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guidelines excluded
to skimp in Afghan
on science strategy
Administration uses only SIDELINED, AIDE’S
agency-vetted studies, STANDING FALTERS
restricts topics’ scope
View of peace deal pits
him against the president
BY L AURA R EILEY

The Trump administration is BY J OHN H UDSON

limiting scientific input to the
2020 dietary guidelines, raising
concerns among nutrition advo-
cates and independent experts
about industry influence over
healthy-eating recommendations
for all Americans.
For the first time, the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Ser-
vices and the Department of Agri-
culture, which oversee the com-
mittee giving recommendations
for the guidelines, have predeter-
mined the topics that will be
addressed. They have narrowed
the research that can be used only
to studies vetted by agency offi-
cials, potentially leaving key re-
search out of the mix.
The 80 questions the commit-
tee has been asked to answer do
not cover several pressing issues
the panel explored five years ago.
These include the consumption
of red and processed meat, as well
as the dramatic proliferation of
ultraprocessed foods, which ac-
count for a growing percentage of
calories consumed by Americans.
Nor will the committee explore
appropriate sodium levels for dif-
ferent populations.
A wide range of experts say
these are among the most critical
questions as the nation faces an
epidemic of lifestyle diseases
such as atherosclerosis, heart dis-
ease, stroke, obesity and Type 2
diabetes. They also represent the
issues that large food companies
find most objectionable because
they would probably cast high-
SEE GUIDELINES ON A5
Workers install metal shutters over a window as they prepare a business in Miami Beach for the possible arrival of Hurricane Dorian,
which could make landfall as a Category 4 storm Tuesday along Florida’s Atlantic coast. It reached that strength Friday evening.
Fla. braces for strengthening Dorian
Fuel, supplies low as state
of emergency is declared
for Category 4 storm
BY L ORI R OZSA,
L EONARD S HAPIRO,
L AURA R EILEY
AND C HRISTIAN D AVENPORT
palm beach, fla. — Hurricane
Dorian grew in strength and size
Friday, turning into a major Cat-
egory 4 storm and posing an
ever-greater threat to the crowd-
ed metropolitan areas of South
Florida.
Dorian will be powerful
enough — a dangerous hurricane
with a track that has it slamming
into Fort Pierce on Tuesday after-
noon — that it could maintain
hurricane strength as it churns
through the center of the state,
perhaps directly through down-
town Orlando. Though still days
away and having already shown a
propensity for variability, Dorian
seemed to be aiming to rake much
of Florida’s Atlantic coast, all the
way to Jacksonville.
The storm developed “a dis-
tinct eye” Friday, the National
Weather Service said, as it moved
into an area of the Atlantic with
warm waters and low wind shear.
The hurricane’s winds reached
130 mph late Friday, earlier than
expected, and are likely to contin-
ue to increase until landfall, mak-
ing it potentially catastrophic.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R)
was in West Palm Beach on Fri-
day, warning residents to pay
attention to upcoming evacua-
tion orders. Gas stations began
selling out of fuel Thursday, and
on Friday lines lasting as long as
two hours snaked around the few
stations that had fuel available. At
an earlier news conference in
Tallahassee, DeSantis said Dorian
will be an unquestionably strong
“multiday event.”
“The precise path is still some-
what uncertain, but the intensity,
I think there’s a pretty high de-
gree of certainty that this is going
to be a major hurricane, Category
4, even Category 4-plus,” DeSan-
AND J OSH D AWSEY
As the president’s top aides
prepared for a high-stakes meet-
ing on the future of Afghanistan
earlier this month, one senior
official was not on the original
invite list: national security ad-
viser John Bolton.
The attendance of the top secu-
rity aide would normally be criti-
cal, but the omission was no
mistake, senior U.S. officials said.
JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES Bolton, who has long advocated
an expansive military presence
around the world, has become a
staunch internal foe of an emerg-
ing peace deal aimed at ending
America’s longest war, the offi-
cials said.
His opposition to the diplo-
matic effort in Afghanistan has
tis said. irritated President Trump, these
The governor said the Florida officials said, and led aides to
Highway Patrol will be escorting leave the National Security Coun-
gasoline tankers throughout the cil out of sensitive discussions
state “to ensure fuel reaches criti- about the agreement.
cal areas more quickly.” Fuel The sidelining of Bolton has
shortages during the huge evacu- raised questions about his influ-
ation before Hurricane Irma in ence in an administration that is
2017 left people trying to flee the seeking a troop withdrawal from
storm stranded on the side of the Afghanistan, as well as an ambi-
Florida Turnpike. DeSantis tious nuclear deal with North
doesn’t want to see that happen Korea and potential engagement
again, and he also advised that with Iranian President Hassan
people “shelter locally” if they can Rouhani. Bolton, U.S. officials
to avoid snarling major highways. said, stands in opposition to
“Make the preparations that those efforts, but he does so in-
you need,” DeSantis said. “You creasingly from the periphery.
have some time, but that time is SEE BOLTON ON A4
running out.”
In response to a request from Iran tweet: Trump’s image shows
SEE DORIAN ON A5 U.S. may have violated airspace. A4

How VA failed to stop an intoxicated doctor Militants tighten grip on

Patients pay tragic cost of Ark.
Somalia with tax racket
pathologist’s 3,000 misdiagnoses he found that al-Shabab knew the
size of his business and even how
‘If I don’t pay, they kill many containers of goods he im-
BY L ISA R EIN me’: Al-Shabab targets ported through the city’s seaport.
Don’t lie to us, they told him, we
rogers, ark. — By the time he and his wife, key traders in capital have the manifests from the ships
Sara, faced Veterans Affairs medical staff to cross-check.
across a conference table in September, Kelly Interviews with a dozen busi-
Copelin had lost 75 pounds and could swallow BY O MAR F ARUK ness owners in Mogadishu reveal
only small pieces of solid food. Radiation AND M AX B EARAK al-Shabab’s quickly growing abili-
therapy had blistered his throat. ty to tax the country’s most lucra-
This was the moment they would finally mogadishu, somalia — The tive businesses, which analysts
learn why their lives were so changed. Why calls from an unknown number and former government officials
when he went to the Fayetteville VA three had been coming for weeks, but say earns the group tens of mil-
years earlier with a severe earache, the biopsy Osman, a household-goods trader lions of dollars per year, which it
came back negative — and he was given in the Somali capital’s largest uses to fund its attacks on govern-
antibiotics instead of treatment for what was market, disregarded them — un- ment and military targets, as well
diagnosed 13 months later as late-stage neck til he got the text message. as on those who refuse to pay up.
and throat cancer. “Will you pick up our call? Yes In most of rural Somalia, al-
The pathologist who had misdiagnosed or no. This is the mujahideen,” it Shabab is in firm control and
Copelin’s diseased tissue in 2015 was intoxicat- said. The mujahideen, the Islam- operates a parallel government. It
ed, the hospital’s chief physician told the ist militants, al-Shabab. He knew has its own courts, road tolls and
couple. He had failed to see the squamous cell right away what they wanted: to tax collection. But that system is
carcinoma on the slide before him, the doctor BONNIE JO MOUNT/THE WASHINGTON POST capture him in a protection mon- spreading into Somalia’s capital,
said. Kelly Copelin, 63, uses a compression vest at home to stimulate his lymphatic system. ey racket that the extremist group undermining the legitimacy of
“We are so sorry,” Copelin, 63, remembers has been expanding across Soma- the U.S.-backed federal govern-
him saying. The assurances and apologies have come as influence. lia for years. ment in the only city that govern-
Sobbing, the retired Air Force master ser- cold comfort to the families of 21,000 veterans On the Fayetteville campus, rated one of VA’s “My heart could barely pump ment reliably controls.
geant said he asked whether he would be diagnosed by chief pathologist Robert Morris best, Levy’s supervisors failed to heed early blood in that moment,” said Os- “It is a very scary situation,”
suffering this much if the cancer had been Levy over 12 years, many of whom will live for warnings that he was endangering patients man, 45, a father of seven, who said Somali Finance Minister Ab-
caught before he was at Stage 4, with tumors years with the consequences of his mistakes. and then were slow to act, according to spoke on the condition that only dirahman Beileh. “We have not
spread to both sides of his face. The treatment Compounding their pain is a sense of internal VA documents, court filings and inter- his first name be used out of fear been able to address it. It is the
would have been the same, doctors told him, betrayal that VA officials did not intervene views with 20 congressional officials, veterans for his life. “If I don’t pay, they kill number one problem in this coun-
stopping short of answering his question sooner, firing Levy only after he was arrested and current and former VA employees. me.” try.”
directly. in the spring of 2018 for driving under the SEE DOCTOR ON A8 When Osman replied “yes,” SEE SOMALIA ON A2

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candidates who aren’t white went from child star to Harper was best outnumbered combat deaths
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VALERIE HARPER 1939-2019
Emmy-winning actress took Rhoda from sidekick to starring role
BY E MILY L ANGER
Valerie Harper, the actress best
known for her performances on
two of the most popular sitcoms of
the 1970s as the chronically single,
irrepressibly funny New Yorker
Rhoda Morgenstern, died Aug. 30
at 80.
Her daughter, Cristina Cacciot-
ti, confirmed her death. Other de-
tails were not immediately avail-
able. Ms. Harper had successfully
battled lung cancer but revealed in
2013 a new diagnosis of brain can-
cer. In public, she long continued
to display the pluck that had en-
deared her to millions of TV view-
ers for generations.
Ms. Harper amassed four Em-
mys during her time as Rhoda —
three for her sidekick role on “The
Mary Tyler Moore Show,” which
aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977,
and one as the lead character in
the spinoff “Rhoda,” which ran
from 1974 to 1978.
She continued to act on televi-
sion and in the theater for more
than three decades, her stage roles
ranging from the flamboyant ac-
tress Tallulah Bankhead to former
Israeli prime minister Golda Meir.
But she was forever known as Rho-
da — a reflection of the preserva-
tive power of reruns, and the en-
during appeal of her signature
character.
Rhoda appeared in the first epi-
sode of “The Mary Tyler Moore
Show,” one of the earliest televi-
sion programs to feature single
working women.
Ms. Harper played the down-
on-her-luck, down-on-herself sin-
gle Jewish girl who had left the
Bronx for Minneapolis.
Judge formally drops sex tra∞cking charges Epstein faced
BY M ATT Z APOTOSKY
A federal judge on Thursday
granted prosecutors’ request to
formally drop the new sex traffick-
ing charges against Jeffrey Ep-
stein because of the financier’s
death in federal custody.
The expected decision came
with little fanfare. U.S. District
Judge Richard M. Berman en-
dorsed prosecutors’ earlier re-
quest and noted that he “incorpo-
Al-Shabab tax racket spreads from countryside into Somali capital
SOMALIA FROM A1
The growth of al-Shabab’s tax
revenue stands at odds with the
federal government’s claims that
the insurgency is on its back foot
— and in sharp contrast to the U.S.
military’s claims that its opera-
tions in Somalia are weakening
the insurgency.
A spokesman for U.S. Africa
Command, John D. Manley, said
in an emailed statement that the
U.S. military targets al-Shabab’s
“financial and collection opera-
tions” with airstrikes. He ac-
knowledged that the militant
group is “generally successful us-
ing threats and violence to intimi-
date clans and locals into paying
taxes.”
The United States, which has
about 500 troops in Somalia, says
it has conducted nearly 50 drone
strikes this year, killing more than
300 fighters. Most analysts put
the number of al-Shabab fighters
somewhere just short of 10,000,
though the true number is hard to
discern, as many of the group’s
members blend in and out of
civilian life.
Al-Shabab, in turn, has carried
out more than 850 attacks — from
kidnappings to large bombings —
across Somalia this year, killing
around 1,600 people, according to
the Armed Conflict Location and
Event Data Project. The U.S. gov-
Call for details
EZ SU
Valerie Harper, here with Mary Tyler Moore, appeared as the
beloved Rhoda Morgenstern on Moore’s show and then her own.
Rhoda meets Mary Richards,
played by the show’s namesake,
when Mary moves into the turret-
ed Victorian house where Rhoda
has fashioned a home in the attic,
fringe beads tinkling in the door-
way. In short order, they become
bosom friends and foils.
“Mare,” as Rhoda calls her bud-
dy, is a Midwestern sweetheart,
the perfect one with a gorgeous
figure and glamorous job as a local
television producer. Rhoda, a de-
partment store window dresser, is
the dumpy one with bad luck in
love and a predilection for food.
“You’re having a lousy streak,”
Rhoda says to Mary in one epi-
sode, coaching her friend through
a rare rough spot. “I happen to be
having a terrific streak. Soon the
world will be back to normal. To-
morrow you will meet a crown
head of Europe and marry. I will
have a fat attack, eat 3,000 peanut
rates by reference” a transcript of
an emotional hearing in the case
this week, when more than a doz-
en women spoke of how Epstein
had sexually abused them when
they were children.
Epstein, a politically connected
multimillionaire who years earlier
had resolved similar allegations
with a plea deal that has widely
been criticized as overly lenient,
was arrested in July on new, feder-
al charges of sexually abusing doz-
ernment has long feared that, as
in Afghanistan, instability in So-
malia could provide international
terrorist organizations a base for
operations. The Islamic State,
which sometimes clashes with al-
Shabab over territory, has a small
but active branch operating most-
ly in northeastern Somalia.
While armed conflict besets
much of the country, Beileh’s min-
istry and al-Shabab now compete
over the most basic function of
governance: to collect revenue
and provide services. The govern-
ment brings in almost $200 mil-
lion per year, and although al-
Shabab takes in only a small frac-
tion of that, it collects from a
broader base of businesses. That
base now includes the seaport,
the government’s most lucrative
source of income.
The Somali government is con-
sidering a law that would make it
illegal to pay taxes to al-Shabab,
but traders argue that such a
move would put an even greater
burden on them. Many complain
that the government can barely
keep them safe and that criminal-
izing their payments to al-Shabab
would endanger their lives.
Osman and other traders de-
scribed how, in the past year, al-
Shabab has instituted a simple,
tiered system for taxing almost all
the goods that enter Somalia
through Mogadishu’s seaport,
stemming from the group’s ability
to get ship manifests by threaten-
ing shipping agents.
A 40-foot container is taxed at
$160, while 20-foot ones cost
$100. Although the exact number
of traders that al-Shabab taxes
isn’t clear, analysts think the
group’s new ability to tax imports
could add millions to its annual
revenue on top of what it collects
from business owners. Ahmed
Washington, the port’s manager,
did not respond to requests for
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butter cups and die.”
As the show continued, Ms.
Harper slimmed down and turned
herself — and Rhoda — into a
knockout beauty, fantastic in
headscarves and hoop earrings.
She credited “Mary Tyler Moore
Show” actor Gavin MacLeod with
turning her on to Weight Watch-
ers. Moore, she said, encouraged
the transformation.
“You don’t want to be my side-
kick all your life,” Ms. Harper re-
called her saying.
With her spinoff show, Ms.
Harper transitioned to leading
lady. The first episode of “Rhoda”
sailed to the top of the Nielsen
ratings — an extraordinary feat for
a new program. In the first season,
Rhoda returns to New York, is
reunited with her family and final-
ly snags a guy, demolition man Joe
Gerard (played by David Groh).
Their 1974 television marriage
ens of girls in the early 2000s.
Prosecutors alleged that he effec-
tively created a personal network
of children whom he could abuse,
paying his victims to recruit oth-
ers. He had pleaded not guilty and
was fighting Berman’s order that
he be held without bail when, by
authorities’ account, he hanged
himself in his cell on Aug. 10.
For those who say Epstein
abused them, his death was yet
another instance of his evading
A market in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Business owners say
al-Shabab gives them a stark choice: pay tax or pay with their lives.
comment.
“When I told [al-Shabab’s tax
collector] I had two containers at
the port, he called me back and
said, ‘No, you have three this
month. You have lied to me,’ ” said
Hilowle, 48, who has traded in
curtains, clothes and footwear at
Mogadishu’s Bakara market for
20 years. He was shocked that
al-Shabab knew about containers
before they even arrived — his
third would only reach Mogadi-
shu a few weeks later.
Paying al-Shabab’s taxes is rela-
tively straightforward and hap-
pens through banks, mobile mon-
ey transfers and the age-old “ha-
wala” system of moneylenders
prevalent in Somalia and some
Middle Eastern countries, the
traders said. The money is then
redistributed to al-Shabab cells
throughout the country.
For the annual “zakah” tax on
businesses, the group’s agents of-
ten start with huge requests but
then negotiate. Both Osman and
Hilowle were initially asked for
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was one of the most hyped and
widely watched television events
of the era. But the show’s populari-
ty gradually dimmed, and it was
noted that viewers seemed to pre-
fer Rhoda before she had come
into her own. Joe was written out
of the program through a breakup,
and the show ended not long after.
In a way, the divorce was one
more example of the frailty that
made Rhoda so real. “A good
friend once put it best,” Ms. Harper
told the Chicago Tribune. “Mary
Richards is the woman you wish
you were. Rhoda is the woman you
probably are.”
Valerie Kathryn Harper was
born Aug. 22, 1939, in Suffern, N.Y.
She moved around as a child, fol-
lowing her father in his career as a
lighting salesman. Her parents
later divorced.
She danced from an early age
and, as a teenager, got a part at
New York’s Radio City Music Hall
corps de ballet twirling about be-
hind the Rockettes. She later
scored chorus parts in Broadway
productions including “Take Me
Along” (with Jackie Gleason) and
“Wildcat” (with Lucille Ball).
In 1964, Ms. Harper married
Richard Schaal, a member of the
Second City improvisational thea-
ter company. She, too, joined the
troupe and moved with Schaal to
Los Angeles, where he succeeded
while she stagnated.
All of that changed when she
auditioned for “The Mary Tyler
Moore Show.” Ms. Harper had rel-
atively little television experience
at the time, and more than 50
actresses tried out for the part,
according to Time magazine.
When Ms. Harper appeared, there
justice. It meant they would never
be able to confront him at a trial.
Prosecutors vowed to investigate
and pursue those who aided Ep-
stein in his alleged crimes but —
required to do so by law — they
moved to drop the new charges.
Though the outcome was inevi-
table, Berman convened a hearing
to consider that request on Tues-
day, allowing Epstein’s accusers to
speak. One by one, they stood in
court and tearfully described how
OMAR FARUK FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
$10,000 in addition to taxes on
their imports.
Hilowle’s “tax collector” threat-
ened him and his family, then
used one of Hilowle’s close rela-
tives as a middleman to haggle.
“I insisted on $1,000,” Hilowle
said. “I told him, ‘If I could afford
that kind of money, I wouldn’t
have spent one single night in
Mogadishu, I would have relocat-
ed to the UAE.’ ”
He expects to pay that sum
annually, unless his business
grows. He transferred the money
to a woman whose bank details
were given to him by the agent
from al-Shabab.
Osman, on the other hand,
went to the village of Mubarak,
where al-Shabab has its tax collec-
tion offices, to settle his dues. The
building was small and bare, he
recalled, but a long line of trades-
men emanated from it. Inside
were two middle-aged men, one of
whom had a laptop and an Excel
spreadsheet open. They opened a
new file for him. He negotiated
down to a $3,000 annual tax.
Somali religious leaders
have begun chastising those who
pay, although they, like the gov-
ernment, can’t offer traders much
protection. Sheikh Nur Barud
Gurhan, one of the leaders of the
Supreme Religious Council of So-
malia, was quoted in local media
this month as saying that “anyone
who pays al-Shabab will be part of
the atrocities they commit.”
But those who don’t pay tax to
al-Shabab often pay dearly in oth-
er ways. One of Mogadishu’s
staunchest opponents of al-
. SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 , 2019
was no question. “That’s Rhoda,”
Moore was reported to have said.
Schaal appeared in “The Mary
Tyler Moore Show” as several
characters, including Chuckles
the Clown — whose demise is re-
counted in the 1975 episode
“Chuckles Bites the Dust,” widely
considered one of the funniest epi-
sodes in television history. He and
Ms. Harper later divorced.
In 1987, she married producer
Tony Cacciotti. A complete list of
survivors was not immediately
available.
From 1986 to 1987, Ms. Harper
played the wife of an airline pilot
in “Valerie,” a popular NBC sitcom
that was renamed “The Hogan
Family” after Ms. Harper was fired
from the show over a dispute with
the production company.
A jury later decided that she
was wrongfully terminated and
awarded her more than $1 million
in damages as well as a portion of
profits from the show.
There were efforts over the
years to revive the fun and friend-
ship of the turreted house in Min-
neapolis, among them a lackluster
TV movie “Mary and Rhoda”
(2000) that reintroduced Mary as
a congressman’s widow and Ms.
Harper as the ex-wife of a French-
man.
Ms. Harper professed her satis-
faction at having been, from the
beginning of her career until the
end, one and the same with Rhoda
Morgenstern. For she knew that
the appeal of an imperfect, lovable
single girl would never fade. Rho-
da will be there “when I’m long
gone,” Ms. Harper once said, “and
that’s a wonderful thing.”
emily.langer@washpost.com
Epstein had coerced, manipulated
and abused them, and how they
would forever have to live with the
effects of his abuse.
Some could get financial com-
pensation. At least six of those
who say they were victimized by
Epstein have joined lawsuits
against his estate, and representa-
tives for others say they plan to
make similar efforts, although the
scope is unclear.
matt.zapotosky@washpost.com
Shabab’s tax is Gurey Haji Hassan,
the owner of what was once the
Makka al-Mukarama Hotel, a
busy place filled with Mogadishu
power brokers on the city’s cen-
tral thoroughfare.
For years, Hassan had openly
expressed his views against pay-
ing. And every year since 2013, his
hotel was bombed or attacked by
al-Shabab. He rebuilt it each time.
But after the last attack, in March,
in which 25 people were killed,
and another at a different ho-
tel the previous November, in
which the owner was killed, he
has given up on the hotel business
but not his convictions.
“If we pay, there will be no
solution. If we resist, maybe there
will be a solution. I believe this
very strongly. I will never stop. We
need more people like me, who
say no,” he said by phone from
Canada, where he was visiting
relatives.
The government is largely pow-
erless to prevent business owners
from paying al-Shabab, Beileh,
the finance minister, acknowl-
edged. Al-Shabab’s tax collectors
freely visit the city to iron out
discrepancies, such as late pay-
ments, multiple traders said.
“This problem is one-of-a-kind.
Al-Shabab are Somalis like me or
anyone else. They look like me.
They are everywhere, and among
us,” Beileh said.
With the government strug-
gling to maintain control of Mog-
adishu, other Islamist groups
such as the Islamic State are
building footholds across Somalia
and replicating al-Shabab’s taxa-
tion scheme, as are local gangs in
Mogadishu and other cities.
“The Somali people are fund-
ing all these groups, but the ques-
tion is: Do they have a choice?”
said Hussein Sheikh-Ali, who
served as a security adviser to the
current and previous Somali
presidents and now heads
the Hiraal Institute, a Somali
think tank. “People are giving up,
throwing their hands in the air.
I’m worried. I’m really worried. I
think al-Shabab can win the war
with this money. We are in no
position to question the inten-
tions of the people who pay un-
less we remove this dilemma they
are facing. They do not have
freedom to choose right or
wrong.”
max.bearak@washpost.com
Bearak reported from Nairobi.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 , 2019
Far from battlefield, another danger in vehicle accidents
Pentagon reports more of
these training deaths as
families seek answers
BY M ISSY R YAN
When Joshua Braica informed
his family that he wanted to join
the Marines after high school, his
mother, Alexandrina, discouraged
it. She and her husband had es-
caped communist-era Romania in
the 1980s and lived in a refugee
camp before immigrating to the
United States. “We don’t take our
freedom for granted,” she said.
But she was concerned about
the risks a military life would
bring. So she urged Joshua to wait,
and when he brought it up again,
she asked him to pray, thinking he
would conclude it wasn’t for him.
“He came back and he said, ‘I
prayed and I think I have a calling.
I want to honor my country,’ ” she
said.
In early April, Joshua, by then a
29-year-old Marine special opera-
tor whose wife had recently given
birth to the couple’s first child,
died in an unexplained accident at
Camp Pendleton, Calif., one of sev-
eral military training fatalities
that have not only shattered fami-
lies but also focused attention on
the dangers troops face far from
the battlefield.
According to official statistics,
training fatalities outnumbered
combat deaths 4 to 1 in recent
years as the pace of overseas coun-
terterrorism operations has
slowed. While Pentagon officials
say training deaths are down over-
all, they acknowledge that at least
15 service members have been
killed in military vehicle accidents
this year, an increase from the
previous year.
For Alexandrina Braica, a strug-
gle to obtain clear information
about what caused Joshua’s death
has compounded her grief as she
awaits an official investigation.
“I keep thinking, is anyone tak-
ing seriously what happened to
my son?” Braica asked. “Did any-
one say, ‘Okay, we had a fatality,
let’s ensure this doesn’t happen
again?’ ”
Those killed in recent vehicle
accidents also include Marine
1st Lt. H. Conor McDowell, 24,
who died in May in a rollover at
Camp Pendleton, and Marine
Lance Cpl. Hans Sandoval-Perey-
ra, 21, who died in Australia later
the same month. In June, Army
Spec. Marquise Elliott, 25, died in
a Humvee accident in Alaska. On
Aug. 15, an Indiana national
guardsman, Staff Sgt. Andrew Mi-
chael St. John, 29, was killed in a
Humvee rollover at Fort Hood,
Tex.
Now the families of those killed
are pushing the Pentagon to more
After ban, Infowars makes divisive
return to YouTube — for all of a day
BY M ARIE C . B ACA
Far-right outlet Infowars made
a short-lived return to YouTube
on Thursday after its banishment
last year, briefly illustrating so-
cial media’s struggle to remove
rule-breaking content while still
maintaining a forum for free
expression.
A new channel called the War
Room, the name of InfoWars’s
afternoon program, surfaced for
a few hours and started posting
videos. Alex Jones, the founder of
the outlet known for spreading
conspiracy theories and baseless
information, was banned from
YouTube and numerous other
sites in 2018 after policy viola-
tions including posting hate
speech and violent content. He
had multiple channels on the site.
The relaunch of the channel
coincided with a blog post earlier
this week by YouTube’s chief exec-
utive, Susan Wojcicki. In the blog
post, Wojcicki called for allowing
some controversial content to re-
main on YouTube in the interest
of fostering a more informed
society.
“It sometimes means leaving
up content that is outside the
mainstream, controversial or
even offensive,” wrote Wojcicki.
“But I believe that hearing a
broad range of perspectives ulti-
mately makes us a stronger and
more informed society, even if we
disagree with some of those
views.”
Infowars did not immediately
respond to a request for com-
ment. The first video uploaded to
the channel was available for
about 17 hours, according to Vice,
which first reported the news.
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1st Lt. H. Conor McDowell with his mother, Susan Flanigan, during his senior year at The Citadel,
a military college in Charleston, S.C. McDowell died in early April in a military training accident.
closely examine the incidents and
prioritize improving training
standards to prevent future
deaths. Lawmakers — including
two Maryland Democrats, Sen.
Ben Cardin and Rep. Elijah E.
Cummings, chairman of the
House Oversight Committee —
have also urged senior military
leaders to investigate and peti-
tioned a government watchdog to
conduct an independent analysis.
The Government Accountabili-
ty Office is expected to study the
issue.
Military officials say they are
looking into the incidents, but
they do not appear to be consider-
ing any sweeping changes, point-
ing to what they say is a slight
improvement in training safe-
ty despite what officials character-
ize as a “spike” in vehicle-related
deaths.
Officials representing the mili-
tary services said they prioritize
troop safety but deferred to the
Pentagon to address military-
wide responses to the incidents.
The Pentagon is taking a series
of modest, mostly bureaucratic
steps that include improving how
it tracks training fatalities, which
are reported differently across the
Thirteen videos were uploaded
before the channel was removed.
Vice said one of the videos was
titled, “Breaking! YouTube CEO
says ‘Alex Jones’ and ‘Infowars
Ban Is Over.’ ” Wojcicki’s letter did
not mention Infowars or Jones.
In a statement, YouTube
spokeswoman Ivy Choi said the
company is “committed to pre-
serving openness and balancing
it with our responsibility to pro-
tect our community.” Choi said
YouTube removed the Infowars-
backed account and channel for
violating its terms of service,
specifically for circumventing its
policies by creating another You-
Tube channel after its banish-
ment.
Social media companies in re-
cent years have struggled to bal-
ance free speech with policing
hate, footage of violent crimes
and other problematic content on
their sites. They’ve instituted new
rules and banned a number of
controversial figures from their
platforms. They’ve also hired
thousands of contractors around
the world to review and delete
violent or offensive content,
something that introduces its
own problems, including the psy-
chological toll on the contractors.
Still, policy violating content
gets through, illustrated recently
by grisly video recorded by the
alleged perpetrator of March’s
bloody massacres at two New
Zealand mosques played out on
YouTube and other social media.
Google-owned YouTube, the
world’s largest video platform
with about 2 billion people log-
ging in monthly, in particular has
faced fierce backlash from critics
who say it is enabling hateful and
military services. Officials ac-
knowledge that the inconsisten-
cies make it difficult to detect and
fix systemic issues that may con-
tribute to deaths.
The military “continues to work
hard to standardize data to im-
prove analytical efficiencies,” said
a senior defense official, speaking
on the condition of anonymity be-
cause she was not authorized to
address the issue publicly.
Pentagon officials say they have
put in place technical solutions
intended to improve training safe-
ty, including the installation
of ground collision avoidance sys-
tems they say have prevented at
least seven incidents related to
F-16 aircraft.
To address vehicle acci-
dents, the Army has mandated
anti-lock brakes and an electronic
stability system associated with
reduced rollover risk for new and
recapitalized Humvees. The sys-
tems, which became mandatory
for new U.S. cars in 2011, have been
installed in only about 3,200 of the
Army’s fleet of more than 100,000
Humvees.
The Pentagon has long had is-
sues with tactical vehicles, includ-
ing the Humvee. Early in the Iraq
inappropriate content to prolifer-
ate. With each crisis, YouTube has
raced to update its guidelines for
which types of content are al-
lowed. But it has lagged Facebook
and Twitter in hiring moderators
and has faced criticism over ap-
parent double standards when it
comes to moderating content
from its biggest stars.
Still, it has worked to strength-
en its approach, including broad-
ening its view of hate speech in its
policies in June, specifically ban-
ning videos that espouse racial
supremacy or discrimination.
Choi said YouTube counts on
users to flag content that violates
the company’s guidelines and
that the company removed
8.3 million videos in the first
quarter of this year alone.
YouTube banned Jones in 2018,
long before the company imple-
mented its new policy. Jones is
well known for, among other
things, espousing conspiracy the-
ories about the Sandy Hook El-
ementary School shooting that
led survivors and their families to
be harassed and threatened. You-
Tube, along with Apple and Face-
book, told news outlets at the
time that Jones was banned for
repeated community standards
violations. Jones, in turn, accused
the companies of censorship.
While having a “robust com-
munity” is a laudable goal for
YouTube, the company’s actions
Thursday show that “platforms
continue to be naive about how
bad actors will exploit their
words,” said Angelo Carusone,
president of liberal media watch-
dog group Media Matters for
America.
marie.baca@washpost.com
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while protecting lives in the proc-
ess.
“Because core [military] activi-
ties are inherently risky, the de-
partment has embedded risk min-
imization and safety in their train-
ing missions,” the official said.
For families of service members
like McDowell, such changes
would come too late.
McDowell’s parents, Michael
McDowell and Susan Flanigan,
along with his fiancee, Kathleen
Bourque, have spent months can-
vassing Capitol Hill, seeking to
create momentum behind steps to
examine the recent deaths
and prevent future casualties.
On the morning of May 9, the
younger McDowell, a Citadel
graduate who grew up in the na-
tion’s capital idolizing the Marine
Corps, was leading a group of Ma-
rines advancing light armored ve-
hicles (LAVs) slowly across a Cali-
fornia training range largely ob-
scured by tall grass and weeds.
Despite the Marines’ caution,
the vehicle in which McDowell
was traveling suddenly tipped for-
ward into a deep ravine. From the
LAV’s turret, McDowell was able
to push his gunner down to safety.
But McDowell was killed instantly
when the vehicle landed upside
down, his father said.
Michael McDowell said he be-
lieves that the Marines failed to
properly survey the range before
sending vehicles out that day.
Families of those killed are also
questioning the maintenance of
the vehicles, many of which had
MCDOWELL FAMILY undergone years of heavy use
overseas, and whether pre-
exercise training was adequate.
Six months before he was killed,
War, grappling with a surge in McDowell wrote in his journal
Humvee-related deaths, the mili- about an earlier LAV rollover:
tary developed a simulator that “This isn’t the end of the world but
trained troops in climbing out of we got really lucky. . . . This is a
flipped vehicles. reminder that at any moment,
Army officials hope to install through careless action, even in
the system in more Humvees even training, Marines can die.”
as they, along with the Marine Michael McDowell said the na-
Corps, transition to the Joint Light ture of his son’s death made it
Tactical Vehicle. A Pentagon re- harder to accept his loss.
port last year raised safety con- “If he had died in a firefight, I
cerns about that vehicle, too. would have been proud, but I
Pentagon officials describe a would have said that is what he
balance between helping troops signed up for,” he said. “I am still
prepare for the dangers of combat very proud of Conor, but he didn’t
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The McDowell family has been
able to obtain a clearer picture of
what occurred in their loved one’s
accident than other grieving fami-
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family has received little informa-
tion about the Humvee mishap
that killed her brother, Marquise
Elliott, in June.
They haven’t been able to iden-
tify or talk to the passenger in the
vehicle, who she said has been
reassigned to another unit. Some
people in Elliott’s unit said he hit
his head in the accident; some said
he hit his chest.
“A bunch of crazy stuff,” she
said. “We’re in a huge land of we
don’t know.”
She described her brother as
family-oriented, an “innocent
soul” who had joined
the Army hoping to work with
military dogs but ended up in an
artillery unit.
An Army reservist herself, Pur-
vis was dismayed to learn that, in
keeping with Army regulations,
her family would need to submit a
Freedom of Information Act re-
quest to obtain the full results of a
safety investigation into Elliott’s
death.
Gary Sandoval’s son Hans died
after his vehicle rolled over during
a training event in a remote area of
northern Australia in May.
When Hans Sandoval-Pereyra
enlisted in the Marines after high
school, he told relatives he intend-
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serving the homeland he adopted
when his family emigrated from
Bolivia. The elder Sandoval of-
fered support but cautioned: “Be
careful.”
When Gary Sandoval learned
about the accident, he rushed to
arrange travel to Australia. His
son was still alive, receiving treat-
ment in a hospital in Darwin, but
later died of his wounds.
Now, heartbroken, Sandoval
has decided to leave the nation in
whose name his son died.
“We don’t feel good here now,”
he said. “We have bad memories.”
missy.ryan@washpost.com
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Trump’s national security adviser sidelined on Afghanistan policy Did Trump
BOLTON FROM A1
“It’s messed up on so many
levels that the national security
adviser isn’t involved, but trust is
a real issue,” said a senior U.S.
official, one of a half-dozen who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity to discuss internal con-
versations.
At the zenith of his influence,
Bolton enabled the president to
act on his most aggressive in-
stincts and outmaneuvered other
Cabinet officials with less experi-
ence in the interagency process.
But his tough management style
and bellicose worldview have
frayed relations with some col-
leagues.
In a recent standoff, Bolton
asked for a copy of the draft
agreement the United States is
trying to strike with the Taliban.
But the U.S. envoy leading the
negotiations, Zalmay Khalilzad,
denied the request, saying Bolton
could read the agreement in the
presence of a senior official but
not leave with it in hand, U.S.
officials said. One official said the
incident infuriated Bolton, while
another downplayed it, saying
the draft was eventually sent to
the National Security Council
staff.
“I can’t think of another exam-
ple where a national security
adviser was sidelined like this,”
said Tom Wright, an internation-
al security expert at the Brook-
ings Institution. “One thing that
makes this different from normal
bureaucratic infighting is that
Bolton has pitted himself against
a policy the president clearly sup-
ports.”
On Thursday, Trump said in a
‘Dual loyalty’ inhibits migrant medical care, professors argue
Op-ed notes government
policies aren’t always
what’s best for patients
BY R OBERT M OORE
el paso — The “dual loyalty” of
health-care professionals who
work in U.S. immigration deten-
tion facilities undermines the
quality of care for migrants held
there, according to an article by
three professors from Johns Hop-
kins University published Friday
in the Journal of the American
Medical Association.
The professors argue that med-
ical care for those detained under
current Trump administration
policies that are aimed at deter-
ring migration to the United
States create a conflict for doctors
and nurses because those policies
place the interests of the govern-
ment over the patients in their
care.
“Whatever the future of U.S.
immigration policy, decent and
humane treatment of children, as
well as all other detainees, and
preservation of independence of
physicians and other health pro-
fessionals to meet patients’ medi-
cal and psychological needs are
essential,” said the opinion article
written by Paul Spiegel, Nancy
Kass and Leonard Rubenstein of
Johns Hopkins School of Public
Health.
In an interview, Spiegel said
the article arose after the profes-
sors saw an advertisement from a
privately run Immigration and
Customs Enforcement detention
center in Louisiana that sought a
lead doctor who would be “philo-
sophically committed to the ob-
jectives of the facility.”
That language was dropped
after widespread criticism, but
the company still continued to
seek a doctor who would work
“based on the company goals,
Flynn blasts Mueller prosecutors, accuses them of ‘malevolent conduct’
BY S PENCER S . H SU
Attorneys for Michael Flynn
unleashed a full-bore attack on
former special counsel Robert S.
Mueller III’s Russia investigation
Friday, accusing prosecutors of
“malevolent conduct” toward
President Trump’s former nation-
al security adviser but not moving
to withdraw his guilty plea, at
least for now.
In court filings, Flynn’s new
defense team cast him as a victim
of unscrupulous FBI and counter-
intelligence investigators and
asked a federal judge in Washing-
ton to find prosecutors in con-
tempt for allegedly suppressing
material helpful to his cause to
coerce his guilty plea.
Prosecutors said in filings Fri-
day that “the government has
exceeded its discovery and disclo-
sure obligations in this matter.”
Flynn pleaded guilty on Dec. 1,
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to draw down the number of U.S.
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troops in Afghanistan to 8,600
and “then we make a determina-
tion from there as to what hap-
of Iran?
pens.” Bolton is not fighting that
partial withdrawal decision, but
U.S. officials said he remains
deeply opposed to Khalilzad’s
emerging deal. The agreement
would see the partial removal of
U.S. troops in exchange for the
Taliban renouncing al-Qaeda and
preventing the group from re-
cruiting, fundraising, training
and other activities.
U.S. officials also expect the
agreement to advance talks be-
tween the Taliban and the Afghan
government and an eventual
cease-fire that would lead to a full
U.S. and NATO withdrawal possi-
bly by the end of next year. They
have conceded that thorny ques-
tions about a residual U.S. coun-
terterrorism presence remain un-
resolved. Khalilzad continued ne-
gotiations with Afghan and Tali-
ban officials this week, but any
agreement will require Trump’s
final approval.
Bolton’s isolation on Afghani-
stan became particularly appar-
ent this month when the presi-
dent’s top officials descended on
Trump’s New Jersey golf resort to
discuss the peace deal that would
be presented to Afghan and Tali-
ban officials in Kabul and Doha,
Qatar, U.S. officials said. In addi-
tion to the president, the Aug. 16
meeting included Secretary of
Defense Mark T. Esper; Gen. Jo-
seph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Vice
President Pence; Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo; CIA Director
Gina Haspel; and Khalilzad. Bol-
A medical staffer works at an immigration detention center in Texas. In a new op-ed, Johns Hopkins
public-health professors say medical staffers at those facilities face conflicting priorities.
objectives and philosophy” —
rather than explicitly working to
protect the best interests of their
patients.
“Being a medical practitioner,
the loyalty always has to be first
and foremost to the patient,” said
Spiegel, who is the director of the
Center for Humanitarian Health
at Johns Hopkins.
Spiegel was among of a group
of doctors who recently sent a
letter to Congress urging the De-
partment of Homeland Security
to improve its treatment of influ-
enza in detention facilities, in-
cluding providing flu vaccines to
people when they are taken into
custody.
Flu was rampant in many over-
crowded detention facilities ear-
lier this year, and at least three
children died of the disease, ac-
2017, to lying to
the FBI about
contacts with
then-Russian
Ambassador
Sergey Kislyak,
becoming one
of the first
Michael Flynn Trump associ-
ates to cooper-
ate and the highest-ranking offi-
cial charged in Mueller’s investi-
gation of Russian interference in
the 2016 presidential election.
However, Flynn switched de-
fense teams earlier this year, and
in a 19-page filing, his new de-
fense attorney, Sidney Powell,
said the former three-star general
was the subject of an effort by
elements of the FBI, CIA and
Pentagon “to smear him as an
‘agent of Russia,’ ” or the victim of
a criminal leak or other abuses
related to classified intercepts of
his calls with Kislyak, or “some
EZ RE
ton was not originally invited out
of concern that his team would
oppose the agenda and leak the
details later, several officials said.
“His team has a reputation for
losing and leaking,” said one sen-
ior administration official with
direct knowledge of the discus-
sions.
Bolton rejected the allegation,
saying in a statement, “I categori-
cally deny leaks by me or anyone
authorized to speak to the press.
Those alleging such leaks should
look in the mirror.” A senior
White House official also disput-
ed the leak claims.
Eventually, Bolton secured a
spot at the meeting after one of
his aides appealed to White
House Chief of Staff Mick Mulva-
ney, according to a U.S. official.
During the meeting, Bolton and
the president exchanged oppos-
ing views over policy options on
Afghanistan, U.S. officials said.
Critics have questioned whether
the Taliban can be trusted to
fulfill its promises.
Pentagon and State Depart-
ment leaders are comfortable
with the broad outlines of Khal-
ilzad’s plan, though maintaining
a counterterrorism presence will
be critical, officials said. On
Wednesday, Dunford stressed
that all elements of the deal
would be “conditions-based.”
The fight over Afghanistan
represents just one of several
clashes between Bolton and other
members of the administration,
with several new ones on the
horizon.
On Monday, Trump expressed
a willingness to a meet with Iran’s
president, ruled out any plans for
regime change in the country,
cording to autopsy reports.
U.S. Customs and Border Pro-
tection officials said the agency
will not administer vaccines be-
cause of the “complexities” of
providing the shots and because
migrants are supposed to be in
their custody for three days or
fewer, said Steven Bansbach, a
CBP spokesman.
“It has never been a CBP prac-
tice to administer vaccines, and
this is not a new policy,” Bansbach
said.
DHS officials did not respond
to requests for comment.
CBP’s refusal to provide flu
vaccines is an example of dual
loyalty, Spiegel said, something
that forces health-care providers
to follow agency mandates that
run against what would be best
for patients. He said flu vaccines
combination of the above.”
Flynn’s filing wove strands of
theories circulating among
Trump supporters and echoed by
the president that paint his cam-
paign foreign policy adviser as a
victim of deep-state persecution.
Flynn’s defense provided limited
direct evidence of their assertions
but asked a court to order the
government to turn over more
records that they claim might
prove their case.
The action came on a day when
prosecutors said Flynn has com-
pleted his cooperation and could
be sentenced before Thanksgiv-
ing, even as his defense requested
at least a three-month delay in
sentencing to see classified docu-
ments it contends exist and “al-
most certainly relate” to his case.
Prosecutors led by Brandon L.
Van Grack, a former Mueller team
member and one of those target-
ed by Flynn’s broadside, told the
and said discussions were under-
way to see if other nations could
extend a “letter of credit” to bol-
ster Iran’s ailing economy. Bolton
for years has spoken in support of
regime change in Iran and has
pressed for more sanctions even
as the risk of military conflict
between the two adversaries
grows.
On North Korea, Trump has
continued to push for a nuclear
deal while downplaying Pyong-
yang’s recurring short-range bal-
listic missile tests as something
“many nations” do. Bolton, whom
Trump has kept out of key meet-
ings with North Korean officials,
has criticized the tests, under-
scoring that they violate U.N.
Security Council resolutions. An
NSC spokesman stressed that
Bolton “continues to support the
president’s position for complete
denuclearization of North Korea.”
Amid the tensions, Bolton has
sought to amplify the diplomatic
nature of the national security
adviser job, with trips this week
to Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus.
Despite his differences with
Trump, he has found a way to
achieve some of his lifelong goals,
defunding various United Na-
tions organizations and ripping
up international treaties he views
as a constraint on American pow-
er, such as the Reagan-era Inter-
mediate-Range Nuclear Forces
Treaty. He has also had a leading
role on Russia policy, holding
several meetings with his Russian
counterpart, Nikolai Patrushev,
in Moscow and elsewhere.
Defenders of Bolton say that
while his influence may ebb and
flow, he still finds moments to
impact policy, such as the presi-
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are simple to administer and
protect the detainees, govern-
ment employees and the general
population.
“What we’re talking about here
of course is much bigger than the
flu vaccine, but I think I’d say it’s
an illustrative example,” Spiegel
said. “It doesn’t make a difference
if they’re staying for 72 hours,
because the sooner someone gets
the vaccine, the sooner they will
be protected.”
An El Paso pediatrician who
treats migrant children after they
are released said the dual loyalty
of contract health workers in
detention facilities results in sub-
standard medical care, with ill-
nesses often going untreated.
“We’re still getting calls daily
from the volunteers at the shel-
ters that we have here in El Paso
court the government had turned
over 22,000 pages of documents
before Flynn’s plea and “is not
aware of any classified informa-
tion that requires disclosures to
the defendant or his counsel” as
asserted by the defense.
U.S. District Judge Emmet G.
Sullivan called both sides to a
Sept. 10 hearing over the issues.
The defense filing appeared
crafted to appeal to at least two
audiences: Flynn’s sentencing
judge and Trump, who has the
power to pardon his former aide.
Flynn’s attorneys have gone out
of their way in filings to praise
Sullivan’s 2009 reversal of a con-
viction of former senator Ted Ste-
vens (R-Alaska) for lying on fi-
nancial disclosures after it was
discovered that FBI agents and
prosecutors had improperly with-
held that their key witnesses had
given differing accounts.
At the same time, their court
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dent’s last-minute decision to
walk away from a deal with North
Korea in Hanoi. Officials say Bol-
ton opposed the partial denucle-
arization agreement under dis-
cussion.
Bolton’s pugnacious views on
military force are matched with a
fiery temperament. Earlier this
year, he got into a confrontation
with White House Staff Secretary
Derek Lyons in the West Wing,
according to people familiar with
the incident. The president had
signed off on a statement con-
cerning the International Crimi-
nal Court, and Bolton didn’t want
to give Pompeo or other senior
White House officials a chance to
look at it or make comments, the
people said. With Pompeo out of
Washington on a trip at the time,
the disagreement over the state-
ment’s release escalated.
One person familiar said Bol-
ton was merely trying to execute
the president’s orders. Others
said he taunted Lyons, asking
him, “Did you have fun today?”
“You better watch out, buddy,”
Bolton added, the people said.
Trump is expected to make a
decision on the path forward on
Afghanistan in the coming days
as he aims to fulfill a promise of
ending America’s “endless wars.”
In the meantime, the decision-
making process will continue to
test his relationship with his na-
tional security adviser.
“Bolton has long said that he’s
the president’s advocate, and his
job is to implement his vision,”
Wright said. “For quite awhile
they were compatible, but it now
seems to be coming apart.”
john.hudson@washpost.com
josh.dawsey@washpost.com
that there’s somebody with a
blood pressure of 220 over 120,
there’s a diabetic with a sugar of
500,” said Dr. Carlos Gutierrez,
who has volunteered to treat mi-
grant children for more than 30
years.
Gutierrez said government
health-care providers do not pro-
vide records of treatment for
detainees when they are released
and have been told not to com-
municate with community pro-
viders.
“Whoever signs a contract like
that, to care for those refugees
with the understanding that
they’re not going to be able to
communicate with individuals
on the outside to provide better
continuity of care, that’s totally
malpractice,” he said.
Gutierrez said that during an-
other surge of Central American
families and children to the
U.S.-Mexico border in 2014, Bor-
der Patrol officials asked volun-
teer community health-care pro-
viders to enter detention facili-
ties to examine and treat mi-
grants.
He said doctors and other cli-
nicians have volunteered to pro-
vide care in detention facilities
during the past two years but
have been rebuffed.
In the Journal article, Spiegel
and his co-authors say health
care in migrant detention facili-
ties should be provided by inde-
pendent medical associations or
nongovernmental organizations
that are “transparent and inde-
pendent.” They also call for an
independent oversight body to
monitor health-care conditions
in those detention facilities.
Spiegel said health-care pro-
viders should speak out loudly in
the immigration debate but avoid
the divisiveness that often
plagues those discussions.
“We should be using evidence
to make our points and stay away
from the politics and any parti-
sanship,” he said.
national@washpost.com
brief echoed criticism that Trump
aired in tweets before a hearing
for Flynn in December in which
the president wished his former
adviser “good luck” and ex-
pressed outrage at one of the FBI
agents who interviewed Flynn,
Peter Strzok.
Anti-Trump text messages that
Strzok exchanged with another
FBI lawyer with whom he was
having an affair got him removed
from the Mueller investigation
and ultimately fired.
Flynn’s new defense team says
it wants the original draft of the
FBI report of a key Jan. 24, 2017,
meeting including Flynn and
Strzok, a list of all people who
made changes to the report and
agents’ notes about the meeting.
Prosecutors said they have turned
over all versions of the FBI report
in the government’s possession.
Sullivan has previously reject-
ed suggestions by Flynn’s initial
. SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 , 2019
BY S HANE H ARRIS
AND A NNE G EARAN
In a tweet Friday, President
Trump revealed a detailed aerial
image of an Iranian launchpad, an
unusual disclosure that may have
confirmed the United States is vio-
lating Iran’s airspace to spy on its
missile program.
Some imagery experts, examin-
ing the angle and very-high resolu-
tion of the image, said it may have
been taken by an aircraft, possibly a
drone.
“It looks like it was taken from
an airborne platform, not a satel-
lite,” said Jeffrey Lewis, an arms
control expert at the Middlebury
Institute of International Studies
at Monterey, an assessment echoed
by several other experts.
It would come as no surprise to
Iran that the United States is gath-
ering images of such sites and other
facilities. But disputes over U.S. vio-
lations of Iranian airspace have ex-
acerbated tensions in the Persian
Gulf.
In June, Iran shot down an un-
manned U.S. surveillance drone
over the Strait of Hormuz that it
said had flown into its airspace.
The United States said the plane
was in international airspace. The
shoot-down prompted Trump to
order a military strike on Iran,
which he called off at nearly the last
minute.
The image Trump tweeted Fri-
day is almost certainly highly clas-
sified, experts said, and bears
markings that resemble those
made by intelligence analysts.
They note damage to the facility
and vehicles near it, as well as
“scorching and damage” on one
side of the launchpad.
Trump said it showed a “cata-
strophic accident during final
launch preparations for the Safir
SLV Launch at Semnan Launch
Site One in Iran.” The Safir is an
Iranian rocket used to place satel-
lites in orbit.
Trump said “the United States of
America was not involved” in the
incident, which was puzzling be-
cause Iran had one day earlier con-
firmed a rocket explosion at the
site, which it said was “due to some
technical issues.”
“I wish Iran best wishes and
good luck in determining what
happened at Site One,” Trump
wrote, in a taunting jab.
What Trump shared on Twitter
appears to show a camera flash and
a person’s shadow, leading to spec-
ulation that Trump or one of his
aides may have snapped a picture
of the image using a cellphone.
As it frequently does, the presi-
dent’s public schedule lists an intel-
ligence briefing at 11:30 a.m. Friday.
Those sessions are typically done in
the Oval Office when the president
is in Washington. Trump’s tweet
had a time stamp of 1:44 p.m.
The White House declined to
address questions about the tweet
and the image, including whether
it was classified, whether it was
produced by an aircraft or drone
and whether it had been displayed
in a special secure room where
handheld electronics are forbid-
den.
The White House also declined
to address why Trump chose to
tweet the image and the direct mes-
sage to Iran, and whether he him-
self took the photo.
Later, speaking to reporters Fri-
day evening, Trump said, “We had a
photo and I released it, which I had
the absolute right to do, and we’ll
see what happens.”
As president, Trump has the au-
thority to declassify any informa-
tion he wants.
shane.harris@washpost.com
anne.gearan@washpost.com
defense team that he might have
been duped into lying to the FBI
about his conversations with
Kislyak, noting that Flynn had
pleaded guilty and made multiple
sworn admissions of wrongdo-
ing.
Flynn resigned from his top
White House post in February
2017 after the White House said
he misled Vice President Pence
and other administration offi-
cials about his contacts with
Kislyak.
Flynn’s plea revealed that he
was in touch with senior Trump
transition officials before and af-
ter his communications with the
ambassador. The pre-inaugura-
tion communications with
Kislyak involved efforts to blunt
Obama administration policy de-
cisions on sanctions on Russia
and a United Nations resolution
on Israel.
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As hurricane grows, Fla. residents prepare for evacuations

DORIAN FROM A1
DeSantis, President Trump de-
clared a statewide emergency Fri-
day and ordered federal assis-
tance to all 67 counties in the
state. Dorian’s uncertain path
through the tropics became more
targeted Friday, as upper-level
steering winds were expected to
funnel the hurricane more west
than north. Originally thought to
be a Labor Day threat, forecasts
pushed the storm well into Tues-
day as it slowed.
DeSantis emphasized prepara-
tions in situations that caused
trouble during Hurricane Irma,
including gas shortages, bumper-
to-bumper traffic on evacuation
routes and dangerous tempera-
tures in nursing homes. Twelve
residents of the Rehabilitation
Center at Hollywood Hills died in
sweltering heat in the days after
Irma hit. Three people were
charged this week in connection
with those deaths, which officials
said happened because the nurs-
ing home did not evacuate and
did not have a generator to cool
the building.
Residents here in Palm Beach
County started stockpiling re-
sources midweek, even before
Palm Beach was in the target
range for landfall.
“I didn’t want to wait,” Antho-
ny Capalbo said as he loaded
plywood into his truck at a West
Palm Beach Home Depot. “I’ll
probably wait until the last min-
ute to board up the house, but I
wanted to have the supplies.”
Along with being strong, Hur-
ricane Dorian is also slow, mov-
ing at just 9 mph. The specter of a
hurricane lingering off the coast
reminded many residents of Cat-
egory 3 Hurricane Jeanne in
2004, which sat in the ocean near
the shores of Martin, Palm Beach
and nearby counties for more
than 24 hours. Jeanne was one of
the deadliest storms in the Atlan-
tic basin, killing more than 3,000
people in Haiti before striking
Florida and causing $7.5 billion in
damage in the United States.
An hours-long pummeling by a
Category 4 storm is a nightmare
scenario, said Rick Gonzalez, an
architect in West Palm Beach who
has worked at Trump’s Mar-a-La-
go property for more than 25
years.
Weston Rice drives through a flooded parking lot, caused by a king tide, as he prepares to drop his
water scooter in Miami Beach on Friday, well before the expected arrival of Hurricane Dorian.
“Another Jeanne, but even
stronger, would be bad,” Gonzalez
said, noting that Trump’s Winter
White House is ready to with-
stand a major hurricane.
Beachgoers on Friday after-
noon said Hurricane Dorian was
on their minds. The water was
choppy, but the sky was mostly
clear.
“I hope we can get out in time,”
said Liliana DelRio, a travel agent
from Argentina. “It’s nice out
now, but we’re worried about the
hurricane.”
Louise Lord lived in Palm
Beach until 2017, the year she
evacuated the island before Hur-
ricane Irma hit. It took her 12
hours to make the three-hour
drive to Orlando in what was one
of Florida’s worst traffic jams. She
now lives just across the Intrac-
oastal Waterway from Palm
Beach.
“I’m staying, but I’m worried,”
Lord said. “It’s sounding scary.”
Along the Florida Space Coast,
NASA and several space compa-
nies were scrambling to prepare
ahead of the storm.
At the Kennedy Space Center
on Friday morning, crews began
the arduous process of hauling a
400-foot-tall mobile launch tow-
er from pad 39B to inside a
hulking building a few miles
away for safekeeping — at about 1
mph. Sitting just a few hundred
yards from the coast, the tower
could be affected by the winds,
though NASA officials said relo-
cating it was a “precautionary
measure.”
Nearby, Boeing is building its
Starliner spacecraft, designed to
fly NASA astronauts to the Inter-
national Space Station. The Unit-
ed Launch Alliance, the joint
venture of Lockheed Martin and
Boeing, said it was also taking
precautions to secure its build-
ings and hardware. The majority
of its launch facilities were de-
signed to withstand wind speeds
of 130 mph or higher.
“The pads themselves are pret-
ty durable,” said Dale Ketchum,
vice president of government re-
lations for Space Florida, a state
economic development agency.
“They take a beating anyway dur-
ing launch.”
Where Dorian is expected to
land is densely residential but
also rich in some of the state’s
most lucrative agricultural prod-
ucts: citrus, vegetables, ornamen-
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tal plants and cattle.
Crop and livestock production,
forestry and fishing in the 21-
county region generated more
than $4.2 billion in revenue and
directly supported more than
63,000 jobs in 2017, the most
recent year for which data is
available. Overall, the region in-
cludes nearly 750,000 acres in
agricultural production.
Florida’s citrus industry might
be the most vulnerable, having
endured a series of setbacks in
recent years, from dwindling or-
ange juice sales to ongoing citrus
greening disease to Hurricane
Irma in 2017, which affected near-
ly 80 percent of the state’s 411,000
acres of groves. Farmers experi-
enced widespread fruit loss and
the destruction of more than
3 million citrus trees, said Christa
Court, director of the University
of Florida Institute of Food and
Agricultural Sciences Economic
Impact Analysis Program.
“In Irma, the largest loss was
fruit crop, branch damage and
flooding in the groves that caused
root damage and a slight decrease
in productivity,” Court said.
“What usually puts people out of
business is not a single year of
loss, it’s slow relief payments.
After Irma, the Wildfires and
Hurricane Indemnity Program
took two years to administer.”
According to experts, little can
be done to prepare or protect the
state’s citrus from wind or storm
damage, but Florida Agriculture
Commissioner Nikki Fried said
the state has made efforts to
lower water levels in canals to
minimize the amount of time
citrus trees spend in standing
water.
Florida also produces about
75 percent of the country’s tropi-
cal foliage and houseplants, said
Ben Bolusky, chief executive of
the Florida Nursery, Growers and
Landscape Association. Total
structural damage and crop loss
for the state’s ornamental plant
industry was $630 million after
Hurricane Irma, the densest con-
centration of operations in Mi-
ami-Dade, Orange and Palm
Beach counties, all areas centered
in the cone for Dorian.
Some of the state’s most fledg-
ling industries could also take it
on the chin in this storm.
Sturgeon Aquafarms, which
produces caviar and sturgeon
meat at its farm in Bascom, Fla., is
still reeling from the aftermath of
Hurricane Michael last year. The
brainchild of Russian-born Mark
Zaslavsky, the farm has 21,000
beluga sturgeon he anticipates
bringing to market in the next
few months. Zaslavsky said he is
financially struggling while wait-
ing for the U.S. Department of
Agriculture to approve disaster
financial relief to include aqua-
culture in the Supplemental Ap-
propriations of Disaster Relief
Act of 2019. Even a glancing blow
from Dorian could jeopardize his
business prospects.
“We would be bankrupt,”
Zaslavsky said Friday.
Fried said that for other Flori-
da crops that are harvestable —
such as sugar cane and avocados
— she has lifted all trucking
weight-limit regulations so farm-
ers are free to transport crops to
safety before the storm hits.
About 20 miles inland, in Loxa-
hatchee, animal caretakers at
Lion Country Safari were doing
their own preparations. One of
the oldest “cageless zoos” in the
country, the attraction has lions,
giraffes and other animals that
need to be kept safe. Many of
them — including Mo the sloth —
will be kept in hurricane-safe
buildings. But other animals,
such as the zebras and antelopes,
will be left out to range around
the park’s 320 acres.
“These guys have a fight-or-
flight instinct. If you put them
inside where they can’t see what’s
going on, it primes their panic
and makes them want to flee, and
they can injure themselves,” said
spokeswoman Haley Passeser.
“They prefer to be out in the open.
They’ll find a low spot and hun-
ker down and turn their rumps to
the wind and just ride it out.”
In Fort Lauderdale, along the
South Florida coast, gas stations
were empty, stores were sold out
of water, and grocery shelves
were barren. Many in the area are
hurricane veterans who have
come to expect a cyclone every
now and then across the Florida
peninsula.
Mark Tyson, general manager
of the Coral Ridge Yacht Club
located on the Intracoastal Wa-
terway, said virtually every one of
the 57 boats tied up on its docks
will ride out the storm exactly
where they are.
“We’ve learned how to be pre-
pared,” Tyson said. “Around the
club, everything that can blow
away is put away. Pots, plants,
chairs and tables around the
pool, our little sailboats — any-
thing that can fly gets moved to a
safe place. A roof is a roof. You
can’t do much about that.”
Joe Verderber, a member of
Coral Ridge, has a 92-foot yacht —
Northern V’s — anchored at the
club’s dock. He’s 82 and said he
has been through several hurri-
canes. He and Judy, his wife of 61
years, will ride out the storm on
their boat, as usual.
“Insurance requires that I put
triple lines out and extra fenders,
so that’s what we’ll do,” he said.
“Anything like chairs, cushions,
anything that can fly around,
we’ll take them inside. There’s
not much else you can do. And
then you pray.”
laura.reiley@washpost.com
christian.davenport@washpost.com
Rozsa is a freelance journalist based
in Florida. Shapiro reported from Fort
Lauderdale; Reiley and Davenport
reported from Washington.

New guidelines to avoid addressing consumption of meat, ultraprocessed foods

GUIDELINES FROM A1
sodium, high-sugar, high-saturat-
ed fat and highly processed foods
in a poor light.
Since 1980, the federal govern-
ment has revised dietary guide-
lines every five years, and the
recommendations have a wide
impact on American health and
commerce. The guidelines, their
CliffsNotes version once known
as the food pyramid, are the road
map to how the government ad-
ministers school lunches as well
as food assistance programs. And
many manufacturers formulate
their products based on these
guidelines so they can participate
in those programs, which buy
$100 billion of food a year.
Half of American adults al-
ready live with one or more diet-
related chronic illnesses, and
poor diet is the No. 1 cause of ill
health in the country, leading to
700,000 deaths annually, accord-
ing to the Center for Science in
the Public Interest, a consumer
advocacy group that pushes for
safer and healthier foods.
Even if the debate around is-
sues such as red meat and salt
remains unresolved, leading nu-
tritionists say it is hard to fathom
why the federal panel wouldn’t
try to assess the evidence and
craft recommendations.
“The cutting-edge issues in di-
etary advice in 2019 are about
eating less meat, avoidance of
ultra-processed foods, and sus-
tainable production and con-
sumption,” said Marion Nestle, a
nutrition scholar at New York
University. “Guidelines that avoid
these issues will be years behind
the times.”
In a statement, the USDA con-
firmed that topics not listed
among its 80 questions will not be
addressed.
It said it decided on the topics
based on their importance to
public health, potential impact
on federal nutrition programs,
and to avoid duplication of feder-
al efforts. The committee will
look at broad questions exploring
the relationship between added
sugar consumption and the risk
of obesity, as well as more specific
questions, such as the relation-
ship between seafood consump-
tion during pregnancy and lacta-
tion and the cognitive develop-
ment of infants.
The work of the 2020 Dietary
Guidelines Advisory Committee
has added import this cycle. For
the first time, the committee will
issue nutrition guidelines for
pregnant women and children
under 2 years old. In addition, the
World Resources Institute, the
World Bank and the United Na-
tions issued a report recently that
humans must dramatically alter
food production to prevent the
most catastrophic effects of glob-
al warming, with one of its central
imperatives being to reduce de-
mand for beef.
Under a 2015 law passed by
Congress in response to that
year’s recommendations, this
year’s panel is prohibited from
studying the impact of food pro-
duction on the environment.
“The dietary guidelines are un-
der assault from multiple direc-
tions,” David Katz, author and
founding director of Yale Univer-
sity’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Re-
search Center, said in an email.
“This time around, veiled organi-
zations representing the interests
of beef, dairy and Big Food are
pretending to use science to ar-
gue against the actual science and
to expunge key recommenda-
tions. Of course sustainability
should be included. Of course we
need to eat less meat.”
Danielle Beck, senior director
of government affairs for the Na-
tional Cattlemen’s Beef Associa-
tion, defended the USDA’s ap-
proach, saying it preserves the
scientific integrity of the dietary
guidelines process.
“It’s important to note that the
guidelines were never intended
to talk about sustainability; those
questions are outside the scope of
law,” she said. “We’re confident
that as long as the research is
clear, and as long as the commit-
tee sticks to the scope laid out for
them, it will acknowledge beef ’s
role in a heart-healthy, balanced
diet.”
As it conducts its research, the
dietary guidelines committee has
historically cast a broad net to
craft its recommendations, con-
sulting with outside experts and
drawing on data analysis, the
USDA’s own research and outside
science from universities and in-
dependent researchers.
Some experts argue the deci-
sion to limit the work only to
research analyzed by the agency’s
own scientists will hobble the
committee. On July 22, more than
30 advocacy groups and organiza-
tions, including the American In-
stitute for Cancer Research and
the American Academy of Pediat-
rics, petitioned the advisory com-
mittee to open up the process.
The federal government’s dietary guidelines are the road map to
how the government administers school lunches, above.
The group says that the deci-
sion to exclude outside science
will reduce the effectiveness of
review and represents a sharp
departure from the process used
by the 2015 committee, which
used outside science to answer
nearly half of its research ques-
tions.
“Thousands of researchers out-
side the federal government have
devoted their careers to conduct-
ing valuable research on topics
related to diet and health, includ-
ing some of the specific research
questions identified by the [com-
mittee],” the group’s letter says.
“This research, which includes
systematic reviews and meta-
analyses, has been peer-reviewed
by the country’s — and the world’s
— leading researchers in the field
and published in the top scientific
journals, at scientific conferences
and on the websites of respect-
able nonprofit organizations. ”
Some experts say that because
the USDA has explicitly prohibit-
ed research conducted before
2000 from being considered,
much of the strongest science-
based advice on dietary fats and
cardiovascular disease risk will
be excluded. And for establishing
guidance for the feeding of babies
and toddlers, renowned experts
have collaborated on guidelines
— for example, on the role of
breast-feeding in infant nutrition
— that will be ineligible for con-
sideration because they aren’t the
USDA scientists’ own systematic
reviews.
“Why ignore all this work al-
ready being done?” asked Bonnie
Liebman, director of nutrition for
the Center for Science in the
Public Interest. “My guess is the
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USDA wants to control the evi-
dence that can be examined by
the new advisory committee. By
excluding existing reviews, it can
essentially ignore all of the previ-
ous reviews that made meat,
dairy and sugary drinks look
bad.”
In a statement, the USDA said
its own reviews “will capture all
relevant research studies that
pertain to the specific scientific
question being answered.” On its
website, the USDA notes that
outside science may not use the
same rigorous standards, may be
out of date or may have different
outcomes than government work.
And it cited a recent National
Academies of Sciences, Engineer-
ing and Medicine report as its
justification for the decision not
to use outside science.
But the report does not suggest
the committee restrict its science
in this way.
“With limited resources, it
would be advantageous to lever-
age existing systematic reviews,
meta-analyses, and reports to
minimize unnecessary replica-
tion of efforts and to share results
with others,” it reads, concluding
with: “The use of existing system-
atic reviews and meta-analyses is
encouraged.”
Jerry Mande, a nutrition sci-
ence and policy professor at Tufts
who was at the USDA during the
Obama administration, said
some of the USDA’s actions might
make sense — for example limit-
ing outside science to make sure
research is unbiased. But he said
it’s hard to tell the USDA’s motive
given other anti-science actions
taken by the Trump administra-
tion.
The USDA has taken other pro-
industry moves, such as relaxing
restrictions on processed foods
and sodium levels in the school
lunch program.
“The question is, is [the USDA]
promoting science or restricting
science?” Mande said.
Others defend the administra-
tion’s decision to rely on internal
science.
Nina Teicholz, the author of
“The Big Fat Surprise,” which
challenges whether saturated fat
causes heart disease, a matter of
ongoing nutritional debate, ar-
gues the dietary guidelines proc-
ess has long had a problem of
relying on outside science that
may be influenced by industry.
“There has been an effort to
portray [the 2020] guidelines as a
product of Trump’s anti-science
policies,” Teicholz wrote in an
email. “However, the problems
have been an issue for the guide-
lines going back to their launch in
1980.”
Some independent experts say
the USDA’s recent decisions re-
flect industry pressure and con-
troversy that surrounded the 2015
dietary guidelines.
That year’s committee, for the
first time, proposed strict limits
on added sugar (no more than 10
percent of total calories), identi-
fied a strong correlation between
the consumption of processed
and red meat and certain kinds of
cancer, such as colorectal, and
suggested addressing diet and
sustainability (what is good for
human health as well as plan-
etary health). The North Ameri-
can Meat Institute, the National
Cattlemen’s Beef Association, the
dairy industry and other influen-
tial stakeholders pushed back
strongly.
“This caused a ruckus in the
industry,” said Mary Story, direc-
tor of the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation national program of-
fice of Healthy Eating Research
and a member of the 2015 dietary
guidelines committee. Ultimate-
ly, the final recommendations
from the USDA excluded key sug-
gestions on the consumption of
red and processed meats as well
as sustainability issues.
Critics are also concerned
about the makeup of the commit-
tee itself.
The 2020 committee is com-
posed of eminent doctors, regis-
tered dietitians and academics
with degrees in public health, but
many were put forward by and
have worked closely with the food
industry, according to a Freedom
of Information Act document ob-
tained by the Center for Science
in the Public Interest that listed
which organizations nominated
committee members.
Thirteen of the 20 have ties to
industry. Several committee
members were nominated by four
or more food industry groups,
including the National Potato
Council to National Cattlemen’s
Beef Association and the trade
association of the snack food in-
dustry. The majority were nomi-
nated by institutes backed by
food industry lobby groups, and
nine were put forward by the
Academy of Nutrition and Dieti-
tians, which has received funding
from McDonald’s, Coca-Cola and
Mars.
According to several experts in
the nutrition field, the prevalence
of industry ties is far greater than
in previous committees. Conflict-
of-interest statements from the
2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory
Committee indicate that only two
of 12 members had connections to
industry organizations. (No exact
comparative document on con-
flicts of interest is available for
the current committee.)
The Food, Nutrition, and Con-
sumer Services staff, which ad-
ministers the nation’s domestic
nutrition assistance programs, is
also led in this administration by
former food industry executives.
Chief of staff Maggie Lyons is a
former lobbyist for the National
Grocers Association, and policy
adviser Kailee Tkacz is a former
lobbyist for the corn syrup and
snack food industries. The latter’s
appointment required an ethical
waiver from then-White House
counsel Donald McGahn, a waiv-
er granting her permission “to
participate personally and sub-
stantially in matters regarding
the Dietary Guidelines for Ameri-
cans process. ”
Current members of the panel
are not permitted to talk to the
media about the guidelines proc-
ess.
When asked about the makeup
of the committee, a USDA spokes-
man said, “The scientists selected
to serve on the committee are
national leaders in the areas of
nutrition and health. . . . Their
extensive scientific expertise in
their respective fields offers valu-
able knowledge that will directly
benefit the consumers who de-
pend on America’s safe, afford-
able, and nutritious food supply.”
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To guard against hacking, Democrats recommend scrapping virtual caucus
BY I SAAC S TANLEY- B ECKER
AND M ICHAEL S CHERER
Democratic officials moved
Friday to block plans to allow
caucus-goers to vote by phone in
Iowa and Nevada next year be-
cause of concerns the technology
could be hacked, casting doubt on
the party’s ability to expand par-
ticipation in some early-voting
states.
A memo from Democratic Na-
tional Committee Chair Tom Per-
ez and the co-chairs of the Rules
and Bylaws Committee recom-
mended against the addition of a
virtual caucus option. Internal
security and technology analysts,
working with outside experts,
found there was no teleconfer-
ence system that met security
standards “given the scale needed
for the Iowa and Nevada caucuses
and the current cybersecurity cli-
mate,” the advisory stated.
The recommendation sets up a
meeting of the Rules and Bylaws
Committee, which has ultimate
say over the plans but is unlikely
to deviate from the guidance of its
leadership.
This time, some Sanders fans seek a softer revolution
Supporters of senator’s
last bid say anger is less
compelling than in 2016
BY H AILEY F UCHS
las vegas — One scorching Sat-
urday afternoon in July, some 70
supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders
(I-Vt.) crammed into a communi-
ty room at a library here for one of
the campaign’s organizing ses-
sions. The event, a reunion
fraught with both anger and nos-
talgia for the last presidential cy-
cle, was just a few miles from
where the senator’s supporters
had erupted during the
state’s contentious 2016 party
convention.
“We were not defeated. We
were cheated!” shouted one wom-
an from the back of the room.
“Who’s a little bit angry? . . .
Who’s ready to get to work?” a
campaign staffer asked the crowd,
questions met with raucous ap-
plause. Among those shouting
loudest was Marcia Armstrong, a
63-year-old who lives in nearby
Henderson and works in custom-
er service for a property manage-
ment company. She said she was
trying to find some positivity and
motivation in her frustration, but
others — who believe the electoral
process was rigged by the Demo-
cratic National Committee three
years ago — were less optimistic.
“I think they’re just fed up with
the whole system, and some of
them feel that nothing can be
done to change it. I disagree,” she
said. “I try to be positive.”
In 2016, Sanders and his sup-
porters shared a visceral anger at
the nation’s economic and politi-
cal systems, which they contend-
ed had been corrupted by wealthy
capitalists. Hillary Clinton proved
the perfect foe for an anti-estab-
lishment campaign then. But with
a sitting president who has also
used anger to galvanize his base
and claims to represent the an-
tithesis of the Washington elite,
some now find that aggressive
messaging unappealing.
The overall dynamics also have
shifted. During the 2016 presiden-
tial cycle, the independent sena-
tor stood alone in his — often-
times cantankerous and rowdy —
NATIONAL SECURITY
Judge sets early 2021
date for 9/11 trial
A military judge on Friday set a
date in early 2021 for the start of
the long-stalled war crimes trial of
five men being held at the
Guantanamo Bay prison on
charges of planning and aiding
the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Air Force Col. W. Shane Cohen
set the start date in an order
setting motion and evidentiary
deadlines in a case that has been
bogged down in pretrial
litigation. The five defendants
were arraigned in May 2012.
In setting the Jan. 11, 2021,
start, Cohen noted that the trial at
the U.S. base in Cuba “will face a
host of administrative and
logistics challenges.”
The United States has charged
the five with war crimes that
include terrorism, hijacking and
nearly 3,000 counts of murder for
their alleged roles in planning and
providing logistical support to the
9/11 plot. They could get the death
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A vote to scrap plans for a
virtual caucus would illustrate
the difficulty involved in engag-
ing more voters in the nominat-
ing contest, which had been a
major aim of the Democratic Par-
ty. It would also reflect the gravity
of concerns about interference in
the electoral process.
“There’s too great a potential
for hacking and abuse,” said
Frank Leone, a member of the
Rules and Bylaws Committee
from Virginia. There was also
unease, he said, that the technol-
ogy would prove too cumbersome
for voters to understand.
Rules the DNC approved last
year pressed caucus states to con-
vert to a primary system — which
at least nine states have done — or
else devise a way for voters to
participate without attending an
hours-long meeting, sometimes
in biting temperatures.
Iowa and Nevada responded to
the new DNC requirements with
plans for a call-in option. In Iowa,
voters would have been able to
register for a unique PIN and
then call in to record their prefer-
ence during one of six virtual
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks Aug. 11 at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. Many Democratic
voters once attracted to his anti-establishment message are looking for a vision of unification this time.
fight for a single-payer health-
care system, tuition-free four-year
public college and a $15 minimum
wage. Several presidential hope-
fuls have fully embraced his once-
radical ideas without adopting his
boisterous tone.
During a spat between Sanders
and Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) on
the debate stage in July over how
best to curb greenhouse gas emis-
sions, Ryan told the senator from
Vermont, “You don’t have to yell.”
Ryan’s campaign was quick to use
the moment as a marketing ploy,
with new stickers: “You Don’t
Have to Yell: Tim Ryan 2020.”
For voters who yearn for the
institutional change Sanders
shepherded in during the 2016
campaign but who are turned off
by his tenor, there are now op-
tions. Interviews with dozens of
Democratic voters in Washington,
California, New Hampshire and
Nevada showed that many former
Sanders loyalists are now playing
the field for their 2020 vote.
Jonathan Eren, a 34-year-old
software engineer from Seattle
who supported Sanders in 2016,
felt “cheated” when the DNC gave
the nomination to Clinton. Now,
penalty if convicted at the military
commission, which combines
elements of civilian and military
law.
The five defendants include
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a
senior al-Qaeda figure who has
portrayed himself as the
mastermind of the 9/11 attacks
and other terrorist plots.
Mohammed and his four co-
defendants have been held at
Guantanamo Bay since
September 2006 after several
years in clandestine CIA
detention facilities following their
capture.
— Associated Press
SOUTH CAROLINA
Court revives suit over
gun background check
A lawsuit over a faulty
background check that allowed
Dylann Roof to buy the gun he
used to kill nine people in a racist
attack at a South Carolina church
was reinstated Friday by a federal
appeals court.
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sessions, the final opportunity
falling on the same day as the
caucus itself.
The virtual caucus in Nevada
would have occurred across two
days leading up to the in-person
gatherings.
The Rules and Bylaws Commit-
tee received a closed-door brief-
ing from security experts last
week in San Francisco and heard
major concerns about hackers’
abilities to compromise the tech-
nology. The DNC has also heard
from presidential campaigns
about tele-caucus security con-
cerns, particularly related to
warnings that nation-state ac-
tors, such as Russia, are looking
for ways to interfere in the 2020
election.
Democratic leaders in Iowa
and Nevada voiced disappoint-
ment in the DNC’s recommenda-
tion, but they seemed to acknowl-
edge that they could not move
forward without buy-in from par-
ty officials.
“We proposed our plan seven
months ago to give us the longest
ramp possible to build this sys-
tem,” Troy Price, the chair of the
Sanders is back on the campaign
trail, but Eren no longer stands
behind him.
“I just feel [Sen. Elizabeth]
Warren has more of a better un-
derstanding of it all,” he said of the
Massachusetts Democrat as he
perched not far from the stage
where Warren would soon ad-
dress 15,000 rallygoers at a park
in Seattle, her biggest event to
date. Sanders beat Clinton in the
Washington caucus by nearly a
50-point margin in 2016.
The two senators from New
England, longtime pals who share
a common enemy in Wall Street,
find themselves more similar
than different when it comes to
policy goals, such as Medicare-
for-all and student loan debt for-
giveness, as well as a message of
revolution and “structural
change.”
Where the candidates
— Sanders a democratic socialist
and Warren a proud capitalist —
diverge is in the tenor of their
campaigns.
“It’s not as though [Warren is]
content to thunder against the
evildoers like an Old Testament
prophet. That’s much more his
DIGEST
A three-judge panel of the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the 4th
Circuit in Richmond reversed a
ruling from a lower court judge
who threw out the claims, brought
by relatives of people killed in the
2015 massacre at Charleston’s
Emanuel African Methodist
Episcopal Church, and by
survivors.
The lower court judge found
that the government was immune
from liability. The appeals court
disagreed.
The FBI has acknowledged that
Roof’s drug possession arrest
weeks before the shooting should
have prevented him from buying a
gun.
Roof has been sentenced to
death for the slayings.
The appeals court panel
disagreed with the judge’s finding
that the families’ claims do not fit
into narrow exceptions to laws
that shield government employees
from liability while carrying out
their official duties. The ruling
means the lawsuit can move
forward.
In his ruling last year, U.S.
Iowa Democratic Party, said in a
news release. “But in that time,
we know the threat landscape has
changed. We have seen time and
again the increased threat by
foreign state actors and the con-
tinued reluctance by Donald
Trump and Republicans in Con-
gress to take this threat serious-
ly.”
Nevada Democrats similarly
blamed “Republican inaction” for
the heightened risk. Senate Ma-
jority Leader Mitch McConnell
(R-Ky.) last month lashed out at
critics of his decision to block
measures to fend off cyber-
attacks, saying House-passed ini-
tiatives would enable federal in-
terference into a state matter.
Time for Iowa and Nevada to
settle on alternatives is now
scarce. They are working under a
Sept. 13 deadline for the DNC to
endorse procedures for their cau-
cuses, set to take place Feb. 3 in
Iowa — giving the Hawkeye State
its first-in-the-nation status —
and Feb. 22 in Nevada.
DNC leaders recommended
that the committee grant the
states a waiver from the new rules
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mode,” said William Galston, a
senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution and former domestic
policy adviser to President Bill
Clinton. “Sanders sees [his cam-
paign] as a revolutionary mass
movement to upset the estab-
lished order. While Senator War-
ren is obviously very dissatisfied
with the status quo, she describes
her campaign in very different
terms and terms that I think are
less scary.”
Many Democratic voters who
were once attracted to Sanders’s
anti-establishment message be-
lieve that the nominee ought to
have a vision of unification to beat
Trump in 2020.
Andrew Bauld, a 34-year-old
writer who lives in Brooklyn, said
that he initially liked Sanders in
part because he did not believe
there should be a presumptive
candidate, but that his enthusi-
asm for the senator from Vermont
faded even before the 2016 pri-
maries ended.
Exiting a house party for the
Warren campaign in Wolfeboro,
N.H., earlier this month, Bauld
said he was tired of Sanders’s
combative tone.
District Judge Richard Gergel
described clerical errors and
missteps that allowed Roof to buy
the handgun he later used in the
massacre. Gergel sharply
criticized the FBI for what he
called its “disturbingly superficial”
background check system.
— Associated Press
CALIFORNIA
Appeals court reverses
conviction in shooting
A California state appeals court
on Friday threw out the sole
conviction against an immigrant
who fatally shot a young woman
on the San Francisco waterfront
in 2015.
Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate was
acquitted of murder in the killing
of Kate Steinle, who was walking
on a pier with her father when
she was struck by a bullet in the
back in July 2015. He was
convicted of a single charge of
being a felon in possession of a
gun.
The case against Garcia-Zarate,
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requiring expanded access “un-
less compliance can be met
through other means.”
Two Democratic officials
briefed on the party’s plans said a
change in the voting calendar
won’t be required to satisfy the
rules. They said there was no
discussion of punishing Iowa or
other states by revoking their
place in the nominating process.
James Roosevelt, co-chair of
the Rules and Bylaws Committee,
said the panel’s members would
explore other means of enabling
absentee voting before they con-
vened next week.
Caucuses are kindest to the
most committed voters and have
tended to be a boon for candi-
dates further to either end of the
ideological spectrum. Polling by
the Des Moines Register suggest-
ed a virtual option in Iowa would
have expanded caucus turnout,
which was 16 percent among both
Democrats and Republicans in
2016.
A Monmouth University
poll released this month indicat-
ed that the addition of a virtual
voting option would expand the
“He brings it from, ‘I’m gonna
yell about it, and I’m angry,’ ” he
said, adding that Sanders did not
do enough to unite Democratic
voters behind Clinton in the 2016
general election. “Senator Warren
has similar ideas but brings it in
an exciting package.”
Nicholas Mathews, a 33-year-
old self-employed barber from
Bremerton, Wash., said he sup-
ported Sanders during the 2016
primaries but did not vote.
Though he said his friends are
split 50-50 between Sanders and
Warren, he is now partial to the
senator from Massachusetts, in
part because her messaging feels
“softer.”
Sanders’s approach “is a little
more aggressive, and not in a ‘take
stance’ sort of way, [but] in a ‘take
him down’ kind of way,” he said.
“He had his time.”
Sanders’s polling numbers in
early-voting states such as Iowa
and New Hampshire — where in
2016 he battled Clinton to a near
draw and won, respectively —
have dropped dramatically.
Meanwhile, he continues to face
pushback from former Clinton
supporters.
Barbara Underwood, an 87-
year-old retired state legislator
who lives in Sugar Hill, N.H., said
she supported Clinton in both the
2016 primaries and general elec-
tions. She argued that Sanders is
partly responsible for Clinton’s
defeat — a characterization that
Sanders and his allies heatedly
deny — and questioned whether
he did enough to rally his support-
ers behind the Democratic Party’s
eventual nominee. She worries
that he could cost Democrats the
upcoming election.
“I figure he was a spoiler in the
last election,” Underwood said. “I
think a lot of people that would’ve
— maybe should’ve — voted for
Clinton voted for Bernie, and that
split the vote. . . . I sort of hold it
against him, having done it once,
maybe going to do it again.”
But many Sanders supporters
resent the presumption that they
were responsible for Clinton’s
shortcomings. They remain angry
at Clinton and other members of
the establishment who they claim
rigged the system against Sand-
ers. The candidate and his cam-
paign have leaned into that senti-
ment, lambasting the media for
coverage they deem unfair and
who was in the country illegally
and had been deported five times,
touched off a fierce immigration
debate that was a fixture in
Donald Trump’s stump speeches
in his 2016 presidential
campaign.
The 1st District Court of
Appeal overturned the gun
conviction because the judge
failed to give the jury the option
of acquitting Garcia-Zarate on the
theory he only possessed the
weapon for a moment.
Garcia-Zarate said he
unwittingly picked up the gun
wrapped in a T-shirt, and it fired
accidentally. The bullet
ricocheted off a concrete walkway
and struck Steinle.
At the time, Garcia-Zarate had
recently been released from the
county jail while facing
deportation proceedings.
Tony Serra, the attorney who is
representing Garcia-Zarate on
federal charges of gun possession
and being in the country illegally,
said his client is in custody and
faces a Jan. 13 trial.
— Associated Press
. SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 , 2019
lead enjoyed by former vice presi-
dent Joe Biden in Iowa.
Former housing and urban de-
velopment secretary Julián Cas-
tro, a Democratic presidential
candidate, condemned the party’s
decision to scrap the teleconfer-
ence caucus without offering an
alternative for absentee partici-
pation. He called for a reconsider-
ation of a virtual caucus, a mail-in
ballot or other options for early
voting.
“The Democratic National
Committee’s decision to disen-
franchise tens of thousands of
voters, and decrease turnout by
up to a third, in the first-in-the-
nation caucus state is an affront
to the principles of our democra-
cy,” he said.
Castro’s suggestion of a mail-in
option or an equivalent system
making Iowa’s vote more akin to a
primary would meet stiff resis-
tance from Democrats in New
Hampshire, who are “resolute” in
protecting their premier-primary
status, the state’s party chair, Ray-
mond Buckley, said Friday.
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publishing an “anti-endorse-
ment” list of big-money business
executives and a centrist think
tank opposing his candidacy.
While Sanders faces criticism
for his oftentimes incendiary
speeches and comments, many of
his supporters see his heated tone
as a mark of authenticity and
dependability over a decades-
long career in public office. Jenni-
fer Convery, a 53-year-old kinder-
garten teacher from Gorham,
N.H., who attended a Sanders
town hall nearby, said the cam-
paign’s signature anger is, in part,
what makes Sanders seem stron-
ger than other candidates in his
beliefs.
“He’s mad, and you gotta be
mad,” she said. “In order for
things to change, there’s got to be
some anger and frustration to get
it done. I like Bernie’s passion. You
can hear it when he talks. It’s
coming from the heart.”
But the Sanders supporter is
concerned that her candidate will
fall short of the nomination once
again. She worries that his age —
77 — will be used against him, and
that other voters may be drawn to
a candidate who offers the appeal
of diversity.
Convery was not quite sure
how Sanders could expand his
voting bloc.
“He reaches out as much as
anybody else as much as he can.
He’s not going to change who he is
and how he is, so he can’t make
himself younger or black or a
woman, so I don’t know,” she said.
“What do you do? You’re not going
to change your points.”
Sanders sees his signature ire
as a point of pride. At the end of
the day, the campaign is betting
on the strategy to prove his con-
sistency.
After Sen. Mitt Romney (R-
Utah) questioned in a tweet why
the senator from Vermont was so
angry, Sanders responded with
the slight: “I’m angry because
multi-millionaires like you and
Trump have rigged our economy
at the middle class’ expense. I’m
angry because millions are living
paycheck to paycheck. I’m angry
because 34 million Americans are
uninsured.”
He asked the Republican sena-
tor, just as his campaign asks
Democratic voters, “Why doesn’t
that anger you?”
hailey.fuchs@washpost.com
Air passenger admits
to killing in Mexico
A 19-year-old Spanish man
trying to enter the United States
through Los Angeles
International Airport confessed
to killing someone he caught with
his girlfriend the day before in
Mexico City, U.S. authorities said.
U.S. Customs and Border
Protection said Thursday that the
man, who was not identified, was
escorted back to Mexico City by
the FBI and border protection
officials. He sought entry as a
tourist on Monday but had no
return ticket and appeared
nervous and fidgety, officials said.
The man also had a short video
on his cellphone showing him
kicking an unresponsive person,
the agency said. The man said he
had placed the body in the trunk
of a vehicle. U.S. authorities gave
the information to Mexican
federal police, who located the
crime scene and body in the trunk
of a vehicle.
— Associated Press
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Records: O∞cials were slow to react despite warnings
DOCTOR FROM A1
Federal prosecutors charged
Levy, 53, last week with three
counts of involuntary man-
slaughter in the deaths of three
veterans. VA officials now ac-
knowledge that he botched diag-
noses of at least 15 patients who
later died and 15 others whose
health was seriously harmed.
The number of those affected,
however, is much greater, and the
full repercussions of Levy’s ac-
tions may not be known for years.
VA officials say Levy made 3,000
errors or misdiagnoses dating to
2005.
VA officials say they have add-
ed oversight of small specialty
staffs across the system — as was
the case in Fayetteville — to en-
sure “independent and objective
oversight.”
The Fayetteville medical center
has also increased monitoring of
its clinical lab.
“VA grieves for all of the Veter-
ans and loved ones affected by
this heartbreaking situation,” VA
Secretary Robert Wilkie said in a
statement to The Washington
Post. “It’s hard to fathom how a
physician sworn to do no harm
could be so reckless, and the fact
that his behavior continued for
some time is testament to his
shameless duplicity.”
He said the agency’s system-
wide changes are designed to
prevent another case like Levy’s.
“Like all health care providers,
VA occasionally experiences un-
expected adverse outcomes in a
small percentage of cases. When
that happens, we hold ourselves
accountable,” Wilkie said, adding
that Fayetteville VA officials are
working to “regain the trust” of
veterans “while helping bring two
things to this situation that have
been lacking for far too long:
accountability and justice.”
Levy is now in jail in Fayette-
ville, pending a bond hearing. His
attorney, Darren O’Quinn, said
his client “did what VA said and
got treatment” for his addiction.
“People aren’t perfect, and
medical doctors aren’t perfect,”
O’Quinn said. “You’re going to
have some errors. That doesn’t
mean you’re a criminal.”
He said he plans to dispute the
number of misdiagnoses.
The mistakes of a physician
they never saw have sowed anger
among an aging population of
veterans whose illnesses Levy
was charged with diagnosing and
monitoring. Many had cancers he
missed. Others were told they
were sick when they were healthy
— and mistakenly given invasive
treatment.
Prosecutors say Levy con-
cealed his errors by altering pa-
tient records and evaded detec-
tion by swallowing a dangerous
substance that gave him a quick
and powerful high, but that was
indiscernible on common drug
and alcohol tests.
His patients and their relatives
say they blame VA for allowing
him to continue to practice.
“I went from, ‘Your earache
isn’t anything’ to Stage 4,” Copelin
said. “With VA, it’s competence
and integrity. Both of those have
been shot right out the door.”
A VA spokeswoman said the
agency “used all legal measures in
its control to fire the employee as
quickly as possible.”
But even after he arrived im-
paired at the lab at least twice,
VA awarded Levy two perform-
ance bonuses on top of his
$225,000 salary based on peer
reviews that appeared to show
that he had a minuscule clinical
error rate, according to the in-
dictment.
The truth was just the oppo-
site. An unprecedented 18-month
review completed this summer by
a team of pathologists from other
VA hospitals and affiliated medi-
cal schools uncovered a rate of
misdiagnoses of nearly 10 per-
cent, more than 10 times the
normal frequency of mistakes by
pathologists.
A star hire
VA officials are calling what
unfolded in Specialty Building 21
at the Veterans Health Care Sys-
tem of the Ozarks in Fayetteville
Longtime Washington lobbyist and consultant Vin Weber resigns from firm
BY T OM H AMBURGER
Vin Weber, the former Minne-
sota congressman who has provid-
ed guidance to Republican presi-
dential candidates and corporate
executives, resigned his position
Friday as a partner in a prominent
consulting firm amid ongoing
questions about lobbying work he
did for Ukrainian interests.
In a letter to the chief executive
of Mercury LLC, where he has
worked since 2011, Weber wrote
that continued attention on his
Ukrainian work “has become a
distraction for me and for the im-
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Darrell Darner, 73, on his property in Gentry, Ark. Former pathologist Robert Morris Levy failed to
diagnose basal cell carcinoma on Darner’s nose three years ago. He got a second opinion later that
identified the cancer and has since had two reconstructive surgeries.
an isolated case. But the agency’s
sprawling network of 167 hospi-
tals and 1,000 clinics has long
struggled to police problem doc-
tors, audits and internal investi-
gations show.
Inspector General Michael
Missal’s office in recent years has
identified multiple VA physicians
who continued to practice even
after they were found to have
compromised patient care. A re-
port this year by the Government
Accountability Office found weak
systems for ensuring that prob-
lems are quickly addressed when
a physician’s quality of care to
veterans is compromised.
Officials are now investigating
as many as 11 suspicious deaths of
veterans at the Louis A. Johnson
VA Medical Center in Clarksburg,
W.Va. On Friday, Bill Powell, U.S.
attorney for the Northern District
of West Virginia, said his office is
conducting an “ongoing and com-
prehensive federal criminal in-
vestigation” in the case, which he
called “a top priority.”
The scope of the damage Levy
allegedly caused in Arkansas has
also added to scrutiny around
VA’s oversight.
“It’s a manifestation of bureau-
cracy at its worst,” said Rep. Steve
Womack (R-Ark.), whose district
in northwest Arkansas includes
the hospital. “In any other setting,
an individual entrusted with the
care of patients found to be im-
paired like this would have been
terminated right away.”
He said VA lacked “checks and
balances” that should have un-
covered Levy’s mistakes long ago.
When he joined VA in 2005
from a private lab in Naples, Fla.,
Levy was a star hire, an Air Force
veteran who, at 39, was years
younger than many of the physi-
cians who end their careers in the
military health-care system.
He had a medical degree from
the University of Chicago, and he
had completed a pathology resi-
dency at the University of Califor-
nia at San Francisco and a fellow-
ship at Duke University in a sub-
specialty focusing on diseases of
the blood.
But Levy did have one blot on
his record: a 1996 arrest and
conviction for drunken driving in
Alameda County, Calif., where he
was sentenced to three days in jail
and three years’ probation, public
records show.
VA officials declined to address
whether his conviction was
known before he came aboard,
saying in a statement that his
hiring “occurred more than a
decade ago under previous medi-
cal center leadership and a previ-
ous administration.”
Pathology was a hard-to-re-
cruit specialty, and one vital to
serving a growing population of
veterans retiring to the moun-
tains at the junction of northwest
Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma and
southwest Missouri, known as
the Ozarks. Levy was named chief
of pathology and laboratory med-
icine services.
portant work that Mercury is do-
ing.” Weber said he will “focus my
time and energy on protecting my
reputation.”
Weber’s activities have been un-
der scrutiny by federal prosecu-
tors in New York investigating
whether he and others complied
with laws requiring those working
for a foreign country or political
party to register with the Justice
Department.
An attorney for Weber declined
to comment.
A Mercury partner, Michael
McKeon, said Friday that the firm
respected Weber’s decision.
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He could be personable with
colleagues, although he mostly
kept to himself, said one former
colleague, who spoke on the con-
dition of anonymity to speak free-
ly. Most days, he arrived at the lab
at 5 a.m. to read tissue and fluid
slides and finished around 1 or
2 p.m.
As the hospital’s needs grew, so
did Levy’s responsibilities. He
opened new pathology labs at
satellite clinics and was appoint-
ed to multiple oversight boards
and medical committees, super-
vising about 100 employees.
As a safeguard against errors,
Levy and his deputy were re-
quired each month to review a
random sample of 10 percent of
each other’s cases, a routine prac-
tice among pathologists.
Levy consistently had a tiny
error rate, at times even zero. The
chief pathologist was altering his
deputy’s reviews to show them as
concurring with all of Levy’s diag-
noses, according to the indict-
ment and people familiar with his
actions.
In fact, his mistakes were pil-
ing up.
In 2011, Edward Jamison drove
to the hospital from his home in
Poteau, Okla., with severe stom-
ach pain. But Levy missed his
esophageal cancer, VA officials
would acknowledge in a phone
call earlier this year to his daugh-
ter, Tina Carter, of southern Illi-
nois. Her father, drafted into the
Navy out of high school, was not
diagnosed for two years. He died
in his sleep in 2014.
Sometime after Mark Worley
arrived at Fayetteville as the hos-
pital’s chief physician in 2012, he
started getting complaints that
Levy was showing up to the lab
drunk, according to investigators.
“People were coming to him say-
ing, ‘Levy has a problem,’ ” said an
official with knowledge of the
investigation, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to de-
scribe an ongoing inquiry.
Former
pathologist
Robert Morris
Levy, 53, has
been charged
with three
counts of
involuntary
manslaughter
in the deaths of three veterans.
“We respect Vin’s decision to
resign from Mercury to focus his
time and energy on protecting his
reputation. He is an honorable
man, a good friend and we wish
him well,” he said.
Weber’s resignation is the latest
turn in a drama that has engulfed
several top Washington figures as
a result of former special counsel
Robert S. Mueller III’s investiga-
tion. As part of that probe, Mueller
charged former Trump campaign
chairman Paul Manafort with lob-
bying violations related to work he
did in Ukraine.
Manafort had brought aboard
“There were complaints about
Levy over time, and Dr. Worley
did respond to them,” said Shane
Wilkinson, Worley’s attorney, de-
clining to elaborate.
One employee reported him to
supervisors as intoxicated in
2015, but Levy denied the allega-
tion to a panel of hospital medical
staff, according to the indictment.
No further action was taken, in-
vestigators found.
His staff was growing more
alarmed by his erratic behavior,
according to officials. But Levy
continued to beat the average
error rate for pathologists of
0.7 percent. VA gave him a bonus.
In March 2016, Levy was intox-
icated when he was called to the
radiology department to assist
with a biopsy. A VA-ordered test
showed his blood alcohol level at
0.4, five times the legal limit for
driving in Arkansas of 0.08, a
level that put him at risk of coma
and death, prosecutors said.
VA officials suspended Levy
and reported his alcohol impair-
ment to state medical boards —
but gave him a second chance. He
entered a three-month inpatient
treatment program in Mississippi
at taxpayer expense, officials said.
Worley allowed Levy to enter a
treatment program “because he
was following what he believed
were the protocols in place at the
time,” said Wilkinson.
After completing treatment,
the pathologist returned to the
lab in crisp dress pants and shirts,
having agreed to submit to ran-
dom drug and alcohol tests.
Over the next year, 42 urine
and blood samples would turn up
negative for alcohol and drugs,
according to court records. The
peer reviews showed his error
rate was zero. VA gave him an-
other bonus.
‘They killed my father-in-law’
Levy’s reward came within
months of Robert Thomas Chick’s
death at age 70 of a lung cancer
Robert
Chick, left,
circa 1967,
was one of
Levy’s
patients. He
was 70
years old
when he died of lung cancer
that went undiagnosed for
years.
several Washington lobbyists and
lawyers — including Weber, Dem-
ocratic lobbyist Tony Podesta and
lawyer Gregory B. Craig — to par-
ticipate in a broad effort to help
improve Ukraine’s reputation in
the United States.
Craig, who served as White
House counsel for President Ba-
rack Obama, was charged with
lying to federal officials who were
examining whether he should
have registered as a foreign lobby-
ist for the work. He is on trial in
Washington and has denied
wrongdoing.
Separately, prosecutors in the
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that Levy had missed two years
earlier, investigators later deter-
mined. When Chick finally was
diagnosed — weak and his
breathing labored — the cancer
had metastasized. He died five
months later.
His daughter-in-law, Eva
Chick, said she wept as she
watched Levy’s arrest on the local
news.
“They killed my father-in-law,”
Eva said, as she and her daughter,
Lisa, ate lunch last week at his
favorite diner in Alma, Ark., a
town where the median family
income is $35,000.
Drafted to fight in the Vietnam
War in 1966, Robert Chick lived
and died in a small apartment
behind the restaurant, where Eva
took care of him. Dressed in flan-
nel shirts and cowboy boots, he
ate three meals a day at D’s Family
Restaurant, sitting in his favorite
booth.
“He died a horrible death,” his
granddaughter said.
Two months after Chick died,
Levy appeared drowsy and was
“speaking nonsense phrases”
when he arrived to chair an Octo-
ber 2017 meeting of the hospital’s
tumor board, according to the
minutes of a January 2018 meet-
ing of the hospital’s professional
standards board.
Attorney Monte Sharits, who is
representing multiple veterans in
the case, obtained the minutes
through a public records request
and provided them to The Post.
Levy was sent home, and the
hospital was forced to cancel mul-
tiple surgeries and medical pro-
cedures that required a patholo-
gist to be present, records show.
Levy tested negative for illegal
drugs and alcohol, according to
court records. Still, VA suspended
his clinical privileges and allowed
him to return to nonclinical work,
according to investigators.
In January 2018, after multiple
staff reports that he was still
impaired, the hospital’s profes-
sional standards board continued
Levy’s suspension. Spot checks of
his cases showed “no evidence of
patient harm,” according to the
minutes.
Still, Worley brought in a pa-
thologist from VA’s division head-
quarters for another review of
Levy’s work. She found more than
a dozen misdiagnoses.
“Dr. Levy’s actions have nega-
tively impacted patient care out-
comes,” Worley and the medical
director at the time wrote in a
memo on Jan. 11, 2018.
It would be six more months
before VA began a deeper review
of his work.
In March 2018, local police
spotted Levy driving erratically in
a post office parking lot and ar-
rested him for driving under the
influence.
Levy was fired the next month.
The police toxicology report
detected a dangerous substance
in Levy’s blood called 2-methyl-2-
butanol — or 2M2B — a colorless
liquid that, taken in tiny doses,
induces euphoria within 30 min-
utes. Taken improperly, it can be
fatal.
Federal prosecutors later said
Levy repeatedly bought 2M2B
over the Internet to mislead VA
and keep his job.
It was not until June 2018 that
VA officials notified medical
boards in three states where he
was licensed that Levy could no
longer practice medicine — a de-
lay that concerned the inspector
general’s office, according to an
internal VA incident report.
The same month, VA finally
went public about Levy.
The hospital had fired a physi-
cian who was impaired, local offi-
cials said at a news conference in
Fayetteville. A team of outside
pathologists would review all of
his cases and notify veterans
whose health care was affected.
What VA didn’t say was that the
team in Washington assigned to
the case initially only planned to
scrutinize Levy’s diagnoses from
the past year — a limited review
that Missal, the inspector general,
called unacceptably short and “of
deep concern” in a letter to VA’s
top health official in Washington
that was obtained by The Post.
The review was ultimately wid-
Southern District of New York
have been examining Weber and
Podesta’s lobbying work.
The Podesta Group and Mer-
cury had reported in lobbying dis-
closures that they represented the
European Center for a Modern
Ukraine, a Brussels-based non-
profit organization that sought to
help Ukraine improve its image in
the West from 2012 to 2014.
Prosecutors alleged in the
Manafort prosecution that the
lobbying work was being directed
by Manafort and Trump campaign
official Rick Gates, and that the
real client was the government of
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ened to cover his entire employ-
ment, from 2005 to 2017.
Worley retired the day of the
news conference. His attorney
said he expects the former chief
physician to testify against Levy
at his trial.
A raw confrontation
In the months that followed,
VA held town hall meetings with
families in the hospital auditori-
um. The risk management staff
handed out claim forms they
could submit to the agency for a
settlement. After six months, they
could sue VA in federal court.
The meetings were chaotic and
raw. Kelvin Parks, the interim
medical center director at the
time, said VA would do right by its
veterans. He told them he served
in the Navy. He apologized for the
doctor’s mistakes.
Kelly Copelin’s wife, Sara, took
the microphone. “I don’t know
how long I’m going to have my
husband,” she said.
“We don’t know how long any
of us are going to be here,” the
couple recalled Parks saying.
Darrell Darner, 73, was in the
audience, wearing bandages that
covered his face following a sec-
ond reconstructive surgery on his
nose and sinuses to treat ad-
vanced skin cancer.
Darner, who made 2,000 para-
chute jumps as an Army Special
Operations soldier and who is
now a cattle rancher, said that
after he learned about Levy’s er-
rors, he asked Worley to check
whether the pathologist had
missed his skin cancer three years
earlier when a suspicious spot on
his nose was biopsied.
Worley called him that night
and told him that his basal cell
carcinoma was misdiagnosed,
Darner said.
“I’ve always trusted the VA,”
Darner said. “I still trust them.
I’ve just got to watch them.”
After his firing, Levy relocated
to Saba, a small island in the
Dutch Caribbean, where he se-
cured a position teaching pathol-
ogy on the faculty of the local
medical school, his lawyer said.
At the time, he had active medical
licenses in California and Florida.
They were not revoked until this
spring.
He returned to Fayetteville in
July, weeks before his arrest.
Meanwhile, some former pa-
tients are still waiting anxiously
to learn what Levy’s misdiagnos-
es mean for them.
“The shame of this is that a lot
of these people are still in limbo,”
said Bryan Smith, an attorney
representing several veterans.
“You don’t have cancer. You might
have cancer.”
VA officials said they have con-
tacted the families in the 30 most
serious cases to advise them of
their legal and treatment options.
Copelin said he was not among
them.
In the past year, his condition
has deteriorated. He eats through
a feeding tube in his stomach,
subsisting on cans of liquid nutri-
tion that cost VA $4,000 a month,
the couple said. Solid food could
lead him to aspirate into his lungs
and risk a life-threatening infec-
tion.
He sat one morning last week
in the recliner in his family room,
his head and upper body in a
brown compression vest hooked
up to a machine that stimulates
his poorly functioning lymphatic
system.
It’s the start of a 90-minute
routine he must endure twice a
day — a regimen of crushed pills
and five cans poured into a sterile
plastic bag, which he carries in a
black knapsack everywhere he
goes.
Copelin can no longer fish or
swim in the many lakes near their
house. This summer, the couple
sold their hobby farm and moved
to the suburbs because he can no
longer drive his tractor.
“He’s 100 percent different,”
Sara said.
The couple is waiting to see
what VA will offer as a settlement.
In the meantime, the Fayette-
ville medical center has hired a
new chief pathologist who will
start work in September.
lisa.rein@washpost.com
Alice Crites and Jennifer Jenkins in
Washington, and Bonnie Jo Mount in
Fayetteville, Ark., contributed to this
report.
Ukraine. The two firms said they
sought to comply with all disclo-
sure requirements and that they
were cooperating with investiga-
tors.
Earlier this month, in Craig’s
ongoing trial, Gates testified that
he told Weber and Podesta they
were working for the government
of Ukraine, despite paperwork in-
dicating otherwise.
Weber, who served in Congress
for 13 years, is a well-known figure
in political circles and served as an
adviser to GOP presidential hope-
fuls including Mitt Romney and
Bob Dole.
tom.hamburger@washpost.com
Ann E. Marimow and Spencer S. Hsu
contributed to this report.
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In Poland, a WWII issue that remains unresolved
As Pence prepares to visit, Washington is pressing Warsaw to take action on compensation for Nazi-confiscated Jewish property
BY L OVEDAY M ORRIS
warsaw — Vice President Pence
touches down in Warsaw this
weekend to attend a Sunday cer-
emony marking 80 years since
Nazi Germany’s invasion of Po-
land, the spark for a conflict that
wreaked devastation across Eu-
rope.
But there is one legacy of World
War II that Pence’s hosts are
anxious to skirt during his visit.
Poland remains the only coun-
try in the European Union that
does not have comprehensive leg-
islation to deal with the restitu-
tion of private property confiscat-
ed by the Nazis — and, in Poland’s
case, later nationalized under
communist rule.
That fact is a friction point in
what is otherwise seen in Warsaw
as a natural kinship with the
Trump administration. President
Trump had been expected to
make his second official visit to
Poland for Sunday’s ceremony,
before he canceled Thursday cit-
ing the need to stay home to
monitor Hurricane Dorian.
Washington has been slow to
call out Poland’s nationalist gov-
ernment as it chips away at demo-
cratic institutions, breaches the
country’s constitution and spurs
anti-LGBTQ sentiment. Most re-
cently, the country’s deputy jus-
tice minister was forced to resign
after it emerged that his ministry
had waged a harassment cam-
paign against judges resisting
government efforts to control the
judiciary.
But the Trump administration
has weighed in on the issue of
restitution of Jewish property, a
matter that is politically fraught
in Poland. And earlier this month,
a bipartisan group of 88 senators
led by Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and
Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) urged
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
to press Poland to settle the issue.
Poland, however, argues that it
is already settled, with Prime
Minister Mateusz Morawiecki re-
portedly saying in May that bend-
ing to pressure on restitution
would constitute such an injus-
tice to Poles that it would be a
“victory” for Hitler.
“It’s potentially the most explo-
sive issue between the U.S. and
Poland,” said Tomasz Pludowski,
a professor at Warsaw’s Colle-
gium Civitas who specializes in
U.S. relations. “It could create a
lot of hostility toward Americans
in Polish society. The current gov-
ernment is also very afraid of it.”
Poland’s right-wing leadership
argues that as a victim of Nazi
Germany itself, the country
should bear no further responsi-
bility for wartime injustices.
Some 6 million Poles died during
the World War II, the greatest
proportional loss of any nation
during the conflict. Roughly half
were Jewish.
When the Nazis invaded Po-
land, in addition to the slaughter
they waged, houses, land and
businesses were confiscated —
largely from Jews. After the war,
when Poland became a commu-
nist state under Soviet influence,
private property was national-
ized. The country also lost terri-
tory in modern-day Belarus,
Ukraine and Lithuania in the
postwar carve-up of Europe.
SYRIA
Government forces
set cease-fire in Idlib
Syrian government forces will
soon begin a unilateral cease-fire
in northwestern Idlib province,
Russia’s military said Friday, as
hundreds of protesters were met
with tear gas while marching
toward a border crossing with
Turkey and demanding that
Ankara open the border for
refugees or work on stopping the
Syrian army’s advance.
The protest and cease-fire
announcement came after weeks
of a crushing offensive by Syrian
troops on the last remaining
rebel stronghold, forcing
hundreds of thousands to flee.
A similar cease-fire early this
month lasted a few days, after
which the government offensive
resumed and forces captured all
rebel-held towns and villages in
neighboring Hama province.
The Russian military
reconciliation center said the
cease-fire would go into effect
Saturday at 6 a.m.
In the protest, opposition
activists said Turkish guards
fired tear gas at the crowd.
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Polish soldiers take part in a changing of the guard this week at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Pilsudski Square in Warsaw. The
square will be the site of ceremonies Sunday marking the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II. Vice President Pence will attend.
German tanks cross into Polish territory in September 1939. After
Nazis invaded Poland, Britain and France declared war on Berlin.
After the fall of communism in
1989, Poland signed several
agreements to hand back com-
munal lands that had been seized,
including one with the Jewish
community, which lodged more
than 5,000 claims.
But the issue of private proper-
ty claims has proved thornier.
Poland argues that Jews and non-
Jews alike who want to claim
property they owned before the
war, and that has since been
confiscated, can lodge a claim in
Poland’s courts.
The process is slow, however.
In their letter to Pompeo this
month, the U.S. senators wrote
that “Jewish Holocaust survivors
and their families as well as oth-
ers have found it nearly impossi-
ble to reclaim or seek compensa-
tion for the property that was
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Iran has gone further in
breaching its nuclear deal with
world powers, increasing its
stock of enriched uranium and
refining it to a greater purity
than allowed, the U.N. atomic
agency report said Friday.
The quarterly report from the
International Atomic Energy
Agency, which is policing the
2015 deal, confirms that Iran is
progressively backing out of the
deal in response to Washington’s
withdrawal from it and the
renewal of oil sales sanctions.
President Trump has offered
to hold talks with Iran on a
broader deal, but Tehran says it
first needs sanctions relief.
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Hezbollah: Drones
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The TV station of Lebanon’s
militant Hezbollah group said
two drones used in an alleged
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nationalized by the Polish Com-
munist regime.”
Poland’s chief rabbi, Michael
Schudrich, a former New Yorker,
said that the claims process is
functioning but that it is difficult
to navigate for those living out-
side Poland, as the majority of the
descendants of Jewish Poles do.
Given Poland’s complicated
history, restitution should not be
treated as a purely Jewish issue,
Schudrich said; rather, the solu-
tion needs to involve compensa-
tion for all those who lost proper-
ty, including the many Poles who
lost their homes under commu-
nism.
“Unfortunately, this small fac-
tor, which is not so small, is
missed by many people,” he said.
Still, he added, the fact that the
issue has not been dealt with is “a
DIGEST
A devotee prays while performing rituals in memory of his deceased father on Kushe Aunsi, or father's
day, at Gokarna Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal. Hindus from across Nepal come to the temple to take part.
Lebanese coast.
Al-Manar TV’s report Friday
came five days after an alleged
stain on the Polish soul.”
Last year, Poland ignited inter-
national controversy with a pro-
posed law, dubbed the “Holocaust
bill,” that effectively prohibited
statements accusing Poles of
crimes perpetrated by the Nazis,
as well as any reference to con-
centration camps in the country
as “Polish death camps.”
The legislation, now aban-
doned, drew swift rebuke from
the United States and accusations
from Israel that Warsaw was at-
tempting to whitewash the fact
that some Poles collaborated with
the Nazis.
But restitution, with its finan-
cial implications, could prove
more politically sensitive at
home.
Moving to resolve the issue
would certainly be unpopular,
analysts say, noting that efforts by
Jewish groups to secure compen-
sation for property for which
there are no living heirs are par-
ticularly controversial. Such cas-
es are eligible for claims in Po-
land’s legal system.
The Justice for Uncompensat-
ed Survivors Today (JUST) Act,
signed into law by Trump last
year, recommends that compen-
sation for heirless property be
distributed for the benefit of
Holocaust survivors.
Poland argues that the act un-
fairly puts the rights of Jews who
lost property above those of Poles
who also did.
Under its provisions, the State
Department is required to report
to Congress the steps European
nations are taking to compensate
Holocaust survivors and their
heirs for seized assets.
Israeli drone crashed in a
Hezbollah stronghold, while
another crashed nearby.
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Pompeo raised the issue in a
visit to Poland in February, calling
on Warsaw to enact a law to settle
Jewish property claims, a step
that stirred public debate.
At a sand-colored block of flats
set around a children’s play-
ground in Warsaw’s Mokotow dis-
trict, posters appeared on the
glass entrance doors in the days
after Pompeo’s comments. “This
property might be handed over
due to Jewish claims in Poland,”
they read.
Residents said they did not
oppose valid claims but worried
that the restitution process was
open to corruption, with the proc-
ess reportedly riddled with cases
of fraud.
The issue is particularly sensi-
tive for Poland’s ruling party as it
courts right-wing votes ahead of
October elections.
“More radical parties, especial-
ly right-wing, are criticizing the
government for being too lenient
and are coming up with more-
aggressive anti-Jewish and anti-
American rhetoric,” Pludowski
said.
Daniel Fried, who served as
U.S. ambassador to Poland two
decades ago, said the only way
forward is to recognize that any
resolution is going to be “symbol-
ic” and “incomplete.”
“On one level, there’s no way to
make restitution for the Holo-
caust,” he said. “It’s gone. People
are dead. They’re not coming
back.”
loveday.morris@washpost.com
Michal Giersz in Warsaw and Seung
Min Kim in Washington contributed
to this report.
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Israeli media reported this
week that Israeli drones targeted
a Beirut facility housing a large
. SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 , 2019
Russians,
Ukrainians
pursue major
prisoner swap
BY W ILL E NGLUND
moscow — Ukrainian and Rus-
sian officials spent the day Friday
hammering out the details of a
highly anticipated prisoner ex-
change, officials in Kiev and Mos-
cow reported, as each country
continued to explore how the
newly installed administration of
Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelensky will reshape the hostili-
ty between the two neighbors.
Ukraine’s new chief prosecutor
reported early in the morning
that the large-scale exchange was
underway, but Zelensky’s office
said the report was premature,
and the Ukrainian security serv-
ice said there would be no swap
on Friday.
More than 60 prisoners were
reported to be involved, including
24 Ukrainian sailors who were
detained when their ships were
seized in 2018 in the Kerch Strait
between Crimea and the Russian
mainland.
Russian and Ukrainian news
services reported that final nego-
tiations were continuing and that
both sides expect the exchange to
happen. They have been in talks
over such a move all summer.
Zelensky’s office was critical of
the preliminary reports that the
exchange was underway.
“It is not the first time we have
seen such information chaos
caused by some reference to un-
confirmed information and mul-
tiple ‘sources.’ We urge everyone
to understand the consequences
of misinformation: it’s like play-
ing on society’s emotions. When
this reciprocal release of detained
persons is completed, the Office
of the President will announce
that via official channels,” his
office said on Facebook.
Valentin Rybin, a lawyer for
Russians held prisoner by
Ukraine, said that the Russian
prisoners were preparing to leave
but were still in detention and
that Zelensky had yet to issue
them pardons.
The most prominent prisoner
expected to be released on either
side was the filmmaker Oleg
Sentsov, who was arrested by the
Russians in Crimea in 2014 and
sentenced to a 20-year term on a
charge of plotting terrorism. Last
year, he conducted a 145-day hun-
ger strike, demanding the release
of Ukrainian prisoners held by
Russia. He was awarded the
Sakharov Prize for Freedom of
Thought by the European Parlia-
ment and has been supported by
prominent filmmakers in Europe
as well as in Russia.
A member of the Ukrainian
parliament, Viktor Medvedchuk,
visited two other Ukrainian pris-
oners at Moscow’s Lefortovo pris-
on, taking them bread and salt in
a symbolic welcome.
A Russian journalist with the
Ria-Novosti news agency, Kirill
Vyshinsky, was released on bail
Wednesday by a Ukrainian court,
though he has told reporters that
he wants to stay in Ukraine to
clear his name in the courts.
Vyshinsky was arrested in May
2018 and charged with treason;
he was still awaiting trial.
will.englund@washpost.com
industrial machine that is
critical to making missiles.
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Wild weather has millions in
southern Africa facing hunger:
As many as 9.2 million people in
southern Africa face severe food
insecurity as a result of extreme
weather, and the number is
forecast to rise to 12 million by
March, according to the United
Nations. The food shortage
means countries from Angola to
Zimbabwe will need to import
3.5 million tons of cereal in the
current marketing season,
according to a July report by the
Southern African Development
Community. The costly imports
threaten to drive up inflation
that’s already rampant in many
of the countries.
Brazil talking with U.S., other
nations about Amazon fires:
Brazil is in contact with Chile,
Israel, Ecuador and the United
States regarding their offers to
assist in fighting the fires
currently tearing through the
Amazon rainforest, the country’s
joint military chief Raul Botelho
said. He added that Brazil would
ask for help when it is needed.
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Former British leader backs bid to derail Johnson’s suspension of Parliament

BY K ARLA A DAM
AND M ICHAEL B IRNBAUM
london — Former British prime
minister John Major said Friday
that he would try to join a legal
bid to prevent a suspension of
Britain’s Parliament just weeks
before Britain is due to crash out
of the European Union.
The former Conservative lead-
er announced he would take on
Prime Minister Boris Johnson,
who announced the controversial
decision to shutter Parliament for
over a month in the middle of one
of Britain’s biggest political crises
in generations.
It was an extraordinary inter-
vention by a former leader of
Johnson’s Conservative party,
akin to a former Republican pres-
ident mounting a high-profile le-
gal assault against the decisions
of a sitting one. Johnson’s deci-
sion to suspend Parliament has
triggered a number of challenges
by those who claim the action is
unlawful and unconstitutional.
Major — who was accused in
1997 of suspending Parliament to
suppress the publication of a
damning report — said in a state-
ment that he intended to ask the
High Court in London if he could
join a legal battle initiated by the
business executive Gina Miller,
who has had anti-Brexit triumphs
in courts in the past.
Johnson shocked the country
Wednesday when he announced a
five-week suspension of Parlia-
ment, which dramatically cuts
down the time those opposed to a
no-deal Brexit have to try to avert
leaving the E.U. without an exit
plan.
Critics note that Johnson, who
came into office on July 25, will
lead his country out of the E.U.
with scant parliamentary scruti-
ny. After his first full day as prime
minister, Parliament adjourned
for summer break.
If Britain leaves the European
Union with no transitional deal to
cushion its path, the Internation-
al Monetary Fund, the World
Bank and other institutions have
predicted economic chaos.
Johnson has repeatedly said
that Britain will leave the E.U. at
the end of October “do or die.”
He dismissed opponents’ con-
cerns about suspending Parlia-
ment, saying that his negotiating
position with the European
Union would be helped if Euro-
pean leaders felt that there was
no possibility that Brexit could be
reversed.
“I’m afraid that the more our
friends and partners think at the
back of their minds that Brexit
could be stopped, that the U.K.
could be kept in by Parliament,
the less likely they are to give us
the deal that we need,” he told Sky
News on Friday.
But E.U. leaders have said that
what they need are concrete alter-
natives from Britain to the cur-
rent transition deal, which was
reached after two years of negoti-
ations.
Irish Foreign Minister Simon
Coveney said his country had not
yet seen any proposal from Brit-
ain to replace the “backstop,” the
guarantee that would keep an
open border between Ireland and
Northern Ireland. The guarantee
has emerged as a focus of British
opposition to the transition deal,
since it could leave Britain
trapped partway out the door of
the European Union with limited
ability to negotiate independent
trade deals.
“Nothing credible has come
from the British government in
the context of an alternative to
the backstop,” Coveney told re-
porters in Helsinki.
Johnson has promised the Eu-
ropean Union that he would come
up with another proposal. E.U.
negotiators are skeptical that an-
other plan can be found that
meets both sides’ red lines.
Senior E.U. policymakers fret-
ted Friday that Johnson’s tactics
were undemocratic and that they
were increasing the likelihood of
a no-deal Brexit.
“Westminster is the mother of
all parliaments, and now there is
a situation where the Parliament
risks being sidelined,” Luxem-
bourg Foreign Minister Jean As-
selborn told reporters in Helsin-
ki. “This a way to proceed that is
not very compatible with being a
democracy.”
He warned of “a lot of misery” if
Britain departed without a deal.
The challenges ahead for John-
son’s opponents prevailing via the
legal system were spotlighted by a
quick defeat on Friday, when a
Scottish court rejected one such
attempt to halt the suspension
immediately. But the judge said a
full hearing of the case, originally
scheduled for next Friday, could
be brought forward to Tuesday.
The case was filed by a group of
75 lawmakers.
In Northern Ireland, a court in
Belfast started hearing a case Fri-
day that argued that exiting the
European Union without a plan
breaches the Good Friday Agree-
ment, the 1998 accord that helped
to advance peace in Northern
Ireland after decades of sectarian
violence. The judge adjourned the
proceedings until next week.
“Like hijackers of a plane, Boris
Johnson’s ministers and acolytes
are trying to keep everyone calm
by giving as much as possible the
impression of normality,” Miller,
the business executive, wrote in
the Guardian. “This is the way of
people seizing power by force, but
let’s be clear: there is nothing that
is normal about what they are
doing.”
Opposition lawmakers led by
Jeremy Corbyn, meanwhile, were
preparing a blitz strategy to derail
a no-deal Brexit during the limit-
ed days they will have in Parlia-
ment, which reopens Tuesday af-
ter a summer recess and shuts
down again by Sept. 12.
The suspension has sparked a
furious backlash, with nation-
wide protests expected Saturday
in cities including London, Glas-
gow, Liverpool and Leeds. A
second demonstration is planned
for Tuesday as lawmakers return
to Parliament. A petition calling
for the suspension to be canceled
has rocketed past 1.5 million sig-
natures.
Queen Elizabeth II approved
Johnson’s request to temporarily
shutter the legislature. Her re-
sponse was expected; the queen is
an apolitical figure who acts on
the advice of her prime minister.
But her role in the maneuver
made Major’s intervention even
more unusual, since it amounted
to a challenge of her actions as
well.
Johnson’s government insists
that what they are doing is busi-
ness as usual. Johnson is a new
prime minister, and it is normal
that he would want to lay out a
new legislative agenda, requiring
the suspension — or proroguing
— of Parliament. Officials also
point out that there is usually a
break in September when the
political parties have their party
conferences.
But legal campaigners say the
suspension is unusually long and
is thwarting lawmakers’ attempts
to debate and pass legislation at a
pivotal time in the nation’s his-
tory. The five-week break is the
longest since 1945.
karla.adam@washpost.com
michael.birnbaum@washpost.com
Birnbaum reported from Brussels.
Quentin Ariès in Brussels contributed
to this report.

Hong Kong o∞cials arrest

prominent movement leaders
BY S HIBANI M AHTANI
AND G ERRY S HIH
hong kong — Authorities wid-
ened crackdowns against Hong
Kong’s pro-democracy movement
Friday, arresting prominent activ-
ists and lawmakers while warning
that riot police would use force
against protesters defying orders
to stay off the streets.
The detentions attempted to
strike at the heart of the demon-
strations and underscored the in-
creasing frustration among offi-
cials over the resilience of Hong
Kong’s marches and rallies that
began this past spring.
But protesters did not appear
shaken.
Authorities banned a march
planned for Saturday and warned
they would use force and possibly
arrest those who ignore the order.
Still, demonstrators are expected
to return to the streets in a direct
challenge to authorities.
The arrests Friday included
Joshua Wong and Agnes Chow,
who rose to eminence as the stu-
dent leaders of pro-democracy
demonstrations in 2014.
More than a dozen people have
been arrested since Thursday.
Among them were Andy Chan,
the leader of a banned pro-inde-
pendence party, and pro-democ-
racy lawmakers and local repre-
sentatives.
Police said Wong and Chow
face charges of participating in an
unauthorized assembly and incit-
ing others to participate in an
unapproved assembly, while
Wong faces an additional charge
of organizing an unapproved as-
sembly, in relation to a June 21
protest at police headquarters.
Both were released on bail Friday.
The sweep came ahead of a
sensitive political anniversary in
the semiautonomous Chinese ter-
ritory. This Saturday marks five
years since Beijing announced an
electoral-reform plan that denied
Hong Kong free elections — a
decision that triggered 79 days of
pro-democracy protests.
The latest protests were
sparked by a now-shelved govern-
ment proposal to allow extradi-
tions to the mainland. But the
demonstrations have broadened
into a battle over the extent of
Beijing’s control over the former
British colony.
Protesters fear Beijing’s leaders
could increasingly undercut the
special freedoms and status
granted to Hong Kong under the
deal that returned the territory in
1997.
Patrick Kwok, chief superinten-
dent of the police’s public rela-
tions branch, told a news confer-
ence Friday that the timing of the
arrests and the anniversary of the
2014 demonstrations were “not
correlated.”
The dissent coincides with a
delicate period for the ruling
Communist Party, as the clock
ticks down to the 70th anniversa-
ry of the founding of the People’s
Republic of China in October. Chi-
na’s government has issued in-
creasingly strident threats in an
effort to quell the unrest. A day
earlier, China sent a new batch of
troops to Hong Kong to reinforce
the People’s Liberation Army gar-
rison in the city.
Friday’s arrests, combined with
the garrison rotation and rumors
that Hong Kong may invoke emer-
gency laws, were “extremely
alarming,” said Samantha Hoff-
man, a fellow at the Australian
Strategic Policy Institute who
studies Chinese politics.
“At the very least, it is clear that
Beijing is attempting to intimi-
date the people of Hong Kong.
The Chinese Communist Party
places political protests very high
on its list of threat perceptions,”
she said.
In a report after the roundup of
the Hong Kong activists, China’s
official Xinhua news agency said
more arrests were expected.
Hours later, Xinhua posted a pic-
ture on its social media account
with a pair of handcuffs and imag-
es of Wong, Chow and Chan with
the caption, “What goes around
comes around.”
Police have arrested more than
800 people in connection with
protests that have rocked the city
since June, some of them on riot
charges that can attract a prison
sentence of up to 10 years.
After his release on bail, Wong
was defiant. “We will continue our
fight no matter how they arrest
and prosecute us,” he told report-
ers.
Man-Kei Tam, director of Am-
nesty International in Hong
Kong, said the wave of arrests and
the banning of the march ap-
peared to be “straight out of Bei-
jing’s playbook.”
Wong, 22, became known as the
face of the 2014 Umbrella Move-
ment, a street occupation aimed
at securing universal suffrage for
Hong Kong. He was charged and
sentenced several times in con-
nection with those protests, and
he served three stints in jail. Most
recently, on May 16, Wong was
sentenced to two months in pris-
on after losing an appeal against a
prison term for contempt of court.
He was released in June.
Along with Chow and another
activist, Nathan Law, Wong went
on to found the political group
Demosisto, which advocates self-
determination for Hong Kong.
The three were arrested in 2017
ahead of Chinese leader Xi Jin-
ping’s visit to the city.
Wong and Chow were due to
travel to Washington next month,
where they were to meet with
lawmakers and participate in a
congressional Executive Commit-
tee on China hearing on the Hong
Kong Human Rights and Democ-
racy Act. The bill, which has bi-
partisan support, including
from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.) and Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.),
seeks to punish those who sup-
press freedoms in Hong Kong,
including through the use of sanc-
tions and visa bans to the United
States.
shibani.mahtani@washpost.com
gerry.shih@washpost.com
Shih reported from Beijing. Anna Kam
in Hong Kong contributed to this
report.
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Uber and Lyft are floating a $21 minimum wage. Critics say it’s closer to $15.
BY F AIZ S IDDIQUI
Uber and Lyft are floating a
new proposal to pay drivers a
$21 minimum wage. It may not
add up.
The ride-hailing giants are
floating the new wage and ben-
efits as the California State Senate
is set to vote on a bill that could
convert contracted workers into
employees, a worker classifica-
tion fiercely opposed by Uber and
Lyft because of the associated
costs and liability.
To convince legislators and
drivers that the move is unneces-
sary, Uber and Lyft have proposed
a $21 hourly “on-trip” minimum
wage. Workers also would have
access to “portable benefits,” such
as sick leave and workers’ com-
pensation. Uber and Lyft have
asked drivers to lobby for an alter-
native.
Those who study ride hailing
say the wage proposed by the
companies would amount to
about $15 at most, because it
excludes the time it takes for driv-
ers to return from a drop-off and
wait for another trip. Drivers typi-
cally spend about 30 to 40 percent
of their time without a passenger,
and roughly 10 percent is spent
driving to pick up a passenger,
according to studies. The pickup
period would be compensated.
“If you’re in a retail store and
there’s nobody in the store several
hours a day, you still pay for that
time,” said Michael Reich, co-
chair of the Center on Wage and
Employment Dynamics at the
University of California at Berke-
ley.
Transportation consultant
Bruce Schaller, who has studied
ride hailing’s effects on traffic in
major metropolitan areas, said
Uber and Lyft’s proposal dis-
counts a significant amount of
drivers’ work. “The companies
couldn’t operate if drivers weren’t
available,” he said.
Uber argued that data shows
its new minimum hourly wage
would apply to just less than
75 percent of the miles driven by
its contractors.
Uber and Lyft have created
thousands of jobs as part of the
gig economy, a system that in-
cludes everything from putting
together Ikea furniture to waiting
in line for theater tickets. Most of
those jobs are for contract work-
ers, which helps limit liability —
and wages — for companies orga-
nizing the assignments.
But as these companies grow
and go public, many of the work-
ers are clamoring for better rights
and pay. California is one of the
cluding Democratic presidential
candidate Pete Buttigieg this
week, and could lay the ground-
work for ride-hail drivers to se-
cure rights long sought by labor
groups.
Known as AB5, the bill would
establish a wage floor for certain
categories of workers equal to two
times the state minimum wage,
which is $12 statewide and higher
locally, for hours worked. It also
would give workers legal protec-
tions that come with employee
status, such as the right to over-
time and provisions against sex-
ual and workplace harassment. It
is unknown whether the bill,
which would be a precedent-
JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES setting measure, would apply to
Crowds rally outside Uber’s San Francisco headquarters Tuesday in some or all workers in the gig
support of a state bill to establish a wage floor for certain workers. economy.
Tony West, general counsel for
first states to consider legislation alternative wage floor would af- Uber, said in an interview Friday
that would require gig workers to fect their bottom line, but Lyft that the company’s proposal still
be treated as employees by law. pointed to data that showed most brings the wage floor above the
That’s significant, because Cali- drivers already earn well above minimum wage while covering
fornia’s legislation often influenc- that floor in major markets, so the expenses such as wear and tear.
es other states, as it has with its baseline would account largely “Labor has been fighting for $15
tech privacy law, for example. for outliers. for a while,” he said. “And $15 is
Advocates say it could help The bill moved out of the Sen- much higher than the minimum
transform the gig economy na- ate’s labor committee in July and wage in most places, including
tionwide so that drivers who have advanced out of an appropria- California.”
long advocated for steady pay and tions vote Friday ahead of a legis- West added that Uber is also
benefits could secure the rights lative session deadline on pushing for sectoral bargaining, a
that come with employment. Sept. 13. It has garnered the sup- framework advocated by labor
Uber and Lyft didn’t say how their port of prominent Democrats, in- groups in which gig economy
workers could bargain as a unit
without company unionization.
That would allow drivers or food-
delivery couriers to bargain with
all of the companies they serve,
limiting cost differences.
Uber and Lyft have each com-
mitted $30 million for a 2020
ballot initiative on gig work in
case the bill passes. Food-delivery
service DoorDash also committed
$30 million to fight the legislation
in 2020.
Lyft spokesman Adrian Durbin
said it remains to be seen what the
ballot initiative would entail, but
the companies hoped to avoid
reaching that point with a com-
promise.
Mostafa Maklad has driven for
both Uber and Lyft in the Bay
Area for a few years. He supports
the bill and says the companies’
messaging has been misleading,
driving a wedge between older
drivers who have seen how the
companies operate and newer
drivers.
“Most of them don’t even see
how many hours they have to
drive and how much time they
have to spend waiting to get an-
other ride and how much money
they’re spending on gas and mile-
age and depreciation on the car,”
said Maklad.
faiz.siddiqui@washpost.com

Google researchers uncover two-year iPhone hack

Attackers used malicious
websites to exploit
a software vulnerability
BY T AYLOR T ELFORD
Security researchers at Google
uncovered a “sustained” — at
least two years — and indiscrimi-
nate campaign to hack iPhones
through certain websites, allow-
ing attackers to steal messages,
files and track location data every
60 seconds.
In a deep-dive blog post pub-
lished Thursday evening, Ian
Beer, a security expert on Google’s
Project Zero, detailed how hack-
ers had been using malicious
websites to exploit an iPhone
software vulnerability. The post
did not name the websites or say
how many people were affected.
“There was no target discrimi-
nation; simply visiting the
hacked site was enough for the
exploit server to attack your de-
vice, and if it was successful,
install a monitoring implant,”
Beer wrote. “We estimate that
these sites receive thousands of
visitors per week. ”
The implant also collected
password keychains, messages,
address books and other personal
information from users’ apps, in-
cluding WhatsApp, Telegram and
Gmail.
This type of widespread yet
random attack is rare, and it may
be one of the biggest attacks ever
on iPhone users. But there was a
limit to the malware’s power; it
was erased if the iPhone was
The indiscriminate hack may be one of the largest ever on iPhone users, exposing messages, address books, location data and more.
restarted, freeing the user unless
they returned to one of the mali-
cious websites.
Apple did not immediately re-
spond to a request for comment
from The Washington Post.
As Google’s external security
team, Project Zero researchers
are dispatched to find all manner
of weaknesses in popular tech-
nology. Since it was created in
July 2014, the team has found and
reported nearly 1,600 hardware
and software vulnerabilities. But
Project Zero has taken heat for its
tough tactics: After reporting a
JOSH EDELSON/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
bug, the team gives the vendor sults. Earlier this month, Project
90 days to fix it before Project Zero said that about 95.8 percent
Zero discloses the details public- of the bugs it finds and reports
ly. (In some cases, Google will are patched before the 90-day
offer an additional 14-day grace deadline.
period.) But when Project Zero in-
Google contends that the hard formed Apple of the breach on
deadline produces the best re- Feb. 1, it gave the company seven
days to fix it, citing the need for
urgency. The iPhone maker re-
leased iOS 12.1.4 on Feb. 7.
Apple is notoriously guarded
with its products, shielding them
from even well-meaning hackers
looking to probe iOS vulnerabili-
ties. But the company gradually
opened its products up to re-
searchers, and it recently an-
nounced plans to release a hack-
er-friendly phone to certain ex-
perts in the interest of uncover-
ing vulnerabilities more quickly.
At the Black Hat security con-
ference in Las Vegas earlier this
month, Apple’s head of security
engineering said the company
will pay as much as $1.5 million
for a “bug bounty” to any re-
searcher who discovers iOS at-
tack techniques and discreetly
reports them to Apple.
In the blog post, Beer wrote
that he did not want to try to put a
price tag on the attacks, but he
said that “$1 million, $2 million,
or $20 million” seemed low given
the attackers’ ability to “monitor
the private activities of entire
populations in real time.”
And while this operation ulti-
mately failed as it was discovered
by Project Zero, Beer made it
clear that there are almost cer-
tainly more hackers lurking and
preying on people.
“All that users can do is be
conscious of the fact that mass
exploitation still exists and be-
have accordingly; treating their
mobile devices as both integral to
their modern lives, yet also as
devices which when compro-
mised, can upload their every
action into a database to poten-
tially be used against them.”
taylor.telford@washpost.com

DIGEST

ECONOMY
U.S. consumer
spending rose in July
U.S. consumer spending
increased solidly in July as
households bought a range of
goods and services, which could
further allay financial market
fears of a recession, but the
strong pace of consumption is
unlikely to be sustained amid
tepid income gains.
The report from the
Commerce Department on
Friday added to July trade and
inventory data in suggesting that
while the economy was slowing,
it was not losing altitude rapidly
for now. But risks to the longest
economic expansion in history
are mounting, mostly from a
year-long trade war between the
United States and China.
The trade fight between the
two economic giants has
spooked financial markets and
caused an inversion of the U.S.
yield curve, which has stoked
fears that the economic
expansion, in its 11th year, is in
danger of being derailed.
Consumer spending, which
accounts for more than two-
thirds of U.S. economic activity,
rose 0.6 percent last month after
an unrevised 0.3 percent gain in
June, the government said.
But with Washington due to
slap additional tariffs on Chinese
goods Sept. 1 and in December,
there are concerns that
consumer spending could take a
hit.
A survey from the University
of Michigan on Friday showed
its consumer sentiment index in
August dropping by the most
since December 2012.
— Reuters
CORPORATIONS
Vanguard to press
firms on diversity
Top fund manager Vanguard
Group will ask companies about
the gender, age and race of their
directors, adding pressure on
U.S. companies to diversify their
leadership.
Vanguard gave the guidance
in its annual stewardship report
released Friday morning. With
about $5 trillion under
management and known for
products such as the Vanguard
500 index fund, the firm wields
much influence over executives
and directors at major U.S.
harassment in Hollywood and
elsewhere.
Investors have not been as
focused about adding minorities,
however, and their gains have
lagged.
Vanguard stopped short of
seeking director-by-director
details from companies, saying
in its report it wanted
descriptions “at least on an
aggregate basis,” which a
spokeswoman called sufficient.
Other companies have gone
further and detailed the specific
race and gender of directors in
their proxy statements.
— Reuters
BERNAT ARMANGUE/ASSOCIATED PRESS ALSO IN BUSINESS
A plane takes off from Madrid-Barajas International Airport. Ford is recalling more than
Authorities in Spain say that about 40,000 travelers will be affected 550,000 trucks and SUVs in
by strikes on rail and air services during one of the travel peaks of the North America because seat
year. Ground staff of Iberia Airlines at Madrid and Barcelona airports backs may not properly restrain
launched a two-day strike Friday over working conditions, salaries people in a crash. The recall
and what they call abuse of temporary contracts by the carrier. covers certain 2018 through
2020 F-150 pickups, 2019 and
2020 Super Duty trucks, 2018
and 2019 Explorer SUVs, and
companies. Pressure has grown on U.S. 2019 and 2020 Expedition SUVs.
In addition, Vanguard asked companies to bring more women All have manual driver or front
boards to spell out their views on into senior leadership roles in passenger seat-back recliner
diversity, to broaden their search recent years. It has been mechanisms. Also included are
for minority candidates, and “to hastened by the #MeToo some 2020 Explorer and Lincoln
prioritize adding diverse voices movement, a response to Aviator SUVs with rear seats
to their boards.” accusations of sexual assault and with manual seat-back
mechanisms.
Volkswagen must forfeit
greenhouse gas emissions
credits and is lowering the fuel
economy ratings on 98,000
vehicles after the Environmental
Protection Agency said vehicle
software overstated real-world
performance. Volkswagen said
Friday it had agreed to a court
settlement worth $96.5 million
to reimburse eligible customers
for the fuel economy
restatement.
The U.S. Chamber of
Commerce called on the Trump
administration and California
officials to find a middle ground
on automobile efficiency
standards that federal agencies
plan to slash, warning of
“potentially dire consequences”
without a workable compromise
that continues to improve fuel
economy. The Chamber’s call is
the latest sign of corporate
opposition to the Trump
administration’s proposal to cap
vehicle fuel-efficiency and
greenhouse gas standards after
2020 and revoke California’s
authority to set their rules, a
plan under final review.
— From news services
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26,650 Real Estate Mgmt & Dev 6.1 Corn $3.6975 +0.5 Silver $18.34 +4.5
Leisure Equipment & Prod 6.1 Crude Oil $55.10 +1.7 Soybeans $8.6900 +1.5
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Air Freight & Logistics 5.5 Gold $1,529.40 –0.5 Sugar $0.1114 –2.9
26,150 Textiles & Apparel 4.7 Natural Gas $2.29 +6.2 Wheat $4.6250 –3.2
Construction Materials 0.8
25,900 Health Care Providers 0.8 Value of $1000 invested for the past: week year
25,650 Tobacco –9.0
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Diversified Consumer Svcs –9.3 Exchange-Traded (Ticker) % Chg $600 $1000 $1400
Nasdaq Composite Index 7962.88 +2.7 –1.6 Wireless Telecomm Svcs –58.3 Coffee (COFF.L) 0.2
8020 Copper (COPA.L) 0.4
7970 International Stock Markets Corn (CORN.L) 1.4
7920 Weekly 1 Year % Chg
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Americas Close % Chg –40% 0% +40% Crude Oil (CRUD.L) 2.1
7870
Brazil (Bovespa) 101,114.70 3.5 Gasoline (UGAS.L) –0.2
7820 Canada (S&P/TSX Comp.) 16,442.07 2.5 Gold (BULL.L) 0.3
7770 Mexico (Bolsa) 42,658.15 7.0 Natural Gas (NGAS.L) 5.0
Europe Silver (SLVR.L) 5.6
S&P 500 Index 2926.46 +2.8 +0.9
Eurozone (DJ Stoxx 600) 379.48 2.2
2940 France (CAC 40) 5480.48 2.9 Local Gainers and Losers
Germany (DAX) 11,939.28 2.8
2910 U.K. (FTSE 100) 7207.18 1.6 Value of $1000 invested for the past: week year
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Australia (ASX 200) 6604.22 1.2 American Woodmark $82.37 14.8
China (CSI 300) 3799.59 –0.6 Intelsat SA $20.68 12.4
2850
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Japan (Nikkei) 20,704.37 0.0 Burke & Herbert Bk $2275.00 9.9
Dow Jones 30 Industrials Bowl America Inc $16.02 7.5
Cross Currency Rates Emergent Biosol $43.80 7.3
Weekly 1 Year Weekly 1 Year
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AmExp 120.37 2.2 13.3 McDonald's 217.97 1.5 33.9 AGNC Investment $14.87 –4.0
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Apple Inc 208.74 3.0 –7.2 Merck 86.47 1.8 26.2
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Caterpillar 119.00 4.3 –14.4 Nike 84.50 5.0 3.8 K12 Inc $26.35 –4.4
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Cisco Systems 46.81 0.4 –0.7 Pfizer Inc 35.55 3.5 –14.3
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Spherix Inc $2.05 –6.6
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Bank Prime
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s account hacked

BY M ARIE C . B ACA
Twitter CEO and co-founder
Jack Dorsey’s account was
hacked Friday, demonstrating
the potential vulnerabilities of
even the most high-profile social
media accounts.
Starting Friday afternoon,
Dorsey’s @jack account began
unleashing a stream of more
than a dozen tweets and
retweets, including obscenities,
shout-outs, threats and racial
slurs. The tweets remained on
the account, which has 4.2 mil-
lion followers, for less than an
hour before Twitter removed
them.
“Intel is there’s a bomb at
Twitter HQ,” read one of the
tweets. “Shoutout to Ron and
Kyle,” another said. Many of the
tweets were tagged with #Chuck-
lingHella.
The company said in a tweet
Friday evening that the phone
number associated with Dorsey’s
account “was compromised due
to a security oversight by the
mobile provider.” The hacker was
then able to use the phone num-
ber to compose and send tweets
via text message using the plat-
form’s tweet-via-SMS feature.
Twitter said the issue has been
resolved, and that there is no
indication their systems were
compromised.
In a statement, a Twitter
spokeswoman added that the
company looked into the bomb
threat and “can confirm it was
not credible.” The accounts men-
tioned by the hacker while con-
trolling @jack appeared to be
suspended Friday afternoon.
Dorsey’s account was compro-
mised in 2016 by the hacking
group OurMine.
The event raises questions
about vulnerability of even high-
profile accounts at one of the
largest social media companies
in the world. Dorsey’s account —
like other high-profile accounts
— would likely have been well-
shielded as an obvious target.
Political leaders, including Presi-
dent Trump, use the platform to
share news and opinions. If com-
promised, a hacker could use
them to make political claims or
even try to start a war.
It was also unclear why the
tweets — which violated numer-
ous rules with offensive language
and even a pro-Nazi retweet —
stayed up so long. Twitter has
previously boasted about tools to
catch policy-violating content
quickly.
The hack comes as social me-
dia companies are under intense
public pressure to implement
more effective content-monitor-
ing procedures. The platforms
have struggled to balance polic-
ing extremism and hate speech
with creating a forum for free
expression.
In June, Twitter announced it
would begin labeling rule-break-
ing tweets from national politi-
cal figures, including Trump,
with a message that says: “The
Twitter Rules about abusive be-
havior apply to this Tweet. How-
ever, Twitter has determined that
it may be in the public’s interest
for the Tweet to remain avail-
able.”
marie.baca@washpost.com

Tax cut bypassing Congress appears in play

BY J EFF S TEIN
The White House is still consid-
ering a plan to bypass Congress to
enact a tax cut on capital gains,
according to a senior administra-
tion official, although President
Trump appeared to rule out the
idea last week and expressed con-
cern that it could be perceived as
“elitist.”
On Friday, Trump tweeted
about the proposal to unilaterally
index capital gains to inflation,
responding to an op-ed backing
the idea with the comment. He
asked: “An idea liked by many?”
A White House spokesman de-
clined a request for clarification
on the meaning of the president’s
tweet. Trump also retweeted an
op-ed, authored by Sen. Ted Cruz
(R-Tex.) and anti-tax advocate
Grover Norquist, pushing the ad-
ministration to back the plan to
index capital gains to inflation.
The comments add to the con-
fusion surrounding the Trump
administration’s position on the
capital gains proposal and his tax
plans more generally. Last week,
Trump appeared to confirm that
indexing capital gains to inflation
could be done without the ap-
proval of Congress, telling report-
ers: “Many people like indexing,
and it could be done very simply.
It could be done directly by me.”
But the next day, Trump ap-
peared to back down, telling re-
porters: “I’ve studied indexing for
a long time and I think it will be
perceived — if I do it — as some-
what elitist. I don’t want to do
that. . . . I think indexing is really
probably better for the upper-in-
come groups.”
The capital gains tax cut would
let investors who are selling as-
sets, like a stock or a home, use the
inflation-adjusted value of their
initial purchase when making the
sale. The higher initial price
would reduce the taxable income
from their sale of the asset, reduc-
ing the amount they pay in taxes.
The Trump administration is
looking to bolster the economy
amid fears of a slowdown from
the trade war with China. But a
number of economists have ar-
gued the capital gains tax cut
would do little to stimulate new
spending or generate additional
growth, because it primarily
would cut the amount that rich
people pay in taxes. Tax cuts for
the poor or middle class tend to
have greater stimulative effects,
because those groups spend the
money, boosting economic activi-
ty.
A report by the Center on Budg-
et and Policy Priorities, a left-
leaning think tank, found that
86 percent of the benefits of in-
dexing capital gains to inflation
would flow to the richest 1 per-
cent of Americans.
The push from the president’s
allies may revive the capital gains
proposal. The plan has been
backed by Larry Kudlow, the pres-
ident’s top economic adviser, and
Russell Vought, acting director of
the White House Office of Man-
agement and Budget.
It is also not clear whether the
administration has the legal au-
thority to pull off such a maneu-
ver on its own. In 1992, during the
George H.W. Bush administra-
tion, the Justice Department’s Of-
fice of Legal Counsel said in a
memo that “Treasury does not
have legal authority to index capi-
tal gains for inflation by means of
regulation.”
jeff.stein@washpost.com
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Kashmir’s history
The Aug. 17 editorial “India’s dark moments in
Kashmir” said, “Kashmir was partitioned in 1947 at
the end of British rule. Pakistan controls one part,
India the other.” In fact, at the time of independence,
India was partitioned, and Pakistan was created as a
new country. After the partition of India, the
princely state of Jammu and Kashmir had the option
to join India, join Pakistan or remain independent.
Its ruler, the maharajah of Kashmir, Hari Singh,
opted to stay independent.
However, in October 1947, just two months after
the partitioning, Pakistani tribal militias invaded
Kashmir, leading the ruler of Jammu and Kashmir to
join India, which led to Indo-Pakistani War of
1947-1948. The conflict ended with a U.N.-mediated
cease-fire along a line that was eventually named the
Line of Control.
The 1965 war between India and Pakistan was the
second conflict between the two countries over the
status of the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
After the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, and under
the 1972 Simla Agreement signed by the then-Indian
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Pakistani Presi-
dent Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in the Indian hill city Simla,
India and Pakistan formally established in Kashmir
the Line of Control between the two nations,
creating what is known today as Indian-controlled
Kashmir and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.
Subhash Vohra, Falls Church
JOE BUGLEWICZ/GETTY IMAGES
Controllers on display in Las Vegas on Aug. 2.
Don’t call it a sport
As a youth sports coach and practicing physician
for more than 15 years, I have seen firsthand the
well-documented decline in youth sports participa-
tion and rise in childhood obesity. It was with a sense
of concern that I read the Aug. 18 Sports article
“Forever hungry for success” about e-gaming. It
would have been better in the Style section. Although
declining sports participation and childhood obesity
are complex problems, equating e-gaming to sports
does our youths a disservice.
I am not against e-gaming. It certainly has its place
in the entertainment realm. What is a parent to
respond when a child responds to a suggestion to play
basketball, “But I already play a sport: ‘Dota 2’ ”?
Brett Hofmann, Princess Anne
‘From her beacon-hand . . .’
Ron Charles’s Aug. 15 Critic’s Notebook,
“Lazarus’s invitation is engraved on our souls”
[Style], about the true meaning of Emma Lazarus’s
poem “The New Colossus,” responded beautifully
and poetically to the Trump administration’s recent
outrageous attempt to abuse history and distort true
American values in a relentless and shameless effort
to justify unconscionably racist and immoral immi-
gration policies.
I hope the article will be widely read and appreci-
ated, especially the text of the full original sonnet,
and then taped to the door of every refrigerator in
the United States.
Thomas Murphy, Rockville
GENE J. PUSKAR/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fred Rogers in 1984.
For neighbors who are parents
Many thanks for the Aug. 13 Style article “Neigh-
borly advice for parents, too,” which reminded
readers of the huge contribution to children and
parents Fred Rogers made in the 1960s, 1970s and
1980s — helping children through difficult times,
such as the assassinations of the Rev. Martin Luther
King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. Rogers even gave
examples of how parents might help their children
process tragedy.
As a psychotherapist, I particularly appreciated
that the article succinctly pointed out that Rogers’s
goal was to help children learn to manage anger,
develop self-regulation and find acceptable ways to
express their feelings.
I remember the very warm feelings I felt as a
mother of three children under 5 and hearing Rogers
remind me, “I like you just the way you are.”
Sheila L. Cohen, Chevy Chase
Why focus on them?
Did no one see the white privilege in the Aug. 18
Metro article “Marching in the dark to spotlight a
painful past”? An article detailing the remembrance
of a painful slice of slave history in the United States
ended by talking about a white family’s struggle to
live in Nelson County, Va.
Brett Emmerson, Alexandria
Fair enough
The Aug. 16 Metro photographs “Fun at the fair in
day and night” noted regional county fairs, but it did
not mention that the Arlington County Fair was also
going on. Our fair is great!
Pamela Van Hine, Arlington
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A deliverer
of joy
Regarding the Aug. 20 Retropolis
article “Remembering the women’s hos-
pital that became a Trader Joe’s”
[Metro]:
I have always been proud that I, a
longtime feminist, gave birth to a
daughter at Columbia Hospital for
Women attended by an all-women team
of doctors and nurses. During my stay,
that winter of 1992, I called it “Camp
Columbia,” as there were regular an-
nouncements for nursing and baby-
bathing classes. My daughter visited the
hospital the year before it closed so she
could see where she started her life.
While others may see condos and Trad-
er Joe’s, I still see the ghost of a hospital
that brought me my greatest joy.
Tamar Abrams, Falls Church
MIT-western
ASSOCIATED PRESS “The empire behind the Kochs’ pow-
Concertgoers in makeshift living quarters at the Woodstock festival in Bethel, N.Y., on Aug. 16, 1969. er,” Suzanne Goldenberg’s Aug. 18
Outlook review of Christopher Leon-
The memory and legacy of Woodstock ard’s “Kochland: The Secret History of
Koch Industries and Corporate Power
in America,” included Leonard’s de-
scription of a “Koch man” as “typically
I grew up in Sullivan County, N.Y., the home of the the mud and rain, was that you had a half-million friends. a Midwesterner from a state
1969 Woodstock festival. So I was disappointed but not As one small example, I happened to be walking near the university.”
surprised that the Aug. 15 Style article “Woodstock: The edge of the crowd when a panel truck pulled up, rolled up Way back in
myth and the muddy truth” didn’t include the sponta- the back door and started selling fresh fruit (at reasonable 1960, I was work-
neous “Forgotten Woodstock” 20th-anniversary festival. prices). The conversation was “After you”; “No, after you”; ing in Wichita and
I was there in 1989, and its reality was the closest of all “No, you were here first.” It may be hard for people today attended a sum-
the festivals to the myth of the 1969 event. It was a week of to understand, for that was a time and place where “peace mer pool party at
peace, love and music, and was the only anniversary show and love” was not a marketing slogan. the Koch house to
ever held on the original site. The local paper said police Another inaccuracy is that “half a million hippies” welcome home
estimated the crowd at near 10,000; when reminded that gathered for the festival. People such as myself bought the Koch brothers
the county board of supervisors had to approve any event tickets because it sounded like a terrific music festival. No who were finish- NICHOLAS KAMM/
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with more than 5,000, I heard, they re-estimated the one knew in advance that thousands would show up ing up their col-
crowd at slightly fewer than 5,000. Melanie, one of the without tickets, the weather would be bad and it would lege spring semes- David Koch
1969 performers, sang, and word was that Edgar Winter, play out as it did. Surely, there were a significant number ter. The school
another 1969 original, showed up but left when the of people who could be labeled as hippies, but in reality, from which Charles Koch and David
organizer told him he couldn’t set up his own equipment the crowd was much more diverse. Koch were returning was definitely
but had to plug and play like everyone else. In any gathering of a half-million people, there is bound not a Midwestern state university.
If any attempt to recapture the dream of Woodstock to be a wide range of experiences. For some, perhaps it was Rather, they came home from the
1969 succeeded, it was this one. a disaster. But for many others, it was a unique and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Roger Cryan, Fairfax memorable experience despite the conditions. I remem- in Cambridge, Mass., from which they
ber watching Jimi Hendrix play his very electric version of both graduated.
I read the cynical article about the original Wood- “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and as I looked around the Presumably the strategies they ab-
stock and the attempted copies. The article, as it applied bowl with so many half-asleep people not moving, the sun sorbed there led to their “mental
to the original, barely scratched the surface and showed slowly rose. Sometimes, things don’t go according to plan, models” and “experimental discovery”
little understanding of the event. and it’s worth getting dirty. that Leonard described in his book.
I was there. The overwhelming feeling to me, more than Gary Malasky, Washington Charles Cole, Oakton
Don’t kill opera
In her Aug. 20 Tuesday Opinion was based on the false premise that
essay, “To save opera, let it die,” Olivia times have changed but opera has not,
Giovetti argued that opera could be and that’s the reason it is losing
saved by letting it die — or rather, audiences. The second part of that
adapting to a new demographic in premise is correct: Opera is losing
listeners. So far as I can figure, from audiences, as is much of classical
the somewhat convoluted argument, music, but not because it plays the
that means modernizing the staging, traditional operas or classical reper-
adding new operas (“M. Butterfly” by toire. Great music is great music, so
Huang Ruo was mentioned) and hav- the operas of Verdi, Wagner, et al.,
ing performers examine the operas continue to live, as does the music of
from the point of view of life here and Beethoven, Bach and Mozart. That
now. does not exclude new operas or musi-
Okay, why stop with opera? Why cal compositions, which should be
not update all that old, musty stuff included as much as possible.
from Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, et al.? Placing operas out of the original
Why not get rid of orchestras that try settings does not necessarily make
to re-create the sound and tempo of them more relevant; it just obscures
the originals (the Hanover Band, say)? the historical element of the work. So
Hey, let’s replace the original “The a major part of the blame for not
Night Watch” with an acrylic group luring more people into the opera and ANDREW HARNIK/ASSOCIATED PRESS
portrait of Amsterdam’s current po- concert halls belongs to both the Otis Ferguson and Stephen Curry, left, on Aug. 19 in Washington.
lice force. Of course, Shakespeare is abundance of media, which has al-
absolutely ripe for updating. That
frumpy language, those silly cos-
most always catered to the popular
tastes, and the elimination of many A slice of good news
tumes, the long-winded soliloquies. music and art classes from elemen-
(Oh wait, that has been going on for tary school up through college. With- The Aug. 19 front-page article “NBA women at Howard. The article includ-
300 years, and yet Shakespeare pro- out exposing young people to opera, star Curry gives Howard gift of golf” ed socioeconomic background:
ductions with the original language there is little chance that it will was a deftly told day-brightener about “While there have always been black
and setting still seem to thrive.) survive, much less grow. a gift of golf from basketball superstar golfers and caddies, the sport requires
A different tack: Operas I’ve seen Giovetti did no favor to opera by Stephen Curry. Curry’s gift was de- too much money and space to be
recently, at small venues or medium suggesting it should just quietly go scribed as seven figures but assumes accessible to many black children.”
ones, are from almost full to full, away. There’s room for classical, mod- that other contributors will help build The article described the mechanics of
presenting operas in a traditional ern and experimental work in opera, an endowed fund. starting golf from scratch at a college:
form with sometimes remarkable re- and certainly room for it alongside Compliments also for putting it on hiring a coach, recruiting athletes and
sults. Even opera companies that the more popular entertainments, but the front page, where day-brighteners figuring out where to practice and
disappear (Baltimore Opera Compa- not without a concerted effort by are rare, and for giving the article play.
ny) tend to be replaced by look-alikes schools, parents and media. Opera enough space to include a little sus- Ferguson, the young man who had
(Lyric Opera Baltimore). In short, not remains the most complete art form, pense and background. the conversation with Curry, was in-
a well-reasoned argument, and prob- incorporating great music, singing, The article told how Otis Ferguson, strumental in laying the groundwork
ably not accurate. acting and dance. We owe it to future then a junior at Howard University, but temporarily lost contact with Cur-
David E. Silber, Bethesda generations not to let a great art form had a chance conversation with the ry when basketball season intervened.
die. basketball hero, which led to Curry’s But their story had a happy ending.
Olivia Giovetti’s Aug. 20 essay Rosemarie Rauzino-Heller, Rockville decision to fund golf for men and Darden Chambliss, Ashburn
Lessons for Silicon Valley
Does Paul Musgrave fall into the Dark Enlighten- self-governing society. rectly addressing the question of larger, anchoring
ment’s own web with his warning, in “Plato and Humanities instruction is not just a Bayeux ends, American Sociological Association then-
Proust can’t save Silicon Valley” [Outlook, Aug. 18], tapestry to be admired; it equips all of us to ask the President Mary Romero organized the just-
that the answer is not more humanities education “if they should” questions. concluded 2019 annual meeting around the theme
but instead “better regulatory oversight”? Is the Monte F. Bourjaily IV, Alexandria “Engaging Social Justice for a Better World.”
real problem with a generation-long focus on The concept of social justice defines the condi-
standards-based education that measures success Political scientist Paul Musgrave surprising- tion in which there is a fair distribution of socially
through multiple-choice tests rather than more ly, given his field, omitted the role of the social produced goods and services and argues that a fair
sophisticated metrics of critical and analytical sciences in his interesting double critique of the distribution recognizes that nearly all of what
thinking that cultivate students’ capacities to ask hubris of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and the humans enjoy is so produced. It expresses not a
questions, research options and engage in in- social problems it produces, on the one hand, and sentimental ideal but an empirical truth of socio-
formed debate? How will the regulators get their the claims of humanities professors that the logical study, that as Jane Addams warned, “The
instructions if those we elect don’t legislate as we correction to this hubris is more education in the good we secure for ourselves is precarious and
direct? In democracy, we are the regulators. humanities on the other. uncertain . . . until it is secured for all of us and
As a high school humanities teacher at a STEM We can’t speak for political science, but we can incorporated into our common life.”
school, I empathize with Musgrave’s concern for say that sociology is much concerned with what Requiring courses in sociology might give Silicon
ethics. Confucius, Aristotle and Niccolò Machiavelli Musgrave identified as a core problem in the tech Valley workers a framework grounded in science
would agree that it must be taught. Without this sector: lack of consideration of ends beyond the (and self-interest) for considering the social conse-
instruction, citizens — who are the consumers, object of an immediate project or profit. From the quences of their actions.
business people, politicians and regulators — field’s beginnings, sociologists have sought to Gillian Niebrugge, Washington
cannot have the informed discussions and debates remedy what a founder Harriet Martineau termed Patricia Lengermann, Washington
necessary to create the accountability Musgrave “the supreme dread of everyone who cares for the The writers are the founders of the ASA Section
wants and that the founders built into the constitu- good of nation or race . . . that men should be adrift on the History of Sociology and teach sociological
tional system. Education is the foundation for a for want of an anchorage for their convictions.” Di- theory at George Washington University.

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Pinterest takes a step toward trust
The social media platform bars vaccine fearmongers and offers reliable information instead.
H
OW TO explain that one of the most
effective medical innovations of all time is
experiencing a crisis of confidence? That’s
the situation with vaccines, which save
millions of lives every year and especially help
children fight disease.
A tide of “vaccine hesitancy,” reluctance to get
inoculated because of unfounded fears and misin-
formation, is rising in the United States and
throughout the world. The World Health Organiza-
tion has identified vaccine hesitancy as one of the
10 most urgent public health challenges of this year.
The WHO director-general, Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus, pointed out recently that 20 million
children worldwide simply lack access to vaccines
because of war, weak primary health-care systems,
poverty or unstable governments. But hesitancy
among those who do have access is often the result
of misinformation on social media, which can
spread quickly.
For example, last spring, panic spread among
parents in Pakistan because of a scaremongering
video on Twitter that showed children seemingly
China snuffs out
a dissenting voice
The shuttering of a think tank
is a setback for freedom.
T
HE UNIRULE Institute of Economics is as
unthreatening as it sounds. Since 1993, the
small free-market think tank in Beijing
has been doing its bit to promote eco-
nomic and political reform in China via the usual
intellectual methods of publishing, teaching and
conference-sponsoring. For many years, in fact,
Unirule’s ideas were considered helpful, or at least
not unhelpful, by the Communist Party authorities
intent on overcoming the poverty imposed by
decades of misguided policies.
Under President Xi Jinping, however, there is
no space for peaceful expression of liberal ideas,
even those that were officially tolerated, or
encouraged, before he took power in 2012. And
Unirule has been definitively shut down. On
Monday, the think tank issued a statement
announcing that local authorities in Beijing had
declared it “unregistered and unauthorised.” This
was not entirely surprising. Unirule had been
under increasing official pressure; last year, the
group’s landlord abruptly canceled its lease at the
government’s behest, forcing Unirule to operate
out of coffee shops until it found new offices. Staff
were forbidden to travel abroad. A month ago,
Unirule was told it was about to be banned,
allegedly for operating an unauthorized website.
The think tank’s name is a reference to the
liberal democratic ideal of “universal rules,” as in
the laws that apply equally in all fields of
endeavor, whether political, economic or cultural.
Mr. Xi operates according to a rather different
notion, which is that all Chinese must submit to
the party’s rule, and because he runs the party,
that means they must submit to him. Increasingly,
he promotes a personality cult and a penchant for
mass political campaigns reminiscent of China
under Mao Zedong. This is a setback for all those
A deadly fire that could have been prevented
Had two District agencies done their jobs months ago, a man and child probably would still be alive.
I
f D.C. government agencies had done what
they were supposed to do — i.e., their jobs — it
is more than likely that two people who were
killed in a rowhouse fire, including a
9-year-old boy, would still be alive.
That’s the inescapable and tragic conclusion to
be drawn from the revelation that a D.C. police
officer had alerted two other city agencies to
dangerous conditions in the dwelling but that no
action was taken to address the problems. The
failure is inexcusable, and answers are needed.
Was this the fault of individual employees, or the
result of systemic issues, or both? And what is
being done to ensure that there is no recurrence?
“It is clear that our agencies should have done
more to better protect our residents,” said City
Administrator Rashad M. Young. That’s a pro-
found understatement. Five months before the
Aug. 18 fatal fire at 708 Kennedy St. NW, a police
LOCAL OPINIONS
This New Deal-era community still inspires today
The Aug. 22 front-page article “A community built
to last” was very inspiring and uplifting. As I read the
article, a part of Virginia history was unveiled that
I never knew, even though I grew up in rural
Southampton County, home of Nat Turner. Hamp-
ton, Va.’s, Aberdeen Gardens housing project evolved
in the 1930s with two-story brick houses built by
African Americans for African Americans. This piece
of history provides hope for the dilapidated row-
houses of Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago and other
inner cities across the nation that are populated with
the descendants of slaves who migrated from the
South in search of a better life.
These dream homes in Hampton emerged be-
cause of a grant written by leaders from Hampton
Institute for President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New
Deal. According to the article, whites tried to take
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collapsing after getting an expired vaccine. The
video was obviously fake, but the panic was not, and
it forced the suspension of a national immunization
campaign.
Social media has also been responsible for
spreading misinformation about vaccines for mea-
sles, a highly contagious illness that can have
serious complications. So far this year in the United
States, there have been 1,215 individual cases of
measles, mostly unvaccinated individuals, the high-
est number of cases since 1992.
Last year, Pinterest, the social media platform,
disabled search for terms such as “vaccines” or
“cancer cure” because it realized the results were
filled with misinformation. The platform says it
discovered that, online, “anti-vaccine content is
contagious” — it spreads quickly because it is more
accessible, more visually compelling and more
widely spread than scientific data.
Now, the platform has taken a laudable step
toward changing this dynamic. On Aug. 28, Pinter-
est announced that it will provide information from
only leading public health institutions, including
Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting in Beijing on July 2.
Westerners who hoped, or dreamed, that China’s
increasingly capitalistic economic ways would
gradually pave the way for a freer political system,
as well.
That was the process Unirule itself had been
established to promote. And intellectuals associat-
ed with the group refused to give up on that hope,
even after it became clear that Mr. Xi was bent on
crushing liberalism. Their persistence is probably
at least part of the reason Unirule has been shut
down. In 2018, Xu Zhangrun, a Unirule fellow and
officer responding to a dispute between the
landlord and tenant noticed unsafe conditions
and potential fire code violations. His March 22
report, portions of which were written in bold for
emphasis, strongly recommended that the Depart-
ment of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA)
and D.C. fire department inspectors respond. The
officer sent five emails over a period of two
months to the two agencies before an inspector
from the DCRA finally went to the house.
The DCRA inspector went three times to the
property but could not get inside and closed the
case. Fire department inspectors, Mr. Young told
The Post’s Peter Hermann, didn’t take action
because they assumed it was a matter for the
DCRA.
Why wasn’t a search warrant sought to allow
entry into the house? On what basis did the DCRA
close the case? Why was so little credence or
the properties until the president of Hampton
University appealed to Eleanor Roosevelt, who
visited the neighborhood and declared, “They will
not be moved.” The houses still stand just like the
“Emancipation Oak,” which served as a place to train
teachers and now is on the Hampton University
campus. Can this community effort be duplicated
today? Yes. We can call it Project 2019. Eliminate
urban blight and provide housing for working
families whose dreams have been deferred.
This article showed the power of historically black
colleges and universities, the impact of Franklin
Roosevelt’s New Deal, the strength of Eleanor
Roosevelt, and the skill of the African American
architects and builders who created these dream
homes in the 1930s.
Evelyn Adkins Carter, Upper Marlboro
the WHO, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, the American Academy of Pediatrics
and the WHO-established Vaccine Safety Net, “a
global network of websites providing reliable
vaccine safety information.” Moreover, it won’t
show comments, recommendations or ads, so this is
not just a case of displaying correct information
next to the dodgy, but rather a genuine effort to
present authoritative data to its 300 million month-
ly users.
The principle here is worthy: With free speech
comes responsibility, in this case, to not spread
misinformation that can lead to illness and death.
Other social media platforms are also acting against
anti-vaccination information, but Pinterest is bold-
er and should be emulated.
As both the Ebola and polio inoculation cam-
paigns have shown lately, having an effective
vaccine is only part of the battle. Populations must
trust the vaccine and those who administer it. Social
media should not provide a stage for misguided
people to destroy that trust, and digital platforms
can do much to help rebuild it.
MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
a law professor at Tsinghua University, published
a lengthy critique of Mr. Xi in which he mocked the
Communist ruler and warned that “in one fell
swoop, China will be cast back to the terrifying
days of Mao.” For speaking truth, to — and about
— power, Mr. Xu’s punishment was the loss of his
job, at least temporarily, a punishment that has
now been extended to his Unirule colleagues as
well. In snuffing out this dissenting voice, Mr. Xi
seems not to care that he has converted his critic’s
prediction into a prophecy.
attention given to repeated warnings from a police
officer who clearly went out of his way to raise the
alarm about illegal and unsafe conditions?
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has ordered police,
fire and DCRA officials to conduct internal
reviews and also commissioned an independent
audit. Four employees have been placed on
administrative leave pending the investigations.
The DCRA is an agency with a troubled history,
and some D.C. Council members have proposed it
be restructured and broken up. Administration
officials had opposed the change, arguing that
reforms are already underway that will improve
the agency’s performance.
That might well be the case, but it is of no solace
to the families and friends of Fitsum Kebede, 40,
and Yafet Solomon, 9. We hope the council
undertakes its own rigorous review of these tragic
events.
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Don’t fall for the Va. GOP’s distraction
Virginia Republicans seem to be confused about
extreme risk protection orders, also called “red
flag” laws, which are meant to disarm at-risk
people.
Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) said the state
doesn’t need an extreme risk protection order, or
ERPO, law because emergency custody orders are
already on the books. Some Republicans in Rich-
mond are backing a bill to disarm people subjected
to these orders.
An emergency custody order comes with deten-
tion for a medical evaluation, which is not only a
high bar to weigh risk but also perpetuates the myth
that mental illness is a root cause of gun violence.
Contrast this with the House of Delegates’ true
ERPO bill, sponsored by Del. Richard C. “Rip”
Sullivan Jr. (D-Fairfax), which aims to temporarily
disarm “a person who poses a substantial risk of
injury to himself or others,” approved by a judge.
ERPOs save lives by preventing suicides, but
they’re also preventing mass shootings and dom-
estic-violence homicides. Gun-friendly Florida en-
acted an ERPO law after the shooting in Parkland.
Don’t fall for the GOP’s “red herring” bill.
Mike Fox, Crozet, Va.
The writer is a member of the Charlottesville
chapter of Moms Demand Action.
For a more perfect Team
We the Fans of the Washington Nationals, in
Order to form a more perfect Team, establish a
Winning Record each year, insure fan Tranquility,
provide for an unbeatable Defense, promote the
team Welfare, and secure the Blessings of a World
Series title for the District and our Posterity, do
ordain and establish this Constitution of the Wash-
ington Nationals.
Article I. Sign Anthony Rendon. Now.
Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of
the Fans of the Washington Nationals present the
Thirty-first Day of August in the Year of our Lord two
thousand and nineteen.
Lynda Allen, Fredericksburg, Va.
Apologies are not enough
The Aug. 25 Metro article “Jailed for 82 days —
because of honey” detailed the deplorable interac-
tions of Leon Haughton with the U.S. government.
Mr. Haughton’s story should be of significant con-
cern to all residents of this country. Mr. Haughton
was jailed because of the incompetence of several
government organizations, including Customs and
Border Protection, Immigration and Customs En-
forcement and a federal district court.
That someone can be arrested and imprisoned for
possessing bottles of honey shows that we need to
change our drug laws. Laws that prohibit the posses-
sion and sale of certain chemicals have led to the
travesty Mr. Haughton suffered and the incarcera-
tion and ruination of thousands of people.
In Mr. Haughton’s case, all the federal officers
involved in this ridiculous incident should be pun-
ished or fired (including the dog that “recognized”
an illegal drug called honey). And Mr. Haughton
should be awarded significant monetary damages
for the way he was inappropriately treated. Apolo-
gies are not sufficient.
David Griggs, Columbia
Committed to fighting drugs
The Aug. 25 front-page article “For years, fenta-
nyl has flowed across the border and through the
mail” omitted the U.S. Postal Service’s aggressive
efforts to keep dangerous drugs from entering the
United States from China and other countries.
The Postal Service is aggressively working to
implement the Stop Act. During Congress’s delibera-
tions over the Stop Act, we expressed concerns that
several proposed provisions would be impractical to
implement. We worked closely with the House and
Senate committees of jurisdiction to explain our
position on the issue and develop solutions. Ultimate-
ly, Congress adopted many of our proposals in the
final version of the Stop Act.
The Postal Service doesn’t generate advance elec-
tronic data (AED) on inbound packages; foreign
posts provide it to us. Through bilateral efforts with
foreign posts and other international postal organi-
zations, we have substantially increased the percent-
age of AED provided to us and continue to advocate
for increased AED requirements.
Meanwhile, the Postal Service and the Postal
Inspection Service work closely with the Depart-
ment of Homeland Security, CBP and other federal
law enforcement agencies to investigate criminal
activity and combat trafficking of illicit drugs.
The Postal Service operates in every community
in the United States and sees the impacts of
addiction every day. We are committed to taking all
necessary actions to combat the opioid crisis and
criminal use of the mail.
David Partenheimer, Washington
The writer is manager of public relations for the
U.S. Postal Service.
Mr. Trump’s unacceptable plug
After reading the Aug. 27 front-page article
“Summit at president’s Fla. golf club would come
with unique challenges,” I have heard the ulti-
mate chutzpah of this president.
Inviting the Group of Seven summit to his Doral,
Fla., golf club to feed the coffers of the Trump empire
is the most ludicrous, audacious, horrendous idea
since his despicable idea to build a wall between the
United States and Mexico. Has he no shame to
advertise his property at a meeting of world leaders?
The reputation of the United States is in dire
jeopardy. Will someone step up to make certain that
this does not happen? I guess we will just have to
wait and see if anyone is brave enough to tell the
president that this idea is unacceptable.
Alice L. Haber, Frederick
C OR R E C TI ON
The Aug. 28 editorial “Can capitalism be socially
positive?” misstated the terms of a corporate govern-
ance proposal by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
Under the bill, workers of large companies would
have the right to elect 40 percent of the firm’s board,
who would not necessarily have to be union mem-
bers or environmentalists.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 , 2019 . THE WASHINGTON POST
COLBERT I. KING
The problem with
decriminalizing
prostitution in D.C.
I
s it acceptable to residents of the District that
their government might decriminalize the sale
of the bodies of women and men, many of them
transgender, to satisfy male desires? If
D.C. Council members David Grosso (I-At Large),
Robert C. White Jr. (D-At Large), Anita Bonds (D-At
Large) and Brianne K. Nadeau (D-Ward 1) get their
way, the Reducing Criminalization of Commercial
Sex Amendment Act of 2019 will accomplish just
that. It will also boost the sex-trade industry here,
fueling demand for more prostitutes from the cus-
tomers who descend on the District because it is the
place where it is safe to buy sex.
If that bill is enacted, the District will be the only
jurisdiction in the United States other than some
areas of Nevada, which has about 20 legal brothels, to
decriminalize prostitution.
Under the D.C. law, prostitutes (or sex workers)
would not be prosecuted for their sale of sex. The law
would also give a pass to men out to buy sex from
people lured into “the life” — a term I heard during a
Tuesday meeting with a survivor who described the
sex trade she engaged in years ago along the main
drag of 14th Street NW in Columbia Heights. She and
other survivors and their supporters insist that “the
life” is pure exploitation of human beings for the
customer’s profit and pleasure — or, as one lawyer
investigating decriminalization put it, “legal sexual
entertainment for men.”
That view, however, runs counter to the stance of
sex-trade promoters, who look upon prostitution as a
progressive value. To them, selling the body is just a
job like any other. They portray prostitutes as
independent contractors dealing in an alternative
commodity.
If the D.C. measure becomes law,
an informal brothel might be
coming your way.
The proposed bill propagates that view. I support
decriminalization measures that include providing
the means for sex workers to get out of that business.
But this bill merely seeks to make business condi-
tions better, not produce resources and methods for
people who are in “the life” to leave it.
Nadeau, one of the bill’s co-sponsors, reflected the
spirit of that approach when she said, “We have to be
making sure we’re looking after our constituents.
Those who engage in sex work are our constituents.
Let’s make sure that people engaged in sex work are
being fully supported.”
The bill decriminalizes brothels where no one
benefits economically for the use of home, apart-
ment or dwelling place. And that means that Na-
deau’s “constituents” and their johns, or buyers, can
openly operate a retail sex business in homes, hotels,
health clubs and hangouts. (The bill leaves un-
touched the criminal prohibition against “selling”
space to operate a house of prostitution.)
Thus, an alert to families and patrons of parks,
playgrounds and houses of worship: If the measure
becomes law, an informal brothel might be coming
your way, to your neighborhood, to your block or next
door.
The council might hold hearings on the bill when
it returns from recess in September. Should it resort
to its usual pattern, the hearings will be one-sided,
and stacked with witnesses who will tout the sex
trade as a desirable and respectable industry, claim
that prostitution offers viable employment for entre-
preneurs, and implore the District to leave that
business alone.
Little is likely to be heard from experts who think
the city should help sex workers escape and stay out
of the business.
If the council holds true to form, people lured or
forced into “the life,” and who have real-life experi-
ences to share, will be in short supply.
Vednita Carter, a prostitution survivor and found-
er of a service organization that helps people escape
prostitution and sexual exploitation, said during a
recent interview: “I would say to those student
activists who want to perpetuate the sex trade,
prostitution is not work, it is sexual abuse at its
worst. Imagine having sex with your boyfriend
15 times a day, maybe more on some days, every day.
Nothing can turn this into a good sexual experience
even if it is with someone you love. I would say ‘try it
for yourself,’ however, I wouldn’t put anyone through
this kind of torture, not even my enemies.”
The council won’t want to hear testimony like that.
City lawmakers most likely will be satisfied to hear
johns, pimps and promoters praise the quartet of
Grosso, Nadeau, White and Bonds for producing
measures to keep prostitution alive and well in our
nation’s capital.
Unless District voters make it clear they feel
otherwise.
kingc@washpost.com
ALEXANDRA PETRI
Trump has a plan! His plan is for nothing to go wrong.
F
irst off, do not worry about the economy. There
is nothing to worry about. Who’s worried? If
you were to worry, that would make the
economy second-guess itself and grow agitat-
ed. Don’t worry about the economy. It’s fine. Worry
about the Space Command.
Second, if there were any problems with the econo-
my (there aren’t, but if there were), they would have
nothing to do with the president. The last thing that
would possibly impact the economy are his trade
policies. It is “badly run and weak companies,” as he
wisely clarified on Twitter.
Third, if there were to be any kind of downturn (not
necessarily a bad thing — at hotels, people pay for
such a service!), there is a plan. The plan is for it to be,
as Mick Mulvaney told a gathering of donors last
week, “moderate and short.”
This plan is without flaw and, indeed, is the
approach the administration is taking to all forms of
crisis. That is, I am pleased to report, why there are
currently no crises whatsoever.
Consider, for instance, the new rollback of meth-
ane regulations — even over the objections of people
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in the affected industries. A similar, ingenious philos-
ophy is being applied here. To try to limit the amount
of methane released into the Earth’s atmosphere
would send the Earth a message that we thought it
might be getting to the point where additional meth-
ane and carbon dioxide could be dangerous to the
planet, and that realization might cause the Earth to
panic, hyperventilate and destroy all human life.
Nothing depresses a planet so much as the sugges-
tion that its continued health is hanging by a very
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fragile thread. The last thing we would want the Earth
to do is think there was a problem. If we were to take
any steps that made it look as though we were aware
of a problem and were addressing it, well, that would
be the end for all of us. No, we must keep it in a state of
blissful ignorance.
Indeed, we have taken this attitude broadly in all
areas of our lives. Take health care, for instance. If you
do not have a plan that allows for bad things to
happen, you will be amazed, for instance, how many
fewer times you will visit the doctor and how much
less prescription medicine you will obtain! Probably
this is because you are healthier.
Similarly, imagine what might happen if we were to
make any effort to regulate guns. If guns knew we
were thinking of regulating them, why, something
terrible might happen in the United States, on a
regular basis, even.
This is why we are not even contemplating a plan
for removing bedbugs, should they ever come to the
Trump Doral resort. If you devised a plan to remove
them, then for that plan to work, bedbugs would have
to show up in the first place — simply unthinkable!
A17
Taking back
our country
starts with one
conversation
BY J ANE F ONDA
I’
m scared. I’m scared for our democracy, for
our ability to live together in community
across lines of race, class and religion. I’m
scared for my grandchildren and for the
planet. The country is contorted and polarized, with
the flames of hate fanned by leaders at the highest
level. But I saw a path forward recently in Scranton,
Pa., where I spent a hot, humid evening knocking on
doors with Working America. (By the way, when I do
this, I only give my first name and am rarely
recognized.)
Steve, in his 40s, had a bad day at work but was
willing to speak with me. He said there’s no
politician who will fight for him. He doesn’t trust any
of them. That’s why he doesn’t pay attention to any
news. He voted for the Green Party last time as a
protest, but he also doesn’t like immigrants getting
public benefits. We learned all of this because, like
with every Working America conversation, we start-
ed the conversation by asking Steve what mattered
to him, what was on his mind. At the end of our
questions, Steve said, “Can I ask you something?
Why do you do this?” He wanted to keep talking.
Edith is in her 50s. She likes what President
Trump has done but doesn’t like the way he talks
sometimes. She thinks cutting government red tape
is important, and she’s concerned about outside
interference in our elections. As we were leaving, she
told us, and maybe herself, “I don’t talk to anyone.
Why did I just talk to you?”
Last year in San Diego, Sharon said she was
100 percent for Trump, but when I told her Trump’s
health-care bill would allow her son’s insurance
company to stop covering him because he has a
serious preexisting condition, she seemed to stop
breathing for a moment. “I had no idea,” she gasped.
“I can’t let that happen.”
Fear can be so powerful, but what
overcomes fear is connection.
It’s voters like these we need to talk with — those
who are dispirited and confused like Steve; ambiva-
lent like Edith; and uninformed like Sharon. A
respectful conversation that started with their con-
cerns and opinions hooked each of them, so when
Working America goes back, the door is open to
information from a new trusted messenger, which
can encourage them to take action on issues they
care about and vote with that new information in
mind.
Authentic engagement works — it’s a no-brainer.
For years now, the researchers measuring the most
effective way to win votes have told us that face-
to-face contact has the biggest impact. The results in
2018 show us there’s an important swingable seg-
ment of the electorate that will pull the lever for
Democrats if we can reach them. And the science
says voters are even more attentive to a canvasser
conversation if they’re a member of the organization
that’s delivering the message.
I’ve seen the power of face-to-face contact since I
became an activist five decades ago. In Modesto,
Calif., I met some of the 800 volunteers who knocked
on doors for more than a year before the 2018 elec-
tion, and in Scranton I met the professional
organizers, many of whom are working-class people
of color. They talk with people year-round, reaching
out to those hungry for information and a
connection.
As tangled as things seem right now, the way we
get out of this mess is straightforward. We outsmart
the Facebook algorithms and digital foreign med-
dling by holding face-to-face conversations. I've
seen it. The process builds trust, and it sends a
message: You matter enough that I'm here on your
doorstep.
Fear can be so powerful, but what overcomes fear
is connection. We don’t need to choose between
Democratic base voters and swing voters. All work-
ing people, no matter their race, ethnicity, gender,
faith, or sexual orientation or gender identity, need a
stake and a say in our society — and they all need to
hear that they’re part of “We the People.” Talking
with them, not at them, is the best way to do it.
Working America and other organizations are help-
ing volunteers spend time in working-class
communities around the country to have those
conversations.
I’ve learned over my long life as an activist that
people can change. That process starts with trust,
best done through person-to-person organizing.
People such as Steve are looking for someone to help
them sort things out and to dare to care again. We
can start the process of healing and winning back
our country one conversation at a time.
The writer is an actress and activist.
We must stand firm in our refusal to plan for
anything but good outcomes.
The second you make a plan for something bad to
happen, you may as well be sending it an engraved
invitation. If we make any plans, that will invite
people to see us as not confident, and then the bears of
the economy will fall upon us and destroy us. Oh no, I
have mentioned them! Now they will hear us.
No. Our plan for if the economy is BAD (shh, not so
loud, you must not frighten the economy) is for it not
to be BAD. If we have a RECESSION (hush), our plan
is for it not to be the bad kind, and for it to leave
quickly.
Umbrellas invite rain. Safety harnesses inspire
people to drop from great heights. Do not get me
started on what helmets do.
This is why the Titanic brought so few lifeboats on
board. To bring too many is to imply that a disaster
might happen, in which case such lifeboats might be
needed and might lead the ship to lose confidence in
itself and capsize. This would have been disastrous!
The last thing we need is to invite disaster.
Twitter: @petridishes

A18
WSJ reporter covered Xi’s
family. Then China banned him.
BY G ERRY S HIH
beijing — China effectively ex-
pelled a Wall Street Journal report-
er from the country, one month
after the newspaper published a
report detailing allegations that a
cousin of Chinese leader Xi Jinping
was involved in high-stakes gam-
bling and potential money laun-
dering in Australia.
Chinese authorities told the
Journal on Friday that press cre-
dentials would not be renewed for
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tional who has covered Chinese
politics out of the paper’s Beijing
bureau since 2014. Those creden-
tials expired Friday.
China sometimes withholds or
refuses visas to punish interna-
tional news organizations for what
the ruling Communist Party per-
ceives as unfavorable coverage. But
the decision amounted to the first
time that the Chinese government
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Wong was one of two authors of
a July 30 report disclosing a far-
reaching Australian law enforce-
ment and intelligence probe into
Ming Chai, one of Xi’s cousins and
an Australian citizen. The report,
citing Australian officials and casi-
no documents, detailed Chai’s lav-
ish spending in resorts owned by
the gambling mogul James Packer,
and Chai’s links to what Australian
officials deemed to be a money-
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sensitive and taboo reporting sub-
ject of all, given the chasm between
the Communist Party’s ideological
rhetoric and the vast, often hidden
wealth accrued by elite families
since the party turned toward state
capitalism in the 1980s.
“We can confirm that Chinese
authorities have declined to renew
Chun Han’s press credentials. We
continue to look into the matter,” a
spokesman for Dow Jones, pub-
lisher of the Wall Street Journal,
said in a statement to The Wash-
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China’s Foreign Ministry, in a
faxed statement, said the Chinese
government handled affairs con-
cerning foreign news organiza-
tions and correspondents in accor-
dance with the country’s laws.
“We firmly oppose that a few
foreign reporters are maliciously
tarnishing China, and we don’t
welcome such reporters,” it said.
The Foreign Correspondents’
Club of China said in a statement
that Wong was the sixth journalist
to leave the country under such
circumstances since 2013 and con-
demned the move “in the strongest
possible terms.”
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and Twitter this month said they
would remove nearly 1,000 state-
backed accounts that were spread-
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the anti-government protests in
Hong Kong.
After the Journal published the
story following a joint investiga-
tion with Australian media, the
Chinese Foreign Ministry de-
nounced the reporting as “ground-
less accusations based on rumors”
and an attempt to smear China.
Wong left the mainland Friday
night for Hong Kong.
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D.C. fire
deaths
“This is all we know. It’s not a job. It’s a lifestyle. It’s everything.”
John Shields, president of Glenn Dale Golf Club
linked to
violations
HOME DID NOT MEET
CODE, OFFICIALS SAY
Blaze at illegal rooming
house killed two tenants

BY P ETER H ERMANN

Dangerous conditions inside

what officials describe as an ille-
gal rooming house that burned
nearly two weeks ago in North-
west Washington “contributed to
the deaths” of a man and a 9-year-
old boy, according to court docu-
ments.
It is the first time authorities
have publicly linked a long list of
alleged building code violations
— including a locked interior gate
and bars on windows that could
not be opened from the inside —
to the fatalities from the fire at
708 Kennedy St. NW.
The newly filed application for
a search warrant offers a glimpse
into the federal criminal investi-
gation into the Aug. 18 fire that
killed Fitsum Kebede, 40, and the
boy, Yafet Solomon. Both lived in
the basement.
Police and fire officials de-
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One last round
In Prince George’s, family-owned Glenn Dale Golf Club will shut down after more than 60 years
BY R ACHEL C HASON
AND J USTIN W M. M OYER
A group of regulars will camp this weekend
on the 16th hole of Glenn Dale Golf Club. The
course’s owner has been tearing up for weeks.
And every golf cart was taken Friday, with
throngs of golfers weaving through the
course, determined to get in one last round.
For more than 60 years, the family-owned
course has been a staple of this Prince
George’s County community. Glenn Dale will
be shuttered Monday, following years of
financial woes like those that led to closures
at other courses in the county.
“We thought it would be here forever,” said
John Shields, the course’s soon-to-be former
president. “We were wrong.”
Shields’s roots at Glenn Dale run deeper
than the turf that covers its rolling hills. His
father and uncle — identical twins — bought
it in 1958, and Shields, 71, grew up on the
property in an antebellum manor house built
by Gabriel Duvall, an early Supreme Court
justice. He and his brother and sister still live
on the grounds, where they raised families.
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City inquiry
is sought
on betting
contract
2 D.C. Council members
seek examination of
small firm with no staff
BY F ENIT N IRAPPIL
AND P AUL S CHWARTZMAN
Two members of the D.C.
Council are asking city agencies
to examine a local firm that is
supposed to do most of the work
on a $215 million no-bid gam-
bling contract despite the fact
that it has no employees and
listed executives on its website
who didn’t work there.
The inquiries from council
members Robert C. White Jr.
PHOTOS BY MICHAEL S. WILLIAMSON/THE WASHINGTON POST (D-At Large) and Elissa Silver-
TOP: Glenn Dale Golf Club President John Shields looks toward the ninth hole man (I-At Large) came after a
on the golf course his father and uncle purchased in 1958, which will close Washington Post investigation
Monday. ABOVE: Groundskeeper Rob McAlister watered the green like any into Veterans Services Corp., a
other day Friday. “Our motto is: ‘Pride till the end,’ ” Shields said. business with the largest chunk
of the city’s lottery and sports
betting contract.
The Greek gaming company
Intralot selected the firm to com-
ply with a D.C. law that requires
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Second Metro board member resigns Montgomery expands subbing pool

Price had faced criticism
for his role in the ethics
inquiry of Jack Evans
BY F ENIT N IRAPPIL
AND R OBERT M C C ARTNEY
Corbett Price resigned Friday
as the District’s second voting
Metro board representative, fol-
lowing growing demands for his
ouster over his attempts to con-
ceal an ethics violation by D.C.
Council member and former
Metro board chairman Jack Ev-
ans.
In a letter to Mayor Muriel E.
Bowser (D), Price cited an up-
coming surgical procedure and a
“personal family matter” as rea-
sons for stepping down.
“My past level of commitment
and dedication to the WMATA
Board and the wonderful organi-
zation it represents cannot be
sustained, so I have made the
only appropriate decision,” wrote
Price.
Price resigned two days after
the Metro board’s ethics commit-
tee met privately to consider an
investigation of his conduct, and
that of ethics committee member
David Horner, during the Evans
probe, according to two individu-
als familiar with the meeting who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity because of the confiden-
tial nature of the discussion.
The committee did not take
action Wednesday, the individu-
als said, but appears to have been
prepared to do so if Price had not
resigned. It was unclear whether
the committee will now investi-
gate Horner, who represents the
federal government on the Metro
board.
A spokesman for Maryland
Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said Friday
that Hogan is “not satisfied that
we have gotten to the bottom” of
corruption at Metro and will
continue to push for “investiga-
tions and audits.”
Price, a health-care executive
and one of Bowser’s political
donors, was appointed by the
mayor to the regional transit
board in 2015. The D.C. Council
approved him for a second term
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A bachelor’s degree
is no longer required for
temporary teaching gigs
BY D ONNA S T. G EORGE
Every school system needs
substitute teachers, but in recent
years there has been a shortage
in the suburbs of Maryland. So
when classrooms lacked a teach-
er, administrators would scram-
ble, filling the gap with another
educator at their school.
In Montgomery County, an
average of 120 substitute teacher
requests went unfilled each day.
But for the coming school
year, which begins Tuesday, that
could change in the state’s larg-
est school system.
Hoping to broaden the pool of
substitute teachers, school sys-
tem officials have reduced re-
quirements for the job: No lon-
ger is a bachelor’s degree the
minimum. Now, applicants can
qualify with an associate degree
or 60 college credits.
“It will make a big difference,”
said Jeanette Dixon, the school
board member who urged the
issue be taken up. Not only will it
help schools cover classes when
teachers are absent, it will ease
the burden on other educators
who have their own work and
have to unexpectedly shift
course, she said.
“Hopefully, after careful
screening, we will get some good
candidates and even some peo-
ple who will be inspired to
pursue a teaching career,” she
said, predicting that the move
could also help diversify the
workforce.
School system officials under-
scored that Montgomery had
previously set a higher bar in its
qualifications than eight nearby
school systems.
Several of those systems rely
on minimum requirements of 60
credits — including Prince
George’s County and Virginia’s
Fairfax County — while others
require 48 or 30 credits. Charles
County, in southern Maryland,
requires a high school diploma
for daily substitutes and a four-
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Growing number of evangelical Christians take online cues on anti-Semitic beliefs
BY J ULIE Z AUZMER
bensalem, pa. — As she cleans
up the counter where the
teenagers at her church’s
Vacation Bible School ate their
cookies and yogurt, Luba Yanko
complains about the state of the
country. President Trump is
trying to act on Christian values,
she believes. But from what she
reads online, it seems that a
certain group keeps getting in the
way.
Trump, she says, “is
surrounded by a Zionist
environment with completely
different values from Christians.
It’s kabbalist. It’s Talmudic values.
Not the word of God.”
In other words: It’s the Jews’
fault.
“Why do we have pro-abortion,
pro-LGBTQ values, and we do not
have more freedom to protect our
faith? We are persecuted now,”
Yanko says about evangelical
Christians like herself. “[Jews]
say, ‘We’ve got America. We
control America.’ That’s what I
know.”
It’s an anti-Semitic viewpoint
shared by a number of
evangelical Christians across the
country. The relationship
between Christians and Jews has
been fraught for almost 2,000
years since the death of Jesus.
Today, with a president who levels
accusations about Jews and who
encourages his fans to mistrust
the mainstream media, a growing
number of evangelicals are
turning to the Internet for
information and finding anti-
Jewish beliefs there.
Christians take their cues for
what to think about Jews from
many sources. They include the
long history of evangelicals’
support for the state of Israel and
Trump, who this month declared
that Jews who vote for Democrats
— meaning more than 70 percent
of all Jews in the United States —
are “disloyal.”
In churches across America,
evangelicals say they don’t believe
they can get unbiased facts from
any traditional news outlet that
Trump has branded “fake news”
After decades serving Prince George’s, family golf course will close Monday
GOLF FROM B1
“This is all we know,” Shields
said Friday, looking out from the
clubhouse — the only home the
family’s 15-year-old labradoodle
Nacho has known — to the ninth
hole. “It’s not a job. It’s a lifestyle.
It’s everything.”
After not making a profit for
20 of the past 30 years, and
losing more than $1 million in
the past five years, Shields said
his family had to make the hard
decision to sell. On Monday,
developer L.M. Sandler & Sons
will take control of the 125-acre
property, where it plans to build
single-family homes and town-
houses.
Zoning changes proposed by
Prince George’s County Council
Chairman Todd M. Turner (D-
District 4), who represents the
area that includes Glenn Dale,
paved the way for the project.
Turner, who has spent years
working with Shields and neigh-
bors in the area, said he is
optimistic the development will
be one “that the community can
be supportive of.”
“Unfortunately that means
we’re closing an iconic member
of the community,” said Turner,
who plans to play his final round
Saturday at Glenn Dale. “Golf is a
tough business.”
A welcoming presence
Shields took over the course
after his father died in 1980. At
the time, Prince George’s was a
mostly white, working-class sub-
urb and most golf courses in the
area were segregated. Shields
said that when minorities came
to the course after he took con-
trol, some white golfers weren’t
pleased.
“They would talk about you so
you could hear it,” said Shields,
who is white. “They would make
you feel uncomfortable.”
Shields said he quickly worked
to make Glenn Dale a place
where everyone felt welcome. He
asked people who expressed
prejudice to leave and had to fire
one employee, telling him: “It’s
not the way that we’re going to
be.”
He said the club’s regulars now
more closely mirror the diversity
of Prince George’s, one of the
wealthiest majority-African
American jurisdictions in the
country.
On Friday, Kevin Davis, who
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(though many are fans of Fox
News). They watch TV networks
other than Fox and read major
news websites but don’t trust
them. Instead, they seek news
from alternative websites and
YouTube videos in which fiery
pastors decry Jewish influence.
Pastors can be unwilling to
address these beliefs head-on.
After a churchgoing evangelical
Christian was charged with
killing a Jewish woman at a
synagogue in Poway, Calif., this
year — an act officials say he
prefaced with a declaration
including both anti-Semitic
tropes from the Internet and
Christian theology from church
— some pastors called for a
national conversation about how
evangelical pastors can make
clear that such beliefs aren’t
acceptable in their pews.
That doesn’t sit well with many
evangelical pastors’ insistence
that their job is to preach the
Bible, not stray into current
events.
At Christian Life Center, the
evangelical church north of
Philadelphia where Yanko, a
housekeeper, espoused anti-
Semitism at the snack counter,
lead pastor Mark English was
unruffled to hear about Yanko’s
statements.
“I’m not in government. It
would be like me trying to
understand the insurance
business,” he said, when asked
about Yanko’s allegation that
Jews control the government.
“The government is so complex —
I don’t think that any one group
controls everything.”
He felt no need to address his
congregant’s anti-Semitic beliefs,
either one on one or from the
pulpit.
Historically, evangelicals have
thought of themselves as very
good friends of the Jews, not as
anti-Semites. The two faiths share
the Old Testament and basic
watchwords of tolerance such as
loving your neighbor as yourself.
Evangelicals often think fondly of
Jews as their religious forebears
— after all, Christ’s early followers
were Jews of 2,000 years ago —
Glenn Dale Golf Club was busier than normal Friday as patrons visited for one last round before the course closes. After operating the
majority of the past 30 years without making a profit, the 125-acre property will be taken over by developer L.M. Sandler & Sons.
grew up in Prince George’s and
has played at Glenn Dale for 20
years, reflected on the course’s
history.
“There were places where peo-
ple of my color couldn’t come,”
said Davis, 62, who is black.
“Now it’s people of all walks of
life and colors. I look at the kids
— and I see kids of all races. I’m
just really sad to lose it.”
For years, it’s been a meeting
place for citizens’ associations
and political groups, although
Shields said the club never took
sides or charged fees for such
gatherings. The bar at the end of
the course, the Black Hole, host-
ed live bands, karaoke and poker
games.
“We joke that it was kind of
like our ‘Cheers,’ ” said Jason
Beaulieu, a 48-year-old attorney
who started playing the course
with his father at age 10. “A place
where everyone knows your
name.”
On Friday, Shields was prepar-
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even if they think Jews are
missing the crucial Jesus part of
the story. Major evangelical
publications regularly denounce
anti-Semitism as evil, in the
strongest terms.
Evangelicals tend to fiercely
defend and embrace the state of
Israel, a Jewish nation, because of
its central role in their own faith.
The nation is the site of Christian
holy spots, including the places
where Christians believe Jesus
was crucified and resurrected.
Certain interpretations of
Revelation say that Jewish
presence in Israel is important for
Christians, because it will take
the homecoming of Jews to the
land of Israel to bring about the
return of the Messiah.
But Christian theology has also
gone hand in hand with anti-
Semitism for centuries. To this
day, some Christians believe that
the Jews killed Jesus and that
modern Jews should bear the
guilt.
“There are plenty of
evangelicals who have views
about Jewish power, who assume
Jews are controlling things. Jerry
Falwell [Sr.] joked about how
Jews could make more money,”
said Daniel Hummel, a historian
at a Christian study center at the
University of Wisconsin who
recently published a book about
evangelicals and Jews.
Hummel described the deep-
rooted anti-Semitic beliefs among
some evangelicals as both
cultural and theological, with the
cultural beliefs coming from their
conservative neighbors and the
theological beliefs dating to early
Christianity, when Christians first
started casting themselves as the
new chosen people replacing the
Jews.
“Some associations in certain
conservative areas, with Jews
being liberal, cosmopolitan,
international and that being a
threat to American Christian
identity: You’re going to find
those views, weirdly, right
alongside expressing support for
Israel,” Hummel said. “Someone
like that would be vaguely or even
strongly anti-Semitic but also
ing for the course’s Sunday good-
bye party — where he expects as
many as 1,000 guests — drafting
severance packages for employ-
ees and making sure the course
was running as smoothly as it
had for years.
“Our motto is: ‘Pride till the
end,’ ” he said.
Boom and bust on the green
Glenn Dale prospered in the
1980s amid a golf boom that saw
a glut of courses built, often by
municipal governments or with-
in housing developments. Troy
Beck, a PGA professional and the
course’s golf director, who has
worked there since the late
1980s, said hundreds of children
came through Glenn Dale’s
camps each summer, some later
securing golf scholarships at top
colleges.
“It doesn’t feel like work,” she
said. “It’s a great vehicle for
developing the whole child . . .
pro-Israel.”
Politically, evangelicals find
themselves sharing common
cause with right-wing anti-
Semites. They might have little
else in common, but both groups
are enthusiastic supporters of
Trump, who strives to court that
evangelical fandom. He has
flirted with anti-Semitism before
this month. During his campaign,
he retweeted and defended an
image from a white supremacist
website, showing Hillary
Clinton’s face over a pile of money
and a six-pointed Jewish star.
Deborah Lipstadt, a historian
who is one of the foremost
researchers on anti-Semitism,
said she has noticed that
politically conservative talking
points echo the language
common to anti-Semites much
more often. She pointed to Sen.
Josh Hawley’s (R-Mo.) speech at
the National Conservatism
Conference, in which he used the
word “cosmopolitan” 12 times.
“This class lives in the United
States, but they identify as
‘citizens of the world.’ They run
businesses or oversee universities
here, but their primary loyalty is
to the global community,” Hawley
said, referring not to Jews but to
liberal elites.
“I’m sure most of the people
who appeared there would say,
‘I’m a good friend of Jews,’ and
they probably are,” Lipstadt said.
“But if you took out the word
‘cosmopolitan’ and put in the
word ‘Jew’ — it sounds like a
traditional anti-Semitic trope. . . .
It’s the kind of thing that will
attract the anti-Semites.”
Evangelicals are not inherently
anti-Semitic, she noted. But they
tend to share these conservative
suspicions of the news media and
of elites, and to view themselves
as the victims of the elites — a
worldview that predisposes some
to align themselves with anti-
Semites.
Some online video-makers who
espouse anti-Semitism do so with
an openly Christian imprimatur.
Aryeh Tuchman, the associate
director of the Center on
Extremism at the Anti-
and turns them into ladies and
gentlemen.”
Boom led to bust, however —
mirroring years of struggles
faced by private courses across
Maryland’s second-largest juris-
diction. When contemplating a
sale in 2003, Shields told The
Washington Post that the course
had been in financial trouble for
a decade, with revenue down
40 percent since 1990.
Glenn Dale wasn’t the only
course stuck in the rough. Also in
2003, the Robin Dale Golf Club in
Brandywine was put up for sale.
Three years later, a sand and
gravel company bought it and
mined the land. Then in 2010,
Marlborough and Lake Arbor
country clubs closed, prompting
the county council to commis-
sion a study about the state of
Prince George’s golf courses.
The 2013 study by the Mary-
land-National Capital Park and
Planning Commission featured
photos of bleak conditions at
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Defamation League, points to
several YouTube channels where
pastors promote a mix of
Christian theology and anti-
Jewish animus.
TruNews, a nightly newscast
with more than 18 million views
on YouTube, bills its purpose as
“to offer Christians a positive
alternative to the anti-Christian
bigotry of the mainstream
media.” Jews and Israel are a
constant target for Rick Wiles, the
Florida pastor who runs the show.
In the past month alone, Wiles
has posited that sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein might not have
died but instead been spirited
away to a safe house in Israel;
listed the names of “Hollywood
Jews” who produced the pulled-
from-theaters satirical movie
“The Hunt” and suggested that
they actually want to hunt and
kill white Christians; called the
non-Jewish billionaire “Rabbi
Warren Buffett”; said the
government could take away
guns from anyone who criticizes
Israel; referred to Ivanka Trump,
who is Jewish, as “Yael Kushner”;
and more.
Steven Anderson, the pastor of
a Baptist church in Arizona who
caused outrage during the Obama
administration by saying he was
praying for the president’s death,
runs a YouTube channel with
more than 62 million views. In
sermons online, he claims, “The
Jews believe that it’s okay for
them to steal from gentiles”; says
that Jews and gay people run
Hollywood; and emphasizes that
Jews killed Jesus and are not
God’s chosen people.
Tuchman fears that YouTube
will treat with kid gloves a video
creator who is also a pastor.
“These channels may present
themselves as mainstream, as
religious Christian channels,” he
said. “There may be reluctance to
take them on, and they give them
the benefit of the doubt that this
is their religious belief, even if
they may potentially violate the
terms of service on YouTube or
anywhere else.”
Farshad Shadloo, a spokesman
for YouTube, did not comment
MICHAEL S. WILLIAMSON/THE WASHINGTON POST
Marlborough and Lake Arbor:
Equipment dumped in the
woods, a trashed clubhouse, a
pool with standing water. It
found that the problem in Prince
George’s was fueled by an over-
supply of golf courses due to
overbuilding in the 1990s and
early 2000s, combined with a
decline in golfers.
So, is golf dead?
“Camps are going down be-
cause you ask any 10-year-old, he
says: ‘Why are we out here? It’s so
hot. I have to walk,’ ” Beck said. “I
can’t compete with air condition-
ing and phones.”
Jay Karen, chief executive of
the National Golf Course Owners
Association, said reports of golf ’s
demise have been exaggerated.
Between 1986 and 2006, the
number of U.S. golf courses grew
44 percent to about 17,000. Since
then, that number has decreased
by 8 percent, but golf, an $84
billion industry, continues to
find fresh linkspeople, with
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specifically on Wiles, Anderson or
other pastors, but said, “We
enforce our policies consistently,
and regardless of viewpoint,
including religious beliefs.” That
includes a new policy instated in
June that bans statements that a
race or religious group is superior
to justify discrimination, even if
the video does not explicitly call
for violence.
For Wanda and Doug Meyer,
like many other evangelical
Christians across the country,
these YouTube channels are their
primary source of news. They
turn to YouTube to understand
events that seem vitally
important to them, like policy in
Washington that will impact their
religious freedom at home in
Brandon, Fla.
Wanda, who taught in a public
elementary school for 33 years,
and Doug, a semiretired
insurance specialist, have given
up on newspapers and TV
channels, the outlets that Trump
— whom they adore — calls “fake
news.” On YouTube, they find the
pastors who pray with Trump at
the White House, the pastors they
really trust.
“It’s right there on YouTube.
You don’t hear it on mainstream
media. We know Kenneth
Copeland. We know Paula White.
We know David Barton,” Wanda
said. “Different ministers, that’s
where we get our news. People
who know what’s really going on.”
They believe what they hear,
even when the information is
false: That humans have nothing
to do with climate change. That
Muslims are trying to implement
laws in U.S. states that would
allow them to kill Christians with
impunity. That a shadowy group,
including wealthy Jews as
leaders, meant to use Hillary
Clinton to bring about “one world
government.”
Wanda says they try to “stay up
to date” on the “spiritual battle . . .
financed by the illuminati and the
Rothschilds.”
After all, she trusts the source
has a higher authority: “These are
ministers we know, we respect.”
julie.zauzmer@washpost.com
2.6 million players stepping onto
a green for the first time last year.
Whether a particular course
can stay in business is more a
function of local market forces
than golf ’s ability to endure,
Karen said.
“An owner may say: ‘I’m work-
ing really hard for not a lot of
money, but sitting on an $8 mil-
lion asset,’ ” he said. “It doesn’t
take rocket science to decide
what to do.”
Shields declined to discuss the
sale price of the course, and L.M.
Sandler & Sons, the Virginia
Beach-based developer, did not
return requests for comment.
Shields said he will keep his
home as part of the deal, even as
his surroundings change. Inside
the clubhouse, a typed letter
from the Shields family to its
customers is pinned on a wall,
headed “Why We Are Closing.”
“We do not want to close; it is
out of necessity,” the letter reads.
“This is not what we had envi-
sioned; it was our hope to pass
the business down to our em-
ployees and family. This is not
just a place where you play golf, it
has been our HOME for 60 years!
. . . Accept this decision or don’t;
but, do not question or ask us to
further defend our actions.”
Lowering the flag
Whatever golf ’s future in
Prince George’s, Glenn Dale
won’t be a part of it. The course
will close after a flag-lowering
ceremony Sunday and final
rounds Monday. Then, there will
only be memories.
Gabby Miller, the University of
Maryland’s 26-year-old junior
golf coordinator, said she’s been
going to Glenn Dale “ever since I
could walk.” She attended Beck’s
camps and came to consider her
a “golf mom.”
“Golf is already a really tough
sport, being a female, not having
too many friends in my school
playing,” she said. “It’s nice being
at Glenn Dale where everyone
accepted me.”
Jim Pratt, 81, has been a Glenn
Dale member for more than 50
years. He and his son were the
only father-son champions in the
history of the club, he said.
“It was just a wonderful place
to have a good day,” Pratt said. “If
you left there and you didn’t have
a fun day, it was your fault.”
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THE DISTRICT
Residents split on clemency for ’80s drug kingpin
Rayful Edmond III has
aided authorities while
serving a life sentence
BY K EITH L . A LEXANDER
A survey conducted by the
District’s Office of the Attorney
General found that residents are
split evenly on whether 1980s
drug kingpin Rayful Edmond
III’s prison term should be cut
short.
The survey, which was re-
leased Friday, was requested by
U.S. District Judge Emmet G.
Sullivan as he considers whether
Edmond should have his life sen-
tence reduced. The U.S. Attor-
ney’s office for the District has
asked that Edmond be granted
early release in exchange for 20
years of cooperating in other
drug cases, but prosecutors have
yet to suggest by how much.
The city report said 510 partici-
pants responded via online sur-
veys, questionnaires at commu-
nity forums and a phone line set
up for residents to call in. Among
those who had an explicit opin-
ion on the request, 239 people
said Edmond should be released
early and 243 people said he
Price is second member to resign from Metro board
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earlier this year.
Price came under fire for his
role in the Metro ethics probe
into Evans, a Democrat who rep-
resents Ward 2 on the D.C. Coun-
cil.
An investigation by the transit
agency found that Evans had
failed to disclose a conflict of
interest arising from his private
consulting work for Colonial
Parking, the District’s largest
parking company that was se-
cretly paying his consulting firm
$50,000 per year.
Records of the probe obtained
by The Washington Post said that
both Evans and Price — in addi-
tion to falsely stating that Evans
was cleared of wrongdoing —
badgered Metro’s general counsel
and maneuvered in other ways to
prevent the findings from becom-
ing public.
The Metro board launched an
ethics inquiry into Evans after
The Post reported how he touted
his position on the D.C. Council
and on the Metro board while
soliciting private employment
from law firms that represent
companies with business inter-
ests in the city. Evans is the target
of a separate federal investiga-
tion into the intersection of his
private employment and official
actions.
Evans resigned from the board
in June after the ethics violation
became public. Price survived a
vote by the D.C. Council to re-
move him from the board.
Council member Elissa Silver-
man (I-At Large), who led the
attempt to boot Price from the
board, said his departure will
help restore the city’s standing at
the transit agency.
“Given other Metro board
members expressed concerns
about his credibility, it was in the
best interest of the District for
him to resign and to have a voting
member who can work well with
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should remain in prison. About
two dozen people were undecid-
ed.
Edmond, 54, oversaw a sweep-
ing cocaine ring in the 1980s that
authorities said fueled the crack
epidemic in the city and contrib-
uted to a rising homicide rate. He
was sentenced to life for federal
drug distribution in the District
and an additional 30 years for
dealing drugs while in prison in
Pennsylvania. That sentence was
to run consecutive to his sentence
of life without parole.
Edmond’s attorney, Jason
Downs, who declined to com-
ment on the survey Friday, is
requesting his D.C. sentence be
ended immediately. Still, pros-
ecutors in Pennsylvania have not
indicated if they, too, would seek
a reduction. Unless they do, even
if Edmond is ordered released
from prison in his federal cases in
the District, he would have to
begin serving his prison term in
Pennsylvania.
Sullivan scheduled an Oct. 16
hearing where witnesses for Ed-
mond are expected to testify
about why he should be granted a
sentence reduction. Sullivan
would probably issue his decision
weeks later.
Sullivan ordered Edmond to
be present at the October pro-
ceeding. At a hearing in May,
Jack Evans, center, talks with Corbett Price, a Metro board representative, on June 27. Evans resigned
his post as Metro board chairman that month, and Price has now resigned from the panel.
our regional partners,” said Sil-
verman, who was joined by Bri-
anne K. Nadeau (D-Ward 1), Da-
vid Grosso (I-At Large) and Rob-
ert C. White Jr. (D-At Large) in
the failed effort to oust Price in
July.
They were opposed by Evans,
Mary M. Cheh (D-Ward 3), Bran-
don T. Todd (D-Ward 4), Kenyan
R. McDuffie (D-Ward 5), Charles
Allen (D-Ward 6), Vincent C.
Gray (D-Ward 7), Anita Bonds
(D-At Large) and Council Chair-
man Phil Mendelson (D).
However, several of the law-
makers who voted against re-
moving Price from the board —
including Cheh and Allen — have
turned on him in recent weeks.
Mendelson said he told the
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Edmond appeared via video on
TV screens from an undisclosed
prison.
As is customary with proposed
sentence reductions, judges want
to hear from victims and their
families before they make a deci-
sion. But federal prosecutors in-
formed Sullivan that no direct
victims were able to be identified
in Edmond’s cases.
Sullivan then asked District
Attorney General Karl A. Racine’s
office if it could survey residents
so they could have a voice in the
process. It was the first time the
office had been asked to seek the
community’s views in an adult
criminal case in such, officials
there have said.
In May, Racine’s office set up
an online Web portal and created
a dedicated phone line where
participants could respond to
questions such as “Should the
U.S. grant Edmond’s prison re-
duction?” Racine’s office also
hosted three public forums and
two smaller sessions for city lead-
ers, including clergy, academics
and neighborhood leaders.
Many who supported Ed-
mond’s release, the survey found,
believed it was too long, and
some noted that it was harsher
than some sentences for murder
and sexual assault.
Some said Edmond could serve
mayor this week “that support
for [Price] is diminishing in the
council.”
Price has said the criticism of
him would deter others from
civic engagement.
“I can understand why we
cannot get corporate leaders to
serve on these boards of the city
because of this foolishness and
nonsense,” Price said in an inter-
view earlier this month.
Throughout the saga, the may-
or has repeatedly defended Price.
She praised him after his resigna-
tion.
“From his efforts to secure a
fair dedicated funding agree-
ment to his work to create struc-
tures that allow for greater effi-
ciency, Corbett has played a criti-
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as a role model for the District’s
youth population and could men-
tor them about staying out of
criminal life. But even if Edmond
is released early, his attorney said
it was unlikely Edmond would
return to Washington because he
would remain in a federal wit-
ness protection program.
Those who were opposed to
Edmond’s release cited the crack
epidemic and record homicide
rate of the mid-1980s. Edmond
was never convicted in any mur-
ders, although authorities have
said as many as 30 killings were
linked to his operation.
Survey coordinators said one
former juror on Edmond’s trial, a
former D.C. detective and a for-
mer FBI agent all wrote that
Edmond should complete his
sentence. The former juror said
that releasing Edmond would
have minimized the time the jury
spent and the security risks they
faced.
Prison reductions, many re-
spondents said, should be re-
served for those who have shown
to have been rehabilitated and
remorseful, not for those who
provide prosecutors with infor-
mation that leads to the arrest of
others.
Racine did not offer an opin-
ion.
keith.alexander@washpost.com
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cal role in building a more stable
and financially sound WMATA —
a system that is able to focus their
attention on safety, reliability,
and capacity,” Bowser said in a
statement.
Price, his relatives and his
companies gave more than
$35,000 to Bowser’s 2014 mayor-
al campaign and inaugural com-
mittee, records show.
A consulting firm owned by
Price’s wife managed the Dis-
trict’s struggling public hospital
United Medical Center between
2016 and 2018. The Council voted
not to extend the contract after
Post stories on the hospital’s fi-
nancial problems and fatal lapses
in patient care.
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Police are looking for a man Rossie D. Alston Jr. was sworn
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deaf woman from out of town Alexandria after a decades-long
who was lost and had asked him career in state court.
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authorities said. on his faith, Alston pledged to
The attack occurred about devote himself to “helping to
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Pennsylvania Avenue and confidence” in a justice system
Walters Lane, according to that “suffers from a lack of self-
Prince George’s County police. esteem.”
After the woman asked for Noting that Friday was the
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Van strikes pedestrian, ‘3 pounds of adorable’
85, and leaves scene
Police are looking for the
driver of a van that struck an 85-
A baby red panda at the
National Zoo’s facility in Virginia
— three pounds of dark reddish-
year-old pedestrian and left the colored, white and black fur — is
scene in Prince George’s County. doing well, zoo officials report.
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the hospital. Conservation Biology Institute
The incident happened about in Front Royal. The zoo
6 a.m. Monday in the 3400 block described the cub in a tweet as
of Bladensburg Road near the “3 pounds of adorable.”
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The driver was “not on the Georgetown Friday
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the van that hit him was a 2015 they are looking for a black man,
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THE DISTRICT
One dead, six wounded following overnight and early-morning violence
Teen in vacant unit is
one of over 110 people
slain in D.C. this year
BY D ANA H EDGPETH
AND J USTIN W M. M OYER
A 16-year-old boy was found
fatally shot Friday morning in a
vacant unit of an apartment
building in Southwest Washing-
ton, following a rash of overnight
and early-morning violence that
left five other people wounded by
gunfire and one person stabbed
in Southeast and Northwest
neighborhoods of the city.
D.C. Police Chief Peter New-
Probe sought in no-bid
sports betting contract
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companies with large public con-
tracts to share a portion of the
work with small local businesses.
The law is intended to create
jobs, expand the local tax base
and grow the District’s economy.
In a document this summer,
Intralot said Veterans Services
would “perform the ENTIRE sub-
contract with its own organiza-
tion and resources.”
Intralot and the leader of Vet-
erans Services, Emmanuel Bai-
ley, already held the city contract
to operate the D.C. Lottery.
But The Post found Veterans
Services appears to have no em-
ployees, based on interviews and
records, and, until recently, tout-
ed executives who didn’t work
there on the company website.
What’s more, Intralot officials
said the work on the new sports
gambling and lottery contract
will be performed by DC09, a
joint venture between Intralot
and Veterans Services. Veterans
Services owns 51 percent of
DC09, but Intralot funded the
creation of DC09 and controls
the company, The Post found.
The story prompted Silverman
and White, who provided a cru-
cial swing vote to approve the
contract, to request D.C. govern-
ment officials review whether
Veterans Services is complying
with local laws.
“It is clear they are just a shell
company,” said Silverman, who
has consistently opposed the
sole-source sports gambling con-
tract.
She asked Attorney General
Karl A. Racine to examine the
validity of the city’s contract with
Intralot.
“I’d like to know if the Intralot
contract can be nullified or revis-
ited given what has been report-
ed about its compliance with the
CBE requirement,” Silverman
wrote in her request, referring to
certified business enterprises.
White is asking Chief Finan-
cial Officer Jeffrey DeWitt, who
oversees the D.C. Lottery, to con-
duct a similar review.
“I am asking the CFO, who
negotiated and lobbied the Coun-
cil to approve the sports betting
contract with Intralot, to report
to us on whether the ownership
structure of VSC complies with
all D.C. laws, how VSC has oper-
ated the D.C. Lottery contract
and how they plan to operate the
sports betting contract with no
employees, and whether VSC
meets all Certified Business En-
terprise program requirements,”
White said in a statement.
White helped the contract
pass on a 7-to-5 vote in July
despite his earlier misgivings
about suspending the normal
procurement process that would
have required the city to seek
competitive bids.
At the time, White said he was
satisfied the contract was the
best deal for the District after
speaking with several of the
parties involved, including Bai-
ley.
Bailey, 56, has donated more
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sham said workers who were
repairing a vacant unit in a
building about 8:30 a.m. in the
200 block of M Street SW discov-
ered the body. He said the teen
was found suffering from a gun-
shot wound, and the workers
called 911.
The boy, identified as Domo-
nique Franklin of Southeast, was
pronounced dead at the scene.
D.C. police reported Franklin
missing Aug. 15, but earlier this
week said he had been found. His
family couldn’t be reached for
comment Friday.
“Whenever you have young
people getting killed in our city
unnecessarily, it’s just heart-
breaking,” Newsham said. “All
these police officers who come
up here and have to see some-
than $30,000 to D.C. political
candidates since 2006, campaign
finance reports show.
On Friday, White declined to
answer questions, including
what Bailey told him about his
company.
Spokesmen for Racine and
DeWitt did not return requests
for comments.
In the past, lottery officials
said questions about subcontrac-
tor performance are a matter
between Intralot and its part-
ners, although they have praised
Intralot for subcontracting much
of the work to local businesses.
In his statement, White also
said he would examine the issues
raised by The Post as he writes
legislation to tighten the rules for
certified business enterprises.
Other lawmakers who voted to
approve the contract did not
return requests for comments on
The Post’s findings, including
council Chairman Phil Mendel-
son (D), and members Jack Evans
(D-Ward 2), Kenyan R. McDuffie
(D-Ward 5) and Vincent C. Gray
(D-Ward 7).
Council member Anita Bonds
(D-At Large) said in a text mes-
sage Bailey “obviously was/is the
principal consultant.”
A week after council member
Brandon T. Todd (D-Ward 4)
voted for the contract, Bailey was
among those who hosted and
attended a fundraiser for his
reelection campaign.
Janeese Lewis George, a candi-
date challenging Todd in the next
year’s Democratic primary, used
Todd’s vote for the no-bid con-
tract and the subsequent fund-
raiser with Bailey to portray her
opponent as a proponent of “pay-
to-play politics in the city.”
In a brief interview, Todd said
her contention was “not factual”
but declined to say more, adding
that he didn’t want to get into “a
back-and-forth in the paper.”
A campaign flier shows that
Bailey was among the hosts for a
July 25 fundraiser, and Bailey
was photographed at the event.
Shown the flier, Todd said Bailey
hosted the event “with 30 other
people” and declined to answer
further questions. Bailey also
gave $1,000 to Todd’s constituent
services fund in 2017 and 2018,
campaign records show.
Lawmakers who voted against
the lottery and sports gambling
contract said the latest revela-
tions reaffirmed their opposi-
tion.
“The slow trickle of new infor-
mation regarding the vendor and
subcontractors — and the lobby-
ists and champions of the con-
tract — clearly demonstrates that
the contract should have been
competitively bid and the final
contract more closely scruti-
nized,” council member David
Grosso (I-At Large) said in a
statement. “Instead, the Council,
under the leadership of Chair-
man Mendelson, rushed to ap-
prove a dubious agreement that
is unlikely to realize the benefits
it promised.”
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thing like this, it impacts them
personally. It just gives us energy
to find the person who’s respon-
sible.”
Newsham said it was “very
frustrating” that a security cam-
era near the building, which is
run by the D.C. Housing Authori-
ty, was not working and that his
department will ask the city
agency “why it wasn’t operating.”
Housing authority officials didn’t
respond to a request for com-
ment Friday.
A police spokesman identified
the apartment complex as Green-
leaf Gardens, which includes
mid-rise apartments and town-
houses. The complex has more
than 200 units, and its website
notes it has “24-hour security.”
The District has seen more
Fire investigators stand outside a destroyed building on Kennedy Street in Northwest Washington on Aug. 20. Two days earlier, a fire
there killed two tenants of the illegal rooming house. Authorities allege that conditions at the home contributed to the deaths.
Code violations at D.C. home linked to fire deaths
FIRE FROM B1
clined on Friday to comment on
the new information contained in
the document and other search
warrant applications. They were
filed in D.C. Superior Court after
the searches were completed at
the house that burned and a
house where the landlord lives
across from Rock Creek Park.
One of the documents says
investigators believe the fire be-
gan in a small basement room in
the rear of the Kennedy Street
house that was rented by Kebede,
who immigrated from Ethiopia 14
years ago and worked odd jobs at
a nearby church.
Tenants have previously de-
scribed the size of the dozen
rooms carved into the house as no
bigger than a queen-size bed.
Police said in one court document
that Kebede’s room measured 51/2
feet by 8 feet and that the only
furniture was his single-sized
mattress and box-frame.
The documents say police
found remnants of what ap-
peared to be a laptop computer
and a power cord in Kebede’s
room, and have sent those items
MARYLAND
Police charge woman with abandoning newborn
BY D AN M ORSE
A 25-year-old Maryland wom-
an accused of abandoning her
newborn child in a patch of woods
faces charges of child neglect and
reckless endangerment, accord-
ing to records made public Friday
in Montgomery County District
Court.
Leticia Guzman of Silver
Spring is due in court again Oct. 4.
She was being held in jail Friday
evening on a $10,000 bond, ac-
cording to court records and jail
officials. Two weeks ago, police
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Area crews
deploy to Fla.
than 110 people slain this year,
according to tracking by The
Washington Post.
In the five other incidents
around the city, no one suffered
serious injuries, but all of the
victims were taken to hospitals.
Police are looking for attackers in
each case.
The outbreak of violence be-
gan about 9:40 p.m. Thursday
near First and Danbury streets
SE in the Bellevue neighborhood.
A man and a woman were stand-
ing outside when a vehicle drove
by and shots were fired, hitting
them both.
The next shooting occurred
about 30 minutes later in the 300
block of 50th Street near Blaine
Street NE, near the Grant Park
neighborhood. Police arrived to
to a federal lab for testing. Au-
thorities said they have not yet
determined how the fire started.
The owner, James G. Walker, has
not responded to interview re-
quests, including one Friday.
Kebede’s sister, Sawit Kebede,
said another brother and their
parents, who live in Ethiopia, are
trying to get a visa to come to the
United States and claim the body,
which remains at the D.C. medi-
cal examiner’s office. Sawit Ke-
bede, who lives in South Africa,
said her parents have an appoint-
ment on Sept. 4 at the U.S. Consul-
ate in Addis Ababa.
Fitsum Kebede had come to the
United States with his wife hop-
ing to continue his successful
career in information technology.
His siblings said he divorced, fell
on hard times and became es-
tranged from his family. They had
no idea he lived in such poor
conditions.
“Oh, my God,” Sawit Kebede,
36, sobbed as she learned the
dimensions of his room for the
first time. “I’m shattered. I don’t
think I can carry on.”
Many of the Kennedy Street
tenants worshiped at Debre Se-
allege, she delivered the baby girl
in her bedroom before leaving her
about 10 feet from a sidewalk.
The child remained in stable
condition Friday and is under the
custody of Montgomery’s Health
and Human Services department.
Court records do not list an
attorney for Guzman.
About 5 p.m. Aug. 16, a man was
walking down a sidewalk along
Tenbrook Drive, pushing an in-
fant of his own in a stroller, when
he heard the baby crying. He
looked into the nearby woods and
saw a naked newborn, according
BY M ARTIN W EIL
Days from its expected Tuesday
landfall in Florida, Hurricane
Dorian has already made itself
felt in the Washington area.
A Maryland search-and-rescue
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find a man with gunshot
wounds.
Then about 11 p.m., another
shooting occurred in the 700
block of 19th Street near Benning
Road NE in the Carver/Langston
neighborhood. A woman said
that while she was eating dinner
in her home at her dining room
table, she heard four or five
gunshots outside. She then real-
ized one of the bullets had come
through her front door and
struck her in the lower back,
police said.
Police searched the area and
found 34 shell casings in the
1900 block of Bennett Place NE
— about two blocks from the
woman’s home.
Just before midnight and then
early Friday morning, there were
lam Kidist Mariam Ethiopian Or-
thodox Church, and that is where
Kebede is to be buried. The sister
said the church is waiting for the
family to come to Washington.
“All they want to do is to be there
to bury their son,” she said.
In addition to determining a
cause of the fire and investigating
the conditions inside the row-
house, officials are looking into
what they have described as fail-
ures by the city in responding to a
police officer’s warning about nu-
merous “life-safety violations” he
noticed after officers went to the
home in March on a routine call.
Inspectors with the Department
of Consumer and Regulatory Af-
fairs and the Fire and Emergency
Medical Services Department
failed to appropriately act on the
warnings, officials have said.
Officials have described a maze
of corridors and rooms through-
out the rowhouse, but a precise
layout has not been revealed.
Police said in court documents
they were searching the owner’s
home for blueprints or “drafts of
building layouts.” The documents
say some areas were built with
two-by-four lumber and drywall
to police. He flagged down an-
other man who wrapped the baby
in a towel.
The child, believed to have
been less than a day old, was taken
to Holy Cross Hospital. There
were no immediate signs of her
mother at the woods, police said.
The next day, though, a woman
arrived at the same hospital, com-
plaining of gynecological condi-
tions but denying she had just
given birth, according to court
records. Physicians soon believed
otherwise, evidenced by several
medical observations, the records
Rockville on Friday and began the
drive to Florida, where it was
expected they might be needed.
Pete Piringer, spokesman for
the county fire and rescue service,
said the caravan, apparently
headed to Orlando, included vans
. SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 , 2019
two incidents along Ridge Road,
a few blocks from Minnesota
Avenue SE in the Benning Ridge
area.
In one, a man told police he
was walking along Ridge Road
near 37th Street SE when he
passed a small group of men and
was shot in the back.
In another, a woman told po-
lice she was “partying” with a
person near the 400 block of
Ridge Road SE when the person
tried to take items from her. A
fight broke out, and the attacker
pulled out a knife and stabbed
her in the ribs before fleeing the
scene.
Police said they do not believe
the two incidents on Ridge Road
were related.
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that were “not consistent with
proper living quarters, safety
guidelines or building codes.”
Officials have said the home
was licensed as a mail-order
pharmacy.
Police officers who were first at
the fire had to pry metal bars off
the front door but could not get
inside because of the smoke.
Court documents say firefighters
who entered the front door en-
countered a second solid-wood
door, and once they broke that
down, found a locked metal gate.
A court document says the
alleged code violations include
windows with security bars that
could not be opened from the
inside, a security door and gate
that also could not be opened
from the inside, four smoke de-
tectors that did not work, an
electrical system not equipped for
the number of tenants, and exten-
sion cords “stretched throughout
the structure.”
It is not clear precisely where
the security door and gate were
located and whether they pre-
vented people inside from escap-
ing the fire.
peter.hermann@washpost.com
stated. The woman, who police
identified as Guzman in the court
records, also was suffering from
an infection and underwent sur-
gery.
That same day, two Montgom-
ery County detectives visited Guz-
man’s residence along Korth
Place. They spoke to her brother,
who provided evidence of Guz-
man giving birth in her bedroom,
according to court documents.
Police said Guzman was re-
leased from Holy Cross this week
and taken to the jail.
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As the traveling party left the
warehouse in a growl of engines,
it included both dogs and doctors,
Piringer said. In addition, a group
from the Fairfax County Fire and
Rescue Department assembled in
Virginia on Friday evening to pre-
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SAFIYA A. HAMID
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WILLIAMS
CATHERINE BETTY WILLIAMS
12/25/11 ~ 8/31/01
It’s been 18 years since God called you home.
We miss your love, wisdom, and courage. God
continues to bless and take care of us.
The Family
DEATH NOTICE
BRYAN
ALBERT VICKERS BRYAN, JR.
Of Alexandria, Virginia died on August 27,
2019 at the age of 92. He was born in
1926 to Marie Gasson and Albert Vickers
Bryan. He graduated from George Wash-
ington High School in Alexandria, Virginia
and then attended Virginia Military Institute
before leaving to serve in the US Marine
Corps Reserve from 1944-1946. Upon his
discharge he attended George Washington
University for one year and then the Univer-
sity of Virginia Law School, graduating in
1950. He practiced law in Alexandria until
1962 when he was appointed a Virginia
State Circuit Judge. In 1971 he was appoint-
ed a US District Judge for the Eastern
District of Virginia. He took Senior Status
in 1991. He was preceded in death by
his wife, Marilyn Morgan Bryan, and a son,
Albert Vickers Bryan, III. He is survived by
a brother, Dr. Henry Gasson Bryan, by two
daughters, Marie Bryan Lyerly (Maurice) and
Vickers Beach Bryan, his son, John Morgan
Bryan (Nancy), three granddaughters, Sarah
Cramer Shields (Matt), Mary Todd Bryan
and Elizabeth Morgan Bryan, and two great-
grandsons, Albert John Shields and Cramer
Clayton Shields.
A commemoration will take place on
Wednesday, September 4 at 10 a.m. at Belle
Haven Country Club, 6023 Ft. Hunt Road,
Alexandria, VA 22307, (703) 329-1448. In
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DEATH NOTICE
CORNELIUS
ELIZABETH CORNELIUS "Bettie"
On Thursday, August 29, 2019. The beloved
wife of John Cornelius; mother of Charles,
Susan, and Robert Cornelius, Nancy Lerch,
and the late Edward Cornelius; mother-
in-law of Debra Cornelius grandmother of
nine grandchildren, Christian Lerch, Tasha
Fanska, Scott, Suzanne and Thomas Cor-
nelius, Kerry Devlin, Bethany McGowan,
Jacob Lerch, and the late Torey Ferguson;
sister of the late Paul and Robert Fuoco,
Mary Rodante, and Billie Fabrizio. Also sur-
vived by two great-grandchildren. Friends
are invited to celebrate Bettie's life at the
Kalas Funeral Home & Crematory, 2973
Solomons Island Rd., Edgewater, MD on
Monday, September 2 from 2 p.m. to 5
p.m. In lieu of flowers, contributions may
be made to St. Jude Children's Research
Hospital, 501 St Jude Pl., Memphis, TN
38105. Online condolences may be made
at:
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FEDOR
Dr. FRANK FEDOR
Died on Monday, August 26, 2019. Frank was
born on August 29, 1928 in McKees Rocks,
Pennsylvania. He was the son of John Vincent
Fedor and Mary E. (Bukovan) Fedor. He was the
loving husband of Margaret M. (Barbush) Fedor,
with whom he cherished 64 years of marriage.
The family moved to Edinburgh, Ohio when
Frank was in his teens. He went off to St. Louis
University to do his pre-medical studies, and
received his medical degree from that school
in 1954. He did his internship at Georgetown
Hospital, followed by three years of training in
Internal Medicine at the Veterans Hospital in
Washington, DC. In 1958, he entered the U.S.
Army with a two year commitment. Frank was
sent to Germany where he established and
operated a Radio-Isotope Lab at the Second
General Army Hospital in Landstuhl.
After Discharge in 1960, Frank opened a private
medical practice in Washington where he
spent the next 44 years doing what he loved-
helping and healing people!
In addition to his wife, Frank is survived by his
four children, Mary Chaiken, husband Frank;
John Fedor, wife Kathy; Susie Collins, husband
Lee; Julie Myers, husband John; grandchildren
Ben and Max Chaiken, Caroline and Eric Mey-
ers, and Emery and Chloe Collins, and a brother
Deacon James Fedor. He was preceded in
death by a daughter Laura Therese Fedor.
A Funeral Liturgy will be held on Monday
September 9, 2019 at 11 a.m. at St. John the
Baptist Roman Catholic Church, 315 N. Con-
stitution Ave., New Freedom, PA 17349, with
interment to follow at the adjoining church
cemetery.
Hartenstein Funeral & Cremation Care, Inc., 19.
South Main Street, Stewartstown, PA 17363 is
assisting the family with services.
KAY
STEVEN BRUCE KAY
Of Washington, DC., died
suddenly on August 19,
2019, at the age of 61.
A native Washingtonian,
Steve was born on Decem-
ber 11, 1957, to Marvin and
Dolores Kay. He graduated from Walt Whit-
man High School in 1975 and went on to
receive a B.S. in Civil Engineering from
the University of Michigan in 1979 and an
MBA from The George Washington
University in 1985. Steve began his career
with the Richmarr Companies, a devel-
opment and construction company his
father and Richard Kirstein founded in
1953. In 1995, drawing on their years
of experience at Richmarr, Steve joined
Richard’s son, Gary Kirstein to form
Encore Development, where they devel-
oped and built their own projects while
also providing construction management
to outside clients.
Steve approached life with boundless
energy, love, and a huge smile. A true
child of the '60s and ’70s, he was a
talented guitarist with a passion for rock
and blues, and he played in several bands
throughout his life, most recently with
his band, Outta The Blues. Steve was
an avid tennis player and a frustrated
golfer. His greatest pleasure by far was
skiing with his wife and children on their
frequent trips to Aspen—his favorite place
on earth.
Steve is survived by his beloved wife and
best friend, Ellen Winer Kay, his adored
children, Andrew, Suzanne, and Caroline,
his mother, Dolores Tauber Kay, a brother,
Craig J. Kay (Stephanie Krupin), and a
sister, Karen Matthews. A private funeral
service was held on August 23, 2019.
Memorial contributions can be made to
The Risa Fund,
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“It’s better to burn out than it is to rust,
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DEATH NOTICE
LeROY
ANDRÉ F. LeROY
Capt., USPHS (Ret.)
On August 29, 2019. Beloved husband of
Dee A. LeRoy (Kittner). Preceded in death
by his parents, Pierre M. LeRoy and Lucie
P. LeRoy (Ducrocq); and by his brother,
Pierre L. LeRoy. His work for the Public
Health Service included testing soil and
water for radiation contamination, as well
as many years of research at the National
Institutes of Health, with a focus on the
metabolism of anticancer drugs. In addition
to his wife Dee, he leaves six loving nieces
and nephews, their families, and many
close friends. A private family service will
be planned at a later date.
PUNGHORST
JAMES JOSEPH PUNGHORST
Born March 1, 1936 in Cincinnati, Ohio and died
August 16, 2019 in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Beloved father of daughter, Jacqueline C. Dillon
and her husband John and Laura E. Pierson
and her husband Neil; grandfather of Nicholas
and Kathleen Dillon and Aiden Pierson. Also
survived by his life long friends Ron, Linda, and
Kent Harris and Tim, Lisa and Mae Rowland.
Jim was an outdoorsman who especially loved
fishing, bird watching and gardening. He retired
from NIH in Bethesda after 30 years of service.
A private service will be held. Donations may
be made to the American Lung Association.
SALZMAN
ESTELLE MILDRED SALZMAN
On Thursday, August 29, 2019,
ESTELLE M. SALZMAN of Silver
Spring, MD. Beloved wife of
the late Leon Salzman; loving
mother of Janet Salzman;
daughter of the late Louis and
Lena Dick. Graveside funeral services will
be held on Sunday, September 1, 2019,
10 a.m. at King David Memorial Garden,
Falls Church, VA. Memorial contributions
may be made to National Jewish Health,
1400 Jackson St., Denver, CO 80206-2762.
Arrangements entrusted to TORCHINSKY
HEBREW FUNERAL HOME, 202-541-1001.
DEATH NOTICE
WRIGHT
CHARLES PARKER WRIGHT
(1933-2019)
Charles Parker Wright died peacefully on
August 14, 2019, at Cape Cod, his favorite
family vacation place of 56 years, surrounded
by his loving wife, children and grandchildren.
He’d had Alzheimer’s for three years and a
throat tumor known for just a month. God
was so very kind in Chuck’s peaceful journey
to heaven under hospice care for only three
weeks. He was a faithful, grateful witness
of Christ’s love to every nurse, doctor and
attendant.
The fourth of six children born to Maynard
and Ruth Wright, Chuck grew up in John-
stown, Pennsylvania. He was enrolled in
Forestry School at The University of Pitts-
burgh when he committed his life to Jesus
Christ, an event that changed everything, but
his love for the woods, hunting and fishing,
stayed with him. He graduated from The
King’s College. He attended Dallas Seminary,
graduating with a Master of Divinity from
Pittsburgh Seminary and completed a Doctor-
ate from Columbia Seminary. He was award-
ed an honorary Doctorate of Literature from
Hanyang University in Korea.
At his first church in Churchville, Maryland,
Chuck began hosting Allied Military Officers
from nearby Aberdeen Ordnance School in
the homes of church families. Each guest
received Scriptures in his own language.
The outreach ministry continued at his next
church in Paradise, Pennsylvania, at Bethany
Collegiate Church in Havertown, Pennsylva-
nia, expanding to other churches and military
bases across America. Chuck received the
Department of the Army’s highest Civilian
Service Award for this work, which gave a
positive impression of America to thousands
of officers from allied country around the
world.
In Chuck’s years as a pastor, the idea of a
few following Jesus together, outside church
walls, became central to his ministry. He
gathered town leaders at the local bank;
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STEWART
PATRICK STEWART
“Mickey” (Age 74)
Of Fort Pierce, Florida passed away on August
28, 2019 in Vero Beach after a prolonged
struggle with his illness. Mickey was born to
John and Patricia Stewart on July 1, 1945 in
Washington, DC. Mickey grew up in Prince
Georges County Maryland and was a graduate
of Surrattsville Sr. High School. After proudly
serving in the United States Navy, Mickey
began his 27 year career in Washington, DC
with the C&P Telephone Company which later
became Bell Atlantic. He also owned and
managed Mickey’s Pub in Waldorf, Maryland.
Upon retiring from the Outside Plant Engineer-
ing Dept. of Bell Atlantic he sold Mickey’s Pub
and moved to Fort Pierce, Florida. Living in
Fort Pierce Mickey established himself as a
contractor where he performed repair work
at local commercial establishments. He also
was employed by St. Lucie County where he
worked at the Fairwinds Golf Course maintain-
ing the driving range before his retirement in
2015. Mickey is survived by one brother, John
Stewart of Lake Placid, FL. 4. Service sched-
uled for a later date. Arrangements are being
handled by Cox-Gifford Seawinds Funeral
Home in Vero Beach, FL.
TRIPODI
CARLOS TRIPODI
(Age 88)
Passed away Tuesday, August 27, 2019 in
Washington, DC. Visitation will be held Satur-
day, August 31, 2019 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
at Joseph Gawler’s Sons Funeral Home, 5130
Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, DC. 20016.
IN MEMORIAM
GREENWALD
ALAN F. GREENWALD
October 3, 1944 - August 31, 2017
Missing you everyday
and how much you loved us.
Love, Lynnie, Hill and Allie
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KRUK
DANIEL RAYMOND KRUK
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019, Daniel Raymond
Kruk, age 76, of Alexandria, VA passed away.
Beloved husband of Joan L. Kruk. Loving father
of Jeannette A. Creger and Aileen L. Smith and
her husband Kevin S. Smith. Dear grandfather
of Christopher L. Creger, Jeremy M. Creger,
Caitlin L. Smith, and Madison A. Smith. Daniel
R. Kruk served his country proudly in the
U.S. Coast Guard and in a Federal Intelligence
agency for over 50 years. He enjoyed the
outdoors and being with his family and friends
in the mountains and at the beach. He will be
greatly missed and forever cherished by all.
Family and friends are invited to gather at the
Demaine Funeral Home,520 S. Washington St.,
Alexandria, VA 22314 on Friday, August 30,
2019 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. A Mass of Christian
Burial will be held on Saturday, August 31,
2019 at 10:30 a.m. at Basilica of St. Mary, 310
S. Royal St., Alexandria, VA 22314. Interment
Private in Nanticoke, PA. In lieu of flowers,
please send donations to the American Dia-
betes Association.
women met in homes; laborers met at the
sewing factory; elementary teachers met
after school; and a Senate-Cabinet group
started in the Pennsylvania Senate. All of
these weekly gatherings were centered
around the person of Jesus. Chuck's focus
was the Bible as he faithfully prepared Christ-
centered sermons. A favorite verse was, “God
has exalted above all things, His Name and
His Word!” (Psalm 138:2)
Dr. Wright was called to lead North Avenue
Presbyterian Church in downtown Atlanta, in
1976. He taught the people, which including
hundreds of internationals, that they were
the ministry, even as they lived out their lives
in business, college, medicine, education,
caring for the poor and following Jesus in
every part of the city. The thesis of his
doctorate examined the question, “How to
reach the business mind with preaching?”
As he pastored churches, the beginning of
a world-wide ministry began. Chuck first
attended The National Prayer Breakfast in
1963 and continued through last February.
The Wrights hosted thousands of Parliament
Members in their home throughout the years,
guests from Scotland, South Africa,
Cameroon, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Esto-
nia, Lithuania, Faroe Islands, Russia, Uzbek-
istan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and visited all
of their countries in turn. (Chuck and Margie
travelled to Kyrgyzstan seven times!) The
goal was to encourage these friends to meet
around Jesus for their countries, to be a
leadership led by God.
Chuck and his family moved to McLean,
Virginia, in 1985. As a Parish Associate at
National Presbyterian, Chuck devoted all of
his time to the fellowship work in Washington
and around the world. Six years ago they
moved to Knollwood, a Military Retirement
Community in Washington.
Chuck Wright is author of a great book
FINDING GOD BENEATH THE ASHES, A Nation-
al and Personal Search - Trafford Publishing.
Chuck is survived by Margie Sweet Wright,
his wife of 62 years, and by his daughter,
Karen and husband, Charles Marsh of Char-
lottesville, Virginia, son, Dan and wife,
GuoWei of Oakton, Virginia, daughter, Beth
Anne and husband, Billy Melvin of Gloucester,
Massachusetts, son, Keith and wife Heidi of
Washington, DC., and son, Christian and wife
Sarah of Nairobi, Kenya. Chuck and Margie
have 17 grandchildren, one of whom he joins
in heaven.
Memorial donations may be made to the
Fellowship of Christian Athletes/Bill Melvin
(https://my.fca.org/billmelvin) and/or to The-
ological Horizons (www.theologicalhori-
zons.org/giving).
Relatives and friends are invited to attend
the Memorial of Worship Celebrating the
Life of Charles Parker Wright at National
Presbyterian Church, 4101 Nebraska Avenue,
NW, Washington, DC 20016, on Thursday,
September 5 at 1 p.m.
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than they have been recently.
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REGION NATION Weather map features for noon today. High 89° 4:00 p.m. 89° 3:19 p.m. 91° 3:00 p.m.
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THE DISTRICT

D.C. rises to No. 7 in world’s safest cities index, up from 23rd two years ago
BY M ARISSA J . L ANG The index, which ranks 60
cities across six continents, deter-
Three decades after the Dis- mines a city’s overall safety by
trict was dubbed the “murder examining 57 indicators, includ-
capital” of the United States for ing digital security, access to
its crime-ridden streets and soar- quality health care, life expectan-
ing homicide rate, the city has cy, environmental safety, city in-
earned a new distinction in a frastructure, disaster prepared-
report released this month: one ness, transportation safety,
of the safest large cities in the crime, violence and “threat of
world. civil unrest.”
Joining the likes of Tokyo, Sin- The 2019 report also empha-
gapore and Amsterdam in the sized climate change, as well as
upper echelon of the internation- cities’ ability to withstand envi-
al Safe Cities Index for the first ronmental threats and intensify-
time, Washington, D.C., was espe- ing natural disasters.
cially lauded for its digital secu- Tokyo was ranked the safest
rity and disaster preparedness in city in the world for the third
the Economist Intelligence Unit’s time, with Singapore and Osaka
biennial report. filling out the top three.
The District, at No. 7, was the Hong Kong, which has for
only U.S. city to crack the top 10 — months been rocked by political
and one of two in North America, upheaval, protests and at times
along with Toronto. violent clashes with police,
dropped from ninth in 2017 to the top 10 cities.” Northwest Washington, Metro- refers to as “resilience-related in-
20th place this year. Washington came in 23rd for politan Police Chief Peter New- dicators,” such as the amount of
The District was ranked 23rd “personal security,” a metric that sham called the District “a very, emergency services in the city,
in the 2017 report. Experts attrib- considers “how at-risk citizens very safe city.” He said the attack catastrophe insurance, disaster-
uted its catapult to seventh place are from crime, violence, man- on Magill outside an apartment informed development and risk
as partly influenced by a shift in made threats and natural disas- building about 8:45 p.m. Tuesday monitoring.
how data researchers compiled ters,” but Washington topped all was “very rare.” “Washington, DC, does better
the final list. other U.S. cities on the list — Improving a city’s “personal . . . than in the past because our
The city ranked in the top 10 in which included Chicago, Dallas, security” ranking is difficult to do measures and methodology give
three of the index’s most impor- Los Angeles, New York and San in the short term, the study’s a better understanding of its
tant factors: digital security, Francisco — in part because of the authors wrote. It “involves some strengths and weaknesses,” ac-
health and infrastructure. Kevin city’s intense disaster prepared- longer-term challenges, such as cording to the report.
Donahue, the District’s deputy ness, the report said. building and maintaining trust The global study examines cit-
mayor for public safety and jus- The report’s authors weren’t with city residents,” the report ies because, according to United
tice, said the city has placed a available to comment Friday. said. “This can take time but is Nations data, 56 percent of the
priority on safety issues. Violent crime in the District essential.” world’s population lives in cities.
“Mayor Muriel Bowser has has been steadily declining over Researchers wrote that the By 2050, the U.N. says, the rate of
been laser-focused on creating a the years, although homicides are District also benefited from a urban-dwellers will rise to
safer, stronger D.C. that ensures on the rise this year, up 13 percent change in the metrics the index 68 percent.
personal safety and community from last year. used this year. Rather than count- “The success or failure of cities
resilience, but also prioritizes our After the slaying this week of ing the number of reported traffic will define the quality of human
city’s cyber and infrastructure 27-year-old Margery Magill, who accidents, the 2019 index com- life in the years ahead,” the report
security,” he said in a statement. was stabbed while walking a dog pared the number of road deaths. said.
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To address shortages, Montgomery County loosens requirements for subs

TEACHING FROM B1 straints. “When we pull them to cover fewer unfilled requests — was ground checks and an interview idea,’ ” Dixon said.
Thus, the shortage. the class, it takes away from widely supported when they screening process before they In March, the school board
year college degree for “long- “Obviously, we were not in what they are doing,” Forkert sought comment. They consult- are hired. Pay starts at $19.58 an passed a resolution asking for a
term substitutes,” who fill in for sync with what other districts do said. ed school-based staff members, hour for those who are certified review of the issue. The findings
16 days or more. to increase the pool of subs,” Teachers can be away from parents, students and union and $18.41 an hour for those who were presented at a July board
Andrew Zuckerman, chief op- school board vice president Pa- their classrooms for a range of leaders, they said. are not. meeting. The change was made
erating officer for the Montgom- tricia O’Neill said. reasons — sicknesses, doctors’ Still, some have noted draw- About 10 percent of Montgom- administratively, without a
ery school system, told the Ryan D. Forkert, principal of appointments, professional trai- backs. ery’s substitutes are retired board vote.
school board in July that a Luxmanor Elementary School, ning, family emergencies. Christopher Lloyd, president county teachers. In a broad Montgomery has already
comparison showed Montgom- said the need for substitutes But the substitute shortage of the Montgomery County Edu- sense, substitute teachers fill in fielded more than 20 applica-
ery was expecting more than its tends to be low during the early can become a particular issue cation Association, the teachers for teachers who are absent, tions from job candidates with
counterparts, calling the differ- part of the school year, but as the during cold and flu season, when union, pointed to the impor- presiding over their classes and an associate degree or less, a
ences “quite glaring and eye- academic year progresses, his more teachers are out, said Sha- tance of education and training carrying out their lesson plans. spokesman said, and is kicking
opening.” school in Rockville may need a hid Muhammad, principal of for teachers. The idea of revisiting the qual- off an effort to spark broader
In Montgomery, the school substitute in one class or another Forest Oak Middle School in “While we hope the new re- ifications of substitute teachers interest.
system’s roster includes more four days in a week. Gaithersburg. quirements will help with the followed a school board meeting Superintendent Jack Smith
than 3,000 substitute teachers. If no substitute is available — “It’s a scramble,” he said. “If sub pool, we’re also concerned at Paint Branch High School in told the board he saw the shift as
An average of about 500 to 600 about 15 percent of the time — you’re doing that multiple times that in a time when the state is March, when a parent ap- an opportunity to bring in Mont-
requests a day pour in for substi- other educators at the school are during the week, it can be a trying to raise standards for proached Dixon and said, as she gomery residents “who have tal-
tutes to work at its more than tapped: perhaps a reading spe- strain on the teachers who deliv- being a teacher, this lowers that recalls, “I have a two-year associ- ents, skills, intellect, abilities but
200 schools. Not all substitutes cialist, a counselor, a staff devel- er instructions.” bar for guest teachers,” he said. ate degree. I would love to sub- maybe didn’t get a chance to get
are available every day, and some opment teacher or an instruc- School officials said having School officials say substitute stitute.” a bachelor’s degree.”
have geographic or other con- tional assistant, he said. more people to draw on — and teachers must undergo back- “I thought, ‘Oh, this is a great donna.stgeorge@washpost.com

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A multifaceted gem
There’s no better use of Netflix’s fortunes than this flawless revival of Jim Henson’s ‘Dark Crystal’
BY H ANK S TUEVER
See how we sift and scroll through these
endless TV menus and grids, scoffing at
what the algorithms recommend, default-
ing yet again to old sitcom reruns and an
episode of “Beachfront Bargain Hunt” that
we’re never quite sure whether we’ve seen
before. In theory we want to be swept up in
something new, but we’re sometimes not
very good about trying new things. Some-
times the biggest challenge is a genre bias —
to watch a show that looks unbearably
hokey. Too elfy, too childish, too derivative.
This may have been the problem 37 years
ago, when the brilliant Muppet master Jim
Henson and his colleagues poured their
creative energies into a full-on fantasy film
that took the lifelike movements of Hen-
son’s art form and put them to use in a
complex, otherworldly story that was a
shade too frightening for a kid audience.
Universal released “The Dark Crystal” in
time for Christmas of 1982, where it strug-
gled to find traction against “Tootsie,” “The
Toy” and “Airplane II: The Sequel.” Critics
admired its technical achievements but
disliked the Tolkien-lite feel of it; parents
steered clear; lunchboxes and other mer-
chandise went unpurchased.
Fans, however, cared for “The Dark
Crystal” in that tenderly obsessive way that
only the truest fans will. They always hoped
for more big-screen stories about the world
of Thra and the tribes of wide-eyed Gelflings
who defend it against the greedy, alligator/
vulture-faced gang called the Skeksis. Ef-
forts to make a sequel came and went, with
various hang-ups and abandonment. Final-
ly the right sort of sorcery occurred, illumi-
nating the path to that which is desired by
all niche projects: Netflix and its pots of
gold.
Lo, “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance”
is a wondrously realized, 10-episode pre-
quel overseen by Lisa Henson, daughter of
Jim and CEO of his namesake production
house. Instantly captivating, expertly paced
and thrillingly fun to watch, “Age of Resis-
“The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance” proves escapism isn’t mindless as tance” checks off a number of boxes that
it meets viewers where they are and lets them decide whether to skim the viewers claim to seek in their next favorite
surface or deep-dive into the world of Gelflings, top, and Skeksis, above. SEE TV REVIEW ON C2

TV CHAT
Critic just wants to, uh,
give 110% for the viewers
Every Thursday, TV critic Hank
Stuever answers questions from
readers in an online chat. On their
minds this week: departing SNL
cast members, the lack of
standalone-episode series and
what will be on our screens this fall.
Leslie Jones: Sorry to see her
going. Not the most polished
performer ever but she brought
real energy to her performances.
At least she went out with a bang
with a terrific “Handmaid’s Tale”
piece.
Stuever: She stood out for a lot
of reasons, and I think SNL
historians (everyone seems to be
one) will look back favorably on
her work — as well as the
circumstances which brought
her to the featured cast.
Why are there so few self-
contained TV shows?: You
can’t just decide one day to see
an episode of “The Handmaid’s
Tale” or “Succession” or “Game
of Thrones.” You have to
commit to weeks of watching,
or several days of binge
watching. Why are there so few
good, quality programs that you
can watch if you like, skip a few
weeks and not feel lost if you go
back to it?
Stuever: Because viewers of a
certain stripe (cable subscribers,
Netflix subscribers — i.e., people
with moola) have shown an
overwhelming preference for
complexity and long story arcs.
Procedurals still do fine on
network TV, but they are what
SEE TV CHAT ON C2
Andrés says software
shortchanged workers
BY T IM C ARMAN
ThinkFoodGroup, the Wash-
ington-based parent company
that oversees Mercado Little
Spain in New York City, said this
week that it had discovered a pay-
roll glitch that underpaid some
employees at the gigantic Hudson
Yards food hall and market. The
affected workers will receive back
wages, plus another check of equal
size to “offset any difficulties,”
ThinkFoodGroup founder José
Andrés said in a statement re-
leased Wednesday.
The announcement came two
days after a bartender at Mercado
Little Spain had sued Andrés and
Hudson Hall LLC, the company
behind the sprawling Hudson
Yards project, claiming that the
superstar chef and restaurateur’s
debut in New York has violated
state and federal wage laws.
“This week, we found a glitch in
how we paid some wages in NYC —
some underpaid, more overpaid. I
apologize to everyone who was
underpaid. We’re correcting it to-
day,” Andres tweeted on Wednes-
day.
“Well, look at that,” said lawyer
D. Maimon Kirschenbaum, upon
learning about Andrés’s pledge
from a reporter. “An American
hero.” (Last year, the chef and res-
taurateur was nominated for a
Nobel Peace Prize for his humani-
tarian work feeding victims of nat-
ural disasters.)
Kirschenbaum apologized for
his flippant remark, but said that
as attorney for Tina Braunstein,
the bartender who filed the initial
class-action complaint on Mon-
day, he will continue with his case
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Alex Trebek returns for
Season 36 of ‘Jeopardy!’
BY S ONIA R AO
“Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek
announced in a video posted
Thursday that he has completed
chemotherapy and has already
returned to work on the show’s
36th season.
“I’m on the mend,” he said,
“and that’s all I can hope for right
now.” RICHARD SHOTWELL/INVISION/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Trebek, who turned 79 last Alex Trebek said Thursday that
month, disclosed his late-stage he has completed chemotherapy
pancreatic cancer diagnosis in for his pancreatic cancer.
March, when he addressed “Jeop-
ardy!” viewers in his usual steady, statistics for this disease.”
comforting tone: “Now, normally, In May, he provided an update
the prognosis for this is not very by telling People magazine that
encouraging,” he said at the time, in a “mind-boggling” develop-
“but I’m going to keep working, ment, his body had responded
and with the love and support of well to chemotherapy. Some of
my family and friends — and with his tumors had “already shrunk
the help of your prayers, also — I by more than 50 percent,” he said,
plan to beat the low-survival-rate SEE TREBEK ON C4
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TV REVIEW FROM C1 computer-generated artistry
combine to exult in seamless
TV show, especially that one de- perfection. Muppet fans will
sire I hear from readers again and surely recognize the intuitively
again: Is there a show that will expressive Henson style; others
take me away from it all? Yes, this might admire the skill with which
one. the writers balance simplicity
To be clear, escapism is not the (and humor) with the intensity
same as being a “mindless” and complexity of the plot. One
watching experience. “Age of Re- thing popular culture has
sistance” can be as complicated achieved since 1982 is to break
or easy as the viewer wishes it to down walls between adult and
be, but, like all fantasy tales, it juvenile material, creating the
comes on fast and strong with a sort of modern audience that
number of characters, plot “The Dark Crystal” didn’t initially
threads and all sorts of creatures find. (That said, it’s still not ideal
and cultures to sort through. for the youngest viewers in the
Unlike so many other sagas, house, for being occasionally
however, the world of “The Dark scary and mildly violent.) ALBERTO E. RODRIGUEZ/GETTY IMAGES

Crystal” is ingeniously envi-
sioned; I hope it’s not insulting to
those who’ve envisioned it to
compliment the pleasurable ease
with which anyone can follow the
story from the get-go, even those
of us who are passive participants
when it comes to learning names,
following mythologies and com-
prehending new geography on a
planet with three suns.
Set long before the events of
the original film, “Age of Resis-
tance” finds the ruling order of
Skeksis (voiced by Andy Samberg,
Awkwafina, Mark Hamill, Simon
Pegg, Keegan-Michael Key and
more) in full plunder of Thra’s
resources, with the three commu-
nities of native Gelflings in a state
of fearful subservience, tithing
whatever they have to their repul-
“The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance,” a prequel series to the 1982 Jim Henson and Frank Oz film,
takes advantage of four decades of technological advancements to create the world of Thra.
sive overlords.
The Skeksis rule because they
long ago seized a giant crystal
that kept Thra and its inhabitants
in a state of harmony. Having
sapped the crystal of most of its
life-giving force, the Skeksis have
now started sacrificing Gelflings
to it, using the crystal to liquefy a
Gelfling’s spirit, which they then
gobble down in hopes of immor-
tality. As the crystal’s ancient
guardian, Aughra (Donna Kim-
ball), awakens from a spell that
the Skeksis put her under, a
group of rebellious Gelflings
(voiced by Taron Egerton, Nath-
alie Emmanuel and Anya Taylor-
KEVIN BAKER/NETFLIX
Joy, among others) must band
together to restore the crystal
and overthrow the Skeksis.
That’s a somewhat oversimpli-
fied summary (which is part of
my job), but what it doesn’t con-
vey is the absolute joy evident in
every frame of “Age of Resis-
tance,” where puppetry skills and
Buried not so deeply within the Leslie Jones announced this
series are obvious metaphors that week that she is leaving
both address and stir current “Saturday Night Live.”
anxieties: The Skeksis are too
greedy to realize they’re destroy-
ing the planet as the crystal
begins its irreparable darkening
History will
— in other words, they deny
climate change. (“This is what I
do. I plant stories in ground,
be kind to
watch grow into truth,” one of the
Skeksis brags.) Intentionally or
not, “Age of Resistance” sports a
SNL’s Jones
number of bumper stickers on
the back of its proverbial Subaru TV CHAT FROM C1
— “COEXIST” being the primary
message, beautifully delivered. they are, and don’t stir much
hank.stuever@washpost.com discussion or buzz.
The Dark Crystal: Age of Big networks: After your time in
Resistance (10 episodes) available L.A. getting the news on new
for streaming on Netflix. shows, how many of your top 10
new shows this fall will appear
on either CBS, NBC, PBS, ABC, or
Fox? And don’t count the country

N.Y. employee moves ahead with lawsuit against José Andrés
ANDRÉS FROM C1
against Andrés and Hudson Hall.
“There is no way they would try
to settle it without my interven-
tion unless they were trying to
save money,” Kirschenbaum said.
He said that Andrés and Think-
FoodGroup are trying to avoid the
potentially heavy fines that can
accompany such wage-violation
cases. Kirschenbaum said a com-
pany must pay $250 a day, per
employee, for each day there is
inaccurate information recorded
on a worker’s pay stub. There is a
$5,000 cap per employee.
Andrés, the lawyer said, is “hop-
ing for some sort of mulligan on
whatever penalties he might owe.”
ThinkFoodGroup declined to
respond to Kirschenbaum’s alle-
gations about avoiding fines. The
company did issue this statement
from Eduardo Sanabia, chief peo-
ple officer for ThinkFoodGroup:
“Following an allegation that
Mercado Little Spain may have
underpaid certain employees with
respect to certain rates of pay, we
immediately conducted an ac-
counting and pay audit and discov-
ered a glitch in our payroll soft-
ware that caused both underpay-
ment of some employees and over-
payment of others. While the total
amounts underpaid are very small
and do not affect every employee,
we take an error like this very
seriously and intend to rectify it
immediately. We’re working with
the software company to fix the
error, and employees who were
underpaid will receive back pay-
ment and wages owed this week.
In fact, Chef José has directed that
any employee who had the wrong
rate used to their detriment will
receive a second payment in an
equal amount in an effort to offset
any difficulties. Moreover, employ-
ees who were in fact overpaid will
be able to keep the extra wages.”
Braunstein was hired in April to
work as a bartender at various sites
at the sprawling Mercado Little
Spain, which had opened in March
at Hudson Yards. In her complaint,
Braunstein alleges that she was
paid the tipped minimum wage for
work that, according to New York
law, requires employers to pay the
full minimum wage.
She also alleges that Mercado
Little Spain did not pay her the
proper overtime wage of $17.50 per
hour and did not pay her the cor-
rect $15 premium, as required by
New York state law, when she
worked more than 10 hours in a
day. Furthermore, Braunstein al-
leges that pooled tips were improp-
erly shared with non-service work-
ers, such as barbacks, in violation
of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The plaintiffs in the case in-
creased by one on Thursday, when
former Mercado Little Spain bar-
tender and barback Cindy Marti-
nez was added to an amended
complaint. Martinez, the lawsuit
alleges, “felt so strongly that defen-
dants were not interested in pay-
ing her properly that she resigned
her position only days after the
formal opening.” The number of
plaintiffs could rise further. The
complaint mentions a potential
class of 40 members, but Kirschen-
baum said Braunstein claims there
could be hundreds of employees
who may also be underpaid.
In the amended complaint,
Kirschenbaum argues the alleged
wage and labor violations cannot
be chalked up to software mal-
functions. For example, the com-
plaint said, Martinez worked
three shifts from 2 p.m. to 12:30
a.m. as a bartender/barback at a
Mercado Little Spain space that
allegedly did not open until 5 p.m.
and closed at “roughly” 11 p.m.,
requiring her to work at least four
A bartender at Mercado Little Spain, José Andrés’s restaurant in
Manhattan’s Hudson Yards, is suing the chef in a wage dispute.
hours without the opportunity for
tips.
The “blatant minimum wage
violation has no relation to any
alleged software glitch,” the com-
plaint noted. “Rather, defendants
saved money by having tipped em-
ployees perform non-tipped setup
and breakdown work while ille-
gally paying them as though they
were receiving tips for that work.”
What’s more, the amended
complaint singles out Andrés’s op-
position to Initiative 77, the ballot
measure that would have elimi-
nated the tipped minimum wage
in the District. Voters approved
the ballot initiative last year, but
the D.C. Council later repealed the
measure amid pressure from the
restaurant industry. Given his
past statements on higher mini-
mum wages for tipped employees,
the complaint said, “it is quite
brazen and unbelievable that he
now chalks all underpayments up
to a glitch and believes that he
should get a free pass by repaying
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only a small portion of his true
liability.”
Mercado Little Spain has been
generally well-received since its
debut. Both Eater New York and
the New York Times have given it
positive reviews. “I was well into
my fifth meal in the complex be-
fore I came across a dish I didn’t
really like; as a general rule, every-
thing is good, which is not some-
thing restaurant critics are in the
habit of saying,” wrote Times critic
Pete Wells in a July review.
Kirschenbaum said his niche is
representing restaurant workers
who accuse employers of wage
theft and other labor violations. In
2017, he represented two plaintiffs
who accused Sushi Nakazawa,
owner Alessandro Borgognone
and chef Daisuke Nakazawa of
misappropriating tips and not
paying workers the minimum
wage. (The case has since been
settled, Kirschenbaum said.)
The attorney also represented
Braunstein as a plaintiff in a case
against activist chef Dan Barber
and his Blue Hill at Stone Barns,
the farm-to-table destination in
Pocantico Hills, N.Y., where the
farm resides next to the restau-
rant. Braunstein sued in 2006 for
discrimination, harassment and
retaliation, a case in which the
bartender claimed she was called
names and belittled by manage-
ment after receiving praise in me-
dia coverage of Blue Hill, includ-
ing a 2004 review by Frank Bruni
in the New York Times.
According to court documents,
the Blue Hill complaint was volun-
tarily dismissed in early 2010.
There was a settlement in the case,
reached just ahead of a jury’s deci-
sion, but the terms were not made
public.
Braunstein has been a plaintiff
in other cases against restaurants,
too, including one against the
now-closed Telepan restaurant on
the Upper West Side (the case was
dismissed) and a still-open dis-
crimination and retaliation com-
plaint against the Plaza Hotel in
New York City.
In the Mercado Little Spain ac-
tion, Braunstein and other poten-
tial plaintiffs who join the class
action are seeking unpaid wages,
liquidated damages, attorneys’
fees, and “other legal and equita-
ble relief as this court deems just
and proper.”
Kirschenbaum said it was stan-
dard practice to name an individu-
al — in this case Andrés — in this
type of lawsuit.
“You never know what’s going
on with a company’s finances,”
Kirschenbaum said. “Having an
individual on the hook is always a
good way to make sure a company
will make good on their debts.”
tim.carman@washpost.com
Magda Jean-Louis provided research
assistance.
music series.
Stuever: I haven’t made that
determination yet — and have
already expanded my “10 to
Watch” list for fall to “12 to
Watch” (and would like to push it
to 15, but probably can’t). I know
one of them is on CBS, and ABC
probably has one (if not two).
And there’s a documentary series
on PBS (besides “Country
Music”) that I would really like
to put in there, but those
decisions are ahead of me at the
moment. I have to give
everything one more pass-
through.
Keeping organized? Lists?
Spreadsheets?: Hank, how do
you and the other TV people
keep track of their shows? They
are no longer date and time
dependent. I have six or seven
services, and five or six shows
going all the time, and I had to
make a spreadsheet to keep track
of them. My wife rolls her eyes at
that.
Stuever: I have an as-yet-
undiagnosed allergy to
spreadsheets. I don’t like them in
any form and don’t find them
helpful. I like lists. Lists and lists
and lists. That’s how I roll. At
press tour, I’ve spied TV critics
and reporters who do prefer a
spreadsheet system.
I love “Succession” but . . . :
Like on so many television
shows, the way people talk is
totally absurd — everything they
say is so pungent and clever and
pithy and no one ever says “um”
or “ah” or repeats themselves or
goes on pointless tangents. I
know, television. But still, I do
wish there was a show where
people talked like people in real
life actually speak.
Stuever: Well, you could always
watch football players and
coaches give postgame
interviews.
hank.stuever@washpost.com

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ACROSS
1 Literary
reminder
9 Mideast
presidential
name since
1971
14 Dutch treat?
15 More green
17 Regular order
18 Hoped-for
airport monitor
update
19 Word preceding
an opinion
20 Chided
22 Base used
often
23 “Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?”
playwright
24 Longtime ISP
25 Common
picture
postcard color
27 Routing
preposition
28 Ones bringing NICK GALIFIANAKIS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
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30 “Gotcha”
32 Canal speaker
34 “Gone Girl”
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Guilt, boredom — what’s not to love?
girl provocative one night 40 “Lolita” char- 49 “Cat __”: Jane Carolyn Hax is I’m unhappy without hurting bad jokes, his warmth, his cute
35 Buds reactions, as to acter Vivian Fonda film away. The his feelings? And should I stop bald spot shaped like
31 Its flag has two
36 Limit-enforcing current news green stars Darkbloom, to 53 Like action following first seeing him altogether or remain Wisconsin? And, even if you do
tactic 66 Finish choice Vladimir Nabokov heroes appeared April in sporadic contact? I have a feel this kind of highly personal
33 45 half
39 Consort of 67 Hoodwink 41 Rival of boxer 55 Prioritized 15, 2005. feeling that will lead to us affection, I’m not certain he
Shiva 34 Excitement getting back together because does. Otherwise, there’d be
37 Fictional Robinson players Carolyn
42 Vientiane Hi, Carolyn! My that’s what’s happened in the limits on his forgiveness.
DOWN invitation 44 Arm on a shoulder 58 Evolutionary Hax boyfriend and I past. A person who’d tolerate
people 45 “Woe Is I” diagram
1 Robin’s milieu written in have been — Bored in Boston anything to keep the
43 Story currants author Patricia 61 Overhead
collection 2 Laertes’ sister together for the relationship together is in love
3 Place for free 38 Seat sides 46 Least gassy expense? past 2 /2 years, and our
1 Bored in Boston: I can’t think with the relationship, not with
including
“Robbie” rounds 39 Hangul 48 56-Across 63 Slugger Mel relationship is really stable and of anyone who has less “long- the partner in question.
4 1971 title comfortable. He’s a great guy, term potential” than someone He’s hanging on with all he’s
47 Trying to lose and I can count on him to be who bores you. got, too: He guilts you for seeing
49 Comics fight detective
FRIDAY’S LA TIMES SOLUTION there for me no matter what; Wait, not true. Someone who friends, he’s not social, you’re
sound 5 Wack
he’ll forgive me for anything makes you feel guilty for being tiptoeing around his feelings,
50 Blackjack 6 Toon because he really wants us to yourself — now there’s an even you’ve tried but failed to break
component storekeeper stay together. less appealing choice for the up, you’ve promised you’ll
51 Asian noodle 7 Vaqueros’ props But lately I’ve been wanting long haul. always be friends. Manipulation
dish 8 Kutcher’s “That a bit more excitement rather Unless your goal in life is to in five acts.
52 UFC sport ’70s Show” role than stability in my life. Plus, resent your husband, hate your You’re 21, so you have the rest
9 Moisturizer he’s not very social, so he life and screw up your kids, of your life to figure out for
54 Philosophical makes me feel guilty when I please don’t confuse being ready yourself that your choices aren’t
principle that ingredient
10 Sweet treat spend time with my other to settle down and start a family limited to “party” or “suffocate.”
rules out friends and not him. with marrying the first guy But a suggestion to help lessen
unlikely 11 Mach 1 flier I’m 21, so I have the rest of you’re certain won’t leave you. mistakes on the way: If you ever
explanations 12 Yellowfin my life to settle down and start Read your own question, feel you ought to get out but you
56 48-Down victim 13 Analgesic brand a family — he’s the type of guy I please. The only good thing you can’t, that’s a blazing red sign
57 Diamond ploy 16 Starts over would do that with — but right have to say about this that you must.
59 Preppy collars 21 Artist who now I just want to have fun and relationship is that you can do
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successor Schiele don’t have the long-term and that is not a good thing. tellme@washpost.com. Get her
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Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark
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Good Boys (R) 12:10-2:35-7:15- tended Cut (PG-13) CC: 6:10-9:30 7:00-9:20-10:15 The Lion King (PG) 11:05-1:55- 6:35-9:45 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) CC: Angel Has Fallen (R) CC: 11:30- (R) 10:20
2:20-5:10-8:00-10:50 7:05-10:05 Good Boys (R) 12:15-2:45-5:15-
9:50 AMC Loews Good Boys (R) 10:55-1:15-2:20- 4:45-7:40-10:45 Ready or Not (R) 11:35-2:10-4:45- 5:00-7:15 Saaho (Telugu) (NR) 4:25-8:15
Spider-Man: Far From Home - 3:35-4:50-5:55-7:20-8:20-10:45 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) 7:30-10:10 Don't Let Go (R) CC: 11:00-1:30- Where'd You Go, Bernadette (PG- 7:45-10:05
St. Charles Town Ctr. 9 13) CC: 11:40AM The Lion King (PG) 12:35-3:40- Ready or Not (R) 12:20-2:50-5:25-
Extended Cut (PG-13) 12:00-3:00- 11115 Mall Circle Overcomer (PG) 11:15-2:10-5:05- 11:00-1:45-4:30-7:15 After the Wedding (PG-13) 11:55- 4:00-10:00 6:45-9:50
6:00-9:00 7:55-10:45 Where'd You Go, Bernadette 3:05-6:30-9:35 The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) 8:00-10:25
Ready or Not (R) OC: 7:10 Toy Story 4 (G) CC: 10:30-1:00-3:30 (PG-13) 9:55 CC: 9:55-12:25-2:50-5:15-7:40- Saaho (Hindi) (NR) 12:40 The Art of Racing in the Rain (PG)
47 Meters Down: Uncaged (PG-13) Blinded by the Light (PG-13) CC: 2:30-5:00 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG)
Angel Has Fallen (R) CC: 10:30- 12:15-7:35-10:20 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) 6:25-9:40 Bennett's War (PG-13) CC: 11:00- 10:10 12:00-3:50-6:40-9:30
Smithsonian - 1:30-4:30-7:20-10:10 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) CC: 11:30-2:15 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) 9:35
Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater The Lion King (PG) CC: 10:40-1:30- Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark 11:45-2:20-5:15-7:50-10:35 The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) 5:00-7:30-10:00 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13)
(PG-13) 11:20-2:05-5:00-7:55-10:35 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood 11:40-2:20-5:00-7:40-10:20 Angel of Mine (R) 12:00-7:00 10:45-1:30-4:15-7:00
601 Independence Ave SW 4:15-6:40-9:10 (R) 12:00-3:45-7:30-11:10 The Fanatic (R) 2:30-4:45 The Lion King (PG) CC: 10:20-1:20- (R) 11:30-3:05-6:50-10:25 12:05-2:35-5:05-7:40-10:20
Ready or Not (R) 11:50-2:20-4:55- Spider-Man: Far From Home - Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) Bennett's War (PG-13) 12:05-2:40-
D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D (NR) The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) CC: 7:25-10:10 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs Extended Cut (PG-13) 6:55-10:15 4:20-7:20-10:20
1:20 11:10-1:10-4:00-7:10-9:15 AMC Potomac Mills 18 12:00-2:40-5:20-7:55-10:40 5:15-7:50-10:15
Mission Mangal (NR) 6:35-9:40 & Shaw (PG-13) 12:40-3:55-7:10- 2700 Potomac Mills Circle
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood Good Boys (R) 11:40-2:10-4:40-
Aircraft Carrier: Guardians of the Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Regal Westview & IMAX (R) CC: 12:30-4:00-7:30-10:55 Spider-Man: Far From Home
The Farewell (PG) 11:00-1:30-4:00 10:25 7:10-9:40
Seas 3D (2018) (NR) 10:20-12:45 Shaw (PG-13) CC: 11:00-1:45-4:40- Blinded by the Light (PG-13) Good Boys (R) 11:55-2:30-4:55- 5243 Buckeystown Pike The Matrix (R) 12:00-3:10- The Farewell (PG) CC: 10:05AM - Extended Cut (PG-13) 1:10-4:20-
Journey to Space: The IMAX 3D 6:10-9:45 7:20-9:45 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) 6:20-9:30 After the Wedding (PG-13) CC: Overcomer (PG) 1:00-4:00-7:00- 7:30-10:30
11:35AM 10:00
Experience (NR) 10:50-3:05-5:00 Good Boys (R) CC: 11:15-1:40- The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (PG-13) 11:50-2:40-5:45 Toy Story 4 (G) CC: 12:50-3:40 10:00AM Midsommar: The Directors Cut
Apollo 11: The IMAX 2D Experi- 3:45-7:40-10:00 5:35-8:05-10:40 Good Boys (R) 12:15-2:50-5:30- Angel Has Fallen (R) CC: 11:30- Ready or Not (R) CC: 12:50-3:20- Ready or Not (R) 11:55-2:30-5:05- (NR) 9:50
11:50-2:25-5:00-7:40-10:10 7:40-10:15
ence 11:55-2:10-4:05 Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark Don't Let Go (R) 11:55-2:35-5:15- Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark 7:50-10:20 2:20-5:10-8:00-10:50 5:50-8:20-10:50 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
Secrets of the Universe (NR) (PG-13) CC: 10:40-1:15-4:00- (PG-13) 11:35-2:15-5:05-7:55-10:55 Spider-Man: Far From Home The Lion King (PG) CC: 11:15- Midsommar: The Directors Cut (NR) (R) 12:40-2:30-6:15-9:55
8:05-10:40 Bow Tie 5:10-9:00
11:25-3:35 7:15-9:30 Bennett's War (PG-13) 11:10-1:45- - Extended Cut The IMAX 2D 2:05-4:55-7:45-10:35 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs &
Ready or Not (R) CC: 10:50-2:15- Regal Germantown Experience (PG-13) 12:30-3:45- The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) Reston Town Ctr 11 & BTX Blinded by the Light (PG-13) 12:15- Shaw (PG-13) 12:10-3:15-6:30-9:40
Smithsonian - 4:15-6:45-9:15 20000 Century Blvd 11940 Market St 3:15-6:15-9:15
Warner Bros. Theater 4:55-6:30-10:00 Angel Has Fallen (R) 10:55-1:55- 7:00-10:05 CC: 11:00-2:30-5:00-7:30-10:00 Regal Manassas & IMAX
Don't Let Go (R) CC: 11:15-1:45- Angel Has Fallen (R) 10:55-1:45- Toy Story 4 (G) 11:55-2:35 Dora and the Lost City of Gold Yesterday (PG-13) 10:05-12:50- Toy Story 4 (G) 12:50-3:20
14th St and Constitution Ave Northwest 4:50-7:45-10:45 Spider-Man: Far From Home - 11380 Bulloch Drive
4:15-6:50-9:20 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs 4:40-7:30-10:20 Angel Has Fallen (R) 11:35-3:00- (PG) CC: 11:05-1:35-5:20-7:50- 3:40-6:30-9:15
D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D (NR) Spider-Man: Far From Home - Ex- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs 7:15-10:10 10:20 Angel Has Fallen (R) 10:40-1:40- Extended Cut (PG-13) 6:10-9:20 Toy Story 4 (G) 12:10-2:40
10:30-2:40-4:50 & Shaw (PG-13) 12:40-3:50-7:00-
tended Cut (PG-13) CC: 6:00-9:00 10:15 & Shaw (PG-13) 10:30-1:35-4:35- Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs 4:40-7:00-9:20 Regal Countryside Angel Has Fallen (R) 1:30-4:25-
Tornado Alley 3D (NR) 3:30 Spider-Man: Far From Home - 7:40-10:40 (R) 11:30-3:05-6:40-10:15 & Shaw (PG-13) CC: 11:00-2:10- The Farewell (PG) 11:30-2:10-4:50- 45980 Regal Plaza 7:25-10:30
Apollo 11 (G) 1:00 AMC Magic Johnson Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs &
Capital Center 12 Extended Cut (PG-13) 11:40-2:55- The Lion King (PG) 10:45-1:30- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & 4:10-7:35-10:40 7:20-9:45 Toy Story 4 (G) 12:45-3:10
National Parks Adventure 3D 6:00-9:10 4:20-7:10-10:00 Shaw (PG-13) 12:10-3:40-6:50-9:55 Good Boys (R) CC: 11:20-1:50- Spider-Man: Far From Home Shaw (PG-13) 12:15-3:25-6:30-9:40
(America Wild 3D) (NR) 12:10-4:00 800 Shoppers Way Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) The Lion King (PG) 12:05-3:00-
Saaho (Telugu) (NR) XD: 11:15- The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) Dora and the Lost City of Gold 4:40-7:00-9:20 - Extended Cut (PG-13) 10:00- 1:35-4:15-6:45
Superpower Dogs 3D (G) 11:20- The Lion King (PG) CC: 1:05-3:50- 3:15-7:15 10:50-1:20-3:55 (PG) 2:15 Overcomer (PG) CC: 11:40-1:40- 4:00-7:10 6:05-9:10
1:50 6:40-9:25 The Lion King (PG) 1:05-4:00- The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG)
Saaho (Tamil) (NR) 2:35 Overcomer (PG) 12:20-3:10- 4:30-7:20-10:10 Angel Has Fallen (R) 1:10-10:30 7:00-9:40
Toy Story 4 (G) CC: 2:35-5:00 Hoyt's West Nursery Cinema 14 Saaho (Telugu) (NR) 11:00-6:15- 6:30-9:20 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (PG- Where'd You Go, Bernadette (PG- 12:25-3:35-6:15
MARYLAND The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) CC:
1:30-4:00-6:30-9:05
1591 West Nursery Road 9:50 Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark 13) CC: 4:15-9:50 13) 3:30-6:20-9:00
Good Boys (R) 12:25-2:50-5:15-
7:45-10:25
Saaho (Telugu) (NR) 6:45-10:20
Saaho (Hindi) (NR) 11:30-3:10
Toy Story 4 (G) CC: 2:15-4:35 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) (PG-13) 1:45-4:30-9:50; 7:10 Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG)
AFI Silver Theatre Cultural Ctr Angel Has Fallen (R) CC: 1:40- Angel Has Fallen (R) CC: 1:40- 10:35-1:15-3:50-6:30-9:05 (PG-13) CC: 12:20-3:00-4:25- Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG)
After the Wedding (PG-13) 1:20- 10:10-12:40-3:00-5:20-7:50-10:10 12:20-2:45-5:10-7:40
8633 Colesville Road 4:30-7:20-10:10 4:25-7:10-10:00-11:15 Mission Mangal (NR) 11:05-1:55- 4:20-7:05-10:00 7:15-9:55 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) 12:45-3:30-6:10
Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) Parey Hut Love (NR) 12:00-3:10- Overcomer (PG) 12:30-3:40-
Looney Tunes Program 6 (NR) Spider-Man: Far from Home (PG- 4:50-7:45-10:35 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) Ready or Not (R) CC: 10:55-1:30- 10:20-12:50 7:15-10:30
11:00AM CC: 1:25-3:50-6:20-9:00 13) CC: 1:15-4:10-7:00-9:45 Good Boys (R) 11:35-2:20-5:00- 4:20-7:10-9:40 6:40-9:30
5:15-8:10 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood Superstar (Urdu) (NR) 6:00-9:20
The Farewell (PG) CC: 11:05-1:05- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs The Lion King (PG) CC: 1:20-4:00- 7:20-9:40 The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) Killerman (R) 10:55-1:45-4:35- (R) 10:50-2:30-6:00-9:30 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
& Shaw (PG-13) CC: 3:05-6:10-9:10 Where'd You Go, Bernadette (PG- (R) 11:35-3:05-6:35-10:05
3:10-5:15-7:20 6:40-9:20 Overcomer (PG) 10:40-1:25-4:10- 11:50-2:25-4:55-7:30-10:05 7:25-10:15 Toy Story 4 (G) 11:00-1:30-4:10- 13) 3:50-9:05
Close Encounters of the Third Good Boys (R) CC: 2:35-4:55- The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) CC: 7:00-9:50 Don't Let Go (R) CC: 1:00-4:05- Good Boys (R) 12:00-2:25-5:00-
Don't Let Go (R) 12:05-2:45-5:20- 6:50 Spider-Man: Far From Home -
Kind 40th Anniversary Release 7:10-9:30 1:30-4:10-6:35-9:00 Ready or Not (R) 11:15-1:50-4:25- 7:55-10:30 7:05-9:45 Good Boys (R) 10:15-12:30-2:50- 7:30-9:55
Overcomer (PG) CC: 1:15-4:00- Extended Cut (PG-13) 1:15-7:05 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (PG-13)
(PG) 7:10 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood 7:05-9:35 Bennett's War (PG-13) 11:45-2:10- The Peanut Butter Falcon 5:10-7:30-9:50 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & 5:15-7:45-10:10
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood 6:50-9:40 (R) CC: 1:00-4:20-7:40 Don't Let Go (R) 11:25-2:05-4:55- 5:00-7:35-10:15 (PG-13) CC: 11:25-1:55-5:50-
Ready or Not (R) 10:30-2:00-4:30- Shaw (PG-13) 12:40-3:35-6:30-9:45 Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark
(R) 1:00-4:15-7:30 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (PG-13) Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & 7:35-10:05 The Art of Racing in the Rain 8:20-10:45 7:40-10:00 Batla House (NR) 12:10-3:40-
Midsommar: The Directors Cut CC: 7:45-10:00 Shaw (PG-13) CC: 1:00-4:00- The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) (PG) 8:25 Bennett's War (PG-13) CC: 1:15- (PG-13) 2:00-4:40-7:35-10:25
Blinded by the Light (PG-13) 6:55-10:20 Ready or Not (R) 12:55-3:45-
(NR) 9:30 Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark 6:55-9:50 11:20-2:00-4:30-6:55-9:30 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) 4:00-6:30-9:00 11:10-1:00-3:50-6:40-9:40 Saaho (Tamil) (NR) 12:30-4:20-
Night Moves (1975) (R) 10:40 (PG-13) CC: 2:30-5:05-7:40-10:15 Good Boys (R) CC: 1:00-3:15-5:30- Blinded by the Light (PG-13) 9:45 11:40-4:50-7:25-10:00 Tod@s Caen (PG-13) 12:10-3:20- 6:35-9:15
Spider-Man: Far From Home - 8:00-9:35 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) 9:00
Dog Day Afternoon (R) 4:30 Ready or Not (R) CC: 2:50-5:10- 7:50-10:05-11:35 Bennett's War (PG-13) 11:30-2:10- Ready or Not (R) 12:00-2:55-5:35- 6:45-10:05 Extended Cut (PG-13) 10:20 Overcomer (PG) 1:10-3:55-6:40-
The Godfather: Part II (R) 12:20 7:30-9:50 Overcomer (PG) CC: 1:05-4:05- 4:45-7:15-9:55 Ne Zha: The IMAX 3D Experience Tod@s Caen (PG-13) 12:20-3:15-
8:05-10:35 Cinema Arts Theatre 9:25 6:20-9:25
Alien (1979) (R) 10:00 Don't Let Go (R) CC: 2:40-5:10- 6:50-9:35 Toy Story 4 (G) 11:10-1:40-4:05- The Lion King (PG) 11:30-2:20- (NR) 11:10-2:00-4:50-7:40-10:30 Mission Mangal (NR) 1:20-4:15-
Days of Heaven (PG) 11:00AM 7:40-10:10 Brian Banks (PG-13) CC: 7:05-9:25 6:40 Spider-Man: Far From Home 9650 Main St Midsommar: The Directors Cut
5:10-8:00-10:50 7:10 (NR) 9:05
AMC Academy 8
Spider-Man: Far From Home 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (PG-13) Spider-Man: Far From Home - - Extended Cut (PG-13) CC: Where'd You Go, Bernadette Saaho (Telugu) (NR) 12:00-3:45- Spider-Man: Far From Home -
- Extended Cut The IMAX 2D CC: 2:40-4:55-7:15-9:30-11:40 Extended Cut (PG-13) 6:45-10:10 Xscape Theatres Brandywine 14 12:40-6:40 (PG-13) CC: 9:40-12:05-2:35-5:05-
6198 Greenbelt Road Experience (PG-13) CC: 1:00-4:00- 7710 Matapeake Business Dr 7:30-10:05 Extended Cut The IMAX 2D Experi-
Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark Regal Hyattsville Royale Midsommar: The Directors Cut 7:40-9:50 Saaho (Hindi) (NR) 1:00-3:25-8:30 ence (PG-13) 1:00-4:00-7:00-10:00
Toy Story 4 (G) CC: 12:00-2:30 7:00-10:05 (PG-13) CC: 2:20-5:00-7:30-10:00 The Lion King (PG) CC: 11:00-1:50- (NR) CC: 9:10 Tel Aviv On Fire (NR) CC: 10:05-
Angel Has Fallen (R) CC: 11:50- 6505 America Blvd. Ready or Not (R) 12:15-2:40-5:05-
ArcLight Bethesda Ready or Not (R) CC: 1:10-3:25- 4:40-6:20-9:10 Angel Has Fallen (R) OC: 6:15 12:20-2:20-4:35-7:20-9:30 7:35-10:00 Regal Potomac Yard
2:45-5:40-8:45 5:40-7:55-10:10-11:45 Ready or Not (R) 1:15-3:50-6:25- Angel Has Fallen (R) CC: (!) 11:30- Maiden (PG) CC: 2:00-4:00-8:00- 3575 Potomac Ave
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) CC: 7101 Democracy Boulevard 9:10 AMC Shirlington 7 After the Wedding (PG-13) 12:35-
The Art of Racing in the Rain (PG) 2:20-5:10-8:00-10:50 2772 South Randolph St. 10:00 3:15-6:15-9:15 Toy Story 4 (G) 12:35-3:20-6:25
1:00-3:45 Toy Story 4 (G) 6:00 CC: 1:45-4:15-6:45-9:15 Toy Story 4 (G) 12:15-2:45-5:25- Toy Story 4 (G) CC: 11:20-2:00 The Farewell (PG) CC: 10:00-
Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) Where'd You Go, Bernadette (PG- 7:55 Toy Story 4 (G) CC: 11:00-1:25- The Art of Racing in the Rain (PG) Angel Has Fallen (R) 1:30-4:30-
Don't Let Go (R) CC: 2:00-4:45- The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) CC: 12:00-6:00 12:45-4:40-7:20-10:10 7:30-10:30
CC: 12:05-2:35-5:00-7:45 13) 11:40-2:10-4:40-7:10-10:25 7:20-9:55-11:30 Angel Has Fallen (R) 1:05-4:15- (!) 10:15-1:00-3:50-6:40-9:30 3:50 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) CC:
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) 7:20-10:25 Angel Has Fallen (R) CC: 11:00- 9:40-12:00-2:30-5:00-7:30-9:55 The Farewell (PG) 1:25-6:35 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs
Landmark Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) Bennett's War (PG-13) 1:30-4:05- & Shaw (PG-13) 12:45-3:55-7:15-
Shaw (PG-13) CC: 11:45-2:45-5:45- 12:35-5:45 Good Boys (R) 12:10-2:40-5:10- CC: (!) 9:55-12:25-3:10-6:10-8:40 1:45-4:30-7:15-10:00 The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13)
6:30-9:00 Good Boys (R) 11:00-1:10-3:40- Bethesda Row Cinema 7:40-10:10 Where'd You Go, Bernadette (PG- CC: 9:55-12:15-2:40-4:55-7:10-9:15 6:25-9:10 10:25
7235 Woodmont Ave
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs Blinded by the Light (PG-13) The Lion King (PG) 12:25-3:15-
Good Boys (R) CC: 12:10-2:30- 5:35-7:45-9:50-10:45 The Lion King (PG) 12:35-3:35- & Shaw (PG-13) OC; CC: (!) 10:20- 13) CC: 11:10-4:15-9:15
4:50-7:15-9:35 Overcomer (PG) 10:25-1:00-4:45- Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood Cinemark Centreville 12 4:25-10:15 6:25-9:25
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood 6:35-9:35 1:10-4:30-7:20-10:10 Midsommar: The Directors Cut The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG)
Ready or Not (R) CC: 2:45-5:15- 7:20-10:00 (R) CC: (!) 10:20-12:50-3:30- The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) Good Boys (R) CC: (!) 11:40-3:00- (R) CC: 1:30-5:00-8:30 6201 Multiplex Drive
Ready or Not (R) 11:15-2:45-5:50- (NR) 10:10 1:00-3:30-6:30
7:45-10:00 6:40-9:15 12:00-2:35-5:20-8:00 5:40-8:20-11:00 Ready or Not (R) CC: 12:45-3:00- Toy Story 4 (G) 11:55-2:20-4:45
Don't Let Go (R) CC: 11:45-2:15- 8:05-10:30 The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) Brian Banks (PG-13) 9:00
The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) Overcomer (PG) CC: (!) 10:00- 5:20-7:45-10:00 Angel Has Fallen (R) 10:10-1:15- 12:05-2:30-4:55-7:20-9:50 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG)
5:00-7:45-9:45-10:15 The Farewell (PG) 11:55-2:50-5:05- CC: (!) 10:45-1:15-6:30 12:50-3:45-6:20-9:05 12:50-3:40-6:30-9:20 The Farewell (PG) CC: 1:40-6:50 4:20-7:20-10:10
Spider-Man: Far From Home - Ex- 7:25-9:10 Tel Aviv On Fire (NR) (!) 11:00-1:40- Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood Blinded by the Light (PG-13) CC: The Lion King (PG) 10:15-1:20- Regal Dulles Town Center 1:15-3:50-6:45-9:30
Brian Banks (PG-13) CC: 4:50- Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
tended Cut (PG-13) CC: 5:05-8:30 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) 4:00-7:30-9:55 (R) 12:05-3:40-7:15-10:55 7:40-10:20 11:00-1:45-4:30-7:15-10:00 4:15-7:00-9:45 21100 Dulles Town Circle
Ready or Not (R) 12:30 11:10-1:45-2:10-4:25-7:00-8:00- Where'd You Go, Bernadette Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) (R) 11:55-3:25-6:55-10:30
47 Meters Down: Uncaged (PG-13) Angel Has Fallen (R) 1:15-4:15- The Kitchen (R) 12:20-3:00-5:40-
AMC Center Park 8 9:40 (PG-13) CC: (!) 10:40-1:50-4:20- Shaw (PG-13) 1:20-4:30-7:35-10:40 CC: 12:20-2:50 CC: 12:30-2:50-5:10-7:30-9:50 11:00-1:35-4:10-6:45 7:15-10:15
Don't Let Go (R) 11:45-12:15-2:15- 7:20-9:45 Overcomer (PG) 1:00-4:00-7:00- Midsommar: The Directors Cut 8:15-10:50
4001 Powder Mill Rd. Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark Saaho (Tamil) (NR) 6:00-10:00 The Lion King (PG) 12:30-3:15- Good Boys (R) 12:40-3:05-5:30-
5:20-8:20-10:40 After the Wedding (PG-13) CC: (!) 10:40 (PG-13) CC: 10:10-12:30-3:20- (NR) CC: 6:15-9:50 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) 6:15-9:00
Toy Story 4 (G) CC: 10:40-1:20-4:00 Yesterday (PG-13) 2:40 10:50-1:20-4:15-7:15-9:50 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (PG-13) 7:55-10:20
8:10-10:30 AMC Tysons Corner 16 11:40-2:25-4:55-7:25-9:55 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) Overcomer (PG) 12:55-4:00-
Angel Has Fallen (R) CC: 10:00- The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) Blinded by the Light (PG-13) CC: (!) 1:30-4:05-6:30-9:15 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs 12:20-3:00-6:00
1:00-4:00-7:00-10:00 Ready or Not (R) CC: (!) 11:50-2:30- 7850e Tysons Corner Center 6:50-9:55
10:15-1:30-4:35-6:30-7:15-9:30 10:35-1:30-4:30-7:10-9:45 Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark 5:00-7:30-10:15 & Shaw (PG-13) 10:20-1:25-4:35- Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (PG-13)
The Lion King (PG) CC: 10:50-1:40- Angel Has Fallen (R) 2:30-3:45-5:10 The Farewell (PG) CC: (!) 10:30- (PG-13) 1:10-3:55-6:50-9:40 Angel Has Fallen (R) CC: 11:05- 7:40-10:45 12:00-2:30-5:15
4:40-7:30-10:20 Don't Let Go (R) CC: (!) 9:50-12:40- 1:55-5:00-8:00-9:50-10:50 12:05-2:55-5:35-8:00-10:35
Spider-Man: Far From Home - 1:10-4:10-7:00-10:00 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) 10:50 3:30-5:20-6:50-7:50-9:40-10:40 Good Boys (R) 10:50-1:05-3:20- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) CC: Extended Cut (PG-13) 5:25 Brittany Runs A Marathon (R) Don't Let Go (R) 12:45-3:30- Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood 5:35-7:50-10:15 Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark
11:30-4:30-9:50 Spider-Man: Far From Home (R) CC: 11:25-3:00-6:30-10:00 & Shaw (PG-13) 12:00-3:30-6:45- (PG-13) 12:00-2:35-5:25-8:10-10:55
Midsommar: The Directors Cut CC: (!) 10:30-1:00-3:40-4:40-7:25- 6:15-9:00 - Extended Cut (PG-13) CC: (!) Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark 10:00
Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) (NR) 2:25-8:45 Spider-Man: Far From Home - Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & (PG-13) 11:30-2:05-4:40-7:15-9:50 Ready or Not (R) 12:10-2:50-5:35-
8:45-9:55 10:30-1:20-4:10-7:00-9:50 Good Boys (R) 12:10-2:45-5:30- 8:00-10:35
CC: 2:00-7:15 Toy Story 4 (G) 10:30-3:20 Extended Cut (PG-13) 12:55-4:10- Shaw (PG-13) CC: 1:05-4:10- Ready or Not (R) 10:05-12:50-3:10- 8:00-10:20
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & The Lion King (PG) 10:55-1:35- Old Greenbelt Theatre Angel Has Fallen (R) CC: (!) 10:40- 7:30-10:45 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) 1:10-
7:30-10:45 1:30-4:20-7:10-10:00 5:40-8:00-10:20 Overcomer (PG) 1:30-4:30-7:30- 4:10-7:20-10:05
Shaw (PG-13) CC: 10:20-12:50- 4:20-7:05-9:45 129 Centerway Midsommar: The Directors Cut Blinded by the Light (PG-13)
4:20-6:40-9:45 iPic Pike & Rose CC: 9:15 Mission Mangal (NR) 7:10-10:05 10:30 Don't Let Go (R) 12:15-2:20-5:00-
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) Short Film Program (NR) 10:00- (NR) 10:35 Spider-Man: Far From Home - 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (PG-13) 7:40-10:15
Good Boys (R) CC: 10:30-1:50- 12:50-6:50 10:30-11:00-11:30-12:00 11830 Grand Park Ave The Matrix (R) 11:15-2:40-6:10- Extended Cut (PG-13) 10:25-1:30- 8:15-10:35
4:20-7:20-10:10 Regal Laurel Towne Centre 9:30 Spider-Man: Far From Home -
Aquarela (PG) 3:15 David Crosby: Remember My Toy Story 4 (G) 1:00-4:00 4:30-7:30-10:35 Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark Extended Cut (PG-13) 12:30-3:40-
Ready or Not (R) CC: 11:45-2:15- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs Name (R) 3:30-7:30 14716 Baltimore Ave Toy Story 4 (G) CC: 11:45-2:30-5:05 Saaho
Angel Has Fallen (R) (!) 12:45-3:45- (Telugu) (NR) 10:30-2:30- (PG-13) 12:45-3:45-6:30-9:15 7:00-10:10
4:50-7:40-10:10 & Shaw (PG-13) 10:20-1:15-4:15- Sword of Trust (R) 5:30 Toy Story 4 (G) 12:45-3:30 7:00-10:10 The Lion King (PG) CC: 11:15-2:05- 6:30-9:30-10:30 Ready or Not (R) 11:50-2:15-5:00- Midsommar: The Directors Cut
Don't Let Go (R) CC: 11:00-1:30- 7:50-9:55 Angel Has Fallen (R) 12:50-4:10- The Lion King (PG) 12:00-3:00- 4:55-7:45-10:35 7:45-10:10
4:15-7:00-9:40 Spider-Man: Far From Home -
Phoenix Theatres Marlow 6 7:30-10:30 6:20-9:30 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) CC: Saaho (Hindi) (NR) 10:00-2:00 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) 8:30
(NR) 9:05
Spider-Man: Far From Home - Ex- Extended Cut (PG-13) 12:00-7:40 3899 Branch Avenue The Lion King (PG) 12:35-3:55- 11:10-1:45-4:25-7:15 Cinemark Fairfax Corner and XD
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood Don't Let Go (R) 1:00-4:00-7:00- Regal Springfield Town Ctr
tended Cut (PG-13) CC: 6:30-9:30 The Art of Racing in the Rain Toy Story 4 (G) 12:45-3:15 7:15-10:15 (R) 1:45-6:00-9:50 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) 11900 Palace Way 9:45 6500 Springfield Town Ctr
AMC Columbia 14 (PG) 12:10 The Lion King (PG) 11:15-2:00- The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & CC: 11:05-1:35-4:05-6:35 Toy Story 4 (G) 10:20-1:20-4:30-
Angel Has Fallen (R) 11:20-8:15- 4:45-7:30-10:30 12:55-3:50-6:40 Good Boys (R) CC: 12:50-3:20- 7:05-9:35 Regal Fairfax Towne Center Angel Has Fallen (R) 11:00-1:55-
10300 Little Patuxent Parkway The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) Shaw (PG-13) 11:30-2:45-6:10-9:40 4110 West Ox Road 4:50-7:55-10:50
10:55 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) Good Boys (R) 11:15-2:00-4:45- 5:40-8:10-10:30 Angel Has Fallen (R) 11:05-2:00- Toy Story 4 (G) 12:15-2:55-5:35
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood 1:00-3:45-6:25-9:30 12:40-3:45-6:50-9:50 Overcomer (PG) CC: 11:35-2:25- 4:55-7:50-10:45 Angel Has Fallen (R) 11:20-2:10- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs &
Shaw (PG-13) 5:20-8:30 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs 7:30-10:30
(R) 5:00-9:35; 11:05-8:20; 2:00 Ready or Not (R) 11:45-2:15-5:00- 5:15-8:05-10:55 The Lion King (PG) 10:50-1:40- 5:10-8:10-10:55 Shaw (PG-13) 1:00-4:15-7:30-10:45
Blinded by the Light (PG-13) 11:00-1:30-4:00-6:30-9:00 & Shaw (PG-13) 12:10-3:40-7:10- Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark 4:30-7:20-10:10 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & The Lion King (PG) 12:30-3:30-
12:00-2:50-5:45 Bow Tie Annapolis Mall 11 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & 10:20 7:45-10:45
Don't Let Go (R) (!) 12:30-3:30- (PG-13) CC: 11:30-2:10-4:50- The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) Shaw (PG-13) 11:25-2:35-5:45-8:50 6:30-9:30
The Matrix (R) 11:40-3:10-6:30- 1020 Westfield Annapolis Mall Shaw (PG-13) 1:00-4:05-7:00-10:00 Good Boys (R) 11:50-2:20-4:50- 7:35-10:15
6:30-9:15 10:10-12:50-3:30 The Lion King (PG) 11:45-2:40- The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG)
9:35 Good Boys (R) 1:45-10:30 Angel Has Fallen (R) 11:45-2:30- 7:20-10:05 Ready or Not (R) CC: 11:50-2:15- Saaho (Telugu) (NR) 8:20 5:40-8:40
Toy Story 4 (G) 12:15-2:45 Angel Has Fallen (R) 11:00-4:00- 5:15-8:00-10:45 Spider-Man: Far From Home - Ex- 11:05-1:40-4:25-7:00
Overcomer (PG) 1:00-4:00-7:00- tended Cut (PG-13) (!) 6:45-10:00 4:45-7:05-9:25 Saaho (Hindi) (NR) 11:00-10:25 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG)
Angel Has Fallen (R) 11:50-3:00- 7:50 Spider-Man: Far From Home - 10:00 Don't Let Go (R) CC: 11:00-1:40- Saaho (Tamil) (NR) 2:50-6:40 11:05-1:40-4:15
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6:20-9:15 The Lion King (PG) 10:45-1:30- Extended Cut (PG-13) 6:05-9:05 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (PG-13) 4:15-7:10-9:45 Saaho (Telugu) (NR) 6:30-10:15
The Lion King (PG) 11:35-2:20- 4:20-7:15-10:20
Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
Regal Bowie 6:20-9:00 Bennett's War (PG-13) CC: 11:30- 10:05-12:40-3:05-5:40-8:10 Saaho (Hindi) (NR) 11:00-2:45 (R) 11:05-2:40-6:15-10:00
5:10-8:00 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark AMC Courthouse Plaza 8 2:00-4:30-7:00-9:40 Good Boys (R) 11:50-2:20-4:50-
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) 10:50-1:20-3:40 15200 Major Lansdale Blvd Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood Overcomer (PG) 11:10-2:00-5:00-
(PG-13) 11:40-2:50-6:00-9:10 2150 Clarendon Blvd. Tod@s Caen (PG-13) 11:00-1:50- (R) 11:00-2:50-6:35-10:15 7:20-9:40 8:00-10:55
12:20-3:05-5:50-8:25 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) Angel Has Fallen (R) 11:30-2:20- Ready or Not (R) 11:30-2:05-5:00- 4:40-7:50-10:40 Overcomer (PG) 11:10-2:05-5:05- Good Boys (R) 11:30-2:15-4:45-
Saaho (Hindi) (NR) 11:30-2:10- 11:05-1:50-4:10-6:40 5:10-8:00-10:50 Angel Has Fallen (R) CC: 1:00- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs &
7:50-10:20 Saaho: The IMAX 2D Experience Shaw (PG-13) 12:05-3:20-6:40-9:50 8:05-10:55 7:15-9:55
5:45-8:40 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs Blinded by the Light (PG-13) 3:40-7:00-9:45 (Hindi w/English Subtitles) (NR) Good Boys (R) 12:00-2:40-5:10-
The Lion King (PG) CC: 1:00-4:00- Ready or Not (R) 11:40-2:15-4:45- 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (PG-13)
Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) (R) 6:30-10:00 & Shaw (PG-13) 12:30-3:40-6:50- 12:00-3:20 11:20-3:05-6:45-10:25 7:15-9:45
12:45-3:20-6:10 Midsommar: The Directors Cut 10:05 6:00-9:15 7:45-10:10 8:15-10:35
Don't Let Go (R) 11:30-2:10-4:55- Spider-Man: Far From Home - Ex- Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark Blinded by the Light (PG-13) 10:00 Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark
Good Boys (R) 1:40-4:25-7:00-9:20 (NR) 9:00 The Lion King (PG) 12:55-3:40- 7:40-10:25 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) CC: tended Cut (PG-13) CC: 7:40-10:45 (PG-13) 11:35-2:15-5:00-7:40-10:40 Don't Let Go (R) 11:15-1:55-4:35- (PG-13) 12:20-3:10-6:00-9:00
Overcomer (PG) 11:40-2:30- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs 6:40-9:30 Spider-Man: Far From Home - 2:15-4:45 7:35-10:10
5:25-8:15 & Shaw (PG-13) 11:20-2:20-5:15- Brian Banks (PG-13) 4:55-7:25- Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood AMC Worldgate 9 Ready or Not (R) 11:55-2:25-5:20- Ready or Not (R) 12:45-3:20-5:55-
Extended Cut (PG-13) 6:30-9:55 13025 Worldgate Dr 7:50-10:20 Bennett's War (PG-13) 11:30-2:00- 8:30-11:00
Ready or Not (R) 1:10-3:55-6:40- 8:00-10:45 9:55 Midsommar: The Directors Cut (R) CC: 1:30-5:15-8:45 4:30-7:00-9:30
9:00 Good Boys (R) 12:10-2:40-4:50- Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) (NR) 9:40 Good Boys (R) CC: 1:45-4:15- Toy Story 4 (G) CC: 12:50-3:50 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) 10:30 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) 9:45
6:45-9:00 The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) Spider-Man: Far From Home - Don't Let Go (R) 11:45-2:25-5:05-
The Farewell (PG) 8:35 7:10-9:20 11:30-2:05-4:40-7:20-9:55 Angel Has Fallen (R) CC: 1:00- Extended Cut (PG-13) 6:50
Don't Let Go (R) 11:35-3:10- The Kitchen (R) 5:20-7:55-10:25 Regal Rockville Center Ready or Not (R) CC: 1:15-3:45- 4:00-7:10-10:10 12:25-3:00-5:30-8:05 7:45-10:25
47 Meters Down: Uncaged (PG-13)
6:05-9:30 7:45-10:05 Good Boys (R) 11:45-2:10-4:35- 199 East Montgomery Ave 7:30-10:00 The Lion King (PG) CC: 1:10-4:10- Rerelease IT Chapter One (R) Regal Fox & IMAX Regal Virginia Gateway & RPX
Bennett's War (PG-13) CC: 11:55- Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark 7:05-9:35 Toy Story 4 (G) 12:30-3:10 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) CC: 7:00-9:40 XD: 10:00 22875 Brambleton Plaza 8001 Gateway Promenade Place
2:40-5:30-8:05 (PG-13) 11:40-2:15-4:45-7:30-10:10 Overcomer (PG) 1:00-3:55-7:00- Angel Has Fallen (R) 12:50-4:05- 3:30-6:15-9:30 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) CC: Spider-Man: Far From Home Angel Has Fallen (R) 1:20-4:20- Pulp Fiction (R) 6:00
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs Don't Let Go (R) 11:30-2:00-4:30- 10:10 7:20-10:20 The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) 1:40-4:25 - Extended Cut (PG-13) XD: 10:00- 7:15-10:40
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (R) 12:00
& Shaw The IMAX 2D Experience 7:00-9:45 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (PG-13) Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs CC: 2:00-4:30-6:30-9:00 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) 1:00-4:00-7:00 Toy Story 4 (G) 12:50-3:20-6:00 Kill Bill: Volume 2 (R) 2:45
(PG-13) 11:45-2:50 12:25-2:50-5:15-7:50-10:20 & Shaw (PG-13) 12:20-3:30-7:10- Spider-Man: Far From Home CC: 1:30-4:40-7:15-9:50 Saaho (Telugu) (NR) XD: 10:35-
Toy Story 4 (G) 11:50-2:30-5:10 The Lion King (PG) 1:00-3:50- Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
Midsommar: The Directors Cut Angel Has Fallen (R) 10:30-1:10- Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark 10:25 - Extended Cut (PG-13) CC: Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood 2:20-6:20-9:55 6:40-9:30 (R) 9:25
(NR) 8:45 3:50-6:50-9:30 (PG-13) 12:05-2:45-5:25-8:05-10:45 Don't Let Go (R) 12:00-2:45-5:15- 7:15-10:15 (R) CC: 12:45-4:20-8:00 Cobb Village 12 Leesburg The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG)
Spider-Man: Far From Home - Spider-Man: Far From Home - Midsommar: The Directors Cut 8:00-10:35 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & 1600 Village Market Boulevard 1:15-3:45-6:20 Smithsonian -
AMC Hoffman Center 22 Airbus IMAX Theater
Extended Cut The IMAX 2D Experi- Extended Cut (PG-13) 10:40-1:40- (NR) 9:40 The Lion King (PG) 12:00-2:40- 206 Swamp Fox Rd. Shaw (PG-13) CC: 1:20-4:30- Saaho (Telugu) (NR) 7:00-10:10
ence (PG-13) 6:00-9:05 Ready or Not (R) 12:10-2:40-5:05- 4:45-7:30-10:30 6:50-10:00 Toy Story 4 (G) 11:30-1:55 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) 14390 Air and Space Museum Pkwy
4:40-7:40-10:40 Angel Has Fallen (R) CC: 12:15- Angel Has Fallen (R) 11:35-2:20-
AMC DINE-IN Rio Cinemas 18 7:40-10:15 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) Good Boys (R) CC: 1:50-4:15- 1:30-4:00-6:30-9:00 D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D (NR)
Bow Tie Harbour 9 Don't Let Go (R) 11:40-2:15-4:45- 12:25-3:50-6:35 1:15-3:15-4:15-6:15-9:00-10:00 7:45-10:20 5:05-7:50-10:35; 11:35-2:20-5:05- Saaho (Hindi) (NR) 12:00-3:30
9811 Washingtonian Center 7:50-10:35 12:45
2474 Solomons Island Road 7:15-10:00 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) The Lion King (PG) CC: 1:00-4:00- Ready or Not (R) CC: 2:15-4:50- Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood Aircraft Carrier: Guardians of the
Toy Story 4 (G) CC: 1:10-3:40 7:00-9:45 The Lion King (PG) 12:20-1:45-
The Farewell (PG) 2:00-10:20 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) 12:40-3:40-6:40-9:30 7:40-10:05 (R) 1:10-4:40-8:10 Seas 3D (2018) (NR) 10:30AM
Angel Has Fallen (R) CC: 11:00- After the Wedding (PG-13) 11:10- 11:35-2:30 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood Dora and the Lost City of Gold Blinded by the Light (PG-13) CC: 4:30-7:10-9:50 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs Journey to Space: The IMAX 3D
2:00-5:00-8:00-10:10 1:50-4:30-7:20-9:50 Toy Story 4 (G) 11:55-2:25 (R) 12:15-3:00-6:45-10:10 (PG) CC: 4:15-6:45 7:20-10:15 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) & Shaw (PG-13) 12:55-4:10-7:20- Experience (NR) 10:00-1:35
The Lion King (PG) CC: 12:20-3:20- The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) Good Boys (R) 12:05-2:25-5:20- Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood Spider-Man: Far From Home - Ex- 11:40-2:05-4:35-7:05-9:35 10:30 Superpower Dogs: An IMAX 3D
6:25-9:20 11:50-2:10-4:40-7:10-9:30 11:25-2:00-4:30-7:10 7:50-10:15 (R) CC: 1:15-1:30-6:30-9:30 tended Cut (PG-13) CC: 6:30-9:55 Dora and the Lost City of Gold Good Boys (R) 12:20-2:50-5:20- Experience (G) 2:10
The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) CC: The Lion King (PG) 10:10-12:50- Spider-Man: Far From Home - Overcomer (PG) 12:45-4:00- Saaho: The IMAX 2D Experience (PG) 12:00-2:30-4:55-7:25-9:50 7:40-10:00 Apollo 11: The IMAX 2D Experi-
12:30-3:15-6:00 (Hindi w/English Subtitles) (NR) Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
3:45-6:45-9:45 Extended Cut (PG-13) 11:50-2:55- 7:00-9:45 One Loudoun Overcomer (PG) 1:40-4:30-7:30- ence 11:50-3:05
Saaho (Hindi) (NR) 1:00-5:15 Where'd You Go, Bernadette (PG- 6:00-9:00 Ready or Not (R) 12:10-2:35-5:10- 11:45-3:30-7:15 (R) 12:05-3:30-6:55-10:20 10:20 Secrets of the Universe (NR)
Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) Spider-Man: Far From Home - Ex- 20575 East Hampton Plaza Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs
13) 10:30-1:00-3:40-6:40-9:15 Regal Cinemas Majestic 7:55-10:40 Ready or Not (R) 12:35-3:00-5:30- 11:00AM
CC: 1:50-4:20-7:00 Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood After the Wedding (PG-13) 1:20- tended Cut (PG-13) CC: 7:00-10:00 Grease Sing-A-Long (PG-13) & Shaw (PG-13) 1:00-4:00-7:00- 8:00-10:35 Saaho: The IMAX 2D Experience
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood Stadium 20 & IMAX Midsommar: The Directors Cut 1:00 10:00
(R) 11:00-2:30-6:00-9:20 900 Ellsworth Dr 4:30-7:40-10:25 Mission Mangal (NR) 2:00-5:00- (Hindi w/English Subtitles) (NR)
(R) CC: 11:20-2:55-6:25 Overcomer (PG) 10:15-1:10-4:10- Blinded by the Light (PG-13) 1:00- (NR) CC: 8:05-9:15 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) Good Boys (R) 11:10-1:30-3:45- 7:50-10:45 4:00-7:00-9:55
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & 7:00-10:00 Ready or Not (R) 12:45-3:10-5:45- 4:20-7:35-10:35 The Matrix (R) 11:30-2:45-6:00- 11:40-2:35 6:00-8:15-10:30 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) 8:30
Shaw (PG-13) CC: 12:15-3:30- 8:20-11:05 9:15 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs Overcomer (PG) 11:15-2:00-4:45- University Mall Theatre
Ready or Not (R) 10:00-12:20-2:40- Spider-Man: Far From Home - The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) 10659 Braddock Road
6:45-10:00 5:00-7:40-10:10 Blinded by the Light (PG-13) Extended Cut (PG-13) 6:50-10:00 Toy Story 4 (G) CC: 11:30-2:00- & Shaw (PG-13) 11:00-2:50- 7:30-10:10 12:45-3:15-6:10-8:50
Good Boys (R) CC: 12:35-3:00- The Art of Racing in the Rain (PG) 12:10-3:30-6:50 Midsommar: The Directors Cut 4:30 6:20-10:15 47 Meters Down: Uncaged Evaru (NR) 12:40-3:40-6:50-9:50 How to Train Your Dragon: The
5:30-7:50-10:10 11:15-4:20-7:30 Don't Let Go (R) 11:20-2:00-4:35- (NR) 9:20 The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) CC: Luce (R) 5:40-9:00 (PG-13) 11:10-1:40-3:50-6:10- Midsommar: The Directors Cut Hidden World (PG) CC: 12:10-2:20
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RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

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The bidding:
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umns focus on improv-
ing your basic technique and
CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ MIKE DU JOUR MIKE LESTER

developing logical thinking.

You execute a “hold-up”
play as declarer by refusing a
trick you could win. You may
damage the defenders’ com-
munication. But you must
not hold up when a shift to
another suit would be even
more threatening.
Today’s West leads RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JAMES ALLEN
the king of clubs against
3NT, and declarer may be
tempted to hold up his ace
— especially since he will get
two club tricks if West leads
another club. But East will
signal with the deuce, warn-
ing his partner, and then if
declarer holds up, West may
shift to the deuce of spades.
The defenders will force out
South’s ace and will have five LIO MARK TATULLI MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
tricks when East takes the
ace of hearts.
Declarer is safe if he wins
the first club and attacks the
hearts. The defense can take
only three clubs and one
heart, and South has four
diamonds, three hearts, a
club and a spade.
Before you make a
learned-looking play, con-
sider the consequences. HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
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The dealer, at your left,
opens one heart. Your part-
ner doubles, and the next
player bids two hearts. What
do you say?
ANSWER: Your partner
has opening values or more BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
with help for the unbid suits,
especially for the other
major. When your side has
half the deck and a trump
fit, don’t sell out cheaply. Bid
two spades. It may look odd
to bid a weak four-card suit,
but you’re really “supporting”
a suit partner implied.
— Frank Stewart
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CURTIS RAY BILLINGSLEY

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HOROSCOPE

BIRTHDAY | AUGUST 31
This year, you seem
focused yet charming
at the same time.
People could have
a difficult time saying no to
you. If single, you might be
surprised at the amount of
interest you draw from the
opposite sex. You really have
your choice of the person
and the type of bond you
want. If you’re attached, your
DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY
significant other might wonder
why it is so easy to say yes
to you. In a sense, you are
repeating the period when
you fell in love. Libra can
influence you. Be careful what
you agree to!
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
You might drag a bit through
the day. Obligations demand
your attention, and you might
wish for more free time. Do
what you must, and trust that
you will clear enough time for
enjoying life.
FRAZZ JEF MALLETT CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL
TAURUS
(APRIL 20-MAY 20).
You are more anchored than
you realize. Toss routine and
go for summer fun. A child or
loved one will appreciate the
levity nearly more than you
do. Realize that the end of
summer is around the corner.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
Your playfulness emerges even
if you try to act in a serious
manner. Your creativity comes
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK out when you’re dealing
with a family member who
can be difficult. Your humor
allows greater give and take,
especially with any grump you
might run into.
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
You could feel as if you need to
learn more about a particular
topic before you make a
decision. The conversations
you have are enlightening and
permit you to get a firm handle
on an issue. Meanwhile, make
plans with a friend.
DUSTIN STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN STAN LEE & ALEX SAVIUK
LEO
(JULY 23-AUG. 22).
You could be off considering a
new venture. Be careful before
committing to certain financial
obligations. You know your
limits, so honor them. A risk
might feel good, but consider
whether you can handle it if it
doesn’t pan out.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
You could discover that you
do not want to follow through
with your plans. Give yourself
PRICKLY CITY SCOTT STANTIS LOOSE PARTS DAVE BLAZEK the luxury of not acting like
a Virgo, but like some other
carefree and sometimes flaky
sign. Change your plans. Make
yourself happy.
LIBRA
(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
Mellow out during the daylight
hours. Do not stress yourself
out or do anything taxing.
Confirm plans for the evening,
and if you do not have any,
make some.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
Make the most out of the
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT day. You will delight in being
with friends and around
crowds. You sense a mood
of celebration that becomes
contagious. Touch base with a
summer friend.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
You might have invited some
friends to celebrate Labor Day
with you. You seem to be busy,
perhaps hosting a memorable
get-together. In any case, you
seem to be able to extract all
the fun associated with this
BIG NATE LINCOLN PEIRCE ON THE FASTRACK BILL HOLBROOK weekend.
CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
Your ability to move into
different situations can be
stilted at times. You could
finally feel at ease with
someone who lives a very
different lifestyle.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
Others make the first move.
You could be delighted. Do
not play games, but rather be
direct and positive. Spend the
BEETLE BAILEY MORT, BRIAN & GREG WALKER PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS afternoon with a loved one or a
dear friend.
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
You do not need to make
excuses for being as frivolous
as you might want to be. Just
go off and be you. Notice how
many people seek you out.
With as many invitations as
you have, choose the ones you
like the most.
— Jacqueline Bigar
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A walko≠
win that’s
anything
but pretty
NATIONALS 7,
MARLINS 6
Rendon comes to rescue
after bullpen wobbles

BY J ESSE D OUGHERTY

The Washington Nationals

didn’t play good baseball Friday
night, and in the end they didn’t
need to.
They were lucky the Miami
Marlins were in the opposite dug-
out. They were lucky to win, 7-6,
despite doing just about every-
thing they could to lose. Daniel
Hudson blew a ninth-inning save
by giving up a two-run homer to
Starlin Castro. The bullpen had
already blown a two-run lead in
the seventh when Hunter Strick-
land gave up one run and left the
bases loaded behind him and
Roenis Elías soon walked in an-
other. The defense made two
errors and could have been
charged with a third. The offense
flatlined in the middle innings,
one batter after another, but the
Nationals would come out on top
anyway.
TONI L. SANDYS/THE WASHINGTON POST A two-run, walkoff single from
“A lot of people have a tough time getting out,” Michael Locksley said of his childhood neighborhood in Southwest D.C. “It wasn’t easy or normal to get out of here.” Anthony Rendon did the trick.
His teammates, having stumbled
all night, mobbed him around
first base, and Victor Robles soon
showered him with a cooler’s
worth of Gatorade. The fans who

Locksley knows
Unoccupied electric scooters certainly back when he and the others shuffled stuck around chanted “M-V-P!” as
wouldn’t have dotted the sidewalks. All through all the positions. Even the grass, he did an on-field interview.
the upscale restaurants on the water Locksley says, seems better than before. Manager Dave Martinez also
hadn’t yet emerged. Would there have As Locksley explains the neighborhood reached for those three letters —

where he’s from,

been solar panels? No way. Not in the
Southwest D.C. where Michael Locksley
grew up.
A dichotomy between socioeconomic
classes always existed in this neighbor-
hood. Public housing complexes sat
blocks away from luxury waterfront
apartments, just as they do now. But
Nationals Park and Audi Field, both less
even if it’s gone
than half a mile from Locksley’s childhood
home, have catalyzed the already occur-
ring gentrification of Southwest Washing-
ton. So how much has changed here?
lives on in the Terrapins’ football coach
Locksley repeats the question and laughs.
He stands on the field where he first
played football for the Boys & Girls Club,
he remembers compared with the one
that exists now, a man on a bicycle rides
up to him. It’s a childhood friend, so the
two hug and briefly reconnect.
“I saw you on TV, man!” the visitor said
to Maryland’s new head football coach.
“You look the same, bro!” said Locksley,
49. “Sheesh!”
That sparks a new topic: This commu-
nity is tightknit. Everything and everyone
The Southwest D.C. of his childhood feels connected. The kids whose lives
centered on activities at the Boys & Girls
Club have grown into adults, and many
still live in Southwest.
BY E MILY G IAMBALVO “A lot of people have a tough time
SEE LOCKSLEY ON D6
MVP — when he discussed Ren-
don after the game. So did Hud-
son, thankful that Rendon got
him off the hook. The Nationals
third baseman, now hitting a
National League-best .333, is two
back of the league lead in RBI
with 107. His most recent three
helped the Nationals sidestep
themselves and flush one of their
worst performances since they
revived this season in late May.
“A little sloppy,” Martinez said
of his team’s overall performance.
“But you know what? We never
quit. They kept playing and kept
SEE NATIONALS ON D3

Marlins at Nationals
Today, 7 p.m., MASN2

Skaggs died
Herbert is right at home COLLEGE FOOTBALL SATURDAY
GAMES TO WATCH Transfer rules are silly. with opioids
as Oregon’s engine at QB Just ask Hokies’ Ho≠man.
eugene, ore. — Here stands Justin
Nationally
N. Carolina vs. S. Carolina
When Virginia Tech opens its football
and alcohol
Herbert, towering and shaggy-haired,
chiseled and bashful, the big man on
3:30 p.m., ESPN

No. 11 Oregon vs. No. 16 Auburn

season Saturday at Boston College,
Brock Hoffman should be starting at
in his system
campus and the aw-shucks 7:30 p.m., ABC center for the Hokies. Instead,
hometown boy. When you look at Hoffman will be on a couch in his
him, you see the sublime NFL family’s living room in Statesville,
Jerry prospect — 6-foot-6, 237 pounds,
Locally Barry N.C., watching his teammates, unable
Angels pitcher’s family
Brewer cannon right arm, surprisingly shifty Howard at Maryland Svrluga to help. hires lawyer to find out
— who deferred an eight-figure Noon, Big Ten Network “I think Brock’s doing well,” said
payday to try to restore Oregon football. When you Brian Hoffman, Brock’s father. “But come game
who supplied the drugs
look into him, you see the earnest underdog who Holy Cross at Navy time, I don’t know. I think he’ll be depressed. I
rose to unexpected fame. 3:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network think he’ll be a great teammate and be rooting on
He often responds to questions by saying, “Yeah, his buddies. But think about it: Here’s a 20-year-old BY J ACOB B OGAGE
that’s a really good point.” There’s a freshness to Va. Tech at Boston College kid thinking, ‘I’m going to play,’ and at the last
Herbert and the way he handles attention, but don’t 4 p.m., ACC Network minute, it’s taken away from him.” Los Angeles Angels pitcher Ty-
mistake him for green. In the next moment, he will The start of the college football season brings ler Skaggs had opioids and alcohol
show his polish. Virginia at Pittsburgh with it a former Georgia quarterback ready to start in his system at the time of his
SEE BREWER ON D5 7:30 p.m., ACC Network SEE SVRLUGA ON D5 death July 1, according to a toxicol-
ogy report released Friday by the
Tarrant County, Tex., medical ex-
aminer’s office.
Officials listed Skaggs’s cause of
death as “mixed ethanol, fentanyl
and oxycodone intoxication with
terminal aspiration of gastric con-
TENNIS

It’s cutdown day, and the Redskins face tough calls
BY K AREEM C OPELAND
Undrafted rookie Steven Sims
Jr. put it simply when he called
Thursday’s preseason finale
against the Baltimore Ravens “my
Super Bowl.” That’s what the
game was for a number of Wash-
ington Redskins trying to make a
final impression and state their
case for one of the few available
spots on the roster, with Satur-
day’s cutdown from 90 to 53 play-
ers looming.
Sims is right in the thick of the
battle at wide receiver, which
might be the most difficult posi-
tion to predict on the team.
Coaches have been happy with
Sims and the other young wide-
outs, including rookies Terry
McLaurin and Kelvin Harmon as
well as Robert Davis and Cam
Sims. The group’s depth has
prompted speculation that Wash-
ington could cut 2016 first-round
draft pick Josh Doctson, although
at this point it seems more likely
Doctson will either make the
team or be traded.
But there is intrigue at other
positions as well, including a
deep and talented defensive back-
field and a linebacker group deal-
ing with injuries.
And, of course, star left tackle
Trent Williams’s holdout makes
things even trickier. Some in the
organization are hopeful Wil-
liams will return next week ahead
of the Sept. 8 season opener at the
Philadelphia Eagles, while others
believe he will never wear a Red-
skins uniform again. The team
has to plan its 53-man roster
without him, but whoever makes
the team as the final offensive
lineman is in danger of being
immediately released if Williams
returns.
With the preseason complete,
here is our final prediction of the
53-man roster, with players listed
in alphabetical order:
Quarterback (3): Dwayne
Haskins, Case Keenum, Colt
McCoy
No questions here unless the
Redskins surprise by letting go of
McCoy, who continues to deal
with a slow recovery from a bro-
ken leg suffered last season.
Keenum has been named the
starter; Haskins, the 15th pick in
this year’s draft, will back him up.
Running back (4): Derrius
Guice, Samaje Perine, Adrian
Peterson, Chris Thompson
Another simple position that
has had a clear top four through-
out the preseason. There’s a slight
possibility Byron Marshall replac-
es Perine because of his special
teams versatility, but that would
be a surprise, given Coach Jay
SEE REDSKINS ON D6
The serve-and-volley,
once a relic, reappears
at the U.S. Open. D2
SOCCER
D.C. United loans Chris
Durkin to Belgian team,
pursues Yamil Asad. D3
PRO FOOTBALL
The Patriots, with
issues on offensive line,
trade for a center. D6
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
Stone Bridge holds off
Centreville, and Bullis
tips Carroll in thriller. D7
tents,” meaning the pitcher
choked on his vomit while he lay in
the bed of his Dallas-area hotel
room. Police said there were no
signs of trauma at the time of his
death and did not suspect foul
play.
Skaggs, 27, was found two days
after he last pitched for the Angels
while the team was playing a se-
ries against the Rangers. Officials
went to his room at 2:18 p.m. when
he did not show up to the ballpark
on time.
The pitcher’s family, in a state-
ment to the Los Angeles Times,
said the drug use was “completely
out of character for someone who
worked so hard to become a Major
League Baseball player and had a
very promising future in the game
he loved so much,” and alluded to a
SEE SKAGGS ON D3
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D I G ES T

COLLEGES Defenders: Kyle Duncan (New

Ohio’s medical board
failed to stop abuse
The State Medical Board of
Ohio ignored credible evidence
in 1996 that an Ohio State
University team doctor had been
sexually abusing male students
through genital exams for years
and missed a chance to stop him,
the governor and a review panel
announced Friday.
A state working group that
reviewed the old investigation
said it couldn’t determine why
the medical board never took
action against Richard Strauss
or reported the now-deceased
doctor to law enforcement. One
former employee said the
investigation fell into a “black
hole,” according the group’s
report.
“This whole story is
disgusting,” Republican Gov.
Mike DeWine said. “This whole
story is a failure of people to do
what’s right.”
Lawyers suing Ohio State over
Strauss’s sexual misconduct said
they now represent over
300 accusers whose allegations
span from 1979 to 1997 — nearly
his entire career at the
university. . . .
Irakoze Donasiyano scored
twice in a season-opening 2-0
York Red Bulls), Justen Glad
(Salt Lake), Chris Gloster (PSV
Eindhoven, Netherlands), Niko
Hamalainen (Kilmarnock,
Scotland), Aaron Herrera (Salt
Lake), Mark McKenzie
(Philadelphia), Donovan Pines
(D.C. United), Auston Trusty
(Philadelphia).
Midfielders: Brenden
Aaronson (Philadelphia), Edwin
Cerrillo (Dallas), Hassani
Dotson (Minnesota), Alex
Mendez (Ajax, Netherlands),
Mihailovic, Brandon Servania
(Dallas).
Forwards: Omir Fernandez
(New York Red Bulls), Jesus
Ferreira (Dallas), Brooks
Lennon (Salt Lake), Sebastian
Saucedo (Salt Lake), Sebastian
Soto (Hannover, Germany),
Mason Toye (Minnesota), Haji
Wright (Venlo, Netherlands). . . .
Angel Di Maria scored on a
penalty kick in the 11th minute
and Eric Maxim Choupo-
Moting scored in the 43rd to
lead French league champion
Paris Saint-Germain to a 2-0
victory over host Metz. . . .
Host Sevilla dominated its
Spanish league match from the
start, but Denis Suárez’s goal in
the 84th minute allowed Celta
Vigo to salvage a 1-1 draw. Franco
Vázquez had put the hosts ahead
in the 81st minute. . . . TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

win for No. 12 Virginia against
Pacific (0-1) in a men’s soccer
match at Klöckner Stadium. . . .
Georgetown’s 13th-ranked
men, picked to finish first in the
Big East in the coaches’
preseason poll, opened their
season by defeating Syracuse,
3-1, at Shaw Field. JB Fischer,
Derek Dodson and Dante
Polvara scored for the Hoyas. . . .
Diana Ordonez scored twice
and Meghan McCool and Anna
Sumpter added a goal apiece as
the ninth-ranked Virginia
women’s soccer team (3-0) beat
East Carolina, 4-0, at Klöckner
Stadium. The Pirates are 0-1-1.
Laurel Ivory moved into
fourth on the Virginia career
shutout list with her 18th. . . .
Maryland’s women lost, 4-0, to
Auburn (1-1) in the Bulldog
Classic in Athens, Ga. The
Terrapins are 2-1. . . .
No. 25 Virginia Tech (3-0)
defeated host Georgia, 2-0, in the
Bulldog Classic. Lilly Weber and
Bridget Patch scored for the
Hokies, both in the first half.
Georgia is 1-2.
HOCKEY
The NHL informed the NHL
Players’ Association it will not
use its option to terminate the
existing labor deal next year.
The union has until Sept. 15 to
decide on whether to terminate
the agreement as of September
2020, two years before the
existing deal expires.
SOCCER
Chicago Fire midfielder
Djordje Mihailovic is among
24 players invited to the U.S.
under-23 training camp leading
to next spring’s Olympic
qualifying.
The American men failed to
qualify for the past two
Olympics. Here is the roster,
which is limited to players born
on or after Jan. 1, 1997:
Goalkeepers: Matt Freese
(Philadelphia), JT
Marcinkowski (San Jose),
Andrew Thomas (Stanford;
London).
Timo Werner scored a hat
trick for Leipzig, which beat host
Borussia Mönchengladbach, 3-1,
to raise its record to 3-0 in the
Bundesliga under new coach
Julian Nagelsmann. . . .
Coach Sinisa Mihajlovic was
again on the bench for host
Bologna to steer his team to an
emotional 1-0 win over Spal in
the Italian league.
Mihajlovic surprised fans by
showing up for their Serie A
opener Sunday in his first public
appearance following a month of
chemotherapy after being
diagnosed with leukemia. . . .
Juventus and Italy captain
Giorgio Chiellini will have
surgery on his right knee after
tearing his ACL in training. . . .
Manchester United’s Chris
Smalling, who has been with the
club for nine years but has
recently fallen out of favor,
signed with Serie A team Roma
on loan until June 2020.
PRO BASKETBALL
Courtney Williams scored
26 points to go with six rebounds
and five assists as the
Connecticut Sun beat the New
York Liberty, 94-84, in White
Plains, N.Y. The Sun (22-9) is a
half-game behind the Mystics for
first place in the WNBA.
GOLF
Rory McIlroy picked up five
shots in his last five holes for a 7-
under-par 63 to move within a
shot of the lead after the second
round of the European Masters
in Crans-Montana, Switzerland.
McIlroy surged to join Tommy
Fleetwood (65) and three others
at 10 under, one behind Gavin
Green (64). . . .
Michael Bradley opened with
a 9-under 61 to take a one-shot
lead into the second round of the
PGA Champions Tour’s Shaw
Charity Classic in Calgary. Steve
Flesch shot a 62. . . .
Hannah Green followed her
opening-round 64 with a 9-
under 63 and leads the Portland
(Ore.) Classic by five shots.
— From news services
Taylor Townsend won 64 of 106 net points in knocking off Wimbledon champ Simona Halep. “I’ve always come to the net,” Townsend said.
Volley makes a return at the U.S. Open
BY C HUCK C ULPEPPER
new york — An ancient word
has materialized during this U.S.
Open as if unearthed and trans-
lated from tennis hieroglyphics
etched in the walls behind the
Martina Navratilova champion
photo. The word, “volley,” has
come up in conversation to an
extent that might not portend any
trends but does count as refresh-
ing.
It mattered in the case of Cath-
erine McNally, the 17-year-old
from Cincinnati who gave a jangle
to Serena Williams’s nerve end-
ings in a 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 loss Wednes-
day night, while ESPN commenta-
tor Chris Evert expressed pangs of
a fine nostalgia for the 1970s and
1980s. And it mattered still more
concerning Taylor Townsend, the
23-year-old from Chicago and At-
lanta who used the volley to a
degree almost prehistoric in her
second-round upset Thursday
against No. 4 seed and Wimble-
don champion Simona Halep.
“She came into the net
106 times,” McNally said Friday
after winning a doubles match
alongside 15-year-old Coco Gauff.
“That’s unbelievable. She came in
against Halep, and I think that’s
why she won the match — she
stuck to her guns.”
Beginning late last century, vol-
leys disappeared largely from the
earthly landscape, shooed by ball-
bangers who could burn the vol-
leyer from the baseline, by futuris-
tic strings, by slower courts, even
at Wimbledon. It narrowed the
sport’s variety even as the pace
heightened its wonder. It left Rog-
er Federer, after he won Wimble-
don in 2017, calling the lack of
volleying “frightening for the
game” and saying at a post-tour-
nament news conference, “I wish
that we would see more coaches,
more players taking chances up at
the net because good things do
happen there.”
While he had volleyed through
his eight Wimbledon titles less
than in his landmark win over
Pete Sampras in the Wimbledon
fourth round of 2001 — 98 net
points! 65 net points won! — he
had kept the capacity and the
threat in his game. When oppo-
nents lacked it, as they did almost
always, he considered that a boon.
McNally, for one, hopes to emu-
late “the way he plays, he serves
and volleys, looks to get to the net.
He takes a lot of time away from
his opponents. I really like the
way he plays, mixes in the slice,
the drop shot, volleys really well.
There’s so many things I like from
his game. Hopefully I can keep
working on those and become just
like him.”
Against Williams and unlike,
say, Navratilova of yore, McNally
used the net threat as more of a
blend with all else. She served and
volleyed six times, winning four of
those points, and ventured to the
net 19 times, winning 11. Wil-
liams’s numbers in those two cate-
gories were 0 for 0 and 10 for 15.
“Have you always had those
volleys?” a reporter asked McNal-
ly on Friday.
“Yes,” replied Gauff, having
known McNally for a good while
now in two lives barely longer
than a good while at this point.
“Well, I think I got it from,
honestly, my mom,” McNally said,
referring to the former North-
western and tour player Lynn Na-
bors-McNally. “My mom played a
lot of doubles in her career, and
I’ve worked on volleying ever
since I was really young, and I
think that’s something that other
people don’t do. They just kind of
are more baseline-oriented. And
for me, I’m always working on my
volleys, every single day. We do a
volley drill, actually, at our prac-
tice, so we can improve our reflex-
es. But I love volleying. I think it
comes naturally to me, but I still
work on it a lot.”
Said that mother: “I don’t think
she’s ever going to be a person that
serves and volleys every point. I
mean, if you watch Roger Federer
play, the way he mixes it in and
disguises it.” That Federer knack
turned up in the post-match com-
ments of his impressive first-
round victim, Sumit Nagal, who
said the striking thing about be-
ing opposite from Federer was
never knowing where the ball
might come from or go toward.
Nabors-McNally believes her
daughter took great 23-time
Grand Slam winner Williams and
“made her uncomfortable.”
“It was definitely something to
get used to,” said Williams, a mas-
ter at getting used to things. “You
don’t play players like her who
have such full games.”
As they passed in the hallway
afterward, Nabors-McNally said,
Williams said to McNally, “Are you
really 17?”
“I’ve watched her grow up,”
Nabors-McNally said of her
daughter, “and I’ve been a lot of
places with her. I’ve seen her go
through [a lot]. She’s an incredi-
ble doubles player. She’s played
doubles with me since she was
this big and her brother, and I
think that’s part of the reason she
volleys so well, and I give a lot of
the credit to her older brother
[John, who plays at Ohio State],
who’s smacked balls at her since
she was little. And she couldn’t
even get them back, and I just told
her to keep trying, and she’s al-
ways done that.”
Could humanity fashion a gen-
eration with the reflexes to flum-
mox 21st-century baseliners from
the net? Maybe not, but re-evolu-
tion might come here or there.
After all, humanity already pro-
duced Townsend, whose game
looks exhilarating in the mix.
Townsend serve-and-volleyed
only twice in her first-round
match, winning one point, and
won 26 of 34 net points. For the
match against Halep, those num-
bers ballooned to 37 for 61 (serve-
and-volleys) and 64 for 106 (net
points). “Yeah, it was a little bit
weird because it never happens
on tour,” Halep said, “to have an
opponent that is coming for actu-
ally every ball to the net. I tried to
play body. I tried to play on the
sides. I made also some mistakes.
. . . I played a few times against
her, and I knew how she’s playing,
but today she changed. She went
for all the balls to the net. So it was
a little bit different.”
It stemmed from many, many
years. “No, I don’t think someone
could do that overnight, to be
honest,” Townsend said, soon
adding: “I’ve always come to the
net. Ever since I started playing
tennis, I was always more com-
fortable at the net than the base-
line. When I was growing up, my
sister was like a bam-bam, so she
hit super-hard, so solid from the
ground. Me, I was always doing
weird stuff, chipping middle shots
on the forehand side. I was doing
crazy stuff. It was what I enjoyed
doing.”
After years of toiling mostly
along the off-Broadways of tennis,
Townsend suddenly found herself
in a three-set match and thought,
“What do you have to lose?” she
said. “I’m just going to go for it.
I’m going to do what I do best
where I’m the most comfortable,
which is at the net. I won a lot of
points. I lost points. I lost big
points. But I was rewarded in the
end. That’s what was most satisfy-
ing.”
She called it “really great con-
firmation that this style of play
works, that I can continue to do
it.”
Connoisseurs of variety would
applaud.
chuck.culpepper@washpost.com

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suggestion that he might have member that because I have times by a trainer for treatment 17 unforced errors in the first set
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TENNIS
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WTTG (Ch. 5), WBFF (Ch. 45) on court about 18 hours after he has a say when they play,” Evans them, too. included No. 2 Ashleigh Barty,
had left the tournament grounds. said. “Maybe three.” The leaping, over-the-shoulder No. 3 Karolina Pliskova, No. 5
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“It was always going to be a In the last match of the night at volley packed with pace. The drop Elina Svitolina, No. 10 Madison
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 , 2019
D.C. United loans Durkin to Belgian club while continuing its pursuit of Asad
BY S TEVEN G OFF
While D.C. United continued its
pursuit of Argentine midfielder
Yamil Asad for long-term purpos-
es Friday, the organization grant-
ed homegrown midfielder Chris
Durkin’s request to play overseas
right away by loaning him to Sint-
Truiden in Belgium’s top division.
The deal will run until June,
when the Belgian club will have
the option to buy him for a trans-
fer fee that people close to United
say is $2.25 million. D.C. also
would retain a 20 percent stake,
meaning it would collect an addi-
tional payment should Sint-Tru-
iden sell him in the future.
Durkin, 19, was scheduled to
arrive in Belgium this weekend.
“We feel he is now ready to test
himself in Europe in a very com-
petitive league,” United General
Manager Dave Kasper said in a
written statement. “We are confi-
dent Chris will adapt quickly and
show his quality and we will be
monitoring his progress closely.”
Durkin was nearing the end of
NA T IO NA L S NOTES
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Nationals designate
Grace for assignment
The Washington Nationals’
bullpen is taking shape for the
stretch run. The team reinstated
two relievers Friday, right-
hander Hunter Strickland and
left-hander Roenis Elías, and
designated another, left-hander
Matt Grace, for assignment
ahead of the series opener
against the Miami Marlins.
The Nationals had one 25-man
roster spot open after optioning
catcher Spencer Kieboom to
Class AA Harrisburg on
Thursday and created another by
designating Grace. The 30-year-
old Grace has spent his entire
five-year major league career
with the Nationals, but this
season his ERA ballooned to 6.36
in 46 innings. The team now
has an open 40-man roster spot.
The moves hint at how Manager
Dave Martinez would like to use
his bullpen going forward.
“Elías was ready,” Martinez said
of activating the lefty now instead
of waiting two days — until
rosters expand — and keeping
Grace around. “[Elías] threw the
ball really well the other day. He’s
ready. I talked to him, he felt
ready, and he wants to pitch.
“It’s unfortunate. I talked to
Matt, and for two years, whatever
his numbers are, he had many
different roles, took the ball and
never complained. He went out
there and tried to pitch to the
best of his ability and help us
win.”
Right-hander Javy Guerra
appears to have established
himself in the long-man role
Grace used to occupy. Whoever
loses the fifth-starter
competition between Joe Ross
and Erick Fedde probably is
another multi-inning option
moving forward. Elías appears to
be the bullpen’s left-handed
specialist, even though left-
handed batters have crushed him
this season (with a .972 on-base-
plus-slugging percentage) and
right-handers have not (.560).
The Nationals could mix and
match Elías with Fernando
Rodney, whose struggles against
left-handed hitters this season
have put the team in some tough
spots. Perhaps most importantly,
the Nationals can keep their
bullpen as is, as long as closer
Sean Doolittle returns from the
10-day injured list Sunday or
later. Rosters expand from 25 to
40 men that day, and Doolittle
pitched a scoreless inning with
the Class A Potomac Nationals at
Frederick on Friday night.
Doolittle hopes to further clean
up his mechanics after getting
mixed results in a simulated
inning Wednesday.
Doolittle felt good physically
after throwing 16 pitches to live
hitters but asked Martinez for
the rehab assignment. He
wanted to test his stuff in a game
situation before returning in a
major league contest.
— Jesse Dougherty and Sam Fortier
Autopsy shows the Angels’ Skaggs died with opioids and alcohol in his system
SKAGGS FROM D1
team employee’s involvement.
“We are grateful for the work of
the detectives in the Southlake
Police Department and their on-
going investigation into the cir-
cumstances surrounding Tyler’s
death,” the family said in the state-
ment. “We were shocked to learn
that it may involve an employee of
the Los Angeles Angels. We will
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his fourth MLS season, the last
two as an outright first-team play-
er. He made 23 appearances last
season (16 starts), but amid U.S.
under-20 national team assign-
ments and a recent ankle injury,
he played in just 13 matches (sev-
en starts, one goal) this season.
Over the past two months, Dur-
kin had started once and made
two appearances.
With Russell Canouse and Ju-
nior Moreno ahead of him on the
defensive midfield depth chart
and veteran Felipe Martins arriv-
ing this month, Durkin’s outlook
for minutes had dimmed down
the stretch this year and perhaps
next season.
Clubs overseas have expressed
periodic interest in Durkin, but
United was reluctant to sell or
loan him last winter. His value
figured to rise at the Under-20
World Cup in Poland in May-June,
but he did not excel during the
U.S. team’s run to the quarterfi-
nals.
Besides loaning Durkin, United
extended and reworked his con-
Nationals turn sloppy performance into walko≠ win
NATIONALS FROM D1
playing.”
Hosting the Marlins, a histori-
cally bad club, could have ap-
peared like a break on the Nation-
als’ schedule, a final tuneup be-
fore the pennant chase really
begins. The Marlins have two
eyes on the future. This was their
13th straight road loss, a fran-
chise record. But there are no
unimportant games for Washing-
ton this time of year. Every wild-
card contender is playing a big
series this weekend. The New
York Mets and Philadelphia Phil-
lies are squaring off, the Milwau-
kee Brewers are visiting the Chi-
cago Cubs, and the St. Louis
Cardinals have a favorable
matchup with the Cincinnati
Reds.
And because the Mets, Phillies,
Brewers, Cubs and Cardinals
could wind up jousting with the
Nationals for a playoff spot or
home-field advantage in the wild-
card game, Washington has to
keep pace. A lesser opponent isn’t
an excuse to relax; it’s an oppor-
tunity not to be missed.
But the Nationals didn’t bring
a ton of urgency into this series
opener. Aníbal Sánchez’s 10th
pitch was a misplaced cutter,
getting way too much of the plate,
and Harold Ramirez lifted it over
the left-center fence for a solo
homer. Sánchez ultimately gave
up two runs in five strenuous
innings. The offense couldn’t take
full advantage when Elieser
Hernández, the Marlins’ 24-year-
old starter, had shaky command
in the early innings. And the
defense, as a whole, was as bad as
it has been in a long time.
not rest until we learn the truth
about how Tyler came into posses-
sion of these narcotics, including
who supplied them. To that end,
we have hired attorney Rusty Har-
din to assist us.”
Experts said it is extremely un-
usual for someone to be pre-
scribed all three of the opioids —
fentanyl, oxycodone and oxymor-
phone — found in Skaggs’s blood-
stream and none should be con-
D.C. United at Montreal Impact
When: Today, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Stade Saputo.
Live streams: FloFC and ESPN+. Both are pay services. ESPN+ is subject
to blackout.
Records: United 10-10-9, 39 points; Impact 11-14-4, 37 points.
D.C. probable starters: GK Bill Hamid; D Leonardo Jara, Frederic Brillant,
Steve Birnbaum, Joseph Mora; MF Ulises Segura, Junior Moreno, Felipe
Martins, Paul Arriola, Lucas Rodriguez; F Ola Kamara.
Montreal probable starters: GK Evan Bush; D Bacary Sagna, Rudy
Camacho, Jukka Raitala, Daniel Lovitz; MF Orji Okwonkwo, Samuel Piette,
Saphir Taider, Bojan Krkic, Lassi Lappalainen; F Maxi Urruti.
tract by a year through 2022 in
case he returns. He is making
$104,000 this season, according
to the MLS Players’ Association.
Durkin is from Glen Allen, Va., a
Richmond suburb.
Sint-Truiden is not among the
top clubs in Belgium, which is well
below the level in countries such
as England, Germany and Spain:
no league championships, one
second-place finish (1965-66) and
no Belgian Cup titles. The Canar-
Trea Turner, top, dives into home for the winning run on a walkoff
single by Anthony Rendon, above, in the ninth inning at Nationals
Park. The Nationals won for the seventh time in eight games.
When the Nationals were
struggling through spring, on
their way to a 19-31 start, errors
were almost expected. But once
the Nationals were back to full
strength and the season turned
around, an improved defense
could have been taken for grant-
ed. Then Trea Turner fielded a
routine groundball in the third,
looked up and sent an underhand
flip over Asdrúbal Cabrera’s head.
In the same inning, Matt Adams
bobbled a grounder and Sánchez,
having run from the mound to
cover first base, bobbled Adams’s
toss onto the dirt. Then Gerardo
Parra spun around once, then
sumed with alcohol.
“In today’s opioid-sensitive en-
vironment, no logical prescriber
would give someone that combi-
nation of drugs unless they were in
severe terminal pain,” said James
R. Schiffer, a health-care attorney
and pharmacist at Allegaert Berg-
er & Vogel. “A healthy 27-year-old
should not be given those three
together.”
Tests showed trace amounts of
EZ M2
ies finished seventh in the 16-team
league in 2018-19 and are 12th this
season with a 1-3-1 record.
However, it is a club that aims
to develop young players and sell
them to bigger teams for profit.
It’s unclear how Durkin fits into
Sint-Truiden’s immediate plans.
Meanwhile, people close to the
organization said United officials
remain optimistic about signing
Asad, a 25-year-old attacker who
posted nine goals and eight assists
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twice, and misplayed a flyball
that bounced into the Nationals’
bullpen for an automatic double.
The Marlins, however, couldn’t
use the extra outs to pull away.
But just because the Nationals
weren’t burned by their early
mistakes and won doesn’t mean
they didn’t happen at all.
“That’s over, done with,” Marti-
nez said. “Let’s come back tomor-
row and go 1-0.”
Martinez watched a two-run
lead disappear in the seventh. He
watched his team regain it in the
bottom half on Juan Soto’s second
RBI double, but even that wasn’t
safe. Hudson gave up an infield
the opioids, all of which are
banned by MLB, but a significant
amount of alcohol. Skaggs had a
blood alcohol level of 0.122. The
legal limit for impairment is 0.08.
“Tyler always will be a beloved
member of the Angels family, and
we are deeply saddened to learn
what caused this tragic death,” the
Angels said in a statement. “Angels
baseball has provided our full co-
operation and assistance to the
last season before his loan from
Argentine club Velez Sarsfield ex-
pired. He is a free agent. Because
United made an effort to retain
him last winter, D.C. owns his
MLS rights.
The league’s roster deadline
was Friday night, but United’s in-
terests in Asad are for next season.
Hence, he would sign a pre-con-
tract for 2020. Asad would not
officially join the team until this
winter.
D.C. does not have the roster
and salary cap space to add him
right away. Even if it did, Asad is
not in top fitness and form after
playing in one competitive match
for Sarsfield since leaving United
last winter.
Fading from the playoff hunt,
D.C. (10-10-9, 39 points) has five
games remaining and cannot af-
ford to field players who are not in
prime shape.
For the purpose of getting him
up to speed this fall, the team had
floated the idea of placing him
with second-division Loudoun
United. It’s unclear whether that
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single to start the ninth inning.
He then gave up a two-run shot to
Castro but did settle in to keep the
Nationals within a run.
It was a gap the offense could
close. Howie Kendrick opened
the inning by ripping a single off
Marlins reliever Ryne Stanek.
Turner followed by working a
full-count walk. After Parra sent a
bunt straight into the air and was
retired as a result, a passed ball
moved runners to second and
third. Rendon stepped in, the
stadium loud around him, and
pulled a low-and-away slider into
left.
The Nationals’ total effort Fri-
day — creaky, careless at times,
almost fateful — was an aberra-
tion after how well they have
played for three months. The
miscues came from all directions.
Southlake Police as they conduct
their investigation.”
By many accounts, Skaggs was
considered one of the most popu-
lar players in the Los Angeles club-
house. He spent the final five sea-
sons of a seven-year big league
career with the team, though he
missed all of 2015 while recovering
from Tommy John surgery.
His death deeply shook the An-
gels organization and drew trib-
D3
is a plausible scenario.
Per team policy, no one associ-
ated with the organization want-
ed to comment on the Asad situa-
tion.
Notes: In a 1-5-1 rut, United is
desperate for at least a point Sat-
urday night in Montreal against
the Impact (11-14-4), which is two
points behind D.C. in a congested
playoff race. . . .
Wayne Rooney, United’s leader
in goals and assists, is serving the
second game of a two-match sus-
pension for a red card. Midfielder
Russell Canouse traveled with the
team after missing five games re-
covering from a collapsed lung
and might end up starting. . . .
Rookie defender Donovan
Pines was named to the U.S. un-
der-23 national team for training
camp and a friendly vs. Japan in
San Diego. He will report Sun-
day. . . .
The Washington Spirit’s NWSL
match at Orlando on Saturday
was moved to Oct. 5 because of
Hurricane Dorian.
steven.goff@washpost.com
Nationals 7, Marlins 6
MIAMI AB R H BI BB SO AVG
Berti ss...........................4 1 1 1 1 1 .271
Noesi p ...........................0 0 0 0 0 0 .250
Stanek p.........................0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Ramirez rf-cf .................5 3 3 1 0 0 .273
Castro 3b-ss...................5 1 3 3 0 2 .266
Walker 1b-3b .................4 0 0 0 1 0 .263
Alfaro c ..........................4 0 0 0 1 3 .270
Diaz 2b ...........................4
Brinson cf.......................4
0
1
0
1
1 1 1
0 0 1
.157
.189
Garcia p ..........................0
Cooper 1b .......................0
Dean lf............................2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0 0 0
0 0 0
0 2 0
.000
.275
.206
Hernandez p...................2 0 0 0 0 1 .059
Keller p...........................0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Granderson rf.................1 0 0 0 0 1 .185
TOTALS 35 6 8 6 6 10 —
WASHINGTON AB R H BI BB SO AVG
Turner ss........................4 2 1 1 1 1 .298
Parra rf...........................5 1 1 0 0 1 .255
Rendon 3b ......................4 1 3 3 1 0 .333
Soto lf ............................4 0 2 2 0 1 .292
Cabrera 2b......................4 0 0 1 0 0 .321
Adams 1b .......................2 0 0 0 2 2 .238
Suzuki c..........................4 0 0 0 0 0 .264
Robles cf ........................4 1 1 0 0 0 .251
Sanchez p.......................0 0 0 0 0 0 .093
Dozier ph........................1 0 0 0 0 1 .236
Suero p...........................0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Strickland p....................0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Elias p ............................0 0 0 0 0 0 .000
Eaton ph.........................0 0 0 0 1 0 .288
Scherzer pr.....................0 1 0 0 0 0 .174
Rodney p ........................0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Hudson p ........................0 0 0 0 0 0 ---
Kendrick ph ....................1 1 1 0 0 0 .330
TOTALS 33 7 9 7 5 6 —
MIAMI........................... 100 100 202 — 6 8 0
WASHINGTON.............. 210 001 102 — 7 9 2
One out when winning run scored.
E: Turner (12), Sanchez (3). LOB: Miami 9, Washington
7. 2B: Brinson (9), Robles (25), Rendon (37), Soto 2
(23). HR: Ramirez (9), off Sanchez; Castro (15), off
Hudson. RBI: Ramirez (42), Berti (17), Castro 3 (71),
Diaz (9), Rendon 3 (107), Cabrera (19), Turner (44),
Soto 2 (90). SB: Alfaro (3). S: Hernandez, Sanchez.
DP: Washington 1 (Rendon, Cabrera, Adams).
MIAMI IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Hernandez ...................6 6 4 4 2 3 98 5.06
Keller ...........................2 0 1 1 2 2 22 6.75
Garcia...........................2 1 0 0 0 1 9 2.61
Noesi............................2 0 0 0 0 0 4 10.2
Stanek .........................1 2 2 1 1 0 18 8.00
WASHINGTON IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Sanchez .......................5 3 2 2 4 6 94 3.80
Suero ...........................1 0 0 0 0 0 10 4.53
Strickland .................0.1 3 2 2 1 1 16 3.18
Elias .............................2 0 0 0 1 0 8 0.00
Rodney.........................1 0 0 0 0 2 16 3.18
Hudson ........................1 2 2 2 0 1 16 2.51
WP: Hudson (2-0); LP: Stanek (0-2).
Inherited runners-scored: Garcia 2-1, Elias 3-1. IBB: off
Sanchez (Dean), off Hernandez (Adams). PB: Alfaro
(9). T: 3:35. A: 26,201 (41,313).
HOW THEY SCORED
MARLINS FIRST
Berti flies out. Ramirez homers. Castro strikes out.
Walker flies out.
Marlins 1, Nationals 0
NATIONALS FIRST
Turner singles. Parra singles, Turner to third. Rendon
singles, Parra to second, Turner scores. Soto reaches on
a fielder’s choice, Rendon out at second, Parra to third.
Cabrera grounds out, Soto to second, Parra scores. Ad-
ams walks. Suzuki flies out.
Nationals 2, Marlins 1
NATIONALS SECOND
Robles doubles. Sanchez out on a sacrifice bunt, Robles
to third. Turner grounds out, Robles scores. Parra flies
out.
Nationals 3, Marlins 1
MARLINS FOURTH
Brinson doubles. Dean walks. Hernandez out on a sacri-
fice bunt, Dean to second, Brinson to third. Berti
grounds out, Dean to third, Brinson scores. Ramirez
pops out.
Nationals 3, Marlins 2
NATIONALS SIXTH
Rendon doubles. Soto doubles, Rendon scores. Cabrera
grounds out, Soto to third. Adams is intentionally
walked. Suzuki pops out. Robles reaches on a fielder’s
choice, Adams out at second.
Nationals 4, Marlins 2
MARLINS SEVENTH
Berti singles. Ramirez singles, Berti to second. Castro
singles, Ramirez to second, Berti scores. Walker walks,
Castro to second, Ramirez to third. Alfaro strikes out
swinging. Diaz walks, Walker to second, Castro to
third, Ramirez scores. Brinson grounds out, Diaz out at
second.
Marlins 4, Nationals 4
NATIONALS SEVENTH
Eaton pinch-hitting for Elias. Eaton walks. Turner
strikes out swinging. Parra strikes out on a foul tip.
Rendon walks, Eaton to second. Scherzer pinch-running
for Eaton. Soto doubles, Rendon to third, Scherzer
scores. Cabrera flies out.
Nationals 5, Marlins 4
MARLINS NINTH
Ramirez singles. Castro homers, Ramirez scores. Walk-
er flies out. Alfaro strikes out swinging. Diaz flies out.
Marlins 6, Nationals 5
NATIONALS NINTH
Kendrick pinch-hitting for Hudson. Kendrick singles.
Turner walks, Kendrick to second. Parra pops out. Ren-
don singles, Turner scores, Kendrick scores.
Nationals 7, Marlins 6
Then they were erased with one
final swing, and Rendon could
have spoken for his team when
relaying, rather eloquently, what
went through his mind once Tur-
ner slid in headfirst for the victo-
ry.
“We won,” Rendon said before
he was asked whether that was it.
“Yeah, and we get to go home.”
jesse.dougherty@washpost.com
utes from around baseball.
Los Angeles players all wore
Skaggs’s No. 45 for the team’s first
home game after his death. His
mother threw out the ceremonial
first pitch, and Angels pitchers
combined to throw a no-hitter.
Afterward, players, some in
tears, gathered around the pitch-
er’s mound and laid their uni-
forms on the ground.
jacob.bogage@washpost.com
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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
Atlanta 82 54 .603 — 8-2 W-2 St. Louis 73 59 .553 — 8-2 L-1 x-Los Angeles 88 48 .647 — 6-4 L-1 New York 88 48 .647 — 5-5 L-1 Minnesota 83 51 .619 — 7-3 W-6 Houston 88 48 .647 — 8-2 W-1
Washington 75 58 .564 51/2 8-2 W-2 Chicago 73 61 .545 1 7-3 W-4 x-Arizona 68 66 .507 19 7-3 W-4 Tampa Bay 78 58 .574 10 5-5 W-2 Cleveland 79 56 .585 41/2 5-5 L-1 Oakland 78 56 .582 9 7-3 W-2
Philadelphia 69 64 .519 111/2 5-5 L-1 Milwaukee 68 66 .507 6 4-6 L-1 x-San Fran. 65 68 .489 211/2 3-7 L-3 x-Boston 72 62 .537 15 7-3 W-2 Chicago 60 74 .448 23 4-6 L-4 Texas 66 70 .485 22 5-5 W-1
New York 68 66 .507 13 4-6 W-1 Cincinnati 63 70 .474 101/2 5-5 L-1 x-San Diego 62 71 .466 241/2 4-6 W-1 Toronto 54 82 .397 34 2-8 L-2 Kansas City 47 89 .346 37 2-8 L-2 x-Los Angeles 64 71 .474 231/2 3-7 L-1
Miami 48 86 .358 33 3-7 L-1 Pittsburgh 58 77 .430 161/2 6-4 W-2 Colorado 59 77 .434 29 2-8 L-4 Baltimore 45 89 .336 42 6-4 W-1 Detroit 39 93 .295 43 2-8 L-6 Seattle 57 79 .419 31 4-6 L-1
x-Late game x-Late game

NO T E S
Alberto gets five hits TOD AY

PERSONNEL DEPT.
Dodgers: Placed IF Max
in offensive eruption NL games
MARLINS AT NATIONALS, 7:05
Muncy on the 10-day W-L ERA TEAM

injured list with a right Lopez (R) 5-6 4.41 6-9

wrist fracture.
ORIOLES 14, ROYALS 2 Ross (R) 3-3 5.36 5-1
REDS AT CARDINALS, 1:15
Indians: RHP Carlos BY J ON M EOLI Mahle (R) 2-10 4.93 4-15
Carrasco rejoined the Wacha (R) 6-6 5.24 9-9
team after a minor league kansas city, mo. — A relentless and comprehensive BREWERS AT CUBS, 2:20
rehab stint and will be Baltimore Orioles offense backed up a nice start from Davies (R) 8-7 3.90 13-12
reinstated from the 60- all-star left-hander John Means on Friday in a 14-2 Hamels (L) 7-4 3.73 14-8
day injured list Sunday. win over the Kansas City Royals at Kaufmann Sta- METS AT PHILLIES, 4:05
The 32-year-old hasn’t dium, spurred by leadoff man Hanser Alberto’s ca- Matz (L) 8-8 4.06 12-12
pitched in the majors reer-high five hits. Vargas (L) 6-6 4.09 12-11
since he was diagnosed Means allowed a first-inning home run to Jorge
REDS AT CARDINALS, 7:15
Soler but little else, pitching a career-high seven
with leukemia in late May. Gray (R) 10-6 2.92 17-9
innings, and the Orioles made sure he wasn’t trailing
Also, LF Tyler Naquin was TBD
for long.
carted off the field after After drawing even in the second inning, they DODGERS AT DIAMONDBACKS, 8:10
crashing into the wall and spent the night building one of the most comfortable Kershaw (L) 13-3 2.82 18-5
spraining his right knee leads they have had all season. Their 21 hits and Ray (L) 11-7 3.86 15-12

on a catch Friday night 14 runs were both season highs. PIRATES AT ROCKIES, 8:10
against the Rays. As part of a three-hit, three-steal night, Jonathan Musgrove (R) 8-12 4.67 12-15
Melville (R) 1-0 0.75 2-0
Tigers: Said they were in Villar got the Orioles’ offense started in the second
inning with a single before he stole second and scored PADRES AT GIANTS, 9:05
contact with hospital Lucchesi (L) 9-7 4.11 11-14
when Pedro Severino singled to right field.
officials about the Webb (R) 1-0 4.66 2-0
Anthony Santander had a three-run homer in a
condition of minor league five-run third inning, and Alberto drove in two with a
C Chace Numata, who two-out single in the fifth inning. It was his fourth hit NL scores
was reportedly injured in of the day. THURSDAY’S RESULTS
a skateboarding accident Villar’s third steal of the night was perhaps his most Chicago Cubs 4, at N.Y. Mets 1
in Erie, Pa. impressive. He stood off third base and goaded a throw at Miami 4, Cincinnati 3, 12 innings
Pittsburgh 11, at Colorado 8
White Sox: OF Jon Jay will back to the base from catcher Nick Dini in the seventh at Arizona 11, L.A. Dodgers 5
inning. Villar took off and became the first Oriole to San Diego 5, at San Francisco 3
have hip surgery next FRIDAY’S RESULTS
week and miss the rest of
steal home since Chance Sisco on May 12, 2018.
PAUL BEATY/ASSOCIATED PRESS The Orioles’ previous season high for hits was 18 in at Washington 7, Miami 6
the season. at Chicago Cubs 7, Milwaukee 1
the July 25 marathon against the Los Angeles Angels, N.Y. Mets 11, at Philadelphia 5
Yankees: Activated 1B Home rerun a game that lasted 16 innings. They scored 13 runs in Cincinnati at St. Louis, Postponed
Pittsburgh 9, at Colorado 4
Luke Voit and placed 3B The Cubs’ Nicholas Castellanos is greeted by Ian Happ at home after hitting a two-run homer in the back-to-back shutouts of the Cleveland Indians on L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, Late
San Diego at San Francisco, Late
Gio Urshela on the 10-day June 28 and June 29.
second inning against the Brewers. Castellanos also drove in Happ with a home run in the first inning.
IL with a left groin injury. — Baltimore Sun
Also, LHP CC Sabathia AL games
was pulled after three Orioles 14, Royals 2 Cubs 7, Brewers 1 Rays 4, Indians 0 Athletics 8, Yankees 2 Astros 7, Blue Jays 4 Twins 13, Tigers 5
innings Friday because of BALTIMORE AB R H BI BB SO AVG Nicholas Castellanos hit Austin Pruitt and three re- Jurickson Profar deliv- George Springer hom- C.J. Cron homered and ORIOLES AT ROYALS, 7:15
Alberto 3b...........6 2 5 2 0 0 .324 a pair of two-run homers as lievers combined on a five- ered two tiebreaking hits to ered and drove in four runs Jorge Polanco had three W-L ERA TEAM
right knee pain. Mancini 1b ..........4 2 2 0 1 0 .275
Ruiz 1b................0 1 0 0 1 0 .238 Chicago cruised to its hitter, Jesus Aguilar had a atone for his role in the dou- as Houston earned its 10th hits as Minnesota beat De- Means (L) 9-9 3.61 8-13
Santander rf .......4 1 1 3 0 1 .288 fourth straight win. three-run homer during a ble-reversal of a double win in 12 games following troit. Lopez (R) 2-7 6.56 2-10
REDS-CARDINALS PPD. Peterson lf..........2 1 2 0 0 0 .222
four-run seventh inning, play, and Oakland beat New a five-game losing streak.
Nunez dh.............6 0 2 2 0 0 .249 Castellanos has 11 The Twins have won six ATHLETICS AT YANKEES, 1:05
The Reds and Cardinals Villar 2b ..............4 3 2 1 1 0 .278 home runs in 27 games and Tampa Bay beat Cleve- York. Every Astros starter had straight, including the first Bailey (R) 12-8 5.04 14-12
Severino c ...........6 2 4 3 0 1 .258
are slated to play Stewart lf-rf.......5 1 2 0 0 0 .273 with the Cubs. land in a matchup of playoff Profar connected in the at least one hit as Houston four of a 10-game road trip, German (R) 17-3 4.03 18-4
Wilkerson cf .......2 1 1 0 2 0 .222 contenders. second for a 1-0 lead and finished with 13 hits and lead the Cleveland In-
doubleheaders Saturday Martin ss ............4 0 0 2 0 1 .189 MILWAUKEE AB R H BI BB SO AVG ASTROS AT BLUE JAYS, 3:07
and Sunday after Friday’s TOTALS 43 14 21 13 5 3 — Cain cf ..................5 0 1 0 0 1 .251 The Rays entered the day added a two-run double in against five pitchers. dians by 41/2 games in the
Hiura 2b ...............3 0 0 0 0 0 .301 Valdez (L) 4-6 5.14 2-4
game was postponed Thames ph ...........1 0 0 0 0 0 .255
one game behind Oakland the sixth for a 4-2 edge. HOUSTON AB R H BI BB SO AVG AL Central.
KANSAS CITY AB R H BI BB SO AVG Buchholz (R) 0-3 5.87 2-4
because of rain. Merrifield rf........4 0 0 0 0 2 .301
Yelich rf................4 1 2 0 0 0 .331 in the race for the second That made up for his bad Springer cf ..........4 2 2 4 1 1 .295 MINNESOTA AB R H BI BB SO AVG
Braun lf ................3 0 1 0 1 0 .288 Altuve 2b ............5 0 2 0 0 2 .304 INDIANS AT RAYS, 6:10
Soler dh ..............4 1 2 1 0 0 .253
Grandal 1b............3 0 0 0 1 1 .249 AL wild card. The Indians footwork on a blown double Brantley lf ..........5 0 2 0 0 0 .333 Kepler cf-rf .........5 3 2 1 1 0 .255
Dozier 3b ............4 1 1 0 0 0 .279 Polanco ss...........4 2 3 0 0 0 .300 Plesac (R) 7-4 3.50 12-4
Gordon lf-p .........3 0 1 0 1 1 .259
Pina c....................4 0 3 1 0 1 .234 began the day 11/2 games play in the fourth that led to Bregman ss.........5 0 2 1 0 1 .290
Adrianza ss.........1 0 0 0 0 0 .283
BY THE NUMBERS Perez 3b ...............4 0 0 0 0 1 .239 Alvarez dh ..........4 1 1 0 1 2 .323 TBD

60
Cuthbert 1b ........4 0 1 1 0 1 .247
Arcia ss ................4 0 1 0 0 0 .227 ahead of the A’s. a run. Gurriel 1b............5 2 1 0 0 1 .307 Cruz dh................4 1 3 2 0 0 .304
Starling cf...........4 0 1 0 0 0 .203 Rosario lf ............5 2 2 3 0 1 .284
Anderson p...........1 0 0 0 0 0 .030 Diaz 3b................3 0 1 1 1 1 .273 TWINS AT TIGERS, 6:10
Arteaga ss ..........4 0 0 0 0 0 .189 CLEVELAND AB R H BI BB SO AVG OAKLAND AB R H BI BB SO AVG Sano 3b...............4 0 0 0 0 2 .242
Grisham ph ..........1 0 0 0 0 0 .239 Chirinos c ............5 1 1 0 0 0 .236
Dini c...................3 0 0 0 0 1 .160 Lindor ss..............4 0 0 0 0 0 .298 Semien ss............5 1 1 1 0 1 .276 Schoop ph-2b......1 0 1 0 0 0 .264 Perez (L) 9-5 4.47 14-9
Spangenberg 2b...2 0 0 0 0 1 .222 Reddick rf ...........3 1 1 1 1 0 .265
Lopez 2b .............3 0 0 0 0 1 .236 Mercado cf ..........4 0 1 0 0 0 .271 M.Chapman 3b ....4 1 1 0 1 3 .259 Arraez 2b-3b.......4 2 1 1 1 0 .333
TOTALS 35 1 8 1 2 5 — TOTALS 39 7 13 7 4 8 — Cron 1b................5 2 2 3 0 0 .263 Boyd (L) 6-10 4.47 8-19
TOTALS 33 2 6 2 1 6 — Santana 1b..........3 0 1 0 1 0 .291 Olson 1b ..............4 2 2 0 0 0 .264
Games in a row in which Puig rf..................4 0 0 0 0 2 .263 Canha cf ..............4 2 1 1 0 0 .276 J.Castro c............2 0 0 0 3 2 .236
CHICAGO AB R H BI BB SO AVG TORONTO AB R H BI BB SO AVG MARINERS AT RANGERS, 8:05
the Diamondbacks were BALTIMORE.... 015 020 222 — 14 21 0 Kipnis 2b .............4 0 0 0 0 1 .249 Pinder rf ..............2 0 1 0 0 0 .239 Cave rf-cf............5 1 0 1 0 2 .266
KANSAS CITY . 100 100 000 — 2 6 2 Happ cf................4 2 1 0 0 0 .231 Reyes dh..............3 0 1 0 0 1 .205 Brown ph-lf .........3 1 3 3 0 0 .455 Bichette ss .........5 0 1 0 0 2 .336 TOTALS 40 13 14 11 5 7 — TBD
within two games of .500, E: Dozier (7), Cuthbert (12). LOB: Balti-
Castellanos rf .....4 2 2 4 0 1 .357 R.Perez c .............3 0 1 0 0 1 .222 Phegley c .............4 0 0 0 1 1 .253 Biggio 2b.............3 1 1 1 2 2 .210
Burke (L) 0-1 0.75 1-1
Caratini 1b ..........4 0 2 1 0 0 .279 Naquin lf..............2 0 1 0 0 1 .288 Profar 2b .............5 1 2 3 0 1 .216 Guerrero Jr. 3b ...3 0 0 0 1 1 .280 DETROIT AB R H BI BB SO AVG
plus or minus, a major more 10, Kansas City 5. 2B: Alberto
Baez ss ...............4 0 1 0 0 3 .282 Allen lf.................1 0 0 0 0 0 .227 Neuse dh .............3 0 0 0 1 1 .000 McKinney 1b.......1 0 0 0 0 0 .219 RED SOX AT ANGELS, 9:07
(19), Villar (29), Severino (12), Mancini Reyes lf...............5 1 2 0 0 2 .280
league record. They lost to Schwarber lf .......3 1 2 1 0 0 .230 Chang 3b .............2 0 0 0 1 1 .235 Grossman lf-rf ....4 0 1 0 0 1 .252 Grichuk rf............4 0 0 0 1 1 .234
(30), Starling (4), Dozier (24), Soler W.Castro ss ........4 0 2 0 0 2 .273
Russell 2b ...........4 0 0 0 0 1 .243 TOTALS 30 0 5 0 2 7 — TOTALS 38 8 12 8 3 8 — Hernandez cf ......4 1 1 0 1 2 .222 TBD
(27). HR: Santander (14), off Skoglund; H.Castro cf..........4 0 0 0 0 1 .283
the Rockies on June 18 to Soler (38), off Means. RBI: Severino 3
Lucroy c...............4 0 0 0 0 1 .222 Smoak dh............3 0 1 0 1 0 .216
Rodriguez dh ......4 2 2 2 0 2 .228 Peters (L) 3-2 4.50 2-4
Bote 3b ...............2 2 2 0 2 0 .262 Drury 1b-3b ........4 0 0 0 0 1 .220
fall to 38-36 and were 68- (37), Santander 3 (43), Martin 2 (15), TAMPA BAY AB R H BI BB SO AVG NEW YORK AB R H BI BB SO AVG Lugo 3b ...............4 0 1 1 0 0 .224
Quintana p..........1 0 1 1 0 0 .083 Fisher lf ..............3 1 1 1 1 1 .175
Alberto 2 (46), Nunez 2 (78), Villar (62), Sogard 2b ............3 0 1 0 1 0 .301 LeMahieu 3b .......3 1 1 0 1 0 .335 Mercer 2b ...........4 0 1 0 0 2 .262
Kemp ph..............1 0 0 0 0 0 .167 McGuire c............3 1 3 2 0 0 .300
66 entering Friday. The A’s Soler (97), Cuthbert (34). SB: Villar 3
Bryant ph............1 0 0 0 0 1 .282 Pham lf................4 0 0 0 0 2 .270 Judge rf ...............4 0 2 0 0 0 .280 Demeritte rf .......4 0 1 0 0 2 .250
(32), Severino (3). CS: Alberto (3). SF: Meadows rf.........4 1 1 0 0 0 .276 Torres 2b .............3 0 0 0 1 0 .285 TOTALS 33 4 8 4 7 10 — Hicks 1b ..............4 2 2 1 0 1 .213 AL scores
set the old mark of 56 in Martin, Villar. TOTALS 32 7 11 7 2 7 — d'Arnaud c ...........4 1 1 0 0 1 .269 Gregorius ss........4 0 0 1 0 1 .257 J.Rogers c ...........4 0 1 1 0 1 .118
HOUSTON ....... 000 042 010 — 7 13 1
2007, according to Stats. BALTIMORE IP H R ER BB SO ERA MILWAUKEE .. 000 000 010 — 1 8 1 Choi dh ................4 0 1 0 0 3 .259 Sanchez dh..........4 0 0 0 0 2 .231 TORONTO ....... 010 000 111 — 4 8 1 TOTALS 37 5 12 5 0 13 — THURSDAY’S RESULTS
Means.................. 7 5 2 2 0 4 3.55 CHICAGO......... 230 000 11X — 7 11 0 Garcia cf ..............3 1 1 1 0 2 .273 Voit 1b.................4 1 2 0 0 1 .280
Wendle 3b ...........3 0 0 0 0 1 .206 Gardner cf ...........4 0 1 0 0 1 .251 E: Chirinos (6), Guerrero Jr. (16). LOB: MINNESOTA... 422 400 010 — 13 14 0 Cleveland 2, at Detroit 0
Eades................... 2 1 0 0 1 2 0.00 Oakland 9, at Kansas City 8
E: Spangenberg (1). LOB: Milwaukee 9, Aguilar 1b............3 1 1 3 0 1 .279 Romine c .............4 0 0 0 0 0 .262 Houston 10, Toronto 10. 2B: Chirinos DETROIT ......... 210 100 010 — 5 12 1
STAR OF THE DAY KANSAS CITY IP H R ER BB SO ERA Chicago 5. 2B: Pina (7), Yelich (27), Ar- Adames ss...........3 0 2 0 0 1 .252 Tauchman lf ........3 0 0 0 0 0 .282 (20), Gurriel (37), Springer (19), Minnesota 10, at Chicago White Sox 5
cia (12), Happ (3), Caratini (9), Schwar- Bichette (15). HR: Springer (29), off E: W.Castro (1). LOB: Minnesota 6, De- Tampa Bay 9, at Houston 8
Todd Frazier, Mets Skoglund ............. 4 9 6 6 3 1 8.00 TOTALS 31 4 8 4 1 11 — TOTALS 33 2 6 1 2 5 — troit 5. 2B: Kepler 2 (31), Cron (23), Seattle 5, at Texas 3
Gordon................. 1 3 2 2 1 0 18.0 ber (20), Bote (17), Quintana (1), Baez Thornton; McGuire (4), off Rondon;
(38). HR: Castellanos 2 (11), off Ander- Fisher (5), off Devenski; Biggio (11), off Reyes (9), Rodriguez (12), Hicks (14),
Zimmer............. 2.1 5 4 4 1 2 10.3 CLEVELAND .... 000 000 000 — 0 5 0 OAKLAND ....... 010 003 202 — 8 12 0 J.Rogers (1). HR: Cron (23), off Hall; FRIDAY’S RESULTS
Drove in six runs with a McCarthy.......... 1.2 4 2 2 0 0 5.09 son; Schwarber (32), off Claudio. TAMPA BAY.... 000 000 40X — 4 8 0 NEW YORK...... 001 100 000 — 2 6 0 Harris.
Hicks (11), off Gibson; Rodriguez (11), Baltimore 14, at Kansas City 2
MILWAUKEE IP H R ER BB SO ERA LOB: Oakland 8, New York 6. 2B: Brown HOUSTON IP H R ER BB SO ERA off Dyson.
pair of homers in an 11-5 WP: Means (10-9); LP: Skoglund (0-1).
Anderson............. 4 7 5 5 1 2 4.58
LOB: Cleveland 5, Tampa Bay 4. 2B:
(3), Profar (21), Olson (19). 3B: Canha Miley ................ 3.2 2 1 0 5 5 3.06
Oakland 8, at N.Y. Yankees 2
Inherited runners-scored: McCarthy 2-0. Naquin (19), Adames (20). HR: Aguilar MINNESOTA IP H R ER BB SO ERA Houston 7, at Toronto 4
rout of the Phillies. HBP: Skoglund (Wilkerson). T: 3:07. Black.................... 1 0 0 0 0 0 3.18 (2), off Cimber. (3). HR: Profar (18), off Sabathia; McHugh .............. .1 1 0 0 0 1 4.70
Gibson ................. 5 10 4 4 0 5 4.58 at Tampa Bay 4, Cleveland 0
Jackson................ 1 1 0 0 0 2 4.87 Semien (25), off Cortes Jr. Biagini ................. 2 1 0 0 0 1 3.78
CLEVELAND IP H R ER BB SO ERA Duffey ................. 1 0 0 0 0 3 2.74 Minnesota 13, at Detroit 5
Williams .............. 1 1 1 0 1 2 4.00 OAKLAND IP H R ER BB SO ERA Rondon ................ 1 1 1 1 2 1 3.81 at Texas 6, Seattle 3
ORIOLES LEADERS Claudio................. 1 2 1 1 0 1 3.98 Bieber................ 6.1 6 3 3 0 9 3.27 Devenski.............. 1 2 1 1 0 1 5.34 May...................... 1 0 0 0 0 3 3.20
TODAY’S GAME Batters Avg AB R H HR RBI Cimber ................ .2 2 1 1 1 1 4.09 Anderson ............. 6 6 2 2 2 1 4.04
Harris .................. 1 1 1 1 0 1 1.74 Dyson .................. 1 1 1 1 0 1 7.71 Boston at L.A. Angels, Late
CHICAGO IP H R ER BB SO ERA Wittgren.............. 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.82 Petit ..................... 2 0 0 0 0 2 2.93 Romo ................... 1 1 0 0 0 1 3.55
TO WATCH Alberto .324 423 49 137 10 46
Treinen................. 1 0 0 0 0 2 4.77 TORONTO IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Santander .288 292 36 84 14 43 Quintana .......... 5.2 4 0 0 2 3 3.90 DETROIT IP H R ER BB SO ERA
TAMPA BAY IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Mets at Phillies, 4 p.m., Villar .278 521 91 145 20 62 Phelps............... 1.1 2 0 0 0 1 2.08
Pruitt ................ 5.1 4 0 0 0 6 4.78
NEW YORK IP H R ER BB SO ERA Thornton ............. 5 6 4 3 0 6 5.34
Jackson............. 2.1 7 8 6 3 1 7.23
Mancini .275 494 88 136 29 74 Strop.................... 1 2 1 1 0 1 5.79 Adam ................... 1 3 2 2 1 0 4.76
Fox Sports 1 Stewart .273 66 5 18 0 3 Cishek.................. 1 0 0 0 0 0 3.21 Drake................. 1.2 1 0 0 0 1 3.76 Sabathia .............. 3 1 1 1 2 2 4.93
Ramirez ............... 1 1 0 0 2 1 5.40 Hall ................... 1.2 3 4 4 1 2 6.89 Interleague games
Poche ................... 1 0 0 0 1 0 4.99 Cessa.................... 2 2 0 0 0 1 3.99 Ramirez ............... 3 1 0 0 0 3 4.35
Severino .258 264 32 68 11 37 Kahnle.................. 1 3 3 3 0 1 3.19 Mayza.................. 1 2 1 1 1 1 4.32
WP: Quintana (12-8); LP: Anderson Kittredge ............. 1 0 0 0 1 0 4.34 McKay.................. 2 3 1 1 1 1 5.79 WHITE SOX AT BRAVES, 7:20
Nunez .249 465 66 116 28 78 Boshers ............... 1 1 0 0 0 0 5.25
Steven Matz (8-8, SmithJr. .238 311 41 74 12 48
(6-4). Inherited runners-scored: Phelps Gearrin................. 1 3 2 2 0 0 9.00
WP: Gibson (13-6); LP: Jackson (2-3).
1-0. HBP: Anderson (Schwarber). WP: Drake (3-1); LP: Bieber (12-7). In- Cortes Jr. ............. 2 3 2 2 1 4 4.58 WP: McHugh (4-5); LP: Thornton (4-9). W-L ERA TEAM
4.06 ERA) takes the Ruiz .238 294 28 70 8 35
WP: Quintana, Strop. T: 3:07. A: 40,276 herited runners-scored: Cimber 2-2. IBB: WP: Anderson (11-9); LP: Kahnle (3-1). Inherited runners-scored: McHugh 1-0. Inherited runners-scored: Hall 3-2. WP:
Lopez (R) 8-11 5.08 12-15
Wynns .233 43 3 10 0 3 off Cimber (Sogard). T: 2:52. A: 15,294 Gibson, Romo, McKay. PB: J.Rogers (7).
mound for New York and (41,649). HBP: Sabathia (Olson), Kahnle (Canha). T: 3:22. A: 25,289 (53,506).
Wilkerson .222 284 34 63 10 34 (25,025). T: 3:31. A: 17,273 (41,297). Keuchel (L) 5-5 3.78 7-6
T: 3:02. A: 47,265 (47,309).
Jason Vargas (6-6, 4.09)
for Philadelphia in a clash Mets 11, Phillies 5 Rangers 6, Mariners 3 Braves 10, White Sox 7 Pirates 9, Rockies 4 Padres 5, Giants 3 Diamondbacks 11, Interleague scores
of NL East rivals battling Todd Frazier hit a pair of Rougned Odor snapped Max Fried pitched six- Dario Agrazal pitched Late Thursday Dodgers 5 THURSDAY’S RESULTS
for a wild-card spot. three-run homers and tied an 0-for-28 slump with a plus innings and won his three-run ball into the sixth Chris Paddack rebound- Late Thursday No games scheduled
his career best with six game-tying double, Danny sixth straight decision, Tyler inning and Melky Cabrera ed from his worst start of Eduardo Escobar hit a FRIDAY’S RESULT
RBI, and New York beat Santana hit his 24th hom- Flowers hit a three-run hit a three-run homer to lift the season with seven in- three-run blast in the sixth at Atlanta 10, Chicago White Sox 7
NL leaders Philadelphia to snap a six- er, and Texas beat Seattle. homer, and surging Atlanta Pittsburgh. nings of one-run ball to inning and Wilmer Flores
Entering Friday’s games game losing streak. Kolby Allard worked beat Chicago. Starling Marte had three lead San Diego to a win added three hits and three
BATTING The Mets are five games 52/3 innings in his fifth start CHICAGO AB R H BI BB SO AVG hits and tied his career against San Francisco. RBI as Arizona routed Los NL WILD-CARD STANDINGS
McNeil, NY ....................................... .330 out of a wild-card spot. for Texas, which came ex- Garcia rf-lf...........5 0 1 2 0 4 .276 best with four runs for the Manuel Margot and Aus- Angeles. Team W L Pct WCGB
Yelich, Mil ........................................ .330 Anderson ss ........5 0 0 0 0 3 .325
Rendon, Was ................................... .329 NEW YORK AB R H BI BB SO AVG actly a month after he was Abreu 1b..............4 0 1 0 0 0 .283 Pirates. tin Hedges homered for L.A. AB R H BI BB SO AVG Washington 75 58 .564 +21/2
Chicago 73 61 .545 —
Reynolds, Pit ................................... .328 McNeil rf.............5 0 0 0 0 1 .326 acquired from Atlanta in a Moncada 3b.........4 0 0 0 0 3 .292
PITTSBURGH AB R H BI BB SO AVG the Padres. Pederson lf .........4 2 2 0 1 0 .238 Philadelphia 69 64 .523 31/2
Marte, Ari ........................................ .322 Alonso 1b............5 2 3 0 0 1 .265 Jimenez lf ...........4 2 2 0 0 1 .242 Beaty 1b .............3 2 0 0 2 1 .292
Blackmon, Col .................................. .317 Conforto cf..........5 2 3 2 0 1 .262
trade. The rookie allowed McCann c.............2 1 0 0 1 0 .277 Newman ss.........5 1 2 0 0 1 .309 SAN DIEGO AB R H BI BB SO AVG Turner 3b ............4 1 2 3 0 1 .295
x-Arizona 68 66 .507 51/2
Newman, Pit .................................... .309 Sanchez 2b ..........3 2 0 0 1 2 .257 Reynolds lf..........5 0 2 1 0 0 .328 Milwaukee 68 66 .507 51/2
J.Davis lf.............3 2 0 0 2 2 .301 two runs while striking out Marte cf..............4 4 3 0 0 0 .293 Margot cf............4 1 1 2 0 0 .239 Bellinger rf .........3 0 1 0 2 1 .308 New York 68 66 .507 51/2
Arenado, Col .................................... .309 Panik 2b ..............4 2 2 0 1 0 .283 Engel cf ...............4 0 1 1 0 1 .224 Naylor lf..............3 1 2 0 0 0 .249 Pollock cf ............3 0 1 1 1 0 .264
Bellinger, LA .................................... .308 Rosario ss...........5 1 1 2 0 2 .287 four and walking one. Nova p .................1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Bell 1b.................4 1 3 2 1 0 .274
Renfroe ph-rf......1 0 0 0 0 0 .226 Seager ss ............3 0 0 1 0 1 .268
Story, Col ......................................... .299 Cordell ph ............1 0 0 0 0 0 .226 Moran 3b ............5 1 2 1 0 2 .287
Frazier 3b............4 2 2 6 0 0 .230 SEATTLE AB R H BI BB SO AVG Machado 3b ........4 0 0 0 0 1 .262 Smith c ...............4 0 0 0 0 0 .294
Castillo ph ...........1 1 1 3 0 0 .203 Cabrera rf ...........5 1 2 3 0 0 .277 AL WILD-CARD STANDINGS
Rivera c...............2 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Hosmer 1b ..........4 0 1 1 0 0 .284 Hernandez 2b .....4 0 1 0 0 2 .247
HOME RUNS Ramos ph-c.........3 0 1 1 0 1 .293 Smith rf...............5 2 3 1 0 0 .238 Goins rf................1 1 1 0 0 0 .272 Frazier 2b............4 1 1 0 0 0 .272
Diaz c ..................4 0 1 1 0 0 .247 Myers rf-lf ..........4 0 1 0 0 1 .223 Ryu p...................2 0 0 0 0 1 .116
Bellinger, LA ....................................... 42 Wheeler p ...........1 0 0 0 1 1 .239 Crawford ss.........3 0 0 0 1 0 .241 TOTALS 35 7 7 6 2 15 — Gyorko ph ...........1 0 0 0 0 0 .154 Team W L Pct WCGB
Nola 1b ................4 0 0 0 0 1 .277 Agrazal p ............2 0 0 1 0 1 .000 France 2b ............3 0 0 0 0 1 .220 Cleveland 79 56 .585 +1/2
Alonso, NY .......................................... 42 R.Davis ph ..........1 0 0 0 0 0 .214 Urias ss...............4 1 1 0 0 1 .186 Taylor ss .............1 0 0 0 0 0 .265
Yelich, Mil ........................................... 41 Seager 3b ............4 0 2 0 0 1 .254 Reyes ph .............1 0 0 0 0 0 .169 Oakland 78 56 .582 —
Lagares ph ..........1 0 0 0 0 0 .209 ATLANTA AB R H BI BB SO AVG Hedges c .............3 1 1 2 0 0 .189 TOTALS 32 5 7 5 6 7 —
Suarez, Cin .......................................... 38 Murphy c .............4 0 1 0 0 1 .284 TOTALS 39 9 16 9 1 4 — Tampa Bay 78 58 .574 1
TOTALS 39 11 12 11 4 9 — Vogelbach dh.......4 1 1 0 0 1 .214 Acuna Jr. cf-rf .....5 0 0 0 0 0 .286 Paddack p............3 1 1 0 0 2 .111 x-Boston 72 62 .537 6
Freeman, Atl ....................................... 36 Albies 2b .............5 2 4 1 0 0 .287 Garcia 2b.............0 0 0 0 0 0 .261 ARIZONA AB R H BI BB SO AVG
Acuna Jr., Atl ...................................... 36 Lopes lf................3 0 1 0 0 1 .266 COLORADO AB R H BI BB SO AVG
PHILA. AB R H BI BB SO AVG Freeman 1b .........5 1 2 2 0 0 .298 TOTALS 33 5 8 5 0 6 — x-Late game
Bell, Pit ............................................... 34 Narvaez ph ..........1 0 1 0 0 0 .284 Story ss ..............5 2 2 1 0 2 .299 Marte cf..............4 1 1 0 0 1 .322
Dickerson lf ........4 1 3 1 1 0 .302 Fraley cf ..............4 0 1 0 0 3 .179 Donaldson 3b ......1 2 0 0 4 0 .258 Dyson cf..............1 0 1 0 0 0 .249
Arenado, Col ....................................... 34 Joyce rf................3 2 2 0 1 1 .290 McMahon 2b.......5 0 1 1 0 1 .261
Muncy, LA ........................................... 33 Realmuto c .........3 0 0 2 0 1 .278 Gordon 2b............4 0 0 0 0 0 .271 SAN FRAN. AB R H BI BB SO AVG Locastro lf ..........4 2 1 0 0 1 .259
Culberson ph .......1 0 0 0 0 0 .272 Arenado 3b .........4 0 2 0 0 1 .309
Donaldson, Atl .................................... 32 Harper rf .............4 1 1 1 1 2 .255 TOTALS 36 3 10 1 1 8 — Yastrzemski rf....3 0 0 0 0 1 .264 Escobar 3b ..........5 2 2 3 0 1 .267
Swanson ss.........4 1 1 1 0 0 .259 Murphy 1b ..........4 0 0 0 0 0 .284
Hoskins 1b..........5 0 3 1 0 0 .239 Rickard ph-rf.......1 0 1 0 0 0 .267 Walker 1b ...........4 2 1 0 1 1 .266
RBI Segura ss............5 0 1 0 0 1 .285 Ortega lf..............4 0 0 0 0 1 .244 Desmond lf .........4 2 3 1 0 0 .254
Belt 1b ................3 1 1 1 1 1 .229 Flores 2b .............5 2 3 3 0 0 .323
AL leaders
TEXAS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Flowers c.............3 2 2 3 1 0 .236 Hilliard rf ............4 0 1 1 0 1 .375
Hernandez 2b .....4 0 1 0 0 2 .284 Longoria 3b.........4 0 1 0 0 1 .263 Jones rf...............5 1 1 2 0 2 .271
Freeman, Atl ..................................... 107 Choo rf.................4 0 0 0 0 0 .263 Fried p .................3 0 1 0 0 0 .224 Wolters c ............3 0 0 0 1 2 .282 Entering Friday’s games
Kingery 3b ..........4 0 0 0 0 1 .271 Dickerson lf ........4 0 0 0 0 1 .339 Ahmed ss............5 1 2 2 0 0 .261
Bell, Pit ............................................. 106 Andrus ss ............4 0 0 1 0 1 .273 Hechavarria ph....1 0 1 2 0 0 .270 Daza cf................4 0 1 0 0 1 .224
Haseley cf...........3 2 2 0 1 0 .261 Posey c................4 0 1 0 0 2 .246 C.Kelly c ..............3 0 3 0 1 0 .261 BATTING
Escobar, Ari ...................................... 106 Calhoun dh ..........3 0 0 1 0 1 .280 Hamilton cf .........0 0 0 0 0 0 .333 Alonso ph............1 0 0 0 0 0 .273
Nola p..................2 0 1 0 0 0 .098 Pillar cf ...............4 0 1 0 0 1 .266 Vargas ph ...........1 0 1 1 0 0 .263
Rendon, Was .................................... 104 Solak 3b...............4 1 1 0 0 1 .361 Hampson ph .......1 0 0 0 0 0 .213 LeMahieu, NY .................................. .335
Morrison ph ........0 1 0 0 1 0 .286 TOTALS 35 10 13 9 6 2 — Crawford ss ........3 1 0 0 1 1 .232 Lamb ph ..............1 0 0 0 0 0 .200
Arenado, Col ..................................... 103 Santana 1b..........4 1 1 1 0 1 .289 Nunez ph.............1 0 0 0 0 1 .222 Brantley, Hou .................................. .332
Alonso, NY ........................................ 101 TOTALS 34 5 12 5 4 7 — Odor 2b................3 1 1 1 1 1 .193 Dubon 2b.............3 0 1 0 0 0 .333 TOTALS 38 11 16 11 2 6 — Devers, Bos ...................................... .326
CHICAGO ......... 000 010 402 — 7 7 2 TOTALS 36 4 10 4 1 9 — Vogt ph ...............1 0 1 1 0 0 .278
Bellinger, LA ..................................... 100 DeShields cf ........3 0 0 0 0 1 .249 ATLANTA ........ 040 101 22X — 10 13 1 Alberto, Bal ..................................... .317
NEW YORK ..... 000 000 155 — 11 12 0 Rodriguez p.........1 0 0 0 0 1 .200 L.A................... 102 010 001 — 5 7 1
Harper, Phi .......................................... 94 Heineman lf ........3 2 1 0 1 1 .184 PITTSBURGH .. 110 130 201 — 9 16 0 Martinez, Bos .................................. .314
PHILA.............. 000 010 004 — 5 12 0 E: McCann (6), Garcia (11), Freeman (6). Slater ph .............1 0 0 0 0 1 .276 ARIZONA ........ 000 433 01X — 11 16 0
Acuna Jr., Atl ...................................... 91 Trevino c..............3 1 3 2 0 0 .244 COLORADO ..... 100 011 010 — 4 10 2 Bogaerts, Bos .................................. .311
Yelich, Mil ........................................... 89 LOB: New York 6, Philadelphia 9. 2B: LOB: Chicago 4, Atlanta 8. 2B: Albies 2 Solano ph-2b ......2 1 1 0 0 0 .337 E: Taylor (9). LOB: Los Angeles 8, Ari- Gurriel, Hou ..................................... .308
TOTALS 31 6 7 6 2 7 — (37), Freeman (30), Flowers (9). HR: Cas- E: Senzatela (1), Diaz (1). LOB: Pitts-
Conforto (23), Panik (2), Nola (1), Segu- TOTALS 34 3 8 2 2 10 — zona 8. 2B: Pederson (12), Bellinger Altuve, Hou ..................................... .303
ERA ra (31), Harper (32), Hoskins (27). HR: tillo (8), off Jackson; Flowers (10), off burgh 6, Colorado 7. 2B: Frazier (27),
SEATTLE ......... 100 010 100 — 3 10 2 Reynolds 2 (28), Marte (30), Story (33), (29), Turner (24), Flores 2 (14), Ahmed Merrifield, KC .................................. .303
Ryu, LA ............................................ 2.35 Frazier (18), off Hughes; Conforto (28), TEXAS ............. 011 013 00X — 6 7 1 Nova. SAN DIEGO ..... 003 200 000 — 5 8 0 (27), Jones (24), Locastro (9). HR: Tur- Lindor, Cle ........................................ .301
off Garcia; Frazier (18), off Garcia. CHICAGO IP H R ER BB SO ERA Desmond (30). HR: Cabrera (6), off Sen- SAN FRAN. ..... 000 100 011 — 3 8 0
Soroka, Atl ....................................... 2.44 zatela; Story (28), off Agrazal; Des- ner (25), off Clarke; Escobar (30), off
E: Crawford (11), Seager (9), Andrus J.Kelly. HOME RUNS
Scherzer, Was ................................. 2.46 NEW YORK IP H R ER BB SO ERA (13). LOB: Seattle 7, Texas 5. 2B: Murphy Nova..................... 4 8 5 4 2 0 4.48 mond (14), off Liriano. LOB: San Diego 2, San Francisco 6. 2B:
deGrom, NY ..................................... 2.66 Wheeler............... 6 7 1 1 3 4 4.41 (11), Solak (3), Odor (23), Trevino 2 (3). Fry..................... 1.1 1 1 1 0 2 5.28 Naylor (10), Hosmer (25), Longoria L.A. IP H R ER BB SO ERA Trout, LA ............................................. 43
Kershaw, LA .................................... 2.76 PITTSBURGH IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Wilson ................. 1 1 0 0 0 1 2.15 3B: Smith (9). HR: Santana (24), off Gon- Herrera ............... .2 1 0 0 0 0 7.14 (17), Vogt (21). 3B: Urias (1). HR: Mar- Ryu ................... 4.2 10 7 7 1 4 2.35 Soler, KC ............................................. 37
Gray, Cin .......................................... 2.92 Diaz ..................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 5.33 Bummer .............. .2 0 2 2 3 0 2.06 Agrazal ................ 5 9 3 3 0 2 4.41 got (11), off Rodriguez; Hedges (10), off Kepler, Min ......................................... 35
zales. Rodriguez ............ 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.91 Kolarek ............... .1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00
Buehler, LA ...................................... 3.03 Mazza .................. 1 4 4 4 1 0 7.71 Marshall.............. .1 1 0 0 0 0 2.82 Rodriguez; Belt (15), off Paddack. J.Kelly.................. 1 3 3 3 0 0 4.66 Cruz, Min ............................................ 33
Corbin, Was ..................................... 3.15 SEATTLE IP H R ER BB SO ERA Colome................. 1 2 2 1 1 0 2.47 Kela ..................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.91 Torres, NY ........................................... 33
SAN DIEGO IP H R ER BB SO ERA Ferguson ............. 2 3 1 1 1 2 5.24
Castillo, Cin ..................................... 3.21 PHILA. IP H R ER BB SO ERA Gonzales ........... 5.2 7 6 5 2 2 4.30 Liriano ................. 1 1 1 1 1 0 3.52 Bregman, Hou ..................................... 32
Swanson ........... 2.1 0 0 0 0 5 6.24 ATLANTA IP H R ER BB SO ERA Hartlieb ............... 1 0 0 0 0 3 8.65 Paddack ............... 7 5 1 1 0 8 3.69
Flaherty, StL .................................... 3.31 Nola .................. 6.1 4 1 1 2 7 3.45 ARIZONA IP H R ER BB SO ERA Martinez, Bos ..................................... 32
Strahm ................ 1 2 1 1 1 0 4.95
Alvarez ............... .2 0 0 0 0 0 2.90 Fried..................... 6 4 4 3 1 11 4.05 M.Kelly ................ 4 3 3 3 4 4 4.91
STRIKEOUTS TEXAS IP H R ER BB SO ERA COLORADO IP H R ER BB SO ERA Munoz ................. 1 1 1 1 1 2 1.86 RBI
Morin.................. .1 3 4 4 1 0 5.00 Jackson ................ 1 1 1 1 0 3 3.50 Andriese .............. 1 1 1 1 2 0 5.21
deGrom, NY ...................................... 214 Hughes ................ 0 1 1 1 0 0 9.00 Allard ................ 5.2 7 2 2 1 4 4.33 Greene ................. 1 0 0 0 0 0 4.73 Senzatela ............ 5 10 6 6 1 2 6.75 SAN FRAN. IP H R ER BB SO ERA Chafin ............... 1.1 2 0 0 0 2 3.91 Devers, Bos ....................................... 104
Strasburg, Was ................................ 201 Garcia ............... 1.2 4 5 5 1 2 6.68 Kelley ................... 1 1 1 0 0 2 4.24 Swarzak.............. .2 2 2 2 1 0 3.41 Shaw ................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 5.46
Rodriguez ............ 5 8 5 5 0 3 5.49 Clarke ............... 2.2 1 1 1 0 1 5.48 Abreu, Chi ......................................... 102
Scherzer, Was .................................. 200 Guerrieri ........... 1.1 1 0 0 0 1 3.10 Melancon ............ .1 0 0 0 0 1 5.91 Estevez................ 1 5 2 2 0 0 4.03
WP: Wilson (4-1); LP: Morin (1-1). Gustave ............... 2 0 0 0 0 1 2.20 Trout, LA ........................................... 100
Corbin, Was ...................................... 193 Clase .................... 1 1 0 0 0 1 3.65 WP: Fried (15-4); LP: Nova (9-11); S: Davis ................... 1 0 0 0 0 0 7.14 WP: Andriese (5-4); LP: Ryu (12-5). In-
Hughes pitched to 1 batters in the 8th Abad .................... 1 0 0 0 0 0 3.00 Bogaerts, Bos ................................... 100
Ray, Ari ............................................. 193 Melancon (6). Inherited runners-scored: Diaz ..................... 1 1 1 0 0 1 4.75 herited runners-scored: Kolarek 2-0.
Inherited runners-scored: Alvarez 3-0, WP: Allard (3-0); LP: Gonzales (14-11); Coonrod ............... 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.70 Soler, KC ............................................. 96
Castillo, Cin ...................................... 190 Herrera 1-1, Marshall 3-2, Jackson 2-2, WP: Agrazal (3-3); LP: Senzatela (8-8). IBB: off M.Kelly (Bellinger), off Ryu
Hughes 2-2. IBB: off Wheeler (Haseley). S: Clase (1). Inherited runners-scored: Gurriel, Hou ........................................ 95
Nola, Phi ........................................... 187 Melancon 1-0. HBP: Nova (Swanson), Inherited runners-scored: Rodriguez WP: Paddack (8-7); LP: Rodriguez (5-7); (C.Kelly), off Andriese (Bellinger). HBP:
HBP: Nola (Frazier). T: 3:28. A: 30,503 Swanson 1-0, Kelley 2-0. T: 2:45. A: Bregman, Hou ..................................... 91
Buehler, LA ....................................... 185 Fried (McCann). WP: Melancon. PB: 1-0. HBP: Diaz (Marte). T: 3:18. A: S: Munoz (1). HBP: Coonrod (France). Ryu (Locastro). WP: M.Kelly. PB: Smith
(43,647). 23,563 (49,115). LeMahieu, NY ..................................... 89
Darvish, Chi ...................................... 183 Flowers (16). T: 3:28. A: 39,097 (41,149). 27,789 (50,398). WP: Munoz. T: 2:28. A: 33,135 (41,915). (2). T: 3:23. A: 22,581 (48,519).
Rosario, Min ....................................... 88

SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 , 2019
BARRY SVRLUGA
NCAA rules on transfers don’t make any sense. Just ask Virginia Tech’s Ho≠man.
SVRLUGA FROM D1
for Ohio State, a former Ohio
State quarterback immediately
eligible to play for Miami and a
multitalented defensive back
who was enrolled at Auburn last
winter now able to play for
North Carolina this fall.
That last one, at least, makes
complete and obvious sense:
Cam’Ron Kelly’s mother and
sister have had health issues, so
he wanted to transfer closer to
his Chesapeake, Va., home. On
Wednesday, the NCAA granted
him immediate eligibility.
“God is good,” Kelly tweeted.
The NCAA, though? It’s
capricious and opaque at best,
impersonal and callous at
worst.
Hoffman’s story has found a
place in the national discourse
not because his eligibility to
play football this fall will impact
who appears in the College
Football Playoff. No, it is worthy
of discussion because it’s
illogical and insensitive, and it’s
example No. 8 billion of the
NCAA’s tone-deaf handling of
students who compete in
intercollegiate athletics.
From the outside, the policy
that requires a student to sit out
a year if he or she transfers
seems antiquated and silly on
its own. But cases such as
Hoffman’s seem downright
random, even cruel. They
appear so simple, until the
NCAA complicates them. Brock
Hoffman was an offensive
JERRY BREWER
Herbert and his family know Oregon football by heart
BREWER FROM D1
As a senior season of vast
possibility and importance
begins, he’s one of the most
captivating figures in college
football.
“He can be coy, so you have to
know there’s more to him than
he lets on,” said his father, Mark
Herbert. “He’d rather kick your
ass quietly and pick you up and
say, ‘Hey, good game.’ ”
Even with his demeanor,
Herbert will have a hard time
doing anything quietly this
season. It has become rare for
quarterbacks with his talent and
pro potential to stay in college
through their senior season.
There’s always the risk of injury
and harming draft stock, but
Herbert can compile a solid list
of peers who preferred to be
patient and still ended up as
top-10 picks, including Peyton
Manning, Andrew Luck, Matt
Leinart and Jake Locker.
Now it is Herbert’s turn to
attempt to have it all. He doesn’t
just want to refine his skills. He
hopes to lift a Ducks program
aiming to prove its best years
didn’t expire in 2014. On
Saturday night, when No. 11
Oregon faces No. 16 Auburn at
AT&T Stadium in Arlington,
Tex., Herbert will be featured,
tested and scrutinized in the
biggest game of the first full
weekend of the 2019 season.
“It’s a great opportunity for
us,” said Herbert, whose offense
will face an Auburn defensive
line widely regarded as the best
in the nation. “It’ll be a big test.”
For the Herbert family, it’s
even deeper than that. They love
Oregon football. They live
Oregon football. The family is so
entwined with the program —
maternal side, paternal side, de
facto relatives — that it’s getting
harder and harder to separate
blood from pigskin. The
relationship is only amplified by
the quarterback’s journey from
afterthought recruit to No. 6 on
the depth chart to potential
program-changer.
It takes 23 minutes for the
Herberts to walk from the
driveway of their rambler house
to their Autzen Stadium seats.
By now, all these generations
later, they probably could make
the trip blindfolded.
They know it by routine. They
know it by heart.
The connection goes back to
Herbert’s late grandfather, Rich
Schwab, who played wide
receiver at Oregon from 1960 to
1963. While playing for the
Ducks, he became close friends
with Dave Wilcox, a Pro Football
Hall of Fame linebacker whose
son, Justin, another former
Duck, is now the head coach at
California. Their families
essentially blended. Schwab, a
connector, had a way of turning
teammates into life mates.
On both sides of the family,
Herbert learned about bonding
through athletics and valuing
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lineman at Coastal Carolina. He
wanted to be closer to his
family, who needed help.
Blacksburg, Va., is roughly two
hours from Statesville. Conway,
S.C., is a four-hour drive.
“We kind of thought this was
an open-and-shut kind of deal,”
Brian Hoffman said Thursday in
a phone interview. “My wife had
a brain tumor. If she didn’t have
the brain tumor removed, she
would have died. Brock wanted
to be closer to home so he could
help us out.”
The NCAA has inserted
language into its transfer rules
that indicated waivers could be
granted if anything at the
previous school “directly
impact[s] the health, safety and
well-being of the student-
athlete.”
That premise seemed to
prevail when Justin Fields
transferred from Georgia, where
he was unable to unseat
incumbent quarterback Jake
Fromm, to Ohio State, which
had an opening under center
after Dwayne Haskins left early
for the NFL. Oh, and Fields said
a Georgia baseball player yelled
racial slurs at him during a
Bulldogs home game last fall.
The NCAA declared Fields
eligible in February. See, the
process can work!
You know who noticed
Fields’s arrival in Columbus?
Tate Martell, second to Haskins
on Ohio State’s depth chart last
fall. He decided to leave for
Miami. In March, the NCAA
Justin Herbert’s grandfather played for Oregon, and his younger brother joined the Ducks this season.
the people around him. His
paternal grandfather, Roger
Herbert, ran track at Oregon
State and also passed on his love
of biology, which is Justin’s
major. His father, Mark, played
football and ran track at
Montana. His older brother,
Mitchell, was a wide receiver at
Montana State. His younger
brother, Patrick, is a freshman
tight end at Oregon.
Growing up, Herbert played
football, basketball and baseball.
He didn’t believe in
participating on travel teams or
going to exclusive camps. He
wanted to compete with his
team. Ask what keeps him
grounded, and he will talk about
the camaraderie.
“I make sure to keep staying
around my guys,” he said.
Consider his upbringing, and
it’s no surprise that Herbert
shunned turning pro to live this
dream for one more year. He’s
practical, too: He can get better.
To last in the NFL, he has to get
better.
Despite the Ducks’ 9-4 finish
last season, Herbert showed
some statistical regression,
partly because his receivers
were charged with a ridiculous
52 drops. That helps explain
why Herbert’s completion
percentage dipped from 67.5 as a
sophomore to 59.4 as a junior.
Cut those drops in half to a more
reasonable 26 (two per game),
and Herbert would have
completed 65.8 percent of his
throws.
The issue for Herbert isn’t
overall accuracy. It’s the fine
details: better touch on some
throws, particularly deep
college football
declared him eligible to play
this season for the Hurricanes.
According to the Miami Herald,
the reason: Martell’s
representatives were able to
show the NCAA that Martell
was no longer wanted at Ohio
State.
Why are we even arguing
about this stuff ? In a sane and
just world, Fields and Martell
and Hoffman should all be able
to pick a school of their choice
and play if their coach feels
they’re ready. A tuba player in
the Ohio State marching band
could transfer to Miami and
toot his tuba immediately. Why
should a football player — or a
swimmer or a field hockey
player — be different?
Michigan Coach Jim
Harbaugh tried to make the
argument this summer that
athletes should be able to
transfer once and gain
immediate eligibility at their
new schools regardless of the
circumstances. Harbaugh said,
sensibly, that requiring
justification could cause players
who simply want to change
schools to conjure up fake
reasons for leaving one place for
another.
“You’re putting them in a
position that’s unfair, not right,”
Harbaugh said last month at Big
Ten media days. “You’re just
saying it just to say it. . . . That’s
not something we should be
promoting at the college level.
Telling the truth matters,
especially at a college.”
passes; better placement; deeper
understanding of defensive
schemes; and greater feel for
when there’s opportunity to do
more and when it’s wise to make
the easy, short throw.
“I’d be lying if I said there
wasn’t something in every
category that we’ve tried to
enhance,” Oregon offensive
coordinator Marcus Arroyo said
of the work the coaching staff
did with Herbert this offseason.
“It’s a chance to get another run
at him — mechanically,
mentally, schematically.”
For all that Herbert has
accomplished at Oregon, he has
yet to put together that one
magical season. He flashed as a
freshman and eventually
became an improbable starter.
He went 6-2 as a sophomore, but
a broken collarbone interrupted
his season. Last season was
really nice — 3,151 passing yards
and 29 touchdowns — but he
can be more consistent and
efficient.
Herbert isn’t satisfied with
being an intriguing prospect. He
wants to be a great finished
product. And he continues to
prove he’s willing to work for it.
Three days before Christmas,
Herbert sent a text message to
his parents. “We have a meeting
tomorrow,” he wrote. “Can you
make it?”
The next day, Mark and Holly
Herbert visited the football
facility and sat with their son as
well as Coach Mario Cristobal,
Arroyo and a senior athletic
administrator. They sensed
Justin had made the most
important decision of his young
football career: Would he stay at
EZ SU
Which points back to
Hoffman’s case. After his
sophomore season, Coastal
Carolina had a coaching change.
The Hoffmans could have
appealed for immediate
eligibility at Virginia Tech on
that basis alone. Instead, they
told the truth.
“We thought medical
hardship the whole time,” Brian
Hoffman said. “That’s why we
were doing it. It was to be closer
to home. We weren’t even
thinking about the coaching
change.”
Stephanie Hoffman
underwent the first of several
procedures for a noncancerous
brain tumor in January 2017 —
just as Brock was enrolling early
at Coastal Carolina. She had her
most recent procedure in
August of that year, before the
Hoffmans understood the
trajectory of her recovery.
Once Brock decided, in
December 2018, that he would
leave for Virginia Tech, the
Hoffmans made his case with
reams of medical documents,
including one doctor’s note that
said Stephanie would have
benefited from having more
family around. She suffered
partial facial paralysis, impaired
vision and loss of hearing. The
NCAA’s response, delivered
through Virginia Tech: Why, if
she was so hindered by the
surgeries, did she keep her job
as a high school math teacher?
“The poor woman,” Brian
Hoffman said. “We couldn’t
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Oregon or declare for the NFL
draft? They didn’t know,
however. There was no big
family discussion, no agent woo
sessions, no hashing out a list of
pros and cons. Nothing.
“We never talked about it,”
Mark Herbert said. “Not one
time.”
The parents trusted their son,
but the unknown added tension
to the moment. Then, with
everyone at the table, the
Herberts all made eye contact.
Justin smiled. His folks smiled
back knowingly. The suspense
was over. The nonverbal
confirmation made for the most
unassuming announcement
ever.
Despite being hailed as the
top quarterback prospect and
possible No. 1 pick, Herbert was
coming back to Oregon. In
reality, there was no other
choice.
And so now, for another fall,
the Herbert family can walk
over to Autzen and watch their
blood lead their team. They
don’t take it for granted.
“It’s a surreal walk,” Mark
Herbert said. “I walk, and I just
smile and think, ‘Wow, I’m going
to see my son play at Oregon.’ ”
It takes 23 minutes for the
dream to come to life again,
23 minutes to retrace this legacy
from Grandpa Schwab to little
brother Patrick, 23 minutes to
envision Justin making the
Ducks special again.
Yeah, he could walk it
blindfolded.
jerry.brewer@washpost.com
For more by Jerry Brewer, visit
washingtonpost.com/brewer.
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afford for her to retire. We have can’t play. The Hokies didn’t
all these medical bills, and she know till this week. And the
doesn’t have enough years in” to NCAA gets branded — again —
get her pension. as heartless and unwieldy,
In case the NCAA wondered siding more with university
whether the Hoffmans’ financial administrators than with
constraints were real, Brian students and their needs.
submitted documents regarding The other day, as his team
Stephanie’s retirement plan and prepared for Boston College,
other confidential material. Virginia Tech Coach Justin
Why? The NCAA, in three Fuente — who has worked
separate cases, repeatedly closely, along with offensive line
moved the goal line. coach Vance Vice, on Hoffman’s
“Every time, we’ve gotten a case — was addressing the
different reason,” Brian Blacksburg Sports Club, the
Hoffman said. kind of thing college coaches do
Get this one: Had the this time of year. An audience
Hoffmans lived within a 100- member asked him about
mile radius of Blacksburg, the athletes he admired. Michael
waiver would have been Jordan, he said. Don Mattingly.
granted. According to And then . . .
freemaptools.com, Statesville is “You know, right now, Brock
102 miles from Blacksburg as Hoffman,” Fuente said. He’s still
the crow flies. Brian Hoffman coming to work every day,
said the NCAA told his family Fuente said, even though there’s
they were five miles outside the nothing immediate to play for.
acceptable distance. It’s a nice coda to a ridiculous,
That likely wasn’t the unnecessary story, the kind only
deciding factor, and the NCAA the NCAA can bring you.
doesn’t comment on specific barry.svrluga@washpost.com
cases.
Still, who exactly wins here? For more by Barry Svrluga, visit
No one, of course. Hoffman washingtonpost.com/svrluga.
TOD AY ’ S TV GAME S
EARLY SHIFT
Noon Howard at Maryland » Big Ten Network
Noon Florida Atlantic at No. 5 Ohio State » WTTG (Ch. 5), WBFF (Ch. 45)
Noon Northern Iowa at No. 21 Iowa State » Fox Sports 1
Noon South Alabama at No. 24 Nebraska » ESPN
Noon Boise State at Florida State » ESPNews
Noon Mississippi at Memphis » WJLA (Ch. 7), WMAR (Ch. 2)
Noon Mississippi State vs. Louisiana in New Orleans » ESPNU
Noon East Carolina at N.C. State » ACC Network
Noon Toledo at Kentucky » SEC Network
Noon Indiana vs. Ball State in Indianapolis » CBS Sports Network
Noon Indiana State at Kansas » MASN2
Ryan Day has an almost impossibly high bar to meet in his first season as
Ohio State’s coach. The Buckeyes last finished the season outside the
Associated Press top 10 in 2013 and last won fewer than 11 games in
2011 (the interregnum year between the Jim Tressel and Urban Meyer
eras). Ohio State’s defense should be improved — it returns nearly
everyone from a young unit that had some growing pains last season —
but the offense is loaded with new players. Quarterback Justin Fields, an
ultra-heralded recruit out of high school, jumped ship from Georgia after
failing to dislodge Jake Fromm from the starting role. (Fields’s backups
also are transfers but are much less renowned.) The returning receiving
corps wasn’t much of a factor last season, and four of five starters on the
offensive line are gone, too. The Buckeyes host Florida Atlantic and
allegedly in-it-for-the-long-haul Lane Kiffin, who brought in a strong
recruiting class after relying heavily upon transfers his first two seasons in
Boca Raton. Those youngsters may not be much help in this one.
SWING SHIFT
3 Eastern Washington at No. 13 Washington » Pac-12 Network
3:30 Holy Cross at Navy » CBS Sports Network
3:30 No. 2 Alabama vs. Duke in Atlanta » WJLA (Ch. 7), WMAR (Ch. 2)
3:30 Idaho at No. 15 Penn State » Big Ten Network
3:30 North Carolina vs. South Carolina in Charlotte » ESPN
3:30 Georgia State at Tennessee » ESPNU
4 Virginia Tech at Boston College » ACC Network
4 Northwestern at No. 25 Stanford » WTTG (Ch. 5), WBFF (Ch. 45)
4 Portland State at Arkansas » SEC Network
Alabama will be without two running backs (Brian Robinson and Najee
Harris), a wide receiver (DeVonta Smith) and a linebacker (Terrell Lewis)
for at least two quarters during its opener against Duke in Atlanta, with
all four serving a punishment for missing a team function. That’s just the
half of it after this week’s news that standout linebacker Dylan Moses
probably will miss the season with a knee injury suffered in practice. (His
partner at linebacker, senior Joshua McMillon, already was out for the
year with his own injury.) The Crimson Tide almost certainly won’t have too
much trouble against a Blue Devils team that saw quarterback Daniel
Jones and his top four receiving targets depart, but Coach David Cutcliffe’s
teams are usually strong as underdogs. . . . Will Muschamp once was
Mack Brown’s defensive coordinator at Texas and was even designated
the program’s coach-in-waiting. He left for Florida before that could take
place and now has the top job at South Carolina, which opens with
North Carolina in Charlotte. Little did Muschamp think he would ever
coach against his former boss, but that weird confluence will take place
Saturday now that Brown, 68, has come out of retirement to coach the
Tar Heels.
NIGHT SHIFT
6:30 UC Davis at California » Pac-12 Network
7:30 Virginia at Pittsburgh » ACC Network
7:30 No. 3 Georgia at Vanderbilt » ESPN
7:30 Georgia Southern at No. 6 LSU » SEC Network
7:30 Middle Tennessee at No. 7 Michigan » Big Ten Network
7:30 No. 11 Oregon vs. No. 16 Auburn in Arlington, Tex. » WJLA (Ch. 7),
WMAR (Ch. 2)
7:30 Miami (Ohio) at No. 20 Iowa » Fox Sports 1
7:30 Missouri at Wyoming » CBS Sports Network
8 Louisiana Tech at No. 8 Texas » Longhorn Network
10 New Mexico State at No. 23 Washington State » Pac-12 Network
10:30 Fresno State at Southern Cal » ESPN
Pac-12 and SEC teams have met 14 times since 2010, and it’s probably no
surprise — considering the relative trajectories of those conferences this
decade — that the SEC team has won 10 of those meetings. The Pac-12
team has been the underdog in 10 of those games and won only one of
those, an 11-point victory by California over Mississippi two years ago. So
those are the trends Oregon will try to buck against Auburn in
Arlington, Tex., as the Ducks try to score a victory that at the least could
alter the perception of the Pac-12 as a flagging football conference. Even
with potential No. 1 NFL draft pick Justin Herbert at quarterback, it won’t
be easy: The Tigers are loaded, as usual, on defense (especially along the
line and in the secondary) and have a bevy of experience at running back
and on the offensive line. That should help Bo Nix in his first college game;
he’s the first true freshman quarterback to start a season opener for
Auburn since 1946.
— Matt Bonesteel
Today’s other area games
Georgetown at Davidson, 1
James Madison at West Virginia, 2
Towson at The Citadel, 3
No. 22 Syracuse at Liberty, 6
Elizabeth City State at Hampton, 6
Lafayette at William & Mary, 6
VMI at Marshall, 6:30
Norfolk State at Old Dominion, 7

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Southwest D.C. is near, dear to Locksley
LOCKSLEY FROM D1
getting out,” Locksley said. “It
wasn’t easy or normal to get out of
here.”
But as the high school version
of Locksley developed into a
promising football player, he kept
taking the next logical step — first
to play for Towson, then to coach.
He rose through the ranks, all the
way to the top job at Maryland.
When the university introduced
Locksley nine months ago, the
coach focused on his roots. That’s
what made this job attractive and
meaningful to him. After a pep
band created some fanfare and
Locksley stepped to the podium,
he mentioned growing up in a
single-parent home and how the
Boys & Girls Club helped raise
him.
Lawrence Brown stood listen-
ing on the turf inside Cole Field
House, long ago the basketball
arena where he would hang out
with Locksley, his childhood best
friend. Speaking from the stage,
Locksley shared the CliffsNotes
version of his past. To most, the
man in a suit came to Maryland as
a highly successful assistant from
Alabama with the added bonus of
ties to the Washington area, the
right fit to rebuild the program.
“A lot of people, they just see
the finished product now,” Brown
said. “They don’t know what it
took for him to get to where he’s
at.”
Security in sports
At the No. 4 Police Boys & Girls
Club, football bled into basketball
and into baseball, with soccer,
tennis, boxing — just about any
sport — sprinkled throughout.
That’s where Locksley and his
peers headed after school every
day until about 8 p.m. School,
sports and the club were all inter-
twined. They piled into a light
blue van that shuttled to various
parts of the city for games year-
round. In the summers, the days
started earlier, filled with camps
and field trips for the younger
kids, while Willie Borden, the
director of the club, helped the
older ones find jobs.
Borden saw himself as an ex-
tension of the kids’ parents. Lock-
sley calls the retired police officer
one of the most influential people
in his childhood. Borden ensured
kids made it home safely, and he
would buy them shoes or a meal.
Even the kids who grew up to be
“hardened, big-time criminals,”
Locksley said, “when they went in
the Boys & Girls Club, they took
their hat off. They didn’t use
profanity.” That’s the discipline
Borden instilled. Those who
broke club rules weren’t allowed
back for a couple of days, the
worst punishment considering
the club served as a focal point in
the lives of all the kids.
Locksley played in a nighttime
basketball summer league for
teenagers and adults. From the
court, they could see the Capitol
dome and the Washington Monu-
ment lit up, as well as a high-rise
known for drug deals and violent
crime. Even as youngsters, Lock-
sley said, the neighborhood kids
understood what surrounded
them. They would see people they
looked up to sent to jail. The Boys
& Girls Club — and the man
known to everyone as Mr. Borden
— helped keep them away.
“He was outstanding at keep-
ing us busy,” Brown said. “And he
showed us that he really loved us.”
When Locksley recalls the day
his childhood hit a turning point,
he isn’t sure what time of year it
was. It definitely wasn’t winter,
because he remembers walking
home from school on a bright day.
He saw his mom crying on the five
COLLEGE FOOTBALL ROUNDUP
Much like last year, Spartans’ defense leads the way
MICHIGAN STATE 28,
TULSA 7
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Kenny Willekes recovered two
fumbles, including one in the end
zone for a touchdown, and No. 18
Michigan State manhandled Tul-
sa, 28-7, on Friday night in East
Lansing, Mich.
Willekes, back on the field
after breaking his leg in last
season’s Redbox Bowl, was part of
a swarming Michigan State de-
fense that held the Golden Hurri-
cane to minus-73 yards rushing.
The Spartans (1-0) still had their
problems offensively, but that
made little difference on this
night.
Tulsa (0-1) botched two shot-
gun snaps in the second quarter
— part of the reason its rushing
total ended up so far below zero.
One of those loose balls went out
of the end zone for a safety.
The touchdown by Willekes
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A coaching journey that started in 1992 at Towson, his alma mater, led Michael Locksley to Maryland.
steps that led to their home. All
the family’s belongings had been
moved to the parking lot.
The family lived in a middle-
class townhouse, but Locksley’s
parents split when he was in
about fifth grade. His mom had
been a homemaker and then
started taking odd jobs to provide
for Locksley, his two older broth-
ers and a younger sister. After
they were evicted, the siblings
“People, they just see the
finished product now.
They don’t know what
it took for him to get to
where he’s at.”
Lawrence Brown, Michael Locksley’s
childhood best friend
separated, living with various rel-
atives until the end of the school
year. Locksley’s mom brought
them back together when they
moved into public housing in
Southeast Washington, a 10-min-
ute drive from their previous
home on the other side of the
Anacostia River.
By the time Locksley reached
about 14, he became the man of
the house. Both of his older broth-
ers, Bryant and Eric, have spent
most of their adult lives in prison,
mainly by way of trouble that
started with selling drugs. Lock-
sley isn’t justifying what they did;
there are other ways to make
money. But the family needed
financial help, and people can
become products of their envi-
ronments. Bryant now lives in the
D.C. area after his recent release
from prison, while Eric is still
jailed in California.
Locksley never let his focus
drift. He cared about school and
loved sports. He wouldn’t have
time to get into trouble even if he
had wanted, Borden said. Lock-
sley would visit his brothers in
jail, and they encouraged him to
stay off the streets. Kids might
came after he and Raequan Wil-
liams sacked Zach Smith near the
goal line. The ball came free, and
Willekes came up with it to put
Michigan State up 22-0.
The big question coming into
this game was how Michigan
State’s offense would look after
the Spartans scored only
32 points over the final four
games of 2018. Coach Mark Dan-
tonio shuffled roles around
among his offensive assistants,
making Brad Salem the offensive
coordinator.
Michigan State got the ball
first Friday and capped a penalty-
aided drive with a 15-yard touch-
down pass from Brian Lewerke to
Connor Heyward. Then the de-
fense — which was No. 1 in the
nation against the run last season
— took over.
WISCONSIN 49, SOUTH


FLORIDA 0: Jonathan Taylor
rushed for 135 yards and scored a
career-best four touchdowns,
helping the No. 19 Badgers open
the season with a road rout in
Tampa.
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learn about prison through mov-
ies, but Locksley saw the gates
and the guns firsthand. It felt real.
After Locksley finished junior
high, he headed to Ballou High,
starred on the football team, con-
tinued to help out at home and
eventually earned a scholarship.
Locksley would go on to establish
himself as a coach, but even then,
he dealt with the pain of losing his
son in 2017 and his mother this
spring.
“The average person,” Brown
said after he collected himself
from crying, “they would have
folded.”
A way out and back
But, no, Locksley didn’t fold.
The kid who once doodled foot-
ball plays in his school notes
arrived at Towson as a lanky
defensive back. The staff jokingly
called him Manute, a nod to Ma-
nute Bol, the tall and skinny NBA
player. Gordy Combs, the defen-
sive coordinator at the time, as-
signed Locksley a double-digit
jersey number so he would look
bigger on the field. It wasn’t hard
to spot the leaders on the team,
Combs said. During meals, Lock-
sley’s table never had an empty
seat.
In the same way Boys & Girls
Club football turned into high
school ball and then into a college
career, coaching seemed like the
natural next step for Locksley
when it became clear he wouldn’t
make it to the NFL. After his
senior season, Towson’s coach,
Phil Albert, retired. Combs
moved into the top job and hired
Locksley to coach defensive
backs. There was no interview,
just a question from Combs: “You
want to coach the secondary?”
The transition came easily. As a
free safety, Locksley led the de-
fense and earned the respect of
his teammates. He spent just one
year coaching at Towson and then
began his climb, including two
stints at Maryland and a tumultu-
ous first head-coaching tenure at
New Mexico, eventually landing
at Alabama and earning the 2018
Broyles Award, given to the top
assistant in college football.
Taking up where he left off a
year ago, when he led the nation
with 2,194 yards and 16 touch-
downs, Taylor scored on runs of
37 and 38 yards. The junior run-
ning back also had the first two
receiving touchdowns of his ca-
reer, scooting 36 yards up the left
sideline after taking a quick flip
from Jack Coan and later extend-
ing the ball over the goal line on a
12-yard reception that gave the
Badgers a 28-0 halftime lead.
Wisconsin’s defense delivered
a dominating performance, too,
limiting South Florida to
157 yards of total offense and
forcing three turnovers, includ-
ing a fumble that Matt Henning-
sen returned 16 yards for a sec-
ond-quarter touchdown.
ARMY 14, RICE 7: Kelvin


Hopkins Jr. hit Kell Walker with a
17-yard touchdown pass late in
the fourth quarter, and the Black
Knights held off the Owls in West
Point, N.Y.
Army has won 14 straight
games at home and 10 straight
overall, the second-longest active
TONI L. SANDYS/THE WASHINGTON POST
Locksley made his name as a
coach who excels in recruiting,
but to those who know him best,
it’s almost a disservice to simplify
his strengths to that. It’s not just
recruiting. It’s the way he bridges
gaps between people and con-
nects, the way he understands the
circumstances some of these
players come from.
“Why do people trust him?”
said Jay Robinson, who coached
Locksley’s position group at Tow-
son. “Because he’s a man of his
word. He says he’s going to do
something for you, he’s going to
support you, [and] he makes ev-
ery effort to do that.”
Locksley describes walking
into homes to convince athletes
to play for his school as deja vu.
Maybe there’s a single mom who’s
trying to get home in time for the
meeting after a long day. Some of
the apartments look like the one
he lived in.
“It’s a very familiar place for
me,” said Locksley, whose high
school coach led him through his
recruiting process.
Locksley now lives in the sub-
urbs in a home with a pool and a
basketball court. When he intro-
duces himself around Southwest,
he says he’s the head coach at
Maryland but that he’s from here.
The Boys & Girls Club shut
down years ago. But a recreation
center has emerged in its place,
and one of Locksley’s childhood
friends works there.
While wandering through
Lansburgh Park, a couple of
blocks from the field where he
first played, Locksley looks at a
large grassy area. It’s the perfect
location for a Boys & Girls Club.
He always said he would build
one if he made enough money.
You could level the ground and
create a football field. There
would be room for a gym, too.
It would be tricky, though, and
head football coaches aren’t
known for having ample spare
time for projects. Brown calls this
one of Locksley’s “best-kept se-
crets,” but he also realizes the
coach has some ambitions to
work toward at Maryland first.
emily.giambalvo@washpost.com
winning streak in college football
behind only national champion
Clemson.
A false start on third down
pushed the ball back to a third
and eight at the 17 before Hop-
kins found Walker all alone on
the left side near the goal line
with 3:58 left in the game.
“That game could have gone
either way,” Army Coach Jeff
Monken said. “Our guys in the
end found a way. We just over-
came a lot.”
Army converted five third
downs on the 18-play, game-win-
ning drive, a typical one for the
Black Knights that took over nine
minutes and left the Owls in a
hole they couldn’t climb out of in
the season opener for both teams.
The Owls’ last gasp was a sideline
pass on fourth down by Wiley
Green that fell incomplete at the
Army 15 with seconds to play.
“Obviously, a very tough loss
and a game that we thought we
could have won,” said Rice line-
backer Antonio Montero, who
had a career-high 11 tackles.
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NFL NOTES
Patriots patch their line
with a trade for Bodine
A SSOCIATED P RESS
The uncertain status of David
Andrews led the New England Pa-
triots to fill a potentially sudden
need at center by acquiring Rus-
sell Bodine in a trade with the
Buffalo Bills on Friday.
The Patriots sent Buffalo a 2020
sixth-round draft pick.
Bodine is a fifth-year player
who might have to replace An-
drews, who was hospitalized last
weekend because of blood clots in
his lung.
Andrews was released from the
hospital Monday and was spotted
in sweatpants during pregame
warmups of the Patriots’ 31-29 pre-
season-ending loss to the New
York Giants on Thursday night.
The Patriots haven’t released
any information regarding An-
drews’s condition. James Ferentz
started at center against New
York.
Bodine is entering his sixth NFL
season. He started 10 games at
center for Buffalo last year.

BRONCOS: Safety Su’a Cra-
vens was among the early cuts.
“No bitterness, no hate, no ill
feelings for the Broncos. I loved
every minute I spent in Dove Val-
ley and Mile High,” tweeted Cra-
vens, formerly of the Redskins.

LIONS: The Browns traded
rookie quarterback David Blough
to Detroit, which got a firsthand
look at him Thursday night.
Blough, undrafted out of Pur-
due, completed 11 of 17 passes for
115 yards and threw two intercep-
tions in a 20-16 win in the exhibi-
tion finale.

PANTHERS: Carolina placed
kicker Graham Gano on injured
reserve and cut running back
Cameron Artis-Payne and quar-
terback Taylor Heinicke.
Carolina made the decision to
lose Gano for the season after he
struggled to make it back from an
injury to his plant leg that kept
him out of all four preseason
games. The 32-year-old has been
the team’s kicker since 2012 and
missed just three field goal at-
tempts over the past two seasons.
Josh Doctson, the Redskins’ first-round draft pick in 2016, has
81 catches for 1,100 yards and eight touchdowns through 33 games.
Wide receiver looks to be
Redskins’ toughest cut
REDSKINS FROM D1
Gruden’s frequent praise of Perine.
Wide receiver (6): Josh
Doctson, Kelvin Harmon, Terry
McLaurin, Trey Quinn, Paul
Richardson, Cam Sims
Gruden said it’s unlikely the
team will keep seven wide receiv-
ers, meaning one or more players
the team likes will not make the
final cut. It still seems likely that
Doctson will make it, if he isn’t
traded, despite frustration over
his lack of production. Of the final
three candidates, Cam Sims had
the best training camp, Robert
Davis had the best preseason, and
Steven Sims brings added value
as a kick returner.
Tight end (3): Vernon Davis,
Jordan Reed, Jeremy Sprinkle
This has been the undisputed
top three since last season. The
only problem is they’re all pass
catchers who struggle to block.
Offensive line (9): Tony
Bergstrom, Geron Christian,
Ereck Flowers, Wes Martin,
Morgan Moses, Donald Penn,
Ross Pierschbacher, Chase
Roullier, Brandon Scherff
The Williams saga means this
certainly can change. The Red-
skins could keep an additional
tackle, but it doesn’t seem as if
Corey Robinson has earned a spot
since signing in late July.
Defensive line (5): Jonathan
Allen, Caleb Brantley, Matt
Ioannidis, Daron Payne, Tim
Settle
This is the strongest unit on the
team but not the deepest. If it
stays healthy, this group has the
chance to be one of the better
defensive lines in the NFL.
. SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 , 2019
Undrafted rookie Joey Slye,
who was 7 for 8 on field goal
attempts in the preseason — in-
cluding 3 for 3 from beyond
50 yards — will handle kicking
duties.

RAIDERS: Rodney Hudson
again is the NFL’s highest-paid
center after he signed a three-year
contract extension worth nearly
$34 million.
Hudson will get just over
$24 million in guaranteed money
in his $33.75 million extension.
One of the NFL’s best at his
position, Hudson signed a five-
year, $45 million deal to leave Kan-
sas City for division-rival Oakland
in 2015. He has started 61 games
for the Raiders and rarely has al-
lowed a sack.

RAVENS: Wide receiver Mi-
chael Floyd and outside lineback-
er Shane Ray are among 11 players
released by Baltimore.
Floyd signed in May after play-
ing for four teams since being
drafted in the first round by Ari-
zona in 2012.
The 29-year-old had only
10 catches in each of the past two
seasons and couldn’t break into
the rotation with Baltimore.
Ray also signed as a free agent
in May after playing four seasons
with Denver. The Ravens hoped
the former first-round pick could
enhance a pass rush weakened by
the loss of free agents Terrell Suggs
and Za’Darius Smith.

OBITUARY: Pro Football
Hall of Fame center Jim Langer,
who was literally in the middle of
the Miami Dolphins’ 1972 perfect
season, died at 71.
Langer died of a sudden heart-
related problem Thursday at a
Coon Rapids, Minn., hospital near
his home, said his wife, Linda.
Langer was a first-year starter
and played every offensive down
for the NFL’s only unbeaten, un-
tied team that went 17-0. The fol-
lowing year he helped the Dol-
phins repeat as Super Bowl cham-
pions and began a stretch of six
consecutive Pro Bowl seasons for
Miami while playing in 128 games
in a row.
JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST
Linebacker (10): Ryan
Anderson, Jon Bostic, Jordan
Brailford, Shaun Dion
Hamilton, Josh Harvey-Clem-
ons, Cole Holcomb, Ryan
Kerrigan, Cassanova McKinzy,
Marcus Smith, Montez Sweat
This number changed from our
previous projection because of
the Ravens game. McKinzy suf-
fered a concussion, and with
Brailford likely to go on injured
reserve, outside linebacker is
thin. That could allow Smith to
sneak onto the roster, at least for
the short term, with McKinzy’s
availability for the opener in
question.
Cornerback (6): Quinton
Dunbar, Fabian Moreau, Jimmy
Moreland, Josh Norman,
Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie,
Greg Stroman
Danny Johnson will be part of
this group, but he remains on the
physically unable to perform list.
That would make Adonis Alexan-
der, a supplemental draft pick in
2018, the first man out.
Safety (4): Troy Apke, Landon
Collins, Deshazor Everett,
Montae Nicholson
Jeremy Reaves had a chance to
make this a five-man group, but
McKinzy’s concussion may de-
mand an extra linebacker. Reaves
is more instinctive than Apke, but
the Penn State product has top-
notch speed and was a fourth-
round pick a year ago.
Special teams (3): K Dustin
Hopkins, LS Nick Sundberg,
P Tress Way
There was never any competi-
tion for these spots. The band
remains together.
kareem.copeland@washpost.com

SATURDAY, AUGUST 31 , 2019
NFL preseason
NFC
EAST W L
N.Y. Giants .................... 4
Dallas ............................ 2
Washington .................. 1
Philadelphia .................. 1
SOUTH W L
Tampa Bay .................... 3
Carolina ......................... 2
New Orleans ................. 2
Atlanta .......................... 1
NORTH W L
Minnesota ..................... 3
Green Bay ..................... 2
Chicago ......................... 1
Detroit .......................... 0
WEST W L
San Francisco ................ 3
Seattle .......................... 3
L.A. Rams ...................... 2
Arizona ......................... 1
AFC
EAST W L
Buffalo .......................... 4
New England ................. 3
Miami ............................ 3
N.Y. Jets ....................... 2
SOUTH W L
Tennessee ..................... 2
Indianapolis .................. 1
Houston ........................ 1
Jacksonville .................. 0
NORTH W L
Baltimore ...................... 4
Pittsburgh ..................... 3
Cleveland ...................... 3
Cincinnati ...................... 1
WEST W L
Oakland ......................... 3
Denver ........................... 2
Kansas City ................... 1
L.A. Chargers ................ 1
WEEK 4
THURSDAY’S RESULTS
Baltimore 20, at Washington 7
at N.Y. Jets 6, Philadelphia 0
Indianapolis 13, at Cincinnati 6
at Buffalo 27, Minnesota 23
at Carolina 25, Pittsburgh 19
Atlanta 31, at Jacksonville 12
Miami 16, at New Orleans 13
at Cleveland 20, Detroit 16
L.A. Rams 22, at Houston 10
at Green Bay 27, Kansas City 20
Tampa Bay 17, at Dallas 15
Tennessee 19, at Chicago 15
N.Y. Giants 31, at New England 29
at Denver 20, Arizona 7
at Seattle 17, Oakland 15
L.A. Chargers 27, at San Francisco 24
SO C C E R
MLS
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W L
Atlanta .............................15
Philadelphia......................14
New York City FC..............13
New York ..........................12
D.C. United .......................10
New England ....................10
Montreal...........................11
Toronto FC........................10
Orlando City........................9
Chicago ...............................8
Columbus............................8
Cincinnati ...........................5
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W L
Los Angeles FC .................19
Real Salt Lake ..................13
Seattle..............................12
LA Galaxy .........................13
Minnesota ........................12
San Jose ...........................12
FC Dallas...........................11
Portland............................11
Sporting K.C. ......................9
Houston ..............................9
Colorado..............................7
Vancouver...........................6
WEDNESDAY’S RESULT
at Montreal 2, Vancouver 1
SATURDAY’S MATCHES
D.C. United at Montreal, 7:30
Colorado at New York, 7
Chicago at Columbus, 7:30
Toronto FC at New England, 7:30
Atlanta at Philadelphia, 7:30
Cincinnati at FC Dallas, 8
Houston at Sporting K.C., 8:30
New York City FC at Vancouver, 10
Real Salt Lake at Portland, 10:30
Orlando City at San Jose, 10:30
NWSL
W L
Portland............................10
North Carolina Courage......9
Chicago ...............................9
Utah Royals FC ...................8
Reign FC..............................7
Washington Spirit..............7
Houston ..............................6
Sky Blue FC.........................4
Orlando Pride......................4
SATURDAY, AUG. 24
at Washington 2, Orlando 1
at North Carolina 1, Reign FC 0
Sky Blue FC 2, at Houston 1
SUNDAY’S RESULT
at Portland 3, Chicago 0
FRIDAY’S MATCH
Portland at Utah, 9:30
H IGH S C H OOLS
FOOTBALL
NO. 9 STONE BRIDGE 28, CENTREVILLE 14
Stone Bridge (1-0, 0-0) ......
Centreville (0-1, 0-0) .........
RUSHING LEADERS: SB: Moore 15-128, Cole 17-113,
Wiles 4-7.
PASSING LEADERS: SB: Wiles 10-19-1-161.
RECEIVING LEADERS: SB: Cole 5-109.
NO. 6 WESTFIELD 51, BATTLEFIELD 0
Battlefield (0-1, 0-0) ......... 0 0
Westfield (1-0, 0-0) ........... 28 14
W: Howard 11 pass from Kim ( Williams kick )
W: Caleb 55 interception return ( Williams kick )
W: Legall 40 run ( Williams kick )
W: Richie 18 run ( Williams kick )
W: Richards 53 pass from Kim ( Williams kick )
W: Howard 32 run ( Williams kick )
W: Daniel 74 run ( Williams kick )
W: safety, ball snapped out of end zone
RUSHING LEADERS: W: Daniel 9-89, Legall 2-40, How-
ard 1-32, Richie 1-18.
PASSING LEADERS: W: Kim 5-9-115.
RECEIVING LEADERS: W: Richards 2-65, Howard 2-39.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Anacostia 40, Paul Public Charter 0
Bell 16, Ballou 14
Dunbar 50, McKinley 6
Theodore Roosevelt 32, Ron Brown 12
VIRGINIA
Hylton 35, Mount Vernon 28
James Madison 15, Marshall 13
Liberty 55, Brentsville 15
Oakton 30, Fairfax 28
T.C. Williams 53, Herndon 0
Martinsburg (W.Va.) 49, H.D. Woodson 12
PRIVATE
Archbishop Curley 35, O'Connell 0
Bullis 35, Archbishop Carroll High School 33
DeMatha 34, Imhotep 6
Gonzaga 33, American Heritage 13
Good Counsel 7, Charlotte Catholic 0
Norfolk Academy 40, Potomac School 0
St. Albans 30, Severn School 0
St. Stephen's/St. Agnes 32, Paul VI 0
FIELD HOCKEY
VIRGINIA
Fairfax 3, Chantilly 0
Fairfax 6, Oakton 0
GIRLS' SOCCER
PRIVATE
Notre Dame Prep 2, McNamara 1
VOLLEYBALL
PRIVATE
St. John's def. Institute of Notre Dame (25-10, 25-2,
25-17)
St. Catherine's def. Langley (25-18, 25-20, 27-25)
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Cilento and Bullis try to move forward
NCAA WNBA BY J AKE L OURIM Lawson drove the offense down
THURSDAY’S RESULTS EAST W L PCT GB
BULLIS 35, the field, and he took it himself
T PCT. PF PA EAST y-Washington..............................22
y-Connecticut ..............................22
8
9
.733
.710
—
1/
2
A summer plagued by contro- CARROLL 33 on an 11-yard touchdown scram-
0 0 1.000 119 87 Buffalo 38, Robert Morris 10 y-Chicago.....................................18 13 .581 41/2 versy finally ended late Friday ble with 13.3 seconds left. More
2 0 .500 72 44 Delaware 31, Delaware State 13 Indiana.........................................11 20 .355 111/2
3 0 .250 49 80 Stony Brook 35, Bryant 10 New York .......................................9 22 .300 131/2 night at Bullis as football games suspense: Bullis stopped the
3 0 .250 49 69 Connecticut 24, Wagner 21 Atlanta ..........................................7 23 .233 15 resumed. It did not erase the faced fourth and eight from the game-tying conversion.
T PCT. PF PA
SOUTH summer, but it provided a Carroll 32 with under six minutes Thus ended the season opener,
WEST W L PCT GB
1 0 .750 74 71 Austin Peay 41, N.C. Central 10 y-Los Angeles..............................19 11 .633 — change. left. Quarterback Christian Veil- giving way to what seemed to be a
2 0 .500 65 69 Cent. Arkansas 35, W. Kentucky 28 y-Las Vegas .................................19 12 .613 1/
2
2 0 .500 85 80 Charlotte 49, Gardner-Webb 28 y-Minnesota ................................16 15 .516 31/2 The Bulldogs outlasted Car- leux fired a touchdown pass on a typical postgame celebration.
4 0 .200 85 101 Chattanooga 24, E. Illinois 10
Clemson 52, Georgia Tech 14
y-Phoenix.....................................15
y-Seattle......................................15
15
15
.500
.500
4
4
roll, 35-33, in their first game post route to wide receiver Ash- With football to discuss again,
T PCT. PF PA E. Kentucky 53, Valparaiso 7 Dallas...........................................10 20 .333 9 since Coach Pat Cilento was ton Allen to keep them afloat. Cilento kept the focus there, say-
1 0 .750 102 80 Morehead State 44, Union (Ky.) 7
2 0 .500 89 94 Murray State 59, Pikeville 20 THURSDAY’S RESULTS charged in June with second-de- “I knew he was going to get the ing, “You want to come out one
3 0 .250 68 91 North Alabama 26, W. Illinois 17 gree assault following an alleged ball there,” Allen said. “All I had point ahead of the opponent, and
4 0 .000 62 105 Richmond 38, Jacksonville 19 Los Angeles 87, at Indiana 83
Southeastern Louisiana 35, Jacksonville State 14 Phoenix 65, at Atlanta 58 argument with his wife. to do was focus and make the we found a way to do that.”
Tulane 42, FIU 14 Dallas 88, at Chicago 83
T PCT. PF PA UAB 24, Alabama State 19 Bullis suspended Cilento after catch, do whatever to make the For about six weeks over the
1 0 .750 92 68 FRIDAY’S RESULT
1 0 .750 81 69
UCF 62, Florida A&M 0
UT Martin 42, Northwestern State 20
the charges were filed, but the catch.” summer, Cilento’s staff managed
2 0 .500 45 44 Connecticut 94, at New York 84 state attorney’s office dismissed Bullis was still down heading the team in his absence. When
3 0 .250 59 86 MIDWEST SATURDAY’S GAMES
Bowling Green 46, Morgan State 3
the charge July 19. Cilento was into the two-point conversion. Cilento returned, Allen said, he
Washington at Dallas, 8
Central Michigan 38, Albany (N.Y.) 21 reinstated three days later. On the first try, Carroll jumped addressed the team about the
T PCT. PF PA Cincinnati 24, UCLA 14 Los Angeles at Las Vegas, 10:30
0 0 1.000 102 73 Minnesota 28, S. Dakota State 21 Asked after a wild win for a offside. On the second try, an allegations.
1 0 .750 92 54 Southeast Missouri 44, S. Illinois 26 reaction to the past two months, incomplete pass, the officials “It was shocking. I just needed
1 0 .750 86 63
2 0 .500 63 69 SOUTHWEST Sun 94, Liberty 84 the coach admitted: “It’s been flagged Carroll for pass interfer- to learn more about it,” Allen said
Lamar 65, Bethel (Tenn.) 16 CONNECTICUT .................... 28 22 17 27 — 94 tough. It’s been tough on the ence. On the third, a stout defen- of the situation.
T PCT. PF PA Texas A&M 41, Texas State 7 NEW YORK ......................... 19 22 20 23 — 84
2 0 .500 69 65 players, tough on the coaches.” sive front stuffed Veilleux at the “I’m not going to jump to
WEST
3 0 .250 64 78
Arizona State 30, Kent State 7
CONNECTICUT: A.Thomas 8-14 4-8 20, J.Jones 4-7 2-2 On Friday in Potomac, Md., line of scrimmage. His offensive conclusions, because I trust
3 0 .250 66 107 12, J.Thomas 4-6 2-2 10, Stricklen 3-10 0-1 9, Williams
4 0 .000 29 106 N. Arizona 37, Missouri State 23 10-19 4-4 26, B.Jones 3-5 3-4 9, Hiedeman 0-1 0-0 0, Bullis played from behind for line pushed him over the goal Coach Cilento. I’ve been around
San Jose State 35, N. Colorado 18 Holmes 1-3 2-2 4, Plaisance 1-1 0-0 2, Tuck 0-1 2-2 2.
Utah 30, BYU 12 Totals 34-67 19-25 94.
much of the game. But whenever line. him for 31/2 years.”
T PCT. PF PA
0 0 1.000 101 35 FRIDAY’S RESULTS NEW YORK: Hartley 1-5 0-0 3, Nurse 3-8 7-8 15, their demise seemed imminent, Bullis added a touchdown to Cilento did not respond Friday
1 0 .750 84 66 Raincock-Ekunwe 5-6 0-0 10, Wright 3-7 0-0 6, Zahui B the Bulldogs manufactured a mo- pull ahead 35-27 before giving the to a question about the alleged
1 0 .750 83 57 EAST 4-8 0-0 9, Allen 1-7 0-0 2, Boyd 1-4 0-0 2, Gray 2-3 0-0 4,
3 0 .250 69 89 Army 14, Rice 7 Johannes 8-14 1-2 21, Xu 5-14 0-0 12. Totals 33-76 8-10 mentum swing. ball back to Carroll one more incident at his home.
Maine 42, Sacred Heart 14 84. They were down when they time. Lions quarterback Robert sports@washpost.com
T PCT. PF PA Rutgers 48, Massachusetts 21 Three-point Goals: Connecticut 7-13 (Stricklen 3-8,
1 0 .750 84 67 Williams 2-2, J.Jones 2-3), New York 10-24 (Johannes
3 0 .400 69 73 SOUTH
4-8, Xu 2-2, Nurse 2-4, Hartley 1-2, Zahui B 1-3, Wright
3 0 .250 82 88 Wisconsin 49, South Florida 0 0-2, Allen 0-3). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Connecti-
3 0 .250 72 83 Wake Forest 38, Utah State 35 cut 36 (A.Thomas 9), New York 34 (Raincock-Ekunwe 7).
Assists: Connecticut 23 (J.Thomas 7), New York 24
MIDWEST (Johannes, Boyd 6). Total Fouls: Connecticut 13, New
Michigan State 28, Tulsa 7 York 20. Technicals: A.Thomas, J.Thomas, Connecticut
coach Curt Miller, Hartley. A: 1,791 (5,000).
WEST
Purdue at Nevada, Late
Colorado vs. Colorado State at Denver, Late
Oklahoma State at Oregon State, Late TENNIS
SATURDAY’S GAMES
EAST ATP/WTA
State Francis (Pa.) at Lehigh, 12:30 U.S. OPEN
James Madison at West Virginia, 2 At USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center
Bucknell at Temple, 3
In New York
Holy Cross at Navy, 3:30 Purse: $57,238,700; Surface: Hard-Outdoor
Idaho at Penn State, 3:30
Virginia Tech at Boston College, 4 MEN’S SINGLES — THIRD ROUND
CCSU at Fordham, 6
Roger Federer (3), Switzerland, def. Daniel Evans,
Lynchburg (Va.) at Merrimack, 6
Britain, 6-2, 6-2, 6-1; Alex de Minaur, Australia, def. Kei
Virginia at Pittsburgh, 7:30
Nishikori (7), Japan, 6-2, 6-4, 2-6, 6-3; David Goffin (15),
SOUTH Belgium, def. Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6
(11-9), 7-5; Stan Wawrinka (23), Switzerland, def. Paolo
Boise State at Florida State, noon Lorenzi, Italy, 6-4, 7-6 (11-9), 7-6 (4); Grigor Dimitrov,
Toledo at Kentucky, noon
Mississippi State vs. Louisiana at New Orleans, noon
Bulgaria, def. Kamil Majchrzak, Poland, 7-5, 7-6 (10-8),
6-2; Dominik Koepfer, Germany, def. Nikoloz Basilashvili
Howard at Maryland, noon (17), Georgia, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 6-1; Novak Djokovic (1),
Mississippi at Memphis, noon Serbia, def. Denis Kudla, United States, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.
East Carolina at N.C. State, noon
Georgetown at Davidson, 1 WOMEN’S SINGLES — THIRD ROUND
Charleston Southern at Furman, 1
Karolina Pliskova (3), Czech Republic, def. Ons Jabeur,
T Pts GF GA Towson at The Citadel, 3
Tunisia, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4; Petra Martic (22), Croatia, def.
9 3 48 46 30 ETSU at Appalachian State, 3:30
Anastasija Sevastova (12), Latvia, 6-4, 6-3; Ashleigh
8 6 48 51 41 E. Michigan at Coastal Carolina, 3:30
Barty (2), Australia, def. Maria Sakkari (30), Greece, 7-5,
5 8 47 48 33 Alabama vs. Duke at Atlanta, 3:30
6-3; Serena Williams (8), United States, def. Karolina
11 5 41 47 42 North Carolina vs. South Carolina at Charlotte, 3:30
Muchova, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-2; Johanna Konta (16),
10 9 39 36 38 Georgia State at Tennessee, 3:30
Britain, def. Zhang Shuai (33), China, 6-2, 6-3; Wang
9 8 38 40 46 Elizabeth City State at Hampton, 6
Qiang (18), China, def. Fiona Ferro, France, 7-6 (7-1), 6-3;
14 4 37 42 53 Point (Ga.) at Kennesaw State, 6
Elina Svitolina (5), Ukraine, def. Dayana Yastremska
10 7 37 43 44 Syracuse at Liberty, 6
(32), Ukraine, 6-2, 6-0; Madison Keys (10), United
12 7 34 35 36 Elon at N.C. A&T, 6
States, def. Sofia Kenin (20), United States, 6-3, 7-5.
12 9 33 43 42 Wofford at S.C. State, 6
15 6 30 32 43 Campbell at Troy, 6 MEN’S DOUBLES — FIRST ROUND
19 3 18 27 64 Mercer at W. Carolina, 6
Lafayette at William & Mary, 6 Lukasz Kubot, Poland, and Marcelo Melo (2), Brazil, def.
VMI at Marshall, 6:30 Artem Sitak, New Zealand, and Denys Molchanov,
Southern at McNeese State, 7 Ukraine, 6-2, 6-4; Nikola Mektic and Franko Skugor (9),
T Pts GF GA Norfolk State at Old Dominion, 7 Croatia, def. John-Patrick Smith and Jordan Thompson,
3 5 62 74 28 Alcorn State at Southern Miss., 7 Australia, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4; Ricardas Berankis, Lithuania, and
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10 4 43 40 34 Presbyterian at Stetson, 7 Juan Ignacio Londero, Argentina, def. Maxime Cressy and
8 7 43 42 40 MVSU at Tennessee State, 7 Keegan Smith, United States, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3; Jonny O Mara,
11 3 42 38 41 Great Britain, and Marcelo Arevalo-Gonzalez, El Salvador, Quarterback Billy Wiles, who executed Stone Bridge’s single-wing offense, leaps to score a touchdown.
Georgia Southern at LSU, 7:30
9 6 42 44 37 Georgia at Vanderbilt, 7:30 def. Mischa Zverev, Germany, and Benoit Paire, France,
10 5 41 45 43 Grambling State at Louisiana-Monroe, 8 4-6, 6-4, 6-1; Casper Ruud, Norway, and Miomir Kec-
10 7 40 44 37 manovic, Serbia, def. Leander Paes, India, and Guillermo
11 4 37 42 40 MIDWEST Duran, Argentina, 7-5, 6-2; Bruno Soares, Brazil, and Mate
Pavic (6), Croatia, def. Cristian Garin and Nicolas Jarry,
VIRGINIA NONLEAGUE FOOTBALL
11 7 34 40 45 Akron at Illinois, noon
14 4 31 38 48 Chile, 3-6, 7-5, 6-0; Robert Farah and Juan Sebastian Cabal
Ball State vs. Indiana at Indianapolis, noon
Bulldogs are who they are in victory
14 6 27 43 54 (1), Colombia, def. Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, and Steve
N. Iowa at Iowa State, noon
14 9 27 29 50 Johnson, United States, 6-2, 6-3; Rohan Bopanna, India,
Indiana State at Kansas, noon
and Denis Shapovalov, Canada, def. Nicolas Mahut and
South Alabama at Nebraska, noon
Pierre-Hugues Herbert (4), France, 6-3, 6-1; Fabrice Martin
FAU at Ohio State, noon
and Jeremy Chardy, France, def. Horia Tecau, Romania, and
Rhode Island at Ohio, 2
Jean-Julien Rojer (5), Netherlands, 7-6 (7-2), 6-1; Bob
Montana at South Dakota, 3
Bryan and Mike Bryan (7), United States, def. Vasek
Butler vs. N. Dakota State at Minneapolis, 4
Drake at North Dakota, 5
Pospisil, Canada, and Hubert Hurkacz, Poland, 6-3, 7-6 BY M ICHAEL E RRIGO ond half, mostly through Moore.
Nicholls at Kansas State, 7
Illinois State at N. Illinois, 7
(7-4); Evan King and Hunter Reese, United States, def.
John Millman, Australia, and Alexander Bublik, Kazakh-
STONE BRIDGE 28, The senior had 110 of his 128 yards
Monmouth (N.J.) at W. Michigan, 7
Miami (Ohio) at Iowa, 7:30
stan, 6-3, 6-7 (7-5), 7-6 (7-2); Jurgen Melzer and Oliver
Marach (16), Austria, def. Mikhail Kukushkin, Kazakhstan,
It took about a minute for the CENTREVILLE 14 rushing in the second half, and his
Middle Tennessee at Michigan, 7:30
and Andrey Rublev, Russia, 6-7 (7-4), 6-4, 6-4; Malek public-address announcer and the two third-quarter touchdowns
Jaziri, Tunisia, and Radu Albot, Moldova, def. Nicholas
SOUTHWEST Monroe and Tennys Sandgren, United States, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3; visiting fans at Centreville High to were the difference.
Michael Venus, New Zealand, and Raven Klaasen (3), notice that Stone Bridge had taken Friday night was the first meet- “I told them in the second half
Portland State at Arkansas, 4 South Africa, def. Gilles Simon and Adrian Mannarino,
Montana State at Texas Tech, 4 France, 6-2, 6-1; Matt Reid and Alex de Minaur, Australia, the field. The Bulldogs started ing between Stone Bridge, a that we’re not going to get fancy.
Incarnate Word at UTSA, 6 def. Guido Pella and Diego Schwartzman, Argentina, 6-4,
Prairie View at Texas Southern, 6:30 1-2, ret; Andreas Seppi and Marco Cecchinato, Italy, def.
their 2019 season by walking si- Class 5 power, and the Wildcats, a We’re just going to get tough,”
SMU at Arkansas State, 7 Fernando Verdasco and Pablo Andujar, Spain, 6-3, 7-6 lently in pairs, hand-in-hand, perennial contender in Class 6. Coach Mickey Thompson said.
Stephen F. Austin at Baylor, 7 (7-1); Marius Copil, Romania, and Nick Kyrgios, Australia,
Abilene Christian at North Texas, 7:30 def. Ken Skupski, Great Britain, and Marcus Daniell, New through the frenzied preparations The matchup arrived at two dis- “And that’s our MO. Whenever
Ark.-Pine Bluff at TCU, 8
Louisiana Tech at Texas, 8
Zealand, 6-7 (7-5), 7-5, 7-6 (7-1); Daniel Evans and of the Wildcats’ band and cheer- tinct points in the development of we’re backed into a corner, we’re
T Pts GF GA Cameron Norrie, Britain, def. Jan-Lennard Struff and Tim
3 6 36 39 22 Houston Baptist at UTEP, 8 Puetz, Germany, 6-3, 1-6, 6-1. leaders. both programs. just going to plow ahead.”
4 4 31 32 17 Stone Bridge has made a habit
8 2 29 29 26
WEST WOMEN’S DOUBLES — FIRST ROUND They looked dangerous and While the Bulldogs (1-0) are se-
6 4 28 19 15 E. Washington at Washington, 3 Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, and Shuko Aoyama, Japan, def. would later prove to be in a 28-14 cure in their identity, Centreville of plowing through defenses with
5 6 27 16 20 Colgate at Air Force, 3:30 Rebecca Peterson, Sweden, and Tamara Zidansek, Slove-
7 4 25 22 19 Northwestern at Stanford, 4 nia, 6-2, 6-1; Barbora Strycova, Czech Republic, and Hsieh
win, but they also looked calm and (0-1) is trying to forge a new one. its signature single-wing look.
8 4 22 18 28 San Diego at Cal Poly, 5 Su-wei (2), Taiwan, def. Lauren Davis and Maria Sanchez, confident. The No. 9 Bulldogs are Friday was the first game after the This season, Moore is joined in the
11 4 16 15 25 Sam Houston State at New Mexico, 6 United States, 6-4, 6-1; Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus,
12 2 14 19 37 UC Davis at California, 6:30 and Viktoria Kuzmova, Slovakia, def. Kirsten Flipkens, one of the most consistently suc- retirement of coach Chris Had- single wing by senior Jared Cole, a
Auburn vs. Oregon at Arlington, Tex., 7:30 Belgium, and Johanna Larsson (11), Sweden, 6-0, 6-4;
Missouri at Wyoming, 7:30 Elise Mertens, Belgium, and Aryna Sabalenka (4), Belarus,
cessful programs in Virginia, and dock, who led the Wildcats to a Massachusetts commit whom
S. Oregon at Sacramento State, 9
Weber State at San Diego State, 9
def. Wang Yafan, China, and Anna Blinkova, Russia, 6-3, they have thrived for the better state championship in 2013. Jon Thompson and his staff like to
6-4; Peng Shuai, China, and Alicja Rosolska, Poland, def.
S. Utah at UNLV, 10 Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, Spain, and Darija Jurak (13), part of the past two decades Shields, formerly the defensive co- move all over the field. He finished
New Mexico State at Washington State, 10
Fresno State at Southern Cal, 10:30
Croatia, 6-1, 6-4; Oksana Kalashnikova, Georgia, and through a defined style and cul- ordinator at Westfield, replaced with 113 yards rushing and 109 re-
Ekaterina Alexandrova, Russia, def. Madison Brengle,
SUNDAY’S GAMES USA, and Ena Shibahara, Japan, 2-6, 6-0, 6-4; Laura ture. him and will work to carve out a ceiving.
Siegemund and Anna-Lena Friedsam, Germany, def. Gali- “Playing for Stone Bridge spot in this area among teams “You never know which way
SOUTH na Voskoboeva, Kazakhstan, and Veronika Kudermetova
(15), Russia, 6-4, 6-4; Magda Linette and Iga Swiatek, means working the hardest. Don’t such as Stone Bridge. we’re going to go,” Moore said of
Bethune-Cookman vs. Jackson State at Atlanta, 3
Poland, def. Bethanie Mattek-Sands and CoCo
Morehouse vs. Alabama A&M at Canton, Ohio, 3:30
Vandeweghe, United States, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5; Sabrina Santa- let anyone beat you,” senior run- The Wildcats briefly tied the the Stone Bridge offense. “We
SOUTHWEST maria, USA, and Dalila Jakupovic, Slovenia, def. Francesca ning back Zakias Moore said. “And game at 14 just after halftime off might go this way, we might go
Di Lorenzo and Ann Li, United States, 6-1, 6-0; Xu Yifan,
Houston at Oklahoma, 7:30 China, and Gabriela Dabrowski (3), Canada, def. Katarina the guy that’s across from you? You two circus grabs by junior wideout that way, or we might hit you
MONDAY’S GAME Srebotnik, Slovenia, and Lidziya Marozava, Belarus, 7-5,
6-4; Raluca-Ioana Olaru, Romania, and Zhaoxuan Yang,
have to be better than him at all Avery Ford. But Stone Bridge straight up the middle.”
SOUTH China, def. Alison Riske and Jennifer Brady, United States, times. At all times.” pounded away at them in the sec- michael.errigo@washpost.com
Notre Dame at Louisville, 8 6-2, 3-6, 6-3; Taylor Townsend and Whitney Osuigwe,
United States, def. Sharon Fichman and Bianca Andreescu,
— 28 Canada, 6-2, 6-3; Christina McHale and Kristie Ahn, United
— 14 States, def. Emma Navarro and Hailey Baptiste, United
No. 18 Michigan State 28, States, 6-4, 6-7 (7-4), 6-1; Kristina Mladenovic, France,
Tulsa 7 and Timea Babos (1), Hungary, def. Jessica Moore,
Australia, and Giuliana Olmos, Mexico, 6-3, 6-2; Anett
D.C. NONLEAGUE FOOTBALL
Kontaveit, Estonia, and Daria Kasatkina, Russia, def. Asia
TULSA ...................................... 0 7 0 0— 7 Muhammad and Raquel Atawo (16), United States, 6-3,
0
7
0
2
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0
51
MICHIGAN ST. ......................... 7
MSU: Heyward 15 pass from Lewerke (Coghlin kick),
11:41 first.
MSU: FG Coghlin 38, 14:03 second.
18 3 0 — 28 4-6, 6-2; Caty McNally and Cori Gauff, United States, def.
Julia Goerges, Germany, and Katerina Siniakova, Czech
Republic, 7-6 (8-6), 6-2; Ons Jabeur, Tunisia, and Fanny
Stollar, Hungary, def. Andreja Klepac, Slovenia, and Lucie
Hradecka (10), Czech Republic, 7-5, 6-3; Lyudmyla Kiche-
Gri∞ns continue to take it up a level
MSU: FG Coghlin 47, 9:59 second.
nok, Ukraine, and Jelena Ostapenko (14), Latvia, def.
MSU: safety, 9:09 second.
MSU: K.Willekes 0 fumble return (Coghlin kick), 4:49
Kateryna Kozlova, Ukraine, and Anastasia Potapova, BY T RAMEL R AGGS a lead that they wouldn’t relin-
second.
MSU: FG Coghlin 44, 2:32 second.
Russia, 6-4, 7-6 (10-8); Victoria Azarenka, Belarus, and
Ashleigh Barty (8), Australia, def. Monica Niculescu,
BELL 16, quish.
TSA: Crawford 28 pass from Z.Smith (Rainey kick), :36
second.
Romania, and Margarita Gasparyan, Russia, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1;
Karolina Muchova, Czech Republic, and Jil Teichmann,
Bell Coach Daniel Tyson spent BALLOU 14 “Getting that [touchdown] but
MSU: FG Coghlin 40, 2:20 third.
Switzerland, def. Renata Voracova, Czech Republic, and the summer preaching a simple more importantly this win meant
Cornelia Lister, Sweden, 6-1, 7-6 (7-4); Anastasia Pavly-
A: 72,005. uchenkova, Russia, and Anastasija Sevastova, Latvia, def. message as his football team pre- so much to me,” Barton said. “We
TULSA MICHIGAN ST.
Monique Adamczak, Australia, and Han Xinyun, China, 6-2,
6-4; Ajla Tomljanovic, Australia, and Maria Sakkari,
pared for its opening game against ‘It ain’t over,’ ” Barton said. “ ‘Picks all stepped up, we came to play as a
First Downs ....................................... 8 18 Greece, def. Natela Dzalamidze, Russia, and Elena Rybaki- Ballou: “We will respect all of their [are going to] get thrown. That’s family today, and we dominated.”
Rushes-Yards ......................... 25-(min 40-108 na, Kazakhstan, 6-7 (7-2), 6-4, 7-5; Danielle Collins, USA,
Passing .......................................... 153 195 and Ellen Perez, Australia, def. Sam Stosur, Australia, and
greatness, but we won’t fear it.” part of the game. We just got to While Bell executed when it
Comp-Att-Int .......................... 16-27-1 22-38-0
Return Yards .................................. 100 90
Zhang Shuai (6), China, 1-6, 6-4, 6-4; Anna-Lena On Friday night in Southeast bounce back.’ ” mattered, Ballou had chances to
Groenefeld, Germany, and Demi Schuurs (5), Netherlands,
Punts-Avg. ............................... 8-37.66 5-43.0 def. Alize Cornet and Fiona Ferro, France, 6-3, 6-1. Washington, the Griffins proved The mini speech worked. On tie or take the lead, but penalties
Fumbles-Lost .................................. 5-2 0-0
Penalties-Yards ............................ 8-71 15-127 MIXED DOUBLES — SECOND ROUND the message effective as they went Bell’s next possession, Pierce engi- and turnovers undid the Knights.
Time Of Possession .................... 23:45 36:15 on the road and knocked off the neered a 68-yard drive punctuat- For Bell, Friday’s win was a con-
Marcelo Demoliner, Brazil, and Duan Ying-Ying, China, def.
Laura Siegemund and Andreas Mies, Germany, 7-6 (9-7),
6-4; Bruno Soares, Brazil, and Nicole Melichar (5), United
D.C. powerhouse, 16-14. ed by a 15-yard touchdown pass to tinuation of an upward trajectory.
No. 19 Wisconsin 49, States, def. Hsieh Su-wei and Cheng-Peng Hsieh, Taiwan, Most of the first two quarters junior Aaron Thomas as the half The Griffins went 11-0 last season,
6-1, 6-4; Desirae Krawczyk, USA, and Joe Salisbury,
South Florida 0 Britain, def. Jenson Brooksby and Hailey Baptiste, United resembled a Floyd Mayweather expired. The score was tied at 8. winning the D.C. Interscholastic
WISCONSIN ............................. 7 21 14 7 49
States, 6-2, 6-2; Kveta Peschke, Czech Republic, and fight. The teams traded punches, “To see a freshman quarterback Athletic Association Gravy Bowl
Wesley Koolhof (8), Netherlands, def. Ryan Harrison and
SOUTH FLORIDA ...................... 0 0 0 0 0 with none causing real damage. respond like that in that moment, and the Stripes division. They
Christina McHale, United States, 6-4, 3-6, 13-11; Edouard
WIS: J.Taylor 37 run (Larsh kick), 10:48 first. Roger-Vasselin, France, and Kirsten Flipkens, Belgium, knowing what this game meant to must win the Stripes again this
WIS: Henningsen 16 fumble return (Larsh kick), 12:58 def. CoCo Vandeweghe and Maxime Cressy, United States,
That was until the final three
second. 6-2, 6-4; Ivan Dodig, Croatia, and Latisha Chan (4), Taiwan, minutes of the first half. all of us, showed me so much,” year to move up to the Stars divi-
WIS: J.Taylor 36 pass from Coan (Larsh kick), 10:37 def. Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez, Spain, and Neal
second. Skupski, Britain, 6-4, 6-3; Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, and With Bell pushing the ball deep Tyson said. “He’s got a real chance sion, but they made a step in prov-
WIS: J.Taylor 12 pass from Coan (Larsh kick), :02 Mate Pavic (2), Croatia, def. Darija Jurak, Croatia, and into Ballou territory, Knights safe- to be special.” ing they belong with a win over a
second. Marcus Daniell, New Zealand, 6-2, 6-2.
WIS: J.Taylor 38 run (Larsh kick), 13:00 third. ty Anthony Martin intercepted Bell came out for the second Stars stalwart.
WIS: N.Watson 27 run (Larsh kick), 3:06 third. freshman quarterback Zyon half looking for a knockout blow. “I have been here for all 13 years
WIS: B.Shaw 15 run (Larsh kick), 7:28 fourth.
LOCAL GOLF Pierce and returned the ball After stuffing Ballou’s opening of this program’s existence,” said
WISCONSIN S. FLORIDA
First Downs ..................................... 23 9 101 yards for the game’s first drive, Bell made it a point of em- Tyson, who has been the head
Rushes-Yards ........................... 43-234 23-26 NATIONAL TANTALLON points. phasis to run the ball into the coach for the past five years. “After
Passing .......................................... 199 131 Chris Kusseling and Norm Brunelle each shot a 68 to win
Comp-Att-Int .......................... 19-26-0 16-33-2 the NGC Hustle. Greg Morris won closest to the pin,
Bell sophomore running back heart of Ballou’s defense. The winning the Gravy Bowl last year,
Return Yards .................................... 85 85 while Leo Goff won low gross. Tybias Barton ran to Pierce to con- game plan paid off, with Barton we wanted to show that this
Punts-Avg. ................................. 5-37.4 8-34.0
Fumbles-Lost .................................. 1-1 4-1 BELLE HAVEN sole his teammate and send what barging through multiple arm wasn’t a fluke, that we should be in
Penalties-Yards ............................ 4-40 9-45 In the Men’s One Day Member-Guest, Jerry Long and
Time Of Possession .................... 35:00 25:00 Delk Hamaker won first net with a score of 64, and Mike
proved to be a prescient message. tackles on his way to a 13-yard this conversation.”
Gaffin and Brent Perry won first gross with a score of 68. “I just went over and told him, touchdown run to give the Griffins tramel.raggs@washpost.com
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14210 BURLINGAME LANE, 4 MOSSY CREEK LANE, non shedding, 8 wks, family raised,
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ment Final Environmental Assessment. The Final Environmental 207 ALPINE MEADOW ROAD, WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA 22602 23 EAST JAMES STREET, WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA 22601
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increase of the cemetery’s contiguous acreage and roadway realign- of Trust dated May 21, 2005, in of Trust dated February 17, 2016, boned, great with children, family
ment by utilizing the adjacent, former Navy Annex site located the original principal amount of in the original principal amount In execution of a certain deed of trust dated 02/09/07, in the original In execution of a certain deed of trust dated 06/23/05, in the original raised, parents on premises,
just south of the existing cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. It also $100,000.00 recorded in the of $445,500.00 recorded in the principal amount of 281,600.00 recorded in the County of Frederick, principal amount of 112,000.00 recorded in the City of Winchester, $500/ $600. 240-674-2844
described the potential historical effects of integrating the Air Force Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court for Clerk’s Office, Circuit Court for Virginia, as Instrument No. 070002571, as amended by an instrument Virginia, as Instrument No. 050002793, as amended by an instrument

HONDA Memorial with the cemetery as part of the expansion. ANC, as

the lead federal agency, and key stakeholders – Arlington County,
Spotsylvania County, Virginia as
Instrument No. 200500023933 .
Stafford County, Virginia as Instru-
ment No. 160002698 . The under-
appointing the undersigned as Substitute Trustee, default having occurred
in the payment of the Note thereby secured and at the request of the
holder, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public
appointing the undersigned as Substitute Trustee, default having occurred
in the payment of the Note thereby secured and at the request of the
holder, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at public
Goldendoodle—Vet checked health
cert 20 lbs crate trained $1500 del
included contact Rick 330-464-6086
Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), and Federal Highway The undersigned Substitute signed Substitute Trustee will offer
HONDA 2012 FIT SPORT- Auto, Administration, Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division (FHWA- Trustee will offer for sale at public for sale at public auction in the auction in the front of the building housing the Circuit Court of the COUNTY auction in the front of the building housing the Circuit Court of the CITY www.dawniesdooodles.com
4 door, exc cond, like brand new, EFLHD) – developed a roadway realignment to support short- and auction in the front of the Circuit front of the Circuit Court building OF FREDERICK, VA located at 5 North Kent Street, Winchester, Virginia, OF WINCHESTER, VA located at 5 North Kent Street, Winchester, Virginia,
90k miles, new tires, MD insp. 22601 on September 20, 2019, at 10:00 AM, the property described in 22601 on September 20, 2019, at 10:00 AM, the property described in said Goldendoodles F1B—$750, 5 Males,
long-term transportation needs for the Commonwealth of Virginia Court building for Spotsylvania for Stafford County, 1300 Court- ready for new homes, vet records,
$7,500. Call 202-413-1066 and Arlington County while enabling the cemetery to maximize the County, 9107 Judicial Center Lane, house Road, Stafford, Virginia on said deed of trust, located at the above address, with improvements deed of trust, located at the above address, with improvements thereon
thereon and more particularly described as follows: LOT NO. EIGHTY- and more particularly described as follows: SOUTH SIDE OF EAST JAMES wormed, and loved 540-244-4071
available land provided through Congressional legislation. Spotsylvania, Virginia on Septem- September 26, 2019, at 2:00 PM,
SEVEN (87), APPLE RIDGE SUBDIVISION, RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 668 STREET, THIRTY-TWO (32') FEET, MORE OR LESS, EXTENDING SOUTHWARD
1408 Antiques & Classics The public had an opportunity to review the Draft Environmental
ber 26, 2019, at 4:00 PM, the prop-
erty described in said Deed of
the property described in said
Deed of Trust, located at the above AT PAGE 149, IN THE COUNTY OF FREDERICK. TERMS OF SALE: Neither WITH AN EQUAL WIDTH OF ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO FEET (132'), MORE
Golden Retriever — $1800,
Assessment and make comments during a 30-day public comment Trust, located at the above address, and more particularly the Substitute Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed OR LESS, IN THE CITY OF WINCHESTER. TERMS OF SALE: Neither the
of trust will deliver possession of the property to the successful bidder. Substitute Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by the deed of 8wks, males. Champ sired, Ther-
period in August/September 2018. Comments received during that address, and more particularly described as follows: ALL THAT apy dog Mom 540-229-4868
comment period have been addressed in the Final Environmental described as follows: ALL THAT CERTAIN LOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF The purchaser at the sale will be required to pay all closing costs. Real trust will deliver possession of the property to the successful bidder. The
Assessment. CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY SITUATE LAND, WITH ALL IMPROVEMENTS estate taxes, water/sewer fees and other public charges will be prorated purchaser at the sale will be required to pay all closing costs. Real estate
IN CHANCELLOR DISTRICT, SPOT- THEREON AND ALL APPURTE- as of the date of sale. The risk of loss or damage to the property passes taxes, water/sewer fees and other public charges will be prorated as Lab Pups — AKC Chocolate. Guar. vet
The FHWA-EFLHD, in addition to its role as a cooperating agency, SYLVANIA COUNTY, VIRGINIA NANCES THERETO BELONGING, to the purchaser immediately upon the conclusion of the Substitute of the date of sale. The risk of loss or damage to the property passes checked, wormed/shots. For addi-
is designing the roadways that would be relocated as a result KNOWN AS LOT 16, CONTAINING LOCATED AND BEING IN THE Trustee’s sale. Terms: A bidder’s deposit of ten percent (10%)of the sale to the purchaser immediately upon the conclusion of the Substitute tional info call Sue 703-203-0702 or
of Cemetery expansion. The FHWA-EFLHD has indicated that all 1.134 ACRES IN BURLINGAME AS COUNTY OF STAFFORD, COMMON- price or ten percent price (10%) of the original principal balance of the Trustee’s sale. Terms: A bidder’s deposit of ten percent (10%)of the sale www.belgianwayfarm.com
decision-making to-date concerning the Environmental Assessment SHOWN ON PLAT OF KNISELEY WEALTH OF VIRGINIA, AND BEING subject deed of trust, whichever is lower, in the form of cash or certified price or ten percent price (10%) of the original principal balance of the
funds payable to the Substitute Trustee must be present at the time of subject deed of trust, whichever is lower, in the form of cash or certified Lab Pups—AKC, Yellow Females, Cur-
is agreeable. Recently, at the request of Arlington County and the AND ASSOCIATES, P.C., DATED DESIGNATED AS FOLLOWS: LOT rent Shots/Wormings, Champ.
VDOT, the FHWA-EFLHD agreed to update traffic studies to analyze MAY 6, 1988, RECORDED IN PLAT 109, SECTION 1C, SOUTHGATE, AS sale. The balance of the purchase price will be due within 20 days at funds payable to the Substitute Trustee must be present at the time of
the office of the Substitute Trustee. The Substitute Trustee reserves the sale. The balance of the purchase price will be due within 20 days at Bloodlines, Family Raised, 540-848-
how recent changes in adjacent land use, including the move of FILE 1 AT PAGE 614, IN THE CIRCUIT THE SAME IS DULY DEDICATED IN 4486, www.liberty-pups.com
Amazon HQ2 to Pentagon City, might impact the modified access to COURT CLERK‘S OFFICE IN SPOT- INSTRUMENT NUMBER right to suspend bidding prior to completion of the sale. Time is of the the office of the Substitute Trustee. The Substitute Trustee reserves the
Chevelle 1970 Malibu Route 27 (Washington Boulevard) with Columbia Pike associated with SYLVANIA COUNTY VIRGINIA. SUB- 150015127, AND AS SHOWN ON essence as to the closing date and the payment of the purchase price. right to suspend bidding prior to completion of the sale. Time is of the
cloned to be SS454 If payment of the balance does not occur within twenty days of the sale essence as to the closing date and the payment of the purchase price. Miniature Poodles- Adorable black
this federal project. The FHWA-EFLHD has indicated that it intends JECT TO THAT CERTAIN DEED OF A PLAT AT INSTRUMENT NUMBER miniature poodles. ACA reg, $675
•454ci Engine bored 60 Over; to adopt the ANC’s Environmental Assessment and issue its own DEDICATION, RESTRICTIVE 150000116, BOTH RECORDED date, the deposit will be forfeited. Seller shall not be responsible for If payment of the balance does not occur within twenty days of the sale
•Holly 600 Carb 4-Valve; any costs incurred by the purchaser in connection with their purchase or date, the deposit will be forfeited. Seller shall not be responsible for or make offer.
Finding of No Significant Impact, if appropriate, after the updated COVENANTS AND EASEMENTS AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF 540-879-2971 leave message
•Hedman Headers; traffic studies are completed. DATED SEPTEMBER 10,1988, STAFFORD COUNTY, VIRGINIA. settlement, including, without limitation, state and local recording fees, any costs incurred by the purchaser in connection with their purchase or
• Turbo 400 Automatic Transmission; RECORDED IN DEED BOOK 813, title insurance or research, or any other costs of purchaser’s acquisition. settlement, including, without limitation, state and local recording fees, SHIH TZU PUPPIES - 2 males left,
•Positive-Traction Rear End, 342 TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bid- Trustee shall have no duty to obtain possession for purchaser. All risks title insurance or research, or any other costs of purchaser’s acquisition.
Comments on the ANC’s Draft Finding of No Significant Impact AT PAGE 335, IN THE AFORESAID der’s deposit of ten percent (10%) 1 Male Toy Poodle, shots & wormed,
Gears; may be submitted to the cemetery and the Corps of Engineers, CLERK‘S OFFICE. of casualty pass to successful bidder at conclusion of bidding. The Trustee shall have no duty to obtain possession for purchaser. All risks mother & father on premises. Ready
•Some Restoration of the sale price or ten percent property and the improvements thereon will be sold “AS IS” and without of casualty pass to successful bidder at conclusion of bidding. The
at SouthernExpansion@usace.army.mil or by mail to Ms. Kathy (10%) of the original principal bal- to go. Unionville area. 540-406-0740
•Color: Navy Blue with white Hood Perdue, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District, 803 Front TERMS OF SALE: ALL CASH. A bid- representation or warranties of any kind. The sale is subject to all liens, property and the improvements thereon will be sold “AS IS” and without
and Trunk Stripes. der’s deposit of ten percent (10%) ance of the subject Deed of Trust, encumbrances, conditions, easements and restrictions, if any, superior representation or warranties of any kind. The sale is subject to all liens, Siberian Husky Pups Must sell! 10
St., Norfolk, VA 23510, until September 30, 2019. The website whichever is lower, in the form
Pictures Available, $40,000 or best for the project, the Draft Finding of No Significant Impact, and of the sale price or ten percent to the mentioned deed of trust and lawfully affecting the property. Sale encumbrances, conditions, easements and restrictions, if any, superior registered, several options of colors
offer. Call 703-772-9452 (10%) of the original principal bal- of cash or certified funds payable is subject to post-sale confirmation that the borrower did not file for to the mentioned deed of trust and lawfully affecting the property. Sale and age. Very cute, most with blue
the Final Environmental Assessment may be accessed at: to the Substitute Trustee must be
www.nao.usace.army.mil/missions/militaryconstruction/ANC- ance of the subject Deed of Trust, protection under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code prior to the sale, as well as is subject to post-sale confirmation that the borrower did not file for eyes. Vet checked. Asking $375 or
WANTED VINTAGE SPORTS CARS & whichever is lower, in the form present at the time of the sale. to post-sale confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the protection under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code prior to the sale, as well as
CLASSICS - Especially Mercedes, SouthernExpansion, and compact discs may be reviewed at the call give best offer. 301-331-2450
of cash or certified funds payable The balance of the purchase price loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination of whether the to post-sale confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the
Porsche, Jaguar. Highest prices paid following libraries: Arlington County Central Library, Aurora Hills will be due within fifteen (15) days
Branch Public Library, or Columbia Pike Branch Public Library. If you to the Substitute Trustee must be borrower(s) entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid loan servicer including, but not limited to, determination of whether the
for the very best examples. Consign- present at the time of the sale. of sale, otherwise Purchaser’s off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, the sale shall be null borrower(s) entered into any repayment agreement, reinstated or paid
ments accepted. Storage available. need more information or require special assistance for persons with deposit may be forfeited to
disabilities or limited English proficiency, please contact Ms. Kathy The balance of the purchase price and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the off the loan prior to the sale. In any such event, the sale shall be null
For Sale. 1965 Sunbeam, 1977 will be due within fifteen (15) days Trustee. Time is of the essence. return of the Purchaser’s deposit without interest. Additional terms to and void, and the Purchaser’s sole remedy, in law or equity, shall be the Yellow Labrador Retriever AKC pups.
Porsche 911S, Perdue at (757) 201-7218. If the sale is set aside for any 1st shots, dewormed, vet checked,
of sale, otherwise Purchaser’s be announced at the sale. For more information contact: Nadeem Tariq, return of the Purchaser’s deposit without interest. Additional terms to
1982 Mercedes 380SL, deposit may be forfeited to reason, the Purchaser at the sale Esq., member of Surety Trustees, at 301-490-3361 or www.mwc-law.com. be announced at the sale. For more information contact: Nadeem Tariq, parents hip certified. $800 cash only.
Call Bob 703-966-0122 876 876 Call 540-879-2713
Loudoun County Loudoun County Trustee. Time is of the essence.
If the sale is set aside for any
shall be entitled to a return of the
deposit paid. The Purchaser may, August 24 and 31, 2019 12269945
Esq., member of Surety Trustees, at 301-490-3361 or www.mwc-law.com.
YORKIE—AKC adorable tiny dolls.
1485 Vans TRUSTEE’S SALE OF reason, the Purchaser at the sale if provided by the terms of the 215 229
August 24 and 31, 2019 12269944
Extreme teacups also. All
25112 MONTEITH TERRACE, #61B, CHANTILLY, VIRGINIA 20152 shall be entitled to a return of the Trustee’s Memorandum of Fore- Books, Music & Movies Clothing, Shoes 291 602
Found shots/health guar. Raised with 24/7
FORD 2001 F350 VAN Super Duty,
Special Edition, Cargo, 5 pass, good
COUNTY OF LOUDOUN deposit paid. The Purchaser may,
if provided by the terms of the
closure Sale, be entitled to a $50
cancellation fee from the Substi- Error Coin Booklets 10 of them for
& Accessories Sporting Goods care. $1500&up 540-580-3897
FAIRFAX CO. ANIMAL SERVICES
cond, 43,000 miles, $6500. In execution of a certain deed of trust dated 07/03/13, in the original
principal amount of 141,222.00 recorded in the County of Loudoun,
Trustee’s Memorandum of Fore-
closure Sale, be entitled to a $50
tute Trustee, but shall have no
further recourse against the Mort-
$20—$20, Washington, DC, 202-
333-3484 Man's Suede ankle size boots New & Services If you have lost an animal in the YORKIE PUPPIES - AKC,vet checked,
240-876-0494 $40—$40, Washington, DC, 202- Tennis Lessons $25 for all ages in Fairfax County/Washington Metro shots, wormed home raised, par-
Virginia, as Instrument No. 20130708-0056970, as amended by an instru- cancellation fee from the Substi- gagor, the Mortgagee or the Mort- Music Stand, Adjustable—$25, Wash- ents on premises. 8 weeks old.
ment appointing the undersigned as Substitute Trustee, default having 333-3484 Georgetown—$25 DC, 202-333- area: Please call the Fairfax Co.
1490 Sports Utility Vehicles occurred in the payment of the Note thereby secured and at the request
tute Trustee, but shall have no
further recourse against the Mort-
gagee’s attorney. A form copy of
the Trustee’s memorandum of
ington, DC, 202-333-3484
Skirt, Velvet, Long, Black, A-Line,
3484 Animal Shelter at 703-830-1100 or $900. Call 540-421-2684
of the holder, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at "US 100 Most Valuable Coins" book online for found animals at
gagor, the Mortgagee or the Mort- foreclosure sale and contract to Medium, New—$25, DC, 202-333- 295
CHEVY ’05 Equinox AWD 3 in Stk,
Lthr, Roof, Pre-Strike Prices Starting
public auction in the front of the building housing the Circuit Court of the gagee’s attorney. A form copy of purchase real property is available Like new $40—$40 , DC, 202-333- 3484 Toys fairfaxcounty.gov/animalshelter
Yorkshire Terrier - Yorkie - 2 F, 1
COUNTY OF LOUDOUN, VA located at 18 East Market Street, Leesburg, the Trustee’s memorandum of for viewing at 3484 DOLL, musical, plays "Winter Wonder- HOWARD CO. ANIMAL CONTROL M, 12wks - $1000, home raised in
@ $17,777. Virginia, 20176 on September 26, 2019, at 9:00 AM, the property described
dudleymartin.com 888-634-9211 foreclosure sale and contract to www.bwwsales.com. Additional Woman's dress jacket, Orange, Size land—$40, Washington, DC, 202- If you have lost an animal in the DC, vet checked, 1st shots, ACA reg,
in said deed of trust, located at the above address, with improvements terms, if any, to be announced at VIETNAMESE songs; CD's $10 or 3 small pups - Sire & Dam are 5 lbs.
purchase real property is available CD's for $25—$10 DC, 202-333- 8—$25 , DC, 202-333-3484 333-3484 Howard County/Washington Metro
JEEP 2008 GRAND CHEROKEE 4x4 thereon and more particularly described as follows: UNIT 61B, PHASE 61, for viewing at the sale. This is a communication area: Please call Howard Co. www.dcyorkies.com 202-251-8002
Laredo. Very good cond. 37k mi. AMBERLEA AT SOUTH RIDING CONDOMINIUM, SECTION 81, SOUTH RIDING, 3484
www.bwwsales.com. Additional from a debt collector and any infor- Woman's Leather Shoulder Bag, Black Stuffed ANIMALS: dog, cow, bear and Animal Control at 410-313-2780
Owner. $9,990. Call 703-864-1400 RECORDED AS INSTRUMENT NO. 200403050019662, IN THE COUNTY OF terms, if any, to be announced at mation obtained will be used for 225 Like New—$25 , DC, 202-333-3484 more NEW—$10, Washington, DC,
LOUDOUN AND ALL SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS THERETO. TERMS OF
SALE: Neither the Substitute Trustee nor the holder of the note secured by
the sale. This is a communication that purpose. The sale is subject
to seller confirmation. Substitute
Collectibles 265
202-333-3484 MONTGOMERY CO. ANIMAL SHELTER
the deed of trust will deliver possession of the property to the successful
from a debt collector and any infor-
mation obtained will be used for Trustee: Equity Trustees, LLC, 2101 AURORA SLOT CARS Wanted—$100
& up, cars/sets. +Atlas, AFX, Tyco,
Home & Garden 350
Garage Sales, MD
If you have lost an animal in the
Washington Metro area: Please call
Searing bidder. The purchaser at the sale will be required to pay all closing
costs. Real estate taxes, water/sewer fees and other public charges will
that purpose. The sale is subject Wilson Blvd., Suite 1004, Arlington,
Cox, Revell, AMT. 703-960-3594 Wall Clock Large numbers; New—$15 the Montgomery Co. Animal Shelter
nocturnal to seller confirmation. Substitute VA 22201. For more information DC, 202-333-3484 at 240-773-5960 or online for found
be prorated as of the date of sale. The risk of loss or damage to the
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Trustee: Equity Trustees, LLC, 2101 contact: BWW Law Group, LLC, Chuck Brown signed magazine page animals at www.mchumane.org
pain… property passes to the purchaser immediately upon the conclusion of the Wilson Blvd., Suite 1004, Arlington, attorneys for Equity Trustees, LLC, $25—$25, Washington, DC, 202- XMAS WREATH Battery powered;Col-
wapo.st/medicalmysteries Substitute Trustee’s sale. Terms: A bidder’s deposit of ten percent (10%)of VA 22201. For more information 6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101, 333-3484 ored bulbs & fruits—$40 , DC, 202- BETHESDA - 6205 Walhonding Rd, 610 Dogs for Sale
the sale price or ten percent price (10%) of the original principal balance contact: BWW Law Group, LLC, Rockville, MD 20852, 301-961- 333-3484 Fri & Sat 8/30, 8/31 8-3pm. Jewlry,
of the subject deed of trust, whichever is lower, in the form of cash or attorneys for Equity Trustees, LLC, 6555, website: Georgetown Univ Yearbook from DVDs, CDs, books, clothing and AUSSIE LABRADOODLE PUPS - Smart.
certified funds payable to the Substitute Trustee must be present at the www.bwwsales.com. VA-341708- 2003, Like new—$40, , DC, 202-333- 269 much more Blue merle, black & white. females
time of sale. The balance of the purchase price will be due within 20 days
6003 Executive Blvd, Suite 101,
Rockville, MD 20852, 301-961- 1. 3484 Jewelry & Watches 355 $595. Males $540. 4mo blk male,
at the office of the Substitute Trustee. The Substitute Trustee reserves the
right to suspend bidding prior to completion of the sale. Time is of the
6555, website: Aug 31, Sept. 7, 2019 12270788 I BUY RECORD COLLECTIONS!—1 I Gem: Smoky Quartz, 90 carat, make a Garage Sales, VA $495. Cash. S/W. Call 301-797-5645
www.bwwsales.com. VA-193216- necklace—$125 , DC, 202-333-
essence as to the closing date and the payment of the purchase price. 1. 102
drive to you, pay CASH, and haul
them away. Call 571-830-5871 3484 FAIRFAX - 9206 Bayard Pl. Vintage
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If payment of the balance does not occur within twenty days of the sale
date, the deposit will be forfeited. Seller shall not be responsible for August 24, 31, 2019 12269724 Happy Days items, art, elecs, furn, flooring,
housewares, clothes, books. Sale/Lease
Searching Female Mid 40s Asian 5'2" Marilyn Monroe small figurine CD and NECKLACE, beautiful light green
any costs incurred by the purchaser in connection with their purchase or picture book—$40, DC, 202-333- beads, like Jade—$40 DC, 202-333- CASH or VENMO. Rain/Shine. AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD PUPS:
settlement, including, without limitation, state and local recording fees, 130 lbs, goes by Isabel J. Thomas Sat 8/31, 8am-12pm. CKC, blue eyes, great colors.
lives in Northern VA, if you know 3484 3484 For Sale:
title insurance or research, or any other costs of purchaser’s acquisition.
whereabouts. Call 703-250-0535 $775. Call 540-828-3373 Hotel in Poland, Eastern Europe
MICHAEL JORDAN figurine under glas 275 Groveton—6710 queens rd,
Trustee shall have no duty to obtain possession for purchaser. All risks
of casualty pass to successful bidder at conclusion of bidding. The Retropolis 205 by Tributes—$40 , DC, 202-333- Merchandise Wanted alexandria, VA, 08/31/2019, Beagle—11 weeks old, great with Kolobrzeg (PL), Baltic Sea Coast
4,000,000 Euro +
property and the improvements thereon will be sold “AS IS” and without
The past, rediscovered Antiques 3484 I BUY RECORD COLLECTIONS!—1 I 7:30-3:00, 703-932-3515 kids, wormed/shots, dam on prem,
3.57 % commission
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encumbrances, conditions, easements and restrictions, if any, superior
to the mentioned deed of trust and lawfully affecting the property. Sale
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is subject to post-sale confirmation that the borrower did not file for Seeking Sealed Bottles Of Vintage Potomac — Huge Moving Sale tlung-sachsen.de/
protection under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code prior to the sale, as well as Bourbon and Rye—0 (Pre-1990) Call 9512 Reach Rd, Potomac, MD, male available, 9 weeks old,
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THE WASHINGTON POST . SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 2019

A more accessible path WHERE WE LIVE: TAKOMA, D.C.

Residents describe this Northwest community

to homeownership as a broad-minded town within a big city. 2

Ground leases are helping to revive

neighborhoods — and hold onto residents. 6
HOUSE OF THE WEEK
Wright-inspired house in
Alexandria for $3.5M. 9
3.58%
Mortgage rates rise. 8
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Where We Live Takoma in Northwest Washington

A community that pioneered diversity still reaps its benefits

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convincing them racial minorities Manor
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were moving into their neighbor-
hoods and would drive down their
home values. They persuaded
white homeowners to sell their
homes for low prices and then sold
them to African American buyers at
inflated prices.
Neighbors Inc. found real estate
agents who would sell to all buyers
and not steer white buyers away. It
held housing tours and other
events to stem white flight and fos-
ter diverse neighborhoods. Be-
cause of Neighbors Inc.’s successful
work in Takoma, more branches of
the organization were created in
several cities across the country.
Today, Takoma’s diversity at-
tracts people to the neighborhood.
“I wanted to live in a multiethnic,
multiracial community,” says Lo-
retta Neumann, a longtime resi-
dent. “The housing prices were
much lower than in the mostly all-
white neighborhoods west of Rock
Creek Park, where I lived before
moving here.”
David Hamilton moved with his
family to Takoma in 1965, and, ex-
cept for a few years in Upstate New
York while in graduate school, he
has lived there ever since. He and
his wife bought the house across
the street from his parents, a 1920s
AUGUST 31, 2019
PHOTOS BY RICKY CARIOTI/THE WASHINGTON POST
ABOVE: Bungalows are among Takoma’s housing styles, as are American Foursquares, farmhouses and
Victorians. BELOW: Residents enjoy the Takoma Community Center fountain on a rainy day.
The Renaissance Revival brick
building has continuously served
the neighborhood since 1911.
“It made me feel like Takoma was
the quintessential neighborhood
that I learned about in planning
classes in architectural school,” she
said.
Young families and Ethiopian
immigrants with businesses along
Georgia Avenue are part of a new
wave in the neighborhood. Erin
Palmer moved to Takoma from
Shaw about seven years ago. She
and her husband loved the accessi-
bility of the library, rec center, pool
and playground. But they also ap-
preciated Takoma’s neighborliness.
“We were looking for something
that had a little bit stronger com-
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As Takoma grows, some resi-
dents are concerned about the
amount of development taking
place, particularly around the Met-
ro station and near the Walter Reed
National Military Medical Center.
“I’m a resister. That’s what we do
in Takoma. We resist,” Hamilton
said. “Guys my age and my tenure,
we’re uneased about the density of
the development. I don’t want the
density and new development to
consume and overtake the heart of
what drew me here in the first
place.”
Living there: Takoma is roughly
bounded by Eastern Avenue to the
north and east, Georgia Avenue to
the west and Tuckerman Avenue to
the south.
Condos and rentals exist, but sin-
gle-family homes make Takoma
distinctive. According to Coldwell
Banker real estate agent Lorin Cul-
ver, 88 properties sold in Takoma in
the past year, including one co-op
and 40 condos. There are two prop-

bungalow.
Hamilton, a retired senior archi-
tect for the National Capital Plan-
ning Commission, recalls Takoma’s
involvement in the civil rights
movement.
“It was the dynamism back in
those times because black and
. SATURDAY,
nities that were proud of being plac-
es where black and white neighbors
worked hard to forge relationships
and lobby the city for better schools
and public services,” Green said.
Neighborhood advocacy contin-
ues to define Takoma. Neighbors
Inc. still operates. Founded in 1974,
hateful flier out, we’re going to liter-
ally draw murals all over the neigh-
borhood in Spanish about how we
don’t agree with that and how im-
migrants are welcome.”
Historic Takoma is a volunteer
nonprofit group founded to pre-
serve the heritage of Takoma Park
munity feel, more of a neighbor-
hood vibe,” she said. “When we
came here it was so easy to talk to
folks who were third-generation
Washingtonians. . . . For a family
like ours, we don’t have either set of
grandparents who are local, so
we’ve built relationships with
erties on the market: a five-bed-
room, five-bathroom house listed
for $1 million and a studio condo
listed for $159,000.
Schools: Takoma Education
Campus for elementary and middle
school, Coolidge High.
Transit: The Takoma Metro sta-

white people, Latinos, we were one
pot coming together, going to the
protests, meeting at the church up
on Piney Branch and Aspen,” he
said. “I’m sure similar activities
were going on in other neighbor-
THE WASHINGTON POST
Concerned Neighbors is a commu-
nity group in North Takoma. The
group focuses on quality-of-life is-
sues such as noise and solicitation
along Georgia Avenue.
Even newcomers to the neigh-
and Takoma. Although the two ju-
risdictions have their own identi-
ties, they have much in common.
“It’s a cross-border community,”
said Evan Yeats, an ANC commis-
sioner in Takoma. “The coopera-
neighbors who can give us more of a
sense of history in the neighbor-
hood, the intergenerational rela-
tionships and perspective.”
Kate Healy moved to Takoma
three years ago for similar reasons.
tion is on Cedar Street. The District
Department of Transportation has
plans to extend the Metropolitan
Branch Trail to the Metro station,
which will provide easier bike tran-
sit.

hoods but in Takoma, it felt really,
really embracing.”
Sara Green, a former chair of Ad-
visory Neighborhood Commission
4B, moved to the area in 1975. She
says she and her husband specifical-
ly looked for a racially integrated
neighborhood where residents
were active in the community.
“Takoma was well known as one
of several politically active commu-
borhood are bitten by the activist
bug. When anti-immigrant fliers
were distributed on cars in the
neighborhood a couple of years ago,
residents took action.
“When that happened, all of us
and our kids were out with side-
walk chalk writing messages in
English and in Spanish,” said Jena
Crable, who moved to Takoma in
2012. “If you are going to put a
tion helps both communities grow
stronger.”
Jennifer Stinson, who is part of
the design review committee for
the ANC, was attracted to Takoma
by the housing styles — bungalows,
American Foursquares, farmhous-
es and Victorians from the early
1900s to 1930s. But what really sold
her was the library, one of four
Carnegie libraries in the District.
“We love that the neighborhood
is so welcoming and that our kids
can walk a couple doors down to
school at Takoma Education Cam-
pus,” Healy said. “We love that the
Metro is so close, and we can walk a
couple blocks up the street for yoga
or dinner or the farmers market. Or
we can stay home and play in our
backyard and not even realize we’re
in the city.”
Crime: According to crime-
map.dc.gov, in the past year, there
have been 10 robberies and one
assault with a dangerous weapon in
Takoma.
nina.zafar@washpost.com

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Buying New Lofts at Reston Station

‘Mix of buyers’ drawn to Reston, Va., condos

BY A UDREY H OFFER

The Lofts at Reston Station is a low-rise

condominium in Reston, Va., off Sunset
Hills Road. It is part of a sprawling mixed-
use development called Reston Station
that is under construction now.
The Lofts has 32 single-floor residences
in a five-story elevator-equipped building.
Twenty-three units are sold, and nine are
on the market. The nine are available in
three floor plans — Brooklyn and Declan
corner units and Finn interior units.
“We have a mix of buyers, including
downsizers, young professionals and fami-
lies with small children,” said Debbie Pas-
chal, sales consultant for Pulte Homes, the
builder. “We find that people who live in
Reston want to stay in Reston.”
Take Bob and Joanne Donnelly, who
used to live in a four-bedroom house, with
a two-car garage, in Reston. “We decided
we wanted a change,” Bob Donnelly said,
“so we sold our house and moved to a rental
in Arlington to see how we liked multifami-
ly living.”
Well, they didn’t like it in Arlington.
“It seemed too crowded,” he said. “Every-
where we drove was a hassle. A five-mile
commute from Arlington to McLean took
the same time as an 11- to 12-mile drive
from here. You stop for a light. You stop for
traffic. There was always aggravation.”
He added, “So we moved back to Reston,
and it’s really working out.”
James Guzman and his fiancee, Solongo
Erdenekhuyag, moved from Alexandria, PHOTOS BY BENJAMIN C TANKERSLEY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Va., into a top-floor corner unit. “With
floor-to-ceiling windows, we get light from
many directions,” Erdenekhuyag said.
LOFTS AT RESTON STATION
11200 Reston Station Blvd., Reston, Va.
The building has 32 condominium units.
Nine are for sale at base prices ranging from
$592,893 to $700,017. Buyers financing
through Pulte Mortgage can receive $6,500
for closing costs for a limited time.
Builder: Pulte Homes
Features: Homes have two bedrooms and
AUGUST 31, 2019
ABOVE: A small home office in the model unit at the Lofts at Reston Station, a 32-residence condominium in Fairfax County, Va.
BELOW: A view of the Lofts from the outside. Most of the low-rise, elevator-equipped building’s units have been sold.
“Having the skyline and seeing all the blue and commercial services galore.
of the sky and the trees is important to me, Outdoor fun: Residents have access to
plus we can watch the sun setting, which is recreational amenities that the Reston
really pretty.” Association fee covers. There are 1,300
Guzman was enthusiastic about the Res- acres of open space to run and play, 55
ton Station area, which is in Fairfax County. miles of walking and biking trails, 15 pools,
“This locale is the new hot spot,” Guzman several lakes, ballfields, playgrounds and
said. “Reston reminds us of our time in picnic facilities. Fifty-two tennis courts are
Singapore because everything is new and available with a $28 annual pass.
polished. The way it’s developing, it’ll be Schools: Sunrise Valley Elementary,
the Silicon Valley of the East Coast. We have Langston Hughes Middle, South Lakes

Oracle, Microsoft and Walmart Labs prac- High.

two bathrooms. They have varying sized
balconies. One parking space in the first-floor
garage comes with each purchase. There are
Kitchen Aid appliances, quartz or granite
counters, maple or hickory cabinets and
floors of oak or maple. A dedicated laundry
room has side-by-side washer and dryer.
. SATURDAY,
tically across the street. We see Google [an Transit: Eventually, Reston Station
eye-catching trapezoidal building] every Boulevard will extend to Wiehle Avenue
day. We also have all these defense contrac- and provide direct access to the Wiehle-
tors in the Dulles corridor. They aren’t here Reston East Metro station on the Silver
because of the greenery. They’re here be- line. “Now it takes 12 minutes to walk there,
cause of opportunities to conduct busi- ambling through the neighborhood,” Pas-
ness.” chal said.

Each residence is wired for smart home
digital connectivity. One upgrade package
combines control of the garage door, front
door and temperature, with voice control and
a wireless access point.
PackageConcierge.com is installed in the
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Tankless water heater: Unit 505 is a The community is minutes from Vir-
Declan corner unit with windows on two ginia Route 267 (Dulles Access Road and
walls. The kitchen shares an open space Dulles Toll Road), which leads to Interstate
with a combined gathering-dining room. 66 and downtown Washington.
The dining table easily accommodates six Erdenekhuyag said she was attracted to
wide plush chairs. The kitchen island has a the location in part because of its proximity

lobby to accept deliveries.
Bedrooms/bathrooms: 2 / 2
Square-footage: 1,502 to 1,668
Condo association fees: $331 a month,
plus a $57 a month Reston Association fee.
View model: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday; 11
a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday to Friday.
Contact: Debbie Paschal at 703-251-2890 or
pulte.com/restonstation
sink, and a door in the kitchen leads to a
balcony.
“When we were looking around, my wife
wanted high-end finishes. I don’t know
what that means, but she says we have
them here,” Donnelly said.
Two bedrooms occupy diagonally oppos-
ing corners of the unit for maximum
privacy. The owner’s bathroom is en suite;
a smaller bathroom is a few steps from the
second bedroom.
A laundry closet, with full-size washer
and dryer, is next to a utility closet that
holds a tankless hot water heater. “You can
pretty much take a five-hour shower and
not run out of hot water,” Paschal said.
Nearby: Whole Foods is less than a mile
away in Plaza America. Harris Teeter is a
five-minute drive, and MOM’s Organic
Market is a few miles away in Herndon, Va.
Reston Town Center has shops, restaurants
to airports. “I travel for work nearly every
week and need to get to them quickly,” she
said. Dulles International Airport is six
miles away, and Reagan National Airport is
23 miles.
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Station, go to washingtonpost.com/realestate.
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Cover Story

PARKER MICHELS-BOYCE FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

A woman walks her dogs past a house in Richmond that was sold through the Maggie Walker Community Land Trust in Chesterfield County, Va. Proponents say programs
such as this one lower costs, increase neighborhood stability, create pride of ownership and build equity over time.

Cities put focus on ‘legacy residents’

AUGUST 31, 2019

Ground-lease programs offer people a more accessible path to homeownership in their neighborhoods
BY H AISTEN W ILLIS IN ATLANTA

The crumbling neighborhoods of English Avenue and Vine City stand in stark contrast to the bustling downtown area less than two miles away that has
become a tourist magnet with such attractions as CNN Center and World of Coca-Cola. ¶ But the neighborhoods — longtime home to a stable popula-
. SATURDAY,

tion of mostly minority, low-income residents — soon may get a piece of the prosperity nearby. A national downtown revival trend is bringing interest
from more affluent groups, including investors, to intown Atlanta. ¶ It’s a mostly welcome change but brings with it all the anxiety associated with
gentrification. ¶ “We’re seeing new people become interested in the community, and even though there has been a high rate of vacancy in the area,
what you don’t want to see is displacement,” said Eloisa Klementich, president and CEO of Invest Atlanta. “We are doing all we can to keep our valued
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residents in the community. They should not be displaced, not on our watch.”

Among the city’s responses is a ground-
lease program designed to protect what
Invest Atlanta describes as “legacy resi-
dents” who want a path to homeowner-
ship in their neighborhood but can’t
afford a mortgage.
Through the Atlanta Land Trust, home
buyers using the ground-lease program
purchase only the house itself, leasing
land from the city at $1 annually on a
99-year ground lease. If the home is sold at
a later date, the owners keep any apprecia-
tion on the structure, while the land
remains in the city’s hands in perpetuity.
The concept is under review in big cities
such as Atlanta and metro Miami, plus
small and mid-size areas, including Ches-
terfield County, Va.; Bend, Ore.; and
Tacoma, Wash. Proponents say it lowers
costs, increases neighborhood stability,
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creates pride of ownership and
builds equity over time.
“It’s about meeting people
where they’re at,” Klementich
said. “Some people want to buy a
home but are not quite there yet.
If that’s where you’re at, this is a
good option if you want to try out
homeownership.”
In Atlanta, one modular home
has already been constructed on
James P. Brawley Drive in Eng-
lish Avenue, with five more on
the way. The home, featuring
beige paint with white trim, a
one-car garage and a small porch
fronting a grass-covered yard,
was delivered via truck and load-
ed into place by giant cranes.
With a “We Love English Av-
enue” sign perched out front, the
house sits in a neighborhood
with more than its share of
abandoned properties, but also a
small park and homes beginning
to undergo renovation.
Isaac Sanford, a 24-year-old
bartender at the Moxy Atlanta
Midtown hotel, lives at the Braw-
ley Drive home. For now, he’s just
a renter, but hopes to own one of
the ground-leased homes in the
near future.
“One of my favorite things
about English Avenue is the
access to the city and to mid-
town,” said Sanford, an Atlanta
native who has looked into tradi-
tional homeownership in the PARKER MICHELS-BOYCE FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

past but found it out of his reach.
“Living in the actual house is
great, too. It’s not what people
think of when they hear the word
‘modular.’ It feels like any other
house.”
The Invest Atlanta houses will
have target price points from
$135,000 to $160,000, signifi-
cantly below the city’s median
home price of $275,000, accord-
ing to the Atlanta Realtors Asso-
ciation.
Including down-payment as-
sistance, the houses could be
available to those earning be-
tween 60 and 80 percent area
median income (AMI). Accord-
ing to the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Develop-
ment, AMI in metro Atlanta was
AmeriCorps workers Courtney Grantham and Benjamin Veilleux at a Habitat for Humanity house in Richmond that will be sold through
the land trust in Chesterfield County, Va. Ground leases, long a feature in commercial real estate, are surfacing in residential areas.
cheap,” Yao said. “Land typically “The market in Chesterfield is equity and crossing the bridge to for a home through the program.
accounts for a significant portion quite hot,” Cohen said. “The full homeownership. Kôr will charge around $50 or
of the cost. In some places, the median home price is around “They find people who are on $60 monthly to lease land for
land costs more than the struc- $250,000, so to take that down the verge and can almost reach each home, plus a separate
ture.” $80,000 by removing land costs homeownership, and give them homeowners association fee. The
While the number of units makes it much more reasonable that extra boost,” he said. “It is so long-term plan is to offer 25
Invest Atlanta is creating may for somebody to live here. . . . At helpful because buying a house is percent of homes to those at or
not have a major impact, Yao said 80 percent AMI, your target not always easy. We don’t all have near AMI, and 75 percent to low
ground leases can be an effective market becomes nurses, teach- stocks, trust funds or savings or very low income earners.
method of creating affordable ers, police folks.” accounts.” “We’d like to keep doing this as
units. Cohen said reaction from The central Oregon city of long as there’s a need, which I
Ground leases aren’t necessar- neighbors for or against the Bend, with a metro population of don’t see going away any time
ily a new phenomenon with program has been muted, as 175,000, last year introduced a soon,” Warren said. “The biggest
residential real estate in the most simply don’t realize the ground-lease program called Kôr challenge is the search for land,
United States either, but Atlanta involved houses are under a Community Land Trust. The because land has such a high
is not alone in launching a ground lease rather than a tradi- group plans to place fives houses value.”
program to try out the concept. tional fee simple model. under ground leases in its first As with Atlanta, Warren said

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$74,800 for a family of four in
2018, so 60 percent AMI would
be $44,880.
Not only do residents purchas-
ing ground-lease houses pay less
in upfront and monthly costs,
but they won’t pay property taxes
on the land and won’t be subject
to the price fluctuations that
often accompany renting.
Ground leases have long been
a common feature in commercial
real estate. Vincent Yao, a Geor-
gia State University Urban Stud-
ies Institute professor, points out
that ground leases are also the
norm in parts of Europe and Asia
and that the added costs of land
Chesterfield County, Va., near
Richmond, has launched a pro-
gram called the Maggie Walker
Community Land Trust, which
closed on its first home earlier
this year.
“The land trust was awarded a
$500,000 grant to put nine hous-
es under contract for homeown-
ership,” said Dan Cohen, director
of the Chesterfield County Com-
munity Enhancement Depart-
ment. “The land trust will sell the
house to a resident, the resident
has an equity interest in the
house and can sell it when they
want to go.”
Chesterfield’s program is the
“There’s no visual identifier
that this is a land-trust house,”
Cohen said.
The land trust has already sold
a few houses in Richmond prop-
er, one of which is a two-bed-
room, one-bathroom that went
to 26-year-old architect Jeisson
Apolo Armas for $145,000.
A native of Ecuador who said
he grew up in a low-income
household, Armas moved to
Richmond from New York City
after college in hopes of finding
cheaper land. But houses in
Richmond were still out of his
reach until he learned about the
Maggie Walker Community Land
round.
“A lot of the folks we’re provid-
ing homeownership opportuni-
ties for are public service work-
ers,” said Amy Warren, co-found-
er and executive director of the
land trust. “We depend on them
to make our community and
economy function. Allowing
them an opportunity to put roots
down through homeownership
and stable housing is a lot differ-
ent than putting a family in a
rental unit.”
She said Kôr is helping pro-
vide homes for teachers, build-
ers, servers and maintenance
workers. Bend has a median
she hopes the program will allow
long-term residents to own a
home and stay in town.
It’s a battle Precious Muham-
mad, who lived in Atlanta’s Eng-
lish Avenue for 10 years and
owns a property in Vine City,
knows well. She is a flight atten-
dant who is also involved in the
local real estate scene, and she
said it’s a challenge for long-term
residents to stay in their homes. . SATURDAY,
“Stabilization is what the com-
munity needs,” she said. “A lot of
people have lost their property
just because of the taxes. A
ground lease allows people to
maintain a budget month to
AUGUST 31, 2019

greatly increase the price of hom-
eownership for Americans.
“When land is owned by a
private individual, there’s an
open market to trade the land
and these days, depending on
where you are, buying land is not
first in the Richmond area, popu-
lation 1.2 million, and second in
Virginia. AMI in metro Rich-
mond is $67,633, and the
ground-lease program targets
buyers making 80 percent
($54,106) or below.
Trust.
The house Armas purchased is
older, built as a part of a streetcar
suburb and recently renovated
by Habitat for Humanity. He said
he hopes to stay in it for roughly
five years before trading in his
household income of $52,471,
with a median home cost near
$450,000. Warren said she re-
cently pulled income data for
local school system employees,
which is public record, and
found that many would qualify
month.”
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Town Square
A decade after
crisis, FHA again
limits cash-out
refinancing
BY M ICHELE L ERNER
A decade has passed since the
housing crisis, when many home-
owners were led into foreclosure
after using too much of their
home equity for vacations and
bills. In 2009, the Federal Hous-
ing Administration adjusted its
limits on FHA borrowers to re-
duce the prevalence of cash-out
refinancing.
Cash-out refinancing refers to
homeowners refinancing their
mortgage to a higher balance
than they currently owe to access
their equity. For example, if the
balance the homeowners want to
refinance is $200,000 and the
home is valued at $400,000, a
homeowner could take out a new
loan for $300,000 and use the
$100,000 to pay off debt, pay
college tuition, make a home im-
provement or spend the money in
other ways.
Beginning Sunday, FHA bor-
rowers will be limited to cash-out
refinancing a maximum of 80
percent of their home value. For
example, on a home valued at
$400,000, the maximum loan
amount would be $320,000. In
2009, the limit was set at 85
percent of the home value, but
before that borrowers could do a
cash-out refinance of up to 95
percent of their home value.
The new 80 percent cap match-
es the rules established by Freddie
Mac and Fannie Mae for conven-
tional loan cash-out refinancing.
Cash-out refinancing has be-
come increasingly popular in re-
cent years as home values have
increased and mortgage rates
have remained historically low.
AUGUST 31, 2019
Between 2013 and 2018, the num-
ber of FHA cash-out refinances
has increased by 250 percent. In
fall 2018, 64 percent of all FHA
refinances were cash-out refi-
nances, up nearly 39 percent from
fall 2017.
FHA Commissioner Brian
. SATURDAY,
Montgomery said in a statement
that the reduction in the amount
borrowers can take from their
homes in a cash-out refinance is
meant to be “a prudent measure
to make certain that we protect
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and preserve the home equity
borrowers are building for their
future and guard against taxpayer
losses from the FHA program.”
Low home equity can be prob-
lematic for borrowers if home
values drop as they did during the
housing crisis because this limits
the ability of these homeowners
to refinance or to sell their prop-
erty and repay the loan.
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Open floor plan, lots of light make this a bargain
BY M ICHELE L ERNER
The median sales price for a
home in the District reached
$592,500 in July, an amount that
makes homeownership feel out
of reach for many local renters.
Buyers with a budget of
$400,000 may not be able to find
a single-family home with multi-
ple bedrooms in the city, but
there are still plenty of options
for a townhouse or condo in that
price range.
More choices are available in
neighborhoods that are more res-
idential and more distant from
the hot markets such as Logan
Circle, Mount Pleasant and Shaw.
For example, the end-unit
townhouse at 310 63rd St. NE in
Deanwood is priced at $375,000.
The residence doesn’t require a
homeowner association fee, and
annual property taxes are $1,410.
Built in 1945 and fully renovat-
ed, this 1,227-square-foot town-
house has three finished levels
with three bedrooms and two
30-year average holds steady despite sinking bond yields
BY K ATHY O RTON
Mortgage rates showed little
change this week as investors con-
tinued to shy away from mort-
gage-backed securities.
According to the latest data re-
leased Thursday by Freddie Mac,
the 30-year fixed-rate average
ticked up to 3.58 percent with an
average 0.5 point. (Points are fees
paid to a lender equal to 1 percent
of the loan amount and are in
addition to the interest rate.) It
was 3.55 percent a week ago and
4.52 percent a year ago. The 30-
year fixed rate has stayed between
3.55 and 3.60 percent the past
month.
The 15-year fixed-rate average
rose to 3.06 percent with an aver-
age 0.5 point. It was 3.03 percent a
week ago and 3.97 percent a year
ago. The five-year adjustable rate
average slipped to 3.31 percent
with an average 0.4 point. It was
3.32 percent a week ago and 3.85
percent a year ago.
“Rates remain near three-year
lows but in recent weeks have not
dropped nearly as low as we
would expect given the fact that
bond yields have fallen markedly
over the same time frame,” said
Matthew Speakman, a Zillow
economist. “The connection be-
tween Treasury yields and mort-
gage rates — two metrics that
typically move in unison — has
frayed in recent weeks, in part due
to increased refinancing activity,
bathrooms. The exterior doesn’t
have a lot of curb appeal, but
inside is an open floor plan with
hardwood floors on the main and
upper levels, recessed lighting
and windows on two sides.
The open kitchen has white
cabinets, a marble countertop
and stainless-steel appliances.
French doors adjacent to the
Weekly averages for
popular mortgage types
6%
6
5 5
4 4
3.58
3.31
3
3
3.06
2
2
30-YEAR FIXED
1 1
15-YEAR FIXED
5-YEAR ARM
0
’17 ’18 ’19
Source: Freddie Mac
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weakening investor demand for
mortgages, resulting in higher-
than-expected rates.”
Mortgage rates are influenced
by many factors, but they tend to
follow the same path as the 10-
year Treasury. When yields go
down, rates usually follow. Except
yields have been plummeting, and
mortgage rates haven’t fallen as
dramatically.
The yield on the 10-year Treas-
ury, which sank to 1.47 percent on
Wednesday, has plunged 43 basis
points since the start of the
month. Mortgage rates have drift-
ed down 20 basis points.
“Mortgage lenders determine
the rates they can/will offer based
dining area open onto a deck.
Two bedrooms and one full bath-
room are on the upper level, with
the third bedroom and the sec-
ond full bathroom on the lower
level. The lower level also has a
recreation room and a closet with
a stacked washer and dryer.
The property has off-street
parking in a driveway, central air
on MBS prices and other consid-
erations,” said Matthew Graham,
chief operating officer of Mort-
gage News Daily.
Mortgage-backed securities are
investments in mortgages that
have been bundled together.
When investors buy MBS, they
pay more than the face value of the
mortgages with the expectation
they will recoup the extra amount
they paid from the interest pay-
ments on the loan.
But if rates fall and the borrow-
er holding the loan refinances, the
investor could earn less or maybe
even lose money. A borrower’s
ability to refinance makes inves-
tors leery of MBS.
“Big, fast, volatile moves in
Treasurys throw investors’ MBS
valuation models way out of
whack,” Graham said.
The spread between the 10-year
Treasury yield and MBS prices is
the greatest it has been in seven
years. Graham says it may take
weeks if not months for spreads to
return to historically normal lev-
els.
“That’s assuming the bond
market can calm down a bit,” he
said. “Even then, all the recent
underperformance seen in mort-
gages won’t vanish instantly. It
will be a gradual return to a more
normal level.”
Bankrate.com, which puts out a
weekly mortgage rate trend index,
found that almost half of the ex-
perts it surveyed say rates will
The three-
bedroom,
two-bathroom
townhouse at
310 63rd St.
NE in the
District’s
Deanwood
area is listing
for $375,000,
which is well
below the
city’s median
sales price of
$592,500.
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conditioning and gas heat.
Assigned schools include
Drew Elementary, Kelly Miller
Middle and H.D. Woodson High,
all of which are rated below
average by GreatSchools.org.
For more information, contact
Bridgette Bradshaw, a real estate
agent with Century 21 The Real
Estate Centre at 202-486-9987.
remain relatively unchanged in
the coming week.
“Do not expect much, if any of a
drop in mortgage rates in the com-
ing weeks,” said Mitch Ohlbaum,
president, Macoy Capital Partners
in Los Angeles. “It’s not because
they shouldn’t, it’s because the
lenders are already beyond capac-
ity with refinances and frankly do
not want any more volume.”
According to the Mortgage
Bankers Association, independ-
ent mortgage banks and mort-
gage subsidiaries of chartered
banks reported a net gain of
$1,675 on each loan they originat-
ed in the second quarter of 2019,
up from $285 per loan in the first
quarter.
Meanwhile, mortgage applica-
tions tailed off. According to the
latest data from the MBA, the
market composite index — a
measure of total loan application
volume — decreased 6.2 percent
from a week earlier. The refinance
index fell 8 percent from the pre-
vious week, while the purchase
index dropped 4 percent.
The refinance share of mort-
gage activity accounted for 62.4
percent of all applications.
“Mortgage applications de-
creased for the second consecu-
tive week, but low rates continue
to drive activity to much higher
levels than earlier this year and
last summer,” said Bob Broeksmit,
MBA president and CEO.
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A 1939 home that never stops being modern

BY K ATHY O RTON

For more than a decade, every

time Ken and Judie Elder went to
visit their friends in the Seminary
Hill neighborhood of Alexandria,
Va., they would admire a house
across the street. They longed for
a chance to see what it looked like
inside.
In 1996, a for-sale sign went up.
One look and they knew they
wanted to buy the house but the
price was more than they wanted
to pay. For six weeks, they ago-
nized over whether they could
afford it. Then one day, Judie
made an observation.
“I told him you’ll be grumpy
forever if you don’t buy this
house,” she said.
The Elders bought the house,
and Ken is as giddy about it as the
first day they saw it.
“We’ve lived here 20 years, and
this house still excites me,” he
said.
It is easy to see why the Elders
are smitten. Built in 1939, the
house was designed by architect
Charles Callander for Haven Page,
an aircraft company executive.
Page sold it in 1949 to Thomas E.
Harris, a longtime lawyer with the
AFL-CIO and one of the original
commissioners of the Federal
Election Commission. Harris re-
mained in the house for 47 years.
After Harris’s death, the Elders PHOTOS BY BTW IMAGES

became just the third owners.
Callander was a Frank Lloyd
Wright devotee who did not
strictly adhere to the celebrated
architect’s tenets in his design.
There are echoes of Wright in the
house’s relationship to its sur-
roundings, its large panes of glass
and use of organic materials such
1201 KEY DR.,
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
The screened porch, above, built around a sycamore tree, was the one significant change that Ken and Judie Elder made to the house at
1201 Key Dr. in Alexandria, Va. The 1939 house, below, was designed by architect Charles Callander, a devotee of Frank Lloyd Wright.
as cypress wood. But it doesn’t
have the openness of a Wright-de-
signed house. The dining room is
separated from the living room.
And no Wright house ever had a
basement like this one does.
Elaborately designed stairs cre-
ate visual interest in the entrance
hall. Tucked next to the stairs is a

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$3.5 million
Features: The 1939 house was
designed by Charles Callander,
who was inspired by Frank Lloyd
Wright. The house includes
furniture designed by Callander for
the home. The 2.25-acre property
has a 270-year-old red maple. The
pool house has two bedrooms,
three bathrooms and a sauna. The
swimming pool was rebuilt in 2011.
Bedrooms/bathrooms: 4 / 4
Approximate square-footage:
2,836
Lot size: 2.25 acres
telephone nook with a buzzer, to
call the maid, that still works.
The living room has curved
walls, a fireplace and built-in
shelving. The furniture that Cal-
lander designed for the room in
1939 is still there, including the
curved sofa, end tables and the
lamps on the tables. Pella shades
are concealed in the walls. A door
opens to a covered porch and
patio that overlook a spacious . SATURDAY,
lawn and a wooded lot. Among
the mature trees is a red maple
that is estimated to be 270 years
old.
The only significant change the
Elders made to the original house wings. In one wing, the master and bathroom. The Elders use attached garage can fit three cars.
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Listing agent: Jodie Burns,

McEnearney Associates

For more photos of this house
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was adding a screened porch next
to the kitchen. They built it
around a sycamore tree that pops
through its roof. Wood cutouts of
stylized cross sections of the
house encircle the room.
The upstairs is split into two
bedroom has wraparound win-
dows. The other wing has two
bedrooms. In between the two is a
large deck where the orchestra
would set up for the Harrises’
larger parties.
The lower level has a bedroom
another room to store wine.
In 1998, they added a 1,700-
square-foot pool house that mim-
ics the style of the main house.
Designed by Jone Thurmond, the
pool house has two bedrooms,
three bathrooms and a sauna. The
The 20-by-50-foot swimming
pool was rebuilt in 2011.
The four-bedroom, four-bath-
room, 2,836-square-foot house,
on 2.25 acres, is listed at $3.5 mil-
lion.
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