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key priorities, despite opposition homeland security officials
from within his own party, includ- said Monday that they are making
ing a payroll tax cut, very little aid preparations to deploy federal
to state and local governments, agents to chicago, while Presi-
and measures tying school fund- dent Trump threatened to send
ing to the reopening of class- U.s. law enforcement personnel
rooms. to other Democratic-led cities ex-
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ocrats appears inevitable. in sTeRLinG heiGhTs, Mich. nada naisan, had been given ore., where agents have clashed
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on their parents
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Mnuchin and White house chief black, but the teenager knew nash, 20, pulled on black ing the unrest there “worse than
of staff Mark Meadows are set to she had to, at least for one socks, pants, shoes and a Afghanistan,” Trump’s rhetoric

for everything. Then

meet with house speaker nancy more day. so after nadeen button-down, all gifts from his escalated tensions with Demo-
Pelosi (D-calif.) and senate Mi- ismael swept the floors and mother, who did so much of cratic mayors and governors who
nority Leader charles e. schumer arranged the couch pillows his shopping that he wasn’t have criticized the presence of

the virus took both.

(D-n.Y.) for the first bipartisan just the way her parents liked sure what sizes he wore. federal agents on U.s. streets, tell-
talks on what will almost certainly them, she returned to their Their house was quiet that ing reporters at the White house
be the last major coronavirus re- bedroom. Behind the door, morning in mid-June, as it that he would send forces into
lief bill before the november elec- nadeen, 18, reached up for her seemed to be almost all the jurisdictions with or without the
tions. Mnuchin and Meadows will mother’s favorite sweater, still time now. nada wasn’t frying cooperation of their elected lead-
also meet with senate Republi- hanging next to the leather The Ismael children — 13, 18 and 20 — are omelets in the kitchen next to ers.
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of 2020 look Activists worry D.C. officials are erasing the role of Black Lives Matter Plaza as a center of protest
to bring back
like the 1930s virus briefing
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TULSA — John Jolley never as are gone, along with
thought he’d be sleeping in his car the T-shirt vendors, tents President Trump’s announce-
awaiting unemployment benefits. and free hot dogs. The ment Monday that he would
But there he was, the owner of a swelling crowds of protesters who resurrect the White house coro-
once-successful advertising agen- inspired the birth of Black Lives navirus task force briefings is the
cy, taking a sweaty nap in a subaru Matter Plaza in downtown Wash- culmination of weeks of debate
wagon in a convention center park- ington have largely dissipated. among his aides about how best
ing lot at 1:45 a.m. on a Wednesday. instead, on the pavement to turn around — or explain away
The pandemic sent his business where police in riot gear deployed — his administration’s failed re-
into a free fall, and now Jolley tear gas last month, more than sponse to the pandemic.
wanted to be first in line for an 100 men and women gathered on As the number of infected
unemployment claims event be- a recent evening for an hour of Americans surges and as Trump’s
ginning in five hours. he barely yoga organized by activists. The coronavirus-related approval rat-
dozed, afraid that if he fell into a participants laid their mats atop ings plummet, the president is
deep sleep, he would miss the ear- the oversized yellow lettering that pledging to “get involved” in the
ly-morning handout of tickets for has become an international sym- daily messaging campaign in a
appointments with state agents. bol of the moment. more direct way by returning to
There would be just 400 tickets “Don’t forget to breathe,” their the stage where he headlined
handed out for that day’s event. yogi said into a microphone, her controversial news conferences
When those ran out, there would words mixing with a soundtrack in March and April.
be 400 more for appointments the of hip-hop and rap. “Keep breath- The move to revive the brief-
following day. ing.” ings, which were at times conten-
“i just didn’t want to be number The daily demonstrations that tious, meandering and at odds
803,” Jolley said. began after George Floyd was with public health guidance,
in the four months since the killed in police custody in Minne- comes as Trump has struggled to
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For the latest updates all day, visit washingtonpost.com. Ga. Democrats tap Lewis’s successor
all day | President trump holds a virtual campaign fundraiser. For
developments, visit washingtonpost.com/politics. BY J OHN W AGNER state party chairwoman after
AND F ELICIA S ONMEZ deciding to seek the nomination
7 a.m. | Defense secretary Mark t. Esper discusses security in the and did not participate in Mon-
indo-Pacific region at an international institute for strategic studies Georgia Democrats on Mon- day’s vote.
event. Visit washingtonpost.com/politics for details. day chose Nikema Williams, a Early Monday afternoon, the
9:30 a.m. | the senate committee on aging holds a hearing on racial state senator and chairwoman of U.S. House honored Lewis with a
health disparities during the pandemic. For developments, visit
the state party, to replace the late moment of silence and a bereave-
congressman John Lewis (D) on ment resolution. A visibly emo-
washingtonpost.com/national.
the November ballot. tional Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-
1 p.m. | Former president Barack Obama, sen. Elizabeth Warren (D- Lewis, who died Friday at the Calif.) presided over the cham-
Mass.), House Financial services committee chairwoman Maxine age of 80 after a battle with ber.
Waters (D-calif.) and others participate in a virtual conference on the pancreatic cancer, had won the Rep. Sanford D. Bishop Jr.
10-year anniversary of the dodd-Frank act, which includes regulations June primary for the 5th Con- (D-Ga.), dean of the Georgia
aimed at preventing a future financial crisis. Visit washingtonpost.com/ gressional District seat in his bid delegation, called Lewis “our
business for details. for an 18th term. Under state law, hero, our colleague, our brother,
the Georgia Democratic Party our friend.”
was required to choose a replace- “The world is a better place
KLMNO cO RREc tI O Ns ment nominee on Monday, the
first business day since Lewis’s
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freedom,” he said.
death. Earlier Monday, several mem-
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202-334-6100 or 800-477-4679 incorrectly said that President narrowed the list of applicants to Georgia Democrat Nikema Williams, 41, was picked to replace the a young protester for a righteous
tO sUBscRIBE William McKinley was shot on five. late congressman John Lewis on the November ballot. cause, an organizer for the com-
800-753-Post (7678) Sept. 14, 1901. McKinley was shot In a statement, Sachin Var- munity and country he served,”
on Sept. 6 and died on Sept. 14. ghese, the state party’s general publican Angela Stanton-King, Hoyer said. “Every day of his life,
tO aDVERtIsE counsel, said that members of an author and television person- John marched for justice, civil
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property taxes in Prince George’s to the Fifth District and commit- for her role in a stolen vehicle brought all of us and this country
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with activists who opposed the uphold.” honor of my life to In 2016, Democrat Hillary Senate.
homestead tax credit in the 1990s. He added that “this was a very Clinton carried the district with “Whether the day’s issues
National: 202-334-7410;
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Dernoga worked with activists difficult decision to make so soon serve as the voice 85 percent of the vote over found you on his side of a policy
who supported the credit. after Congressman Lewis’s pass- Trump. debate or on the opposite side,
Business: 202-334-7320; ing.” of the 5th Lewis’s seat will remain va- his warmth, friendliness and
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the Georgia democratic Party
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202-334-6215 National, Foreign, metro, style, sports, the Georgia Capitol in November Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bot- Lewis is for the Senate to take up
opinion: Business or any of the weekly sections. 2018 amid a protest organized by toms and former Georgia guber- the Voting Rights Act and name
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Upcoming Washington Post Live events In remarks to the executive “It would be the honor of my state lawmaker; Andre Dickens, down federal oversight of elec-
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was grieving for Lewis, whom 5th Congressional District,” she Robert Franklin, an Emory Uni- discriminating against minority
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com to submit questions for our Houston mayor sylvester turner shoes of Congressman Lewis,” the heavily Democratic district, head of the Georgia NAACP. threatened a veto.
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Lawyer is suspected in shooting of N.J. judge’s family
BY T IM E LFRINK
AND D EVLIN B ARRETT
Federal authorities identified
a self-described “anti-feminist”
lawyer found dead Monday as
the “primary subject” in a shoot-
ing at a federal judge’s New
Jersey home that killed the ju-
rist’s son and left her husband
badly injured.
U.S. District Judge Esther Sa-
las was not harmed in the Sun-
day shooting, which the FBI, the
U.S. Marshals Service and local
authorities were continuing to
investigate. The FBI and the U.S.
attorney’s office in New Jersey
identified the dead suspect as
Roy Den Hollander. Speaking on
the condition of anonymity to
discuss an ongoing investigation,
law enforcement officials said his
body was found in Sullivan
County, N.Y., about a two-hour
drive from the scene of the
shooting. The lawyer appeared to
have died of a self-inflicted gun-
shot wound, one official said.
Hollander gained a level of
notoriety by suing over “ladies
night” drink specials, which he
claimed were discriminatory. He
also had a years-long case before
Salas in which he was contesting
the government’s refusal to allow
women to register for the mili-
tary draft.
The gunman appeared at Sa-
las’s home in North Brunswick,
N.J., on Sunday afternoon, wear-
ing an outfit described to police
as a FedEx delivery uniform, law
enforcement officials said. Mark
Anderl, 63, a defense lawyer and
former Essex County assistant
prosecutor, and Daniel Anderl,
20, a student at Catholic Univer-
sity in D.C., were shot after one of
them opened the door for the
gunman around 5 p.m.
“He was shot through the
heart,” North Brunswick Mayor
Francis “Mac” Womack (D) told
ABC News of Daniel Anderl, the
couple’s son.
Mark Anderl was rushed to the
hospital and is in stable condi-
U.S. District Judge Esther Salas’s husband and son were shot
Sunday; the son died. The suspected gunman was later found dead.
tion, Womack told local media.
Daniel Anderl was a rising junior
at Catholic University, the
school’s president said in a state-
ment. He had celebrated his
joe PRoudMAN/NewARk StAR-LedgeR
birthday last week.
The FBI had said it was look-
ing for one suspect, with assis-
tance from the Marshals Service,
which is charged with protecting
federal judges. New Jersey.
Attorney General William P. She has presided over a num-
Barr said in a statement that ber of high-profile cases, includ-
“this kind of lawless, evil action ing the criminal trial of “The
carried out against a member of Real Housewives of New Jersey”
the federal judiciary will not be stars Joe and Teresa Giudice.
tolerated, and I have ordered the Salas sentenced them each to
full resources of the FBI and U.S. prison for crimes including tax
Marshals Service to investigate evasion.
the matter.” She’s been on the bench for
Authorities have not given any recent cases involving the Grape
indication of a motive in the Street Crips, a gang charged with
shooting. Womack, who is running a drug trafficking opera-
friends with Salas and her hus- tion, according to NJ Advance
band, told ABC News that he Media. Salas has more recently
wasn’t aware of any specific taken on a lawsuit brought by
threat against the judge. Deutsche Bank investors alleging
“As a judge, she had threats that the bank failed to follow its
from time to time, but everyone anti-money-laundering policies
is saying that recently there had by taking on “high risk” clients
not been any,” Womack said. including Jeffrey Epstein, the
Salas, 51, is New Jersey’s first convicted sex offender.
Hispanic woman to serve as a New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy
U.S. District Court judge. Presi- (D) said in a statement, “Judge
dent Barack Obama nominated Salas and her family are in our
her for the position in 2010, and thoughts at this time as they cope
she was confirmed by the Senate with this senseless act.”
in 2011. Salas previously served tim.elfrink@washpost.com
as a federal magistrate judge in devlin.barrett@washpost.com

Couple who aimed guns at protesters charged with felony weapons count
BY T OM J ACKMAN
The St. Louis couple who
emerged from their mansion in a
gated community and aimed
weapons at protesters marching
past last month were each charged
Monday with one felony count of
unlawful use of a weapon.
Lawyers Mark McCloskey, 61,
and Patricia McCloskey, 63, have
said they were defending their
home on a private street from
racial-justice protesters heading
to Mayor Lyda Krewson’s house.
Video and photographs showing
Mark McCloskey wielding a rifle
and Patricia McCloskey aiming a
pistol at the marchers created a
firestorm of controversy between
those who felt the couple was le-
gally defending their home and
those who felt they were menacing
peaceful protesters.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim
Gardner, who filed the charges
against the McCloskeys, did not
order the couple to surrender or be
arrested. Instead, as part of Gard-
ner’s reformist approach to reduc-
ing incarceration for low-level
crimes, she issued summonses
and said she would consider dis-
missing the charges if the McClos-
keys completed counseling or oth-
er remedial work.
The weapons charge carries a
possible penalty from probation
to four years in prison.
The McCloskeys’ attorney, Joel
J. Schwartz, called the charges
“disheartening, as I unequivocally
believe no crime was committed.”
Schwartz said the McCloskeys
“support the First Amendment
right of every citizen to have their
voice and opinion heard. This
right, however, must be balanced
with the Second Amendment and
Missouri law, which entitle each of
us to protect our home and family
LAwReNCe BRyANt/ReuteRS
Mark and Patricia McCloskey look outside as protesters march against racial inequality in St. Louis on
July 3. The weapons charge carries a possible penalty from probation to four years in prison.
from potential threats.”
In a statement Monday, Gard-
ner said “it is illegal to wave weap-
ons in a threatening manner at
those participating in nonviolent
“We must protect the right to peacefully protest.” She said if the McClosk-
eys completed a diversion pro-
protest, and any attempt to chill it through gram, “I believe this would serve
as a fair resolution to this matter.”
intimidation or threat of deadly force To enter the St. Louis circuit
attorney’s diversion program, one
will not be tolerated.” must plead guilty, and if the pro-
gram is completed, the guilty plea
Kim Gardner, St. Louis Circuit Attorney,
is withdrawn and the charge dis-
who filed the charges against the McCloskeys
missed.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R)
said in a radio interview last week
that he would probably pardon
the McCloskeys if they were
charged. “We will not allow law-
abiding citizens to be targeted for
exercising their constitutional
rights,” he tweeted.
The charges are likely to further
stoke the hostilities aimed at
Gardner by President Trump and
top Missouri Republicans. The
governor has called for Gardner to
resign, and a U.S. senator demand-
ed that she be investigated for civil
rights violations. She also has re-
ceived death threats and racist
insults from around the country as
the case erupted into a national
debate between protesters’ rights
and the Second Amendment
rights of homeowners.
After video of the McCloskeys
went viral, Gardner, the city’s first
African American prosecutor, said
she was alarmed that “peaceful
protesters were met by guns and a
violent assault. We must protect
the right to peacefully protest, and
any attempt to chill it through
intimidation or threat of deadly
force will not be tolerated.”
Earlier this month, St. Louis po-
lice obtained a search warrant and
seized the two guns brandished by
the McCloskeys. Soon after, state
Republicans publicly criticized
Gardner, and Trump declared her “a
disgrace.” Sen. Josh Hawley (R) sent
a letter to the Justice Department
Thursday saying Gardner’s investi-
gation was an abuse of power.
Gardner told The Post that she
believes the Republican attacks
were coordinated, calling them “a
modern-day night ride,” evoking
the terrorist acts of the Ku Klux
Klan. She said Hawley’s letter was
“a dog whistle of racist rhetoric
and cronyism politics.” The St.
Louis police chief told reporters
last Tuesday that investigators
had applied for criminal warrants
to Gardner’s office.
The McCloskeys claimed that
they acted appropriately after “a
mob” smashed their way through
the private development’s gate.
But video obtained by the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch shows that the gate
to Portland Place was open when
the protesters arrived.
Missouri law defines felony un-
lawful use of a weapon as when a
person “exhibits, in the presence
of one or more persons, any weap-
on readily capable of lethal use in
an angry or threatening manner.”
Misdemeanor assault is defined as
when a “person purposely places
another person in apprehension
of immediate physical injury,”
with a possible sentence of proba-
tion to 15 days in jail.
The McCloskeys and their sup-
porters have said that the “castle
doctrine” in Missouri law empow-
ers a homeowner to stand their
ground and use deadly force when
threatened. But Harvard Law
School Professor Ronald S. Sulli-
van Jr. said Friday that “the defen-
dant has to be reasonably afraid of
being in imminent danger.”
Sullivan said that, despite the
McCloskeys’ claim that the entire
Portland Place neighborhood was
private property, and the protest-
ers were immediately trespassing,
“the castle doctrine would still be
unavailable. The doctrine re-
moves one’s duty to retreat. But
they could only use deadly force if
they reasonably felt they were in
imminent danger. Based on the
video evidence, that’s a very diffi-
cult argument to make,” because
the protesters were unarmed and
did not move toward the McClosk-
ey residence, Sullivan said.
“Otherwise,” Sullivan said, “the
castle doctrine would swallow up
all of the existing law and we’d
have a ‘Wild Wild West’ out there.”
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Trump raises tensions with Democrats
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“This is worse than anything
anyone’s ever seen,” Trump con-
tinued. “And you know what? If
Biden got in, that would be true
for the country. The whole coun-
try would go to hell.”
With his poll numbers sinking
amid widespread frustration at
his response to the coronavirus
pandemic, Trump has cast him-
self as a law-and-order strong-
man who will pacify U.S. commu-
nities roiled in recent months by
spreading disease, the economic
crisis and large street protests for
racial justice. Trump has wielded
images of violent demonstra-
tions, though the vast majority of
racial justice protests have been
peaceful.
Three Department of Home-
land Security officials said mon-
day that the agency has been mak-
ing preparations to deploy agents
from U.S. Immigration and Cus-
toms Enforcement (ICE) to Chica-
go, but the officials said opera-
tional details are not yet finalized.
The officials, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to de-
scribe the plans, said the agents,
who are part of ICE’s Homeland
Security Investigations division,
would not engage in immigration
enforcement operations and
would probably assist with intelli-
gence-gathering and targeting of
the drug-trafficking groups and
gangs driving the violence.
Trump has mentioned New
York and Philadelphia as two oth-
er cities where his administration
is looking to send federal agents,
but two DHS officials said Chica-
go is the only city where their
preparations have advanced.
The Chicago Tribune first re-
ported on the plans monday, say-
ing up to 150 agents would be
involved, but the DHS officials
said the size of the HSI contingent
remains in flux.
DHS officials involved in the
preparations also said the federal
agents would be directed by the
Department of Justice, and their
assignment in Chicago would be
very different from the standoff
between federal forces and pro-
testers in Portland, despite the
president’s attempts to link the
two.
on Sunday, Trump lashed out
at the Democratic officials in ore-
gon who have asked his adminis-
tration to withdraw from Port-
land, saying the heavy-handed
tactics of DHS agents was exacer-
bating the confrontation outside
the federal courthouse where vio-
lent clashes have played out over
the past several weeks.
Border Patrol swat teams from
the agency’s BorTAC tactical
unit have squared off against
sometimes militant protesters in-
cluding anarchists wielding fire-
works, laser pointers and sling-
shots, among other improvised
weapons, according to the agency.
“The radical Left Democrats,
who totally control Biden, will
destroy our Country as we know
it,” the president wrote Sunday in
a tweet. “Unimaginably bad
things would happen to America.
Look at Portland, where the pols
are just fine with 50 days of anar-
chy. We sent in help. Look at New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia. No!”
To date, however, Portland and
Seattle are the only cities that
have seen sustained battles be-
tween militant protesters and au-
thorities. Homeland Security offi-
cials sent BorTAC agents as well
as ICE tactical officers to both
cities in anticipation of clashes on
the fourth of July holiday, but the
federal forces have mostly been
withdrawn from Seattle.
In Portland, they remain to
ASHlee Rezin GARCiA/CHiCAGo Sun-TimeS/ASSoCiATeD pReSS
FROM TOP: Federal agents disperse Black Lives Matter protesters
near the Mark O. Hatfield courthouse in Portland, Ore. Officers
used tear gas and projectiles after some protesters tore down a
fence fronting the courthouse. KaCe Freeman chants outside the
federal courthouse. Miracle Boyd, 18, an activist with GoodKids
MadCity, describes a recent violent encounter with Chicago police,
in which she alleges an officer damaged her teeth. Since sending
federal agents to Portland, President Trump has threatened to
deploy them to Chicago as well.
defend the mark o. Hatfield
courthouse and other nearby fed-
eral buildings that protesters
have treated as a proxy for the
Trump administration.
The tactical teams are trained
in riot control and mass demon-
strations, but their field experi-
ence has mostly occurred along
the border — where the Border
Patrol has repelled migrant “cara-
vans” with tear gas — and immi-
gration jails where detainees
sometimes riot.
They are trained to confront
powerful drug cartels, said ron
Vitiello, the former Border Patrol
chief and acting director of ICE
until 2019.
“These guys go up against the
worst of the worst along the
southwest border, and their
teams were built to have capabili-
ty to do crowd controls and riots
— that’s part of their basic certifi-
cation,” he said.
on the streets of Portland, DHS
officials said, the tactical teams
have been flummoxed by protest-
ers and anarchist groups using
black bloc tactics to disguise their
identities and work in coordina-
tion to confuse agents. one offi-
cial said protesters over the week-
end had arrived to the clashes
armed with leaf blowers, using
them to disperse tear gas and
direct irritants back at federal
agents.
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DHS has expanded its intelli-
gence-gathering authorities to in-
clude collecting information on
protesters who threaten to dam-
age or destroy public monu-
ments, memorials and statues,
regardless of whether they are on
federal property, according to
new guidance from the depart-
ment’s intelligence and analysis
unit.
That marks a dramatic expan-
sion of authorities historically
used to protect well-known
American symbols such as the
Statue of Liberty and the Gateway
Arch in St. Louis, experts said.
The memo was first reported by
the blog Lawfare.
Chicago’s gun violence has long
been a focus of Trump’s ire, and he
has repeatedly criticized law en-
forcement and city officials —
sometimes by name — when in-
voking it. During the 2016 presi-
dential campaign, he said police
in the city needed to be “much
tougher.” Shortly after taking of-
fice, Trump said the violence was
“very easily fixable” and that offi-
cials there were “not doing the
job.”
Trump tweeted early in his ten-
ure that he would “send in the
feds!” even though there were
already a number of federal offi-
cials in Chicago working with
task forces that included the city’s
police. City officials, in turn, had
noAH BeRGeR/ASSoCiATeD pReSS
noAH BeRGeR/ASSoCiATeD pReSS
said they welcomed more federal
help prosecuting gun crimes.
Trump’s focus on Chicago contin-
ued even as bloodshed there has
declined. Gun violence in Chicago
surged in 2016 — with the city
having its deadliest year in two
decades — and homicides have
declined in the years since.
But this year has seen a danger-
ous reversal of those trends, with
shootings and killings both ris-
ing. As of monday morning, there
had been 414 homicides, more
than 1,600 shootings and more
than 2,000 shooting victims this
year, according to Chicago police
data — all numbers significantly
ahead of where they were at the
same point last year. Some other
major American cities were also
seeing increases in homicides
over last year, while reports of
some other crimes had declined.
Last month, Trump released a
letter assailing state and city offi-
cials for the violence, describing
them as having a “lack of leader-
ship on this important issue.”
Trump also cited Philadelphia
on monday, days after again tak-
ing aim at Larry Krasner, the city’s
district attorney. Krasner is one of
the most high-profile progressive
prosecutors elected in recent
years who have pledged to decline
lower-level charges and institute
other criminal justice reforms.
Trump repeatedly criticized
Krasner and last week referred to
places “appointing left-wing so-
cial justice prosecutors, like you
have in Philadelphia.”
In a statement on monday re-
sponding to Trump’s suggestion
that he could send more federal
forces to Philadelphia, Krasner
invoked his father and uncles who
“served in World War II to fight
fascism . . . so we would not have
an American president brutaliz-
ing and kidnapping Americans
for exercising their constitutional
rights.”
Krasner also bluntly warned
that federal officials could face
prosecution.
“Anyone, including federal law
enforcement, who unlawfully as-
saults and kidnaps people will
face criminal charges from my
office,” Krasner said. “At trial, they
will face a Philadelphia jury. It’s
the least we can do to honor those
who fought fascism, including
those who are fighting it even
now.”
nick.miroff@washpost.com
mark.berman@washpost.com
Devlin Barrett and Shane Harris
contributed to this report.
the washington post
DHS to collect data on
monument protesters
BY S HANE H ARRIS
The Department of Homeland
Security has authorized its per-
sonnel to collect information on
protesters who threaten to dam-
age or destroy public memorials
and statues, regardless of whether
they are on federal property, a
significant expansion of authori-
ties that have historically been
used to protect landmarks from
terrorist attacks.
The new guidance was issued
as department personnel have
been dispatched to police and de-
tain people protesting police vio-
lence, itself an untraditional role
for a department set up to secure
borders and transportation sys-
tems.
The guidance, obtained by The
Washington Post, is described as a
“job aid” for personnel imple-
menting an executive order that
President Trump signed last
month, targeting protesters who
threatened to remove statutes
honoring Confederate officers
and other people they consider
racist.
The document refers to appar-
ently ongoing intelligence activi-
ties, directing the guidance to
“personnel collecting and report-
ing on various activities in the
context of elevated threats target-
ing monuments, memorials, and
statues.”
The guidance, first reported by
the blog Lawfare, appears to au-
thorize monitoring of social me-
dia posts as well as the use of
public information sources to
keep tabs on individuals or groups
the department says may “dam-
age or destroy any public monu-
ment, memorial, or statue.”
The document makes no dis-
tinction as to types of monuments
and doesn’t state that they must
be located on federal property.
Personnel are told that they must
be able to articulate why someone
is a threat and cannot rely on
“ ‘hunches’ and intuitions, which
are insufficient.”
The document is unclassified
and was issued by the depart-
ment’s office of Intelligence and
Analysis. DHS didn’t respond to a
phone call and email requesting
comment.
Since its inception, DHS has
played a limited role in protecting
revered American symbols such
as the Gateway Arch in St. Louis
and the Statue of Liberty and
always acts against terrorist at-
tacks, not protests by American
citizens, said Paul rosenzweig, a
senior policy official at the depart-
ment during the George W. Bush
administration.
The new guidance is “a com-
plete misapplication of existing
authorities to benefit the presi-
dent,” said rosenzweig, now a se-
Judge sentences former
N.Y. Assembly speaker
BY S HAYNA J ACOBS
NEW YORK — Sheldon Silver, who
was one of New York state’s most
powerful politicians before his
conviction in multimillion-dollar
bribery and money-laundering
schemes, was sentenced monday
to more than six years in prison.
“It’s time for mr. Silver to pay
the piper,” U.S. District Judge
Valerie Caproni said in manhat-
tan federal court before announc-
ing Silver’s sentence, which in-
cludes 78 months in custody, a
$1.75 million fine and forfeiture of
an additional $5.3 million.
Silver, a Democrat who served
as speaker of the New York State
Assembly for two decades, was
one of the most recognizable
names in local politics before his
arrest in 2015. He had been sen-
tenced to longer prison terms
twice before, but an appeals court
eventually tossed some of the
counts in his conviction.
A lawyer outside of his political
life, Silver was convicted of ac-
cepting bribes in exchange for
business referrals to law firms
involved with real estate and per-
sonal injury cases. He had re-
mained free during the years of
litigation but will have to surren-
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nior fellow at r Street, a think
tank. “Trump is morphing DHS
into his private little rogue, secret
army.”
The administration’s deploy-
ment of DHS forces to police dem-
onstrations and detain protesters
in Portland, ore., has drawn
strong condemnation from offi-
cials in the state. Trump has por-
trayed the protesters as lawless
radicals intent on damaging and
destroying property.
Nothing in the intelligence doc-
ument directs or allows the de-
partment to detain protesters. But
it does say that DHS may collect
information about “individuals or
groups,” as well as their “tactics,
techniques, or procedures” and
refers to existing rules on what
information can be collected.
The existing rules do allow the
department to use the “least in-
trusive means” to collect informa-
tion about U.S. citizens, specifical-
ly “physical surveillance, the use
of mail covers, and the use of
monitoring devices,” which can-
not be hidden and may include
public information sources. mail
covers allow the government to
record information on the outside
of an envelope or parcel before it’s
delivered.
Some of those collection rules
are limited to U.S. citizens be-
lieved “to be engaged in or prepar-
ing for espionage, other intelli-
gence activities, sabotage, or as-
sassination on behalf of a foreign
power, organization, or person.”
It’s not clear from the new guid-
ance how that applies to Ameri-
cans protesting monuments or
peacefully exercising their rights
to free speech and assembly.
The department is not autho-
rized to conduct electronic sur-
veillance such as wiretapping. But
it can ask other federal agencies to
do so, rosenzweig said, principal-
ly the fBI.
The document explicitly pro-
hibits any intelligence activities
“for the sole purpose of monitor-
ing activities protected by the
first Amendment” or for deter-
ring free speech. It also spells out
guidance for collecting informa-
tion about threats of violence to
law enforcement and other gov-
ernment personnel and facilities.
Any information the depart-
ment collects on U.S. citizens
must be discarded after 180 days if
it doesn’t further another appro-
priate government mission. But
the information can be shared
with a broad range of other
groups, including within the fed-
eral government, as well as state
and local organizations and pri-
vate-sector groups engaged in law
enforcement, counterterrorism
and homeland security opera-
tions, the document states.
shane.harris@washpost.com
der to the federal Bureau of Pris-
ons on Aug. 26. The 76-year-old is
likely to serve his sentence at a
minimum-security facility.
Caproni rejected a claim by
Silver’s attorneys that he could
not be safely housed in a correc-
tional setting because of the coro-
navirus pandemic, saying the
death rate outside of federal lock-
ups is similar. Covid-19, the dis-
ease caused by the novel corona-
virus, is “a dangerous and vicious
disease no matter where you are,”
she said.
Caproni noted that Silver
showed no remorse at either of
his two prior sentencings.
“I did not believe then and I do
not believe now that mr. Silver
did not know his conduct crossed
fully over the line,” she said.
Silver expressed contrition
when addressing Caproni this
time, saying his conduct contrib-
uted to the public’s loss of faith in
government. He called his actions
“improper, selfish and ethically
indefensible.”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel
richenthal said Silver “abused
his office” for profit over at least
15 years and was skilled at con-
cealing what he did.
shayna.jacobs@washpost.com
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City tries to bring sense of order to Black Lives Matter Plaza
BlM PlAzA from A1
ential K Street lobbying firms,
government offices and high-end
restaurants that abruptly shut
down when the novel coronavirus
overtook the city.
The christening of Black Lives
matter Plaza by mayor muriel E.
Bowser (D) turned the corridor
on 16th Street between H and I
streets into a new destination — a
rollicking blend of open-air soap-
box, campground, flea market,
museum and 24-hour hangout.
Yet in recent days, even with
most downtown offices still shut-
tered and the power-lunch crowd
unlikely to return any time soon,
D.C. officials have moved to re-
store a sense of order.
Inspectors last week dispersed
vendors who had settled on the
plaza with threats of $2,000 fines.
They told volunteers distributing
free food and water to remove
grills, tables, canopies and cool-
ers. Police have ordered protest-
ers to take down tents, and the
city erected fencing to block ac-
cess to Lafayette Square and
St. John’s Episcopal Church,
which was defaced and set on fire
during the demonstrations.
There are still occasional
marches, including one that a
coalition of African American fra-
ternities and sororities staged
over the weekend. A vigil was held
Saturday for the late congress-
man John Lewis (D-Ga.), a hero of
the civil rights movement whose
visit to the plaza shortly after its
unveiling amounted to a kind of
benediction. It turned out to be
his last public appearance.
on most days, though, Black
Lives matter Plaza draws trickles
of visitors who wander the corri-
dor as if they were touring a
museum. They stop to pose in
front of the street art — a brightly
painted mural of a black fist over
here, another of Breonna Taylor
over there — all suitable for Insta-
gram.
“It feels like the gentrification
of the whole movement,” activist
Nahom Demoz, 33, said as the
yoga class assembled on the por-
tion of the plaza where the yellow
letters spell out “m-A-T-T-E-r.”
“I understand that it could be
good intentions,” he said. “But the
road to hell is paved with good
intentions.”
Demoz spent weeks volunteer-
ing at Earl’s first Amendment
Grill, a self-styled food stand. He
and other activists cooked burg-
ers and hot dogs free for anyone
who asked — that is, until city
inspectors showed up.
“It’s fizzling out,” he said.
‘We need to strike a balance’
As the District has stepped up
enforcement, the few activists
still assembling at the plaza trade
speculation about its future,
whether the city will remove bar-
riers that seal off the two blocks
from traffic and whether Bowser’s
painted letters will remain.
A spokesperson for the mayor,
citing pending litigation, de-
clined to respond to questions
about the vendors or the plaza’s
future.
many downtown businesses
remain boarded up or closed even
as others are making a go of
reopening. Traffic is light even at
rush hour.
“Welcome Back,” reads the sign
outside mcCormick & Schmick’s,
a steakhouse and seafood restau-
rant on K Street where a couple
awaited their order at an outdoor
table the other day.
At Black Lives matter Plaza, P.J.
Clarke’s, a restaurant that adver-
tises itself as “a stone’s throw
from the White House,” is still
shuttered, a spray of profane graf-
fiti disparaging President Trump
on the wall to the right of the
entrance. A few feet away, a man
in a mask and goggles slumped on
a metal folding chair, using an
outdoor outlet to charge his cell-
phone.
“Why is that flag upside
down?” Anne rocca, 53, visiting
from San francisco, asked her
husband, Joe, as they gazed at a
turned-over American flag some-
one had attached to a lamppost at
the corner.
Neil o. Albert, executive direc-
tor of the Downtown DC Business
Improvement District, said the
pandemic had turned the city’s
commercial core into a “ghost
town.” The vendors on the plaza,
he said, needed to be removed to
maintain “pedestrian access to
the buildings with as little ob-
struction as possible.”
“We need to restore a sense of
normalcy so businesses can re-
open,” he said during a visit to the
plaza. As for whether the strip
should remain closed to traffic, he
said the District needs to weigh
business interests and respect for
the politics of the moment.
“We need to strike a balance,”
he said.
Across the street, Winfred van
Workum, general manager of the
St. regis, a luxury hotel at 16th
and K streets, said noise from the
plaza — there was a 3 a.m. soccer
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TOP: A D.C. police officer joins a group jumping rope Thursday at Black lives Matter Plaza. The words painted on the street pavement
have become a destination for visitors from far and wide. MIDDlE: Social justice activists argue with police at the plaza on July 14.
Activists say police are working to break up and put an end to their gatherings. “It has absolutely had a deflating effect,” said one.
BOTTOM: Occupy DC activist Mahadi lawal, center, said yoga on the plaza is not a sign of defeat and promised more demonstrations.
“They put the letters down for us.
This became a fashion trend.
And now they turned it on us.”
Dawayne Wilkes, a protester, on D.C. officials’ move
to disperse crowds on Black Lives Matter Plaza
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game and loud music one night —
had prompted some of the few
guests to check out early. And
because 16th Street is blocked off,
cars can’t enter the hotel’s semi-
circular driveway.
“The types of business we get —
foreign delegations — are not go-
ing to want to stay here if they
can’t line up the limos to go to the
White House,” van Workum said.
Dawayne Wilkes, 30, a protest-
er who has been on the plaza for
weeks, expressed little sympathy
for the businesses, saying the
the washington post
mayor had encouraged a platform
that the police and inspectors are
now dismantling.
“They put the letters down for
us,” he said of the mural. “This
became a fashion trend. And now
they turned it on us.”
‘What could be better than
this?’
on a hot afternoon, Woody
Brown, 55, a procurement analyst
from Springfield, wandered alone
through the barren plaza. He held
a yellow, rain-streaked “Black
. tuesday, july 21 , 2020
Lives matter” sign — his way “of
trying to keep a spotlight on all
this,” he said.
Brown compared the plaza to a
Christo installation, a reference
to the late conceptual artist
whose projects included erecting
23 miles of gates in New York’s
Central Park adorned in saffron-
colored drapes.
“It’s a piece of art,” Brown said.
It did not begin that way.
After floyd’s death in late may,
the corridor was center stage for
protests and violent clashes be-
tween demonstrators and police,
including the altercation June 1 in
which officers used tear gas to
clear the area for Trump to pose
for photographers in front of
St. John’s.
once the street was renamed
and the mural was unveiled, the
lettering on the pavement drew
visitors from far and wide. Bryan
Coulbourn, 24, came from Bowie
the other night to rollerblade as
he listened to marvin Gaye.
“I’m in front of the White
House with this shirt,” he said,
imagining the photos he would
post on social media of the “Black
owned Business” across his chest.
“What could be better than this?”
Luther Wright, 37, a local artist
and muralist, considers the corri-
dor his “outdoor studio,” bringing
his brushes and canvases to paint.
He said he finds inspiration in the
strangers he meets and the feel-
ing of common purpose.
“I understand that they’re try-
ing to get it back to normal, but it
has become a historic place,” he
said. “They should just embrace
what it has become. otherwise,
what was the point of closing it off
in the first place?”
The activists still congregating
on the plaza include miranda
rosenfelt, who said she was
among 15 or 20 protesters sleep-
ing near H Street on the morning
of July 6 when dozens of police
officers swarmed in. As they
broke up the encampment, offi-
cers confiscated tents and other
supplies.
rosenfelt, 33, a chef, said she
was bruised when an officer’s bike
slammed into her. She said the
police also used an earsplitting
horn to disperse the crowd.
“It has absolutely had a deflat-
ing effect, and that’s the point,”
she said of the tactics, as she
walked through the plaza, a hard
hat and safety glasses attached to
her backpack. “It kept people
from coming back.”
As the sun set, she joined the
yoga class, which began with the
teacher, Aabi Abdun-Nafi, telling
the gathering she would focus on
their hips, the part of the body
“where we hold a lot of our emo-
tional trauma.”
A quiet settled in. No one ap-
peared to notice the man in a
“Trump-Pence” mask who clat-
tered by on a skateboard. or the
passing heckler who shouted:
“Brainwashed liberals!”
When the session ended, ma-
hadi Lawal, 26, an occupy DC
activist, rose up from his mat,
took the microphone and said no
one should interpret yoga as “a
sign of defeat, or, like, we’re just
going to do yoga instead of pro-
testing. Absolutely not.”
He promised more demonstra-
tions in the coming days.
“Keep fighting,” he said. “This
is far from over.”
paul.schwarztman@washpost.com
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retropolis
A 1936 lynching that went unpunished
Thomas Finch’s horrific killing was orchestrated by a police officer and Klansman who later led the Georgia Bureau of Investigation
BY M ICHAEL S . R OSENWALD
The lynching began with a
knock on the door.
It was 3 a.m. on Sept. 12, 1936, a
steamy late summer morning in
Atlanta.
Thomas Finch and his family
were sound asleep. Then, the
knocking. When Finch’s father
opened the front door, he found
five white men standing there:
two police officers and three other
burly men the family had never
seen before.
“We want your son Tom,” an
officer said.
Finch got dressed and went
with the officers. An hour later, he
was dumped outside Grady Hos-
pital, where he worked as an or-
derly. His face was pummeled. He
was shot multiple times.
“Oh Lord,” he said, as nurses
placed him on an operating table.
“Oh Lord.”
Those were his last words. He
was 28.
Authorities never investigated
Finch’s death or charged anyone
for it, and it was clear why. The
horrific killing was orchestrated
by one of the men on Finch’s door-
step — Samuel Roper, a police
officer who went on to lead the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
and then, upon retirement, Geor-
gia’s chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.
The circumstances of Finch’s
lynching — one of more than
6,500 between 1865 and 1950 —
were brought to light in 2017 by
Carissa Aranda, a civil rights at-
torney in western Massachusetts
who at the time was a Northeast-
ern University law school student
investigating cold cases for the
school’s Civil Rights and Restor-
ative Justice Project.
As part of her investigation,
Aranda examined an unpublished
investigation into Finch’s death
conducted by the Commission on
Interracial Cooperation, a race re-
form organization founded in seg-
regated Atlanta in 1919. She also
tracked down Finch’s last known
surviving relative: his niece, Joyce
Finch-Morris. Now 71, she still
lives in Atlanta, which became an
epicenter of Black Lives Matter
protests after the police shooting
of Rayshard Brooks in June. The
white officer who shot and killed
Brooks has been fired and
charged with felony murder.
Finch also died in police custo-
dy. His niece knew little about his
death until Aranda shared her
findings. Now Finch-Morris finds
herself wishing her parents and
other relatives were around not
just to learn what really happened
that night in 1936, but to see the
police brutality protests sweeping
the country.
“As painful as his death was,
they died knowing that their son,
their brother, their uncle died
with no recourse, with no justice
whatsoever,” she said. “The differ-
ence now is that society is out-
raged. People are just tired of it.
These things won’t just be swept
under the rug like what happened
to my uncle. We need justice.”
‘Calculated force’
One of seven children, Finch
was a descendant of sharecrop-
pers. In his early 20s, while his
father supported the family as a
haberdasher, Finch got a job as an
orderly at Grady Hospital, which
had two buildings — one for black
patients, the other for whites.
Finch worked in the white build-
ing.
In early September 1936, a
white woman named Ozella
Smith arrived at the hospital with
a fracture. Finch placed her on a
gurney and transported her to the
emergency room, where doctors
treated and released her.
Thirty-six hours later, Smith
went to the Atlanta police head-
quarters to file a rape complaint.
She had been assaulted, she said,
in a tiny office near where she was
treated. Smith identified the rap-
ist as Thomas Finch. According to
Finch-Morris, Smith may have
been secretly dating her uncle — a
forbidden relationship that could
have led to the rape allegation.
Back in the 1930s, police offi-
cers in Atlanta openly lived dou-
ble lives. When they weren’t in
uniform, many wore the white
robes of the Ku Klux Klan. The
police department’s own history
acknowledges that the “Klan-
dominated police union” wasn’t
officially abolished until 1947,
though historians and criminolo-
gists say connections with white
supremacy lasted even longer.
“This was not unusual and lim-
ited to Georgia,” said Taimi Castle,
a professor of justice studies at
James Madison University and
the author of an academic paper
titled “Cops and the Klan.” “Dur-
ing the same period of time, in
some jurisdictions all local offi-
cials were members, including the
sheriff.”
When Finch was accused of
rape, Roper caught the case.
Roper joined the Klan in the
early 1920s, according to “A Mea-
sure of Freedom,” a 1950 Anti-
Defamation League investiga-
tion of KKK involvement in anti-
Semitism and white supremacy
in the United States. While Roper
served as a police officer and
later the head of Georgia’s presti-
gious Bureau of Investigation,
his local Klan titles included Ex-
alted Cyclops and Imperial
Nighthawk.
In 1949, 13 years after Finch’s
lynching, Roper became Imperial
Wizard of Georgia’s Klan organi-
zations. The appointment was
widely covered in Atlanta’s news-
papers, which referred to him as
Wizard Roper. “Roper has a repu-
tation,” the Anti-Defamation
League investigation said, “for
planning his moves with calculat-
ed force.”
When Roper came to the Finch
family’s home that September
night, Finch asked why he was
being arrested. All the officers
would say was that there was an
investigation underway. Finch
was placed in a car and driven
away. His wife, nervous about the
strange 3 a.m. arrival of officers
and several other unidentified
men, called police headquarters
and the county jail trying to find
him.
Nobody knew where he had
been taken.
‘It was very painful’
When Finch-Morris was grow-
ing up, her mother had told her
that her uncle had been accused of
raping a white woman and that he
was lynched. But Finch-Morris’s
father, even if he knew the whole
story, didn’t talk much about his
brother’s death.
“My father was a forthright per-
son, but when I asked about this it
was very painful for him, and he
didn’t want to talk about it,” she
said. “I knew he was going out
with a white woman, and he was
lynched. That’s it.”
Then a few years ago, Finch-
Morris received a phone call from
Aranda, the Northeastern Univer-
sity law school student.
Aranda had grown up in the
South with dreams of becoming a
civil rights attorney. Northeast-
ern, with its renowned Civil
Rights and Restorative Justice
Project, was an ideal place. The
clinic has investigated hundreds
of lynchings, bringing closure to
scores of families whose loved
ones were killed without any jus-
ez re the washington post
miChAel A. sChWArz For the WAshington Post
reception area.
“Everybody interviewed at the
hospital,” one of the commission
reports said, “were unanimous in
their conviction that the alleged
was not and could not have been
committed. It is unbelievable that
the woman would have submitted
silently to such an attack when the
slightest outcry would have
brought a dozen people to her
rescue.”
If Smith made up the attack,
why did she do it? Raper’s report
doesn’t pinpoint an exact motive,
but Aranda, in her own report,
wrote that Smith “and the Atlanta
police detectives insisted on
painting Finch as the stereotypi-
cal black rapist, a false image used
by the press and law enforcement
authorities to excuse of justify
‘vigilante’ lynchings.”
In the commission report, Rap-
er noted that Smith “tends to de-
sire publicity” and, on other visits
to the hospital, was diagnosed by
a psychiatrist as being “mentally
FrAnk tuggle/the AtlAntA JournAl-Constitution subnormal and irresponsible”
and unable to adequately state
her name and address.
The day Smith alleged the at-
tack to police, cars began to circle
Finch’s home, honking their
horns. Somewhere between his
house and his arrival at Grady
Hospital on the verge of death,
Finch was beaten and shot.
In a newspaper article later
that week, police told reporters
that Finch attacked Roper and
attempted to escape, prompting
police to defend themselves and
kill him.
Raper found that story nearly
impossible to believe, because
Roper had brought civilians to the
house and especially because
Finch was never taken to the po-
lice station, which was only a few
blocks from Finch’s home. All of
that, plus the allegation of rape by
a white woman, suggested the
“probability” that police and
friends of the girl murdered
Finch.
“It seems obvious,” Raper con-
cluded, “that Finch was lynched.”
‘Everyone is speaking out’
Finch-Morris was startled
when Aranda explained what
happened to her uncle. The killing
was also investigated by the Cen-
ter for Investigative Reporting
and WABE, an Atlanta NPR affili-
ate.
FAmily Photo “It was all very, very shocking,”
FROM TOP, DESCENDING: Joyce Finch-Morris is the last she said.
known surviving relative of Thomas Finch, who in 1936 was The lynching, of course. But
lynched in Atlanta. Imperial Wizard Sam Roper, second also the role of the police.
from left, is seen at a Klan rally in 1950. Roper’s role in the “As far as I could tell, the KKK
killing of Finch was not brought to light until 2017. and the police were one and the
same,” Finch-Morris said. “That’s
just the way it was. There was no
way for anybody to get any re-
course.”
tice at all. an account of Finch being awak- Nowadays, there is at least
Finch’s case was assigned to ened by Roper and another offi- some chance. Officers are wearing
Aranda in 2017. Combing through cer. body cameras. And citizens are
archives and news clippings, she “Where they had taken him,” wielding an important technolog-
was led to an unpublished and the report says, “for what purpose, ical weapon against police brutal-
undated investigation into his and by what authority, and why ity — cellphones that have record-
death held in the archives of the had they had found it necessary to ed black Americans being beaten
Commission on Interracial Coop- beat him and shoot him to death and killed by police, from George
eration, at the University of North are questions that invite investi- Floyd in Minneapolis to Brooks in
Carolina’s Wilson Special Collec- gation.” Atlanta.
tions Library. Raper and the commission’s in- But something else important
In the papers, Aranda found a vestigation was a thorough inqui- has changed, Finch-Morris added.
document titled, in part, “Con- ry, the sort of investigation Atlan- “It’s not just black people who
cerning the Death of Tom Finch.” ta police would have conducted are making their voices heard,”
The author was Arthur F. Raper, a had the murder victim been she said. “Now everyone is speak-
white sociologist who studied white. The idea that Finch raped ing out. That definitely didn’t hap-
lynchings and investigated them Smith was dismissed by his super- pen back in 1936. That is prog-
for the commission. (There are visors, including white nurses and ress.”
other investigative reports in the doctors who comforted the family mike.rosenwald@washpost.com
commission files, though it is not and a sent floral wreath to his
clear whether Raper is also the funeral. From retropolis, a blog about the
author.) The office where the alleged past, rediscovered, at
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. tuesday, july 21 , 2020
Flynn urges
full appeals
court not to
rehear case
BY S PENCER S . H SU
Attorneys for Michael T. Flynn
and the Trump administration
each urged a full federal appeals
court in Washington on Monday
not to rehear Flynn’s case, arguing
that an earlier order requiring a
U.S. judge to dismiss the prosecu-
tion should stand.
In a 19-page filing, the defense
for President Trump’s former na-
tional security adviser again criti-
cized U.S. District Judge Emmet
G. Sullivan of Washington for
seeking to hold a hearing on
whether a Justice Department re-
quest to undo Flynn’s guilty plea is
in the public interest.
“The district court has hijacked
and extended a criminal prosecu-
tion for almost three months for
its own purposes,” Flynn attor-
neys Sidney Powell and Jesse Bin-
nall wrote in an argument to judg-
es on what is often called the
country’s second-most powerful
court.
Flynn’s attorneys said Sullivan’s
request for a full rehearing by the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit to defend his move was
unprecedented and “rife with er-
rors and misrepresentations.”
“To allow Judge Sullivan to de-
lay and generate litigation against
a criminal defendant is unconsti-
tutional,” they added, because the
“Executive Branch has exclusive
authority and absolute discretion
to decide whether to prosecute a
case.”
Sullivan on July 11 requested a
rehearing after a divided three-
judge panel ordered him to dis-
miss the prosecution and said he
was wrong to appoint a retired
federal judge to argue against the
government after it abandoned its
adversarial role.
Sullivan’s attorneys argued the
panel majority’s opinion marked a
“dramatic break from precedent”
that “threatens to turn ordinary
judicial process upside down” by
shutting down a trial judge’s re-
view of pending motions before
rendering a decision.
“It is the district court’s job to
consider and rule on pending mo-
tions, even ones that seem
straightforward,” wrote Sullivan’s
attorneys, led by Beth A. Wilkin-
son. “This Court, if called upon,
reviews those decisions — it does
not preempt them.”
In a 2-to-1 ruling against Sulli-
van in late June, Neomi Rao, an
appellate judge and recent Trump
nominee, wrote that Sullivan
overstepped his role and commit-
ted a “clear legal error” by refusing
to immediately close the case and
by appointing former federal
judge John Gleeson to act as the
court’s amicus counsel.
The panel wrote that Sullivan
could not “scrutinize the reason-
ing and motives of the Depart-
ment of Justice” in dropping
Flynn’s prosecution and that pro-
longing the case would “consti-
tute irreparable harms that can-
not be remedied on appeal.”
But Sullivan’s filing said that
Rao’s opinion rushed to judg-
ment, citing precedents stating
that the government can dismiss a
case only with the permission or
“leave” of a trial court, and that
appeals courts weigh in after low-
er judges rule, not before. Sullivan
said the panel also improperly
relied on arguments not raised
before him and erroneously gave
the government relief — ordering
him to approve the Justice De-
partment’s motion — even though
it was only Flynn who petitioned
the appeals court.
Flynn was the highest-ranking
Trump adviser convicted in spe-
cial counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s
investigation of Russian interfer-
ence in the 2016 election.
Flynn, 61, awaits sentencing af-
ter pleading guilty in December
2017 to lying in an FBI interview
on Jan. 24, 2017, to conceal conver-
sations with then-Ambassador
Sergey Kislyak of Russia shortly
before Trump took office.
Although Flynn pleaded guilty
and cooperated in Mueller’s in-
quiry, he reversed course after
Mueller’s investigation ended and
Attorney General William P. Barr
took office in 2019 and began un-
doing its work. Flynn switched
defense teams, accusing prosecu-
tors and his former attorneys of
coercing him into pleading guilty
and concealing FBI misconduct.
Barr ordered a review of Flynn’s
case in January. And in June, in a
move that prompted a career de-
partment prosecutor to quit the
case, Barr determined that Flynn’s
January 2017 FBI interview was
unjustified because it was “con-
ducted without any legitimate in-
vestigative basis.” As a result, the
department concluded, any lies
Flynn told about his contacts with
Russia and other foreign govern-
ments were immaterial to any
crime.
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THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
Kemp stands solo on masks
Ga. governor eschews
health policy embraced
by other GOP leaders
BY I SAAC S TANLEY- B ECKER
AND G RIFF W ITTE
In a campaign ad in 2018 boast-
ing that he was “so conservative,”
Brian Kemp brandished a chain
saw and declared his tool “ready to
rip up some regulation.”
Two years later, the regulation
to which Georgia’s Republican
governor is turning his attention
is a municipal order requiring
people to wear masks in Atlanta,
among other precautions de-
signed to arrest transmission of
the novel coronavirus, which has
sickened nearly 150,000 Geor-
gians.
Now, Kemp’s instrument is not
a chain saw. Instead, he is wielding
a lawsuit and request for an in-
junction barring the city’s Demo-
cratic mayor and contender for
the vice presidential nomination,
Keisha Lance Bottoms, from en-
forcing her ordinance or speaking
to the media about her authority
to do so.
The complaint — filed in Fulton
County Superior Court, where a
hearing is scheduled for Tuesday
morning — marks the latest flash
point over face coverings, which
help block the airborne particles
and tiny droplets that spread the
deadly virus but are seen by some
conservatives and anti-govern-
ment activists as “medical tyran-
ny.” The legal contest also exposes
in newly stark terms the standoff
between Republican governors
and the Democratic mayors of the
biggest cities in their states, which
could be some of the hardest-
fought battlegrounds in the No-
vember election.
Kemp, dogged by claims of vot-
er suppression in the 2018 election
that he refereed as Georgia’s secre-
tary of state, has embraced his role
as an avatar for these conflicts,
which are flaring during the
health emergency. He has es-
chewed expert consensus, fre-
quently casting his response to the
pandemic in ideological terms
reminiscent of his incendiary
campaign ads.
“He is of the mind-set that peo-
ple don’t require government to
tell them what to do,” said Doc
Eldridge, who developed a rap-
port with Kemp in the 1990s when
Eldridge was a district commis-
sioner and then mayor of Athens-
Clarke County and Kemp was
working as a local developer, be-
fore he ran for a state Senate seat
in 2002.
Kemp, who reported a net
worth of $5.2 million in 2018, does
not believe, Eldridge said, “that
government is the answer to all of
our problems.”
He does, however, believe in
President Trump, whom he wel-
comed, unmasked, to Georgia last
week. With his move to void Atlan-
ta’s July 10 ordinance, which also
returns the city to Phase 1 of its
reopening, Kemp has turned his
state into ground zero for a hasty
return to normal hewing to
Trump’s vision for an abrupt eco-
nomic restart.
The governor’s litigious re-
sponse to Bottoms has baffled
public health experts and even
some business leaders in the state.
They say his heavy-handed ap-
proach with local leaders — even
as he encourages Georgians to
wear masks — limits the effective-
ness of one of the best tools for
keeping the virus at bay, which is
necessary for consumer confi-
dence. Major retailers, such as
Walmart, have acknowledged as
much in requiring customers to
wear face coverings.
“Every relevant scientific body
is saying that masks are essential,”
said K.M. Monirul Islam, an epide-
miologist who runs the public
health program at Augusta Uni-
versity.
Kemp has set himself apart
even from fellow Republicans.
More than half of all states have
statewide mask mandates, after
Alabama and Arkansas — both
conservative states led by conser-
vative Republican governors —
adopted them last week. Republi-
can governors and Trump acolytes
in Arizona and Florida have au-
thorized county and municipal
leaders to make their own rules
about face coverings.
Kemp, meanwhile, is unmoved,
vowing to stand in the way of
“disastrous policies” — as he la-
beled the orders in Atlanta — that
“threaten the lives and livelihood
of our citizens.”
That position upends local con-
trol, long a principle claimed by
conservatives. And the target
placed on Atlanta intensifies the
political overtones of the litiga-
tion, say mayors of other Georgia
cities, from Augusta to Athens to
Gov. Brian Kemp greets President Trump in Atlanta. Kemp is suing
the city’s mayor over an ordinance that requires face coverings.
Savannah, whose mask ordinanc-
es remain in effect.
“It’s hard to fully figure out
what is in somebody else’s mind,
but it’s no secret that the governor
is a strong ally of the president,
and it’s also no secret that Mayor
Bottoms is a strong ally of Vice
President Biden,” said Kelly Girtz,
the mayor of Athens, Kemp’s
hometown. “That suggests there
may be some political intent.”
Atlanta is in the governor’s
crosshairs because the mayor’s ac-
tions extend beyond requiring
masks and include a reversion to a
previous phase of reopening, said
Candice Broce, a spokeswoman
for the governor. But the com-
plaint, which also names mem-
bers of the city council as defen-
dants, lists as the mayor’s first
offense making masks mandatory.
Kemp’s allies maintain he fa-
vors masks — even completing a
“wear a mask” tour of the state —
while seeking to strike a balance
with economic interests that de-
pend on uniform rules across the
state. The lawsuit aims to prevent
“mixed messages that are being
sent out to businesses and restau-
rants,” said state Rep. Terry Rog-
ers, among the governor’s legisla-
tive floor leaders.
The Georgia Chamber of Com-
merce echoed that concern, back-
ing the governor’s move and, in a
statement, saying businesses
“should not be forced to enact an
ever-changing patchwork of regu-
lations.” Municipal chambers
have taken different views. David
Bradley, who heads the local busi-
ness association in Athens, said he
supports the city’s mask mandate.
“It would seem that science is
on the side of wearing masks, and
that long-term economic sustain-
ability is on the side of wearing
masks,” he said. The Metro Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce did not
respond to a request for comment.
The governor’s office has
evolved in its position on face
coverings — growing less strin-
gent as the pandemic has wors-
ened. An executive order in April
beginning the state’s reopening
required all restaurant employees
to wear face coverings “at all
times.” Kemp’s executive counsel,
David Dove, stressed that point in
an email to the state’s restaurant
association, part of correspon-
dence released through a public
records request.
“Face covering is a requirement
for all restaurants,” he wrote on
April 27, as daily new cases hov-
ered around 500. “Does not have
to be a specific type of mask but
has to be a face covering.”
A new executive order on June
11, as daily new cases neared 1,000,
eased that restriction, specifying
that restaurant employees “are
only required to wear face cover-
ings when they are interacting
with patrons.”
The governor’s latest move to
ease up on mask requirements, in
this case seeking to invalidate the
Atlanta ordinance, came as aver-
age daily cases soared above
3,000.
The rapidly increasing
caseload, however, is not reflected
in some of the health depart-
ment’s data visualizations, which
display cases per 100,000 resi-
dents across different regions of
the state. The color scheme has
not shifted even as the total num-
ber of cases has increased nearly
50 percent in the past two weeks. A
spokeswoman for the health de-
partment, Nancy Nydam, said the
maps are “not designed to show
increases over time, but rather to
show density by location and dif-
ferences between counties.”
Concern about how the state is
presenting data to the public is
long-standing. In May, the gover-
nor’s office apologized after a
graph was posted showing a
downward trajectory of cases —
but only because the x-axis was
not in chronological order.
Case counts and the health pre-
cautions they recommend are par-
ticularly vexed in Georgia because
of Kemp’s unorthodox approach
to managing the outbreak. He was
one of the last governors to shut
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down his economy, explaining
when he did act, in early April,
that he had only recently learned
that asymptomatic carriers can
spread the virus — a warning long
articulated by scientists and
broadly shared with the public.
Three weeks later, Kemp de-
clared he was reopening Georgia’s
economy, making him among the
first governors to do so. The deci-
sion came after Trump had urged
governors to roll back restrictions,
also calling on protesters to “liber-
ate” their states. But the speed
with which Kemp acted to reignite
commercial activity drew rebuke
even from the president.
“I told him, ‘I totally disagree,’ ”
Trump said.
Kemp, said University of Geor-
gia political scientist Trey Hood,
“was thrown under the bus.”
Whatever ill will may have re-
sulted, however, has not lasted.
When Trump — with no mask, in
violation of the city’s rules — visit-
ed Atlanta last week, a masked
Kemp was at the airport to wel-
come him.
His relationship with Bottoms,
by contrast, has been badly
strained. In addition to the mask
issue, the governor and the mayor
of the state’s largest city have tan-
gled over whether the National
Guard was needed to quell unrest
following the fatal shooting of a
black man, Rayshard Brooks, by a
white police officer.
The lawsuit caused tensions to
boil over.
“The governor has done many
things as of late and said many
things as of late that, quite frankly,
are simply bizarre,” Bottoms said
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Na-
tion.” “He filed a 124-plus-page
lawsuit against me this week call-
ing for an emergency injunction
to stop me from speaking about
his orders. If the governor of this
state had his way, I would not be
allowed to speak with you today.”
Bottoms — who has tested posi-
tive for the coronavirus, along
with her husband and one of their
sons — has said that the mask
ordinance could bring down in-
fection rates and save lives.
“Atlanta sits in two counties in
this state, two of the highest coun-
ties for infection rates from covid-
19. So this is not about politics.
This is about people,” she said.
Her argument has been bol-
stered by the Trump administra-
tion’s scientific advisers, who have
been calling on the public to wear
masks since early April, and
health experts at the Atlanta-
based Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. Last week, CDC
Director Robert Redfield cited
studies showing the beneficial im-
pact of masks in saying that wide-
spread use could “bring this epi-
demic under control” within one
or two months.
Georgia’s experience with the
virus has not been as bad as in
states such as Florida, Texas and
Arizona. But cases are rising fast.
In the past week, the state has
averaged more than 3,000 new
infections a day. A little over a
month ago, the average was fewer
than 1,000. More than 3,100 peo-
ple in Georgia have died of the
coronavirus.
The Harvard Public Health In-
stitute rates Georgia as among the
11 states where the coronavirus is
spreading so rapidly that gover-
nors should institute stay-at-
home orders.
Kemp, however, has shown no
interest in considering the idea.
His hard line could help solidify
his standing among Republicans,
observers said.
“It probably helps him with his
base. Atlanta is not a place where
Georgia Republicans are going to
get a lot of votes,” Hood said.
The effect on the state’s broader
political proclivities is less clear,
especially with Bottoms a possible
running mate for Joe Biden and
Kemp’s own by-a-whisker victory
serving as a reminder of just how
divided modern Georgia has be-
come.
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Fla. teachers union sues over school mandate
BY M ATT Z APOTOSKY
Florida’s largest teachers union
sued top state officials Monday
over an order mandating a return
of in-person schooling, drawing
the courts into an increasingly
politicized nationwide debate
over when and how kids can re-
turn to class amid the coronavirus
pandemic.
The suit from the Florida Edu-
cation Association asked a judge
to stop Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and
Education Commissioner Richard
Corcoran from requiring the re-
turn of in-person schooling with-
out first reducing class sizes and
ensuring that educators have ade-
quate protective supplies.
The move came as confirmed
cases of the novel coronavirus are
increasing in many states, includ-
ing Florida, raising fears in some
quarters that a return to brick-
and-mortar schools in the fall
could put students and teachers at
risk and exacerbate the spread of
the virus. Others argue that re-
opening schools is a critical step in
a return to normalcy.
The Florida teachers are asking
the court to strike down an emer-
gency order by Corcoran, saying it
violates a requirement in the state
constitution for safe and secure
schools.
On Monday, the United States
added more than 55,000 new cas-
es and more than 380 new deaths
— both below seven-day averages,
though Monday typically sees low-
er figures than other days. Seven
states and Puerto Rico reported
new highs for currently hospital-
ized covid-19 patients, with Flori-
da reporting close to 9,500 inpa-
tients.
At the same time, hospitaliza-
tions appear to be leveling off in
Texas and Arizona. The two states
combined still account for more
than 18,000 of the estimated
56,000 currently hospitalized
covid-19 patients.
Officials say some of the recent
increase in cases is probably at-
tributable to increased testing,
which was not widely available in
the early days of the pandemic.
But much also is probably caused
by the rollback of government-im-
posed restrictions on business
and social life, leading more peo-
ple to have contact with one an-
other and spread the virus.
The spikes have put pressure on
state and federal leaders to take
steps such as mandating the wear-
ing of masks or slowing plans to
reopen their economies.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot
(D) announced Monday that she
was tightening restrictions on
bars, gyms and personal service
businesses. President Trump said
he would resume leading regular
late-afternoon public briefings by
the White House coronavirus task
force, and he more vigorously en-
dorsed mask-wearing than he has
previously, tweeting a photo of
himself in a mask and suggesting
that doing so was patriotic.
The Senate, meanwhile, re-
turned to work for a three-week
session before its August break.
Oxford vaccine is shown to be safe, promising in early-stage human trials
BY W ILLIAM B OOTH
AND C AROLYN Y . J OHNSON
LONDON — A University of Oxford
group and the British-Swedish
pharmaceutical company Astra-
Zeneca reported Monday that
their coronavirus vaccine candi-
date, on which the U.S. and Euro-
pean governments have placed
substantial bets, was shown in
early-stage human trials to be safe
and to stimulate a strong immune
response.
The study, published in the Brit-
ish medical journal the Lancet
and involving 1,077 volunteers,
was described as promising. A sec-
ond report in the same publica-
tion on a Chinese vaccine showed
what researchers not involved in
the study described as modest
positive results.
The two vaccines are among 23
candidates now being tested in
human trials, according to a run-
ning tally kept by the World
Health Organization. More than
130 others are in preclinical stud-
ies. None have yet been proved to
protect people from infection or
illness. And scientists caution that
no one yet knows what level of
immune response will be a shield
against the virus in the real world
through a cross section of humani-
ty — young to old, healthy to those
with preexisting conditions.
But with hopes soaring that a
number of vaccines will soon
emerge to quiet the global pan-
demic, governments are making
massive investments and pharma-
ceutical companies are readying
production.
A restaurant worker clears a table in Miami Beach. Debate over how to reopen Florida’s schools has intensified as cases have surged.
Lawmakers are under pressure to
pass new coronavirus relief legis-
lation before the November elec-
tions.
What to do about schooling has
long been one of the thorniest
dilemmas posed by the coronavi-
rus — in part because the science
about how the disease spreads
among children, and from chil-
dren to adults, is not yet developed
enough to draw firm conclusions.
After Trump tweeted two weeks
ago that schools “must” open in
the fall, the issue has often been
consumed by partisan bickering.
“We have managed to take what
I think is one of the most impor-
tant nonpartisan issues in Ameri-
ca, which is getting our kids
taught this fall, and turned it into
a partisan battle,” said Ashish Jha,
director of the Harvard Global
Health Institute. “Here’s a crazy
idea: Let’s just do what’s good for
kids and parents.”
Public health experts agree that
children are generally less likely to
get infected than adults, and they
tend to develop milder symptoms.
But children are not immune, and
a small number have died.
“They get the disease, and they
do transmit,” said Michael T. Os-
terholm, director of the Center for
Infectious Disease Research and
Policy at the University of Minne-
sota. “The question is how much,
and does that enhance transmis-
sion in the community?”
The data on that is mixed.
One study, from Australia,
found that nine students and nine
adults who contracted the corona-
virus had close contact with more
than 730 other students and 128
China approved the use of its
vaccine within its military in late
June.
The U.S. government has
pledged up to $1.2 billion toward
the Oxford effort and secured a
promise of 300 million doses by
October. A European alliance has
claimed 400 million doses, while
the British government has dibs on
100 million doses, alongside anoth-
er possible candidate being devel-
oped by Imperial College London.
British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson was enthusiastic about
the early-stage Oxford results.
“This is very positive news. A
huge well done to our brilliant,
world-leading scientists & re-
searchers at @UniofOxford,”
Johnson tweeted Monday. “There
are no guarantees, we’re not there
yet & further trials will be neces-
sary — but this is an important
step in the right direction.”
The record-breaking pace of
vaccine developers has heartened
many who want to see the virus
tamed in the new year and life
return to normal.
But much about this novel
pathogen remains unknown. Last
week, British researchers report-
ed that people infected with the
virus may see defensive antibodies
against it fade within months,
raising the possibility that long-
term protection may be elusive —
and that treatments may offer
more promise than vaccines.
Still, vaccine researchers at Ox-
ford and elsewhere are optimistic
they can stimulate the production
of T cells that can stay in circula-
tion for years and serve as a per-
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staff members, but they could only
be possibly linked to two infec-
tions.
Another large study from South
Korea found that children under
10 years old appeared to transmit
the virus to others in their house-
hold far less often than adults did,
though those between 10 and 19
years old appeared to transmit as
much or more than adults.
“I’m going to await further data
before I can stand in judgment
whether we can assume that chil-
dren are considerably less infec-
tious than adults,” said Sten Ver-
mund, dean of the Yale School of
Public Health.
William V. Raszka Jr., a pediat-
ric infectious-disease specialist at
the University of Vermont Medical
Center, said some countries have
reopened their schools without
manent guard against infection.
“We hope this means the im-
mune system will remember the
virus, so that our vaccine will pro-
tect people for an extended peri-
od,” Andrew Pollard, lead author
of the Oxford study, said in a state-
ment. “However, we need more
research before we can confirm
the vaccine effectively protects
against SARS-CoV-2 infection,
and for how long any protection
lasts.”
Large-scale, real-world trials of
the Oxford vaccine — named
ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 — are under-
way in Britain, Brazil and South
Africa. The United States plans to
test it later this summer, along
with a handful of other candi-
dates, in clinical trials, each with
about 30,000 volunteers.
The Oxford vaccine was made
from a weakened and non-repli-
cating version of a common cold
virus, an adenovirus. It has been
engineered to express a bit of the
coronavirus that produces the
spike protein that the virus uses to
enter and infect human cells.
The early trials found no seri-
ous side effects.
Paul Offit, director of the Vac-
cine Education Center at Chil-
dren’s Hospital of Philadelphia,
said it is still unclear how protec-
tive the immune memory in T cells
will be against the coronavirus, in
part because immune memory is
typically more valuable against
pathogens that have a longer incu-
bation period than the coronavi-
rus.
His biggest concern about the
Oxford study was that while the
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new outbreaks, while others have
had problems. Of great impor-
tance, he said, is the level of spread
in the community outside the
school.
Places such as Vermont, which
have relatively few cases, might be
able to open up more easily than
places such as Arizona or Florida,
which are seeing cases spike,
Raszka said. He said high schools
and colleges might also have more
trouble than elementary schools,
as older children seem to be more
acutely affected.
“Is that risk zero? No. We can’t
develop a strategy that has zero
risk,” Raszka said. “But we can
develop strategies that minimize
that risk.”
Politicians and school leaders
have taken varying tacks on how
to address the crisis — with some
vaccine triggered the immune sys-
tem best when a second shot was
administered, that two-dose regi-
men was only tested in 10 patients.
“I’d want to see, in a Phase 2
trial, two doses consistently in-
ducing a neutralizing antibody re-
sponse, and that it’s relatively
long-lived — not months, not a few
weeks,” Offit said.
Infectious-disease experts cau-
tion that vaccines must be widely
administered to protect the gener-
al population, and in an era of
widespread skepticism and even
overt hostility toward research
and scientists, any vaccine that
underperforms or causes serious
side effects will set back the effort.
An editorial in the Lancet
warned, “The race for a vaccine
moves fast, as the need for a solu-
tion is evident, but we cannot for-
get that safety is of the highest
importance.”
In a reflection of how widely
anticipated even very early vac-
cine results have become during
the pandemic, results from the
Oxford trial were leaked to news
outlets in the days before publica-
tion, and the hype continued to
build over the weekend.
“To me, the message is it looks
like it warrants further study.
There’s no showstopper here,” said
Peter Hotez, dean of the National
School of Tropical Medicine at the
Baylor College of Medicine. “The
bottom line is there’s maybe some
promise, but definitely you cannot
declare victory by any means on
these two vaccines. There’s noth-
ing here that would cause me to
say we can now release this to the
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advocating partial or complete
distance learning while others
seek a return to in-person instruc-
tion. California Gov. Gavin News-
om (D), for example, issued rules
last week that mean most schools
will not reopen physical class-
rooms, while Texas reversed a pre-
vious order and allowed schools to
delay in-person instruction. Texas’
attorney general has told religious
schools that any local efforts to
restrict their reopening might vio-
late the constitution.
In an interview on “Fox News
Sunday,” Trump made clear that
he favors face-to-face instruction
and threatened to withhold feder-
al funding from districts that do
not offer that.
“I do say this — schools have to
open,” he told host Chris Wallace.
“Young people have to go to
school, and there’s problems when
you don’t go to school, too. And
there’s going to be a funding prob-
lem because we’re not going to
fund — when they don’t open their
schools.”
Vermund said it was “disingen-
uous of the president to demand
schools be reopened and then
threaten to cut funding,” as
schools with more resources
would probably have a better shot
of safely reopening.
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R)
on Friday told talk radio host Marc
Cox that kids “have to get back to
school,” though he conceded that
some were likely to contract the
virus.
“They’re at the lowest risk pos-
sible,” Parson said. “And if they do
get covid-19 — which they will,
and they will when they go to
public.”
The Chinese candidate was
tested in 500 people and shown to
be relatively safe, causing side ef-
fects such as pain at the injection
site, fevers and headaches, but
with some severe reactions. It in-
duced an immune response in
most participants. However, the
vaccine’s early performance has
been disappointing to some scien-
tists, and there have been worries
that there may already be a reason
it will not work on many people.
There is substantial immunity in
the human population to the tech-
nology at the core of the vaccine —
a harmless virus that is used to
ferry in a gene that triggers the
immune response to the coronavi-
rus.
The vaccine triggered the pro-
duction of neutralizing antibodies
that can block the virus in only
about half the test subjects —
59 percent of those given a high
dose and 47 percent given a lower
dose. Older people tended to re-
spond less favorably.
The ultimate proof of whether
any vaccine works will be large-
scale clinical trials that use a flip of
the coin to randomly decide
whether thousands of people re-
ceive the experimental vaccine or
a placebo shot — and then wait to
see whether the vaccinated group
is protected against infection or
severe disease.
The immune system uses a
multi-pronged approach to defeat
any pathogen, and it is not yet
known exactly what protects
against a coronavirus infection.
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school — they’re not going to the
hospitals. They’re not going to
have to sit in doctor’s offices.
They’re going to go home, and
they’re going to get over it.”
In Florida, the teachers union
said in the lawsuit the education
commissioner’s order that dis-
tricts must open brick-and-mor-
tar schools, subject to the advice of
state and local health depart-
ments, would “create an unsafe
and unsecure environment for
students, employees, and the com-
munity at large.”
“When students and employees
return to the school site, they will
be indoors with each other for
7 hours a day in derogation of CDC
guidelines and executive orders
issued across the state,” the law-
suit said. “They will be sharing
common areas including buses,
hallways, classrooms, clinics,
locker rooms, and bathrooms.
They will be touching door han-
dles and sharing equipment along
with potentially hundreds of oth-
er people. These millions of indi-
viduals will return to their fami-
lies and to the community to con-
tinue to accelerate the spread of
Covid-19.”
The suit alleged that some
teachers had rushed their retire-
ments over the state’s plan and
that others were “preparing wills
and living wills ahead of possible
in person learning that can expose
their health and lives to serious
threats.”
Corcoran, the Florida educa-
tion commissioner, shot back that
the union did not seem to have
read or understand his emergency
order, and that even before it, state
law required schools to operate
for 180 days a year, which amounts
to five days a week.
“This E.O. did not order any
new directives regarding the re-
quirements of schools to be open,
it simply created new innovative
options for families to have the
CHOICE to decide what works
best for the health and safety of
their student and family,” he said
in a statement.
Jha, director of the Harvard
Global Health Institute, said it
would probably be impossible for
a place like Florida — where one
model suggests 1 in 24 people is
infected — to return to in-person
schooling safely. Even if transmis-
sion from children to adults is low,
he said, it is not nothing, and
adults in the school could trans-
mit to one another.
But Jha said in other states,
where fewer people are infected,
schools could open with appropri-
ate precautions. And there is good
reason to do so, he said, as a lost
school year brings with it serious
consequences, particularly for
those with lesser means.
“It’s not just the fall,” Jha said.
“Things aren’t going to be better in
January. Things aren’t going to be
better in February. They might not
be better until April or May.”
matt.zapotosky@washpost.com
moriah Balingit, lateshia Beachum,
Jacqueline dupree and Hannah
Knowles contributed to this report.
cused on antibodies that block
and neutralize the virus. Experi-
mental vaccines from biotechnol-
ogy company Moderna and phar-
maceutical giant Pfizer have been
shown to trigger antibodies at
similar or greater levels than peo-
ple who are naturally recovering
from coronavirus infections, a
benchmark that many scientists
consider a hopeful sign.
But there are other forms of
immune memory, including T
cells, that are an area of increasing
interest as evidence accumulates
that antibody levels can drop off
quickly in people naturally recov-
ering from an infection. The Ox-
ford and Chinese studies, like
studies from Moderna and Pfizer,
measured some T-cell responses.
One type of T cell, helper T cells,
can be compared to “the football
coach, where the coach calls the
play,” said Angela Rasmussen, a
virologist at Columbia University.
“They’re coordinating the im-
mune response of all the other
cells in the immune system —
those are really important.” The
helper T cells can instruct the im-
mune system to produce virus-
fighting antibodies.
There are also “killer,” or cyto-
toxic, T cells, which are capable of
destroying infected cells.
“It is unclear the role that cyto-
toxic T cells play in amelioration of
covid-19 disease,” Offit said. “It is,
in a sense, a second line of de-
fense.”
william.booth@washpost.com
carolyn.johnson@washpost.com
Johnson reported from Boulder, Colo.
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THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
the next round of coronavirus briefings might be shorter and feature just the president — a departure
from previous events in which public health officials also appeared, administration officials said.
Briefings to make comeback
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devastation months before vot-
ers head to the polls.
“I think it’s a great way to get
information out to the public as
to where we are with the vac-
cines, with the therapeutics, and,
generally speaking, where we
are,” Trump told reporters mon-
day. “I’ll do it at 5 o’clock, like we
were doing. We had a good slot.
And a lot of people were watch-
ing.”
Trump’s focus on vaccines,
therapeutics and television rat-
ings offers an indication that the
briefings will continue to be a
platform for the president to put
a positive spin on the pandemic
even as it worsens. Trump’s
previous turn at the lectern
included several attempts to
tout unproven treatments for
the virus, ranging from hydroxy-
chloroquine to disinfectant and
light.
He regularly got into tiffs with
reporters who pointed out short-
comings in his administration’s
response — once storming out of
the rose Garden after being chal-
lenged by two journalists.
While some republicans criti-
cized the briefings in march and
April as unfocused and unhelp-
ful, others welcomed the news
monday that the president would
be publicly returning his atten-
tion to the pandemic that now
sits atop the list of issues most
pressing to voters. Trump’s ef-
forts to ignore and play down the
virus in recent weeks have irked
republican lawmakers and gov-
ernors — some of whom have
publicly criticized him for not
doing more to lead the country
during a crisis.
Even some of Trump’s aides
publicly called on him to begin
playing a more central role in the
national response to the virus,
which has infected more than
3.8 million Americans, killing
more than 138,000. Trump, who
called himself a “wartime presi-
dent” during a White House
briefing in march, tried to move
on rhetorically from the crisis by
declaring a “transition to great-
ness” in may and drastically re-
ducing his mentions of the virus
even as it spread at a record pace
in recent weeks.
After mentioning the virus
more than 812 times in march
and April, Trump did so only 278
times in may and June, according
to factba.se, a data analytics firm
that tracks the president’s com-
ments and tweets.
“I just think the people want to
hear from the president of the
United States,” White House
counselor Kellyanne Conway told
reporters on friday. She told fox
News earlier friday that some of
her White House colleagues did
not want Trump to return to the
briefing room — confirming pub-
licly the kind of internal dissen-
sion previous administrations
would have tried to keep out of
the public domain.
Vice President Pence has ad-
vocated for briefings to return
for several weeks, thinking they
were helpful to the administra-
tion and informative, according
to two administration officials,
who, like others, spoke on the
condition of anonymity to dis-
cuss internal deliberations.
Some administration officials
were opposed to the briefings,
and others, including communi-
cations director Alyssa farah
and press secretary Kayleigh
mcEnany, have called for brief-
ings to take place at the Depart-
ment of Health and Human
Services or elsewhere — with
health experts and a health-fo-
cused press corps, according to
people familiar with the discus-
sions.
Among the allies urging
Trump to do more about the
virus is Sen. Lindsey o. Graham
(r-S.C.), who golfed with the
president on Saturday and Sun-
day. Graham said Trump was
going to be “more involved” on
the virus, and he counseled him
to hold events in the Cabinet
room or roosevelt room with
business leaders, or others,
while taking a few questions at
the end.
“Arguing with a reporter for
30 minutes doesn’t help,”
Graham said, adding that the
original format was at times
counterproductive.
The president, Graham said,
wants to talk about a potential
vaccine and some improvements
in personal protective equip-
ment, along with what the coun-
try is doing about testing and his
animus toward China.
“I think you’re going to see him
very focused on the coronavirus,”
Graham said, adding that Trump
is very angry with China.
Several White House officials
said the administration had to
talk more about the virus because
Trump’s poll numbers have fallen
significantly in recent weeks.
There has been a net drop of
28 points in his approval margin
on the virus since march, accord-
ing to a recent Washington Post-
ABC News poll. Currently, 38 per-
cent approve of Trump’s han-
dling of the pandemic, and
60 percent disapprove. Trump
trails his Democratic rival Joe
Biden 55 percent to 40 percent
among registered voters in the
poll, the latest to show a double-
digit gap.
“We’ve watched this
exact scene from
Donald Trump’s
ongoing horror movie
before when he hijacked
the briefings and spread
dangerous
misinformation.”
Andrew Bates,
spokesman for presumptive
Democratic presidential nominee
Joe Biden
“Do you think what we’re do-
ing right now is working?” one
official said, when asked whether
the briefings would improve the
president’s standing.
officials are hoping to prep the
president for shorter briefings.
many of the briefings are likely
to feature just the president — a
departure from previous events
where public health officials also
appeared, administration offi-
cials said.
“The plan is for them to be the
president and to keep them short
and tight,” a senior administra-
tion official said, adding that
Trump could appear multiple
times per week.
After the president’s last set of
briefings, advisers pleaded with
him to stop or cut back, citing his
plummeting poll numbers.
Among those advisers: ronna
mcDaniel, Jared Kushner and
former campaign manager Brad
Parscale. After Trump’s final
briefing, in which he suggested
that disinfectant could be used
internally to kill the virus, he
relented.
But in recent days, some of his
political advisers have argued
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health experts who he’s now out-
right attacking,” Andrew Bates, a
spokesman for Biden, said in a
statement.
Trump’s campaign has tried to
draw a contrast between the
president’s front-and-center ap-
proach and Biden’s more low-key
campaign, which has attempted
to follow health guidelines by
avoiding unnecessary gather-
ings.
“Americans can see that Presi-
dent Trump has been out front
and leading the country through
the coronavirus crisis,” Trump
campaign spokesman Tim mur-
taugh said in a statement. “That’s
in marked contrast to Joe Biden,
who sits in his basement and lobs
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about nanssy that always made her
laugh. “Bobbit baba,” he most liked to call
her — “Daddy’s girl.”
All dressed, nash walked to the small
bedroom his sisters shared.
“Are you ready?” he asked.
“ready,” nadeen responded.
“Let’s go,” said her brother, who hoped
that this day would mark the end of the
hardest time in their lives and not the
start of something harder.
news that the novel coronavirus had
arrived in michigan first reached their
working-class suburb north of Detroit in
early march, but the siblings didn’t worry
about it because they seldom worried
about anything. That’s how their mom
and dad wanted it. The family had come
to the United states eight years earlier
after escaping Iraq, a country that had
grown increasingly dangerous for
Chaldean Catholics like them.
nash and nadeen still remembered
the sounds of bombs and bullets in Bagh-
dad. In their new home in sterling
Heights, their parents tried to give them
everything they could. nameer worked
long hours on the line at an auto parts
manufacturer to cover the lease on the
cardinal-red Camaro that his son badly
wanted, and nada never let her daugh-
ters cook or do laundry because, she said,
there would always be time to teach them
later, when they were ready to face life on
their own.
now, on a day when none of their three
children felt ready, they headed up a road
their father traveled each morning before
dawn on his way to the plant, toward the
mall where their mother bought nanssy
the Taylor swift calendar that hung on
her wall, past the restaurant where they
all celebrated nadeen’s high school grad-
uation last year.
At last, the stone arch over the en-
trance to White Chapel memorial Park
Cemetery came into view. The girls ar-
rived first, stepping out of a car into a
clear-sky morning, just shy of 70 degrees.
They walked onto the grass of a long,
narrow section of memorial plaques,
searching for no. 222 among the oval-
shaped metal markers pressed into the
ground.
“I’m not sure which one,” nanssy told
her sister.
“maybe that one over there,” nadeen
replied, looking toward a distant section
of unearthed dirt.
“Here it is,” nanssy said, pointing.
And there before them was not one
grave, but two.
‘Don’t touch me’
On the first day the pandemic closed
schools in michigan, nanssy was loung-
ing on the couch, scrolling through You-
Tube videos, when her dad walked in the
front door.
The seventh-grader got up and gave
him a hug.
“Why are you back so early?” she asked
in Arabic.
He was tired, nameer said. He felt sick.
At his wife’s urging, nameer got a
coronavirus test the next day, march 17,
and soon learned he was infected.
nada, 46, slept on the couch and or-
dered her children to stay in their rooms,
away from their father. But in a 1,300-
square-foot home, quarantine proved im-
possible. even after her own cough be-
gan, she kept cleaning and cooking, and
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THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
FROM TOP: Nash Ismael and sisters Nanssy, left, and Nadeen had to quickly learn how to handle adult
responsibilities after the loss of their parents. A photo of Nameer Ayram and Nada Naisan, who moved the
children from Iraq, which had grown increasingly dangerous for Chaldean Catholics like them. Nanssy lies
on the lap of Nadeen, who told her little sister that she would be taking care of her from now on.
each time nameer, 52, used the one
bathroom they all shared, his wife
donned a mask and gloves and scrubbed
every surface with bleach, hoping it
would be enough to keep her children
safe.
That was always what she and nameer
wanted most, and their kids understood
that for as far back as their memories
stretched.
nash was no older than 4 or 5 on the
day he broke free from his father’s hand
in Baghdad and darted onto the road.
With nadeen in his arms, nameer rushed
into the street, pushing nash out of the
way and tossing his daughter into the
grassy median, just as a car snapped his
leg.
Years later, nadeen and a cousin acci-
dentally scalded nanssy during a bath
when she was a baby. Her lips looked as
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though they’d melted, and her right ear
drooped down to her cheek.
“It was a horrible thing to see,” nadeen
recalled. “The doctors told my mom,
‘she’s dead.’ ”
nada refused to accept that and re-
mained at her daughter’s bedside for two
weeks in a dim, windowless hospital
room, praying that nanssy would survive.
And she did.
The kids seldom heard their parents
talk about love, or even say the word, but
they felt it. In Baghdad, where all five of
them shared a bedroom without air con-
ditioning, they would stay up late into the
night laughing, telling jokes and stories.
They knew, too, that their parents adored
each other. At their wedding in Iraq in
1998, the couple slow-danced to Whitney
Houston. Twenty years later and 6,200
miles away, at the celebration after nans-
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sy’s first Communion, they looked just
the same — nada’s hand in his, nameer’s
cheek against hers.
They never explained exactly what led
them to flee Iraq, but the kids surmised
that their dad’s work at a Catholic charity
might have made them targets. In 2012,
they moved to michigan’s large Chaldean
community, where they had no family,
knew no english and lost a common last
name because of a quirk in the immigra-
tion paperwork. nameer and nada
worked hard, helping their kids earn
citizenship and saving enough money by
2017 to make a small down payment on a
half-century-old beige-brick ranch house
in a peaceful neighborhood where people
kept their yards neatly trimmed.
It was the “better future” nada and
nameer had so long talked about with
their children, whom they never pres-
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sured to move out or choose careers or,
really, grow up at all.
nadeen, demure and artistic, didn’t
make many friends, but with nada there,
she never felt the need. Her mother was “a
sister, a mother, a friend, a best friend —
like, everything,” said nadeen, who wore
her dark hair long and curly because
that’s how nada liked it. nadeen relied on
her guidance every day, even choosing to
major in physical therapy at a community
college because her mom thought it
would suit her.
nanssy was the most independent of
the three, wearing her dark hair short
and straight, because that’s how she liked
it. she was petite, like her siblings, but
headstrong. she hated crying and resist-
ed breaking down in front of anyone.
nanssy wanted to join the Army one day,
in part because she liked the idea of
proving that women are as strong as men.
nash had worked since high school at a
local restaurant but did the job more for
the camaraderie than the money. He liked
fast cars and had collected so many
speeding tickets that, for a time, his
license was suspended. With his parents’
encouragement, he’d planned to spend
the summer traveling through europe,
visiting relatives, reveling in his unbur-
dened youth.
But now their father was secluded in a
bedroom and their mother was sprawled
on a couch, demanding that none of her
children come near her.
About 4 a.m. on march 22, she opened
the door to nash’s bedroom and told him
to call 911. she couldn’t breathe. Her son,
delirious with a fever of his own, dialed
from his bed.
nanssy woke up when the ambulance’s
red and blue lights flashed through her
bedroom window. By then, she’d also
developed symptoms, so nadeen had
moved into the basement. nanssy hur-
ried downstairs to wake her.
nadeen and her mother came to the
door, where the paramedics explained
that they couldn’t risk helping her out-
side. she would have to come on her own.
“Do you want me to walk you there?”
nadeen asked.
“no,” her mother said. “Don’t touch me.”
she staggered down the driveway and
drooped onto the stretcher. nadeen,
wearing only her pajamas in the freezing
night air, watched them load her mother
into the ambulance, close the door and
disappear into the darkness.
A day later, nadeen was standing there
again, having just called 911 for her dad,
whose cough had become more violent.
In her panic, she forgot the word “ambu-
lance,” briefly lapsing into Arabic. By
then, nameer had already talked to his
wife, and they’d decided he should go,
both because he needed help and because
they wanted to protect their children.
When the ambulance arrived, this time
in the light of day, a paramedic got out
and peered at the house.
“I’ve been to this address before,” he
said.
“Yeah,” nadeen replied. “You took my
mom.”
‘You’re lying!’
nash awoke to the text from his mother
36 hours after she was driven to the
hospital.
“How are you?” she asked in Arabic
that monday. It was the fourth time she’d
messaged to check on him.
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He had been sleeping, he replied, but
felt better. She told him to wear gloves
around the house, for his sisters.
Nash had already asked whether he
should come see her.
“Don’t ever come here,” she wrote.
“Never.”
from Nameer’s room at Ascension ma-
comb-oakland Hospital, four miles from
their house, he reassured his children that
everything would be fine. Nada, in anoth-
er bed inside the same hospital, sounded
nervous to Nash, but she masked any hint
of fear from her daughters when they
talked.
on the second night, when Nanssy
called her mother to faceTime, Nada said
she should be home by the end of the
week. on the third, she said it might take a
few days longer than expected. on the
fourth, her mom didn’t answer.
Nash learned from a cousin in france
who’d been in touch with hospital staff
that Nada and Nameer weren’t getting
better. They’d each been placed on ma-
chines to help them breathe, Nash was
told march 26. Neither of his parents were
awake anymore.
That night, while Nash was praying at
church, he got a call from Zeana Attisha,
his boss at Sahara restaurant. She offered
to help, but Nash didn’t even know what to
ask of her. He had no idea how to reach his
parents’ doctors, but if he did, what would
he say to them? Nash couldn’t bear to tell
his sisters why his parents had stopped
responding to them, and now, suddenly,
Nadeen had come down with a raging
fever and severe nausea. He felt lost.
“Lean on me. Don’t worry,” texted Zea-
na, who started joining in calls to the
hospital and told him what to try for
Nadeen: Tylenol, Gatorade, soup, cold
rags.
Zeana, 51, is also Chaldean, the daugh-
ter of immigrants who came to the United
States in 1967. She understood that in
their culture, parents often didn’t want
their children to leave home, or take on
the stresses of adulthood before marriage,
no matter their age. Zeana knew how
much help Nash would need.
“I appreciate u so much I really don’t
have no one here other my parents,” he
wrote her on march 27. The next day, a
doctor called him to warn that his dad
could be dead in 12 hours, prompting
Zeana to demand that Nameer be trans-
ferred to another hospital better equipped
to treat him. And he was.
“I’m tired from everything honestly,”
Nash wrote to her on march 30, just before
heading to CVS, where he had to ask a staff
member what a thermometer was and
where he could find one.
“They just called for my dad they said
he’s doing really bad today morning till
now and his heart might stop there is a
chance and they can’t do nothing about it
and they said they are doing their best. To
keep him alive,” he texted on April 11, the
same day Zeana started a Gofundme
campaign because she couldn’t imagine
how Nameer’s children would make it
without him.
“The hospital for my mom called the
nurse talked she’s like half of the brain
isn’t working and her lungs are getting
bad,” Nash wrote on April 15, while he was
waiting for a coronavirus test with Na-
deen, who still didn’t know the truth. The
teen had started cleaning the house, just
the way mom did, so that when Nada
returned, she would feel proud that her
daughter could take care of their home on
her own.
“They putting a tube in her lungs. They
asked for permission. I said do what u got
to do,” he texted Zeana on April 20.
one day later, at 4:46 a.m., Nash shared
what he’d just learned: “She passed away.”
Zeana was asleep and couldn’t help
guide him through what to do next, as she
had after all the other devastating news —
about septic shock and kidney dialysis,
withering livers and dying lungs.
That morning, he was on his own.
He woke Nadeen up, and she followed
him to their kitchen, where a note with a
phone number and a message in Arabic,
written by their mother, was still pinned
to the fridge: “Emergency for corona.”
Nash looked into his sister’s eyes.
“mom died,” he said.
“You’re lying!” Nadeen cried.
“She’s dead,” he told her again.
Weeping, she slumped onto one couch,
and he onto another.
“Are we going to tell Nanssy?” she asked
him later that morning.
How could they? She would be crushed,
Nash argued. They should wait.
When Nanssy woke up, she could tell
something was wrong. Just a bad dream,
Nadeen said, but her sister didn’t believe
that. It was about mom and Dad, right?
Their father was still in the hospital,
Nadeen assured, but she wouldn’t say
where their mother was.
“What about mom?” Nanssy asked,
again and again, until Nadeen couldn’t
hold it in.
“mom is dead,” she said, and the sisters
wept together.
At Nada’s funeral, the mourners
weren’t allowed to gather inside the
church, so they passed through the park-
ing lot in their cars, rolling down windows
to hold up signs — “STAY STroNG” — and
shout that they were sorry for the family’s
loss. outside, beneath a spitting gray sky,
the Ismael children watched from behind
their masks.
By then, Nash had told his sisters the
truth about their father, and Nadeen de-
cided she had to see him. At the hospital,
she put on gloves, a mask and a face shield
and walked into the room of an emaciated
man she didn’t recognize. He had a tube
down his throat and dried blood on his
nose and an unfamiliar beard.
She held his hand, turning away each
time she felt her eyes well.
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FROM TOP: Nanssy has been sleeping in her parents’ bed, where she used to curl up next to her dad.
Nanssy helps Nadeen fill out forms ahead of their appointment with a physician. Friend Ranna Abro, 32,
helps Nadeen mow the lawn. The Ismael children were never pressured to grow up. But with the death of
their parents, they have struggled with how to pay bills, keep a car running and maintain a household.
“mom’s at home waiting for you,” Na-
deen told him, hoping the lie would make
a difference.
Later, a nurse helped the girls call him
over faceTime, but Nanssy pushed the
camera out of view. She couldn’t stand to
see her father look like that.
on mother’s Day, a week after Nadeen’s
visit, Nash learned that his father’s heart
was failing and that the doctors had given
him a fourth dose of a medication intend-
ed to keep his blood pressure up. It wasn’t
working. Nash didn’t tell his sisters.
Nadeen cleaned the house again that
day, doing whatever she could to keep
busy and off Snapchat, where friends and
cousins were posting photos of their own
mothers. Nanssy conjured her favorite
memories of her mom: how she smelled
like roses and gave the best, squishiest
hugs and would always fall asleep on the
couch when her baby girl played with her
hair.
Nash went to church, to make one more
plea.
“Please not today,” he prayed.
His dad fought through the afternoon
and evening, past midnight and into the
next morning, holding on until just after
1 p.m. on may 11. Twenty days after their
mother’s death, their father was gone, too.
With Zeana’s help, Nash made a list of
10 people who could come inside the
church. He sorted through photos of his
parents for a cousin in Iraq who wanted to
make a poster celebrating their lives. He
opened their closet door and picked the
clothes that his father would be buried in:
the black shoes and matching socks, the
gray suit, the tie with the red dots, the
favorite pink shirt.
‘Who’s going to take care of me?’
Something was on fire. Nash couldn’t
see the smoke, but he could smell it,
seeping through the vents of his dad’s old
2012 Dodge Journey. He pulled over.
“What am I supposed to do now?” he
asked a friend who was with him that
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afternoon in June. A mechanic later dis- Like Nash, Nadeen struggled at first,
covered what was wrong: the engine had burning a pot of red rice she tried to cook
run out of oil. and bleaching her brother’s clothes in the
for days, he and his sisters had lived off wash. She wanted to help, though, and
delivery orders through their mom’s intended to get her driver’s license and
DoorDash account, though they had no keep pursuing her college degree. She’d
idea where the money came from to pay heard physical therapists made good
for it. None of them had bank accounts or money, and that was important because,
credit cards, and Nash didn’t want to along with Nash, she’d agreed to serve as
spend the $300 in cash he’d found in a her sister’s guardian.
drawer behind his parents’ bed. Through Zeana, the girls met ranna
Zeana opened a tab at Sahara to keep Abro, who offered to spend time with
them fed, but she also worried about their them. She was young, at 32, and also
bills. Nash retrieved his mother’s phone Chaldean. They got along right away,
from the hospital after her intubation, watching anime and talking about boys.
and Zeana told him to search it for a After ranna found a message from the city
banking app. When he discovered that the on the door, warning of a fine if the
mortgage appeared to be past due, he knee-high grass wasn’t cut, the three of
tried to pay it. A moment later, he found them went to the garage and pulled out
his parents’ checking account, drained of Nameer’s mower. Nadeen knew how to
all but $900. The mortgage payment turn it on, and when she did, each of them
bounced. took turns cutting patches.
Nash tried to learn as much as he could Before they finished, Nanssy paused.
as fast as he could, but he often felt She thought about what they were doing
overwhelmed, especially on the morning and what it meant.
nine days after his dad’s death when he “So who’s going to take care of me
discovered a $188,629 hospital bill that he now?” she asked.
was terrified they might have to pay. His “It’s going to be me,” Nadeen told her.
family’s medicaid, Zeana told him, would Nanssy seldom talked about how she
cover it. felt, but Nash and Nadeen knew she was
The Gofundme raised more than suffering, too. Nanssy started sleeping
$200,000, and she found lawyers who more in her parents’ bed, where she used
volunteered to sort out Nameer and to curl up next to her dad. She treasured
Nada’s finances and life insurance. Nash their bird, Coocoo, who lived in a cage on
deeply appreciated the generosity but top of the fridge, but she pleaded with
knew they couldn’t rely on it forever. He Nash to get a puppy. She missed spending
wanted his family to count on him. time as a family — vacationing at Niagara
He opened his first bank account, then falls, watching movies with Arabic subti-
applied for unemployment and tried to tles on for their parents. She and Nash and
figure out whether Nadeen might be eligi- Nadeen didn’t do that anymore. With a
ble, too. He decided to use the donations puppy, Nanssy thought, they would all
to pay off the house, ensuring that he and have fun again, because what brought
his siblings would always have a place to them together now was almost never fun.
live. After he returned his leased red one day last month, just past noon,
Camaro, because the insurance was in his Nash called his sisters into the kitchen to
dad’s name, Zeana promised to help him help him clean up chicken wings left out
get a new one. No, Nash told her. It would from the night before. on the counter
only get him into more trouble, and he nearby was a handwritten letter from his
couldn’t risk that anymore. mom’s hospital — “Please accept our sin-
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cerest condolences...” — and a sheet titled
“resources for Grief.” None of them had
called any of the numbers.
“I can’t pick up the garbage. It’s too
heavy,” Nanssy complained.
When Nash came over to do it, he
noticed the mess of birdseed Coocoo had
shed on the floor.
“This bird’s going away,” Nash snapped.
“Why?” Nanssy objected.
Tired and frustrated, Nash tied up the
trash bag and took it out the back door,
triggering a beep from the security system
he’d installed to keep his sisters safe when
he wasn’t home.
Nadeen kept sweeping the floors. Nans-
sy watched YouTube videos on her phone.
Nash went to the living room.
Nadeen’s phone buzzed, and she picked
up. from the couch, Nash looked over.
“No,” Nadeen told the caller, who
thanked her and hung up.
“What was it?” he asked.
Something about unemployment, Na-
deen said. She didn’t understand.
“oh, my God,” Nash said, voice raised,
because he knew it took weeks to get a call
back from the unemployment office. Any
chance Nadeen had to get help, he as-
sumed, had just vanished.
“Do you know what you lost right now?”
he asked.
She didn’t have any idea, and, really, he
couldn’t know either. But that wasn’t the
point. To Nash, it felt like one more failure.
His head fell into his hands. minutes
passed. No one spoke.
Nash, trying to calm down, sat up and
took a drag on the vape pen he’d been
struggling to quit. Nadeen went to the
front room to arrange the couch pillows.
At last, Nanssy said something.
“Nash, you’re not getting rid of this
bird,” she told him.
“What, he’s going to get rid of Coocoo?”
Nadeen asked.
“mom loved it,” Nanssy said. “And he
can’t get rid of something mom loved.”
‘I’m not crying’
The sisters, dressed in black, had just
searched the grass and found the metal
marker, numbered 222, in front of their
parents’ graves. They’d come to the ceme-
tery that sunny June morning to com-
memorate the day when, according to
Chaldean tradition, their father’s soul
would ascend to heaven.
A month earlier, at his funeral, Nadeen
had stood in this same spot, listening to a
priest ask God for mercy as she reckoned
with what the virus had taken from them.
The reality of it all was overwhelming. Her
knees wobbled, and her face turned pale.
She saw double. Then Nadeen collapsed.
Now, as she unwrapped bouquets of
poppies and daisies and dug their stems
into the dirt, it was her sister who couldn’t
stand to be there. Nanssy retreated back to
the car, alone.
Before a half-dozen mourners joined
Nash and Nadeen around the graves, she
checked on Nanssy.
“If there’s anything wrong, you can tell
me,” Nadeen said.
“I don’t know. I just don’t feel well,” the
13-year-old replied.
When the ceremony began, Nanssy got
back inside the car because she wanted to
talk to God by herself. She asked that her
mom and dad would have a good life in
heaven and that the other kids whose
parents were sick from covid-19 — thou-
sands of them across the country — would
be okay. She asked that Nash and Nadeen
would live a long time.
“So they can stay with me,” she prayed.
After a while, Nash walked over to talk
to her. She asked if they could come back
later, just the two of them.
of course, he told her.
Afterward, at the house, Nadeen went
to the kitchen to help prepare the dolma,
vegetables stuffed with ground lamb and
beef. She had never learned her mother’s
recipe, Nanssy’s favorite, but Nadeen was
doing her best to replicate it.
Nash changed out of his black button-
down and escaped to the covered deck. A
gold chain with a cross, now affixed with
his mother’s wedding ring, hung from his
neck. As he took a drag on his vape pen, a
friend came around the back to tell him
Nanssy had left.
“Why?” he asked.
“I don’t know,” the woman told him.
“She’s crying.”
Nash rushed to the end of the driveway,
where he could see his sister walking up
the street, a block away. He called her cell.
“What do you want?” she asked, voice
quavering.
“Why are you crying?”
“I’m not crying,” she insisted, even
though she was.
“Come back, right now,” he told her.
Nanssy returned, running past him and
into the house. He didn’t know what was
wrong and doubted that he could fix it
anyway. If he gave her time, he figured,
she’d get over it.
What Nanssy wouldn’t say is that she’d
been listening to music on her iPhone
when an old favorite, “I Loved Her first,”
began to play. The country song was about
a father’s devotion to his daughter. Nanssy
had once imagined it playing at her wed-
ding, as she danced with her dad.
Inside, Nadeen followed her sister to
their room. She found Nanssy on the bed,
beside her stuffed animals. Her arms were
crossed, her head bowed.
“What’s going on?” Nadeen asked, lean-
ing down.
“Nothing,” she said.
“Are you crying about mom and Dad?”
she asked in Arabic, explaining that it was
okay if she was. Nadeen would under-
stand.
“I’m not going to tell you,” she said,
because Nanssy knew what her brother
and sister were trying so hard to do for her,
but the people she wanted to tell were
gone.
john.cox@washpost.com
A14 ez Re the washington post . tuesday, july 21 , 2020

The World
Unlike U.S., more countries are mandating masks
Many nations where face coverings were in wide, early use have fared better during the coronavirus pandemic than those that resisted broad adoption
BY S IOBHÁN O ’ G RADY found that widespread mask use

A
s countries around the
world reopen their econ-
omies amid ongoing nov-
el coronavirus outbreaks,
governments are increasingly
embracing what remains in some
places a divisive public health
measure: mandatory masks.
In France, face coverings will
be required in all public enclosed
spaces as of Monday. England is
set to begin enforcing new rules
that make masks mandatory in-
side supermarkets and other
shops, effective Friday.
A country’s caseload and mor-
tality rate are the product of
diverse epidemiological factors,
but health researchers say more
evidence is emerging to support
what some policymakers and ex-
perts have maintained all along:
Masks work. Although it is diffi-
cult to isolate mask use as the key
factor in a country’s success, or
draw a direct line between mask
mandates and outcomes, many
countries where masks were in
wide, early use have fared better
than those that resisted the broad
adoption of face coverings.
“It is striking just on the face of
it that essentially every country
that has used masks has done
better than every country that
hasn’t,” said Richard Stutt, a post-
doctoral research associate at the
University of Cambridge. Stutt
was the lead author on a recent
peer-reviewed study, which con-
cluded that universal use of face
masks in public could significant-
ly reduce the spread of the virus
and, if paired with lockdowns,
prevent waves of infection.
In the United States, where
coronavirus cases are surging in
many states, messaging about the
effectiveness and necessity of
masks has been inconsistent.
Early on, government officials
instructed Americans to stop
buying masks and said they
would not be effective in prevent-
ing infection. Even now, after
leading health authorities came
around to masks as a key measure
to fight the virus, the country has
resisted a national mask man-
date. On Friday, President Trump
doubled down on his insistence
that there would be no national
requirement.
But at the state level, a growing
number of mask requirements
have come into force. Last week,
Robert Redfield, the director of
the U.S. Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention, said that the
country’s outbreak could be con-
trolled within four to eight weeks
if everyone wore masks.
Other countries came to this
conclusion much earlier in the
pandemic.
Slovakia and Vietnam, for ex-
ample — two countries where
transmission has remained low
— made face masks compulsory
in many public spaces several
months ago. In other places, like
Hong Kong, masks were under-
stood to be an effective means to
stop the spread of disease before
the coronavirus emerged. Many
businesses mandated them early
on, and many people wore them
in public even in the absence of
an official rule. In Japan, where
the government initially faced
criticism for not doing enough to
prevent a massive outbreak, peo-
ple quickly adopted to everyday
mask use, made easier in part
because face coverings were al-
ready in common use.
has helped communities slow
their infection rates.
More and more world leaders
seem to be hearing that message.
When England announced its
mask policy this month, Prime
Minister Boris Johnson — who
was hospitalized while sick with
the coronavirus earlier this year
— called face coverings “extra
insurance” against the virus.
French President Emmanuel Ma-
“Masks are a very
low-cost and high-
available thing that
everyone can do.”
Richard stutt, postdoctoral
research associate at
the University of Cambridge
cron said that as France faces new
cases of the virus, he is asking
“fellow citizens to wear masks as
much as possible when they are
outside, and especially so when
they are in an enclosed space.”
Although Macron’s govern-
ment did not initially take a firm
stance on mask use, face cover-
ings were mandated on public
transit starting in May, and Ma-
pHILIppe Lopez/aGenCe FRanCe-pReSSe/GeTTy IMaGeS cron regularly appears wearing
A man walks past a bike in Bordeaux, France, on Saturday. As of Monday, face coverings were required in all public enclosed spaces one in public. Johnson was only
in that country. French President Emmanuel Macron regularly wears a mask when appearing in public. seen wearing a mask in public for
the first time earlier this month.
In the United States, masks
have been the subject of political
As the coronavirus spread, faced steep fines. The restrictions were Masks were required on public transport in discord over the course of the
loosened in late May. May. Masks started being mandated in all pandemic, but health officials
countries turned to mask have for months urged people to
enclosed public spaces on Monday.
measures Austria wear them in public spaces where
Here is when a selection of countries Confirmed cases per 100,000 people as of
Pakistan they can’t keep distance from
implemented mask rules in response to the others. Still, Trump only ap-
July 19: 221 Confirmed cases per 100,000 people as of peared in public wearing one for
pandemic: July 19: 121.7
Date of nationwide mask mandate: March 30 the first time on July 11.
China Masks were first required in supermarkets Date of nationwide mask mandate: May 31 Trump may have decided that
and later in other shops and on public Masks were required in public spaces such as wearing a mask could “signal to
Confirmed coronavirus cases per 100,000 transportation. Restrictions were loosened in shops, markets and mosques starting in late people that the nation is not
people, as of July 19*: 6.1 mid-June. May. Huge upticks occurred during the holy ready for reopening yet,” said
Date of nationwide mask mandate: None month of Ramadan, when people gathered in Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow
United Arab emirates for global health at the Council on
Mask use is widespread in China, even large groups.
Foreign Relations. But countries
without a nationwide requirement. The Confirmed cases per 100,000 people as of with high mask use and low case
country’s largest outbreak occurred in the city July 19: 582
england numbers have a better chance to
of Wuhan, the initial epicenter of the Confirmed cases per 100,000 people as of restart their economies, he add-
Date of nationwide mask mandate: April 4
pandemic. Local rules and strict lockdowns July 19: 453 ed.
were also put in place. *Case numbers The country implemented fines of around
Date of nationwide mask mandate: June 15 Mask measures come with new
include Hong Kong and Macao. $800 for noncompliance as well as other challenges, including enforce-
strict social distancing measures. Masks were mandated on public ment. Countries vary drastically
Vietnam transportation starting in June and will be in their approaches.
Germany required in supermarkets and shops starting In England, those caught vio-
Confirmed cases per 100,000 people as of Friday.
Confirmed cases per 100,000 people as of lating the new mask rule will be
July 19: Less than 1
July 19: 243 fined around $125. Although
Date of nationwide mask mandate: March 16 United states masks were already mandatory
Date of national mask mandate*: April 27
The country was quick to shut its borders, Confirmed cases per 100,000 people as of on public transit in England and
implement lockdowns and pursue other *The rules were implemented by German around 18,000 people have been
July 19: 1,146.5
aggressive tactics. It has marked very few states, not federally. By april 27, masks were issued warnings as of last week,
compulsory in many public spaces in all Date of nationwide mask mandate: None police have fined only a handful
cases despite sharing a border with China.
states, although restrictions and fines varied. Rules vary. More than half of U.S. states have of people for flouting the rules. In
Czech Republic implemented mask requirements, many of France, fines of around $150 were
France them recently. already in place for people who
Confirmed cases per 100,000 people as of do not wear masks on public
Confirmed cases per 100,000 people as of Case and population numbers source: Johns
July 19: 130 transportation.
July 19: 316 Hopkins University, U.K. government statistics
Date of nationwide mask mandate: March 18 and the World Bank In Qatar and Kuwait, officials
Date of nationwide mask mandate: May 11 announced measures in recent
Those who failed to comply with the rule
months that could put people
caught violating mandatory
mask protocol behind bars. Ku-
When looking at a country’s guidelines often coincided with masks every day.” norms and government policies waiti authorities have described
confirmed case numbers, it is mask rules. But even so, Stutt Christopher Leffler, an associ- supporting the wearing of masks the maximum sentence as three
complicated to control for man- said, evidence suggests that ate professor and ophthalmolo- by the public, as well as interna- months with fines as high as
datory mask use against other masks can play a major part in gist at Virginia Commonwealth tional travel controls, are inde- $16,200. Qatar’s approach is even
factors, Stutt cautioned. Some slowing the spread of infections. University’s Medical Center, led a pendently associated with lower more extreme: Prison sentences
countries, like the United States, “Masks are a very low-cost and recent study analyzing the associ- per-capita mortality.” could be as long as three years
took a patchwork, piecemeal ap- high-available thing that every- ation between mask use and per Even taking into account other and fines could reach $55,000,
proach with requirements imple- one can do,” Stutt said. “We’re capita mortality in nearly 200 variables, Leffler said “the data Reuters reported.
mented regionally. Others sug- gathering all this new informa- countries from the start of pan- are pretty clear that masks were siobhan.o’grady@washpost.com
gested the use of masks but did tion and evidence about how demic until May 9. The results, associated with a much lower
not require them. Lockdowns effective masks are and it is add- which are still undergoing peer mortality.” Ruby Mellen contributed to this
and other social distancing ing up more and more in favor of review, indicate that “societal Several other studies have also report.

Di Gest

ZiMBABWe
Journalist, politician
held ahead of protests
Zimbabwe police on Monday
detained a prominent journalist
and an opposition leader ahead of
anti-government demonstrations
planned for the end of this month,
their attorneys said.
The journalist, Hopewell
Chin’ono, has a huge following on
Twitter, where he regularly posts
about alleged government
corruption. He has also been
using his account to encourage
Zimbabweans to speak out and
act against corruption.
The arrest of Chin’ono, a
Harvard University Nieman
Fellow, drew sharp criticism in
Zimbabwe and abroad.
“Political intimidation of
the press has no place in
democracies,” tweeted the U.S.
Embassy in Harare, which in the
past has been accused by
Zimbabwe’s ruling party of
“sponsoring” Chin’ono. The
Dutch Embassy described his
arrest as “part of a worrying
trend against free speech in
#Zimbabwe.”
The organizer of the July 31
protest, opposition politician
Jacob Ngarivhume, also is in
custody, said Zimbabwe Lawyers
for Human Rights, which is
providing lawyers for him.
A police spokesman said
Chin’ono and Ngarivhume have
been charged with “incitement to
participate in public violence”
and would appear in court “soon.”
Journalists, lawyers, doctors
and nurses are among hundreds
of people arrested in recent
months in Zimbabwe for
protesting, striking for better pay
or, in some cases, simply doing
their work as tensions rise in the
southern African country.
A deteriorating economy and
reports of widespread corruption
linked to government contracts
for the purchase of covid-19
personal protective gear and
drugs amid poor service delivery
have further stoked public anger.
— Associated Press
sYRiA
Israeli air raids injured
7 troops, military says
The Syrian military said the
country’s air defenses responded
Monday to Israeli air raids in
south Damascus that wounded
seven soldiers and caused
material damage, and residents
said loud explosions rocked the
capital.
It was not clear what the
targets were. The air raids
continued for more than 15
minutes. Residents reported
hearing at least four explosions
in the capital.
A military official quoted in
Syrian state media said the
attack was carried out by Israeli
jets that took off from the Golan
Heights, which Israel seized
from Syria in the 1967 war. The
unnamed official said air
defenses responded and downed
most of the missiles.
The Britain-based Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights,
which monitors the country’s
civil war, said the suspected
Israeli strikes targeted
government and Iranian militia
posts.
Israel rarely comments on
such reports but is thought to
have carried out scores of raids
targeting Iran’s military
presence in Syria. In the past two
months alone, Syria has accused
Israel of carrying out at least
eight air raids on its territory.
Iran is a key ally of the Syrian
government in its nearly decade-
long civil war. Israel views Iran
as a regional menace and has
vowed to prevent any permanent
Iranian military buildup in
Syria, particularly near the
frontier.
In recent months, Israeli
officials have also expressed
concern that Hezbollah, an Iran-
backed Lebanese militant group
that operates in Syria, is trying to
establish facilities to produce
precision-guided missiles.
Tensions also have risen along
the Israel-Lebanon border.
— Associated Press
Homicides on the rise in
Mexico: The number of
homicides in Mexico has risen
during the coronavirus pandemic,
including a 9.2 percent spike in
killings of women, official figures
show. The data for the first half of
2020 showed that homicides
increased 1.9 percent to 17,982,
compared with 17,653 in the same
period of 2019. Activists have long
worried that the increased
confinement of families to their
homes amid the pandemic would
escalate the risk of domestic
violence. The killings of women
increased from 448 in the first
half of 2019 to 489 in the same
period of 2020.
Ebola cases up to 60 in Congo,
WHO says: Ebola cases in
western Congo have risen to 60,
with funerals a particular
concern for disease spread, the
World Health Organization said.
WHO emergencies expert Mike
Ryan said three cases were
detected over the weekend,
making a total of 56 confirmed
and four probable infections in
an outbreak announced last
month in Congo’s Équateur
province. “The disease is active,
not controlled,” Ryan said, noting
burial practices as a major worry.
Suicide bomber kills 8 Afghan
soldiers: A suicide truck bomber
struck an army convoy in eastern
Afghanistan, killing at least eight
soldiers, the Defense Ministry
said. Nine troops were wounded
in the attack in Wardak province.
No one asserted responsibility
for the attack, but the Taliban
and a local Islamic State affiliate
routinely target Afghan security
forces.
— From news services
tuesday, july 21 , 2020 . the washington post
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish
mayors in jeopardy
BY K AREEM F AHIM
To serve as a mayor from Tur-
key’s pro-Kurdish political party
these days is to fear arrest at any
moment and govern in circum-
stances that hover between stifling
and absurd, said Ayhan Bilgen,
one of the few who has kept his
office during an unrelenting gov-
ernment purge.
His party’s mayoral candidates
captured 65 Turkish municipali-
ties when local elections were held
in March 2019. During a subse-
quent crackdown by the govern-
ment of President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, the authorities have ef-
fectively taken over all but 10 of the
municipalities, while detaining at
least 20 mayors.
Turkey’s clampdown on opposi-
tion parties, civil society groups
and dissidents intensified after a
failed coup in 2016. But the remov-
al of so many elected mayors —
representing the will of millions of
voters — has been a singularly
stark illustration of the dangers
facing the country’s democracy,
according to human rights groups,
analysts and members of the Peo-
ple’s Democratic Party, or HDP,
which promotes Kurdish rights to
cultural expression and greater
autonomy.
The targeting of municipalities
held by the party is becoming a
feature of Turkey’s politics, rather
than an aberration. In 2016, the
authorities also removed elected
HDP mayors en masse.
As a result, elected officials have
been left in an anxious limbo.
“Every night when we go to bed,
we think of the possibility that we
might be taken in the morning,”
said Bilgen, who is mayor of Kars,
in eastern Turkey. “We all carry the
concern that it might happen at
any moment. But we have not
received any signal that it will
happen. This is very risky situation
for a state of law.”
The government’s pursuit of the
pro-Kurdish mayors is largely tac-
tical. The HDP has long been a
political nuisance for Erdogan,
able to peel away voters who had
formed a part of his base, analysts
said. Erdogan’s anti-HDP rhetoric
sharpened after he made an alli-
ance with an ultranationalist par-
ty, but even that partnership had
not stopped the president’s popu-
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larity from slipping, said Gönül
Tol, the director of the Turkey
program at the Middle East Insti-
tute in Washington.
“He’s in big trouble. He has
nowhere else to turn,” she said,
referring to the crackdown on the
mayors.
Turkish officials deny their ac-
tions against the HDP are political
and say they are simply a matter of
law. The officials have regularly
accused members of the party,
which remains legal, of supporting
the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or
PKK, a banned militant group that
has fought a decades-long insur-
gency against the Turkish state.
Kurds make up roughly a fifth of
Turkey’s population but still strug-
gle for recognition in a nation that
privileges Turkish ethnicity.
Last week, another HDP mayor
lost her position, according to
state media. Police on July 13 de-
tained the mayor, Betul Yasar, on
charges that included member-
ship in a terrorist organization, a
reference to the PKK, according to
the state-run Anadolu news agen-
cy. By the next day, her office, in the
eastern Agri province, had been
placed under the supervision of an
acting mayor appointed by the
central government.
As the mayors vanish, those
who remain in office speak togeth-
er frequently, sharing tips and
black humor to get through their
days, said Bilgen, in a video inter-
view from Kars.
“Of course, we joke with one
another, wondering whose turn is
next,” he said. “There is constantly
pressure on us.”
As a province-level mayor, Bil-
gen is perhaps the most promi-
nent HDP mayor still in office. He
hails from Sarikamis, a town sur-
rounded by pine forests about 30
miles from the city of Kars, the
provincial capital. After attending
university in Ankara, he served in
a variety of posts with Mazlumder,
an Islamic human rights organiza-
tion, including as its chairman.
He wrote columns for several
newspapers and served as a mem-
ber of parliament, as well as a
spokesman, for the HDP. He is not
Kurdish but rather a member of
the Turkmen ethnic minority, he
said. In 2017, he spent more than
six months in jail on charges of
belonging to the PKK.
Ayhan Bilgen, shown in 2017, is one of the few mayors from the pro-Kurdish People’s
Democratic Party who has kept his office during Turkey’s crackdown on opposition parties.
“Right now, there are eight cas-
es against me. And none of these
are regarding the municipality.
Meaning, none of these have to do
with work I have done as a mayor.
They are regarding a tweet I post-
ed five years ago, or a press state-
ment I partook in,” he said.
“These are things that make it
difficult,” he said, adding that he
faced considerable challenges as a
mayor in Kars even without the
threat of prosecution.
The province, in northeastern
Turkey bordering Armenia, is
heavily dependent on construc-
tion, tourism and agriculture and
has suffered because of an eco-
nomic downturn in Turkey that
worsened after the coronavirus
pandemic. When Bilgen took of-
fice, youth unemployment hov-
ered near 30 percent, he said.
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aDem aLtan/aGence France-Presse/Getty ImaGes
Adding to those difficulties was dogan had issued a warning to the
what he said was “constant” gov- HDP, suggesting its candidates
ernment pressure that included would not be allowed to serve.
investigations and audits, “as if we “If you send the resources given
are engaging in criminal activity,” to municipalities by the state to
he said. The pressure also came Kandil or use them in terrorism,
from pro-government media, then immediately, instantly, with-
which in the last few months had out waiting, we will appoint our
accused him of diverting public trustees again,” he said in February
funds to families of PKK militants 2019, referring to the PKK’s head-
— referring, he said, to an initia- quarters in the mountains of Iraq.
tive aimed at channeling charita- When the election was held the
ble donations to low-income fami- next month, it delivered stunning
lies who were suffering during the setbacks for Erdogan’s party,
coronavirus pandemic. which lost mayoral contests in
An article in April in the pro- some of Turkey’s largest cities.
government Yeni Safak newspaper Most unnerving for Erdogan were
accusing him of helping militants the losses of Istanbul and Ankara,
declared: “The terrorism file of to candidates from the Republican
HDP’s Kars Mayor Ayhan Bilgen is People’s Party, or CHP, the coun-
thick.” try’s largest opposition party.
Before Bilgen and the other By August, the government had
mayors were elected last year, Er- indicted three mayors from the
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HDP who had won landslide victo-
ries over candidates from Erdo-
gan’s Justice and Development
Party, or AKP. The mayors of Diyar-
bakir, Mardin and Van were re-
placed with state officials.
Some of the newly elected HDP
mayors — including Adnan Selcuk
Mizrakli, the mayor of Diyarbakir,
the largest city in Turkey’s majori-
ty-Kurdish southeast region — had
promised to investigate the finan-
cial dealings of ruling-party mem-
bers who had previously held the
posts.
By February, 32 HDP mayors
had been removed from their of-
fice, according to a report by Hu-
man Rights Watch that month.
The group, citing an examination
of 18 court cases, said the mayors’
detentions relied on “vague and
generalized allegations against the
mayors by witnesses, some secret,
and on details of their political
activities and social media post-
ings, which fail to establish rea-
sonable suspicion of criminal ac-
tivity that would justify detention.”
In Turkey’s big cities, the elec-
tion and its aftermath highlighted
the extent to which “mayors have
become the real threat to Erdo-
gan,” said Tol of the Middle East
Institute. The main challengers
came from the CHP, including
some who have distinguished
themselves with their response to
the coronavirus pandemic, she
said.
But the story in Turkey’s Kurd-
ish-majority areas is different.
There, the stillborn elections have
reinforced feelings of marginaliza-
tion. “The government’s replace-
ment of elected HDP mayors with
appointed trustees has fundamen-
tally altered the nature of local
government in this region at the
expense of voters’ rights and inter-
ests,” Nicholas Danforth, a fellow
at the Wilson Center in Washing-
ton, wrote in a recent briefing
about the election results.
Recent polls have indicated
“that Kurdish young people feel
more distant, and don’t feel like
they are part of Turkey anymore,”
Tol said. “Kurdish youth avoid
talking about politics with Turk-
ish friends.”
Bilgen fretted that the sense of
estrangement made it harder for
the party to compete for support
with the militants.
“People who give their votes to
the HDP, who are mostly Kurdish
voters, who are constantly being
pushed and being othered, don’t
feel like they are part of the collec-
tive future of this country.”
kareem.fahim@washpost.com
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U.K. suspends extradition treaty with Hong Kong Chechnya strongman
Decision comes after
Beijing imposed new
national security law
BY A DAM T AYLOR
Britain on Monday suspended
its extradition treaty with Hong
Kong amid worries about a new
national security law that Beijing
imposed on the former British
colony.
“The government has decided
to suspend the extradition treaty
immediately and indefinitely,”
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab
said in an announcement to Brit-
ish lawmakers.
“We would not consider reacti-
vating those arrangements, un-
less and until there are clear and
robust safeguards which are able
to prevent extradition from the
U.K. being misused,” Raab, a for-
mer human rights lawyer, told
Parliament.
The suspension comes as Lon-
don and Beijing find themselves
at increasing odds over a variety
of issues, including Britain’s
move to bar Chinese tech giant
Huawei from its 5G wireless net-
works and growing public anger
in Britain over the treatment of
the Uighur minority in Xinjiang,
an autonomous territory in Chi-
na.
On Sunday, China’s ambassa-
dor to Britain was interviewed on
the BBC, where he was pressed on
footage that appeared to show
blindfolded Uighurs being forced
onto trains. “There is no such
concentration camps in Xinji-
ang,” Liu Xiaoming said. “. . .
There’s a lot of fake . . . accusa-
tions against China.”
U.S. Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo is traveling to Britain
this week for a two-day visit, with
China and Hong Kong expected
to be a topic of discussion as he
meets with British leaders.
The British government has
had an extradition treaty with
Hong Kong for decades. Under
such laws, Hong Kong authorities
can ask Britain to extradite any-
one accused of a crime in the city
and vice versa.
But the new national security
law Beijing imposed on Hong
Kong this month drew increasing
worries that those extradited
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Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said in an announcement to British lawmakers Monday.
from Britain could face draconi-
an punishments. Canada and
Australia have already suspended
similar treaties this month.
Residents of Hong Kong,
which has been a part of China
since 1997, enjoyed a relatively
large amount of freedom of
speech and other political liber-
ties under Beijing’s “one country,
two systems” framework. But un-
der the new laws, the city’s 7.5 mil-
lion population is under the same
speech restrictions as the main-
land.
Under these laws, anyone
deemed guilty of subversion
could potentially face life impris-
onment.
In response, Prime Minister
Boris Johnson’s government has
said it would offer residency
rights and a potential path to
citizenship for as many as 3 mil-
lion Hong Kong citizens. China
condemned the move, with For-
eign Ministry spokesman Zhao
Lijian telling Britain to “stop
interfering in Hong Kong’s affairs
and China’s internal affairs.”
Britain had been particularly
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concerned about articles of the
national security law that al-
lowed mainland China authority
to assume jurisdiction in certain
cases and try them in mainland
courts, Raab said Monday.
London and Beijing had in-
creasingly warm ties only a few
years ago, with many in Britain
looking toward trade with China
as a key part of the country’s
post-European Union economic
future. But that has changed as
concerns about Hong Kong and
other issues grew.
Britain announced last week
that it would suspend new de-
ployments of Huawei equipment
in its fledgling high-speed 5G
network, in line with requests
from the United States, which
said that the Chinese technology
company was too close to the
Chinese government.
The move accompanied a
growing concern among the gen-
eral public about Chinese inten-
tions, with polling data from this
year suggesting many Britons
wanted a harder line on the
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rus pandemic began.
Liu’s appearance Sunday on
the BBC’s “Andrew Marr Show”
prompted an angry response
from some British public figures.
The footage was later aired on
China’s state-run television sta-
tion CGTN, though the sections
about the Uighur video were not
shown.
Keir Starmer, the leader of
Britain’s opposition Labour Party,
said Monday that suspending the
extradition treaty was a “step in
the right direction,” but he added
that Johnson’s government
should impose sanctions on Chi-
nese officials involved in human
rights abuses.
“We can’t turn a blind eye,”
Starmer said in a video posted to
his Twitter account.
Johnson said Monday that he
did not want to become “a knee-
jerk Sinophobe on every issue,
somebody who is automatically
anti-China” but that his govern-
ment had “serious concerns”
about Hong Kong and Uighurs
that could not be ignored.
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the washington post
BY C AROL M ORELLO
AND P AUL S ONNE
The State Department black-
listed the head of Russia’s republic
of Chechnya and his immediate
family on Monday, accusing him
of human rights violations that
have worsened during the corona-
virus pandemic.
The main impact of the sanc-
tions, which add to those already
in place, prohibit Ramzan Kady-
rov’s wife and his two daughters
from traveling to the United
States.
“The Department has extensive
credible information that Kady-
rov is responsible for numerous
gross violations of human rights
dating back more than a decade,
including torture and extrajudi-
cial killings,” Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo said in a statement
issued while he was en route to
Britain.
Though the United States has
repeatedly assailed Kadyrov,
Pompeo said the abuses are con-
tinuing and even intensifying.
“We are concerned that Mr.
Kadyrov is now using the excuse
of the coronavirus pandemic to
inflict further human rights abus-
es on the people of the Chechen
Republic,” he said.
Kadyrov has threatened jour-
nalists who have reported on the
government’s attempts to intimi-
date people into avoiding tests for
the coronavirus and called those
reporters “enemies of the state.”
Maria Zakharova, spokeswom-
an for Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov, wrote on Facebook,
“It will be hard to respond recipro-
cally, but we will figure something
out,” according to Sputnik News.
Kadyrov, whose Facebook and
Instagram accounts have been
suspended, breezily dismissed the
State Department and Pompeo on
another platform. In a message on
Telegram, Kadyrov posted a photo
of himself holding two guns and
surrounded by other weaponry
and wrote: “Pompeo, we accept
the fight! What comes next will be
more interesting.”
Kadyrov took over as Moscow’s
favored Chechen leader in the
years after his father was assassi-
nated in a 2004 explosion in
Grozny.
Akhmad Kadyrov was a well-
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known resistance figure fighting
for Chechen independence from
Russia during the first Chechen
war from 1994 to 1996. But during
the second Chechen war, which
President Vladimir Putin
launched in 1999 as he prepared
to take over the Kremlin, the elder
Kadyrov switched sides and
backed Moscow, seeing elements
of Islamist extremism in the insur-
gency. He became Moscow’s cho-
sen Chechen leader.
Since the younger Kadyrov took
over as president of Chechnya in
2007, political analysts have re-
marked on an unspoken pact be-
tween Grozny and Moscow, which
essentially gives him free rein over
the republic on Russia’s border so
long as he tamps down on separat-
ist sentiments and doesn’t pose
problems for the Kremlin.
But at times, Kadyrov’s activi-
ties — including reports of torture
and police brutality — have drawn
international condemnation.
Some of those who have sought
to bring attention to abuses have
been killed.
In 2009, Natalya Estemirova,
an activist who worked on Chech-
nya at the Russian human rights
group Memorial, was abducted
and murdered.
Oyub Titiev, who took over as
Memorial’s representative in
Chechnya, was sentenced to four
years in a prison colony last year
on drug charges widely con-
demned by human rights advo-
cates as concocted. He was re-
leased early on parole later last
year on time served.
Several Chechens with ties to
Kadyrov’s security services were
found guilty of killing Russian
opposition politician Boris
Nemtsov on a bridge next to the
Kremlin in 2015.
In 2017, Chechen authorities
rounded up men believed to be
gay or bisexual and subjected
many of them to abuses, including
torture and forced disappearanc-
es, leading to widespread con-
demnation.
At the time, Kadyrov denied the
activities, saying gay people do
not exist in Chechnya In subse-
quent years, Chechen authorities
have launched similar anti-gay
crackdowns.
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U.S. on sidelines in Libya fight as Russia extends reach
BY M ISSY R YAN
AND S UDARSAN R AGHAVAN
An absence of U.S. leadership in
Libya has allowed a dangerous
international confrontation to
deepen, analysts say, as a spiraling
proxy war stokes threats to Ameri-
can economic and security inter-
ests and provides Russia a plat-
form to expand its clout in the
Mediterranean.
The U.S. position on the mar-
gins of the conflict — complicated
by uncertainty about which side
Washington supports — takes on
new significance as Russia, Turkey
and now possibly Egypt pour
weapons and fighters into a com-
bustible battle.
“The U.S. is essentially out of
the game. The Libyans are unable
to make their own decisions, en-
tirely dependent on foreign ac-
tors,” a Western diplomat said.
“There is total drift.”
Libya in recent months has be-
come a free-for-all for regional
and European powers, many of
them American allies that have
stepped into the security and po-
litical vacuum in support of rival
governments. A divide is now also
growing among NATO nations,
while mercenaries from Russia,
Syria and sub-Saharan Africa rush
in, sensing economic opportunity.
U.N. Secretary General António
Guterres warned that the conflict
had entered a new, perilous phase
as a result of “unprecedented” for-
eign military involvement. Civil-
ian casualties have surged, and
retreating fighters have planted
explosives in residential areas.
Now, a battle may be brewing near
the city of Sirte, along Libya’s
coast, as each side brings heavier
munitions to the fight.
“Time is not on our side,” Gu-
terres said early this month.
The situation illustrates the ef-
fects of a haphazard engagement on
foreign policy matters by President
Trump, who appeared to upend
diplomatic efforts to strengthen a
U.N.-backed government last year
by declaring his support for the
leader of the rival faction, would-be
military ruler Khalifa Hifter.
In recent weeks, Trump has
called for a halt to the fighting in
conversations with the leaders of
Egypt, Turkey and France, as U.S.
military officials have sounded the
alarm over new Russian military
deployments that potentially
threaten U.S. naval assets in the
Mediterranean.
The chaotic situation also
draws attention to the fact that by
abiding by an arms embargo, the
United States may have dimin-
ished its own ability to shape Lib-
ya’s future.
Even so, the war in Libya does
European leaders agree on economic rescue plan Iran executes man it
BY M ICHAEL B IRNBAUM,
Q UENTIN A RIÈS
AND L OVEDAY M ORRIS
BRUSSELS — European leaders on
Tuesday morning agreed to a vast
spending plan to rescue the econ-
omies of coronavirus-hit coun-
tries, overcoming deep-seated di-
visions on the extent to which rich
European Union nations should
commit to helping poorer ones.
The deal on a $2.1 trillion E.U.
budget and rescue package came
after a marathon four days of
grinding discussions among
members of the 27-nation union.
The negotiations had been
bogged down by the objections of
a handful of rich, northern coun-
tries on the scope of the fund and
the strings attached to it.
But faced with the prospect of
the worst economic blow since
World War II, they hammered out
a compromise. E.U. officials de-
scribed it as a milestone that will
shape how member states live
with one another for years to
come.
“Deal,” tweeted European
Council President Charles Michel
after talks that lasted through the
night.
A draft of the final agreement
earmarks $859 billion in loans
and grants to largely be spent over
the next four years. Tourism-de-
pendent Italy, Spain and Greece
are set to be the biggest beneficia-
ries, with the pandemic decimat-
ing the industry.
Discussions had been tense.
Over alfresco breakfasts, mid-
day french-fry breaks and late-
night haggling sessions, leaders
fought with one another using in-
creasingly bitter rhetoric.
The main disagreement be-
tween the leaders of a handful of
self-dubbed “frugal” countries —
the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria,
Denmark and Finland — and their
peers was about how much money
to ship to hard-hit countries such
as Italy and Spain and how much
oversight donor countries ought
to have over how the funds are
spent.
In crises, the E.U. has typically
offered loans, not grants, and de-
Troops loyal to Libya’s U.N.-backed government in Tripoli prepare this month to head to Sirte, where a battle may be brewing nearby.
not figure among America’s top
foreign policy priorities, as the
White House focuses on China,
Iran and Trump’s desire to curtail
America’s role in insurgent con-
flicts, all against the backdrop of
the coronavirus pandemic and a
looming U.S. election.
“Unfortunately, the U.S. is ced-
ing its influence,” said Emadeddin
Badi, a Libya expert and senior
fellow at the Atlantic Council. “All
the states who have capitalized
from the U.S. absence are now
benefiting.”
Since it helped pull together the
NATO-led operation that toppled
dictator Moammar Gaddafi in
2011, the United States has limited
its involvement in Libya, viewing
the North African oil-producing
nation largely through a counter-
terrorism lens and urging Europe-
an nations to take the lead.
To this day, many Libyans de-
nounce the United States, unfairly
or not, for not offering more help
after the Arab Spring. While U.S.
diplomats attempted for years to
build legitimacy around the
U.N.-brokered Government of Na-
tional Accord, or GNA, their sup-
port has grown more cautious as it
says spied on Soleimani
manded economic reforms in re-
turn. The “frugals” wanted to keep
it that way. The others didn’t, of-
fering a vision that would be a
small step closer to a federal Euro-
pean Union that more closely re-
sembles the United States, where
richer states subsidize poorer
ones.
To appease them, the portion of
grants in the deal was trimmed to
$358 billion and the objectors
were granted billions more in re-
bates from their contribution to
the shared E.U. budget.
In a win for Hungary and Po-
land, stipulations that tied access
to funds to upholding the rule of
law were rolled back in the draft.
Both countries have been cen-
sured by Brussels as their leaders
have moved against their political
opponents and stripped the inde-
pendence of the judiciary.
French President Emmanuel
Macron and German Chancellor
Angela Merkel teamed up in May
to propose $570 billion in grants
to respond to the pandemic, with
the German leader abandoning
her long-held caution about hand-
ing her taxpayers’ money to poor-
er nations without asking for it to
be repaid. Merkel called it a “one-
off,” but some analysts dubbed it
Europe’s “Hamiltonian moment”
— a burst of centralization that
would forever hand more power
to Brussels.
“It’s an upgrading of suprana-
tional institutions’ role and pow-
er. It’s really upgrading them in a
very significant way,” said Rosa
Balfour, the director of the Brus-
sels office of the Carnegie Endow-
ment for International Peace, a
think tank.
The need to agree on an ambi-
tious plan to react to the crisis
drew the leaders together in per-
son Friday, despite the risks, as
they attempted the biggest and
highest-level gathering of world
leaders since the pandemic largely
ground the world to a halt earlier
this year. They had met by video-
conference from their capitals,
but diplomats said there is little
substitute for face-to-face discus-
sions to resolve sharp disagree-
ments.
has remained weak and reliant on
militia groups for protection.
U.S. officials, meanwhile, have
expressed exasperation with Hift-
er — a former military officer
turned Gaddafi opponent who en-
joyed CIA backing in the 1980s
and 1990s — over his determina-
tion to take control by force.
Hifter’s 14-month military offen-
sive to capture the capital ended in
early June, months after Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan —
over American objections — sent
his military to defend the GNA.
Hifter’s failure to take Tripoli
came even after the conflict took a
dramatic turn in May, when Rus-
sia covertly flew advanced fighter
jets to Libya, adding to a long list
of U.N. arms embargo violations
and bringing major firepower in
support of Hifter following the
deployment of Kremlin-linked
Russian mercenaries.
Russia and Turkey appear to be
motivated in part by Libya’s eco-
nomic promise as one of the world’s
largest oil producers, and its posi-
tion on Europe’s southern flank.
Rear Adm. Heidi Berg, the top
intelligence officer at U.S. Africa
Command, which has taken un-
Leaders began their meetings
Friday with careful adherence to
social distancing rules: Many of
them were masked, and they met
in a vast room built to seat 330.
Merkel was even photographed
admonishing Bulgaria’s leader for
allowing his mask to slip off his
nose. But the masks came off as
the discussions devolved, and
leaders, ambassadors and advis-
ers huddled close together to ex-
amine budget figures and new for-
mulas. Some smaller negotiation
sessions did take place on outdoor
terraces and balconies, where the
viral risk is presumably lower.
“Are the 27 leaders who are re-
sponsible to the peoples of Europe
capable of building European uni-
ty, of building trust? Or will we
present the face of a weak Europe,
undermined by mistrust, and di-
vided?” Michel asked leaders late
Sunday during another round of
negotiations that broke just be-
fore 6 a.m. Monday. He noted that
worldwide deaths from the coro-
navirus had been tallied to have
surpassed 600,000 on Sunday as
they negotiated, according to a
copy of his prepared remarks.
As she entered discussions
Monday, Merkel said it was clear
they would be tough. “Yet excep-
tional situations also require ex-
traordinary efforts,” she said.
As tensions rose the previous
evening, Macron thumped on the
table and lashed out at leaders
including Austrian Chancellor Se-
bastian Kurz, whom he derided
for leaving the meeting room to
take phone calls even though lead-
ers were speaking.
“If we don’t have the required
spirit of compromise and ambi-
tion today, we risk coming back in
tougher times,” Macron said be-
fore the deal was reached Monday.
“It will cost us more.”
The other funds being negotiat-
ed at the meeting were loans that
would address the coronavirus
crisis as well as the $1.2 trillion
E.U. budget, a spending plan that
covers agricultural subsidies, sci-
entific research and road repairs,
among other things, that is negoti-
ated once every seven years.
For Merkel, the plans will set
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usual steps to publicly document
Russian involvement in Libya,
said Moscow was trying to posi-
tion itself as a broker of peace
while stoking conflict behind the
scenes, as U.S. officials allege it has
in Ukraine, Sudan and the Central
African Republic.
“Proxy forces . . . have previous-
ly had a seat at the negotiating
table and have had undue influ-
ence on the outcome, but now
have almost become the principal
interlocutors,” Berg said in an in-
terview. “That highlights what
Russia has wanted: international
prestige and the ability to impose
costs on the international commu-
nity — to be the one that counts at
the negotiating table.”
Russia also stands to gain if
Egyptian President Abdel Fatah
al-Sissi follows through on a
threat last month to send his mili-
tary into Libya if GNA forces
pushed too far east. U.S. officials
say Egypt, a longtime supporter of
Hifter’s faction, has been making
military preparations for a poten-
tial intervention. On Monday,
Egypt’s parliament approved
plans to send troops to “defend
Egyptian national security in the
her legacy. She is set to retire next
year after 16 years in office and
years as undisputedly the most
powerful leader in Europe. Her
careful style has made her a deal-
maker who will not be easily re-
placed — leading some analysts to
suggest she is trying to hand more
power to Brussels to keep the bal-
ance of power after she is gone.
“It’s very unlikely there will be a
dealmaker, someone who can pull
all the threads together” after
Merkel, Balfour said.
At the summit, the biggest dis-
agreements were about the crisis
effort. The negotiations trimmed
back the amount of cash grants at
play, currently around $445 bil-
lion, and leaders haggled over
how many strings would be at-
tached to the cash. Italy, Spain and
Poland would be the biggest bene-
ficiaries of the plan, according to
initial formulas that tied funds to
their pre-pandemic unemploy-
ment rate and economies.
Dutch leaders and their allies
said countries such as Italy and
Spain are to blame for pre-pan-
demic economic difficulties that
left them struggling to pay their
way out of the current crisis. They
said they do not want to send
money to those countries if they
have no guarantees of economic
reform in return.
The Netherlands wants “truly
enforcing reforms in exchange for
loans,” Dutch Prime Minister
Mark Rutte said Monday. “And if
loans still have to become subsi-
dies, then these reforms must real-
ly be enforceable” by allowing E.U.
leaders to have oversight, he said.
Rutte — who faces elections
next year, and whose tough stance
is good politics at home — has
leaned into his bad-cop approach.
Opponents note that the Nether-
lands has benefited from being a
member of the barrier-free mar-
ket of the E.U., including by offer-
ing low tax rates to companies that
have been lured away from the
countries he now derides.
michael.birnbaum@washpost.com
quentin.aries@washpost.com
loveday.morris@washpost.com
morris reported from Berlin.
ayman al-sahIlI/reuters
strategic western direction.”
The conflict has also pitted
NATO nations against one anoth-
er as France, which U.S. officials
say supports Hifter, vows it will
not tolerate Turkey’s “dangerous
game” in support of the GNA.
Faced with the fast-moving bat-
tlefield maneuvers, U.S. diplomats
say they have continued “robust”
efforts, mostly behind the scenes,
in support of a political settlement
under a policy they characterize as
“active neutrality.”
“First and foremost, this is a
European problem,” said a senior
State Department official, who
like other officials spoke on the
condition of anonymity because
they were not authorized to speak
publicly.
“We are invested in trying to get
this solved, but this is enormously
complex, the Syrianization of Lib-
ya,” the official said, making refer-
ence to the war in Syria, where
military missions by Iran, Russia
and Turkey have added to the
bloodshed.
As one example of continued
U.S. engagement, officials cited
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s
participation this year in a Libya
BY E RIN C UNNINGHAM
ISTANBUL — Iran on Monday
executed a man convicted last
month of spying on a prominent
Iranian general for U.S. and Israe-
li intelligence agencies, state me-
dia reported.
Iranian authorities accused
Mahmoud Mousavi Majd of pro-
viding the CIA and Israel’s Moss-
ad spy agency with sensitive in-
formation on Iran’s military oper-
ations in Syria, including the
movements of a senior Revolu-
tionary Guard Corps command-
er, Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
Soleimani, who led the Revolu-
tionary Guard’s Quds Force expe-
ditionary wing, was killed in a
U.S. drone strike in Baghdad in
January. Iranian officials said
Majd was arrested in October
2018 and was not directly linked
to Soleimani’s killing.
Iran’s judiciary confirmed in a
statement that the death sen-
tence was carried out Monday
but offered no further details.
The execution of Majd comes
amid a public outcry over death
sentences handed down to three
men who authorities said partici-
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Mourners in Iran stand in January above an image of Maj. Gen.
Qasem Soleimani, killed by a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad.
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summit in Berlin, where several
nations including Russia, France
and Turkey laid out an ultimately
unsuccessful cease-fire plan and
called for an end to violence even
as some of them were providing
clandestine support to one Libyan
side or the other.
“Many of our allies and regional
partners, in addition to Russian
mercenary Wagner forces, have
made it very difficult,” the official
said, referring to a Kremlin-linked
security firm called the Wagner
Group. “When we go to multilater-
al events and get commitments . . .
from our allies and partners to
respect the arms embargo and
then they refuse to do so, it compli-
cates it.”
Mixed messages from Washing-
ton have added to the complica-
tions as White House officials, par-
ticularly under former national
security adviser John Bolton, have
looked more favorably on Hifter’s
vow to root out Islamists who have
flourished in Libya’s post-revolu-
tion chaos than on State Depart-
ment efforts to do the same.
Trump appeared to sign off on
Hifter’s military offensive during a
call in April 2019, giving the per-
ception that the United States offi-
cially supported the strongman as
Libya’s legitimate leader.
U.S. officials have since sought
to clarify their position — in sup-
port of a political settlement rath-
er than picking any particular side
— but the damage was done.
“America’s body language con-
tinues to matter a great deal,” said
Jalel Harchaoui, a Libya analyst at
the Clingendael Institute in The
Hague.
Moscow is poised to benefit if
Egypt sends troops into Libya, a
move that would highlight ebbing
American influence over Egypt.
Despite receiving $1.3 billion in
U.S. aid annually, Cairo has been
moving closer to Moscow, buying
Russian armaments and recently
cementing a nuclear power deal.
Despite those threats, the Trump
administration is unlikely to dra-
matically increase its engagement
in Libya. Even in places where U.S.
interests are clearer, an abiding fea-
ture of Trump’s foreign policy has
been his desire to reduce U.S. in-
volvement in overseas conflicts.
Another question is what Wash-
ington, even if it adopted a more
activist role, could do at a stage
when other nations have shown
willingness to use military might.
“At the end of the day, you have
Russians on the ground,” Badi
said. “So unless you are willing to
put in the effort, that’s not going to
change. Russia will keep getting
stronger and stronger.”
missy.ryan@washpost.com
sudarsan.raghavan@washpost.com
pated in anti-government dem-
onstrations in the fall. Those
sentences were suspended Sun-
day to allow the Supreme Court
to reconsider, the judiciary said.
A report by the judiciary’s
official Mizan Online News Agen-
cy said that Majd, an Iranian
national, was first recruited by
the CIA in Syria and went on to
work for Israel’s Mossad, deliver-
ing intelligence on matters rang-
ing from personnel movements
and weapons to base locations
and telecommunications equip-
ment.
According to the report, Majd
moved to Syria with his family in
the 1990s because of his father’s
work as a businessman. Majd’s
local knowledge and fluency in
Arabic facilitated his apparent
work as an interpreter and fixer
for Iranian military units arriv-
ing in Syria to help prop up
embattled President Bashar al-
Assad.
“He was not an organizational
member of the [Revolutionary
Guard],” the report said. “But as
an interpreter, he was able to
infiltrate sensitive areas.”
erin.cunningham@washpost.com
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With relief programs about to expire, state’s gamble to restart economy has become a cautionary tale and plunged businesses into greater financial distress
BY T ONY R OMM
Arizona had been one of the
last states to close, and first to
reopen, when the coronavirus
started to sweep the nation this
spring. But a brazen gamble to
restart its struggling economy
has backfired months later,
threatening to plunge workers
and businesses into a deeper fi-
nancial hole.
Hundreds of thousands of peo-
ple are still out of a job, some for
the second time this year. Restau-
rants, gyms and other companies
are closing up shop once again —
perhaps for good. Even govern-
ment officials say they are bracing
for a crippling blow, with the
latest shutdown expected to
cleave further into their still-
souring finances.
The economic devastation has
come as Congress prepares re-
turned Monday and began debat-
ing how to structure another
round of federal stimulus. The
$2 trillion Cares Act, which law-
makers adopted in March, helped
buttress the country during the
early days of the pandemic. But
many of those benefits are on the
verge of expiring, imperiling
states that are in worse shape
than they were nearly four
months ago.
Like Florida, Texas and others
that opened early, Arizona now
ranks as one of the country’s
worst coronavirus hot spots, with
more than 145,000 cases and
more than 2,700 deaths as of this
weekend. Some residents in cities
such as Phoenix and Scottsdale
say the surge is the result of the
state’s return to old routines, after
Republican Gov. Doug Ducey lift-
ed his stay-at-home order in May
in part to give the local economy a
boost — leading people to flock,
often without masks, to cramped
public places.
This time, however, families
and businesses that fall into dire
straits are at risk of even greater
financial trauma: Nearly 1 million
Arizonans, for example, are set to
lose extra money in unemploy-
ment assistance after this week,
leaving them with benefits that
are much lower than most other
states.
“If that happens, it will spell
financial disaster for us,” said
Erlynne Campbell, a 47-year-old
resident of Phoenix who lost her
bookkeeping job in March and
then struggled for months just to
cash her first unemployment
check.
“I obediently stayed home and
filed for unemployment,” she
said, “and trusted I would be
provided for in the time frame we
needed to stay home to stay safe.”
In Arizona’s turmoil, local lead-
ers and economic experts said
they see a cautionary tale with
national import: Those that try to
prioritize their economic recov-
ery over public health in the
middle of the pandemic are at
risk of undermining both.
“Our economy in Arizona, like
other states, was tanking,” said
James Hodge, the director of the
Center for Public Health Law and
Policy at Arizona State University.
“There was unquestioned politi-
cal apathy or political backlash
toward what was considered
heavy-handed government inter-
ventions.”
“Many people point to that as
the catalyst,” Hodge continued, “a
very significant early demand to
reopen the economy that was too
soon.”
The decision to reopen Arizona
arrived amid a wave economic
world econoMy
IMF warns about
lower exchange rates
Developing nations are
unlikely to reap the rewards of
weaker exchange rates as the
coronavirus pandemic batters
global trade and tourism,
according to the International
Monetary Fund.
Although falling currencies
have traditionally been a boon to
exporters, this is not the case
today, as global trade grinds to a
halt because of the epidemic,
IMF researchers wrote in a staff
discussion note and blog post. A
drop in tourist numbers as
governments shutter borders to
contain the novel coronavirus
will further erode the benefits of
cheaper exchange rates.
Weaker currencies are
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Health-care workers prepare to test people lined up in cars for the coronavirus in the Maryvale neighborhood of Phoenix.
“Our economy in
Arizona, like other
states, was
tanking. There
was unquestioned
political apathy or
political backlash
toward what was
considered
heavy-handed
government
interventions.”
James Hodge, director at
Center for Public Health Law
carnage that has spared no part of
the country. In one sign of the
shutdown’s financial sting, retail,
restaurant and gasoline sales
dropped dramatically in the met-
ropolitan area covering Phoenix,
Mesa and Scottsdale, essentially
tracing the borders of Maricopa
County, the state’s most populous
expanse. Total taxable sales fell by
about 6 percent in March and
more than 16 percent in April,
compared with the same periods
a year earlier, according to data
compiled by the University of
Arizona, depriving businesses of
much-needed income.
Some hotels stayed open dur-
ing the shutdown, but occupancy
fell precipitously, troubling a re-
unlikely to “provide a material
boost to their economies in the
short term as the response of
most exports will be muted,
besides the physical disruptions
to trade from supply and
demand disruptions,” they
wrote.
Global trade suffered a
historic fall at the peak of the
lockdowns to contain the spread
of the virus, plunging more than
12 percent in April alone,
according to CPB Netherlands
Bureau for Economic Policy
Analysis data.
Economists are still assessing
the damage amid a second wave
of infections from Florida to
Melbourne, Australia, with the
IMF expecting the global
economy to shrink this year in
the deepest contraction since the
Great Depression.
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gion that relies heavily on tour-
ism and the so-called snowbirds
who flock annually to Arizona’s
warmer climate. The loss of
spring training baseball — which
generates foot traffic through
Phoenix’s airport, stays at lodg-
ings, dollars for its restaurants,
and tax revenue for cities and
states — further compounded the
headaches during what is typical-
ly Maricopa County’s most lucra-
tive period.
“We saw a pretty significant
drop in economic activity as we
shut down the state,” said Todd
Sanders, president of the Greater
Phoenix Chamber. “When we
started to reopen in May, we
started to see it come back again.”
But the economic jolt that soon
followed came at a steep price for
some Arizona workers and busi-
nesses.
“The bars, the clubs, the pools
— everything was open. All the
nightclubs were open with no
social distancing,” recalled Alexis
Duron, a 24-year old from Scotts-
dale. “People were coming from
everywhere to travel here, to par-
ty here, because yeah, Arizona
doesn’t care,” she said. “It was
zero-to-100 really quick.”
Before the pandemic, Duron
had worked as a preschool teach-
er during the day and a server at a
local sports bar at night. The
school closed in March, but the
restaurant continued to operate,
“encouraging people to come in
and drink at their bar because
every other bar was closed,” she
said. Fearful for her own safety,
Duron left her serving gig and
didn’t think twice.
Duron’s preschool at one point
hired her back later in the spring,
buoyed after it received aid as
part of the $2 trillion coronavirus
relief package adopted by Con-
gress. But as Arizona’s outbreak
worsened, the preschool’s funds
ran out, leaving Duron once again
di Gest
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Eldorado Resorts completed
its $17 billion acquisition of
Caesars Entertainment,
navigating several hurdles,
including the global pandemic,
to create a new powerhouse in
the casino industry.
The merger, first announced
in June of last year, capped a
flurry of dealmaking for the
once-small casino company. But
the transaction faced obstacles,
including several states where
the new company’s market share
exceeded the wishes of
regulators, and the coronavirus,
which shuttered U.S. casinos for
nearly three months this year.
Eldorado, led by chief
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waiting around for unemploy-
ment checks — and unsure when
she’ll be able to return to her job.
“I’m hopeful we get to open in
August,” she said, “but if the cases
are surging I’m not sure.”
Public-health experts, state
leaders and residents feared such
an outbreak as soon as Arizona
reopened for business. Ducey is-
sued orders culminating in a stay-
at-home directive at the end of
March, only to begin to unwind
them throughout May in time for
a visit from President Trump.
At no point during the initial
reopening did Ducey require peo-
ple in the state to wear masks.
Instead, the GOP governor per-
mitted cities and counties to im-
pose their own mandates in June,
well after infections started to
spike and some local government
leaders openly threatened to defy
him.
“I am confident that we have
made the best and most responsi-
ble decisions possible,” Ducey
said at a news conference in early
June. The governor declined to be
interviewed for this story, but
Patrick Ptak, his spokesman, said
Ducey has made his decisions “in
the best interest of public health.”
“We know people need to be
safe and healthy in order to fully
participate in the economy,” Ptak
said in a statement. “That’s why
our decisions have been guided
first and foremost by the recom-
mendations of public health and
the data.”
In Phoenix, Luz Balanzar came
to feel the consequences of a swift
reopening firsthand. For months,
she had been out of work from her
housekeeping job at the Pointe
Hilton Squaw Peak, not far from
the foot of the Phoenix mountain
preserve. When the hotel called
her back in May, Balanzar, 53,
returned to a job she described as
unsafe at the time — with public
spaces she felt were not properly
scramble to find buyers for some
of the company’s properties. On
July 10, regulators in Indiana
approved the merger on the
condition that the company sell
three of its five properties in the
state. New Jersey gave the green
light last week.
The new company, which will
use the Caesars name, is now the
largest operator of casinos in the
United States.
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Chevron agreed to buy Noble
Energy for about $5 billion in
shares as the oil giant looks to
beef up in the Permian Basin
amid the wreckage of the worst-
ever crude crash. The takeover is
the industry’s first major deal
since the coronavirus triggered a
slump and the largest since
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maintained and scores of patrons
wandering the hallways without
masks.
One day in mid-June, Balanzar
said she started to feel sore, and
soon, she lost her sense of smell,
she said with the aid of an inter-
preter and representative from
her union, Unite Here. Five days
later, she confirmed her worst
suspicions: She had the coronavi-
rus.
Balanzar has been home for
weeks without pay, after she said
the hotel forced her to tap her
paid-time during her furlough in
March and April. She said she has
since spread the coronavirus to
her husband and daughter, and
she believes she caught it at the
hotel, stressing safety protections
“weren’t in place when they
opened up.”
In a statement, Rudy Sharp,
the general manager of the resort,
said it had followed state and
local health guidelines but could
not discuss Balanzar’s case. “We
take the health and safety of our
staff and guests very seriously,” he
said.
With infections spiking, some
workers fear the latest surge in
Arizona could prove even more
debilitating than the first. Begin-
ning in March, unemployed state
residents benefited from an extra
$600 a week in federal jobless aid,
offering them a major boost to-
ward paying their rents and mort-
gages and covering other costs of
living. The financial support, au-
thorized as part of the Cares Act,
was particularly welcome in Ari-
zona, which only pays out a maxi-
mum of $240 each week in bene-
fits, one of the lowest rates in the
United States.
But the extra federal assistance
is set to expire on July 25 despite
the sustained coronavirus out-
break in Arizona. In Washington,
Democrats have advocated for
reauthorizing the aid, but Repub-
Occidental Petroleum outbid
Chevron to acquire Anadarko
Petroleum for $37 billion last
year. The deal will grow
Chevron’s presence in the
Permian, once the main driver of
the shale boom, and the Denver-
Julesburg Basin in Colorado.
Southwest Airlines said
28 percent of its workforce has
agreed to leave the company
permanently or temporarily,
boosting the carrier’s effort to
preserve cash. About 4,400
employees have elected to exit
Southwest for good, chief
executive Gary Kelly said
Monday. In addition, almost
12,500 have signed up for
extended “emergency time off,”
and Southwest will determine
soon how many can be granted
leave based on the company’s
operational needs.
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licans have sought to rework it,
contributing to a months-long
partisan stalemate over a fourth
coronavirus relief package that
still persists weeks before an Au-
gust recess.
“If we were to lose [the bene-
fits], it would be very difficult for
residents in so many industries,
like tourism, that haven’t re-
turned,” said Phoenix Mayor Kate
Gallego (D).
A backlog in unemployment
applications still hasn’t been
fixed in Arizona, meaning numer-
ous residents newly seeking aid —
and many who never received
checks in the first place — say
they are still battling crippling
delays. Thousands of residents
have joined multiple Facebook
groups devoted to Arizona’s mis-
steps, where many complained
last weekend the state wrongly
closed their accounts without
warning as part of a fraud investi-
gation.
Krista VanAuken, a 29-year old
from Phoenix, said the fast-dissi-
pating safety net has left workers
like her with little choice: There
aren’t many safe jobs available,
but Arizona’s paltry unemploy-
ment payments may not be
enough to cover her monthly
bills, either.
“Those are paid for right now,”
she said, “but the money is going
to run out next month when it’s
time to pay rent.”
Businesses leaders similarly
are bracing for another round of
financial hardship.
Ray Herndon wasn’t happy
when he initially had to close the
doors to his restaurant, the 45-
year-old Handlebar J in Scotts-
dale, this spring. He estimates the
rib joint lost about $100,000 in
sales during the busy spring sea-
son, even though they switched,
like many establishments, to
takeout dining.
Herndon said the restaurant
tapped federal dollars from the
Paycheck Protection Program to
help stay afloat until June, when
it reopened at reduced capacity.
But he isn’t sure how long that
might last — and what it might
mean if the business has to sus-
tain another round of sizable loss-
es as a result.
“I have a nest egg, but [if ] I
have to start pulling out of my
IRA and everything else to make
the restaurant survive, at that
point I’d have to have a sit-down
with my accountant,” he said.
The Flo Yoga & Cycle studio in
Chandler, southeast of Phoenix,
had only welcomed back fitness
buffs for about seven weeks be-
fore it had to close a second time.
Ducey’s second round of closures,
issued in June, infuriated Debbie
Davis and her husband, Eddie,
who said they missed out months
of revenue at their fitness bou-
tique because of Arizona’s initial
stay-at-home directive.
“We just don’t see that happen-
ing around us,” Debbie said in
July, even as the outbreak
reached its apparent zenith. The
shutdown, she said, displayed “a
disregard of what it takes to oper-
ate a business at any size, and a
real disconnect to what was actu-
ally happening in at least our
circle of influence.”
Eddie, her spouse and co-own-
er, instead faulted the govern-
ment for conflicting, confusing
statements about the coronavirus
and the threat it posed. “We still
have bills we have to pay,” he
added. “All these bills are still
coming, and we cannot pull in
any revenue right now.”
tony.romm@washpost.com
Morgan Stanley will begin
reporting the carbon emissions
resulting from its lending and
investments. The firm became
the first major U.S. bank to join
the Partnership for Carbon
Accounting Financials, Morgan
Stanley said Monday. The group’s
66 formal members, which
represent more than $5.3 trillion
in assets, are pushing the
industry toward contributing to
the Paris climate accord’s goals.
Self-driving start-up Aurora is
expanding testing and
development of its vehicles to
the Dallas-Fort Worth area, the
company said. The firm, which is
already testing vehicles in the
San Francisco Bay area and
Pittsburgh, said it will test its
fleet of Pacificas and Class 8
trucks in Texas.
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In a sign of the hard sell the
White House faces, Senate fi-
nance Committee Chairman
Charles E. Grassley (r-Iowa)
sounded skeptical when asked
about the payroll tax cut monday
evening. “I think you’d better ask
me after [Tuesday] so we can hear
from the administration if they’re
really serious about it,” Grassley
said.
Senate majority Leader mitch
mcConnell (r-Ky.) is giving Con-
gress just three weeks to write the
bill before adjourning for summer
recess. With multiple issues divid-
ing the two parties and creating
rifts between the White House and
Senate republicans, it’s shaping
up as a daunting task.
mnuchin said monday that the
White House wants the bill to
amount to roughly $1 trillion in
new programs, though officials
are expected to use budget gim-
micks to make the initial package
slightly larger. Still, Democrats
were looking for a much bigger
bill. Their opening offer is a $3 tril-
lion package they passed in may
that would extend unemployment
benefits, include new stimulus
checks, and help cities and states,
among other things.
At a White House meeting mon-
day, Trump touted the benefits of a
payroll tax cut, something he has
pushed for close to a year, telling
reporters: “It’s a tremendous sav-
ing, and I think it’s an incentive for
companies to hire their workers
back and to keep their workers. So
the payroll tax cut, to me, is very
important.”
During the private portion of
the meeting, Trump called a con-
servative economist he’s friendly
with, Art Laffer, and put him on
speakerphone to discuss the bene-
fits of a payroll tax cut and how
best to structure it, according to
several people familiar with the
events. Laffer confirmed the call
in an interview with The Washing-
ton Post.
The payroll tax is the 7.65 per-
cent tax paid by employers and
employees that goes toward the
Social Security and medicare trust
funds. The administration is con-
sidering structuring the payroll
tax cut in the legislation as a defer-
ral rather than an outright cut,
which would keep down the tech-
nical cost of the overall bill, ac-
cording to one person briefed on
the package, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to discuss
private deliberations.
Such a deferral could require
Americans to pay back the tax cut
at a later date, but lawmakers
could decide to waive the repay-
ment. Congress already deferred
the employer portion of the pay-
roll tax cut in an earlier coronavi-
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is giving
lawmakers three weeks to write a new coronavirus relief bill.
“I think it’s problematic. . . . I’m not a fan.”
Sen. John Cornyn (R-tex.), on the idea of cutting the payroll tax
rus bill.
After first floating the idea of a
payroll tax cut last year, only to be
met with bipartisan opposition,
Trump renewed his push once the
coronavirus pandemic began to
decimate the economy this spring.
Still, Senate republicans have re-
peatedly rebuffed him. Trump has
said such a tax cut would give
workers more money to spend, but
critics argue that unlike sending
stimulus checks to individual
Americans, cutting payroll taxes
benefits only those who have jobs.
more than 20 million Americans
remain unemployed.
Illustrating the tricky path for-
ward, mnuchin insisted to report-
ers that the payroll tax cut would
be in the legislation. He was then
asked about a Washington Post
report over the weekend that said
the White House wanted to block
new money for coronavirus test-
ing. mnuchin responded, “I’m not
going to comment on the specif-
ics,” even though he had already
freely opined on the payroll tax
component.
mnuchin and other White
House officials have faced enor-
mous pushback from lawmakers
in both parties over blocking this
funding, with Sen. roy Blunt
(r-mo.) telling reporters that the
idea was “wrong.” Blunt also criti-
cized the proposal to put condi-
tions on education funding for
school districts.
Trump has made the payroll tax
cut a major sticking point and said
that he may not sign the legisla-
tion if it doesn’t include the cut.
mcConnell appears set to include
the provision in his bill. There
were signs monday, however, that
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he could face difficulties getting
Senate republicans to fall in line.
“I think it’s problematic be-
cause, obviously, the trust funds
for Social Security and medicare
are already on their way to insol-
vency,” Sen. John Cornyn (r-Tex.)
told reporters monday, referring
to cutting the payroll tax. “And
then we’d raise them again, we’d
raise taxes . . . I’m not a fan.”
Schumer did not wait to discuss
the legislation with White House
officials before denouncing it in a
Senate floor speech monday.
“It appears that the republican
proposal is unlikely to meet the
moment,” Schumer said. “from
what we understand from press
reports, mcConnell’s bill will pri-
oritize corporate special interests
over workers and main Street
businesses. It will fail to adequate-
ly address the worsening spread of
the virus. There are currently be-
tween 20 million and 30 million
unemployed Americans, and from
all accounts the republican bill
will not do nearly enough for
them.”
Earlier, at the oval office meet-
ing, mnuchin confirmed that re-
publicans plan to reduce a $600-
per-week enhanced unemploy-
ment benefit, approved in march,
which will begin running out for
millions of Americans later this
week. republicans argue that
workers are making more on un-
employment than they would on
the job.
“We’re going to make sure that
we don’t pay people more money
to stay home than go to work,”
mnuchin said, adding that he
hoped to see Congress act on the
issue before benefits expire at the
end of the month.
During the private portion of
the oval office meeting, Trump
criticized the enhanced unem-
ployment benefit, saying it never
should have been agreed to in the
first place, according to three peo-
ple familiar with the meeting who
spoke on the condition of anonym-
ity to discuss it.
The president’s comment high-
lighted resentment among some
congressional republicans to-
ward mnuchin, whom they blame
for cutting bad deals with Demo-
crats on the first four coronavirus
bills, which pumped some $3 tril-
lion into the economy in march
and April.
Those bills passed with over-
whelming bipartisan support, but
it’s already clear that the coming
deal — if there’s an agreement at
all — will not inspire such wide-
spread accord. With the economy
still reeling, and coronavirus in-
fections and deaths on the rise, the
coming days will be key in wheth-
er the negotiations succeed or fail.
mnuchin said he wants a deal on
the unemployment benefits by
next week.
The emerging GoP legislation
will also contain liability protec-
tions for businesses, health-care
providers and others, which mc-
Connell has repeatedly described
as a red line for him. The bill is
expected to omit new aid that
Democrats have sought for cities
and states, instead allowing gover-
nors and local leaders more flexi-
bility to spend the $150 billion
already allocated, according to
two other people with knowledge
of the talks.
Under the GoP plan, states
would get money for schools — but
it would be explicitly tied to
schools reopening, a major focus
of late for Trump, according to the
first person briefed on the negotia-
tions. It was unclear how exactly
the money would be structured to
prod schools to reopen or what
would constitute reopening.
People involved with the talks
cautioned that negotiations were
ongoing and that provisions were
fluid and subject to change.
republicans are aiming to roll
out their legislation later this
week and expect it to cost $1 tril-
lion, although they also predict
that the price tag will grow signifi-
cantly once horse-trading with
Democrats begins in earnest. Pelo-
si and Schumer have made clear
that additional aid to cities and
states is a top priority. Democratic
votes will be needed for any final
deal to pass the House and Senate.
erica.werner@washpost.com
jeff.stein@washpost.com
robert.costa@washpost.com
seungmin.kim@washpost.com
Paul kane contributed to this report.
labels decried as racist
BY H AMZA S HABAN
Trader Joe’s is doing away with
store brand labels derided as
racist in an online petition, be-
coming the latest major company
to end the use of names and
images that perpetuate stereo-
types.
The grocer said it had decided
years ago to adopt the Trader
Joe’s banner on its entire product
lineup, instead of using such
ethnic-sounding variations as
Trader Jose’s on mexican food
products and Trader ming’s on
Chinese fare.
But a Change.org petition criti-
cizing what it called “racist
branding and packaging” appar-
ently helped fast-track the pro-
cess.
“The grocery chain labels some
of its ethnic foods with modifica-
tions of ‘Joe’ that belies a narra-
tive of exoticism that perpetuates
harmful stereotypes,” writes Bri-
ones Bedell, who launched the
petition.
“The Trader Joe’s branding is
racist because it exoticizes other
cultures — it presents ‘Joe’ as the
default ‘normal’ and the other
characters falling outside of it,”
she said.
Bidell’s petition, which has
drawn more than 2,800 signa-
tures, also criticized the use of
“Arabian Joe” to brand middle
Eastern foods, “Trader Giotto’s”
for Italian goods, and “Trader Joe
San” for Japanese cuisine.
Trader Joe’s said the naming
conventions were intended to be
playful but acknowledged they
may have had the “opposite ef-
fect.”
“While this approach to prod-
uct naming may have been root-
ed in a lighthearted attempt at
inclusiveness, we recognize that
it may now have the opposite
effect — one that is contrary to
the welcoming, rewarding cus-
tomer experience we strive to
create every day,” company
spokeswoman Kenya friend-
Daniel said.
The grocer said that it already
has changed the packaging on a
number of products and that it
expects to complete the process
“very soon.”
Bedell, an activist and a high
school senior in the San francis-
co Bay area, was glad to see the
announcement from Trader Joe’s
but said she wanted the retailer
to provide a timeline for the
name changes and pull the prod-
ucts in the meantime.
“When anyone chooses to rep-
resent a culture, especially one
that’s not their own, it is neces-
sary to take measures to ensure
that they are not furthering prej-
udice, discrimination or misun-
derstanding, regardless of the
intention,” she said.
Privately held Trader Joe’s
opened its first store in Pasadena,
Calif., in 1967. Today, now head-
quartered in nearby monrovia,
the grocer — known for low
prices and associates in festive
Aloha shirts — has more than 500
locations in 42 states and the
District. Last year, it had an
estimated $13.7 billion in net
sales.
Trader Joe’s is one of several
brands to pivot away from mar-
keting and naming conventions
rooted in racial stereotypes. Last
month, Quaker oats said it would
begin to phase out the Aunt
Jemima name and logo from its
syrup and pancake mix later this
year. The brand had been criti-
cized for years for perpetuating
and profiting from the “mammy”
figure. But nationwide racial jus-
tice protests following the killing
of George floyd in police custody
brought new attention to system-
ic racism in American life, includ-
ing elements of consumer brands
that reinforce stereotypes.
“The Trader Joe’s
branding is racist
because it exoticizes
other cultures.”
Briones Bedell, who launched
a Change.org petition calling
for the grocer to drop some store
brand labels
“We recognize Aunt Jemima’s
origins are based on a racial
stereotype,” Kristin Kroepfl, vice
president and chief marketing
officer of parent company Quak-
er foods North America, said last
month.
The companies behind Cream
of Wheat porridge, Uncle Ben’s
rice and mrs. Butterworth’s pan-
cake syrups also have committed
to reviewing and changing their
product names and packaging,
after relying on branding that
evokes racist stereotypes of sub-
servience.
And after two decades of re-
sisting calls to change the name
of the Washington football fran-
chise, which has been protested
as a slur against Native Ameri-
cans, the National football
League team announced it will
retire the name, and is expected
to choose a new one before the
regular season begins in Septem-
ber.
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A20 EZ RE the washington post . tuesday, july 21 , 2020

Ashley Love, 31 Sealiena Cox Robert Bates, 70 Cynthia Boren, 65

Enterprise Rent-a-Car
“I filed for unemployment on March 29th, but
payments stopped in early June and I haven’t
received anything since.”
Self-employed house cleaner;
hasn’t worked since mid-March
“My income went to zero, and it’s been really
difficult. My goal was to buy a house next year,
but that’s going to have to wait.”
Independent oil and gas engineer;
hasn’t worked since January
“I sold my home, and I’m closing in 21/2 weeks
because I need the cash.”
Wig store owner; has been trying to file
for unemployment since April 4
“I hope today is the end of this trip. It’s been a
hardship. Imagine no salary since April. Thank
God I had a little money saved.”

‘It’s a struggle right now

for everybody’
BY A NNIE G OWEN | PHOTOS BY N ICK O XFORD

With nearly 50 million filing for unemployment claims across

Elijah Zuniga, 19
Did trade show setup and teardown;
laid off in April
“I’ve had to be more dependent on my family
members. With unemployment, I’ll be able to start
saving up to get back on my own feet . . . again.”
the country since the pandemic began, thousands of desperate
people have waited in long lines in places such as Kentucky and
Alabama where benefits have been backed up, hampered by
antiquated systems and poor staffing.
Oklahoma has been having supersize events at convention
centers to process about 6,000 claims so far. On July 15, more than
1,000 people waited outside an arena in Tulsa — some of whom had
begun lining up the night before, sleeping in their cars — for one of Gonzalo Ruiz, 45
these events. Nick Oxford photographed some of these individuals Machinist; laid off in June
and asked them to share their stories.
“Right now it’s hard. All of the temp agencies I
applied at, I still have no answer from them. We
maxed out our last credit card and are down to
zero now.”

Shaniqua Coleman
Fraud Department at Oklahoma Employment
Security Commission; working at event
“I love helping people; it’s a humbling experience
to hear all of these different people’s stories.”
Jamie Young and grandson Carter
Restaurant manager whose hours
have been cut in half
“I’ve been late on insurance, car payment and
pretty much everything. It’s a struggle right now
for everybody. I don’t know how people that
don’t have family and friends have made it.”
Michael Henry, 62
Machinist; laid off June 1
“We had to cut back on helping our kids and
grandkids financially. I know God is going to
take care of this; he always has and always will.”
John Hill, 41
Macy’s distribution center; laid off in March
“Bills are still coming in, and I’ve got kids to take
care of. I’m a disabled veteran, and I’ve been
surviving on my benefits. I was doing pretty good
before the outbreak happened, and it’s been
pretty rough for me.”

Susan Taylor, 62 Charles Woodard, 47 Mecca Beard, 40 Wilmer Vargas, 32

Oil and gas data management;
laid off early March
“We’re thinking ahead for what the future may
hold . . . You’ve got to think about how you’re going
to feed your family.”
Mechanic and construction;
hasn’t worked since March
“I live with my dad, and he . . . has been taking care
of me while I haven’t had a job. I hope I can get some
money to give back to my dad and help him out.”
Nurse; furloughed in March Waiter and law student; laid off in March
“I had to make some agreements with creditors “The frustration of not being able to go to work
and gave my landlord 30 days’ notice to move in has created a void in my life. Anxiety builds up
with my family.” very quickly when you’re missing that paycheck.”
tuesday, july 21 , 2020 . the washington post eZ sU A21

Frustration rises as hundreds camp out in Oklahoma unemployment lines

unemploymenT from A1
pandemic began, nearly 50 mil-
lion workers have filed unemploy-
ment claims nationwide, a flood
that’s overwhelmed some states,
freezing antiquated computer sys-
tems and jamming websites and
phone lines for days. State benefit
agencies in some parts of the
country have evoked memories of
Great Depression bread lines.
many have been struggling to
get their regular unemployment
benefits as well as the $600-a-
week federal pandemic unem-
ployment assistance passed in
march that begins running out for
millions of Americans later this
week. Congress returned monday
to begin hammering out the de-
tails of another massive coronavi-
rus package, with republicans as-
sembling a $1 trillion package that
probably will extend but reduce
the size of that benefit. Democrats
are backing a more wide-ranging
$3 trillion relief bill passed by the
House in may.
In oklahoma, one of the poor-
est states, unemployment —
which reached a record 14.7 per-
cent in April — has pushed many
to the point of desperation, with
savings depleted, cars repos-
sessed and homes being sold for
cash.
Even though the unemploy-
ment rate dropped to 6.6 percent
in June, the backlog has created
unprecedented delays. oklahoma
had approved 235,000 of about
590,000 filed claims by June 21 —
a total $2.4 billion payout, far
more than in previous years.
About 6,000 state claims are
pending.
The oklahoma Employment
Security Commission staff has
tried to combat the delays by hold-
ing mega-processing events at
large arenas in oklahoma City
and Tulsa this month, with masks
and social distancing required. So
far, they’ve managed to help 6,200
people.
Jolley’s unemployment claim
was approved in march but has
been stalled, a problem that hasn’t
been fixed after nine phone calls
and hours on hold with the oESC.
The 58-year-old single father
arrived in the parking lot of the
river Spirit Expo center in Tulsa
around 9 p.m. on a sultry night
with a heat index approaching
100 degrees. The landmark 75-
foot statue of the Golden Driller —
a nod to Tulsa’s oil and gas hub —
towered over one side of the dark
parking lot, his face painted over
with a surgical mask.
Dozens more sat in the parking
lot overnight with Jolley, unable to
get their questions answered
through the unemployment agen-
cy’s overloaded phone system.
Some said they had been notified
their claim was denied as fraudu-
lent. Jolley quickly bonded with
the woman in the next car over, a
manicurist named Cindy La, 60,
the two swapping tips on how they
thought the event would unfold.
That afternoon, as Jolley gath-
ered up the paperwork he’d need
for his claim, he felt a sense of
sadness as profound as anything
he’d felt since the pandemic be-
gan.
“It’s a very dark feeling,” he said.
“You just kind of feel like you’re in
a boat without a rudder and you’re
riding the waves. After all these
years you worked hard at your
company, tried to be a good guy
and be fair to your clients, you just
feel like you’re losing control of
your future.”
old computers, new careers
At 4:30 a.m., several oESC staff-
ers emerged from the convention
center to hand out the appoint-
ment numbers. The process quick-
ly degenerated into a free-for-all,
the crowd growing restive, push-
ing and shoving to get the limited
supply of appointment tickets. Jol-
ley moved to the front of the line,
trying to protect his new friend,
La, by reaching down and pluck-
ing two tickets — number 69 for
her and number 64 for him.
others were not so lucky. The
numbers quickly ran out, and peo-
ple were told they had to return
the following day. Eventually,
staffers referred people to the
three new events added for the
coming week because of the de-
mand.
Ashley Love, 31, a former cus-
tomer advocate for Enterprise
rent-A-Car, had risen at 4 a.m. to
take her 2-year-old daughter to
her mother’s home before head-
ing to the convention center, only
to be told she had to come back the
next day. She was laid off in march,
when the pandemic nearly oblit-
erated the travel industry. Her
benefits inexplicably stopped four
weeks ago, the agency website say-
ing only she was on a “verification
hold.”
“It’s appalling, I don’t under-
stand how they can do this to
people,” Love said. “one day, I
called 15 times in two hours, and
they either don’t answer or take
your calls and hang up on you.”
Love was getting down to the
last she has, having run through
$4,000 in savings. Even before her
benefits froze, she was getting
only about $137 a week, plus $600
a week from the federal govern-
ment’s pandemic emergency as-
sistance program, due to expire
John Jolley, 58, speaks with a staffer at an unemployment benefits event in Tulsa last week.
around the end of the month. Her
regular monthly bills — rent, car
payment, insurance — are $2,091
a month.
She has continued her search
for a job, even contemplating
whether she should “find Some-
thing New” — as the White
House’s new ad campaign had
suggested — researching how she
could get certification to start a
career in teaching.
Shelley Zumwalt, the interim
director of oklahoma’s unemploy-
ment agency, said the state’s sys-
tem uses a mainframe computer
from 1978 that was quickly over-
whelmed by the volume of claims.
“my first day, I sat down with
one of the claims agents and said,
‘Show me what you do,’ and a
green screen popped up and she
pushed f9,” Zumwalt said. “That
was the clearest thing to me that I
was dealing with a technology
that was older than I am.”
She launched the series of more
than a dozen mega-events July 1
after several days in June when
desperate people began showing
up to the oESC office in oklahoma
City and waiting in line with cool-
ers, camp chairs and tents.
“I’m not okay with people hav-
ing to camp out to get their claims
processed,” she said.
Some who showed up at the
event had received notes from the
oESC that they had been ap-
proved for unemployment bene-
fits when they hadn’t yet applied,
convinced they had been victims
of fraud. Zumwalt said that about
90,000 claims have been flagged
as fraudulent.
Last month, the U.S. Labor De-
partment’s office of Inspector
General, working with the oESC,
said it had stopped payment on
3,800 unemployment insurance
claims, including 1,300 filed from
IP addresses in London, saving
the state nearly $16 million.
many real oklahomans in need
of assistance are suffering
through the complicated unem-
ployment process, too. The state
has rejected more than half of the
unemployment claims filed
through June 21, some for gig or
self-employed workers who must
be denied regular unemployment
insurance before they can qualify
for the federal government’s Pan-
demic Unemployment Assis-
tance, Zumwalt said.
many who showed up at the
Tulsa convention center were nav-
igating government assistance for
the first time, such as Sarah miller,
29, a single mother of three who
was told not to come back to her
job as a nursing home aide after
she experienced symptoms con-
sistent with covid-19 in march.
Her unemployment claim has
been pending since April 12.
“I need this. I need it,” she said.
“I’ve never been one to do unem-
ployment, but with all that’s going
on, I don’t really have any other
nIck oxford for The WashInGTon PosT
option. I have to be home with my
kids; I can’t afford to pay a babysit-
ter or do day care. Got to do what I
got to do.”
‘We’re all glitches’
Jolley had time to go home
before his 6:30 a.m. appointment,
shower and change into cargo
shorts and a shirt printed with
tiny steaks and barbecues. He was
among the first into the cavernous
Expo center, where claims seekers
sat down in folding chairs six feet
apart.
Staffers handed out bottles of
water, Kind granola bars and a
flier that advertised drive-up dis-
tribution at the local food pantry,
“Soup’s on at the Community
Kitchen.” Jolley tucked the flier
along with other documents in a
blue folder he labeled “Unemploy-
ment.”
As he waited for his name and
number to be called, Jolley looked
around at the others sitting in
their socially distanced chairs and
was reminded of the animated
Disney movie “Wreck-It ralph,”
which he watches with his 7-year-
old, Pearl. In it, ralph is a lumber-
ing video game villain who hopes
to restart his life by helping a
video game princess stuck in a
computer glitch.
In a way, everyone in this room
is a glitch, he said, just like Prin-
cess Vanellope in the movie.
“People that are here, we’re all
glitches,” he said. “We fell through
the cracks. The computer system
didn’t work for us.”
Jolley has a degree in petro-
leum engineering but started Big
Guys Inc. advertising in 1995 as a
hedge against the ups and downs
of the oil market. for a long time,
the company provided a good liv-
ing, even during the 2008 reces-
sion. He sells ad space for mom-
and-pop businesses — tree trim-
mers, DUI lawyers — posted in
bathrooms in airports, restau-
rants and concert venues.
“It’s a captive audience with
disposable income,” he quipped,
that old joke. “or it was before
this.”
He had always thought he
would do this until he retired,
especially after life dealt him the
surprise of Pearl and he became a
single dad at 50. Now, he was just
hoping his misfortune would be
temporary, that business would
revive as things normalized, with
concerts and other events sup-
posed to restart in oklahoma in
August.
When his name was called, he
went behind black curtains where
claims agents were working on
their ancient computer program.
He gave a written summary of his
many contacts with the agency to
Ashley Testerman, an agent in a
black cotton mask.
“I brought a cheat sheet,” he
said.
“You have no payments; let’s see
if you are in the system,” she said.
In the end, after all that — the
numerous phone calls, the hours
wasted on hold, the evening spent
sleeping in his car — all that was
needed was a working PIN num-
ber, and Jolley was able file claims
for all the weeks he had missed
since April.
“I feel so relieved,” he said after-
ward, joking he might do a Jed
Clampett-like jig in the parking lot
on his way out the door. But the joy
would be temporary. His last so-
bering exchange with the claims
agent stuck in his mind.
“We don’t know what the future
holds,” he had said. “What hap-
pens if everything shuts down
again?”
What then?
annie.gowen@washpost.com
Julie Tate contributed to this report.

Panel to vote on Trump’s Fed pick

BY R ACHEL S IEGEL
Judy Shelton, the controversial
economist known for her sharp
criticism of the federal reserve, is
poised to take a big step toward
joining the central bank’s board,
adding a new layer of political
tension as policymakers deal with
the worst economic crisis in de-
cades.
The Senate Banking, Housing
and Urban Affairs Committee is
set to vote Tuesday on Shelton’s
nomination, which previously ap-
peared in jeopardy after several
republicans on the panel suggest-
ed Shelton’s views made her too
much of an outlier for a seat on the
fed’s board of governors. Law-
makers and economists have
raised concerns about Shelton’s
push to return the country to the
gold standard, along with her
views that the fed should pull
back its powers and keep closer
ties to the White House.
After her confirmation hearing
in february, Sen. Patrick J. Toomey
(r-Pa.) said he was unsure wheth-
er Shelton could uphold the cen-
tral bank’s independence. Sen.
richard C. Shelby (r-Ala.) said she
“could be an outlier.” But both
lawmakers have since said they
will vote to confirm her, and on
monday, a spokesperson for John
Neely Kennedy (r-La.), another
senator who had expressed con-
cerns, said he would also support
the nomination, essentially guar-
anteeing full backing among the
13 republicans on the committee.
The fed board has been operat-
ing with two empty seats since
several of President Trump’s previ-
ous picks, including business ex-
ecutive Herman Cain and conser-
vative economist Stephen moore,
failed to rally enough support and
withdrew over personal incidents.
All 12 Democrats on the Senate
Banking Committee opposed
Shelton’s nomination from the
start. This month, Democratic
committee members called for an-
other hearing so that Shelton
could be pressed on the current
economic crisis.
“We are now in an economic
crisis worse than the one Dr. Shel-
ton was asked about at her confir-
mation hearing,” the senators
sarah sIlbIGer/GeTTy ImaGes
Judy Shelton has criticized the
Fed for having too much power.
wrote to committee Chairman
mike Crapo (r-Idaho) after a vote
date was announced. “Based on
her answers at the hearing, we are
deeply concerned that the situa-
tion we are in today would have
been worse if Dr. Shelton were
already sitting on the Board of
Governors.”
In addition to criticizing the
fed for having too much power,
Shelton has maintained that the
country should link the U.S. dollar
to gold, silver or some other
benchmark so that its value fluctu-
ates less. The gold standard was
abandoned by U.S. economists
and policymakers decades ago.
Shelton also has advocated for
closer connections between the
central bank and the White
House, despite the fact that the
fed stakes much of its reputation
on being politically independent.
Shelton was an adviser to Trump’s
2016 presidential bid and has ad-
vocated that the fed’s power over
the economy needs to be reined in.
Shelton’s views have raised par-
ticular concerns among lawmak-
ers and economists who argue
that Trump has exerted extreme
public pressure on the fed in a way
that undermines the central
bank’s authority. Before the cur-
rent crisis, Trump routinely at-
tacked fed Chair Jerome H. Powell
for not doing enough to stimulate
the economy. more recently,
Trump dubbed Powell his “most
improved player.”
The fed’s ability to steer clear of
the political fray has proved espe-
cially tricky during the current
crisis. from mask-wearing to state
reopenings, the country’s public
health and economic response to
the pandemic has become inter-
twined with partisan fanfare.
Shelton’s nomination would add
another layer of political tension
to the fed’s efforts to steer the
economy toward recovery.
on Tuesday, the Senate Banking
Committee also will vote on the
nomination of Christopher J.
Waller, a St. Louis fed economist.
Waller’s nomination has been far
less controversial.
If approved by the Senate, Shel-
ton would fill a slot on the fed’s
seven-seat board. But there is wide
speculation that if Trump is re-
elected, he would not renominate
Powell when the chair’s term ex-
pires in 2022. If Shelton replaces
Powell, her critics say, she could
harness much more power over
the country’s economy.
David Wilcox, former director
of the fed’s Division of research
and Statistics, said he worried that
Shelton’s skepticism of the fed as
an independent body would cause
her to use a seat as “an integrated
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Grocery chain Winn-Dixie reverses course, will require masks Payroll tax
BY L AURA R EILEY cut won’t
tweeted a picture of himself in a
black mask and called mask-
This is not the first time in
recent weeks that Winn-Dixie has
“Stronger Together. Winning
Together. Let’s help each other
stay safe,” says the coronavirus
do trick in
wearing patriotic.
“It had absolutely nothing to
do with President Trump’s tweet,”
swum against the stream. In
June, in response to the Black
Lives Matter movement, many
Web page of Southeastern Gro-
cers, parent company of Winn-
Dixie, which operates hundreds
current jam
Caldwell said.
Winn-Dixie has about 500
stores in Alabama, Florida, Geor-
organizations and municipalities
expunged the word “Dixie” from
their names because of its con-
of stores across the South. gia, Louisiana and Mississippi, all nections with slavery and the
And yet, Winn-Dixie waited states that went for Donald Confederacy. There are things
until late Monday to announce Trump in the 2016 election. Within hours of a report on that make great
that it will be joining the stam- Trump wore a mask publicly for TMZ that Winn-Dixie was consid- sense in theory
pede of large grocery retailers the first time July 11 during a visit ering changing its 100-year-old but make no sense
requiring customers to wear to a military hospital but until name, Caldwell, the Southeastern in the actual
masks in their stores. The compa- Monday had been otherwise dis- Grocers spokesman, said in a world in which we
ny said it will require masks as of missive about mask-wearing. statement that the company had Deals live. President
July 27. As many grocers did at the no immediate plans to do that, allan Sloan Trump’s idea of
Walmart, Target, CVS, Wal- outset of the pandemic, South- although it affirmed support for eliminating (or
greens, Kroger and Publix an- eastern Grocers adjusted store the Black Lives Matter move- modifying or
nounced last week that they will hours in March to provide addi- ment. who-knows-what-ing) the Social
mandate mask-wearing at stores tional time for restocking and edWArd KernS ii/MediAPunch/iPX/ASSociATed PreSS “At Southeastern Grocers we’re Security-Medicare payroll tax as
nationwide. The National Retail extra cleaning. On June 25, Winn- Winn-Dixie has about 500 stores in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, committed to cultivating an in- part of an economic stimulus
Federation has encouraged retail- Dixie stores resumed normal op- Louisiana and Mississippi. Donald Trump won all those states in 2016. clusive culture and community package is a classic example of
ers to set nationwide mask poli- erating hours, eliminating that that promotes belonging, inclu- something that makes no sense
cies to protect shoppers and em- extra time for store cleaning, even to enforce mask requirements. At freedom!” Others tweeted their sion and diversity. As such, we in the real world.
ployees, and nearly 30 states now as coronavirus cases continue to stores like one Trader Joe’s in disapprobation: “We will not be stand against racism and support In theory, eliminating or
require masks to be worn in pub- surge across a wide swath of the California, videos of customer shopping at your store. Enjoy the Black Lives Matter movement reducing payroll taxes is the
lic places. United States and states begin conflicts over mask-wearing have your Grim Reaper special.” across our country,” the state- quickest and cleanest way to
Southeastern announced at reversing or slowing reopening gone viral. And mask rage has Bob Hess, 65, is a project man- ment said. stimulate the economy for
the end of last week that Winn- schedules. become a tool in partisan wran- ager for a government contractor Caldwell said Monday that people who have jobs. Suddenly,
Dixie stores would not be requir- And although the grocery gling. in Panama City, Fla. He’s been there were no immediate plans to those people are taking home
ing customers to wear masks be- chain installed floor decals and On July 10, the United Food living in an RV next to his house rename the grocery chain. more money than they were.
cause it did not want to cause plexiglass partitions at registers and Commercial Workers Inter- since Hurricane Michael hit in “Our Winn-Dixie banner has That’s why payroll taxes have
undue friction between custom- and checks workers’ tempera- national Union, representing 1.3 October 2018, waiting for insur- proudly served our communities been cut before to stimulate the
ers and employees. tures daily, it has “allowed” work- million workers — including em- ance money to rebuild. He says for nearly 100 years, however, economy, and it seems to have
“Our associates have seen that ers to wear face masks and gloves ployees of Kroger, Albertsons, the new normal keeps getting many things have changed dur- worked.
mask mandates are a highly rather than requiring them. Safeway, Vons and other major worse. On Sunday he went to his ing that time,” he said. But in our current
charged issue with our custom- While Winn-Dixie has had unions grocery chains — partnered with local Walmart in Lynn Haven. Phil Lempert, editor of Super- environment, it makes no sense
ers. We do not want to put our at times in its past, none of its a coalition of health experts to “They had two of three en- marketGuru.com, says Winn- to cut or eliminate the payroll tax
associates in a position to navi- stores are currently unionized. take out a full-page ad in the New trances closed and were forcing Dixie’s earlier no-mask policy was — paid equally by employees and
gate interpersonal conflict or pro- In an editorial last week in the York Times calling on governors, everyone to queue up in 92- a dog whistle of sorts, meant to employers — to provide
hibit customers from shopping in Journal of the American Medical members of Congress and the degree heat. My wife and I said align the company with the val- emergency assistance to people
our stores,” Joe Caldwell, director Association, the Centers for Dis- Trump administration to make forget this, let’s buzz over to ues and political stance of its in need and boost the economy,
of corporate communications ease Control and Prevention re- masks mandatory in all 50 states. Winn-Dixie,” he says. customers. which needs all the stimulus it
and government affairs for viewed the latest science showing Customer response to Winn- No lines, no signs about masks, “If you look back a couple can get.
Southeastern Grocers, wrote in that adherence to universal Dixie’s no-mask-required an- almost no customers wearing weeks ago, when Aunt Jemima Let me show you why I say
an email this past weekend. masking policies reduces virus nouncement last week was swift masks. and Eskimo pies came under fire that.
However, on Monday after- transmission. and binary. “If I don’t have to wear a mask [for their cultural insensitivity], For starters, eliminating the
noon, Southeastern reversed its Increasingly, retail employees Some customers took to social I’m not going to,” he says. “I think people were calling for Winn- payroll tax — which is levied on
position, with Caldwell attribut- have been pulled into conflicts media praising the supermarket this has gone way overboard. Dixie to change its name. This is employment income — wouldn’t
ing the change to customer feed- about mask-wearing. A security chain for “offering adults a place Masks are shielding our bodies tied to that. Their core audience is help the tens of millions of
back. The about-face came a little guard at a Family Dollar store in to shop without wearing a mask! from what they are meant to do to Trump supporters,” Lempert said. people who have lost their jobs
more than an hour after Trump Michigan was killed after trying This is America! We should have build up immunity.” laura.reiley@washpost.com since the novel coronavirus
upended the economy.
It’s sort of obvious, if you think
about it. If you don’t have a job,

Thousands of U.S. workers walk out in ‘Strike for Black Lives’
BY J ACOB B OGAGE ic racism that organizers say have the International Brotherhood of government officials to “reimag-
intensified during the pandemic. Teamsters, the American Federa- ine our economy and democracy”
Tens of thousands of workers The “Strike for Black Lives,” as tion of Teachers and dozens of with civil rights in mind. Organiz-
nationwide walked off the job leaders have dubbed the cam- other labor and political groups. ers also called on businesses to
Monday in solidarity with the paign, featured workers from a The campaign is pressing for “dismantle racism, white suprem-
Black Lives Matter movement, broad range of industries. They “an unequivocal declaration that acy, and economic exploitation.”
hoping to draw closer scrutiny to included members of the Service Black Lives Matter” from business In Washington, strikers gath-
the income inequality and system- Employees International Union, and political leaders, and urging ered on Capitol Hill in support of
the Health and Economic Recov-
ery Omnibus Emergency Solu-
tions Act, or Heroes Act, as talks
intensified over a fourth coronavi-
rus relief package. Senate Minori-
ty Leader Charles E. Schumer
(D-N.Y.) joined demonstrators in
New York outside Trump Tower.
Employees at a nursing home out-
side of Los Angeles planned walk-
outs over multiple shifts, and oth-
er workers prepared for a car cara-
van down President Barack
Obama Boulevard on the city’s
west side.
Organizers encouraged people
unable to leave their jobs to take a
knee or break away for 8 minutes
and 46 seconds — the amount of
time a Minneapolis police officer
knelt on the neck of George Floyd,
whose death sparked a national
reckoning on racial justice.
Organizers did not have exact
figures on how many people
walked off the job, but said around
1,500 janitors in San Francisco
struck together. Close to 6,000
nurses from 85 nursing homes in
New York, New Jersey and Con-
necticut picketed outside their
workplaces. Overall, demonstra-
the globe where we are proud to
offer employment opportunities
and learn from our team members
to make the McDonald’s system
stronger,” the company said. “We
believe black lives matter, and it is
our responsibility to continue to
listen and learn and push for a
more equitable and inclusive soci-
ety.”
AT&T call center and logistics
workers in Memphis demonstrat-
ed over similar issues.
“What we’d like them to under-
stand is if they’re going to go out
and advertise that they believe
black lives matter, take the steps
you need to take to protect the
lives of your black employees,”
said Randall LaPlante, a member
of the executive board of the Com-
munications Workers of America
Local 3806. “This is a company
that has all the resources in the
world to slow the spread of the
pandemic and they are failing.”
“Everything we do meets or
exceeds the CDC and local guide-
lines and has been a result of lots
of consultation with medical com-
munity to minimize risk at our
locations,” AT&T said in a state-
ment. “Any suggestion otherwise
is wrong.”
Some companies encouraged
employees to join demonstra-
tions. Airbnb said in a statement
that it shared with employees sug-
gestions on how to join the Strike
for Black Lives movement, and
you’re not paying payroll tax. So
eliminating the payroll tax
wouldn’t put any more money in
your pocket.
And as a class, recently
unemployed people are the ones
most in need of a quick financial
fix. That’s especially true given
the looming July 31 end for some
of the benefits they’ve been
getting under the Cares Act.
Cutting or eliminating the
payroll tax wouldn’t help them in
any way that I can see.
Recently unemployed
people are the ones
most in need of a quick
financial fix.
Even if Congress decides to go
along with what Trump
proposes, once we get to see
what it is, implementing a
payroll tax cut more than
halfway through the year would
be incredibly messy.
Let me explain.
The payroll tax this year
consists of 12.4 percent of an
employee’s first $137,700 of
salary for Social Security and
2.9 percent of all salary for
Medicare. It’s split evenly
between employer and
employee: 6.2 percent each for
Social Security up to $137,700;

Build With tions took place in 200 cities.

Protesters in some cities called
out their employers’ treatment of
authorized workers to take paid
time off to join protests.
In New York, Antoine Andrews,
1.45 percent each on all salary for
Medicare.
If the year were just starting

A Name You Trust hourly workers, many of whom

are black. McDonald’s employees
outside St. Louis marched for
higher wages and workers in De-
troit called for more workplace
protections against the coronavi-
rus, according to SEIU.
McDonald’s in a statement said
it had enhanced more than 50
restaurant processes and distrib-
uted more than 100 million face
masks to improve worker safety.
The fast food chain also said many
of its franchisees awarded raises
and bonuses to workers.
L I M I T E D T I M E O F F E R S “McDonald’s unequivocally
supports the need for racial equal-
a UPS driver in Long Island City
and member of Teamsters Local
804, helped lead more than 100
employees in a demonstration in
front of their workplace. They did
not strike but wanted to send a
message to their employer to take
issues of inequality seriously.
Andrews invoked the legacy of
late Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the
civil rights leader who marched at
Selma, Ala., in his remarks to co-
workers. “If you see something
that’s not fair, not right, not just,
we have a moral obligation to do
something about it.”
jacob.bogage@washpost.com
or just about to start, it would be
relatively simple for employers
to cut back or eliminate the
payroll tax to put more money in
employees’ pockets. And possibly
in their own pockets, as well.
But we’re in the second half of
July. Which means that
employees who’ve managed to
keep their jobs have been paying
payroll tax for close to eight
months. As have their employers.
Are you going to have the
Treasury send employees (and
possibly employers) refunds of
the Social Security and Medicare
taxes they’ve paid so far this

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tuesday, july 21 , 2020 . the washington post
Dana milbank
WAsHiNGtoN sketcH
America flunks
its cognitive
assessment
W A
e should be relieved that
President Trump claims he
“aced” his cognitive assessment,
including what he calls the “very
hard” last five questions. Such as:
l Identifying the similarity between a
train and a bicycle.
l Repeating the sentence: “The cat al-
ways hid under the couch when dogs were
in the room.”
l And naming at least 11 words beginning
with the letter “F” in one minute.
Forgive me for finding fun and frivolity
in our fearless first minister’s feeble self-
flattery, for his felicitous finesse, fluid facili-
ty and firm familiarity with F-words, far
from folly, are fully fitting, and fundamen-
tally and fantastically fortuitous.
The real question is whether we, as a na-
tion, could pass a cognitive assessment test.
At the moment, we’re struggling with the
national equivalent of distinguishing a lion
from a rhinoceros: 17.8 million Americans
are without jobs — but Trump is pushing to
cut payroll taxes for those who already have
jobs.
Unemployment assistance has held off a
wave of evictions, foreclosures and mass
hunger — but Trump and congressional
Republicans are proposing to cut it.
Schools need new funds so that they can
protect teachers and students from the
virus if they reopen their doors — but
Trump threatened to withhold money from
schools if they don’t open.
The Centers for Disease Control and Pre-
vention and the National Institutes of
Health are struggling to contain the virus
and to get remedies to the public — but
Trump seeks to phase out funding for both,
as well as for testing and contact tracing,
ABC News reports.
The federal government poured trillions
of dollars into coronavirus recovery legisla-
tion, and tens of millions of Americans shel-
tered in their homes to limit the spread —
only for the country to squander both by re-
opening too soon without following public
health guidelines.
State and local governments are hemor-
rhaging cash as they fight the virus — but
instead of providing them relief, congres-
sional Republicans are focused on protect-
ing private businesses from lawsuits if they
make workers sick.
Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Japan, Tai-
wan, South Korea and others are gradually
returning to normal after suppressing the
virus — but the United States is setting re-
cords for new infections: Roughly 900 peo-
ple are dying from the virus every day, and
week-long testing delays make it near im-
possible to quarantine those infected and to
trace their contacts.
Trump has stopped attending coronavi-
rus task force meetings because he does not
have the time, aides told The Post — but he
continued to play golf and to raise cam-
paign money. (He apparently found time
and will resume briefings Tuesday.)
Trump told Fox News’s Chris Wallace
that the United States has the “number one
low mortality rate” — then provided a chart
that did not support the claim.
Trump said he was not seeking to
discredit the government’s top infectious
disease expert, Anthony Fauci — then called
him an “alarmist.”
Trump said Sunday that federal police
have been mobilized in Portland, Ore.,
(against the wishes of state and local au-
thorities) to “protect Federal property”
from “anarchists and agitators” — nine days
after Trump pardoned two men serving
sentences for arson that burned 139 acres of
federal property in Oregon in a case that in-
spired armed militias to seize federal land.
Trump’s acting secretary of homeland se-
curity, Chad Wolf, says the Portland opera-
tion is to stop “lawless” behavior —
achieved by firing tear gas at nonviolent
protesters and having unidentified officers
throwing demonstrators into unmarked
vans without charges.
Trump attributes a recent flare-up in vio-
lence in U.S. cities to Democratic mayors —
who have been running these same cities
for decades. He promises to provide evi-
dence that Democratic challenger Joe
Biden proposes to “abolish” the police —
then fails to provide the evidence. He says
he won’t label Biden “senile” — then says
Biden “doesn’t know he’s alive” and is “men-
tally shot.”
Longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone
seemed to say Saturday during a radio in-
terview with an African American host that
he couldn’t believe he was “arguing with
this Negro” — then he told the New York
Times that he didn’t say the “epitaph,” and
that it wasn’t a slur anyway.
And one-time Trump fan Kanye West,
now mounting his own quixotic presiden-
tial bid, held a campaign event Saturday at
which he said Harriet Tubman “never actu-
ally freed the slaves,” but rather had them
“work for other white people.”
No, our national cognitive assessment is
not promising. But now come the “very
hard” last questions:
Will Republicans, in these final months
before the election, find the elusive courage
to disavow Trump’s madness?
Will the people reject him and his en-
ablers in 105 days?
And, if Trump loses, will all Americans
insist he do what he refused to commit to
on Sunday: honor the will of the people?
If not, we will have earned ourselves a big
fat F.
Twitter: @Milbank
TUESDAY Opinion
Workers install plexiglass dividers on desks at Oakland Heights Elementary School in Meridian, Miss., last week.
Many risks stand in the way
of me being with my students
BY C HRISTINE E SPOSITO
C
ome September, there is no
place I would rather be than in
school with my students, but I
don’t know how that will hap-
pen safely. The American Academy of
Pediatrics “strongly” advocated last
month that “all policy considerations
for the coming school year should
start with a goal of having students
physically present in school.” As a
teacher, I have concerns about how
that can be managed while prioritiz-
ing the safety of both children and the
adults who make schools function.
I accept that teaching is only one
aspect of the job I love. I’ve accepted
that I spend hundreds of dollars of my
own money every year to buy books,
supplies and other classroom materi-
als because schools are chronically
underfunded. I’ve accepted that in
the absence of humane paid-leave
policies, parents often choose be-
tween sending sick children to school
and risking their jobs. I’ve accepted
that I ask friends at least twice a year
to donate food to our “snack closet”
because ending childhood poverty
and the many hardships that encom-
pass it seems to be beyond our society.
I’ve accepted that I might have to lock
my students in that snack closet one
day because reasonable gun control
seems to be beyond our society.
Now, educators are being asked to
accept returning to our classrooms
during a pandemic. Many U.S. class-
rooms are in aging, neglected build-
ings. Some classrooms have no win-
dows; others, no windows that open.
Some support staff — occupational
therapists, physical therapists,
speech therapists — work in actual
closets. Some school buildings have
questionable HVAC systems. Even be-
fore the pandemic, the basic supplies
I can’t join both the black and Hispanic
caucuses in Congress. That must change.
BY R ITCHIE T ORRES
W
henever I’m about to enter a
new setting — such as the
New York City Council in
2014 or Congress in 2021 — I
never have the luxury of taking accep-
tance for granted. My life experience
has taught me this. I often wonder: Will
I be accepted for who I am? A gay man,
an Afro-Latino, a millennial sometimes
surrounded by older colleagues with
more experience?
I’m confident that I will be accepted,
indeed embraced, when it comes to the
House Democratic Conference, where
more than 60 percent of members are
women, people of color or LGBTQ, a
level of diversity without precedent in
the history of American politics.
But there is a caveat: The question of
who I am racially will likely run into the
binary buzz saw of caucus politics.
There is an antiquated rule that prohib-
its members of Congress from joining
both the Congressional Black Caucus
and the Congressional Hispanic Cau-
cus. The wall of separation between the
CBC and CHC ignores the realities of
racial identity, which feels especially
tone-deaf in this present moment. You
have to pick a side, so to speak. You can
be either black or Latino but never
both. In real life, however, I am both. We
Afro-Latinos refuse to be divided
against ourselves by an arbitrary rule
that bears no relation to how we experi-
ence identity in the real world.
Although an anachronism in our
own time, the rule might have had its
place at one point in history. Founded
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in many classrooms, including hand
sanitizer, disinfecting wipes and tis-
sues, were donated by parents. In
many places, class sizes would need to
be halved or cut by two-thirds to
enforce safe distancing.
We’ve all seen how a lack of a
coordinated federal response affects
hospitals and essential workers. Re-
opening schools will not mean a
return to the school experience we
remember. It’s unclear what school
looks like going forward. What hap-
pens when a student or teacher gets
sick, or when one of their family
members gets sick? How do we help
parents when their child is sick yet
they still must go to work? How will
inevitable staff absences be dealt with
when substitute teachers are hard to
find in ordinary conditions? What
steps are being taken now to ensure
that instruction is meaningful if and
when districts have to return to dis-
tance learning? How do we better
support parents when that day
comes? What does recess look like?
What do school breakfast and lunch
look like? How can movement be
safely incorporated into classrooms
— not just for activities but because
kids rarely hold still for long — while
maintaining safe distances?
I’m worried for my students. I want
them in school. They need social
interaction; they need to learn.
School has always been about more
than academics, a fact painfully ham-
mered home this spring. We would all
like to get back to normal, and going
back to school offers a glimpse of the
existence we miss.
Whether schooling takes place in
person or at a distance, though, this
academic year will be unlike previous
years. Children will be dealing with
layer upon layer of trauma; educators
need to make time and space for that.
about a half-century ago, both caucuses
were intent on establishing their politi-
cal power and creating space for the
issues affecting their communities.
When President Richard M. Nixon
refused to meet with the Congressional
Black Caucus, the CBC famously boy-
cotted his 1971 State of the Union
address, citing his “consistent refusal to
hear the pleas and concerns of black
Americans.” The action pressured Nix-
on to appoint a special committee to
look into their list of recommendations.
After the 1976 elections, the Congres-
sional Hispanic Caucus pressured Pres-
ident Jimmy Carter to appoint more
Latinos after denouncing the lack of
representation in his administration.
There have been many other impor-
tant achievements, but it’s clear these
caucuses have to bring their norms and
rules into the 21st century to expand
their influence and mission. The need
for change is personal and political, as
well as reflective of an evolution in how
we conceptualize race in the United
States. The very idea of intersectionality
tells us to embrace the places at which
identities intersect, rather than create
false choices between them. I am both
black and Latino — there’s no need to
artificially barricade one from the other.
Racial identity is chosen and given. It
is as much a product of the world’s
perception of you as it is of your own
conception of yourself.
When the world looks at me, it sees a
black man, and that blackness — both
real and perceived — has tangible con-
sequences. I’m among the hundreds of
thousands who were humiliated at the
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Most U.S. schools closed for some
portion of the spring. If students are
behind, they’re behind some arbi-
trary lines that educators and admin-
istrators drew that might need to be
amended to reflect today’s reality. We
need to meet kids where they are. I
don’t want to hear one word about
testing, unless it involves a nasal or
throat swab. Not. One. Word.
Teachers might be expected to
teach more content in less time to
more students. Parents will be jug-
gling work and children who might be
distance-learning or participating in
a hybrid schedule. We need policies
that reflect that we all want what’s
best for our children. Teachers and
families need to offer each other
grace.
The American Academy of Pediat-
rics said this month: “The pandemic
has reminded so many . . . that educa-
tors are invaluable in children’s lives
and that attending school in person
offers children a wide array of health
and educational benefits. For our
country to truly value children, elect-
ed leaders must come together to
appropriately support schools in safe-
ly returning students to the class-
room and reopening schools.”
Teachers, custodians, bus drivers,
instructional assistants and other
school staff need the public to help us
open schools safely in the coming
months. That means wear a mask.
Stay home. Support favorite restau-
rants by continuing to order takeout.
Be intentional about when and why
you go out. People who don’t do those
things but want me in class in Sep-
tember are asking me to make far
bigger sacrifices than the ones they’ve
been willing to make so far.
the writer teaches third- and fourth-
graders in charlottesville city schools.
hands of the New York City Police
Department during the height of stop
and frisk, an aggressive police tactic
that targeted mostly black men and was
ruled unconstitutional as applied in the
city. As a black man within the Latino
community, I have felt the pain of
colorism, including at the hands of my
own family. My Afro-Latino identity
enables me to see racism intersectional-
ly, within multiple cultures and across
multiple spheres, such as the criminal
justice system, education and immigra-
tion, to name but a few.
Since the “either-or” rule is a policy of
the Congressional Black Caucus, I have a
personal plea to make to my future
colleagues there: Expecting Afro-
Latinos such as myself to be politically
alienated from our own blackness — at a
time when Black Lives Matter has be-
come the rallying cry of a racially awak-
ened nation — is the cruelest of ironies.
When the CBC has internal debates
about issues affecting black people — as
it surely will in 2021, when I hope to
enter Congress — I, as a black man, have
a right to have a seat at that table.
Denying that would do great harm not
only to me but to the hundreds of
thousands of African Americans and
Afro-Latinos I will likely represent in
the South Bronx.
This is something I cannot accept. I
am an agitator when I need to be, and
agitate I will until this exclusionary rule
is gone for good.
the writer, a Democrat, is a candidate for
New York’s 15th congressional District in
the House of representatives.
CatheRine Rampell
The jobless
still need that
extra cash
federal program providing finan-
cial aid to 30 million jobless Ameri-
cans is set to expire this week. The
money has helped struggling fami-
lies pay their bills and put food on the table
— and kept many retailers and landlords
afloat.
Unless Congress acts fast, America’s
fragile economic recovery is poised to
nosedive off a cliff.
Traditional state unemployment insur-
ance benefits replace, on average, only
about 40 percent of a worker’s lost wages.
As concerns about the pandemic’s impact
grew in March, Congress created a federal
“top-up” payment to supplement state-
level unemployment benefits. Congress
wanted to give workers enough money to
replace 100 percent of their lost wages, but
embarrassingly ancient government IT sys-
tems made it virtually impossible to link
benefits to a specific share of workers’ lost
pay. Lawmakers instead settled on a flat
$600 extra per week, for every worker, an
amount chosen because it was roughly
enough to make the average jobless worker
whole.
Inevitably, some idled workers have
been receiving more in unemployment
benefits than they did in their pre-
pandemic paychecks. Now, economic ad-
visers to President Trump argue that these
benefits are too generous — and are the real
reason unemployment remains so high:
Workers are allegedly being treated to a
collective, government-sponsored vacation
and refuse to return to their jobs.
Outside adviser Stephen Moore even
recently claimed that “the single most
important thing we have to do going
forward” to improve the U.S. economy is to
“stop the $600-a-week payments.” Not, say,
curbing the spread of covid-19 or safely
expanding child-care reopenings.
During normal times — that is, in a
healthy economy, with ample job opportu-
nities — it would be reasonable to worry
that generous unemployment benefits dis-
courage recipients from taking available
jobs.
But the main problem now is that there
just aren’t many jobs available.
Job vacancy postings are still down
about a quarter from precrisis levels. And
while it seems possible that, on the margin,
some workers might turn down work be-
cause they want to keep getting that gov-
ernment cheese, the generosity of benefits
do not, on net, appear to be holding back
employment growth.
“So far, there is no evidence that the
[federal $600 payments] had either job
finding or job leaving effects in the May and
June data,” according to a detailed analysis
of Labor Department data from Ernie
Tedeschi, Evercore ISI’s head of fiscal anal-
ysis.
Even Republicans’ star witness in a
recent Senate hearing about whether bene-
fits were too lavish — a small-business
owner whose employees had grumbled
because their laid-off colleagues were earn-
ing more on the dole — acknowledged that
he had no trouble rehiring all his workers:
“I was very happy that no one refused to
come back,” he testified, “and everybody
when I talked to them was in agreement
and said ‘Fine, we’ll see you tomorrow.’ ”
This makes sense, given current eco-
nomic conditions.
Fatter though those benefit checks may
be, workers know that they’re temporary.
Most don’t want to burn a bridge by
turning down a job offer when unemploy-
ment remains at its highest levels since the
Great Depression. And federal and state
rules already require people to lose their
benefits if they refuse “suitable work.”
Besides, to the extent that people are
reluctant to return to work, concerns about
infection risk and lack of child care may
weigh more heavily on their decisions than
unemployment checks.
While evidence is thin that the federal
benefit is discouraging work, evidence is
abundant that the program has boosted
consumer spending.
Research from the JPMorgan Chase In-
stitute suggests that the additional $600
has had a huge bang for its buck and has
been a major contributor to the recovery
thus far in consumer spending.
Tedeschi, of Evercore ISI, estimates that
allowing the enhanced benefit program to
lapse would lead to a 2 percent reduction in
gross domestic product by year’s end. Even
scaling back the federal aid — by, say,
halving it to $300 per week, as lawmakers
are reportedly considering — would result
in a sizable hit to GDP, around 1 percent
this year.
The blow would be especially painful in
some states with high unemployment; in
Nevada, for instance, these enhanced bene-
fit payments are the equivalent of 11 per-
cent of personal income statewide.
Look, the current benefit design
shouldn’t continue as-is forever. At some
point, as economic conditions normalize,
jobless benefits greater than workers’ ex-
pected wages will disincentivize work.
That’s why it’s a good idea to phase out the
$600 bonus as the economy recovers, and
link benefit levels to state economic and
public health conditions. Also helpful
would be some kind of pandemic-related
earned-income tax credit, to reward (and
enhance the spending power of ) those who
do get jobs.
But with the U.S. economy still in a coma,
it’s not the time to withdraw life support.
crampell@washpost.com
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Time is running out to make voting safe
Congress needs to step up with election funding — now.
C
ONGRESS HAS several urgent tasks and little
time to complete them. One is to help ensure
the legitimacy of the nation’s democracy by
giving the states the assistance they need to
hold an election during a pandemic.
Certainly the states should not be left to struggle
through the November election as they have through
primary season, with fiascoes in places as different as
D.C., Georgia, New York and Wisconsin. The prob-
lems were varied: long lines; no-show election work-
ers; massive polling place closures; confused voters;
unclear mail-in voting procedures; failure to count
ballots within a reasonable amount of time; election
website collapses; unnecessary voting requirements.
The common denominator was state leaders who
blundered their way through a coronavirus election
— and a federal government that has long failed to
encourage high standards through funding and
guideline-setting.
Elections in the United States were already an
international embarrassment, with underfunding
and incompetence in too many jurisdictions. Now, in
Mr. Trump’s
Portland war
His deployment is not
designed to bring peace.
T
HE RIGHT to protest is enshrined in the
Constitution; any attempt by government to
squelch it forcibly is an affront to our most
cherished values. Vandalism and violence of
the sort that, for more than a month, have attended the
mostly peaceful protests in Portland, Ore., are differ-
ent: antithetical to public order, a blow to blameless
property owners and, as a political matter, a gift to
President Trump.
The president is a master of distraction and misdi-
rection; predictably, he has seized on the disorder in
Portland to deflect attention from the pandemic and to
exploit the country’s deepening tribal divisions, which
have served his political purposes so well. In the name
of restoring order, he has weaponized law enforcement
officers, uniformed as shock troops. Rather than de-
escalate, they seem deployed to inflame what was
already a volatile series of daily demonstrations.
The troops — they can only be called that given their
weapons, tactics and aggressivity — share the unac-
countable-by-design traits of those in banana repub-
lics and autocracies. They travel in unmarked vehicles,
snatch protesters from the streets without probable
cause and bear no clearly visible identification by
name or agency.
Administration officials say they have deployed
personnel to Portland from U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border
Protection, both overseen by an unconfirmed acting
secretary of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf. Mr. Wolf is
a political operative who worked for Republican sena-
tors and as a lobbyist; his brief previous policy roles in
government afforded him minimal experience in law
enforcement — and it shows.
It serves Mr. Trump’s purposes that some small
percentage of Portland’s protesters identify them-
selves as antifa, the amorphous left-wing fringe move-
ment. That fact, along with acts of violence against
police and property, have enabled the president and
his acolytes to smear them all as anarchists and
China and Iran vs. the U.S. on trade
Beijing’s leadership likely perceives a moment of critical weakness in the Trump administration.
T
HE TRUMP administration’s “maximum
pressure” campaign against Iran has mani-
festly failed to achieve either its stated or
unstated aims: It has not forced Iran to
renegotiate the nuclear accord from which Presi-
dent Trump unwisely withdrew; nor has it ended
Iranian aggression in the Middle East or caused the
regime of Ali Khamenei to collapse. Now it may
result in a powerful new blow to U.S. interests, in the
form of an Iranian partnership with China that
could rescue Iran’s economy while giving Beijing a
powerful new place in the region.
An agreement approved by Iranian President
Hassan Rouhani last month could lead to billions of
dollars in Chinese investments in Iran, in exchange
for a steady and discounted stream of Iranian oil,
according to the New York Times. The deal also
envisages security cooperation, including joint mili-
tary exercises and the sharing of weapons develop-
ment and intelligence, according to an 18-page draft
the Times obtained.
It’s not certain the pact will go forward: It has yet
to be publicly unveiled and must be approved by the
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When I read the July 16 news article “Virginia
adopts nation’s first coronavirus-related workplace
safety rules,” I was enjoying my breakfast on the
patio of a favorite local restaurant on a delightful
morning.
I was dismayed to see a photograph showing a
restaurant worker wearing a mask while serving two
diners who were not wearing masks, despite proxim-
ity to one another.
Good courtesy to our fellow human beings and
smart health guidelines would call for everyone to
be wearing a mask when any restaurant server is
doing his or her job, just as one would be required to
do when entering and exiting the restaurant.
It’s easy enough to take a mask off to enjoy your
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the absence of thoughtful preparation, voters may
have to risk their lives to exercise their right to vote.
That’s unacceptable. The fear of catching covid-19
will deter voters, unless the government assures
people they can vote safely.
Congress has frittered away months instead of
helping states buy new machines to process and
count mail-in ballots. Those would be helpful in a
state such as New York, where primary results took
weeks to be reported. Now, states’ options are
increasingly limited because time is short, and the
challenge will be even larger than the one states
faced over the past few months. Even states that
managed their primaries relatively well may see
their systems overloaded when double the number of
people seek to vote in the general election.
Republicans have tended to resist federal involve-
ment in running elections, arguing that this is a state
and local responsibility. Underlying that objection
may be a fear that higher levels of voting hurts
Republicans, a calculation that has led the GOP to
erect innumerable barriers to voting over the past
TOm TOlEs
afforded him a pretext on which to deploy his counter-
productive troops. They were requested by neither city
nor state officials. With Mr. Trump trailing in the polls
and the coronavirus infecting tens of thousands more
victims daily, Portland may be a forerunner of other
such interventions in liberal cities as Election Day
approaches.
The danger to life, limb and democracy is evident.
One protester, holding up a speaker, was shot in the
head and needed facial reconstruction surgery after he
Iranian parliament, where it could encounter na-
tionalist resistance. But if it does, it will not only
rupture the wall of sanctions that the Trump
administration has constructed in an attempt to
strangle the Iranian economy; it will also mark a
significant escalation of China’s challenge to
U.S. global influence.
As with the mounting U.S. conflict with Iran, that
was not inevitable. The regime of Xi Jinping sup-
ported the pressure campaign against Iran conduct-
ed by the Obama administration as well as the
nuclear accord it led to, which was meant to restrain
Iran’s uranium enrichment and other nuclear devel-
opment for a decade or more. Even after Mr. Trump
withdrew from the deal in 2018, Beijing at first
generally adhered to the new U.S. sanctions, reduc-
ing oil purchases and other trade.
Yet Mr. Trump’s confrontational approach to
China in recent months, including his refusal to
continue work on a comprehensive trade deal, has
given Mr. Xi little incentive to cooperate with
Washington’s geopolitical priorities. On the con-
trary, the Chinese leadership likely perceives a
on to their next guests or tasks.
Nothing short of this level of support for and
respect of each other is required to help ensure we
all have stacked the odds in our collective favor to
stay healthy and reduce the spread of the novel
coronavirus.
This will allow restaurants and other service
businesses that have been closed to reopen safely
and gain the public’s confidence in patronizing them
as they can see and experience how well reopening is
taking place.
Together, this represents the tiniest but important
next step toward normalcy in our lives, one that will
assist small businesses and the economy as a whole
to gain a small foothold toward recovery.
Bob Henig, Columbia
decade. But the need is too obvious and the stakes too
high for further delay or craven partisanship. It is in
fact unclear whether more mail-in voting hurts or
helps the GOP. But that should not matter; if Repub-
licans believe in their ideas and candidates, they
should seek to put them to a fair democratic test.
Congress must send states enough money to
prepare for the fall vote. Though it is late, states could
still hire more polling workers, rent more space in
which to count votes safely, prepare sufficient polling
places for socially distanced in-person voting, find
vendors to print more absentee ballots, pay postage
for people’s mail-in votes and step up voter outreach
to prevent mass confusion — all while securing their
voting systems against foreign interference.
The Cares Act, the first major coronavirus bill,
contained $400 million for election needs, which
many states spent on their primaries. House Demo-
crats, backed by election and national security ex-
perts, have proposed an additional $3.6 billion. As
the Senate acts on the last covid-19 bill before the
election, this funding must be a priority.
picked up a smoke grenade fired in his direction and
rolled it a few feet back whence it came. Another, a
former Navy officer, was beaten, his hand broken, by a
baton-wielding officer; his offense was to try to speak
with the officers. It seems like luck that no one has been
killed — so far.
National hatreds are the organizing principles of
Mr. Trump’s political doctrine and reelection strategy.
He is content with escalation, and his reckless deploy-
ment of forces is designed to deliver it.
moment of critical U.S. weakness as Mr. Trump
flounders amid a health and economic crisis and is
moving to take advantage. It is expanding its
presence in the South China Sea; it is crushing Hong
Kong’s autonomy. Allying itself with the foremost
U.S. adversary in the Middle East opens yet another
front.
Mr. Trump and his aides have directed plenty of
bluster at China in recent weeks, and Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo offered more when the prospec-
tive Iran-China accord came up at a news conference
last week. Pointing to the possibility that China
would sell arms to Iran under the deal, he said that
was reason to extend a U.N. embargo on arms sales
to Iran when it expires in October. Yet that can’t
happen without Beijing’s agreement.
Mr. Pompeo also threatened sanctions against
Chinese companies that do business with Iran.
Again, that might have been a substantial deterrent
before Mr. Trump launched his reckless trade war.
Now, China may perceive it has more to gain by
shielding U.S. adversaries from “maximum pres-
sure” — and demonstrating U.S. impotence.
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Schools on the front line
Regarding the July 13 Metro article “Debate on
returning to classrooms gets political”:
After a 29-year career teaching in Montgomery
County Public Schools, I have been following with
interest the various proposals for reopening schools
across the country.
The pandemic resembles a war, and a military
analogy has often been used to describe workers on
the front line. A compulsory in-person reopening of
schools right now would be rather like reinstating
the military draft. Even with a hybrid plan, the
experience of school under the current guidance
will be about as joyful as boot camp: masks, social
distancing, no cooperative learning, no singing.
More important, there will be a level of health risk
that is still unknown.
School administrators are grappling with a
fraught and unenviable task. Although distance
learning is far from ideal, credit should be given to
those school systems that are erring on the side of
caution and providing this option. At the very least,
everyone (teachers, parents and students) should
be given a choice. In-person participation should be
voluntary, as in the military. It will not be surprising
if many respond with, “Hell no, we won’t go!”
Gail Markowitz, Washington
Getting the causality backward
At least the July 16 news article “Spike in violent
crime follows gun sales increase,” about a report on
gun-buying, noted, “The authors caution that a
study of this nature cannot prove causality, particu-
larly at a time of massive social upheaval in a country
dealing with an unprecedented public health crisis
as well as a nationwide protest movement.”
It’s not that the “gun-buying binge is associated
with a significant increase in gun violence across the
United States”; it’s the significant increase in vio-
lence and civil unrest that’s driving the “gun-buying
binge.”
There has been no evidence that law-abiding
citizens are going out and committing violence with
their newly acquired defensive firearms. There’s no
evidence that demonstrates any racial bias evident
in the rush to purchase firearms. With civil unrest of
any type in which citizens feel threatened, they will
do whatever they feel necessary to defend their
families, homes and businesses — and that cuts
across all racial, ethnic and political lines.
The headline for the article should have read
“Spike in gun sales follows rise in violence and
lawlessness.”
Bruce Blum, Frederick
The cost to the economy
Regarding Michael Gerson’s July 17 op-ed, “Trump
shows how much we had to lose”:
President Trump should focus on resolving the
coronavirus pandemic rather than continuing to
make false claims about the economy.
Far from being the strongest economy ever, the
U.S. economy grew at a rate of only 2.5 percent over
the first three years of the Trump administration.
Total job gains in the United States grew 23 percent
more under then-President Barack Obama’s last
three years (8.1 million) than during Mr. Trump’s first
three years (6.6 million). Real wages also grew faster
— at an average annual rate of 1.1 percent — under
Mr. Obama than under Mr. Trump, under whom real
wages have risen by only 0.6 percent per year.
Finally, Mr. Trump’s tax cuts, rather than paying
for themselves, increased the national debt substan-
tially. His tariffs, rather than growing the economy,
siphoned off millions of dollars from American con-
sumers, farmers and manufacturers.
Alejandro Becerra, Silver Spring
Mr. Pompeo’s ‘principles’
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lecturing us on the
need to return to “our founding principles” was a bit
too much [“We must ground our diplomacy in our
founding principles,” op-ed, July 17].
In his two years at the State Department,
Mr. Pompeo has gladly enabled a divisive, corrupt and
autocratic president. Consider: Mr. Pompeo wrongly
denied he was on the infamous “perfect” phone call in
which President Trump tried to shake down Ukraine’s
president for dirt on former vice president Joe Biden.
Mr. Pompeo also collaborated with Mr. Trump’s attor-
ney Rudolph W. Giuliani in a despicable effort to dig
up dirt on Mr. Biden in Ukraine, and helped to
legitimize a scurrilous implication that Ukraine, not
Russia, was behind 2016 election interference.
Mr. Pompeo has long denied climate change, contin-
ues to fight against anti-pollution efforts and argued
that those seeking to limit our carbon footprint to save
the planet are “worshiping a radical environmental
agenda.” Isn’t protecting our nation from rising tem-
peratures and sea levels an American value?
In his most egregious violation of American decen-
cy, Mr. Pompeo disputed the CIA’s conclusion
(reached with “high confidence”) that Saudi Arabia’s
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the
October 2018 assassination of Post contributing col-
umnist Jamal Khashoggi. Mr. Pompeo lamely argued
there was no “direct evidence” linking the crown
prince to the Khashoggi assassination. As the rest of
us know, autocrats don’t put such orders in writing.
When it comes to restoring American values, I
might suggest The Post consider a more credible
source.
Greg Friedmann, Ashburn
The GOP’s obvious solution
Regarding the July 17 front-page article “Many see
Trump as the core cause of his campaign’s woes”:
It seems as though many Republicans think
President Trump will drag the party down in the
upcoming election. Specifics cited are that the
Trump administration has no clear national plan to
counter the novel coronavirus pandemic that has
already killed at least 137,000 people in the United
States and that Mr. Trump quotes racist remarks and
makes other offensive statements, commuted the
prison sentence of his convicted buddy Roger Stone,
criticized medical expert Anthony S. Fauci and is out
of step with members of his own party. A recent
minor change in his campaign management staff
will probably make little difference.
These Republicans appear to recognize the prob-
lem but are at a loss for the solution. It’s obvious! Vote
for someone who is not hellbent on destroying this
country. I am a former (before Trump) Republican.
Jim Blackburn, Dumfries
tuesday, july 21 , 2020 . the washington post
Michael Gerson
John Lewis
changed
the hardest
hearts
I F
t takes courage to face those who
hate you and wish you harm. But
sometimes it takes almost equal
bravery to oppose your friends.
John Lewis was remarkable for both.
No one ever doubted the physical
bravery part. The civil rights leader was
one of the 13 original Freedom Riders,
many of whom eventually died by
crimes of hate. Lewis was arrested more
than 40 times in causes of conscience.
And he had his skull fractured at the
Edmund Pettus Bridge — one of the
most honorable wounds offered by
American history.
But some of Lewis’s most admirable
moments came shortly before the events
of March 7, 1965. Most other leaders in
the organization Lewis headed, the Stu-
dent Nonviolent Coordinating Commit-
tee (SNCC), opposed the march in Sel-
ma, Ala. Some thought it was a risky
stunt that would have little effect. Some
had given up on the possibility of work-
ing within the system for a strong voting
rights law. According to historian Taylor
Branch, Lewis was “almost alone” in
supporting the march to Montgomery.
“If people want to march, I’m going to
march with them,” Lewis told his skepti-
cal colleagues. “You decided what you
want to do, but I’m going to march.”
This was the lonely decision that
brought Lewis to the bridge on the crisp
March day that would become known as
“Bloody Sunday.” He was effectively sid-
ing with the approach of the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr. — the strategy of disci-
plined, Christian nonviolence — over
King’s critics in the movement. Not long
afterward, this association cost Lewis
dearly. He was ousted as leader of the
SNCC, an organization he helped to
found.
John Lewis was not
a moderate by any
reasonable definition.
He was an advocate,
not just of nonviolence
but of ‘aggressive
non-violent action.’
Lewis was not a moderate by any
reasonable definition. He was an advo-
cate, not just of nonviolence but of
“aggressive non-violent action.” His
speech at the March on Washington was
judged too radical in tone by elders in
the movement. Even his modified text
said: “We are involved in a serious social
revolution. By and large, American poli-
tics is dominated by politicians who
build their careers on immoral compro-
mises and ally themselves with open
forms of political, economic and social
exploitation.”
Yet Lewis sided with King in embrac-
ing a distinctly Christian vision of the
“beloved community.” Lewis believed in
the promise of interracial democracy.
He was an integrationist at a time when
many young activists were turning to
separatism. And he believed that the
movement for civil rights “was based on
the simple truth of the Great Teacher:
love thy neighbor as thyself.”
Lewis’s faith was a source of personal
strength in the face of cruelty. It also
provided a framework for his activism.
Like King, he did not believe in inevita-
ble progress. Lewis did not think that
those who exercise unjust power would
give up their privileges easily. But the
willing embrace of sacrifice in a good
cause could, in his view, break down the
resistance to justice. Redemptive suffer-
ing, Lewis wrote, “opens us and those
around us to a force beyond ourselves, a
force that is right and moral, the force of
righteous truth that is at the basis of all
human conscience.”
Lewis was addressing the primary
decision that all of us face in pursuing
our ideals. Is the answer to hatred the
mobilization of equal and opposite ha-
tred? Or does love have the peculiar
power to break and change the hardest
hearts? Lewis staked his life, again and
again, on the second option.
In the aftermath of events in Selma,
King went to Brown Chapel AME to pay
tribute to the marchers. “If a man hap-
pens to be 36 years old, as I happen to be,
and some great truth stands before the
door of his life, some great opportunity
to stand up for that which is right,” King
said, and “he is afraid his home will get
bombed, or he is afraid that he will lose
his job, or he is afraid that he will be
shot, or beat down by state troopers, he
may go on and live until he is 80, [but]
he’s just as dead at 36 as he would be at
80, and the cessation of breathing in his
life is merely the belated announcement
of an earlier death of the spirit. A man
dies when he refuses to stand up for
what is right. A man dies when he
refuses to stand up for justice. A man
dies when he refuses to take a stand for
that which is true.”
When his breathing stopped at age
80, John Lewis had been a man fully
alive for all of his days.
michaelgerson@washpost.com
A mural of Breonna Taylor stretches across two basketball courts in Annapolis on July 8.
Karen attiah
Black Lives Matter isn’t complete
without #SayHerName
S
even years ago, in July 2013,
activist Opal Tometi took a cue
from her friend Alicia Garza’s
Facebook post and registered the
website BlackLivesMatter.com. Since
then, as we all know, #BlackLivesMatter
has become much more than a hashtag,
animating mass protest in the after-
math of the police killings of black men.
But there’s another facet to this story,
and it’s something new.
Historically, black women have been
pushed to the margins of our protest
movements. This time, black women’s
activism is front and center.
Consider #SayHerName, which has
emerged as a parallel rallying cry for
black women killed, assaulted and
raped by police. This month also marks
the day five years ago that Sandra
Bland, a 28-year-old black woman, was
found dead in a jail cell days after being
taken into custody in Texas over the
trivial infraction of failing to signal a
lane change.
The cases have kept coming. Atatiana
Jefferson, Charleena Lyles, India Kager.
The shooting death of Breonna Taylor
by Kentucky police in March is the most
recent and high-profile example. On
Twitter, celebrities, journalists, artists
and countless others have indeed been
saying her name, along with the viral
Twitter demand: “Arrest the cops who
killed Breonna Taylor.” Artists have
been making sure the world sees her
face, too. Instagram is full of beautiful
portraits of Taylor. Over the Fourth of
July weekend, artists created a 7,000-
square-foot mural of her in Annapolis.
But still, for all the retweets and
Instagram shares, Taylor’s killers walk
free. For all the visibility of black female
activists such as Tometi, Garza, Patrisse
Cullors, Angela Davis and others in this
Team Trump’s emails make me feel so special
BY JEFF DANZIGER
A
recent email from Donald
J. Trump is an exclusive message
for me, unequaled in any inbox in
the country. Nobody else got this
message. Just me. It has just been “un-
locked,” to use the president’s words, as
an “exclusive DOUBLE-ENTRY” offer
just for me. If I act now, I will “automati-
cally be entered TWICE to win a trip to
meet your favorite President at my up-
coming event.”
Ye gods, what good fortune is mine.
And he goes on. “This offer is ONLY for
you, Jeff, so please DO NOT share this.” He
adds, as I doubtless am aware, that this is
a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet
me.” He means himself.
But Team Trump 2020 also sent a
darker message. “We all know that the
DEEP STATE is out to get President
Trump. . . . They hate America, and they
hate true Patriots like Jeff!” (Italics
theirs.)
They continue. Just in time, “President
Trump has activated an EMERGENCY
2020 PRESIDENTIAL DEFENSE
FUND and he’s calling on his most fierce
and loyal defenders to step up to the front
lines of this nasty battle and FIGHT
BACK.”
Nasty? Well, I guess. But they don’t
know the kind of guy they’re dealing with.
“It’s the Deep State vs YOU, Jeff and we
have to remind them that this is your
country, not theirs.” Now I am mad.
After a nap, I calm down. Then an email
arrives from Eric Trump.
“Jeff, Where have you been? Each day
my father sees an updated donor list and
EACH DAY he notices that you STILL
haven’t contributed.”
Eric lures me back. If I contribute any
amount, “you’ll automatically reach VIP
status and become a member of the
Trump VIP Club.” Wowser! I better lie
down. But, no dawdling. “This exclusive
offer expires in ONE HOUR, Jeff. After
ez
moment, justice and protection remain
elusive for black women.
And a challenging question has aris-
en: Are the memes and hashtags help-
ing?
HuffPost culture writer Zeba Blay is
among those who argue that the “me-
meification” of Taylor’s death needs
examination. “Turning Breonna Taylor
into a meme, then, risks turning the
conversation around what justice looks
like for her into a temporary fad,” she
writes. “Other than the firing of one
police officer involved in her killing,
there have been no real moves toward
rectifying the situation. And so, as ‘Ar-
rest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor’
gets repeated over and over again, it
becomes an abstraction, it begins to lose
meaning.” Blay cites examples of female
celebrities and models posing in coy
sexy photos with captions that play on
variations of a theme: “Now that I’ve got
your attention, arrest the cops who
killed Breonna Taylor.”
Blay is right that Taylor’s death has in
some ways been “commodified, trivial-
ized and used as fodder for performative
allyship.” But it is also true that activists
have taken targeted steps to pressure
officials to act in her case. Just last week,
more than 80 people protested outside
the Louisville home of Kentucky Attor-
ney General Daniel Cameron.
No, memeification of black women’s
pain and death is not the reason truth
and justice have not been served in
Taylor’s case, or in those of so many
other black women. Rather, it is a
symptom of the fact that America has
never had a true national reckoning
about brutality against black women,
and specifically the ways that black
women’s arrests, silencing, rape and
killing have been instrumental to form-
that, you will permanently forfeit your
potential status as a Trump VIP.”
Well, who can resist? Especially when
the benefits include “Early-Access to new
Trump merchandise.”
Eric says, “I’ll be meeting with my
father first thing tomorrow morning to
review the updated list of Trump VIP
Club members, and I want him to see Jeff
from New York on there.”
I am just an ordinary Joe (oops, I mean
Jeff ), and I don’t know if I can resist much
more of this. Can I ignore the call to
exclusivity, offers made only for me? This
is a chance for me to be somebody, for me
to hob and nob with people who know
people, and most importantly, for me to
help the president start the day on a
hopeful note, rather than with that nag-
ging fear of rejection when he doesn’t see
my name taking up his gracious offer of
inclusion? What kind of man am I?
But it’s Lara Trump who makes the
case. Lara, Eric’s wife, wraps up the
situation. She writes:
“Jeff, Why didn’t you use your
500%-MATCH?
re
Jim lo ScAlzo/ePA-efe/SHuTTerSTock
ing the rotten racial caste system we
have today.
The ugly history is there to teach us.
In her book “Invisible No More: Police
Violence Against Black Women and
Women of Color,” Andrea J. Ritchie
recounts that the rape of a black woman
was not a crime under the slave codes in
the 1800s. Slave patrols — precursors of
today’s police forces — whipped and
raped black women with impunity. After
chattel slavery ended, black women
were expected to serve as docile domes-
tic workers in white homes, and those
who defied those expectations could be
punished severely. Citing the work of
historian Sarah Haley, Ritchie explains
how, after the Civil War, black women in
Atlanta faced arrests and fines simply
for being unemployed. In 1893 in the
city, black women were 6.4 times as
likely as white women, and black girls
19 times as likely as white girls, to be
arrested. Black women were painted as
prostitutes, as cruel to their children, as
keen to recruit white girls into sex work
— all of which served to reinforce the
point: Black women were “subjects out-
side of the protected category, ‘woman.’ ”
It is this protected category that we
still struggle to enter. Rarely, if ever,
does mainstream society rally to the
side of missing, exploited or murdered
black women, a tragic fact exploited by
abusers such as R. Kelly or serial rapist
cops such as Daniel Holtzclaw.
How do we construct a society that
truly protects black women? That impos-
es timely and appropriate consequences
to those, black and white, who abuse us?
These are hard questions for which we
still seek answers, but I know one thing:
The fullness of #BlackLivesMatter will
never be realized until we have them.
Twitter: @KarenAttiah
Jeff DAnziger
“President Trump specifically selected
YOU for this exclusive opportunity, and
he was disappointed that you failed to use
your offer.
“But, since you’ve always been such a
loyal supporter, I pulled some strings and
have been authorized to EXTEND your
500%-MATCH.
“Your 500%-MATCH extension is
ONLY valid for 2 MORE HOURS, Jeff.
After that, it will permanently expire.”
A 500 percent match!
Well, that shows love, doesn’t it. Lara
pulled some strings. What a gal. I reach
for my checkbook and my trusty old
Esterbrook. Here you go. I will be a Trump
insider. I will be invited to the GOP
convention in Florida to meet the great
man and be surrounded by other loyalists
who have gotten this exclusive call. Flori-
da! I’ll bet there will be snacks.
I’ll bet Mitch McConnell will be there,
too.
The writer is a political cartoonist for the
rutland (Vt.) Herald, syndicated by the
Washington Post news Service.
a25
JacKson Diehl
Trump could
find himself
at war
with Iran
oreign leaders read polls, too.
The dive in President Trump’s
reelection prospects is prompt-
ing some to back away, in the
quiet hope that they may soon be rid of
him. Others are sprinting to take advan-
tage of Trump’s willingness to cut deals
or tolerate initiatives they know would
be unacceptable to a President Joe
Biden.
None are running faster than Benja-
min Netanyahu — who, along with Vladi-
mir Putin, has already been the biggest
international beneficiary of the Trump
administration. The Israeli prime minis-
ter is attempting to use Trump to carry
out two of the boldest gambits he has
attempted in a decade in power. One has
been widely debated: his bid to annex up
to 30 percent of the West Bank to Israel,
nominally under the guise of Trump’s
dormant Mideast peace plan.
The other is less visible but equally
audacious and risky. In the past few
weeks, Israel has apparently been con-
ducting what amounts to a slow-motion,
semi-covert military campaign against
Iran’s nuclear and missile programs, and
perhaps other industrial and infrastruc-
ture targets as well. Mysterious explo-
sions and fires have struck a key centri-
fuge production facility, a military base
where missiles are produced, as well as
power plants, aluminum and chemical
factories, and a medical clinic. Last
week, a fire erupted at the port of
Bushehr on the Persian Gulf, destroying
seven ships.
The Netanyahu government may not
have done all this damage: “Not every
incident that transpires in Iran necessar-
ily has something to do with us,” its
defense minister coyly said earlier this
month. But reporting by The Post and
the New York Times pins the largest
attacks, including that at the centrifuge
facility, on Israel — and Middle East
analysts I consulted don’t doubt it. “I’m
surprised the Israelis have not been
more circumspect about this,” said Den-
nis Ross, a former senior Mideast official
in multiple administrations.
Ross and other analysts say Netanya-
hu almost certainly obtained Trump
administration consent, if not collabora-
tion, for the Israeli offensive, if only
because the United States is a likely
target for Iranian retaliation. So far, the
regime of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
which is struggling with multiple crises,
has played down the attacks, attributing
some of them to gas leaks or other
accidents. But if it chooses to respond, its
targets could include U.S. bases in Iraq
or shipping in the Persian Gulf, both of
which it has already struck in the past
year.
A successful Iranian counterattack
could force Trump into a military con-
flict ahead of the election, something
that would be as likely to harm as help
his apparently diminishing chances. In-
terestingly, the president’s aides appear
to have slowed Netanyahu’s polarizing
push for territorial annexation, at least
for now, imposing conditions that he
can’t easily meet — such as offering
concessions to West Bank Palestinians.
Yet despite the risks, Trump appears
to be all in on the Iran campaign. No
doubt that’s partly because the president
and his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo,
are nearly as zealous as Netanyahu
about destroying the Iranian regime.
But it’s also because Trump’s “maximum
pressure” campaign against Iran has
ended up heightening rather than de-
creasing the threat it poses, while all but
excluding remedies other than military
action.
Rather than succumb to revolution or
cave to Trump’s demands, Tehran has
responded to mounting U.S. sanctions
by ramping up its enrichment of urani-
um. According to United Nations inspec-
tors, it has quintupled its stockpile since
Trump’s 2018 withdrawal from the deal
limiting Iranian nuclear capacity. It also
started deploying a new generation of
advanced centrifuges, which could have
given it the capacity to produce a nuclear
weapon in a matter of months; the
accord Trump discarded had pushed the
breakout time back to one year.
The result, said Philip Gordon, who
oversaw Middle East affairs at the Na-
tional Security Council under President
Barack Obama, is that at this point, “the
only way to slow the Iranian program is
to blow it up.” Remarkably, the July 2
attack on the Natanz centrifuge facility
appears to have come as close to doing
that as may be possible. It destroyed a
plant where the new centrifuges were
being assembled. According to one ex-
pert assessment, that could set back the
Iranian nuclear program by at least a
year.
Yet even the most ingenious attacks
are unlikely to stop Iran’s nuclear work,
or even limit it to the extent the nuclear
accord did. Too many Iranian facilities
are buried underground. In that sense,
Netanyahu’s campaign, even as it ex-
ploits Trump, may be anticipating a
Biden administration. Biden has said he
would seek to restore the nuclear accord,
and, said Ross, the Israelis believe Iran
will respond positively. “What the Israe-
lis have seemingly done is create space
for diplomacy if Biden comes in,” he said.
That is, if Netanyahu’s Trump-enabled
offensive doesn’t plunge us into a war.
Twitter: @jacksondiehl
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spots, but in places that haven’t
seen a dramatic spike in infections
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tients or contracts with big em-
ployers, including the nBA, plac-
ing the general public at the back
of a line that can grow longer by
the day.
In D.C., Virginia and Maryland,
some patients who have been told
their tests would take a few days
are waiting two weeks or longer to
get results, erasing the chance to
do meaningful contact tracing
and leaving them in limbo.
One Capitol Hill woman can-
celed her vacation because she
couldn’t get timely proof she
wasn’t infectious. A biologist from
Charlottesville took a gamble and
visited his elderly parents. A
young D.C. man, exposed to a sick
family member, had waited 11 days
as of Friday to find out whether he
is a coronavirus carrier.
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fisheries biologist who had want-
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parents in Upstate new York. “I
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home for three to five days. But
you can’t ask people to stay at
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hold for three or four weeks.”
When D.C. resident Lauren
Phillips-Thoryn, 36, called Tues-
day about test results from a nasal
swab taken seven days earlier, a
city worker said the backlog was
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ger give test results by phone.
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watching virus cases rise in recent
weeks.
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respective jurisdictions are weigh-
ing “a range of revisions,” includ-
ing restrictions on gathering sizes,
mandating face coverings for in-
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taking a break beneath a shade tree. testing sites and grocery distribution locations Monday, citing of pandemic-related
Ortiz has grown accustomed to the region’s the risk to staff and volunteers at the outdoors centers. The virus pool closures. D.C.’s
brutal July temperatures since emigrating from El Salvador tests will resume with limited hours Tuesday and Wednesday, mayor closed virus
decades ago. When it was hot, that meant the mortar dried although neither day will offer a respite from the heat with highs testing sites and
faster — a fact that apparently made Monday’s mortar the forecast to reach 97 degrees.
fastest-drying of the year. “We are in the middle of some very oppressing and very hot
grocery distribution
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same time, a global pandemic limited access to relief or left it stay six feet apart. BY P ETER H ERMANN
beyond reach. SEE heat On B2
Bullets shattered three win-
dows at El Amigo restaurant on
14th Street nW in Columbia
Heights, as frightened customers
waiting for their Salvadoran or
Mexican takeout scrambled be-
hind a counter.

DMV virus delays aren’t Metro to ramp up service in August At La Molienda Restaurant just
a few doors away, bullets broke
another window and hit the front

just torturing 16-year-olds Rail service, bus routes Metrobus will expand its routes
Aug. 23. The increase was previ-
The seven-day average of coro-
navirus cases in the greater
door. “A big scare,” one worker
said. “Terrible.”
Shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday,
ously scheduled as part of Metro’s Washington region has nearly police said, three gunmen — two
Because our lanky I needed a new driver’s license will be expanded, phased recovery plan, but it is doubled in the past month after armed with rifles, one with a
old hound had to
pee at 4 a.m., my
after mine was stolen and my
firstborn was turning driving age
with longer hours being driven by businesses that
have resumed operation and the
falling from an early-summer
peak.
handgun — opened fire on a group
of people outside a line of shops in
son gets to learn to this summer, so we had to journey federal government’s push to get Metro has been operating a the 3600 block of 14th Street nW,
drive this summer. to Mordor. its workforce back into offices. skeletal bus and rail system over killing one person and wounding
Petula Let me back up: Learning to drive is the one BY J USTIN G EORGE “We were hearing at the time the past four months that until eight others, before speeding
This is a story thing American teens had left for that a lot of groups were looking recently included the closure of away in a dark blue or black vehi-
Dvorak about the them this summer — after the Metro will ramp up transit at the Labor Day time frame, and nearly 30 of the transit system’s cle.
absurdity that is pandemic robbed them of service in August, operating at I think that’s something we had 91 stations, shorter operating On Monday, D.C. police identi-
the DMV — the Department of socializing, sports, swimming about 70 percent capacity to ad- in our minds [expecting] that was hours, longer wait times and low fied the man who died as Devin
Motor Vehicles. pools, summer trips, jobs and dress an expected increase in a time when people were coming ridership numbers the regional Peterson, 28, of northeast Wash-
Shuddering yet? internships, and all the other ridership driven by the return of back to work,” Metro board transportation agency has never ington. But authorities said little
The DMV remains the live- ways teens begin to test federal workers to offices and the Chairman Paul C. Smedberg said seen before. As recently as Thurs- else publicly about the mass
action Kafka novel and alternate independence. possible reopening of D.C. Monday. “We will see how it goes day, records show that Metrorail’s shooting along a busy commercial
universe that’s always been the now imagine the voice- schools. forward with the recent surges, passenger trips for the day made strip. As of Monday evening, no
stuff of nightmares. now plunge cracking moans of agony from Metro, which has been operat- but so far in our areas, things up 9 percent of what Metro ran arrests had been made.
that dysfunctional place into 2004 babies like my son when the ing at historic lows because of the have been fairly stable. But we on a similar day before the pan- “We were able to open today,
pandemic times and you see coronavirus shut down DMVs coronavirus pandemic, will add have had to stay ahead of the demic. Metrobus showed slightly but you know, because the shoot-
where this story is going. SEE DvoRak On B4 more cars to service Aug. 16, and demand in increasing service.” SEE metRo On B6 SEE Shooting On B3
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Trying to
enjoy the
city despite
the weather
heAT from B1
Ceymone Dyce, a clinical su-
pervisor for the D.C. Downtown
Day Services Center run by non-
profit Pathways to Housing, said
outreach workers are focusing on
keeping clients cool and hydrat-
ed, handing out frozen bottles of
water and loosefitting clothes.
The center can also accommo-
date three clients per hour to
take a shower.
“With social distancing, you
can’t sit in a Starbucks now and
just get a moment of air condi-
tioning,” she said. “It's been a
humbling experience. You take
for granted the moments you can
sit in your car, or feel a fan.”
As officials and advocates re-
sponded to the heat wave, the
ongoing pandemic created a hot
day in Washington unlike any
other. With D.C. in Phase 2 of its
reopening, many places where
residents traditionally find ref-
uge were closed, including movie
theaters, indoor museums and
public libraries.
Perhaps most cruelly, the clo-
sures meant even swimming
pools and splash pads were off-
limits. Banneker Pool, typically a
refuge for children in Columbia
Heights and Shaw when the
mercury rises, contained water
but was inaccessible from the
baking asphalt of Georgia Ave-
nue NW.
Some residents tried to enjoy
the city’s outdoor attractions de-
spite the weather.
the District
Civil rights leaders plan August rally on the steps of Lincoln Memorial
BY M ARISSA J . L ANG
fifty-seven years to the day
after martin Luther King Jr. de-
livered his soaring “I Have A
Dream” speech on the mall be-
fore hundreds of thousands, his
oldest son will join civil rights
leaders and the families of black
men and women slain by police
for a rally on the Lincoln memo-
rial steps.
Details of the Aug. 28 rally for
criminal justice revisions — the
“Get Your Knee off our Necks”
march — have begun to crystal-
lize in recent days as the rev. Al
Sharpton announced a lineup of
speakers and the NAACP un-
veiled plans monday to supple-
ment the protest with three days
of digital programming meant to
reach those unable to attend the
march.
While daily protests continue
at Black Lives matter Plaza, the
glossy, well-funded event marks
a dramatic shift from the organ-
ic, leaderless marches that have
defined demonstrations in D.C.
and across the country that
erupted after the police killing in
may of George floyd, an un-
armed black man, in minneapo-
the District
Mayor calls on independent CFO to scrutinize council’s cuts to police budget
BY F ENIT N IRAPPIL
D.C. mayor muriel E. Bowser
has escalated her dispute with
the D.C. Council over police fund-
ing, urging the city’s indepen-
dent chief financial officer to
intervene if lawmakers approve
cuts to the police department.
The council is scheduled Tues-
day to cast the final vote on the
city’s $8.6 billion local budget.
Lawmakers gave the budget ini-
tial approval earlier this month,
voting to raise taxes on gasoline
and eliminate some tax breaks to
raise additional funds for social
service programs.
They also voted to trim
$15 million in police funding, a
cut criticized by some activists as
insufficient and by the mayor’s
administration as jeopardizing
public safety.
In a Sunday letter to the
council, Bowser (D) said the cuts
could result in the roughly 3,800-
person force losing 250 officers,
triggering a spike in overtime
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The sun rises behind the Jefferson Memorial on a day when the official high temperature would reach 99 degrees in Washington.
With D.C. in Phase 2 of its reopening from pandemic restrictions, many places where people usually find refuge were closed.
Hawi Abebe said she’s gotten
bored staying home in Silver
Spring and is taking classes to
become a physician assistant.
She and her father went to the
National Gallery of Art’s Sculp-
ture Garden, which reopened
Saturday.
As Abebe rested with a melting
frappuccino, watching her fa-
ther walk circles around the
garden despite the wilting
weather, she was reconsidering
the decision.
lis.
organizers of the August dem-
onstration have acknowledged
that the rally, which they estimat-
ed could draw about 100,000
people, will take place amid a
raging global pandemic.
By allowing people from
across the country to tune in
digitally, NAACP officials hope to
reach those who cannot make the
trip or safely participate in a
crowd of thousands.
“It is the intention of the
NAACP to do no harm and not
place our members and others at
risk,” said Derrick Johnson, pres-
ident and CEo of the NAACP.
“The march isn’t the end goal. It’s
the pause, a stopping point, a
symbolic gesture of what tomor-
row could bring.”
Sharpton will be joined at the
rally by martin Luther King III;
the families of floyd, Breonna
Taylor and Eric Garner; and civil
rights attorney Benjamin Crump,
who has represented several fam-
ilies that have lost loved ones at
the hands of law enforcement.
Speeches and entertainment
will begin at 11 a.m. At 1 p.m., the
group will lead a march along the
mall from the Lincoln memorial
costs for the remaining officers.
She said Chief financial offi-
cer Jeffrey S. DeWitt should re-
view the impact of the cuts
before certifying the budget as
financially sound.
“I want him to be double sure
that he’s going to stand behind
these certification numbers,”
Bowser said at a monday news
conference. “And come January
or march, when our overtime
numbers are through the roof, I
don’t want to hear anything from
anybody because I warned
them.”
D.C. budgeting rules require
the mayor to propose an annual
budget, which then goes to the
council for review and approval.
The mayor has no line-item veto
and has limited influence in
stopping changes made by law-
makers. But the chief financial
officer, a position formed in the
aftermath of the city’s financial
troubles in the 1990s, must sign
off on budgets. If DeWitt said the
lower police funding would be
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“It’s very hot,” she said. “We
wanted to come just to chill.”
Some from outside the region
took their chances with the
weather.
Elishia and Kempton Thomp-
son wanted to get their three kids
out of the house in Atlanta,
where they’ve been cooped up
since march. They had already
canceled their spring break plans
and ruled out plane travel, but
the kids were restless, so they got
in the car and drove north.
Civil rights leaders, from left, Al Sharpton, Andrew Young, C.T. Vivian and Martin Luther King III at a
ceremony at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in 2011. King plans to speak at the August rally.
to the martin Luther King Jr.
memorial.
Johnson said he sees the
march and its concurrent digital
events as an opportunity to chan-
fiscally irresponsible, it could
sway council members to vote
against the cuts.
DeWitt declined to comment
on Bowser’s letter. He threatened
to not certify budgets in 2014 and
last year, amid disputes about
taxes and reserve spending, but
he issued those warnings earlier
in the budget process. Both
standoffs were ultimately re-
solved.
D.C. Council Chairman Phil
mendelson (D) said he was confi-
dent the council’s actions would
not draw objections from De-
Witt.
“Given how much of the police
department budget remains, we
have not jeopardized public safe-
ty, but we’ve looked at alterna-
tives that promote public safety,”
mendelson said.
When council member
Charles Allen (D-Ward 6) first
proposed the police budget cuts,
he said he trimmed the maxi-
mum allowed from job vacancies
under rules set out by DeWitt.
They weighed their options:
Do they take the kids to an
indoor attraction, where they
feared catching the coronavirus,
or stay outside and suffer?
“It’s safer to be outside,” El-
ishia said. “But as you see, I’m
sweating in this.” She gestured
toward her flower-print mask.
on her lap, 3-year-old Kaelynn
played with a coral-colored plas-
tic fan she picked up as a souve-
nir in Virginia Beach. “Can I use
this for a sec? mommy needs it,”
nel people’s frustration, anger
and grief into other forms of civic
engagement, including encour-
aging participants to respond to
the 2020 Census and organizing
Even before Allen proposed cuts,
police leaders said the mayor’s
original budget proposal would
have hamstrung officer hiring.
Allen said in a monday state-
ment that the city needs non-po-
licing alternatives. “We need to
challenge the assumption that
our only effective response to
violent crime is more police,”
Allen wrote.
Left-leaning activists dis-
missed Bowser’s argument that
cuts to the police department
would run afoul of the guardrails
on D.C. finances.
“It seems more of a political
response rather than a policy-ori-
ented one,” said Tazra mitchell,
an analyst with the DC fiscal
Policy Institute, a left-leaning
think tank. “overtime is a choice.
The calls to shrink the police
budget have always been rooted
in shrinking the police budget
and repurposing the dollars to
activities and resources that keep
the community safe, like mental
health interventions and vio-
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Elishia said, taking the whirling
fan. “We were expecting it to be
cooler because we were traveling
up north. But it’s hotter here than
Atlanta.”
While cooler climes always
beckon, those in the Washington
region found different strategies
for staying cool.
misha Zlatkowic, a 30-year-old
truck driver taking a break mon-
day in Tysons Corner, judged this
summer to be cooler than last. He
said his previous career as a
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people to vote in the November
election.
Johnson said the timing of the
march — set to take place after
the Democratic and republican
lence interruption programs.”
The budget for the fiscal year
starting oct. 1 is the first since
the Great recession that will see
significant declines in projected
revenue.
The council is expected to
approve a $16.8 billion spending
plan, of which the city directly
controls about $8.6 billion. Be-
fore the vote Tuesday, they will
discuss the spending plan and
may consider changes.
Business including The Wash-
ington Post have mobilized
against a 3 percent tax on the sale
of advertising that mendelson
proposed the day before the first
budget vote, on July 7. It has
drawn support from lawmakers
as a way to boost revenue with-
out widespread impact.
Advertising companies and lo-
cal media outlets say the tax
would place an undue burden on
companies struggling to recover
from the pandemic.
“Advertising taxes suppress
consumer demand, slow job
. tuesday, july 21 , 2020
lifeguard and pool supervisor left
him so inured to heat that the
constant drip of sweat from his
forehead doesn’t change his be-
havior.
“There’s nowhere to go any-
ways,” Zlatkowic said. “I drink
cold water and I’m fine.”
others, less stoic, were taking
extra precautions.
Anja martinovac, a 23-year-old
financial analyst in reston, said
she changed her workout from
the morning or midday to as late
as 8 p.m. to manage the scorch-
ing weather. She and Ana Bradic,
a sophomore at George Washing-
ton University, have also moved
their hangouts from a local pool
or park to inside one of their
houses.
“We already weren’t doing
much during the pandemic,”
Bradic said. “The weather doesn’t
change much.”
fahd Choudhary, 38, is one of
only 200 essential workers at an
office park near Tysons Corner
that normally hosts 10,000 em-
ployees daily. An information
technology worker, he said the
near-empty office park makes
staying cool easier.
“The heat doesn’t bother me,”
Choudhary said as he waited for
his chicken burger at the from
Scratch food truck. “Winter
does.”
Working inside the truck can
be unbearable for the food truck’s
chef, Branislav Pavi. He’s been
going through four to five water
bottles each three-hour shift to
stay hydrated. But with the stove
firing in a small, mostly enclosed
space, he said, temperatures can
rise to more than 115 degrees —
and it feels hotter with a mask.
“You just survive the summer,”
Pavi said as he wiped off his
sweat-fogged glasses with a
gloved hand and paper towel.
“And that’s it. If you can’t stand
the heat, get out of the kitchen.”
justin.moyer@washpost.com
julie.zauzmer@washpost.com
conventions — is fortuitous.
He said he hopes members of
both parties will pay attention to
the rally and the movement that
has led to it.
“This is not a partisan issue:
What does it mean for this nation
to affirm all its citizens? What
does it mean for the citizens of
this nation to clarify how this
democracy should work?” he
said. “This is an opportunity that
the people can speak to their
interests.”
Activists with Black Lives mat-
ter D.C. have criticized the rally
for not including speakers from
the city, which is 46 percent
black.
In a permit application filed
with the National Park Service
last month, organizers described
their plans: 1,000 buses, a line of
Jumbotrons and a mass proces-
sion down the sides of the Lin-
coln memorial reflecting Pool as
protesters gather along the mall.
The permit application, which
has not yet been approved by the
Park Service, also calls for the
closures of several roads to ac-
commodate the march and relat-
ed events.
marissa.lang@washpost.com
growth, and ultimately cause
consumers to pay more for prod-
ucts and services,” Dan Jaffe, an
executive with the Association of
National Advertisers, said in a
statement.
mendelson stood by the adver-
tising tax monday and said the
rate he is proposing would not
decimate businesses. He noted
that any members of the council
attempting to roll back the tax
would need to propose cuts equal
to the $19 million in revenue it
would bring for the budget.
The council is also scheduled
Tuesday to vote on whether to
shift money from next year’s
budget to the current year’s
spending plan to distribute relief
more quickly, including $9 mil-
lion for undocumented immi-
grants and $5 million to help
child-care centers remain finan-
cially solvent.
fenit.nirappil@washpost.com
Julie Zauzmer contributed to this
report.
tuesday, july 21 , 2020
Virginia historian wants story of polarizing aviation figure lifted to new heights
The dead speak to
Mary
Buckingham
Lipsey. None
more loudly than
Dr. William
John Wallace Whitney
Kelly's Christmas, who
Washington was either an
unsung pioneer
of early aviation
or a crackpot inventor whose
winged creations killed anyone
who flew them.
our story begins in a
graveyard. Lipsey is active in
fairfax County cemetery
preservation efforts. She was
researching the Ions family plot
in fairfax Station when she
learned that the family’s farm
was reportedly the site of an
airplane flight in 1908.
Lipsey had never heard of the
man who designed and flew that
plane, a medical doctor named
William Christmas.
“Being the retired history
teacher, I get a thread, and I
keep pulling,” said Lipsey, 70,
who taught at Lake Braddock
Secondary School.
The result is “A Christmas
flight: Aviation Pioneer Dr.
William Christmas,” a book
Lipsey published in 2013. She
also tells Christmas’s story in
2018’s “Aviation: from Curiosity
maryLand
Hogan defends plan for ‘normal’ Nov. election
BY O VETTA W IGGINS
Gov. Larry Hogan on monday
defended his decision to hold a
traditional election in Novem-
ber, despite growing concerns
from voting rights advocates and
election officials about the im-
pact of his choice amid a global
pandemic.
Hogan (r) said he opted for a
“normal” election instead of a
“vote by mail only” because of
the chaos that occurred during
the June 2 primary, when the
state mailed ballots to every
voter and opened only a few
polling sites in each jurisdiction.
far more voters than expected
opted to cast their ballots in
person, leading to huge lines and
hours-long waits in many places.
“I’m encouraging everyone to
vote by mail instead of vote by
mail only, which is what some of
our Democratic colleagues are
pushing for,” Hogan said during
an appearance on the television
show “The View,” where he ex-
plained his decision to open all
polling sites in the state and mail
absentee-ballot applications to
every voter, rather than the bal-
lots themselves.
“In the primary we had, the
State Board of Elections screwed
up getting ballots out,” Hogan
said. “They mailed the wrong
ballots. They mailed Spanish bal-
lots to English speakers. They
sent things to the wrong districts.
They got them out too late.”
Democratic elected officials
are calling on Hogan to mail
ballots to every voter and offer
limited in-person voting on Elec-
tion Day, with more polling sites
available than during the prima-
ry. Voting rights advocates have
increasingly criticized Hogan’s
decision not to limit polling sites
Shooting
caps deadly
July in D.C.
shooting from B1
ing happened, people are kind of
scared,” said Serapio osorio, the
69-year-old owner of El Amigo,
who spent monday trying to coax
worried customers back inside.
Police said eight businesses were
struck by bullets.
“Thank God no one was hit
inside,” osorio said, adding that
between restrictions for the coro-
navirus and now the shooting, he’s
not sure how much longer his
restaurant can survive. He said his
insulated plate-glass window
could cost $5,000 to replace.
D.C. Police Chief Peter News-
ham described the shooting as
targeted and said that it was be-
lieved to stem from a dispute in-
volving a neighborhood street
crew.
Authorities could not immedi-
ately say whether Peterson or any
of those wounded were among
those who were targeted. Victims
range in age from 18 to 72. Two
were in serious condition on Sun-
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to reality.”
Christmas was born in North
Carolina in 1865. He moved to
Washington with his family as a
teenager. He studied electrical
engineering and tinkered with
inventions. (one of his earliest
patents was for an artillery shell
equipped with blades designed
to mince the enemy.) Eventually,
he earned his medical degree.
Like many scientifically
minded people of that era,
Christmas was infatuated with
heavier-than-air flight. He
studied birds and decided
flexible wings were the key to
slipping the surly bonds of
Earth.
Christmas claimed that in
early march 1908, he flew an
airplane of his design on the
farm of Robert ions, who
delivered a deposition in
support of the claim. That
would make Christmas the third
American to fly, after the Wright
brothers.
Christmas said that after the
successful flight, he burned the
airplane, lest it fall into the
hands of competitors.
In 1910, Christmas was able
to secure hangar space at the
hotbed of U.S. aviation
research: College Park Airport.
He incorporated the Christmas
Aeroplane Co. and welcomed
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Voting booths were cleaned after each person at a Landover voting
station, one of only a few polling sites open for the June 2 primary.
or mail ballots to the entire
electorate. Attorney General Bri-
an E. frosh (D) has urged Hogan
to reverse his order, saying it
could have “devastating conse-
quences.”
“We don’t believe that Gov.
Hogan is acting in the best
interest of maryland voters,” said
Joanne Antoine, executive direc-
tor of Common Cause maryland,
noting that the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention has
recommended that voters con-
sider alternatives to casting bal-
lots in person.
States across the country are
deciding the best ways to hold
the November elections, with
some opting for mail-in ballots
and limited polling sites and
others, like maryland, moving
toward a traditional election,
albeit with a robust mail-in op-
tion.
The use of mail-in ballots in
November has increasingly be-
day. The others suffered wounds
that are not considered to be life-
threatening.
Peterson’s relatives could not
be reached monday.
The shooting on 14th Street and
another one hours later on Stan-
ton road SE — claiming the life of
rayfone Gassaway, 37, of Alexan-
dria — brought to 106 the number
of people killed in D.C. this year,
up 20 percent from this time in
2019, which set a decade high.
July has been a particularly
deadly month, with two dozen
people killed in 20 days, most by
gunfire. D.C. mayor muriel E.
Bowser (D) said monday that po-
lice plan to unveil some new crime
strategies later this week.
“We’re too high,” Bowser said of
the number of homicides. “We
have an increase over last year,
and the trajectory doesn’t look
good.”
Newsham said the shooting on
14th Street involved a crew dis-
pute, and he added that authori-
ties are “familiar with some of the
players.” Bowser described it as a
“neighborhood conflict.”
Layla Bonnot, the advisory
neighborhood commissioner
whose district includes the street
where the shooting happened,
said she has trying to get D.C.
officials to make that block of
14th Street a priority.
Noting several vacant proper-
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in 24 hours — and that he’d fought and won a patent battle
already sold tickets. He said he over the invention of the
invented an explosive he aileron, a hinged surface on
dubbed “Christmatite,” second wings used to control balance.
only to atomic fission in power. Christmas outlived his
Christmas received some naysaying peers, dying in 1960
unwanted attention in 1921 at the age of 94. Lipsey
when the Ku Klux Klan nominated him for the Virginia
attempted to start its own air Aviation Hall of fame, but so
force. A New York City address far, the Virginia Aeronautical
for the Klan’s Knights of the Air Historical Society has declined
was the same as Christmas’s to induct him.
company. Christmas claimed it “I think the good Dr.
had been used without his Christmas is an example of the
knowledge. less admirable side of human
Lipsey’s biography compiles nature,” said Peter Jakab, chief
many details of the doctor’s curator at the National Air and
smiThsoniAn nATionAl Air And spAce museum long and varied life, including Space museum.
William Christmas’s Bullet was flown in two test flights in 1918. A how in 1940 Secretary of War Jakab said Christmas
wing fell off both times, resulting in the pilots’ deaths. M.h. Mcintyre wrote that employed a not-uncommon
Christmas “veers more toward method of aggrandizing
investors. After a few years in day’s New York Sun described the nut than toward the himself: “If you tell a lot of lies,
maryland, he moved his the result: “flier Cremated on genius.” people sort of think there must
operation to New York, testing Landing After Losing Wing She knows Christmas is an be something true in there.”
airplanes on Long Island. Aloft.” object of derision online but I told Lipsey that the
In 1918, Christmas began A new version of the Bullet believes much of the scorn is Smithsonian’s early-flight
building his most notorious was built, and four months unwarranted. expert didn’t think much of
airplane. At a time when most later, Christmas persuaded “The Internet says he was Christmas.
planes had two wings, held in Allington Jolly, an aviator who never a doctor,” she said. “I’ve “That’s why I’m his
place with a lattice of struts had recently returned from got the George Washington supporter, to get people to
and wires, the aircraft he called World War I, to test it. The University annual where he where they can make up their
the Christmas Bullet had a same thing happened. A wing received his degree.” own minds about him,” she
strutless upper wing and a fell off, and Jolly was killed. And if Christmas is unknown said.
vestigial lower wing, similarly Despite the setbacks, today, she said, it’s because “the john.kelly@washpost.com
unbraced. Christmas kept himself in the big boys club” — orville and Twitter: @johnkelly
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Delays in test results force residents into tough choices, hinder contact tracing
TeSTing from B1
complained to public officials, the
waits are much longer — far too
long to inform decisions about
travel, quarantine or who else may
be at risk.
fayth Jones, 33, stayed home in
Woodbridge after developing cor-
onavirus symptoms — fever, chills,
headaches, exhaustion — in late
June. She called three urgent-care
clinics and found a week-long wait
to get tested, never mind get re-
sults. After being swabbed on July
2, she waited two weeks to learn
her status. She said she was afraid
to visit her mom on her birthday,
worried that her grandfather, in
his 80s, might end up hospitalized
if she did.
“I don’t know what to do be-
sides stay away from people and
wear my mask,” she said Thursday,
hours before finding out she had
tested negative.
“Sadly, I think my experience is
just the system working as de-
signed,” she said. “It’s just so frac-
tured and broken that it doesn’t
work for people like me, who don’t
have access to a rapid test.”
Jon r. Cohen, executive chair-
man of New Jersey-based Bioref-
erence, said demand started
ramping up several weeks ago,
first among nursing homes, then
hospitals resuming elective sur-
geries, then large employers seek-
ing to test workers returning to
newly reopened businesses.
Next came members of the gen-
eral public, encouraged by health
officials to seek a test for any rea-
son.
A hospital Cohen contracts
with in florida, an epicenter of the
country’s latest outbreak, had
been sending 500 samples per day.
Now it sends 2,000. His company’s
network of labs — including one in
maryland — can hypothetically
Community transmission metric underscores ongoing virus challenges in D.C.
region from B1
ard, montgomery and Prince
George’s counties and Baltimore
City.
“our jurisdictions are prepared
to act quickly to address these
concerns but would prefer for the
state to take action to create a
unified, standardized approach to
address this resurgence of cases,”
they wrote.
mike ricci, a spokesman for
maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (r),
said in a statement that the state
looks “closely at the data every day
with public health experts” and
will continue to emphasize cau-
tion.
“We have stressed to local
health officers the importance of
enforcing the public health orders
currently in place, particularly at
bars and restaurants,” ricci said.
“We cannot allow a small segment
of bad actors to squander the sac-
rifices that marylanders have
made. But as the governor has
said, if necessary, he is prepared to
take action.”
The seven-day average of coro-
navirus cases in the greater Wash-
ington region has nearly doubled
in the past month. It stood at 1,760
on monday after climbing steadily
from a low of 907 cases.
on Sunday, maryland reported
925 new cases, the highest num-
PETULA DVORAK
DMV could
make you
crack even
pre-covid
DVorAk from B1
across the nation.
But fortunes changed in the
District when the DmV
announced that it would reopen
in June by appointment only. I got
to work and scored spots for both
of us a week after my son’s
birthday.
He studied harder for the
driver’s test than he had for all his
finals. And I worked that list of
required records like a Soviet-era
Czechoslovakian about to face the
Department of Documents. my
papers would be in order.
The dining-room table was
covered in neat piles of every
document I had: proof-of-residency
packets for both me and my
husband, our passports, months of
utility bills, financial statements,
my son’s Social Security card and
birth certificate, a vial of blood and
the withered stump of his umbilical
cord. I had this.
“Not to be a pessimist, but I am
a DC native and have never, ever
managed to get through the DC
FayTH JoNes
Fayth Jones isolated for 14 days
before getting a negative result.
LaureN pHiLLips-THoryN
Lauren Phillips-Thoryn also got
caught in the testing backlog.
JacK HicKmaN
As of Sunday, Jack Hickman
had been waiting 13 days.
run as many as 70,000 tests daily
from samples in 50 states. But in
reality, supply chain and equip-
ment troubles can unexpectedly
cut that output by 20 percent or
more.
The labs use four types of ana-
ber since late may, when there
were more than 1,000 new cases
reported daily. Virus-related hos-
pitalizations have also started
showing slight upticks.
The state’s six largest jurisdic-
tions have all seen a rebound in
new infections in recent days,
with Howard and Anne Arundel
showing the most dramatic in-
creases. In Howard, the seven-day
average in new cases has jumped
from five in mid-June to about 40,
rivaling the figures that were re-
ported at the peak of the crisis in
may and June.
The letter from the maryland
health officials came on the same
day the District’s top health offi-
cial released data showing that the
city is nowhere near putting a lid
on community transmission of a
virus that has increased its rate of
spread across the region.
The D.C. health department
published a key metric for the first
time monday and revealed that
the number is dismal: The per-
centage of new coronavirus cases
linked to already known cases is
just 2.8 percent.
The city’s goal is 60 percent,
which would indicate that the na-
tion’s capital is capable of tracking
the spread of the virus and that
cases are closely linked. for now,
the tiny percentage indicates that
the virus is still spreading widely
DmV in less than two visits,” my
facebook friend Corinne
rothblum warned me when I
bragged online about how ready I
was this time.
Sure. And in normal times,
you’d take another half-day off
work next week and make it
happen.
But in covid times? The next
available appointment was in
November. We couldn’t fail.
We arrived 30 minutes early for
his 3 p.m. appointment. The clerk
looked up his name.
“oh. for a learning permit? We
stop giving knowledge tests at 2
p.m.,” she said.
Nooooooo!
This information, as far as I can
tell, is nowhere on the website.
We pleaded with her. She tried
to see whether he could test at
2:30 p.m.
“Sorry, they shut the machines
down,” she said. “You’ll have to
make another appointment.”
Blinking back failed Tiger
mom tears, I went inside for my
own appointment while my son
trudged back to the car he now
couldn’t drive until
Thanksgiving.
When the clerk asked for my
Social Security card, unimpressed
with all the color-coded paper
clips on my stacks of perfect
paperwork, I reached for my
wallet — and my stomach did a
flip-flop. I had forgotten
something: That card had been
stolen, too.
“Do you have a W-2?” she
asked, offering me a lifeline. I
pulled it up on my phone.
eZ su
A packed coronavirus testing site in Leesburg, Va., in May.
lyzers, which in turn can depend
on as many as 17 specialized com-
ponents, from chemicals to en-
zymes to pipettes. A shortage of
any can act as a choke point.
“We live every day waiting for
our supplies to come in,” said Co-
hen, who has prioritized testing
for hospital patients, nursing
home residents and workers, and
daily swabs of the roughly 1,000
players, coaches, staffers and me-
dia quarantined in the NBA’s
“bubble” in orlando.
He called the nationwide de-
mand for tests “insatiable.”
Parham Jaberi, chief deputy
commissioner of the Virginia De-
partment of Health, said the test-
ing scarcity was “reminiscent of
the early days” of the pandemic
and illustrates the need for a coor-
dinated federal effort to smooth
out supply chain troubles.
“We’re increasing the potential
to spread the virus,” said Jaberi,
noting that asymptomatic people
who seek tests and face long waits
for results may not dutifully quar-
in the community without contact
tracers being able to tell enough
close contacts of sick people to
quarantine as they are exposed.
The small number means the
vast majority of people contract-
ing the virus aren’t aware of con-
tacts with someone who had it.
LaQuandra Nesbitt, the city’s
health director, said the District
will consider bringing back some
restrictions on business or social
activities to try to reduce the com-
munity spread. She chastised resi-
dents for socializing too much in
private homes and going to the
grocery store daily instead of occa-
sionally.
“It’s not good,” Luisa franzini, a
professor and chairwoman of the
Health Services Administration
department at the University of
maryland’s School of Public
Health, said of the rising casel-
oads. “As we reopen and people go
out and about more and meet
other people and do things with-
out being careful in wearing
masks, avoiding being indoors
and social distancing, we expected
the cases would go up, and that’s
what we’re seeing.”
She said leaders in the Wash-
ington region should consider
prohibiting indoor seating at res-
taurants again, as well as reclosing
gyms, nail salons, barbershops
and other places where people are
What coronavirus-era DMV frustration looks like to a 16-year-old
District kid waiting to get his driver’s license — and to his mother.
“It has to be a printed copy,” she
said. And no, she wouldn’t print it
for me.
Nooooooo!
The next available
appointment? Yup, November.
She gave me a temporary, paper
license, which I’m sure will be
seen as totally legit everywhere.
When I returned to the car, I
went in for a mama-bear hug of
my red-eyed boy.
“No, mom,” he said, pushing
me away. “I’m so sorry.”
And he pointed to the spider-
web cracks across the windshield.
“I threw my phone when I got
back into the car,” he said.
And now paying off that
windshield will be his new,
nondriving summer activity.
KaTHeriNe Frey/THe WasHiNgToN posT
antine.
While the delays are more pro-
nounced among private lab com-
panies that do the bulk of testing
in this country, public labs are not
immune.
Earlier this month, Jaberi said,
state workers retrieved samples
from backlogged private labs con-
tracted with the state and rerout-
ed specimens to labs at the Univer-
sity of Virginia and Virginia Com-
monwealth University. A state
task force is debating how to prior-
itize testing and whether to pub-
licly issue guidance curtailing ac-
cess to who gets a test.
“Are we getting to the point
where testing is getting to be a
scarce resource and we need to
make more explicit recommenda-
tions as a state?” Jaberi asked.
In maryland, Clifford mitchell,
director of the Environmental
Health Bureau, said testing results
have taken as long as two weeks at
private labs. State labs still have
capacity to turn around tests in a
day, but the labs are reserved for
in close contact indoors. much of
the spread is linked to human
behavior, she said.
Leana S. Wen, an emergency
physician and public health pro-
fessor at George Washington Uni-
versity, said creating a safe envi-
ronment for schools to reopen in
the fall should take precedence
over allowing bars to remain open.
“maybe we should determine
that these types of settings should
not be open in the meantime in
order to keep the level of infection
relatively low so that school can
open,” said Wen, who previously
was Baltimore City’s health com-
missioner. “If we as a society say
our priority is, say, reopening
schools in August, then we need to
be reimposing some of these mea-
sures.”
As health officials urged cau-
tion, the region was moving ahead
with a gradual reopening likely to
bring more people into contact
with one another.
The Smithsonian announced
monday that the National Zoo and
the National Air and Space muse-
um’s Steven f. Udvar-Hazy Center
in Virginia will welcome visitors
friday, marking the first time the
public can visit the world’s largest
museum complex since it closed
march 14. other Smithsonian sites
remain shuttered, with reopening
dates not yet announced.
peTuLa DvoraK/THe WasHiNgToN posT
“The clerk told us we can keep
looking for a canceled
appointment online,” I told him
as he recited the rules of the road
in a monotone the whole way
home.
This is more than just a first
World, sad-teen story.
Because the DmV is also the
keeper of the American
identification system, its
dysfunction affects access to
benefits and money, livelihoods
and careers across the socio-
economic spectrum.
I’ve heard from folks whose
expired IDs kept them from
cashing disability checks. People
whose new jobs were in limbo
because they couldn’t get a
District license after moving here
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complex molecular analysis and
treating outbreaks.
mitchell agreed the prolonged
delays mean “you’ve lost a critical
advantage in being able to slow
the spread of the disease.”
But he’s reluctant to suggest the
government roll back the message
that anyone who wants a test
should seek one. Broad testing
and contact tracing remain the
best tools for controlling the pan-
demic, he said. Eventually, testing
capacity will catch up.
“We want people who think
they may be exposed to get tested,”
he said. “And we want to test peo-
ple who are worried about spread-
ing it to other people.”
for some people, the delay in
getting results lowered the odds
they’d seek another test in the
future.
“To me, it’s a disaster,” said Ceci-
lia rogers, 70, who lives on Capitol
Hill and decided to get tested after
joining a Black Lives matter street
protest in early June. “There’s no
point in being tested if you have to
wait that long to get the results.”
The first time she sought a test,
she waited in line for an hour
before counting 66 people ahead
of her in the 90-degree heat and
giving up. The second time, on
June 18, a worker pulled all senior
citizens to the front of the line.
She didn’t find out she tested
negative until 19 days later, on July
7, when she called the city health
department to request her results.
The official notification arrived at
her house July 11.
rogers has canceled plans to
spend two weeks in maine, which
mandates a 14-day quarantine for
visitors unless they have a nega-
tive coronavirus test taken no
more than 72 hours before their
arrival. “I didn’t see how I could
possibly fulfill that requirement,”
she said.
The Smithsonian is releasing
5,000 daily passes for the zoo and
1,500 for Udvar-Hazy, which can
be reserved by phone or visiting
the Smithsonian’s website.
metro announced that it will
increase transit service signifi-
cantly next month, from historic
lows to at least 70 percent of what
service had been before the pan-
demic.
While some organizations took
steps toward normalcy, others
said the pandemic forced them
into the opposite direction.
organizers canceled the ma-
rine Corps marathon for the first
time in its 45-year history. race
director rick Nealis said the deci-
sion was made friday by marine
Corps Commandant David H.
Berger after it became clear that
key logistics could not be nailed
down until uncomfortably close to
race day, on oct. 25.
D.C. officials in a monday news
conference discussed the length-
ening time it is taking some resi-
dents to receive coronavirus test
results. They said that hospital-
ized patients are getting results
within a day and that nursing
home residents with tests pro-
cessed by the city’s public health
lab are learning results within two
days.
Commercial labs are taking
much longer, in some cases seven
for work, or whose insurance is at
risk of getting canceled because
licenses aren’t renewed, or who
can’t get a title transfer for a car
purchase.
Ivanka Trump is telling the
unemployed to “find something
new,” but if that new thing — like
delivering groceries or takeout —
requires an ID, a driver’s license
or car registration that is up to
date, they might be toast.
on top of that, voters may have
a hard time getting proper IDs
before the election this fall, and
there is no way to measure the
potential loss of millions of voters
who register automatically
through their interactions with
DmVs.
It’s not just here. I texted with a
guy from Virginia whose fruitless,
six-hour-long appointment to
renew a license sent him back to
the online lottery to try for
another spot. He’s been trying for
a month.
officials have noticed the
problem. The Department of
Homeland Security announced
that enforcement of real ID — the
enhanced national identification
standards that will cover all
driver’s licenses — set to begin in
october, is pushed back a year. A
small help.
And D.C. mayor muriel E.
Bowser announced that licenses,
registrations and inspections that
expired after march will remain
valid throughout the coronavirus
crisis in the District.
But that does little for anyone
needing to deal with the federal
government (disability check) or
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Katherine Anderson, a single
mother in Silver Spring, had to
wait three weeks before getting
test results for herself and a new
babysitter so the sitter could start
work.
“Today was liberation day,” An-
derson said on July 13, after she
and the sitter tested negative. “I
might celebrate this day annually.”
Amanda Lowenberger, a stay-
at-home mother in Arlington,
sought a test as a precaution on
July 2, after a tickling feeling in
her lungs developed into a cough.
She found out she was negative 11
days later.
And while she knew she was
supposed to quarantine at home
until the results arrived, by Day 6,
she had appointments that were
difficult to move. She started ra-
tionalizing that she probably
wasn’t infected anyway.
“I’d ask myself, ‘Is this an ethical
thing to do to leave my house?’ ”
she said. “It’s very surprising that
this far into the pandemic, we’ve
still not got the basics down.”
Jack Hickman, who lives in the
District, sought a test after learn-
ing that a family member had
tested positive. He wanted to
make sure he wasn’t an asymp-
tomatic carrier who could pass it
to his three roommates.
on July 13, his 26th birthday,
Hickman dialed into the city’s
hotline for his coronavirus test
results and was queued as caller
number 246. Two and half hours
later, he was told he’d have to keep
waiting.
“It makes me wonder about: ‘If
you want a test, get a test,’ ” Hick-
man said.
By Sunday, he’d been waiting 13
days.
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to 10 days.
“It speaks to the need for na-
tional leadership. We can collect
samples. We’ve pretty much got-
ten that down. But we need the
labs to complete the test,” said
mayor muriel E. Bowser (D). “We
can’t have our national leadership
throwing up their hands.”
Nesbitt said that if the testing
backlog gets much worse, the city
might have to return to encourag-
ing testing only for high-priority
populations. “At this point, we
have the capacity to provide a test
for anyone who needs a test,” she
said.
The city closed its public testing
sites monday because of the heat
— the sites are outdoors — and will
operate with shortened hours on
Tuesday and Wednesday. Nesbitt
said that while the city will un-
doubtedly test fewer people on
these days and she has “some con-
cerns” about the virus’s spread
with fewer tests, private doctors’
offices could do more tests and
absorb some of the demand.
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outside companies (insurance),
or who must travel or rent a car —
and it leaves out the working poor
who may be struggling with
registrations that expired before
the pandemic struck.
I tried to ask D.C. DmV
Director Gabriel robinson about
this, but his staff pointed me to
the announcements Bowser made
instead.
Back to the hound, the hero of
our story.
When I let the dog out in the
wee hours of Saturday morning, I
sat down to my perpetually open
DmV appointment page, click-
scroll-clicked and couldn’t believe
it — an appointment was
available that day.
The clunky online system
doesn’t make it easy to simply
book the spot — that’s another
issue I didn’t get to ask robinson
about — but I worked some 4 a.m.
digital voodoo and snagged it.
Dog and I danced and
whooped around the house,
waking everyone up.
So this is how the rest of the
District is supposed to work
around such a broken system?
How many people have the luxury
of time and a strong Internet
connection (plus an incontinent
hound) to make this work?
The kid got up, studied some
more. The papers were in order.
He missed only two questions —
and passed the test.
He drove us home. And started
on the yardwork that would begin
to pay off that windshield.
petula.dvorak@washpost.com
Twitter: @petulad
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obituaries
zizi Jeanmaire, 96
Dance star dazzled
in music halls of Paris
BY P HIL D AVISON
Zizi Jeanmaire, who died July
17 at 96, was an exquisite, mod-
ernist ballerina who partnered
such ballet greats as Rudolf
Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshni-
kov and made Hollywood films
with Bing Crosby (“Anything
Goes,” 1956) and Danny Kaye
(“Hans Christian Andersen,”
1952). But she was best-known as
a flamboyant, seductive cabaret
singer and dancer in the vibrant
music halls of her native Paris in
the post-World War II years.
Famed for her gamine hair bob,
scant black corset, diminutive tor-
so but long legs, and her pink
ostrich feather outfits, she be-
came one of France’s best-loved
artistes. Her stage appearances in
London and the United States in
1949 transformed her into a glob-
al dance star.
She played the title role in the
ballet “Carmen” and was choreo-
graphed by her husband, Roland
Petit, who played the lead male
role as part of their troupe Les
Ballets de Paris. On Broadway, the
show ran for more than 115 perfor-
mances.
Although the ballet was based
on Bizet’s famous opera, in which
Carmen is a hot-tempered, long-
haired Spanish factory worker,
Petit had Ms. Jeanmaire crop her
hair, and he added an eroticized
dance scene that won critical ac-
claim. Petit and Ms. Jeanmaire
had brought a fresh sexiness to
traditional ballet.
New York World-Telegram mu-
sic critic Louis Biancolli wrote
that Ms. Jeanmaire’s Carmen “is
one of the most amazing portray-
als of the modern stage. Using
almost strictly classical tech-
nique, abetted by a shrewd sense
of subtly graded pantomime, she
manages to depict the whole tan-
talizing personality of Don Jose’s
femme fatale.”
Life magazine ran a story that
same year on the new European
ballet movement from France and
Britain, including seven photo-
graphs of Petit and Ms. Jeanmaire
in “Carmen” with Ms. Jeanmaire
demonstrating extraordinary
physical skills.
That led to Hollywood produc-
er Howard Hughes giving Ms.
Jeanmaire a movie contract. He
“loaned” her to movie mogul Sam-
uel Goldwyn, who cast her as a
ballerina in “Hans Christian An-
dersen” when his first choice —
the British actress and dancer
Moira Shearer — was unavailable.
Four years later, she starred in
the 1956 movie revival of Cole
Porter’s Broadway blockbuster
“Anything Goes,” alongside Cros-
by. Many critics felt there was a
lack of chemistry between Crosby
and Ms. Jeanmaire, perhaps be-
cause her husband was usually on
set as choreographer. Petit had
little right to be jealous of his wife.
He had well-publicized affairs
with Rita Hayworth and Eliza-
beth Taylor during his Hollywood
stays.
From the 1950s through the
’60s, Ms. Jeanmaire and Petit
were probably the most-photo-
graphed and sought-after culture
couple in Paris as the city not just
emerged but exploded out of the
devastation of the war and the
Nazi occupation. One of their clos-
est friends was the fashion design-
er Yves St. Laurent, who created
many of Ms. Jeanmaire’s dazzling
stage outfits. In the United States,
they were regularly in the compa-
ny of the artist Andy Warhol.
Ms. Jeanmaire’s name became
immortalized in many songs. One
was 1969’s massive British hit
“Where Do You Go To (My Love-
Zizi Jeanmaire at the Alhambra music hall in Paris on Dec. 1, 1961.
ly)” by the British singer-song-
writer Peter Sarstedt. It wasn’t
about Ms. Jeanmaire, but its
opening lines were: “You talk like
Marlene Dietrich, and you dance
like Zizi Jeanmaire.”
Ms. Jeanmaire’s signature
song, dance and act became Mon
Truc en Plumes, in which, wearing
her black corset, stockings and
high heels, she, sometimes with
the help of a male dancer, flut-
tered ostrich feathers, usually
white or pink, at her lower back.
The safest translation of the song
is “My thing in feathers.” But on
the streets of Paris, no one had any
doubt about its erotic connota-
tion: “My thing in feathers, it
makes you dream, but it’s sacred,
you can’t touch it, my thing in
feathers.”
Renée Marcelle Jeanmaire was
born in Paris on April 29, 1924, the
only child of Swiss parents; her
father was a self-made business-
man in the chromium industry.
The nickname Zizi is said to have
come from the way she used to say
“mon Zizi” instead of “mon Jesus”
(my Jesus). It was many years
later, when she was in Hollywood
and still using the name Renée,
that Goldwyn suggested she use
“Zizi” because it was catchy.
She fell in love with ballet while
at prep school. At 9, she persuad-
ed her parents to let her enroll in
the ballet school of the Opéra de
Paris, where she first met Petit, a
fellow student. Their friendship,
eventual marriage, cooperation
and love would last 78 years until
the choreographer’s death in 2011.
Survivors include their daugh-
ter, Valentine Petit, who said Ms.
Jeanmaire died at her home in
Tolochenaz, overlooking Lake Ge-
neva in Switzerland, of undis-
closed causes.
Ms. Jeanmaire was 15 when
World War II broke out and 16
when the Nazis invaded France
and occupied Paris. Although it
was often dangerous to come and
go, she and Petit continued to
practice and sometimes perform
at the subdued Opéra de Paris
throughout the war.
After the war, Petit had an affair
with the British prima ballerina
Margot Fonteyn. Ms. Jeanmaire
became aware of it and gave Petit
an ultimatum that said, more or
less, “create me a ballet, or I’m out
of here,” according to Britain’s
Daily Telegraph. He did, and “Car-
men” was the result. Following its
worldwide success, they married
in 1954.
The next year, Ms. Jeanmaire
was again upset when her hus-
band was asked to choreograph a
Hollywood musical, “Daddy Long
Legs,” starring Fred Astaire. In-
stead of selecting his new wife,
Petit persuaded Astaire and the
studio to pick the French actress
and dancer Leslie Caron — then at
the peak of her fame — for the role
opposite Astaire.
Ms. Jeanmaire began focusing
on cabaret and in 1956 appeared
in the film “Folies-Bergère.” She
had worked on refining her voice,
which was husky and sexy if not
musically dazzling, and the atmo-
sphere of Paris music halls
brought out her wit and sensuali-
ty. She continued in cabaret well
into her 70s and, as a singer,
recorded more than 30 albums.
Before his death in 1959, the
great French poet, singer, author
and songwriter Boris Vian — who
wrote the globally renowned paci-
fist song “Le Déserteur” (The De-
serter) — said of Ms. Jeanmaire:
“Zizi had eyes which would empty
a Trappist monks’ convent in five
minutes, and a voice that could
only be made in Paris.”
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IN MEMORIAM
MORRIS
CHARLES H. MORRIS
May 26, 1943 - July 21, 1992
"If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee."
You are my first and last thought of everyday.
I will always love you, Greta
SIMBULAN
DON ARIS SIMBULAN
July 21, 1969 ~ February 3, 2017
A smile relieves a heart that grieves.
We smile thinking of you.
Your Loving Family
DEATH NOTICE
DOYLE
CLARA M. DOYLE
Clara McNierney Doyle, 88, of Arlington, VA,
died peacefully at home on Saturday, July 18,
2020. Born in Titusville, PA, to Leon and Eleanor
(Bronson) McNierney, she graduated from St.
Joseph Academy High School in Titusville, and
earned a Bachelor’s degree in History from
Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia. She
stayed in Philadelphia to pursue her dream
of becoming a teacher, and taught at Edwin
H. Vare Junior High School, where she met
another teacher, Vincent Doyle. The two were
married at St. Titus Roman Catholic Church
in Titusville, on July 12, 1958. The couple
relocated to Arlington, VA, for Vincent’s new
job at the Pentagon, and Clara taught for a
year at Stratford Junior High School. With a
newborn son, they moved to McLean, VA,
where they raised all six of their children.
Her beloved husband Vincent retired from a
long career with the Smithsonian Institution in
1989, and died in 1994. An active parishioner
at St. Luke Catholic Church and school, over
the course of 57 years Clara served as a
Religious Education teacher and volunteered
on numerous committees, becoming well
known for her warm presence, cheerful help-
fulness, and dedication. In 1998, she retired
from 18 years with the Central Intelligence
Agency in Langley. At that time, she broadened
her volunteer activities, giving her time and
energy to international, national, and local
organizations that promoted peace, social jus-
tice, and community service. In 2018, she
moved from McLean to a retirement communi-
ty in Arlington, and soon became involved in
a variety of activities while making many new
friends.
She is survived by her six children: Gregory
Doyle of South Bend, IN; Margaret M. Doyle
of New York City; Kathleen B. Doyle of Burke,
VA; Timothy J. (Lara) Doyle of Arlington, VA;
Jeremy L. (Colby) Doyle of Houston, TX; and
Susan D. (Lawrence) Nightingale of Alexandria,
VA; as well as 13 grandchildren and two great-
grandchildren. She is also survived by two of
her five siblings: William McNierney of Buffalo,
NY, and Jeremy McNierney of New Wilmington,
PA.
A funeral Mass will be held at St. Luke Catholic
Church, 7001 Georgetown Pike, McLean, VA,
on Friday, July 24, at 1 p.m. For further details,
please visit Murphy’s Funeral Home www.mur-
phyfuneralhomes.com.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to
the The Griffin Fund at Chestnut Hill College in
memory of Clara M. Doyle at https://www.chc-
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RESPASS
CHARLES BUDDY RESPASS
Passed away at his home on July 16, 2020.
He was a proud American born in Newport
News, VA in 1938.
At a young age Buddy enlisted in the United
States Air Force and proudly served as a
firefighter. The discipline and responsibility
that he learned in the military and the critical
contributions that he made in Newport News
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MIFFLETON
ROY E MIFFLETON "Eddie"
The members of the Retired Fire-
fighters Association of Washing-
ton, D.C. regret to announce the
passing of Roy E. Miffleton
"Eddie" on July 20, 2020. Brother
Miffleton was appointed March
17, 1963 to Engine 12 and retired
on April 2, 1983 as Captain of Engine 3.
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MILLER
GLORIA S. MILLER
With deep sadness we
announce the passing of Gloria
Smith Miller on July 20, 2020.
She left us while sleeping peace-
fully at her residence in Sandy
Spring, Maryland. Born on
March 15, 1925, she was in
her 95th year. Gloria was a beloved wife,
mother, aunt, and friend to many, and will
be missed by all who knew her.
Gloria was a proud and active Washing-
tonian. She was married for almost 60
years to prominent DC dentist Dr. Philip
Miller, who preceded her in death. She was
also preceded in death by her sister, Violet
David, and her son, Martin Miller.
Gloria will be lovingly remembered by her
daughters and sons-in-law Wendy and Rod-
ney Hertz, Joan and Marc Silvers, Nancy and
Gary Rau, and daughter-in-law Myra Miller.
Gloria adored her growing family which
includes 11 grandchildren, their spouses,
12 great-grandchildren, and one more
expected this year.
Her family has scheduled a small graveside
funeral at King David Memorial Gardens
for Wednesday, July 22, 2020 at 10 a.m.
This event will be outdoors, face masks
must be worn, and social distancing will
be practiced. Due to the current pandemic,
the family will not be receiving visitors in
person after the service. Those interested
in joining the family virtually can email-
hajjar.mel@gmail.com for details.
Donations are encouraged in lieu of flowers
to benefit either The Michael J. Fox Founda-
tion, or to The Brooke Grove Foundation
that provided such great care in her final
days. Services entrusted to Sagel Bloom-
field Danzansky Goldberg Funeral Care.
www.sagelbloomfield.com
Buddy served in ever-increasing positions of
responsibility within the areas of operations
and management under the administrations
of President Ronald Reagan and President
George H.W. Bush. He also served in exec-
utive positions within the Department of
the Treasury and the Department of State
where for many years he served under a
direct appointment of the President within
the office of the Asst Undersecretary for
Management.
Nonetheless, as proud as he was of his work
achievements, he was most proud of his
family. Buddy is survived by his loving wife,
Clara; children, Lynne (John Haskins) Dale
City, Va, Mike (Mary Jane), Lancaster, SC, Dee
Ann (Gus Ezcurra) Marin County, CA, David
(Jill), Austin, TX and Michelle, Fredericksburg,
VA. He is also survived by 15 grandchildren
and five great-grandchildren, as well as his
three sisters Thelma, Sheila and Shirley and
was preceded in death by his parents, Ellis
Respass and Thelma Clarke James.
The family would like to extend a special
thanks to the Hospice of Lancaster and The
Piedmont and the Dantzler- Baker Funeral
Home of Great Falls. Private services will eb
held at a future date. The family requests
that memorial contributions may be made
in memory of Charles Respass to St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital.
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PALMER BROWN
ANNABELLE LOUISE PALMER
Annabelle Louise Palmer, beloved mother,
grandmother, sister and aunt passed away
peacefully on July 16, 2020. Annabelle was
born in the small town of Elizabeth, in Wirt
County West Virginia, on September 7, 1942 to
Audrey and Mary Rice. She attended Elizabeth
Elementary school and graduated from Wirt
County High School where she was a majorette
in the marching band and an active participant
in the original Friday night lights. Annabelle
married Wirt County High football player and
schoolmate Charles Palmer and moved to
Washington, DC in 1963 where she raised our
family and spent the next 57 years. She worked
over thirty years as an Optometric Assistant
for Drs. Alan and Leslie Grant, where long-time
patients became her friends. As the mother
of two boys, Annabelle developed a love for
all of the local DC sports teams and she was
an avid reader and gardener. Annabelle was GAIL MARIA BROWN
preceded in death by her parents and her Peacefully passed on July 8, 2020. Gail leaves
nephew Alex Nutter. Annabelle will be dearly to cherish her memories her loving and devot-
missed by her loving sons Grant (Lorraine) and ed husband of over 46 years, Paul; son, Paul
Gary; grandchildren Brandon, Ryan, Danielle Christopher (Saburina); daughter, Tarifa; dedi-
and Nicholas; sister Sue Nutter, niece Leslie,
and great niece and nephew Sophie and Chase.
Friends will be received for visitation on Thurs-
cated god-daughter, Dawn Gordon; grandchil-
dren, Najah, Isaiah, Christopher, Jayce, Jostlin,
Ann and Otis; sister Debra; aunts, Eva May
day, July 23, 2020 at 9:30 a.m., St. Mary's
Catholic Church, 520 Veirs Mill Road, Rockville,
MD. Immediately following, all are welcome to
Woods, Delia Wiggins and Patricia Payne; niece
Kyra Johnson; special cousin, Otis Bivens and
a host of other nieces, nephews, and other
attend the funeral mass that will be offered relatives who loved and adored her. On Thurs-
at St. Mary’s at 10 a.m. (masks required).
Interment immediately following at Gate of
day, July 23, 2020 visitation at 10 a.m. and
funeral service at 11 a.m. at Marshall-March
Heaven Cemetery, Silver Spring, MD. Flowers Funeral Home, 4308 Suitland Rd., Suitland, MD.
will be received at St.Mary’s on Wednesday, Interment Washington National Cemetery.
July 22. Donations to the breast cancer
research foundation may be made in
www.marshallmarchfh.com
Annabelle’s memory at bcrf.org.
AKINBOBOLA
ALMA LOUISE AKINBOBOLA (Age 80)
Of Washington, DC died on Wednesday, July
8, 2020 at United Medical Center Hospital.
Beloved mother of Juanita D. Roy (deceased),
William H. Roy, III, Constance A. Roy, Theresa
Roy, Oliver I. Roy, Alfred Arrendel III and Can-
dice R. Arrendell. She is also survived by 15
grandchildren and four great grandchildren. On
Wednesday, July 22, 2020, friends may visit
with the family from 10 a.m. until time of
service at 11 a.m. at Marshall-March Funeral
Homes, 4217 Ninth Street, NW, Washington,
DC 20011. Interment Private.
DEATH NOTICE
BOWMAN MANTZOURANIS
HELEN M. BOWMAN
On Thursday, July 16, 2020. Passed away in her
home peacefully at the age of 97. Helen was
born and raised in Woodstock, VA. She was
a true Washingtonian: as a longtime resident
at the Thomas House and as an employee
at the Environmental Protection Agency. She
volunteered at the Kennedy Center and cher-
ished seeing many events over the years. She
was an avid reader, lover of current events,
and enjoyed vacationing on Cape Cod, MA.
Daughter of the late John and Tillie Bowman;
sister of the late Richard Bowman. Adored by
her family and friends, she was our beloved
"Aunt Helen" and will be missed tremendously.
Interment private.
www.borgwardtfuneralhome.com
COLBERT
BENITA S. COLBERT GEORGIA KARAMBELLAS
Benita S. Colbert,“Okomfo Nana Nyo Akua MANTZOURANIS
Besebea Bekoe," "Ms. B," 63, of Richmond VA, (Age 85)
died July 5, 2020. A Dc native, she leaves her Fell asleep in the Lord surrounded with love
sister Pamela W. Johnson; one niece; three on July 12, 2020. She is the beloved wife
nephews; five great nieces; four great nephew; of the late Michael G. Mantzouranis; devoted
two cousins; Duke and Joyce of Roanoke VA; daughter of the late Dimitrios and Vassiliki
god-daughter Jennifer; other family members Karambellas; loving mother of George Michael
and close friends. Family will receive friends (MaryBeth) Mantzouranis and James Michael
from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., on Saturday July (Maria) Mantzouranis; adored grandmother of
25 at Bliley’s - Central, 3801 Augusta Ave., Michael George, the late Briana Patricia, Eleni
Georgia, Nicolas James, and Georgia Evie; cher-
Richmond, VA 23230, where Funeral Services
will immediately follow. ished sister of the late Stavroula Karambellas
and Tula (James) Deligianis. She is also survived
by many loving nieces, nephews and cousins.
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Visibility reduced in thunderstorms.• River Stages: The stage at Little
Boston 88/69/s 74/68/pc
Falls will be around 2.9 feet today, holding nearly steady at 2.9 feet Buffalo 82/68/c 81/70/t
on Wednesday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet. Burlington, VT 80/61/s 81/66/t
Charleston, SC 93/76/pc 93/75/pc
Charleston, WV 92/72/t 89/70/t
Today’s tides (High tides in Bold)
Charlotte 95/72/t 94/72/t
Washington 3:42 a.m. 9:02 a.m. 4:36 p.m. 9:42 p.m. Cheyenne, WY 78/56/t 88/61/c
Chicago 82/70/c 86/70/pc
Annapolis 6:34 a.m. 1:13 p.m. 6:31 p.m. none
Cincinnati 88/71/t 88/70/t
Ocean City 2:47 a.m. 8:39 a.m. 2:40 p.m. 9:07 p.m.
Cleveland 84/70/pc 86/70/t
Norfolk 4:47 a.m. 10:46 a.m. 4:44 p.m. 11:07 p.m. Dallas 90/75/t 90/77/s
Point Lookout 2:20 a.m. 9:35 a.m. 2:47 p.m. 8:22 p.m. Denver 85/58/t 94/62/c
Ice Cold Front Warm Front
40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s
Des Moines 82/68/t 84/68/pc
Detroit 82/69/pc 84/66/pc
El Paso 96/74/c 95/75/c
Fairbanks, AK 58/48/c 65/50/r
Fargo, ND 73/56/c 77/62/pc
Hartford, CT 91/69/s 84/68/t
Honolulu 88/74/pc 86/75/pc
Houston 88/77/t 90/76/pc
Indianapolis 85/71/pc 86/71/t
Jackson, MS 95/72/pc 95/71/pc
Jacksonville, FL 92/74/pc 91/74/t
Kansas City, MO 84/71/t 89/72/c
Las Vegas 107/85/s 106/80/s
Little Rock 94/75/t 91/75/t
Los Angeles 82/62/pc 79/61/pc
Louisville 92/76/t 89/74/t
Memphis 94/78/t 93/77/pc
Miami 88/80/t 90/81/t
Milwaukee 78/70/c 84/67/pc
Minneapolis 79/62/t 78/60/pc
Nashville 94/75/t 92/73/t
New Orleans 92/80/s 92/81/pc
New York City 92/76/pc 88/77/pc
Norfolk 98/79/pc 97/80/c
Stationary Front
Yesterday's National
High: Thermal, CA 112°
100s 110+ Low: Stanley, ID 32°
for the 48 contiguous states
Oklahoma City 90/70/t 88/72/pc
Omaha 85/68/c 85/69/pc
Orlando 90/77/t 90/77/t
Philadelphia 94/77/pc 94/76/t
Phoenix 108/88/c 107/88/c
Pittsburgh 86/69/pc 85/70/t
Portland, ME 86/64/s 72/65/pc
Portland, OR 87/63/s 80/59/pc
Providence, RI 91/70/s 83/70/pc
Raleigh, NC 96/74/t 95/74/t
Reno, NV 96/65/pc 89/59/pc
Richmond 97/76/t 97/76/pc
Sacramento 87/57/s 87/57/s
St. Louis 90/75/t 90/76/t
St. Thomas, VI 90/80/pc 90/80/pc
Salt Lake City 98/73/pc 91/72/t
San Diego 74/67/pc 73/64/pc
San Francisco 69/58/pc 71/57/sh
San Juan, PR 90/78/pc 89/79/pc
Seattle 82/61/s 75/57/pc
Spokane, WA 95/64/s 91/62/s
Syracuse 83/65/s 84/69/t
Tampa 92/78/t 92/78/t
Wichita 89/71/pc 92/73/pc
World
High: Safiabad, Iran 125°
Low: Summit Station, Greenland 4°
excludes Antarctica
WORLD Today Tomorrow
Addis Ababa 69/56/c 67/57/r
Amsterdam 67/50/pc 67/53/pc
Athens 91/75/s 91/75/s
Auckland 61/49/sh 55/50/sh
Baghdad 118/83/pc 116/82/pc
Bangkok 91/77/t 91/79/t
Beijing 95/68/c 94/68/pc
Berlin 73/51/pc 71/54/pc
Bogota 65/50/t 64/49/c
Brussels 70/49/pc 69/52/pc
Buenos Aires 60/54/r 61/55/r
Cairo 96/74/s 97/74/s
Caracas 74/67/t 74/66/t
Copenhagen 66/53/c 66/53/sh
Dakar 86/78/t 87/80/s
Dublin 65/54/pc 67/57/sh
Edinburgh 64/52/pc 62/54/sh
Frankfurt 79/54/pc 80/57/pc
Geneva 87/65/t 84/63/t
Ham., Bermuda 84/75/pc 85/78/s
Helsinki 72/50/pc 66/50/sh
Ho Chi Minh City 91/76/t 91/77/pc
Moon Phases
July 27 Aug 3 Aug 11 Aug 18
First Full Last New
Quarter Quarter
Hong Kong 92/82/pc 91/83/sh
Islamabad 85/72/t 90/75/s
Istanbul 83/71/s 84/73/s
Jerusalem 88/67/s 86/67/s
Johannesburg 69/38/pc 67/38/pc
Kabul 91/61/pc 94/63/pc
Kingston, Jam. 89/80/t 88/80/t
Kolkata 89/81/t 90/80/t
Lagos 84/75/c 83/75/sh
Lima 65/60/pc 65/59/s
Lisbon 93/68/pc 90/67/s
London 72/54/pc 75/55/pc
Madrid 99/71/pc 94/69/s
Manila 93/80/t 90/80/t
Mexico City 77/57/t 76/57/t
Montreal 78/61/pc 81/64/r
Moscow 69/58/r 69/51/sh
Mumbai 88/81/t 89/80/t
Nairobi 72/53/c 75/53/pc
New Delhi 88/77/t 88/78/t
Oslo 63/47/c 64/46/pc
Ottawa 76/58/c 81/62/c
Paris 80/55/s 81/58/pc
Prague 72/52/pc 74/53/pc
Solar system
Rise Set
Sun 6:00 a.m. 8:29 p.m.
Moon 6:43 a.m. 9:35 p.m.
Venus 3:05 a.m. 5:15 p.m.
Mars 11:55 p.m. 12:13 p.m.
Jupiter 7:56 p.m. 5:30 a.m.
Saturn 8:21 p.m. 6:06 a.m.
Rio de Janeiro 82/70/pc 82/68/pc
Riyadh 113/87/pc 113/86/pc
Rome 86/66/s 88/66/s
San Salvador 83/68/t 84/69/t
Santiago 51/38/r 54/34/pc
Sarajevo 81/53/s 83/57/pc
Seoul 86/70/pc 82/71/r
Shanghai 91/80/t 95/80/c
Singapore 87/78/t 85/78/t
Stockholm 65/51/sh 66/48/sh
Sydney 61/45/pc 64/46/pc
Taipei City 96/79/t 96/81/s
Tehran 98/79/pc 101/78/pc
Tokyo 82/75/c 83/73/t
Toronto 79/67/pc 80/68/r
Vienna 85/62/t 79/58/t
Warsaw 72/51/pc 71/51/pc
Key: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain,
sh- showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries,
sn-snow, i-ice
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Allergen Extract Lab (pollen data); airnow.gov (air
quality data); National Weather Service
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Metro to spreads within closed, confined

spaces such as rail cars or buses.
The transit system has required
restrictions, metro began to see a
trickle of riders consistently re-
turning to the system.
and 2 a.m. on friday and Satur-
day nights. But those plans have
been suspended until at least

operate at rear-door bus boarding that lim-

its operators’ exposure to passen-
gers, while it has made wearing a
Some of the passenger traffic
came from federal workers,
whom the White House wants
spring, because many bars and
late-night businesses remain
closed.

70% of its mask or other face covering man-

datory.
for months, metro-commis-
back in offices to help create a
sense of life returning to normal
— and to potentially boost public
The transit system said it rec-
ognizes that there are still late-
night workers who rely on public

usual levels sioned surveys have shown that

the region’s nonessential employ-
ers and employees have said they
confidence. According to metro’s
surveys, of the organizations with
more than 40 percent of employ-
transportation, and in response
the agency said it is doubling an
after-hours subsidy program that
have no plans to go back into ees commuting to work now, provides Lyft service to help over-
MeTrO from B1 offices until at least fall, and 34 percent are government agen- night workers get to and from
metro created a recovery plan cies, while 8 percent are private jobs. from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m.
higher numbers — 32 percent of that mirrored the response. The businesses. mondays through Thursdays and
pre-virus ridership. transit agency does not anticipate “Public agencies are summon- from 1 to 7 a.m. fridays and
Transit officials have said the a return to full service until next ing employees back to the work- Saturdays, metro customers with
system is operating at a level that spring, when a coronavirus vac- place at a much faster rate than registered SmarTrip cards will
is about a third of normal, partly cine might be ready. private businesses,” metro staff MaTT MCClain/The WashingTon PosT receive a subsidy of $6 per ride,
by design to discourage all but But late last month, as mary- stated in a report. “As conditions Metro riders at Alexandria’s King Street-Old Town station in May. up from $3.
essential riders because of the land, Virginia and the District improve, jurisdictions will con- The transit agency will add more rail cars to its service on Aug. 16. “We know that the system clos-
ease with which the coronavirus began lifting business and social tinue to relax stay-at-home poli- ing times still leave some gaps,
cies and additional businesses, on Saturdays, 53 routes will particularly for employees whose
schools and child care facilities operate on their old weekend shifts start or end during the time
will reopen. Accordingly, more schedules, 30 will run at reduced that metro service isn’t operat-
customers are expected to com- frequency and 12 will remain ing,” metro spokesman Dan Stes-
mute to work or travel for other closed. The agency said the sel said. “While the earlier closing
needs.” schedule is 87 percent of what times are necessary to undertake
on Aug. 16, metro will put 81 of metrobus ran before march. the massive cleaning effort that
its 91 stations back in operation, metrobus’s Sunday schedule occurs nightly across hundreds of
with others scheduled to reopen will be 86 percent of its pre-pan- rail cars and buses, metro is
around Labor Day. metrorail will demic Sunday schedule, with 73 stepping up its support of over-
bring back peak-rush-hour ser- lines operating normally and four night workers by doubling the
vice — more trains and shorter, lines operating at reduced fre- subsidy.”
SAVE ON A NEW five- to eight-minute waits during quency. metro said it remains on track
weekday commuting hours — for Even as metro is limiting pas- to reopen the Silver Line and all
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day-with no mess! p.m. weekdays, increasing night- crowding by redirecting more uled to reopen Aug. 16, while
time service by two hours. Service buses from routes with few pas- Vienna, Dunn Loring and East
will open at 7 a.m. Saturdays, an sengers to busier ones, but Smed- falls Church stations are slated to
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until midnight, an hour later. The levels and conditions are likely to “The program was suspended
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When we look back on our how an adult child can set
virtual celebrations this boundaries and still show
year, it might feel like one her love for a passive-
big blur. c3 aggressive mother. c4
‘It is normalizing to be here,’ says one visitor
to the Washington, D.C., museum on Monday
National Gallery reopening
is a relief for art aficionados
BY P EGGY M C G LONE
Visitors were few but their exuberance was
high at the national Gallery of Art on Monday,
when the museum became the first major
cultural institution in Washington to welcome
the public inside since the pandemic shuttered
the city’s popular museums four months ago.
Retired couples, families and groups of
friends lined up outside in the blistering heat,
waiting a half-hour for the bronze doors to
open and their art pilgrimage to begin.
“The gallery is always a spiritual place, but
it’s a spiritual place that’s meant to be filled
with people,” museum director Kaywin Feld-
man said after she greeted the small crowd
with a joyful wave and a “come on in.”
“We’re excited to welcome people back in.”
The first visitors moved quietly through the
hushed halls of the West Building’s ground
floor, their conversation muffled by mandato-
see OPEN On c4
TOP: A visitor to the National Gallery of Art looks at sculptures that are part of the Degas exhibition. ABOVE: Security guards
open the main doors at an entrance. Visitors are required to have timed passes, which are distributed online.
ENdANgErEd ExpEriENcES
Will the birthday candle tradition be snu≠ed out?
BY C AITLIN G IBSON thing days in quarantine, bar-
raged by news graphics detailing
Part of a series of stories on the spit-plume that erupts from
experiences that the pandemic our faces every time we speak,
has curtailed — and whether laugh, sing or cough. Visualize
they’re worth saving. that same gathering of loved
ones, hovering shoulder-to-
Picture the scene in its nostal- shoulder, cheering as someone
gic innocence, the way it’s always forcibly exhales a blast of aero-
been captured in photo albums solized germs across the surface
and home movies: family and of a communal dessert.
friends huddled together, voices Will we ever go back to that?
raised in song; a smiling face someday, when we are freed
illuminated by flickering flames from pandemic purgatory, when
atop a colorful cake; a momen- our birthday parties no longer
tary darkness when the music involve a grid of pixelated faces
ends and the room fills with the on a computer screen, will we
distinctive whiff of blown-out still dim the lights and sing as a
birthday candles. glowing cake slowly glides into
now imagine it again, this the room? should we even want
time having spent a 100-some- to go back?
KLMNO
Style
tuesday, july 21 , 2020
“The tradition of blowing out
candles on a cake has always
kind of grossed me out, to be
honest, even before covid-19,”
says Caissie st. Onge, a comedy
writer and television producer in
Los Angeles. “I played the trum-
pet for years, and have always
known too well just how much
spit a person’s breath contains.”
sure, she’s gone along with it at
family parties — “it makes for a
festive moment and better pic-
tures,” she says — but unless the
candle-blower is her husband or
her kid, she’s passing on dessert.
“Why would I want to eat some-
thing I just saw you blow on?”
she asks. “no thanks.”
But for those who never
see cANDlES On c3
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SmiThSoNiAN rEopENiNgS kidSpoST
the national zoo and light, shadows and the
Udvar-hazy Center will atmosphere play roles in
open to limited numbers how and when we see
of visitors on Friday. c8 the moon. c8
One strong
interview
can’t o≠set
Fox’s bias
For good reasons,
Chris Wallace’s
extensive
interview with
President Trump
was widely
Margaret praised.
Sullivan Wallace, while
remaining
respectful and calm, didn’t allow
the prevaricator in chief to get
away with too much. He pushed
back firmly, fact-checking
Trump in real time within the
interview itself as well as
showing viewers the results of
more fact-checking performed
afterward. Most notably, Wallace
countered Trump’s confidently
uttered claim that Joe Biden had
called for abolishing the police.
There’s no evidence of that,
Wallace said so to Trump’s face
and later noted that, despite
promises to the contrary, the
White House never followed up
on promises to send him proof
of it — because there isn’t any.
“A tip of the stetson to Chris
Wallace,” tweeted former CBs
news anchor and native Texan
Dan Rather. “A consummate pro.
Tough. Prepared. Fair.”
The interview was
praiseworthy, though it really
should not be quite so
remarkable to see a journalist
hold the president’s feet to the
fire. (Wouldn’t this have been
just another day at the office for
the late Tim Russert on nBC’s
Photos by MiChael Robinson Chavez/the Washington Post “Meet the Press”?)
Laudable as it was, the
Wallace interview also does
some insidious harm to truth-
telling writ large.
It serves as a journalistic fig
leaf for Fox news — something
the network’s brass and public
relations staff can point to in
order to counter the criticism
that Fox news is nothing but
cheerleader for the president.
Call it the “but Chris Wallace!”
syndrome.
see SulliVAN On c2
book world
It checks all
the boxes,
but wants
for answers
BY P ETE T OSIELLO
“Want” is, to the credit of au-
thor Lynn steger strong, a fore-
runner in the genre of anti-white-
savior novels. Its narrator and
protagonist, a white teacher at an
underfunded Manhattan charter
school, harbors no illusions about
her ability to materially improve
the lives of her black and brown
students. As an
educator she
vacillates be-
tween a lenient
paternalism
and cynical dis-
regard, re-
nouncing the
school’s harsh
conduct poli-
cies while fre-
wANT quently calling
by lynn steger in sick to spend
strong time with her
henry holt. 224 own small chil-
pp. $25.99 dren. “They
can’t see and
don’t seem to
want to see all the ways their good
intentions aren’t worth much,”
she remarks of her white col-
leagues. Readers seeking a syrupy
redemption tale like “Dangerous
Minds” or “Freedom Writers”
should look elsewhere, and also
get a clue.
Yet the narrator’s unfulfilling
day job serves largely as context
for a drifting parable on the gra-
dations of privilege. The core of
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Fox briefly stops licking Trump’s boots
suLLIvAn from C1
Sunday may have been a
spotlight for Wallace’s chops, but
monday morning things were
back to their democracy-
damaging normal at the nation’s
most popular cable network.
We learned that Tucker
Carlson — who took a sudden
vacation after justifiably harsh
criticism earlier this month —
would be back on the air. His
extremely mild rebuke of a key
staff ’s racist and misogynistic
behavior, coupled with his own
appalling commentary on Sen.
Tammy Duckworth (he
described the Purple Heart
recipient as a coward who hates
America) are bygones.
Apparently, this kind of thing
simply doesn’t matter if the
ratings are high enough — and
Carlson’s are.
on “fox & friends,” the
FOx president’s favorite morning
President Trump and Fox news’s Chris Wallace, who pushed back on Trump’s falsehoods. show, the Sunday interview got a
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It’s not going too far
to call a lot of what
Fox News offers by its
proper name:
propaganda.
proud mention (“our very own
Chris Wallace”), as it should, but
otherwise the hosts, as usual, let
the president have his way
twisting the facts. They aired a
clip in which Trump defends the
shockingly high rates of covid-19
by claiming that it’s because the
United States is doing more
testing (the greatest testing,
don’t you know). That’s not the
case, as Wallace duly pointed out
on his show — but “fox &
friends” didn’t show that part.
once again, Trump was allowed
to get away with misleading the
public.
Viewers also were treated to
the sound of host Steve Doocy
repeating Trump’s usual
trashing of factual information
he doesn’t like: “We’ve heard,
according to the polls —
although the president said
yesterday, he does not believe
the polls, they’re fake polls —
the federal response has been
poor.”
Business as usual, in other
words.
Sean Hannity, second only to
Carlson in ratings popularity on
fox News, is devoting much of
his time and energy to Portland,
ore., using alarmist video of
unrest in a city where federal
officials — some in camouflage
Adopting a pet may help
reader cope with isolation
Dear Amy: Not
Ask Amy long before the
Amy pandemic started,
Dickinson I moved across
the country. I’ve
tried staying in
touch with people where I used
to live, and I spent about six
months in my new home getting
out and about and meeting
people.
I created a few acquaintances,
but that’s it so far.
I’ve tried suggesting video or
phone chats, but people I know
(in both places) aren’t able to/
interested in more than texting
to keep in touch.
The past three months have
been isolating, and I have a
health condition that puts me at
high risk, so I don’t see an end in
sight without a vaccine.
There’s not really any way to
make new friends while staying
at home, so how do I deal with
texting being my only form of
contact for the next year or so?
— Isolated
Isolated: I certainly hope it
won’t be a year before you are
able to move around with a
feeling of safety concerning your
health. A year is a very long time
to be isolated from most human
contact.
my first recommendation is
for you to adopt a pet, if you are
able and if your health allows.
Shelters are offering adoptions
via appointment, and if there is a
way for you to do this safely, I
hope you will consider it.
many people who are still
working (remotely) are
completely exhausted with
videoconferencing. What seemed
like a fun novelty four months
ago (Zoom cocktails, cool!) now
feels forced.
Texting is not an optimal way
to stay in touch, but if you put
some effort into becoming an
engaging correspondent (not
initiating too often, being
responsive to others, and
occasionally sending fun memes
and videos), texting can be a
somewhat satisfying way of
staying connected.
You could also see if your
hometown friends might want to
create a standing date to play an
online game such as “Words
With friends.”
Understand, however, that
many people are struggling right
now — just as you are. What I’m
trying to say is — it’s not you. It is
everyone.
Your local library might host a
(virtual) book club you could
join. Doing this would help you
to connect in-person when the
world opens up.
Yes — you can make new
friends while staying at home.
There are numerous online
communities for any interest you
might have — or acquire.
reddit.com is (basically) the
Internet’s bulletin board. I just
. tuesday, july 21 , 2020
without badges to identify them
as law enforcement — have
seized racial-justice
demonstrators on the street and
detained them without charges
or record of an arrest.
CNN’s Brian Stelter, who is
writing a book about the culture
of fox News, suggested in his
monday newsletter that the
Trump administration and fox
News’s talk shows have picked
Portland as a new stage for
Trump’s “Law and order” show:
“Programs like fox & friends
have been prioritizing urban
violence over the Covid-19 crisis
for several weeks; Portland was
just the latest news peg.”
During the Wallace interview,
Trump criticized fox News,
which he claims to have been
disappointed in since co-founder
roger Ailes stepped down in
disgrace a few years ago. He
professes, at times, to prefer the
upstart one America News.
But let’s face it, Trump has
absolutely nothing to complain
about with fox News, which —
for the most part — is a water
carrier for a president who
consistently lies and attacks
democratic norms. It’s not going
too far to call a lot of what fox
News offers by its proper name:
propaganda.
That Chris Wallace swoops in,
on rare occasions, to show how
fox News journalism might be
done with integrity doesn’t
change that one iota.
By providing cover to fox
News’s dependable sycophants
and cheerleaders, he may even
make things worse.
margaret.sullivan@washpost.com
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randomly looked up “Portland/
knitting” and felt instantly
cheered by the photos and
comments of knitters in
Portland. (And I don’t knit — or
live in Portland!)
Dear Amy: I am retired. I never
married and have no children.
Thanks to the careful budgeting
of my parents and an uncle, I am
what would be called
comfortably well off. Now that I
have the time and my health, I
have indulged in traveling.
If all goes well, I’m planning a
trip to Europe later this year. I
offered all three of my nieces a
chance to go with me. All three
turned me down for good
reasons, so it looks like I am
going by myself.
my brother called me and
asked me how it was that I can
afford to take the kids to Europe
and not help him with other
bills. I am likely to get
overburdened with his bills, and
I didn’t feel comfortable signing
a loan for him.
my brother told me that I
was not to have anything to do
with his kids. I am a consenting
adult who can decide for myself
who I will and won’t associate
with. furthermore, all three
nieces are consenting adults
and can make their own
decisions. I’d love to hear your
take on the situation.
— -Loving Aunt
Loving Aunt: I’m volunteering
to be your “companion,” like a
character in an E.m. forster
novel.
otherwise, yes — you are all
consenting adults, and your
brother does not have the right
to control either you or his adult
daughters. However —
understand that parents are able
to pull all sorts of strings with
their children, and there is
nothing you can do about that.
Dear Amy: Your reader, “NoT
Born in the USA” wanted to
become more “American.”
I suggest he/she start learning
about baseball.
Jacques Barzun, a man who’d
covered baseball for 55 years,
once said, “Whoever wants to
know the heart and mind of
America had better learn
baseball, the rules, and reality of
the game.”
That said, I’m not completely
sure that is true anymore, but it’s
a start.
— Baseball Fan
Baseball Fan: Great suggestion!
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BY K ELSEY A BLES
When marisa Heller recounts
the events she’s attended on
Zoom, she has a hard time
differentiating one from anoth-
er: a wedding party, work meet-
ings, children’s birthday parties.
“They’re all just blending to-
gether. Who was on this meet-
ing? or who was at this event?”
says Heller, 34, who lives in a
suburb outside San francisco.
Asked how many Zoom birthday
parties she’s attended, she
catches herself thinking, “Wait,
was that a birthday or Pass-
over?”
for a brief moment in march,
it looked as though calendars
might be cleared to slow the
coronavirus outbreak. But as
quickly as events were canceled,
replacements popped up: virtu-
al happy hours, networking ses-
sions, DJ sets, book clubs, medi-
tation groups. Bedroom walls
would be broadcast to moms
and managers alike. Banquet
halls and bars would be remade
in the shape of the Zoom grid.
Any event, it seemed, could be
broken down to its most easily
streamable parts.
But the Zoomification of ev-
erything could not keep life’s
narrative threads from coming
undone. for those of us privi-
leged to be healthy and stuck at
home, the days felt shapeless,
the weeks piled up. And now a
question looms: Years from now,
what will we actually remember
from these life events? Stripped
of the smells and sounds and
textures of the now-forbidden
spaces we used to inhabit, life in
lockdown might look in retro-
spect like a plotless TV show, in
During the pandemic, some work-arounds for the birthday candles
Candles from C1
played in the horn section of
the band, a cake crowned with
candles might still represent
something more pure. Jennifer
Carlson, a 45-year-old human
resources director and mom of
two sets of twins in florida, still
remembers the climactic mo-
ments of her own childhood
birthday parties — the mesmer-
izing glow of the flames, her
parents turning off the lights,
all of her favorite people sur-
rounding her. She still remem-
bers the year she wished for a
princess doll, and actually got
one, and how that made her
feel: “Almost as if magic really
does happen,” she says. “I do
hope the tradition of blowing
out candles on the cake contin-
ues.”
History suggests it will, in
one form or another. The pair-
ing of cakes and candles has
been part of humanity’s story
since ancient Greece, says Beth-
anne Patrick, an author and
Washington Post contributor,
who researched the origin of
birthday cakes and candles for
her book “An Uncommon His-
tory of Common Things.” Back
then, candles were ceremonial-
How will we remember
our virtual celebrations?
which we are both a bad actor
and a bored audience. It’s the
details that imbue memories
with specificity and significance
— and without them, despite
our virtual efforts, our big mo-
ments of 2020 may end up a
blur.
Part of the problem is we pro-
cess events in the in-between
spaces: in car-ride debriefings
with friends after a party or while
staring out the window on the
train back from work. “Those
transitions are important for us
to rehearse what happened to
make meaning out of it,” says
Benjamin Storm, a psychology
professor who studies memory at
University of California at Santa
Cruz.
But when clicking from one
event to another, “Now, it’s like
it’s over, bam and then we move
on to the next thing,” Storm says.
“We may not consolidate the
memories and make meaning of
the events in the same way and
we may not remember them as
well.”
This might explain why Anie-
la Valtierra, 35, a San francisco-
based event planner, has been
forgetting everything: conversa-
tions she had, what TV show she
watched yesterday and even
simple things such as closing
ly placed atop a cake and
brought as a worshipful offer-
ing to the temple of Artemis,
goddess of the hunt, Patrick
says.
Birthday parties were add-
ed to the mix in 18th-century
Germany, Patrick says, thanks
in part to one Count Ludwig
Von Zinzindorf, who celebrat-
ed his birthday in 1746 with a
lavish bash featuring a mas-
sive cake festooned with can-
dles. Germans started placing
a candle on cakes — the fire
was meant to represent the
light of life itself — to cele-
brate their children’s birth-
days. “Candles on cakes
evolved from ceremony to ex-
travagance to a celebration
for regular people,” Patrick
says.
from the start, the act of
extinguishing the flames was
infused with potent symbol-
ism. “The original idea is that
the smoke would carry your
wish up to the gods,” Patrick
says. “As part of the process of
individuation in the industrial
age, it became increasingly
about a single person’s wish
instead of the wish of a com-
munity. When you blew out the
candle, that carried your wish
the refrigerator door. “Every-
thing is so warpy” she says,
“There is no sense of separation
between being at an office, get-
ting in a car, going into your
room.”
our minds segment reality
based on changes in our envi-
ronment: like when you pass
through a doorway, or a new
person enters a room. Psycholo-
gists call them “event boundar-
ies.” “Some recent research has
shown if you have more event
boundaries, that helps break up
your experience and you re-
member better,” says Gabriel
radvansky, a psychology profes-
sor at the University of Notre
Dame who first wrote about this
“doorway effect.” for many, in a
pared-down world made of a
computer screen, the grocery
store and a few rooms at home,
the opportunities for these
boundaries are limited.
“The problem with the Zoom
windows is that they all look
alike, so you’ve got all these situa-
tions that look very similar and
you start to get confused,” he
adds. “We use spatial location to
help code memories, and if you
have a lot of things happening in
the same place, you get a lot of
interference and memory is
worse.”
“I don’t think
people are going
to be inclined
right now to give
up things that
make them
feel good.”
Kathy LaVanier,
president of the National
Candle Association
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Leslie feinzaig, 41, who took
her Seattle-based company fe-
male founders Alliance remote
in march, jokes that she has
made her life into one giant
video call. Details of her daugh-
ter’s Zoom birthday party stand
out in her memory, but the rest
of quarantine feels like “one big
haze.” “You know how if a sports
season is cut short, a player’s
averages get an asterisk next to
them? I feel like our lives are
getting an asterisk, ” she says.
Even if there is some visual
variation in your events — in, say,
the variety of artwork in your
friends’ backgrounds — it’s flat-
tened by a dearth of information
elsewhere.
If you meet a friend at a restau-
rant, there are all sorts of sensa-
tions that come with it, “the lights
and the people passing by and the
food and the flavors and the
smells all of that,” Valtierra says,
“whereas on Zoom, you might be
sitting in a chair and your back is
in pain because you’ve been sit-
ting at it all day for work.”
Distractions that pull us out of
the moment can also be destruc-
tive to memory. At physical gath-
erings, we endure awkward lulls
and boring digressions. But on-
line, even the most well-meaning
Zoom guest can’t help but be
out to the universe.”
The tradition took root in
the United States at the end of
the 19th century, before the
devastation wrought by the
1918 flu pandemic. Patrick
couldn’t say for sure how birth-
day parties were affected or
altered during that particular
chapter of history — but that
pandemic obviously didn’t
stop anyone from blowing out
birthday candles once the cri-
sis had ended, which perhaps
reveals something about how
quickly germophobia subsides
once an imminent threat has
passed.
And it’s not like prior warn-
ings have done much to dis-
suade us. In 2017, a widely
circulated study (unappetiz-
ingly titled “Bacterial Transfer
Associated With Blowing out
Candles on a Birthday Cake”)
revealed that “blowing out the
candles over the icing surface
resulted in 1400% more bacte-
ria compared to icing not
blown on” — meaning that any
microorganisms dwelling in
the candle-blower’s respirato-
ry tract would probably make
their way onto your plate. Ugh
— and yet, the upshot was still
that the scenario is pretty
tempted by the emails popping
up and Twitter feuds waiting in
another window — not to men-
tion fixated on the messy interi-
ors and disastrous quarantine
hair depicted in our own video
feeds.
It could be that we might
remember less from a virtual
event because what happens is
simply less interesting. Steve
Whittaker, a professor of hu-
man-computer interaction at
UC-Santa Cruz, has found that
video calls make brainstorming
and bantering more difficult.
The time lag leads people to tell
fewer jokes than when in per-
son, he notices, and even gather-
ings with close friends or family
can feel a little too “task-orient-
ed.”
Valtierra, who has attended
numerous galas online, has no-
ticed the etiquette of staying on
mute for work spills over into
social time. “It’s almost too coor-
dinated, too controlled,” she says.
Shakeelah Sutton, a the very least, socializing from
D.C.-based yoga instructor,
won’t forget being forced to
celebrate her 30th birthday
while sitting in her living room,
but the memories of the virtual
happy hour she hosted are lack-
luster. She sent out a message
inviting everyone to grab a
harmless: “In reality if you did
this 100,000 times, then the
chance of getting sick would
probably be very minimal,” one
of the study’s authors told the
Atlantic.
Candle industry experts
aren’t worried about the future
of this tradition. Kathy LaVani-
er, president of the National
Candle Association, says she’s
talked to wholesalers and re-
tailers who report no sign of
waning sales — in fact, “they’re
seeing exponential growth in
the baking category as a whole,
and birthday candles haven’t
slowed down at all,” she says. “I
think people are definitely still
doing it. If it’s just you and your
kids at home and your kids are
going to blow out the candles
and it’s just your family eating
the cake, I don’t think people
are going to worry. And from an
industry perspective, a couple
of the people I’ve spoken to said
that cupcakes have become
more popular in recent years
anyway.”
Given everything we’re going
through as a country, “I don’t
think people are going to be
inclined right now to give up
things that make them feel
good,” she adds. “If anything,
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drink before they signed on. No
one had drinks. And because
some people in the group didn’t
know each other, she felt pres-
sure to create engaging conver-
sation out of thin air. “I wanted
everyone to have a good time,
but we were all just kind of
sitting there looking at each
other,” she recalls.
many of life’s most memora-
ble experiences come from the
chance encounters and unex-
pected moments that confer-
ence calls minimize. Perhaps
this is why the most salient
memories from virtual events
are of the technology not doing
what it’s supposed to do.
When feinzaig looks back on
her daughter’s 1st birthday par-
ty on Zoom, she remembers how
the lag made it impossible to
sing happy birthday in sync.
mica Annis, a 2020 graduate of
American University, recalls re-
winding her virtual graduation
live stream because the slides
were flicking by so fast that she
missed her name. Yusuf Sarfati,
a professor at Illinois State Uni-
versity, went to a bar mitzvah on
Zoom and remembers his par-
ents spending the whole call
waving. They had it on speaker
mode, where the person talking
shows up in a large window, and
thought each one was speaking
directly to them.
We might’ve thought that at
home would limit embarrassing
mishaps. No more stairs to trip
on or white shirts to catch red
wine. But mishaps are unavoid-
able, and online, they could be
the only thing that makes a
party memorable.
kelsey.ables@washpost.com
we’re going to gravitate toward
wanting to do more of that.”
When something is worth
saving, we find ways to make it
work — and within the con-
straints of quarantine, people
are already coming up with
inventive workarounds: They
place a single candle atop an
individual cupcake. They wave
their hands to extinguish the
flames. They poke candles
through a paper plate to fash-
ion a homemade cake shield.
They offer alternative dessert
options for those who have long
cringed at the thought of
breath-fogged frosting. They
applaud the ceremonial birth-
day candle blowout from a safe
distance, through glowing
screens, until someday they
hopefully won’t have to any-
more.
But maybe the return we long
for isn’t really about candles,
anyway. It’s the ritual that sur-
rounds them — the creation of a
happy memory, the voices of
friends joined in a familiar
melody, our family members
gathered to celebrate the pas-
sage of another year of life —
that feels, especially now, like
something worth wishing for.
caitlin.gibson@washpost.com
C4
Art and air conditioning: It’s a win-win as the National Gallery reopens
OPEN from C1
ry face masks. Groups kept a
now-instinctive six feet of dis-
tance as they wandered through
galleries featuring 19th- and
20th-century sculpture, decora-
tive arts, American furniture and
Impressionist still life paintings.
Two special exhibits — “Degas
at the opéra” and “True to Na-
ture: open-Air Painting in Eu-
rope, 1780-1870” — have been
extended through the fall. They
drew the most interest, but were
not crowded as they were before
the shutdown, a rare and splen-
did consequence of the new nor-
mal.
“There’s an old saying, ‘Life
without art doesn’t make much
sense,’ ” said visitor June Hum-
bert of Bethesda, who with her
husband, richard, was among
the first to enter.
Humbert said she felt “just
relief ” to be back in the museum
she regularly frequented before
the global shutdowns.
“Art is very important to me,
and the National Gallery is an
important thing to us,” she said.
“You hope the end [of the pan-
demic] is coming. maybe it will
come in parts, but we desperately
need the rest of our lives back.”
That sentiment was repeated
often among the first 500 visitors,
who were admitted in half-hour
intervals throughout the day. The
visit was a milestone, they said,
and a reminder of a happier past.
“We always come to the muse-
um. Its absence was devastating
to us,” said D.C. resident Belinda
Perry, who was taking in the
impressionist gallery with her
friend David Cumberbatch, also a
Setting boundaries and showing love
for your passive-aggressive parent
Adapted from
an online
discussion.
Dear Carolyn:
Because of
Carolyn difficult
Hax childhood
experiences, my
mom has
unhealthy and hurtful
communication patterns —
mainly a tendency to avoid
direct communication and
instead use mean, passive-
aggressive comments or totally
avoid an issue. She passed
those patterns down to me.
Through therapy and with the
support of an incredible
spouse, I’ve been able to
identify these unhealthy
patterns and largely break away
from them.
my mom has a deep fear of
being deserted or left behind,
and she frequently makes
snide, cutting comments about
how far away I live — an hour —
how she feels alone and
TOP: Visitors line up outside the National Gallery of Art, which began admitting 500 passholders a day to the ground floor of the West
Building. ABOVE: People take in the works hanging in the “Degas at the Opéra” exhibition, whose run was extended to Oct. 12.
D.C. resident. “It’s a major selling
point of D.C., its endless supply of
exhibits.”
Cumberbatch, who works in
the nearby courthouse complex,
would come to the gallery at
lunchtime. monday’s late-morn-
ing visit was a hopeful sign.
“It’s the first time I got up and
showered and got dressed in four
unwanted, etc. She does not
come out and say that she feels
insecure about our
relationship or fearful of being
left alone; rather, she holds on
to those emotions and then
slips in mean and hurtful
comments that feel like
grenades being launched at
me.
I feel confident that I am
doing my part to maintain
contact with her and send the
message that I love her, but her
insecurities run very deep and
her fears become her perceived
reality, and all the efforts I
make don’t change her
perception.
How can I continue to show
love and a desire for
relationship when she seems to
not believe it’s true? How do I
set boundaries so that I do not
become consumed with trying
to convince her I care? And,
how do I communicate with
her knowing she does not have
healthy communication skills?
— Anonymous
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months,” he joked. “It is normaliz-
ing to be here.”
In keeping with D.C. and feder-
al guidelines, the museum re-
stricted the number of visitors to
about 100 per hour from 11 a.m. to
4 p.m. Visitors were required to
wear masks as they entered
through the Sixth Street doors,
where they showed their passes
Anonymous: It’s your job to tell
your mother the truth. It’s not
your job to sell it to her.
There is a way to talk to your
mom that’s worth trying, If
(big if ) you have the presence
of mind to do it in the moment.
And it’s not a failure on your
part if you can’t; it’s difficult,
especially when emotions are
high. But if you’re able:
Try listening to her mean and
hurtful comment until she is
finished, and then reflecting
back to her the emotion you
think is driving it. for example:
She: “[mean and hurtful
comment.]”
You: “I’m hearing that you’re
worried I won’t visit you as
often as you’d like.” Stop, wait.
If she says no or backpedals
or says another nasty thing,
then just say as neutrally as
possible, “okay, my mistake.”
Then change the subject or end
the conversation.
But keep up the reflective
listening regardless. As calmly
as you can muster, holding
to staff members seated behind
glass shields before walking
through newly installed metal
detectors.
Passes required for entry are
distributed on the gallery’s web-
site every monday at 10 a.m. for
the following monday through
Sunday. All of the passes for this
week are gone, and more than
firm. This response is both
loving communication —
because you’re showing
willingness to express your
feelings and validate hers —
and a firm boundary, because
you’re demonstrating that you
will be genuine with her but
won’t react to hostility and
won’t be manipulated by it.
That is what is happening
now, by the way — your
mother’s barbs are very
the washington post
photos by MiChael Robinson Chavez/the Washington post
half of the passes for July 27 to
Aug. 2 were snapped up within
hours of their release, a museum
spokeswoman said. The muse-
um’s Sculpture Garden is open,
and passes aren’t required. The
museum’s cafe is selling pre-
packaged food and beverages,
and its shop is open with limited
inventory. Purchases must be
effective at getting you to act in
service of her feelings.
Given how deep these issues
run and how you’ve struggled
with breaking the pattern
yourself, the best place to
address this is probably ongoing
therapy — so you can bring
situations to your appointments
while fresh in mind and role-play
them. “She said X. my response
was, Y. Could I have handled that
more productively?’ ”
. tuesday, july 21 , 2020
made by credit card.
Additional galleries in the mu-
seum’s West Building will wel-
come visitors after D.C. mayor
muriel E. Bowser (D) announces
the next phase of the city’s re-
opening plan. The East Building
remains closed for construction
until the fall.
Colleen Gibbons of Alexandria
wasn’t optimistic when she
looked for passes last week, but
she was able to snap up four for
the first day. She visits museums
four or five times a year, she said,
but it took the shutdown to re-
mind her of their value. “We’re
lucky to have this,” she said.
Safety was top of mind for
many visitors. Wayne and Irene
Wittig of Arlington obtained
passes for 11 a.m. on opening day
because they thought it would be
safer to be among the first to
enter a space that was newly
cleaned.
“We go grocery shopping. This
can’t be any different than going
to Harris Teeter. And it’s way
more fun,” Irene Wittig said.
Barbara and Bill Lynch of Sil-
ver Spring decided that the Degas
exhibit was worth “a calculated
risk.”
“We said if it doesn’t look like
they’re doing it right, we’ll go
home,” Barbara Lynch said, add-
ing praise for the staff.
Arlette Jassel, an artist who
lives in Bethesda, expressed de-
light in finally being able to re-
turn to the museum, which she
described as inspirational. “Being
in the space is very empowering,”
she said. “It is not religious, not
political. That is rare and we need
it. We need it so much.”
peggy.mcglone@washpost.com
niCk galifianakis foR the Washington post
Here’s a cheat-sheet version
to get you through as you figure
this out: Engage with the good,
disengage from the bad. Good
luck.
Write to Carolyn hax at
tellme@washpost.com. get her
column delivered to your inbox
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A woman stumbles under the weight of modern ills How to save some money
book WorLd from C1

“Want” is a parasitic relationship

slowly unveiled via flashbacks.
The narrator (who, like most of
the novel’s characters, remains
nameless for almost the entire
book) is racked with guilt over her
estrangement from a childhood
friend, stalking her on social me-
dia and sending late-night text
missives begging for reconcilia-
tion. outside of work, the narra-
tor maintains a part-time adjunct
role at a prestigious university;
she and her husband, an invest-
ment banker turned carpenter,
are approaching bankruptcy and
collapsing under the obligation of
tending to children in a cramped
apartment.
“Want” hastily grapples with a
litany of contemporary social is-
sues, briefly alighting upon gen-
trification, infantilizing work-
place culture and the anonymity
of urban life. Strong evokes digi-
tal relationships with keen preci-
sion, and there’s a well-conceived
#meToo subplot that nevertheless
feels a bit shoehorned. The class-
room scenes, while periodically
hampered by hackneyed dialogue
about dress codes and black wom-
en’s hair, derive incisive commen-
tary from a self-conscious white
gaze. The charter school’s focus
on discipline and test scores rein-
forces an oppressive ruling class
to which the narrator, grudgingly,
belongs. She grades on a scale and
buys lunch for her neediest stu-
dents, the reflexive indulgence a
function of both pity and lowered
expectations.
To Strong’s narrator, public ser-
vice and comradeship are mani-
festations of narcissism, even
motherhood a means of assuming
agency otherwise denied women.
Considering her ruined adoles-
cent friendship, she realizes, “I
like being needed, giving, but not
so close that I can’t run away.”
When she finally quits her job at
the charter school, it’s “because I
love my students but not as much
as I wish I loved them, not enough
to work harder and be better.”
Entitlement undergirds her every
rationale: She bristles when con-
fronted with her husband’s rich
clients, and doggedly pursues ac-
ademic work as tribute to years
spent studying literature at elite
institutions.
while beating the heat Strong’s flat affect is reminis-
cent of Halle Butler and Catherine
Lacey. The prose begs for atten-
tion, then shies away in shame
and humility. “We had principles
or something, made up almost
wholly out of things we knew we
didn’t want to be or have a part in
more than any concrete plans for
what we’d be instead,” the narra-
tor reflects on her and her hus-
band’s career paths. There’s an
awareness of the privilege baked
into this ambivalence, as well as
in the deadened, overprescribed
city they occupy. While the abun-
dance of literary allusions can
seem like scaffolding for a skimpy
plot, the narrator’s obsession with
highfalutin European fiction un-
derscores the drudgery she per-
ceives in her day-to-day life.
Still, an anti-white-savior novel
isn’t the same as an anti-racist
one, just as acknowledgment of
privilege isn’t synonymous with
its rejection. Too often, “Want”
feels like a study in allyship fa-
tigue, the systemic inequities suf-
fered by its black and brown char-
acters ceding emotional territory
to the domestic drama of their
white counterparts. Strong writes
convincingly of the desiccated
American Dream, the hand-to-
mouth existence of young adults
in the recession’s shadow, but
“Want” finds a white woman
cruising the thoroughfares of
black trauma before retreating to
gentrified Brooklyn with a loan
from her parents.
nina Subin recent novels by Danzy Senna
“Want” author Lynn Steger Strong. and Kiley reid have explored sim-
ilarly liberal, rarefied urban pre-
cincts, featuring female protago-
nists reckoning with disparities
“Want” hastily grapples with a litany in racial and socioeconomic privi-
lege. In reid and Senna’s books,
of contemporary social issues, briefly it’s impossible to reduce race to a
matter of subtext, and while vari-
alighting upon gentrification, infantilizing ous perspectives are incorporat-
ed, the emotional burdens are
workplace culture and the anonymity borne by the most persecuted. In
Strong’s case, some of her book’s
of urban life. failure can be ascribed to the
glacial pace of publishing — if
nothing else, “Want” would have
been far more resonant had it
arrived a year ago. But as with any
social novel, urgency is para-
mount.
bookworld@washpost.com
Pete Tosiello is a writer and critic
based in new York.
dear Heloise:
Hints Here are some
From hints for staying
Heloise comfy and cool
this summer
while saving
money:
l maintaining the air
conditioner is critical.
Schedule yearly maintenance
to be sure everything works
properly.
l Consider adding window
treatments to keep heat out —
awnings outside, blinds and
curtains inside.
l A “smart” thermostat can
maintain an appropriate
temperature for your home.
Some can be controlled
through an app on your
phone.
l Check windows and doors
for leaks, and seal any you
find. Additional attic
insulation also might be called
for.
l finally, as simple as it
sounds, a cool evening breeze
can replace the air
conditioning. So, open a
window!
— Barry in Missouri
dear readers: If you have an
issue with a company, they
may offer a live chat forum
on their website where you
can chat (message) with a
representative who can help
resolve the problem or direct
you to someone who can.
The best part of the chat is
that you’ll have the
conversation in writing, so
you can save the transcript for
future reference.
dear Heloise: I NEVEr open
my door to a stranger, even if
it’s a kindly lady poised at the
peephole. A team of bad men
could be crouched down out of
sight.
— Hilda in Alabama
Hilda in Alabama: Sad but
true. These people often work
in teams, and although
Southern hospitality is a
wonderful thing, it’s always
important to put safety first.
dear Heloise: I love those
cloth dish-drying mats, but
they can get stinky and moldy
if not dried properly between
uses. So, I have two mats that I
alternate, hanging the damp
one on a pants hanger (with
clips).
— Mama Betty in Texas
dear Heloise: Why do I get
blasted with air when I walk
through the door at my
grocery store? What’s going
on?
— Ida in Texas
Ida in Texas: What you’re
experiencing is called an air
door (or air curtain), which
uses a downward-facing
blower fan. And while it is
strong (it’ll probably undo a
beehive hairdo in a hot
minute), it serves important
purposes.
Air doors work to keep birds
and flying insects out of the
store for your safety and for
the safety of the creatures as
well. It also helps to keep the
air-conditioned air inside and
the hot air outside.
restaurants, airlines and
loading docks also use air
doors, and many businesses
where the doors are open
often.
dear readers: You’re
thinking about running a 10K
race, but just how many miles
is that? Well, one kilometer is
about .62 miles. So before you
put on your running shoes,
you should know that a 10K
run is 6.2 miles, which might
require some training
beforehand. You may want to
start off with a 5K (3.1 miles),
which many runners complete
in about 30 to 40 minutes.
Whichever you choose, wear
the proper equipment, and
run safely.
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a week at washingtonpost.com/
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CLASSIC DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU PICKLES BRIAN CRANE

RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

N-S VULNERABLE
NORTH
♠ 974
♥ 83
♦ A Q 10 8 7 2
♣ 75
WEST EAST
♠ Q 10 ♠ K852
♥ J9642 ♥ K 10 7 5
♦ J93 ♦ K4 MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES WUMO
♣ QJ6 ♣ 10 8 4
SOUTH (D)
♠ AJ63
♥ AQ
♦ 65
♣ AK932

The bidding:
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST
1 ♣ Pass 1 ♦ Pass
1 ♠ Pass 2 ♦ Pass
3 NT All Pass
Opening lead — ♥ 4 CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ MIKE LESTER
MIKE DU JOUR

I n the club lounge, someone

asked my friend the English
professor if he could spell the
word “part” backwards.
“Don’t do it,” I warned the
prof. “It’s a trap.”
In today’s deal, the defend-
ers set a trap for declarer
and he fell in. Against 3NT,
West led the four of hearts:
three, king, ace. South then
led a diamond, West played RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JAMES ALLEN
the three, dummy the 10 ...
and East smoothly followed
with the four.
Declarer returned a club
to his king and led a second
diamond, and West played
the jack. South may have
been wary, but he finessed
with the queen. When East
took the king, dummy was
stone dead, and South was
lucky to go down only one. LIO MARK TATULLI MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
West did well to play the
jack on the second diamond.
If he plays the nine, South
may go up with dummy’s
ace. He will know that he
can’t bring in the diamonds if
West had K-J-9-3.
After the 10 of diamonds
wins, declarer can take the
A-K of clubs and lead a third
club. When clubs break 3-3,
he has nine winners without HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
the diamonds.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠AJ63♥AQ
♦65♣AK932
You open one club, your
partner responds one dia-
mond, you bid one spade
and he rebids two diamonds.
South in today’s deal then
bid 3NT. Do you agree with
his call? BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
ANSWER: Since South’s bid
of one spade was not forcing,
and North’s two diamonds
was not encouraging, for
South to leap to game was
illogical, especially since
he had no help for the dia-
monds. A bid of 2NT would
have been plenty.
— Frank Stewart
©2020, TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY, LLC.

SHERMAN’S LAGOON JIM TOOMEY

SUDOKU

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MUTTS PATRICK McDONNELL ZITS JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN

HOROSCOPE

BIRTHDAY | JULY 21
Exciting and risk-
taking, you will never
have a dull life. This
year, you succeed
with your biting wit and with
staying out of trouble. You
have what is called “the
millionaire’s aspect,” and if
you apply this to a solo project
you do brilliantly. If single,
you flirt too much to get tied
down this year, although it’s
DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY enjoyable. If attached, you are
adored unconditionally by your
partner. Gemini can keep up
with you.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
It’s a wonderful day to explore
which way your heart leans. A
revelation about the meaning
of true love, for either a person
or an important interest, is
realized. The remainder of your
day will be very upbeat.
TAURUS
(APRIL 20-MAY 20).
Today creates a stir in your
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL home. You will be working hard
to comfort family members.
Changes concerning your
residence are likely. You are
feeling somewhat moody and
sensitive to others’ feelings,
including children’s.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
Today brings tremendous
mental energy. New ideas
abound. Short journeys will
be refreshing. A neighbor is
helpful and has knowledge
to share. Ask questions and
verify.
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
It may be necessary to revamp
financial plans. It is important
to verify claims and credentials
impacting finances. A con
artist or misinformed financial
adviser could be lurking
nearby.
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
Adorn yourself today and
assemble an especially
wonderful costume. You will
be highly visible, and social
prospects are especially
DUSTIN STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN STAN LEE & ALEX SAVIUK
bright. Initiative is strong. You
feel almost giddy with power.
Much can be accomplished.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
Although you usually dislike
being alone, today’s trend
finds you tending to withdraw
for some solitary reflection.
Avoid crowds and groups, even
on social media. Ecological
concerns might interest
you after some surprising
research.
LIBRA
SCOTT STANTIS DAVE BLAZEK (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
PRICKLY CITY LOOSE PARTS Today can bring news from
a lost love. Some confusion
follows. Gather information
before responding. Avoid
making binding commitments
right now, especially to serve
on the board of clubs or
organizations.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
Today brings encouragement
from others. You will be highly
visible, so be cognizant of
image and reputation. A time
of redefining your status and
career is due. A hunch or
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT creative idea can help. Relieve
stress with humor.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
There are important meetings
and travel. Honor your
individuality while appreciating
what you can learn from
associates. A dinner of fine
foreign cuisine followed by a
foreign film can set the stage
for a memorable time with one
you would woo.
CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
Cobwebs or confusion that
BIG NATE LINCOLN PEIRCE ON THE FASTRACK BILL HOLBROOK has hovered for more than a
decade is suddenly brushed
away. Today brings new
insights into others. There is
sudden empathy with people
you just did not understand
before. A more grounded mood
prevails.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
Other people make plans that
include you; be as cooperative
as possible. A legal or ethical
issue might be open to debate.
Visualize a pink bubble
surrounding all concerned
BEETLE BAILEY MORT, BRIAN & GREG WALKER PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS when discussions grow
heated. Harmony will prevail.
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
Prepare healthy, natural meals
today. Quell the temptation to
eat junk food with high calorie
or high sodium content. Drink
plenty of water to flush any
impurities from your system. A
deeper bond with one you find
appealing will blossom.
— Madalyn Aslan
© 2020, KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC.

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chip says today kidspost.com
This week in 1969, Neil Armstrong became the Skies are partly to mostly sunny, and the Do you have more science
first human to walk on the moon, and buzz Aldrin extreme heat lessens a bit, but we’ll still questions? Find answers in
became the second moments later. They stayed see afternoon highs in the upper 90s. the Ever Wondered archive
on the lunar surface for 21/2 hours. IlluSTRATIoN by RIyA DAbI, 12, houSToN, TEXAS on our website.

Moon-watching isn’t tod ay’s N ews

just for night owls

Kids are often an optical illusion, it also
Ever taught to associate appears to move across the sky.
Wondered? the sun with the Just as the sun appears to “rise”
Jason day and the moon and “set,” the moon’s daily trips
Bittel and stars with the across the sky are mostly created
night. Yet why by the rotation of the Earth.
does the moon The moon can also appear to
sometimes come out during the change colors, says Polius. When cARolyN KASTER/ASSocIATED PRESS

daylight hours?
The answer is somewhat
simple: The moon and stars are
always somewhere in the sky,
but we can’t always see them.
“The sun is so bright during
the day that it kind of drowns
out the light from the moon and
the stars,” says astrophysicist
Cheyenne Polius. She is
president and co-founder of the
Saint Lucia National Astronomy
Association in the Caribbean
region.
During the new moon, the
moon is between the sun and the
Earth, the side of the moon that
is lit by the sun is facing away
from our planet. This means that
the moon is still up there, but we
can’t see it in the daytime,
because all of the sun’s light is
getting reflected away from us.
As the moon continues in its
orbit around the Earth, away
from the sun, increasingly more
of its sunlit surface is visible.
This is why the moon sometimes
appears as a crescent or half-
moon. When it’s farther from the
sun and visible above the
horizon, it’s easier to spot during
the day.
Then, halfway through its
orbit, the moon is “behind” the
Earth with respect to the sun,
and we can see the entire surface
lit by the sun. This is what’s
known as a full moon, but it’s
visible only at night.
Not only does the moon
appear to change shape by way of
it sits low on the horizon, there’s
more atmosphere between us
and the moon, and all of those
particles have a way of scattering
certain kinds of light, like
wavelengths in the blue
spectrum. This leaves behind
light closer to the red spectrum,
which is why a moon low on the
horizon can sometimes appear
more yellow or even pink than
one that is directly overhead.
But don’t be fooled, says
Polius. The moon is always the
same color. It just looks different
to us under different conditions.
How was Earth’s biggest
bestie formed?
“The leading theory now is
that the moon used to be part of
the Earth,” says Polius.
Scientists have found evidence
to suggest that about 4.5 billion
years ago, a giant space object
about the size of Mars slammed
into the side of our planet. The
impact is thought to have sent
tons of debris into space, where
it slowly came together to form a
large, dusty ball. And because
that space ball was still close to
the Earth, it got trapped by the
Earth’s gravity and eventually
settled into the orbit we take for
granted today.
So the next time you see that
giant, ponderous chunk of rock
crawling across the sky, look
down at the ground beneath
your feet and think about where
the moon might have come from.
kidspost@washpost.com
President Barack Obama presents a
2010 medal of freedom to John
Lewis, who helped organize major
civil rights marches in the 1960s.
Congressman and
civil rights leader
John Lewis dies
John Lewis, a civil rights leader
who helped organize the 1963 March
on Washington and the 1965 voting-
rights march in Selma, Alabama,
died Friday at age 80.
Lewis, who eventually represented
Georgia in the United States House
of Representatives, announced in
December that he had pancreatic
cancer.
“I have been in some kind of fight
— for freedom, equality, basic human
rights — for nearly my entire life,”
Lewis said then. “I have never faced a
fight quite like the one I have now.”
Lewis was one of the six main
organizers — including the Reverend
Martin Luther King Junior — of the
Washington march, when King gave
his “I Have a Dream” speech at the
Lincoln Memorial.
“In the Congress, John Lewis was
revered and beloved on both sides of
the aisle and both sides of the
Capitol,” said House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi in a statement. “May his mem-
ory be an inspiration that moves us
JoNAThAN NEWToN/ThE WAShINgToN PoST all to, in the face of injustice, make
A full moon is seen in Washington, and the Earth’s atmosphere makes it look pink. We can ‘good trouble, necessary trouble.’ ”
sometimes see the moon in daytime, depending on where it is moving in relation to the Earth. — Bloomberg News

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NFL o≠ers
to eliminate Strasburg is right Marine Corps
Marathon
preseason
slate entirely where he wants to be gets canceled
for first time
The Cali kid has become a D.C. deliverer, and he could be a National for life
League and union For years, as he silently entered the the first chance he could to return home — to
Safety, logistical issues
reach an agreement home clubhouse at nationals Park, northern Virginia, an easy drive down the George made going forward
stephen strasburg seemed so, so Washington Parkway from the only professional
on coronavirus testing Cali. Maybe it was the T-shirts or office he has known. This is where he spends his
with the race impractical
tank tops printed with surf themes offseasons. This is where his two daughters, ages
one day or the golf shirts and 6 and 3, go to school. This is where the younger
BY M ARK M ASKE Barry Titleist hats another. Maybe it was daughter was born, right at Medstar Georgetown BY B ONNIE B ERKOWITZ
Svrluga the rubber flip-flops more fit for the University Hospital. stephen strasburg, with san
The nFL on Monday offered to beach than the office. If Washington Diego in his blood, has become a Washingtonian. Organizers have canceled the
eliminate its preseason entirely is a button-down, necktie-and-blazer kind of town, “The more time you spend out on the east Marine Corps Marathon for the
while agreeing with its players’ strasburg seemed as much tourist as resident. Coast, it kind of loses its intimidation,” strasburg first time in its 45-year history,
union on a novel coronavirus test- “It was a big shock for me, coming all the way said. “It’s kind of just become what I know. I go reluctantly bowing to the uncer-
ing program for players. The across the country and going into pro ball,” back to san Diego for the holidays. But really, I tainties of the uncontrolled novel
moves to resolve the key remain- strasburg said. “. . . It was always like, man, first don’t really go back. Washington is where I am.” coronavirus pandemic.
ing issues between the sides came chance in the offseason, going back home, back He will be here this week, when Major League “I don’t think I ever thought I
as rookies for the Kansas City home to san Diego.” Baseball tries to start a truncated season in the would be saying these words, but
Chiefs and Houston Texans In March, when baseball shut down because of midst of a pandemic with Thursday night’s game we will not be presenting the
reported to training camp. the novel coronavirus pandemic, strasburg took see STrASburg On D6 race,” said race director Rick nea-
The league’s concessions on the lis, who has presided over the
preseason and daily testing of Opening Day: Yankees at Nationals Thursday, 7 p.m., ESPN event since 1993. The 45th run-
players, at least at the outset of ning had been scheduled for
training camps, increased the like- Oct. 25.
lihood that all teams’ camps will nealis said the final decision
open fully by July 28 as scheduled. was made Friday by Marine Corps
The nFL previously cut the pre- Commandant David H. Berger af-
season from four games per team ter it became clear that key logis-
to two and was planning for test- tics could not be nailed down
ing every other day. But the nFL until uncomfortably close to race
Players Association had been ada- day.
mant about daily testing for play-
ers and no preseason at all.
Lewis legitimized the fight against a racist team name The official announcement
was posted Monday on the race’s
The nFL’s offer Monday of zero website and social media ac-
preseason games was accompa- When they met in outhouse? counts, where early comments
nied by other player-friendly pro- the late 1980s, in But the richness of those were mostly positive.
visions. The acclimation period Del. eni meetings over many years arose “We explored various ap-
for veterans arriving at training Faleomavaega’s in 2013, when legislators, led by proaches to safely execute a live
camps was increased from seven office on Capitol Faleomavaega (D) and endorsed event and held numerous meet-
days to 18 days before they must Hill, they jokingly by Lewis (D-Ga.), crafted a bill ings with Marine Corps leader-
start practicing, and any player is Kevin B. called themselves that would cancel the federal ship, local government and public
allowed to opt out of playing this Blackistone The Poor Kids’ regulation of trademarks using health officials,” the statement
season, according to a person fa- Club. It was the Washington pro football read. “We understand this is dis-
miliar with the deliberations, Faleomavaega from American team’s name — and would appointing news for many, but we
though the exact rules governing samoa; suzan shown Harjo, prevent the registration of future could no longer envision a way to
opt-outs must still be resolved. executive director of the national trademarks of the name, because gather together in compliance
Under the testing agreement, Congress of American Indians, of its opprobriousness. The bill, with safety guidelines.”
players will be tested daily for the from el Reno, Okla.; and Rep. H.R. 1278, was called the non- Thirty-five-time finisher
first two weeks of training camp. John Lewis from a sharecropping Disparagement of native George Banker, 70, author of a
Daily testing will continue as long family in Alabama’s Pike County. American Persons or Peoples in 2007 book about the race’s histo-
as the rate of positive tests of play- They challenged one another Trademark Registration Act. ry, said the decision was the right
ers, coaches and other team staff- to see who came up the poorest. “The impact was that members call.
ers is above 5 percent. If the rate Whose family had newspaper or of Congress stepped forward and “I think everybody sort of an-
falls below 5 percent, players will precious sears catalogue pages as lyNSEy WEAThERSPooN/REUTERS said, ‘We think this is what the ticipated it, especially when
be tested every other day. The wallpaper? Who had the luxury The late John Lewis, a pioneer of the civil rights movement, law should be and this is what you’re watching the news every
see NFL On D3 of two-by-fours for a bench in the was honored by mourners with a vigil in Atlanta on Sunday. see bLAckiSToNe On D3 see mArAThoN On D2
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Athletes in For media members, life in the Disney bubble is a noncontact sport
Japan often
face abuse,
report says
Hundreds of competitors
describe mistreatment
to Human Rights Watch
BY SIMON DENYER
TOKYO — Young athletes in
Japan suffer physical, sexual
and verbal abuse when train-
ing for sports, Human rights
Watch said in a report, re-
leased monday, that docu-
mented consequences such as
depression, suicide, physical
disabilities and lifelong trau-
ma.
The report, which arrived a
year before Japan is set to host
the postponed Tokyo olympics
and Paralympics, chronicles
systemic corporal punishment
in sports — known as taibatsu
in Japanese — from schools to
elite levels.
Similar accusations sur-
faced this month in Britain,
where a gymnast complained
of being locked in a cupboard
by her coach as a 10-year-old,
according to media reports. In
South Korea, a 22-year-old
triathlete was found dead af-
ter alleging abuse by her
coaching staff.
Together, the allegations
raise questions about the pres-
sures heaped on young people
in the intensely competitive
world of elite sports and
whether governments and
sports federations are doing
enough to address the prob-
lem.
But the deep-rooted and
serious nature of the abuse
exposed by Human rights
Watch in Japan is particularly
thorny for the country’s gov-
ernment ahead of the Tokyo
olympics and Paralympics,
which are set to start July 23,
2021, after being delayed from
this year amid the novel coro-
navirus pandemic.
The investigation found in-
stances of athletes who were
punched in the face, kicked,
beaten with objects such as
bats or bamboo kendo sticks,
deprived of water, choked,
whipped and sexually abused
and harassed. The reports of
mistreatment came from hun-
dreds of current and former
athletes across 50 sports.
“I was hit so many times, I
can’t count,” a 23-year-old pro-
fessional athlete who was not
named in the report said of his
experience playing baseball in
junior high school in Japan’s
Kyushu region. “We were all
called to the coach and I was
hit in the face in front of
everyone. I was bleeding, but
he did not stop hitting me. I
did say that my nose was
bleeding, but he did not stop.”
Physical violence as a
coaching technique has a long
tradition in Japanese sports
and is often seen as essential
to achieving excellence in
competition and in personal
character, Human rights
Watch said. Coaches, parents
and even some players believe
physical abuse in sports has
value, and children suffer as a
result.
In 2012, a 17-year-old high
school basketball player in
osaka took his life after suffer-
ing repeated physical abuse at
the hands of his coach. months
later, the head coach of the
Japanese olympic women’s
judo team resigned after 15
athletes complained of physi-
cal abuse in the run-up to the
2012 London olympics.
Child abuse is illegal in
Japan, and the government
this year enacted a ban on
corporal punishment. The
government and sports orga-
nizations have also attempted
in recent years to address the
problem of abuse in sports.
This has generally been in the
form of nonbinding sugges-
tions with no clear mecha-
nisms to ensure compliance,
the rights group said. Some
require reporting of abuse
only by mail or fax, mecha-
nisms that are inaccessible for
many children.
As a result, abuse remains
widespread, with athletes re-
porting a culture of impunity
among coaches. The govern-
ment, Human rights Watch
said, should specify that legis-
lation outlawing abuse and
corporal punishment applies
to sports, while sports bodies
need to strengthen training
for coaches, improve report-
ing mechanisms and investi-
gate complaints properly.
simon.denyer@washpost.com
On the
KISSIMMEE, Fla.
— If only the
NBA
Ben
Golliver
ground rules were
as pleasant as
Donovan
greeting.
mitchell’s
media members covering the
NBA’s restart at Disney World
were released Sunday from their
seven-day, in-room quarantine to
blue skies, their first taste of the
bubble and a familiar face in
mitchell. “Welcome!” the
masked Utah Jazz guard
exclaimed as he veered off a
bridge walkway to greet
squinting reporters still
adjusting to the outside light.
NBA players are everywhere
at the Coronado Springs resort,
with players taking over three
hotels, lounging poolside and
strolling through a central
market area during their
downtime. NBA writers,
however, aren’t quite as
ubiquitous, given strict rules
intended to limit the risk of the
novel coronavirus to players.
Indeed, the lush surroundings,
teeming with geckos, butterflies
and palm trees, come with
challenges for the dozen or so
writers who could remain at
Disney for up to 94 nights.
most of the resort property
and amenities, which are
available to players, coaches and
team staffers, are off-limits to
reporters, who are confined to a
small quadrant bounded by two
security checkpoints, a lake and
a parking lot. Walking the
perimeter of the media zone —
which is centered around a
handful of four-story hotels
known as the Casitas — covers
0.8 miles and takes just 15
minutes.
The first impression of life in
the NBA’s bubble? Like being a
kid in a candy store — only with
all the best treats just out of
reach and under lock and key.
Los Angeles Lakers President
rob Pelinka sauntered by one
checkpoint, wearing a backpack
and an easy smile. Boston Celtics
Marine Corps Marathon canceled for first time in 45-year history
mArAThoN from D1
single day, what’s happening to
the other events, what’s happen-
ing in the city,” Banker said. “Not
only do you have to think about
the runners, you have to think
about the spectators. Are you go-
ing to tell them to stay home?”
The marine Corps marathon
had been one of the last mega-
marathons remaining on the
country’s 2020 race calendar.
Boston, which had been held
every year since 1897, first re-
scheduled to September but then
canceled entirely in may. New
York City dropped in June, and
Chicago threw in the towel last
week. The only huge marathon
left is Honolulu, which (so far) is
still on for Dec. 13.
Nealis said runners can opt for
a full refund of their entry fees,
which for most was about $172, or
they can defer with no fee to 2021,
2022 or 2023. Any runners who
had previously paid to defer will
have that fee refunded as well.
And runners who still want
2020 swag, including the medal,
shirt and commemorative face
mask, will have the option of
running a virtual marathon for
cOLLEGES
SWAC postponements
move football to spring
The Southwestern Athletic
Conference postponed its fall
sports because of the novel
coronavirus pandemic and hopes
to hold a shortened football
season during the spring
semester.
The SWAC Council of
Presidents and Chancellors
announced the decision monday
amid an increase of coronavirus
cases in the South. fall sports
affected include football, women’s
soccer, women’s volleyball and
men’s and women’s cross-country.
The SWAC, which features
historically black colleges and
universities and competes in the
football Championship
Subdivision of Division I, is
planning to play a seven-game
schedule after an eight-week
training period that starts in
January. Each team would play
six league games with the option
to play one nonconference game.
Plans for the other sports and
the football championship game
will be announced later. . . .
West Coast Conference men’s
basketball player of the year Filip
Petrusev announced he will
pursue a professional career and
not return for his final two years
eZ sU
The view doesn’t change much when you’re in the media bubble within the NBA’s bubble in Florida.
Coach Brad Stevens walked and
talked on his cellphone along the
media’s lakeside walkway.
Lakers center JaVale mcGee
tried his luck with a fishing pole
within shouting distance of the
Casitas. And assistant coaches
lounged for chats over light
beers in a quiet nook.
Green badges allow full access
to the grounds, which include a
running trail that circles the
lake. Green badges with red
stripes, the ones given to
reporters, do not. Just beyond
the property’s main security
checkpoint, marked with a
plastic barricade and a
credential check sign, is a Disney
retail store, a walkway to a
bridge that crosses the lake and
many other settings featured in
social media content shared by
teams and players in the past
week. All of those are out of
bounds to the media, as is the
Gran Destino Tower, home to top
contenders such as the Lakers,
Los Angeles Clippers, milwaukee
Bucks, Toronto raptors and
Celtics.
$45 after their original fee is re-
funded.
“I don’t know what more we
could do for the runner,” Nealis
said. race cancellations rarely re-
sulted in full refunds before the
pandemic, but many races with
the financial wherewithal to
manage it have offered them this
year as a gesture of support to
disappointed runners.
The marine Corps marathon
debuted in 1976 as a post-Vietnam
recruiting tool and showcase of
military goodwill.
It grew into a huge event, with
an accompanying 10K, 50K and
kids’ run, that annually draws
30,000 runners to the Washing-
ton area from all over the world —
often with families and friends in
tow. A Towson University study
after the 2013 race found runners
pumped $88 million into the local
economy on race weekend.
The threat of cancellation
loomed over previous editions of
the race.
There was talk of calling off the
2002 race when sniper attacks
terrorized the area, but the gun-
men were caught three days be-
fore. The 2012 and 2013 editions
were threatened by Hurricane
at Gonzaga, citing uncertainty
about the pandemic and its
impact on the upcoming season.
Petrusev, a forward/center who
averaged a team-high 17.8 points
last season, tweeted that while his
goal is to play in the NBA, he has
signed with mega Bemax of his
native Serbia. . . .
George Washington University
announced it will examine
changing its moniker from
Colonials and renaming the
marvin Center and other
buildings.
PRO fOOTBALL
The New York Giants and New
York Jets said they would not play
in front of fans at their shared
stadium “until circumstances
change.”
The teams pointed to a
decision by New Jersey Gov. Phil
murphy (D) that his executive
order to limit public gatherings
outdoors to a maximum of 500
people would apply “until further
notice” to metLife Stadium,
located in East rutherford.
“We support Governor
murphy’s decision in the interest
of public health and safety,” the
Giants and Jets said.
The NfL has not enacted a
leaguewide policy on fan
attendance, preferring to follow
the guidance of local authorities.
— Des Bieler
most of the NBA players
visible Sunday wore masks — per
the league’s policy, which
includes a warning system for
violators. many exchanged high-
fives and other physical
greetings, though, which are
discouraged in nongame
settings. Polite nods are the
norm between strangers
throughout the campus.
The NBA’s media guidelines
bar extended interactions
between players and writers
away from practice and game
availabilities. Even so, mitchell
and a few other players
congregated for a brief chat with
reporters near the checkpoint,
forming an impromptu
demilitarized zone with Disney
security guards keeping watch.
“I’m currently directing those
with the right credentials to
make sure they’re going in the
right direction,” said a guard
named reymundo, who wore a
mask, face shield and sunglasses
while carrying a walkie-talkie
and a water bottle. “I’m making
sure [the media] is within your
Sandy and a government shut-
down, respectively.
But Nealis said the closest call
was in 2001, when the race was set
for six weeks after the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks. rather than
shutting down, as some other
large events had done, the ma-
rines marshaled loads of extra
security, and the marathon be-
came a demonstration of strength
and healing.
Haunting photos captured
runners — some carrying flags,
some stopping to salute, some
kneeling on the asphalt to pray —
passing within yards of the mon-
strous gash in the side of the
Pentagon.
race organizers had hoped the
event could offer a similar cathar-
sis this year. Just three weeks ago,
Nealis announced the marathon
would go on as scheduled, with a
smaller field and a raft of meticu-
lous coronavirus precautions.
“our marine instinct is to lean
in and fight for the possibility of
hosting a live marathon,” he said
in a letter to runners the next day.
But in July, the virus’s spread
accelerated in state after state,
and the uncertainty of what
would be feasible in october
D IGES T
HOcKEy
The NHL said two players
tested positive for the coronavirus
during the first five days of
training camp last week.
The league is not revealing the
identity of players who test
positive or their teams. The two
players are self-isolating per
national and local health
protocols.
A total of 2,618 tests of more
than 800 players from July 13 to
17 were done by the league. . . .
The NHL said Boston Bruins
center Patrice Bergeron,
Philadelphia flyers center Sean
Couturier and St. Louis Blues
center ryan o’reilly are the
finalists for the frank J. Selke
Trophy, which honors the league’s
top defensive forward.
Bergeron is a four-time winner
and last won in 2017 to tie the
montreal Canadiens’ Bob Gainey
for most Selke honors. o’reilly
won last year. . . .
The NHL suspended New York
rangers forward Brendan
Lemieux for the first two games
of the team’s preliminary-round
series against the Carolina
Hurricanes because of an illegal
check that injured Colorado
Avalanche forward Joonas
Donskoi in march.
The NHL waited until return-
to-play guidelines were in place
before making a ruling.
the washington post . tuesday, july 21 , 2020
beep like smoke detectors if two
people wearing them stand too
close together for 10 seconds, are
also mandatory for writers. They
rang into the night at a media
hospitality event.
All of these regulations are
designed to create a bubble
within the NBA’s larger bubble,
isolating players from as many
non-players as possible to reduce
their risk and protect their
privacy. And they were largely
expected; league staffers
communicated the basics to
reporters before they arrived
and provided specifics during
orientation calls last week. Still,
the precise sliver of the wider
bubble available to the media
was somewhat jarring to
reporters after a week in
isolation.
media members will be able to
attend practice beginning
Ben golliver/the Washington Post monday and scrimmages later
this week, with formal interview
sessions taking place afterward.
boundaries.” How long those sessions last and
Lakeside strolls are still how regularly star players are
possible for reporters, but they made available will determine
occur in 0.2-mile increments the scope of the media’s role
back and forth along a path. At within the bubble.
this point, renting bikes and Perhaps because of these
shopping at the Disney store are onerous rules, league officials
off the table. Writers were still have gone to great lengths to
waiting to hear about haircuts, strike a welcoming tone. NBA
and one donned a new white Commissioner Adam Silver
Disney hat he had managed to wrote a personal letter to each
acquire. It could be worse: A writer, and his public relations
common pool, indoor fitness staffers have pledged to reassess
center and outdoor activities the rules as the summer unfolds.
area, which includes pickleball for now, all parties warmed to
and cornhole, are available at their new daily routines. A
the Casitas, as are grab-and-go security guard named Joshua
meals, shipping services and spent the afternoon asking
vending machines. players and team staffers to
To attend practices, reporters display their credentials so they
must take a shuttle bus or walk could pass through a checkpoint
along the back side of the on the jogging trail. He said he
property instead of using a more wasn’t feeling star-struck
convenient hallway belonging to because he doesn’t really like
the players. reporters also must basketball, but he had already
continue to undergo coronavirus improvised a backup
testing, take their temperature identification method.
and fill out a health “If you have to look way up [to
questionnaire as they did see his face], it’s going to be a
throughout the quarantine player,” he quipped.
period. Proximity alarms, which ben.golliver@washpost.com
became too great. time to alter travel and training
The marathon’s logistics are a and perhaps run the virtual
uniquely delicate dance even in a version.
normal year: Dozens of agencies That’s the option Banker plans
and law enforcement jurisdic- to take. He has run the race more
tions have to cooperate to stage it times than all but 16 people, and
on and around some of the plan- he hopes to move up a spot or two
et’s most security-conscious on the list by notching another
ground in the District and Arling- official finish running solo. He
ton. said a silver lining is that those
one of the largest unknowns running it virtually have no time
was whether the race would be pressure.
allowed on D.C. streets. mayor “All these people who have nev-
muriel E. Bowser (D) said last er run a marathon, now they can
week she will extend the District’s say, ‘Hey, I did it — who cares
state-of-emergency order into about the time?’ ” Banker said. “I
october. much of the normal pre- just have to do it in a day. I can go
race preparation, such as multi- walk half of it, take a break, have
agency law enforcement drills, my lunch, start the watch and
couldn’t happen in the meantime. pick right back up! Why not?”
“It became apparent that any of The cancellation leaves Nealis,
the planning that we normally who plans to retire after next
would be doing and discussing, year’s race, wondering what he
such as the safety and security will find to do in September and
issues, was not going to be con- october.
ducted until and unless they “All of a sudden, I’ve got time
changed the status,” Nealis said. on my hands,” he said friday,
“And so two weeks out before the shortly after Berger made the de-
marine Corps marathon, to do cision. “In a couple of hours, I will
security and safety issues? You go home and sit on the deck and
can’t do that. There are too many sweat and have an adult beverage
risks.” and reflect on what’s happening.
So the marines decided to can- It’s going to be eerie.”
cel now, giving runners plenty of bonnie.berkowitz@washpost.com
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tuesday, july 21 , 2020 . the washington post
Snyder hires
a top adviser
to oversee
re-branding
BY L ES C ARPENTER
Washington’s NfL team on
monday named Terry Bateman its
executive vice president and chief
marketing officer, giving the orga-
nization its first official in charge of
the non-football side since former
team president Bruce Allen was
fired at the end of last season.
Bateman, whose role will in-
clude overseeing the team’s up-
coming name change and
re-branding, has been one of Wash-
ington owner Daniel Snyder’s top
advisers over the past year and a
half, working with the team as an
outside consultant. He was unoffi-
cially overseeing much of the busi-
ness side’s reorganization follow-
ing Allen’s departure. Bateman’s
hire brings more structure to the
franchise’s business operations by
installing an employee between
Snyder and the group of vice presi-
dents who handle various parts of
the team’s non-football operations.
Washington still does not have a
team president to look over the
entire franchise. When Snyder
hired ron rivera as coach in Janu-
ary, the owner said rivera will be
the organization’s primary voice.
But this left rivera playing a role in
helping Snyder talk through the
ultimate decision to change the
team’s name and pick a new one, as
well as coordinating the franchise’s
response to both the nationwide
reckoning on race that followed
George floyd’s death and last
week’s report in The Washington
Post in which 15 female former
employees alleged sexual harass-
ment and verbal abuse by ex-team
executives and scouts.
A person with knowledge of the
team’s new structure said Bateman
will speak more on non-football
topics.
“Terry Bateman is a man I trust
and have worked with for many
years,” Snyder said in a statement
announcing the hire. “I can’t think
of a better individual to help spear-
head this organization’s marketing
efforts into this new era.”
The statement said Bateman
will be in charge of the team’s name
change and re-branding and will
handle all of the marketing, spon-
sorship, business strategy and
broadcast operations. Larry
michael, Washington’s longtime
play-by-play announcer and vice
president of broadcasting, retired
last week. michael was among the
former redskins employees ac-
cused of sexual harassment in The
Post’s report.
Bateman has been with the fran-
chise two other times and is one of
Snyder’s most trusted advisers. He
was the team’s chief marketing offi-
cer during Joe Gibbs’s second run
as coach and later an executive vice
president from 2015 to 2018, over-
seeing Snyder’s red Zebra network
of radio stations. He also has been
the CEo of Snyder’s Dick Clark
Productions as well as two other
companies, Barton Cotton and
NTN Buzztime.
In a recent interview, Bateman
said he was excited about the fran-
chise’s reorganization that had
come after Allen’s departure, rav-
ing about several of the executives
who had been put in place on the
business side. “I’ve never seen a
better group of people than we
have now,” he said.
“I am very excited to be joining
the organization at such a critical
moment in history,” Bateman said
in monday’s statement. “I want to
thank Dan for giving me the oppor-
tunity to come back and provide
my perspective and expertise while
we work to develop a new era for
this proud franchise.”
les.carpenter@washpost.com
NFL offers to eliminate preseason, reaches deal with players on virus testing
NFL from D1
league expects to receive test re-
sults within 24 hours.
“I think that this latest agree-
ment with testing protocols be-
tween the league and the Players
Association reflects a continua-
tion of the collaborative work that
we’ve been doing,” said Allen Sills,
the NfL’s chief medical officer.
“We’ve had other protocols
around treatment for new positive
cases, around facilities, around
travel, around education, around
screening. So we’ve continued this
work and it’s, again, reflecting a
number of months of work that
really began back in march.”
The NfLPA said in a statement:
“our union has been pushing for
the strongest testing, tracing and
treatment protocols to keep our
players safe. The testing protocols
we agreed to are one critical factor
that will help us return to work
safely and gives us the best chance
to play and finish the season.”
Sills also said the league plans
Report of harassment brings anger, not surprise
Female sports reporters
familiar with behavior
attributed to executives
BY BEN STRAUSS
AND KIM BELLWARE
Lindsay Jones, an NfL reporter
for the Athletic, read The Washing-
ton Post’s investigative report
Thursday that detailed allegations
of sexual and verbal harassment
made by 15 women against former
employees of Washington’s team
with a mix of sadness and anger —
but without much surprise.
The story was wrenching in its
breadth, how so many women
were belittled, threatened and
tasked with working in such a toxic
environment. Included in the in-
vestigation were allegations from
two sports reporters: rhiannon
Walker is a colleague of Jones’s at
the Athletic, and Nora Princiotti is
a former reporter for the Washing-
ton Times who now writes for the
ringer.
Jones, who has been covering
the league for 13 years, is friends
with both women, and the story hit
her viscerally as she thought of
them. But she also thought of all
the other stories she has heard over
the years and her own experiences,
and as she texted her network of
female sports reporters, she found
many women were thinking about
that, too.
“rhiannon and Nora were so
brave, like the other women,” Jones
said in an interview friday. “It was
remarkable that 15 women went
on the record. At the same time, I
feel like it could have been 50, just
given what it’s like working in and
around sports.”
She added, “many of us, me in-
cluded, have not been that brave.”
kevin B. Blackistone
Support from Lewis provided strength in fight to change team name
BLACKiStoNe from D1
Congress intended,’ ” Harjo, the
lone surviving member of The
Poor Kids’ Club, told me Sunday.
“That was a pretty important
statement.”
The bill failed to get a hearing
in the House. But with his
signature on it as an icon of the
civil rights movement, Lewis,
who died friday at 80 after a six-
month battle with cancer,
legitimized the decades-long fight
of native people against their
image being misrepresented and
degraded in sports.
Athletes took to social media
in the hours after Lewis’s death to
praise his dedication to racial
justice. It spanned from his being
beaten by a policeman on the
Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma,
Ala., in 1965 to standing on the
Black Lives matter street art in
the District just a few weeks ago.
But Lewis’s most indelible
mark on the sports world will be
the erasure of the Washington
football team’s name, which came
just last week in the tidal wave of
racial reckoning spurred by
protests of George floyd’s killing
by minneapolis police.
Lewis embraced native causes
from the moment he arrived on
Capitol Hill in 1987.
“I expected him to,” Harjo said,
“knowing that he could attract
other people and be a leadership
figure. He understood that very
well.”
Lewis became a member of the
Native American Caucus.
H.r. 1278 was one of 20 bills or
resolutions regarding Native
Americans that he sponsored.
to use tracking devices to conduct
contact tracing as part of its mea-
sures to attempt to limit spread of
the virus within team facilities.
The arrivals monday of the
rookies for the Chiefs and Texans,
the teams scheduled to meet in the
season-opening game Sept. 10 in
Kansas City, mo., amounted to a
first step by the league toward
opening training camps on time.
rookies for other teams are sched-
uled to report to their camps Tues-
day, although some teams were
postponing those arrivals.
The Texans said through a
spokesperson that their rookies
were undergoing coronavirus
testing monday by the firm
Bioreference Laboratories at an
on-site testing facility outside the
team’s stadium in Houston. The
rookies had no other team-related
activities planned for monday,
according to the spokesperson.
The league and union now have
agreed to all the necessary health
protocols and, with the league’s
latest offer monday, appear close
Some of the most vocal and pub-
lic reactions to The Post’s story
came from women across sports
media — many of whom saw them-
selves in it. The outpouring has
come from reporters such as Jones
and NfL Network’s Lindsay rho-
des, who wrote on Twitter on
Thursday night, “The truth is that
most of us have found ourselves
awkwardly laughing off inappro-
priate comments; bending over
backwards to make comfortable a
man who just made us uncomfort-
able.”
In interviews friday, several fe-
male sports reporters recalled
some of their own experiences.
Jane mcmanus, a longtime writer
at ESPN who now runs marist Col-
lege’s Center for Sports Communi-
cation, said she often pulled young
female reporters aside when she
was covering the NfL and warned
them about certain agents and
team employees who could be dan-
gerous. A team source, she said,
once called to tell her he was wear-
ing nothing but a bathrobe.
Joan Niesen, a former Sports
Illustrated writer, said she thought
about the NfL scouting combine
in Indianapolis and a restaurant
called Prime 47, where Walker was
the target of unwanted advances
from Alex Santos, who at the time
was Washington’s pro personnel
director. Niesen had been there;
she was once badgered by an NfL
assistant coach to join him at his
lake house.
She recalled group text messag-
es during combine week among
female reporters, who were check-
ing up on one another and detail-
ing the many uncomfortable situa-
tions they found themselves in.
marly rivera, a baseball report-
er for ESPN, said a group of players
early in her career used to show her
porn on their cellphones in the
clubhouse, expressly to make her
uncomfortable.
John Lewis was remembered before an exhibition game on Sunday at Yankee Stadium in New York.
The first was the Sioux Nation
Black Hills Act in 1987. The last
was the Esther martinez Native
American Languages Programs
reauthorization Act in 2019.
Three became law. one
established the National museum
of the American Indian.
Lewis’s support helped give
Harjo some heft when in 1992
she filed the first action against
the Washington team’s name
with the U.S. Patent and
Trademark office’s Trademark
Trial and Appeal Board. The
three judges ruled in Harjo’s
favor, but an appeals court
reversed the decision on a
technicality.
Lewis never abandoned native
causes, though.
Coach Andy Reid of the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs,
shown at camp last summer, had his team’s rookies arrive Monday.
to resolving all the remaining non-
economic issues such as the struc-
ture of training camps and the
opt-out rules. The major issue left
for the sides to resolve is econom-
eZ sU
The costs, these women ex-
plained, were more than just deal-
ing with bad behavior on a person-
al level. That was certainly diffi-
cult, but the unwanted advances
from the men they cover also af-
fected how they do their jobs and
made it harder to compete for sto-
ries and, ultimately, stay in the
profession.
“As women, how do you ask for a
phone number and make it clear
that you’re asking for professional
reasons and not because you want
this to turn into a 3 a.m. booty
call?” USA Today columnist Nancy
Armour said. “Every single woman
who covers sports has had that
thought.”
A few years ago, rivera began
asking players for their email ad-
dresses. “They can’t mistake why
you’re asking for their email,” she
said.
on friday, Walker published a
powerful first-person essay in
which she detailed her pain and
the effects of the harassment. She
wrote how Santos had come up to
her at Prime 47 and told her she
“wore the f---” out of her jeans. The
exchange was traumatizing, she
wrote, for many reasons, including
that she could no longer use Santos
as a source in her reporting.
“[In] one 25-minute interaction,
I was petrified that the work I’d
done that season and those two
months was in jeopardy,” Walker
wrote. “So I played nice. I straddled
a line of being forceful and reso-
lute, and not doing anything to
possibly p--- him off, even though
he was making me feel like s--- in
that moment.”
Women have been battling for
equality in sports media for de-
cades. In 1978, Sports Illustrated’s
melissa Ludtke won a lawsuit
against major League Baseball for
access to the clubhouse after she
was not allowed in during the 1977
World Series. Baseball’s commis-
“When we’re doing the bill for
a Native American soldiers’
memorial at Little Bighorn and
we were trying at the same time
to drop the name of Custer [from
the site], it was kind of a big fight
in montana,” Harjo said. “I asked
for John Lewis’s help in all that.”
Lewis spoke on Native
Americans’ behalf. The memorial
was established, and the
battlefield’s name was changed.
“What good friends do when
they have a vote and you don’t is
sometimes they take you to the
private lunch room of the Senate
or the House,” Harjo said. “And
it’s so you’re seen with them and
they can introduce you to
someone or they can refer
someone to you.
ChARlie Riedel/AssoCiAted PRess
ic: how to deal with a potential
drop in revenue this season and
what such a decrease would mean
to the 2021 salary cap.
It was not immediately clear
sioner, Bowie Kuhn, had said a
female presence in the clubhouse
undermined the integrity of the
game.
There has been progress since
then, but women are still a rarity
on the sports beat. According to
data supplied by the Associated
Press Sports Editors, a 2018 report
by richard Lapchick of the Univer-
sity of Central florida found that
men make up the vast majority of
sports departments, including
90 percent of sports editors, 70 per-
cent of assistant sports editors,
more than 80 percent of sports
columnists and nearly 90 percent
of reporters.
In october, an ugly incident oc-
curred when a member of the
Houston Astros’ front office, Bran-
don Taubman, screamed the name
of a pitcher at a group of women in
the clubhouse as the team celebrat-
ed clinching the American League
pennant. The pitcher, roberto os-
una, had been acquired while he
was serving a suspension for vio-
lating mLB’s domestic violence
policy. Taubman was later fired.
“There’s just a toxic masculinity
that we deal with all the time,” said
rivera, who witnessed the ex-
change. “for me, as I’ve grown in
this business, I have developed a
really thick skin, and I think that’s
a negative because I’ve normalized
it.”
After The Post’s story was pub-
lished, several professional sports-
writing groups issued a statement
friday supporting Walker, Prin-
ciotti and the other women who
spoke to the newspaper. It read in
part: “Women reporters are re-
peatedly subjected to demeaning
behavior on the job and in the
workplace and misogynistic at-
tacks on the internet. This needs to
stop.” It was signed by the presi-
dent of the Associated Press Sports
Editors and the heads of sports
task forces from the National Asso-
KAthy Willens/AssoCiAted PRess
“John was one of those friends.
John would say, ‘Come have some
lunch with me and get some
votes.’ He did that with [H.r.
1278].”
Lewis was in faleomavaega’s
office when they started drafting
the bill.
“It meant so much to all of us,”
Harjo recalled.
Harjo stopped for a moment.
She realized she had been
referring to Lewis as John.
“This is the first time I’ve said
‘John’ so much,” she said. “I
always called him Congressman.
And he didn’t like it. He was
genuine about that. He really
wanted to be John.”
It wasn’t lost on Harjo that the
owner of the Washington
whether the league’s new offer for
no preseason games and a longer
acclimation period for veterans
was tied to specific economic pro-
visions. The sides have differed
sharply on how to keep a signifi-
cant decrease in revenue this year
from causing next year’s cap to
plummet.
Sills confirmed that he had ap-
proved all 32 teams’ Infectious
Disease Emergency response
plans. The NfLPA’s ratification is
pending for many teams’ plans.
“Everything that we’re doing is
centered around the concept of
risk mitigation,” Sills said during a
conference call with reporters.
“We know that we can’t eliminate
risk. But we’re trying to mitigate it
as much as possible for everyone.
. . . I think that these protocols are
very much living and breathing
documents, which means that
they will change.”
The NfL previously sent treat-
ment protocols to teams for deal-
ing with positive coronavirus
tests. Sills declined to specify how
D3
ciation of Black Journalists, the
Asian American Journalists Asso-
ciation and the National Associa-
tion of Hispanic Journalists.
Another wrinkle to The Post’s
story was the way it was discussed
by reporters before publication.
Numerous local and national re-
porters teased the story was com-
ing and guessed wildly at its con-
tent, predicting it might include
sex parties or drug abuse. “You saw
[everyone] floating what it could
be, men posting popcorn emojis,”
Armour said. “And when you saw
what it was [about], people had
been ‘rubbernecking’ at someone’s
very personal pain. It felt very
gross.”
Armour, who has covered sports
for 25 years, said there have been
some improvements in the wider
sports culture, particularly when it
comes to how players interact with
female reporters. “This generation
of athletes in their 20s and 30s
have grown up being covered by
women — rachel Nichols, Doris
Burke,” Armour said. “Seeing
women in sports media is not for-
eign or shocking to them, and they
don’t view sports as their personal
sanctum — whereas athletes two
or three decades ago, they did.”
Well-meaning male colleagues
in sports journalism have a role to
play in improving the culture, Ar-
mour said. While she appreciated
that several of her male colleagues
expressed their “horror” at the de-
tails of The Post’s story, the most
important thing they can do is
make sure women aren’t the only
ones fighting abusive behavior.
“You don’t want to call attention
to yourself; women will try to find a
way around it,” Armour said. “If a
male colleague steps in and has
your back, that means something.
If you’re a man and are horrified at
what went on, step in.”
ben.strauss@washpost.com
kim.bellware@washpost.com
franchise whom she was trying to
convince was more than a
generation younger than Lewis
but had a reputation for having
everyone address him as mister.
“John didn’t want there to be a
title barrier,” Harjo said. “He just
didn’t want there to be barriers.
That’s why so many people loved
him. He spoke to everyone’s
heart.”
Harjo was elated last week
upon hearing something she and
others worked for since the 1970s
had finally come to pass: the
removal of the racial slur that
was the name of the pro football
franchise for 87 years. She
recalled the work of Amanda
Blackhorse, to whom she passed
the legal battle. She remembered
plaintiffs such as Vine Deloria Jr.,
who joined her in that 1992 suit.
But, she said, “I thought of
[Lewis] almost immediately.”
Harjo said Lewis’s best-selling
book “Walking With the Wind: A
memoir of the movement” is on
her to-read list.
“But you know what I have
read? His graphic novel, ‘march,’ ”
she said.
It won the 2016 National Book
Award for Young People’s
Literature and recounts Lewis in
drawings by Nate Powell as a
superhero figure in the civil
rights movement.
“And rightfully so,” Harjo said.
“He’s our superhero.”
sports@washpost.com
Kevin B. Blackistone, esPn panelist
and visiting professor at the Philip
Merrill College of Journalism at the
University of Maryland, writes sports
commentary for the Washington Post.
many positive tests would dictate
shutting down a team or the
league, saying those issues must
be discussed with the union and
public health authorities. A player
will be required to have two nega-
tive tests 72 hours apart after re-
porting to training camp before
being permitted to enter his
team’s facility.
Team owners spoke by video
conference monday afternoon. It
was their second remote meeting
since friday as the league tries to
keep training camps and the sea-
son on schedule.
for most teams, that means
rookies reporting Tuesday, quar-
terbacks and injured players re-
porting Thursday, and all other
players reporting July 28. Individ-
ual teams can delay their report-
ing dates but are not allowed to
move them up. Team doctors told
NfLPA representatives Thursday
that they believe camps can be
opened safely even in coronavirus
hot spot areas.
mark.maske@washpost.com
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MLS IS BAcK TOURNAMeNT Through Sunday exHIBITION gAMeS
IN KISSIMMee, fLA. SATURDAY’S ReSULTS
1....... Jon Rahm ESP 9.10
WeDNeSDAY, JULY 8 2....... Rory McIlroy NIR 8.48 Philadelphia 7, Washington 2
Orlando City 2, Inter Miami CF 1 3....... Justin Thomas USA 7.51 Cleveland 5, Pittsburgh 3
4....... Dustin Johnson USA 7.18 N.Y. Yankees 9, N.Y. Mets 3
THURSDAY, JULY 9 5....... Webb Simpson USA 6.87 SUNDAY’S ReSULTS
Philadelphia 1, New York City FC 0 6....... Brooks Koepka USA 6.43
New England 1, Montreal 0 7....... Bryson DeChambeau USA 6.14 Baltimore 4, Philadelphia 1
8....... Patrick Reed USA 5.96 N.Y. Yankees 6, N.Y. Mets 0
fRIDAY, JULY 10 9....... Adam Scott AUS 5.75 Chicago White Sox 7, Chicago Cubs 3
San Jose 0, Seattle 0 10..... Patrick Cantlay USA 5.67 L.A. Dodgers 9, Arizona 2
11..... Xander Schauffele USA 5.38
SATURDAY, JULY 11 12..... Tommy Fleetwood ENG 5.03 MONDAY’S ReSULTS
New York 1, Atlanta United 0 13..... Collin Morikawa USA 4.98 Washington 4, Baltimore 2
Columbus 4, FC Cincinnati 0 14..... Tiger Woods USA 4.81 Philadelphia 2, N.Y. Yankees 2
15..... Tyrrell Hatton ENG 4.76 Cleveland 11, Pittsburgh 7
SUNDAY, JULY 12 16..... Justin Rose ENG 4.55 Houston at Kansas City, Late
D.C. United vs. Toronto FC, ppd. 17..... Tony Finau USA 4.44 Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, Late
Minnesota 2, Sporting K.C. 1 18..... Marc Leishman AUS 4.37 L.A. Angels at San Diego, Late
19..... Gary Woodland USA 4.31 Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, Late
Real Salt Lake 2, Colorado 0
20..... Matthew Fitzpatrick ENG 4.23 San Francisco at Oakland, Late
MONDAY, JULY 13 21..... Matt Kuchar USA 4.16
22..... Abraham Ancer MEX 3.95 TUeSDAY’S gAMeS
D.C. United 2, Toronto FC 2
23..... Sungjae Im KOR 3.93 Baltimore at Washington, 6:05
Houston 3, Los Angeles FC 3 24..... Hideki Matsuyama JPN 3.86 Detroit at Cincinnati, 6:40
Portland 2, L.A. Galaxy 1 25..... Louis Oosthuizen SAF 3.76 Colorado at Texas, 8:05
TUeSDAY’S ReSULTS 26..... Shane Lowry IRL 3.74 L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40
27..... Paul Casey ENG 3.68
Chicago 2, Seattle 1 28..... Daniel Berger USA 3.53 WeDNeSDAY’S gAMeS
Orlando City 3, New York City FC 1 29..... Bernd Wiesberger AUT 3.47 Detroit at Cincinnati, 6:10
Philadelphia 2, Inter Miami CF 1 30..... Kevin Na USA 3.27 Minnesota at Chicago Cubs, 7:05
31..... Viktor Hovland NOR 3.12 Colorado at Texas, 8:05
WeDNeSDAY’S ReSULT 32..... Rickie Fowler USA 3.01 Milwaukee at Chicago White Sox, 8:10
San Jose 4, Vancouver 3 33..... Francesco Molinari ITA 3.00 San Diego at L.A. Angels, 9:40
34..... Lee Westwood ENG 2.91
THURSDAY’S ReSULTS 35..... Henrik Stenson SWE 2.87
FC Cincinnati 1, Atlanta United 0 36..... Danny Willett ENG 2.85
Toronto FC 4, Montreal 3 37..... Kevin Kisner USA 2.83
Columbus 2, New York 0 38..... Billy Horschel USA 2.77 nationals 4, Orioles 2
39..... Sergio Garcia ESP 2.74 mIkE EhrmaNN/gETTy ImagES
fRIDAY’S ReSULTS 40..... Ryan Palmer USA 2.71 WASHINgTON AB R H BI BALTIMORe AB R H BI
D.C. United 1, New England 1 41..... Matt Wallace ENG 2.71 T.Turner ss 3 0 0 0 Stewart lf 3 0 1 0 Federico Higuaín had the equalizer against the New England Revolution on Friday in Kissimmee, Fla.
Sporting K.C. 3, Colorado 2 42..... Chez Reavie USA 2.63 Wi.Difo ss 1 0 0 0 Mntcstl lf 1 0 0 0
43..... Erik van Rooyen SAF 2.51 A.Eaton rf 3 0 0 0 Iglsias ss 4 0 3 0
Minnesota 0, Real Salt Lake 0

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SATURDAY’S ReSULTS
Portland 2, Houston 1
LAFC 6, LA Galaxy 2
SUNDAY’S ReSULTS
San Jose 2, Chicago 0
Seattle 3, Vancouver 0
MONDAY’S ReSULTS
New York City 1, Inter Miami 0
Orlando City 1, Philadelphia 1
TUeSDAY’S MATcHeS
D.C. United vs. Montreal, 10:30
New England vs. Toronto, 9 a.m.
Columbus vs. Atlanta United, 8
FC Dallas and Nashville opted out of the tournament.
new York City FC 1, Miami 0
New York city fc................... 0 1 — 1
Miami..................................... 0 0 — 0
First half: None.
Second half: 1, New York City FC, Tajouri, 0 (Mitrita),
64th minute.
Goalies: New York City FC, Sean Johnson, Luis Barraza;
Miami, Luis Robles, Drake Callender, John McCarthy.
Yellow Cards: Agudelo, Miami, 19th; Sands, New York
City FC, 23rd; Chanot, New York City FC, 39th; Figal,
Miami, 41st; Tinnerholm, New York City FC, 45th+3.
Referee: Rosendo Mendoza. Assistant Referees: Kath-
ryn Nesbitt, Eduardo Mariscal, Allen Chapman. 4th
Official: Marcos De Oliveira.
LINeUPS
New York City FC: Sean Johnson; Alexander Callens,
Maxime Chanot, Ronald Matarrita, Anton Tinnerholm;
Jesus Medina (Keaton Parks, 67th), Alexander Ring,
James Sands; Valentin Castellanos, Alexandru Mitrita
(Maxi Moralez, 80th), Ismael Tajouri (Gary Mackay
Steven, 82nd).
Miami: Luis Robles; Mikey Ambrose (Ben Sweat, 69th),
Nicolas Figal, Dylan Nealis (Alvas Powell, 80th), Roman
Torres; Lewis Morgan, Matias Pellegrini (Julian Carran-
za, 68th), Rodolfo Pizarro, Wil Trapp (Lee Nguyen, 68th),
Victor Ulloa (Jay Chapman, 81st); Juan Agudelo.
Orlando City 1, philadelphia 1
Orlando City........................... 0 1 —
Philadelphia........................... 0 1 —
First half: None.
Second half: 1, Philadelphia, Ilsinho, 0 (Bedoya), 68th
minute; 2, Orlando City, Pereyra, 0 (Nani), 70th.
Goalies: Orlando City, Pedro Gallese, Brian Rowe;
Philadelphia, Andre Blake, Joe Bendik.
Yellow Cards: Bedoya, Philadelphia, 56th; Rosell, Orlan-
do City, 67th; Glesnes, Philadelphia, 80th; Ruan, Orlando
City, 90th+2.
Referee: Rubiel Vazquez. Assistant Referees: Brian
Dunn, Benjamin Hall-Volpenhein, Ismail Elfath. 4th
Official: Drew Fischer.
LINeUPS
Orlando City: Pedro Gallese; Antonio Carlos, Robin
Jansson, Joao Moutinho, Ruan; Junior Urso (Jhegson
Mendez, 19th), Nani, Mauricio Pereyra (Santiago Patino,
87th), Oriol Rosell; Tesho Akindele (Benji Michel, 74th),
Chris Mueller (Andres Perea, 87th).
Philadelphia: Andre Blake; Jack Elliott, Raymon Gaddis,
Mark McKenzie, Kai Wagner; Brendan Aaronson (Matt
Real, 90th+4), Alejandro Bedoya, Warren Creavalle
(Jakob Glesnes, 73rd), Jamiro Monteiro; Kacper Przyb-
ylko, Sergio Santos (Ilsinho, 59th).
nWSL
cHALLeNge cUP — IN UTAH
QUARTeRfINALS
fRIDAY’S ReSULTS
Portland 1, North Carolina 0
Houston 0, Utah 0 (3-2 PK)
SATURDAY’S ReSULTS
Sky Blue 0, Washington 0 (4-3 PK)
Chicago 0, Reign FC 0 (4-3 PK)
SeMIfINALS
WeDNeSDAY
44..... Jason Day AUS 2.47 Stevenson rf 1 0 0 0 Wlliams pr 0 1 0 0
45..... Kevin Streelman USA 2.44 S.Castro 2b 3 0 1 0 Sntnder rf 2 0 2 0
46..... Victor Perez FRA 2.39 L.Garcia 2b 1 0 0 0 Herrera rf 2 0 0 0
47..... Christiaan Bezuidenhout SAF 2.39 Ju.Soto lf 2 2 1 0 R.Nunez 3b 4 0 2 1
48..... Cameron Smith AUS 2.39 Bonifacio lf 2 0 1 0 C.Davis 1b 2 1 1 0
49..... Jazz Janewattananond THA 2.36 Kendrick 1b 3 2 2 3 Valaika 1b 2 0 0 0
50..... Shugo Imahira JPN 2.33 E.Thames dh 3 0 0 0 Alberto 2b 2 0 0 0
Cabrera 3b 1 0 0 0 Vlzquez 2b 2 0 1 0
Kieboom 3b 1 0 0 0 Ri.Ruiz dh 4 0 0 1
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Y.Gomes c
V.Robles cf
M.Taylor cf
3
2
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
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0
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Holaday c
A.Wynns c
Mullins cf
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Coming off the bench, United’s Higuaín has provided a pivotal scoring spark
July 19, 2020: Jon Rahm
x-Feb. 9, 2020: Rory McIlroy (10 weeks) TOTALS 30 4 6 4 TOTALS 35 2 10 2
May 19, 2019: Brooks Koepka (38 weeks) BY S TEVEN G OFF would secure passage to the d.C. united vs. impact
WASHINgTON 000 200 200 — 4
April 14, 2019: Dustin Johnson (5 weeks)
April 7, 2019: Justin Rose (1 week)
BALTIMORe 000 100 010 — 2 round of 16. A defeat would send Today, 10:30 p.m., ESPN2
March 3, 2019: Dustin Johnson (5 weeks) DP: Washington 2, Baltimore 1. LOB: Washington 3, He scored four minutes after United home in last place. A draw
Jan. 6, 2019: Justin Rose (8 weeks)
Nov. 25, 2018: Brooks Koepka (6 weeks)
Baltimore 6. 2B: Soto (4), Kendrick (1), Santander (5),
Davis (1). HR: Kendrick (1). cS: Turner (1).
entering as a substitute in D.C. would leave D.C. in limbo until Gonzalo is an Argentine national
Nov. 18, 2018: Justin Rose (1 week) WASHINgTON IP H R eR BB SO United’s opener at the MLS is the group stage ends Thursday, team forward who plays for Ital-
Nov. 11, 2018: Brooks Koepka (1 week)
Nov. 4, 2018: Justin Rose (1 week)
Strasburg (W, 1-1)
Harris
5
1
6
2
1
0
1
0
0
0
6
0
Back Tournament. In a reserve when the four best third-place ian power Juventus after stints
Oct. 21, 2018: Brooks Koepka (2 weeks)
Sept. 23, 2018: Dustin Johnson (4 weeks)
Harper 1 0 0 0 0 2 role four days later, he needed teams from the six groups are with Real Madrid and Napoli,
Sept. 09, 2018: Justin Rose (2 weeks)
Fedde (S, 1-1) 2 2 1 1 0 2
three minutes to find the net. determined. among others.
June 10, 2018: Dustin Johnson (13 weeks)
May 13, 2018: Justin Thomas (4 weeks)
BALTIMORe IP H R eR BB SO
The second-half punch provid- Grateful for the opportunity to An ACL injury ended Federico
Cobb (L, 0-1) 4 2 2 2 2 5
Feb. 19, 2017: Dustin Johnson (64 weeks) Lakins 1.1 0 0 0 0 1 ed by Federico Higuaín — age 35, a resume his career, Higuaín seems Higuaín’s 2019 season after three
March 28, 2016: Jason Day (47 weeks)
Nov. 8, 2015: Jordan Spieth (20 weeks)
Fry
Hess
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1
1
2
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
2
player/assistant coach and, until willing to accept any role — on months, and at the end of the year,
Oct. 18, 2015: Jason Day (3 weeks)
Sept. 27, 2015: Jordan Spieth (3 weeks)
Bleier 2 1 0 0 0 2 last week, inactive for 14 months Tuesday and in the long run. he and the Crew parted ways.
Sept. 20, 2015: Jason Day (1 week) HBP: by Cobb (Thames), by Hess (Cabrera). — raises the question of whether “I just want to play fútbol,” he United signed him late in pre-
Sept. 13, 2015: Rory McIlroy (1 week) Umpires: Home, Ramon De Jesus First, Chris Segal
Sept. 8, 2015: Jordan Spieth (1 week) Second, Brennan Miller Third, Jeremy Riggs LF, Larry he should start Tuesday in the said. “I want to play good fútbol season to provide attacking depth
Aug. 30, 2015: Rory McIlroy (1 week) Vanover RF, David Rackle. critical group finale against the and I want to be happy doing and impart wisdom as part of
Aug. 16, 2015: Jordan Spieth (2 weeks)
Aug 3, 2014: Rory McIlroy (53 weeks) Montreal Impact (10:30 p.m., what I love, because this is what I Olsen’s staff. (He is also the only
May 18, 2014: Adam Scott (11 weeks)
March 24, 2013: Tiger Woods (60 weeks) A u tO RA C i ng ESPN2) in Kissimmee, Fla. love. And I want to do this as long bilingual member of the staff.)
Aug. 12, 2012: Rory McIlroy (32 weeks) On one hand, the Argentine as possible.” “He has ambitions to coach,
May 27, 2012: Luke Donald (11 weeks)
May 6, 2012: Rory McIlroy (3 weeks) nASCAR attacker has injected experience Higuaín said it’s difficult to but we decided early that he was a
April 29, 2012: Luke Donald (1 week)
April 15, 2012: Rory McIlroy (2 weeks)
ScHeDULe-WINNeRS and sophistication in helping lead gauge his fitness level because player, first and foremost,” Olsen
March 18, 2012: Luke Donald (4 weeks) feb. 9: x-Busch Clash at Daytona (Erik Jones) two come-from-behind draws at United’s matches have come in a said. “And his job was to help this
feb. 13: x-Bluegreen Vacations Duel 1 at Daytona (Joey
March 4, 2012: Rory McIlroy (2 weeks)
May 29, 2011: Luke Donald (40 weeks) Logano) the ESPN Wide World of Sports compact schedule. With three team win games on the field and
April 24, 2011: Lee Westwood (5 weeks) feb. 13: x-Bluegreen Vacations Duel 2 at Daytona
(William Byron)
Complex near Orlando. Defender games in nine days, days off are get back to what he truly loves,
Feb. 27, 2011: Martin Kaymer (8 weeks)
Oct. 31, 2010: Lee Westwood (17 weeks) feb. 16: Daytona 500 (Denny Hamlin) Frédéric Brillant, also 35, is Unit- consumed by recovery and tacti- which is playing the game.”
June 12, 2005: Tiger Woods (281 weeks)
May 22, 2005: Vijay Singh (3 weeks)
feb. 23: Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube (Joey
Logano)
ed’s only other goal scorer. cal preparation. Before playing, Higuaín need-
April 10, 2005: Tiger Woods (6 weeks) March 1: Auto Club 400 (Alex Bowman) On the other hand — and it is a Conventional wisdom says a ed to strengthen his repaired
March 20, 2005: Vijay Singh (3 weeks) March 8: FanShield 500 (Joey Logano)
1
March 6, 2005: Tiger Woods (2 weeks) March 15: Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Hampton, Ga. hand Coach Ben Olsen seems to player unable to log at least 60 knee. He was not in uniform for
1
Sept. 6, 2004: Vijay Singh (26 weeks) March 22: Dixie Vodka 400, Homestead, Fla.
March 29: O’Reilly Auto Parts 500, Fort Worth
prefer to play — Higuaín is still minutes is probably not ready to the two matches before the pan-
Aug. 15, 1999: Tiger Woods (264 weeks)
Aug. 8, 1999: David Duval (1 week) April 5: Food City 500, Bristol, Tenn. working himself into shape after start. Higuaín seemingly isn’t demic shutdown in March, but
April 19: Toyota Owners 400, Richmond
July 4, 1999: Tiger Woods (5 weeks)
March 28, 1999: David Duval (14 weeks) April 26: GEICO 500, Talladega, Ala. a long layoff and probably isn’t there yet, rendering him a super- with MLS on hiatus for months,
June 14, 1998: Tiger Woods (41 weeks) May 3: NASCAR Cup Series Race at Dover, Dover, Del. ready for an extended assign- sub. he gained additional time.
May 17, 1998: Ernie Els (4 weeks) May 9: Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500, Martins-
May 10, 1998: Tiger Woods (1 week) ville, Va. ment. “This is probably the first time After a long wait, Martins said,
April 12, 1998: Ernie Els (4 weeks)
Jan. 11, 1998: Tiger Woods (13 weeks)
May 16: x-NASCAR Open, Concord, N.C.
May 16: x-NASCAR All-Star Race, Concord, N.C.
“He is just getting back into in his life he has ever been consid- Higuaín displayed in practice the
Sept. 7, 1997: Greg Norman (18 weeks) May 17: The Real Heroes 400 (Kevin Harvick) this,” Olsen said. “We still have to ered a super-sub,” Olsen said. “He enthusiasm of “a kid going back to
May 20: Toyota 500 (Denny Hamlin)
July 6, 1997: Tiger Woods (9 weeks)
June 29, 1997: Greg Norman (1 week) May 24: Coca-Cola 600 (Brad Keselowski) be smart about how we build him. is a guy who is always a focal point the park.”
June 22, 1997: Ernie Els (1 week) May 28: Alsco Uniforms 500 (Chase Elliott) But the goal is to build him to and you build around him. But “I am happy,” Higuaín said.
June 15, 1997: Tiger Woods (1 week) May 31: Food City presents the Supermarket Heroes
April 27, 1997: Greg Norman (7 weeks) 500 (Brad Keselowski) compete for a starting spot. . . . I that’s the mentality that he has “Trust me. I am really, really hap-
April 20, 1997: Tom Lehman (1 week)
June 18, 1995: Greg Norman (96 weeks)
June 7: Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 (Kevin Harvick)
June 10: Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500 (Martin
am open to it.” and the attitude he has had since py. It was not easy for me the last
Aug. 14, 1994: Nick Price (44 weeks) Truex Jr) In the Group C opener against he has gotten here — his willing- year.”
Feb. 6, 1994: Greg Norman (27 weeks) June 14: Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sonoma, Calif.
July 19, 1992: Nick Faldo (81 weeks) June 14: Dixie Vodka 400 (Denny Hamlin) Toronto FC, Higuaín made his ness to do what is best for the What the Buenos Aires native
April 5, 1992: Fred Couples (15 weeks) June 21: Chicagoland 400, Joliet, Ill.
June 22: GEICO 500 (Ryan Blaney)
D.C. debut in the 80th minute and team.” has lacked is competitive soccer.
March 29, 1992: Nick Faldo (1 week)
March 22, 1992: Fred Couples (1 week) June 27: Pocono Organics 325 in partnership with scored on a breakaway in the Higuaín was a starter for most “It’s hard to be on the side and
April 7, 1991: Ian Woosnam (50 weeks)
Feb. 3, 1991: Nick Faldo (9 weeks)
Rodale Institute (Kevin Harvick)
June 28: Pocono 350 (Denny Hamlin)
84th, the first of two late goals by of his tenure with the Columbus rehabbing and have a real influ-
Oct. 14, 1990: Greg Norman (16 weeks) July 5: Big Machine Hand Sanitizer 400 Powered by Big United in a 2-2 draw. Crew, compiling 55 goals and 63 ence,” Olsen said. “But when he
Sept. 2, 1990: Nick Faldo (6 weeks) Machine Records (Kevin Harvick)
Aug. 20, 1989: Greg Norman (54 weeks) July 12: Quaker State 400 Presented by Walmart (Cole On Friday, he entered in the assists across eight seasons. Unit- got back on the field, you could
April 2, 1989: Seve Ballesteros (20 weeks) Custer)
July 15: x-NASCAR All-Star Open (Matt DiBenedetto)
69th and took advantage of a New ed midfielder Felipe Martins calls see the respect our players have
March 26, 1989: Greg Norman (1 week)
Nov. 13, 1988: Seve Ballesteros (19 weeks) July 15: NASCAR All-Star Race (Chase Elliott) England blunder three minutes him “one of the greatest [play- for not only what he has done but
July 19: O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 (Austin Dillon)
Nov. 6, 1988: Greg Norman (1 week)
Oct. 30, 1988: Seve Ballesteros (1 week) July 23: Super Start Batteries 400 Presented by later to forge a 1-1 deadlock. makers] this league ever had.” what he could potentially give us.”
Nov. 29, 1987: Greg Norman (48 weeks) O’Reilly Auto Parts, Kansas City, Kan. A victory against Montreal Higuaín’s younger brother steven.goff@washpost.com
Nov. 22, 1987: Seve Ballesteros (1 week) Aug. 2: Foxwoods Resort Casino 301, Loudon, N.H.
Sept. 14, 1986: Greg Norman (62 weeks) Aug. 8: NASCAR Cup Series Race at Michigan, Brooklyn,
April 27, 1986: Seve Ballesteros (20 weeks) Mich.
April 6, 1986: Bernhard Langer (3 weeks) Aug. 9: NASCAR Cup Series Race at Michigan, Brooklyn,
x-The world ranking was frozen for 13 weeks because of Mich.
the novel coronavirus pandemic. Aug. 16: NASCAR Cup Series Race at Daytona Road
Course, Daytona Beach, Fla.
SOCCER ROundup
Aug. 16: Go Bowling at The Glen, Watkins Glen, N.Y.

Beckham’s squad su≠ers another loss

Portland vs. Houston, 12:30 Aug. 22: Drydene 311, Dover, Del.
Sky Blue vs. Chicago, 10 Korn Ferry tour Aug. 23: Drydene 311, Dover, Del.
Aug. 29: Coke Zero Sugar 400, Daytona Beach, Fla.
cHAMPIONSHIP MONeY LeADeRS Sept. 6: Southern 500, Darlington, S.C.
SUNDAY Through Sunday Sept. 12: Federated Auto Parts 400, Richmond
Semifinal winners, 12:30 (CBS) Trn Money Sept. 19: Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race, Bristol,
1. .......... Davis Riley 11 $281,298 Tenn.
2. .......... Will Zalatoris 10 $262,068 Sept. 27: South Point 400, Las Vegas l ENGLAND: Wolverhampton No Ballon d’Or this season
3. ..........
4. ..........
Mito Pereira
Jared Wolfe
10
11
$193,640
$163,914
Oct. 4: YellaWood 500, Talladega, Ala.
Oct. 11: Bank of America ROVAL 400, Concord, N.C. NEW YORK CITY FC 1, took back sixth place in the Pre- The Ballon d’Or, which honors
English premier League 5. ..........
6. ..........
Taylor Pendrith
David Kocher
12
12
$159,881
$153,795
Oct. 18: Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas City, Kan.
Oct. 25: Texas 500, Fort Worth INTER MIAMI 0 mier League by beating visiting the best players over the previous
fRIDAY'S ReSULT 7. ..........
8. ..........
Paul Barjon
Dylan Wu
10
12
$148,712
$145,265
Nov. 1: Xfinity 500, Martinsville, Va. Crystal Palace, 2-0, moving closer year, will not be awarded this year
Nov. 8: NASCAR Cup Series Championship, Avondale,
West Ham 3, Watford 1 9. .......... Andrew Novak 11 $145,013 Ariz. to qualifying for another season in because the coronavirus pandem-
SATURDAY'S ReSULT 10. ........
11. ........
Ben Kohles
Roberto Díaz
11
11
$144,536
$139,478
x-non-points race A SSOCIATED P RESS the Europa League. ic disrupted the season.
Burnley 2, Norwich 0 12. ........ Kyle Jones 8 $139,450 The win moved Wolves back Awarded by France Football
13. ........ David Lipsky 9 $133,749
SUNDAY'S ReSULTS 14. ........ John Chin 11 $131,235 LAPS LeD LeADeRS David Beckham’s Inter Miami above Tottenham with a one- magazine, the Ballon d’Or has
Southampton 2, Bournemouth 0 15. ........
16. ........
Tommy Gainey
Lee Hodges
8
11
$118,156
$110,787
Through Sunday became the first Major League point advantage ahead of the been given out every year since
Tottenham 3, Leicester 0
17. ........ Chris Kirk 1 $108,000 1. Kevin Harvick, 691. Soccer team to lose its first five final day of the league season 1956. The magazine started a
MONDAY'S ReSULTS 17. ........ Luke List 1 $108,000 2. Joey Logano, 560.
19. ........ Nick Hardy 11 $106,790 3. Ryan Blaney, 497. games when Ismael Tajouri-Shra- Sunday. women’s award in 2018, but that
Brighton 0, Newcastle 0
Everton 1, Sheffield United 0 20. ........ Brandon Harkins 11 $94,277 4. Denny Hamlin, 466.
5. Chase Elliott, 451.
di scored midway through the Daniel Podence scored in the also has been put on hold.
21. ........ Chad Ramey 12 $92,870
Wolverhampton 2, Crystal Palace 0
22. ........ Greyson Sigg 12 $92,351 6. Brad Keselowski, 414. second half Monday in New York 41st minute, and Jonny tallied in The Kopa Trophy for the best
7. Martin Truex Jr, 410.
TUeSDAY'S MATcHeS 23. ........
24. ........
Justin Lower
Paul Haley II
11
7
$89,529
$88,701 8. Alex Bowman, 381. City FC’s 1-0 victory in the MLS is the 68th. . . . player under 21 and the Yashin
Watford vs. Man City
Aston Villa vs. Arsenal
25. ........ Callum Tarren 11 $77,939 9. Aric Almirola, 253. Back Tournament in Kissimmee, Sheffield United lost to visiting Trophy for best goalkeeper also
26. ........ Joseph Bramlett 2 $76,500 10. Kyle Busch, 150.
WeDNeSDAY'S MATcHeS 27. ........ John VanDerLaan 12 $67,462 11. Clint Bowyer, 139. Fla. Everton, 1-0, on a header from have been canceled.
Man United vs. West Ham
28. ........ Taylor Montgomery 9 $66,388 12. Jimmie Johnson, 99.
13. Kurt Busch, 90.
NYC FC (1-4) won for the first Richarlison. The loss, combined l MISC.: American investment
29. ........ Ollie Schniederjans 9 $65,722
Liverpool vs. Chelsea 30. ........ J.T. Griffin 10 $63,630 14. Ricky Stenhouse Jr, 66. time this season and is guaran- with Wolverhampton’s win over firm RedBird Capital Partners
15. William Byron, 45.
SUNDAY'S MATcHeS 31. ........
32. ........
Augusto Núñez
Jack Maguire
12
11
$62,559
$60,669 16. Erik Jones, 34. teed a third-place finish in Crystal Palace, means Sheffield agreed to buy an 85 percent stake
Southampton vs. Sheffield United 33. ........ Austin Smotherman 11 $60,188 16. Ryan Newman, 34.
18. Austin Dillon, 28.
Group A. But it will need help to can no longer qualify for the in struggling French club Tou-
Newcastle vs. Liverpool 34. ........ John Oda 10 $58,736
Man City vs. Norwich 35. ........ Adam Svensson 11 $57,225 19. Tyler Reddick, 27. advance to the knockout stage of Europa League. . . . louse.
Leicester vs. Man United
Everton vs. Bournemouth
20. Matt DiBenedetto, 23.
21. Matt Kenseth, 12. the tournament. . . . Brighton did just enough to Olivier Sadran, who had been
Crystal Palace vs. Tottenham 22. Chris Buescher, 8. Substitute Ilsinho scored for confirm its place in the Premier club president since 2001, will
Chelsea vs. Wolverhampton 22. Ty Dillon, 8.
Burnley vs. Brighton LpgA 24. Corey Lajoie, 6. the Philadelphia Union (2-1-2) in League for next season by draw- retain a 15 percent stake in his
Arsenal vs. Watford MONeY LeADeRS 25. Cole Custer, 5. the 68th minute, but Mauricio ing at home with Newcastle, 0-0. hometown club.
West Ham vs. Aston Villa
Through Sunday Pereyra evened things for Orlan- l ITALY: In Turin, Cristiano Financial terms of the sale
Trn Money
1. ........ Inbee Park 4 $327,163 tRA nSA C ti O nS do City SC (2-1-2) two minutes Ronaldo scored twice in the sec- were not disclosed. Toulouse was
italian Serie A 2. ........ Madelene Sagstrom
3. ........ Nasa Hataoka
3
2
$323,095
$313,272
later as the teams played to a 1-1 ond half to lead Serie A leader relegated to the second division
SATURDAY'S ReSULTS 4. ........ Gaby Lopez 2 $180,000 MLB draw. Juventus to a 2-1 win over visiting after finishing last this season. . . .
5. ........ Hee Young Park 3 $175,666
Verona 1, Atalanta 1 6. ........ Celine Boutier 4 $175,540 Baltimore Orioles: Placed OF Dwight Smith, Jr. on the IL. Orlando clinched the top spot Lazio. Monaco appointed Niko Kovac
Cagliari 1, Sassuolo 1 Kansas city Royals: Placed RHP Jakob Junis on the IL.
AC Milan 5, Bologna 1
7. ........
8. ........
Danielle Kang
Sei Young Kim
2
2
$161,280
$126,778 New York Mets: Placed IF Jed Lowrie and RHP Walker in Group A via a superior goal Ciro Immobile scored for Lazio coach to replace the fired Roberto
SUNDAY'S ReSULTS 9. ........ Amy Olson 3 $118,382 Lockett on the IL. Selected the contract of C Rene Rivera. differential. . . . and is tied with Ronaldo atop the Moreno. Kovac, 48, previously
Sampdoria 3, Parma 2
10. ...... Brooke M. Henderson
11. ...... Perrine Delacour
2
3
$102,169
$100,774
NfL Late Sunday, Nicolás Lodeiro Italian league scoring chart with coached Bayern Munich, Frank-
Brescia 2, Spal 1
Fiorentina 2, Turin 0
12. ...... So Yeon Ryu 2 $97,859 Dallas cowboys: Signed DE Bradlee Anae and QB Ben
DiNucci.
scored from the penalty spot, 30 goals. furt and the Croatian national
13. ...... Cydney Clanton 4 $97,193
Genoa 2, Lecce 1 14. ...... Moriya Jutanugarn 2 $93,386 Kansas city chiefs: Signed RB Clyde Edwards-Helaire, Jordan Morris added a goal, and Ronaldo became the first play- team. . . .
Napoli 2, Udinese 1 ILB Willie Gay, OT Lucas Niang, S L’Jarius Sneed and DE
Roma 2, Inter 2
15. ......
16. ......
Marina Alex
Yu Liu
3
3
$88,810
$82,586 Michael Danna. the Seattle Sounders beat the er to score at least 50 goals in the The Copa Libertadores will re-
MONDAY'S ReSULT 17. ...... Mi Jung Hur 2 $74,933 Philadelphia eagles: Signed WR Jalen Reagor, S K’Von Vancouver Whitecaps, 3-0. Premier League (84), Spain’s La start Sept. 15 after being suspend-
18. ...... Lexi Thompson 2 $70,171 Wallace, QB Jalen Hurts, OLB Davion Taylor, G Jack
Juventus 2, Lazio 1 19. ...... Cristie Kerr 3 $69,902 Driscoll and WR John Hightower. Raul Ruidiaz also scored for Liga (311) and Serie A (51). ed for almost six months during
TUeSDAY'S MATcHeS
20. ...... Jessica Korda 2 $68,407 Pittsburgh Steelers: Waived TE Christian Scotland-Wil-
liamson.
Seattle (2-1-2), which clinched a l SPAIN: Deportivo La Coruña, the pandemic.
21. ...... Linnea Strom 3 $58,070
Atalanta vs. Bologna 22. ...... Georgia Hall 3 $57,558 Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Signed WR Tyler Johnson and spot in the knockout round of the the 2000 Spanish league champi- CONMEBOL announced dates
DT Khalil Davis.
Sassuolo vs. AC Milan 23. ......
24. ......
Nelly Korda
Annie Park
3
2
$54,775
$54,681 Washington Redskins: Named Terry Bateman executive tournament. Vancouver is 1-3-0. on, was relegated to the third for the four remaining rounds of
WeDNeSDAY'S MATcHeS 25. ...... Leona Maguire 3 $52,861 vice president and chief marketing officer. Also late Sunday, Cristian Espi- division even though it couldn’t the group stage, which is sched-
26. ...... Klara Spilkova 3 $51,057
Parma vs. Napoli
Inter vs. Fiorentina 27. ...... Christina Kim 2 $48,701
NHL noza scored early in the second play its match because of an out- uled to end Oct. 22. The 16 group
Lecce vs. Brescia 28. ...... Xiyu Lin 3 $46,063 Nhl: Suspended New York Rangers F Brendan Lemieux
for the first two games of the 2020 Stanley Cup
half, Chris Wondolowski provid- break of novel coronavirus cases. matches of the third round will be
29. ...... Jodi Ewart Shadoff 2 $45,793
Sampdoria vs. Genoa
Turin vs. Verona 30. ...... Yui Kawamoto 3 $45,563 Qualifiers for interference against Colorado F Joonas ed the clincher after coming on as Deportivo’s final-round game played without fans. . . .
Spal vs. Roma 31. ...... Minjee Lee
32. ...... Stephanie Meadow
2
3
$43,687
$40,961
Donskoi during a March 11 game.
a substitute, and the San Jose against Fuenlabrada was post- César Salinas, president of the
THURSDAY'S MATcHeS 33. ...... Mi Hyang Lee 2 $40,533 cOLLegeS Earthquakes (2-1-2) posted a 2-0 poned after some Fuenlabrada Bolivian federation, died of com-
34. ...... Ally McDonald 3 $40,513 Bucknell: Announced the resignation of softball coach
Udinese vs. Juventus
35. ...... Jasmine Suwannapura 4 $38,748 Joey Lye. win over the Chicago Fire (1-2-1) players tested positive for the plications linked to the coronavi-
Lazio vs. Cagliari
to clinch a spot in the round of 16. coronavirus. rus. He was 58.
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TRUSTEE’S SALE OF
623-I CONSTELLATION SQUARE,
LEESBURG, VA 20175
In execution of a Deed of Trust
in the original principal amount of
$84,075.00, with an annual inter-
est rate of 7.000000% dated
March 16, 2001, recorded among
the land records of the Circuit
Court for the County of Loudoun
as Deed Book 1889, Page 2005,
the undersigned appointed Sub-
stitute Trustee will offer for sale
at public auction all that property
located in the County of Loudoun,
on the courthouse steps in front
of the Circuit Court building for
the County of Loudoun located at
18 East Market Street, Leesburg
Virginia on August 4, 2020 at 10:00
AM, the property with improve-
ments to wit: Tax Map No.
232201068012 THIS COMMUNI-
CATION IS FROM A DEBT COL-
LECTOR.
TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bid-
der's deposit of 10% of the sale
price, will be required in cash,
certified or cashier's check. Set-
tlement within fifteen (15) days
of sale, otherwise Trustees may
forfeit deposit. Additional terms
to be announced at sale. Loan
type: Conventional. Reference
Number 20-286475.
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CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA, Sub-
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Road, Suite 200, Manassas, Vir-
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4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2
Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE
OF REAL PROPERTY
319 Varnum Street, NW
Washington, DC 20011
Lot 0047 in Square 3310
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust
(“Deed of Trust”) in the principal amount of $1,389,130.08
dated March 27, 2018 and recorded on May 3, 2018 as
Instrument No. 2018044344 with the Recorder of Deeds of
the District of Columbia (“Land Records”), from 319 Varnum
St NW B Limited Liability Company, grantor, to Daniel Huertas,
trustee, for the benefit of WCP Fund I LLC, beneficiary, default
having occurred under the terms thereof, and following the
mailing and recordation in the Land Records of a Deed of
Appointment of Substitute Trustee removing Daniel Huertas as
trustee and appointing Russell S. Drazin (“Substitute Trustee”)
as substitute trustee, an Affidavit of Non-Residential Mortgage
Foreclosure, and a Notice of Foreclosure Sale of Real Property
or Condominium Unit, at the request of the current noteholder,
Substitute Trustee will sell at public auction at the office of
Harvey West Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW,
Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015, PLEASE NOTE: In the
event that the office building at 5335 Wisconsin Ave NW
is closed or we cannot hold our sales in Suite #440 due
to Covid-19 restrictions, sales will take place at the front
entrance door of the Chevy Chase Pavilion, on
AUGUST 4, 2020 AT 2:10 PM
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON situated in the City of Washington, District of
Columbia, known as 319 Varnum Street, NW, Washington, DC
20011 (Lot 0047 in Square 3310), and more fully described in
the Deed of Trust.
The property will be sold in an “AS IS” condition, with no
warranty of any kind, and subject to conditions, restrictions,
agreements, liens, and encumbrances of record affecting the
same – except those encumbrances of record that are extin-
guished by operation of District of Columbia law by virtue of the
foreclosure of the Deed of Trust.
Purchaser will take title to the property subject to all taxes, water
and sewer charges, and other utility charges, if any. Purchaser
assumes the risk of loss or damage to the property from the
date of sale forward. Purchaser shall be responsible for obtaining
physical possession of the property.
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $50,000.00 by cashier’s
check will be required of purchaser at the time and place
of sale. Purchaser shall settle within thirty (30) days of sale.
TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE WITH RESPECT TO
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PARDO & DRAZIN, LLC PARDO & DRAZIN, LLC NOTICE OF SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE SALE
Russell S. Drazin, Attorney Russell S. Drazin, Attorney 14833 Elmwood Drive,
Woodbridge, VA 22193
4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2 4400 Jenifer Street, NW, Suite 2 By virtue of the power and authority contained in a Deed of Trust dated
Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
Washington, DC 20015
202-223-7900
June 27, 2007, and recorded at Instrument Number 200706290077101
in the Clerk’s Office for the Circuit Court for Prince William County,
VA, securing a loan which was originally $354,893.80. The appointed
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE, Commonwealth Trustees, LLC will offer for sale at
SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE’S SALE public auction at the front steps of the Circuit Court for Prince William
OF REAL PROPERTY OF REAL PROPERTY County, 9311 Lee Avenue, Manassas, VA 20110 on:
July 31, 2020 at 9:00 AM
508 58th Street, NE, 5118 Just Street, NE
improved real property, with an abbreviated legal description of All of the
Washington, DC 20019 Washington, DC 20019
(Lot 0802 in Square 5227) Lot 0265 in Square 5176
following parcel of real property, with improvements thereon, located in
the County of Prince William, Virginia, to wit:
Under a power of sale contained in a certain Deed of Trust Under a power of sale contained in a certain Purchase Money
All of Lot 262, Section 7, Dale City, as the same is duly dedicated, platted,
and recorded among the Land Records of Prince William County, Virginia,
(“Deed of Trust”) dated June 15, 2018 and recorded on Deed of Trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated May 4, 2018 and in Deed Book 460, at Page 365.
June 20, 2018 as Instrument No. 2018061514, from Foote recorded on June 20, 2018 as Instrument No. 2018061878, This conveyance is made subject to covenants, conditions, restrictions,
easements and rights of way of record, and as more fully described in the
Forward LLC, as grantor, to Daniel Huertas, as trustee, securing from Titanium Holding LLC (also known of record as Titanium aforesaid Deed of Trust.
that certain Commercial Deed of Trust Note dated June 15, Holdings LLC), as grantor, to John D. Eubank and Timothy TERMS OF SALE: The property will be sold “AS IS,” WITHOUT REPRE-
2018 in the principal amount of $562,500.00, default having E. Lewis (collectively, “Original Trustees”), as trustees, for the SENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND AND SUBJECT TO conditions,
restrictions, reservations, easements, rights of way, and all other matters
occurred under the terms thereof, and following the mailing benefit of Commercial Lending, L.L.C., as beneficiary, securing of record taking priority over the Deed of Trust to be announced at the
time of sale. A deposit of $20,000.00, or 10% of the sale price, whichever
and recordation of a Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustee that certain Commercial Deed of Trust Note dated May 4, is lower, will be required at time of sale, in the form of certified check,
removing Daniel Huertas as trustee and appointing Russell S. 2018 in the principal amount of $190,000.00, default having cashier’s check or money order by the purchaser. The balance of the
purchase price, with interest at the rate contained in the Deed of Trust
Drazin (“Substitute Trustee”) as successor trustee, an Affidavit occurred under the terms thereof, and following the mailing
of Non-Residential Mortgage Foreclosure, and a Notice of and recordation of a Deed of Appointment of Substitute Trustee
Note from the date of sale to the date said funds are received in the
office of the SUBSTITUTE TRUSTEE, will be due within fifteen (15) days
of sale. In the event of default by the successful bidder, the entire
Foreclosure Sale of Real Property or Condominium Unit, at the removing Original Trustees and appointing Russell S. Drazin as deposit shall be forfeited and applied to the costs and expenses of sale
request of the current noteholder, Substitute Trustee will sell the successor trustee (“Substitute Trustee”), an Affidavit of Non- and Substitute Trustee's fee. All other public charges or assessments,
including water/sewer charges, whether incurred prior to or after the sale,
at public auction at the office of Harvey West Auctioneers, Residential Mortgage Foreclosure, and a Notice of Foreclosure and all other costs incident to settlement to be paid by the purchaser. In
Inc., 5335 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC Sale of Real Property or Condominium Unit, at the request of the the event taxes, any other public charges have been advanced, a credit
20015, (PLEASE NOTE: In the event that the office building current noteholder, Substitute Trustee will sell at public auction
will be due to the seller, to be adjusted from the date of sale at the time of
settlement. Purchaser agrees to pay the seller's attorneys at settlement,
at 5335 Wisconsin Ave NW is closed or we cannot hold our at the office of Harvey West Auctioneers, Inc., 5335 Wisconsin a fee of $465.00 for review of the settlement documents.
sales in Suite #440 due to Covid-19 restrictions, sales will Avenue, NW, Suite 440, Washington, DC 20015. PLEASE NOTE: Additional terms will be announced at the time of sale and the successful
bidder will be required to execute and deliver to the Substitute Trustees
take place at the front entrance door of the Chevy Chase In the event that the office building at 5335 Wisconsin a memorandum or contract of the sale at the conclusion of bidding.
Pavilion) on Ave NW is closed or we cannot hold our sales in Suite FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:
AUGUST 4, 2020 AT 2:00 PM #440 due to Covid-19 restrictions, sales will take place at Rosenberg & Associates, LLC
(Attorney for the Secured Party)
the front entrance door of the Chevy Chase Pavilion, on 4340 East West Highway, Suite 600
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS Bethesda, MD 20814
THEREON situated in the City of Washington, District of AUGUST 4, 2020 AT 2:20 PM 301-907-8000
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Columbia, known as 508 58th Street, NE, Washington, DC ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND AND THE IMPROVEMENTS
July 21, 28, 2020 12315001
20019 (Lot 0802 in Square 5227), and more fully described in THEREON situated in the City of Washington, District of
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when Nats
start season
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AND STAFF REPORTS
The Washington Nationals on
monday announced that Anthony
S. fauci, the director of the Nation-
al Institute of Allergy and Infec-
tious Diseases and one of the
country’s leading voices during
the novel coronavirus pandemic,
will throw out the ceremonial first
pitch when his two favorite teams,
the Nationals and New York Yan-
kees, open major League Base-
ball’s shortened 60-game season
Thursday at Nationals Park.
“Dr. fauci has been a true cham-
pion for our country during the
Covid-19 pandemic and through-
out his distinguished career, so it
is only fitting that we honor him as
we kick off the 2020 season and
defend our World Series Champi-
onship title,” the Nationals said in
a statement.
Thursday’s game is scheduled
to start at 7 p.m. and will be tele-
vised by ESPN.
fauci, 79, looked up to mickey
mantle and Joe Dimaggio as a
Yankees fan growing up in Brook-
lyn, but the Nationals have since
become his No. 1 team.
“I’m not saying that because I’m
talking to you,” fauci said during
an interview with Nationals first
baseman ryan Zimmerman in
April. “I love the Nats. I love every-
body on the Nats. . . . I think the
character of the Washington Na-
tionals is such that this year is
historic, really historic.”
During his interview with fau-
ci, Zimmerman, who announced
last month that he was opting out
of the 2020 season, promised to
provide him with tickets to a game
next season. While other fans
won’t be allowed in the ballpark,
fauci won’t have to wait that long
to see his beloved Nationals.
— Scott Allen
l NatIONaLs 4, OrIOLEs 2:
Stephen Strasburg gave up one
run on six hits with six strikeouts
over five innings, and Howie Ken-
drick homered and had an rBI
double as Washington defeated
Baltimore in an exhibition game
at Camden Yards.
Earlier, Baltimore placed out-
fielder Dwight Smith Jr. on the
10-day injured list, and manager
Brandon Hyde said he isn’t sure
whether left-hander John means
(sore arm) will be able to start the
opener at Boston on friday.
The orioles also will start the
season without outfielder Stevie
Wilkerson, who fractured a finger
on his left hand in an exhibition
game at Philadelphia on Sunday
and will miss “significant time,”
Hyde said.
l bLuE JaYs: The franchise is
talking to the Pittsburgh Pirates
about sharing their ballpark this
season after Canada’s government
barred the Blue Jays from playing
in their home stadium in Toronto.
Pirates President Travis Wil-
liams confirmed the talks and
sounded ready to welcome the
Blue Jays. Toronto General man-
ager ross Atkins said earlier mon-
day that his team has more than
five contingency plans and was in
talks with other teams. He de-
clined to name them.
“We are focused on getting into
a major league facility,” Atkins
said.
Canada denied the Blue Jays’
request to play at rogers Centre
because the regular season sched-
ule would require frequent travel
back and forth from the United
States, where coronavirus cases
are surging.
Atkins said if the Blue Jays can’t
find a major league park, their
Class AAA affiliate in Buffalo
would be their most likely site for
home games.
l aNgELs: Los Angeles might
have to open the pandemic-short-
ened regular season at oakland on
friday night without its marquee
winter acquisition.
Anthony rendon’s oblique inju-
ry, which has sidelined the star
third baseman since Thursday, ap-
peared to take a little turn for the
worse monday, according to a Los
Angeles Times report, throwing
the former Nationals slugger’s sta-
tus for friday night’s game in
doubt.
“All I know is that he’s more sore
today, and with that, he really had
to back off his work,” Angels man-
ager Joe maddon said on a video-
conference call before monday
night’s exhibition game against
the San Diego Padres at Petco
Park.
l brEWErs: milwaukee
placed left-hander Brett Anderson
on the injured list with a blister on
his left index finger. He had been
slated to start the Brewers’ second
game of the season, Saturday at
the Chicago Cubs.
— From news services
Caps’ Carlson is named a Norris Trophy finalist for the first time
BY S AMANTHA P ELL
Washington Capitals defense-
man John Carlson was named a
Norris Trophy finalist monday,
along with the Nashville Preda-
tors’ roman Josi and the Tampa
Bay Lightning’s Victor Hedman.
Carlson was an early favorite
for the honor, awarded to the
NHL’s best defenseman, after his
blazing offensive start to the
season. After just 11 games, team-
mates were campaigning for him
openly, with captain Alex ovech-
kin starting a “Johnny for Norris”
hashtag on Twitter.
Carlson, 30, has never won the
award. He finished fourth in
voting after the 2018-19 season
and fifth in 2017-18. Carlson was
selected to play in his second
All-Star Game this year.
barry Svrluga
In o≠season, Strasburg could have moved on. Instead, he moved in.
strasburg from D1
against the visiting New York
Yankees. In 2010, Strasburg
arrived as the most heralded
draft pick the sport had ever
seen. In 2016, he signed a seven-
year extension to remain in
Washington. Last fall, he
became the World Series mVP,
then opted out of his old deal
because the contract permitted
it. It was only to let the market
speak, not because he intended
to go anywhere else.
Now, with a new seven-year,
$245 million deal that will keep
him a National until he is 38, he
is at peace with life 2,650 miles
from where he grew up because
home is where he lives now.
“It was more than monetary
calmness,” teammate ryan
Zimmerman said. “I think it
was: He knew where he was
going to be.”
To get comfortable where he
was going to be required not
only the growth that takes place
between ages 21 and 31. It
required retooling himself as a
pitcher and a person.
“It’s kind of where I grew up,”
he said.
With all of us watching.
Fighting to be perfect
It is a simple question, put to
Strasburg during a wide-
ranging, 45-minute interview on
a patio just outside the
clubhouse at the Nationals’
spring training complex in West
Palm Beach, fla.: Are you a
patient person? The answer is
quick.
“No,” Strasburg said.
He sighed. And explained.
“I tell myself that every day,”
he said. “I’ve learned this about
myself over the years: I want it
now. I want to see the execution
now. I want to see the results.
It’s been such a process over the
years to just have the discipline
to say: ‘Hey, you can control how
you handle your mechanics,
how you execute your pitches.
But once the ball leaves your
hand, that is completely out of
your control.’
“That’s still something that I
struggle with, because this game
is based on what happens after
it leaves your hand, but you
can’t control that.”
In the decade since his rookie
season, Strasburg has changed
in obvious ways as a pitcher.
That lightning bolt of a summer,
his four-seam fastball averaged
97.9 mph, and touching 100
wasn’t rare. Last summer, that
four-seamer averaged 94.3 mph,
the lowest of his career,
according to data compiled by
fanGraphs.
When he came up, he had a
windup that made some scouts
and coaches leery of the strain
he could put on his arm; he now
pitches exclusively from the
stretch. The first time the
Nationals reached the playoffs,
the club held him out, part of its
protocol following his recovery
from Tommy John surgery.
When the Nationals made their
fifth postseason appearance this
past fall, Strasburg went 5-0
with a 1.98 ErA and 47
strikeouts with four walks over
361/3 innings — and won that
World Series mVP.
“He couldn’t have been
better,” General manager mike
rizzo said.
The transformation in how he
pitches is rivaled, though, by the
transformation in how he
carries himself. Early in his
career — and he knows this —
Strasburg would greet an error
or a bad bounce with slumped
shoulders, rolled eyes or both.
Analyzing Strasburg’s body
language became something of a
D.C. parlor game. He looked,
frankly, eternally pissed off.
“I credit my dad for that,”
Strasburg said. “It’s kind of the
way we walk. It’s kind of the way
our faces are. If I’m not smiling,
eZ sU
“It is huge. . . . It is an honor
for me personally, but it is also a
cool thing within your team and
organization to kind of rally
behind you,” Carlson said of be-
ing a Norris finalist for the first
time.
Carlson would be the second
player in franchise history to win
the award. rod Langway won it
twice, in 1983 and 1984. This
season, Carlson led all defense-
men in points (75) and assists
(60) and set or tied career highs
in every offensive category.
“When you are hot, you are
hot, and everything he touched
was something like a goal or he
got an assist,” Capitals winger
richard Panik said. “It is always
great to have someone on the
team like that.”
Carlson finished 10 points
stephen strasburg said his offseason contract talks were not about money but steps to make the Nationals “world class in every aspect.”
it looks like I’m grimacing. Like
I’m mad. You kind of get that
persona of being a little
intimidating.”
As a pitcher, he is just that. As
a person?
“I think Stras, at some point,
almost stopped caring about
what people thought,” said
Zimmerman, the only member
of the championship team to
predate Strasburg. “He just
started to say: ‘Listen, I’m going
to take care of myself. I’m going
to be the best version of me.’
He’s very reserved, and I think
he does that on purpose. But if
you sit down and have a couple
beers with him, he’s got a great
personality. He’s quick. And he’s
very intelligent.”
for most of the past decade,
that Strasburg — quick,
intelligent, fun guy for beers —
has been hidden from
Washington fans by Strasburg
himself. The city knows
Zimmerman, mr. National, and
max Scherzer, three times a Cy
Young winner. It knows Capitals
superstar Alex ovechkin. It
knows Wizards mainstays John
Wall and Bradley Beal. Even the
NfL team’s most prominent
players during Strasburg’s time
here — former offensive
lineman Trent Williams,
quarterbacks robert Griffin III
and Kirk Cousins, cornerback
DeAngelo Hall, etc. — were
outgoing, available and, to some
degree, understood as public
personalities.
for most of his career,
Strasburg has spoken to the
media after each of his starts
but infrequently between them.
In the clubhouse, he is not an
easy person to stop. His gaze is
straight ahead. He walks with a
purpose. He is at work, and if
work doesn’t leave time for
people to understand him
better, so be it.
“Personally, all that stuff
doesn’t matter to me,” Strasburg
said. “It’s not very important to
me. I don’t think I’m really
starving for attention. If it’s
there, it’s there, and I’ll deal
with it. But the things that really
draw me to this game is what
happens on the field and in the
dugout.”
ahead of the next highest-scoring
defenseman, with Josi recording
65 and Hedman third with 55.
Carlson averaged 1.09 points per
game, the most by a defenseman
since ray Bourque (Boston Bru-
ins), Sergei Zubov (New York
rangers) and Al macInnis (Cal-
gary flames) in the 1993-94 sea-
son. Bourque won the Norris that
season.
“It is well-deserved for [Carl-
son] to be in the final three, and
[he] ultimately should be, in my
opinion, the favorite to win it,”
Capitals Coach Todd reirden
said.
Despite the regular season be-
ing shortened by 13 games by the
novel coronavirus pandemic,
Carlson’s 75 points were the
fourth most by a Capitals defen-
seman in franchise history, and
So into that vacuum stepped
the analysis of how Strasburg
comported himself when things
went awry. “He matured,” is how
pitching coach Paul menhart
put it. He also became more self-
aware.
“As I’ve gotten older, it’s
become more of a challenge,
because you’ve been in that
position before and then you’ve
seen it kind of take you off
mentally,” Strasburg said. “If you
go out there and give up a
homer or something, you start
to think, ‘Here we go again.’
“But it can’t be that way. It
has to be like: ‘Here we go. I’m
going to prove it to myself that I
am unflappable.’ There’s times
where, yeah, I do sense myself
shrugging my shoulders and
stuff, and that’s always a
struggle, because you’re fighting
to be perfect.”
The culmination of that
evolution came this past
october, when the Nationals
faced elimination in Game 6 of
the World Series in Houston.
Handed a 1-0 lead before he
took the mound in the first,
Strasburg allowed a double,
uncorked a wild pitch, gave up a
sacrifice fly and, with one out,
coughed up Alex Bregman’s
home run. After the inning, staff
members indicated he might
have been tipping off his
change-up. Still, might this get
away from him?
“All he did was throw 81/3
innings,” rizzo said.
He didn’t give up another
run. The Nats won going away.
The next night on the field at
minute maid Park, he was
handed the keys to a Chevrolet
Corvette C8 as the World Series
mVP.
Finding comfort
menhart first came across
Strasburg in october 2009,
when the former was a Class A
pitching coach for the Nationals
and the latter was the first pick
of the previous June’s draft.
They worked together in the
Arizona fall League, five uneven
starts that represented
Strasburg’s introduction to pro
ball.
“He was competitive, hungry,
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they trailed the franchise record,
set by Larry murphy in 1986-87,
by six.
“John obviously had an unbe-
lievable year. . . . Just his passing
ability, his skill level — he’s
unbelievable,” Josi said. “It is an
honor to be nominated with
those two guys.”
Josi also posted career highs in
several categories, including
points (65), goals (16) and assists
(49). His points and assists were
franchise records for a defense-
man. He also scored the most
points in a season by any Preda-
tors player since 2009 and had
the eighth-best scoring season in
team history.
The Norris Trophy is awarded
“to the defenseman who demon-
strates throughout the season
the greatest all-round ability in
everything you want,” menhart
said. “Didn’t know it all. Still
doesn’t know it all.”
Yet he largely had to find his
own way. No coach wants to
mess up the phenom.
“When I was younger, it was
almost like I wanted more
instruction,” Strasburg said.
“But it was more of the hands-
off approach, like, ‘Don’t mess
with him.’ That was kind of
strange to me, because I just
was under the assumption that
being the young guy, like: ‘Hey,
I’m an open book. I’d love to just
learn as much as I can.’ A lot of
it was through trial and error on
my own.”
So there were both trials and
errors. Slowly, though,
Strasburg has become a willing
and able lecturer on that
process. Pick a year of
Strasburg’s development, and
you’ll probably be able to find a
story about how he has become
more vocal, that he is asserting
himself more. There’s truth in
all of it, and it has resulted in a
veteran who is much more apt
to offer his opinion, at 31, than
he was at 21.
“Honestly, I was kind of the
beginning of the mLB Network,
and now it’s just overkill to
where it’s like every single
prospect that comes up, it’s like:
Boom. Here’s his debut and this
and that,” Strasburg said.
“That’s all great, but I think it
creates this false sense of: You
made it. As soon as you get
called up, that’s the easier part.
The harder part is staying here
and staying successful at this
level.”
Back in february at spring
training, Nationals manager
Dave martinez watched
Strasburg complete his work for
the day yet remain in the dugout
for an entire Grapefruit League
game — not mandatory for
veterans — to watch a couple of
young Nats pitch.
“He’s having these
unbelievable conversations with
Paul,” martinez said. “He’s
taking more of a responsibility
to try to help his teammates,
especially the young pitchers.”
He also is taking a wider
sense of responsibility for the
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the position.” It is named after
former Detroit red Wings owner
James E. Norris and has been
handed out annually since the
1953-54 season.
Calgary’s mark Giordano won
the award for the 2018-19 season,
and Hedman won the year prior.
Note: The NHL announced
that the Capitals’ third round-
robin game, against the Bruins
and originally scheduled for
Aug. 8, will now be played Aug. 9.
The round-robin game between
the Philadelphia flyers and the
Lightning, originally scheduled
for Aug. 9, will now be played
Aug. 8. Both games will still be
played in Toronto, and their start
times have not been announced.
The league did not provide a
reason for the changes.
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organization — a fledgling
franchise when he arrived, a
championship team now.
Several Nationals were unhappy
with the flight arrangements
during the postseason, when
families were excluded from
some flights in the early rounds,
a development first reported by
the Athletic.
Though former outfielder
Jayson Werth argued for
upgrades in food services and
other care when he arrived in
2011, Strasburg went into
contract negotiations this
offseason with a list of
suggestions that had nothing to
do with years or dollars.
“money really wasn’t the
issue,” Strasburg said. “. . . The
ultimate priority was continuing
the development of the
organization as being a
destination for free agents and
just being world class in every
aspect. That was the most
important to me because that’s
something that I really care
about. You can only see that
from a player’s perspective.
That’s the reputation I want for
the Washington Nationals.”
What he found was a
willingness, on the part of the
ownership of the Lerner family,
to listen.
“They were extremely
receptive to all the things we
brought up,” Strasburg said.
“They were like: ‘Hey, we’re on
it. We’re going to get it taken
care of.’ And so now my job is to
be a baseball player.”
Which is all Stephen
Strasburg ever really wanted: to
play baseball and, when his
work day is done, quietly drive
to a place he can call home. That
it’s on the East Coast, not the
West, that it’s in Washington,
not California, would have
surprised his 21-year-old self.
But he is 31 now, and there’s a
chance he will never pitch a
game in another uniform than
the only one he has ever known.
“There’s a comfort,” he said,
“in knowing where you’re going
to be.”
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‘Clumsiness’ led to
Don’t hesitate
using CPR due to
fears of covid-19
You’re walking down the
AnyBODY street — wearing a mask
marlene and six feet from
Cimons everyone else — when the
person in front of you
suddenly topples to the
ground. You assume, probably correctly,
that it’s a heart attack, and your first
impulse is to rush over and start CPR.
But then you remember the pandemic
and pause.
Please — experts urge — don’t
hesitate because of coronavirus fears.
“You’re talking about people who need
help, and who need people willing to
jump in and help them,” says Michael
sayre, professor of emergency medicine
at the University of Washington and
medical director of the seattle fire
department. “The risk isn’t zero, but it’s
low. You’re many times more likely to
save someone’s life by intervening than
you are to get infected.”
More than 350,000 cardiac arrests
occur outside of a hospital annually, and
about 90 percent of the victims die,
according to 2015 statistics cited by the
American Heart Association. CPR — or
cardiopulmonary resuscitation, where
you use hands-only chest compressions
(or, if available, a cardiac defibrillator)
to get the heart beating again — can as
much as triple an individual’s chances
for survival, according to the AHA.
First responders will arrive in gowns,
gloves and masks and goggles — but you
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shocking diagnosis
A teenager’s fall off the
bleachers at her graduation
triggered search for answers
BY S ANDRA G . B OODMAN
J
udy Kalnas remembers thinking
that Jessica, the youngest of her
six children, resembled the elas-
tic-limbed cartoon character
Gumby. ¶ As a child, she said, Jessica
would topple off her bike and “get up
laughing.” In high school, she fell
during field hockey practice. over the
years, her worst injury was a broken
toe. she felt embarrassed by her ap-
parent clumsiness, which stuck out in
an athletic family whose members
include a shot-putter who qualified
for the U.s. olympic trials. ¶ But when
Jessica tumbled off the bleachers
while preparing to accept a math
award at her south Jersey high school
graduation, the undeniable reality
that something more than mere clum-
siness was at work became glaringly
apparent. ¶ Three years later, when
her daughter received the shocking
diagnosis, Judy Kalnas immediately
recalled statements her own mother
had made decades earlier about an-
other family. ¶ Those remarks would
come to have particular resonance
after what Kalnas learned about her
own children, especially Jessica,
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perspective
Weighing risk of
coronavirus vs.
cancer treatment
BY S TEVEN P ETROW
Is there ever a good time to worry
about being screened or treated for
cancer? Alas, not. But thanks to the
covid-19 pandemic, this is an especially
troubling one.
Last month, Norman E. sharpless,
director of the National Cancer Institute,
issued a warning about the dangers of
the pandemic to past, present and future
cancer patients. The bottom line: expect
a great many more deaths.
“Fear of contracting coronavirus in
health care settings has dissuaded peo-
ple from screening, diagnosis, and treat-
ment,” sharpless wrote in science. “The
consequences for cancer outcomes . . .
would be substantial.”
ALbeRT DRoS How substantial? sharpless pointed to
an NCI model examining colon and
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next 10 years because of the pandemic.
sharpless emphasized that this is a
“conservative” number; it doesn’t take
into account other cancer types, the
impact of upstaging (being staged later
due to delays in being seen, probably
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with more extensive disease), and as-
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to finally wean seemed to drop flip side of PTSD warm water is that will be completely resolved after six
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Foods that’ll help your immune system
S
taying healthy and
avoiding infections have
never been more impor-
tant. Social distancing
can help keep other peo-
ple’s germs from landing on you,
and frequent hand-washing will
kill them if they do reach you. But
what can you do to improve your
body’s ability to fight off germs if
— despite your best efforts — you
pick them up?
What you eat can make a big
difference in how well your im-
mune system functions. “It’s real-
ly important for older people to
have very nutrient-dense diets,”
says Katherine L. Tucker, direc-
tor of the Center for Population
Health at the University of Mas-
sachusetts Lowell. Immune re-
sponses decline with age, and
many older adults have chronic
low-level inflammation and un-
derlying health conditions, such
as heart disease and diabetes,
that can also hamper the body’s
defenses. And they may become
less efficient at absorbing many
infection-fighting vitamins and
minerals.
Getting your immune system
in battle-ready shape won’t hap-
pen overnight. “I don’t think you
can suddenly change your diet
today and tomorrow your im-
mune system is happier,” says
Philip C. Calder, a professor of
nutritional immunology at the
University of Southampton in
the United Kingdom. But shoring
up your diet now can pay off in
the long run with fewer sick days
and better overall health.
How immunity works
The immune system has often
been compared to a police force.
Made up of an intricate network
of molecules, cells, tissues and
organs, it’s on patrol everywhere
in the body. One part of the force,
the innate immune system, is on
the front lines — in skin, saliva,
the GI and respiratory tracts, and
elsewhere — and acts quickly to
thwart foreign invaders. The oth-
er part, the adaptive (or ac-
quired) immune system, works
over days to track down bad
actors that have breached the
first-line defenders and helps
develop antibodies against them.
Because the components of
the immune system are so varied,
keeping it healthy means getting
an array of vitamins and miner-
als, which often work together in
dozens of immune-boosting
roles. Vitamin A, for example, is
important for healthy skin and
GI-tract cells. Vitamins C and E
are antioxidants that protect
cells and tissues from the flood of
damaging free radicals produced
when the immune system is
fighting off an invader. Making
new immune cells and initiating
an immune response requires B
vitamins (B6, B12 and folate).
Other nutrients that fuel your
immune system are copper, iron,
magnesium, omega-3 fats, pro-
tein, selenium, vitamin D and
zinc.
The power of plants
The best diet for your body’s
defenses is one that’s based on
whole, minimally processed food
that’s mostly cooked at home.
Eating too many foods high in
saturated fats, sugars and salt
can weaken immunity. In addi-
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Is now a terrible time to go off my anxiety meds?
BY A NDREA B ONIOR
Dear Dr. Andrea,
I am a woman in my late 20s
who was diagnosed with obses-
sive-compulsive disorder as a
teenager. My biggest trouble
spots were obsessions about
something harming my loved
ones or my family, often the idea
that I would do something to
cause that to happen. So I had a
lot of rituals and compulsions
and therapy helped a lot along
with medication. I have felt sta-
ble for the past few years and
have weaned down to a low dose
of the antidepressant I was on,
and I still check in with my
therapist a couple of times a year
for refresher sessions and to
manage stress. My OCD itself is
quite under control. I’ve been
having a goal to get off the meds
for good at this point in my life,
and when the year started I
decided this would be it. I still
had it in mind even through the
stay-at-home orders. I have felt
pretty stable and my job is good,
and although I am stressed more
than usual like everyone is, I still
want to stick to my plan. But it
also sounds unwise to wean off
medication for anxiety-related is-
sues when the world is so uncer-
tain and everyone is freaking out.
Do you think it’s a bad idea?
— Ready to be off
tion to multiple nutrients and
phytochemicals, plant-based
foods also provide fiber, which
feeds the healthy bacteria in your
gut. These bacteria aid immuni-
ty, too, Calder says.
Fruits and vegetables supply
most of the body’s need for
vitamins A and C, which are
important germ fighters. Pro-
duce is also generally rich in
antioxidants, which tamp down
inflammation and protect im-
mune (and other) cell mem-
branes from damaging oxida-
tion. Aim for at least 21/2 cups of
vegetables and 2 cups of fruit per
day. Mix up the type and color of
your produce to get a wide vari-
ety of nutrients. Tucker recom-
mends having at least one green
vegetable every day, such as spin-
ach, kale, Swiss chard, broccoli,
arugula or cabbage. Bell peppers,
potatoes, sweet potatoes, and
carrots are also high in vitamin A
or C. Citrus fruits are high in C, as
are tomatoes, strawberries and
kiwifruit.
Nuts and seeds are great
sources of crucial vitamins and
minerals, fiber, protein and
healthy fats. Vitamin E is a
potent antioxidant, and most
people don’t come close to con-
suming the daily need (15 mg).
Tucker says munching on a hand-
ful of sunflower seeds or al-
monds every day will do the
trick.
Almonds also provide copper
and magnesium, which studies
show are involved in DNA repair
and antibody production. Sun-
flower seeds have selenium, cop-
per, folate and zinc. (Deficiencies
of zinc account for 16 percent of
lower respiratory infections
across the globe.) Hazelnuts, pis-
tachios and walnuts are brim-
ming with B6.
Beans and whole grains con-
tribute nutrients and contain
fiber to help replenish healthy
intestinal bacteria. Lentils are a
good source of copper, folate and
iron; garbanzos and black beans
provide zinc; and cranberry
beans are high in folate. Whole-
grain breads and cereals and
The events of the past few
months — both the pandemic
with all its ripple effects, and also
the tragic death of George Floyd
at the hands of the police and the
ensuing protests, which hap-
pened after your letter was writ-
ten — have shaken American
culture to its core.
And although it’s quite fash-
ionable to say that we’re all in
this together, that’s a gross over-
simplification. Just as someone
Don’t get caught up in
what your path is
supposed to look like
given what’s going on.
who has lost a family member to
the covid-19 virus is experiencing
something different from some-
one who has lost a job (and
someone who has lost a job is
experiencing something differ-
ent than someone who is strug-
gling with a lack of social activi-
ties), no two people are living
through exactly the same effects,
and the variation is wide. And
that’s true in an even more stark
manner when it comes to the
systemic racial injustices being
exposed.
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whole grains themselves (barley,
bulgur, wheatberries, oats and
quinoa, among others) supply B
vitamins, copper, iron, magne-
sium and zinc.
Healthy oils, such as olive,
flaxseed and canola, supply ome-
ga-3 fats, which help keep in-
flammation in check and regu-
late immune cell activity. A table-
spoon or two of an oil-based
dressing can also help your body
absorb antioxidant carotenoids
(which the body converts to vita-
min A) and other nutrients in
greens and other vegetables.
Healthier meat and dairy
“You need animal-based foods
to provide the things that plants
can’t supply enough of,” Calder
says. “A good example is vitamin
B12, where meat is a very good
source.” Some vitamins and min-
erals are more accessible in ani-
mal foods than in plant foods.
Zinc, for example, is more readily
absorbed from seafood and meat
than from beans and whole
grains. Adequate protein also has
the building blocks for immune
cells.
While you don’t need meat or
fish on your plate at every meal —
a few times a week is fine — they
do supply key nutrients. Lean
meat and poultry have ample B
vitamins (especially vitamin B12,
which about 20 percent of older
adults are deficient in), iron,
selenium and zinc. Shellfish is a
good source of zinc, copper and
selenium. And fatty fish such as
salmon tuna, and mackerel are
important sources of omega-3
fats as well as B vitamins, seleni-
um and vitamin D, which may
protect against upper respiratory
tract infections and over-re-
sponses by the immune system.
Dairy foods add to your stores
of vitamin A, some Bs, zinc,
magnesium and selenium. Forti-
fied dairy products — such as
milk and yogurt — can supply
hard-to-get vitamin D. Yogurt
(plain is best so you avoid added
sugars) is also teeming with pro-
biotic bacteria, which help keep
the intestinal microbiome
So, don’t get caught up in what
your path is supposed to look like
given what’s going on. Look at
what it actually looks like. You
know yourself best, after all.
That said, there are definitely
some things to consider. When
you say you’re stressed more than
usual like everyone else, how has
that manifested? Do you have
coping mechanisms that feel sol-
id and functional? Would you
recognize when you weren’t cop-
ing well, and what would you do
about it?
I’m also curious to know the
trajectory of the obsessions and
compulsions themselves —
whether they intrude at times
even on the medication (which is
expected), and how you are able
to handle them when they do.
What tools do you have in place
specifically for those on a daily
basis?
It’s also important to think
about why you want to go off the
medication in the first place. I’m
not doubting the wisdom of your
rationale so much as wanting to
make sure that there aren’t extra
pressures in there (like sticking
to a certain timeline no matter
what, or believing that the meds/
off-meds variable says something
about your self-worth) that are
holding more weight than they
should. If you view going off the
medication as a step to take
isTock
healthy. In two studies involving
healthy older people, one lasting
more than eight weeks and the
other more than 12 weeks, those
who ate about three ounces of
yogurt daily had fewer colds than
those who drank milk.
What about supplements?
Supplements for the immune
system have been flying off store
shelves recently. But experts
warn against using them in most
cases. You run the risk of getting
too much of a nutrient.
Too much zinc, for example,
can block copper absorption, and
high levels of folate can mask a
vitamin B12 deficiency. Herbal
and other remedies, such as el-
derberry tincture and colloidal
silver (silver molecules suspend-
ed in liquid), which have been
advertised on social media as a
way to destroy the coronavirus,
are unproven and potentially
harmful. IP-6 (phytic acid), tout-
ed as an antioxidant, can lead to
calcium, iron and zinc deficien-
cies, and polyphenols from green
tea extracts may reduce the ab-
sorption of iron, folate and vita-
min C.
It’s best to get the nutrients
you need from food so that you
don’t lose out on other beneficial
ingredients, such as phytonutri-
ents. The exception is vitamin D.
Because more than 80 percent of
older Americans don’t get
enough from diet alone, Tucker
recommends taking a supple-
ment. The daily need for people
ages 51 to 70 is 600 IU; over 70,
it’s 800 IU.
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while you observe what happens,
that is ideal — rather than a
switch to flip that you shouldn’t
ever go back from.
Of course, it would be helpful
to discuss this with your thera-
pist — it seems as great of a time
as any for one of those semiannu-
al check-ins. And it’s also a good
idea to hear the opinion of the
professional who prescribes your
medication — and to take seri-
ously any advice about the pace
of weaning.
I’ll give you my gut instinct,
though: You are wise to be mind-
ful that this is a stressful time,
but if you’re not actually strug-
gling, and you feel like the same
path still fits, then there’s no
immediate reason to change
course. Just stay honest with
yourself. Have some specific
markers to look for — and be
willing to adjust your plan if
need be, without viewing it as a
defeat.
ask Dr. andrea is a question-and-
answer series from The Lily, a
publication of The Washington Post,
with licensed clinical psychologist
and georgetown university adjunct
professor andrea bonior. To read
more of her columns about
relationships, mental health, work-
life balance, family dynamics and
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82
About 82 percent of Americans who are 50
and older say they have experienced
prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping
based on their age, according to new research.
Ageism, as it is commonly called, can occur as
jokes about memory or hearing, comments
about difficulty using cellphones or
percent computers, or even passively through
advertising and other forms of messaging
about undesirable signs of aging, such as wrinkles or gray hair.
According to the research, by the University of Michigan’s National
Poll on Healthy Aging, 65 percent of those polled said they had been
exposed to “ageist messages” in their day-to-day lives, including
hearing, seeing or reading jokes about old age, aging or older people.
The research found that those who reported experiencing more
ageism in their everyday lives were more likely to have poor mental
and physical health, a finding that has been noted in other research.
The data in the poll was based on a nationally representative sample
of 2,048 people ages 50 to 80. The poll was conducted by the
University of Michigan’s Institute for Healthcare Policy and
Innovation, along with AARP and Michigan Medicine. One of the
researchers described ageism as “one of the most common and
socially condoned forms of prejudice and discrimination.” Even so,
the survey reported that 65 percent of older adults say life after 50 is
better than they thought it would be.
— Linda Searing
heAlTh n ewS
Research shows some evidence that pregnant
women can spread coronavirus to their fetuses
Many viruses can cross the pla- report from France gave even
centa and infect a fetus in the stronger evidence of in-the-womb
womb, and evidence has been infection, and that newborn was
growing that the new coronavirus very ill at birth.
sometimes can, too. Meanwhile, research led by the
Researchers in Italy studied 31 National Institutes of Health gives
women with covid-19 who deliv- a possible reason for why fetuses
ered babies in March and April are not infected more often: Cells
and found signs of the virus in in the placenta rarely make the
several samples of umbilical cord two tools that the coronavirus typ-
blood, the placenta and, in one ically uses to gain entry. In con-
case, breast milk. But this sort of trast, they found plenty of what
testing can just detect bits of ge- Zika and another type of virus use.
netic material — it doesn’t mean Most research so far has been
there is virus capable of causing on women who were in late stages
infection in those places. of pregnancy when they got the
In one case, strong evidence virus. More research is needed on
suggested the newborn had the what happens if infection occurs
virus at birth because signs of it earlier in pregnancy.
were found in umbilical cord The advice to pregnant women
blood and in the placenta. In an- remains the same: wear a mask in
other, a newborn had certain coro- public, wash hands often and stay
navirus antibodies that are unable at least six feet away from others to
to cross the placenta, so they could avoid infection.
not have come from the mother. A — Associated Press
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Newly discovered seaweed smothering remote U.S. reefs
BY C ALEB J ONES
HONOLULU — Researchers say a
recently discovered species of
seaweed is killing large patches
of coral on once-pristine reefs
and is rapidly spreading across
one of the most remote and
protected ocean environments
on earth.
A study from the University of
Hawaii and others says the sea-
weed is spreading more rapidly
than anything they’ve seen in the
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands,
a nature reserve that stretches
more than 1,300 miles north of
the main Hawaiian Islands.
The study was recently pub-
lished in the journal PLOS One.
The algae easily breaks off and
rolls across the ocean floor like
tumbleweed, scientists say, cov-
ering nearby reefs in thick vege-
tation that out-competes coral
for space, sunlight and nutrients.
“This is a highly destructive
seaweed with the potential to
overgrow entire reefs,” said biol-
ogist Heather Spalding, a study
co-author and longtime Hawaii
algae researcher. “We need to
figure out where it’s currently
found, and what we can do to
manage it.”
In 2016, government research-
ers were on a routine survey of
Pearl and Hermes Atoll when
they found small clumps of sea-
weed they’d never seen before.
Last summer, they returned to
find algae had taken over huge
areas of the reef — in some areas
covering “everything, as far as
the eye could see” — with sea-
weed nearly eight inches thick,
Spalding said, who was among
the divers there.
“Everything underneath of it
was dead,” she said.
The area was mostly devoid of
large schools of tropical fish and
other marine life that usually
cruise the vibrant reef, and fish
that typically eat algae were not
grazing on the new seaweed,
researchers said.
Dives along the outer reef of
the 15-mile atoll revealed the
seaweed in varying densities and
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It might sound looney, but NASA is offering
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Humans are going back to the
moon. But how will they “go”
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NASA wants to build a better
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And it wants the public to help.
The agency has mounted what
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Space presents a set of chal-
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NASA’s going to need a toilet
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The challenge calls on the pub-
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depths.
Scientists say the actual cover-
age area is probably much larger
than documented because they
couldn’t survey many sites dur-
ing their brief visit.
Close to Midway Atoll, site of a
pivotal World War II air and sea
battle, Pearl and Hermes Atoll is
mid-Pacific about 2,000 miles
from Asia and North America.
The uninhabited atoll is in the
600,000-square-mile Papah-
anaumokuakea Marine National
Monument, one of the world’s
largest protected marine envi-
ronments.
Noting that individual mats of
seaweed were as big as several
soccer fields, researchers say the
algae could dramatically alter
Pearl and Herme’s reef and
threaten the entire Hawaiian
archipelago if it spreads.
Hawaii’s main islands have
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several established invasive sea-
weeds, but cases in the remote
northwest are rare.
“We have, not until now, seen a
major issue like this where we
have a nuisance species that’s
“This is a highly
destructive seaweed
with the potential to
overgrow entire reefs.”
Biologist Heather Spalding
come in and made such pro-
found changes over a short peri-
od of time to the reefs,” said
Alison Sherwood, professor and
interim associate dean at the
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Roadkill rates drop during pandemic shutdowns
BY J ASON B ITTEL
Covid-19 has taken more than a
half-million human lives. A new
report says it may have saved the
lives of thousands of wild animals,
if only temporarily.
As states across the country en-
forced stay-at-home orders from
early March to mid-April, road
traffic decreased by about 70 per-
cent in California, Idaho and
Maine, researchers found. At the
same time, the number of car
crashes involving deer, bears and
other large mammals also
dropped across all three states.
Maine recorded 44 percent few-
er roadkill victims, according to
the report from the University of
California at Davis. California’s
deaths-by-bumper dropped
58 percent for mountain lions, and
21 percent overall. If a similar drop
occurred across the United States,
where some estimates suggest as
many as 1 billion wild animals are
killed by vehicles each year, about
200 million creatures’ lives would
be spared annually.
“That’s a huge, huge benefit to
wildlife populations across the
country,” said Fraser Shilling, co-
director of the Road Ecology Cen-
ter at UC Davis, who helped pro-
duce the report — which, he em-
phasized, does not suggest that
the global pandemic has been a
good thing.
“From a humanity point of view,
it sucks,” Shilling said. “But from a
science point of view, it’s all inter-
esting.”
The report relied on data col-
lected regularly by the three
states’ departments of transporta-
tion, highway patrol units and
wildlife agencies. With informa-
tion dating back to 2015, the scien-
tists were able to compare what
happened during shutdowns in
each state to normal roadkill num-
bers. They found no significant
difference between what hap-
pened before or after the stay-at-
home orders, but during that low-
activity window, the results were
striking.
In California, Idaho and Maine,
the declines would translate to
13,000 fewer large mammal car-
casses along roads. In California, a
state that is considering extending
endangered species protections to
some mountain lion populations
that are often hit by vehicles, less
traffic could save about 50 big cats
a year, the report found.
The report relied on statistics
from only three states because
they collect solid roadkill data —
and even those numbers are likely
to be significantly underreported,
Shilling said. The Davis study does
not account for the deaths of
smaller creatures such as rac-
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and chief scientist on the study.
Researchers studied the sea-
weed’s DNA to try to determine
its origin but concluded it’s a
new species of red algae they
named Chondria tumulosa.
The algae can spread in vari-
ous ways, Sherwood said. It pro-
duces tumbleweed-like clumps
that move around the immediate
area, but it also generates spores
that could be traveling much
greater distances.
Among the unknowns are why
the algae is growing so fast and
how it reached such a remote
place.
Scientists say seaweed blooms
happen worldwide and can be
seasonal, but this does not ap-
pear to be the case. The National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-
ministration has been monitor-
ing the site for over 20 years.
“When you see something un-
Young deer at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in western New York state. Car crashes involving
deer, bears and other large mammals fell during stay-at-home orders in three states, a report says.
coons, opossums, turtles, snakes
or songbirds. Loop in all of those
animals and scale it across the
nation, and the true toll of car
strikes could rocket into the hun-
dreds of millions.
Shilling, an ecologist who stud-
ies the impact of transportation
systems on nature, said the sud-
den and extreme dip in road traffic
presented scientists with an ex-
periment that could never be car-
ried out in typical times. Fortu-
nately, data sampling already in
place allowed them to make use of
the unprecedented circumstanc-
es.
Last month, more than a dozen
researchers in several countries
published a commentary in the
journal Nature Ecology and Evo-
lution calling on scientists to in-
vestigate how the coronavirus
pandemic and its reverberations
could allow for precisely this kind
of research.
Normally it’s difficult to disen-
tangle how humans affect animal
movements and behaviors, said
Francesca Cagnacci, animal ecolo-
gist at the Edmund Mach Founda-
tion in Italy and senior author of
the commentary. Many variables
could explain an outcome or cast
doubt on the level of human influ-
ence on animal behavior.
But the coronavirus shutdowns
have offered new signs of our sway,
as well as opportunities to gather
evidence. This is why scientists
were eager to study how a lack of
human observers might affect
large swarms of mating fireflies
this summer. It’s also why the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Pre-
vention issued a warning after
photos by heather spaldinG/colleGe of charleston/associated press
LEFT: A thick mat of the seaweed is held by a diver at Pearl and
Hermes Atoll in the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
ABOVE: The species is rapidly spreading across the nature reserve.
usual in the last few years, you
can be pretty sure that this is
something that’s a bit special as
opposed to just things that
change from year to year,” said
University of Queensland Profes-
sor Peter Mumby, who is also
chief scientist for Australia’s
Great Barrier Reef Foundation.
“But it is a matter of concern
whenever you see an ecosystem
start to display symptoms . . . like
this.”
Mumby, who was not involved
with the Hawaii research, said
more needs to be done to under-
stand what is driving the sea-
weed growth.
But he noted that in other
parts of the world algae blooms
often occur because fish that eat
the plants have been harvested
or forced to relocate by environ-
mental changes.
The new seaweed could have
been introduced by a boat or
marine debris. But there is no
fishing allowed at Pearl and
Hermes, and any ship that enters
the region is required to have
been inspected and cleaned. The
species could also be native,
having lived in small, unseen
city-dwelling rats appeared to be
acting more aggressively as their
supplies of restaurant garbage
shriveled.
Cagnacci said that the shut-
down underscores the importance
of ongoing studies that record ob-
servations before anything unusu-
al happens — even though it can
be unclear what the results will be
good for.
“Sometimes it’s very difficult to
explain to a funding agency or to
the general public why it is impor-
tant to conduct baseline observa-
tions about what’s happening in
ecosystems,” she said.
For Shilling, tracking large ani-
mals killed by vehicles has re-
vealed the weighty toll of human
transportation on wild animals.
This translates to costs for hu-
mans: An earlier report from the
Road Ecology Center found that
wildlife-vehicle collisions in 2018
cost Californians $232 million in
medical bills, lost wages, vehicle
damage and emergency response
costs.
That sort of information is im-
portant when trying to determine
— and persuade policymakers and
the public about — the value of
erecting roadside fences or build-
ing overpasses that allow animals
to bypass highways, said Marcel
Huijser, a road ecologist at Mon-
tana State University’s Western
Transportation Institute.
Such “animal exclusion” proj-
ects can carry hefty price tags. But
there are many stretches of road in
the United States where it’s actual-
ly more costly to do nothing, Hui-
jser said.
Road ecology “has three pil-
e3
nooks and crannies before a
change in local conditions
caused it to bloom, researchers
said.
The NOAA research crews will
soon return to study the out-
break and find out if currents
have spread it to nearby Midway,
home to the Battle of Midway
National Memorial, a U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service base and the
region’s only airstrip.
The first order of business,
officials say, is to ensure anyone
studying the seaweed doesn’t
inadvertently spread it.
“All of our dive gear, all of our
boats, everything got saturated
with bleach,” said Randall Kosa-
ki, NOAA research coordinator
at the marine monument and
expedition lead for the earlier
surveys.
“If something like this got
back to Waikiki or anywhere in
the main Hawaiian Islands it
would be an ecological disaster,
but also an economic disaster,”
Kosaki said. “You can imagine
what that would do to tourism to
have an algae like this overgrow-
ing the reefs.”
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istock
lars,” Huijser said. “Human safety,
biological conservation and eco-
nomics.”
Huijser said the Davis findings
on roadkill did not surprise him.
More interesting, he said, is that
the number of animals killed did
not drop at the same rate as the
decrease in traffic. He said he sus-
pects that this is because not all
traffic is equal.
Essential travel did not stop,
including the transportation of
goods, which tends to continue
around-the-clock. At the same
time, people who might normally
have been out shopping or com-
muting during the day stayed
home.
“That could explain why we
have a nonlinear reduction in
dead animals,” Huijser said. “Be-
cause they’re more likely to be hit
around dusk and dawn and during
the night compared to during the
day.”
Like the wild boar returning to
Barcelona and the sea turtles
flourishing on empty beaches in
Brazil, at least some American
wild animals seem to have caught
a bit of a break while the novel
coronavirus spread.
Simply driving less for a few
weeks is “probably the biggest
conservation action that we’ve
ever taken as a country,” Shilling
said. “We did it accidentally. But I
can’t think of another action in the
last 50 years that has that kind of
consequences for that many ani-
mals.”
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There can be a flip side to severe pandemic stress: Growth
BY M ARTA Z ARASKA
F
or Tori Floyd, a nurse at a
California hospital, car-
ing for coronavirus pa-
tients is “really over-
whelming” — there is the
sheer amount of work, the con-
stantly changing information and
lack of protective equipment. She
feels guilty, too, for not being able
to give her patients the emotional
support they need. It’s just not
feasible with the mask and the
goggles, she says, and the rules
preventing you from checking on
anyone too often.
On top of that, as someone
exposed to large doses of the new
coronavirus every day, she worries
about her own health.
“Being a 27-year-old and having
to write a living will, it’s very
sobering,” she says.
Yet it’s not just health-care staff
at coronavirus front lines who
suffer from severe stress because
of covid-19, the disease caused by
the coronavirus. Since the out-
break began, Americans have
been popping 34 percent more
anti-anxiety pills than before, ac-
cording to one report. Psycholo-
gists warn that after the worst of
the pandemic is over, once we get
finally released out of shutdowns,
many people may experience psy-
chological distress, including
post-traumatic stress disorder.
Studies show that after the
2003 SARS epidemic, 25 percent
of hospitalized patients and over
27 percent of medical staff had
PTSD, a condition generally asso-
ciated with soldiers coming back
from war. That’s certainly discon-
certing.
Yet there is a flip side to such
capital weatHer gaNg
Beachgoers at Lake Michigan. The lake’s average water temperature reached 75.1 degrees on July 8, nearly 11 degrees above normal.
Great Lakes water temps blowing away records
BY J ASON S AMENOW
You don’t expect to see 75- or
even 80-degree water in the Great
Lakes in early July or, in most
years, anytime. But an exception-
ally hot weather pattern has
pushed water temperatures in
most of the lakes to the highest
levels on record so early in the
summer. Over lakes Erie and On-
tario, the water is the warmest it
has been since records began be-
ing kept, and could warm more in
the coming weeks.
The abnormally warm waters,
consistent with climate-change
trends in recent decades, could
compromise water quality and
harm marine life in some areas.
Surface water temperatures av-
eraged over all of the Great Lakes,
except the deep and choppy Lake
Superior, have risen well into the
70s while Lake Erie has flirted
with 80 degrees. That’s about the
same water temperature as the
surf off Virginia Beach.
These water temperatures over
the lakes are some 6 to 11 degrees
warmer than normal.
Here is how warm each of the
lakes has become over a recent
week:
l Lake Michigan’s average wa-
ter temperature reached 75.1 de-
grees on July 8, nearly 11 degrees
above normal, and the warmest
mark on record so early in the
year. The water temperature in
July has only been this warm one
other time, at the end of the
month in 1999.
l Lake Huron’s average water
temperature reached 72.2 degrees
on July 9, nearly 11 degrees above
misery, an effect psychologists call
post-traumatic growth, which has
been found in Israeli veterans of
the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in for-
mer East German political prison-
ers and SARS survivors in Hong
Kong. It can bring increased ap-
preciation of life and a boosted
sense of personal strength.
“The same kinds of experiences
that result in those symptoms that
define post- traumatic stress dis-
order can also be disruptions to
the core belief system that pro-
duce post-traumatic growth,” says
Richard Tedeschi, psychologist at
the University of North Carolina,
who was among the first research-
ers to recognize the existence of
post-traumatic growth in the
1990s.
Of course, Tedeschi says, no one
is suggesting that trauma is good.
“It’s disruptive and miserable and
full of suffering. But in the after-
math of that you can see some
growth,” he says. Among soldiers
imprisoned and tortured in Viet-
nam, over 60 percent said the
suffering, while terrible, also odd-
ly benefited their psyche — it
helped them appreciate what was
truly important to them in life.
Some 60 percent of women who
survived cancer reported that
they started to enjoy their lives
more than before the disease.
In general, psychologists say,
growth after an ordeal comes in
three major areas: enhanced rela-
tionships, greater personal
strength and shifts in values and
priorities. People who report such
growth tend to feel more resilient,
more empathetic. They say they
have a renewed sense of closeness
with others and that they now
appreciate each and every day.
normal, and the warmest mark on
record so early in the year.
l Lake Ontario’s average water
temperature reached 77.1 degrees
on July 10, more than 10 degrees
above normal, and the warmest
mark on record for any month
(although it was similarly warm
in mid-August 1995).
l Lake Erie’s average water
temperature reached 79.6 degrees
on July 10, over 8 degrees above
normal, and the warmest mark on
record for any month (although it
was similarly warm in mid-Au-
gust 1995).
l Lake Superior’s average water
temperature reached 55.8 degrees
on July 8, over 6 degrees above
normal.
The unusually warm water is a
reflection of blistering heat over
the Great Lakes region in recent
weeks set up by a persistent ridge
of high pressure. Air tempera-
tures in early July, especially in
the eastern Great Lakes, were
among the warmest on record.
Buffalo hit at least 90 degrees
on eight straight days ending July
10, its longest streak. Muskegon,
Mich., on the shores of Lake Mich-
igan, also notched its longest 90-
degree streak, tallying nine
straight days ending July 7.
Massena, N.Y., about 90 miles
north of Lake Ontario in Upstate
New York, hit 99 degrees July 10,
its second highest temperature
recorded.
The heat has meant water tem-
peratures are “abnormally high
compared to the most recent
years,” said Andrea Vander
Woude, manager of the Great
Lakes CoastWatch program at the
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They volunteer more, too.
As the name suggests, you need
to experience at least some trau-
ma to be able to arrive at post-
traumatic growth.
“An individual has to undergo a
very, very severe event that shakes
or challenges them and threatens
to shatter one’s very basic assump-
tions about the world. Mundane
stresses will not necessarily bring
about such major changes,” says
Zahava Solomon, trauma research-
er at Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Studies on victims of hurri-
canes Katrina and Sandy suggest
Experts says it can bring increased appreciation of
life and a boosted sense of personal strength.
that for some the more severe the
trauma, the more potential there
might be for later psychological
growth. Solomon has seen that in
her own work with Israeli ex-pris-
oners of war — PTSD and post-
traumatic growth often coexisting
together. “Human psyche is multi-
faceted, it’s not just bad or good.
We oftentimes experience very
complex and often clashing emo-
tions at the same time,” she says.
For many people, surviving
trauma does lead to depression
and mental health problems that
can be severe and can persist —
yet such outcomes may also coex-
ist with positive change. Scientists
disagree on how exactly distress
and growth can occur at the same
time, and whether the first one is
necessary for the other.
Not everyone becomes stron-
ger after an ordeal. The count of
dOn CAmPbeLL/HerALd-PALLAdium/AssOCiAted Press
National Oceanic and Atmo-
spheric Administration. “Last
year was really cold and there was
a lot of rain. This year there hasn’t
been as much rain, and it’s been
persistently hot.”
The water temperatures spiked
late in the week before a weekend
cold front unleashed windy,
stormy weather, which helped
draw deep, cold water back to-
ward the surface of the lake, in a
process known as upwelling. This
has caused water temperatures to
drop slightly.
But Vander Woude expects
they will rise again. Historically,
water temperatures in the Great
Lakes reach their maximum in
August.
“We haven’t even reached the
tip of that curve that usually oc-
curs later [in the summer],” she
said.
The National Weather Service’s
Climate Prediction Center favors
above-normal temperatures over
the Great Lakes in its 6-to-10-day
and 8-to-14-day outlooks and a
slight risk for “excessive heat.”
Computer models forecast a high
pressure ridge or “heat dome” to
sprawl over the eastern half of the
Lower 48 for much of this period.
Some residents are rejoicing in
the unusually warm waters.
“I’m loving this,” Whitney Mill-
er, a Traverse City, Mich.-based
swim instructor, told the Record-
Eagle, a newspaper serving the
region. “Last year I was in a wet-
suit up through the 15th of July.
. . . I was a Popsicle.”
But the warm water could have
detrimental effects on water qual-
ity and some aquatic species.
those who change for the better
varies widely between studies,
ranging anywhere between 5 per-
cent and 60 percent, depending
on how you measure growth —
with objective, longitudinal psy-
chological surveys or by having
people simply report their
thoughts. What’s more, as Tede-
schi points out, “It’s not the events
themselves that produce post-
traumatic growth, it’s what hap-
pens in the aftermath.” Basically,
he points out, growth needs to be
actively fostered.
One important pathway to-
ward personal development after
trauma is through deliberate ru-
mination — instead of repressing
the nasty memories, you have to
engage with them, try to under-
stand what has happened to you
and how it may affect your future.
Another powerful practice is
that of reappraisal — positively
reinterpreting what the event
means for you.
In one experiment, trauma sur-
vivors were asked to look at some
disturbing photos and instructed
to deal with their unpleasant emo-
tions either by thinking about
something emotionally neutral —
such as a shopping list — or by
reappraising the image in a way
that reduces its negative meaning.
For example, on seeing a pic-
ture of a car crash, imagining that
the driver came out unscathed.
The results showed that those
Vander Woude says NOAA air-
craft have already photographed
blue-green algae or cyanobacteria
over western waters of Lake Erie
in recent days. The foul-smelling
algal blooms can harm fish and
make people who are exposed to
the water sick. In 2014, cyanobac-
teria from Lake Erie entered the
water supply in Toledo, and resi-
dents were ordered not to drink or
touch the water.
The jump-start to the algal
bloom due to the warm water
temperatures means it will be
around for several weeks longer
than normal.
“This is the second earliest
we’ve seen [the algae] in our data
since 2002,” wrote Richard
Stumpf, an oceanographer with
NOAA, in an email. “The earliest
was in late June in 2018.”
Because phosphorous levels,
which make algal blooms worse,
aren’t particularly high due to less
rain than some years, Stumpf
doesn’t anticipate 2020s bloom to
be among the biggest. But “it will
still be quite visible and is a risk
that people need to avoid,” he said.
In addition to the effects from
algal blooms, Stumpf said the
warm water can have other detri-
mental effects for fish.
“Many fish do not do well in
water that is too warm, so they get
‘squeezed’ into a smaller and
smaller area between surface wa-
ter that is too warm, and bottom
water that doesn’t have enough
oxygen,” he wrote.
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who favored reappraisal tended to
show higher levels of
post-traumatic growth.
Another important strategy for
growing stronger after a highly
upsetting event is talking it over
with people who are close to you.
In one of Tedeschi’s studies, wom-
en who were particularly good at
expressing their emotions were
also the most likely to develop
post-traumatic growth after
breast cancer. “It could be
through artistic methods like
writing or composing music or
painting, or it could be through
prayer, but there has to be some
way of expressing and disclosing
what’s going on, hopefully to peo-
ple who are receptive listeners,”
he says.
However, critics point out, for
some people the growth that they
report in the aftermath of trauma
may be an illusion — they haven’t
really changed for the better, just
convinced themselves that they
have.
One longitudinal study that
followed 122 volunteers for two
months showed that somewhere
between 5 and 25 percent of
them self-reported experiencing
true improvements of mental
health following a distressing
event — improvements that can
be measured by standardized
psychological tests or confirmed
by independent observers. The
boost in relationship function-
ing, for instance, can be also seen
by their partner, and not just
something they believe exists.
For the rest, the growth may be
simply an illusion, a coping pro-
cess that allows them to deal
better with the trauma.
“Genuine post-traumatic
s cieN ce N ews
‘Friendliest,’ not fittest, is key to evolutionary
survival, scientists argue in their new book
British naturalist Charles Dar-
win got it right, but maybe we got
Darwin wrong.
Most people assume that Dar-
win was talking about physical
strength when referring to “sur-
vival of the fittest,” meaning that a
tougher, more resilient species al-
ways will win out over its weaker
counterparts. But what if he didn’t
mean that at all?
Scientists Brian Hare and Van-
essa Woods, both researchers at
Duke University’s Center for Cog-
nitive Neuroscience, believe
something else has been at work
among species that have thrived
throughout history, successfully
reproducing to sustain them-
selves, and it has nothing to do
with beating up the competition.
Their new book, “Survival of the
Friendliest: Understanding Our
Origins and Rediscovering Our
Common Humanity,” posits that
friendly partnerships among spe-
cies and shared humanity have
worked throughout centuries to
ensure successful evolution. Spe-
cies endure — humans, other ani-
mals and plants — they write,
based on friendliness, partnership
and communication. And they
point to many life examples of
cooperation and sociability to
prove it.
“Survival of fittest, which is
what everyone has in mind as
evolution and natural selection,
has done the most harm of any folk
theory that has penetrated soci-
ety,” Hare says. “People think of it
as strong alpha males who deserve
to win. That’s not what Darwin
suggested, or what has been dem-
onstrated. The most successful
strategy in life is friendliness and
cooperation, and we see it again
and again.”
“Dogs are exhibit A,” he says.
“They are the extremely friendly
descendants of wolves. They were
attracted to humans and became
friendly to humans, and changed
their behavior, appearance and
developmental makeup. Sadly,
their close relative, the wolf, is
threatened and endangered in the
few places where they live, where-
as there are hundreds of millions
of dogs. Dogs were the population
of wolves that decided to rely on
humans — rather than hunting —
and that population won big.”
Masisi, an orphan bonobo at Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in Congo,
holds the ear of Mistique, the village dog.
. tuesday, july 21 , 2020
growth is mostly rare,” says Adriel
Boals, a psychologist at the Uni-
versity of North Texas who studies
this phenomenon. He acknowl-
edges, though, that there may be
benefits to such illusions, too: “If
people believe they’ve grown, that
must have some real value” —
even if no one else can see it.
If the coronavirus pandemic
manages to shatter our basic as-
sumptions about life — what we
value the most, how we choose to
spend our time and money — it
may then set us on the path to
genuine growth that improves our
relationships and makes us more
resilient in the face of challenges,
experts say.
It may take months after the
dust settles on the pandemic, or
even years, experts say, but it’s
certainly possible. But it’s impor-
tant to talk about our experiences
with family and others we are
close to, look for the silver lining
— it may be spending quieter time
at home with family, or virtually
“seeing” friends we hadn’t had
much time for in recent years, or
appreciating kindness shown by
others — and be grateful for the
lessons learned.
As a result, maybe this pandem-
ic can help us change for the
better, to be kinder, more empa-
thetic, more neighborly. Which, in
a twist, could also help us grow
healthier. Studies suggest that
strong relationships, empathy
and kindness boost our immune
systems and prolong lives.
health-science@washpost.com
marta Zaraska is the author of
“Growing Young: How Friendship,
Optimism and Kindness Can Help You
Live to 100.”
In nature, for example, flower-
ing plants attract animals to
spread their pollen, forming a part-
nership that benefits both. “The
plants provide food and energy,
while the animals provide trans-
portation for the pollen,” Hare says.
Before focusing on dog studies
— Hare founded the Duke Canine
Cognition Center — Hare and
Woods studied bonobos, apes that
are often confused with chimpan-
zees. But bonobos actually are
quite different from chimps.
Chimps make war — males take
charge — and can be quite violent,
even killing one another. Bonobos,
on the other hand, are governed by
females, don’t kill one another and
engage in sex to maintain a peace-
ful collective temperament. Bono-
bos also are natural sharers. They
enjoy sharing food with other
bonobos, and never outgrow their
willingness to do so, unlike chim-
panzees, who become more selfish
in adulthood.
“Social problems
require social
solutions.”
Brian Hare, co-author
“The friendliest male bonobo is
more successful than the unfriend-
liest chimpanzee,” Hare says, refer-
ring to reproduction. “The most
successful bonobo males have
more offspring that the most suc-
cessful alpha male chimpanzees”
For humans to continue to
evolve successfully, he says,
“friendliness is the winning strate-
gy. Social problems require social
solutions. The secret to our spe-
cies’ success is the same as it is
with dogs and bonobos. We are the
friendliest human species that
ever evolved, which has allowed us
to outcompete other human spe-
cies that are now extinct. When
that mechanism is turned off, we
can become unbelievably cruel.
When it is turned on, it allows us to
win. We win by cooperation and
teamwork. Our uniquely human
skills for cooperative communica-
tion can be used to solve the hard-
est social problems.”
— Marlene Cimons
VAnessA WOOds
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Rescuers shouldn’t hold back using CPR because of concerns over covid-19
anybody From E1
might have only a mask. How do
you help, while protecting
yourself, if you see a stranger
drop in front of you? Here’s what
Jeffrey Goodloe, chief medical
officer for the oklahoma
Emergency medical Services
System for metropolitan
oklahoma City/Tulsa,
recommends:
“If I am walking down the
street, wisely wearing a mask,
and see someone collapse, I’m
going to rush to them, and check
to see if they’re responsive. I will
grab their shoulders and say:
‘Hey, are you okay?’ Then I would
feel for a pulse, and see if they’re
breathing. If they are
unresponsive and there is no
pulse, I would immediately call
911, and start CPr. If they are
wearing a mask, leave it on. If
not, pull their shirt up over their
face, or put some kind of cloth
covering over their nose and
mouth.”
If you don’t know CPr — or
have forgotten how to do it — the
911 operator can talk you
through it, he says.
Experts believe a rescuer’s risk
of infection is low. Sayre
conducted a study in the Seattle
area when — at the time — the
incidence of covid deaths were 15
per 100,000 population,
including fewer than 10 percent
who suffered an out-of-hospital
cardiac arrest. The researchers
concluded it would take treating
100 such cardiac arrests to result
in one rescuer infection, and
10,000 bystander CPr
interventions for one rescuer to
die of covid-19.
“When we did our
calculations, we used the
10 percent number, but it’s
probably lower than that,” Sayre
says. “Here in the Seattle fire
department, we responded to
patients in Kirkland who had the
disease and had to go to the
hospital, but no one realized
they had covid. Early on, our
EmS crews took care of them,
wearing gloves but no masks,
and only one guy got sick — so
we decided to take a longer look.
We think the risk of getting
infected from chest
compressions is really low.”
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There is no need to initiate
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in
adults to restore breathing,
experts say.
“With good chest
compressions, there is some
passive inhalation,” Goodloe
says. “They are getting a little bit
of ambient air just through the
process of chest compression.
We have found that is enough for
neurological intact survival in
adults. Those chest
compressions are really the key
to survival until trained EmTs or
paramedics can arrive.”
Children, however, are
different when it comes to
breathing. Typically an incident
of some kind — choking or
submersion in a family pool —
impairs their ability to breathe.
With kids, it’s more important to
focus on their airways.
“most of the time it’s a child in
a backyard pool, and the person
pulling them out is a parent,”
Sayre says. “We totally want
them to do mouth-to-mouth
breathing.”
For drownings that occur in
public pools or at beaches,
lifeguards usually have access to
a bag-valve-mask or positive
pressure ventilator, with special
HEPA or N95 filters. These
devices force air into the
breathing passages and avoid the
need for direct mouth-to-mouth
contact.
“Although it’s okay for family
members to do, physical mouth-
to-mouth is no longer
encouraged,” says Thomas G.
Gill, vice president of the United
States Lifesaving Association.
“It’s not something
recommended for the person on
the street if you see a stranger
lying there.”
Drowning is different from
cardiac arrest, in that lack of
oxygen results from water
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“We do not want covid-
19 to negatively impact
the willingness of people
to provide CPR. If it
does, we will assuredly
lose savable lives.”
Jeffrey Goodloe, chief medical
officer for the Oklahoma Emergency
Medical Services System for
metropolitan Oklahoma City/Tulsa
submersion, so the first response
should be to initiate breathing,
Gill says. “But if a person is
walking down the road and sees
[a] neighbor cutting the grass
who suddenly is grasping his
chest, something else in the body
is causing that to happen, and
it’s not submersion under water.”
In a choking emergency — if
you see a stranger who seems to
be choking on a piece of food —
again, don’t hesitate. Ask the
person whether he or she is
choking. If the person can speak,
the airway is not totally blocked,
and the person can cough out
the object. otherwise, perform
the Heimlich maneuver,
applying strong thrusts from
behind to the abdomen —
between the naval and the rib
cage — which should dislodge it
from the windpipe.
“Ask — ‘Are you choking?’
Somehow despite all the
languages, it’s universal to clutch
r e i m a g i n e p o s s i b l e.
iSTOCk
our throat when we are as a
signal,” Goodloe says. “If they
can speak, their airway is not
fully occluded, so encourage
them to keep coughing to expel
the food. Today, we might stand
in front of them, but stand to the
side a few feet away, and you’ll
avoid the mainstream spray of
droplets and anything else being
coughed out. If they can’t speak,
a good Heimlich thrust or two or
more can absolutely save a life.
Do it. And call 911 or direct
someone else to do so.”
He adds one more important
piece of advice: “If you direct
someone else to call 911, make
firm eye contact, and look to see
they are dialing quickly. You’d be
surprised the tragic results from
just screaming, ‘Somebody call
an ambulance — call 911,’ and
everyone assumes someone else
is doing it.”
The numbers of non-hospital
cardiac arrests are almost
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certainly higher now because
experts say many people are
delaying or avoiding care, afraid
they will become infected with
the novel coronavirus if they go
to an emergency room. one
recent study, for example, found
that out-of-hospital cardiac
arrests among New Yorkers rose
from 1,336 patients in 2019 to
nearly 4,000 this year during the
height of the pandemic.
“The most tragic deaths in this
era of covid-19 are the ones in
patients reluctant to seek care —
or the reluctance of others to
provide care — because of their
concerns about covid-19,”
Goodloe says.
most out-of-hospital attacks
occur in the home or in long-
term care facilities, with only
18.8 percent happening in
public, according to the AHA.
With the former, family
members or staff in the facility
often are available to help. With
the latter — especially with the
worrisome reluctance to seek
care — people are even more
vulnerable, and bystander help
more crucial than ever.
“We are concerned,” says
Goodloe, who also serves on the
board of the American College of
Emergency Physicians. “We want
to maintain — even grow — the
levels of bystander CPr. We do
not want covid-19 to negatively
impact the willingness of people
to provide CPr. If it does, we will
assuredly lose savable lives.”
As scientists continue to study
the virus that causes covid-19,
emergency medicine specialists
agree that there is more to learn.
But current evidence suggests
the transmission danger to
rescuers of delivering CPr or
responding to choking remains
low, including for those whose
protective gear may not go
beyond that of a face mask.
“I think there are unanswered
questions, but we don’t get the
opportunity to take a time out,”
Goodloe says. “Each and every
day, over 1,000 Americans are
dying from sudden cardiac
arrest, most outside the hospital.
We have to provide the best care
possible as we seek answers to
questions that have arisen as a
result of this pandemic.”
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‘How can you not
love penguins?’
Albert Dros, a landscape photographer, found
the flightless aquatic birds to be irresistible
subjects on his trip to Antarctica. “I see
nature as my greatest inspiration. Every day,
nature shows me something new and invites
me to capture it,” he says. TOP CLOCKWISE:
A penguin jumps out of the water. A bird does
a calling on an island. Playing follow the
leader, they use certain paths to travel back
and forth from the water. A Gentoo penguin
feeds her two chicks. A fluffy Adélie chick.
Two penguins take a walk.
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Text by Troy Witcher | Photos by Albert Dros
Dutch photographer Albert Dros is
mainly known for his landscape pho-
tography. But this year, he discovered
a passion for photographing wildlife
after coming face to face with pen-
guins during a trip to Antarctica.
This newfound interest dovetails
neatly with his enduring one for land-
scapes because they are both essential
elements of nature. And as Dros told
The Washington Post’s In Sight pho-
tography blog: “I see nature as my
greatest inspiration. Every day, nature
shows me something new and invites
me to capture it.”
Dros traveled to Antarctica for the
first time while working as a photog-
raphy teacher onboard the Greg Mor-
timer ship with Iceland Photo Tours.
“I was on the boat to teach people
about photography and help them in
the field,” he said. “But for me, it was
the first time being there, as well. I’m
the washington post
mainly a landscape photographer. But
upon visiting Antarctica for the first
time early this year, I had no choice
but transition into a wildlife photog-
rapher. I love animals, and how can
you not love penguins? Everything
they do is ‘cute.’ Not just their looks,
but the way they move, interact and
behave is so fascinating. I instantly fell
in love and knew I had to make a photo
series to try and get that feeling
across.”
The transition from primarily pho-
tographing landscapes to making
photos of penguins was not without
its challenges. Landscapes are mostly
immobile, but penguins are a differ-
ent story because, well, they move
around a lot more.
“I am used to shooting landscapes
that don’t move. Penguins move a lot,”
Dros said. “When you’re in Antarctica,
there’s just so much happening
. tuesday, july 21 , 2020
around you. I didn’t know where to
look. There are little scenes every-
where, and I had to decide what to
capture. I wanted to capture these
moments, but I am a perfectionist: I’m
not only looking at the penguins . . .
but also looking at the backdrop and
the environment a lot. . . . This was
very challenging, as often there would
be thousands of penguins packed to-
gether, and it would be difficult to see
which one to single out for a picture.”
Dros’s efforts paid off. He captured
scenes of the penguins going about
their lives. And Dros captured them
with beauty, breathtaking backdrops
and even a little humor. You can see
more of Dros’s work on his website
albertdros.com, including his first
short film, “Amsterdam — My Home.”
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Teen kept stumbling. Diagnosis was ‘an eye opener.’
MysTEry fRoM E1
a diagnosis discarded
The summer Jessica was 14, her large
extended family rented a house on North
Carolina’s outer Banks. one afternoon
Judy spotted Jessica crawling up the
steep steps from the beach on her hands
and knees. When she asked her daughter
what she was doing, Jessica replied, “It’s
just easier.” After one of Judy’s sisters
agreed, she gave it little thought.
But over the next year, Jessica seemed
to become increasingly uncoordinated.
Although she had been cheering for a
decade, she did not make the cheerlead-
ing squad her sophomore year. Jessica
told her parents she thought her failure
to land a spot was the result of not
smiling enough. Her mother learned
later she couldn’t perform the jumps.
Jessica joined the field hockey team
instead.
Jessica said that at the time she real-
ized “something was very wrong.” She
didn’t say anything to her parents for fear
of worrying them or having to limit her
activities.
“I thought it would eventually just
disappear if I did things to strengthen my
legs. So I would always act like I was okay
when I would fall,” she said.
Her mother, a preschool teacher, was
concerned. “I would go to [field hockey]
practices and watch and think, ‘Why isn’t
she running like everybody else?’ ” Judy
recalled. Later she learned that the coach
had been alarmed by Jessica’s repeated
falls during practice.
The graduation night fall from the
bleachers in 2008, when Jessica said her
“knee just gave out,” proved to be a
catalyst.
Within days, mother and daughter
saw their family physician. He referred
Jessica to a neurologist in nearby Cam-
den.
The neurologist ruled out Duchenne
muscular dystrophy, a genetic disorder
characterized by progressive weakness
that strikes young children, usually boys.
She prescribed medication for myasthe-
nia gravis, a rare autoimmune disease
that affects the muscles and often causes
droopy eyelids.
Jessica took the drug for a month but
showed no improvement. Her family
doctor then referred her to a neurologist
in Baltimore with expertise in spinal
muscular atrophy, a rare genetic disease
that destroys nerve cells.
Thorny questions for cancer patients, doctors in pandemic
cancEr fRoM E1
pandemic that would probably result in
even more deaths than in the forecast).
This is not crystal-ball forecasting or
medical hand-wringing. Statistics from
Epic, the electronic health records ven-
dor, show cancer screenings going off a
cliff at the beginning of the pandemic,
down between 86 and 94 percent across
the United States — a combination of
hospitals deferring nonurgent proce-
dures and patients fearing contracting
the virus at a health-care facility. The
number of Americans getting breast
cancer screenings (mammograms) each
week dropped from 9,000 or so to fewer
than 600. Colon cancer screenings went
from 3,000 a week to 400. fewer screen-
ings mean fewer diagnoses, and fewer
diagnoses mean fewer opportunities for
early treatment.
Lawrence Shulman, professor of medi-
cine and deputy director for clinical
services at the Abramson Cancer Center
at the University of Pennsylvania, says
the number of new cancer diagnoses
over the past four months has fallen by
more than 50 percent in some geograph-
ic areas. But, he emphasized, that does
not mean fewer people actually have
cancer.
Instead, Shulman says, “that must
mean there are a lot of patients out there
who have cancer but are not undergoing
diagnosis and entry into the cancer care
system.”
Hospitals nationwide have reported
fewer visits for heart attacks and strokes,
as well, which many experts attribute to a
fear of contracting covid-19 at emergency
rooms. one study reported that patient
visits for heart attack fell by a third
during the pandemic compared with the
same period the year before. for stroke,
the decline was more than half for the
same year over year comparison.
Several people I know have postponed
inpatient cancer treatment, usually with
the agreement of their doctors. While
others have put off breast and colon
screenings (often making decisions uni-
laterally) in the past several months, and
they continue to do so.
Jeanne Ketterer, 65 and a writer who
lives in Chapel Hill, N.C., echoed many
others when she told me, “I delayed my
colonoscopy . . . because I [didn’t] feel
secure enough in how well I’ll be protect-
ed against the virus.”
Putting fears aside, numerous experts
say the risk of contracting covid-19 is
greatly lessened in a hospital or clinic
that follows the Centers for Disease
heal h & welln ss?
The specialist told Jessica and her
parents he was fairly certain she had
spinal muscular atrophy; a muscle biop-
sy seemed to bolster that diagnosis.
But after a year, an MRI scan showed
that one part of Jessica’s brain was
shrinking. “I remember everybody
seemed stumped,” Judy said.
The specialist expressed doubt that
she had spinal muscular atrophy and
referred her to the National Institutes of
Health. Jessica was seen by a specialist in
hereditary muscle diseases who ordered
genetic testing. The results, which took
many months, stunned and bewildered
the family. Jessica had Late onset Tay-
Sachs disease (LoTS), a progressive, in-
curable genetic illness.
‘That can’t be!” Judy remembers blurt-
ing out. “We’re not Jewish.”
Fatal regression
for roughly a century Tay-Sachs dis-
ease, named after two physicians who
pioneered the description of the neuro-
degenerative disease, was believed to
almost exclusively affect Ashkenazi Jews
from central or Eastern Europe. one in
27 people of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry
carry the genetic mutation that causes
Tay-Sachs, a rate ten times higher than
the general population.
Tay-Sachs, which typically affects in-
fants, results from the absence of an
enzyme called hexosaminidase A, which
prevents the harmful accumulation of a
fat in the brain and spinal cord. Babies,
who are typically affected in utero, ap-
pear normal until about 6 months when
they begin to regress, eventually becom-
ing blind, demented and paralyzed. The
disease is nearly always fatal by age 5.
Since the discovery of the gene that
causes Tay-Sachs in the late 1980s,
screening programs and genetic counsel-
ing in Jewish communities have become
routine and the number of infants with
Tay-Sachs has plummeted.
Scientists now know that anyone can
carry a disease-causing mutation, of
which there are more than 100. Concen-
trations of Tay-Sachs cases have been
discovered in often isolated non-Jewish
populations including the Irish, french
Canadians from Quebec and Cajuns in
Louisiana, NIH specialists informed the
Kalnas family. Late-onset Tay-Sachs, a
recently discovered, less-severe variant
of the disease resulting from a deficient
level of HexA, surfaces in adolescence or
adulthood.
a physician talks with a woman. With covid-19, patients and doctors are wondering about such issues as: Who should get
screened or treated? Who should wait? How much does the prevalence of the disease in a community matter?
Control and Prevention guidelines,
This is personal to me, too, as I’m due
for a colonoscopy this month.
This is not a routine screening — it’s a
follow-up after several suspicious polyps
were discovered (and removed) three
years ago. I’m concerned about covid-19
“Fear of contracting coronavirus in health care settings has
dissuaded people from screening, diagnosis, and treatment.”
Norman E. Sharpless, director of the National Cancer Institute in Science article
infection, especially since I’m considered
high risk because of my age, and I live in a
state with surging numbers of covid
cases and hospitalizations. And, like all
too many other Americans, there’s part of
me that’s happy to use any excuse to
delay the procedure, especially the
dreaded “prep.”
Shulman says that even after hospital
clinics started opening up again, “they’d
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Jessica Kalnas and her mother, Judy Kalnas. “My biggest fear was: ‘How
am I going to live with this? How am I going to watch this happen?’ ” Judy
says. “The main thing is that we weren’t going to lose her.”
“I thought it would eventually just disappear . . . . So I
would always act like I was okay when I would fall.”
Jessica Kalnas
“It was an eye opener,” said Judy, who
has Irish ancestry. “All I could hear was
my mother’s voice talking about a family
we knew whose child had Tay-Sachs” and
how terrible it was. “I remember think-
ing as a child, ‘Why is she bringing this
up?’ I’ve wished so many times I could
ask her.”
After Jessica’s diagnosis, Judy discov-
ered something she had not previously
known: her paternal grandfather was
from southern Louisiana, an area where
clusters of infants called “lazy babies,”
many of whom were believed to have
Tay-Sachs, were strikingly common.
Judy Kalnas has since often wondered
whether the disease had struck her own
family decades before Jessica was born.
Was that why her mother kept mention-
ing it?
Unlike babies with Tay-Sachs, who
have a telltale cherry red spot in their
retinas, late onset cases can be very
difficult to diagnose. Symptoms and se-
call patients who had postponed screen-
ings, telling them, ‘You should feel com-
fortable coming in . . . ’ [And many]
patients said, ‘Listen, I’m still too ner-
vous about the risk of infection. And I
just don’t want to come in.” I understand.
Who gets screened or treated? Who
should wait? How much does covid
prevalence in a community matter?
These are thorny questions, and at the
outset of the pandemic many oncology
departments and hospitals created cross-
institutional guidelines that largely tri-
aged cancer patients into three buckets
or tiers: treat now; delay a little (six to
eight weeks); delay a lot.
for instance, Brant Inman, co-director
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verity vary greatly and decline is more
gradual. Diagnosis of the disease is made
through enzyme and genetic testing.
“Not only does the average person not
know about this,” said neurogeneticist
Heather A. Lau, associate director of the
division of neurogenetics at NYU Lan-
gone, “but my colleagues in neurology
aren’t aware of LoTS.” Some people with
late onset disease have been told they
have multiple sclerosis or ALS, said Lau,
who treats about a dozen LoTS patients,
several of whom were diagnosed in their
50s.
Diagnosis is further complicated be-
cause in about 40 percent of cases initial
symptoms include a manic episode or
other psychiatric symptom, according to
the National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases
Association, a Boston-based support and
advocacy group.
All forms of the disease result from the
inheritance of a mutated gene, one from
each parent who are both carriers. for
IStoCk
of Duke Prostate and Urologic Cancer
Center, drafted a set of guidelines for
urologic oncologists and surgeons that
was quickly adopted by his colleagues at
Duke and other institutions. The guide-
lines created a labor-intensive process,
with, for example, Inman and his Duke
colleagues discussing 20 to 40 cancer
cases a week. When lacking consensus
about whether to delay or go ahead on a
case, Inman says, “We err[ed] on the side
of higher prioritization, i.e. on the pa-
tient’s side.”
for an oncologist, sooner is better
when it comes to treatment. But that may
not always be the case when trying to
balance covid-19 risk with delays in
cancer treatment.
A team of oncologists and data scien-
tists from the University of Michigan
Rogel Cancer Center and the University
of Michigan School of Public Health had
the same concern.
In response, they created the onc-
CoVID app, which draws on national
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each such pregnancy, there is a 25 per-
cent chance the child will be affected by
inheriting two abnormal genes, a 25
percent chance the child will be neither
affected nor a carrier, and a 50 percent
chance the child will be a carrier who
typically shows no symptoms.
After Jessica was diagnosed, testing
revealed that two of her brothers are
carriers, while her sister is unaffected.
Two brothers have not been tested.
‘an eye opener’
Doctors at NIH referred the family to
Edwin H. Kolodny, a pioneering Tay-
Sachs researcher who is currently a
research professor of neurology at NYU
School of Medicine. Judy said Kolodny,
one of the first scientists to describe late
onset disease, was encouraging and real-
istic as he prepared them for what lay
ahead.
Treatment for LoTS is largely support-
ive. Jessica is enrolled in a long-term
study at NIH and has participated in a
research trial run by Lau at NYU of a drug
not approved in the United States that
may lessen Tay-Sachs symptoms.
“Jessica is very thoughtful,” Lau said.
“She has good organizational skills and is
quite independent and eloquent.” Lau
added that she does not show signs of
impaired judgment that can accompany
the disease.
Jessica can no longer walk without the
use of leg braces and two canes; if she
doesn’t use them, her legs buckle. Her
arms are weak and she does exercises
daily and rides a stationary bike. Speech
therapy has been helpful for slurred
speech, which is common among late
onset patients.
for her mother, the diagnosis of Tay-
Sachs has been “an eye opener.” Jessica’s
siblings, who include two nurses and an
emergency medical technician, have
been supportive and helpful.
“My biggest fear was: ‘How am I going
to live with this? How am I going to watch
this happen?’” Judy said. “The main
thing is that we weren’t going to lose her.”
from Jessica’s perspective, one of the
hardest things about living with her
disease is the inability to drive. “The
most important thing is not to give up,”
she said. “Keep going.”
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cancer data sets, factoring in a patient’s
individual characteristics, but equally
important the prevalence of covid-19 in
someone’s local community, to assess an
individual’s risk in terms of when to start
treatment.
The app (not available directly to
patients) allows oncologists to enter
more than 45 characteristics about an
individual — age, location, cancer type
and stage, treatment plan, underlying
medical conditions, and any proposed
length of delay in treatment. Daniel
Spratt, associate professor and vice chair
of research in the department of radia-
tion oncology at Michigan Medicine and
a senior researcher on the project, told
me this personalized risk assessment
sometimes ran counter to the three-
bucket approach.
other institutions, he claims, “have
largely adopted a crude three-tier system
of how to personalize who and when to
treat cancer. We went from viewing
cancer as a complex and heterogeneous
entity of over 10,000 types, to viewing it
as three large buckets.” Spratt says they
found, “over 25 percent of patients classi-
fied as tier 2 [delay six to eight weeks]
should likely be delayed longer than
many tier 3 patients [delay more than
eight weeks], and similarly over 30
percent of tier 2 patients should be tier 1
and be prioritized for immediate treat-
ment.”
Should those diagnosed with cancer
seek treatment in places where covid
infection is lower? “It depends on local
prevalence of the virus and what mea-
sures are in place to restrict the spread of
the virus,” Pratt says. “If during the peak
of the pandemic or a second wave, like
what is happening in Houston, it very
well may be safer to receive immunosup-
pressive chemotherapy or surgery in a
county with substantially lower preva-
lence of covid.”
But he also points to the quality of the
hospital and its oncology expertise, not
to mention that a patient might not have
a support system in a distant city.
As for me, does this mean I should
travel out of my state — where covid-19
cases have been rising — for my colonos-
copy because of my concern about get-
ting the disease during the procedure?
Probably not, as long as the clinic follows
CDC guidance, which I learned it does
when I called to ask. I’ve now scheduled
the procedure because I sure don’t want
to become one of those additional colon
cancer deaths Sharpless warned us all
about.
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Retired N95 mask creator back at work
Peter Tsai sets up makeshift lab at home to run tests on reusing the coverings during a dire shortage
BY S YDNEY P AGE
Peter Tsai retired two years
ago, but the materials scientist
says he’s never been busier.
When the novel coronavirus
began gripping the globe in
March, Tsai was summoned from
his short-lived retirement. He
was in urgent demand because he
is the inventor who, in 1995,
patented the filtration material
used in disposable N95 respira-
tors.
The coveted masks are in short
supply and are desperately need-
ed by health-care workers and
others who require protection
from the highly contagious coro-
navirus. Tsai started receiving a
torrent of calls from national
labs, companies and health-care
workers, wanting to know how to
scale up production in the wake
of a mass shortage and how to
sterilize the masks for reuse.
“Everyone was asking me
about the respirators,” said Tsai,
68, who is originally from Taiwan
and now lives in Knoxville, Tenn.
N95 masks have become a
critical commodity as the pan-
demic has fueled a global scarcity
of the virus-blocking equipment.
Unlike other forms of personal
protective equipment, including
homemade masks and cloth cov-
ers, N95 masks actually filter out
contaminants, making them the
most protective masks on the
market.
Tsai immediately hit the draw-
ing board. He set up a makeshift
laboratory in his home, where he
lives with his wife and daughter,
and began experimenting with
different methods to decontami-
nate the masks.
“I started working almost 20
hours a day,” he said, adding he’s
doing it mostly on a volunteer
basis. “But I didn’t mind.”
He tried everything he could
think of to cheaply sterilize the
masks without losing filtration
efficacy: He boiled them, steamed
them, baked them in the oven
and even left them out in the
sunlight for extended periods of
time. Then he ran tests.
After trying multiple ap-
proaches in his home, he pub-
lished an emergency medical re-
port, which proposed a variety of
methods for cleaning and reusing
N95 masks without compromis-
ing the electrostatic charge re-
quired for the filtration system to
function.
His central finding was that
N95 masks can be heated at 158
degrees Fahrenheit for 60 min-
utes using a dry heat method
without diminishing the filtra-
tion technology, and his hypothe-
sis was validated by the National
Institutes of Health.
After the first report was pub-
lished in April, he continued to
experiment, eagerly sharing his
findings with the scientific com-
munity and anyone who asked.
He’s spread the word about the
optimal material to use for home-
PersPecTive
Can a seasonal shot protect against Lyme disease?
BY M ARK K LEMPNER
Lyme disease has become an
insidious epidemic in the United
States. Caused by bacteria trans-
mitted by an infected tick bite,
symptoms can include arthritis
and cardiac and neurological
problems if left untreated. It is the
most common tick-borne illness
in the United States, and the Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Pre-
vention estimates that about
300,000 people probably contract
the disease each year.
Scientists, doctors and ecolo-
gists have worked for decades to
slow the spread of Lyme and the
blacklegged, or deer, ticks that car-
ry the disease-causing bacteria.
But the ticks’ range continues to
expand. Today, over 50 percent of
the American population lives in
an area where these ticks are
found.
The Food and Drug Adminis-
tration approved a vaccine against
Lyme in 1998, but it was met by
controversy and pulled from the
market three years later. Efforts
continue today to create a human
vaccine as well as stop the spread
of Lyme by other means, including
using gene-editing to immunize
mice that can transmit the bacte-
ria to ticks, killing deer and using
pesticides to control ticks.
My colleagues and I have been
working on a different kind of
prevention: a yearly injection.
I am an infectious diseases phy-
sician-scientist and have been
studying and working toward pre-
venting Lyme disease for much of
my career. I also oversee UMass
Medical School’s MassBiologics,
the only nonprofit, FDA-licensed
manufacturer of vaccines and bio-
logics in the United States.
Peter Tsai, the inventor of the N95 filtration material. Although Tsai retired in 2018, he says he is
determined to enhance and scale his patented filtration system used in N95 masks.
made masks. His suggestion:
nonwoven fabrics, such as car
shop towels,
Among the many companies
and research groups that reached
out to Tsai was N95DECON — a
collaborative group of volunteer
scientists, engineers and clini-
cians from around the country
focused on N95 decontamination
and reuse. They sought Tsai’s
unique expertise.
Oak Ridge National Lab, a
“If I can . . . help the
community, then it will
be a good memory for
the rest of my life.”
Peter Tsai
Tennessee-based laboratory
sponsored by the U.S. Energy
Department, got in touch, too.
The team at Oak Ridge was
searching for ways to scale pro-
duction of N95 masks.
“Dr. Tsai was immediately will-
ing to collaborate with us on our
lab-wide covid-19 effort,” said
Merlin Theodore, the director of
the Carbon Fiber Technology Fa-
cility at the lab. Soon after the
team reached out to Tsai, “he
showed up at the lab ready to get
to work,” she said.
The goal was to convert the
lab’s carbon-fiber-processing fa-
cility into a filtration-cloth facili-
ty to produce the filter technolo-
gy needed for N95 masks. The
conversion process proved com-
plicated, but with Tsai’s help, “we
quickly got the system up and
running,” said Lonnie Love, a
lead scientist at Oak Ridge.
“He came in and described
exactly what was needed to build
Our method, known as Lyme
PrEP, delivers a single anti-Lyme
antibody directly to a person rath-
er than triggering the patient’s
own immune system to make
many antibodies as vaccines do. It
is designed to be a seasonal shot
that people can get once a year
before tick season begins. We have
published several peer-reviewed
articles on this methodology, in-
cluding its success in mice and
nonhuman primates.
Later this year, we are sched-
uled to begin our first human
phase 1 trial.
Later this year, we
are scheduled to begin
our first human
phase 1 trial.
A vaccine’s cautionary tale
In 1998, the FDA approved a
Lyme vaccine composed of pro-
tein antigens from the surface of
the Lyme bacteria, Borrelia burg-
dorferi.
A vaccine works by introducing
proteins from the disease-causing
agent into the body to trigger the
body’s immune response, which
includes making antibodies
against bacterial proteins. Anti-
bodies have been used to prevent
and treat infectious diseases for
over a century. In the case of the
Lyme vaccine, it can take many
months for the body to build up
the necessary level of immunity to
prevent infection. It also means
that some of the antibodies in-
duced by the vaccine can have
“off-target” effects, or side effects.
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his charging system and scale it,”
he said. “Tsai has been really
critical for us to solve this prob-
lem fast.”
Theodore agreed. “Dr. Tsai
shaved off several months to a
year of time for us,” she said,
confirming that Oak Ridge Lab
reached its target in only a few
weeks.
The facility is now able to
produce material for 9,000
masks an hour, and Oak Ridge is
working closely with industry
partners to teach them how to
make Tsai’s filtration material for
widespread distribution.
While Oak Ridge provides the
filter material to other labs to
study, it does not sell the product
directly for widespread distribu-
tion. Rather, the team teaches
industry partners how to scale
production.
For instance, Cummins, a cor-
poration that manufactures en-
gines and filtration products,
started exploring how to use its
fuel-filtration technology to sup-
port health-care facilities. The
company wanted to pivot from
manufacturing air, fuel and lube
filtration products mostly for car
parts to supply the filter media
used in respirators instead.
Using Tsai’s method, Oak
Ridge Lab provided Cummins
with guidance on how to execute
the filter production. Now, Cum-
mins is producing enough filtra-
tion media to make roughly 1
million respirator masks a day.
Christopher Holm, the direc-
tor of filter media technology &
IP at Cummins Filtration, said
Tsai’s guidance has been essential
to the corporation’s coronavirus
efforts.
“If I can have this opportunity
to help the community, then it
will be a good memory for the rest
of my life,” Tsai said. “I’m happy
The vaccine, known as
LYMErix, largely reduced infec-
tions but was withdrawn from the
market after three years because
of limitations and controversy.
It needed to be administered by
multiple injections over a year be-
fore immunity developed. Uncer-
tainty about the length of immuni-
ty from the vaccine also raised
questions of whether a booster
shot would be regularly needed.
Further, publicity about side ef-
fects such as arthritis, reported by
some who had been vaccinated,
contributed to its decline in popu-
larity.
Today, a French biotech compa-
ny, in collaboration with Pfizer, is
attempting to develop a Lyme vac-
cine that is in clinical trials.
A different approach
Unlike a vaccine, Lyme PrEP
uses a single human antibody, or
blood protein, to kill the bacteria
in the tick’s gut while it takes its
blood drink, before the bacteria
can get into the human host.
Through our research, we real-
ized that just one of the antibodies
that the human body developed
after multiple injections of the
LYMErix vaccine was sufficient to
prevent infection. So we identified
which antibody led to immunity
and tested it in animals where it
proved 100 percent effective.
These animal studies show
Lyme PrEP gives protection im-
mediately upon injection, as it cir-
culates through the blood. Unlike
a vaccine that induces many anti-
bodies that may not contribute to
protection but can cause side ef-
fects, this approach uses a single,
defined antibody, thus reducing
the risk of side effects.
Initial tests of a single injection
to do it.”
Tsai came to the United States
in 1981 to pursue his doctoral
degree in a variety of subjects at
Kansas State University, where he
completed more than 500 credits,
despite needing only 90 to gradu-
ate. His thirsty intellect drove
him to take courses in subjects
ranging from chemical engineer-
ing to physics and math.
His breakthrough on the mask
came when he was leading a
research team at the University of
Tennessee in 1992. The team’s
goal was to develop an electro-
static charging technology — co-
incidentally called corona charg-
ing — to filter out unwanted
particles. His invention eventual-
ly became the foundation of the
N95 respiratory mask.
Over the course of his career in
textile manufacturing, engineer-
ing and teaching at the Universi-
ty of Tennessee, Tsai has earned
12 U.S. patents in filtration tech-
nology, including his latest hy-
drostatic charging method,
which makes respiratory masks
twice as efficient as his initial
invention.
Beyond lending his expertise
to others, Tsai’s colleagues say
he’s a pleasure to work with.
“I’m taking this opportunity to
soak up all the knowledge I can
get,” Oak Ridge’s Theodore said.
According to Theodore, Tsai nev-
er fails to answer her calls, no
matter the hour. Tsai also repeat-
edly rejected payment for his
work, but Oak Ridge policy re-
quires compensation. “That’s
what struck me the most about
him,” Theodore said. “He didn’t
care about the money. He just
wanted to help as many people as
he could.”
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of Lyme PrEP protected mice for
several weeks.
Humans, however, need to be
protected longer, probably for the
nine-month season when over 90
percent of cases occur. We have
developed the Lyme PrEP anti-
body to extend its protective ef-
fects to cover this amount of time.
Yet, the actual duration of protec-
tion will have to be determined
during clinical trials.
Our goal for the phase 1 clinical
trial later this year is to test for the
treatment’s safety and determine
how long it lasts in the blood-
stream in humans.
For the phase 1 trial, we want to
avoid testing the Lyme PrEP anti-
body on volunteers who may have
already been exposed to the Lyme
bacteria and have developed re-
sponses to the bacteria that could
confuse the results. For that rea-
son, initial testing will take place
in volunteers who have not been
exposed to Lyme disease.
If all goes well, phase 1 clinical
trials would be completed in 2021.
The phase 2 trial to test for safety
and efficacy in a small group of
volunteers would follow and then
be followed by a phase 3 trial to
test the efficacy on many volun-
teers. We hope to complete these
larger studies in late 2022 or 2023.
The covid-19 pandemic has put
in sharp focus the need to prevent
infections and the adage, “An
ounce of protection is worth a
pound of cure.”
health-science@washpost.com
Mark Klempner is professor of
medicine and executive vice
chancellor for MassBiologics at the
University of Massachusetts Medical
School. this report was originally
published on theconversation.com.
the washington post
Pandemic-inspired food
labeling causes worry for
those with food allergies
BY S ANDY W EST
As the mother of a child with
food allergies, Heather Sapp was
well versed in reading labels and
calling manufacturers to verify
ingredients. For years, she kept
her daughter’s diet free of the
peanuts and tree nuts that could
kill her.
But when a bite of lemon-gin-
ger hummus three years ago sent
Sapp herself into life-threatening
anaphylactic shock, her depen-
dence on labeling accuracy be-
came more complicated. Testing
determined that Sapp, now 43,
had developed adult-onset ana-
phylactic allergies to chickpeas,
sesame and cilantro. More re-
cently, Sapp, who lives in Phoe-
nix, had an anaphylactic reaction
to parsley.
None of Sapp’s allergens are
among those the Food and Drug
Administration requires to be
individually listed on food labels.
Parsley and cilantro regularly are
included under “spices” or “natu-
ral flavors.” Like many Ameri-
cans with food allergies, Sapp
reads ingredient labels closely,
often following up with a phone
call to verify ingredients, and had
developed a list of manufacturers
and products she considered
safe.
But Sapp was stunned in late
May when the FDA released, with
no warning, new temporary
guidelines allowing manufactur-
ers facing supply chain shortages
amid the covid-19 pandemic to
make ingredient substitutions
without changing food labels.
“How can we trust that any-
thing is going to be safe at this
point?” Sapp asked. “Even if you
don’t have an allergy, people
want to know what’s in their
food.”
While FDA spokesman Peter
Cassell declined to address spe-
cific concerns from consumers
with food allergies, he said the
new guidelines were developed
in conjunction with other federal
agencies as one of several tempo-
rary measures related to the
covid-19 pandemic. Manufactur-
ers are required to make ingredi-
ent substitutions public.
“It’s a temporary guidance in
order to make sure that the
supply chains throughout the
country are able to provide safe
and ample food for America,”
Cassell said.
Because the guidelines were
issued as an emergency measure,
no public comment period pre-
ceded them. The FDA is now
accepting comments on the new
guidelines, which will remain in
place until the end of the de-
clared public health emergency,
Cassell said. At that point, the
FDA will decide whether it
should continue the policy based
on public comments and indus-
try needs.
Under the emergency mea-
sure, manufacturers are not al-
lowed to substitute ingredients
that may have an “adverse health
effect, including food allergens,
gluten, sulfites or other ingredi-
ents known to cause sensitivi-
ties.”
The top eight recognized food
allergens in the United States —
milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, pea-
nuts, tree nuts, wheat and soy —
as well as other priority allergens
— including sesame, celery, lupin
(a legume), buckwheat, mollus-
can shellfish and mustards —
cannot be substituted under the
new guidelines. The FDA still
requires them to be listed on
package labels.
But other minor ingredients
can be temporarily substituted.
With 170 known food allergens in
the United States, and with con-
cerns about cross-contact among
ingredients, people with allergies
are concerned about these unan-
nounced substitutions.
For example, if a company hits
a snag in the supply chain for a
peppercorn it has been using, it
can substitute another type of
peppercorn. Some peppercorns
are related to cashews and can
trigger anaphylaxis in people al-
lergic to cashews and other tree
nuts. Or, while the FDA considers
highly refined oils safe for people
with food allergies, many con-
sumers do not. The new guide-
lines allow manufacturers to sub-
stitute sunflower oil for canola
oil, for example, because they
share similar fatty acid profiles.
The FDA guidelines do not
require new ingredient labels but
recommend companies put an
informational sticker on prod-
ucts with substituted ingredients
or make that information avail-
able on their websites. The tem-
porary guidelines went into ef-
fect on their May 22 release.
Mary Vargas, a D.C. lawyer and
food allergy advocate, said she
believes some of the language in
the temporary guidelines makes
it unclear how strict the FDA will
. tuesday, july 21 , 2020
be in its oversight of labeling and
substitutions, as well as how long
the guidelines might be in place.
“I just have a lot of confusion
about what this even means,”
Vargas said. “It muddies the
waters rather than clarifies
them.”
Molly Rittberg’s 8-year-old son
is allergic to peanuts, tree nuts,
sunflower and sesame. Sunflow-
er seeds or oil are often included
under “spices” or “natural fla-
vors,” which required phone calls
and additional research before
the new guidelines. But now
Rittberg, who lives in Milwaukee,
said she can’t assume manufac-
turers she had considered safe
for ingredients or cross-contact
will continue to be okay under
the new labeling rules.
“We are label readers,” Ritt-
berg said. “Even when we call
and verify a product, every time I
purchase a new bag or box of
something, I always check the
label to make sure the recipe
hasn’t changed. With this tempo-
rary label change, it is going to
make it even harder for us be-
cause we already have this area of
not knowing what’s in the food
we are consuming. Now that
things can be changed or substi-
tuted without notification, it’s
like we are back to square one.”
Families who are dependent
on government food assistance,
such as the Special Supplemental
Nutrition Program for Women,
Infants and Children, are espe-
cially vulnerable because the se-
lection of allergy-safe food al-
lowed under those programs is
already limited, said Emily
Brown, founder of the Food
“I just have a lot of
confusion about what
this even means. It
muddies the waters
rather than clarifies
them.”
Mary vargas, a d.c. lawyer
and food allergy advocate
Equality Initiative in Kansas City,
Mo., which works to increase
access to allergy-safe and gluten-
free foods for economically dis-
advantaged families.
“You only have access to specif-
ic brands with specific quanti-
ties. So, if brands change their
formula and it’s not clear, then
really the most vulnerable of the
vulnerable will not have access to
what they need,” said Brown,
whose daughters have food aller-
gies.
Sharon Wong, a food allergy
advocate and recipe blogger in
California whose two sons have
30 food allergies between them,
echoed Brown’s concerns. She
said that while many Americans,
like her, have the option to cook
from scratch, the same isn’t true
for everyone, and contacting
manufacturers requires resourc-
es and time.
“If it’s not on the label, it’s an
equity issue,” she said. “Not ev-
erybody has access to the Inter-
net. Not everyone can call during
business hours. Some people
have language issues.”
The new guidelines compound
existing shortfalls in labeling re-
quirements for the estimated 32
million in the United States with
food allergies or other sensitivi-
ties, said Jen Jobrack, food aller-
gy advocate and founding princi-
pal of Food Allergy Pros, a con-
sulting firm that works with
companies and other organiza-
tions to improve safety for people
with food allergies.
The top cause of food recalls is
typically undeclared allergens,
according to Food Safety Maga-
zine and Stericycle Expert Solu-
tions, which both review food-re-
call data. Because many Ameri-
cans have more than one food
allergy, Jobrack said, reliable la-
beling is imperative.
She added that the new guide-
lines also affect the hospitality
industry, schools and day-care
centers, which will only exacer-
bate the problem as the country
continues to reopen from the
pandemic closures. She and oth-
ers fear the guidance won’t be
rescinded even if the pandemic
supply chain issues are resolved.
“The concern really all boils
down to what ingredients and
what information will manufac-
turers be required to let consum-
ers know,” Jobrack said.
— Kaiser Health News
Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit
news service covering health issues.
it is an editorially independent
program of the Kaiser Family
Foundation that is not affiliated with
Kaiser Permanente.
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Top row: Sue Bird (WNBA), Tony Finau (PGA Tour), LeBron James (NBA), Kumi Yokoyama (NWSL), Trea Turner (MLB), Rui Hachimura (NBA)
Second row: Kevin Harvick (NASCAR), Jonathan Arauz (MLB), Tom Wilson (NHL), Jocelyn Willoughby (WNBA), Mike Trout (MLB), Joey Logano (NASCAR)
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perspective

Ready or not, here they come

S
o we’re really going to do this, are
we?
We’re really going to bring back
sports in the middle of a global
pandemic? We’re really going to
send our best athletes back onto
their fields and courts, in empty
arenas and stadiums, despite their own trepi-
dation, sometimes spoken, mostly not?
We’re really going to have the stomach to
root again and cheer again — from the socially
distant comfort of our living rooms — for
athletes who are risking their health for our
entertainment? We’re really going to have the
heart to boo the Houston Astros over a cheat-
ing scandal?
And we’re going to do this all at a time when
the United States is a trembling, lonely dot at
the upper right corner of the global novel
coronavirus case chart, soaring into the un-
charted stratosphere and signaling to the rest
of the world our singular inability to handle a
pandemic most other first-world countries
have successfully beaten back?
Yes, it appears we are.
This, finally, is the week big-time team
sports, such as they are, return to American
life. Major League Baseball launches a truncat-
ed, 60-game regular season Thursday, followed
by the WNBA two days later and the resump-
tions of the NBA on July 30 and the NHL on
Aug. 1. And that’s on top of the professional
soccer leagues, National Women’s Soccer
League and MLS, which have been playing
games for weeks now. Coming this fall —
maybe, possibly, we think: football.
As San Francisco Giants all-star catcher
Buster Posey, full of skepticism and doubt, put
it in early July: “What are we doing?” A week
later, Posey opted out of playing, joining Davis
Bertans of the Washington Wizards and Carlos
Vela of Los Angeles FC among those choosing
to sit out.
Consider this: The week our sports ground
to a halt in mid-March, as one league after
another shut down its operations because their
stewards felt it was no longer safe to play, the
United States was adding several hundred new
cases of the coronavirus each day. The total
number of cases was in the low four figures.
The number of American deaths was in the
mid-two figures.
As major American sports return amid an ongoing pandemic,
serious questions remain about whether they should even try
BY
Some four months later, total confirmed
cases in the United States are north of 3.5 mil-
lion, and deaths are approaching 140,000, with
another 800 or 900 added to the total each day.
By every available measure, things are so much
worse.
The obvious question: If it wasn’t safe to
keep playing in March, how, pray tell, is it safe
to restart in July? If, as Washington Nationals
closer Sean Doolittle theorized, sports are the
reward of a functional society, by what defini-
tion have we earned this reward?
Yet another paradox: Fans will not be al-
lowed into these sporting events, at least at
first, because it isn’t safe for humans to be in
such proximity to each other. For that matter,
many of us have not touched another human
who isn’t an immediate family member for
more than four months now, for the same
reason. So how, then, is it safe for athletes to
gather on grass, ice and hardwood to
forecheck, box out and chop-block each other
for two or three hours each night?
Perhaps it will be worth it, from our perspec-
tive, to be able to see Juan Soto swing a bat (or
merely take a borderline pitch) again, or Le-
Bron James striding toward the hoop again
with a full head of steam. In a matter of days, we
will finally see Gerrit Cole pitch a meaningful
game in a New York Yankees uniform and
Sabrina Ionescu make her debut for the New
York Liberty. We will witness James, Kawhi
Leonard and Giannis Antetokounmpo resume
their battle for NBA supremacy — as both
individual MVP candidates and as the engines
of the contending Los Angeles Lakers, Los
Angeles Clippers and Milwaukee Bucks, re-
spectively.
But never has the old analogy of the Roman
gladiators seemed more fitting, except in this
case the lions are invisible and microscopic
and cause severe respiratory illness and other
medical issues and the spectators are not in the
D AVE S HEININ
Colosseum stands but on couches and reclin-
ers in their living rooms. Good luck to all of you.
We raise our beers to your health.
The answer to the essential question — How
is this safe? — appears to have been distilled
down to one word: protocols. Everyone is safe,
the leagues tell us, because we have these
protocols.
The NBA and MLS are ensconced in “bub-
bles” at Disney World outside Orlando. The
WNBA has its “wubble” across the state in
Bradenton, Fla. The NHL soon will be housed
in a pair of “hubs” north of the border in
Toronto and Edmonton. Each sport’s proto-
cols, to varying degrees, restrict players’ move-
ments and limit contact with the outside
world.
“I guess everyone is just kind of writing the
playbook as you go,” Washington Capitals
winger Tom Wilson said. “I think everybody in
the whole world is doing that now.”
Baseball, on the other hand, is going for-
ward with 30 teams in 30 stadiums, with travel
(on a limited basis) between cities and no
explicit restrictions on player behavior away
from the ballpark. Teams will be charged with
policing themselves, under what players have
taken to calling an honor system.
And how is this safe? Because protocols.
Baseball issued a 113-page 2020 operations
manual, covering everything from spitting
(banned) to dugout seating (socially dis-
tanced) to coronavirus testing (frequent).
Leaving aside the thorny and complex ethi-
cal question of running thousands of coronavi-
rus tests per day and turning around the
results in 24 to 48 hours — at a time when parts
of the nation are experiencing shortages of
tests and severe delays in receiving results — it
is already clear the protocols are not going to be
enough to keep the coronavirus out of sports.
MLS already has seen a match between D.C.
United and Toronto FC postponed just before
kickoff, and two other teams — Nashville SC
and FC Dallas — withdrew from the tourna-
ment after multiple positive tests. With less
than a week until MLB’s Opening Day, the
District’s coronavirus regulations raised ques-
tions about whether the Washington Nationals
would play their home games at Nationals
Park, and the Blue Jays were told they couldn’t
play home games in Toronto.
The list of athletes who already tested posi-
tive — before reporting to their teams —
includes Freddie Freeman of the Atlanta
Braves, Auston Matthews of the Toronto Maple
Leafs and Russell Westbrook of the Houston
Rockets. Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman test-
ed positive a week into summer camp. At least
two NBA players tested positive after arriving
in Orlando (though before clearing the manda-
tory quarantine process).
The biggest question, then, isn’t how will
this go — but how long will it last? Florida,
home to the MLS, NBA and WNBA bubbles, has
seen the biggest spike of coronavirus cases in
the United States. California, home to five MLB
teams, recently set a one-day record of new
cases. Within MLB it is seen as something of a
fait accompli that the sport will have to shut
down operations again before the finish line.
And if MLB doesn’t do it, the players will.
“We have an opportunity to bring joy to a lot
of people that are home through these tough
times,” Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony
Rizzo said. “But we’re all human. If guys start
testing positive left and right and this thing
gets out of control, I’m sure you’ll see some
guys opt out.”
The best advice for sports fans this summer
might be: Embrace it. Embrace the madness,
the strangeness, the weirdness of it all. Because
things are going to get weird. This will be
unlike anything we have seen before and hope-
fully ever will see again.
And if you’re still wondering, amid every-
thing going on in the world, whether it’s okay to
boo the Astros this summer — even though
they won’t hear you amid the fake, piped-in
crowd noise in their empty stadium — the
answer is: Yes, of course it is.
dave.sheinin@washpost.com
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Baseball players such as Nationals right-hander Stephen Strasburg will be encouraged to keep their distance from each other at the ballpark. Games will look different this season after some tweaks to the rules.

If MLB isn’t safe, this season might be out

Baseball games mostly will take place in home ballparks, but sport has implemented major rule changes to navigate pandemic
BY G ENE W ANG
When Major League Baseball and its play-
ers’ union announced last month that a
shortened 2020 season would be held, signifi-
cant rule changes were included.
As Opening Day approaches this week, here
is a look at some of the more notable modifica-
tions — with an eye toward health and safety,
particularly given the compressed regular
season — intended to help the sport navigate
the novel coronavirus pandemic.
In the game
Universal designated hitter: Teams in both
the National League and the American League
will use a designated hitter for all games,
including the playoffs.
Implementation of a universal DH is in-
tended in part to serve as an additional
precaution for starting pitchers to remain
healthy.
Runner on second in extra innings: For
the regular season only, a runner will begin on
second base at the start of each half-inning
after a game heads to extra innings. The
runner will be the player in the batting order
— or a substitute for such player — immediate-
ly preceding that half-inning’s leadoff hitter.
A pitcher allowing a designated runner to
score will not be assessed an earned run.
MLB has been experimenting with a runner
on second to start each half-inning of extra
innings throughout the minor leagues since
2018.
Over two minor league seasons with the
rule in place, according to data from Baseball
America, 73 percent of extra-inning games
produced a resolution after one extra inning.
In the two years before the new rule, only
45 percent of extra-inning games were re-
solved after one extra inning.
Position players may pitch at any time:
Before the suspension of spring training be-
cause of the coronavirus outbreak, the sport
had intended to alter the rules to allow
position players to pitch only if a game were in
extra innings or if the player’s team were
ahead or behind by at least seven runs.
Resumption of unofficial games: Games
that do not go five complete innings because
of weather issues can be suspended and
restarted from the same point at a later date.
Health and safety
No spitting: For obvious reasons.
Physical distancing: Players and managers
are to remain an appropriate distance from
umpires and the opposing team whenever
possible.
Players or managers who come within six
feet of an umpire or opposing player to argue
or to engage in an altercation are subject to
ejection and subsequent discipline by MLB,
without regard for the truncated schedule.
Players on opposite teams should not so-
cialize or come within six feet of one another
before the game, during warmups, in between
innings or after games.
Equipment: Hitters must use their own
pine tar, bat doughnuts and other accessories
in the on-deck circle. They also must retrieve
their own caps, gloves and sunglasses from the
dugout if an inning ends with them on base.
Pitchers are required to bring their own
rosin bag to the mound and use baseballs
exclusive to them for bullpen sessions. They
are not permitted to lick their fingers, but they
may bring a wet rag to the pitching rubber to
moisten their fingers.
Any baseball that is put in play and touched
by multiple players will be removed and
exchanged for a new ball. After an out, players
are discouraged from throwing the ball
around the infield.
Batting practice baseballs are to be used for
one day only; they must then be cleaned,
sanitized and stored for at least five days.
Roster size: Teams will be permitted to
carry 30 players for the first two weeks of the
regular season but must trim their active
roster to 28 after two weeks and to 26 two
weeks after that. Active rosters will then be
capped at 26 players through the end of the
regular season and postseason.
Injured lists: Players placed on the injured
list will be inactive for a minimum of 10 days, a
revision of a rule change implemented before
the originally scheduled season that would
have required injured pitchers to be inactive
for at least 15 days. The 60-day injured list for
players with long-term injuries is now the
45-day injured list.
There will be a separate injured list, with no
minimum or maximum stay, for players who
test positive for the coronavirus or are con-
firmed to have been exposed to somebody who
tested positive.
A player must be on the active roster by
Sept. 15 to be eligible to participate in the
postseason.
gene.wang@washpost.com

For some National League clubs, a DH truly could become a game-changer

BY N EIL G REENBERG
For the first time, National
League teams will feature a desig-
nated hitter in all games, not just
in interleague games in American
League ballparks. It’s a big change
for this season, and it gives some
NL teams a significant advantage.
The difference between a pitch-
er and a position player batting in
the lineup is huge. From 2006, the
year Major League Baseball ad-
opted sport-wide drug testing, to
2019, NL pitchers batted .134 with
a .338 on-base-plus-slugging per-
centage. The league’s position
players hit .264 with a .757 OPS
over that span.
Some teams will adapt to the
DH better than others. To find out
which teams will benefit the
most, it is a matter of looking at
the options for each club and
focusing on the players expected
to be the team’s designated hitter
once rosters are set for Opening
Day. The projections are from
FanGraphs and are adjusted for
potential playing time.
The rankings listed here are
sorted by the team’s projected
weighted runs above average
from players expected to be the
designated hitter compared with
what the team earned from its
pitchers in 2019. The higher the
net difference, the higher the
ranking. For example, the Atlanta
Braves were last in the league last
year for wRAA produced by their
pitchers (60.7 weighted runs be-
low average) but are expected to
earn 7.6 weighted runs above av-
erage from designated hitters in
2020, giving them the highest
projected turnaround this year.
1. Atlanta Braves
2020 projection: net difference
of 68 weighted runs above average
Marcell Ozuna signed a one-
year, $18 million contract as a
replacement for power-hitting
Josh Donaldson and is likely to
get most of the DH at-bats for
Atlanta. Ozuna hit .241 with
29 home runs and 12 stolen bases
for the St. Louis Cardinals last
season. He is in line to be the
third-most-valuable hitter on the
Braves in 2020, per FanGraphs’
weighted on-base average projec-
tion.
Adam Duvall will also get time
in the DH spot, especially after
Nick Markakis, a Silver Slugger
winner in 2018, opted out of the
2020 season. Duvall set a career
high for OPS (.882) last season in
limited duty (41 games and
130 plate appearances).
Austin Riley will be in the mix,
too. The 23-year-old made his
major league debut last season
and hit 18 home runs in 80 games
with a roughly 60/40 split against
right- (11) and left-handed (seven)
pitching.
2. Washington Nationals
2020 projection: net difference
of 61 weighted runs above average
The Nationals have one of the
oldest rosters of hitters in base-
ball (29.6 years) and benefit great-
ly from the universal DH rule.
World Series hero Howie Kend-
rick and Eric Thames should get a
bulk of the starts, but expect Man-
ager Dave Martinez to use As-
drúbal Cabrera, Starlin Castro
and Carter Kieboom in this role,
too.
Kendrick is coming off a terrific
year — the 37-year-old batted .344
with 17 home runs and 62 RBI. His
.966 OPS was 42 percent higher
than the league average — and he
is projected to have the second-
highest weighted on-base average
for the team in 2020 after 21-year-
old phenom Juan Soto. Thames
hit 25 home runs in 2019 for the
Milwaukee Brewers, six shy of his
career high, and saw an above-av-
erage rate of 3-0 counts. Cabrera
hit .323 with six home runs for
Washington in 38 games last year.
Castro, a versatile middle infield-
er, batted .323 with an .881 OPS
against left-handed pitching for
the Miami Marlins in 2019. And
Kieboom gets a chance to be the
everyday third baseman but could
see time at DH as well.
3. Chicago Cubs
2020 projection: net difference
of 60 weighted runs above aver-
age
Kyle Schwarber is poised to be
the best designated hitter in the
league after hitting 38 home runs
in 2019 while also creating runs at
a rate that was 20 percent higher
than average after taking into
account league and park effects
(120 wRC+).
Outfielders Steven Souza Jr.,
Albert Almora Jr. and Ian Happ
also will take turns at DH when
not playing in the field. Souza
spent a down year with Arizona in
2018 (.220 batting average with a
.678 OPS) and missed 2019 with a
left knee injury. Yet his exit veloci-
ty remained steady two years ago,
and he appeared to have trouble
with his launch angle (career-
high 16.1 degrees, leading to many
pop flies), which could get cor-
rected during a healthy 2020. Al-
mora doesn’t hit for average, but
he did hit 12 home runs in 2019,
with all but two at the expense of
right-handed pitchers. Happ’s
third season in the majors wasn’t
flashy, but he hit .264 with 11
home runs in 58 games.
Catchers Willson Contreras
and Victor Caratini also both
could be in the lineup on the same
day. Contreras hit .272 with 24
home runs in 105 games last sea-
son and could be the DH when
Caratini is behind the plate catch-
ing Yu Darvish.
neil.greenberg@washpost.com
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Right-hander Max Scherzer and the Nationals will have little margin for error when MLB’s shortened 60-game season begins this week. A slow start for the second straight year may prove difficult to overcome.

Nats find it’s worth repeating

MLB’s short season might not be a true test, but result should be just as satisfying for the champions if they make it back to the top

BY J ESSE D OUGHERTY title after it was found that they used illegal without shortstop Trea Turner, third baseman n ation aLs ’ s ch ed uLe
sign-stealing tactics? Pushed out of the dis- Anthony Rendon, left fielder Juan Soto, first
The pitcher who threw baseball’s last course this spring, but their time will come. baseman Ryan Zimmerman and Matt Adams,
meaningful pitch, then threw his glove into When the Nationals won in October, beat- Zimmerman’s backup. A bunch of injuries hit July
history, is unsure whether this experiment ing the Astros in seven games, they also all at once, forcing Manager Dave Martinez to
can rightly crown a champion. earned a shot at going back-to-back. Then roll out spring training-caliber lineups. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
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Washington Nationals nine months ago with veteran Nationals catcher, when asked wheth- benefited from another team’s misfortune. 26 27 28 29 30 31
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He pitched the last third of 2019 with a It’s survival of the fittest, who can last the full right fielder Trent Grisham, Yelich’s replace- 1
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they were far from the playoff picture, and A hot start could mean absolutely nothing gional travel will heighten those concerns.
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context and when, where and to whom an winter. “And we were really tired, emotionally “I can’t tell you how whoever is there at the 27 28 29 30
asterisk should be applied. Records and and physically. It makes you appreciate every end is going to feel about it, if they’re going to nym
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the majors in 1947? Up for discussion. The So there’s also a lot of chance involved. At “But if we’re standing at the end, I’ll probably
home run records of the Steroid Era? Aster- one point early last season, while they tum- be just as happy as I was last year.” Home games shaded
isks for everyone. The Houston Astros’ 2017 bled down the standings, the Nationals were jesse.dougherty@washpost.com Radio: WJfK (106.7 fm)
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MLB’s unbalanced schedule might help the rich get richer

Dodgers, Yankees, Twins already were among World Series favorites, and they will only benefit from a 60-game slate against regional opponents
BY N EIL G REENBERG
Major League Baseball is set to
conduct a 60-game regular sea-
son that is scheduled to begin
Thursday and conclude Sept. 27.
Though negotiations between
MLB and its players’ union in-
cluded discussions about an ex-
panded postseason, the playoffs
still will feature the usual
10 teams — six division winners
plus two wild-card teams from
each league.
To limit health risks and mini-
mize travel amid the novel coro-
navirus pandemic, teams will re-
main in their regions, only play-
ing against members of their
division and the opposite league’s
corresponding division (National
League East vs. American League
East, NL Central vs. AL Central,
NL West vs. AL West). Each team
will play 10 games against each of
its four division foes for a total of
40 games. The remaining
20 games will be played against
teams from the corresponding
division in the other league.
Two of the biggest beneficia-
ries of the unbalanced schedule
are the Los Angeles Dodgers and
the New York Yankees. Both were
already expected to contend for
the World Series title in 2020, and
now they each face a relatively
easy slate.
All predicted records used in
this analysis were derived using
the average of projection systems
from Baseball Prospectus, Daven-
port, FiveThirtyEight and Fan-
Graphs for a traditional 162-game
season.
The addition of outfielder
Mookie Betts in an offseason
trade with the Boston Red Sox
gives the Dodgers one of base-
ball’s most formidable lineups.
The 2018 AL MVP and three-time
Silver Slugger joins reigning NL
MVP Cody Bellinger to give Los
Angeles a remarkable one-two
punch.
Betts batted .295 with 29 home
runs last year, creating runs at a
rate that was 35 percent higher
than average after taking into
account league and park effects
(135 wRC+). Bellinger hit .305
with 47 home runs, creating runs
at a rate that was 62 percent
higher than average (162 wRC+).
Add in Corey Seager, Justin Turn-
er, Max Muncy and Gavin Lux,
and you have what should be the
best offense of 2020.
Ace Clayton Kershaw might
not instill fear as he used to, but
the 32-year-old future Hall of
Famer struck out 26.8 percent of
the batters he faced in 2019 and
still has a dominant curveball.
Last season, opponents managed
just a .177 batting average against
his breaking ball, with 47 strike-
outs in 113 at-bats ending on
the pitch.
Of the Dodgers’ nine 2020
opponents, five are expected to
finish below .500 — three from
the NL West (the Arizona Dia-
mondbacks, Colorado Rockies
and San Francisco Giants) and
two from the AL West (the Texas
Rangers and Seattle Mariners).
The Dodgers were projected to
win 100 of 162 games (a .617 win-
ning percentage); that will now
tick up to 38 wins in 60 games
(.633). They also have a 34 per-
cent chance of reaching or ex-
ceeding the 40-win plateau,
marking them as World Series
contenders.
The Yankees signed right-
hander Gerrit Cole in the offsea-
son, giving them the ace they had
been seeking. Cole, expected to be
the most valuable pitcher in base-
ball per FanGraphs’ calculation
of wins above replacement, was
the runner-up in AL Cy Young
voting last year after going 20-5
with a league-leading 2.50 ERA
for the Houston Astros. He also
struck out 326 batters in 2121/3 in-
nings, giving him the highest
strikeout rate (40 percent) in
baseball history. The 29-year-old
joins James Paxton, Masahiro
Tanaka, J.A. Happ and Jordan
Montgomery to give the Bronx
Harry How/getty Images Bombers one of the best rotations
The Dodgers acquired outfielder Mookie Betts in an offseason trade in baseball.
with the Red Sox to bolster one of the deepest lineups in the majors. Two key members of the Yan-
kees’ lineup, Giancarlo Stanton
and Aaron Judge, also got extra
time to get healthy and should be
ready for the revised Opening
Day, though Judge had been
bothered by a stiff neck earlier in
summer camp. Those two are
expected to help New York lead
the majors in home runs.
The Yankees were projected to
win 96 of 162 games (a .593 win-
ning percentage), giving them a
cushion of seven games over the
Tampa Bay Rays, their closest
division rival. With the unbal-
anced schedule, they are project-
ed to finish 36-24 (.600). Expect
the Yankees to win the AL East
and be the front-runner for the
AL pennant.
In the AL Central, the Minne-
sota Twins get a big boost. They
were expected to win 91 games
during a full regular season and
are now estimated to win 35
against the easiest schedule of
2020, boosting their playoff
chances from 58 to 69 percent.
But what makes the Twins a more
compelling pick is their division.
Only two other AL Central teams,
the Cleveland Indians and Chica-
go White Sox, are expected to be
playoff contenders. The division’s
other teams, the Kansas City Roy-
als and Detroit Tigers, are in
transition and will be lucky to
finish over .500.
neil.greenberg@washpost.com

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Thursday, July 23
N.Y. Yankees at Washington, 7
San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 10
Friday, July 24
Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 4:10
Detroit at Cincinnati, 6:10
Toronto at Tampa Bay, 6:40
Miami at Philadelphia, 7:05
Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 7:10
Kansas City at Cleveland, 7:10
Baltimore at Boston, 7:30
Colorado at Texas, 8:05
Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 8:10
Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 8:15
Seattle at Houston, 9:10
Arizona at San Diego, 9:10
San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40
L.A. Angels at Oakland, 10:10
saturday, July 25
Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 1:05
Baltimore at Boston, 1:35
Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 2:10
Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 2:15
Toronto at Tampa Bay, 3:10
Miami at Philadelphia, 4:05
Colorado at Texas, 4:05
Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 4:10
L.A. Angels at Oakland, 4:10
Seattle at Houston, 4:10
San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers 4:10
Kansas City at Cleveland, 5:10
Detroit at Cincinnati, 5:10
N.Y. Yankees at Washington, 7:15
Arizona at San Diego, 9:10
sunday, July 26
N.Y. Yankees at Washington, 1:05
Miami at Philadelphia, 1:05
Kansas City at Cleveland, 1:10
Detroit at Cincinnati, 1:10
Toronto at Tampa Bay, 1:10
Baltimore at Boston, 1:35
Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 2:10
Seattle at Houston, 2:10
Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 2:15
Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 2:20
Colorado at Texas, 2:35
Arizona at San Diego, 4:10
L.A. Angels at Oakland, 4:10
Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 7:08
San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 10:08
monday, July 27
L.A. Angels at Oakland, 3:40
Arizona at San Diego, 4:10
Toronto at Washington, 6:05
Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 6:40
Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 6:40
Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 7:05
N.Y. Yankees at Philadelphia, 7:05
Baltimore at Miami, 7:10
Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 7:10
Kansas City at Detroit, 7:10
Seattle at Houston, 7:10
N.Y. Mets at Boston, 7:35
Tuesday, July 28
Toronto at Washington, 4:05
N.Y. Yankees at Philadelphia, 6:05
Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 6:40
Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 6:40
Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Kansas City at Detroit, 7:10
Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 7:10
Baltimore at Miami, 7:10
N.Y. Mets at Boston, 7:30
St. Louis at Minnesota, 8:10
Arizona at Texas, 9:05
L.A. Dodgers at Houston, 9:10
Colorado at Oakland, 9:40
Seattle at L.A. Angels, 9:40
San Diego at San Francisco, 9:45
Wednesday, July 29
Colorado at Oakland, 3:40
Arizona at Texas, 4:05
Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 6:10
Washington at Toronto, 6:37
Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 6:40
Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Philadelphia at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 7:10
Kansas City at Detroit, 7:10
Boston at N.Y. Mets, 7:10
L.A. Dodgers at Houston, 7:10
Miami at Baltimore, 7:35
St. Louis at Minnesota, 8:10
San Diego at San Francisco, 9:45
Seattle at L.A. Angels, 10:10
Thursday, July 30
Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 6:10
Washington at Toronto, 6:37
Philadelphia at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 7:10
Kansas City at Detroit, 7:10
Cleveland at Minnesota, 7:15
Boston at N.Y. Mets, 7:15
Miami at Baltimore, 7:35
L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 9:40
Seattle at L.A. Angels, 9:40
San Diego at San Francisco, 9:45
Friday, July 31
St. Louis at Milwaukee, 2:10
Philadelphia at Toronto, 6:37
Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 7:10
Washington at Miami, 7:10
Cincinnati at Detroit, 7:10
Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 7:35
Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 8:05
Cleveland at Minnesota, 8:10
San Diego at Colorado, 8:10
Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 8:15
Houston at L.A. Angels, 9:10
Texas at San Francisco, 9:10
Oakland at Seattle, 9:40
L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 9:40
saturday, Aug. 1
Washington at Miami, 6:10
Cincinnati at Detroit, 6:10
Philadelphia at Toronto, 6:37
Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 7:05
N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 7:10
Cleveland at Minnesota, 7:10
St. Louis at Milwaukee, 7:10
Houston at L.A. Angels, 7:15
Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:15
Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 7:35
L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 8:10
San Diego at Colorado, 8:10
Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 8:15
Oakland at Seattle, 9:10
Texas at San Francisco, 9:10
sunday, Aug. 2
Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 1:05
N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 1:10
Cincinnati at Detroit, 1:10
Washington at Miami, 1:10
Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 2:05
Cleveland at Minnesota, 2:10
St. Louis at Milwaukee, 2:10
Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs, 2:20
Philadelphia at Toronto, 3:07
San Diego at Colorado, 3:10
Texas at San Francisco, 4:05
Oakland at Seattle, 4:10
L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 4:10
Houston at L.A. Angels, 4:10
Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:08
monday, Aug. 3
Cleveland at Cincinnati, 6:40
N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 7:10
St. Louis at Detroit, 7:10
N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 7:35
Pittsburgh at Minnesota, 8:10
Chicago White Sox at Milwaukee, 8:10
Kansas City at Chicago Cubs, 8:15
San Francisco at Colorado, 8:40
Oakland at Seattle, 9:10
L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 9:10
Tuesday, Aug. 4
St. Louis at Detroit, 1:10
Pittsburgh at Minnesota, 2:10
Cleveland at Cincinnati, 6:10
Boston at Tampa Bay, 6:40
N.Y. Mets at Washington, 7:05
Toronto at Atlanta, 7:10
Philadelphia at Miami, 7:10
N.Y. Yankees and Baltimore, 7:35
Chicago White Sox at Milwaukee, 8:10
Kansas City at Chicago Cubs, 8:15
San Francisco at Colorado, 8:40
Texas at Oakland, 9:10
L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 9:10
Houston at Arizona, 9:10
L.A. Angels at Seattle, 10:10
Wednesday, Aug. 5
N.Y. Mets at Washington, 6:05
Boston at Tampa Bay, 6:40
Minnesota at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Philadelphia at Miami, 7:10
Cincinnati at Cleveland, 7:10
Toronto at Atlanta, 7:10
N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 7:35
Chicago Cubs at Kansas City, 8:05
Milwaukee at Chicago White Sox, 8:10
Detroit at St. Louis, 8:15
San Francisco at Colorado, 8:40
Texas at Oakland, 9:10
Houston at Arizona, 9:10
L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 9:10
L.A. Angels at Seattle, 9:40
Thursday, Aug. 6
Minnesota at Pittsburgh, 1:35
San Francisco at Colorado, 3:10
Texas at Oakland, 3:40
L.A. Angels at Seattle, 4:10
Cincinnati at Cleveland, 6:10
N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 6:40
Toronto at Atlanta, 7:10
Philadelphia at Miami, 7:10
Chicago Cubs at Kansas City, 7:15
Houston at Arizona, 7:15
Milwaukee at Chicago White Sox, 8:10
Detroit at St. Louis, 8:15
Friday, Aug. 7
Baltimore at Washington, 6:05
N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 6:40
Detroit at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Atlanta at Philadelphia, 7:05
Miami at N.Y. Mets, 7:10
Toronto at Boston, 7:30
Minnesota at Kansas City, 8:05
Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 8:10
Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 8:10
Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 8:15
L.A. Angels at Texas, 9:05
Houston at Oakland, 9:10
Arizona at San Diego, 9:10
Colorado at Seattle, 9:40
San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40
saturday, Aug. 8
Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 2:10
Detroit at Pittsburgh, 4:05
Houston at Oakland, 4:10
Atlanta at Philadelphia, 6:05
Baltimore at Washington, 6:05
N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 6:40
L.A. Angels at Texas, 7:05
Minnesota at Kansas City, 7:05
Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 7:10
Miami at N.Y. Mets, 7:10
Toronto at Boston, 7:30
Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 8:15
Colorado at Seattle, 9:10
San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10
Arizona at San Diego, 9:10
sunday, Aug. 9
Baltimore at Washington, 12:35
Atlanta at Philadelphia, 1:05
Miami at N.Y. Mets, 1:10
N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 1:10
Toronto at Boston, 1:35
Detroit at Pittsburgh, 1:35
Minnesota at Kansas City, 2:05
Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 2:10
Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 2:10
L.A. Angels at Texas, 2:35
Houston at Oakland, 4:10
San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 4:10
Colorado at Seattle, 4:10
Arizona at San Diego, 4:10
Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 7:08
monday, Aug. 10
Atlanta at Philadelphia, 6:05
Washington at N.Y. Mets, 7:10
Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 7:10
Tampa Bay at Boston, 7:30
Minnesota at Milwaukee, 8:10
Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 8:15
Arizona at Colorado, 8:40
Seattle at Texas, 9:05
San Francisco at Houston, 9:10
Oakland at L.A. Angels, 9:40
San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40
Tuesday, Aug. 11
Miami at Toronto, 6:37
Kansas City at Cincinnati, 6:40
Atlanta at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
Baltimore at Philadelphia, 7:05
Washington at N.Y. Mets, 7:10
Chicago Cubs at Cleveland, 7:10
Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 7:10
Tampa Bay at Boston, 7:30
Minnesota at Milwaukee, 8:10
Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 8:15
Arizona at Colorado, 8:40
Seattle at Texas, 9:05
San Francisco at Houston, 9:10
Oakland at L.A. Angels, 9:40
San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40
Wednesday, Aug. 12
Chicago White Sox at Detroit, 1:10
Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 2:15
Arizona at Colorado, 3:10
Oakland at L.A. Angels, 4:10
Chicago Cubs at Cleveland, 6:10
Miami at Toronto, 6:37
Kansas City at Cincinnati, 6:40
Atlanta at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
Baltimore at Philadelphia, 7:05
Washington at N.Y. Mets, 7:10
Minnesota at Milwaukee, 7:10
San Francisco at Houston, 7:10
Tampa Bay at Boston, 7:30
Seattle at Texas, 9:05
San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40
Thursday, Aug. 13
Washington at N.Y. Mets, 1:10
Baltimore at Philadelphia, 4:05
Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 4:05
Tampa Bay at Boston, 4:30
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 5:10
St. Louis at Chicago White Sox, 7:15
San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40
Friday, Aug. 14
Tampa Bay at Toronto, 6:37
Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 7:05
Atlanta at Miami, 7:10
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 7:10
Cleveland at Detroit, 7:10
Washington at Baltimore, 7:35
Kansas City at Minnesota, 8:10
Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 8:15
Texas at Colorado, 8:40
Seattle at Houston, 9:10
L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, 9:40
San Diego at Arizona, 9:40
Oakland at San Francisco, 9:45
saturday, Aug. 15
St. Louis at Chicago White Sox, 2:10
N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 6:05
Atlanta at Miami, 6:10
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 6:10
Cleveland at Detroit, 6:10
Tampa Bay at Toronto, 6:37
Seattle at Houston, 7:10
Kansas City at Minnesota, 7:10
Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:15
Oakland at San Francisco, 7:15
Washington at Baltimore, 7:35
Texas at Colorado, 8:10
San Diego at Arizona, 8:10
Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 8:15
L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, 9:40
sunday, Aug. 16
N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 1:05
Washington at Baltimore, 1:05
Atlanta at Miami, 1:10
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 1:10
Cleveland at Detroit, 1:10
St. Louis at Chicago White Sox, 2:10
Seattle at Houston, 2:10
Kansas City at Minnesota, 2:10
Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 2:20
Tampa Bay at Toronto, 3:07
Texas at Colorado, 3:10
Oakland at San Francisco, 4:05
L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, 4:10
San Diego at Arizona, 4:10
Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:08
monday, Aug. 17
Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
Washington at Atlanta, 7:10
N.Y. Mets at Miami, 7:10
Toronto at Baltimore, 7:35
Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 8:10
Kansas City at Minnesota, 8:10
St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 8:15
San Diego at Texas, 9:05
Colorado at Houston, 9:10
San Francisco at L.A. Angels, 9:40
Oakland at Arizona, 9:40
Seattle at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40
Tuesday, Aug. 18
Colorado at Houston, 3:10
San Diego at Texas, 4:05
San Francisco at L.A. Angels, 4:10
Oakland at Arizona, 6:10
Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
N.Y. Mets at Miami, 7:10
Seattle at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10
Washington at Atlanta, 7:10
Philadelphia at Boston, 7:30
Toronto at Baltimore, 7:35
Cincinnati at Kansas City, 8:05
Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 8:10
Milwaukee at Minnesota, 8:10
St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 8:15
Wednesday, Aug. 19
Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
Philadelphia at Boston, 7:05
N.Y. Mets at Miami, 7:10
Washington at Atlanta, 7:10
Toronto at Baltimore, 7:35
Cincinnati at Kansas City, 8:05
Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 8:10
Milwaukee at Minnesota, 8:10
St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 8:15
Houston at Colorado, 8:40
Texas at San Diego, 9:10
L.A. Dodgers at Seattle, 9:40
Arizona at Oakland, 9:40
L.A. Angels at San Francisco, 9:45
Thursday, Aug. 20
Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05
Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 2:10
Houston at Colorado, 3:10
N.Y. Mets at Miami, 6:10
Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Boston at Baltimore, 7:35
L.A. Dodgers at Seattle, 7:10
Milwaukee at Minnesota, 7:10
Texas at San Diego, 8:10
Cincinnati at St. Louis, 8:15
Arizona at Oakland, 9:40
L.A. Angels at San Francisco, 9:45
Friday, Aug. 21
Miami at Washington, 6:05
Toronto at Tampa Bay, 6:40
Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Detroit at Cleveland, 7:10
N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, 7:10
Philadelphia at Atlanta, 7:10
Boston at Baltimore, 7:35
Minnesota at Kansas City, 8:05
Cincinnati at St. Louis, 8:15
Chicago White Sox at Chicago Cubs, 8:15
Texas at Seattle, 9:10
Houston at San Diego, 9:10
L.A. Angels at Oakland, 9:40
Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40
Arizona at San Francisco, 9:45
saturday, Aug. 22
Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 4:05
L.A. Angels at Oakland, 4:10
Miami at Washington, 6:05
Toronto at Tampa Bay, 6:40
Minnesota at Kansas City, 7:05
Detroit at Cleveland, 7:10
Philadelphia at Atlanta, 7:10
N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, 7:10
Boston at Baltimore, 7:35
Cincinnati at St. Louis, 8:15
Chicago White Sox at Chicago Cubs, 8:15
Texas at Seattle, 9:10
Houston at San Diego, 9:10
Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10
Arizona at San Francisco, 9:15
sunday, Aug. 23
Miami at Washington, 12:35
Boston at Baltimore, 1:05
N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, 1:10
Toronto at Tampa Bay, 1:10
Detroit at Cleveland, 1:10
Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 1:35
Minnesota at Kansas City, 2:05
Cincinnati at St. Louis, 2:15
Chicago White Sox at Chicago Cubs, 2:20
Texas at Seattle, 4:10
L.A. Angels at Oakland, 4:10
Houston at San Diego, 4:10
Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 4:10
Arizona at San Francisco, 4:10
Philadelphia at Atlanta, 7:08
monday, Aug. 24
Toronto at Tampa Bay, 3:10
Miami at Washington, 6:05
Chicago Cubs at Detroit, 7:10
Minnesota at Cleveland, 7:10
Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 8:10
Kansas City at St. Louis, 8:15
Oakland at Texas, 9:05
L.A. Angels at Houston, 9:10
Colorado at Arizona, 9:40
Tuesday, Aug. 25
Philadelphia at Washington, 6:05
Boston at Toronto, 6:37
Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 6:40
Minnesota at Cleveland, 7:10
N.Y. Yankees at Atlanta, 7:10
Chicago Cubs at Detroit, 7:10
Miami at N.Y. Mets, 7:10
Pittsburgh at Chicago White Sox, 8:10
Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 8:10
Kansas City at St. Louis, 8:15
Oakland at Texas, 9:05
Seattle at San Diego, 9:10
L.A. Angels at Houston, 9:10
Colorado at Arizona, 9:40
L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 9:45
Wednesday, Aug. 26
Pittsburgh at Chicago White Sox, 2:10
Philadelphia at Washington, 6:05
Boston at Toronto, 6:37
Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 6:40
Minnesota at Cleveland, 7:10
N.Y. Yankees at Atlanta, 7:10
Chicago Cubs at Detroit, 7:10
Miami at N.Y. Mets, 7:10
Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 8:10
Kansas City at St. Louis, 8:15
Oakland at Texas, 9:05
L.A. Angels at Houston, 9:10
Seattle at San Diego, 9:10
Colorado at Arizona, 9:40
L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 9:45
Thursday, Aug. 27
L.A. Angels at Houston, 3:10
Seattle at San Diego, 4:10
Colorado at Arizona, 6:10
Boston at Toronto, 6:37
Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 6:40
Minnesota at Detroit, 7:10
Miami at N.Y. Mets, 7:10
Philadelphia at Washington, 7:15
Oakland at Texas, 7:15
L.A. Dodgers at San Francisco, 8:05
Cincinnati at Milwaukee, 8:10
Friday, Aug. 28
Baltimore at Toronto, 6:37
Atlanta at Philadelphia, 7:05
N.Y. Mets at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
Tampa Bay at Miami, 7:10
Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 7:10
Minnesota at Detroit, 7:10
Washington at Boston, 7:30
Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 8:10
Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 8:10
Cleveland at St. Louis, 8:15
San Diego at Colorado, 8:40
L.A. Dodgers at Texas, 9:05
Oakland at Houston, 9:10
San Francisco at Arizona, 9:40
Seattle at L.A. Angels, 9:40
saturday, Aug. 29
N.Y. Mets at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05
Cleveland at St. Louis, 1:15
Atlanta at Philadelphia, 1:15
Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 2:10
Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 6:10
Tampa Bay at Miami, 6:10
Minnesota at Detroit, 6:10
Baltimore at Toronto, 6:37
L.A. Dodgers at Texas, 7:05
Oakland at Houston, 7:10
Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 7:10
Washington at Boston, 7:30
San Francisco at Arizona, 8:10
San Diego at Colorado, 8:10
Seattle at L.A. Angels, 9:40
sunday, Aug. 30
N.Y. Mets at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05
Tampa Bay at Miami, 1:10
Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 1:10
Minnesota at Detroit, 1:10
Washington at Boston, 1:35
Oakland at Houston, 2:10
Kansas City at Chicago White Sox, 2:10
Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 2:10
Cleveland at St. Louis, 2:15
L.A. Dodgers at Texas, 2:35
Baltimore at Toronto, 3:07
San Diego at Colorado, 3:10
Seattle at L.A. Angels, 4:10
San Francisco at Arizona, 4:10
Atlanta at Philadelphia, 7:08
monday, Aug. 31
Baltimore at Toronto, 2:07
Seattle at L.A. Angels, 4:10
St. Louis at Cincinnati, 6:40
Washington at Philadelphia, 7:05
Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
Atlanta at Boston, 7:30
Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 7:40
Cleveland at Kansas City, 8:05
Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 8:10
San Diego at Colorado, 9:40
Tuesday, sept. 1
Toronto at Miami, 6:40
St. Louis at Cincinnati, 6:40
Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
Washington at Philadelphia, 7:05
Atlanta at Boston, 7:30
N.Y. Mets at Baltimore, 7:35
Detroit at Milwaukee, 7:40
Cleveland at Kansas City, 8:05
Texas at Houston, 8:10
Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 8:10
San Francisco at Colorado, 8:40
Oakland at Seattle, 9:40
Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40
Wednesday, sept. 2
San Francisco at Colorado, 3:10
Toronto at Miami, 6:40
St. Louis at Cincinnati, 6:40
Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
Washington at Philadelphia, 7:05
Atlanta at Boston, 7:30
N.Y. Mets at Baltimore, 7:35
Detroit at Milwaukee, 7:40
Cleveland at Kansas City, 8:05
Texas at Houston, 8:10
Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 8:10
Oakland at Seattle, 9:40
San Diego at L.A. Angels, 9:40
Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40
Thursday, sept. 3
Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 1:35
Texas at Houston, 2:10
Washington at Philadelphia, 4:05
Oakland at Seattle, 4:10
San Diego at L.A. Angels, 7:10
Toronto at Boston, 7:30
Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 8:05
Arizona at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40
Friday, sept. 4
Miami at Tampa Bay, 6:40
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Milwaukee at Cleveland, 7:10
Washington at Atlanta, 7:10
Philadelphia at N.Y. Mets, 7:10
Toronto at Boston, 7:30
N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 7:35
Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 8:05
Detroit at Minnesota, 8:10
St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 8:15
Texas at Seattle, 9:10
Houston at L.A. Angels, 9:10
Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40
San Diego at Oakland, 9:40
Arizona at San Francisco, 9:45
saturday, sept. 5
San Diego at Oakland, 4:10
Miami at Tampa Bay, 6:40
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 7:05
Milwaukee at Cleveland, 7:10
Washington at Atlanta, 7:10
Detroit at Minnesota, 7:10
Philadelphia at N.Y. Mets, 7:10
Toronto at Boston, 7:30
N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 7:35
St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 8:15
Texas at Seattle, 9:10
Houston at L.A. Angels, 9:10
Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10
Arizona at San Francisco, 9:15
sunday, sept. 6
N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 1:05
Milwaukee at Cleveland, 1:10
Washington at Atlanta, 1:10
Philadelphia at N.Y. Mets, 1:10
Miami at Tampa Bay, 1:10
Toronto at Boston, 1:35
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 1:35
Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 2:05
Detroit at Minnesota, 2:10
Arizona at San Francisco, 4:05
Houston at L.A. Angels, 4:10
San Diego at Oakland, 4:10
Texas at Seattle, 4:10
St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 7:08
Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10
monday, sept. 7
Miami at Atlanta, 1:10
Philadelphia at N.Y. Mets, 1:10
Detroit at Minnesota, 2:10
St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 4:10
Texas at Seattle, 4:10
Tampa Bay at Washington, 6:05
Kansas City at Cleveland, 6:10
N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 6:37
Arizona at San Francisco, 8:05
Colorado at San Diego, 9:10
Houston at Oakland, 9:10
Tuesday, sept. 8
Tampa Bay at Washington, 6:05
Kansas City at Cleveland, 6:10
N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 6:37
Boston at Philadelphia, 7:05
Chicago White Sox at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Baltimore at N.Y. Mets, 7:10
Milwaukee at Detroit, 7:10
Miami at Atlanta, 7:10
Minnesota at St. Louis, 8:15
Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 8:15
L.A. Angels at Texas, 9:05
Colorado at San Diego, 9:10
Houston at Oakland, 9:10
L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 9:40
Seattle at San Francisco, 9:45
Wednesday, sept. 9
Boston at Philadelphia, 4:05
Kansas City at Cleveland, 6:10
N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 6:37
Chicago White Sox at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Baltimore at N.Y. Mets, 7:10
Milwaukee at Detroit, 7:10
Miami at Atlanta, 7:10
Colorado at San Diego, 8:10
Minnesota at St. Louis, 8:15
Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 8:15
L.A. Angels at Texas, 9:05
Houston at Oakland, 9:10
L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 9:40
Seattle at San Francisco, 9:45
Thursday, sept. 10
Houston at Oakland, 3:40
L.A. Angels at Texas, 4:05
Atlanta at Washington, 6:05
Kansas City at Cleveland, 6:10
Philadelphia at Miami, 6:40
Boston at Tampa Bay, 6:40
Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 8:15
San Francisco at San Diego, 9:10
L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 9:40
Friday, sept. 11
Atlanta at Washington, 6:05
N.Y. Mets at Toronto, 6:37
Boston at Tampa Bay, 6:40
Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
Philadelphia at Miami, 7:10
Pittsburgh at Kansas City, 8:05
Cleveland at Minnesota, 8:10
Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 8:10
Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 8:10
Cincinnati at St. Louis, 8:15
L.A. Angels at Colorado, 8:40
Oakland at Texas, 9:05
San Francisco at San Diego, 9:10
Seattle at Arizona, 9:40
saturday, sept. 12
Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05
Atlanta at Washington, 6:05
Philadelphia at Miami, 6:10
N.Y. Mets at Toronto, 6:37
Boston at Tampa Bay, 6:40
Pittsburgh at Kansas City, 7:05
Oakland at Texas, 7:05
Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 7:10
Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 7:10
Seattle at Arizona, 8:10
L.A. Angels at Colorado, 8:10
Cincinnati at St. Louis, 8:15
Cleveland at Minnesota, 8:15
Houston at L.A. Dodgers, 8:15
San Francisco at San Diego, 9:10
sunday, sept. 13
Atlanta at Washington, 12:35
Baltimore at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05
Philadelphia at Miami, 1:10
Boston at Tampa Bay, 1:10
Pittsburgh at Kansas City, 2:05
Detroit at Chicago White Sox, 2:10
Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 2:10
Cincinnati at St. Louis, 2:15
Oakland at Texas, 2:35
N.Y. Mets at Toronto, 3:07
L.A. Angels at Colorado, 3:10
Cleveland at Minnesota, 4:10
Seattle at Arizona, 4:10
San Francisco at San Diego, 4:10
Houston at L.A. Dodgers, TBD
monday, sept. 14
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 6:40
Boston at Miami, 6:40
Atlanta at Baltimore, 7:35
St. Louis at Milwaukee, 7:40
Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 8:10
L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 9:10
Tuesday, sept. 15
Washington at Tampa Bay, 6:40
Boston at Miami, 6:40
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 6:40
Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 7:05
Kansas City at Detroit, 7:10
Atlanta at Baltimore, 7:35
St. Louis at Milwaukee, 7:40
Texas at Houston, 8:10
Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 8:10
Cleveland at Chicago Cubs, 8:15
Oakland at Colorado, 8:40
L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 9:10
Arizona at L.A. Angels, 9:40
San Francisco at Seattle, 9:40
Wednesday, sept. 16
Washington at Tampa Bay, 3:10
Oakland at Colorado, 3:10
L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 4:10
Boston at Miami, 6:40
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 6:40
N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 7:05
Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
Kansas City at Detroit, 7:10
Atlanta at Baltimore, 7:35
St. Louis at Milwaukee, 7:40
Texas at Houston, 8:10
Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 8:10
Cleveland at Chicago Cubs, 8:15
Arizona at L.A. Angels, 9:40
San Francisco at Seattle, 9:40
Thursday, sept. 17
Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 2:10
Arizona at L.A. Angels, 4:10
N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 7:05
St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
Cleveland at Detroit, 7:10
Texas at Houston, 7:10
Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 7:35
L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 8:40
Friday, sept. 18
Toronto at Philadelphia, 7:05
St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Chicago White Sox at Cincinnati, 7:10
Washington at Miami, 7:10
Cleveland at Detroit, 7:10
Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 7:10
N.Y. Yankees at Boston, 7:30
Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 7:35
Arizona at Houston, 8:10
L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 8:10
Kansas City at Milwaukee, 8:10
Minnesota at Chicago Cubs, 8:15
Texas at L.A. Angels, 9:10
San Diego at Seattle, 9:40
San Francisco at Oakland, 9:40
saturday, sept. 19
San Francisco at Oakland, 4:10
Toronto at Philadelphia, 6:05
Chicago White Sox at Cincinnati, 6:10
Washington at Miami, 6:10
Cleveland at Detroit, 6:10
St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Arizona at Houston, 7:10
Kansas City at Milwaukee, 7:10
Texas at L.A. Angels, 7:15
Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 7:15
N.Y. Yankees at Boston, 7:30
Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 7:35
L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 8:10
Minnesota at Chicago Cubs, 8:15
San Diego at Seattle, 9:10
sunday, sept. 20
Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 1:05
Washington at Miami, 1:10
Chicago White Sox at Cincinnati, 1:10
Cleveland at Detroit, 1:10
Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 1:10
N.Y. Yankees at Boston, 1:35
Arizona at Houston, 2:10
Kansas City at Milwaukee, 2:10
Minnesota at Chicago Cubs, 2:20
L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, 3:10
Texas at L.A. Angels, 4:10
San Diego at Seattle, 4:10
San Francisco at Oakland, 4:10
St. Louis at Pittsburgh, TBD
Toronto at Philadelphia, TBD
monday, sept. 21
Philadelphia at Washington, 6:05
Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 6:10
N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 6:37
Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 6:40
Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Miami at Atlanta, 7:10
Tampa Bay at N.Y. Mets, 7:10
St. Louis at Kansas City, 8:05
Houston at Seattle, 9:10
Colorado at San Francisco, 9:45
Texas at L.A. Angels, TBD
Tuesday, sept. 22
Philadelphia at Washington, 6:05
Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 6:10
N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 6:37
Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 6:40
Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Tampa Bay at N.Y. Mets, 7:10
Miami at Atlanta, 7:10
Baltimore at Boston, 7:30
Detroit at Minnesota, 7:40
St. Louis at Kansas City, 8:05
L.A. Angels at San Diego, 9:10
Texas at Arizona, 9:10
Houston at Seattle, 9:10
Oakland at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40
Colorado at San Francisco, 9:45
Wednesday, sept. 23
L.A. Angels at San Diego, 4:10
Philadelphia at Washington, 6:05
Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 6:10
Texas at Arizona, 6:10
N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 6:37
Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 6:40
Houston at Seattle, 6:40
Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Miami at Atlanta, 7:10
Tampa Bay at N.Y. Mets, 7:10
Baltimore at Boston, 7:30
Detroit at Minnesota, 7:40
St. Louis at Kansas City, 8:05
Oakland at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40
Colorado at San Francisco, 9:45
Thursday, sept. 24
Colorado at San Francisco, 3:45
N.Y. Mets at Washington, 6:05
Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 6:10
N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 6:37
Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 7:05
Miami at Atlanta, 7:10
Baltimore at Boston, 7:30
Houston at Texas, 8:05
Detroit at Kansas City, 8:05
Milwaukee at St. Louis, 8:15
Oakland at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40
Friday, sept. 25
N.Y. Mets at Washington, 6:05
Baltimore at Toronto, 6:37
Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, 6:40
Miami at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05
Boston at Atlanta, 7:10
Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 7:10
Houston at Texas, 8:05
Detroit at Kansas City, 8:05
Cincinnati at Minnesota, 8:10
Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 8:10
Milwaukee at St. Louis, 8:15
L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 9:40
Seattle at Oakland, 9:40
Colorado at Arizona, 9:40
San Diego at San Francisco, 9:45
saturday, sept. 26
Miami at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05
Seattle at Oakland, 4:10
Baltimore at Toronto, 6:37
Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, 6:40
Houston at Texas, 7:05
Detroit at Kansas City, 7:05
Cincinnati at Minnesota, 7:10
Boston at Atlanta, 7:10
Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 7:10
Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 7:10
N.Y. Mets at Washington, 7:15
Milwaukee at St. Louis, 7:15
Colorado at Arizona, 8:10
L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10
San Diego at San Francisco, 9:15
sunday, sept. 27
Houston at Texas, 3:05
N.Y. Mets at Washington, 3:05
Detroit at Kansas City, 3:05
San Diego at San Francisco, 3:05
Miami at N.Y. Yankees, 3:05
Baltimore at Toronto, 3:07
Cincinnati at Minnesota, 3:10
Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, 3:10
L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 3:10
Boston at Atlanta, 3:10
Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, 3:10
Colorado at Arizona, 3:10
Seattle at Oakland, 3:10
Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 3:10
Milwaukee at St. Louis, 3:15
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sports preview

riCky CArioTi/THE WASHiNgToN PoST

The Capitals resume their quest for a second Stanley Cup in three years with round-robin games in Toronto next month. They must get used to playing in empty arenas and spending weeks away from loved ones.

Capitals are on the chase

Hockey in August is one of the many strange things about this year’s Stanley Cup playoffs, but the goal remains the same

BY SAMANTHA PELL
As the NHL tries to resume play Aug. 1 in
Toronto and Edmonton, 24 teams will enter a
hockey world unlike any they have known
before, with uncertainties that include quality
of play, time apart from families, restrictions
inside secure zones and, above all, the success
of the plan.
The Washington Capitals will head to
Toronto on Sunday with 11 other Eastern
Conference teams. The 12 teams returning
from the Western Conference will go to Ed-
monton. Players are preparing with a two-
week training camp that started July 13 after a
four-month layoff precipitated by the novel
coronavirus pandemic. After such a long break
and amid so many unknowns, the upcoming
Stanley Cup playoffs seem like even more of an
“anyone can win” event than usual.
Teams that thought they were carrying
much-needed momentum toward the postsea-
son suddenly saw everything halt when play
was paused March 12, and teams that were
struggling have been given fresh starts. In-
jured players were given four months to heal,
and certain teams that looked to be out of the
postseason picture have been given a chance to
play their way in. As Capitals General Manager
Brian MacLellan said recently, the 2020 post-
season should be “wildly entertaining.”
“It might not be perfect hockey right out of
the gate, but it never really is anyway in our
sport,” Capitals winger Tom Wilson said.
“There’s lots of bounces and stuff. So every-
body’s in a different position around the world.
We’re professional hockey players, and our job
is to get back and get as ready as we can to play
a playoff-type game out of the gate. And we’re
prepared in our room. Whether there’s adver-
sity or whatever, we’re ready to try and do
that.”
Just six players in the league have opted out
of participating in the return to play: Calgary’s
Travis Hamonic, Edmonton’s Mike Green, Bos-
ton’s Steven Kampfer, Montreal’s Karl Alzner,
Vancouver’s Sven Baertschi and Dallas’s
Roman Polak. But positive coronavirus tests
continue to pop up across the league, which is
releasing numbers weekly. Teams are barred
from reporting or commenting on why players
are absent from practice to keep the players’
medical information private.
“I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see if there’s
going to be more positive tests around the
league, maybe even here,” Capitals center Lars
Eller said. “I would not be surprised.”
Players are not on a strict lockdown off the
ice during training camp, but once teams
arrive in their hub cities, they will stay in a
designated secure zone for the length of their
postseason run. There are two hotels designat-
ed for teams in each of the two hub cities, and
hotel rooms have been assigned.
The Capitals will be staying in Hotel X in
Toronto with the Philadelphia Flyers, Pitts-
burgh Penguins, Tampa Bay Lightning and
Boston Bruins.
Details of life inside the hotel and the secure
zone are still being determined. Capitals wing-
er T.J. Oshie said the team isn’t sure of the
exact regulations, but he plans to spend a lot of
time on FaceTime with his young family. In a
typical postseason, players are accustomed to
constant travel back and forth from their
home cities to their opponents’ cities. But this
year, players on teams that advance past the
qualifying round will be away from family for
at least four weeks. Players on teams that reach
the Stanley Cup finals could be away until
October.
“For me, it’s going to be a lot of time on
FaceTime with the family, and it’s going to
suck,” Oshie said. “The worst part about this is
not being able to see our families, so hopefully
we’re able to just hang out with all the guys in
the rooms — if not right away, hopefully down
the road. But it’s going to be different; it’s going
to be weird. It’s going to kind of feel like you’re
a kid again and you can’t drive and you can’t do
anything.”
Oshie also joked that the Capitals probably
will be partaking in a lot of video games and
card games. Some live music also could be
arranged.
“Even though a lot of us have kids, we’re still
kids at heart,” Oshie said. “So there will be a lot
of video games. Typically, we’re a big Mario
Kart team, so you kind of get some competi-
tion and some fun with that. We definitely
have our card players. [Goaltender Braden
Holtby] plays the guitar, so I don’t even know if
we’re allowed to be in a room yet, but if we
could all get in a room and Holts just jams . . . .”
On the ice, the atmosphere also will be a
stark change because all games will be played
without fans. Wilson, who thrives on the
positive or negative energy from the crowd,
admitted, “It’s going to be extremely weird.”
“I think there will definitely be times when
it gets a little bit quiet out there, but I guess
we’ll just pretend that we’re playing in a rink
that has a little less atmosphere than we’re
privileged to have in D.C.,” Wilson said. The
winger also noted that, in a quiet arena, the
back-and-forth chatter on the ice is bound to
be heard.
“I’ll have to watch, I guess, what I’m saying,”
Wilson said. “Less F-words and stuff like that.”
Taking into account the unconventional on-
and off-ice circumstances that the restart
brings, there may be some discussion about
whether this year’s Stanley Cup champion is
legitimate. The Capitals dismiss that notion.
“I think every player knows, if you’re in this
and if you win it, it’s going to feel just as good as
winning any other Stanley Cup,” winger Carl
Hagelin said. “It’ll be different. This will prob-
ably be the most memorable in that sense —
there are a lot of obstacles you’ve got to get
through.”
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All Capitals round-robin games in Toronto.
Broadcast information to be announced.
NHL’s return to play explained
The NHL declared its regular season over in May
and decided to resume play with a modified
24-team competition to award the Stanley Cup.
Here’s how it will work:
Sunday: Teams travel to their respective hub
cities — Toronto (Eastern Conference) or
Edmonton (Western Conference).
July 28-30: Each team will play one exhibition
game in its hub city.
Aug. 1: Stanley Cup qualifiers begin in hub cities.
The top four teams in each conference based on
regular season standings play a three-game
round robin for seeding, while the next eight
teams in each conference play best-of-five series
to advance to the first round of the playoffs.
Aug. 11: The first round of the Stanley Cup
playoffs begins in hub cities. The eight remaining
teams in each conference will be reseeded and
play best-of-seven series.
Approx. Aug. 25: The second round of the
playoffs begins in hub cities. Best-of-seven series.
Approx. Sept. 8: The conference finals begin.
Best-of-seven series will be played in Edmonton.
Approx. Sept. 22: The Stanley Cup finals begin.
Best-of-seven series will be played in Edmonton.

NHL Sc Hedu Le

Saturday, Aug. 1
Carolina vs. N.Y. Rangers, noon
Edmonton vs. Chicago, 3
N.Y. Islanders vs. Florida, 4
Pittsburgh vs. Montreal, 8
Calgary vs. Winnipeg, 10:30
Sunday, Aug. 2
Nashville vs. Arizona, 2
*Boston vs. Philadelphia, 3
*Colorado vs. St. Louis, 6:30
Toronto vs. Columbus, 8
Vancouver vs. Minnesota, 10:30
Monday, Aug. 3
Carolina vs. N.Y. Rangers, noon
Calgary vs. Winnipeg, 2:30
*Tampa Bay vs. Washington, 4
*Vegas vs. Dallas, 6:30
Pittsburgh vs. Montreal, 8
Edmonton vs. Chicago, 10:30
Tuesday, Aug. 4
Florida vs. N.Y. Islanders, noon
Nashville vs. Arizona, 2:30
Toronto vs. Columbus, 4
Winnipeg vs. Calgary, 6:45
N.Y. Rangers vs. Carolina, 8
Vancouver vs. Minnesota, 10:45
Wednesday, Aug. 5
Florida vs. N.Y. Islanders, noon
Arizona vs. Nashville, 2:30
*Boston vs. Tampa Bay, 4
*Dallas vs. Colorado, 6:30
Montreal vs. Pittsburgh, 8
Chicago vs. Edmonton, 10:30
Thursday, Aug. 6
*Philadelphia vs. Washington, TBD
Columbus vs. Toronto, TBD
x-N.Y. Rangers vs. Carolina, TBD
*St. Louis vs. Vegas, TBD
Minnesota vs. Vancouver, TBD
x-Winnipeg vs. Calgary, TBD
Friday, Aug. 7
x-Columbus vs. Toronto, TBD
x-Florida vs. N.Y. Islanders, TBD
x-Montreal vs. Pittsburgh, TBD
x-Arizona vs. Nashville, TBD
x-Chicago vs. Edmonton, TBD
x-Vancouver vs. Minnesota, TBD
Saturday, Aug. 8
*Tampa Bay vs. Philadelphia, TBD
x-Carolina vs. N.Y. Rangers, TBD
x-Pittsburgh vs. Montreal, TBD
*Colorado vs. Vegas, TBD
x-Edmonton vs. Chicago, TBD
x-Calgary vs. Winnipeg, TBD
Sunday, Aug. 9
*Washington vs. Boston, TBD
x-Toronto vs. Columbus, TBD
x-N.Y. Islanders vs. Florida, TBD
*St. Louis vs. Dallas, TBD
x-Nashville vs. Arizona, TBD
x-Vancouver vs. Minnesota, TBD

* Round-robin game for seeding.

All other games are part of best-of-five qualifying series.
Games involving Eastern Conference teams will be played in Toronto.
Games involving Western Conference teams will be played in Edmonton.
Playoffs begin Aug. 11.
x - if necessary
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Troy Brown Jr., who has yet to turn 21, is expected to see more minutes when the shorthanded Wizards resume play. Coach Scott Brooks said he has been impressed with Brown’s conditioning in training camp.

For Wizards, it’s a kids’ game

With vital pieces including Beal unavailable for NBA’s restart, Brooks will look to younger players to lead long-shot playoff push

BY A VA W ALLACE
Some version of normalcy has begun to creep
back into the lives of the Washington Wizards,
even as they rounded out their second week in
the decidedly abnormal setting of the NBA’s
bubble in Florida. They’re back to the age-old
NBA pastime of playing cards — Uno for some,
while Coach Scott Brooks has learned to play
poker. They played five-on-five for the first time
last week. The soreness that accompanied high-
tempo practices after months off finally has
begun to abate.
If not for the constant presence of masks as
he walks around the NBA’s campus at Disney
World and intermittent reminders of Florida’s
swelling novel coronavirus caseload, Brooks
might be able to trick himself into thinking he is
on an extended road trip.
“A lot of it’s the same. You get to be around a
bunch of great athletes that love the game as
much as I do — that’s definitely what I like
about each day,” Brooks said while staring into a
camera in a hotel hallway during a virtual news
conference. “We get [basketball] back now. It’s
been gone, and we missed it for four months.”
The Wizards will officially welcome basket-
ball back when they face the Phoenix Suns on
July 31 in the first of eight additional regular
season games during which they will try to
make an improbable playoff push. Standing
51/2 games behind the Orlando Magic and six
games behind the Brooklyn Nets, ninth-place
Washington (24-40) needs to get within four
games of the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Confer-
ence to force a play-in round for a chance to
reach the postseason.
But before then, the Wizards will scrimmage
the Denver Nuggets (on Wednesday), the Los
Angeles Clippers (on Saturday) and the Los
Angeles Lakers (on Monday), all the while
trying to iron out the major uncertainty that
surrounds them even as things return to their
natural order: their rotations.
With starting guard Bradley Beal and sec-
ond-unit leader Davis Bertans sitting out the
NBA’s restart, Brooks’s favorite buzzword in the
bubble has been “opportunity.” Opportunities
abound for young guards such as Troy Brown
Jr. and Jerome Robinson to rack up minutes
and impress their coach. There is also the
opportunity for Brooks to try new things in an
effort to make up for the 45.9 points and
34.2 shots per game Beal and Bertans com-
bined to average this season.
“Nobody’s really stood out — that’s not bad;
just everybody’s hustling and playing together,”
Brooks said. “It’s been a great environment. It’s
been fun. It’s great to be around our guys. The
rotations aren’t set now; there’s minutes to be
had. We’re probably going to wait until the last
exhibition game to figure all that out.”
While promising that nothing is set in stone,
Brooks said Thursday that if he had to choose
immediately, Shabazz Napier would earn the
nod as the starting point guard over Ish Smith,
whom Brooks liked marshaling the second unit
this season. The Wizards could be looking at a
starting five of Napier, Brown, Isaac Bonga at
small forward, Rui Hachimura at power for-
ward and Thomas Bryant or Ian Mahinmi
at center.
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rus and did not travel to Florida with the rest of
the team, arrived in the bubble Wednesday but
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have John Wall [who remains out with an
Achilles’ injury]; now we don’t have Brad, so we All NBA games in Kissimmee, Fla.
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the team,” Brooks said. “. . . We want to help
each other score. Brad does such a good job of — communication and confidence have im-
he can create instant offense for himself, or he proved. He has praised Brown’s tiptop condi-
can help his teammates score with his passing tioning — and noted that he will need it when
ability.” the regular season resumes.
While trying to maximize the players he does Brown, who has averaged 24.9 minutes this
have, Brooks also faces the careful task of season and could see more in Florida, is well
developing the group’s less experienced mem- aware.
bers — which is one of the team’s primary goals “You know how the NBA works. I’m sad for
while in Florida. Brad’s injury, and it just sucks that he’s not here
The Wizards already were one of the greener with us, but at the end of the day we have to go
teams in the league with Beal and Bertans out and do our jobs,” Brown said. “. . . It’s one of
available. Without them, Brooks has overseen those things where we have a lot of guys
scrappy, high-energy practices as the young through the age of 20 to 23, you know? It’s a lot
players compete for minutes. Brooks said he of opportunity with him and [Bertans] being
has been impressed by the toughness and gone. We have to find people that can fill that
defensive focus of guard Jerian Grant, whom role scoring. I definitely feel like it’s going to be
Washington signed as a stopgap when Bertans a huge opportunity for a lot of us.”
opted out. He has noticed that Hachimura’s ava.wallace@washpost.com

Disrupted championship contenders don’t want to hear about any asterisks

BY B EN G OLLIVER
The Milwaukee Bucks were
deep into a joyride season when
the novel coronavirus intervened
to spoil a long list of promising
narratives.
Giannis Antetokounmpo was
tracking toward his second con-
secutive MVP award and was a
favorite to be the defensive player
of the year. The Bucks held the
NBA’s best record and were on
pace to claim home-court advan-
tage throughout the playoffs.
Their finely tuned offense was
electric, poised to land the fran-
chise’s first NBA Finals berth
since 1974. Their defense was
suffocating, with motivated vet-
erans seeking redemption for a
flameout in the 2019 Eastern Con-
ference finals.
But play abruptly stopped
March 11, leaving Milwaukee and
other top contenders such as the
Los Angeles Lakers and Los Ange-
les Clippers in limbo. For Ante-
tokounmpo, the months-long
shutdown meant more free time
with his newborn son, Liam, and
an opportunity to reflect on and
participate in the country’s social
justice protests. The time off shat-
tered schedules and routines,
even temporarily stranding Ante-
tokounmpo without court access,
and it prompted talk that this
year’s champions would face an
asterisk because of the unprece-
dented midseason disruption.
Now the NBA’s upcoming re-
sumption of play at a restricted
campus near Orlando has forced
another round of adjustments.
Antetokounmpo had to pre-
pare to enter a quarantined bub-
ble and spend at least a month
away from his son and girlfriend.
The Bucks must recapture their
exceptional chemistry without
home-court advantage and with
only a few weeks of team training
sessions, which couldn’t com-
mence until the squad landed in
Florida, per the NBA’s health and
safety protocols. And the organi-
zation must refocus on its goal of
winning the title while living and
playing through the threat of a
deadly virus that has led to at
least 135,000 deaths in the United
States.
“This is going to be the tough-
est championship you could ever
win,” Antetokounmpo said before
he left Milwaukee for the bubble,
dismissing asterisk talk. “The cir-
cumstances are really, really
tough right now. Whoever wants
it more will be able to go out there
and take it.”
The Bucks are hardly alone in
seeking to reframe the adverse
circumstances. If outsiders view
the coronavirus crisis, the sched-
ule shutdown and the bubble
uncertainty as reasons to invali-
date the playoffs, the NBA’s top
contenders interpret them as ad-
ditional motivation and, perhaps,
a badge of honor.
“[Adam Silver] said the team
that wins this will deserve a gold
star, not an asterisk,” Clippers
Coach Doc Rivers said, recalling a
recent conversation he had with
the NBA commissioner. “Whoev-
er comes out of this, it’s going to
come down to [mental tough-
ness]. There’s going to be so many
things that are thrown at us that
we don’t even know yet.”
The Clippers expect to have
their full roster available in the
bubble, but the Bucks and Lakers
are facing some uncertainty.
Bucks guard Eric Bledsoe tested
positive for the coronavirus and
as of this past weekend had not
joined the team in the Orlando
area. The Lakers will be without
guard Avery Bradley, who chose
to sit out the resumed season
because of family health con-
cerns, and guard Rajon Rondo
will miss a minimum of six weeks
after he injured his thumb in
practice. The Lakers, who were
the West’s top seed before the
shutdown, signed guard J.R.
Smith, who won a title alongside
LeBron James on the Cleveland
Cavaliers, to fill Bradley’s spot.
“Our team has been through a
lot this year,” Lakers Coach Frank
Vogel said recently, making a
glancing reference to Kobe Bry-
ant’s death in January. “We’ve
endured and come out strong
each time we’ve faced adversity. If
we’re able to come through all of
this and achieve the ultimate
prize, I do think it deserves a
‘harder than ordinary’ asterisk if
you’re going to put an asterisk on
it. I don’t think it weakens it at all.
It only strengthens it.”
While the NBA invited
22 teams to Florida, the Lakers,
Bucks and Clippers are still the
clear favorites to win the champi-
onship. James, who is seeking his
fourth title, returned to practice
this month and remains their
leader in the bubble.
Antetokounmpo is pursuing
the first title of his career, while
Clippers star Kawhi Leonard
aims to win his third champion-
ship with three franchises. The
Clippers could benefit from the
extra time off; Leonard and all-
star forward Paul George had
their minutes limited this season
after they dealt with significant
injuries in recent years.
The Bucks, Lakers and Clip-
pers traveled to Disney World
with the rest of the returning
teams earlier this month, and the
Lakers and Clippers will help
resume play in one of the two
games scheduled for the first day
of the restart, July 30. If the
bubble holds up and play contin-
ues on schedule, contenders will
remain in the Orlando area until
a champion is crowned in mid-
October.
“I’ll use the Navy SEALs as an
example,” Rivers said. “They get
deployed and don’t know the situ-
ation; they don’t know when ex-
actly they’re going. But they keep
preparing, [and they’re ready]
when they’re called upon. The
way I’m looking at it with our
players [is very similar to that]. I
feel like we’re going to be de-
ployed for a mission in Orlando,
and we have to have great mental
toughness to finish it.”
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NBA’s Disney bubble is a whole new world
As 22 teams prepare to play games near Orlando starting next week, the experiment requires some explaining
BY B EN G OLLIVER
After some dreary months with only
conference calls and virtual meetings on
the calendar, the NBA is finally almost
ready to resume play at Disney World.
The 22 invited teams are scheduled to
play eight regular season games each
between July 30 and Aug. 14 at the ESPN
Wide World of Sports Complex near
Orlando. The games, which will be
played without fans at three gyms with-
in a protected bubble, will count toward
each team’s regular season record and
determine seeding for the playoffs,
which are scheduled to begin Aug. 17.
Here is a quick rundown of answers
to key questions as teams prepare to
take the court.
Why did the NBA decide to play
regular season games rather than skip
to the playoffs?
Money, rust and buzz.
Extending the regular season allows
the NBA, which is facing more than
$1 billion in lost revenue since it went on
hiatus March 11, to air dozens of games
on national television. Adding the
games also will help participating teams
surpass 70 games played for the season,
a key benchmark for satisfying the
terms of their local television deals.
By the time the games begin, players
will be more than four months removed
from their last regular season games — a
longer layoff than the typical offseason.
Playing regular season games offers a
ramp-up between an abbreviated train-
ing camp in Florida and the start of the
postseason.
The additional regular season games
also enabled the NBA to expand past
16 teams, thereby engaging a larger
number of fan bases by creating chases
for the final playoff spots.
What’s at stake during the regular
season games?
Home-court advantage will be a non-
factor in these playoffs because all
games will be played at a neutral site, so
the top concern is who plays whom in
the first round. With so many tight races
for seeding in both conferences, all eight
first-round matchups remain unsettled.
There is also a new twist with the final
playoff spot in each conference. After
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saturday, Aug. 8
L.A. Clippers vs. Portland, 1
L.A. Clippers vs. L.A. Lakers, 9 Utah vs. Denver, 3:30
L.A. Lakers vs. Indiana, 6
Phoenix vs. Miami, 7:30
Friday, July 31 Milwaukee vs. Dallas, 8:30
The NBA’s Disney bubble will use three venues to play up to seven Orlando vs. Brooklyn, 2:30
Memphis vs. Portland, 4 sunday, Aug. 9
Team hotel Practice courts Broadcast/game courts
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Boston vs. Milwaukee, 6:30 Washington vs. Okla. City, 12:30
national television. Tip-off times will Sacramento vs. San Antonio, 8 Memphis vs. Toronto, 2
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FLORIDA watch multiple games simultaneously saturday, Aug. 1 Houston vs. Sacramento, 8
Brooklyn vs. L.A. Clippers, 9
and consume up to 10 consecutive hours Miami vs. Denver, 1
Utah vs. Oklahoma City, 3:30
of action on a busy day. New Orleans vs. L.A. Clippers, 6 Monday, Aug. 10
Magic Orlando How did the NBA set each team’s Philadelphia vs. Indiana, 7
Kingdom Contemporary L.A. Lakers vs. Toronto, 8:30 Oklahoma City vs. Phoenix, 2:30
Resort eight-game schedule? Dallas vs. Utah, 3
Toronto vs. Milwaukee, 6:30
The NBA started with the next re- sunday, Aug. 2 Indiana vs. Miami, 8
Grand Floridian Miami maining opponents on each team’s orig- Washington vs. Brooklyn, 2
Denver vs. L.A. Lakers, 9
Pacers Thunder inal schedule in chronological order, Portland vs. Boston, 3:30
76ers Rockets throwing out any games that included
San Antonio vs. Memphis, 4
Sacramento vs. Orlando, 6
Tuesday, Aug. 11
Nets Mavericks the eight teams that weren’t invited to Milwaukee vs. Houston, 8:30
Dallas vs. Phoenix, 9
Brooklyn vs. Orlando, 1
Houston vs. San Antonio, 2
Magic Grizzlies Florida. Other minor adjustments fol- Phoenix vs. Philadelphia, 4:30
Portland vs. Dallas, 5
lowed. Monday, Aug. 3 Boston vs. Memphis, 6:30
Which teams have the easiest sched- Toronto vs. Miami, 1:30
New Orleans vs. Sacramento, 9
Milwaukee vs. Washington, 9
ules? Which are stuck with the tough- Denver vs. Oklahoma City, 4
Indiana vs. Washington, 4
W A L T D I S N E Y est slates? Memphis vs. New Orleans, 6:30 Wednesday, Aug. 12
According to WinsAdded.com, these San Antonio vs. Philadelphia, 8
W O R L D five teams have the softest schedules:
L.A. Lakers vs. Utah, 9 Indiana vs. Houston, 4
Toronto vs. Philadelphia, 6:30
the New Orleans Pelicans, Philadelphia Miami vs. Oklahoma City, 8
Tuesday, Aug. 4 L.A. Clippers vs. Denver, 9
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192 one of their chief rivals to force a play-in,
have the NBA’s sixth-toughest schedule. Friday, Aug. 7
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whom it is tied in the standings, to help Orlando vs. Philadelphia, 6:30
Washington vs. New Orleans, 8
control its fate. Boston vs. Toronto, 9
The Celtics are another team to
the eight extra games, the NBA will use a In the Eastern Conference, the Wash- watch: They have a much easier sched-
play-in round if the ninth seed in either ington Wizards will seek to push the ule than the Raptors, whom they trail by
conference is within four games of the Brooklyn Nets or the Orlando Magic for three games for the East’s second seed.
eighth seed. During the play-in round, the eighth seed. In the West, five teams Jumping up would allow the Celtics to
the eighth seed would need to win one are chasing the Memphis Grizzlies for face a weaker team, such as the Nets or
game against the ninth seed to advance the final spot. Magic, in a No. 2 vs. No. 7 first-round
to the playoffs, while the ninth seed What will a typical day of games matchup rather than the Heat, Pacers or
would need to win twice in a row to look like? 76ers in a No. 3 vs. No. 6 series.
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Forward Emma Meesseman, center, the 2019 WNBA Finals MVP, is one of the few Mystics regulars remaining for the shortened season. Four of the team’s projected starters are not expected to be available.

Mystics go with di≠erent look

Missing four projected starters in WNBA’s Florida bubble, reigning champions change their approach toward defending their title

BY K AREEM C OPELAND paid to play basketball. in 2011. mys tics ’ s cH ed ule

The Mystics may have entered the bubble Alaina Coates, a 6-foot-4 center, will have
Mike Thibault appeared to be in the middle without the talent advantage they once en- the chance to restart her career after she
of building a WNBA dynasty a few months joyed, but also largely gone is the pressure that signed in late June. The No. 2 pick in the 2017 July
ago. The coach and general manager of the comes with defending a title. draft, who is now on her fourth team, missed 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Washington Mystics was coming off back-to- “It feels a little different. I’m not going to her entire rookie season with an ankle injury iNd
back appearances in the Finals, and the team lie,” forward Aerial Powers said. “It’s not the and has struggled since. 5
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had celebrated its first title in October. Not same right now. . . . But for me, when it comes The early focus of training camp has been 26 27 28 29 30 31
only was most of the roster returning — down to it, I’m still trying to win a champion- on defense, but Thibault expects to feature an cON seA
including reigning MVP Elena Delle Donne — ship no matter who’s playing, no matter how offense that may be unfamiliar to fans watch- 7 6
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but Thibault pulled off a trade for 2012 MVP many games. If y’all say we’ve got a chance to ing from home.
Tina Charles in the offseason. The rich had still win a championship, well . . . I’m going for “We led the league in three-point shots last August
gotten richer. it. Period.” year, [but] we might take even more this year,”
Then came the novel coronavirus pandem- One player likely to benefit from the roster Thibault said. “We might just be firing at will. 1
cHi
ic. The sport shut down, plans changed, and turnover is Emma Meesseman, now the Mys- . . . It may be as simple as just trying to 6
now the Mystics, along with the rest of the tics’ primary threat in the post. The MVP of outscore everybody. I don’t know. I don’t like 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
league, are sequestered in the WNBA’s bubble last year’s Finals, Meesseman was the team’s to throw out the idea of defense, but we are lV Ny
in Bradenton, Fla., getting ready for a short- second-leading scorer last season (13.1 points going to be different. [The absences] really 8 7
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ened 22-game season. per game) and could see her minutes rise with caused a change in our thinking about how we
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
And that stacked roster? Thibault could be the absence of Delle Donne, Charles and have to do things because a lot of what we iNd miN lA lV
without four of his projected starters when the Sanders. Thibault said he has seen “playoff planned this offseason was around that post 5 6 7 8
Mystics open the season Saturday against the Emma” in the early portion of training camp group that we had.” esPn2
Indiana Fever. First, Natasha Cloud opted out and likes the “aggressiveness to her.” The tricky part of a season in the bubble 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
to focus on social justice issues, and LaToya Powers (11.4 points per game) and guard could be going with just 10 active players for Atl dAl
7 8
Sanders opted out for health and family rea- Ariel Atkins (10.3) also will both get more the duration. Players such as Charles who opt CBssn
sons. Later, Delle Donne and Charles each opportunities within the offense. Forward out with an exemption count against the 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
submitted medical information and applied Tianna Hawkins should see her role expand as salary cap and the roster. Delle Donne, even PHX Atl PHX
for an exemption from playing because of well after she posted a career high in points after she was denied an exemption, also con- 8 7 10
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preexisting conditions. Charles was granted per game (9.5) and matched a career high in tinues to be paid and count against the cap as
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the exemption Friday, and while Delle Donne rebounds per game (4.2) in 2019. she rehabs from back surgery. So the coaching cON
was denied, she is also not expected to play. The Mystics lost starter Kristi Toliver to free staff has actively monitored how hard it push- 4
“A lot of the offseason planning went out the agency and backup guard Shatori Walker- es players, especially after so much time off
window,” Thibault said. “You have to try to do Kimbrough as part of the deal that landed because of the pandemic. Workouts have september
some things different. I told our players to be Charles. Those departures, coupled with the purposely been kept short. 1 2 3 4 5
prepared to do some experimenting.” opt-outs, have created opportunities for new- The organization held a private, socially seA cHi
Despite the uncertainty, Thibault has been comers. Veteran guard Leilani Mitchell was a distant ring ceremony last month before 10 7
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particularly upbeat. He has approached the “prime target” for Thibault even before the heading to Florida, but it will present Fever
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
bubble as the unusual situation it is, keeping departure of Toliver. She was named the Coach Marianne Stanley with her ring before dAl miN lA Ny
perspective in a global climate that bears little league’s most improved player in 2019 after Saturday’s season opener. Stanley was Thiba- 4 8 10 4
resemblance to the one in which the Mystics she posted career highs of 12.8 points and ult’s top assistant last season. CBssn

raised a trophy in October. The pandemic has
claimed more than 137,000 American lives,
and protests in the wake of George Floyd’s
death while in police custody in Minneapolis
also have dominated the news. Thibault wants
his players to be appreciative that they are
4.0 assists per game for Phoenix.
The Mystics also signed 12-year veteran
Essence Carson, and her leadership skills are
proving to be more valuable in the current
environment, Thibault said. She has the abili-
ty to play four positions and was an all-star
After that brief ceremony, the whistle will
blow and the title defense will officially begin —
in circumstances few could have envisioned
after the Mystics hoisted the trophy in October.
“The mind-set is still the same. We still want
to compete,” Hawkins said. “Regardless of the
all WnBa games in Bradenton, Fla.
personnel we have . . . while we’re here togeth-
er, we have a common goal. We want to win.
We want to compete.”
kareem.copeland@washpost.com

WNB A sc Hedule

sATurdAy, July 25
Seattle vs. New York, noon
Los Angeles vs. Phoenix, 3
Indiana vs. Washington, 5
sundAy, July 26
Connecticut vs. Minnesota, noon
Chicago vs. Las Vegas, 3
Dallas vs. Atlanta, 5
TuesdAy, July 28
Washington vs. Connecticut, 7
Los Angeles vs. Chicago, 8
Minnesota vs. Seattle, 10
WednesdAy, July 29
Phoenix vs. Indiana, 7
New York vs. Dallas, 8
Atlanta vs. Las Vegas, 10
ThursdAy, July 30
Seattle vs. Washington, 6
Chicago vs. Minnesota, 8
Connecticut vs. Los Angeles, 10
FridAy, July 31
New York vs. Atlanta, 7
Indiana vs. Dallas, 8
Las Vegas vs. Phoenix, 10
sATurdAy, Aug. 1
Minnesota vs. Connecticut, 4
Washington vs. Chicago, 6
Los Angeles vs. Seattle, 8
sundAy, Aug. 2
Phoenix vs. New York, 1
Atlanta vs. Indiana, 4
Dallas vs. Las Vegas, 6
TuesdAy, Aug. 4
Dallas vs. Chicago, 6
Phoenix vs. Atlanta, 7
Connecticut vs. Seattle, 9
WednesdAy, Aug. 5
Minnesota vs. New York, 7
Las Vegas vs. Washington 8
Indiana vs. Los Angeles, 10
ThursdAy, Aug. 6
Seattle vs. Atlanta, 6
Connecticut vs. Dallas, 8
Chicago vs. Phoenix, 10
FridAy, Aug. 7
Indiana vs. Minnesota, 6
New York vs. Washington, 7
Los Angeles vs. Las Vegas, 9
sATurdAy, Aug. 8
Atlanta vs. Dallas, noon
Phoenix vs. Seattle, 3
Chicago vs. Connecticut, 5
sundAy, Aug. 9
Las Vegas vs. New York, 3
Washington vs. Indiana, 5
Minnesota vs. Los Angeles, 7
MondAy, Aug. 10
Connecticut vs. Atlanta, 6
Phoenix vs. Dallas, 7
Chicago vs. Seattle, 9
TuesdAy, Aug. 11
Washington vs. Minnesota, 6
Las Vegas vs. Indiana, 7
New York vs. Los Angeles, 9
WednesdAy, Aug. 12
Dallas vs. Connecticut, 7
Phoenix vs. Chicago, 9
Atlanta vs. Seattle, 10
ThursdAy, Aug. 13
Indiana vs. New York, 6
Los Angeles vs. Washington, 7
Minnesota vs. Las Vegas, 9
FridAy, Aug. 14
Connecticut vs. Chicago, 7
Seattle vs. Dallas, 8
Atlanta vs. Phoenix, 10
sATurdAy, Aug. 15
Los Angeles vs. Indiana, 4
New York vs. Minnesota, 6
Washington vs. Las Vegas, 8
sundAy, Aug. 16
Chicago vs. Atlanta, 4
Seattle vs. Connecticut, 6
Dallas vs. Phoenix, 8
TuesdAy, Aug. 18
Indiana vs. Connecticut, 7
Las Vegas vs. Chicago, 9
New York vs. Seattle, 10
WednesdAy, Aug. 19
Atlanta vs. Washington, 7
Dallas vs. Minnesota, 9
Phoenix vs. Los Angeles, 10
ThursdAy, Aug. 20
Chicago vs. New York, 7
Seattle vs. Indiana, 8
Connecticut vs. Las Vegas, 10
FridAy, Aug. 21
Los Angeles vs. Atlanta, 7
Washington vs. Dallas, 8
Minnesota vs. Phoenix, 10
sATurdAy, Aug. 22
Indiana vs. Chicago, 2
New York vs. Connecticut, 4
Seattle vs. Las Vegas, 6
sundAy, Aug. 23
Atlanta vs. Minnesota, 4
Dallas vs. Los Angeles, 6
Phoenix vs. Washington, 8
TuesdAy, Aug. 25
New York vs. Chicago, 7
Las Vegas vs. Dallas, 9
Indiana vs. Seattle, 10
WednesdAy, Aug. 26
Washington vs. Atlanta, 7
Los Angeles vs. Minnesota, 8
Connecticut vs. Phoenix, 10
ThursdAy, Aug. 27
Chicago vs. Indiana, 7
Dallas vs. New York, 8
Las Vegas vs. Seattle, 10
FridAy, Aug. 28
Minnesota vs. Atlanta, 7
Los Angeles vs. Connecticut, 8
Washington vs. Phoenix, 10
sATurdAy, Aug. 29
Dallas vs. Indiana, noon
Seattle vs. Chicago, 2
New York vs. Las Vegas, 4
sundAy, Aug. 30
Connecticut vs. Washington, 4
Phoenix vs. Minnesota, 6
Atlanta vs. Los Angeles, 8
TuesdAy, sepT. 1
Connecticut vs. New York, 7
Indiana vs. Atlanta, 8
Phoenix vs. Las Vegas, 10
WednesdAy, sepT. 2
Minnesota vs. Chicago, 7
Los Angeles vs. Dallas, 8
Washington vs. Seattle, 10
ThursdAy, sepT. 3
Atlanta vs. New York, 7
Las Vegas vs. Connecticut, 8
Indiana vs. Phoenix, 10
FridAy, sepT. 4
Chicago vs. Washington, 7
Minnesota vs. Dallas, 8
Seattle vs. Los Angeles, 10
sATurdAy, sepT. 5
Connecticut vs. Indiana, 4
Las Vegas vs. Atlanta, 6
New York vs. Phoenix, 8
sundAy, sepT. 6
Dallas vs. Washington, 4
Seattle vs. Minnesota, 6
Chicago vs. Los Angeles, 8
TuesdAy, sepT. 8
Los Angeles vs. New York, 7
Minnesota vs. Washington, 8
Indiana vs. Las Vegas, 10
WednesdAy, sepT. 9
Phoenix vs. Connecticut, 7
Atlanta vs. Chicago, 8
Dallas vs. Seattle, 10
ThursdAy, sepT. 10
New York vs. Indiana, 7
Las Vegas vs. Minnesota, 8
Washington vs. Los Angeles, 10
FridAy, sepT. 11
Atlanta vs. Connecticut, 7
Chicago vs. Dallas, 8
Seattle vs. Phoenix, 10
sATurdAy, sepT. 12
Washington vs. New York, 4
Minnesota vs. Indiana, 6
Las Vegas vs. Los Angeles, 8
All games in Bradenton, Fla.
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tuesday, july 21 , 2020 . section G eZ ee

eric hart jr.

‘We can’t go back to normal’

Twelve young photographers share their stories about how the events of 2020 have shaped them

T
he coronavirus pandemic had already disrupted everyday life when George Floyd died in police cus-
tody in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, sparking weeks of protest — and a broader racial reckoning
in America. Locked down but riled up, many young people are trying to find their footing in this
confusing new world, struggling to maintain basic social ties while pursuing dreams of social jus-
tice. ¶ How does it feel to be launching a career, or entering college, or still muddling through high
school in this time of national turmoil? To find out, The Washington Post contacted dozens of photographers
across the country who are 25 or younger and whose photography has been influenced by the dramatic events of
the past six months. The work of a dozen young people is presented here, along with brief essays they wrote for “When covid struck, I was forced to leave NYU
The Post about their experience. ¶ Their words and images pulsate with a quiet fury: A 17-year-old in New York and come back to my hometown of Macon,
Ga. I became infatuated with my
City is angry about living in what feels like a police state. A black University of Texas graduate documents being
grandparents, above, and they became my
“an extreme minority” on campus. An 18-year-old from New York takes photos to process her fear when her new subjects. While these times are incredibly
mother develops a high fever, a possible symptom of covid-19. ¶ Many say they are outraged by police brutality, difficult to understand, I’m more than
racism and the failure of the world’s wealthiest nation to care for the sick and the poor. But they also believe thankful that I have art to guide me through.”
that America is moving toward a “new normal,” in the words of a 23-year-old photographer from Oakland, Ca- Eric Hart Jr.,
lif. And they say their hope for a better world drives them to create art that hastens the change they want to see. Macon, Ga., photographer
G2 EZ EE the washington post . tuesday, july 21 , 2020

ana
Carmona, 18
New York

Never-ending were days my mother’s fever

exceeded the thermometer, sweat dripping
down her neck as she said her bones could
no longer bear the pain.
We didn’t know if things were going to get
worse. She recalls seeing her mother in her
sleep, or was she hallucinating? Can’t quite
remember. Holding the hand of hope itself,
a little bit of hope to set her at ease at least
for the time being. The sickness attacked
her consciousness; lemons and ginger, home
remedies that would settle the battle, give
my mother the strength to resuscitate.
Everyone’s trying to understand, and
there’s no denying: We’re all going through it.
But don’t disregard that many are going
through far worse. How is it that this country
was prepared to tear-gas protesters but ran
out of supplies when it came to treating the
sick?

Ana Carmona was a student at the Bronx

Documentary Center when she photographed her
time in quarantine with her mother, who became
very ill with symptoms similar to those of covid-19.
Her mother was not tested but has since recovered.
Ana will attend Cornell University in the fall.
tuesday, july 21 , 2020 . the washington post
amber n. Ford, 25
Cleveland
After 25 years in Cleveland, where I was born and
raised, I decided to take a leap of faith. In late Feb-
ruary, I moved 1,058 miles to New Orleans, ex-
pecting to start the next chapter of my artistic ca-
reer and immerse myself in a vibrant new com-
munity. But just two and a half weeks after I ar-
rived, the United States declared a national
emergency amid the global coronavirus pandem-
ic. Talk about right place, wrong time.
I knew maybe five people. I began walking
around my neighborhood, looking for moments
that felt specific to this time.
Then I hit on the idea of taking social distanc-
ing portraits — outside, with at least six feet be-
tween me and my subject. It began with my room-
mate. Then two friends from Cleveland who had
also relocated to New Orleans. Then a few people
I met when I arrived. Love and a sense of belong-
ing — whether through friendship, family or inti-
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Kian Kelley-Chung, 23
Columbia, Md.
How many kids will lose their parents to bullets
and handcuffs before their tassels turn? How many
parents will bury their children before the flowers
lain on their graves bloom? How many times must
we die before we can live?
As the past shaped our present, our future is a
slice of marble ripe for sculpting — or molding.
Will we plant yesterday’s pain in tomorrow’s soil?
And how far away is tomorrow? Shall I measure
the distance: In miles Ahmaud ran? In minutes
George couldn’t breathe? In dollars spent
on Skittles and iced tea?
Skies wane over hours every day, seconds
counting down to solace. The sun rises and
tomorrow begins. But not the morrow written on
the slab. New beginnings owed to us from pasts
long ago. A day where our darkness is seen as light.
Roads open for us to close. Oceans of people
flooded. One body to fill the street.
Kian Kelley-Chung is a visual and interactive storyteller.
macy — is needed just as much as food and water.
Ultimately, unable to find a full-time job amid the
pandemic, I moved back to Cleveland. But docu-
menting my friendships, old and new, in a strange
city in the midst of covid-19 was important not
only for my record of 2020, but for my own sanity.
Amber N. Ford is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute
of Art. She is best known for her work in portraiture,
which she refers to as a “collaborative engagement
between photographer and sitter.”
G4 EZ EE K the washington post . tuesday, july 21 , 2020

Kendall
‘KengoTriCh’
BeSSenT, 20
Atlanta

The past few months have been a test

mentally and physically. During a time when
everything seems surreal and out of order,
I found myself needing to disconnect.
I turned to what I do best: capturing the
essence of my people. It’s a beautiful thing
to create work centered on my friends and
family. They’re themselves around me,
and that authentic energy is communicated
through my portraits of them.

Kendall “Kengotrich” Bessent is a student at

Georgia State University. Influenced by the Black
diaspora, he focuses on capturing all aspects of
Blackness in his photography.

STeven on our neighborhood streets.

Tovar-CampoS, 17
New York
In my neighborhood in the Bronx, we are
constantly being watched. Whether it’s NYPD
helicopters, security cameras or ICE agents,
these oppressive forces bring paranoia to the
majority Black and Latinx communities.
One night, while I was walking around the
neighborhood with my mother, a police
helicopter shone a spotlight on us. My moth-
er was completely unfazed by the light, which
made me reflect on this surveillance state.
As a community, we normalize being un-
der constant watch, whether in our homes or
Instead of keeping my community safe,
it feels like a device to criminalize us. From
extra police at our train stations to flood
lights beaming through our windows, I can
no longer accept this as normal. As a Latinx
person living under an administration that
targets my identity, I am outraged. I feel a
cloud of fear following me wherever I go.
Steven Tovar-Campos creates work influenced by
his identity and upbringing. His photographs focus
on the injustices affecting his community. Steven
is a recent graduate of the International Center of
Photography’s Teen Academy Imagemakers
program and of the High School of Fashion
Industries.
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Eric hart jr., 20
Macon, Ga.
This moment is so incredibly baffling.
As a young black individual, it’s difficult
not to be overwhelmed. I’ve had moments
of confusion, as well as moments of
sorrow. However, the phenomenal thing
about being an artist is practicing a craft
that somehow, mysteriously, both teaches
and comforts you, while slowly filling you
with the hope you may have lost.
When covid struck, I was forced to
leave NYU and come back to my home-
town of Macon, Ga. I became infatuated
with my grandparents, and they became
my new subjects. Then Ahmaud Arbery,
G5
Breonna Taylor and George Floyd were
killed, and I felt a sense of outrage. I
wanted to get out on the streets and join
the groups of people raising their voices
and fighting for change. I wanted the art
I create to celebrate blackness and spark
some light at the end of the tunnel. While
these times are incredibly difficult to
understand, I’m more than thankful that
I have art to guide me through.
Eric Hart Jr. is a student at New York
University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is the
creator of the creative visual brand Love Hart.
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adraint
Khadafhi
Bereal, 22
Waco, Tex.

In my upcoming book, “The Black Yearbook,”

I document small moments of radiance in
the lives of Black students at the University
of Texas at Austin. On a campus of 52,000
students, Black students make up less than
5 percent of the student body — an extreme
minority. This project aims to dismantle the
idea that Blackness is a monolith and share
what it means to be Black at a predominantly
white institution. By inserting myself into the
domestic spaces of these men and women as
they navigate coming of age, reality and the
pressures of fitting into white spaces, I’m
able to situate Black joy within a greater
conversation about being.

Adraint Khadafhi Bereal is a multidisciplinary

creative who focuses on photography,
bookmaking and graphic design. He is a graduate
of the University of Texas at Austin.
G8 EZ EE the washington post . tuesday, july 21 , 2020

Haley
Santibanez, 16
Los Angeles

When I joined Las Fotos Project, I was

excited to learn more about photography.
But I was insecure when it came to
showing people my art and talking
about my feelings. They helped me see
the importance of capturing unique mo-
ments in life, creating meaningful images
so others can experience what I felt when
I took the picture. They have helped me
find confidence that I didn’t know I had.
Taking pictures has been very thera-
peutic; it has helped me feel more calm.
Amid a global pandemic, I focused on my
daily experiences in quarantine and how
I see our new world. In this historic mo-
ment, I wanted to show people what I’ve
been coping with so they think about
their own experiences, and maybe even
relate to mine.
I have also been taking pictures of the
Black Lives Matter movement. My father
was a victim of police brutality. He was
shot three times in the back and then had
an unfair trial. Even though we aren’t
close, this was horrible and he deserved
justice like everyone else. I believe if
l can bring awareness through my photo-
graphs, I can help make a change in this
world.

Haley Santibanez is a high school student who

created her work with the support of Las Fotos
Project, a community-based nonprofit
organization that inspires teenage girls
through photography, mentorship and self-
expression.

SaliHaH Saadiq, 23 that overflows with love and compassion

Oakland, Calif.
I saw a sign at a protest that read: “We
can’t go back to normal.” It is time for a
new normal.
As a queer black woman, the old normal
was trash, cloaked in layers of trauma and
dismissal. I hope there is healing in the new
normal. The new normal will be one that is
whole; that doesn’t question the impor-
tance of all black lives. One that is healthy,
for all things living. It will be honest, trans-
parent and will listen. One that allows
black and brown children to live coura-
geously and holds wrongdoers accountable.
Most importantly, we must be prepared
to work for new normal. Because that sign
is right: We can’t go back.
Salihah Saasdiq graduated from the Academy of
Arts University in San Francisco in 2018. She has
been photographing for over seven years.
tuesday, july 21 , 2020 . the washington post EZ EE G9

MichaeL
BLackshire, 26
Louisville
My perception of racism in America has
never been the same since the day in high
school when I learned about Trayvon
Martin. Someone made a joke about
buying Skittles from the vending machine
with a hoodie on. I giggled because
I hadn’t heard the Trayvon Martin story. A
friend became upset at my laughter and
told me about the case.
After that, there seemed to be a story
every year about the killing of an un-
armed African American: Alton Sterling,
Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Michael Brown,
Stephon Clark, Philando Castile, Walter
Scott. Each death would be a big topic in
the news for a week, then people would
move on to the next story. This seemed to
be the case, too, with Ahmaud Arbery and
Breonna Taylor. People in the moment
seemed to move on. When I first saw the
footage of George Floyd’s arrest, I had the
feeling the same thing would happen. Life
would go on. Life always went on.
But this time seems different. I remem-
ber reading articles about the coronavirus
back in January and wondering if this dis-
ease would affect America in any way. What
has happened this year has been unprece-
dented, and each new headline has gripped
us more than the last. One can only hope
that means brighter days are ahead.
Michael Blackshire who turned 26 this month is
a recent graduate of Western Kentucky University.

Vanessa Leroy, 23
Waltham, Mass.

What does a world in which I’m happier look

like?
As a black woman, it’s hard to remain in
good spirits when you constantly see the lives
of people that look like you being taken by the
police and discarded by the justice system.
The echoes of past civil rights protests rever-
berate in this current moment, bringing an in-
flux of visualized tragedies. While it’s impor-
tant to bring injustice out of the shadows, I
struggle to deal with the constant exposure to
black death on social media.
It’s challenging to steer away from pessi-
mism when property is valued over the hu-
manity of black people, and when police have
the power to murder with impunity. When
white people conveniently forget that the
United States is built upon genocide, theft,
slavery and racism. When you have to explain
and explain and explain.
Anti-blackness is so pervasive and deadly.
Disenfranchisement is costing us our lives and
our futures. However, I won’t stop imagining
that this world can transform beyond its rot-
ten origins, because imagination is the first Vanessa Leroy is completing her bachelor of fine arts
thing we need to continue this fight. Black in photography at the Massachusetts College of Art
lives matter! and Design.
G10 EZ EE the washington post . tuesday, july 21 , 2020

Malike Sidibe, 23
New York
I was heartbroken after the death of George
Floyd in Minneapolis. I couldn’t just sit and
watch. I wanted to be part of change and
fight for all the black people who have lost
their lives to police brutality.
I decided to join the protests and brought
along my camera. The first few nights were
incredibly intense; I was pepper-sprayed, hit
with a baton and yelled at many, many
times. There was a lot of violence, but I
never felt afraid. I kept going and kept
photographing. It was inspiring to see
people coming together and uniting for this
cause and looking out for one another.
I know that change will not come over-
night. But I am hopeful that the time has
come for equality for everyone and an end
to abusive policing in this country.

Malike Sidibe moved from Guinea to New York

City in 2013 where he joined a nonprofit after-
school program called NYC Salt.