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The casket of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the Capitol during a Friday memorial service. Many
female members of Congress were among the guests. Ginsburg is the first woman and first Jewish person to lie in state.
Her final glass ceiling, broken
BY K AROUN D EMIRJIAN
The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg broke one last glass ceil-
ing Friday, becoming the first woman to
lie in state at the Capitol as lawmakers
and members of the military paid tribute
to her trailblazing career that changed
the face of gender equality in the United
States.
Many of Congress’s female members,
Capitol Hill aides, Defense Secretary
Mark T. Esper and the Joint Chiefs of Staff
solemnly walked past Ginsburg’s flag-
draped casket in Statuary Hall, honoring
the diminutive justice who was “monu-
mental in impact,” as House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) described her.
Critics: Records laws let
police skirt transparency
Exemptions allow videos,
documents in many
states to stay secret
BY H ANNAH K NOWLES,
M ARK B ERMAN
AND S HAYNA J ACOBS
Two months after the family of
Daniel Prude tried to obtain po-
lice body-camera footage show-
ing Prude naked, handcuffed and
hooded on a Rochester, N.Y.,
street, nationwide protests
against police violence were gain-
ing momentum — and officials
did not want the video to be made
public.
“I’m wondering if we shouldn’t
hold back on this for a little while
considering what is going on
around the country,” a police lieu-
tenant wrote in a June email.
Officials suggested citing an
“open” investigation. Days later,
they raised concerns about the
medical privacy of Prude, who
died a week after the video was
filmed in March.
“Can we deny/delay?” a top city
attorney wrote in a flurry of
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Trump expected
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to the high court
CONFIRMATION FIGHT AHEAD OF ELECTION
Jurist would solidify conservative majority for years
BY A NNE G EARAN, Judge Amy
S EUNG M IN K IM Coney Barrett,
AND J OSH D AWSEY 48, was
appointed to
President Trump has told peo- the U.S. Court
ple around him that on Saturday of Appeals for
he plans to nominate federal ap- the 7th Circuit
peals court judge Amy Coney Bar- in 2017.
rett to fill the Supreme Court va-
cancy left by the death of Justice may end up before the high court.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, putting Barrett’s confirmation would
forth a nominee who, if con- replace a liberal icon with a deeply
firmed, would ensure a solid con- conservative jurist whose views
servative majority on the high suggest she might vote to further
court for years to come, according limit abortion rights, an issue that
to people familiar with the matter. animates conservative Republi-
CHIP SOMODEVILLA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES Democrats have little chance to cans and evangelical voters.
block the nominee, but a bitter Barrett, 48, could hold the life-
Senate battle looms in the weeks time seat for decades. She would
ahead of the Nov. 3 election, the join two other relatively young,
results of which Trump has said
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White House challenges
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
is first woman to lie in state
Arlington National Cemetery alongside
her husband, Marty.
Her casket rested upon the Lincoln
FDA vaccine standards
as lawmakers, Cabinet and catafalque as Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt
offered a eulogy and Denyce Graves, one BY L AURIE M C G INLEY, ment appears to go beyond the
military pay tribute of opera aficionado Ginsburg’s favorite Y ASMEEN A BUTALEB perfunctory review that agency
singers, offered a traditional spiritual, AND J OSH D AWSEY officials had expected and is likely
“Deep River,” and a patriotic song, to reinforce public concerns that
“American Anthem,” in somber sere- On the same day President a vaccine may be rushed to ben-
“Her life and leadership cemented the nade. Trump blasted the Food and Drug efit the president’s reelection
truth that all men and women are created Former vice president Joe Biden, the Administration’s plan for tougher campaign. Polls show that the
equal,” Pelosi said in a statement issued Democratic presidential nominee, and standards for a coronavirus vac- number of people who say they’d
after brief remarks at the ceremony. his wife, Jill, traveled to the Capitol to cine as a “political move,” a top be willing to take a coronavirus
Ginsburg, who served for 27 years and honor Ginsburg. White House aide demanded de- vaccine if it were available today
was the second female justice on the SEE GINSBURG ON A9 tailed justifications from the has nosedived from 72 percent in
Supreme Court, died Sept. 18 at 87 of agency in what some fear is an May to 50 percent as of early this
complications from cancer. She will be Gender equality: The justice’s 56-year attempt to thwart or block the month, according to the Pew Re-
buried in a private ceremony next week at marriage put the idea into practice. C1 standards designed to boost pub- search Center, largely because of
lic trust in a vaccine. concerns that politics, rather
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West Bank bananas were ‘green gold.’ Virus-hit
Now farmers’ fields run dry. downtown
BY S TEVE H ENDRIX D.C. faces
grim outlook
emails between city officials.
The video was ultimately given auja, west bank — Jaseer
to Prude’s family after a months- Fahed Afyet stood where a vast
long legal battle and made public, sea of pale sand met a small
sparking outrage and protests island of green leaves and P ETER J AMISON
and costing the police chief his looked over the banana trees he
BY
job. had planted in June. They are It’s evening rush hour in the
The case highlights what some likely to be his last. nation’s capital, and the McPher-
families, victim advocates and For three generations — be- son Square Metro station on a
lawyers say is a persistent issue fore conflict and climate dried Tuesday in September is all but
amid a nationwide push for police up much of the water — his empty. Thousands once squeezed
transparency: As viral videos family grew bananas on this at this time onto the trains depart-
bring unprecedented scrutiny to arid piece of the Jordan Valley ing from the heart of downtown
police officers’ use of force, they just north of Jericho. Now, his Washington, two blocks north of
allege that authorities are using few rows of young trees on just the White House. Now, the de-
and sometimes abusing the law to four acres account for one of scending escalator steps carry
deny and delay the release of the last remnants of the West only the shards of a broken Power
police records. Bank’s banana basket. He is one KOBI WOLF FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Malt bottle.
Laws in many states create of the final growers left, and he Palestinian Jaseer Fahed Afyet’s struggles to find water under Above ground, the scene is no
broad exemptions allowing police knows chances are good that Israeli control of the West Bank could mean his farm’s demise. less eerie: No honking horns or
and other authorities to keep rec- the same lack of water that screams from sprinting commut-
ords secret. Officials often cite drove out so many of his neigh- ply growing Israeli settlements crops, including the much har- ers trying to flag down the Circula-
“ongoing investigations” as the bors will end his family’s 50- in the occupied territory, the dier date palm, a desert native. tor bus. In what seven months ago
reason, without explaining why year run. springs began to dry out earlier But hundreds of small opera- would have seemed a suspension
releasing a dashboard-camera The end of the banana era and earlier each year, according tors left farming altogether, of the laws of physics and urban
video or documents would cause represents the broad shift in to studies by the World Bank selling their land and taking planning, jaywalking is possible at
harm. In some cases, including Palestinian agriculture over the and other international organi- work as laborers in the sur- New York Avenue and 15th Street
Prude’s, these laws are used by course of Israeli control of the zations. Palestinian surface rounding Israeli settlements. NW.
authorities against the wishes of a West Bank and its water. At the wells grew brackish as water About 3,000 area residents now From Los Angeles and Chicago
family that wants records made time of the 1967 war, the area tables dropped, the sweet water work in the settlements, ac- to Boston and New York, central
public. around Jericho was known for becoming too mineralized for cording to the Jericho Labor business districts find themselves
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But over the decades, as Isra- Growers who could afford it date harvest. pandemic that has killed more
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California Air Resources Board
will develop regulations that
ensure every new passenger car
and truck sold in the state is
electric or otherwise “zero-
emissions” by 2035.
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Court temporarily
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preliminary injunction halting
the Trump administration’s
planned ban of Chinese app
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saying the ban would harm the
plaintiff ’s First Amendment
rights. The administration plans
to ban WeChat and fellow
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Court backs Democrats
on funds diverted to wall
Judges agree on power
of the purse; lawmakers’
suit may proceed
BY A NN E . M ARIMOW
A federal appeals court in
Washington sided with House
Democrats on Friday in their
effort to block the Trump admin-
istration’s diversion of billions of
dollars to build the president’s
signature southern border wall.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for
the D.C. Circuit unanimously
backed Congress’s power of the
purse and said House lawmakers
could proceed with their lawsuit
alleging it was illegal for Presi-
dent Trump to transfer the mon-
ey for the wall.
The Constitution gives Con-
gress spending authority, the
court said, and it “requires two
keys to unlock the Treasury, and
the House holds one of those
keys. The Executive Branch has,
in a word, snatched the House’s
key out of its hands,” according
to the opinion from Judge David
B. Sentelle, who was joined by
Judges Patricia A. Millett and
Robert L. Wilkins.
House Democrats went to
court claiming Trump violated
the Constitution by ignoring
congressional spending limits
and diverting more than $6 bil-
lion allocated for other purposes
to fund the wall at the border
with Mexico. The administration
invoked statutes it said allowed
the president to repurpose ap-
propriations.
In a separate border wall case,
the Supreme Court in July reject-
ed an effort by environmentalists
to stop ongoing construction of
parts of the president’s border
wall.
The D.C. Circuit panel on Fri-
day said the Trump administra-
tion had essentially cut the
House out of the appropriations
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President Vladimir Putin’s most
prominent critics, fell ill during
an Aug. 20 flight from Siberia to
Moscow.
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state about cost overruns,
Maryland officials said Tuesday.
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securing 16 miles of construction
sites through Montgomery and
Prince George’s counties, state
transit officials told the Prince
George’s County Council.
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process “rendering for naught”
its vote to withhold border wall
funding. The judges also rejected
the Justice Department’s argu-
ment that the House cannot go to
court to protect its interests
without consent of the Senate.
“The ironclad constitutional
rule is that the Executive Branch
cannot spend until both the
House and the Senate say so,”
according to Sentelle’s opinion.
“Unlike the affirmative power to
pass legislation, the House can
wield its appropriations veto ful-
ly and effectively all by itself,
without any coordination with or
cooperation from the Senate.”
Sentelle was nominated by
President Ronald Reagan. Mil-
lett and Wilkins were nominated
by President Barack Obama.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
hailed the court’s decision.
“On a bipartisan basis, Con-
gress has repeatedly refused to
fund the President’s immoral,
ineffective and wasteful border
wall,” she said in a statement.
“The House of Representatives is
committed to upholding our au-
thority as the first branch of
government to ensure that funds
appropriated by Congress for
these vital initiatives are used as
directed.”
In August, the full D.C. Circuit
held that a single house of Con-
gress did have standing to pur-
sue litigation against the admin-
istration and sent the case back
to the three-judge panel to con-
sider other aspects of the admin-
istration’s challenge to the
House’s claims.
The three-judge panel was re-
viewing a 2019 decision from
District Court Judge Trevor Mc-
Fadden, a Trump nominee, who
held that the House lacked legal
grounds or standing to bring the
lawsuit.
The ruling Friday is unlikely to
be the final word in the contro-
versy. The Justice Department
did not respond to a request for
comment.
ann.marimow@washpost.com
EZ RE
South African man sentenced in Va. in drug deal
BY R ACHEL W EINER
The Nigerian expat communi-
ty of Johannesburg was like the
small village where Edwin An-
yaoku grew up; everyone knew
each other. So when a drug traf-
ficker living in Belgium was of-
fered a lucrative proposal, he
decided to enlist the help of
someone he could trust — An-
yaoku, a childhood friend.
The offer came from an in-
formant for the Drug Enforce-
ment Administration and landed
Anyaoku, 54, in federal court in
Virginia. He was sentenced Tues-
day to 66 months behind bars,
including the year he spent
awaiting extradition in a South
African prison.
“While drug cases are routine
on a federal court’s docket, there
are none quite like this one,” his
defense attorney Elizabeth Mull-
in wrote in one filing.
She argued that Anyaoku
should have been prosecuted in
South Africa, and that his extra-
dition to the United States was, if
not unconstitutional, then at
least a waste of resources.
“This crime would not and
could not have happened but for
the intervention of the DEA
agent and his trusted childhood
friend,” she said in court.
Anyaoku was prosecuted in
Alexandria because he was flown
into Dulles International Air-
port.
The vast majority of heroin
Presidents urge end to federal probe of Princeton
BY S USAN S VRLUGA
More than 80 college presi-
dents have signed on to a letter
urging the Education Depart-
ment to drop its investigation into
whether Princeton University is
in compliance with federal anti-
discrimination law after the
school’s leader acknowledged sys-
temic racism on the campus.
“It is outrageous that the De-
partment of Education is using
our country’s resources to investi-
gate an institution that is commit-
ted to becoming more inclusive,”
the presidents of Wesleyan Uni-
versity and Amherst College
wrote.
The letter is part of an intense
debate over the nation’s racial his-
tory and how that has shaped the
present, with protests over racial
injustices flaring up across the
country in recent months and du-
eling efforts to reemphasize the
contributions of the Founding Fa-
thers or to more directly confront
the impact of slavery.
This month, Princeton’s presi-
dent wrote about efforts to com-
bat systemic racism on campus
and beyond, such as diversifying
the school’s faculty and making
Princeton a more welcoming
place. Even though the university
had committed itself for at least
the past 50 years to become more
inclusive, “racism and the damage
it does to people of color neverthe-
less persist at Princeton as in our
society,” Christopher L. Eisgruber
wrote.
Two weeks later, the Education
Department sent the university a
letter disclosing its investigation.
“On September 2, 2020, you ad-
mitted Princeton’s educational
program is and for decades has
O∞cials scramble to explain Trump’s drug discount cards
BY L ENNY B ERNSTEIN
Health officials scrambled Fri-
day to explain President Trump’s
plan to send $200 prescription
drug discount cards to 33 million
Medicare recipients as experts
cast doubt on the proposal and
Democrats accused the president
of blatant political chicanery less
than six weeks before the elec-
tion.
In a briefing for reporters, a
senior official at the Department
of Health and Human Services
repeatedly said plans “for the
$200 cards are still being worked
out” and that “the White House
hopes to put out more details
some time in the near future.”
The official, one of several who
briefed the media on the condi-
tion of anonymity, offered only
one new detail: Some of the cards
will go out before the election,
while others will not arrive until
after voters choose between
Trump and his Democratic rival,
former vice president Joe Biden.
With that showdown looming,
Democrats blasted the adminis-
tration for proposing to take
$6.6 billion from Medicare and
spend it on a one-time break for
older Americans, a critical voting
bloc for both candidates.
They criticized Trump for sug-
gesting he would pay for the move
with savings from a separate pro-
gram that has yet to begin. Under
distributed in the United States,
Mullin noted, comes from Mexi-
co. Matthew Donahue, DEA dep-
uty chief of operations, said that
distribution through Africa is
growing, and that because opium
production funds terrorist activi-
ty, it can “threaten U.S. national
security and the livelihood of our
communities” even without be-
ing sold here.
“If we have a means to choke
off the flow of dangerous drugs,
even if they are not traveling
along the typical pipelines, why
not put some of our resources to
that end?” said Joshua Stueve, a
spokesman for the U.S. Attorney
for the Eastern District of Vir-
ginia.
That ambition met Anyaoku’s
own in the sting operation that
brought him into the U.S. crimi-
nal justice system.
Anyaoku, a churchgoing co-
owner of a small gaming business
and a father of four girls, had no
criminal record or known history
in the drug trade before his
friend Tony called to bring him
into the heroin deal. But offered
the opportunity to make more
money than he had ever seen in
his life, Anyaoku seized it eagerly.
He pretended he was a regular
international traveler with a rela-
tive who could sell the drugs in
New York. In fact, he had left
home for two vacations in 20
years in South Africa, never going
further than neighboring Mo-
zambique. His New York “con-
been racist,” Robert King, assis-
tant secretary in the Office of Post-
secondary Education, wrote.
King’s letter said that since
2013, when Eisgruber became
president, the university had re-
peatedly maintained it was in
compliance with Title VI of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964, which
protects people from discrimina-
tion. During that time, Princeton
received more than $75 million in
taxpayer funds, King wrote.
A spokesman for Princeton did
not immediately respond to a re-
quest for comment Friday. Earlier
this month, spokesman Ben
Chang said in a statement that the
university stands by its state-
ments and will continue its im-
portant pursuit of equity in all of
its programs.
Michael Roth, president of
Wesleyan University, and Biddy
Martin, president of Amherst Col-
lege, decided to write a letter and
asked other university presidents
to sign on. “Across the nation,
individuals, families, communi-
ties, businesses, corporations,
and educational institutions are
coming to grips with the country’s
legacies of slavery and racial op-
pression,” they wrote.
They also wrote: “As presidents
of colleges and universities, we,
too, acknowledge the ways that
racism has affected and continues
to affect the country’s institu-
tions, including our own.”
The presidents of more than 80
colleges, including the rest of the
Ivy League, and other leading
schools such as the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Johns
Hopkins University and Duke
University, also signed on.
“Some presidents seemed wor-
ried about antagonizing an ag-
that initiative, Trump wants to tie
the price of some drugs covered
by Medicare to lower prices avail-
able in some other countries with
governments that have the au-
thority to negotiate prices with
pharmaceutical companies.
“After failing to take real action
to lower seniors’ prescription
drug prices, President Trump
wants to steal from the Medicare
Trust Fund for a desperately
transparent political gimmick,”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-
Calif.) said in a statement re-
leased by her office. “The admin-
istration’s claim to be using imag-
inary savings from non-existent
drug price reforms means that
Trump’s coupons come at Medi-
care’s expense, and that seniors
and taxpayers are paying the
price for this stunt.”
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) la-
beled the maneuver a “taxpayer
funded bribe.”
“It’s clear this president only
cares about drug costs during
campaign season, and Big Phar-
ma will continue to get away with
murder as long as he’s in office,”
Wyden said in a statement on the
Senate Finance Committee’s web-
site. “Drug companies will be
paying as much for this gimmick
as Mexico is paying for The Wall.”
Trump made the surprise an-
nouncement of the discount
cards Thursday evening during a
speech billed as an outline of his
THE WASHINGTON POST . SATURDAY,
nection” was a nephew who
worked in public safety and had
no idea what was going on long
after the arrest.
“Uncle Edwin has never dis-
cussed any of his alleged drug
deal he has in America with me
and I have never been involved in
any drug deal with him or anyone
else,” the nephew wrote the
judge.
Mullin said in court filings
that Anyaoku had little informa-
tion to offer investigators about
the broader drug trade that could
help him lower his own sentence.
If not for the First Step Act signed
into law in 2018, he would have
faced a mandatory 10-year prison
term.
But through his friend Tony,
Anyaoku was able to make good
on the first part of the scheme
proposed by the informant —
getting his hands on 30 kilo-
grams of heroin, for which he
expected to be paid over $1 mil-
lion.
The result was instead impris-
onment in a notoriously awful
Johannesburg jail; his wife was
shut out of his business proceeds,
his house is being foreclosed on
and his oldest daughter cannot
afford to go to school.
Although he did not fight ex-
tradition and even turned him-
self back into South African cus-
tody when he was mistakenly
released, Anyaoku spent a year in
prison in Johannesburg awaiting
transport to the United States.
gressive federal government,”
Roth said. “Some people wanted
to express puzzlement rather than
rejection of this move.” But no one
he spoke with supported the fed-
eral inquiry, he said. Institutions
want to preserve their independ-
ence and their ability to improve
themselves through critical think-
ing without that making them
vulnerable to federal investiga-
tion, he said.
Asked about the presidents’ let-
ter, Angela Morabito, a spokes-
woman for the Education Depart-
ment, wrote in an email, “The
allegations of current systemic
racism at Princeton are deeply
concerning. It’s doubly concern-
ing that so many institution presi-
dents would implore the depart-
ment not to investigate these seri-
ous accusations.”
The department is legally obli-
gated to ensure that institutions
receiving federal funds are in
compliance with civil rights law,
Morabito said.
Recent Princeton graduates
Thomas Koenig and Shanon
FitzGerald wrote this week in Law
& Liberty that the Education De-
partment “had no choice but to
act on the investigative trolling
opportunity of a lifetime.”
In an email to The Washington
Post, the pair said they think high-
ly of Eisgruber, but “we don’t
think the way forward for Ameri-
ca and its leading institutions,
when it comes to matters of race,
is to recite platitudes of the new
anti-racist faith. Rather, we think
they should double down on their
commitments to facts and free-
dom of thought.”
“We think that would lead Pres-
ident Eisgruber and other well-in-
tentioned academic leaders to re-
health-care vision. It wasn’t men-
tioned in a briefing for journalists
about two hours before his
speech in Charlotte.
In his remarks, Trump called
the discount cards a “historic
provision to benefit our great
seniors.” He said 33 million peo-
ple on Medicare “will soon re-
ceive a card in the mail contain-
ing $200 that they can use to help
pay for prescription drugs. No-
body’s seen this before.”
A White House official, speak-
ing on the condition of anonymity
to be candid about deliberations,
said Thursday the idea of a drug
discount originated in the office
of White House Chief of Staff
Mark Meadows as a “last-minute
thing that is still being worked
out.”
Last week, the New York Times
reported that lengthy negotia-
tions to reduce drug prices had
collapsed after Meadows insisted
drug manufacturers pay for $100
discount cards that would be
mailed to seniors before Novem-
ber. The pharmaceutical compa-
nies refused.
With little information to go
on, experts in the arcane work-
ings of Medicare regulations
struggled Friday to assess the
legal and practical details of
Trump’s plan. Edwin Park, a re-
search professor at the George-
town University Center for Chil-
dren and Families, said the ad-
SEPTEMBER 26 , 2020
“The conditions are abomina-
ble; the overcrowding is horrific,”
his South African defense attor-
ney said of the detention center.
Anyaoku’s year there, he said,
was “an absolute waste of time”
that transpired only because “he
was a small little cog in the
wheel.”
Prosecutor Katherine Rum-
baugh argued at sentencing that
Anyaoku must have some experi-
ence in the drug trade to be able
to obtain so much heroin so
quickly.
It “defies credulity that he had
no connection to drug trafficking
in South Africa whatsoever,” she
said in asking for a sentence of
nine years.
U.S. District Judge Liam
O’Grady called it “very curious”
for Anyaoku to be “entrusted
with so much heroin” when he
had no history of drug dealing.
But in the end, he said, that is
what the evidence showed.
“I believe that you have not
previously been involved with
heroin trafficking,” he told An-
yaoku. “You were tempted by a
friend and decided to get greedy.”
But he denied Anyaoku could
be ignorant of the harm he might
have done.
“There is no way that you
didn’t understand the severity of
the damage caused by 30 kilos of
heroin being imported into the
United States and our communi-
ties,” the judge said.
rachel.weiner@washpost.com
frain from feigned, self-condem-
natory statements about their
own institutions,” they wrote,
“and to direct more of their energy
toward actually chipping away at
the many racial injustices and in-
equalities — namely, those related
to intergenerational Black pover-
ty and lack of opportunity — that
still plague American society.”
Roth and Martin said in an
interview that they weren’t just
troubled by the Education De-
partment’s investigation, but oth-
er federal actions and rhetoric.
This month, the Office of Man-
agement and Budget said Presi-
dent Trump had directed agencies
to cancel race-related training
seen as “divisive” or “un-Ameri-
can.” And last week, Trump criti-
cized what he called “left-wing
indoctrination” about racism and
slavery in schools and said that he
would create a commission to pro-
mote a “curriculum that cel-
ebrates the truth about our na-
tion’s great history.”
On Thursday, two educational
associations issued a joint state-
ment in favor of anti-racist educa-
tion, citing the OMB directive, the
Princeton inquiry and efforts to
ban use of the New York Times’s
1619 Project. The American Edu-
cational Research Association
and the National Academy of Edu-
cation wrote that “we need educa-
tional systems that are not politi-
cized and censored, but rather
seek the truth by exploring even
the most difficult truths.”
It was important for those in
higher education to speak out,
Martin said. “They may be picking
on Princeton today,” Roth said,
“but we’re all trying to do similar
things.”
susan.svrluga@washpost.com
ministration is stretching to
claim authority for the gambit
under a waiver authorized in
amendments to the Social Secu-
rity Act. That waiver has long
been used to test new ideas that
might save entitlement programs
money.
“It’s pretty flimsy at best to say
we’re testing something, and we
can use this authority to provide
these discount cards,” Park said.
“I think the clear question is . . .
sending $200 drug discount
cards to Medicare beneficiaries,
what is it testing?”
“This is very different from a
typical Medicare waiver,” added
Larry Levitt, executive vice presi-
dent for health policy at the Kai-
ser Family Foundation and a for-
mer adviser to the White House
and HHS under former president
Bill Clinton. “Usually, the idea of a
waiver is to save money.”
Rachel Sachs, an associate pro-
fessor of law at Washington Uni-
versity School of Law in St. Louis,
questioned the wisdom of the
initiative at this time. HHS, she
said, is focused on battling the
coronavirus pandemic and im-
plementing other programs
Trump has initiated by executive
order.
“This is giving them one more
task, which is difficult and is
unlikely to help as many people,”
she said.
leonard.bernstein@washpost.com
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politics & the nation

Judge blocks administration
from curtailing census count
BY T ARA B AHRAMPOUR
A federal judge in California
late Thursday blocked the Trump
administration from stopping the
2020 Census count next week in-
stead of Oct. 31 as the bureau had
planned, saying the plaintiffs had
proved the government’s truncat-
ed schedule could lead to an inac-
curate count.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in
the Northern District of Califor-
nia granted a preliminary injunc-
tion in the case brought by the
National Urban League and a
group of counties, cities, advocacy
groups and individuals. Koh had,
earlier this month, issued a tem-
porary restraining order to con-
tinue the count, which has been
beset this year by the coronavirus
pandemic, natural disasters and
legal tussling. The case is likely to
be appealed to the U.S. Supreme
Court.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.) in a statement called the
ruling “a victory for our Constitu-
tion and American Democracy,”
and plaintiffs called it a win for
people in harder-to-count com-
munities who may have been
missed under a rushed count.
“The court’s decision affirms
our contention that changes to
the census schedule will irrepara-
bly harm the integrity of the 2020
Census and result in a devastating
undercount of vulnerable com-
munities,” said Marc H. Morial,
the NUL’s president and chief ex-
ecutive. “Career officials at the
Census Bureau opposed the short-
ened schedule precisely for these
reasons, and to avoid the percep-
tion of political manipulation,
and we are confident that integri-
ty and equity will win out over the
partisan vandalism that threat-
ens our democracy.”
Melissa Arbus Sherry, an attor-
ney with Latham & Watkins who
argued the case, said in a state-
ment: “As the Court recognized,
the Census Bureau has itself re-
peatedly recognized that a full,
fair, and accurate count takes
time, especially when faced with a
historic pandemic. Every day that
the 2020 Census count continues,
and Census operations appropri-
ately continue, will help ensure
was still in office, instead of the
original deadline of April 30.
Koh referred to a July 29 House
Oversight and Reform hearing at
which bureau director Steven
Dillingham did not support ex-
tending the deadline but rather
“sidestepped questions” about
whether the administration had
reversed its position.
“Accordingly, Defendants’ ex-
planation — that the Replan was
adopted in order to meet the De-
cember 31, 2020 statutory dead-
line because Congress failed to act
— runs counter to the facts,” she
wrote. “Those facts show not only
that the Bureau could not meet
the statutory deadline, but also
that the Bureau had received
pressure from the Commerce De-
partment to cease seeking an ex-
tension of the deadline.”
The evidence supported the
plaintiffs’ claim that the govern-
ment’s decision was “arbitrary
and capricious,” in violation of the
Administrative Procedure Act, ac-
cording to the ruling. “Single-
mindedly sacrificing” a complete
and accurate census in order to
meet a congressionally mandated
deadline “can itself violate the
APA,” she wrote.
The ruling also found that the
jurisdictions and groups that had
filed the suit would suffer irrepa-
rable harm from an inaccurate
census, including a loss of federal
funding and Congressional repre-
sentation, both of which are de-
termined by decennial census
data.
A federal court in Maryland is
expected to rule soon on a similar
challenge to the shortened sched-
ule.
This week, the Trump adminis-
tration also asked the Supreme
Court to overturn or expedite a
review of a separate ruling against
a memo from the president that
said undocumented immigrants
should be excluded when using
census data for allocating con-
gressional seats to the states.
Census workers have told The
Washington Post and watchdog
groups that they were instructed
to cut corners in recent weeks in
the rush to meet the shortened
deadline.
On Thursday, House Oversight
Barr told Trump of probe into 9 discarded ballots
Pa. official says inquiry
began immediately after
documents were found
BY A MY G ARDNER,
D EVLIN B ARRETT
AND J OSH D AWSEY
Attorney General William P.
Barr personally told President
Trump this week about an investi-
gation into nine discarded mail
ballots in northeastern Pennsylva-
nia that the president later touted
as evidence of widespread elec-
tion fraud, according to a person
familiar with the conversation,
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to describe internal
administration discussions.
The conversation came as
Trump has fixated on the subject
of voter fraud with aides, adminis-
tration officials said, asking for
information on the topic and up-
dates from his campaign advisers
and legal team about voting law-
suits. He has repeatedly lambast-
ed voting by mail as susceptible to
widespread fraud, despite evi-
dence to the contrary.
The Justice Department made a
public announcement about the
Pennsylvania case Thursday after
the president discussed it in a
radio interview. The statement
drew sharp criticism from voting-
law experts, who questioned the
timing and the details released,
such as the fact that most of the
ballots were cast for Trump.
Barr himself has echoed the
president’s attacks on mail voting
and leveled false assertions about
the risks of mail ballots. He has
suggested without evidence that
foreign governments could easily
inject counterfeit ballots into the
system or that postal workers de-
livering ballots are susceptible to
bribery.
Since the Watergate era, attor-
neys general have notified presi-
dents about criminal cases of na-
tional importance, while trying to
avoid discussions that would in-
volve the administration in specif-
ic investigations, particularly
those involving political figures.
ABC News first reported Barr’s
conversation with Trump about
David J. Freed, the U.S. attorney for the Middle District of
Pennsylvania, speaks at a news conference in Scranton on Tuesday.
the election,” said Ben Ginsberg, a
longtime election lawyer for Re-
publicans.
Ginsberg said the Luzerne ir-
regularities “absolutely” warrant
investigation, but he also said offi-
cials need to distinguish between
willful fraud and a simple mistake.
Trump first made an allusion to
the Pennsylvania investigation
Thursday in an appearance on Fox
News Radio’s “The Brian
Kilmeade Show” when asked
about his refusal to commit to a
peaceful transfer of power if he
loses the election.
“I think we have a long way
before we get there,” the president
responded. “These ballots are a
horror show. They found six bal-
lots in an office yesterday in a
garbage can. They were Trump
ballots — eight ballots in an office
yesterday in — but in a certain
state and they were — they had
Trump written on it, and they
were thrown in a garbage can.”
White House press secretary
Kayleigh McEnany then told re-
porters that there would be an
announcement about the case. “I
can confirm for you that Trump
ballots, ballots for the president,
were found in Pennsylvania, and I
believe you should be getting
more information on that shortly,”
she said.
David J. Freed, the U.S. attorney
for the Middle District of Pennsyl-
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vania, subsequently released a
statement saying his office was
investigating the discarded bal-
lots, initially saying that all nine
had been cast for Trump. He later
clarified that seven of the ballots
had been cast for the president
and two were found sealed.
A spokesperson for the U.S. at-
torney declined to comment be-
yond Freed’s written statement or
explain why he revealed the candi-
date for whom the votes had been
cast.
Trump’s campaign pounced on
the announcement. “Democrats
are trying to steal the election,”
one campaign spokesman wrote
in a tweet, which went viral before
he later deleted it.
The president also cited the
case again in comments to report-
ers at the White House, saying,
“We want to make sure that the
election is honest, and I’m not sure
that it can be.”
Two White House officials who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity to describe internal dis-
cussions said the White House
decided to announce the investi-
gation after Trump mentioned on
the air and reporters began mak-
ing inquiries.
In a statement, Luzerne County
said the contractor began work at
the elections bureau on Sept. 14
and was assigned to sort mail. The
discarded ballots were discovered
two days later by the elections
bureau director, and the contrac-
tor was removed, the county said.
“While the actions of this indi-
vidual has cast a concern, the
above statement shows that the
system of checks and balances set
forth in Pennsylvania elections
works,” the statement said. “An
error was made, a public servant
discovered it and reported it to
law enforcement.”
Pedri, the Luzerne County man-
ager, said the matter was referred
to the local prosecutor, who in
turn called in the U.S. attorney.
The FBI, state police and local
prosecutors inspected all trash
from the elections office for the
three days the contractor was on
the job.
Pedri declined to say why the
contractor discarded the ballots
or whether any further irregulari-
ties had been discovered beyond
the nine ballots.
In a letter to the Luzerne Coun-
ty election office released Thurs-
day night, Freed also said investi-
gators recovered four “official,
bar-coded, absentee ballot enve-
lopes that were empty.” Those ma-
terials were discovered in an out-
side dumpster, he said.
“It was explained to investiga-
tors the envelopes used for official
overseas, military, absentee and
mail-in ballot requests are so simi-
lar, that the staff believed that
adhering to the protocol of pre-
serving envelopes unopened
would cause them to miss such
ballot requests,” Freed wrote. “Our
interviews further revealed that
this issue was a problem in the
primary election — therefore a
known issue — and that the prob-
lem has not been corrected.”
Asked if he was surprised that
the investigation drew national
attention, Pedri said: “Nothing
surprises me anymore.”
“Obviously the investigation
will uncover if there is any sort of a
larger problem, and we’re happy
to assist,” he said. “We are cooper-
ating with that investigation. We
are the ones who initiated it.”
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the accuracy and completeness of
this once-in-a-decade tally.”
The Justice and Commerce de-
partments did not respond to re-
quests for comment.
In her ruling, Koh found that
Committee Chairwoman Carolyn
B. Maloney (D-N.Y.) sent a letter to
Dillingham asking about leaked
documents that appear to show
the bureau breaking or changing
its rules for the enumeration of
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the Pennsylvania case.
A Justice Department spokes-
woman declined to comment. A
senior White House official said
Trump was not “briefed” on the
Pennsylvania case, but did not

the government’s explanation for
why it had shortened the timeline
ran “counter to the facts.”
Justice Department lawyers
had argued that the government
had truncated the count in re-
sponse to Congress’s failure to act
homeless people in order to finish
the count by Sept. 30. Dillingham
said bureau officials would an-
swer her questions Friday in a
regularly scheduled briefing.
Maloney and other lawmakers
have expressed concern about the
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respond to a request for comment
on whether the subject came up in
a discussion with Barr.
At issue are nine ballots that
officials said were found in an
election office trash can on Sept.
16 in Luzerne County, Pa., in the

on the bureau’s earlier request to
extend the statutory deadline for
delivering the data. The House
approved the four-month delay in
its May coronavirus relief bill but
the Senate has yet to approve it.
But Koh found that even as
Congress was taking “major
change in schedule, saying a
rushed count would hurt commu-
nities in both Democratic and
Republican states.
A bipartisan Senate bill intro-
duced this month by Brian Schatz
(D-Hawaii), Lisa Murkowski (R-
Alaska) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alas-
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northeastern corner of the state.
Luzerne County Manager David
Pedri said in an interview Friday
that the ballots were discarded by
an independent contractor who
has since been fired. All nine were
military ballots mailed in from
overseas, he said.

steps” toward extending the dead-
line, the Commerce Department
was already pressuring the bu-
reau to accelerate the count.
Internal documents released
during the lawsuit showed career
bureau officials strategizing how
to resist the pressure, calling it
“ludicrous to think we can com-
plete 100% of the nation’s data
collection earlier than 10/31,” and
saying “any thinking person who
would believe we can deliver ap-
portionment by 12/31 has either a
mental deficiency or a political
motivation.”
On Aug. 3, the government
ka) would extend the count
through at least Oct. 31 and ex-
tend the data reporting deadline
by four months. Census experts
say post-count analysis and ad-
justments are key to an accurate
count; the government’s Replan
would have shortened it from six
months to three months. A date
extension approved by lawmak-
ers could be vetoed by the presi-
dent but still could add weight to
challenges in court.
Otherwise, an expected appeal
of Koh’s decision by the govern-
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A federal judge ruled Friday
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leading steward of public lands
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has blocked him from continuing
in the position.
U.S. District Judge Brian
Morris said William Perry
Pendley, acting director of the
U.S. Bureau of Land
Management, served unlawfully
for 424 days without being
confirmed to the post by the U.S.
Senate.
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock
(D) had sued to remove Pendley,
saying the former oil industry
attorney was illegally overseeing
an agency that manages almost a
quarter-billion acres of land,
primarily in the Western U.S.
Pendley’s position as acting
director was one of several major
leadership roles that the Trump
administration has sought to fill
through temporary
appointments and without going
through the normal confirmation
process.
Trump said he was nominating
Pendley in June. But the
nomination was withdrawn
earlier this month after the
confirmation process threatened
to become contentious,
potentially disrupting key U.S.
senate races in Colorado and
Montana, where Bullock is
seeking to unseat incumbent
Republican Steve Daines.
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on to the post, under an
arrangement that Pendley
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own position, deputy director, the
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Majority wants Senate to wait to fill vacancy on Supreme Court, poll finds
BY S COTT C LEMENT Most Americans want the next Supreme Court justice to
AND E MILY G USKIN
be selected by the winner of the presidential election
A majority of Americans op- Q: As you may know, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died
pose efforts by President Trump last Friday, creating an opening on the Supreme Court. Do you think her
and the Republican-led Senate to replacement should be nominated by Donald Trump and confirmed by the
fill a Supreme Court vacancy be- current U.S. Senate, or should this be left to the winner of the presidential
fore the presidential election, election and a Senate vote next year? (Among U.S. adults)
with most supporters of Demo-
cratic candidate Joe Biden saying Nominated by Trump and confirmed Left to the winner of the election
the issue has raised the stakes of
the election, according to a Wash-
U.S. adults 38% 57
ington Post-ABC News poll.
The Post-ABC poll, conducted
Monday to Thursday, finds 38 per- Democrats 7 90
cent of Americans say the replace-
ment for Justice Ruth Bader Gins-
burg, who died last week, should Independents 34 61
be nominated by Trump and con-
firmed by the current Senate,
while 57 percent say it should be Republicans 80 16
left to the winner of the presiden-
tial election and a Senate vote next Note: “No opinion” not shown.
year.
Partisans are deeply divided on Source: Sept. 21-24, 2020, Washington Post-ABC News poll of 1,008 adults with an error
the issue, though clear majorities margin of +/- 3.5 percentage points.
of political independents (61 per-
cent) and women (64 percent) say In light of court vacancy, nearly half of Biden supporters
the next justice should be chosen
by the winner of this fall’s election, say it’s ‘much more’ important that Biden win AMANDA VOISARD FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

including about half of each group
who feel this way “strongly.”
Trump has said he will an-
nounce his choice to replace Gins-
burg on Saturday, and The Post
reported Friday, after the poll con-
cluded, that he has told people
around him that he plans to nomi-
nate federal appeals court Judge
Amy Coney Barrett. He appears to
have secured the needed votes to
confirm his nominee before the
Nov. 3 election.
Ginsburg’s death has jolted the
issue of Supreme Court nomina-
tions to the forefront of the presi-
dential campaign, but it is not yet
clear how a weeks-long push to
confirm his nominee will influ-
ence voters, who have been heavi-
ly focused on the economy and the
coronavirus.
In a head-to-head question
among all adults, Biden has an
eight-point advantage over
Trump on whom Americans trust
to handle the next Supreme Court
appointment, 50 percent to
42 percent. Biden’s edge is a simi-
lar 51 percent to 43 percent among
registered voters.
The poll suggests the debate
over a Supreme Court nomination
could help Biden motivate his
supporters: A 64 percent majority
of Biden supporters say the vacan-
cy makes it “more important” that
Biden win the election, compared
with 37 percent of Trump support-
ers who say the same about Trump
winning reelection. Biden sup-
porters are 19 percentage points
Q: Does the opening on the Supreme Court make it more important to you People watch as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s casket arrives at the Capitol on Friday. A Post-ABC poll
that Trump/Biden wins the election, or does it make no difference? Is that suggests the debate over a Supreme Court pick could further motivate backers of Democrat Joe Biden.
much more important, or somewhat more important? (Separately among
Biden and Trump supporters)
Democrats are about as likely as grant a hearing to Obama’s nomi- portant” that Biden win, com-
0 10 20 30 40 50 60% Republicans to say the Supreme nee, Merrick Garland, leaving the pared with 43 percent of moder-
Biden supporters Court appointment is their top nomination open until Trump ates. Among Trump supporters,
issue. nominee Neil M. Gorsuch was 36 percent of conservatives say
Much more important that Biden wins 48% While Trump and Republicans confirmed in 2017. the vacancy makes Trump’s re-
have sought to make the court a Biden urged Republican sena- election “much more important,”
Somewhat more important that Biden wins 15 big 2020 issue — in part to change tors to hold off on confirming a compared with 20 percent of mod-
No difference 35 the subject from consistently un- replacement for Ginsburg before erate-to-liberal Trump backers.
favorable ratings the president the election. Yet Biden has not There are gender and age gaps
has received for his handling of joined with other Democrats in among Biden supporters: 54 per-
Trump supporters the coronavirus pandemic — raising the specter of increasing cent of female Biden supporters
Much more important that Trump wins 29
Democrats already have signaled the number of justices on the say the Supreme Court opening
their emphasis on the implica- court overall if he is elected. makes it much more important
Somewhat more important that Trump wins 8 tions of the court battle rather A 54 percent majority of Ameri- that Biden win, compared with
than the process. Biden and oth- cans oppose increasing the num- 40 percent of men who back
No difference 62
ers have argued that the fate of the ber of justices who sit on the Biden. And while 59 percent of
Affordable Care Act rests in the bench in a way that would give the Biden supporters ages 65 and old-
Note: “No opinion” not shown. hands of the new court, as well as winner of the election more influ- er say the vacancy left by Ginsburg
other issues important to Demo- ence over the court’s makeup. makes it much more important
Source: Sept. 21-24, 2020, Washington Post-ABC News poll among U.S.
adults. Results among Biden supporters and Trump supporters have an
crats and independents, includ- About a third of Americans sup- that Biden win, that drops to
error margin of between +/- 5-5.5 percentage points. ing voting rights, abortion rights port adding justices, 32 percent, 42 percent of Biden supporters
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and the environment. while 12 percent have no opinion. under age 40. Younger adults are
Americans’ opposition to About 6 in 10 Republicans and historically much less likely to
more likely to say the vacancy At the same time, voters pon- Trump making an election-year independents alike oppose in- vote.
makes it “much more important” dering the current race say Su- Supreme Court appointment con- creasing the number of justices on This Post-ABC poll was con-
that their candidate win, at 48 per- preme Court appointments are a trasts with attitudes after the the Supreme Court, while Demo- ducted Sept. 21 to 24 among a
cent, compared with 29 percent of secondary issue in their choice for death of Justice Antonin Scalia in crats are relatively split, with random national sample of 1,008
Trump supporters. president. The Post-ABC poll finds early 2016. That March, a Post- 45 percent supporting this and adults, with 75 percent reached on
Those results suggest a reversal 25 percent saying the economy is ABC poll found 63 percent of 39 percent opposing it. cellphones and 25 percent on lan-
in the recent postures of both most important in their vote and Americans saying the Senate The Post-ABC poll suggests the dlines. Overall results have a mar-
parties. In 2016, national exit poll- 17 percent citing the coronavirus should hold hearings and vote on battle over Supreme Court nomi- gin of sampling error of plus or
ing found Trump voters were outbreak. A smaller 11 percent say whether to accept President Ba- nations strikes the strongest minus 3.5 percentage points; the
more likely to say Supreme Court the next high court appointment rack Obama’s nomination to the chord among Americans who are error margin for results among
appointments were “the most im- is their top voting issue at this court, while 32 percent said the already fervent supporters of Trump supporters and Biden sup-
portant factor” in their vote, at 26 point, in the mix with “crime and Senate should not hold hearings Trump or Biden. porters ranges from 5 to 5.5 per-
percent, compared with 18 per- safety” at 12 percent, “equal treat- — which would have blocked the Among Biden supporters, centage points.
cent among Hillary Clinton vot- ment of racial groups” at 14 per- nomination and left it to the next 59 percent of liberals say the court scott.clement@washpost.com
ers. cent and health care at 15 percent. president. The Senate did not opening makes it “much more im- emily.guskin@washpost.com

Trump expected to name conservative. Roberts’s improba-

ble role of swing vote would likely
end with this confirmation, court

Barrett for seat on court observers expect.

COURT FROM A1
deeply conservative jurists chosen
for the high court by Trump.
Trump’s first two appointments,
Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M.
Kavanaugh, are in their 50s. The
trio would represent one-third of
the body and form a new 6-3
conservative majority.
The people familiar with the
matter, who spoke on the condi-
tion of anonymity because the de-
cision has not been announced,
cautioned that Trump could al-
ways change his mind ahead of
the announcement but said he is
telling others that Barrett is his
pick. She is the only candidate he
is known to have met with about
the vacancy. Administration offi-
cials and campaign advisers were
preparing for a Barrett announce-
ment, and remarks for the presi-
dent disclosing her as his choice
have already been written, accord-
ing to these people.
The White House declined to
comment.
Trump spoke to reporters brief-
ly upon his return to Washington
on Friday. He said he had made a
decision but would not confirm
that the choice was Barrett.
“I’ll be announcing it tomor-
row, my decision,” he said. “In my
own mind, I have, and I’ll be an-
nouncing the decision tomorrow.
It’s very exciting.”
Trump gave a knowing smile as
reporters asked about Barrett,
whom he called “outstanding.”
“You’ll find out tomorrow,” he
said.
Trump said he did not meet
with Judge Barbara Lagoa of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th
Circuit during his overnight stay
in Miami, where she lives. Lagoa
was considered the other top
choice.
Trump has urged the Senate to
act swiftly in hope that his nomi-
nee will be confirmed before Elec-
tion Day, an extraordinarily fast
timeline and a mark of how
Trump plans to use the prospect of
an ironclad conservative majority
as an election issue.
Barrett is a favorite of religious
conservatives and is already
battle-tested after going through a
ferocious confirmation fight in
2017 for her seat on the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. She
was confirmed on a 55-to-43 vote.
Republicans also hope that for
moderates such as Sen. Susan Col-
lins (R-Maine), her gender will
make her a more palatable re-
placement for Ginsburg, a femi-
nist icon who devoted her legal
career to gender equality. Trump
had said he would consider only
women to fill the seat and quickly
narrowed the list to Barrett and a
handful of others.
Trump considered Barrett in
2018 to replace Justice Anthony
M. Kennedy, who was retiring.
This time, she was the favorite
among several Trump advisers,
including White House Chief of
Staff Mark Meadows and Vice
President Pence.
Barrett is a devout Catholic who
faced questions about the role of
her religion in her legal philoso-
phy during her appeals court con-
firmation hearing. She said then
that as an appellate judge she
would “follow all Supreme Court
precedent without fail” and would
regard decisions such as Roe v.
Wade as binding precedent.
“I would never impose my own
personal convictions upon the
law,” she added.
Democrats pointed to com-
ments she had made years before
about a legal career being a means
to an end, “and that end is build-
ing the Kingdom of God.”
She had also previously written
that judges shouldn’t be held to
upholding Supreme Court prec-
edents.
Other candidates for the high
court vacancy included Judge Alli-
son Jones Rushing of the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the 4th Cir-
cuit and Deputy White House
Counsel Kate Comerford Todd.
Trump’s reelection rallies have
featured chants of “Fill that seat,”
an echo of his 2016 campaign
slogan “Build that wall,” and his
campaign offered T-shirts with
the Supreme Court-themed slo-
gan to donors days after Gins-
burg’s death.
Democrats have complained
about the fairness of making such
a replacement when voting in the
presidential election already has
begun. They call Republicans hyp-
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, speaking here at Notre Dame Law School’s commencement in 2018, faced
questions about religion’s role in her legal philosophy during her appeals court confirmation hearing.
ocrites for refusing to hold a con-
firmation vote in 2016 when Presi-
dent Barack Obama sought to fill
the seat of Justice Antonin Scalia
upon his death in that election
year.
Democrats are hoping to use
the pick to mobilize liberal and
swing voters by focusing on the
implications of a more conserva-
tive court for issues such as health
care. The high court is set to hear
oral arguments on the latest bid to
strike down the Affordable Care
Act — a suit brought by 18 Repub-
lican states that is backed by the
Trump administration — on
Nov. 10, one week after the elec-
tion. Republicans have offered no
plan for replacing the law, which
extended health insurance to
some 20 million Americans.
They also hope to convince vot-
ers that the pick is being rushed
and that whoever wins the presi-
dential election should pick Gins-
burg’s replacement.
A majority of Americans op-
pose efforts by Trump and the
Republican-led Senate to fill the
vacancy before the election, with
most supporters of Democratic
nominee Joe Biden saying the is-
sue has raised the stakes of the
election, according to a Washing-
ton Post-ABC News poll released
Friday. The poll, conducted Mon-
day to Thursday, found that
38 percent of Americans say the
replacement for Ginsburg, who
died last week, should be nomi-
nated by Trump and confirmed by
the current Senate, while 57 per-
cent say it should be left to the
winner of the presidential elec-
tion and a Senate vote next year.
Republicans plan to move to
confirm Trump’s pick as quickly as
possible.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell (R-Ky.) began mobiliz-
ing his ranks last week to confirm
whomever Trump chose. Only two
GOP senators — Collins and Lisa
Murkowski (Alaska) — have said
they oppose voting on Trump’s
pick before Nov. 3, while GOP
support has only grown for
Trump’s public demand for Senate
Republicans to hold a vote by
then.
Democrats have argued that
the Senate has never confirmed a
nominee to the Supreme Court
between July and Election Day in
a presidential year, but they cur-
rently lack the votes to stop hear-
ings and a vote in the Republican-
led Senate.
Trump appeared to have se-
cured the votes needed to confirm
his nominee days before he even
named a candidate, and the White
House predicts Republicans will
stick together.
Abortion, access to health care,
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gun rights and the death penalty
are all issues that are or may again
soon be before the high court.
Ginsburg’s sudden death jolted
the presidential race, making a
theoretical question about
Trump’s second-term options an
issue in his reelection fight.
Trump trails Biden in national
and some swing-state polls with
fewer than 40 days until Election
Day.
Trump has directly tied the con-
firmation of a Supreme Court jus-
tice to the presidential election,
predicting Wednesday that cases
challenging the results would end
up before the nation’s high court.
“I think this will end up in the
Supreme Court. And I think it’s
very important that we have nine
justices,” Trump said when asked
if he felt an urgency to fill the seat
before the election because of the
possibility of lawsuits around vot-
ing.
The court’s term begins Oct. 5.
The court can meet with only
eight justices, but the even num-
ber raises the possibility of a tie if
emergency election-related chal-
lenges come to the court.
The current eight include three
liberals, who with Ginsburg could
sometimes prevail over the four-
member deeply conservative wing
with the help of Chief Justice John
G. Roberts Jr., a more moderate
Trump, who has warned base-
lessly of voter fraud and corrup-
tion in the upcoming election,
said he wants his nominee con-
firmed so she can rule on any legal
challenges to the presidential
election results.
“It’s better if you go before the
election, because I think this, this
scam that the Democrats are pull-
ing — it’s a scam — the scam will be
before the United States Supreme
Court,” he said. “And I think hav-
ing a 4-4 situation is not a good
situation.”
The “scam” Trump claims is
happening refers to the decision
by states to allow most Americans
the option to vote by mail in the
face of the coronavirus pandemic,
when people might be scared to
vote in person. There is no evi-
dence that mailing in ballots will
lead to the kind of widespread
corruption Trump has suggested.
Trump said an election case
that goes before the Supreme
Court should get a vote of “eight-
nothing or nine-nothing.”
“But just in case it would be
more political than it should be, I
think it’s very important to have a
ninth justice,” he said.
Trump has told advisers that he
relishes a fight over the seat be-
cause it changes the topic of the
campaign from the pandemic and
shows voters he is fighting for
them, and that he believes Demo-
crats will overplay their hand.
Ginsburg served 27 years on the
high court before her death last
week at 87, of complications from
cancer.
As a lawyer in the 1970s, Gins-
burg argued six cases before the
Supreme Court, helping to chip
away and eventually topple the
legal wall of gender inequality. At
a commemoration at the high
court on Wednesday, Roberts not-
ed that she wrote 483 opinions
and dissents in her tenure, a lega-
cy that will “steer the court for
decades.”
Ginsburg’s body lay in repose at
the court Wednesday and Thurs-
day and lay in state at the Capitol
on Friday. She is to be buried
Sunday at Arlington National
Cemetery, alongside her husband,
Martin D. Ginsburg, who died in
2010.
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Study: Fewer than 1 in 10 Americans show signs of previous virus infection
BY B EN G UARINO
Fewer than 1 in 10 Americans
showed signs of past infection
with the novel coronavirus as of
late July, suggesting that most of
the country may still be vulner-
able to infection, according to one
of the largest studies of its kind
published Friday in the journal
the Lancet.
That proportion is an estimate
based on the percentage of dialy-
sis patients whose immune sys-
tems produced coronavirus anti-
bodies. It does not indicate exact-
ly how many Americans may be
immune to the virus, because not
every infected individual devel-
ops antibodies. It is also unclear
how strong a defense antibodies
might confer or for how long. But,
combined with similar results
from studies by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
and other institutions, it’s evident
a large majority may not be pro-
tected against a disease that has
already killed 200,000 Ameri-
cans.
“We are still in the middle of
the fight,” said Eli Rosenberg, a
State University of New York at
Albany epidemiologist who was
not part of the study. “We’re all
tired, and we’re all hoping for a
vaccine. This shows us how it’s
not over here, not even by a long
shot.”
Researchers at Stanford Uni-
versity and Ascend Clinical labo-
ratory, a company that processes
lab tests for kidney dialysis pa-
tients, examined leftover blood
plasma samples from a randomly
selected group of 28,500 patients.
Each person underwent dialysis
at one of 1,300 centers in 46 states
in July. Testing the plasma re-
vealed about 8 percent had coro-
navirus antibodies, the molecules
the immune system churns out to
help fight an infection.
That’s equivalent to about
9 percent of all U.S. adults, ac-
cording to Stanford University
biostatistician and study co-au-
thor Maria Montez-Rath, who
used patient data on region, age
and sex to translate that result to
the general populace. Ongoing
CDC studies of leftover medical
samples — not only from dialysis
patients — in 10 regions found
roughly similar percentages of
people who had antibodies in the
summer months.
This means for every case diag-
nosed by a nasal or saliva swab in
the country, about nine more
people have antibodies for the
White House makes demands of FDA, raising fears of political interference
VACCINE FROM A1
than science, is driving the proc-
ess.
Trump has repeatedly said a
vaccine will be available by Elec-
tion Day, or possibly sooner, wor-
rying scientists that he might
attempt to intervene in the review
process. Companies will begin re-
porting safety and effectiveness
data in coming weeks and
months. And in conversations
with some advisers, the president
has directly tied the vaccine to his
reelection chances, according to a
senior administration official,
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to discuss private de-
liberations.
The White House’s decision to
weigh in on the FDA plan was
assailed by former FDA commis-
sioners who had served both Re-
publican and Democratic presi-
dents.
“I don’t know of any precedent
where the White House asked to
adjudicate scientific and clinical
guidances, even in past public
health emergencies,” said Scott
Gottlieb, Trump’s first FDA com-
missioner. “To build trust among
patients and providers, you want-
ed to leave these matters to the
FDA process, which has a lot of
rigor and integrity.”
Robert Califf, commissioner
under President Barack Obama,
said White House officials lack
the expertise to assess the FDA’s
safety protocols. “For the presi-
dent to weigh in is not good,” he
said, “and it sets a precedent,
which is worrisome in many re-
gards, and makes you worry
about what he’ll do about the
decision itself about individual
vaccines.”
The push from the White
House comes during a week in
which top health administration
officials, including FDA Commis-
sioner Stephen Hahn, vowed
there would be no political inter-
ference in the vaccine approval
process and sought to boost pub-
lic trust in the process.
So far, the White House has not
asked the FDA to withdraw or
change the guidance for an emer-
gency authorization of the vac-
cine — a far quicker process than
. THE WASHINGTON POST
People wait outside an urgent-care facility in Cambridge, Mass. Few U.S. adults have coronavirus antibodies, a study found.
coronavirus, the study estimated.
Many people remain potentially
at risk. “It basically does show
that a minority of the U.S. popula-
tion has evidence of antibodies to
SARS-CoV-2 right now,” said
study co-author Shuchi Anand, a
nephrologist at Stanford Univer-
sity.
The findings also suggest herd
immunity is far off without the
advent of a vaccine. Epidemio-
logical models suggest about
70 percent of the population
would need to be protected from
the coronavirus to make its
spread unlikely, said study co-au-
thor Julie Parsonnet, an infec-
tious-disease epidemiologist at
Stanford University, acknowledg-
ing antibody studies are “not a
perfect way” to track this.
That’s because scientists still
don’t understand coronavirus im-
munity well enough. “We don’t
really have perfect data that anti-
bodies give immunity,” she said.
“And we don’t have perfect data
that there aren’t other forms of
immunity that are also impor-
a formal approval that gives the
FDA the flexibility to set a lower
bar for safety and effectiveness.
The agency expects to use the
process because of the urgency of
the situation. In a Wednesday
phone call, White House Chief of
Staff Mark Meadows told Hahn
the agency had to provide the
detailed justification for the guid-
ance, according to two people
familiar with the call who spoke
on the condition of anonymity to
discuss internal deliberations.
The FDA, which had planned
to release the guidance this week,
instead has been working on de-
tailed scientific justifications for
the questions raised by White
House officials, according to two
people who spoke on the condi-
tion of anonymity to discuss in-
ternal deliberations. White
House officials are especially in-
terested in the agency’s recom-
mendation that manufacturers
provide safety data for their clini-
cal trial participants for a median
of two months after they get their
second vaccination shot. The
FDA’s data request would make it
exceedingly difficult, though not
entirely impossible, for a vaccine
to be cleared by Election Day,
experts say.
The recommendation is a way
of ruling out some vaccine-relat-
ed side effects, such as spinal cord
inflammation called transverse
myelitis or blood clotting issues,
several experts said.
At a vaccine forum Thursday,
Peter Marks, the top FDA career
official who oversees vaccine re-
views, said those types of side
effects, though rare, tend to occur
42 to 60 days after the second
dose of a vaccination, according
to a research note from analyst
Geoffrey Porges.
If the guidance is derailed, it
may have little practical effect on
how the FDA reviews prospective
vaccines. The agency can still seek
the information it wants from the
companies, and the firms have
known for weeks what the agency
is looking for. But jettisoning the
guidance would hurt the agency’s
effort to build trust among scien-
tists and members of the general
public who are worried an emer-
gency authorization might pose
the coronavirus pandemic
New coronavirus cases and deaths in the U.S., by day
As of 8 p.m. Friday
CASES 54,719
Total
6,998,199 70,000
60,000
50,000
40,000
30,000
20,000
7-day
10,000
average
0 0
Feb. 29 Sept. 25
tant, which antibody tests can-
not detect.
“If these numbers were taken
at face value … they still would
suggest that there are a lot of
people” who haven’t been infect-
ed, Rosenberg said.
The study’s findings align with
major safety risks.
“Whatever happens with the
guidance itself is not likely to
change what FDA expects to see
for any given product,” said Patri-
cia Zettler, an Ohio State Univer-
sity law professor and a former
associate chief counsel at the
FDA. “Nevertheless, this is yet
another deeply, deeply troubling
sign of political interference un-
dermining FDA’s critical public
health work.”
As the debate over vaccines has
heated up, and polls show mount-
ing concerns, Trump and White
House aides blame Democrats for
hurting the public trust in vac-
cines. Yet Trump himself has re-
peatedly bragged about the fact
that the vaccine is on track to be
developed in record time.
“It is a danger to the American
public that the radical Left in
coordination with their friends in
the media has decided to become
anti-vaxxers,” said White House
spokesman Judd Deere. “A safe,
effective, and proven vaccine will
save lives and only win approval
under the FDA’s gold standard,
not because of politics.”
The politicization of the proc-
ess is now coming from both
parties. Citing Trump’s denuncia-
tion of the FDA’s proposed stan-
dard, New York’s Democratic gov-
President Trump holds a news conference Wednesday at the White
House, where he undermined FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn.
EZ RE
DEATHS
Total
203,182
2500
2000
855
1500
1000
7-day
500
average
Feb. 29 Sept. 25
CDC Director Robert Redfield’s
assertion to Congress this week
that 90 percent of U.S. population
is probably vulnerable to the vi-
rus — a statement later chal-
lenged by Scott Atlas, a pandemic
adviser to President Trump. “It is
not 90 percent of people that are
ernor, Andrew M. Cuomo, said
Thursday that he would have
state experts vet any FDA-cleared
vaccine because he was “not go-
ing to trust the federal govern-
ment’s opinion.”
Jason Schwartz, assistant pro-
fessor at the Yale University
School of Public Health, said Cuo-
mo’s announcement “may be
well-intended, but setting up a
state approval process would do
more harm than good.” State re-
views of vaccines would “only add
to confusion and uncertainty
about these vaccines.”
If the White House holds up or
blocks the release of the FDA
guidance, it will mark yet another
instance of political interference
in the delicate scientific and regu-
latory work of the nation’s top
health agencies. Trump has re-
peatedly clashed with the nation’s
top health agencies throughout
the coronavirus response and un-
dermined his health officials
from the White House podium.
Last week, for instance, he said
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention Director Robert Red-
field was “confused” when Red-
field said a coronavirus vaccine
would not be widely available
until next summer or fall.
The president also under-
mined Hahn during a White
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JOHN TLUMACKI/BOSTON GLOBE/GETTY IMAGES
susceptible to the infection,” Atlas
said Wednesday, arguing that
more people have immunity to
the novel coronavirus due to pro-
tection from what’s known as
“memory” T cells, the part of the
immune system trained to recog-
nize specific invaders. Some sci-
entists theorize a number of peo-
ple may have such T-cell immuni-
ty because of previous contact
with other coronaviruses, such as
the common cold; however, that
theory has not yet been proved.
This study’s population was
more geographically diverse than
those of other antibody studies in
the United States and was “rigor-
ously done,” Rosenberg said. But
he said it was difficult to conclude
whether dialysis patients truly
represent all adults in the United
States.
The study found minority
groups disproportionately had
coronavirus antibodies, at 16 per-
cent for those who live in majority
Black and Hispanic communities,
11 percent in majority Hispanic
communities and 4 percent in
House news conference Wednes-
day, after Hahn, in a Senate hear-
ing, tried to reassure the public
that any vaccine decision would
be free of political interference.
When asked about the FDA’s
new guidance, Trump said he
thought the new standards
sounded “like a political move”
and warned the White House
might reject them. “I don’t see
why it should be delayed further,”
Trump said. “That is a lot of lives
you’re talking about.”
The guidance initially seemed
to move through the approval
process as expected. On Tuesday,
Health and Human Services Sec-
retary Alex Azar and other top
HHS officials were briefed and
the FDA sent it to the White
House later that day.
Inside the FDA, it was viewed
as an elaboration upon guidance
the FDA issued June 30, accord-
ing to two senior administration
officials who spoke on the condi-
tion of anonymity. That earlier
guidance stated that to win regu-
latory approval, any coronavirus
vaccine would have to prevent
disease, or decrease its severity, in
at least 50 percent of the people
who receive it. It also said drug
companies must monitor the vac-
cine’s performance after approval
for any emerging safety prob-
lems.
Later Tuesday, details of the
guidance appeared in the media,
including in The Washington
Post, before it had received feed-
back or comments from the
White House. Trump and White
House aides were angered after
they saw headlines — particularly
one in the Drudge Report — that
indicated the guidance could
slow the vaccine timeline until
after Election Day.
When Trump called Azar
Wednesday afternoon to demand
answers about the guidance, Azar
said that Hahn was responsible
for it and expressed frustration to
the president — and later to other
White House aides — that details
had already appeared in the
press, according to three people
familiar with the call.
Also that afternoon, Meadows
called Hahn and said the FDA had
to provide “very detailed justifica-
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majority White communities.
Clinical data have suggested in-
fections in Black and Hispanic
populations are more severe, and
this study indicates members of
those populations are more likely
to be exposed as well.
July’s snapshot also showed
variation by Zip code, with “a
10-fold higher risk if you live in a
very highly dense area compared
to more rural settings,” Anand
said.
In an accompanying editorial
in the Lancet, infectious-disease
doctor Barnaby Flower and pub-
lic health expert Christina Atchi-
son, both Imperial College Lon-
don researchers who were not
involved with the report, de-
scribed the limits of studying only
dialysis patients.
“Attending a health-care facili-
ty three times a week would seem
like a good way to encounter
SARS-CoV-2, as has been shown
elsewhere,” they wrote, which
would mean the report may be an
overcount. But it could also be an
undercount, because people who
require dialysis are more likely to
die of the coronavirus and, there-
fore, would be left out of the
study.
Rosenberg, who earlier this
year studied the prevalence of
antibodies in 15,000 people who
agreed to have their blood collect-
ed at grocery stores across the
state of New York, suspects the
percentages in the Lancet report
may be too high. Based on dialysis
patients in New York, the study
found 33 percent of people had
antibodies. Rosenberg said that
percentage is probably an over-
shoot, given the results of his
work. Likewise, around 18 per-
cent of the population in the New
York City metro area had antibod-
ies in mid-July, according to a
CDC estimate.
What’s valuable, Rosenberg
said, is that the results are likely
to be internally consistent, allow-
ing researchers to compare re-
gions or demographics within the
dialysis patient population. “The
relative picture is probably more
useful,” he said.
Because it includes people
from almost every state, the new
report does a good job of display-
ing the breadth of this outbreak,
Rosenberg said: The pandemic is
too big a problem for any single
region to handle on its own.
“This is almost a rallying cry, to
me,” he said. “We need national
leadership to answer this call.”
ben.guarino@washpost.com
tion” on why the guidance re-
quired companies to do addition-
al patient follow-up.
Joshua Sharfstein, a top FDA
official in the Obama administra-
tion and now a Johns Hopkins
University professor, said that by
raising doubts about the integrity
of the FDA, the president and his
aides “are playing with matches.
They could set fire to people’s
trust in the vaccine process.”
He added that only the FDA,
not the White House, has the
expertise to determine what data
is needed for approval or authori-
zation. “This is a fight the presi-
dent can’t possibly win,” he said.
“There is no scenario where he
says a vaccine is ready to go over
the advice of the FDA, and anyone
in their right mind wants to take
it.”
But Meadows, appearing on
CNN on Thursday, raised ques-
tions about the timing of the
guidance. “I found it very inter-
esting that we would actually
have new guidance that came out
just a few weeks before we’re
hopefully going to have some very
good results on three clinical tri-
als from some of these vaccines,”
he said.
He called it “last-minute” ad-
vice from the FDA “that may
perhaps change the parameters
of ongoing trials.” Experts said
the guidance would not change
the design of trials; it simply
explains the criteria by which the
FDA would judge the data.
In a sign of concern about
potential political interference, a
group of prominent scientists and
academics wrote to Pfizer’s chief
executive, asking him to delay an
application for FDA authoriza-
tion until at least late November.
“A premature application would
prolong the pandemic, with dis-
astrous consequences,” said the
letter to Albert Bourla. Pfizer said
in a statement that it shared the
writers’ “commitment to rigorous
safety standards” but did not di-
rectly respond to their request.
laurie.mcginley@washpost.com
yasmeen.abutaleb@washpost.com
josh.dawsey@washpost.com
Carolyn Y. Johnson contributed to this
report.
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Number of child deaths tied to the novel coronavirus remains strikingly low
BY L ENNY B ERNSTEIN
As the United States’ covid-19
death toll moves relentlessly be-
yond 200,000, data shows that
only about 100 children and teen-
agers have died of the disease, a
fatality rate that is drawing won-
der from clinicians and increas-
ing interest among researchers
hoping to understand why.
Covid-19 has become the na-
tion’s third-leading cause of death
this year, but 18 states had not
seen a single fatality among peo-
ple under 20 as of Sept. 10, ac-
cording to statistics compiled by
the American Academy of Pediat-
rics and the Children’s Hospital
Association.
Children are much more likely
to die of homicides (there were
1,865 in 2016, according to gov-
ernment data), drowning (995) or
even fires and burns (340).
The numbers are all the more
remarkable because respiratory
diseases typically hit the young
and the old hard, and children are
often highly vulnerable to infec-
tious disease. In this way, covid-19
is similar to the flu, which killed
an estimated 24,000 to 62,000
people last winter, but 188 people
age 17 and below. (That was a
record high for that age group,
however.)
“It seems notable that this pan-
demic, which has had so much of
a toll in mortality and morbidity,
does seem to spare kids in a
dramatic way,” said Larry Stein-
man, a professor of pediatrics and
neurology at Stanford University
School of Medicine. Steinman led
a team that reviewed why chil-
dren may enjoy some natural
protection from the novel corona-
virus in a Sept. 3 article in the
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.
Less clear is the role younger
people play in spreading the virus
Police are using the law to deny release of records, critics claim
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Police and municipal officials
say they are following long-stand-
ing rules to guard people’s rights
and the integrity of investigations
and court cases.
The Rochester video shows of-
ficers forcing Prude’s head and
neck onto the pavement. He died
a week later in what a medical
examiner ruled was a homicide
caused by “complications of as-
phyxia in the setting of physical
restraint.” Prude, who was in the
throes of a mental health crisis,
also had PCP in his system.
Rochester Mayor Lovely War-
ren (D) said she was told that
Prude died of a drug overdose. In
an April email to a city spokes-
man, former Rochester police
chief La’Ron Singletary wrote
that Prude’s death was deemed a
homicide with three “attributing
factors”: “PCP in his system,” “Ex-
cited Delirium” and “Resisting
Arrest.” Emails and other docu-
ments related to the case were
made public as part of an inquiry
this month by the city’s deputy
mayor.
To hide the full picture, “the
city was grabbing at any excuse
that they could,” said Elliot
Shields, an attorney for Prude’s
family.
Several city officials and the
police department did not return
requests for comment. Rochester
police have said the department is
unable to comment on Prude’s
case because of an ongoing inves-
tigation.
The information police and
other officials release about
shootings by officers, deaths in
their custody and other uses of
force can vary widely from state to
state and from agency to agency.
But the patchwork of rules gov-
erning the United States’ 18,000
police departments tends to favor
secrecy, said David Harris, a law
professor at the University of
Pittsburgh.
“State law and local law and
rules have been designed to shield
police from accountability,” Har-
ris said. “The assumption within
law enforcement has been: Citi-
zens don’t need to know this, they
won’t understand it, and we’re not
under any obligation to share it.”
In Minnesota, where George
Floyd died in May after a police
officer knelt on his neck for about
eight minutes, laws shielding rec-
ords during ongoing investiga-
tions — until criminal appeals are
exhausted, state police say —
meant that body-camera footage
of Floyd’s death became public
only after it was filed in court. The
public knows little about 16 of at
least 17 complaints filed against
the officer during his two decades
on the force, because police per-
sonnel records are largely gov-
erned by the same privacy laws as
other government employees. De-
tails are released only if a com-
plaint led to discipline.
“We have released what we’re
able to release out of the person-
to others, even if they do not often
become ill themselves — a critical
issue as educators struggle to
make decisions about reopening
schools and child-care centers.
Health-care officials recog-
nized early in the outbreak that
children were much less likely
than adults to become infected
with the virus, show symptoms,
require hospitalization or die of
covid-19. Nearly 80 percent of the
deaths linked to the disease are
among people 65 and older, one of
the defining demographic char-
acteristics of the U.S. outbreak.
But in the early months, there
were concerns that covid-19’s true
impact on children had yet to
emerge — hidden, perhaps, by the
country’s inadequate testing regi-
men or because many youngsters
were asymptomatic. Now, though
testing for people under 18 can
still be difficult to find, eight
months of data and experience
have made researchers more con-
fident in younger people’s ability
to survive the infection. This is
true despite recent upticks in the
infection and hospitalization
rates for children and teenagers,
and a decline in the median age of
the infected population.
“I think, in general, it remains
true, thankfully, that this is for
the most part a very mild infec-
tion in children,” said Kristin
Moffitt, an associate physician of
infectious diseases at Boston
Children’s Hospital.
The issue has become politi-
cized, with President Trump re-
peatedly exaggerating children’s
immunity to the virus as he main-
tains pressure to open public
schools. At a rally in Swanton,
Ohio, on Monday, Trump falsely
asserted that the disease “affects
virtually nobody” younger than
18.
“In some states, thousands of
people, nobody young. Below the
Police patrol in Rochester, N.Y., this month after video was released of Daniel Prude, a Black man in a mental health crisis who later died.
nel files,” said Minneapolis police
spokesman John Elder, who said
the department only wants to
follow the law.
Elsewhere, police have turned
to controversial legal interpreta-
tions to justify withholding rec-
ords, prompting accusations that
they are misusing laws created for
very different purposes.
The Florida Police Benevolent
Association in June sued the city
of Tallahassee to prevent officials
from releasing the identities of
two police officers involved in
fatal shootings, arguing that the
officers “were victims of separate,
aggravated assaults.”
The legal fight centers on a
2019 state constitutional amend-
ment billed as a crime victim’s bill
of rights. Known as Marsy’s Law,
it says victims have the right to be
free from intimidation and the
ability to keep “information or
records that could be used to
locate or harass the victim or the
victim’s family” from being re-
leased.
The union is arguing that
“Marsy’s Law should apply to the
police just like it applies to any-
one,” said Pamela C. Marsh, presi-
dent of the First Amendment
Foundation, a Florida nonprofit
that intervened in the case. “But
police aren’t just anyone.”
In July, Florida Circuit Court
Judge Charles W. Dodson rejected
the union’s argument, saying the
law’s language was not intended
to cover police officers “acting in
their official capacity.” One officer
shot someone pointing a gun at
him and the other shot someone
wielding a knife in a threatening
way, Dodson said, but under the
union’s argument, “officers could
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Conn., which is using a hybrid of in-person and remote learning.
age of 18, like, nobody,” Trump
said. He credited children’s ro-
bust immune systems with pro-
tecting them.
Such a blanket statement is
untrue. According to the pediat-
ric group’s data, nearly 550,000
people under age 20 had been
diagnosed with the disease as of
Sept. 10, roughly 10 percent of the
total number of cases at that time.
Some children and adolescents
suffer the same terrible symp-
toms as their elders. In an Aug. 7
review of 208 children and ado-
lescents hospitalized with covid-
19, the Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention reported that
69 (33.2 percent) required inten-
sive care and 12 (5.8 percent) were
put on ventilators. One child died.
“I don’t want people to get the
impression that it’s completely
benign in children,” said Sean
O’Leary, vice chair of the Ameri-
can Academy of Pediatrics’ com-
mittee on infectious diseases and
a pediatric infectious-disease
specialist at Children’s Hospital
act with virtual anonymity.”
The executive director of the
Florida Police Benevolent Associ-
ation did not respond to an inter-
view request. The organization is
appealing Dodson’s ruling.
Departments have cited the
privacy of those injured or killed
to avoid releasing records. The
New York City Police Department
sought to withhold 18 minutes of
video, most of which was record-
ed in 2017 immediately after a
fatal officer-involved shooting —
the first involving NYPD officers
outfitted with body cameras.
Police said the footage would
be an “unwarranted invasion” of
the dead man’s privacy under
state law because it showed him
receiving medical treatment. But
the video at issue did not reveal
any private medical condition, a
judge wrote last year. The victim’s
family said they fully supported
releasing the footage.
“It’s outrageous that the police
can shoot somebody . . . and then
argue against releasing footage
that’s going to show what hap-
pened, you know, on the basis of
protecting the privacy of that per-
son,” said Marinda van Dalen, an
attorney with New York Lawyers
for the Public Interest, which
fought to release the video.
Sgt. Jessica McRorie, an NYPD
spokeswoman, said: “To ensure
due process and the protection of
the rights of those depicted in the
video, the department follows the
law.”
In Rochester, city officials said
unredacted video of Prude’s de-
tention would run afoul of the
Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act, which pro-
tects medical records, citing the
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Colorado. “It’s just that it’s much,
much less bad than it is in adults.
“We’ve taken care of quite a few
pretty sick kids with this illness,”
he added.
Scientists also worry that
younger people play an outsize
role in spreading the virus,
though major outbreaks among
younger children in schools have
yet to materialize.
When it comes to fatalities, the
data is consistent. The CDC last
week reported 121 deaths among
people under the age of 21
through July 31. Its website,
which divides age categories dif-
ferently, lists just 34 deaths
among children 0 to 4 and 58
deaths among children and ado-
lescents aged 5 to 17. The Ameri-
can Academy of Pediatrics lists
105 deaths through Sept. 10.
The median age at death was
16, according to the CDC report
that examined fatalities among
people younger than 21. As with
adults, covid-19 has hit Black,
Latino and other minority chil-
medical treatment he received
from EMTs. They said they would
need a waiver from the family
attorney.
The law, known as HIPAA, “has
no application” to any incident
that occurs in public, said Larry
Byrne, who headed the NYPD’s
legal bureau from 2014 to 2018.
He believes withholding video de-
manded by the public only fuels
simmering tensions and anti-po-
lice sentiment, further endanger-
ing the lives of the officers on the
street.
‘Ongoing investigations’
Byrne said there can be a legiti-
mate reason to deny requests for
information if a case is part of an
ongoing investigation. Witnesses
could be threatened if the wrong
information gets out — a particu-
lar concern in New York, he said,
where many incidents are gang-
related.
But some lawyers and advo-
cates argue that officials are abus-
ing exemptions for active crimi-
nal investigations to avoid scruti-
ny. Emails released last week as
part of a city investigation into
Prude’s death in March suggest
that police understood within
days that their records-request
objections about an “open investi-
gation” were unlikely to hold up
in court.
“I can tell you that this will
probably be appealed and he will
win,” a police lieutenant wrote
April 6.
New York law states that police
may deny access to documents
that, if disclosed, interfere with
investigations, deprive someone
of their right to a fair trial or cause
other repercussions. The state
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dren at disproportionately high
rates.
Even multi-system inflamma-
tory syndrome in children, or
MIS-C, which terrified parents
when it emerged in May as a side
effect of covid-19 in a small num-
ber of children, has killed just 19
youngsters, the CDC reported
Sept. 17. The immune response
condition turned out to be very
similar to another inflammatory
syndrome, Kawasaki disease,
which physicians have experi-
ence controlling with certain
kinds of drugs. So far, there have
been 935 confirmed cases of
MIS-C in the United States, most-
ly in children between 1 and 14
years old.
CDC data is based on case
reports, not death certificates, so
it is possible that there will be
small adjustments. And deaths
typically lag behind infections by
two to three weeks, so any spike
in covid-19 illnesses among
younger people could be followed
by a jump in fatalities.
But researchers and clinicians
who follow the numbers are gen-
erally convinced that the ob-
served trend will persist.
“Those numbers are still aston-
ishingly low,” Steinman said.
Researchers said pinpointing
why children are faring so much
better than adults in this pan-
demic could offer clues to thera-
pies that might work for every-
one. So far, however, there are
only theories.
“It’s a mystery. I think there are
biological reasons, and I think
there are virological reasons,”
said Yvonne Maldonado, a profes-
sor of pediatrics, health policy
and research at Stanford Univer-
sity and chair of the pediatrics
academy’s infectious-disease
committee.
The leading idea is that chil-
dren have fewer ACE2 receptors
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Committee on Open Government
has repeatedly warned against
wholesale denials of records re-
quests based on ongoing investi-
gations.
A Rochester police captain
wrote in an email that because the
New York attorney general’s office
was investigating Prude’s death,
the inquiry by local police “can be
interpreted technically as re-
maining ‘open’ . . . in the highly
unlikely event they uncover any
additional information that could
impact our investigative find-
ings.”
An attorney for the city of
Rochester said she was told by a
lawyer from Attorney General Le-
titia James’s office that the state
prefers that material not be made
public because it can interfere
with an investigation. James’s of-
fice showed the arrest video to
Prude’s family and attorneys over
the summer and said it never
asked the city to withhold infor-
mation related to Prude’s death.
James announced Sunday that
her office will now release body-
camera footage as quickly as pos-
sible after it is shown to a victim’s
family. The decision had been left
to local law enforcement.
In Kentucky, the Louisville
Courier-Journal is appealing a
judge’s ruling that police do not
have to share investigative rec-
ords in the case of Breonna Taylor,
who was killed in her apartment
as police executed a warrant. The
suit argues that the internal in-
vestigation into the shooting is
complete and that the files are
public by law.
On Wednesday, a grand jury
declined to issue charges in Tay-
lor’s death, determining that two
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on their cells than older people
have. The ACE2 receptor is where
the coronavirus latches on as it
invades cells. If that proves to be
the key, perhaps scientists can
find a way to block the virus from
attaching there in vulnerable
populations, which includes not
just older people but those with
underlying ailments, such as
heart disease and diabetes.
Children’s risk appears to be
increased by such problems as
well. According to the recent CDC
report, just 30 of the 121 young
people who died were healthy,
while 91 had at least one underly-
ing medical condition, and 54 had
two or more. These included
chronic lung diseases such as
asthma, as well as obesity, neuro-
logical and developmental condi-
tions, and cardiovascular prob-
lems.
Another theory is that children
develop some immunity from the
numerous colds most of them
contract. Some colds are caused
by coronaviruses, and scientists
such as Steinman have suggested
that parts of children’s immune
systems can become “cross-reac-
tive” to the coronavirus that
causes covid-19. One recent re-
view raised doubts about that,
however.
As with most medical issues
during the pandemic, the an-
swers may not come until later,
when more extensive research is
conducted. A study sponsored by
the CDC is tracking 800 children
hospitalized at 35 sites around
the country in an effort to deter-
mine why they were more vulner-
able to the virus and why others
seemed to better resist it.
“It’s one of the many million-
dollar questions,” Moffitt said.
“Anything that has been suggest-
ed so far is still a hypothesis and is
still being investigated.”
leonard.bernstein@washpost.com
officers were justified in shooting
into Taylor’s apartment. A third
was charged with recklessly firing
into a neighboring apartment.
Michael Abate, an attorney for
the newspaper, said Wednesday’s
decision should bolster the case
for releasing the records.
In a news conference Thursday,
Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer (D)
said the city wants to “get as much
of this information out as soon as
we can.”
Fischer said the city is working
with Kentucky Attorney General
Daniel Cameron’s office and the
FBI to understand what the city
can release so that it “doesn’t
interfere with any of the ongoing
investigations.”
Change — and resistance
There is now a push to change
laws that allow police to keep
many records private.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio
(D) announced in June a require-
ment that police release body-
camera footage within 30 days
after most situations in which an
officer fires a weapon or causes
serious injury or death through
other uses of force. New York also
repealed a law, referred to as 50-a,
that shielded the disciplinary and
complaint records of law enforce-
ment officers.
Disciplinary records stemming
from allegations that were sub-
stantiated — including in inci-
dents that were widely reported
in the press and discussed public-
ly by officials — were considered
secret under 50-a. Now, every
complaint made against an offi-
cer is public information.
Advocates of transparency
hailed it as a breakthrough. But
police unions are pushing back,
claiming that most complaints
are frivolous and should not be
listed on an officer’s permanent
public record. Unions represent-
ing police officers, firefighters
and corrections officers are chal-
lenging the repeal in court.
New York’s plans to make disci-
plinary complaints available in a
public online database, “without
any review or analysis, would
functionally negate the rights of
officers to clear their disciplinary
records of unfounded and unsub-
stantiated allegations,” unions ar-
gued in a recent court filing.
In Rochester, Shields, the attor-
ney for Prude’s family, said he is
struggling to take advantage of
the change. He said he is still
waiting on personnel files for offi-
cers involved in Prude’s arrest,
with officials saying they need
more time to release them.
In emails provided to The
Washington Post, city officials
told Shields in July and August,
after 50-a was repealed, that they
do not need to share unsubstanti-
ated misconduct complaints or
those that did not result in disci-
pline. City officials did not re-
spond to questions about the
emails.
hannah.knowles@washpost.com
mark.berman@washpost.com
shayna.jacobs@washpost.com
Holly Bailey in Minneapolis
contributed to this report.
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Taylor’s family decries Ky. attorney general, demands grand jury details
BY M ARIA S ACCHETTI
M ARK B ERMAN
AND G RIFF W ITTE
louisville — Breonna Taylor’s
family on Friday assailed the deci-
sion not to prosecute any Louis-
ville police officers for shooting
her, while their attorneys de-
manded that grand jury details
be made public to reveal more
about how this conclusion was
reached.
Their remarks came in an emo-
tional news conference in Jeffer-
son Square Park, which has be-
come a hub of protest activity
since police killed Taylor while
serving a warrant at her apart-
ment in March. Taylor’s family
spoke near a mural dedicated to
the emergency room technician,
who was 26 when she died.
On Wednesday, Kentucky At-
torney General Daniel Cameron
(R) said the two officers who shot
Taylor were justified because her
boyfriend fired at them first. A
third officer was indicted by a
grand jury for firing shots that
traveled through Taylor’s apart-
ment and into a neighboring one.
The decision spurred chaotic
scenes in downtown Louisville,
with a pair of officers shot
Wednesday night and authorities
making 127 arrests amid looting
and fires. Another two dozen
people were arrested Thursday
night. City leaders said they ex-
pected that protests could grow
through the weekend.
Taylor’s family on Friday en-
couraged people to continue to
demonstrate to keep up pressure
on officials. Speaker after speaker
pilloried not only Cameron but
also the police, the media and the
country’s justice system, which
Tamika Palmer, Taylor’s mother,
described as fundamentally not
set up to protect people of color in
the United States.
“It’s clear that is the way they
will always see us,” Palmer said in
a statement that was read aloud
by her sister, Bianca Austin. “I
was reassured Wednesday of why
I had no faith in the legal system,
in the police, in the law. . . . The
system as a whole has failed her.”
Ben Crump, an attorney for
Taylor’s family, demanded the re-
lease of grand jury transcripts in
the case, calling for Cameron to
make plain what he did and did
not present to them and leading
the crowd in a chant echoing that
plea.
“Did he present any evidence
on Breonna Taylor's behalf ?”
Crump said. “Or did he make a
unilateral decision to put his
thumb on the scales of justice to
help try to exonerate and justify
the killing of Breonna Taylor by
these police officers?”
Crump said: “If you want us to
accept the results, then release
the transcript.”
Cameron said Wednesday that
he was not releasing the full
grand jury report because of both
the ongoing criminal case and an
FBI investigation.
Elizabeth Kuhn, a spokeswom-
an for Cameron, said Friday that
Cameron “understands that the
family of Ms. Breonna Taylor is in
an incredible amount of pain and
anguish” and that the grand jury’s
result “was not what they had
hoped.”
“Regarding today’s statements
at the news conference, everyone
is entitled to their opinion, but
Justice Dept. disclosures cast fresh doubt on Trump-Russia investigation
BYD EVLIN B ARRETT,
S PENCER S . H SU
AND M ATT Z APOTOSKY
The Justice Department has
released a pair of documents
casting fresh doubt on the judg-
ment of senior law enforcement
officials who investigated possi-
ble links between Russia and the
Trump campaign in 2016, show-
ing that one of the FBI case agents
thought prosecutors were out to
“get Trump” and that a key source
of allegations against the presi-
dent had been previously investi-
gated as a possible Russian asset.
The disclosures come as Presi-
dent Trump and his allies await
the results of an investigation by
Connecticut U.S. Attorney John
Durham into how U.S. intelli-
gence agencies examined Russian
election interference four years
ago. Instead, Thursday night saw
one disclosure made to Congress
and another made to the courts.
It’s still uncertain whether
Durham will issue any findings
before Election Day, but the two
releases may serve a similar pur-
pose: providing fresh ammuni-
tion for conservatives’ arguments
that the FBI’s pursuit of the presi-
dent was unfair and unfounded.
In a letter to Senate Judiciary
Committee Chairman Lindsey O.
Graham (R-S.C.), Attorney Gener-
al William P. Barr said the indi-
vidual whose information was
used to assemble much of a dos-
. THE WASHINGTON POST
Demonstrators on Thursday protest the Kentucky attorney general’s decision not to prosecute Louisville police officers for the shooting of
Breonna Taylor. Police arrested two dozen protesters Thursday night, and crowds were expected to increase over the weekend.
prosecutors and grand jury mem-
bers are bound by the facts and by
the law,” Kuhn said in a state-
ment. “Attorney General Camer-
on is committed to doing every-
thing he can to ensure the integri-
ty of the prosecution before him
and continue fulfilling his ethical
obligations both as a prosecutor
and as a partner in the ongoing
federal investigation.”
Gov. Andy Beshear (D), who
preceded Cameron as the state’s
attorney general, has also called
on him to release whatever he can
from the investigation without
interfering with the criminal case
against the officer charged this
week.
Taylor’s mother, in her state-
ment, said she hoped Cameron
“knew he had the power to do the
Protesters confront armed right-wing Oath Keepers in Louisville. The city’s interim police chief,
Robert Schroeder, denounced such groups Friday, saying their presence only exacerbates the situation.
sier of allegations against the
Trump campaign had been the
subject of a national security
investigation between 2009 and
2011, because FBI agents suspect-
ed he might be working for Rus-
sia.
The individual’s identity has
been kept secret for years, but
people familiar with the case said
it is Igor Danchenko, a lawyer
born in Ukraine who worked at a
Washington think tank when he
came under suspicion by the FBI
for his Russian contacts.
Danchenko’s lawyer has acknowl-
edged he was a source of Christo-
pher Steele’s.
In 2016, Danchenko took an
assignment from Steele, a British
former intelligence officer, to
gather information about
Trump’s dealings with Russia;
Steele later wrote reports that
claimed Trump and a number of
his close advisers were colluding
with Russia. Those reports were
based in large part on a person
Steele called his “primary sub-
source,” which was Danchenko,
according to people familiar with
the matter, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to elabo-
rate on statements in official doc-
uments.
Although Steele’s allegations
were not relied on as a basis to
open the investigation into
Trump’s campaign, they were
used to justify secret surveillance
on a former Trump campaign
right thing” in the case. “That he
had the power to start the healing
of this city,” she said.
As her sister read her remarks,
Palmer stood nearby, kneading
her hands as some of those gath-
ered around comforted her. At
one point, one of them reached
out to wipe tears from Palmer’s
eyes. A short time later, she
sobbed.
Palmer wrote that she knew
speaking about her feelings
would make her labeled “an an-
gry Black woman,” saying she was
angry about Black people dying at
the hands of police officers.
While Taylor’s family and their
attorneys spoke, voices in the
crowd shouted out “a sham,” “dog
and pony show” and “kangaroo
court.” They were surrounded by
adviser, Carter Page. The Justice
Department’s inspector general,
Michael Horowitz, later found
the court applications for that
surveillance were riddled with
serious errors and omissions.
Republicans quickly seized on
the details of the FBI’s old suspi-
cions of Danchenko.
In a statement, Graham said
the “failure of the FBI to inform
the court that the Primary Sub-
source was suspected of being a
Russian agent is a breach of every
duty owed by law enforcement to
the judicial system” and a “small
group of individuals” in the FBI
and Justice Department should
be held accountable for their
handling of the case.
The senator, a prominent sup-
porter of Trump, did not identify
those officials, but a part of his
committee’s reexamination of the
2016 probe has focused intently
on former FBI director James B.
Comey and his deputy, Andrew
McCabe.
An FBI spokesperson declined
to comment.
Danchenko’s lawyer, Mark
Schamel, said: “As every objective
investigation has shown, Mr.
Danchenko is an exceptional ana-
lyst who is truthful and credible.”
Separately, the Justice Depart-
ment filed a new document in the
court fight over the conviction of
former national security adviser
Michael Flynn. Flynn pleaded
guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI
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PHOTOS BY LEANDRO LOZADA FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
signs bearing messages includ-
ing, “No lives matter until Black
lives matter” and “No justice no
peace.” People were also wearing
masks bearing Taylor’s name.
Another speaker, Tamika Mal-
lory, co-founder of the group Un-
til Freedom, spoke blisteringly
about Cameron, describing him
as “a coward” and “a sellout” for
his actions.
“He protected the police,” she
said.
Cameron, a 34-year-old Black
man and a rising Republican star,
spoke about the case at length
Wednesday when discussing the
outcome. At one point he choked
up while invoking his own moth-
er and described his understand-
ing of how painful the moment
was. Mallory, meanwhile, con-
about his conversations with a
Russian ambassador; he later de-
cided to fight the case, and the
Justice Department has asked a
judge to toss out the conviction, a
move that angered some current
and former federal prosecutors
over what they say is political
favoritism for a friend of the
president.
Shortly before midnight Fri-
day, prosecutors filed a summary
of an interview conducted last
week with FBI agent William
Barnett, in which the veteran
agent assigned to the Flynn case
and the office of special counsel
Robert S. Mueller III criticized
what he called a “get Trump”
attitude by some on Mueller’s
team.
Barnett said he believed
Flynn’s motive for lying to FBI
agents about his contacts with
Russia’s ambassador was to save
his job, rather than to cover up
collusion between the Trump
campaign and Russia.
The agent said the investiga-
tive steps they took were “legally
justified” and he felt there was
good reason to scrutinize other
Trump advisers, but too often
Mueller’s team appeared to be
pursuing a theory of Russian-
Trump campaign collusion built
on “supposition upon supposi-
tion.”
In a 476-page report issued last
year, Horowitz found there was
not evidence that political bias
demned Cameron in bluntly per-
sonal terms.
“You were used by the system
to harm your own mama, your
own Black mama,” Mallory said.
“We have no respect for you. No
respect for your black skin. . . .
You do not belong to Black peo-
ple, at all.”
Taylor’s death spurred months
of protests and became a rallying
cry across the country, with dem-
onstrators and celebrities calling
for the Louisville officers who
shot and killed her to face charg-
es.
In March, police were serving a
warrant at Taylor’s apartment
shortly after midnight when they
broke down the door.
Taylor’s boyfriend, fearing in-
truders, fired one shot, striking
one of the officers.
Three officers fired in re-
sponse, and two of them struck
Taylor a combined six times. After
a months-long investigation, a
grand jury Wednesday indicted
one of the three officers who fired
shots that night, charging him
with three counts of wanton en-
dangerment for firing shots that
traveled into the nearby apart-
ment.
But the revelation that no one
would be charged for shooting
Taylor spurred a new wave of
anguished demonstrations in
Louisville and other cities. On
Wednesday night, multiple busi-
nesses were looted and two Lou-
isville police officers were shot,
both of whom are recovering,
police said.
Thursday night was calmer,
but authorities said there had still
been an unacceptable level of
unrest, including more than a
dozen burglaries.
Among those arrested Thurs-
day was state Rep. Attica Scott,
the only Black female lawmaker
in Kentucky’s capitol and author
affected decisions in the investi-
gation.
It is not unusual for federal
agents and prosecutors to dis-
agree about the nature of an
investigation or the best course of
action, but it is incredibly rare for
those differences to be aired out
in public court documents.
The disclosure comes four days
before U.S. District Judge Emmet
G. Sullivan is set to hear argu-
ments over whether to dismiss
Flynn’s case, and the Justice De-
partment now cites Barnett’s
statements as evidence of the
“frail and shifting justifications”
for the investigation and the “ir-
regular procedure” of Flynn’s FBI
interview.
Barnett’s voluntary interview
was conducted last week as part
of a review of the Flynn case by
Jeff Jensen, the U.S. attorney
handpicked by Barr to reexamine
the case.
The agent said he thought the
Trump campaign may have been
aware the Russians were attempt-
ing to interfere in the election,
but that was different from their
having an explicit deal or a quid
pro quo, according to the inter-
view notes.
Barnett said he believed pros-
ecutors pursued a Trump-Russia
conspiracy theory without much
evidence to go on. He even joked
with others about playing a hypo-
thetical game of “Collusion Clue,”
based on the popular board game,
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of Breonna’s Law, a bill that
would end no-knock warrants
statewide.
A judge had authorized a no-
knock warrant to be served the
night Taylor was killed. Cameron
said police announced them-
selves, citing officer statements
and a “civilian.” Taylor’s boyfriend
said he didn’t hear the officers
announce themselves, only
knocking and the door being
broken down.
Scott was released Friday
morning after being charged with
first-degree rioting, a felony,
along with two misdemeanors:
failure to disperse and unlawful
assembly. Appearing alongside
the Taylor family, Scott decried
the charges and vowed to make
her proposed legislation a reality.
“We will pass Breonna’s Law
for Kentucky,” she said.
On Friday, streets remained
blocked throughout downtown
Louisville, with a nightly curfew
in effect at least through the
weekend. Police were a visible
presence.
Among the speakers at the
Taylor family news conference
was Jacob Blake Sr., whose son
was shot seven times in the back
by a Kenosha, Wis., police officer.
Jacob Blake Jr. is paralyzed and
the case remains under investiga-
tion.
The elder Blake spoke Friday
about driving to Louisville to join
another member of a grim collec-
tive, people who have had rela-
tives wounded or killed by police.
“I knew I had to be here,
standing next to my fraternity
member,” Blake said. “We didn’t
choose this fraternity. This frater-
nity chose us.”
The FBI has launched its own
investigation into whether any
civil rights violations were com-
mitted. The Louisville police are
also conducting an investigation
to see whether any officers violat-
ed the department’s policies and
procedures, the mayor’s office
said this week.
Brett Hankison, the officer in-
dicted Wednesday after the Tay-
lor shooting investigation, was
fired from the Louisville police
force in June. The grand jury
Wednesday indicted him on three
counts, one for each person in the
nearby apartment — a pregnant
woman, a child and a man. His
attorney, Stew Mathews, said
Hankison intends to plead not
guilty.
The two officers who shot Tay-
lor remain on administrative
leave, according to the depart-
ment.
Interim police chief Robert
Schroeder said Friday that he
expected an even larger crowd
protesting over the weekend.
Schroeder also said officials had
heard rumors about people trav-
eling to Louisville, mentioning
so-called militia-type groups
among them.
“Many of them say they’re com-
ing to help us,” he said of those
groups. “Let me be clear: That is
not help we need, that is not help
we want and it does not help the
situation, it only exacerbates the
situation.”
maria.sacchetti@washpost.com
mark.berman@washpost.com
griff.witte@washpost.com
Sacchetti reported from Louisville.
Berman and Witte reported from
Washington.
in which they would propose
different people and locations for
the scene of the supposed crime.
In his interview, Barnett was
particularly critical of Jeannie
Rhee, a prosecutor on Mueller’s
team. He said that in one briefing,
she wanted to “drill down” on the
fees Flynn was paid for a speech
in Russia, and seemed dismissive
of Barnett’s assessment that there
were logical reasons for the pay-
ments, according to the court
documents released this week.
Barnett alleged that Rhee seemed
“obsessed” with Flynn and that
she “had an agenda,” the docu-
ments say, without specifying
what that agenda was.
A person familiar with the
Russia investigation said the
briefing was a very early attempt
to get special counsel prosecutors
up to speed on the existing Flynn
investigation. Ultimately, Rhee
was assigned to a separate probe
— the investigation of possible
coordination between the Trump
campaign and Russia.
The person familiar with the
matter, speaking on the condition
of anonymity because of the mat-
ter’s political sensitivity, said
Rhee and Barnett worked on dif-
ferent pieces of the investigation
and had few interactions.
A Mueller representative de-
clined to comment.
devlin.barrett@washpost.com
spencer.hsu@washpost.com
matt.zapotosky@washpost.com
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Far-right group’s Portland rally sets up renewed strife
BY C LEVE R . W OOTSON J R.
portland, ore. — Thousands of
members of the far-right Proud
Boys plan to mass at a park here on
Saturday afternoon, setting up an-
other clash of liberal and con-
servative extremes in a city that
has become the public front line
for combustible — and deadly —
political conflict.
The self-dubbed “Western
chauvinist” group espouses pro-
Trump, police-friendly rhetoric,
but its members have a reputation
for sparking fights with the far left
that devolve into mayhem. After
four months of steady protests in
this city, its choice to bring an
armed, extremist crowd from all
corners of the country to the Pa-
cific Northwest again turns Port-
land into an ideological battle-
field, a place where speech has
crossed a dangerous line into vio-
lence.
President Trump has fanned
the flames, saying that Portland
and other Democratic cities con-
done lawlessness; he has ordered
federal agents to take a stand
against protesters and to make
arrests, creating us-versus-them
standoffs that appear bent on pit-
ting the right against the left and
characterizing it as good against
evil.
Some worry another collision is
unavoidable on Saturday. The ral-
ly comes at an already delicate
time for the City of Roses, where
on Wednesday a Breonna Taylor
protest at police headquarters
morphed into a rock-throwing
riot that police broke up with im-
pact weapons and pepper spray.
Antifa and other far-left groups
are also vowing massive counter-
protests Saturday.
Enrique Tarrio, chairman of the
Proud Boys, said in an interview
with The Washington Post that his
group is making a stand for free
speech in a place he believes en-
courages leftist riots and has
sparked political violence against
conservatives and law enforce-
ment in other American cities.
“It’s the epicenter for all this. It
goes beyond free speech right now.
Portland has franchised these ri-
ots across the country,” Tarrio said,
saying he hopes his event spurs
authorities to take more action
against demonstrators. Other cit-
ies “see these things happening,
and they’re like: ‘We can do this
here, too.’ Portland leads by exam-
ple.”
But Portland’s protesters said
groups like the Proud Boys have
been at the center of the summer’s
worst recent conflicts, which
some worry could be dwarfed by
whatever happens Saturday.
“It just puts a very bad feeling in
my stomach,” said Dustin Bran-
don, who attended Wednesday’s
demonstration and has been at
Black Lives Matter protests here
since George Floyd was killed in
May. “Everybody knows what’s
happening September 26th in
Portland, Oregon, and it’s not a
good feeling. I’ve been here for
every other time they’ve shown
up, and it’s just gotten worse and
worse and worse. . . . I just hope
there’s no more bloodshed.”
Portland’s nightly, often emo-
tional demonstrations and the
presence of an organized antifa
group have made easy foils for the
Proud Boys and other right-wing
activists, who often ride into the
city with homemade shields,
paintball guns and bear mace.
After an Aug. 29 confrontation,
Aaron “Jay” Danielson, a support-
er of the far-right group Patriot
Prayer, was shot and killed on a
city street following a vehicle pa-
Supervisors dispute prosecutor’s Stone testimony
BY M ATT Z APOTOSKY
AND S PENCER S . H SU
Three career supervisors at the
U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. have
disputed the sworn congressional
testimony given by a former pros-
ecutor on Robert S. Mueller III’s
team, telling Justice Department
officials they believe he mischar-
acterized communications with
them about undue political pres-
sure in the criminal case against
President Trump’s longtime
friend Roger Stone, according to
people familiar with the matter.
The prosecutor, Aaron Zelin-
sky, told the House Judiciary
Committee in June that he felt
politics influenced the prison sen-
tence that was recommended for
Stone, who was convicted of lying
to lawmakers investigating Rus-
sian interference in the 2016 elec-
tion. After Zelinsky and other ca-
reer prosecutors recommended
that Stone face seven to nine years
in prison, and Trump angrily
tweeted about the case, Attorney
General William P. Barr inter-
vened and had the Justice Depart-
ment propose a lighter punish-
ment.
Barr’s move drew widespread
criticism and prompted all four
Local and federal riot police at protests in Portland, Ore., after the grand jury decision in the Breonna Taylor case on Wednesday.
rade in support of Trump. Five
days later, members of a federal
task force fatally shot a suspect in
Danielson’s death — Michael For-
est Reinoehl, 48, an ardent sup-
porter of the far-left antifa who
had regularly attended nightly
protests and spoke of a “revolu-
tion.”
The Proud Boys then began
planning a show of force in Port-
land, after attending other heated
events outside the city limits. Or-
ganizers expect as many as 10,000
right-leaning activists to attend
Saturday, though Tarrio said he is
not sure how many members of
the Proud Boys, or other similar
groups, will show up. Prior Proud
Boys rallies have drawn hundreds
of people.
Portland police, who broke up a
protest that devolved into a riot on
Wednesday, said their main plan is
to keep the ideologically opposed
A protester during demonstrations Wednesday, the night a protest at police headquarters morphed
into a rock-throwing riot that police broke up with impact weapons and pepper spray. Antifa and other
far-left groups are also vowing massive counter-protests Saturday as the Proud Boys plan a protest.
career prosecutors to quit the
case. Zelinksy’s allegation that the
action was motivated by politics
amplified the controversy, though
some of his supervisors soon pri-
vately reported that they felt he
had not accurately described
what they conveyed, said the peo-
ple familiar with the matter,
speaking on the condition of ano-
nymity to discuss internal Justice
Department deliberations.
The Justice Department in-
spector general’s office is now
reviewing the matter, and has
contacted at least one of the pros-
ecutors assigned to the case.
Robert Litt, a lawyer for Zelin-
sky, said in an email, “He stands
by his testimony and the Mueller
report.”
Although the extent of the dis-
pute is unknown, the supervisors’
account is notable because Zelin-
sky conceded to lawmakers that
he did not discuss the Stone case
directly with Barr, Deputy Attor-
ney General Jeff Rosen or then-
acting U.S. attorney Tim Shea.
Rather, he said, it was his supervi-
sors who explained why the de-
partment was “treating Roger
Stone differently from everyone
else.”
“And what I heard repeatedly
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groups as far away from each oth-
er as possible on Saturday. Left-
leaning groups have planned a
counterprotest a few miles from
Delta Park, where the Proud Boys
plan to rally.
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D),
who declared a state of emergency
Friday, said the state police and
county sheriff’s office would over-
see the response to the protests
Saturday and would be dispatch-
ing additional law enforcement to
the area to patrol highways, look-
ing for people coming to town to
“cause trouble.”
“Let me perfectly clear; we will
not tolerate any kind of violence
this weekend,” Brown said. “Left,
right or center, violence is never a
path toward meaningful change.”
Travis Hampton, the superin-
tendent of the Oregon State Police,
said Portland residents would see
a “massive influx of Oregon state
was that this leniency was hap-
pening because of Stone’s rela-
tionship to the president; that the
acting U.S. attorney for the Dis-
trict of Columbia was receiving
heavy pressure from the highest
levels of the Department of Jus-
tice, and that his instructions to
us were based on political consid-
erations,” Zelinsky testified. “And
I was told that the acting U.S.
attorney was giving Stone a break
because he was afraid of the presi-
dent.”
Pressed by Rep. Jim Jordan
(R-Ohio), a close ally of the presi-
dent, to identify which supervi-
sors he had spoken with, Zelinsky
specifically mentioned fraud
chief J.P. Cooney, saying he was
the person who said that Shea was
“afraid of the president” and that
the motivation for altering the
career prosecutors’ recommenda-
tion was political.
Zelinsky testified that the U.S.
attorney’s first assistant, whom he
later identified as Alessio Evange-
lista, and criminal chief, whom he
did not identify, were also “in-
volved in these discussions to my
knowledge,” and it was his “un-
derstanding” that one or more of
them had talked to Barr, Rosen or
Shea. Zelinsky later clarified,
PHOTOS BY PAULA BRONSTEIN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
troopers” beginning Saturday
morning. Hampton said authori-
ties will “do their best” to keep
“hostile parties apart from one
another.”
City officials this week denied
the Proud Boys’ permit request for
the park gathering, citing corona-
virus safety concerns at the public
park. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler
blasted the Proud Boys in a tweet
on Wednesday: “These groups em-
power racism, intolerance and
hate. Those are not Portland val-
ues, and they are not welcome.”
Tarrio balked at the mayor’s
words and said the rally will go on.
“We did the right thing and
asked for a permit,” he wrote on
Twitter. “Portland parks denied
our permits citing 50 person max
due to COVID. Lol . . . terrorists
have been rioting across the city
for 4 months . . . I’m sure they
followed these guidelines.”
though, that he “did not have any
conversations with Mr. Evangelis-
ta following the filing of our
memo” recommending Stone’s
prison sentence.
Cooney referred questions to
the U.S. attorney’s press office in
Washington, which declined to
comment. Evangelista did not re-
turn messages.
Kerri Kupec, a Justice Depart-
ment spokeswoman, confirmed
earlier this month that the Justice
Department’s inspector general
had launched a review of how
officials handled Stone’s case,
though it was unclear what, pre-
cisely, prompted that inquiry and
whether its focus was political
pressure surrounding sentencing
recommendation, Zelinsky’s testi-
mony or other matters.
“We welcome the review,” Ku-
pec said.
A spokeswoman for the inspec-
tor general declined to comment.
Shea, who is now the acting
administrator of the Drug En-
forcement Administration, de-
clined to comment through a
spokeswoman.
Stone’s case was cultivated by
Mueller’s team as part of its two-
year investigation of Russia’s elec-
tion interference and whether
THE WASHINGTON POST
At the bottom of the post he
included an image of the U.S. Con-
stitution. “Here is the only permis-
sion I need.”
‘I refuse to apologize’
The Proud Boys are one of sev-
eral predominantly White right-
wing groups that have surfaced
publicly since Trump’s election.
Vice News creator Gavin McInnes
started the group in 2016, though
he has since distanced himself
from the organization and its in-
creasingly violent reputation.
The Proud Boys describe them-
selves as a Western chauvinist fra-
ternal group that believes in end-
ing welfare, closing the borders
and strict adherence to traditional
gender roles. They believe that
White culture — and White men,
in particular — are under attack
from a world consumed by politi-
cal correctness. The first step of
becoming a member is reciting a
loyalty oath that includes the
phrase “I refuse to apologize for
creating the modern world.”
The group latches onto contro-
versial causes that larger seg-
ments of the right embrace — such
as unwavering support for police,
Islamophobia and fighting the re-
moval of Confederate statues. But
the Proud Boys also use coded
language and irreverent humor to
mask beliefs that are more sinis-
ter. Proud Boys networks spent
the past week spreading memes
and videos mocking the death of
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bad-
er Ginsburg.
That nuanced stance has al-
lowed the Proud Boys to grow even
as other groups were vilified fol-
lowing the deadly “Unite the
Right” rally in Charlottesville, said
Brian Levin, the director of the
Center for the Study of Hate and
Extremism at California State
University at San Bernardino.
“When you mix a combination
of the shrouded and overt bigotry
along with their propensity for
violence and showing up at the
most incendiary events, it really is
a significant and growing risk,”
any of Trump’s associates had
conspired in that effort. It was
transferred to the U.S. attorney in
D.C. when the special counsel’s
office was shuttered last year.
After Barr’s intervention, Dem-
ocratic lawmakers, including Sen-
ate Minority Leader Charles E.
Schumer (D-N.Y.) and those on
the House Judiciary Committee,
had called on the Justice Depart-
ment inspector general to probe
what they viewed as inappropri-
ate political influence in a case
involving a friend of the presi-
dent. When the Justice Depart-
ment signaled it planned to over-
ride career prosecutors’ recom-
mendation for Stone’s sentence,
all four assigned to the matter —
Jonathan Kravis, Adam Jed, Mi-
chael Marando and Zelinsky —
quit the case, with Kravis leaving
government entirely.
Litt declined to say if Zelinsky,
who returned to his position with
the U.S. attorney’s office in Mary-
land, had been approached by the
inspector general. Steven M. Wit-
zel, a lawyer for Marando, con-
firmed Marando had been ap-
proached by the inspector gener-
al’s office but declined to com-
ment further. Marando left the
U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. for a
job at Facebook over the summer.
Kravis declined to comment. Jed,
who still works for the depart-
ment, did not return a message
. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 , 2020
Levin said. “It’s especially volatile
when you overlay this political sea-
son where the election is consid-
ered a battleground in a civil war.”
Portland’s steady protests have
provided ample opportunities for
the Proud Boys to spark clashes.
“In their minds, long before
(Danielson) got shot, we repre-
sented some kind of domestic ter-
rorist threat to America,” said Ja-
son Britton, a demonstrator and
documentarian who was hit in the
eye by a paintball during a scuffle
between protesters and Proud
Boys. “They see it as they’re fulfill-
ing their oath to the Constitution
or whatever. They see BLM and
antifa as that domestic enemy.”
Tarrio described the organiza-
tion he chairs as a group of unapol-
ogetic Trump supporters who
wield humor to poke at a society
hobbled by political correctness.
During his interview with The
Post, he said he was at an Ikea in
his home state of Florida, shop-
ping for a shelf while wearing a
shirt that said “Kyle Rittenhouse
did nothing wrong,” a nod to the
White teen accused of killing two
people in Kenosha, Wis., during
demonstrations after police shot a
Black man. But Tarrio said even
the most triggering speech does
not justify violence.
“When they go out on the
streets and they’re like ‘bash the
fash’ and ‘punch a Nazi,’ I believe
they truly believe they’re doing
good — ridding the world of this
evil,” Tarrio said. “Then you get a
situation like the shooting of Jay.
One of my guys got ran over two
weeks ago. They’ve thrown explo-
sives at me.
“There’s genuine concern about
police brutality, and it’s something
people should protest, but (the
Black Lives Matter) movements
are getting co-opted and then it
starts going in another direction:
‘Oh well, we’ve got to take down
the statues, we’ve got to take this
person’s name down, we’ve got to
go protest in front of this person’s
house,’ ” he said, referring to what
some consider liberal efforts to
erase the country’s past.
Tarrio said the Proud Boys does
not promote violence, but it does
actively protect itself. He said the
rally in the park is intended to be
nonviolent, but he encouraged his
members to bring fire extinguish-
ers because “antifa thugs” have
thrown fireworks and even molo-
tov cocktails during conflicts. He
also encouraged them to bring
bear mace — the harsh irritant
that witnesses said was deployed
right before Reinoehl shot Daniel-
son in Portland.
In May 2017, Demetria Hester, a
Black woman, was harassed by a
self-described neo-Nazi on a city
train here and reported it to po-
lice. The next day, that same man
stabbed three people, killing two
of them, a racist incident that
rocked the city. She said the at-
tacks were a wake-up call, a sign
that “white supremacy is just be-
low the surface.”
On Saturday, she plans to face
off with men she described as rac-
ist who believe many of the same
things as her attacker. She sees it
as a moral obligation.
“This ain’t the first time they’ve
come to our town. Or the second,
or the third. The whole summer
they’ve been here,” Hester said.
“They’re just out there for destruc-
tion, to see what they can cause. . . .
We have a goal to let them know
that we’re not going anywhere and
they’re not going to intimidate us.”
cleve.wootson@washpost.com
Tim Craig in Portland, Ore.,
contributed to this report.
seeking comment.
A federal judge ultimately sen-
tenced Stone to 40 months in
prison, though Trump later com-
muted that term. In an email,
Stone said he would file formal
complaints with the Justice De-
partment against the four pros-
ecutors who secured his convic-
tion. Barr has defended his inter-
vention in the matter and assert-
ed it was unconnected to Trump’s
tweet. Like Zelinsky, Kravis has
criticized the Justice Depart-
ment’s handling of the case, as-
serting that career prosecutors
were undercut to help protect a
friend of the president.
“Prosecutors must make deci-
sions based on facts and law, not
on the defendant’s political con-
nections,” Kravis wrote in a May
Washington Post column. “When
the department takes steps that it
would never take in any other case
to protect an ally of the president,
it betrays this principle.”
In a scathing speech earlier this
month, Barr delivered a critique
of his own Justice Department,
insisting on his absolute authori-
ty as attorney general to overrule
career staffers, who he accused of
injecting themselves into politics.
matt.zapotosky@washpost.com
spencer.hsu@washpost.com
Julie Tate and Devlin Barrett
contributed to this report.
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‘She’s the
first but
she will not
be the last’
GINSBURG FROM A1
But it was the women of Con-
gress who played the most notice-
able — albeit silent — role, mak-
ing up the majority of the invita-
tion-only guests at the brief me-
morial service. When Ginsburg’s
casket departed the Capitol, the
lawmakers stood in line on the
steps of the East Front, hands over
their hearts, to bid her farewell.
“What she did for women not
only has changed our country, but
I think has changed the world,”
said Rep. Susan Brooks (R-Ind.),
who was one of a handful of
Republican women to pay their
respects to Ginsburg.
Lying in state is the United
States’s highest form of tribute,
normally reserved for presidents,
military leaders and other distin-
guished lawmakers. Ginsburg is
only the second Supreme Court
justice to receive the honor; the
late president William Howard
Taft, who also was chief justice,
lay in state in 1930.
“Look at all the men on the
Supreme Court — I doubt that
this kind of tribute will be paid to
any of them,” said Del. Eleanor
Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), who was
assistant legal director at the
ACLU shortly before Ginsburg
launched its Women’s Rights
Project, where she argued six
landmark gender discrimination
cases before the Supreme Court.
She won five, cementing equal
access to mortgages, banking ser-
vices, jury representation and
pension, caregiving and military
benefits.
“Her most brilliant work was
done in winning those five wom-
en’s rights cases,” Holmes Norton
said.
Female lawmakers said the
precedent-setting recognition for
Ginsburg was a testament to how
dramatically women’s rights have
changed as a result of her lifetime
crusade.
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.)
recalled how earlier this summer,
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(D-N.Y.), the youngest woman in
Congress, delivered a floor speech
to protest an insult from a male
congressman and a “culture” that
normalizes “violent language
against women.”
“If I had done that when I was
younger, I would have been fired,
I wouldn’t have had a job . . .
people do not understand that
that was really the experience of a
lot of people of my generation,”
Dingell said, reflecting on Gins-
burg’s work. “She brought to the
courts, to everything that she did
— she experienced it . . . and she is
the first generation. I am where I
am because she helped open the
doors.”
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), the
youngest Republican woman in
Congress, said she credited Gins-
burg and the women of her gener-
ation with paving the way for
others to break barriers, “even if
Vacancy spotlights fight over fate of Roe v. Wade
BY A MY B W ANG
Vicki Ringer received a text
from a friend last Friday night
that read simply, “OMG RBG,”
informing her that Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg had died.
“My gut just dropped,” said
Ringer, 52, a South Carolina Dem-
ocrat who advocates for abortion
rights. Immediately, she thought
of the implications of a Supreme
Court vacancy so close to the
election. “I felt like, we don’t have
the luxury of depression or
mourning or panic,” she said.
“What we have to do is double
down on our efforts.”
With less than six weeks to go
until Election Day, Ginsburg’s
death has thrust a longtime hypo-
thetical to the forefront of many
voters’ minds: the possible over-
turning of Roe v. Wade, the land-
mark 1973 Supreme Court deci-
sion that guarantees a woman’s
right to an abortion. The threat
has galvanized a swath of Demo-
cratic voters, especially women,
while some Republicans are hop-
ing to seize their “best chance in
decades” to strike down the rul-
ing and let individual states regu-
late abortion.
Abortion rights activists have
long warned of Roe v. Wade’s
potential demise, but the pros-
pect seemed remote to many, es-
pecially younger women; now it is
suddenly less abstract. President
Trump plans to name a replace-
ment for Ginsburg on Saturday
and Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has
promised that Republicans will
confirm the nominee by Election
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you disagreed with some of her
decisions.”
“She really lived so many gen-
erational changes that women
faced,” Stefanik said. “She’s the
first but she will not be the last to
lie in state.”
Absent from the ceremony
were many of the top congres-
sional Republicans, a reminder of
the political fight over President
Trump’s plans to nominate con-
servative Judge Amy Coney Bar-
rett to replace the liberal icon
within weeks of the election. An
announcement is planned Satur-
day.
Ginsburg’s dying wish was for
the next president to choose her
Day.
Most White House allies expect
Trump on Saturday to nominate
to Judge Amy Coney Barrett,
whose writings and rulings have
led many on both sides to con-
clude she would vote to overturn
Roe. That means within weeks,
the court could be tilted 6-to-3 in
conservatives’ favor.
But centering the election on
abortion could be a delicate cal-
culation for Trump and his allies,
and so far the president has left
the prospect of Roe’s demise
largely unspoken, lest he risk los-
ing support among suburban
women.
About two-thirds of Americans
support keeping Roe v. Wade in
place while 29 percent favor over-
turning it, according to a CBS
News poll published in June.
Democrats — and, by a large
margin, women — are more likely
than Republicans and men to say
abortion is an important factor in
their 2020 vote for president, ac-
cording to a Washington Post-
ABC News poll.
Trump, speaking at the White
House on Wednesday, down-
played any particular legal issues
facing the court and instead
praised the qualifications of his
prospective nominee. “I think it
will be a great nominee, a brilliant
nominee,” he said. “As you know,
it’s a woman. We’ve brought it
down to five women. It’s time for a
woman to be chosen with every-
thing that’s happened.”
Democratic nominee Joe Biden
is also treading carefully around
the issue. Many strategists say it
makes little sense for Democrats
successor, but Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
is moving swiftly to fill the seat as
voters are casting early ballots.
McConnell did not attend the
service; his spokesman declined
to comment on his whereabouts
or schedule. House Minority
Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)
also did not attend.
A Pelosi spokesman said Mc-
Connell and McCarthy were invit-
ed. House Minority Whip Steve
Scalise (R-La.) was the senior-
most Republican in attendance.
Democrats said the current po-
litical crossroads weighed on
them as they reflected on Gins-
burg’s legacy.
to emphasize abortion, which
could energize social conserva-
tives, especially in swing states, as
much as it mobilizes liberal wom-
en. Instead, they are urging Dem-
ocrats to stress that a conserva-
tive court would threaten the fu-
ture of the Affordable Care Act,
since health care is a paramount
issue for voters.
But if party leaders are being
circumspect, activists on the
ground have little doubt about
the stakes.
“Trump’s appointment, in and
of itself, is an anti-choice move,”
said Stephanie Schriock, presi-
dent of Emily’s List, which sup-
ports pro-choice female candi-
dates. “People know that, because
he has made it very clear that he is
only going to nominate someone
who is going to overturn Roe v.
Wade.”
She added: “That is a mobiliz-
ing factor for our side. You could
make an argument that it’s some-
what mobilizing for theirs, but . . .
this is still very much a pro-choice
nation.”
Biden’s own stance on abortion
issues has evolved over the years,
and at times the former vice presi-
dent, a devout Catholic, has
lagged behind fellow Democrats
in embracing expanded abortion
access. It wasn’t until last sum-
mer — shortly after launching his
campaign — that he reversed his
longtime support for the Hyde
Amendment, which bans federal
funding for abortions. He did so
after criticism from liberals,
women’s groups and primary op-
ponents.
“We’ve seen state after state,
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“We owe so much to her, and we
have to recommit ourselves to
continue the fight for justice and
equality for all in this country,”
Rep. Nydia M. Velázquez (D-N.Y.)
said. “That journey continues . . .
not only in the hall of Congress,
but corporate boards and for
Black and Brown people, immi-
grants, especially women.”
Sen. Kamala D. Harris (Calif.),
the Democratic vice-presidential
nominee, said Ginsburg had
cleared a path for women like her
to thrive.
“It’s very important, I think,
that in the midst of being 39 days
away from an election that we
honor one of the, I think, greatest
including Georgia, passing ex-
treme laws,” Biden said at the
time at an event in Atlanta, ex-
plaining why he had switched to
supporting a Hyde Amendment
repeal. “It’s clear that these folks
are going to stop at nothing to get
rid of Roe.”
Asked by reporters Wednesday
about Coney Barrett as a potential
nominee, Biden said he doesn’t
know her and pivoted to stressing
the threat to women’s health care.
“This is an abuse of power what
they’re doing, and I think we
should focus on what this is going
to mean for health care — what
it’s going to mean to once again
have to say if you’re pregnant it’s a
preexisting condition, to be able
to charge women more for the
same procedure as men,” Biden
said. “It’s wrong.”
An anti-Roe majority on the
court would not necessarily en-
sure the decision’s immediate de-
mise, since the justices are some-
times wary of striking down well-
established precedent. But Roe
may be in greater danger than at
any time since it was handed
down almost a half-century ago,
and even if it is not quickly
thrown out, a conservative court
could aggressively whittle away at
abortion rights by upholding re-
strictive state laws.
Either way, the prospect of a
Supreme Court so in conserva-
tives’ favor has already embold-
ened some Republicans to public-
ly target Roe v. Wade. Last Satur-
day, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)
restated his pledge to vote only
for nominees “who understand
and acknowledge that Roe was
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and President
William Howard Taft are the only Supreme Court justices to lie
in state. Olivia Van Ess, left, and Sha-Shana Crichton watch as
Ginsburg’s casket is carried from the Capitol. Female members
of Congress raise their hands in tribute as the casket departs.
Americans, Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
in terms of all that she did, all that
she inspired, all that she empow-
ered, both legally and just in
terms of the way she lived her
life,” Harris told reporters after
attending the service.
Asked whether Ginsburg had
cleared a path for her, Harris, who
served as attorney general in Cali-
fornia before her election to the
Senate, said, “Absolutely.”
“Because she first of all made
America see what leadership
looks like, and in the law, in terms
of public service, and she broke so
many barriers,” Harris said. “And
I know that she did it intentional-
ly, knowing that people like me
could follow.”
While most mourners paid
tribute silently, one stood out for
his physical display. Bryant John-
son, Ginsburg’s personal trainer,
wrongly decided.”
Within hours of Ginsburg’s
death, the issue flared up in a
special Senate race in Georgia.
Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler
said she looked forward to sup-
porting a nominee who would
“protect the unborn.”
Rep. Douglas A. Collins, a fel-
low Republican challenging Loef-
fler for her seat, was less subtle,
tweeting on the night Ginsburg
died, “RIP to the 30 million babies
who died during the years she was
defending abortion.” He has not
backed down from that tweet
despite criticism, adding later,
“We’ve got our best chance in
decades to strike down Roe V.
Wade. Let’s take it.”
Meanwhile, Democratic candi-
date Raphael Warnock declared
himself to be “a pro-choice pastor
fighting for reproductive justice.”
The rhetoric in many ways
echoes the debate that has sur-
rounded recent Republican ef-
forts to weaken abortion rights,
but with a more urgent focus.
Since last year, there have been
more than 300 bills introduced
across the country to restrict
abortion access, and 11 states
have passed limits or bans on
“many or most” abortions,
though so far courts have ruled
these laws unconstitutional.
Antiabortion activists made it
clear even before the court vacan-
cy that they would go all-out to
reelect Trump.
“As he rolls out executive or-
ders and gives speeches and the
policies that have been coming
out of his administration have
been amazing, I think people
have just kind of been like, ‘Wow,
this is so much better than we
could have hoped for,’ ” said Carol
Tobias, president of the National
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dropped to the ground and did
three full push-ups in front of the
flag-draped casket. Even in her
advanced years, Ginsburg contin-
ued to do strength training with
Johnson, who had been her train-
er for two decades.
A pioneer and a cultural icon,
Ginsburg also is the first Jewish
person to lie in state.
“Today we stand in sorrow, and
tomorrow we the people must
carry on Justice Ginsburg’s lega-
cy,” Holtzblatt, whose husband,
Ari, clerked for Ginsburg, said in
her eulogy. “She was our prophet,
our North Star, our strength, for
so very long. Now, she must be
permitted to rest after toiling so
hard for every single one of us.”
karoun.demirjian@washpost.com
John Wagner and Colby Itkowitz
contributed to this report.
Right to Life Committee. “And I
just know that there’s been build-
ing, for a couple years, this great
enthusiasm to reelect this presi-
dent.”
For abortion rights activists,
the fight that has emerged since
Ginsburg’s death “has crystal-
lized exactly what is at stake,” said
Kelley Robinson, executive direc-
tor of the Planned Parenthood
Action Fund.
“People are understanding that
this is real,” she said of the threat.
“The other side of that is, man,
people are fired up and ready to
take action to honor her legacy.”
Robinson said teams worked
through last weekend to help or-
ganize vigils across the country.
At an event Saturday night in
D.C., which drew about 2,500 peo-
ple, there was no reticent to in-
voke the danger of losing Roe v.
Wade.
“Ruth fought for the right of
every woman in this country to
make their own decisions about
her body. And she never gave up
on that fight,” Sen. Elizabeth War-
ren (D-Mass.) shouted from the
steps of the Supreme Court.
Planned Parenthood has re-
ported a spike in interest, citing
60,000 unique views for a Face-
book briefing to supporters on
Sunday night. Part of what is
giving Ginsburg’s death such an
impact, Robinson said, is that she
was a champion for gender jus-
tice on many fronts beyond abor-
tion, including voting rights and
equal pay.
“She’s our hero in that way,”
Robinson said. “That is the kind
of momentum that we’ll continue
to bring into this fight to hold that
seat open until the next president
is inaugurated.”
amy.wang@washpost.com
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A pedestrian crosses K Street NW near McPherson Square on Sept. 15 during a rush-hour morning void of congestion. Downtown D.C. has become a ghost town during the coronavirus pandemic.
Downtown D.C.’s virus slump may be long-term
DOWNTOWN FROM A1
States and left millions unem-
ployed. And as hopes for a quick
recovery sputter, fear is rising that
a long-term collapse of downtown
economies could soon become ir-
reversible.
In downtown Washington, for-
merly a textbook case of a reborn
city center, the coronavirus has
flatlined almost every measure of
vitality. About 95 percent of down-
town’s 167,000 office workers — a
mix of federal employees, lawyers,
lobbyists, consultants, advocates
and journalists — were working
from home this summer, accord-
ing to a recent report from the
DowntownDC Business Improve-
ment District.
The neighborhood’s overall
economic activity was less than 13
percent of what it was a year
earlier. Hotels were at only 8 per-
cent of capacity. About 1,000 peo-
ple would enter the McPherson
Square Metro station throughout
the Tuesday after Labor Day, com-
pared with 15,000 on a weekday
before the pandemic.
“It’s been devastating,” said
Gregory O’Dell, president and
chief executive of Events DC,
which manages the District’s
downtown convention center —
now home to hundreds of (cur-
rently empty) overflow hospital
beds and a smattering of virtual
events. “It’s just been surreal to see
the impact.”
O’Dell, like other downtown
leaders, thinks the road back to
normalcy begins when people feel
safe going to work, standing in
line for lunch or sitting in packed
theaters. For most, that will mean
a vaccine. And a vaccine, Centers
for Disease Control and Preven-
tion Director Robert Redfield tes-
tified to Congress this month, is
unlikely to be widely available un-
til late spring or summer of 2021.
Even then, there will be ques-
tions about whether employees
habituated to working at home
will want to return to the high-ris-
es and government buildings they
vacated in March. And if inoculat-
ed office workers return en masse,
the economic and cultural land-
scape that awaits them could be
very different from the one they
left behind.
The clogged bike lanes, crowd-
ed rooftop bars and $5 pour-over
coffees that signified downtown
Washington’s renewal have most-
ly vanished.
Starbucks or Cosi can probably
find the money to ride out the
pandemic’s economic devasta-
tion. But the smaller, local mer-
chants — restaurants, retailers,
arts venues — that make down-
town Washington a neighborhood
rather than a 9-to-5 office park are
struggling and in some cases fail-
ing.
“Those take decades to build
up,” said Mark Ein, a D.C. investor
and the chairman of Kastle Sys-
tems, which has tracked activity
trends in downtowns across the
country by measuring use of its
office access cards. “If there is an
extinction wave of those business-
es, it could take an extremely long
time to build back.”
Work may one day again be
what it was downtown. Whether
life will is unclear.
‘Nothing I see’
Amid the $155 ties and $1,000
suits nobody is buying these days,
Shafiq Halim is betting things will
go back to the way they were.
Halim believes in the promise of
the country to which he fled from
Taliban-controlled Afghanistan
20 years ago.
“As long as you’re honest and a
hard worker, you can make it hap-
pen,” he said.
The pandemic is testing that
conviction. Halim had worked for
a decade at Wm. Fox & Co., the
high-end men’s clothing store on
G Street NW, when the store
closed this year. The owner, in his
80s, didn’t want to reopen, so
Halim bought the business, bank-
ing on downtown’s revival.
“Eventually, things will be bet-
ter,” he said. “That’s what I’m hop-
ing.”
He reopened Sept. 2, and now —
if he’s lucky — sees perhaps a
customer a day. The lawyers and
lobbyists who gave the store the
bulk of its business are working
from home. Halim plans on hold-
ing out until January but is unsure
whether the business can survive
longer without more customers or
government aid.
On this day, a couple of business
executives enter the store. Steven
Peabody and Brian Easley are
health technology executives
from the Midwest, in town to meet
with federal officials. The pair
wandered downtown’s aban-
doned streets in astonishment be-
fore finding Halim open for busi-
ness.
Easley had been traveling to
Washington regularly for 40 years.
“I’ve never seen anything like
this,” he said.
A few blocks away, Shanara Ga-
brielle was crossing New York Av-
enue, but not on the way to or from
work: She was taking a walk. “Nor-
mally, I wouldn’t come down
here,” said Gabrielle, an actress
and director who lives in North-
east Washington.
With the crowds gone, down-
town is not much worse of a place
for a socially distanced stroll than
the Botanic Garden.
Before the pandemic, the job of
a rush-hour traffic control officer
in downtown Washington re-
quired the mental toughness and
physical agility of a bullfighter.
Today, the officers’ commanding
presence and intersection acro-
batics are in low demand.
“Basically, there’s no 4 o’clock
traffic. We still have to be out
here,” said an officer posted a
block north of Lafayette Square,
staring at the quiet streets
through sunglasses. Occasionally,
the officer — who spoke on the
condition of anonymity because
he had not been authorized to talk
to the media — would step into the
street and hold up a hand to halt a
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SARAH L. VOISIN/THE WASHINGTON POST
that’s a lot fewer people,” Falcic-
chio said.
Travel — for tourism and busi-
ness — also is critical to down-
town’s economy. Over the sum-
Downtown slowdown witnessed since the pandemic’s mer, downtown’s 33 hotels
Decrease in activity in mid-September vs. before the pandemic start. So far his tally is 741, only 41 brought in less than 15 percent of
of which the sneezers bothered to the money made during the same
Less than 10% 10% to 40% 40% to 70% More than 70% cover. period in 2019, according to the
Increase in activity Geo-Geo arrived in the District DowntownDC BID.
from Las Vegas in December, mak- “This is Depression-level stuff
ing his home on the streets of in our industry,” said John Board-
BWI
downtown just a few months be- man, the executive secretary-trea-
Fort fore the virus arrived. He wears a surer for Unite Here Local 25,
MARYLAND Meade
Pot
om
long, hanging face mask (more of which represents hotel, restau-
ac
R. a veil, he explained) made by hand rant and casino workers in the
from a canvas bag. As pigeons Washington region. More than 9
swooped overhead, Geo-Geo said in 10 union members are still out
Dulles he has trouble envisioning a re- of work, Boardman said. He won-
Int’l D.C.
Arpt. sumption of downtown’s previous ders whether business visitors, in
VIRGINIA life. particular, will ever stream into
“I’m not a predictor, per se,” he the nation’s capital at the levels
Joint said. “But I would say that much of they once did.
Base this office space may become un- “Have we changed the way that
Andrews
usable.” we think about doing the things
that we used to do? Do you need to
‘Depression-level stuff ’ go to a convention center in a city
Neil Albert, the president and somewhere else to watch a doctor
Activity in Sept. 7-11 compared with Feb. 24-28, 2020 executive director of the Down- get up and give a presentation in a
townDC BID, doesn’t share Geo- room full of 1,500 doctors?”
Big cities facing a big slowdown Geo’s assessment. Albert thinks Boardman said. “I don’t know the
downtown will come back. But he answer to that right now.”
New York’s downtown areas, locked down early in the pandemic, are showing is less optimistic than he was a few It is difficult but not impossible
the highest percentage of movement vs. pre-covid-19 levels among these months ago. to find a person in a dark suit on
major metropolitan areas. “I was hoping for a speedy re- the streets of downtown Washing-
Percentage of pre-covid movement covery, meaning a year or two. I ton. At the height of Tuesday’s
New York City
don’t know what I’d say now,” unrushed rush hour, one of them
65.3%
Albert said. “I think having a vac- — James Hutton, the assistant sec-
Atlanta
cine is a large part of what’s need- retary for public and intergovern-
60.8%
ed to restore people’s confidence mental affairs at the U.S. Depart-
and jump-start the economy.” ment of Veterans Affairs — stood
Chicago Even if a vaccine is successfully at the corner of 14th and I Streets
52.6% developed and widely available NW, waiting for a family member
sometime next year, the revival of to pick him up.
Washington D.C. downtown’s bustling office cul- Hutton said that in recent
41.4% ture is not assured. Polls show that weeks, there have been indica-
many Americans will opt to return tions that downtown Washington
Los Angeles to their offices when it’s safe to do is stirring to life. Most of his em-
41.2% so. ployees are still working from
But even a small number of home, he said. But he noted en-
Source: INRIX WILLIAM NEFF/THE WASHINGTON POST
people continuing to work re- couraging signs in the dining
motely could reshape downtown’s scene, if such was the appropriate
economy and real estate market, term.
said John Falcicchio, the chief of “Five Guys — you can actually
car as a pedestrian crossed I Street Geo (pronounced “Jo-Jo”; he staff to D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bows- eat in the restaurant. There’s a few
NW. “Ain’t nothing I see really avoids using a last name, he said, er (D) and deputy mayor for plan- others. Subway. Panera Bread,
going on.” because it belongs to the man he ning and economic development. down there,” Hutton said through
On the steps of New York Av- was before he found Jesus) has “If 2 in 10 decide they don’t a blue surgical mask. “Every day
enue Presbyterian Church, Geo- been counting the sneezes he has want to come back to the office, there’s more activity. It’s incre-
mental.”
He was standing in front of a
Compass Coffee — one of the pop-
ular D.C. company’s two down-
town locations that have reopened
with limited hours. (Four others
remain closed.) It had closed at 2
p.m. after serving between 50 and
100 customers, down from about
1,500 on a pre-pandemic weekday,
according to founders Michael
Haft and Harrison Suarez.
Haft and Suarez became friends
over instant coffee while deployed
to Afghanistan as Marines. But
steering a small business through
the pandemic is tough in ways
they did not expect.
“There were definitely some
hard days over there,” Suarez said.
“But this level of uncertainty and
chaos — it’s very challenging.”
The beloved local coffee pur-
veyors can offer their own snap-
shot of what downtown’s recovery
looks like right now. In March,
Compass laid off 150 of its 189
employees.
Since then, the decimated
workforce has grown — by eight
Shafiq Halim organizes ties at the high-end men’s clothing store Wm. Fox & Co. He recently purchased people.
the downtown D.C. store. “Eventually, things will be better,” he said. “That’s what I’m hoping.” peter.jamison@washpost.com
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Administration rescinded award for woman who criticized Trump
BY J OHN H UDSON
The Trump administration re-
scinded an award recognizing the
work of a journalist from Finland
last year after discovering she had
criticized President Trump in so-
cial media posts, then gave a false
explanation for withdrawing the
honor, according to a report by the
State Department’s internal
watchdog.
The report tracks how the dis-
covery of the journalist’s remarks
worried senior U.S. officials and
prompted a decision to withdraw
the honor to avoid a possible pub-
lic relations debacle.
The report’s release is likely to
worsen tensions between the de-
partment’s leadership and the in-
spector general’s office, which has
undergone several shake-ups fol-
lowing the firing of Inspector Gen-
Banana
farms had
thrived for
decades
WEST BANK FROM A1
When Afyet’s grandfather
planted his first banana trees in
the 1970s, the area had been a
storied producer of the fruit for
decades. The Jericho banana,
sweet and small, was popular in
markets from Kuwait to Baghdad.
Hundreds of small growers made
good livings. One banana baron
started a short-lived airline.
“We called it ‘green gold,’ ” said
Afyet, whose 32-acre family enter-
prise never stretched to grand
corporate plans but did allow
them to buy land, a few horses
and, once, a taxi to run as a side
business in the village.
Afyet said he used to export
1,400 tons of bananas a year along
with four partner growers. Now,
the shops in Auja sell bananas
imported from Israel, and Afyet is
the only one still growing the
fruit.
One of the partners owned 62
acres, he said. “Now he doesn’t
have enough land for his grave.”
The area’s banana acreage has
plummeted from about 1,500
acres to less than 130 in the past
decade, according to Ahmad
Fares, the Jericho and Jordan Val-
ley director of the Palestinian Ag-
riculture Ministry. He credits the
region’s heat and high oxygen
levels — at an elevation of 850 feet
below sea level — with the fruit’s
rich flavor.
“They are sweet as sugar,” he
said. He said he can still see ba-
nanas thriving just over the Jor-
dan River, where Jordanian farm-
ers enjoy the same conditions
with easier access to water.
At his peak, Afyet employed 20
workers. He began letting them
go after a steep drop in water in
the 2006 season. He experiment-
ed with other crops, mostly veg-
etables, but in the driest years,
when the spring stopped running
as early as May, he left his fields to
work for growers in Netiv
HaGdud, a settlement five miles
away.
The difference in water use he
saw there was stark. The herb and
produce greenhouses have access
to the pumps and pipes of Meko-
rot, the Israeli water company
that pumps water from all three of
the limestone aquifers that un-
derlie the Jordan Valley and dis-
tributes it among the settlements.
Additionally, a huge waste-treat-
ment plant nearby converts sew-
age from Jerusalem into gray wa-
ter suitable for irrigation by Is-
raeli farmers.
Afyet used to work near a glit-
tering swimming pool. “With wa-
ter from that pool, I could irrigate
five dunams for a year,” he said,
referring to the local land unit
that equals about a quarter of an
acre.
Like many Palestinian farmers,
Afyet says he has asked Israeli
authorities to drill a new well on
his property or to let him buy
water from Mekorot, including
gray water. He said his applica-
tions were repeatedly rejected.
“They won’t even sell us the
dirty water,” he said.
‘Control of water is central’
Israel says it is managing the
resources according to an agree-
ment included in the 1995 Oslo
accords that gave it ultimate con-
trol over West Bank water, an
arrangement that was supposed
to be updated after five years but
has remained untouched over
decades of stalemate.
Giora Shaham, director gener-
al of the Israel Water Authority,
said that there is no blanket policy
. THE WASHINGTON POST
eral Steve Linick in the spring at
the request of Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo.
“The Inspector General’s report
is another somber example of how
fear and partisanship have per-
meated our nation’s foreign policy
and diplomacy under the Trump
administration,” said Sen. Robert
Menendez (N.J.), the top Demo-
crat on the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee, who along with
seven other senators requested
the investigation.
According to the report, the
journalist, Jessikka Aro, was se-
lected for the State Department’s
International Women of Courage
Awards for her reporting on Rus-
sian propaganda activities dating
back to 2014. Aro endured death
threats and cyberattacks for her
work, which helped expose Rus-
sian troll factories.
Jaseer Fahed Afyet on his farm this month in Auja, in the West Bank. The Palestinian’s family has grown bananas for about 50 years, in an area long known for them.
against selling water to Palestin-
ians and that no requests to buy it
have crossed his desk in his three
years in charge. He said well per-
mits are allotted cautiously only
to keep from exhausting ground-
water supplies for downstream
users, both Israeli and Palestin-
ian.
“We are responsible for the
whole area,” Shaham said. “These
are hydrology decisions, not polit-
ical ones.”
In Jericho, which averages less
than six inches of precipitation a
year, no commercial crop grows
without irrigation. Water must be
pumped from the aquifers or
channeled from natural springs.
A network of concrete sluices, for
instance, connects the Auja
spring to Afyet’s banana grove five
miles away.
Palestinians have the authority
to run pipes and canals in the
areas they control under the Oslo
accords, which divide the West
Bank into a patchwork of zones
managed by either the Palestinian
Authority or Israel. But unlike
Israel, the Palestinian Authority
cannot pipe water across zones to
distribute it from the few wet
places to the many dry ones.
Israel also enforces its control
of water by destroying Palestinian
pipes and tanks containing water
that officials deem unpermitted
or stolen. Israeli officials say they
are enforcing the law. Palestin-
ians and their advocates say they
are trying to force the farmers
from their land.
“Control of water is central to
the occupation,” said Amit Gilutz
of B’Tselem, an Israel-based hu-
man rights group. “Here, where
there is no gold [and] there is no
oil, water and land are the essen-
tial resources.”
Future water sources
Mohammed Nassasra, a grape
grower in the village of Jiftlik,
“They won’t even sell us
the dirty water.”
Jaseer Fahed Afyet,
West Bank farmer on his efforts
to get another water source
After she was informed of her
selection and offered flight op-
tions, State Department interns
discovered her Facebook and
Twitter posts, including one from
September 2018 in which she not-
ed that “Trump constantly labels
journalists as ‘enemy’ and ‘fake
news,’ ” said the report. In another
tweet, she noted that Trump and
Russian President Vladimir Putin
would meet in Helsinki, where
“Finnish people can protest them
both. Sweet.”
According to meeting notes ob-
tained by the inspector general,
senior U.S. officials, including the
acting director of the Office of
Global Women’s Issues, argued
that Aro’s invitation should be
withdrawn. The director’s con-
cerns included the possibility that
the “media could highlight the
tweets and Facebook posts during
watched Israeli soldiers bulldoze
his water distribution pond earli-
er this year, saying it lacked a
permit. Nassasra says the pond
ABOVE: Afyet stands in a spring he uses for irrigation. A network of concrete sluices connects the
spring to Afyet’s banana grove five miles away. Nearby farmers have access to water from an Israeli
company or from Jordan. BELOW: Sheep drink from an aquifer carrying water from the spring.
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the ceremony,” which could cause
“potential embarrassment to the
Department, particularly given
the involvement of the Secretary
and the First Lady,” referring to
Melania Trump.
After the State Department
withdrew Aro’s invitation and the
story became public in a report by
Foreign Policy magazine, the de-
partment’s press office told re-
porters that Aro had been “incor-
rectly notified” that “she’d been
selected as a finalist,” adding:
“This was an error.”
The department also told Con-
gress that Aro “ultimately was not
selected to receive the award, due
to the highly competitive selection
of candidates.”
But the inspector general ulti-
mately found that the decision to
give her the award was not a mis-
take and was included in a memo
was built 15 years ago and filled
with legal spring water. “The set-
tlers don’t like competition,” Nas-
sasra said on a recent afternoon,
approved by Pompeo.
The report also noted that the
decision to withdraw the award
stemmed from the discovery of the
social media posts, despite public
claims otherwise. “Every person
OIG interviewed in connection
with this matter acknowledged”
that had her social media posts
not been flagged, “Ms. Aro would
have received the IWOC Award,”
the report said.
Critics of the department’s han-
dling of the matter say the actions
of U.S. officials contradicted the
spirit of the Courage awards,
which since 2007 have honored
women who “have demonstrated
exceptional courage and leader-
ship in advocating for peace, jus-
tice, human rights, gender equali-
ty, and women’s empowerment,
often at great personal risk and
sacrifice,” according to the State
fingering one of the desiccated
grape bunches, a severed irriga-
tion pipe at his feet.
The Coordinator of Govern-
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Department’s website.
“Secretary Pompeo should have
honored a courageous journalist
willing to stand up to Kremlin
propaganda. Instead, his depart-
ment sought to stifle dissent to
avoid upsetting a president who,
day after day, tries to take pages
out of Putin’s playbook,” Menen-
dez said. “The State Department
owes Ms. Aro an apology.”
The State Department’s ambas-
sador at large for global women’s
issues said her office shares the
inspector general’s concerns and
has implemented a “robust exami-
nation of office policies and pro-
cedures to ensure consistency,
transparency, and accountability.”
In response to the report, Aro
told The Washington Post that she
feels “like an international wom-
an of courage.”
john.hudson@washpost.com
PHOTOS BY KOBI WOLF FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
ment Activities in the Territories,
the Israeli military agency that
administers Palestinian activities
in the West Bank, said it “carried
out an enforcement operation
against three illegal reservoirs
that had been set up in the village
of Jiftlik. We will note that the
enforcement was carried out in
accordance with the authorities
and procedures.”
David Elhayani, the leader of a
settler umbrella group, disputed
that Israeli residents want to
drive Palestinian growers out of
business, saying that a good farm
economy makes life more peace-
ful for everyone in the contested
region. He said Palestinians rou-
tinely poach from the Israeli wa-
ter network and drill illegal wells.
Israeli farmers have their own
complaints about the stingy allo-
cations of well permits, he said.
Palestinian authorities, mean-
while, were hamstrung after the
Oslo accords in managing the
West Bank’s water resources, by
too few staffers and too much
bureaucracy. Shaham said, for in-
stance, that the Palestinians are
entitled under the accords to ex-
tract 60 million more cubic feet of
water from the Eastern Aquifer
than they do.
To help ease the shortage, Sha-
ham said, he envisions two proj-
ects — a plan to bring water from
northern Israel to the Jordan Val-
ley, with as much as 10 percent
going to Palestinians, and a tun-
nel under construction that will
bring additional wastewater from
East Jerusalem to the Og treat-
ment plant.
“I told my companies that some
of that [treated gray water] will go
to irrigate dates around Jericho,”
he said.
That will do little for Afyet and
his bananas. Toeing the hard
earth between his trees, Afyet is
facing reality. It was a good winter
of rain, and the Auja spring pro-
duced water into September for
the first time in years. It gave him
hope to try one final crop.
“Next year, maybe we will come
here and eat bananas,” said Afyet,
the shoulder-tall seedlings
around him almost the only green
visible in the sunbaked landscape.
“If not, that’s it,” he added.
“This, too, will be desert again.”
steve.hendrix@washpost.com
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Migrants from Tunisia wait to undergo checks for fever and scabies in late August on Lampedusa, an Italian island in the Mediterranean.
Tunisia’s coronavirus lockdown was largely successful in containing the outbreak, but it devastated the country’s already ailing economy.
A surging flow of Tunisians to Europe
Amid pandemic’s economic pain, six times as many have crossed Mediterranean to Italy as last year
BY C LAIRE P ARKER
zarzis, tunisia — The economic
fallout from the coronavirus pan-
demic is propelling thousands of
Tunisians to make the perilous
Mediterranean journey in search
of better living conditions, with
the largest wave in nearly a decade
reaching Italy’s shores.
The strict lockdown Tunisia im-
posed in March was largely suc-
cessful in containing the out-
break, but the measures devastat-
ed the country’s already ailing
economy.
During the first eight months of
this year, nearly 8,000 Tunisians
crossed the Mediterranean to Ita-
ly, six times as many as last year,
according to the Office of the U.N.
High Commissioner for Refugees,
and Tunisians are now by far the
largest nationality arriving in Ita-
ly. An average of two migrant boats
left the coastal town of Zarzis ev-
ery evening during the summer
bound for the Italian island of
Lampedusa, local fishermen said.
A 23-year-old house painter
from Zarzis said he set out last
month with eight other men and
five boys, including his younger
brother, on a 25-hour voyage
across an “agitated” sea. When
they arrived in Lampedusa, the
“joy was indescribable,” he said in
an interview conducted via Face-
book.
The young man, who spoke on
the condition of anonymity to
avoid attracting more attention
from Italian authorities, spent a
month in offshore detention be-
fore being released. Many of his
fellow migrants, however, are like-
ly to be deported. Regular depor-
tation flights from Italy to Tunisia
resumed last month.
Overall, sea arrivals in Italy this
year of all nationalities — about
20,000 people as of last month —
are far fewer than the hundreds of
thousands recorded in 2016 and
2017, the United Nations says. Still,
experts say the surge in Tunisian
migrants is likely a harbinger of a
new wave, as the coronavirus
takes a mounting toll on liveli-
hoods in developing countries.
“In the medium term, I think it’s
safe to assume that there’s going to
be more pressure on the migratory
front to Europe,” said Olivia Sund-
berg Diez, a policy analyst at the
European Policy Centre, a think
tank in Brussels.
Aymen Hussein, 25, who works
Two stabbed near former Charlie Hebdo offices
Paris knifings come amid
trial of several accused in
2015 attack on newspaper
BY J AMES M C A ULEY
paris — Two people were
stabbed in a knife attack Friday
morning outside the former offic-
es of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical
French newspaper that was the
target of a shooting that killed 12
people in 2015.
French authorities said two
suspects had been apprehended,
and while a motive was not im-
mediately clear, the national anti-
terrorism office launched an in-
vestigation of possible attempted
murder in relation to a terrorist
enterprise.
Prosecutors said the circum-
stances of the attack suggested an
effort to make a symbolic gesture.
“In view of the location of the
in a Zarzis restaurant, said bad
weather in recent days has been
the only thing preventing him
from trying to make the crossing.
His restaurant had closed during
the lockdown, and when it re-
opened, his low wages were not
enough to keep up with rising food
prices, and he’s struggling to make
ends meet, he said.
Khouildi Saif, 25, a fisherman in
Zarzis, said his peers face a grim
choice: “I’ll either die in my coun-
try or I’ll die in the sea.” These
days, he said, many prefer to risk
the sea.
Obtaining visas to Europe is
costly and difficult for most Tuni-
sians. For years, they have resort-
ed to dangerous Mediterranean
crossings known across North Af-
rica as the “harraga,” or “burning,”
as migrants “burn” borders in
search of a better life in Europe.
Amid unprecedented border
closures in the spring, due to pub-
lic health restrictions, irregular
migration to Europe virtually
ground to a halt. But after the
restrictions lifted, more than
4,000 Tunisians crossed to Italy in
July alone, the United Nations
says. Tunisians have made up
about two-fifths of all sea arrivals
this year, a proportion that migra-
tion experts say is unusually large.
The influx has caused alarm in
southern Italy and raised diplo-
matic tensions between Italy and
Tunisia. Some Italians on the far
right have spread fears that mi-
grants are bringing the coronavi-
rus to the country, despite Italian
officials’ statements that irregular
migrants account for a small per-
centage of imported cases.
When cases were first reported
in Tunisia in March, authorities
reacted swiftly, closing external
borders and most businesses, im-
posing a strict curfew and barring
travel between regions. The mea-
sures paid off. By the time its
borders reopened in June, Tunisia
had recorded only 1,064 cases and
50 deaths.
But the restrictions further
damaged an economy already af-
flicted by high unemployment, de-
clining purchasing power and
stark inequalities. Most Tunisians
are unable to work from home and
so were hit especially hard.
“These full-on lockdowns have
very different effects in develop-
ing countries than they do in de-
veloped countries, where working
from home is easier and more
attack, in front of the building
where Charlie’s editorial staff was
previously installed,” the incident
is being investigated as a possible
terrorist attack, Paris prosecutor
Rémy Heitz said in a news confer-
ence at the scene.
Friday’s stabbing occurred
near a mural of the slain Charlie
Hebdo journalists, a de facto me-
morial in the city. The stabbing
comes amid the ongoing and
highly publicized trial of 14 al-
leged accomplices in the 2015
attack on the newspaper’s offices
and on a kosher supermarket
outside Paris, where four hostag-
es were killed.
Prime Minister Jean Castex
said the lives of the two people
stabbed Friday were not at risk.
The two victims were employ-
ees of Première Lignes, a French
television company that special-
izes in investigative documenta-
ries, and had been outside on the
street on a smoking break, their
supervisor told Le Monde.
“First of all, I wanted to show
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people are formally employed,”
said Max Gallien, a research fellow
in political economy at the Univer-
sity of Sussex.
Tourism, vital to the country’s
economy, has dried up, with tour-
ism revenue falling 61 percent by
August, according to statistics
from the Central Bank of Tunisia.
At this time last year, French and
Russian beachgoers filled the ta-
bles of Zarzis, said Sabrine Kilani,
who tends bar at the Restaurant
Le Dauphin. Eyeing a room of
empty seats in the middle of a
recent lunch hour, she described
this tourist season as “null.”
As a result of the coronavirus,
the country’s economy is expected
to contract by 4.3 percent in 2020,
according to International Mon-
etary Fund projections, represent-
ing the largest recession since Tu-
nisia gained independence from
France in 1956.
Political instability, meanwhile,
has exacerbated the crisis. Prime
Minister Elyes Fakhfakh resigned
amid corruption allegations in
July, leaving Tunisia without a
government at a critical time and
further denting the public’s confi-
dence.
Situated on Tunisia’s southeast-
ern coast and far from coast guard
radars, Zarzis has long been on the
front lines of irregular migration
to Europe. Fishermen here take
pride in having saved hundreds of
migrants who set sail from Libya
and were shipwrecked off Tuni-
sia’s coast.
UNHCR has reported more
than 300 people dead or missing
in the central Mediterranean this
year. Armed with higher-quality
GPS devices and knowledge of the
seas, Tunisians often fare better
than migrants leaving from near-
by Libya. Still, Romdhane Ben
Amor, communications officer for
the Tunisian Forum for Economic
and Social Rights, estimated that
dozens have disappeared at sea
this year.
Slah Din Mcharek, president of
the Zarzis fishermen’s association,
said every boat leaving Zarzis for
Italy these days carries one or two
young fishermen. “The fishermen,
we saved people,” he said. “Now,
we make the ‘harraga.’ ”
The young house painter, re-
cently released from detention in
Italy, said his life plans had not
initially included the hazardous,
illegal trip to Europe. After he
received his high school diploma,
my solidarity with the families of
the victims,” Castex said at the
site. “I reaffirm our unwavering
attachment to freedom of the
press, the fight against terrorism,
and I want to assure the nation of
our full mobilization.”
During the search for the at-
tackers Friday, Paris police cor-
doned off the area in the east of
the city and children in nearby
schools were kept inside.
The staff of Charlie Hebdo
tweeted, “Charlie's entire team
sends support and solidarity to
our former neighbors and col-
leagues @PLTVfilms and to those
affected by this heinous attack.”
In January 2015, the newspa-
per was targeted after printing
cartoons of the prophet Muham-
mad, strictly prohibited by the
Muslim faith. (Its offices were
also firebombed in 2011 after a
similar cartoon.) The two broth-
ers who attacked its offices in
2015 proclaimed affiliation with
al-Qaeda. They were recorded
saying as they fled the scene that
LORENZO PALIZZOLO/GETTY IMAGES
a university in Paris promised him
a spot in 2016, he said. But his visa
applications were rejected twice.
He wound up painting houses
in Zarzis, saving enough to secure
a spot on a harraga boat in 2019.
The Tunisian coast guard foiled
that first attempt. When the pan-
demic hit and painting houses be-
came impossible, the painter said
he felt he had no choice but to try
again, as soon as possible. He took
out a loan and his mother sold a
piece of gold to fund his passage.
When he and his fellow travel-
ers first reached Lampedusa, they
spent 12 days in a reception center
filled with migrants of various na-
tionalities, including women and
young children. He was then
placed in quarantine on a large
boat off the Sicilian coast.
Most Tunisians who make the
journey to Italy, including the Zar-
zis painter, hope to end up in
France. But under the European
Union asylum system, the country
where a migrant disembarks is
responsible for processing their
asylum application or return.
On Wednesday, the E.U. pro-
posed revamping its system to
speed up deportations and allow
for asylum seekers to be more
evenly distributed across Euro-
pean countries.
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi
Di Maio has said Italy considers
Tunisia to be a safe country and
will return all Tunisians who enter
irregularly. In late July, Di Maio
threatened to withhold develop-
ment aid to Tunisia until authori-
ties agreed on a plan to stem the
outflow. Italian and European au-
thorities traveled to Tunis in Au-
gust to discuss the issue with Tuni-
sian President Kais Saied.
Italy has promised Tunisia
$13 million for border-control
measures. The E.U., meanwhile,
will extend an existing border-
management program with Tuni-
sia by 20 months and $11.8 mil-
lion, Hichem Dhahri, a spokes-
man for the E.U. delegation to
Tunisia, confirmed.
Saied has called a security-
oriented approach to migration
insufficient and emphasized that
Tunisia must generate jobs and
development.
In recent weeks, coronavirus
cases in Tunisia have shot up. But
there is widespread consensus
that the country cannot afford an-
other lockdown.
foreign@washpost.com
they had “avenged the prophet.”
To mark the opening of the trial
this month, Charlie Hebdo repub-
lished the caricatures on its cover.
Editor Laurent Sourisseau re-
ported that Charlie Hebdo was,
in turn, threatened again by al-
Qaeda.
Friday’s stabbing also came
amid rising concerns about cen-
sorship and death threats that
some journalists have reported
experiencing for publishing ma-
terial seen as “blasphemous.”
Earlier this past week, more
than 100 French media organiza-
tions signed an open letter in
solidarity with Charlie Hebdo in
defense of free expression.
“The violence of words has
been transformed little by little
into physical violence,” the letter
read. “. . . Let’s remember here, in
solidarity with Charlie Hebdo,
which paid for its liberty with the
blood of its employees, that the
crime of blasphemy does not exist
in France.”
james.mcauley@washpost.com
THE WASHINGTON POST . SATURDAY,
Kim o≠ers rare apology in
killing of S. Korean citizen
BY M IN J OO K IM
seoul — North Korean leader
Kim Jong Un on Friday issued a
rare apology for the killing of a
South Korean official near the two
countries’ disputed border, the
South’s presidential office said.
President Moon Jae-in’s office
said it received a letter from Kim
in which he expressed “immense
regret” over the “unexpected and
unfortunate incident.”
It is unusual for North Korea to
admit wrongdoing or express re-
morse toward South Korea, its
archrival with which it remains
technically at war.
A day earlier, South Korea con-
demned the North for its treat-
ment of the fisheries official, who
disappeared from a patrol boat
near the disputed maritime fron-
tier this week in what authorities
described as an ill-fated attempt to
defect. The 47-year-old was killed
by North Korean troops and his
body burned, the Defense Minis-
try said, an act that Seoul labeled
an “atrocity.”
It was not clear how the man,
who had been wearing a life jacket
and was clutching a floating ob-
ject, ended up in North Korean
waters, Seoul’s defense officials
said. His colleagues found only his
shoes left on the boat.
South Korean officials said
North Korean military personnel
may have shot the man because of
strict orders to prevent the spread
of the novel coronavirus.
The letter — sent from Pyong-
yang’s United Front Department,
which oversees relations with the
South — said North Korean mili-
tary personnel fired 10 shots at the
man after he did not respond to
their orders and attempted to flee.
Turkey orders arrests of 82
officials, others in 2014 riots
BY K AREEM F AHIM
istanbul — Turkish authorities
said Friday they have issued arrest
warrants for 82 people, including
current and former officials of the
country’s pro-Kurdish opposition
party, on charges stemming from
deadly riots in Turkey in 2014 over
the war in Syria, a Turkish pros-
ecutor’s statement said.
During the protests, in dozens
of cities and towns across Turkey,
demonstrators had called for Tur-
key to allow military assistance to
Kurdish fighters in Kobane, a
Kurdish-majority town in Syria
that was under siege by the Islam-
ic State militant group. At least
37 people in Turkey were killed
during the riots, authorities said.
The prosecutor’s statement Fri-
day said the arrests were being
ordered “regarding the calls for
protests” at the time by the Kurd-
istan Workers’ Party, or PKK, a
banned militant group in Turkey,
as well as the Peoples’ Democratic
Party, or HDP, the pro-Kurdish
opposition party, which is legal.
Turkish authorities have accused
the HDP of supporting violent
acts by the insurgent PKK, a
charge the party denies.
The prosecutor’s statement did
not explain why six years have
passed between the alleged
crimes and the arrest warrants.
The government has pursued a
crackdown on the HDP, which
promotes greater cultural rights
and autonomy for Turkey’s Kurds.
Dozens of elected mayors from
the HDP have been removed from
their offices over the past few
years and replaced with govern-
ment-appointed trustees.
Those detained Friday includ-
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SEPTEMBER 26 , 2020
The soldiers then approached
the scene, where they found the
man’s body and the floating object
some distance away, the letter
said. It added that the soldiers
burned the flotation aid as a pre-
caution against the coronavirus.
The killing of the South Korean
citizen dealt a blow to Moon’s push
to improve ties with the North. But
Pyongyang’s quick expression of
remorse appeared to leave room to
make amends.
“Kim Jong Un’s supposed apol-
ogy reduces the risk of escalation
between the two Koreas and keeps
the Moon government’s hopes for
engagement alive,” said Leif-Eric
Easley, a professor of internation-
al studies at Ewha Womans Uni-
versity in Seoul. “Kim’s diplomatic
move avoids a potential fight in
the short term and preserves the
option of reaping longer-term
benefits from Seoul.”
South Korean national security
adviser Suh Hoon, who disclosed
the contents of the letter to report-
ers, said Pyongyang sent the note
in response to Seoul’s demand for
an explanation.
Suh also said the leaders of the
two Koreas recently exchanged
letters about cross-border rela-
tions and solutions for the corona-
virus crisis. In a letter dated
Sept. 12 that Suh revealed Friday,
Kim expressed his “sincere intent
to share the hardships and suffer-
ings South Korea is experiencing”
and “earnest wishes for the health
and welfare” of South Koreans.
Along with Pyongyang’s apolo-
gy, Seoul’s release of the North’s
letter expressing sympathies over
the coronavirus suggested neither
side was willing to risk an extend-
ed rupture in relations.
minjoo.kim@washpost.com
ed Ayhan Bilgen, a prominent
mayor from Kars in eastern Tur-
key and one of the few HDP may-
ors who has managed to retain his
position. At least two of the party’s
former members of parliament
were also arrested, according to
local media reports.
In an interview with The Wash-
ington Post in June, Bilgen said
that he and other remaining HDP
mayors were facing intensifying
pressure from authorities and
government-friendly media out-
lets and that they expected to be
arrested at any moment.
The battle for Kobane was a
watershed moment in the fight
against the Islamic State.
It also marked a milestone in
Turkey’s deteriorating relation-
ship with the country’s Kurdish
movement. The government of
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
which had been pursuing peace
talks with the PKK, angered
Kurds by refusing to allow fight-
ers or weapons across the border
to aid Kurdish fighters in Kobane.
As tens of thousands of Kurdish
refugees from Syria streamed
across the frontier, the protests
over three days in early October
2014 shocked Turkey, leaving
nearly 800 people injured as vehi-
cles and shops were set ablaze in
Kurdish-majority cities.
The government justified its ac-
tions in part by saying that provid-
ing military aid to Syrian Kurdish
fighters affiliated with the PKK
amounted to supporting terror-
ists. Ankara relented in late Octo-
ber under intense international
pressure and allowed Iraqi Kurd-
ish fighters aligned with Turkey to
assist in the defense of Kobane.
kareem.fahim@washpost.com
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USPS said to be near settlement on election mail Use this tool to discover how
Deal with 19 states and
D.C. would also suspend
some of DeJoy’s changes
BY J ACOB B OGAGE
The U.S. Postal Service is near-
ing a settlement with 19 states
and D.C. to govern how the
agency handles mailed ballots
and to suspend key pieces of
Postmaster General Louis De-
Joy’s controversial cost-cutting
agenda, which has been linked to
mail backlogs across the country,
according to three people with
knowledge of the negotiations.
State officials hope that an
agreement, which could come as
early as next week, will act as a
firewall against challenges from
President Trump on the legitima-
cy of mail-in votes by recognizing
the states’ authority to preside
over elections and how ballots
are processed, said the people,
who spoke on the condition of
anonymity to provide details on
the discussions.
The settlement would resolve
federal court cases in Washing-
ton state, New York and Pennsyl-
vania. Judges in Washington
state and New York have already
issued temporary injunctions
prohibiting the Postal Service
from implementing a number of
DeJoy’s operational changes,
some of which caused postal
workers to leave mail behind.
The changes included adhering
to stricter transportation sched-
ules that attempted to eliminate
late and extra trips, key methods
of ensuring on-time mail deliv-
ery.
Supervisors also sharply cur-
tailed overtime hours, though
DeJoy contends he had no role in
such directives. The Postal Serv-
ice this summer also removed
close to 1,500 public mailboxes
and nearly 700 mail-sorting ma-
chines and cut some retail win-
dow hours.
Federal Judge Stanley A. Bas-
tian in the Eastern District of
Washington barred the Postal
Service from enforcing DeJoy’s
transportation policy, decom-
missioning any mailboxes and
sorting machines, closing any
processing facilities or cutting
retail hours. Federal Judge Vic-
tor Marrero in the Southern Dis-
trict of New York ordered USPS
to afford election mail first-class
privileges and to preapprove all
overtime between Oct. 26 and
Nov. 6.
Justice Department lawyers,
representing USPS, agreed Fri-
day with the group of 16 voters
who brought the suit to a revised
order that largely adhered to
Marrero’s original injunction.
The sides did not agree on lan-
guage about overtime policy and
will continue negotiations on the
topic, according to court docu-
ments.
A proposed universal settle-
ment would combine require-
ments from Bastian and Marre-
ro’s orders, plus potentially any
others handed down by Judge
Gerald A. McHugh Jr. of the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania,
who is yet to rule on a separate
case brought by Pennsylvania
ECONOMY
Durable-goods orders
for August are weak
Orders to U.S. factories for
big-ticket manufactured goods
increased just 0.4 percent in
August following a much larger
gain in the previous month.
It was the fourth-consecutive
monthly increase, but the most
recent uptick was far weaker than
the 11.7 percent surge in July, the
Commerce Department reported
Friday.
Economists had expected
production to ease somewhat after
manufacturers rebounded
strongly in previous months from
coronavirus-related shutdowns,
but the growth in August was less
than half what economists had
projected.
A key category that tracks
business investment plans rose
1.8 percent in August, compared
with gains of 2.5 percent in July
and 4.3 percent in June.
Some economists saw the string
of positive numbers as a hopeful
sign of a strong bounce back.
Others, however, say the modest
advance overall signals that
manufacturing appears paced for
. THE WASHINGTON POST
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A worker loads absentee ballots for mailing at the Wake County Board of Elections in Raleigh, N.C.
The settlement, which would resolve three federal court cases, could come as early as next week.
Attorney General Joshua Sha-
piro (D) and four other jurisdic-
tions.
“From the start of this case,
our goal has been to stop the
drastic operational changes at
the Postal Service that have im-
pacted mail delivery nationwide
and endangered a free, fair and
safe election,” Washington Attor-
ney General Robert Ferguson (D)
said in a statement. “Our prelim-
inary injunction accomplished
that goal while the case moves
forward. I am hopeful that we
can reach a final resolution that
halts these damaging changes
for good. Regardless, the Postal
Service must follow Judge Bas-
tian’s order — and we will accept
nothing less.”
Shapiro and Ali Najmi, who
represents the New York voters,
and a Postal Service representa-
tive all declined to comment.
“One of the real challenges
right now is, whether you sup-
port any new changes being
made or oppose them, we’re get-
ting to the point where even good
changes could have a negative
impact because of voter confu-
sion and lack of ability to plan,”
said David Becker, executive di-
rector of the nonprofit, nonparti-
san Center for Election Innova-
tion & Research. “If this can
bring certainty, that’s a very posi-
tive thing.”
Bastian and Marrero offered
scathing rebukes of DeJoy’s cost-
cutting initiatives and USPS
election mail policies. Bastian
wrote that the 14 states in his
lawsuit proved that DeJoy, a
major GOP financier and former
supply chain logistics executive,
and President Trump were “in-
volved in a politically motivated
attack” on the nation’s mail serv-
ice.
Marrero wrote that plaintiffs
would “likely succeed” at trial in
proving that USPS lacked “justi-
fication for rolling out (and re-
taining) [DeJoy’s] policy, which
has contributed to meaningful
documented delays in service, in
a slow recovery.
The report showed that the
volatile transportation sector rose
a modest 0.5 percent as orders for
motor vehicles and parts fell
4 percent, after a 21.7 percent surge
in July as auto plants reopened.
— Associated Press
AIRLINE INDUSTRY
Hawaiian Airlines to
offer virus tests in Calif.
Hawaiian Airlines will offer
customers drive-through
coronavirus testing in California
to help island-bound travelers
avoid a 14-day quarantine rule —
its answer to rival United Airlines’
new on-the-spot airport
screenings.
Both testing plans would
satisfy Hawaii’s requirement for
visitors to show a negative test
result within 72 hours of arrival to
avoid its self-isolation rule, which
has discouraged most travelers to
the state.
The popular vacation spot has
become a testing ground for U.S.
airlines seeking to reassure
travelers that flying is safe and to
meet local government
restrictions to curb the virus.
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the middle of a pandemic when
service standards were already
impaired and a vast influx of
mail-in ballots expected.”
McHugh, in oral arguments in
the Pennsylvania case, also ap-
peared to question the Justice
Department’s argument about
the postal changes. All three
cases largely center on the ques-
tion of whether DeJoy’s actions
amounted to a change in agency
policy. If they did, USPS would be
required to obtain an advisory
opinion from the Postal Regula-
tory Commission before putting
the changes into practice.
USPS contends that directives
about eliminating extra and late
trips were aspirational and did
not originate from the agency’s
headquarters, and thus are not
official policy.
In the Pennsylvania case, Jus-
tice Department lawyers argued
that DeJoy’s changes were mana-
gerial and operational decisions,
not policy changes, and that the
mail delays resulted from an
“incorrect understanding of na-
tional policy.”
To which McHugh responded:
“What would you call a ‘transfor-
mational initiative?’ ” — as the
changes were labeled in internal
documents.
“Defendants take the remark-
able position that nothing has
changed in the Postal Service’s
approach to election mail from
past years. This is simply not
true,” Bastian wrote in his order.
“ . . . Plaintiffs have made an
extensive showing of irreparable
harm that is caused and will be
caused by the Postal Service’s
‘Leave Mail Behind’ policy and
the Postal Service’s refusal to
ensure that election mail will be
treated as First Class mail to
ensure timely delivery.”
USPS’s chief retail and deliv-
ery officer, Kristin A. Seaver, and
chief logistics and processing
operations officer, David E. Wil-
liams, issued guidance Monday
to supervisors on how the agency
plans to comply with the judges’
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Hawaii’s testing rule goes into
effect Oct. 15.
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TECHNOLOGY
Apple will allow
Facebook payments
Apple will let users of
Facebook’s online events product
use the social network’s own
payment method through the end
of the year, temporarily bypassing
the iPhone-maker’s typical
30 percent cut.
The tech giant said it is making
the exception as some businesses
were forced to move their
physical events online due to the
coronavirus pandemic. App Store
apps that facilitate in-person
classes or events have always
been allowed to accept payment
methods other than Apple’s,
bypassing the fee. But once
businesses moved online, almost
all classes became virtual and
were no longer exempt from
Apple’s cut.
Apple said that after the reprieve
through the end of 2020, Facebook
will be required to implement the
in-app purchase system.
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orders. The five-page memo ob-
tained by The Washington Post
states that USPS has not imposed
a nationwide restriction on over-
time and advised the “use of
overtime necessary to expedi-
tiously move Election Mail
should be approved.”
It said the Postal Service
would not decommission addi-
tional public mailboxes or sort-
ing machines before the election
but also noted there were no
plans to reinstate ones that were
already removed. Mothballed
machines are generally disas-
sembled and used for parts, the
memo stated, and are therefore
difficult to replace.
“Over the past month, howev-
er, a limited number of machines
that were disconnected, but not
dismantled and removed, have
been put back into service,” Seav-
er and Williams wrote. “If it is
determined that it is necessary to
add processing capacity to fulfill
our service commitments with
regard to election mail, available
processing equipment will be
returned to service.”
They also stated that election
mail would continue to receive
priority over marketing mail and
that it would be “processed
expeditiously to the extent feasi-
ble.”
“We are still reviewing the
Postal Service’s plans, but it ap-
pears it is making an effort to
comply with the order,” Fergu-
son, the Washington attorney
general, said in a statement to
The Post earlier in the week. “We
will continue to monitor the
situation, and will ensure that
the Postal Service adheres to the
court’s order to halt the damag-
ing changes that have impacted
mail delivery across the nation. I
will accept nothing less than full
compliance.”
Negotiators are still hashing
out details on overtime hours
and the handling of election
mail, according to the three peo-
ple with knowledge of the talks.
jacob.bogage@washpost.com
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armored minibus on Friday in Riga, Latvia. The auto show, which
ends Sunday, is the biggest such event in the Baltics.
ALSO IN BUSINESS
European Central Bank
President Christine Lagarde said
governments risk delaying the
rebound from the coronavirus
slump if they end support
prematurely. The eventual
withdrawal of fiscal aid such as
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websites are tracking you
How bad has
privacy become on
the World Wide
Web? Really bad, a
new audit shows.
At least 87
Geoffrey percent of the
Fowler world’s most-
popular Web
domains engage in some form of
digital tracking without you ever
signing in, according to
investigative journalism nonprofit
the Markup. Many, it found, even
covertly record the way you move
your mouse or type. This is the
hidden tech that lets companies
learn who you are, what you like
and even the secrets you look at
online so they can tailor what you
see, make ads follow you around —
or even sell your information to
others.
The good news: You can run a
privacy check on any site yourself
by using the free tool made for the
audit, called Blacklight. Think of it,
in the Markup’s words, as a “meat
thermometer that you can stick
into any website and get an instant
reading on its level of creepiness.”
Blacklight was created by Surya
Mattu, who wanted not just to stop
website snooping, but a tool to see
exactly what was going on when
you visit sites with the default
Google Chrome, the popular
browser I once dubbed “spy
software.”
Earlier this month, engineer
and journalist Mattu ran
Blacklight on a list of the 100,000
most-popular domains on the
Web. Some of those addresses
didn’t have a website on them or
wouldn’t load. But of the more
than 80,000 that he could scan, a
grim picture emerged.
Only 13 percent of sites didn’t
load any ad trackers or third-party
cookies, which are snippets of code
that sites leave in your browser to
identify you.
Fifteen percent of websites
loaded technology called “session
recorders,” the digital equivalent
of recording videos as you surf a
site, as one tech provider describes
it. “For me, this was the biggest
shock,” Mattu told me.
Four percent logged keys you
typed into forms and boxes even
without hitting submit.
Six percent of websites used a
newer, harder-to-avoid form of
tracking called canvas
fingerprinting. (Last year, an
investigation I worked on with
privacy company Disconnect
found fingerprinting on a third of
the 500 most-popular websites.)
Seventy-four percent of sites
loaded Google tracking
technology, and 33 percent loaded
Facebook trackers. It’s staggering
to see the reach of those two
Silicon Valley giants — it’s easy to
forget they track you even when
you’re not using their websites or
apps.
Worse, Mattu’s numbers are
probably conservative. On sites
that ask you to accept cookies
before they’re loaded, particularly
common in Europe, Blacklight
doesn’t click “accept” — so those
sites registered as less creepy.
“I think this is just a reflection of
how business operates when it
goes unchecked,” Mattu said. “I
don’t think there is some super-
evil person sitting somewhere
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furlough programs for workers is
a source of uncertainty and must
be carefully aligned with a pickup
in activity, Lagarde said in an
interview with GZERO Media.
The further course of the
pandemic and the availability of a
vaccine are the other major
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trying to collect everyone’s
information. There is economic
incentive for having this data, and
over the last 15 years that incentive
has only increased.”
Blacklight isn’t the perfect or
only measure of privacy — it’s a
cat-and-mouse game with the
companies that develop tracking
tech. But I hope the Markup
updates its audit every year, so we
can track how the Web changes as
more people become concerned
about privacy, and new privacy
laws attempt to outlaw some of the
snooping.
What’s the point for
non-techies? Use Blacklight
quickly to see whether you want to
trust a site — or evaluate the
claims of a CEO who touts “privacy
is a human right.” You can
download your results and share
anything shocking with me or with
the smart team at the Markup.
Here’s what’s “normal,” for
comparison: The median number
of third-party cookies on websites
is three. The median number of ad
trackers is seven.
What you find might surprise
you. As of Thursday, pet food-
maker Purina notched almost
every possible kind of tracking
Blacklight detects, which Purina
can use to learn about the
demographics and interests of
people, their brand loyalty and
even to understand how they use
their website. It had 14 ad trackers,
28 third-party cookies,
fingerprinting, and monitoring of
keystrokes and mouse clicks. (Tell
Fluffy to be careful out there.)
Sensitive websites track people,
too. Planned Parenthood had 42
third-party cookies, according to
Blacklight.
Joe Biden’s website as of
Thursday used fewer third-party
cookies, 10, than President
Trump’s website, 18, according to
Blacklight.
Microsoft had 43 third-party
cookies. Apple had zero — in fact,
it uses no tracking tech at all,
according to Blacklight.
The Washington Post’s site had
six third-party cookies and allows
Google Analytics to track you but
doesn’t have Facebook trackers,
according to Blacklight. The New
York Times had 12 trackers, the
Wall Street Journal had 44 and
The New Yorker had 152.
Just remember: You don’t have
to give up all hope of preserving
your privacy. There are steps you
can take to protect your privacy on
the Web.
For most people, I recommend
making one simple change: switch
browsers to one that includes
automatic protection. I like
Mozilla’s Firefox, but Apple’s Safari
and the new version of Microsoft
Edge also provide some
protection, as do the privacy-
focused DuckDuckGo and Brave.
But if you just can’t quit
Chrome, or you’re forced to use it
for work, there are ad-blocking
and tracker-blocking plugins that
can defang Chrome, including
Privacy Badger and Ghostery.
And if you live in the state of
California, there’s also a law called
the California Consumer Privacy
Act that gives you the ability to tell
any business to stop selling your
data.
geoffrey.fowler@washpost.com
sources of uncertainty, she said.
U.S. auto safety regulators are
investigating speed sensor
problems with Mercedes-Benz
Sprinter full-size vans that could
cause unwanted acceleration. The
probe by the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration
covers about 160,000 Sprinter
2500 and 3500 vans from the 2011
through 2018 model years. The
agency says it has 44 complaints
of rear wheel speed sensor
problems that caused large
fluctuations in speed and erratic
transmission shifting. There were
no reports of crashes or injuries
in documents posted on Friday on
the agency’s website.
The Lamborghini chief
executive who oversaw a
doubling of sales and its foray
into sport utility vehicles is
leaving the Italian carmaker to
return to the upper echelons of
auto racing. Stefano Domenicali
will become CEO of Formula One
in January, the auto-racing unit
owned by Liberty Media Corp.
announced Friday. The 55-year-
old has led Volkswagen AG’s
performance-car brand since
2016 and introduced its first SUV
model, the Urus.
— From news services
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 , 2020
BY M ARIANA Z ÚÑIGA
AND A NTHONY F AIOLA
caracas, venezuela — The
sun had risen over the Caribbean
Sea when Frank González spot-
ted “the stain” — an oil slick on
the water that stretched for
miles.
“The sea looked like butter,
because of the thickness of the
water,” said González, a fisher-
man who saw the spill this
month while working off the
coast of Venezuela’s Falcón state.
“It was painful to see.”
Venezuela’s once powerful oil
industry is literally falling apart,
with years of mismanagement,
corruption, falling prices and a
U.S. embargo imposed last year
bringing aging infrastructure to
the brink of collapse. As the
government scrambles to repair
and restart its fuel-processing
capacity, analysts are warning
that ruptured pipelines, rusting
tankers and rickety refineries are
contributing to a mounting eco-
logical disaster in this failing
socialist state.
Oil workers say the gushing
crude soiling the coast of Falcón
state this month came from a
cracked underwater pipeline
linked to attempts to restart fuel
production at the aging Cardón
refinery. Not far from the oil
slick, fishermen say, is a jetting
geyser of natural gas from a
second broken pipeline.
“The gas leak looks like a
boiling pot about to explode,”
González said.
The leaks are the latest in a
spate of oil industry troubles that
have alarmed environmentalists
here. They include a recent oil
spill that has jeopardized corals
and rare marine life off sensitive
Morrocoy National Park, and a
rusting vessel in the Gulf of Paria
that observers call a ticking eco-
logical time bomb. Analysts see a
growing risk of more and larger
spills in a country that has
already suffered years of damage
from broken wells and aban-
doned oil fields.
“Our fear is that as they try to
fix and restart these refineries
and oil centers, we’re only going
to see more of this,” said Cristina
Burelli, international liaison for
SOSOrinoco, a nonprofit focused
on environmental damage in
Venezuela. “More underground
oil pipelines are blowing up. The
whole system is corroded and
falling apart.”
A rash of gold mining — much
of it illegal — has contributed to a
surge of pollutants in the Ven-
ezuelan interior, endangering
the important ecosystem at Ca-
naima National Park, a UNESCO
World Heritage site. And illicit
logging has jeopardized rainfor-
est. But in this OPEC nation that
sits on the world’s largest proven
oil reserves, the biggest driver of
environmental damage is the
crumbling energy sector.
Particularly in recent years, a
lack of spare parts, a brain drain
of technicians and widespread
corruption have crippled oil pro-
duction and fuel refineries, mak-
ing environmental accidents
more common. Between 2010
and 2016, the state oil giant
PDVSA was responsible for more
than 46,000 spills of crude and
other pollutants, according to
the Caracas-based human rights
group Provea.
In the Connecticut-size Lake
Maracaibo, thousands of wells
now stand broken and useless,
with raw crude and natural gas
bubbling visibly to the surface. In
2016, the last year data was
available, state engineers esti-
mated that tens of thousands of
gallons of oil were seeping into
the lake each month.
The U.S. embargo on Venezue-
lan oil has deepened the indus-
try’s woes. The country lacks the
capacity to process much of its
sludgy product. When it sent
crude to the United States, it got
back refined gasoline. The end of
UKRAINE
22 killed in crash
of military plane
A Ukrainian military plane
carrying aviation school students
crashed and burst into flames
Friday while landing, killing 22
people, the country’s emergency
services said.
Two others on board were
seriously injured and four were
missing. The An-26 twin-engine
turboprop transport plane
crashed in Chuhuiv, about 250
miles east of the capital, Kyiv.
Reports said that the plane had a
military crew and that most of
those on board were students at a
military aviation university.
There was no immediate
indication of the cause.
— Associated Press
. THE WASHINGTON POST
Venezuelan oil leaks threaten Caribbean Sea
Once powerful industry suffers from mismanagement, corruption, falling prices and a U.S. embargo
An oil refinery on the shoreline of Lake Maracaibo in Cabimas, Venezuela, in May 2019. In 2016, the last year data was available, state engineers estimated that tens
of thousands of gallons of oil were seeping into the Connecticut-size lake each month from broken oil wells. Pollution is evident along the lake’s eastern shoreline.
The FSO Nabarima, a rusting vessel laden with 1.3 million barrels of oil, is taking on water in
the Gulf of Paria between Venezuela and Trinidad, as seen in this Sept. 16 satellite image.
that system has worsened severe
fuel shortages. The need to store
extra crude that Venezuela can-
not sell under the embargo, as
well as the government’s at-
tempts to revamp and restart old
refineries to increase domestic
fuel production, appears to be
driving the recent spills, analysts
and oil workers say.
The country’s diplomatic iso-
lation has exacerbated the prob-
lem. The United States and more
than 50 other countries consider
President Nicolás Maduro a
usurper; they recognize National
Assembly President Juan Guaidó
as the country’s rightful leader.
Unlike Mauritius, which re-
cently called for international
aid after a Japanese tanker
spilled more than 1,000 tons of
oil off its pristine coast, the
BRITAIN
London police officer
fatally shot at station
A London police officer was
fatally shot early Friday morning
inside a police station, London’s
Metropolitan Police said.
The officer, identified as Sgt.
Matt Ratana, 54, was killed by a
handcuffed man who had been
arrested and was being detained
at a custody center in Croydon, in
south London, police said.
Ratana was treated at the
scene and later died at a hospital.
Police said “early indications”
were that the 23-year-old suspect,
who had been arrested on
charges of possession of drugs
with intent to supply and
possession of ammunition,
turned the gun on himself. He is
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in a hospital in critical condition.
Officials said no police
firearms were fired in the
incident, prompting questions
about whether the suspect had
been properly searched.
It is rare for a British police
officer to be killed in the line of
duty. Ratana is the 17th officer
from the force to be killed by a
firearm since World War II,
according to the BBC.
— Karla Adam
UNITED NATIONS
Pakistan’s Khan: India
backs hate of Muslims
Pakistani Prime Minister
Imran Khan on Friday assailed
India’s Hindu nationalist
government and its moves to
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Muslim Kashmir, calling India a
state sponsor of hatred and
prejudice against Islam.
Khan said at the annual U.N.
gathering of world leaders that
Islamophobia rules India and
threatens the nearly 200 million
Muslims who live there.
“They believe that India is
exclusive to Hindus and others
are not equal citizens,” he said he
said in a recorded speech to the
U.N. General Assembly, which is
being held virtually amid the
coronavirus pandemic.
Khan has frequently criticized
the August 2019 decision by
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s
government to strip Jammu and
Kashmir’s statehood, scrap its
constitution and end inherited
protections on land and jobs.
India’s U.N. representative,
T.S. Tirumurti, said on Twitter
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Venezuelan government has few
friends to turn to — and so has
largely downplayed the spills.
“It breaks my heart,” said Julia
Alvarez, a marine biologist here.
“This is an ecological crime.”
Analysts began monitoring
the first of the recent spills in
August.
Eduardo Klein, director of the
Remote Sensors Laboratory in
the department of environmen-
tal studies at Simón Bolívar Uni-
versity, used satellite images to
document a massive oil slick
washing up on the beaches of
Morrocoy National Park, a sensi-
tive ecosystem of corals, sponges
and sea turtles on the Caribbean
coast. The images, he said, sug-
gested the spill originated at a
refinery in Carabobo state.
“It can be seen without a
doubt that there is a very large
stain in front of El Palito refin-
ery,” he said. “There is no way
this stain had any other origin.”
Klein estimated the spill at
26,000 barrels of oil over 135
square miles, the largest in the
area in at least 20 years.
According to local news re-
ports, El Palito refinery suffered
a failure at the end of July, when
workers tried to reactivate it in
an effort to refine fuel. Ivan
Feites, an oil union board mem-
ber, said the facility’s compressor
pumps, turbines and pipes re-
main severely damaged.
“That’s what causes spills ev-
ery time they try to restart the
refinery,” Feites said. “The refin-
ery doesn’t work and can’t pro-
duce fuel. It’s like a piece of
cardboard that easily breaks.”
The Venezuelan government
has not acknowledged the origin
of the spill, but said in a state-
ment last month that Morrocoy’s
animal and plant life had not
been damaged. The National As-
sembly has opened an investiga-
tion; opposition officials have
suggested that the refinery’s
that Khan’s speech was “a new
diplomatic low” full of “vicious
falsehood.”
— Associated Press
Catholic Church in Japan is
sued over alleged sex abuse:
A woman has filed a suit against
the Roman Catholic Church in
Japan alleging that a priest raped
her four decades ago, as the
church’s unfolding worldwide
sexual abuse crisis gradually
reaches Japan. The lawsuit, filed
this week in Sendai District Court
and seeking 56.1 million yen
(more than $530,000) in
damages, accuses a priest, who
has not been charged or
penalized, as well as a bishop
who counseled the woman in
recent years about the alleged
abuse. It also names the Diocese
of Sendai in northeastern Japan,
waste pit might have overflowed
because of heavy rains and a lack
of maintenance.
The Venezuelan government
did not respond to a request for
comment.
On the other side of the coun-
try, analysts and oil workers are
growing increasingly concerned
about the FSO Nabarima, a rust-
ing vessel laden with 1.3 million
barrels of crude that is taking on
water in the Gulf of Paria. They
fear the floating storage and
offloading unit is at risk of
sinking and creating a major
environmental disaster in the
Caribbean Sea.
Eudis Girot, head of the anti-
government Unitary Federation
of Petroleum Workers of Ven-
ezuela, posted photos on social
media showing what he de-
scribed as the ship’s already
flooded engine room. In a video
posted to social media, he begged
Maduro to intervene.
“Take a helicopter,” he said.
“Go out there. Do your own
inspection.”
PDVSA confirmed the most
recent oil spill, near its Cardón
refinery. The oil giant said this
month that the leak occurred in
an underwater pipeline and
cleanup was underway.
González, who grew up fishing
with his uncle on the coast of
Falcón, said he and other fisher-
man worry the spill will ruin
their livelihoods. Environmen-
talists, meanwhile, say it could
affect populations of dolphins,
crocodiles, seabirds and green
turtles.
“We have never seen a spill like
this,” said González. “For years,
no one has come to do mainte-
nance on the refineries. Now it
turns out that they are polluting
everything with oil, and nobody
seems to care.”
anthony.faiola@washpost.com
Faiola reported from Miami.
saying the church refused to take
her complaints seriously.
Migrants drown in capsizing in
Mediterranean: At least 16
migrants trying to reach Europe
drowned in the Mediterranean
Sea when their dinghy capsized
off Libya, the U.N. migration
agency said. Libyan fishermen
spotted the sinking boat late
Thursday, said the International
Organization for Migration, and
managed to pull 22 people from
the water, including migrants
from Egypt, Bangladesh, Syria,
Somalia and Ghana. Three bodies
were found, including a Syrian
man and woman, and at least 13
other migrants were presumed
drowned, the agency said. The
boat had set off late Wednesday
from the town of Zliten, Libya.
— From news services
A16 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST . SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 , 2020

New SEC rule will limit influence small investors have on big companies
Shareholders pushing for
social change may be
stifled, advocates say
BY D OUGLAS M AC M ILLAN
A new federal rule will limit the
influence of small investors over
the direction of large companies,
a policy shift that investors and
shareholder advocates warn
could stifle efforts to make corpo-
rate boardrooms more respon-
sive to societal issues like climate
change, social justice and human
rights.
The Securities and Exchange
Commission this week raised the
limit on the amount of stock
investors must hold to propose a
resolution that receives a share-
holder vote during a company’s
annual proxy period. The rule,
which previously required inves-
tors to hold at least $2,000 in
stock for one year, now requires
$25,000 in stock ownership for
one year before proposing a
shareholder resolution or
$15,000 for two years. Investors
who own $2,000 in stock for at
least three years will be permitted
to file proposals.
Shareholder proposals from
small investors are credited with
pushing big companies to im-
prove their record over the past
decade on social issues. In two
examples from this year, Star-
bucks committed to cut landfill
waste and Chevron pledged more
transparency about its lobbying
on climate change after share-
holders pushed the companies on
the issues with proxy voting pro-
posals.
Starbucks spokeswoman Me-
gan Lagesse said the waste an-
nouncement was part of a broad-
er company commitment to be-
come more resource-positive.
Chevron did not respond to a
request for comment.
Business lobbyists have cam-
paigned against investor propos-
als, saying they often represent
the interests of small groups of
activists who aren’t committed to
long-term company goals. Large
corporations, including Exxon-
Mobil, and business advocacy
groups, including the Business
Roundtable, have argued that re-
ducing the number of sharehold-
er proposals will free up time for
management teams and share-
holders who are bogged down by
these votes each year.
The SEC approved the new
limits on shareholder activism by
a 3-to-2 vote Wednesday. In his
comments supporting the meas-
ure, Chairman Jay Clayton said
the agency had discussed the po-
A Starbucks near McPherson Square in downtown Washington. The company, after a shareholder proposal from small investors this year,
committed to cut landfill waste. A Starbucks spokeswoman said it was part of a broader company resource commitment.
tential changes with investors for
several years and found support
for “modernizing” the standards,
some of which had changed little
in nearly 70 years. Reviewing
shareholder proposals imposes
costs on companies and on other
investors, Clayton said, adding
that there is a risk that “share-
holder-proponents would use the
proposal process in a way that
does not benefit the company or
its other shareholders.”
In her dissenting comments,
Commissioner Allison Herren
Lee said the measure will deal a
setback to movements to bring
environmental, social and gov-
ernance issues to the forefront at
companies and that small inves-
tors will be “dramatically disad-
vantaged.”
“These actions collectively put
a thumb on the scale for manage-
ment in the balance of power
between companies and their
owners,” Lee wrote.
The new limits were opposed
by hundreds of investors repre-
senting trillions of dollars in as-
sets, who filed comments to the
SEC over the past year. They
included representatives of asset
managers, pension funds, labor
unions, state and local govern-
ments, universities and religious
institutions.
“This rule impedes the voice of
shareholders bringing to the at-
tention of companies things they
need to pay attention to,” said
Christopher Cox, associate direc-
tor at the Seventh Generation
Interfaith Coalition for Responsi-
ble Investment, a nonprofit inves-
tor group.
Clayton, a former corporate
lawyer who had no government
experience when President
“This rule impedes the voice of shareholders
bringing to the attention of companies things they
need to pay attention to.”
Christopher Cox, associate director at the Seventh Generation Interfaith
Coalition for Responsible Investment
Trump picked him to run the SEC
in 2017, has overseen a shift at the
agency toward policies many see
as business-friendly. Consumer
advocates criticized his overhaul
of brokerage conflict-of-interest
regulations last year as being too
weak, and this past July, CNBC’s
Jim Cramer called Clayton’s pro-
posal to raise the threshold at
which investment managers
must report holdings “an outra-
geous rule change that would
make the market a lot less trans-
parent.”
The SEC’s process for collect-
ing public comments on the pro-
posed shareholder rule fell under
scrutiny last year, when Bloom-
berg News reported that several
submissions in support of the
rule, including some Clayton cit-
ed in public comments, appeared
to come from people who never
wrote them. The news outlet
traced connections between
some of the letters and the Main
Street Investors Coalition, a
group backed by a prominent
fossil fuel industry association.
Natalie Strom, an SEC spokes-
woman, said the Bloomberg
News story “has proven to be
inaccurate,” adding that some of
the people mentioned in the arti-
SARAH L. VOISIN/THE WASHINGTON POST
cle have since sent the agency
signed affidavits stating they did,
in fact, write letters in support of
the shareholder rule changes.
A tiny portion of investors are
responsible for the vast majority
of all shareholder proposals. One
study by researchers at the Uni-
versity of Warwick and the Stock-
holm School of Economics found
that between 2003 and 2014, just
three individuals accounted for
50 percent of all shareholder pro-
posals. However, the researchers
found shareholder proposals can
generate positive long-term re-
turns for companies and conclud-
ed that “regulations limiting the
ability of individual shareholders
to submit proposals would be
harmful.”
Shareholder proposals are
finding support with a growing
portion of public company inves-
tors, according to data collected
by shareholder advisory firm In-
stitutional Shareholder Services,
which tracks all corporate proxy
votes. During proxy voting at
3,000 of the largest publicly trad-
ed U.S. companies, the average
environmental or social measure
won support from 28 percent of
shareholders this year, up from
16 percent a decade ago.
The SEC also voted to tighten
requirements on which failed
shareholder proposals can be re-
submitted the following year. Pre-
viously, proposals had to receive
3 percent of support for revote the
second year, and then 6 percent
and 10 percent in subsequent
years. The new rule raises these
thresholds to 5 percent, 10 per-
cent and 25 percent in the first
three years.
According to investor groups,
this change could stifle cam-
paigns that are building momen-
tum now. A recent proposal to
install a civil rights expert on
Facebook’s board of directors was
supported by 3.6 percent of share-
holders at the social network ear-
lier this year. An effort to improve
working conditions for meat-
packing workers at Tyson Foods,
who are largely minorities, re-
ceived 14.7 percent of the vote in
its second year.
Only shareholder proposals
submitted after January 2022 will
be subject to the new regulations,
the SEC said.
Gary Mickelson, a spokesman
for Tyson, said the company is
working to improve worker
health and safety “no matter what
shareholder proposals might say.”
Facebook did not respond to a
request for comment.
The largest business lobbying
group, the U.S. Chamber of Com-
merce, applauded the SEC’s adop-
tion of new limits on shareholder
proposals. In a statement, the
group called it a victory over
“special interest activists” who, it
said, “push narrow agendas unre-
lated to the success of public
companies and investor return.”
The Business Roundtable’s
support for the SEC rule coincid-
ed with the group’s push to make
environmental and social causes
some of the biggest priorities for
chief executives at top global
firms, through its August 2019
statement of corporate purpose
and a more recent set of pub-
lished principles and policies to
address climate change.
The two positions appear to be
at odds, said Timothy Smith, a
director at investment firm Bos-
ton Trust Walden.
“They are acknowledging the
importance of climate change,”
Smith said. But at the same time,
he said, “they are lobbying to try
to make it more difficult for inves-
tors to file resolutions on climate
change.”
In an emailed statement, Maria
Ghazal, Business Roundtable’s
senior vice president and counsel,
said the SEC amendments are
consistent with the group’s other
principles and “will help create a
better proxy system that will ben-
efit investors and other stake-
holders over the long term.”
douglas.macmillan@washpost.com

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Free For All

One flew over our copy editors
Regarding the Sept. 16 Metro article “D.C. mental
hospital’s practices criticized”:
It is long past time for The Post to stop using the
term “mental hospital.” Please refer to such places as
“psychiatric hospitals.” We are in the 21st century,
and the term “mental hospital” evokes the memory
of the 1970s and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
It is hard enough to struggle with a psychiatric
illness and the feelings of shame that some people
have when battling such a disorder, without having
such an outdated term used in the media.
Theresa Early, Fairfax
High-return ballot boxes
Ballot drop boxes in Maryland were much more
popular in the primary election than suggested in
the Sept. 14 Metro article “Ballot drop boxes are
coming to the D.C. region.”
The “13 percent of voters” figure is the proportion
of the 3.6 million ballots mailed out that were
returned via drop boxes. However, what’s more
meaningful is drop-box usage as a percentage of the
1.4 million ballots actually returned. Looked at this
way, the true proportion of ballot-drop-box usage
averaged more than 30 percent statewide. In
Montgomery County, it was 35 percent; in Prince
George’s County, it was 41 percent. This presents a
far different picture.
Janet Millenson, Potomac
The writer, a Montgomery County election worker
and member of the League of Women Voters
of Maryland, serves on an advisory group
working with the State Board of Elections.
A dark cloud in the weather section
A match made
in heaven
Chuck Culpepper’s coverage of
the U.S. Open tennis men’s final
was outstanding [“Thiem rallies to
capture U.S. Open,” Sports,
Sept. 14]. His description of the
players taking “deeply human
turns squinting, flinching and
quaking” with the U.S. Open title at
stake perfectly matched the reality
of what I watched on television.
Tennis doesn’t have a finish
line, and it doesn’t have a clock you
can run out. Taking a big lead, as
Alexander Zverev did, doesn’t
guarantee a win. Having the op-
portunity to serve for the match,
as both players did, doesn’t, either.
Someone has to eventually get and
win a match point, which Dominic
Thiem finally did. Culpepper mas-
terfully captured the drama of
PHELAN M. EBENHACK/ASSOCIATED PRESS how it all unfolded.
Washington Mystics forward Myisha Hines-Allen at a game against the Phoenix Mercury in Bradenton, Fla., on Sept. 15. Kelley Cantrell, Alexandria
There’s more than one sport
The Post’s obsession with professional football has long Page 2, as were the Mystics. The NBA was on Page 9. Baseball?
been an issue for readers with multi-sport interests, but the One had to go all the way to Page 10 to find the team
Sept. 14 Sports section was an over-the-top display of standings and one-paragraph summaries of the previous
excess. Granted, Sept. 13 was the first Sunday of the pro day’s games. Seeing no article on the Nationals-Atlanta
football season and “our” team won, but should seven of the Braves game, I at first thought it had been canceled despite
12 pages have been devoted to football, including most of the the sunny weather, until I turned to the back page and finally
first page and all of Pages 3 through 8? found it.
The men’s U.S. Open tennis final, which should have been The Nats have had a disappointing season, but they FRANK FRANKLIN II/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Sept. 16, at breakfast, with sun streaming through
the window, I think, “It will be a nice day.” Then I pick
up The Post and stumble on the Weather Gang’s
wordy forecast: “It will be another day without much
in the way of cloudiness.” I read five empty words
before two negatives — “without much” and “cloudi-
ness.” I figure that’s sort of positive.
Next I see “some smoke likely.” Now I have to look
for smoke to cloud my vision? The other day, a
neighbor, walking by, called to me as I worked in my
front-yard garden, “Enjoy the nice weather.” Call me
Pollyanna, but during our summer storms of bad
news, I’ll take a cliche like “Have a nice day” without
complaint.
Lois F. Morris, Silver Spring
SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL ZOO
the lead story with a large photograph, was relegated to only deserve better than the last page! Dominic Thiem at the U.S.
the right-hand first-page column, with a continuation on David M. Cohen, Chevy Chase Open in New York on Sept. 13.
Danielle Pletka knows better
This letter may cost me a friendship, but in view
of the Sept. 18 letters, “A tired pro-Trump argu-
ment,” responding to Danielle Pletka’s Sept. 15
op-ed, “Democrats may force me to vote for Trump,”
I must expand the record.
Missing from Pletka’s op-ed was the essential
fact that she was a longtime staff member of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Pletka and I
overlapped on the staff, she as a Jesse Helms and
Dick Lugar senior staffer, and I as Joe Biden’s chief
scientist. Pletka could work across the aisle when
necessary. She was helpful to this new-to-the-Hill
staffer, and she listened to scientific reasoning even
when the answer wasn’t to the Republican staff ’s
liking.
Pletka knows Biden well. She worked with him.
She knows perfectly well that the former vice
president is not a left-winger nor a stalking horse
for the left. And so I am puzzled at her column and
its accusations. Why did she write it? Was it an
“application” for a high-level job in a second Trump
administration? If she so dislikes President Trump’s
behavior and has such a low opinion of his DEMETRIUS FREEMAN/THE WASHINGTON POST

The baby spider tortoise near a quarter.
Sorry we were slow with the photo
More good news from the National Zoo: A rare
endangered spider tortoise was hatched in July [“No
hiding surprise over zoo’s rare hatch,” Metro, Sept.
13]. But after reading the fascinating and mysterious
account of the never-seen egg, the unwitnessed birth
and the eventual surprising discovery of the rare
hatchling, readers were left with only their imagina-
tions to conjure what must be the unbearable
cuteness of this rare little quarter-size tortoise
known for the beauty of its shell.
A photograph would have been most welcome
and might even have helped support this little
treasure and others on the endangered species list!
We’re ready for our close-up.
Sheri Langford, Fairfax
‘Always,’ for a limited time
competence, why would she seek such a post? I can
only say that I am disappointed.
Peter D. Zimmerman, Great Falls
The writer was chief scientist and minority
chief scientist of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee under then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.).
Ken Jennings
should know better
Ken Jennings, the winner of the “Jeopardy!: The
Greatest of All Time” tournament, praised the show
for representing a half-hour every night when
“questions have answers, and correct answers” [“A
‘slice of normality’ for $200, please,” Style, Sept. 16].
With a 74-game winning streak, Jennings should
know that on “Jeopardy!,” it’s the other way around:
Answers have questions.
Charles Carron, Alexandria
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Philadelphia on Sept. 20.
There’s more than one candidate
Two articles about revelations in Bob Wood-
ward’s book “Rage” again demonstrated The Post’s
unfortunate habit of limiting articles about and
photographs of Democratic presidential nominee
Joe Biden. Take the coverage in the Sept. 10 paper.
The front-page headline — “ ‘I wanted to always
play it down’ ” — was about what was revealed in
the book. Fair enough. Then, on Page 4, there was
more information about what President Trump told
Woodward. There was also a second article,
headlined “Trump tries to limit damage from
revelations he minimized virus threat.” Again, the
headline and the story were about Trump. In the
article, we learned some major news: that in a
speech to the United Auto Workers, Biden charged
Trump with purposely playing down the danger
and said flat-out that Trump “lied to the American
people” about the threat it posed to the country. No
photo.
This article could have focused on Biden’s
charges. Or there could have been a separate article,
complete with a photo of Biden saying Trump lied.
Is it no longer news when one candidate states
clearly that the other has lied about a major action?
As a former intelligence analyst, I have been
counting the number of photos of Biden in
The Post. They are few and far between. Well, Biden
certainly isn’t as colorful as Trump. More fun to
cover Trump in his latest outrage. The Post keeps
Trump on the front page almost every day. Trump is
highly skilled in producing news, and The Post
takes the bait and gives him front-page coverage
and photos, time and time again. Biden? Rarely.
Barbara Herzog, Washington

The Sept. 15 news article “Astronomers detect

potential sign of life on Venus” stated that, compared
with Venus, “Mars has always appeared more conge-
nial to life.” This is patently untrue. Until the 1960s
discovery that Venus has a surface temperature in
excess of 800 degrees Fahrenheit, it was long
assumed to be a virtual twin of Earth. There was
reputable scientific speculation that plant and even
primitive animal life was a strong possibility.
Gus Mancuso, North Laurel
The third side of the story
The Sept. 14 article “Coronavirus lockdown steals
Gazans’ last vestiges of normal life,” though heart-
rending in its emotion, relayed the author’s subjec-
tive perspective without any filter or external
corrective or comment. Just one example: The
author’s lament at being “bound by the Mediterra-
major party. He will be missed because he was a voice
of truth.
Vincent Carmody, North Laurel
Now I know why Robert J. Samuelson’s economic
analyses always made sense: He is not actually an
economist. I have been looking forward to his wisdom
for many years — make that decades. He will be sorely
missed from The Post’s pages.
Hank Cox, Takoma Park
I’m a freelance writer, and over the years, Robert
J. Samuelson’s columns have been a treasured source
SARAH L. VOISIN/THE WASHINGTON POST of information and insight. Several years ago, Samuel-
Robert J. Samuelson son made an exception to his usual practice and
accepted my invitation to speak before the Economic
A champion Club of Annapolis. I am the club’s founder and direc-
tor. For two hours, he spoke and answered questions in

nean on one side, fenced in by the Israeli army on
another” omitted any mention of the southern
border of Gaza, which is patrolled by Egypt. A news
piece in the World section of the daily paper
warranted better.
Behnam Dayanim, Silver Spring
The tenets of good judgment
I look forward to reading Ann Hornaday’s movie
reviews. I wholeheartedly support her decision to
refrain from seeing “Tenet” in a movie theater,
of good sense
After a weekend in which all my favorite teams and
sports individuals went down, The Post greeted me
Sept. 14 with the sad news that Robert J. Samuelson,
my favorite columnist, was retiring [“Goodbye, read-
ers, and good luck — you’ll need it,” op-ed]. An eco-
nomics novice, I have relied on his unbiased, splendid-
ly presented explications of this complicated realm
since I came to D.C. in 1978. I worried that this day was
coming, and now I realize I was not prepared for it.
what was one of the club’s most memorable presenta-
tions. The usual audience of 60 or so swelled to more
than 80 that night. My sincere thanks for his generosi-
ty and wisdom.
Perry L. Weed, Annapolis
It is with some regret that we wish Post columnist
Robert J. Samuelson a fond farewell and the happiest
of post-column retirements.
For 50 years of important journalism, Samuelson
has been shining a light on the economic issues of our
time, making them accessible to broad audiences.
He has consistently covered the work of my organi- DARRIN BELL/WASHINGTON POST WRITERS GROUP

thereby potentially putting her life at risk [“I want
to see ‘Tenet.’ But, no, I’m not dying to.,” Style,
Sept. 4]. During these troubling times, it is critical
to focus on life’s priorities, and sitting in a cinema
with other people is not one of them. I expect
Ms. Hornaday likely was criticized by the defiant,
maskless folks who thought she was overreacting
and perpetuating a coronavirus “hoax.” However,
Ms. Hornaday was being utterly responsible and
rightly challenged Warner Bros. and any other
movie industry giants that choose to endanger
others under the guise of “art.”
Veronica Clarke, Ellicott City
 Letters to the editor: letters@washpost.com
It was satisfying, though, to read Donald Graham’s
words of praise in his Sept. 14 letter, “Grateful for
Mr. Samuelson,” and confirm that my admiration for
Samuelson is apparently not misplaced. Post readers
will sorely miss this champion of erudition and good
sense. Godspeed.
Steve Fahey, Olney
I was saddened to read that Robert J. Samuelson
has retired. He is a great commentator. I have learned a
lot about how the economy, economists and politi-
cians work in the real world from his columns. I always
looked forward to reading his columns because he was
always easy to understand, but not dumbed down. Ad-
ditionally, I enjoyed Donald Graham’s letter of appre-
ciation to Samuelson. I, too, did not always agree with
Samuelson, but he was not an ideologue for either
zation, the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development, with insight and integrity.
It has been a pleasure for us to be a resource for his
wide-ranging pieces on issues such as automation and
artificial intelligence, the U.S. health-care system, gov-
ernment spending, school performance, the changing
U.S. workforce and more.
Samuelson’s commitment to rigorously plowing
through the statistics to find the stories behind the
data and his sharp twice-weekly take on important
economic issues all too often missed by the headlines
mean that his retirement is a loss for us all. But we are
grateful for the decades of top-flight journalism he
bestowed upon us and wish him all the best.
Will Davis, Washington
The writer is director of the
OECD Washington Center.
From the Sept. 10 “Candorville”
More irksome than Urkel
The Sept. 10 “Candorville” comic strip was exactly
on the mark. I was an engineer, a federal employee,
at the National Security Agency through both
shutdowns of the federal government engineered by
then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.). I can-
not understand why Gingrich has prospered since
then. He truly broke American politics, and the
continuing focus on power rather than accomplish-
ments is the price we have paid. Both parties have
adopted his take-no-prisoners approach, and I hate
it.
Jim Gallagher, Sandy Spring
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A bizarre retelling of the Ghaisar case
Newly released statements contradict clear visual evidence.
I
N THE alternative reality inhabited by the U.S.
Park Police officers who killed Bijan Ghaisar, the
unarmed motorist they shot to death in 2017
after his car was struck in a fender bender in
Northern Virginia was “accelerating” toward one of
them when they opened fire. In their bizarre
account, as related to federal investigators in recent
court filings, Ghaisar, a young accountant, was
“zombie like” and his eyes were “glazed” — though
another officer at the scene, from Fairfax County’s
police force, said he could not see inside the vehicle
— and Ghaisar’s erratic, dangerous driving and
failure to stop when the officers tried pulling him
over posed a deadly threat, which helped justify
their decision to discharge their weapons again and
again, striking Ghaisar four times in the head.
To believe that version of events requires disbe-
lieving clear video evidence to the contrary. In the
dash-cam video, recorded by the Fairfax police
cruiser that took part in pursuing Ghaisar, the
officer who first opened fire on Ghaisar was to the
side of his vehicle — not in front of it and not in any
A profile
in cowardice
The State Department revokes
an award and then lies about it.
T
HE WOMEN of Courage Award, presented
annually by the secretary of state and the
first lady, honors women from around the
world who have “demonstrated exceptional
courage, strength, and leadership to bring positive
change to their communities, often at great personal
risk and sacrifice.” Established by former secretary
of state Condoleezza Rice and presented around
International Women’s Day, March 8, the honor
includes a ceremony and travel in the United States.
Admirable and uncontroversial — but even this the
Trump administration has managed to dishonor.
A new report from the State Department Office of
Inspector General casts light on how a winner,
Jessikka Aro of Finland, was selected for a 2019
award and then, upon discovery of her social media
posts criticizing President Trump, unceremoniously
dumped. The decision to rescind the prize after
Ms. Aro had been notified was wrongheaded. After-
ward, a State Department spokesman lied to the
press, and department officials misled Congress.
Ms. Aro, an investigative journalist, had identified
the Russian online troll factory in St. Petersburg that
was ground zero in interfering in the 2016 U.S. presi-
dential election. After reporting her findings on the
Finnish broadcasting company YLE, she was merci-
lessly attacked by the same Russian trolls. The
U.S. Embassy in Helsinki nominated her for the
award, saying she had courageously endured death
threats to bring the story to the public. The embassy
examined her social media postings and concluded
they fell within legitimate political speech, accord-
ing to the IG report. After Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo approved the 10 winners, Ms. Aro was
informed in January she had won, and the embassy
began to make travel and visa plans. But in February,
the State Department assigned interns to review
social media posts of the winners. Department
D.C. schools must reopen safely
The mayor is right to push for in-person learning, but her plans need work.
D.
C. MAYOR Muriel E. Bowser’s (D) plan
for D.C. schools to start providing in-
person learning by the end of this month
has some teachers, parents and students
worried about health risks. Concerns that reopening
schools could speed the spread of the novel corona-
virus cannot be dismissed, and more needs to be
known about what precautions will be put in place.
But prolonged reliance on distance learning can
harm a child’s educational and social development,
and so the mayor is right to push to get students
back in the classroom.
Ms. Bowser, The Post’s Perry Stein reported,
wants to bring small groups of students — those
with high needs — back to schools, with the aim of
offering the option of some in-person learning to all
students by Nov. 9, when the second term begins.
The District in July had announced it would
institute hybrid instruction when school started,
but a spike in the infection rate caused those plans
to be scrapped in favor of continuing the all-virtual
L O CA L O PI NI O NS
Mr. Hogan should let someone else get the Purple Line running
The top headline of the Sept. 23 Metro section,
“Purple Line construction stops as builders prepare
to quit,” has me so infuriated, I am grinding my
teeth. I have lived in Prince George’s County for
many, many years and seen the drama of the Purple
Line since it was a twinkle in the eye of former
governor Parris Glendening (D).
This time around, I have suffered through the
traffic nightmares on University Boulevard and
Kenilworth Avenue along with my fellow Prince
Georgians, patiently thinking that, at last, the
Purple Line will be finished. Upon reading that the
contractors are stopping work, I am horrified.
Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and all his officials who
could not manage to negotiate a settlement should
resign forthwith. They cannot complete this proj-
ect, but they want to add lanes to the Beltway and
Interstate 270 and create additional traffic jams
and pollution? They are incompetent and should
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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
EDITORIALS
apparent danger. And Ghaisar “accelerates” only in
the sense that his Jeep goes from a standstill to
perhaps 1 mile per hour, while turning his wheel
away from the approaching police, before the first
officer starts firing.
As for his driving, Ghaisar, 25, did exceed the speed
limit and apparently failed to heed a stop sign. He did
drive off after his car was struck from behind in
Alexandria. But no one would call the police pursuit a
high-speed chase, nor did he weave on the road.
The voluminous statements from the officers
came this week in the pending civil suit for wrongful
death filed by Ghaisar’s family. The officers will not
testify in that lawsuit, government lawyers say,
because they may still face state criminal charges in
Fairfax County, where the shooting took place.
Taken as a whole, the officers’ story is an elaborate
argument apparently designed to persaude authori-
ties, or a court, or the public, not to trust what they
can see with their own eyes. The officers gloss over
the fact that when Ghaisar first pulls over, they rush
at his car with guns drawn — something no
First lady Melania Trump speaks at the International Women of Courage Awards ceremony in 2017.
officials read Ms. Aro’s posts on Twitter and Face-
book, some of them critical of Mr. Trump, such as a
2018 retweet of an NBC report about threats against
the Boston Globe. Ms. Aro had added a comment
that Mr. Trump “constantly labels journalists as
‘enemy’ and ‘fake news.’ ” The department decided to
revoke the honor. Internal communications cited by
the IG show the reason was possible “embarrass-
ment” to the department at the ceremony. One
official worried Ms. Aro’s social media posts “could
potentially be highlighted and flashing across tv
screens.”
Foreign Policy magazine revealed the revocation.
learning instituted in March.
The city’s infection rate, recent data shows, has
now fallen to levels that the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention says would allow schools to
open with lower risks of transmission. The District
is in Phase 2 of recovery, with more businesses,
museums and other venues — including some
private and charter schools — reopening at reduced
capacity. Among the measures adopted by schools
that have reopened: curbside temperature checks,
mandatory masks, plexiglass for student and teach-
er desks, improved ventilation systems (teaching
outdoors when possible), sanitizer dispensers, as-
signment of students to small social pods, and
regular and rigorous cleaning of bathrooms and
other facilities.
Administration officials said they will put in
place all necessary safety measures, but the vague-
ness of their plans has not inspired much public
confidence. Parents and teachers need to know
details, yet with less than two weeks before
The governor should resign.
resign to make way for people who can complete
this job and get the Purple Line running.
And what about the Red Line in Baltimore?
Another needed transportation project stopped by
Mr. Hogan, who is showing his true Republican
colors by perpetually coming down on the side of
expanding motor traffic rather than creating
environmentally responsible transportation sys-
tems.
The NIMBYs in Bethesda must be laughing while
the small-business owners along the path of the
Purple Line are weeping into their teacups. Shame
on these officials for their abject failure.
Christel Stevens, University Park
responsible officer would do if the subject were
deemed a real threat, nor in a routine traffic stop. As
Ghaisar, perhaps understandably terrified, pulled
away, one of the officers struck the Jeep window with
his pistol — an act of amateurish rage that the other
officer attempted to explain as an attempt to “mark”
the vehicle. That’s preposterous.
Some time after the incident, a toxicology report
showed there was marijuana in Ghaisar’s system,
and a bag of weed along with a pipe were found in his
Jeep; the officers also said they smelled marijuana in
the car. But neither officer knew that when they
opened fire, and the police are no more justified in
shooting an unarmed man because he is high.
In the heat of the moment, law enforcement
officers must often make instantaneous judgment
calls about the use of force. In this case, the Park
Police officers, Alejandro Amaya and Lucas Vinyard,
made horrendous ones. Their frustration at
Ghaisar’s repeated failures may be understandable.
But in police work, frustration does not confer a
license to kill.
WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAGES
On March 7, 2019, a department spokesman told
reporters that Ms. Aro had been “incorrectly noti-
fied,” calling it a “regrettable error” and a “mistake.”
When minority staff of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee inquired, the department provided mis-
leading answers.
These untruths were cowardly, running entirely
against the spirit and principles of the award and of
public service. The meaning of free speech is that it is
free, not that it is always flattering. The State
Department should apologize for its lies.
Mr. Pompeo should apologize to Ms. Aro, and give
her the award she deserves.
Ms. Bowser wants to start the limited reopening,
little information has been released. On the positive
side, officials are talking about starting on a strictly
voluntary basis. A spokesman for the teachers
unions said it has identified at least 100 teachers
who are interested in returning to classrooms for
small-group learning, and it is thought there are
many more.
No doubt those teachers know well the failings of
distance learning. While anecdotal evidence sug-
gests that instruction has improved since the
spring’s abrupt transition, some children are falling
through the cracks and simply not learning. Some
have never logged in, others show up haphazardly,
and many are struggling with the technology and
lack of attention. Those most impacted are children
who already live on the margins of racial and
economic inequities. They need to get back to
school, so let’s hope Ms. Bowser — and her
counterparts in other cities — marshal the will and
the means to address this most urgent need.
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Hope for afflicted children
Regarding Theresa Vargas’s Sept. 20 Metro col-
umn, “New hope for kids with rare tumors”:
It takes enormous courage for a child to live with a
rare disease, and tremendous strength to be a parent
of a child with a disease that has no cure. Families of
children with cancer, genetic conditions and other
rare diseases wake up each morning hoping for a
scientific breakthrough. Especially now, when sci-
ence is under attack, any new treatment should be
celebrated.
The inspirational story of 10-year-old Autumn
Schierling’s fight with neurofibromatosis and the
successful development of selumetinib for her condi-
tion offer a timely example of how a law can help
children with rare diseases. The Creating Hope Act,
passed in 2012, encourages companies to develop
drugs for children such as Autumn by awarding a
priority review voucher when a new drug for a rare
pediatric disease is approved. Selumetinib and
23 drugs for cancer, Duchenne muscular dystrophy,
cystic fibrosis and other rare diseases have been
approved and earned vouchers under the Creating
Hope Act. The industry’s interest in creating drugs
for rare pediatric diseases, almost nonexistent eight
years ago, has been growing exponentially — more
than 65 drugs for rare diseases that affect children
are in the pipeline now.
But the Creating Hope Act is expiring at the end of
September. Permanent reauthorization of this law is
needed so more children can wake up with hope.
Elena Gerasimov, Washington
The writer is programs director for Kids v Cancer.
Whitewashing history
The Sept. 18 front-page article “Trump attacks
public schools” unveiled the president’s latest racist
ploy: a disgraceful assault on public schools that are
rapidly falling behind those in the rest of the world.
Teaching the next generation about our country’s
successes and shameful shortcomings is vital if we’re
ever to learn from our past and better understand
our current problems. We cannot allow mere dis-
comfort in facing these hard truths to dictate an
alternate reality of our American legacy.
Our human rights education program, Speak
Truth to Power, introduces students to human rights
defenders unafraid to speak up and act out against
injustice, with the aim of inspiring them to work to
right the wrongs they see. The lessons come as a
recent Southern Poverty Law Center poll found
70 percent of Americans support anti-racism educa-
tion policies.
Whitewashing history in the name of “patriotic
education” to play down the central role of slavery is
not only dishonest but also dangerous, hindering
real progress while further inciting racial divisions
in a pivotal election year.
Leave it to the experts, Mr. President.
Kerry Kennedy, Hyannis Port, Mass.
The writer is president of Robert F. Kennedy
Human Rights, a nonprofit advocacy organization.
President Trump’s statement that he will
create a national commission to push more “pro-
American” history exemplifies a trend to use U.S.
history instruction in public schools to further
inflame polarization. Education can be a driver of
conflict that fuels grievances, xenophobia and other
misinformation, or education can contribute to
peacebuilding. In the United States, whole periods of
history are covered quickly. Other parts, including
those addressing the experiences and achievements
of women, people of color and native Americans, are
ignored or not accurate.
We need an innovative rethinking of the delivery
of history curriculums to convey new narratives of
the past and positively influence citizens’ national
identity. The Alliance for Peacebuilding and its
partners are working on a pilot project with educa-
tors in states to align the U.S. history curriculum
with a peacebuilding approach. We can build peace
in the one place nearly all Americans have in
common as they approach adulthood — at least one
year of instruction in U.S. history.
This revised curriculum will empower educators
and students to have difficult and honest conversa-
tions about our past and to develop an inclusive
narrative that helps heal our country instead of
dividing us further.
Liz Hume, Washington
The writer is vice president of the Alliance
for Peacebuilding.
Endangering the public
Regarding Erin N. Marcus’s Sept. 16 op-ed, “A
Roger Stone protege is interfering in important CDC
reports. It’s appalling’:
Unfortunately, our current public health system is
not using lessons learned about the importance of
focusing on science to contain or end emerging
epidemics. Dr. Marcus’s referencing the early days of
the AIDS epidemic highlights how focusing and
reporting scientific findings through publications
such as the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
(MMWR) are crucial for those on the front lines. Our
medical professionals need to be quickly provided
with critical information on emerging illnesses to
support them in giving the right care to their
patients. Politics is not a medical intervention.
Political appointees and federal staff have the
duty to defend the Constitution and perform their
duties ethically. Catering to their supervisors and
even the president is not a part of their oath.
Revising or not reporting facts during this pandemic
can and will result in avoidable deaths and illnesses.
Those who are eliminating the scientific facts in the
MMWR are not upholding their promise to Ameri-
FRED HIATT can citizens; they are endangering the people they
Editorial Page Editor
JACKSON DIEHL
proposed to protect.
Deputy Editorial Page Editor Carl Baloney Jr., Washington
RUTH MARCUS
The writer is director of government affairs
Deputy Editorial Page Editor
JO-ANN ARMAO
for AIDS United.
The benefits of respect
Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia’s tribute [“My
father’s friendship with Justice Ginsburg,” op-ed,
Sept. 20] to his father’s relationship with Ruth
Bader Ginsburg points out the possibilities when
parties disagree but respect each other. The most
important lesson in Mr. Scalia’s letter for Americans
from all walks of life comes with this statement
about his father — the late Justice Antonin Scalia —
and Justice Ginsburg: “Not for a moment did one
think that the other should be condemned or
ostracized.”
Elaine Vander Clute, Berlin, Md.
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COLBERT I. KING
Voters want
a clean debate
T C
uesday’s presidential debate at Case West-
ern Reserve University in Cleveland is not
expected to be anything like the “Rumble
in the Jungle” between boxers Muham-
mad Ali and George Foreman on Oct. 30, 1974, in
what was then known as Zaire. But if President
Trump behaves true to form in his first face-to-
face exchange with former vice president Joe
Biden, count on an onstage spectacle just the
same.
Fox News’s Chris Wallace will moderate, and
once again Trump just can’t resist the urge to try to
work the referee, as he did when NBC’s Lester Holt
moderated Trump’s September 2016 debate with
Hillary Clinton. In advance of that event, Trump
accused Holt of being a Democrat set on rigging
the debate and running “a very unfair system.”
Holt, a veteran journalist (who had been a regis-
tered Republican since 2003), played it straight,
holding Trump and Clinton to the same standard.
This time Trump is predicting that the “radical
left” — not known to have a lot of sway at Fox —
will somehow force Wallace to go easy on Biden.
Wallace, who also moderated the Trump-
Clinton faceoff held Oct. 19, 2016, at the University
of Nevada at Las Vegas, knows that Trump loves to
throw low blows and lie through his teeth. Rest
assured, Wallace is ready for the displays of
incivility that attend so much of Trump’s life. Hope
it’s true, too, of the moderators in the debates to
follow.
What you aren’t likely to see Tuesday is a repeat
of Trump’s attempts at intimidation. In the Las
Vegas debate, Trump left his seat and invaded
Clinton’s personal space to hulk over the shorter
Clinton as she answered questions. Against Biden,
he wouldn’t dare try that without Secret Service
agents at his side. Undoubtedly, there will be other
Trump stunts.
The question is whether Biden is prepared for
the insults, untruths and uncouth behavior set to
come his way. Either way, let’s hope Wallace
doesn’t put up with Trump’s distractions for long,
because the designated debate topics offer a rich
field for exploration. The voters want and deserve
a clean contest.
Voters will want to hear out Trump and Biden
on the handling of covid-19, on racial reckoning
and urban unrest, on the economy, on free and fair
elections, and on the nominees’ records of service.
The public can decide how well Trump’s and
Biden’s positions hold up under close scrutiny and
cross-examination — provided the candidates
stick with the issues.
A night of gloves-off combativeness would only
shed more light on the vulgarity that Trump has
brought to the presidency.
Biden’s challenge is to not take the bait or let
Trump pull him into an ugly wrestling match on
the mat.
Recall Trump’s reference to the size of his penis
in the Republican debate in Detroit in March
2016? During an earlier Republican primary cam-
paign appearance, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) re-
sponded to Trump having called him “Little
Marco” by joking: “Have you seen his hands? And
you know what they say about men with small
hands. . . .” Trump jumped to the defense of his
manhood.
Biden shouldn’t descend to schoolyard stuff,
trading Trump insult for insult.
Keep attention where it belongs: Trump’s out-
rageous claims and monstrous failures.
Trump’s idiotic assertion that he has done more
for African Americans than any president since
Abraham Lincoln ought to get him laughed
offstage. Biden only needs to point to Harry
Truman, the first president to personally and
publicly commit himself and the federal govern-
ment to civil rights and the president who deseg-
regated the armed forces. He should bring up the
name of Lyndon Johnson, who supported passage
of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act
and signed them into law. Even Ronald Reagan,
no civil rights champion, supported the law that
created the federal holiday honoring the Rev. Mar-
tin Luther King Jr.
Biden should also set the record straight on the
economy during the Obama-Biden years.
Trump needs reminding that the Obama-Biden
administration took office when the country was
confronted with the worst economic crisis since
the Great Depression. Through their economic
stewardship, an economy in free fall had been
turned around and was climbing when it was
handed off to Trump, who proceeded to drag it
down with his xenophobic trade disputes and his
mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic. Now
the only numbers growing are Trump’s massive,
running deficits and America’s rising covid-19
death toll.
Come to think of it, the “Rumble in the Jungle”
pitted the incumbent champion Foreman hoping
to land haymakers against a savvy Ali, skilled in
deflecting wild shots. Didn’t turn out so well for
Foreman, who lost his title that night.
Tune in to Cleveland on Tuesday. It may not be
the “Debate of the Century,” but perhaps another
titleholder will go down for the count.
kingc@washpost.com
ALEXANDRA PETRI
Mitt Romney tries not to think about the president’s threat not to concede
“Fundamental to democracy is the peaceful
transition of power; without that, there is Belarus.
Any suggestion that a president might not respect
this Constitutional guarantee is both unthinkable
and unacceptable.”
— Mitt Romney, on Twitter
A
ny suggestion that the president might not
respect the constitutional guarantee of the
peaceful transition of power is both un-
thinkable and unacceptable!
I for one will not tolerate it! Who dares to make
such a suggestion? The president?
He was asked on Wednesday whether he’d
commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the
election, win or lose, and he said, “We’ll have to see
what happens”? And he was asked before by Chris
Wallace about accepting the results of the election,
and he said, “I have to see. Look, you — I have to see.
No, I’m not going to just say yes. I’m not going to say
no, and I didn’t last time, either”?
DRA W I NG B O A RD
No, no, unthinkable! I refuse to accept this! I
simply won’t accept this! Imagine how stressed and
responsible I would feel if I thought I inhabited a
world where the president of the country in which I
lived, in which I kept all of my stuff, all of my most
treasured figurines and my favorite pair of slacks,
was simply refusing to commit to a peaceful
transition of power! I’d be a nervous wreck! It’s
unthinkable, so I will simply not think it.
Instead, I will picture a green field. The sun
shines on the field, and there are rabbits in the
field. How happy they are. They gambol and play.
Play, rabbits, play! I have not a care in the world,
and certainly I am not, in the United States of
America, dealing with the fact that the president
has said he might not accept the results of the
election. If he says anything more about it, please
don’t tell me.
Sometimes I wish I were with my other Republi-
can colleagues, who seem not to know that this is
happening at all. But ever since I started striking
EZ RE
BY ROB ROGERS FOR ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION
BY MARGULIES
BY JEFF KOTERBA FOR THE OMAHA WORLD HERALD
BY SHENEMAN
out from the pack, they will not tell me where they
go to hide from questions from reporters and
startling, worrisome new information about things
President Trump is doing and saying.
Besides, I know people are counting on me to
make a bold, principled statement, or at least a
statement. And I did that! I even mentioned the
president by his name: “a president.” Not for me
such diplomatic evasions of responsibility as, “The
peaceful transfer of power is enshrined in our
Constitution and fundamental to the survival of
our Republic. America’s leaders swear an oath to
the Constitution. We will uphold that oath,” as Liz
Cheney wrote on Twitter. Ah, a random civics
lesson, unprompted by any particular action by any
identifiable individual!
But, gosh, this is awfully unpleasant.
Maybe the president meant he wasn’t sure he
could commit to accepting the results of a different
election. I know he is very passionate about
television; perhaps he was talking about the
A19
In a decade apart,
a great awakening
BY D AVID S IMON
ollege Park is a vast campus, and there were
only a handful of occasions when I came
across my mother or even crossed her vapor
trail. Invariably, these occasions were punc-
tuated by proof that one of us cared about their
academic career.
Once, I came up behind her as she walked to
Taliaferro Hall and tried to goad her into beer and a
slice of pizza, but she wouldn’t cut her class. On
another occasion, she was headed toward the under-
graduate library and I was on a mission to the
campus dairy for ice cream, blazed on midafternoon
joints in the student newspaper office.
The sharpest memory is that of a sociology
professor, handing me back a solid-C term paper and
inquiring as to whether I was, in fact, the son of a
woman enrolled in one of his other upper-level
electives. I affirmed as much.
“The apple rolls a bit from the tree, eh?” he
observed.
In her late 50s, Dorothy Simon accompanied her
youngest child to the University of Maryland to
complete an arc that she had abandoned four
decades before. It was, for her, an essential return,
but bittersweet. She had excelled as a student; she
had both the mind and the discipline for this kind of
life.
Unfortunately, she was born in 1923, in Brooklyn,
into a Jewish working-class family that believed
sons were there to be sent to college campuses and
professional schools, and daughters existed to marry
early and well. My mother graduated from James
Monroe High School in 1940, attended a couple
semesters at Hunter College and then married my
father.
In every sense, she became a homemaker — and a
great one, in fact. She personified perhaps the last
generation of American women who almost com-
pletely sublimated their own ambitions for those of
their children. She raised one son to be a professor of
medicine and the other a television producer. She
insisted — as her parents never did — that her
daughter pursue her own intellectual identity to the
greatest possible extent, supporting my sister in an
artist’s career and making clear to my father that
Linda’s master’s degree in fine art was every bit as
essential as anything her brothers might undertake.
As our mother, she exuded a firm confidence in
what she knew to be true and right; my father was
accomplished in his field, but the intellectual center
of the family was Dorothy Simon, delivering gravitas
and ethics from her kitchen table. She wasn’t merely
smart. She was wise.
But in her family of origin, in the 1930s, the child
caught reading quietly in the upstairs rooms of the
Rockaway rooming houses her mother managed was
a black sheep.
While her sisters and brother were turning
mattresses and cleaning bathrooms, she was shirk-
ing. She had no head for business. She was no
favorite. When the romance with my father beck-
oned, her ambitions slipped. No one argued. Not her,
certainly.
She ventured again into the greater world once I
made it to middle school, first working at the Black
Student Fund, a Washington nonprofit that spon-
sored promising students in D.C. private schools.
After returning to study psychology and sociology at
Montgomery College, she embarked on a late career
as a crisis counselor at a McLean facility for runaway
adolescents, and then began taking clients as a
personal and marital therapist. She worked out of
her kitchen.
She was skilled at this. Word got around.
Finally, to complete the long arc, she followed me
to College Park, intent on the academic degree. She
beat me to the finish, graduating in the spring of
1983; I still needed to tack on summer sessions to a
five-year college career to acquire the same parch-
ment as bachelor of general studies.
My mother went to her commencement with the
name of her first grandchild taped to her mortar-
board so he might make her out in the Cole Field
House throng. It was a triumph. But that day, she
told me bluntly that she felt cheated, that she had
waited too long, that she was too old now to
construct the long career of a woman who consid-
ered a professional life to be her due.
Ten years after Dorothy Simon graduated from
James Monroe, another young Jewish woman
emerged from a New York public high school. And
while the expectations for young women were still
largely rooted in domesticity, there were now
cracks in the facade. They began with the war that
had thrown women into factories and offices: My
mother spent 2½ years at the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
shipping war materiel to Europe — but by then she
was married. A year after my father’s discharge
from the Army, my brother was born. The family
began.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, of the James Madison High
School Class of 1950, who was able to marry the
whole of her life to the cause of equality and
aspiration for every woman, died last week. My
mother, of the James Monroe Class of 1940, followed
her three days later. In the decade that separated the
two, a great awakening, long overdue.
David Simon is an author and television producer who
lives in Baltimore.
Emmys? Maybe he meant Belarus. That’s it,
Belarus! He can’t be talking about this country,
here, or if he was talking about this one, he was
surely joking! It’s unthinkable. I won’t think it.
Instead I will think — a low, vacant humming like
the buzz of a TV screen tuned to static. A blank, blue
nothingness, like a computer that has just broken.
A void space, like where I store my integrity.
There must assuredly be some other meaning to
his words, just as there was when he was saying
that if the Postal Service did not get enough funding
to handle voting by mail, “therefore, they can’t do it,
I guess.” He can’t mean what he has explicitly,
repeatedly said about keeping us in suspense
regarding whether he will accept the election
outcome. And thank goodness, because if he meant
it, I might have some responsibility to act.
I might have to do something about it, if I
thought it.
Fortunately, it is unthinkable.
Twitter: @petridishes
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2 ex-leaders of Mass. veterans home are charged in deadly virus outbreak

BY D AN L AMOTHE
Two former leaders of a state-
run veterans home in Massachu-
setts where dozens of residents
died in a coronavirus outbreak
were indicted on criminal charg-
es and face possible jail time, the
state’s top law enforcement offi-
cial said Friday.
The charges against Bennett
Walsh, a former superintendent
of the home, and David Clinton, a
former medical director, stem
from their alleged roles in abuse
and mistreatment of elderly and
disabled residents at the Soldiers’
Home in Holyoke. At least 76
veterans in the home died of
covid-19, and an additional 84
residents and 80 staff members
tested positive for the virus.
“We believe this is the first
criminal case in the country
brought against those involved in
nursing homes during the covid-
19 pandemic,” Massachusetts At-
torney General Maura Healey
said. “We are alleging that Walsh
and Clinton were ultimately re-
sponsible for a decision on March
27th that led to tragic and deadly
results.”
In particular, Healey said, the
consolidation of two dementia
units put patients who had tested
positive for the coronavirus
“within feet” of others who had
not. One unit that typically had 25
residents was packed with 42,
including nine whose beds were
in a dining room, she said.
“To think about this now,
knowing how contagious and
deadly this virus is and continues
to be, is most disturbing, and the
alleged details are even worse,”
Healey said.
In a statement, Walsh’s legal
team accused Healey of trying to
scapegoat Walsh, a retired Ma-
rine lieutenant colonel who had
been appointed to the position in
2016 by Gov. Charlie Baker (R-
Mass.).
“It is unfortunate that the At-
torney General is blaming the
effects of a deadly virus that our
state and federal governments
have not been able to stop on
Bennett Walsh,” the statement
said. “Mr. Walsh has spent his
entire life in the service of our
country, first in active duty in the
Marine Corps for 24 years and
then serving other veterans as the
Superintendent of the Holyoke
Soldiers Home.”
Walsh, like other nursing home
administrators, could not pre-
vent the spread of the virus and
relied on medical professionals to
do what was best for the residents
“in a home with veterans in close
quarters, severe staffing shortag-
es and the lack of outside help
from state officials,” the state-
ment said.
A lawyer for Clinton could not
immediately be reached.
It is unclear whether other
people could still face discipline
or charges.
dan.lamothe@washpost.com

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BY L AURA V OZZELLA
richmond — Gov. Ralph
Northam and his wife, Pamela
Northam, announced Friday that
they both tested positive for the
novel coronavirus and plan to
isolate for 10 days in the gover-
nor’s mansion, where he will con-
tinue working as the state’s chief
executive.
Northam (D) is experiencing
no symptoms and the first lady’s
are mild, his office said.
The two were tested Thursday
after learning the night before
Students
advocate
a skip day
— to vote
BY L AUREN L UMPKIN
Tamir Harper, a junior at
American University, has spent
the days since Supreme Court
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
died organizing online — urging
his peers to register to vote,
engaging politicians in his home-
town of Philadelphia and then,
finally, tweeting at his university
to cancel classes on Election Day.
“What side of history do you
want to be on?” he wrote.
Classes are still scheduled to
meet virtually Nov. 3 at AU,
which is conducting the fall
semester online because of the
coronavirus. But Harper’s rec-
ommendation has gained mo-
mentum, he said.
“We’re always rated the wonki-
est school, but we aren’t even
ensuring our students are being
civically engaged,” Harper said in
an interview, referring to AU’s
ranking as one of the most
politically active campuses in the
nation. “This is a big election.”
The upcoming presidential
election has been described with
a slew of superlatives — most
consequential, monumental and
high-stakes of this generation.
The reason, students said, is that
their futures are on the line. The
next president will contend with
SEE STUDENTS ON B4
Va. prisons
are again
accused of
negligence
BY J USTIN J OUVENAL
Askia Asmar has filled out
request after request — roughly
15 in all — asking officials at
Virginia’s Deerfield Correctional
Center for proper care for health
problems including lung and liv-
er cancer, diabetes and hepatitis
C, according to a sworn state-
ment.
His treatment has not only
been scattershot, Asmar says. The
67-year-old prisoner, who is in a
high-risk category for covid-19,
also claims in a statement provid-
ed to the American Civil Liberties
Union that he was left in a unit
where there was a coronavirus
outbreak this month.
Asmar soon tested positive for
the novel coronavirus, adding an-
other life-threatening condition
to a laundry list of issues. He’s
been suffering from sweats, diar-
rhea and body aches.
“I can only pray,” Asmar said.
“That is all I have.”
Asmar is part of a massive
coronavirus outbreak at the
southeastern Virginia facility
that houses many of the state’s
geriatric prisoners. The Virginia
Department of Corrections (VA-
DOC) reports that 723 have con-
tracted covid-19, the disease
caused by the virus, and that 12
have died — a staggering toll that
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First Lady received PCR nasal
swab tests yesterday afternoon,
Va. governor has no and both tested positive.”
symptoms and will work Northam, 61, a former Army
doctor and pediatrician, has re-
remotely, his office says quired Virginians to wear masks
inside public spaces during the
pandemic. He also has urged
that “a member of the Governor’s frequent hand-washing and so-
official residence staff, who works cial distancing.
closely within the couple’s living “As I have been reminding Vir-
quarters, had developed symp- ginians throughout this crisis,
toms and subsequently tested #COVID19 is very real and very
positive for COVID-19,” according contagious,” he tweeted Friday.
to a news release from Northam’s “We are grateful for your
office. “Both the Governor and thoughts and support, but the
Ixel Blandon McIntire, 8, works with her mom, Ixi Barrios Blandon, in their custom-made schoolhouse in
Arlington. Neighbors donated the supplies to build what Ixel calls her “Rainbow Elementary School.”
‘Our community school’
An Arlington student with special needs who struggled to learn online now has a
place to focus: A shed built by her father with materials donated by neighbors
BY H ANNAH N ATANSON
J
ust before school on Tuesday, as she does every
morning, 8-year-old Ixel Blandon McIntire sat down
to a laminated list of seven three-word sentences.
“I am kind,” read the second-grader, who is a
special-needs student, as her mother followed along
over her shoulder. “I am good. I am smart.”
Then the fourth, her favorite of the “self-affirmations”
Mom asked her to come up with: “I,” Ixel said firmly, “like
school.”
That was not true just a few months earlier. Through-
out the spring, Ixel struggled to learn online at a tiny
kitchen table inside her parents’ 850-square-foot North-
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duplicate absentee ballots vice president of CBS
in recent weeks. B3 broadcasting. B4
New cases in region
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best thing you can do for us — and contacts. reported in the District, Maryland
most importantly, for your fellow The Executive Mansion staffer and Virginia, bringing the total
Virginians — is to take this virus who tested positive had not been number of cases to 281,955.
seriously.” hospitalized, according to
D.C. MD. VA.
Northam also tweeted that he Northam’s office, which declined
was still working, just remotely, to provide more details about +57 +559 +941
from the governor’s mansion. that person’s condition or duties 15,163 122,359 144,433
The governor’s mansion and at the mansion, citing privacy
Northam’s offices in the Patrick concerns. Coronavirus-related deaths
Henry Building were closed for Northam has tried to chart a As of 5 p.m. Friday:
the day for “deep cleaning,” ac- nuanced path through the pan-
D.C. MD.* VA.
cording to a statement from his demic, imposing strict restric-
office. It also said the Northams tions early on to try to contain the +2 +8 +23
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Silver
Line
safety in
question
CONCERN OVER ATC
CIRCUIT DESIGN
Metro outlines issues
in letter to overseer
BY L ORI A RATANI
New issues identified with the
automated train control system
on Phase 2 of the Silver Line
extension could pose a “poten-
tially significant safety concern”
for riders, Metro said in a letter
to officials managing the project.
The problems, outlined in a
letter sent this month to the
Metropolitan Washington Air-
ports Authority by Neil Nott, who
oversees the project for Metro,
involve the track circuit design of
the automatic train control sys-
tem (ATC).
Nott said it appears that the
project contractor, Capital Rail
Constructors, did not meet de-
sign criteria for the system.
“[The Washington Metropoli-
tan Area Transit Authority] has
significant concerns that the
ATC system . . . does not comply
with the requirements . . . and
industry standards for circuit
design, particularly as intended
to facilitate broken rail detection
and avoid the potential for loss of
train detection or derailment,”
Nott said in the letter, a copy of
which was obtained by The
Washington Post.
“WMATA requests that MWAA
require CRC to perform a com-
prehensive review of the track
circuit design requirements and
perform and submit a compre-
hensive safety assessment sup-
ported by appropriate analyses
and calculations to demonstrate
that the ATC System is safe.”
Nott wrote that the spacing of
the cross-bonds, large cables that
enable current to flow from one
track to another, have been in-
BILL O'LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST stalled in a way that could make
it difficult for the system to
detect cracked rails, hamper its
ability to detect when trains are
present or put trains at risk for
derailment.
A Metro spokesman declined
to comment beyond the letter.
The automatic train control
system is critical to safe opera-
tion of the rail system. The
system relies on track circuits to
transmit speed commands so
that trains maintain a safe dis-
tance from each other and stop
when the track ahead is occu-
ern Virginia home, while Mom and Dad worked nearby. pied. A failure of the system can
The second-grader’s learning disability makes it difficult have catastrophic consequences
to focus, so she got almost nothing done, despite the best as was the case in the 2009 Red
efforts of her Arlington Public Schools teachers — and Line crash near Fort Totten sta-
neither did her parents. tion. In that instance, a track
But now, Ixel was sitting in a miniature green-and- circuit failed to detect the pres-
white wooden schoolhouse, set on cinder blocks just to ence of a train and allowed a
the side of the McIntires’ home. Her school-provided iPad second train to move forward at
rested on a desk painted hot pink. full speed. Nine people were
Her long red hair, split into two high ponytails, killed and dozens of others were
glimmered in the light that filtered through the rainbow- injured.
colored, semitransparent ceiling. In one corner sat a A spokeswoman for MWAA,
child-sized stuffed teddy bear: Ixel’s reading nook. which is overseeing construction
SEE SCHOOL ON B2 of the rail extension, said they
were aware of Metro’s concerns
and were waiting for CRC to
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Conservative justice could boost religious rights — at a cost
Such a replacement
threatens LGBTQ
protections, activists say
BY S AMANTHA S CHMIDT
AND S ARAH P ULLIAM B AILEY
A conservative replacement on
the Supreme Court for late Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died
Friday, could provide a major
boost to religious rights while
threatening years of advance-
ments for the LGBTQ community,
legal experts and activists say.
In cases spanning same-sex
marriage rights to workplace pro-
tections, the Supreme Court has in
recent years delivered landmark
victories to gay and transgender
Americans. But these watershed
rulings have also left unresolved
the polarizing conflict between
those who want to safeguard reli-
gious rights and those who want
to expand LGBTQ protections.
Ginsburg not only played a crit-
ical role in voting in favor of LG-
BTQ rights but also voted to keep
religious exemptions within nar-
row boundaries, said David B.
Cruz, Newton Professor of Consti-
tutional Law at the University of
Southern California Gould School
of Law. Her absence, and her re-
placement by a conservative jus-
tice, could help tip the scale
toward curtailing LGBTQ rights.
“It’s going to be a continuing
refinement of the line where reli-
gious freedoms prevail and where
anti-discrimination protections
prevail,” said Paul Smith, a profes-
sor at Georgetown Law School
who argued the landmark 2003
Supreme Court case Lawrence v.
Texas, in which the court ruled
that laws prohibiting private ac-
tivity between consenting gay
adults are unconstitutional.
The court has already ruled in
favor of religious exemptions in
two major cases this summer. A
group of nuns won its case regard-
ing contraception and the Afford-
able Care Act, and the justices
granted a “ministerial exception”
that protects religious organiza-
tions from some lawsuits.
In November, the Supreme
Court will hear a case on whether
the city of Philadelphia can ex-
clude a Catholic agency that does
not work with same-sex couples
from the city’s foster-care system.
The city said Catholic Social Ser-
vices defied its nondiscrimination
policy. The agency and some foster
Michael Widomski and David Hagedorn, right, leave a photo of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joining them in marriage at the makeshift
memorial for her in front of the Supreme Court on Sept. 20 in Washington. She played a critical role in voting in favor of LGBTQ rights.
parents sued Philadelphia, saying
the decision violated their First
Amendment rights of free speech
and freedom of religion.
Catholic Social Services asked
the court to use the case to recon-
sider a precedent limiting First
Amendment protections for reli-
gious practices. That precedent,
Employment Division v. Smith in
1990, ruled that certain laws could
not be challenged through the
First Amendment’s protection of
the free exercise of religion.
The 1990 Smith decision has
been unpopular among conserva-
tive Christians, and it led to the
bipartisan congressional Reli-
gious Freedom Restoration Act in
1993. Overturning the 1990 Smith
precedent could have implica-
tions for future cases, such as ones
where wedding vendors cite their
religious convictions as a reason
to decline services to LGBTQ peo-
ple, said Michael Moreland, a law
professor at Villanova University.
“It could breathe new life into
free exercise claims,” Moreland
said.
religion
In June, Justice Neil M. Gor-
such and Chief Justice John G.
Roberts Jr. joined the court’s liber-
als in a 6-to-3 ruling that gay and
transgender workers were cov-
ered under a federal law prohibit-
ing sex discrimination in the
workplace. One of the plaintiffs in
the case was Aimee Stephens, a
transgender woman who worked
for years at a Michigan funeral
home before being fired after in-
forming the owners and col-
leagues of her gender transition.
In the court’s opinion in the
case, Bostock v. Clayton County,
Gorsuch said the decision was
narrow — “we do not purport to
address bathrooms, locker rooms,
or anything else of the kind” — and
that there might be constitutional
protections or other federal laws
shielding religious employers.
“How these doctrines protecting
religious liberty interact with Title
VII are questions for future cases
too,” he wrote, referring to the
federal law that prohibits sex dis-
crimination.
Gorsuch’s targeted approach,
however, has not stopped lower
courts from relying on the ruling
to transform the nation’s legal
landscape on issues beyond the
workplace, including cases per-
taining to bathrooms for trans-
gender students and health-care
protections for transgender pa-
tients. These issues are likely to
come before the Supreme Court
again, and a 6-to-3 conservative
majority could help dilute the im-
pact of the Bostock ruling, some
LGBTQ advocates say.
“The court left a loophole big
enough to destroy equality,” said
Kristen Browde, co-chair of the
National Trans Bar Association.
How the court interprets religious
exemptions “is going to be critical
to whether the victory in Aimee
Stephens’s case is truly complete,”
Browde said.
Kim Colby of the Christian Le-
gal Society said that the Bostock
decision set off alarm bells among
religious conservatives, but it also
created room for opportunity.
“The case recognized that reli-
gious freedom could be an issue
SAMUEL CORUM/GETTY IMAGES
going forward, but it left open
what would happen,” Colby said.
“With a 5-4 court, no one takes
anyone for granted. A 6-3 would
make people feel more comfort-
able.”
Many religious conservatives
have been disappointed by deci-
sions from Roberts, she said, such
as how he sided with liberal jus-
tices on whether churches were
unfairly treated in Nevada be-
cause of coronavirus restrictions.
Colby said religious conservatives
will be watching whether trans-
gender bathroom access becomes
more widespread and whether re-
ligious institutions will be pres-
sured to comply.
“Whatever happens with Jus-
tice Ginsburg’s seat does not mean
one side is going to win or one side
is going to lose automatically,” she
said.
Sharon McGowan, legal direc-
tor of the LGBTQ civil rights or-
ganization Lambda Legal, said the
group was particularly concerned
about one of Trump’s top picks to
replace Ginsburg, Amy Coney Bar-
rett. When Barrett was nominated
for the Seventh Circuit Court of
Appeals in 2017, Lambda Legal
wrote a letter opposing her nomi-
nation, citing her decision to de-
liver a lecture paid for by the con-
servative Christian organization
Alliance Defending Freedom as
well as a letter she signed publicly
supporting “marriage and family
founded on the indissoluble com-
mitment of a man and a woman.”
While the landmark 2015 Su-
preme Court case Obergefell v.
Hodges established a constitu-
tional right to same-sex marriage,
Lambda Legal continues to liti-
gate cases involving the rights of
gay couples, including the citizen-
ship rights of children born
abroad to same-sex U.S. citizen
couples and the right to survivor’s
benefits for surviving same-sex
partners who were barred from
marrying as a result of state mar-
riage bans.
In his Obergefell opinion, Rob-
erts said the decision created “se-
rious questions about religious
liberty,” and courts are still ruling
on cases on what to do when LG-
BTQ rights bump up against reli-
gious protections.
In 2017, Gorsuch joined Justices
Clarence Thomas and Samuel A.
Alito Jr. in dissenting a ruling that
states may not treat married
same-sex couples differently from
others in issuing birth certificates.
“Marriage equality, while it
should be a settled issue, is still
very much something we are
fighting to secure,” McGowan
said.
But Paul Smith, the George-
town professor, is less worried
that a conservative replacement
for Ginsburg could help erode the
impact of the Obergefell case, not
only because of the hundreds of
thousands of Americans that have
already married same-sex part-
ners but also because of the way
Gorsuch and Roberts ruled in the
Bostock case.
University of Virginia law pro-
fessor Douglas Laycock, who is an
expert on religious liberty, agreed
that constitutional protection for
same-sex marriage is seen as a
done deal.
“Gay rights might be surpris-
ingly safe, except for those who
view every religious exemption as
a defeat for the LGBT community,”
Laycock said. The Supreme Court
“may not expand constitutional
protection for gay rights any fur-
ther, but there is not much left to
strike down.”
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A father’s labor of love inspires a neighborhood’s new sense of community

SCHOOL FROM B1
The shed — which Ixel calls
her “Rainbow Elementary
School” — was the result of
months of labor by her father
(helped by Ixel and her mother),
who built the 8-by-12-foot struc-
ture from scratch. And John
McIntire paid almost nothing: In
a collaborative process that the
McIntires and their neighbors
said provided a lifesaving dose of
community and cheer, the entire
neighborhood came together to
crowdsource the supplies he
needed, whether spare wood, old
paint or greenhouse-style win-
dows cast aside during a neigh-
bor’s renovation.
“You know when the Amish
community gets together to
build a barn? How they all show
up and help and are supportive?”
said Susan Thompson-Gaines,
54, who lives close by the McIn-
tires. “It was pretty much like
that.”
Ivanna Hardman, 38, who
lives a half-mile’s walk from the
Rainbow Elementary School,
said helping build the McIntires’
schoolhouse — she contributed
wood for Ixel’s desk — changed
how she sees her neighborhood.
“Before, we were just here, and
we didn’t know anyone,” Hard-
man said. “But through building
this school, we started interact-
ing with each other and bond-
ing.”
Recently, Hardman said, some
neighbors got together to bring
food to a pregnant woman. Right
after that, another group of resi-
dents donated toys to a family
whose son had broken his leg.
“It’s become this community
now,” she said, “and that’s our
community school.”
McIntire said people used to
stroll by their home and pause to
wonder at a food truck, “Mac’s
Donuts,” which the couple shut
down last spring due to the
pandemic (although they have
recently revived it). Now, McIn-
tire said, the main attraction is
the schoolhouse.
with the rest of her class, identifi-
able only as small rectangles on a
video call, to recite the Pledge of
Allegiance. Her mom, whose
turn it was to observe online
school (McIntire and Blandon
trade shifts), rose, too.
“One-nation-indivisible-with-
liberty-and-justice-for-all,” Ixel
mumbled in a rush, then sat back
down to continue sketching a
butterfly as her teacher ex-
plained that the class would
learn how to use three new iPad
apps that day.
Seconds too late, McIntire
walked over from the house and
poked his head inside to offer his
daughter a small American flag,
attached to a wooden stick with
turquoise tape.
“Gosh, we don’t have any heat
in here, do we,” McIntire said,
shrugging his shoulders as he
ducked back into the chilly Sep-
tember air. “Gotta figure that
out. That’s next month.”
Even if it is a little cold,
Rainbow Elementary feels like
real school, Ixel said later. It
helps that the family keeps a
large trampoline adjacent to the
PHOTOS BY BILL O'LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST shed. During breaks, Ixel heads
Ixel Blandon McIntire, 8, plays during a break from class in her schoolhouse, built with donations straight outside to exercise away
from neighbors. The building gives Ixel, who has a learning disability, a place to focus on lessons. her excess energy, just like she
used to do on the playground at
Passersby spot the rainbow recess.
roof and stop to ask questions: Watching her bounce, McIn-
What is that? You actually built it tire said he never expected this
yourself ? Some, McIntire said, level of success when he first
walk away with their own plans posted in a neighborhood “Buy
to construct a schoolhouse. He Nothing” Facebook group over
and his wife, Ixi Barrios Blandon, the summer.
have made new friends this way. “Looking for scrap wood,” he
“Originally the only point of wrote in July. “The goal is [to]
this was Ixel’s learning,” Blandon build a shed to use as a school-
said. “And then it became fun.” house this year.”
Inside, Ixel does not notice any McIntire knew he would not
of it. be able to buy a shed — online
From the moment she sets research revealed that would
foot in the Rainbow Elementary cost at least $2,500. It had hurt to
School, the 8-year-old is zeroed lose the food truck income, and
in on school. Blandon insisted Blandon’s work as a project man-
that the inside of the building ager for a translation company
be painted pure white — and had slowed because of the pan-
that the only windows sit six demic. McIntire had kept his job
feet up — to prevent distrac- working with the Peace Corps,
tions. John McIntire and his wife, Ixi Barrios Blandon, in their backyard but the family could not afford to
On Tuesday morning, Ixel rose with customized cups a neighbor gave the family. spend several thousand building
a schoolhouse.
Then the offers began flooding
in: Someone had cinder blocks.
Someone else had an extra door.
Still another person was looking
to get rid of their spare buckets
of black paint.
Late in the summer, Thomp-
son-Gaines dropped by the
McIntires’ house with a surprise:
four cups, decorated with a spe-
cial, customized “Rainbow El-
ementary School” slogan. Two of
them read “STAFF,” for McIntire
and Blandon.
Two of them read “STUDENT”
— for Ixel.
McIntire finished building the
schoolhouse just before class be-
gan on Sept. 8.
By then, dozens of neighbors
were tracking every update the
family shared in the Facebook
group. McIntire’s last post, re-
vealing the finished building,
drew hundreds of likes and com-
ments.
“It’s so beautiful,” one person
wrote.
“I’m so glad you posted a
picture,” wrote another. “I was
wondering how it was going to
turn out.”
When the news gets too de-
pressing, Blandon said, she and
her husband return to these
comments, scrolling slowly. It
makes them feel better, she said.
McIntire said the “Buy Nothing”
Facebook group is the only rea-
son he is still on the social media
site.
And he has a favorite com-
ment: “One lady posted some-
thing like, ‘If I get a husband I
hope he’s just like you,’ ” McIntire
said, glancing at his wife. “I’m
pretty handy, huh?”
Blandon rolled her eyes and
turned away, but she was smil-
ing. She looked at her daughter,
still flying through the air on the
trampoline.
“Two more minutes of bounc-
ing, then back to school,” she
said.
“Okay!” Ixel called back. And
she smiled.
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L O C AL D IG ES T CAPITAL WEATHER GANG
MARYLAND
D.C. area’s main weather radar goes down and awaits repair
Bowie State to look into BY M ATTHEW C APPUCCI
campus police incident
The National Weather Service’s
The president of Bowie State main radar for the Washington
University says it will look into an and Baltimore region, housed in
incident in which a campus police Sterling near Dulles International
officer apparently pulled a Airport, was knocked out of serv-
student down a set of stairs. ice on Sunday morning. It now
The Capital Gazette reported appears that a potentially signifi-
Thursday that a video on Twitter cant mechanical issue could be to
shows a campus police officer blame, and it’s unclear how long
walking while holding a man’s the radar could be inoperable.
arm. A woman is seen following That radar, a WSR-88D model,
and yelling that the man is is the most powerful one tasked
cooperating and that there is no with scanning the skies in North-
need to grab his arm. The officer ern Virginia, Central Maryland,
grabs the collar of the woman’s the Eastern Panhandle of West
sweater and pulls her down the Virginia and the District. It’s part
rest of the stairs. of a network of 159 such Doppler
University President Aminta radars maintained by the Weath-
Breaux said Wednesday that the er Service nationwide. Each radar
officer has been put on emits high-frequency pulses of
administrative leave. energy, a portion of which bounce
— Associated Press off precipitation targets and offer
valuable information from inside
a storm.
Failing to heed virus While the radar is down, fore-
order brings jail time casters will rely on airport radars
and Weather Service radars at
A Charles County man was adjacent offices in State College,
sentenced to a year in jail Friday Pa.; Pittsburgh; Mount Holly, N.J.;
for violating a state coronavirus Wakefield, Va.; Dover, Del.;
emergency order, the county Blacksburg, Va.; and Charleston,
prosecutor’s office said. W. Va.
Shawn Marshall Myers, 42, was This network of radars can
arrested March 27 after refusing stitch together a reasonable rep-
to disband a gathering of about 50 resentation of storm surveys.
people around a bonfire at his The region has some of the best
Hughesville home, according to radar coverage in the country
the county sheriff’s office. Gov. thanks to four smaller, less-pow-
Larry Hogan (R) had issued an
order prohibiting large
gatherings.
After a bench trial in district VIRGINIA
court, Myers on Friday was
convicted of failing to comply
with Hogan’s emergency order,
the Charles County state’s
Man gets nearly 6 years Duplicate ballots go to 1,400 people;
attorney, Tony Covington, said in
a statement. Online court records
indicate Myers filed notice of
for stealing $7.9 million double votes not a risk, o∞cials say
appeal to circuit court.
— Martin Weil BY T OM J ACKMAN
A Loudoun County man who
Fears rise over lack of admitted stealing nearly $8 mil-
testing for inspectors lion in lawsuit settlements from
victims of medical malpractice
State health surveyors who has been sentenced to nearly six
have been visiting Maryland’s years in prison and ordered to
nursing homes during the pay more than $9 million in
coronavirus pandemic are not restitution.
required to be tested for the virus, Joseph E. Gargan, 60, of
which has concerned some in that Round Hill, Va., who was sen-
industry, the Baltimore Sun tenced Wednesday in federal
reported Friday. court in Alexandria, was the
“We have long advocated for chief executive of the Pension
the state to require the testing of Co., an Arlington-based firm
health care inspectors, the same hired by the federal government
way they require testing of those to handle financial settlements
who provide the health care,” said in civil lawsuits, often by buying
Joseph DeMattos Jr., president of annuities for the plaintiffs. In
the Health Facilities Association multiple cases from 2015 to
of Maryland, which represents 2019, Gargan embezzled
some of the centers. $7.9 million, according to court
“They are going to multiple records, from funds intended to
centers,” he said, while “we are compensate 13 people, includ-
telling operators to discourage ing seven children. In one case,
employees from working at more Gargan admitted taking $4 mil-
than one center.” lion intended for an annuity to
The surveyors work with be bought for a child, court
nursing homes and other senior records state.
living facilities to ensure The government said that Gar-
adherence to federal guidelines gan used the money to finance a
for residents’ safety. “lavish lifestyle,” but Gargan said
Charles Gischlar, a state health he lived in a small rented house
department spokesman, and used the money to cover
confirmed that the state does not other business expenses.
test the surveyors but said they Once the embezzlement was
“are screened upon entry to the discovered, the government was
office” and comply with facilities’ obligated to purchase the annui-
screening requirements when on ties itself, which it said cost
site for surveys. $9.1 million. The intended indi-
— Associated Press vidual recipients were not
L O TTE RI ES
MARYLAND
Results from Sept. 25
DISTRICT
Day/DC-3: 1-1-3
Relatives of people harmed by police call for change, not study
DC-4: 7-0-4-0
DC-5: 7-3-5-9-1 BY R ACHEL C HASON
Night/DC-3 (Thu.): 3-9-6
DC-3 (Fri.): 8-3-1 Relatives of people shot or in-
DC-4 (Thu.): 0-5-0-7 jured by police in Prince George’s
DC-4 (Fri.): 1-0-1-9 County gathered Friday to ask
DC-5 (Thu.): 7-2-7-2-7 that officials stop forming work
DC-5 (Fri.): 2-8-8-5-0 groups and instead take immedi-
ate action to reform law enforce-
MARYLAND ment practices.
Day/Pick 3: 4-3-8 “How many years do you hear
Pick 4: 3-0-8-4 people saying the same thing?”
Night/Pick 3 (Thu.): 1-0-2 said Tracy Shand, the sister of
Pick 3 (Fri.): 8-9-6 Leonard Shand, who was shot by
Pick 4 (Thu.): 1-0-5-8 police from multiple agencies last
Pick 4 (Fri.): 1-3-6-3 year in Hyattsville. “Change needs
Multi-Match (Thu.): 1-3-13-17-34-36 to come to P.G. County.”
Match 5 (Thu.): 2-3-4-15-19 *21 This summer, amid the nation-
Match 5 (Fri.): 9-19-23-35-38 *18 al outcry over police misconduct
5 Card Cash: 9S-8H-3C-7C-AH that followed the death of George
Floyd in police custody, Prince
VIRGINIA George’s County Executive Angela
Day/Pick-3: 0-9-9 D. Alsobrooks (D) formed a police
Pick-4: 9-5-9-0 reform work group. Its tasks in-
Cash-5 (Fri.): 6-7-17-23-32 clude examining hiring, training
Night/Pick-3 (Thu.): 2-9-6 and use-of-force practices in the
Pick-3 (Fri.): 0-2-8 department, which is the subject
Pick-4 (Thu.): 6-6-9-3 of a lawsuit in which police offi-
Pick-4 (Fri.): 7-5-8-2 cers of color have alleged discrim-
Cash-5 (Thu.): 6-21-26-29-30 ination.
Cash-5 (Fri.): 17-21-22-24-28 The department also came un-
der scrutiny earlier this year when
MULTI-STATE GAMES then-Officer Michael A. Owen Jr.
Mega Millions: 20-36-37-48-67 **16 fatally shot a handcuffed man in
Megaplier: 2x the front seat of his police cruiser.
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*Bonus Ball **Mega Ball flagged by the department’s early
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For late drawings and other results, check fatally shot William Green, but his
washingtonpost.com/local/lottery supervisors were not quickly noti-
While the National Weather Service radar in Sterling is down,
forecasters will rely on airport radars and those at adjacent offices.
erful “terminal” radars at the
three major airports — Dulles,
Reagan National and Baltimore-
Washington International Mar-
shall — as well as Andrews Air
Force Base. Those radars are use-
ful for aircraft in detecting chang-
ing winds during takeoff and
landing.
Until the broken radar is fixed,
only the airport terminal radars
will be available for radar cover-
age below 8,000 feet. The nearest
Weather Service radar, situated in
Dover, nearly 90 miles east of
harmed, Gargan’s lawyers said.
Gargan said in a letter to U.S.
District Judge Rossie D. Alston
that an employee of his company
initially failed to buy an annuity
at the proper time, causing it to
cost more, and that Gargan then
used funds from other settle-
ments to cover the losses. Gar-
gan said that his ownership of
other companies such as In-
stantLabs, which is providing
millions of coronavirus tests,
and CourtroomConnect, which
enables remote legal proceed-
ings, and the Pension Co. will
enable him to pay the $9.1 mil-
lion restitution.
Gargan is a member of the
Kennedy family. His grandmoth-
er was the sister of Rose Ken-
nedy, his father was a cousin and
close friend of Edward Kennedy
and Robert Kennedy, and Gargan
is a nephew of Ethel Kennedy
and cousin of Edward Kennedy
Jr., who both wrote letters of
support to Alston. Settlement
lawyer Kenneth Feinberg also
wrote a letter to Alston saying
Gargan had helped him in nu-
merous class settlements, includ-
ing the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks and meeting with fami-
lies of the recent Boeing 737 Max
crashes.
Alston sentenced Gargan to 70
months in prison, the low end of
the federal sentencing guide-
lines, and allowed him to surren-
der in January.
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Tracy Shand, right, the sister of
Leonard Shand, who was
fatally shot last year, speaks
Friday with other families.
fied.
Tracy Shand, whose brother
died a year ago Saturday, said her
grief is still raw. She decided to
speak Friday in front of the county
executive’s building in Largo and
testified earlier in the week in
Annapolis, where the state legis-
lature is considering a broad array
of changes, including repealing
the law enforcement officer’s bill
of rights. That provision grants
workplace protections to police,
including in conduct inquiries.
Josette Blocker, the aunt of De-
monte Ward-Blake, who was par-
EZ M2
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STERLING
D.C., can collect some data above
that level, as can surrounding
radars at somewhat higher alti-
tudes.
Aside from a few showers on
Friday, significant weather re-
quiring serious radar monitoring
was not expected through the
weekend. But next week’s weath-
er pattern could see more turbu-
lent storm systems, which could
make the absence of the Sterling
radar more consequential.
Meteorologists at the Weather
Service in Sterling don’t know
VIRGINIA
BY A NTONIO O LIVO
At least 1,400 Virginia voters
have received duplicate absentee
ballots in recent weeks because
of clerical errors, but election
officials said Friday only one
ballot per voter would be count-
ed.
Officials in Fairfax County, the
state’s largest jurisdiction, said a
printing problem with absentee-
ballot address labels led election
workers to inadvertently mail
out extra ballots to as many as
1,000 county voters.
A similar problem with print-
ing labels occurred with a small-
er number of voters in Henrico
County and the city of Richmond,
officials there said.
The Fairfax and Henrico offi-
cials blamed the errors on the
record demand for absentee bal-
lots and early voting in an elec-
tion year when concerns about
the coronavirus have people wor-
ried about going to crowded
polling stations to vote in person.
A Richmond official did not
immediately return a call for
comment Friday.
“We’ve just never seen this
volume before,” said Mark Coak-
ley, the general registrar in Hen-
rico County.
Coakley said the problem in
his county stemmed from a bad
county printer that was low on
toner. His office has stopped
using that machine and is now
using a more reliable copy ma-
alyzed after an officer pulled him
to the ground during a traffic stop
in October, said she wants to see
the law enforcement officer’s bill
of rights repealed and more trans-
parency added to Maryland’s pub-
lic information act law. That law
classifies disciplinary records as
personnel matters, prohibiting
the department from making
them public unless they are ob-
tained through discovery in a
court proceeding.
“We need to abolish the laws
that aren’t meant to protect us,”
Blocker said Friday.
She and others at the news
conference also want the release
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how long this outage will last. A
team of specially trained radar
technicians from the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-
ministration’s Radar Operations
Center in Norman, Okla., are set
to arrive by Saturday morning.
“They’re driving out here,” said
Austin Mansfield, a meteorologist
at the Weather Service in Sterling.
“They have all their materials
with them, so they can assess the
damage and make a repair.”
The team is to set inspect the
gear box inside the radome, the
large golf-ball-like bubble that
houses the rotating antenna. A
series of gears are responsible for
driving that spinning apparatus.
When they break, the delays can
increase.
“The bull gear would be worst-
case scenario,” Mansfield said.
“This repair usually takes about
10 days.”
The bull gear is about a foot
and a half to two feet wide, and
replacing it means hoisting the
radar antenna off its pedestal in-
side the dome. That’s no easy task.
Mansfield said the office’s staff
discovered an issue “when red
alerts [popped] up on screen” and
data scans stopped coming in.
Electronics technicians in Ster-
ling weren’t able to fix it, so the
folks in Oklahoma were called in.
Two years ago, the Weather
Service in Wakefield suffered a
similar failure with the bull gear.
chine that also prints docu-
ments.
In Fairfax, a county printer
misaligned the address on some
of the labels, said Gary Scott, the
general registrar.
Because the printer’s software
did not allow individual labels to
be printed, county workers had
to reproduce a new batch of 70
labels each time the error oc-
curred. In some instances, they
mistakenly reapplied the entire
batch to fresh ballots, resulting
in the duplicates, Scott said.
But election officials said safe-
guards are in place to ensure that
only one ballot is counted per
voter.
Each ballot cast by a Virginia
voter is recorded into a state
verification system, election offi-
cials said. If someone were to try
to vote more than once with the
same identity, the system would
reject the extra ballot as invalid.
The state’s Republican Party
said that the duplicate absentee
ballots illustrate the potential for
election fraud introduced by
measures signed into law by Gov.
Ralph Northam (D) earlier this
year to make mail balloting easi-
er. President Trump has made
repeated allegations, without
proof, that mail-in voting is de-
signed to help Democrats rig the
election.
“Our local election officials
were forced to deal with setting
up drop boxes for no reason
other than to facilitate ballot
of the unredacted report of an
expert witness who concluded
systems of discrimination and re-
taliation exist within Prince
George’s police department,
along with updated information
about how much the county has
spent defending itself in the law-
suit.
Alsobrooks spokeswoman
Gina Ford said in a statement that
those matters are being handled
in court.
“We are confident that the liti-
gation process will ensure fair-
ness for all parties involved,” she
said. “In addition, the County Ex-
ecutive continues to look broadly
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Getting that radar back in shape
took weeks.
“You start to get a lot of noise
with a vibration,” recalled Jeff
Orrock, the meteorologist in
charge in Wakefield. “You could
hear it. You could feel the whole
tower have a vibration within it.
We knew we had a substantial
problem.”
Diagnosing the problem and
shipping out parts were time-con-
suming, said Orrock. The team
from Norman also had to build
scaffolding inside the radar.
“They had to open up a couple
of the fiberglass panels [on the
radome] to load up the scaffold-
ing,” Orrock said. “They had a
small lift crane loading stuff, but
they knocked it out fast. They
worked long days.”
The Weather Service Radar Op-
erations Center is in the midst of
the Service Life Extension Pro-
gram, which seeks to lengthen the
lifetime of the U.S. Doppler radar
network. Each radar was original-
ly built to last 20 years; the goal of
the Service Life Extension Pro-
gram is to double that.
The Sterling radar was taken
offline for several days in July
2017 for the first in a series of
upgrades to extend its lifetime
through the 2030s.
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Jason Samenow contributed to this
report.
harvesting by Democrats; mak-
ing arrangements for prepaid
postage on all envelopes; and
setting up a process for voters to
cure errors in their absentee
ballots,” the party said in a state-
ment. “With all that additional
work, it’s no wonder mistakes
were made.”
State party chairman Rich An-
derson called on the Northam
administration to tighten its
safeguards against duplicate bal-
lots.
But Democrats said the pro-
tections against duplicate voting
are already strong.
“Virginians should be encour-
aged by this year’s record-break-
ing turnout with early in-person
voting,” Andrew Whitley, the
state Democratic Party’s execu-
tive director, said in a statement.
Although every election has
glitches, Coakley said, the in-
creased demand in absentee bal-
lots this year has made clerical
errors more likely.
While Henrico normally pro-
cesses about 17,000 ballots dur-
ing a presidential election, the
county has already mailed out
39,000 absentee ballots and has
had 8,000 voters come in for
early voting, Coakley said.
“It was my error, where I’m
trying to save on toner money
and print each label faster,” he
said of the duplicate ballots.
“We’ve just got to take our time
and do it right.”
antonio.olivo@washpost.com
at ways to improve the depart-
ment, as the Police Reform Work
Group continues its work.”
Activist Kema Hutchinson-
Harris said that in a majority-
Black county whose leaders are
mostly Black, and have discussed
in sometimes deeply personal
terms how they have been affect-
ed by police misconduct, there
should be more recognition that
action, not words, is what is need-
ed in this moment.
“You would think it would mat-
ter more to them that our sons,
our daughters, even our older
people, are dying,” she said.
rachel.chason@washpost.com
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Possible safety concern for Silver Line

SILVER LINE FROM B1 this matter.” out because it was built to the
Phase 2 of the Silver Line wrong dimensions, and a Justice
complete its investigation into extension has six stations, in- Department investigation in-
the issue. cluding one at Dulles Interna- volving a subcontractor.
“We have forwarded the letter tional Airport, and will extend However, this latest issue is
to CRC and asked them to do an Metro service into Loudoun likely to renew concerns about
investigation,” said Marcia McAl- County. MWAA’s oversight of the rail
lister, a spokeswoman for the rail The first phase of the project project — and why such a poten-
project. “We are awaiting their opened in July 2014 with four tially significant issue was not
response.” stations in Tysons and one in identified earlier. McAllister said
A CRC spokesman said the Reston. project officials don’t know why
company remains committed to Originally scheduled to open the problem wasn’t found soon-
delivering a “safe, reliable system this year, the project is more than er.
for the region’s riders,” and noted two years behind schedule, In March, a report by Metro
that both MWAA and Metro though officials think it will be Inspector General Geoffrey A.
approved the design. ready for passenger service in Cherrington said that MWAA
“We are reviewing WMATA’s 2021. Project officials said it is and the project’s contractors
letter with the engineer of record too early to know whether this have failed to thoroughly investi-
and the ATC supplier,” said Keith latest development will have an gate the core cause of problems
Couch, project director for CRC. impact on those plans. that have surfaced on the rail
“We have installed the system, This problem is separate from project, including malfunction-
and are testing the system, in the litany of other issues that ing surge arresters and safety-
accordance with the design that have plagued the project since critical portions of track that
was engineered by the engineer construction began on the sec- experienced “an abnormally
of record, Parsons Transporta- ond phase of the $5.8 billion high number of failures” and
tion Group, and reviewed and extension in 2014, including that the lack of follow-through KATHERINE FREY/THE WASHINGTON POST

approved by both MWAA and cracks in concrete structures, has allowed issues to go unre- Rail cars will go through this cleaning bay at Metro’s rail yard at Dulles International Airport when
WMATA. To date, testing has not defective rail ties, a rail-yard solved for months, even years. construction on the Silver Line extension is complete. Currently in its second phase, the project has
revealed a safety issue related to platform that had to be ripped lori.aratani@washpost.com been riddled with issues that have delayed its opening until at least 2021.

THE DISTRICT One of them, a 35-year-old The shooting brought a swarm

university instructor, said he of police vehicles into a neigh-

Slaying might be linked to pot, police chief says heard “five or six gunshots, very
rapid,” as he washed dishes and
his wife was upstairs with their
borhood unaccustomed to such
activity.
The police patrol area that
2-year-old son. includes Friendship Heights and
BY P ETER H ERMANN, said detectives “are investigating Brown’s address declined to was shot along 45th Street NW, The man said he looked out- parts of Chevy Chase and Ameri-
D AN M ORSE a potential robbery where mari- comment. next to a parked SUV, about 200 side and saw a slender man can University Park has recorded
AND C LARENCE W ILLIAMS juana was involved.” He said a A second man, whom police feet south of Western Avenue, leaning against the side of a 15 violent crimes this year, which
weapon and evidence of marijua- said had been shot in the side, which serves as the border be- maroon Cadillac Escalade includes one armed robbery.
A fatal shooting Thursday na was found at the scene. was found about two blocks tween the District and Mont- parked on 45th Street. The man The shooting Thursday was
night in the Friendship Heights Authorities said the shooting away, on Harrison Street in gomery County, Md. was stumbling and falling to the the first reported in that area this
neighborhood of Northwest occurred in the rear of the 5200 Montgomery County, Md. Police On one side of that block of ground, he said. year.
Washington is being investigated block of Western Avenue NW. said he was recovering at a 45th Street are homes. The other The resident said that he could The biggest crime problems in
as a possible robbery related to The man who died was identi- hospital. He could not be side is the back of a sprawling see small bags next to the victim. the neighborhood appear to be
marijuana, according to the Dis- fied as Tavon Brown, 20, who reached Friday. parking lot for a Lord & Taylor Jonathan Bender, the chair of thefts and burglaries, according
trict’s police chief. lived in Northwest Baltimore. He D.C. Council Member Mary M. store. The affluent residential the Advisory Neighborhood to police statistics. Ward 3 has
Authorities are searching for was found at the location of the Cheh (D-Ward 3), whose ward neighborhood surrounds a patch Commission for the area, said the fewest homicides of the Dis-
at least one gunman who fled the shooting and died at a hospital. includes Friendship Heights, of shops and restaurants next to residents had wanted to know if trict’s eight wards.
shooting, which occurred shortly Police said he was shot in the said she learned from police the a Metro stop. the shooting was related to a There have been 143 homi-
after 7:30 p.m. behind sin- right side of his back. shooting might be related to The two residents interviewed home invasion or a random cides in the District in 2020, up
gle-family houses on Western A police report says witnesses marijuana. “I find that informa- spoke on the condition of ano- street robbery. 13 percent from this time in 2019.
Avenue near 45th Street, along saw a man “firing a handgun in tion quite disturbing,” she said. nymity. The person or persons “It has frightened people,” peter.hermann@washpost.com
the border with Maryland. the direction” of Brown. A wom- Two people who live near the responsible for the shooting are Bender said. “Everybody is shak- dan.morse@washpost.com
Police Chief Peter Newsham an who answered the phone at incident said the man who died not yet in custody. ing. This is a terrible tragedy.” clarence.williams@washpost.com

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RBG fans
extol her
marriage
of equals
MARRIAGE FROM C1
who was visiting the Supreme
Court with her 8-year-old daugh-
ter, has been particularly in-
spired by how Marty appeared to
push Ruth in a healthy way. “She
was shy, and he helped her
become who she was,” Hunt says.
The Ginsburgs moved to New
York for Marty to take a job at a
law firm and later to Washington
for Ruth’s appointment as an
appellate judge. Hunt and her
husband are making similar ad-
justments during the pandemic.
This month, Hunt’s husband is
working full speed and she’s
going part-time to help their two
children with their home school-
ing; next month, they’ll switch. It
wasn’t an easy decision, Hunt
says, but it felt like the right
choice.
Just a few feet away, in front of
the dozens of cards, chalk mes-
sages and bouquets honoring the
justice, a couple is on a walk with
their dog and 7-month-old son.
Priya Madrecki, a 31-year-old
mother who’s working full time
and in graduate school part time,
is trying to juggle all of the things
Ginsburg did as a young mother:
work, education, a young family.
One of the things Madrecki finds
inspiring about Ginsburg is that,
in her private life, she embraced
“the values and goals and aspira-
tions that she had for our coun-
try.” Like the Ginsburgs, Priya
and her husband, Tom, see rais-
ing their child as a joint project
— not more her responsibility
than his. “That type of attitude
needs to be present for men and
women to succeed,” Madrecki
adds.
Ginsburg was especially at-
tuned to young love. Edith Rob-
erts, one of Ginsburg’s former
clerks who met her now-husband
while they were both working for
the justice, wrote in The Wash-
ington Post recently that Gins-
burg was “one of the purest
romantics” she’s ever known,
“deploying her eagle eye for de-
tail to spot love affairs blossom-
ing around her.”
Margo Schlanger, a professor
of law at the University of Michi-
gan, wrote in Time magazine
that she and her husband
clerked for Ginsburg at different
times but that the connection
brought them together. “She and
her husband Marty demonstrat-
ed the joys of a marriage of
professional and personal
MONICA HESSE
‘Vote. Him. Out.’: A little poetic justice is administered at the Supreme Court
HESSE FROM C1
been effective: They’re easy to
learn and easy to repeat.
Shouting them provides a sense
of togetherness, a landmark
around which Trump’s fans can
convene and reorient themselves
amid one of his nomadic
speeches.
As a matter of morals, they’ve
been — well, they’ve been awful.
The chants always imply a little
bit of lawless enforcement,
usually directed toward someone
who has less power than the
president and who is not there to
defend herself.
Omar is an American citizen;
“Send her back” implied that she
‘Our house, our rules,’ but still your life
Adapted from an
online discussion.
Dear Carolyn: I
am 36 and have
been in a
Carolyn relationship for
Hax four years with
my partner,
“Rob.” We live
together, and while marriage is
on the table, it’s not really a
priority for either of us so we
aren’t in a rush to tie the knot.
Rob’s family is evangelical
Christian. While we have very
different religious and political
beliefs, I enjoy their company,
and they’ve been very
welcoming to me.
The issue is that even though
I am pushing 40, Rob and I
aren’t allowed to share a
bedroom when we visit or
vacation with them, because we
aren’t married. To make things
worse, Rob refuses to engage
with his parents on this issue
because he claims they are “set
equals,” Schlanger wrote, and
she and her husband “count
ourselves beyond fortunate to
have had the model of the Gins-
burgs’ marriage as we created
our own.”
Ginsburg was the first Su-
preme Court justice to officiate a
same-sex couple’s marriage and
was part of the court’s 2015
ruling to legalize same-sex mar-
riage nationwide. She’s per-
formed the nuptials of many
other couples, including a pro-
fessional opera singer, Alan
Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell,
and even a family friend this
month.
On Ruth and Marty’s wed-
ding day, Marty’s mother took
Ruth aside to give her a small
gift (wax ear plugs) and some
marriage advice: “In every good
marriage, it pays sometimes to
be a little deaf.” Ginsburg has
passed this wisdom on to celeb-
rity couples such as Jennifer
Lopez and Alex Rodriguez, and
others have kept it in mind as
well.
“I really feel like it’s been the
cornerstone of our marriage,”
says Aimee Christian, a 47-year-
old mother of two in New York,
who doles that advice out to her
friends, too. First off, Christian
says, it helps her to “be a little
wasn’t, and also that Trump’s
opinion of someone is what
should determine their right to
citizenship. “Lock her up,”
migrating as it did from woman
to woman, became a signal that
this wasn’t about criminal
proceedings; this was about the
notion that nasty women who
challenged the president should
be treated as criminals.
“Fill the seat” seems tame, but
it’s a jeer. It implores the
president to flout a rule invented
by Republicans in 2016, rushing
a new Supreme Court justice
into Ginsburg’s chair before the
funereal bunting had even been
removed from it. It’s naked self-
interest: On Wednesday, Trump
in their ways” and it would be
pointless to ask.
I’m sort of sympathetic to this
issue when we stay with them —
their house, their rules — but the
big annual family vacation
involves the entire family
staying in the same house on a
beach together, and we are
asked to stay in separate rooms.
I feel like since we’re
contributing to the cost of the
house and we are almost 40, we
should be allowed to stay in the
same room!
I’m at the point where I am
refusing to attend the vacation if
Rob continues to refuse to talk
to his parents about this. Can I
also mention again, we already
live together! I’d love a third-
party opinion on this.
— Pushing 40
Pushing 40: Seems to me you’ve
got it figured out: You have
encountered something so
ridiculous to you that you can’t
countenance investing another
EZ RE
told reporters that he wanted to
appoint a justice before the
election in case the court needed
to settle an election-related
dispute.
But first, a little performance
of normalcy, in the form of
Trump’s Supreme Court visit.
The president and the first
lady flanked Ginsburg’s flag-
draped coffin. It was scheduled,
the next day, to be moved to the
Capitol Rotunda, making
Ginsburg the first woman to
officially lie in state. Unlike most
of his public appearances, the
president did not have a lectern
or a microphone. He was not
surrounded by MAGA hats or
campaign signs. Because of the
day or dollar to be part of it.
Okay then! That is a response
that makes complete sense and
has a lot of integrity to it.
It will also, as these things
generally do, present Rob — a
being with his own values and
integrity to manage — with a
choice, which, if he chooses in
your favor, will present his
parents — beings with their own
values and integrity to manage
— with a choice. All right and
proper.
As long as your eyes are open
to your refusal as the first in a
line of dominoes, then, refuse —
kindly and in peace.
Reader suggestions:
l Instead of paying into a
large group house, why don’t
you and Rob rent a condo
nearby? You can join the rest of
the family for meals and
activities, and retreat to your
own space afterward.
l My wife and I went through
that for a long time because we
waited 10 years to get married.
mask, he was not even able to
repel the boos with a scowl.
The only resemblance that
Thursday afternoon’s
appearance had to a typical
public appearance was the
chanting. And this time, it was
directed at him.
Vote Him Out, the audience
yelled, while the masked
president could do nothing but
stand by the casket of a woman
the audience loved infinitely
more than him. Vote Him Out,
they called, while the president’s
hands hung by his sides.
One could revel in the cheap-
but-satisfying poetic justice of
the scene. A man who craves
power put in a position of
Fortunately, we were in a good
position to get our own place
when the big family vacation
came around. That way, we
could set our own rules and still
enjoy the family; quite honestly,
it also cut down some of the
never-ending chaos that is my
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PHOTOS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES/ASSOCIATED PRESS
ABOVE: Ruth Bader
Ginsburg and her
husband, Marty
Ginsburg, enjoy an
evening out. LEFT:
The couple at Fort
Sill, Okla., when
Marty was serving
in the Army.
impotence; a man who thrives
on mocking others, humiliated.
But something else was
happening on the Supreme
Court steps.
The yelling crowd outwardly
appeared to be indecorous and
vulgar, failing to properly respect
the solemn circumstances. But
what they were yelling was not
vulgar at all — certainly not to
the woman whose spirit they had
come to honor.
This was not rudeness
disguised as patriotism, as is
often the case in the president’s
preferred chants. This was
patriotism disguised as
rudeness, a vigorous call for
actual law and order. The
family. It turned out to also be a
place for the young adults to
gather and be young adults. We
were open about why as well. To
this day, I still kind of pride
myself on the fact that we stood
on our own, and I think my dad
respected me for it.
. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 , 2020
deaf ” because her husband is a
musician and “makes tons of
noise.”
But the phrase also reminds
her to pay less attention to her
husband’s initial reply to her
suggesting tasks he might not
want to do (such as grocery
shopping, cleaning, assembling
Ikea furniture) and wait until he
comes around to yes. “Because
we live together with our kids,
we’re the first person to bounce
an idea off each other,” Christian
says. “I’ve learned to tune out the
first response.”
If that first reaction isn’t what
Christian was looking for, rather
than become angry or frustrated,
she’ll wait. “Either it will go away
completely or he’ll come back
and go: ‘You’re right.’ ” Christian
adds that her husband is a little
deaf with her as well, forgiving
things she says. They’re both
supersensitive people who can
react strongly at times. “I don’t
necessarily think a person’s first
reaction is their real reaction,”
she says.
Christian also sees this mar-
riage advice as empowering
words for her daughters, who are
ages 9 and 10. “If they’re discour-
aged by the first thing they hear,”
she says, “they won’t get very far.”
lisa.bonos@washpost.com
audience was not crying for
someone to “lock him up.” They
weren’t suggesting he should be
thrown out of his own country;
they weren’t clamoring for him
to be removed from office by
force.
They were loudly advocating a
democratic solution. They were
using the three-word chant to
invoke a peaceful transition of
power, the foundation on which
the Constitution and the country
are built.
Vote. Him. Out.
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O F NO T E
Obituaries of residents from the
District, Maryland and Northern
Virginia.
George Long,
airline employee
George Long, 77, an American
Airlines operations specialist
who worked at what is now Ron-
ald Reagan Washington National
Airport for nearly 40 years until
his retirement in the early 2000s,
died June 21 at a hospital in
Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The cause
was cancer, said a sister, Colleen
Devereux.
Mr. Long spent most of his
career monitoring the arrival,
parking, refueling, loading and
departure of flights. He was born
in St. John, in New Brunswick,
Canada, and grew up on Long
Island and in Bethesda, Md. He
later lived in Darnestown, Md.,
and Frederick, Md., before mov-
ing to Ballston Spa, N.Y., about
four years ago.
Eleanor Rose Hedden,
gardener
Eleanor Rose Hedden, 89, a
gardener who had received a life-
time achievement award of the
Georgetown Garden Club and
served as a flower arrangement
judge of the Garden Club of Amer-
ica, died June 27 at a memory-care
center in Rockville, Md. The cause
was sepsis, said a son, John Hed-
den.
Mrs. Hedden was born Eleanor
Rose Field in Asheville, N.C., and
lived in Washington from 1954
until 2018, when she moved to
Rockville. She was vice president
of community affairs at the Junior
League of Washington and a
board member of the former Cor-
coran Gallery of Art.
Josephine Ingerski,
church member
Josephine Ingerski, 98, a first
lieutenant in the Women’s Army
Corps during World War II and a
member of St. Anthony of Padua
Catholic Church in Falls Church,
Va., died June 20 at a hospital in
Manassas, Va. The cause was sep-
sis, said a daughter, Jan Jones.
Mrs. Ingerski was born Jose-
phine Harris in Minneapolis. Af-
ter her service in the WAC, she
accompanied her husband on his
military assignments before set-
tling in Falls Church in the late
1950s. She moved to Manassas in
2018.
Karen Strimple,
nursery school director
Karen Strimple, 79, the direc-
tor of St. Columba’s Nursery
School in Washington for 28 years
until her retirement in 2006, died
June 28 at her home in Blue Ridge
Summit, Pa. The cause was colon
cancer, said her son, Greg Strim-
ple.
Mrs. Strimple was born Karen
Osgood in Toledo. She moved to
Washington in the 1960s and be-
gan her career at the nursery
school at St. Columba’s Episcopal
Church as a music teacher in 1970.
She was a former senior warden
at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in
Washington and a former mem-
ber of the board of directors of the
National Association of Episcopal
Schools. A former resident of
Chevy Chase, Md., she had lived in
Pennsylvania for the past 14 years.
Johnetta Mars-Gibson,
dental hygienist
Johnetta Mars-Gibson, 52, a
dental hygienist who for about
the past 20 years worked for Dr.
Timothy Dunn’s family and cos-
metic dentistry practice in
Bethesda, Md., died June 27 at a
hospital in Rockville, Md. The
cause was cancer, said her aunt,
Verlyn Chesson Porte.
Mrs. Mars-Gibson was born
Johnetta Mars in Monrovia, Li-
beria. She came to Washington in
the early 1990s and settled in
Montgomery Village, Md., about
10 years ago. She was a member of
the Episcopal Church of the As-
cension in Gaithersburg, Md.,
and helped start a Boy Scout
troop at the Faith Arts Academy
school in Silver Spring, Md.
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DEATH NOTICE
ALTMAN
STEPHEN BARRETT ALTMAN
Stephen Barrett Altman of
Potomac, MD passed away on
Wednesday, September 23,
2020. Beloved husband of
Maxine Gevinson Altman;
devoted father of Cindy
(Steve), Lori, and Michael
(April); devoted brother of Betsy Altman
Goldstein; cherished grandfather of Alyssa,
Jordan, Colby, Jamie, Alex, Cory, Devon,
Haley, and Nicole. Steve loved his summers
at the Jersey Shore, Sunday football, his
dog, Marlee, and most importantly, his
family. May his memory forever be a bless-
ing.
Graveside Service will be held on Sunday,
September 27, 2020 at 10 a.m. at King David
Memorial Gardens in Falls Church, VA. Fam-
ily will be observing Shiva on Sunday, Sep-
tember 27, 2020 at the Altman Home. In
lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may
be made to the American Heart Association
or the charity of your choice. Services
entrusted to Sagel Bloomfield Danzansky
Goldberg Funeral Care.
www.sagelbloomfield.com
ELLSWORTH
JOAN QUIGLEY ELLSWORTH
6/3/1930 ~ 9/22/2020
Of Washington, DC and Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Predeceased by husband, Pere W. Ellsworth.
Services will be in Florida. Contact Baldwin
Brothers Funeral Home, Port Orange, FL for
arrangements, 366-333-9017.
FAY
WILLIAM E. FAY, III
William E. Fay, III, of Water Mill, New
York; died at home on September 23,
2020, surrounded by his family after a
courageous battle with cancer. He was
born in Washington, D.C. on November
8, 1932, the oldest of six siblings. He
graduated from Gonzaga High School,
Georgetown University, and Fordham Uni-
versity School of Law. After being honor-
ably discharged from the Army in 1955
where he earned a medal for service in
education, he pursued a career in law
in both Washington D.C. and New York
City as a litigation specialist and appellate
counsel. He achieved the esteemed
honor as an Attorney and Counsellor of
the U.S. Supreme Court. He is survived
by a large and loving family, his beloved
wife Anne (Daly) Fay; his nine children,
Edmund M. Fay, Christine Fay Amorosi
(Edmund), Regina Fay Gannon (Francis),
Andrew Sayers-Fay (Kim), Neil W. Fay,
Terese Fay Tinghino (Frank), Marie Fay
von Seyfried (Julian), Celeste Fay Manice
(Peter), and Nicole Fay Stoller (Brandon);
as well as 19 grandchildren and four
surviving sisters. A devout Roman Catholic
and spiritual man that put Faith into
action, he was known for his quiet grace,
humility, and dignity and is an inspiration
to all who knew him. A Catholic Mass will
be held Saturday at Our Lady of Poland,
in Southampton, NY. Private family Mass.
In lieu of flowers, we would kindly ask
for your support of L'Arche foundation
for people with intellectual disabilities.
www.larcheusa.org
HOUSE
MILTON A. HOUSE "Tony" (Age 64)
Of Winchester, VA died peacefully Tuesday,
September 22, 2020 in his home after a long
illness. Tony became disabled at the young
age of 51, and was cared for first by his
beloved Mother, Joanne, and then lovingly
for ten years by his Brother-In-Law Roberto,
Sister Holly, and their children. Tony was
born January 28, 1956 in Memphis, TN,
the son of the late Milton John and Evelyn
Joanne (Bradow) House. He graduated from
Bartlett High School in TN, in 1974, and then
went to Northwest Mississippi Jr College on
a baseball scholarship. Tony was athletic
and had a passion for golf and baseball.
He played American Legion baseball for
several years, and later became a golf pro.
He was an avid fan of the University of
Memphis football and basketball teams.
After college, Tony worked in Memphis
in various sales positions, but moved to
Fairfax, Virginia to be near family in 1985.
He worked for Bank of America in the
corporate sales department until his illness
in 2007. In addition to sports, Tony loved
cars, motorcycles, and airplanes. He loved
to fly and was very proud of his pilot’s
license. Tony, the oldest of seven children,
and the only boy, is survived by his six
sisters: Sharon D. Dye (Mike) of Edmond,
OK, Linda J. King (Gerald) of Huntsville, AL,
Cathy J. House of Germantown, MD, Alisa
K. Gonzalez (Hugo) of Memphis, TN, Mary
A. House (Salcor) of Winchester, VA, and
Holly E. Rosas (Roberto), of Winchester,
VA. Tony is also survived by 12 nieces
and nephews, a grandnephew and three
grandnieces, an uncle, several aunts, and
many cousins. Tony’s loss is a great one for
his sisters. We already miss him telling us
to quiet down so he can think (and hear
the TV). Because of COVID, the family will
have a memorial service at a later date.
The family would be honored if you would
remember Tony by donating to either of
his favorite charities: St. Jude Children’s
Hospital in Memphis, TN: www.stjude.org,
or the ASPCA: www.aspca.org.
Online condolences may be left at
www.jonesfuneralhomes.com
BOND
WILLIAM McCAMBRIDGE BOND (Age 97)
Of Silver Spring, MD, passed away of natural
causes at Medstar Montgomery Hospital on
September 24, 2020.
William M. “Bill” Bond was born January 30,
1923 in Washington DC, the youngest son
of Lewis Franklin and Helen McCambridge
Bond. He grew up on Military Road in
Northwest Washington, attending nearby
schools and graduating from Woodrow Wil-
son High School in 1941. With war clouds
on the horizon, Bill left home in the fall of
1941 to attend Duke University in Durham,
NC.
Bill joined the ROTC upon arrival at Duke, and
after the attack on Pearl Harbor was called
to active duty in the United States Navy. He
was commissioned a Lieutenant and served
throughout the war aboard the destroyer
escort USS Solar, which hunted German U-
Boats along the Atlantic coast and supported
US forces in their invasion of North Africa.
Upon his discharge from the service, Bill
returned to Durham, graduating from Duke
in 1947 with a degree in business. After
completing the CPA exam he joined his older
brother Frank, Jr. at their father’s Washington
accounting firm, Lewis F. Bond & Sons, which
would later become Bond Beebe.
On April 27, 1957, Bill married Cynthia James
Dewitt, the oldest daughter of James and
Hazel DeWitt of Canton, Ohio. The two soon
DEATH NOTICE
JULIA
CLAUDEEN GABRIEL JULIA (Age 79)
Claudeen Gabriel Julia departed this life on
Monday, September 21, 2020 peacefully in her
sleep, surrounded by her loved ones.
She leaved to cherish many fond memories:
her husband of 47 years, Albert Julia, brother
Kenneth (Kenny) Lopes (Guadalupe), sister
Carol Paris, daughter Luayne M. Ray Johnson
(Monrieka). Grand children Jasmine Sam, Bran-
di Sam, Bernard Sam, Kiante Bush, Jaelin
Johnson, Najee Ray, and great-grandson Antho-
ny Simar.
Services Tuesday, September 29, 10 a.m.; Vis-
itation; 11 a.m. Service at Marshall March
Funeral Home in Suitland. Services willbe live
streamed at marshallmarchfh.com. Intern-
ment Lincoln Memorial Cemetery.
www.marchfh.com
MacTIGUE
MACDARA MacTIGUE "Mac"
Died peacefully on September 23, 2020 at his
home in Silver Spring, MD. Mac is survived
by his husband Stephen (Stevie) Godbout;
three brothers and spouses, Andy (Patty), twin
Eamonn (Bernadette) and Oisin (Sarah), as well
as six nieces and nephews, Eileen, Marie,
Tarah, Aibla, Megan and Rian. He will also
be deeply missed by his dog-child Sebastian.
Friends and family are invited to an Irish
celebration of life, to be held both in Maryland
and Ireland when pandemic conditions allow. A
service with close family only will be held at St.
Patrick’s, Rockville, MD Saturday, September
26 at 12:30 p.m. We invite all to join the
live-stream via zoom. Link is available at Cole
Funeral Services. We’re pretty sure St. Peter
now knows what “FFS” stands for. Mac, love
you forever.
NORKEN
RITA H. NORKEN
On Thursday September 24,
2020, RITA H. NORKEN of Sil-
ver Spring, MD passed away.
Beloved wife of the late Myer
Norken; loving mother of
David Norken (Wendy Margo-
lis), Sharon (the late Lowell)
Fried, Harold (Reva) Norken, and Pam
(Andy) Lloyd; devoted grandmother of Joel
(Mina) Fried, Adam Fried, Daniel Norken
(Anna Semenova), Ryan Lloyd, Jennifer
Lloyd, Alex Norken, adopted grandson
Aaron Rednor, and the late Seth Norken;
and great-grandmother of Mason, Gianna,
Max and Gemma Fried. Graveside ser-
vices will be held privately. Donations may
be made in her honor to Hadassah or
the charity of your choice. Arrangements
by Sagel Bloomfield Danzansky Goldberg
Funeral Care.
ROTH
BETTY WORLEY ROTH
Betty Worley Roth, age 96, passed away on
September 21, 2020 of congestive heart failure.
She is survived by her daughter Lori Roth, her
sister Pat Reiter and many beloved nieces and
nephews. Betty loved helping people and was
active in her church and community. Often,
neighborhood children would get an impromtu
nature lesson in the backyard. She was known
at Chevy Chase Christian Church for her kind
and generous spirit. She remained active in
her church until health issues restricted her
mobility. She loved her family and friends and
she loved traveling, often combining the two
for reunions and birthday celebrations. To her
family, she was Betty Lou or Aunt Betty. She
treasured the time she spent with family and
friends and those memories often comforted
her in her moments of solitude. Betty lived
her life with love, kindness and generosity. She
will be missed by her family, friends and her
special group of “adopted” daughters. Please
remember her in your thoughts and prayers.
A service will be held at a later date. Should
friends desire, memorial contributions can be
made to Montgomery Hospice
TRAINOR
SIDNEY TRAINOR
On Tuesday, September 22,
2020, SIDNEY TRAINOR of
Washington, DC. Devoted
father of Kevin (Melissa Ten-
holder) Trainor. Dear grandfa-
ther of Sean Trainor. Funeral
service private. Memorial con-
tributions may be made to Congregation
Beth El of Montgomery County,
www.bethelmc.org. Arrangements entrust-
ed to TORCHINSKY HEBREW FUNERAL
HOME, 202-541-1001.
purchased a home on Maple Avenue in
Chevy Chase, MD, where they would raise
their two sons, Bill, Jr., born in 1961, and
David, born in 1963.
Bill and Cynthia made their home in Chevy
Chase for more than 40 years, moving in
later years to Leisure World in Silver Spring
and the nearby Bedford Court Senior Center,
where, in 2018, Mr. Bond was preceded in
death by his wife of 61 years.
The Bonds were longtime members of Chevy
Chase Presbyterian Church, and Bill was an
active and dedicated member of the Civitan
Club for more than 50 years, serving in
many capacities, including as President of
the Washington Civitans.
To his family, his friends, his clients and
colleagues during a half century in account-
ing, Bill Bond was a man of complete integrity
and a true gentleman. The great length of his
life tempers only slightly the pain felt at his
passing.
He is survived by two sons: Bill, Jr. (Ronda)
of Myersville, MD and David of Washington,
DC; two grandchildren, Joanne and Glen,
also of Myersville; and numerous nieces and
nephews.
Mr. Bond will be laid to rest alongside his late
wife Cynthia in services to be held at a later
date at Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church.
EZ RE
DEATH NOTICE
TREGER
DONALD M TREGER
Donald M Treger of Alexandria, VA passed away
on September 16, 2020 at his home. Donald
was born on February 25,1933 in Washington,
DC. He was raised in Alexandria, VA. Graduated
from GWHS in 1950. He attended UVA then
enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard for 4 years.
in 1952, he met his sweetheart and married
May 20, 1956 and they were married for 64
years. Survived by wife Betty; children, Ellen
Wilson (Tim), Marci, Steve (Paula); grandchil-
dren, Jamie, Drew; and predeceased by his
parents Joel and Esther and his beloved grand-
child Marlee. He was his happiest when sur-
rounded by his whole family. He will be greatly
missed. Service private.
WESTENBERG
JANE FAIRBANK WESTENBERG
(Age 97)
Died in Lenox, Massachusetts on Septem-
ber 20, 2020. She and her husband, Arthur
A. Westenberg, lived in Silver Spring, Mary-
land, and Columbia, Maryland, for 25 years,
from 1952 until 1977. Mrs. Westenberg was
born in Rochester, Minnesota, on March
20, 1923. She attended Carleton College
in Northfield, Minnesota, and received a
bachelor’s degree in 1945.
During Mrs. Westenberg’s Maryland years,
in addition to being a homemaker and
mother, she did extensive volunteer work
in area schools and wrote free-lance travel
articles and restaurant reviews for local
newspapers. The Westenbergs were avid
European travelers, and Mrs. Westenberg
had a lifelong interest in plants and flowers
and was a member of several garden clubs.
In 1977, she and her husband retired to
Manchester, Vermont, where they lived for
23 years. In 1999, they moved to the Kimball
Farms Life Care Community in Lenox, Mass-
achusetts, where she lived until her death.
Mr. Westenberg died in 2002.
Mrs. Westenberg is survived by a son, Lee
Arthur Westenberg, his wife, Lynn Westen-
berg, of Waterford, Connecticut, and their
beloved Welsh Corgi, Zelda. No services will
be held.
WILLIAMS
HERMAN J. WILLIAMS
Passed away on May 17, 2019 at his home.
He loved his family, his soldiers, and flying.
He served the United States Army a combined
forty years, first as an Army aviator, attaining
the rank of Major; and, secondly as a civil
servant providing contracting support to cus-
tomers including the Old Guard. He was a
member of the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Asso-
ciation and of Grace Episcopal Church, Casano-
va. Herman is survived by his wife, Patricia;
three daughters, Margie (Jerry) McKittrick, Deb-
bie Thompson, and Kathy (Randy) Whitley; two
sisters, Fannie Casper and Barbara Lincoln;
eight grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchil-
dren.
Services will be held Monday, September 28,
at 9 a.m. at the Old Post Chapel, Ft. Myer
with burial immediately following at Arling-
ton National Cemetery. Guests must enter Ft.
Myer using the Hatfield Gate, off Washington
Blvd. Please have Federal or State photo I.D.
available and allow time for security screening.
After burial, there will be a reception at Patton
Hall, Ft. Myer.
IN MEMORIAM
BOONE
DAVID M. BOONE
4/6/1957 ~ 9/26/2015
Your smile, rays of sunshine
Your heart pure gold;
Gone is the face we love so dear,
But your voice forever we hear.
Together with your whole loving family,
and your grandchildren, Aiden, Mackenzie,
Jack, Olivia, Elizabeth, Graham, Ryan,
Natalie Thea and Katherine, your legacy
and memory will live on forever.
WAGNER
LOUISE WAGNER
August 28, 1927 - September 26, 2015
We have many loving memories of our lives
with you and think about you every day.
We have missed you very much.
Jack, John, Mary Louise, Kevin, Clinton,
Kate and Alice
DEATH NOTICE
BAILEY
MARY LILLIAN BAILEY
Entered into eternal rest on Monday, Septem-
ber 14, 2020. She is survived by her son,
Cornelius Bailey, Jr. (Patricia); daughter, Emma
Moreno; four grandchildren, Tiffany Glenn, Cor-
nelius Bailey III, Christopher Moreno, and
Frances Bailey; five great grandchildren,
Phoenix Bucci-Moreno, Eva Moreno, Justin
Glenn, Makoma Moreno, and Talia Glenn; a
host of other relatives and friends. Mrs. Bailey
may be viewed at Stewart Funeral Home, 4001
Benning Rd., NE on Monday, September 28
from 10 a.m. until service at 11 a.m. Interment
at Harmony Memorial Park.
DEATH NOTICE
BURRUSS
RICHARD WILLIAM BURRUSS "Will"
Richard William “Will” Burruss, age 22, passed
away September 15, 2020, of an accidental
drug overdose.
He is survived by a host of loving relatives;
his parents, Cynthia “Cyndi” Daron Burruss
and Richard Duke Burruss; brother, Walter
Grant Burruss, sister, Alyce Burruss, two step-
brothers,Sasha and Alexei King, and his step-
sister, Lindsay King. He also leaves behind
his grandmothers Patricia Daron and Ellen
Burruss; three nephews, Mateo, Lucas and
Cuyler; as well as numerous aunts, uncles,
cousins, and close friends.
Born on March 8, 1998, in Korce, Albania, Will
became the adopted son of Cyndi and Duke
in May 2000 and blessed their home. Will had
an incredible smile that lit up a room and a
warm easy-going personality. He had a silly,
playful side and a kind nature that are among
the many wonderful attributes we will all miss.
Will was a free spirit; he enjoyed the outdoors,
hanging out with friends and playing basketball
and soccer.
A Celebration of Life Candlelight Vigil will be
held on Friday, September 25 at 6:45 p.m. at
Van Dyke Park in Fairfax. A private graveside
service will be held on Saturday, September 26.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you
consider donations to Shatterproof.org .
GRACE
JOHN GRACE "Jack"(Age 92)
Col. USMC (Ret.)
Of Arlington, VA passed away on September
21, 2020 at the Sylvestery at Vinson Hall. He
lived a full and happy life and died peacefully
in his sleep. Jack was the only child of John
Grace of the Bronx and Delia Grace of Co.
Meath, Ireland. He was preceded in death by
his wife, Marie. He is survived by his children,
John, Michael, Peter, Margaret, Bernard and
Suzanne, as well as extended family. A Mass
of Christian Burial will be held on Sunday,
September 27, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. at the Church
of Nativity, 6400 Nativity Lane, Burke, VA
22015. Mass will be livestreamed on YouTube
at “Nativity Parish Burke”. Interment will be
held Monday, September 28, 2020 at 10 a.m.
at Quantico National Cemetery. The mass and
Interment will be livestreamed through Murphy
Funeral Homes Facebook Page. In lieu of flow-
ers, memorial contributions may be made to
the Young Marines, 8th and I Unit. Checks
can be mailed to “8th and I Young Marines”,
10016 Behun Drive, Cheltenham, MD 20623.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy
may be shared through www.murphyfuneral-
homes.com; as well instructions for attending
services virtually.
McCABE
JANE SCHOOLEY McCABE
Jane Schooley McCabe, 78, passed away
peacefully at her home on August 29, 2020.
Jane was predeceased by her husband Donald
Lee McCabe, parents, Frank and Eleanor
Schooley, sister, Jeanbrown Schooley, and
brother, Fred Schooley.
Loving mother of Donald McCabe, Jr., Frank
(Alexis) McCabe, Erin (Chris) Korves, Kevin
(Jen) McCabe, and Luke McCabe. Jane is also
survived by brother, Frank (Claire) Schooley,
sisters, Marylou (Chuck) Marksch and Betsy
Schooley, and her grandchildren, Haley, Colin,
Maeve, Brecken, Ronan, Brendan, Evie, and
Claire.
Jane was born July 21, 1942, grew up in
Champaign, IL, attended the University of Illi-
nois and joined the Peace Corps. Jane and
Donald met on a blind date and married in
1965. They lived in Peru and Guatemala before
settling in Vienna. The family will especially
miss her wittiness and dry sense of humor.
The family hopes to hold a memorial service at
a later time. Jane will be interred at Church of
the Visitation in Topping, VA. In lieu of flowers,
donations may be made to Hogar Mi Casa
(www.micasaonline.org). To view and sign the
family guestbook, visit
www.moneyandking.com
McDOWELL
DOROTHY HARRIS McDOWELL
Dorothy Harris McDowell passed away on
Monday, September 14, 2020 in Bowie, MD
after a long illness. She retired in 1990 from
teaching in the D.C. Public Schools after 34
years. She was a member of the Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority Inc. She was a proud member
of Bethesda Presbyterian Church for some 47
years where she served on the Diaconate and
as an Elder.
Her beloved husband, of 57 years, Dr. Hershel
McDowell preceded her in death in 2014.
She leaves behind, her daughter, Dr. Vesta
McDowell Brown, and son, Mr. Samuel J.
McDowell, three grandchildren, two great-
grandchildren and a host other family mem-
bers and friends. Service private.
When the need arises, let families find you in
the Funeral Services Directory.
To be seen in the Funeral Services Directory,
please call paid Death Notices at 202-334-4122.
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DEATH NOTICE
SHOEMAKER
CAROL ANN SHOEMAKER
If you are worried this is going to be another
cookie cutter obituary, worry not. Consider:
Carol Ann Shoemaker who entered eternal
life on Saturday, September 19, 2020. Carol
was anything but cookie cutter as a matter
of fact she was not particularly good at
cutting cookies or cake for that matter,
but she was extraordinary at just about
everything else. Survived by her husband,
Alan, her two children, Thomas and Jen-
nifer. She will also be deeply missed by
her 17 “grandchildren” as she called them.
Others knew them as 12 incredibly needy
Guinea Pigs, three drooly Pit-Bull Terriers,
one sneezy kitty-cat and a charming four-
year-old named Riley Quinn. Carol was born
on July 4, 1961 in the District of Columbia
to Edward and Virginia Stout. Some say
she entered the world with a “bang” other
say it was more of a “kazooooo”. Either
way the world became a much better
place that day. She epitomized the idea of
the “Neighborhood Mom” her home was
a haven full of love, endless food and an
ever-growing fellowship of those graced
by her touch. She was the soul of her
family, working tirelessly behind the scenes
to hold everything together and make the
show go on without a hitch. At times she
seemed omnipresent, her compassion at
work far and wide, and her love providing
comfort, encouragement, and inspiration
to an ever-growing contingent of those she
would change forever. Carol was so selfless
and found such happiness in helping others
that she was notorious for thanking you for
allowing her to provide you a service. A
member of the Hayfield Secondary School
graduating class of 1979, she was a creator
of memories and sower of kindness every-
where she traveled. Her funeral service
and celebration of life is scheduled for
10 a.m., Monday, September 28 at Everly-
Wheatley, located at 1500 West Braddock
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much for saying good-bye as those on
the other end of her phone conversations
would know the chat was through when
they heard “click” just as “good-bye” was
rolling off their tongue. Sporting an uncanny
perceptiveness, a heart the size of (Insert
largest object known to man here), Carol
will not be forgotten and the stories of
her incredible feats of kindness will be told
fireside and in Starbucks check-out lines
until the end of time.
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Northam, College students want to take Election Day o≠
wife test
positive for
coronavirus
NORTHAM FROM B1
land and D.C.
In March, Northam was the
second governor nationally to
shutter schools for the remainder
of the academic year. In May, he
ordered Virginians to wear masks
in indoor public spaces such as
stores. Critics who resented the
mandate blasted him for appear-
ing just days earlier in Virginia
Beach, where he mingled mask-
less with visitors outdoors on the
boardwalk. He acknowledged
that he should have been carrying
a mask in case he ended up in a
crowd.
In public appearances such as
news briefings on the virus,
Northam wears a mask, removing
it only when he steps up to a
lectern to speak. His staff says he
always wears one while working
in the office and traveling. Pam-
ela Northam, a former science
teacher who has been promoting
early-childhood education
around the state, observes the
same precautions.
Ralph Northam is one of sev-
eral governors to have tested pos-
itive. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson
(R) announced Wednesday that
he and his wife, Teresa, have
tested positive for the coronavi-
rus. Parson said in a recorded
message that he had no symp-
toms and the first lady’s were
mild.
Parson, 65, has often resisted
calls for tough restrictions during
the pandemic. He has encouraged
Missourians to wear masks but,
like 15 other governors, has not
mandated their use. In July he
tweeted photos of himself with-
out a mask at an indoor event,
where he stood close to people.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R),
another governor who has not
mandated masks, tested positive
for the virus in July. Hawaii Lt.
Gov. Josh Green (D) announced
Sept. 12 that he’d tested positive
for the coronavirus.
The virus, which is easily
spread from person to person,
has a relatively long incubation
period and an unusually large
proportion of people infected
with it have no symptoms, ac-
cording to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
Northam’s announcement
prompted several lawmakers to
seek testing. Dels. Danica A.
Roem (D-Prince William) and
Elizabeth R. Guzman (D-Prince
William) tweeted Friday night
that they got tested since they
were at an event with Pamela
Northam. The Hampton mayor
and council also sought testing
because the governor had visited
earlier in the week for an eco-
nomic development announce-
ment.
Hampton Mayor Donnie Tuck
said he and other participants
wore masks while appearing with
Ralph Northam at the event on
Tuesday, removing them only to
make their remarks from a
shared microphone.
Tuck said they were careful not
to shake hands — “We did the
elbow bumps,” the mayor said —
but he said they stood closer than
six feet at times, including when
participants shoveled dirt for a
ceremonial groundbreaking.
Council members did not take
part in the ceremony but will be
tested because they met with
Tuck for a council meeting the
following day while wearing
masks and social distancing. Tele-
vision station WAVY first report-
ed the mayor and council would
be tested.
DeVos’s office did not respond
to a message inquiring whether
she would get tested.
News of the Northams’ diagno-
ses came just hours before Presi-
dent Trump bucked the gover-
nor’s coronavirus restrictions
with a large rally in Newport
News. State and local health offi-
cials have said the event, which
drew thousands to a hangar at
Newport News/Williamsburg In-
ternational Airport, could pose a
“severe public health threat.” A
crowd that large violates the 250-
person limit Northam has im-
posed on public and private gath-
erings.
Trump’s campaign has not re-
sponded to requests for com-
ment. But state GOP Chairman
Rich Anderson has said the limit
should not be a concern because
Northam “has permitted huge,
gargantuan numbers of people in
the streets,” referring to the dem-
onstrations that erupted in Rich-
mond and elsewhere in the state
after the death of George Floyd in
police custody in Minneapolis in
May. Public health officials have
said there is little evidence so far
that protests nationwide have led
to spikes in coronavirus cases.
laura.vozzella@washpost.com
STUDENTS FROM B1
the threats of climate change and
the student debt crisis. He will
maneuver the pandemic and de-
termine the future of health care
while confronting racism and
demands for police reform.
The urgency has pushed other
young people to lobby their
schools to cancel classes on Elec-
tion Day so students can vote in
person or work at the polls amid
a national shortage of volun-
teers. This effort was successful
at a community college in Phila-
delphia.
“College students are the per-
fect folks to serve,” Harper said.
“They’re healthier, traditionally,
and they’re younger.” The most
common poll worker — someone
in their 60s or 70s — has a higher
chance of developing a severe
illness from the coronavirus. Just
4 percent of poll workers during
the 2016 general election were
between the ages of 18 and 25,
compared to more than 60 per-
cent who were over 60 years old,
according to the Pew Research
Center.
Obligations at work or school
could be part of the problem. “If
you’ve got a class that ends at
11 a.m. and a class that starts at
1 p.m., you’ve only got three
hours,” Harper said about barri-
ers that keep students from vol-
unteering or voting in person.
“We need to make sure people
have ample time and they don’t
feel rushed.”
Chris Suggs, a 20-year-old sen-
ior at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, made a
similar plea to his school, en-
couraging the campus to give
students and faculty time to vote
in person. The university pivoted
to remote instruction for under-
graduates after the coronavirus
spread during the first days of
school.
“This is a truly monumental
election,” Suggs said about the
first presidential election in
which he’ll take part. “I’m kind of
afraid of what could happen on
Nov. 3, but I’m also excited and
eager to cast my ballot. What
happens on Nov. 3 is going to
have such a huge impact on my
life and the lives of my peers.”
Students and faculty at the
Community College of Philadel-
phia made the same case to their
president, Donald Generals. It
worked: Generals agreed to can-
cel classes on Election Day and
scheduled a makeup day in De-
ACLU claims Virginia prisons fail to protect against coronavirus
PRISON FROM B1
is higher than the count of cases
in a number of states’ prison
systems.
The ACLU of Virginia high-
lighted the plight of Deerfield in a
notice to the state this week,
claiming the VADOC has violated
for a second time a May settle-
ment of a lawsuit by inmates over
conditions related to the corona-
virus in prisons.
They claim the corrections de-
partment has failed to provide
basic safeguards against the vi-
rus, such as water to wash hands
and social distancing at a number
of facilities, and is continuing to
move too slowly to release in-
mates to stem the spread of covid-
19.
The ACLU is calling for an
independent expert to oversee
the prison system’s response to
the coronavirus because of what
it sees as repeated failings. The
number of active coronavirus cas-
es in Virginia’s prison system has
doubled since June. Since the
start of the pandemic, there have
been 3,600 cases. A total of 26
prisoners have died.
“The numbers themselves
show Virginia’s ability to manage
the infection’s spread right now is
pretty dismal,” said Eden Heil-
GENE P. MATER, 93
Former executive at CBS and Radio Free Europe
BY B ART B ARNES
Gene P. Mater, a former senior
vice president of CBS broadcast-
ing who handled operational,
regulatory and legislative matters
for the network, died Sept. 20 at a
hospice center in Bethlehem, Pa.
He was 93.
The cause was complications
from covid-19, said a daughter,
Jeanne Mater.
A former executive with Radio
Free Europe, Mr. Mater worked
for CBS from 1970 to 1986. He
represented the network at con-
gressional and regulatory agency
EZ SU
An election official assists a voter at an early polling location in Arlington on Sept. 18. Students are
asking their colleges to cancel classes on Election Day so they have ample time to vote or work at the
polls, where older volunteers may be at greater risk for the coronavirus.
cember.
“We closed the school for the
pope, we closed for the Super
Bowl, we’ve closed for snow
days,” Generals said. “Education,
higher education especially, is
really about making good citi-
zens. There’s nothing that speaks
to that point . . . more than
voting.”
The pandemic adds another
layer of urgency, Generals said.
States are expanding access to
mail-in voting as a safer alterna-
tive to in-person voting, but the
U.S. Postal Service has experi-
enced delivery delays since June.
The agency in August warned 46
states and D.C. that it could not
guarantee all ballots cast for the
election would arrive in time to
be counted.
And voters make mistakes.
More than 534,000 mail ballots
were rejected during primaries
across 23 states this year due to
mistakes like placing a signature
in the wrong spot or missing a
delivery deadline.
Generals is encouraging stu-
dents to vote in person if they
can. “When you throw in the
confusion with the mail-in bal-
lots, for me, it’s a no-brainer,” he
said about canceling classes.
AU has not rendered a deci-
sion about canceling Nov. 3 class-
es, university spokeswoman Sta-
man, the legal director of the
ACLU of Virginia.
Virginia corrections officials
declined to discuss Asmar’s case
but wrote in a news release this
week that they were moving ag-
gressively to combat the virus at
Deerfield, which houses 925 in-
mates. Officials said they per-
formed mass testing on inmates
and staff and distributed thou-
sands of bars of soap and masks
since mid-March, among other
measures.
“The department’s pandemic
response plan consists of more
than 900 pages of documents
addressing every situation we
have faced during this pandem-
ic,” said VADOC Director Harold
Clarke. “We responded to the
outbreak at Deerfield with
months of knowledge and best
practices that we’ve developed
since the beginning of the pan-
demic.”
VADOC spokeswoman Lisa
Kinney wrote in an email that the
department had “worked over-
time” to try to release inmates
eligible for early release, but the
cases are complicated since offi-
cials have to weigh public safety
concerns, investigate a prisoner’s
record and ensure inmates have
an after-release plan. The VADOC
has approved 1,094 prisoners for
hearings and before European
and Asian broadcasting unions.
In the 1970s, he played a role in
promoting women to manage-
ment positions at CBS. With Co-
lumbia University, he helped es-
tablish a program to train Black
journalists.
From 1998 to 2012, he was a
media consultant to the Freedom
Forum, the parent organization
of the Newseum. He gave lectures
to visiting international journal-
ists on the role of a free news
media in democracies. The News-
eum closed in 2019.
Gene Paul Mater was born in
“Universities
should take any
measure possible
to encourage their
on-campus
students and staff
members to get out
and vote.”
Olivia Gemarro, a senior at
Ohio University
cie Burgess said.
At UNC-Chapel Hill, where
classes are still scheduled on
Election Day, Suggs will spend
the coming weeks mobilizing his
peers. The political science and
religious studies double-major
spent Tuesday with the organiza-
tion he created in his hometown
of Kinston, N.C., Kinston Teens,
helping young people register to
vote.
Olivia Gemarro, a senior at
Ohio University, is canvassing by
phone for local Democrats. She is
early release, and 816 have been
released.
But the ACLU says the correc-
tions department should do
much more.
The group points to a Marshall
Project analysis from July that
found that, at the time, Virginia
had released 2 percent of its
nearly 28,600 prisoners, a lower
percentage than any other state
in the country.
The ACLU’s first notice of non-
compliance with the settlement
in June also accused the VADOC
of reviewing cases for early re-
lease too slowly and failing to
accurately inform prisoners of
their eligibility for early release.
VADOC disputed those claims
but agreed to begin reviewing at
least 60 petitions for early release
each week.
The ACLU says approval is still
too slow, leaving medically vul-
nerable people who are eligible
for early release lingering behind
bars during a deadly pandemic.
Asmar wrote in his filing that
he submitted a request for infor-
mation about early release in
June, but the Deerfield warden
replied by telling him he had
already been given the informa-
tion in April. The ACLU says
Asmar has not been given the
information since his request.
obituaries
Brooklyn on Nov. 27, 1926. His
father was a house painter and
his mother a housewife.
Army service during World
War II led him to journalism. He
was assigned to a psychological
warfare unit where, after the war
ended, he helped establish inde-
pendent German newspapers.
At an officers’ mess in Stutt-
gart, he met his future wife, Paris-
born, London-raised Jeanne
Blanc. They were married from
1947 until her death in 1994.
Their son Phillip Mater died in
1996.
In addition to his daughter, of
THE WASHINGTON POST . SATURDAY,
SARAH SILBIGER/BLOOMBERG NEWS
living off campus in Athens,
Ohio. Gemarro also started a
petition to convince administra-
tors to cancel Election Day class-
es, a step she was motivated to
take after Ginsburg’s death.
“I feel more empowered to
reach out more to others, to
ensure people can vote,” said
Gemarro, who is double major-
ing in English and sociology/
criminology.
The petition has earned more
than 100 signatures. Gemarro
plans to send it to university
administrators when she reaches
her goal of 200 signees.
As young people push for
more flexibility to vote, they are
also aware of the reputation
they’ve garnered as being apa-
thetic about elections. Voter
turnout for Americans between
the ages of 18 and 29 increased
about 16 percentage points be-
tween 2014 and 2018 — from
roughly 20 percent to 36 percent,
according to the Census Bureau
— but the bloc still lags behind
its older counterparts.
Campuses could change that
this year, Gemarro said.
“Universities should take any
measure possible to encourage
their on-campus students and
staff members to get out and
vote,” Gemarro said.
lauren.lumpkin@washpost.com
The ACLU has also been criti-
cal of Virginia Gov. Ralph
Northam (D), saying he should be
aggressively using conditional
pardons to release inmates dur-
ing the health crisis. Heilman
said Northam has declined to
release information about wheth-
er his office has approved condi-
tional pardons related to the cor-
onavirus, citing executive privi-
lege.
Northam’s office did not re-
spond to requests for comment,
but in an April radio interview,
Secretary of Public Safety and
Homeland Security Brian Moran
was cool to the idea of conditional
pardons.
“They don’t have any place to
go,” Moran said of inmates after a
conditional pardon. “So what are
you going to do about that? That
really kind of reinforces the posi-
tion we have taken that we’re not
going to irresponsibly release
people without a successful home
plan, someplace to go.”
Meanwhile, the ACLU says in-
mates like Asmar are being
forced to contend with life-
threatening conditions. Asmar
said in his sworn statement that it
is difficult to remain socially dis-
tant in the dormitory-style geriat-
ric unit.
“I do my best to stay away from
Bethlehem, survivors include a
son, Richard Mater of Studio City,
Calif.; six grandchildren; and two
great-grandchildren.
In the 1950s, Mr. Mater held
newsroom jobs with the Newark
Star-Ledger and the New York
World-Telegram and Sun. By the
early 1960s, he was the Munich-
based news director of Radio Free
Europe, where he oversaw Cold
War coverage of incidents such as
the shooting down of an Ameri-
can U-2 spy plane over the Soviet
Union, the building of the Berlin
Wall and the Cuban missile crisis.
newsobits@washpost.com
SEPTEMBER 26 , 2020
THE DISTRICT
Month-old
panda cub
is healthy,
zoo says
BY M ARTIN W EIL
By now, they seem to have a
system at the National Zoo for
learning what’s up with their
newborn giant panda cub. On
Friday, its mother stepped away
from the den, and keepers again
went into action.
In the brief minutes before
protective parent Mei Xiang re-
turned, keepers got a read on the
cub’s length, girth and weight.
Born a little more than a month
ago, it seems to be growing as
healthy newborns do.
Mature pandas have a plump-
ness about them, and based on
Friday’s report, it appeared that
the cub possessed a nearly spheri-
cal shape. It is about 12.5 inches
around and 13.9 inches long
(two-inch tail included).
Since the last weigh-in Sept. 19,
it has gained about 50 percent in
bulk, increasing from two pounds
to three pounds.
The cub was born Aug. 21 in
what keepers described as a kind
of miracle given its mother’s age.
Its gender remains unknown.
But an answer may come soon,
the zoo said. In a previous exam, a
cheek was swabbed, and the DNA
obtained is being studied.
A nonspecialist can only specu-
late on whether what goes on
when the mother panda wanders
off ultimately becomes part of the
cub’s subconscious memory.
But a lot does occur. On Sept.
19, the zoo said veterinarians ran
a battery of tests.
They listened to its heart and
lungs, palpated its stomach, test-
ed its suckle reflex and moved its
limbs to assess the development
of its bones and muscles.
It also seems unclear whether
Mei Xiang knows what is happen-
ing in her brief absences or how
happy she would be if she knew.
During the Sept. 19 exam, the zoo
said, the cub gave a particularly
loud squeal. It caught Mom’s at-
tention. She headed back to the
den, and, according to the zoo
staff, they ended the exam and
replaced the cub.
martin.weil@washpost.com
people,” Asmar said.
Asmar said that prison officials
have failed to inform him about
medical appointments at a local
hospital and that he was not
given care despite complaining of
severe pain in an area where he
had surgery for his liver cancer,
according to his statement.
Asmar, who said in his state-
ment that he is serving a six-year
sentence for a nonviolent offense,
is eligible to be released in De-
cember. Court records could not
be located listing his specific
crime or crimes.
In sworn statements, other in-
mates at Deerfield have com-
plained that their covid-19-like
symptoms have been dismissed
as allergies and that inmates have
to beg for hand sanitizer to be
replaced.
A private attorney filed the
lawsuit against the VADOC in
April on behalf of 27 inmates, and
the ACLU later joined the suit.
The suit accused the VADOC of
violating the Constitution by fail-
ing to protect inmates from the
coronavirus and freeing the med-
ically vulnerable.
Heilman said the VADOC is
expected to respond to the notice
of noncompliance with the settle-
ment on Monday.
justin.jouvenal@washpost.com
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Gene P. Mater helped promote
women to management
positions at CBS in the 1970s.
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Philip Guston
show delayed; “She and her husband Marty demonstrated the joys of a marriage
of professional and personal equals.”
museums cite Margo Schlanger, a University of Michigan law professor and former Ginsburg clerk, writing in Time magazine

racial discord
BY P EGGY M C G LONE

A major Philip Guston retrospective

that was set to open at the National
Gallery of Art and three other museums
starting next year has been postponed
until 2024, in part because its images of
the Ku Klux Klan and a lynching were
deemed too sensitive for audiences and
staff at this time.
Originally scheduled to open in June at
the National Gallery of Art, “Philip Gus-
ton Now” was first pushed to next sum-
mer because of the museum’s pandemic-
related shutdown. In a statement posted
this week, the directors of the NGA, the
Tate Modern in London, the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, and the Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston, announced that the
exhibition would be delayed “until a time
at which we think that the powerful
message of social and racial justice that is
at the center of Philip Guston’s work can
be more clearly interpreted.”
“We recognize that the world we live in
is very different from the one in which we
first began to collaborate on this project
five years ago,” the directors wrote. “The
racial justice movement that started in
the U.S. and radiated to countries around
the world, in addition to challenges of a
global health crisis, have led us to pause.”
Guston was a Canadian-born Ameri-
can who is widely considered one of the
most influential artists of the past cen-
tury. He died in 1980. “Philip Guston
Now” would have been his first major
retrospective in 15 years.
National Gallery of Art Director Kay-
win Feldman said last week that the
exhibition’s works depicting Ku Klux
Klan hoods and other racist images —
more than two dozen in all — were seen
as troubling in light of the country’s
current racial unrest. A second, more
pragmatic reason for the delay is the
difficulty moving loaned artwork dur-
ing the pandemic, Feldman said. Almost
all of its nearly 200 pieces are loans
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In a robe or a wedding gown,
Ginsburg upheld equality
H
elena Walker is seeking a man who files, Ginsburg emphasized that Marty was
will support his wife no matter “the only young man I dated who cared that
what and not feel threatened by I had a brain.” This pair forged in the 1950s
her success. “I am looking for my reflects relationship goals for many singles
Marty,” she says, “but am not in a rush.”
Marty was the husband of Ruth Bader The late justice is and couples today.
Nearly 70 years after the Ginsburgs met
ELIZABETH MORRIS/FX Ginsburg, and Walker, a 41-year-old veter- admired for her legal on a blind date at Cornell University,
Chris Rock joins this season’s “Fargo”
as the head of a Kansas City mob.
ans law judge in Washington, was among
the throngs who visited the U.S. Supreme
achievements in Walker is looking for their kind of love —
where a woman’s high-powered career is an
Court on Monday afternoon to honor the gender rights, and asset, not a deterrent. “I think about how

‘Fargo’ heads justice after her death last week.

Ginsburg is admired for her legal achieve-
ments, especially toward ensuring gender
her 56-year marriage
to Marty put her
difficult it is to have a divergent power
aspect in a relationship,” Walker says,
adding that her success as a judge is often

a bit south, equality, and her 56-year marriage put that

theory into practice. Ruth and Marty, who
died in 2010, both worked outside the home
theory into practice attractive to men at first, but “then they get
super-intimidated or jealous.” Many poten-
tial partners have told her, “I’m not worthy

with all its decades before that became the norm. They
split child care and other domestic duties;
she relocated for his career and he relocated
BY L ISA B ONOS of you,” which she finds dispiriting. “I’m not
going to shrink to anybody,” she says. “I’m
not going to step down. They can step up.”

violent luggage for hers. And long before “sapiosexual”

became a buzzword in online dating pro-
Stephanie Hunt, a 46-year-old mother
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Three years have passed since we last
saw “Fargo,” creator Noah Hawley’s capti-
vating FX anthology series that greatly
expanded on the darkly comedic Coen
brothers film, but it might as well be
decades. A lot has happened to us lately,
and to television as well, which means
past seasons of “Fargo” feel more of a
piece with the bracing, excellent shows of
an already faded heyday — “Breaking
Bad,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “True Detec-
tive” and the like.
All of those, “Fargo” included, put a
premium on human complexity (especial-
ly the nature of evil), tied in narrative knots
with a stirring sense of the ironic and
philosophical, and a flourish on graphic
violence. We’re a little different at this
particular cultural moment and, to some
extent, so is “Fargo.” It’s still violent and
still studiously weird, but changed.
The fourth season (premiering Sun-
day) ambitiously builds on what seems
destined to become a rich and sprawling
tapestry of the story of organized crime in
the American Midwest.
This chapter, set in Kansas City in the
winter of 1950, extends the original Coen
notion of a Fargo of the imagination, with
multiple meanings — a “far go,” be it rural
Minnesota or the Dakotas or now Mis-
souri and Kansas; a barren and wind-
swept part of the soul, a figurative and
occasionally literal place where one
bumps against the best and worst in
people. To borrow a Bertrand Russell
SEE TV REVIEW ON C3
Future Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her husband, Marty, and their daughter
Jane share a light moment in 1958. Ginsburg, who died Sept. 18, once said that he was
Look what happens when you leave democracy to chants
Donald Trump likes to
present himself as a law-
and-order president
standing athwart an angry
mob. On Thursday, he
visited the U.S. Supreme
Monica Court and angry citizens
Hesse confronted him, making it
clear that they planned to
thwart him in the most
lawful, orderly way available. It was
astonishing, discombobulating and more
patriotic than anything you’ll witness at a
Trump rally.
As the president stood near Ruth Bader
Ginsburg’s casket, he surely thought he
was conducting himself with decorum. He
submitted to a mask, which he has not
often been inclined to do during the
pandemic. He’d shown up to pay his
respects to a woman for whom he
appeared to have little respect — the day
after Ginsburg’s death, he’d cheerfully
polled his rally attendees on whether they
wanted him to replace her with a man or a
woman. But whether the respect was real
“the only young man I dated who cared that I had a brain.”
or feigned, on Thursday he’d come to the
court to do something vaguely
presidential.
And then the crowd below began to boo.
Loudly boo. A loud boo, followed by a
chant, which began as an indistinct rumble
and then transformed into something clear
enough to be picked up by television
cameras: “Vote him out.”
Vote. Him. Out.
The president is well familiar with the
concept of a three-syllable chant. Many
have held a treasured presence at his own
rallies: “Send Her Back,” targeting Rep.
Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). “Lock Her Up,”
invented for Hillary Clinton and later
repurposed for Christine Blasey Ford, the
woman who accused Supreme Court
Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual
assault, and even later used for Sen.
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). Last week, “Fill
the Seat,” arrived, called out by an
MATT MCCLAIN/THE WASHINGTON POST exuberant crowd. The seat in question had
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump pay their respects belonged, of course, to Ginsburg.
to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg outside the Supreme Court, where As a rhetorical strategy, the chants have
Ginsburg’s admirers chanted, “Vote. Him. Out.” SEE HESSE ON C2
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ACROSS
By Craig Stowe
Supporting actors are the real stars
1 It’s often TV REVIEW FROM C1
served in a
narrow dish quote that precedes one of this
5 1996 romcom season’s better episodes, “Life is
titled after nothing but a competition to be
a 1963 hit the criminal rather than the vic-
song tim.”
15 Spots That’s what “Fargo” has always
been about, and those are useful
16 Briefly words to keep in mind as a viewer
17 River near struggles to get into Season 4’s
Rugby initial episodes, which are too
18 Elemental droll by half and introduce a
measurement daunting number of characters
19 Gossips and conflicts. (It’s why, I suspect,
21 House VIP Sunday’s premiere offers two epi-
22 Thought from sodes, in hopes of moving more
Descartes quickly to the better stuff.)
Hawley and company are in no
23 Hand-played hurry to help us sort through
drum them, but there is a strong design
25 Steps in for and structure being formed here,
27 Post-9/11 and patience is rewarded. This, MATTHIAS CLAMER/FX

musical about too, harks back to the sort of tele- Ben Whishaw delivers an outstanding performance as Rabbi
the diversion vision I was reviewing five and 10 Milligan in the new season of “Fargo” on FX.
of flights to years ago — heavily burdened,
Newfoundland intentionally opaque, often hy- father’s mob are interrupted by tients (she also has this season’s
30 Comparable (to) permasculine and artistically the arrival of his brutishly cruel strongest Minnesota accent, for
31 Joe, grandiloquent. Hawley has more brother, Gaetano (Salvatore Es- which the “Fargo” franchise is
commercially than proved that he’s a worthy foe posito), an undermining presence known); E’myri Crutchfield as
of tropes and cliches, but here, his who attempts to take over. Ethelrida Smutny, the nosy teen-
32 Partner of to vision can at times feel detrimen- Many of “Fargo’s” trademark age daughter of a local mortician;
35 Linguine © 2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC. 9/26/20
tally self-indulgent. moves are intact — comic misun- Karen Aldrige and Kelsey Asbille
sauce What does work here, at times derstandings that result in grue- as a wild pair of escaped convicts
37 Old California DOWN 28 Mercredi 42 Woodlice, e.g. 48 Captain’s
terrifically, is the complete shift in some deaths, etc. They’re harder named Zelmare and Swanee; and
fort 1 Skin care brand preceder 43 Best thing direction setting. “Fargo” opens with a vivid to recognize, cloaked as they are Timothy Olyphant as Dick
38 Small 2 Romantic 29 Cite as proof since sliced 49 Last name in overview of the (fictionalized) his- in what for all appearances plays “Deafy” Wickware, a devoutly
shoot keepsake 32 Place for bread, so to fashion? tory of mob rule and corruption in like a mafia drama. If that’s your Mormon U.S. Marshal deter-
40 Fantasy 3 Janet Yellen, big news speak 53 Hardly Kansas City, beginning with Euro- bag (and your red-checkered ta- mined to catch the fugitives, even
creature e.g. 33 Sounds about 45 Lower in rank happy pean Jews in the early 1900s, who blecloth), you’re all set; some may as it puts him at the center of a
from the 4 Soothing right 46 Wasn’t 54 One of the were set upon and eventually yearn for “Fargo’s” previous prem- mob war.
Old English compound 34 Arch with a behind Jacksons overthrown by Irish immigrants, ises of bumbling amateurs and The season’s standout perform-
for “giant” 5 In certain point anyone 56 Shoot who, by mid-century, have been blithely courageous protagonists ances belong to Ben Whishaw as
respects 47 Medical 58 Big __ violently usurped by Italians. who lived at a remove from big- Rabbi Milligan (a hardened survi-
41 Turn out to be 36 Needs to remit When these factions reached peri- time criminals. vor of the city’s previous stand-
44 Single 6 With 59-Down, 39 Menu venue, events in a 59 See 6-Down
1977 thriller ods of uneasy truces, each mob Everything is much more mud- offs); and Jack Huston, who gave
45 “Blue Sky” later perhaps boss would offer custody of his dled here, but watchability is nev- such a haunting performance in
Best Actress 7 Piccadilly eldest son to the other mob boss — er the issue. “Fargo” provides “Boardwalk Empire,” as Odis
Oscar winner Circus statue an honor swap meant to ensure a plenty to look at, much of it for- Weff, a Kansas City police detec-
47 He debuted 8 1980 teen FRIDAY’S LA TIMES SOLUTION cease-fire. It becomes a relevant lornly beautiful. Listening, too, is tive with obsessive-compulsive
at La Scala musical aspect to the story overall. a pleasure, as the dialogue drips disorder — a symptom of which is
12/26/1900 9 “That. Is. Into this, with a modern sensi- eloquently off the tongues of even singing “Ten Little Indians” under
50 Puts up Amazing.” bility that is decades ahead of its its most reprehensible characters. his breath when things get fright-
10 Peabody time and nevertheless a brilliant (“You know what’s wrong with eningly tense. It’s one of those
51 With 52-Across, example of how even period dra- your country?” Gaetano asks, in details that is so very “Fargo.”
type of Award-winning
mas can benefit from a direct act broken English, of one of his quak- It’s also an indicator that there
barbecue Robertson of diversity, the Italians now find ing victims. “Your Jesus looks like might be too much “Fargo” in this
52 See 51-Across 11 Mutual themselves facing off with a a lady. And everybody thinks they “Fargo.” An episode down the road
55 Crackerjacks ill will Black-run crime syndicate, arriv- gonna be president one day. So diverts to rural Kansas, in black-
57 Keeping 12 Couples als from the Great Migration, nobody do the job they got.”) and-white footage (Dorothy’s
tabs on 13 Discombobulated headed by the coolly fearsome Loy It’s odd that Rock and world, it’s own kind of far-go) and
60 Store 14 Those in favor Cannon (Chris Rock) and his Schwartzman, ostensibly in the only then does a viewer really
61 Witness to 20 Org. involved in right-hand man and mentor, Doc- marquee roles, are among the last begin to feel the show fulfilling its
Padmé and the Waco Siege tor Senator (Glynn Turman). of “Fargo’s” latest ensemble to reg- promise. The road is long, but
Anakin’s The Italians are controlled by ister. Both characters, as well as worth traveling.
24 Turkeys the Fadda family; eldest son Josto the performances, simmer along hank.stuever@washpost.com
wedding 26 Lot fillers (Jason Schwartzman) finds him- without much effect.
62 Fever with 27 __ Spear, self in charge after the unexpected It’s the peripheral characters Fargo (2 hours, 45 minutes) returns
chills easternmost demise of his father — blamed on here who really shine: Jessie with a double-episode premiere
63 Intimidates point in Cannon’s gang, but also on a hos- Buckley as Oraetta Mayflower, a Sunday at 9 p.m. on FX. Episodes 1
64 Swarm Canada pital’s refusal to treat Italians. hyperactive hospital nurse with and 2 will be available for streaming
Whatever plans Josto has for his an addiction to poisoning her pa- Monday on FX on Hulu.
C4 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST . SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 , 2020

National Gallery, other museums postpone show with Klan, lynching imagery
GUSTON FROM C1 American Art’s biennial exhibi- ing public programs. By not tak-
tion in 2017, when protesters ing a step back to address these
from 40 institutions and private tried to block White artist Dana “As art museums, we are expected to show issues, the four museums would
collectors. Schutz’s painting of Emmett Till, have appeared tone deaf to what
Guston “was a dedicated anti- a 14-year-old Black boy who was difficult art and to support artists.” is happening in public discourse
racist, and they are anti-Ku Klux lynched in 1955. Critics decried Mark Godfrey, a Tate Modern curator, about art.”
Klan images used to show evil,” what they saw as the White art- criticizing the decision to postpone “Philip Guston Now” Other art critics and writers
Feldman said of the works. ist’s appropriation of Black suf- criticized the postponement as
Nonetheless, the museums will fering. Schutz said she ap- cowardly and bleak, and several
consider different approaches to proached the work as a mother. sponsibility to Guston and also to recent months and that the mu- suggested that political consider-
the exhibition, she said, includ- The Guston postponement was the artists whose voices animate seums had to respond. ations were in play. The federally
ing adding “other voices to con- immediately and widely criti- the catalogue such as Glenn Li- “An exhibition organized sev- funded National Gallery of Art is
sider the work. We are very cized. Mark Godfrey, the curator gon [and] Tacita Dean,” Godfrey eral years ago, no matter how beholden to Congress for three-
committed to the project, and of the show at the Tate Modern, wrote on social media. The exhi- intelligent, must be reconsidered quarters of its $216 million an-
we want to do it in a way that described the decision as patron- bition catalogue was published in in light of what has changed to nual budget.
respects our audience and can izing because it assumes audienc- June. contextualize in real time,” he Feldman said there was no
best communicate Guston’s in- es cannot understand difficult Darren Walker, the president said in a statement Friday. “I pressure from elected officials. BILL O'LEARY/WASHINGTON POST

tentions.” work. of the Ford Foundation and one agree with the decision to post- Staff attitudes about the show Kaywin Feldman, director of
The addition of other perspec- “As art museums, we are ex- of the National Gallery’s nine pone the exhibition so that the changed in recent months, she the National Gallery of Art,
tives suggests that the museums pected to show difficult art and to trustees, said that attitudes about museums can ensure that we said, and those consulted over- worries that Philip Guston’s
are trying to avoid the contro- support artists. By canceling or “incendiary and toxic racial im- sensitively and thoughtfully pre- whelmingly supported a delay. anti-racist message could be
versy at the Whitney Museum of delaying, we abandon this re- agery in art” have shifted in sent the works and accompany- peggy.mcglone@washpost.com misinterpreted right now.

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13) 3:20-6:45 3:00-3:45-4:30-6:00-6:45-7:30 Madagascar (PG) CC: 4:50-7:40 AMC Worldgate 9 1:45-2:30-3:30-4:30-5:15-6:00- versary (PG) 2:45-6:00-9:15 Empire Strikes Back 40th Anni-
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Tenet: The IMAX 2D Experience Unhinged (R) 1:30-4:15-7:45 The Broken Hearts Gallery (PG- Akira (1988) (R) 3:00 13025 Worldgate Drive Break the Silence: The Movie versary (PG) 1:00-4:20-7:40
(PG-13) 4:00-8:00 Unhinged (R) 2:20-5:10-7:40 Tenet (PG-13) 2:00-5:40-9:20; The Personal History of David Break the Silence: The Movie
Infidel (R) 2:00-5:00-8:00 13) 12:55-3:55-7:00 The New Mutants (PG-13) CC: The New Mutants (PG-13) CC: The Lego Movie (PG) 12:50- 2:15-4:00-5:00-6:45-7:45-9:20 Copperfield (PG) 4:55
Break the Silence: The Movie 1:25-4:00-5:00-7:25-8:35 1:20-3:30-4:00-6:30-7:00-9:20-
The Broken Hearts Gallery (PG- Infidel (R) 1:45-4:35-7:30 3:05-5:50-8:40 4:15-8:10 4:00-6:40 Regal Fairfax Towne Center Unhinged (R) 5:25-8:15 9:50
3:00-7:00 13) 2:45-4:00-7:00 The Last Shift (R) 1:05-3:40- On The Basis Of Sex (PG-13) CC: On The Basis Of Sex (PG-13) CC: RBG (PG) 1:10-4:20-7:10 Regal Ballston Quarter
Star Wars: Episode V - The 4110 West Ox Road RBG (PG) 8:40 Akira: The IMAX 2D Experience
6:10-7:10 4:45-7:50 4:25-7:20 Tenet (PG-13) 1:00-1:50-2:30- 671 North Glebe Road
Empire Strikes Back 40th Anni- Regal UA Snowden Square The Land Before Time (G) 4:10 On The Basis Of Sex (PG-13) 5:10 (4K Remastered) (R) 7:00
9161 Commerce Center Drive Tenet: The IMAX 2D Experience Tenet (PG-13) CC: 3:40-7:30 Tenet (PG-13) CC: 4:30-7:00 3:10-3:50-4:30-5:30-6:10-6:50- The Land Before Time (G) The New Mutants (PG-13) Infidel (R) 5:45-8:45
versary (PG) 3:45-7:45 4:10-10:30 Regal Virginia Gateway & RPX
(PG-13) 1:00-4:30-8:00 Unhinged (R) CC: 3:35-5:10-8:10 Unhinged (R) CC: 5:15-7:50 7:20-8:00 4:30-7:25 Words On Bathroom Walls
AMC Loews St. The Land Before Time (G) The New Mutants (PG-13) 4:25- The Secret Life of Pets (PG) 6:30 (PG-13) 8:30 8001 Gateway Promenade Place
1:10-3:10 Star Wars: Episode V - The Kajillionaire (R) CC: 3:10-4:30- Kajillionaire (R) CC: 4:35-7:15 Infidel (R) 1:20-2:10-4:10-5:00-
Charles Town Ctr. 9 7:10-9:55
11115 Mall Circle The Secret Life of Pets (PG)
Empire Strikes Back 40th Anni- 6:00-7:20-8:50 The Last Shift (R) CC: 5:05-7:45 7:00-8:10 Tenet (PG-13) 4:05-7:40 The Broken Hearts Gallery (PG- The Land Before Time (G)
versary (PG) 1:30-4:40-7:50 The Last Shift (R) CC: 5:20- Infidel (R) CC: 4:55-8:00 The Secrets We Keep (R) 2:00- The Secret Life of Pets (PG) 6:30 13) 4:30-7:30 1:25-3:55
Madagascar (PG) CC: 3:45-6:30 1:30-3:50-6:20 Unhinged (R) 4:35
Break the Silence: The Movie 6:50-8:00 The Broken Hearts Gallery (PG- 4:50-7:30 Tenet (PG-13) 4:15-4:45-7:55-8:30 Tenet (PG-13) 5:15-9:00 The Secret Life of Pets (PG)
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3:35-6:10 Infidel (R) CC: 3:50-8:25 13) CC: 4:20-7:10 Shortcut (R) 1:40-4:05-6:30 Train to Busan Presents: Penin- The Last Shift (R) 4:10-7:00-
3:30-6:15-9:00 The Broken Hearts Gallery (PG- Star Wars: Episode V - The Copperfield (PG) 7:30 The New Mutants (PG-13) 1:35-
Tenet (PG-13) CC: 3:30-4:00-5:00- Tenet (PG-13) 1:00-3:30-4:00-
7:00-7:30-8:45-9:15 6:50-7:30 VIRGINIA 13) CC: 3:25-6:20 Empire Strikes Back 40th Anni-
Cinema Arts Theatre
9650 Main St
Unhinged (R) 4:35-7:20-10:05 sula
The
7:10
Last Shift (R) 4:50-7:50
8:10-9:45
Star Wars: Episode V - The
4:25-7:20
Star Wars: Episode V - The versary (PG) CC: 4:45-7:30 RBG (PG) 8:15 Tenet (PG-13) 1:05-4:30-8:00
Unhinged (R) CC: 3:30-7:15-9:30 RBG (PG) 5:20-7:50 AMC Courthouse Plaza 8 Tenet (PG-13) CC; DVS: 9:50-1:00- Infidel (R) 4:10-7:15 Empire Strikes Back 40th Anni-
Empire Strikes Back 40th Anni- Alamo Drafthouse
On The Basis Of Sex (PG-13) 5:00 versary (PG) 4:15-7:30-9:30 The Personal History of David
Infidel (R) CC: 3:40-6:30-9:45 On The Basis Of Sex (PG-13) 1:15 2150 Clarendon Blvd.
versary (PG) 3:20-6:40 4:10-7:20 Leap (Duo guan) 4:05-7:35 Star Wars: Episode V - The Copperfield (PG) 1:40
Cinema - One Loudoun Empire Strikes Back 40th Anni- Break the Silence: The Movie
The Broken Hearts Gallery (PG- Unhinged (R) 2:10-4:40-7:10 RBG (PG) 4:15-7:45 Tenet: The IMAX 2D Experience 20575 East Hampton Plaza
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (R) CC; The Broken Hearts Gallery (PG- RBG (PG) 1:45-8:00
13) CC: 4:00-6:50-9:45 The Last Shift (R) 1:10-2:40-4:10- On The Basis Of Sex (PG-13) CC: DVS: 10:00-12:50-3:40-7:00-9:30 versary (PG) 4:00-7:10 4:00-5:00-6:50-7:50-9:40
(PG-13) CC: 4:40-8:30 13) 4:55-8:00 On The Basis Of Sex (PG-13) 4:40
Star Wars: Episode V - The 5:10-6:40-7:40 4:45-7:15 The Wizard of Oz (1939) (G) 2:00 The Broken Hearts Gallery Infidel (R) 4:30-7:25-10:25 Break the Silence: The Movie Regal Manassas & IMAX Unhinged (R) 1:10-4:55-7:40
Break the Silence: The Movie 4:00-5:00-7:00-8:00
Empire Strikes Back 40th Anni- Infidel (R) 1:00-3:40-6:30 Tenet (PG-13) CC: 4:30-6:45-7:30 3:00-4:20-5:40-7:00-8:20 Akira (1988) (R) 2:25-5:25-8:00 (PG-13) CC; DVS: 10:20-1:20-4:20- The Last Shift (R) 4:20-4:50- 11380 Bulloch Drive Tenet (PG-13) 2:00-5:45
versary (PG) CC: 4:00-6:15-9:30 The Broken Hearts Gallery (PG- Kajillionaire (R) CC: 4:15-5:00- Shortcut (R) 4:00-6:30-9:00 The New Mutants (PG-13) 1:40- 7:30-9:40 7:00-9:40 Regal Fox & IMAX The Land Before Time (G) 2:00- The Broken Hearts Gallery (PG-
13) 1:20-4:20-7:00 7:00-8:00 5:35-8:35 Kajillionaire (R) CC; DVS: 9:55- Star Wars: Episode V - The 22875 Brambleton Plaza 4:20-6:40 13) 1:30-4:30-7:35
Cinemark Egyptian 24 and XD Tenet (PG-13) CC: 5:30-6:30
Star Wars: Episode V - The Infidel (R) CC: 5:15-8:00 RBG (PG) 4:30 12:15-2:35-4:55-7:40-9:50 Empire Strikes Back 40th Anni- The Land Before Time (G) We're Back: A Dinosaur's Story The Last Shift (R) 1:15-4:00-
7000 Arundel Mills Circle AMC Shirlington 7
Empire Strikes Back 40th Anni- The Broken Hearts Gallery (PG- On The Basis Of Sex (PG-13) 2:20 The Way I See It (PG-13) CC; DVS: versary (PG) 4:00-7:15-9:10 1:35-7:20 (G) 1:10-4:10-6:20 6:15-6:45
Akira (1988) (R) 1:40-5:35-8:55 versary (PG) 1:20-4:40-8:00 13) CC: 4:00-7:45 2772 South Randolph St. Tenet (PG-13) 7:45 10:10-1:10-4:10-7:10-9:20
The New Mutants (PG-13) 1:25- Break the Silence: The Movie Regal Countryside The Secret Life of Pets (PG) Jurassic World (PG-13) 1:00-4:00 Infidel (R) 2:05-4:55-7:50
AMC Hoffman Center 22 The New Mutants (PG-13) CC: The Trial of the Chicago 7 (R) Cinemark Centreville 12 12:20-3:05-6:00 The New Mutants (PG-13) 1:20- Train to Busan Presents: Penin-
3:05-4:40-6:25-7:45-9:15 1:40-2:20-4:05-4:50-6:35-7:20 4:00-7:45 2:00-5:15-6:45 45980 Regal Plaza
RBG (PG) 2:25 206 Swamp Fox Rd. 6201 Multiplex Drive The Land Before Time (G) 3:45- The New Mutants (PG-13) 1:00- 3:55-6:30 sula 7:30
RBG (PG) 4:15-6:30 Kajillionaire (R) 1:35-4:25-7:20 Star Wars: Episode V - The
On The Basis Of Sex (PG-13) 2:50 Regal Waugh Chapel & IMAX Madagascar (PG) CC: 1:25- Tenet (PG-13) CC: 4:00-7:00 Infidel (R) 8:20 The New Mutants (PG-13) 1:15- 5:45-7:40 3:50-7:15 The Secret Life of Pets (PG)
Cut Throat City (R) 1:05-4:50-8:25 1419 South Main Chapel Way 4:00-6:30 4:05-6:40-9:20 Black Panther (PG-13) 7:30 Tenet (PG-13) 3:20-7:05 1:30-4:40-7:10 Empire Strikes Back 40th Anni-
Kajillionaire (R) CC: 4:30-7:15 The Broken Hearts Gallery RBG (PG) 3:15 Tenet (PG-13) 2:30-6:05 versary (PG) 1:00-4:15-7:30
The Eight Hundred 3:40-5:25- The Land Before Time (G) 12:55 Akira (1988) (R) 1:00 Tenet (PG-13) 1:50-3:15-5:50- The Secret Life of Pets (PG)
The Last Shift (R) CC: 5:15-8:00 (PG-13) 8:30 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Break the Silence: The Movie
7:25-9:10 The Secret Life of Pets (PG) The New Mutants (PG-13) CC: 7:30-9:30 3:55-6:30 The Personal History of David
Infidel (R) CC: 4:45-7:30 Star Wars: Episode V - The (PG-13) 7:00 1:15-2:15-4:05-5:00-6:55-7:45
Tenet (PG-13) 4:15-8:15 4:25-7:10 1:45-4:40-6:20-7:35
The Broken Hearts Gallery (PG- Empire Strikes Back 40th Anni- Unhinged (R) 2:15-6:55-9:55 The New Mutants (PG-13) 4:10- Copperfield (PG) 3:35
Unhinged (R) 1:15-4:05-6:50-9:50 The New Mutants (PG-13) 2:00- RBG (PG) 1:50-4:45-7:30 Sonic The Hedgehog (PG) 1:05- 7:00-9:20 On The Basis Of Sex (PG-13) The Personal History of David Akira: The IMAX 2D Experience
4:50-7:25 13) CC: 5:00-8:00 versary (PG) 3:35-4:50-7:15 12:00-6:05 Copperfield (PG) 1:45 (4K Remastered) (R) 4:00
Leap (Duo guan) 3:25-6:55 On The Basis Of Sex (PG-13) CC: Grease (PG) 2:00 3:55-7:05-9:45 Tenet (PG-13) 4:30-7:45-9:00
The Last Shift (R) 1:55-4:55-7:55 RBG (PG) 4:15-7:00 1:00-3:50-6:45 AMC Tysons Corner 16 The Broken Hearts Gallery (PG- The Personal History of David Unhinged (R) 1:10-4:10-7:45 Unhinged (R) 1:25-3:45-6:15 University Mall Theatre
7850e Tysons Corner Center Jaws (PG) 8:30
Train to Busan Presents: Penin- On The Basis Of Sex (PG-13) 1:05 Cut Throat City (R) 7:40 Tenet (PG-13) 3:35-4:55-7:15
13) 1:30-4:20-7:15 Copperfield (PG) 4:35 Words On Bathroom Walls (PG- Tenet: The IMAX 2D Experience 10659 Braddock Road
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Infidel (R) 1:35-4:45-8:10 Unhinged (R) 2:50-5:25-7:50 The Personal History of David The New Mutants (PG-13) CC: Angelika Film Center Mosaic 1:40-4:40-7:40 On The Basis Of Sex (PG-13) Tenet (PG-13) 3:00-6:45 The Last Shift (R) 1:50-4:25-5:00- 1:15-4:15
The Broken Hearts Gallery (PG- The Last Shift (R) 1:30-4:10-6:40 Copperfield (PG) CC: 1:15-4:15 2:55-5:50-8:45 2911 District Ave Infidel (R) 1:20-4:10-7:10-10:00 3:50-6:40-9:25 Infidel (R) 12:25-3:35-6:35 7:05-7:40 Bill & Ted Face The Music (PG-
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Star Wars: Episode V - The The Broken Hearts Gallery (PG- Kajillionaire (R) CC: 1:10-3:15- Tenet (PG-13) CC: 3:10-7:00 Azkaban (PG) CC: 12:00-3:30 Empire Strikes Back 40th Anni- The Broken Hearts Gallery (PG- 13) 12:05-3:10-6:15 The Broken Hearts Gallery (PG- The Broken Hearts Gallery (PG-
Empire Strikes Back 40th Anni- 13) 1:40-4:30-7:20 4:10-6:15-7:10 Unhinged (R) CC: 2:40-5:20-8:00 The Last Shift (R) CC: (!) 12:20- versary (PG) 3:20-6:30-9:40 13) 4:15-6:50-9:35 Tenet: The IMAX 2D Experience 13) 1:55-4:45-7:35 13) CC; DVS: 7:15-9:35
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CLASSIC DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU PICKLES BRIAN CRANE

RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

N-S VULNERABLE
NORTH
♠ 965
♥ 76
♦ 972
♣ K J 10 9 2
WEST EAST
♠ KJ72 ♠ 10 3
♥ 5432 ♥9
♦ 10 4 ♦ QJ865 MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES WUMO
♣ AQ3 ♣ 87654
SOUTH (D)
♠ AQ84
♥ A K Q J 10 8
♦ AK3
♣ None

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

“S imple Saturday” col-

umns focus on basic
technique and encourage
logical thinking.
Suppose I offer to bet you
a dollar that I can pick a card
at random from the deck,
and it will be a ten or lower.
I hope you would decline to
bet. But players sometimes
accept worse odds in han-
dling individual suit combina- RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JAMES ALLEN
tions as declarer.
In today’s deal, South
restrained himself and
stopped at four hearts with
his mammoth hand. He won
West’s trump opening lead,
drew trumps and attacked
the spades by cashing the
ace and leading the four.
Alas, East won with the
ten and led the queen of dia-
monds. South won and led LIO MARK TATULLI MIKE PETERS
MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM
another low spade, but West
took the jack and king, and
South also lost a diamond for
down one.
South made a bad bet
in spades. After he takes
the ace, he should lead the
queen. South’s actual play
would gain if either defender
had started with K-x, but the
winning play gains twice as
often: when either defender
holds J-x or 10-x. HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
Be careful how you bet.
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠KJ72♥5432
♦ 10 4 ♣ A Q 3
The dealer, at your left,
opens three diamonds. Your
partner doubles, and the
next player passes. What do
you say?
ANSWER: Your partner’s
double is for takeout, and BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
since it obliges you to
respond at the three level,
he has a hand worth at least
17 points. You have 10 good
points, so you must commit
to game, but you need to
locate your best trump fit.
Cue-bid four diamonds to let
partner choose.
— Frank Stewart
©2020, TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY, LLC.

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SUDOKU

CURTIS RAY BILLINGSLEY

BREWSTER ROCKIT: SPACE GUY! TIM RICKARD


STANLEY CUP FINALS
Ex-Capital Kevin Shattenkirk scores in OT to move
Tampa Bay within one win of the Stanley Cup. D2
The Lakers
are going to
great pains
in Finals bid
On
kissimmee, fla.
— The Los
the NBA Angeles Lakers
opened the
BEN
GOLLIVER Western
Conference finals
hooting and hollering, full of
vigor and certain they would be
able to psych out the younger
and less experienced Denver
Nuggets.
Four games in, the Lakers are
huffing, puffing and, in Anthony
Davis’s case, hobbling on a
sprained left ankle. That hasn’t
stopped the West’s top seed
from taking a 3-1 series lead
with a gutsy 114-108 victory in
Game 4 on Thursday, but it does
mean that the Lakers face
lingering concerns as they seek
to clinch their first trip to the
NBA Finals since 2010.
Davis’s ankle, which he
sprained midway through the
fourth quarter after attempting
a jump shot, is easily the biggest
cause for worry. After falling to
the court, the all-star forward
writhed in pain, clutched his
ankle and initially struggled to
get back on his feet.
Rather than return to the
locker room for treatment or
take a seat on the bench, Davis
spent the ensuing timeout
walking around the court in
hopes of keeping it loose. He
then flexed his ankle and
remained in the game for the
closing stretch, struggling to
move at times on defense while
still finding ways to contribute
on offense by finishing a lob
dunk and hitting a pair of late
free throws.
The Lakers need Davis at or
near full strength to close out
the Nuggets, who erased 3-1
series deficits against the Utah
Jazz in the first round and the
Los Angeles Clippers in the
second. Davis addressed
reporters without any wrap on
his ankle, and he signaled that
he would be ready for Game 5
on Saturday.
“Ankle feels fine,” Davis said.
“Got tonight and [Friday] before
the game to get it back to — I
don’t want to say back to where
it was — but good enough to
play. I rolled it pretty bad but
not too bad. I’ll be fine.”
Lakers Coach Frank Vogel was
optimistic but noncommittal.
“We’ll see how it responds to
treatment,” Vogel said. “There’s
always concern with an injury
like that. It was good for him to
play through it, but we’ll see
how he responds overnight.”
Davis is leading the Lakers in
minutes, points and blocks per
game in the playoffs, and he
scored a game-high 34 points,
including Los Angeles’s first
10 points, on Thursday. His
Lakers vs. Nuggets
SEE NBA ON D2
Today, 9 p.m., TNT
Celtics stay alive: Boston rallies
past Heat, cuts deficit to 3-2. D2
For U.S. men’s soccer,
this may be a golden era
Young players producing in top European leagues
BY S TEVEN G OFF
At his Chicago home last
weekend, Gregg Berhalter, coach
of the U.S. men’s national soccer
team, watched high-end Euro-
pean matches involving Juven-
tus, Bayern Munich, Borussia
Dortmund, RB Leipzig and Ajax.
He also monitored games in the
English Premier League and
France’s Ligue 1.
The unusual common denomi-
nator: young Americans on the
field in the continent’s marquee
leagues.
“Things go in cycles, and you
heard a couple years ago, ‘Where
are all our players?’ ” Berhalter
said in a phone interview Mon-
day. “Now you see an abundance
of players performing on the
world stage. That is great, and it’s
KLMNO
SPORTS
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 , 2020
PRO FOOTBALL
Washington preps for Cleveland and Baker Mayfield,
one of five top overall picks on the team’s schedule. D3
The LSU band helped Tigers fans revel in a College Football Playoff title in January, but the rest of 2020 has been frightful.
‘It’s been a hell of a year’
LSU won it all, then Louisiana’s 2020 turned unimaginably dreadful. Now the Tigers are back.
BY C HUCK C ULPEPPER
Way, way back on the 13th night of 2020,
Louisiana breathed a bacchanalia quite possi-
bly and eternally peerless.
Not only had its flagship LSU won a
national championship in its beloved football,
but it also had won through that best of paths
— unexpectedly — and with that shiniest of
features — an aurora borealis offense. Further,
it had won while representing the state
perhaps most polished at the art of human
exuberance. Further still, the rotation of
playoff sites somehow divined that it all
happened to conclude in New Orleans, where
the Monday night air seemed charged with an
end-of-time euphoria.
Then came the rest of 2020. Then came the
unusual novel coronavirus pandemic and the
usual irate climate. Then came an early
outbreak of covid-19, the disease caused by the
coronavirus that has seen Louisiana amass
great for U.S. soccer.”
It could not have happened at
a better time. Stung by the failure
to qualify for the 2018 World
Cup, the national team has been
gradually rebuilding toward the
2022 tournament in Qatar and
embracing a generational shift.
In soccer parlance, a cluster of
similarly aged players with high
potential is known as a golden
generation.
Last weekend, Berhalter saw it
in action. Dortmund’s Giovanni
Reyna, 17, scored his first
Bundesliga goal.
Weston McKennie, 22, became
the first American to play for
Italy’s most decorated team, Ju-
ventus, logging 90 minutes in
midfield behind superstar Cris-
tiano Ronaldo.
SEE SOCCER ON D3 Giovanni Reyna, 17, became the second-youngest American to score in the Bundesliga on Saturday.
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HIGH SCHOOLS
Gov. Hogan said Maryland high school sports can start
next month. Around the DMV, they remain on hold. D7
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL SATURDAY the most cases per capita among states to
GAMES TO WATCH date, and the various storms that have
destroyed homes, wrecked electric grids and
Nationally heightened water to close roads and turn
brackish water further to salt and farms
5 Florida at Mississippi
further to marshland. And as LSU prepares
Noon, ESPN
to open a new season against retooled
Mississippi State at 6 LSU Mississippi State on Saturday in Baton
3:30 p.m., CBS Rouge with its Tiger Stadium audience
limited to 25 percent of capacity, the year
22 Army at 14 Cincinnati
has brought a spate of reminders that
3:30 p.m., ESPN Louisiana always seems to experience its
Florida State at 12 Miami joy, pain and resiliency in outsize degrees.
7:30 p.m., ABC “We are up against a lot,” Nic Hunter said
from Lake Charles.
“I think the depression in a city like New
Locally
Orleans is more keenly felt,” Kodi A. Roberts
Duke at Virginia said from the city that has consumed his
4 p.m., ACC Network still-young life.
N.C. State at 20 Virginia Tech
8 p.m., ACC Network
“It’s been a crazy, crazy ride,” Anthony
Goldsmith said from down the bayou south
SEE LSU ON D6
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M2 D
Nats give
Martinez
a contract
extension
Manager will be the first
to return for fourth year
since team moved to D.C.
BY J ESSE D OUGHERTY
The Washington Nationals and
Manager Dave Martinez agreed to
a contract extension that will keep
him with the team beyond 2021,
according to a person with knowl-
edge of the situation.
The Nationals originally held a
2021 club option for Martinez,
who led the franchise to its first
World Series title in October. But
after General Manager Mike Rizzo
received a three-year extension
this month, keeping him in Wash-
ington through the 2023 season,
he quickly lobbied for Martinez to
receive a deal similar in duration.
Rizzo often has described Marti-
nez as perfect for the club’s future,
the right personality to foster
young talent and oversee a vet-
eran clubhouse.
News of Martinez’s extension
was first reported by MLB Net-
work.
Rizzo and Martinez were ex-
pected to speak with reporters
Friday night after a game against
the New York Mets. But because
the game was postponed by rain,
the pair will not address the media
until early Saturday afternoon.
The game will be made up as part
of a doubleheader starting at
3:05 p.m.
Martinez, who turns 56 on Sat-
urday, is finishing his third season
in Washington. He will now be-
come the first Nationals manager
to return for a fourth year. His first
campaign ended in disappoint-
ment and raised doubts about his
ability to stick with the team. The
second was the title season. And
now, in the middle of the novel
coronavirus pandemic, Martinez
is shepherding his club to the
quiet end of a down year.
The Nationals, 23-34, were
eliminated from playoff conten-
tion. Yet even after that happened
this week, the organization’s
SEE NATIONALS ON D5
Mets at Nationals (2)
Today, 3 p.m., MASN
Even in this
odd season,
Soto’s stats
inspire awe
Mike Trout, Hank
Aaron, Albert
Pujols, Alex
Rodriguez, Willie
Mays, Joe
Thomas
Boswell
DiMaggio, Mookie
Betts and Mickey
Mantle never led
their league in
batting average, on-base
percentage and slugging
percentage in the same season.
Babe Ruth did it once.
Right now, 21-year-old Juan
Soto of the Washington Nationals
leads the National League in all
three categories.
Why is it so difficult — and so
stunning within MLB — to lead
in all three areas? Because it’s
hard to slug balls over and off
fences while making the
consistent, hard contact to have
the highest batting average. And
because drawing walks, a key
contributor to a high on-base
percentage, is yet another skill.
Winning these three titles in
the same year is a hallmark of the
greatest pure hitters ever. Rogers
Hornsby did it seven times, Ted
Williams five and Ty Cobb four.
Now that I have your attention
— and you may be screaming in
outrage, too — let’s be clear:
What Soto does in a two-month
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HOROSCOPE

BIRTHDAY | SEPTEMBER 26
Intense, well-directed
and hard-driving, your
brilliant and thorough
work survives well
after your own lifetime. This
year, the pandemic teaches
you to be less obsessive, and
you succeed in a different
field. If single, your sense
of humor attracts a special
someone after mid-year. If
attached, your very private
DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY bond only intensifies. You can
be difficult to live with, and
you correct that this year.
Pisces likes to retreat too.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
Love connections are a source
of healing and encouragement
today. Control impatience and
irritability. Don’t overwhelm
timid individuals. It’s a good
idea to assume a leadership
role and try all that is new and
fresh.
TAURUS
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL (APRIL 20-MAY 20).
Today gifts you with quick wit.
Decisions made today will be
wise ones. Much is expected of
you. It’s time to get organized.
Separate family needs from
career responsibilities. A new
challenge appeals to you.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
Today’s pattern shows wider
mental horizons developing.
You’re bored with old concepts
and ways of doing things and
long to learn something new.
You develop deeper insight
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK into your nature.

CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
There is a touch of the loner
within you. An impenetrable
shell guards the soft internal
self. So today, give yourself
some space, even when
completely with your partner,
and still in love with your
partner.
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
Keep competitive situations
in good taste and as friendly
DUSTIN STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN STAN LEE & ALEX SAVIUK as possible. Make an amulet
to enhance harmony.
Avoid potentially turbulent
confrontations. Double-check
rules and regulations. Then be
prepared to speak.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
Your body will communicate
which adjustments in lifestyle
are needed to enhance
strength. You also will see how
the love and companionship
of pets can work wonders
in promoting good health. A
house meeting today.
PRICKLY CITY SCOTT STANTIS LOOSE PARTS DAVE BLAZEK
LIBRA
(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
You might be the object of a
rather persistent courtship.
Bask in the admiration; do
not shirk it as in the past.
You don’t want to be alone
anymore as you used to be.
Times have changed.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
Your home and family sector is
activated. Your residence can
be redecorated or repaired,
making it more comfortable
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT for the next season. Family
ties are growing stronger and
offer greater happiness and
emotional support.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
You will be able to solve
difficulties through discussion
and multitask with ease.
Promote peace with a volatile
neighbor or sibling. Travel
prospects will finally become
wonderful, after waiting so
long.
CAPRICORN
BIG NATE LINCOLN PEIRCE ON THE FASTRACK BILL HOLBROOK (DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
Pursue social and creative
outlets. Some very enjoyable
invitations come your way.
Plan a remote party. Money
can come from another
source. There is something
unpredictable about old
financial patterns. Look at
these.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
As the zodiac’s free-thinking
inventor, you are sociable yet
original. Today makes you the
center of attention. You shine
BEETLE BAILEY MORT, BRIAN & GREG WALKER PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS once your powerful intellect
and creativity are allowed free
rein.
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
Help arrives when least
expected and most needed,
for angels can come in the
form of helpful friends or
professional consultations.
Today puts you in touch with
old companions.
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STANLEY CUP FINALS
OT goal has Tatum and Brown help Boston stave o≠ elimination in Game 5
Tampa Bay CELTICS 121,
a win away HEAT 108
from title
LIGHTNING 5,
STARS 4 (OT)
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Kevin Shattenkirk scored in
overtime on a controversial pow-
er play, Brayden Point had two
goals, and the Tampa Bay Light-
ning beat the Dallas Stars, 5-4, on
Friday night in Edmonton to take
a 3-1 series lead in the Stanley Cup
finals and move to the cusp of
winning the title.
With Game 5 on Saturday
night, Tampa Bay is potentially
24 hours away from its second
championship in franchise his-
tory. The Lightning won the Cup
in 2004, but this core has been
unable to get over the hump de-
spite being one of the best teams
in the NHL for much of the past
decade.
The Lightning are on the verge
thanks to Shattenkirk’s goal 6:34
into overtime and another domi-
nant performance by top players
who look as if they won’t be
denied after getting this far. Point,
the Lightning’s top center, scored
consecutive goals at the end of the
first period and start of the sec-
ond, creating and sustaining the
kind of momentum that has been
so important in the playoffs.
The Lightning got the winning
power play when Dallas captain
Jamie Benn was called for trip-
ping Point on a play on which
Benn’s skates never made contact
with Points’s as the referee called
it.
Playoff MVP favorite Victor
Hedman showed why, saving a
goal in the third period. With the
puck slowly sliding in the crease
toward the goal behind Andrei
Vasilevskiy, Hedman swept it out
of harm’s way.
Instead of the plucky Stars re-
claiming the lead, Alex Killorn
put the Lightning ahead a few
shifts later with a play that was
half hard-working power and half
sublime skill. He won a puck
battle behind the net, cruised to
the right faceoff circle and fired a
perfect shot into the top left cor-
ner.
There wasn’t much Stars goal-
tender Anton Khudobin could do
on that one, and Vasilevskiy was
the victim of two bad bounces
that almost allowed Dallas to
even the series. John Klingberg’s
goal opened the scoring came
after his initial shot went off Tam-
pa Bay’s Jan Rutta and through
Hedman’s legs, and Joe Pavelski’s
second that tied it in the third
pinballed in off the goalie and
Shattenkirk.
But the Lightning carried the
play for much of the night and
showed the depth and talent that
have made it a Cup contender for
several years. Tampa Bay’s core
players are closer to the Cup than
they ever have been, five years
after taking a 2-1 series lead in the
final and losing in six to Chicago.
Petry, Montreal agree to deal
The Montreal Canadiens
signed defenseman Jeff Petry to a
four-year extension at an average
of $6.25 million a year.
SOCCER
Loudoun United ends
season prematurely
D.C. United’s second-division
squad, Loudoun United, canceled
the final three matches of the
season because of multiple cases
of the novel coronavirus.
After previously calling off
Saturday’s trip to Charleston, S.C.,
team officials said Friday that
matches against New York Red
Bulls II on Wednesday and North
Carolina FC on Oct. 4 would not
occur. Both were to have taken
place at Segra Field in Leesburg.
Loudoun United — which was
founded last year in large part to
develop young players for D.C.
United — is the first of 35 USL
Championship teams to end its
season prematurely during the
pandemic.
The number of infected players
and staff members was not
announced. But because there
were multiple cases, D.C. United
spokesman Zachary Abaie said,
doctors advised the entire group
to quarantine for 14 days.
— Steven Goff
Hertha Berlin lost at home to
Eintracht Frankfurt, 3-1, in the
German Bundesliga, the first time
fans were allowed to attend a
soccer game in Berlin’s
NBA PLAYOFFS
BY T IM R EYNOLDS
kissimmee, fla. — The season
saved for at least two more days,
Boston Coach Brad Stevens of-
fered the most succinct assess-
ment of his Celtics.
“We’re prideful,” Stevens said.
Celtic Pride. It was on display
Friday night — when Jayson Tat-
um and his teammates an-
nounced very loudly that they’re
not ready to see the world that
exists outside the NBA’s restart
bubble quite yet.
Tatum had 31 points and 10 re-
bounds, Jaylen Brown added
28 points, and the Celtics shook off
a slow first half to top the Miami
Heat, 121-108, in Game 5 of the
Eastern Conference finals and
stave off elimination.
“Our deal was to come out and
play, come out and compete, give it
our best shot, and I thought we
played pretty well in the second
half,” Stevens said. “But we’re go-
ON THE NBA
Closing out Western Conference finals might not be so easy for L.A.
NBA FROM D1
versatile defense has been useful
against Denver’s two stars,
Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray,
and he has been a late-game
workhorse. Of course, this
would be a tied series if not for
Davis’s Game 2 buzzer-beater.
LeBron James showed he
could pick up some of the slack,
switching onto Murray
defensively to help close out
Game 4. But James, at 35, has
exhibited signs of fatigue down
the stretch in this series. During
Game 2, he committed a
number of uncharacteristic
turnovers. In Game 4, he tugged
on his shorts during one late
dead ball and struggled to find
the range on his jumper.
To be clear, James did plenty
to bring home the win, getting a
pair of stops on Murray, digging
into his bag of tricks to draw
fouls on two key offensive
possessions and finishing with
26 points, nine rebounds and
eight assists. If Davis is limited
in any way in Game 5, though,
added burden will fall to James
as a scorer, playmaker and late-
game closer.
“I’ve got pretty good energy
when I’m on the floor all the
time,” James said,
unconvincingly. “It’s winning
time, and I don’t have a chance
or time to be feeling tired. I’m
tired now. That’s when I’m tired,
when it’s zeros on the clock.
That’s when I’m tired. I’m not
tired during the game.”
Denial can be a powerful tool
for a competitor, and here
James wielded it well. Vogel has
sought to limit James’s minutes
as much as possible during the
postseason, and he hasn’t
sustained top gear nearly as
often as he did during the 2018
playoffs with Cleveland. Los
Angeles looks exceptional when
James is racing out on the break
and mortal when he settles for
jumpers or moves the ball
around the perimeter when play
DI GEST
Olympiastadion since coronavirus
restrictions began in March. . . .
Lionel Messi criticized the exit
of teammate and good friend
Luis Suárez, dealing another
blow to the damaged relationship
between the Argentine and
Barcelona’s leadership.
Messi posted a photo of himself
with Suárez on Instagram with a
message expressing his sadness
for his friend’s departure and his
anger at how the club transferred
him to Atlético Madrid.
“You deserved a sending-off fit
for what you are: one of the most
important players in club history,
both for what you did for the
group and individually — not the
one they gave you,” Messi wrote.
“But it is true that at this point
nothing surprises me.”
AUTO RACING
Valtteri Bottas was fastest in
both practice sessions for the
Russian Grand Prix in Sochi as
Mercedes again looked to have
untouchable pace.
Bottas set the fastest time of
the day with 1 minute
33.519 seconds in the second
session, 0.267 ahead of his
teammate and championship
leader Lewis Hamilton. The next
fastest was Daniel Ricciardo for
Renault, more than a second off
the pace.
EZ M2
ing to have to do it again and again
because of the position we’re in.”
The Heat leads the series 3-2,
with Game 6 on Sunday.
Daniel Theis had 15 points and
13 rebounds for the Celtics, who
trailed by 12 early but outscored
Miami 41-25 in the third quarter
and never looked back. Kemba
Walker scored 15 points, Marcus
Smart had a 12-point, eight-re-
bound, eight-assist night and Gor-
don Hayward scored 10 for the
Celtics.
Goran Dragic scored 23 points
before fouling out with 4:27 left for
Miami, which got 20 from Duncan
Robinson.
“It’s certainly not going to be
easy,” Robinson said. “We’ve got to
band together to do difficult
things.”
Jimmy Butler scored 17, Tyler
Herro and Jae Crowder each had
14 and Bam Adebayo 13 for the
Heat — which could get nothing to
fall from three-point range.
Miami was 7 for 36 from beyond
the arc, now shooting 24.8 percent
on three-pointers in its past
13 quarters — after shooting
38.3 percent on those in the play-
Anthony Davis hurt his ankle in the fourth quarter of the Lakers’ Game 4 win Thursday against the Nuggets. He remained in the game.
slows in the fourth quarter.
The Lakers also must take
note of their good fortune
Thursday: Jokic found himself
in foul trouble for the second
time in the series after he
committed two fouls on Davis in
less than a minute. Denver is at
its most potent when Jokic is
capable of playing hard and
free, and he will be primed to
take advantage if Davis is not at
full strength.
“They went to the foul line
35 times,” Nuggets Coach
Michael Malone said, before
COLLEGES
The Mid-American
Conference, the first major
college football league to
postpone its season, became the
final one to jump back in, making
it 10 out of 10 conferences that
will play in the fall.
As university presidents in the
Big Ten, Pac-12 and Mountain
West have done over the past
10 days, MAC leaders voted to
reverse their August decision to
kick football to spring and tee it
up during its usual season.
The MAC will start Nov. 4 — a
Wednesday, of course.
GOLF
A hornet sting early and a
bunch of birdies late carried
Hudson Swafford to a 5-under-
par 67 for a two-shot lead going
into the weekend of the Corales
Puntacana Resort and Club
Championship in Punta Cana,
Dominican Republic.
He started on the back nine
and it was largely uneventful,
except for that hornet that
stung him on the joint of his
pinkie finger while he reached
for his putter after playing one
hole.
“I guess it kind of cleared my
mind of the golf thing and just let
me focus on something else,”
Swafford said.
Jayson Tatum, center, scored 31 points and Jaylen Brown had 28 as
Boston trimmed its deficit in the Eastern Conference finals to 3-2.
referencing the Lakers’ recent
appeal to the NBA league office,
which argued that the referees
were missing fouls committed
by Denver on James. “I think I’m
going to have to go through the
proper channels like they did to
see if we can figure out how we
can get some more free throws.”
Murray, meanwhile, won’t go
quietly into the night. Denver is
6-0 in elimination games during
these playoffs, with Murray
posting averages of 32.7 points,
5.3 rebounds and 5.8 assists in
those games. His double-clutch
TENNIS
Stefanos Tsitsipas reached his
first clay-court semifinal in
16 months after beating Dusan
Lajovic, 7-6 (7-5), 6-2, at the
Hamburg Open, the last tuneup
before the French Open.
That puts Tsitsipas up against
Christian Garin, a Chilean who
has two clay-court titles already
in 2020 from back-to-back
tournament wins in Cordoba and
Rio de Janeiro in February.
The other semifinal will pit
Andrey Rublev against Casper
Ruud. . . .
Former top-10 player
Fernando Verdasco said he was
dropped from the French Open
because of what he believes is a
false positive result on a
coronavirus test.
The 36-year-old from Spain
had played in 67 consecutive
Grand Slam tournaments until he
missed this year’s U.S. Open.
Verdasco wrote on Twitter that
he had the virus in August and did
not have symptoms. He said that
was followed by negative results
until he tested positive this week.
Verdasco said he asked for
another test but French Open
organizers refused. He said he
took other, unofficial tests on his
own that came up negative.
— From news services
and staff reports
THE WASHINGTON POST . SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 , 2020
offs before that drought.
“Boston played great in that
second half,” Heat Coach Erik
Spoelstra said. “They deserved
and earned what they got. We un-
derstand how tough it is to win in
the playoffs. We did not compete
hard enough defensively, and we
paid the price for that. But you do
have to credit Boston. They played
with great force.”
Brown made back-to-back
three-pointers in the fourth quar-
ter to turn an eight-point lead into
a 103-89 margin with 8:05 left, and
things weren’t in doubt again. He
turned and blew a kiss to the Heat
bench after the second of those
three-pointers, reminiscent of
something Herro did during his
37-point barrage in Game 4.
Game on. Series on.
“It’s not going to be perfect,”
Tatum said. “You just want to give
yourself a chance.”
The opening minutes didn’t go
according to plan for Boston,
which missed 11 of its first 12 shots,
committed four turnovers in that
MIKE EHRMANN/GETTY IMAGES dismal stretch and fell into a
17-5 hole very early.
— Associated Press
MIKE EHRMANN/GETTY IMAGES
layup past James in Game 4 was The Nuggets “are extremely
one of the most sensational difficult to play against on both
plays of the entire NBA restart sides of the ball,” Vogel said.
at Disney World, and the Lakers “They are well coached
have yet to find a way to defensively. They have great
consistently limit his ability to speed and physicality. Obviously,
create high-efficiency shots. [Murray and Jokic] are just
The Lakers’ loud high jinks playing at an extremely high
and trash talk that marked the level offensively, as is their
beginning of this series have supporting cast. The bench has
given way to a quiet respect for been fantastic. [We have] great
the Nuggets — and rightfully so. respect for this team and
Los Angeles is fortunate to be definitely know that we have a
up 3-1, and Davis’s ankle is no lot of work to do to finish this
small variable in a series that series.”
has proved to be hard fought. ben.golliver@washpost.com
TELEVISION AND RADIO
COLLEGE FOOTBALL, SEE D6
MLB
1 p.m. Miami at New York Yankees » MLB Network
3 p.m. New York Mets at Washington (2) » MASN, WJFK (106.7 FM)
4 p.m. Seattle at Oakland, first game » MLB Network
6:30 p.m.
7 p.m.
Baltimore vs. Toronto » MASN2, WTEM (980 AM), WJZ (105.7 FM)
Philadelphia at Tampa Bay » WTTG (Ch. 5), WBFF (Ch. 45)
7 p.m. Cincinnati at Minnesota » Fox Sports 1
9 p.m. Los Angeles Angels at Los Angeles Dodgers » MLB Network
STANLEY CUP FINALS
8 p.m. Game 5: Tampa Bay vs. Dallas » WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11)
NBA PLAYOFFS
9 p.m. Western Conference finals, Game 5: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Denver » TNT
SOCCER
7:30 a.m. English Premier League: Manchester United at Brighton »
NBC Sports Network
10 a.m. English Premier League: Everton at Crystal Palace » NBC Sports Network
11 a.m. French Ligue 1: Rennes at Saint-Étienne » beIN Sports
12:30 p.m. English Premier League: Chelsea at West Brom » WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11)
12:30 p.m. Spanish La Liga: Real Sociedad at Elche » beIN Sports
1 p.m. NWSL: Washington at Chicago » WUSA (Ch. 9), WJZ (Ch. 13)
3 p.m. Spanish La Liga: Real Madrid at Real Betis » beIN Sports
10 p.m. Mexican Liga MX: Tigres UANL at Monterrey » Fox Sports 1
GOLF
8:30 a.m. European Tour: Irish Open, third round » Golf Channel
3 p.m. PGA Tour: Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship, third round
» WRC (Ch. 4), WBAL (Ch. 11)
AUTO RACING
5 a.m. Formula One: Russian Grand Prix, practice » ESPN
8 a.m. Formula One: Russian Grand Prix, qualifying » ESPN2
5 p.m. NHRA: Gatornationals, qualifying » Fox Sports 1
7:30 p.m. NASCAR Xfinity Series: Alsco 300 » NBC Sports Network
TENNIS
5 a.m. ATP: Hamburg European Open, semifinals; WTA: Strasbourg International,
singles and doubles finals » Tennis Channel
MIXED MARTIAL ARTS
7 p.m. UFC 253, prelims » ESPN2
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Baseball
National League American League
EAST W L PCT GB L10 STR CENTRAL W L PCT GB L10 STR WEST W L PCT GB L10 STR EAST W L PCT GB L10 STR CENTRAL W L PCT GB L10 STR WEST W L PCT GB L10 STR
z-Atlanta 35 23 .603 — 7-3 W-1 y-Chicago 33 25 .569 — 5-5 W-1 xz-Los Angeles 40 17 .702 — 7-3 W-1 z-Tampa Bay 38 20 .655 — 7-3 W-2 y-Minnesota 35 23 .603 — 5-5 L-1 xz-Oakland 34 22 .607 — 5-5 L-1
y-Miami 30 28 .517 5 5-5 W-2 St. Louis 29 27 .518 3 7-3 W-1 xy-San Diego 34 23 .596 6 4-6 L-3 y-New York 32 26 .552 6 5-5 L-3 y-Chicago 34 24 .586 1 2-8 L-6 Houston 29 28 .509 6 6-4 W-1
Philadelphia 28 30 .483 7 4-6 L-1 y-Cincinnati 30 28 .517 3 8-2 W-2 x-San Fran. 29 28 .509 11 6-4 W-1 y-Toronto 31 27 .534 7 5-5 W-3 y-Cleveland 34 24 .586 1 8-2 W-6 x-Los Angeles 26 31 .456 81/2 7-3 W-3
New York 26 31 .456 81/2 5-5 W-1 Milwaukee 28 30 .483 5 6-4 L-1 x-Colorado 25 32 .439 15 3-7 L-1 Baltimore 24 34 .414 14 3-7 L-1 Kansas City 25 33 .431 10 5-5 W-3 x--Seattle 25 31 .446 9 4-6 W-1
Washington 23 34 .404 111/2 5-5 L-2 Pittsburgh 18 40 .310 15 4-6 L-1 x-Arizona 23 34 .404 17 6-4 W-3 Boston 22 36 .379 16 5-5 gL-2 Detroit 22 34 .393 12 2-8 L-5 Texas 19 38 .333 15 2-8 L-4
x-Late game; y-Clinched playoff berth; z-Clinched division x-Late game; y-Clinched playoff berth; z-Clinched division

NO TE S
Final series for the O’s TOD AY

DODGERS’ BETTS HAS

TOP-SELLING JERSEY
gets off to rocky start NL games
GAME 1: METS AT NATIONALS, 6:05
Los Angeles OF Mookie W-L ERA TEAM
Betts supplanted Yankees
slugger Aaron Judge for
BLUE JAYS 10, ORIOLES 5 Porcello (R)
Scherzer (R)
1-6
4-4
5.46
3.67
2-9
6-5

baseball’s top-selling GAME 2: METS AT NATIONALS, 6:05

jersey in his first year on deGrom (R) 4-2 2.14 8-3
BY N ATHAN R UIZ
the West Coast. Slugger Sánchez (R) 3-5 6.80 3-7

Bryce Harper of the BREWERS AT CARDINALS, 7:07

Baltimore Orioles Manager Brandon Hyde ex-
Phillies was third. pressed a simple desire in the hours before his club
Woodruff (R) 2-5 3.43 5-7
Wainwright (R) 5-2 3.05 6-3
began its final series of 2020’s truncated regular
BRENNAMAN RESIGNS season. “I’d just like to see us play well the last three ROCKIES AT DIAMONDBACKS, 8:10
Márquez (R) 3-6 4.10 6-6
Longtime Reds and Fox games,” Hyde said.
Bumgarner (L) 0-4 7.36 2-6
Sports broadcaster Thom His wish went ungranted in the first of the trio
PADRES AT GIANTS, 9:15
Brennaman resigned a Friday. The Toronto Blue Jays pounded the Orioles,
Lamet (R) 3-1 2.07 9-2
little more than a month 10-5, to open the three-game set, being played at
Cueto (R) 2-2 5.53 6-5
after he was suspended Sahlen Field in Buffalo.
for using a homophobic The Blue Jays’ dominant victory served as an
slur on the air. after-party for Thursday, when they clinched one of NL scores
the American League’s eight playoff spots. The THURSDAY’S RESULTS
During the first game of a Orioles (24-34) were 11/2 games outside of playoff N.Y. Mets 3, at Washington 2
Reds-Royals position two weeks ago but have gone 4-13 since. at Pittsburgh 7, Chicago Cubs 0
Colorado 5, at San Francisco 4 (11)
doubleheader Aug. 19, Randal Grichuk began the second inning with a at St. Louis 4, Milwaukee 2
Brennaman appeared to solo shot off Jorge López, his 18th homer in 38 career Miami 4, at Atlanta 2

be unaware that Fox games against Baltimore. Six have come this season, FRIDAY’S RESULTS
Sports Ohio was out of a while he has five against other teams in 2020. N.Y. Mets at Washington, ppd. (rain)
Game 1: Milwaukee 3, at St. Louis 0 (7)
commercial break when Six of the next eight Blue Jays reached off López, Game 2: St. Louis 9, at Milwaukee 1 (7)
Game 1: at Arizona 4, Colorado 0 (7)
he uttered the slur. on four singles, a walk and a hit batter, before the Game 2: Colorado at Arizona, Late
right-hander struck out Grichuk to end the six-run Game 1: at San Fran. 5, San Diego 4 (7)
Game 2: San Francisco at San Diego, Late
PERSONNEL DEPT. frame.
Brewers: RHP Corbin López returned for the third and quickly surren-
dered three more singles, prompting Hyde to end his
Burnes was placed on the AL games
night after two-plus innings. In his final outing of
injured list with a strained
2020, López allowed eight runs, raising his ERA in ORIOLES AT BLUE JAYS, 6:37
left oblique, a move that six starts with Baltimore since he was claimed off W-L ERA TEAM
probably ends his waivers from the Kansas City Royals to 6.14. Means (L) 2-3 5.02 2-7
breakthrough season. JEFF ROBERSON/ASSOCIATED PRESS
In the fourth, Travis Shaw added a two-run home Walker (R) 4-3 2.86 6-4
run off Thomas Eshelman, who worked four innings
White Sox: OF Eloy
Jiménez has a sprained
Staring down the barrel of long relief behind López.
ATHLETICS AT MARINERS, 4:10
Luzardo (L) 3-2 4.12 6-3

right foot, probably Starter Yu Darvish pitched seven scoreless innings as the Cubs hammered the fading White Sox, 10-0. — Baltimore Sun Sheffield (L) 4-3 3.76 5-4

sidelining him for the TIGERS AT ROYALS, 7:05

Blue Jays 10, Orioles 5
season-ending series
BALTIMORE AB
against the crosstown Hays lf................. 5
Cubs. Iglesias dh........... 4
Stewart rf ........... 3
Mountcastle 1b .. 3
BY THE NUMBERS Ruiz 3b ................ 4
Alberto 2b........... 4
GAME 1 GAME 1 GAME 1 Rays 6, Phillies 4 Marlins 4,
Boyd (L) 2-7 6.96 4-7
R H BI BB SO AVG Diamondbacks 4, Brewers 3, Giants 5, Padres 4 (7) Joey Wendle had a go- Yankees 3 (10) Hernández (R) 0-0 3.46 2-0
0 0 0 0 2 .263 Rockies 0 (7) Cardinals 0 (7) Wilmer Flores hit a go- ahead two-run single in the Miami clinched a playoff ASTROS AT RANGERS, 7:05
1 1 1 0 0 .370
eighth inning, and AL East berth in the Bronx, where
0 0 0 1 0 .200 Zac Gallen had a ca- Christian Yelich hom- ahead homer in the fourth, TBD — — —
0 2 0 1 0 .333 reer-high 10 strikeouts ered, Brent Suter combined Mike Yastrzemski returned champion Tampa Bay ral- CEO Derek Jeter and Man- Gibson (R) 2-6 5.87 2-9
1 0 0 0 0 .220
1 2 1 0 0 .294 over six scoreless innings, with Devin Williams and from an injury to splash a lied to hurt Philadelphia’s ager Don Mattingly once

2,000
MARINERS AT ATHLETICS, 7:40
Sisco c ................. 4 0 1 0 0 3 .221
Christian Walker hit a two- Josh Hader on a five-hitter, two-run shot into McCovey playoff hopes. served as captains.
Urias ss ............... 4 1 1 1 0 1 .381 Dunn (R) 3-1 4.20 6-3
Mullins cf............ 4 1 1 2 0 1 .263 run homer, and Arizona and Milwaukee pulled off Cove in the same inning, Bryce Harper had a tri- The Marlins earned their
Minor (L) 1-6 5.92 3-7
TOTALS 35 5 8 5 2 7 — took the first game of a three double plays to boost and San Francisco beat ple and drove in two runs first postseason trip since
Career hits for the TORONTO AB R H BI BB SO AVG doubleheader. its postseason hopes in the San Diego. for the Phillies. 2003, when they won the
Cardinals’ Yadier Molina, Villar 2b ..............3 0 1 2 1 0 .194 The 25-year-old Gallen- opening game of a double- The Padres secured the PHILA. AB R H BI BB SO AVG World Series by beating AL scores
Bichette ss .........5 1 2 1 0 1 .308
38, who became the Hernandez rf.......5 0 1 2 0 0 .294 has been one of the NL’s header and the second NL’s No. 4 seed and are McCutchen lf ......4 0 0 0 0 1 .245 Jeter and the Yankees.
game of a five-game series. Bohm 3b..............4 1 2 1 0 2 .338 THURSDAY’S RESULTS
12th player who primarily Grichuk cf ...........5 2 2 1 0 1 .271 top pitchers for much of headed to their first post- Harper dh............3 1 2 2 1 0 .262 MIAMI AB R H BI BB SO AVG
Guerrero Jr. dh ...4 2 2 0 0 0 .268 Baltimore 13, at Boston 1
played as a catcher to Shaw 1b..............4 1 3 2 0 0 .245 the season and saved one MILWAUKEE AB R H BI BB SO AVG season in 14 years. Realmuto 1b .......4 0 0 0 0 0 .265 Berti 2b ...............4 0 0 0 0 1 .254 at Cleveland 5, Chicago White Sox 4
Gregorius ss .......3 0 1 0 1 1 .290 Marte cf ..............4 0 0 0 0 1 .248
reach the mark in a 4-2 Davis lf ...............3
Panik 3b ..............3
2
1
2 1 0 1 .333
1 0 1 0 .235
of his best outings for last. Garcia cf ..............3 0 1 0 1 1 .249 SAN DIEGO AB R H BI BB SO AVG Segura 2b............4 0 0 0 0 2 .266 Aguilar 1b............3 1 0 1 1 0 .283
at Toronto 4, N.Y. Yankees 1
Yelich lf ...............3 1 1 1 1 1 .206 Bruce rf...............3 0 0 0 1 3 .191 at Kansas City 8, Detroit 7
Tatis Jr. ss .......... 4 1 1 1 0 0 .278 Anderson 3b........4 1 0 0 1 0 .255
win over the Brewers on Jansen c..............4 1 1 1 0 0 .188 COLORADO AB R H BI BB SO AVG Braun rf...............3 0 0 0 0 1 .240
Machado 3b ........ 3 0 0 0 1 1 .309 Knapp c ...............4 0 0 0 0 2 .286 Cooper dh ............4 1 1 3 0 2 .287
Houston 12, at Texas 4
TOTALS 36 10 15 10 2 3 — Tapia lf ...............3 0 3 0 0 0 .308 Taylor rf ..............0 0 0 0 0 0 .243 Kingery cf ...........4 2 2 0 0 2 .159
Thursday night. Pillar cf...............4 0 0 0 0 2 .301 Vogelbach dh ......1 1 0 0 2 1 .375 Hosmer 1b .......... 3 0 0 1 0 0 .272 Brinson rf ............4
Dickerson lf.........3
0
0
0 0 0 1 .245
1 0 0 1 .259
FRIDAY’S RESULTS
BALTIMORE.... 000 022 001 — 5 8 0 Hiura 2b ..............3 1 2 0 0 1 .223 Myers rf .............. 3 0 0 0 1 1 .286 TOTALS 33 4 7 3 3 13 — at Toronto 10, Baltimore 5
Story ss..............3 0 0 0 0 3 .291 Nola c .................. 4 1 2 0 0 0 .211 Sierra lf ...............0 0 0 0 0 0 .278
TORONTO ....... 062 200 00X — 10 15 0 Blackmon rf........3 0 1 0 0 1 .308 Urias 2b-3b .........0 0 0 0 0 0 .241 at Kansas City 3, Detroit 2
Cronenworth 2b.. 3 0 0 0 0 2 .299 TAMPA BAY AB R H BI BB SO AVG Rojas ss...............4 0 1 0 0 0 .306
QUOTABLE LOB: Baltimore 5, Toronto 6. 2B: Alberto Fuentes 1b .........2 0 1 0 1 0 .326 Gyorko 1b............3 0 0 0 0 1 .257
Pham dh.............. 2 0 1 1 1 0 .214 Wallach c.............3 0 0 0 0 1 .175 at Texas 5, Houston 4 (10)
(15), Shaw (10). HR: Urias (1), off McMahon 3b ......3 0 0 0 0 0 .211 Sogard 3b-2b.......3 0 2 1 0 1 .215 Wendle 2b ........... 5 1 2 2 0 0 .285 Seattle at Oakland, Late
Profar lf .............. 3 1 1 0 0 0 .276 Arozarena lf ........ 5 1 2 0 0 3 .288 Harrison pr ..........0 1 0 0 0 0 .140
Arcia ss ...............3 0 0 1 0 0 .239
“If I looked back Yamaguchi; Mullins (3), off Yamaguchi; Kemp dh .............1 0 0 0 1 1 .239 Grisham cf .......... 1 1 1 0 2 0 .252 Alfaro c................0 0 0 0 0 0 .222
Iglesias (3), off Yamaguchi; Grichuk Hilliard ph ..........1 0 0 0 0 1 .214 Narvaez c ............3 0 0 0 0 0 .163 N.Lowe dh ........... 4 0 0 0 0 3 .206
TOTALS 26 4 6 3 5 4 — Adames ss........... 4 0 1 1 0 2 .260 TOTALS 33 4 3 4 2 7 —
(11), off Lopez; Shaw (6), off Eshelman. E.Diaz c ..............3 0 1 0 0 1 .220 TOTALS 25 3 6 3 4 7 —
Kiermaier cf......... 3 1 1 1 0 0 .224
a couple months
RBI: Urias (3), Mullins 2 (10), Iglesias Hampson 2b .......2 0 0 0 1 2 .242
(23), Alberto (21), Grichuk (32), Jansen TOTALS 25 0 6 0 3 11 — ST. LOUIS AB R H BI BB SO AVG SAN FRAN. AB R H BI BB SO AVG Margot ph-rf ....... 1 0 0 0 0 0 .270 NEW YORK AB R H BI BB SO AVG Interleague games
(20), Villar 2 (6), Bichette (23), Hernan- Yastrzemski rf....3 1 2 2 0 0 .290 Brosseau 3b......... 1 0 0 0 1 0 .308 LeMahieu 2b .......4 1 0 0 1 1 .348
Wong 2b.............. 3 0 1 0 0 0 .263 Tsutsugo ph-3b ... 2 1 1 0 0 0 .199 Judge rf ...............4 1 2 1 0 2 .271
Duggar rf ............0 0 0 0 0 0 .176
ago, 40 was a
dez 2 (34), Davis (5), Shaw 2 (17). SF: ARIZONA AB R H BI BB SO AVG Edman 3b-lf ........ 3 0 0 0 0 2 .258 MARLINS AT YANKEES, 1:05
Villar. Dickerson lf ........3 0 1 0 0 2 .303 Renfroe 1b........... 3 1 0 0 1 2 .144 Hicks cf................3 0 1 2 1 0 .224
Varsho cf............3 1 2 0 1 1 .181 Goldschmidt 1b... 3 0 1 0 0 0 .304 Perez c ................. 0 0 0 0 0 0 .173 Stanton dh ..........3 0 0 0 1 3 .250 W-L ERA TEAM
DeJong ss ........... 3 0 1 0 0 1 .257 Solano 2b............3 0 1 0 0 0 .335
BALTIMORE IP H R ER BB SO ERA Marte 2b ............3 0 1 0 1 0 .287 Phillips rf-cf ........ 2 1 2 2 2 0 .176 Voit 1b.................4 0 2 0 0 0 .283
Robertson 2b ......0 0 0 0 0 0 .350
number we were Walker 1b...........4 2 2 2 0 0 .278 Molina c .............. 3 0 0 0 0 2 .266 Zunino c............... 2 0 0 0 0 2 .125 Rogers (L) 1-2 6.84 3-3
Lopez ................... 2 9 8 8 1 1 6.34 Belt 1b ................3 0 0 0 0 1 .305 Urshela 3b ...........4 0 0 0 0 2 .308
Eshelman ............ 4 6 2 2 0 1 3.89 Calhoun rf ..........2 1 0 0 2 0 .227 Fowler dh ............ 3 0 0 0 0 1 .253 B.Lowe ph-1b ...... 1 0 0 0 0 0 .273 Torres ss .............3 0 0 0 1 0 .242 TBD — — —
Carlson rf ............ 1 0 1 0 1 0 .208 Flores dh.............3 1 2 1 0 0 .267
Kline .................... 2 0 0 0 1 1 1.80 Escobar 3b..........3 0 1 1 0 0 .206 Longoria 3b.........3 1 1 0 0 1 .262 TOTALS 33 6 9 6 4 12 — G.Sanchez c.........3 0 2 0 0 1 .152
kind of shooting Peralta dh...........2 0 1 1 1 0 .299 O'Neill lf.............. 1 0 0 0 0 1 .176 Tauchman pr .......0 1 0 0 0 0 .242 PHILLIES AT RAYS, 7:07
TORONTO IP H R ER BB SO ERA B.Miller ph-3b..... 1 0 0 0 0 0 .239 Crawford ss ........3 1 1 1 0 1 .267
Ahmed ss ...........3 0 1 0 0 1 .266 Dubon cf .............2 0 0 0 1 0 .279 PHILA.............. 003 010 000 — 4 7 1 Higashioka c........1 0 0 0 0 0 .250
Walker................. 3 0 0 0 0 4 1.37 P.Smith lf...........2 0 0 0 1 0 .290 Bader cf............... 2 0 1 0 0 0 .216 Wheeler (R) 4-1 2.67 6-4
Bart c ..................3 1 1 1 0 2 .250 TAMPA BAY ... 010 021 02X — 6 9 1 Frazier lf..............3 0 0 0 1 1 .273
for.” Pearson ............ 1.2
Yamaguchi.......... .2
Borucki ............... .2
1
4
1
0 0 1 2 6.00
4 4 0 0 7.61
0 0 0 1 2.70
Kelly c.................3
TOTALS 25
0
4
1 0 0 1 .210
9 4 6 3 —
TOTALS
MILWAUKEE... 021 000
23 0 5 0 1 7 —
0 — 3 6 0
TOTALS 26 5 9 5 1 7 — E: Knapp (2), Adames (9). LOB: Phila-
delphia 5, Tampa Bay 8. 2B: Kingery (5),
TOTALS 32 3 7 3 5 10 — Yarbrough (L)
RED SOX AT BRAVES, 7:10
1-4 3.78 4-5

— Dodgers Manager Dave Hatch................... 2
Murphy ................ 1
Roberts, after Los Angeles WP: Pearson (1-0); LP: Lopez (2-2). In-
reached the 40-win mark herited runners-scored: Eshelman 2-1,
Kline 1-0, Borucki 1-1. HBP: Lopez (Da-
with a 5-1 victory over the vis). WP: Lopez. T: 2:41.
Athletics on Thursday night.
ORIOLES’ BATTING LEADERS
Avg AB
TODAY’S GAME Iglesias .370 138
TO WATCH Mountcastle .333 117
Alberto .294 211
Brewers at Cardinals, Valaika .275 138
Mullins .263 133
7:07 p.m. Hays .263 114
Santander .261 153
RHP Brandon Woodruff Severino
Nunez
.256 156
.251 191
(2-5, 3.43 ERA) takes the SmithJr. .222 63
hill for Milwaukee against
RHP Adam Wainwright Indians 4, Pirates 3
(5-2, 3.05). César Hernández ripped
an RBI double into the
right-field corner with two
outs in the ninth inning as
AL leaders Cleveland rallied for its
Entering Friday’s games third walk-off win in four
BATTING days, a victory that kept its
hopes alive for winning the
LeMahieu, NY .................................. .355
Anderson, Chi .................................. .338 AL Central.
Abreu, Chi ........................................ .325
Verdugo, Bos ................................... .323 Down 3-1 and held to
Fletcher, LA ..................................... .316
Cruz, Min ......................................... .314 one hit for eight innings,
Brantley, Hou .................................. .305 the Indians found more
Hernández, Tor ................................ .297
Candelario, Det ................................ .297 late-inning magic.
Gurriel Jr., Tor ................................. .297
PITTSBURGH AB
HOME RUNS
Frazier 2b............3
Hayes 3b.............3
Voit, NY .............................................. 21
Moran 1b ............3
Abreu, Chi ........................................... 19
Bell dh.................3
Ramirez, Cle ....................................... 17
Polanco rf ...........4
Cruz, Min ............................................ 16
Reynolds cf .........4
Hernandez, Tor ................................... 16
Gonzalez ss ........4
Trout, LA ............................................. 16
Oliva lf ................4
Springer, Hou ..................................... 14
Stallings c...........4
Lowe, TB ............................................. 14
Olson, Oak .......................................... 14 TOTALS 32
Jimenez, Chi ....................................... 14
CLEVELAND AB
RBI
Lindor ss .............2
Abreu, Chi ........................................... 57 Hernandez 2b .....4
Voit, NY .............................................. 49 Ramirez 3b .........3
Ramirez, Cle ....................................... 46 Santana 1b .........3
Trout, LA ............................................. 43 Reyes dh .............3
Olson, Oak .......................................... 42 Naquin rf.............3
Tucker, Hou ........................................ 42 Naylor lf..............2
Jimenez, Chi ....................................... 41 Luplow ph-lf .......2
Rosario, Min ....................................... 39 Leon c..................1
Devers, Bos ......................................... 39 Freeman ph.........1
DeShields cf .......4
ERA
TOTALS 28
Bieber, Cle ....................................... 1.63
Keuchel, Chi ..................................... 1.99 PITTSBURGH .. 000 200 010 — 3 6 0
Bassitt, Oak ..................................... 2.57 CLEVELAND.... 100 000 003 — 4 4 0
Ryu, Tor ........................................... 2.69 Two outs when winning run scored.
Maeda, Min ...................................... 2.70 LOB: Pittsburgh 6, Cleveland 8. 2B: Fra-
Cole, NY ........................................... 2.84 zier (5), Luplow (4), Hernandez (19).
Carrasco, Cle .................................... 2.90 HR: Polanco (7), off Carrasco.
Gonzales, Sea .................................. 3.06
PITTSBURGH IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Bundy, LA ........................................ 3.29
Keller ................... 5 0 1 1 8 3 2.91
Lynn, Tex ......................................... 3.32
Turley .................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.92
STRIKEOUTS Howard................ 1 1 0 0 1 2 3.86
Bieber, Cle ........................................ 122 Stratton ........... 1.2 3 3 3 1 1 3.90
Giolito, Chi .......................................... 97
CLEVELAND IP
Cole, NY .............................................. 94
Carrasco .............. 6
Glasnow, TB ....................................... 91
Maton............... 1.1
Lynn, Tex ............................................ 89
O.Perez............... .2
Maeda, Min ......................................... 80
Valdez, Hou ........................................ 76 Plutko .................. 1
Carrasco, Cle ....................................... 74 WP: Plutko (2-2); LP: Stratton (2-1).
Bundy, LA ........................................... 72 IBB: off O.Perez (Bell). WP: Stratton. T:
Ryu, Tor .............................................. 72 3:18.
SAN DIEGO ..... 010 000 3 — 4 6 0 Arozarena (2). 3B: Harper (2). HR: Phil- MIAMI.......... 300 000 000 1— 4 3 1
0 0 0 1 0 2.73 COLORADO..... 000 000 0 — 0 6 1 ST. LOUIS ........ 000 000 0 — 0 5 0
SAN FRAN. ..... 010 400 X — 5 9 1 lips (1), off Hunter. NEW YORK .. 002 000 010 0— 3 7 4 Houck (R) 2-0 0.00 2-0
2 1 1 0 0 2.25 ARIZONA........ 003 010 X — 4 9 1 LOB: Milwaukee 5, St. Louis 3. 2B: Gold-
E: McMahon (9), Kelly (2). LOB: Colora- schmidt (13). HR: Yelich (12), off Fla- E: Watson (1). LOB: San Diego 7, San PHILA. IP H R ER BB SO ERA E: Y.Garcia (1), G.Sanchez (6), Urshela TBD — — —
Francisco 4. 2B: Pham (2), Profar (6), (1), Torres (9), Higashioka (2). LOB: Mi-
do 8, Arizona 9. 3B: Escobar (3). HR: herty.
Yastrzemski (14), Longoria (10). 3B: Gr-
Velasquez......... 4.1 6 3 3 2 6 5.56
Hunter .............. 1.2 1 1 1 0 2 4.01 ami 7, New York 5. 2B: Judge (3), Hicks CUBS AT WHITE SOX, 7:10
Walker (7), off Senzatela. MILWAUKEE IP H R ER BB SO ERA
COLORADO IP H R ER BB SO ERA Suter.................... 4 2 0 0 1 4 3.13
isham (3). HR: Crawford (7), off Padd- Brogdon ............... 1 0 0 0 0 3 4.35 (10). HR: Cooper (6), off Happ.
Lester (L) 3-2 4.40 6-5
ack; Flores (10), off Paddack; Yastrzem- Morgan ............... .1 1 2 2 2 0 5.54 MIAMI IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Senzatela ......... 4.1 8 4 4 4 2 3.44 Williams .............. 2 2 0 0 0 1 0.33 ski (10), off Paddack. Neris................... .2 1 0 0 0 1 3.98 Alcantara .......... 7.1 6 3 2 2 9 3.00 Dunning (R) 2-0 3.19 5-1
Estevez .............. .2 0 0 0 0 1 7.50 Hader ................... 1 1 0 0 0 2 4.00 SAN DIEGO IP H R ER BB SO ERA Y.Garcia .............. .2 1 0 0 0 1 0.60
Almonte .............. 1 1 0 0 2 0 2.93 TAMPA BAY IP H R ER BB SO ERA Boxberger ............ 1 0 0 0 1 0 3.00 REDS AT TWINS, 7:10
R H HR RBI ST. LOUIS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Paddack ............ 3.2 8 5 5 1 3 4.73
15 51 3 23 Strahm ............... .2 1 0 0 0 1 2.75 Morton ................ 5 7 4 3 1 8 4.74 Kintzler ................ 1 0 0 0 2 0 2.22 TBD — — —
ARIZONA IP H R ER BB SO ERA Flaherty ............... 5 4 3 3 4 5 4.91 Drake ................... 1 0 0 0 1 0 6.30
11 39 5 22
Gallen.................. 6 5 0 0 2 10 2.75 Gant ..................... 0 1 0 0 0 0 2.40 Adams .............. 1.2 0 0 0 0 3 0.00
Thompson ........... 1 0 0 0 0 2 4.44 NEW YORK IP H R ER BB SO ERA Pineda (R) 2-0 3.18 4-0
34 62 3 21 Helsley................. 1 0 0 0 0 2 5.56
Lopez.................. .2 1 0 0 1 1 4.58 SAN FRAN. IP H R ER BB SO ERA Anderson............. 1 0 0 0 1 0 0.55
23 38 8 15
Crichton ............. .1 0 0 0 0 0 2.42 Webb ................... 1 1 0 0 0 0 2.18 Curtiss................. 1 0 0 0 0 3 1.85
Happ..................... 5
Loaisiga ............... 2
3
0
3 3 2 3 3.47
0 0 0 1 3.52 PIRATES AT INDIANS, 7:10
15 35 3 10 T.Anderson.......... 6 5 2 2 4 4 4.37
18 30 4 8 WP: Gallen (3-2); LP: Senzatela (5-3); WP: Williams (4-1); LP: Flaherty (4-3); Watson................ 1 1 2 1 1 0 1.00 WP: Anderson (2-1); LP: Morgan (0-1); Britton ................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 1.89 Musgrove (R) 0-5 4.68 1-6
24 40 11 32 S: Crichton (5). Inherited runners- S: Hader (12). Gant pitched to 1 batters S: Curtiss (2). Inherited runners-scored: Chapman.............. 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.09
in the 6th Inherited runners-scored: WP: T.Anderson (4-3); LP: Paddack Green ................... 1 0 1 0 0 0 3.51 Civale (R) 4-5 3.99 5-6
17
28
40 5 21
48 12 30
scored: Estevez 3-0, Crichton 2-0. WP:
Gallen. T: 2:36. Helsley 1-0. T: 2:12. (4-5). Inherited runners-scored: Adams Hunter 2-1, Neris 3-2. HBP: Velasquez
(Zunino). WP: Morton. T: 3:08.
1-0, Watson 1-1. T: 2:27. WP: Boxberger (1-0); LP: Green (3-3); S: ANGELS AT DODGERS, 9:10
9 14 2 6 Kintzler (12). HBP: Happ (Marte).
TBD — — —
Gonsolin (R) 1-2 1.77 4-3
Royals 3, Tigers 2 Braves 8, Cubs 10, White Sox 0 Reds 7, Twins 2 Dodgers 5, Athletics 1
Brad Keller tossed six Red Sox 7 (11) Yu Darvish pitched seven Mike Moustakas hom- Late Thursday
scoreless innings and Adal- Atlanta clinched the strong innings for his NL- ered twice, Freddy Galvis hit Walker Buehler proved Interleague scores
berto Mondesi had three No. 2 seed in the NL. leading eighth win, Willson a solo shot and Cincinnati he is playoff ready, Corey THURSDAY’S RESULTS
hits to propel Kansas City BOSTON AB R H BI BB SO AVG Contreras homered twice, clinched its first playoff Seager homered, and Los
to its third straight win. Verdugo rf ..........5 1 0 1 0 1 .315 and the Cubs handed the spot since 2013. Angeles beat Oakland to
at L.A. Dodgers 5, Oakland 1
FRIDAY’S RESULTS
Keller surrendered just Arroyo ss ............6
Martinez dh ........4
0
1
0 0 0 0 .239
1 0 1 1 .218
White Sox their season-high The Reds, who can finish clinch home-field advan- at Tampa Bay 6, Philadelphia 4
four singles and closed out Bradley Jr. cf ......4 3 1 1 1 1 .279 sixth straight loss. as high as the fifth seed in tage throughout the post- Miami 4, at N.Y. Yankees 3 (10)
Plawecki c...........4 1 3 1 1 1 .342 at Atlanta 8, Boston 7 (11)
the season having allowed Dalbec 3b-1b.......3 0 1 1 2 1 .274 Victor Caratini, Kyle the NL field, had endured season. at Cleveland 4, Pittsburgh 3
only one run in 33 innings Lin lf....................2 0 0 0 0 0 .149 Schwarber and Javier Baez six straight losing seasons Buehler allowed one hit Chicago Cubs 10, at Chicago White Sox 0
Devers ph-3b ......3 1 0 2 0 0 .267 Cincinnati 7, at Minnesota 2
at home. Chavis 1b-lf ........3 0 0 0 0 0 .212 also went deep as the Cubs before advancing this year. in four innings, struck out L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, Late
Detroit has lost eight of Bogaerts ph ........0 0 0 0 1 0 .291 ended a three-game skid. CINCINNATI AB R H BI BB SO AVG six and walked one in his
Puello lf ..............0 0 0 0 0 0 .167
its past nine. Arauz 2b .............4 0 0 0 1 2 .221 CHICAGO (N) AB R H BI BB SO AVG Akiyama lf...........5 1 2 1 0 1 .240 first career appearance
DETROIT AB R H BI BB SO AVG
TOTALS 38 7 6 6 7 7 — Happ cf-lf ............5 1 1 0 0 1 .255
Castellanos rf......5
Votto 1b ..............4
0
1
1 1 0 2 .225
0 0 1 1 .222 against Oakland. NL leaders
Rizzo 1b...............3 0 1 0 0 1 .224 Suarez 3b ............5 0 0 0 0 2 .200
R H BI BB SO AVG Reyes cf ..............4 0 0 0 0 0 .279 ATLANTA AB R H BI BB SO AVG Wisdom ph-1b ....1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 OAKLAND AB R H BI BB SO AVG Entering Friday’s games
W.Castro ss ........4 0 1 0 0 1 .346 Moustakas 2b .....4 2 2 3 0 0 .237
1 2 0 1 1 .231 Acuna Jr. cf-rf ....4 3 1 1 1 1 .256 Contreras dh .......3 3 2 4 1 0 .243 Winker dh............2 0 0 0 2 1 .255 La Stella 2b.........3 0 0 0 1 2 .271
0 1 1 1 0 .329 Cabrera dh ..........4 0 0 0 0 3 .245 Heyward rf ..........5 0 0 0 0 2 .273 BATTING
Albies 2b.............5 1 1 1 0 1 .284 Garcia pr-dh ........0 1 0 0 0 0 .203 Grossman lf ........4 0 0 0 0 3 .226
0 0 0 1 2 .250 H.Castro 1b-lf.....4 1 2 0 0 0 .348 Baez ss ................5 1 2 1 0 0 .201 Soto, Was ........................................ .351
Ozuna dh.............4 0 3 2 2 1 .335 Senzel cf..............4 1 1 0 0 1 .194 Semien ss ...........3 0 1 0 1 0 .222
1 1 0 1 2 .225 Goodrum 2b ........3 1 1 0 1 0 .179 Schwarber lf........3 1 2 1 0 0 .195 Freeman, Atl .................................... .338
Duvall lf ..............5 0 0 0 0 1 .242 Galvis ss..............4 1 3 2 0 0 .221 Olson 1b..............4 0 1 0 0 3 .193
1 1 2 0 0 .158 Stewart lf ...........2 0 1 0 0 0 .179 Hamilton pr-cf ....2 1 0 0 0 1 .200 Solano, SF ........................................ .335
Swanson ss ........6 0 1 1 0 2 .274 Barnhart c ...........3 0 0 0 1 0 .198 Canha dh .............4 0 0 0 0 2 .228
0 0 0 0 2 .186 Dixon ph-1b ........2 0 0 1 0 1 .000 Caratini c.............3 2 1 2 1 1 .236 Turner, Was ..................................... .335
Riley 1b-3b .........4 0 1 0 2 1 .239 Laureano cf.........2 0 0 0 1 1 .215
0 0 0 0 1 .237 Haase c ...............3 0 1 1 0 2 .231 Kipnis 2b .............3 0 0 0 1 1 .248 TOTALS 36 7 9 7 4 8 — Ozuna, Atl ........................................ .327
Markakis rf .........4 1 1 0 0 1 .246 Lamb 3b ..............3 0 0 0 0 1 .273
0 1 0 0 2 .200 Paredes 3b..........3 0 0 0 0 0 .223 Hoerner 3b ..........3 1 1 0 1 0 .231 Seager, LA ....................................... .325
Inciarte cf ...........2 1 0 0 0 1 .202 Piscotty rf...........3 0 0 0 0 3 .237
0 0 0 0 2 .246 Cameron rf..........3 0 2 0 0 0 .200 MINNESOTA AB R H BI BB SO AVG d’Arnaud, Atl ................................... .323
Flowers c ............3 0 1 0 0 2 .231 TOTALS 36 10 10 8 4 7 — Murphy c.............3 1 1 1 0 1 .234
3 6 3 4 12 — TOTALS 32 2 8 2 1 7 — Freeman ph-1b ...1 1 1 2 1 0 .341 Kepler rf ..............4 1 1 0 1 1 .226 Smith, NY ........................................ .322
TOTALS 29 1 3 1 3 16 —
Hechavarria 3b ...4 1 1 0 0 0 .255 CHICAGO (A) AB R H BI BB SO AVG Donaldson 3b ......1 0 0 0 0 0 .222 Conforto, NY .................................... .322
R H BI BB SO AVG KANSAS CITY AB R H BI BB SO AVG d'Arnaud ph-c .....0 0 0 0 1 0 .323 Adrianza 3b.........4 0 1 1 0 2 .188 McNeil, NY ....................................... .320
Anderson ss ........4 0 1 0 0 1 .337 L.A. AB R H BI BB SO AVG
Merrifield rf........4 1 1 0 0 3 .280 TOTALS 42 8 11 7 7 11 — Moncada 3b.........4 0 0 0 0 2 .219
Cruz dh ................3 0 0 0 2 3 .309
1 0 0 3 0 .263 Rosario lf.............5 0 2 0 0 0 .260 Betts rf..................5 1 1 0 0 1 .293 HOME RUNS
0 1 1 1 2 .282 Mondesi ss .........3 1 3 1 1 0 .241 Grandal c .............3 0 0 0 1 1 .223 Buxton cf.............3 0 0 0 0 2 .254 Seager ss...............3 1 1 2 0 0 .325
0 0 0 1 1 .288 Perez c ................4 0 0 0 0 1 .350 BOSTON ...... 000 010 102 21 — 7 6 1 Abreu 1b..............4 0 0 0 0 1 .319 Ozuna, Atl ........................................... 17
Sano 1b ...............3 1 0 0 1 2 .203 Turner 3b...............4 0 2 0 0 1 .303
0 0 0 1 0 .190 Franco 3b ............2 0 0 1 1 0 .282 ATLANTA .... 100 000 030 22 — 8 11 1 Encarnacion dh....3 0 0 0 0 1 .167 Duvall, Atl ........................................... 16
Polanco ss ...........4 0 2 0 0 0 .269 Rios 3b...................0 0 0 0 0 0 .236
0 0 0 1 0 .273 O'Hearn dh..........3 0 1 1 1 0 .196 Mazara rf ............3 0 0 0 0 0 .219 Machado, SD ....................................... 16
No outs when winning run scored. Garver c...............4 0 1 0 0 3 .157 Muncy 1b...............4 0 0 0 0 0 .189
1 0 0 1 2 .223 Dozier 1b ............4 0 0 0 0 1 .237 Robert cf .............3 0 1 0 0 0 .222 Betts, LA ............................................ 16
E: Devers (14), Hechavarria (3). LOB: Gonzalez 2b.........4 0 1 1 0 1 .208 Smith c ..................4 1 2 1 0 0 .282
0 0 0 0 0 .214 Gordon lf.............4 0 2 0 0 1 .214 Engel lf ................3 0 1 0 0 1 .296 Calhoun, Ari ........................................ 15
Boston 9, Atlanta 17. 2B: Ozuna (14), Bellinger cf............2 1 1 0 2 0 .242
1 1 1 0 1 .197 Cordero cf ...........4 1 1 0 0 2 .222 Madrigal 2b .........3 0 0 0 0 0 .333 TOTALS 35 2 8 2 4 14 — Suarez, Cin .......................................... 15
Hechavarria (3), Swanson (15). HR: Pollock lf................3 1 0 0 1 0 .263
0 0 0 2 1 .136 Lopez 2b .............2 0 0 0 0 2 .209 Seager, LA .......................................... 15
Bradley Jr. (6), off Wright; Acuna Jr. TOTALS 30 0 3 0 1 7 — CINCINNATI .... 000 220 003 — 7 9 0 Pederson dh ..........1 0 0 0 0 0 .175
0 0 0 0 0 .243 TOTALS 30 3 8 3 3 10 — Tatis Jr., SD ........................................ 15
(14), off Mazza; Freeman (13), off MINNESOTA ... 001 001 000 — 2 8 1 Hernandez ph-dh...2 0 1 1 0 0 .227
1 2 1 0 0 .260 CHICAGO (N)... 013 102 111 — 10 10 0 Myers, SD ........................................... 14
Springs. Taylor 2b ...............3 0 0 1 1 1 .277
DETROIT ......... 000 000 200 — 2 8 2 CHICAGO (A)... 000 000 000 — 0 3 2 E: Sano (5). LOB: Cincinnati 6, Minnesota Castellanos, Cin .................................. 14
4 4 3 10 7 — KANSAS CITY . 110 010 00X — 3 8 0 BOSTON IP H R ER BB SO ERA 11. 2B: Akiyama (6), Adrianza (6), Garver TOTALS 31 5 8 5 4 3 —
E: Fry (1), Grandal (3). LOB: Chicago (N) RBI
Mazza .................. 5 4 1 1 2 6 4.80 (1), Polanco (8). HR: Moustakas (7), off
E: Turnbull (1), W.Castro (6). LOB: De- 5, Chicago (A) 4. 2B: Baez (9), Engel (5). OAKLAND ....... 000 000 010 — 1 3 0
Hernandez ........... 1 0 0 0 1 1 2.45 Berrios; Galvis (7), off Berrios; Mousta- Ozuna, Atl ........................................... 53
troit 5, Kansas City 8. 2B: Goodrum (7), HR: Schwarber (11), off Cease; Contreras L.A................... 101 003 00X — 5 8 0
Weber.................. 1 1 0 0 0 1 4.61 kas (8), off Colina. Freeman, Atl ....................................... 51
Cordero (3), Mondesi (9). 3B: Mondesi (6), off Cease; Baez (8), off Cease; Cara-
Brasier................. 1 3 3 2 1 1 3.96 CINCINNATI IP H R ER BB SO ERA LOB: Oakland 4, Los Angeles 8. 2B: Tur- Machado, SD ....................................... 47
(3). tini (1), off Gonzalez; Contreras (7), off
Barnes ................. 1 0 0 0 2 1 4.30 ner (9), Smith (9), Bellinger (9). HR: Smith, NY ........................................... 42
DETROIT IP H R ER BB SO ERA Sanchez. Mahle................ 2.1 3 1 1 2 4 3.59
Springs ................ 1 3 4 2 1 1 7.08 Murphy (7), off McGee; Seager (15), off Seager, LA .......................................... 41
Lorenzen ........... 3.1 3 1 1 1 4 4.28
Turnbull............... 5 6 3 3 2 5 3.97 CHICAGO (N) IP H R ER BB SO ERA Garrett.............. 0.1 1 0 0 0 1 2.50 Fiers. Tatis Jr., SD ........................................ 41
Norris .................. 1 0 0 0 0 3 3.00 ATLANTA IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Darvish ................ 7 3 0 0 1 5 2.01 Sims..................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.59 OAKLAND IP H R ER BB SO ERA Gregorius, Phi ..................................... 40
Cisnero ................ 1 0 0 0 1 1 3.14 Wright .............. 6.2 2 2 2 3 4 5.21 Winkler ................ 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.06 Blackmon, Col ..................................... 40
O'Day.................. .1 0 0 0 0 0 0.59 Iglesias ................ 1 1 0 0 0 2 2.91 Fiers .................... 5 5 2 2 1 3 4.58
Farmer................. 1 2 0 0 0 1 3.86 Chafin .................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.38 Miley.................... 1 0 0 0 1 1 5.65
Smith................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 4.20 Luzardo................ 3 3 3 3 3 0 4.12 ERA
KANSAS CITY IP H R ER BB SO ERA Melancon............. 1 2 2 1 2 0 2.49 CHICAGO (A) IP H R ER BB SO ERA MINNESOTA IP H R ER BB SO ERA
L.A. IP H R ER BB SO ERA Bauer, Cin ........................................ 1.73
Keller ................... 6 4 0 0 0 5 2.47 Martin ................. 1 2 2 1 1 1 1.00 Cease ................ 4.2 5 5 5 2 5 4.01 Lamet, SD ........................................ 2.07
Berrios ................. 5 5 4 4 2 7 4.00 Buehler................ 4 1 0 0 1 6 3.44
H R ER BB SO ERA Duffy ................ 0.1 2 2 2 0 0 4.95 Greene ................. 1 0 1 0 1 0 2.70 Gonzalez ........... 1.1 2 2 2 0 1 4.88 Burnes, Mil ...................................... 2.11
Thielbar................ 2 0 0 0 0 0 2.41 Floro .................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.62
3 2 2 3 8 2.91 Barlow .............. 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 4.34 WP: Greene (1-0); LP: Springs (0-2). In- Cordero ............... .1 0 1 0 0 0 5.61 May ...................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 4.03 deGrom, NY ..................................... 2.14
Baez..................... 1 0 0 0 1 2 3.38
0 0 0 0 3 4.79 Junis .................... 1 2 0 0 0 0 6.39 herited runners-scored: O’Day 2-0. IBB: Fry..................... 1.2 1 1 0 2 1 3.63 Colina .................. .1 4 3 3 2 0 81.0 Darvish, Chi ..................................... 2.22
Treinen ................ 1 1 0 0 1 3 4.01
2 1 1 1 0 2.08 Hahn .................... 1 0 0 0 1 2 0.55 off Brasier (Acuna Jr.), off Melancon Sanchez ............... 1 2 1 1 0 0 9.00 Alcala .................. .2 0 0 0 0 0 2.70 Fried, Atl .......................................... 2.25
McGee ................. 1 1 1 1 0 2 2.79
1 0 0 0 1 4.88 WP: Keller (5-3); LP: Turnbull (4-4); S: (Bogaerts), off Martin (Martinez), off WP: Darvish (8-3); LP: Cease (5-4). In- WP: Lorenzen (3-1); LP: Berrios (5-4). In- Jansen ................. 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.22 Wheeler, Phi .................................... 2.67
Hahn (2). Inherited runners-scored: Bar- Springs (Riley). HBP: Mazza (Acuna herited runners-scored: Gonzalez 2-0, herited runners-scored: Lorenzen 1-0, WP: Floro (3-0); LP: Fiers (6-3). HBP: Fi- Davies, SD ....................................... 2.85
low 1-1. IBB: off Turnbull (Franco). T: Jr.), Hernandez (Flowers), Weber 2 (Al- Fry 1-1. HBP: Cease (Rizzo), Cordero Garrett 1-1, Iglesias 1-0, Alcala 3-0. HBP: ers (Pederson). WP: Buehler, Treinen. T: Castillo, Cin ..................................... 2.86
2:50. bies,Duvall). WP: Springs. T: 3:59. (Contreras). PB: Grandal (4). T: 3:04. Sims (Buxton). T: 3:38. 2:50. Hendricks, Chi .................................. 2.88
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 , 2020
Keeping 16-team playo≠s Extension will bring Martinez back for 2021 season
would cost MLB its soul
The end of
On September draws
Baseball nigh, and we all
JEFFREY know what that
BLEHAR means: Playoff
baseball is
coming! Is
everyone else as unenthusiastic
as I am? Can you feel the
palpable lack of interest? I’m
making my first visit to the
dentist in over three years next
week, and that appointment
holds more genuine excitement
for me than the prospect of
October baseball in 2020.
It would be easy to accuse a
D.C. sports fan of losing interest
in the playoffs because of the
Washington Nationals’
unfortunate post-championship
belly flop, but in my case that’s
not really true; even before this
bizarre novel-coronavirus-
shortened season kicked off, my
expectations were lower than
José Altuve’s no-buzzers-allowed
on-base percentage. Given the
free agent departures and
random injuries (Carpal tunnel
syndrome? Really?), it’s not
hard to mentally fold all this
misfortune into the weirdness
of the present pandemic and
declare MLB 2020 to be a
freakish Plague Season of Doom
better left as an asterisk in the
record books.
No, the real reason the MLB
playoffs feel so anticlimactic is
the grotesque expanded playoff
format. Sixteen teams — eight
from each league, over half of all
franchises — will now qualify
instead of the standard 10.
That means we will be seeing
such world-beaters as the
Toronto Blue Jays, sporting a
.534 winning percentage, in the
playoffs. In the National
League? The Miami Marlins,
who clinched a playoff spot
Friday night with a .517 mark.
It’s hard to get particularly
excited about the postseason of
any sport in which mediocrity is
rewarded, but it’s particularly
difficult when the inherent
nature of a sport is exacerbated
by its format. The blunt fact is
that baseball’s postseason
always has been a crapshoot,
random unlike any of the other
major American professional
sports, and has become only
more so as more teams have
been added to it.
With the three gradual
expansions of the playoffs over
the past half-century,
postseason outcomes have
become more unpredictable
because of the unique nature of
the game: Your most critical
players (starting pitchers) are
available only once in a short
series, or they may be off their
game, or maybe the opposing
team is using an elaborate series
of buzzers and trash cans to
steal their signs. In fact, if
history is any guide, the Los
Angeles Dodgers probably will
lose the NL wild-card series
when Clayton Kershaw is
abducted by aliens during the
seventh-inning stretch of
Game 3 because it always
happens the way you expect it
to.
That’s why the regular season,
the 162-game grind, has always
been so important: It separates
the truly great teams (and, in
this wild-card era, the scrappy
upstarts and comeback kids,
such as last year’s Nationals
squad) from the mediocrities
and pretenders. But not this
year! This year, you can bumble
your way into the postseason,
with the same puncher’s chance
as any other team, by playing
ball either at or barely above the
.500 waterline.
The 16-team format not only
threatens to make the
championship meaningless
given the randomness of small-
series outcomes, it also destroys
the entire rationale of the
regular season, which is so long
precisely because it was
Vladimir Guerrero Jr., center, and the Blue Jays are four games
over .500, but they nailed down a spot in the 16-team playoffs.
. THE WASHINGTON POST
designed to create significant
separation, over time, between
the best of the major leagues
and the rest, ensuring that even
the weakest teams that made it
to October still had a record of
genuine accomplishment.
All of this might be tolerable
if it were only a single-season,
pandemic-induced anomaly. But
of course that’s not
Commissioner Rob Manfred’s
intent. On Sept. 14, he
announced that he doesn’t
consider these playoffs to be an
ugly-but-necessary compromise:
“I think there’s a lot to
commend it, and it is one of
those changes I hope will
become a permanent part of our
landscape.” He then went on to
add that “an overwhelming
majority” of owners favored
keeping the change permanent
as well.
Why wouldn’t they? For the
owners, this isn’t about
honoring the purity of the game
or its traditions or its
competitive balance. This is
about making the money printer
go “brr.” With income streams
taking a hit from the loss of
games, lack of attendance and
long-term decline in the value of
regional TV sports networks,
one of the big remaining
guaranteed cash cows is
national TV money for playoff
baseball. So more playoff
baseball is better for them, even
if the value of the product is
diluted.
And the product will be
diluted, in ways that are entirely
predictable: The permanent
expansion of the playoffs
wouldn’t just render the
postseason a farce, it would
have knock-on effects for the
rest of the game. An entirely
new incentive structure for
team-building would emerge.
When you can get into October
with 83 wins or maybe even a
losing record, any franchise
with a semi-competent front
office will conclude it’s not
worth spending money on free
agents who would push you to
93 wins. That doesn’t merely
render the heart of the game —
its regular season — almost
meaningless, it also means
salary deflation for players and
careers that end prematurely as
teams realize they can just play
young cost-controlled kids with
less talent and still make it in.
It gets worse: Because of the
randomness of playoff
outcomes, it’s an absolute
inevitability that at some point
a team with a losing record
would not only make it to the
postseason but win the World
Series. They say that flags fly
forever, but it’s hard not to
think that a flag won by a team
such as that would look soiled
and tattered.
The only consolation for fans
is that these changes have to be
agreed to by the MLB Players
Association in the next
collective bargaining
agreement. I spent years railing
against the MLBPA — for the
strike, for the steroids scandal
— but now it is the one
organization standing in the
way of the permanent ruination
of baseball. The incentives of
the people it represents — not
just star free agents but older
players looking to extend their
careers — stand in opposition to
the changes that will occur in a
16-team-playoff world.
It’s a sad day when I’m
reduced to embracing my old
nemesis, but I’ll do it this time:
Saving the meaning and worth
of a baseball championship is
worth a designated hitter, after
all.
sports@washpost.com
Jeffrey Blehar is an attorney, lifelong
baseball fan and co-host of National
Review’s “Political Beats” podcast.
He can be found on Twitter at
@EsotericCD.
ADRIAN KRAUS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
baseball
NATIONALS FROM D1
confidence in Martinez never wa-
vered.
Washington is 198-183 in his
tenure, not counting the 12 wins
that delivered a championship. He
has gained the trust of his players,
including a core of Max Scherzer,
Stephen Strasburg, Trea Turner
and Juan Soto. He and Rizzo have
developed a strong relationship
that often includes spending
hours in his office after games.
They see themselves as a pair, and
Rizzo expressed as much when he
received his extension.
“My plan is and my preference
is to not pick up the option and to
go well beyond that,” Rizzo said of
Martinez on Sept. 6. “That’s the
plan going forward, to see if we
can get something done negotiat-
ing a longer-term deal with him.”
“I love working with Riz,” Mar-
tinez said later that same day.
“Being a part of this organization
means a lot to me and my family.
So, yeah . . . if we could get some-
thing done, that’d be awesome. I
want to be here. I think we have a
bright future here.”
In the 20 days since, Martinez
offered little insight into the nego-
tiations. He figured Rizzo’s exten-
sion meant his was in the plans.
He joked that it would be nice to
have it worked out “sooner rather
than later.” One obvious deadline
was Sunday, with the Nationals set
to face the Mets in the season
finale before splitting for the off-
season.
Can’t defeat the weather
Nationals pitcher Max Scherzer, right, talks with bullpen catcher Octavio Martinez after his start against the Mets was postponed by rain.
THOMAS BOSWELL
Soto’s stunning season could be sign of things to come
BOSWELL FROM D1
season, including whether he still
leads in all three categories by
Sunday evening, means little. At
most he will play in 47 games, a
small data sample. Maybe
Freddie Freeman, who entered
Friday’s games trailing Soto in
hitting .351 to .338, will win the
batting title. And Soto hasn’t led
the NL in any of these categories
in a full season, yet.
But what Soto has done in the
first three seasons of his career —
and especially the rate and
breadth of his improvements in
many aspects of hitting — is
worth serious evaluation and
appreciation.
What are we watching now?
And what is it foreshadowing?
In his past 161 games, going
back to May 17, 2019, when he
returned to the lineup from a
back injury and got hot, Soto has
hit .312 with 41 homers, 131 runs
and 123 RBI. More stunning are
his on-base percentage (.435) and
slugging percentage (.617). That’s
the stratosphere — an on-base-
plus-slugging percentage of
1.052.
How many players have a
higher career OPS than 1.052?
Ruth, Ted Williams and Lou
Gehrig. Barry Bonds’s is 1.051.
This is a cherry-picked stat.
Trout’s career OPS is .999 — No. 8
all-time. In another five years, if
Soto is still around 1.000 — this
year he’s at a silly 1.189, which is
higher than Ruth’s career average
— we’ll talk.
EZ SU
Nationals Manager Dave Martinez has a 198-183 regular season
record and a 12-5 playoff mark from last year’s championship run.
But Martinez otherwise left it to
Rizzo, the owners and his agent, a
disconnect he mastered in
16 years as a player. He doesn’t
pitch himself or put private mat-
ters in the open. He would rather
provide a sort of stability the Na-
tionals have never felt.
They have had eight managers
since coming to Washington in
2005. Before Martinez, none of the
first seven made it three full sea-
sons. Early in 2021, assuming the
schedule starts on time, Martinez
will pass Manny Acta and Davey
Johnson for most games as a Na-
tionals manager.
In 2018, Martinez’s first year,
his team played beneath the cloud
of Bryce Harper’s pending free
But on the other side of the
coin, we need to be fair to Soto,
too. He’s only 21, and in each of
his three seasons, he has gotten
better — at almost everything.
It’s Soto’s progression — and the
joy with which he’s doing it —
that rivets us.
In fact, his career OPS of .971,
which is the lowest baseline you
could pick for him right now,
would be 15th all-time — right
behind Mantle, DiMaggio, Stan
Musial and Frank Thomas.
Soto has areas to improve.
Advanced stats say his base-
running is average and his
fielding in left is somewhat below
average. The everyday eye test
might rank him higher.
The best all-around players in
MLB right now, the ones who
show up at the top of wins above
replacement — including Trout,
Betts, Cody Bellinger, Anthony
Rendon, young phenom
Fernando Tatis Jr., Freeman,
Christian Yelich, catcher J.T.
Realmuto and a generation of
fabulous shortstops such as the
Nats’ Trea Turner — are either
speedsters, Gold Glove
candidates or both. MLB is just
filthy with monster athletic
talents.
But some of those defensive
and base-running skills are hard
to measure. Hitting isn’t. Over his
three seasons, Soto ranks fourth
in MLB in weighted on-base
average (wOBA) behind Trout,
Yelich and Betts, while in
weighted runs created-plus
(wRC+) he’s fifth, with Alex
JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST
agency and finished 82-80. In
2019, the Nationals got off to a
19-31 start, Martinez heard fre-
quent calls for his job, then they
rebounded for one of the biggest
turnarounds in baseball history.
Then their shot to repeat was com-
plicated by the novel coronavirus
pandemic. This year, filled with
injuries and underachievement,
has not gone well.
But through it all — the early
failures, the title run, this trying
summer — Martinez has been un-
shakably positive. He has stuck to
his mantra to “Go 1-0 today.” He
often mentioned the postseason,
saying hurt players could return
then, even as the odds flirted with
zero. Earlier in the year, as the
Bregman also ahead of him.
Everything about Soto as a
hitter is fascinating. This week,
he hit two homers into the
Nationals Park bullpen in left
field to equally distribute his
69 career homers: 23 to left, 23 to
center and 23 to right. Where do
you pitch him to avoid his power?
Shifts don’t work on him, at
least not yet, because his batted
balls go to all fields almost
equally, slightly favoring his pull
side. Because he chokes up with
two strikes, he battles for walks
— his 20.1 walk percentage is
No. 1 in MLB this year — yet
limits his strikeouts. His walk-to-
strikeout ratio is the best in the
NL this year.
What would the world do
without barrel percentage? But
we have it — the percentage of
balls hit smack on the barrel,
with exit velocity that’s a blur —
so why not use it? Each year, Soto
has improved: from 10.1 percent
to 11.3 to 15.7 now.
How has he managed such a
huge jump in barrel connection
this season, as well as a new high
in hard-hit percentage (50.4),
when he was already so good? I’ll
spare you the stats: He has
chased fewer pitches outside the
strike zone, been a bit more
selective within the zone and, it
appears, learned to smoke the
only pitch that previously
bothered him a little — the slider
— against which he has gone
from a bit below average to very
good.
Baseball appears to have given
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pandemic raged through the
sport, Martinez was emotional,
almost crying, while describing
his players as not athletes but
husbands and fathers. He then
was similarly vulnerable during a
news conference about social jus-
tice issues and the Nationals
choosing not to play Aug. 27.
“You’ve really seen him take a
big step as a leader this year,”
reliever Sean Doolittle told The
Washington Post in mid-Septem-
ber. “That goes a long way in the
clubhouse, and everyone in there
has noticed. He stands up for us.
That matters.”
That echoes the reasons the
Nationals hired Martinez in Octo-
ber 2017. As a longtime bench
coach and Joe Maddon’s right-
hand man with the Chicago Cubs
and Tampa Bay Rays, Martinez
built strong ties to players. He was
once in charge of stirring more fun
into the Rays’ clubhouse. He
helped Maddon and the Cubs snap
their World Series curse in 2016.
Then he broke off on his own, tried
to make it in Washington and has.
A ring and this extension are
proof.
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up on throwing him many
curveballs — the rate at which he
sees them has dropped almost in
half — in part because he picks
up the spin so quickly and spits
on the low ones while crushing
the higher mistakes. Put all this
together, and he has reduced his
swings and misses by 28 percent.
An elite hitter only asks for
two items: a table-setter in front
of him and a thumper to bat
behind him. Soto just got one of
his wishes in Turner (.335) who,
at 27, has blossomed into a
mature hitter and roughly as
good an all-around star as Soto.
Next year, Soto will have an
established hitter behind him,
too. If he doesn’t, the Nats are
guilty of roster malpractice.
Look at the free agents who
would fit the Nats in a spot of
need — whether corner outfield,
catcher or first base. And look
how high they ranked in OPS the
past three years combined:
George Springer (25th), Anthony
Rizzo (27th), Michael Brantley
(30th), Nicholas Castellanos
(33rd), Joc Pederson (41st),
Realmuto (45th) and current NL
home run leader Marcell Ozuna
(51st).
Few things in MLB are more
fun than watching Soto hit. If the
Nats do their offseason job, with
Turner in front of him and a new
bopper to protect him, that’s not
going to stop.
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Big names, big arms and big challenges for Washington
From Burrow in 2020 to Stafford in 2009, this year’s team is set to face five quarterbacks drafted first overall. Historically, it has struggled against those stars.
BY S COTT A LLEN
Last season, for the first time
since 2001 and only the second
time since 1988, the Washington
Football Team didn’t face at least
one quarterback who was drafted
No. 1 overall. With Eli Manning
retired, there’s no longer such a
quarterback in the NFC East. But
there are plenty on Washington’s
2020 schedule.
Washington already has seen
one No. 1 this year: It lost to the
2019 top pick, Kyler Murray, and
the Arizona Cardinals last week.
On Sunday, the team will look to
get back on track against the
Cleveland Browns, who are led by
the 2018 No. 1 pick (and Murray’s
predecessor at Oklahoma), Baker
Mayfield.
With the Los Angeles Rams
(Jared Goff, 2016), Detroit Lions
(Matthew Stafford, 2009) and Cin-
cinnati Bengals (Joe Burrow,
2020) still on the schedule, Wash-
ington could face five quarter-
backs this season who were select-
ed No. 1 overall, which would be
the most such games outside the
division in franchise history.
There are eight active quarter-
backs who were taken with the top
pick; New England’s Cam Newton
is the only one of the six with a
starting job not scheduled to face
Washington this season.
From 2002 to 2018, Washington
played at least two games and an
average of 4.4 games every season
against teams that started a quar-
terback taken No. 1, according to
Pro Football Reference. In 2010
and 2011, Washington played sev-
en such games, and in four other
seasons during that span it played
six. Manning and, at various
points, Michael Vick, Sam Brad-
ford, Drew Bledsoe and Vinny Tes-
taverde playing for teams within
the division contributed to those
totals.
No. 1 picks have had a lot of
success against this franchise over
the years. Washington is 44-72 in
NFL NOTES
In first step toward allowing fans, Ravens welcoming 250 relatives for MNF
F ROM NEWS SERVICES
The Baltimore Ravens will al-
low 250 immediate family mem-
bers at M&T Bank Stadium for
Monday night’s game against the
Kansas City Chiefs, the team an-
nounced Friday.
In advancing to the next step of
Maryland’s reopening plan this
month, Gov. Larry Hogan (R) al-
lowed up to 250 people to attend
events at outdoor venues.
Before the season began, the
Ravens announced that they
would not be allowing fans at
M&T Bank Stadium for “at least
the initial part” of the season. The
team opened at home against the
Cleveland Browns on Sept. 13
without fans in attendance.
“To prepare for the possibility
of hosting fans at M&T Bank Sta-
dium later this season, the Ravens
will host 250 immediate family
members of players, coaches and
front office staff members in the
stands for Monday Night foot-
ball,” the team said on social me-
dia.
To be eligible to attend the
game, family members must be
living in the same local household
Young U.S. soccer stars
making impact overseas
SOCCER FROM D1
Chris Richards, 20, came off
the bench for European cham-
pion Bayern Munich, which is on
the cusp of acquiring U.S. de-
fender Sergiño Dest, 19, from
Dutch power Ajax.
The other big team chasing
Dest was FC Barcelona, which, in
its rich stable of prospects, sum-
moned Miami native Konrad de
la Fuente, 19, from its youth
squad recently to join Lionel
Messi and other first-teamers in
preseason friendlies.
“We used to get excited if an
American got playing time in a
European league,” said Mike
Woitalla, executive editor of Soc-
cer America, which closely moni-
tors U.S. exports. “Now we’re
keeping track of their goals,
assists and Champions League
appearances.”
Americans being employed by
distinguished European clubs
are not unusual. Tim Howard
started for Manchester United,
John O’Brien spent seven years
with Ajax, and Timothy Weah
began his career with Paris
Saint-Germain. Reyna’s father,
Claudio, a former U.S. World Cup
. THE WASHINGTON POST
The Browns’ Baker Mayfield, the top pick of the 2018 draft, will welcome Washington for the teams’ Week 3 matchup Sunday in Cleveland.
116 regular season games started
by the 25 quarterbacks drafted
No. 1 since the 1970 merger. Wash-
ington is 1-1 against that group in
the playoffs, losing to Jim Plun-
kett in Super Bowl XVIII and beat-
ing John Elway in Super Bowl
XXII.
The only quarterbacks picked
as a player, coach or staff member.
They will be required to wear a
mask and follow safety protocols.
The NFL has allowed teams to
welcome fans into their stadiums
as long as they comply with state
and local directives.
“This is an important step for us
as we continue working toward
the possibility of welcoming a
larger number of fans at some
point this season,” Ravens Presi-
dent Dick Cass said. “Ultimately,
we all want to do what’s in the best
interest of our community.”
— Baltimore Sun
l 49ERS: Nick Mullens will
start at quarterback Sunday
against the New York Giants in
place of injured Jimmy Garoppolo
but won’t have all-pro tight end
George Kittle as an option.
Garoppolo didn’t practice all
week because of a high ankle
sprain suffered last week but
wasn’t officially ruled out for this
week’s game until Friday.
Coach Kyle Shanahan said Kit-
tle will miss a second straight
game after he sprained his knee in
the season opener. Kittle prac-
ticed on a limited basis this week
but wasn’t healthy enough to go.
captain, wore the colors of,
among others, Glasgow Rangers
and Manchester City.
This is, however, the first time
so many U.S. players are not only
employed by major clubs but
getting on the field and, in some
cases, playing important roles.
Berhalter credited the U.S.
development system, which in-
cludes long-standing independ-
ent clubs and the rise of MLS
youth academies over the past
10 years, for preparing players
for professional rigors. That, in
turn, has resulted in playing time
in MLS matches at a younger age,
quicker maturation and greater
appeal to European clubs.
Some players, such as Chel-
sea’s Christian Pulisic, who is
recovering from a hamstring in-
jury, came through European
channels after leaving the United
States before turning pro. Oth-
ers, such as Dest and Fulham’s
Antonee Robinson, are dual na-
tionals who joined European
club academies as youngsters.
Last month, Leipzig’s Tyler
Adams, 21, became the first
American to score in a Champi-
ons League quarterfinal. Two
weeks earlier, Pulisic, who
No. 1 who didn’t start at least one
game against Washington before
they retired were Cleveland’s Tim
Couch, who started 59 games over
five seasons after the Browns se-
lected the former Kentucky star
with the top pick of the 1999 draft,
and JaMarcus Russell, the Oak-
land Raiders’ top pick in 2007.
“I thought it was a lot safer to
leave him out,” Shanahan said.
“We didn’t need to wait another
day because of how he sounded
today.”
The 49ers also will be without
injured running backs Raheem
Mostert (knee) and Tevin Cole-
man (knee), linebacker Dre
Greenlaw (quadriceps) and edge
rusher Dee Ford (back).
l SAINTS: New Orleans ruled
out reigning offensive player of
the year Michael Thomas for Sun-
day night’s game against the
Green Bay Packers.
Thomas, a wide receiver who
set an NFL record with 149 catch-
es last season, will miss a second
straight game with an ankle inju-
ry.
The Saints also ruled out line-
backer Chase Hansen (hip). De-
fensive ends Marcus Davenport
(elbow) and Trey Hendrickson
(groin), running back Ty Mont-
gomery (hamstring) and defen-
sive tackle David Onyemata (calf )
are questionable.
l PACKERS: Green Bay also is
likely to be without its top wide
receiver. Coach Matt LaFleur said
it’s “probably doubtful” that Da-
American midfielder Weston McKennie, 22, made his Juventus debut last weekend against Sampdoria.
turned 22 this month, was the
first U.S. player to score in an
English FA Cup final.
Robinson, 23, joined Fulham
in the Premier League from sec-
ond-flight Wigan after drawing
interest last winter from AC
Milan. Zack Steffen, 25, is Man-
chester City’s backup goalkeeper
after a year-long loan in Ger-
EZ SU
Russell came on in relief of Bruce
Gradkowski in a loss to Washing-
ton in 2009. Sunday’s game will be
Mayfield’s first against Washing-
ton.
Manning, who finished his
16-year career with a 117-117 rec-
ord, started 29 games against
Washington from 2004 to 2018,
vante Adams will play against
New Orleans because of a ham-
string injury.
“We’ll give him the rest of the
week to see where he’s at, but
ultimately we’ve got to see if he’s
able to go,” LaFleur said. “I know
he’s doing everything in his power
to make that happen, but I’d say
right now he’s probably doubtful.”
The Packers also declared tight
end Josiah Deguara (ankle) and
linebacker Randy Ramsey (groin)
doubtful. They listed defensive
tackle Kenny Clark (groin), guard
Elgton Jenkins (back/rib) and
safety Darnell Savage (groin) as
questionable.
l FALCONS: Wide receiver Ju-
lio Jones still has a chance to play
against the Chicago Bears on Sun-
day after missing practice this
week with a hamstring injury.
“We’ll take it all the way to the
game with Julio,” Coach Dan
Quinn said, noting that Jones,
who was listed as questionable,
has been involved with the game
plan.
Atlanta’s secondary will be
without safety Ricardo Allen (el-
bow) and cornerback Kendall
Sheffield (foot).
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many. Josh Sargent, 20, is start-
ing for Germany’s Werder Bre-
men. And Weah, 20, is reviving
his injury-plagued career at
French club Lille.
Overall, 14 Americans are in
the first-team mix with clubs in
the five best European leagues.
The rise bodes well for Berhal-
ter and the national team, which
DAVID RICHARD/ASSOCIATED PRESS
going 19-10 with 33 touchdowns
and 27 interceptions. Dallas Cow-
boys legend Troy Aikman has the
second-most starts against Wash-
ington by a No. 1 pick with 20,
going 12-8 with 23 touchdowns
and 16 interceptions from 1989 to
2000. Those longtime rivals are
followed by Bradford (seven),
l JETS: Wide receivers Jami-
son Crowder (hamstring) and Bre-
shad Perriman (ankle) were ruled
out for New York’s game at the
Indianapolis Colts on Sunday be-
cause of injuries.
And add another wideout to the
list: Braxton Berrios injured a
hamstring at practice Friday and
was listed as questionable to play.
That leaves just Chris Hogan
and Josh Malone as healthy wide
receivers on the active roster —
and Hogan practiced fully Friday
after being limited Wednesday
and Thursday with an injured rib.
Undrafted rookie Lawrence Cager
is likely to be elevated from the
practice squad, and the Jets also
have D.J. Montgomery and Jaleel
Scott there as options.
l RAIDERS: Las Vegas will be
without speedy rookie wide re-
ceiver Henry Ruggs III this week
because of injuries to his knee and
hamstring.
Ruggs was ruled out Friday for
Sunday’s game against the New
England Patriots, along with
starting right tackle Trent Brown
and linebacker Nick Kwiatkoski.
Brown has been sidelined by a
calf injury since he left the opener
two years ago ended a string of
seven consecutive World Cup
appearances with a shocking de-
feat at last-place Trinidad and
Tobago, raising questions about
the direction of the program.
At that time, this current band
of young players, aside from
Pulisic, was not in senior nation-
al team circles. But as qualifying
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Vick (six) and Peyton Manning,
Bledsoe, Testaverde, Steve Bart-
kowski and Newton, all of whom
have five starts vs. Washington.
Stafford and Bradford earned
their first wins against Washing-
ton in their third career starts.
(Stafford threw for 241 yards and a
touchdown in Detroit’s 19-14 win
over Washington in Week 3 of the
2009 season, which snapped the
Lions’ 19-game losing streak.) In
2013, Washington went 0-6
against quarterbacks drafted
No. 1, the start of a streak of 11 con-
secutive losses to seven different
quarterbacks taken with the top
pick. Jameis Winston’s only start
against Washington came as a
rookie in 2015, and it was a memo-
rable one: Kirk Cousins led the
largest comeback in franchise his-
tory in a 31-30 win over the Bucca-
neers at FedEx Field.
Playing multiple games per
year against quarterbacks drafted
No. 1 didn’t become a regular oc-
currence for Washington until the
Cowboys drafted Aikman in 1989.
Before then, the five quarterbacks
selected No. 1 from 1970 to 1988 —
Terry Bradshaw, Plunkett, Bart-
kowski, Elway and Testaverde —
started a combined 10 games
against Washington during the
regular season. Washington
would play three games in the
same season against quarterbacks
drafted No. 1 for the first time in
1990, including two against
Aikman.
Washington hasn’t had the
No. 1 pick in the Super Bowl era,
but two No. 1 picks have started at
quarterback for the team during
that time. Jeff George, the top pick
of the Indianapolis Colts in 1990,
went 1-6 with Washington in 2000
and 2001. Alex Smith, the first pick
by the San Francisco 49ers in the
2005 draft and a current backup
in D.C., was 6-4 for Washington in
2018 before a knee injury and
subsequent infection nearly cost
him his life.
scott.allen@washpost.com
after one series. Kwiatkoski in-
jured his pectoral muscle later in
that game and will miss his second
straight week.
Running back Josh Jacobs
(hip), tight end Darren Waller
(knee), tackle Sam Young (groin)
and offensive lineman Denzelle
Good (thumb, illness) are all listed
as questionable.
l VIKINGS: Minnesota’s
struggling defense will be further
depleted Sunday against the Ten-
nessee Titans, with two more
starters sidelined by injuries.
Cornerbacks Mike Hughes
(neck) and Cameron Dantzler
(rib) were declared out. Also,
backup corner Kris Boyd (ham-
string) was listed as questionable.
Two of the team’s stars on that
side of the ball, defensive end Dan-
ielle Hunter and linebacker An-
thony Barr, are on injured reserve.
l BILLS: Buffalo will be with-
out rookie running back Zack
Moss for Sunday’s game against
the Los Angeles Rams. Moss is out
with a toe injury.
Linebackers Tremaine Ed-
munds (shoulder) and Matt Mila-
no (hamstring) are questionable.
— Associated Press
for Qatar approaches — it has
been pushed back from this fall
because of the novel coronavirus
pandemic and won’t start for the
U.S. team until next summer, at
the earliest — the collection of
rising Americans figures to form
the core of Berhalter’s roster.
He is eager to get started.
Because of the health crisis,
however, Berhalter has not been
able to conduct a training camp
of any kind since January and
hasn’t been able to call up his
foreign-based players in almost a
year.
Nonetheless, “we’ve still made
progress by what the players are
doing individually,” said Berhal-
ter, who has been on the job since
December 2018. “And now we
want to get them back together
and make progress as a team. It
would be nice to get them on the
field and keep moving forward.”
The U.S. Soccer Federation is
getting close to finalizing a No-
vember training camp and two
friendlies, including one in
Wales, for European-based play-
ers.
Watching his European-based
players from afar, “you get a real
good understanding of what they
can do and what their skill sets
are,” Berhalter said. “And then
you start to project how he is
going to fit into what we are
doing and how all these pieces fit
together.”
steven.goff@washpost.com
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College football

T O D A Y ’ S T V G A M ES

The SEC joins the fun this week as college football staggers toward
Virginia hopes fifth time’s the charm
normalcy amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. On the opposite end of
the scheduling spectrum is Houston — those poor, star-crossed Cougars — in the United States, according to game to Dec. 12. In this first game week, he has a
data from The Washington Post. Clemson on the road Oct. 3 three-deep depth chart of coaches
which has had five season openers called off and is on track for a sterling Cavs are ready to open Still, that Virginia managed to briefly became the next opener in all three phases in case there is
0-0 record. This year, that might be good enough for bowl eligibility: An
NCAA committee recommended that the normal requirements for a their season — for real arrive at an actual game week until the ACC moved Duke to a positive test among his staff,
remains a milestone considering Saturday, with both the Blue Dev- himself included.
postseason appearance be waived. I, for one, cannot wait to see this time — against Duke this is the fifth potential season ils and Cavaliers having an open Virginia was tested three times
0-0 Houston vs. 2-3 Virginia Tech in the Gasparilla Bowl.
opener after cancellations and date this weekend. this week, with the final test Fri-
EARLY SHIFT postponements altered others. “It’s been a challenge,” Virginia day, as mandated for all ACC
Noon Kansas State at No. 3 Oklahoma » WTTG (Ch. 5), WBFF (Ch. 45) BY G ENE W ANG The reigning ACC Coastal Divi- Coach Bronco Mendenhall said schools during game weeks.
Noon No. 5 Florida at Mississippi » ESPN sion champions originally were during a Zoom call Monday. “The The Cavaliers have reported
Noon No. 23 Kentucky at No. 8 Auburn » SEC Network Senior wide receiver Terrell set to open Sept. 7 against Georgia simplest narrative is probably the zero new positive cases since
Noon No. 13 Central Florida at East Carolina » WJLA (Ch. 7), WMAR (Ch. 2) Jana did not equivocate in fore- at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in At- boy who cried wolf, and the play- July 24, making them an oddity in
Noon Georgia Southern at No. 19 Louisiana Lafayette » ESPN2
casting what he expects when the lanta in a nationally televised ers, I think, realize now that we the conference that includes
Noon No. 24 Louisville at No. 21 Pittsburgh » ACC Network
Noon Georgia Tech at Syracuse » MASN
Virginia football team, after exas- prime-time showdown. Uncer- made it to a Monday of game North Carolina State postponing
1:30 Iowa State at TCU » Fox Sports 1 perating delays, finally opens a tainty surrounding the pandemic week, that this one is real.” a game because of widespread
season unlike any other in college led to that game being scrapped. Mendenhall only recently be- positive cases within the athletic
Kentucky is ranked ahead of its first game for only the fifth time and for football history. With the ACC moving to 10 con- gan devoting more attention to department and Florida State
the first time since 1978. The Wildcats also have beaten Auburn only The Cavaliers are scheduled to ference games and one noncon- installing the game plan and Coach Mike Norvell revealing he
once in 18 meetings since 1967. But there are signs that this might be the face Duke on Saturday in Char- ference opponent for each school coaching players on technique tested positive.
year Kentucky breaks through in the SEC after a history of bumping its lottesville, becoming one of the in an effort to salvage the season, and other football-related mat- Notre Dame, which joined ACC
head against the conference’s ceiling or falling down the stairs into the final ACC schools to play its first the Cavaliers added Virginia Mili- ters. Over the early portion of football for this season only, also
basement. Quarterback Terry Wilson is back after missing most of last game amid the novel coronavirus tary Institute for the opener training camp, the architect of postponed its game against Wake
season with a knee injury, and his numbers compare favorably with those pandemic. Sept. 11. That game was canceled the Cavaliers’ rebuild had been, Forest after an outbreak.
of Auburn sophomore Bo Nix, who comes in with much more hype. But the “I grew up playing football in when the Southern Conference by his admission, largely a safety “I can say what I’m hopeful to
Canada, so I’m used to no fans,” voted not to play fall sports. protocol monitor. see,” Mendenhall said of the open-
difference might be the Wildcats’ defense, which returns nearly everyone
Jana said Monday during a Zoom Next on the schedule was Vir- During practices, he would en- er. “I hope they play with passion
from a unit that didn’t experience much drop-off from the departure of
call with local media. ginia Tech on Sept. 19, marking sure players maintained the prop- and enjoyment and enthusiasm
2018 SEC defensive player of the year Josh Allen. Only family members and close the first time since 1970 the in- er social distance and kept their and energy in a celebratory man-
SWING SHIFT friends of Cavaliers players and state rivals were going to meet in masks on before allowing the ball ner just to play the game. I hope
2:30 Tulane at Southern Miss » MASN2 coaches will be permitted to enter the opener and drawing consider- to be snapped. His practice plan- that comes through in their body
3:30 Mississippi State at No. 6 LSU » WUSA (Ch. 9), WJZ (Ch. 13) Scott Stadium as mandated by able interest among football- ning included how many players language and their effort and
3:30 No. 8 Texas at Texas Tech » WTTG (Ch. 5), WBFF (Ch. 45) regulations in the common- starved fans in Virginia. A spike and which position groups were their interactions with one an-
3:30 No. 22 Army at No. 14 Cincinnati » ESPN wealth, a stark reminder of the in positive tests within the going to be at certain spots on the other.”
3:30 West Virginia at No. 15 Oklahoma State » WJLA (Ch. 7), WMAR (Ch. 2) outbreak that has killed 203,000 Hokies’ locker room pushed that field at any given time. gene.wang@washpost.com
3:30 UTEP at Louisiana Monroe » ESPN2
4 Duke at Virginia » ACC Network
4 No. 4 Georgia at Arkansas » SEC Network

LSU enters its season opener against Mississippi State down nine
offensive starters — Heisman Trophy winner Joe Burrow, wide receiver
Justin Jefferson and running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire were NFL first-
Virginia Tech is approaching opener with caution
round draft picks — and both coordinators from last year’s national title
BY G ENE W ANG day against North Carolina State announced its Sept. 19 season ing career Fuente is using two
team. The Bulldogs have a new coach in Mike Leach and a new
at Lane Stadium, Fuente spent a opener against Virginia was being quarterbacks in the same game by
quarterback in Stanford transfer K.J. Costello, who has thrown As the prospect of playing the portion of this week awaiting vi- postponed for precautionary rea- design, saying Hooker earned the
49 touchdown passes against 18 interceptions in three college seasons. first game of the season ap- rus test results for his players and sons. right to start, particularly given
Leach’s offensive chops might find a counterweight in an LSU defense proached over the past month or staff. “I knew it was coming,” Holli- his experience in the system, but
that’s more seasoned than its offense and has a new coordinator with so, Virginia Tech football coach The last of three tests per week field said Tuesday, revealing he Burmeister brings another di-
impressive bona fides in Bo Pelini. As Texas Tech’s head coach, Leach won Justin Fuente fielded the same as mandated for all ACC schools tested positive after he came back mension to the position that
both meetings with Pelini’s Nebraska squads, scoring a combined question virtually each time dur- came Friday, at which time Fuente to campus and was asymptomat- could benefit the offense.
68 points in 2008 and 2009. . . . ing his weekly updates about the could determine his starters with ic. “We’ve seen people going down Concerns about availability
Who knows what to expect from Army-Cincinnati? Both are state of the team amid the novel at least some degree of certainty. right and left, but you’ve just got also include the coaching staff,
undefeated, winning their three games by a combined score of 134-27 coronavirus pandemic. Still, he indicated not all the to handle [it]. If you’re still in, compelling Fuente to craft a
against Middle Tennessee, Louisiana Monroe and Austin Peay. The Black His answer didn’t change players listed on the two-deep you’re still playing. You’ve got to depth chart for assistants if he or
Knights’ momentum may have been derailed by the cancellation of last much when he was asked whether depth chart are ready to play. go out there and do the best job one of his coordinators were to
week’s game against BYU, but considering that Army’s players have been he would be able to assemble a Others may be inserted at multi- you can.” test positive. Three head coaches
sequestered on campus since June — and that Army players usually are viable lineup were a game immi- ple positions against the Wolf- According to the ACC’s virus in major college football are
the unflappable type — they probably have a pretty good routine going. nent. pack, with the roster potentially protocols, players testing positive known to have tested positive,
Just like Army and its triple option, Cincinnati seems likely to lean on its “We’re all living in a test-by-test diminished from test results. are not subject to weekly tests for with Florida State’s Mike Norvell
running game with quarterback Desmond Ridder a somewhat world now,” Fuente said Monday Virginia Tech has not publicly 90 days from the date of their set to be the first to miss a game.
inconsistent passer. The Bearcats had 10 players run the ball in their win during a call with reporters. “So disclosed results of its in-house positive result unless they devel- “It’s a little bit like trying to
over Austin Peay last week, and Ridder led the way with 57 yards on just we’ll see as they come. Hopefully virus testing and those quarantin- op symptoms. solve a Rubik’s Cube and a new
four carries. everything works out fine. I’m not ing, citing the Family Educational In attempting to mitigate the layer of the Rubik’s Cube gets
trying to raise alarm, but I’m also Rights and Privacy Act, but line- effect of potential virus-related added every single day,” Fuente
NIGHT SHIFT not trying to — I’m just being backer Dax Hollifield provided absences, Fuente and his staff said. “It’s just trying to figure out
7 No. 2 Alabama at Missouri » ESPN honest with the situation we’re in. insight into what players have have been cross-training players who’s available and who can get
7:30 Vanderbilt at No. 10 Texas A&M » SEC Network Alternate “I mean, we’re just trying to been dealing with since they re- throughout training camp and work and bring the team together
7:30 Florida State at No. 12 Miami » WJLA (Ch. 7), WMAR (Ch. 2) make it to each day to see where turned for voluntary workouts fall practice. Fuente also is play- and all the things that come with
7:30 No. 16 Tennessee at South Carolina » SEC Network it’s at, and hopefully we’re on the followed by training camp. ing two quarterbacks this season, this. I’m certainly not up here to
7:30 Kansas at Baylor » ESPNU right side of where this thing’s When the junior arrived for a with incumbent Hendon Hooker complain about it. I’m just saying
8 N.C. State at No. 20 Virginia Tech » ACC Network
trending.” team meeting this month, he was starting and Braxton Burmeister, it’s a part of the situation that a lot
10:15 Troy at No. 18 BYU » ESPN
With the No. 20 Hokies prepar- the only linebacker in the room. a transfer, expected to take snaps. of people are in.”
— Matt Bonesteel ing for their season opener Satur- Several days later, Virginia Tech It’s the first time in his coach- gene.wang@washpost.com

As LSU gets set to return, and the issues that have resulted
from the climate. So there’s a
certain sense of community

Louisiana looks forward there.”

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of New Orleans in Galliano.
“My personal reaction is just a
sense of anxiety and doom,” John
Bardes said from Baton Rouge.
“We started off high, and after
that we’ve had to constantly
remind ourselves that it’s going
to get better,” Catherine O’Neal
said from Baton Rouge.
Hunter is the mayor of Lake
Charles, the southwest Louisiana
city writhing from the ravages of
Hurricane Laura, which tied a
164-year-old record as the stron-
gest storm to reach Louisiana
land. Roberts resides in New
Orleans, where four of his next-
door neighbors contracted covid-
19 and one died, and he teaches
history at LSU, where his stu-
dents know storm damage in
their bones and two or three of
them have gone to Lake Charles
on National Guard duty.
Goldsmith owns Kajun Twist,
a restaurant in the oil and gas
economy south of New Orleans,
where his to-go window has been
a godsend and where he takes a
plate of lunch each day to famed
Cajun chef Alzina Toups, his
93-year-old great-grandmother.
Bardes is a freshly minted assis-
tant professor of history at LSU
who grew up on the Upper East
Side of Manhattan but felt help-
less against the vivid, moving
pull of Louisiana on Day 1 in
2006, when he arrived to help gut
houses after Hurricane Katrina.
O’Neal is an LSU infectious-dis-
ease specialist who serves on the
SEC’s medical advisory panel.
Their interests in football vary
from much to scant, but they all
felt the air around Jan. 13.
“They literally shut down cam-
pus,” Roberts said of Jan. 13 and
14 at LSU, the alma mater he
adores. “Even for a football
school, that was really unusual.”
“Oh, it was on another level,”
Goldsmith said. “Everybody had
LSU in the windows, stores,
houses, everywhere. . . . If you
drove up and down the bayou
around then, it was all purple
and gold everywhere.” Add the
fact that LSU Coach Ed Orgeron
hails from the region and Gold-
smith said, “It’s amazing for us
down here to have someone from
here being on that kind of stage.”
“If you think about a few
things we’re serious about, poli-
tics, food and football probably
rise into the top three,” Hunter
said before going into a meeting
with an Internet company to
discuss its slow response to his
citizenry. “I don’t care where you
live in Louisiana or what school
you went to — there’s a certain
amount of pride in seeing our
flagship university getting that
type of national recognition.”
Only in 2020, of course, could
a parade for a national title come
to have a doctor and LSU fan,
O’Neal, wonder, “Now I think of
it as a possible covid event.” Only
in Louisiana in 2020 could Mardi
Gras, with its joy blanketing the
bygone February, end up a sure-
fire covid-19 event. “I think ev-
erything is more extreme here,”
said Bardes, the native New York-
er. “Everything is more vivid. If
Louisiana were an easy place to
live, everybody would live here.
The colors are brighter. This is an
exuberant place. This is a dra-
matic place. This is a place that
appreciates public performance.”
Now, as Roberts pointed out,
covid-19 has left New Orleans
further from its essence than
perhaps any other place.
He noted “the lack of human
contact necessitated by the shel-
tering we’re doing now” and said:
“So New Orleans has lost a lot in
terms of the social climate here.
The money and the people com-
ing into the city around Jazz Fest
in May, which got destroyed by
covid. The way people feel about
the loss of those things seems to
be really acute. In a city where so
much of the culture and economy
are tied to that socializing and
that necessity of being in groups,
it seems to be really having an
effect on the population.”
Laura ravaged Lake Charles in August and tied a record as the strongest hurricane to hit Louisiana.
He said he finds that popula-
tion “kind of down in the mouth
as a way that’s unique to New
Orleans.” Seemingly everyone, he
said, knows someone who has
been sick, making the virus even
more of an “omnipresence.”
Down in Galliano, Goldsmith
and his restaurant employees
“always wore masks at the [to-go]
window,” which became “the
only point of contact that we had
with the outside world.” He had
an older employee ask to stay
home, so he took over her shift
until she returned. Having a
to-go window actually increased
business slightly, but at the same
time his grandfather’s truck-stop
business has closed.
“Just this past week and not
even like a big, huge hurricane,”
Goldsmith said of the wind
throwing water onto Louisiana
Highway 1, leaving it “completely
flooded south of Golden Mead-
ow.” He said: “I was talking to my
grandfather today; he said he’s
never, in the 40 years he’s had the
place, he’s never had it this bad.
He said he’s closed more days this
year because of water and storms
than all the other years he’s had it
[combined].”
Bardes, the adoptive Louisian-
ian from New York, said he spoke
“as a private citizen, not as a
historian,” as he said: “It’s hard
not to be very, very fearful of the
future. The state is coming out of
the end of this incredible health
disaster to find climate change
again promising this endless cy-
cle of storms.” Louisiana, he said,
“is a place of tremendous hope
and spirit, and athletics are part
of that. It’s just hard to not face
the reality that Louisiana is in
jeopardy, at least the southern
part.”
He added: “We are a tourism
economy in an age when there’s
no tourism. We are a restaurant
economy in an age when no one
can eat out. And we are an oil and
gas economy at a time when the
oil and gas extraction is drown-
ing us.” That feeling might not
consume the whole state, he said.
“But everybody along the coast is
very aware of this. People have
watched in their lifetimes their
farms slip into the [water].
They’ve watched forest turn into
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saltwater marsh, and they’re see-
ing this in real time. . . . You see
seasonal flooding bring the water
higher and higher around land-
marks in your neighborhood.”
In the second year ever in
which the National Hurricane
Center has exhausted its alpha-
bet of names for storms, Hunter
has seen the earliest 12th storm
on record, Laura, hit his
80,000-strong city. He has over-
seen the rebuilding of an electri-
cal grid. He has met with the
Internet company everyone finds
lacking. He has seen the debris
pickup speed up relative to that
benchmark from 2005, Hurri-
cane Rita, because some long-
time members of his administra-
tion have drawn from experience
from that disaster.
“I will say this,” he said. “I will
sleep a lot better when this
hurricane season is over.”
It’s not yet, and it’s a reality felt
by Roberts’s students. “Nobody’s
surprised, and nobody’s up in
arms, and they’ve just become
accustomed to it. . . . We’ve incul-
cated the culture of Louisiana
storms and those kinds of things
Enter football. Goldsmith said
fans on the bayou feared it
wouldn’t happen and are grateful
it will, even if they wish it were
more than just conference games
and even if it can’t resemble the
13th night of this dramatic year.
Some see it as a possible distrac-
tion, with Bardes ranking it
among Louisiana’s “wonderful
array” of bedazzlements, even as
Roberts finds his students leery
of any stadium or tailgating.
Then there’s that dual feeling of
knowing Louisiana’s demon-
strated resiliency while wishing
it didn’t have to be demonstrated
so often.
“Our year in Louisiana has
been one of resiliency,” O’Neal
said one day in August. “. . . I sent
a thank-you note today to one of
our businesses for donating
$60,000 to the hospital. I have
never seen so much community
[engagement]. I don’t know that
the championship was the high
point. I think our high point is
yet to come.”
Said Roberts: “I feel like the
kinds of experience have created
the expectation that, no matter
how awful the situation is now,
New Orleanians will reclaim
New Orleans when this is all over.
. . . The expectation is that New
Orleanians are champing at the
bit to get back on the street, so
the minute this thing is over . . .”
Then he laughed and contin-
ued: “There’s going to be a very
festival-like explosion in New
Orleans when this is all over. The
problem people are having now
is, how long is that tunnel before
we can get back to that light?”
“It’s been a hell of a year, man,”
Hunter said. “I don’t even know if
I could find the right words to
describe it. I have a history
degree from McNeese, and I try
to put things in a historical
perspective.” He thought of 20th
century years and said: “I think
2020 might be one for the history
books when it’s all said and done.
But my biggest hope is that,
when people look back, they will
be proud of how we responded to
it.”
chuck.culpepper@washpost.com
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Maryland’s accelerated plan to start fall sports hits roadblock at county level
BY K YLE M ELNICK “High school sports and com- continue waiting until 2021. are hesitant to permit high Anne Arundel, Calvert, Carroll, playing field and allowing youth
petition are deeply rooted in the Statements from Anne Arundel, school sports before bringing Charles, Cecil, Frederick, Garrett, sports to resume this fall is
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan fabric of our schools and commu- Howard and Charles County said back students for in-person St. Mary’s, Washington and critical for the social and mental
(R) and State Superintendent of nities,” Salmon said, emphasiz- they also will continue their learning. Worcester — have announced well-being of our students,” Ho-
Schools Karen B. Salmon an- ing the need for students to be current plans while considering plans to bring students back onto gan said Thursday. “Now that all
nounced Thursday that fall high “active and engaged for their the Oct. 7 start. An official from What’s the current timeline? school campuses for athletic 24 jurisdictions have submitted
school sports practices and com- physical, social and emotional Prince George’s County declined In Maryland, counties are practices this fall. As of now, they plans to resume in-person in-
petitions can begin next month. well-being.” to comment this week; the coun- planning to let winter sports haven’t announced plans to hold struction, allowing fall sports to
But that doesn’t mean they will. ty ruled in July that sports begin practice Feb. 1, with games competitions. begin next month marks another
Here’s what you need to know Is football close to returning? wouldn’t be played until January beginning Feb. 21. There would important step on our road to
about a potential return for high Not necessarily. Counties have at the earliest. be three sports seasons, each What are people’s reactions? recovery.”
school sports in Maryland. the final say on when their high Some independent private featuring five weeks of competi- High school athletes and But there is resistance to a
schools can resume participating schools that are only bound to tion. After the winter season, the coaches have used social media prompt return. The Public
What’s the new plan? in sports. Despite Thursday’s an- state rules are considering play- traditional fall sports season to express a desire to play this School Superintendents’ Associa-
The state permitted fall high nouncement prompting excite- ing fall seasons, according to would run from April 5 to May 8, fall. They organized a rally for tion of Maryland released a state-
school sports practices to begin ment from Maryland’s student- Rock Creek Christian football and spring sports would be held Saturday afternoon in Annapolis ment Thursday, signed by all
Oct. 7 and competitions to start athletes and coaches, no counties coach Andre Kates. from May 17 to June 19. to fight for the football season to 24 public school supervisors, say-
Oct. 27. Under these guidelines, have adopted the Oct. 7 start return. ing high school sports should
the regular season could end date. If cleared to play, why wait? Could the start be moved up? And Hogan and Salmon say return around the same time
Dec. 12 with a championship or Montgomery County, the larg- Counties are cautious about Yes, all Maryland counties are bringing back high school sports when students return to in-per-
tournament occurring the fol- est county in Maryland, released protecting their athletes’ health eligible to select the Oct. 7 start is important for students’ health. son classes.
lowing week. a statement saying it plans to and safety. Also, county leaders date. Eleven counties — Allegany, “Getting our kids back on the kyle.melnick@washpost.com

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NFL NBA playoffs Stanley Cup playoffs NCAA PGA Tour European Tour
NFC All games in Kissimmee, Fla. STANLEY CUP FINALS THURSDAY’S RESULT CORALES PUNCTACANA RESORT IRISH OPEN
CONFERENCE FINALS IN EDMONTON SOUTH & CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP At Galgorm Spa and Golf Resort
EAST W L T PCT. PF PA Best of seven; x-If necessary
Dallas ............................ 1 1 0 .500 57 59 Best of seven; x-If necessary Alabama Birmingham 42, South Alabama 10 At Corales Golf Club In Ballymena, Northern Ireland
Washington .................. 1 1 0 .500 42 47 LIGHTNING LEADS STARS, 3-1 In La Altagracia, Dominican Republic Purse: $1.67 million; Yardage: 7,209; Par: 70
EASTERN CONFERENCE FRIDAY’S RESULT Purse: $4 million; Yardage: 7,666; Par: 72
N.Y. Giants .................... 0 2 0 .000 29 43 Game 1: Dallas 4, Tampa Bay 1 SECOND ROUND — PARTIAL
HEAT LEADS CELTICS, 3-2 Game 2: Tampa Bay 3, Dallas 2
SOUTHWEST
Philadelphia .................. 0 2 0 .000 36 64 SECOND ROUND Play suspended because of darkness. (a-Amateur)
Game 1: Miami 117, Boston 114 (OT) Game 3: Tampa Bay 5, Dallas 2 UTSA 37, Middle Tennessee 35
Game 2: Miami 106, Boston 101 Game 4: Tampa Bay 5, Dallas 4 (OT) Hudson Swafford ................. 65-67 — 132 -12 Aaron Rai, England..........................65-70 — 135 -5
SOUTH W L T PCT. PF PA SATURDAY’S GAMES Sean O'Hair .......................... 67-67 — 134 -10
Game 3: Boston 117, Miami 106 Saturday: Dallas vs. Tampa Bay, 8 Robert Rock, England ......................69-67 — 136 -4
New Orleans ................. 1 1 0 .500 58 57 EAST Luke List............................... 69-65 — 134 -10
Game 4: Miami 112, Boston 109 x-Monday: Tampa Bay vs. Dallas, 8 Dean Burmester, South Africa........65-71 — 136 -4
Tampa Bay .................... 1 1 0 .500 54 51 Justin Suh ............................ 67-67 — 134 -10
Game 5: Boston 121, Miami 108 x-Wednesday: Dallas vs. Tampa Bay, 8 Louisville (1-1) at Pittsburgh (2-0), noon Joakim Lagergren, Sweden.............70-66 — 136 -4
Atlanta .......................... 0 2 0 .000 64 78 Adam Long ........................... 70-65 — 135 -9
Sunday: Boston vs. Miami, 7:30 Georgia Tech (1-1) at Syracuse (0-2), noon Scott Hend, Australia......................68-69 — 137 -3
Carolina ......................... 0 2 0 .000 47 65 Mackenzie Hughes ............... 68-67 — 135 -9
x-Tuesday: Miami vs. Boston, TBD Texas State (1-2) at Boston College (1-0), 6 John Catlin, United States ..............67-70 — 137 -3
Xinjun Zhang ........................ 66-69 — 135 -9 Justin Harding, South Africa ..........68-69 — 137 -3
NORTH W L T PCT. PF PA WESTERN CONFERENCE Lightning 5, Stars 4 (OT) Temple at Navy (1-1), ppd.
Sepp Straka .......................... 65-70 — 135 -9 Ewen Ferguson, Scotland................70-67 — 137 -3
Chicago ......................... 2 0 0 1.000 44 36 LAKERS LEAD NUGGETS, 3-1 LIGHTNING ........................ 1 2 1 1 — 5 SOUTH Kelly Kraft ............................ 68-68 — 136 -8 Jazz Janewattananond, Thailand ...68-70 — 138 -2
Green Bay ..................... 2 0 0 1.000 85 55 STARS ................................ 2 1 1 0 — 4 Sam Burns ............................ 69-67 — 136 -8 David Law, Scotland........................69-69 — 138 -2
Detroit .......................... 0 2 0 .000 44 69 Game 1: L.A. Lakers 126, Denver 114 Florida at Mississippi, noon Patrick Rodgers.................... 67-69 — 136 -8 Lucas Herbert, Australia.................71-67 — 138 -2
Game 2: L.A. Lakers 105, Denver 103 Campbell (0-2) at Appalachian State (1-1), noon
Minnesota ..................... 0 2 0 .000 45 71
Game 3: Denver 114, L.A. Lakers 106
FIRST PERIOD Tyler McCumber ................... 65-71 — 136 -8 Sean Crocker, United States ...........72-67 — 139 -1
Kentucky at Auburn, noon James Hahn.......................... 68-68 — 136 -8
Game 4: L.A. Lakers 114, Denver 108 Scoring: 1, Stars, Klingberg 4 (Lindell), 7:17. 2, Stars, Daan Huizing, Netherlands .............70-69 — 139 -1
UCF (1-0) at East Carolina, noon Joseph Bramlett................... 66-70 — 136 -8
WEST W L T PCT. PF PA Saturday: Denver vs. L.A. Lakers, 9 Pavelski 11 (Benn, Radulov), 18:28. 3, Lightning, Point Marcus Armitage, England .............69-71 — 140 E
Georgia State (0-1) at Charlotte (0-1), noon Charley Hoffman .................. 69-68 — 137 -7
Arizona ......................... 2 0 0 1.000 54 35 x-Monday: L.A. Lakers vs. Denver, TBD 12 (Palat, Shattenkirk), 19:27. Oliver Farr, Wales ...........................70-40 — 140 E
Notre Dame (2-0) at Wake Forest (0-2), Postponed Alex Smalley ........................ 70-67 — 137 -7
L.A. Rams ...................... 2 0 0 1.000 57 36 x-Wednesday: Denver vs. L.A. Lakers, TBD Nacho Elvira, Spain .........................69-71 — 140 E
Ga. Southern (1-0) at Louisiana Lafayette (2-0), noon Adam Schenk........................ 68-69 — 137 -7
Seattle .......................... 2 0 0 1.000 73 55 SECOND PERIOD Adrian Meronk, Poland....................71-69 — 140 E
E. Kentucky (0-2) at The Citadel (0-2), 1 Cameron Percy ..................... 67-70 — 137 -7
San Francisco ................ 1 1 0 .500 51 37 Clement Sordet, France...................70-70 — 140 E
Scoring: 4, Lightning, Point 13 (Kucherov, Killorn), 2:08 FIU at Liberty (1-0), 1 Dominic Bozzelli................... 70-67 — 137 -7 Calum Hill, Scotland ........................70-70 — 140 E
AFC (pp). 5, Stars, Perry 3 (Seguin, Janmark), 8:26. 6, Tulane (1-1) at Southern Miss. (0-2), 2:30 Thomas Detry....................... 68-69 — 137 -7 Joost Luiten, Netherlands ..............71-70 — 141 +1
Celtics 121, Heat 108 Lightning, Gourde 7 (Kucherov, Sergachev), 18:54 (pp). Mississippi State at LSU, 3:30 Martin Laird ......................... 69-69 — 138 -6 Stephen Gallacher, Scotland...........67-74 — 141 +1
EAST W L T PCT. PF PA UTEP (2-1) at Louisiana Monroe (0-2), 3:30 Peter Malnati ....................... 69-69 — 138 -6
Miami ................................. 26 32 25 25 — 108 THIRD PERIOD James Morrison, England................72-69 — 141 +1
Buffalo .......................... 2 0 0 1.000 58 45 Duke (0-2) at Virginia, 4 Jamie Lovemark ................... 67-71 — 138 -6
Boston ................................ 18 33 41 29 — 121 Fabrizio Zanotti, Paraguay..............70-72 — 142 +2
New England ................. 1 1 0 .500 51 46 Scoring: 7, Lightning, Killorn 5 (Sergachev, Cirelli), 6:41. Houston Baptist (0-2) at Louisiana Tech (1-0), 7 Emiliano Grillo...................... 70-68 — 138 -6 Lars Van Meijel, Netherlands .........71-71 — 142 +2
Miami ............................ 1 2 0 .333 70 65 MIAMI MIN FG FT O-T A PF PTS 8, Stars, Pavelski 12 (Seguin, Heiskanen), 11:35. Florida State (0-1) at Miami (2-0), 7:30 Brian Stuard ......................... 67-71 — 138 -6 Lucas Bjerregaard, Denmark...........68-74 — 142 +2
N.Y. Jets ....................... 0 2 0 .000 30 58 Tennessee at South Carolina, 7:30 Sebastian Cappelen.............. 69-69 — 138 -6
Butler 36:21 5-11 7-8 2-8 8 4 17 OVERTIME Niklas Lemke, Sweden ....................68-74 — 142 +2
N.C. State (1-0) at Virginia Tech, 8 J.J. Spaun ............................. 71-67 — 138 -6
Crowder 32:40 5-12 4-6 0-6 3 2 14 Rikard Karlberg, Sweden.................67-75 — 142 +2
South Florida (1-1) at FAU, ppd. Scott Brown ......................... 69-69 — 138 -6
SOUTH W L T PCT. PF PA Adebayo 38:12 5-11 3-4 1-8 8 5 13 Scoring: 9, Lightning, Shattenkirk 3 (Hedman, Maroon), Adri Arnaus, Spain ..........................73-69 — 142 +2
Tennessee ..................... 2 0 0 1.000 49 44 Dragic 35:47 8-17 6-7 0-4 4 6 23 6:34 (pp). MIDWEST Patton Kizzire ...................... 71-67 — 138 -6 Wilco Nienaber, South Africa .........70-72 — 142 +2
Indianapolis .................. 1 1 0 .500 48 38 Robinson 37:01 7-15 3-4 0-2 0 4 20 Kyle Stanley ......................... 67-72 — 139 -5 Dale Whitnell, England ...................71-72 — 143 +3
Jacksonville .................. 1 2 0 .333 70 84 Herro 29:01 6-12 0-0 0-3 1 3 14 SHOTS ON GOAL Army (2-0) at Cincinnati (1-0), 3:30 Scott Harrington .................. 65-74 — 139 -5 Alejandro Canizares, Spain .............71-72 — 143 +3
Houston ........................ 0 2 0 .000 36 67 Iguodala 19:27 1-5 0-0 2-4 1 2 2 LIGHTNING ........................ 8 15 8 4 — 35 Alabama at Missouri, 7 Ben Martin ........................... 68-71 — 139 -5 Martin Simonsen, Denmark ............68-75 — 143 +3
Hill 7:28 0-0 0-0 1-3 2 0 0 STARS ................................ 3 14 11 2 — 30 SOUTHWEST Denny McCarthy................... 68-71 — 139 -5 Jack Senior, England .......................70-73 — 143 +3
Olynyk 3:53 2-3 0-0 0-0 0 2 5 Power-play opportunities: Lightning 3 of 4; Stars 0 of 3. Mark Anderson..................... 68-71 — 139 -5 Matthew Southgate, England.........74-70 — 144 +4
NORTH W L T PCT. PF PA Kansas St. (0-1) at Oklahoma (1-0), noon
Jones Jr. 0:10 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 Goalies: Lightning, Vasilevskiy 17-5-1 (30 shots-26 Rob Oppenheim .................... 72-67 — 139 -5 Garrick Porteous, England ..............73-71 — 144 +4
Baltimore ...................... 2 0 0 1.000 71 22 Iowa State (0-1) at TCU, 1:30 Ryan Brehm.......................... 67-72 — 139 -5
Pittsburgh ..................... 2 0 0 1.000 52 37 TOTALS 240 39-86 23-29 6-38 27 29 108 saves). Stars, Khudobin 13-8-1 (35-30). T: 3:01. Colm Moriarty, Ireland ....................75-69 — 144 +4
Texas (1-0) at Texas Tech (1-0), 3:30 Sangmoon Bae ..................... 71-68 — 139 -5 Joel Stalter, France .........................74-70 — 144 +4
Cleveland ...................... 1 1 0 .500 41 68 West Virginia (1-0) at Oklahoma State (1-0), 3:30 Fabian Gomez....................... 70-69 — 139 -5
Cincinnati ...................... 0 2 0 .000 43 51 Percentages: FG .453, FT .793. 3-Point Goals: 7-36, .194 Craig Howie, Scotland .....................73-71 — 144 +4
(Robinson 3-11, Herro 2-5, Olynyk 1-2, Dragic 1-7, Butler Georgia at Arkansas, 4 George McNeill..................... 69-70 — 139 -5 Ross Mcgowan, England .................73-71 — 144 +4
WEST W L T PCT. PF PA
0-2, Iguodala 0-3, Crowder 0-6). Team Rebounds: 10. SO C C ER Stephen F. Austin (0-2) at SMU (2-0), 7 Tommy Gainey ..................... 71-68 — 139 -5 Mathieu Fenasse, France ................72-72 — 144 +4
Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 5 (Iguodala 2, Vanderbilt at Texas A&M, 7:30 Henrik Stenson .................... 70-69 — 139 -5 Joachim B. Hansen, Denmark .........72-72 — 144 +4
Kansas City ................... 2 0 0 1.000 57 40 Adebayo, Butler, Crowder). Turnovers: 12 (Dragic 4, Kansas (0-1) at Baylor, 7:30 Nate Lashley ........................ 68-71 — 139 -5 Shubhankar Sharma, India..............72-72 — 144 +4
Las Vegas ...................... 2
L.A. Chargers ................ 1
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Butler 3, Adebayo 2, Herro 2, Iguodala). Steals: 3 MLS Missouri State (0-1) at Cent. Arkansas (1-1), 8
Tulsa (0-1) at Arkansas State (1-1), ppd.
Jonathan Byrd ...................... 68-71
Matt Jones ........................... 71-69
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140
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George Coetzee, South Africa.........71-73 — 144 +4
(Adebayo, Butler, Robinson). Technical Fouls: None. Steven Brown, England...................71-74 — 145 +5
Denver ........................... 0 2 0 .000 35 42 North Texas (1-1) at Houston, ppd. Kevin Tway........................... 70-70 — 140 -4 Masahiro Kawamura, Japan ...........74-71 — 145 +5
BOSTON MIN FG FT O-T A PF PTS EAST W L T Pts GF GA Pat Perez .............................. 70-70 — 140 -4 Antoine Rozner, France...................73-72 — 145 +5
WEEK 3 Brown 39:25 12-23 0-1 3-8 2 1 28 Columbus............................9 1 3 30 22 5 WEST Ricky Barnes......................... 67-73 — 140 -4 Aaron Cockerill, Canada ..................75-70 — 145 +5
THURSDAY’S RESULT Tatum 43:29 8-22 12-14 2-10 6 3 31 Orlando City........................7 2 4 25 25 15 Troy (1-0) at BYU (1-0), 10:15 Matthew NeSmith ............... 69-71 — 140 -4 Ben Stow, England ..........................70-75 — 145 +5
Miami 31, at Jacksonville 13 Theis 34:45 6-10 3-4 5-13 1 4 15 Philadelphia........................7 2 4 25 21 11 Keith Mitchell....................... 70-70 — 140 -4 Richie Ramsay, Scotland.................71-74 — 145 +5
Smart 40:17 3-9 4-4 0-8 8 4 12 Toronto FC..........................7 2 4 25 21 14 Sam Ryder ............................ 70-70 — 140 -4 Scott Jamieson, Scotland ...............69-76 — 145 +5
SUNDAY’S GAMES New England ......................4 3 6 18 13 12
Washington at Cleveland (-7), 1
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Vincent Whaley.................... 69-71
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Houston at Pittsburgh (-4), 1 Kanter 10:10 4-7 0-0 2-4 2 2 8 New York City FC................5 6 2 17 10 10 Middle Tennessee .............3 7 13 12 — 35 Rhein Gibson ........................ 71-69 — 140 -4 Max Schmitt, Germany ...................73-72 — 145 +5
Tennessee (-21/2) at Minnesota, 1 Williams 8:14 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 2 0 Montreal.............................5 7 1 16 19 23 UTSA..................................0 17 17 3 — 37 Arjun Atwal.......................... 73-68 — 141 -3 Romain Wattel, France ...................74-71 — 145 +5
Wanamaker 4:58 1-1 0-0 0-1 1 1 2 Nashville SC .......................4 5 3 15 10 13 David Hearn.......................... 67-74 — 141 -3
Cincinnati at Philadelphia (-41/2), 1 FIRST QUARTER
TOTALS 240 42-93 25-29 13-50 29 23 121
Atlanta ...............................4 7 2 14 13 17 Anirban Lahiri....................... 69-72 — 141 -3 PROJECTED CUT
Chicago at Atlanta (-3), 1 Cincinnati ...........................3 6 4 13 8 17 MTS: FG Holt 26, 8:20. Beau Hossler ........................ 70-71 — 141 -3 Ashley Chesters, England ................ 79-67 — 146 +6
Las Vegas at New England (-5), 1 Percentages: FG .452, FT .862. 3-Point Goals: 12-38, .316 Chicago ...............................3 7 3 12 16 22 C.T. Pan................................. 71-70 — 141 -3 Padraig Harrington, Ireland.............. 71-75 — 146 +6
L.A. Rams at Buffalo (-21/2), 1 (Brown 4-10, Walker 3-6, Tatum 3-10, Smart 2-5, D.C. United .........................2 6 5 11 11 18 SECOND QUARTER Willy Pumarol....................... 73-68 — 141 -3 Jeff Winther, Denmark .................... 77-69 — 146 +6
San Francisco (-4) at N.Y. Giants, 1 Williams 0-1, Theis 0-2, Hayward 0-4). Team Rebounds: Inter Miami CF....................3 8 2 11 12 19 Kramer Hickok...................... 69-72 — 141 -3 Francesco Laporta, Italy ................... 73-73 — 146 +6
UTSA: Franklin 25 pass from F.Harris (Duplessis kick),
N.Y. Jets at Indianapolis (-111/2), 4:05 10. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Shots: 4 (Theis 3, 11:11. Roberto Diaz......................... 70-71 — 141 -3 Kristoffer Reitan, Norway................ 72-74 — 146 +6
Carolina at L.A. Chargers (-61/2), 4:05 Hayward). Turnovers: 11 (Brown 4, Hayward 2, Tatum 2, WEST W L T Pts GF GA UTSA: McCormick 11 run (Duplessis kick), 7:38. Joohyung Kim....................... 72-69 — 141 -3 Graeme Storm, England ................... 70-76 — 146 +6
Tampa Bay (-6) at Denver, 4:25 Smart, Theis, Walker). Steals: 7 (Smart 4, Brown, Seattle................................6 3 3 21 26 11 MTS: Mobley 1 run (Holt kick), 1:08. Matthias Schwab ................. 69-72 — 141 -3 Ashun Wu, China .............................. 76-70 — 146 +6
Detroit at Arizona (-51/2), 4:25 Tatum, Walker). Technical Fouls: None. Portland..............................6 4 3 21 26 24 UTSA: FG Duplessis 24, :00. Hank Lebioda........................ 70-71 — 141 -3 Damien Perrier, France..................... 71-75 — 146 +6
Dallas at Seattle (-5), 4:25 Sporting KC ........................6 5 2 20 24 20 Chase Seiffert ...................... 71-70 — 141 -3 Tyler Koivisto, United States........... 73-73 — 146 +6
FC Dallas.............................5 3 4 19 19 13 THIRD QUARTER J.J. Henry.............................. 70-71 — 141 -3 Nicolas Colsaerts, Belgium .............. 73-73 — 146 +6
Green Bay at New Orleans (-3), 8:20 Zac Blair ............................... 68-73 — 141 -3
Colorado..............................5 4 4 19 25 20 UTSA: FG Duplessis 27, 11:25. David Drysdale, Scotland ................. 73-74 — 147 +7
POSTSEASON LEADERS Los Angeles FC ...................5 5 3 18 31 27 Brice Garnett........................ 70-71 — 141 -3 Garrick Higgo, South Africa.............. 68-79 — 147 +7
MONDAY’S GAME MTS: Mobley 4 pass from O’Hara (kick failed), 8:30.
Entering Friday’s game Minnesota United ..............5 5 3 18 24 21 Kiradech Aphibarnrat........... 70-71 — 141 -3 Julian Suri, United States ................ 71-76 — 147 +7
Kansas City at Baltimore (-31/2), 8:15 MTS: Mobley 24 run (Holt kick), 6:40.
SCORING G FG FT PTS AVG Real Salt Lake ....................4 4 5 17 19 21 UTSA: McCormick 1 run (Duplessis kick), 6:01. D.J. Trahan ........................... 72-69 — 141 -3 Carlos Pigem, Spain.......................... 74-73 — 147 +7
WEEK 4 Mitchell, UTA...................... 7 83 55 254 36.3 Vancouver...........................5 8 0 15 17 30 UTSA: Cephus 7 pass from Adkins (Duplessis kick), 2:12. Tim Wilkinson ...................... 70-71 — 141 -3 Edoardo Molinari, Italy..................... 74-73 — 147 +7
THURSDAY’S GAME Doncic, DAL ........................ 6 64 42 186 31.0 LA Galaxy ...........................4 5 3 15 16 19 Will Zalatoris ....................... 70-71 — 141 -3 Michael Campbell, New Zealand ...... 75-72 — 147 +7
Embiid, PHI ......................... 4 34 48 120 30.0 Houston ..............................3 4 6 15 20 23 FOURTH QUARTER Kristoffer Ventura ............... 72-69 — 141 -3 Shane Lowry, Ireland........................ 75-72 — 147 +7
Denver at N.Y. Jets, 8:20 Stephen Stallings Jr............. 69-72 — 141 -3
Harden, HOU..................... 12 109 98 355 29.6 San Jose .............................2 6 5 11 17 38 Wade Ormsby, Australia .................. 70-78 — 148 +8
MTS: England-Chisolm 26 pass from O’Hara (run failed),
SUNDAY, OCT. 4 Davis, LAL......................... 14 141 110 405 28.9 David Horsey, England ..................... 76-73 — 149 +9
WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS 14:46. MISSED THE CUT
Baltimore at Washington, 1 Leonard, LAC .................... 13 131 81 367 28.2
UTSA: FG Duplessis 35, 11:39. Ryan Blaum .......................... 70-72 — 142 -2
Vucevic, ORL....................... 5 56 10 140 28.0
L.A. Chargers at Tampa Bay, 1 at Nashville 1, D.C. United 0 MTS: Ali 6 pass from O’Hara (run failed), 1:04. Kyoung-Hoon Lee ................. 74-68 — 142 -2
Murray, DEN ..................... 18 179 65 485 26.9
Cleveland at Dallas, 1 Antetokounmpo, MIL ......... 9 90 47 240 26.7 at New England 3, Montreal 1 MTS UTSA Graham DeLaet .................... 78-64 — 142 -2 Korn Ferry Tour
Pittsburgh at Tennessee, 1 James, LAL ....................... 14 131 73 363 25.9 at Atlanta United 1, FC Dallas 0 First downs........................................ 27 16 Kevin Chappell...................... 71-71 — 142 -2
Toronto FC 1, at New York City FC 0 Rushes-yards..............................41-191 28-88 David Lingmerth................... 70-72 — 142 -2
WICHITA OPEN
Arizona at Carolina, 1 Tatum, BOS ...................... 15 128 85 382 25.5
New Orleans at Detroit, 1 Jokic, DEN......................... 18 169 65 444 24.7 Orlando City 2, at Sporting KC 1 Passing ............................................ 372 303 Bo Hoag ................................ 70-72 — 142 -2 At Crestview Country Club; In Wichita
Jacksonville at Cincinnati, 1 at Columbus 2, Minnesota United 1 Comp-Att-Int............................ 31-48-2 23-43-1 Michael Kartrude ................. 73-69 — 142 -2 Purse: $600,000; Yardage: 6,913; Par: 70
FIELD GOALS FG FGA PCT Return Yards ..................................... 20 132 Akshay Bhatia ...................... 69-73 — 142 -2
Minnesota at Houston, 1 Philadelphia 0, at FC Cincinnati 0 SECOND ROUND
Gobert, UTA..............................48 74 .649 Punts-Avg....................................6-41.0 6-49.2 Richard S. Johnson............... 72-70 — 142 -2
Seattle at Miami, 1 at Chicago 4, Houston 0 Fumbles-Lost ...................................0-0 1-0 Luke Graboyes...................... 69-73 — 142 -2
Adams, OKC..............................31 52 .596 Taylor Pendrith.............................. 65-62 — 127 -13
Indianapolis at Chicago, 1 Curry, DAL ................................31 53 .585 New York 4, at Inter Miami CF 1 Penalties-Yards..............................8-82 3-29 Jhonattan Vegas .................. 70-73 — 143 -1 Jared Wolfe ................................... 63-65 — 128 -12
N.Y. Giants at L.A. Rams, 4:05 Davis, LAL...............................141 245 .576 at Colorado 5, San Jose 0 Time of Possession ...................... 35:40 24:20 Aaron Baddeley .................... 72-71 — 143 -1 Mark Blakefield ............................. 64-65 — 129 -11
Buffalo at Las Vegas, 4:25 Ibaka, TOR ................................63 110 .573 at Real Salt Lake 2, LA Galaxy 0 Ben Taylor ............................ 70-73 — 143 -1 Nick Hardy ..................................... 66-63 — 129 -11
New England at Kansas City, 4:25 Turner, IND ...............................25 44 .568 at Portland 1, Seattle 0 RUSHING Seamus Power ..................... 70-73 — 143 -1 Paul Barjon .................................... 66-64 — 130 -10
Philadelphia at San Francisco, 8:20 Adebayo, MIA ...........................85 151 .563 at Los Angeles FC 6, Vancouver 0 Middle Tennessee: McDonald 7-76, O’Hara 21-61, Mob- Parker McLachlin.................. 71-72 — 143 -1 Jake Knapp .................................... 67-63 — 130 -10
Antetokounmpo, MIL ...............90 161 .559 ley 13-54. Graeme McDowell................ 70-73 — 143 -1 Patrick Fishburn ............................ 68-62 — 130 -10
MONDAY, OCT. 5 James, LAL .............................131 242 .541 SATURDAY’S MATCHES UTSA: McCormick 19-82, F.Harris 4-7, Daniels 1-3, Ryan Armour ........................ 71-72 — 143 -1 Zecheng Dou .................................. 63-68 — 131 -9
Atlanta at Green Bay, 8:15 Adkins 1-1, (Team) 2-(minus 2), Dingle 1-(minus 3). Branden Grace...................... 71-72 — 143 -1 Dan McCarthy................................ 66-65 — 131 -9
Houston at Nashville, 3:30
Charles Howell III................. 69-75 — 144 E Brad Hopfinger .............................. 64-67 — 131 -9
Cincinnati at New York City FC, 7 PASSING Henrik Norlander.................. 75-69 — 144 E Trevor Cone ................................... 68-63 — 131 -9
WNBA playoffs Brandon Hagy....................... 73-71 — 144 E Taylor Montgomery....................... 67-64 — 131 -9
SUNDAY’S MATCHES Middle Tennessee: O’Hara 31-48-2-372.
AUTO R AC I N G All games played in Bradenton, Fla.
New England at D.C. United, 7
UTSA: S.Jones 0-1-1-0, F.Harris 7-13-0-70, Adkins Wes Roach............................ 70-74 — 144 E Lee Hodges .................................... 65-67 — 132 -8
16-28-0-233, (Team) 0-1-0-0. Gavin Hall ............................. 73-71 — 144 E Harry Hall ...................................... 65-67 — 132 -8
FIRST ROUND Montreal at New York, 7 Johnson Wagner .................. 70-74 — 144 E Kyle Reifers ................................... 68-64 — 132 -8
NASCAR Cup Series TUESDAY, SEPT. 15 Miami at Philadelphia, 7:30 RECEIVING Will Gordon .......................... 73-71 — 144 E Nicholas Lindheim ......................... 67-66 — 133 -7
Connecticut 94, Chicago 81 Atlanta at Chicago, 7:30 Middle Tennessee: Ali 8-86, Pierce 7-107, England-Chi- Chris Kirk.............................. 71-73 — 144 E Joey Garber.................................... 67-66 — 133 -7
SOUTH POINT 400 Phoenix 85, Washington 84 Columbus at Toronto FC, 7:30 solm 4-85, Mobley 4-20, Marshall 3-39, McDonald 3-25, Bill Haas ............................... 70-74 — 144 E Chase Johnson............................... 67-66 — 133 -7
SUNDAY’S LINEUP Tinsley 2-10. Doug Ghim............................ 70-74 — 144 E Theo Humphrey ............................. 66-67 — 133 -7
SECOND ROUND Real Salt Lake at Minnesota, 8 Chris Stroud ......................... 72-73 — 145 +1 Joshua Creel .................................. 67-66 — 133 -7
At Las Vegas Motor Raceway THURSDAY’S RESULTS Orlando City at FC Dallas, 8:30 UTSA: Franklin 6-119, Dingle 5-72, Cephus 5-30, McCor-
mick 2-25, Watson 2-23, Sharp 1-17, S.Jones 1-16, Martin Trainer...................... 72-73 — 145 +1 Chad Ramey................................... 66-68 — 134 -6
Race start: 7 p.m. Minnesota 80, Phoenix 79 Sporting KC at Colorado, 9 John Rollins.......................... 73-72 — 145 +1 Ollie Schniederjans ....................... 69-65 — 134 -6
Lap length: 1.5 miles J.Williams 1-1.
Connecticut 73, Los Angeles 59 Portland at Vancouver, 10 Juan Jose Guerra.................. 74-71 — 145 +1 Yuwa Kosaihira ............................. 67-67 — 134 -6
(Car number in parentheses) San Jose at Los Angeles FC, 10:30 MISSED FIELD GOALS Michael Gligic ....................... 74-71 — 145 +1 Ben Kohles..................................... 70-64 — 134 -6
1. (4) Kevin Harvick, Ford. SEMIFINALS Seattle at LA Galaxy, 10:30 Tommy Cocha ....................... 75-70 — 145 +1 Mark Baldwin ................................ 64-70 — 134 -6
Best of five; x-If necessary None. Josh Teater........................... 71-74 — 145 +1 Hayden Buckley ............................. 66-68 — 134 -6
2. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota.
3. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet. Sebastian L. Saavedra ......... 74-71 — 145 +1 Whee Kim ...................................... 66-68 — 134 -6
SUN LEADS ACES, 1-1 Kurt Kitayama...................... 73-72 — 145 +1 Dawie van der Walt....................... 68-66 — 134 -6
4. (10) Aric Almirola, Ford.
Game 1: Connecticut 87, Las Vegas 62
5. (22) Joey Logano, Ford.
6. (14) Clint Bowyer, Ford. Game 2: Las Vegas 83, Connecticut 75 SEASON LEADERS TRAN S ACTION S Vaughn Taylor ...................... 76-70
Alex Cejka............................. 73-73
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Game 3: Connecticut 77, Las Vegas 68 Through Wednesday’s matches Isidro Benitez ....................... 76-70 — 146 +2
7. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet. Kevin Roy....................................... 68-66 — 134 -6
8. (88) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet. Sunday: Las Vegas vs. Connecticut, 1 Carl Pettersson .................... 72-74 — 146 +2 Andres Gonzales ........................... 69-66 — 135 -5
x-Tuesday: Connecticut vs. Las Vegas, 7 or 9
GOALS MLB
9. (1) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet. Diego Rossi, LFC ...........................................................11 Roger Sloan .......................... 71-75 — 146 +2 Matt Ryan...................................... 68-67 — 135 -5
10. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota. STORM LEADS LYNX, 2-0 Gyasi Zardes, CLB ...........................................................9 Boston Red Sox: Placed RHP Domingo Tapia on the Corey Conners ...................... 70-76 — 146 +2 Carl Yuan ....................................... 69-66 — 135 -5
11. (19) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota. Raul Ruidiaz, SEA ...........................................................8 10-day IL. Activated RHP Austin Brice from the 10-day Michael Kim.......................... 72-74 — 146 +2 John Chin ....................................... 68-67 — 135 -5
Game 1: Seattle 88, Minnesota 86 Jason Bohn ........................... 71-75 — 146 +2 Kevin Lucas.................................... 66-69 — 135 -5
12. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford. Chris Mueller, ORL ..........................................................7 IL.
Game 2: Seattle 89, Minnesota 79 Eric Axley ............................. 73-73 — 146 +2 KK Limbhasut ................................ 70-65 — 135 -5
13. (20) Erik Jones, Toyota. Kacper Przybylko, PHI.....................................................7 Chicago White Sox: Optioned RHP Jose Ruiz to alternate
Sunday: Seattle vs. Minnesota, 3 Hiram Silfa ........................... 70-76 — 146 +2 Blayne Barber ................................ 67-68 — 135 -5
14. (8) Tyler Reddick, Chevrolet. Bradley Wright-Phillips, LFC ..........................................7 training site. Activated RHP Evan Marshall from the
x-Tuesday: Seattle vs. Minnesota, 7 or 9 Zack Sucher .......................... 73-74 — 147 +3 George Cunningham ...................... 67-68 — 135 -5
15. (12) Ryan Blaney, Ford. 10-day IL.
x-TBD: Minnesota vs. Seattle, TBD ASSISTS Brian Davis ........................... 74-73 — 147 +3 Julian Etulain................................. 68-67 — 135 -5
16. (17) Chris Buescher, Ford. Cleveland Indians: Optioned SS Yu Chang to alternate
17. (34) Michael McDowell, Ford. Alejandro Pozuelo, TOR ..................................................8 training site. Recalled LHP Logan Allen from alternate Chris Baker ........................... 72-75 — 147 +3 Kyle Jones ..................................... 67-68 — 135 -5
18. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet. Brian Rodriguez, LFC.......................................................7 training site. Brendon de Jonge................. 75-73 — 148 +4 Chandler Blanchet ......................... 70-65 — 135 -5
19. (21) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford. Jan Gregus, MIN..............................................................6 Detroit Tigers: Placed 3B Jeimer Candelario on the John Senden ......................... 74-74 — 148 +4 Mickey DeMorat ............................ 68-67 — 135 -5
20. (42) Matt Kenseth, Chevrolet. T E NNI S Darwin Quintero, HOU ....................................................6 10-day IL. Recalled OF Christin Stewart from alternate Ted Purdy ............................. 77-71 — 148 +4 Braden Thornberry ........................ 69-66 — 135 -5
21. (37) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet. Pedro Santos, CLB...........................................................6 training site. Recalled LF Christin Stewart from alter- John Merrick......................... 76-73 — 149 +5 Billy Tom Sargent.......................... 63-72 — 135 -5
22. (41) Cole Custer, Ford. Saphir Taider, MTL..........................................................6 nate training site. Andres Romero .................... 80-69 — 149 +5 Charlie Holland .............................. 67-68 — 135 -5
23. (43) Bubba Wallace, Chevrolet. ATP Sebastian Blanco, POR....................................................5 Houston Astros: Placed RHP Josh James on the 10-day Ben Cook............................... 70-79 — 149 +5 Noah Norton .................................. 68-67 — 135 -5
24. (13) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet. Jordan Morris, SEA .........................................................5 IL. Recalled RHP Chase De Jong from alternate training Peter Uihlein ........................ 73-77 — 150 +6 Brandon Harkins............................ 67-69 — 136 -4
25. (38) John Hunter Nemechek, Ford. HAMBURG OPEN Chris Mueller, ORL ..........................................................5 site. Matt Oshrine........................ 77-73 — 150 +6 Trey Mullinax................................. 68-68 — 136 -4
26. (95) Christopher Bell, Toyota. At Am Rothenbaum; In Hamburg, Germany Diego Valeri, POR ............................................................5 Kansas City Royals: Recalled 1B Ryan McBroom from Grayson Murray ................... 77-73 — 150 +6 Scott Langley................................. 66-70 — 136 -4
27. (6) Ryan Newman, Ford. Purse: €1,062,520; Surface: Red clay alternate training site. Activated RHP Ian Kennedy from Bo Van Pelt........................... 77-73 — 150 +6 James Nicholas ............................. 69-67 — 136 -4
28. (24) William Byron, Chevrolet. the 10-day IL. Placed RF Jorge Soler and RHP Greg Nelson Ledesma................... 80-70 — 150 +6 Dawson Armstrong ....................... 70-66 — 136 -4
SINGLES Michael Gellerman ............... 79-72 — 151 +7
29. (96) Daniel Suarez, Toyota.
30. (27) Gray Gaulding, Ford. QUARTERFINALS NWSL Holland on the 10-day IL.
Minnesota Twins: Selected the contract of RHP Edwar Carlos Franco........................ 77-74 — 151 +7
Adam Svensson............................. 71-65
Billy Kennerly ................................ 69-67
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31. (32) Corey LaJoie, Ford. Andrey Rublev (5), Russia, def. Roberto Bautista Agut Colina from alternate training site. Designated RHP Matt Every ........................... 76-76 — 152 +8 Jimmy Stanger .............................. 71-65 — 136 -4
32. (00) Quin Houff, Chevrolet. W L T Pts GF GA Homer Bailey for assignment. Rafael Campos ..................... 73-81 — 154 +10 Taylor Moore ................................. 70-66 — 136 -4
(4), Spain, 6-2, 7-5. Stefanos Tsitsipas (2), Greece, def. North Carolina ....................1 0 1 4 4 3
33. (47) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Chevrolet. Dusan Lajovic, Serbia, 7-6 (7-5), 6-2. Casper Ruud, New York Yankees: Sent LHP Tyler Lyons outright to Julio Santos.......................... 77-78 — 155 +11 David Kocher.................................. 67-69 — 136 -4
34. (51) Joey Gase, Ford. Portland..............................1 0 0 3 3 0 alternate training site. Recalled RHP Miguel Yajure from Daniel Chopra ....................... 75-80 — 155 +11 Harrison Endycott ......................... 69-67 — 136 -4
Norway, def. Ugo Humbert, France, 7-5, 3-6, 6-1. Cristian Chicago ...............................1 1 0 3 5 3
35. (15) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet. Garin, Chile, vs. Alexander Bublik, Kazakhstan, 3-6, 6-4, alternate training site. Marcel Olivares .................... 85-80 — 165 +21 Rico Hoey....................................... 67-69 — 136 -4
36. (66) Timmy Hill, Toyota. Washington........................1 1 0 3 3 3 Seattle Mariners: Claimed RHP Ian Hamilton off waivers Drew Weaver................................. 71-66 — 137 -3
6-4. Sky Blue FC.........................1 1 0 3 3 5
37. (77) JJ Yeley, Chevrolet. from Chicago White Sox. Optioned RHP Ian Hamilton to Alex Prugh ..................................... 66-71 — 137 -3
38. (53) James Davison, Ford. DOUBLES Orlando ...............................0 0 1 1 0 0 alternate training site. T.J. Vogel ....................................... 68-69 — 137 -3
39. (49) Chad Finchum, Toyota. SEMIFINALS Reign FC..............................0
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Arizona Diamondbacks: Activated RHP Silvino Bracho World Golf Ranking Will Cannon ................................... 68-69 — 137 -3
from the 60-day IL. Transferred RHP Corbin Martin from Through Sept. 20 Bobby Bai....................................... 67-70 — 137 -3
Ivan Dodig and Mate Pavic, Croatia, def. Nikola Mektic, Utah ....................................0 1 0 0 0 3 the 10-day IL to the 60-day IL. Kevin Dougherty............................ 66-71 — 137 -3
Croatia, and Wesley Koolhof, Netherlands, 6-4, 6-4. Chicago Cubs: Selected the contract of 1B Patrick 1. Dustin Johnson............................. USA 10.24 Nicolas Echavarria......................... 68-69 — 137 -3
POINTS LEADERS SATURDAY’S RESULT 2. Jon Rahm ...................................... ESP 9.83
Wisdom from alternate training site. Optioned 1B Jose Martin Piller .................................. 65-72 — 137 -3
Entering Sunday’s race Martinez to alternate training site. Placed RHP Manny 3. Justin Thomas .............................. USA 8.84 Stephen Franken ........................... 66-71 — 137 -3
Orlando 0, at North Carolina 0 4. Rory McIlroy ................................. NIR 7.89
1. Kevin Harvick, 3067. Rodriguez on the 45-day IL. Jack Maguire ................................. 66-71 — 137 -3
2. Denny Hamlin, 3048. WTA SUNDAY’S RESULTS Cincinnati Reds: Released RHP Nate Jones. 5. Bryson DeChambeau .................... USA 7.70 John VanDerLaan .......................... 70-67 — 137 -3
3. Brad Keselowski, 3035. Colorado Rockies: Recalled RHP Jesus Tinoco from 6. Collin Morikawa............................ USA 7.63 Callum Tarren ................................ 69-68 — 137 -3
INTERNATIONAUX DE STRASBOURG at Chicago 4, Sky Blue FC 1 7. Webb Simpson ............................. USA 7.16
4. Joey Logano, 3022. alternate training site. Stuart Macdonald.......................... 66-71 — 137 -3
5. Chase Elliott, 3021. At Strasbourg (France) Tennis Club at Portland 3, Utah 0 Milwaukee Brewers: Recalled RHP J.P. Feyereisen and 8. Xander Schauffele ........................ USA 6.66 Augusto Nunez.............................. 69-68 — 137 -3
6. Martin Truex Jr, 3016. Purse: $225,500; Surface: Red clay 3B Ryon Healy from alternate training site. Placed RHP 9. Brooks Koepka.............................. USA 5.95 Andre Metzger .............................. 69-68 — 137 -3
7. Alex Bowman, 3009. SATURDAY’S MATCHES Corbin Burnes on the 10-day IL. 10. Patrick Reed ............................... USA 5.88
8. Austin Dillon, 3005.
SINGLES 11. Adam Scott................................. AUS 5.21 MISSED THE CUT
SEMIFINALS Washington at Chicago, 3:30 St Louis Cardinals: Recalled RHP Daniel Ponce de Leon
9. Aric Almirola, 3005. from alternate training site. 12. Patrick Cantlay ........................... USA 5.11 Mito Pereira................................... 72-66 — 138 -2
OL Reign at Utah, 3:30
10. Kyle Busch, 3004. Elena Rybakina (5), Kazakhstan, def. Nao Hibino, Japan, San Diego Padres: Recalled RHP Luis Patino from 13. Daniel Berger.............................. USA 5.01 Steven Alker.................................. 69-69 — 138 -2
Orlando at Houston, 8:30 14. Tony Finau .................................. USA 4.77
11. Clint Bowyer, 3004. 6-3, 6-4. Elina Svitolina (2), Ukraine, vs. Aryna Sabalen- alternate training site. Mark Hensby ................................. 68-70 — 138 -2
12. Kurt Busch, 3001. ka (4), Belarus, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. SATURDAY, OCT. 3 San Francisco Giants: Activated RHP Jeff Samardzija 15. Tyrrell Hatton............................. ENG 4.72 Matt Atkins ................................... 68-70 — 138 -2
13. Cole Custer, 2067. from the 10-day IL. 16. Louis Oosthuizen........................ SAF 4.51 Scott Gutschewski ........................ 70-68 — 138 -2
14. William Byron, 2062. DOUBLES Washington at Sky Blue FC, 12:30 17. Tommy Fleetwood...................... ENG 4.50 Max Greyserman ........................... 70-68 — 138 -2
15. Ryan Blaney, 2058. SEMIFINALS Portland at Utah, 10 NFL 18. Matthew Wolff........................... USA 4.39 Evan Harmeling ............................. 70-68 — 138 -2
16. Matt DiBenedetto, 2054. Nicole Melichar, United States, and Demi Schuurs (1), Atlanta Falcons: Signed CB Tyler Hall to practice squad. 19. Hideki Matsuyama ..................... JPN 4.22 Brad Brunner ................................. 68-70 — 138 -2
17. Jimmie Johnson, 720. SUNDAY, OCT. 4 20. Matthew Fitzpatrick .................. ENG 4.18 Andrew Loupe ............................... 71-67 — 138 -2
Netherlands, def. Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara (3), Released DE Austin Edwards.
18. Erik Jones, 681. Japan, 6-2, 7-6 (7-3). North Carolina at Houston, 7 Denver Broncos: Activated QB Brett Rypien and DL 21. Paul Casey .................................. ENG 4.14 Justin Hueber ................................ 67-71 — 138 -2
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Red Line weekday headways change to 6 minutes all day.
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2.Implement Turnbacks on the Red Line
On weekdays only, 50 percent of Red Line trips operate between Grosvenor Strathmore and Silver Spring only, making headways 12 minutes between Grosvenor-Strathmore to Shady
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Discontinue Service After Midnight:
All trips (on all lines) starting after 12 a.m. will be discontinued
Saturday and Sunday span will be reduced (in excess of the systemwide 12 a.m. cut-off) on the following lines:
G12, G14 – Greenbelt-New Carrollton
K12 – Forestville
K6 – New Hampshire Avenue-Maryland (see also Saturday/Sunday frequency reductions)
R1, R2 – Riggs Road
Saturday and Sunday frequency will be reduced on the following lines:
23A, 23B, 23T – McLean-Crystal City
K6 – New Hampshire Avenue-Maryland (see also Saturday/Sunday span reductions)
Y2, Y7, Y8 – Georgia Avenue-Maryland
Saturday and Sunday service will be discontinued on the following lines:
30N, 30S – Friendship Heights-Southeast
M6 – Fairfax Village
NH2 – National Harbor-Alexandria
T14 – Rhode Island Avenue-New Carrollton (discontinue Sunday service only, Saturday service will still operate with a reduced span)
V12 – District Heights-Suitland (discontinue Sunday service only, Saturday service will still operate)
Z6 – Calverton-Westfarm
Weekday span will be reduced (in excess of the systemwide 12 a.m. cut-off) on the following lines:
89, 89M – Laurel
T2 – River Road
Frequencies will be reduced on the following lines:
2A – Washington Blvd.-Dunn Loring
5A – DC-Dulles
42,43 – Mt. Pleasant
74 – Convention Center-SW Waterfront
83, 86 – College Park
C11, C13 – Clinton
C8 – College Park-White Flint
D4 – Ivy City-Franklin Square
D6 – Sibley Hospital-Stadium Armory
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E4 – Military Road-Crosstown
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F12 – Ardwick Industrial Park Shuttle
F13 – Cheverly-Washington Business Park
H2, H3, H4 – Crosstown
H6 – Brookland-Fort Lincoln
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L8 – Connecticut Avenue-Maryland
MW1 – Metroway-Potomac Yard
Q1, Q2, Q4, Q5, Q6 – Viers Mill Road
U4 – Sheriff Road-River Terrace
U5, U6 – Marshall Heights
U7 – Deanwood–Minnesota Avenue
W2, W3 – United Medical Center-Anacostia
W6, W8 – Garfield-Anacostia Loop
Z2 – Colesville-Ashton
Weekday frequencies will be reduced and service will be discontinued on Saturdays and Sundays on the following lines:
62,63 – Takoma-Petworth
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3T – Pimmit Hills
3Y – Lee Highway-Farragut Square
7C,7P – Park Center-Pentagon
8S, 8W, 8Z – Foxchase-Seminary Valley
11Y – Mt. Vernon Express
15K – Chain Bridge Road
16L – Annandale-Skyline City-Pentagon
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E6 – Chevy Chase
G9 – Rhode Island Avenue Limited
H1 – Brookland-Potomac Park
J4 - College Park—Bethesda Limited
S1 – 16th Street-Potomac Park
V1 – Benning Heights-M Street
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Where We Live
Row upon
rowhouse
of history
and charm
Northwest D.C. enclave
is loved for architecture,
diversity, friendliness
BY S USAN S TRAIGHT
Bloomingdale is a vibrant com-
munity of colorful rowhouses,
apartments and condominiums
between Howard University and
North Capitol Street, just south of
the McMillan Reservoir. The his-
toric rowhouses are so striking
the Netflix political thriller
“House of Cards” used them in its
opening title sequence.
Teri Janine Quinn has been
president of the Bloomingdale
Civic Association for 10 years. She
was originally drawn to the com-
munity because of its proximity
to her D.C. office.
“I wanted to live in a place
where I felt safe but where I could
be at work in a snap,” she said.
After buying her 1914 three-
bedroom rowhouse, she was hap-
pily surprised by the relation-
ships she formed there.
“It was an incredible gift to get
here and find that sense of com-
munity,” said Quinn.
The neighborhood has
changed dramatically in the past
couple of decades. Increasing
numbers of businesses have
opened, safety has increased and
home values have soared.
Bloomingdale resident Scott
Roberts was one of those early
SEPTEMBER 26, 2020
residents. He bought his two-sto-
ry Victorian-style rowhouse in
1992, during a particularly diffi-
cult time for the neighborhood.
“The neighborhood was drug-
ridden, with open-air, out-in-the-
open drug markets everywhere,”
said Roberts. “Virtually all of the
neighborhood retail spaces were
. SATURDAY,
untenanted in the early 1990s.
Who would want to open up a
business here?”
But better times were ahead.
“The real estate boom in the
late 1990s chased off the most
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flagrant drug activity,” said Rob-
erts.
Eventually businesses re-
turned, including today’s “popu-
lar restaurants and bars such as
Boundary Stone Public House
and Big Bear Cafe,” said Roberts.
Roberts and a group of neigh-
bors teamed up to file paperwork
to create the Bloomingdale His-
toric District under the guidance
Bloomingdale in Northwest Washington
Bloomingdale’s rowhouses “are not only remarkably intact, but are substantial in size and materials (primarily brick with some stone) and
offer quality design and craftsmanship,” according to the filing that led to its inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places.
of the D.C. Office of Planning’s
Historic Preservation Office. The
neighborhood received its official
designation on July 26, 2018.
Real estate agent Angela Jones
and her wife, Donna Broderick,
moved in when the neighborhood
was on the upswing.
Their 1895 Victorian has archi-
tectural details they loved, such
as hardwood floors throughout,
high ceilings, bay windows, pock-
et doors and chestnut columns.
Jones was also delighted with
the neighbors.
“As we got to know our neigh-
bors, we realized that not only
were the houses beautiful, the
people were too,” she said.
“Friendly neighbors, longtime
neighbors, some who had been
here since the 1960s welcomed
us. It’s a community.”
Today, the community is a rich-
ly diverse mix of old-timers and
newcomers, said Quinn.
“Just last summer I was invited
to a dinner party and I looked
around at the racial diversity, age
diversity, gay, straight, parents,
people with no kids — all in one
room enjoying a meal, a moment,
and exceptional company. You
find that model over and over
again in Bloomingdale. Friends
who become family,” she said.
Bloomingdale’s Crispus At-
tucks Park, which lies in the north
half of the neighborhood, is a site
BONNIE JO MOUNT/THE WASHINGTON POST
D.C. the annual neighborhood beauti- hood’s boundaries are Florida
NW fication day, held close to Earth Avenue on the south, North Capi-
29 DetailNE Day in the spring (canceled this tol Street on the east, McMillan
16TH ST.
N. CAPITOL ST.
SE year due to covid-19). But the Reservoir on the north, and, to
SW
Park View
premier activity for Bloom- the west, Second Street above
ingdale — at least, the one that Rhode Island Avenue and Third
Columbia
RHODE IS.
AVE.- 1
takes the most planning — is the Street below Rhode Island Av-
Heights BRENTWOOD biennial house tour, held in odd- enue.
SHAW- Bloomingdale numbered years. Since January, 45 properties
HOWARD U. VE.
Logan
FLO YOR
KA “It’s incredible the variety of have sold in Bloomingdale, for an
RID NEW
Circle AA
VE design aesthetics in just this one average sales price of approxi-
.
50
NOMA-
GALLAUDET U
D.C. neighborhood,” Quinn notes. mately $910,000. In 2019, 97
“It’s a lot of work for one day of properties sold in Bloomingdale
White UNION
STATION
activities, but it’s always a big at an average sales price of
House
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draw.” $892,000, according to Angela
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The house tour is also an op- Jones, an agent with Long and
The Mall U.S.
Capitol
portunity for residents and visi- Foster Real Estate.
Capitol tors to learn about the history of There are 23 properties for sale
Hill the neighborhood, which is listed in Bloomingdale. Homes with
SW 695 on the National Register of His- four bedrooms or more sold for
Waterfront
Navy Yard toric Places. The nearly 1,700 an average of $1,179,000, and
historic buildings include homes, condos averaged $550,000.
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businesses, churches, a theater Schools: Langley Elementary,
Source: Maps4News/HERE and a fire station. Home styles McKinley Middle and Dunbar
MEGHAN KELLY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
include late Victorian (Edward- High.
ian, Renaissance Revival, Italian- Transit: The neighborhood
for community gatherings, soccer ate and Gothic), Colonial Revival, lies between the Shaw-Howard
practices and regular informal Georgian Revival and Craftsman. University Metro station on the
socializing. The annual Bloom- Bloomingdale’s rowhouses, Green and Yellow lines and the
ingdale Community Day — a pop- which were built between 1892 Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood
ular annual event that typically and 1916, “are not only remark- station on the Red Line. Numer-
occurs in May but is indefinitely ably intact, but are substantial in ous Metrobus routes serve the
postponed this year due to the size and materials (primarily neighborhood.
pandemic — is held at the park. brick with some stone) and offer realestate@washpost.com
There are items for sale, music quality design and craftsman-
and food from the local restau- ship,” according to the filing for
rants. historic designation with the Na-  To see more photos of Bloom-
Another community event that tional Register. ingdale, go to washingtonpost.com/
attracts a variety of residents is Living there: The neighbor- realestate.
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Mortgage rates rose slightly
this week amid positive housing
market news and increased de-
mand for home loans.
According to a Freddie Mac re-
port released Thursday, the aver-
age for the 30-year fixed rate
reached 2.90 percent, up from 2.87
percent with an average 0.8 point.
(A point is a fee borrowers pay, in
addition to the interest rate, that
equals 1 percent of the loan.) The
rate was 3.64 percent a year ago.
The 15-year fixed-rate average
reached 2.40 percent, up from
2.35 percent with an average 0.7
point. It was 3.16 percent a year
ago. The five-year adjustable rate
average reached 2.90 percent,
down from 2.96 percent with an
average 0.2 point. It was 3.38 per-
cent a year ago.
Existing-home sales rose 2.4
percent from July to a seasonally
adjusted annual rate of 6 million
in August. Sales as a whole rose
year over year, up 10.5 percent
from July 2019.
“The housing market has been
the bright spot in the economy
this week,” said Nadia Evangelou,
a senior economist and director of
forecasting for the National Asso-
ciation of Realtors. “The recovery
in the housing market has been
remarkable and has offset some of
the worry” about new coronavirus
cases and the potential delay in
another stimulus package.
Even with the tick up, rates still
are at nearly historic lows, good
news for home buyers. If you’re
considering whether to get into
the market in the near future, you
may be wondering why the rates
are so low and how long they’re
expected to stay that way.
There are numerous factors
that play into whether a buyer will
get a higher or lower rate a given
week: Federal Reserve policies,
the stock market and other eco-
nomic indicators, and the yield on
10-year Treasury notes. Also con-
sumers with lower credit ratings
tend to pay higher rates and lend-
ers often raise rates when the vol-
ume of applications gets too heavy
for them to handle.
Mortgage rates plunged to his-
toric lows once the Federal Re-
serve in March began buying
Weekly averages for place until 2023, many lenders say
popular mortgage types they expect the rates to stay put for
5%
a while — or even drop.
“I expect the primary mortgage
rate to continue to remain at cur-
4 rent levels or possibly inch lower
to 2.75 percent in the near- to
2.90
medium-term,” said Preetam
3 Purohit, head of hedging and ana-
2.90 lytics at Embrace Home Loans in
Middletown, R.I.
2 2.40
This week’s mortgage rates of-
fer a big benefit to borrowers com-
30-YEAR FIXED pared with last year. On a
1
15-YEAR FIXED $400,000 loan with a 10 percent
5-YEAR ARM down payment, the monthly prin-
cipal and interest payment for a
’18 ’19 ’20 30-year fixed-rate loan drops by
Source: Freddie Mac
$150 from $1,650 to $1,500, Evan-
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gelou said. In addition, she said,
the income needed to qualify for a
$400,000 loan with a 10 percent
down payment dropped from
mortgage-backed securities, or $79,670 a year ago, when the
MBSs — bundles of mortgages mortgage rate was 3.64 percent, to
sold to investors. The move, aimed $72,520 at today’s mortgage rates.
at providing more credit in the Middleman, though, said the
market, has spurred a rate de- lower rates are better news for
crease of three-quarters of a per- people refinancing than buying.
cent since spring. Indeed, Sam Khater, Freddie
Given that the Federal Reserve Mac’s chief economist, said rising
has pledged to keep its policy in home prices may undercut the
low mortgage rates.
“Mortgage rates set several rec-
ord lows over the last few months
and have remained low into Sep-
tember,” Khater said in a state-
ment. “While there is room for
rates to decrease even more, high-
er home prices and low inventory
could potentially stifle the high
demand that we’ve been seeing.”
Meanwhile, the number of peo-
ple applying for mortgages in-
creased from a week earlier, ac-
cording to the Mortgage Bankers
Association. The market compos-
ite index, which measures the to-
tal volume of applications, rose
6.8 percent. The purchase index
rose 3 percent. The refinance in-
dex jumped 9 percent from a week
earlier and 86 percent from a year
ago.
“Mortgage applications activity
remained strong last week, even
as the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage
and 15-year fixed-rate mortgage
increased to their highest levels
since late August,” Joel Kan, MBA’s
associate vice president of eco-
nomic and industry forecasting,
said in a statement.
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Family finds its rhythm in a rising community

BY T ONY G LAROS

As schools continue to refine their on-

screen instructional rhythms in a covid-19
landscape, Melani Hunter eases into a daily
shakedown for the 20 students in her pre-
kindergarten class at Shepherd Elementary
School in Northwest Washington.
“I’m singing and dancing,” said Hunter,
42, who lives with her husband and their
three children in a 5,000-square-foot house
in Maple Lawn South, a rising community of
single-family houses in Fulton, Md., halfway
between Washington and Baltimore. “My
students are so young, their attention span
is so short, it’s more embarrassing to do that
in front of your own family.”
“And I’m like across the hall, and she’s
doing jumping jacks,” her teasing husband,
Kori, 47, added as the couple relaxed on their
front porch on a recent Saturday afternoon.
“And I’m wondering, ‘What’s going on?’ ”
Maple Lawn South, in southern Howard
County, lies just west of Maple Lawn, a
604-acre, mixed-use development that
opened in 2005. NVHomes plans to build
176 homes on about 100 acres at Maple
Lawn South, and construction is expected
to be completed next year. Buyers have a
choice of four floor plays. About 115 houses
have been sold.
Maple Lawn and Maple Lawn South oc-
cupy land once owned by the Iager family. In
1839, German immigrant Heinrich Iager
bought 108 rolling acres along what is now PHOTOS BY BENJAMIN C TANKERSLEY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Route 216 and named the property Maple

Lawn Farms. In 1938, Ellsworth Iager and ABOVE: The great room MAPLE LAWN SOUTH
his wife, Elizabeth, began raising and sell- in the model home at 8215 S. Maple Lawn Blvd., Fulton, Md.
ing organic turkeys there. The cackling of Maple Lawn South, a
turkeys can still be heard from across development of single- Thirty home sites are for sale in Phases 2
Scaggsville Road. family houses in Fulton, and 3 at base prices ranging from $889,900
The Hunters’ new home, which has six Md., a Howard County for the Liberty floor plan to $949,900 for the
bedrooms and 51/2 bathrooms, cost slightly suburb about halfway Marymount. Another 30 home sites will go
more than $1 million, said Kori, a database between Washington and on sale in 2021. Prices are scheduled to
developer. They moved there in September Baltimore. increase before the end of the year and
2019. Changes to the standard floor plan again at the beginning of 2021.
included turning a living room into an office RIGHT: The exterior of Builder: NVHomes
and turning a study into a bedroom. A the development’s model
Features: Standard features include a full,
powder room became a full bathroom with home, one of 176 houses
a walk-in tub. Half of the basement is that NVHomes is building unfinished basement with rough-in for a full

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finished, “with the rest used as storage — for
now,” Melani said.
Two of the couple’s three children — ages
10, 5 and 9 months — are receiving remote
instruction online with the help of Melani’s
sister. Kori’s mother also lives with the
family.
“Everybody has their own space,” Melani
said.
For Melani, the kitchen was one of the big
selling points. “I’ve never had an island in
my kitchen,” she said. “It sounds so silly, but
now, when I’m doing my dishes, I’m facing
my family,” she said. “I remember growing
up in Bucks County, Pa. The kitchen faced
the windows.
The house is the first new property
on about 100 acres here.
About 115 houses have
been sold.
deck,” said Kori, who, before the pandemic,
commuted three hours a day, round trip,
between his home and his information tech-
nology job in McLean, Va. “I have a lot of my
life back now.”
The house is a three-minute walk from
the elementary school where the 5- and
10-year-old are enrolled. Middle and high
schools are nearby. Just before the first day
of school, the family dropped by for a virtual
open house. “It was a beep and greet,”
Melani said. “We drove through the parking
lot, and they gave each student a Chrome-
The amenities at Maple Lawn South in-
clude an outdoor pool, a tot lot and a
clubhouse equipped with a gourmet kitch-
en and a meeting room. A hiking and biking
trail is under construction.
Nearby: Maple Lawn’s business center,
Columbia, Laurel and Savage are within a
15-minute drive. The closest regional retail
complex is the Mall in Columbia.
Schools: Fulton Elementary, Lime Kiln
Middle and Reservoir High.
Transit: The Maryland Transit Adminis-
tration operates daily commuter bus service
bathroom. Ceilings are nine feet high on all
levels. Houses come standard with two-car
garages; a very few remaining home sites
offer garage space for a third car. Foyers and
dining rooms feature crown molding. Seven-
inch-wide, solid-core vinyl flooring is offered
on all floors. Stairs from the first to the
second floor are hardwood. Every model
offers two-tone wall color and white semi-
gloss trim. The kitchens have 42-inch raised-
panel white or dark-stained maple cabinets
with slow-close drawers and doors, a gas
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cooktop, a double wall oven, a large, deep
stainless-steel sink, a dishwasher and a built-
in microwave. The development is Energy
Star-certified for energy efficiency.
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Melani has ever lived in. “I went to the
design center and picked out what the
marble [countertops] and cabinets would
look like,” she said. “That was exciting.”
As the couple prepared to move in, Kori
drew up plans for modifications to the
backyard. They included a pergola, two
fireplaces, a fire pit, a hot tub, two waterfalls
and a ping-pong table. “It’s definitely a party
book.”
“This community has a lot of diversity
and a lot of kids,” she said. But while the
pandemic lasts, she said she doesn’t feel
able to fully evaluate the level of friendli-
ness.
Melani declared that she relishes the
overall vibe at Maple Lawn. “It feels safe,”
she said, “and very community-oriented.”
between Fulton and the District. Regular
MARC commuter train service is offered
from Laurel and Savage. Metrobus offers
service in nearby Burtonsville.
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go to washingtonpost.com/realestate.
Bedrooms/bathrooms: 4/3.5
Square footage: 2,800 to 4,300
Homeowners association fee: $86 a
month.
Contact: Mike Hancock, community sales
manager, at 240-456-0481 or
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The intrigue and excitement of Fillmore
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In 1837 Bailey purchased this land and made
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Craftmark Homes has embraced the history of
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Kitchen DIY

Quick ways to spruce up walls, cabinets and counters

BY S TEPHANIE B RICK
For the past six months, we
have spent an unprecedented
amount of time at home. This has
been a great time for reflection,
bonding with family, and a new
wave of DIY projects and home
repairs.
While most renovation efforts,
and plumbing or electrical fixes,
require the expertise of a profes-
sional, many home kitchen re-
pairs do not. So while we contin-
ue revving up to “normal” within
the domain of the coronavirus
pandemic, now is a perfect time
to tackle quick kitchen fixes you
can do yourself on your cabine-
try, walls and countertops.
Even if only a fraction of your
kitchen cabinets are actual wood
— perhaps just the doors (not the
cabinet boxes) or drawer fronts,
in part or in full — you may have
noticed your kitchen reacting to
the changing seasons. Maybe
each summer, that one cabinet
door starts sticking, or each
winter, a gap appears between
two doors.
Wood, as a natural product,
expands and contracts as tem-
perature and humidity change:
This can translate to your cabi-
nets changing by fractions of an
inch as the weather fluctuates.
What many kitchen users do not
realize, though, is that many
cabinets are designed to be ad-
justed through the year. To see if
yours were, simply open a door.
If there are multiple screws with-
in the hinging hardware itself
(beyond the required screws that
attach the hinge to the door and
the hinge to the cabinet box), try
adjusting these additional
screws by a full turn. Especially if
your cabinets are good quality,
many hinges are designed to
adjust how a door sits against a
cabinet box along three axes: up
and down, left to right, and in
and out.
Regardless of quality, your
cabinetry will probably sustain
some wear and tear over the
years. A scratch here or a chip
there — known as “memory
marks” to those who accept,
rather than resent, their exis-
tence — happen even in kitchens
with careful cooks. This is such a
fact of life, and cabinetry, that
nearly every manufacturer offers
a solution: the touch-up kit. This
“kit” may take the form of a pen,
marker, crayon or spray can,
ordered to exactly match the
finish of your cabinets, if you
have that information available.
If not, most hardware stores
What many kitchen
users do not realize is
that many cabinets are
designed to be adjusted
through the year.
offer a popular range of colors to
help you try to best match your
finish. Watch in awe as years of
scratches disappear before your
eyes!
Touch-up kits are not the only
magical tricks of the trade for
making blemishes disappear.
Fixing scuff marks and other
smudges on your walls can feel
like a hassle to touch up with
paint. Even when you go to the
effort of digging out the match-
ing paint can from the bottom of
the closet or back of the base-
ment, it never blends in perfect-
ly, unless the rest of your walls
are freshly painted. Magic Eras-
ers, however, are convenient and
effective at removing most wall
scuffs — and far less effort. With
a few quick swipes, your walls —
and even grimy baseboards and
windowsills — can be looking
like new before you can even ask,
“Where’s my paintbrush?”
Lastly, granite countertops are
beautiful natural stones and typ-
ically low maintenance, but they
are not no maintenance. To best
protect your stone from stains —
especially on stones that are
lighter in color, as they are more
porous — you should seal your
stone. This is typically done by
the fabricator when the stone is
installed in a kitchen but gener-
ally is not permanent: You
should be resealing your granite
counters far more often than you
reseal your driveway. Thankfully,
it is a much easier process. Most
supermarkets sell spray-on gran-
ite sealers that should be applied
every few months, depending on
the stone. Some, such as Du-
pont’s StoneTech, are a 2-in-1
sealant and cleaner so you can
help protect your stone each
time you wipe down your kitch-
en.
The kitchen as the heart of the
home is an age-old adage that
has not wavered amid the pan-
demic. The amount of time spent
in your home — especially the
heart of it — has probably
changed dramatically over the
past few months, though. You
can embrace the extra home time
with little-fix improvements
throughout your kitchen: Your
cabinetry, walls and even coun-
tertops are just a few minutes
away from some savvy home-
owner handiwork to improve
their condition and better ensure
their longevity.
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2017 through June 2018, during
which the couple also planned
their wedding. Price and Sealy
kept a few of their treasures, such
as an antique painting that has
been in Sealy’s family for genera-
tions and a photo Price purchased
at an art auction, but the majority
of their home now features art-
work, accessories, furniture and
fabrics that Hildreth and Braun-
ohler found.
“We wanted the co-op to be a
reflection of both of us, so it made
sense for us to work with Josh and
Viv to do everything from the
ground up,” Sealy says.
Hildreth and Braunohler found
accessories and artwork at vari-
ous auctions, antique stores and
art shows, sometimes without an
immediate idea of where the item
would fit in the co-op.
“Our first purchase was what
we call the ‘wall of noblemen,’
which was a panel from 17th-cen-
tury Parma that we saw in an
antique store in North Carolina,”
Hildreth says. “We sawed it into
squares and installed it on their
dining room wall in a contempo-
rary layout with the portraits
pushed out from the wall.”
The wall is a favorite feature for
both Price and Sealy.
“We would see these items in
little photos on our iPhones and
try to visualize where they would
go,” Price says. “Ultimately, we just
had to trust Josh and Viv to make
the right choices.”
Thought process
A collaborative relationship be-
tween homeowners and their de-
signer is preferable and can lead
to a successful project, Hildreth
says.
“Both Tim and Jerry were
thoughtful with each other and
with us, so when they weren’t sure
about a design choice, they would
ask us what our thought process
SEPTEMBER 26, 2020
was rather than just reject it,”
Braunohler says.
At the same time, Sealy says, the
designers would listen to them if
they decided a particular item
didn’t fit their style.
Clients who listen and ask ques-
tions and are open to encourage-
ment create a great space for open
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discussion, Hildreth says.
“Our philosophy is that we hire
professionals for their design in-
stinct and their expertise, so we
have to trust them,” says Price. “As
a physician, I explain things to
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patients as much as I can, but they
don’t know everything I’ve
learned over decades in medicine.
Ultimately, they have to trust me.
Jerry and I collaborated with Josh
and Viv, but we also trusted their
instincts and knowledge.”
Sometimes the “big reveal” mo-
ments so familiar on home-reno-
vation TV shows happen in real
life, too. Price and Sealy moved
Designers Josh Hildreth and Vivian Braunohler started with a search for objects and artwork that
would inform the co-op’s design, creating a home of contrasting styles and textures.
out of their co-op for three weeks
so their interior designers could
finish the painting, polishing and
arrangement of artwork and ob-
jects. While the couple approved
every purchase, seeing the collec-
tion of objects with newly painted
walls, new rugs and new furniture
was a transformative experience.
“One of our friends mentioned
that he likes to come to our place
because there’s always something
beautiful to look at or something
that elicits curiosity,” Sealy says.
The “wow” factors start right in
the foyer, where an 1800s Dutch
chest with a weathered patina
provides contrast to the polished
floors, columned entrance to the
living room and traditional mold-
ings. Brutalist lamps, which Sealy
initially resisted, rest on top of the
chest in front of an antique Chi-
nese screen. An 18th-century
Swedish chair with a sculptural
shape sits next to the chest and
offers a prime spot to rest a bag or
place a book, a signature Hildreth
element.
“I love interesting chairs even if
they’re not necessarily going to be
used for sitting,” Hildreth says.
Hildreth gravitates toward an-
tiques and eclectic finds, while
Braunohler leans toward modern
accessories.
“Accessories can cost as much
as 30 percent of the furnishings
for a project,” Braunohler says.
The custom-designed, contem-
porary-style dining table, built
from antique Italian walnut, also
functions as Sealy’s office when
the couple isn’t entertaining.
“This is a great table but be-
cause of the patina it’s also usable
for an office without anyone wor-
rying about scratching it,” Hil-
dreth says.
The room has traditional wain-
scoting on the walls, yet modern
photography and a modern light
fixture over the table fit easily into
the decor.
The focal point for the living
room is a photo by the Danish
photographer Trine Sondergaard,
whose work caught Price’s eye in
Hildreth’s room at the D.C. Design
House, which was a fundraiser for
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Children’s National Health Sys-
tem.
At the event, multiple designers
transformed rooms to showcase
their work. The photo, taken from
behind, shows a contemporary
woman in a ruffled red shirt wear-
ing an antique embroidered cap.
“These caps were made by farm
women, which was one of the few
ways they had to make money at
the time,” Price says. “It’s just such
a powerful image with a subtle
message about empowering wom-
en. It looks almost like a Vermeer
with the lighting but it’s a modern
photo.”
Other features of the room in-
clude an antique African mask
with a black-and-white fashion
photo below it, and two bright
blue sculptures, one of which is
modern and the other antique.
Price found the low coffee table,
and the designers had two arm-
chairs made to comfortably ac-
commodate the heights of both
Price and Sealy.
Price and Sealy use their living
room frequently for entertaining
friends, drinking coffee and read-
ing the Sunday newspaper.
“We really wanted to make a
space that we would use, not just
something to look at,” Price says.
“If you buy things that you love
that have good quality, you’ll al-
ways find a place for it.”
Textures and styles
While Braunohler and Hildreth
didn’t always know where some-
thing would fit when they bought
it, Braunohler says mixing tex-
tures and pieces from different
centuries can be eye-catching.
“Some of the items we pur-
chased were what my daughter
calls, ‘I can’t keep my eyes from
looking at it’ kind of objects,”
Braunohler says.
A successful room, Hildreth
says, is one with complexity that
makes you want to linger and
keeps you noticing different fea-
tures at different times.
“Every room has to have some-
thing ‘ugly’ in it, because pretty on
top of pretty just gets to be too
much,” Hildreth says. “A little sur-
prise or a bit of tension keeps a
room interesting.”
Abstract paintings and sculp-
tures add that spark in the tradi-
tional co-op, along with furniture
pieces such as an unusual narrow
bench with curving arms and legs
in the hallway that links the living
room with the family room.
“Adding the bench and the large
photo above it opens the vista
from the family room into the hall
and seems to make the space big-
ger,” Price says.
The family room, one of the few
areas that needed reconfigura-
tion, originally had four sets of
doors in addition to the pocket
door to the hallway. Braunohler
suggested closing off the door to
the bathroom to increase the wall
space in the room.
The bedroom, which originally
included Sealy’s desk in the corner
by the window, was also reconfig-
ured with a built-in bench in the
space.
“Instead of putting in an uphol-
stered chair and an ottoman, we
installed this bench and dropped
the ceiling above it to create a
nook,” Hildreth says.
The corner has an antique
sconce above the bench and a
small octagonal wood table with
mother-of-pearl detailing from an
auction in Tuscany. A set of black-
and-white photos above the bed
also came from an auction.
Hildreth added more character
to the room with table lamps in
the bedroom repurposed from an-
tique glass French seltzer bottles
set on wood Art Deco-style side
tables that purposely don’t match
exactly.
“We feel like we’re living in a
magazine,” Price says. “Very few
people get to have that experience,
so we feel very fortunate.”
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A collaborative
co-op redesign
zeroes in on
where the art is
Homeowners and two decorators worked together
to create a comfortably curated space

BY M ICHELE L ERNER

Like many couples considering moving in together, Jerry Sealy

and Tim Price had difficulty deciding on design preferences. ¶
Sealy, an editorial design consultant, liked contemporary. Price,
an internal medicine physician, liked traditional. ¶ But a design
team helped them convert Price’s 1,600-square-foot, 1928 co-op
in the District’s Adams Morgan neighborhood into a comfortably
curated home contrasting styles and textures and melding el-
ements of both personalities. ¶ “Luckily, around that time we met
Josh and Viv at the D.C. Design House and we all liked each oth-
er,” says Sealy, now married to Price. “They helped us figure out
how to make this place our own.”

Josh Hildreth, owner of Josh Hil-
dreth Interiors in Reston, Va., and
Vivian Braunohler, owner of Braun-
ohler Design in Washington, collabo-
rated with Price and Sealy in a four-
conceived idea of what their co-op
should look like, they had a few photos
of things they liked and were certain
that they didn’t want their home to
appear as if it were on trend for a

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way partnership. Unlike most design particular year, Sealy says.

projects that start with furniture and a
color scheme, they started with a
search for objects and artwork that
would inform the design. Price and
Sealy had rented a farmhouse in
France for a vacation that inspired
their approach to interior design.
“The 1800s farmhouse was owned
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“I like a soft feel to design, sort of a
structured chaos, like the way you taste
food and find it interesting at the first
bite and then tease out more flavor as
you eat,” Hildreth says. “Creating
depth in design requires layering and
it takes time to find and pull together
the pieces that will work well together.”

by a designer and a furniture maker A big mistake people make, Braun-

who had mixed beautiful art and a ohler says, is to make everything

modern interior into this old house
that was full of visual surprises,” Sealy
says.
Price says the experience led them to
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match too much. She recommends
buying a mix of new pieces and an-
tiques to get the effect of collecting
over time even if you’re buying every-

a new appreciation of how much de- thing at once. Ideally, though, design-
sign can elevate the experience of liv- ing your home takes patience, she says.

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ing somewhere. The redesign of the Price-Sealy co-
op took about 14 months from April
I ‘Structured chaos’
In the foyer of Jerry Sealy and Tim Price’s home, an 1800s Dutch chest contrasts with the polished floors, modern sculpture and columned entrance to the living room. Brutalist lamps sit in front of an antique Chinese screen. While the couple didn’t have a pre- SEE ART ON T10
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House of the Week
A landmark property with world-class gardens
BY K ATHY O RTON

The first time Charles H. Seil-

heimer Jr. saw Mount Sharon in
Orange, Va., was in 1974. Little did
he know, 20 years later he would
buy it.
Seilheimer founded Sotheby’s
International Realty. He’s now re-
tired but active on boards focused
on land conservation, historic
preservation and the arts. It was
during his time with Sotheby’s
that he first came across Mount
Sharon. He still has the file and the
37 slides he took of the property
that day.
One day, Seilheimer, who is
known as Charlie, stopped in Or-
ange, about 90 miles southwest of
Washington, to visit friends Rita
and Sheldon Clark, who owned
Mount Sharon. They were think-
ing of selling and wanted his ad-
vice.
When he returned home to
Warrenton, Charlie mentioned to
his wife, Mary Lou, that the Clarks
were thinking about selling
Mount Sharon.
“Mary Lou perked right up,”
Charlie said. “She said, ‘You’ve al-
ways said they bought one of the
most beautiful places in Virginia.
What about that for us?’ ”
The next day they drove down
to Mount Sharon so Mary Lou
could see the property for the first
time. After they went through the
house, Charlie turned to his wife
and asked her what she thought.
“She said, ‘I think if you don’t
buy this place before we leave, you
PHOTOS BY STEPHEN BARLING

19184 MOUNT SHARON LANE,
ORANGE, VA.
$10.5 million
Features: The 1937 Georgian
Revival house was designed by
SEPTEMBER 26, 2020
ABOVE: An aerial view of the 1937 Georgian Revival house at the Mount Sharon estate in Orange, Va. Charles and Mary Lou Seilheimer
bought the 77-acre hilltop estate in the mid-1990s. BELOW: A terrace with a clear view over two ponds to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
are out of your mind,’ ” Charlie
said.
Mount Sharon is on land that

Louis Bancel LaFarge and is on the
National Register of Historic
Places. The gardens were designed
by landscape architect Charles
Stick and have pergolas, water
features such as fountains and
ponds, and sculptures. The
property, most of which is under
conservation easements, includes
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was granted in 1726 and 1727 to
John and Frances Taliferro. It re-
mained in the Taliferro family un-
til 1935, when Ellsworth and Eliz-
abeth Augustus bought it. A busi-
nessman from Cleveland, Ells-
worth Augustus was also
president of the Boy Scouts of
America.

a guesthouse, a farm manager’s The Augustuses demolished

house and two tenant houses.
There is a seven-stall stable with
tack room, a large equipment barn
and two loafing barns.
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the Second Empire residence on
the property and hired a re-
nowned New York architect, Louis
Bancel LaFarge, to design the
Georgian Revival mansion. It was

Approximate square-footage: the pleasing symmetry of the five-

12,590 (main house)
Lot size: 77 acres
Listing agent: Stephen T. McLean,
McLean Faulconer
 For more photos of this house
and other houses for sale in the area,
go to washingtonpost.com/realestate.
part brick house that originally
drew the Seilheimers to the prop-
erty.
“I’m a nut on Georgian archi-
tecture,” Charlie said.
The house, which is on the Na-
tional Register of Historic Places,
is as lovely as it is solidly built.
Constructed of steel and masonry,
the interior features intimate

lish garden styles when planning
their masterpiece. They hired
landscape architect Charles Stick
to bring their vision to life.
The terraced garden has a 450-
foot “center hall,” formed by box-
woods, that stretches from east to
west behind the house. On either
side of the hall are “rooms” or
separate gardens — the knot gar-
den, the hydrangea garden, the
spring garden, the summer gar-
den and the rose garden. Each
room is “painted” with a colorful
mix of flowering plants.
The gardens also have pergolas,
water features such as fountains
and ponds, and sculptures from
Virginia and around the world.
The exedra — a Greek term for
what became a popular garden
feature in the 18th century — has a
statue of Eros at its center in com-
memoration of the Seilheimers’
40th wedding anniversary. Busts
of George Washington and Thom-
PHOTOS BY STEPHEN BARLING as Jefferson look on from the cir-
Mount Sharon’s 77 acres include 10 acres devoted to a variety of gardens. The Seilheimers researched cle’s edge. The points of the com-
Italian, French and English gardens and hired landscape architect Charles Stick to realize their vision. pass are part of the brick and
flagstone paving.
rooms, arches, ornate millwork, without thinking what a wonder- panoramic views of the Blue Ridge The Seilheimers began plan-
and pegged and quarter-sawn oak ful house it is,” Mary Lou said. Mountains, the 10-acre gardens ning the garden in 1998 and fin-
floors. But the gardens are what make rival the most exquisite gardens, ished it in time for their daugh-
“We’ve been here a long time — this property stand out. Taking public or private, in the world. ter’s wedding in 2003. The Wed-
it must be almost 25 years — and I advantage of the second-highest The Seilheimers extensively re- ding Gate made of brick and
don’t walk through this house point in Orange County and its searched Italian, French and Eng- wrought iron commemorates the
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occasion.
“When I get on top of the pergo-
la to tie down the roses, I feel like I
am on top of the world, and I just
love it,” Mary Lou said.
After a quarter-century at
Mount Sharon, the Seilheimers
feel the need to downsize.
“People talk about, ‘How can
you leave Mount Sharon?’ ” Mary
Lou said. “My line is, we want to
leave when we can pick where we
are going next. I walk around, and
I start getting excited for the next
people. They are going to love it.
They are going to do things that
make them happy. . . . But I mostly
think about the gardens and the
fun they’re going to have.”
Mount Sharon has a 12,587-
square-foot main house with eight
bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, a
two-bedroom guesthouse, a four-
bedroom, three-bathroom farm
manager’s house and two three-
bedroom tenant houses. Most of
its 77 acres are in conservation
easements and are used for grow-
ing corn, soybeans and hay. The
property is also suitable for horses
and other livestock. There is a
seven-stall stable with tack room,
a large equipment barn and two
loafing barns. It is listed at $10.5
million.
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A more valuable home,
inside and out
Home sales are surging, and owners can get a leg up—and a better sale—by
boosting their property’s curb appeal.
This article is the first installment of “Windows 101,” a series of stories from Window Nation and WP BrandStudio that demystifies homeowners’ biggest questions about window repair.
When people look for a new home, they might trawl
real estate websites, research potential neighbor-
hoods or attend open houses. But regardless of
what they want, all buyers tend to be swayed by one
aspect in particular: curb appeal, or the way a home
appears from the outside.
“We all know and believe that good curb appeal mat-
ters,” said professor of finance Sriram Villupuram,
whose research has sought to understand the value
of curb appeal.
With mortgage rates reaching new lows and home sales
surging, sellers can still benefit by investing in their
home’s exterior, according to Villupuram. His research
found that, between two homes in the same neighbor-
hood that are otherwise identical, “the one with the
best curb appeal has sold for seven percent more.”
SEPTEMBER 26, 2020
Even those who aren’t planning on selling their home
can benefit from making improvements to a proper-
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ty’s exterior. When Dwayne and Suzan Stanton first
caught sight of their 1960s-era home in Lanham,
Md., they “fell in love with it immediately.” But recent-
ly, the couple realized that it was time to make some
updates; the home still had its original windows, for
example, and the Stantons had resorted to putting
up plastic every winter to keep out the draft.
Window Nation, a window and door installation compa-
ny, worked with the Stantons to spruce up their home.
Their favorite new feature is the bay window with panes
that open on either side. Now, said Suzan, “you can
appreciate looking out the window. You can appreciate
people looking at the window. It’s just better all around.”
Hiring a contractor like Window Nation offers cus- the process of choosing a window that suits their home
tomers peace of mind and value; depending on the in particular; on a street lined with houses of a similar
market, homeowners can expect to recoup about 80 style, for instance, replacing a flat window with a bay
percent of their investment in new windows when window “gives the appearance of the room looking
they sell their house, according to Harley Magden, larger inside [while] outside,” Magden said. In addi-
CEO and co-founder of Window Nation. tion, by upgrading windows and doors, Villupuram es-
It can also help customers to have a knowledgeable timates that homeowners can expect “at least an im-
partner when selecting the right windows for their provement of two to three percent” in property value.
needs, such as their future plans or how their home Ultimately, making thoughtful choices about a
was constructed. Customers might be planning to home’s curb appeal can have powerful results,
move in a couple of years, or intend to stay in their whether a homeowner plans to sell or not. The Stan-
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of renovations they make.
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