A8 eZ re the washington post . monday, may 6, 2024 The World BY RACHEL CHASON AND YACOUBA LIDO IN BoBo-DIouLasso, BuRkINa Faso The musicians and dancers traveled in a military convoy to reach the competition, moving in armored cars with soldiers at the ready through parts of the country where Islamist extremists have banned their violins, drums and dance moves. There was a dancer whose close friend had been killed for listening to a radio while he farmed. a violinist who no longer dared to play at the marriages and baptisms in the villages where he used to make his living. a young dancer who could no longer go to concerts with her friends in neighboring villages. The traditional dance troupe members had journeyed from Burkina Faso’s sahel administrative region, one of the most dangerous areas in a country racked in recent years by violence committed by Islamist extremists. at this national festival, the troupe would face off against teams from across Burkina Faso. at stake was pride and money. For the sahel team, it was also about resistance. “In the villages now, you cannot play music on your phones or have even a little instrument,” said amadou ag anasbagort, 36, whose friend was killed by the militants a few years ago after he was caught listening to his radio. “so when we are here dancing, we are happy. It is like we have a bit of power.” Backstage on Tuesday, just ahead of their big performance, ag anasbagort helped his fellow dancer tie an ill-fitting traditional dress. Team leader altiné Hassane sweated as he covered the base of a goumbé drum in traditional fabric, hoping for style points to boost their score. They discovered that the flute player had left his instrument behind but agreed that the show must go on. as the dancers and musicians filed into a narrow hallway, listening to the beat of drums from the group before them, a handful of leaders from their region arrived, giving fist bumps and last-minute pep talks. “Today is the day,” said Ibrahim Maiga, a local official who moved from his hometown in the sahel region to the capital years ago, concerned about being kidnapped by Islamist militants. “Explode, explode, explode!” Maiga said, his voice rising in excitement as the artists smiled and nodded, their eyes fixed on the entryway to the stage. “Have no fear.” By helicopter and convoy Before Islamist extremists began seizing vast swaths of territory, this nation of 23 million, which was called the Republic of upper Volta until 1984, was known for its international film festival and its former president, Thomas sankara, who was a wellknown advocate of pan-africanism before his assassination. Burkina’s sahel region, adjacent to the border with Mali and Niger, was a destination for tourists traveling to northern Mali, said Bamogo amidou Paul, the region’s director for culture and tourism. But that tourism dried up, he said, as soon as violence began spilling over the border with Mali around 2015. “Culture has also suffered with the terrorism,” he said. “But culture evolves with men, since even when men are displaced, their culture comes with them.” The week-long festival in BoboDioulasso, typically held every two years, is intended to promote the diversity of cultures across Burkina Faso’s 13 regions, celebrating everything from traditional dance to wrestling to cooking, with competitions, fairs and exhibitions. For years, the team from the sahel region did not have the funding to compete, said Hassane, the dance team leader, because the local economy had been battered by the violence. But last year, the government brought the troupe in by helicopter. This year, they used a convoy. on the eve of their departure for the festival, parents of five dancers learned they would be traveling by road and pulled their children out, Hassane said. The parents were afraid of explosives and attacks. Joy for the community Hours before showtime, sweat was starting to glisten on the dancers’ faces as the sun set on a humid evening at the stadium where they were practicing. They made sure the tension of the drum was just right and reminded each other not to look at their feet as they danced, but to smile. Inamoud Cissé, a violin player, said he hoped that their performance would be a symbol of unity. The song and dance included music and moves from three main ethnicities in the region, songhai, Fulani and Tuareg, which had seen their divisions deepen because of the violence. “Playing music does not just give me joy but gives hope to the whole community,” said Cissé, who fled his village five years ago, after militants stole his cows and sheep and killed eight members of his extended family. “We want to show that we can be together — that despite our problems, we can keep living together.” He can play his violin in Dori, the town where he now lives, but does not dare go outside with his instrument, which radical Islamists consider haram, or forbidden. and in Dori, he said, he carries the violin above his head, worried that if it is in a bag, soldiers and militia members will mistake it for a gun. ag anasbagort, who sells grilled chicken at the markets that remain open, said that the violence has waned in towns since the arrival of volunteer militiamen in recent years but that the countryside remains dangerous. But still, ag anasbagort, who said his motorcycle was once blown up by Islamist militants, lives in fear. When he arrived in Bobo-Dioulasso, he headed straight to the hair dresser for extensions, wanting to sport orange dreads that he would be too scared to wear at home and now represented a bit of freedom. aïssatou Maiga, 24, whose cousin was killed last year by militants when he refused to join them, said she never hesitated when thinking about the nearly 400-mile journey from the sahel region to the festival. “Because when I am dancing,” she said, “it is the only time I am at ease.” Dancers dropped it low The auditorium was packed for their performance. Hassane and Cissé kicked things off, the sounds of their drum and violin filling the room. Then the dancers filed onto the stage, led by ag anasbagort and Maiga. Their traditional outfits and the composition of the song were meant to honor different ethnic groups. The first part of the song was a celebration of a Fulani dance. The audience clapped as the dancers dropped it low into a squat, the women holding calabashes used for serving bowls. Maiga, the local official, was on his knees in front of the stage, head nodding to the beat as he watched the clock, willing the dancers not to stumble and the team not to go over the 15-minute limit, as it had done the year before, leading to its disqualification. The men lifted the women above their heads, then somersaulted forward on the stage, beginning a shoulder-shimmying routine to honor songhai, then a Tuareg dance. as the beat picked up, the audience’s claps turned to increasingly raucous cheers. “They must win,” said one audience member, turning to a journalist. “Despite all our problems,” said Maiga, “this is what social cohesion looks like.” The team would not find out if it won for days — sadly, it didn’t — but its members said they weren’t nervous that night. Instead they said they were proud to be there, thinking only of the music as they sashayed to its rhythm and trying to remember the instructions to look up and smile. In their villages, it’s too dangerous to dance. But via military convoy, they reached a stage. A national arts festival in Burkina Faso, a country facing Islamist extremism, drew troupes from even the hardest-hit areas PhoTos bY CArmen YAsmine Abd Ali for The WAshingTon PosT After a nearly 400-mile journey in armored cars with soldiers, members of the Sahel team compete in Bobo-Dioulasso on April 30. The week-long festival, typically held every two years, is intended to promote the diversity of cultures across Burkina Faso’s 13 regions, celebrating everything from traditional dance to wrestling to cooking. Violin player Inamoud Cissé, left, rehearses with the flute player. “Playing music does not just give me joy but gives hope to the whole community,” he says. Ibrahim Maiga is a local official who moved from his hometown in the Sahel region to the capital years ago because he was worried about being kidnapped. “When I am dancing,” says Aïssatou Maiga, whose cousin was killed by militants when he refused to join them, “it is the only time I am at ease.” Amadou Ag Anasbagort, center, went to a hairdresser for extensions that he’d be afraid to wear at home. A few years ago, militants killed a friend of his after they caught him listening to his radio.
monday, may 6, 2024 . the washington post eZ re A9 downstairs in a ground-floor apartment that belonged to rajai’s aunt. roughly 30 seconds after rajai was taken away, mohamad, his father, heard the first gunshots and his son’s cries; then there was more gunfire, he said — “a lot, a lot” — and explosions. The father and other relatives allege that soldiers took rajai as a human shield to confront the militants, then shot him before the decisive gun battle. The IDf called him a “suspect who claimed to have hidden armed terrorists in a storage room located in his home.” After he “directed” the soldiers to the room, “the suspect distanced himself to avoid harm, but the terrorists inside the storage room fired at the forces and hit him,” Israel’s military said. “The forces did not instruct him to lead the way, and he was not standing in front of them,” the IDf said. “Look, my son was in their custody,” mohamad said. “from the minute they took him to the minute he died, they are responsible.” The family said rajai’s body was found in a debris-filled alleyway behind the house, near the corpses of three militants who had been in the downstairs apartment. His body was brought to the emergency room April 21, according to the hospital report. rajai had suffered a brain hemorrhage and skull fracture “caused by bullets,” as well as internal bleeding and shots to his chest and abdomen. mohamad, who has heart problems, said he and his wife had leaned heavily on their eldest child, including at the family store. “Anything I needed to do, he would do it for me,” he said. “I lost my life.” ‘Don’t shoot’ The family of Jihad Zandiq, 14, said they had arrived at Nur Shams around the same time that the Israelis did on April 18. Palestinian citizens of Israel, they live in Tayibe, south of Tulkarm, and were visiting Jihad’s grandfather’s house, as they did most every weekend. Jihad had arrived at the camp a day earlier, his father said. on April 18, Jihad told his parents he was going to a nearby store but did not return until the next day, his father said. He left again April 19, the day he was killed, ignoring his parents’ pleas not to go out, and went to his great-uncle’s house. His family said he was not armed when he left. Israeli soldiers near the greatuncle’s house called on fighters to come out and surrender, according to residents and Jihad’s family. When Jihad did try to surrender, he was shot in the head, said his aunt, Haneen Zandiq, who was in a nearby building and filmed the body, which she said lay in the street for 16 hours. A picture she had on her phone appeared to show Jihad with a large bullet wound in his right eye. “I heard him,” she said. “He was telling them he wanted to surrender.” other people who lived in the area where Jihad was shot said they heard him surrendering. “Don’t shoot, don’t shoot,” 33- year-old Nihaya, who spoke on the condition that she be identified only by her first name for fear of reprisal, quoted him as saying. But the soldiers were on “high alert” and were firing “randomly,” she said. mohammed Jaber, 30, Jihad’s distant cousin, said he “heard the army shouting, ‘Hand yourselves over’” and instructing those surrendering to lift their shirts. He said he heard Jihad say, “Don’t shoot, we are surrendering,” followed by the sound of “heavy gunfire.” The killing of someone who has surrendered, even a combatant, is considered a war crime under the rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Jihad’s father, Niyaz Nasr Zandiq, said his son was a ninthgrader in Tayibe who played Xbox and hoped to become an electrical engineer. He did not belong to the Tulkarm Brigade, lethal than last year. Israel says the raids are part of a campaign to weaken militant groups, like the Tulkarm Brigade, that operate in Nur Shams: local groups that have gained strength in recent years as prospects for the end of Israel’s occupation have dimmed and that have found recruits among mostly young, politically disaffected men. This article is based on more than a dozen interviews over two days inside Nur Shams and by phone, as well as on photos and videos provided by eyewitnesses and reviewed by Washington Post reporters. This camp had already weathered two large-scale incursions since october, and many smaller raids, but this was the “most violent, brutal, longest” one yet, rajai’s father said. As he spoke on the street outside his house, sirens sounded — a test of alarms meant to warn of the next raid. Zeinab, rajai’s 6-year-old daughter, ran into the house, screaming in fear. fourteen Palestinians were killed during the raid on Nur Shams, including at least two children, residents said. family members said at least three of the victims were summarily executed or used as human shields by Israeli soldiers. The dead included rajai; Jihad Zandiq, a 14-year-old boy whose family said he was surrendering to troops when he was shot in the head; and Ahmed Arref, a wounded 20-year-old militant who hid in a family’s home and was found dead after soldiers expelled the family and took over the house. ravina Shamdasani, a spokeswoman for the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human rights, said at an April 23 news conference that the office had “received reports that several Palestinians were unlawfully killed” and that soldiers “used unarmed Palestinians to shield their forces from attack and killed others in apparent extrajudicial executions.” The Israel Defense forces denied allegations of extrajudicial killings and using civilians as human shields. It said that Palestinian militants, not Israeli soldiers, had killed rajai and that Jihad, the 14-year-old, had attacked Israeli forces. They said they were “not aware” of the incident involving the wounded militant. fourteen “terrorists” were killed by Israeli forces in closequarters fighting and 10 Israeli soldiers were wounded, the IDf said, though it did not provide evidence that all those killed were militants. The operation appeared to target the head of the Tulkarm Brigade, mohammed Jaber, better known as Abu Shujaa, who survived. more than 450 West Bank Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military since oct. 7, according to the U.N. office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (oCHA). Nearly 40 percent of the fatalities were recorded in camps such as Nur Shams, established decades ago for Palestinians who were forced from their homes or fled after Israel’s founding in 1948. Nine Israelis, including five members of the security forces, have been killed in the West Bank over the same period, according to oCHA. In the attack on Nur Shams, Israeli forces used ground troops, bulldozers and drones to inflict “unprecedented and apparently wanton destruction on the camp and its infrastructure,” according to the U.N. human rights office. As the militants fought the army, they fled over rooftops and fought from homes, residents said. The Israelis “have been invading the camps regularly. They want to suppress any form of resistance,” Palestinian opposition politician mustafa Barghouti said during a visit to Nur Shams a few days after the raid. over the past six months, he said, Israeli forces “became totally liberal in doing anything, without any consideration of any right, or any restraint, or any regulation.” It is “lawlessness,” he said. “Total lawlessness.” ‘I lost my life’ rajai Abu Sweilem lived on the second floor of a large building owned by his family, across the patio from his father and mother. During the raid on Nur Shams, soldiers took over rajai’s apartment, his relatives said — a pattern repeated throughout the camp, as soldiers occupied homes, residents said. When the soldiers came for him, rajai was staying in his parents’ apartment with his 8-year-old son, his father said. A group of militants was holed up WeST BANk from A1 which is led by Jihad’s cousin, the father said. But it seemed clear the boy wanted to be among the fighters, or at least to watch the battle. “father, forgive me,” he said as he ran away from the house April 19. And he left behind a will, which his family discovered after he was killed. Calling himself a “mujahid,” a term used for people who fight in the name of Islam, he wrote that he was “on the path of liberating Palestine from the filth of this occupier, who only knows the language of murder and destruction.” “most of the children of the camp write wills,” his father said. “They see death from the army every day.” Jaber, the distant cousin, said Jihad “thought it was a game, and he could follow the young men from place to place,” referring to the militants. He also said Jihad did not carry a weapon. While Jihad was gone, his father, Niyaz, was interrogated by Israeli officers and beaten, he recounted, showing bruises he said he received from being struck by a gun. The IDf said Jihad was “a terrorist in the terror infrastructure of Nur Shams and during the activity, he threw grenades and fired at IDf forces. The IDf is not aware of live fire towards unarmed individuals.” The IDf did not respond to a question about whether soldiers had beaten his father. Days after the raid, blood still pooled in the cramped alleyways of Nur Shams, near the flower pots residents use to brighten the cracked concrete. Some apartments were torn apart by gunfire, with bullet holes on every surface. In one apartment, on a wooden wardrobe, someone had written, in Hebrew, the word “revenge.” The U.N. humanitarian affairs office said an initial assessment after the raid found that 11 households with a total of 55 people “were displaced when their homes were rendered uninhabitable by bulldozers or explosives.” The operation “entailed massive bulldozing of several vital road sections inside the camp and those leading to Tulkarm city, causing severe damage to water, sewage, electricity, and telecommunication networks.” one family was sheltering from the raid when a 20-year-old fighter, Ahmed Arref, entered the house from the roof, trailing blood. “Save me,” he said, according to Khawla Jaber, 63, who lived in the house. “Cover me. forgive me,” Jaber recalled him saying. She read him verses from the Quran as he sat in an armchair, bleeding “like a fountain” from bullet wounds in his legs that the family tried to treat. Israeli soldiers arrived and asked the family if Arref had a weapon. The family said he did not. “You are responsible. If he has anything on him, you will be dead,” she quoted one of the soldiers, an Arabic speaker, as saying. The family went upstairs to the roof. A video they recorded showed the scene they returned to, about 10 to 20 minutes later: Arref, dead on the floor of a bedroom, lying on a bloodied carpet with what the family said were several fresh bullet wounds, including two to the head. When reporters visited, the carpet had been removed. The tile beneath it was chipped by what the family said were the shots fired by the Israeli soldiers into the wounded man. Arref’s father, Ghaleb mahmoud Arref, 54, said he was away from the neighborhood when his son was shot. Ahmed, who had been wanted by the IDf for about two years, did not spend much time at home — just stopping by to eat from time to time. They had quarreled over his decision to fight. “I told him to forget about this path you are taking,” he said. His wife was so worried about her son that she became ill. Among those wounded in the raid was a nurse, Hamza Jitawi, 21, who said he was shot in the leg by an Israeli sniper as he responded to a call to help an injured man. Jitawi said he had been wearing the red and white vest of the Palestine red Crescent Society. The IDf declined to comment on the shooting. The bullet went through his left shin and shattered his tibia. His recovery will take a year, he said, grimacing in pain. During previous raids, he said, Israeli soldiers would fire warning shots at paramedics if they wanted them to stay away from an area. “This time,” he said, the shooting was “direct.” Residents accuse Israeli forces of executions in West Bank PHoTos by Heidi Levine for THe WasHingTon PosT FROM TOP: A person walks amid the destruction in Nur Shams, near Tulkarm in the West Bank, on April 23, several days after an Israeli military operation that killed 14 Palestinians in the refugee camp. Women distribute electronic prayer beads with photographs of those killed in the raid in Nur Shams. A relative shows a photo of 14-year-old Jihad Zandiq, whose family said he was surrendering to Israeli troops when he was fatally shot in the head.
A10 eZ re the washington post . monday, may 6, 2024 term. It was a Vatican event for a thousand underprivileged and homeless people of rome. But Laura and Claudia were guests of honor, seated directly across from the pope. Laura reached past a centerpiece of daisies and bottles of fanta and Coca-Cola to hand him a gift: a vessel and straw for maté, the herbal tea popular in both their countries. over plates of cannelloni, they talked of South American food and other lighthearted things. The pope refrained from probing questions or pointed advice. “Pope francis never criticized me or told me to change my life,” Laura said. V ideo footage of the bus ride, however, was like catnip for the pope’s critics. Laura — who could be seen in one clip standing in the aisle, sunglasses tucked into the neckline of a form-fitting magenta top — said she received missives via facebook questioning why a trans woman should be allowed to share a meal with a pope. In an op-ed published soon after, Héctor Aguer, the bishop emeritus of La Plata, Argentina, denounced the church for succumbing to what he called “inclusive mania” and accused francis’s pontificate, with its reluctance to condemn anyone, of promoting “bad theology.” Vitriol swirled on social media. “Another 20 years and they will be having transgender drag queen arch bishops probably,” wrote X user Evan Dyer, who describes himself as a “God fearing” Texas republican. John-Henry Westen, co-founder of the conservative U.S. religious news outlet LifeSite, questioned the seeming hypocrisy of a pontiff who in 2015 compared gender theory to nuclear weapons. “So how do we square Pope francis saying that gender ideology is one of the most dangerous ideological colonization and then the same Pope francis blesses the behavior of transgender individuals?” Westen wrote. The pope would say he was not blessing the behavior but the individuals. A Vatican document and across central Italy. “Groups of trans come all the time,” francis told fellow Jesuits in Lisbon last August. “The first time they came, they were crying. I was asking them why. one of them told me, ‘I didn’t think the pope would receive me!’ Then, after the first surprise, they made a habit of coming back. Some write to me, and I email them back. Everyone is invited! I realized these people feel rejected.” Those visits were hardly hushhush, but neither were they big media events — until November, when the Vatican agreed to let Don Andrea bring a literal bus load of transgender women to lunch with the pope, with journalists invited along for the ride. They drove past the umbrella pines of the Lazio countryside. Several of the trans women clutched rosaries and prayed. others told off-color jokes. Claudia, in a gray turtleneck, giggled as she opened her purse to reveal a smuggled beer. “I won’t drink it in front of the pope,” she promised. There was chatter about francis’s recent gestures toward the LGBTQ+ community. Ten days earlier, the Vatican had released its guidance that transgender people could be baptized and serve as godparents. Before that came the letter signaling the pope’s openness to blessings for same-sex couples. Church traditionalists were fuming. At a historic synod on the future of the church in october, held in the same Vatican hall where Laura would meet the pope again before Easter, a cluster of conservative bishops — from Poland, Hungary, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Australia — had railed against the blessings and described homosexuality as “disgusting” and “unnatural.” Claudia defended the pontiff. “The pope is a person who believes in equality for everyone,” she said. “He does not discriminate; he welcomes. He sees us, he is open to us.” Those on the bus basked in the glow of what felt like acceptance. Laura marveled: They were about to dine with the pope. “Lunch” that day was a loose Jeanningros, an elderly french nun who ministered outside rome and knew the pope, had taken an interest in the Torvaianica group. She wrote to the papal household asking if she could bring four of them to one of the regular Wednesday audiences. No one responded. So she submitted a standard ticket request and, together with Don Andrea, brought them unannounced. one in the first group was Claudia Victoria Salas. She was a 60-year-old Argentine who had aged out of prostitution and was cooking and cleaning at the Samoa, a honky-tonk boardinghouse and nightclub where several of the women lived. on the night francis was named pope, Claudia had dashed to St. Peter’s Square to wave their national flag. on the day she was to meet him, she rose at 3 a.m. to make him empanadas. At the Vatican, Don Andrea sensed some of the pope’s aides shrinking from their group. But francis appeared to be delighted. Claudia cried as he blessed her. “You don’t know the feeling,” she said, crying again during a retelling in her small apartment — filled with snapshots, calendars and books about francis. “To be like this, who we are, looked down upon, with all our troubles, and to have the pope see you as a person. The pope! To bless you. To treat you humanely. To accept you. I’m telling you. You have no idea.” The pope’s receptiveness prompted Sister Geneviève to ask: Could more of the “girls” come? He replied, “I want to see them — they must all, all, all come.” “You know, when he repeats something three times, it’s because he really means it,” the nun said. T he visits became a regular occurrence, with people coming from Torvaianica hundred there. But in the pandemic, it was manna from heaven. When vaccines were approved, the office of Papal Charities offered appointments. People without residency papers weren’t eligible for jabs through Italy’s National Health Service. So the Torvaianica contingent was led to into the vastness of the Paul VI Hall to get shots from Vatican stores. “They saved our lives,” Laura said. L aura picked a hot pink blouse, jeans and white sandals for her first encounter with the pope, on a summer morning in 2022. She mugged for photos in the colonnades of St. Peter’s, along with other trans women and a samesex couple Don Andrea had brought along. She had cried on the phone with the priest the night before. What would she say? How should she act? “Just be yourself,” he said. francis, who had been dealing with knee pain, sat in a highbacked chair during his open-air audience that day. When it was her turn, Laura strode up and looked him in the eyes. “I’m a transsexual from Paraguay,” she blurted out in Italian. He smiled and replied, “You are also a child of God.” She asked for his blessing, and he touched both her shoulders. “God bless you,” the pope said. “You, too,” Laura responded. When francis laughed, she asked him why. “We should speak Spanish, we’re South American,” he said, linking their identities. As he moved away, she felt hot tears and adjusted her sunglasses to hide them. The meetings between the pope and the trans women had started two months earlier, in April 2022. Sister Geneviève hadn’t realized — his innocence sometimes verging on comical. But his door, he told them, was open to all. Laura arrived on foot. She had no car, so she walked the mile and a half, armed with a grocery bag and hope. Don Andrea asked for her phone number and encouraged her to go home. A few hours later, at 7 p.m., her cellphone rang. It was Don Andrea. He was outside. “I swear, he brought everything: pasta, rice, sugar, pâté, olives,” she recalled. “Everything in boxes. It was 400, 500 euros’ worth of food. He told me to call him whenever I needed anything.” W riting to Pope francis was Don Andrea’s suggestion. Some of the food he’d been distributing to the trans women of Torvaianica was from the Vatican’s office of Papal Charities. They could thank the pope, he told them, and articulate their needs. And so one evening, marcela Sanchez finished a dinner of gnocchi with chicken, put on pajamas, shut off the lights and began to compose a note to the pope in the glow of her Samsung mobile. marcela was a sex worker in her late 40s who, like francis, hailed from Argentina. She opened up to the pope about the police officers back home who’d held her down, beat her and raped her. She wrote of shopping for groceries there by night out of fear of being seen, and bashed, by day. At 1 a.m., she sent the text to Don Andrea, who forwarded it to francis. The pope wrote back. In a handwritten letter, he addressed her using the feminine in Spanish: “my dear marcela, thank you very much for your email. … I respect you and accompany you with my compassion and my prayer. Anything I can help you with, please let me know.” The pope’s charity office began sending money to Torvaianica, in addition to the food. Not fortunes — a hundred euros here, two on their second meeting, they chatted over lunch. He came to know her well enough to ask about her health. on top of her longtime HIV, she’d had a recent cancer diagnosis. During treatment, the church sourced her a comfortable hotel room in the shadow of the Colosseum and provided food, money, medicine and tests. The outreach reflected an unconventional pope in the most radical stage of his papacy. from his early days in 2013, when he famously declared, “Who am I to judge,” francis has urged the Catholic Church to embrace all comers, including those living in conflict with its teachings. Now, his unprecedented opening to the LGBTQ+ community has reached its zenith — and ballooned into the most explosive issue of his tenure, fueling a bitter clash with senior conservative clerics, who have denounced him in remarkably harsh terms. In recent months, francis has given explicit approval for transgender godparents and blessings of same-sex couples. He penned a defense of secular civil unions — once described by his predecessor as “contrary to the common good.” His pronouncements have sometimes seemed contradictory or in tension — authorizing baptisms for transgender people one day, while warning of the moral risks of “sex-change intervention” on another. He has said “being homosexual is not a crime” but hasn’t altered church teaching that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered.” Nevertheless, as the 87-yearold pontiff moves to cement his legacy, he has been emphatic about his overarching vision: the open door. Nothing made that point more vividly than his decision over the past two years to welcome nearly 100 transgender women, many of them sex workers, into the sacred spaces of the Vatican. These were imperfect people who had lived through rejection, vice and violence, some losing faith along the way. Like Laura. She’d worked the streets on two continents, starting at age 15. She did time in an Italian jail for cutting another trans woman in a fight. “Soy hecho de hierro,” she’d say. I’m made of iron. She apologized to no one for her life, up to and including the pope. Yet through once unimaginable encounters with the supreme pontiff of 1.4 billion Catholics, and with the support of a local priest and nun, she’d begun to soften. for the first time in years, she’d started to pray. If she beat her cancer, she knew she faced a decision: return to prostitution or, as her supporters hoped, forge a new life. from the front row, on the last papal audience before Easter, she kept her eyes on the pope as he approached in his wheelchair. “Pope francis!” she said, reaching for his hand. “Laura!” beamed the pope. L aura’s connection to Pope francis was set in motion on a brisk march evening at the start of the pandemic, when a small priest with a high voice pulled his copper-colored fiat Panda up to her dingy apartment building in Torvaianica. Twenty-four miles south of rome, near a gay beach and a military barracks, the workingclass town was a hub for transgender sex workers, many of them undocumented Latin Americans. Like others, Laura worked a wooded grove. Clients would identify her in their headlights and then accompany her to a shack with a mattress. But Italy’s emergence as a global hot spot for the coronavirus stifled that business. Laura was in a panic. No clients meant no food. It was through other trans women who worked in the woods that she heard about “Don Andrea.” The rev. Andrea Conocchia, a liberal priest originally from rome, was doling out food to migrants from the inner courtyard of the boxy Church of the Immaculate Blessed Virgin. Among those who came were cooks, maids and dishwashers who’d lost off-the-books jobs. An Argentine named Paola was the first trans woman to show up. “Padrecito,” she asked with trepidation behind oversize black shades, speaking half-Spanish, half-Italian. “Can you help me like you’re doing with the others?” The next day, Paola returned with a friend. Then again, with more. “Padrecito,” one of them ventured while in the priest’s office another day, “you may or may not have figured this out, but we are sex workers.” He raised an eyebrow. He POPE from A1 Francis is emphatic about his vision: The open door alessandro Penso for the Washington Post alessandro Penso for the Washington Post andrea conocchia TOP: Laura Esquivel receives the ceremonial washing of the feet at the Church of the Immaculate Blessed Virgin in Torvaianica, Italy, in March. ABOVE: Laura, in pink, poses as part of a group attending Pope Francis’s public audience on June 22, 2022. LEFT: Claudia Victoria Salas keeps a photo in her apartment of her friend Naomi Cabral meeting with Francis. “Pope Francis never criticized me or told me to change my life.” Laura Esquivel, on her meetings with the pope at the Vatican
monday, may 6, 2024 . the washington post eZ re A11 BRAZiL 75 dead, 103 missing in flooding’s latest toll Massive floods in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state have killed at least 75 people over the past seven days, and another 103 were reported missing, local authorities said Sunday. At least 155 people were injured, while damage from the rains forced more than 88,000 people from their homes. Some 16,000 took refuge in schools, gymnasiums and other temporary shelters. The floods left a wake of devastation, including landslides, washed-out roads and collapsed bridges across the state. Operators reported electricity and communications outages. More than 800,000 people were without a water supply as of Sunday, according to the civil defense agency, which cited figures from water company Corsan. “I repeat and insist: The devastation to which we are being subjected is unprecedented,” state governor Eduardo Leite said Sunday. He had previously said the state will need a “kind of ‘Marshall Plan’ to be rebuilt.” Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visited Rio Grande do Sul for a second time Sunday. He and his team surveyed the flooded streets of Porto Alegre from a helicopter. The deluge started April 29 and was expected to last through Sunday. In some areas, more than 11.8 inches of rain fell in less than a week, Brazil’s National Institute of Meteorology said Thursday. The heavy rains were the fourth such environmental disaster in the state in a year, following floods in July, September and November 2023 that killed 75 people. Weather across South America is affected by El Niño, a naturally occurring climate phenomenon that warms surface waters in the Equatorial Pacific region. In Brazil, El Niño has historically caused droughts in the north and intense rainfall in the south. This year, El Niño’s effects have been particularly dramatic, with a historic drought in the Amazon. Scientists say extreme weather is occurring more frequently because of human-caused climate change. — Associated Press UKRAiNe Kharkiv hit by drones; Russia claims village As Ukraine marked its third Easter at war, Russia on Sunday launched a barrage of drones concentrated in Ukraine’s east, wounding more than a dozen people, and claimed its troops took control of a village they had been targeting. Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 24 Shahed drones, of which 23 were shot down. Six people, including a child, were wounded in a drone strike in the eastern Kharkiv region, regional governor Oleh Synyehubov said. Another 14 were wounded in an airstrike Sunday afternoon on the Kharkiv regional capital, also called Kharkiv, the regional prosecutor’s office said. The Russian Defense Ministry announced Sunday that its troops had taken control of the village of Ocheretyne, which has been in the crosshairs of Russian forces in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. Drone footage obtained by the Associated Press showed the village battered by fighting. Not a single person is seen in the footage obtained late Friday, and no building in Ocheretyne appears to have been left untouched by the fighting. Officials in Kyiv urged residents to follow Orthodox Easter services online amid safety concerns. Serhiy Popko, head of the Kyiv city administration, warned that “even on such bright days of celebration, we can expect evil deeds from the aggressor.” — Associated Press A rising challenger to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Sunday held what he called the largest countryside political demonstration in the country’s recent history, the latest stop on his campaign tour that has mobilized thousands across Hungary’s rural heartland. Some 10,000 people gathered in Debrecen, Hungary’s secondlargest city, in support of Peter Magyar, a political newcomer who in less than three months has shot to prominence on pledges to end problems including official corruption and a declining quality of life. Magyar, a former insider within Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party, has since February denounced the nationalist Orban as running an entrenched “mafia state” and has declared war on what he calls a propaganda machine run by the government. Togo’s ruling party has won a majority of seats in the West African nation’s parliament, the election commission said as it announced provisional results of last week’s vote, which was rejected by the opposition as part of a move to extend President Faure Gnassingbé’s tenure. Provisional results late Saturday showed the ruling Union for the Republic party won 108 out of 113 seats in the vote, which tested support for a proposed new constitution that would scrap presidential elections and give lawmakers the power to choose the president. Togo has been ruled by the same family for 57 years. Gnassingbé took office after elections that the opposition described as a sham. The opposition says the proposed new constitution makes it likely he will stay on when his mandate expires in 2025, possibly until 2033. The number of people killed by flooding and other impacts of the heavy rains battering Kenya has risen to 228, the Interior Ministry said Sunday. The torrential rains that have caused widespread flooding and landslides across the country in recent weeks are forecast to worsen in May. In a statement, the ministry said further flooding was “expected in low lying areas, riparian areas and urban areas while landslides/ mudslides may occur in areas with steep slopes, escarpments and ravines.” The deluges have destroyed homes, roads, bridges and other infrastructure. More than 212,000 people have been displaced, the ministry said. — From news services Digest her unlikely allies. None of this affected her thinking on gender. For Laura and the other trans women of Torvaianica, that was a long settled question. But sex work was something she wavered on. At times she talked about returning to it if her cancer treatments were a success. “I like life. I like prostitution. I like men,” she said in February. “I don’t have to explain myself to anyone.” But just before her Holy Week meeting with the pope, she felt less certain. Nervously lighting a cigarette at a cafe off St. Peter’s Square, she said Don Andrea and the pope’s almoner, a Polish cardinal, were trying to change her mind. She inhaled the smoke. Let it out. She didn’t want to let them down. Maybe, she mused, she’d go back to Paraguay. Retire. “I’m getting too old for this anyway,” she said. O n Holy Wednesday, Laura was anxious and exhausted. She was awaiting biopsy results, unsure if she’d beaten her cancer. She hadn’t been sleeping. Her legs hurt from her treatments. Her mind raced, jumping from thought to thought. In the Vatican hall, she fidgeted in her chair. She was sitting with Don Andrea, Sister Geneviève and a trans man who wanted to be a priest. When Francis arrived, pushed by aides in his wheelchair, he made his way along the front row, grasping hands and sharing words with each guest. To the trans man, he was kind, if noncommittal, opening no door, nor closing one. “Keep talking to Jesus, because that’s the safe way forward,” he said. Francis arrived at Laura. How was she? And by the way, he loved those empanadas she’d made. “I’ll make more whenever you want,” Laura said. “Please,” she said. “Bless me.” The pope lifted his fingers to her forehead and made the sign of the cross. “Thank you, Pope Francis,” she said. “Thank you.” ana Vanessa herrero in Caracas, Venezuela, contributed to this report. on the Italian coast, she’d stopped believing. She found reprieve in cocaine, liquor, the company of clients. She’d returned to prayer in 2020, prompted, she said, by Don Andrea’s kindness. Every week or two, she’d cross the cobblestone of Torvaianica’s main square and kneel in the well-worn pews of his sienna-hued church. Her friends in Paraguay were “shocked” by her newfound faith. “They couldn’t believe it,” she said. Her encounters with the pope, and the help from the church during her cancer treatments, strengthened her connection. She was still dishing dirty stories when the priests weren’t around, and sometimes when they were. But when she felt well enough, she went to Sunday Mass. Sometimes she’d pop a clonazepam to chase away overwhelming thoughts of cancer, her uncertain future. But more often, she prayed. Acceptance, not proselytizing, had lured her back to faith. The pope, Don Andrea, Sister Geneviève and the Catholic church had become comforting figures and she’d lived undocumented since 1993 — then helped register her with the National Health Service. A medical clinic run by the Office of Papal Charities offered tests and medicines. Sister Geneviève identified a three-star hotel where management was willing to let her stay free, including in-room meals, during six weeks of chemotherapy. Later, the French nun secured her a private room in a Rome shelter not far from the Vatican, while the papal charity office continued to provide occasional cash stipends. Several times, the pope asked Don Andrea about Laura’s health. “It’s almost like Laura has become a friend of the pope,” the priest reflected. Laura thanked the pope for his concern by bringing homemade empanadas to the papal household. When the guards let her in, she turned to Don Andrea. “I feel like someone,” she said. “Laura, you are someone,” he replied. Her faith over the years had fluctuated. Somewhere between her father forcing her to shave her long locks as a teen and the violence in the vice-filled woods shouldn’t be doing this,’ that [the trans women] should stay out of the church.” A man in his 80s with a walking stick, who declined to give his name, muttered: Don Andrea “has done good things and things that are less than good. A priest should be called to a higher standard. That’s all I’m saying.” Asked later about the mood, Don Andrea said: “Some of my parishioners will ask me whether being homosexual is a sin, whether the girls that we have helped are praying, whether they’re coming to confession, or to Mass. Some of them, many of them, will inquire whether [my transgender parishioners] mean to change their lives. I respond that some indeed told me they were meaning to. But not all of them. Because that’s the only life they’ve known.” L aura’s allies in the church offered support without conditions. After Laura’s colon cancer diagnosis in June, Don Andrea found a pro bono lawyer to legalize her residency in Italy — where Naomi’s family in Argentina refused her remains, so Don Andrea held a funeral for her at his church. Then a second trans woman who had met the pope died — of complications from HIV. Giuliana’s friends said she’d let herself go, given up. Don Andrea said Masses in honor of Naomi and Giuliana. The services brought the trans community of Torvaianica together — and gave them an additional reason to attend Mass. In one of those services, in late March, 17 trans women sat among 50 or so other parishioners. Laura spirited from pew to pew during liturgies and readings. Daisy Spitaglieri, 61, a Bolivian who danced in Italian nightclubs in her heyday and met the pope in 2022, wore Jackie O sunglasses and sat reverently with her Chihuahua, Rolando, by her side. In another pew, Claudia whispered to a friend and sneaked sips of Peroni beer from her purse. The trans worshipers drew stares as they chatted through the service and a later catechism session. “Shush!” Don Andrea said, quieting the din. At times, getting his trans congregants to focus was like “trying to herd cats,” he said. He welcomed them at Mass and ministered to them — sometimes covering his ears with a cry of “mamma mia” when their talk turned racy. But he dissuaded several of them who wanted to regularly volunteer at the parish, worrying that a more frequent presence could prove disruptive. “Their threshold is not mine,” he said of some of his parishioners. Several days later, a few longtime parishioners were cleaning the church. “Some people here are wary [of the trans women], especially the elderly,” said Maria Concetta Tranchina, 65. “They will grumble. They won’t [outright criticize] them, but they will shoot dirty looks.” Giuseppina Cerqua, 65, chimed in. “I think most [of the elderly here] are like that. They’ll say things like: ‘Don Andrea in April would repeat Francis’s criticism of gender theory, as well as a call “to acknowledge the fundamental dignity inherent in every person.” In a recent clarification to an American nun who worked in LGBTQ+ ministry, Francis said his criticism of gender theory should not be read as contradicting his basic belief that “transgender people must be accepted and integrated into society.” In an interview with The Washington Post, one of the pope’s leading critics, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, accused Francis of playing to the “digital culture” of our times, of knowing that the images of trans women at a highprofile papal event would cause a stir. “It’s absolutely clear that Jesus excluded nobody, but it was also the call of his to conversion against our sins,” Mueller said. The trans women, he noted, “had spoken out publicly, [saying] that this encounter with the pope was a justification of their own behavior. And this cannot be.” P apal contact was certainly no guarantee of an epiphany, or a Hallmark Channel ending. On an October morning in 2022, Claudia opened an iron gate to an apartment block at the Samoa. For two days, her friend Naomi Cabral hadn’t responded to calls or texts, and Claudia was anxious. She climbed a staircase to Naomi’s unit and knocked. No one answered. She knocked harder, pushing open the unlocked door with her fist. She was stunned. The naked body of the 47-year-old, 6-foot-3 Argentine was facedown on the bed. Only a few months earlier, Naomi had met Pope Francis. Now she was dead. Investigators swooped in. They reconstructed the crime, analyzed her phone records, implemented a wiretap and, within a month, arrested a man they identified as the last client to see her and whom they overheard admitting to killing someone. Had it not been for Naomi’s connections with the pope, her friends insisted, the police never would have pursued a suspect with such zeal. alessandro Penso for the Washington Post Laura Esquivel speaks with the Rev. Andrea Conocchia, known as “Don Andrea,” after Mass in March. The two met in a town south of Rome at the start of the pandemic. LIMITED TIME OFFER $500 OFF* GET A FREE INSPECTION * Ten percent off any job over $2500 up to a max of $500. Coupon must be presented at time of inspection. Offer may not be combined with any other offer. Limit one per customer. Ask inspector for further details. Promo valid through 6/30/2024. HIC#410516000653 | 50637 | 69678 | WV027473 BECAUSE YOUR FOUNDATION IS CRACKED. 703-997-9316 FOUNDATION REPAIR BASEMENT WATERPROOFING CRAWL SPACE REPAIR CONCRETE LIFTING Lffiff !fl fl #fi ff #fifl ffiffffi A ffi"flff ffiff noflfflnocffl *arrants can destro+ li)es. are the+ so eas+ to obtain and carr+ out#
A12 eZ re the washington post . monday, may 6, 2024 This article is by Shira Rubin, Rachel Pannett, Annabelle Timsit, Lior Soroka, Adela Suliman and Susannah George Hamas claimed credit Sunday for a mortar attack on the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Israel as cease-fire negotiations dragged on with no breakthrough in sight. The talks are viewed by some U.S. officials as the “last chance” to avoid a return to allout war in Gaza. Three soldiers were killed in the attack on Kerem Shalom, according to the Israel Defense Forces, and the crossing was closed for humanitarian aid. The IDF alleged that the mortar fire came from Rafah, the city in southern Gaza that is home to more than a million displaced Palestinians and, according to Israel, the last intact Hamas battalions. Israel’s determination to invade Rafah, despite concerns from Washington and other allies, remains a key sticking point in cease-fire negotiations. Hamas insists that any hostage-release deal must include a permanent end to the war and a withdrawal of Israeli troops from the enclave. On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Hamas of “holding up the release of our hostages” and said Israel was “ready for a pause in the fighting.” Israel “has shown a willingness for significant movement” in the talks, he said, and accused Hamas of holding on to “extreme positions.” But many in Israel increasingly believe it is their prime minister who is standing in the way of a deal. Thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Tel Aviv and other cities Saturday night, calling for an immediate agreement to free the 132 hostages in Hamas captivity and a new round of elections to replace Netanyahu’s government — the most far right in Israel’s history. With his public refusal to end the war, Netanyahu “is once again trying to torpedo the only chance there is now to save the abductees,” said Einav Zangauker, whose son Matan was dragged into Gaza with his girlfriend from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7. On Sunday, a group of hostage families demonstrated outside the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem as the war cabinet convened. “Today, you need to demonstrate leadership and make difficult decisions, a courageous decision,” said Albert Ariev, the father of 19-year-old hostage Karina Ariev. “There are 132 families awaiting your verdict, and millions of citizens hoping for change.” The current proposal, submitted to Hamas last week, includes an initial 40-day cease-fire, during which Israeli troops would suspend combat operations and withdraw from populated areas. At the same time, Hamas would begin releasing hostages in exchange for the freeing of Palestinians in Israeli prisons. But Israel did not send a delegation to the negotiations in Cairo on Sunday, an Israeli official said, and Hamas officials returned from Cairo to their base in Qatar, which is under growing pressure from the United States to expel the group if it blocks the latest cease-fire proposal. CIA Director William J. Burns also traveled to Qatar on Sunday to prevent the talks from collapsing, according to an official briefed on the talks. Both officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy. Earlier, Hamas officials had expressed hope that a deal could be reached after months of fractious on-and-off negotiations, but they appeared unwilling to compromise on a definitive end to the fighting. “What does [a cease-fire] agreement mean if cease-fire is not the first of its results?” the group said in a statement. Netanyahu reiterated last week that Israel will launch a military operation in Rafah regardless of whether a deal is reached, a line echoed by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday during a visit to central Gaza. “We recognize alarming signs that Hamas actually does not intend to follow any agreement with us,” he said. “This means action in Rafah and the entire Gaza Strip in the near future.” Here’s what to know l Israel’s government voted unanimously Sunday to shut down Al Jazeera’s offices in Israel, calling the outlet a threat to national security. Video footage tweeted by Israel’s Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi showed Israeli police entering the network’s Jerusalem bureau and confiscating equipment. The network has vowed to “pursue all available legal channels,” while the United Nations has urged Israel to “overturn the ban.” l Northern Gaza is already experiencing a “full-blown famine” that is “moving its way south,” Cindy McCain, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, said in an interview with NBC News on Sunday. The United Nations has been saying since midMarch that a famine is “imminent” in Gaza but has not yet made an official declaration. l Four civilians were killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanon’s state news agency. The attack took place in the town of Mays al-Jabal, close to the Israeli border. The IDF said Hezbollah launched about 40 projectiles into northern Israel, but some were intercepted. No casualties were reported. l Israel’s Defense Ministry briefed more than 10 humanitarian groups last week on its planned operation in Rafah, according to representatives from three international aid agencies, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to freely discuss the briefing. U.S. officials have insisted that Israel provide for the safe evacuation of the more than a million displaced Palestinians sheltering in the city. l At least 34,683 people have been killed and 78,018 injured in Gaza since the war began, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says the majority of the dead are women and children. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, including more than 300 soldiers, and says 263 soldiers have been killed since the launch of its military operation in Gaza. Hamas claims attack on border crossing as Gaza cease-fire talks drag on ISmAeL Abu dAyyAh/AP Palestinian medics tend to a wounded youth after Israeli bombardment in Rafah early Saturday. There is no breakthrough in sight in the negotiations for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. BY KAREEM FAHIM AND ADELA SULIMAN JERUSALEM — Israel’s government moved Sunday to shut down the Al Jazeera Media Network’s operations in Israel, clamping down on one of the few international broadcasters providing largely uninterrupted coverage of the Gaza war. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the decision followed a unanimous vote by Israel’s war cabinet, posting on X that “the incitement channel Al Jazeera will be closed in Israel.” In a separate statement, he accused Al Jazeera correspondents of having “harmed the security of Israel” and said “the time has come to eject Hamas’s mouthpiece from our country.” Israel’s actions placed it in the company of several autocratic countries in the region that have tried to stifle the network — which has attracted praise and controversy since it was founded nearly 30 years ago and helped reshape the media landscape in the Arab world. “This is a dark day for the media,” the board of Israel’s Foreign Press Association said in a statement. “This is a dark day for democracy.” The move also threatened to rankle Qatar, Al Jazeera’s sponsor, at a time when the country is playing a key role as mediator in cease-fire negotiations between Hamas and Israel. On Sunday afternoon, several uniformed and plainclothes Israeli officers were seen by a Washington Post reporter entering one of Al Jazeera’s offices in a hotel in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. The officers carted out camera equipment, cases and cardboard boxes as a group of photographers looked on. “They confiscated the equipment and closed the office, as per the order,” Stefanie Dekker, a senior foreign correspondent for Al Jazeera English, said as she left the office, referring to the government edict shutting down the channel. In a statement Sunday, the network criticized what it called a “deceptive and slanderous move,” occurring less than a week after World Press Freedom Day. “Al Jazeera Media Network strongly condemns and denounces this criminal act that violates human rights and the basic right to access of information. Al Jazeera affirms its right to continue to provide news and information to its global audiences,” it said. It added that its news websites had been blocked and some transmissions halted in Israel, while its staff had accreditations withdrawn. The network said it “vehemently rejects the allegations presented by Israeli authorities suggesting professional media standards have been violated,” and accused Israel of attempting to “conceal its actions in the Gaza Strip.” It was not immediately clear whether the government order would affect the channel’s operations in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, or the ability of visiting correspondents for the channel to remain in Israel. Imran Khan, another senior correspondent for Al Jazeera English, said in a post on Instagram that the ban “was only from Israel” and would not stop the channel from broadcasting from the West Bank or Gaza. The network was created in 1996 and includes English- and Arabic-language news channels, as well as news websites and a large social media presence. Funded by the Qatari government, it quickly became known for hosting freewheeling debates on delicate topics, previously unheard of on state-run Arab media. Its audience grew as it covered the U.S.-led military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the Arab Spring uprisings that began in late 2010. In recent years, the Arabiclanguage channels have earned the ire of regional governments for giving space to Islamist groups, including militant organizations like Hamas, which frequently provides the network with exclusives. Since the beginning of the Gaza war, Al Jazeera reporters across the enclave have provided intimate and highly critical coverage of Israel’s military operations. Other international outlets have been barred by Israel and Egypt from entering Gaza. The channel’s employees in Israel and Palestinian territories have repeatedly come under fire over the years. Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian American correspondent for the network, was killed by Israeli gunfire while on assignment in the West Bank in May 2022. Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in Jerusalem, Walid Omary, told the network Sunday that there have been more than 50 attacks against Al Jazeera journalists since Oct. 7, when Hamas militants killed about 1,200 people inside Israel. In December, Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa, 45, was killed by an Israeli drone attack as he reported in Khan Younis. A veteran Gaza correspondent, Wael al-Dahdouh, was also injured in the attack. Dahdouh’s son Hamza, also a journalist, and drone operator Mustafa Thuraya were killed in an Israeli drone strike in January. The network vowed Sunday to “pursue all available legal channels through international legal institutions in its quest to protect both its rights and journalists, as well as the public’s right to information.” The Committee to Protect Journalists had called on Israeli authorities not to impose a ban when it was first proposed it October, saying that a “plurality of media voices is essential in order to hold power to account, especially in times of war.” Israel’s Foreign Press Association said the move to shutter Al Jazeera was “cause for concern for all supporters of a free press.” “With this decision, Israel joins a dubious club of authoritarian governments to ban the station,” the group said. “We urge the government to reverse this harmful step and uphold its commitment to freedom of the press — including outlets whose coverage it may not like.” The United Nations’ Human Rights office also urged the Israeli government to overturn the ban. As of Friday, at least 97 journalists and media workers have been killed in the war so far, according to preliminary investigations by the CPJ — among them 92 Palestinians, two Israelis and three Lebanese nationals. “Israeli military authorities adamantly deny targeting journalists or provide only scant information when they acknowledge press killings,” the CPJ said in its latest report. “Critical information about their lives and work may have been lost forever.” The cabinet decision Sunday comes a month after Israeli lawmakers voted 71-10 in favor of the bill that allowed Netanyahu’s government to ban Al Jazeera from operating in Israel, citing national security concerns. At the time, the Biden administration offered muted criticism, with White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre calling the news “concerning” and adding that the United States believes “in the freedom of the press.” Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi vowed Sunday to “immediately implement” the order, but the government’s decision could be brought before a district court within 24 hours. The judge can impose a time limit on the order, which currently provides for a 45-day shutdown that can be extended for another 45 days. Suliman reported from London. Lior Soroka, Annabelle timsit and rachel Pannett contributed to this report. 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monday, may 6, 2024 . the washington post eZ re A13 Economy & Business Go to https://login.live.com/ and select a method — face, fingerprint or PIN — to unlock your passkey. Going forward, you’ll select “Sign-in options” to log in with your passkey. You may decide to turn on passkeys for other eligible accounts as well. To set up a passkey for Google (which includes Gmail and YouTube), open any Google app, click on your profile icon at top right and go to “Manage your Google Account.” From there, go to “Security” in the left-hand menu, scroll to “How you sign in to Google” and turn on passkeys. If you use a password manager such as Dashlane, 1Password, Apple or Google to store your passwords, you can save passkeys the same way. Your manager of choice should prompt you to save the passkey when you set it up. Should I trust biometric authentication? You can access your passkeys through the same biometric authentication you use to unlock your device — and yes, this method is safe and private. Neither your device nor a company like Microsoft gets a copy of your face or fingerprint, as my colleague Shira Ovide has explained. Instead, your device uses some measurements of your face or thumbprint to create a mathematical representation of you. If your face or thumb matches this profile, your device sends the green light to Microsoft, saying it’s really you trying to log in. Biometrics are more secure than traditional passwords, experts agree. But if you can’t or don’t want to use face or fingerprint ID, you can still secure your passkey behind a PIN or password. What if I share my account? Shared devices and accounts — such as a library computer or family email address — can be a challenge for passkey users, said FIDO Alliance Executive Director Andrew Shikiar. Some password managers such as Apple’s let you share passkeys with people in your contacts. If you share a Microsoft account with someone else, it might be easiest to log in with a safe option like the Microsoft Authenticator app, which you can download on multiple devices linked to the same account. Can I keep using my password? Yep — if you really don’t want to set up a passkey, you can continue using a traditional password. Keep in mind, though: About two-thirds of people familiar with passkeys find them more convenient than passwords, a FIDO survey estimated. BY TATUM HUNTER As passwords slowly go extinct, Microsoft is introducing another way to log in to your consumer account. The company said Thursday that users logging in to Microsoft 365 workplace software, Copilot, Xbox and Skype can now use “passkeys” rather than traditional passwords or an authenticator app. That means whatever biometric authentication (such as a thumbprint or face ID) you use to open your phone or computer will be all you need to access your Microsoft account. Passkeys are available on desktop and mobile browsers, with support for mobile apps in the coming weeks, the company said. Cybersecurity professionals and organizations such as the FIDO Alliance, an industry group that includes Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta, have been pushing consumer tech companies to retire “shared secret” passwords for the past decade. These passwords aren’t so secret — because people have so many to remember, they constantly lose or forget passwords, which leads to lost time and money for consumers and companies alike. Hackers, meanwhile, steal passwords in data breaches. Last year there were more than 3,000 breaches in the United States alone, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. Microsoft says its identity systems detect around 4,000 password attacks each second. Passkeys, on the other hand, can’t be stolen or forgotten. They’re strings of letters and numbers that are unique to your account, stored on your device or in a safe cloud environment. You don’t need to memorize them — they’ll automatically unlock your accounts when you go to log in. Microsoft has been working on passkeys since FIDO introduced the technology two years ago, said Vasu Jakkal, corporate vice president of Microsoft security. The company wanted to wait to release passkeys until they could function across consumer accounts, Jakkal added. Many sites have adopted passkeys, including Uber, TikTok, Amazon, PayPal and Nintendo. Here’s how to set them up for your Microsoft accounts. How do I set up a passkey? tech in your life If you’re a Microsoft account holder, the password is … “passkey” illuSTraTion by The WaShingTon PoST; iSTock Chatbots that take questions from the public. Robocalls that sound like candidates. Fundraising emails that appear to be humanmade. As the use of artificial intelligence tools soars across the country, political candidates are increasingly deploying the technology to reach voters. But amid a regulatory vacuum in Washington, campaigns have largely been left to self-police their use of AI, which many fear could wreak havoc on the 2024 elections. On Thursday, a prominent political group that invests in technology for Democrats launched an initiative to help campaigns navigate the muddy waters of AI in elections, releasing a detailed guide for how they can harness the tools — and what mistakes they should avoid. I spoke last week to the leaders of Zinc Labs, a coalition made up of veterans of the Biden and Clinton campaigns as well as other left-leaning political and tech groups, about what they see as the do’s and don’ts of using AI for elections. Here are the takeaways: Do: ‘Always keep a human in the loop’ While tools like generative AI can help power services used to communicate with voters, they should never fully replace staff or their functions, and campaigns should always make sure that information produced by AI is vetted by humans, the group wrote. “This technology should not be deployed unattended, so always keep a human in the loop,” the group wrote. “A person should check and approve every citation, social media post, code snippet, or other output produced with generative AI.” That also means that setting up AI chatbots — whose responses are probably too numerous to individually check — may not be the most productive use of campaign time, it said. “You're going to get less value out of the promise of generative AI there because that sort of thing can inevitably be gamed or screwed up without those guardrails,” said Ben Resnik, the group’s deputy director of tech strategy. Zinc Labs is an offshoot of the Zinc Collective, a coalition of liberal political groups whose largest funder is LinkedIn cofounder and major Democratic donor Allen Blue. Don’t: Mislead voters about what’s AI-generated Campaigns should not misrepresent when they are using AI, and they should clearly label it when they do. That means steering clear of using chatbots “to invent an anecdote for a speech” or creating video or audio that “mimics the likeness of an opponent.” Campaigns should also not claim “without evidence” that any potentially damaging video shared by an opponent is AIgenerated, the group wrote. “With public trust so low, continuing to erode that public trust is not in your campaign's benefit,” said Matt Hodges, the group’s executive director. Do: Make a game plan to counter deepfakes Fake or misleading videos powered by AI, known as deepfakes, are probably now an inevitable part of elections, so candidates and political organizations should plan ahead, according to the group. Campaigns should create “a crisis response plan ahead of time” — which includes “clear response plans, roles, and timelines” — so they are not caught flat-footed, it wrote. And campaigns should also be “careful” not to rush to publicly answer any fakes. “A knee-jerk response may just draw more attention.” Ultimately, the group argued, the best way to counter deepfakes is a “good offense” — regularly communicating in a way that is “authentic” so that those exposed to fake videos are “instinctively skeptical” about the source of the information. Don’t: Trample on privacy Campaigns integrating AI into their functions risk creating new privacy or cybersecurity breaches involving voters’ personal information. To that end, the group called for closely vetting third-party vendors and avoiding things like “uploading donors’ personal information to a generative AI tool” or “using a voter’s likeness or story for AIgenerated materials without their consent.” “AI data and usage policy, with clear boundaries around who can share what data to what tools for what purpose, protects your campaign, your staff, and your constituents,” the group wrote. But campaigns shouldn’t rule out tools simply because data might be used to train AI, it said. Do: Use AI for more mundane internal tasks While much of the public debate around AI in elections has focused on the risk posed by fake visuals and videos, Zinc Labs urged campaigns to consider how the tools can be used for more routine internal tasks “to inform campaign strategy and communications in new ways.” That includes using AI to help craft personalized messages to potential voters and donors, summarizing policy briefs or voter data for easier consumption, and using it to generate first drafts of social media posts or other public communications. “It’s not replacing entire functions. It is accelerating the most tedious part of important functions,” Resnik said, citing gathering press clips and drafting social media posts as examples. The do’s and don’ts of AI campaigning The Technology 202 by cristiano lima-strong Financing provided by Foundation Finance Company under terms and conditions arranged directly between customer and Foundation Finance Company. 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a14 EZ RE the washington post . monday, may 6, 2024 protests are about the Israeli-Gaza war, they are also about the run-up to those elections and the country’s willingness to move beyond fruitless partisanship and internal divisions. These raids have weakened our resilience and deepened a crisis of communication that existed before the protests and left many pro-Palestinian students feeling unheard and abandoned in their grief over the civilian deaths and displacement in Gaza. That crisis is no longer invisible. Sitting with my back against the sundial on Columbia’s College Walk, the site of a significant 1968 Vietnam War protest, I can see the faded squares of grass left behind after the university removed the multicolored sea of tents that made up the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.” A few yards away, the doors of Hamilton Hall stand gaping, holes in the glass, the doorknob twisted and distorted, fine shards of glass still visible on the floor. Nearby, the lawn is covered in a bright carpet of evergreen artificial turf that will serve as the seating area for the proud relatives and friends of Columbia’s graduates. New green grass will grow and cover the bleached scars on the lawn where tents once stood and signs once offered “Welcome to the People’s University for Palestine.” Healing the rifts on our campus and in our society will take more time, more work and more care. Ekaterina Venkina, New York The writer is a masters candidate at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The protest movement on college campuses needs to mature before it graduates. As commencements begin and students return home or enter life after school, their gatherings will shrink and disperse, at least temporarily. It’s time for hard thinking about how to make sure this cause will survive past the spring term and move national policy. I do not believe the movement encouraging American institutions to divest from and boycott Israeli institutions is antisemitic in its core. Neither am I convinced that Zionism is inevitably racist. But I do think that to be successful, the movement at Columbia University, where I am in graduate school, and elsewhere needs to think more strategically and focus on pressuring Israel to end its military campaign in Gaza. Personally, I did not see enough efforts to get rid of extremist voices. It’s not enough to point to Jewish students who participated in protests or to a Seder held in the camp on the first night of Passover while letting students who post videos of themselves saying things like “Zionists don’t deserve to live” speak at news conferences for the protest. Any movement has outliers. And any successful movement will draw attention from outsiders who try to make use of those outliers to shape perception of the movement. It falls to the collective to not allow its extremists to define it and especially not to let those extremists stand in the way of real policy change. Born as a university protest, the movement has so far targeted universities with its demands. After Columbia President Minouche Shafik’s illconsidered decision to invite the New York Police Department onto campus the first time, it has been propelled into a national protest. It is time to acknowledge this new responsibility. After Tuesday night’s arrest of the protesters and the shutdown of campus, the movement is sure to transform again. It’s time to focus on the Biden administration at home and the Netanyahu government in Israel. This is who I believe many students like me — who do not feel like they can fully participate in the protest in its current form — want to protest as well. These leaders are the people who can put a stop to the immediate suffering in Gaza. Ending this misery and stopping the Netanyahu government are the prerequisites for peace. It is time to mature and clarify the message. It is time to graduate and face the country. Julian Heiss, New York The writer is a graduate student in international affairs at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs. When I applied to Columbia nearly five years ago, I believed our school’s famous core curriculum would provide the framework in which all students could have sober debates about our political disagreements, even those such as the Israeli-Gaza conflict. I was wrong. For months, I have been horrified by the rise in antisemitism on our campus. “Globalize the intifada!” “Zionist pigs off our campus now.” “We say justice, you say how? Burn Tel Aviv to the ground!” “We don’t want two states, we want all of it.” “Go back to Poland!” These are only samples of the rhetoric used by campus demonstrators over the past two weeks. Physically identifiable Jewish students, including those of us who wear kippahs or Star of David necklaces, have been physically and verbally harassed on campus. Friends of mine have been told to kill themselves and have been called racial slurs. It is no wonder that many Jewish students, including myself, do not feel physically or emotionally safe on campus and have left over the past two weeks. I have tried to engage in good-faith dialogues with my peers. But when my classmates broke into and occupied a principal academic building after months of refusing to engage in any conversation, I concluded that Columbia has failed Jewish students such as myself. President Minouche Shafik must follow through on the commitments she made to enforce existing rules surrounding time, place and manner of demonstrations; reform new student orientation; and adapt diversity, equity and inclusion programming to include Jewish history and antisemitism. While I will graduate soon, a new class of freshmen enters, concerned Jewish students among them. It will take meaningful actions from Columbia’s leadership to make the undergraduate experience I dreamed of possible for them. Jacob Schmeltz, New York The writer is a senior at Columbia University and vice president of the Jewish on Campus Student Union. ABCDE WILLIAM LEWIS Publisher and Chief Executive Officer nEWs SALLY BUZBEE....................................Executive Editor MATEA GOLD.......................................Managing Editor KRISSAH THOMPSON.........................Managing Editor SCOTT VANCE......................................Managing Editor ANN GERHART.......................Deputy Managing Editor MONICA NORTON .................. Deputy Managing Editor MIKE SEMEL..........................Deputy Managing Editor LIZ SEYMOUR.........................Deputy Managing Editor MARK W. 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KENNEDY...................General Counsel & Labor VINEET KHOSLA..................Technology, Product & Data JOHANNA MAYER-JONES................................Advertising KARL WELLS...........................................................Growth The Washington Post 1301 K St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20071 (202) 334-6000 The protests and unrest taking place on campuses around the country have spurred an extraordinary response from Post readers. This is the first of three days of letters about them. To continue the conversation, email [emailprotected] or go to https://wapo.st/ letter. — Alyssa Rosenberg, letters and community editor There are no more universities in Gaza. As I write the last words of my dissertation, I’ve never been more aware of silence, never been more aware that no bombs drop outside my dorm room window, that no air raid sirens sound. For several days, Columbia students and staff made a real university by the sundial I’d pass so often on my way to class. They taught each other. They prayed together. They collected books, shared food, read poetry, made speeches, laughed, marched, shouted, wept. They linked arms as President Minouche Shafik called the New York Police Department on them. How can I attend graduation, knowing that so many of these brave students have been suspended or expelled? How can I attend graduation, when Palestinians in Gaza cannot attend university at all and when professors like Refaat Alareer are murdered? How can I attend graduation, not even knowing how much of Columbia’s endowment is invested in this brutal apartheid system? Ms. Shafik said university officials “do not want to deprive thousands of students and their families and friends of a graduation celebration.” But she, not the protesters, is the one depriving us of this experience. And just as she cannot keep us from grieving, neither can she keep us from finding joy outside the rituals of commencement. As I grieve for Gaza, I take heart from the children there who “fly kites instead of warplanes.” As I grieve for the encampment, I take joy in all those whom it has inspired across the world. I remember reading Walter Benjamin’s description of “the angel of history”: his face turned toward a past “piling wreckage” at his feet. Who was this angel, I wondered, who “would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed”? The students who occupied Hamilton Hall renamed it Hind’s Hall, after Hind Rajab, a 6-yearold girl from the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City who was killed by the Israeli military after fleeing a tank attack on her family that claimed the lives of her relatives. I know the angel now. Her name is Hind. I know the wreckage: It is Tel al-Hawa and Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah and Rafah. And I hear the voices around the world who, in Hind’s name, grieve and celebrate and wake the dead. Ethan Zachary Chua, New York The writer is a master’s candidate in the Columbia University and London School of Economics dual degree program in international and world history. As an international journalist who has spent years reporting from Germany, where public denial of the Holocaust is a criminal offense, I am acutely aware of the dangers of antisemitism. I empathize with why some of Jewish students at Columbia University, traumatized by the brutal Oct. 7 attack, perceived the pro-Palestinian encampment erected on campus in recent weeks as a threat. But as a native of Moscow, I am also aware of how the images of uniformed police entering the Ivy League campus on April 18 and April 30 were exploited and weaponized by the authoritarian regimes in Russia and Iran. Not only did Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, publicly condemn the developments, but Iranian state media have been reporting every nuance ever since. With the U.S. presidential election coming up in November, the pressure on the Biden administration is mounting. As much as the Four Columbia students reflect on campus life in the midst of protest LETTErs TO ThE EdiTOr Guest opinion submissions The Washington Post accepts opinion articles on any topic. We welcome submissions on local, national and international issues. We publish work that varies in length and format, including multimedia. Submit a guest opinion at [emailprotected] or read our guide to writing an opinion article at wapo.st/guestopinion. Letter submissions Letters can be sent to [emailprotected]. Submissions must be exclusive to The Post and should include the writer’s address and day and evening telephone numbers. Letters are subject to editing and abridgment. Please do not send letters as attachments. Because of the volume of material we receive, we are unable to acknowledge submissions; writers whose letters are under consideration for publication will be contacted. EdiTh PriTchETT Navigating the Met Gala stairs in your outfit opinion ABCDE AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER T he origins of the Insurrection Act lie in a 1792 law that enabled President George Washington to lead troops against the Whiskey Rebellion. President Abraham Lincoln invoked the Insurrection Act at the dawn of the Civil War. President Ulysses S. Grant used it to combat racial terrorism in the South during Reconstruction. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson employed it to enforce court orders on school desegregation. The Insurrection Act gave California’s governor a legal basis to ask President George H.W. Bush for military help during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Though the emergency powers that the Insurrection Act confers are inherently susceptible to abuse, presidents’ respect for democratic values and constitutional norms has by and large prevented that. Having gone unused since 1992, the Insurrection Act is perhaps obscure to the public today. It deserves more attention, given that there could be a second term for former president Donald Trump, who not only lacks respect for democratic norms but also actively encouraged a mob to descend on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The law grants a president the power to “take such measures as he considers necessary” to suppress “any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy.” It does not define those terms. Nor does it require the president to get permission from state leaders.While the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 generally restricts the use of the armed forces in domestic law enforcement, there’s an exception for other acts of Congress, which would cover the Insurrection Act. Mr. Trump’s associates have reportedly drafted plans to invoke the law on his first day in office, to allow him to deploy the military against civil demonstrations. A partnership of right-wing think tanks, dubbed Project 2025, has drawn up executive orders to do so. Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who is one of the unnamed co-conspirators in Mr. Trump’s indictment in the federal election interference case, is leading this work. Mr. Trump has openly expressed regret for not using the Insurrection Act during the rioting that followed Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020, bowing to governors who asked him not to send federal troops. “The next time, I’m not waiting,” he said at a November rally. A bipartisan group of former top government lawyers recently unveiled a thoughtful set of principles to reform the Insurrection Act. They’re careful to say that it’s not about Mr. Trump and that both parties should want to preempt potential tyranny by the opposition. That makes sense. After all, some on the left urged President Biden to invoke the Insurrection Act this year to take over the Texas National Guard during a dispute about enforcing immigration laws. Convened by the nonpartisan American Law Institute, the working group was led by Harvard Law professor Jack Goldsmith, who ran the Office of Legal Counsel under President George W. Bush, and New York University law professor Bob Bauer, who is Mr. Biden’s personal lawyer (this work is unrelated to that role) and a former White House counsel for President Barack Obama. They previously partnered to clean up the Electoral Count Act after its weaknesses were highlighted on Jan. 6, 2021. They propose clarifying that no president can deploy the military under the Insurrection Act unless there’s violence that “overwhelms the capacity of federal, state, and local authorities to protect public safety and security.” They would limit troop deployments to 30 days without additional congressional authorization, establish a procedure to fast-track such votes, require prior consultation with state governors, and compel a presidential report to Congress within 24 hours of deployment. Unlike earlier proposals from congressional Democrats, this bipartisan one lacks a provision requiring judicial review for invoking the Insurrection Act. That’s defensible. Habeas corpus always remains as a remedy for people wrongfully arrested. Courts would likely already be able to consider challenges under the existing law. And the Supreme Court has previously decided that a president will receive significant deference when invoking the act. Opposition to a judicial review requirement, which some conservatives worry could hobble the executive during a legitimate emergency, should not prevent the other reforms from being enacted. The Republican-controlled House is unlikely to take up a reform bill before the end of the year, but perhaps there’s an opening for bipartisanship. The best vehicle would be an amendment to the mustpass national defense reauthorization bill, as Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.) have discussed. It would be wise to modernize this law even if there were no chance of Mr. Trump’s election. Since there is a chance, it seems essential. Update the Insurrection Act for 2024 — and beyond EdiTOriaL Donald Trump’s associates have reportedly drafted plans to invoke the Insurrection Act on his flrst day in office to allow him to deploy the military against civil demonstrations.
monday, may 6, 2024 . the washington post eZ Re a15 BY TIMOTHY P. CARNEY “How do you do it?” As parents of an unusually large brood, my wife and I get that question a lot. Sometimes I respond by bragging about my mass-produced breakfast sandwiches and zoo-trip techniques. But if I’m honest, there are two truer answers to “How do you do it?” One is that we don’t do a lot of things: travel sports, twee Saturday morning arts and crafts, Disney World. The other is that the “you” who makes Sunday morning breakfast, assembles Ikea furniture and walks the first-grader to school is our older kids. The best way to make parenting and childhood happier and less stressful is to have more kids, not fewer of them. I grew up with three older brothers, and my wife is the fourth of eight (and so we met in the middle and have six kids). What we learned from our childhood families, and what the social science affirms, is that many of the supposed demands of modern parenthood are really just the demands of a misguided culture. It’s typical to describe shrinking families as progress. “With fewer children to support,” Brookings Institution scholar Isabel Sawhill once wrote, “parents and society can both invest more in each child, helping them to climb the ladder and become productive citizens in their adult years.” Economists have a charming name for this approach: the quantity-quality trade-off. I chuckle that my wife and I (and our parents before us) obviously chose the “quantity” option. But I also know this framing is a lie. There’s nothing high-quality about the intensive parenting that is typical in today’s middle and upper-middle classes. Racing your kid from school to tutoring session to a travel tournament robs them of crucial elements of childhood: independence, self-determination and some salutary boredom. This rat race might increase your kids’ odds of an Ivy League acceptance or a Division I scholarship, but it almost certainly deprives them of some of the habits, experiences and virtues that make happy adults. Studies show that more parental control yields more anxiety and depression. Children who have more independent play not only have a lot of fun but also get to develop “capacities for coping with life’s inevitable stressors.” Letting children off the leash is good for them and for parents, but our culture tells parents to tighten the collar on the false belief that we can control our children’s outcomes. A large clan disabuses parents of the illusion of control. Those of us with larger families mostly know that we cannot micromanage our kids’ lives, and so we don’t try — and everyone ends up happier. In 2018, when “Today” commissioned a survey of 7,000 U.S. mothers, it found that while mothers of three were more stressed than moms of one or two, mothers of four were less stressed. In larger families, independent play doesn’t need to mean a choice between loneliness or the frantic scramble for a play date. Bored kids with multiple siblings have live-in playmates with whom to play make-believe or front-yard Wiffle ball. The long-term impact of such built-in company is borne out in a Norwegian study of 114,500 children that found that those in larger households had better mental health. And there’s nothing better for socializing kids than giving them roommates with whom to play, argue, plot, fight and make up. “Siblings smooth our rough edges,” as psychologist and mother of 13 Anne Perrottet puts it. The biggest difference, though, isn’t about parenting practices but about philosophy. Smaller households, where the parents adhere to the quality-over-quantity mind-set, tend to become child-centric. In the best circumstances, this teaches the children to focus all their energies on self-improvement to maximize individual success. The best large-family model is neither childcentric nor parent-centric but family-centric. Everyone has roles to play in pursuit of a common good. Children in this model still have the freedom and independence to decide who they want to be but aren’t crafting their life scripts on a blank page: They’re establishing their identities in relation to their parents, siblings and cousins. A larger family is less exhausting for parents not because everyone minds their own business but because parents aren’t trying to quarterback the entire family. In a large family, parents foster a family culture, and that culture — perpetuated by everyone in the family — does the work day in and day out. Of course, this isn’t easy. The early years, with four little kids, could be maddening on occasion. But still, many of my wife’s favorite memories come from this time. On an unseasonably cool July day 10 years ago, we left the windows open so that we could hear our four children playing in the backyard. My wife, Katie, and I sat in the living room and didn’t talk much. Our hearts too occupied with the sounds floating past the curtains: laughter, delighted screams, childhood voices conjuring up imaginary worlds. It’s hard to describe the joy of witnessing your children freely loving one another’s company. They were ages 8 and younger, but in that moment, we felt like we had succeeded as parents. I wanted to go out and join them because it sounded like they were having so much fun. I didn’t, because I knew I had to give these four the gift of independence — and because I had to stay inside with Katie, who was at that moment in labor with Baby No. 5. how did you decide what size your family would be? What factors went into your decision? and what size family do you think is ideal? Share your thoughts with us: washingtonpost.com/number-kids timothy p. carney is a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute and the author of “Family Unfriendly: how our culture made Raising kids much harder than it Needs to Be.” The ideal number of kids in a family: Four (at a minimum) FRaNckoR/getty imageS/iStockphoto I t must be challenging for a Catholic president to make abortion the centerpiece of his reelection campaign. I wonder whether Joe Biden has nightmares as he recruits abortiondenied women to serve as surrogates to make his case. Once a proud pro-life Democrat, Biden has become a modern-day gladiator for abortion, even if he can’t bring himself to say the word. During his State of the Union address in March, the president all but danced an Irish jig around the term, speaking instead of protecting reproductive freedom. His discomfort was telling. Later, during a campaign visit to Florida, Biden crossed himself as he was being introduced by a woman who was denouncing Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for his decision to stop abortions at six weeks instead of the previous 15 weeks. It was a moment. Reactions ricocheted around social media, with some fellow Catholics seeing his gesture as sacrilegious. What I saw was a Catholic pleading for forgiveness for delivering a message he secretly finds abhorrent. This is, of course, between him and his maker, but my guess is Biden realizes he has made a bargain with the wrong guy and must atone however he can — except, of course, by being true to his convictions and, at 82, sacrificing his (fourth) bid for the presidency in the service of his faith. Biden can’t make his Catholicism part of his campaign, frequently telling people he always keeps a rosary in his pocket and then expect not to be critiqued when he betrays that faith. Among Biden’s recruits is the nowfamous Amanda Zurawski, the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against Texas seeking clarity on the state’s three overlapping abortion laws. The confusion has been cleared up in nonpartisan state legislation, but not in time to help Zurawski and 19 other women who have joined the suit. Zurawski’s horrific experience during a doomed pregnancy is a textbook case of what can go wrong when legislators think they know better than doctors about medical science. Zurawski was 18 weeks pregnant when her water broke, an event that puts the mother at great risk of infection. Before Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Zurawski would have had an abortion. Baby Willow had no chance to survive at just 18 weeks, and health-of-the-mother considerations would have prevailed. But because the fetus still had a heartbeat, doctors assumed Texas law would not allow the abortion. Only when Zurawski developed sepsis, with a dangerously high fever and low blood pressure, would doctors treat her. She spent several days in the intensive care unit recovering from her near-death, heartbreaking experience. Not surprisingly, Zurawski and her husband Josh emerged from this ordeal with arms swinging. They’ve told their story many times, testifying in Washington and making television appearances. Amanda Zurawski, among others, joined first lady Jill Biden in her box at the State of the Union. It’s fair to say she has become the face of the Democratic Party’s revolt against Dobbs, the Supreme Court decision reversing Roe v. Wade, and no doubt will have a prominent place at this year’s nominating convention in Chicago. But Zurawski and her co-plaintiffs are not yet finished in court. They’re asking the Texas Supreme Court to create a new “good-faith judgment” exception for medical emergencies, instead of the current standards of “reasonable medical judgment,” or what most doctors would do in a given circumstance. Shifting to “good-faith judgment,” as Carter Snead, the Charles E. Rice professor of law at Notre Dame, explained to me, would set a purely subjective standard based on what the abortion provider believes. In other words, it could allow unlimited elective abortion. In the nearly two years since Dobbs, states have responded with widely varying approaches. Texas, Florida and others have enacted restrictive laws. Elsewhere, it’s the Wild West. Six states and D.C. impose no term restrictions on abortion at all. Montana rejected protections for babies who survive abortion. The claim by some activists that women would not be treated for ectopic pregnancies is just not true. I have enormous empathy for the Texas women. At the same time, I’m unable to pretend that a fetus, which is Latin for “little one,” isn’t a human being whose life, like everyone’s, is a work in progress. It is unthinkable that anyone’s first home should become a place of unspeakable violence. Our collective inability to recognize and respect both perspectives might be our greatest obstacle to truly helping women and babies. As Snead said, they should be viewed as existing in crisis together rather than as antagonists and the baby a trespasser. So, where does this leave us? Unfortunately, we’re in a holding pattern, waiting as our political battles unfold. Biden’s surrogates will keep telling their stories as their usefulness wanes. Biden will continue taking Communion in his little Delaware church, consuming the host despite the church’s policy against Communion for people who publicly promote abortion. And Donald Trump will continue bragging, “I did it!” about his role in Roe’s reversal. Funny. That’s what Zurawski says: “Trump did this!” If the stakes weren’t so high, this would be comical. Given that at least some people will choose their home states — and students their universities — according to the relative restrictiveness of abortion law, it is plausible that the Southeast will be left to post-fertile adults. As I write from South Carolina, this seems not the worst of outcomes. kathlEEn ParkEr Joe Biden, gladiator for a cause he dare not name opinion I t is naive and ahistorical to pretend that the U.S. Supreme Court floats above politics as a quasi-sacred institution. The court has always been political, particularly when it comes to preserving its own influence. One of its earliest and most celebrated decisions, Marbury v. Madison in 1803, can fairly be seen as a power grab for the ages: Chief Justice John Marshall established that the court had the ability to strike down laws, declaring that this unelected body can override the wishes of the branches of government chosen by the people. But precisely because the court has arrogated itself so much authority, it is always in danger of squandering the legitimacy of its claims, especially when it acts with exceptional arrogance or in a blatantly partisan way. As members of its 6-3 conservative majority ponder how and when they will rule on Donald Trump’s absolute immunity claim, they should understand how much they have already done to paint themselves as instruments of the Republican Party and the political right. They have created a crisis moment. You can see what such a crisis looks like by examining one of the court’s worst decisions, Dred Scott v. Sandford. It was politics all the way down: The court colluded with two Democratic presidents, James Buchanan and Franklin Pierce, in a blatant effort to stop a rising Republican Party and a popular movement seeking to end the spread of slavery. By declaring in 1857 that people of African descent could never be citizens and that Congress could not restrict slavery in the territories, the court persuaded millions of northerners that the “slave power” — the rallying cry against the plantation South’s elite — dominated the government. The north struck back three years later by electing Abraham Lincoln president. We know what followed. Despite the popularity of the recent movie “Civil War,” we are not on the verge of outright military conflict. But the conservative justices seem hellbent on taking a side in the searing partisan battle that is dividing the country into closely matched halves, at a cost to its own legitimacy and the nation’s confidence in the rule of law. Consider its decisions undercutting the regulation of large political contributions, gutting the Voting Rights Act and slow-walking reapportionment cases aimed at protecting Black political representation. Together, these decisions empower the wealthiest and most privileged people in the country and undercut the electoral clout of longmarginalized citizens. There’s a clear direction here. Add to this the invention of the “major questions doctrine,” through which the court has seized the power to strike down executive agency actions of “vast economic and political significance” unless Congress clearly authorized them. It’s a move that allows the court’s conservatives to throw out any regulations and executive actions by Democratic administrations that they don’t like. When the court invalidated President Biden’s student loan debt relief program last year, Justice Elena Kagan rightly complained that in “every respect, the Court today exceeds its proper, limited role in our Nation’s governance,” based on the “made-up major questions doctrine.” Responding to Kagan, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote that it “has become a disturbing feature of some recent opinions to criticize the decisions with which they disagree as going beyond the proper role of the judiciary.” No, what’s disturbing is the court itself going beyond the proper role of the judiciary. Through such overreach, the court has created the cloud of suspicion that hangs over its deliberations on the former president’s absolute immunity claim. Trump’s contention is both absurd and dangerous to a free republic. Yet in last month’s oral arguments, most of the conservative justices were more eager to worry about entirely hypothetical problems future presidents might confront than to deal with the facts before them involving a president who plainly tried to overturn a legitimate election. If the court delays its ruling until late June or forces the trial court to litigate new issues it might raise, it knows it will be delaying Trump’s most important trial until after this year’s election. The court already fed skepticism about its motives in December when it denied special counsel Jack Smith’s request for the court to bypass the appeals process and fast-track a hearing on matters Smith knew the justices would want to address. There is a way for the court to prove its willingness to suspend partisanship at least some of the time. Instead of wasting precious time to rule on issues not directly raised by this case, it could take up Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s suggestion that it confine itself to answering the question Trump raised: “whether all official acts [by a president] get immunity.” She proposed that it wait for a case that “actually presents” the issues that preoccupy the conservatives. One of her fellow justices has made an excellent argument for this approach. “If it is not necessary to decide more to dispose of a case, then it is necessary not to decide more,” Roberts wrote in a 2022 opinion. In the Trump case, he would do a lot for the court’s reputation by following his own advice and bringing another conservative with him. E.J. DionnE Jr. The immunity case’s high stakes — for the high court itself The conservative justices seem hellbent on taking a side in the searing partisan battle dividing the country in half.
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BY TEO ARMUS There’s just one competitive local primary taking place in Arlington this spring. But with this northern Virginia locality grappling with a host of issues — including empty offices, stagnant tax revenue and persistent fights over housing density — it is a crucial one that stands to shape the future of the county. As in past years, the race has been colored by the county’s “missing middle” plan — passed with both significant support and opposition last year — that effectively eliminated singlefamily-only zoning and exposed a fault line in residents’ views on where and how fast the county should be growing. The candidate who wins the Democratic primary will gain a big advantage in a suburb that has long leaned heavily blue. since 2004, just one person has won a local race here without the party’s endorsement. Below is information on the candidates and when and how to vote. For more on congressional and statewide races, see our Virginia voter guide at tinyurl.com/mtb78mzu. what’s on the ballot? There is just one race on the ballot this year: an empty seat on the Arlington County Board. Libby Garvey, the body’s longestserving member and its current chair, declined to seek reelection, and five candidates are seeking the nomination to succeed her. How do i register to vote? Virginia has open primaries, which means that you don’t need to be registered with a political party to cast your ballot. But you do need to be registered to vote with an up-to-date address no later than May 28 to avoid casting a provisional ballot. who’s running for county board? Five candidates are vying for one spot on the Democratic ticket. The nominee will face at least one independent candidate in november in the general election. The Arlington County Board has five members who are all elected at-large and serve stagsEE ArliNgTON On B2 A guide to Arlington’s Democratic primary KLMNO m ME onda TRO y, may 6, 2024 eZ Re b the district documents provide more details about the injuries to a student struck by a bullet in dunbar high. b3 the district a man is sentenced to 18 years in prison for killing his ex-girlfriend in northwest in 2020. b3 obituaries C.J. sansom, 71, wrote complex historical mystery novels set in 66 Tudor-era england. b4 ° 71° 78° 72° 8 a.m. Noon 4 p.m. 8 p.m. high today at approx. 4 p.m. 78° Precip: 45% Wind: ssW 4-8 mph BY JESSICA CONTRERA AND KATIE METTLER Inside the fairgrounds, past the sheep show ring, the sheep milk stand, the sheep jewelry artist, the sheep photo display and the barn full of sheep, the fiercest competition in sheepdom has begun. At the 51st annual Maryland sheep and Wool festival, six teams have three hours to shear a sheep, transform its wool into yards of yarn, then weave those threads into a showstopping shawl. They call it “sheep to shawl,” and ewe best believe that it’s anything but warm and fuzzy. “These ladies have been honing these skills for years and years,” says organizer and shepherd Rachel Adra. “This is the Olympics for us.” The games begin when six sheep go belly up, cradled by seasoned “shearers” whose job is to shed them of as much wool as possible, as fast as possible, without an electric blade nicking a sheep or a finger. The baritone bleating is drowned out by the crowd: More than 100 people have gathered to whoop and holler as fleece becomes floof. This raw wool, unlike yarn bought at a store, is coated in a kind of sticky sheep sweat called lanolin. The waxier the wool, the more challenging it is to weave quickly. such a fact is well known here at one of the nation’s best known sheep and wool festivals, where every year, more than 20,000 people — and 600 sheep — flock to the Howard County fairgrounds for two days of sheep in all forms: sheared, natural, woolen, woven. There are sheep named Lassie and Lady and Jason, son of Aquarius and Wildfire. Dozens of sheep are on display for the parade of sheep breeds, originating sEE wOOl On B2 A mad dash from sheep to shawl At the Maryland Sheep and Wool festival, teams have three hours to shear wool and transform it into a winner PhoTos by MoRiah RaTneR foR The WashingTon PosT TOP: Zoe Burgess, 17, from the sandy spring Friends school, weaves wool yarn into a shawl during the sheep to shawl competition at the Maryland sheep and wool festival. ABOVe: iris, left, and Phoebe take a break outdoors. BY LAUREN LUMPKIN It was a weekday morning, and music was blaring from Capital One Arena. More than 2,000 teens — caught in brief glimpses on the jumbotron — waved pompoms and danced as music group T.O.B. played go-go covers of pop songs. They waved signs declaring themselves part of the Class of 2024 and, by the end of the afternoon, had gotten pep talks from professional athletes and former first lady Michelle Obama. The fanfare of college signing day is usually reserved for prospective athletes. But city leaders were celebrating students who are on their way to schools across the country, from big-name historically Black campuses to esteemed universities in their own backyard. Ten students even took home $5,000 scholarships. There are other reasons to celebrate: More D.C. students are finishing high school and, after years of decline, the most recent data shows that the share of students enrolling in college saw a modest improvement in 2022. But the city still has a problem with college completion — roughly 18 out of 100 ninth-graders will finish college within six years of graduating high school, according to an estimate from the D.C. Policy Center, a local think tank. nationwide, about 64 percent of first-time college students finish in that amount of time, federal data shows. now city leaders — from top education officials to business owners — are throwing their support behind a lofty new goal: 80 percent six-year college completion by 2050. “It’s a moonshot goal,” said Eric Waldo, president and chief executive of the D.C. College Access Program, a nonprofit that helps students go to college. “At a time where the headwinds have led to 30 years of education losses, we’re saying we want to double down, sEE cOllege On B4 In D.C., a push to finish college goal is 80 percent grad rate by 2050 Experts warn ‘moonshot’ will require big changes “animal testing” and related hashtags is a legal way of managing online conversations — the same way a local government can avoid chaotic town halls by sEE lAwsUiT On B3 person — and a soul mate — not a pet.) “You can’t tell me that’s not a free speech violation.” Two courts have told her that it’s not a violation, that the blocking of keywords such as she is suing both institutions. “They’re suppressing any kind of conversation on the issue,” Krasno said in an interview while walking her dog, Millie. (she said she thinks of Millie as a BY RACHEL WEINER For a long time, Madeline Krasno didn’t tell other animal rights advocates that she had worked in a monkey research lab as a college student. It had taken her years to understand her nightmares and fragmented memories as signs of post-traumatic stress disorder. And some activists could be vicious to former lab workers. But four years after she graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Krasno started posting online about her experiences. Eventually, she started tagging the school in those posts and then commenting on its pages. Many of those posts disappeared. As she would later learn, it was not a mistake or a glitch. Both the university and the national Institutes for Health were blocking her comments. now with support from free speech and animal rights organizations, New cause for ex-animal-lab worker: Free speech Activist sues institutions after online comments were blocked, deleted Madeline KRasno Madeline Krasno has become embroiled in a court fight with the National institutes for Health and the University of wisconsin at Madison. A wisconsin grad, she worked at a monkey research lab there.
B2 eZ Re the washington post . monday, may 6, 2024 With that in mind, we’ve asked the five candidates yes-or-no questions about hot-button issues that have divided current board members or drawn some disagreement from residents in Arlington or other parts of Northern Virginia. Missing middle: residents and civic groups spent much of 2023 debating a proposal that effectively eliminates single-family-only zoning in Arlington. The county board unanimously approved that plan last march, though some residents are suing to block it. Would you have voted for the final missing middle proposal? Yes: Peterson, Spain No: DeVita, farnam, roy More density: The plan allows for the construction of buildings with up to four — and in most cases six — units in neighborhoods long set aside for single-family houses. County lawmakers scrapped earlier drafts to allow buildings with up to eight units. Should Arlington go further and make it easier to build these “eight-plexes” in singlefamily-only neighborhoods? Yes: Spain No: DeVita, farnam, Peterson, roy amazon HQ2: Amazon in 2019 selected Arlington for half of its much-hyped second headquarters, promising to bring 25,000 new jobs to the county and fill millions of square feet of office space. The company has donated to local groups and opened two soaring office towers in Crystal City, but it has also abruptly halted construction and hiring at its new campus. Is Amazon HQ2 living up to expectations? Yes: DeVita, roy No: farnam, Peterson, Spain ranked-choice voting: Last year’s Democratic county board primary became the first publicly run election in Virginia to use ranked-choice voting — a system that was met with some confusion and pushback from residents. The board reverted to a traditional “first-past-the-post” voting system for last fall’s general election but more recently voted to keep using rankedchoice voting for all board primaries and pilot its use in this year’s general election race. Should Arlington keep using ranked-choice voting in all board elections? Yes: farnam, Peterson, roy, Spain No: DeVita County board structure: Del. Patrick A. Hope (D-Arlington) filed a bill in the state legislature this year that would let the county board consider changing its structure, including adding members, switching to a districtbased representation model and letting voters directly elect a chair for the body. But the current board has not put its support behind the bill, which was tabled until next year. Do you support Hope’s bill? Yes: DeVita, farnam, Peterson, roy, Spain No: none Board salaries: Arlington board members gave themselves pay raises totaling $32,000 over the past two years. That increase was meant to make the job open to a wider range of people and bring their salaries in line with the county’s median incomes. But a similar pay hike in fairfax some county board meetings in neighborhoods, not the county government office; pause Expanded Housing options and review existing missing middle projects; put together a task force of experts to explore conversions of empty offices Julius D. “JD” Spain Sr., 51, works as a senior consultant. Spain, who ran for county board last year and for the House of Delegates in 2019, emphasized he is the only military veteran and person of color running this year and stressed he has a long record of engagement with and advocacy on local civic issues. He lives in Penrose with his wife and has three grown children and one granddaughter. relevant experience: member of George mason University’s president’s innovation advisory council; past president of the Arlington NAACP; board member of the Dream Project nonprofit top policy priorities: Invest more money into public health and behavioral health; invest more money into public schools; invest more money into the county’s economic development arm where do the candidates stand on the issues? Local governments in Virginia are limited by something called the Dillon rule, which means they have power only over areas granted to them by the General Assembly in richmond. most of the Arlington County Board’s work deals with reviewing rules and plans for new developments as well as a county budget. lington Public Schools substitute teacher. She is emphasizing her experience on county commissions and says she would bring to the board her international and local work experience, as well as her perspective raising her family in a high-rise apartment. Peterson has lived in Arlington for 14 years and lives in Courthouse with her husband and three children. relevant experience: Past chair of fiscal affairs advisory commission; vice chair of planning commission; Girl Scout camping leader top policy priorities: Carry out zoning changes to implement more family-sized housing; strengthen green building incentives program with higher standards for electrification and electric vehicle parking; increase funding for after-school programming to fight youth substance abuse natalie U. roy, 66, is a realtor who said she would bring tough questions and more transparency to the board. Having run for county board last year, she said Arlington’s government has not been listening to residents and that she would commit to serving as their voice on the body. roy, who moved to Arlington 33 years ago, lives in Lyon Park with her husband and has three grown children. relevant experience: Past president of Lyon Park Civic Association; part of a group of residents sued for protesting a gun store in her neighborhood; 17 years as Yorktown High School varsity tennis coach. top policy priorities: Host James a. DeVita Julie Farnam tenley Peterson natalie U. roy Julius D. “JD” Spain Sr. County in recent months was met with some pushback. Do salaries for Arlington board members need to be further increased? Yes: none No: DeVita, farnam, Peterson, roy, Spain Pickleball: The drop-in pickleball courts at Walter reed recreation Center prompted repeated clashes last year — and many related memes — as players called for more county resources toward this growing sport and neighbors complained about the incessant noise. Should Arlington expand drop-in pickleball hours and locations? Yes: DeVita, farnam, roy No: Peterson, Spain after-school programming: Amid a surge in Arlington teenagers overdosing on fentanyl — and two deaths among county youths last year — community advocates have called on the county to ramp up funding for after-school programs as a way to combat the issue. But persistent office vacancies have hurt tax revenue and created scant wiggle room in the county’s finances. Would you have voted to give another $2 million for this programming, even if it means raising property taxes? Yes: DeVita, Peterson, roy, Spain No: farnam How will ranked-choice voting work in the primary? The election for county board will choose a winner using ranked-choice voting. Voters will be able to select up to three candidates and rank them in their order of preference. If none of the candidates receives a majority of first-choice votes, the last-place candidate is eliminated. Any ballots that ranked that candidate will be redistributed to those voters’ second-choice candidates. The process repeats until one of the candidates collects more than half the votes. Note that this system is slightly different (and more straightforward) from the ranked-choice system, sometimes known as “single transferrable vote,” which was used in last year’s primary for two county board seats. gered four-year terms. They vote among themselves to choose a chair and vice-chair each January. James a. DeVita, 65, is an attorney. He says he is running to push back on the county’s “missing middle” plan and to use his elevated profile in local office to prevent former president Donald Trump from returning to power. He mounted an unsuccessful primary challenge for the state Senate last year. An Arlington resident for the past 31 years, DeVita lives in Penrose with his wife and has two college-age daughters. relevant experience: Lawyer for 40 years; represented seven Black Lives matter protesters in a federal lawsuit; worked in U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental division top policy priorities: repeal missing middle; convert vacant office space to affordable housing by negotiating with developers; create more bike lanes and electric charging stations Julie Farnam, 44, owns an investigative intelligence small business. She cites her time working for the Capitol Police during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and her experience managing budgets in the federal government and says she would focus on youth, mental health and safety issues. farnam moved to Arlington 16 years ago and lives in Arlington ridge with her two daughters. relevant experience: former assistant director of intelligence at the U.S. Capitol Police; past chair of the Arlington Democrats Women’s Caucus; member of the Arlington ridge Civic Association top policy priorities: Push the county to apply for more federal funding for youth programming, drug treatment and mental health; create a program similar to D.C.’s Black Homeownership Strike force; restructure county communications to focus on showing up at community and neighborhood events tenley Peterson, 43, is a communications consultant and ArarLingtOn from B1 One seat is up for grabs on the Arlington County Board nell says. “You have to put in the precise amount of ingredients for it to come out consistently at the end.” Teams also earn points for coming up with a creative theme to inspire the colors and patterns of their shawls. “mutton But Trouble” chose the aurora borealis. “Spin City” chose orioles. The reigning champs, the “fidget Spinners,” chose a monarch butterfly. Pre-dyed colorful threads are loaded onto the loom before the competition begins, ready for the new threads — all various colors of white, brown and gray, depending on the chosen sheep — to be carefully laced through. “Spin like the wind!” calls the fidget Spinners’ weaver, Pennsylvanian Linda Yniguez. Two hours to go. “It’s meditative,” Yniguez says. “I don’t notice the crowd or what the other teams are doing.” At this moment, one other team, “Sheep Lightning,” is feeding their weaver french fries. The group of high school students from Sandy Spring friends School is dressed as the Pink Ladies from the movie “Grease.” They’ve kicked off their Converses and Crocs every week since September to practice pedaling for this day. “You don’t really find people our age interested in making shawls on their Saturday,” says maxine ross, 15. The team’s weaver, 17-year-old Zoe Burgess, has one headphone in, blaring Abba’s “Dancing Queen” as she moves a wooden boat shuttle, which holds the new yarn, left to right, right to left. one hour to go and now, it’s shear madness. Audience members are chanting. Bobbins are flying. “one treadle pressed at the them now $9 lamb burgers. Back at the competition tent, the sheep are naked, the wool has been bagged and the teams are sprinting toward their wheels and looms. Two hours and fifty minutes to go. This year, the competition is especially intense, with six teams — one more than usual — vying for best shawl in show. Each team has three “spinners,” who separate, clean and roll the tufts of wool before placing them on an old-fashioned wooden wheel, powered by the rhythmic pressing of feet that are usually shoeless to provide more control. “And it vibes to show off our hand-knit socks,” says Lauren Slingluff, a spinner whose team, the “Yankee fiber friends,” traveled from Connecticut to compete. Cranking strands of yarn onto wooden bobbins while keeping the same thickness throughout is perhaps the teams’ trickiest task, says competition hostess Susan Withnell, owner of Ewes-ful fiber Arts. “It’s like baking a cake,” Withfrom Barbados and Scotland and Hog Island, Va., where they were brought by settlers in the 1700s. Then there are the humans who wrangle the sheep: a shepherd of the year (whose last name, this year, is Breeding); a sheep ambassador, whose title used to be sheep queen (there is still a tiara); and the grand dame of the sheep and wool festival, chairman emeritus Gwen Handler, who is said to prefer the title of “rainmaker” or “visionary.” much of the draw for the humans is the shopping. Sheep grace everything from soap dishes to nightlights. Wool has been woven into socks and sweaters. Skeins are for sale in colors called “Blue Crab” and “old Bay.” Don’t miss the puns on all the products: Tempting Ewe Yarns. Sheep milk soap from ewe to you. Ewetopia. re-Ewes me Again and Again. I Shopped Bare Naked (I was Baa-a-d). Thank Ewe! There are even sheep at the food stands, the least lucky of wOOL from B1 Shear, spin, weave: A dash through all stages of fiber art nounced. Bleachers fill with fiber fans. The teams model their finished shawls. Then, Withnell takes the microphone. “These shawls were on the back of a sheep as of 10 this morning,” she tells the crowd. “They all got them off the loom in time.” After lamenting that there could be no six-way tie, she crowns a champion: the fidget Spinners’ monarch butterfly shawl. Draped in orange and gray, the team’s weaver jumps in the air and accepts her blue ribbon. Then it is time for the real show to begin. “Let’s start at $100,” Withnell announces, auctioning off each shawl one by one. Spectators shout out their bids, eager to get their hands on these one-of-kind wool creations. After all of that fierce competition, they look especially warm and fuzzy. wrong time, and it will show up in the pattern. one thread in the wrong place, and it will show up in the pattern,” says Withnell, the host. “It has to be exactly right.” With 35 minutes to go, Team “Alice in fiberland” is the first to break out the scissors. Their members are all dressed as Lewis Carroll characters. After the last thread is clipped, their shawl is hoisted in the air as their spinner, costumed as the Queen of Hearts, yells, “off with their heads!” Their weaver, dressed in blue as Alice, finally takes a sip of water. one by one, the shawls are completed, all with time to spare. The judges break out their measuring tapes and clipboards. Shawls must be at least 70 inches in length. They must have a consistent width. They must have a certain “drapability.” The teams pack up their supplies and massage their fingers, waiting for sheep to vacate the show ring where this year’s Sheep to Shawl winner will be anMoRiah RaTneR foR The WaShingTon PoST aBOVE: Julie rutland and teammates from team “alice in Fiberland” prepare to submit their shawl during the competition. BELOw LEFt: You don’t need to shear sheep to find yarn at the festival. “One treadle pressed at the wrong time, and it will show up in the pattern. One thread in the wrong place, and it will show up in the pattern. It has to be exactly right.” Susan Withnell, host of the Sheep to Shawl event The Guide to Offers Enter for the chance to win a pair of tickets to Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra on May 30 at The Lincoln Theatre With film credits including “Jurassic Park,” “independence Day,” “The Big Chill” and “Thor: Ragnarok;” theater performances including “The Pillowman” and “Speed the Plow” and television show “The World according to Jeff goldblum,” Jeff goldblum also plays jazz with his band, The Mildred Snitzer orchestra. Whether performing regularly in Los angeles or elsewhere, goldblum will take your questions, ask you trivia questions and play classic jazz. This performance will feature goldblum on piano, John Storie on guitar, alex frank on bass, Joe Bagg on organ, James King and Scott gilman on the saxophone and Kenny elliott on drums. The featured vocalist: gina Saputo. See details at washingtonpost.com/entertainment/events/lists/388.
monday, may 6, 2024 . the washington post ez Re B3 Defense fund said. “But if that’s filtered out, they wouldn’t know speech was being censored.” Appellate judges seemed to be divided over how to handle the comments. If banning certain keywords violates the first Amendment, then content moderation would be “extremely difficult,” Judge Brad Garcia said. Judge Patricia millett said having humans, rather than a computer program, read and curate threads was “unrealistic.” But millett was also skeptical that the government had proved the bans are necessary. “I would not consider dozens, on internet threads, which can go on forever, flooding,” she said, adding, “I really am struggling with how ‘test’ is just clearly off-topic for NIH.” Krasno said that if the lawsuits succeed, she plans to sue other universities that have engaged in similar deletion of animal rights advocacy. “These are our tax dollars,” she said. “To say you can’t even talk about it in ways that most people are discussing issues — that’s just not fair.” ing,” Justice Department attorney Jennifer Utrecht said during last week’s oral argument at the D.C. Circuit. “The people who are repeatedly violating the off-topic policy all have a particular viewpoint.” She said followers of an online chat on brain health and a social media campaign on retina issues were confused and annoyed by the repeated posts on animal rights. other posts blocked by NIH included external links, profanity, strings of numbers, the mention of cannabis and “#believemothers,” used by anti-vaccine activists. But Krasno’s side argues that animal testing is so common that almost any scientific research can be linked to it, and any comment on it is arguably relevant. for example, as the animal advocates pointed out in their court filings, the sickle cell researcher has done work on rats. “most people would agree that a comment that the coronavirus vaccine was tested on animals would be on-topic,” attorney Caitlin foley of the Animal Legal commenting on the school’s social media pages. The comments disappeared. So did her comments on NIH’s pages. Krasno had befriended a lawyer from the Animal Legal Defense fund in a vegan University of Wisconsin alumni facebook group. He tried posting similar comments; they also disappeared. Through freedom of Information Act requests, they learned that certain words were being automatically blocked. When those filters didn’t work, the university was manually removing Krasno’s comments. Along with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), she sued the school and NIH. In response, both institutions said that they were simply trying to keep their social media feeds from being overwhelmed by repetitive, irrelevant comments and that Krasno and other animal rights activists just happened to be the ones leaving them. It’s “a seemingly coordinated campaign to flood [NIH’s] social media pages with off-topic commentary related to animal testantonIn Utz/aFp/getty IMages PEta activists demonstrate in front of a building at the Pitié-salpêtrière hospital in Paris last month, denouncing experimentation on monkeys by the National institute of Mental Health. miliar males for breeding: “You would hear screaming.” A spokesman for the school said that they have no evidence of mistreatment during Krasno’s time in the lab and that federal agencies provide oversight of animal research. The school settled an investigation with the U.S. Agriculture Department over alleged violations of the Animal Welfare Act in 2020 by paying a $74,000 fine, saying safety measures had been improved. “monkeys in the university’s facilities receive regular attention and care from specialized veterinarians” and “are housed socially with other monkeys … as research and safety allow,” said Chris Barncard, the spokesman. “Studying animals is an important way — in many cases, the only way — to answer crucial questions about basic biological processes and to ethically study diseases with often devastating consequences for humans and animals.” Krasno had planned to go into primate conservation. Instead, after graduation she began working in animal sanctuaries. She would dream about being back in the lab, taking photographs — something she had never done when she worked there. She started going to therapy and was eventually diagnosed with PTSD, she said. In 2017, Krasno posted on Instagram a photo of a tattoo she had gotten that said: “for patrick” — the name of the first baby monkey she cared for in the lab. And she started intermittently describing her experiences. At first, it was her ideological allies who responded negatively, saying she was a psychopath for having worked in animal research. “Some of the worst things that have been said to me have come from animal rights activists,” Krasno said. But she noticed that when she tagged her alma mater in posts, the school removed the notation. feeling she had hit a nerve, she started an Instagram post on sickle-cell anemia prompted more than five dozen comments that were variations on “#animalabuser,” although the research highlighted did not involve animal testing. Krasno, now 33, worked in the Harlow lab decades after his death and was never directly involved in research. She was a student caretaker for the hours when scientists and their assistants were off-duty. Immediately, she says, she had some awareness that what she was seeing was wrong. on her first day at the lab, she was taken to the one cage that housed multiple macaques. Her supervisor gave her some peanuts and showed her how to hand the treats through the bars. “They were so excited,” she said. “They’re living in basically dungeons — windowless rooms where the lighting half the time wasn’t working, where the drains weren’t working. A peanut is all they have to live for.” other monkeys were caged alone, she said. While mothers were not separated from their babies the way Harlow’s test subjects had been, Krasno said the mothers often rejected their offspring or failed to properly nurse them because they had not learned from older monkeys in the wild. Though they weren’t tied down, she said, female monkeys were clearly traumatized by being put into cages with unfadeciding who speaks and on what topics. Both rulings are now on appeal and could go to the U.S. Supreme Court. “Courts are just starting to dig into the parameters of free speech online,” said lawyer Stephanie Krent of the Knight first Amendment Institute, who argued NIH’s case in front of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit last week. Courts have said officials — including former president Donald Trump — can’t muzzle criticism online. But they haven’t said what the limits are when the government is allowed to moderate. The lab in madison where Krasno worked was named after Harry Harlow, a pioneering psychologist whose work upended harmful beliefs that too much tenderness would soften children’s minds. on the contrary, he found, neglect and isolation were liable to make children grow up angry and violent; mothers who had been traumatized were liable to became neglectful or abusive toward their children. He came to those conclusions through experiments on rhesus monkeys. Some were separated early from their mothers and given a choice between a doll made of cloth or one made of wire. Some were left for months in a box he called the “pit of despair”; female monkeys were forced to copulate by being tied to a device he called “the rape rack.” Harlow’s name, along with that of a scientist who worked with him, are on NIH’s list of banned words. So are “animals,” “cruelty,” “monkeys,” “revolting,” “testing” and “torture.” After Krasno’s lawsuit was filed, “PETA,” “#stopanimaltesting,” “#stoptesting” and “#stoptestingonanimals” were taken off the list of banned words. NIH said it chose those words because they were the ones most commonly used in off-topic, repetitive comments. for example, laWsuit fRom B1 Activist sues NIH, university “Monkeys in the university’s facilities receive regular attention and care from specialized veterinarians.” chris Barncard, spokesman at the University of Wisconsin at Madison of the women claimed the conduct occurred when they were underage teens or young women and worked for or with Gobin. Gobin denied the allegations in the 19-year-old’s lawsuit and the claims made by the five other women interviewed by The Post. Gobin’s lawsuit claims the alleged victim and Ross “have conspired to ruin Gobin’s good reputation, in order to take his business, and eventually all of his property, for themselves.” The 19-year-old woman said Gobin’s claims are false and has filed a response to the lawsuit claiming they do not pass legal muster. “I have no financial interest in either Gobin or Ross’s operation,” she said in a statement. “No one outside my family is helping me with my legal fees. I am only interested in one thing — making sure [Gobin] doesn’t do this to anyone else.” matthew Sorensen, an attorney for Ross, also said in a statement Gobin’s claims are not true. “mr. Gobin’s claims against ms. Ross are unfounded and appear to have been brought for the sole purpose of harassment and intimidation,” Sorensen said. “ms. Ross intends to defend this matter vigorously.” Assistant U.S. Attorney John Interrante said his office agreed to the plea deal out of concern that if the case went to trial, a jury might have rejected the first-degree murder charge — punishable by a mandatory minimum of 30 years in prison — and instead found Posey guilty of second-degree murder. As a result, prosecutors agreed to offer the plea deal after Posey accepted responsibility. Authorities and Hill’s family said Posey never provided a motive for shooting his ex-girlfriend. In imposing the sentence, o’Keefe agreed with prosecutors, who requested the maximum 18 years. The judge also ordered Posey to undergo drug abuse counseling and mental health therapy while in prison. o’Keefe told the Hill family that he knows that no matter what the sentence, “you will never be made whole.” FaMIly photo shantal Hill, 28, a mother of three, was killed in april 2020 in the first block of M street NW, near North Capitol street. BY KEITH L. ALEXANDER As she lay on a Northwest Washington sidewalk four years ago, her body riddled with bullets, Shantal Hill uttered her final words to a police officer who held her in his arms, trying to render aid. She identified her attacker as her ex-boyfriend, Carson Posey. Then she made a final plea. “I can’t die,” she told the officer, according to court documents. “I have kids.” Hill’s three children, her mother, aunts and about a dozen other relatives sat in D.C. Superior Court on friday as a judge sentenced Posey to 18 years in prison in Hill’s death. Prosecutors originally charged Posey with first-degree murder in the 2020 shooting. But in September, Posey, now 24, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder while armed and agreed to a sentence of 12 to 18 years behind bars. At the sentencing, Posey’s public defenders told Judge michael o’Keefe that their client had “untreated” mental health issues, including paranoid schizophrenia, and a history of illegal drug use. They asked the judge to sentence him to 12 years in prison. Posey, seated between his attorneys, read from a letter he had written. He apologized to the Hill family and his own family “for the pain I have caused.” He said, “It was the biggest mistake I ever made in my life. I remember the good times I had with ms. Hill and her children. I am sorry.” Hill’s mother, Katina Hill, asked the judge to sentence Posey to 28 years — a year in prison for every year her daughter lived. Katina Hill said her daughter and Posey dated for three years and broke up before the coronavirus pandemic. “He was at our house for holidays, family gatherings and family trips,” she said. “He was part of our family.” Hill said her daughter had dreams of becoming an EmT in the District and had just passed the proficiency required for employment because “she loved people and loved her city.” family members sat in the courtroom gallery, holding church fans that displayed Hill’s photo. Katina Hill said she is now raising her daughter’s children. Hill’s two daughters and young son sat behind their grandmother as she spoke. Katina Hill said her daughter once bought Posey a birthday cake — the first birthday cake he ever had, he told the family. “When I got the phone call about my daughter, I rushed out to the scene and all I saw were bullet casings and yellow tape. Because of covid, I couldn’t see my daughter’s body for three weeks,” she recalled. “We are still broken. We have all seen a therapist, but we are still grieving.” According to court documents, at about 10:48 p.m. on April 20, 2020, police were notified by acoustic shot-spotter technology of 14 gunshots fired in the first block of m Street NW, near the 1200 block of North Capitol Street, on the sidewalk outside of the Tyler House apartments. Emergency responders took Hill to a nearby hospital, where she died an hour later. moments after the shooting, Posey was captured on surveillance video running from the scene, falling to the ground and running “out of his Timberland shoes,” according to court documents. Crime scene officers recovered multiple 9mm shell casings and a pair of black Timberlands. DNA testing linked Posey to the boots. According to court records, before police arrived, Hill called a relative after the shooting and left a voice mail: “He shot me. He shot me.” The DisTricT Man gets 18 years for killing his ex-girlfriend Woman pleaded for her life, officer said, saying ‘I have kids’ BY JUSTIN JOUVENAL A prominent polo player has sued a woman who accused him of using threats, money and his position in the sport to pressure her into sexual contact when she was a 16-year-old, claiming in the suit that she conspired to ruin his reputation for financial gain. John Gobin, who also runs a successful polo school in Virginia called Twilight Polo Club, contends the now-19-year-old alleged victim concocted the allegations along with Whitney Ross, a former business partner who is also named as a defendant, to steal his business, according to the lawsuit. Both women deny the allegations. Gobin’s lawsuit in fauquier County Circuit Court, which was filed last month, comes after the alleged victim filed a lawsuit against him claiming the 47-yearold manipulated her into sexual encounters while she worked for him on his farm beginning in 2021. The encounters allegedly included at least two occasions when he had sexual contact with her and another underage teen. The Washington Post generally does not name victims of alleged sexual assault. The woman was one of six interviewed by The Post who claimed Gobin groped them sexually, made lewd comments or engaged in other inappropriate sexual conduct over the last five years. many Virginia Polo player sues woman who accused him of misconduct Six women interviewed by The Post claimed he behaved inappropriately BY MARTIN WEIL, JESSICA CONTRERA AND CLARENCE WILLIAMS The noise drew a teacher at Dunbar High School to leave her desk mid-conversation friday morning and peer out the window. Gunshots. When she turned back around, the student she’d been talking to was on the floor, blood pouring from her head, according to a sworn statement filed in D.C. Superior Court. A basketball coach rushed into the classroom, according to the statement, and used the student’s jacket to apply pressure to her injury. The wound to the right side of the student’s forehead was deep enough to expose her skull, according to the report police filed in court to give information for charges, but a doctor determined surgery was not necessary. The documents provide a deeper accounting of an incident that appeared to rattle District residents. While violent crime overall is down in 2024, the symbolism of a bullet striking a student while in class struck a public nerve, fueling questions about how leaders will prevent persistent flurries of sudden gunfire in community spaces. Later friday, a 3-year-old was fatally shot in an unrelated incident, presumably by a stray bullet fired in a possible exchange of shots on a residential street in Southeast. At a court hearing Saturday in the Dunbar shooting, a lawyer for Azhari Graves, 18, said her client did not fire the shot that wounded the girl, that any gun he might have been carrying was for selfdefense and that no available surveillance footage showed Graves pointing or shooting a gun at anyone. In the sworn statement, police quoted witnesses who said both Graves and a 17-year-old who was also charged but not named because of his age were current Dunbar students. Nothing said in the statement from police or by prosecutors in court on Saturday signaled any intent to attack the school or injure anyone in it. In addition to striking the student in the classroom, the gunfire also shattered a window near someone in another room, apparently also a student, according to police reports. Arguments in court between prosecution and defense centered on a car that, according to the statement, had been struck by gunfire. It appeared from comments made in court that the targeted vehicle was between the school and those shooting. The vehicle, according to Graves’s lawyer, was being operated in a way that aroused suspicion that a drive-by shooting was intended. Judge Neal E. Kravitz ordered Graves held pending a preliminary hearing later this month. He said that even if Graves did not shoot the gun, there was enough evidence to otherwise connect him to a crime. The DisTricT Dunbar student’s wounding in class by gunshot is detailed in court filing Erratically driven car spurred fears of drive-by, lawyer says at hearing Did you hear The Post today? Washington post podcasts go with you everywhere wpost.com/podcasts Politics • History • Culture • More s0108 3x.5
B4 eZ re the washington post . monday, may 6, 2024 that kids are showing that they can do college-level work while they are still in high school.” The entire city has embraced dual-enrollment and early-college programs in recent years, particularly with the opening of the Advanced Technical Center in Northeast Washington. Highschoolers at the site can earn college credits toward degrees in nursing and cybersecurity. In her budget request, D.C. mayor muriel E. Bowser (D) signaled plans to open a second site in Ward 8. Getting more students through college may also mean expanding the definition of completion to include apprenticeships, certificates and professional credentials, said Derrick Anderson, senior vice president of Education futures at the American Council on Education. “It’s totally within the realm of possibility,” Anderson said about D.C.’s goal to raise the college graduation rate, but added that “I don’t think everyone needs a four-year degree and I don’t think everyone needs to be on a fouryear degree pathway.” finances also remain a barrier for many students, experts said. D.C. kids can secure scholarships through DC-CAP and the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant, which pays students up to $10,000 each year to attend public universities outside the city and $2,500 to go to a District private school or private historically Black institution. But they also are contending with the loss of DC futures, which helped cover tuition for about 1,500 students at Trinity Washington, UDC and Catholic University. The program was funded with $12 million in federal pandemic relief that will expire this fall. “$3 million, that’s just going to be gone by the end of the fall semester,” mcGuire said, adding that 500 of her students used DC futures funds to work toward degrees. “If students don’t know how they’re going to pay for this, they’re not going to finish.” think more mental health support and in-care home support,” she said when asked about what it would take to help more students graduate. “A lot of students, they can’t focus on school because of external issues they have going on at home.” Inside Capital one Arena, she wore the blue-and-white T-shirt of Spelman College, the historically Black Atlanta school where she plans to spend the next four years. Getting students to think about college sooner also could help them stay focused, some leaders say. “We need to strengthen the college advising and college exposure,” said Patricia Brantley, chief executive of friendship Public Charter School. Students enrolled there take college trips as early as during elementary grades. “At friendship, we do a lot of dual-enrollment courses so ging into archival materials and including a lengthy bibliography and historical note at the back of each book. He was credited with helping spur renewed interest in the Tudor era, along with British author Hilary mantel, whose “Wolf Hall” trilogy featured a less brutal, more sympathetic version of Cromwell, and TV shows like Showtime’s bodice-ripper “The Tudors,” which mr. Sansom considered “infantile.” “All those frocks and plots — I like to get away from that,” he told the Guardian in 2010, discussing his interest in an era that offered not just a morbid panoply of political upheaval and religious violence, but a chance to reflect on the parallels between past and present. “The more I read about it, the more I realized how like the 20th century it was in its anxiety and uncertainty, even though people thought so differently then,” he said. “If I were to talk today with someone from the 16th century, they’d think I was mad, and probably heretical. That’s what’s so interesting about writing about the period: to comprehend it, you have to work your way into a totally different worldview.” His own worldview was shaped by relentless childhood bullying and subsequent bouts of depression that he described as “the monkey on my back all my life.” An only child, he was born Christopher John Sansom in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Dec. 9, 1952. His mother was from Scotland, and his father was an engineer from England who worked on naval research projects. “from birth I was noisy and uncontrollable, a trial and a puzzle to my parents,” he wrote in a 2018 essay for the Times of London. During his 10 years at George Watson’s College, a private day school in Edinburgh, he was mocked by classmates and occasionally by teachers, targeted for being inattentive — he later suspected he had undiagnosed attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder — and unathletic. mr. Sansom said he became “consumed with rage, plagued by migraines and tormented by thoughts of suicide and burning down the school.” At 15, he attempted suicide, taking an overdose of his mother’s sleeping pills. He went on to spend a year at a mental hospital. “for the first time in my life people treated me as a human being,” he wrote. “I think the staff there saved my life, just as Watson’s almost destroyed it.” By then, he had turned toward books, movies and television as refuge from an academic environment where “any sort of imagination was seen as rather naughty.” He also rebelled against his conservative upbringing by adopting what he described as “a sort of radical, independent socialist position,” which he retained as an adult while advocating against nationalist politics, including by donating nearly 300,000 pounds to a successful campaign urging Scottish voters to reject an independence referendum in 2014. mr. Sansom studied history at the University of Birmingham in England, receiving a bachelor’s degree and then a doctorate, with a dissertation on the Labour Party’s policy toward South Africa between the two world wars. He later trained as a lawyer, and was working as a solicitor in Sussex, defending poor clients, when he began pursuing his literary ambitions on the side. “It was a case of doing bits and bobs, going to writers’ groups,” he told the Guardian. After his father died in 2000, he received a modest inheritance that allowed him to take a year off and write what became “Dissolution.” “I imagined I would be back in the law within the year,” he later said. When the novel became a hit — its champions included Dexter, his fellow mystery author, who called it “extraordinarily impressive” — mr. Sansom received a three-book contract that enabled him to write full time. In 2022, he was awarded the Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement from the Crime Writers’ Association, a British literary group whose chair, maxim Jakubowski, hailed him as “the modern master of the historical thriller, regardless of periods.” mr. Sansom leaves no immediate survivors, according to his publisher. Although he was slowed by his multiple myeloma diagnosis in 2012, he continued to write in recent years and was preparing a new Shardlake novel, “ratcliff.” He worked out of a book-filled home in Brighton, where his coffee table was decorated with six coasters depicting the wives of Henry VIII, and where he sought to avoid social media, which he called “the curse of our age.” Throwing himself into his research and writing, he liked to sit at his computer, he told the Sunday Times of London, and “just disappear into the 16th century.” davId levenson/geTTy IMages c.J. Sansom, seen in 2009, was credited with helping spur renewed interest in the Tudor era. BY HARRISON SMITH C.J. Sansom, who transported millions of readers to 16th-century England with his erudite, psychologically complex mystery novels about matthew Shardlake, a hunchbacked lawyer turned investigator navigating political intrigue during the Tudor era, died April 27 at a hospice center near his longtime home in Brighton, England. He was 71. The cause was multiple myeloma, said maria rejt, his publisher and editor at mantle, an imprint of Pan macmillan. A former lawyer with a PhD in history, mr. Sansom was 50 when he published his debut novel, “Dissolution,” in 2003. Set in the 1530s, when King Henry VIII was taking control of monasteries and other Catholic church lands across England, the book marked the first appearance of Shardlake, a lawyer dispatched to investigate the murder of one of Thomas Cromwell’s government commissioners at a monastery in Scarnsea, a fictional town on the English coast. The novel recalled Umberto Eco’s “The Name of the rose,” another murder mystery set within an isolated monastery, and became an unexpected hit for mr. Sansom, who had sent the manuscript out before going on vacation, “thinking that when I came back the rejection slips would be coming in.” over the next 15 years, he published six more Shardlake books as well as the stand-alone thrillers “Winter in madrid” (2006), set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and “Dominion” (2012), which imagined an alternative postwar world in which Britain was a satellite state of Nazi Germany. more than 3 million copies of his novels are in print, and “Shardlake” — a fourpart adaptation of his first book — premiered Wednesday on Hulu (on Disney Plus overseas), starring Arthur Hughes as the titular investigator and Sean Bean as Cromwell. often described as a Tudor version of Inspector morse, the sullen but sympathetic detective character created by novelist Colin Dexter, Shardlake was mr. Sansom’s best-known literary creation, traveling across England in the midst of war, famine and revolt while suffering at times from “melancholy humors.” Set apart by temperament as well as physique (he is an honorable man surrounded by hypocrites, labeled a “crookback” by colleagues who mock his scoliosis), Shardlake works for patrons including Thomas Cranmer, the archbishop of Canterbury; Catherine Parr, the last of Henry’s six wives; and the king’s younger daughter, the future Queen Elizabeth I, who dispatches him to investigate the murder of a distant relative in “Tombland” (2018), mr. Sansom’s last and longest published novel. “oh, goody! An 800-page novel about the peasant uprisings of 1549!” New York Times book critic marilyn Stasio wrote at the outset of her review, acknowledging that a book featuring a lengthy description of Kett’s rebellion, a failed revolt against wealthy landowners, seemed an unlikely page-turner. Yet told through the lens of Shardlake, “the tale is enthralling,” she added, noting that “Sansom describes 16th-century events in the crisply realistic style of someone watching them transpire right outside his window.” That included descriptions of sheep being roasted to feed Kett’s peasant army, or a brutal scene from the start of the sixth Shardlake novel, “Lamentation” (2014), in which the lawyer witnesses a heretic being burned alive at court. The execution takes more than half an hour, even with a sack of explosives tied around the victim’s neck to speed things along: “She began to shout something but then the flames reached the gunpowder bag and her head exploded, blood and bone and brains flying and falling, hissing, into the fire.” mr. Sansom conducted extensive research for his novels, digC.J. sansom, 71 Writer of historical mystery novels pan MacMIllan c.J. Sansom published seven Matthew Shardlake novels. students from the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum who maybe haven’t matriculated through and not grown up in an environment where they had access to the kind of learning and resources and advice and support and structure at home that will allow them to start college in the fast lane.” UDC offers academic coaching and tutoring but is also embracing “co-remediation,” which researchers are finding helps students stay in school. Traditionally, if a student needs to take pre-calculus for his major but isn’t ready academically, he would take lower-level math courses until he is — adding additional semesters of work. With co-remediation, that student would enroll directly in pre-calculus and get extra help outside of class at the same time, Edington said. “That’s something we’re going to push heavily moving forward,” Edington said, as part of an effort to help students graduate faster — something the city needs if it wants to meet the 80 percent graduation target. Lewis D. ferebee, chancellor of D.C.’s traditional public-school district, acknowledged that students are behind. He pointed to the district’s Ninth Grade Academies, a program that helps teens transition into high school and, ultimately, finish ninth grade — often an indicator of whether a student graduates. five out of the nine campuses with these academies have four-year high school graduation rates higher than the city’s 76 percent, city data shows. This school year, the district started a similar program at 11 middle schools for kids transitioning from elementary school. Students are also encouraged and that’s the only way this city is going to thrive.” But getting there will take big changes, experts said, including expanding dual-enrollment programs that allow teens to earn college credit in high school, providing low-income students with more financial aid and making sure students are prepared for college. “The reading ability of the students has to improve in high school,” said Patricia mcGuire, president of Trinity Washington University, a popular destination for D.C. public-school graduates. She said students often come to college “many grade levels behind,” sometimes reading below the high school level. “It’s too late when they get to college, especially if they want to be nurses or IT professionals. To be on some of these intensive professional tracks, their reading skills have to improve.” Students also have problems attending class consistently, a habit they often carry over from high school, mcGuire said. In the most recent school year, about 63 percent of the 12th-grade class was chronically absent, meaning they had missed at least 18 days of school, according to citywide attendance data. “most of our students who flunk out in the first year don’t attend class,” she added. maurice Edington, president at the University of the District of Columbia, also said many students come to campus behind in core subject areas. “There’s a direct correlation, in general, between socioeconomic status and college preparedness,” Edington said. “We enroll many cOllege from B1 D.C. leaders focus on college grad rates students” where they can reach out for help, ferebee said. “The ability to help students with their mental health, the social-emotional connection that they’ll have with DCPS as they go onto college, is something we think is important.” mikayla Kelley, 18, a senior at Banneker High School who attended last month’s college celebration, said students need more counseling while they are still in high school. “I definitely to apply to “Smart Choice Colleges,” campuses that D.C. students have attended and in which they’ve done well, ferebee said. And during the pandemic, officials started DCPS Persists, which provides high school graduates with academic coaching, emotional support and small grants to help them afford expenses like books or transportation while they’re in college. “The beauty of DCPS Persists is we’ve created that structure for phoTos by MarvIn Joseph/The WashIngTon posT Former first lady Michelle Obama delivered the keynote address at the D.c. college Access Program’s college signing day celebration at capital One Arena on April 30. obituaries ATTENTION DEATH NOTICES CLIENTS: Death Notice placements on Sundays and federal holidays to be self-service only Starting May 1, 2024, The Washington Post Paid Death Notices Department will utilize a self-service only system on Sundays and federal holidays. There will not be any team members available to speak with on these days. As always, team members will be available during regular, non-holiday business hours Monday-Saturday. 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monday, may 6, 2024 . the washington post EZ RE B5 IN MEMORIAM SHEINGORN LARRY A. SHEINGORN M.D. September 11, 1952 ~ May 6, 2005 Eye Surgeon, Patient Advocate, Electronics Designer, Inventor, TV Producer and Director, Computer Programmer, Loving Husband, Son, and Brother, Loyal Friend. He Loved Life www.drsheigorn.com/ec DEATH NOTICE CONWAY VERNON CONWAY SR. Chief Petty Officer, Vernon Conway Sr. (Ret.) passed away peacefully on the April 21, 2024 at INOVA Loudon Hospital, Virginia. Viewing and services will be held on Friday, May 10, 2024, from 9 to 11 a.m. at Waugh Methodist Church, 425 High Street, Cambridge, Maryland. Interment Eastern Shore Veterans Cemetery 1 p.m. Repass at Waugh Church at 2 p.m. HERNANDEZ MYRNA HERNANDEZ We celebrate the life of Myrna Hernandez, who passed peacefully Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in her beloved home. Myrna moved to the Washington, DC area from San Juan Puerto Rico in 1964 after achieving her Bachelor’s degree and falling in love with a handsome Marine. She then served for nearly five decades in the federal government before leaving the Commission on Civil Rights at the age of 79. It is hard to capture Myrna’s spirit and eye for beauty in words; suffice it to say she was a globetrotter, friend to artists, and fabulous tour de force. She will be held in the hearts of her children Valerie Carter and Eric Carter, granddaughters Hannah “Chopper”, Sophia, and Anabella, and her dear boricuas. She will be remembered for never wearing the same outfit twice and for dancing at every party. A celebration of her life will be held around her birthday in September. MILES ALINE ELIZABETH MILES On Wednesday, April 24, 2024, Aline Elizabeth Miles of Accokeek, Maryland entered into eternal life. Loving mother of Arthur (Fannie) Miles Jr. and Victor (Rose) Miles. Devoted grandmother of nine Grandchildren, and nine Great grandchildren. Also survived by one God Daughter many other relatives and friends. Family will receive friends on Monday, May 6, from 10 a.m. until the time of funeral service at 11 a.m. at Galbraith AME Zion Church, 1114 6th Street NW, Washington, DC. Interment Maryland National cemetery. www.wisemanfuneralhome.net DEATH NOTICE TOLSON MARY BERNADETTE TOLSON “Bernie” “Berna” (Age 81) Mary Bernadette Wise Tolson entered into eternal rest on Monday, April 29,2024 in Clinton, Maryland. She is survived by her devoted daughter, Dana Tolson Blake and loving son, Donald G. Tolson II; grandchildren Kristopher Tucker, Keyona Tolson, Julian Archer and Darrius Archer; great-grandsons Korey and Jorden Henderson and a host of other relatives and numerous friends. She was born in Newton Grove, NC and relocated to Washington, DC in 1960. Bernadette had an illustrious work career starting with C&P Telephone Company, Freedmen’s Hospital and culminating with her legendary and politically charged career with the District of Columbia Government in the Department of Employment Services, as well as serving under five mayors and known as the “Go To Person” in DC Government. Service will be held on Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at St. Phillips the Apostle Catholic Church 5414 Henderson Way, Camp Springs, MD 20746. Viewing at 4 p.m. and Mass of Christian Burial at 5 p.m. Interment will be Friday, May 17, 2024 at 1 p.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe Cemetery in Newton Grove, NC www.mcguire-services.com DEATH NOTICE O’CONNOR PATRICIA ANN O’CONNOR Patricia Ann O’Connor (79) of Washington, DC, passed away on May 1, 2024. She was born in October 1944 in Washington, DC to Robert Joseph O’Connor and Kathryn Emma Trainor. She is survived by her husband of 46 years, Kent Crysler Cooper, and her two children, Patrick Kent Cooper of Washington, DC (Lori Grisham and sons Dash and Connor) and Robert Lawrence Cooper of Pound Ridge, NY (Danielle Mazandi). She is also survived by her sister, Mary Kathryn Brinker of Ellicott City, MD (John Brinker), as well as eleven nieces and nephews and their families, along with her sister-in-law Kathaleen O’Connor of McConnellsburg, PA. She is predeceased by her brother, Thomas Trainor O’Connor. Ann graduated from Immaculata High School in Washington, DC and received a B.A. in Journalism and M.A. in Political Science from Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. In 1970, she started work in the research department at Congressional Quarterly Inc. (CQ) in Washington, DC. She later was a Weekly Report reporter, editor of the first two editions of the Washington Information Directory, co-editor of the Guide to Congress, and editor of Congress and the Nation IV. She became book department editor in 1978 and was the first woman to hold the position. The department under her leadership grew rapidly and won several awards for excellence including a 1980 National Book Award. She continued writing and editing for CQ, including as editor of The Iran-Contra Puzzle and co-editor of Congress A to Z, until 2011. Ann was active in the school and parish at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Washington, DC, including serving as a school room parent, coordinating several spring Mission Fairs, editing the church newsletter, advising on potential recipients for the poor box collections and Christmas tree sale donations, and serving on the parish council. For many years, she coordinated the church Outreach program, coordinating volunteers to collect donations outside every Mass on the first Sunday of each month and the giving of those funds to local food pantries and meal services. Ann volunteered for more thanadecade in the soup kitchen at Thrive DC. She was also active in the community of those attending Dahlgren Chapel at Georgetown University, where she and Kent were married in 1978 and where their two sons were baptized. She was an excellent listener and had a strong memory and interest for the lives of family and friends. A sincere smile and great care were a part of every conversation. She hadalifelong love of reading, baking, baseball, making holidays and birthdays special, yearly trips to the Outer Banks and Maine, and caring for her family, who will miss her more than any words can say. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, 5949 Western Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC on May7at 11 a.m., with a visiting from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Organizations that Ann supported include Thrive DC, the Father McKenna Center and Washington Jesuit Academy. 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KLMNO monday, may 6, 2024 Style eZ Re c T he most famous scene in the most famous movie about clothes, “The Devil Wears Prada,” explains in 90 seconds how the machine of fashion works. Miranda Priestly (Meryl streep), the editor in chief (and Anna Wintour avatar) of the Vogue magazine stand-in Runway, oversees a runthrough of photo-shoot looks, deciding between two belts while a pre-makeover Andy sachs (Anne Hathaway) and her split ends observe. “It’s a tough call,” says a stylist urgently, holding the indistinguishable belts before Miranda’s exacting gaze. “They’re so different.” Andy snorts, and the fashion vipers snap their necks to her. “I’m still learning about this stuff,” she bumbles in her defense. And thus begins an epic dress-down: Miranda traces Andy’s “lumpy blue sweater” from a 2002 oscar de la Renta collection of cerulean dresses to Yves saint Laurent cerulean jackets and through department stores until it “trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner, where you no doubt fished it out of some clearance bin.” The message was that the decisions made in that elite room determined what everyone buys: “You’re wearing a sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room, from a pile of ‘stuff.’” This monologue is still cited today as an example of how fashion works and, more importantly, as an explanation of why it matters. You may think that people swiping through runway images on vogue.com or spending hours choosing between two black dresses are wasting their time, but whether we know it or not, we are all a part of a great chain of style. (Kumbaya!) on Monday, the Met Gala — known as the super Bowl or the oscars of fashion, celebrating the annual Costume Institute exhibition and the continued dominance of Wintour — will cement the end of that chain of influence. one of this year’s sponsors is TikTok, which arrived in the United states in 2018 as a global version of the Chinese app Douyin. This has raised eyebrows as, per a bill signed into law late last month, the app faces a ban if its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, does not find a new owner in about nine months. shou Zi Chew, TikTok’s Ceo, is expected to attend the gala. More controversial may be Vogue’s financial embrace of the platform that has ushered in the irrelevance of high fashion: putting fast fashion and outrageous trend cycles in focus and redefining who determines what we wear. It has made personal style more important than fashion — a positive change for consumers, but one that has sapped designers of their creative authority. A decade ago, Instagram uprooted the front rows of fashion shows, replacing fading editors with bloggers, then influencers who raved see TikTok oN c3 BY RACHEL TASHJIAN Swiping away high fashion Met Gala sponsor TikTok has changed the industry iLLuSTRATion by JoSé L. SoTo/THe WASHinGTon PoST; cHARLeS GRoSS; Huy LuonG; Robb HoHMAnn; iSTock BY SEBASTIAN SMEE I flew from London to New York once to interview Frank stella, the acclaimed painter and sculptor who died saturday at 87. The interview took place in his studio in downtown Manhattan. stella was courtly, charismatic and formidable. even when he wasn’t speaking, a terrific intelligence came off him like steam. He showed me around, then gestured to a seat that, in my memory, was a good 20 feet from his own — a swedish rocking chair, no less. The cavernous space felt like a stage set. stella lit up a cigar, then, in a voice that reminded me of Joe Pesci in “Goodfellas” (he was of Italian descent), said, “Ask away.” The interview proceeded, and at some point — it was unavoidsee APPreciATioN oN c8 appreciation Stella felt free outside the lines MicHAeL TiGHe/donALdSon coLLecTion/ GeTTy iMAGeS Artist Frank stella in 1975. BY FRANCES STEAD SELLERS The beginning of Brittney Griner’s new memoir is shockingly mundane — a hurried packing job in preparation for what had become for the Phoenix Mercury star a routine overseas trip. Griner, who supplemented her WNBA income by playing for the UMMC ekaterinburg team, was off to Russia. she sailed through security in Phoenix and then New York before landing in Moscow, where she and several other foreigners were subjected to further searches. A sniffer dog showed no sign that it had detected anything, so Griner was surprised to be asked to unpack her carry-ons. That’s where she unearthed not one but two partially used canisters of cannabis oil. They were legal in Arizona, where Griner was a licensed see Book world oN c4 Book world Griner now tells her own story BY CHRIS RICHARDS In popland, the ruling class continues to make album covers at sea. The artwork for sZA’s long-tail blockbuster, 2022’s “sos,” finds the singer plopped on a plank, gazing out at an oceanic vastness meant to represent our alienating and unknowable world. on the cover of Billie eilish’s upcoming “Hit Me Hard and soft,” the pop star is submerged in dark water, sinking into a liquid dream. As for the cover of Dua Lipa’s latest, “Radical optimism,” it was photographed at the waterline, depicting the 28-year-old from the shoulders up in golden evening wear, staring down a shark’s dorsal fin as it slices in her direction. If this image isn’t trying to evoke a scene from an old James Bond movie, it’s a comsee Music review oN c8 Music review Dua Lipa’s feeling fine, but are we? BY ASHLEY FETTERS MALOY For nearly two decades, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute’s annual benefit gala has taken place the first Monday in May. The following morning, however — the first Tuesday in May, perhaps — is its own secondary holiday for fashion fans: an internet-wide roundtable, sometimes contentious, about the theme. “Celebs fumbled the easiest theme ever,” declared culture critic Mina Le after 2022’s “In America” edition of the event (dress code: “gilded glamour, white tie”); other observers grumbled at how many guests took “gilded” literally and came dressed in glittering gold rather than Gilded Age-inspired garb. After the 2019 “camp”-themed event, Vox’s Rebecca Jennings wrote that the year’s theme was especially difficult to dress to: “By virtue of attempting a pure camp look, you’ve already failed at it — particularly if you’ve succeeded.” every year, the Met Gala celebrates the opening of an exhibit with a corresponding theme; last year’s Karl Lagerfeldthemed gala, for example, celebrated the opening of a Lagerfeld exhibit. This year’s exhibit is titled “sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” while the gala’s dress code — which, as Vogue has emphasized this year, can differ from the exhibit’s theme! — is “The Garden of Time.” The exhibit was announced in November, and the event received a supplemental reading assignment, a few months later. In February, Vogue clarified that the gala’s theme would be “Garden of Time” — inspired by a 1962 J.G. Ballard short story about the consequences of trying to keep the fleeting gifts of nature permanently — and that the exhibit would focus on “clothing and fashion so fragile that it can’t ever be worn again — and are thus sleeping beauties in the scrupulous archives of the Costume Institute.” The passage of time and its myriad casualties: Talk about a classic costume-party theme, right? As anyone who has paid even see MeT THeMes oN c2 Why it’s not always so easy to nail a Met Gala dress code AnGeLA WeiSS/AFP/GeTTy iMAGeS kylie Jenner at the 2022 Met Gala, whose theme was “in America: An Anthology of Fashion.” This year’s gala dress code is “The Garden of Time,” while the exhibit is “sleeping Beauties.”
C2 eZ re the washington post . monday, may 6, 2024 Business Jeff Bezos amazon founder, owner of The Washington post (attended in ’19) David Koch Former co-owner of koch Industries (’14, ’15) Les Moonves Former CBs Ceo (’13, ’14, ’15, ’17) Media/TV Personality Ronan Farrow Investigative reporter at the new yorker (’14) Megyn Kelly talk show host, journalist (’16, ’17) Katie Couric Journalist, tV anchor (’13, ’14, ’15) Other Timothy M. Dolan archbishop of new york (’18) Jeff Koons artist, sculptor (’13, ’17) James Charles youtuber, influencer (’19) Royalty Queen Rania of Jordan (’16) Princess Beatrice of York (’18) source: Data from Getty Images, post reporting Some of the unexpected Met Gala guests since 2013 anGeLa WeIss/aFp/Getty IMaGes Blake Lively in 2022. The theme was “In America,” with a dress code of “gilded glamour, white tie.” that the exhibit was titled “Sleeping Beauties” while the official gala theme was “Garden of Time.” “I was just thinking: ‘oh, no, imagine if you got it the wrong way ’round?’” medley says with a laugh. That said, medley points out, Wintour and her team at Vogue make themselves available as a behind-the-scenes resource for invitees and their stylists during planning season, including to field questions about the theme. It’s all, as medley puts it, “quite strategic.” Still, those watching from home should understand before they post online: Not every celebrity (or their stylist) gets full control over what they wear. As Slutsky, whose past met Gala clients have included rachel Zegler, renée Elise Goldsberry and Cynthia Erivo, explains: “It really depends. Is your client going as a guest with a designer or a brand? or are they going as a guest of Vogue, or otherwise attending not attached to a designer?” In other words, a partnership with a designer or fashion house might determine which archives or recent runway looks a celebrity has access to. or in the case of a custom design, whose particular visual vocabulary the theme will be interpreted into. Some will lend themselves easily to a given theme. others, inevitably, won’t. That said, a looser theme is preferable to a high-concept one. meller, too, spoke plainly: A theme as amorphous-seeming as this year’s could be more fun for outside observers than even last year’s easily graspable Lagerfeld tribute. “There was a lot of black and white. Which was gorgeous, and it came out so well,” he says. But this year’s theme — which could produce a lustrous collection of what Vogue describes as “melancholic” florals — “I think this will be more fun.” “It’s not just putting your client in a dress,” medley says. “You’re telling a story in that moment.” Last year’s met Gala theme, by contrast, was the decidedly straightforward “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty,” in tribute to the legendary (and controversial) designer who died in 2019. “When it’s something like Karl Lagerfeld, Vogue doesn’t really have to publish much more or give us much more information for us to start brainstorming,” says meller, who dressed actress Lea michele for both the 2023 and 2024 events. Sarah Slutsky, a New Yorkbased stylist who has more than a decade’s experience dressing met Gala attendees, agrees. “Last year’s was one of the most literal,” she says. When a theme or dress code feels straightforward, meller says, stylists expect to see some overlapping ideas and motifs between their clients’ ensembles and other attendees’. But when there’s a broader range of viable interpretations, “you have to think about: Whatis everyone else going to do? And how do you make it different, but also stray not too far?” meller says. “Because even if you feel like you havea really specific reference to the theme, if you’re the only one whodressed like that, most people are just going to be like, ‘Why did you dress like that?’” Georgia medley, the Londonbased stylist who dressed “I may Destroy You” and “Black Panther: Wakanda forever” actress michaela Coel to co-host last year’s met Gala, is sitting this year’s gala out. But as an onlooker, she felt an amused kind of terror learning passive attention to the met Gala in recent years knows, some themes result in dazzling, memorably cohesive turnouts. (“Heavenly Bodies: fashion and the Catholic Imagination” from 2018 comes to mind.) others invite wider arrays of interpretation, and still others go largely ignored by attendees altogether: 2016’s “manus x machina: fashion in an Age of Technology,” despite an exhibit thatthoughtfully showcased cooperation between human and machine in making haute couture, mostly resulted in metallics and silver ensembles, and 2021’s met Gala (exhibit and gala theme: “In America: A Lexicon of fashion”) was a relatively anything-goes affair. for celebrities and their stylists, though, every kind of theme — whether hyper-specific, open to interpretation or head-scratchingly ambiguous — presents its own challenges. Historically, the met Gala’s themes didn’tmean muchatall.In 1998, for instance, the theme was “Cubism andfashion”—but you’d never know it from the photos. “You would maybe wear a gown with special earrings,” says Brian meller, a New York-based stylist represented by the Wall Group and a metGala veteran.“And now, wearing a normal gown would be, like, the biggest misstep you could do.” one obvious catalyst for such a transformation is the instant, global feedback made possible by social media. Back then, “the theme was for fun. Now the theme has become a very serious thing, because being off-theme is very not okay,” meller says with a laugh. Which only heightens the stakes when a theme is, like this year’s, somewhat vague and cerebral:“You have thousands of people that are all going to give their opinions on whether it was on the theme or wasn’t.” MET THEMES from C1 On-point, or o≠-theme? “Now, wearing a normal gown would be, like, the biggest misstep you could do.” Brian Meller, a stylist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) her “tax the rich” dress drew widespread attention. Notable political figures at the Met Gala over the years source: Data from Getty Images, post reporting 4 8 guests 2013 '15 '17 '19 '21 '23 Hillary Clinton Former U.s. secretary of state Mitt Romney The former governor of Massachusetts attended with his wife, ann romney. Anthony Weiner The disgraced former congressman attended just months before his third sexting scandal broke out, this time with a 15-year-old. his seized laptop accidentally prompted an investigation into hillary Clinton’s email server. Henry Kissinger The former U.s. secretary of state attended 2015’s gala, themed “China: Through the Looking Glass.” Eric Adams nyC mayor Bill de Blasio Former nyC mayor JaMIe MCCarthy/Getty IMaGes John LaMparskI/Getty IMaGes anGeLa WeIss/aFp/Getty IMaGes anGeLa WeIss/aFp/Getty IMaGes CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Musician Anderson .Paak in 2022. Actress Zendaya in 2018 (theme: “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination”). Actress Michaela Coel in 2023 (theme: “Karl Lagerfeld:ALine of Beauty”). Model Gigi Hadid in 2022. BY SHELLY TAN Whether it’s rihanna rocking a pope hat or Jared Leto channeling his best furry impression, you can always count on the met Gala to serve up some viral fashion moments. Held on the first monday of may each year, the met Gala raises money for the metropolitan museum of Art Costume Institute and is known for its A-list guests and their outlandish outfits. But besides the glitzy celebs and designer elite, who else can you expect at one of the biggest nights in fashion? Using Getty photos of the event, we tracked and categorized the last 10 years of met Gala attendees. (The 2020 met Gala was canceled because of the covid-19 pandemic, so we also included 2013.) Actors, musicians and models are standard fare. But some names might surprise you. Even though the met Gala is a major fashion industry event, actors such as Sarah Jessica Parker and Zendaya consistently form the largest percentage of guests, averaging about 34 percent over the past 10 galas. fashion house members landadistant second place with 14 percent, and musicians and models compete for third with 11.9 percent each. (fashion house members include designers, executives/directors and founder relatives, such as Delfina Delettrez fendi, a fourth-generation fendi heiress who founded Delfina Delettrez Jewelry, or David Lauren, son of ralph Lauren, the chief branding and innovation officer atthe titular house.) A smattering of political figures have also gone over the years. former mayor of New York City mike Bloomberg, for example, has attended every gala with his wife and daughter since 2014. Besides the usual names, some of these guests might come as a surprise to those who don’t keep up with the fashion industry. Sure, you’d expectafew billionaire heirs to show up. But did you know Lauren remington Platt, a descendant of the remington Arms family (yes, that remington Arms), has been a Vogue mainstay and met Gala attendee for years? You can even look out for controversial figures such as Sean “Diddy” Combs, who has recently been subject to lawsuits alleging abuse, sexual violence and sex trafficking, or Georgina Chapman, Harvey Weinstein’s ex-wife and co-founder of fashion label marchesa, who remains a close pal of Anna Wintour and still attends almost every year. The guest list for this year’s met Gala won’t be released until the night of, but a few celebs have already confirmed their attendance. This year’s co-chairs — Jennifer Lopez, Zendaya, Chris Hemsworth and Bad Bunny—will obviously be there. rihanna has confirmed, making this her 11th appearance since 2007. High-profile partners like Ben Affleck, Tom Holland and A$AP rocky will probably also appear. As for the outfits? We’ll have to wait and see if the guests will bring their Agame, too. 10 years of Met guests span the A-list to Capitol Hill actor Actors are the biggest percentage of Met Gala guests from 2013-2023 Musician athlete Fashion house member Fashion media/Met Museum Model tV personality/Media Director/producer political figure/royal Influencer/socialite other Businessman 2013 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20* '21 '22 '23 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% *The 2020 Met Gala was canceled because of the covid-19 pandemic. “athlete” category includes dancers. “Fashion house members” includes designers executives/directors and founder relatives. “Fashion media” focuses on fashion industry members like Vogue editor-in-chief anna Wintour or Condé nast Ceo roger Lynch, while the more general “Media” includes other journalists like katie Couric. source: Getty Images It’s more than just the stylish at the night of high fashion
monday, may 6, 2024 . the washington post eZ re c3 F or the old guard of fashion, TikTok has made it less powerful and yet more popular. James Nord, the founder of the influencer marketing agency fohr, points out that the brands that have become successful on TikTok are the ones that have eschewed social media. “Hermès and Chanel just seem to be killing everybody,” he says. Someone like Charles Gross is arguably better at explaining a brand than a brand would be. A 29-year-old creator in New York with glowing skin and a humming, ASmr-ish voice, he has built a career from explaining the minutiae of luxury brands on the platform. “Even if someone doesn’t ever want to buy an Hermès bag, they make it almost difficult to even learn about these bags unless you have the money,” Gross says. “Whereas if I want to see a [Jean-michel] Basquiat, which I will never be able to afford, I can go to a museum and for a nominal fee — in some cases, it’s free — I can see one, learn all about it and move on with my life. There’s no barrier to some of the most expensive things in the world.” And creators who hew closer to the traditional influencer model have made the self-seriousness of expensive clothes seem outdated. “I always wanted to bring the relatable to luxury. That’s what I was able to do on TikTok,” says Izzi Allain. Allain, 25, celebrates the absurdities of designer fashion: dresses designed to look wet, shoes that look like bear feet — yes, bear — and outfits made entirely of latex. She brandishes lube to yank her latex on, or struggles to pick something up while wearing a stiff wood corset. “The luxury that we saw before was more like just perfect and a bit more cold,” she says. TikTok has not democratized fashion, but made it seem less styles and signifiers worn by teenagers in dance videos. And there were certainly “viral” products that came from designers during this period, such as miu miu’s miniskirt in 2021, or Alaïa’s mesh ballet flats last summer. But they became hits because TikTok creators promoted and contextualized them. otherwise, high-fashion brands spent the past four years pitting themselves against each other in a race for record profits and, seemingly, aesthetic insignificance. They raised their prices to astronomical heights, which may be why the shame of what were once called “knockoffs” has been rebranded merrily as “dupes.” It is almost impossible to trace anything about the way we shop, dress and talk about clothes to something a fashion designer created. In a way, you couldn’t blame the designers for ignoring TikTok trends. They moved so quickly that it was hard to know whether they were even real. “on TikTok, your main feed is random,” says Lee, who first went viral in April 2021 for questioning whether these trends were genuine. “The power of the algorithm is convincing you that, [for example], red gingham shorts are everywhere.” Already, performative trends are fading from influence. But that way of dissecting and understanding fashion — yapping, as some affectionately call it — is the way most young people talk about fashion now. Designer decrees are almost meaningless; brands seem to exist to offer up stuff for consumers to unpack online. In late 2022, Slimane, one of the original architects of 2000s style, produced his own indie sleaze collection: Here was the man who put the world in skinny jeans revisiting a look that he had created, and it all began with the yapping of one TikToker. aesthetic, which encouraged women to be contained, efficient and beige. “People on TikTok started to realize that they could go viral if they had a really pithy aesthetic name,” says Casey Lewis, who started her newsletter, After School, to chronicle these ridiculous trends. There was even a trend for anti-trends: “quiet luxury.” Pitched as the ultimate dunk on all the trends that came before it, it claimed that people who really have money and taste wear understated labels that you’ve never even heard of. TikTok became the guide, or the compass, for consumers to navigate and make sense of fast fashion, and then everything else. “Young people always have this desire to go to Goodwill and try on different identities. And maybe we didn’t have the same sort of vocabulary to put aesthetics to it, but there’s always been this sense of, ‘Who am I?’” Lewis says. “The newer element is sharing online — the performative aspect.” But fashion media took this experimentation as gospel. When Lee made a video in october 2021 predicting the return of what she called “indie sleaze,” or the “amateur-style flash photography” and “opulent displays of clubbing,” Dazed magazine wrote a story about it within a week. GQ, British Vogue, Vogue, Highsnobiety, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle and refinery29 heralded its return, and anything remotely related to mid-2000s indie rock or American Apparel was seized upon as proof. Designers seemed to ignore all of this. Hedi Slimane, the elusive designer behind the french luxury behemoth Celine, showed a collection online in 2020 called “The Dancing Kid,” with young people in ensembles that painstakingly re-created the slapdash, subculture-agnostic mixing of e-commerce is like reading a magazine, with products organized around trends and ideas: “Boho is back!,” claims Asos over a selection of hippie garments, while Net-a-Porter advertises “wanderlust dresses” for a tropical getaway. Shein’s categories are things such as “real,” “glam,” “chic” and “chill.” You have to find the patterns connecting the things you bought or put in your cart or even just browsed. TikTok was the perfect place to tease out those patterns. Early on, it became a place for armchair sociology, speechified think pieces and eyebrow-waggling conspiracy theories. Suddenly, everyone was roland Barthes with a great manicure and a tiny microphone. And that kind of thinking worked on every level of garment, not just for items that cost $20. recall the mania over the $490 tulle strawberry dress by New York designer Lirika matoshi. What might once have been called by a retailer, magazine or designer something bland but broad, such as “fairy tale maximalism,” became cottagecore — an emblem of our desire to disappear into the simplicity of country life during our troubled times. Cottagecore wasn’t the first of the past decade’s specious trends — 2014’s normcore, anyone? — but it captured national attention as a classic TikTok trend: not simply an article of clothing or a mood transmitted through garments, but a lifestyle. over the next three years, absurd trends flooded the platform: “night luxe,” “coastal grandmother” and “clean girl,” each with a highly specific set of principles, imagery and even beauty standards. They were usually framed as rejections of what came before. The “mob wife” aesthetic, for example, was contextualized as a brash, dramatic and flashy rebuttal to the clean girl “Fashion is just not as much this inaccessible thing.” Jesica Wagstaff, a tiktoker remote. You can mock Allain’s outfits, enthuse over them or both — a privilege that few other platforms allow. Jesica Wagstaff, 42, says that the TikTok feed has broken down the social hierarchy of fashion taste-making. “We have always, especially in the United States, treated fashion and the arbiters of fashion as authorities on not only how we present ourselves, but how we are in public life and how we interpret others in public,” says Wagstaff, who went viral for her assessment of the Hermès lawsuit filed by two Californians who claim that they are unable to buy Birkins. Now anyone can be that authority: “fashion is just not as much this inaccessible thing,” she says. TikTok has made people believe that commenting on, or even just knowing about, fashion makes them a participant. That’s probably true. Hermès, the row and Loro Piana, which became ubiquitous on TikTok as users competed to define quiet luxury, could tell their own story about craftsmanship and heritage and scarcity, Nord says. They haven’t, and yet “there is a broad cultural awareness that [these brands have] now,” thanks to creators like Gross and Wagstaff. We once looked to designers to tell us something about the times we live in through explorations of craft and identity. rei Kawakubo and Alexander Wang, for example, both made collections a decade ago that commented on the increasingly flat nature of visual culture created by Instagram. Save for miuccia Prada’s ongoing hilarious deconstruction of American prep at miu miu or John Galliano’s maison margiela couture show in January, designers seemed to have ceased making collections that challenge or focus the way we see beauty and modernity or simply influence the way we dress ourselves. They now seem more invested in reflecting the way we already dress — which is shaped by TikTok. Instead of big ideas, this past season, designers were talking about personal style — the latest obsession on TikTok following the microtrend frenzy. for some designers, such as Tibi’s Amy Smilovic, this has been positive. She uses TikTok to offer advice on how to style a limited wardrobe of wearable pieces, which has helped her nearly three-decade-old brand skyrocket. “It’s given me the confidence to double down on things that I had always wanted to do, especially for a brand like us that really just did not have any voice in any traditional media,” she says. “It’s been very liberating.” Backstage at his february show, Dries Van Noten said his collection was about a woman who “decides herself what she wants to wear, so it’s about style and not so much about fashion.” It’s a rosy idea, but it also felt like a shrug. Less than three weeks later, Van Noten announced his retirement, bringing an end to nearly 40 years of collections that asserted that beauty and newness are more interesting than novelty. Now, novelty begins with the lumpy blue sweater that was once fashion’s endpoint, rather than the designer collections that inspired it. It’s more affordable, and a richer text. And there are dozens of options — or, shall I say, dupes — on Shein. about brands they loved (often for a paycheck from those brands). It made designers reorient their work to favor front-facing, even flat clothing. But Instagram and fashion became fast and happy bedfellows, with former Wintour protégée Eva Chen becoming the de facto fashion director there after the Condé Nast title she edited, Lucky, folded. In retrospect, the Instagram model of influencing was a simplified version of what magazines and fashion ads had always done: It pushed people to buy things through aspirational imagery. The media updated its model and threw the rest out, and the bloggers who once threatened the influence of veteran editors are either no longer front-row fixtures — rumi Neely (fashion Toast), Tavi Gevinson (rookie), Scott Schuman (the Sartorialist) — or, like photographers Tommy Ton and Phil oh, are part of the firmament they once challenged. TikTok’s effect on fashion has been far more disruptive, upending the system miranda Priestly championed. Changes in fashion — whether they be hemlines, colors or the way we think about and shop for clothes — no longer begin with designers, marketing executives or even influencers. Now, it is the Andy Sachses of the world who shape our opinions about style and clothes. (That lumpy blue sweater? maybe she’s just having a rat-girl winter!) They may not have the traditional tokens of power. (few of TikTok’s influencers, or creators, are fashion-show mainstays, and it’s unclear whether any TikTok power users will even attend the met Gala.) But they have taken the reins, wielding information about fashion as a new way to “consume” clothes, and making brands their own worst publicists. mandy Lee, a trend forecaster on TikTok, sees the winds changing. “The influence that has come from TikTok is way bigger than anything from Instagram ever was.” T he rise of TikTok coincided with the arrival of ultrafast fashion, putting companies such as Shein and Zara at the center of consumerism, rather than the brands they once knocked off. The coronavirus pandemic saw an explosion in downloads of TikTok, which surpassed 2 billion in 2020, and of Shein, whose app downloads nearly doubled from 2019 to 2020. TikTok was the center of Shein’s expansion plan: It worked with about 2,000 influencers in India, for example, before the country banned the app in 2020. Global clothing production was already mounting before Shein came along: It doubled between 2000 and 2014, a United Nations report stated, with shoppers buying 60 percent more than they did in the early 2000s. But Shein upped the ante: Its website adds an average of 2,000 new products daily, and it allegedly made $10 billion during 2020 and nearly $16 billion in 2021. Shopping online became an activity and a performance unto itself, with haul videos showing people unpacking shocking heaps of cheap garments. Here was the first hint of the end of fashion’s fantasy machine. Traditional TIKTOK from C1 TikTok, a Met Gala sponsor, has changed what we wear charLes gross/tiktok Jesica Wagstaff/tiktok Charles Gross and Jesica Wagstaff are two creators who discuss fashion on TikTok. “Even if someone doesn’t ever want to buy an Hermès bag, they make it almost difficult to even learn about these bags unless you have the money,” Gross says. vague cloning technology (something that also happens in ’90s Star Wars comics). “once we knew this was a possibility that we could get into Tantiss, as fans, we got so excited,” said Brad rau, supervising director and executive producer for the show. outside of mount Tantiss, “Bad Batch” was packed with connections to the wider Star Wars galaxy. fennec Shand, a bounty hunter who appeared in recent live-action projects “The mandalorian” and “The Book of Boba fett,” stopped by for a visit with the clone soldiers. Similarly, Palpatine made an appearance in Season 3, speaking with the Imperial commanders and soldiers about the cloning operations. (Ian mcDiarmid, who played the role in all three Star Wars trilogies, voices the character in the animated show.) Characters such as Commander Wolffe and Commander rex, two popular characters from the Star Wars animated shows, popped up for brief appearances. And Asajj Ventress, an assassin-like dark Jedi who debuted in “Clone Wars” and has her own novel, showed up with a minor role in Season 3. Add in the mention of labor camps, which had a prominent position in the “rogue one” movie and critically acclaimed show “Andor,” and you can see a show oozing with Star Wars lore and storytelling. Every episode has a thread that leads to anything Star Wars. The final scene of the show was a wink to the bigger story at play. omega, grown up and safe from the Empire, hopped in a starship to fight alongside the rebellion, the famous group that eventually enlists iconic Star Wars heroes Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Princess Leia. Writers for the “Bad Batch” show were clear that these Easter eggs are fun little teases for fans. But they also play a role in telling their protagonists’ story. These soldiers, despite being so obscure and offbeat and far removed from the main Skywalker family drama, had an important role to play in how the Star Wars story unfolds, they said. “Even though we’re talking about these big things, we see the Emperor, we see mount Tantiss — that is the backdrop,” said Jennifer Corbett, head writer and executive producer for the show. “It’s really about our squad . . . and how they find purpose in the galaxy, and how they’re always there for each other and finding a way to be a part of the galaxy and make a difference.” Put another way, the “Bad Batch” soldiers dealt with the debris kicked up by almost every other installment in the franchise. Though they didn’t battle Darth Vader on mustafar or hide baby Luke Skywalker, they fought on the front lines. The war part, no stars needed. BY HERB SCRIBNER You won’t find much consensus if you ask Star Wars fans which movie or project feels like the definitive expression of the franchise. “The Empire Strikes Back” is the most loved film, true, but it hardly captures the breadth of a universe that includes 11 movies, 14 TV shows, and countless novels, comic books and more. “return of the Jedi” has the Ewoks going for it; on the other hand . . . it has the Ewoks. “Star Wars,” from 1977, started it all; George Lucas’s 2005 prequel, “revenge of the Sith,” works for dark-side enthusiasts, and Hayden Christensen stands. There are a few sequel trilogy truthers out there, as well as some die-hard “rogue one” supporters. others point to the animated show “The Clone Wars” or “Star Wars rebels” as their favorite. fans can debate the best Stars Wars longer than it takes to do the Kessel run. But the most Star Wars Star Wars project? It just ended its three-season run on Disney Plus. “The Bad Batch,” a show about a group of ragtag clone troopers on the run from the Empire, wrapped up its final season last week. The show isn’t just a nod to the Star Wars story — it is the Star Wars story, all bottled together into one show. “Bad Batch” connects to almost every era of Star Wars — the prequels, the sequels, the expanded universe, the original trilogy and everything in between. It draws inspiration and characters from novels, comic books, video games and a long list of Star Wars material (no matter if it’s considered canonical or not). The show is packed with so many minute plot points about the Empire, the rebellion, the Jedi, the Sith, clones and more that it might leave you wondering if you even understand Star Wars at all. on its face, “The Bad Batch” shouldn’t have been all that interesting. It centered on a group of a clone soldiers who deserted the Empire and tried to survive on their own. No lightsabers, millennium falcons or bitter Wookies in sight. But the show’s central storyline had deep ties to the main Star Wars mythos. That’s mostly because the group — Hunter, Wrecker, Echo, Tech and perspective ‘The Bad Batch’ covered every corner of the galaxy Crosshair — was tasked with watching over omega, a young female clone who is being sought out by the Empire for her apparent connection to the force. And Emperor Palpatine — yes, the Palpatine — wanted to use her for his own unnatural experiments. And that’s just the beginning. “The Bad Batch” dipped into the deepest of Star Wars lore, ripping ideas about the dark side, clone soldiers and the ongoing galactic war itself to underscore that the galaxy far, far away is smaller than you think. Nothing is more monumental than the featured location of mount Tantiss — a massive mountain with an Imperial base built inside of it that appears in multiple episodes of the show. This isn’t any old mountain base, though. mount Tantiss is a location that originated in Star Wars data logs decades ago in ’90s Star Wars novels. Its claim to fame? Housing a clone of Luke Skywalker, aptly named “Luuke,” as well as a treasure trove of Palpatine’s heirlooms and personal keepsakes that made for macGuffins throughout multiple books, video games and comics. In “Bad Batch,” it was a similar story. The Empire used the base to conduct experiments with clones — including an ominous-sounding “Project Necromancer.” Though we never got a clear answer about the project’s goal, it was shrouded in vague dialogue about cloning technology, the force and various dark-side mumbo-jumbo. many fans believed it was a tie-in to 2019’s “Star Wars: The rise of Skywalker,” where Palpatine was resurrected by LucasfiLm Ltd. A Stormtrooper in a scene from “Star Wars: The Bad Batch,” which finished its third and final season on Disney Plus last week.
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Then, last June, as Griner was traveling with her teammates through Dallas fort Worth International Airport, a man accosted her, demanding to know whether she thought it was fair to trade her for Bout, the “merchant of Death.” The couple decided to seek refuge in the desert mountains. Griner describes a blissful paradise “surrounded by cactuses and quiet.” But that paradise also represents one more forced relocation, putting a disconcerting twist on the meaning of “Coming Home” to today’s deeply divided America. Frances Stead Sellers, an associate editor of the Washington Post, is a 2024 journalist in residence at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law. the passage of bipartisan legislation in 2023 to create the National Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Day, which is observed each march. Griner is determined to use her celebrity status to secure the release of others and to right social injustices. “I can use my darkest moment to shine a light on American hostages all over the world,” Griner writes. “on equal pay for female athletes and understanding of LGBTQ+ people. on the experiences of Black women, whose expressions of anger, while no different from anyone’s, brand us as always irate.” But the joy of Griner’s homecoming was sullied by racist and homophobic attacks, including vitriol from some who saw a sports star who had taken a knee during the national anthem at the height of the Black Lives matter movement (she now stands) as less worthy of the high-profile trade than Whelan, who had served in the marines. overbearing journalists apGriner had entered an unsavory world: Women players had become sports royalty in russia, thanks largely to Shabtai Kalmanovich, a KGB spy and sometime diamond trader who poured millions into the game his third wife played and was later assassinated in a drive-by shooting on a moscow street. There’s nothing new about russia’s strategy of arresting innocent Americans. In the early days of the Cold War, my fatherin-law was held for two months, sometimes in solitary confinement, after he and his college friend Warren “Jim” oelsner cycled from West Germany into the Soviet Zone, where they were arrested and accused of espionage. Dean Acheson, then secretary of state, condemned the students’ detention as “an illegal, outrageous and improper thing to do.” Now, with the threat of a second Cold War looming, Griner’s book leaves readers with questions that go beyond the scope of this memoir: How her release was secured and then executed as a one-forone trade on an Abu Dhabi tarmac in December 2022, where Griner was exchanged for the notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout. What lies ahead for the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich particularly in an election year when russia may be reluctant to give President Biden an electoral boost? Gershkovich has been held for more than a year in moscow’s Lefortovo prison after being accused of spying — a charge that he, the Journal and the Biden administration deny. And why, after more than five years, does former marine and corporate security executive Paul Whelan linger in a russian penal colony? All legitimate questions. meanwhile, Griner’s return to the United States has swung between celebrations and new threats. There were joyful shindigs as well as red-carpet invitations to the White House correspondents’ dinner and the met Gala. Griner saw the Biden administration taking further steps to raise awareness, with ers and former hostages who work to bring them home. Griner’s wife, Cherelle, who was then in law school, became her chief advocate, marshaling players, politicians and prominent Black women, including Gayle King, behind a powerful #WeAreBG campaign. Still, Vanessa Nygaard, then coach of the Phoenix mercury, focused on the attention Griner’s case was not getting, arguing that LeBron James would have been brought home more quickly. “It’s a statement about the value of a woman. It’s a statement about the value of a Black person. It’s a statement about the value of a gay person,” she said. Written with michelle Burford, founding senior editor of o, the oprah magazine, who has also channeled the stories of actress Cicely Tyson, gymnast Simone Biles and singer Alicia Keys into print, “Coming Home” is bound for the talk-show circuits and probably the bestseller lists. The text resonates with the emotional clarity of Griner’s voice — and sometimes her desperate text messages — shifting, a little jarringly, to sections written in a more descriptive journalistic style. It does not share the literary artistry of another recently published memoir, “American mother,” the joint work of novelist Colum mcCann and Diane foley, whose son Jim was publicly beheaded in 2014 by ISIS terrorists. But it is a riveting read. Some will question the wisdom of Griner’s trip in february 2022, as russia was poised to invade Ukraine. The financial incentives were clear, but there were signs from early on that medical marijuana user, to help her cope with sports-related injuries. In russia, they were contraband. The been-there-done-that opening sets the tone for a book that careens from the ordinary to the surreal. readers may well recognize missteps they have made getting through security in the sudden crisis Griner faces — and recoil in horror at what comes next. “The agent picked up the cartridge and glared at me. I couldn’t speak, think, breathe,” she recalls. “Even after the second cartridge was discovered, I was hoping he’d let it slide, give me a strong warning.” of course, that’s not what happened. Griner’s passport was taken and then, after much panicked waiting, she was pressured into signing a russian document she didn’t understand. “Maybe if I sign this, I can go,” she thought. Instead she was ushered into an unmarked car and taken to a red-brick building where she was interrogated and later read her charge: smuggling narcotics into russia. “I left Phoenix in a frenzy,” Griner recalls. “Three hellish days later, just before dawn, I lost my freedom, my peace, my life as I’d known it . . . The future was unimaginable.” The broad outline of Griner’s ordeal is well known. But “Coming Home” delves unflinchingly into the dehumanizing indignities the olympic athlete suffered during the 10 months she served out of a nine-year sentence. The too-tight cuffs, the too-short beds and the strip searches; the hours spent crouched in cages; the bewildering multiday transfer to a penal colony; the backbreaking toil sewing military uniforms; the efforts to find allies among the few imprisoned English speakers; the indigestible food and stinking toilets. Her faith helped her avoid sinking into suicidal thinking. “Coming Home” is also a reminder that sudden detentions rewrite the lives not just of those who are wrongly held but of the family members, other supportBook WoRld from C1 Griner’s imprisonment riveted the nation. Now she gives her side of the story. 2023 PHOtO By LM OterO/AP The Phoenix Mercury’s Brittney Griner spent the 2022 WNBA season in a Russian penal colony. “I can use my darkest moment to shine a light on American hostages all over the world.” Brittney griner, in “Coming Home” Coming home By Brittney Griner and Michelle Burford. Knopf. 370 pp. $30
monday, may 6, 2024 . the washington post eZ re C5 BY MISSY FREDERICK The ancient classic “Antigone” is rich with moral quandary, as the titular character nobly faces the prospect of death to do what she believes is right: honoring her brother with a proper burial. But as Adil Mansoor deftly observes in his one-man show, “Amm(i)gone,” now playing at Woolly Mammoth, the why behind that decision is just as important as whether you’d make the same choice. He’d bury his brother — and so would his mother. But they’d do it for different reasons: she as an act of care for a loved one, and he out of an abstract sense of social justice. Exploring these kinds of subtle nuances and finding common ground among differences are key themes in “Amm(i)gone,” Mansoor’s meta-production (codirected with Lyam B. Gabel), which, in a brisk 80 minutes, chronicles what happens when he and his mother decide to translate “Antigone” into Urdu together. Mansoor, surrounded by an abstract set of wood cutouts and mosaics, outlines their task through dialogue, video and audio recordings, and projected imagery. He chooses “Antigone” intentionally — he observes how both the title character and his mother, a devout Muslim, prioritize the afterlife over their time on Earth. And he figures, correctly, that she’ll like the play. (As she puts it at one point, “Why don’t you make theater like this?”) Language and theater nerds will delight when Mansoor briefly dives into Sophocles’text, at one point using a projector to compare how three different translations (including theirs) tackle a key exchange between Antigone and her sister, Ismene. In another scene, an audio recording shows his mother astutely unpacking a particular line reading from a 2015 London production, inferring that the actor’s interpretation reveals that she doesn’t actually believe in the morality of what she’s urging her sister to do. But “Amm(i)gone” — which, like the recent Olney Theatre Center one-man show “Avaaz,” explores complicated cultural relationships between mother and son — is less about their dramaturgical undertaking and more about their broader connection. Mansoor and his mother’s deep love is “threatening to break us,” as Mansoor puts it. He clearly holds deep respect for her, referring to her only as Ammi, the Urdu word for mother, for privacy, and concealing her face in old photographs that predate her hijab-wearing with cloth and embroidery. He loves her scholarly curiosity and her fashion sense. (In an amusing aside, he details a stunning outfit involving real wood cutouts, seashells and magenta culottes.) But their chief conflict is between his mother’s increasing devotion to her Muslim faith and Mansoor’s queerness, which she is aware of but which he generally leaves unacknowledged in her presence. Having to “disappear parts of myself” is a phenomenon Mansoor is familiar with: He has to flash back to memories of himself at age 5, dressed in red finery imitating a Pakistani bride, to remember embracing his “full self” around his family. Mansoor has a gentle, natural way about the stage, gleeful when excited and reflective or even reverent when sharing personal moments. His love of language shines through as he analyzes the deeper meaning in a simple phrase from his mother, such as, “I can tell you about my mornings,” or admires her beautiful lyricality when she flips seamlessly between English and Urdu. Scene transitions in “Amm(i)gone” can sometimes feel abrupt, even jerky. The play also sometimes repeats the same idea to get its point across. Its highly confessional, personal nature is part of its power and appeal; Mansoor’s climactic breakdown as he outlines a conversation he wishes he could have with his mother is heartwrenching. But knowing that Mansoor was viewing the experience through the lens of making future art from the beginning (in one scene, he plays a recording of his first conversation with his mother, where he presents the initial translation idea) casts a performative, even calculated shadow on the play. Mansoor has finished creating “Amm(i)gone,” but his and his mother’s translation work goes on, in private. “I don’t know how to be alive with my mom,” he confesses at one point. In time, hopefully he’ll get there — offstage, away from that peeping audience. amm(i)gone, through May 12 at Woolly Mammoth in Washington. approximately 80 minutes with no intermission. woollymammoth.net. theateR Review Solo show untangles tension between queerness and a devout Muslim mother teresa castracane Adil Mansoor in “Amm(i)gone” at Woolly Mammoth. Creator and performer Mansoor has a gentle, natural way about the stage. Mansoor’s ‘Amm(i)gone’ explores the art of finding common ground DISTRICT AMC Georgetown 14 3111 K Street N.W. 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Experience (PG-13) CC: 1:00-4:00- 7:00-9:50 The First Omen (R) CC: 4:15- 10:00 Monkey Man (R) CC: 4:15- 7:00-9:45 Shrek 2 - 20th Anniversary (PG) CC: 9:45 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) CC: 3:15-9:15 The Mummy 25th Anniversary Re-Release (PG-13) CC: 3:10-9:50 The Roundup: Punishment 1:25 AMC Potomac Mills 18 2700 Potomac Mills Circle The Fall Guy (PG-13) OC: 8:00 Challengers (R) OC: 4:30 Abigail (R) CC: 2:00-4:40-7:20 The Fall Guy (PG-13) CC: 1:00- 4:00-7:00 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: 3:30-6:45 Mars Express CC: 1:25-7:15 Dragonkeeper (PG) 2:00-4:40 Civil War (R) CC: 1:40-4:20-7:15 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: 1:00- 3:30-6:00-8:30 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) CC: 1:10-4:00-6:50 Jeanne du Barry 7:00 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) CC: 1:30-4:30-7:30 Tarot (PG-13) CC: 1:30-4:00-9:00 Boy Kills World (R) CC: 1:15-4:10 Unsung Hero (PG) CC: 1:45-7:45 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) CC: 2:30-5:15-8:00 The Fall Guy: The IMAX Experience (PG-13) CC: 3:00-6:00-9:00 The First Omen (R) CC: 1:40 Monkey Man (R) CC: 7:40 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) CC: 1:30-4:45 The Mummy 25th Anniversary Re-Release (PG-13) CC: 3:50 The Fall Guy (PG-13) CC: 2:00- 4:30-5:00 Challengers (R) CC: 1:20-7:20 Tarot (PG-13) OC: 6:30 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 7:10 Unsung Hero (PG) OC: 4:50 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) OC: 8:00 AMC Shirlington 7 2772 South Randolph St. The Fall Guy (PG-13) CC: 1:00- 4:00-7:00 Civil War (R) CC: 2:30-5:10-7:50 Challengers (R) CC: 1:30-4:30- 7:30 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) CC: 1:20-4:20-7:10 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) CC: 5:05 Wicked Little Letters (R) CC: 1:10 Unsung Hero (PG) CC: 1:50- 4:40-7:20 Abigail (R) CC: 8:00 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) CC: 2:00-3:45-6:50 AMC Tysons Corner 16 7850e Tysons Corner Center The Fall Guy (PG-13) OC: 6:00 Challengers (R) OC: 7:45 Tarot (PG-13) OC: 6:10 Boy Kills World (R) OC: 8:50 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 4:20 The Amazing Spider-Man (PG13) CC: 7:00-8:55 The Fall Guy (PG-13) CC: 12:55- 4:00-7:05 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: 1:00-4:40-8:15 Civil War (R) CC: 2:10-5:00-7:50 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: 1:30- 4:05-6:30 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) CC: 2:15-5:10-8:10 Jeanne du Barry7:00 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) CC: 4:45-7:35 Tarot (PG-13) CC: 1:10-3:40-8:40 Unsung Hero (PG) CC: 12:50- 3:35-6:15 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) CC: 1:40-4:25-7:10 The Fall Guy: The IMAX Experience (PG-13) CC: 1:50-4:55-8:00 Abigail (R) CC: 1:25-4:10 Monkey Man (R) CC: 2:05- 5:05-8:05 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) CC: 1:05-4:15-7:25 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire 3D (PG-13) CC: 2:00 The Mummy 25th Anniversary Re-Release (PG-13) CC: 1:20 The Fall Guy (PG-13) CC: 2:55-9:00 Challengers (R) CC: 1:15-4:35 AMC Worldgate 9 13025 Worldgate Drive The Fall Guy (PG-13) CC: 4:00- 7:00-9:00 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) CC: 6:45 Civil War (R) CC: 4:45-7:30 Challengers (R) CC: 4:15-7:15 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) CC: 4:15 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) CC: 3:45-6:30 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) CC: 3:30 Tarot (PG-13) CC: 5:15-7:45 Unsung Hero (PG) CC: 5:30-8:15 Abigail (R) CC: 6:15 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) CC: 4:30-7:30 Alamo Drafthouse Cinema - One Loudoun 20575 East Hampton Plaza The Amazing Spider-Man (PG13) 7:00 The Fall Guy (PG-13) 12:00- 3:30-10:35 Civil War (R) 10:25-12:15-3:15- 9:00 Challengers (R) 11:30-3:00- 6:45-10:00 Tarot (PG-13) 11:45-5:25-6:15- 8:15-10:55 Abigail (R) 4:15-10:25 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 11:00-2:25-6:25-8:00-9:25 The Fall Guy (PG-13) 10:45-1:30- 2:35-2:45-4:40-6:00 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 11:15-2:15-6:00- 9:10-10:00 Angelika Film Center Mosaic 2911 District Ave Funny Girl (1968) (G) 4:00-7:00 The Fall Guy (PG-13) 12:00-1:30- 2:40-4:15-5:25-7:15-8:15 Dragonkeeper (PG) 12:30-2:45- 8:10 Civil War (R) 1:40-4:10-5:00-7:30 Challengers (R) 1:00-4:15-7:15 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 12:45-3:25 Jeanne du Barry 7:00 Coup de chance (PG-13) 6:00 Spy x Family Code: White (PG13) 12:00 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 1:15-2:30-5:20-8:15 CMX Village 14 1600 Village Market Boulevard The Fall Guy (PG-13) 12:00-1:00- 2:00-3:00-4:00-5:00-6:00-7:00- 7:30-8:00 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 6:45 Civil War (R) 1:45-4:25-7:05 Dragonkeeper (PG) 1:50-4:20 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:20- 2:45-5:05 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 1:20-4:35-7:20 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 12:10-3:20-6:20 Boy Kills World (R) 5:10 Tarot (PG-13) 12:25-2:50-5:20- 7:40 Unsung Hero (PG) 12:45-3:45- 6:30 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) 12:35-3:30-6:10 Thabo and the Rhino Case (PG) 12:05-2:30 Abigail (R) 7:55 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 1:10-4:10-7:15 Cinema Arts Theatre 9650 Unit 14 Main St. The Fall Guy (PG-13) 9:40-12:05- 2:35-5:05-7:40 Challengers (R) 10:00-1:00- 4:00-7:10 The Long Game (PG) 9:55- 12:20-4:55 Coup de chance (PG-13) 12:15- 2:25-7:20 The Old Oak 9:50-12:10-2:25- 4:50-7:15 One Life (PG) 9:45-2:30-4:45 Cabrini (PG-13) 7:00 Wicked Little Letters (R) 9:40- 12:00-2:30-5:00-7:30 Cinemark Centreville 6201 Multiplex Drive The Fall Guy (PG-13) 1:00-4:05- 7:10-10:15 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 1:25 Challengers (R) 6:40-9:50 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 3:40 Tarot (PG-13) 12:00-2:30-5:00- 7:30-10:00 Unsung Hero (PG) 1:05-3:35- 6:30-9:55 Abigail (R) 12:55 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 1:50-3:45-7:00-10:05 The Roundup: Punishment 5:05-8:00 Malayalee From India 5:10 Nadikar 8:30 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:05-1:10 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 1:45-6:50-10:20 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 1:35-4:45-7:40-10:35 Abigail (R) 4:30-7:20-10:45 The Fall Guy (PG-13) 2:35-5:40- 8:45-9:25 Civil War (R) 12:50-4:00-7:50-10:40 Challengers 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12:00-3:15-6:30-9:35 The Fall Guy (PG-13) XD: 1:15- 4:20-7:25-10:30 Regal Ballston Quarter 671 North Glebe Road Civil War (R) 1:15-4:15 The Fall Guy (PG-13) 1:00-1:30- 2:40-3:40-4:10-4:40-6:00-7:00- 7:30-8:00 Challengers (R) 4:30-6:50-7:50 Mars Express 2:10-4:50-7:25 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 1:25 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 1:10-4:00 Jeanne du Barry 7:05 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 3:50-6:55 Tarot (PG-13) 2:15-5:00-7:40 Unsung Hero (PG) 1:40-4:25-7:10 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 3:20-6:40 Challengers (R) 1:20 Regal Dulles Town Center 21100 Dulles Town Circle The Fall Guy (PG-13) 1:00-2:40- 4:10-7:20 Mars Express 1:30-4:00 Civil War (R) 2:10-5:10-8:10 Challengers (R) 1:20-4:40-7:50 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 2:00-5:00-8:00 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 2:20-5:20-8:20 Tarot (PG-13) 1:40-4:30-7:10 Unsung Hero (PG) 1:50-4:50-7:40 Abigail (R) 6:30 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 1:10-4:20-7:30 The Fall Guy (PG-13) 5:50 Regal Fairfax Towne Center 4110 West Ox Road The Fall Guy (PG-13) 1:50-3:40- 6:00-7:00 Challengers (R) 4:30-7:40 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 6:30 Mars Express 2:20 Civil War (R) 2:30-5:10-7:50 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 2:50-5:00-8:00 Tarot (PG-13) 2:10-4:40-7:20 Exhuma (Pamyo)1:40 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 3:30-6:40 The Roundup: Punishment 2:00- 4:35-7:10 Shekko 4:50-7:30 Challengers (R) 3:00 Regal Fox & IMAX 22875 Brambleton Plaza The Fall Guy (PG-13) 1:20- 4:40-8:00 Aa Okkati Adakku 11:30-3:30- 6:15-9:30 The Fall Guy (PG-13) 11:30-2:40- 6:00-9:10 Dune: Part Two (PG-13) 11:50AM Civil War (R) 1:35-4:25-6:40-10:05 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:50- 3:20-5:50-8:10 Crew (Hindi)11:35-6:35 Jeanne du Barry 7:10 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 12:00-2:45-5:40-8:30 Tarot (PG-13) 11:10-1:50-4:30- 7:20-10:10 Boy Kills World (R) 10:30 The Fall Guy: The IMAX Experience (PG-13) 12:10-3:30- 6:50-10:00 Abigail (R) 11:45-9:25 Aavesham (Malayalam)2:55-9:45 Malayalee From India 2:25-9:35 Nadikar 11:25-2:45-6:05-9:25 Prasanna Vadanam 2:50-6:10 Challengers (R) 11:20-12:40- 3:45-6:45-9:15 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 12:20-3:10-6:30-9:55 Abigail (R) 2:30-5:10-7:50 Monkey Man (R) 10:30 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 11:40-3:00-6:20-9:40 Regal Kingstowne & RPX 5910 Kingstowne Towne Center The Amazing Spider-Man (PG13) 6:30 The Fall Guy (PG-13) 12:20- 3:40-7:00 Civil War (R) 2:10-4:50-7:40 Challengers (R) 4:20-8:10 Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:05- 1:00-3:30-6:00-8:30 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 2:00-5:00-7:50 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (PG-13) 2:30-5:20-8:20 Jeanne du Barry 7:10 Tarot (PG-13) 1:40-4:30-7:20 Boy Kills World (R) 8:45 Unsung Hero (PG) 12:10-3:00- 5:50 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (PG-13) 12:40-3:50 Abigail (R) 11:45-8:50 Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace 25th Anniversary (PG) 12:00-3:20-6:40 The Fall Guy (PG-13) 11:50- 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(1976) (NR) 4:30 Deep Sky: The IMAX Experience 10:55-1:20-3:40 Blue Planet (Il pianeta azzurro) (NR) 11:45AM The Dream is Alive 2:10 University Mall Theatres 10659-A Braddock Road Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG) 12:30- 2:30-4:40 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (R) 12:10-2:35-5:00-7:30 Monkey Man (R) 7:00 Unsung Hero (PG) 12:15-2:40- 4:55-7:15 MOVIE DIRECTORY (!) No Pass/No Discount Ticket Monday, May 6, 2024 www.washingtonpost.com/movies
C6 EZ RE the washington post . monday, may 6, 2024 BREWSTER ROCKIT: SPACE GUY! TIM RICKARD CURTIS RAY BILLINGSLEY SHERMAN’S LAGOON JIM TOOMEY RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE LIO MARK TATULLI HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL MIKE DU JOUR MIKE LESTER AGNES TONY COCHRAN WUMO MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER MARK TRAIL JULES RIVERA MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ CLASSIC DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU PICKLES BRIAN CRANE SUDOKU NORTH (D) ♠ 8 7 3 ♥ Q 10 6 4 ♦ A K 4 ♣ A K Q WEST ♠ A 6 4 ♥ K 9 2 ♦ J 9 8 5 3 ♣ 8 4 EAST ♠ 10 9 5 2 ♥ A J 8 3 ♦ 10 2 ♣ 7 6 2 SOUTH ♠ K Q J ♥ 7 5 ♦ Q 7 6 ♣ J 10 9 5 3 The bidding: T o start the week, try a defensive problem. Cover the East and South cards and defend as West. North’s hand was too strong to open 1NT. When South raised to two clubs, North probed with two hearts. South showed a maximum 1NT response with the other suits stopped. You lead the five of diamonds: ace, deuce, seven. At Trick Two, dummy leads a spade: 10 from East, king ... How do you defend? To duck isn’t safe. South has the queen of diamonds, both from the bidding and from East’s discouraging signal. If he has five clubs and the queen of spades, he will have nine tricks. South’s weak spot is probably hearts, so a heart shift is indicated, but you must take care to lead the nine. Dummy’s 10 covers, and East wins with the jack and returns the three to your king. Then your deuce goes through dummy’s queen-six to East’s ace-eight. To lead the deuce first won’t do; the suit will be blocked, and you can’t get all four heart tricks. Did you beat the contract? DAILY QUESTION You hold: ♠ 8 7 3 ♥ Q 10 6 4 ♦ A K 4 ♣ A K Q The dealer, at your right, opens one spade. You double, and your partner responds (“advances”) two hearts. What do you say? ANSWER: This particular auction is awkward; you lack room to investigate for game. Since partner’s bid promises nothing, and you have three spade losers and only fair hearts, to pass might be a winning call. Still, game is possible; he might hold 4 2, K J 8 7 3, Q 8 7, 8 7 6. Bid three hearts. N-S VULNERABLE NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST 1 ♣ Pass 2 ♣ Pass 2 ♥ Pass 3 NT All Pass Opening lead — ♦ 5 BRIDGE ©2024, TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY, LLC. — Frank Stewart
monday, may 6, 2024 . the washington post EZ RE C7 PREVIOUS SCRABBLEGRAMS SOLUTION PREVIOUS SUDOKU SOLUTION SPEED BUMP DAVE COVERLY DENNIS THE MENACE H. KETCHAM FAMILY CIRCUS BIL KEANE REPLY ALL LITE DONNA A. LEWIS PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS DUSTIN STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER BEETLE BAILEY GREG, BRIAN & NEAL WALKER BIG NATE LINCOLN PEIRCE FLASH GORDON DAN SCHKADE LOOSE PARTS DAVE BLAZEK BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK PRICKLY CITY SCOTT STANTIS CANDORVILLE DARRIN BELL JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY ON THE FASTRACK BILL HOLBROOK ZITS JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN GARFIELD JIM DAVIS NON SEQUITUR WILEY MUTTS PATRICK McDONNELL HEART OF THE CITY STEENZ FRAZZ JEF MALLETT More online: washingtonpost.com/comics. Feedback: 1301 K St. NW, Washington, D.C., 20071; [emailprotected]; 202-334-4775. You’re very intuitive and sensitive. You are also a caring, compassionate person. This year is the first year of a new nine-year cycle for you, which means it’s a time of new beginnings and adventures! Major changes might occur. Keep your eyes open for new opportunities. Moon Alert: Caution! Avoid shopping or making important decisions from 3 a.m. until 6 p.m. today. After that, the Moon moves from Aries into Taurus. ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19). Today you might be tempted to buy beautiful things for yourself and loved ones. If this is the case, do be aware of the restrictions of the Moon Alert. Most of this day is a poor day to shop for anything other than food and gas. TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20). You’re looking at a powerful week ahead, because the Sun, lucky Jupiter and your ruler Venus are all in your sign. And after the Moon Alert is over, the Moon moves into your sign as well! GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20). This is a popular day! You will enjoy schmoozing with friends and members of groups. However, don’t volunteer for anything or agree to anything important -- just enjoy the company of others and get information. CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22). Be aware that most of this day is a Moon Alert. Furthermore, this is a kind of day where you might be tempted to volunteer for something or agree to do something important. Not good! LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22). This is an imaginative, freewheeling, playful day! Enjoy discussing lofty topics with friends or people from other cultures. Learn something new. Enjoy exploring more of your world; however, commit to nothing. VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22). Be careful, because most of this day is a Moon Alert, and this particular Moon Alert is taking place in one of your Money Houses. Postpone important decisions about shared property, inheritances, taxes and debt. LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22). Be cooperative with others today. A friendly approach will serve you best. Don’t be demanding during the Moon Alert, even if you feel this way. After the alert is over, then it’s all systems go. SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21). You’re gung-ho to attack this week with energy and focus. Unfortunately, most of this day is a Moon Alert, which means things will be a bit fuzzy but fun-loving. Postpone important decisions and shopping until after the Moon Alert is over. SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21). This is a wonderful day for artists and anyone doing creative projects. You will find it easy to think outside the box. It’s also a marvelous day to socialize. CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19). You will begin this week by puttering around home and taking it easy. Family discussions might take place. If so, be aware of the Moon Alert and avoid agreeing to anything important or volunteering for anything until after the Moon Alert is over. AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18). Be careful today. It’s a busy, fast-paced time. You might take short trips and take care of errands and appointments. Check the Moon Alert above so you know when to avoid important decisions or shopping for anything other than food and gas. Be smart. PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20). It’s important to know that today the Moon Alert is taking place in one of your Money Houses, which means don’t shop for anything other than food or gas during that time. Postpone important financial decisions as well. After it’s over, all is well. BIRTHDAY | MAY 6 — Georgia Nicols © 2024, KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC. HOROSCOPE
C8 EZ RE the washington post . monday, may 6, 2024 Adapted from an online discussion. Dear carolyn: Until last year, our daughter, 34, and her 32-year-old sister were as close as could be. We all live nearby. About two years ago, tension became obvious between the older sister and her brother-inlaw, including nearly physical confrontation. He accuses her of lashing out because she has lost control of her sister, and she accuses him of being mentally and emotionally abusive to his wife. She says mutual friends and family have questioned whether her sister is “safe.” We don’t believe there is ANY merit to the idea that he is abusive. We don’t believe their friends or family think there is, either. He can be selfish with his time or activities, but we see these as things every marriage needs to sort out. our son-in-law is beside himself with anger about our older daughter’s statements. He has demanded to know who has said he is abusive and doesn’t feel comfortable around their friends, as he wonders whether they said anything. our daughter refuses to reveal her supposed sources. We don’t think there really are any, and we think our daughter is too stubborn to admit that this has gone too far. our daughter is fracturing her sister’s marriage. There is very little contact between the sisters and spouses. our little grandchildren hardly see each other. We did sponsor some family counseling, but the sessions were basically shouting matches that went nowhere. our daughters have resumed some communication, but we can’t gather as a family. Do you have any ideas how to broker a peace? — Anonymous Anonymous: I am shocked at how ready you are to sell out your own daughter. Do you really believe her capable of crying abuse without merit? of wanting to control her sister? How were they once “as close as could be” if she is that vindictive? If she is, historically, isn’t that the real problem? I am also really uncomfortable with backing anyone who is “beside himself with anger.” That is not how healthy people react, and “demand[ing] to know” who said what is not something kind, centered people do. Accusing his accuser of wanting control, saying friends can’t be trusted — these are not only first steps toward isolating your daughter from her people, but also reactions typical of abusers when challenged. Your daughter has lost her composure, too, which is why I’ve asked about her history of anger and control. And I wonder about your younger daughter, whether she bows to dominant types. She’s central, and you barely mention her. I hope you see how problematic your role is here. relationship abuse persists in part because people don’t recognize it. Abusers can charm people valuable to them and discredit those they perceive as threats, right under smart people’s noses. So: Did I just describe your daughter? Your son-in-law? Both? Give a hard think to what you accuse your daughter of doing, and whether that’s the daughter you know. And get educated on what intimate abuse and control look like — because someone here is guilty of it, and you can’t afford to be wrong. read Gavin de Becker’s “The Gift of fear,” especially Chapter 10. read up at thehotline.org or call 800-799- SAfE if you’d rather talk it through. Next, ask your older daughter calmly what she has witnessed. facts only. resist the impulse to refute her. Just listen. Then, your other daughter. In other words, don’t “broker a peace”; find the truth. Because someone is abusive here, and you don’t know who it is. reader’s thought: l one or both of your daughters needs your help, and your focus is on your son-in-law’s feelings. Why? Write to carolyn hax at [emailprotected]. get her column delivered to your inbox each morning at wapo.st/gethax. Join the discussion live at noon Fridays at washingtonpost.com/livechats. Sisters were ‘close as could be’ until one accused the other’s husband of abuse Carolyn Hax illuSTRATioN By Nick gAliFiANAkiS FoR ThE WAShiNgToN PoST cLOcKwise FrOm TOP: visitors stand in front of “The Duel D” (2001) at the 2011 exhibition “Frank stella — New works” in Jena, Germany. “sight Gag” in New York in 2018. stella stands near his sculpture “Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, ein schauspiel, 3X” outside the National Gallery of Art in 2001. So she’s worldly. And empathetic. And aware. She has a position on the state of our messed-up, freaked-out society. But if Lipa doesn’t put any of those thoughts and beliefs directly into her lyrics, are they still in her music somewhere? maybe I’m the one being too optimistic now, but I say yes. There’s an inherent generosity in creating something reliable and wellcrafted in a chaotic and careless world — a world in which the powerful disgrace us all through war and injustice, but also in which there are still car stereos, and karaoke machines, and spin classes, and friday nights, and strangers to dance with. Good pop music need not save the world, just improve it. Even just a little. bowed to the ’80s, evoking Tina Turner on “Whatcha Doing,” Prince on “Anything for Love” and some iteration of madonna nearly everywhere else. A recent cover story in rolling Stone recounts Lipa’s meticulous studio habits, but far more revealing was the singer’s explanation of how her parents fleeing Kosovo in the early 1990s instilled in her a solidarity with those displaced in Israel’s war on Gaza. “I feel for people who have to leave their home,” Lipa said. “from my experience of being in Kosovo and understanding what war does, no one really wants to leave their home. They do it for protection, to save their family, to look after the people around them, that kind of thing, for a better life. So I feel close to it.” too high over a low bar can be fun. “I don’t believe that every flame has to get colder,” Lipa sings in “falling forever,” the most heart-swollen moment on this otherwise highly aerodynamic collection of up-and-down love songs. Even the breakup tracks lean brisk and danceable. “We call it love but hate it here,” Lipa sings in the galloping “These Walls”—and check out how she can’t sing the word “hate” in the song’s second verse without putting a squeaky little teakettle puff on it. She needs that heavy word for the story she’s telling, but she won’t allow the English language to drag the Drake and Kendrick Lamar are mad at each other. Blah-blahblah, boohoo. It would have been so easy for Lipa to swoop into this miserable scene like Glinda the Good Witch in disco pants, but thankfully, she doesn’t. The songs on “radical optimism” have a pep that’s never goodygoody or try-hard, no matter how out of sync this music might be with the dank mood wafting up and down the pop charts. obviously, refusing to feel sorry for yourself on the Hot 100 isn’t radical, but there’s still some kind of statement being made here. Also, watching someone jump ment on optimism in an age of grievance and paranoia, right? The glass is half full, but the water is still teeming with stuff that wants to kill you. or maybe even that read is too cynical. Nobody’s out for blood on “radical optimism,” especially not the woman holding the microphone, whose melodic buoyancy and lyrical comity feel like stealth counterprogramming to all the sour grapes piling up inside today’s tower of song. You know who I’m talking about. Taylor Swift is mad at her exes. Beyoncé is mad at awards shows. music review from c1 Dua Lipa instills ‘Radical Optimism’ music down. Her production team—a cast that includes Kevin Parker of Tame Impala and Tobias Jesso Jr. — are every bit as detail-minded, and all together, everyone keeps their heads WARNER REcoRDS/AP The cover of Dua Lipa’s third album, “radical Optimism.” arcane vision of what “advanced” art should look like. In retrospect, all of this looks to most sane people like nonsense. The ideas of Greenberg and his fellow formalists were so narrow and fanatical as to be punitive. The punishment was felt not just by audiences, who were made to feel inadequate for not enjoying repetitious, empty canvases in intimidating museums and galleries, but also by art students all over the world, who were forced to treat this stuff seriously. A whole generation was thus led astray. Stella himself lost interest quickly, and he spent the majority of his career thrashing his way out of the box into which he’d earlier been squeezed. In the 1960s, he began shaping his canvases and painting them in bright, metallic house paints. He later combined paintings with sculpture, even introducing collage, and by the 1980s, he was in full pastiche mode, combining arbitrary patterns, baroque sculptural forms, poplike geometric shapes and clashing, extravagant colors. Some of this stuff was exciting. Its comparative vulgarity certainly expressed an exciting sense of freedom. But most of it lacked an underlying purpose (unless repudiation counts as purpose). The work was all more or less impressive, more or less beautiful, more or less free. But it had the air of art made under self-imposed duress. As if Stella were under orders:renounce purity! When I visited his studio, some of the pastiche constructions I saw there were truly hideous. But I also saw elegant, unpainted sculptures made from tubular steel, partly inspired by Balinese dancing. I thought they were wonderful. And the way Stella spoke about them sounded so different from the manifestospouting philosopher-genius that his younger self had tried to resemble: “These are all about center of gravity and gestures,” he mused. “They don’t look it, but when you get closer, they actually get very sort of warm and tropical. It’s hard to imagine tropical stainless steel, but on the other hand, they are. They’re to do with things like vines and the gestures of the dancers in the theater.” Stella’s creative process, in other words, had become intuitive rather than programmatic.It certainly wasn’t ideological. “You have these forms, and you work them together, and then things start to happen,” he said. “It’s not totally predictable.” That, if you weren’t sure, is how real artists talk. When they start talking about purity, run a mile. ings to resist any kind of reading. Narrative or psychology or projection on the viewer’s part would taint them, he thought. Where did this urge toward purity come from? It was rooted in left-wing, antiStalinist and anti-mass-culture ideas promoted by the period’s dominant art critic, Clement Greenberg. Did I mention a club? Did I forget to mention that it was an all-male club? one of Greenberg’s followers was michael fried, who had studied at Princeton University with Stella. fried and the minimalist sculptor Carl Andre, who went to the Phillips Academy in Andover, mass., with Stella, found themselves fighting over Stella, each trying to claim him for their own “one is to find out what painting is, and the other is to find out how to makeapainting.” His solution was to merge these two “problems” into one, and to expose the invisible structures on which painting depended. Thus, he painted thick black stripes in geometries that echoed the cruciform alignment of the stretcher supporting the canvas. The thin stripes between the black were not painted over the black; they were what was left behind — the bare canvas. In this way, Stella appeared to merge figure and ground, paint and support. The result was less a “helpless statement,” as Johns had put it, than a “helpless thing.” “What you see is what you see,” Stella said. He wanted his paintcould see the residue of Pollock’s soul. Jasper Johns, a born skeptic, took things a step further by making paintings about painting. His deliberately deadpan flags and targets and numerals took things “the mind already knows” and subjected them to various processes. By dismantling mental clichés in this way, he arrived at what he called a “helpless statement.” There was not, in other words, even a hint of romantic expressionism in his work. Stella saw Johns’s move, and now tried to go even further in the direction of self-referentiality. “There are two problems in painting,” he said at the time. able — I asked him about his involvement with the art movement known as minimalism. I knew he had long since moved on from minimalism, and even repudiated the label. But to most students of modern art, frank Stella was still the exemplar, the paradigmatic minimalist painter. He heard me out, took a long puff on his cigar, then leaned back in the rocking chair. “I never felt that minimal,” he said. I think I may have giggled. It was true: This guy was maximal. He was physically small but larger than life —abrilliant maverick, sure of himself, ferociously ambitious, afraid of no one. As an artist, Stella was also — and I think we can see this more clearly now — overrated. He is not much to blame for this. Anyone so heavily hyped, and by such a small but powerful club of art establishment champions, will inevitably look diminished when the world wakes up, rubs its eyes and regains a sense of perspective. It’s to Stella’s great credit that he ran away from his own reputation before his champions had a chance to restrain him. But that doesn’t mean he ran toward greatness. Stella was just 23 when his first exhibition catapulted him into the limelight. That was in 1959. Alfred Barr, founding father of the museum of modern Art, bought one of his early paintings. His successor, William rubin, proceeded to give Stella two fullscale retrospectives — an unprecedented honor for any artist, let alone one so young. for the next three decades, Stella enjoyed an unrivaled run as momA’s favorite son. Avant-garde painting in those days could seem like a chess endgame played by students of Samuel Beckett and Ludwig Wittgenstein, fussing between moves over art’s relationship to modernity. Abstraction was the house style, and “truth to materials” a sort of unquestioned credo. The most acclaimed American artists were engaged in a race toward purity. Purity meant ridding art of illusionism (that is, anything recognizable from the real world) and narrative (pictures in service to storytelling). In many ways, Jackson Pollock had set the agenda a decade earlier. By purging his canvases of imagery and dripping paint in rhythmic, evenly distributed patterns all over his large canvases, Pollock had made painting seem freshly autonomous. That’s to say, it was its own thing — not any kind of reflection of the world beyond it. Yet people persisted in seeing galaxies and mists in Pollock’s work. Some thought they APPreciATiON from c1 Confined by early praise, Frank Stella found his way out JENS mEyER/AP SuSAN BiDDlE/ThE WAShiNgToN PoST DoN EmmERT/AFP/gETTy imAgES
KLMNO SPOR monday, may 6, 2024 TS SU d JOhN MCDONNeLL/aSSOCiaTeD PreSS “i’m one of those players that looks forward to those big moments,” eddie rosario said through an interpreter after his go-ahead two-run shot in the seventh inning. orioles at nationals | Tuesday, 6:45 p.m., MaSN, MaSN2 Auto rAcing Britain’s Lando Norris races to his first career victory at formula One’s Miami grand Prix. d2 nBA plAyoffS Donovan Mitchell powers the Cavaliers past the Magic in game 7, and the Celtics are up next. d5 StAnley cup plAyoffS The defending champs are heading home after the golden Knights fall to the Stars in game 7. d5 DENVER — Restraint rarely goes viral. Restraint doesn’t sell sneakers. Restraint can be misinterpreted by college recruiters and nBA scouts. In most cases, the American basketball system rewards statistical production, athleticism and fearlessness over patience and subtlety. Getting buckets is the surest path to YouTube attention, recruiting rankings, scholarship offers, high draft picks and maximum contracts. Anthony edwards is a product of this system: The Minnesota Timberwolves guard was selected first in the 2020 draft thanks to his scoring instincts, confidence, speed and leaping ability. During his one-and-done college season at Georgia, he committed nearly as many turnovers as assists while launching almost 16 shots per game with mediocre efficiency. edwards’s tools were indisputable; his feel for the game was very much in dispute. Four years later, edwards is in a much different place. The twotime all-star scored a game-high 43 points to go with seven rebounds and three assists while leading the Timberwolves to a 106-99 victory over the Denver nuggets in Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal series saturday night. see on The nba On D10 Edwards’s restraint lets loose Minnesota on the nba Ben Golliver BY CHUCK CULPEPPER LOUISVILLE — sports, that sprawling beast capable of dispensing joy and meanness in nearequal portions, seems to have it out for one trainer from new York when it comes to the Derby from Kentucky. Maybe it resents his Cornell degree. At his Churchill Downs barn sunday morning, Chad Brown spoke of the inches and how the inches govern fates almost as if they’re giggling as they do it —and how the inches are everywhere, even if they come in the form of a horse’s nose, the margin of defeat saturday. “In any professional sports — at the high level, no matter what, all the major sports — it can all come down to inches, related to so many different sports, so many different championships, so many different final games,” he said. “When you’re on the winning end, it’s great. And when you’re on the losing end, you realize how really tough it can be.” If it’s somehow easier to lose without the tantalization of hearing your horse’s name called during the stretch run, then the 45-year-old Brown hasn’t had it easier even thoughhehas wontwo Preaknesses, 16 Breeders’Cup races and four eclipse Awards as outstanding trainer. “And Normandy Invasion is storming home! And they’re into the stretch! And Normandy Invasion has taken the lead on the outside! Orrrrbbbbbb!” That’s Kentucky Derby race announcer Larry Collmus’s call from 2013, when Brown first entered the Derbyand hisnormandy Invasion gaveway to Orb from Brown’s old boss, the great shug McGaughey. That seems easy to digest even if it did wreak a brief gasp of wonder. “Justify and Good Magic start to pull away from the others. And see kenTucky Derby On D10 Brown was ready for ‘absolute worst,’ then lost Derby by a nose JaBiN BOTSfOrD/The WaShiNgTON POST “i had a hard time keeping him straight,” jockey Tyler gaffalione said of runner-up sierra leone, left. For the veteran trainer, Sierra Leone was not first source of heartbreak BY SPENCER NUSBAUM eddie Rosario never got a good look at the biggest hit of his — and the Washington nationals’ — season. Instead, as his 402-foot, tworun homer off Toronto Blue Jays reliever erik swanson cleared the wall in right-center field during the seventh inning sunday afternoon, his eyes focused on the barrel of his bat, balanced softly on the palm of his left hand and stuck out around his chest. That barrel provided the nationals with the go-ahead run in what became an 11-8 victory at nationals Park, their MLB-leading 12th comeback win. It started a jubilee in the dugout that only intensified when he flipped the bat past his right shoulder. And it ended what Rosario, just three days ago, called the worst month — and slump — of his career. “I needed it,” Rosario said through an interpreter. Rosario entered May hitting .088. On sunday, he helped move the nationals back to .500 with that swing. He finished2for 4 and is now hitting .117. “I’m one of those players that see naTionals On D3 Nationals produce MLB-best 12th win after trailing as they return to .500 wearing was emblazoned with “Abrams” across the back, just above his no. 5. May kids for the next 10 years — or more — buy that jersey without fear that it will be a relic before we’re ready. Abrams, the nationals’ 23-yearold shortstop, is the centerpiece of the club’s rebuild. It’s not eddie Rosario, who emerged from a massive, season-long slump to hit the go-ahead home run in sunday’s 11-8 victory over the Blue Jays that pulled them back to .500. It’s not Jesse Winker, who homered and doubled as part of a comeback from an early 6-1 deficit.It’s not even Luis García see svrluga On D3 Just before an opening pitch that was delayed nearly an hour and a half by drizzle,apromo played on the scoreboard at nationals Park. A young fan and his father were asked to predict which Washington national might hit a home run in sunday’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays. “Who do we think is going to hit a home run today?”the dad said before beltinganame into the microphone. “CJ Abraaaaaaaams!” Then he had his son turn around. The nats jersey he was With Abrams getting better and better, it’s time to ponder a contract extension Comeback kids barry svrluga nationals 11, blue jays 8 BY GENE WANG Following its most lopsided loss of the season, the Maryland men’s lacrosse team shifted its focus to the nCAA tournament sunday night, when the Terrapins learned they earned the no. 7 seed and will face Princeton in the first round. Faceoff between Maryland (8-5), one of eight at-large teams, and the Tigers (11-4), the Ivy League tournament champion, is set for 7:30 p.m. saturday in College Park (esPnU). The Terps are making their 21st consecutive appearance in the nCAA tournament. Last season, they were shocked in the first round in an upset loss to visiting Army. The last meeting between Maryland and Princeton in the nCAA tournament came in 2022, when the Terps won in the semifinals,13-8, on their way to capping an undefeated season with their fourth national championship. The teams most recently played Feb. 24, with Maryland prevailing, 13-7, at seCU stadium. Other area men’s programs to receive bids when the field of 17 see lacrosse On D10 Terps get No. 7 spot in lacrosse tournament Maryland seeks rebound from Big Ten blowout; women earn No. 4 seed
d2 eZ sU the washington post . monday, may 6, 2024 THE DAY IN SPORTS aUTO RaCING Closest NASCAR finish ever goes to Larson Kyle Larson came around Chris Buescher on the final lap Sunday and banged doors with him all the way to the finish line, where he was declared the winner of the Cup Series race by officials at Kansas Speedway in the closest finish in NASCAR history. The official margin was a thousandth of a second — every bit as close as the Kentucky Derby a day earlier — and Buescher was left both dumbfounded and dejected. His team had begun to celebrate before learning he had finished second. The dramatic finale in Kansas City, Kan., came after a caution for Kyle Busch’s spin forced a green-white-checkered finish. Larson pulled behind Buescher on the backstretch of the last lap, then came around him on the outside of the final corner. Buescher looked as if he had pulled in front, and even Larson thought he had finished second before the call came through that he had won. “That was wild,” Larson said. “I was thankful for that caution. We were dying pretty bad. I was happy to come out third.” It was a brilliant start to a busy month of May for Larson, who will attempt to run the Indianapolis 500 and Coca-Cola 600 on the same day Memorial Day weekend. The win was the second of the season for him in the No. 5 car for Hendrick Motorsports and a bit of retribution after he finished second to Denny Hamlin last week at Dover and in the spring race at Kansas a year ago. sOCCeR Klopp gets to savor a Liverpool victory The smile is back on Jürgen Klopp’s face — even if his Liverpool players seem intent on testing his nerves right to the end. The English Premier League title may be all but beyond the Merseyside club, but that doesn’t mean the drama is over for Klopp, who will step down at the end of the season. Last week he was arguing on the sideline with Mohamed Salah as Liverpool effectively dropped out of the title race. And while Salah opened the scoring in a 4-2 win against Tottenham at Anfield on Sunday, it was Harvey Elliott who appeared to bring the broadest smile to Klopp’s face with a terrific long-range goal. Mathematically, at least, it is not over for third-place Liverpool, which sits five points behind leader Arsenal with two games remaining. But in reality, a late-season slump killed Klopp’s hopes of walking away with a second Premier League crown of his reign. Elsewhere, a bad week for Aston Villa got worse after a surprise 1-0 loss at Brighton. Unai Emery’s team lost at home to Olympiakos in the first leg of their Europa Conference League semifinal Thursday. And on a day when it could have secured its place in next season’s Champions League, it suffered another setback. And Chelsea’s troubled season could still end on something of a high after Mauricio Pochettino’s team boosted its chances of European soccer next season with a 5-0 rout of West Ham. . . . Roma attempted to bounce back from European disappointment but could only draw, 1-1, against Juventus in Italy’s Serie A in a result that did little to help its hopes of qualifying for next season’s Champions League. Third-place Juventus, which is winless in its past five matches, is six points ahead of fifth-place Roma with three rounds remaining. The top five in Serie A qualify for the Champions League after Italy earned an extra spot in next season’s competition. . . . Even without Coach Xabi Alonso on the touchline, Bayer Leverkusen remained unbeatable as it stretched its record run without defeat to 48 games in a 5-1 rout of Eintracht Frankfurt in the German Bundesliga. Alonso was suspended for an accumulation of yellow cards, but he watched from the stands as his Bundesliga champions showed no tiredness from Thursday’s 2-0 win at Roma in the first leg of the Europa League semifinals. . . . PSV Eindhoven sealed its first Dutch league title in six years and the 25th in its history by beating Sparta Rotterdam, 4-2. . . . Rafael Navarro scored early, Cole Bassett had an assist and a late goal and Zack Steffen notched his first clean sheet with Colorado as the Rapids beat New York City FC for the first time, 2-0, at Citi Field in MLS play. . . . John McCarthy finished with five saves for Los Angeles and Stefan Frei stopped three shots for Seattle as the visiting Galaxy and Sounders played to a scoreless draw. . . . Ally Schlegel scored the goahead goal in the second half to give the Chicago Red Stars a 2-1 victory over Bay FC in an NWSL game in San Jose. TeNNIs Rublev is feeling great after Madrid triumph Despite sleepless nights struggling with a fever, Andrey Rublev found a way to fight back and win the Madrid Open for the first time. Rublev was feeling sick all week but rallied to beat Felix Auger-Aliassime in three sets Sunday and clinch his second Masters 1000 title. Rublev won, 4-6, 7-5, 7-5, after Auger-Aliassime double-faulted on the last point of the final of the clay-court tournament. “I would say this is the most proud title of my career,” Rublev said. “I was almost dead every day. I was not sleeping at night. The last three, four days I didn’t sleep.” The 26-year-old Russian, ranked eighth in the world, won his first Masters 1000 title at Monte Carlo last year. AugerAliassime was playing in his first final at this level. Rublev entered Madrid on a four-match losing streak after early exits at Indian Wells in California, Miami, Monte Carlo and Barcelona. One of his victories in Madrid came in the quarterfinals against homecrowd favorite Carlos Alcaraz. He now has 16 career titles and two this season after Hong Kong in January. Auger-Aliassime’s path to the final saw second-ranked Jannik Sinner withdraw because of an injury ahead of the quarterfinals, and Jiri Lehecka retired against the Canadian in the first set of the semifinals. Iga Swiatek won the women's Madrid title for the first time in her career Saturday. GOlf Canada’s Pendrith captures Byron Nelson Canada’s Taylor Pendrith took advantage of Ben Kohles’s finalhole meltdown to win the Byron Nelson in McKinney, Tex., for his first PGA Tour title. Kohles overtook Pendrith with birdies on Nos. 16 and 17 for a one-shot lead, then bogeyed the 18th after hitting his second shot into greenside rough. After having to chip twice from the rough and already looking stunned, Kohles missed a six-foot putt that would have forced a playoff. Pendrith two-putted for a birdie on the 18th, holing a threefooter for a 4-under-par 67 and 23-under 261 total at TPC Craig Ranch. The 32-year-old won in his 74th career PGA Tour start. “Wasn’t really trying to pay attention to what they were doing, although it really mattered, obviously,” Pendrith said. “I feel for Ben. He played really, really good today, especially down the stretch. I’ve been on the other side of it a couple times, and it sucks. But it’s golf. It’s a hard game.” Playing just north of his birthplace of Dallas, Kohles shot a 66 to finish a stroke back. He’s winless on the tour. . . . Scott Dunlap was declared the 36-hole winner of the Insperity Invitational when rain washed the final round in The Woodlands, Tex., giving Dunlap his first PGA Tour Champions title in nearly 10 years. Heavy rain in the Houston area previously washed out the opening round Friday. Players managed to play 36 holes Saturday, and Dunlap posted a 2-under 70 to take a one-shot lead over Joe Durant and Stuart Appleby. It was the second 36-hole event in the past three weeks on the PGA Tour Champions because of weather. . . . Brooks Koepka shot a 3-under 68 to win the LIV Golf Series tournament in Singapore, his fourth victory on the circuit. Koepka finished at 15-under 198 for the three rounds, two ahead of Australians Marc Leishman and Cameron Smith. Leishman finished with a 66 and Smith a 64 at Sentosa Golf Club. Koepka has the four LIV titles to go with five major championships. The latest was the PGA Championship in 2023. Koepka was the seventh different LIV winner in seven events this season. . . . Adrian Otaegui overturned a five-shot deficit to win the China Open in Shenzhen, the Spanish golfer’s fifth DP World Tour title. pRO fOOTBall UFL’s Defenders reach .500 after home victory Jordan Ta’amu completed 14 of 22 passes for 179 yards and a touchdown as the D.C. Defenders defeated the San Antonio Brahmas, 18-12, in a United Football League game at Audi Field. The Defenders, who also got 63 rushing yards on 13 carries from Darius Hagans, improved to 3-3. San Antonio is 4-2. . . . Bob Avellini, the former Chicago quarterback who teamed with Hall of Fame running back Walter Payton to lead the Bears to the 1977 playoffs, died Saturday. He was 70. The Bears said Avellini died after a battle with cancer. Avellini and Payton had the finest seasons of their careers in 1977, when Chicago and the Minnesota Vikings each went 9-5 in the NFC North. Minnesota won the division, while Chicago earned a wild-card playoff berth. The Bears were beaten by Dallas, 37-7, in the playoffs that season. Avellini threw for 7,111 yards with 33 touchdowns and 69 interceptions in 73 games over nine seasons, from 1975 to 1984. Avellini was part of the same draft class as Payton, selected by Chicago in the sixth round out of Maryland in 1975. Payton was the fourth overall pick. mIsC. Alvarez still dominates even without knockout The question of whether Canelo Alvarez can still knock out anyone probably won’t go away with his unanimous victory in Las Vegas late Saturday night, but he remains the undisputed super middleweight champion because he was the stronger and more effective boxer. Alvarez (61-2-2) overcame a somewhat slow start to dominate and hand Jaime Munguia (43-1) his first loss. The champ took full control after knocking down Munguia in the fourth round. . . . Twin sisters Nicole and Audrey Nourse won the deciding match for a second straight season, and top-ranked Southern California won its fourth straight NCAA beach volleyball championship with a 3-0 sweep over No. 2 UCLA in Gulf Shores, Ala. It was the first championship — since the NCAA recognized the sport in 2016 — in which all five matches went to a third game. USC (37-5) has won six of the eight championships — the last four under Coach Dain Blanton. UCLA (35-7) won the other two titles in 2018-19. . . . Mystik Dan’s victory by a nose in the 150th Kentucky Derby drew 16.7 million viewers on NBC, the biggest audience for the race since 1989. Viewership peaked at 20.1 million from 7 to 7:15 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday, when 18-1 shot Mystik Dan, Sierra Leone and Forever Young hit the wire together in the Derby’s first three-horse photo finish since 1947. — From news services LoGAN RIeLy/GeTTy IMAGes Putting it all on the line Kyle Larson, driving the No. 5 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports, takes the checkered flag — by one-thousandth of a second — over Chris Buescher, in the No. 17 Ford, to win the AdventHealth 400 in the closest finish in NASCAR Cup Series history. sky with a huge grin on his face. When it came time for the champagne celebration, he was doused by runner-up Verstappen and third-place finisher Charles Leclerc, who sprayed the champagne directly into Norris’s eyes. It took him a few minutes of wiping his eyes clear before he soaked his McLaren team below the podium. He also tossed the trophy into the air but caught it. With about 10 laps to go, Norris realized the race was his to lose when his lead over Verstappen hit five seconds. “Five seconds?” Norris radioed his team. “Am I alive?” Indeed he was as an ecstatic McLaren squad celebrated a rare victory on a weekend in which it debuted significant upgrades on its two cars. McLaren now has 13 wins in races in the United States — tying a record with Ferrari — but it was the first on American soil since Lewis Hamilton in Texas in 2012. Norris’s final margin of victory was 7.6 seconds over Verstappen of Red Bull. Verstappen had been undefeated at Miami with wins in its first two races and the sprint race on Saturday. — Associated Press dage covering stitches on his nose from a cut received by broken glass while he was in Amsterdam following Formula One’s last outing. Norris was celebrating King’s Day with DJ Martin Garrix when he cut his nose. “I’m going to go all night,” Norris promised of the post-race party. “I may have more than a bandage on my nose.” Verstappen, who started from the pole and won Saturday’s sprint race, was out front when he hit a chicane and knocked a cone out of place on the circuit. It forced the three-time reigning F1 champion to pit and gave Norris the lead. Norris then controlled the race to give McLaren its first win since a Daniel Ricciardo victory in 2021. Ricciardo was among the handful of drivers who found Norris for a hug following the race. Norris is the second British driver in F1 history to be feted on the podium by “God Save the King.” George Russell in 2022 is the only other British driver to win outside of Queen Elizabeth’s reign; Russell’s victory in Brazil came two months after Queen Elizabeth’s death. The song seemed to affect Norris, who closed his eyes as he turned his head to the BY JENNA FRYER MIaMI GaRDENS, Fla. — Lando Norris should take a lesson from his last big party and perhaps tone down the celebration for his first career Formula One victory. His reaction following Sunday’s victory in the Miami Grand Prix showed the British driver probably doesn’t plan to miss a beat. “Tonight’s going to be a great time,” Norris promised. “I’m just really proud. A lot of people, I guess, doubted me along the way. I’ve made a lot of mistakes over my last five years, my short career, but today we put it all together, so this is all for the team. I started with McLaren because I believe in them, and today proved exactly that.” Norris won in his 110th career start after a mistake by Max Verstappen ended Verstappen’s dominance at the circuit in the parking lot surrounding Hard Rock Stadium. The 24-year-old driver sprinted down pit lane to leap into the arms of his McLaren crew, which crowd-surfed Norris until he finally got to boss Zak Brown, who wrapped Norris in a bearhug. Norris arrived in Miami with a banNorris outduels Verstappen to win at Miami spOTlIGhT: fORmUla ONe TelevIsION aNd RadIO sOCCeR Noon Italian serie a: atalanta at salernitana » CBs sports Network 1 p.m. Turkish super lig: fenerbahce at Konyaspor » BeIN sports 3 p.m. english premier league: manchester United at Crystal palace » UsA Network 3 p.m. french ligue 1: lyon at lille » BeIN sports COlleGe GOlf 3 p.m. pGa Works Collegiate Championship, first round » Golf Channel mlB 6 p.m. detroit at Cleveland » Fox sports 1 9:30 p.m. Texas at Oakland » MLB Network NBa plaYOffs, seCONd ROUNd 7:30 p.m. Game 1: Indiana at New York » TNT 10 p.m. Game 2: minnesota at denver » TNT sTaNleY CUp plaYOffs, seCONd ROUNd 8 p.m. Game 1: Boston at florida » esPN
monday, may 6, 2024 . the washington post eZ su d3 BY NOAH FERGUSON fear began to creep into the minds of the rowers on the Bethesda-Chevy Chase girls’ top varsity eight boat at the Washington metropolitan Interscholastic rowing Association championships Sunday. The top-seeded Barons trailed Whitman with less than 700 meters left, and they were feeling the heat. “I was like, ‘I really don’t want silver; I really want to win,’ ” B-CC senior Gigi Dufour said. “We knew we wanted it the most, so we just pushed.” That fear never devolved into panic. The Barons calmly shifted into gear and surged past the Vikings in the final moments to finish in 5 minutes 5.7 seconds, beating Whitman (5:08.0) and third-place Jackson-reed (5:10.6) on the occoquan river in fairfax Station. “If we each had started to go [hard] and bring it back [all at once], it wouldn’t have worked,” senior Carmen Torrecilla said. “There was a balance between really fighting for it and also maintaining the race.” The Barons’ win in the last event helped clinch the allaround team title. B-CC’s depth was on display throughout: It also won the girls’ second varsity eight and placed third in the third varsity eight. In their second year under girls’ varsity coach Brian Comey, the Barons have reemerged as a powerhouse. Last month, Comey credited his team’s success to its buyin on the water and in the weight room. That proved vital Sunday. “It’s a full-circle moment,” Dufour said. “It’s the culmination of four years of hard work as seniors finally coming together at the perfect moment.” gonzaga boys repeat Gonzaga repeated as the WmIrA boys’ champion. The Eagles came into the top varsity eight boat race seeded second to St. Albans after falling to the Bulldogs at the foley Cup, but they held off a late surge Sunday to get their revenge. “Losing to what was a better crew at the time at the beginning of the season pushed us to sharpen up what we have,” senior Ben Profaizer said. Gonzaga grabbed an early lead, but St. Albans roared back to put a scare in the Eagles. The nose of the Eagles’ boat crossed the line first in 4:24.3; St. Albans finished in 4:25.2, and St. Andrew’s was third in 4:29.7. Gonzaga also won the second varsity eight (4:36.6) and the third varsity eight (4:47.4). The Eagles will participate in the Stotesbury Cup regatta in Philadelphia in less than two weeks. WmiRa ChampiOnShipS B-CC girls’ big finish is too much for Whitman gravitate toward that.” So, then, a contract extension. for now, Abrams is betting on himself. There’s a temptation to use, say, the 11-year, $288.7 million contract the Kansas City royals gave shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. this past offseason as a comp. Don’t go there — yet. first, Abrams hasn’t had the season Witt did in 2023 — a season worth 5.9 wins above replacement, according to fanGraphs — yet. He might be on his way. The results through 31 games — a .915 oPS with 18 extra-base hits — are encouraging. But 41/2 more months are a long time. Secondly, though: That contract too heavily favors Witt. If he excels, he can opt out after seven years — and after eight, nine or 10 — and become a free agent. The result: If Witt excels, he’ll almost certainly look for a new deal. If he underperforms, the royals will be paying $35 million per year to a player not worth that much. What the Nationals need is a deal that makes sense for Abrams and for the franchise. There’s no urgency. He’s not even eligible for arbitration yet, and he’s under the Nats’ control through 2028. There’s time, and predicting what each side would want when this season is over can’t be determined in may. But it says here that the Nationals have a star on their hands. That’s based on the numbers in the early part of this season. But it’s also based on the player: his improvement, his approach and his drive. Those No. 5 Abrams jerseys should be worn here through 2028 — and well beyond. professionalization of his preparation that has led to more consistent at-bats. Even Sunday, when he struggled to see the ball from Toronto starter Alek manoah and looked overmatched early on, he put old plate appearances behind him and focused on what came next. In the eighth, he doubled to leftcenter, then scored the insurance run that allowed the Nats to breathe a bit. “It starts in BP,” Abrams said. “It’s only hitting the balls that are right down the middle, just to hone in on the balls in the middle, just so I take that to the game, that I’m hammering that strike zone.” After 51/2 weeks, Abrams’s discipline metrics don’t provide reason for his surge. He’s actually swinging at more pitches out of the strike zone (43 percent) than he did last season (38.6 percent). What he has changed is his swing path. He’s more able to get on top of balls to drive them than he was a year ago. on Saturday afternoon, facing Toronto reliever Nate Pearson with the bases loaded, Abrams got a 98-mph fastball at the top of the zone. Last year, he probably swung through that pitch. This year, he crushed it through a persistent mist and breeze to the fence in center. on most days, it would have been a grand slam. Here, it was a sacrifice fly. That kind of demonstrable improvement is part of why trying to lock up Abrams makes sense. “He’s a good player,” rizzo said. “He knows he’s a good player. Everyone knows he’s a good player. But he wants to be a great player. And I think those types of personalities — you know, people such deals never worked out for — pick a name — Bryce Harper or Trea Turner or Anthony rendon or Ian Desmond or . . . you know the list. The totality is that the fan base is scarred by it. The Nats can only deal with what’s ahead. They are aware enough of Abrams’s importance to their future success that they held substantive discussions with him during spring training. Abrams was coming off a strong second half of 2023. manager Dave martinez moved him into the leadoff spot July 7, when he was hitting just .233 with a .674 oPS. What happened around that time: rizzo, martinez and some coaches sat down with Abrams and García. It wasn’t about hitting or fielding, about the details of their craft. It was about their approach. “These guys were all over the place,” martinez said. “They would do one thing one day and another thing the next.” “We said: ‘You know, guys, we think have a good young core infield for the future,’ ” rizzo recalled Sunday. “ ‘But we have to get you guys into a major league routine, and we have to get you to take this thing seriously.’ ” García continued to struggle and was eventually sent to the minors — only to have a serious resurgence this year, in which he is hitting .337 with an .891 oPS. Abrams soared immediately. “He got it,” martinez said. After moving to the leadoff spot, he hit .256 with a .746 oPS that included 11 homers and 36 stolen bases in 38 attempts the rest of the way. Still, the step forward this season has been drastic. Part of that is a continued Jr., Abrams’s double play partner who is looking like a professional hitter these days — particularly after going 4 for 4 with a homer and four rBI. No, baseball evaluations can’t be made in a day. So Abrams’s 1-for-5 performance Sunday — which also came with just his second error of the year on what was a difficult-to-handle onehopper — doesn’t represent the entirety of who he is or what he can be. Who he is: a player whom the Nats should try to keep in Washington for a very, very long time. “I mean, I love D.C., love the fans,” Abrams said before Sunday’s game. “I’m just going out there and trying to play how I play every day. Just trying to get wins for the team. That’s all I think about.” Which is great. The rest of us can think about what it would mean to come to terms with Abrams on a contract extension — long before he’s eligible for free agency. “He’s one of those great young players that you’d love to have here forever,” General manager mike rizzo said. “It’s something that — we’re certainly not oblivious to reaching out. But, as you know, it’s hard.” Indeed, these extensions can be difficult because each side has to give up something — the player exchanges maximizing his income for the security of a longterm deal, and the club risks injury and lack of performance in committing so much money for so many years. Getting those two agendas to align, the Nats know all too well, can be difficult. There are individual reasons svRlugA from D1 BaRRy SvRluga Locking up Abrams long term would be smart money The left-hander allowed six hits and six runs, but just two were earned. He walked two and struck out four. “I wasn’t great today, but heck of a win,” Gore said. “We need to understand as a group, myself included, that the way we played this weekend is not how you’re going to win consistently, but it’s about winning. It’s not about how you win; it’s about if you do it or not. So, what a great game by the bullpen, hitters just competed and had good at-bats all day, and great, great series win.” After taking the lead on Winker’s homer, the Nationals (17-17) gave it back an inning later, with a walk, a single, a sacrifice fly and an error charged to shortstop CJ Abrams putting the Blue Jays (16-19) up 8-7. García’s rBI single, rosario’s homer and an eighthinning sacrifice fly by Joey meneses accounted for the final margin. The Nationals are off monday before resuming their quest to move over .500 at home against the surging Baltimore orioles on Tuesday. “This is such a fun team to be a part of. It’s such a great opportunity to be a National,” Winker said. “You can’t just bring a collective in of 26 guys — well, it’s really more — and say, ‘Everyone, become close.’ . . . All this good stuff, man, it just happens organically. And that’s what it’s about.” He knows what he wants to do now.” “It’s obviously surprising — it’s surprised me a lot,” García said through an interpreter. “I think that the one thing I’m learning most during this whole streak is just staying focused and stay with the same level head no matter what happens on the field.” or take Jesse Winker, who was signed to a minor league contract after two injury-riddled years with Seattle and milwaukee. He hit a three-run homer in the fourth to give the Nationals a short-lived 7-6 lead. He then doubled to lead off the seventh and scored on rosario’s homer. or take Jacob Young, who didn’t crack the opening Day roster but used some of the fastest legs in baseball to score three times. All of this came on a rare day this season when macKenzie Gore was done after three innings. His nasty stuff has been even sharper this year, and his location has been better. But a 44-pitch second inning got away from him. following a rain delay, the trouble started on wet grass when Gore couldn’t handle a ball back to him and committed an error that allowed Daulton Varsho to score from third. Two more runners reached, then Vladimir Guerrero Jr. took a change-up left up in the zone 416 feet to left for a grand slam. Sunday’s 4-for-4 showing. He kick-started the offense with his second home run of the series, a solo shot in the third inning off Alek manoah, then brought the Nationals within two with a tworun, two-out single in the fourth, then tied the score at 8 with a single in the sixth. “I’ve had him now for four years,” martinez said. “I’ve always said there’s something in there. I just have to figure out how to get it out of him . . . and he’s starting to figure it out. . . . looks forward to those big moments. I’ve had some moments in my career with big home runs,” the right fielder said. “It’s definitely a confidence boost, knowing I can still be that player.” “We saw it — once he crossed home plate, it was a sigh of relief,” manager Dave martinez said. over the previous week, martinez attested that he still had faith in rosario. That was rewarded this weekend. All in all, Washington erased a 6-1 deficit after the second inning, then an 8-7 deficit after the fifth. With relative safety, we can say may 5 is too early to make definitive claims about these Nationals. It is, however, quite early to have 12 comeback wins and do what the Nationals have now done twice after storming back from a 7-0 hole to beat miami a week ago: trail by at least five runs and win. for all that is quantifiable in baseball, it has taken something else, martinez said, to do that. “These guys never feel like they’re out of the game,” he said. “They’re relentless.” It also, he said, takes situational hitting and yet another strong effort from six relievers. Take Luis García Jr., who came out of spring training in a position battle with Trey Lipscomb and is now hitting .337 after nAtionAls from D1 Nats rally from another big hole to win natiOnalS On deCk vs. Baltimore Orioles tuesday 6:45 masn, masn2 Wednesday 6:45 masn, masn2 at Boston Red Sox Friday 7:10 masn saturday 4:10 masn sunday 1:35 masn at Chicago White Sox may 13 7:40 masn2 may 14 7:40 masn2 may 15 2:10 masn2 Radio: WJFK (106.7 FM), WDCN (87.7 FM) BY JACOB CALVIN MEYER CINCINNATI — Dean Kremer took a perfect game into the fifth and allowed only one hit across six scoreless innings Sunday. It might not have even been the best start the Baltimore orioles received this weekend at Great American Ball Park. Like John means and Cole Irvin before him, Kremer was superb in leading Baltimore to an 11-1 win and a sweep of the Cincinnati reds. Kremer retired the first 13 batters he faced, and the only time he got in trouble, in the fifth inning, he stranded two runners in scoring position. The orioles have allowed eight runs in their past seven games and only two this weekend. The sweep is Baltimore’s third this season. It hasn’t been swept in an American League-record 102 straight regular season series dating from may 2022. Kremer carried the torch from means, who delivered a signature start Saturday with seven scoreless innings and eight strikeouts in his first start back from injury. Irvin started the series with 6 1/3 scoreless innings on just 72 pitches and 11 groundball outs in friday’s shutout. The orioles’ bats broke out in the first with three runs, including a two-run blast from Jordan Westburg. Adley rutschman delivered two rBI hits: a double in the fifth and a single in the seventh. The latter inning began with a ryan mcKenna solo shot, his second of the series. And Anthony Santan - der put a bow on the sweep with a grand slam in the ninth — the switch hitter’s fifth long ball of the season and third career grand slam. Converted starter Albert Suárez relieved Kremer and pitched 2 1/3 scoreless innings. mike Baumann allowed a run but recorded the final two outs. Baltimore is 23-11 and still atop the AL standings. The orioles have won four in a row and six of their past seven. They entered Sunday’s series finale, which started at 4:05 p.m. instead of in the early afternoon because of the famous flying Pig marathon in Cincinnati, with a difficult assignment against Nick Lodolo. The 26-year-old left-hander carried a 3-0 record and a 1.88 ErA into his start. Against left-handed starters, Baltimore was hitting .237 with a .719 oPS — much worse than the team’s numbers vs. righties. The orioles didn’t waste much time reversing both of those trends. With two outs in the first inning, they rallied against Lodolo with three straight hits to take a 3-0 lead. ryan mountcastle hit a high flyball down the left field line, but with Spencer Steer shaded toward left-center field, the ball dropped inside the foul line. Santander, who entered the game with a .200 average as he endures an early-season slump, singled home mountcastle as Baltimore scored in the first inning of a road game for the first time this season. The outfielder increased his oPS from .668 to .722 with his 3-for-4 day. Westburg then lined his tworun homer to right field. The orioles ended the day with 54 long balls, seven more than any other major league team. — Baltimore Sun Kremer and O’s complete road sweep of Cincinnati orioles 11, reds 1 John mcdonnell/assocIated Press CJ Abrams committed an error that let the Blue Jays pull ahead in the fifth inning but scored on a Joey Meneses sacrifice fly in the eighth. dylan Buell/getty Images Ryan McKenna took a drink from the “hydration station” after clubbing his second home run of the series in the seventh inning. Retropolis S0129-2x1.75 Stories of the past, rediscovered. washingtonpost.com/retropolis
d4 eZ su the washington post . monday, may 6, 2024 pirates 5, rockies 3 Oneil Cruz hit a two-run homer to highlight a fourrun sixth inning, powering Pittsburgh past Colorado for a series win. Cruz sent a slider from ryan Feltner 429 feet to right-center, bouncing his fifth of the season off the roof of a bar beyond the stands to put Pittsburgh ahead 4-3. rOCKIES ab r h bI bb SO avg Doyle cf...............400 000 .279 McMahon 3b.......300 011 .304 Díaz dh................402 002 .308 Montero 1b.........400 002 .200 Rodgers 2b..........312 010 .243 Stallings c...........411 200 .351 Bouchard rf.........312 110 .258 Beck lf.................300 000 .143 Cave ph ...............100 001 .206 Trejo ss...............300 000 .080 tOtaLS 32 37 336 — pIratES ab r h bI bb SO avg Joe rf...................411 001 .290 Taylor cf..............000 000 .238 Reynolds lf..........412 001 .243 Hayes 3b.............411 100 .254 Cruz ss ................412 201 .242 Tellez 1b .............411 100 .211 Olivares dh .........401 001 .203 Suwinski cf-rf.....301 101 .176 Grandal c.............300 001 .143 Williams 2b ........300 000 .275 tOtaLS 33 59 506 — COLOraDO .... 030 000 000 — 3 7 0 pIttSbUrgh . 000 104 00X — 5 9 0 LOb: Colorado 5, Pittsburgh 4. 2b: Rodgers (6), Bouchard (3), Cruz (4), Reynolds (7), Tellez (3). 3b: Reynolds (1). hr: Stallings (2), off Falter; Bouchard (1), off Falter; Cruz (5), off Feltner. rOCKIES Ip h r Er bbSO Era Feltner.............. 52/3 8 5 5 0 3 5.54 Kinley ............... 11/3 1 0 0 0 2 11.5 Molina ................. 1000 0 1 9.00 pIratES Ip h r Er bbSO Era Falter................ 51/3 6 3 3 2 3 4.34 Ortiz ................. 12/3 0 0 0 0 0 2.89 Chapman ............. 1000 1 2 4.91 Bednar................. 1100 0 1 9.69 wp: Ortiz (2-1); Lp: Feltner (1-3); S: Bednar (6). Inherited runners-scored: Kinley 1-0, Ortiz 2-0. t: 2:18. a: 12,912 (38,753). nl games gIaNtS at phILLIES, 4:05 w-L Era tEaM Black (R) 0-0 0.00 0-0 Wheeler (R) 3-3 1.91 3-4 paDrES at CUbS, 7:40 Darvish (R) 1-1 3.45 4-2 Steele (L) 0-0 1.93 0-1 MEtS at CarDINaLS, 7:45 Manaea (L) 1-1 3.07 4-2 Gibson (R) 2-2 3.79 3-3 MarLINS at DODgErS, 10:10 Muñoz (R) 1-0 2.46 1-1 Buehler (R) 0-0 0.00 0-0 al games tIgErS at gUarDIaNS, 6:10 w-L Era tEaM Flaherty (R) 0-1 4.00 3-3 McKenzie (R) 2-2 4.34 4-2 whItE SOX at raYS, 6:50 Soroka (R) 0-3 6.48 1-6 Alexander (L) 1-1 5.02 1-2 MarINErS at twINS, 7:40 Castillo (R) 3-4 3.46 3-4 Woods Richardson (R) 1-0 2.46 3-0 raNgErS at athLEtICS, 9:40 Heaney (L) 0-4 5.10 0-6 Wood (L) 1-2 6.32 4-3 nl scores SatUrDaY’S gaMES at Chicago Cubs 6, Milwaukee 5 at Pittsburgh 1, Colorado 0 at Philadelphia 14, San Francisco 3 San Diego 13, at Arizona 1 at L.A. Dodgers 11, Atlanta 2 SUNDaY’S gaMES at Pittsburgh 5, Colorado 3 at Chicago Cubs 5, Milwaukee 0 at L.A. Dodgers 5, Atlanta 3 at Arizona 11, San Diego 4 at Philadelphia 5, San Francisco 4 al scores SatUrDaY’S rESULtS at N.Y. Yankees 5, Detroit 3 at Minnesota 3, Boston 1 at Cleveland 7, L.A. Angels 1 Seattle 5, at Houston 0 Texas 15, at Kansas City 4 SUNDaY’S rESULtS at Cleveland 4, L.A. Angels 1 at N.Y. Yankees 5, Detroit 2 (8) Boston 9, at Minnesota 2 Seattle 5, at Houston 4 Texas 3, at Kansas City 2 (10) Interleague games LOS aNgELES at pIratES, 6:40 w-L Era tEaM Anderson (L) 2-3 2.23 2-4 Keller (R) 2-3 5.18 3-4 brEwErS at rOYaLS, 7:40 Wilson (R) 2-1 3.00 2-1 Ragans (L) 2-2 3.44 3-4 rangers 3, royals 2 (10) Jonah Heim hit a tying solo home run in the ninth inning and Nathaniel lowe had a go-ahead rBi single in the 10th, leading texas over Kansas City. David robertson pitched a scoreless 10th to seal the win for the rangers with his first save of the season. raNgErS ab r h bI bb SO avg Semien 2b ...........501 001 .257 Seager dh ............401 103 .228 Lowe 1b...............401 111 .327 García rf ..............501 002 .286 Heim c .................311 110 .276 J.Smith ss ...........300 001 .293 Duran 3b..............301 000 .235 Jankowski ph ......101 000 .267 Wendzel 3b .........000 000 .118 Carter lf...............400 003 .227 Taveras cf ...........421 001 .234 tOtaLS 36 38 32 12 — rOYaLS ab r h bI bb SO avg Garcia 3b ..............5 0 0 0 0 3 .232 Witt ss .................4 2 2 0 1 0 .319 Pasquantino 1b ....2 0 1 2 1 0 .230 Velázquez ph........1 0 0 0 0 0 .215 Perez dh-1b ..........4 0 0 0 0 3 .328 Massey 2b ............4 0 1 0 0 0 .292 Melendez lf ..........4 0 2 0 0 2 .186 Fermin c................4 0 1 0 0 1 .218 Frazier rf...............3 0 0 0 0 0 .169 Renfroe rf.............1 0 0 0 0 0 .157 Isbel cf..................4 0 0 0 0 1 .214 tOtaLS 36 27 22 10 — tEXaS.......... 000 000 011 1 — 380 KaNSaS CItY.............. 101 000 000 0 — 270 LOb: Texas 8, Kansas City 8. 2b: Taveras (7), Melendez (6), Witt (10), Pasquantino (8). 3b: Witt (5). hr: Heim (4), off McArthur. raNgErS Ip h r Er bbSO Era Gray ..................... 7722 0 7 2.50 Yates.................... 2000 1 2 0.00 Robertson............ 1000 1 1 1.02 rOYaLS Ip h r Er bbSO Era Lynch.................... 5200 2 6 0.00 Zerpa.................... 2100 0 2 1.76 Schreiber ............. 1111 0 1 1.10 McArthur ............. 2421 0 3 2.87 wp: Yates (3-0); Lp: McArthur (1-1); S: Robertson (1). Ibb: off Robertson (Witt). hbp: McArthur (J.Smith). t: 2:32. a: 20,613 (38,427). Marlins 12, athletics 3 Nick gordon had four hits, including his first home run in three weeks, and miami beat Oakland to end the athletics’ six-game winning streak. Josh Bell had a pair of rBi singles and Jonah Bride drove in two runs as the marlins won for the third time in 12 games and avoided a series sweep. MarLINS ab r h bI bbSO avg Chisholm cf...........4 2 2 1 1 1 .234 De La Cruz dh........3 2 1 0 2 2 .264 Bell 1b...................3 0 2 2 1 1 .197 J.Sánchez rf..........5 2 0 1 0 2 .218 Anderson ss..........5 1 1 1 0 1 .218 Gordon lf...............4 2 4 3 1 0 .207 Bruján 2b ..............5 0 1 1 0 1 .286 Bride 3b-1b ...........5 1 1 2 0 0 .167 Bethancourt c.......5 2 2 1 0 0 .070 tOtaLS 39 1214 12 58 — athLEtICS ab r h bI bbSO avg Toro 2b .................. 5 0 0 0 0 1 .267 Nevin 1b ................ 4 0 0 0 0 1 .289 Bleday cf ............... 3 0 0 0 1 1 .246 Rooker dh .............. 3 2 2 0 1 1 .256 Brown lf ................ 2 0 0 0 0 0 .176 Schuemann ph-lf... 2 0 1 1 0 1 .172 Butler rf ................ 3 1 0 0 1 1 .186 Hernaiz ss ............. 4 0 1 1 0 1 .194 McCann c............... 3 0 1 1 1 0 .375 Harris 3b ............... 3 0 0 0 1 0 .182 tOtaLS 32 3 5 3 5 7 — MIaMI............ 410 003 004 — 12 14 2 OaKLaND ...... 000 200 010 —350 E: Bell (3), Gordon (1). LOb: Miami 6, Oakland 7. 2b: Gordon (3), Bride (1), Bethancourt (1), Rooker (4). hr: Gordon (4), off Boyle. MarLINS Ip h r Er bbSO Era S.Sánchez............ 4322 3 2 7.50 Smith................... 1000 0 1 3.12 Nardi.................... 1000 0 1 7.07 Bender................. 1000 1 0 7.07 Faucher................ 1211 0 2 2.31 Villalobos ............ 1000 1 1 0.00 athLEtICS Ip h r Er bbSO Era Boyle ................... 1144 3 1 7.16 Spence.............. 42/3 6441 5 3.80 Kelly ................. 21/3 1001 2 2.61 McFarland ........... 1644 0 0 6.23 wp: Smith (2-0); Lp: Boyle (2-5). Inherited runners-scored: Kelly 1-1. hbp: Kelly (Bell). t: 2:52. a: 12,212 (46,847). Guardians 4, angels 1 Jose ramirez broke an 0-for-19 skid and finished a 10-pitch at-bat with a tworun home run and Josh Naylor also hit a two-run shot to lift Cleveland over los angeles. ramirez, a five-time allstar, had been hitless in six consecutive games before connecting on a full-count fastball from griffin Canning in the sixth inning to wipe out a 1-0 deficit. aNgELS ab r h bI bbSO avg Schanuel 1b ........4 0 0 0 0 2 .232 Moniak cf............3 0 1 0 0 0 .167 Pillar ph-cf ..........1 0 0 0 0 0 .167 Ward lf................4 0 1 0 0 0 .279 Calhoun dh..........4 1 1 0 0 0 .417 Drury 2b..............4 0 0 0 0 2 .161 Thaiss c...............3 0 0 0 1 1 .222 Adell rf................1 0 0 1 1 0 .261 Tucker 3b ............3 0 2 0 0 1 .417 Neto ss ...............2 0 1 0 1 1 .237 tOtaLS 29 1 6 1 3 7 — gUarDIaNS ab r h bI bb SO avg Florial dh.............4 0 1 0 0 1 .200 Giménez 2b.........4 1 1 0 0 0 .270 Ramírez 3b .........3 2 1 2 1 1 .230 J.Naylor 1b..........4 1 2 2 0 0 .271 Brennan lf...........4 0 0 0 0 0 .242 Laureano rf .........3 0 0 0 0 2 .153 B.Naylor c ...........2 0 0 0 1 1 .179 Freeman cf..........2 0 0 0 0 0 .189 Arias ss...............3 0 0 0 0 3 .239 tOtaLS 29 4 5 4 2 8 — L.a.................. 010 000 000 — 1 6 1 CLEvELaND... 000 002 02X — 4 5 0 E: Thaiss (2). LOb: Los Angeles 5, Cleveland 4. 2b: Calhoun (3), Tucker (2), Ward (7). hr: Ramírez (6), off Canning; J.Naylor (8), off Moore. aNgELS Ip h r Er bbSO Era Canning ............... 6 4 2 2 1 5 6.69 Cimber................. 1 0 0 0 0 2 2.93 Moore .................. 1 1 2 2 1 1 5.11 gUarDIaNS Ip h r Er bbSO Era Carrasco .............. 6 6 1 1 2 3 5.67 Barlow ................. 1 0 0 0 1 2 2.60 Herrin .................. 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.59 Clase.................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.52 wp: Carrasco (2-2); Lp: Canning (1-4); S: Clase (10). hbp: Cimber (Freeman). wp: Carrasco. t: 2:15. a: 19,579 (34,788). yankees 5, tigers 2 (8) Juan soto hit a three-run double that snapped a seventh-inning tie, and New York beat Detroit in a rainshortened game to finish a weekend sweep. Completing a 17-day stretch without a break in the schedule, the Yankees (23-13) improved to a season-high 10 games over .500. tIgErS ab r h bI bbSO avg Ibáñez 3b................3 0 0 0 0 1 .296 McKinstry ph-3b....1 0 0 0 0 1 .212 Vierling rf-cf ..........4 0 1 0 0 0 .287 Canha dh ................4 1 1 0 0 1 .254 Greene lf ................3 0 0 0 1 3 .269 Rogers c .................3 1 1 0 0 1 .179 Torkelson 1b ..........3 0 2 1 0 1 .216 Keith 2b..................2 0 0 0 1 1 .152 Báez ss...................3 0 0 1 0 0 .177 Meadows cf ...........2 0 0 0 0 2 .097 Carpenter ph-rf......1 0 0 0 0 0 .258 tOtaLS 29 2 5 2 2 11 — YaNKEES ab r h bI bb SO avg Volpe ss .................3 1 0 0 1 1 .252 Soto rf ...................4 0 1 3 0 2 .316 Judge cf .................3 1 2 1 1 1 .220 Stanton dh.............4 0 1 0 0 3 .226 Verdugo lf..............4 0 0 0 0 2 .261 Torres 2b ...............4 1 1 0 0 1 .222 Berti 3b..................2 1 1 0 1 1 .238 Trevino c................3 1 1 0 0 1 .283 Cabrera 1b .............3 0 2 1 0 1 .250 tOtaLS 30 5 9 5 3 13 — DEtrOIt ........ 000 000 20 — 2 5 0 NEw YOrK .... 110 000 30 — 5 9 0 LOb: Detroit 5, New York 7. 2b: Torkelson 2 (11), Cabrera (5), Judge (8), Soto (7). hr: Judge (7), off Skubal. tIgErS Ip h r Er bbSO Era Skubal ................. 6622 0 12 1.90 Miller.................. 1/3 1 3 3 2 1 4.60 Chafin................. 1/3 2 0 0 1 0 1.46 Lange.................. 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 0.73 YaNKEES Ip h r Er bbSO Era Cortes............... 61/3 3 2 2 1 9 3.72 Hamilton ............ 1/3 1 0 0 1 0 2.60 González............. 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 2.25 Santana............... 1100 0 2 3.45 wp: González (2-1); Lp: Miller (3-4); S: Santana (2). Inherited runners-scored: Chafin 3-3, Lange 3-0, Hamilton 2-2, González 2-0. t: 2:40. a: 35,119 (47,309). cubs 5, Brewers 0 Javier assad pitched six sterling innings, and Chicago beat Freddy Peralta and milwaukee in the rubber game of their weekend set. assad allowed four hits, struck out four and walked three, lowering his era to 1.66. the right-hander has permitted two or fewer runs in each of his seven starts this season. Cubs starting pitchers combined for 181/3 scoreless innings in the series. brEwErS ab r h bI bb SO avg Frelick rf....................4 0 1 0 0 2 .252 Contreras c................3 0 1 0 1 0 .336 Black 1b.....................4 0 1 0 0 1 .211 Adames ss.................4 0 0 0 0 0 .258 Turang 2b..................3 0 0 0 1 1 .299 Hoskins dh ................3 0 0 0 1 0 .225 Dunn 3b.....................4 0 1 0 0 1 .233 Perkins cf..................4 0 1 0 0 3 .266 Chourio lf...................2 0 0 0 0 0 .219 Bauers ph-lf ..............1 0 0 0 0 1 .194 tOtaLS 32 0 5 039 — CUbS abr h bI bb SO avg Hoerner 2b ................ 5 1 1 2 0 0 .282 Tauchman rf.............. 3 1 1 0 1 0 .269 Happ lf....................... 3 0 1 0 1 1 .235 Morel 3b .................... 1 0 1 1 3 0 .220 Madrigal 3b ............... 0 0 0 0 0 0 .195 Busch 1b.................... 4 0 0 0 0 4 .261 Swanson ss ............... 4 1 1 1 0 0 .220 Wisdom dh................ 3 0 1 0 1 1 .261 Crow-Armstrong cf... 2 1 1 0 1 0 .242 Amaya c..................... 3 1 0 0 0 1 .188 tOtaLS 28 5 7 477 — MILwaUKEE.. 000 000 000 — 050 ChICagO........ 000 031 10X —570 LOb: Milwaukee 8, Chicago 8. 2b: Contreras (9), Frelick (5), Hoerner (10). hr: Swanson (4), off Vieira. brEwErS Ip h r Er bbSO Era Peralta ................. 5333 6 5 3.49 Vieira ................... 1111 0 0 5.40 Junk ..................... 2311 1 2 9.00 CUbS Ip h r Er bbSO Era Assad................... 6400 3 4 1.66 Almonte............... 2000 0 3 3.68 Palencia ............... 1100 0 2 4.50 wp: Assad (3-0); Lp: Peralta (3-1). hbp: Peralta (Amaya). wp: Peralta. pb: Contreras (4). t: 2:23. a: 39,299 (41,363). White sox 5, cardinals 1 eloy Jiménez homered and garrett Crochet tossed six effective innings to help Chicago beat st. louis. the White sox had lost 14 of their first 16 road games before winning their first road series this season. Former Cardinal Paul DeJong added a run-scoring double for Chicago. whItE SOX ab r h bI bb SO avg Grossman lf........3 0 2 1 0 0 .221 Pham cf-rf ..........4 0 0 0 0 3 .286 Vaughn 1b...........4 0 0 0 0 1 .186 Jiménez dh .........4 1 1 1 0 1 .231 Sheets rf.............4 1 2 0 0 0 .270 DeJong ss ...........4 2 2 1 0 1 .224 Ramos 3b............3 1 1 1 0 1 .333 Maldonado c .......4 0 0 0 0 4 .105 Shewmake 2b.....4 0 1 1 0 1 .148 tOtaLS 34 5 9 5 0 12 — CarDINaLS ab r h bI bb SO avg Donovan lf........... 4 0 1 0 0 1 .215 Contreras dh ....... 4 1 1 1 0 3 .275 Goldschmidt 1b... 4 0 0 0 0 2 .208 Arenado 3b.......... 4 0 0 0 0 2 .287 Carlson cf ............ 3 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Herrera c ............. 3 0 0 0 0 1 .210 Winn ss ............... 3 0 1 0 0 0 .266 Fermín 2b ............ 3 0 0 0 0 2 .167 Nootbaar rf ......... 3 0 1 0 0 0 .169 tOtaLS 31 1 4 1 0 11 — ChICagO........ 010 000 400 — 5 9 0 St. LOUIS....... 000 100 000 — 1 4 0 LOb: Chicago 4, St. Louis 3. 2b: Grossman (4), DeJong 2 (7), Sheets 2 (10). hr: Jiménez (4), off Gallegos; Contreras (6), off Crochet. whItE SOX Ip h r Er bbSO Era Crochet................ 6 3 1 1 0 6 5.31 Wilson ................. 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.00 Leasure................ 1 1 0 0 0 1 2.57 Brebbia ................ 1 0 0 0 0 2 4.00 CarDINaLS Ip h r Er bbSO Era Liberatore......... 32/3 31105 2.70 Leahy................ 21/3 00002 4.91 Gallegos .............. 0 3 3 3 0 0 12.0 King .................. 12/3 31103 4.50 Robertson......... 11/3 00002 0.00 wp: Crochet (2-4); Lp: Gallegos (2-1). Inherited runners-scored: King 1-1, Robertson 1-0. wp: Crochet, Liberatore. t: 2:28. a: 43,046 (44,494). red sox 9, twins 2 Ceddanne rafaela hit the first red sox home run in seven games, rafael Devers added another, and Boston ended minnesota’s 12-game winning streak and snapped its own threegame slide. rED SOX ab r h bI bb SO avg Ja.Duran cf-lf-cf ... 5 2 2 0 0 0 .262 Devers dh.............. 5 2 2 2 0 2 .292 Refsnyder lf.......... 2 0 1 1 0 0 .351 Hamilton ss .......... 0 0 0 0 1 0 .214 O'Neill ph-lf .......... 2 1 1 0 0 0 .297 Abreu rf ................ 3 1 0 0 2 1 .297 Grissom 2b ........... 5 1 1 2 0 0 .125 Smith 1b ............... 4 0 1 2 0 1 .250 McGuire c.............. 4 1 2 0 0 1 .267 Rafaela ss-cf-ss ... 3 1 1 2 0 1 .202 Short 3b................ 4 0 0 0 0 2 .000 tOtaLS 37 911 9 38 — twINS ab r h bI bb SO avg Kirilloff lf..............2 0 0 0 0 1 .239 Margot ph-lf .........3 0 0 0 0 0 .172 Julien 2b ...............3 0 0 0 0 3 .212 Farmer ph-2b........2 0 1 0 0 0 .148 Jeffers c................5 1 1 1 0 0 .291 Kepler rf................3 1 2 0 1 0 .293 Correa ss...............2 0 1 0 2 0 .263 Larnach dh ............4 0 2 1 0 1 .381 Castro cf ...............4 0 0 0 0 1 .277 Santana 1b ...........4 0 2 0 0 1 .189 Miranda 3b ...........4 0 0 0 0 1 .281 tOtaLS 36 2 9 238 — bOStON......... 000 120 042 — 9 11 1 MINNESOta.. 001 000 010 —291 E: Rafaela (6), Santana (3). LOb: Boston 5, Minnesota 10. 2b: Ja.Duran (7), Refsnyder (5), O’Neill (4), Grissom (1), Smith (1), Santana (4), Kepler (3). 3b: Ja.Duran (5). hr: Rafaela (3), off Ryan; Devers (4), off Jackson; Jeffers (6), off Criswell. rED SOX Ip h r Er bbSO Era Criswell ............ 41/3 5 1 1 1 5 1.74 Bernardino ......... 2/3 0 0 0 0 1 0.64 Kelly ................. 12/3 1 0 0 2 2 2.45 Booser ................ 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 3.72 Winckowski......... 1211 0 0 3.47 Jansen ................. 1100 0 0 1.69 twINS Ip h r Er bbSO Era Ryan .................... 6433 1 5 3.54 Funderburk....... 11/3 5 4 4 1 2 5.52 Jackson............. 12/3 2 2 2 1 1 4.58 wp: Bernardino (1-1); Lp: Ryan (1-2). Inherited runners-scored: Bernardino 1-0, Booser 1-0, Jackson 1-0. t: 2:50. a: 29,638 (38,544). rays 7, Mets 6 (10) randy arozarena hit a tying homer with two outs in the ninth, and Jonny Deluca hit a two-run triple in the 10th in tampa Bay’s win. MEtS ab r h bI bb SO avg Nimmo lf..............3 0 1 1 1 0 .221 Marte rf................4 1 1 0 2 0 .274 Lindor ss...............6 1 2 2 0 0 .207 Alonso 1b .............5 0 0 0 0 1 .206 Stewart dh...........3 0 0 1 1 0 .186 Martinez ph..........0 0 0 0 1 0 .267 McNeil 2b .............4 0 0 0 1 3 .231 Bader cf................5 2 1 0 0 2 .278 Baty 3b.................4 1 1 0 1 2 .269 Narváez c .............2 1 2 1 0 0 .186 Nido ph-c ..............3 0 0 0 0 1 .179 tOtaLS 39 6 8 5 7 9 — raYS ab r h bI bbSO avg Y.Díaz 1b ..............4 0 2 2 1 1 .235 Palacios 2b ...........4 0 0 0 1 4 .295 Paredes 3b ...........3 0 1 0 2 0 .294 Arozarena lf.........5 1 1 1 0 3 .143 Rosario dh ............5 0 2 0 0 2 .313 Caballero ss..........2 3 0 0 3 1 .264 Jackson c..............3 1 1 1 0 0 .143 Shenton ph...........1 0 0 0 0 0 .167 Rortvedt c ............0 1 0 0 1 0 .351 DeLuca rf-cf .........4 1 2 3 1 0 .273 Siri cf....................2 0 0 0 0 0 .176 H.Ramírez ph-rf...1 0 0 0 0 0 .261 tOtaLS 34 7 9 7 9 11 — NEw YOrK .. 201 200 000 1 —680 taMpa baY 031 000 001 2 — 792 No outs when winning run scored. E: Siri (3), Y.Díaz (2). LOb: New York 13, Tampa Bay 11. 2b: Paredes (4), Jackson (1), Y.Díaz (6). 3b: DeLuca (1). hr: Lindor (6), off Pepiot; Arozarena (5), off E.Díaz. MEtS Ip h r Er bbSO Era Severino............... 5444 6 6 2.92 López.................... 1100 0 1 2.12 Garrett................. 1100 1 1 0.50 Reid-Foley............ 1000 1 1 0.00 E.Díaz................... 1211 0 2 2.63 Diekman............... 0121 1 0 4.22 raYS Ip h r Er bbSO Era Pepiot .................. 2333 1 3 3.68 Rodríguez............. 1221 1 1 8.10 Kelly..................... 2200 0 2 2.84 Cleavinger............ 1000 0 1 2.03 Armstrong ........... 2100 2 1 3.06 Lopez..................11/3 0102 1 8.44 E.Ramírez ............ 2/3 0001 0 6.48 wp: E.Ramírez (1-0); Lp: Diekman (1-1). Inherited runners-scored: Rodríguez 3-1, Kelly 2-1, E.Ramírez 1-1. hbp: Pepiot (Nimmo), Cleavinger (Nimmo). t: 3:28. a: 19,310 (25,025). Mariners 5, astros 4 Cal raleigh hit a tiebreaking solo home run in the ninth inning, and seattle beat Houston. raleigh sent an 0-2 pitch from Josh Hader into the Crawford Boxes in left field with one out in the ninth. MarINErS ab r h bI bbSO avg Rojas lf-3b ..........403 110 .360 Rodríguez cf .......400 011 .261 Polanco 2b ..........501 001 .193 Raleigh c .............511 102 .210 France 1b ............401 001 .255 Garver dh............411 002 .156 Raley rf ...............321 111 .230 Moore ss.............311 000 .200 Urías 3b ..............301 210 .167 tOtaLS 35 5 10 5 48 — aStrOS ab r h bI bbSO avg Altuve 2b ............412 010 .343 Tucker rf .............311 210 .276 Alvarez dh ..........300 000 .250 Bregman 3b ........401 000 .202 Peña ss ...............411 001 .323 Singleton 1b .......412 200 .258 Diaz c ..................400 001 .274 Loperfido cf ........200 002 .267 Dubón ph-lf.........200 000 .274 Cabbage lf...........200 000 .250 Meyers ph-cf ......201 001 .232 tOtaLS 34 48 425 — SEattLE........ 020 001 011 — 5 10 0 hOUStON ...... 000 002 200 — 4 8 0 LOb: Seattle 10, Houston 6. 2b: Rojas (4), France (5). 3b: Rojas (2). hr: Raley (1), off Montero; Raleigh (8), off Hader; Tucker (9), off B.Miller; Singleton (3), off B.Miller. MarINErS Ip h r Er bbSO Era B.Miller................ 6644 1 3 2.61 Saucedo............... 1100 1 0 2.08 Stanek ................ 2/3 1 0 0 0 1 4.09 Muñoz .............. 11/3 0 0 0 0 1 2.03 aStrOS Ip h r Er bbSO Era Brown............... 41/3 5 2 2 4 5 8.89 Martinez............. 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 1.89 Montero .............. 1211 0 0 3.78 Dubin ................... 1100 0 1 6.23 Abreu................... 1111 0 1 4.32 Hader................... 1111 0 1 6.14 wp: Muñoz (2-2); Lp: Hader (1-3). Inherited runners-scored: Muñoz 2-0, Martinez 1-0. Ibb: off Saucedo (Altuve). hbp: Brown (Garver), Martinez (France), Abreu (Moore), Stanek (Alvarez). wp: Brown. t: 2:55. a: 36,280 (41,000). dodgers 5, Braves 1 shohei Ohtani went 4 for 4 with two home runs — both off left-handers — and los angeles beat atlanta for a three-game sweep. Ohtani launched a hanging curveball from Braves starter max Fried 412 feet to center for a two-run homer in the first inning. He led off the eighth inning with a 464-foot blast off reliever a.J. minter to left-center. bravES ab r h bI bb SO avg Acuña rf................ 3 0 0 0 1 1 .268 Albies 2b .............. 4 0 0 0 0 2 .297 Riley 3b ................ 3 0 0 0 1 1 .237 Olson 1b ............... 4 0 1 0 0 0 .197 Ozuna dh .............. 4 1 2 1 0 1 .306 Arcia ss ................ 3 0 1 0 0 0 .271 Harris cf ............... 3 0 0 0 0 0 .271 Duvall lf................ 3 0 1 0 0 1 .220 Tromp c ................ 2 0 0 0 0 0 .219 Kelenic ph............. 1 0 0 0 0 1 .274 d'Arnaud c............ 0 0 0 0 0 0 .269 tOtaLS 30 1 5 1 2 7 — DODgErS ab r h bI bbSOavg Betts ss.................3 1 0 0 1 0 .352 Ohtani dh ..............4 2 4 3 0 0 .364 Freeman 1b ...........3 1 0 0 0 0 .293 T.Hernández rf......4 1 1 2 0 1 .252 K.Hernández 3b ....4 0 0 0 0 2 .216 Pages cf.................4 0 0 0 0 3 .319 Rojas 2b.................3 0 0 0 0 0 .259 Taylor lf.................3 0 0 0 0 2 .074 Barnes c ................1 0 0 0 2 0 .231 tOtaLS 29 5 5 5 3 8 — atLaNta....... 000 000 100 — 1 5 1 L.a. ................. 200 002 01X — 5 5 0 E: Olson (3). LOb: Atlanta 4, Los Angeles 4. hr: Ozuna (10), off Paxton; Ohtani (9), off Fried; T.Hernández (8), off Fried; Ohtani (10), off Minter. bravES Ip h r Er bbSO Era Fried..................... 7 4 4 4 3 7 4.23 Minter.................. 1/3 11100 2.93 Chavez .................2/3 00001 1.46 DODgErS Ip h r Er bbSO Era Paxton................62/3 51123 3.06 Kelly.....................1/3 00001 4.73 Treinen................. 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.00 Grove ................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 5.85 wp: Paxton (4-0); Lp: Fried (2-1). Inherited runners-scored: Chavez 1-0, Kelly 1-0. hbp: Fried (Freeman). t: 2:07. a: 52,733 (56,000). orioles 11, reds 1 OrIOLES ab r h bI bb SO avg Henderson dh....... 3 1 0 0 2 2 .274 Rutschman c ........ 5 0 2 2 0 2 .324 Mountcastle 1b.... 5 1 1 0 0 2 .289 Santander rf......... 4 2 3 5 1 1 .218 Westburg 2b ........ 5 1 1 2 0 0 .286 Mateo ss .............. 4 0 0 0 0 3 .245 McKenna cf .......... 3 2 1 1 1 0 .375 Cowser lf.............. 3 1 1 1 1 0 .276 Urías 3b................ 3 3 2 0 0 0 .196 tOtaLS 35 1111 11 5 10 — rEDS ab r h bI bb SO avg Benson cf............310 012 .195 De La Cruz ss ......300 012 .271 Steer lf................401 000 .246 Fraley rf..............401 100 .292 EncarnacionStrand 1b............401 001 .195 India 2b...............300 010 .219 Martini dh...........300 001 .177 Espinal 3b ...........300 000 .169 Maile c ................300 002 .146 tOtaLS 30 13 138 — baLtIMOrE... 300 010 205 — 11 11 0 CINCINNatI... 000 000 001 —130 LOb: Baltimore 3, Cincinnati 5. 2b: Mountcastle (9), Rutschman (6), Urías (2), Cowser (8). hr: Westburg (6), off Lodolo; McKenna (2), off Suter; Santander (5), off Pagán. rbI: Santander 5 (23), Westburg 2 (23), Rutschman 2 (22), McKenna (2), Cowser (19), Fraley (5). CS: Cowser (1), Westburg (2). OrIOLES Ip h r Er bbSO Era Kremer ................ 6100 1 6 3.57 Suárez .............. 21/3 0 0 0 0 1 2.04 Baumann ............ 2/3 2 1 1 2 1 4.73 rEDS Ip h r Er bbSO Era Lodolo.................. 5444 2 6 2.79 Suter ................... 2322 1 2 4.15 Moll ..................... 1100 0 0 0.00 Díaz .................... 1/3 2 4 4 2 1 6.57 Pagán.................. 2/3 1 1 1 0 1 5.93 wp: Kremer (3-2); Lp: Lodolo (3-1). Inherited runners-scored: Pagán 3-3. hbp: Lodolo (Urías). t: 2:37. a: 31,514 (43,891). diamondbacks 11, padres 4 Ketel marte and Joc Pederson homered to back ryne Nelson’s return to the mound, and arizona ended a three-game skid. the Diamondbacks roughed up san Diego starter matt Waldron, who gave up eight runs and eight hits in three innings. paDrES ab r h bI bbSO avg Arraez 2b..............5 0 1 0 0 0 .455 Tatis rf .................5 1 2 0 0 1 .250 Cronenworth 1b ...5 0 1 0 0 2 .278 Machado 3b..........4 0 1 0 0 0 .258 Profar lf................4 0 1 0 0 0 .344 Bogaerts dh..........4 1 1 0 0 1 .217 Merrill cf ..............4 1 2 2 0 1 .284 Kim ss ..................3 1 1 0 1 0 .214 Higashioka c.........4 0 2 1 0 1 .207 tOtaLS 38 4 12 3 16 — D'baCKS ab r h bI bb SO avg McCarthy lf.........4 3 3 2 0 0 .311 Grichuk ph-lf.......1 0 0 0 0 1 .261 Marte 2b.............4 1 1 2 1 0 .307 Alexander 2b ......0 0 0 0 0 0 .286 Smith rf ..............4 1 1 0 0 0 .200 Walker 1b ...........3 2 2 2 1 0 .280 Pederson dh........4 1 1 2 0 1 .297 Suárez 3b............4 0 0 0 0 2 .222 Carroll cf .............4 1 2 2 0 0 .203 Newman ss.........4 0 1 0 0 0 .179 Barnhart c...........3 2 2 1 1 0 .219 tOtaLS 35 11 13 11 34 — SaN DIEgO .... 031 000 000 — 4 12 1 arIzONa ....... 420 410 00X — 11 13 0 E: Merrill (2). LOb: San Diego 8, Arizona 3. 2b: Higashioka (2), Tatis (6), Walker (4), Barnhart (2), McCarthy (4). hr: Merrill (2), off Nelson; Marte (6), off Waldron; Pederson (3), off Brito. paDrES Ip h r Er bbSO Era Waldron............... 388732 5.82 Brito .................... 353300 4.91 Kolek ................... 100001 3.57 Peralta................. 100001 4.11 D'baCKS Ip h r Er bbSO Era Nelson ................. 584413 5.23 Martinez.............. 110000 1.00 Mantiply.............. 110001 3.95 Thompson ........... 110001 1.32 Ginkel .................. 110001 2.57 wp: Nelson (2-2); Lp: Waldron (1-4). Inherited runners-scored: Brito 1-1. wp: Waldron. pb: Higashioka 2(2). t: 2:39. a: 30,968 (48,359). phillies 5, Giants 4 Bryce Harper hit a threerun homer, alec Bohm extended his hitting streak to 18 games, and Philadelphia defeated san Francisco for its fifth straight victory. the Phillies own the best record in the major leagues at 24-11, which is their best 35-game start since 1995. gIaNtS ab r h bI bb SO avg Lee cf ..................5 0 1 0 0 0 .244 Wade 1b..............3 1 1 0 1 1 .333 Flores dh.............4 0 0 0 0 2 .222 Conforto lf ..........4 0 2 1 0 0 .258 Chapman 3b........4 0 0 0 0 2 .215 Yastrzemski rf....4 1 1 0 0 2 .229 Estrada 2b ..........3 1 1 2 0 0 .256 Sabol c ................2 0 0 0 0 2 .400 Reetz c................1 1 1 1 0 0 1.00 Ahmed ss............3 0 0 0 1 2 .235 tOtaLS 33 4 7 4 2 11 — phILLIES ab r h bI bb SO avg Schwarber dh .....4 1 0 0 1 3 .206 Realmuto c .........4 1 3 0 0 0 .259 Harper 1b............4 1 1 3 0 1 .234 Bohm 3b..............4 1 1 0 0 1 .360 Marsh lf ..............4 0 1 0 0 1 .264 Castellanos rf .....4 1 1 0 0 3 .185 Stott 2b ..............3 0 1 1 1 2 .242 Sosa ss ...............4 0 1 1 0 3 .276 Rojas cf...............4 0 0 0 0 3 .219 tOtaLS 35 5 9 5 2 17 — SaN FraN. .... 100 000 201 — 4 7 2 phILa............. 014 000 00X — 5 9 0 E: Ahmed (3), Conforto (1). LOb: San Francisco 6, Philadelphia 8. 2b: Conforto (7), Stott (3), Bohm (13). 3b: Conforto (1). hr: Estrada (5), off T.Walker; Reetz (1), off Alvarado; Harper (7), off Webb. gIaNtS Ip h r Er bbSO Era Webb ................... 4 6 5 4 2 6 3.50 Hjelle ................... 2 2 0 0 0 6 2.70 Ta.Rogers ............ 1 1 0 0 0 2 3.65 R.Walker ............. 1 0 0 0 0 3 2.50 phILLIES Ip h r Er bbSO Era T.Walker........... 61/3 5 3 317 6.39 Soto.................... 2/3 0 0 010 6.10 Hoffman .............. 1 1 0 0 0 3 1.12 Alvarado.............. 1 1 1 1 0 1 4.30 wp: T.Walker (2-0); Lp: Webb (3-3); S: Alvarado (7). hbp: T.Walker (Estrada), Soto (Slater). t: 2:45. a: 41,058 (42,901). pErsonnEl dEpt. dodgers: los angeles placed closer evan Phillips on the 15-day injured list with a strained right hamstring. Phillips got hurt when his spike caught in the grass while he was playing catch. in a corresponding transaction, the Dodgers activated reliever Blake treinen, who had been out with a bruised lung and fractured ribs. Guardians: OF steven Kwan, who entered the weekend leading mlB in batting, is headed to the il with a hamstring strain, and Cleveland will call up top prospect Kyle manzardo, a person familiar with the move told the associated Press. padres: san Diego placed starter Joe musgrove on the injured list with right elbow inflammation. the rHP has struggled, with a 3-3 record and 6.37 era in eight starts. rays: rHP ryan Pepiot departed his start with a lower left leg bruise in the third inning after getting hit by a 107.5-mph line drive hit by the mets’ starling marte. the team said X-rays were negative. yankees: rHP gerrit Cole (right elbow inflammation) felt good the morning after throwing off a mound for the first time since he got injured in spring training. Baseball national league american league JustiN K. aller/gettY images Cruz crushes it Pirates shortstop Oneil Cruz belts a two-run home run in the sixth inning against the Rockies that traveled 429 feet and put Pittsburgh ahead to stay. Cruz also had a double in the victory at PNC Park. today Interleague scores SatUrDaY’S rESULtS Toronto 6, at Washington 3 Baltimore 2, at Cincinnati 1 Chicago White Sox 6, at St. Louis 5 (10) at Oakland 20, Miami 4 at Tampa Bay 3, N.Y. Mets 1 SUNDaY’S rESULtS Toronto at Washington Baltimore at Cincinnati Chicago White Sox 5, at St. Louis 1 at Tampa Bay 7, New York Mets 6 (10) Miami 12, at Oakland 3 nl leaders Entering Sunday’s games. battINg Bohm, Phi ........................................ .364 Betts, LA ......................................... .360 Profar, SD ........................................ .347 Smith, LA ......................................... .347 hOME rUNS Ozuna, Atl ............................................. 9 5 tied ..................................................... 8 Era Imanaga, Chi .................................... 0.78 Suárez, Phi ....................................... 1.72 Hicks, SF .......................................... 1.90 Wheeler, Phi .................................... 1.91 StrIKEOUtS Glasnow, LA ....................................... 63 Jones, Pit ............................................ 52 Wheeler, Phi ....................................... 52 Cease, SD ............................................ 48 Greene, Cin ......................................... 47 notEs East W l pct GB l10 str Baltimore 23 11 .676 — 7-3 W-4 New York 23 13 .639 1 6-4 W-3 Boston 19 16 .543 41/2 5-5 W-1 tampa Bay 17 18 .486 61/2 5-5 W-3 toronto 16 19 .457 71/2 3-7 l-1 cEntral W l pct GB l10 str Cleveland 22 12 .647 — 5-5 W-2 minnesota 19 14 .576 21/2 9-1 l-1 Kansas City 20 15 .571 21/2 5-5 l-2 Detroit 18 16 .529 4 4-6 l-3 Chicago 8 26 .235 14 5-5 W-2 WEst W l pct GB l10 str seattle 19 15 .559 — 7-3 W-2 texas 19 16 .543 1/2 6-4 W-2 Oakland 17 18 .486 21/2 8-2 l-1 Houston 12 22 .353 7 5-5 l-2 los angeles 12 22 .353 7 2-8 l-2 East W l pct GB l10 str Philadelphia 24 11 .686 — 9-1 W-5 atlanta 20 12 .625 21/2 4-6 l-3 Washington 17 17 .500 61/2 7-3 W-1 New York 16 18 .471 71/2 3-7 l-3 miami 10 26 .278 141/2 4-6 W-1 cEntral W l pct GB l10 str milwaukee 20 13 .606 — 5-5 l-2 Chicago 21 14 .600 — 5-5 W-2 Cincinnati 16 18 .471 41/2 2-8 l-5 Pittsburgh 16 19 .457 5 3-7 W-2 st. louis 15 19 .441 51/2 5-5 l-2 WEst W l pct GB l10 str los angeles 23 13 .639 — 8-2 W-4 san Diego 18 19 .486 51/2 4-6 l-1 arizona 15 20 .429 71/2 3-7 W-1 san Francisco 15 20 .429 71/2 3-7 l-3 Colorado 8 26 .235 14 2-8 l-2 nationals 11, Blue Jays 8 bLUE JaYS ab r h bI bb SO avg Springer rf ..........501 00 3 .205 Guerrero 1b.........412 41 1 .239 Turner dh ............400 01 1 .283 Bichette ss .........400 01 0 .195 Schneider lf ........322 02 0 .270 Varsho cf ............521 00 0 .236 Kirk c...................311 01 0 .200 Jansen pr-c .........100 00 0 .297 Kiner-Falefa 2b...412 30 0 .258 Clement 3b .........411 00 1 .271 tOtaLS 37 8 10 7 66 — NatIONaLS ab r h bI bb SO avg Young cf..............431 01 1 .308 Abrams ss...........511 00 2 .283 L.García 2b..........424 40 0 .337 Senzel dh ............511 00 2 .242 Winker lf.............222 32 0 .254 Meneses 1b ........200 22 0 .217 Ruiz c ..................500 00 2 .134 Rosario rf............422 20 0 .117 Lipscomb 3b........400 00 1 .241 tOtaLS 35 11 11 11 58 — tOrONtO ........ 051 020 000— 8 10 2 waShINgtON. 101 501 21X— 11 11 3 E: Bichette (3), Swanson (1), Ruiz (1), Gore (1), Abrams (2). LOb: Toronto 9, Washington 8. 2b: Schneider (6), Kirk (2), Young (6), Winker (7), Abrams (7). hr: Guerrero (4), off Gore; L.García (3), off Manoah; Winker (4), off Manoah; Rosario (2), off Swanson. rbI: KinerFalefa 3 (9), Guerrero 4 (15), Meneses 2 (16), L.García 4 (19), Winker 3 (18), Rosario 2 (5). Sb: L.García (6), Schneider (1), Springer (5). SF: Kiner-Falefa, Meneses. S: Vargas. bLUE JaYS Ip h r Er bb SO NpEra Manoah .............4 6 7 6 4 6 9213.5 Pearson .............1 1 1 1 0 0 145.11 Cabrera .............1 2 1 1 0 0 76.23 Swanson ...........1 1 1 1 0 1 1516.5 Pop ....................1 1 1 1 1 1 113.38 NatIONaLS Ip h rEr bb SO NpEra Gore...................3 6 6 2 2 4 763.44 J.Barnes ............1 1 0 0 0 1 111.29 Weems............. 1/3 1 2 1 1 0 134.85 Law................... 2/3 0 0 0 0 1 113.32 Floro...............12/3 2 0 0 1 0 340.52 Harvey ...........11/3 0 0 0 1 0 152.45 Finnegan ..........1 0 0 0 1 0 191.88 wp: Harvey (2-1); Lp: Cabrera (1-1); S: Finnegan (11). Inherited runnersscored: Cabrera 1-1, Swanson 1-1, Law 2-2, Harvey 2-0. Ibb: off Pop (Winker). hbp: Manoah (Winker). t: 3:01. a: 18,363 (41,376). hOw thEY SCOrED NatIONaLS FIrSt Jacob Young reaches on error. CJ Abrams strikes out swinging. Luis Garcia singles, Jacob Young to third. Nick Senzel called out on strikes. Luis Garcia steals second. Jesse Winker walks. Joey Meneses walks, Jesse winker to second, Luis garcia to third, Jacob Young scores. Keibert Ruiz strikes out swinging. Nationals 1, blue jays 0 bLUE JaYS SECOND Davis Schneider singles. Daulton Varsho hits into a force out to second base, Davis Schneider out at second. Alejandro Kirk walks. Isiah Kiner-Falefa reaches on error, alejandro Kirk to second, Daulton varsho scores. Ernie Clement singles, Isiah Kiner-Falefa to second, Alejandro Kirk to third. George Springer strikes out swinging. vladimir guerrero homers to left field, Ernie Clement scores, Isiah Kiner-Falefa scores, alejandro Kirk scores. Justin Turner walks. Bo Bichette grounds out. blue jays 5, Nationals 1 bLUE JaYS thIrD Davis Schneider doubles. Daulton Varsho pops out. Alejandro Kirk lines out. Isiah Kiner-Falefa singles, Davis Schneider scores. Ernie Clement strikes out swinging. blue jays 6, Nationals 1 NatIONaLS thIrD CJ Abrams called out on strikes. Luis garcia homers. Nick Senzel grounds out. Jesse Winker hit by pitch. Joey Meneses walks, Jesse Winker to second. Keibert Ruiz flies out. blue jays 6, Nationals 2 NatIONaLS FOUrth Eddie Rosario singles. Trey Lipscomb pops out. Jacob Young walks, Eddie Rosario to second. CJ Abrams grounds out, Jacob Young to second, Eddie Rosario to third. Luis garcia singles, Jacob Young scores, Eddie rosario scores. Nick Senzel singles, advances to 2nd, Luis Garcia to third. Jesse winker homers, Nick Senzel scores, Luis garcia scores. Joey Meneses flies out. Nationals 7, blue jays 6 bLUE JaYS FIFth Davis Schneider walks. Daulton Varsho singles, Davis Schneider to second. Alejandro Kirk grounds out, Daulton Varsho to second, Davis Schneider to third. Isiah Kiner-Falefa out on a sacrifice fly, Daulton varsho to third, Davis Schneider scores. Ernie Clement reaches on error, Daulton varsho scores. George Springer strikes out swinging. blue jays 8, Nationals 7 NatIONaLS SIXth Jacob Young doubles. CJ Abrams grounds out, Jacob Young to third. Luis garcia singles, tagged out at second, Jacob Young scores. Nick Senzel flies out. blue jays 8, Nationals 8 NatIONaLS SEvENth Jesse Winker doubles. Joey Meneses flies out, Jesse Winker to third. Keibert Ruiz strikes out swinging. Eddie rosario homers, Jesse winker scores. Trey Lipscomb reaches on error. Jacob Young pops out. Nationals 10, blue jays 8 NatIONaLS EIghth CJ Abrams doubles. Ildemaro Vargas pinch-hitting for Luis Garcia. Ildemaro Vargas reaches on a sacrifice bunt, CJ Abrams to third. Nick Senzel called out on strikes. Jesse Winker is intentionally walked, Ildemaro Vargas to second. Joey Meneses out on a sacrifice fly, Jesse winker to second, Ildemaro vargas to third, CJ abrams scores. Keibert Ruiz grounds out to second base, Isiah KinerFalefa to Vladimir Guerrero. Nationals 11, blue jays 8 al leaders Entering Sunday’s games. battINg Kwan, Cle ......................................... .353 Perez, KC ......................................... .339 Altuve, Hou ..................................... .338 hOME rUNS Trout, LA ............................................. 10 Henderson, Bal ................................... 10 O’Neill, Bos ........................................... 9 Era Berríos, Tor ...................................... 1.44 Crawford, Bos .................................. 1.56 Lugo, KC ........................................... 1.60 StrIKEOUtS Flaherty, Det ...................................... 50 Gilbert, Sea ......................................... 50 Castillo, Sea ........................................ 49 Crochet, Chi ........................................ 47 OrIOLES’ LEaDErS Entering Monday. batters avg ab r h hr rbI McKenna .375 8 3 322 Rutschman .324 139 20 45 5 22 O'Hearn .307 75 13 23 5 11 Mountcastle .289 121 19 35 5 16 Westburg .286 119 18 34 6 23 Cowser .276 87 13 24 6 19 Henderson .274 135 26 37 10 24 Mateo .245 53 9 1324 Kjerstad .222 9 0 200 Santander .218 124 17 27 5 23 McCann .218 55 7 1217
D10 eZ SU the washington post . monday, may 6, 2024 sometimes it’s quarter to quarter, like in the first Penn State game [a 13-11 win]. We were kind of flat, and all of a sudden in the fourth quarter we erupted.” maryland was granted a home game in the first round thanks in part to finishing the regular season with a flourish, winning three of its final four games. But stagnant offense has plagued maryland throughout the year; it failed to reach double-digit goals in three of its past four games. The nadir came in a 7-5 loss at rival Johns Hopkins on April 20, when only three of maryland’s goals came at even strength. “You want to be a consistent team, and we haven’t been,” Tillman said. “So we kind of have to figure out, ‘Why aren’t we?’ We’ve got to take a look at that and see what we can learn and see what take away from [the Big Ten tournament loss]. To me, that’s what the season’s all about — learning as you go and learning from it, growing from it and figuring out what went well, what didn’t go well and then putting yourself in the best position possible for the next game.” terps women land no. 4 seed The NCAA women’s field of 29 also was unveiled Sunday; maryland, Virginia and James madison landed at-large berths. The first round is friday. At noon, the fourth-seeded Terps (12-5) host mAC champion robert morris (8-11) to begin their quest for a 15th NCAA title. The No. 5 seed Cavaliers (14-4) host Northeast Conference champion Long Island (11-7) at 3 p.m., and the Dukes (13-5) take on Penn State (11-7) at 3 p.m. in College Park. Defending national champion Northwestern is the No. 1 seed, followed by 2023 runner-up Boston College and Syracuse. was unveiled Sunday included No. 8 seed Georgetown, an automatic qualifier as the Big East tournament champion, and No. 6 Virginia, an at-large squad that was awarded a first-round home game despite a four-game losing streak. The Hoyas (12-3) host Penn State (11-4), the runner-up in the Big Ten tournament, at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Cooper field. The Cavaliers (10-5) face off against St. Joseph’s (12-3), the Atlantic 10 champion, at noon Saturday in Charlottesville. Both games will air on ESPNU. reigning national champion Notre Dame, which overwhelmed Virginia and No. 2 seed Duke on the way to winning the ACC tournament, is the No. 1 seed. Johns Hopkins and Syracuse rounded out the top four. maryland enters the NCAA tournament having lost two in a row, most recently to Penn State, 19-9, on Thursday in a Big Ten semifinal in Columbus, ohio. The Terps stand to be considerably shorthanded after an injury to leading scorer Braden Erksa. The sophomore attackman was taken off the field on a stretcher Thursday and transported to a hospital, where he remained overnight. Erksa was discharged the next morning and flew back with the team friday. An athletic department spokesperson indicated Erksa was in good spirits, but his status for the NCAA tournament is unclear. “This team’s been tricky,” said Terps Coach John Tillman, who will make a 13th straight NCAA tournament appearance with maryland, the longest streak in program history. “They’re a great group of young men, as I’ve said all year. We’ve just been so inconsistent, and that’s, you know — LACroSSE from D1 Terps secure No. 7 seed in lacrosse tournament rebuilding seasons or deferring to their elders as they pay their dues. The last rising superstar to hold such an empowered role for a title team was Dwyane Wade, then 24, on the 2005-06 miami Heat. “I’m just really proud of the way [Edwards] has accepted the kind of growth he needed to have to be where he’s at right now,” said Conley, a 17-year veteran. “A lot of that has to do with understanding the game better and understanding how to play off his teammates when the [opponents] are doubling him. It’s not easy for a 22-year-old to make that adjustment so quickly. He’s a fast learner.” minnesota has a long way to go to dethrone the Nuggets, who can expect much better play from Nikola Jokic and Jamal murray in monday’s Game 2. Still, Edwards has brought genuine hope to a once-hopeless franchise that made the playoffs only one time in the 16 seasons before he was drafted. With three more wins, minnesota would reach the Western Conference finals for the first time since Kevin Garnett, Sam Cassell and Latrell Sprewell got there in 2004. “It was 20 years ago,” Edwards smiled. “I probably wasn’t even born.” reid before Edwards brought it home. reid scored 14 of his 16 points in the final period, including a banked-in threepointer that broke a tie midway through. “I don’t know how many points [Edwards] scored in that third quarter, but Karl got going and the other guys got going,” malone said. “That’s when the [Timberwolves] become really dangerous. Now you have three scorers and four scorers, and that can’t be the case. It will be a quick [playoff] exit if we allow four guys to get off like that.” Sensing he should reassert himself in crunchtime, Edwards scored eight of minnesota’s final 10 points against a Denver defense that had sprung too many leaks and couldn’t contain him. After carefully milking the shot clock, Edwards hit a higharcing fadeaway jumper to deliver the dagger with less than two minutes to play. Edwards finds himself in an unusual position as the young face of the veteran-dominated Timberwolves, who won 56 games in the regular season and are starting to look capable of reaching the NBA finals for the first time. most players his age are cutting their teeth in painful the Americans finished a disappointing fourth despite a roster loaded with NBA talent. Saturday’s slow start for his teammates presented a major test for Edwards, who has emerged as the breakout player of this postseason. Here, in the most important game of his young career and in front of a hostile crowd, would he choose to bear the full weight of the adversity on his shoulders? rather than reverting to hero ball, Edwards bided his time in the third quarter. Karl-Anthony Towns, invisible to that point, scored five quick buckets out of the break. mike Conley, scoreless at halftime, added four baskets in the period. The Timberwolves shot 74 percent and scored 33 points in the momentum-swinging third quarter, frustrating the Nuggets’ defense with their ball movement and outside shooting. Edwards’s restraint made it possible: He took just one shot in the first eight minutes after halftime, clearing the way for Towns and Conley to get involved. To close out the Nuggets, who have a well-earned reputation as fourth-quarter chess masters, the Timberwolves used a scoring burst from backup big man Naz In a high-profile showdown with the defending champions, who knocked out the Timberwolves in last year’s first round, the 22-year-old Edwards showed he has learned a crucial hoops lesson: restraint is an underrated virtue that translates into playoff wins. meet the new-and-improved Edwards, a 6-foot-4 brick wall who swishes midrange turnarounds with ease, drills three-pointers off the dribble, rises high to dunk over centers and, perhaps most importantly, understands there are moments when it’s best for the team if he downshifts. “We trust each other,” Edwards said after minnesota improved to 5-0 in the playoffs. “It doesn’t matter down the stretch who takes the shot. Just find the open guy. Everybody’s put the work in. I trust my teammates, and I can’t wait to pass it to them if they’re open.” After an impressive first-round sweep of the Phoenix Suns, Edwards strode into Denver’s mile-high elevation as if he had oxygen tanks with unlimited refills strapped to his back. Though the Nuggets entered Saturday with an intimidating 13-1 home playoff record since the start of their 2023 title run, an undaunted Edwards hit a threepointer for the game’s first points and staked the Timberwolves to a 9-0 lead. He was just getting started: Edwards scored 13 of his team’s first 16 points, and minnesota’s lead ballooned to 18-4. With the Timberwolves’ auxiliary shooters slow to warm up and center rudy Gobert unable to find room to work inside, Edwards kept pouring it on. By halftime, he had outscored his teammates 25-15 and shot 10 for 17 while they combined to shoot 6 for 27. But Denver had methodically erased minnesota’s early lead and taken a 44-40 lead into the break. “It was the Anthony Edwards show,” Nuggets Coach michael malone said. “But we were up.” Phil Jackson famously spent years pleading with michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant to lean on their teammates for help, and the Basketball Hall of fame has plenty of inductees who never bothered to take that lesson to heart. During last year’s fIBA World Cup, Edwards earned a starting spot and unexpectedly emerged as USA Basketball’s lead scoring option through force of will. once the competition ramped up, though, Edwards repeatedly lost track of the team concept as on thE nBA from D1 oN the NBA Confident Edwards learns to trust the rest of his team roSS d. frAnKlin/ASSociATed PreSS Anthony Edwards had 43 points against the nuggets but also got other timberwolves get involved. ly respects that; he’s trying not to foul the other horse with his stick if he strikes the horse.” He wasn’t surprised there wasn’t an inquiry. “I understand what he was attempting to do,” Brown said, “and I understand what the other horse was attempting to do.” He spoke from the quieter barn, while the inch decreed that the hubbub bubbled at another. mcPeek waited for a live TV interview, and hero jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. stood among three reporters still fielding questions one day after he used the inside and saved ground. “And when you look at that photo finish,” mcPeek said, “I think we needed all of it to hold off the second- and third-place horses.” Brown had been worried Saturday leading up to the race, having studied the day’s earlier charts and noticed no winner had rallied from more than three lengths. “In my mind, he ran the best race,” Brown said of Sierra Leone, the $2.3 million purchase. “It’s no disrespect to the winner. It’s a hard race to win. Everything has to go right. With the winner, the horse showed up and he was prepared right and he ran terrific, and you have to have a trip where everything goes right. He was actually in front of Dornoch. I mean, nobody would have thought that. And then [Joel] rosario [aboard Track Phantom], you know, makes room, and then the horse goes through [to the stretch]. “It’s not his fault the doors opened for him. I wish that happened for me. I don’t think less of the winner’s performance. It’s just that example of two trips in a 20-horse field. And so everything went right. . . . And the trips some of these winners had, I studied the last few years — what dream trips, you know? That’s what has to happen here. There’s a lot going on.” If ever Brown gets one of those, you might say sports can be fickle. centration.” But how to explain those photos showing Gaffalione reaching over and maybe grabbing at forever Young? Gaffalione wasn’t around Sunday morning, but Brown did the explaining. Amid the fatigue and the leaning and the bumping, Brown said, Gaffalione tried to clear a path to use his left stick on Sierra Leone without using it on forever Young, which would be “obviously a foul,” Brown said. “So he’s trying to create a path not only to use it to straighten out my horse, who realwire did not reach the level of 1933, when Don meade aboard Brokers Tip and Herb fisher aboard Head Play brawled with sticks upon their horses in the stretch, then brawled again in the locker room. It featured Sierra Leone leaning, another contributor to the eventual inch, as jockey Tyler Gaffalione said Saturday: “He wanted to lean in today and made it a little difficult. I had a hard time keeping him straight, and that definitely cost us. He gives you everything, very responsible, but he loses conruns great on big, sloppy tracks, and I’m sort of wishing now that the race was on friday. maybe it would have been different. It can be brutal dealing with the agony of defeat sometimes, but I went in very confident but absolutely expecting all the things that can go wrong.” Not only did he have the ugh of the inch, but the ending featured something sure to have a shelf life in the lore among concerned citizens and conspiracy theorists. The roughhousing between Sierra Leone and forever Young toward the tion of the worst. “So I went into the Derby very optimistic,” Brown said. “I really felt like I had the best horse. Nobody was really going to convince me otherwise. And I wasn’t out here to broadcast it, but I knew what I had. But I also went in prepared for the absolute worst because it’s just such a hard race to win. So many things have to go right, right up into the weather. I mean, the day before, the track’s a mess, and [Saturday] it dried out fine, but I don’t know — just, little things can change fate. This horse they’re into the stretch! And it’s Justify and Mike Smith turning for home in front, Good Magic and Jose Ortiz a length behind as they come into the final furlong!” That’s Collmus from 2018, when Brown had Good magic and Justify had a Triple Crown five weeks later. That seems easy to process. “Epicenter has taken the lead as they arrive into the final furlong! Zandon is coming after him! Epicenter and Zandon, these two, stride for stride. . . . They’re coming down to the wire! Epicenter. Zandon. Rich Strike is coming up on the inside! Oh, my goodness! The longest shot has won the Kentucky Derby! Rich Strike has done it, in a stunning, unbelievable upset!” That’s Collmus from 2022, and Brown had Zandon, and, okay, that’s starting to get mean. “And it’s Mystik Dan, down toward the inside, with the lead in the final 16th. Forever Young. Sierra Leone is coming! These three, coming down to the wire! Who’s it going to beeeee? Oh, it’s a photo finish! Oh, it’s a photo! Was it Mystik Dan, or was it Sierra Leone?” That’s Collmus from Saturday evening, calling the first threeway photo finish in a Kentucky Derby since Jet Pilot, Phalanx and faultless in 1947; mystik Dan was the winner. And that’s Sierra Leone, who ran the best race in the 20-horse field without the smoothest trip. And that’s by a nose or an inch or a demisemiquaver or however you want to call it. And, okay, now that’s tilting toward harsh. Now Brown won’t run Sierra Leone in the Preakness. (Trainer Kenny mcPeek isn’t sure he will run mystik Dan, either.) one inch shifts the landscape, and it’s a good thing horsemen and horsewomen seem to come equipped with some kind of extra organ that allows for a near-breezy expectakEntuCky DErBy from D1 Brown had plenty of experience with the Derby’s cruel fates. But a photo finish? Kiichiro SATo/ASSociATed PreSS “In my mind, he ran the best race,” trainer Chad Brown said of Sierra Leone, front, a $2.3 million purchase. “. . . It’s a hard race to win.” ScoTT TAeTSch for The WAShingTon PoST “this team’s been tricky,” said Coach John tillman, who will make his 13th straight nCAA tournament appearance with Maryland.