegations were time and saying there was great
I am.” first published. human interest in seeing Chris
CNN provided extensive cover- Several texts and emails Cuomo talk to his brother, the
age of the fallout, but little men- showed how Andrew Cuomo’s governor of one of the country’s
tion that one of its biggest per- inner circle discussed responding hardest-hit states, about the virus
sonalities was involved in the to the growing scandal, including that upended life in America.
story. Before showing the video in a Feb. 28 email from Chris Cuomo About a year later, three wom-
which Andrew Cuomo offered a that contained what appears to en publicly made harassment al-
defense of his actions, CNN’s be a draft statement on behalf of legations against Gov. Cuomo.
John King did tell viewers, “I his brother responding to the Chris Cuomo remained notice-
want to put this on the record: allegations. But it’s unclear ably silent, until March 1, the
Many of you know this, but the whether the CNN anchor wrote same day the governor formally
governor’s brother, Chris, works the draft statement or how much, referred the allegations to the
right here at CNN as an anchor. if at all, he contributed to its attorney general’s office.
We should note that. And he was contents. The governor’s office “Obviously, I am aware of what
interviewed as part of this report released a version with similar is going on with my brother,” the
as someone who reached out and language. CNN anchor told viewers at the
talked to his brother as this crisis CNN has previously said that time. “And obviously I cannot
was unfolding.” since 2013, when Chris Cuomo cover it because he is my brother.
The report described Chris joined the network, he had been Now, of course CNN has to cover
Cuomo as well as others as mem- walled off from covering his it. They have covered it extensive-
bers of the governor’s “team of brother — a common practice ly and they will continue to do so.
advisors” who “had ongoing and that calls for journalists to avoid I have always cared very deeply
regular discussions about how to conflicts of interest to maintain about these issues, and profound-
respond to the allegations public- credibility. ly so. I just want to tell you that.”
ly.” It also cited internal docu- But he did end up interviewing elahe.izadi@washpost.com
ments and communications in his brother six times during first
naming Chris Cuomo among few months of the pandemic. The Sarah Ellison and Jeremy Barr
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those “who counseled him to network said it made an allow- contributed to this report.

Retropolis
Stories of the past, rediscovered.
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Rihanna is a billionaire now, but not because of her music

BY S ONIA R AO Singer Rihanna, at far left
performing in 2019 at a show
The latest Rihanna news once for her Savage X Fenty lingerie
again has nothing to do with her company, is worth $1.7 billion.
long-awaited next album but Much of her wealth comes from
with her status as a beauty and that line and her Fenty Beauty
fashion mogul: She is a billion- products, at left.
aire now, according to Forbes.
The financial magazine esti- reality, and that’s the thing I
mated Wednesday that the 33- really enjoy. Music had led me to
year-old singer, whose full name these other outlets, and to things
is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, is worth that I genuinely love. My mom
$1.7 billion — making her the pretty much worked in the beau-
wealthiest female musical artist ty and perfume industry for a
in the world, and the second- long time — she did makeup for
richest woman in entertainment people and was a makeup artist
after Oprah Winfrey. Forbes at- — so I always loved that.”
tributed $1.4 billion of Rihanna’s Rihanna also noted elsewhere
wealth to the success of the Fenty in the interview that the balanc-
Beauty brand, of which she owns ing act of managing various
50 percent, and the rest to her business ventures is part of “the
Savage X Fenty lingerie company reason why an album isn’t being
and earnings from her career in spat out like it used to.”
music and film. “I used to be in the studio, only
Fenty Beauty is a 50-50 joint the studio, for three months
venture with LVMH, the French straight, and an album would
luxury goods company behind come out,” she said. “Now, it’s like
brands including Christian Dior, a carousel. I do fashion one day,
Givenchy, Louis Vuitton and lingerie the next, beauty the next,
Marc Jacobs. Fenty drew con- then music the next. It’s like
sumers in right off the bat with having a bunch of kids, and you
an inclusive, 40-shade range of need to take care of them all.”
foundations, reportedly making A Vogue profile from later that
$100 million in the first few year confirmed that Rihanna
weeks after it launched with was working on her ninth studio
Sephora in September 2017. album, her first since 2016 s
While conversing with her “Anti.” In March 2020, she told
“Oceans 8” co-star Sarah Paulson the magazine that she could not
for Interview magazine in June announce the release date but
2019, Rihanna said that “with that she was “aggressively work-
every business outlet, I’m mak- ing on music.”
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ing something from a vision to a sonia.rao@washpost.com

The Napoleon canon reloaded as ‘the man on horseback’ takes up gardening

BOOK WORLD FROM C1
leon: A Life Told in Gardens and
Shadows,” this world-shaking
military genius had always
turned to the natural world —
and to two- or three-hour long
baths — for succor from the ills of
the spirit or the burdens of
power.
In her book, Scurr tracks
Napoleon’s rise and fall with
hardly a glance at his battles,
political maneuverings and mis-
tresses (there were at least 21).
Instead, we learn about the
vegetable patch young
Bonaparte kept while at school,
his later attention to green spac-
es when undertaking urban re-
newal in Egypt, Italy and France,
his enjoyment of reflective walks
in the woods and his penchant
for neoclassical landscape de-
sign. Straight lines, notes Scurr,
along with “precision and order
were central to his aesthetic.” In
contrast, Napoleon’s first wife,
Josephine, insisted on natural,
parklike surroundings — the
English style — for Malmaison,
their private residence. As em-
press, she obsessively collected
plants and animals from around
the world and was apparently
the first person to breed black
swans in captivity.
Most accounts of Napoleon’s
inner circle usually concentrate
on that slippery diplomat Tall-
eyrand or the scheming minis-
ter of police Joseph Fouché, two
masters of Realpolitk: Each has
been credited with the classic
Machiavellian comment: “It
was worse than a crime. It was a
blunder.” Scurr, though, prefers
to devote greater attention to
André Thouin, head gardener at
the Jardin des Plantes. Thouin
was among the 167 members of
the Commission for Arts and
Sciences that accompanied Na-
poleon’s army during his largely
unsuccessful Egyptian cam-
paign. Stationed in Cairo, the
group soon created a 30-acre
walled garden and research
center, eventually producing an
encyclopedic record of their
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FATE OF THE
NAPOLEONIC
ELITE IN
AMERICA
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Crocker
Prometheus.
456 pp. $29.95
labors in the landmark cata-
logue “Description of Egypt.”
Later, many of the botanical
and zoological specimens
brought back from France’s sci-
entific expeditions ended up in
Thouin’s care.
Throughout this unusual biog-
raphy, Scurr — hitherto best
known for a delightful, quota-
tion-rich account of the 17th-cen-
tury antiquary and gossip John
Aubrey — elegantly explores Na-
poleon’s inner Rousseau, the
18th-century philosopher who
extolled nature and the simple
life. Among the vast acreage of
Napoleonic studies, it’s good to
have at least one book that
emphasizes flower beds instead
of battlefields.
There’s just one battle in
Thomas E. Crocker’s “Empire’s
Eagles: The Fate of the Napole-
onic Elite in America” and that’s
Waterloo. After Napoleon’s de-
feat — “a near-run thing,” as his
adversary Wellington admitted
— the emperor’s family and his
generals all realized they would
soon be facing prison sentences
or firing squads. Where should
they flee? To many of them,
America seemed a land of refuge
and, perhaps, of renewed oppor-
tunity.
A scholar of early American
history, Crocker opens with a
riveting day-by-day account of
Napoleon in the port city of
Rochefort, waiting to escape
from France, perhaps to Balti-
more, where his younger brother
Jerome had once been married to
a local belle named Elizabeth
Patterson. Revealing an unchar-
acteristic lack of decision, the
emperor dillydallied, then trust-
ed the English to be honorable
and soon found himself en route
to St. Helena. More fortunate, his
elder brother, Joseph, made it to
our shores, where he established
himself in regal comfort at a vast
estate near Philadelphia.
After other Napoleonic loyal-
ists reached the United States
they founded clubs and support
groups, tried to establish a Uto-
pian community devoted to vini-
culture in Alabama swampland
and even planned a military
operation to install Joseph as
emperor of Mexico. All these
activities Crocker relates in me-
ticulous detail before devoting
the second half of his book to a
long-standing legend — that
Marshal Ney, Napoleon’s “Brav-
est of the Brave,” faked his death
before a French firing squad,
then escaped to South Carolina,
where he resurfaced as a school-
teacher named P.S. Ney. Could
this possibly be true? Crocker,
trained as a lawyer, lays out the
evidence both for and against.
In the end, the most tantaliz-
ing question about Napoleon
remains open: Would the world
have been better off had the man
never been born (or born at a
different time, as in Stephen
Vincent Benét’s little classic of
alternative history, “The Curfew
Tolls”)? It’s a hard call. Napoleon
led millions to their deaths, yet
he also instituted laws and re-
forms comparable in importance
to those of the U.S. Constitution.
He had few illusions about peo-
ple: “Look at my virtuous repub-
licans: all I have to do is hang
gold braid on their clothes and
they are mine.” Yet he could also
exhibit Trumplike bombast:
“The French can be governed
only by me.”
Whatever your opinion of the
upstart Corsican, one thing is
certain: A hundred years from
now, publishers will still be
bringing out books about Napo-
leon Bonaparte.
mdirda@gmail.com
Michael Dirda reviews books for
Style every Thursday.

The abusive ex wants a get-together, but saying no is one of the joys of divorce
Dear Amy: More
Ask Amy than a decade
AMY ago, I escaped an
DICKINSON extremely
emotionally and
sometimes physically abusive
partner and proceeded to raise
kind, compassionate and
successful children on my own.
Now in adulthood, all but one
has established a relationship
with this pretty much absent
parent, who now wants to stage
a get-together that includes my
new spouse and myself.
I use the word “stage,” as my
ex has continued to demonstrate
manipulative behavior that has
hurt me and my children.
They have succeeded in
creating quite a wedge between
me and my middle child. They
love to create scenarios where
they are in control, and they
know me well enough to push
my buttons.
While I have the strength not
to show anything but a pleasant
reaction, it hurts to be near
them.
I do not want to go to this get-
together but feel pressured. My
children see it as a step forward
for all of us to heal and be a big
happy family.
I have done my best not to
disparage my ex. If I don’t go, the
ex will use my refusal to make
me look bad. If I do go, I will
endure my past trauma being
stirred up again, while my ex
gets to look good. What should I
do?
— Been There, Not Doing That
Been There, Not Doing That:
One benefit of a breakup is being
spared “get-togethers” with the
ex.
Many exes can manage happy,
peaceful and inclusive family
events, but for others (such as
yourself ), breakup is a liberation
from having to be in your ex’s
presence.
You should encourage your
children to maintain whatever
relationship they want to have
with their other parent, but you
should also explain to them that
being someone’s child is vastly
different from being someone’s
ex. Your kids might find an
understandable equivalent if you
asked them if they would enjoy
bringing their most painful
breakup partner to a fun dinner
with you and your spouse, all in
the name of celebrating a happy
reconciliation.
Your children need to
understand that the way things
are now (both of their parents in
separate spheres) is as close as
you are ever going to get to being
that “big happy family,” and that
as far as you are concerned,
that’s a pretty good result.
Always maintain a careful
equanimity concerning your ex,
but don’t cave. Manipulators
love getting a rise out of people
(it’s ammo!).
So steady on, no wobbles.
Dear Amy: My girlfriend (age
54) thinks it childish to
introduce me as her boyfriend,
and she doesn’t think I should
introduce her as my girlfriend.
I’ve met all her family and
most of her friends, and she has
met mine.
We take many trips together
and stay at each other’s houses
weekly. We are intertwined quite
nicely and communicate
beautifully.
I totally disagree with her
regarding this manner of
address.
It’s certainly not a
dealbreaker, even though it
offends me.
I’d respect and would like
your opinion on this matter.
— Disappointed on the Cape
Disappointed on the Cape: Your
question is a little unclear about
what the actual issue is. If your
SO (significant other) doesn’t
want to be referred to as your
“girlfriend” because she doesn’t
want for people to see that you
are in a committed, exclusive
relationship, then that’s a
serious relationship question
that you two should discuss.
However, I can completely
understand why a 54-year-old
woman would not want to be
referred to as a “girlfriend.” Far
from being flirty and youthful,
the term “girl” actually makes
some grown women feel ancient
(I assume being referred to as a
“boy” might strike some men the
same way).
I used to take issue with the
term “partner” to describe a
committed love relationship, but
I’ve come around. Would this
work for you two?
Dear Amy: I can completely
relate to “Not Savvy.”
I too once had regular
interaction with a person I did
not like, but I couldn’t determine
why I felt that way.
One day he said, “You don’t
like me, do you?”
I paused and plunged in with,
“Yes, you are right, and I am
sorry. I can’t figure out why I feel
this way. It makes no sense —
you are great — yet I can’t get
past my feelings.”
It turned out to be beneficial
for both of us, as we now “knew”
each other and didn’t have to
pretend. In fact, this mutual
honesty made us more
comfortable.
— Tam
Tam: You showed a very “savvy”
side.
Amy’s column appears seven days a
week at washingtonpost.com/advice.
Write to askamy@amydickinson.com
or Amy Dickinson, P.O. Box 194,
Freeville, N.Y. 13068.  You can also
follow her @askingamy.
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Intermittent fasting is the new weight-loss trend, but the jury’s out on its benefits
Dear Readers:
Hints Ahhh, who
From doesn’t love a
Heloise good trend?
Here’s one that
people have been jumping on:
intermittent fasting. What’s it
about? How does it work? Is it
good for you? Let’s take a look.
Fasting (deliberately not eating)
has been around for centuries.
Intermittent fasting for weight
loss is new. It’s thought that
when you eat (and when you
don’t) can affect weight loss. The
jury is still out on this one.
There are different types of
intermittent fasting. Alternate-
day fasting (no eating, or
consuming less than 25 percent
of normal intake for an entire
day) and time-restricted feeding
(no food for 16 hours and then
normal eating for eight hours)
are two popular types. Experts
agree that fasting for weight loss
can be somewhat effective, but
the long-term effects are not
known.
What should you eat? Lots of
fiber and lean protein: cottage
cheese, eggs, fruit, veggies,
oatmeal. Eating these foods will
help keep you feeling full.
Participants have reported
feeling more energetic, with
improved sleep. Intermittent
fasting may lower the risk of
heart disease and Type 2
diabetes, and blood pressure
and cholesterol numbers may
improve.
Always go into fasting after
having a conversation with your
doctor. He or she can advise you.
P.S. Intermittent fasting is
NOT for pregnant or nursing
women, older folks, children,
people who are already lean and
others.
Dear Heloise: I have an
enclosed stairway in my home. I
hung wooden lattice the length
of the stairway and attached cup
hooks to the lattice. I then hung
all of the ball caps from places
we traveled, hobbies enjoyed
and businesses that were a part
of our lives.
— Mary From Texas
Dear Heloise: As a patron and
parent, allow me to make a plea
to restaurant owners through
your terrific column (which I
enjoy): Please place a small step
stool in your restrooms, or make
other minor accommodations,
so that children can reach the
sink and soap to wash their
hands.
It is rare to find
establishments with setups
appropriate for humans of all
sizes, but when we find one, they
earn our repeat business. Thank
you, Heloise!
— Joan, Spokane Valley, Wash.
Dear Heloise: Struggling with
stickers on jars is part of our life.
Here is another option for
removal. For smaller labels,
simply put mayonnaise on a
paper towel and rub.
For larger, stubborn labels,
squirt a ribbon of mayo on the
label and leave overnight. It
might need a second
application, but give it a try. It
made my life easier!
— Mary Ellen S., Lima, Ohio
Dear Heloise: I agree with
Avery R.’s complaint about
women’s pants pockets. I took a
couple of pair into an alteration
store and asked if they could
extend the pocket.
She said “yes,” and they
turned out great. The cost was
much less than replacing the
pants I am not wearing because
of the tiny pockets!
— C.Z. in Southern California
Heloise’s column appears six days a
week at washingtonpost.com/advice.
Send a hint to Heloise, P.O. Box
795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-
5000, or email it to
Heloise@Heloise.com.
© 2021, King Features Syndicate
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A longtime friend quietly got divorced. How can she express her support?
Dear Miss the early 1980s, when we were of her divorce? I feel an urge to providing it. huge family, and almost his aunt and uncle by excluding
Miss Manners: I was both young moms starting our send a “thinking of you” note, Despite your appreciation of everyone in it was invited. the cousins should be enough.
Manners shocked and careers. We are both in the same but I am afraid that might seem the comments from strangers, a Unfortunately, my family But unless the event includes a
JUDITH saddened to learn profession, have served on intrusive. polite acquaintance, even a well- consists only of my mother, two family-against-family soccer
MARTIN, that an old friend boards together, belong to many For what it’s worth, I went intentioned one, does not sisters, two brothers, one match, Miss Manners does not
NICHOLAS of mine had of the same organizations, and through a painful divorce when comment on the intimate brother-in-law and one sister-in- see why your implication that
MARTIN AND gotten divorced our children went to preschool my kids were young, and I details of another person’s life. law and their children. the numbers should be more
JACOBINA last year after together many moons ago. appreciated the warm support Even friends wait to be asked. My son decided to omit my equal is relevant. However, if
MARTIN some 40 years of Although we have never been of my female friends — and even If you want to show support, niece and two nephews, who are you think such an argument will
marriage. I super-close “girlfriends,” we of strangers, including the bank extend an invitation to do over the age of 18, because he persuade your son, she makes
understand that it was not her have a very warm relationship tellers and customer service something together. If, after a said he “doesn’t know them.” My no objection to including it.
choice. — we are always pleased to see reps who helped me with the meal and a few drinks, she brother and sister are upset they
She and her husband each other, enjoy sitting messy details of separating from brings up her divorce, then you weren’t invited. My mother is New Miss Manners columns are
apparently chose to keep the together at club meetings and my then-husband. can share your own experience pressuring me to have my son posted Monday through Saturday on
divorce very private (assisted by generally appreciate catching up and your sympathy. reconsider. I am freaking out. washingtonpost.com/advice. You can
the pandemic lockdown), and on each other’s lives, despite If she were being uncharitable, Any suggestions? send questions to Miss Manners at
most people are only now going long periods of time Miss Manners might suspect Dear Miss Manners: My son her website, missmanners.com. You
hearing the news. without contact. that you are wondering how to and his fiancee sent out Reminding your son that can also follow her
She is my age (mid-60s), and Is there any appropriate way demonstrate support without invitations to their destination weddings are family events and @RealMissManners.
we have known each other since for me to acknowledge the news the time commitment of wedding. My husband has a that he does not want to offend © 2021, by Judith Martin

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Stillwater (R) 2:15-5:30-8:45 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) (!) 3:45-7:15 4:10-7:20 Black Widow (PG-13) 12:15-3:25- 6:20-6:30-6:50
Roadrunner: A Film About An- 1:45-4:45 12:30-1:30-3:30-4:30-6:40-9:40 Phoenix Theatres Marlow 6 Jungle Cruise 3D (PG-13) 5:00 Black Widow (PG-13) 12:20- 6:40-9:50 The Suicide Squad (R) 7:00
thony Bourdain (R) 5:00-7:40 Old (PG-13) CC: 1:10-3:10-4:10- Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) 3899 Branch Avenue The Suicide Squad (R) (!) 7:00-7:45 Pig (R) 2:20-5:20-8:00 3:20-6:50
Regal Rockville Center Black Widow (PG-13) 3:15- Jungle Cruise 3D (PG-13) 6:15 Black Widow (PG-13) 12:00-
Stillwater (R) 4:30-7:20 6:10-7:10 10:10-12:45-3:40-6:20-10:20 F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) Stillwater (R) CC: 2:00-4:20-7:30 Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG)
Joe Bell (R) CC: 1:55 199 East Montgomery Avenue 4:00-6:45 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) XD: 12:50- 3:05-6:15
Avalon Theatre Escape Room: Tournament of 11:45-3:05 Roadrunner: A Film About An- 12:45-3:40-6:30 1:20-3:55-4:25 Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG)
Stillwater (R) CC: 1:15-4:35-7:50 Champions (PG-13) 5:50 Trolls World Tour (PG) 10:00AM F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) 1:10- Space Jam: A New Legacy thony Bourdain (R) 1:05-5:10 Old (PG-13) 2:10-4:50-7:40
5612 Connecticut Avenue
Pig (R) 4:35 4:20-7:30 (PG) 2:30 The Suicide Squad (R) XD: 7:00- 3:20-6:15
In the Heights (PG-13) 4:00 Old (PG-13) 10:05-11:30-2:10- Dolittle (PG) 10:00AM AMC Tysons Corner 16 Stillwater (R) 12:50-4:00-7:10 Escape Room: Tournament
Jungle Cruise: The IMAX 2D 4:50-7:40-10:25 Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins The Green Knight (R) (!) 4:30-6:15 8:00-10:10-11:10
Summer of Soul (...Or, When Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (PG- 7850e Tysons Corner Center Private Watch Party 12:30-3:30 of Champions (PG-13) 1:10-
Experience (PG-13) CC: 1:00-4:00 Stillwater (R) 10:20-12:50-4:00- 13) 11:00-1:45-4:30-7:15-10:00 (PG-13) 1:30-4:20-7:20 Old (PG-13) 3:30-8:00 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 12:00- Regal Ballston Quarter
the Revolution Could Not Be F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) CC: 3:45-6:20
The Suicide Squad: The IMAX 2D 7:10-10:15 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 11:30-12:30- Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 1:20- Stillwater (R) (!) 3:00-6:30 3:00-6:00-7:50 671 North Glebe Road
Televised) (PG-13) OC: 1:00 2:05-2:40-3:05-4:50-5:40-8:00- 2:40-6:05-9:30 The Green Knight (R) 12:40-
Experience (R) CC: 7:00 Roadrunner: A Film About An- 2:35-3:30-5:30-6:30-8:30-9:30 F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) 3:55-7:05
The Boss Baby: Family Business
Roadrunner: A Film About An- Jungle Cruise (PG-13) CC: 2:30-
thony Bourdain (R) 4:30-7:30 thony Bourdain (R) 10:30-3:20 The Suicide Squad (R) 7:05-10:05 8:40-9:00
The Suicide Squad (R) 7:20-8:20
VIRGINIA (PG) CC: 1:10
CMX Village 14
1600 Village Market Boulevard 1:35-4:55 The Forever Purge (R) 12:25
4:30-5:30-7:30 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 11:10- Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) AMC Courthouse Plaza 8 Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
In the Heights (PG-13) OC: 1:15 The Suicide Squad (R) CC: 8:30 Black Widow (PG-13) 1:00- Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins The Departed (R) 7:00 Old (PG-13) 12:20-3:15-6:10
12:00-3:00-6:30-9:20 11:05-1:50-4:30-7:15-9:55 2150 Clarendon Blvd. (PG-13) CC: 12:50-1:45-3:45- (PG-13) 3:10-6:20-9:35 Stillwater (R) 12:15-3:30-6:40
Summer of Soul (...Or, When The Green Knight (R) OC: 7:45 4:00-7:10 Smurfs: The Lost Village (PG)
the Revolution Could Not Be Cinemark Egyptian 24 and XD Old (PG-13) 12:00-2:30-5:00- Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) CC: 4:45-6:45-9:45 3:45 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 1:15-1:45- Joe Bell (R) 12:35
Televised) (PG-13) 7:15 AMC DINE-IN Rio Cinemas 18 7000 Arundel Mills Circle 7:30-10:30 3:40 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) CC: 3:00-3:30-5:00-5:35-6:15-7:15- Jungle Cruise: The IMAX 2D
1:40-2:50-5:50-8:50 F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) 4:45
9811 Washingtonian Center F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) 12:05- Regal Bowie Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (PG- 1:40-4:50 The Boss Baby: Family Business 8:15-9:30 Experience (PG-13) 1:30-4:30
Regal Gallery Place Escape Room: Tournament of
701 Seventh Street Northwest F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) CC: 3:25-6:50-10:20 15200 Major Lansdale Boulevard Champions (PG-13) 5:00-7:40 13) CC: 1:40-2:10-4:30-5:10-8:00 The Suicide Squad (R) CC: 8:00 (PG) 4:20 The Suicide Squad (R) 7:00-7:30- The Suicide Squad: The IMAX 2D
4:15-7:45 The Boss Baby: Family Business F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) The Green Knight (R) 2:00- Jungle Cruise (PG-13) CC: 1:10- Black Widow (PG-13) CC: 3:05- Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins 8:00-8:30-9:30-10:15 Experience (R) 7:30
F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) 3:20 The Boss Baby: Family Business 4:20-6:35-7:30 6:25-9:50 Space Jam: A New Legacy
Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 1:00-4:00 (PG) 10:55-1:40-4:25 4:00-7:15 5:10-8:30 (PG-13) 3:45-8:10 Jungle Cruise 3D (PG-13)
(PG) CC: 5:15 Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (PG- Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins Old (PG-13) 1:10-4:10-6:50 The Suicide Squad (R) CC: Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 4:50 (PG) 4:25 12:40-3:55
The Suicide Squad (R) 7:00-10:15 Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins 7:00-7:50 CC: 1:25-4:25-7:25-10:15 The Green Knight (R) 2:45-
13) 12:10-3:15-6:25-9:25 (PG-13) 1:30-4:30-7:25 Stillwater (R) 1:50-5:00-8:20 The Suicide Squad (R) 8:00 Regal Springfield Town Center
Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG-13) CC: 4:00-7:15 Black Widow (PG-13) CC: 1:50- Escape Room: Tournament
(PG) 3:15 The Suicide Squad (R) 7:45-8:25- Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 1:45-2:30- Jungle Cruise 3D (PG-13) Black Widow (PG-13) 3:55- 6:05-9:25 6859 Springfield Mall
Jungle Cruise (PG-13) CC: 4:45 9:00-9:35-10:55-11:35 4:45-5:30-7:50 2:20-5:50 4:50-7:20 of Champions (PG-13) CC: 5:00-7:20 Old (PG-13) 3:40-6:30-9:20
Old (PG-13) 1:30-4:20-7:20-10:05 The Suicide Squad (R) CC: 8:00 Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) 3:55-6:35 F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13)
Black Widow (PG-13) 11:05-2:25- Black Widow (PG-13) 1:15- Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) Joe Bell (R) 2:20 1:30-5:10
Stillwater (R) 1:00-4:15 Black Widow (PG-13) CC: 3:40-5:45-9:00-10:00 4:35-7:40 Regal UA Snowden Square CC: 1:00-3:50 The Green Knight (R) CC: 1:00-
Joe Bell (R) 1:30 9161 Commerce Center Drive 4:15-7:15 Jungle Cruise 3D (PG-13) 4:00 Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
4:45-8:00 Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) The Suicide Squad (R) 7:15 Escape Room: Tournament of 4:00-7:00-10:05 The Green Knight (R) 4:20-7:30 Stillwater (R) 1:35-5:05-8:30
6:45 (R) 6:45-9:30 Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins Champions (PG-13) CC: 1:20 Old (PG-13) CC: 1:15-4:10-5:40- (PG-13) 2:40-6:00-9:40
11:55-12:45-2:55-5:50-8:45 Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) Old (PG-13) 5:30-8:20 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 12:45-
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins CC: 4:30-5:00-7:30 Escape Room: Tournament of 1:10-4:00-7:00 (PG-13) 12:00-2:55 The Green Knight (R) CC: 1:05- 7:05-9:55 Regal Dulles Town Center
(PG-13) 2:00-5:10-8:20 Stillwater (R) 4:30-7:50 21100 Dulles Town Circle 1:45-2:15-3:30-4:00-5:30-6:45-
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (PG-13) 12:10-2:35- The Green Knight (R) 1:35- F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) 1:40 4:00-7:00 Joe Bell (R) CC: 7:35 Joe Bell (R) 8:30
The Suicide Squad (R) 7:30-8:00- Champions (PG-13) CC: 3:45 Black Widow (PG-13) 1:35- Old (PG-13) CC: 2:20-5:00-7:40 Stillwater (R) CC: 2:55-6:20-9:40 Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins 7:15-7:45-8:45-10:00
5:00-7:30-10:15 4:40-7:45 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 3:50-4:50- The Suicide Squad (R) 7:00-
8:30-9:00-9:45 A Quiet Place Part II (PG-13) A Quiet Place Part II (PG-13) Old (PG-13) 1:35-4:25-7:20 5:15-8:35 Pig (R) 10:00 (PG-13) 12:30-3:30-6:30
AMC Hoffman Center 22 6:00-7:00
Black Widow (PG-13) 2:45-5:50 CC: 6:15 11:50-2:35 Stillwater (R) 1:00-4:15-7:30 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 12:00- 206 Swamp Fox Rd. Reminiscence: The IMAX 2D The Suicide Squad (R) 7:00-8:00 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 1:45-2:45- 8:05-9:30
The Green Knight (R) 1:00-3:45- Nine Days (R) CC: 7:00 12:50-3:30-4:00-6:00-6:45 Experience (PG-13) 3:00 4:00-5:05-6:15-7:15-8:15-9:15 Black Widow (PG-13) 1:50-
The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard Joe Bell (R) 1:15 F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) CC: 5:20-9:00
7:00-10:10 The Green Knight (R) CC: 4:30 The Suicide Squad (R) 7:05-7:30- The Suicide Squad: The IMAX 2D Cinema Arts Theatre The Suicide Squad (R) 7:00-8:00 Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG)
(R) 2:10 Jungle Cruise 3D (PG-13) 1:00-4:00 2:00-5:25-8:50 9650 Main St
Stillwater (R) 6:00 The Forever Purge (R) CC: 8:15 The Green Knight (R) 12:30-3:45- 8:00-9:05 Experience (R) CC: 7:00-10:10 Black Widow (PG-13) 1:20-
Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 1:30- Regal Cinemas Majestic Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins In the Heights (PG-13) CC; DVS: 12:50-3:50
1:45-2:30-3:30-5:00-5:45-6:45-
Old (PG-13) CC: 5:00-8:00 7:15-10:40 Stadium 20 & IMAX 12:10-3:00-6:00-8:55 (PG-13) CC: 2:15-3:00-4:00-5:15- Chinese Doctors 1:05-4:20 4:45-7:10
4:30-7:50 Escape Room: Tournament of
Stillwater (R) CC: 4:15-7:45 Old (PG-13) 11:45-1:15-2:30-4:15- 900 Ellsworth Drive 6:15-7:00-8:15-9:15 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) CC: 12:55- Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) Champions (PG-13) 12:55
9:00-10:00 The Green Knight (R) 12:30- Mama Weed CC; DVS: 9:40-12:00-
Black Widow (PG-13) 9:15
Pig (R) 4:20 7:05-9:55 F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) 12:30- 3:40-7:00 In the Heights (PG-13) CC: 5:00 2:20-3:00-4:05-5:30-6:10-7:15- 2:35-7:30
12:40-3:30 The Green Knight (R) 2:30-
Jungle Cruise: The IMAX 2D Stillwater (R) 12:05-3:25-6:45- 3:50-7:10-10:25 Old (PG-13) 12:35-3:20-6:15-9:00 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) CC: 3:45 8:25-9:15-10:20 The Green Knight (R) CC; DVS: The Green Knight (R) 12:45- 6:10-9:30
MARYLAND Experience (PG-13) CC: 3:45 10:05 The Boss Baby: Family Business Stillwater (R) 12:10-3:30-6:50 The Suicide Squad (R) CC: 7:00 The Suicide Squad (R) CC: 7:45- 10:00-1:00-4:00-7:00 3:50-7:35 Old (PG-13) 1:10-4:10-7:00-9:55
The Suicide Squad: The IMAX 2D Joe Bell (R) 11:30AM 8:40-9:25 Old (PG-13) 1:30-4:50
(PG) 1:00 Joe Bell (R) 12:10 Black Widow (PG-13) CC: 2:45- Mandibles CC; DVS: 10:05-4:20- Stillwater (R) 1:00-4:40-8:30
AFI Silver Theatre Experience (R) CC: 7:00 Private Watch Party 12:30-12:50- Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins 6:00-9:10 AMC Worldgate 9 Stillwater (R) 1:05-4:20-7:00-9:30 Jungle Cruise 3D (PG-13)
Jungle Cruise (PG-13) CC: 6:30- Jungle Cruise 3D (PG-13) 2:50 6:05-8:00
Cultural Center 3:45-4:05 (PG-13) 12:30-1:15-3:35-4:20- Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) 13025 Worldgate Drive Jungle Cruise 3D (PG-13) 12:45 1:15-4:30
7:30-8:30; 5:30 Summer of Soul (...Or, When
8633 Colesville Road SR Kalyanamandapam 6:00-9:30 7:25-10:30 Regal Waugh Chapel & IMAX CC: 3:00-6:00-9:00 F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) CC: the Revolution Could Not Be
The Suicide Squad (R) CC: 8:45 Pig (R) 11:00-1:45 1419 South Main Chapel Way Regal Fairfax Towne Center Regal Virginia Gateway & RPX
The Suicide Squad (R) CC: Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 12:30- Escape Room: Tournament of 7:15 Televised) (PG-13) CC; DVS:
(!) 7:00 The Green Knight (R) OC: 7:45 Thimmarusu: Assignment Vali 1:15-1:30-1:45-2:30-3:10-3:35- 4110 West Ox Road 8001 Gateway Promenade Place
Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 3:00-6:20 Champions (PG-13) CC: 2:00- Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins 12:10-5:00
The Hidden Life of Trees (PG) Nine Days (R) OC: 8:45 11:30-2:45 3:50-4:20-5:00-5:15-5:30-5:45- The Suicide Squad (R) 7:00 4:25-6:50-9:15 (PG-13) CC: 4:45-7:15 Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
Stillwater (R) CC; DVS: 10:10- (PG-13) 1:10-4:10-7:10 (PG-13) 12:50-3:50-6:50
(!) 3:00 The Suicide Squad (R) OC: 7:30 Secret Movie Series 7:00 6:25-6:50-8:15-8:30-9:00-9:40 Stillwater (R) 12:00-3:30-7:00 A Quiet Place Part II (PG-13) CC: Jungle Cruise (PG-13) CC: 4:00- 1:15-4:15-7:20
Summer of Soul (...Or, When AMC Loews Escape from Mogadishu The Suicide Squad (R) 7:30-10:45 Jungle Cruise: The IMAX 2D 3:10-6:10-9:00 5:00-6:00-7:30 Queen Bees (PG-13) CC; DVS: Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 12:30- F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) 1:20-
the Revolution Could Not Be St. Charles Town Ctr. 9 7:00-10:00 Black Widow (PG-13) 12:30-3:55- Experience (PG-13) 12:45-4:00 The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard Black Widow (PG-13) CC: 12:50-3:45-4:05-7:00 4:40-8:00
12:05-2:15
Televised) (PG-13) CC: 6:45 11115 Mall Circle Chinese Doctors 4:15 7:10-10:30 The Suicide Squad: The IMAX 2D (R) CC: 6:25-9:10 4:30-7:30 Roadrunner: A Film About The Suicide Squad (R) 7:00 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 12:45-4:00
The Woman Who Ran (!) 5:00 F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) CC: Jungle Cruise 3D (PG-13) Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) Experience (R) 7:30 The Green Knight (R) CC: 2:45- The Suicide Squad (R) CC: Anthony Bourdain (R) CC; DVS: Black Widow (PG-13) 12:55- Black Widow (PG-13) 12:50-
Eyimofe (This is My Desire) (NR)6:00 12:00-7:50 12:45-3:40-6:35-9:50 Jungle Cruise 3D (PG-13) 6:00-9:15 7:00-8:00 9:40-2:30-4:50-7:30 4:10-7:30 4:05-7:25
(!) 12:20-6:00 Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins Escape Room: Tournament of 11:45AM The Forever Purge (R) CC: Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) The Suicide Squad (R) 7:45
Cinemark Centreville 12 Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG)
The Green Knight (R) CC: (!) (PG-13) CC: 6:15-9:00 (PG-13) XD: 1:30-4:30 Champions (PG-13) 12:40-3:05- Regal Westview & IMAX 5:25-8:30 CC: 4:15
6201 Multiplex Drive
1:00-3:45-4:20-7:25
1:00-3:45-9:15 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) CC: Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 12:40- 5:30-8:00-10:35 5243 Buckeystown Pike Old (PG-13) CC: 3:15-6:10- The Green Knight (R) CC: The Green Knight (R) 12:40- 1:10-4:20-7:20
Roadrunner: A Film About An- 3:50; 12:20-12:40-1:35-3:10-3:30- The Green Knight (R) 12:30-3:45- 8:20-9:15 4:15-7:45 F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) 3:50-7:00 Escape Room: Tournament of
6:00-10:15 F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) 12:20-3:45
thony Bourdain (R) 12:30-9:40 3:50-4:45-5:30-6:20-6:40-7:00- 7:05-10:25 Stillwater (R) CC: 2:45-9:15 Old (PG-13) CC: 4:45-8:00 Champions (PG-13) 7:30
Roman Holiday (NR) 3:00
Black Widow (PG-13) CC:
8:40-9:30-9:50-10:10; 11:10-2:20 Old (PG-13) 1:35-4:20-4:35-7:20-
3:20-6:40
Joe Bell (R) CC: 2:30 Scoob! (PG) 4:00 The Boss Baby: Family Business Old (PG-13) 1:05-3:45-6:45 The Green Knight (R) 1:15-
6:45-9:45 Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (PG) 12:05 Stillwater (R) 12:35-3:40-6:55
Star Wars: Episode V - The The Suicide Squad (R) CC: The Suicide Squad (R) XD: 10:10-10:30 Pig (R) 6:30 Escape from Mogadishu 6:30 4:30-7:45
(PG-13) 1:20-4:35-7:40 Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
Empire Strikes Back (PG) 8:30 7:00-9:15 7:00-10:15 Joe Bell (R) 12:25 Roadrunner: A Film About One Loudoun Jungle Cruise 3D (PG-13) 12:45 Old (PG-13) 1:00-4:10-7:25
Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 1:20-2:40- (PG-13) 12:30-3:35 Stillwater (R) 1:00-4:20-7:45
AMC Academy 8 Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) The Forever Purge (R) 11:25- The Forever Purge (R) 10:15 3:40-4:30-5:50-6:50-7:50-8:20- Anthony Bourdain (R) 3:25 20575 East Hampton Plaza
2:05-5:00 Jungle Cruise: The IMAX 2D Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 12:10- Regal Fox & IMAX Joe Bell (R) 12:45-1:30
6198 Greenbelt Road CC: 6:00-8:45 Stillwater (R) 12:30-1:00-3:45- 8:50-9:20 Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) 3:20-6:30-9:40
Escape Room: Tournament of The Suicide Squad (R) 7:45-10:55 7:05-7:20-10:20 Experience (PG-13) CC: 4:45 22875 Brambleton Plaza Jungle Cruise 3D (PG-13) 4:45
F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) CC: Black Widow (PG-13) 12:50- 12:45 Black Widow (PG-13) 12:05-3:20- Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 3:55
4:35 Champions (PG-13) CC: 9:30 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) XD: Pig (R) 7:25-9:55 4:00-7:00 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) CC: Cloudy With a Chance of Meat- Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 1:15-1:45-
11:10-2:20 6:35-9:50 The Suicide Squad (R) 7:00-10:10 2:15-2:45-3:20-4:00-4:20-5:20-
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins The Green Knight (R) CC: Jungle Cruise: The IMAX 2D The Suicide Squad (R) 7:00 2:00-2:30-3:15-5:15-5:45-6:30- balls (PG) 12:20
The Suicide Squad (R) XD: 7:00- Experience (PG-13) 12:40-3:50 7:30-8:30-9:00 Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) The Green Knight (R) 12:40-3:50- 6:00-7:45-8:30-9:00
(PG-13) CC: 4:00 7:00-9:45 Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins 12:50-3:50-6:50-9:50
8:00-10:15-11:15 The Suicide Squad: The IMAX 2D (PG-13) 1:50 The Suicide Squad (R) 7:00-8:45
Jungle Cruise (PG-13) CC: 4:15- Old (PG-13) CC: 6:45-9:30 The Suicide Squad: The IMAX 2D 12:45-3:45-6:30
Experience (R) CC: 8:00 The Green Knight (R) 12:15-3:30- 7:20-10:30
7:15-7:45 Stillwater (R) CC: 7:00-10:00 Cinépolis Luxury Cinemas Experience (R) 7:00-10:20 The Green Knight (R) 3:50-7:10 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 1:50 6:45-10:00 Stillwater (R) 12:00-3:30-7:00- University Mall Theatre
The Suicide Squad (R) CC: Gaithersburg 6:45 (R) 6:45-9:25 Old (PG-13) 12:50-3:30-6:20-9:10 Jungle Cruise (PG-13) OC: 4:15 Stillwater (R) 2:10-5:00-8:30 10:25 10659 Braddock Road
AMC Magic Johnson Old (PG-13) 12:25-4:20-7:10-
7:00-8:00 Capital Center 12 629 Center Point Way Jungle Cruise 3D (PG-13) 1:00- Stillwater (R) 1:20-4:40-8:00 The Suicide Squad (R) CC: 9:00 The Suicide Squad (R) 7:00 10:00 Jungle Cruise: The IMAX 2D Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins (PG-
Black Widow (PG-13) CC: 800 Shoppers Way Stillwater (R) (!) 4:15-7:15 2:15-4:05-7:10-8:45-10:15 Joe Bell (R) 12:55 Stillwater (R) OC: 6:00 The Green Knight (R) 1:30-4:00- Stillwater (R) 12:00-3:15-6:35- Experience (PG-13) 1:10-4:20 13) CC; DVS: 1:30-4:45-7:30-9:55
5:00-8:15 F9 The Fast Saga (PG-13) CC: Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins Regal Germantown Jungle Cruise: The IMAX 2D AMC Potomac Mills 18 4:40-6:40 9:55 The Suicide Squad: The IMAX 2D Jungle Cruise (PG-13) CC; DVS:
Space Jam: A New Legacy (PG) 5:00-8:20 (PG-13) 3:15 20000 Century Boulevard Experience (PG-13) 12:50-4:10 2700 Potomac Mills Circle Jungle Cruise (PG-13) 12:30-3:45 Private Watch Party 12:00- Experience (R) 7:40-10:50 1:00-4:00-7:15-9:45
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BRIDGE

N-S VULNERABLE
NORTH (D)
♠ 86
♥ AK62
♦ 742
♣ AK85
WEST EAST
♠ QJ7432 ♠ K9
♥ 75 ♥ J 10 9 8
♦ J83 ♦ Q6 MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
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♣ QJ ♣ 10 9 7 3 2
SOUTH
♠ A 10 5
♥ Q43
♦ A K 10 9 5
♣ 64

The bidding:
NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST
1♣ Pass 1 ♦ Pass
1♥ Pass 3 NT All Pass
Opening lead — ♠ 4
CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ MIKE DU JOUR MIKE LESTER
“M y cousin the Queen
of Hearts is so obses-
sive-compulsive,” the Queen
of Diamonds told Alice as the
players at the Mad Hatter’s
took a tea break. “She can’t
stand the idea of her card
being captured. But I know
that losing a trick can be bet-
ter than winning one.”
“Of course, your majesty,”
Alice sighed.
“Deal the cards,” the RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JULES RIVERA
Queen sniffed.
When Alice was declarer
at 3NT, West, the Dormouse,
led a low spade: six, king,
five. The March Hare, East,
returned the nine: 10, jack,
eight. The Dormouse then
led a third spade — and
the Hare swiftly pitched his
queen of diamonds. Alice
won but had to fail. She
couldn’t set up the diamonds
MARK TATULLI
without letting West get in to LIO MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
run the spades.
“Had I known, I’d have
won the second spade,” said
Alice.
Alice makes 3NT if East
keeps his queen of dia-
monds. Alice gets to dummy
twice to lead diamonds
toward her hand. When East
plays the queen, Alice plays
low and is safe.
“What did I tell you?” the HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
Queen of Diamonds chortled.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠ A 10 5 ♥ Q 4 3
♦ A K 10 9 5 ♣ 6 4
Your partner opens one
heart, you bid two diamonds
and he rebids two hearts.
What do you say?
ANSWER: To bid four
hearts might work, but since
you have good controls and
a possible source of winners, BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
slam is possible. Partner
might hold 3, A K J 7 5 2, Q
2, A 8 5 3 or K 3, A K 10 9
7 2, 4 3, A 7 2. In a game-
forcing two-over-one style,
raise to three hearts, forcing.
Otherwise, you might try two
spades and support hearts
next.
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BIRTHDAY | AUGUST 5
You are a natural
leader and excellent
at managing and
directing others.
Ever adventurous, you are
self-assured and diplomatic,
which is why others listen to
you. You have humanitarian
values at heart. In a nine-year
cycle, this is your ninth year,
which means it is a time of
endings and letting go of what
DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY is no longer really relevant in
your life.

Moon Alert: There are no

restrictions to shopping or
important decisions today.
The Moon is in Cancer.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
Today is the perfect day to
cocoon at home or relax with
family members. A discussion
with a female family member
might be significant for both
of you. However, you might
want to “hide” in comfortable,
JEF MALLETT DARRIN BELL familiar surroundings.
FRAZZ CANDORVILLE
TAURUS
(APRIL 20-MAY 20).
In discussions with others
today, you want a genuine
connection with whomever
you are talking to. This means
you will be disappointed if the
conversation remains at a
superficial, chitchat level.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
Financial matters are on your
mind today, which is why this
could be a tricky day if you are
shopping. You might make
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK purchases based on emotional
decisions rather than practical
decisions.
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
Today the Moon is still in
your sign, which makes you
more emotional than usual.
However, it also increases
your good luck just a tiny bit.
(And as we all know, every little
bit helps!) Therefore, ask the
universe for a favor today.
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER STAN LEE & ALEX SAVIUK With the Sun and Mercury
DUSTIN THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN in your sign now, you are
powerful and busy relating to
others. However, today you
have a chance to seek some
solitude and escape from the
busyness around you, if you
choose to do so.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
This is a good day to have
a heart-to-heart talk with
someone, perhaps a female
acquaintance. It might benefit
you to share your hopes and
dreams for the future with
this person, because quite
PRICKLY CITY SCOTT STANTIS LOOSE PARTS DAVE BLAZEK possibly, their feedback will
help you.
LIBRA
(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
Once again, today the Moon is
sitting at the very top of your
chart, which seems to put
you in the public eye. In other
words, at some point people
will notice you more than
usual, and they will be talking
about you.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
Because you feel a bit restless
today and eager for adventure,
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT give yourself a chance to
explore something new.
Do something different! Go
someplace you have never
been before. Obviously, travel
will appeal to you.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
Although you have a desire
to travel and “get away
from all this,” today you
cannot ignore certain details
regarding shared property,
taxes, debt, insurance matters
or something to do with
inheritances.
BIG NATE LINCOLN PEIRCE ON THE FASTRACK BILL HOLBROOK
CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
Because the Moon is in the
sign that is 180 degrees
opposite from your sign, the
best way for you to handle this
is to be ready to go more than
halfway when dealing with
others.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
Very possibly, you will have to
perform a service for someone
else today. You also might
be more involved than usual
with a pet. At work, you might
BEETLE BAILEY MORT, BRIAN & GREG WALKER PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS find that a co-worker wants to
confide in you.
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
You’re in a playful frame of
mind today, which is why you
will enjoy fun activities with
children, the arts or any kind
of mental, intellectual games.
You also will be attracted
to sports events and the
entertainment world.
— Georgia Nicols
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Tokyo Games put the spotlight
on pandemic, mental health
I have been wondering:
The Score What will this summer’s
FRED BOWEN Tokyo Olympics be
remembered for?
The Games often are
remembered for one big
thing. In 1936 in Berlin,
Germany, African
American track-and-
field star Jesse Owens
won four gold medals. The victories were
especially significant because Germany’s
leader, Adolf Hitler, falsely claimed that
White people were better than people of
other races.
In 1976 in Montreal, Canada, 14-year-
old Nadia Comaneci of Romania earned
the first perfect scores in women’s
Olympic gymnastics.
In 1992 in Barcelona, Spain, the United
States’ pro basketball stars — the “Dream
Team” — showed the world how the game
is played.
The 2021 Summer Olympics may be
remembered as the “Covid-19 Games.” It
has been strange to watch the
competitions without fans, most of
whom were banned because of the
coronavirus pandemic.
Runners streak to the finish line in
near silence. The U.S. women’s soccer
team plays with their voices echoing in
almost-empty stadiums. The matches
sound more like a side-yard pickup game
than an international sports event.
There have been the usual highlights
and surprises. U.S. swimmer Caeleb
Dressel ruled the pool by winning five
gold medals. Lamont Marcell Jacobs of
Italy stunned the track world by winning
the men’s 100-meter dash with a time of
9.8 seconds. Jacobs had never run the
distance in less than 10 seconds.
There have been wonderful examples
of good sportsmanship. Ariane Titmus of
Australia beat swimming superstar Katie
Ledecky in the 400-meter freestyle.
Ledecky showed no disappointment with
her silver medal.
After the race she said, “I knew no
matter the outcome I was going to put up a
fight. . . . Even if I didn’t win, I was still
going to be happy for whoever won the
gold.” Ledecky added, “I found a lot of joy
and happiness and love coming into that
race. . . . I think that’s the biggest win of all.”
EZRA SHAW/GETTY IMAGES
Caeleb Dressel, left, won five gold
medals at the Tokyo Olympics. But the
Games may be known for the lack of
fans in the stands, the withdrawal of
Simone Biles, above, from contests to
protect her mental health and the
remarkable sportsmanship of runners
Isaiah Jewett and Nijel Amos, right.
In a men’s 800-meter race, Nijel Amos
from Botswana and American Isaiah
Jewett collided. They tumbled to the
track. Jewett, however, picked Amos up,
and the two finished the race together.
Still, these Games may be remembered
because Simone Biles, the greatest
gymnast of all time, did not compete in
most of the events for which she
qualified.
After some early exercises, Biles said
she was not ready for the all-around and
several individual events. Biles said she
had the “twisties,” a gymnastics term that
means she was not able to sense where
she was in the air.
Online bullies called Biles a quitter
and a disgrace. But it seems that having
the twisties for a gymnast is like
temporary blindness for a baseball
player. You wouldn’t ask someone to
stand up to a 100-mile-an-hour fastball if
he couldn’t see. In any case, Biles
bounced back to win a bronze medal on
the balance beam.
It might be nice if the Tokyo Games are
remembered as the Olympics where we
started to listen to the athletes and let
them make their own decisions.
kidspost@washpost.com
Bowen writes the sports opinion column for
KidsPost. He is the author of 25 sports books
for kids about baseball, basketball, football
and soccer.
Giant panda gives
birth to two ‘lively’
cubs in French zoo
A giant panda on loan to France
from China gave birth to female twin
cubs Monday, a French zoo
announced, declaring “they are very
lively, pink and plump.”
The Beauval Zoo, south of Paris,
said the twins weigh 5.3 ounces and
4.6 ounces. Their mother, Huan
Huan, and father, Yuan Zi, are at
Beauval on a 10-year loan from China.
The twins are their second and third
cubs after the first panda born in
France, Yuan Meng, in 2017.
“Huan Huan is taking care of them
very well. She took them in her mouth
to lick them and clean them. We can
hear little cries,” the zoo said in a
statement.
Giant pandas have difficulty
breeding, and their pregnancies are
challenging to follow.
“We just lived a moment of rare
intensity. These births are always very
exceptional, but they also bring some
surprises,” said Delphine Delord,
director of the Beauval Zoo.
The cubs will spend a few years in
France before being sent to China, the
zoo said.
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Felix fights into 400-meter final
tokyo — This once was such a foregone
conclusion for Allyson Felix that she could
program it into her schedule: heats, semis,
final, all run with uncommon grace and
precision. She was 18 at her first Olympics,
Barry in Athens in 2004, a prodigy oozing
potential. She is 35 now, a mother, a
Svrluga legend.
So on a suffocating, soupy Wednesday
night at National Stadium, Felix came off the final corner
in a semifinal of the women’s 400 meters, carrying all that
history onto the homestretch but also her same grace, her
same precision. An Olympic final, in Athens or Beijing or
London or even Rio de Janeiro, was a given because those
were the days when the medals flowed in, nine in all, as
many as any woman has ever won at the track.
Each of those medals — six gold, three silver — was an
SEE SVRLUGA ON D8
gold medal Wednesday in women’s
park skateboarding, a new Olympic
event that has fueled a boom in the
host nation. The sport embraces
“diversity, race, gender, different ages,
disabilities,” the head of the Japan
Skate Park Association says.
A heavyweight’s ‘destiny’
U.S. boxer Richard Torrez Jr. will fight for
gold. ‘I’m meant to be here,’ he says. D7
Lyles wins bronze, then lets it out
Noah Lyles finishes third in 200, then
talks about his toughest fight. D8
Live updates and more
Real-time analysis, news and much
more online at postsports.com.
As the host racks up medals,
skateboarding gains a foothold
BY M ICHELLE Y E H EE L EE AND J ULIA M IO I NUMA
tokyo — Rihito Minowa’s teammates in soccer would
make fun of him for his long hair, which he has been
growing out to donate to charity. So last year, the
10-year-old switched to skateboarding, in which the other
kids and their moms don’t talk about his hair. In fact, no
one at the skate park fits into a mold.
As Rihito watched the first Olympic skateboarding
competitions last week, he learned that even the
superstars slip and fall off the board sometimes. It gave
him confidence about the fact that he often falls, too, and
he resolved to try harder in the sport that makes him feel
free to be himself.
“I feel really proud seeing him out there doing what he
loves,” said Chikako Minowa, 44, who sat on a bench
watching Rihito practicing at a Tokyo-area skate park this
SEE SKATEBOARDING ON D10

Nadal overcomes rust to survive
a crowd-pleasing Citi Open debut
BY L IZ C LARKE
Rafael Nadal returned to competition
for the first time in nearly two months
Wednesday and found himself battling
multiple opponents: American Jack Sock,
pain in his previously injured left foot and
rust from the hiatus he took to address the
issue.
Over three imperfect sets that spanned
3 hours 4 minutes, Nadal weathered all
challenges to advance to the Citi Open’s
third round with a 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (7-1)
victory.
But he acknowledged afterward that
the injury remains a factor, particularly
after Sock seized the upper hand and
forced the contest into a third set.
SEE CITI OPEN ON D4
Citi Open, early rounds
Today, 2 p.m., Tennis Channel
PRO FOOTBALL
Washington TE Logan
Thomas, coming off a career
year, is ready for more. D2
SALLY JENKINS
The NCAA’s shameful
handling of women’s hoops
has been laid bare. D5
BASEBALL
The Nats are trying to shake
things up, but results are the
same in 9-5 loss to Phillies. D5
Wizards acquire veteran Dinwiddie
from Nets in a sign-and-trade deal
BY C ANDACE B UCKNER
It took two days into NBA free agency
and a complicated web of maneuvers,
but the Washington Wizards landed
their prized point guard in Spencer
Dinwiddie.
On Wednesday, the Wizards agreed to
a deal to acquire Dinwiddie in a sign-
and-trade agreement through a frame-
work that included five teams, a person
close to the situation confirmed.
While Washington receives Dinwid-
die, the former Brooklyn Nets guard
who played in only three games last
season, the team sends forward Chan-
dler Hutchison and a 2022 second-
round draft pick to the San Antonio
Spurs. Dinwiddie will sign a three-year
deal worth $62 million.
Shortly after the transaction made
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The NFL Players Association
told its membership Wednesday
that it will propose re-tightening
the league’s coronavirus protocols
and testing vaccinated players
and team staffers more frequently,
based on growing concerns about
the spread of the delta variant and
breakthrough infections among
vaccinated individuals.
The NFLPA’s proposals to the
league — outlined in a memo sent
by the union to all players — would
represent rollbacks to the previ-
ous easing of restrictions for vacci-
nated players and staff members.
It was not immediately clear
whether the NFL would agree to
the NFLPA’s proposals.
“Based on the guidance of our
medical experts and what we
know about this new variant, this
is the best defense we have to
prevent infections and protect you
and your families, while also exe-
cuting a full season,” the NFLPA
wrote in its memo. A copy was
obtained by The Washington Post.
The union wrote that it will
recommend to the league that vac-
cinated players and staffers be
tested for the coronavirus each
day they enter a team facility.
Under the current protocols,
developed by the league and union
and released in June, vaccinated
players and staffers are tested
once every 14 days, while unvacci-
nated personnel remain subject to
the daily testing that was in place
last season.
The league said it would be
flexible and adjust the protocols if
necessary. “We all have the same
goal,” said Allen Sills, the NFL’s
chief medical officer, “which is to
create the safest possible environ-
ment for our players, coaches and
staff.”
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with General Manager Brian
Gutekunst is a “work in progress”
but he has nothing but affection
for the man Gutekunst drafted as
his possible replacement: backup
Jordan Love.
Rodgers returned to the Pack-
ers last week, reporting on time for
training camp after an offseason
in which he made clear he was
unhappy with the organization.
The three-time MVP skipped
Green Bay’s organized team activi-
ties and mandatory minicamp,
and he acknowledged he doesn’t
know whether he will be back with
Green Bay next season, saying he
just wants to focus on this year.
Love took the majority of reps at
minicamp and probably would
have been the Packers’ starter this
season if Rodgers hadn’t returned,
a situation for which Rodgers has
some sympathy.
“I didn’t hold things from him,”
Rodgers said. “I let him know
where I was at mentally and what I
was thinking about. And hopeful-
ly he appreciated that.”
l BEARS: Chicago signed line-
backer Alec Ogletree to a one-year
contract.
l JETS: New York signed quar-
terback Josh Johnson, giving the
team an experienced backup be-
hind rookie Zach Wilson.
l RAIDERS: Las Vegas signed
free agent defensive tackle Gerald
McCoy, a six-time Pro Bowl pick.
— Associated Press
Tight end Logan Thomas made 72 catches for 670 yards and six touchdowns in 2020, all far surpassing his previous career totals.
Thomas set to take ‘another big step’
BY S AM F ORTIER
Basically since last season end-
ed, Washington Football Team
coaches and players have insisted
that not only was tight end Logan
Thomas’s breakout 2020 not a
fluke, it was only a beginning. You
would be forgiven for any skepti-
cism, partly because the 30-year-
old former quarterback’s stats
from last year — 72 catches,
670 yards, six touchdowns — were
between double and triple his pre-
vious career totals.
But here’s the argument for
why he will keep ascending, ac-
cording to tight ends coach Pete
Hoener, Thomas’s staunchest
supporter. Thomas has “complete
tight end traits,” including his
combination of size and speed, as
well as room to improve and a
body that hasn’t taken as many
hits as others his age. Hoener said
Thomas is one of the league’s top-
seven tight ends already, and
when asked whether he was near
his ceiling, Hoener said, “No.”
“I do anticipate him taking an-
other big step,” Coach Ron Rivera
echoed during offseason work-
outs, and five weeks later, the
team backed that up by signing
Thomas to a three-year deal worth
roughly $24 million.
Early in training camp, at least
one part of Washington’s plan to
WFT announces updated policies for FedEx Field
BY N ICKI J HABVALA
When the Washington Football
Team welcomes fans back to Fed-
Ex Field this season, Native
American-inspired headdresses
and face paint will be prohibited.
The team, which issued its 2021
stadium policies and protocols
Wednesday, announced in the
spring that it intends to be at full
capacity for games this year, after
a 2020 season in which Washing-
ton’s home games were played
either without fans or with very
few fans in attendance because of
the coronavirus pandemic.
But the last time FedEx Field
help him break out again is sharp-
ening into focus. During one peri-
od of practice Wednesday, Thom-
as was the only tight end not to
traipse across the field for block-
ing drills. He instead stayed with
the receivers and ran deep routes
— a stark visual departure from
last year, when he was a high-vol-
ume, shorter-yardage safety blan-
ket for the team’s quarterbacks.
The next step for Thomas is to
maximize his catches because, by
snaps and targets, he’s already in
the vicinity of the league’s elite
tight ends, such as Kansas City’s
Travis Kelce and San Francisco’s
George Kittle. But he’s not as ex-
plosive as they are. For example,
while his 6.9 targets per game
ranked fourth among tight ends
last year, they didn’t travel far (his
5.6 air yards per catch ranked
25th) and he didn’t do a lot with
them after the catch (his four
yards after the catch per reception
ranked 20th).
This offseason, Thomas stud-
ied other receivers down the field
to find nuances he could improve.
He focused on getting out of his
breaks cleaner and deepening his
understanding of route-running
from the receiver perspective. Ri-
vera noticed the difference in
camp when, on one play, Thomas
saw the linebacker vacate the mid-
dle seam, so he adjusted his route
was open to all fans, the team had
a different name. As part of its
rebranding, the team has made a
clean break from Native Ameri-
can imagery, and has even ruled
out Warriors as a candidate for its
new name, which is set to be
revealed in early 2022.
“We recognize that not every-
one is in favor of this change,”
team president Jason Wright said
in July. “And even the Native
American community offers a
range of opinions about both our
past and path forward. But in
these moments, it is important to
prioritize the views of those who
have been hurt by our historical
and turned underneath, making it
an easy throw for the quarterback.
Later, Rivera noted Thomas
saw a similar play and explained
the concept — find the crease in
the defense rather than always
running a route as it’s drawn — to
fourth-round pick John Bates.
“The next level of my game is
helping others around me and not
just worrying about myself,” said
Thomas, who often deflects to
teammates when asked about
specific parts of his game. “If I can
grab a guy and make him just
5 percent better off of something I
can show him, it makes our team
better.”
Similar to running back Anto-
nio Gibson, an advanced under-
standing of his position will allow
Thomas to open up the playbook
for offensive coordinator Scott
Turner. For example, if Turner
wanted to use a three-tight end
set, he could line Thomas up in the
backfield as a fullback and use
motion to get Thomas the best
matchup.
In those sets, though, Washing-
ton would need other tight ends
that defenses respect as receivers.
This almost never happened last
year, and Hoener acknowledged
the team needed to find comple-
ments to Thomas. “In an ideal
world,” he said, “you want three
Logan Thomases out there.”
use of Native American language,
iconography and imagery. . . .
“We will choose an identity
that unequivocally departs from
any use of or approximate linkage
to Native American imagery.”
As part of its updated proto-
cols, the team is also recommend-
ing but not mandating the use of
face masks inside the stadium for
unvaccinated guests.
Because of the rising rate of
infection and the spread of the
delta variant, the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention re-
vised its guidelines in late July
and urged Americans, vaccinated
or not, to wear masks in indoor
JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST
But until scientists and ethi-
cists have breakthroughs in clon-
ing, Washington’s best hopes are
Bates, veteran Temarrick Hem-
ingway and camp-signee Ricky
Seals-Jones. Sammis Reyes, a de-
velopmental player who missed
practice Wednesday with a knee
injury, has not yet shown that he is
ready to contribute.
In the meantime, Hoener not-
ed, Thomas must keep developing
to maintain his confidence. He
thought the tight end was down
on himself at the start of last
season.
“He made a few plays and made
some great blocks in the red zone,
at the goal line, and all of a sud-
den, his whole persona changed,”
the coach said. “Fortunately, for
him and for us, he had to play a lot,
so he’s in there getting more reps
and continuing to improve.”
Washington hopes the same
will be true of his deep routes, the
benefits of which have been evi-
dent in practice. Perhaps the best
example came in the two-minute
drill Tuesday. Facing fourth and
20 from the 29, Thomas ran into
the end zone and wound up com-
peting for a jump ball against
cornerback William Jackson III.
Thomas reached over Jackson
and wrenched the ball away for a
dramatic score.
sam.fortier@washpost.com
public spaces in covid-19 hot
spots.
Maryland is one of the most
vaccinated states, with 77.8 per-
cent of adults having received at
least one dose of the vaccine as of
Wednesday.
The team warned that its pol-
icies could change with updated
local regulations and reminded
that fans cannot come within
20 feet of players.
Washington will return to Fed-
Ex Field on Friday for an evening
practice dubbed “Friday Night
Football” that will be open to
more than 20,000 fans.
nicki.jhabvala@washpost.com
the Carolina Panthers for nine
seasons — had former Panthers
linebacker Luke Kuechly speak to
the Washington Football Team’s
linebackers at their training
facility in Ashburn. The former
defensive player of the year was
the epitome of a three-down
linebacker and the model for
Rivera’s next project in
Washington.
During the first week of
training camp in Richmond,
Rivera cited Davis, Washington’s
first-round pick out of Kentucky,
as one of the young players who
stood out with their ability to
retain information and translate
it to the field.
After the first padded practice
Tuesday, Rivera again cited Davis
as one of the players who thrived.
“He put the pads on, and he
just kept running into people,”
Rivera said. “I mean, that’s his
mentality, and that’s what you’re
looking for in guys.”
And after Wednesday’s
workout, Rivera made a beeline to
Davis. The two stood at the
30-yard-line as Rivera talked to
him about Kuechly, who was in a
similar position in 2012 as a first-
round rookie.
“In talking to Jamin, I used
some of those examples,” Rivera
said. “ ‘Hey, it’s okay. You are a
rookie, but it’s okay to be up there,
to be that guy, to be that leader.’
That’s what he’s done, and I just
wanted to reassure him.”
Sims making his case
Rivera has said he doesn’t know
how many wide receivers he plans
to keep on the initial 53-man
roster, but Steven Sims is making
a compelling case. The third-year
player has received ample time
with the first- and second-team
offenses, working both in the slot
and out wide, and has regularly
been in the mix as a punt
returner.
Sims said last season “wasn’t a
great year” and that he didn’t
perform to the standard he set for
himself. In 12 games, he had two
dropped passes and two fumbles
lost (three others were
recovered). Sims also dealt with a
toe injury in Week 2 that landed
him on injured reserve for part of
the season.
Now healthy, Sims said he
focused on “going back to the
basics” in the offseason. After
practices, Sims has been one of
the last ones on the field.
Allen out again
Kyle Allen did not practice for the
third consecutive day because of
an ankle injury he suffered
Saturday in Richmond. Allen has
been day-to-day, but when asked
whether the team planned to sign
another quarterback for
competition, Rivera said he
doesn’t expect Allen to be out
much longer. Steven Montez has
received reps with the third-team
offense in his place.
Defensive linemen Jonathan
Allen (hamstring) and James
Smith-Williams (lower leg; he
had offseason surgery on his shin)
returned to team drills
Wednesday.
And defensive tackle Matt
Ioannidis, who was activated off
the covid-19 list Tuesday, worked
with a trainer on another field to
ease his way back into workouts.
— Nicki Jhabvala
and Emely Hernandez

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home.
The four-time all-star point
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Walker — who was born in the
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Aresco addressed conference
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other conference is a completely
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Big 12 Commissioner Bob
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letter to ESPN last week,
accusing the network of
encouraging at least one other
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as it tries to find a way
forward. . . .
UCLA will host Villanova in
men’s basketball Nov. 12 for the
first time in 11 years.
The game is part of a home-
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between the two schools. The
Bruins, who advanced to the
Final Four last season, will go to
Philadelphia to face the
Wildcats during the 2023-24
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Baseball
National League American League
EAST W L PCT GB L10 STR CENTRAL W L PCT GB L10 STR WEST W L PCT GB L10 STR EAST W L PCT GB L10 STR CENTRAL W L PCT GB L10 STR WEST W L PCT GB L10 STR
New York 56 51 .523 — 4-6 W-1 Milwaukee 65 44 .596 — 7-3 W-1 x-San Fran. 67 40 .626 — 6-4 L-1 Tampa Bay 65 44 .596 — 5-5 W-1 Chicago 63 45 .583 — 5-5 L-1 x-Houston 65 42 .607 — 7-3 W-1
Philadelphia 55 53 .509 11/2 6-4 W-4 Cincinnati 57 51 .528 71/2 6-4 W-1 x-Los Angeles 64 44 .593 31/2 5-5 L-1 Boston 64 45 .587 1 4-6 W-1 Cleveland 52 53 .495 91/2 4-6 L-2 Oakland 61 48 .560 5 5-5 W-1
Atlanta 54 54 .500 21/2 6-4 W-2 St. Louis 53 54 .495 11 4-6 L-2 San Diego 62 48 .564 61/2 4-6 L-1 New York 58 49 .542 6 7-3 W-2 Detroit 52 58 .473 12 5-5 L-1 Seattle 58 51 .532 8 5-5 L-1
Washington 49 59 .454 71/2 4-6 L-3 Chicago 52 57 .477 13 4-6 W-1 Colorado 47 62 .431 21 4-6 L-1 Toronto 56 49 .533 7 7-3 W-2 Kansas City 46 60 .434 16 5-5 W-1 Los Angeles 54 54 .500 111/2 5-5 W-2
Miami 46 62 .426 101/2 5-5 L-1 Pittsburgh 41 67 .380 231/2 3-7 L-1 x-Arizona 34 74 .315 331/2 4-6 W-1 Baltimore 38 69 .355 26 5-5 L-2 Minnesota 45 63 .417 18 3-7 L-1 Texas 39 69 .361 261/2 4-6 L-2
x-Late game x-Late game

N O TE S
O’s defense lets down TOD AY

SCHEDULE RELEASED
FOR 2022 SEASON
Harvey in New York NL games
PHILLIES AT NATIONALS, 4:05
MLB will open the 2022 W-L ERA TEAM
season March 31 — as Nola (R) 7-6 4.30 10-11
long as there isn’t a work
YANKEES 10, ORIOLES 3 Ross (R) 5-9 4.00 6-12

stoppage — and will try for METS AT MARLINS, 12:10

the fourth time to have
BY J ON M EOLI Hill (L) 6-4 4.10 13-8
every team play its first TBD ---- ---- ----
Matt Harvey’s second-half renaissance was con-
game on the same day for tinuing apace when the inconsistent Baltimore
CUBS AT ROCKIES, 3:10
the first time since 1968. Orioles’ defense that made his first half so frustrat-
Arrieta (R) 5-10 6.20 6-12
Márquez (R) 9-8 3.51 13-9
The All-Star Game will be ing reared its head again.
GIANTS AT DIAMONDBACKS, 3:40
at Dodger Stadium on And after he left under uncertain circumstances
Wood (L) 9-3 3.83 12-6
July 19, its latest date with just four innings completed Wednesday night,
Kelly (R) 7-8 4.38 10-12
since 1981. it ended up helping to doom the bullpen as well in a
PIRATES AT REDS, 7:10
10-3 loss to the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium.
Crowe (R) 3-5 5.40 7-8
PERSONNEL DEPT.
With the bases loaded and the Orioles trailing 4-3
Gray (R) 3-6 4.26 7-8
in the seventh inning, Giancarlo Stanton hit a
Angels: 3B Anthony towering pop-up down the right field line that, BRAVES AT CARDINALS, 8:15
Rendon will undergo despite a hang time of more than five seconds, Muller (L) 2-3 2.43 3-3
season-ending surgery to eluded right fielder DJ Stewart and first baseman LeBlanc (L) 0-2 4.17 3-4
repair a right hip Ryan Mountcastle for a three-run double.
impingement. In It was the second of what would be three flyballs NL scores
58 games this year, that fell in — after a similar misplay Tuesday night — TUESDAY’S RESULTS
Rendon hit .240 with six to scuff up the notion that these Orioles (38-69) have Philadelphia 5, at Washington 4
homers and 34 RBI. been better since the all-star break. at Miami 5, N.Y. Mets 4
Atlanta 6, at St. Louis 1
In Harvey’s fourth inning, after Anthony Rizzo at Colorado 13, Chicago Cubs 6
Brewers: RHP John snapped his second-half scoreless streak at 212/3 in- Pittsburgh 8, at Milwaukee 5, (10)
Axford is out for the at Arizona 3, San Francisco 1
nings with a home run, a pop-up by Aaron Judge that WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
season with elbow trouble went 175 feet fell in for a base hit between several Philadelphia at Washington, Late
after lasting just a third of Orioles and led to a second run off Harvey before he at Milwaukee 4, Pittsburgh 2
an inning Monday in his N.Y. Mets 5, at Miami 3
left the game after just 63 pitches and four innings, Atlanta 7, at St. Louis 4
first major league his ERA down to 6.13. Chicago Cubs 3, at Colorado 2
San Francisco at Arizona, Late
appearance since 2018. The Orioles led 3-2 at that point after two runs in
. . . LHP Eric Lauer was KEVORK DJANSEZIAN/GETTY IMAGES the first inning on a sacrifice fly by Mountcastle and
placed on the covid-19 a run-scoring single for Austin Hays, then Mountcas-
injured list. A debut in Dodger blue tle hit his 19th home run of the season in the third.
AL games
Former Nationals ace Max Scherzer, making his first start for Los Angeles since he was dealt to the West But they were done scoring at that point as
Dodgers: Four-time all- right-hander Jameson Taillon settled in for New RED SOX AT TIGERS, 1:10
star LHP Cole Hamels Coast at the trade deadline, delivers a first-inning pitch Wednesday against Houston at Dodger Stadium.
York. W-L ERA TEAM
signed a deal through the — Baltimore Sun Pérez (L) 7-7 4.56 12-9
end of the season, adding Skubal (L) 6-10 4.53 8-11
depth to a pitching staff Yankees 10, Orioles 3 Rays 4, Mariners 3 Reds 6, Twins 5 Brewers 4, Pirates 2 Athletics 5, Blue Jays 8, Indians 6 ANGELS AT RANGERS, 2:05
that is racked with ORIOLES AB R H BI BB SO AVG Randy Arozarena had a Luis Castillo pitched six Pinch hitter Rowdy Tellez Padres 4 (10) George Springer had Bundy (R) 1-8 6.66 5-10
injuries. Mullins cf............4 1 2 0 0 1 .323 two-run triple during a effective innings and Tyler launched a three-run hom- Matt Olson hit a two-run, four hits, including the Howard (R) 0-2 5.72 3-4
Urías 2b ..............4 1 1 0 0 1 .284
Mancini dh ..........4 0 0 0 0 3 .256 three-run third, and AL East- Stephenson homered to er with two outs in the sev- walk-off double in the 10th 42nd leadoff home run of MARINERS AT YANKEES, 7:05
QUOTABLE Mountcastle
...3 1 1 2 0 2 .262 leading Tampa Bay beat Se- give Cincinnati a cushion it enth inning to put Milwau- inning as Oakland rallied to his career, and Steven Anderson (L) 5-8 4.39 9-10
1b .....................
Hays lf ................4 0 1 1 0 0 .237 attle to avoid a season se- ended up needing in a vic- kee ahead for good in a vic- beat San Diego. The A’s Matz pitched six scoreless Cortes Jr. (L) 0-0 1.93 3-0
“Guys are joking Stewart rf...........2
Severino c ...........3
Franco 3b ............3
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1 .200
2 .230
1 .213
ries sweep.
Josh Fleming allowed
tory over Minnesota.
Castillo had seven
tory over Pittsburgh.
Tellez is batting .340 with
scored twice in the ninth
with two outs off closer
innings for Toronto.
Springer connected on
INDIANS AT BLUE JAYS, 7:07

Martin ss ............3 0 0 0 0 2 .000 McKenzie (R) 1-4 6.11 6-8

in the clubhouse, TOTALS 30 3 6 3 1 13 —
two runs and five hits and
Mike Zunino hit his 21st
strikeouts and won his
third straight start.
five homers and 16 RBI in
21 games for the Brewers
Mark Melancon to tie the
game at 3.
J.C. Mejia’s first pitch for
his 13th homer of the sea-
Stripling (R) 4-6 4.75 8-9

NEW YORK AB R H BI BB SO AVG ROYALS AT WHITE SOX, 8:10

homer for the Rays. Ryan since he was acquired in a son. He ended up a triple
like, no one LeMahieu 2b .......5 1 3 4 0 0 .268
Sherriff had his first save.
TWINS AB
Kepler cf .............4
R
0
H BI BB SO AVG
1 0 1 1 .207 July 6 trade with Toronto.
PADRES
Pham lf................5
AB R
0
H BI BB SO AVG
1 1 0 1 .253 shy of the cycle. Lynch (L) 1-3 6.96 1-4
Rizzo 1b ..............4 1 1 1 1 0 .400
Rooker lf .............5 0 0 0 0 2 .189 Frazier 2b............4 0 1 1 0 0 .179 Keuchel (L) 7-4 4.51 12-8
Judge rf ..............5 0 1 0 0 1 .280
season sweeps us. Gallo lf ................4
Stanton dh..........3
2
1
0 0 1 2 .087
2 3 1 1 .257
MARINERS
Crawford ss.........4
AB R H BI BB SO AVG
1 2 1 0 2 .269
Polanco ss...........4
Arraez 3b ............3
2
1
2 1 1 2 .273
3 0 2 0 .310
PIRATES AB
Park rf .................5
R
0
H BI BB SO AVG
2 0 0 0 .333
Machado 3b.........5
Cronenworth
...5
0
0 0
1 0 0 4 .285
0 0 1 .275
INDIANS AB
Straw cf ..............4
R
0
H BI BB SO AVG
1 0 1 0 .238 TWINS AT ASTROS, 8:10
Haniger rf............4 1 3 0 0 0 .265 Sanó 1b...............5 1 1 1 0 1 .210 Castro 3b.............4 0 0 0 0 3 .196 ss...................... Rosario ss...........5 0 1 0 0 1 .268
Torres ss.............4 0 2 2 0 0 .249 Jax (R) 1-1 6.41 1-2
They may get one Odor 3b ...............4
Higashioka c .......2
0
1
0 0 0 0 .223
1 0 1 0 .196
France 3b-1b-
3b .....................
...4 0 0 0 0 1 .274
Larnach rf ...........4
Gordon 2b ...........4
1
0
1 2 0 2 .225
1 0 0 1 .250
Polanco ph...........1
Reynolds cf .........2
0
2
0 0 0 1 .210
2 0 2 0 .308
Hosmer dh ..........4
Profar 1b .............4
1
0
1
2
0
0
0
0
0 .277
0 .242
Ramírez 3b .........5
Reyes dh .............4
1
1
1 1 0 0 .254
2 0 1 2 .274 Valdez (L) 7-2 3.01 9-3
Seager dh ............3 0 0 1 0 0 .218 Jeffers c..............3 0 2 1 1 0 .214 Gamel lf...............4 0 1 0 0 2 .275 Grisham cf ..........4 1 2 1 0 1 .253 Bradley 1b...........5 1 1 0 0 3 .208
Davis pr-cf ..........1 2 1 0 0 0 1.00
Caratini c.............4 1 2 1 0 1 .230
series sweep, but Gardner cf...........2
Sánchez ph-c ......1
0
2
0 0 0 0 .197
1 0 1 0 .216
Toro 2b-3b-2b .....3
Torrens 1b...........2
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
0 .429
2 .214
Barnes p..............1
Cave ph ...............1
0
0
0 0 0 1 .000
0 0 0 0 .175
Nogowski 1b .......3
Stallings c ...........3
0
0
0 1 0 1 .295
1 1 1 2 .240 Kim pr .................0
Nola c ..................0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0 .213
0 .265
Mercado lf ..........5
Miller 2b .............5
2
1
4 1 0 1 .250
2 3 0 1 .131
TOTALS 35 10 12 10 5 4 —
Fraley ph-lf..........2 0 0 0 0 2 .244 Garver ph ............1 0 0 0 0 0 .236 Difo 2b.................4 0 0 0 0 1 .261 Hedges c .............5 0 2 0 0 3 .174 AL scores
Murphy c .............4 0 0 0 0 2 .198 Donaldson ph......1 0 0 0 0 1 .248 Newman ss .........3 0 1 0 1 1 .218 Marisnick rf ........3 0 1 0 0 2 .200 Zimmer rf ...........3 0 1 1 0 1 .246
they don’t do it BALTIMORE... 200 100 000 — 3 6 0
Kelenic cf.............4
Moore lf-2b .........2
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
2 .128
0 .186
TOTALS 36 5 11 5 5 11 — Brault p ...............1
Hayes ph-3b ........2
0
0
0 0 0 1 .000
0 0 0 1 .242
Myers ph-rf.........1
TOTALS 39
0
4
0
11
0
4
0
0
0 .252
10 —
TOTALS 41 6 15 6 2 12 — TUESDAY’S RESULTS
NEW YORK .... 000 210 52X — 10 12 1 at Toronto 7, Cleveland 2
Bauers ph-1b.......1 0 0 0 0 1 .236 REDS AB R H BI BB SO AVG TOTALS 32 2 7 2 4 13 — BLUE JAYS AB R H BI BB SO AVG
again.” E: Gallo (1). LOB: Baltimore 2, New York
6. 2B: Higashioka (6), Stanton (12), Tor-
TOTALS 33 3 7 2 1 12 — India 2b ...............5
Winker lf.............3
0
1
3 1 0 1 .284
0 0 1 1 .302 BREWERS AB R H BI BB SO AVG
ATHLETICS AB
Canha lf...............3
R
1
H BI BB SO AVG
0 0 1 0 .254
Springer dh .........5 2 4 3 0 0 .296
at N.Y. Yankees 13, Baltimore 1
Seattle 4, at Tampa Bay 2
res (15), LeMahieu (18). HR: Mountcas- Guerrero Jr. 1b ...5 0 1 0 0 1 .322 at Detroit 4, Boston 2
RAYS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Farmer ss............3 1 1 1 1 0 .259 Wong 2b..............4 1 2 0 0 0 .295 Marte cf ..............5 1 1 0 0 0 .360 Semien 2b-ss......3 1 1 0 1 1 .275
— Rays left-hander Josh tle (19), off Taillon; Rizzo (3), off Har- at Chicago White Sox 7, Kansas City 1
Lowe 2b...............4 1 1 0 0 1 .219 Votto 1b..............3 1 1 2 1 0 .273 Adames ss...........3 0 0 0 1 1 .292 Olson 1b..............5 0 2 2 0 1 .279 Bichette ss .........3 1 0 1 1 1 .291 L.A. Angels 11, at Texas 3
vey. RBI: Mountcastle 2 (62), Hays (38),
Fleming, who pitched five Choi 1b ................2 1 0 0 2 2 .249 Stephenson c......4 1 2 2 0 2 .282 Escobar 1b...........4 0 3 1 0 1 .286 Laureano rf .........3 1 1 0 1 2 .246 Espinal 3b ...........0 0 0 0 0 0 .305
Rizzo (6), Torres 2 (41), LeMahieu 4
(44), Stanton 3 (53). SB: Hays (2). SF: Arozarena lf ........4 1 2 2 0 2 .268 Suárez 3b............4 0 1 0 0 1 .176 García rf ..............4 0 0 0 0 1 .267 Lowrie dh ............4 1 1 1 0 2 .259 Hernández rf.......4 0 1 0 0 1 .294 WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
solid innings as Tampa Bay Mountcastle. Meadows dh........4 0 0 0 0 1 .242 Aquino rf.............4 0 0 0 0 1 .212 Taylor lf...............4 0 0 0 0 1 .243 Harrison 2b-3b....3 0 0 0 0 0 .167 Dickerson lf ........4 1 1 2 0 0 .125 at Tampa Bay 4, Seattle 3
Wendle 3b ...........3 0 1 1 0 0 .274 Akiyama cf..........2 2 1 0 2 1 .211 Cain cf .................4 0 1 0 0 0 .246 Murphy c .............1 0 0 0 3 0 .218 Grichuk cf ...........3 1 1 1 1 1 .254
avoided a season sweep at ORIOLES IP H R ER BB SO ERA Franco ss .............3 0 0 0 1 0 .244 Schrock ph ..........1 0 0 0 0 0 .311 Urías 3b ...............3 1 0 0 1 0 .233 Kemp pr-2b .........0 1 0 0 0 0 .251 Valera 3b-2b .......3 1 0 0 1 0 .182
at N.Y. Yankees 10, Baltimore 3
at Toronto 8, Cleveland 5
the hands of Seattle with a Harvey ................. 4 3 2 2 2 1 6.13 Kiermaier cf ........2 0 0 0 1 0 .228 Freeman 3b.........1 0 0 0 0 0 .186 Piña c...................3 1 1 0 0 0 .155 Chapman 3b-ss ...4 0 1 1 0 2 .215 McGuire c............3 1 1 1 1 0 .290 Boston 4, at Detroit 1
Valdez.................. 1 2 1 1 0 0 5.40 Zunino c...............3 1 1 1 0 2 .192 TOTALS 30 6 9 6 5 7 — Peralta p..............2 0 0 0 0 2 .057 Andrus ss............3 0 0 0 0 0 .230 TOTALS 33 8 10 8 5 5 —
4-3 win at Tropicana Field. Sulser .................. 1 1 1 1 1 1 2.90 Gomes ph-c.........1 0 1 1 0 0 .300 L.A. Angels 2, at Texas 1
Phillips rf.............3 0 0 0 0 1 .205 Tellez ph..............1 1 1 3 0 0 .340 Kansas City 9, at Chicago White Sox 1
Fry .................... 0.1 1 2 2 1 0 3.64 TOTALS 28 4 5 4 4 9 — MINNESOTA.. 100 000 040 — 5 11 0 TOTALS 32 4 8 4 2 6 — TOTALS 32 5 7 5 5 7 — CLEVELAND... 000 000 042 — 6 15 0
Tate .................. 0.2 2 2 2 1 1 4.14 CINCINNATI ... 004 100 10X — 6 9 0 TORONTO ...... 413 000 00X — 8 10 0
STAR OF THE DAY Knight.................. 1 3 2 2 0 1 18.0 SEATTLE ........ 001 001 010 — 3 7 0 LOB: Minnesota 9, Cincinnati 7. 2B: Ar- PITTSBURGH . 000 101 000 — 2 7 0 SAN DIEGO .. 001 200 000 1 — 4 11 0
LOB: Cleveland 11, Toronto 6. 2B: Miller
TAMPA BAY... 003 001 00X — 4 5 0 MILWAUKEE.. 001 000 30X — 4 8 1 OAKLAND.... 010 000 002 2— 5 7 0
Rowdy Tellez, Brewers NEW YORK IP H R ER BB SO ERA raez (12), Sanó (16), Larnach (11), Ke- (2), Dickerson (1), Guerrero Jr. (20),
Taillon .............. 6.1 4 3 2 1 10 4.04 LOB: Seattle 5, Tampa Bay 5. 2B: Craw- pler (13), Votto (13), India (18). HR: Po- E: Peralta (3). LOB: Pittsburgh 9, Mil- No outs when winning run scored. McGuire (13), Springer (10). HR: Ramír- Interleague scores
Loaisiga ............ 0.2 1 0 0 0 0 2.60 ford (24), Lowe (17), Arozarena (20). 3B: lanco (18), off Castillo; Stephenson (6), waukee 6. 2B: Stallings (16), Newman LOB: San Diego 7, Oakland 8. 2B: Carati- ez (24), off Romano; Mercado (2), off
The first baseman hit a Holmes ................ 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.00 Haniger (2), Arozarena (2). HR: Zunino off Burrows. (11), Park (3), Wong 2 (18). 3B: Reynolds ni (7), Grisham 2 (16), Laureano (21), Ol- Romano; Springer (13), off Mejía. TUESDAY’S RESULTS
Abreu................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 5.19 (21), off Steckenrider. TWINS IP H R ER BB SO ERA (2). HR: Tellez (5), off Shreve. son (26). HR: Lowrie (12), off Musgrove. INDIANS IP H R ER BB SO ERA
three-run, pinch-hit MARINERS IP H R ER BB SO ERA PIRATES IP H R ER BB SO ERA PADRES IP H R ER BB SO ERA Minnesota 7, at Cincinnati 5
WP: Loaisiga (8-4); LP: Sulser (3-2). In- Barnes ................. 4 7 5 5 2 2 6.23 Mejía ................ 2.1 7 8 8 4 0 8.75 San Diego 8, at Oakland 1
homer to vault Milwaukee herited runners-scored: Fry 1-1, Tate Gilbert.................. 5 4 3 3 4 6 4.14 Minaya ................ 2 1 0 0 2 5 4.40 Brault................... 4 3 1 1 1 2 2.25 Musgrove ............ 6 2 1 1 3 5 2.87 Garza ................ 1.2 2 0 0 0 2 2.03 Houston 3, at L.A. Dodgers 0
2-2, Loaisiga 1-0 Steckenrider ........ 1 1 1 1 0 0 2.41 Burrows............... 1 1 1 1 0 0 8.59 Ponce ................... 2 0 0 0 0 3 7.71 Johnson ............... 1 0 0 0 1 1 2.70 Hentges............... 1 1 0 0 1 0 7.86
to a 4-2 win over Misiewicz............. 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.98 Thielbar ............... 1 0 0 0 1 0 3.79 K.Keller ............. 0.2 1 2 2 1 1 7.07 Pomeranz ............ 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.88 Wittgren .......... 1.2 0 0 0 0 3 5.30 WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
Pittsburgh. Swanson .............. 1 0 0 0 0 1 1.77 Shreve............... 0.1 2 1 1 0 0 2.56 Melancon ............. 1 3 2 2 1 1 2.35 Parker............... 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 2.18
REDS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Spitzbarth............ 1 2 0 0 0 0 0.00 Hill ....................... 0 2 2 1 0 0 2.90 at Cincinnati 6, Minnesota 5
ORIOLES TEAM LEADERS RAYS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Castillo ................ 6 6 1 1 1 7 4.09 BLUE JAYS IP H R ER BB SO ERA at Oakland 5, San Diego 4 (10)
Fleming................ 5 5 2 2 0 6 4.12 Garrett ............. 0.2 0 0 0 2 1 6.55 BREWERS IP H R ER BB SO ERA ATHLETICS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Matz .................... 6 6 0 0 1 8 4.30 Houston at L.A. Dodgers, Late
Batters Avg AB H HR RBI SO
TODAY’S GAME Mullins .321 399 128 18 37 81 Chargois............... 1 0 0 0 1 1 0.00 Brach ................ 0.1 1 3 3 2 0 5.08 Peralta ................. 6 6 2 2 2 9 2.21 Montas ................ 6 8 3 3 0 8 4.10 Richards .............. 1 1 0 0 1 1 2.89
TO WATCH Urías .285 158 45 5 25 40 Wisler .................. 2 2 1 1 0 4 2.13 Cessa ................ 0.1 2 1 1 0 0 3.86 Suter .................... 1 1 0 0 1 1 2.87 Chafin .................. 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.00 Saucedo............... 0 5 4 4 0 0 4.73
Mountcastle .262 363 95 18 60 107 Sherriff ................ 1 0 0 0 0 1 4.82 Lorenzen........... 1.2 2 0 0 0 3 0.00 Boxberger ............ 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.58 Diekman .............. 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.10 Cimber ................. 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.68
Braves at Cardinals, Mancini .259 390 101 19 60 99 Williams .............. 1 0 0 0 1 2 2.58 Petit..................... 1 1 0 0 0 0 2.96 Romano ............... 1 3 2 2 0 3 2.82
WP: Fleming (9-5); LP: Gilbert (5-3); S: WP: Castillo (6-10); LP: Barnes (0-2); S: Trivino ................. 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.95
Galvis .249 249 62 9 26 58 Sherriff (1). Inherited runners-scored: Lorenzen (1). Inherited runners-scored: WP: Suter (10-5); LP: K.Keller (0-1); S: WP: Matz (9-6); LP: Mejía (1-7). Sauce-
8:15 p.m., ESPN Hays .237 279 66 11 37 60 Chargois 1-1. WP: Wisler. T: 2:39. A: Brach 2-0, Cessa 2-2, Lorenzen 1-0. PB: Williams (1). Inherited runners-scored: WP: Trivino (4-4); LP: Hill (5-6). HBP: do pitched to 5 batters in the 8th Inher- NL leaders
Santander .235 243 57 6 27 64 9,701 (25,000). Jeffers (4). T: 3:15. A: 16,828 (42,319). Shreve 2-2. IBB: off Suter (Reynolds). Musgrove 2 (Canha, Harrison), Diekman ited runners-scored: Garza 2-2, Cimber
Severino .228 241 55 8 28 67 Through Tuesday’s games
LHP Kyle Muller (2-3, 2.43 WP: Suter. T: 3:16. A: 28,003 (41,900). (Frazier). T: 3:23. A: 10,648 (46,847). 2-1. T: 3:16. A: 14,410 (53,506).
ERA) takes the hill for BATTING
Red Sox 4, Tigers 1 Angels 2, Rangers 1 Mets 5, Marlins 3 Royals 9, White Sox 1 Braves 7, Cardinals 4 Cubs 3, Rockies 2 Castellanos, Cin ............................... .329
Atlanta against fellow LHP Turner, LA ........................................ .322
Wade LeBlanc (0-1, 3.15). Eduardo Rodríguez Shohei Ohtani pitched Javier Báez launched a Salvador Pérez hit a Adam Duvall and Jorge Patrick Wisdom hit a Segura, Phi ...................................... .307
Reynolds, Pit ................................... .305
struck out 10 in five innings, six solid innings, Juan tiebreaking homer in the two-run homer, and Kan- Soler homered and Ste- three-run double to back a Winker, Cin ...................................... .304
and Boston snapped a five- Lagares raced home from eighth inning after scoring sas City went deep four phen Vogt drove in the solid outing from Alec Harper, Phi ....................................... .301
Soto, Was ........................................ .299
game losing streak with a second base on a wild on a nifty slide in the sec- times. The Royals ended a eventual game-winning run Mills and lead Chicago to Turner, LA ........................................ .296
AL leaders win over Detroit. pitch for the lead with the ond to help lift New York. four-game losing streak, with a sacrifice fly to propel a tight victory. Freeman, Atl .................................... .294
Through Tuesday’s games Tatis Jr., SD ..................................... .292
J.D. Martinez, Enrique two-way standout at the NEW YORK AB R H BI BB SO AVG while the AL Central-lead- Atlanta to victory. Mills overcame a rocky
HOME RUNS
BATTING Hernández and Jarren Du- plate, and Los Angeles Nimmo cf.............4 0 1 0 1 0 .292 ing White Sox lost for the BRAVES AB R H BI BB SO AVG start to pitch six innings
Pillar lf.................0 0 0 0 0 0 .213 Tatis Jr., SD ........................................ 31
Brantley, Hou .................................. .330 ran homered for the Red beat Texas. Jack Mayfield McNeil 2b ............5 0 2 0 0 0 .274
eighth time in 13 games. Albies 2b.............5 0 1 0 0 0 .261 and earn his first win Acuña Jr., Atl ...................................... 24
Gurriel, Hou ..................................... .324 Soler rf................5 1 1 1 0 2 .375 Alonso, NY .......................................... 24
Guerrero Jr., Tor .............................. .324 Sox. went 3 for 3 while homer- Alonso 1b ............3 0 0 0 2 1 .254 Royals starter Carlos Freeman 1b.........5 0 0 0 0 1 .290 since July 7, and Wisdom
Do.Smith lf-1b ....5 1 2 0 0 1 .255 Escobar, Mil ........................................ 24
Mullins, Bal ...................................... .321
RED SOX AB R H BI BB SO AVG
ing from the No. 9 spot for Báez ss ................5 2 2 1 0 1 .200 Hernández yielded only Riley 3b...............5 1 1 0 0 2 .291 finished with three hits. Freeman, Atl ....................................... 24
Bogaerts, Bos .................................. .307 Swanson ss ........4 3 4 0 0 0 .254 Báez, NY ............................................. 23
Fletcher, LA ..................................... .303 Hernández 2b......4 1 2 2 1 1 .254 the second consecutive Conforto rf ..........4 2 2 0 1 0 .203 two hits over five innings. Duvall lf ..............3 1 1 2 1 1 .167 Manuel Rodriguez picked
Villar 3b...............5 0 0 1 0 4 .234 Hoskins, Phi ........................................ 23
Anderson, Chi .................................. .301 Duran cf...............5 1 1 1 0 2 .180 night for the Angels. Heredia cf ...........3 1 1 1 1 0 .238
Bogaerts ss .........3 0 2 0 1 0 .310 Nido c ..................5 0 1 1 0 2 .240 ROYALS AB R H BI BB SO AVG up his first career save. Muncy, LA ........................................... 22
Hernández, Tor ................................ .294 Vogt c .................2 0 0 1 1 1 .216 Duvall, Atl ........................................... 22
Devers 3b ............4 0 1 0 0 0 .284 Carrasco p ...........2 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Merrifield 2b ......5 2 3 1 0 0 .274
Bichette, Tor .................................... .293 L.A. AB R H BI BB SO AVG Smyly p...............1 0 0 0 0 0 .094 CHICAGO AB R H BI BB SO AVG Riley, Atl ............................................. 22
Martinez dh.........4 1 1 1 0 1 .288 Drury ph ..............1 0 0 0 0 0 .303 C.Santana 1b......4 1 1 0 1 0 .231
Martinez, Bos .................................. .288 Fletcher 2b..........4 0 1 0 0 1 .303 Almonte ph.........1 0 0 0 0 1 .230 Ortega cf ............5 1 1 0 0 3 .311
Verdugo lf ...........4 0 2 0 0 1 .270 Davis ph ..............1 0 1 0 0 0 .311 Perez c................4 1 2 2 0 0 .276
Ohtani p..............3 0 0 0 0 1 .272 Adrianza ph ........1 0 0 0 0 0 .254 Contreras c.........5 1 1 0 0 1 .233 RBI
HOME RUNS Renfroe rf............4 1 1 0 0 2 .255 Marsh cf .............1 0 0 0 0 1 .170 TOTALS 40 5 11 3 4 9 — Gallagher c .........1 0 0 0 0 0 .161 Pederson ph........1 0 1 2 0 0 .323
Cordero 1b...........2 0 0 0 0 1 .196 O'Hearn dh .........2 1 1 3 1 0 .226 Happ rf ...............3 1 0 0 1 2 .177 Aguilar, Mia ........................................ 75
Ohtani, LA .......................................... 37 Gosselin 1b .........4 0 1 0 0 0 .280 TOTALS 36 7 10 7 3 8 — Wisdom 3b .........4 0 3 3 0 0 .278 Machado, SD ....................................... 75
Guerrero Jr., Tor ................................. 34 Dalbec ph-1b .......2 0 0 0 0 2 .212 Upton lf...............4 0 2 0 0 0 .230 MARLINS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Alberto ph-dh.....1 0 0 0 0 1 .253
Vázquez c ............4 0 1 0 0 0 .258 Dozier rf .............4 0 0 0 0 0 .194 Bote 2b...............4 0 1 0 0 1 .201 Tatis Jr., SD ........................................ 70
Olson, Oak .......................................... 28 Adell rf-lf............4 0 0 0 0 1 .375 Chisholm Jr. ss....4 0 0 1 0 0 .251 CARDINALS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Schwindel 1b......3 0 1 0 1 0 .250 Escobar, Mil ........................................ 70
Devers, Bos ......................................... 27 TOTALS 36 4 11 4 2 10 — J.Iglesias ss ........4 0 0 0 0 0 .270 I.Díaz 2b ..............4 0 0 0 0 1 .179 Rivera 3b ............4 0 0 0 0 2 .222
Taylor cf .............4 2 2 1 0 0 .238 Edman 2b............4 0 0 0 0 0 .254 Fargas lf .............4 0 2 0 0 1 .400 Duvall, Atl ........................................... 69
Perez, KC ............................................ 26 Suzuki c ..............4 0 0 0 0 0 .207 Aguilar 1b............4 1 2 1 0 0 .266 Alcántara ss .......4 0 0 0 0 0 .177 Albies, Atl ........................................... 69
Olivares lf ..........4 1 1 1 0 0 .273 Carlson rf............5 1 1 0 0 1 .254
Gallo, NY ............................................. 25 TIGERS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Lagares cf ...........3 1 1 0 0 0 .237 Brinson cf............4 0 0 0 0 3 .236 Mills p ................2 0 0 0 0 1 .053 Báez, NY ............................................. 67
Lopez ss .............4 1 2 1 0 0 .279 Goldschmidt
Altuve, Hou ........................................ 25 Baddoo lf.............5 0 0 0 0 4 .263 Eaton rf...............0 0 0 0 0 0 .244 Anderson 3b........4 0 1 0 0 1 .252 ...3 1 1 1 0 0 .267 Romine ph ..........1 0 0 0 0 0 .400 García, Mil .......................................... 66
1b .....................
Haniger, Sea ....................................... 25 Schoop 2b............3 1 2 1 2 1 .285 Mayfield 3b.........3 1 3 1 0 0 .234 Alfaro lf...............4 1 1 0 0 2 .224 TOTALS 37 9 12 9 2 3 — Duffy ph .............1 0 1 0 0 0 .233 Turner, LA ........................................... 65
Arenado 3b .........4 1 2 3 0 0 .264
Semien, Tor ........................................ 25 Grossman rf ........3 0 1 0 1 2 .233 TOTALS 34 2 8 1 0 4 — De La Cruz rf........4 1 1 0 0 2 .227 Crawford, SF ....................................... 63
O'Neill lf .............2 0 1 0 1 1 .273 TOTALS 36 3 10 3 2 9 —
Ramírez, Cle ....................................... 23 Cabrera 1b...........4 0 1 0 0 1 .253 Jackson c.............3 0 1 0 0 2 .182 CHICAGO AB R H BI BB SO AVG Alonso, NY .......................................... 63
Molina c ..............4 0 0 0 0 0 .254
Lowe, TB ............................................. 23 Haase dh-c ..........4 0 0 0 0 2 .242 RANGERS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Thompson p ........1 0 0 0 0 1 .100 Anderson ss .......4 0 1 0 0 1 .300 Hoskins, Phi ........................................ 63
Bader cf ..............3 0 1 0 1 2 .286 ROCKIES AB R H BI BB SO AVG
García, Tex .......................................... 23 Candelario 3b ......3 0 1 0 1 1 .274 Panik ph ..............1 0 1 1 0 0 .145 Hernandez 2b .....3 0 0 0 1 0 .278 Riley, Atl ............................................. 63
Kiner-Falefa ss ...4 1 3 0 0 0 .258 DeJong ss ...........4 0 0 0 0 2 .198 Tapia lf ...............4 1 2 0 0 1 .290
Greiner c..............3 0 0 0 0 2 .222 Sierra ph..............1 0 0 0 0 0 .232 Abreu 1b.............4 1 1 1 0 2 .243
RBI Lowe 1b ..............4 0 1 0 0 2 .249 Happ p.................2 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Rodgers 2b .........4 1 3 1 0 1 .278
W.Castro ph ........1 0 0 0 0 1 .211 TOTALS 34 3 7 3 0 12 — Jiménez dh .........4 0 0 0 0 3 .105 Carpenter ph.......1 1 1 0 0 0 .191 STOLEN BASES
García cf..............3 0 0 1 1 0 .252 Blackmon rf........4 0 0 0 0 0 .269
Guerrero Jr., Tor ................................. 85 Short ss...............1 0 0 0 2 1 .157 Heim c.................4 0 0 0 0 2 .217 Sheets rf ............4 0 0 0 0 1 .218 Sosa ph ...............1 0 0 0 0 1 .250 Tatis Jr., SD ........................................ 23
Ohtani, LA .......................................... 82 H.Castro ph-ss ....1 0 0 0 0 1 .291 NEW YORK..... 030 000 020 — 5 11 0 Story ss..............4 0 1 1 0 0 .244
Ibáñez 2b ............4 0 0 0 0 0 .222 Moncada 3b........3 0 0 0 0 1 .258 TOTALS 33 4 7 4 2 7 — Turner, LA ........................................... 21
Devers, Bos ......................................... 82 Hill cf ...................4 0 0 0 0 2 .274 MIAMI ............ 000 021 000 — 3 7 3 Cron 1b ...............4 0 1 0 0 0 .245
J.Martin lf...........3 0 0 0 0 1 .159 Goodwin cf .........3 0 0 0 0 0 .243 Tapia, Col ............................................ 19
Abreu, Chi ........................................... 80 McMahon 3b ......3 0 2 0 1 1 .264
TOTALS 32 1 5 1 6 18 — Peters rf .............3 0 1 0 0 1 .333 E: Thompson (1), Chisholm Jr. 2 (19). Vaughn lf............2 0 2 0 1 0 .263 ATLANTA....... 000 112 030 — 7 10 0 Edman, StL ......................................... 18
Meadows, TB ...................................... 76 Díaz c..................4 0 1 0 0 0 .222
Holt 3b ................3 0 1 0 0 2 .207 LOB: New York 12, Miami 4. 2B: Collins c..............3 0 0 0 0 2 .204 ST. LOUIS....... 300 000 100 — 4 7 1
Bichette, Tor ....................................... 72 Hilliard cf ...........3 0 0 0 1 1 .188 ERA
BOSTON ......... 010 030 000 — 4 11 0 Terry dh ..............3 0 0 0 0 2 .100 Do.Smith (14), McNeil (11), Conforto TOTALS 30 1 4 1 2 10 —
Olson, Oak .......................................... 70 E: Bader (2). LOB: Atlanta 6, St. Louis 7. Gray p.................2 0 0 0 0 1 .111
DETROIT......... 000 000 100 — 1 5 0 (12), Jackson (1), Aguilar (19), Anderson Buehler, LA ...................................... 2.16
Alvarez, Hou ....................................... 69 TOTALS 31 1 6 1 1 10 — 2B: Heredia (24), Pederson (5), Arenado Joe ph.................1 0 0 0 0 0 .276
LOB: Boston 7, Detroit 10. 2B: Bogaerts (7). HR: Báez (2), off Bass; Aguilar (19), KANSAS CITY 122 100 210 — 9 12 0 Peralta, Mil ...................................... 2.17
Walsh, LA ........................................... 67 CHICAGO ....... 000 100 000 — 1 4 1 (28). HR: Soler (2), off Happ; Duvall (1), TOTALS 33 2 10 2 2 5 —
(30), Renfroe (21), Verdugo (22), Schoop L.A.................. 001 010 000 — 2 8 1 off Familia. Woodruff, Mil .................................. 2.26
Grichuk, Tor ........................................ 67 off Helsley; Arenado (21), off Smyly.
(19), Candelario (27). 3B: Hernández (3). TEXAS............ 000 001 000 — 1 6 1 NEW YORK IP H R ER BB SO ERA E: Abreu (5). LOB: Kansas City 4, Chi- CHICAGO ....... 000 030 000 — 3 10 0 Gausman, SF ................................... 2.35
Martinez, Bos ....................................... 6 BRAVES IP H R ER BB SO ERA
HR: Martinez (21), off Mize; Hernández Carrasco............ 4.1 5 2 2 0 5 3.24 cago 4. 2B: Taylor (8). HR: Olivares (3), COLORADO.... 200 000 000 — 2 10 1 Rogers, Mia ..................................... 2.46
E: Suzuki (8), Ibáñez (2). LOB: Los An- Smyly .................. 4 6 3 3 1 2 4.50
ERA (15), off Mize; Duran (2), off Mize; Loup .................. 0.2 0 0 0 0 1 1.25 off Giolito; Perez (27), off Giolito; Tay- Wheeler, Phi .................................... 2.57
geles 5, Texas 4. 2B: Mayfield (4), Lowe Rodríguez ............ 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 E: Story (10). LOB: Chicago 8, Colorado
Schoop (18), off Taylor. Familia................. 1 2 1 1 0 3 3.41 lor (10), off Giolito; O’Hearn (9), off Bauer, LA ......................................... 2.59
Lynn, Chi .......................................... 2.07 (12), Holt (12), Kiner-Falefa (18). 3B: Matzek ................ 1 0 0 0 1 2 2.63 6. 2B: Wisdom (6), Tapia 2 (24), Rodg-
RED SOX IP H R ER BB SO ERA Castro .................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.40 Ruiz; Abreu (19), off Hernández. Scherzer, LA .................................... 2.76
Ray, Tor ........................................... 3.04 Fletcher (2). HR: Mayfield (6), off Al- Martin ................. 1 1 1 1 0 0 3.86 ers (8), McMahon (21).
Dr.Smith .............. 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.65 ROYALS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Stroman, NY .................................... 2.80
Cole, NY ........................................... 3.11 Rodríguez............. 5 2 0 0 4 10 5.33 lard. Jackson................ 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.25 CHICAGO IP H R ER BB SO ERA
May ...................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.21 Miley, Cin ......................................... 2.92
Ryu, Tor ........................................... 3.22 Sawamura ........... 1 1 0 0 1 2 2.66 L.A. IP H R ER BB SO ERA Hernández........... 5 2 1 1 2 6 4.58 W.Smith .............. 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.16
Taylor................ 0.2 1 1 1 1 2 3.38 Mills .................... 6 8 2 2 2 3 4.41
Manaea, Oak .................................... 3.26 Ohtani ................. 6 4 1 1 0 6 2.93 MARLINS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Staumont............ 1 1 0 0 0 2 3.46 STRIKEOUTS
Ottavino............ 1.1 1 0 0 0 2 3.74 CARDINALS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Morgan................ 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.86
Bassitt, Oak ..................................... 3.29 Warren ................ 1 1 0 0 0 2 2.45 Brentz ................. 1 0 0 0 0 0 3.28
Barnes.................. 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.25 Thompson............ 4 3 3 2 2 2 2.53 Heuer .................. 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 Wheeler, Phi ..................................... 170
Berríos, Tor ...................................... 3.31 Cishek.................. 1 1 0 0 0 1 3.72 Tapia ................... 1 1 0 0 0 0 5.40 Happ .................... 5 5 2 2 1 4 3.60
Detwiler............... 1 0 0 0 0 1 6.03 Rodríguez............ 1 1 0 0 0 1 4.50 Burnes, Mil ....................................... 152
Mize, Det ......................................... 3.41 R.Iglesias............. 1 0 0 0 1 1 3.08 E.Santana ........... 1 0 0 0 0 2 5.62 Helsley ............. 0.2 2 2 2 1 1 4.98
TIGERS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Pop .................... 1.2 0 0 0 0 2 4.72 Woodruff, Mil ................................... 152
McFarland ........ 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 4.00 ROCKIES IP H R ER BB SO ERA
STRIKEOUTS Mize ..................... 5 7 4 4 1 3 3.57 RANGERS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Bleier ................ 0.1 2 0 0 1 0 3.29 CHICAGO IP H R ER BB SO ERA Gausman, SF .................................... 149
Cabrera ................ 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.45 Gray .................... 6 8 3 3 1 6 3.67
Holland ............. 1.2 3 0 0 0 4 7.50 Bass .................. 0.2 3 2 2 0 2 4.10 Giolito ................. 4 8 6 6 0 2 3.98 Scherzer, LA ..................................... 147
Cole, NY ............................................ 176 Allard................... 6 6 2 2 0 3 5.07 Gallegos ........... 0.2 3 3 3 1 1 2.91 Chacín ................. 1 0 0 0 0 2 4.34
Farmer .............. 1.1 1 0 0 1 2 6.82 Okert................. 0.1 1 0 0 1 0 2.63 Foster.................. 2 0 0 0 1 0 5.64 deGrom, NY ...................................... 146
Ray, Tor ............................................ 154 Herget ................. 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 García ............... 1.1 0 0 0 0 1 7.36 Estévez ............... 1 1 0 0 1 0 5.06
Jiménez ............... 1 0 0 0 0 1 6.53 Guenther.............. 1 2 0 0 0 2 0.00 Ruiz ..................... 2 4 3 3 1 0 3.53 Nola, Phi ........................................... 145
Cease, Chi ......................................... 149 Barlow ................. 1 1 0 0 0 1 0.84 WP: Martin (1-3); LP: Gallegos (5-4); S: Bard .................... 1 1 0 0 0 1 4.33 Peralta, Mil ....................................... 145
Rodón, Chi ......................................... 149 WP: Rodríguez (8-6); LP: Mize (6-6); S: Anderson............. 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 WP: Castro (3-3); LP: Bass (1-7); S: May Bummer .............. 1 0 0 0 0 1 4.42
W.Smith (22). Inherited runners- WP: Mills (5-4); LP: Gray (7-7); S:
Giolito, Chi ........................................ 143 Barnes (24). Inherited runners-scored: (4). Inherited runners-scored: Loup 2-1, WP: Hernández (3-1); LP: Giolito (8-8). SHUTOUTS
WP: Ohtani (6-1); LP: Allard (2-10); S: scored: McFarland 1-0, García 1-0. HBP: Rodríguez (1). WP: Mills, Chacín. T:
Manaea, Oak ..................................... 141 Ottavino 1-0, Farmer 1-0. T: 3:20. A: Okert 2-1. IBB: off Bleier (Alonso). PB: WP: Hernández, Staumont, Giolito. T:
R.Iglesias (23). WP: Ohtani, Allard. T: Martin (Edman), Jackson (O’Neill). T: 3:04. A: 36,205 (50,445). DeSclafani, SF ...................................... 2
Bassitt, Oak ...................................... 139 16,633 (41,083). Jackson (1). T: 3:33. A: 9,760 (36,742). 3:14. A: 22,793 (40,615).
2:53. A: 27,360 (40,300). 3:28. A: 32,205 (45,494). Bumgarner, Ari ..................................... 1
Berríos, Tor ....................................... 133
D4
Nadal defeats Sock in his debut in D.C.
CITI OPEN FROM D1
“The match wasn’t easy,” Nadal
said. “I started to suffer a little bit
too much.”
Nonetheless, Nadal managed
to do what has defined so much of
his storied career: fight harder
than his opponent and not lose
faith despite struggling with his
serve and blasting an uncharac-
teristic number of groundstrokes
long or into the net.
Nadal, 35, who is tied with Rog-
er Federer and Novak Djokovic for
a men’s record 20 Grand Slam
titles, disclosed Sunday he had
been battling an injury to his left
foot, which is what forced him to
withdraw from Wimbledon and
the Tokyo Olympics after his semi-
final loss at the French Open on
June 11.
As he slogged through the ebbs
and flows of three hard-hitting
sets, there were moments when
the ailment seemed to hamper his
movement. There were other mo-
ments in which his foot speed
seemed to catch Sock by surprise
as he ran down drop shots and
gamely chased down lobs — in-
cluding one he fired back between
his legs to extend a point he ulti-
mately won.
In the tiebreaker, Nadal gutted
through any discomfort he might
have had, sprinting full out to
reach a drop shot that gave him a
3-0 lead, and reasserted the grit
that has defined him at critical
moments of so many matches.
“I know [it] will not be easy
after a couple of months, coming
back from a tough situation with
my foot, a couple of months with-
out playing,” Nadal said. “But here
I am. I [fought]. I am able to play
again tomorrow, so that’s a great
news.”
The Citi Open, Washington’s
late-summer hard-court event,
represents the next step in what
has been a weeks-long process of
recovery for Nadal, who went
20 days without picking up a rack-
et because of the foot injury.
Since early July, the Spaniard
had progressed from 30-minute
practices to practicing with play-
ers at his tennis academy in Mal-
lorca and with his coaches. The
Citi Open offered the chance to
practice and compete against fel-
low pros and get reacquainted
with the velocity, spin and brute
power of top-50 opponents.
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Before Wednesday in Washington, Rafael Nadal had been out nearly two months with a foot injury.
For the capacity crowd of 7,800
at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center,
seeing even a work-in-progress
Nadal was reason to cheer.
Nadal strode out to deafening
applause and a standing ovation
from fans who paid upward of
$500 on the resale market for a
ticket to see him compete.
The match got underway on an
uncommonly cool August evening
for Washington, 79 degrees, with a
gentle breeze and no humidity to
speak of.
Barely 20 seconds into the
match came the first declaration
of devotion from the grandstands.
“I love you Rafa! I love you,” one
female fan screamed.
The first mid-match standing
ovation came 21 minutes in, after
Nadal’s between-the-legs shot. It
was the first hint Nadal was re-
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claiming his world-beating form
after a shaky stretch in which he
missed more than half of his first
serves.
From there, Nadal started
crushing his forehands with the
signature toreador finish, whip-
ping his left arm above his head.
Some of the blasts were such a
blur Sock didn’t bother trying to
run.
Nadal seemed in full command
after wrapping up the first set in
47 minutes, and Sock trudged off
to the locker room for a permitted
break and change of shirts.
Though Sock hadn’t been Na-
dal’s equal in the ragged early
going, the momentum changed in
the second set.
Sock broke Nadal’s serve first
on back-to-back forehand errors
by the Spaniard.
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Serving at 3-5, Nadal staved off
three break points. But Sock lev-
eled the match at one set apiece
with a service winner.
The deciding set featured the
best of each man at this moment
in their careers.
Sock got an early break; Nadal
broke back, and he left no doubt
who was the more seasoned com-
petitor by bolting to a command-
ing lead in the tiebreaker.
With the victory, Nadal ad-
vanced to a meeting Thursday
with South Africa’s Lloyd Harris.
If he continues to win, Nadal
will play each remaining day of
the Citi Open, which culminates
with Sunday’s final. He would face
No. 2 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime
in the final if both perform accord-
ing to the tournament’s seeding.
liz.clarke@washpost.com
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At Citi Open, small team
of stringers has a big job
Racket technicians work hours before play starts
and don’t leave until after final match concludes
BY A NDREW G OLDEN
Ilya Ivashka sat on the sideline
before his second-round match
against Grigor Dimitrov on
Wednesday. He hit the center of
his racket with his hand about
10 times before he walked onto
the court.
It was 5:04 p.m. on an 81-de-
gree day at the Citi Open, with
the humidity around 38 percent.
The conditions each day are
important — the temperature
can impact how the ball moves
through the air. There are other
factors to consider, too, though,
including the tension of a play-
er’s racket.
During the day, when it’s hot
and humid, a player is likely to
increase the tension in the
strings. At night, when it’s typi-
cally cooler, a player is likely to
go down. So rackets have to be
prepared to players’ liking.
Enter the racket stringers,
who can be found at the Citi
Open in a small room near the
front of the players’ lounge tent.
There are five men who work
there, stringing rackets at ma-
chines.
“Every time they strike the
ball, the tension in the racket is
what dictates the depth of the
court,” said manager Jay Lewan-
dowski, who works with the
small crew at the event. “So when
their swing is the constant, what
controls the depth in the court is
the tension.
“So if they wanted to go deeper
into the court, they loosen their
tension. If they wanted to go less
deep, they tighten it up. So they
rely on us to do our jobs so they
can do theirs.”
The trust that players build
with stringers is something that
develops over the years, so Le-
wandowski doesn’t feel any pres-
sure. He started his company,
Game Set Match Tennis, in 2003.
He has worked with colleges
across the country and has devel-
oped long working relationships
with players as they have
climbed the ranks.
Craig Brotman, another
stringer at this year’s tourna-
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ment, said he has known Sebas-
tian Korda, an American player
competing at Citi Open this year,
since he was 6 years old. Origi-
nally from Columbia, Brotman
helped string rackets at a tourna-
ment for the first time at the Citi
Open 35 years ago.
Don’t tell Rowell Salvado
there isn’t pressure, though. This
is his first Citi Open.
“If you look at it this way, every
time you see a player that you’re
stringing for, [I think] is it them?
Is it me?” Salvado said. “You
know it’s a little bit of their skill,
but it’s also depending on if you
gave them the right tools.”
The five-man crew has to
adjust to each player; some
prefer to have the work complet-
ed in the mornings, while others
don’t mind if their rackets sit
out overnight. There are
personal preferences for ten-
sion, too.
The Citi Open stringers split
up the tournament field before it
started and will continue to
string those players’ rackets on
the same machines as long as
they’re still competing, to pro-
vide consistency. The racket
technicians get to work around
7:30 a.m., more than six hours
before the first match of the day.
They sometimes don’t leave un-
til after the final match is
played.
The life of a tournament
stringer is a grueling one, ac-
cording to Brotman, who used to
travel 42 weeks a year but has
dropped to around five or six in
recent years. Brotman and Le-
wandowski said they feel the
pain in their backs and knees
more than their hands.
But despite the grind, the
relationships they have built tie
them to the players. That’s what
brings them back.
“It’s funny because every tour-
nament by Saturday, that first
weekend, Jay [Lewandowski]
and I are always looking at each
other like: ‘Why? Why the hell
are we still doing this?’ ” Brot-
man said. “But we just love being
around the players.”
andrew.golden@washpost.com
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Wizards land point guard Dinwiddie from Brooklyn in deal involving five teams
WIZARDS FROM D1
the rounds on social media, Din-
widdie, 28, all but confirmed the
news by tweeting a short clip
from the first Harry Potter movie
in which the main character
discovers that he is a wizard.
In Dinwiddie, who will be
entering his eighth season,
Washington will have a point
guard on the mend but also a
younger model to pair with all-
star Bradley Beal in a revamped
backcourt in the wake of dealing
Robles remains an enigma atop order
PHILLIES 9,
NATIONALS 5
BY J ESSE D OUGHERTY
Here was a slugfest that, as
currently constructed, the Wash-
ington Nationals could not win.
Their three solo shots were upped
by a pair of two-run homers for the
Philadelphia Phillies, plus a four-
run rally in the third. The result
Wednesday was a 9-5 loss for the
Nationals, their third in a row,
showing their thinned lineup, ro-
tation and bullpen, all at once.
Within that, though, was a bit
more taking stock for the future, a
theme for the season’s final two
months. So while Paolo Espino
had his worst start of the cam-
paign, yielding six runs in five
innings, Victor Robles took some
tiny steps forward — then some
tiny steps back — in the leadoff
spot. The 24-year-old homered on
the first pitch he saw at the plate,
walked, popped up and struck out
looking. He is back atop the order
because the other options were
shipped out at the trade deadline.
Manager Dave Martinez is seeing
whether, this time, he can stick.
“He came out aggressive in the
strike zone, and that’s what we’ve
talked about with him,” Martinez
said. “He gets a ball in the strike
zone that he feels like he can hit,
we want him to take a swing at it.
And he did that. . . . He’s getting
better. He’s having good at-bats.”
Robles isn’t the only one with a
chance created by the fire sale.
Because Brad Hand and Daniel
Hudson are gone, Kyle Finnegan is
the Nationals’ closer. Because Kyle
Schwarber and Josh Harrison left,
too, Yadiel Hernandez is getting
regular starts in left field. Without
Yan Gomes and with two veteran
catchers on the injured list, Tres
Barrera and newcomer Riley Ad-
ams are splitting the position.
Without Jon Lester, Josiah Gray, a
pitcher who arrived in the deal for
Max Scherzer and Trea Turner,
went straight to the rotation.
Carter Kieboom, 23, is starting
at third and Luis García, 21, at
second. And in the second inning,
they smacked back-to-back hom-
ers off Phillies starter Chase An-
derson. García then added a sec-
ond blast in the seventh, logging
his first-career multihomer game.
But Robles’s leadoff opportu-
nity is a bit different than the rest.
During spring training, at the Na-
tionals’ complex in West Palm
Beach, Fla., a common thought
was that the club’s best order had
Reyna, Kamara score as United steals three points
D.C. UNITED 4,
CREW 2
BY S TEVEN G OFF
columbus, ohio — Already
missing nine regulars for an array
of reasons, D.C. United on
Wednesday watched goalkeeper
Bill Hamid limp off the field not
long after the Columbus Crew’s
black-and-gold clad supporters
filed into its new downtown sta-
dium.
But as Coach Hernán Losada
noted after the surprising 4-2
victory, “This team has had so
many obstacles and difficulties,
that makes us stronger.”
Losada filled the voids with
players who understood and em-
braced their roles, and in a stir-
ring first half, United scored three
goals against the reigning MLS
Cup champions. D.C. conceded
two midway through the second
half before securing just its sec-
ond away victory of the season
and improving to 7-7-3 at the
midway point of the league sched-
ule.
“No matter who is starting, no
matter who is playing, they are
just giving their life for each oth-
er,” said Losada, whose team is
unbeaten in four matches (2-0-2)
and 3-1-2 over its past six.
Ola Kamara continued his
scoring tear with two goals and
Yordy Reyna posted his first two
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Russell Westbrook to the Lakers.
Though Dinwiddie suffered
the kind of major injury that
defined the condensed 2020-21
season, in his last healthy year he
averaged career highs in points
(20.6), assists (6.8) and rebounds
(3.5) for the Nets. It was during
this 2019-20 campaign when
Dinwiddie showed his scoring
potential by dropping a career-
best 41 points against the Spurs.
Although Dinwiddie’s shooting
numbers still leave something to
be desired (he’s a 31.8 percent
Victor Robles homered on the first pitch he saw hitting out of the
leadoff spot Wednesday but also popped up and struck out looking.
Robles at the top. Martinez kept
explaining how Washington need-
ed someone, preferably Robles, to
reach base in front of Trea Turner
and Juan Soto. Hitting coach Kev-
in Long was even more direct,
saying in early March: “If we can
have Victor Robles lead off, it’s
huge. . . . It kind of lengthens out
our lineup.”
Then the Nationals tried it for
eight games and hit the eject but-
ton. It was an incredibly short
leash. And not only was Robles
removed from the leadoff spot, he
was shunned to eighth or ninth in
the order for most of the past three
months. Martinez batted Turner
first, then Schwarber for that sear-
ing-hot stretch in June, then Al-
cides Escobar when both Turner
and Schwarber were hurt. Then
after the deadline, it was Robles’s
job again.
“The most important thing for
me is to get on base,” Robles said in
Spanish through a team interpret-
er. “I need to be on base to allow
the hitters behind me to be able to
have runners on and drive me in,
basically.”
He entered Wednesday with a
.198 batting average, .321 on-base
percentage and .283 slugging per-
centage in 296 appearances. That’s
extremely limited production with
next to no power. He is swinging
less and chasing less and, believe it
or not, has lowered his strikeouts
while increasing his walks. But
way too much of his contact is soft
and ineffective.
Last summer, as he struggled on
offense and defense, the stated
reason was an added 15 pounds of
muscle, weight he didn’t carry
well. This year, Martinez’s only
public explanation is that Robles is
still hunting consistency and still
young. But the latter can only
of the year as United handed
Columbus (6-5-6) its first defeat
in four home appearances since
Lower.com Field opened last
month and first home setback
since last October.
Kamara scored in his fourth
consecutive appearance and in-
creased his season total to nine,
joining the other league leaders.
Seattle’s Raul Ruidíaz began the
day atop the list with 11.
Before the match, Losada tried
motivating his team by pointing
to the Crew’s home streak. He also
brought up the MLS All-Star
Game roster: no United players
among the 28 selections that will
face the Mexican league stars lat-
er this month in Los Angeles.
Losada called it “painful be-
cause I believe there are many on
our team who deserve to be there.
Maybe it’s due to the fact D.C.
wasn’t good enough the last cou-
ple years and lost a little bit of
respect. Little by little, with this
big heart and fighting spirit, we
are coming back.”
United on Wednesday was
without five injured regulars, two
U.S. national team players recov-
ering from Gold Cup duty and two
players serving red-card suspen-
sions.
The personnel issues deepened
when Hamid rushed out of the
box to break up a threat. He
appeared to injure his right ham-
string and needed assistance
leaving the field, prompting for-
mer Crew keeper Jon Kempin to
shooter from behind the three-
point arc), he’s at his best driving
to the basket and creating plays
for others.
As a 6-foot-5 guard, Dinwiddie
is an isolation specialist, and he
ranked in the top 15 in the league
in isolation possessions during
his last healthy season. Also,
Dinwiddie made more than
60 percent of his attempts at the
rim. As a passer, Dinwiddie can
find the open man, and 92.1 per-
cent of his assists in 2019-20
resulted in three-pointers or in-
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stretch so far.
At some point of this Nationals’
rebuild, Robles will have to accel-
erate or move aside. That’s why, for
him and the team, the answer to
whether he can bat leadoff — or
somewhere close to it — is impor-
tant. His first-pitch homer off An-
derson’s fastball, a 424-foot blast,
was just his second of 2021. His
four-pitch walk was a product of
Anderson’s sagging command, not
notable patience. And his third
result, a pop-up on a high slider,
looked like a lot of his season.
“[Josh Bell] has helped as an-
other set of eyes for me out there,”
Robles said of the Nationals’ first
baseman. “Just the time he’s given
me and the help he’s been able to
bring to me, any word of advice,
has been great.”
Robles ended his night with a
five-pitch strikeout against lefty
reliever Matt Moore.
Many parts of his game, past
and present, were mixed into
Wednesday’s defeat: a flash of
enter in the 17th minute.
Two minutes later, however,
United went ahead. Reyna pres-
sured Aboubacar Keita into a
giveaway a few strides outside the
penalty area. Kamara collected
the stray ball and cruised in alone
before beating Eloy Room. Out of
respect for his former club, Ka-
mara did not celebrate.
The lead grew in the 40th min-
ute on an outstanding delivery
and finish. Andy Najar provided
the cross from left corner to the
heart of the box. Reyna ran
toward the ball and used terrific
technique to twist his body and
angle a downward, 11-yard header
into the back corner.
As seven minutes of stoppage
time commenced, the Crew’s star
defender, Jonathan Mensah, lost
the ball at the edge of the penalty
area. Kevin Paredes took posses-
sion and, as he raced into the box,
was upended.
Kamara converted the penalty
kick, again keeping the excite-
ment to himself as his players
embraced him.
“They’re down 3-0, and the
fans are booing them,” Kamara
said. “That was a great feeling.”
Returning from a one-game ab-
sence for concussion protocol and
needing to be ready for a weekend
match, Kamara was rested in the
second half as Losada added de-
fensive reinforcements.
D.C.’s miscues in the 65th min-
ute resulted in a goal and re-ener-
gized both the Crew and the
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terior looks, according to the second-highest scoring average the Wizards to rework their
tracking website PBP Stats. in the league with 31.3 points per roster. In compensation for
The Wizards needed an all- game. Westbrook, Washington re-
star caliber point guard after However, the team lost in the ceived an elite perimeter de-
they sent Westbrook to Los Ange- first round of the Eastern Confer- fender in Kentavious Caldwell-
les. Last season, Westbrook re- ence playoffs, parted ways with Pope, as well as wing improve-
placed John Wall as the franchise longtime coach Scott Brooks and ment with Kyle Kuzma. Also, the
point guard, set the all-time soon would have to spend free team added big man Montrezl
league record for triple-doubles agency searching for a third Harrell, the 2019-20 sixth man
and helped carry the Wizards to starting point guard in three of the year award winner. On
a playoff berth. The one-year years. According to an interview draft night, Washington added
pairing of Westbrook and Beal with ESPN, majority team owner backup point guard Aaron Holi-
appeared to produce positive Ted Leonsis said Westbrook re- day through a trade with the
results — even with a ball-domi- quested the trade. Indiana Pacers.
nant point guard, Beal had the The Westbrook trade allowed candace.buckner@washpost.com
Shameful NCAA neglected
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Bohm 3b .........................2 0 0 0 1 1 .253
Moore p ..........................2 0 0 0 0 0 .000 worth by sport was treated and valued. “It’s
Herrera lf........................5 0 1 0 0 0 .239 $80 million to stigmatizing,” VanDerveer says.
Knapp c...........................5
Torreyes 3b-2b ...............2
1 2
0 0
0 0 3 .170
0 0 0 .273
Sally $100 million and The line items in the report are
TOTALS 39 9 12 9 1 5 — Jenkins chronically blood-boiling. Buffets for men,
NATIONALS AB R H BI BB SO AVG depressed its boxed lunches for women.
Robles cf.........................3 1 1 1 1 1 .200 commercial potential for a solid Luxury lounges for men, none for
Escobar ss ......................3 0 0 0 1 0 .263
Soto rf ............................4 0 0 0 0 1 .295 decade, he would be fired. If he women. Millions upon millions
Bell 1b ............................4
Hernandez lf...................4
0
1
0
1
0 0 0 .245
0 0 0 .312
misstated figures in the millions in promotional and marketing
Adams c..........................4 0 0 0 0 0 .000 and skewed cost-revenue disparities.
García 2b ........................4 2 2 2 0 0 .178
Kieboom 3b ....................4 1 2 2 0 2 .281
allocations, he would be sacked. The NCAA spent $180,000 on
Espino p..........................1 0 0 0 0 0 .071 And if any other leader today in its gleaming basketball courts for
Stevenson ph .................1 0 1 0 0 0 .218
Parra ph..........................1 0 0 0 0 1 .256 corporate America got caught the men during March Madness.
Zimmerman ph...............1 0 0 0 0 0 .231 allowing a hierarchy and It gave the women plastic decals
TOTALS 34 5 7 5 2 5 —
atmosphere in which female that cost $38.75 apiece.
PHILA...................... 004 020 210 — 9 12 0
WASH ..................... 120 000 101 — 5 7 3
executives were not fully Men’s teams got chartered
E: Escobar 2 (3), García (1). LOB: Philadelphia 8, Wash- represented in senior leadership service from airports to hotels
ington 4. 2B: Knapp (3), Jankowski (5), Segura (20),
Hoskins (28), B.Harper (26). HR: Hoskins (24), off Es-
discussions and chronically and booked by a travel agent. The
pino; Gregorius (9), off Rodriguez; Robles (2), off An- determinedly devoted only a women were told to use “existing
derson; García (2), off Anderson; Kieboom (2), off An-
derson; García (3), off Moore. RBI: Jankowski (8), Se-
fraction of resources to the airport transportation where
gura (39), B.Harper 2 (41), Hoskins 3 (66), Gregorius 2 women’s side of a business, he feasible.”
(33), Robles (14), García 2 (3), Kieboom 2 (5). S: Ander-
son 2. would be terminated — and sued. But these details are just the
PHILLIES IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA Yet these are some of the ornaments to what is a larger
Anderson .............. 4 3 3 3 1 1 55 6.75 descriptions of how the NCAA architectural and atmospheric
Hammer............. 0.2 1 0 0 1 1 23 0.00
Moore .................. 4 3 2 2 0 3 52 6.30 apparently has operated under malaise, according to the report,
Kennedy............. 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 2 15.4
Mark Emmert. The takeaway of which uses the word “structure”
NATIONALS IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
the independent report from the no fewer than 51 times. The men’s
Espino ...................... 5 8 6 6 1 3 90 3.66
Rodriguez ................. 2 2 2 2 0 0 33 5.03 law firm Kaplan Hecker & Fink is game is so prioritized that
Guerra....................... 1 2 1 0 0 1 21 4.50
Machado ................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 15 4.00 that anyone who wants to see real women’s administrators have to
WP: Moore (1-3); LP: Espino (3-3). Inherited runners- change in the NCAA’s sexist answer to male counterparts as if
scored: Moore 2-0, Kennedy 1-0. HBP: Espino (Segura), treatment of women had better they are superiors “in both
Rodriguez (Hoskins). WP: Moore.
HOW THEY SCORED
be prepared to break some buried practice and perception.” One
NATIONALS FIRST
old rocks with a hard shovel. The female tournament
Robles homers to left field. Escobar grounds out. Soto report set out to examine why the administrator was assigned to do
called out on strikes. Bell grounds out.
Nationals 1, Phillies 0 women’s basketball tournament an operations job that the men’s
NATIONALS SECOND is so shoddily treated, and it side devoted eight staffers to do.
Hernandez flies out. Adams flies out. Garcia homers.
Kieboom homers to center field. Espino grounds out. discovered a massive bed of “These tensions and skewed
Nationals 3, Phillies 0
PHILLIES THIRD
calcification, one big enough to incentives are embedded in the
Knapp doubles to deep right field. Anderson out on a get Emmert a museum- NCAA’s organizational structure,
sacrifice bunt. Knapp to third. Jankowski doubles to
right field. Knapp scores. Segura doubles to deep left installation as a stalagmite. staffing, budgeting, and culture,”
field. Jankowski scores. Harper singles to shallow cen- Whether that’s out of the report states.
ter field.Segura scores. Hoskins doubles to deep center
field. Harper scores. Gregorius flies out. Bohm called incompetence, malfeasance or The NCAA under Emmert not
out on strikes.
Phillies 4, Nationals 3
pure swinishness is unclear. But only negotiated but recently
PHILLIES FIFTH details are salted all throughout extended long-term contracts
Segura strikes out swinging. Harper singles to left
field. Hoskins homers to center field. Harper scores. the 118-page report, which is with CBS, Turner and sponsors
Gregorius grounds out. Bohm walks. Herrera grounds both a real stunner — and the through 2032 that are specifically
out.
Phillies 6, Nationals 3 smartest thing written on the detrimental to women’s
PHILLIES SEVENTH
Harper flies out. Hoskins hit by pitch. Gregorius homers need for an upgrade in NCAA basketball, constituents Emmert
to right field. Hoskins scores. Moore grounds. Herrera leadership in a long time. The is supposed to equally represent.
lines out.
Phillies 8, Nationals 3 governing body’s upper echelon “The contracts prioritize
NATIONALS SEVENTH is portrayed as not only support for men’s basketball to
Garcia homers to left field. Kieboom strikes out swing-
ing. Parra strikes out swinging. Robles strikes out demeaning, negligent and the exclusion of women’s
swinging.
Phillies 8, Nationals 4 penurious when it comes to the basketball (and other sports),”
PHILLIES EIGHTH
Knapp strikes out swinging. Torreyes grounds out to
marquee women’s event but the Kaplan report states.
second base. Jankowski reaches on error. Segura sin- slanted in its structuring of its These deals are as retro and
gles to shallow infield. Jankowski to second. Harper
doubles to right center field. Segura to third. Jankowski
business deals and deceptive in revenue-stupid as they are
scores. Hoskins flies out. revenue accountings to throw repugnant. The report states that
Phillies 9, Nationals 4
NATIONALS NINTH more cash to men while labeling the women’s basketball
Hernandez singles to center field. Adams lines out. the women’s game a “money tournament ranks among ESPN’s
Garcia flies out. Kieboom singles. Hernandez scores.
Zimmerman grounds out. loser” when it is not. highest-rated programs — with
Phillies 9, Nationals 5
“It just feels like more than viewership comparable to the
neglect,” Stanford Coach Tara NBA Finals, college football
power, the occasional walk, weak VanDerveer said after reading conference title games, MLB
contact, solid defense and crip- the report. “It feels willful. It feels postseason and Grand Slam
pling indecisiveness with Moore’s purposeful.” tennis finals. Championship
off-speed pitches. Robles needs the The report is a huge rebuke to ratings for the women have risen
positives to show up more often. Emmert, who is either so by 32 percent since 2015, at a time
jesse.dougherty@washpost.com incapable of counting that he is when almost every other major
not fit to hold his post or so sport has declined. Women’s
dishonest that he has lied to sports are soaring opportunities
Congress about NCAA finances. in a stale market. An
First, when the shabby
cheapening of the women’s
tournament was exposed in
independent media consultant
labels the women’s tournament
“one of the most valuable U.S.
March, NCAA officials insisted sports media properties” with the
18,398 supporters. Kempin came the budget disparity between the potential for utterly explosive
off his line to break up a pass. men’s and women’s events was growth on multiple platforms.
Gyasi Zardes tracked the ball and $13.5 million. Turns out it was One of the report’s
crossed. Frédéric Brillant spilled more like $35 million. Second, recommendations is that the
it to Kevin Molino for a blast into Emmert and his henchmen went NCAA hire a “chief business
the top of the net. on a concerted campaign to officer.” Lord knows they need
The Crew struck again in the portray the women’s tournament one. “Such blinders, such lack of
71st. Molino hit the crossbar form as a multimillion-dollar loss and vision, lack of leadership,
distance, with the rebound falling cost burden. parochial thinking,” VanDerveer
to Lucas Zelarayán for a close The NCAA’s numbers on that says. “What can you say? It’s like
volley. are funny, too. The calculations sticking with horse and buggy
Everything seemed to be flow- about which sports “purportedly when cars are on the assembly
ing Columbus’s way, but on a make and lose money” are line.”
counterattack, Reyna took on “skewed,” to quote the report, by It is difficult to read the report
Keita, cut inside and whistled an unduly shunting all credit for and not conclude that the
18-yarder into the far corner. The revenue exclusively to the men’s responsibility for this lies with
Crew was all but done. side of the ledger. the man at the very top of the
“Today was about efficiency,” The report says: “The results organization.
Losada said, “but also how we have been cumulative, not only “We’ve been stifled,”
scored the goals.” Two came via fostering skepticism and distrust VanDerveer says. “It’s more than
high pressure on defenders, one about the sincerity of the NCAA’s neglect or not caring. And the
through the Najar cross and an- commitment to gender equity, thing I feel like shouting
other on the counterattack. but also limiting the growth of hallelujah about is that for so
“This is huge,” Kamara said of women’s basketball and many years the NCAA has been
the rare victory by United in cen- perpetuating a mistaken labeling women’s basketball as
tral Ohio. “If we can keep working narrative that women’s the biggest loser. And it’s not
hard and be humble, this [could basketball is destined to be a true. It took this report to point it
be] a really good moment for the ‘money loser’ year after year. out. And I just feel like, where has
team.” Nothing could be further from the oversight been?”
Notes: Because of the person- the truth.” sally.jenkins@washpost.com
nel shortage, rookie defender Ja- Emmert has long been on what
cob Greene, 18, was recalled from seems to be an intentional For more by Sally Jenkins, visit
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WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
BASEBALL
SEMIFINALS
United States 3, Dominican Republic 1
Japan 5, South Korea 2
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
QUARTERFINALS
Serbia 77, China 70
United States 79, Australia 55
Japan 86, Belgium 85
France 67, Spain 64
MEN’S BEACH VOLLEYBALL
QUARTERFINALS
Norway 2, ROC 0 (21-17, 21-19)
Latvia 2, Brazil 0 (21-16, 21-19)
ROC 2, Germany 0 (21-16, 21-19)
Qatar 2, Italy 0 (21-17, 23-21)
WOMEN’S HOCKEY
SEMIFINALS
Netherlands 5, Britain 1
Argentina 2, India 1
WOMEN’S HANDBALL
QUARTERFINALS
ROC 32, Montenegro 26
Norway 26, Hungary 22
Sweden 39, South Korea 30
France 32, Netherlands 22
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL
QUARTERFINALS
South Korea 3, Turkey 2 (25-17, 17-25, 26-28, 25-18,
13-15)
United States 3, Dominican Republic 0 (25-11, 25-20,
25-19)
Serbia 3, Italy 0 (25-21, 25-14, 25-21)
Brazil 3, ROC 1 (23-25, 25-21, 25-19, 25-22)
MEN’S WATER POLO
QUARTERFINALS
Spain 12, United States 8
Greece 10, Montenegro 4
Serbia 10, Italy 6
Hungary 15, Croatia 11
Sport climbing
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
WOMEN
COMBINED
QUALIFICATION
SPEED
1. Aleksandra Miroslaw, Poland, (Lane A: 6.97, Lane B:
7.01), 6.97.
2. Anouck Jaubert, France, (Lane A: 7.12, Lane B: 7.29),
7.12.
3. Song Yiling, China, (Lane A: 8.74, Lane B: 7.46), 7.46.
4. Miho Nonaka, Japan, (Lane A: 7.55, Lane B: 7.74), 7.55.
5. Iuliia Kaplina, ROC, (Lane A: 7.65, Lane B: Fall), 7.65.
6. Alannah Yip, Canada, (Lane A: 8.17, Lane B: 7.99),
7.99.
7. Kyra Condie, United States, (Lane A: 8.12, Lane B:
8.08), 8.08.
8. Julia Chanourdie, France, (Lane A: 8.43, Lane B: 8.17),
8.17.
9. Akiyo Noguchi, Japan, (Lane A: 8.27, Lane B: 8.23),
8.23.
10. Petra Klingler, Switzerland, (Lane A: 8.42, Lane B:
8.67), 8.42.
11. Jessica Pilz, Austria, (Lane A: 8.51, Lane B: 8.63),
8.51.
12. Brooke Raboutou, United States, (Lane A: 8.67, Lane
B: 8.81), 8.67.
13. Oceania Mackenzie, Australia, (Lane A: 8.83, Lane B:
9.38), 8.83.
14. Janja Garnbret, Slovenia, (Lane A: 9.44, Lane B:
10.32), 9.44.
15. Viktoriia Meshkova, ROC, (Lane A: 9.54, Lane B:
9.73), 9.54.
16. Shauna Coxsey, Britain, (Lane A: 9.65, Lane B: 10.07),
9.65.
17. Seo Chaehyun, South Korea, (Lane A: 10.01, Lane B:
11.74), 10.01.
18. Mia Krampl, Slovenia, (Lane A: 10.44, Lane B: 10.43),
10.43.
19. Laura Rogora, Italy, (Lane A: 10.50, Lane B: Fall),
10.50.
20. Erin Sterkenburg, South Africa, (Lane A: Fall, Lane B:
11.10), 11.10.
BOULDERING
1. Janja Garnbret, Slovenia, (T1z1, T1z1, T1z1, T1z1),
4T4z 4 4.
2. Brooke Raboutou, United States, (T2z1, T1z1, z1,
T1z1), 3T4z 4 4.
3. Akiyo Noguchi, Japan, (T2z1, z1, T2z1, T1z1), 3T4z 5 4.
4. Shauna Coxsey, Britain, (T2z1, T1z1, z1, z1), 2T4z 3 4.
5. Seo Chaehyun, South Korea, (T3z1, T2z2, z1, z1), 2T4z
5 5.
6. Viktoriia Meshkova, ROC, (T6z1, T2z2, z1, z1), 2T4z 8
5.
7. Laura Rogora, Italy, (z1, z2, T1z1, z1), 1T4z 1 5.
8. Miho Nonaka, Japan, (T2z1, z1, z1, -), 1T3z 2 3.
9. Jessica Pilz, Austria, (T3z1, z3, z1, -), 1T3z 3 5.
10. Petra Klingler, Switzerland, (T3z1, z3, z4, -), 1T3z 3 8.
11. Kyra Condie, United States, (T4z1, -, z1, z3), 1T3z 4 5.
12. Oceania Mackenzie, Australia, (T3z1, -, z1, -), 1T2z 3
2.
13. Anouck Jaubert, France, (T4z1, -, -, -), 1T1z 4 1.
14. Mia Krampl, Slovenia, (z1, z1, z1, z2), 0T4z 0 5.
15. Julia Chanourdie, France, (z1, z7, z1, -), 0T3z 0 9.
16. Alannah Yip, Canada, (z1, -, z1, -), 0T2z 0 2.
17. Erin Sterkenburg, South Africa, (z1, -, -, -), 0T1z 0 1.
18. Iuliia Kaplina, ROC, (z2, -, -, -), 0T1z 0 2.
19. Song Yiling, China, (z5, -, -, -), 0T1z 0 5.
20. Aleksandra Miroslaw, Poland, (-, -, -, -), 0T0z 0 0.
LEAD
1. Seo Chaehyun, South Korea, 40+.
2. Jessica Pilz, Austria, 33+.
3. Miho Nonaka, Japan, 30+.
4. Janja Garnbret, Slovenia, 30.
5. Viktoriia Meshkova, ROC, 29+.
6. Akiyo Noguchi, Japan, 27+.
7. Mia Krampl, Slovenia, 26+, 3:16.
8. Brooke Raboutou, United States, 26+, 3:40.
9. Julia Chanourdie, France, 25+.
10. Laura Rogora, Italy, 25.
11. Kyra Condie, United States, 22+.
12. Alannah Yip, Canada, 21+, 2:14.
13. Shauna Coxsey, Britain, 21+, 2:23.
14. Petra Klingler, Switzerland, 16+, 1:49.
15. Anouck Jaubert, France, 16+, 2:14.
16. Oceania Mackenzie, Australia, 15+.
17. Iuliia Kaplina, ROC, 14+.
18. Song Yiling, China, 13+.
19. Aleksandra Miroslaw, Poland, 12.
20. Erin Sterkenburg, South Africa, 7+.
Cycling
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
MEN
MEN'S TEAM PURSUIT
FINALS
7-8
7. Britain (Ethan Hayter; Charlie Tanfield; Ethan Vernon;
Oliver Wood; Edward Clancy), 3:45.636.
8. Switzerland (Robin Froidevaux; Stefan Bissegger;
Valere Thiebaud; Cyrille Thiery; Thery SCHIR; Mauro
Schmid), 3:50.041.
5-6
5. Canada (Vincent de Haitre; Michael Foley; Derek Gee;
Jay Lamoureux), 3:46.324.
6. Germany (Roger Kluge; Felix Gross; Leon Rohde;
Domenic Weinstein; Theo Reinhardt), 3:50.023.
BRONZE
3. Australia (Kelland O’Brien; Sam Welsford; Leigh
Howard; Lucas Plapp; Alexander Porter).
4. New Zealand (Aaron Gate; Campbell Stewart; Regan
Gough; Jordan Kerby), OVL.
GOLD
1. Italy (Simone Consonni; Filippo Ganna; Francesco
Lamon; Jonathan Milan), 3:42.032.
2. Denmark (Lasse Norman Hansen; Niklas Larsen;
Frederik Madsen; Rasmus Pedersen), 3:42.198.
WOMEN
KEIRIN
FIRST ROUND
HEAT 1
1. Laurine van Riessen, Netherlands, 0.000 (QF).
2. Zhong Tianshi, China, +0.174 (QF).
3. Lee Hyejin, South Korea, +0.371 (R).
4. Lee Hoi Yan Jessica, Hong Kong, +0.445 (R).
5. Katy Marchant, Britain, REL (R).
HEAT 2
1. Lea Sophie Friedrich, Germany, 0.000 (QF).
2. Daria Shmeleva, ROC, +0.102 (QF).
3. Lee Wai Sze, Hong Kong, +0.188 (R).
4. Charlene du Preez, South Africa, +0.309 (R).
5. Coralie Demay, France, +0.425 (R).
6. Migle Marozaite, Lithuania, +1.364 (R).
HEAT 3
1. Kelsey Mitchell, Canada, 0.000 (QF).
2. Luz Daniela Gaxiola Gonzalez, Mexico, +0.100 (QF).
3. Anastasiia Voinova, ROC, +0.119 (R).
4. Bao Shanju, China, +0.206 (R).
5. Emma Hinze, Germany, +0.310 (R).
6. Liubov Basova, Ukraine, +0.554 (R).
HEAT 4
1. Olena Starikova, Ukraine, 0.000 (QF).
2. Yuka Kobayashi, Japan, +0.070 (QF).
3. Shanne Braspennincx, Netherlands, +0.105 (R).
4. Ellesse Andrews, New Zealand, +0.182 (R).
5. Marlena Karwacka, Poland, +0.400 (R).
6. Simona Krupeckaite, Lithuania, +1.093 (R).
HEAT 5
1. Lauriane Genest, Canada, 0.000 (QF).
2. Madalyn Godby, United States, +0.075 (QF).
3. Urszula Los, Poland, +0.159 (R).
4. Kaarle McCulloch, Australia, +0.365 (R).
5. Yuli Verdugo Osuna, Mexico, +0.440 (R).
6. Mathilde Gros, France, +1.126 (R).
O L Y MPI C S
Track and field
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
MEN
800M
FINAL
1. Emmanuel Kipkurui Korir, Kenya, 1:45.06.
2. Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich, Kenya, 1:45.23.
3. Patryk Dobek, Poland, 1:45.39.
4. Peter Bol, Australia, 1:45.92.
5. Adrian Ben, Spain, 1:45.96.
6. Amel Tuka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1:45.98.
7. Gabriel Tual, France, 1:46.03.
8. Nijel Amos, Botswana, 1:46.41.
9. Clayton Murphy, United States, 1:46.53.
200M
FINAL
1. Andre de Grasse, Canada, 19.62.
2. Kenneth Bednarek, United States, 19.68.
3. Noah Lyles, United States, 19.74.
4. Erriyon Knighton, United States, 19.93.
5. Joseph Fahnbulleh, Liberia, 19.98.
6. Aaron Brown, Canada, 20.20.
7. Rasheed Dwyer, Jamaica, 20.21.
8. Jereem Richards, Trinidad and Tobago, 20.39.
WOMEN
HEPTATHLON
400M HURDLES
FINAL
1. Sydney McLaughlin, United States, 51.46.
2. Dalilah Muhammad, United States, 51.58.
3. Femke Bol, Netherlands, 52.03.
4. Janieve Russell, Jamaica, 53.08.
5. Anna Ryzhykova, Ukraine, 53.48.
6. Viktoriya Tkachuk, Ukraine, 53.79.
7. Gianna Woodruff, Panama, 55.84.
8. Anna Cockrell, United States, DQ.
1500M
SEMIFINAL 1
1. Faith Kipyegon, Kenya, 3:56.80 (Q).
2. Freweyni Gebreezibeher, Ethiopia, 3:57.54 (Q).
3. Gabriela Debues-Stafford, Canada, 3:58.28 (Q).
4. Jessica Hull, Australia, 3:58.81 (Q).
5. Nozomi Tanaka, Japan, 3:59.19 (Q).
6. Elinor Purrier St. Pierre, United States, 4:01.00.
7. Kristiina Maki, Czech Republic, 4:01.23.
8. Gaia Sabbatini, Italy, 4:02.25.
9. Katie Snowden, Britain, 4:02.93.
10. Martyna Galant, Poland, 4:06.01.
11. Cory Ann McGee, United States, 4:10.39 (qR).
12. Caterina Granz, Germany, 4:10.93.
13. Winny Chebet, Kenya, 4:11.62.
SEMIFINAL 2
1. Sifan Hassan, Netherlands, 4:00.23 (Q).
2. Laura Muir, Britain, 4:00.73 (Q).
3. Linden Hall, Australia, 4:01.37 (Q).
4. Winnie Nanyondo, Uganda, 4:01.64 (Q).
5. Marta Perez, Spain, 4:01.69 (Q).
6. Lucia Stafford, Canada, 4:02.12.
7. Sara Kuivisto, Finland, 4:02.35.
8. Diana Mezulianikova, Czech Republic, 4:03.70.
9. Lemlem Hailu, Ethiopia, 4:03.76.
10. Marta Pen Freitas, Portugal, 4:04.15.
11. Elise Vanderelst, Belgium, 4:04.86.
12. Heather Maclean, United States, 4:05.33.
13. Edinah Jebitok, Kenya, 4:05.56.
400M
SEMIFINAL 1
1. Marileidy Paulino, Dominican Republic, 49.38 (Q).
2. Candice McLeod, Jamaica, 49.51 (Q).
3. Roxana Gomez, Cuba, 49.71.
4. Quanera Hayes, United States, 49.81.
5. Eleni Artymata, Cyprus, 50.80.
6. Susanne Walli, Austria, 51.52.
7. Ama Pipi, Britain, 51.59.
8. Lada Vondrova, Czech Republic, 51.62.
SEMIFINAL 2
1. Shaunae Miller-Uibo, Bahamas, 49.60 (Q).
2. Jodie Williams, Britain, 49.97 (Q).
3. Roneisha McGregor, Jamaica, 50.34.
4. Wadeline Jonathas, United States, 50.51.
5. Paola Moran, Mexico, 51.06.
6. Lieke Klaver, Netherlands, 51.37.
7. Aliyah Abrams, Guyana, 51.46.
8. Aauri Lorena Bokesa, Spain, 51.57.
SEMIFINAL 3
1. Stephenie Ann McPherson, Jamaica, 49.34 (Q).
2. Allyson Felix, United States, 49.89 (Q).
3. Sada Williams, Barbados, 50.11.
4. Natalia Kaczmarek, Poland, 50.79.
5. Kyra Constantine, Canada, 51.22.
6. Amandine Brossier, France, 51.30.
7. Catia Azevedo, Portugal, 51.32.
8. Lisanne de Witte, Netherlands, 52.09.
3000M STEEPLECHASE
FINAL
1. Peruth Chemutai, Uganda, 9:01.45.
2. Courtney Frerichs, United States, 9:04.79.
3. Hyvin Kiyeng, Kenya, 9:05.39.
4. Mekides Abebe, Ethiopia, 9:06.16.
5. Gesa Felicitas Krause, Germany, 9:14.00.
6. Marusa Mismas-Zrimsek, Slovenia, 9:14.84.
7. Beatrice Chepkoech, Kenya, 9:16.33.
8. Zerfe Wondemagegn, Ethiopia, 9:16.41.
9. Elizabeth Bird, Britain, 9:19.68.
10. Winfred Mutile Yavi, Bahrain, 9:19.74.
11. Genevieve Lalonde, Canada, 9:22.40.
12. Valerie Constien, United States, 9:31.61.
13. Luiza Gega, Albania, 9:34.10.
14. Carolina Robles, Spain, 9:50.96.
15. Genevieve Gregson, Australia, DNF.
15. Emma Coburn, United States, DQ.
THURSDAY’S RESULTS
MEN
SHOT PUT
FINAL
1. Ryan Crouser, United States, (23.30), 76-5 1-4.
2. Joe Kovacs, United States, (22.65), 74-3 3-4.
3. Tomas Walsh, New Zealand, (22.47), 73-8 3-4.
4. Darlan Romani, Brazil, (21.88), 71-9 1-2.
5. Zane Weir, Italy, (21.41), 70-3.
6. Kyle Blignaut, South Africa, (21.00), 68-10 3-4.
7. Armin Sinancevic, Serbia, (20.89), 68-6 1-2.
8. Mostafa Amr Hassan, Egypt, (20.73), 68-0 1-4.
9. Jacko Gill, New Zealand, (20.71), 67-11 1-2.
10. Payton Otterdahl, United States, (20.32), 66-8.
11. Mesud Pezer, Bosnia and Herzegovina, (20.08),
65-10 1-2.
12. Chukwuebuka Enekwechi, Nigeria, (19.74), 64-9 1-4.
110M HURDLES
FINAL
1. Hansle Parchment, Jamaica, 13.04.
2. Grant Holloway, United States, 13.09.
3. Ronald Levy, Jamaica, 13.10.
4. Devon Allen, United States, 13.14.
5. Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, France, 13.16.
6. Asier Martinez, Spain, 13.22.
7. Andrew Pozzi, Britain, 13.30.
8. Aurel Manga, France, 13.38.
Table tennis
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
MEN'S TEAM
SEMIFINALS
China (Fan Zhendong; Xu Xin; Ma Long), def. South
Korea (Jang Woojin; Jeoung Youngsik; Lee Sangsu), 3-0.
Germany (Dimitrij Ovtcharov; Patrick Franziska; Timo
Boll), def. Japan (Tomokazu Harimoto; Koki Niwa; Jun
Mizutani), 3-2.
MATCH 1
China (Xu Xin; Ma Long), def. South Korea (Jeoung
Youngsik; Lee Sangsu), 11-5, 11-5, 11-8.
Germany (Patrick Franziska; Timo Boll), def. Japan (Koki
Niwa; Jun Mizutani), 11-2, 11-3, 9-11, 8-11, 11-7.
MATCH 2
Fan Zhendong, China, def. Jang Woojin, South Korea,
11-7, 11-9, 16-14.
Tomokazu Harimoto, Japan, def. Dimitrij Ovtcharov,
Germany, 7-11, 13-11, 11-5, 11-9.
MATCH 3
Ma Long, China, def. Lee Sangsu, South Korea, 11-9,
11-8, 9-11, 13-15, 11-6.
Timo Boll, Germany, def. Jun Mizutani, Japan, 7-11,
13-11, 11-7, 11-7.
MATCH 4
Xu Xin, China, vs. Jang Woojin, South Korea, TBD.
Tomokazu Harimoto, Japan, def. Patrick Franziska,
Germany, 5-11, 9-11, 11-5, 11-9, 11-9.
MATCH 5
Fan Zhendong, China, vs. Jeoung Youngsik, South Korea,
TBD.
Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Germany, def. Koki Niwa, Japan,
11-9, 11-7, 11-8.
WOMEN'S TEAM
SEMIFINALS
China (Sun Yingsha; Wang Manyu; Chen Meng), def.
Germany (Ying Han; Xiaona Shan; Petrissa Solja), 3-0.
MATCH 1
China (Wang Manyu; Chen Meng), def. Germany (Xiaona
Shan; Petrissa Solja), 11-9, 11-2, 11-4.
MATCH 2
Sun Yingsha, China, def. Ying Han, Germany, 11-6, 11-4,
11-9.
MATCH 3
Chen Meng, China, def. Petrissa Solja, Germany, 5-11,
11-4, 11-9, 13-11.
MATCH 4
Sun Yingsha, China, vs. Xiaona Shan, Germany, TBD.
MATCH 5
Wang Manyu, China, vs. Ying Han, Germany, TBD.
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scoreboard
Wrestling
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
MEN
GRECO-ROMAN 67KG
REPECHAGE
Frank Staebler, Germany, def. Julian Stiven Horta
Acevedo, Colombia, 8-0, Technical Superiority.
Artem Surkov, ROC, def. Fredrik Holmquist Bjerrehu-
us, Denmark, 7-0, 0-0, Points.
BRONZE MEDAL MATCHES
Frank Staebler, Germany, def. Ramaz Zoidze, Geor-
gia, 5-1, 0-3, Points.
Mohamed Ibrahim Elsayed Elsayed, Egypt, def. Artem
Surkov, ROC, 0-1, 1-0, Points.
FINAL
Mohammadreza Geraei, Iran, def. Parviz Nasibov,
Ukraine, 3-1, 6-0, Technical Superiority.
GRECO-ROMAN 87KG
REPECHAGE
Denis Maksymilian Kudla, Germany, def. Atabek
Azisbekov, Kyrgyzstan, 1-2, 9-0, Technical Superiori-
ty.
Zurabi Datunashvili, Serbia, def. Bachir Sid Azara,
Algeria, 0-1, 5-0, Points.
BRONZE MEDAL MATCHES
Denis Maksymilian Kudla, Germany, def. Mohamed
Metwally, Egypt, 0-1, 8-0, Pin.
Zurabi Datunashvili, Serbia, def. Ivan Huklek, Croa-
tia, 6-0, 0-1, Points.
FINAL
Zhan Beleniuk, Ukraine, def. Viktor Lorincz, Hungary,
0-1, 5-0, Points.
FREESTYLE 57KG
1/8 FINALS
Yuki Takahashi, Japan, def. Stevan Andria Micic,
Serbia, 2-0, 5-0, Points.
Nurislam Sanayev, Kazakhstan, def. Diamantino Iuna
Fafe, Guinea-Bissau, 4-0, 3-0, Points.
Georgi Valentinov Vangelov, Bulgaria, def. Abdelhak
Kherbache, Algeria, 5-0, 6-0, Pin.
Kumar Ravi, India, def. Oscar Eduardo Tigreros
Urbano, Colombia, 3-2, 10-0, Technical Superiority.
Reza Atrinagharchi, Iran, def. Suleyman Atli, Turkey,
1-0, 2-2, Points.
Bekhbayar Erdenebat, Mongolia, def. Arsen Harutyu-
nyan, Armenia, 2-1, 4-0, Points.
Gulomjon Abdullaev, Uzbekistan, def. Liu Minghu,
China, 2-2, 8-0, Points.
Zavur Uguev, ROC, def. Thomas Patrick Gilman,
United States, 1-1, 4-3, Points.
1/4 FINALS
Nurislam Sanayev, Kazakhstan, def. Yuki Takahashi,
Japan, 0-2, 4-2, Points.
Kumar Ravi, India, def. Georgi Valentinov Vangelov,
Bulgaria, 6-0, 8-4, Technical Superiority.
Reza Atrinagharchi, Iran, def. Bekhbayar Erdenebat,
Mongolia, 1-0, 4-1, Points.
Zavur Uguev, ROC, def. Gulomjon Abdullaev, Uzbeki-
stan, 2-2, 4-4, Points.
SEMIFINALS
Kumar Ravi, India, def. Nurislam Sanayev, Kazakh-
stan, 2-1, 5-8, Pin.
Zavur Uguev, ROC, def. Reza Atrinagharchi, Iran, 2-2,
6-1, Points.
FREESTYLE 86KG
1/8 FINALS
Hassan Yazdanicharati, Iran, def. Javrail Shapiev,
Uzbekistan, 5-2, 6-0, Points.
Stefan Reichmuth, Switzerland, def. Fateh Benferd-
jallah, Algeria, 3-0, 3-2, Points.
Osman Gocen, Turkey, def. Sohsuke Takatani, Japan,
2-1, 0-1, Points.
Artur Naifonov, ROC, def. Boris Makoev, Slovakia,
2-0, 4-0, Points.
Myles Nazem Amine, San Marino, def. Carlos Arturo
Izquierdo Mendez, Colombia, 8-2, 4-0, Technical
Superiority.
David Morris Taylor Iii, United States, def. Ali
Shabanau, Belarus, 3-0, 8-0, Technical Superiority.
Lin Zushen, China, def. Pool Edinson Ambrocio Greifo,
Peru, 5-0, 6-0, Technical Superiority.
Deepak Punia, India, def. Ekerekeme Agiomor, Ni-
geria, 4-1, 8-0, Technical Superiority.
1/4 FINALS
Hassan Yazdanicharati, Iran, def. Stefan Reichmuth,
Switzerland, 12-1, Technical Superiority.
Artur Naifonov, ROC, def. Osman Gocen, Turkey, 8-1,
4-0, Technical Superiority.
David Morris Taylor Iii, United States, def. Myles
Nazem Amine, San Marino, 6-2, 6-0, Technical
Superiority.
Deepak Punia, India, def. Lin Zushen, China, 1-0, 5-3,
Points.
SEMIFINALS
Hassan Yazdanicharati, Iran, def. Artur Naifonov,
ROC, 1-0, 6-1, Points.
David Morris Taylor Iii, United States, def. Deepak
Punia, India, 10-0, Technical Superiority.
WOMEN
FREESTYLE 62KG
REPECHAGE
Anastasija Grigorjeva, Latvia, def. Kriszta Tunde
Incze, Romania, 2-2, 12-5, Points.
Liubov Ovcharova, ROC, def. Henna Katarina Johans-
son, Sweden, 4-1, 4-6, Points.
BRONZE MEDAL MATCHES
Iryna Koliadenko, Ukraine, def. Anastasija Grigorje-
va, Latvia, 1-1, 2-0, Points.
Taybe Mustafa Yusein, Bulgaria, def. Liubov Ovcharo-
va, ROC, 10-0, Technical Superiority.
FINAL
Yukako Kawai, Japan, def. Aisuluu Tynybekova,
Kyrgyzstan, 2-1, 2-2, Points.
FREESTYLE 57KG
1/4 FINALS
Risako Kawai, Japan, def. Khongorzul Boldsaikhan,
Mongolia, 1-0, 6-0, Points.
Helen Louise Maroulis, United States, def. Tetyana
Kit, Ukraine, 2-0, 6-0, Points.
Iryna Kurachkina, Belarus, def. Valeria Koblova, ROC,
1-1, 5-2, Points.
Evelina Georgieva Nikolova, Bulgaria, def. Anastasia
Nichita, Moldova, 0-3, 6-0, Points.
SEMIFINALS
Risako Kawai, Japan, def. Helen Louise Maroulis,
United States, 1-0, 1-1, Points.
Iryna Kurachkina, Belarus, def. Evelina Georgieva
Nikolova, Bulgaria, 2-0, 9-0, Technical Superiority.
Diving
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
WOMEN
10M PLATFORM
PRELIMINARY
1. Chen Yuxi, China, 390.70 (Q).
2. Quan Hongchan, China, 364.45 (Q).
3. Delaney Schnell, United States, 360.75 (Q).
4. Melissa Wu, Australia, 351.20 (Q).
5. Meaghan Benfeito, Canada, 331.85 (Q).
6. Elena Wassen, Germany, 323.80 (Q).
7. Lois Toulson, Britain, 314.00 (Q).
8. Iuliia Timoshinina, ROC, 313.20 (Q).
9. Alejandra Orozco Loza, Mexico, 308.10 (Q).
10. Andrea Spendolini Sirieix, Britain, 307.70 (Q).
11. Celine van Duijn, Netherlands, 306.80 (Q).
12. Gabriela Agundez Garcia, Mexico, 297.65 (Q).
13. Christina Wassen, Germany, 297.15 (Q).
14. Alais Kalonji, France, 295.90 (Q).
15. Sarah Jodoin di Maria, Italy, 291.05 (Q).
16. Tanya Watson, Ireland, 289.40 (Q).
17. Katrina Young, United States, 286.65 (Q).
18. Pandelela Pamg, Malaysia, 284.90 (Q).
19. Kwon Halim, South Korea, 278.00 (R).
20. Maha Abdelsalam, Egypt, 275.30 (R).
21. Nikita Hains, Australia, 270.00.
22. Matsuri Arai, Japan, 268.80.
23. Celina Toth, Canada, 261.40.
24. Ingrid Oliveira, Brazil, 261.20.
25. Anna Konanykhina, ROC, 252.85.
26. Jun Hoong Cheong, Malaysia, 251.80.
27. Noemi Batki, Italy, 226.95.
28. Anne Tuxen, Norway, 219.15.
29. Sofiia Lyskun, Ukraine, 216.55.
30. Shen-Yan Freida Lim, Singapore, 215.90.
Weightlifting
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
MEN
+109KG
GROUP B
1. Peter Nagy, Hungary (3, 178-392; 1, 218-481), 396
kg.-873 pounds.
2. Marcos Ruiz I Velasco, Spain (1, 180-397; 3,
215-474), 395-871.
3. Caine Morgan Wilkes, United States (5, 173-381; 2,
217-478), 390-860.
4. Sargis Martirosjan, Austria (2, 180-397; 6, 201-
443), 381-840.
5. David Litvinov, Israel (4, 176-388; 5, 205-452),
381-840.
6. Hsieh Yun-Ting, Taiwan (6, 172-379; 4, 206-454),
378-833.
GROUP A
1. Lasha Talakhadze, Georgia (1, 223-492; 1, 265-
584), 488 kg.-1076 pounds.
2. Ali Davoudi, Iran (2, 200-441; 2, 241-531), 441-972.
3. Man Asaad, Syria (3, 190-419; 4, 234-516),
424-935.
4. Hojamuhammet Toychyyev, Turkmenistan (4, 184-
406; 6, 230-507), 414-913.
5. David Andrew Liti, New Zealand (6, 178-392; 3,
236-520), 414-913.
6. Enzo Kofi Kuworge, Netherlands (7, 175-386; 5,
234-516), 409-902.
7. Jiri Orsag, Czech Republic (5, 180-397; 7, -), -.
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S OCCER
Sailing MLS FC Cincinnati 0,
WEDNESDAY’S RESUTS Red Bulls 0
EAST W L T Pts GF GA
New England ....................11 3 4 37 33 21 CINCINNATI 0 0 0
MEN NEW YORK RED BULLS 0 0 0
Orlando City........................8 4 5 29 27 22
TWO PERSON DINGHY - 470 Philadelphia........................7 4 7 28 24 17
470 First Half: None.
Nashville.............................6 1 10 28 25 15 Second Half: None.
MEDAL RACE New York City FC................8 5 3 27 30 16 Goalies: Cincinnati, Kenneth Vermeer, Przemyslaw Ty-
1. Australia (Mathew Belcher; Will Ryan) (4, 2, 2, 2, 2), D.C. United .........................7 7 3 24 25 20 ton; New York Red Bulls, Carlos Miguel Coronel, Ryan
12. Columbus............................6 5 6 24 19 20 Meara.
2. Sweden (Anton Dahlberg; Fredrik Bergstrom) (2, 4, 4, CF Montréal........................6 6 5 23 23 22 Yellow Cards: Tarek, New York Red Bulls, 23rd; Cruz,
4, 4), 18. New York ............................5 7 4 19 20 20 Cincinnati, 32nd; Barreal, Cincinnati, 70th; Kubo, Cincin-
3. New Zealand (Paul Snow-Hansen; Dan Willcox) (10, 8, Cincinnati ...........................3 7 6 15 17 29 nati, 77th; Yearwood, New York Red Bulls, 88th.
6, 6, 6), 36. Atlanta ...............................2 6 9 15 18 23 Cincinnati, Kenneth Vermeer; Geoff Cameron, Nick
4. Spain (Jordi Xammar; Nicolas Rodriguez Garcia-Paz) Chicago ...............................3 9 5 14 18 28 Hagglund, Ronald Matarrita, Gustavo Vallecilla; Luciano
(6, 6, 8, 10, 10), 40. Toronto FC..........................3 9 5 14 21 36 Acosta (Haris Medunjanin, 78th), Alvaro Barreal, Allan
5. United States (Stuart McNay; David Hughes) (8, 10, Inter Miami CF....................3 8 4 13 13 25 Cruz, Joseph-Claude Gyau; Brenner (Brandon Vazquez,
10, 8, 8), 44. 88th), Yuya Kubo.
6. Japan (Keiju Okada; Jumpei Hokazono) (12, 12, 14, 12, New York Red Bulls, Carlos Miguel Coronel; Kyle Duncan,
WEST W L T Pts GF GA
12), 62. Tom Edwards, Andrew Gutman (John Tolkin, 62nd),
Seattle................................9 3 6 33 26 14
7. Italy (Giacomo Ferrari; Giulio Calabro) (16, 18, 12, 14, x-Sporting KC .....................9 4 3 30 29 19 Amro Tarek; Wikelman Carmona (Dru Yearwood, 71st),
14), 74. x-LA Galaxy ........................9 6 1 28 27 27 Cristian Casseres Jr, Caden Clark (Frankie Amaya, 71st),
8. Britain (Luke Patience; Chris Grube) (14, 16, 18, 16, Colorado..............................8 4 3 27 22 16 Sean Davis; Fabio, Patryk Klimala (Tom Barlow, 62nd).
16), 80. x-Los Angeles FC................6 5 5 23 22 19
9. Greece (Panagiotis Mantis; Pavlos Kagialis) (20, 14, Minnesota United ..............6 5 5 23 19 21
16, 18, 18), 86. x-Real Salt Lake .................5 4 6 21 24 16 New York City FC 0, Fire 0
10. Turkey (Deniz Cinar; Ates Cinar) (18, 20, 20, 20, 20), x-Portland...........................6 8 1 19 19 26
98. Houston ..............................3 5 9 18 19 23 NEW YORK CITY FC 0 0 0
FC Dallas.............................4 7 6 18 21 25 CHICAGO 0 0 0
WOMEN
TWO PERSON DINGHY - 470 x-San Jose ..........................4 7 5 17 18 25 First Half: None.
Austin FC............................4 8 4 16 13 18 Second Half: None.
470 Vancouver...........................3 7 6 15 18 27
Goalies: New York City FC, Sean Johnson, Luis Barraza;
MEDAL RACE Chicago, Gabriel Slonina, Chris Brady.
x-Late match
1. Switzerland (Linda Fahrni; Maja Siegenthaler) (2, 2, 2, Yellow Cards: Parks, New York City FC, 42nd; Tajouri,
2, 2), 10. SATURDAY’S RESULTS New York City FC, 84th; Kappelhof, Chicago, 90th.
2. Germany (Luise Wanser; Anastasiya Winkel) (6, 8, 6, A: 8,371.
4, 4), 28. San Jose 1, Seattle 0 New York City FC, Sean Johnson; Alexander Callens,
3. Britain (Hannah Mills; Eilidh McIntyre) (4, 4, 4, 10, 10), New England 3, New York 2 Maxime Chanot, Gudmundur Thorarinsson (Malte
32.
D.C. United 0, Cincinnati 0 Amundsen, 83rd), Anton Tinnerholm; Jesus Medina
4. Israel (Noya Bar Am; Shahar Tibi) (8, 6, 8, 6, 6), 34.
Miami 2, CF Montréal 1 (Ismael Tajouri, 67th), Alfredo Morales, Maxi Moralez
5. Poland (Agnieszka Skrzypulec; Jolanta Ogar) (14, 10, (Andres Jasson, 90th+5), Keaton Parks; Valentin Castel-
FC Dallas 2, Sporting KC 1
10, 8, 8), 50. lanos (Santiago Rodriguez, 83rd), Thiago (Nicolas
6. France (Camille Lecointre; Aloise Retornaz) (12, 12, Real Salt Lake 0, Houston 0 Acevedo, 67th).
12, 12, 12), 60. Colorado 1, Austin FC 0 Chicago, Gabriel Slonina; Jonathan Bornstein (Brian
7. Slovenia (Tina Mrak; Veronika Macarol) (18, 16, 14, Minnesota 2, Vancouver 2 Gutierrez, 87th), Francisco Calvo, Johan Kappelhof
14, 14), 76. (Carlos Teran, 90th+3), Chinonso Offor (Luka Sto-
8. Netherlands (Afrodite Zegers; Lobke Berkhout) (10, SUNDAY’S RESULTS janovic, 87th), Mauricio Pineda, Boris Sekulic; Ignacio
20, 18, 18, 18), 84. Chicago 1, Philadelphia 1 Aliseda, Gaston Gimenez, Alvaro Medran; Stanislav
9. Brazil (Fernanda Oliveira; Ana Barbachan) (16, 14, 16, Nashville 1, Toronto FC 1 Ivanov (Robert Beric, 64th).
20, 20), 86.
10. Japan (Ai Kondo Yoshida; Miho Yoshioka) (20, 18, 20, WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
16, 16), 90.
D.C. United 4, Columbus 2 Nashville 0, Revolution 0
Nashville 0, New England 0
NASHVILLE 0 0 0
Atlanta 2, CF Montréal 2
NEW ENGLAND 0 0 0
Philadelphia 3, Toronto FC 0
Equestrian Miami 1, Orlando City 1 First Half: None.
Second Half: None.
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS New York City FC 0, Chicago 0
Goalies: Nashville, Joe Willis, Bryan Meredith; New
Cincinnati 0, New York 0 England, Matt Turner, Earl Edwards Jr, Brad Knighton.
OPEN Austin FC 3, Houston 2 Yellow Cards: LaGrassa, Nashville, 33rd; Bou, New
JUMPING INDIVIDUAL FC Dallas 1, at Seattle 1
England, 34th; Farrell, New England, 37th; Kaptoum,
FINAL Sporting KC at Los Angeles FC, Late New England, 48th.
Real Salt Lake at LA Galaxy, Late Nashville, Joe Willis; Jalil Anibaba, Jack Maher, Eric
1. Ben Maher (EXPLOSION W), Britain, 0.
1. Daisuke Fukushima (CHANYON), Japan, 0. San Jose at Portland, Late Miller, Dave Romney, Taylor Washington (Daniel Lovitz,
70th); Brian Anunga, Matt LaGrassa (Anibal Godoy,
1. Maikel van der Vleuten (BEAUVILLE Z), Netherlands, 0.
1. Henrik von Eckermann (KING EDWARD), Sweden, 0. SATURDAY’S MATCHES 64th), Alex Muyl (Randall Leal, 79th); Jhonder Cadiz (C J
Sapong, 64th), Ake Arnaud Loba (Hany Mukhtar, 47th).
1. Malin Baryard-Johnsson (INDIANA), Sweden, 0. Atlanta at Columbus, 7:30
1. Peder Fredricson (ALL IN), Sweden, 0. New England, Matt Turner; Brandon Bye, Andrew
Orlando City at Cincinnati, 7:30 Farrell, Henry Kessler; Wilfrid Kaptoum (Emmanuel
7. Scott Brash (JEFFERSON), Britain, 1.
7. Cian O’Connor (KILKENNY), Ireland, 1. Houston at Minnesota, 8 Boateng, 63rd), Matt Polster, Arnor Traustason (Tommy
New York City FC at Toronto FC, 8 McNamara, 63rd); Gustavo Bou, Tajon Buchanan (Teal
9. Gregory Wathelet (NEVADOS S), Belgium, 4.
10. Luciana Diniz (VERTIGO DU DESERT), Portugal, 4. Austin FC at FC Dallas, 8:30 Bunbury, 81st), Adam Buksa, DeJuan Jones.
11. Ashlee Bond (DONATELLO 141), Israel, 5. Sporting KC at Colorado, 9
12. Nicolas Delmotte (URVOSO DU ROCH), France, 5.
Real Salt Lake at Portland, 10:30
13. Koki Saito (CHILENSKY), Japan, 5.
14. Jerome Guery (QUEL HOMME DE HUS), Belgium, 7. SUNDAY’S MATCHES Austin FC 3, Dynamo 2
15. Bertram Allen (PACINO AMIRO), Ireland, 8. New York at Chicago, 6 HOUSTON 1 1 2
16. Martin Fuchs (CLOONEY 51), Switzerland, 8.
Philadelphia at New England, 6 AUSTIN FC 2 1 3
17. Darragh Kenny (CARTELLO), Ireland, 8.
Nashville at Miami, 6 First Half: 1, Austin FC, Pochettino, 1 (Cascante), 7th
18. Daniel Deusser (KILLER QUEEN), Germany, 8.
minute; 2, Houston, Pasher, 4, 27th; 3, Austin FC,
19. Mouda Zeyada (GALANTHOS SHK), Egypt, 8. Los Angeles FC at San Jose, 7
Pochettino, 2, 45th+1.
20. Yuri Mansur (ALFONS), Brazil, 8. CF Montréal at D.C. United, 8
Second Half: 4, Austin FC, Dominguez, 4 (Fagundez),
21. Marc Houtzager (DANTE), Netherlands, 13. Vancouver at LA Galaxy, 8
56th; 5, Houston, Picault, 3, 86th.
22. Mario Deslauriers (BARDOLINA 2), Canada, 13.
Goalies: Houston, Marko Maric, Michael Nelson; Austin
23. Kristaps Neretnieks (VALOUR), Latvia, 13.
FC, Brad Stuver, Andrew Tarbell.
24. Nayel Nassar (IGOR VAN DE WITTEMOERE), Egypt, 13. D.C. United 4,
25. Eiken Sato (SAPHYR DES LACS), Japan, 16. Yellow Cards: Dorsey, Houston, 79th; Stroud, Austin FC,
26. Niels Bruynseels (DELUX VAN T & L), Belgium, EL. Crew 2 83rd.
26. Daniel Meech (CINCA 3), New Zealand, EL. Red Cards: Ceren, Houston, 20th.
D.C. UNITED 3 1 4 Houston, Marko Maric; Teenage Hadebe, Sam Junqua
26. Harry Charles (ROMEO 88), Britain, RT.
26. Geir Gulliksen (QUATRO), Norway, RT. COLUMBUS 0 2 2 (Adam Lundqvist, 65th), Tim Parker, Tyler Pasher
(Griffin Dorsey, 32nd), Zarek Valentin; Darwin Ceren,
26. Beat Mandli (DSARIE), Switzerland, RT. First Half: 1, D.C. United, Kamara, 8, 19th minute; 2, D.C.
United, Reyna, 1 (Najar), 40th; 3, D.C. United, Kamara, 9 Joe Corona (Mateo Bajamich, 90th), Fafa Picault, Matias
Vera (Boniek Garcia, 65th); Corey Baird (Memo Rodri-
(penalty kick), 45th+3.
Second Half: 4, Columbus, Molino, 1, 65th; 5, Columbus, guez, 65th).
Austin FC, Brad Stuver; Matt Besler, Julio Cascante
PRO F OOTBALL Zelarrayan, 6, 71st; 6, D.C. United, Reyna, 2 (Skundrich),
74th. (Jhohan Romana, 64th), Zan Kolmanic; Sebastian Berh-
alter, Diego Fagundez (Rodney Redes, 77th), Hector
Goalies: D.C. United, Bill Hamid, Jon Kempin; Columbus,
NFL preseason Eloy Room, Evan Bush. Jimenez (Nick Lima, 64th), Tomas Pochettino, Alexan-
der Ring (Daniel Pereira, 64th); Cecilio Dominguez
Yellow Cards: Keita, Columbus, 24th; Etienne, Colum-
WEEK 1 bus, 30th; Mensah, Columbus, 45th+1; Alfaro, D.C. (Jared Stroud, 71st), Jon Gallagher.
United, 66th.
THURSDAY’S HALL OF FAME GAME A: 18,398.
Dallas vs Pittsburgh at Canton, OH, 8
D.C. United, Bill Hamid (Jon Kempin, 17th); Tony Alfaro, NWSL
Steve Birnbaum, Frederic Brillant; Julian Gressel, Felipe
Martins, Junior Moreno, Andy Najar, Kevin Paredes
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12 W L T Pts GF GA
(Yamil Asad, 71st); Ola Kamara (Drew Skundrich, 46th), Portland..............................8 3 1 25 19 7
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 7:30 Yordy Reyna (Griffin Yow, 80th).
Gotham FC..........................5 1 5 20 13 7
Washington at New England, 7:30 Columbus, Eloy Room; Saad Abdul-Salaam, Waylon Chicago ...............................6 5 2 20 15 18
Francis (Alexandru Matan, 80th), Aboubacar Keita,
Washington........................5 4 3 18 15 14
FRIDAY, AUGUST 13 Jonathan Mensah; Derrick Etienne (Luis Diaz, 56th),
North Carolina ....................5 4 3 18 16 9
Buffalo at Detroit, 7 Kevin Molino, Darlington Nagbe, Lucas Zelarrayan; Houston ..............................5 5 2 17 14 13
Marlon Hairston (Pedro Santos, 72nd), Erik Hurtado
Tennessee at Atlanta, 7 Orlando ...............................4 4 5 17 15 16
(Gyasi Zardes, 56th). OL Reign .............................5 6 1 16 12 13
Dallas at Arizona, 10
Louisville ............................3 6 2 11 7 17
SATURDAY, AUGUST 14 Kansas City.........................0 8 4 4 5 17
Miami at Chicago, 1
Union 3, SATURDAY’S RESULTS
Denver at Minnesota, 4
Cleveland at Jacksonville, 7 Toronto FC 0 Orlando 1, North Carolina 1
New Orleans at Baltimore, 7 OL Reign 2, Louisville 0
Cincinnati at Tampa Bay, 7:30 TORONTO FC 0 0 0
PHILADELPHIA 3 0 3
N.Y. Jets at N.Y. Giants, 7:30 SUNDAY’S RESULTS
First Half: 1, Philadelphia, Glesnes, 3 (Gazdag), 12th
Houston at Green Bay, 8 Portland 2, Kansas City 0
minute; 2, Philadelphia, Gazdag, 1 (penalty kick), 33rd; 3,
Kansas City at San Francisco, 8:30 Chicago 3, Washington 1
Philadelphia, Santos, 4 (Martinez), 36th.
Seattle at Las Vegas, 9 Second Half: None. Gotham FC 1, Houston 1
L.A. Chargers at L.A. Rams, 10 Goalies: Toronto FC, Alex Bono, Quentin Westberg;
SATURDAY’S MATCHES
Philadelphia, Andre Blake, Matt Freese.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 15
Yellow Cards: Glesnes, Philadelphia, 26th; Wagner, North Carolina at Gotham FC, 7
Carolina at Indianapolis, 1 Philadelphia, 47th; Mbaizo, Philadelphia, 90th. Portland at Washington, 7
A: 14,303.
Houston at OL Reign, 10
Toronto FC, Alex Bono; Omar Gonzalez, Kemar Law-
TRAN S ACTION S rence, Chris Mavinga (Nick DeLeon, 46th), Eriq Zavaleta; SUNDAY’S MATCHES
Michael Bradley, Marky Delgado, Richie Laryea (Ifunany-
achi Achara, 60th), Jonathan Osorio (Patrick Mullins, Kansas City at Louisville, 3
71st), Yeferson Soteldo; Jozy Altidore (Jordan Perruzza, Orlando at Chicago, 6
MLB
71st).
Baltimore Orioles: Optioned LHP Alexander Wells to Philadelphia, Andre Blake; Jack Elliott, Jakob Glesnes,
Norfolk (Class AAA East). Selected the contract of Olivier Mbaizo, Kai Wagner; Alejandro Bedoya, Leon
RHPs Marcus Diplan and Dusten Knight from Norfolk Maximilian Flach (Jack McGlynn, 85th), Daniel Gazdag TEN N IS
(Class AAA East) and agreed to terms on major league (Quinn Sullivan, 74th), Jose Martinez; Kacper Przybylko
contracts. Designated RHP Shaun Anderson and INF (Paxten Aaronson, 74th), Sergio Santos (Cory Burke,
Domingo Leyba for assignment. 66th). ATP
Boston Red Sox: Reinstated RHP Matt Barnes from the
COVID-19 list. Optioned INF Jonathan Arauz to CITI OPEN
Worcester (Class AAA East). Atlanta United 2, At Willian H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center in Washington
Los Angeles Angels: Placed 3B Anthony Rendon on the Purse: $1,895,290
60-day IL, retroactive to July 5. Selected the contract of CF Montreal 2 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor
LHP Packy Naughton from Salt Lake (Class AAA West)
ATLANTA 0 2 2 MEN’S SINGLES — ROUND OF 32
and agreed to terms on a major league contract.
MONTREAL 0 2 2
Optioned RHP Chris Rodriguez to Salt Lake. Denis Kudla, United States, def. Taylor Fritz (10), United
Houston Astros: Reinstated RHP Ryan Pressly from the First Half: None. States, 6-4, 6-2; Brandon Nakashima, United States, def.
Second Half: 1, Montreal, Toye, 7 (Torres), 53rd minute;
paternity list. Optioned RHP Bryan Abreau to Sugar Daniel Evans (6), Britain, 7-6 (7-1), 6-0; John Millman (11),
2, Montreal, Camacho, 1 (Mihailovic), 63rd; 3, Atlanta,
Land (Class AAA West). Australia, def. Elias Ymer, Sweden, 6-2, 7-6 (10-8); Steve
Martinez, 4 (Barco), 65th; 4, Atlanta, Moreno, 5 (penalty
Kansas City Royals: Reinstated 3B Emmanuel Rivera Johnson, United States, def. Alex de Minaur (3), Australia,
kick), 76th.
from the 10-day IL. Placed RHP Kyle Zimmer on the 6-7 (7-5), 6-4, 6-2; Reilly Opelka (8), United States, def.
10-day IL. Goalies: Atlanta, Brad Guzan, Alec Kann; Montreal,
Daniel Elahi Galan, Colombia, 7-6 (7-1), 6-3; Lloyd Harris
Los Angeles Angels: Selected the contract of LHP Packy James Pantemis, Sebastian Breza. (14), South Africa, def. Tennys Sandgren, United States,
Naughton. Optioned RHP Chris Rodriguez to Salt Lake Yellow Cards: Struna, Montreal, 19th; Campbell, Atlan-
6-4, 1-0, ret; Jannik Sinner (5), Italy, def. Emil Ruusuvuori,
(Class AAA West). ta, 27th; Mihailovic, Montreal, 85th; Damm, Atlanta, Finland, 6-2, 6-4; Ilya Ivashka, Belarus, def. Grigor Dim-
Minnesota Twins: Claimed RHP Ralph Garza Jr. off 90th; Moreno, Atlanta, 90th+6.
itrov (4), Bulgaria, 6-2, 7-6 (4); Kei Nishikori, Japan, def.
waivers from Houston and optioned him to St. Paul Red Cards: Camacho, Montreal, 73rd; Martinez, Atlanta, Alexander Bublik (9), Kazakhstan, 6-2, 7-5; Mackenzie
(Class AAA East). 82nd; Wanyama, Montreal, 82nd.
McDonald, United States, def. Benoit Paire (13), France,
Oakland Athletics: Agreed to terms with OF Khris Davis A: 11,000. 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-4; Rafael Nadal (1), Spain, def. Jack Sock,
on a minor league contract. Atlanta, Brad Guzan; George Bello, George Campbell,
United States, 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (7-1).
New York Yankees: Optioned RHP Luis Gil to Scranton/ Alan Franco, Ronald Hernandez (Matheus Rossetto,
Wilkes-Barre (Class AAA East). Recalled OF Jonathan 69th), Anton Walkes; Ezequiel Barco, Marcelino Moreno, MEN’S DOUBLES — ROUND OF 16
Davis from Scranton/Wilke Amar Sejdic (Jurgen Damm, 68th), Santiago Sosa; Josef
John Millman and Alex de Minaur, Australia, def. Filip
Martinez.
NBA Polasek, Slovakia, and John Peers (1), Australia, 7-6 (4), 5-7,
Montreal, James Pantemis; Zorhan Bassong, Rudy
Camacho, Kamal Miller, Kiki Struna; Mathieu Choiniere, 10-7; Marcelo Melo, Brazil, and Marcus Daniell, New
Atlanta Hawks: Signed F Jalen Johnson. Zealand, def. Matwe Middelkoop, Netherlands, and Marcelo
Ahmed Hamdi (Samuel Piette, 13th), Djordje Mihailovic,
Golden State Warriors: Waived F Alen Smailagic. Arevalo-Gonzalez, El Salvador, 7-6 (10-8), 6-2; Michael
Joaquin Torres (Zachary Brault Guillard, 86th), Victor
Houston Rockets: Signed G Jalen Green. Venus, New Zealand, and Neal Skupski (2), Britain, def.
Wanyama; Mason Toye (Sunusi Ibrahim, 78th).
Indiana Pacers: Signed F Chris Duarte to a Rookie Scale Fabrice Martin, France, and Max Purcell, Australia, 7-5, 6-3.
Contract.
Los Angeles Lakers: Waived F Alfonzo McKinnie.
Minnesota Timberwolves: Signed F Nathan Knight to a
two-way contract. Inter Miami 1, WTA
Philadelphia 76ers: Signed G Jaden Springer and C
Orlando City 1 CONCORD 125
Andre Drummond.
Portland Trail Blazers: Signed F Cody Zeller. At The Thoreau Club in Concord, Mass.
MIAMI 0 1 1
Toronto Raptors: Waived C Aron Baynes. Purse: $115,000
ORLANDO CITY 1 0 1
NFL Surface: Hardcourt outdoor
First Half: 1, Orlando City, Carlos, 1 (Nani), 45th+3
minute.
Arizona Cardinals: Signed OL Ryan Pope. WOMEN’S SINGLES — ROUND OF 16
Second Half: 2, Miami, Gibbs, 1 (Ulloa), 66th.
Atlanta Falcons: Placed P Sterling Hofrichter on IR. Madison Brengle (3), United States, def. Lulu Sun,
Goalies: Miami, Nick Marsman, John McCarthy, Dylan
Baltimore Ravens: Signed WR Michael Dereus. Waived Switzerland, 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-2; Cristina Bucsa, Spain, def.
Castanheira; Orlando City, Mason Stajduhar, Adam
OLB Chauncey Rivers. Activated CB Iman Marshall. Usue Maitane Arconada, United States, 6-3, 6-3; Mariam
Buffalo Bills: Signed OL Caleb Benenoch. Grinwis.
Carolina Panthers: Signed S Doug Middleton. Waived Yellow Cards: Junior Urso, Orlando City, 56th; Pizarro, Bolkvadze, Georgia, def. Greet Minnen (7), Belgium, 6-4,
Miami, 68th; Rosell, Orlando City, 85th. 6-4; Hsieh Su-wei (2), Taiwan, def. Beatriz Haddad Maia,
FB Mason Stokke. Brazil, 6-3, 6-1.
Chicago Bears: Signed LB Alec Ogletree. Placed LB Miami, Nick Marsman; Nicolas Figal, Kieran Gibbs (Brek
Shea, 77th), Kelvin Leerdam, Christian Makoun; Gregore,
Christian Jones, LS Pat Scales, DT Eddie Goldman and WOMEN’S DOUBLES — ROUND OF 16
OL Elijah Wilkinson on the covid-19 list. Blaise Matuidi, Lewis Morgan (Indiana Vassilev, 84th),
Victor Ulloa; Gonzalo Higuain (Rodolfo Pizarro, 61st), Mona Barthel, Germany, and Ankita Raina, India, def.
Detroit Lions: Released OLB Reggie Gilbert.
Denver Broncos: Waived OT Cody Conway with an Robbie Robinson (Julian Carranza, 61st). Lizette Cabrera and Maddison Inglis, Australia, 3-6, 6-4,
injury designation. Orlando City, Mason Stajduhar; Antonio Carlos (Rodrigo 10-3; Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukraine, and Tatjana Maria
Green Bay Packers: Signed DL Josh Avery. Activated LB Schlegel, 46th), Robin Jansson, Ruan (Emmanuel Mas, (3), Germany, def. Rebecca Marino, Canada, and Chieh-
Ryan Wilborn from the covid-19 list. Activated TE 81st), Kyle Smith; Junior Urso (Oriol Rosell, 76th), Nani, Yu Hsu, Taiwan, 6-3, 6-3; Cristina Bucsa, Spain, and Usue
Josiah Deguara from the physically unable to perform Andres Perea, Mauricio Pereyra; Benji Michel (Tesho Akin- Maitane Arconada, United States, def. Jamie Loeb and
(PUP) list. dele, 76th), Chris Mueller (Silvester Van der Water, 67th). Quinn Gleason (4), United States, 6-3, 7-6 (5); Angela
Jacksonville Jaguars: Placed DL Taven Bryan on the Kulikov and Rianna Valdes, United States, def. Catherine
covid-19 list. Harrison, United States, and Samantha Murray Sharan,
Britain, 6-2, 4-6, 14-12.
Kansas City Chiefs: Activated RB Darwin Thompson FC Dallas 1,
from the covid-19 list.
Las Vegas Raiders: Signed OT Jeremiah Poutasi.
Sounders 1
Los Angeles Rams: Activated WR Tutu Atwell from the SILICON VALLEY CLASSIC
DALLAS 0 1 1
covid-19 list. Waived G Jamil Demby. Signed G SEATTLE 0 1 1
Jeremiah Kolone. At San Jose State University in San Jose, Calif.
First Half: None. Purse: $565,530
New Orleans Saints: Signed CB Adonis Alexander and
LB Kwon Alexander. Placed CB Keith Washington on IR. Second Half: 1, Seattle, Montero, 4 (Joao Paulo), 72nd Surface: Hardcourt outdoor
minute; 2, Dallas, Jara, 3 (Tafari), 90th+1.
Activated K Will Lutz from the non-football injury list. WOMEN’S SINGLES — ROUND OF 16
New York Giants: Signed TE Tommy Stevens. Placed RB Goalies: Dallas, Jimmy Maurer, Phelipe Megiolaro;
Mike Weber on IR. Signed WR Andy Jones. Seattle, Stefan Cleveland, Spencer Richey. Magda Linette, Poland, def. Petra Martic (6), Croatia,
Yellow Cards: Smith, Seattle, 87th.
New York Jets: Signed QB Josh Johnson. Waived LB 7-5, 7-6 (5); Daria Kasatkina (4), Russia, def. Caroline
Brendon White. Dallas, Jimmy Maurer; Bressan, Nkosi Tafari; Edwin Garcia, France, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3.
Philadelphia Eagles: Activated S Andrew Adams from Cerrillo (Andres Ricaurte, 76th), Ryan Hollingshead,
the covid-19 list. Waived DB Nate Meadors with an Paxton Pomykal (Freddy Vargas, 78th), Facundo Qui- WOMEN’S DOUBLES — ROUND OF 16
gnon; Jesus Ferreira (Bryan Acosta, 66th), Ricardo Pepi
injury designation. Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, and Luisa Stefani (1),
Pittsburgh Steelers: Waived DB Demarkus Acy and OT (Franco Jara, 76th), Szabolcs Schon (Jader Obrian, Brazil, def. Arina Rodionova, Australia, and Kaitlyn
Anthony Cole with injury designations. 66th), Ema Twumasi. Christian, United States, 7-5, 3-6, 12-10; Kveta Peschke,
San Francisco 49ers: Signed CB B.W. Webb and TE Seattle, Stefan Cleveland; Xavier Arreaga, Yeimar Czech Republic, and Ellen Perez (3), Australia, def.
Joshua Perkins. Waived CB Tim Harris and TE Josh Gomez Andrade, Shane O’Neill; Joao Paulo, Jimmy Elixane Lechemia, France, and Ingrid Neel, United
Pederson. Medranda (Bradley Shaun Smith, 60th), Alex Roldan, States, 6-3, 6-2.
Cristian Roldan, Kelyn Rowe (Nicolas Lodeiro, 87th);
Fredy Montero (Will Bruin, 73rd), Raul Ruidiaz.

TOKYO Olympics
Richard Torrez Jr. batters Kazakhstan’s Kamshybek Kunkabayev to the mat during a super heavyweight semifinal Wednesday. Torrez moved to the final when the referee stopped the bout in the third round.
Torrez reaches his final ‘destiny’
L ES C ARPENTER
BY
tokyo — Over and over Wednesday after-
noon, Richard Torrez Jr. slammed his fist into
the forehead of Kazakhstan’s Kamshybek
Kunkabayev, pounding away 33 years of U.S.
super heavyweight boxing irrelevance until
finally the skin broke above Kunkabayev’s
nose. A gash opened wide, and as blood began
pouring in the third round, the referee waved
her arms.
The fight was over. For the first time since
Riddick Bowe in 1988, an American boxer will
fight for gold in Sunday’s featured final fight,
the last of these Tokyo Olympics.
Torrez’s victory came minutes after female
welterweight Oshae Jones lost a sluggish split
decision in her semifinal fight to China’s Hong
Gu, guaranteeing her a bronze medal but
leaving her storming out of the ring and
through the Kokugikan Arena hallways, refus-
ing to speak to anyone, screaming down an
empty corridor.
Torrez, on the other hand, wanted to talk
Wednesday. He stood in the same hall Jones
had raged through and said he had a word to
describe his Olympic run: “destiny.”
He said he has had a feeling about these
Olympics since his first fight here, wiping
away the doubts fed by more than a year of
international tournaments canceled by the
coronavirus pandemic and by the punch that
knocked him out in the quarterfinals the 2019
world championships. With each fight in
Tokyo, he said, the sensation kept getting
stronger.
“It’s an existential feeling,” he said. “I don’t
know how to put it. What is love? It’s kind of
that same thing. I’m meant to be here. All I
know is that.”
Torrez’s victories in Tokyo have not been a
surprise. He entered the Olympics as the third
seed even though he’s smaller than most of the
men in his weight class.
Kunkabayev is 6-foot-3, a two-time silver
medalist at the world championships who has
started a professional career in which he’s 3-0
with three knockouts. But Torrez was fast and
strong and willing to follow the strategies
constructed by his U.S. coach, Billy Walsh, and
his father and personal coach back home.
Guard against Kunkabayev’s left, they told
Torrez, then use that against him. So Torrez
did what they said, deflecting Kunkabayev’s
punches, then dropping his own left against
Kunkabayev’s head. After the first couple of
shots, the fight never felt close.
Torrez, 22, had fought this fight before,
inside his head, five times Tuesday night and
another three Wednesday morning, each time
United States
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imagining his left landing, making the bigger
Californian saw himself becoming the first U.S. boxer to fight man wobble. He was still picturing himself
for the super heavyweight gold since 1988, and now he will pummeling Kunkabayev as he walked into the
ring in the early afternoon while Beethoven’s
“Moonlight Sonata” played through the are-
na’s speakers.
Torrez loves that song for the way it makes
him calm. In high school in Tulare, Calif., he
listened to it when he took important tests and
also during lunchtime chess matches as the
school’s chess club president. He once read
that classical music helps brain function, and
he wondered whether maybe he should be
listening to Beethoven when he walks into
fights as well.
Tulare isn’t a big place, a handful of stops on
the road between Fresno and Bakersfield. But
it is a place of Olympic champions. The faces
of the city’s two most-famous athletes — two
time decathlon winner Bob Mathias and Sim
Iness, a discus champion — are captured on a
downtown mural beneath the words, “Olym-
pic Gold.” Torrez wants to be on that mural,
too.
And that is why he fights.
But he fights, too, for his father, who came
within three fights at the U.S. boxing trials of
landing a place on that 1984 Olympic team.
The older Torrez brought his son to the gym,
taught him the sport and hoped his child
could take a punch. They talk constantly now,
even with Richard Jr. halfway around the
world. For Richard Jr., this is their fight
together. When he thinks about destiny, he
imagines going back home, shaking his fa-
ther’s hand and saying, “Dad, I did it.”
Now comes Sunday’s gold medal final, the
fight that could land Richard Jr. on the side of
that building in downtown Tulare, making
him the first American man to win an Olympic
boxing gold medal since Andre Ward in 2004.
Looming on Sunday is Uzbekistan’s Bakhodir
Jalolov, the man who knocked Torrez uncon-
scious in that 2019 world championship quar-
terfinal.
Jalolov has rumbled through the Olympics,
winning all but one round unanimously. On
Wednesday, his semifinal match against Brit-
ain’s Frazer Clarke ended in the second round
with a great gash on Clarke’s face
Few will expect Torrez to win. But as he
stood in that empty hallway, he smiled. He
said he will be ready for Jalolov. If nothing
else, he has learned to defend against that
punch that comes furious from nowhere. He
said he is going to leave here as the Olympic
super heavyweight champion.
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“I think it’s something the U.S. needs,” he
Torrez on making the final: “It’s an existential feeling. I don’t know how to put it. said.
What is love? It’s kind of that same thing. I’m meant to be here. All I know is that.” les.carpenter@washpost.com
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Noah Lyles, right, wins the bronze medal and watches as Andre de Grasse of Canada, left, takes the gold and teammate Kenneth Bednarek, obscured by de Grasse, gets silver Wednesday in Tokyo.
MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD
Lyles doesn’t win gold in 200. His message wins the night.
BY A DAM K ILGORE
tokyo — Noah Lyles knelt on
track at the end of National
Stadium and thanked God. He
clasped his hands and pressed
them to his forehead, an Ameri-
can flag wrapped around his back
like a blanket. Two years ago,
Lyles set a goal to win three gold
medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olym-
pics. But he made that declara-
tion when he still thought they
would happen in 2020, before the
world and his life changed.
On Wednesday night, in 2021,
he won a bronze medal. He called
the result “boring,” and then be-
fore a global audience of people
who had watched him run, he
bared his soul so that he might
help some of them.
Lyles, a 24-year-old from Alex-
andria, sprinted 200 meters in
19.74 seconds. Canadian Andre de
Grasse won gold in 19.50 seconds,
and perpetually overlooked
American Kenny Bednarek took
silver in 19.68.
Lyles and Bednarek, young and
famous and at the apex of their
sport, walked a victory lap
draped in flags. They talked
about how hard the last year had
been.
Lyles has struggled with men-
tal health most of his life, he said,
and like many athletes here, the
coronavirus pandemic year chal-
lenged him like none before. Af-
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accomplishment. An
accomplishment here, at the
Tokyo Games: reach Friday’s
400-meter final.
“This time around, I don’t
know,” Felix said. “You get older,
and it seems like it’s harder.”
Preach. Felix, by now, means
so many things to so many
people — because she is a mother
who has returned to her
profession and excelled, because
she has spoken out against what
she considered to be the sexist
practices of Nike and started her
own shoe company, because she
has addressed lawmakers on
Capitol Hill about the hardships
faced by Black mothers who are
systematically and chronically
disadvantaged by the health-care
system. Her pregnancy was
complicated, with both mother
and child in peril, and people
need to understand it all.
That’s a lot, and she knows it.
On the track, she always has been
ter George Floyd was killed by a
Minneapolis police officer, he
grappled with how the country he
represents treats Black men like
him. In the summer of 2020,
Lyles revealed he had started
taking antidepressants. They af-
fected his training, and he cycled
off them before the Olympics.
Shortly before Lyles boarded
his plane for Tokyo, he broke
down crying and had a long talk
with his girlfriend.
“We were talking about a lot of
things,” Lyles said late Wednes-
day, standing in a place called the
mixed zone, behind a metal bar-
rier and facing about 20 report-
ers. “We were talking about me
and my brother. It’s been really
hard for me watching him train
as hard as he has.”
Lyles paused and rubbed tears
from his eyes.
“I’m sorry,” he said.
Lyles and his brother, Jose-
phus, became inseparable at a
young age. Josephus is a year
younger, but Noah was held back
a year in elementary school be-
cause of extended illness. Most
people thought they were twins.
It was Josephus’s idea for them to
turn pro together out of high
school. They moved to Clermont,
Fla., where they room and train
together.
Noah Lyles fast-tracked to su-
perstardom. Josephus battled in-
juries. Josephus is still an elite
assured, confident. She came
here vulnerable and self-aware.
“There were a lot of moments
where I was doubtful I would be
able to feel like myself again,” she
said. “And I’m slowly getting
there.”
Judging by her performance
Wednesday, she’s quickly getting
there. By the time Felix took to
the track, two of the three
semifinal heats were over, and
the task seemed daunting: finish
in the top two in the third and
final heat or record one of the
two fastest times that didn’t
automatically qualify. That
standard, when Felix took to the
starting block, was the 49.81
seconds turned in by American
teammate Quanera Hayes, the
North Carolinian who is six years
younger than Felix and also a
mom.
“We’re just basically holding it
down for all moms in the world,”
Hayes said, “and just letting
them know just to keep fighting
and not to stop.”
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sprinter, fast enough to make the
200-meter semifinals at the U.S.
trials. But the difference in their
speed separates them as athletes.
In the mixed zone, Lyles in-
haled and breathed deep.
“I thank God every day I’m able
to come out here, but at the same
time, this wasn’t even my dream,”
Lyles said. “In 2012, my brother
had the dream that he was going
to come to the Olympics, and I’d
really just tag along for the ride.
Sometimes I think to myself, you
know, this should be him.”
Lyles stopped moments later
and apologized. He sobbed and
heaved. He seemed unable to
continue. A USA Track & Field
representative patted him on the
shoulder. Reporters thanked
him.
“I want to finish this,” Lyles
said.
Lyles spoke for another seven
minutes and spent all of them
discussing mental health. He was
diagnosed in his youth as dyslex-
ic, and the struggles he faced in
school led to his first bouts of
depression. When he started run-
ning track, he said, “I felt that
everything had been lifted.”
The pandemic resurfaced
those struggles. Lyles felt com-
pelled to speak out after Floyd’s
death in police custody. He
marched with Josephus in Orlan-
do. He wore a black glove and
raised his fist in the starting
Felix and Hayes put forth that
message at the U.S. trials in June,
when Felix clawed her way to
second place in the 400, passing
two rivals over the second half of
the race, beaten only by Hayes.
Afterward, Felix scooped up her
2-year-old daughter, Camryn,
just as Hayes grabbed her 2-year-
old son, Demetrius. Spread that
message from Eugene, Ore., to
Tokyo and beyond: Women
should be empowered and
emboldened by motherhood, not
limited by it.
Here, though, the coronavirus
pandemic has prohibited fans of
any kind, including families. So
Felix and Hayes are left with
FaceTime sessions, multiple
times a day. Hayes sings songs —
“Walking Through the Jungle”
and the like — because it’s the
only way Demetrius will look at
her on the screen. On Wednesday
evening, Felix was sure her
husband, former sprinter
Kenneth Ferguson, had allowed
Camryn to sleep through her
blocks. At times, his advocacy
brought further pressure. He felt
as if he were being asked to speak
on behalf of all Black people or all
Black athletes.
Lyles started taking antide-
pressants in the summer of 2020,
which he revealed on Twitter. The
medication led to slight weight
gain and impacted his training by
neutralizing his emotions.
Lyles cycled off antidepres-
sants to ready for the Olympics.
As he prepared for trials, his
training took another blow when
his massage therapist fell ill.
Without her, he said, he felt at
risk of injury and could not recov-
er from workouts as well.
“I always said the day I wasn’t
having fun with this sport, I’m
going to leave it,” Lyles said. “And
for a little bit, I wasn’t having fun
this year. I did want to leave. I had
to make a decision. I was like, I
got to get better. I can’t let this
control me.”
Lyles remains thankful for all
the sport has given him. He loves
fashion, art and music, and his
success has enabled him to ex-
press his other talents. Before the
Games, he appeared in GQ.
“Shoot,” Lyles said. “I’m going to
the Met Gala.”
“I am not defined by being an
Olympic bronze medalist or a
gold medal world champion or
the high-schooler that went pro,”
Lyles said. “It’s not who I am. I’m
semifinal back in California —
even as it represented something
about Camryn’s mother: “the
fight to get here.”
And the fight she still has here.
When the eight women in the
third semifinal hit the
homestretch, Felix was running
with Jamaica’s Stephenie Ann
McPherson. Sada Williams of
Barbados trailed, but she had no
chance. McPherson pulled away
and crossed in 49.34 seconds, the
fastest time of the night. But
Felix was second in 49.89 —
faster than the 50.02 she gutted
out at trials, the fastest time she
had run as a mother. That, in
itself, makes it a wholly new
experience.
“When I was younger, I don’t
think I ever really thought about
making a final,” she said. “It’s
just, it’s a part of it. You put it all
together, that’s the goal.”
In her 20s, when she had only
herself to think about, that
process was easy. Here, between
FaceTimes with the family, it was
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Noah Lyles. I’m not Usain Bolt’s
successor. I’m not Andre De
Grasse’s successor. I’m me. And
that’s who I’ll always be.”
Lyles said he believes fully in
the efficacy of antidepressants.
He has heard from people on
social media that his revelation
helped them seek help.
“And I knew there was a lot of
people out there like me who
were too scared to say something
or start that journey,” Lyles said.
“I wanted them to know, if you
see me in a big light, I want you to
know that it’s okay to not feel
good, and you can go out and talk
with somebody professionally or
even get on medication. This is a
serious issue. You don’t want to
wake up one day and think, ‘I
don’t want to be here anymore.’ ”
As 11 p.m. approached
Wednesday, Lyles remained in
the mixed zone. He found the
session therapeutic. Mostly, he
wanted media present to spread
his message.
“I want other people to know
there’s a better way,” Lyles said.
“. . . Even affecting one person is
the goal.”
Though Lyles used the Olym-
pics as a platform, he had come to
Tokyo to win. Had the Olympics
not been postponed, he might
have. In 2019, Lyles won the 200
meters world championship in
19.83 seconds. That same year, he
ran a 19.50, the eighth-fastest
something other than that.
“You just have to get smarter
and figure it all out,” Felix said.
“I’ll say that: I’ve been very
intentional. And I’ve had to take
it one round at a time. It’s a
humbling experience, but it’s
also a very rewarding to see the
progress.”
To earn a 10th Olympic medal
— which would break her tie
with Jamaica’s Merlene Ottey
and bring her into a tie with Carl
Lewis as the most decorated
American on the track — there
will have to be more progress. Six
of the seven other runners who
advanced to Friday’s final ran
faster than Felix did Wednesday.
They include Shaunae Miller-
Uibo of the Bahamas, the silver
medalist at the 2019 world
championships who won the
second semifinal and has the
fastest time in the world this
year: a 49.08 from April.
Felix won’t be a favorite. But
she will be there. She couldn’t
assume that, not like she once
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time ever.
“I don’t think about what-ifs,”
Lyles said. “Why would I put
myself in a position of thinking
about a whole bunch of what-ifs?
. . . Then all of a sudden, I’m
creating panic attacks for myself.
I’m digging myself into a hole
that doesn’t even exist.”
Lyles started the Olympic final
in Lane 3, a consequence of how
he finished his semifinal heat,
when he eased up at the line and
fell into third place. He started
well and made an excellent turn,
he believed, and expected he
would be ahead of De Grasse and
Bednarek. But he couldn’t catch
them in the homestretch.
Still, Lyles remains a star. Only
three men have run halfway
around a track faster, all eye-pop-
ping names: Usain Bolt, Michael
Johnson, Yohan Blake. He al-
ready started plotting a way to
change his training to return to
his fastest times, perhaps with
less practice on the 100 and more
on the 200, like in previous years.
“Maybe it wasn’t my time,”
Lyles said. “God said that you’re
affecting a lot of people and you
don’t have to win to affect those
people. Maybe somebody else
needs that light. Maybe De Grasse
needs that light. It’s not all about
me. It would be selfish to think
it’s about me. Sometimes it’s
about other people.”
adam.kilgore@washpost.com
did. But she’s also not the runner
— not the person — she once was.
“Hopefully, a lot of mothers
will see themselves in us,” Felix
said. “I’ve heard from what
seems like thousands of them —
all the different situations and
scenarios, all that they’ve been
through. There’s a lot of
similarities. I just want to be that
representation.”
She is that. Five years ago,
Allyson Felix won silver in the
400. On Friday night, she will try
to match it — or better it. The
4x400 relay — an event in which
Felix has three of her golds —
awaits. Felix will bring to both
races that grace, that precision.
But she also will bring something
more: an appreciation for even
one more chance to race at the
Olympics, representing more
qualities to more people than she
ever has.
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Tokyo OlyMPics

TRACK AND FIELD

Holloway wins silver while Crouser reels in more gold

Virginia hurdler fades
late, comes up just short
against Jamaican idol

BY A DAM K ILGORE

tokyo — For two men Thursday

morning at scorching-hot Nation-
al Stadium, an Olympic gold med-
al hovered as both target and
presumption, a prize on the way
to a different kind of history. Ryan
Crouser, a 330-pound, red-haired
obelisk from Boring, Ore., stood
on one end of the infield and
hurled 16-pound iron balls. Grant
Holloway, a hurdler from Chesa-
peake, Va., with a dancer’s and
arachnid legs, walked to the other
end, placed his feet in starting
blocks and looked up at 10 high
obstacles to navigate.
As Crouser heaved and Hollo-
way paced, a rare feeling
emerged: These two Americans
had discovered exactly what it
was they had been placed on the
Earth to do, and they had toiled
and refined those feats for years
until they could do them as well as
any man who had ever lived.
Crouser entered with the world
record in the shot put. Holloway
believed he could break one in the
men’s 110-meter hurdles, a little
more than a month after he had
come as close as possible. Hollo-
way may one day join Crouser in
the ranks of world record holders.
But in a surprise, while Crouser
won his second in a row, Holloway
will have to wait at least three
years for his first Olympic gold
medal.
It is hard for a 23-year-old,
first-time Olympian to feel let
down by a silver medal. But Hollo-
way expected gold, and one of his
idols upset him. Hansle Parch-
ment, a 31-year-old Jamaican, ran ANDREW BOYERS/REUTERS

down Holloway over the final
hurdles and finished five-hun-
dredths of a second ahead of Hol-
loway, who had dominated the
event since he turned profession-
al in 2019.
Holloway crossed in 13.09 sec-
onds, one of the best times this
year. But Parchment stunned him
in 13.04.
“I’m okay right now,” Holloway
said. “The first loss of the season
always sucks. To have it at the
Olympics sucks a little more.”
Holloway had come within one
one-hundredth of a second of
breaking American Aries Mer-
ritt’s record of 12.80 seconds at
the U.S. Olympic trials in June.
His dominance in the event had
made the gold medal feel almost
like a formality. He was asked
after a first-round heat who he
viewed as his rivals in Tokyo. “Me,
Oregon’s Ryan Crouser, who entered with the world record in the shot put, broke the Olympic record multiple times en route to capturing his second straight gold medal.
myself and I,” Holloway replied.
“Respectfully.”
Holloway hopped at the start
line and took a deep breath before
he dropped into the blocks, puff-
ing his cheeks. Holloway attacked
the first hurdle and opened a gap
between him and the rest of the
field. The clock seemed his only
opponent. Except he landed hard
over the eighth hurdle and lost
speed. Parchment ran a perfect
race and added a gold to his 2012
London bronze.
Holloway was still young
enough to have idols. He talked to
Parchment early in the event and
raced against him. “That’s some-
one I watched coming up,” Hollo-
way said. “You just think about all
the other ones. For him to be here,
for him to be next to me, it’s a
dream come true.”
At the moment Holloway
blazed across the finish line, an-
other American had placed his
own world record under assault.
On his very first throw, Crouser
heaved the shot 22.83 meters,
nearly 75 feet, for an Olympic
record. Crouser threw with a red
ponytail poking out the back of an
American flag cap. As he released
the shot, the hat fell off his head.
While Crouser kept spinning, be-
fore the shot had even landed, he
snagged it behind his back.
Crouser showed why he could
break the Olympic mark so casu-
ally — he broke it again on his very
next throw, nudging it to
22.93 meters.
Just what kind of feat is that?
On the eve of the Games, Crouser
offered a primer for anyone trying
to wrap their head around what
those mountainous guys are do-
ing in that circle.
“Go to the bowling alley and
pick up the heaviest bowling ball
that’s there,” Crouser said. “And
then go to a basketball court and
stand at the free throw line and
turn around and make a three-
quarter court shot with a bowling
ball. If you did that, you did not
break the world record. But you
would have been close to medal-
ing” at the 2019 world champion-
ships.
Crouser broke the Olympic rec-
ord a third time on his final throw,
at which point he had already
secured gold over American silver
medalist Joe Kovacs. Crouser fi-
nalized it at 23.30 meters (76-5).
Kovacs moved up one place on the
podium when he threw 22.65
(74-33/4) on his last throw.
The U.S. men’s 4x100 relay
team added to its tortured history
with a new problem: It just wasn’t
fast enough. The foursome of
Ronnie Baker, Fred Kerley, Tray-
von Bromell and Cravon Gillespie
finished sixth in its qualifying,
not enough to make the final. The
result means Noah Lyles’s Olym-
pics ends without a chance to add
to the 200-meter bronze he won
Wednesday night.
Holloway had been headed to
the top of track and field since
youth. At Grassfield High, he won
the indoor national champion-
ship in the pentathlon and
60-meter hurdles and high-
jumped 6 feet 10 inches. He
claimed Virginia state champion-
ships in the long jump, high jump
and 110-meter hurdles and fin-
ished second in the 200 meters.
He also scored 15 touchdowns for
the Grizzlies’ football team.
Holloway attended Florida,
where he would have been in the
same dream recruiting class as
Noah and Josephus Lyles had
they not turned professional. As a
freshman, he won the 60-meter
hurdles national title while also
running on the Gators’ 4x400 re-
lay team — which finished second
nationally — and long jumped.
Since turning professional in
2019, Holloway has dominated
the world. He is still looking for a
record, and surprisingly, he is still
looking for Olympic gold.
adam.kilgore@washpost.com

TRACK AND FIELD

U.S. medal hopefuls painfully describe the heartache of missing the podium
BY R OMAN S TUBBS
tokyo — When he finally sum-
moned the strength to get off his
back, Clayton Murphy rose and
walked off the track at National
Stadium. The American runner
stripped off his uniform and
walked bare-chested by a row of
television cameras, the ones re-
served for the medal winners, not
for him on this night, the last-
place finisher in the 800-meter
final.
But Murphy was still scheduled
to talk about it with reporters in
the dark bowels of the stadium.
The only problem is that he had to
wait for the microphone. It was
being occupied by Courtney Fre-
richs, who earlier in the night had
won the silver medal in the wom-
en’s 3,000-meter steeplechase. So
he found a nearby folding chair
and was within earshot of her
talking about the best night of her
athletic career. He took his spikes
off and buried his head into his
uniform as she spoke. A runner
from Botswana stopped to shake
his hand and tap his shoulder.
Murphy revealed his red eyes and
stared blankly at the concrete
floor.
“An Olympic medal is an Olym-
pic medal, and I just needed to
keep holding on,” Frerichs said
into the microphone at one point,
amplified by a speaker so every-
one could hear, and eventually she
was whisked away. Murphy left
the chair and took the micro-
phone.
“I don’t know about everyone
else. I run for one thing: That’s an
Olympic medal,” he said. “I could
give two [expletives] about the
American record. Really could. I
could give two [expletives] about
running 1:40. This is what I run
for is a medal. There’s some salt in
the wound today.”
The thrill of Olympic victory
played out in more scenes for the
American track and field team
Wednesday — for Sydney
McLaughlin, whose eyes were
misty as she stood on the podium
after she set a world record in
400-meter hurdles, for Kenneth
Bednarek and Noah Lyles, who
laughed together as they took a
lap following their silver and
bronze medals in the 200-meter
final to push the United States’
track and field medal count to 16,
which was 10 more than any other
country.
But it was juxtaposed by images
of pure agony after a string of
stunning letdowns from potential
medal winners, including by Mur-
phy, who had won the bronze in
the Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016.
It included Rudy Winkler, the U.S.
record holder in the hammer
throw who searched for answers
after finishing seventh in a ner-
vous performance.
It included Emma Coburn, a
medal favorite in the 3,000-meter
steeplechase whose body shut
down by the third lap, causing her
to finish last in the final. She
stopped and talked with reporters
for more than 15 minutes after her
race, using words such as “embar-
rassing” and “mystifying” and
“heartache” — multiple times —
because even she didn’t know the
answers.
Coburn has been one of the
most consistent athletes in her
sport for more than a decade — an
Olympian and nine-time U.S.
champion — and she entered
Wednesday’s race in peak physical
condition. By the halfway point,
her 30-year-old body started to
give out and she wanted to stop.
After a last-place finish in Wednesday’s 800-meter final, American
Clayton Murphy said, “There’s some salt in the wound today.”
She clipped a hurdle and stum-
bled onto the track, and eventual-
ly she was disqualified for lane
infringement.
“I was going to come out and
crush. I thought I was just going to
come out there and be fighting for
a medal, fighting for gold. And
that wasn’t today, and this is going
to be really hard,” she said, her
voice cracking. “This is going to be
really hard for the next year, until
the next championship can come
around. . . . I’m really sad. I’m
really disappointed that I couldn’t
do better for my coach and my
family.”
At one point, a reporter in-
formed her that she had been
disqualified.
“Cool. Cool. Cool,” she said, and
a couple of reporters laughed. She
shook her head and looked at
them.
“That sucks. That’s like, not
funny to me. Laughing isn’t cool
with that heartache.”
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The group got quiet, and she
eventually continued to describe
the pain. All of the metrics sug-
gested that she should have been
in contention to win the gold
medal. She had been fine-tuning
her body for months in workouts
without a hiccup. Then came
Wednesday. Maybe it was the hot
and humid conditions in Tokyo,
she wondered, but she refused to
use it as a crutch. Every runner
was dealt the same cards.
“It’s not what I’m capable of. I
need to do better. I don’t have the
answers for what happened today.
I wish I did. I wish I had a — ‘Oh, I
have a hamstring injury,’ and, ‘I
was feeling like crap.’ I don’t have
that,” she said. “My body shut
down, and I don’t have an answer.
There’s nothing mental I could
have done to will my body to do
better than it did, which is really
frustrating.”
Winkler, 26, knew how she felt.
He had been through this in 2016
as a younger man, finishing 12th
in Rio, and he felt ready to take the
next step in Tokyo. His body of
work suggested he would. He won
national championships in 2016,
2018 and 2021. He overcame an
ugly bout with the coronavirus in
April 2020 that dropped him from
training for weeks — “I went
through the gauntlet of all the
symptoms,” he said — but he re-
covered and beat Lance Deal’s
American record at the U.S. track
trials this summer. On Wednes-
day, he was trying to become the
first American to medal in the
event since Deal did it at the 1996
Olympics in Atlanta.
But he felt “unfocused” from
the onset. He was nervous. His
first throw of 77.08 meters
(252 feet 101/2 inches) would be his
best. He went in reverse and
didn’t eclipse 76 meters on his
next two throws as Poland’s
Wojciech Nowicki won the goal
medal at 85.52 meters (280-7). It
was Winkler’s worst meet of the
year, and it came at the worst
time.
“I think that’s exactly,” he said,
taking a moment to pause and
collect his thoughts. “You put so
much work into it. . . . It’s the work
other people are also putting into
it. So I think that was part of the
pressure I was feeling today.
Wanting to represent my friends
and my family and my girlfriend
and everyone who has put so
much into it for me to do well, and
then not having it go the way I was
expecting is tough.”
Murphy said he had run his
race in his head during his day off
from competition. He was intro-
duced, along with the rest the
field, to music before the race, and
he took a swig of his water and spit
it out as he walked down the track
to line up. Murphy carried the
swagger of someone who had
been here before — and he was, in
fact, the only returning finalist
from the 2016 800-meter race in
Rio to run here in Tokyo.
It was his moment to earn re-
spect after being long overlooked
in an event that also includes
Isaiah Jewett and Donavan Bra-
zier, neither of whom made it this
far. But Murphy was boxed in
early in the race and, after some
jostling, finished last in 1:46.53. A
pair of runners from Kenya, Em-
manuel Kipkurui Korir and Fer-
guson Cheruiyot Rotich, took
home the gold and silver, respec-
tively, and as they celebrated to-
gether, Murphy collapsed on his
back and put his hands over his
eyes.
“I was only going to walk away
disappointed one way, and that’s
if I lost the race,” he said. “I lost the
race.”
They didn’t know what the next
few days might bring. By the end
of his news conference, Murphy
shook his head and simply said:
“This one is hard.” A thrower from
Great Britain stopped for a mo-
ment to pat the back of Winkler,
who said he would meet with his
sports psychologist Thursday to
process what happened. Coburn
reminded everyone of the exact
time of the medal ceremony later
in the night — 8:50 p.m. — and she
was still trying to process that she
wouldn’t be there.
“Today is mystifying,” she said.
“I went to bed last night thinking I
was going to be coming home with
an Olympic medal. I walked on
that starting line thinking I was
coming home with an Olympic
medal. I’m coming home empty-
handed, with a lot of heartache.”
roman.stubbs@washpost.com
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Tokyo OlyMPics

Youngest competitors find sisterhood in park skateboard

BY A VA W ALLACE

tokyo — When 13-year-old

skateboarding phenom Sky
Brown spoke after winning her
bronze medal in women’s park
Wednesday in the scorching To-
kyo heat, it wasn’t her usual
manner of public address.
Brown wasn’t communicating
directly to her audience on the
video app TikTok (she has 1.3 mil-
lion followers) or Instagram (she
had 942,000 followers Wednes-
day morning and 1 million
Wednesday afternoon). She was
facing old-fashioned reporters,
most of them men and most of
them somewhere in the realm of
at least 30 years her senior.
Brown, who lives in California,
grew up in Japan and represents
Britain thanks to her father’s
lineage, had support systems at
the ready.
The first was her dad, Stuart,
who was able to accompany her
in Tokyo because Olympians un-
der 16 are permitted to bring a
guardian to the Games. He stood
off to the side during her inter-
views Wednesday, beaming un-
der his mask, helping to remind
his daughter when she was asked
what he told her before her final
run of the day and had forgotten
— “Winning this contest doesn’t
define you” — and stepping in to
deflect questions from British
reporters about his background
— “This isn’t about Dad, is it?”
The second of the bronze med-
alist’s supporters was the gold
medalist.
“Skyyyy!” Japan’s Sakura Yoso-
zumi sang with delight when she
finished her own informal news
conference and encountered
Brown just beginning hers a few
feet away.
Yosozumi, 19, who won with a
score of 60.09, and the silver
medalist, Kokona Hiraki, 12, who
had a 59.04, faced an even larger
contingent of reporters than
TONI L. SANDYS/THE WASHINGTON POST
Brown because they won Japan
its fourth and fifth skateboarding Britain’s Sky Brown rallied for the women’s park skateboard bronze Wednesday in a field in which the ages of the eight tightknit finalists were 12, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 23.
medals of the Tokyo Olympics.
Hiraki had the added draw of bowl with differently shaped con- day, she earned a fist bump from energy. It is competitive, but in a Lizzie Armanto chose to repre- The diminutive Brown is flip-
being the second-youngest ath- crete mounds rising out of the Brazilian skater Dora Varella, really healthy way. We’re all just sent her father’s country, Fin- pier than most of her competi-
lete of the roughly 11,000 at these cavity and performed tricks. who shrugged, stuck out her there to watch it unfold, do our land, because it left a spot open tors, bending low to gather speed,
Games. Runs lasted 45 seconds, with the tongue and drew rowdy applause very best.” for another woman on Team then going for big air and flashy
“I’m so stoked! I can’t believe best score of each skater’s three from the other skaters when she Competitive skateboarding is USA. tricks — she fell in her first and
it. It’s unbelievable. It feels like I runs determining her place in the then fell a few runs later. One of a tight community already, “When I root for them,” Wett- second run trying to nail a stunt
dream,” said Brown, who earned standings. the largest roars of the day came bound by people who believe stein said, “I root for myself.” in which she flips her board
third with 56.47. “I was definitely The skaters brought speed, when American Bryce Wettstein their sport is something closer to Wednesday’s final, with its horizontally in her hands while
a little, like, I thought I was going highflying tricks, turns and cool took a major spill in the final a lifestyle or art form than, well, a constant cheering and hugs her feet hover in midair. She
to get it on the first or second run. poses Wednesday. And they had coming down a ramp and sport. That community is per- along with the flips and tricks, nailed it in a flawless third run to
I was a little shocked and a little in abundance something that is splayed, belly on the concrete. A haps even closer knit among girls felt at times more like a presenta- seal the bronze.
like, ‘Am I going to make it?’ But rare to see at an Olympic venue: onetime favorite to win gold, and women, who for years tion than a competition: Here, As Brown finally finished, she
Sakura, she really was like: ‘You exuberant friendship among Misugu Okamoto from Japan was watched young White men re- world, is what skateboarding is crouched into a ball on her board
got it, Sky. We know you’re going competitors from different coun- hoisted on her competitors’ ceived better promotion, bigger all about. and held her head in her hands.
to make it. Go!’ That made me tries. shoulders and feted after falling sponsorships and more opportu- But there was competition and When she popped up out of the
feel better.” There is a lot of falling in and finishing fourth. nity to compete. showmanship among the friend- bowl, Wettstein and Australian
Women’s park skateboarding skateboarding, especially in the “Skateboarding is such a good The X Games, the sport’s big- ship, too. Yosozumi earned the skater Poppy Olsen were the first
made its Olympic debut Wednes- park discipline. But skateboard- community,” 17-year-old Ameri- gest showcase before Tokyo 2020, highest score of the day on her to run over and celebrate, engulf-
day with some of the youngest ing is perhaps the only Olympic can Brighton Zeuner said. “I’ve didn’t make women’s park skate- first run in the final, a powerful, ing her in a hug. The two Brazil-
athletes at these Summer Games. sport in which falling is, without known pretty much all these girls boarding an official event until clean showing that displayed ian finalists joined shortly after,
The ages of the eight finalists fail, accompanied by rousing since I was 9, 8 years old, and just 2003. This year’s Olympians grew technical prowess, and she thrust followed by the rest of the young
were: 12, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21 and cheers. being here with them is absolute- up learning to skate together. both fists in the air when she skaters standing nearby. No one
23, all skaters who dropped into a When Chilean Josefina Tapia ly surreal. . . . We’re performers, They are so supportive of each landed one particularly difficult was looking at the scoreboard.
roughly swimming pool-sized Varas fell in the first heat of the and I think we need that good other that California native trick. ava.wallace@washpost.com

As Japan racks up the medals, a long-stigmatized sport finally gains a foothold

SKATEBOARDING FROM D1
week. “He loses confidence easi-
ly, but seeing him out there
actively talking with the teachers
and trying so hard, I’m really
happy.”
In Japan, skateboarding is
gaining a newfound recognition
— and residents such as the
Minowas are hoping others in
Japan will appreciate and em-
brace the sport’s emphasis on
individuality, freedom and cre-
ativity that they have valued even
before it made its Olympic debut
at these Games.
Skateboarding shops around
Tokyo are seeing spikes in sales
and foot traffic since the compe-
titions began airing last week.
Children and adults alike are
filling up slots for skateboarding
lessons and getting added to wait
lists. The sport has drawn so
much hype that local officials
announced this week they are
working to turn the temporary
Olympics skateboarding venue
into a permanent facility.
“After the Olympics, we’ve
been getting a lot more custom-
ers, many dads who used to
skateboard who now want their
kids to skateboard,” said Koji
Takahashi, a sales associate at
Murasaki Sports, located in the
center of Tokyo’s shopping dis-
trict of Harajuku.
The surging interest in skate-
boarding has been driven by the
achievements of its own athletes.
Two of the country’s own won
gold medals in the Olympic
street skateboarding competi-
tions last week: Yuto Horigome
in men’s and Momiji Nishiya in
women’s. Japanese skateboarder
Funa Nakayama won bronze in
the women’s street competition.
On Wednesday, Japanese ath-
letes Sakura Yosozumi and Koko-
na Hiraki won gold and silver,
respectively, in women’s park
skateboarding. Sky Brown, a
British skateboarder who is
half-Japanese, won bronze. Hira-
ki, 12, made history as the young-
est Japanese summer Olympian.
Olympic snowboard silver med-
alist Ayumu Hirano is expected
to compete in Thursday’s park
finals.
The local buzz is a noteworthy
development in a society where
skateboarding long has been
stigmatized as a noisy nuisance
of a hobby for misfits who don’t
comply with social expectations.
Such perceptions of the sport are
not unique to Japan, but it can
feel quite acute because of the
country’s rigid social norms and
lack of tolerance for those who
stray from expectations that cen-
ter on being cisgender, ethnically
Japanese and able-bodied.
To many longtime skaters and
fans here, the Olympic spotlight
feels like a potential inflection
point in the way the country
views their sport — which in
many ways is also a lifestyle and
a subculture, with its own slang
and fashion. They hope that the
Games have shown that these
tweens — even those with blue
hair or tattoos or of mixed race —
are world-class athletes worthy
of Olympic medals for their “su-
per sick” talents.
“In skate parks, diversity, race,
gender, different ages, disabili-
ties are all embraced, and every-
one is equal as ‘skaters,’ ” said
Satoru Kawasaki, the head of the
Japan Skate Park Association. “I
hope with the Olympics, more
people become aware of this
ideal in skate parks and what’s at
Kokona Hiraki and Sakura Yosozumi claimed Olympic silver and
gold medals for Japan in the women’s park skateboarding event.
the core of skateboarding as a
sport and really understand why
it’s grown so much.”
It’s unclear whether the ex-
citement is a momentary blip or
the beginning of a shift.
Skateboarding is still strictly
regulated in Japan. It is not
allowed in areas with foot or car
traffic. Skaters either must find
their way to designated parks on
the outskirts of central Tokyo
that often require entry fees or
must wait until 2 or 3 a.m. to
practice in the streets so that
they don’t get caught by law
enforcement.
Large “No Skating” signs hang
on the fences of local parks. U.S.
Olympic skateboarder Nyjah
Huston posted on Instagram last
week that a Japanese security
guard inside the Olympic Village
banned him from skateboarding
there.
Even those who skate at desig-
TONI L. SANDYS/THE WASHINGTON POST
nated parks must follow strict
rules. According to a 16-point
“Skatepark Etiquette and Man-
ners Book” booklet stacked at a
Tokyo-area park, skaters may not
eat or drink or make loud noises
on the premises and must re-
member to greet others when
they enter the park and to say
“please” and “thank you” as nec-
essary.
Skateboarding began in Ja-
pan in the late 1960s with the
arrival of other board sports
such as surfing and snowboard-
ing, Kawasaki said. The strict
ordinances and social expecta-
tions made it difficult for skat-
ers to practice freely, so they
worked to expand their sport
while building trust with the
local community over many
years, Kawasaki said.
“Japan has a difficulty accept-
ing new things or have negative
reactions to it, so it’s really hard
to challenge new things and for it
to be really accepted,” said Kawa-
saki, 51. “The most important is
to communicate properly and
not do it behind their backs and
really show that they have re-
spect for the property, such as
actively picking up trash in the
area.”
Kawasaki said some longtime
aficionados fear the surge in
interest among novices may cre-
ate havoc on the culture they
have spent decades to protect.
For example, beginners who took
up the sport during the pandem-
ic have been blamed for violating
trespassing rules and damaging
property.
“While it’s great that skate-
boarding is gaining new recogni-
tion, there are some people who
may not necessarily appreciate
skateboarding becoming so big
with the Olympics,” Kawasaki
said.
Still, many welcome the re-
newed attention and hope it’s
here to stay. Ryosuke Ueno, 23,
began skating a decade ago be-
cause he thought it looked cool.
But he came to realize not many
others in Japan viewed the sport
as he did.
“Skateboard until now was
honestly not seen in a good way
in Japan, but I think with the
Olympics I’m really happy that
people’s images and impressions
of skateboard have really
changed,” said Ueno, who works
at Instant Skateboards, a shop
located near a skate park in
Shibuya.
There has been an influx of
customers at the shop since the
Olympics began last week, buy-
ing parts to personalize their
skateboards and asking to sign
up for classes.
“We’ve had a lot more custom-
ers since the medal win, especial-
ly women,” Ueno said. “Seeing
the Olympics, there were much
more women coming in, saying
that they wanted to start after
seeing the female skater winning
a gold medal.”
Several skaters said they hope
the Japanese public will begin
associating the sport with com-
munity and acceptance and la-
ment the missed opportunity of
showcasing skaters with disabili-
ties at the Paralympics later this
month.
“Skateboard is not a Paralym-
pic sport this time, but there are
many skaters with disabilities
that are absolutely amazing,”
said Takahashi, 47, the sales
associate at Murasaki Sports
who has been skating for nearly
30 years. “And I think it’s the
beauty of skateboard that things
like that don’t matter and every-
one is accepted in the communi-
ty.”
There are signs that messages
of acceptance are resonating
with the Japanese public.
During Wednesday’s women’s
park finals, where three of the
eight finalists were from Team
Japan, the skaters cheered each
other on. When Hiraki, the
12-year-old, finished her runs,
Yosozumi gave her a hug so
vigorous that the two fell to the
ground, then laughed.
“Skateboard was absolutely
amazing!” a Japanese user tweet-
ed just as the medal ceremony
began. “Of course the medals,
but I loved their smiles even
when they fell. And the smiles of
the other skaters. They’re all
friends and cheering each other.
What an amazing sport.”
michelle.lee@washpost.com
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Tokyo OlyMPics

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Larson nears end of her career, with one finish in mind

BY D AVE S HEININ

tokyo — She has been doing this

for 20 years now, swinging her
open right palm at a 9.5-ounce
sphere of synthetic leather with
as much force as she can muster
from her 6-foot-2 frame. Jordan
Larson has been on the U.S.
women’s national volleyball team
since 2009. She has played pro-
fessionally in Bayamon, Puerto
Rico; Kazan, Russia; Istanbul;
and Shanghai. She has raised
championship trophies and worn
medals around her neck in are-
nas from Milan to Nanjing, China
to Bangkok — and, of course,
London and Rio de Janeiro.
And after this week, she isn’t
going to do it anymore.
So Larson, the captain of the
American squad competing at
the Tokyo Olympics and at 34 its
oldest player, took a moment to
reflect Wednesday as she led
Team USA out of the tunnel and
onto the court for its quarterfinal
match against the Dominican
Republic. Here in the single-elim-
ination round, she never knows
when the next time will be the
last. For the rest of this tourna-
ment, she will treat every point as
if it’s match point on her career.
“I addressed those emotions
before I even set foot here,”
Larson, an outside hitter, said
following the Americans’ 25-11,
25-20, 25-19 victory that sent
them into a semifinal match
Friday against Serbia. “I’ve
thought about it a lot: How do I
want to leave my legacy? And
what do I want to leave behind
when I’m done with the sport
and with USA Volleyball. For
sure, those thoughts went
through my mind, and I got a
little emotional today.” FRANK AUGSTEIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS

The one thing missing from
Larson’s extensive résumé —
which includes an Olympic silver
from the 2012 London Games
and a bronze from the Rio Games
in 2016 — is the same thing
missing from Team USA’s. Since
women’s volleyball debuted as an
Olympic sport in 1964, the Unit-
ed States has five medals — three
silvers, two bronze — but no
golds. The Americans are two
wins away from changing that
narrative forever, but as Team
USA knows, the last couple of
wins are the toughest.
“Our objective is always to do
something that hasn’t been done
before, but the opponent has a lot
of say over how that works out,”
said Coach Karch Kiraly, a gold
medalist with the men’s indoor
Jordan Larson has earned silver and bronze medals at previous Olympics and has the United States two wins from gold after it beat the Dominican Republic on Wednesday.
team in 1984 and 1988. “We’re
going to keep hurtling ourselves
at that door and try to break it
down and stand at the top as no
USA women’s team has done
before.”
Over the past few days, a better
metaphor might be the rest of the
world cracking that door open
for the Americans. On Monday,
defending Olympic champion
China, with star Zhu Ting ham-
pered by a wrist injury, failed to
make it out of the qualifying
round. Then on Wednesday, Tur-
key suffered an upset loss at the
hands of South Korea. Thus, in a
span of 72 hours, the world’s
third- and fourth-ranked teams
were eliminated. That leaves
No. 2 Brazil as the biggest threat
to Team USA, which is ranked
No. 1.
There is more positive news on
the horizon for the Americans:
They could see the returns of star
setter Jordyn Poulter and oppo-
site hitter Jordan Thompson by
Friday’s semifinal. Both have
been sidelined with ankle inju-
ries, though both dressed
Wednesday. (As the last Jordan/
Jordyn standing, Larson resisted
the urge to take the court
Wednesday in multiple layers of
bubble wrap.)
As much as Larson wants an
Olympic gold medal to round out
her trophy case, she knows better
than to view it as a magical object
with the singular power to vali-
date her career. That career, from
an all-American stint at the Uni-
versity of Nebraska to a 2014
world championship with Team
USA to three Olympic appearanc-
es and (so far) two medals, needs
no such validation.
“If we’ve done everything and
come up short, I’ll be okay with
that,” Larson said. “In Rio, we
took the bronze, but I thought we
gave everything we had, and
that’s what we walked away with.
I want the most out of this team,
and if that means walking away
with gold, that’s fantastic. But life
is going to go on.”
Larson’s life certainly is. She
has been playing overseas for
more than a decade now, which,
combined with her U.S. national
team duties, has left her an
average of one month off per year.
In a roundabout way, it was the
coronavirus pandemic and the
resulting shutdown of global
sports that showed her how
much life she had been missing
and how her post-volleyball life
might look. And she kind of liked
it.
“It was kind of nice to just sit
and to be at my house for more
than a month,” she told NBC. “I
haven’t had much of a chance to
kind of step away and really
reflect.”
While her volleyball life went
on hiatus during the pandemic,
real life hurtled forward. She and
boyfriend David Hunt, the men’s
volleyball coach at Pepperdine
University, got engaged in
July 2020. The wedding will be
Aug. 27, exactly 19 days following
the gold medal match in Tokyo.
The wedding planning over
the past year has been a whirl-
wind, and it will be exponentially
so in that narrow window be-
tween the Olympics and the big
day. But for this stretch of three
weeks, the length of Larson’s stay
in Tokyo, those duties have fallen
to other folks, all of whom know
better than to try to involve her.
“My mind,” she said firmly, “is
here.”
dave.sheinin@washpost.com

WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS

Sport that was mostly for teens graduates to older champions at these Games
BY E MILY G IAMBALVO
tokyo — As she prepared for
the 1984 Olympic Games, Kathy
Johnson Clarke sometimes
looked in the mirror while pull-
ing her hair into a ponytail and
thought, “I’m almost 25 here.”
Johnson Clarke missed the 1976
Olympic team, then reached that
goal four years later, but the
United States boycotted the Mos-
cow Games. Unwilling to aban-
don the sport she still speaks
about with adoration, she hung
on for another quadrennium,
well into her 20s.
“I was ancient,” Johnson
Clarke says now, explaining how
she was perceived by those
around her.
At the 1976 Olympics, Nadia
Comaneci captivated the sport
with her perfect 10 and an all-
around gold medal at age 14.
Once the Romanian star set this
standard, the already declining
average age of Olympic medal
winners kept tumbling, and that
trend stuck for decades. Coman-
eci’s coaches, Bela and Martha
Karolyi, brought those philoso-
phies to the United States, and
gymnastics became perceived as
a sport for teenagers.
The window between ages 14
and 18 was viewed as the “opti-
mal time to even attempt the
Olympics,” said Betty Okino, a
1992 U.S. Olympian who trained
with the Karolyis. Rarely did the
age of U.S. Olympians exceed 20.
Since Johnson Clarke competed
in the 1984 Olympics, just two
other American gymnasts did so
at an older age: Annia Hatch and
Mohini Bhardwaj, both members
of the 2004 team.
But that trend, with regard to
both the U.S. Olympic team and
medal winners at the Games, has
started to reverse. Americans
Simone Biles and MyKayla Skin-
ner each made the Tokyo team at
24, just months shy of Johnson
Clarke’s Olympic age. And the
average age of medal winners in
Tokyo was 20.6, the highest since
1968, even without Biles skewing
it upward with what was project-
ed to be a haul of five medals. She
instead earned two medals after
a disorienting mental block kept
her from competing in several
finals.
Take the women’s floor exer-
cise final as an example: U.S.
gymnast Jade Carey, 21, earned
the gold. Vanessa Ferrari, a
30-year-old Italian, won her first
Olympic medal with the silver.
Japan’s Mai Murakami, 24, and
the Russian Olympic Commit-
tee’s Angelina Melnikova, 21,
shared the bronze.
With an open-ended scoring
system, the sport has evolved.
Harder skills take longer to de-
velop and often require more
mature bodies that can generate
power. Beginning in 1971, gym-
nasts had to be 14 by the end of
the Olympic year to be eligible
for the Games. That minimum
age rose to 15 in 1981 and 16 in
1997. More recently, a cultural
reckoning in the sport ques-
tioned whether young gymnasts
were being pushed too much and
too early.
There’s more evidenced-
based research available now,
said David Tilley, whose work in
sports medicine and strength
training focuses on gymnastics,
and coaches have started to
listen. Tilley thinks the average
age of the U.S. women’s team —
21.25 at the Tokyo Games —
could increase further and that
the so-called peak age of per-
formance actually might be in
the window between 22 and 28
years old.
There are still — and probably
always will be — examples on
both sides of the spectrum. Chi-
na’s Guan Chenchen, 16, shined
with a gold medal-winning per-
formance on balance beam. Vik-
toria Listunova, another 16-year-
old star, won gold with the
Every gymnast who won a medal in the floor exercise, including
American gold medalist Jade Carey, above, was at least 21 years old.
Russian Olympic Committee’s
team. She wouldn’t have been
age eligible for the Games if they
hadn’t been postponed.
But then there’s also Oksana
Chusovitina, a 46-year-old repre-
senting Uzbekistan, who just
competed at her eighth Olym-
pics. Chellsie Memmel, a 2008
U.S. Olympian, successfully re-
turned to the elite level this
summer as a 32-year-old mother
of two. Biles proved she could
execute more difficult skills in
her 20s than she did at the Rio de
Janeiro Games and before. Skin-
ner, an alternate in 2016 and now
a vault silver medalist, also im-
proved during that stretch.
“It's amazing what someone
setting that example can do for
the next generation,” said Shan-
non Miller, a two-time Olympian
in 1992 and 1996. “When you see
a gymnast compete at their sec-
ond or third Olympics, you sud-
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denly realize, ‘Wait a second, I
could do that.’ ”
Skinner has admitted that her
return to elite gymnastics after
three seasons at the University
of Utah might not have been
possible if Martha Karolyi still
led the national team — “be-
cause that intense level, it’s
almost sometimes too much,”
she said, adding that her body
might not have been able to
handle the same amount of
repetition it once could. Healthi-
er training environments and an
improved culture breed longevi-
ty.
“We really didn’t have bal-
ance,” said Dominique Dawes, a
three-time Olympian.
As the age of top American
gymnasts continues to rise, ath-
letes could be faced with a new
choice: Will they still compete in
college while maintaining their
elite-level training? Skinner
Women’s gymnastics medal winners
haven’t been this old in more than 50 years
Even without 24-year-old Simone Biles winning as many medals as expected,
the gymnasts who finished on the podium at these Olympics were, on
average, older than they have been in decades.
30 years
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showed how that can be done, continue, and I wouldn’t put it
which “opens the door for more past some of these young women
programs to see that as a possi- to continue to go that route,” said
bility and more athletes to see Jenny Rowland, the head coach
that as a possibility,” said Saman- at Florida, a perennial power
tha Peszek, a 2008 Olympian and that recruits many of these top
former UCLA gymnast. athletes. One of her gymnasts,
College athletes representing Trinity Thomas, competed at U.S.
other countries, such as Canada’s elite nationals and the world
Shallon Olsen (Alabama) and championships team selection
Jamaica’s Danusia Francis camp in 2019 just after her NCAA
(UCLA), have done the same, but season ended.
making the dominant U.S. team If this trend persists, and U.S.
poses a difficult challenge. Skin- elite gymnasts keep training well
ner left school and returned to beyond their high school years,
her club gym in Arizona as she the framework for development
pursued a spot on the Tokyo may need to be recalibrated, too.
team, which in the United States “Now what we have to do is
requires frequent training what we did when we all went,
camps. But the way she integrat- ‘Oh!’ when we saw Nadia,” John-
ed difficult skills into her college son Clarke said. “Instead we need
routines reminded others that to say, ‘Let’s imagine they’re
Olympic dreams for Americans going to do gymnastics into their
didn’t necessarily need to disap- 20s and work backwards from
pear upon entering college. there.’ ”
“I’m hopeful that trend will emily.giambalvo@washpost.com
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WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS
Liukin helped viewers and NBC navigate Biles’s absence
BY B EN S TRAUSS
As Simone Biles readied for her
vault in the team gymnastics
competition last week, it was
difficult to imagine what was to
come: a stumble, a withdrawal
and a new conversation about
Olympians and mental health.
But Nastia Liukin, calling the
event on NBC, seemed to sense
something was amiss.
“The amount of pressure she
has on her shoulders,” Liukin said
before Biles attempted her vault,
in comments that would air on
NBC’s tape-delayed broadcast in
prime time. “Not just her team-
mates but the entire nation — but
not just the nation but the entire
world — is expecting for her to be
the best just like she always is.
And that’s a lot.”
She added: “Nobody knows
what it feels like except for Simo-
ne Biles.”
Liukin, a gold medal-winning
gymnast for Team USA, has been
perhaps the person most respon-
sible for explaining to Americans
what Biles was experiencing in
Tokyo. She has been a fixture on
NBC, discussing everything from
the “twisties” — gymnastics’
(much more dangerous) version
of the yips — to Biles’s status in
the competition.
“I definitely feel like I want to
explain to the rest of the world
what people don’t understand,”
she said in a phone interview
Wednesday from Tokyo. “If you’re
a gymnast, if you say the word
‘twisties,’ you are like, ‘Oh, gosh.’ ”
Ahead of that vault, Liukin had
followed Biles’s Instagram posts
and then saw worrying signs in
Biles’s practice routine. “There
was something in her eyes,” Li-
ukin said. “I’ve known her since
she was 14. There was a look I had
never seen. It was fear and nerves
Artem Dolgopyat cannot marry his fiancee, Maria Seikovitch, in Israel because he is not considered Jewish according to Israeli religious law.
MEN’S GYMNASTICS
Israeli champ tumbles into marriage controversy
BY S TEVE H ENDRIX
jerusalem — When gymnast Ar-
tem Dolgopyat stepped off the po-
dium as only the second Israeli to
win an Olympic gold medal, he
triggered one of Israel’s many cul-
tural tripwires: It quickly emerged
that the country’s newest sports
hero is banned from marrying his
fiancee here because he is not con-
sidered Jewish enough by the rab-
bis who control Israel’s marriage
law.
Immediately after Dolgopyat
took top honors in the men’s floor
exercise, his mother took the
chance to complain that Israeli
religious law is keeping her en-
gaged 24-year-old son from tying
the knot because only his father’s
side of the family is Jewish.
Marriage law is tightly con-
trolled by Israel’s Chief Rabbinate.
And for generations, couples who
are of mixed religions — or who
are atheists, gay or inadequately
Jewish — have been forced to mar-
ry outside the country.
Dolgopyat’s training schedule
has made that impossible, said his
mother, Angela Bilan.
“I want grandchildren,” Bilan
said Sunday in an interview with
Israeli radio.
Dolgopyat told reporters he
NBC analyst and gold medal winner Nastia Liukin said, “If you’re a gymnast, if you say the word ‘twisties,’ you are like, ‘Oh, gosh.’ ”
and uncertainty.”
Liukin’s call struck a far differ-
ent tone than the broadcast that
aired live on Peacock. During the
preamble to Biles’s vault, the
broadcast only hyped her up: “It
doesn’t matter what vault she
does, it’s a showstopper. It’s must-
see TV.”
On prime time the next night,
Liukin spoke with host Mike Tiri-
co about the twisties — which she
knows firsthand — and how diffi-
cult it would have been for Biles
to compete. She also told Tirico
what many fans — and no doubt
wanted to focus on his victory, not
the controversy, leading some
commentators to speculate that
rushing to the altar is more his
mother’s cause than his own.
His fiancee, Maria Seikovitch,
said Monday the couple got en-
gaged last year, and she displayed
her engagement ring to TV camer-
as.
Since her son’s Olympic tri-
umph, Bilan’s maternal gold med-
dling has sparked a furor. Several
top government officials pledged
to seize the chance to break the
rabbis’ longtime grip on marriage
law and allow civil unions to be
recognized for the first time. (Mus-
lim and Christian Israelis also
must be married within their reli-
gious institutions.)
“It’s intolerable that someone
can fight on our behalf in the
Olympics, represent us and win a
gold medal and not be able to get
married in Israel,” Alternate Prime
Minister Yair Lapid told the Jeru-
salem Post.
But ultra-Orthodox political
leaders warned against weaken-
ing the religious nature of the
state.
“Winning a medal doesn’t make
him Jewish,” Aryeh Deri of the
religious Shas Party told the news-
paper. “Our laws are consistent:
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Tokyo OlyMPics
NBC executives — wanted to
hear: that Biles was training
again with the possibility that she
might return to the Games. Li-
ukin also relayed a message di-
rect from Biles: She had with-
drawn to save her teammates.
“Simone said to me, ‘I really
want everyone to know I wasn’t
being selfish,’ ” Liukin said. “ ‘I
wasn’t there mentally and didn’t
feel safe enough to do the other
events. If I got hurt, the score will
be far less, and Team USA can still
win a medal.’ I think a lot of
people didn’t see it that way, and
For 73 years, marriage in this coun-
try has been run by Jewish law.”
The office of Prime Minister
Naftali Bennett, who called Dol-
gopyat in Tokyo to congratulate
him, declined to comment on the
marriage dust-up.
Polls consistently show a signif-
icant majority of Jewish Israelis
want the state to recognize all
marriages equally, but the rabbin-
ate restricts the rite almost exclu-
sively to brides and grooms who
can show an uninterrupted line of
Jewish mothers.
Those who cannot comply look
for wedding workarounds. Most
travel abroad to get hitched —
nearby Cyprus is a popular venue
— and then register as married
back home. With travel restricted
during the pandemic, dozens of
couples were married in Zoom
ceremonies conducted by county
officials in Utah.
Dolgopyat’s family immigrated
to Israel 12 years ago from
Ukraine, according to the many
biographies that have appeared
since he edged a Spaniard to be-
come Israel’s first gold medal gym-
nast. (The country’s only previous
gold medal was won in windsurf-
ing.) His father’s family is Jewish;
his mother’s is not.
When the athlete landed at Ben
she wanted me to get that out
there, and I think that was impor-
tant for people to understand.”
Biles returned to competition
Tuesday, winning a bronze medal
in balance beam. NBC has been
battling flagging TV viewership
for these Olympics and sought to
maximize the prime-time audi-
ence for Biles, which angered
some gymnastics fans. A replay of
the event was not available, as
other events have been, on Pea-
cock until after NBC’s prime-time
presentation.
To set up Biles’s return, the
ARIEL SCHALIT/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Gurion Airport on Tuesday, the
crowd waved flags, sprayed cham-
pagne and blew shofars, the tradi-
tional Jewish ram’s horn. Having
Dolgopyat treated as a Jewish
hero, one without a Jewish moth-
er, could make him an emblem for
a more expansive view of Judaism.
“Who is a Jew and who can
marry are two existential ques-
tions that Israel has failed to grap-
ple with in its 72-year history,” said
Rabbi Uri Regev, head of the group
Hiddush-Freedom of Religion for
Israel.
Advocates have already whit-
tled away at the rabbis’ lock on
some issues, with recent Israeli
Supreme Court rulings opening
up avenues of conversion to Juda-
ism and a new budget that breaks
open kosher certification to great-
er competition. Regev said he
thinks Dolgopyat could now per-
sonalize and popularize the issue
of marriage.
“The battle for who controls
marriage is age-old,” he said. “But
when you have an individual who
is heralded by not just the public
but the cabinet and the prime
minister, that has the capacity to
move forward that which already
enjoys the support of the silent
majority.”
steve.hendrix@washpost.com
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network aired a package set to
Taylor Swift’s “This Is Me Trying”
that included a voice-over: “What
do we want from our heroes?
What do we need? What happens
when they surprise us? When you
have the attention of the world,
everything you do takes on a
bigger meaning. It can be a heavy
burden.”
Tirico also interviewed Biles
on Tuesday night. In the conver-
sation, she said that she was not
medically cleared to return to
action after her vault.
The presentation Tuesday mir-
ROUNDUP
Heat forces Thompson’s
caddie to drop o≠ bag
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Lexi Thompson had to bring in
a team manager for the last three
holes when her caddie succumbed
to the heat during the first round
of the women’s Olympic golf tour-
nament Wednesday in Kawagoe,
Japan. Players walked down sun-
baked fairways using umbrellas,
some of them occasionally hold-
ing a bag of ice on their heads.
Madelene Sagstrom had a hot
start of her own.
With a tough pitch to four feet
for a par on the final hole, the
Swede kept bogeys off her card on
a day of searing heat for a 5-under-
par 66, giving her a one-shot lead
over top-ranked Nelly Korda of the
United States and Aditi Ashok of
India.
Extreme heat is nothing new for
most of the top players, with an
LPGA Tour schedule that includes
stops in Singapore and Thailand.
This ranked right up there. The
heat index topped 100 degrees,
and at that point caddies were
allowed to remove their bibs.
Heat wasn’t the only problem. A
tropical storm is approaching,
and the current forecast is for a
70 percent chance of heavy rain
Saturday and a slightly higher
chance Sunday. The competition
must finish by Sunday when the
Olympics close. Players have been
informed about the possibility of a
54-hole event.
The extreme heat ruled out any
thought of playing 27 holes apiece
over the next two days.
“It’s hot. I’m not going to lie. It’s
very hot,” Sagstrom said. “But it’s
manageable. Most of us have been
in Asia, played a lot of golf over
here, so we know what to do. I think
at this point it’s harder for the
caddies than it is for the players.”
No need to explain that to
Thompson. She was walking up
the 15th fairway when she said her
caddie, Jack Fulghum, turned to
her and said, “Do I look white to
you?”
“I didn’t really notice. But he
just didn’t look good,” she said.
She had him sit down off the
green and brought in Donna
Wilkins, who works in player ser-
vices for the LPGA Tour and is on
the staff for Team USA at the
Olympics. Thompson birdied
three straight holes, closed with a
bogey and shot a 72.
l WEIGHTLIFTING: Lasha
Talakhadze pumped everyone up
with three world records on the
final day of competition.
The defending champion from
Georgia lifted 223 kilograms
(491.6 pounds) in the snatch and
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rored the way the network has
pivoted to cover Biles’s withdraw-
al and away from the traditional
feel-good stories of triumph to
more complicated conversations
about pressure and mental
health. Aly Raisman and Laurie
Hernandez, former teammates of
Biles, appeared on the “Today”
show to talk about Biles’s strug-
gles and some of their own, too. In
prime time one night, former
swimmer Michael Phelps and Tir-
ico had an extended conversation
about Phelps’s battles with his
mental health.
“For Simone to say her seventh
Olympic medal, a bronze, is the
most meaningful to her, that’s all
you have to know,” Liukin said.
“She’s inspiring so many genera-
tions to come and the importance
of understanding and owning
and acknowledging that fulfilling
other people’s expectations won’t
define you.”
While there has been plenty of
discussion of pressure and men-
tal health as macro issues, there
has been less direct conversation
— on NBC and elsewhere — about
what Biles has been through as an
American gymnast, overcoming
the abuse of Larry Nassar and
USA Gymnastics’ handling of the
scandal. Before the Olympics,
Biles said she was competing, but
“I am not representing USA Gym-
nastics.” (Tirico and Biles did
refer to issues in gymnastics
obliquely in their conversation.)
Asked whether those issues
needed to be part of any conversa-
tion about her mental health,
Liukin said: “I think that’s for
Simone to talk about. I think
what she’s done set the standard
for speaking up for yourself and
safety comes first. I think every-
thing else is for her to decide, and
I’ll leave it at that.”
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265 kg (584.2 pounds) in the clean
and jerk for a winning total of
488 kg (1,075.8 pounds). All three
figures broke his own world rec-
ords in the over-109-kg men’s su-
per heavyweight category.
l HANDBALL: The world
champion Netherlands is out of
the women’s competition after a
32-22 loss to France in the quarter-
finals.
France will play Sweden in one
semifinal, and the 2016 Olympic
gold medalist Russian team faces
Norway in the other.
l TRACK AND FIELD: Peruth
Chemutai of Uganda made her
move on the last lap and pulled
away for the win in the women’s
3,000-meter steeplechase final.
American Courtney Frerichs
took silver.
l SAILING: Britain won gold
in the women’s two-person dinghy
as Hannah Mills, partnered with
Eilidh McIntyre, became the first
British woman to win at least
three Olympic medals in sailing.
In the men’s event, Mat Belcher
and Will Ryan of Australia won
gold.
l TRACK CYCLING: Italy
broke its own world record to win
the gold medal in men’s team pur-
suit.
The team of Simone Consonni,
Filippo Ganna, Francesco Lamon
and Jonathan Milan stopped the
clock in 3 minutes 42.032 seconds
to edge world champion Den-
mark, which finished in 3:42.203.
Saunders’s mother dies
American silver medalist Raven
Saunders said her mother died.
The shot putter wrote on her
Twitter account early Wednesday
that “my mama was a great wom-
an and will forever live through
me. My number one guardian an-
gel.”
Media reports said Clarissa
Saunders died in Orlando, where
she had been attending Olympic
watch parties. Raven Saunders
won silver Sunday. . . .
The world champions of the
decathlon and heptathlon are out
of Olympic medal contention after
they broke down during their last
races of the day.
Heptathlon world champion
Katarina Johnson-Thompson in-
jured her right calf muscle as she
rounded the bend in the 200 me-
ters, the fourth event of the com-
petition.
About an hour later, decathlon
world champion Niklas Kaul of
Germany appeared to injure an
ankle during the 400 meters, the
fifth of 10 disciplines, and did not
finish.
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Britain’s Ben Maher, aboard Explosion, rides to the individual jumping gold medal Wednesday at Equestrian Park in Tokyo. He is the second rider from Britain to win an Olympic gold in the event.
BASEBALL
Americans keep hopes alive
A SSOCIATED P RESS
yokohama, japan — For Tris-
ton Casas, the Olympics feel as
comfortable as spring training.
That’s because when he
stepped to the plate in the Unit-
ed States’ elimination game
against the Dominican Republic
on Wednesday, he was facing
Boston Red Sox Class AA team-
mate Denyi Reyes.
“I have one career at-bat off of
him in spring training, and I hit
a home run over the batter’s eye
as well,” Casas said after he
crushed a two-run, first-inning
drive that started the Americans
to a 3-1 win.
Tyler Austin, a former major
MEN’S WATER POLO
Spain sends game U.S. squad home
A SSOCIATED P RESS
tokyo — The United States
produced its best performance
of the Games, but it wasn’t
enough to beat Spain, which
eliminated the Americans, 12-8.
Spain improved to 6-0 in
Tokyo, outscoring its opponents
73-39.
Spain was clinging to a 7-6
lead in the fourth quarter when
a video review showed Team
USA attacker Luca Cupido en-
tered too early after an exclu-
sion. Alberto Munarriz Egana
buried the ensuing penalty
shot, and Blai Mallarach Guell
and Roger Tahull Compte add-
Basketball
7 a.m. — Men’s semifinal: Slovenia
vs. France — NBC Sports Network
(live)
12:30 a.m. (Fri.) — Women’s
semifinal: United States vs. Serbia
— NBC (live)
Beach volleyball
9 p.m. — Women’s bronze medal
match — CNBC (live)
10:30 p.m. — Women’s final — NBC
(live)
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leaguer in his home ballpark of
the Central League’s Yokohama
Bay Stars, added a solo home run
in the fifth, his second long ball
of the tournament to go with a
.412 average and five RBI.
Team USA (3-1) plays defend-
ing champion South Korea (3-2)
on Thursday night for a spot in
Saturday’s gold medal game,
with the loser facing the Domin-
icans for the bronze. Japan (4-0)
defeated South Korea, 5-2, to
earn a spot in the title game.
Scott Kazmir (1-0) escaped a
bases-loaded, one-out jam in the
first. The 37-year-old left-hander
pitched five scoreless innings.
“I felt like I still had a lot in
me,” Kazmir said.
GONZALO FUENTES/REUTERS
ed big goals down the stretch.
Hannes Daube scored three
times for the U.S. squad, which
has dropped four straight. Alex
Obert had two goals, and Alex
Wolf finished with eight stops.
“We were great. I’m proud of
my guys,” said U.S. Coach Dejan
Udovicic, who declined to com-
ment when asked about the
video review that led to the
penalty shot.
Daube, the youngest player
on the U.S. roster at 21, is con-
sidered a rising star, but he has
struggled with inconsistency in
his first Olympics. He scored
five goals in five games during
group play.
Canoe/kayak
8:30 p.m. — Sprint, qualifying —
USA (live)
Diving
8 p.m. — Women’s platform, final —
NBC
2 a.m.- (Fri.) — Men’s platform,
qualifying — USA (live)
Tokyo OlyMPics
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Team USA finally finds its groove
A SSOCIATED P RESS
saitama, japan — Breanna
Stewart and the U.S. women
played their best basketball of
the Tokyo Games, putting on
the kind of dominant perform-
ance the team has been known
for over the years en route to
winning six consecutive Olym-
pic gold medals.
Stewart was a big reason,
scoring 20 of her 23 points in
the first half as Team USA rout-
ed the Aussies, 79-55, on
Wednesday in the quarterfinals.
“We wanted to come out and
set the tone on both ends of the
floor,” Stewart said. “This is the
quarterfinals, and it’s win or go
WOMEN’S MARATHON SWIMMING
Brazil’s Cunha breaks through
A SSOCIATED P RESS
tokyo — Ana Marcela Cunha
of Brazil won the women’s 10-ki-
lometer marathon swimming
event.
Cunha touched first in 1 hour
59 minutes 30.8 seconds
Wednesday morning, finishing
nine-tenths of a second ahead of
defending champion Sharon
van Rouwendaal of the Nether-
lands.
Van Rouwendaal took silver
in 1:59.31.7.
Kareena Lee of Australia
earned bronze in 1:59.32.5.
Cunha won her first medal in
her third Olympics. She was
TO DA Y ’S TV
Golf
6:30 p.m. — Women’s third round
— Golf Channel (live)
Skateboarding
8 p.m. — Men’s park, final — NBC
Soccer
10 p.m. — Women’s final: Sweden
vs. Canada — USA (live)
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home.”
The Americans will face Ser-
bia on Friday looking to ad-
vance to their seventh consecu-
tive gold medal game. The Ser-
bians, who won the bronze
medal in the 2016 Rio de Janei-
ro Games, rallied to beat China,
77-70, in the quarterfinals.
France will play Japan in the
other semifinal.
For the first time, the Ameri-
cans looked like the team that
has won 53 consecutive games
in the Olympics.
“Knockout rounds brings out
a certain intensity about a team,
and that played a huge role in
it,” said Sue Bird, who had nine
points and five assists.
PATRICK B KRAEMER/EPA-EFE/SHUTTERSTOCK
10th five years ago in Rio de
Janeiro and fifth in the 2008
Beijing Games.
American Haley Anderson
finished sixth, and teammate
Ashley Twichell was seventh.
The seven-lap course in To-
kyo Bay featured a backdrop of
skyscrapers, the Rainbow
Bridge and the nearby floating
Olympic rings.
The air temperature during
the latter stages of the race was
86 degrees, with 74 percent hu-
midity that made it feel like
95 degrees. The water tempera-
ture was about 84 degrees, un-
der the allowable limit of 88 de-
grees.
Track and field
6 a.m. — Men’s decathlon and
women’s heptathlon events;
women’s pole vault and men’s 400
meters, finals; men’s 1,500
meters, semifinals; women’s
4x400-meter relay, qualifying —
Peacock (live)
4:30 p.m. — Men’s 50-kilometer
race walk — NBC Sports Network
(live)
8 p.m. — Men’s 400 meters, final;
men’s decathlon and women’s
heptathlon events; men’s 1,500
meters, semifinals — NBC
BEHROUZ MEHRI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
EQUESTRIAN
Brit has the horse for the course
A SSOCIATED P RESS
tokyo — Ben Maher earned
Britain its second straight gold
in equestrian individual jump-
ing by besting five riders in a
jumpoff. Maher follows Nick
Skelton, who retired shortly
after he won gold at the 2016
Rio de Janeiro Games, to give
the country its second gold
overall in the event.
Just six of the 30 finalists
completed their runs without
penalty, and Maher, riding Ex-
plosion, had the fastest time
out of all of them in the jumpoff
round at 37.85 seconds.
Peder Fredricson of Sweden
earned silver for the second
ARTISTIC SWIMMING
Russians spin a golden web
A SSOCIATED P RESS
tokyo — Svetlana Romashina
doesn’t count gold medals.
She could be excused for los-
ing track.
The Russian star claimed her
record sixth Olympic gold in ar-
tistic swimming, teaming with
Svetlana Kolesnichenko to win
the duet Wednesday night.
The Russians were heavy fa-
vorites in a sport they have long
dominated. Their last Olympic
loss in what was then known as
synchronized swimming came
at the 1996 Atlanta Games.
“I don’t count medals,” Ro-
mashina said. “I just want to feel
3:30 a.m. (Fri.) — Women’s 20-
kilometer race walk — NBC Sports
Network (live)
Volleyball
8 a.m. — Men’s semifinal: France
vs. Argentina — USA (live)
Midnight — Women’s semifinal:
United States vs. Serbia — USA
(live)
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straight games with a jumpoff
time of 38.02 seconds.
Maikel van der Vleuten of
the Netherlands won bronze at
38.90.
Maher gave credit to his
horse for a performance worthy
of a gold medal.
“We read each other’s minds;
we’re very in sync, and he did
question me,” Maher said. “I
felt a moment of hesitation,
and he kind of grew wings. He
can do that. That’s what sets
him apart from the rest of the
horses.
“It’s not so easy. We’re riding
horses, and anything can hap-
pen, but this horse is just in a
different world.”
STEFAN WERMUTH/REUTERS
this moment.”
Swimming last out of 12 final-
ists to the music “Spiders,” the
Russian pair came out in nude-
colored suits with black arthro-
pods splashed across the front.
They mimicked the crawling
bugs on deck before diving in for
a dramatic performance punc-
tuated with fierce leg kicks. They
also had a grueling line of under-
water work without coming up
for air.
The silver went to China’s
Huang Xuechen and Sun We-
nyan. Marta Fiedina and Ana-
stasiya Savchuk won the bronze,
giving Ukraine its first Olympic
medal in artistic swimming.
Water polo
6:30 a.m. — Women’s semifinal:
Spain vs. Hungary — CNBC (live)
Wrestling
5:15 a.m. — Men’s freestyle 57 kg
and 86 kg, finals; women’s
freestyle 57 kg, final — Olympic
Channel (live)
10 p.m. — Finals — Olympic
Channel (live)
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Columbia, Building A, 515 5th, NW,
3rd Floor, Washington DC 20001
within 6 months from the date of
first publication of this notice.
James McBride
Personal Representative
Nicole D. Stevens
Register of Wills
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
PROBATE DIVISION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20001-2131
2021 ADM 000664
KIIRA A. LEE
Gary Altman, Esq.
11300 Rockville Pike, Suite 708
Rockville, MD 20852
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT,
NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND
NOTICE TO UNKNOWN HEIRS
Adam H. Cohn, whose address is
3821 Morrison St. NW, Washington,
DC 20015 was appointed personal
representative of the estate of Kiira
A. Lee, who died on September
27, 2020 without a will and will
serve without Court supervision.
All unknown heirs and heirs whose
whereabouts are unknown shall
enter their appearance in this pro-
ceeding. Objections to such
appointment shall be filed with the
Register of Wills, D.C., Building A,
515 5th Street, NW, 3rd Floor, Wash-
ington DC 20001, on or before
01/29/2022. Claims against the
decedent shall be presented to the
undersigned with a copy to the
Register of Wills or filed with the
Register of Wills with a copy to
the undersigned, on or before
01/29/2022, or be forever barred.
Persons believed to be heirs or lega-
tees of the decedent who do not
receive a copy of this notice by mail
within 25 days of its first publication
shall so inform the Register of Wills,
including name, address and rela-
tionship.
Adam H. Cohn
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
Nicole D. Stevens
REGISTER OF WILLS
To: Christina Nicole
Barun
You are hereby notified that a
guardianship case has been filed
in the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, Maryland, Case No.: 6-Z-
21-0020. All persons who believe
themselves to be parents of a male
child born on July 20, 2020 in Silver
Spring (Montgomery County), Mary-
land to Christina Nicole Barun (DOB:
August 21, 1989), and an unknown
father (DOB: unknown), shall file a
written response. A copy of the
Show Cause Order may be obtained
from the Juvenile Clerk’s office at
50 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD
20850 and phone number (240) 777-
9530. If you do not file a written
objection by September 6, 2021,
you will have agreed to the perma-
nent loss of your parental rights to
this child.
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Official Notices
Cellco Partnership and its
controlled affiliates doing
business as Verizon Wireless
(Verizon Wireless) proposes
to collocate wireless com-
munications antennas at a
centerline height of 41 feet
and 56 feet on a building
with an overall height of 64
feet at the approx. vicinity of
Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling,
Bldg 92, 235 Wick Dr Wash-
ing, DC, District of Columbia
20373. Public comments
regarding potential effects
from this site on historic
properties may be submit-
ted within 30 days from the
date of this publication to:
Trileaf Corp, Jaimie Tarnai,
j.tarnai@trileaf.com, 8600
LaSalle Road, Towson, MD
21286, 410-853-7128.
851
Prince Georges County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY,
MARYLAND
Brennan Ferguson, et al.
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiffs,
V.
BONITA W. SHELBY,
Defendant.
Case No. CAEF18-50783
NOTICE
Notice is hereby issued this 19th
day of July, 2021, that the sale
of the property in this case, 1836
Metzerott Rd, Apt 1918, Adelphi,
Maryland 20783, reported by Bren-
nan Ferguson, Christine N. John-
son, Robert A. Oliveri, Melissa
Alcocer, Substitute Trustees, be
ratified and confirmed, unless
cause to the contrary be shown on
or before the 19th day of August,
2021 provided a copy of this Notice
be inserted in The Washington
Post, a newspaper published in
Prince George's County, Maryland,
once in each of three (3) succes-
sive weeks on or before the 19th
day of August, 2021.
The report states the amount of
sale to be $73,000.00.
Mahasin El Amin #597
Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Prince Georges County, MD
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Prince Georges County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY,
MARYLAND
WILLIAM M. SAVAGE, et al.
Trustee(s)
Plaintiff(s)
vs.
TIFFANY HARRISON
Defendant(s)
Mortgagor(s)
CIVIL NO: CAEF21-00490
NOTICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, this 22nd
day of July, 2021 by the Circuit
Court for the County of Prince
George's, Maryland and by the
authority thereof, that the sale
made by William M. Savage and
Gregory N. Britto, Trustees, of the
Real Property designated as 14937
Cherrywood Drive Unit 2G, Laurel,
MD 20707 and reported in the
above entitled cause, will be finally
ratified and confirmed, unless
cause to the contrary thereof be
shown on or before the 23rd day
of August, 2021 next; provided a
copy of this Order be inserted
in THE WASHINGTON POST, 1150
15th Street, Washington, DC, MD
in said County of Prince George's
once a week for three successive
weeks before the 23rd day of
August, 2021.
The report states the amount of
the sale to be $221,000.00.
Mahasin El Amin #597
Clerk of the Circuit Court For
County of Prince George's
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Anne Arundel County
IN THE
CIRCUIT COURT FOR
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY
James E. Clarke, et al.
Substitute Trustees
Versus
Janet L. Perkins and
Robert E. Schley
Defendant
No. C-02-CV-20-000921
NOTICE
Notice is hereby issued, Thursday,
July 29, 2021 that the sale of the
property in the proceedings men-
tioned, made and reported by
James E. Clarke,
Trustee.
Substitute
BE RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED,
unless cause to the contrary there-
of be shown on or before the
30th day of August 2021 next; pro-
vided, a copy of this Notice be
inserted in some newspaper pub-
lished in Anne Arundel County,
once in each of three successive
weeks before the 30th day of
August 2021 next. The report
states that the amount of sale
of the property at 1903 NORWICH
ROAD, GLEN BURNIE, MD 21061 to
be $206,000.00
Scott A. Poyer
Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Anne Arundel County
August 5, 17, 19, 2021 12350884
853
Calvert County
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
CALVERT COUNTY,
MARYLAND
James E. Clarke, et. al.
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiffs
V.
Rustin Needer
Defendant
Civil No. C-04-CV-19-000556
NOTICE PURSUANT
TO MD RULE 14-215 (A)
ORDERED, by the Circuit Court
for Calvert County, Maryland, this
29th day of July, 2021, that the
foreclosure sale of the property
described in the deed of trust
docketed herein and located at
11583 Tomahawk Trail West,
Lusby, MD 20657, made and
reported by James E. Clarke,
Christine M. Drexel, Brian
Thomas, and Jason Murphy, Sub-
stiture Trustees, be RATIFIED and
CONFIRMED, unless cause to the
contrary be shown on or before
the 29th day of August, 2021; 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
August, 2021.
The Report of Sale states the
amount of the sale at $89,959.99.
BY THE COURT:
Kathy P. Smith
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Orlans PC
PO Box 2548
Leesburg, Virginia 20177
Orlans 19-700922
August 5, 12, 19, 2021 12353187
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
CALVERT COUNTY,
MARYLAND
James E. Clarke, et. al.
Substitute Trustees
Plaintiffs
V.
Young Taek Yang and
Pok Nam Yang
Defendants
Civil No. C-04-CV-17-000234
NOTICE PURSUANT
TO MD RULE 14-215 (A)
ORDERED, by the Circuit Court
for Calvert County, Maryland, this
29th day of July, 2021, that the
foreclosure sale of the property
described in the deed of trust
docketed herein and located at
311 Sheckells Road, Huntingtown,
MD 20639, made and reported
by James E. Clarke, Christine
M. Drexel, Brian Thomas, and
Hugh Green, Substiture Trustees,
be RATIFIED and CONFIRMED,
unless cause to the contrary be
shown on or before the 29th day
of August, 2021; provided a copy
of this Order be inserted in The
Washington Post, once in each of
three (3) successive weeks before
the 29th day of August, 2021.
The Report of Sale states the
amount of the sale at $651,000.00.
BY THE COURT:
Kathy P. Smith
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Orlans PC
PO Box 2548
Leesburg, Virginia 20177
Orlans 16-700013
August 5, 12, 19, 2021 12353185
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Legal Notices Legal Notices
Department of Justice
Antitrust Division
Take notice that the United States has filed a proposed Final Judgment
in a civil antitrust case in the United States District Court for the
District of Columbia, United States of America v. Gray Television, Inc.
and Quincy Media, Inc., Civil Action No. 1:21-cv-02041. On July 28,
2021, the United States filed a Complaint alleging that Gray’s proposed
acquisition of Quincy would violate Section 7 of the Clayton Act, 15
U.S.C. § 18. The proposed Final Judgment, filed at the same time as the
Complaint, requires Gray to divest commercial broadcast television
stations in seven local television markets: (i) Tucson, Arizona; (ii)
Madison, Wisconsin; (iii) Rockford, Illinois; (iv) Paducah, Kentucky –
Cape Girardeau, Missouri – Harrisburg-Mt. Vernon, Illinois; (v) Cedar
Rapids-Waterloo-Iowa City-Dubuque, Iowa; (vi) La Crosse-Eau Claire,
Wisconsin; and (vii) Wausau-Rhinelander, Wisconsin. A Competitive
Impact Statement filed by the United States on July 28, 2021 describes
the Complaint, the proposed Final Judgment, the industry, and the
remedies available to private litigants who may have been injured by
the alleged violation.
Copies of the Complaint, proposed Final Judgment, and Competitive
Impact Statement are available for inspection on the Antitrust
Division’s website at <http://www.justice.gov/atr> and at the Office of
the Clerk of the United States District Court named above.
Interested persons may address comments in English to Scott
Scheele, Chief, Media, Entertainment, and Communications Section,
Antitrust Division, Department of Justice, 450 Fifth Street NW,
Suite 7000, Washington, DC 20530 (email address: ATR.MEC.Informa-
tion@usdoj.gov) within 60 days of the date of this notice. Such
comments, including the name of the submitter, and responses
thereto will be posted on the Antitrust Division’s website, filed with
the Court, and, under certain circumstances, published in the Federal
Register.
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MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE
ENVIRONMENT
WATER AND SCIENCE ADMINISTRATION
NOTICE OF APPLICATION RECEIVED
Prince George's County
Application for State Discharge Permit 20DP0667,
NPDES Permit MD0021539:
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, 14501 Sweitzer
Lane, Laurel, Maryland 20707 applied for renewal of the
permit to discharge an average of 30 million gallons per
day of treated domestic and industrial wastewater from
the Piscataway Water Resource Recovery Facility located at
11 Farmington Road, Accokeek, MD 20607 to the Potomac
River.
If a written request is received by August 12, 2021, an
informational meeting can be held to discuss the application
and permitting process. Requests should be forwarded to
the Maryland Department of the Environment, Water
and Science Administration, 1800 Washington Blvd.,
Baltimore, Maryland 21230-1708, Attn: Mr. Yen-Der
Cheng, Chief, Municipal Permits Division. Hearing-
impaired persons may request an interpreter at the informa-
tional meeting by contacting Mr. Cheng at (410) 537-3363
or 1-800-633-6101, or at the above address, at least ten
working days prior to the scheduled meeting.
Any person wishing to review the application should contact
Mr. Cheng at the above telephone number to schedule an
appointment. Copies may be obtained at a cost of $0.36 per
page.
MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE
ENVIRONMENT
WATER AND SCIENCE ADMINISTRATION
NOTICE OF TENTATIVE DETERMINATION
Montgomery County
Application for State Discharge Permit 15DP3732,
NPDES Permit MD3732P11:
Montgomery County Public Schools, 2096 Gaither Road,
Rockville, Maryland 20850 submitted an application to
renew a permit to discharge an average of 3,900 gallons per
day of treated wastewater from the Darnestown Elementary
School located at 15030 Turkey Foot Road, Gaithersburg,
Maryland to ground waters via a subsurface soil absorption
system.
The Department is proposing to issue the Permit with
the following limitations and conditions: (1)BOD5 :30 mg/l
(monthly average), (2) Suspended solids: 30 mg/l (monthly
average), (3) Total nitrogen: 10 mg/l (monthly average), and
(4) Flow: 3,900 gal/day (monthly average).
The following conditions are also a part of this permit: 1)
The permittee shall monitor the performance of the disposal
trench system via inspection ports and piezometers; and (2)
The treatment system and disposal fields shall be operated
by a Maryland certified operator; and (3) The permittee shall
monitor groundwater quality via three monitoring wells.
If a written request is received by August 25, 2021,
a public hearing on the tentative determination for this
application can be scheduled. The request should be sent
to the Maryland Department of the Environment, Water
and Science Administration, 1800 Washington Blvd.,
Baltimore, Maryland 21230-1708, Attn.: Mary Dela Onye-
maechi, Chief, Groundwater Discharge Permits Division
and must include the name, address and telephone number
(home and work) of the person making the request, the
name of any other party whom the person making the
request may represent, and the name of the facility and
permit number. Failure to request a hearing by August 25,
2021 will constitute a waiver of the right to a public hearing
on the tentative determination for this permit.
Written comments concerning the tentative determination
will be considered in the preparation of a final determination
if submitted to the Department, to the attention of Mary
Dela Onyemaechi at the above address, on or before
September 6, 2021. Any hearing-impaired person who
requests a hearing may request an interpreter at the hearing
by contacting Mrs. Onyemaechi at (410) 537-3662 or 1-800-
633-6101, or by written request to the above address at
least ten working days prior to the scheduled hearing date.
Information supporting the tentative determination, includ-
ing the draft permit and fact sheet, may be reviewed by
contacting Mrs. Onyemaechi at the above telephone number
to make an appointment or by written request to Mrs.
Onyemaechi at the above address. Copies of documents
may be obtained at a cost of $0.36 per page.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS
WSSC Water will hold two virtual public hearings on the
Proposed Capital Improvements Program (CIP) for Fiscal
Years 2023 through 2028, which commences July 1, 2022.
The six-year CIP proposes planning, design and construction
expenditures for major water and sewer projects. The
hearing dates and times are as follows:
Wednesday, September 1, 2021 - 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, September 2, 2021 - 7:30 p.m.
For instructions on how to view or participate virtually
in the hearings, visit: wsscwater.com/fin
Please contact WSSC Water as soon as possible at 301-
206-8200 if your attendance at a meeting will require
an accommodation under Title II of the Americans with
Disabilities Act.
After public comment, the CIP will be transmitted to the
County Executives and County Councils by October 1, 2021.
Copies of the preliminary draft of the FY2023-2028 CIP will
be available on the WSSC Water
website at wsscwater.com/fin, or by phone at: 301-206-
8100 by August 20, 2021.
Please submit any comments for consideration by
September 13, 2021. Written comments can be emailed
to BudgetGroup@wsscwater.com or mailed to WSSC Water
Budget Division at 14501 Sweitzer Lane, Laurel, MD 20707.
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and other items. MOT, saw cutting, Material and Geo testing
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TRUSTEE'S SALE Samuel I. White, P.C.
12125 Songbird Lane, Germantown, MD 20876 596 Lynnhaven Parkway, Suite 200
Virginia Beach, VA 23452
Trustee's Sale of valuable fee simple property improved by
premises known as 12125 Songbird Lane, Germantown, MD SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF
20876. By virtue of the power and authority contained in VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY
a Deed of Trust, dated April 28, 2003, and recorded in KNOWN AS
Liber 24737 at Page 770 among the land records of the
COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY, in the original principal amount
210 C Victor Parkway, Unit 210C,
Annapolis, MD 21403
of $332,000.00. Upon default and request for sale, the
undersigned trustees will offer for sale at public auction Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain
at the Courthouse for the COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY, at Deed of Trust to LESLIE J. KEIDEL, Trustee(s), dated November
Judicial Center's Monroe Street Entrance, 50 Maryland Avenue, 20, 2009, and recorded among the Land Records of ANNE
Rockville, Maryland, on August 11, 2021 at 1:00 PM, all ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 21851, folio 486, the
that property described in said Deed of Trust including but not holder of the indebtedness secured by this Deed of Trust having
limited to: appointed the undersigned Substitute Trustees, by instrument
duly recorded among the aforesaid Land Records, default having
Tax ID# 02-02951396 occurred under the terms thereof, and at the request of the party
Said property is in fee simple and is improved by a dwelling and secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer
is sold in "as is condition" and subject to all superior covenants, for sale at public auction at THE ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY
conditions, liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 8 CHURCH CIR, ANNAPOLIS, MD
affect same, if any. 21401 ON,
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash or AUGUST 9, 2021 at 10:00 AM
certified funds shall be required at the time of sale. The balance ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
of the purchase price with interest at 6.125% per annum from thereon situated in ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD and
the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within TEN described as follows:
DAYS after the final ratification of the sale.
UNIT NUMBERED 210-C, IN SECTION 2 OF A HORIZONTAL
Adjustments on all taxes, public charges and special or regular PROPERTY REGIME KNOWN AS FAIRWINDS OF ANNAPOLIS
assessments will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter
CONDOMINIUM, AS THE SAME IS ESTABLISHED BY A CON-
assumed by purchaser. DOMINIUM DECLARATION DATED AUGUST 21, 1978, AND
If applicable, condominium and/or homeowners association SHOWN ON A PLAT(S) OF CONDOMINIUM RECORDED IN
dues and assessments that may become due after the time CONDOMINIUM PLAT BOOK NO. 14, AS PLATS 1 THROUGH
of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser. Title 15, ALL INCLUSIVE, ALL AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF
examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND. TOGETHER WITH AN
taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement UNDIVIDED .00222 PERCENTAGE INTEREST IN THE COM-
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for MON ELEMENTS OF SAID CONDOMINIUM, AND THE RIGHTS,
the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the WAYS, EASEMENTS APPURTENANT THERETO, ALL AS SET
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting OUT IN SAID CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION.
purchaser. If the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees The property will be sold in an "AS IS WHERE IS" condition
are unable to convey marketable title in accord with these terms without either express or implied warranty or representation,
of sale, the purchaser's only remedy is the return of the deposit. including but not limited to the description, fitness for a
Trustee's File No. 17-269480. particular purpose or use, structural integrity, physical condition,
William M. Savage, et al., Substitute Trustees. construction, extent of construction, workmanship, materials,
LOGS LEGAL GROUP LLP, 10021 Balls Ford Road, Suite 200, liability, zoning, subdivision, environmental condition, mer-
Manassas, Virginia 20109 (410) 769-9797 chantability, compliance with building or housing codes or other
laws, ordinances or regulations, or other similar matters, and
subject to easements, agreements and restrictions of record
which affect the same, if any. The property will be sold
subject to all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of
record affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
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JULY 22, 29, AUGUST 5, 2021 12350582 TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY BY
851 certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale. CASH WILL
Prince Georges County 851 Prince Georges County NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The balance
BROCK & SCOTT, PLLC of the purchase price with interest at 4.5% per annum from
5431 Oleander Drive the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
Wilmington NC, 28403 TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES' SALE OF
VALUABLE FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
KNOWN AS by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowner
association dues and assessments that may become due after
14011 Gullivers Trail
the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
Bowie, MD 20720
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
Deed of Trust to VINH PHAM, Trustee(s), dated December are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
8, 2006, and recorded among the Land Records of PRINCE the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
GEORGE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND in Liber 26960, folio 001, the property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
holder of the indebtedness secured by this Deed of Trust having purchaser. The purchaser agrees to accept service by first class
appointed the undersigned Substitute Trustees, by instrument mail and certified mail addressed to the address provided by
duly recorded among the aforesaid Land Records, default having said Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any
occurred under the terms thereof, and at the request of the party Motion or Show Cause Order incident to this sale including a
secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer Motion to Default Purchaser and for Resale of the Property. If
for sale at public auction at THE PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY the sale is not ratified or if the Substitute Trustees are unable to
COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT FRONT OF THE DUVAL WING convey marketable title in accord with these terms of sale, the
OF THE COURTHOUSE COMPLEX 14735 MAIN ST, UPPER purchaser's only remedy is return of the deposit.
MARLBORO, MD 20772 ON, Trustee's File No. (61883)
AUGUST 23, 2021 at 9:30 AM JOHN E. DRISCOLL III, et al
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEES
thereon situated in PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD and
described as follows:
LOT NUMBERED EIGHT (8) IN BLOCK LETTERED "B" IN THE
SUBDIVISION KNOWN AS "HIGHBRIDGE, PLAT THREE", AS
PER PLAT THEREOF RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK NLP 142
AT PLAT 100, AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF PRINCE
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GEORGE'S COUNTY, MARYLAND
A181, A316, A311, A182, A183, A425, A426, A461, A463
The property will be sold in an "AS IS WHERE IS" condition JULY 22, 29, AUGUST 5, 2021 12349698
without either express or implied warranty or representation, TRUSTEE'S SALE
including but not limited to the description, fitness for a
particular purpose or use, structural integrity, physical condi- 11 Country Club Drive, Glen Burnie, MD 21060
tion, construction, extent of construction, workmanship, mate- Trustee's Sale of valuable leasehold property improved by
rials, liability, zoning, subdivision, environmental condition, premises known as 11 Country Club Drive, Glen Burnie, MD
merchantability, compliance with building or housing codes or 21060. By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed
other laws, ordinances or regulations, or other similar matters, of Trust, dated August 3, 2007, and recorded in Liber 19544
and subject to easements, agreements and restrictions of record at Page 179 among the land records of the County of Anne
which affect the same, if any. The property will be sold Arundel, in the original principal amount of $405,000.00.
subject to all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of Upon default and request for sale, the undersigned trustees will
record affecting same including any condominium and of HOA offer for sale at public auction at the Courthouse for the COUNTY
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110. OF ANNE ARUNDEL, at 8 Church Circle, Annapolis, Maryland,
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $29,500.00 payable in certified on August 10, 2021 at 4:00 PM, all that property described in
check or by a cashier's check will be required from purchaser at said Deed of Trust including but not limited to:
time of sale, balance in immediately available funds upon final Tax ID# 05-130-03561605
ratification of sale by the Circuit Court of PRINCE GEORGE'S Said property is subject to an annual ground rent in the amount
COUNTY, MARYLAND interest to be paid at the rate of 2.0% on of $120.00 and is improved by a dwelling and is sold in "as
unpaid purchase money from date of sale to date of settlement. is condition" and subject to all superior covenants, conditions,
The secured party herein, if a bidder, shall not be required to liens, restrictions, easement, rights-of-way, as may affect same,
post a deposit. Third party purchaser (excluding the secured if any.
party) will be required to complete full settlement of the
purchase of the property within TEN (10) CALENDAR DAYS of TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of 10% of the sale price, cash or
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Stopping nail pops in the ceilings of older homes
BY J EANNE H UBER
Q: My 50-year-old townhouse
has a problem: recurring nail
pops that resist repair on either
side of a central wall on the top
floor. The nail pops are roughly
at the house’s centerline, front-
to-rear. I’ve had them repaired
twice in two years, but both
attempts by contractors have
failed. I think the workers are
just pushing nails back into
place, filling the void with joint
compound, drying it with a heat
gun and repainting. I’d like a
more permanent fix. What
guidance can you offer?
Annandale, Va.
A: You’re describing a problem
that often occurs in older homes
with roofs supported by trusses,
rather than rafters. Truss-framed
roofs are less expensive to build,
because they create a strong roof
using much skinnier wood, often
2-by-4s, to get strength that
would otherwise require lumber
eight, 10 or even 12 inches wide.
Trusses work because the
pieces are nailed together to
create triangles, which brace the
wood and let several pieces share
the pressure when a heavy load,
such as snow, presses down on
the roof. But because the bottom
of the trusses are typically
covered in insulation while the
top pieces, next to the roof, are
not, the long pieces at the
bottom lift up in winter and
move back down in summer.
This phenomenon, called truss
uplift, occurs because wood
shrinks and swells with changes
in humidity, and the wood
directly under the roof absorbs
and releases moisture in the air
at a different rate than the wood
tucked under insulation.
When truss uplift occurs, the
ceiling drywall nailed to the
bottoms of the trusses has to
move up and down with the
wood. Some of the nails hold;
some get loose and show up as
nail pops. In some houses, cracks
also appear at the tops of walls.
Today, builders avoid truss
uplift consequences by attaching
metal truss clips to the tops of
interior wall framing, then
fastening the edges of the ceiling
drywall to the trusses through
slots in the clips. But there is no
way to add the clips once the
drywall is in place.
In situations where big cracks
have appeared, one solution is to
install crown molding fastened
only to the ceiling, so it covers
the cracks and floats up and
down, as needed, when the truss
wood shrinks and swells with
changes in the weather.
You could install crown
molding as a permanent fix to
hide nail pops close to the walls,
but there is an easier solution
when there are just a few nail
pops, as shown in the picture
you sent. Simply pull out the
nails and fill the holes with
drywall joint compound. The
ceiling won’t cave in, because,
even 50 years ago, builders
installed ceiling drywall before
they covered the walls. The
upper edges of the wall drywall
support the outside edges of the
ceiling drywall.
If a nail pop appears farther
into the room, first screw 11/4-
inch drywall screws into the
ceiling framing about six inches
on either side. (If you were fixing
a nail pop on a wall, you’d need
only one screw, about 11/2 inches
away from the popped nail.)
You can determine where the
ceiling framing is with a stud
finder or by tapping to see where
hollow sounds become thuds.
Roof framing is always
perpendicular to walls, but if
you’re not sure whether the
pieces run side to side or front to
back in your house, go outside
and look at the roof slope. Roof
framing is always perpendicular
to the peak.
It’s important to drive the
screws so the heads press into
the paper covering and dimple
the drywall slightly, allowing the
head to be slightly recessed in
comparison to the surrounding
drywall. But the screw can’t rip
through the paper or crumble
the gypsum core of the drywall.
It’s tricky to set the screw at just
the right depth, so even if you
In a reader’s 50-year-old
townhouse, nail pops in
the ceiling are a
recurring problem.
When there are just a
few nail pops, simply
pull out the nails and fill
the holes with drywall
joint compound.
When truss uplift
occurs, the ceiling
drywall nailed to
the bottoms of the
trusses has to
move up and
down with the
wood. Some of the
nails hold; some
get loose and show
up as nail pops.
READER PHOTO
need to drive just a few screws,
it’s worth getting a drywall
dimpler bit, which consists of a
Phillips driver surrounded by a
rim that recesses the screw head
by the perfect amount. (One
example is the DeWalt Drywall
Screw Setter Bit Tip, $2.25 on
Amazon.)
Once the screws are in place,
pull the nail or nails that have
popped. Take care to pry against
a board or wide putty knife, so
you don’t punch through the
drywall. Cover the holes and the
new screw heads with drywall
joint compound.
Whether you’ve pulled nails
close to the walls or added
screws farther out into the room,
let the drywall joint compound
dry, then smooth over the
surface with sandpaper or a
damp sponge. When the surface
is dry, brush on primer paint, let
that dry, then top with paint.
Paint made especially for use
on ceilings is very matte, because
shiny paint tends to make
irregular surfaces show up more.
The light reflects differently
across the humps and valleys. If
your ceilings are matte, you may
be able to repaint just the areas
you patched without seeing
streaks where the new paint
overlaps the old paint. If your
ceilings are shinier, you might
need to repaint the whole
surface to get a uniform
appearance.
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Sprucing up the ever-so-practical laundry room

BY M ARI- J ANE W ILLIAMS

Just because the laundry room is the ultimate utilitarian space doesn’t mean it has to look the part. Whether
you have a separate room, a closet or just a corner in your basement for your washer and dryer, there are ways
to keep the space tidy and aesthetically pleasing. ¶ That’s designer Brigette Romanek’s sweet spot. ¶ “It’s
this idea that I have all of these ingredients and put them in a pot and hopefully come out with a good meal,”
says Romanek, the owner and principal designer at Romanek Design Studio in Los Angeles. “Clients tell me
what they need, and it’s my job to enhance that vision, to make it beautiful but also make it functional.” ¶ In the
laundry room, that means thinking carefully about how you’ll use the space. Keep the detergents, softeners and
similar products within easy reach of your machines, Romanek says. Think about whether you are right-handed
or left-handed, short or tall, when deciding where to place items. ¶ And if your laundry space allows, Romanek
says, have at least some closed storage to tuck away extra supplies or unfolded clothes. ¶ The takeaway: Don’t
get caught up in trends. Instead, make the room work for you. ¶ Here are Romanek’s suggestions for items that
will help you keep your laundry space organized while adding a bit of beauty. Combine them in your own space, YE RIN MOK
or use them as inspiration to hunt for similar items at a lower price point. mari-jane.williams@washpost.com Designer Brigette Romanek

Baskets add instant texture to any space, but

Reduce visual clutter on open shelves by
decanting detergents and other laundry
products into refillable dispensers, such as
these clear half-gallon glass jugs with
labels from Church Street Designs ($35-
$110, etsy.com). There are options for caps
and pumps, and the bottles are sold
individually or in sets of two or three.
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Corral loose towels with these interlocking towel organizers ($33
for a set of two, westelm.com). Available in black or white, they are
5.7 by 11.8 inches and can lock together to create multiple sections
to hold hand or bath towels.
they’re also a great place to store detergents
and items such as lightbulbs and batteries.
These water hyacinth storage bins with
handles ($8.99-$19.99, containerstore.com)
come in four sizes and are available in a
lighter shade and a mocha color. Add these
bin clip labels ($9.99 for three,
containerstore.com) in black or white to help
everyone stay organized.

Use the Selena Although Romanek likes to have some closed A drying rack is a Add texture and warmth with a hamper in a
hook rack ($98, storage in a laundry room, not everyone’s must for clothes that natural finish. Romanek likes the basket-
anthropologie.com) space (or budget) has room for that. These need to air-dry, but weave Marjan hamper ($293,
to hang mesh marble wall-mounted shelves ($69.95- that flimsy foldable luluandgeorgia.com), made of teak. For a
laundry bags, $99.95, cb2.com), made of Carrara-style gray model you used in similar look at a lower price, the laundry
reusable grocery and white marble, add storage and style. The college has to be hamper from Longshore Tides ($84.99-
bags, totes and shelves are available in two lengths, 24 and dragged out each $87.99, wayfair.com) is also made of wood and
other items. The 18- 36 inches, and are eight inches deep. They time you need it. comes with a removable liner. It’s available in
inch brass rack with come with metal brackets in a brass finish. This wall-mounted natural, dark mahogany and white.
a bronze finish has drying rack by Iris
four hooks and Hantverk ($75,
can hold up to helenmilan.com) can
16 pounds. be hung within
arm’s reach of your
machine, and it
folds back against
the wall when you’re
not using it. It’s
made of solid oak
and has three 21.75-
inch bars.
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ORGANIZING

6 ways to ease the stress of decluttering in a tumultuous time

BY N ICOLE A NZIA

If you’re looking for a sense

of control in your life as our
pandemic-weary nation heads
into an uncertain fall, try tackling
a manageable decluttering proj-
ect in your home. You could get a
sense of satisfaction, and it might
encourage you to keep organizing
in small ways. Feeling over-
whelmed and not sure where to
begin? Follow these six simple
tips to get started.
Gather supplies
You don’t need fancy bins or
tools to start organizing your
home; a few boxes and garbage
bags will do. Whether you’re de-
cluttering your kitchen, closet or
office, the boxes and bags will
help you sort items for donation,
corral pieces that need to be put in
a different room, and compile
papers and other materials for
recycling or shredding. Once
you’ve culled your belongings,
you may need to invest in baskets,
trays and other organizing prod-
ucts, but don’t start by going out
and buying more stuff.
Keep it short
Don’t plan on spending an en-
tire day organizing, because you’ll
be setting yourself up for exhaus-
tion, frustration and burnout. In-
stead, pick one room or one spot
to spend 15 or 30 minutes work-
ing on. Set a timer, so you don’t
need to keep track of the time
yourself. You’ll be surprised at
ISTOCK
how much you can accomplish in
a short period. When your timer
goes off, complete the task and
congratulate yourself on check- podcast. Bring in a friend or quicker sense of accomplishment. you pace yourself and stay on
ing it off your list — or, if you feel neighbor to help with decision- Organize one or two drawers in track.
motivated to do more, go for it! making, then resolve to reward your kitchen first, then continue Remember not to stop with
Try to do a little each day or find yourself when you complete a Don’t plan on working there for a week. Or orga- sorting and decluttering. Your fi-
some consistency. project, such as by ordering take- nize your dresser or a single filing nal step is to remove the items
out from your favorite restaurant spending an entire cabinet, or even a manageable from your home and donate or

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Manage expectations
A messy room that has not been
organized in more than a year will
not be transformed into a perfect-
ly organized space in one day, nor
should that be the goal. Proper
organization requires a few phas-
es of work. Start by sorting into
categories: Put like items togeth-
er, and decide what you’re keep-
ing and what you’re discarding.
Then assess whether you have the
right organization tools to put
everything away so you can easily
find it all later. Organize items on
a macro scale first, before you
start to fine-tune. If you become
mired in small details, you’ll ac-
complish less overall.
Make it fun
Try to make what you think of
as an arduous task more enjoy-
able by listening to music or a
or buying a book. Getting started
is definitely the hardest part, so
do whatever it takes to motivate
yourself. As with exercise, once
you get going, it becomes easier to
continue as you build on your
success.
Start small
As hard as it may be, try not to
think of every task that needs to
be completed to organize your
house from top to bottom. You’ll
lose any enthusiasm you may
have had. Instead, begin with a
small and relatively easy project
— something that isn’t too emo-
tional or sentimental — and pro-
ceed methodically. It’s easy to go
down a rabbit hole looking at old
photos, so if you think you won’t
be able to break down a large task
like that into smaller ones, try
something that will give you a
category, such as coats or T-shirts.
day organizing, As much as I love Marie Kondo’s
philosophy of pulling everything
because you’ll be in one category together to reflect
upon whether an item sparks joy,
setting yourself up that approach is not realistic for
many people, and it may actually
for exhaustion, create more disorganization.
frustration and Set a deadline
Many of us have not hosted
burnout. gatherings in our homes since
early 2020, which took away the
pressure to organize. Some fami-
lies’ workstations were constant-
ly changing to adapt to shifting
5 common methods needs, making it feel fruitless to
to boost your spend time getting a particular
productivity — and space in order. But now that a
their pros and cons 10 return to schools and offices is on
the horizon, set a date for a dinner
party or use the first day of fall
(Sept. 22) as a deadline to get
yourself organized. This will help
dispose of them. Once you’ve
done that, you might feel a little
less stressed and a little lighter
knowing that you’ve brought
some order into a part of your
home during a tumultuous time.
localliving@washpost.com
Anzia is a freelance writer and owner
of Neatnik. She can be reached at
nicole@neatnikdc.com.
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Cicadas damaged trees, but these other pests can be more harmful
Several readers
have sent me
pictures of oak
trees with dead
branch tips,
wanting to know
Adrian the name of this
Higgins alarming disease
GARDENING and how to treat
it. Although oaks
suffer a host of
foliar diseases, these images are
not about the arrival of a new
pathogen, but the departure of a
primeval insect.
It has been several weeks since
the exit of Brood X of the 17-year
periodical cicada, and I know I’m
not alone in missing these
enchanting ruby-eyed creatures
and the otherworldly soundtrack
of their chirping. But we knew
that there would be a price to pay
for this spectacle.
After mating in May and June,
the cicadas pierced the living
layers of pencil-thin branches to
deposit their eggs. The wee
nymphs are now falling to the
ground, where they will burrow
and feed, seeing daylight again as
adults in 2038. A single female
lays 20 or more eggs in each of
multiple nests, and because there
were countless billions of these
insects in much of the Eastern
United States, the damage is now
widespread and evident.
Species of oak seem a favored
target, but the cicada is not picky.
Small trees, big trees, young
trees, old trees, native trees,
exotics: It does not matter to a
mother cicada driven to
perpetuate her species.
The twig scarring consists of
puncture wounds that often join
up to form a long scar, usually on
the underside of a branch. This
damage has the capacity to
disrupt the flow of sap to points
beyond the damage. This is
manifested in a number of ways.
A branch might die back to 12
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inches or so from its tip. The
leaves in that section turn brown,
and the wood becomes brittle
and collapses, a process called
flagging.
This is the most
straightforward damage. The
flagging branches will eventually
fall off, and lateral growth from
below will take over. If you can
safely get to these dead tips, it is
best to prune them off to a point
where a healthy side shoot is
growing. This will not only
smarten up the tree but, more
importantly, also leave a small,
clean wound that will heal more
quickly.
The other cicada damage may
take a while to reveal itself, either
in stunted growth or drooping
branches, a function of the wood
growing normally on the upper
side of the branch but not on the
PHOTOS BY HEATHER ZINDASH
Bagworms are bad news for popular garden plants, especially conifers such as arborvitae, pictured.
Unchecked, the cocooned caterpillars can do significant, permanent damage by the end of summer.
damaged side. If the top of the
leader of a tree is dead or dying,
you should cut that back to a
healthy side shoot and allow that,
in time, to turn skyward and
become the new leader.
But no tree is worth risking
your neck for. If you can’t safely
attend to this pruning, the tree
will grow through the damage.
The speed of this self-repair can
vary by tree type. According to a
study in Maryland of the 1970
Brood X appearance, delayed
branch dieback occurred over the
following two years in such trees
as black gum, purple-leaf plum,
photinia, lilac and dogwood. But
there was rapid, smooth healing
in such trees as hornbeam and
Southern magnolia.
As for the delayed effects, I
would wait until next spring to
see where new growth erupts,
and cut out dead or damaged
wood then.
More immediately, cast an eye
on your needled evergreens for a
more pernicious and furtive
insect named the bagworm. This
is a moth in its larval form, and it
spends the first half of the
summer munching away, often in
great numbers and to a point
where it can ruin even mature
plantings. This is because it hides
in plain sight; that is, it builds a
cocoon of dead needles, so it is
effectively made invisible.
It starts off small in late spring,
but by August, it is a large and
The larvae shroud themselves in needles, making them difficult to rapacious creature beneath its
detect as infestations begin. Handpicking is an effective measure. magic cloak. You’ll probably find
Tip of the Week
A dethatching rake is a great tool
for removing thatch buildup in turf
and for preparing a lawn for
overseeding in a few weeks.
Tackling small areas now will
lessen the task come seeding
season in September and October.
— Adrian Higgins
it on two popular screening
plants, Leyland cypress and the
arborvitae, especially the
ubiquitous variety Green Giant.
Defoliated conifers don’t
rebound like deciduous trees and
shrubs, so unchecked bagworms
are bad news. “The reason the
damage occurs is that people
don’t know how to recognize
them,” said Heather Zindash, an
integrated pest management
consultant based in
Gaithersburg.
Once you have trained your eye
to recognize the brown shrouds,
you may be appalled at how many
you can see. The evergreens can
be sprayed organically with Bt or
spinosad, she said, until the pests
reach a size when they stop
feeding. They are still at a stage
(just) when they can be sprayed.
“In the next few weeks, they’ll get
too large to control that way, but
you can still physically remove
them,” said Zindash, whose firm
is the Soulful Gardener. Put on a
glove, handpick them, bag them
and throw them out.
Another more persistent and
more damaging creature than the
cicada is the scale insect, actually
a range of scale species that have
their own preferences for
ornamental woody plants and
citrus. They are small, some the
size of a grain of rice, but they can
suck the life out of a plant in
sufficient number. There are two
basic types: The first covers itself
in a conspicuous white, waxy
coat, and the second lives
beneath a dark and camouflaged
carapace. Both are thus hard to
control with contact insecticides.
Organic horticultural oils are
available for use against scale;
consumer products will probably
be premixed to the correct
lightweight solution. Follow the
label instructions for timing,
application and precautions.
The best defense against scale
insects, in my experience, is a
healthy plant. Give the tree or
shrub the light, soil and moisture
conditions it prefers, and your
plant should be protected. Not all
garden ornamentals have a 17-
year break between attacks.
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DC Home
LIVE Q&A
Tips and tricks from owners of Five Star Painting of Loudoun
Tina and Stuart Nokes, owners of
Five Star Painting of Loudoun,
joined staff writer Jura Koncius
last week for our Home Front on-
line chat. Here is an edited excerpt.
Q: Where should you start an
indoor painting project?
A: This depends on what you
want and whether you’re doing
the painting yourself or hiring a
professional. Painters can start
anywhere, but they prefer to
work from the top down. If you’re
doing it yourself, we recommend
starting with the easiest room
first, such as a guest bedroom.
You can gauge your skill level and
judge the results. Lay down
plastic, then prepare the room.
Start with the ceilings, then cut in
the walls, then paint them and
finish with trim. Clean and finish
the room.
Q: What colors would make my
house look bigger?
A: White and gray are both very
popular colors. They will look
beautiful mixed together in
adjoining rooms. Stay on the
lighter side of the grays.
Q: How do you choose paint
colors?
A: Here’s how interior designers
do it: Go to the paint store and
get a fan deck with strips of all
the colors. Find colors in that
deck that match the colors in
your room, such as those of the
sofa and pillows. Choose one of
those for your walls. If the color is
too bright or too dark, go up the
color strip to a lighter color that
will complement the colors in
your room. Get a sample of the
color from the paint store, and
paint a little bit on your walls.
Look at it throughout the day to
see how it looks under the light.
You may also want to consider
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putting a sample on other walls,
because paint colors can look
different on different sides of the
room.
Q: What mistakes do people
make when choosing an exterior
paint?
A: Not doing the necessary
preparation and not waiting for
temperate weather. For paint to
adhere well, it must be applied to
a surface that is clean, dry and
not flaking or peeling. Depending
on the condition of existing
siding and trim, this often means
considerable scraping and
sanding before you can paint.
Begin by washing the surfaces
with a hose and a scrub brush
with water and detergent, or a
pressure washer. If you use a
pressure washer, be careful not to
drive water deeply into the joints
between siding or erode the
surface of the wood.
Don’t paint on hot days, in the
rain or during windy weather.
Ideal temperatures for painting
are between 50 and 90 degrees.
Hot weather causes the paint to
dry too quickly, as does direct
sun. When possible, wait for the
shade. Temperatures below
50 degrees may prevent the paint
from adhering to the surface
properly. Dampness or dew can
bubble surfaces.
FIVE STAR PAINTING
Q: How often should your
interiors be painted?
A: It really depends on how you
live, the size of your family, the
ages of those in the home and
when you feel the need for a color
change. Interior paint holds up
well for seven years. A house that
is rented often needs to be
repainted, because the moving in
and out is tough on walls.
Q: What paint finish would you
recommend for kitchen walls?
FIVE STAR PAINTING OF LOUDOUN
FIVE STAR PAINTING
Tina and Stuart Nokes, above,
say interior paint, top, usually
holds up well for about seven
years. If you are thinking of
changing your exterior paint
color, start with a clean surface
that is not flaking or peeling.
A: If you cook a lot in your
kitchen, you need a sheen: matte,
eggshell or satin. If you don’t
cook much, you can go with a flat
finish. For most people, I
recommend a matte finish.
Q: How do I choose colors for
kids’ rooms?
A: Get the children involved.
They usually have some pretty
strong opinions about what they
want. I recommend staying on
the lighter side of their choice. If
you go too bold or too dark, be
aware that you will need to prime
first before repainting later. Try
to coordinate an acceptable color
with other decor in their room.
Q: Which sanding materials do
you need for painting projects?
A: A pole sander is very useful
before painting walls. Foam block
sanders are great for contoured
spaces, and they’re easy to hold
and work with.
Q: How does lighting affect color,
and do you have any suggestions
for finding colors that suit your
space’s lighting?
A: Lighting significantly
influences your perception of
color. Sampling and testing
colors on walls in all kinds of
light is an excellent way to know
whether you’ll be happy with the
result. Look at the color at night
and in both natural and artificial
light. Don’t rely too much on
paint chips, because the color
always turns out different when
painted on walls. If you don’t
want to try anything on your
walls, wooden boards also work
well.
Q: What is the best way to match
existing colors on walls?
A: Find the original paint in the
basement. If it’s been too long,
the paint won’t be good anymore,
but if you find it, you’ll have the
brand, sheen, color name and
number, and color formula. The
next best method is to find an
inconsequential spot, carve out a
triangle with 11/2-inch sides and
gently peel off the underlying
wallboard paper with the existing
paint color, which you can take to
your paint store. The stores often
have computer matching that can
help, and a skilled paint mixer
can get you a close match. You
could also try to get close with a
fan deck, but know that this
method is not nearly as accurate
as the other two.
Q: How can I find a good painter?
And is it better to use someone
who works alone?
A: Here are the main questions
you want to ask a painting
company:
1. Are you licensed and
insured? If so, ask for physical
copies. If not, run. If there is
damage or injury during the job
at your house, you are now liable.
2. Do you have a website with
reviews I can read? Check out the
reviews to know what kind of
quality is provided.
3. What type of paint do you
use? It should be good-quality
paint. If it’s low-end, you will get
a less-than-optimal result.
4. How are your projects
managed? We provide a project
manager on every job.
5. Do you offer a warranty? We
offer a two-year warranty and a
final walk-through to check for
touch-ups.
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Do’s and don’ts for 6 common situations requiring first aid
BY S TACEY C OLINO
Now that we’re relishing our
post-shutdown freedom, we’re
making the most of the season of
barbecues, picnics and other out-
door fun with friends and family
members. That’s all good, but it
also means that we’re at in-
creased risk for summer bum-
mers such as splinters, sprains
and burns. When it comes to
treating injuries like these, the
strategies our parents used may
no longer be the right things to
do. In some cases, old wives’ tales
have been debunked; in others,
doctors have found better, evi-
dence-based treatments.
“As we learn new things from
science, the guidelines change —
and that’s happening with first
aid. We now have better evi-
dence of what works,” says Sean
McGann, a clinical assistant pro-
fessor of emergency medicine at
Thomas Jefferson University
in Philadelphia and a spokesman
for the American College
of Emergency Physicians. If
your first-aid techniques aren’t
on target, you could end up
exacerbating an injury. In a
study in which 654 adults took a
multiple-choice test on recom-
mended first-aid skills, not a
single one answered every ques-
tion correctly, and only half of
the adults were familiar with
60 percent of the questions.
It shouldn’t be that way.
To make sure you’re up to
speed on the latest in first aid,
check out these do’s and don’ts
for various situations:
You burned your finger while
barbecuing
Do: Place the burned area
under cool running tap water for
at least 20 minutes to calm the
area and stop damage to the skin.
“A lot of people don’t realize the
thermal damage is continuing
even after they’re no longer in
contact with the source of the
burn,” says Matt Wilson, vice
chairman of emergency medi-
cine at MedStar Washington
Hospital in D.C. “Cooling that
area immediately is the key to
limiting the damage.” A 2020
study found that treating burns
with cool running water for
20 minutes was associated with a
decreased thickness to the burn
and significantly lower odds of
needing a skin graft to repair the
damaged skin. (If you don’t have
access to clean running water,
place a cold compress, such as ice
wrapped in a towel, on the area
for that long.)
After cooling the burn, pat it
dry. You can take ibuprofen to
reduce discomfort and apply a
soothing antibiotic ointment
(such as bacitracin) to the
area, which can help moisturize
it, says Michael Carius, an emer-
gency physician in Connecti-
cut and past president of the
American College of Emergency
Physicians.
Don’t: Apply butter, egg white
or vitamin E to a burn, as some
people do, because these could
introduce contaminants or irri-
tate the raw skin, Wilson
warns. Applying ice directly to a
burn can lead to more tissue
damage. And if a blister forms on
the burn, don’t pop it, because
that bubble of skin provides a
barrier that helps prevent infec-
tion; if it pops naturally, apply an
antibiotic ointment and a clean
bandage.
Seek medical attention: If you
suspect it’s a deep burn because
the skin looks intensely angry
(like raw meat) or waxy, go to an
emergency department, Carius
advises.
You got a splinter in your
foot while walking barefoot
Do: Grab tweezers or splinter
forceps (if you have them), and
gently but firmly pull the splinter
out. “Make sure all of it is
removed, otherwise it becomes a
source for possible infection,”
says Daniel Bachmann, an asso-
ciate professor of emergency
medicine at Ohio State Univer-
sity in Columbus. Then, wash the
area with soap and water and
keep it clean.
Don’t: Soak the splinter in
water. This makes the wood
more susceptible to breaking
apart under the skin and less
likely to come out as a single
piece, Carius says.
Seek medical attention: If you
can’t get it out on your own, go to
an urgent care center or an
emergency department. “The
splinter has to come out, because
it’s almost certainly going to
become infected if it stays under
the skin,” Carius says.
Your child fell off a bike
and got a bad cut
Do: Wash the cut thoroughly
with mild soap and water, mak-
ing sure all dirt is removed, then
apply direct pressure, using a
clean towel, to the wound to stop
the bleeding. Apply an antibiotic
ointment, which helps keep the
wound moist and facilitates heal-
ing, and cover the cut for the first
48 hours to prevent infection,
McGann says.
Don’t: Use hydrogen peroxide
to clean the wound. “In addition
to being painful, [applying] per-
oxide can actually damage
healthy tissue and slow down the
healing process,” McGann says.
Seek medical attention: If the
wound is gaping or really dirty, if
there’s a foreign body embedded
in the cut or if it’s longer than
half an inch, head to the ER.
Keep in mind: Timing matters.
“A lot of physicians won’t close a
ISTOCK
wound after 24 hours because of
the risk of infection,” Carius says.
You got whacked in the nose
and your nose starts bleeding
Do: Place a towel or a wad of
tissues under your nostrils, and
apply pressure by pinching the
nose tightly, just below the nasal
bone, for 10 to 15 minutes
straight. “Don’t keep checking to
see if the bleeding stopped,”
Wilson says. Lean your head
forward to prevent the blood
from going down your throat and
into your stomach, which could
trigger nausea and restart the
bleeding.
Don’t: Put tissue, cotton or
anything else into the nose to try
to stop the bleeding, because
“this could introduce a source for
infection or make the situation
worse,” Bachmann says. Also,
avoid blowing your nose for a few
hours, so you don’t restart the
bleeding.
Seek medical attention: If you
can’t stop the bleeding with
nonstop pressure after 15 min-
utes. Keep in mind: If you have a
bleeding disorder or you’re tak-
ing anticoagulant drugs, it may
be harder to stop the bleeding; if
you can’t, go to the ER, McGann
advises.
You twisted your ankle and
fell while playing tennis
Do: Elevate the ankle above
your heart and apply cold or ice
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packs — or a bag of frozen peas —
for 10 to 15 minutes at a time,
every two to three hours, to
reduce swelling, according to
Carius. Resting the injured joint
and taking ibuprofen can help
ease inflammation and pain.
“The goal is to keep the swelling
down, because that’s what causes
most of the pain,” Carius says.
(Note: Some experts dispute the
benefits of icing a sprain and say
if it’s done too long or too
intensely, it may actually slow
the recovery process.)
Don’t: Put ice directly on the
skin, because this could damage
the skin, Wilson says. And don’t
apply heat in the 48 hours after
the injury; this can increase
swelling — the opposite of what
you want.
Seek medical attention: If
you can’t bear weight on the
injured ankle or it looks mis-
shapen, go to an urgent care
center or an emergency depart-
ment. “Sometimes it’s hard
for people to differentiate a
sprain from something more se-
rious like a fracture,” Bachmann
says.
Someone is having a seizure
Do: Call 911 (or get someone
else to), then clear the area
around the person, so they won’t
hit something. “The most impor-
tant thing is to protect the per-
son from being injured while
having a seizure,” Bachmann
says. If possible, help the per-
son get on the ground and turn
them on their side, so “secretions
will leak out of the mouth and
not into the airway,” McGann
says. (Don’t feel bad if you didn’t
know what to do before now:
A 2021 study by researchers at
the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention found that
only 25 percent of adults in a
national survey knew seizure
first aid.)
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Don’t: Force anything (such as
your fingers or a spoon) into the
person’s mouth to try to prevent
them from biting their tongue,
Carius says. “That’s one of the
more dangerous things you can
do.” Doing so can cause the
person to choke or chip their
teeth.
Seek medical attention: Any-
one who has a seizure should be
evaluated in an emergency de-
partment, so doctors can deter-
mine the cause and assess their
health and mental status after-
ward, Bachmann says.
localliving@washpost.com
Stacey Colino is a writer in Chevy
Chase who specializes in health and
psychology and is the co-author of
“Emotional Inflammation: Discover
Your Triggers and Reclaim Your
Equilibrium During Anxious Times.”
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Jump-starting your productivity
If your motivation needs a boost, there are techniques that can help. Here are 5 common ones — and their pros and cons.
BY A NGELA H AUPT
A lot of us who have been work-
ing from home have been experi-
menting with various ways to im-
prove our productivity — or, at
least, have been thinking about
doing so. There are so many differ-
ent systems that it can be over-
whelming for the average nonpro-
ductive person who simply wants
to be told which they should use.
But Garland Coulson —
a.k.a. Captain Time — will
tell you: It’s not so simple. The
time-management coach based
in Alberta, Canada, has tested
many productivity methods, such
as the Pomodoro Technique and
Eat That Frog, and he said that,
although most are helpful, there’s
no universal “best.” He recom-
mends trying each one for a couple
of weeks, then modifying them to
suit your needs.
Anna Dearmon Kornick, a time-
management coach who hosts the
podcast “It’s About Time,” agrees.
She prefers to blend her favorite
aspects of various productivity
systems into one personalized
framework. “Mixing and match-
ing is really going to be your best
bet most of the time,” she said.
“These strategies are fantastic and
a great starting point, but there’s
not going to be a one-size-fits-all
solution for everyone.”
To get you started, here’s a prim-
er on five of the most widely used
productivity systems, including
experts’ opinions on their pros
and cons.
Pomodoro Technique
One of the most popular time-
management methods em-
ploys a timer — “pomodoro”
means tomato in Italian, and the
original timer was shaped like a
tomato — to break tasks up into
short intervals.
The Pomodoro Technique,
which was invented by Francesco
Cirillo when he was a student
in Rome in the late 1980s, is a
great way to stay focused, Dear-
mon Kornick said. To get started,
choose a task to work on, then set a
timer for 25 minutes. There are
many apps and websites that sup-
ply a timer, such as Pomodor and
Marinara Timer, or you can use
one on your phone or watch.
Work on your task — and only
that task, no interruptions al-
lowed — until your timer beeps,
notifying you that your 25 minutes
are complete. You cannot extend
your session, and you have to take
a five-minute break before start-
ing again. In addition to the short
break between each 25-minute
block, you should take a longer
break (about 20 to 30 minutes)
after every four.
Frank Buck, a productivity ex-
pert and the author of “Get Orga-
nized! Time Management for
School Leaders,” appreciates that

the Pomodoro Technique helps
train your brain to focus on one
task at a time, and that it can
improve your estimation of how
long tasks take. (“We’re generally
poor at estimating this,” he notes.)
But it “imposes artificial time
pressure,” he said, especially given
that some tasks require more than
25 minutes. You can return to it
after a break, of course, but is it
really necessary to ruin your
flow if you’re in a good rhythm?
Plus, it doesn’t account for the
interruptions many of us face,
both at home and in the office.
This technique is sometimes a bet-
ter choice for those who work in
isolation, he said.
Getting Things Done
Dearmon Kornick recalls
spending an entire beach vacation
absorbed in David Allen’s “Getting
Things Done,” first published in
2001. The personal productivity
system described in it “serves as a
method for getting every-
thing out of your head and held
somewhere,” she said, adding that
Allen’s belief is “that our minds are
for having ideas, not storing
them.”
To cut back on overwhelm, Al-
len prescribes five steps: capture,
clarify, organize, reflect and en-
gage. “Capture” means to collect
whatever has your attention; for
example, this could mean writing
down all of your appointments
and ideas in one central notebook.
Then, you’ll “clarify,” or process,
each one. If you wrote “plan birth-
day party,” you’ll now break that
into actionable steps — make
guest list, buy invitations, send
invitations — and indicate which
one you can delegate. Next, you’ll
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“organize” those actionable items
based on category and priority,
with due dates and reminders.
Allen suggests implementing reg-
ular “reviews” to decide which ac-
tion items you should tackle, while
also logging your progress. Final-
ly, “engage” means to act on your
tasks and, well, get them done.
(This is a simplified description;
each step has its own components,
as Allen outlines in his book.)
This system is complicated, as
Dearmon Kornick acknowledges;
even Allen has said he doesn’t
follow it precisely 100 percent of
the time. But “it really helps you
create a methodical system for
capturing things, organizing them
and then staying on top of them,”
Dearmon Kornick said.
Coulson, who is the author of
“Stop Wasting Time: End Procras-
tination in 5 Weeks with Proven
Productivity Techniques,” likes
the “all-encompassing” system,
but he notes that it won’t work for
everyone, especially because im-
plementing it requires a great deal
of time and effort.
Eat That Frog
A popular saying — often attrib-
uted to Mark Twain — goes: “Eat a
live frog first thing in the morning,
and nothing worse will happen to
you the rest of the day.”
That philosophy inspired Brian
Tracy’s 2001 book “Eat That Frog!,”
which stipulates that you should
tackle your most challenging
(read: unpleasant) task first every
morning.
“A lot of times, the things that
really move the needle in our life
and our business are things that
we want to put off because they’re
complicated or complex,” Dear-
mon Kornick said. “We have a little
bit of fear around them, whether
it’s fear of failure or fear of success,
or perfectionism.” Identifying
which tasks are most crucial —
and blocking out time to get them
out of the way — is often helpful.
Plus, she adds, many of us are at
our sharpest first thing in the
morning, with the most focus and
energy we’ll have all day.
As Buck puts it: “If you’re a
teacher and there’s that phone call
with a parent, and you know the
parent is mad, go ahead and make
the phone call. It probably won’t
be as bad as you thought it was
going to be, and you’ll feel so much
better after it’s over. You won’t be
dreading it for the rest of the day
and procrastinate on everything.”
However, he points out that,
although the Eat That Frog tech-
nique provides a method for start-
ing the day, it doesn’t guide pro-
ductivity beyond that; it’s “not as
well-developed as other systems.”
That’s why it often makes the most
sense to implement in addition to
a broader approach.
Eisenhower Matrix
President Dwight D. Eisenhow-
er is credited with creating this
system, popularized in Stephen
Covey’s book “The 7 Habits
of Highly Effective People,” which
experts say is a helpful way to
prioritize tasks by urgency and
importance.
Those who use the method sep-
arate their tasks into four quad-
rants: urgent and important tasks
that must be done immediately;
important but not urgent tasks,
which can be scheduled for later;
urgent but not important tasks,
which can be delegated; and tasks
that are neither urgent nor impor-
tant, and can therefore be elimi-
nated. (You can draw these on a
piece of paper or use an online
template.)
For example, one might add
changing air filters to the “impor-
tant but not urgent” quadrant.
“It’s preventive maintenance
kinds of things,” Buck said. “All
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those things that are going to give
us a payoff sometime in the future
or cause a problem if we neglect
them. But we really don’t have to
act on them today.”
One of the benefits to the Eisen-
hower Matrix, Buck said, is that it
promotes delegation and long-
term planning. But rather than
relying on it as your only produc-
tivity system, he suggests using it
as a framework as you’re adding
tasks to your to-do list.
Ivy Lee Method
More than 100 years ago,
Charles Schwab, the president of
Bethlehem Steel, hired productiv-
ity expert Ivy Lee to improve his
company’s efficiency. The story
commonly told is that Schwab was
so impressed with the results, he
paid Lee $25,000, which would be
worth more than $400,000 today.
Under the Ivy Lee Method, as
it’s now known, you write down
your six most urgent tasks to ac-
complish the next day, in order of
importance. That day, you work
through them in order, not start-
ing a new task until you’ve com-
pleted the one before it.
Buck uses a similar method,
which he calls “the fab five.” He
likes that this method emphasizes
planning for the following day and
prioritizes critical tasks. Coulson
agrees. “It helps you define your
visions, goals and objectives,” he
said, and focusing on one task at a
time is a smart idea, because “mul-
titasking is a myth.” Our brains
can only truly focus on one thing
at a time, he said.
But there’s one big drawback to
the Ivy Lee Method, Coulson said:
“What do you do with all those
other tasks?” Most people need to
work on more than six tasks a day,
and this method doesn’t account
for or provide any direction on
them.
This is another reminder that
the best approach to productivity
often involves borrowing the com-
ponents of several different plans
to create one that is most effective
for you. “Different systems work
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for different people,” said Laura
Vanderkam, a productivity expert
whose books include “I Know How
She Does It.” “If a system generally
works, people are going to need to
modify it in some way, shape or
form. If you go into the productivi-
ty literature with that in mind,
rather than attempting to find the
one gospel truth, you will be a lot
happier and a lot less frustrated
when something doesn’t work for
you. Because nothing will work
perfectly for everyone.”
localliving@washpost.com
Angela Haupt is a freelance writer and
editor. Follow her on Twitter
@angelahaupt.
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ON PARENTING

Can I help my son with autism spectrum disorder make friends?

BY M EGHAN L EAHY

Q: I have a preschooler
with lots of developmental
delays who was recently
diagnosed as being on the
spectrum. He’s a cheerful,
friendly and fun little guy.
I’m not sure how to support
him in social interactions
where I feel as if other kids
are being exclusionary or
rude toward him. I was
never taught how to be
assertive, and I want to do
better by him.
It’s complicated because
of his language and other
delays. It’s usually in
situations where the other
child’s parents are not
close by. For example, a
kindergarten-age neighbor
kid told another neighbor
kid that they shouldn’t play
with my son. Then he
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brought out a fun toy and
said my son couldn’t use it, this world. and kindergartners, as a rule, are story, and he can practice Just as your son will work
I turned to my friend Jen immature and don’t show concrete ways to handle people with social narratives to
but the other kid could. Dryer, a parent coach and consistent consideration for and social situations. Although strengthen his interpersonal
There is no history between advocate for parents of their playmates. Without adult your son is still young, starting relationships, it would also
neurodiverse children, and the supervision, playtime can these social narratives will give behoove you to find a supportive
them; the kid was being first thing she noted is that quickly become a “Lord of the him a much better chance at group of parents who can cheer
exclusionary for no reason. unstructured peer-based play for Flies”-like situation, with the navigating the nuances of you on, offer ideas and give you
an autistic child can be difficult. strongest and bossiest child interpersonal relationships. the compassion that all parents
I hesitate to “parent” “Supporting an autistic child in leading the pack. If many autistic As for the children in your of differently wired children
another person’s child, but peer-based social settings, children are socially behind their neighborhood, you can commit deserve. Raising a neurodiverse
especially when play is peers by a year or two (or more), to supervising their play, and you child can become isolating; if
I think that’s rude and unstructured, as it would be at a then there is little chance for can always advocate for your son you can, reach out to your
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unkind behavior. Can you
give me any tips about how
to parent my child in
situations like this or what,
if anything, I should say to
the other child?
A: Thank you for writing in.
It can be acutely painful to
watch our children be rebuffed,
ignored or treated unkindly by
other children. And you’re
right: Parenting other children
is not a worthwhile path
forward, because it’s a bit of a
fool’s errand. There will always
be people who will not try to
understand or be compassionate
toward your son, so your efforts
are better spent skill-building
with your son to prepare for
playground, is often incredibly
challenging,” Dryer says. “I like
that you are thinking about how
to prepare your child for
potential challenges and
confusing social situations ahead
of time, to help alleviate the
anxiety and stress that peer-to-
peer issues in unstructured and
often unsupervised
environments can create.”
We’re already seeing a path
forward from Dryer’s comments:
Your young son may not be able
to participate in unstructured
play at this age. Can you bring
the children to your house and
play with them? Yes. Can you sit
outside and accompany the
children as they play? Yes. And
know this: Unstructured peer-
based play doesn’t go well with
all sorts of children, not just
neurodiverse kids. Preschoolers
successful independent play with
the neighbors, at least for now.
Once the neighbors are
excluded, there isn’t much you
can do to go back in time and
change that, but you can move
forward with a skill-building
plan.
Dryer recommends beginning
with a well-researched technique
called “social narratives.” Social
narratives are where you can
“practice and teach specific ways
to react when a friend does
something you don’t like,” she
says. “This can include some key
phrases to use (ex., ‘I don’t like it
when . . . ’ or ‘it’s still my turn;
you can have it when I’m done,’
etc.), and some key actions to
take (ex., walk away, find a
grown-up, etc.).”
Narratives like this place your
son as a character in his own
in a way that isn’t punitive for
the other children. (After all,
they’re young, too.) “Setting
some clear parameters ahead of
time and explaining that
everyone’s brains work a little
differently, and some kids may
want to play in different ways
than you do, and that’s okay, can
be very comforting,” Dryer says.
It’s absolutely appropriate to
continue saying everyone’s brain
is a little different, and this is
how your son’s brain works. I
would like to promise that this
will get easier as he gets older
(and there are many signs that
the larger culture is moving
toward accepting that people
learn and move about the world
in different ways), but the reality
remains that children (and their
parents) will not always behave
kindly and inclusively.
neighbors to let them know who
you and your son are, and that
you would like to look out for all
of the children in the
neighborhood. “It takes a
village,” right? Sometimes, a
simple email or front-yard party
can break the ice and help
everyone see each other.
As researcher and author
Brené Brown says: “It is hard to
hate people close up.” So take the
step to connect with your
neighbors. Good luck.
 Also at washingtonpost.com
Read the transcript of a recent live
Q&A with Leahy at
washingtonpost.com/advice, where
you can also find past columns. Her
next chat is scheduled for Aug. 18.
 Send parenting questions to
Leahy at onparenting@washpost.com.

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NORTHEAST
A St., 1416, $992,641.
Chillum Pl., 5380, $535,000.
East Capitol St., 1354,
$1.7 million.
Fort Lincoln Dr., 3806,
$665,000.
Gault Pl., 4407, No. 2, $234,000.
North Capitol St., 5027,
$635,027.
Meigs Pl., 1251, No. 4, $299,000.
Morris Pl., 649, $1 million.
Orren St., 1111, No. 501,
$565,000.
Quincy St., 2229, $610,000.
Shepherd St., 1915, $1.11 million.
South Dakota Ave., 4547,
$699,000.
T St., 219, No. 402, $283,500.
First Pl., 4411, No. 5, $211,400.
Third St., 637, No. 404,
$368,000.
Fifth St., 1119, No. 2, $855,000.
Sixth St., 1141, $885,000.
12th St., 706, $974,000.
12th St., 5034, $495,000.
14th Pl., 623, $450,000.
18th St., 765, $550,000.
36th St., 169, $675,000.
56th Pl., 704, $405,000.
NORTHWEST
Adams Mill Rd., 2707, $549,000.
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Arizona Ave., 3036, $1.29 million.
Belmont St., 1311, $910,000.
Brown St., 3430, No. 6,
$835,000.
California St., 2158,
$2.05 million.
Cathedral Ave., 5143,
$1.07 million.
Chapin St., 1412, No. 206,
$587,000.
Chesapeake St., 4630,
$1.41 million.
Church St., 1445, No. 23,
$949,000.
Colorado Ave., 5885, No. 110,
$275,000.
Columbia Rd., 1458, No. 405,
$274,900.
Connecticut Ave., 2660, No. 5C,
$2.9 million.
Davis Pl., 3941, $1.76 million.
E St., 675, No. 200, $645,000.
Emerson St., 235, $145,000.
F St., 912, No. 907, $740,000.
Flagler Pl., 2217, $1.27 million.
Fordham Rd., 3812, $1.9 million.
Girard St., 1222, $855,000.
Huidekoper Pl., 2417,
$1.1 million.
Ingraham St., 1205, $900,000.
Ivy Terrace Ct., 3913,
$1.65 million.
Kansas Ave., 4929, $999,900.
Kilbourne Pl., 1837, $1.6 million.
Lamont St., 732, No. 303,
$525,000.
M St., 408, No. 1, $679,000.
Madison St., 304, $799,900.
Massachusetts Ave., 1727, No.
210, $230,000.
Military Rd., 3328, $1.2 million.
N St., 1300, No. 504, $437,500.
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N St., 3123, $1.4 million.
Newark St., 3030, $1.73 million.
Newton St., 1857, $1 million.
O St., 810, No. 208, $575,000.
Observatory Pl., 2232,
$930,000.
Ontario Rd., 2244, No. 3,
$622,500.
Pennsylvania Ave., 701, No.
PH16, $1.33 million.
Porter St., 3821, No. 125,
$380,000.
Q St., 1725, No. G1, $230,000.
Quincy Pl., 13, $857,500.
R St., 1619, No. LL3, $399,000.
Reservoir Rd., 4432, $931,000.
Riggs St., 1306, $1.12 million.
Rock Creek Church Rd., 3606,
No. 101, $470,000.
S St., 1808, $1.25 million.
Sheridan St., 609, $699,000.
Spring Rd., 1352, $900,000.
Tunlaw Rd., 2400, $1.55 million.
Underwood St., 1364, $850,000.
V St., 1390, No. 206, $449,500.
Vermont Ave., 1310, No. 5,
$1.12 million.
Volta Pl., 3215, $1.5 million.
Warren St., 4992, $2.46 million.
Whittier St., 218, $700,000.
Wisconsin Ave., No. 102, 3114,
$240,000.
Fourth St., 1222, No. 2,
$855,000.
Fifth St., 1411, $1.23 million.
Sixth St., 1810, $1.1 million.
Eighth St., 4121, $1.3 million.
10th St., 2110, No. 3, $707,500.
11th St., 1550, No. 208,
$599,900.
12th St., 1115, No. 404,
$304,000.
13th St., 1502, No. 3, $510,000.
13th St., 5111, $1.33 million.
15th St., 1515, No. 202,
$529,999.
16th St., 2001, No. 501,
$549,000.
16th St., 7229, $1.79 million.
18th St., 1545, No. 322,
$408,000.
22nd St., 1414, No. 41, $1.4
million.
24th St., 922, No. 709, $246,000.
28th St., 1345, $950,000.
31st St., 5467, $1.5 million.
34th Pl., 3434, $2 million.
35th St., 1940, $1.11 million.
39th Pl., 2459, $1.33 million.
42nd St., 2325, No. 217,
$225,000.
SOUTHEAST
Alabama Ave., 1425, $385,000.
Croffut Pl., 3327, $455,000.
East Capitol St., 4607, $265,000.
H St., 1617, $1.24 million.
Independence Ave., 1369,
$1.06 million.
Kentucky Ave., 109, $955,500.
Mellon St., 449, $693,000.
Pennsylvania Ave., 1391, No.
347, $606,000.
Pennsylvania Ave., 3941, No.
102, $125,000.
Trenton Pl., 1215, $470,000.
Second St., 413, $1.3 million.
Seventh St., 550, $1.07 million.
55th St., 71, $469,000.
SOUTHWEST
G St., 273, No. 102, $605,000.
M St., 300, No. N809, $339,000.
Third St., 725, No. 413, $694,900.
Fourth St., 1435, No. B502,
$238,000.
HEALTH CODE VIOLATIONS
These food establishments
were closed because of health
code violations. The list,
compiled from health
department reports, reflects
actions taken by the
departments.
THE DISTRICT
Thaiphoon
2011 S St. NW
Closed July 28 because of
pests. Reopened Friday.
Virginia Market
1776 U St. NW
Closed July 27 because of
pests. Reopened the next day.
MARYLAND
Mi Pueblito Mercado Latino
5604 Kenilworth Ave.,
Riverdale Park
Closed July 27 because of mice.
VIRGINIA
No new closures were reported.
— Compiled by Terence McArdle
Crime Report
DISTRICT OF C O LUMBIA
The following information, provided
by D.C. police and formatted by The
Post, shows selected incidents
reported by police. Reported
incidents did not necessarily occur,
and they may be based on
preliminary information that is
subject to change as a result of
further investigation. You can
reach the police department
directly at 202-727-9099.
NORTHEAST
ASSAULTS
Benning Rd., 3400 block,
1:28 a.m. July 23.
Bladensburg Rd., 2700 block,
2:54 a.m. July 23.
Gales St., 1700 block, 1:07 p.m.
July a.m. With gun.
Jay St., 3500-3800 blocks,
8:45 a.m. July 21. With gun.
Jay St., 3500-3800 blocks,
7:26 a.m. July 23. With gun.
Montello Ave., 1300 block,
9:27 a.m. July 18. With knife.
Rhode Island Ave., 1500 block,
6:09 p.m. July 21. With gun.
West Virginia Ave., 1900 block,
10:33 p.m. July 21. With gun.
Fifth St., 2200 block, 3:14 p.m.
July 25. With knife.
50th St., 500-600 blocks,
7:58 p.m. July 20. With gun.
ROBBERIES
Bladensburg Rd., 1100 block,
5:57 a.m. July 26. With gun.
Blaine St., 5600-5700 blocks,
7:25 p.m. July 18.
F St., 1000 block, 5:53 a.m.
July 21.
Mt. Olivet Rd., 900-1000 blocks,
9:57 p.m. July 22.
New Hampshire Ave.,
6200 block, 4:25 a.m. July 25.
Otis Pl., 1700 block, 5:38 p.m.
July 20.
Todd Pl., 300 block, 2:27 a.m.
July 22. With gun.
Fifth St., 500 block, 7:42 a.m.
July 25. With gun.
Seventh St., 700 block, 6:09 a.m.
July 26.
17th St., 3700 block, 11:38 p.m.
July 24. With knife.
42nd St., 400 block, 7:25 p.m.
July 24. With gun.
THEFTS/BURGLARIES
Adams St., 3100-3200 blocks,
2:58 a.m. July 25.
Benning Rd., 1900 block,
8:25 p.m. July 14.
Benning Rd., 2500 block,
10:41 a.m. July 20.
Benning Rd., 4500 block,
8:34 a.m. July 24.
Benning Rd., 4500 block,
9:54 a.m. July 24.
Bladensburg Rd., 2100 block,
1:24 p.m. July 26.
Brentwood Rd., 900 block,
8:10 a.m. July 22. From vehicle.
Cherry Rd., 3100 block,
12:36 a.m. July 24.
Clay St., 4400-4600 blocks,
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CRIME FROM 2 I St., 300 block, 2:46 p.m. July 27. 8:03 p.m. July 22. From vehicle. 2:08 a.m. July 26. 14th Pl., 600 block, 8:36 p.m.
Jamison St., 3600-3700 blocks, New York Ave., unit block, Second St., 1300 block, 9:17 p.m. July 25.
4:15 a.m. July 24. From vehicle. 9:32 a.m. July 21. From vehicle. 10:51 a.m. July 25. From vehicle. July 21. 16th St., 200 block, 6:14 a.m.
Crittenden St., 1000-1100 blocks, Jay St., 3500-3800 blocks, Okie St., 1300 block, 5:31 a.m. Second St., 1300 block, 8:42 a.m. July 22.
6:39 p.m. July 24. From vehicle. 5:45 p.m. July 20. July 24. From vehicle. July 24. 18th St., 700 block, 10:33 p.m.
D St., 900 block, 1:29 a.m. July 20. Jefferson St., 700-900 blocks, Okie St., 1300 block, 5:54 p.m. Second St., 1300 block, 2:01 p.m. July 26.
Douglas St., 2000-2100 blocks, 3:32 p.m. July 20. From vehicle. July 25. From vehicle. July 24. 51st St., 1000 block, 6:31 p.m.
9:03 p.m. July 24. From vehicle. Just St., 5200 block, 2:40 p.m. Okie St., 1300 block, 9:01 p.m. Second St., 1300 block, 4:31 p.m. July 23.
Eads St., 5900 block, 12:30 a.m. July 22. July 27. July 27. 59th St., 300 block, 4:42 p.m.
July 22. K St., 100 block, 11:47 p.m. July 17. Pickford Pl., 600 block, 3:23 p.m. Third St., 5200 block, 6:13 p.m. July 22. From vehicle.
Eastern Ave., 5800 block, Kendall St., 1800 block, 9:33 p.m. July 21. July 24. MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS
8:58 p.m. July 21. From vehicle. July 27. From vehicle. Q St., 100-200 blocks, 5:34 p.m. Third St., 5600 block, 2:49 p.m. Bladensburg Rd., 900 block,
Eastern Ave., 6200 block, Kenilworth Ave., 1300- July 22. From vehicle. July 19. 3:10 a.m. July 25.
2:01 a.m. July 25. 1400 blocks, 4:26 p.m. July 21. Q St., 100-200 blocks, 1:43 a.m. Fourth St., 600 block, 4:43 a.m. Bladensburg Rd., 1100 block,
F St., 1500 block, 11:36 a.m. Kenilworth Ave., 1300- July 27. From vehicle. July 23. From vehicle. 12:41 a.m. July 27.
July 22. 1400 blocks, 4:50 p.m. July 21. Rhode Island Ave., unit block, Fourth St., 1200 block, 7:01 p.m. Bladensburg Rd., 2800-
Fort Lincoln Dr., 3200- Kenilworth Ave., 1300- 1:17 a.m. July 25. July 25. From vehicle. 3200 blocks, 9:22 a.m. July 22.
3400 blocks, 1:42 p.m. July 21. 1400 blocks, 8:17 p.m. July 23. Rhode Island Ave., 400 block, Fourth St., 1300 block, 4:43 a.m. Cherry Rd., 3100 block, 6:06 p.m.
From vehicle. From vehicle. 8:44 a.m. July 21. July 22. July 22.
G St., 300 block, 2:22 a.m. Kenilworth Ave., 1500 block, Rhode Island Ave., 900 block, Fourth St., 1300 block, 2:03 a.m. Clay St., 6200 block, 6:10 a.m.
July 24. From vehicle. 12:40 p.m. July 23. 2:26 p.m. July 23. July 24. From vehicle. July 25.
Gales St., 1700 block, 4:20 p.m. L St., 600 block, 1:22 a.m. July 26. Rhode Island Ave., 900 block, Fifth St., 1300 block, 4:56 p.m. Corcoran St., 1700 block,
July 23. Market St., 2400 block, 3:39 p.m. 1:51 a.m. July 25. From vehicle. July 17. From vehicle. 2:22 p.m. July 24.
H St., 300 block, 5:45 p.m. July 5. July 22. Rhode Island Ave., 2800- Fifth St., 1300 block, 3:58 p.m. Edgewood St., 500 block,
H St., 300 block, 5:06 p.m. July 16. Market St., 2400 block, 8:07 p.m. 3000 blocks, 5:54 p.m. July 26. July 22. From vehicle. 12:25 a.m. July 23.
From vehicle. July 22. From vehicle. Fifth St., 1300 block, 2:37 p.m. H St., 1100 block, 3 a.m. July 22.
H St., 300 block, 6:19 p.m. July 21. Maryland Ave., 1300 block, Riggs Rd., 300 block, 3:39 p.m. July 27. From vehicle. Jay St., 4600-4700 blocks,
H St., 600 block, 2:43 p.m. 3:11 p.m. July 27. July 21. From vehicle. Seventh St., 500 block, 4:54 p.m. July 23.
July 22. Maryland Ave., 1600 block, Riggs Rd., 300 block, 10:01 p.m. 12:54 p.m. July 27. K St., 300 block, 11:45 p.m. July 5.
H St., 1200 block, 7:01 p.m. 3:53 p.m. July 27. From vehicle. July 25. Eighth St., unit block, 6:48 p.m. Kenilworth Ave., 1100-
July 21. Michigan Ave., 400-500 blocks, Shepherd St., 1000 block, July 26. 1200 blocks, 8:50 p.m. July 24.
H St., 1300 block, 12:05 a.m. 11:08 p.m. July 24. From vehicle. 12:27 a.m. July 13. From vehicle. Eighth St., 1100 block, 1:21 p.m. L St., 200 block, 10:31 p.m.
July 20. Minnesota Ave., 4000- T St., 100 block, 4:55 p.m. July 22. July 21. From vehicle. July 21.
Hamilton St., 300 block, 4100 blocks, 11:56 a.m. July 23. W. Virginia Ave., 1300 block, Eighth St., 3400 block, 6:16 p.m. L St., 300 block, 1:22 a.m. July 25.
6:38 a.m. July 16. From vehicle. From vehicle. 3:34 p.m. July 21. July 19. M St., 100 block, 11:49 p.m.
Harewood Rd., 4000- Minnesota Ave., 4900 block, Yost Pl., 2900 block, 2:09 a.m. 12th Pl., 4200 block, 5:06 a.m. July 17.
4200 blocks, 3:17 p.m. July 25. 3:25 p.m. July 21. From vehicle. July 21. From vehicle. July 26. From vehicle. Maryland Ave., 1100 block,
From vehicle. Morse St., 400 block, 5:55 p.m. First St., 1000 block, 12:53 a.m. 12th St., 300 block, 6:43 a.m. 2:57 p.m. July 11.
Hayes St., 3700-3800 blocks, July 21. From vehicle. July 27. July 21. Morse St., 500 block, 7:41 p.m.
11:54 p.m. July 25. From vehicle. New York Ave., unit block, Second St., 700-800 blocks, 12th St., 3800 block, 4:56 p.m. July 24.
July 26. From vehicle.
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CRIME FROM 4 Rhode Island Ave., 900 block, 3:47 p.m. July 23. July 25. V St., 1400 block, 6:57 a.m.
8:11 a.m. July 26. 45th St., unit-100 blocks, Juniper St., 800 block, 11:21 p.m. July 21. With gun.
N St., unit block, 7:50 a.m. July 25. First St., 1200 block, 11:04 p.m. 9:49 p.m. July 21. July 24. With gun. Seventh St., 1400 block,
Nannie Helen Burroughs Ave., July 25. 48th Pl., 500 block, 4 p.m. July 26. Quincy Pl., unit block, 12:34 a.m. 3:19 a.m. July 24. With gun.
4900 block, 4:53 p.m. July 27. 16th St., 1100 block, 1:49 a.m. July 26. With knife. Eighth St., 4300 block, 2:16 a.m.
NORTHWEST
New York Ave., unit block, July 25. U St., 1100 block, 6:32 p.m. July 21. With gun.
11:46 a.m. July 27. 35th St., 100-200 blocks, ASSAULTS July 24. 14th St., 1700 block, 1:58 a.m.
Florida Ave., unit block, 5:12 p.m. July 23. With gun.
15th St., 2400-2500 blocks,
11:11 p.m. July 17. With knife.
ROBBERIES
Arkansas Ave., 4000 block,

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11:43 p.m. July 23. With gun.
Decatur St., 1400 block,
4:28 a.m. July 25. With gun.
Florida Ave., 700 block, 8:46 p.m.

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July 24. With knife.
Geranium St., 1400 block,
7:59 a.m. July 25. With gun.
Kenyon St., 1300 block, 3:24 p.m.

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July 25. With knife.
Lamont St., 1700 block, 6:08 a.m.
July 21. With gun.
Longfellow St., 700 block,

WINDOWS
11:17 p.m. July 25. With knife.
Mt. Pleasant St., 3100 block,
6:19 a.m. July 21. With gun.

SIDING
Newton Pl., 600 block, 4:36 a.m.
July 21.

DOORS
Park Rd., 1600 block, 2:05 a.m.
July 25. With gun.
Second St., 5200 block, 5:20 a.m.

TRIM July 18. With gun.

Third St., 1900 block, 2:51 a.m.

TILE
July 24. With gun.
13th St., 5100 block, 11:23 p.m.
July 22. With gun.

VANITIES 14th St., 3500 block, 9:52 p.m.

July 21.

FLOORING
THEFTS/BURGLARIES
Argonne Pl., 1600 block,

COUNTERTOPS
5:12 p.m. July 26.
Buchanan St., 1300 block,
3:26 p.m. July 27. From vehicle.

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California St., 1800 block,
12:08 p.m. July 26.

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California St., 2100 block,
2:39 p.m. July 18.
Carolina Pl., 5400 block,
4:35 p.m. July 25. From vehicle.
Carroll St., 100 block, 5:43 p.m.
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Carroll St., 100 block, 8:33 a.m.
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Connecticut Ave., 1900 block,
10:22 p.m. July 22.
Connecticut Ave., 3200 block,
9:53 p.m. July 22.
Connecticut Ave., 3300-
3400 blocks, 4:14 p.m. July 23.
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3400 blocks, 1:14 a.m. July 24.
Connecticut Ave., 3300-3400
locks, 10:29 p.m. July 25.
Connecticut Ave., 3500 block,
4:43 p.m. July 17.
Connecticut Ave., 3500 block,
6:55 p.m. July 21.
Corcoran St., 1800 block,
12:22 a.m. July 26. From vehicle.
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Davenport St., 4200 block,
8:38 p.m. July 20.
Devonshire Pl., 2700-
2800 blocks, 7:18 a.m. July 25.
From vehicle.
Dupont Cir., unit block, 9:42 p.m.
July 22.
E St., 900 block, 3:06 p.m. July 22.
Ellicott St., 4700 block, 6:07 p.m.
July 21.
Euclid St., 700-800 blocks,
1:15 p.m. July 25. From vehicle.
Euclid St., 800-900 blocks,
2:16 p.m. July 25. From vehicle.
F St., 1000 block, 5:30 p.m.
July 21.
F St., 1100 block, 4:09 p.m. July27.
Florida Ave., 600 block,
12:52 a.m. July 27.
Fort Dr., 3800 block, 11:51 a.m.
July 21.
G St., 700 block, 3:11 a.m. July 25.
From vehicle.
G St., 700 block, 12 p.m. July 26.
From vehicle.
Georgia Ave., 3100 block,
7:47 p.m. July 22.
Georgia Ave., 3200 block,
6:08 a.m. July 25.
Georgia Ave., 3600 block,
4:51 p.m. July 25.
Georgia Ave., 3600 block,
6:21 a.m. July 27.
Georgia Ave., 3800 block,
1:36 a.m. July 25.
Georgia Ave., 3800 block,
7:50 p.m. July 25.
Georgia Ave., 3900 block,
3:33 p.m. July 26.
Georgia Ave., 4000 block,
6:30 p.m. July 18.
Georgia Ave., 4000 block,
5:05 p.m. July 20.
Georgia Ave., 4000 block,
1:14 a.m. July 23.
Georgia Ave., 4000 block,
1:06 a.m. July 26.
Georgia Ave., 6600-6700 blocks,
3:59 a.m. July 26.
Glick Ct., 600 block, 7:45 p.m.
July 18.
H St., unit block, 11:49 p.m.
July 19.
H St., unit block, 5:58 a.m. July 20.
From vehicle.
H St., unit block, 7:45 p.m. July 23.
H St., unit block, 2:36 a.m. July 26.
Harvard St., 700-900 blocks,
9:28 p.m. July 25. From vehicle.
Hertford Pl., 3500 block,
9:39 p.m. July 16.
Ingraham St., 1400 block,
10:39 p.m. July 24.
Irving St., 1400 block, 11:37 a.m.
July 21.
Irving St., 1400 block, 11:24 p.m.
July 22. From vehicle.
K St., unit block, 5:01 a.m. July 27.
From vehicle.
K St., 300 block, 10:56 p.m.
July 16. From vehicle.
K St., 600 block, 12:34 a.m.
July 27.
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CRIME FROM 8
July 25.
Kalorama Rd., 2100 block,
8:50 p.m. July 24.
Kalorama Rd., 2100 block,
11:56 p.m. July 25. From vehicle.
Kennedy St., 100 block, 7:03 p.m.
July 22.
Kenyon St., 1100-1200 blocks,
9:29 p.m. July 21.
L St., 400 block, 10:53 p.m.
July 23.
L St., 1300 block, 3:57 p.m.
July 22. From vehicle.
Logan Cir., unit block, 2:38 p.m.
July 21.
Longfellow St., 1300 block,
1:19 p.m. July 21.
Luzon Ave., 6600 block,
11:49 a.m. July 20. From vehicle.
M St., unit block, 6:53 a.m.
July 22. From vehicle.
M St., 1100 block, 4:19 p.m.
July 23.
M St., 1300 block, 6:21 p.m.
July 17. From vehicle.
M St., 3200 block, 11:35 p.m.
July 22.
Massachusetts Ave., 600 block,
8:58 p.m. July 24.
Massachusetts Ave., 1100 block,
4:41 a.m. July 27.
Massachusetts Ave., 1500 block,
12:41 p.m. July 22.
Massachusetts Ave., 4800 block,
3:57 p.m. July 27.
Monroe St., 900 block, 8:36 p.m.
July 24. From vehicle.
Monroe St., 900 block, 12:41 a.m.
July 28.
Monroe St., 1300 block, 6:06 p.m.
July 22.
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N St., 900 block, 6:47 p.m. July 27.
N St., 1100 block, 1:31 a.m.
July 23. From vehicle.
N St., 1400 block, 9:03 p.m.
July 22.
Nevada Ave., 5900 block,
5:43 p.m. July 26. From vehicle.
Nevada Ave., 5900 block,
6:20 p.m. July 26. From vehicle.
New Hampshire Ave., 900 block,
5:17 a.m. July 21.
New Hampshire Ave.,
2000 block, 8:43 p.m. July 20.
From vehicle.
New York Ave., unit block,
2:42 a.m. July 16. From vehicle.
New York Ave., 1100 block,
4:55 p.m. July 22.
New York Ave., 1100 block,
5:08 p.m. July 23.
New York Ave., 1100 block,
5:17 p.m. July 27.
Newton St., 1400-1500 blocks,
3:21 p.m. July 26.
O St., 1000 block, 12:07 a.m.
July 21.
Ogden St., 1500 block, 1:06 a.m.
July 22.
Ordway St., 3600 block, 1:28 p.m.
July 26. From vehicle.
P St., 1500 block, 2:04 a.m.
July 21.
P St., 2100 block, 1:35 a.m.
July 22. From vehicle.
Palmer Alley, 900 block, 2:16 a.m.
July 22.
Park Rd., 1100-1200 blocks,
12:23 a.m. July 21.
Park Rd., 1400 block, 4:27 p.m.
July 16.
Park Rd., 1400 block, 1:28 p.m.
July 26. From vehicle.
Park Rd., 1500 block, 4:24 p.m.
July 19.
Park Rd., 1500 block, 11:36 p.m.
July 20.
Park Rd., 1500 block, 1:55 p.m.
July 22.
Peabody St., 1300 block,
5:44 p.m. July 21.
Pennsylvania Ave., 1300 block,
1:52 a.m. July 28.
Pennsylvania Ave., 2000 block,
12:27 a.m. July 23.
Piney Branch Rd., 6500 block,
9:40 p.m. July 23. From vehicle.
Piney Branch Rd., 6500 block,
1:23 p.m. July 26. From vehicle.
Porter St., 3000-3300 blocks,
1:06 p.m. July 21. From vehicle.
Potomac St., 1000 block,
5:24 a.m. July 21. From vehicle.
Q St., 600 block, 1:26 p.m. July 17.
Q St., 600 block, 6:04 p.m. July 27.
From vehicle.
Q St., 1300 block, 5:49 a.m.
July 14. From vehicle.
Q St., 1700 block, 1:59 a.m.
July 24.
R St., 100 block, 2:02 a.m. July 27.
R St., 1800 block, 1:30 a.m.
July 22.
Reservoir Rd., 3800 block,
4:28 p.m. July 26. From vehicle.
Rhode Island Ave., 1400 block,
7:43 a.m. July 21.
Rhode Island Ave., 1400 block,
10:46 p.m. July 23. From vehicle.
Rhode Island Ave., 1500 block,
6:16 p.m. July 22.
Rhode Island Ave., 1500 block,
1:57 p.m. July 27.
Seaton Pl., unit block, 8:04 p.m.
July 23.
Sheridan St., 900 block, 4:13 a.m.
July 23. From vehicle.
Sherman Ave., 2300-2500blocks,
8:23 a.m. July 25. From vehicle.
Sherman Ave., 3300 block,
11:27 p.m. July 23. From vehicle.
Spring Rd., 1400-1500 blocks,
6:18 p.m. July 25.
Summit Pl., 1800 block, 5:25 p.m.
July 6.
Sunderland Pl., 1900 block,
9:08 p.m. July 22. From vehicle.
T St., 500-600 blocks, 6:36 p.m.
July 21. From vehicle.
T St., 500-600 blocks, 6:53 p.m.
July 21.
T St., 1100 block, 7:51 p.m.
July 23.
T St., 1300 block, 3:47 p.m.
July 25. From vehicle.
T St., 3800 block, 7:17 p.m.
July 23. From vehicle.
Tewkesbury Pl., 1300 block,
1:30 p.m. July 20. From vehicle.
U St., 1000 block, 5:27 p.m.
July 17.
U St., 1000 block, 9:03 p.m.
July 27.
U St., 1300 block, 6:43 a.m.
July 21.
Vermont Ave., 1100 block,
5:17 p.m. July 26. From vehicle.
Vermont Ave., 2100 block,
5:40 p.m. July 27.
Vernon St., 1800 block, 2:22 a.m.
July 11.
W St., 900 block, 1:48 a.m.
July 26. From vehicle.
Wiltberger St., 1800 block,
4:51 p.m. July 21.
Wisconsin Ave., 1200 block,
3:41 a.m. July 25. From vehicle.
Wisconsin Ave., 1200 block,
10:05 p.m. July 26.
Wisconsin Ave., 1800-
2000 blocks, 2:28 p.m. July 20.
Wisconsin Ave., 2500 block,
2:32 p.m. July 24.
Wisconsin Ave., 2800 block,
3:31 p.m. July 22.
Seventh St., 1800 block, 7:14 p.m.
July 21. From vehicle.
Seventh St., 1900 block,
12:47 p.m. July 20.
Seventh St., 1900 block,
6:04 p.m. July 25.
Eighth St., 400 block, 2:57 p.m.
July 25.
Ninth St., 900 block, 9:07 p.m.
July 6. From vehicle.
Ninth St., 1300 block, 2:02 a.m.
July 23. From vehicle.
Ninth St., 1900 block, 5:18 p.m.
July 16.
Ninth St., 1900 block, 5:43 p.m.
July 21. From vehicle.
10th St., 700 block, 2:47 p.m.
July 20.
11th St., 1100 block, 4 p.m.
July 27.
11th St., 2200 block, 7:57 p.m.
July 20. From vehicle.
11th St., 3200 block, 7:40 a.m.
July 23.
12th St., 500 block, 11:33 p.m.
July 20.
13th St., 500 block, 1:18 p.m.
July 16. From vehicle.
13th St., 1200 block, 12:10 p.m.
July 20.
13th St., 1200 block, 2:54 a.m.
July 22.
13th St., 2800 block, 5:53 p.m.
July 21. From vehicle.
13th St., 4200-4400 blocks,
8:45 p.m. July 21. From vehicle.
14th St., 1300 block, 5:33 p.m.
July 21.
14th St., 1600 block, 6:01 a.m.
July 21. From vehicle.
14th St., 2000 block, 11:39 p.m.
July 26. From vehicle.
14th St., 2100 block, 6:12 p.m.
July 20.
14th St., 2100 block, 9:19 p.m.
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4:09 p.m. July 23.
Wisconsin Ave., 5300 block,
2:43 a.m. July 21.
Wisconsin Ave., 5300 block,
4:45 p.m. July 24.
Woodley Rd., 2800 block,
9:53 p.m. July 23. From vehicle.
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14th St., 3100-3200 blocks,
5:42 p.m. July 17.
14th St., 3100-3200 blocks,
4:09 a.m. July 23. From vehicle.
14th St., 3100-3200 blocks,
5:03 p.m. July 24.
14th St., 3400 block, 4:57 p.m.
July 22.
14th St., 4100 block, 2:58 a.m.

First Pl., 5400 block, 3:46 p.m. July 27.

July 22. 14th St., 4500 block, 7:29 p.m.
First St., 1400 block, 3:37 p.m. July 21. From vehicle.
July 27. 14th St., 6700 block, 10:24 p.m.
First St., 1900 block, 12:38 a.m. July 23.
July 26. 15th St., 1000 block, 10:36 a.m.
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Third St., 1900 block, 8:36 p.m. July 22.
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Seventh St., 400 block,
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CRIME FROM 10
July 24.
16th St., 3500-3600 blocks,
2:30 a.m. July 17.
16th St., 3500-3600 blocks,
11:57 p.m. July 21.
18th St., 1800 block, 4:23 p.m.
July 25. From vehicle.
18th St., 2400 block, 5:39 p.m.
July 27. From vehicle.
19th St., 1100 block, 10:52 p.m.
July 25. From vehicle.
19th St., 2400 block, 4:42 p.m.
July 21.
19th St., 2400 block, 10:49 p.m.
July 25. From vehicle.
24th St., 700 block, 5:54 p.m.
July 23.
27th St., 2800 block, 12:50 a.m.
July 22.
29th Pl., 2800 block, 5 p.m.
July 23. From vehicle.
33rd St., 1600 block, 4:33 p.m.
July 23. From vehicle.
39th St., 1900 block, 5:53 p.m.
July 20. From vehicle.
42nd St., 5300 block, 4:59 p.m.
July 17. From vehicle.
MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS
Belmont Rd., 1800 block,
6:50 p.m. July 21.
Columbia Rd., 1600 block,
4:13 a.m. July 25.
Dumbarton St., 3000 block,
11:41 p.m. July 22.
Fairmont St., 700 block, 1:56 a.m.
July 20.
Florida Ave., 400 block, 8:29 a.m.
July 25.
Florida Ave., 1900 block,
9:34 p.m. July 24.
Georgia Ave., 2000 block,
1:23 a.m. July 26.
Georgia Ave., 3500 block,
11:40 p.m. July 24.
Georgia Ave., 3600 block,
2:14 a.m. July 25.
Georgia Ave., 4900 block,
11:22 p.m. July 22.
Georgia Ave., 5700-5800 blocks,
10:56 p.m. July 24.
Georgia Ave., 6300 block,
10:23 p.m. July 21.
Georgia Ave., 6400 block,
4:37 p.m. July 23.
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Georgia Ave., 6600 block,
4:23 a.m. July 23.
Georgia Ave., 7400-7500 blocks,
12:32 a.m. July 20.
H St., 600 block, 6:31 a.m. July 16.
Holmead Pl., 3300 block,
8:31 a.m. July 25.
I St., 1400 block, 2:41 a.m.
July 26.
Kalorama Rd., 2100 block,
10:31 a.m. July 22.
Kansas Ave., 3900 block,
6:21 p.m. July 25.
Kennedy St., 1400-1500 blocks,
3:40 a.m. July 23.
Kenyon St., 700-900 blocks,
5:47 p.m. July 27.
L St., 400 block, 12:34 a.m.
July 21.
L St., 900 block, 1:49 a.m. July 22.
M St., 3100 block, 12:25 a.m.
July 22.
Maple St., 6900 block, 6:57 p.m.
July 26.
N St., unit block, 12:52 a.m.
July 24.
New Hampshire Ave., 3700 block,
6:30 p.m. July 25.
New Jersey Ave., 800 block,
8:06 p.m. July 21.
Nicholson St., unit block,
9:12 p.m. July 21.
Park Rd., 1300 block, 4:46 p.m.
July 21.
Q St., 900 block, 2:57 a.m. July 23.
R St., 1900 block, 3:47 p.m.
July 25.
Sandy Spring Rd., 6600 block,
3:27 p.m. July 21.
T St., 200 block, 12:27 a.m.
July 22.
T St., 1000 block, 8:02 p.m.
July 23.
T St., 1400 block, 10:34 a.m.
July 20.
U St., 1300 block, 9:24 a.m.
July 17.
Woodley Pl., 2600 block,
4:31 a.m. July 22.
Seventh St., 700 block, 2:43 a.m.
July 23.
11th St., 3300 block, 6:15 p.m.
July 18.
14th St., 3500 block, 1:33 a.m.
July 26.
15th St., 1500 block, 2:32 p.m.
July 27.
18th St., 2300 block, 11:18 p.m.
July 26.
SOUTHEAST
ASSAULTS
Ainger Pl., 2300 block, 12:55 a.m.
July 27. With knife.
Alabama Ave., 2200 block,
12:47 a.m. July 23. With gun.
Bowen Rd., 2600 block, 3:54 a.m.
July 22. With gun.
Bruce Pl., 2700 block, 11 p.m.
July 26. With knife.
Call Pl., 5100-5200 blocks,
4:34 p.m. July 23. With gun.
D St., 5000 block, 4:11 a.m.
July 26. With gun.
Good Hope Rd., 1500-
1600 blocks, 1:58 a.m. July 21.
With knife.
Good Hope Rd., 1500-
1600 blocks, 8:51 a.m. July 21.
Good Hope Rd., 2400-
2600 blocks, 6:21 p.m. July 20.
With gun.
Martin Luther King Jr. Ave.,
2600-2700 blocks, 9:47 p.m.
July 21. With gun.
Martin Luther King Jr. Ave.,
3100 block, 1:21 a.m. July 22. With
knife.
Naylor Rd., 3000-3100 blocks,
6:23 a.m. July 23. With gun.
Savannah St., 900 block,
8:25 p.m. July 21. With gun.
Stanton Rd., 3500 block,
4:24 a.m. July 21. With gun.
Upsal St., 100 block, 2:29 p.m.
July 26.
Virginia Ave., 600 block,
9:40 a.m. July 25. With gun.
Eighth St., 3800 block, 3:54 a.m.
July 21.
14th St., 1900 block, 3:16 a.m.
July 28. With gun.
ROBBERIES
Barnaby St., 800 block,
10:19 p.m. July 25. With gun.
Bruce Pl., 2700 block, 7:22 a.m.
July 21.
Bruce Pl., 3100 block, 6:16 a.m.
July 16.
C St., 1500 block, 4:51 a.m.
July 22. With gun.
H St., 5000 block, 6:01 a.m.
July 27.
Langston Pl., 2700-2800 blocks,
3:38 a.m. July 27.
Minnesota Ave., 2200 block,
6:30 p.m. July 27. With gun.
Pennsylvania Ave., 3100 block,
9:15 p.m. July 23. With knife.
Sheridan Rd., 2600 block,
9:06 a.m. July 25. With gun.
Stanton Rd., 2600 block,
9:41 a.m. July 25. With gun.
Water St., 300 block, 3:40 a.m.
July 24.
THEFTS/BURGLARIES
Alabama Ave., 1500-1600 blocks,
6:31 a.m. July 17.
Alabama Ave., 1500-1600 blocks,
11:03 p.m. July 21.
Alabama Ave., 2200 block,
1:19 a.m. July 28.
Alabama Ave., 3600 block,
6:51 p.m. July 27.
B St., 5300 block, 1:29 p.m.
July 21.
Bay St., 1800 block, 9:16 p.m.
July 22.
Benning Rd., 4900 block,
5:15 p.m. July 22.
Brandywine St., 400-500 blocks,
1:26 a.m. July 27.
Central Ave., 5500-5600 blocks,
5:58 p.m. July 25.
Chesapeake St., 800 block,
6:41 p.m. July 23.
E St., 1300 block, 11:37 p.m.
July 16. From vehicle.
E St., 1300 block, 7:34 p.m.
July 26. From vehicle.
Elvans Rd., 2400-2500 blocks,
3:46 a.m. July 25.
Forrester St., 600 block,
1:09 a.m. July 28. From vehicle.
G St., 300 block, 5:09 p.m.
July 22.
G St., 1300 block, 10:54 p.m.
July 22. From vehicle.
Gainesville St., 2800-
2900 blocks, 8:53 p.m. July 23.
Good Hope Rd., 1300 block,
4:57 p.m. July 22. From vehicle.
Good Hope Rd., 2300 block,
1:13 a.m. July 21.
Good Hope Rd., 2300 block,
9:31 p.m. July 26.
Hilltop Terr., 500 block, 3 p.m.
July 26. From vehicle.
Howard Rd., 700-900 blocks,
8:11 p.m. July 22.
Howard Rd., 700-900 blocks,
8:50 p.m. July 22.
Independence Ave., 500 block,
4:57 p.m. July 25.
Independence Ave., 1100 block,
12:05 a.m. July 22. From vehicle.
Independence Ave., 1300 block,
12:44 a.m. July 26.
Independence Ave., 1500 block,
4:57 p.m. July 17.
Jasper St., 2600-2700 blocks,
7:36 a.m. July 17. From vehicle.
Livingston Rd., 4100-
4500 blocks, 5:41 a.m. July 26.
From vehicle.
M Pl., 2900 block, 1:07 a.m.
July 27. From vehicle.
M St., 400 block, 2:56 a.m.
July 21.
M St., 700 block, 4:14 p.m. July 21.
From vehicle.
Martin Luther King Jr. Ave.,
2400 block, 11:26 a.m. July 26.
Massachusetts Ave., 1600 block,
10:43 p.m. July 27.
Milwaukee Pl., 600 block,
1:20 a.m. July 23.
Minnesota Ave., 1900-
2000 blocks, 12:20 p.m. July 22.
From vehicle.
Minnesota Ave., 3400-
3500 blocks, 2:46 a.m. July 26.
Mississippi Ave., 1000-
1200 blocks, 4:23 a.m. July 25.
Mississippi Ave., 1000-
1200 blocks, 5:27 a.m. July 26.
Naylor Rd., 1900-2100 blocks,
6:13 p.m. July 23. From vehicle.
Naylor Rd., 3000-3100 blocks,
11:54 p.m. July 21.
New Jersey Ave., 1100 block,
5:45 p.m. July 23.
New Jersey Ave., 1100 block,
6:01 p.m. July 23.
New Jersey Ave., 1100 block,
6:08 p.m. July 23.
Pennsylvania Ave., 1100 block,
5:40 a.m. July 22.
Pennsylvania Ave., 1500 block,
9 p.m. July 22.
Pennsylvania Ave., 3900 block,
7:35 p.m. July 21. From vehicle.
Potomac Ave., 1300 block,
9:16 p.m. July 14.
Potomac Ave., 1300 block,
12:21 a.m. July 21.
Potomac Ave., 1300 block,
3:22 p.m. July 27.
South Carolina Ave., 600 block,
9:16 p.m. July 21.
South Carolina Ave., 600 block,
11:30 p.m. July 21.
South Carolina Ave., 600 block,
11:35 p.m. July 21.
South Carolina Ave., 600 block,
3:48 p.m. July 25.
Southern Ave., 1200 block,
3:48 p.m. July 20. From vehicle.
Stanton Rd., 3500 block,
4:10 p.m. July 17.
Stanton Rd., 3500 block,
7:58 p.m. July 26.
Varney St., 900 block, 10:13 a.m.
July 20. From vehicle.
First St., 900 block, 4:07 a.m.
July 21.
First St., 1000 block, 2:27 p.m.
July 9.
Fourth St., 500 block, 6:25 p.m.
July 26.
Fifth St., 200 block, 10:24 p.m.
July 21.
Sixth St., 4600 block, 7:49 p.m.
July 21. From vehicle.
Eighth St., 300 block, 8:18 p.m.
July 21.
Eighth St., 500-600 blocks,
4:54 p.m. July 21.
Eighth St., 3000 block, 4:49 p.m.
July 22.
Eighth St., 3900 block, 10:08 a.m.
July 27.
10th St., 300 block, 9:45 p.m.
July 21. From vehicle.
11th St., 100 block, 3:11 p.m.
July 21.
13th St., 500 block, 5:15 p.m.
July 21. From vehicle.
14th St., 200 block, 3:15 p.m.
July 25.
14th St., 1900 block, 6:54 a.m.
July 27. From vehicle.
16th St., 400 block, 9:51 p.m.
July 26.
16th St., 2300 block, 2:38 a.m.
July 28.
17th Pl., 1600 block, 3:04 p.m.
July 25.
17th St., 300 block, 10:22 p.m.
July 25.
19th St., 1500 block, 3:19 p.m.
July 21.
MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS
A St., 300 block, 7:18 p.m. July 21.
A St., 1600 block, 12:53 a.m.
July 24.
Alabama Ave., 1500-1600 blocks,
3:49 a.m. July 22.
Bangor St., 1400 block, 1:43 a.m.
July 27.
Independence Ave., 1800 block,
11:52 a.m. July 21.
K St., 1400 block, 12:23 a.m.
July 22.
Livingston Rd., 4000 block,
1:27 p.m. July 24.
M St., unit block, 4:06 a.m. July 27.
Potomac Ave., 1800 block,
8:29 a.m. July 18.
Q St., 2200 block, 1:24 a.m.
July 23.
S St., 1600 block, 9:43 a.m.
July 23.
Southern Ave., 5600 block,
7:45 p.m. July 22.
Ninth St., 200 block, 4:25 p.m.
July 24.
16th St., 2200 block, 11:45 p.m.
July 24.
17th St., 1500 block, 2:34 p.m.
July 25.
18th St., 3300 block, 1:05 a.m.
July 26.
28th St., 1700-1800 blocks,
3:42 a.m. July 27.
54th St., 400 block, 1:43 p.m.
July 27.
SOUTHWEST
THEFTS/BURGLARIES
L’Enfant Plaza, 400-900 blocks,
3:46 p.m. July 26.
M St., 200 block, 8:30 p.m.
July 26.
Maine Ave., 600 block, 10:33 p.m.
July 26. From vehicle.
W. Basin Dr., 200-500 blocks,
4:50 p.m. July 25.
Wharf St., 800 block, 2:19 p.m.
July 23.
Fourth St., 900-1100 blocks,
8:53 p.m. July 12.
Sixth Pl., 600 block, 7:12 p.m.
July 26. From vehicle.
MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
E St., 300 block, 5:44 p.m. July 27.