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President Obama

Sen. Dianne Feinstein

CIA Director John Brennan

These harsh methods were not only

inconsistent with our values as [a] nation,
they did not serve our broader . . . interests.

We cannot again allow history

to be forgotten and grievous past
mistakes to be repeated.

The intelligence . . . was critical to our

understanding of al-Qaida and continues
to inform our counterterrorism efforts.

A grim portrait of CIA tactics after 9/11

Torture debate
still hasnt
gone away
BY

Report details
vicious acts,
cites a pattern
of deception

S TEVEN M UFSON

In the spring of his first year in

office, President Obama talked to
senior Cabinet and White House
officials about options for dealing
with the past practices of the CIAs
anti-terrorism detention and interrogation program.
Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.)
had called for a truth and reconciliation commission, like the one
that exposed the police abuses of
apartheid South Africa.
But some White House officials
suggested a more novel option: a
Pentagon-style after-action report, similar to the 9/11 Commission, which could clear the air
without public hearings and without setting up prosecutions. Aides
even floated the idea of making
former Supreme Court justice
Sandra Day OConnor the commissions head.
Obama complimented the suggestions and then rejected
them all.
Nearly six years later, the president finds himself embroiled in
the same issues he was weighing
then. The Senate Intelligence
Committee did on Tuesday what
he chose not to do then, delivering
a stinging indictment of harsh
interrogations, the people who
oversaw them, and the lies told to
Congress to conceal them.
The Senate report revived instantly the central elements of the
debate over the U.S. response to
the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks,
imperiling Obamas hoped-for legacy as the president who moved
the country beyond 9/11 and what
he has called its excesses. The
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Read the report; compare earlier
testimony about CIA operations;
hear commentary and analysis.
wapo.st/ciareport
Not effective, deeply flawed
The reports 20 key conclusions are
rife with negative terminology. A15

BY G REG M ILLER,
A DAM G OLDMAN
AND J ULIE T ATE

An exhaustive five-year Senate

investigation of the CIAs secret
interrogations of terrorism suspects renders a strikingly bleak
verdict on a program launched in
the aftermath of the Sept. 11,
2001, attacks, describing levels of
brutality, dishonesty and seemingly arbitrary violence that at
times brought even agency employees to moments of anguish.
The report by the Senate Intelligence Committee delivers new
allegations of cruelty in a program whose severe tactics have
been abundantly documented,
revealing that agency medical
personnel voiced alarm that waterboarding methods had deteriorated to a series of near drownings and that agency employees
subjected detainees to rectal rehydration and other painful procedures that were never approved.
The 528-page document catalogues dozens of cases in which
CIA officials allegedly deceived
their superiors at the White
House, members of Congress and
even sometimes their peers about
how the interrogation program
was being run and what it had
achieved. In one case, an internal
CIA memo relays instructions
from the White House to keep the
program secret from then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell out of
concern that he would blow his
stack if he were to be briefed on

Decades of scandals leave

no dent in agencys power
BY G REG M ILLER
AND D ANA P RIEST

The release of a searing report by the Senate Intelligence

Committee on the CIAs interrogation program Tuesday was the
latest morale-sinking moment
for an agency that has been
buffeted repeatedly throughout
its history, from the Bay of Pigs
fiasco to the Nixon-era domestic
abuses to the 1980s scandals
tied to Iran and Latin America.
If anything, the cycle has only
been compressed in the years
since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks,
with at least four major investigations, not to mention criminal

probes, during a frenetic 13-year

span. That collection now includes a 528-page account of
alleged CIA abuses and dishonesty in its brutal treatment of
terrorism suspects.
The Senate report is a substantial blow to the CIAs reputation, one that raises fundamental questions about the extent to
which the agency can be trusted.
And yet, as in those previous
instances of political and public
outrage, the agency is expected
to emerge from the investigatory rubble with its role and
power in Washington largely
intact.
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Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has said the report is the

most important work the Intelligence Committee has ever done.

New image, renewed ambition for Perry

The outgoing Texas governor is hungry for redemption as he studies another run for president in 2016
BY

Just one small step for

William Kennedy Smith

P HILIP R UCKER

austin The man who could be

president is ambling through the
Texas governors mansion on his
own, whistling Frosty the Snowman as he approaches the parlor
to greet a reporter.
Gov. Rick Perry (R) leads a tour
and points out a historically inaccurate depiction of frontiersman
Davy Crockett in an oil painting
in the foyer (His coonskin cap
thats a myth). In Sam Houstons
bedroom upstairs, Perry lifts an
antique upholstered settee, a gift
from the French, to read an engraving signifying Texass early1800s ties to France. He shows off
a Civil War-era saber that belonged to a Union general and
mentions having just read a thesis on race in America that his
friends black father wrote in
1970.
Rick Perry is trying to show
that he is not the Rick Perry you
remember. Gone, it seems, is the
blustery bravado, the empty
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Image forever altered

by rape trial, he turns
focus to improving D.C.
BY

JULIA ROBINSON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Rick Perry says he is at peace with his failed presidential bid in 2012 and that he is a substantially
different, versed candidate. The Texas Republican has abandoned much of his bravado and rhetoric.

IN THE NEWS
Deal reached on spending bill Congressional
leaders unveiled a massive $1.01 trillion
measure that will keep most of the federal
government funded through September. A3
Campus safety President Teresa A. Sullivan
said U-Va. plans to beef up patrols, rein in
alcohol abuse and prevent sexual assault. B1

THE NATION

The Supreme Court

ruled that Amazon
does not have to pay
workers for time in security checks and that a
jurors statements during deliberations do not
warrant a new trial. A2
THE ECONOMY

Online retailers are

trying to snag holiday

shoppers with fastdelivery options. A10

A mugs color can alter
the perception of coffees
taste, a study said. A2

India tightened rules

for online car services
after an alleged rape by
an Uber driver. A6
THE REGION

THE WORLD

Police in Hong Kong

said they plan to begin
clearing the main protest site used by prodemocracy activists later this week. A7

Stall warnings sounded in the cockpit before a plane crashed into

a Maryland house. B1
The District would be
prohibited from legalizing marijuana for

Blow to international image

The report led U.S. allies to
distance themselves and
adversaries to cry hypocrisy. A15
Timeline of CIA program
How the secret prisons and
enhanced interrogation
progressed after 9/11. A16

P AUL S CHWARTZMAN

The commissioner-elect was

walking his new district in Northwest Washington, stopping across
from the Watergate to inspect a
crack in the sidewalk, crumbling
concrete and a broken step.
Look at all that stuff, said
William Kennedy Smith, Foggy
Bottoms newly elected Advisory
Neighborhood
Commission
member.
Smith, 54, is the nephew of a
slain American president. As a
younger man, he was the defendant in a salacious Palm Beach
rape trial that ended in his acquittal, though not before the
nation devoured stories of latenight, alcohol-fueled carousing
that included then-Sen. Edward
M. Kennedy (D-Mass.).

much of the coming

year under a congressional spending bill. B1
The deaths of a young
Arlington couple were
being investigated as a
murder-suicide. B1
OBITUARIES

Ernest C. Brace, 83,

was the longest-held civilian POW in the Vietnam War. B5

Twenty-three years later, here

was Smith, at New Hampshire
and Virginia avenues, pondering
a broken step. Small degradations in a neighborhood can lead
to big problems, he said. Its
about maintaining a standard.
A new generation of leaders is
preparing to take power in the
District in January. The class
includes a mayor, three council
members and more than 100
ANC members those unpaid
citizen gadflies who delve into
the small print of zoning laws
and liquor licenses.
Within that class, only one
person has in his office the
government-issued wooden desk
that once belonged to his grandfather, Joseph P. Kennedy, when
he was ambassador to the Court
of St. Jamess.
Only one was born four
months before his uncle was
sworn in as the 35th president.
Only one had two uncles who
were assassinated.
As a Kennedy, Smith faces

INSIDE

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A bakery rising
Red Truck is rolling out
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Help for homeless

John Kelly introduces a
Post charity partner. B3

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Storm brings wintry mess

to much of the Northeast
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providence, r.i. A slow-moving storm churned through the

Northeast on Tuesday, bringing
windblown rain to coastal areas,
wet snow inland and a wintry mix
to the New England states.
The storm made for sloppy, slippery commutes across southern
New England, where state police
responded to dozens of crashes
and spinouts on icy roads, some
involving their own cruisers. Nine
passengers on a commuter bus
involved in an accident in Connecticut were hospitalized, and
one person was killed in a multivehicle crash on an icy Upstate
highway in New York.
With heavy rain falling, parts of
Connecticut, Massachusetts and
Rhode Island were under flood
watches. The National Weather
Service said up to two inches of

rain was expected, though some

areas could get up to four inches.
Some coastal areas were also
seeing winds of 25 to 35 mph, with
gusts up to 55 mph.
In New Hampshire, which
awoke Tuesday to light snow,
freezing rain and sleet, at least 300
schools closed or delayed opening.
New Jersey had up to 21/2 inches of
rain, flooding parts of the shore.
The Interstate 95 corridor from
Philadelphia to Boston was spared
significant snow, but winter storm
warnings and weather advisories
were issued for inland Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and
northern New England.
Higher elevations could get two
feet of snow through Thursday
before the storm moves out. Forecasters warned that heavy, wet
snow and gusty winds could combine to bring down tree limbs and
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If youre drinking coffee, you may want to check the color of your mug
BY

R OBERTO F ERDMAN

The secret to a better cup of

morning Joe might simply be
choosing the right colored coffee
mug.
The mug color can alter the
way people perceive how coffee
tastes, according to a recent study
conducted in Australia that tested the influence that three colored mugs one white, one blue,
and one clear glass had on the
perception of different flavor
points.
The researchers served 18 participants the same cup of coffee in
one of three similarly shaped but
differently colored vessels and
then asked them to rate the coffees sweetness, aroma, bitterness, quality and acceptability.
The researchers found that the
coffee drinkers tended to experience the same cup of coffee differently depending on the color of
the glassware from which they
drank.
The color of the mug really
does seem to have an impact,
said Charles Spence, experimental psychology professor, head of
the Crossmodal Research Laboratory at Oxford University and one
of the studys authors. We found
a particularly significant difference between the white mug and
the clear one.
Specifically, the white mug was
associated with a more intense
(or bitter) tasting cup of coffee
and the clear glass mug was not.
The blue mug, meanwhile,
proved to be kind of an intermediate.

SEONG JOON CHO/BLOOMBERG NEWS

A white cup, like this one at Terarosa Coffee in Seoul, could color
your perception of the beverages taste, a study found.

The opposite was true for perceived sweetness. Participants

noted less sweetness when drinking from the white mug than from
both the blue and clear glass
mugs. Differences observed in the
rest of the flavor points were
statistically insignificant in the
small-scale experiment. But
Spence said he plans to extend it
to a larger group and expects to
find a similar pattern.
I have been working for more
than a decade studying the impact colors can have on the experience of food, he said. It
doesnt just happen in laboratories it happens in restaurants,
too.
Indeed, the idea that the color
of a coffee mug can change more
than merely aesthetics is actually

part of a growing pool of research.

A 2002 study, for instance,
found that certain colors were
consistently associated with specific tastes.
Similarly, a study from 2010
details how the color of food can
be associated with crossmodal
effects (when one sense affects
another in this case, vision and
taste) that make it taste different,
even though its taste profile is
technically unchanged. Research
published this year shows that
the color of a plate had a clear
effect on flavor intensity, sweetness and liking scores. And the
color red, specifically, has been
associated with lower levels of
consumption.
The reason for the unlikely
influence colors have on how

people experience food is unclear.

One explanation is that we never
see colors by themselves; instead,
we see them in reference to other
colors.
A strawberry looks more red
when placed against a white plate
than it does against, say, a black
one. And there are associations
with that redness that in turn can
affect taste, Spence explains.
Red might indicate heightened
sweetness because red fruits tend
to be more ripe than green fruits,
he said. And that indication can
be enough to trigger a tangible
difference in taste.
It is also possible that certain
colors are tied to certain experiences. When we see something
new, our brain might be predicting what the experience will be
like based on past experiences
and thereby altering the experience, Spence said. But we cant
say for sure. Not yet.
In the case of coffee, specifically, the researchers have a hunch.
The color brown, they believe,
might be something people associate with bitterness. The white
mug may have influenced the
perceived brownness of the coffee
and this, in turn, may have influenced the perceived intensity
(and sweetness) of the coffee, the
researchers wrote. That would
help explain why clear glass coffee mugs, which serve to dilute
the color, tended to have the
opposite effect.
roberto.ferdman@washpost.com
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wonkblog

Court backs Amazon in worker-pay case

Employees need not be
compensated for time
in security, justices say
BY

R OBERT B ARNES

The Supreme Court ruled

unanimously Tuesday that workers who fill orders in Amazon.com warehouses need not be
paid for the time they spend
going through security checks to
ensure they have not stolen any
products.
The court reversed a lowercourt ruling for the workers, who
alleged they spent up to 25 minutes waiting to go through security clearance at warehouses in
Nevada.
But Justice Clarence Thomas
said federal law requires that
workers be paid for activities
before and after their shifts
only when the activities are
integral and indispensable to
the job they are hired to perform.
The court of appeals erred by
focusing
on
whether
an
employer required a particular
activity, Thomas wrote. The
integral and indispensable test is
tied to the productive work that
the employee is employed to
perform.
perform
.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for
the 9th Circuit had ruled for the
workers, but other appeals

courts had interpreted the law

the way the Supreme Court did.
The class-action lawsuit was
filed against Integrity Staffing
Solutions, a company that provides workers for Amazon warehouses across the nation. (Amazon.com chief executive Jeffrey P.
Bezos also owns The Washington
Post.)
The implications of the decision would have been great had it
gone the other way. There are
more than a dozen class-action
lawsuits filed against Amazon
and other companies that use
security checks at the end of
shifts to make sure none of their
inventory walks out with the
workers. A win would have
opened the way for hundreds of
millions of dollars in compensation.
The court was examining the
Portal-to-Portal Act, which Congress passed in 1947 to exempt
companies from having to pay
overtime for certain activities
that take place before and after a
workers shift.
In previous cases, the court
has identified activities that
qualify as integral and indispensable to a workers duties. For
instance, it said the time batteryplant employees spend showering and changing was compensable because of the toxic chemicals in the plant.
The court also held that meatpacking workers should be paid
for sharpening knives because

dull knives would make them

less effective and affect the appearance of the product.
But the court noted Labor
Department regulations that
said employees need not be paid
for checking in and out and
waiting in line to do so, among
other activities. The Obama administration sided with the company.
Jesse Busk, who worked in
the Amazon warehouse in Las
Vegas, and Laurie Castro, an
hourly employee in Fenley,
Nev., claimed that because the
security checks were required
for workers to keep their jobs,
employees should be compensated for the time they spend
waiting for security checks. And
they said that the company
could cut the wait time by
employing
more
security
screeners or staggering shifts
so that not all the workers were
released at once.
The court rejected both arguments. The company did not
employ its workers to undergo
security screenings, but to retrieve products from warehouse shelves and package
those products for shipment to
Amazon customers, Thomas
wrote.
And he said it was irrelevant
whether the company had ways
to reduce the wait time. These
arguments are properly presented to the employer at the bargaining table, not to a court, he

wrote.
Amazon said the allegations
from Busk and Castro were
simply not true.
Data shows that employees
typically walk through security
with little or no wait, and Amazon has a global process that is
designed to ensure the time employees spend waiting in security
is less than 90 seconds, spokeswoman Kelly Cheeseman said in
a statement.
Joshua D. Buck, a lawyer for
the class of workers represented
by Busk and Castro, called the
decision very disappointing.
An employer is now free to
waste as much of workers time
as it so desires by forcing them to
undergo time-consuming antitheft screenings without compensation, Buck said in a statement.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor
and Elena Kagan concurred in
the decision but also wrote to
say they understood the Portalto-Portal Act to distinguish between the ingress and egress
process, on one hand, and activities that constitute actual
work of consequence, on the
other.
The security checks at issue
fall on the side of leaving the
workplace, Sotomayor wrote.
The case, Integrity Staffing
Solutions v. Busk,
Busk, was one of the
courts first two signed opinions
of the term.
robert.barnes@washpost.com

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High court: Jurors statement is not grounds for new trial

BY

Brighten up
the holidays.

R OBERT B ARNES

The Supreme Court ruled

unanimously Tuesday that a
jurors comments during trial
deliberations cannot be used later
to show a dishonesty that could
lead to a new trial.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote
that a federal rule of evidence
barring the use of statements
made during deliberation defeat-

ed a South Dakota mans request

for a new trial.
Gregory Warger was seriously
injured when his motorcycle was
struck by a truck driven by Randy
Shauers; Warger lost at trial when
he sought damages.
Later a juror approached Wargers attorney with a concern about
the jurys forewoman, Regina
Whipple. The juror said Whipple
had said during deliberations

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that her daughter had been at

fault in a fatal accident and that if
she had been sued, it would have
ruined her life.
Warger moved for a new trial,
saying Whipple had lied about her
impartiality. But the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the 8th Circuit ruled
against Warger, saying that rules
of evidence provide very narrow
exceptions for using statements
made during deliberations.
One of those exceptions is for
extraneous prejudicial information, but the Supreme Court
agreed with the lower court that it
did not apply in Wargers case.
All jurors bring life experiences, Sotomayor wrote: Whip-

ples daughters accident may well

have informed her general views
about negligence liability for car
crashes, but it did not provide
either her or the rest of the jury
with any specific knowledge regarding Shauers collision with
Warger.
Sotomayor wrote in a footnote
that there may be cases of juror
bias so extreme that, almost by
definition, the jury trial right has
been abridged. She added that
the court could consider that issue if such a case arose, since
those facts are not presented
here.
The case is Warger v. Shauers.
Shauers.
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BY

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Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, waves to fans as she and Britain's Prince William are escorted Tuesday into
the 9/11 museum by its president, Joe Daniels, right, at the National Sept. 11 Memorial in Manhattan.
MEDIA

FBI could use fake

reporter in future
FBI Director James B. Comey
left open the possibility Tuesday
that an agent might again pose as
a journalist as part of an investigation, though he said such a tactic ought to be rare and done
carefully with significant supervision, if its going to be done.
Comey told reporters at a
roundtable discussion that he
was not willing to say never
when asked if the FBI would
swear off future use of the tactic
in response to an Associated
Press demand last month.
The AP sought assurances
from the Justice Department and
the FBI that impersonation
would not be used again following revelations that an agent in
Seattle posed as an AP journalist
in 2007 during an investigation
into bomb threats at a high
school.

In the Seattle case, details of

which Comey revealed in a letter
to the New York Times, an FBI
agent posed as a reporter to help
catch a 15-year-old suspect. The
agent asked the suspect to review
a fake AP article about threats
and cyberattacks directed at the
school to ensure that the anonymous suspect was portrayed fairly. The article contained a software tool that could verify Internet addresses. The suspect
clicked on a link, revealing his
computers location and Internet
address, which helped agents
confirm the suspects identity.
Associated Press
OHIO

3rd man exonerated

in 1975 slaying
Having just exonerated
Kwame Ajamu, Judge Pamela
Barker stood up from her seat on
the bench Tuesday, leaned across
the defense table and gave him a

hug. It had taken nearly 40 years,

but Ajamu was no longer a convicted murderer.
Moments earlier, Barker had
dismissed his charges and county
prosecutor Tim McGinty had
conveyed a message through an
assistant that Ajamu; his brother,
Wiley Bridgeman; and their
friend Ricky Jackson have been
the victims of a terrible injustice.
The three had been convicted
and sentenced to death in the
slaying of businessman Harry
Franks outside a corner store in
Cleveland on a spring day in 1975.
The case against them unraveled
last year when the prosecutions
star witness, Eddie Vernon, who
was 12 when Franks was killed,
recanted his testimony. Vernon
said that he had been coerced by
Cleveland police.
The mens original death sentences had been commuted to life
terms, and Ajamu was released in
2003. Jackson and Bridgeman
were released last month.
Associated Press

A defeat for D.C. law

E D O K EEFE

Congressional leaders unveiled

a massive $1.01 trillion spending
bill Tuesday night that will keep
most of the federal government
funded through September.
The legislation is expected to
pass in the coming days and will
allow the incoming Republicancontrolled Congress to clear the
decks of lingering spending issues while setting the stage for a
prolonged fight with President
Obama over immigration policy.
At 1,603 pages, the bill includes
at least $1.2 billion for agencies to
deal with the influx of unaccompanied immigrant children who
crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.
Theres also money to fight the
rise of the Islamic State and
$5.4 billion to fight the threat of
Ebola. But there are also significant changes to campaign finance
laws and potential cuts to retiree
pension plans. Democrats were
cheering bigger budgets for enforcement at agencies created after the 2008 economic collapse.
House leaders are planning to
introduce a stopgap bill to give
the House and Senate a few more
days to pass the final measure and
avoid a government shutdown
Thursday night. Extending current funding for a short period
has happened before, but doing
so this year will provide an embarrassing climax to one of the
most fruitless congressional sessions in history.
Theres no reason the government should shut down, said
Senate Majority Leader Harry M.
Reid (D-Nev.). And were ready to
pass a year-long spending bill to
take care of this.
John Thune (S.D.), the thirdranking Republican senator,
joked that last-minute drama
with the spending plan is a
Christmas tradition. But, he added, I dont see it getting derailed.
I think it could get slowed down,
but I think it will ultimately get
across the finish line.
The White House had not indi-

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supported the bill.
The agreement hews to spending caps that lawmakers and the
White House agreed to last year. It
includes $521 billion in military
spending and $492 billion for
other federal agencies. An additional $64 billion would be set
aside for overseas military operations, including the fight against
the Islamic State and to assist
European countries facing Russian aggression.
The legislation would provide
full funding for 11 of the 12
appropriations bills Congress is
supposed to pass each year. But
Republicans insisted on a shorter funding schedule for the Department of Homeland Security,
which has jurisdiction over immigration enforcement. The
sprawling department will get
money only through February,
giving Republicans more time to
craft a legislative response to
Obamas decision to use his executive authority to change immigration policy.
But federal dollars also would
be spread to other agencies to
help address the rise in immigration, which is likely to infuriate
conservative lawmakers seeking
to cut funding for immigration
programs.
The Department of Health and
Human Services would receive
$948 million to provide health
and education services to the unaccompanied children an
$80 million increase. An additional $14 million would be provided to help school districts dealing with an influx of immigrant
students. And the State Department would receive $260 million
to aid the Central American countries where most of the young
migrants are coming from.
Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski
(D-Md.) and Rep. Harold Rogers
(R-Ky.), who led the talks as lead-

ers of the Senate and House appropriations committees, called

the bill a fair deal.
While not everyone got everything they wanted, such compromises must be made in a divided
government, they said in a statement.
The bill is packed with policy
instructions, called riders, that
were the subject of months of
discussions between Democrats
and Republicans.
One of the most notable changes includes dramatically expanding the amount of money that
wealthy political donors could
give the national parties, drastically undercutting the 2002 landmark McCain-Feingold campaign
finance overhaul. Top donors
would be allowed to give three
times the annual cap on national
party donations to three additional party committees set up for the
purposes of the presidential conventions, building expenses and
election recounts.
For the first time, Congress also
would allow the benefits of current retirees to be severely cut,
part of an effort to save some of
the nations most distressed pension plans.
The bill authorizes a 1 percent
pay raise for military service
members and allows a 1 percent
pay raise for federal employees,
ordered by Obama, to begin in
January.
Lawmakers
again
banned or limited certain federal
agency conferences and employee awards. The bill also ends a
5 percent discount on tobacco
products sold at military exchanges.
At domestic agencies, the EPAs
budget would be cut by $60 million, and the IRS would lose
$345.6 million. The nations tax
agency also would be banned
from targeting organizations
seeking tax-exempt status based
on their ideological beliefs.
ed.okeefe@washpost.com
Aaron Davis, Michael Fletcher and
Matea Gold contributed to this report.

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Santorum in a better place ahead of second presidential bid

GOP runner-up in 2012
says he relishes playing
the underdog in 2016
BY

K AREN T UMULTY

Rick Santorum won primaries

and caucuses in 11 states in 2012,
coming in a respectable second in
the GOP presidential primary season. And Republicans have a history of bestowing their nomination on the next guy in line, usually an also-ran from the last contest.
Yet the former senator from
Pennsylvania is rarely mentioned
in the already feverish pre-game
2016 chatter among the political
commentariat and the donor
class.
Thats just the way he likes it.
Or so he says.
America loves an underdog.
Were definitely the underdog in
this race, he said in an interview
Tuesday. Santorum added that being underestimated again

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Former senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) says he has 150,000 activists

in place and is retooling his message to appeal to blue-collar voters.

has given me a lot of latitude.

His iconic sweater vests will
likely make a return appearance.
But Santorum 2.0 will be a very
different presidential campaign
than the one that came from almost nowhere to win the Iowa

caucuses in an overtime decision,

he vows.
I get the game, Santorum
said.
Where he had to build his operation from the ground up in 2012,
Santorum now has a grass-roots

operation called Patriot Voices,

which boasts 150,000 activists
across the country. Its current
push, an online petition drive to
oppose President Obamas recent
executive action on immigration,
has generated what Santorum
strategist John Brabender says
are 30,000 new e-mail relationships.
Whether Santorum can raise
the money he needs is another
question. Foster Friess, the benefactor who ponied up $2.1 million
to a pro-Santorum super PAC in
2012, says he would support him
again. The former senator is
sounding out other deep-pocketed donors, whom he declined to
identify.
He is retooling his message,
hoping to appeal beyond his socially conservative base and reach
blue-collar voters who are being
left behind in the economy.
I dont think Ive met a suit
yet, Santorum said of his travels
around the country. Its very
much heart of America, average
Americans who have found a
place where they see someone

who will stand up and fight for

them. If the Republican Party has
a future and I sometimes question if it does its in middle
America. Its not in corporate
America.
That is a theme he has sounded
for years, though it often got overlooked in the 2012 campaign,
where most of the attention was
on Santorums culture warrior
credentials.
Part of what I had to do last
time was lay out my bona fides on
moral and social issues, Santorum
said. Thats done.
At the same time, Santorum is
likely to have more competition
for the support of social conservatives than he did in the last campaign. Former Arkansas governor
Mike Huckabee, who won the
Iowa caucuses in 2008 and retains a strong reservoir of support
among evangelical voters, is considering another White House
bid.
Santorum argues that the reemergence of immigration as an
issue will work in his favor because he takes a tougher line than

many other Republicans do.

I take the approach that immigration policy in America ought to
be about Americans, he said.
The principal focus of immigration policy is not about the rest of
the world. Its about us.
The former senator hopes to
revive his profile in the coming
months with a series of trips to the
early-contest states of Iowa, South
Carolina and New Hampshire.
Santorum and his wife, Karen,
have also written a book, due out
in February, about their familys
experiences since the birth of
their daughter Bella, who has a
rare, usually deadly genetic condition called Trisomy 18.
Reflecting on how a presidential campaign could be different
this time around, Santorum said:
Were just obviously in a better
place right now. Our message will
be a lot more focused this time
than it was last time.
Santorum is running again.
The question is whether, as the
race heads to new terrain, hell
still be able to keep the pace.
karen.tumulty@washpost.com

Perry eager for another chance to make an impression

PERRY FROM A1

rhetoric, the cowboy boots

and, yes, the oops moments.
This Perry comes across as studious, contemplative and humble.
He said he is at peace with his
2012 presidential campaign, in
which his shoot-first-aim-later
approach proved catastrophic,
but is hungry to redeem himself.
As Perry packs his belongings
at the governors mansion after
14 years in office, he is undergoing exhaustive preparations to
run again for president in 2016.
He is striving to make a better
second impression than his first
one.
We are a substantially different, versed candidate, he said.
He noted that other politicians
who endure such humiliation
might scurry off to the quietness and the comfort of some
obscure place, and I wasnt interested in doing that. I think
that this country is begging for
leadership.
Perry sat down with The Washington Post for a wide-ranging
90-minute interview over lunch
here Monday. He discussed his
political rehabilitation, which
this month includes day-long tutorial sessions with conservative
scholars.
Perry also is hosting seven dinners at the mansion this month
for about 600 potential campaign
donors from around the country.
At each dinner funded by Texans for Rick Perry he plays a
three-minute, amped-up video
promoting his economic legacy of
transforming Texas into a haven
of opportunity with unparalleled prosperity.
Perry insists that he has not
decided whether to run and said
he wont announce a decision
until May or June, but he nonetheless offered a rationale for his
candidacy.
You want the guy in the front
left seat to be more than a lowtime, private pilot, he said.
Youd like to have the person in
the front left seat of your aircraft
being a rather high-time, experienced aviator.
Perry, who served as an Air
Force pilot before becoming the
longest-serving governor in his
states history, said he sees himself as this metaphorical aviator.
If youre looking for that
steady hand thats going to make
a clean break with the administrations policies that are in place
today, I am a very clear and
compelling individual to support, said Perry, 64.
He said he believed he could
attract voters in a general election
with an optimistic economic message centered on helping businesses to grow and expanding
educational opportunities. He argued that President Obama won
reelection in large part because
Republican nominee Mitt Romney alienated voters, especially

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Perry insists that he has not decided whether to run

for president in 2016 and said he wont announce
a decision until May or June, but he nonetheless
offered a rationale for his candidacy.
Hispanics.
To make the statement of
self-deportation was very offensive to the people that we
should have been reaching out
to and giving reasons to be for
us, Perry said.
A potentially significant complication is Perrys recent indictment on two felony counts of
abuse of power. He and his sup-

porters, as well as some liberal

legal scholars, view the case as a
farce. Its an affront to the Constitution, Perry said. But a judge
has not yet ruled on whether to
dismiss the charges.
American Bridge, a Democratic opposition research group,
published a guide to Republican
contenders Monday and wrote:
Will Perry be able to overcome a

criminal indictment and the embarrassment from his last campaign to mount a serious run for
president?
Perry will be out of public office
for the first time since 1985 and is
losing his security detail and staff
entourage. He and his wife, Anita,
are moving into a two-bedroom
condominium in downtown Austin while construction is completed on a new house in Round Top,
which Perry described as a rural
oasis (really dark and really quiet).
After Republican Greg Abbott is
sworn in as governor Jan. 20, Perrys immediate priority will be to
make serious money, something he
has never done. He is considering
writing a memoir how a Boy
Scout from Paint Creek became
governor and presided over the
Texas miracle economic boom
as well as giving paid speeches and
serving on corporate boards, his
advisers say.
Perry has entrusted his political future to Jeff Miller, a strategist from California who has
moved here and taken charge of
the operation. Longtime national operatives Terry Nelson, Steve
Schmidt and Henry Barbour
also are advising Perry, while
economist Abby McCloskey is
organizing his policy preparations. David Carney and Joe
Allbaugh, rival strategists on
Perrys 2012 campaign, are no
longer in his circle, although

2012 manager Rob Johnson and

longtime spokesman Mark Miner remain close.
This week, Perry began intensive news media training, as
advisers staged mock on-camera interviews with hostile
questioning. Perry also has been
working with speech coaches at
Podium Master, a GOP firm run
by an alumnus of the Royal
Shakespeare Company, to improve his presentation skills.
Perrys advisers acknowledge
that he will have little margin
for error in next falls debates. In
2011, he imploded at a debate by
forgetting the three federal
agencies he said he wanted to
eliminate, stammering and saying, Oops.
Experts at top think tanks have
been flying to Austin to tutor the
governor. On Thursday, he will sit
for six hours with former Bush
administration economists Greg
Mankiw, Keith Hennessey, Glenn
Hubbard and Diana FurchgottRoth to discuss economic growth,
labor markets, taxation and regulation.
Perry recently held freewheeling, all-day sessions on health
care and income inequality, and
plans more this month on energy
and environment, budget and entitlements, education, immigration and financial services.
The governor is in the top tier
in terms of the amount of preparation that hes putting in, said

Avik Roy, a former policy adviser

to Romney, who briefed Perry on
health care and has met with
other 2016 hopefuls. Perry, he
said, is asking questions
throughout and interjecting
throughout. . . . Theyre absolutely not talking-point conversations.
Last week, Perry studied income inequality and economic
mobility with experts Scott Winship, Erin Currier and Aparna
Mathur. In the Post interview, he
was asked about the growing gap
between rich and poor in Texas,
which has had strong job growth
over the past decade but also has
lagged in services for the underprivileged.
Biblically, the poor are always
going to be with us in some form
or fashion, he said. He cited
statistics showing that since he
took office in 2000, wages have
increased among all four income
quartiles. He said a young man
who dropped out of high school in
South Texas could make more
than $100,000 a year as a truck
driver.
Perry acknowledged that the
richest Texans have experienced
the greatest amount of earnings
growth, but dismissed the notion that income inequality is a
problem in the state, saying,
We dont grapple with that
here.
Perry has been invited to address the World Economic Forum
in January in Davos, Switzerland,
but has not decided whether to
make the trip. He spoke at the
forum a year ago.
Perry plans to keep up his busy
itinerary in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Those
first three states require a substantial amount of personal interaction that we had not done in
2011 or 2012, he said. Since the
2012 election, Perry has held 33
events in Iowa over 15 days, more
than any other 2016 hopeful, according to the Des Moines Register.
At Mondays lunch with The
Post, Perry was in a chipper
mood. His official portrait is being painted and will show him
with two personal items: his Texas A&M ring and a bracelet memorializing Lance Cpl. Colton
Rusk, a Marine who died in Afghanistan.
When Perry noticed that
grilled pheasant breast was on
the menu, he wondered aloud,
Im curious if this is a pheasant
that I actually . . . He stopped
himself before suggesting he had
killed the bird.
Before food was served, Perry
said a prayer that included a nod
to Obama: Be with the president,
give him wisdom and open his
eyes.
Then Perry explained why he,
the Texas governor with a newly
acquired worldliness, is ready to
be Obamas successor.
philip.rucker@washpost.com

Gruber apologizes at House hearing for glib words on health-care politics

BY

J OSE A . D EL R EAL

Economist Jonathan Gruber

apologized Tuesday for thoughtless and inexcusable comments
about the political process behind
the Affordable Care Act, which
put him squarely at the center of
the public debate over the law.
In some cases I made uninformed and glib comments about
the political process behind
health-care reform. I am not an
expert on politics, and my tone
implied that I was, which is
wrong, Gruber told the House
Oversight and Government Re-

form Committee at a hearing that

also featured testimony by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services Administrator Marilyn
Tavenner.
It is never appropriate to try to
make oneself seem more important or smarter by demeaning
others. I know better. I knew
better. I am embarrassed and I am
sorry, he said.
Grubers remarks sparked a
firestorm last month when videos
from prior years surfaced in
which he appeared to call American voters stupid and suggest
that a lack of transparency in

the Affordable Care Act contributed to passage of the law. Critics of

the ACA, who called Gruber the
architect of the health-care law,
seized on the remarks to call into
question the laws validity, while
Obamacare supporters distanced
themselves from Gruber.
Im a professor of economics at
MIT. Im not a politician nor a
political adviser, Gruber said
Tuesday. I did not draft [Massachusetts] Governor [Mitt] Romneys health-care plan, and I was
not the architect of President
Obamas health-care plan.
Gruber was grilled by commit-

tee Republicans.
Are you stupid? committee
chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) asked.
I dont think so, no, said Gruber.
So youre a smart man who
said . . . some really stupid things,
said Issa.
The comments I made were
really inexcusable, responded
Gruber.
Several Republican members
inquired about the exact amount
that Gruber was paid for his work
as a consultant, which Gruber repeatedly declined to answer. At

several points, Gruber avoided

the question by maintaining that
his attorney had counseled him
that financial documents already
submitted to the committee
had met the disclosure requirements.
You come to the committee,
we ask a question, and youre
supposed to answer the question,
said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).
We want to know how much you
got from the taxpayers. Then
[you] made fun of them after you
got it from them.
Gruber also faced a scolding by
the committees ranking Demo-

crat, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings

(Md.), who chided the economist
for giving the laws critics ammunition to disparage it and the
administration.
Grubers statements gave Republicans a public relations gift in
their relentless political campaign to tear down the ACA and
eliminate health care for millions
of Americans, Cummings said.
Man, you did a great job. You
wrapped it up with a bow.
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Brazils economy lingers in a rut
Government accused of creative accounting as regions dominant player struggles with low productivity
BY

D OM P HILLIPS

sao paulo Valter Barros, coowner of a small electronic-components factory in this citys suburbs, was unimpressed with the
Brazilian governments battle last
week to pass a controversial fiscal
measure economists dubbed creative accounting.
He was not alone. As lawmakers
arrived in Brasilia this week for a
vote on a measure that would effectively permit the government
to ignore all of a legally mandated
$45 billion budget surplus for this
year, protesters jeered and held up
100 real notes.
This was not the first time the
administration of newly reelected
President Dilma Rousseff had
moved the goal posts to meet its
targets.
The governments budgetary
woes are a consequence of Brazils
underperforming economy. Critics trace the economys troubles
back to the governments policies.
Brazil, they say, needs to overcome
the barriers that hold it back: crippling tax burdens, tortuous bureaucracy, expensive labor legislation, rising inflation, poor education and a lack of infrastructure,
all of which result in low productivity.
The Dilma government tried
to overcome this challenge, but it
did not succeed, said Felipe Salto,
an economist at a Sao Paulo consultancy called Tendencias. Because it altered policies that were
working and substituted policies
that did not work.
It took almost three days to get
the new budget target through the
National Congress, and then only
with promises to free up specific
budget items for individual senators and deputies. Thats what
brought out the protesters waving
cash.
Public galleries were closed in
the tumult. An opposition deputy,
Mendona Filho, called the budget procedure blackmail by decree.
Creative accounting has substituted for fiscal responsibility,
said Salto.
In the dining room that doubles
as a boardroom for his electroniccomponents company, called
Teckab, Barros, 54, said he was
sick of what he saw as mismanagement of Brazils economy. He had
voted for Acio Neves, the centerright candidate who was narrowly
defeated in Octobers presidential
runoff. Economic policy got completely lost, Barros said. They
really let it out of their hands and
lost control of spending. They
should have more control.
Like other entrepreneurs, he
wants to see Brazils economy put
back on track. Everyone believes
that Brazil has potential, he said.
It needs to go back to growing.
Under Rousseff and her outgoing finance minister, Guido Mantega, Brazil kept unemployment
down but not spending, and inflation is above target at 6.6 percent.
Two ratings agencies have already
downgraded Brazils investment
status this year.
Instead of leading the continent
it dominates, Brazil is growing less

India puts
pressure
on online
taxi rms
BY

R AMA L AKSHMI

new delhi The online car

industries because they are going

to compete with the prices of China, and you cant be competitive,
he said.
Salto said the complexity of Brazils myriad taxes means companies spend time and money just
working out how to pay them.
Sector-specific tax breaks introduced by Rousseffs government
to encourage growth in the auto
industry, for example, complicate
the picture. The measures that
Dilma took made the business environment worse, he said.
To add to Rousseffs worries is
Operation Car Wash, an investigation into overpayments on contracts by the state-controlled oil
company, Petrobras. As key figures in the case turned states evidence, leaks from their testimonies linked the multimilliondollar graft scheme to payments to
political parties, including Rousseffs Workers Party.
Politicians are expected to be
named. General Prosecutor Rodrigo Janot said over the weekend
that 11 high-ranking executives
from six of Brazils biggest construction and engineering companies linked to the scandal and
currently under arrest will be
charged this week.
It could go pretty high up, said
Wood, the New York analyst.
Such corruption, Barros said, is
part of Brazilian culture, but he
added that the scale of this scandal
has disappointed him. Yet, in
quintessentially Brazilian fashion, he remained optimistic.
I just want to give a vote of
confidence, he said. Brazil deserves it.

service Uber faced further pressure in India on Tuesday as New

Delhi police opened criminal
probes and national officials
called for clampdowns on all Web
taxi-hailing services after allegations of rape against an Uber
driver.
The Delhi Commission for
Women also summoned the local
Uber chief, Gagan Bhatia, to its
office for questioning amid the
widening fallout that has revived
debates over womens safety in
India.
The response including a
ban on Uber in New Delhi imposed Monday could prompt
further scrutiny across India and
elsewhere as Uber and other
online car services expand globally.
On Tuesday, Thailands transportation department also ordered
Uber to cease operations because
its drivers were not registered and
its payment system violated local
regulations. In Spain, a judge ordered a temporary suspension of
Uber around the country as Madrids Taxi Association prepares
possible legal action over alleged
breaches in rules governing competition and permits.
The preliminary criminal report in New Delhi accuses San
Francisco-based Uber of flouting
local laws, including failing
to conduct driver background
checks. On Monday, Ubers chief
executive, Travis Kalanick, promised to work with Indian authorities on issues such as vetting
drivers.
But that hasnt halted the expanding crackdowns. Indias national government issued an advisory calling for controls on all
unregistered taxi services similar
to Uber. New Delhis transport
department also ordered all the
GPS-enabled cab companies to file
tracking data into their server.
Even Indias transportation
minister, Nitin Gadkari, acknowledged that it would be impossible
to impose blanket regulations.
Tomorrow if there is a train
accident, we cant stop the railways, he said.
The real problem, officials and
taxi companies said, remains the
haphazard manner in which driving licenses are granted and the
lack of coordination between departments in sharing data about
criminal records.
Shiv Kumar Yadav, the Uber
driver arrested in last weeks alleged rape, had been charged with
sexual assault twice, in 2011 and
2013, police said Tuesday.
Shrikant Singh, a senior police
official in the northern state of
Uttar Pradesh, told reporters that
Yadav has a long criminal history
and has been charged previously
with sexual assault, violence and
possessing an illegal weapon. He
was on out on bail awaiting trials.

dom.phillips@washpost.com

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A woman at a job fair in Rio de Janeiro. Brazil has kept unemployment down but not spending, and inflation is above target at 6.6 percent.

YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE VIA GETTY IMAGES

A worker checks the wall of a tunnel being built in Rio. The nations
growth has lagged at 2.5 percent last year and just 1 percent in 2012.

than other Latin American economies 2.5 percent last year and
just 1 percent in 2012. Brazil
should really be growing between
3 to 4 percent, said Robert Wood,
a Brazil analyst at the Economist
Intelligence Unit in New York.
Under increasing pressure,
Rousseff in November announced
a new economic team led by banker Joaquim Levy, a move cheered
by financial markets. This is an
excellent team, said Salto, but he
added that it will need to spend
the next year putting out fires.
There are doubts whether Levy
will have the space to introduce
the bigger reforms Brazil needs to
grow.
Otherwise, Brazil could remain
stuck in what some economists
call the middle income trap,
where growth in developing countries stalls because of factors that

can include lack of infrastructure

and low productivity.
Brazil has enjoyed 20 years of
economic stability since a 1994
currency plan ended hyperinflation. Under Rousseffs predecessor, Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, dollars flowed into the country, which
rode a commodities boom led by
Chinas growth. A family income
support program helped put money in circulation. Brazilians spent
heavily as the economy grew
7.5 percent in 2010.
But as the managing director of
the International Monetary Fund
noted last week in an interview
with Brazils business daily Valor,
the commodities boom is decelerating and Chinas growth has
slowed. We are in a big transition
phase, IMF chief Christine
Lagarde said.
Critics say the government

should have done more to improve

infrastructure during the good
years.
Valter Barros seconds that idea.
His company spends heavily to fly
finished merchandise to companies in the free-trade zone in the
city of Manaus, deep in the Amazon jungle, because there is no
train and a truck takes 30 days to
make the trip.
Brazil has made huge gains in
productivity in agriculture, an important sector. But it loses heavily
transporting products such as soybeans by truck on bad roads or in
aging rail cars, while a lack of
storage means it has to sell quickly
rather than wait for the best price,
said Manoel Reis, an infrastructure and logistics specialist at the
Getulio Vargas Foundation in Sao
Paulo. Work has begun on six highway concessions announced in an
ambitious 2012 infrastructure
plan but on none of the new
railways envisaged in the plan.
According to the 2012 Program
for International Student Assessment, two-thirds of Brazilian 15year-olds were low achievers in
math, and Barros said low educational standards are a problem
when hiring staff.
You have to have a revolution.
You have to rethink school education, said Joo Batista Oliveira, a
teacher and former executive secretary at Brazils Ministry of Education and Culture. You have to
reorganize the system.
Labor legislation means workers are expensive Barros said
pension and tax payments mean
an employee earning $1,000 a
month costs him $2,500.
It impacts on the growth of

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American indicted in
plot against Muslims

7 held on suspicion of
uranium smuggling

An American man who passed

himself off as a former Navy SEAL
was indicted in Israel in connection with a plot to blow up Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem, authorities said Tuesday.
Israeli authorities identified
the man as Adam Everett Livix,
30. Police said that he faces drug
charges in the United States and
that a Palestinian once unsuccessfully tried to enlist him in a
scheme to assassinate President
Obama during the leaders 2013
visit to the region.
The Justice Ministry said Livix
underwent a psychiatric evaluation Tuesday after his indictment
Monday on charges of illegal
weapon possession and overstaying his visa.
Livix arrived in Palestinianadministered areas of the West
Bank in early 2013. Later in the
year, he entered Israel, the Justice
Ministry said. The ministry said
he then cooperated with his roommate, an Israeli soldier, to obtain
three pounds of explosive material to blow up Jerusalem holy sites.
The ministry said police discovered the plot in October.
The indictment comes at a time
of rising tensions in Jerusalem,
mostly over a disputed holy site revered by Muslims and Jews alike.

Seven people have been detained in Moldova on suspicion of

smuggling uranium and mercury
from Russia to be used in a dirty
bomb, police said Tuesday.
Searches were carried out last
week in the capital, Chisinau, and
two other towns, and police seized
seven ounces of uranium-238
mixed with uranium-235, about
two pounds of mercury and an unidentified radioactive solid material. The material, smuggled by
train, has a black-market value of
$2 million, said Ion Bodrug, the
police chief.
Those arrested belong to a
criminal gang and have specialized knowledge of radioactive
substances, authorities said. The
suspects have admitted guilt,
Bodrug said.
Uranium-238 can be enriched
into fissile material for nuclear
warheads or converted into plutonium, which is also used to make
nuclear weapons.

Associated Press

Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS

Food agency resumes

aid to Syrian refugees
The United Nations will resume food aid to Syrian refugees,
after a social media campaign to

raise funds for a suspended

voucher program brought a robust response, the World Food
Program announced Tuesday.
About 1.7 million refugees in
Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq
and Egypt will have their electronic food vouchers topped up
by mid-December, so they can buy
food at local shops.
A $64 million shortfall had
forced the agency to halt the program last week. With the new
funding, Syrians will be able to
feed their families for a few weeks.
The WFP raised $80 million
from private individuals, countries and companies through the
social media campaign.
More than 4 million internally
displaced Syrians get food packages, while refugees in neighboring states get electronic vouchers.

BRAZIL

Reuters

France arrests 5 in Belgian

shooting probe: French police arrested three men and two women
in connection with an investigation into the killing of four people
at the Jewish Museum of Belgium
in May. The man accused in the
killings, Mehdi Nemmouche, was
arrested soon after at a Marseille
bus station carrying weapons resembling those used in the killings. Nemmouche, 29, is a French
national thought to have links
with radical Islamists and to have
fought in Syria.
Nobel medal returned to owner:

FELIPE DANA/ASSOCIATED PRESS

A police officer walks among 152 black wooden crosses placed by the group Rio de Paz on Copacabana
Beach in memory of police officers who were killed in Rio de Janeiro state in 2013-2014.

Alisher Usmanov, Russias richest

man, said he bought James D.
Watsons Nobel Prize medal at
Christies in order to return it to
the scientist, who had sold it to
raise money for charity. Watsons
1962 Nobel for the discovery of
the structure of DNA sold in New
York for $4.7 million, a world auc-

tion record for a Nobel. Usmanov

hailed Watson as one of historys
greatest biologists.
Al-Qaedas N. Africa branch frees
French hostage: A Frenchman
held for more than three years by
al-Qaedas North African branch
has been freed, days after two

men implicated in his abduction

were reportedly released from a
prison in Mali. Talks among Niger, Mali and France led to freedom for Serge Lazarevic, 51. A
Frenchman kidnapped in Mali in
November 2011 along with Lazarevic was found dead in July 2013.
From news services

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to clear protest site

Hagel, in visit, cites

assistance but says fight
belongs to Baghdad
BY

Pro-democracy activists
brace for showdown
amid dwindling support

M ISSY R YAN

baghdad The Iraqi government appealed to U.S. Defense

Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday
for additional air power and heavy
weapons as Iraq struggles to expel
the well-armed Islamic State militants who are dug in across a vast
area of the country.
Hagel, paying an hours-long visit
to Iraq as he prepares to step down
from his Pentagon position, underscored the significant expansion in
U.S. military assistance since the
Islamic State group swept into
northern Iraq from Syria in the
summer. But he also delivered the
tough-love message of President
Obamas White House: The fight is
ultimatelyIraqisowntowinorlose.
As Iraqi leaders and the people
of Iraq know, only they can bring
lasting peace to their country,
Hagel told reporters after meetings with senior Iraqi officials. I
believe the Iraqi people are resolved to do this.
Hagel said he was encouraged
by the progress that Iraq was making six months after the fall of
Mosul, the countrys secondlargest city, as Iraqi forces claim
some successes in dislodging the
militant group from areas such as
the Mosul Dam or around the critical Baiji oil refinery.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi,
who U.S. officials are hoping will
end the sectarianism that provided
a foothold for the Islamic State, said
the extremist group was now on
the descent despite its extensive
arsenal and the ability of its fighters
to move between Iraq and Syria.
Weareverythankfulforthesupport thats been given to us, Abadi
told Hagel at the start of a meeting
in Baghdads fortified Green Zone.
Since the summer, Obama has sent
1,650 U.S. troops to Iraq. As part of a
plan to retrain portions of the Iraqi
army, that force could grow to about
3,000 in the short term.
Abadi stressed the urgency of
defeating the Islamic State. Our
forces are very much advancing on
the ground. But they need more
air power and more . . . heavy
weaponry. We need that, he said.

BY

S IMON D ENYER

beijing Hong Kong police

POOL PHOTO BY MARK WILSON VIA REUTERS

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel wears body armor as he steps off a helicopter in Baghdad on Tuesday.
Hagel, who is preparing to relinquish his office, met with military officials and Iraqs prime minister.

Speaking to reporters later,

Hagel declined to say whether the
United States would increase the
tempo of airstrikes that its warplanes, along with those from allied nations, have been conducting on militant targets in Iraq
since August. U.S. military leaders
say that American-led airstrikes in
Iraq and Syria have stalled the
militant groups expansion in Iraq
and damaged its ability to fund
operations in both countries.
But U.S. officials have linked the
frequency and location of their airstrikes to the movements of Iraqi
forces, which have had limited success against the militants. Iraqi
troops, along with Kurdish peshmerga forces and volunteer fighters, have yet to try the recapture of
some of the most significant areas
under Islamic State control, including Mosul. U.S. officials say strikes
will be expanded only to match or
assist the advances of Iraqi troops.
The Obama administration has
beenworkingtoexpeditedeliveryof
military equipment, including Hellfire missiles and mine-resistant vehicles. But Iraqi officials have expressed dismay about the pace of

the transfers, which must pass

through the U.S. bureaucracy. The
plodding delivery also may have encouraged greater Iraqi military reliance on Iran, a U.S. adversary.
As he did in Afghanistan days
ago, Hagel used the visit to express
support for U.S. troops on the
ground. The former senator from
Nebraska, who became the first
former enlisted soldier to become
U.S. defense secretary, is leaving
the Pentagon as the White House
refocuses military policy on renewed Middle East operations.
Obama has nominated Ashton
Carter, a former senior Pentagon
official, to replace Hagel. The appointment needs Senate confirmation.
Hagel was a critic of President
George W. Bushs management of
the previous war in Iraq and broke
with fellow Republicans to oppose
Bushs troop surge during the conflict. Now, Hagel is overseeing a
much smaller buildup of U.S. troops
in Iraq, aimed at countering a group
that is trying to extend its realm
across the Middle East.
The Islamic State remains a
powerful force within Sunni Arab

areas of Iraq and in neighboring

Syria, where more than three
years of fighting between President Bashar al-Assads military
and opposition forces have provided the militant group space
and resources to grow strong.
The U.S.-led campaign against
the Islamic State has garnered support in the West and, unusually,
from across the Middle East. The
general overseeing U.S. operations
against the group said this week
that U.S. partners would provide up
to 1,500 troops for the effort to retrain and advise Iraqi forces.
The White House has expanded
its role in this new Middle East
conflict reluctantly, only three
years after Obama ended the costly, nearly nine-year war that began
in Iraq in 2003.
Hagel assured U.S. troops at
Baghdad airport that the U.S. reprise in Iraq would be different.
We can help, we can train, we can
assist, we can advise. And were
doing that, he said. It is their
country. They have to lead. They
are the ones that are going to have
to be responsible for end results.
missy.ryan@washpost.com

said Tuesday that they would

clear the citys main prodemocracy camp later this week,
setting up a possible final showdown with protesters after a
court order authorized the
sweeps.
The operation, set to begin
Thursday, reflects the waning
support for demonstrators after
more than two months of civil
disobedience and clashes over
Beijings role in directing elections in the former British colony.
Sympathy for the student-led
protests was high at the outset,
especially after police used tear
gas against activists. But the
prolonged occupation and the
more confrontational tactics of
the radical fringe, whose members tried to break into government offices, eroded that support.
Authorities will begin clearing
the main site, in Hong Kongs
Admiralty district, at 9 a.m.
Thursday, according to an attorney for a bus company that
brought the court action.
Although the court order does
not cover the entire protest site,
police said they would take the
opportunity to clear all the occupied areas.
After we assist the bailiffs
clearing the areas in the injunction, we will clear the rest of the
occupied areas according to the
law, the assistant police commissioner, Cheung Tak-keung, said at
a news conference. He told protesters to pack their belongings
soon and warned that police
would arrest anyone obstructing
the operation.
Police will not take actions if
protesters stick to their original
principles of peace and nonviolence, but we have seen violence
being used, he said. Protesters
should not step up their actions
or police will have to use more
force.

Numbers at the protests have

dwindled sharply in recent
weeks, and morale appears to be
flagging. Some activists have begun packing their tents and removing artwork from the site in
anticipation of the final clearout.
Hundreds of people thronged
the site late Tuesday to capture
what could be the last photos of
the protest. The movement represents the most serious challenge
to Chinas control of Hong Kong
since the territorys handover in
1997.
Police shut down a protest site
in another Hong Kong district,
Mong Kok, late last month after a
separate court order, making
about 160 arrests in several
nights of clashes with demonstrators.
Activists at a much smaller site
in Causeway Bay may leave of
their own accord this week, one
of them told Bloomberg News.
Hong Kongs chief executive,
Leung Chun-ying, said officers
would use minimum force
while clearing the streets this
week, but he has also warned that
they could face fierce resistance.
The protest movement began
in late September as a nonviolent
civil disobedience campaign for
full democracy and free elections
to choose Leungs successor in
2017. Beijing demands the right
to screen candidates.
As public support for the
movement has fallen off, police
also have become less popular for
their handling of the protests,
according to an opinion poll released Tuesday.
The poll, conducted by the
University of Hong Kong late last
month, showed police popularity
hitting its lowest level since 1997.
In recent days, students tried
to breathe new life into the protest movement by attempting to
surround government buildings
and, when that led to more clashes with police, by staging a hunger strike.
However, the most prominent
hunger-striker, 18-year-old Joshua Wong, abandoned the effort
this weekend on doctors orders
after nearly five days.

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Obama takes pitch for immigration reform to Nashville

President continues
effort to sell policy
assailed by GOP
BY K ATIE Z EZIMA,
AND D AVID N AKAMURA

nashville President Obama

came here to drum up support
for his executive action on immigration and acknowledged that
this city might not seem like the
most obvious choice.
Some people might think
Nashville was an odd place to
talk about immigration. Its not
what comes to mind when people
think about gateways to America, Obama said at Casa Azafran,
a local community center, but
added: Nashvilles got one of the
fastest-growing immigrant populations in the country.
Nashville, the legendary capital of country music, is also home
to thousands of Mexicans, Burmese and as many as 11,000
Kurds, all drawn by the modest
cost of living, job opportunities
and an international community.
One out of every eight Nashville residents was born abroad,
and 16 percent of the citys population speaks a language other
than English at home, according
to the 2010 Census.
The presidents event here
marked his third trip outside
Washington to rally public sup-

JACQUELYN MARTIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Obama meet with the owners of La Hacienda restaurant, Lilia and Carlos Yepez, before
ordering food to go from the Nashville restaurant after discussing his executive action on immigration.

port for his executive actions,

following speeches in Las Vegas
and Chicago late last month. On
the trip to Nashville, he was
joined on Air Force One by Frank
Sharry of Americas Voice and
Lorella Praeli of United We
Dream, longtime immigration
activists who were critical of

STA RTS

Obama for not taking executive

action sooner but have been
supportive since his announcement last month.
The White House hopes
Obamas personal appeal on immigration can help rebut fierce
criticism by Republicans, who
have attempted to paint him as

imperial and acting unlawfully in

circumventing Congress on his
immigration changes.
When members of Congress
question whether I have the authority to do this, I have one answer: Yes, and pass a bill, Obama
said during a question-and-answer
session in a small room.

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Nursing a cup of tea, Obama

fielded questions from people
worried that a future administration could roll back Obamas
protections for undocumented
immigrants, something he said
could happen. But the president
said Americans basically have a
good heart and would be opposed to any changes.
I think any future administration that tried to punish people
for doing the right thing I think
would not have the support of the
American people, Obama said.
He also stressed that people need
to sign up for the protections and
stressed that they would not be in
danger.
Obama said he believes most
Americans feel that people who
are already in the country deserve a shot and that it is difficult
to separate families for decades.
Obama also stressed that his
actions are meant to keep families together and place deportation priority on criminals.
Now, does that mean everybodys going to listen to me on
the other side? Not necessarily.
Theyre pretty sure Im an illegal
immigrant and that was a
joke, Obama said.
While Obama was joined by
some members of the Tennessee
congressional delegation, others
voiced their opposition to his
policy.
Republican Rep. Diane Black
said Obama chose Nashville as a
destination to publicly thumb his
nose at the American electorate
that just rebuked him in the last
election.
Until
recently,
Nashville
seemed an unlikely spot to highlight immigration success. Six
years ago, the city was deeply
divided during a referendum on
whether to make English the
official and only language of the
city government. A broad crosssection of the city businesses,
civil liberties groups and others
united to defeat the measure.
In Tennessee, there are about

130,000 illegal immigrants, according to estimates by the Pew

Research Center. Under the executive action, 40,000 will be eligible for deportation relief on top
of the 15,000 who qualified under
Obamas 2012 Deferred Action
for Childhood Arrivals program.
Casa Azafran, which opened
two years ago, is also a showcase
for government assistance. It received $1.8 million from the
Commerce Departments Economic Development Administration and about $300,000 from
the Department of Health and
Human Services. It sits about
three miles down Nolensville
Pike, past taco trucks and auto
body shops, from Maria Ramoss
store, California Fashions. Cowboy boots sit on the same wall as
traditional
Mexican
woven
shoes, which Ramos said she sells
to remind people of home.
Ramos came to the United
States from Mexico in 1994 with
her two children. She applied for
all three of them to get citizenship that year; so far, she has
been the only one able to procure
it. Her children, now in their
mid-30s, said they are stuck in a
backlog. They both have children
who were born in the United
States, meaning they will be
eligible to stay under Obamas
action.
Ramos said she was excited
about Obamas visit to Nashville,
which she said has changed dramatically in the 20 years she has
lived here. Theres a recognition
that we are contributing members of society, she said.
Ramos wants Obama to do
more to help small businesses
such as hers, which were battered
by the recession, and while she is
thrilled about his executive action on immigration, she said he
should have done it long ago.
katie.zezima@washpost.com
david.nakamura@washpost.com
Steven Mufson contributed to this
report.

Ebola threatens gains

made against malaria
BY

K ATE K ELLAND

london Malaria deaths have

dropped dramatically since 2000
and cases are falling steadily as
more people are properly diagnosed and treated and more get
mosquito nets, the World Health
Organization said Tuesday.
Yet progress against the
mosquito-borne infection remains fragile, the United Nations health agency said, adding
that West African countries suffering an unprecedented epidemic of Ebola are particularly at risk
of seeing a resurgence of malaria.
In its annual report on the
disease, the WHO said the malaria death rate fell by 47 percent
worldwide between 2000 and
2013 and by 54 percent in Africa,
where about 90 percent of all
malaria deaths occur.
In an analysis of malarias
impact across sub-Saharan Africa, the agency also found that
despite a 43 percent increase in
population, fewer people in the
region are infected every year.
About 44 percent of people at
risk from malaria in sub-Saharan
Africa used mosquito nets in
2013, compared with 2 percent in
2004. And an expected 214 million nets will be delivered there
by the end of the year.
The massive scale-up of
mosquito-control measures, diagnostic testing and qualityassured treatment has helped to
dramatically reduce the global
disease burden, said Pedro Alonso, director of the WHOs global
malaria program.

With sustained political commitment, increased financing

and with the help of innovative
new tools, we should be able to
accelerate efforts even further,
he added.
In West Africa, however, the
deadly Ebola outbreak has had a
devastating impact on malaria
treatment and the rollout of malaria-control programs, the report found.
In Guinea, Sierra Leone and
Liberia all severely hit by the
Ebola epidemic many inpatient clinics are closed and attendance at outpatient facilities
is a fraction of rates seen before
the outbreak, it said.
With a major malaria threat in
these countries, which together
had about 6.6 million cases and
20,000 malaria deaths in 2013,
the WHO called for temporary
control measures, including giving malaria drugs to all patients
who suffer from fever and carrying out mass treatment in areas
hit hard by both Ebola and malaria.
International donor financing is being stepped up to meet
the further recommendation that
bed nets be distributed to all
[Ebola-]affected areas, the report said.
Worldwide, malaria killed
about 584,000 people last year,
including about 453,000 children younger than 5. Although
funding to fight malaria has
tripled since 2005, it is still
only about half the $5.1 billion
needed.
Reuters

Amid crisis, Haitian panel

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miami A Haitian presidential

commission is recommending
sweeping changes, including a
new prime minister and government to stabilize the country. It
also asks President Michel Martelly to abandon plans to govern
by decree.
Haitian lawmakers Tuesday rebuffed recommendations in a farreaching report that called for the
resignation of Prime Minister
Laurent Lamothe and other key
government officials to stave off a
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The report, penned by an 11member commission, sets a timetable for Lamothes resignation. It
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and deemed by human rights
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The recommendations are
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show the will of Haitis leaders to
reduce the tensions in the country, the commission said.
Parliamentarians on both sides
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disagreed with the report.
The recommendations were
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the presence of foreign diplomats, who have pressed Haitis
politicians to resolve the crisis.
The commission, made up of
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A woman walks by a discount sign at an Abercrombie & Fitch store at a shopping mall in Garden City, N.Y.

Abercrombie CEO leaves company

Michael Jeffries retires
amid poor sales and
teens shifting tastes
BY

J ENA M C G REGOR

Michael Jeffries, the longtime

and controversial chief executive
of Abercrombie & Fitch, is checking out of the retailer he has run
for more than 20 years, stepping
down from his roles as both chief
executive and director. The company announced Tuesday that his
departure is effective immediately. It did not name a permanent successor to take his place.
Jeffries, 70, has led the company since 1992 and built Abercrombie into an icon of the teen fashion industry. Yet he came under
fire last year for comments that
resurfaced about how a lot of
people dont belong in its sexedup, all-American clothing. He also
has been under scrutiny for the
companys recent financial struggles, as the brand further loses its
luster among young adults.
While the company did not
explain the circumstances of his
departure, Jeffries said in a statement that he thinks now is the
right time for new leadership to
take the company forward in the
next phase of its development.
In its third-quarter results, announced last week, Abercrombie
reported that comparable store
sales dropped 10 percent from the
year before. It also scaled back its
outlook. Before the price of shares
increased Tuesday in response to
the news of Jeffriess retirement,
Abercrombie stock was down
nearly 20 percent this year.
The company said its current

non-executive chairman, Arthur

Martinez, would become executive chairman. Martinez, a veteran of Saks Fifth Avenue and
Sears, is also charged with leading a group of Abercrombie executives who will manage the company on a day-to-day basis until it
names a new chief executive.
The news follows pressure
from investors, as well as a number of recent changes to the retailers board and leadership ranks in
an effort to steer a turnaround.
A year ago, amid calls by some
investors to replace Jeffries, the
company restructured his employment agreement. In January,
the company named three new
directors, including Martinez, to
its board and stripped Jeffries of
his chairman title. It also created
a new chief operating officer position to help manage the company
and named two outside brand
presidents in October to manage
the companys major labels,
which includes Hollister.
Abercrombie also has been adjusting the look and feel of its
retail lighting up its nightclubdark stores, ditching the prominent logos on its clothing and
redoing the fronts of its Hollister
shops. Neil Stern, a senior partner
with retail consulting firm McMillanDoolittle, said that while
Abercrombie was slow to respond
to teens changing tastes, it has
been working to catch up by expanding its outlet stores, focusing
on international growth and
shifting the Hollister brand to
more closely mimic fast-fashion
retailers such as H&M and Forever 21.
Theyre doing the things most
outsiders would say you need to
do, Stern said. The question is, is
that going to be enough?

MARK LENNIHAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Michael Jeffries is retiring from

Abercrombie & Fitch, the
company announced. He turned
the clothing chain into a fashion
mecca exclusively for youth.

The teen retailing segment,

which Jeffries played a big role in
creating, is now under attack,
Stern said. Before Abercrombie,
teens shopped at the same places
that also sold to their parents,
such as Gap, Tommy Hilfiger and
department stores. Then Jeffries
turned Abercrombie into a fashion mecca exclusively for youth,
luring shoppers in with a
premium-priced image and advertising that featured fewer
shirts than it did shirtless models.
But now that young shoppers
have moved their dollars toward
e-commerce and replaced logoemblazoned clothing with new
fashion preferences, the sector is
undergoing a seismic shift. Usually you can say this retailer is
struggling and this ones winning, Stern said. But I cant
name you one winner in the segment that is a dedicated teen
specialist.

All those changes mean Jeffriess departure is not a big surprise, Stern said, although the
timing was puzzling because it
comes amid the critical holiday
shopping season. Most retailers
dont want to be rocking the boat
before the holidays are over, he
said.
A person with knowledge of the
company said that succession is
something the board has been
discussing for some time, and
that because holiday plans are
already set a distracted workforce is not a concern. That person also said the departure was a
joint decision by Jeffries and the
board and is unrelated to the
comments Jeffries made in the
past.
In May 2013, a story went viral
online about how Abercrombie
did not sell clothing for largersized women. It referred to a 2006
Salon article, in which Jeffries
was quoted as saying, Are we
exclusionary? Absolutely. He also
spoke of hiring good-looking people in the store, because we want
to market to cool, good-looking
people. We dont market to anyone other than that.
His comments prompted an
explosive response, including
floods of comments on the companys Facebook page and a
Change.org petition that was
signed by more than 75,000 people and that called for the brand
to carry plus-sized clothing. Ultimately, Jeffries apologized for the
comments. The company subsequently launched an anti-bullying initiative and said it would
begin carrying larger sizes.
jena.mcgregor@washpost.com
More at washingtonpost.com/
blogs/on-leadership

D REW H ARWELL

To compete during what could

become the busiest online buying
season in history, Web retailers
are offering shoppers speedy shipping, one-day upgrades and even
promises to deliver last-minute
orders by Christmas Day.
The offers are great sales boosters, logistical horror shows for
shipping crews and, increasingly,
a way of life for modern giftgivers. But are the offers of superfast fulfillment also leading shoppers to expect the impossible? In
other words: What, exactly, does
the promise of instant gratification do to our brains?
That shoppers can expect such
quick turnarounds is a result of
retailers promising ever-faster delivery speeds. Toys R Us and dozens of other online retailers last
year offered Christmas Day delivery for packages ordered as late as
11 p.m. on Dec. 23. This year, even
more stores are saying theyll ship
as fast as humanly possible. In a
survey of more than 100 online
retailers by consulting firm Kurt
Salmon, 26 percent said they
planned to guarantee Christmas
deliveries for packages ordered
one to three days before the holiday, up from 17 percent last year.
Macys, Target and others are
offering overnight, same-day and
otherwise rapid delivery options
through the holidays, and companies such as Best Buy and WalMart are shipping directly from
their stores, because theyre often
closer than their warehouses to
homes. Amazon.com has gone the
whatever-works route, with plans
to speed packages along via taxis
and bike messengers.
The next generation wants it
now, Best Buy chief executive Hubert Joly told the Minneapolis Star
Tribune. Even from an Internet
player, two-day delivery is not
now. Now is now.
There are a few psychological
cues that explain why weve become so demanding, including
one that shopping-psychology researchers call the endowment effect. Studies suggest that once we
buy something, we start to feel a
keen sense of ownership, and we
find ourselves giving extra value to
it and visualizing all the ways it
will make our life easier and more
enjoyable.
For bricks-and-mortar buys,
gratification is instant. But for online purchases, there is a gray
length of doubt and desire, and
that can lead us into behavior that
doesnt make much sense.
Even if youve waited six
months to decide on a smartphone to buy, when you buy it, you
still might want next-day shipping
and pay $35 extra, said Narayan
Janakiraman, an assistant mar-

keting professor at the University

of Texas at Arlington. Once you
know youve made the decision,
that changes the game. You start
liking the product more, you start
wanting the product more. . . . Not
having it seems like a loss.
Its more than just our impatience that dictates the speed with
which we want a consumer good
to appear. The most popular breed
of fast shipping the $99-a-year
two-day shipping of Amazon
Prime tapped into what author
Brad Stone, in his biography of
chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos,
The Everything Store, called the
faintly irrational human impulse
to maximize the benefits of a
membership club one has already
joined. Bezos also owns The
Washington Post.
But wanting lightning-speed
delivery, or waiting to buy, are not
always irrational demands. During the holidays, there are some
good reasons to wait. Last year,
retailers offered some of their best
deals late, and in some cases making the weekend before Christmas
a better bargain than Black Friday.
If I know the longer I can wait,
the more deals Ill see, an increasing amount of my shopping list is
up for grabs, said Gregory Grudzinski, director of analytics for
Catapult eCommerce, a consulting firm. Im going to see how late
I can go . . . and people are getting
the idea that Hey, I can push my
luck.
An avalanche of last-minute
shoppers last year, combined with
especially brutal winter weather,
overwhelmed FedEx and United
Parcel Service and caused millions
of packages to miss their delivery
dates. But retailers this year are
doubling down on faster, later
shipping. Retailers that last year
took eight days on average to
whisk an order from warehouse to
doorstep are now trying to make
the process two days faster, a Kurt
Salmon report found.
But that strategy could potentially backfire. For the retailers
who offered Christmas Day deliveries last year on orders as late as
Dec. 23, the success was startlingly
low: Only two out of three packages made it home on time, angering
many shoppers.
Some retailers are trying to
juice shoppers while also subtly
managing expectations. On certain Amazon orders, the company
includes the soft image of a snowflake and a preemptive salve,
This shipment may arrive after
Christmas. But once a fastshipping option is presented, analysts said, retailers see it as competitive suicide to back away from
what shoppers said they wanted.
Its only a matter of time before
theyre offering same-day delivery
on Christmas Day, Grudzinski
said. Once that expectation rises
to a certain level, its really hard to
tamp it back down.
drew.harwell@washpost.com
More from washingtonpost.com/
wonkblog

DIGEST
BANKING

Regulators propose
bigger capital buffers
Federal regulators are proposing that the eight biggest U.S.
banks be required to further increase the amount of capital they
set aside to cushion against unexpected losses.
The Federal Reserves proposal is aimed at reducing the potential for taxpayer bailouts of
troubled banks. The proposed
requirements also are designed
to encourage the big banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America, to
shrink so that they pose less risk
to the financial system.
The Fed governors voted 5 to 0
Tuesday to advance the capital
surcharges, opening them to
public comment through Feb. 28.
The extra capital requirements
would increase in proportion to
how risky the regulators deem a
bank to be. A key risk factor
would be how much a bank relies on short-term funding markets to borrow from other banks.
Those markets seized up during
the financial crisis.
The requirements would give

the banks an incentive to shed

businesses and downsize to
avoid having to set aside more
capital.
The requirements would be
phased in from 2016 through
2018. Fed officials said nearly all
eight banks already meet the
stricter capital requirements,
and that all of them are on their
way to meeting them by the
Jan. 1, 2019, deadline for full implementation.
Associated Press
AIRLINES

Executive resigns
over first-class flap
Forget dust-ups over reclining
seats in economy class. Theres a
new and exclusive twist on inflight anger:
Nut rage in first class.
A recent Korean Air flight was
delayed when its chairmans
daughter, the airlines vice president responsible for cabin service, ordered a senior crew member off the plane in New York.
The crime? Allowing her and
other passengers flying first class
to be served bagged macadamia
nuts instead of nuts on a plate.

The executive, Cho Hyun-ah,

resigned Tuesday amid a storm
of public criticism in South Korea. The airline had earlier excused her behavior even as it
apologized for inconveniencing
passengers.
South Korean media reported
this week that Fridays flight
from New York to Incheon,
South Korea, returned to the
gate at John F. Kennedy International Airport after Cho told the
head of the cabin crew to leave
the plane. The reports said Cho
quarreled with crew in the firstclass cabin and that the flight departed 20 minutes late.
The incident caused an uproar
in South Korea, where it was
seen as an example of haughty
behavior by the offspring of the
moneyed elite. Cho, 40, is the eldest child of Korean Airs chairman, tycoon Cho Yang-ho. Her
two siblings are also executives
at South Koreas largest airline.
Associated Press
ALSO IN BUSINESS

l Ted Kennedy Jr. said his former company is cooperating fully in a Securities and Exchange
Commission investigation into
allegations of insider trading.

AUTOMOTIVE

LUKE SHARRETT/BLOOMBERG NEWS

Transmission components for Chryslers await assembly at an

Indiana plant. Chrysler is expected to spend $266 million on new
equipment for two transmission factories in central Indiana.

The Marwood Group, a healthcare-focused consulting firm cofounded by Kennedy, received

notice from the SEC this week
that the agencys staff plans to
recommend charging the company with civil insider trading. The
investigation has focused on alleged government information
passed on to Marwood clients in

2010 about a new prostate-cancer treatment. Marwood spokesman Michael McKeon denied
any insider trading.
l New York Judge Laura Taylor
Swain sentenced Bernard L. Madoffs former secretary, Annette
Bongiorno, to six years in prison
and computer programmer Jerome OHara to 21/2 years behind

bars. The judge said she found

neither was aware of the scope of
Madoffs fraud that cheated
thousands of investors out of billions of dollars. Bongiorno
worked for Madoff for 40 years,
and OHara was hired in the early 1990s.
l Citigroup said it will incur
charges of $3.5 billion in the
fourth quarter to cover legal and
restructuring costs. The bank
will allocate $2.7 billion of that
amount to cover legal costs associated with investigations into
currency trading, the manipulation of a key interest rate, as well
as anti-money-laundering and
related probes. The remaining
$800 million will be spent reducing the banks headcount and
cutting its real-estate holdings.
l The IRS paid at least $6 billion in child tax credits in 2013 to
people who werent eligible to receive them, a government investigator said. Payments went to
families that mistakenly claimed
the tax credit or claimed the
wrong amount, as well as taxpayers who committed fraud, according to an audit by J. Russell
George, the Treasury inspector
general for tax administration.
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Deal reached to allow pension benet cuts

Move, affecting current
retirees, is an effort to
save distressed plans
BY

M ICHAEL A . F LETCHER

A bipartisan group of congressional leaders reached a deal

Tuesday evening that would for
the first time allow the benefits of
current retirees to be severely cut,
part of an effort to save some of
the nations most distressed pension plans.
The measure, attached to a
massive $1.01 trillion spending
bill, would alter 40 years of federal
law and could affect millions of
workers, many of them part of a
shrinking corps of middle-income
employees in businesses such as
trucking, construction and supermarkets.
We have to do something to
allow these plans to make the
corrections and adjustments they

need to keep these plans viable,

said Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.),
who along with Rep. John Kline
(R-Minn.) led efforts to hammer
out a deal.
The idea is reluctantly supported by some unions and retirement
fund managers who see it as the
only way to salvage pensions in
plans that are in imminent danger
of running out of money. But it
also has stirred strong opposition
from retirees who could face deep
pension cuts and from advocates
eager to keep retiree pensions
sacrosanct, even in cases when
funds are in a deep financial hole.
The advocates argue that allowing
cuts to plans would open the door
to trims for other retirees later.
We thought our pension was
secure, said Whitlow Wyatt, a
retired trucker who lives in Washington Court House, a small city in
central Ohio. That was always
the word. Now they are changing
that.
Wyatt, 70, retired with a
$3,300-a-month pension in 2000

after working more than 33 years

as a long-haul driver. He could
face pension reductions of 30 percent or more if Congress permits
trustees of the hard-pressed pension fund to slash benefits.
The deal is aimed at helping
plans such as the Teamsters Central States fund.
The pensions earned by truckers in the fund are among the best
enjoyed by working-class people
anywhere: After 30 years on the
road, many of its participants are
entitled to upward of $3,000 a
month for the rest of their lives.
But now the fund, rocked by
steep membership declines, an
aging workforce and downturns
in the stock market, is in dire
financial straits, putting the retirement benefits of 400,000 participants in jeopardy.
The deal reached would apply
to multi-employer pensions,
where a group of businesses in the
same industry join forces with
unions to provide pension coverage for employees. The plans cov-

er some 10 million U.S. workers.

Overall, there are about 1,400
multi-employer plans, many of
which remain in good fiscal
health and would be untouched
by the deal. But several dozen
have failed, and several other
large ones, including Central
States, are staggering toward insolvency.
In its annual report last month,
the Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corp., the federal insurance program that backs private-sector
pensions, warned that the problems facing multi-employer pensions could cause the safety net
that secures them to collapse
within the next decade.
If that happens, retirees depending on multi-employer plans
for their pensions would receive
nothing if their plans failed. (A
separate PBGC insurance fund
covering single-employer private
pensions is in much better financial shape.) Even if the insurance
fund survives, maximum coverage
for people in multi-employer plans

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is minimal about $13,000 a year.

Although it has issued similar
alerts in the past, the PBGCs latest warning seems to have pushed
Congress to move from studying a
policy change to actively negotiating for one in recent weeks.
The abrupt action has alarmed
some pension rights advocates,
who are concerned about a decline in retirement security for all
Americans. They also worry about
a creeping trend toward trimming pensions, citing retirement
benefit cuts for government employees in Detroit and elsewhere.
But managers of deeply troubled funds say that absent a federal bailout, which they call politically infeasible, cutting benefits is
the only way to save them.
In 1980, the Central States fund
had four active participants for
every retiree. Now, there are nearly five retirees or inactive members for every worker, because
many unionized trucking firms
have gone out of business in the
decades since deregulation,
Thomas C. Nyhan, executive director of Central States, told Congress earlier this year.
The fund has about $18 billion in

assets and pays out annual benefits

of $2.8 billion to retirees. But it receives just $700 million each year
from employers. Even given the
strong stock market returns of recent years, that puts the plan on
course to run out of money within
the next 10 to 15 years, Nyhan has
said.
Some see cutting benefits preemptively as the only way to keep
troubled plans such as Central
States afloat. Under the agreement reached by congressional
negotiators, retirees over age 75 as
well as those who are disabled
would be shielded from any reductions. Also, any benefit cuts
would be subject to a vote of plan
participants.
Nonetheless, many retirees feel
betrayed. I never dreamed they
would pull the rug out from under
us, said Greg Smith, 66, a retired
shipping clerk who retired in 2011
with a $3,000-a-month pension
after 42 years on the job. I actually retired because I was worried
about them cutting pensions. I
thought I would be grandfathered
in with protections. But I guess
not.
michael.fletcher@washpost.com

Settle money management before marriage

Its hard enough
managing ones
own money, but
navigating
through financial
issues with
Michelle
another person
Singletary can be even more
frustrating. I
THE COLOR
often get
OF MONEY
questions about
marriage and
money during my weekly online
chats. Following are answers to
two I received recently.
What happens when
someone with a FICO score of
800-plus marries someone with
a FICO score of 400? I
anticipate getting engaged soon
but am not sure where to start
in dealing with financial
matters. I love my boyfriend,
but financial management is not
one of his strengths, though it is
one of mine. I want to ensure
that my credit and other related
finances are not affected.
Planning to prepare a
prenuptial agreement is a first
step. What else should I plan to
do?

Your credit files arent merged

after a marriage. Couples dont
have joint credit reports or credit
scores. You are scored by the
credit bureaus based solely on
information in each of your
individual credit files.
So if you marry a creditchallenged man, you dont
inherit his bad credit. You dont,
that is, unless you co-sign with
him. If you do and his bad habits

in handling his bills continue

with the new accounts, then, yes,
his behavior can affect your
credit history.
You are right to be concerned
about your future husbands
financial readiness. If you apply
for credit together for a home,
for instance your spouses
credit matters because lenders
will want to see both of your
credit scores if you need the joint
income to qualify.
I recommend that you take a
premarital class that has a good
financial component so the two
of you can work out how and why
you handle your money
differently and develop strategies
to handle those differences.
By the way, a prenuptial
agreement wont help settle the
different money styles youll have
to live with during your
marriage.
This question concerned
marriage and money as it relates
to taxes:
What do you think about the
ways married people are
penalized by our tax code? I
finally make a high salary, and I
got married around the same
time my pay increased. All of a
sudden, we are hit with
enormous tax liability! We have
a child, but we dont get the tax
credit, which is only $1,000
anyway. I did the math, and if
we were not married and split
housing/day care/health care
expenses equally, we would pay
$8,000 less in taxes. I want a
divorce on paper, because the

tax code does not seem to think

working families are
important. I never considered
the tax burden wed face when
we married, and I actually
regret making it legal now. I
know that sounds horrible, but
really, I do.

Do I think the tax code is

overly complicated and often
unfair? Sure. But Ive been
married 23 years and dont regret
my decision, even though it
created a larger tax burden.
There are so many choices we
make that can result in
expenditures we wouldnt have if
we had made different decisions.
You mention you have a child.
This year, in its annual report on
the cost of raising children, the
Agriculture Department said a
middle-income family parents
who earn between $61,530 and
$106,540 yearly with a child
born in 2013 can expect to spend
about $245,340 ($304,480
adjusted for projected inflation)
for food, housing, child care,
education and other childrearing expenses up to age 18. A
family earning more than
$106,540 can expect to spend
$407,820. By the way, this figure
doesnt include the cost of
college.
Please consider that there are
a lot of financial benefits to being
married. When it comes to your
estate, the tax law favors
marriage. So does the gift tax. If
you have a traditional pension,
retirees can opt to have payments
made to a surviving spouse.

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In Beijing, a precarious pedal

A vendor rides a loaded tricycle in Beijing. Chinas stuttering economy suffered another blow last
month as export growth slowed and imports contracted, data from the government showed Monday.

Theres a plus to being married

when it comes to Social Security.
What if at some point you want
to be a stay-at-home parent? A
lower-earning spouse is eligible
for benefits up to 50 percent of
the higher earners work record.
In the case of divorce, if you
were married at least 10 years,
you can collect retirement
benefits on your former spouses

Social Security record if you are

at least age 62 and unmarried
and if your former spouse is
entitled to or is receiving
benefits. By the way, the benefits
you get have no effect on the
amount of benefits your exspouse or his or her current
spouse may receive.
You should count the cost of
your decisions. But some things

come with a price thats worth

the extra money.
Readers may write to Michelle
Singletary at The Washington Post,
1150 15th St. NW, Washington, D.C.
20071 or
michelle.singletary@washpost.com.
To read previous Color of Money
columns, go to http://wapo.st/
michelle-singletary.

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With just his remarks, Obama mellows some federal employees frustrations
It really doesnt
take much to
please federal
employees.
Pay them some
attention and
Federal
soothe them with
Diary
a little praise, and
whatever
JOE
grumbles they
DAVIDSON
may have had
seem to melt away.
President Obama did that
Tuesday when he spoke to about
3,000 Senior Executive Service
members and other senior-level
managers at the Washington
Hilton on Connecticut
Avenue NW.
My message here is simple, he
said. Thank you. Id like to come
bearing raises and perks. But I
cant. But what I can do is tell you
how important you are, not just to
me, but to the country.
He had them at thank you.
Thats what they wanted, just
some appreciation and what they
needed to hear.
Federal employees in general
and SES members in particular
have been the target of derision,
and worse, in recent years. The
partial government shutdown in
2013, which followed three years

of a freeze on basic pay rates, was

a big blow to workforce morale. It
was as if Uncle Sam had cast them
aside. Current talk of another
possible shutdown doesnt help.
Senior executives in the
Department of Veterans Affairs
have been the subject of
congressional mass-punishment
proposals, and this year they had
their civil service due-process
rights severely undermined by
legislation that Obama signed
without hesitation. Some
Republicans on Capitol Hill
would like to slash the workplace
rights of all senior executives.
You work under tough
circumstances, the president
said, whether its sequestration,
pay freeze, shutdown and, more
importantly, a political climate
where folks too often talk down
government for cheap applause.
He was a hit when he
mentioned a few individuals by
name, along with their
accomplishments. One was Kevin
Tokarski, who helped move
stockpiles of chemical weapons
out of Syria.
You probably never heard of
Kevins team at the
Transportation Department,
Obama said. Thats what

happens when you do your job

well.
The crowd responded with
knowing applause. Attendees
gave a standing ovation to 92year-old Dwight Ink, who was
there with his wife. He served
in seven presidential
administrations. Before retiring
at 70, he worked in several
agencies and was instrumental in
civil service reform.
Thats the kind of spirit of
service that built America,
Obama said. Thats the
commitment that keeps America
strong.
The pep talk was the main
attraction, but Obama also
announced three initiatives to
support the senior workforce:
l The Leadership Development
Program for Future Senior Career
Executives begins next year and
will give potential SES members
rotating assignments in various
agencies. We want the next
generation of leaders to have the
experience of solving problems
and building relationships across
the government.
l The Advisory Group on
Senior Executive Service Reform,
composed of senior-level
managers and those aspiring to

the executive corps, will provide

advice on recruiting, developing
and retaining exceptional civil
servants, and nobody knows how
to do that better than you.
l The non-monetary Customer
Service Awards Program will
honor employees for
outstanding achievement in
serving the public. Im surprised
this hasnt been done before, but
were going to start.
The agency rotations in the
leadership development program
hark back to the original vision
for the SES and are a practice
government and outside experts
have said should be much more
widely used. At a recent SES
summit sponsored by the
Brookings Institutions Executive
Education and Booz Allen
Hamilton and attended by
officials from the Obama
administration and other highlevel good-government types
there was general agreement that
mobility greatly enhances
leadership development. Many
said a rotation should be
mandatory. A report last year by
the Partnership for Public Service
and McKinsey & Co. also
advocated greater seniorexecutive mobility.

Carol Bonosaro, president of

the Senior Executives
Association, praised Obamas
speech but said she was baffled
at the relatively low number of
senior leaders chosen to receive
the 2014 Presidential Rank
Awards, though the honorees
were in the audience.
While commending the
president for his sincere and
genuine remarks he did a
really good job she added,
Then why is he being so
parsimonious with the
Presidential Rank Awards?
The awards honor outstanding
senior leaders with hefty
monetary prizes set by law. His
parsimony might be one reason
comparatively few people were
selected for the presidential
Distinguished and Meritorious
rank awards. (The 2013 awards
were suspended.) Bonosaro said
25 employees were picked this
year for the distinguished level,
which has the higher monetary
reward, down from a high of
more than 60. There are 89
meritorious winners, down from
a high of more than 300.
The Office of Management and
Budget did not comment on the
number of 2014 honorees. But OMB

Seeking a new image: As a force to improve D.C.

SMITH FROM A1

singular challenges in an ANC

district that includes, as it happens, the John F. Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts. If any
Kennedy Center issues come before the ANC, as they have before,
Smith is unsure that he can
participate in the review because
his mother sister to the dead
president is a trustee.
If I vote, Smith asked, does
that reflect a conflict of interest?
Smith isnt just any Kennedy.
Hes that Kennedy, the one who
starred in a televised courtroom
drama made memorable by the
hovering blue dot that concealed
the identity of the woman who
accused him of assault. His ANC
candidacy drove a number of his
neighbors to type his name into
Google to recall the case that
spawned such headlines as
Woman Says She was Raped at
Kennedy Estate.
Smith understands the chatter
about his past. At the same time,
he said, Do I want to make that
the monologue of my life? No, I
dont.
Im innocent, he said. I have
things I want to do.
He prefers talking about his
new district about finding
ways to fill vacant storefronts at
the Watergate, helping vagrants
who gather behind the gas station across the street, fixing that
broken public step.
Despite what anyone may
think, he said, the ANC is not
part of his plan to advance
through the political ranks.
I enjoy doing something locally, he said. Its very basic. Its
about that step. What are we
going to do about that step?

Long trailed by trial

On a recent Tuesday, Smith
was behind his grandfathers
desk in his office at the Watergate, where he runs MedRed, a
medical software company. An
original Warhol of his uncle Ted
hung on a wall. A Wyeth rendering of John Kennedy on a sailboat was on another wall. Atop a
bookshelf was an inflatable reproduction of Edvard Munchs
The Scream.
Smith was recalling how John
Kennedy appointed his brother
Bobby as attorney general only
because of Joe Kennedys orders;
how, in 1960, John Kennedy had
managed to defeat the leading
political gladiators of that era
Humphrey, Johnson and Nixon.
And so onto the ANC, Smith
said, chuckling at the contrast
with his own political horizon.
His mother, Jean, is the eighth
of Joe and Rose Kennedys nine
children. His father, Stephen
Smith, took over Joe Kennedys
business interests at his death
and managed campaigns for
Robert and Ted.
As a child, Smith logged his
share of time at family funerals,
including Bobbys at St. Patricks
Cathedral in New York. Smith
remembers his brother, Steve,
holding a candle during the service and accidentally lighting a
cousins hair on fire.
The Smiths lived on Fifth Avenue, a block from Jackie Kennedy. Smith and John Kennedy
Jr. attended the same private
school. One afternoon in 1974,
they snuck away from Johns
Secret Service escort and went to
Central Park, where a mugger
stole Johns bike. The incident
made national news, though
without any reference to Smith.
At such moments, he learned the
benefits of not sharing his cousins famous last name.

spokesman Jamal Brown said the

administration remains focused on
finding means to acknowledge the
extraordinary sacrifice by Americas
public servants, including
reinstating the Presidential Rank
Awards and launching the
Customer Service Awards.
The awards were of no matter
to the audience; no complaints
were heard after Obamas speech.
Glenda Owens, a federal
employee for 30 years and a
senior executive for 13 years, said
Obamas speech was right on
point and a good morale
booster after so much other talk
devaluing government
employees. This was good for
us, the Interior Department
employee said.
Audience members repeatedly
talked about how inspiring the
president was. One Obama line
was especially appreciated by the
workers.
I want you to know, Obama
said, that Ive got your back.
That makes their 1 percent pay
raise almost look good.
federaldiary@washpost.com
Twitter: @JoeDavidsonWP
Previous columns by Joe Davidson are
available at wapo.st/JoeDavidson.

Microsoft
CEO courts
federal
cloud users
BY

Two weeks later, the ANC 2A

meeting was about to begin
when Commissioner-elect Smith
arrived.
At the dais, he joked with the
ANCs chair, Patrick Kennedy
no relation about having forwarded an e-mail intended for
him to his own cousin, Patrick
Kennedy.
The two men laughed about
the misfire, and then Smith retreated to a second-row seat as
the commissioners discussed
noisy George Washington University parties, bus routes and
traffic.
He listened as someone said,
What Barbara raises is a procedural issue. He was still listening when someone else said, We
can weigh in on a minor modification.
Two hours later, the empty
seats outnumbered the occupied.
A man scratched his cheek. A
woman yawned.
A commissioner listed 13
neighborhood streets needing repairs.
K Street at 24th, near corner
on south side.
Rock Creek Parkway and Virginia Avenue, southeast corner.
I Street between 21st and
22nd.
A pause. A suggestion from the
second row.
The stairs by the plaza, overlooking the freeway, Smith said.
He was referring to that broken
step. It needed fixing, he said.
The commissioner thanked
him and added it to the list.

Microsoft chief executive Satya

Nadella came to Washington on
Tuesday to promote the companys new Internet cloud offerings,
cleared for government use.
The company announced that
Microsoft Azure, a software platform on which customers can
design, deploy
and manage
various applications, is publicly available after receiving certification under FedRAMP, a government-wide general security
standard. Microsofts e-mail service, Office 365, secured in November.
Microsoft also announced that
its software for managing customer relationships, Dynamics
CRM Online for Government, will
be available soon.
During a keynote panel at
Microsofts Government Cloud
Summit, Nadella acknowledged
some early government customers: Texas uses Office 365 for
e-mail, Alabama used Azure to
host its Medicaid health information exchange, and other government groups use Azure to manage
surveillance applications, he said.
Trials with the government
could help improve Microsofts
cloud products for businesses,
Nadella said, noting that its the
feedback cycle from the public
sector that has helped us actually
build our [commercial] business.
During the keynote, Nadella
reprised a theme he had emphasized to a Washington audience in
July: Microsoft is investing heavily in technology that will help
users be more productive, such as
e-mail applications, file sharing,
video communication and project management.
He cited Cortana, a virtual personal assistant; Delve, an Office
365 feature that enables managers to track what employees are
working on and with whom
theyre communicating; and
Skype Translator, a video communication service that is said to be
able to translate in real time.
Nadella added that Microsoft is
investing in technology that can be
accessed on more devices, regardless of their operating system. The
multimodal, multi-device scenarios are important, he said.
The new government products
place Microsoft in direct competition with cloud providers Amazon Web Services, whose GovCloud services have FedRAMP
authorization, and Google, which
offers apps including Gmail,
Google Docs and others to government agencies, said Morningstar analyst Norman Young.
(Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P.
Bezos owns The Washington
Post.)
Microsoft could have a leg up
in the federal market because it
operates Office 365, which many
federal customers use, Young
added so Microsoft could see
tangible financial gains from the
public sector in the next few
years.
Microsoft shareholders last
week approved Nadellas compensation package, valued at
more than $84 million. He was
named chief executive less than a
year ago, after Steve Ballmers
resignation.

paul.schwartzman@washpost.com

mohana.ravindranath@washpost.com

MELINA MARA/THE WASHINGTON POST

Do I want to make [the rape trial] the monologue of my life? No, I dont, says William Kennedy Smith, who will become an Advisory
Neighborhood Commission member in January. I have things I want to do. I enjoy doing something locally.

Through his 20s, he was

known as William Smith. His
middle name, Kennedy, was reduced to just the initial, if it was
mentioned at all. What turned
him into a Kennedy, he said, was
Patricia Bowmans 1991 accusation that he raped her at his
familys Florida estate.
It changed my identity,
Smith said of the unceasing and
largely unflattering news coverage that defined his 30th year.
After his arrest, Smith, then a
student at Georgetown Universitys medical school, called Bowmans allegation a damnable
lie. Prosecutors were set to call
to the stand three more women
a doctor, a law student and a
medical student willing to
testify that he assaulted them
between 1983 and 1988. The
judge barred their testimony.
The jury deliberated 77 minutes before finding Smith not
guilty. The next year, he began an
internship at the University of
New Mexico hospital. He spent a
month in Somalia as a medical
volunteer. He developed an interest in prosthetics and treating
amputees.
The Palm Beach story trailed
him.
The owner of a bookstore in
Albuquerque hosted a forum titled Shaking out the Willies, for
those who wanted to talk about
living in his midst. A stranger at
an Arlington County bar taunted
him about the case, an encounter
that ended with Smith in a
bloody fight with a bouncer.
After getting a medical degree,
Smith settled in Chicago, where
he became the director of the
Center for International Rehabilitation (CIR), a nonprofit that
helps victims of land mine explosions.
In 2001, he considered running for Congress, enlisting advice from political consultant
David Axelrod. Smith dropped
the idea, a Chicago newspaper
reported at the time, after a focus
group suggested that voters held
negative views of him because of
the rape trial.

In recalling his decision,

Smith said that Rahm Emanuel
had planned to run and that
running against Rahm wasnt
something I wanted.
In 2004, another woman a
former assistant at CIR whom he
had dated filed a civil lawsuit
accusing Smith of sexual assault
regarding an incident that had
allegedly occurred five years before.
A judge dismissed the suit.
In her complaint, the woman
had asserted that Smith settled
sexual harassment claims filed
by two other women. Asked
about the purported settlements,
Smith declined to comment.
The following year, he moved
to Washington.

Half-truths and lies

On another morning, Anne
Smith was in a conference room
adjoining her husbands office at
the Watergate, a block from their
apartment, where he often goes
for lunch.
The cloud that may still loom
over Smiths reputation is invisible to his 36-year-old wife.
I know who my husband is,
and Im comfortable defending
him hes a wonderful husband, she said. The old stories,
she said, are cockroaches that
will live forever.
He has been given a raw deal,
she said.
Anne Smith grew up in St.
Paul, Minn., and met her husband in Chicago, at CIR, where
she worked in communications.
They were married in 2011, after
which they started a family at the
Watergate.
Their first child, India Rose,
was born 21/2 years ago. Their son,
Stephen, is 18 months. Last year,
Smith joined neighbors opposing
a liquor-license application
sought by the Watergate Hotel.
Armando Irizarry, the incumbent ANC member for the district, was impressed by what he
described as Smiths measured
negotiating style. After Irizarry
decided not to run for reelection,
he encouraged Smith to seek his

seat.
Anne Smith designed the candidates campaign mailings,
which began Dear Neighbor
and included a photograph of the
couple and their children. His
slogan: An Experienced Advocate, A Skillfull Negotiator, A
Careful Listener.
His cousins offered to campaign for him, as did his mother,
who thought his name on the
ballot should include Kennedy.
He declined that idea. Voters
would judge him as William K.
Smith.
Ron Cocome, a neighborhood
activist, found him very conscientious, someone who wanted
to resolve issues without yelling
back and forth.
How can you support someone who was accused of a heinous crime? Cocome recalled
some neighbors asking.
I looked enough on Google to
reaffirm what I already knew,
Cocome said of Smiths exoneration. So there was nothing to
consider.
Claudia Schecter, a financial
consultant, was unconvinced. At
a forum, she asked Smith about
the allegations. But her mind
already seemed made up. I dont
believe I can trust someone with
that kind of background, she
said later.
When he decided to run,
Smith expected his past to resurface.
I feel misunderstood, he
said, pacing behind his grandfathers desk. The story about me
is the story everyone has heard
that involved bad behavior and
hurting people. I dont relate to
that narrative.
Half-truths and lies, he said
of the characterizations that
have been made about me by
some people.
He paused.
I recognize Ive had broken
relationships in my life, he said.
I want to accept responsibility
for my part.
I sincerely regret the choices
Ive made that have contributed
to that. But I dont accept

M OHANA R AVINDRANATH

He paused again.
Im not a person looking for
conflict or endless rehashing, he
said. Whatever else is going on,
thats always going to be the
narrative.
Smith stood outside his polling place on Election Day, halfexpecting a TV news crew to
show up to record him.
None did.
He won a total of 257 votes,
61 more than his opponent.

Quietly contributing

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20 key findings about CIA interrogations

Almost 13 years after the CIA established secret prisons to hold and interrogate detainees, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report
on the CIAs programs listing 20 key findings. 6 Read deeper into the documents and view interactive graphics at wapo.st/cia-findings.

1
3

not an effective means of acquiring intelligence 2 rested on inaccurate claims of their effectiveness

brutal and far worse than the CIA represented 4 conditions of confinement for CIA detainees were harsher
5

repeatedly provided inaccurate information 6 actively avoided or impeded congressional oversight

7

impeded effective White House oversight 8 complicated, and in some cases impeded,

the national security missions 9 impeded oversight by the CIAs Office of Inspector General
10

coordinated the release of classified information to the media 11 unprepared as it began operating
12

14

deeply flawed throughout the programs duration 13 overwhelmingly outsourced operations

coercive interrogation techniques that had not been approved 15 did not conduct a comprehensive or accurate
accounting of the number of individuals it detained 16 failed to adequately evaluate the effectiveness
17

rarely reprimanded or held personnel accountable 18 ignored numerous internal critiques,

criticisms, and objections 19 inherently unsustainable 20 damaged the United States standing in the world

Obama takes forward-looking stand on CIA excesses

POLITICS FROM A1

report drew fresh calls for CIA

prosecutions dismissed by
Obama years ago as counterproductive and accusations that
the president has encouraged terrorism by supporting the reports
publication.
Obama did not speak publicly
Tuesday about the findings, a tacit
acknowledgment of how fraught
his place in the debate remains.
But in a written statement issued
moments after the report was
made public, Obama said, One of
the strengths that makes America
exceptional is our willingness to
openly confront our past, face our
imperfections, make changes and
do better.
Obama has tried to walk a fine
line on the interrogation techniques that he eventually came to
call torture, though he refrained
from directly doing so Tuesday.
In his first week in office,
Obama had ordered an end to
torture. And back in May 2009,
before rejecting the idea of setting
up a commission, Obama condemned harsh techniques in a
soaring speech at the National
Archives. In that speech, he never
directly branded the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques
as torture but he condemned torture in general and remarked that
we went off course.
At the same time, Obama wanted to avoid distracting and divisive criminal prosecutions or
hearings. He believed any inquiry
of his would look like an attack on
his predecessor, President George
W. Bush, and dispel any hope of
bringing a bipartisan spirit to government. And he feared that the
intelligence services, whose career rank-and-file members had
followed guidelines handed down
from above, would feel they had
been abandoned by a new administration.
Thats what made the mere use
of the word torture tricky. Torture is a felony and a violation of
international law. Aware of that,
Eric H. Holder Jr., before his confirmation hearings for attorney
general, had checked with the
White House before using the
word.
David Cole, a professor at
Georgetown University Law Center, said Obama has been relatively consistent in basically saying what the CIA did was unacceptable. But Cole added Obama
has said that we should look
forwards not backwards and he is
opposed to any formal accountability for what was done, including a 9/11-type commission. And
without his support, it wasnt going anywhere.
With the publication Tuesday
of the declassified summary of the
Intelligence Committees report,
Obama is again trying to find a
middle road. The reports central
conclusion is that the interrogation measures didnt work and
that the best and most reliable
intelligence
was
obtained
through other, legal means. And it
presents a dismal litany of brutality in that program.
But CIA Director John Brennan
on Monday defended the agencys
actions, saying that the controversial program produced evidence
that helped avert strikes against
the United States and that agency
officials did not intentionally mislead Congress.
Our review indicates that interrogations of detainees on
whom [enhanced interrogation
techniques] were used did produce intelligence that helped

LUKE MACGREGOR/REUTERS

Police officers stand outside the U.S. Embassy in London. American diplomats around the world girded for potentially violent protests.

A hit to U.S. global standing as adversaries cry hypocrisy

BY

G RIFF W ITTE

london Born out of the horror over the 9/11

attacks, the CIAs secret program of detention
and interrogation was intended to make the
United States safer.
But exposure of the programs extreme brutality on Tuesday appeared likely to increase
the danger for Americans overseas, and further
constrain U.S. foreign policymaking.
The Senate Intelligence Committees devastating portrait of the interrogation program led
allies to distance themselves and prompted
adversaries to launch cries of hypocrisy. At U.S.
embassies, diplomats girded for potentially
violent protests, while American troops worldwide stood on high alert.
Its obviously very bad for U.S. moral standing in the world, said Jacob Parakilas, a foreign
policy analyst with the London-based think
tank Chatham House. You can expect this to
get very, very wide play on Russia Today,
[Irans] Press TV and other media that are in
the hands of American adversaries.
Even before the reports official release Tuesday, Chinas state-run media was gleefully
pointing to the findings as a sign of lost American credibility.
America is neither a suitable role model nor
a qualified judge on human rights issues in
other countries, read an editorial on the staterun Xinhua news service. Yet, despite this,
people rarely hear the U.S. talking about its
own problems, preferring to be vocal on the
issues it sees in other countries, including
China.
In Egypt, a pro-government television commentator struck a similar theme. The United
States cannot demand human rights reports
from other countries since this [document]
proves they know nothing about human

thwart attack plans, capture terrorists, and save lives, Brennan

said in a statement. The intelligence gained from the program
was critical to our understanding
of al-Qaida and continues to inform our counterterrorism efforts
to this day.
The debate about the usefulness of information gleaned from
those interrogations remains as
divisive as ever. A 2013 Associated
Press-NORC poll found that

rights, Tamer Amin said on a private network.

The release of the U.S. report comes at a time
when American standing in the world has
already been badly harmed by an array of
factors, including revelations about warrantless wiretapping and drone warfare and extensive coverage of racial unrest at home. While
many of the abuses in the CIAs interrogation
program were already well known, the graphic
nature of the reports findings could resonate
overseas in a way other disclosures have not.
Parakilas said many of the details were likely
to be particularly uncomfortable for U.S. allies,
and could inhibit future cooperation at a moment when Washington and other Western
capitals are deeply unnerved by the rise of the
Islamic State.
There will be more restrictions in terms of
intelligence sharing and operational secrecy,
he said.
The report could, however, put pressure on
U.S. allies to be more transparent about their
own involvement in the American programs. A
study last year by the Open Society Foundations found that 54 countries cooperated in the
so-called rendition program, which involved
secretly transporting suspects to countries that
routinely practice torture.
Britain was among the most important,
providing key intelligence and logistical
support. The government has promised a thorough investigation of its own involvement, but
it has been repeatedly delayed.
The U.K.s behind the curve in terms of
examining their behavior, said Donald Campbell, spokesman for the London-based human
rights advocacy group Reprieve.
British Prime Minister David Cameron was
among the first world leaders Tuesday to react
to the Senate report, saying that after 9/11
there were things that happened that were

50 percent of Americans believed

that torturing terrorist suspects
can often or sometimes be justified to gain information about
terrorist activities; 47 percent said
it can rarely or never be justified.
White House officials on Tuesday would not take sides on
whether torture ever yields useful
information. We are not going to
engage in this debate, said a senior White House official in a background briefing for reporters.

wrong and we should be clear about the fact

that they were wrong.
Amid global revulsion at the behavior revealed in the Senates report, there was also
mild praise for the U.S. government for at least
coming clean.
Writing for the center-right German daily
paper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, commentator Nikolas Buss said publication of the
report was the right thing to do. Only by taking
steps like this will the USA, a country that
considers itself a more moral world power, be
able to regain the trust that the Bush administration recklessly gambled away, he wrote.
But rights advocates worldwide also called
for the U.S. government to go further in not
only exposing abuses but also providing accountability.
In a statement from Geneva, the United
Nations special rapporteur on human rights
and counterterrorism, Ben Emmerson, called
for prosecution of Bush administration officials who ordered detainees to be tortured.
As a matter of international law, the U.S. is
legally obliged to bring those responsible to
justice, Emmerson said.
One former prisoner, meanwhile, said even
an apology would be welcome.
Lives of victims and their families, including mine, have been turned upside down, said
Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo Bay
detainee and current outreach director for the
prisoner advocacy organization CAGE. Yet
there has been no apology, no sense of contrition by the perpetrators or prosecutions of
those responsible for what has taken place.
Erin Cunningham in Cairo, Karla Adam in London,
Stephanie Kirchner in Berlin, Gu Jinglu in Beijing and
Brian Murphy in Washington contributed to this
report.

Obama, in his statement, said

the report reinforces my longheld view that these harsh methods were not only inconsistent
with our values as nation, they did
not serve our broader counterterrorism efforts or our national security interests.
But Obama also heaped praise
on the nations intelligence services. Since the horrific attacks of
9/11, these public servants have
worked tirelessly to devastate

core al-Qaeda, deliver justice to

Osama bin Laden, disrupt terrorist operations and thwart terrorist
attacks, Obama said in his statement. Solemn rows of stars on
the Memorial Wall at the CIA
honor those who have given their
lives to protect ours. Our intelligence professionals are patriots,
and we are safer because of their
heroic service and sacrifices.
The administration has withheld more than 2,000 photo-

graphs of harsh treatment of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. A

federal judge has ordered the administration to detail reasons by
Friday.
The president had sympathetic
words for the Bush administration, saying that with legitimate
fears of further attacks and with
the responsibility to prevent more
catastrophic loss of life, the previous administration faced agonizing choices about how to pursue al
Qaeda and prevent additional terrorist attacks against our country.
That was not, however, enough
to pacify congressional Republicans, many of whom lashed out
against the committee report and
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.),
who is in her final days as the
committee chairman before Republicans take control of the Senate.
Our intelligence professionals
have done their very best to keep
America safe in the wake of the
9/11 attacks, House Speaker John
A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said in a
written statement. They deserve
our thanks, not an ideologicallymotivated report designed to undermine their work.
Six Republicans from the Intelligence Committee, including
ranking Republican Sen. Saxby
Chambliss (Ga.), issued a minority
report that says the Democrats
cost the government $40 million
and diverted countless CIA analytic and support resources while
failing to offer ways to improve
intelligence interrogations.
But it wasnt only Republicans
who expressed frustration with
Obama.
Sen. John D. Rockefeller
(D-W.Va.), who was chairman of
the Intelligence Committee when
it began to dig into CIA tactics,
hailed Obama for putting a stop to
the program, but he complained
that the White House was still
withholding 9,000 documents
from the committee. He said the
White House also attempted to
omit any indication of some redacted portions of the report.
It was with deep disappointment that, over the course of a
number of private meetings and
conversations, I came to feel that
the White Houses strong deference to the CIA throughout this
process has, at times, worked at
cross-purposes with the White
Houses stated interest in transparency, and has muddied what
should be a clear and unequivocal
legacy on this issue, he said.
Although some Republicans
feared that an overseas backlash
would endanger Americans
abroad, Sens. John McCain (Ariz.)
and Susan Collins (Maine)
praised Feinsteins decision to release the information.
McCain, who was taken prisoner during the Vietnam War, said in
a Senate floor speech, I know
from personal experience that the
abuse of prisoners will produce
more bad than good intelligence.
In a statement, Collins said that
the findings should be made public to allow the American people to
reach their own conclusions.
Obama had his own hopes for
the report. Rather than another
reason to refight old arguments,
he said, I hope that todays report
can help us leave these techniques
where they belong in the past.
Yet six years into his presidency, the torture controversy is very
much in the present.
steven.mufson@washpost.com
Sean Sullivan contributed to this
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THE SENATES CIA REPORT

The 119
detainees
held in secret
prisons
The Senate Intelligence
Committees highly anticipated
report on the CIAs
interrogation and detention
program listed, for the first
time, the names of the 119
detainees who went through
the agencys secret prison
system. A breakdown:
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39 detainees were
subjected to the CIAs
enhanced interrogation
techniques
These interrogation
techniques include close
confinement, sleep
deprivation, exposure to cold,
prolonged standing, prolonged
isolation and waterboarding.
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26 detainees were
wrongfully detained
This is a conservative
calculation and includes only
CIA detainees who the agency
itself determined did not meet
the standard for detention.
It does not include individuals
about whom there was internal
CIA disagreement over
whether the detainee met the
standard, or the numerous
detainees who, following their
detention and interrogation,
were found not to pose a
continuing threat of violence or
death to U.S. persons and
interests or to be planning
terrorist activities.
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7 detainees of those who
were wrongly detained were
subjected to enhanced
interrogation techniques,
which produced no
intelligence
According to CIA records,
enhanced interrogation
methods were used on seven
of the 26 detainees known to
have been mistakenly
detained.
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20 detainees were not
previously acknowledged by
the CIA until the release of
this report
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15 detainees are currently
being held at Guantanamo
Bay
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5 detainees were subjected
to rectal rehydration
Because some detainees
refused food and water, the CIA
experimented with rectal
feeding and rehydration. A CIA
medical officer referring to the
rectal hydration technique
applied to Khalid Sheik
Mohammed described the
procedure: What I infer is that
you get a tube up as far as you
can, then open the IV wide. No
need to squeeze the bag let
gravity do the work.
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3 detainees were subjected
to waterboarding

Panel dismisses claims that tactics paid o

CIA FROM A1

whats been going on.

A declassified summary of the
committees work discloses for
the first time a complete roster of
the 119 prisoners held in CIA
custody and indicates that at
least 26 were held because of
mistaken identities or bad intelligence. The publicly released summary is drawn from a longer,
classified study that exceeds
6,000 pages.
The reports central conclusion
is that harsh interrogation measures, deemed torture by program critics including President
Obama, did not work. The panel
deconstructs prominent claims
about the value of the enhanced
measures, including that they
produced breakthrough intelligence in the hunt for Osama bin
Laden, and dismisses them all as
exaggerated if not utterly false
assertions that the CIA and former officers involved in the program vehemently dispute.
In a statement from the White
House, Obama said the Senate
report documents a troubling
program and reinforces my
long-held view that these harsh
methods were not only inconsistent with our values as [a] nation,
they did not serve our broader
counterterrorism efforts or our
national security interests.
Obama praised the CIAs work to
degrade al-Qaeda over the past 13
years but said the agencys interrogation program did significant
damage to Americas standing in
the world and made it harder to
pursue our interests with allies
and partners.
The CIA issued a 112-page response to the Senate report, acknowledging failings in the interrogation program but denying
that it intentionally misled the
public or policymakers about an
effort that it maintains delivered
critical intelligence.
The intelligence gained from
the program was critical to our
understanding of al-Qaida and
continues to inform our counterterrorism efforts to this day, CIA
Director John Brennan, who was
a senior officer at the agency
when it set up secret prisons for
al-Qaeda suspects, said in a written statement. The program did
produce intelligence that helped
thwart attack plans, capture terrorists, and save lives, he said.
The release of the report comes
at an unnerving time in the
countrys conflict with al-Qaeda
and its offshoots. The Islamic
State has beheaded three Americans in recent months and seized
control of territory across Iraq
and Syria. Fears that the report
could ignite new overseas violence against American interests
prompted Secretary of State John
F. Kerry to appeal to Sen. Dianne
Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chairman
of the Senate committee, to consider a delay. The report has also
been at the center of intense
bureaucratic and political fights
that erupted this year in accusations that the CIA surreptitiously
monitored the computers used by
committee aides involved in the
investigation.
Many of the most haunting
sections of the Senate document
are passages taken from internal
CIA memos and e-mails as agency
employees described their visceral reactions to searing interrogation scenes. At one point in 2002,
CIA employees at a secret site in
Thailand broke down emotionally after witnessing the harrowing
treatment of Abu Zubaida, a highprofile facilitator for al-Qaeda.
Several on the team profoundly affected, one agency employee
wrote at the time, . . . some to the
point of tears and choking up.
The passage is contrasted with
closed-door testimony from highranking CIA officials, including
then-CIA Director Michael V.
Hayden, who when asked by a
senator in 2007 whether agency
personnel had expressed reservations replied: Im not aware of
any. These guys are more experi-

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U.S. military guards move a detainee in March 2010 at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where 136 prisoners are still being held.

enced. No.
The investigation was conducted exclusively by the Senate
committees Democratic staff. Its
release Tuesday is certain to stir
new debate over a program that
has been a source of contention
since the first details about the
CIAs secret prison network began to surface publicly a decade
ago. Even so, the report is unlikely to lead to new sanctions or
structural change.
The document names only a
handful of high-ranking CIA employees and does not call for any
further investigation of those involved or even offer any formal
recommendations. It steers clear
of scrutinizing the involvement of
the White House and Justice
Department, which two years ago
ruled out the possibility that CIA
employees would face prosecution.
Instead, the Senate text is
largely aimed at shaping how the
interrogation program will be
regarded by history. The inquiry
was driven by Feinstein and her
frequently stated determination
to foreclose any prospect that the
United States might contemplate
such tactics again. Rather than
argue their morality, Feinstein set
out to prove that they did not
work.
In her foreword to the report,
Feinstein does not characterize
the CIAs actions as torture but
says the trauma of 9/11 led the
agency to employ brutal interrogation techniques in violation of
U.S. law, treaty obligations, and
our values. The report should
serve as a warning for the future, she says.
We cannot again allow history

The CIA interrogation program

In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the CIA established secret
prisons to hold detainees and to allow for the use of enhanced
interrogation methods. President Obama, upon taking office, ordered an
end to both initiatives. Almost 13 years after the programs started, the
Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the CIAs actions.
SEPT. 17, 2001

Aftermath of the 9/11 attacks

President George W. Bush
authorizes the CIA to capture,
detain and question al-Qaeda
suspects.
MARCH 28, 2002

Al-Qaeda suspect captured

Abu Zubaida, a suspected top alQaeda operative, is apprehended
and, days later, transferred to a

secret prison in Thailand. In August

2002, he is waterboarded 83
times.
AUGUST 2002

Justice Departments
interrogation memo
Justice finalizes a memo justifying
enhanced interrogation
techniques. This memo is
withdrawn in December 2004 after
its existence is made public.

and assemble a fleet of armed

drones to carry out targeted killings of al-Qaeda militants.
The report reveals the often
haphazard ways in which the
agency assumed these new roles.
Within days of the 9/11 attacks,
for example, President George W.
Bush had signed a secret memorandum giving the CIA new authority to undertake operations
designed to capture and detain
persons who pose a continuing,
serious threat of violence or
death to U.S. persons and interests.
But the memo made no reference to interrogations, providing
no explicit authority for what
would become an elaborately
drawn list of measures including sleep deprivation, slams
against cell walls and simulated
drowning to get detainees to
talk. The Bush memo was a
murky point of origin for a program that is portrayed throughout the Senate report as chaotically mismanaged.
One of the most lengthy sections describes the interrogation
of the CIAs first prisoner, Abu
Zubaida, who was detained in
Pakistan in March 2002. Abu
Zubaida, badly injured when he
was captured, was largely cooperative when jointly questioned by the CIA and FBI but
was then subjected to confusing
and increasingly violent interrogation as the agency assumed
control.
After being transferred to a site
in Thailand, Abu Zubaida was
placed in isolation for 47 days, a
period during which the presumably important source on al-Qaeda faced no questions. Then, at
11:50 a.m. on Aug. 4, 2002, the
CIA launched a round-the-clock
interrogation assault slamming him against walls, stuffing
him into a coffin-size box and
waterboarding him until he
coughed, vomited, and had involuntary spasms of the torso and
extremities.
The treatment continued for 17
days. At one point, the waterboarding left Abu Zubaida completely unresponsive, with bubbles rising through his open, full
mouth. CIA memos described
employees who were distraught
and concerned about the legality
of what they had witnessed. One
said that two, perhaps three
were likely to elect transfer.
The Senate report suggests top
CIA officials at headquarters had
little sympathy. When a cable
from Thailand warned that the
Abu Zubaida interrogation was
approach[ing] the legal limit,

Jose Rodriguez, then chief of the

CIAs Counterterrorism Center,
cautioned subordinates to refrain
from such speculative language
as to the legality of the interrogation. Such language is not helpful.
Through a spokesman, Rodriguez told The Washington Post
that he never instructed employees not to send cables about the
legality of interrogations.
Abu Zubaida, also known as
Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Hussein, was waterboarded 83 times
and kept in cramped boxes for
nearly 300 hours. In October
2002, Bush was informed in his
daily intelligence briefing that
Abu Zubaida was still withholding significant threat information, despite views from the
black site that he had been truthful from the outset and was
compliant and cooperative, the
report said.
The document provides a similarly detailed account of the interrogation of the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid
Sheik Mohammed, who fed his
interrogators a stream of falsehoods and intelligence fragments. Waterboarding was supposed to simulate suffocation
with a damp cloth and a trickle of
liquid. But with Mohammed, CIA
operatives used their hands to
form a standing pool of water
over his mouth. KSM, as he is
known in agency documents, was
ingesting a LOT of water, a CIA
medical officer wrote, saying that
the application had been so altered that we are basically doing
a series of near drownings.
The CIA has maintained that
only three prisoners were subjected to waterboarding, but the
report alludes to evidence that it
may have been used on others,
including photographs of a wellworn waterboard at a black site
where its use was never officially
recorded. The committee said the
agency could not explain the
presence of the board and waterdousing equipment at the site,
which is not named in the report
but is believed to be the Salt Pit
in Afghanistan.
There are also references to
other procedures, including the
use of tubes to administer rectal
rehydration and feeding. CIA
documents describe a case in
which a prisoners lunch tray
consisting of hummus, pasta
with sauce, nuts, and raisins was
pureed and rectally infused. At
least five CIA detainees were
subjected to rectal rehydration
or rectal feeding without documented medical necessity.

OCTOBER 2002

MARCH 2003

MAY 7, 2004

Al-Qaeda operative
captured in Dubai
Al-Qaeda suspect Abd al-Rahim
al-Nashiri is captured in Dubai. He
is soon transferred to the CIAs
secret facility in Thailand. He is
waterboarded there and later is
threatened with mock execution as
well as a power drill while detained
in Poland.

Khalid Sheik Mohammed

captured
Mohammed, the self-proclaimed
mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, is
captured in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
He is waterboarded 183 times
while held in CIA custody in Poland.

Counterterrorism report
completed
The CIAs Inspector General Report
on Counterterrorism Detention and
Interrogation Activities is
completed. The document is not
released until August 2009.

JAN. 23, 2004

DEC. 30, 2004

Key al-Qaeda courier detained

Hassan Ghul, a key al-Qaeda
courier, is captured in Iraq. He is
taken to a CIA black site in
Romania, where he provides
information that helps lead to the
killing of Osama bin Laden. Ghul
provides the critical information
before he is exposed to harsh
questioning.

CIA releases interrogation

techniques used
Justice Department Assistant
Attorney General Daniel Levin
receives a background paper from
the CIA detailing the combined
techniques used for the
interrogation of high-value
detainees.

to be forgotten and grievous past

mistakes to be repeated, Feinstein says.
The reaction to the report,
however, only reinforced how polarizing the CIA program remains
more than five years after it was
ordered dismantled by Obama.
Over the past year, the CIA
assembled a lengthy and detailed
rebuttal to the committees findings that argues that all but a few
of the panels conclusions are
unfounded. Hayden and other
agency veterans have for months
been planning a similarly aggressive response.
The report also faced criticism
from Republicans on the Intelligence Committee who submitted
a response to the report that cited
alleged inaccuracies and faulted
the committees decision to base
its findings exclusively on CIA
documents without interviewing
any of the operatives involved.
Democrats have said they did so
to avoid interfering with a separate Justice Department inquiry.

The programs start

At its height, the CIA program
included secret prisons in countries including Afghanistan,
Thailand, Romania, Lithuania
and Poland locations that are
referred to only by color-themed
codes in the report, such as COBALT, to preserve a veneer of
secrecy.
The establishment of the
black sites was part of a broader
transformation of the CIA in
which it rapidly morphed from
an agency focused on intelligence-gathering into a paramilitary force with new powers to
capture prisoners, disrupt plots,

NOVEMBER 2002

Prisoner dies at CIA

black site in Afghanistan
Gul Rahman, an Afghan being held
at a secret CIA site in Afghanistan
known as the Salt Pit, dies.
Rahman was doused with water
and left partially unclothed in cold
weather. He died of hypothermia.

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President George W. Bush announces his nomination of Gen. Michael V. Hayden to become head of the CIA in May 2006.

At times, senior CIA operatives

voiced deep misgivings. In early
2003, a CIA officer in the interrogation program described it as a
train [wreck] waiting to happen
and that I intend to get the hell
off the train before it happens.
The officer, identified by former
colleagues as Charlie Wise, subsequently retired and died in 2003.
He had been picked for the job
despite being reprimanded for
his role in other troubled interrogation efforts in the 1980s in
Beirut, former officials said.
The agencys records of the
program were so riddled with
errors, according to the report,
that the CIA often offered conflicting counts of how many prisoners it had.
In 2007, then-CIA Director
Hayden testified in a closed-door
session with the Senate panel
that in the history of the program, weve had 97 detainees. In
reality, the number was 119, according to the report, including
39 who had been subjected to
harsh interrogation methods.
Two years later, when Hayden
was preparing to deliver an early
intelligence briefing for senior
aides to newly elected President
Obama, a subordinate noted that
the actual count was significantly
higher. Hayden instructed me to
keep the detainee number at 98,
the employee wrote to himself in
an e-mail, pick whatever date i
needed to make that happen but
the number is 98.
Hayden comes under particularly pointed scrutiny in the report, which includes a 38-page
table comparing his statements
to often conflicting agency documents. The section is listed as an
example of inaccurate CIA testimony.
In an e-mail to The Post,
Hayden said the discrepancy in
the prisoner numbers reflected
the fact that detainees captured
before the start of the interrogation program were counted separately from those held at the
black sites. This is a question of
booking, not a question of deception, Hayden said. He also said
he directed the analyst who had
called the discrepancy to his attention to confirm the revised
accounting and then inform the
incoming CIA director, Leon E.
Panetta, that there was a new
number and that the figure
should be corrected with Congress.
Hayden said he would have
explained this to the committee if
given the chance. Maybe if the
committee had talked to real
people and accessed their notes

we wouldnt have to have this

conversation, he said, describing
the matter as an example of
[committee] methodology. Take a
stray fact and claim its meaning
to fit the desired narrative (mass
deception).
The report cites other cases in
which CIA officials are alleged to
have obscured facts about the
program. In 2003, when David
Addington, a lawyer who worked
for Vice President Richard B.
Cheney, asked whether the CIA
had videotaped interrogations
of Abu Zubaida, CIA General
Counsel Scott Muller informed
agency colleagues that he had
told him that tapes were not
being made. Muller apparently
did not mention that the CIA
had recorded dozens of interrogation sessions or that some in
the agency were eager to have
them destroyed.
The tapes were destroyed in
2005 at the behest of Rodriguez, a
move that triggered a Justice
Department investigation. The
committee also revealed that a
21-hour section of recordings
which depicted the waterboarding of Abu Zubaida had gone
missing years earlier when thenCIA Inspector General John Helgersons office sought to review
them as part of an inquiry into
the interrogation program.
Helgerson would go on to find
substantial problems with the
program. But, in contrast to the

NOV. 2, 2005

including Mohammed, have been

transferred to the detention facility
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. At the
same time, the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence
releases the names of 14 prisoners
held in CIA secret prisons.

CIAs secret prisons revealed

The Washington Post reveals that
the CIA has been holding prisoners
in secret detention sites in Eastern
Europe.
NOVEMBER 2005

Order to destroy
interrogation recordings
Jose Rodriguez, director of the
CIAs clandestine service, orders
videotaped interrogations of Abu
Zubaida and Nashiri to be
destroyed.
SEPT. 6, 2006

Prisoners transferred
to Guantanamo Bay
Bush announces that the CIAs
secret prisons have been emptied
and that 14 high-value detainees,

Senate panels findings, his report concluded that the agencys

interrogation of terrorists has
provided intelligence that has
enabled the identification and
apprehension of other terrorists
and warned of terrorist plots
planned for the United States and
around the world.

Intelligence claims
A prominent section of the
Senate report is devoted to highprofile claims that the interrogation program produced unique
and otherwise unobtainable intelligence that helped thwart
plots or led to the capture of
senior al-Qaeda operatives.
Senate investigators said none
of the claims held up under
scrutiny, with some unraveling
because information was erroneously attributed to detainees
subjected to harsh interrogations, others because the CIA
already had information from
other sources. In some cases,
according to the panel, there was
no viable terrorist plot to disrupt.
A document prepared for
Cheney before a March 8, 2005,
National Security Council meeting noted in a section titled
Interrogation Results that operatives Jose Padilla and Binyam
Mohammed planned to build and
detonate a dirty bomb in the
Washington DC area.
But according to an April 2003
CIA e-mail, Padilla and Moham-

med had apparently taken seriously a ludicrous and humorous article about building a dirty
bomb in a kitchen by swinging
buckets of uranium to enrich it.
KSM dismissed the idea, as did
a government assessment of the
proposed plot: CIA and Lawrence Livermore National Lab
have assessed that the article is
filled with countless technical
inaccuracies which would likely
result in the death of anyone
attempting to follow the instructions, and definitely would not
result in a nuclear explosion,
noted another CIA e-mail in April
2003. The agency nonetheless
continued to directly cite the
dirty bomb plot while defending the interrogation program
until at least 2007, the report
notes.
The report also deconstructs
the timeline leading to the identification of Padilla and his alleged
accomplice. It notes that in April
2002, Pakistani authorities who
detained Padilla suspected he
was an al-Qaeda member. A few
days later, Abu Zubaida described
two individuals who were pursuing what was described as a
cockamamie dirty-bomb plot.
The connection was made by the
CIA immediately, months before
the use of harsh interrogation on
Abu Zubaida.
Some within the CIA were
derisive of the continuing exploitation of the dirty-bomb plot by

the agency. Well never be able to

successfully expunge Padilla and
the dirty bomb plot from the lore
of disruption, but once again Id
like to go on the record that
Padilla admitted that the only
reason he came up with so-called
dirty bomb was that he wanted
to get out of Afghanistan and
figured that if he came up with
something spectacular, theyd finance him, wrote the head of the
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear group at the CIA
Counterterrorism Center. Even
KSM says Padilla had a screw
loose.
In the CIAs rebuttal, which
was delivered in 2013 to the
Senate but released publicly on
Tuesday for the first time, the
agency acknowledged that it took
too long to stop making references to his infeasible Dirty
Bomb plot but said Padilla was a
legitimate threat and a good
example of the importance of
intelligence derived from the detainee program.
In another high-profile case,
the CIA credited the interrogation program with the capture of
Hambali, a senior member of the
Southeast Asian militant group
Jemaah Islamiah and the suspected mastermind of the 2002
Bali bombing, which killed more
than 200 people. In a briefing for
the presidents chief of staff, for
instance, the CIA wrote, During
[KSMs] interrogation we acquired information that led to the
capture of Hambali. But the Senate found that information from
KSM played no role in Hambalis
capture and that, in fact, information leading to his detention
came from signals intelligence, a
CIA source, and investigations by
the Thai authorities.
Similarly, the CIA said the
interrogation program led to the
discovery of the Second Wave
attacks, a plan by KSM to employ
non-Arabs to use airplanes to hit
targets on the West Coast. Associated with this in CIA reporting
was the identification of alGhuraba, a cell of Jemaah Islamiah.
In a November 2007 briefing
for Bush on Plots Discovered as a
Result of EITs, or enhanced
interrogation techniques, the
CIA said it learned about the
Second Wave and al-Ghuraba after applying the waterboard
along with interrogation techniques. But the Senate report
says the plot was disrupted by a
series of arrests and interrogations that had nothing to do with
the CIA program.
Even the hunt for bin Laden
was accompanied by exaggerations of the role of brutal interrogation techniques, according to
the report. In particular, the committee found that the interrogations played no meaningful role
in the identification of a courier,
Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, who
would lead the agency to bin
Ladens compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
The CIAs document reiterates
its claim that coercive measures
helped, saying the tactics led two
detainees in agency custody, Ammar al-Baluchi and Hassan Ghul,
to provide important clues to the
courier. Baluchi was the first to
identify Kuwaiti as bin Ladens
messenger, and did so only after
undergoing enhanced interrogation techniques.
Ghul, who was captured in
Iraq, went even further, confirming under coercive pressure that
Kuwaiti had delivered a letter
from bin Laden to another alQaeda operative and had vanished along with the al-Qaeda
chief in 2002.
But the committee cited CIA
records showing that Ghuls revelations came before he was subjected to harsh measures. In an
interview with the CIA inspector
generals office, a CIA officer familiar with Ghuls case said that
he sang like a tweetie bird. He
opened up right away and was
cooperative from the outset.
greg.miller@washpost.com
adam.goldman@washpost.com
julie.tate@washpost.com
Steven Rich and Swati Sharma
contributed to this report.

JULY 20, 2007

Order to continue enhanced

interrogation methods
Bush issues an executive order
allowing the CIA to continue its
use of some enhanced
interrogation methods on al-Qaeda
suspects. The methods approved
in the order do not include
waterboarding.
FEBRUARY 2008

CIA director testifies

CIA Director Michael V. Hayden

testifies before the Senate

Intelligence Committee, saying
that fewer than 100 people have
been in CIA secret custody since
Sept. 11, 2001, and that one-third
of those prisoners were exposed to
enhanced interrogation
techniques. Hayden also says
three detainees in the program
were waterboarded.
JAN. 22, 2009

Obama shuts down

secret prisons
Obama issues executive orders
ending the CIAs secret overseas
prison network and prohibiting
enhanced interrogation measures
on detainees.
MARCH 2009

CIA investigated

The Senate Intelligence Committee

begins its investigation of the CIA
interrogation program.

Committee of the Red Cross on

detainee treatment is published by
the New York Review of Books.

AUGUST 2009

MAY 2, 2011

CIA prosecutor assigned

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.
names longtime prosecutor John
H. Durham to lead a review of
nearly a dozen cases of alleged
detainee mistreatment by CIA
interrogators and contractors. In
November 2010, Durham declines
to file criminal charges against CIA
officials for the destruction of the
videotapes depicting CIA
interrogations of high-value
detainees.

Bin Laden killed

Bin Laden is killed by a Navy SEAL
team in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

APRIL 22, 2010

Report released
The Senate Intelligence Committee
report is released.

Review of detainee treatment

A report by the International

JANUARY 2012

CIA interrogation report

completed
The Senate Intelligence Committee
completes its report on the CIAs
interrogation program. A year later,
CIA Director John Brennan issues a
rebuttal report from the CIA to the
committee.
DECEMBER 2014

Interrogated
detainees
Some of the detainees who
have been subjected to
controversial interrogation
tactics.

Abu Zubaida
Palestinian
Arrested:
March 28,
2002, in
Faisalabad,
Pakistan.
Role: Senior
al-Qaeda
associate.
Held: Afghanistan, Thailand,
Poland, Morocco, Lithuania,
and (currently) Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba.
Interrogation tactics:
Waterboarding, close
confinement, sleep deprivation,
exposure to cold, rectal
rehydration.

Ramzi Binalshibh
Yemeni
Arrested:
Sept. 11,
2002, in
Karachi,
Pakistan.
Role: Key
facilitator
for 9/11 attacks.
Held: Poland, Morocco,
Romania and (currently)
Guantanamo Bay.
Interrogation tactics:
Prolonged standing, exposure
to cold, walling, sensory
deprivation, sleep deprivation,
stress positions.

Abd al-Rahim
al-Nashiri
Saudi
Arrested:
November
2002 in the
United Arab
Emirates.
Role:
Planner of
2000 USS Cole attack.
Held: Thailand, Poland,
Romania and (currently)
Guantanamo Bay.
Interrogation tactics:
Waterboarding, prolonged
standing, mock execution,
rectal rehydration, sleep
deprivation, stress positions.

Khalid Sheik
Mohammed
Pakistani
Arrested:
March 1,
2003, in
Rawalpindi,
Pakistan.
Role: Key
planner of
9/11 attacks.
Held: Pakistan, Salt Pit near
Bagram air base in Afghanistan,
Poland, Romania and
(currently) Guantanamo Bay.
Interrogation tactics:
Waterboarding, prolonged
standing, rectal rehydration,
walling, sleep deprivation,
stress positions.

Majid Khan
Pakistani
Arrested:
March 5,
2003, in
Karachi,
Pakistan.
Role:
Lieutenant
of Khalid Sheik Mohammed.
Held: Lithuania and (currently)
Guantanamo Bay.
Interrogation tactics:
Prolonged standing, rectal
rehydration, sleep deprivation,
stress positions, isolation.

Walid bin Attash

Yemeni
Arrested:
April 29,
2003, in
Karachi,
Pakistan.
Role:
Planner of
Sept. 11 and USS Cole attacks.
Held: Poland, Romania and
(currently) Guantanamo Bay.
Interrogation tactics:
Prolonged standing, walling,
sensory deprivation, stress
positions, isolation.

Lillie
Malaysian
Arrested:
July 11,
2003, in
Bangkok
Role: Key
Hambali
lieutenant,
involved in 2003 Jakarta hotel
bombing.
Held: Guantanamo Bay
(currently).
Interrogation tactics:
Prolonged standing, sleep
deprivation.

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THE SENATES CIA REPORT

Senate panels investigators encountered fog of secrecy

BY A DAM
AND E LLEN

G OLDMAN
N AKASHIMA

In late 2007, not long after the

Senate Intelligence Committee
learned that the CIA had destroyed videotapes showing detainees being waterboarded, the
spy agency for the first time
allowed congressional staffers to
review sensitive cables about the
detention program.
The committee chose two
staffers a former FBI analyst
named Daniel Jones and Alissa
Starzak, who once worked as a
CIA lawyer to read thousands
of cables from the agency. Soon
the pair were sorting through a
blizzard of documents numbering in the millions.
Seven years later, the Senate
committee on Tuesday finally
released a declassified summary
of a 6,000-plus-page report on
the CIAs rendition, detention
and interrogation program that
offers a harsh assessment of one
of the agencys most controversial chapters.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the committee chairwoman,
has said the report initially
expected to take one year to
complete constitutes the most
important work the oversight

committee has ever done and one

of the most significant conducted
in Senate history.
While the report involved a
handful of committee aides, according to congressional sources
and others, it owes its existence
largely to Jones and Starzak, two
staffers who worked quietly on
the project while plunging into
an environment plagued by mistrust between the Senate and the
CIA.
The effort, by all accounts,
snowballed into a project that
consumed them for years and
was complicated by political obstacles.
There were corrosive levels of
draconian secrecy, Andy Johnson, the committees former staff
director, said at an event earlier
this year in Washington. The fog
of secrecy made a mockery of
oversight.
Jones, 39, and Starzak, 41, have
not spoken publicly about the
study. Starzak declined to comment. The Intelligence Committee would not make Jones available for comment. Both are listed
in the studys acknowledgments.
The report had long been the
subject of deep divisions among
those who had read it. Sen. Saxby
Chambliss (Ga.), the panels rank-

ing Republican, had derided it as

an ideologically motivated, distorted recounting of events.
Some CIA veterans who were
involved in the program have
bristled that they were not interviewed as part of the Senate
study and similarly concluded
before the release that it would
be deeply flawed.
Still, there is little disputing
the time and resources put into
the report, which is estimated to
have cost more than $40 million
and required Jones and Starzak
to sift through a mountain of
evidence.
They had the analytical
skills, said Johnson, who tapped
the pair to take the lead on the
project. Both had a very good
understanding of the intelligence
community. They were not partisan.
Neither Jones nor Starzak
were longtime veterans of the
intelligence community. Jones
had landed a job as an analyst in
the FBIs international terrorism
operations section in 2004 after
earning advanced degrees at
Harvard and Johns Hopkins universities. He was an alumnus of
Teach for America who had once
been named to People magazines
list of 100 Most Eligible Bache-

lors.
Starzak was a graduate of the
University of Chicago Law School
who had joined the litigation
division in the office of the CIAs
general counsel after the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attacks. Her boss
at the time, John Rizzo, said she
handled significant cases but was
not involved in the interrogation
program. She left the agency on
good terms, he said.
Both Jones and Starzak landed
on the Senate Intelligence Committee staff in 2007. Jones was
hired to conduct oversight on the
FBI, and Starzak worked in the
committees general counsels office.
Soon they were assigned to
examine the cables that then-CIA
Director Michael V. Hayden had
made available after the destruction of the tapes.
Much of their work was conducted in the cave, a secret
location in Northern Virginia
where the CIA had set up a
working space and computers to
review agency documents, according to current and former
Senate staffers.
Jones was known for sending
e-mails between midnight and
2 a.m. and consuming an inordinate amount of coffee. He wrote

thousands of pages in the full

report.
He was a very careful examiner of a mass of evidence, said one
former GOP colleague who, like
others, spoke on the condition of
anonymity because of the secrecy
under which the investigation
was carried out. Thats the key.
Its an enormous amount of evidence out there, and hes a person
who is attentive to the facts.
Jones and Starzak, along with
Mike Davidson, the committees
general counsel, spent nights and
weekends on the project, cataloguing the documents and
building a chronology of the CIAs
program. Feinstein ordered a
full-blown review of the program
in 2009. Other committee staffers playing central roles included
Evan Gottesman, Chad Tanner
and David Grannis.
In 2010, Jones and his colleagues came across a key CIA
document an internal agency
inventory of records that seemed
to corroborate the Senate panels
findings. Created at the direction
of then-CIA Director Leon E.
Panetta, the inventory was not
meant to be shared with the
Senate.
Committee staffers printed
and removed the document, tak-

ing it to the Hart Office Building

on Capitol Hill, where they
placed it in a safe.
When the CIA learned that the
documents had been removed,
the spy agency accused committee staffers of hacking into their
computers and made a criminal
referral to the Justice Department. The CIAs inspector general later said in a statement that
the allegations were not supported, and the referral was
dropped.
The threat of an internal inquiry, aides said, rattled Jones and
other staffers involved in the
Senate study. Even after the inquiry was shelved, the CIA and
Feinstein continued to tussle
over redactions to the report.
In 2011, a year before the
completion of the Senate report,
Starzak left the committee, taking a job with the Pentagon in the
general counsels office. Jones is
still on the committee, but after
nearly eight years, friends say he
has grown more cynical about
Washington.
Dans just shouldered a lot,
said the former GOP aide.
adam.goldman@washpost.com
ellen.nakashima@washpost.com
Julie Tate contributed to this report.

Detainees subjected
to rectal rehydration
Antiquated procedures
were used on at least 5,
documents show
BY

B RADY D ENNIS

Among the more jarring passages in the Senate Intelligence

Committees report on CIA interrogations of terrorism suspects
are descriptions of agency employees subjecting uncooperative
detainees to rectal rehydration
and rectal feeding.
The report said that at least
five detainees underwent the procedures without documented
medical necessity and that others
were threatened with them.
While the CIA defended its approach, the techniques are all but
absent from modern medicine.
For all practical purposes, its
never used, Thomas Burke, a
Harvard Medical School professor and emergency physician at
Massachusetts General Hospital,
said in an interview. No one in
the United States is hydrating
anybody through their rectum.
Nobody is feeding anybody
through their rectum. . . . Thats
not a normal practice.
He added that he had polled
more than a half-dozen colleagues with decades of clinical
experience and that none had
ever employed it.
Rectal hydration was used on
wounded soldiers in World War I.
In 1881, President James A. Garfields doctors tried to feed him
rectally as he lay dying from an
assassins bullet. He received egg
yolks, milk, whiskey, beef bouillon and drops of opium in this
manner, although he continued
to waste away, according to a
biographer.
More recently it has been used
only in dire circumstances, such
as in the treatment of a 21-yearold man who was discovered by
trekkers to be suffering from
shock in the mountains of Nepal,
according to a 2005 paper.
But Tuesdays report detailed a
new twist on an antiquated procedure.
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a
Saudi citizen who allegedly masterminded the bombing of the
USS Cole, launched a hunger
strike that resulted in the CIA
force-feeding him rectally, the report stated. Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the professed architect of
the 9/11 attacks, also was subjected to rectal rehydration with no
documented medical need, the
report said. An interrogation official later said the measure demonstrated his total control over
the detainee.
Another detainee who apparently underwent the procedure
was Majid Khan, a Pakistani citizen and former suburban Baltimore resident, who pleaded
guilty in 2012 to five war crimes,
including murder, attempted
murder and spying. He was held
by the CIA overseas for three
years before being transferred to
the military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The report said
Khan was subjected to involuntary rectal feeding and rectal rehydration, which included two
bottles of Ensure. Later that day,

his lunch tray, consisting of

hummus, pasta with sauce, nuts
and raisins, was pureed and rectally infused.
CIA medical officers discussed
rectal rehydration as a form of
behavior control, according to the
report, with one officer writing,
[w]hile IV infusion is safe and
effective, we were impressed with
the ancillary effectiveness of rectal infusion on ending the water
refusal in a similar case.
The same officer, the report
said, wrote: [r]egarding the rectal tube, if you place it and open
up the IV tubing, the flow will self
regulate, sloshing up the large
intestines. Referencing the experience of the medical officer
who had subjected Mohammed
to rectal rehydration, the officer
wrote: [W]hat I infer is that you
get a tube up as far as you can,
then open the IV wide. No need to
squeeze the bag let gravity do
the work.
In a June 2013 response, the
CIA insisted that agency medical
personnel on scene during interrogations monitored detainees
hydration and food intake to ensure that they were physically fit
and also to ensure they did not
harm themselves.
There has been a history of
detainees going on hunger
strikes. Earlier this year, a federal
judge ruled that the military
could force-feed a Syrian detainee
to prevent him from dying,
though she urged authorities to
consider alternative methods.
The CIA said that personnel
who administered rectal rehydration did not do so as an interrogation technique or to degrade a
detainee, but rather because it
was a well acknowledged medical technique to address pressing
health issues. The agency dismissed the suggestion that the
practice was used to assert total
control over detainees, saying
that a single flippant, inappropriate comment by one CIA officer concerning the technique,
quoted in the study, is not evidence to the contrary.
The agency also argued that
the practice was deemed safer
than using IV needles with noncompliant detainees, and more
efficient than forcing a feeding
tube through a detainees nose,
down his throat and into his
stomach. The CIA said that Khan
had removed his own feeding
tube, which posed the risk of
injury and other complications.
But Burke, the Harvard medical professor, said that explanation falls short. Every day in the
United States, health workers encounter uncooperative, belligerent or mentally disturbed patients who need hydration or sustenance. And [in] none of them
do we put a tube in their bottom,
he said.
Burke said the idea of hydration is plausible, because the colon can absorb water. But the
notion of feeding a person rectally has little physiological basis. It
doesnt make any sense, he said.
What we can say is that because nobody [in the medical
field] would do it, it has to lead to
the question of, what were they
really doing? he said. We deserve a better explanation.
brady.dennis@washpost.com

YURI GRIPAS/REUTERS

Director John Brennan runs an intelligence agency whose authority, budget and counterterrorism duties have expanded since Sept. 11, 2001.

U.S. leaders rely on CIA to do murkier tasks

FUTURE FROM A1

Indeed, the CIA is in many

ways at a position of unmatched
power. Its budgets have been
swollen by billions of dollars in
counterterrorism expenditures.
Its workforce has surged. Its
overseas presence has expanded.
And its arsenal now includes
systems, including a fleet of
armed drones, that would have
made prior generations of CIA
leaders gasp.
In part, that is because despite
the deep fissures between the
CIA and the Senate panel that
issued the excoriating interrogation report, the two sides have
largely compartmentalized their
differences, giving the agency
deep congressional backing on a
range of covert programs.
More broadly, it is also because as much as Washington
struggles to reconcile its democratic ideals with the CIAs cloakand-dagger mission, U.S. leaders
are repeatedly drawn to the
agencys mystique and capabilities as they face new threats. And
the operators say they have long
grasped the imperatives of politics when things go sour.
Folks at CIA are often asked
to do risky and difficult things,
said a U.S. intelligence official.
If it were easy to do, someone
else would do it. So I think that
they understand that being second-guessed when something
goes wrong comes with the territory.
Since its founding in 1947,
every president and every Congress have relied on the CIA to do
what no other agency of government is empowered to do: conduct covert operations overseas
that can include killing, spying,
theft, bribery, blackmail and a
host of other dark arts intended

to weaken the countrys adversaries.

This dependency on the CIA
became greater than ever after
the terrorist attacks in 2001,
when President George W. Bush
turned to the agency to strike
back at al-Qaeda and its allies.
The CIAs central role in counterterrorism operations has been
maintained under President
Obama.
Whats happened has already
happened, said William Banks,
director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism at Syracuse University.
No, nothing will change. The
CIA is right there, in every place
the United States is in, conducting lethal drones strikes and
paramilitary operations and
gathering intelligence.
Most public controversies
have involved leaders at the top
of the CIA and a small cadre of
officers directly involved in the
questionable operations, as is the
case involving the interrogation
of terrorist detainees at secret
prisons around the world. Usually, high-profile scandals have
prompted some management
changes, increased outside oversight by Congress and the White
House, and prohibitions of the
most unconventional activities.
Investigations by Congress in
the 1970s, for instance, led to a
ban on assassinations and domestic spying. It also led to the
establishment of House and Senate congressional oversight committees, the same Senate committee that produced Tuesdays
report. The 2001 attacks on the
World Trade Center and the
Pentagon prompted more sharing of intelligence between competing intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The bungling of intelligence on Iraq led

to improvements in the way

National Intelligence Estimates
a document that includes data
and analysis from all intelligence
agencies is produced, as well
as how intelligence is verified.
Every 10 years or so, the dark
side of government goes off
track, said Loch Johnson, who
during committee hearings in
the 1970s was a special assistant
to Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho)
and is now a scholar of the CIA
and intelligence. Periodically
the CIA and other agencies end
up doing things they should not
and are much more hesitant to
do it again. I suspect in the
future, if some president asks the
CIA to interrogate prisoners,
they will say, No thanks, weve
already been there.
The programs the CIA gets in
trouble over are always shrouded
in so much secrecy that even
supporters of the agency who
might have doubts about a programs legality or ethics are cut
out. Secrecy enables bad policy
choices, said Thomas S. Blanton,
director of the nonprofit National Security Archive and an expert
on CIA covert operations. It gets
the agency over and over again.
CIA veterans said the latest
investigative barrage has come at
a substantial cost. Former CIA
director Michael V. Hayden said
the constant scrutiny has given
CIA employees reason to resist
assignments that carry political
risk.
How many man-years have
been consumed at the agency in
responding to this report,
Hayden said. We have firstround draft picks doing nothing
but this, rather than chasing [the
Islamic State].
Even so, the cycle of investigations has coincided with an era
of dramatic expansion of author-

ity and resources for the agency.

Much of that CIA windfall has
gone directly to the agencys
Counterterrorism Center, the entity that ran the secret prisons
and interrogation program. The
CTCs workforce went from a few
hundred to more than 2,000. Its
expanded resources and authorities have enabled it to launch an
array of covert programs, including the drone campaigns in Yemen and Pakistan.
Even in recent months as
tensions over the interrogation
report mounted, U.S. officials
said, senior CIA officers who
were involved in the discredited
interrogation program routinely
took part in classified briefings
on Capitol Hill where they were
congratulated on their counterterrorism work.
In all previous CIA scandals
before Sept. 11, 2001, the agency
tended, for some time, to keep a
lower profile after its public
censuring. That is unlikely to
happen this time. The criticism
over interrogations has gone on
for years and is occurring while
the pace of foreign operations
has grown ever more demanding, most recently with the rise of
the Islamic State in Syria and
Iraq.
Intelligence agencies have
been whipsawed non-stop for 13
years, said Stanford University
professor Amy Zegart, an expert
on the intelligence community.
The new reality is that intelligence officials are working in a
perpetual state of crisis while
being asked to confront the most
complex threat environment in
history.
greg.miller@washpost.com
dana.priest@washpost.com
Joby Warrick contributed to this
report.

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Kerry: Dont bind
presidents hands
Congress urged not
to bar use of ground
troops in Iraq and Syria
BY

C AROL M ORELLO

The Obama administration

does not believe that any congressional authorization of force in
Iraq and Syria should prohibit the
deployment of ground troops,
Secretary of State John F. Kerry
said Tuesday, even as several lawmakers sought to impose limits on
the U.S. response to the Islamic
State.
President Obama has said he
has no intention of deploying
combat troops against the Islamic
State in Syria, and U.S. troops
deployed to Iraq this year are not
engaged in front-line combat. But
that does not mean we should
preemptively bind the hands of
the commander in chief or our
commanders in the field in
responding to scenarios and contingencies that are impossible to
foresee, Kerry told the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee.
Kerry also urged the committee
not to bar the administration
from taking the fight against the
Islamic State to other countries or
against other associated forces,
if necessary.
In our view, it would be a mistake to advertise to ISIL that there
are safe havens for them outside of
Iraq and Syria, Kerry said, using
an acronym for the Islamic State.

In my view, deployment
of ground troops at this
time would be
Groundhog Day in Iraq
all over again.
Sen. Robert Menendez, expressing
his concern that the United States will
be drawn into an endless war

Kerrys remarks came as the

Obama administration seeks to
lay the groundwork with Congress
for a new authorization on the use
of military force against the Islamic State. Although the administration says it is currently acting
under measures passed after the
terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,
Obama has called for new authorization, and some members of Congress have openly chafed at what
they consider a challenge to their
constitutional prerogative.
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee is debating a bill that
would grant that authority but
would limit authorization to three
years and ban ground forces except under narrow circumstances, such as for rescue missions, for intelligence-gathering
or in support of targeted airstrikes.
Kerry said that U.S. officials
expect the confrontation with the
Islamic State to last many years
but that the administration understands the desire to avoid an
open-ended war authorization
and supports a three-year limit, so

long as it can be extended.

Overshadowing the hearing
was the longest war in American
history: the deployment of U.S.
troops to Afghanistan, only now in
its final stages. Several senators
said they would not have voted to
authorize military force if they
had known the war would last so
long, lead to so many Americans
being sent there and leave so
many veterans with life-transforming injuries and traumatic
stress.
Our fear is, if we dont [bar
ground troops], either this president or some future president will
drag us into another deep, longlasting, bloody conflict, said Sen.
Tom Udall (D-N.M.).
The committee hearing is a
prelude to a debate that is expected to continue into next year,
when a new, Republican-led Congress is seated. Only a few days
remain before Congress adjourns
for the holidays, too little time for
a vote.
The bill before the committee
was written by its chairman, Sen.
Robert Menendez (D-N.J.). He
said Americans would not support an endless war that would
help enlist recruits to a jihad
against Western crusaders.
In my view, deployment of
ground troops at this time would
be Groundhog Day in Iraq all over
again, he said.
Menendez said Congress never
envisioned the current confrontation in Iraq and Syria when it
authorized military force against
al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in 2001,
and he suggested that the Obama
administration is overreaching.
I do not believe that it provides
the authority to pursue a new
enemy in different countries under completely different circumstances than existed 13 years ago,
Menendez said. Congress, rather
than the executive, has the authority to authorize military action and to declare war for these
very reasons.
Kerry reiterated the administration view that the Islamic State
is an offshoot of al-Qaeda, allowing it to be targeted under existing
authorizations. The transformation of the group, which is now a
rival to al-Qaedas affiliate in Syria, was another reason not to limit
the authorization to one group, he
said.
This is the same group, he
said. These are the same people,
with the stamp and imprimatur of
Osama bin Laden.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said he
would not vote for any resolution
that did not have geographical
restraints. Otherwise, he said, the
administration could carry the
war anywhere in the world.
If Medina or Mecca pledges
allegiance to the Islamic State,
they are open to being bombed by
the United States, he said, referring to the two Saudi cities that are
the holiest sites in Islam.
You are sending a message to
the Middle East that no city is off
limits, he said.
Kerry scoffed at that idea, and
he advised Rand to make a presumption in the sanity of the president of the United States.
Nobodys talking about bombing everywhere, he said.
carol.morello@washpost.com

Border Patrol looking

to hire more women
BY

A STRID G ALVAN

tucson The U.S. Border Patrol is on a hiring spree for a very

specific type of agent: a female
one.
Only 5 percent of its approximately 21,000 agents are women,
and the agency has long considered that statistic a problem,
especially in dealing with the
massive numbers of women attempting to enter the United
States and facing problems related to violence and sexual assault.
The issue is especially troublesome in the Southwest, where
nearly 120,000 women were
caught crossing the border illegally in the fiscal year that ended
Oct. 31. Thats a significant increase from fiscal year 2011,
when about 43,000 women were
apprehended.
The agencys southwest region
includes Arizona, Texas and California.
But while the number of women who cross the border has
grown, the number of female
border agents has remained low.
Thats a concern for Juanita
Molina, executive director of the
Border Action Network, an immigrant rights group in Tucson.

Most women are victimized

by men, so having a first responder whos a man inherently
creates mistrust, Molina said.
One in six female migrants is
sexually assaulted while crossing
the border, according to Amnesty
International. Many more become sick or lost while crossing.
The Border Patrol Search,
Trauma and Rescue team, or
Borstar, is responsible for saving
lost or injured migrants and
administering first aid. In Tucson, only one agent on this elite
team is a woman. Nationwide,
there are four.
The Border Patrol conducted
509 rescues in the 2014 fiscal
year in the Tucson sector, though
thats a much smaller figure than
in past years.
The Rio Grande Valley Sector
in Texas has seen the largest
number of migrants, with almost
49 percent of migrants caught
crossing in Rio Grande Valley
being women.
Last summer, the agency was
overwhelmed by a surge in unaccompanied minors and women
with children who were crossing
into Texas and surrendering to
the Border Patrol.
Associated Press

In a new Congress, who wants the same old of

ofce?
Before every new
congressional
session,
lawmakers start
sizing up the
newly available
Al Kamen office space,
seeking more
IN THE LOOP
square footage
and updated
furnishings. But trading up
comes at a cost to the taxpayer.
As anyone who has ever moved
knows, packing up all your stuff
and transporting it to a new place
isnt cheap. According to an
investigation by Scott
MacFarlane of WRC-TV in
Washington, the cost two years
ago for lawmakers to shift office
space was around $1.5 million.
The Architect of the Capitol
reported in April that in the
transition to the 113th Congress,
it organized moving 222 House
offices and 32 Senate ones. The
stats arent available yet for how
many offices will be swapped this
year, but with more than 60
lawmakers departing many of
them veterans leaving behind
some of the Capitols most
coveted locales the AOC is hard
at work serving as the members
moving company.
(Theres a certain irony to the
lawmakers spending to move to
better offices as they wrestle this
week over a bill to fund the
government.)
Whether relocating lawmakers
is an appropriate cost to
taxpayers isnt a new concern.
The Chicago Tribune explored the
issue in 1994, writing that some
were to end the every-two-years
office-hopping. Then-Sen. Harris
Wofford (D-Pa.) introduced a bill
to make office spaces, at least in
the Senate, permanent. The
[biennial] game of musical offices
is expensive, confusing,
disruptive and unnecessary, he
wrote in a letter, according to the
20-year-old article.
But whats the perk of seniority
if not better real estate?
Strange tweetfellows
Loop favorite Rep. Michele
Bachmann attended her last
White House holiday party as a
member of Congress on Monday
night and, roused by the holiday
spirit, asked two unlikely
partygoers to pose for photos
with her.
On Tuesday, the Minnesota
Republican tweeted a picture of
her with Vice President Biden,
her arms around his waist, and
another in which shes hip to hip
with House Democratic leader
Nancy Pelosi.
Nothing brings the parties
together like Christmas. Final
White House Christmas Party was
one to remember, Bachmann
wrote.
The expression on Bidens face
is priceless, his look of slight
bewilderment matched only by
Pelosis forced smile. Bachmann
looks positively merry.
Paging Beavis and Butt-head
As his final act at the helm of the
House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee,
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.)
joyfully ripped Jonathan Gruber
over his put-down of voter
intelligence.
He also made a comment that
we could only interpret as a penis
joke. In public. On the record.
Before Grubers stupidity of
the American voter hearing
really got underway Tuesday
morning, the committees
ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah
Cummings (Md.), mentioned that
Issas official portrait had been
hung in the committee room.
Thank you for saying I was
hung, Issa said, without missing
a beat. He then laughed.
Well, after this week, Issa will
be just another member.
About that consolation prize
In June 2001, after the Democrats
recaptured the Senate, they
agreed to create a president pro
tempore emeritus position
complete with an office as a
courtesy to the outgoing PPT, Sen.
Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) He was
succeeded as PPTE by Sens.
Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) and
Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) when
their parties lost the majority.
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is
slated to be the next PPTE.
The president pro tem is third
in the line of succession to the
Oval Office, right after the vice
president and speaker of the
House. So its actually a big deal.
The PPTE office continued for a
while with funding around
$280,000 a year to pay for costs
and an aide or two, but it hasnt
been funded in recent years.
Funds for that office emerged
this week as one of the obstacles
to passage of the new $1 trillion
spending bill, our colleague
Ed OKeefe told us.
Leahy objected to an effort by

Rep. Michele
Bachmann,
not usually
known for
being
cozy with
Democrats,
attended the
White House
holiday party
and shared
with her
Twitter
followers
these photos
with Rep.
Nancy Pelosi
and Vice
President
Biden.

the incoming majority leader,

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), to

change campaign finance laws to

allow direct coordination
between campaigns and
partycampaign committees.
McConnell blocked funds for the
PPTE office, according to senior
Democratic aides.
(There was some discussion
over this on the Senate floor
Monday between Leahy and Sen.
Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who
would be in line for that space if
the Rs lose the Senate in 2016.)
Were told these and other
issues were resolved: McConnells
campaign finance proposal was
dropped. The PPTE office (but not
the position) was cut from the
budget. There are conflicting
accounts as to how closely these
two matters were connected.
Grab your backpacks, kids!
The White House National
Security Council has a lot on its
plate these days: the Islamic
State, Ebola, Syria, Irans nukes,
an increasingly assertive China
and, of course, Vladimir Putin.
But that doesnt mean the NSC

cant tackle other vital issues

such as the need to persuade kids
to study and work abroad.
Apparently the lure of hanging
out at Bocconi University in
Milan or the Sorbonne in Paris or
Fudan University in Shanghai
isnt what it used to be. So
President Obamas national
security team hosted a three-hour
summit Tuesday with 100 travel
bloggers and digital media outlets
to highlight government
initiatives and discuss strategies
for encouraging American
students to study, volunteer and
work abroad.
Legislation has languished to
create a federal grant program to
help achieve a goal of 1 million
U.S. college students studying
abroad by 2020, and in places
other than Western Europe.
The issue is so important that a
number of administration
heavyweights were there,
including Penny Pritzker, the
secretary of commerce; Denis
McDonough, the White House
chief of staff; Ben Rhodes;,
deputy national security adviser;
Tina Tchen, chief of staff to the

first lady; Evan Ryan, assistant

secretary of state; Jonathan
Greenblatt, director of the White
House Office of Social Innovation
and Civil Participation; and
Carrie Hessler-Radelet, director
of the Peace Corps.
Team Obama knows how to
multitask.
A New Delhi newbie
With President Obama
planning to go to India next
month, the Senate on Tuesday
night unanimously confirmed
Richard Verma to be the U.S.
ambassador there. Verma, an
Indian American lawyer, had
served as assistant secretary of
state for legislative affairs during
Hillary Clintons tenure as
secretary of state. The Senate also
confirmed career Foreign Service
officer Peter McKinley as
ambassador to Afghanistan.
With Colby Itkowitz
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colby.itkowitz@washpost.com
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Americas dungeon
A new report depicts interrogation methods that should never be condoned or repeated.

HORTLY AFTER the Sept. 11, 2001, terror

attacks, the CIA began taking prisoners
captured in U.S. anti-terrorism operations. Some were tortured. This is not
news. But a long-classified Senate report
released Tuesday depicts the disgusting extremes.
The release of the Democratic reports findings
and executive summary instantly came under
heavy criticism from current and former CIA
officials, among others and reignited a debate
about whether the CIAs enhanced interrogation
program was justified. As before, the answer is no.
President George W. Bush and Congress both
condoned this barbarity but should not have. You
dont have to accept every assertion in the Senate
report to see that.
The report details painful and humiliating
interrogation techniques, some authorized in advance, some not. A chief interrogator described an
early detention site as a dungeon, in which
prisoners were shackled in total darkness and then
sometimes stripped, hooded and dragged up and
down a hallway while guards slapped and punched
them. Agents blindfolded a prisoner and began
operating a power drill to elicit extreme fear. They

subjected detainees to excessive sleep deprivation

up to 180 hours sometimes to the point that
prisoners experienced disturbing hallucinations.
Prisoners were shackled for days with their arms
above their heads, forced into prolonged nudity
and soaked in cold water. Some endured rectal
rehydration and rectal feeding. Interrogators
demanded that detainees maintain stress positions indefinitely even treating one for swelling
so he could continue standing. Wounds were
allowed to worsen. Early on, one prisoner died in
CIA custody, probably due to prolonged exposure
to cold. And there was waterboarding leading in
one instance to detainee Abu Zubaida becoming
completely unresponsive, with bubbles rising
through his full, open mouth.
This is not how Americans should behave. Ever.
The CIA admits to grim conditions and inadequate monitoring of detainees early on. It detained some people under legal interpretations
that are inconceivable now. But the CIA was not
fully reined in until President Obama issued an
executive order in 2009.
The Senate report claims that torture was an
ineffective tool to obtain intelligence, despite the

CIAs 2003 insistence that termination of this

program will result in loss of life, possibly extensive. The CIA now responds that its unknowable
whether torture produced intelligence that
couldnt have been obtained some other way. The
reports critics, including senior former agency
officials, defend the programs results even more
staunchly.
Any reckoning of outcomes has to account for
the severe blow dealt to Americas global reputation by the inevitable exposure of these techniques, harm which the country is still trying to
repair. But to our mind, the argument over
practical outcomes is mostly beside the point.
Torture is wrong, whether or not it has ever
worked. As an Obama administration official
said Tuesday, The reason we prohibited these
techniques is because they are contrary to our
values.
We dont discount warnings that releasing the
report might rouse anti-American sentiment in the
near term. But in the long term, the United States
will benefit by demonstrating a commitment to
transparency and self-criticism and, most of all,
by pledging never to repeat its post-9/11 mistakes.

TOM TOLES

A sour
sugar deal
A pact on Mexican imports
will benefit only big companies.

ASOLINE PRICES in the United States are

a perennial source of ambivalence, or at
least they should be. When theyre up,
motorists suffer but the environment benefits, because people conserve. Falling prices
boost economic growth but people drive more
and carbon emissions rise.
A similar point applies to sugar and other
caloric sweeteners, of which the average American
consumes some 128 pounds per year, about six
times the maximum recommended by the World
Health Organization. When sugar prices fall,
Americans can indulge in more candy and cake,
with all that implies for food processing jobs
and obesity and diabetes rates. Higher prices trim
excessive consumption, which is why Berkeley,
Calif., just adopted a tax on sugary beverages.
How, then, should consumers feel about the
current run-up in the price of sugar? As the season
of candy canes and chocolate Santas approaches,
sugar is selling for 24 cents per pound on the U.S.
commodities market, about 9 cents above the
world price. This differential is due not to market
forces but rather to government intervention.
Specifically, U.S. sugar producers persuaded the
Commerce Department to threaten Mexican producers with tariffs for allegedly subsidizing sugar
exports to the United States. In late October,
U.S.-Mexican negotiations produced a preliminary deal under which the United States would
refrain from imposing tariffs if Mexicos industry
accepted price and quantity controls on its exports; the expectation that U.S. supplies will
tighten accordingly has driven up prices.
On its merits, the U.S. producers case against
Mexico was, at best, hypocritical. Its true that the
Mexican government owns about a fifth of the
countrys sugar industry, which implies a subsidy,
though precisely how much is hard to quantify. Yet
U.S. producers, though nominally private, have

benefited from federal subsidies and protections

since the New Deal, including per-country quotas
on imports.
Starting in 2008, Mexico was exempt from
those limitations, which the United States agreed
to lift in that year as part of the North American
Free Trade Agreement. If finalized early next year
as expected, the new U.S.-Mexico sugar deal would
amount to managed trade in this commodity and,
as such, a partial rollback of a market-opening
agreement both sides had negotiated in good faith
more than two decades ago. Potential U.S. freetrade partners, take note.

The only saving grace might be that higher

prices will, indeed, reduce sugar consumption,
with positive effects on public health. Wed celebrate that if not for the blatant transfer of
income from consumers to industry, via a barely
transparent process that only a few bureaucrats
and diplomats understand. At least Berkeleys
penny-per-ounce levy on sugary soda got imposed
in full view, via a referendum, and all the revenue
will go into the citys treasury. The sweet U.S.-Mexico sugar deal, by contrast, would protect the
interests and line the pockets of big corporations
on both sides of the border. Some Christmas gift.

Wrong way
Closing a section of I-395 for more than a year would have been a shortsighted idea.

NYONE WHO has lived through a remodeling project knows that a certain
amount of inconvenience comes with the
territory. But a developers proposal to
shut down part of a vital highway in the District to
expedite construction of a giant commercial
project would have upended not just inconvenienced daily travel for tens of thousands of
drivers. We cant imagine how city officials could
have even entertained the idea, and we are happy
to hear that they have now closed the door on it.
D.C. transportation officials broached with the
Federal Highway Administration the possibility
of closing Interstate 395 between New York
Avenue and D Street NW for 15 to 18 months. The
proposal, disclosed by The Posts Luz Lazo and
Jonathan OConnell, came at the behest of the
New York-based company behind a $1.5 billion
mixed-use development that will be built over the
highway. Closing the interstate, the developer
argued, would have sliced time and cost off the
project and produced safer construction condi-

tions for workers.

There is no questioning the importance of this
project to the city. It is estimated to eventually
generate $30 million annually in property taxes,
and by connecting F Street and G streets NW, the
project would go a long way toward rectifying the
damage done by federal highway planners when
they cut a gash through the central city. But
closing this main north-south thoroughfare
would have displaced more than 90,000 cars a
day. Contrary to the developers glib assurance
that people like to drive and figure out alternative
roads, the proposed closure would have created a
rippling effect of significant problems for the
regions transportation network. Calamitous impacts was the apt characterization by Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.).
It appears city transportation officials, prodded by economic development officials, largely
acted on their own in raising the possibility with
federal authorities. A spokesman for Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) told us earlier this week that he

was never consulted and has since made clear

that he views the idea as a non-starter. Transportation officials acted on his view Tuesday and
said they were withdrawing the proposal from
federal consideration.
Federal officials had said thorough studies
would be needed possibly taking as many as
four years to determine the impact and
feasibility of a road closure. So much for the
argument of saving time and speeding the project
to completion. Clearly, construction of this mammoth project will be a daunting task, but the
developer knew when it advanced the plan and
got a sign-off from federal authorities in 2012 that
work would be done with no significant impacts
on freeway operations. Perhaps there is a need to
consider other, less intrusive alternatives, like
closing some highway ramps, but making it hard
for thousands of residents and visitors to go about
their lives for a prolonged period so that a
developer can save time should never have been
on the table.

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FREDERICK J. RYAN JR., Publisher and Chief Executive Officer

Caregiving has challenges and rewards, no matter your gender

The informative and important article on the
gender gap in the delivery of elder care, On the
shoulders of women [Metro, Dec. 6], touched
on several reasons the task falls mainly to
women. In a nutshell, the reasons distill to the
notion that women are socialized to assume
nurturing roles.
However, as a man who cared for his mother
in her later years, I am not the exception that
proves the rule. More men are becoming caregivers, in part because gender roles have
changed. In my case, I have no sisters or spouse
to have shared the responsibility, and institutionalization was not a choice I was willing to
consider.
I, too, experienced the enormous stresses and

life-dislocating circumstances of elder care cited

in the article. My situation was further complicated by my moms eventual dementia and her
unrelenting need for kidney dialysis, three times
a week for eight years.
Attending to her full time short-circuited my
career, yet despite the enormous challenges, the
experience was not without its rewards. I came
to know my moms exceptional qualities as no
other had, except for my dad. I found resources
in myself I did not know I had. The ability to
confront adverse conditions head-on, master
them and nurture and care for a loved one in
such an enveloping way comport well with my
notion of what it is to be a man.
Rob Klein, Gainesville

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The Dec. 3 news article Ex-Senate aide pleads

guilty to sex assaults reported that Donny Ray
Williams Jr. received a suspended sentence, five years
of probation and a listing on the sex-offender registry
for 10 years. That struck me as extremely lenient for
the charges of sexual abuse that he faced. It also
smacks of privilege stemming from his connections.
The news is full of examples of young African
American and Latino men who were victims of
over-aggressive policing. The reality is shoot first,
question later. Videotaped footage doesnt bring an
indictment. Even a suicidal teenager in Loudoun
County with a knife was no match for a highly
trained police officer who went into the encounter
knowing there were mental health issues.
While showing compassion for all is probably not
going to happen, how about real sentencing, instead
of a slap on the wrist, for the privileged criminals, too?
Ellen Barnes, Round Hill
l
The small Dec. 7 Politics & the Nation Digest item
Police lauded in train attack aftermath was ironic
amid a national debate over police choices. An
assailant accused of stabbing four people was
subdued with an electric stun gun on a train.
Elsewhere individuals who are deemed not respectful enough of police wind up dead. Their size seems
to warrant more force than does a sharp object.
We need to provide better training to police on
how to communicate with frustrated, angry or ill
individuals. Taking time to connect can make a
world of difference.
Shirley M. Marshall, Alexandria

The CIA reports findings

Jose A. Rodriguez Jr.s Dec. 7 Outlook commentary,
Dont we want to stop terrorists?, was to be expected. The CIAs work, under Mr. Rodriguezs leadership,
in torturing people after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks will receive much more scrutiny and criticism
now that the long-overdue Senate intelligence committees summary report has been released.
While Congress does bear some responsibility and
should have been stronger in monitoring and trying
to stop these measures earlier, it did not instruct the
CIA to carry out these acts. To the extent Mr. Rodriguez may have felt Congress implied such acts should
have been undertaken, he should have opposed these
ineffective and counterproductive efforts. I hope our
government denounces once and for all enhanced
interrogation/torture techniques and abides by the
United Nations recommendations on righting the
wrongs done in this regard.
Bob Cooke, Gaithersburg
The writer is a volunteer with Witness Against Torture.
l
Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. is like an arsonist complaining that the fire department didnt do enough to stop
him. He burned down the building when Congress
said we needed more heat after the Sept. 11, 2001,
attacks. Now hes shocked anyone is complaining.
The complaints began long ago, as he well knows.
Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) raised so many
concerns that he was attacked by Republicans for
having an obsession with interrogation abuses.
Now Mr. Rodriguez has attacked Mr. Rockefeller for
not complaining enough. He didnt, however, try to
claim that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) was
briefed on CIA torture tactics early on because he
knows she wasnt briefed until hours before President
George W. Bush acknowledged them publicly in 2006.
Rodriguez authorized destroying the CIA interrogation videotapes, which helped lead to a bipartisan
decision to launch the intelligence committee investigation. He did that over the objections from the
CIAs acting general counsel at the time, John Rizzo,
who later wrote that the CIAs waterboarding of
Khalid Sheik Mohammed was so bad that he feared
CIA interrogators might kill him.
Mr. Rodriguez should have admitted that he was
interviewed extensively about the CIA interrogation
program by the CIA inspector general, who severely
criticized the interrogation program.
Now, despite Mr. Rodriguezs and the CIAs
efforts, Americans can read the Senate report and
the Republican and CIA rebuttals and make up their
own minds. Thats why we have an intelligence
oversight committee, which is just doing its job.
Stephen Rickard, Washington
The writer is executive director of the Open Society Policy Center.

National unity after Pearl Harbor

World War II changed the lives of all Americans.
After Dec. 7, 1941, life in the United States was no
longer business as usual. Suddenly it involved war
bonds, war stamps and victory gardens, rationing
and food shortages. If you lived near the coast, you
remember the oil from torpedoed ships that stuck
between your toes.
I remember a German U-boat that cruised by our
small fishing boat as we looked for sailfish off the
Miami shore. I also remember witnessing the sinking of an oil tanker as we sat on the beach. I
remember a prisoner-of-war facility north of Miami.
The prisoners (German and maybe Italian) appeared happy to be there instead of on a battlefield;
for that, I didnt blame them.
In retrospect, the most striking feature of America at war was the unity and social cohesion; we all, in
one or another way, were a part of the war. America
was united and determined to defeat the twin evils
of Nazi Germany and imperial Japan.
Norman Siefferman, Fredericksburg

Reckless dependence on oil

Michael Levi ended his Dec. 7 Outlook commentary, Crude analysis missed the oil-price crash,
with a description of possibilities: Prices could
rebound, continue to fall or stabilize. He said only
the reckless would bet on one outcome.
Betting on oil at any price is reckless. The price of
oil does not reflect its true cost. Consider that oil is
finite and getting more difficult, dangerous and
expensive to obtain. Oil extraction, production and
use all pollute. Oil buys undue influence that
undermines our democracy. U.S. oil subsidies warp
the marketplace, making renewable sources compete at a disadvantage. Oil dependence fuels corruption and conflict worldwide. There are enough
reasons to reduce oil dependence without even
mentioning climate change.
If we keep discussing oil prices without considering the context of the true causes and costs of our oil
addiction, we will be placing our bets on a loser.
Sally Kelly, Chevy Chase

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The
Grubering
on the Hill
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gaffe, under the oft-cited Michael

Kinsley rule, is when somebody in
Washington accidentally speaks the
truth. But what happens when frankness
leads you to say something so monumentally stupid the verbal equivalent of a
pratfall, a face-plant into a mud pit that
gaffe doesnt cover it?
In that case, you have Grubered yourself.
The originator of this maneuver, MIT
professor Jonathan Gruber, came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, summoned by House
Republicans to explain his caught-ontape remark that passage of Obamacare,
on which he was a prominent consultant,
relied on the stupidity of the American
voter.
The denunciation of his remarks was
brutal: Glib, thoughtless . . . uninformed
. . . mean and insulting . . . uncalled for in
any contest . . . demeaning . . . inexcusable
arrogance.
And those were Grubers words. The
lawmakers were less charitable.
The chairman of the House Oversight
and Government Reform Committee,
Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), likened the witness
to Forrest Gump, the ultimate in successful stupid men.
Are you stupid? Issa asked the man
behind the namecard reading, Mr. Gruber, PhD
I dont think so, no, the bespectacled
Gruber, slouched over the witness table,
replied.
Does MIT employ stupid people?
Not to my knowledge.
So youre a smart man, Issa continued,
who said . . . some really stupid things?
Gruber accepted that characterization.
A can of Coke Zero that he had placed on
the floor next to his chair had fallen over.
Gruber wasnt about to get a defense
from Democrats. Stupid I mean absolutely stupid comments, the panels top
Democrat, Elijah Cummings (Md.) told
the witness. They were irresponsible,
incredibly disrespectful and did not reflect reality.
Nobody in the room seemed to question
the stupidity of Grubers stupidity remark,
or his claim that this bill was written in a
tortured way to avoid it appearing to be a
tax, or that lack of transparency is a huge
political advantage because people didnt
know that healthy people pay in and sick
people get money.
Instead, it became a game of Grubering. Republicans tried to Gruber Democrats by asserting that Gruber was a key
architect of Obamacare and that his talk
about passing the law deceptively was
true. Democrats tried to Gruber the Republicans by tying the hapless professor
to former Massachusetts Republican governor Mitt Romney, for whom Gruber also
consulted. And Gruber continued to Gruber himself, refusing reasonable demands that he disclose all the government fees he had received. He conferred
more than once with his lawyer and
dodged questions by saying, Take that up
with my counsel or I dont recall the
total making it likely the committee
will haul him back for another round of
Grubering.
It was the last scheduled hearing under
Issas chairmanship and an appropriately
zany coda to a tumultuous tenure. Outside
the Rayburn House Office Building, a tea
party group was selling T-shirts with
Grubers photo and the words Im with
stupid. When Cummings noted the new
oil painting of Issa on the wall behind
them and referred to the hanging of your
portrait, Issa interrupted with an R-rated
response: Thank you for saying I was
hung.
This may explain why Issa, who hit his
term limit as chairman of the high-profile
panel, has been assigned to legislative
Siberia: chairmanship of the Judiciary
Committees intellectual property subcommittee.
For his final act, Issa did his best to
Gruber Obama, calling Gruber a critical
player in Obamacare. Over the administrations objections, he seated him on a
panel next to Marilyn Tavenner, the official overseeing Obamacare, and called
them a perfect pairing. Other Republicans grilled Gruber on how many times he
met with Obama (once) and went to the
White House (no clue).
Democrats countered by trying to Gruber the Republicans. Rep. Gerald Connolly (Va.) quizzed Gruber on his visits to
Romney offices (dozens) and meetings
with Romney (also one). Cummings read
aloud quotes from Romney praising Gruber.
But Democrats could not conceal the
damage that Gruber had done to them
and Obamacare. Cummings said it was a
public relations gift to Republicans.
You wrapped it up with a bow.
Gruber, in a geeky tenor, apologized,
profusely and endlessly. No fewer than
14 times, he referred to his inexcusable
remarks and insisted that he was not the
architect of Obamacare and had no business offering political opinions.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) asked Gruber
to elaborate on his claim that legislation
passed because the American people are
too stupid to understand the difference.
Gruber groveled, saying he was trying
to make myself seem smart by insulting
others.
So youre a professor at MIT and youre
worried about not looking smart
enough?
Yes.
Well, said Gowdy, you succeeded.
Twitter: @Milbank

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This program worked

BY

J OHN M C L AUGHLIN

he most incredible and false claim in the

Senate intelligence committees report on the
CIA interrogation program is that the program was neither necessary nor effective in the
agencys post-9/11 pursuit of al-Qaeda. The report,
written by the committees Democratic majority
and disputed by the Republican minority and the
CIA, uses information selectively and distorts facts
to prove its point.
I wont try to convince you that the program was
the right thing to do reasonable people will
differ. Nor will I discuss the management of the
program, other than to say that the record clearly
shows the agency went to extraordinary lengths to
assure it was both legal and approved and the
CIA halted the program when uncertain. What I
want to address instead is the committees assertion that the intelligence produced by the interrogation program was not required to stop al-Qaeda
terrorists.
The Democratic staffers who drafted the report
assert the program contributed nothing important, apparently to bolster a bogus claim that the
CIA lied. But lets look at a few cases:
l Finding Osama bin Laden. The committee
says the most critical information was acquired
outside the interrogation program.
Not true. The man who led the United States to
bin Laden, a courier known as Abu Ahmed
al-Kuwaiti, was mentioned by earlier sources but
only as one of many associates bin Laden had years
before. Detainees in the CIA interrogation program pushed Kuwaiti to the top of the list and
caused the agency to focus tightly on him. The
most specific information about the courier came
from a detainee, Hassan Ghul, who, after interrogation, strengthened the case by telling of a
specific message the courier had delivered for bin
Laden to operations chief Abu Faraj al-Libi. Finally, interrogated senior operatives such as Khalid
Sheik Mohammed, who by that time was enormously cooperative, lied when confronted with
what we had learned about the courier. That was a
dramatic tip-off that he was trying to protect bin
Laden.
The staffers who prepared the Senate draft do
not appear to understand the role in analysis of
accumulating detail, corroboration and levels of
confidence in making momentous decisions like
the May 2011 Abbottabad operation that killed bin
Laden.
Familiarity with this truth is presumably why
former CIA director Leon Panetta, even though he
does not support the program, said, At bottom, we
know we got important, even critical, intelligence
from individuals in it.
l Capturing 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik
Mohammed.. This led to disrupting numerous
Mohammed
plots. But the committee says interrogation of
detainees did not play a role in getting him because
a CIA asset (not a terrorist detainee) helped us.
This is astounding to those of us involved in
capture operations. In fact, interrogated detainees
were essential to connecting the source to Mohammed. The CIA will not permit me to reveal the

operational details a classic problem for intelligence officers seeking to defend against outlandish charges.
l Capturing Southeast Asian terrorist leader
Riduan Isamuddin (Hambali). The committee says interrogation played no role in bringing
down this architect of the 2002 Bali bombings.
This is nonsense. After interrogation, Khalid Sheik
Mohammed told us he transferred money to
Hambali via a certain individual to finance attacks
in Asia. This triggered a string of captures across
two continents that led us to Hambali in Southeast
Asia.
l Disrupting a second wave plot on the U.S.
West Coast.
Coast. The committee says a source run by
another country mentioned a plot to use airplanes
to strike West Coast targets. But thats all we knew
none of the details necessary to stop it.
That information came from detainees, starting
with Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who told us after
interrogation that Hambali would replace him in
this plot. This drove our effort to find Hambali.
After that capture, Mohammed said Hambalis
brother would take over. We located him and
found he had recruited 17 Southeast Asians and
was apparently trying to arrange flight training for
them to attack the West Coast.
l Disrupting plots to bomb Karachi hotels.
hotels.
The committee says interrogation played no role in
heading off attacks on the Pakistani hotels, where
U.S. and other Western visitors stayed. But it leaves
out the fact that detainee Zayn al-Abidin Muhammed Hussein, better known as Abu Zubaida,
provided information on how to locate al-Qaeda
safe houses in Karachi. One of these provided us
a letter that tipped us to the plots. That is how
those famous dots really get connected.
To drive home their points, the committee
frequently cherry-picks documents. It describes
officers expressing concern via e-mail that they
will be ostracized for saying that certain detainees did not tell us everything. But the staff leaves
out the critical context: The CIA officers were
actually discussing their dismay over the agencys
decision to cease the interrogation program,
causing the loss of important intelligence information.
Many administration and congressional officials ritualistically say we will never know whether
we could have gotten important information
another way. This is a dodge wrapped in political
correctness. We could say that about all intelligence successes. Well never know, for example,
what intelligence is missed when capture is declared too difficult and terrorists are killed from
the air.
The point is we did succeed in getting vital
information during a national emergency when
time was limited by the great urgency of a clock
ticking on the next plot.
Terrorists had just killed thousands of Americans, and we felt a deep responsibility for ensuring
they could not do it again.
We succeeded.
The writer was the CIAs acting director in 2004 and
deputy director from 2000 to 2004.

CIA medical officer who was assigned to monitor the

interrogation of an al-Qaeda operative named Abu
Zubaida sent a message to his superiors on Aug. 4,
2002, the day the CIA first used the technique known as
waterboarding. He hauntingly titled his cable: So it
begins.
Longest time with the cloth over his face so far has been
17 seconds. This is sure to increase shortly. NO useful
information so far. . . . Im head[ing] back for another
water board session.
And so dawned a nightmare era in which a CIA with
little expertise in interrogation worked desperately to
gather information that might protect a nation severely
traumatized by the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
Zubaida cried, begged, pleaded and whimpered,
but the waterboarding continued and the interrogation
progressed. An Aug. 8, 2002, cable noted: Several on the
team profoundly affected . . . some to the point of tears and
choking up.
What started that day at a secret prison in Asia came full
circle Tuesday with a public accounting by the Senate
intelligence committee. Reading the report, you feel a
measure of the remorse experienced by those onlookers
12 years ago. While the reports tone struck me as overly
prosecutorial, I have no question that the committee was
right to disclose it.
This is a political document, not a dispassionate history,
but thats part of its value: There simply is no way for a
democracy to get past a trauma like the interrogation issue
without an honest public accounting. Its a strange healing
process, ripping off the scab, exposing our wounds;
perhaps its like the self-flagellation of the early saints.
The best illustration that confronting past evil leads to a
kind of national redemption is Germany. Dont misunderstand: The CIAs interrogation practices arent remotely
comparable to the crimes of Nazi Germany. But the
Germans insisted on facing their unconscionable history,
admitting their guilt over and over, preserving the humiliation of their defeat in 1945 even on the walls of their
parliament.
Writing recently in the New Yorker, George Packer
likened the healing process to psychoanalysis: Germany
has brought its past to the surface, endlessly discussed it,
and accepted it, and this work of many years has freed the
patient to lead a successful new life.
The Senate report describes a CIA that rushed recklessly
into the interrogation abuses. But what struck me was how
unprepared the agency was for handling captured alQaeda suspects.
Most CIA officers were gentleman spies who would echo
the demurrals of John Limond Hart when asked in 1978
about the harsh interrogation of KGB defector Yuri
Nosenko: It has never fallen to my lot to be involved with
any experience as unpleasant. . . . To me it is an abomination.
The agency, fearing a second wave of al-Qaeda attacks,
turned in 2002 to two psychologists who claimed to be
experts in interrogation. Based on their experience training American pilots to resist harsh interrogation, these
consultants devised a list of 12 techniques to break the will
of al-Qaeda detainees. In addition to waterboarding, they
suggested use of insects and mock burial, which
apparently were rejected. Their company was paid a
grotesque $81 million for its services.
The Senate report overreaches in its claim that torture
was not an effective means of acquiring intelligence.
Would that we could be so sure. Its wiser to be agnostic
about effectiveness but clear about ethics. We cant know
whether information gained from harsh interrogation
helped provide essential leads that allowed the targeting of
Osama bin Laden. Thats why banning torture is a moral
choice: In doing so, we may indeed lose useful information.
Thats the risk we take in doing the right thing.
Whats least convincing about the report is its picture of
an agency that maliciously deceived the rest of the
government. This revives the notion of the CIA as a rogue
elephant that was propounded by Frank Churchs committee in the 1970s but has been rebutted by many
historians. The real story of intelligence abuses in the
1950s and 60s is that they were ordered by presidents or
their henchmen, who didnt want to know the dirty details.
This ambiguity comes through in an Aug. 2, 2002, memo
after Condoleezza Rice, then national security adviser, was
told that the Justice Department had approved waterboarding and the other techniques we now describe as
torture: Dr. Rice had been informed that there would be
no briefing of the president on this matter, but that the
[CIA director] had policy approval to employ the CIAs
enhanced interrogation techniques.
And so it began.
davidignatius@washpost.com

RUTH MARCUS

Confronting what was done in our name

R
eleasing the Senate intelligence
committees report on torture
wasnt even close to a close call. It
was a necessary, if infuriatingly belated, corollary to the choice not to prosecute those who relied on faulty legal
advice in engaging in such repugnant
practices.
The sordid episode called for national accountability, which is what the
committee provided Tuesday. Nations,
like individuals, cannot move on from
traumatic moments without taking
stock of their behavior.
That rule holds especially true in
the context of civil liberties, because of
the recurring temptation to repeat
problematic behaviors. Indeed, as
committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) noted, President
Obamas self-imposed executive order
to restrict the CIA from holding detainees and to limit interrogation
techniques to those in the Army Field
Manual could be overturned by a
future president with the stroke of a
pen. As Feinstein argued, They
should be enshrined in legislation.
By contrast, the arguments against
releasing the report, or for delaying its
release, were flat-out wrong. Some
from those who supported and orchestrated torture are self-interested and
wrong. Others Im talking about you,
John Kerry were well-meaning and

wrong.
There will never be a comfortable
time to disclose embarrassing information. No doubt some enemies of the
United States will seize on the disclosures to protest, or worse.
But the notion that the countrys
enemies need an incentive to seek to
harm our citizens is horribly belied by,
among other things, the recent beheadings by the Islamic State. The contention that the risks of release are too
great, and the practice so far in the
rear-view mirror, would both reward
CIA obstructionism in delaying release
and ignore the fact that this debate, and
practice, is capable of being repeated.
The imperative for disclosure was
clear in advance. But reading the
stomach-churning findings of the 500page executive summary, the only part
cleared for declassification, reinforces
its importance. No one can review this
account without feeling horror and
shame, and without feeling anger at
the degree to which public officials
and the public itself were misled about
what was being done in the name of
national security.
Among the conclusions: So-called
enhanced interrogation was not an
effective means of obtaining accurate
information. Instead, multiple CIA
detainees fabricated information, resulting in faulty intelligence.

Meanwhile, the interrogations

were brutal and far worse than the
CIA represented to policymakers and
others. The techniques included, in
addition to waterboardings that
amounted to near-drownings, detainees being kept awake for up to 180
hours, detainees subjected to rectal
rehydration and detainees kept shackled in total darkness in dungeon-like
conditions.
Even as the CIA mistreated detainees, it submitted false claims about the
effectiveness of the interrogation techniques and misled the Justice Department and others about what it was
doing. Its claims of counterterrorism
successes were wrong in fundamental
respects, at best corroborating information already available or acquired
before the application of enhanced
interrogation.
One of the most infuriating parts of
the report concerns the degree to
which the CIA submitted misleading
information to the Justice Department
lawyers called on to approve the enhanced interrogation techniques. I
have argued, and continue to believe,
that it would be unfair to prosecute
individual CIA officers for engaging in
torture based on distorted legal advice
supplied by the Office of Legal Counsel.
The now-discredited OLC opinions approved waterboarding, among other

practices; that was wrong as a matter of

law and morality.
But the Senate report makes clear
that the OLCs flawed advice was also
based on inaccurate information provided by the CIA. One example involved a 2002 OLC memo permitting 10
interrogation techniques to be used
against detainee Abu Zubaida.
In seeking legal approval, the CIA
both exaggerated Zubaidas importance asserting incorrectly that he
has been involved in every major
terrorist operation carried out by alQaeda and was one of the planners
of 9/11 and, again incorrectly, that
interrogators were certain Zubaida
was withholding critical threat information.
Officials cant defend themselves by
claiming reliance on counsel that they
themselves misled and the Zubaida
episode was just part of a series of
inaccurate representations. Moreover,
the CIA, as the report details, was
similarly unforthcoming not only with
congressional overseers but also with
its own bosses at the White House.
Feinstein, all too accurately, described the episode as a stain on our
values and history. If that stain can
never be erased, the committees report
reflects an essential step in minimizing
it.
ruthmarcus@washpost.com

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THE DISTRICT

OBITUARIES

Community of Hope
helped Kiara Williams go
from a homeless shelter
to college. B3

City transportation
officials are dropping a
request to close a busy
stretch of I-395. B4

Pilot Ernest C. Brace was

held longer than any
other civilian POW in the
Vietnam War. B5

Plane pitched and rolled before hitting house

STALL WARNINGS
SOUNDED IN COCKPIT

Gaithersburg tragedy
shatters a picture
of happy family life

NTSB offers details from

final seconds of flight

BY D AN M ORSE,
M ILES P ARKS AND
M ICHAEL S . R OSENWALD

Late last week, the Gemmells

bundled up and went to a Christmas tree lighting in downtown
Rockville: Marie, Ken and their
kids, Arabelle, 7, Cole, 3, and even
little Devin, not yet two months
old.
Arabelle hit the outdoor ice
rink. Cole got to meet Santa.
Marie stood to the side, holding
Devin.
That was them, said Pallavi
Rana, a close friend. They were
always together.
The family of five became two
Monday morning in the most
random of tragedies. A small jet
trying to land at an airport near
their Montgomery County community crashed in a neighbors
yard, sending a fuel-laden wing
catapulting through the side of
the Gemmells house.
At the time, Ken was at work;
Arabelle was at school.
Marie, Cole and Devin were
home.
Investigators believe that the
three were upstairs. From below,
there was a sudden, furious eruption of flames, fed by jet fuel
mixed with oxygen rushing into
the house through large holes
the wing had created.
The fire was immediate and
intense, said Capt. Darren
Francke, commander of the
Montgomery Police Departments major crimes unit.
Marie made her way to a
bathroom with Devin and Cole,
detectives believe, and held one
of the boys in her arms and the
other between her legs. It was
probably just a matter of minutes, authorities said, before all
three died of smoke inhalation.
She took that bathroom as an
area of refuge, said Capt. Michael Redding, a fire investigations supervisor in the county.
CRASH CONTINUED ON B2

BY

MICHAEL S. WILLIAMSON/THE WASHINGTON POST

COURTESY OF KEN GEMMELL

Brian Rayner, top, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, peers into the plane that crashed in Gaithersburg on
Monday, killing six people, including the pilot and two passengers. Marie Gemmell, 36, shown with husband Ken, above right, died trying
to save two of her children, above left, Cole, 3, and baby Devin, after the family home was hit by a fuel-filled wing and erupted in flames.

Police say Hey, gajillionaires: What does it take to disturb you?

man killed
girlfriend,
himself
BY

M ATT Z APOTOSKY

To his girlfriends family, Ray

Savoy seemed an attentive, loving
boyfriend. The 29-year-old carried
Kristy Flowers, an aspiring lawyer,
up and down the stairs after she
had surgery on her foot and often
made sure that her baths were
accompanied by candles and
chocolates. About a month ago,
Savoy broached the subject of
marrying Flowers with her mother, father and other relatives.
But there were signs of trouble,
mostly in hindsight. On a trip to
visit Flowerss family in Ohio, Savoy drank a lot and talked about a
gun he kept in his car, Flowerss
brother said. The young man
seemed unusually interested in
his girlfriends hugging a male
friend, her mother and father said.
And his talk of marriage came
after only months of dating, a little
premature for some in Flowerss
family.
On Tuesday, police officials in
Arlington County said they believe
that Savoy fatally shot Flowers, 31,
inside the apartment they shared
on North Kensington Street in the
Westover neighborhood, then
shot and killed himself. Their bodies were discovered late Monday
afternoon, after Flowerss mother,
concerned that she hadnt been
able to reach her daughter all
weekend, got in touch with an
apartment maintenance man,
who contacted police. Lt. Kip MalSAVOY CONTINUED ON B2

Anybody out
there have a
friend whos an
American
multibillionaire?
Could you ask if
Courtland they ever notice
Milloy
things like, say,
growing social
unrest in the country? And if so,
do they give a darn?
Economic injustice, as much
as racism, is deeply implicated in
the recent killings of unarmed
black men by white police
officers. Millions are outraged. Is
that rage visible from, say, the
six-bedroom apartment at the

Pierre Hotel in New York that

someone just rented for
$500,000 a month?
Municipal governments lost so
much money during the Great
Recession while the rich were
getting richer, I might add that
many cities can no longer afford
to properly pay or train their
police.
In areas without a tax base to
speak of, where residents live in
poverty already, communities are
saddled with a police force that
is underpaid and underresourced in other ways, David
Harris, a University of Pittsburgh
law professor who studies

policing, told NBC News in

October. Its another form of a
penalty for being poor.
And yet, a police officer who
can barely afford to pay a car
note gets to drive a half-milliondollar military assault vehicle.
And the penalty for being poor
gets ramped up to homicide at
the hands of some poorly
trained, combat-minded cop.
Do the super-rich ever wake
up wanting to clue us in: Hey,
black and white working class,
can you stop harping on race
long enough to see that youre
both being robbed blind? Or, is it
just too much fun for rich folk to

watch us arguing over whether a

poor black man should have
been killed by police for selling
illegal cigarettes while ignoring
the bankers who got away with
billions in ill-gotten gains?
Oxfam, the international antipoverty organization, issued a
report this year that referred to
extreme economic inequality as
morally questionable. But
whats to question?
Extreme economic inequality
is damaging and worrying for
many reasons, the report said.
It can have negative impacts on
economic growth and poverty

N ICK A NDERSON

charlottesville After one of

its most tumultuous fall terms in
memory, the University of Virginia is plunging ahead with plans
to beef up campus safety, rein in
alcohol abuse, reform its fraternity culture and prevent sexual assault.
U-Va. President Teresa A. Sullivan said Tuesday that the university plans to hire more counselors
to help students deal with, among
other issues, grief after the death
of classmate Hannah Graham and
trauma they may be feeling about
sexual assault. It plans to revise its
written agreements with fraternal
organizations to ensure that safety becomes a high priority.
In the spring term, the university plans to deploy uniformed
ambassadors around and near
the campus to help escort students home or provide other help

RYAN M. KELLY/CHARLOTTESVILLE DAILY PROGRESS VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS

In addition to the security effort, President Teresa A. Sullivan says

the school plans to hire more counselors to help students deal with
grief after Hannah Grahams death and trauma over sexual assault.

In the final seconds before it

careened into the houses below,
pilot Michael Rosenberg fought
to control a pitching, rolling airplane that was losing the ability
to fly.
During the last 20 seconds of
the flight, an automated warning
in the cockpit chanted stall-stall,
stall-stall in staccato rhythm.
Those preliminary findings on
the crash that killed Rosenberg
and two passengers as well as a
mother and two young children
in a house Monday were gleaned
from voice and data recorders
examined by the National Transportation Safety Board.
Although the planes twin jet
engines continued to function
normally, the plane slowed too
dramatically to reach the runway.
On final approach to landing,
with flaps extended and landing
gear down, the plane should have
been flying at 120 mph. The cockpit data recorder downloaded in
the NTSBs Washington laboratory showed it was going 101 mph
in the final seconds of flight.
At that point, the flight data
recorder started showing a large
pitch and roll excursions, said
NTSB member Robert L. Sumwalt III in a news briefing Tuesday.
In keeping with NTSB regulations, Sumwalt did not speculate
on what caused the crash, a conclusion that may be revealed in a
final report some time next year.
He did, however, provide revealing details on the final seconds of the flight.
Near the point of impact, the
Embraer EMB-500/Phenom 100
was positioned in an aerodynamic stall, with its tail sharply down
and nose elevated. At that extreme angle, normal air flow that
keeps a plane aloft ceases, and the
plane loses the ability to continue
NTSB CONTINUED ON B2

Spending
deal blocks
D.C. pot
legalization
BY A ARON C . D AVIS
AND E D O K EEFE

on weekends when needed, an

idea taken from the University of
Pennsylvania. And it plans to
team with Charlottesville police to
open a substation near the hangout area known as the Corner.
When you have more officers
and more eyes and ears there, it
can help with all kinds of difficult
situations, Sullivan said.
Those were some of the action
items Sullivan listed in a one-hour
interview with The Washington
Post, her most extensive comments since Rolling Stone magazine published an article Nov. 19
that depicted an alleged gang rape
at a fraternity house not far from
her office in Madison Hall and
accused the university of indifferent responses to the plight of sexual violence victims. The article in
recent days has unraveled as
doubts have been raised about key
elements in the rape allegation,

The District will be prohibited

from legalizing marijuana for the
much of the coming year under a
spending deal reached Tuesday
between top Senate Democrats
and House Republicans to fund
the federal government through
next September.
The development upending
voter-approved Initiative 71
shocked elected D.C. leaders, advocates for marijuana legalization
and civil liberties groups who earlier in the day had grown confident that the measure would be at
least partially protected while
Democrats still controlled the
Senate.
However, with Republicans set
to take control of the chamber in
January, the defeat suggested that
the will of D.C. voters who approved marijuana legalization last
month by a margin of more than 2
to 1 may be suspended indefinitely.
I cant believe they did this,
D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) said. We dont need to
be locking these people up.
Its totally disturbing; its entirely undemocratic, said Adam
Eidinger, who led the efforts to
collect over 57,000 signatures this
year to put the measure before
D.C. voters.
Late Tuesday, Eidinger said
marijuana advocates were orga-

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MILLOY CONTINUED ON B5

U-Va. announces measures to increase safety

BY

A SHLEY H ALSEY III

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EZ

Weeks after
proposal,
Va. couple
found dead
SAVOY FROM B1

colm, a police department spokesman, said detectives found a

handgun in the home. Arlington
police had never been called to the
apartment for domestic violence.
To me, they were like the perfect couple, said Patricia Flowers,
Kristy Flowerss mother. There
was nothing to indicate that he
was a violent person.
Kristy Flowers, relatives said,
was a woman on the rise: a vibrant, outgoing, ambitious person
who worked for the government
contracting firm Leidos and was
studying law at American University in hopes of becoming a defense attorney.
Kristy Flowers hailed from
northeast Ohio but had lived in the
Washington area for many years,
having completed her undergraduate work at George Mason University, family members said.
Patricia Flowers said she was
present in July when her daughter
met Savoy at Falls Churchs Babylon Futbol Cafe. Kristy Flowers
was scheduled to have an operation a few days later and decided
to go out with her mother and
others for a sort-of last hurrah,
Patricia Flowers said. Flowers said
her daughter spotted a security
guard she thought was attractive
and asked her mom to talk to him
on her behalf. The guards name:
Ray Savoy.
The next day, Patricia Flowers
said, Savoy and Kristy Flowers
went out for milkshakes. And
when Kristy Flowers had her surgery, Savoy stopped by frequently
to walk her dog, carry her up the
stairs or draw baths for her, complete with wine and candles, Patricia Flowers said.
He was very nice. He was very
polite, Patricia Flowers said. He
was so caring.
It soon developed into a deeper
relationship. The two made a handsome couple, posting pictures on
Facebook when they went out for
drinksanddinner.Lastmonth,family members said, the pair traveled
to Ohio to celebrate the 50th birthday of Kristy Flowerss brother, Jeffrey, who said Savoy asked for his
sisters hand in marriage. I just
shook his hand and said, Hey, welcome to the family, he said.
Jeffrey Flowers called his sisters death shocking to us, although in hindsight, Savoy did
exhibit some unusual behavior on
the trip to Ohio, he added. He said
that Savoy drank a lot and talked
of a gun in his car though at the
time, Savoy also talked about
working in security and being in
the military.
Jesse Flowers, Kristy Flowerss
father, said Savoy seemed jealous
when his daughter hugged a male
friend. He said he was surprised
that his daughter and Savoy were
living together after only months
of dating and even more surprised
to hear talk of marriage.
I said, My daughter aint ready
to get married. I knew then he was
a danger to her, he said, his voice
beginning to crack. I dont know
what else I could have done except
warn my kid.
Patricia Flowers said that at one
point, her daughter expressed reservations about Savoy, but when
she inquired about those feelings
later, Kristy Flowers assured her,
No, Mom I love him. The
womans parents told the couple
that they should wait until Kristy
Flowers finished law school to
think about nuptials.
Court records indicate that a
man with Savoys name and the
same age appears to have been the
target of protective orders in years
past. All but one were dropped
before they were finalized.
A man who identified himself as
Savoys father and another relative
declinedtocommentforthisarticle.
Patricia Flowers said that she
last spoke with her daughter as
she was driving home from work
Friday and that nothing seemed
amiss. Her daughter told her that
Savoy worked on Saturday and
that she planned to spend the day
studying and cleaning, Patricia
Flowers said. She said she could
not reach her in the days that
followed and eventually got in
touch with the apartment maintenance man, who reached police.
matt.zapotosky@washpost.com
Hamil R. Harris contributed to this
report.

CRASH FROM B1

To be trapped like that, its

terrible.
As friends and relatives
learned what Marie did covering her children, trying to save
them they expressed no surprise.
She loved those kids more
than anything on the face of the
Earth, said John Sadlik, a friend.
Until Monday, the Gemmells
life seemed defined by smiles
and cheers. They hosted parties.
They took the children to D.C.
United soccer games. They liked
to eat together at the Dogfish
Head Alehouse in Gaithersburg.
Marie wouldnt just say, Hi, to
waitresses, said Haleigh Powell,
who works there. She would say,
Sit down and have a beer with
us, according to Powell.
Ken and Marie, natives of
New Jersey, were married Sept.
25, 2004, according to their Facebook pages.
Marie would write about it a
decade later, while pregnant
with Devin: 10 years ago today.
It was bright, clear sky and warm
and I was likely having a mimosa
right now. Today 2.5 kids, a dog,
turtle and a house later its rainy
and cold and Im on my way to
work with no mimosa. No matter
the weather or what we are doing
its still a great a day. Happy
10-year Anniversary Ken Gemmell.
Ken Gemmells Facebook page
also tells the story of a family
deeply entrenched in modern
family life: soccer practices, football games, garden tomato harvests, pride in a daughters progress in reading.
So in an effort to slow Arabelle down in her reading because she reads too fast and

COURTESY OF KEN GEMMELL

Marie Gemmell, with baby Devin, was remembered as a friendly

and helpful person who was devoted to her three children.
For a photo gallery, go to washingtonpost.com/local.

Ken Gemmells Facebook page tells the story of a

family deeply entrenched in modern family life:
soccer practices, football games, garden tomato
harvests, pride in a daughters progress in reading.

DECEMBER 10 , 2014

doesnt always grasp all the concepts, Ken wrote, I have given
her my college Calculus book.
Strangely she took it without an
argument, and now she wants to
trace some of the shapes and
graphs.
Marie replied: There is no
doubt she is your kid. Her love
and great skills at math make me
wonder if she is mine.
As Cole spent time at the
Cuddles and Crayons day-care
center, near their home in Gaithersburg, Marie became close
with Rana, who ran the place.
And this month, Cole was on
his way to being a successful
student at a big-boy school, as
he liked to say. His favorite color
was blue, and he always wanted
to sit in a blue chair and eat from
blue plates. He was potty-trained
last week, and he was proud.
He told his mommy he wanted 10 pairs of underwear, Rana
said. He was so smart. We
always said hes either going to
be an engineer or an architect.
With the arrival of Devin
and with Marie staying home
with him the Gemmells decided to reduce Coles day care to
part-time just Tuesdays and
Thursdays. He was at home Monday for the first time after the
switch, Rana said.
On Monday, as news of the
crash spread, Rana hurried
toward it, and she saw the Gemmells house in flames. It was
really confusing, she recalled.
We didnt know where anyone
was. We were all lost. The basement light was on, so we were
hoping they were in the basement. We were living in hope.
Ken also rushed to the house
and arrived while it was still in
flames. Firefighters told him that
they couldnt account for his wife

and sons.
Three people aboard the
plane also died. All were from
North Carolina: Michael Rosenberg, 66, David Hartman, 52,
and Chijioke Ogbuka, 31.
Rana was able to get Arabelle
and bring her to the day-care
center, where a relative picked
her up.
We tried to talk to her normally, said Rana, who thought
that the family should tell the
little girl what happened.
Jill Lyons, who has known
the Gemmell family for several
years, said Marie enjoyed entertaining for friends and
for children in the neighborhood. When Cole turned 3, she
threw an Elmo-themed birthday party. For Halloween, the
Gemmell children dressed up
as characters from the movie
Frozen.
Brian Polesnak of Clarksburg
said Marie Gemmell was always
glad to help others, whether that
meant organizing a happy hour
to raise money for Hurricane
Sandy victims or accompanying
him to Tiffanys when he was not
sure how to pick out a first-anniversary gift for his girlfriend.
Just last week, Polesnak said,
he talked to Marie about the
Christmas trip to New York she
was planning to take with her
family.
dan.morse@washpost.com
miles.parks@washpost.com
rosenwaldm@washpost.com
Alice Crites, Dana Hedgpeth and
Julie Zauzmer contributed to this
report.
Anyone wishing to donate to funds
set up for the Gemmell family can
visitwww.gofundme.com/
gemmellfamily.

Jet plane pitched and rolled before hitting house

NTSB FROM B1

flying.
Sumwalt said the investigation
appeared to discount an early
theory that birds may have
caused the engines to fail, much
like the famous 2009 incident
when birds sucked into the jet
engines of a US Airways Airbus
320 caused stalling, and the plane
made a forced landing in New
Yorks Hudson River.
Sumwalt said the engines functioned normally until impact;
there was no evidence a bird had
been ingested in either of them,
and pilots who were heard reporting birds in radio communications at the time later said that
the birds were on the runway, not
in the air.
There was no evidence that the
plane had disintegrated in the air
or that any portion broke away in
flight. The nose, tail and both
wingtips were recovered at the
crash scene, Sumwalt said.
We want to locate the four
corners of the aircraft to verify
that the aircraft was intact prior
to the impact, he said.
Neither did the weather scattered clouds at 2,100 feet and a
7-mph northeast wind appear
to play a factor.
Rosenberg was a highly qualified and well-established pilot. In
addition to 4,500 hours of flying
time, he was certified as a commercial pilot and as a flight instructor. He also was rated to fly
the Phenom, a sophisticated sixpassenger jet that costs more
than $4 million and is capable of
speeds in excess of 400 mph.
But Mondays crash was his
second in less than five years, and
the 2010 crash came as he approached the same airport
Montgomery County Airpark in
Gaithersburg while piloting a
single-engine turboprop plane.
In that instance, according to
an NTSB report, he approached
the runway with stall warnings
sounding as he touched down.
The plane drifted to the left side
of the 75-foot-wide runway, and
Rosenberg attempted to lift off
again with the intent of circling
the airport for a second landing
attempt.
Instead, the plane went about
100 feet to the left and crashed
into trees. He escaped with a
minor injury. The NTSB concluded that the cause was pilot error.
When a pilot is involved in an
accident, the Federal Aviation Administration reviews the circumstances to determine whether ac-

MATT MCCLAIN/THE WASHINGTON POST

ABOVE: A flight recorder was carried Monday from the plane that crashed in Gaithersburg, killing the pilot and his two passengers as well
as three people on the ground. BELOW: One of the aircrafts engines sat on a flatbed truck Tuesday after it was removed from the back
yard of the home on Drop Forge Lane where a mother and her two young children died.

The probe appeared

to discount an early
theory that birds
may have caused the
engines to fail.

MICHAEL S. WILLIAMSON/THE WASHINGTON POST

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an [FAA] inspector will take them
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federal aviation accident investigator who asked not to be identified because he was not familiar
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Rosenbergs 2010 crash.
The FAA did not respond to a
request Tuesday for Rosenbergs
pilot history.
Rosenberg, 66, died after a
57-minute flight from Chapel Hill,

N.C., near the Durham headquarters for his medical research firm,
Health Decisions. Two colleagues
aboard the plane David Hartman, 52, and Chijioke Ogbuka, 31
also were killed. Hartman was
the vice president of Nuventra, a
North Carolina pharmaceutical
consulting firm.
We are deeply saddened by
the loss of David and will miss
him both personally and professionally, Nuventra chief executive Geoffrey Banks said in a
statement. On behalf of all of us
at Nuventra, our thoughts and
prayers are with Davids family as
well as others affected by this
terrible tragedy.
There were three victims in the
house set afire by the crash: Marie
Gemmell, 36, and two of her
children 3-year-old Cole and
7-week-old Devin.
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MARYLAND

Starr aims
to boost
education
spending
BY

D ONNA S T. G EORGE

Montgomery Countys schools

chief proposed a $2.4 billion
budget for next fiscal year that
would boost spending by
$103.6 million as it seeks to address the districts surging enrollment and gaps in student
achievement.
Superintendent Joshua P. Starr
said his proposal, reflecting a
4.6 percent increase over this
years budget, would continue to
support innovative approaches
across
Montgomerys
202
schools.
This is a no-surprises budget,
Starr told reporters Tuesday
shortly after presenting it to the
school board. It is the third year
of a multi-year plan that is not
everything I hoped for, but it is
everything that we need.
The budget proposal would
add $19.6 million for more than
275 staff positions to address the
districts growth, including 96 for
special education services and
more than 40 for instruction of
English language learners. Another 78 new positions would be
linked to strategic efforts such as
middle-school improvement and
math instruction in the early
grades.
Not included in the plan is
funding for a change in high
school bell times. Starr is expected to report to the school board in
January with new options not
to exceed $10 million a year for
a possible shift that would allow
high schools to start later so teens
can get more sleep. Starr said his
proposal does not preclude such a
move.
The Board of Education certainly can add to the budget or
reallocate accordingly in order to
fund a bell times change, he said.
The proposal comes at a time of
economic uncertainty. The county said Tuesday that its latest
fiscal snapshot shows tax revenues at $179 million below projections. State officials say Maryland faces a shortfall of nearly
$600 million in its next operating
budget, with larger shortages expected in coming years.
Anticipating budget pressures,
Starr imposed spending restrictions in the school system as of
Dec. 1 , freezing or limiting hiring
for many positions and limiting
purchases.
School officials said the proposal includes a $75.2 million
increase linked to employee salaries and benefits. Employees are
due for a 2 percent salary increase
in October 2015 in keeping with
the second year of negotiated
contracts. The rise in benefit
costs was offset by an increase in
employee contributions to health
coverage, officials said.
Tom Israel, executive director
of the Montgomery County Education Association, the teachers
union, said the budget reflects a
challenging time for the county.
Our view is that this is primarily a same-services budget, and as
a community, if we want to close
achievement gaps, we have to be
willing to increase our investment in our schools, he said.
County officials said Tuesday
that the budget proposal would
exceed the state-mandated minimum funding level by more than
$100 million. Under state law, the
countys per-pupil education
spending must, at a minimum,
stay constant. In past years, county leaders have resisted locking in
such increases, which affect future years.
Montgomery County Council
President George L. Leventhal
(D-At Large) said Tuesday that
county officials think education is
the top priority, but my sense is
its going to be very hard to meet
Dr. Starrs [budget] number.
Starrs plan comes as enrollment is on a steep rise in Montgomery. With nearly 154,000 students this year, Montgomerys
school system has grown by more
than 14,500 students since 2008.
Starrs plan continues Montgomerys practice of providing
extra funding to high-poverty elementary schools. An average of
$1.9 million per school is used to
reduce class sizes and provide
added student support.
The plan also includes
$8.2 million in so-called strategic
investments such as increasing
support to students with disabilities and working to close the
achievement gap between students of different racial and ethnic groups.
Public budget hearings are
planned for Jan. 8 and 15, and the
school board expects to send a
final budget request to the county
in late February.
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B3

M2

Helping a teen go from homeless shelter to college

LOCAL D IGES T
THE DISTRICT

Kiara Williams

John
Kellys
Washington

knows what
people want to
hear.
They want to
hear about me,
says the 18-yearold, but they
want to hear the
story that comes
behind it,

basically.
The story that comes behind it.
Thats the story that explains
how what Kiara is doing now
something that so many of us
take for granted is, in her case,
something extraordinary,
something inspiring.
Kiara takes a deep breath.
Okay, she begins. We went
through a lot. My high school
years were basically the big
struggle. I missed a lot of school,
but I always kept my grades up.
In ninth grade, I missed about
three months all together
because we moved from
Maryland to D.C. But when we
moved from Maryland, we
moved to a one-bedroom
apartment with a lot of people.
Kiara is one of 12 children in
her family. At the time four
years ago there were nine
living at home with Kiaras
mother.
It was hard, Kiara continues.
Very hard.
As difficult as it was to live in
a one-bedroom apartment,
things got worse. The family was
forced to move in with Kiaras
adult sister, whose house had no
electricity or water.
It was a struggle for everyone
to get clean just to go to school,
she says. It was a struggle to
eat.
After six months, Kiaras

family moved again, to the

homeless shelter at D.C. General.
That was the worst, Kiara
says. Out of everywhere, that
was the worst. . . . It was
uncomfortable because I was
getting older, changing, and the
men were staring.
Kiara worried about herself,
and she worried about her little
sisters. She worried most of all
when she couldnt go to school, a
place that had become a refuge
for her.
In the middle of 11th grade,
after almost a year at D.C.
General, Kiaras family found
whats known as permanent
supportive housing through
Community of Hope, a local
charity that is a partner with The
Washington Post Helping Hand.
In addition to a spacious
apartment near Benning Road,
Kiara got the support of Roderic
Irby, a Community of Hope
youth specialist, and Amber
Anyanwu, a housing stability
case manager.
Roderic asked Kiara what her
goals were. Graduating from
Coolidge High School, of course,
but why stop there? She said
she wanted to go to college,
Roderic says. Well, okay. This is
what were going to do.
He arranged for Kiara to take
the SAT. He leaned on her to do
her college applications,
including the dreaded essay.
Kiara graduated ninth in her
class at Coolidge. She applied to
30 colleges and was accepted by
16. None gave her a full ride, but
Delaware State University gave
her the best financial aid,
$18,000 over four years. With the
help of Community of Hope, she
applied for scholarships and
seemed to have all her costs

covered.
But three weeks before classes
were supposed to start, a
problem arose. A random check
of financial aid applications
revealed that two boxes had been
checked in different ways, a
clerical error that threatened to
take weeks to fix.
We just didnt take no for an
answer, right? Amber says to
Kiara.
Community of Hope contacted
the university president, who put
them in touch with the schools
head of financial aid. The
problem was cleared up. Kiara
was going to college!
A week later, Delaware State
calculated that Kiara was $6,000
short. Kiara wasnt going to
college.
Community of Hope and
Delaware State found more
scholarships. Kiara was going to
college!
Then, a few days before class
was to begin, they were $1,200
short.
School started without Kiara.
One week went by as
Community of Hope and
Delaware State scrambled to find
more money. Then two weeks.
Kiara resigned herself to not
going to college.
Then, on the day before
Delaware State would not allow
any new students to start classes.
. . . Well, Ill let Kiara tell it:
I remember it like it was
yesterday. I was doing my
brothers girlfriends hair. I got a
call from Amber. She said I had
to go to the school today or
tomorrow. I was really happy. I
didnt show it, but I was really
happy.
Early the next morning,
Roderic and Amber picked Kiara

up at home to drive her to Union

Station. One of her brothers ran
after their car, shouting his
encouragement.
At the station, Roderic and
Amber said their goodbyes.
I didnt want to cry, Kiara
says. I kept it all together till I
was on the train and I was by
myself.
And then, as the train sped
towards a dream that once
seemed unattainable, Kiara
pulled a blanket over her head
and let the tears come.
She is studying nursing and
hopes to become a pediatrician.
You can help
Community of Hope played a
vital role in Kiaras story. By
donating to the charity, you can
help lift a D.C. family from
homelessness. A gift of $50
covers the cost of an outing for a
mentor and a homeless youth;
$100 will provide a homeless
family with one full day of
emergency shelter; $250
supports consultations with an
employment specialist; and $500
covers a week of rent for a family
in its own apartment. Any
amount will be much
appreciated.
You can make a tax-deductible
contribution by visiting
www.posthelpinghand.com and
clicking where it says Donate to
Community of Hope. To give by
mail, send a check payable to
Community of Hope to:
Community of Hope, Attn:
Helping Hand, 4 Atlantic St. SW,
Washington, D.C. 20032.
john.kelly@washpost.com
Twitter: @johnkelly
For previous columns, visit
washingtonpost.com/johnkelly.

Lock keepers house

to be restored
The Trust for the National
Mall announced Tuesday that
American Express has donated
$1 million to restore the old
stone lock keepers house, a
vestige of a bygone Washington
and the oldest existing
structure on the Mall.
The 178-year-old building, at
17th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW, once served a canal
lock that connected the
Washington branch of the
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and
Washington City Canal, which
ran toward the U.S. Capitol.
The house, near the
Washington Monument and the
National World War II
Memorial, has been boarded up
for more than 40 years, the
trust said. As part of the
restoration, the building will be
moved about 32 feet back from
the intersection.
Built as a home and
workplace, the house was
operated between 1835 and 1873
by a lock keeper who collected
tolls and ran the canal lock for
barges loaded with freight. The
building has been closed since
the 1970s.
Michael E. Ruane

MARYL AND

Woman accosted in
Metro parking lot
Police are looking for a
teenager who tried to demand
sex from a woman in a Wheaton
Metro station parking garage
Monday night.
According to Montgomery
County police, the 33-year-old
woman was getting into her
vehicle in the garage when a
male teenager holding a gun at
his side approached her. Police
said the teen demanded that the
woman follow him and perform
a sex act.
She refused, and the teenager
fled, police said, adding that the
woman drove out of the garage
and called police.
Julie Zauzmer

VIRGINIA

Doctor charged with

sexual battery

JOHN KELLY/THE WASHINGTON POST

Kiara Williams, 18, is a freshman at Delaware State University. Roderic Irby, a youth specialist at Community of Hope, and Amber
Anyanwu, a housing stability case manager, helped her get there.

A Manassas doctor accused of

inappropriately touching a
patient has been charged with
sexual battery.
Prince William County police
spokesman Jonathan Perok said
the patient, a 23-year-old man,
went to Patient First, at 9715
Liberia Ave. in Manassas, to be
treated for a sinus infection.
He reported to police on
Nov. 10 that his doctor, Tony
Chieuvan Bui Nguyen, had
sexually assaulted him during a
physical examination.
On Dec. 3, Nguyen, 35, of
Oakton was arrested. He was
released and is scheduled to
appear in court again Jan. 13.
Ian Slinkman, a spokesman
for Patient First, said Nguyen
has been placed on paid leave.
Julie Zauzmer

THE DISTRICT

In rival reports, state of homeless families differs

BY

R OBERT S AMUELS

Depending on whom you ask,

the District government is moving at an intense pace to curtail
the surge in family homelessness
or is not moving fast enough. So
read two early evaluations of the
handling of the citys most vulnerable citizens so far this cold season by the administration of Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) one
assessment from the administration and the other, to be released
Wednesday, from a coalition of
social services advocacy groups.
Both reports are drawn from
the same facts. They highlight
advocates and city officials differing views on how big a role
government should play in solving the pressing social problem.
The coalitions report, written
by Kate Coventry, a policy analyst
at the D.C. Fiscal Policy Institute,
states: A great deal of work needs
to be done soon to avoid a
repeat of last winters family
homeless crisis.
Deborah Carroll, the citys interim director for human services, said: I think this is a
glass-half-full or half-empty scenario. We all share the same
goals, but they sometimes dont
fully understand how a city works
and what works. We do, and were
having tremendous success.
The city and its social services
advocates have tangled over the
citys progress since last winter,
when emergency shelters became
so crowded that the city placed
families in recreation centers a
move now deemed illegal. The
city is legally bound to provide

shelter when temperatures dip

below freezing.
City officials say they are working faster than ever to move families out of shelters and into apartments. They have rented motels
to house more families and improved conditions at the decrepit
emergency homeless shelter at
the old D.C. General Hospital.
Data show that 317 families
were in city shelters as of last
week, 18 percent fewer than the
year before. But those numbers
do not tell the full story: This
winter has so far been balmier
than last, so fewer families have
sought shelter.
But more than 840 families are
expected to seek homeless services before April, a 16 percent
increase from last winters unprecedented number. And in the
longer-term, the city must try to
find stable housing for homeless
families now while preparing to
close the emergency shelter at
D.C. General and replace it with
smaller shelters across the city.
The coalitions report points
out flaws that might hinder the
citys efforts. The Department of
Human Services has yet to hire
three extra staffers it has said it
needs to help find apartments to
lease for homeless families, using
a temporary voucher known as
rapid rehousing. The city council allocated $600,000 to hire
more caseworkers to handle the
influx of families at D.C. General,
but the coalitions report says the
money has not been spent.
The report also sounds an
alarm on the lack of written protocols and data produced about

families that seek homeless services. The city was unable to

furnish written protocols for handling families when they first
seek shelter placement at Virginia Williams Family Resource
Center. Nor could the District
produce data showing the types
of case management that homeless families receive; the average
length of stay at D.C. General; the
number of families in the rapid
rehousing program; and where
those families go once the yearlong voucher expires.
Improvements to those services could enhance homeless
families chances of achieving
self-sufficiency, Coventry wrote.
If the city is to close D.C. General
within a year, Coventrys report
says, it must move 100 families
per month out of the homeless
system. The current monthly average is 63, the report says.
But Carroll, the interim human
services chief, praises the citys
progress, pointing out that in
May, families left the shelter system at a rate of 46 per month. She
also said that greater efforts are
being made to prevent families
from becoming homeless in the
first place including securing
more money to provide temporary rent assistance and conflict
mediation. These points were
made in the citys report.
Human services staffers are
also testing a program that
lengthens the rapid rehousing
voucher for mothers under 24
who are furthering their education. Only 38 families are involved in this program, Carroll
said. The coalitions report calls

for the program to be larger because nearly 50 percent of families at D.C. General are headed by
women under 24.
We need to see if these programs work, Carroll said. We
dont want to play Russian roulette with families who are already at risk.
The city does not share advocates goal of providing data on
what happens to families on their
exit from the rapid rehousing
program, Carroll said. The advocates are pushing for the collection of such data to help provide
homeless families a sense of the
challenges and potential successes that lie ahead while allowing
researchers to assess the longterm efficacy of the programs.
Were never going to be able to
fully measure how to reduce the
length of stay in homelessness
and how to assess whether services are effective without [that
data], Coventry said.
The city considers families a
success if they do not seek
homeless services again within a
year, said Carroll, who described
as Orwellian the idea of following up with families after they
leave the shelter system.
It is unclear whether this policy will remain under the administration of Muriel E. Bowser (D),
who will inherit handling of the
crisis when she takes office as
mayor in January. Bowser has
emphasized data-based decisionmaking and vowed to end family
homelessness by 2018. The details of her plan have not been
announced.
robert.samuels@washpost.com

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THE DISTRICT

City transportation ofcials wont pursue closing down stretch of I-395

BY

L UZ L AZO

Amid growing pressure, D.C.

transportation officials said
Tuesday that they are dropping a
request to shut a busy stretch of
Interstate 395 to expedite a major
construction project.
The mayor has made a statement, said Matthew Brown, the
citys transportation director, citing Mayor Vincent C. Grays directive Tuesday that the agency
pull the plan to close nearly a
mile of freeway for the Capitol
Crossing project.
DDOT continues to support
closing one of the highways
ramps to facilitate the safe and
timely construction of the
$1.5 billion project at the entrance to I-395, Brown said.
Last weeks news that DDOT
asked the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) for guidance on how to proceed with

shutting down a major commuter

thoroughfare that carries 90,000
vehicles a day drew strong criticism from commuters and elected officials, including members
of the regions congressional delegations.
The city had remained quiet on
the proposal, saying that DDOTs
only role was to forward the
request to federal officials, but
Brown broke the silence Tuesday
at a news event, where he said the
agencys communications with
FHWA were only an effort to
determine what would the process be for closing the interstate.
Its obviously a huge ask,
Brown said. I didnt see anything
wrong with at least exploring
options.
In a Dec. 5 notice to DDOT,
federal officials said they could
not consider the request until
DDOT conducted various studies
on the impact of the closure

studies that could take months if

not years.
But on Tuesday morning, Gray
(D) declared that the shutdown
would not happen.
Closing 395 is a non-starter
for Mayor Gray, said Doxie McCoy, a spokeswoman for the mayor. Upon reviewing the matter,
he has made his views very clear
we will not be closing 395, and
the administration will inform
the feds of that.
And, during a news conference
Tuesday by Mayor-elect Muriel E.
Bowser (D), where she introduced her new city administrator, Alexandria City Manager Rashad Young, she also spoke
against the idea.
I cant imagine closing 395,
Bowser said. The Young family
just came on 395 to get here, and
Im pretty sure they cant imagine
closing it, either.
New York-based Property

Group Partners, the developer of

Capitol Crossing, had made the
case to DDOT and FHWA that if
the highway is closed for up to 18
months, it could cut the construction time of a $200 million deck
over the freeways entrance by
half. That platform would create
three new city blocks and support
the
companys
mixed-use
2.2 million-square-foot development.
The developer declined to
comment Tuesday.
In a letter DDOT forwarded to
FHWA last month, the developer
said that closing the highway
implied no substantial cost savings to the developer, as some
critics have suggested.
This is offered as an approach
to lessen the headache for the city
and its residents in the long
term, wrote Robert Braunohler,
regional vice president of Property Group Partners.

Constructing the project over

6.8 acres of mostly airspace over
the sunken I-395 corridor to reconnect F and G streets between
Second and Third streets will
require overnight closures between D Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW and daytime
lane and ramp closures, Braunohler said.
The construction zone is expected to be twice as long as first
projected, he said, which means
traffic will be crawling past construction activities for nearly half
a mile, thus further increasing
back-ups and travel delays on the
highway.
The overall economic benefits
of the project will be expedited if
it is completed three years sooner, Braunohler said in his letter
to DDOT. The area will be safer
for cyclists and pedestrians if
vehicular connections can be reestablished more quickly. The

city and its economy will more

rapidly benefit from the increased tax revenue and employment opportunities.
Closing the portion of the freeway would have reduced the construction time to 20 months from
the projected five years, the letter
said.
City officials say they are still
awaiting FHWAs response to a
request for permission to close
the Third Street ramp.
Thats a smaller ask, Brown
said.
The developer and the city said
residents near the project have
raised concerns about the projects amount of night work and
noise but that the ramp closure
could help address those concerns.
lazol@washpost.com
Robert Thomson and Mike DeBonis
contributed to this report.

MARYLAND

MARYLAND

White Flint
has a new
identity

Slain man
a medical
pioneer

BY

K ATHERINE S HAVER

California has its Silicon Valley.

The District has its Penn Quarter.
And Montgomery County soon
will have its Pike District.
The new name will be used for
marketing a 1.5-mile stretch of
Rockville Pike between the Capital Beltway and the Rockville city
line at Twinbrook Parkway, an
area commonly referred to as
North Bethesda or White Flint.
The name Pike District drew the
most community support and was a
top pick among developers, according to Streetsense, a Bethesda firm
that ran a Sept. 11 community planning session for the White Flint
Partnership, a group of developers
and real estate firms. Developers
will use the name in marketing the
area as it morphs from a sprawling
suburb into a more urban area of
high-riselivingaboveshopsandrestaurants. Local neighborhoods will
keep their community names and
Zip codes.
On Tuesday, the countys White
Flint Downtown Advisory Committee approved the name unanimously.
Community members at the
September meeting called Pike
District authentic, clean and
straightforward, said Sarah
Wright, a creative strategist for
Streetsense.
Developers have said the White
Flint area needed a new name, or
rebranding, to better define it and
signal its transformation. The
name would need to be catchy
enough to grab national retailers
and businesses but authentic
enough to take hold with locals,
they said.
Were really confident in this
name, that this will drive economicdevelopment results, said Ed de
Avila of Lerner Enterprises, which
co-owns White Flint Mall, most of
which will soon be torn down to
make way for a town center.
For years, the area has had an
identity crisis. It has a Rockville
Zip code of 20852, which also includes mail addressed to North
Bethesda, but it is not within
Rockvilles city limits. The eastern
portion has a Kensington postal
address, while the countys growth
plan for the area was titled White
Flint. Realtors often use North
Bethesda, while many residents
refer to the shopping strip as
White Flint because of the Metro
station and mall name.
Names that the community rejected: The Stem (Reminds me of
stem cell research, one person
wrote), Quartz District (Dont
confuse people with another
rock, someone said) and Slate
District (too obscure).
In the middle with some support and some naysayers were:
The Rocksy (Cute! But too cute?
one wrote, while another said
Sounds like a strip club) and
Market District (Too bland,
someone wrote).
Pike District also had some
critics, particularly among those
who equate Rockville Pike with a
bumper-to-bumper mess.
Evan Goldman, of Federal Realty, which is turning the former
Mid-Pike Plaza shopping center
into Pike & Rose, a 24-acre urbanminded community, said Rockville Pike soon will be a vibrant
boulevard with trees and wide
sidewalks.
Whether Pike District becomes
as familiar as the Districts NoMa
and Arlingtons Ballston Corridor
remains to be seen.
The proof will be five, 10, 15
years from now if its taken or
not, Goldman said.
katherine.shaver@washpost.com

BY

TONI L. SANDYS/THE WASHINGTON POST

Santas helpers
Dressed as Santas elves, third-graders from a Silver Spring neighborhood wait for their instructions before following him to the
community's holiday tree lighting on Sunday. Every year, the neighborhood's third-graders help Santa pass out candy canes
during the holiday celebration.

M ARTIN W EIL

A man found slain in his Silver

Spring home over the weekend
had helped to make medical history four years ago.
Patricia Harris, the mother of
Jonathan Edward Terril Harris,
26, found his body Saturday in
their home on Eagle Rock Place
after a burglary was reported.
In November 2010, the mother,
as a donor, and the son, as a recipient, were part of what was described by MedStar Georgetown
University Hospital as the worlds
largest paired kidney exchange.
In all, 16 people donated kidneys
and 16 received them.
As part of the intricate pairing,
Jonathan Harris received a kidney
from Patricia Semple, who donated on behalf of her husband. Patricia Harris donated to Kiran Kochhar. The aim of using such a large
group was to raise the chances of
finding matches.
The hospital said at the time
that Jonathan Harris was born
with one kidney and began dialysis when it failed. Later, his body
rejected a kidney from his brother.
martin.weil@washpost.com

THE DISTRICT

Groups seek to shape Bowser transition using citizen surveys

Meanwhile, mayor-elect
picks Alexandria official
to be city administrator
BY

M IKE D E B ONIS

A coalition of nonprofit groups

has launched a novel effort to
advise D.C. Mayor-elect Muriel E.
Bowser on her transition, importing a model recently used in New
York City to tap the views of the
majority of District residents who
did not vote this year.
The centerpiece of the effort is a
23-question online survey that
asks residents to rate the city on
education, housing, transportation, service delivery, quality of
life and other measures. A parallel
effort from the Urban Institute is
developing policy recommendations in five areas: housing, education, transparency, economic
development and social and economic mobility.
The data is set to be presented
at a large-scale town hall that has
yet to be scheduled. It will be
organized by the National Institute for Civic Discourse, a group at
the University of Arizona whose
executive director, Carolyn J.
Lukensmeyer, organized large
citizen summits for mayors Anthony A. Williams and Vincent C.
Gray.
The town hall will prioritize

issues for action by Bowser, said

Kimberly Perry, executive director of D.C. Vote, one of the organizing groups. A Bowser transition
official said Tuesday that the mayor-elect is aware of the effort but
has not yet agreed to participate.
Perry said the effort is about a
platform to elevate citizen voices.
Weve struggled in this city to
get participation at the ballot box
or, really, participation in any civic discourse, she said. This is an
opportunity to get people to
weigh in. What are their opinions
about the direction of the city?
Talking Transition was first
deployed a year ago, before the
inauguration of New York Mayor
Bill de Blasio (D), with the backing
of the Ford Foundation and other
blue-chip philanthropic groups.
The Districts version was
launched Monday by groups including D.C. Vote, D.C. Working
Families and the Urban Institute.
Among the funders of both efforts is the Open Society Foundations, an organization founded by
billionaire investor and financier
of liberal causes George Soros.
About 177,000 D.C. residents
cast ballots on Nov. 4, out of
461,325 registered voters and a
voting-age population estimated
by the Census Bureau at 514,080.
In New York, more than 70,000
surveys were collected, Perry said.
In the District, she said, the goal is
to collect 10,000 surveys by Dec.
22 through the groups Web site, a

20-person canvassing team or

walk-in visits to the D.C. Vote
offices downtown.
Another town hall will likely be
scheduled for summer, she said:
We dont want it to go on the shelf
and sit by the wayside. We want to
see it incorporated.
The effort is otherwise taking
place apart from Bowsers transition organization, which includes
eight committees, a paid staff and
dozens of volunteers. That effort
has sought to solicit input from
the public, including a series of
public forums.

The effort, used in New

York a year ago, offers
a platform to elevate
citizen voices.
On Tuesday, Bowser announced one of the most consequential decisions in her young
career as a public executive, naming Alexandria City Manager Rashad M. Young to be her city
administrator.
Young, 38, has served Alexandria for the past three years; he
was previously city manager in
Greensboro, N.C., and Dayton,
Ohio.
Bowser said she had encountered Young through regional gov-

ernment circles and mutual

friends.
What was very important to
me is that I attract a person who
has run a city and who has shown
the skills to work on budgets, to
lead employees, work with labor
unions, and have a good sense of
listening and giving feedback to
the public, and Rashad has demonstrated that he has all of those
skills, she said. I know hes up to
this task.
In the District, Young will manage a budget more than 10 times
the size of Alexandrias city spending plan and a workforce nearly 10
times as large.
I have a very healthy respect
and appreciation for the size, skill
and scope of this responsibility,
he said. I dont take that lightly.
Bowser made the announcement in front of one of the citys
mountains of road salt, emphasizing her commitment to continue
improving basic city services including snow removal. But she
also discussed making new advances in government.
She said she would reinstate
CapStat, the data-based agency
accountability system established
under former mayor Adrian M.
Fenty, and she reiterated plans to
hire a chief innovation officer to
focus on technological advances
in D.C. government.
Among the problems she
pledged to address were the
chronically long lines outside the
citys social service centers: How

can we change that? How can we

look at technology so the person
who wants to access health care or
food stamps or other benefits
doesnt have to make those trips?
Young is required to move to
the District and will be paid
$295,000, Bowser spokesman
Joaquin McPeek said, the same as
outgoing city administrator Allen
Y. Lew. When he was hired in
Alexandria, Young was paid
$245,000 a salary that generated some criticism.
While serving in Dayton, his
home town, Young was also the
subject of a controversy surrounding an employment bias case.
A city technology administrator whose 2006 firing Young supported subsequently sued him, alleging racial discrimination by
Young, who is black, against the
administrator, who is white. The
official also alleged retaliation after the official sought to reprimand a relative of Youngs.
The case was settled in 2009 for
$145,000, according to a report by
the Dayton Daily News.
Young said the settlement was
made by the Dayton City Commission to dispose of the case and
involved no admission of wrongdoing.
Ive always operated with honesty and integrity, and Ive had
four, now, employers look at that
issue, and none of them have
found those allegations to be of
any merit or substance, he said.
mike.debonis@washpost.com

MARYLAND

Teacher becomes unintended recipient of pot-laced brownie

BY

M ARTIN W EIL

Almost everyone panics occasionally and does things they

wish they hadnt. That, according
to Anne Arundel County police,
may be why a high school teacher
came to be the recipient Monday

of a brownie laced with marijuana.

As police recounted the matter, the instructor, a teacher at
Broadneck High School in the
Cape St. Claire area, was brought
to the school nurses office about
1 p.m. after feeling ill and acting

disoriented. According to police,

the teacher said she had eaten a
piece of a brownie that a student
had brought to class.
The students girlfriend also
had some of the brownie and
appeared lethargic, police said.
The student, according to po-

lice, admitted giving the brownie

to his teacher and his girlfriend.
They said he indicated that he
got scared and panicked when
the teacher asked for a piece of
the brownie. Police said they
were told that in the students
frightened state, the contents of

the brownie went unmentioned.

The teacher was treated at a
hospital and released.
Police said the student was
charged as a juvenile with four
offenses and released to a guardian.
martin.weil@washpost.com

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THE WASHINGTON POST

Deal upends D.C.

approach to pot
MARIJUANA FROM B1

nizing a protest that would begin

Wednesday evening at the Justice
Department and march to Capitol
Hill with the potential for several
advocates to seek arrest.
Im ready for some civil disobedience. If youre going to overturn
an election, you might as well say
something before its done.
The developments capped a roller-coaster 24 hours in the worst
possible way for advocates of the
Districts marijuana measure.
Late Monday, congressional
aides had floated the possibility
that the spending deal would include a provision sought by conservative House Republicans to
block the voter-approved measure.
By midday Tuesday, it appeared
negotiators had found middle
ground to legalize possession of
marijuana but to allow no further
action by D.C. officials to create a
regulatry system for legal sales
and taxation of the plant.
But many warned that the partial constraints might prove to be a
worse outcome, potentially leading to chaos for lawmakers and
police officers trying to rewrite
and enforce city drug laws.
The ballot measure was written
to allow for possession of up to two
ounces of pot and home cultivation of up to three mature cannabis plants. It left up to city lawmakers the accompanying regulatory
structure for how to legally sell
and tax the plant.
Under a spending rider included in the 1,600-page bill distributed late Tuesday, neither part
would be allowed.
The language could also roll
back a law passed by the D.C.
Council and signed by Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) in the spring to
join 18 states that have eliminated
criminal penalties for marijuana
possession.
D.C. now issues a $25 citation
for marijuana possession, but under Monday nights vote, the penalty may revert to one of greater
severity.
Mendelson, reached late Tuesday, said he was dismayed Congress would send the citys drug
laws in reverse. Its bad enough
that they were setting their sights
on legalization, but for them to go
further and undo decriminalization its irrational when over a
third of states have done so.
The rider language mirrored an
amendment introduced over the
summer by Rep. Andy Harris,
(R-Md.), the most outspoken congressional critic of D.C. legalization.
Earlier Tuesday, he predicted
that any deal betwen Democrats
and Republicans would signal
widespread skepticism for marijuana legalization for recreational
use.
Following a speech at the conservative Heritage Foundation,
which was interrupted repeatedly

by marijuana advocates, Harris

said a deal would show fairly
broad-based support in Congress
against legalization.
Marylands only House Republican also said he had no qualms
about interfering with the results
of the Nov. 4 election. On that day,
voters in Alaska, the District and
Oregon chose to legalize marijuana, but only the Districts vote was
subject to oversight by Congress.
The fact is the Constitution
gives Congress the ultimate oversight about what happens in the
federal district, Harris said.
It was unclear what Senate
Democrats bargained for the marijua restriction in the District but a
sign that the measure was on the
chopping block came Tuesday afternoon when Senate Majority
Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.)
conceded that it appeared likely to
remain part of the final bill.
The District of Columbia
should do what they want to do,
Reid said, adding that he opposes
congressional limits on how the
city implements Initiative 71 to
legalize marijuana.
Another sign the measure was
in trouble came when D.C. Democrats directed anger at senators of
their own party. I certainly dont
know why Democrats would agree
to block legalization while we still
control the White House, we still
control the Senate and who
knows, they may even need Democratic votes to pass this, said Del.
Eleanor Holmes Norton.
The Districts nonvoting House
member said she had been locked
out of the decision-making process entirely. I dont even know
which Democrats are in the room.
. . . I cannot tell why Democrats
would want to give Republicans a
head start to do what they are
going to be able to do, I suppose, in
less than a month when Republicans take control of the Senate.
Kimberly Perry, head of D.C.
Vote, an organization dedicated to
voting representation for the District in Congress, said any limits
on how the city could implement
the legislation would be unacceptable.
If reports are true, members of
Congress from both parties bargained away the rights of the people of the District of Columbia and
in doing so compromised the core
democratic values of the United
States, she said in a statement.
Perry urged members of Congress
to vote against this attempt to
undermine democracy.
Congressional
Republicans
have previously used a similar
technique to put limits on how the
heavily Democratic city carries
out liberal social policy, including
spending its tax dollars to fund
abortion coverage for the poor.
aaron.davis@washpost.com
ed.okeefe@washpost.com
Marian Baksh contributed to this
report.

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obituaries
ERNEST C. BRACE, 83

Vietnam Wars longest-held civilian prisoner

BY

E MILY L ANGER

Ernest C. Brace, a Marine

Corps pilot who was decorated
for combat service in Korea, then
was court-martialed for desertion
after a stateside plane crash and
later was celebrated for his fortitude as the longest-held civilian
POW in the Vietnam War, died
Dec. 5 in Klamath Falls, Ore. He
was 83.
The cause was complications
from a pulmonary embolism, said
his wife, Nancy Brace.
Mr. Brace spent nearly eight
years in captivity. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a former Navy
aviator who occupied the cell
adjacent to Mr. Braces at the
infamous prison known as the
Hanoi Hilton, once described him
as a man whose bravery and
sacrifice for this country have had
no bounds.
By his early 20s, Mr. Brace was
a seasoned and accomplished pilot. He flew more than 100 missions in Korea including one in
which he encountered heavy enemy fire and was forced to crashland in the Sea of Japan, where a
U.S. ship rescued him. For those
actions, Mr. Brace received the
Distinguished Flying Cross.
In January 1961, he was a
captain enrolled in an officers
training course at Quantico, Va.,
when a plane he was piloting
crashed on Marylands Eastern
Shore. Mr. Brace abandoned the
scene, reportedly hitchhiked to
Baltimore and turned himself in
10 days later after authorities
discovered his discarded flight
suit.
He said at the time that he was
burdened by domestic and financial problems and had hoped to
get away from it all. Law enforcement officials alleged that
he had attempted to fake his own
death in order to allow his family
to collect on a life insurance
policy.
Mr. Brace insisted that the
plane had malfunctioned, and a
federal jury acquitted him of purposely destroying the government aircraft. A Marine Corps
court martial convicted him of
desertion and sentenced him to
punitive dismissal.
Mr. Brace later became a civilian contract pilot ferrying supplies and passengers into Laos
during the Vietnam War. On May
21, 1965, Communist forces attacked his plane on a Laotian
airstrip. He was captured and
taken to the jungle prisons where
he would begin his seven years, 10
months and one week in enemy

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Ernest C. Brace, left, is greeted in 1973 after his release from captivity in Vietnam. Brace was
imprisoned in a cell next to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and last year received a Purple Heart.

hands.
That period, he recalled in an
account published on the POW
Network Web site, would be
spent mostly encaged in small
bamboo cages, to be beaten,
starved, buried alive, and humiliated as few modern day humans
have known.
Mr. Brace was said to have
repeatedly attempted escape. After one effort, the Associated
Press wrote, he was buried up to
his neck for a week. He recalled
that he endured more than four
years of solitary confinement.
Once, he recalled, he attempted to
choke himself.
He eventually was transferred
to the Hoa Lo complex in North
Vietnam, also known as the Hanoi Hilton, where through taps
and furtive messages transmitted
between cells, he embarked on a
spirit-sustaining friendship with
McCain, who had been captured
in 1967.
The wall was like a confessional, Mr. Brace recalled. The
person on the other side existed
in voice only.
On March 28, 1973, Mr. Brace
was released. Soon after, he met
McCain at a White House event
for former POWs hosted by President Richard M. Nixon.
A guy came up to me and I
looked at him and he said, Im
Ernie Brace, McCain told an
interviewer. It was such an emotional moment for me.

reduction; and it can multiply

social problems. When wealth
captures government
policymaking, the rules bend to
favor the rich, often to the
detriment of everyone else.
It sounds like a modern-day
warning from Plutarch, the
ancient Greek biographer, who
has been quoted as having
written 1,900 years ago: An
imbalance between rich and
poor is the oldest and most fatal
ailment of all republics. Except
that the super-rich dont seem
particularly disturbed.
Businessman Charles Koch
(worth $42.1 billion, according to
Forbes) ran a TV ad last year that
said anyone earning $34,000 is
in the top 1 percent of income
earners in the world, that is. In
America, though, even in the
least expensive parts of the
country, it takes roughly $44,000
a year for a family of three to live
in relative comfort, according to
the Economic Policy Institute in
Washington.
Billionaire investor Warren
Buffett ($73.6 billion) certainly
sounds more sympathetic to the
cause of economic justice.
The rich have come back
strong from the 2008 panic and
the middle class havent, and
that affects demand and that
affects the economy, Buffett told
CNN Money last year. The
people at the bottom end should
be doing better. I think it
behooves this very rich country
to have less inequality than we
have.

In March, Buffett expressed

his support for an increase in the
earned income tax credit, a wage
supplement for low-income
workers. Microsoft founder Bill
Gates ($81.4 billion) has
suggested that the economic gap
could be narrowed by taxing
consumption instead of labor.
Maybe both ideas have merit.
Id settle for a full employment
program and reduce poverty by
ending that atrocious doubledigit jobless rate among African
Americans a modest request
in a country where the aggregate
net worth of the Forbes richest
400 Americans was $2.29 trillion
in 2014.
At the World Economic
Summit in Davos in January,
there appeared to be a glimmer
of hope. Wealthy business people
seemed to have an interest in
promoting economic justice.
According to the summits
annual Global Risks 2014 report,
business leaders cited structural
unemployment and
underemployment, severe
income disparity, and profound
political and social instability
among their greatest concerns.
The generation coming of age
in the 2010s faces high
unemployment and precarious
job situations, hampering their
efforts to build a future and
raising the risk of social unrest,
the report said.
Anybody know what
happened to that concern?
courtland.milloy@washpost.com
To read previous columns, go to
washingtonpost.com/courtlandmilloy.
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In 1974, President Gerald R.

Ford granted Mr. Brace a full
pardon. Last year, in part through
efforts by McCain, he received a
Purple Heart and the Prisoner of
War Medal.
As a civilian, Ernie was under
no obligation to adhere to the
Code of Conduct, McCain wrote
in his memoir Faith of My Fathers. But Ernies conscience
demanded much from him. He
kept our code faithfully. When the
Vietnamese offered to release
him, he declined, insisting that
others captured before him be
released first. No one I knew in
prison, Army, Navy, Marine, or Air
Force officer, had greater loyalty
to his country or derived more
courage from his sense of honor.
Ernest Cary Brace was born
Aug. 15, 1931, in Detroit. He
joined the Marines at 15, his
family said, and was commissioned as an officer at the time of
his 20th birthday.
He and his first wife, the former Patricia Emmons, had four
sons before his service in Vietnam. One son, Patrick, said in an
interview this week that his
mother remarried during Mr.
Braces imprisonment because
she believed he was dead.
When Mr. Brace returned, his
marriage was annulled. In 1974,
he married Nancy Rusth, a nurse
who had assisted him in his rehabilitation. Besides his wife, survivors include his sons, Ernest

Brace of Bonita Springs, Fla.,

Patrick Brace of Abington, Mass.,
Michael Brace of St. Petersburg,
Fla., and Cary Brace of Rapid City,
S.D.; a sister; and eight grandchildren.
After his imprisonment, Mr.
Brace told a National Geographic
interviewer, he worked in Latin
America, China, Russia and the
Middle East on programs including narcotics control programs,
foreign military sales and fuel
contracts.
During the Persian Gulf conflict of the early 1990s, he said
that he helped establish a medical
evacuation system for firefighters
in Kuwait.
Mr. Brace wrote two books, the
memoir A Code to Keep: The
True Story of Americas LongestHeld Civilian POW in the Vietnam War (1988) and Monkey
Paw Soup: And Tales of Drugs,
Thugs, Revolution and War
(2012).
Once, Mr. Brace reflected on
how he had survived his imprisonment.
I never thought I would die up
there, and escape seemed possible all the time in my head, he
said. Later, after they had crippled me, I felt that they were
keeping me alive for some reason
and someday Id be going home.
But in the beginning, he observed, I think my Marine Corps
training kept me going.
emily.langer@washpost.com

KEN WEATHERWAX, 59

NATHANIEL BRANDEN, 84

Portrayed Pugsley on
TVs Addams Family

Self-esteem writer was

Ayn Rand lover, acolyte

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Ken Weatherwax and Lisa Loring, as Wednesday, played the

children of Gomez and Morticia Addams on the 1960s show.

Ken Weatherwax, who played

the child character Pugsley on
The Addams Family television
series in the 1960s, was found
dead Dec. 7 at his home in Box
Canyon, Calif. He was 59.
The cause was an apparent
heart attack, said Joey D. Vieira,
his half brother.
Pugsley, the son of Gomez and
Morticia, was a member of the
family of macabre oddballs in the
television series, which aired on
ABC from 1964 to 1966 with its
familiar, finger-snapping theme
song.
He stayed in show business
after he grew up, although on the
other side of the camera. Mr.

Weatherwax worked as a grip on

the sets of several Hollywood
productions, said Vieira, a former
actor himself who played the
character Porky in the original
Lassie series.
Mr. Weatherwax retired a few
years ago for medical reasons,
Vieira said.
Kenneth Patrick Weatherwax
was born Sept. 29, 1955, in Los
Angeles. His family had connections to the film industry; he was
reportedly a nephew of Ruby
Keeler, a star in 1930s movie
musicals, and Rudd Weatherwax,
an owner and trainer of an early
Lassie, the canine star.
From staff and wire reports

M ATT S CHUDEL

Nathaniel Branden, who became a chief disciple and lover of

the writer and libertarian lodestar Ayn Rand until a turbulent
falling out led to his new career as
a best-selling writer of books on
self-esteem, died Dec. 3 at his
home in Los Angeles. He was 84.
He had complications from
Parkinsons disease, said his assistant, Vivian Buentiempo-Johnson.
Mr. Branden was a 19-year-old
college student in California in
1950 when he sent a note to Rand,
the author of his favorite novel,
The Fountainhead. She invited
him for coffee.
I reached for the doorbell, Mr.
Branden later wrote in a 1989
memoir, knowing without
words and with irresistible certainty that nothing was ever going to be the same again.
He talked with Rand and her
husband,
Frank
OConnor,
through the night and didnt
leave their house until 5:30 the
next morning. He soon became
part of Rands inner circle and
one of her fiercest advocates. He
changed his name from Nathan
Blumenthal to Nathaniel Branden, deliberately incorporating
Rand into his new surname.
After moving to New York, Mr.
Branden and his young wife, Barbara, became devoted acolytes of
the Russian-born Rand. The
Fountainhead (1943) and another of her novels, Atlas
Shrugged (1957), became seminal texts of an emerging school of
thought that emphasized muscular notions of laissez-faire capitalism, self-interest and rational
egoism, which might be described best by the title of another
of Rands books: The Virtue of
Selfishness (1964).
Rand scorned anything reek-

ing of the communism she had

seen during her youth in Russia.
She was an outspoken opponent
of taxes and welfare, which later
followers made articles of faith in
certain conservative and libertarian circles.
Mr. Branden helped develop
Rands ideas into a philosophical
construct that became known as
objectivism. He organized meetings of Rands supporters in the
1950s, including Alan Greenspan,
who later became chairman of the
Federal Reserve Board. In 1958,
Mr. Branden launched the Nathaniel Branden Institute, which
presented seminars on Rands
ideas around the world.
Mr. Branden was 24 when he
and the 49-year-old Rand began
an affair in 1954. Rand insisted
that each of their spouses know of
the relationship, but otherwise it
was kept secret.
Shed always people her books
with strikingly beautiful women
who go off on romantic flings
with dashing young men, Barbara Branden, who wrote a biography of Rand in 1986, told the
Chicago Tribune that year. Now,
here was Nathaniel, who was superintelligent and handsome,
and he worshipped her. So she
finally had the chance to play the
part of one of her novels feminine
heroes.
Rand told her husband, OConnor, that he would have to vacate
their apartment twice a week
while she and Mr. Branden had
their trysts. OConnor began
drinking heavily. Mr. Brandens
marriage suffered as well.
Finally, in 1968, Barbara Branden revealed to Rand that Mr.
Branden was having an affair
with a third woman.
Ayn fell into a fury, Barbara
Branden said in 1968. I made
that pipsqueak, she shrieked,
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AXELROD
and Katie Buteau (Joe); sister-in-law,
Joyce Doyle; nephews, Shawn Doyle (Linny)
and Ryan Doyle (Mindy); many other loving
relatives and friends.

Writer was
disciple,
lover of
Ayn Rand

Irwin was born October 11, 1929 in Brooklyn,

New York to Sadie and Louis Axelrod. He
graduated from Brooklyn Technical High
School in 1947 and from Cornell University
College of Architecture in 1952. In 1968 he
received a Masters degree in Psychology
from The New School of Social Research
in New York City. A veteran of the Korean
War, he returned home to New York City
in 1954 and practiced architecture for over
20 years in the New York area. In 1978 he
moved with his family to Washington, DC to
continue his career with the U.S. Department
of Veterans Affairs as Chief of Technical
Services in the office of Construction and
Facilities Management. He retired in 2005.

IRWIN AXELROD
On Friday, November 14, 2014, at home in
Riderwood Village, Silver Spring, Maryland,
Irwin died peacefully with his family by
his side. Loving husband, father and
grandfather, we all loved him dearly.
His wife of 54 years, Sydney Axelrod, sons
Eric Axelrod and David Axelrod, daughter
Elizabeth Kyle Brown, son-in-law Chad
Brown, and grandsons, Ryan and Dillon will
cherish his memory. He is also survived by
brothers, Norman Axelrod (Vicki) and Lloyd
Axelrod; nieces, Lauren Axelrod Hiatt (Eric)

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GRANT A. BYRD (Age 80)

HILDA CROSS ELLIS (Age 86)

FRANK C. CRISAFULLI
In loving memory of our husband, father,
grandfather and great-grandfather. 18 years
ago today, our Father called you Home. This
home you left has missed you every day. It will
never be the same without you. We miss you
and love you forever.
Your Loving Wife, Florence and Family

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Nathaniel Branden met Ayn

Rand when he was 19.
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C OR R E C T I O N

The Dec. 9 obituary for church

member and volunteer Emily M.
McNamara incorrectly described
Michael D. McNamara as a family
friend. He is a surviving son.

ANNA LARSON BLOOMER

Anna Larson Bloomer, the matriarch of the
Bloomer family, passed away peacefully, with
her children at her side, on Saturday, December 6, 2014 at the Johnson Center Nursing
Home in Sterling, Virginia. She was 91. She
had been a Washington, DC and Virginia
metropolitan area resident for more than
70 years, living primarily in Landover Hills,
Maryland and Sterling and Reston, Virginia.
She was a mother, grandmother, and great
grandmother.

In the mid 1950s, Mrs. Bloomer worked at

home in Landover Hills, Maryland as a part
time secretary for an insurance agent. In the
late 1950s and 1960s, she was an active
member of the Saint Marys Catholic School
Parents and Teachers Association in Landover
Hills, Maryland. She was a volunteer for
the John F. Kennedy Presidential Election
Committee in Hyattsville, Maryland in 1960.
While living in Sterling, Virginia in the 1980s
she worked for a short time as a secretary for
Mrs. Bloomer was born at home on March the former Defense Communications Agency
11, 1923 to Elvina Henderickson Larson and in Reston, Virginia.
Albert Olaf Larson among the peaceful rolling
hills of the small Scandinavian-American farm Mrs. Bloomer was an avid BINGO player,
community of Northfield Township, Jackson gardener and landscaper, and loved to walk to
County, Wisconsin. She was one of nine keep physically fit. She had an easy peaceful
brothers and sisters and grew up on the grace about her that everybody loved. She
Larson family farm in Northfield.
was known for her warm loving smile, her
infectious laugh, and her wonderful sense of
Mrs. Bloomer was preceded in death by her humor. Throughout her life, Mrs. Bloomer
husband, Edward Gerard Bloomer, originally always stayed true to the Greatest Generation
from Newburgh, New York, who at age 85 values of duty, honor, country, love of God and
died on their 60th wedding anniversary on family, and above all, responsibility for one
October 27, 2005. She is also preceded in self that she learned while growing up on
death by her parents, Elvina and Albert Lar- the family farm during the Great Depression
son, and four brothers, Alvin, Odell, and John and serving her Country during World War II.
Larson of Osseo, Wisconsin and Earl Larson
of Alma Center, Wisconsin, and her grandson, Family will receive guests Sunday, December,
Steven Bloomer, who died in Myrtle Beach, 14 from 12 noon to 2 p.m. at Adams-Green
South Carolina in June of 2014.
Funeral Home, 721 Elden St., Herndon, VA,
20170. Funeral Mass, Monday, December 15,
Mrs. Bloomer is survived by her five children, 9:45 a.m. at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic
Barbara Halter of Frederick, Maryland, Church 18825 Fuller Heights Rd., Triangle,
Michael (Lynn) of Gainesville, Virginia, Jeffrey VA 22172 followed by interment with her
(Linda) and Neil (Jean) of Manassas Virginia, husband at Quantico National Cemetery,
and Kathleen (Andy) Thomas of Atlanta, Geor- Quantico, VA at 11 a.m.
gia. She is also survived by four grandchildren, Beth Foster of Baltimore, Maryland, In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in
Eric Bloomer of Cary, North Carolina, Michael Mrs. Bloomers name to the Women in Military
Thomas of Atlanta, Georgia, and Sarah Service for America Memorial Foundation,
Thomas of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Inc., Department 560, Washington, DC 20042four great grandsons, brothers Michael and 0560, or the Friends of the National World
Gabriel Foster of Baltimore, Maryland and War II Memorial on the Mall, 921 Pennsylvania
brothers Connor and Liam Bloomer of Cary, Avenue, SE, Suite 304, Washington, DC 20003.
North Carolina. Mrs. Bloomer is also survived
by one brother and three sisters and numer- Information and condolences at
ous other Larson and Henderickson family
www.adamsgreen.com
relatives in Wisconsin.

Of Frederick, Maryland, passed away peacefully on Saturday morning, December 6, 2014,

at Northampton Manor in Frederick, Maryland,
surrounded by his loving family.
A funeral ceremony will be held at 12 Noon
on Thursday, December 11, 2014, at Stauffer
Funeral Homes, 1621 Opossumtown Pike,
Frederick Maryland 21702. Bishop Jerry Price
and Pastor Alicia Byrd will officiate. Final resting-place ceremonies will follow at Resthaven
Memorial Gardens in Frederick.
Family will receive friends two hours prior to
the service on Thursday, December 11, 2014,
at the funeral home.
Expressions of sympathy may be offered to the
family at
www.staufferfuneralhome.com

Of Rockville, MD, departed this life peacefully

on December 4, 2014. Funeral Services will be
on Saturday, December 13, 2014, 12 Noon, at
Liberty Spring Baptist Church, Edgefield, SC.
Flowers may be sent to Butler and Son Funeral
Home, 306 N. Boulknight Ferry Rd, Saluda, SC.

CORDDRY
MARION MATTES CORDDRY

NORMA ELAINE WASHINGTON

1937 -1974

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ADAMS

On Monday, December 8, 2014, of Gaithersburg, formerly of Kensington. Beloved wife

of the late Charles W. Corddry; loving mother
of Charles W. Corddry, III, Philip M. Corddry
and Karen Corddry Bricken; grandmother of
David J. Bricken, Erin L. Corddry, Alexandra E.
Corddry, Owen M. Corddry, Dana Corddry and
the late Philip C. Bricken. A memorial service
will be held at St. Pauls United Methodist
Church, 10401 Armory Ave., Kensington, MD
on Saturday, December 20, 2014 at 2 p.m. In
lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be
made to the Asbury Benevolent Care Fund,
Asbury Methodist Village, 201 Russell Avenue,
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20877. Please view
and sign the family guestbook at
www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com

BRIDGET FLAHERTY ADAMS (Age 60)

On Monday, December 8, 2014. Beloved husband of the late Margaret C. Hammond. Loving
father of William Mike (Kathleen) Hammond,
Jr., Joseph M. (Virginia) Hammond, Steven B.
Hammond, Frances E. (Randy) Simpson , and
Lou E. (Jeffrey) Taylor; Also survived by 12
grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. Relatives and friends may call at BORGWARDT
FUNERAL HOME, 4400 Powder Mill Road,
Beltsville, on Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9
p.m. where a funeral service will be held at 10
a.m. on Friday, December 12, 2014. Interment
George Washington Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Lung
Association, www.lung.org or American Heart
Association, www.heart.org).
www.borgwardtfuneralhome.com

de ZAVALA

ANDERSON

BULLOCK
JAMES BULLOCK "Earl"
Passed away Monday, December 1, 2014. He
is survived by two daughters, Kristie Bullock
and Paulette Clifford. Services will be held on
Friday, December 12, at Peace Baptist Church,
712 18th Street NE. Viewing 10 a.m. Service 11
a.m. Services by Dunn and Sons Funeral Home.

BURSTEIN

HOWARD
LELA ALICE ELIZABETH BUGG HOWARD

MARIA EUGENIA de ZAVALA

1933-2014
Of McLean, VA, left us to join the Lord on
Friday, December 5, 2014. She passed away
peacefully surrounded by her loved ones. Maria
Eugenia is survived by her husband of 56
years, Alfonso, her children Alfonso, Gracia
and Amalia, by her sister Nelly of Lima, Peru,
six grandchildren, and one great- grandchild.
In life she enjoyed interior decorating, making
flower arrangements, kept active by helping
others and playing canasta with her beloved
friends. She will be missed and remembered
with love by her family and those who knew
her, for she touched everyone in very special
way.
A Funeral Mass for the repose of her soul will
be held on Thursday, December 11 at 10:30
a.m. at St. John the Beloved Catholic Church,
6420 Linway Terrace, McLean, VA 22101. In
lieu of flowers, donations may be made to
St. Judes Childrens Hospital or the Catholic
Charities, Diocese of Arlington.

DUNN

DIAGO
Grilla, or The Cricket, earned by her many
childhood exploits.

FRANCISCA PANZARDI DIAGO

Francisca Panzardi Diago passed away peacefully after a brief illness on Tuesday, December
2, 2014 at 9:30 p.m., with her daughter, Dorita
D. OSteen, and granddaughter, Frances S.
Mitchem-Diago, by her side.
Francisca was born in 1908 in Mayagez,
Puerto Rico, the fourth of 10 brothers and
sisters born to Santiago Panzardi and his wife,
Ins, all of whom she survived. One of her
favorite movies was Cheaper by the Dozen,
which depicted the life of a large family at the
turn of the last century, reminiscent of her
own. Francisca lived up to her nickname, La

She is survived by her children; her daughterin-law, Betsy Diago; her grandchildren,
Annette Diago, Helen Ace, Iraida Diago,
Michelle Meli, Charles Mitchem-Diago, and
Frances, and her great-grandchildren, Eduardo, Natalia-Isabel, Sarah-Nicole, Aidan,
Nicholas, Emma, and Jackson Carlos. Her
memory will also be cherished by the
Mitchem family, her niece Susie Babilonia,
and her many surviving nieces and nephews
and their children and grandchildren.

INGE S. BURSTEIN
Of Oakton, VA died on November 28, 2014.
She was the beloved wife of the late Lloyd
M. Burstein; loving and devoted mother of
Wayne Burstein (Lisa O'Hara) and Eric Burstein
(Terri Burstein). She is also survived by her two
granddaughters, Jensina and Annika Burstein.
A reception will be held at the Marco Polo
Restaurant, 245 Maple Avenue West, Vienna,
VA on Saturday, December 13, 2014, at 1 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may
be made to Capital Caring, Adlerson Center
Fund, 24419 Millstream Drive, Aldie, VA 20105.
Online condolences and fond memories may
be offered to the family at
www.moneyandking.com

Visitation will be held at Murphy's Funeral

Home, 1102 W. Broad Street, Falls Church,
VA on Friday, December 12, from 2 to 4 and
6 to 8 p.m. Funeral mass to be celebrated
at St. James Catholic Church, Spring Street
and Park Avenue, Falls Church, VA, on
Saturday, December 13, at 10 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made
to The Salvation Army or a charity of your
choice.

MILTIADOU
MICHAEL MILTIADOU (Age 99)
On Monday, December 8, 2014 Michael Miltiadou of Silver Spring, MD. born in Cyprus.
Beloved husband of the late Anna Miltiadou;
loving father of Donna (Panikos) Georgallas and
Dino (Myroulla) Miltiadou; cherished grandfather of Lambros (Katerina), Michael (Grisel),
Anna, Kyriacos and Christos; adored greatgrandfather of Panayiotis Georgallas. Also survived by a host of other loving family and
friends here and in Cyprus. Friends may call
at the Hines-Rinaldi Funeral Home, 11800 New
Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD on Wednesday, December 10, 2014 from 5 to 8 p.m.,
Trisagion Prayer at 7 p.m. Funeral Services
will be held on Thursday, December 11, 2014
at 11 a.m. at their temporary location, St.
Andrew Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral, 15100
New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD. Interment Gate of Heaven Cemetery. In lieu of
flowers, memorial contributions may be made
to Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church of Washington, DC Building Fund,
701 Norwood Road, Silver Spring, MD 20905.

A third generation Washingtonian, she married Michael F. Keogh in Dahlgren Chapel

at Georgetown University in 1928, where he
earned his Bachelors and Law degrees.

Also surviving are four grandchildren, Michael

Keogh Farr (Laurie Fishburn), Washington, DC;
Mary Joyce Farr Colwell (Todd), Westport, CT;
Stephanie Farr Lennon (Daniel), Washington,
DC; Julia Farr Connolly, Bethesda, MD and
eleven great-grandchildren.

Died peacefully on December 6,

2014 after a prolonged illness. She
grew up in New York City, graduated from Smith College, and moved
to Chevy Chase, Maryland in 1987.
She was the daughter of the late
Alfred Jaretzki, Jr., a senior partner with Sullivan & Cromwell Law Firm in NYC and the
late Edna Merson, a prominent Civil Rights
Advocate. Her marriage to the late Henry T.
Lipman ended in divorce. Mrs. Lipman is
survived by her two children, Dr. Tim Lipman
(Hannah) and Ruth Simon Anderson (Frank
Anderson); five grandchildren, and six greatgrandchildren. She was an accomplished quilter, knitter, and embroiderer and had a deep
love of classical music and opera. She had
been an active Girl Scout Leader for many
years before moving to Maryland.
Funeral services will be held at Temple Micah,
Washington DC at 2:30 p.m. on December
9, 2014. In lieu of flowers, donations may
be made to Needlechasers of Chevy Chase
(Needlechasers.org) or to House of Ruth;
(houseofruth.org).

Esther Maidenbaum, formerly of

Woodmere, NY passed away on
December 8, 2014 at the age of
96. She was preceded in death by
her loving husband, Lou and her
beloved daughter Linda Janoff. She
is survived by her daughter Gail Maidenbaum,
her brother Hylan Segal, her sons-in-law Phil
Schreiber and Jeff Janoff, her grandchildren
Abby (David) Colbert, Mark Janoff, Eric
Schreiber and Zach Schreiber and her great
granddaughter Miren Colbert. Esther worked
as a volunteer at the Cerebral Palsy Center
on Long Island for over 25 years. Graveside
services will be held in New York. Contributions
in her memory may be made to The Children's
Learning Center, United Cerebral Palsy Assn
of Nassau County, 380 Washington Ave, Roosevelt, NY 11575 or to the charity of your
choice.

She was educated at Holy Trinity School in

Georgetown and remained a Shakespearean
devote, quoting long passages from his plays
throughout her life.

MARGARET IMOGENE du FIEF

KEOGH REED "Gene"

LIPMAN
MARGARET JOSEPHINE
JARETZKI LIPMAN "Josie" (Age 97)

ESTHER MAIDENBAUM

Mrs. Reeds siblings, John L. du Fief, C. Thomas

du Fief, J. Sinclair du Fief, Clayton F. du Fief,
M. Catherine du Fief Colbert, Marion E. du
Fief Hillegeist and Agnes L. du Fief Maloney
predeceased her.

Margaret (ne du Fief) Keogh Reed, of Washington, DC and Rehoboth Beach, DE, age
106, died in her home on November 27,
2014. Devoted wife of Michael F. Keogh,
attorney, whom she married in 1936, died
in 1978 at age 76. She is survived by three
daughters, Joyce Keogh Farr (Harry Hull Farr)
of Chevy Chase, MD, Katherine du Fief Keogh,
Washington, DC and Adele Corcoran Keogh,
New York, NY. In 1980 she married Stacy M.
Reed, attorney and President and Chairman,
Board of Sibley Memorial Hospital (19601999). Mr. Reed died in 2000, age 101.

On Tuesday, December 2, 2014. Beloved mother of Derrick (Janet) Howard and cherished
grandmother of Derrick Jr. and Aaron Howard.
She is also survived by two sisters, Bertha
Brown and Ora Wright; one brother, Zonnie
Bugg and a host of other loving family and
friends. The family will receive friends on
Thursday, December 11 from 10:30 until time
of memorial service 11 a.m. at First Baptist
Church of Glenarden, 3600 Brightseat Rd.,
Glenarden, MD.
www.fort-lincoln.com

MAIDENBAUM

of Darnestown, MD and Georgetown, DC.

Mrs. du Fiefs family, of Huguenot heritage,
originally travelled from France to New
Orleans, LA and settled in Darnestown.

SCHWARTZ
JOSEPH A. SCHWARTZ, JR. (Age 93)
On Thursday, December 4, 2014, church at St. Mark's.
Joseph A. Schwartz, Jr. died at He finally "retired" from real estate a few
Riderwood in Silver Spring at the years ago but not before selling the homes of
age of 93. Joe had been married scores of people so they could move in and
to Rita Decker for 66 years until join him and Rita at Riderwood. He started
her death in April of 2011; they an electric cart rental business for Riderwood
have two surviving children, Joseph (Jay) residents and, ever engaged, served as PresA. Schwartz, III (wife, Laura) of Baltimore ident of the Riderwood Night Owls, a social
and Nanci Jean Schaefer (husband, Harry) of group that raises funds to support Riderwood
Silver Spring as well as six grandchildren and residents in need.
nine great-grandchildren. Joe is also survived Joe remained disheartened after Rita's death
by his youngest brother, James I. Schwartz but soldiered on with his bridge friends, cart
of Silver Spring, and numerous nieces and business and ever growing family. Recently,
nephews.
he made substantial contributions to an
Joe, one of seven children, was a graduate of endowed scholarship at Gonzaga High School
Gonzaga High School (1939) and Georgetown named after his father. Until the end, Joe
University (1943). Upon graduation, he joined remained positive and uplifting in all he did.
the U.S. Army where he was assigned to a The family expects him to continue rooting
secret wartime project developing the fore- for Notre Dame from his new location.
runner to the present day cruise missile.
Relatives and friends may call at Collins
After the War, Joe and Rita moved to Funeral Home, 500 University Boulevard
Hyattsville where he started a successful West, Silver Spring, MD, (Valet Parking), Thurscareer as an insurance and real estate broker. day, December 11, from 7 to 9 p.m. Mass
He was the charter president of the Hyattsville of Christian Burial on Friday, December 12,
Optimist Club and became "Mr. Optimist" at Church of the Resurrection at Riderwood
with his record of 37 years of perfect atten- Village, 3110 Gracefield Road, Silver Spring,
dance. He was also a member of the Knights MD at 12 p.m. Interment Gate of Heaven
of Columbus, the Rotary and the American Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be
Legion.
made to Gonzaga High School, 19 Eye St., NW,
He and Rita were original and very active Washington, DC 20001, denominated to the
parishioners at St. Mark's Catholic Church in Joseph A. Schwartz, Sr. Endowed Scholarship
Hyattsville; one of Joe's last activities there, Fund.
www.COLLINSFUNERALHOME.com
was to serve as the unpaid construction
manager for the current and very beautiful

On Sunday, November 16, 2014, Christopher C. Dunn passed away having suffered
irreversible heart problems. Born on June
13, 1968, he is survived by his mother
and father, Roberta "Bobbie" Dunn and
William "Joe" Dunn of Falls Church, VA;
sisters Elizabeth "Betsey" Kirkemo, Barbara
Dunn (Rick Wiegand), daughter Sopia, stepdaughter Maria; nieces Victoria and Valerie
Kirkemo; former wife and dear friend Adriana Martinez; many aunts; uncles; cousins
and friends.

REED

A Memorial Mass will be held at St. Mark

Catholic Church, 9970 Vale Road, Vienna, VA,
on Saturday, December 20, 2014 at 11 a.m.
Online condolences and fond memories may
be offered to the family at
www.moneyandking.com

Suddenly on Thursday, December 4, 2014

Frances Hall of Falls Church Virginia Departed
this life. She leaves to cherish her memory
three sisters, three brothers and a host of
nieces, nephews and friends. Ms. Hall may
be viewed at Warner Baptist Church, 3613
Lacy Boulevard, Falls Church, Virginia 22041 on
Friday, December 12, 2014. Viewing will begin
at 10 a.m. with services immediately following
at 11 a.m., Reverend Matthew Pearson. Interment Pleasant Valley Memorial Park Services
by CHINN-BAKER.

WILLIAM E. HAMMOND

BARBARA GARLOCK ANDERSON

(Age 67)
Of Crofton, Maryland passed away on Friday,
November 28, 2014. Barbara (also known
as Cookie by her family) is survived by her
son Mark (Suzy Puffpaff), daughter Tracy (Tom
Blankenship) and grandsons Cayden, Justin
and T.J. Her brothers, Edward Butch Garlock
(Sharon), Dalton Sonny Garlock, Jim Garlock
and Darrell Garlock. Her sisters Shirley Paul
(Lawrence), Rosie Haines and Linda Baer. Her
sister-in-law Mae Garlock (Bobby) and brotherin-laws Dale Anderson (Laura), Roger Delozier
(Bunny) and Bob Troutman (Darlene). Her
special nephews John Shorty Coulter (Julie
Wayson), Anthony Garlock and a large number
of nieces and nephews.
A closed service will be held for family and
close friends. Memorial donations may be
made to the National Breast Cancer Foundation or the ALS Association.

HALL
FRANCES HALL

HAMMOND

Passed away on Saturday, December 6, 2014.

Predeceased by her parents Herbert and Margaret Adams. She is survived by her dear
friends Roey Hasset and Linda Moses. Also
survived by the many members of her office
family from the Law Firm of Seyfarth Shaw.
For 35 years she was the first face that
both employees and clients saw every day. In
addition she had numerous cousins including
Edward Donoghue. A Funeral Mass of Christian
Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday,
December 12, 2014, at St. John Neumann
Catholic Church, 11900 Lawyers Rd., Reston
VA. A reception will be held immediately following the service. Contributions may be made
in her name to Catholic Charities. Online condolences may be left at www.adamsgreen.com

CHRISTOPHER C. DUNN

Francisca worked for several years as an

instructor at Gladys de Castros renowned
aesthetician academy, and also opened and
operated a beauty salon of her own. An avid
traveler, she visited myriad places throughout
Europe whenever she could. Eventually, she
met and married Captain Hector M. Diago and
they had a son, Carlos, and daughter, Dorita.
After giving up working full-time to raise her
family, she continued to lead an exemplary
life, instilling optimism and courage in everyone with her caring ways, and becoming a
second mother to those who knew her (and
savored her cooking).

On December 7, 2014, Hilda Cross Ellis of

Brandywine, MD, passed into eternal rest.
Beloved wife of the late Melvin Leo Ellis;
devoted mother of Hilda Diane Daniels (Ernest
Sr.) and Brenda Lee Sarmiento (Vicente); loving
grandmother of Ernest Daniels Jr. (Lyndsay) and
Brian Clements.
Visitation at Huntt Funeral Home, 3035 Old
Washington Road, Waldorf, MD on Friday,
December 12, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 12 Noon
Funeral service at 12 Noon. Interment at Trinity
Memorial Gardens, Waldorf, MD.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made
to Cheltenham United Methodist Church, Seasons Hospice (Glen Burnie), or the Volunteer
Fire Dept. of Brandywine, Inc.

GILCHRIST

An avid gardener and flower arranger, Mrs.

Reed was an original member of the Perennial
Garden Club, a member from 1950 until her
death. She was a member of the Columbia
Country Club, Chevy Chase, MD and Rehoboth
Beach Country Club, DE. A dedicated antique
collector, she remained in her home that she
designed in 1939, until her death. From 1946
on, her summers were spent in Rehoboth
Beach.

PACKMEZIAN

Mass of Christian Burial will be held on

Saturday, December 13, 2014, 11:30 a.m. at
Our Lady of Victory Church, 4835 MacArthur
Blvd NW, DC, 20007, followed by a private
interment at a later date.

LAWRENCE VAHE PECKMEZIAN

(Age 67)
Of Arlington, VA, passed away on December 7,
2014.
Lawrence is predeceased by his parents, Vahe
and Nelsa Peckmezian.
Lawrence is survived by his wife, Karen McKeever; his sons, Mark and Alex; his daughter,
Tina; his sister, Anna Piliguian (Tro) and grandchild, Baby Heilo.
A visitation will held at Murphy Funeral Home,
4510 Wilson Blvd, Arlington VA 22203 on Thursday, December 11, 2014 at 11 a.m. followed by
a service at 12 Noon.
The family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Our Lady Queen Of
Peace Church in Arlington, VA.

In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made

to Sibley Memorial Hospital Foundation, 5255
Loughboro Road, NW, DC, 20016, www.sibleyfoundation.org, c/o Arlene Snyder, Director
of Development or to Stone Ridge School
of the Sacred Heart, Development Office,
She was born on July 3, 1908 in Georgetown, 9101 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20814,
DC to Mrs. Mary Imogene McIntyre du Fief www.stoneridgeschool.org.
of Georgetown and Mr. Louis Buckey du Fief

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The Brandens were soon divorced, and Mr. Branden
launched a new career in California. In 1969, he published the first
of many books about self-empowerment and love, The Psychology
of Self-Esteem, and founded an
organization called the Institute
of Biocentric Psychology.
His principles for leading a
purposeful life included self-assertiveness, self-acceptance, selfresponsibility and personal integrity ideals that came directly
from Rand.
At three oclock in the morning, when we are alone with
ourselves, Mr. Branden wrote in
his 1984 book, Honoring the
Self, we are aware that the most
intimate and powerful of all relationships and the one we can
never escape is the relationship to
ourselves.
Nathan Blumenthal was born
April 9, 1930, in Brampton, Ontario, and grew up in Toronto. He
was attending the University of
California at Los Angeles when he
met another Canadian, Barbara
Weidman, who also was an admirer of The Fountainhead.
They moved to New York in
1951 and were married two years
later. Mr. Branden changed his
name in 1954, the same year he
graduated from New York University. He received a masters degree
from NYU in 1956 and a doctorate
in 1973 from the California Graduate Institute, a school that was
not accredited at the time by the
American Psychological Association.
His second wife, Patrecia Scott
Wynand, died in 1977. His third
marriage, to Estelle Devers, ended in divorce. Survivors include
his wife of eight years, Laurie
Leigh Horton Branden of Los
Angeles, and a sister.
Mr. Brandens complicated relationship with Rand first became widely known in 1986,
when Barbara Branden, who died
in 2013, published The Passion
of Ayn Rand. The book was the
basis of a 1999 Showtime film,
with Eric Stoltz as Mr. Branden
and Helen Mirren as Rand.
When Mr. Brandens memoir,
Judgment Day, was published in
1989, author Susan Brownmiller
wrote in the New York Times that
his youthful infatuation with
Rands writing lends credence to
the canard that too much reading
can unbalance a young, impressionable mind.
Mr. Branden was known as an
enforcer of orthodoxy among
Rands followers, reprimanding
anyone who strayed from her
tenets.
I became an avenging angel,
he wrote in his memoir. This is
one of the aspects of you I love
most, Ayn told me afterward, the
purity of your ruthlessness.

Mrs. Bloomer was a member of the Greatest

Generation, a child survivor of the Great
Depression in the 1930s, and a teen-age
War Department employee in the early 1940s
during World War II. After graduating from
Whitehall high school in Whitehall, Wisconsin
in 1941, Mrs. Bloomer attended business
school in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and then at
age 19, she moved to war time Washington,
DC in May of 1942 where she was employed
as a secretary to the Chief of Army Finance
at the War Departments new Pentagon office
building in Arlington, Virginia, where she
worked until 1946. In October of 1945, Mrs.
Bloomer married Edward Gerard Bloomer, a
former WW II Army Engineer, at Saint Mathews Cathedral in Washington, DC, and two
years later, she began her new full time career
as a stay at home mom and homemaker for
what would become five children of the baby
boomer generation.

DEATH NOTICE

CLEO D. GILCHRIST

The magic is still alive.

Thinking of you continues to brighten my days
and warm my heart. Miss you and love you,
Hubby, Bob

BLOOMER

DECEMBER 10 , 2014

IN MEMORIAM

A celebration of Irwins life will be held

on Sunday, January 18, 2015 at 12 Noon
at Riderwood Village in the Town Center
Celebration room. The Axelrod family
extends their gratitude to Montgomery Hospice for their expert care and support, and
to the Riderwood Home Health and Support
Services staff and aides, who were so caring
and helpful.
In memory of Irwin, contributions may be
made to Montgomery Hospice in Rockville,
Maryland.
(montgomeryhospice.org)

. WEDNESDAY,

Members of the Association of

Retired Police Officers of D.C. are
notified of the December 5, 2014
death of Robert G. Powell. He was
an OFF with MPD-11PCT when
retired on July 1, 1966.

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LEO WARREN "Clyde"

On October 3, 2014 in Princess
Anne, MD. Member of Columbia
Typographical
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#101-12
(Retired Washington Post). Services private.
Robert L. Stevenson, President

WESSELLS
MARY LEURETTA WESSELLS (Age 66)

ROBERT JOHN ROBINSON

Departed this life Wednesday, December 3,
2014 of Temple Hills, MD. Devoted husband
of Georgia Robinson; beloved father of Kevin
(Christy), Karen and Kathy Robinson; dear
brother of Mary "Bunny" and the late Thomas
Robinson. He is also survived by 16 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; other relatives and friends. Friends may visit with the
family, Thursday, December 11 from 10 a.m.
until time of service, 11 a.m. at Marshall-March
Funeral Home, 4308 Suitland Rd., Suitland, MD.
Interment private.
www.marshallmarchfh.com

SEWELL
NAOMI McCLOUD SEWELL
Entered into eternal rest on December 4,
2014 in Washington, DC. She is survived by
three children: Deborah Sewell, Deniese Bond
(Michael) and John Sewell: four grandchildren
and five great-grandchildren. Services will be
held at Turner Memorial A.M.E. Church, 7201
16th Place, Hyattsville, MD on Thursday,
December 11, 2014 viewing at 10 a.m., followed by the funeral service at 11 a.m. Interment at Maryland National Memorial Park.
Arrangement by McGuire.
www.mcguire-services.com

SHARPE-NEWMAN
AMELIA DAPHINE SHARPE-NEWMAN
On Tuesday, December 2, 2014. She is survived
by her loving husband of 10 years, James
Newman; daughter, Jessica Morgan Sharpe;
two sisters, Iris Howington Majett and Mildred
Green; one brother, Joseph Sharp; motherin-law, Gloria Newman; two step-children,
Natasha Newman and James Newman Jr.; a
host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and
friends. Visitation 10 a.m. until time of service
11 a.m. Friday, December 12 at Jericho City of
Praise, 8501 Jericho City Drive, Landover, MD.
Interment Resurrection Cemetery. Arrangements by POPE FUNERAL HOME.

SLAVIN

On Monday, December 8, 2014, of

Silver Spring, MD. Beloved wife of
Gerry Wessells; mother of Pamela
and John (Melissa) Wessells; sister
of John Hamilton; grandmother of
Kathryn Wessells. Relatives and
friends may call at Collins Funeral Home,
500 University Boulevard West, Silver Spring,
MD, (Valet Parking), on Thursday, December 11,
from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Interment private.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may
be made in memory of Mary to Holy Cross
Hospice, 11800 Tech Road, Silver Spring, MD
20904.
www.COLLINSFUNERALHOME.com

WHATLEY
ELIZABETH JEAN WHATLEY (Age 81)
Passed away on Thursday, December 4, 2014
at the Cridge Assisted Living Facility. She is
survived by her devoted husband of 59 years,
Julius Whately; son, Andre; daughter-in-law,
Deetra; granddaughter, Madison; sister-in-law,
Barbara Battle; nephew, Rev. Lloyd Garrett and
a host of nieces, family and friends.
Home going service will be held Friday, December 12, 2014 at Emmanuel Baptist Church,
located at 2409 Ainger Pl., SE, Washington, DC.
Viewing at 10 a.m., Service 11 a.m. Interment
Ft. Lincoln Cemetery.

WILLIAMS
JEAN RILEY WILLIAMS (Age 94)
Died on Monday, December 8, 2014 in Bethesda, MD. Jean was born on April 10, 1920 in
Phoenixville, PA. She was preceded in death
by her husband of 55 years, Russell Williams,
and her son Paul Tucker Williams. Survivors
include four sons, Clark and wife Michelle,
Mark, Riley and wife Gail, Pete and wife Bette,
seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
A memorial service will be held on Friday
December 12, 2014 at 11 a.m. at The Bethesda
United Methodist Church, 8300 Old Georgetown Rd, Bethesda, MD 20814. In lieu of
flowers donations can be made to BUMC.
Arrangements made by Pumphrey Funeral
Home
www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com

Of Alexandria, VA, peacefully passed away

on Wednesday, December 3, 2014. Beloved
wife of George T. Zarvis; loving mother of
Nancy Knott of Hollywood, MD and Paula M.
West of Alexandria, VA. Also survived by four
grandchildren and one great-grandson. Rella
was employed by the National Bank of Washington as a bank teller on Bolling Air Force
Base until her retirement. She enjoyed fishing,
boating and spending time with her family. She
will be missed and was dearly loved. Funeral
arrangements will be made at a later date.
Please view and sign the familys online guestbook at
www.jeffersonfuneralchapel.com

On Sunday, December 7, 2014, Donna Marie

Zeller, 79, beloved wife of Robert Zeller, mother
of Nancy Ellwood and Mary Foringer, grandmother of Kristin and Ryan Foringer, passed
away after complications from a stroke. She is
preceded in death by her son, David, and her
parents, Charles and Stella (Evenson) Weber.
Donna was born in Stewartville, Minnesota
in 1935, moved often when her family was
young, but spent most of her life in Potomac
and Frederick, Maryland. She was the devoted
matriarch of the Zeller family and friend to
many. A memorial service will be held at
Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 7730 Bradley
Boulevard, Bethesda, MD on Friday, December
12, 2014 at 1 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to the Habitat for Humanity in
Donnas name. Please sign the family guestbook at
www.pumphreyfuneralhome.com

IN MEMORIAM

HAMILTON

VERNICE C. MITCHELL

ALYSSA JOY STITH "Lisa"

Suddenly on Saturday, November 29, 2014,

Vernice C. Mitchell of Arlington, VA. Sister of
Emma Tish Moorman. She also leaves to
cherish her memory two nieces, two nephews,
other relatives and many friends. Mrs. Mitchell
may be viewed on Thursday, December 11,
2014 at Saint John's Baptist Church, 1905
South Columbia Pike, Arlington, VA 22204 from
9 a.m. until time of funeral services at 11 a.m.
Pastor John J. Nicholas, Jr. Interment National
Memorial Park. Services by CHINN-BAKER.

On Sunday, November 30, 2014 of Mitchellville,

MD. Youngest daughter of Dr. James H. Stith
and Alberta J. Stith. In addition to her parents,
Alyssa is survived by sisters, Dr. Adrienne Y.
Stith-Butler and Dr. Andrea L. Stith; nephew,
Nicolas Butler and niece, Maya Butler. Services
will be held at First Baptist Church, 5400 Silver
Hill Rd., Forestville, MD 20747 on Saturday,
December 13 at 11 a.m., with a prior visitation
hour starting at 10 a.m. In lieu of flowers, the
family requests contributions be made to the
Martha Mason Hill Memorial Foundation, Inc.,
2013 Clearwood Drive, Mitchellville, MD 20721.
Please view and sign the familys guestbook at:
www.beallfuneral.com

PORTER
THACKER

HUNTON
GOODGER
RUTH RICHARDS PORTER

RELLA M. ZARVIS
(Age 82)

ZELLER

SANFORD SLAVIN

GERALD F. HOGAN "Jerry"

Of McLean, VA, passed into eternal life on
December 8, 2014 at home surrounded by his
loving family. Jerry was born on May 2, 1950,
in Binghamton, NY. He was a 1972 graduate
of the University of Notre Dame and a 1977
graduate of the University of Toledo College
of Law. He was predeceased by his parents,
William L. and Marion McKinney Hogan; and
is survived by his loving wife of 32 years,
Donna O'Brien Hogan; their sons, Brian and
Kevin; daughter, Kelly; by his five brothers, four
sisters and their spouses; and by 33 nieces
and nephews. He was AVP of Federal Relations
for ATT, Inc, and a faithful parishioner of St.
John the Beloved Roman Catholic Church in
McLean, VA. Visitation will be on Thursday,
December 11 from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8
p.m. at Murphy Funeral Home, 4510 Wilson
Blvd, Arlington, VA, and his Mass of Christian
Burial will be on December 12 at 12:30 p.m.
at St. John the Beloved, 6420 Linway Terrace,
McLean, VA. In lieu of flowers, donations may
be sent to Colon Cancer Research Program
at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Center.

ZARVIS

DONNA MARIE ZELLER

On December 7, 2014 "Sandy" Slavin of

Bethesda, MD. Beloved husband of Doris;
devoted father of Jeffrey Z. Slavin of Chevy
Chase, MD, Roni Slavin Pekins and husband
Peter Pekins of Durham, NH. Grandfather of
Anna Pekins of Saratoga Springs, NY and
Ryan Pekins of Bozeman, MT. Also survived
by numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and
close friends. Preceded in death by his parents Jacob Zelich and Irene Mutnick Slavin;
two sisters, Bernice Gordon and Felice
Joseph and one brother Benjamin Slavin. A
Service will be held at Washington Hebrew
Congregation, 3935 Macomb Street NW,
Washington, DC on Wednesday, December
10, at 11 a.m. Interment to follow at King
David Memorial Gardens. Family will be
sitting Shiva at the home of Sandy and Doris
on Wednesday, December 10 and Thursday,
December 11 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. In lieu
of flowers or food, memorial contributions
requested to Montgomery Housing Partnership, Jewish Community Center of Greater
Washington/Camp JCC or Montgomery College Foundation for the Students of the
Gudelsky Institute.

CLARENCE M. GATES, SR. (Age 83)

Of Fort Washington, MD passed Monday,
December 8, 2014. He was born April 14,
1931 to the late Clarence A. Gates and Mary
Hazel Gates. He was the beloved husband
of the late Marjorie L. Gates and brother
of the late Francis C. Gates. He was the
owner/operator of Gates Automotive of Ft.
Washington, MD for over 50 years. He was
an avid fan of the Washington Redskins and
NASCAR and loved spending time working
in his vegetable garden. He is survived by
his sons, Clarence M. Gates, Jr. "Manny"
(Sandy), Robert A. Gates (Stephanie), Kevin
L. Gates (Vivian), Michael E. Brooks (Bridget)
and Stephen Brooks; eight grandchildren, six
great-grandchildren and his brother, William
Gates, Sr. (June). Relatives and friends are
invited to Butch's Life Celebration at the
GEORGE P. KALAS FUNERAL HOME, 6160 Oxon
Hill Rd., Oxon Hill, MD on Thursday, December
11 from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 pm. Mass of Christian
Burial will offered on Friday, December 12
at 11 a.m. at St. Mary's Piscataway,(Chapel),
13401 Piscataway Rd., Clinton, MD. Interment
Resurrection Cemetery. In lieu of flowers,
memorial donations may be to Hospice of the
Chesapeake,
www.hospicechesapeake.org
Online guestbook available at:
www.KalasFuneralHomes.com

JEAN COOPER HUNTON

GLADYS S. GOODGER
Gladys H. Goodger, daughter of Frank and
Stella Hadachek Hostinsky was born in Cuba,
Kansas on August 26, 1918 and died on
December 3, 2014 at Riderwood Nursing
Home. She attended the Cuba Public Schools
and Kansas State Agricultural College and was
a teacher in the Cuba area school system
for 4 terms. She was married to the late
Kenneth E. Goodger on June 16, 1940 in
her parent's home in Cuba, Kansas. Gladys
worked for the Federal Government and as a
Secretary in a law firm for many years in the
Hyattsville area. She was a member of several
Senior Citizen Clubs and the Eastern Star
Lodge Ophel Chapter 115 as a life member
for 68 years until her death. She was a
member of the Riverdale Presbyterian Church
in University Park, MD and served as a Deacon
for several years. Gladys is survived by her
son Kent and wife Patty of Laurel, MD; a
grandson Brian Goodger and his wife Brooke
and son Zachary of Sandy Spring, MD, and
a granddaughter Lisa Goodger of Scottsdale,
AZ, a nephew Dale Hotinsky and niece Joyce
Hotinsky of Cuba, Kansas, a nephew Kermit
Goodger of Las Vegas, Nevada, six cousins and
many friends. She was preceded in death
by her brother, Franklin Jr., Hostinsky and her
sister-in-law Norma. Friends and family were
invited to a viewing on Sunday, December
7, 2014 from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. at
Gasch's Funeral Home, P.A., 4739 Baltimore
Ave., Hyattsville, MD 20781. A funeral service
was held on Monday, December 8, 2014 at
10 a.m. at Riverdale Presbyterian Church,
6513 Queens Chapel Road, Hyattsville, MD.
Interment Fort Lincoln Cemetery, Brentwood,
MD. Memorial contributions may be made
in her name to the National Scoliosis
Foundation, 5 Cabot Place, Stoughton, MA
02072, www.scoliosis.org.
www.gaschs.com

Passed away on Saturday, December 6, 2014

in Silver Spring, MD. She was born in Wilco, WV
in 1923. She attended D.C. Public Schools and
graduated from Dunbar High School in 1941.
She completed her B.A. and Masters degrees
at Howard University. Jean served as a Social
Worker at the U.S. Kansas Medical Center,
District of Columbia General Hospital and the
D. C. Department of Human Services before
her retirement in 1976. She was a member
of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority; Drifters of
Metropolitan Washington and a lifetime member of the NAACP. She is survived by her
brother Jerry S. Cooper; other loving relatives
and friends. Visitation will be held on Friday,
December 12, 2014, from 10 a.m. followed
by Homegoing Service at 11 a.m. at Fifteenth
Street Presbyterian Church, 1701 15th Street
NW. Interment Arlington National Cemetery at
a later date. Arrangements by McGuire.
www.mcguire-services.com

Passed away peacefully on Monday, December

1, 2014, at the Hebrew Home of Greater
Washington in Rockville, MD. She was born
February 1, 1926 in Culpeper, VA to the late
Emma Williams Richards and William E.
Richards. The majority of her life was spent in
Culpeper, VA raising her family. She joined the
Antioch Baptist Church at an early age. In later
years she moved to Largo, MD, residing at The
Vistas At Lake Largo, for well over 20 years.
While in Largo, she joined the Mt Ennon Baptist
Church, Clinton, MD, where she fellowshipped
faithfully before becoming ill.
Ruth was one of ten siblings, four preceded her
in death. She leaves to cherish her memories
son, Richard Porter, Jr., (Patricia) of Woodbridge, VA, daughter, Emma Porter Varner
(Donald) of Clinton, MD, four grandchildren, five
great grandchildren, two great, great grandchildren, three God-granddaughters, three sisters, two brothers, two aunts, many nephews,
nieces, and cousins. She was preceded in
death by husband, Richard Porter, Sr., daughter, Annie Richardson, son, Joseph Porter, and
granddaughter, Nenemoshia Yates.
The family will receive friends Friday, December 12, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at
the Horizon Funeral Home, 750 Old Brandy
Road, Culpeper, VA 22701. Funeral service will
begin at noon followed by the interment at
the Culpeper National Cemetery. Flowers and
condolences may be sent to Horizon Funeral
Home.

ROY E. THACKER (Age 73)

"Froggy"
Of Mineral, VA, formerly of Springfield, VA
passed away on Sunday, December 7, 2014.
A visitation will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on
Wednesday, December 10 at Johnson Funeral
Home, Locust Grove, VA. The funeral service
will be held at 12 Noon on Thursday, December
11 at the funeral home chapel with interment
to follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens, Jeffersonton, VA., Online guestbook is available at:
johnsoncares.com

THOMPSON

RICE

CATHERINE LORRAINE THOMPSON

(Age 69)

DEATH NOTICE

KEEVILL
JAMES L. RICE, Major U.S. Army (Ret.)
"Chew"
On Thursday, December 4, 2014; loving and
devoted husband of Shirley H. Rice; beloved
father of Ronnie R. Rice. He is also survived
by his mother, Eloise M. Rice; three adopted
grandchildren, Earli LeSane, DeAngelo March
and Khalil Gary; and a host of other relatives
and friends. Mr. Rice will lie in state at the
McKendree United Methodist Church, South
Dakota at 24th Street NE, on Friday, December
12 from 9 a.m. until Kappa Alpha Psi Services
at 10:30 a.m. followed by Funeral at 11 a.m.
The Rev. R. David Hall, officiating. Interment
Washington National Cemetery. Services by
STEWART.

HARTENSTEINWAUGH

Of Seat Pleasant, MD, passed away on December 4, 2014. Lorraine is survived by John
Eugene Thompson; her mother, Regenia Emma
Proctor; devoted daughters, Star Barber and
Kimberlee Smoot; brothers, Bobby, Stanley and
Jerry; sisters, Judy and Patrice; seven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren and a host of
other relatives and friends. She was preceded
in death by her father, John Elder Proctor Sr.,
and brother, John Elder Proctor, Jr.
The family will receive friends on Friday,
December 12, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 11:30
a.m. at St. Margarets of Scotland Catholic
Church, 410 Addison Rd. South, Seat Pleasant,
MD. A Mass of Christian burial will follow at
11:30 a.m. Interment Resurrection Cemetery,
Clinton, MD.
www.leefuneralhomes.com

RICHARD S. KEEVILL "Rick"

STANFORD

MARY W. HAMILTON "Dear-Dear"

March 2, 1921 - December 10, 2007

MARY KATHARINE STANFORD

And while you lay in peaceful sleep

Your memory we shall always keep
Love, Family and Friends

Of Bethesda, MD, peacefully on December 5,

2014. Beloved spouse of the late Robert J.
Stanford. Survived by her children: Frances H.
Keenan (Andrei Campeanu), Margaret M. Moss
(Stephen), Richard M. Keenan (Valerie Kitchen),
Joseph J. Keenan, Paul D. Keenan, James R.
Stanford (Carmencita Balagtas) and Joanie S.
Dugan (Chris); her grandchildren: Jessica, David
and Julia Moss; Tanya (Jason Ruth), Erica and
Christina Keenan, Flavia Guerra (Carlos) and
Jos Andrs and Adrin Keenan, Ethan Stanford, Kelley and Amy Dugan and her greatgranddaughter Sofa Guerra. Memorial mass
at Holy Trinity Church, Georgetown, Saturday,
December 20 at 11 a.m. Donations may be
made to Our Lady of the Holy Cross Abbey, 901
Cool Spring Lane, Berryville, VA 22611-2700

DEATH NOTICE

BROOKS
ANNETTE HARTENSTEIN-WAUGH

SUTTON
AURELIA A. SUTTON (Age 80)
On December 6, 2014 of Clinton, MD. Survived
by her children; other relatives and friends.
Visitation Saturday, December 13, 10 a.m. until
Service at 12 noon at Restoration True Holiness
Temple, 6913 Livingston Road, Oxon Hill, MD.
Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery.

TIBERY

BOOKER T. BROOKS (Age 90)

Passed on Wednesday, December 3, 2014.
A WWII combat veteran, teacher and geneologist survived by two sons, Christopher
and Peter, grandchildren Cochise and Ali,
relatives and friends. Family will receive
friends on Friday, December 12, from 2 p.m.
until time of Service at 3 p.m. at John T.
Rhines Funeral Home, Chapel, 3005 12th
Street NE, Washington, DC.

BROWN

CARL LEROY TIBERY "Roy"

On Saturday, December 6, 2014 Carl Leroy
"Roy" Tibery of Chevy Chase, Washington
DC. Beloved husband of Marjorie "Marge"
Tibery; loving father of Cecilia Tibery (Perry
Burbank) and Christina Tibery Aho (Bryce
Aho); brother of the late Dominic and Henry
Tibery; grandfather of Miller, Morgan and
Dean Aho. Also survived by numerous in
laws, Nieces and Nephews. Friends may
call at DeVol Funeral Home, 10 East Deer
Park Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20877 on
Thursday, December 11, 2014 from 2 to 4
and 6 to 8 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial will
be offered at Shrine of the Most Blessed
Sacrament Catholic Church, 3630 Quesada
Street, N.W., Washington DC 20015 on Friday, December 12, 2014 at 11 a.m. Interment Arlington National Cemetery at a
later date. In lieu of flowers memorial
contributions may be made to Military
Order of the Purple Heart Service Foundation Inc., 7008 Little River Turnpike, P O
Box 49, Annandale, VA 22003 (www.purpleheartfoundation.org)

SHERMAN H. BROWN
Pettie
Passed peacefully on Sunday, November 30,
2014. He is survived by his mother, Lillie M.
Pettie; three sisters, Virginia Pettie, Barbara
Pettie and Catherine Pettie; and a host of
aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, other relatives
and friends. He was preceded in death by
his two brothers, Joseph Pettie, Sr. and Sam
June Pettie. Mr. Brown may be viewed at
STEWART FUNERAL HOME, 4001 Benning Rd.
NE on Friday, December 12 from 10 a.m.
until services at 11 a.m. Interment Heritage
Memorial Park. Send condolences to:
www.stewartfuneralhome.com

Died of ovarian cancer on December 8, 2014.

Born Annette Fishbein in Bronx, NY, a graduate
of CCNY, Dr. Hartenstein earned advanced
degrees at University of Chicago and University
of Southern California, Dr. Hartensteins career
with the federal government, OPM and GAO,
ended in 1996. Thereafter, she was editor
of publications for International Federation of
Training and Development Organizations until
2013.
An expert in workforce development, her consulting work took her to Egypt, Russia, Thailand
and Poland. Her travels took her to more than
100 countries. Earlier in life and for two years
she taught English as a second language in
Israel. Among lifetime highlight achievements
were assistant professor at the University
of Southern California, adjunct professor of
management at Federal Executive Institute,
manager of citizen participation in poverty
alleviation programs for the City of Chicago,
and mid-west regional director of Bnai Brith
women. In recent years, she worked as legislative aide in the Maryland House of Delegates and Maryland Senate. An ardent supporter of citizens voices in matters most
concerning them, she served as Vice President
of Maryland and D.C. AFL-CIO and was active
in the Maryland and DC Chapter of the Alliance
for Retired Americans, and also as volunteer
for United Seniors of Maryland and the National
Committee to Preserve Social Security and
Medicare. She worked tirelessly for the welfare of seniors, speaking in support of Medicare
in July of this year before a US House of
Representatives assembly at the celebration of
the 49th anniversary of Medicare. She also was
an active organizer of a workshop at the United
Nations in August of this year on Employable
Skills. She is survived by her husband of 30
years, David Waugh, of the home address, a
brother, Harvey, in Florida, a niece, Staci, in
Nevada, a step-son, Steve, in Maryland, and a
step-daughter, Rachel in California.
Services at 11 a.m., Thursday, December 11,
2014 at Judean Memorial Gardens, Olney,
Maryland.

Passed away unexpectedly early

Saturday, December 6, 2014.
Beloved husband of Elizabeth
Beth Keevill, uncle of Edward
Atorick, Christine Reisinger, and
Jesse Tecklits. He was born in Philadelphia,
the son of Frederick Keevill (deceased) and
Josephine Keevill. He enlisted in the US Marine
Corps in 1970. After serving in Vietnam, he
finished his military career stationed at the
Quantico Marine Corps Base where he worked
in the Office of the Provost Marshal. After
finishing his military career, he joined the
Virginia State Police in 1974. While with the
State Police, Richard graduated from the Federal Bureau of Investigations National Academy in 1997. After working throughout the state
in various units, he served as the barracks
commander for the Arlington Barracks on September 11. In addition to numerous other
awards he received during his career, he was
recognized with the Superintendents Award of
Merit for his actions on that day. Richard retired
from the State Police in 2004 and became
the Chief of Police at the Pentagon Police
Department where he served for nine years.
He oversaw the investigation of the shooting at
the Pentagon in March of 2010. Richard retired
from the Pentagon Police Department in July
of 2013. Friends will be received at FAIRFAX
MEMORIAL FUNERAL HOME, 9902 Braddock
Rd., Fairfax, VA on Friday, December 12, 2014
from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and again from 6 p.m. to 9
p.m. Funeral services will be held on Saturday,
December 13, 2014 at 11 a.m. at St. John
Neumann Catholic Church, 11900 Lawyers Rd.,
Reston, VA. In lieu of flowers, donations can be
made to the Wounded Warrior Project.
www.fmfh.com

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Blvd., Dale City, VA.

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A windy Wednesday
Windy with some morning light
showers or flurries still possible. The
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THE REGION

Special church services

to focus on black lives
BY

MICHAEL S. WILLIAMSON/THE WASHINGTON POST

A drizzly walk
Ethan Drayzen needed his umbrella to protect himself from the rain as well as the spray from passing cars and trucks on Woodfield Road in
Gaithersburg. Light showers or flurries are possible in the morning, according to the Capital Weather Gang.

Sullivan:
Concerns
arent new
SULLIVAN FROM B1

and Rolling Stone has apologized

for discrepancies in the account.
Sullivan said she wants to make
clear that this burst of activity on
campus is not only in response to
a magazine article.
I want to make the point that
we have been concerned about
these issues of sexual assault and
alcohol use for a long time, Sullivan said. Its not just all about the
Rolling Stone story. That appeared and made everybody kind
of look around, and it heightened
the awareness of the issue, but it

was an issue we were already concerned about.

Every year, Sullivan said, she
raises concerns with fraternities
about hazing. This year, before
Rolling Stones article went online,
Sullivan said, she started talking
with fraternities about preventing
sexual violence. One of three she
visited, she said, was Phi Kappa Psi.
That fraternitys house was the
scene of the alleged rape that Rolling Stone now says it is unsure
about. The fraternity has issued a
detailed rebuttal of the allegations.
Sullivan said that during her
Oct. 5 visit to the chapter, she
mentioned the upcoming Rolling
Stone article to its members. But
she said her message was the same
that she delivered to other fraternities: We need to make our
houses as safe as possible.
Sullivan, 65, has been president
of the university since August
2010 and is under contract to
serve through July 2016. She sur-

vived an attempted ouster in June

2012, after the university rallied
around her during a conflict with
leaders of the governing Board of
Visitors that drew national attention. Now she is again under scrutiny.
Under the terms of her contract,
Sullivan is scheduled to begin discussions with the board in January
about whether she will seek an extension. She declined to reveal her
plans. You can say I am committed
to doing the job, and I do have a job I
think is not yet finished, she said.
In the interview, Sullivan
sought to make the case that the
university has been proactive
about campus safety while acknowledging there may be flaws
in policy and procedure that need
to be fixed. Many details of next
steps remain to be determined.
She has named an Ad Hoc
Group on University Climate and
Culture, which includes parents,
students, faculty, alumni and gov-

erning board members. It met for

the first time Friday. The governing
board also plans to meet on safety
issues Dec. 19. An independent
counsel also will advise the board
on sexual violence issues.
This is a marathon and not a
sprint, Sullivan said. There are
many things we want to examine.
On sexual assault, Sullivan said
she wants to review how the university responds to incidents. In general, what we want is a culture of
reporting, she said. We want students to feel free to come forward.
Sullivan declined to discuss the
gang rape allegations, citing an
ongoing police investigation. But
she said she is concerned about
Jackie, the student who was the
articles main subject. The Post,
which has interviewed Jackie, is
not disclosing her last name because it generally does not identify those who report they are a
victim of a sexual assault unless
they wish to be named.

M ICHELLE B OORSTEIN

This Sunday, African American

churches in the Washington region as well as in Chicago, Memphis and other cities across the
country will hold special services
focused on black men, policing
and the theme black lives matter. Congregants are urged to
wear black and to pray for the
black men in their community.
Among the denominations involved are the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
and Church of God in Christ,
whose combined membership is
well into the millions.
The Rev. Grainger Browning,
pastor of the 8,000-member
Ebenezer AME in Fort Washington, Md., said Monday that he
plans to turn over the pulpit for
both services to youth ministers
so the younger voice can be
heard.
Last Sunday, Browning said, he
asked his largely African American congregation during services
how many people have had some
negative interaction with police
and 99 percent of the hands

Its safe to say that every day I

have reached out to the student
affairs staff to say, [Have] we got
people who are in touch with Jackie? Because I want to be sure that
she knows that we care about her.
Sullivan said the first time she saw
Jackies name in connection with
the rape allegation at the heart of
the Rolling Stone account was
when she read the article.
Sullivan said the university has
cooperated fully with a federal investigation into its response to sexual violence issues that began in
June 2011. Weve taken the compliance review very seriously, she
said.
Sullivan said she has been
struck in recent weeks by stories
of rape and sexual assault suffered
by others, including faculty and
staff. Theyre survivors, and in
some cases, theyll say it happened 40 years ago, she said. But
they will stand up and talk about
it. Were seeing the survivor com-

rose.
Browning said the idea for
Sunday which will use the
hashtag #blacklivesmatter
came out of meetings with black
leaders in different U.S. cities who
were looking for ways to express
solidarity related to the string of
recent prominent police-related
killings of black people. The relationship between African Americans and their local police varies
widely from place to place, he
said, praising his local authorities
in Prince Georges County.
Our solidarity is not just on
those [recent] cases. For African
Americans, the relationship with
police has been an ongoing challenge, he said.
Presiding Bishop Charles E.
Blake Sr., leader of the 6.5 millionmember Church of God in Christ,
said in a news release about Sundays services that it is meant to
honor Michael Brown and Eric
Garner both killed by police.
We must find a way, through
Gods help, to continue the work
of emphatically telling everyone
that will listen that: Black Lives
Matter! he said in a statement.
michelle.boorstein@washpost.com

munity find one another and

come together in mutual support.
On Greek life, Sullivan said she
is working collaboratively with
fraternity leaders. The students
have brought forward some great
ideas, she said. But she said a
suspension of social activities
would remain in place until Jan. 9.
On alcohol, Sullivan said she is
sympathetic to those who want a
crackdown on underage drinking.
But she said she worries about
unintended consequences.
I dont want students to be so
afraid of police that they wont call
police when theyve got a friend
whos in trouble, Sullivan said.
But I think respect for the law is
also an important thing for us to
instill in our young people.
Asked about the toll taken on
U-Va.s image in the past few
months, Sullivan declined to venture a guess on the effect of this falls
events on the schools reputation.
nick.anderson@washpost.com

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eyes, Shakespeare Theatre Companys
new The Tempest is a highly enjoyable
rendering of Shakespeares late romance
and one of the warmer productions to
brighten the confines of Sidney Harman
Hall.
Director Ethan McSweeny, whose
strength as a classical imagist has been
on display in the past in works such as
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wise and alluring take on Shakespeare, a
Tempest of white-sand beaches under
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sprites.
The sprite-in-chief, Ariel (Sofia Jean
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They send her up into the rafters and
clear across the stage on an amusingly
thick rope the purposefully visible
tether binding her inexorably to
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Actress bids good riddance to her goody-goody reputation
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Celebrity scandals can work in mysterious ways. Take the case of Reese Witherspoon.
In April 2013, the Oscar-winning actress was arrested for disorderly conduct
in Atlanta after her husband, Jim Toth,
was pulled over and arrested for suspicion
of driving under the influence. She pulled
the Do you know my name? card with
the cop captured on video, much to the
delight and mockery of Internet commenters everywhere. Witherspoon issued
a shamefaced apology, but everyone wondered: Would this ruin the reputation and
the career of our sunny Americas sweetheart?
As it turned out: Not even a little bit. If
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fans as she embarked on a grittier phase of
her career, highlighted with last weekends release of the movieWild.
At 38, the star is getting rave reviews
and Oscar buzz for her portrayal of a
woman fighting back from divorce and
her mothers death on a grueling 1,100mile solo hike a role that required
Witherspoon to throw herself into raw

An upbeat story
told by the child
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Witherspoon, her
career undimmed
by a scandal last
year, at the
premiere of Fox
Searchlights
Wild in Beverly
Hills last month.

scenes of sex and drug abuse.

She previously won praise for roles
against type in the indie films The Good
Lie and Mud; meanwhile, shes enjoying behind-the-scenes success as executive producer of the hit Gone Girl. This is
Reese Witherspoon 2.0, and shes flying
higher than ever.
We shouldnt be too surprised by the
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spontaneous memoir is any indication,
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today, Addie takes
us back to 1900, the year she was born.
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of episodes that have all the color and
vibrancy of a plastic bouquet.
Addie was the plucky daughter of
immigrants who escaped starvation and
violence in Russia to settle in a tiny
Boston apartment. In 1915, there were
four of us living in one room, she
begins. We had a stove, a table, a few
chairs, and a saggy couch that Mameh
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Helena Andrews and Emily Heil

At Unbroken premiere,
theres no Angelina, but
Tom Brokaws still a fan
We can all agree that
Washington has come a long way
on the red-carpet circuit.
Matthew McConaughey was
here! Isnt that Anne Hathaway?
Hey, Brad (no last name
necessary)!
But dont invest in that zoom
lens for your smartphone all
the better to see the big stars
with, my dear just yet. Because
in a showdown between the Los
Angeles premiere versus the D.C.
premiere of a major flick, L.A.
wins every time.
Case in point: Mrs. No Last
Name Necessary.
Last night was the official
Washington opening of director
Angelina Jolies Unbroken, the
true story of Olympic athleteturned-World War II POW Louis
Zamperini. It was also the night
of the Los Angeles premiere.
Well give you one guess where
Angie was.
So the crowd of cable network
executives, media types and Hill
folks got to nibble on
their spinach dip without the
crippling anxiety of an
Angelina sighting. Still, we
wanted to know how

Washington popped up on
Hollywoods radar.
David L. Cohen, executive
vice president of Comcast, which
owns NBCUniversal, told us that
the studio likes to bring films
that are issues-based and
movies that are more serious to
this town filled with smarties.
The studios gonna hate me
for this, Cohen joked, but
we didnt bring Dumb and
Dumber To to Washington
maybe we were afraid that
people would think we were
trying to send a message.
Hot off of receiving the
Presidential Medal of Freedom,
NBCs Tom Brokaw introduced
the film by telling the story of his
retirement from the Nightly
News anchor chair.
I dont have to jump on that
overnight plane to Iraq
anymore, Brokaw said. I have a
much tougher assignment now:
hanging out with Angelina Jolie
24/7. The veteran newsman,
whose interview with Jolie was
set to air Tuesday night, admitted
that hed joined her fan club as a
charter member. So even when
Angies not there, she is.

DANIEL SWARTZ

Shows come and

go, but McCain is
still proud of
his maverick
GOP daughter

FROM
THE
OFFICE
OF REP.
LORETTA
SANCHEZ

Loretta Sanchezs baseball-themed

card pays homage to her late cat.

Sanchez hits sweet spot

ts the most wonderful time of the

year . . . when Rep. Loretta Sanchez
debuts her wacky holiday card, an
annual tradition with cult status in
the world of politics.
This year, the California
Democrats yuletide missive features
a baseball theme, with Sanchez and
husband Jack Einwechter wearing
Anaheim Angels shirts and posing in the
teams ballpark. Shes always an Angel in
Congress, it reads.
Sanchez tells us she chose the motif in
honor of her home teams winning season
and to highlight attractions in her district.
Plus, I look great in red, she says.
Half a million cards (sent, she notes, from
her campaign, so there are no taxpayer dollars

involved) will go out to constituents and

friends the old-fashioned way.
Of course, the congresswomans late cat and
longtime holiday-card co-star, Gretzky, makes
a cameo, too. His image appears on a baseball
card, a miniature Hillary 2016 helmet
Photoshopped atop his head. We had to ask:
Will she ever adopt a new cat to replace
Gretzky, who died in 2010? Well, I just got a
new husband, and I have to train him first,
she joked. (She and Einwechter wed in 2011).
The 2014 installment falls somewhere in
the middle of the Sanchez-card-quirkiness
range theres the congresswomans pinupworthy pose (which looks like she just stuck a
perfect Elle Woods bend and snap move),
but no motorcycles, leather pants and surfing
get-ups that have graced previous years cards.

Sen. John McCain knows

a thing or two about
setbacks. (Remember that
whole presidential election
thingy?) So he has some
pretty good perspective to
offer his daughter, Meghan,
whose talk show, TakePart
Live, on Pivot TV, was just
canceled.
Thats show biz, the
Arizona Republican said
Tuesday, when asked by a
reporter in the Capitol about
the news. Way to take it in
stride, Dad!
Asked whether Meghan
who fashions herself as a
Republican with millennial
sensibilities and progressive
stances on issues such as gay
rights and climate change
would think of getting into
politics, now that shes out of
a job (so thats a backup plan
now?), the proud pops
seemed confident of his
progenys career prospects.
I think she will stay in the
business, he said. Im sure
she will have other offers.

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MATT SAYLES/ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Unbroken, which was the same night as its Los Angeles premiere.

John McCains not worried

about Meghans career.

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A widow, a new man, and what to tell the kids

that and then later introduce. I
know I cannot control the outcome,
but I want to set the situation up for
success as much as I can.
Hopeful but Scared

What a terrible time for you

and your family, Im sorry. Good
for you for finding yourself some
happiness, and for being so
thoughtful in handling it.
I do think, though, your
announcement plans come from
too adult a perspective. Adults tend
to want information straight up,
with time to adjust. Thats what
youre proposing here for your boys.
Kids, though, often arent far
enough along in their
understanding to process a full
information drop. What is your 8year-old, after all, to make of Im
dating, whatever that means?
You can spell it out, that youre
. . . going out to dinner and shows
with men because you enjoy their
companionship? Meeting men

with the hope of eventually

getting married again? Feeling
ready to share your life with
someone again? But that adds a
lot of explaining to an already
loaded cart.
Not that theres anything
wrong with these things in their
purpose or phrasing in
conversation with a peer or a
mature teen. For 8 and 10, it
sounds like TMI, an invitation for
them to start mentally churning
another life change, before they
have the language to seek your
reassurance.
What they can understand is
that you have friends, and get a
sitter sometimes to go out with
them.
Even if theyre at a deeper level
of comprehension than Ive
granted them, you dont have to
anticipate that in your words.
Kids reveal in their questions
what theyre ready to hear (Is
this your boyfriend?) so not just

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now, but also any time youre in

doubt, you can simply give them
the most basic facts (I like him
. . . well see). Wait for any followup questions, repeat as needed.
As for introducing him to your
kids, please dont label him a
boyfriend unless theyre already
on to you. Think instead how
your kids have gotten to know
your friends: This is my friend
Kate. Kate comes over
sometimes, and talks to your kids
in the course of doing things with
your family and others, and your
boys get to know her without
giving half a thought to what
Kate means. Its the un-selfconscious business of adults
being adults. Perfect. Right?
So, fold New Man into your life
as you would a Kate, amid other
friends. Dont explain unless you
have to, then dont over-explain.
Be, wait, see.
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Dear Heloise:
When dining
recently, I had a
dish with pine nuts.
When I looked for
them in the grocery store, I noticed
how pricey they are. Why are they
so expensive, and do they come
from actual pine trees?
Charlotte W. in Indiana

Hints from
Heloise

Yes, Charlotte, they really come

from the pine cones of a pine tree!
The seeds (yes, they are seeds,
NOT nuts) are inside the cones.
This is why they are not cheap it
takes a lot of effort to get these
tasty little nuggets to market! The
cones are harvested, dried and

processed so the scales (sort of

like pulling off the leaves of an
artichoke) come open and the
seeds can be removed.
Pine nuts have a very sweet and
nutty flavor. They are used in
pesto sauces, added to cookies
and other baking items, or tossed
in salads. Usually they are heated
and roasted to bring out their
flavor. Do store them in the
refrigerator.
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to different countries. Sometimes
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Dear Carolyn:
I am a widow
with two boys,
ages 8 and 10. My
husband died 10
months ago after a
Carolyn
long illness. I
Hax
started dating
about five months
ago, a fact I have
not shared with my in-laws or
children. A counselor advised that
if I meet someone special, I should
wait six months to introduce him to
the boys.
I have met someone special and
we have been dating for two
months.
I will wait the six months to
introduce him, but what course
should I take to properly bring this
man fully into the family? How do I
introduce him to the boys?
My thought was to wait until
after the one-year anniversary of
my husbands death to say that I
am dating let them get used to

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Dear Heloise:
I own a house with a boathouse
where pigeons roost. I tried the
owl theory, but it didnt work. You
might suggest this: Hang some
plastic glitter stars or other
decorations. Let them hang down a
few inches, where the wind and sun
catch them, and the birds will not
fly near them. It worked for me!
Ronald G., Friendswood, Tex.

Hi, Ronald. I know what you

mean about some of those
pigeons. They do seem to really
get around! This hint works well,
whether its to keep birds from
roosting or from flying into
windows, like our big picture
ones. Hang some decorations or
ribbon (I even taped a few pieces
of ribbon on the glass door), and
its usually just enough movement
to ward off the birds.
Dear Heloise:
As I walk every morning, I take a
vitamin E capsule along. I stick a

pin into it and rub the oil into my

hands, nails and cuticles. By the
time I get home, the oil is absorbed,
and my hands are soft.
Valerie, via e-mail

Dear Heloise:
Bake cornbread dressing in
muffin tins without paper liners.
More people can enjoy the crust,
and the leftovers are easily frozen.
Hazel D., via e-mail

Dear Readers:
Other uses for old picture
frames:
l Put corkboard in one and
make a bulletin board.
l Frame a mirror.
l Insert a screen to hold
earrings.
l Glue magnets on small frames
and put them on the refrigerator.
l Frame a wedding invitation as
a keepsake.
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week at www.washingtonpost.com/
advice. Send a hint to Heloise, P.O. Box
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In Baltimore and on Broadway, a set designer relishes the details

BY

R EBECCA R ITZEL

Well, look who it is, our Broadway set designer!

Vincent M. Lancisi belted out
that greeting one afternoon last
week, when he walked into the
lobby of Baltimores Everyman
Theatre, where he is artistic director, and saw Timothy Mackabee
sitting on a bar stool. Lancisi is a
bit portly, with bushy gray hair,
and he was carrying a bag of rehearsal paraphernalia. There was
a Santa Claus-like air about him,
but instead of passing out gifts, he
recognized that having Mackabee
back working at his theater for the
third time is enough of a present.
Mackabee,
a
32-year-old
Parkville, Md., native who has designed for Everyman and Center
Stage in Baltimore and Studio
Theatre and Theater J in Washington, made his Broadway debut
with a full-length play Sunday
with a revival of The Elephant
Man. It stars Oscar nominee
Bradley Cooper as a disfigured
Victorian carnival attraction who
is rescued by a prominent physician and who takes up residence at
a hospital, where his curious
higher-class visitors include an actress played by Patricia Clarkson.
When Mackabee first signed on
to the project, he knew only that
he would be designing an unspecified play for director Scott Ellis at
the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. Throughout
his 20s, Mackabee spent several
summers at the Berkshire venues
props department, and the artistic
staff had taken note of his successes since earning his MFA at Yale.
In New York, Mackabees credits include the musical Heathers
at New World Stages, Our New
Girl at the Public Theater and the
one-man show directed by Spike
Lee that was technically his
Broadway debut: Mike Tyson:
Undisputed Truth.
I would really rather not count
that one, he says, sighing. It only
ran for two weeks. It wasnt a play;
it was a special.
Now having attended a Broadway opening that attracted a celebrity sideshows worth of film,
theater and television stars, Mackabee is back in Baltimore and putting the finishing touches on the
set of Deathtrap, a 1970s thriller
about a mystery writer who keeps
a large gun collection at what
Mackabee calls a cozy, sweaterweather Connecticut cottage.
Theres stuff everywhere books,
guns, vases, more guns, a suit of
armor and various weapons used
by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But its all very organized.
The stage directions in Deathtrap are specific the protago-

JOAN MARCUS

From left, Bradley Cooper, Henry Stram, Alessandro Nivola and Anthony Heald star in The Elephant Man in New York. Timothy Mackabee designed the set for the play.

nist might be instructed to pick up

a paperweight from his desk with
his right hand so Deathtrap
was not the sort of play that let
Mackabee create his own onstage
world as he did in The Elephant
Man, with its four-story, paneled
back walls and sliding curtains.
In the Williamstown production of The Elephant Man, some
patrons sat onstage to convey the
sense of a surgical operating theater. But the Broadway production
at the Booth Theatre is more traditional, although its wooden floor
is raked so steeply that consultants from the actors union had to
offer injury-prevention training.
The slope creates the illusion that
the audience is peering down at
the action rather than looking up
at it, while orderlies pull the curtains back and forth to allow for
clever and suspenseful scene
changes. As New York Times critic
Ben Brantley wrote, Mackabee
makes discreetly poetic use of
sliding curtains to echo imagery
about illusion and concealment.

Perfecting those curtains, he

said, was a pain in the a--.
Mackabee has paid close attention to detail since he was a kid
putting on puppet shows. He began experimenting with set design
while growing up near Baltimore,
where his plays starred McDonalds Happy Meal toys.
I am a weirdo. A giant weirdo,
he says. From the get-go, it was all
about design. I would set up a
camcorder, and I would watch the
tapes, make notes and realize
what I could do to make a better
transition. Then I would play with
my stage lights from Radio Shack.
My mother says she still has those
VHS cassettes somewhere, and
she says to be nice or shell show
them to people.
At his urging, Mackabees family traveled to Washington to see
touring musicals. (Most memorable: Titanic; lousy script, great
shipwreck, he says.) He saw Shakespeare Theatre plays on field trips.
To this day, one of the best productions Ive ever seen was A

Woman of No Importance, as directed by Michael Kahn and starring Dixie Carter. Ive told Michael
Kahn that, but he still hasnt hired
me, Mackabee said.

Beaches heads to Chicago

Beaches, the musical, is getting what Signature Theatre artistic director Eric Schaeffer hopes is
a pre-Broadway development run
at Chicagos Drury Lane Theatre.
The musical adaptation of the
Bette Midler movie premiered in
Arlington last winter. We learned
a lot, Schaeffer said. There is
stuff that really worked like gangbusters and stuff that did not.
Opening night at the Drury is

scheduled for July 2, and the show

will run through Aug. 16. Its too
early to tell whether Mara Davi or
Alysha Umphress who is currently playing a salty-mouthed
taxi driver on Broadway in On the
Town will head to Chicago to
reprise their roles.
Regardless of casting, producer
Jennifer Maloney-Prezioso is hoping to take the show to New York
for the 2015-2016 season. That
means Schaeffer could have three
musicals simultaneously competing for space and audiences at
New York theaters, although Diner, which began previews at Signature Tuesday, is directed by
Kathleen Marshall; the Kennedy

Center will host his Gigi revival.

That could be possible,
Schaeffer said during a break from
Gigi rehearsals in New York on
Tuesday. Whatever is going to
happen is going to happen.

Fiddler run is extended

Arena Stage says that its hit
production of Fiddler on the
Roof will be extended one week,
now closing on Jan. 11 instead of
Jan. 4. Since opening on Nov. 12,
the musical has been playing to
houses that are 96 percent full, a
theater spokeswoman said.
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this Tempest, which begins
with an impressive storm,
washing Prosperos enemies onto
his shores, and moves with considerable grace and speed
toward a climax of comeuppance
and reconciliation. Through
Daviess assured and beautifully
declaimed performance, an audience understands fully that
Prospero receives an education
here, too, in compassion and
restraint. For just as his overreaching brother Antonio (Gregory Linington) stole Prosperos
Milan dukedom, so has Prospero
in exile turned usurper, subjugating the islands ethereal Ariel
and brawny Caliban (Clifton
Duncan).
Most of the narrative thrust of
The Tempest is comic: In the
love story of Prosperos daughter
Miranda (Rachel Mewbron) and
Ferdinand (Avery Glymph), one
of the shipwrecked party, resides
a tender romantic comedy; in the
tale of Caliban, enlisting the silly
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a plot to overthrow Prospero, the
clowning escalates to broad
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and the King of Naples (C. David
Johnson), on whom all-powerful
Prospero seems bent on revenge,
that Shakespeare charts a potentially destructive course. But
even that thread feels only a
halfhearted stab at darker intent; the playwrights own magic
is marshaled for a more magnanimous end.
In his judiciously trimmed
version, McSweeny treats this
gentle leitmotif as his inspiration, one thats shared by the
entire design team. Set designer
Lee Savage spreads across the
Harman stage a hillock of sand
as pristine as one would find on
the Caribbean beach of ones

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Geraint Wyn Davies.

fantasies (the accent of Duncans

excellent Caliban suggesting as
much). Jennifer Moellers voluminous oyster-colored robe for
Prospero wittily establishes him
as a majestic beachcomber, and
Christopher Akerlinds subtle
lighting scheme gives off a series
of softly becoming, occasionally
multi-hued, glows.
This Tempest, too, feels as if
its a valentine to good parenting.
The relationship forged between
Davies and Mewbron, in a beguiling turn as Miranda, comes
across as an affectionately
evolved bond; theres a payoff, it
seems, to being a stay-at-home
dad on a desert island. (Intriguingly, Davies delivers the oftquoted We are such stuff as
dreams are made on speech to
Miranda and Ferdinand in the
admonishing voice of a dad
whos seen it all.) A comparable
(if slightly more fraught) parentchild connection is suggested
between Prospero and Ariel, the
latter communicating in Gomezs
zesty portrayal some underlying
bedrock of trust: the idea that
while shes not free, she counts
on Prosperos word that soon she
will be.
McSweenys Ariel is served by
a legion of assistant Ariels; one
has seen this conceit before, but

never developed quite so fluidly.

With Gomez suspended above in
her supervisory capacity, the
fairy ensemble is unleashed to
carry out the enchantments, as
in the seductive interlude when
some members of the shipwrecked party are guided into
slumber in the spirits embraces.
The sprites dance, too, in exuberant patterns devised by Matthew
Gardiner, to Jenny Gierings richly emotional score.
A
culminating
masque,
accompanied by singer Nancy
Anderson, reaffirms McSweenys
sophisticated sense of spectacle.
Its the scene in which Prospero
confers his blessings on Miranda
and Ferdinand, via the gods Iris,
Ceres and Juno. They are embodied here in an eye-filling parade,
as puppets (by James Ortiz) in
raiment of purple and gold, each
of more massive scale than the
one before.
These artier elements are
meant to be leavened by the
antics of Stephano and Trinculo,
though out-and-out buffoonery
is not one of The Tempests
strong suits. Craig and Quay, in
concert with Duncan, take the
jokes just far enough. If not
laugh riots, their scenes do no
harm to the spell the play casts.
And this Tempest does succeed in casting one, a result that
turns all of us into Prosperos:
like him, bound for home in a
generous frame of mind.
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BOOK WORLD

LITERARY CALENDAR
TODAY | 7 P.M. James Ellroy, the author of L.A. Confidential, will discuss
his novel Perfidia, about the deaths of four members of a Japanese
American family just days before the Pearl Harbor attack, in conversation
with novelist Thomas Mallon at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library,
901 G St. NW. Call 202-727-0321.

Revealing confidences
from PostSecret files
BY

ALLA DREYVITSER

A century of turmoil,
reduced to cheery tales
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and Papa slept on at night. They eat a

lot of potatoes and cabbage. Deeply
suspicious of Americas loose culture,
at home Addies parents speak only
Yiddish, mostly to bicker. Her mother, in particular, is a joyless hag. She
criticizes Addie for wasting her time
studying and staying in school: Shes
already ruining her eyes from reading. No one wants to marry a girl with
a squint. Thats Mameh in a nutshell,
which is where she stays throughout
this novel, huddled and bitter, tossing
off worn aphorisms and barbs about
everyone elses failures. (Does
Mameh turn sweet and loving on her
deathbed? Such is the suspense that
electrifies The Boston Girl.)
Addie, of course, finds ways to
escape her parents suffocating expectations. She joins a reading club
for Jewish girls. There she meets a
better class of people, who introduce
her to games and books and leisure
activities that would scandalize her
mother: lawn tennis, archery, croquet! She has to ask what the word
hiking means. Shes excited to see a
wicker chair for the first time. One of
her friends has the cutest dimples in
the world.
Were a long way from The Red
Tent, that feminist novel of biblical
proportions that propelled Diamant
onto the bestseller list in 1997. (This
weeks Lifetime miniseries based on
the novel surely sparked new interest.) But here, in early 20th-century
Boston, Diamant strictly observes the
rituals of the American immigrant
story, which is not necessarily a
problem. After all, that archetypal
form offers a standard foundation
while remaining flexible enough to
accommodate an infinite variety of
interior design.

At this late date, though, the

demands of originality in the immigrant story, both in plot and style, are
high higher, alas, than this pleasant, undemanding novel is willing to
reach. For instance, although Addies
father is a respected man in the
temple and young Addie is aware of
the anti-Semitic currents running
around her, Diamant makes little
effort to address issues of faith or
ethnic prejudice. Instead, Addies anecdotes are mostly charming, sweet
tales one might hear while trapped
with grandma for an afternoon in the
retirement-home dining room. (Try
the Jell-O; its good.) Long stretches
of The Boston Girl are so predictable that AARP should sue for defamation.
Its not as though serious, even
wrenching events dont arise in these
pages. Addies desperately anxious

older sister flits about like a character

from The Glass Menagerie. A young
man Addie dates has been ruined by
post-traumatic stress disorder, which
doctors tell him to deal with by not
talking about what he remembers.
And theres rape, abortion, suicide
and all manner of thwarted dreams
other peoples, at least. But Diamant
insists on packaging these incidents
in neat little chapters that admit
none of the messiness or indeterminacy of lived experience. World War I,
the flu of 1918, the Minnesota orphan
train, Southern lynchings theyre
all blanched in the warm bath of
Addies sentimental narrative. A reference to the trial of Sacco and
Vanzetti immediately gives way to an
engagement party. Later, an abusive
man is murdered probably by an ax
but Addie concludes that episode
by crowing, I had pie for breakfast
every day for the rest of the summer.
My hopes rose for a taste of Sweeney
Todd, but no.
The Boston Girl suffers most
from its refusal to acknowledge the
complexity of memory and oral history. Addie claims, Ive forgotten a
lot more than I like to admit, but
without hesitation, repetition or unconscious revelation, she delivers
happy recollections from the 1920s
with more detail and dialogue than I
can recall from breakfast. On the
tight, shiny surface of this narrative,
theres so little tremor of real life.
Without letting us hear the resonance
of actual reminiscence and the timbre of authentic speech, the novel
moves along without moving us.

J OHN W ILWOL

People literally have shared a ton

of secrets with Frank Warren. Ten
years ago, the Germantown, Md.,
resident launched a community art
project with the goal of collecting
365 postcards bearing anonymous
senders artfully depicted secrets. He
got a bunch and started sharing
them on a blog, PostSecret.com.
A phenomenon was born: Warren
has received more than a million
postcards, many of which appear on
the popular PostSecret site, which
boasts about 700 million visits. The
project has spawned several books;
a now-defunct app; an album of seFRANK WARREN
crets read aloud; and a series of live
events and museum exhibitions, inA postcard from "The World of
cluding one at the American VisionPostSecret" by Frank Warren.
ary Art Museum in Baltimore. There,
Warrens now retired mail carrier,
Kathy, was awarded a tiara that
tals passing out candy canes to ppl
reads, USPS Wonder Woman.
who wont be home for Xmas. Our seHeres hoping it came with a box of
cret? Were Jewish!
Doans.
Most pieces featured in the book
Youll meet Kathy and a few othtend to be meticulously crafted and
ers touched by PostSecret in Warearnest. But the most memorable,
rens new book, The World of Postand often the funniest, are simple
Secret. Filled with anonymous and
and frank. Im an athiest (sic) who
often beautiful postcards that share
prays regularly but only for soccer repeoples confessions and hopes, the
sults is scribbled over an
book forms a vivid and inimage of a footballer. Antimate mosaic of 21stother reads, My kid is a
century interior life.
drag. There I said it, in
It often looks pretty
purple ink on an otherwise
tragic. One postcard feablank white index card. I
tures a black-and-white
wear flowery scents to
photo of the Arc de Trikeep my annoying, bossy,
omphe. My mom is the
allergic coworker away
reason I dont kill myfrom me, reads another
self, it says. And I know
(and she thinks shes
I am her reason, too. We
THE WORLD OF
passive-aggressive).
have never said it, but I
POSTSECRET
Warren says this, his
know we both know its
By Frank Warren
sixth PostSecret book,
true. The PostSecret
Morrow. 287 pp.
may be his last. Even
community has respond$29.99
though I still get excited
ed to these cries for help,
each time I walk to my
raising $1 million for
mailbox to check for seHopeLine, the suicide
crets, he writes, I feel as if it might
awareness and prevention group.
The books other dark themes inbe time for a change.
clude addiction and loss. To: The
But even if he did leave PostSecreators of Vicoden, one person
cret, this vibrant and active commuwrites, could I please spend Mothnity probably would endure. (Warren
ers Day with your mom this year?
says he plans to launch a new PostYou stole mine. In another, soldiers
Secret app this winter.) Secrets can
bear a flag-draped coffin away from a
make us feel isolated, he writes,
plane. I should have died instead of
but sometimes it just takes one peryou, it says. Im sorry.
son telling their truth to shatter the illusion that we are alone.
But The World of PostSecret
bookworld@washpost.com
isnt all gloom. One submission depicts a man dressed as Santa Claus.
This is my dad, it reads. I dressed
Wilwol is a writer in Washington.
up as an elf & went around to hospi-

IN SUNDAYS KIDSPOST

Gifts for young readers

Kate DiCamillo, author of the
Newbery Medal-winning The Tale of
Despereaux and Flora & Ulysses,
talks about her writing, her favorite
books as a kid and her mission as the
Library of Congresss National
Ambassador for Young Peoples
Literature.
DiCamillo also offers five books
new and old that kids might
consider for their holiday wish lists.
Book World reviewers Mary
Quattlebaum, Abby McGanney Nolan
and Kristi Jemtegaard share their
favorite 2014 titles in middle-grade
fiction, nonfiction and picture books.

ron.charles@washpost.com
Charles is the editor of Book World. His
reviews run in Style every Wednesday.
You can follow him on Twitter
@RonCharles.
@RonCharles

FRDRIC BENAGLIA FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Bomb records an irreverent institutions evolution, but misses its target

BY

M ICHAEL L INDGREN

When Bomb magazine launched

in 1981, it quickly became the collective voice of a very particular urban
scene, that of the avant-garde underground of New York in the 80s.
Provocative, fractious and conceptually sophisticated, it was the cool
downtown chick of magazines. In the
decades since, the magazine has
broadened its once cultlike following, but its signature innovation
the author-on-author interview
remains intact. Bomb: The Author
Interviews brings together a selection of these conversations in a
handsome anthology. The book,
which offers 35 of the magazines
interviews, is both a primer on authorial strategies and a record of the
evolution of an iconic literary institution.
Today, it may be hard to think of
artists interviewing each other as a

BOMB
The Author
Interviews
Edited by Betsy
Sussler
Soho. 460 pp.
$40

bold and transformative idea, but

back in the 80s it was. The point was
to avoid professional critics and journalists and let authors and artists
speak directly to each other in an
authentic, improvisatory dialogue.
The appeal of this technique was
and is voyeuristic: It provides a
glimpse into an imaginary heavenly
club where writers lounge about in
chummy camaraderie, admiring
each others works with suave generosity, tossing off polished aperus
about the life of the mind. (The truth
about writers, at least in my experience, is rather less glamorous.) In
one respect, though, writers are exactly like everyone else. As the novelist Jim Lewis puts it in a 1998
interview with Dale Peck: Its worth
remembering that writers lie a lot
when they talk about their own work.
Lie all over the place. It cant be
helped.
For better or worse, though, the

author-on-author form has softened

and expanded to the point in which
the conversations often sag under
the weight of smug, self-congratulatory pontification. This is not all bad,
a forum for writers such as lvaro
Mutis or Nuruddin Farah to unfold
their thoughts on cultural identity is,
in some respects, more necessary
than ever. But it can be quite dull.
The problem is amplified in this
collection, in which Bomb founding
editor Betsy Sussler has made the
understandable but misguided decision to draw heavily on interviews
from more recent decades, with only
two of the excerpts coming from the
magazines heyday in the 80s. Understandable in that this choice
means there are more familiar
names on the cover, misguided in
that it means readers get little sense
of the weirder, artier stuff that represents Bombs original ethic.
An early interview of Kathy Acker,

a foundational downtown feminist,

by filmmaker Mark Magill, for example, takes the form of a profane,
caustic detournement of a census
questionnaire: 33. Q: Favorite animal: Male. 34. Q: Do you have any
pets? Yeah, sometimes. 35. Q: Do you
have any house plants? I never raise
the shades.
Unfortunately, few of the other
conversations collected here capture
that same quirky irreverence. Twenty
years later, Jonathan Safran Foer
wonders if writers and artists use
drugs because they think theyre
supposed to, while Ben Marcus talks
about woodworking and cooking
and the effect of parenting on his
work schedule.Its not that theres
anything wrong with that, exactly;
its just that Bomb was originally
written for people who were too busy
stealing spray paint and doing drugs
in East Village dives to be bothered
with such mundane things; that was

the whole point.

Those days may be gone, but the
audience for intellectual inside baseball remains. There will always be a
certain segment of the book-buying
public who get a charge out of
writerly shoptalk. Brooklyn is lousy
with them earnest young men and
women who are dead serious about
the craft of writing and whose faith
in the fundamental communicability
of the mysteries of the creative arts is
absolute. They devour such artifacts
in the hope of absorbing some reflected rays of glory. This anthology
will serve as a handbook of sorts to
these aspirants in refining their own
authorial perorations, which they
are constantly secretly rehearsing, in
the shower, perhaps, so as to be ready
for their moment.
bookworld@washpost.com
Lindgren is a writer and musician in New
Jersey.

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Gloria (Sofa Vergara), left, and Claire (Julie Bowen), right, take Haley
(Sarah Hyland) to a bar for her 21st birthday on Modern Family.

The final six chefs receive their

black jackets and compete in a
solo dinner challenge involving
Omaha Steaks, and one
contestant is sent home during
dinner service on Hells
Kitchen (Fox at 8 p.m.). The
remaining five prepare gourmet
meals for glampers
glamorous campers.
A tribal council leads to one of
the biggest blindsidings of the
season on Survivor(CBS at 8).
Encores! Great
Performances at the Met
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Its Haleys 21st birthday on
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Criminal Minds (CBS at 9)
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On a topical Law & Order:
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and everything in between, this nail-biting circus spectacle
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danced to Tchaikovsky's timeless score. When they danced
it to sold-out houses in 2012, the Washington Post hailed
the "bright-spirited production" as bursting with "comfort
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Dec 9, 2014
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Curated and narrated by puppet Nathan Tweak, Famous

Puppet Death Scenes is a collection of twenty-two
infamous and theatrical end-of-life sequences, spanning a
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Reese Witherspoon graduates from Americas sweetheart roles

WITHERSPOON FROM C1

transition: The former Nashville

debutante was not born into show
business as an Americas sweetheart. After breaking into Hollywood at 14 with The Man in the
Moon, Witherspoon made her
name with a double dose of dark
teen drama: Cruel Intentions
and the wry Election in 1999,
bringing sharp energy to the role
of political and social climber Tracy Flick.
It was only when she ascended
to the A-list that she was reinvented as a perky ingenue. In 2001s
Legally Blonde, Witherspoon
masterfully played a ditzy sorority
girl-turned-legal eagle to much
applause. Then it was an easy segue to rom-com roles like Sweet
Home Alabama and a reported
$15 million paycheck for Legally
Blonde 2 a year later. Throughout
this phase, Witherspoons image

was clear: a sweet-yet-sassy steel

magnolia for whom you just cant
help but root.
Reese is cute, shes huggable,
shes bubbly, MTV gushed in
2002. Her Sweet Home Alabama
co-star Patrick Dempsey declared
shes Americas sweetheart
yes, that phrase again but with
a bit of an edge. Her career
chugged along into more adult
roles, and she won an Oscar for her
portrayal of June Carter Cash in
the 2005 biopic Walk the Line.
Then, at her peak, everything
seemed to go wrong: Follow-up
movies like Four Christmases,
How Do You Know and Water
for Elephants failed to make a
mark. Tabloids jumped on coverage of her divorce from Ryan Phillippe, father of her first two children. Witherspoon dropped out of
the public eye for awhile, save for
celebrity magazine stories about
her wedding to second husband

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The actress known for her polished facade plays a woman in search
of emotional healing in the movie Wild, based on a memoir.

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (PG-13) CC: 12:45-2:153:45-5:15-6:45-8:00

The Equalizer (R) CC: 12:30-6:00
Penguins of Madagascar (PG) CC:
2:30-3:50-5:00-7:15
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG)
CC: 1:30-6:15
Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 7:30
Interstellar: The IMAX Experience
(PG-13) 2:45-6:30
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: 2:255:00-7:50
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC:
1:45-4:30-7:10
Smithsonian - Lockheed Martin Beyond the Lights (PG-13) CC:
IMAX Theater
2:45-5:25-7:45
601 Independence Avenue SW
Big Hero 6 3D (PG) CC: 2:00-4:45
To Fly! (1976) (NR) 1:25
Nightcrawler (R) CC: 1:15-4:00IMAX: Hubble 3D (NR) 10:40-2:00 7:00
Hidden Universe 3D (NR) 12:35
The Pyramid (R) CC: (!) 1:00-3:15D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D (NR) 5:30-8:15
11:40-3:00
John Wick (R) 3:30
Interstellar: The IMAX Experience
Academy Stadium Theaters
in 70mm Film (PG-13) 4:05-7:10
6198 Greenbelt Road
Smithsonian - Samuel C.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
Johnson IMAX Theater
10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW - Part 1 (PG-13) 10:50-1:40-4:30-

Titans of the Ice Age 3D (NR) 3:10

Jerusalem 3D (NR) 11:25-2:15-4:50
Island of Lemurs: Madagascar: An
IMAX 3D Experience (G) 12:25
Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D
(NR) 10:30-1:20-4:00

6:15-7:20
Penguins of Madagascar (PG)
11:10-12:05-1:35-2:20-4:004:45-7:00
Big Hero 6 (PG) 11:15-1:50-4:257:10

Toth in 2011 and their baby son

late the following year.
And, suddenly there was that
arrest a media sensation, in part
because it cut against her image as
a super-controlled goody-goody.
Celebrity analysts fretted: She
has always come across as humble
and sugary sweet, but now she has
left some fans with a sour taste in
their mouths, one told the New
York Daily News. One incident
like this wont damage her goodgirl image permanently, but if
more incidents like this occur, she
may lose the love and support of
fans.
Instead, supporters were more
endeared than ever to see the
stars feet of clay. She was human
after all! With Witherspoons bad
night in Atlanta, we got a hint of
the passion and anger simmering
beneath that perfect veneer, the
Washington Posts Reliable Source
column wrote at the time, noting

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Interstellar (PG-13) 11:35-3:107:00
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) 11:20-1:454:20-7:10
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13)
11:00-1:55-4:50-7:30
Beyond the Lights (PG-13) 11:252:05-4:45-7:25

Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC:

11:45-2:20-5:10-7:45-10:20
Beyond the Lights (PG-13) CC:
11:30-2:15-4:55-7:35-10:15
The Pyramid (R) CC: 11:10-1:203:35-5:45-7:55-10:05

Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 1:15-1:45-3:554:25-6:40-7:25-10:10

Interstellar (PG-13) CC: 12:003:50-7:35
Interstellar: The IMAX Experience
(PG-13) CC: (!) 3:15-7:05-10:45
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: (!)
Kentlands Stadium 10
12:25-2:15-3:20-5:00-6:00-7:40629 Center Point Way
ArcLight Bethesda
Guardians of the Galaxy (PG-13) 8:45-10:20-11:30
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC:
7101 Democracy Boulevard
5:20-7:45
1:10-4:15-7:10-10:05
Interstellar (PG-13) 4:10-10:30
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Beyond
the Lights (PG-13) CC:
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (PG-13) 4:30-5:30-6:45-8:00 2:05-5:15-8:05-10:55
- Part 1 (PG-13) 12:15-4:05-6:15- Big Hero 6 (PG) 5:00-5:45-7:30
Dear
White
People (R) CC: 1:508:45-9:45-10:15
Interstellar (PG-13) 4:30-7:45
4:30-7:45-10:50
Penguins of Madagascar (PG)
When the Game Stands Tall (PG) St.
Vincent (PG-13) CC: 10:35
11:05-1:25-3:45-6:05-9:20
5:15-7:35
Big Hero 6 3D (PG) CC: (!) 12:15Penguins of Madagascar 3D
The Judge (R) 8:00
2:55-5:35
(PG) 7:05
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) (!) 5:30-8:05 Nightcrawler
(R) CC: 12:45-3:45The Book of Life (PG) 11:35AM
Fury (R) 5:00-7:40
10:20
Big Hero 6 (PG) 2:05-5:00-7:25-9:55 Annabelle (R) 5:25-8:05
Gone
Girl
(R)
(!) 12:05-3:35-6:55Interstellar (PG-13) 11:10-1:05Landmark
10:15
8:20
Bethesda Row Cinema
The Pyramid (R) CC: 12:30-3:05Foxcatcher (R) 11:15-1:00-2:107235 Woodmont Avenue
5:30-8:00-10:25
3:00-4:45-5:45-7:15-8:15-9:15
Miss Julie (Froken Julie) (PG-13) Regal Germantown Stadium 14
Alexander and the Terrible, Hor- 1:10-4:00-7:00-9:45
20000 Century Boulevard
rible, No Good, Very Bad Day (PG) Force Majeure (Turist) (R) 1:5011:05-5:05
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
4:40-7:40-9:50
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
- Part 1 (PG-13) CC: (!) 12:50-1:50Whiplash (R) CC: 12:55-3:55(Kaguyahime no monogatari) (PG) 6:55-10:00
3:40-4:40-6:30-7:30-9:30-10:00
11:20-7:10
Birdman (R) CC: 1:30-4:10-7:20- Penguins of Madagascar (PG) CC:
The Judge (R) 1:55-4:20
(!) 1:00-1:45-3:15-4:00-5:30-6:159:15-9:55
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) 11:50-1:35- Rosewater (R) CC: 1:40-4:307:45-8:30
4:00-8:25-10:55
Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 1:30-2:30-4:157:30-10:10
Gone Girl (R) 11:30-1:50-5:20The Theory of Everything (PG-13) 6:45-7:25-9:15
7:35-10:45
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG)
CC: 12:45-1:20-3:30-4:20-6:30Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13)
CC: (!) 2:30-4:45-7:00-9:15
7:10-9:30
5:10-11:15
The Homesman (R) CC: 1:00-6:50 Interstellar (PG-13) CC: 3:00St. Vincent (PG-13) 11:40-2:506:25-9:50
Citizenfour (R) CC: 3:50-9:25
4:35-6:45-9:30
Beyond the Lights (PG-13) CC:
Phoenix Big Cinemas Marlow 1:30-4:05-6:50-9:20
Big Hero 6 3D (PG) 11:25AM
6
Theatre
Fury (R) 2:20-10:10
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: (!) 2:003899 Branch Ave
Wild (R) 11:00-12:45-1:45-2:154:30-7:15-9:45
The
Hunger
Games:
Mockingjay
3:15-4:15-5:30-6:00-7:00-8:00-8:30Big Hero 6 3D (PG) CC: (!) 5:00Part 1 (PG-13) 1:50-4:40-7:30
9:00-11:00
10:00
Penguins of Madagascar (PG)
Nightcrawler (R) 11:45-7:40
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC:
2:45-5:00-7:15
The Hunger Games: Mocking1:35-4:10-6:40-9:10
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG) The Theory of Everything (PG-13)
jay - Part 1 (PG-13) 2:30-5:15;
1:30-3:50-6:30
11:00-1:30-7:45
CC: 1:00-3:50-7:10-10:00
Big Hero 6 (PG) 1:20-3:40-6:05-8:30 Nightcrawler (R) CC: 1:40-4:20Bow Tie Annapolis Mall 11
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) 2:15-4:45- 7:20-9:55
1020 Westeld Annapolis Mall
7:45
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Beyond the Lights (PG-13) 1:40- Gone Girl (R) (!) 3:20-6:20-9:25
Regal Hyattsville Royale
- Part 1 (PG-13) 11:20-12:00-12:50- 4:30-7:05
Stadium 14
1:40-2:30-3:20-4:10-5:00-5:50-6:40Regal Bethesda 10
6505 America Blvd.
7:30-8:20-9:10-10:00
7272 Wisconsin Avenue
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
Penguins of Madagascar (PG)
11:00-11:40-12:30-1:20-2:10-3:00- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (PG-13) CC: (!) 12:50- Part 1 (PG-13) CC: (!) 12:30-1:40- 3:00-3:45-6:30-7:10-7:50-9:303:50-4:40-5:30-7:10-8:30-9:50
10:05-10:35
Big Hero 6 (PG) 11:30-1:10-2:20- 3:40-4:50-7:00-7:50
Penguins of Madagascar (PG) CC: Penguins of Madagascar (PG) CC:
4:00-5:10-6:30-7:50-9:20-10:10
(!) 1:30-2:35-4:55-6:45-7:20-9:45
Interstellar (PG-13) 1:00-4:30-6:20- (!) 12:00-2:30-5:00-7:40
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC: Penguins of Madagascar 3D
8:10-10:00
1:50-4:20-7:10
(PG) CC: (!) 1:00-3:20-4:00-6:15Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13)
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG) 9:00-10:15
11:50-2:40-5:20-8:00-10:20
CC: (!) 1:00-4:10-6:40
Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 1:10-2:45-3:50Bow Tie Harbour 9
Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 1:30-7:20
5:15-6:40-9:20
2474 Solomons Island Road
Interstellar (PG-13) CC: 12:15Interstellar (PG-13) CC: 1:15Horrible Bosses 2 (R) 11:30-2:00- 3:50-7:30
5:10-9:10
3:20-5:00-8:50-10:20
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: (!) 1:20- Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC:
Gone Girl (R) 11:40-2:50-6:20-9:30 4:40-8:00
12:40-3:30-7:00-9:35
St. Vincent (PG-13) 12:50-3:50Big Hero 6 3D (PG) CC: (!) 4:30
Beyond the Lights (PG-13) CC:
6:50-9:20
Gone Girl (R) (!) 12:10-3:30-6:45
2:00-4:35-7:15-9:55
The Theory of Everything (PG-13) Nightcrawler (R) CC: 12:40Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: 2:3012:00-1:10-4:00-6:00-7:10-10:00
4:00-6:50
5:05-8:00-10:30
Fury (R) 12:10-3:40-6:40-9:40
Regal Bowie Crossing Stadium 14 Nightcrawler (R) CC: 1:05-3:55Birdman (R) 1:20-4:10-7:00-9:50
6:55-9:40
15200 Major Lansdale Boulevard
The Homesman (R) 1:30-4:20The Equalizer (R) CC: 12:55-3:55- Gone Girl (R) (!) 12:30-3:40-7:057:20-10:10
10:20
7:05-10:05
The Vatican Museums 3D (NR)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay The Pyramid (R) CC: 2:25-4:457:30
7:30-10:00
The Pyramid (R) 11:50-2:30-5:10- - Part 1 (PG-13) CC: (!) 12:30-1:30Regal Rockville Stadium 13
3:45-4:30-6:45-7:30-9:30-10:20
8:00-10:30
199 East Montgomery Avenue
Cinemark Egyptian 24 and XD Penguins of Madagascar (PG)
CC: (!) 12:00-1:10-2:25-4:45-6:00- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
7000 Arundel Mills Circle
7:00-9:20
- Part 1 (PG-13) CC: (!) 12:30-1:30The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 1:15-4:053:30-4:30-6:15-7:00-7:30-9:10Part 1 (PG-13) 10:55-2:00-5:05-8:10 7:10-10:10
10:00-10:50
The Equalizer (R) 3:15-10:40
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG) Penguins of Madagascar (PG) CC:
Big Hero 6 (PG) 11:05-1:55-3:20- CC: (!) 12:35-2:55-3:30-5:15-7:45- (!) 12:40-3:00-5:20-7:45-10:10
4:50-9:05-10:25
8:45-10:30
Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 1:50-4:30Penguins of Madagascar (PG)
Interstellar (PG-13) CC: 1:057:10-9:45
11:35-12:30-2:15-3:10-4:45-5:45- 5:00-9:00
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG)
7:15-8:15-10:00
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC: CC: (!) 11:50-2:20-4:50-7:15-9:40
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG) 1:25-4:00-7:25-10:15
Interstellar (PG-13) CC: 1:0011:00-1:25-4:00-6:35
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: (!) 12:10- 5:00-9:00
Interstellar (PG-13) 10:55-12:40- 2:45-5:10-7:55-10:35
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC:
2:40-4:35-6:25-8:35-10:05
Beyond the Lights (PG-13) CC:
12:05-2:45-5:25-8:05-10:45
Gone Girl (R) 11:30-6:20
12:45-3:25-6:55-9:50
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: (!) 12:15Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13)
Big Hero 6 3D (PG) CC: (!)
2:45-5:15-7:45-10:15
1:20-4:00-6:45-9:30
12:15-3:00
Big Hero 6 3D (PG) CC: (!)
Beyond the Lights (PG-13) 1:00- Nightcrawler (R) CC: 9:25
12:50-3:50
4:10-7:10-10:10
The Pyramid (R) CC: 12:00-2:15- The Theory of Everything (PG-13)
The Theory of Everything (PG-13) 4:40-7:15-10:00
CC: 12:15-3:20-6:40-9:45
1:10-4:05-7:05-10:05
Gone Girl (R) (!) 12:05-3:20-9:45
Nightcrawler (R) CC: 1:10-4:10Big Hero 6 3D (PG) 12:35-6:05
The Vatican Museums (NR) 7:00 7:10-9:50
Fury (R) 12:00-7:30
The Vatican Museums 3D (NR)
Gone Girl (R) (!) 12:10-3:25-6:40Nightcrawler (R) 1:05-4:15-7:35- 7:00
9:55
10:35
Regal Cinemas Laurel Towne Women Who Flirt (Sajiao Nvren)
Birdman (R) 12:50-3:45-6:55-9:50
(NR)
12:30-3:10-5:40-8:00-10:20
Centre 12
John Wick (R) 11:20-10:35
14716 Baltimore Avenue
Regal Waugh Chapel
The Vatican Museums 3D (NR)
Stadium 12 & IMAX
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
7:00
1419 South Main Chapel Way
The Pyramid (R) 12:15-2:55-5:15- - Part 1 (PG-13) CC: (!) 11:1512:00-12:40-2:20-3:05-3:35-5:45- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
7:45-10:15
- Part 1 (PG-13) CC: (!) 11:50Action Jackson (Hindi) (NR) 11:25- 6:35-8:45-10:05
Penguins
of Madagascar (PG) CC: 12:50-3:00-3:50-6:30-7:10-7:403:00-6:25-9:40
(!)
11:30-2:55-5:30-8:10-10:35
9:30-10:15-10:50
TCM Presents A Christmas Carol/
Christmas in Connecticut (Double Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG) Penguins of Madagascar (PG) CC:
CC: (!) 1:15-4:30-7:00
(!) 12:00-2:30-5:00-6:50-9:20
Feature) (NR) 2:00-7:00
The Equalizer (R) CC: 12:20-4:00- Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG)
Past Tense (NR) 2:50-9:35
7:40-10:40
CC: (!) 1:30-4:00-6:20
Chakkiligintha (NR) 9:00
Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 11:40-2:40The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 12:50-6:45
Interstellar
(PG-13)
CC:
11:005:20-8:00-8:50
- Part 1 (PG-13) 11:40-12:252:45-6:30-10:20
Interstellar: The IMAX Experience
1:15-2:45-3:35-4:25-5:50-7:25Horrible
Bosses
2
(R)
CC:
(!)
(PG-13)
CC: (!) 11:30-3:10-7:008:55-10:30
10:45
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) 11:45-12:45- 11:50-1:25-3:30-4:20-6:05-7:30Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC:
2:35-3:30-4:20-5:20-6:15-8:20-9:00- 9:00-10:10
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC: 1:10-4:20-7:50-10:35
9:55-10:40
Beyond the Lights (PG-13) CC:
St. Vincent (PG-13) 10:55-1:40-7:20 1:00-3:50-7:20-10:00
Beyond the Lights (PG-13) CC:
1:00-4:10-7:20-10:05
Hoyt's West Nursery Cinema 14
12:30-4:10-7:10-9:30
Big Hero 6 3D (PG) CC: (!)
1591 West Nursery Road
Big Hero 6 3D (PG) CC: (!) 3:40-9:45 12:20-3:20
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Nightcrawler (R) CC: 6:15-9:20
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: (!)
Part 1 (PG-13) CC: 11:00-12:40Gone Girl (R) (!) 9:35
12:05-12:40-2:50-3:30-5:30-6:401:40-3:30-4:30-6:25-7:20-9:158:10-9:40-11:00
Regal Cinemas Majestic
10:10
Gone Girl (R) (!) 10:40
Stadium 20 & IMAX
The Equalizer (R) CC: 12:35-4:05Nightcrawler (R) CC: 1:20-4:30900 Ellsworth Drive
7:15-10:10
7:30-10:25
Penguins of Madagascar (PG) CC: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Regal Westview Stadium 16
11:15-12:30-1:35-2:50-3:50-5:15- Part 1 (PG-13) CC: (!) 12:10-12:505243 Buckeystown Pike
1:40-3:10-3:40-4:40-6:10-7:00-7:406:15-7:30-8:30-9:45
8:40-9:10-10:40-10:55
The Hunger Games: MockBig Hero 6 (PG) CC: 11:35-1:10ingjay - Part 1 (PG-13) CC:
2:10-3:40-4:40-6:10-7:10-8:40-9:40 The Equalizer (R) CC: 9:15
Penguins of Madagascar (PG) CC: 11:40-12:10-1:00-1:30-2:45-3:10Interstellar (PG-13) CC: 11:00(!) 12:20-1:20-3:00-4:05-5:20-6:20- 4:00-4:30-6:00-6:30-6:55-7:25-9:002:35-6:10-9:45
9:30-10:00-10:30
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: 11:05- 7:50-8:50-10:30
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG) Penguins of Madagascar (PG) CC:
12:50-1:50-3:25-4:25-6:45-7:40CC:
(!)
12:00-12:50-2:25-3:30-4:50(!) 11:20-1:50-4:25-7:10-9:45
9:25-10:25
5:50-7:15-8:20-9:45
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG)
Gone Girl (R) CC: 12:10-3:20CC: (!) 11:50-2:20-5:00-7:45
6:40-9:50

Interstellar: The IMAX Experience

(PG-13) CC: (!) 11:00-3:00-7:0010:45
Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 11:10-2:004:45-7:35-10:25
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC:
1:40-4:20-8:10-10:50
Interstellar (PG-13) CC: 12:004:05-8:00
St. Vincent (PG-13) CC: 12:30-7:15
Big Hero 6 3D (PG) CC: (!) 1:15-3:55
Fury (R) CC: 3:45-10:05
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: (!)
11:55-1:10-2:40-3:50-5:20-6:408:05-9:20-10:40
The Theory of Everything (PG-13)
CC: 1:35-4:40-7:40-10:35
Nightcrawler (R) CC: 10:15
The Pyramid (R) CC: 12:20-2:505:15-7:55-10:20
Gone Girl (R) 6:45-10:10

St. Vincent (PG-13) 4:05-9:25

The Theory of Everything (PG-13)
CC: 1:20-4:10-7:00-9:55
Big Hero 6 3D (PG) CC: 12:40-5:50
Fury (R) CC: 12:35-3:45-6:50-9:55
Birdman (R) CC: 1:15-6:35
Nightcrawler (R) CC: 1:30-4:157:05-10:00
The Vatican Museums 3D (NR)
(!) 7:00
The Pyramid (R) CC: (!) 12:55-3:105:30-7:45-10:00
Dying of the Light (R) (!) 2:40-9:40
Citizenfour (R) (!) 3:15-8:25
Interstellar in 4K Digital (PG-13)
CC: 11:00-2:35-6:10-9:45
Past Tense (NR) (!) 11:00-1:40-4:207:05-10:00
John Wick (R) 11:05-1:35-6:55
AMC Loews Shirlington 7
2772 South Randolph St.

Robert E. Parilla Performing UA Foxcatcher (R) CC: 1:00-3:00-4:00Snowden Square Stadium 14 6:00-7:00
9161 Commerce Center Drive
The Theory of Everything (PG-13)

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay

- Part 1 (PG-13) CC: (!) 1:00-1:304:00-4:30-6:20-7:00-7:30-9:159:50-10:20
Penguins of Madagascar (PG) CC:
(!) 12:50-3:30-6:10-8:50
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG)
CC: (!) 1:50-4:20-7:10-9:40
Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 1:20-4:10-6:50
Interstellar (PG-13) CC: 1:10-9:10
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC:
2:20-5:00-7:40-10:15
Beyond the Lights (PG-13) CC:
9:30
Big Hero 6 3D (PG) CC: (!)
12:45-3:40
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: (!)
1:15-2:10-3:45-4:45-6:30-7:209:00-10:00
The Theory of Everything (PG-13)
CC: 1:40-4:40-7:50
Nightcrawler (R) CC: 12:45-6:40
Gone Girl (R) (!) 3:20-9:20
The Vatican Museums (NR) 7:00
The Vatican Museums 3D (NR)
7:00
Action Jackson (Hindi) (NR) 2:005:15-8:40
Chaar Sahibzaade (NR) 12:55
Chaar Sahibzaade 3D (NR)
3:50-9:00

CC: 1:45-4:30-7:30
Birdman (R) CC: 1:15-4:00-6:45
The Homesman (R) CC:
1:30-7:15
Force Majeure (Turist) (R) 4:15
Rosewater (R) CC: 2:45-5:157:45
Little White Lie (NR) (!) 1:00-3:205:40-8:00
AMC Potomac Mills 18
2700 Potomac Mills Circle

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (PG-13) CC:

10:45-11:30-12:15-1:00-1:45-2:303:15-4:00-4:45-5:30-6:15-7:00-7:458:30-9:15-10:05
The Equalizer (R) CC: 2:25-8:35
Penguins of Madagascar (PG)
CC: 11:45-12:50-2:10-3:20-4:355:45-8:15
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG)
CC: 11:00-1:30-4:05-6:35-9:05
Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 11:15-2:005:00-7:35-9:40
Interstellar: The IMAX Experience
(PG-13) 12:30-4:10-8:00
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: 11:0512:45-1:40-3:30-4:30-6:20-7:309:00-10:15
Gone Girl (R) CC: 11:55-6:10
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC:
Xscape 14 Theatres
11:10-1:50-4:40-7:25-10:00
7710 Matapeake Business Drive
Beyond the Lights (PG-13) CC:
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 10:50-1:35-4:25-7:25-10:10
- Part 1 (PG-13) 10:30-11:20-1:30- St. Vincent (PG-13) 7:10-10:10
2:20-4:30-5:20-7:40-8:30-10:40
The Theory of Everything (PG-13)
The Equalizer (R) 12:30-3:30CC: 10:30-1:20-4:15-7:05-10:00
6:35-9:35
Big Hero 6 3D (PG) CC: 12:45-3:25
Penguins of Madagascar (PG)
Fury (R) CC: 11:20-5:25
10:50-11:50-1:50-4:10-6:40-7:20- Nightcrawler (R) CC: 3:25-9:30
9:00-9:40
The Pyramid (R) CC: (!) 11:40-2:15Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG) 4:50-7:15-9:45
2:30-4:50
Interstellar in 4K Digital (PG-13)
Big Hero 6 (PG) 11:00-1:00-2:00- 6:00-9:35
3:40-4:40-6:50-7:30-9:30
AMC Tysons Corner 16
Interstellar (PG-13) 11:10-2:507850e Tysons Corner Center
6:30-10:15
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Horrible Bosses 2 (R) (!) 10:4012:20-3:00-5:30-8:00-10:10-10:50 Part 1 (PG-13) CC: 10:00-10:4512:15-1:00-1:50-3:15-4:00-4:40Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13)
6:10-7:05-7:40-9:10-10:00
11:50-2:40-5:10-8:10-10:45
Beyond the Lights (PG-13) 11:30- Penguins of Madagascar (PG) CC:
(!)
10:15-12:35-2:50-5:10-7:25-9:45
1:10-2:10-4:20-5:00-7:10-7:50Penguins of Madagascar 3D
9:50-10:30
(PG) CC: 11:20-1:35-4:05-6:25John Wick (R) 11:10-1:40-4:05
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 8:40-10:55
- Part 1 (PG-13) 12:50-3:50-6:20- Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 10:40-1:254:20-7:00-9:40
7:00-9:20-10:00
Interstellar: The IMAX Experience
iPic Pike & Rose
(PG-13) 12:05-3:35-7:10-10:40
11830 Grand Park Avenue
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: (!) 10:10The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - 11:15-12:45-1:55-3:20-4:35-5:50Part 1 (PG-13) 11:30-2:45-6:15-9:30 7:15-8:25-9:50-10:55
Big Hero 6 (PG) 1:15-5:15-8:15Gone Girl (R) CC: 10:05-1:20-4:3011:00
7:45-11:00
Interstellar (PG-13) 10:30-2:15Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC:
6:00-10:00
10:00-12:30-3:00-5:35-8:10-10:45
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) 11:00-2:00- Beyond the Lights (PG-13) CC:
5:00-8:00-11:00
10:50
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13)
Big Hero 6 3D (PG) CC: 12:00-3:0512:30-3:45-7:00-10:15
5:40-8:20
Beyond the Lights (PG-13) 1:00- Fury (R) CC: 1:15-8:55
4:00-7:15-10:45
Nightcrawler (R) CC: 10:25-4:15
Tell (R) (!) 12:15-3:00-5:45-8:30The Vatican Museums 3D (NR)
11:15
(!) 7:00
The Philadelphia Story (1940) (NR) John Wick (R) CC: 10:35
(!) 12:00-3:15-6:30-9:45
The Pyramid (R) CC: (!) 10:55-1:103:30-5:45-8:00-10:15
Interstellar in 4K Digital (PG-13)
CC: 10:20-2:00-5:30-9:05
AMC Courthouse Plaza 8
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
2150 Clarendon Blvd.
- Part 1 (PG-13) 11:30-2:30-5:20Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 1:30-4:108:15-11:00
6:45-9:45
AMC Worldgate 9
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC:
13025 Worldgate Drive
12:00-1:00-2:35-5:10-6:30-7:45The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
10:15-10:30
- Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 1:30-2:30Gone Girl (R) CC: 12:15-3:303:30-4:20-5:20-6:20-7:20-8:206:50-10:00
9:05-10:05
Beyond the Lights (PG-13) CC:
Big Hero 6 (PG) 4:10-9:15
3:45
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) (!) 2:45-5:15Big Hero 6 3D (PG) CC: 2:007:45-10:15
4:45-7:15
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13)
Fury (R) CC: 1:15-7:15
Nightcrawler (R) CC: 4:30-10:15 2:10-4:40-7:10-9:40
Big Hero 6 3D (PG) 1:40-6:45
John Wick (R) CC: 9:05
Interstellar in 4K Digital (PG-13) Nightcrawler (R) 1:50-4:35-7:1510:00
12:00-12:30-3:30-4:00-7:00Interstellar in 4K Digital (PG-13)
7:30-9:20
2:00-5:30-9:00
AMC Hoffman Center 22

VIRGINIA

206 Swamp Fox Rd.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (PG-13) CC: 11:00-12:501:20-1:50-3:40-4:10-4:40-6:30-7:007:30-9:20-9:50

The Equalizer (R) CC: 4:00-9:30
Penguins of Madagascar (PG) CC:
11:40-1:00-2:00-3:20-4:20-5:406:40-8:00-9:00
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG)
CC: 12:20-5:00-7:20
Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 11:25-2:004:35-7:10-9:45
Interstellar: The IMAX Experience
(PG-13) 12:25-4:00-7:35
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC:
11:30-12:45-2:05-3:20-4:40-5:558:30-9:50
Gone Girl (R) CC: 11:40-3:006:20-9:35
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC:
11:10-1:50-4:30-7:10-9:50
Beyond the Lights (PG-13) 11:001:45-4:30-7:15-10:00

Airbus IMAX Theater

14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway

Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag

(G) 2:00
Hubble (G) 11:25AM
Hidden Universe IMAX (NR) 12:20
D-Day: Normandy 1944 (NR)
10:30-1:05
Interstellar: The IMAX Experience
in 70mm Film (PG-13) 3:05-6:40
Alamo Drafthouse
Cinema - One Loudoun
20575 East Hampton Plaza

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay

- Part 1 (PG-13) 10:45-1:15-2:002:55-5:00-7:15-8:20-10:30-10:55
Penguins of Madagascar (PG)
(!) 10:30-12:10-1:00-2:25-4:306:00-8:45
Big Hero 6 (PG) 11:40-3:45-5:207:40-10:25
Interstellar (PG-13) 11:00-3:006:20-10:15

there were many celebrities who

went on to have a career boost
post-scandal.
Indeed, Witherspoon was back
on the radar this year, and on fire.
Forget about all those canned
magazine interviews: In May,
supermodel Cara Delevingne
posted a video to Instagram showing Witherspoon dishing salacious advice to a group of stars
after the Met Gala in New York
City.
It was quickly deleted, her handlers apparently oblivious to how
much more ingratiating she is
when letting her hair down.
Months later, a video of Witherspoon rocking out at a wedding
went viral, making it clear that
fans cant get enough of the unmediated Reese. Maybe the Americas sweetheart label had gone
stale or maybe it was never the
right fit in the first place.
emily.yahr@washpost.com

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

www.washingtonpost.com/movies

Regal Ballston Common 12

Horrible Bosses 2 (R) (!) 10:10671 N. Glebe Road
12:30-3:20-6:35-8:05-9:35-11:30
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
10:55-1:45-4:45-9:25-11:20
- Part 1 (PG-13) CC: (!) 1:00-1:30Night of Vampyrmania (NR) (!) 7:00 2:00-3:30-4:00-4:30-5:00-7:00-7:30
Angelika Film Center Mosaic Penguins of Madagascar (PG) CC:
(!) 2:30-4:50-7:10
2911 District Ave
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG)
CC: (!) 1:20-3:10-3:50-6:20
Part 1 (PG-13) CC: 10:35-1:20Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC:
4:05-7:00-9:45
1:50-4:40-7:40
Interstellar (PG-13) CC: 11:45St. Vincent (PG-13) CC: 1:403:35-7:30-10:45
Foxcatcher (R) CC: (!) 10:55-1:50- 4:10-6:50
The Theory of Everything (PG-13)
4:45-7:40-10:30
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: (!) 10:05- CC: 1:10-4:20-7:20
Birdman (R) CC: 12:50-3:40-6:30
12:35-3:05-5:35-8:05-10:35
Gone Girl (R) CC: 1:35-7:05-10:20 The Vatican Museums (NR) 7:00
The Theory of Everything (PG-13) The Vatican Museums 3D (NR)
7:00
CC: 10:35-1:40-4:20-7:15-9:55
Action Jackson (Hindi) (NR)
Birdman (R) CC: 11:30-5:302:20-5:40
7:55-10:40
Regal Cinemas
Wild (R) CC: (!) 10:05-12:35-3:05Dulles Town Center 10
5:35-8:05-10:35
21100 Dulles Town Circle
Rosewater (R) CC: 11:10-4:40
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre: A Home Alone (PG) 12:45-3:30Midsummer Night's Dream (NR) 7:00-9:45
(!) 2:00
Die Hard 2 (R) 7:20-10:20
A Christmas Story (PG) 1:45-4:30Bow Tie
Reston Town Center 11 & BTX 7:40-10:00
National Lampoon's Christmas
11940 Market Street
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Vacation (PG-13) 12:00-3:006:30-9:00
- Part 1 (PG-13) 1:00-4:00-7:0010:00; 12:20-3:20-4:30-6:20-9:20- The Polar Express (G) 1:154:00
10:40
Malecent (PG) CC: 2:30Penguins of Madagascar (PG)
8:50
12:00-4:20-6:40-9:00
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG) How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG)
11:45-6:15
12:40-3:00-5:20
Big Hero 6 (PG) 12:50-3:30-6:30- Godzilla 3D (PG-13) CC: (!) 1:004:15-7:30-10:30
9:10
Edge of Tomorrow (PG-13) CC:
Interstellar (PG-13) 12:40-2:301:30-4:45-7:50-10:40
6:10-9:50
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) 1:10-3:50- X-Men: Days of Future Past in 3D
(PG-13) 12:30-3:45-7:10-10:10
6:50-7:40-9:30-10:20
The Maze Runner (PG-13) 12:15Gone Girl (R) 1:20-7:20
3:15-6:45-9:30
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13)
The Judge (R) CC: 11:30-2:451:30-4:10-10:10
The Theory of Everything (PG-13) 6:00-9:15
Regal Countryside 20
1:40-4:40-7:30-10:30
45980 Regal Plaza
Birdman (R) 12:10-3:10-6:00-8:40
The Vatican Museums 3D (NR)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 7:30
Part 1 (PG-13) CC: 1:00-2:00-4:055:05-6:05-7:10-8:10-9:10
Cinema Arts Theatre
Penguins of Madagascar (PG) CC:
9650 Main St
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - 1:10-2:20-3:40-4:50-6:10-7:208:40-9:55
Part 1 (PG-13) CC: 9:40-12:00Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 1:25-4:152:30-5:00-7:40-10:00
7:00-9:45
Interstellar (PG-13) CC: 10:00Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG)
1:20-4:35-8:00
CC: (!) 12:30-1:40-3:00-4:10-5:30St. Vincent (PG-13) CC: 12:156:40-8:00-9:15
2:25-7:10
The Theory of Everything (PG-13) Interstellar (PG-13) CC: 12:50CC: 9:40-12:05-2:30-4:55-7:30-9:50 4:35-8:20
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC:
Whiplash (R) 9:50-4:45-9:20
Diplomacy (Diplomatie) (NR) 9:45- 1:05-3:55-6:50-9:40
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: 12:4012:10-5:05-7:20
1:35-3:25-4:20-6:10-7:05-8:55-9:50
Birdman (R) 10:15-1:15-4:15Beyond the Lights (PG-13) CC:
7:00-9:30
9:00
Force Majeure (Turist) (R)
The Theory of Everything (PG-13)
2:35-9:15
CC: 12:30-3:30-6:30-9:30
Cobb Village 12 Leesburg
Big Hero 6 3D (PG) CC: (!)
1600 Village Market Boulevard
12:35-3:20
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay St. Vincent (PG-13) CC: 12:55- Part 1 (PG-13) 1:20-4:10-7:05;
3:35-6:20
11:30-11:50-12:30-1:20-2:15-2:40- Fury (R) CC: 2:40-6:00-9:20
3:20-4:10-4:55-5:25-7:05-7:40-8:20 Nightcrawler (R) CC: 12:55-3:50Penguins of Madagascar (PG)
6:45-9:35
11:45-1:45-2:15-4:00-4:45-6:15Gone Girl (R) 1:50-5:10-8:30
7:10-8:30
Chaar Sahibzaade (NR) 5:20-8:15
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG) Action Jackson (Hindi) (NR) 2:0511:30-12:40-3:10-5:30-7:45
5:25-8:45
Big Hero 6 (PG) 2:10-4:40-7:20
Chaar Sahibzaade 3D (NR) 2:25
Interstellar (PG-13) 12:45-4:20Rendu Rellu Naluge (NR) 3:308:00
6:30-9:30
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) 11:30-12:10Regal Fox Cinemas
2:00-2:45-4:25-5:15-7:00-7:50
22875 Brambleton Plaza
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13)
The Hunger Games: Mock11:40-2:20-4:55-7:30
ingjay - Part 1 (PG-13) CC: (!)
Big Hero 6 3D (PG) 11:30AM
10:50-11:40-12:30-1:10-2:40-3:30Manassas 4 Cinemas
4:10-5:40-6:30-7:10-7:50-8:40-9:308890 Mathis Ave.
10:10-10:50
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Penguins of Madagascar (PG)
Part 1 (PG-13) 2:30-5:00-7:30
CC: (!) 11:30-2:00-2:50-4:30-7:05Penguins of Madagascar (PG)
8:00-9:40
1:30-3:30-5:30-7:30
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG)
Big Hero 6 (PG) 2:00-4:15-6:30
CC: (!) 12:20-1:00-3:40-5:20-6:20Horrible Bosses 2 (R) 2:45-5:00- 9:00-10:25
7:15
Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 10:40-12:00Rave Cinemas Centreville 12 1:30-4:20-7:20-10:00
Interstellar: The IMAX Experience
6201 Multiplex Drive
Big Hero 6 (PG) 10:50-1:25-4:10- (PG-13) CC: (!) 11:10-3:15-7:0010:45
6:50-9:25
Interstellar (PG-13) CC: 12:10Penguins of Madagascar (PG)
10:05-11:15-12:25-2:45-3:55-5:05- 4:15-8:10
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC:
7:25-8:35-9:45
2:05-4:50-7:45-10:30
Fury (R) 10:15-1:15-4:15-7:15
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: (!)
Interstellar (PG-13) 11:30-3:0511:05-1:40-2:45-4:40-5:30-7:306:40-10:20
8:15-10:05-10:50
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13)
Big Hero 6 3D (PG) CC: (!) 11:2011:20-1:55-4:30-7:10-9:50
Action Jackson (Hindi) (NR) 10:25- 2:20-5:00
The Theory of Everything
1:30-4:35-7:40-10:45
(PG-13) CC: 11:00-12:50-3:50Chakkiligintha (NR) 10:10
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG) 6:50-9:50
Nightcrawler (R) CC: 1:50-4:451:35-6:15-10:55
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) 10:30-11:50- 7:40-10:35
Gone Girl (R) (!) 11:30-3:00-6:401:10-2:30-3:50-5:10-6:30-7:5010:15
9:10-10:30
Regal Kingstowne 16 & RPX
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
5910 Kingstowne Towne Center
- Part 1 (PG-13) 10:00-11:00-12:001:00-2:00-3:00-4:00-5:00-6:00-7:00- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 8:00-9:00-10:00-11:00
Part 1 (PG-13) CC: 1:15-2:30-3:153:45-4:15-5:30-6:15-6:45-7:15-8:30Rave Cinemas Fairfax
9:05-9:35-10:05
Corner 14 + Xtreme
Penguins of Madagascar (PG) CC:
11900 Palace Way
Big Hero 6 (PG) 11:25-2:15-3:45- 1:05-2:20-4:00-4:55-6:30-7:308:55-9:55
5:10-8:00-9:25-10:50
Beyond the Lights (PG-13) 12:25 Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 1:00-2:40-3:355:15-6:20-7:50-9:15-10:35
St. Vincent (PG-13) 11:30-2:10Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG)
4:50-7:30-10:15
Interstellar (PG-13) 11:00-12:50- CC: (!) 1:50-3:00-4:25-5:25-7:008:00-9:25-10:25
2:50-4:45-6:30-8:35-10:10
Gone Girl (R) 11:35-2:55-6:45-10:25 The Book of Life (PG) CC: 2:105:05-7:35
Fury (R) 3:15-6:40-10:00
St. Vincent (PG-13) CC: 1:35-4:05Birdman (R) 11:05-2:00-4:556:35-9:45
7:55-10:50
Big Hero 6 3D (PG) CC: (!) 2:00Nightcrawler (R) 12:35-4:404:35-7:10-10:00
7:35-10:45
Rosewater (R) CC: 10:10
Big Hero 6 3D (PG) 12:55-6:35
John Wick (R) CC: 1:00-3:25-5:50John Wick (R) 9:20
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 8:10-10:30
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
- Part 1 (PG-13) 11:40-1:00- Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 1:45-4:453:00-4:20-6:20-7:40-9:40-10:55;
11:15-12:20-1:40-2:20-3:40-5:00- 7:45-10:35
Gone Girl (R) 3:55-7:05-10:15
5:40-7:00-8:20-10:20

Regal Manassas
Stadium 14 & IMAX
11380 Bulloch Drive

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay

- Part 1 (PG-13) CC: (!) 12:50-1:302:00-3:40-4:20-5:00-6:40-7:209:30-10:10
Penguins of Madagascar (PG) CC:
(!) 12:00-2:20-4:40-7:00-9:20
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG)
CC: (!) 1:40-4:00-6:20
Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 12:40-3:206:15
Interstellar: The IMAX Experience
(PG-13) CC: (!) 11:50-3:30-7:1010:50
Interstellar (PG-13) CC: 2:306:10-9:50
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC:
1:20-4:10-6:50-9:40
Beyond the Lights (PG-13) CC:
7:50-10:30
Big Hero 6 3D (PG) CC: (!) 8:50
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: (!)
12:20-2:10-2:50-4:50-5:30-7:308:10-10:00-10:40
Gone Girl (R) (!) 8:40
The Theory of Everything (PG-13)
CC: 12:10-3:10-6:00-9:00
Nightcrawler (R) CC: 1:10-3:506:30-9:10
The Pyramid (R) CC: 12:30-3:005:40-8:00-10:20
Regal Potomac Yard 16
3575 Jefferson Davis Highway

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (PG-13) CC: (!) 12:00-12:401:20-2:55-3:40-4:20-6:00-6:40-7:209:00-9:40-10:20

The Equalizer (R) CC: 6:35-9:3510:20
Penguins of Madagascar (PG) CC:
(!) 12:45-5:40
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG)
CC: (!) 12:00-2:30-3:15-5:00-7:308:10-10:00
Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 12:00-1:302:00-4:05-4:40-7:20-9:50
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC:
12:05-2:45-5:15-7:50-10:30
Beyond the Lights (PG-13) CC:
12:00-2:30-5:05-7:40-10:25
Interstellar (PG-13) CC: 2:406:20-9:50
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: (!)
12:30-1:40-3:00-4:35-5:25-7:108:00-9:45-10:30
Fury (R) CC: 12:10-3:10-6:10-9:10
Nightcrawler (R) CC: 12:15-2:5010:30
Gone Girl (R) 12:00-3:10-6:20-9:30
The Vatican Museums (NR) 7:00
The Vatican Museums 3D (NR)
7:00
Regal Springeld Town Center
Stadium 12
6859 Springeld Mall

The Equalizer (R) CC: 1:10-4:157:30-10:35

Interstellar (PG-13) CC: 1:00-3:404:40-7:50-9:10
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC:
12:40-3:50-6:30-9:30
Beyond the Lights (PG-13) CC:
2:00-5:00-8:10
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: (!)
1:40-2:20-4:20-5:20-7:00-8:009:40-10:40
Fury (R) CC: 2:40-6:10-9:20
Birdman (R) CC: 5:10-10:25
Nightcrawler (R) CC: 12:50-4:107:10-10:30
The Theory of Everything (PG-13)
CC: 1:30-4:30-7:40-10:35
The Pyramid (R) CC: 12:00-2:304:50-7:20-9:50
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (PG)
12:30-2:50-8:05
Regal Virginia Gateway
Stadium 14 & RPX
8001 Gateway Promenade Place

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay

- Part 1 (PG-13) CC: (!) 1:30-4:307:30-10:30
Penguins of Madagascar (PG)
CC: (!) 1:10-1:40-3:30-4:00-6:006:40-9:00
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG)
CC: (!) 2:10-4:30-7:10-9:40
Big Hero 6 (PG) CC: 1:20-2:00-2:504:10-4:40-6:40-7:20-9:20-9:50
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC:
2:10-5:10-7:50-10:30
Interstellar (PG-13) CC: 1:505:50-9:45
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: (!)
1:50-2:20-5:00-5:40-7:50-8:2010:10-10:50
Nightcrawler (R) CC: 1:15-4:056:45-9:35
Gone Girl (R) (!) 8:20
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (PG-13) CC: (!)
1:00-2:30-4:00-5:30-6:30-7:00-8:309:30-10:00
UA Fairfax Towne Center 10
4110 West Ox Road

Penguins of Madagascar (PG) CC:

(!) 11:50-2:20-4:50-7:10
Penguins of Madagascar 3D (PG)
CC: (!) 12:30-3:00
Dumb and Dumber To (PG-13) CC:
12:20-3:50
Horrible Bosses 2 (R) CC: (!) 11:552:30-5:10-7:40
The Theory of Everything (PG-13)
CC: 12:10-3:20-6:40
The Pyramid (R) CC: 12:00-2:505:20-7:50
The Vatican Museums (NR) 7:00
The Vatican Museums 3D (NR) 7:00
University Mall Theatre
10659 Braddock Road

Guardians of the Galaxy (PG-13)

CC: 7:30
The Equalizer (R) CC: 9:55
The Boxtrolls (PG) CC: 12:152:35-4:50
The Maze Runner (PG-13) CC:
4:45-7:15-9:35
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (PG)
CC: 12:00-1:45-3:30-5:15
Dolphin Tale 2 (PG) CC: 12:10-2:30
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With simple, clean design and a price thats easy to absorb, the Lack table is a no-brainer match for any decor and becomes nearly disposable when its owner invariably moves.

A table that provides a little support

COFFEE TABLE FROM C1

Theres no point in buying something nicer, its owners say, when theyre
just going to move soon anyway. Because in the District, moving is what
young people tend to do. The median
age of people moving into the city is
about 26, and its 29 for those migrating
out.
More than half of residents rent their
homes, and according to 2013 Census
data, 59 percent of those renters have
been in their place three years or less.
The District is packed with the millennials who gave the city its population
boom. Theyre the ones who are the
most likely to change homes again and
again, rotating through group houses,
upgrading to bigger places, shacking
up and breaking up, packing up all
their stuff again and thinking theres no
point in bringing this coffee table with
me; it only cost $19.99.
And thats how tables well-worn and
nearly new end up on Craigslist. In
October alone, there were 6,969 posts
that included the word Ikea in the
furniture-for-sale section. Billy bookcases and Brusali bed frames, Malm
dressers and Magnarp floor lamps, and
nearly every day, a few Lack tables.
Described as sparsely as it is designed, the Lack table is discarded on
Craigslist for $10 to $20, as if its
companionship during the disorienting time of 20-something-ness gave it
no additional value. As if it hadnt been
such a reliable foot rest during sessions
of scrolling on Facebook, silently comparing the new lives of college friends.
As if it hadnt been such an adequate
plate holder for food that was a real,
cooked meal, and thus, a victory.
Behind each dull post fair condition and Please call, text, or e-mail
and pretty sturdy there is a history:
a story of a this-will-do coffee table at a
what-to-do time in life.

IKEA LACK Coffee

Table, Black-Brown
$20 (Capitol Hill)
When was it that the Yankees won
the World Series? 2009? 2010? Andrew
Paul cant remember, but he knows that
was the day the first coffee table was
put to death. There was screaming,
hugging, shattered glass. What was a
glass coffee table doing in a place
nicknamed The Frat House anyway?
So out he went, to Ikea College Park,
and he came home with the Lack. The
Black-Brown Lack. Thats not a color,
but its a color enough that if youre
picky about your blacks and browns
matching, you can work it either way.
The Frat House is not picky. It is a
three-bedroom place in Capitol Hill
that functions like a group house, with
the roommates always moving in and
moving out, 12 of them in six years,
always nicking the coffee table on their
way. The one who couldnt pay his bills
on time, he didnt last long. The one
studying international policy at

Georgetown, no one ever saw him. The

one with a Lion King quote tattooed on
his calf. What was it? Be prepared?
Andrew, the 29-year-old meeting
planner, cant remember, but he remembers meeting the girl. The girl who
would eventually be telling him that
no, he cant bring the coffee table to
their new place. The new place will
have candles on the coffee table, not
Maxim and Miller Lite. No Andrew,
they dont need a weed-whacker either.
Not the mini fridge. Sure, he can bring
the knife sharpener. You know, some of
this stuff he could probably sell online.
Maybe if he uses a Sharpie, he can fill
in the nicks where the particle board is
showing on the coffee table. Sharpies
dont come in black-brown. Hopefully
the new owner wont be picky.

he Lack coffee table first graced

the pages of an Ikea catalogue in
1981, the year President Reagan
was shot and MTV launched on cable
television. But Americans couldnt
easily get the catalogues Vra nya
lckra lack-bord (Our new delicious
lacquer tables) anyway, because the
first U.S. Ikea store wouldnt open in
Philadelphia until four years later. A
New York Times article declaring the
supermarket-style approach a hit
clarified, its: Ikea (pronounced eyeKEY-ah)
The coffee table cost 178 Swedish
krona in 1981 today thats $23.67 in
U.S. dollars, or $3.68 more than the
Lack we have 33 years later. Thats
possible, an Ikea spokesperson said,
because much of the table is actually
made out of paper. In between layers of
fiberboard, particleboard and glue is
paper packing material, shaped in oneinch tall hexagons.

Beige Ikea Lack Coffee

Table $15 (LeDroit
Park (3rd & U))
Lauren Skerrett, 25. Found the Lack
coffee table on the side of the road one
day after work. She really doesnt need
another coffee table. She really could
use $15.

IKEA Furniture
Moving Sale (Court
House)
John, 27, didnt plan to do it in the
room with the Lack coffee table, but
then, as these things do, the moment
struck.
She said she had to go move the car.
He went for the box. She came back in.
His knee touched the laminate floor.
The ring was from Helzberg Diamonds. The girl was from North Carolina. The shaking was from his nerves.
Yes to the ring. Yes, too, to moving
back to North Carolina. Yes, most
importantly, to always being there for
lifes nerve-racking moments.
But the coffee table, that would cost

more to move than it cost to buy. It will

hold her bridal magazines until someone responds to the ad.

here will always be the people in

life who know how to make
things better. When the things in
question are Ikea furniture, the betterers are the users of Pinterest. Enter the
phenomena of the Lack Hack. The
table (and its equally boring side table
accompaniment) have been the benefactors of an aggressive mission to turn
$19.99 into knockoffs of West Elm/
Pottery
Barn/anything-nicer-thanIkea. The crucial Lack hacks, organized
by popular Pinteresty adjectives:
Rustic: Glue wood 2-by-4s to the top
of the table.
Glam: Glue a mirror to the top of the
table.
So Glam: Also add upholstery studs.
Cozy: Make a fabric covered cushion.
One of a kind: Paint/decoupage/
bling out/replace top with vintage suitcase/just buy a different coffee table.

Black Ikea LACK

Coffee Table $15
(West End)
A euphemism is a phrase we use
when we want to make something
sound better than it is. Getting fired is
being let go. Dying is passing away.
When you love someone and then you
live with that someone, and then you
break up with that someone, the euphemism is went our separate ways. The
smaller, less-perfect, found-in-a-rush
apartment is lucking out in terms of
rent. The being alone is so nice to only
have to clean up after myself.
Rory Lamond, the engineer with his
coffee table on Craigslist, knows all of
this, because hes saying it, because she
got the Scrabble and he got the coffee
table and now the coffee table is too big.
He will sell it. He will buy the same
coffee table in the smaller size. He
never played Scrabble anyway.

IKEA Lack coffee table

$10 (Marshall)
There is a real coffee table waiting in
Dowagiac, Mich. (Population: 5,861). It
is made of oak and has a glass top, and
the glass is probably covered in dust
now because the table has been waiting
for four years.
There was no need to bring it with
them, all of this was just temporary.
Thats what then-21-year-old Mandy
Wallace said when her then-27-year-old
husband got a job in the D.C. metro
area (Population: 5,949,859).
Just temporary, she said as she
searched Craigslist for a desk, a TV
stand, a futon (king of just temporary
couch substitutions) and a not-oak
coffee table. The Ikea Lack, birch,
bought from a guy who bought it at a
garage sale, would do.
Within a year, the just temporary

Described as
sparsely as it
is designed,
the Lack table
sells new at
Ikea for $19.99
to $39.99 and
is discarded on
Craigslist for
$10 to $20.
The years or
at least
months of
service
apparently add
no value.

job that brought them to Northern

Virginia had run its course. But instead
of moving back to Dowagiac, her husband started a mechanic business.
Now the birch Lack coffee table was
for paperwork: receipts and tax forms
and legalities and what-nows and
what-ifs, over dinner and during commercial breaks. Mandy missed family
birthday parties and Mandy missed her
oak coffee table.
Then: Mandy and her husband
found out (not at their coffee table
they were house-sitting, so at a friends
coffee table) that they would soon be
Mandy and husband and baby. Smalltown Mandys of the world waiting to
return home, rejoice!
Just temporary, she affirmed as she
posted on Craigslist to sell the things
not going home to Michigan with
them: a desk, a TV stand and a not-oak
coffee table.

here is so much Ikea furniture on

Craigslist in the District that the
site is the substitute Ikea catalogue for those who dont have access to
a car or prefer their piece pre-built. In
the District, Craigslist is the renters
go-to. The potential for things to go
wrong Craigslist killers, drug deals,
robberies, kidnappings and scams
somehow seems less worrisome in the
face of sheer convenience. There are
23,000 housing posts, 27,000 furniture
posts. Blurry pictures and misspelled
descriptions, the easiest way to plan
the next move.

Ikea Lack Black-Brown

Coffee Table (Shaw)
The couple splurged on the Elliot
sectional from Macys, like real adults,
like people who can spend $1,600 on a
couch.
And then the girl from a few floors
up was getting rid of her coffee table, so
they took it, like 20-somethings, like
people who need to spend $0 on a
coffee table. This Lack was too big for
their space in Shaw, but they left it for a
month or two.
Feet up, House Hunters on. Watching other people look at oceanfront
bungalows and rustic-stacked-stone
farmhouses when youre living in a
700-square-foot box is a particularly
enjoyable kind of masochism. Its the
assurance that one day, you too can be
the wife walking into a closet the size of
your current bedroom and saying But
honey, where will we put your clothes?
The couple with their feet up on the $0
coffee table are Lauren Eineker, a
homeland security consultant, and
boyfriend, a job on the Hill. One day
they too will have it all, and all will
include a coffee table, probably from
Ethan Allen, like her parents have.
For now, they deserve to sell this
too-big coffee table on Craigslist.
Theyll buy another just-for-now coffee
table, probably on Craigslist, too, but it
will be the right size. One step at a time.
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These nutcrackers dont dance

MATTHEW KAISER

utcrackers can do more

than open walnuts and star
in a famous holiday ballet.
For instance, 22 of them
are part of an exhibit at the
Sully Historic Site in Chantilly, Virginia.
My favorite is the basketball player,
says Isabel Richardson, 12, about the
colorful group, which also includes a
chef, a jester, a skier and a cast-iron
squirrel. The exhibit is open through
January 31.
Each year, Sully assembles a holiday
exhibit focused on a playful item with
an interesting past, such as Russian
nesting dolls or toys from the 1800s.
Nutcrackers have a long history,
says Carol McDonnell, the manager at
Sully. They were very popular in
Germany, and many American soldiers brought them home during
World War II in the 1940s.
The oldest nutcracker in the Sully
exhibit, a king, was made during that
time. But a very simple one in Italy is
more than 2,300 years old. Since then,
people have created nutcrackers in
different sizes and shapes, modeled
after animals, birds, soldiers and
kings. In Europe, artisans in the 1500s
carved fancy nutcrackers from wood.
The family who lived at Sully in the
late 1700s would have used a simple
nutcracker, McDonnell says.
The house was built in 1794 by
Richard Bland Lee, the uncle of Confederate Civil War General Robert E.
Lee. If you visit Sully during the
holiday season, you can see how the
family prepared for Christmas. The
dining room is full of replicas of such
treats as nuts, dried fruit and cakes.
Evergreen boughs and holly decorate
the fireplace.
Tour guides such as Isabels 17-yearold sister, Olivia, will even let you hold

ABOVE: MATTHEW KAISER; RIGHT: DON SWEENEY

With the Sully Historic Sites home in Chantilly, Virginia, decorated for Christmas,
22 nutcrackers have gone on display. The oldest one dates to the 1940s.

one of the exhibits fancy nutcrackers,

a white-haired drummer. Kids love
touching it, says Olivia, who often
leads tours for troops of Girl Scouts
and Boy Scouts.
Both Isabel and Olivia, who live in
Loudoun County, are among the 20 or
so young volunteers at Sully. They all
help throughout the year but are
especially busy during the holiday
season. There are old-fashioned
games to teach, carols to sing, crafts to
create and refreshments to serve.
Volunteering really helps me to see
history in a different way, Isabel says.
Because shes doing activities as they
would have been done in the past,
history feels vivid and interesting. Its
something we can learn from, she says.
The Richardson sisters started as
volunteers by helping their mother,

who works at Sully. Over the years, like

the other young volunteers, they have
received training for different tasks.
(Volunteers should be at least 12 years
old, McDonnell says.)
Olivia enjoys talking about the history of medicine. Isabel has worn a cap
and old-fashioned dress for storytelling and music programs. And she has
played the pianoforte, an old instrument that sounds like a tinkling piano.
Sully also gets a hand from kids from
long ago. This years Christmas tree
was decorated according to the description of a young neighbor named
Minnie Middleton. You, too, can see the
splendor of a cedar tree hung with
toys, candles, popcorn and paper angels, just as Minnie did 129 years ago.
Mary Quattlebaum
kidspost@washpost.com

IF YOU GO
What: The Nutcracker Not the Ballet
exhibit through January 31, as part of a
house tour.
Where: Sully Historic Site,
3650 Historic Sully Way,
Chantilly, Virginia.
When: Open daily from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
House tours every hour. Closed Tuesdays
and some holidays. In January and
February, last tour at 3 p.m. and closed
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Best for: Age 7 and older.
How much: $5 for ages 5 to 15,
$7 for adults.
Special programs: Candlelight tours from
4:45 to 7 p.m. on December 13, 14 and 20
include music, crafts and refreshments.
Tickets cost $10. You must register in
advance at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/
sully-historic-site.
For more information: A parent can call
703-437-1794 or visit the Web site.

The etiquette of a federal agency invitation,

and a Thanksgiving dinners bad ending
Dear Miss
Manners:
I received an
invitation to a
JUDITH
black tie gala
MARTIN,
event to be held by
JACOBINA
MARTIN AND
a federal
NICHOLAS
government
IVOR MARTIN
agency.
I had previously
received a save the date notice,
which I shared with my wife. We
both thought she would be invited,
but unfortunately, I just found out
from the event coordinator that she
is not invited because of limited
seating and the apparent need to
invite interested members of
Congress.
Indeed, the invitation simply
says you. I know that proper
etiquette would be to include the
spouse in a wedding invitation.
Does that also apply to a black tie
gala event? Or is our hurt at this
perceived slight unjustified?

Miss
Manners

fence.
I knew their bird was rancid, as I
have been trained as a chef. I told
my bro not to eat it. He ate it and
was very sick for four days.
I ate one bite and wrapped what
was left in my napkin. I proceeded
to the nearest hospital, where I
work, and had it tested. Salmonella,
big time.
Do you think it was rude of me to
do so? I warned her about her bird.
She nearly killed my bro. What can I
do?

(1) Check on the neighbors.

Even on Thanksgiving, they
cannot have expected delivery of
an airborne fowl.
(2) Make other plans for
Christmas.
Dear Miss Manners:
My niece (23 years old) regularly
texts during movies. When I was at a
movie with her and my partner, I
asked her not to text during the
movie because it would upset my
partner. She said okay and did not
text.
My niece later told us that her
boyfriend suspected her of
cheating on him because she said
she was at the movie with her
aunt but wasnt texting.
In having this discussion, my
partner said texting in a theater is
rude, period, and went on about it.
In my opinion, it is rude to call
someone rude to their face. Do you
think my partner was rude by calling
my niece rude?

It is a shock to Miss Mannerss

patriotic heart to hear that the
federal government is categorizing
people as first- and second-class
citizens. You may well believe that
members of Congress were not
asked to attend a gala without
spouses, partners or
acquaintances.
But perhaps this was a lesser
transgression. You neglected to tell
Miss Manners whether you work
for that agency.
In that case, you should not
have been sent an invitation, as if
you were to be there as a guest.
Rather, you should have been
asked if you were willing to work
that evening, answering
questions, touting the agencys
mission, explaining where the
bathrooms were. You would be
dressed as a guest, but under no
illusion that you were being
offered hospitality, and your wife
would not be included unless she,
too, worked for the agency.

Yes, and doubly so since your

niece did not, at your request, text
during the movie you attended
together. Miss Manners notes that
you, your partner, your niece and
your nieces boyfriend are all in
agreement that there are some
activities that should not be
interrupted by texting. We are
simply disagreeing over what
those are.

Dear Miss Manners:

My Thanksgiving was ruined by
people that my brother allowed in
his house.
I told his girlfriend not to bring or
cook a turkey, as I had one already
there.
I was cooking said bird when she
and two others arrived, already
stewed to the gills. They took out my
bird and threw it over the backyard

Dear Miss Manners:

I have friends who got engaged
about a month ago. They refer to
each other as fiancee and fiance,
even though I clearly know they are
engaged. They dont use their
names even to close friends since
their engagement.
I would understand if they were a
young couple or on first marriages,
but this is her third and his second

marriage and they are in their 50s.

Its just kind of annoying. I am happy
for them, but I am wondering if this
is a common or accepted practice.

As you are already happy for

your friends, what would you have
them do to make you even
happier? Refrain from reveling in
their new tie, on the grounds that
they are too old or maritally
experienced?
Of course, there is reveling and
reveling. It would be
understandable to be annoyed by
a couple who behaved in your
presence as if they were alone. But
to object to their use of the correct
formal terms strikes Miss
Manners as churlish.
Dear Miss Manners:
I had a close friend die
unexpectedly, and my daughter
sent me a text to notify me. I was
upset at the news and with the way
it was delivered.
I told my daughter this, but she
said that is how her generation
does things.

It may be, but your concern is

with what your daughter should
have done, not with what her
contemporaries are doing.
News of the death of someone
dear to you should not be
delivered casually, which is more
easily accomplished in some
technologies than in others.
Assuming that your daughter
knew you could be reached more
quickly through a text and that
you would want to hear the news
as soon as possible Miss
Manners would still have advised
her to text you that she has urgent
news, asking you to call.
Dear Miss Manners:
Who pays for premarital
counseling? The future bride or the
groom?

If they cant figure that out on

their own, Miss Manners will offer
them some free counseling: Dont
get married.
New Miss Manners columns are
posted Sundays, Tuesdays and
Thursdays at www.washingtonpost
.com/advice. You can send questions to
Miss Manners at her Web site,
www.missmanners.com.
2014, by Judith Martin

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Newton in car crash

Wizards Insider Today, 7 p.m. Chat while you watch as the Wizards take on the Magic in Orlando.

Nats gauge interest

Panthers QB Cam Newton

suffered two fractures in his
back after a two-car wreck
Tuesday in Charlotte. D3

Terrapins Insider Today, 7 p.m. Join the discussion as the Terps face North Carolina Central.
Post Sports Keep track of all of the latest developments from MLBs winter meetings in San Diego.

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At MLBs winter meetings,

the Nationals try to figure
out the trade value of some
of their starting pitchers. D3

You cant always schedule things when you want them. . . . Life comes at you that way. Georgetowns John Thompson III, whose Hoyas face Kansas during exam week. D7

Odds can be long for trading top players on short-term contracts

On
baseball

san diego For

the moment,
Yoenis Cespedes is
a member of the
BARRY
Boston Red Sox.
SVRLUGA
Justin Upton
remains an
Atlanta Brave. Ian Desmond is
all he has ever been as a
professional, a Washington
National. Which is all a bit odd,
considering none of those teams
knows where any of those

players will be following 2015,

when they become free agents.
Baseballs winter meetings
officially began here Monday,
and once the chatter got beyond
the eventual destination for lefty
Jon Lester Cubs? Red Sox?
Someone else? it turned away
from what will be a free agent
class with one truly gamechanging piece remaining (Max
Scherzer) and settled in on the
trade market, which is so much

harder to define. Lester will get

his six or seven years and $140
million plus, and it will be a neat
and tidy financial deal, setting
the market for the remaining
pitchers, establishing new
targets for the clubs that lose
out.
But it is one contract for one
guy, a simple years-and-dollars
transaction. Trades are
complicated. Trades are murkier.
And trading for some of the most

bandied-about names on the

market including the trio
listed above, not to mention the
Nationals Jordan Zimmermann
might not happen because of
it.
All of those players have one
year remaining on their
contracts, one year before they
could become some version of
Lester at next years meetings
the sought-after centerpiece of
an entire offseason. Nationals

General Manager Mike Rizzo

who is willing to listen to offers
for Zimmermann and Desmond,
but isnt necessarily out
shopping them around said
Monday: You can look back in
history. There have been plenty
of deals that are made with oneyear players that become free
agents.
And while thats true lefty
Cliff Lee from Philadelphia to
Seattle prior to 2010, Cy Young

winner R.A. Dickey from the

Mets to Toronto following 2012
it can also be exceedingly
difficult. What is one year of a
player a player who might
walk away, leaving his former
team with only a draft pick to
show for it worth?
It depends on where you are
as an organization, Seattle
General Manager Jack
Zduriencik said Monday.
BASEBALL CONTINUED ON D3

EMOTIONAL
PRESENCE
Wizards Wall continues to cement his status
as elite point guard with memorable night
following the death of a young friend
STORY BY J ORGE C ASTILLO
PHOTO BY TONI L. SANDYS

wo weeks before she died, on the Monday before

Thanksgiving, cancer-stricken 6-year-old Damiyah
Telemaque-Nelson told everyone not to wake her up
unless it was to FaceTime with her friend John Wall.
When he learned of little Miyahs demand, Wall
couldnt help but smile. She told the Washington Wizards point
guard she was going to beat the Burkitts lymphoma that had
been diagnosed more than a year earlier. She was upbeat and
planned to attend the Wizards win over the Los Angeles Lakers
last week. But Miyahs condition quickly worsened, and she
succumbed to the disease Monday morning, hours before Wall

was to take the court opposite the Boston Celtics.

With his mind on far more important matters than a basketball game, Wall arrived at Verizon Center on Monday afternoon
and executed the most extraordinary performance of his career
in an exhausting 133-132 double-overtime triumph.
The emotional exhibition was the latest and grandest
evidence of Walls maturation and ascension as a point guard.
After blowing a 23-point third-quarter lead, the Wizards
overcame a seven-point deficit in the second overtime because of
Wall. He scored 10 straight points in the period and was a
menace in the open floor, converting two geometrically improb-

Kobe in twilight, a study in contrasts

Bryants legacy
is secure, but losing
with the Lakers stings
BY

M ICHAEL L EE

Fairly assessing Kobe Bryants

19th season is complicated because this campaign is such a
perplexing dichotomy both
triumphant and tragic, entertaining and excruciating, re-

demptive and repulsive. What

one of the games most prideful
players is doing is impossible to
denigrate because of what hes
overcome, but difficult to truly
praise because of the failings of
a once-proud but now-foundering organization.
Bryants legacy is already secure, his greatness cemented,
and it will reach another zenith
once he surpasses Michael Jordan for third place on the alltime scoring list, likely by the
end of the week. But Bryant is

moving ahead of his boyhood

idol at a time when he is producing the most inefficient, emptycalorie points of his career, on a
rare Los Angeles Lakers team
headed nowhere.
The struggles of the Lakers
and Bryants career-low shooting percentage (38.9) have unfortunately been a distraction
for what would be the overriding feel-good story of this season
how Bryant probably
shouldnt even still be hitting
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able layups in transition made possible by his blazing speed,

including a three-point play to give the Wizards the lead with 44
seconds remaining.
Its great. Its what he can do, Coach Randy Wittman said. I
didnt want to stop play. Anytime we could get a stop, we were
going to push it. Even under a minute. I had a timeout in my
pocket, but we didnt want to stop John in those situations. He
was really good at attacking the rim and finishing at the rim.
That one finish was spectacular.
Wall finished with 26 points, a career-high 17 assists, and
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A stingy Holtby helps streaking Caps

CAPITALS 5,
LIGHTNING 3
BY

A LEX P REWITT

tampa Braden Holtbys most

brilliant
moments
always
seemed marked by tranquility
and often bordered on sassiness,
but now circumstance demanded the goaltender confront utter
chaos. A puck had already buzzed

off the far post, threatening the

Washington Capitals slim lead
during their third penalty kill of
the second period. Bodies
swarmed the crease and stacked
into a pile. On the bottom, Holtby
looked up at the Amalie Arena
ceiling. The puck sat underneath
him, covered by his back.
A scrum ensued after the whistle, and a video review was needed to uphold the call. The crowd
moaned at the decision, but the
officials needed little time to understand the pivotal moment of

the Capitals 5-3 victory over the

Atlantic Division-leading Tampa
Bay Lightning: Holtby had rolled
over and smothered the puck,
like flopping into bed after a
long, tough day.
You be a goalie because you
like stopping, because you like
defense, Holtby said. In those
situations, thats when youre
called upon most.
The Capitals had come here,
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D.C. SPORTS BOG

D.C. SPORTS BOG

D.C. rising:
TV ratings for
the Wizards
skyrocket
BY

There is no
pardoning
the hopeless
Redskins

C A PI TA L S I NSI D ER

D AN S TEINBERG

BY

I didnt see much of the fourth

quarter, Kevin Sheehan said on
ESPN 980s Redskins postgame
show Sunday afternoon. I turned
it to [the Wizards]. They cut a
22-point lead down to one, had
multiple chances to take the lead.
Now thats a team thats actually
worth paying attention to.
Let me tell you something,
that blowout [of ] Denver on Friday night, they had me juiced,
host Al Galdi agreed. I mean,
they are a good team. I know they
lost at Boston today, but they are a
good team.
They made a nice run in the
fourth quarter after being behind
22, got a couple of bad calls that
went against them down the
stretch, said Sheehan, continuing the Wizards talk during the
Redskins postgame show.
Well take your calls on John
Wall and Bradley Beal later in the
show, Galdi facetiously announced.
I think thats what were going
to do tomorrow morning, joked
Sheehan, who co-hosts a Monday
morning Redskins show.
No, tens of thousands of Washingtonians were not turning off
the Redskins and flipping on the
Wizards on Sunday afternoon.
But there is some momentum in
the basketballers direction.
Through 20 games, Wizards
broadcasts on Comcast SportsNet
have averaged a 1.30 household
rating, according to Nielsen figures. Thats up 46 percent from
last years average rating at this
time, and up 26 percent over last
years final average rating for
Wizards broadcasts.
The two-year increase is even
more dramatic: The average
household rating is up 60 percent
from the 2012-13 season.

MATT MCCLAIN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Former Capitals goaltender Olie Kolzig mentors young players throughout the organization in a role he helped create.

In Kolzig they trust

BY

A LEX P REWITT

A boom microphone hovered over

Olie Kolzig as he stood in the doorway
to the visiting bench, chatting with
Capitals players as they trickled onto
the Amalie Arena ice in Tampa, while
his son watched nearby. When Kolzig
pitched becoming the organizations
professional development coach, he
envisioned moments such as these, the
melding of his family and work life,
where 13-year-old Carson, who had
autism diagnosed at a young age, could
come to the rink, meet the guys and
soak in the experience.
Its something special for him,
Kolzig said.
It was special for Kolzig, too, this
new life of traveling through
Washingtons minor league system,
meeting young players and guiding
them through the coils of professional
hockey. Ten days in Hershey, Pa., with
the American Hockey League affiliate.
Five days in South Carolina, with the
East Coast Hockey League affiliate.
Two weeks at home, in Tampa, then
back on another plane, bound for
another city.
Its still something Im not trying
to figure out, but what it all entails
through the course of the year, Kolzig
said. I thought it was a great way to
stay involved with the team but still
have the flexibility to be home with my
kids.
Over the summer, this desire
inspired Kolzig to approach the
Capitals about a new job, after he had

dan.steinberg@washpost.com
Excerpted from
washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog

QUOTABLE

I had my
opinion. You can
have an opinion
on my opinion; I
never have an
opinion on your
opinion of my
opinion. I dont
care.
Colin Cowherd,
sports radio host, while revising his
opinion of the Wizards John Wall
(via D.C. Sports Bog)

meetings with coaching colleagues, but

he might soon spend some time
working with the Bears goaltenders if
their full-time position coach, Scott
Murray, needs a break to see his family.
Kolzig understands this well. In
Tampa, he can drive his three children
to school. Daughters Kendall and
Ashyln are old enough to talk about
boys, another issue entirely. When he
told them he would soon head to
Charleston, S.C., for a few days, they
replied, Why do you have to leave
already?
For me, Kolzig said, its the best of
both worlds.
Even better were afternoons such as
Tuesday, when the Capitals paid their
second and final visit this season to the
Lightning. They arrived in Kolzigs
town sporting a two-game winning
streak and on the tail end of a threegame road trip he hoped could redirect
the season into more positive territory,
because even with all the morning
trips to schools, bouncing across cities
and talking young players through
their struggles, Kolzig still found time
to keep up.
I think theyre doing a great job, he
said. Its going to take a lot to change
a culture thats been in place for a long
time. Hopefully the two wins that they
had against Carolina and New Jersey is
going to start snowballing into a bit of
a streak.
alex.prewitt@washpost.com
Excerpted from washingtonpost.com/
capitalsinsider

Michael Wilbon and Tony

Kornheiser discussed the
Redskins on Monday on ESPNs
Pardon the Interruption and
did not heap praise on the
organization.
Theyre the most
dysfunctional team maybe in
professional sports, Wilbon
said. I mean, they have all the
acrimony of the old Yankees, but
none of the winning. They have
nothing but drama all around.
London Fletcher goes on TV a
guy they honored in Washington,
who played for this defensive
coach, and he said, essentially,
Youre a fraud, get out. And by
the way, he didnt backslide. He
didnt moonwalk off the
comments. He repeated them
[Monday] morning on radio in
Washington, D.C.
Wilbon also referenced Rams
Coach Jeff Fishers decision to
send the six players St. Louis
acquired via their trade with the
Redskins for Robert Griffin III to
midfield for the coin toss Sunday
at FedEx Field.
When a guy like Jeff Fisher,
with some weight and stature,
goes after the Redskins, Wilbon
said. How about the Vikings?
They gave Norv Turner the game
ball because he beat them. Norv
hasnt been the coach in
Washington in what, close to 15
years? The number of people
who find the Redskins loathsome
its not the media, which your
boy Jay Gruden tried to hide
behind. Oh, its Twitter and
news. No. No, no. Your peers
dont like you, and you seem to
have earned it.
I dont know who its about,
but I will say this, Kornheiser
said. Jeff Fishers defensive
coordinator is Gregg Williams.
Gregg Williams thought he was
going to be the head coach of the
Redskins for two years, and he
did not get the job. This was for
him, and for the fact that one of
Fishers best friends in the world
is Mike Shanahan.
Everybodys taking a shot at
them, said Wilbon, who also
noted that the Rams offensive
coordinator is former Redskins
coach Marty Schottenheimers
son, Brian.
The Redskins, right now, are
a terrible football team,
Kornheiser said. All of their
quarterbacks arent any good.
Defensive backs are not even in
the frame. People are running
free by so much, you cant even
find the defensive back. They are
a disaster. Im going to tell you
something on air that Ive told
you off the air. Ive been in
Washington 35 years. Ive seen
the Redskins when theyve been
great, and Ive seen them when
theyve been bad. I have never
felt like I do now that they are
hopeless.
scott.allen@washpost.com
Excerpted from
washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog

D I G ES T
SOCCER

Gerrard converted a tying free

U.S. national team

announces schedule

kick in the 81st minute. . . .

Brazilian legend Pele, 74, was
discharged from a hospital in Sao
Paulo, two weeks after being
admitted for a urinary tract
infection.
Doctors said Pele will continue
his recovery process at home. . . .
FIFA Secretary General
Jerome Valcke said President
Sepp Blatter will oppose a
January kickoff for the 2022
World Cup in Qatar to avoid
overlap with the Olypic Winter
Games.
European clubs and leagues
still propose a May tournament to
avoid Qatars hottest summer
months. Valcke says FIFAs
executive committee will decide
in March.

The United States will play

exhibition games next spring at
Denmark, Switzerland, the
Netherlands and Germany as it
prepares to defend its title at the
CONCACAF Gold Cup.
The Americans announced the
schedule for the first half of the
year on Tuesday. They open the
year Jan. 28 at Chile, and then
host Panama on Feb. 8 at Carson,
Calif.
The U.S. team plays at
Denmark on March 27 and at
Switzerland four days later. The
Americans will host Mexico on
April 15 at a site to be announced.
In two more games before the
Gold Cup, the Americans are at
the Netherlands on June 5, and
then play Germany five days later
in Cologne.
The Gold Cup takes place from
July 7 to 26. . . .
Liverpool was eliminated from
the Champions League when
visiting Basel advanced to the
final 16 with a 1-1 draw.
The five-time European
champion fell behind after
Fabian Frei scored in the 25th
minute. Liverpools Steven

stepped back from his previous post as

head goaltending coach. He knew
several other professional
development coaches across the
league, such as former Capitals
goaltender Craig Billington, and
always saw himself as the
sympathetic, empathetic, big buddy
type.
For the Hershey Bears and South
Carolina Stingrays, particularly those
players experiencing the minor leagues
for the first time, Kolzig hoped to act
as a middle man on issues ranging
from on-ice struggles to personal
issues to, as Kolzig cracked in
September, locating the laundromat.
I like the relationship, Kolzig said.
They dont look at me as a coach.
They dont look at me as management.
I try to think Im a big brother to them
and that they can trust me with
anything they have to say. Its been
really good.
You need somebody that you have
trust with, that it doesnt go any
further. Sometimes its tough to do that
with a coach, because you dont want
to show a soft side or a weak side. And
lets face it, everybody at this age, the
age of kids Im dealing with, theyre
still growing. Theyre still learning.
Sometimes as a man, a young man
with pride, you dont want to show
that soft side. To me, they can do that
and know thats not going to go
anywhere, and hopefully I can steer
them in the right direction.
Kolzig still missed the constant
involvement with players and the daily

S COTT A LLEN

BASEBALL
The Chicago Cubs acquired
catcher Miguel Montero from
the Arizona Diamondbacks in
exchanged for minor league righthanders Jeferson Mejia and
Zack Godley.
Montero, 31, an all-star in 2011
and 14, hit .282 this year with 18
homers and 86 RBI. He is owed
$12 million next season and $14
million in each of the final two
years of a five-year, $60 million
contract. . . .

A person familiar with the

negotiations says left-hander
Francisco Liriano, 31, is staying
with the Pittsburgh Pirates,
agreeing to a three-year, $39
million contract. . . .
Tom Gage of the Detroit News
won the J.G. Taylor Spink Award
for meritorious contributions to
baseball writing.
Gage, 66, has been the
newspapers traveling reporter
with the Tigers for 36 years. He
will be honored during the Hall of
Fames induction weekend July
24-27 in Cooperstown, N.Y.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Shane Conlan and Derrick
Thomas, two of the most
dominant college linebackers of
the 1980s, are part of a class of 14
former players and two coaches
being inducted into the College
Football Hall of Fame.
Thomas had 27 sacks and won
the Butkus Award as the nations
top linebacker in 1988 at Alabama
before going on to a successful
NFL career with the Kansas City
Chiefs. He was paralyzed in an
automobile wreck in 2000 and
died from complications about a
month later. He was 33.
Conlan was a two-time allAmerican at Penn Stateand at
Penn State. He had two
interceptions in his final college
game as Penn State upset Miami,
14-10, in the 1986 Fiesta Bowl to

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The rest of the class is
highlighted by TCU running back
LaDainian Tomlinson, South
Carolina wide receiver Sterling
Sharpe and USC offensive tackle
Tony Boselli. . . .

Michigan junior wide receiver

Devin Funchess declared for the

2015 NFL draft. He had 62

receptions for 733 yards and four
touchdowns this season. . . .
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MISC.
Hawaii athletic director Ben
Jay resigned after a two-year
tenure marked by failed efforts to
stop the athletic department from
losing money. Before he
announced his resignation, Jay
announced football Coach Norm
Chow would be retained after a
4-9 season. . . .
The WTA agreed to a media
rights contract it says will be
worth more than $525 million
over 10 seasons from 2017 to 2026,
with plans to produce all 2,000 or
so singles matches on the
womens tennis tour each year.
WTA Chairman and CEO Stacey
Allaster called the deal a gamechanger, and said it will give
fans more access to the players
they want to watch. . . .
The wife of former University
of Pennsylvania basketball
standout Matthew White has
been found guilty but mentally ill
in his stabbing death.
A suburban Philadelphia judge
found Maria Garcia-Pellon
guilty of voluntary manslaughter.
Authorities say Garcia-Pellon, 52,
stabbed White, 55, in bed in
February 2013.
White was the starting center
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Nats gauge interest in starters

Losers in Lester chase
could pursue
a couple of them
BY

J AMES W AGNER

san diego At some point

soon, Jon Lester, widely considered the top free agent pitcher in
baseball, will sign with a team.
The San Francisco Giants said
Tuesday evening they are out of
the running, so the sweepstakes
is down to the Boston Red Sox
and Chicago Cubs. And once Lester makes his choice, the series of
interplaying levers and pulleys
connected to the Washington
Nationals offseason can begin to
go.
Motivated by missing out on
Lester, a team in need of starting
pitching could make a stronger
push for one of the Nationals
starters, perhaps Jordan Zimmermann or Doug Fister, both
pitchers with one season left before free agency. In turn, the Nationals will get a clearer picture
of what each of their starters is
worth, especially Zimmermann,
one of the most attractive trade
candidates. And maybe one of
those teams, sensing theyre
close to contending, will be willing to part with the needed prospects and players to pry away a
starter from Washington.
I dont think we need specific
dominoes to fall, but when dominoes do fall it kind of does change
the landscape, General Manager
Mike Rizzo said at the winter
meetings here.
The Nationals do not need to
trade any of their starters. They
have a team capable of contending for the World Series in 2015 as
is. But they have been listening to
offers for their players, particularly those a year away from free
agency. And a players market
value is set by a complex and
fluid set of factors such as supply
and demand.
For example, once free agent
closer David Roberston inked a
deal with the Chicago White Sox,
the Nationals fairly dramatically and fairly quickly received a
lot of traffic on their relievers,
including Tyler Clippard, who is
also a year away from free agency.
Once Lester signs, teams that
have pursued him may also look
at other top free agent starters
such as Max Scherzer or James
Shields. But those two may be too
expensive, and teams may be
more willing to part with players
and prospects instead. So Zimmermann, a two-time all-star
coming off his best season, is a
more enticing option. Other reported trade candidates, such as
Detroit Tigers Rick Porcello and
the Philadelphia Phillies Cole

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Panthers quarterback Cam Newton is tended to by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer following a car
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Motivated by missing out on Jon Lester, a team in need of starting

pitching could make a stronger push for Jordan Zimmermann.

Hamels, are in similar positions.

The Cubs and the Red Sox, the
finalists for Lester, have several
prospects they could trade for
Zimmermann if they miss out on
signing the left-hander and decide to go after another option.
At one point, the Giants and Los
Angeles Dodgers were also pursuing Lester.
The Nationals are planning to
make another push to re-sign
Zimmermann after past efforts
failed. Rizzo said he hopes to
meet with the right-handers
agent this week in San Diego but
doesnt consider this the only
chance to determine Zimmermanns long-term status.
I dont want to put any limitations of anything that we do,
Rizzo said. Zim is part of the
furniture here. Drafted, signed,
developed and signed with the
organization. We feel hes one of
our own. Were certainly eager to
discuss things with him.
The Nationals have won the
National League East twice in
the past three seasons, in part,
because of Zimmermanns pitching. He is consistent, the author
of the teams only no-hitter and
only 28. But they also understand
that teams are interested in him,
and he may be around for only
one more year.
I love [Zimmermann] on our
team, Nationals Manager Matt
Williams said. I love giving him
the ball every fifth day. And I
hope that I get a chance to do that
for a long time to come. But it is
the game and it is the business of
the game. I know that theres
been a lot of speculation and a lot
of talk about it. At this point, Im
looking forward to giving him
the ball every fifth day. Hes been

an important part of our team.

Even though the Nationals
have yet to make a notable move
this offseason, they have been
active behind the scenes gauging
interest in San Diego, listening to
offers and weighing their multitude of options. They have
talked, in some form, with nearly
20 teams already, including the
Texas Rangers.
The Rangers expressed strong
interest in the Nationals starters, according to a person familiar with the situation. The person
didnt specify which starters the
Rangers were most interested in,
but, according to MLB.com, the
Rangers asked about Zimmermann and not Fister, and the
Nationals were less inclined to
deal Zimmermann but were willing to listen about Fister.
The Nationals, in turn, asked
the Rangers about 20-year-old
second baseman Rougned Odor.
The Nationals value young players they can control for several
years and have been looking for a
left-handed-hitting
infielder
who can play second and eventually slide over to shortstop
should Ian Desmond depart via
free agency.
Odor, one of the Rangers top
prospects, checks some of those
boxes. He made his major league
debut last season and hit .259
with a .297 on-base percentage
and .402 slugging percentage in
114 games, nearly all at second
base. He has only sparingly
played shortstop in the minor
leagues but is a left-handed hitter. The Rangers, however, rebuffed the Nationals and told
them they will not trade him, the
person said.
james.wagner@washpost.com

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One-and-done players are not easy to deal

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Usually, in one of those deals,

youre being asked to take on
some money. Maybe its $5
million, maybe $20 million,
whatever it is. So theres an
economic aspect.
But you also have to
evaluate whether you think that
one player, in that one year,
could put you over the top.
Thats one of the biggest
factors: Do you think you can
win?
The one borderline
blockbuster trade of this
offseason shows how so many
planets and their moons must
align in order for a deal like this
to happen. The St. Louis
Cardinals didnt head into
winter expecting to need a
corner outfielder. Then,
promising rookie Oscar Tavares
was killed in a car accident.
Emotionally, the Cardinals had
to grieve and heal as an
organization. Practically, they
had to find a right fielder.
One of the things we wanted
to still do was find a way to
preserve next season, and to
remain competitive, General
Manager John Mozeliak said
Monday.
So priority No. 1 for finding a
partner: It must be a team that
is ready to win, and win now.
(Its one reason why the
Zimmermann-to-the-Chicago
Cubs story that was floated last
month at the general managers
meetings a story that was
vociferously shot down by both
sides seemed perplexing.
Why would the Cubs, seemingly
poised for success in 2016 and
beyond but likely still a year
away from truly contending,
give away anything the
Nationals would want when
they could just sign
Zimmermann as a free agent a
year from now?)
Back to the Cardinals.
Because 2015 is important to

them their core is intact,

there is a civic and
organizational expectation of
winning they could afford to
take the risk of trading for a
one-and-done player. So they
sent young right-hander Shelby
Miller and a pitching prospect
to the Atlanta Braves in
exchange for Gold Glove right
fielder Jason Heyward, a free
agent after the season (and,
Mozeliak reminds, reliever
Jordan Walden, who should
lock down the eighth inning in
St. Louis).
In this case [the solution]
ended up being something that
could end up being long term,
but certainly on paper is a
short-term reaction, Mozeliak
said. . . . Historically we dont
want to work in that vacuum of
one year and fly. Its not our
normal way of thinking. But I
will say, historically, we have
had luck when people come to
St. Louis, experience it and end
up wanting to re-sign. But that
was not a factor in this
decision.
So think about the unusual
circumstances that went into
that trade: A team that expects
to win had a completely
unforeseeable need and then
matched up with another team
that was headed in the other
direction, looking to build for
the future. Can the Red Sox find
that kind of partner for
Cespedes, a power hitter (by
todays standards) who will
make $10.5 million in 2015? If
the Braves are really
dramatically rebuilding for
2017, when they will open a new
ballpark, wouldnt they move
Upton, owed $14.5 million next
year, too? Its not that easy.
Because we made the
Heyward trade, I think
everybody thinks, Well, the
next card to fall is Justin
Upton, Braves General
Manager John Hart told
Atlanta reporters Monday. We

went out looking for pitching,

and thats how we ended up
moving Heyward. Were not in
the same spot now.
This isnt impossible, of
course. The Oakland Athletics
in the continuation of what
appears to be an organizational
overhaul traded right-hander
Jeff Samardzija to the Chicago
White Sox. But the construction
of the deal, in which the White
Sox parted with four players,
meant that they wouldnt have
to include prime shortstop
prospect Tim Anderson. Thats
instructive on two levels: The
White Sox clearly intend to
contend in the American
League Central, and a player
with one year remaining on his
deal cant really command an
elite prospect in return.
White Sox General Manager
Rick Hahn said Chicago will try
to sign Samardzija to an
extension, but he admitted, Its
a little bit of a gamble.
No kidding.
The control of the player is
an important factor in
determining trade value, for
sure, Rizzo said. Again, history
has shown us players with 11/2 or
two years of control are worth
more than players with one
year.
So Cespedes is a Red Sox,
Upton a Brave, and the
Nationals have essentially the
same team with which they
entered the offseason.
The good thing for us is our
players that are going to be free
agents are really good players,
Rizzo said. Theyre some of the
top players in the league.
Theres plenty of interest out
there. Its just, you have to find
the right deal and the right fit
for us.
That fit for players who could
be at the 2015 winter meetings,
signing a new mega-deal with
another team, can be hard to
find.
barry.svrluga@washpost.com

Panthers Newton involved in crash

Carolina QB suffers
two fractures in back
F ROM N EWS S ERVICES
AND S TAFF R EPORTS
Carolina Panthers quarterback
Cam Newton was to remain in a
local Charlotte hospital overnight
for observation after being involved in a two-car wreck near the
citys stadium on Tuesday afternoon, the Carolina Panthers said.
The fourth-year quarterback is
in fair condition with two transverse process fractures in his lower back, according to Panthers director of communications Charlie
Dayton, who held a news conference just before 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Newton did not suffer any internal
injuries.
Panthers officials are closely
monitoring the situation while
they await further tests. His status
for Sundays game against the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers is unknown. Like Newton, Cowboys
quarterback Tony Romo has fractures to two transverse processes.
Romo missed one game, but has
played since with the help of painkillers.

The accident occurred Tuesday

on the Church Street bridge over
I-277 around 12:30 p.m, according
to the Charlotte Observer, which
had reporters immediately at the
scene.
The driver of the other vehicle
was also transported to the hospital and was also believed to be in
good condition with non-lifethreatening injuries, according to
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department spokesman Rob Tufano
(via NFL.com).
Marissa Payne

TEXANS: Houstons Jadeveon

Clowney, the top overall pick in
this years draft, had microfracture surgery on his right knee.
General Manager Rick Smith
said Clowney had the surgery on
Monday.
The Texans said last week that
Clowney would have season-ending knee surgery but did not specify what that surgery would be.
This surgery was the second this
season for the outside linebacker.
He had arthroscopic surgery on
the same knee after being injured
in Week 1.
l BROWNS: Rookie quarterback Johnny Manziel will make
his first NFL start on Sunday
against Cincinnati, replacing the
slumping Brian Hoyer as Cleveland tries to pump life into its
l

sagging playoff hopes.

Manziel, one of college footballs most captivating players, is
getting his shot with three games
left in a season he has spent as
Hoyers backup on the sideline
watching and learning. Browns
Coach Mike Pettine said Monday
he was leaning toward making the
switch, and after meeting with his
staff, he informed both quarterbacks of a decision that many
Browns fans have wanted.
Hoyer has been awful in his past
four games, throwing just one
touchdown pass and eight interceptions.
Manziel is the Browns 21st
starting quarterback since 1999.
l BENGALS:
Cincinnati put
middle linebacker Vontaze Burfict
on the injured reserve list, ending
a season cut short by concussions
and knee surgery.
Burfict was the Bengals leading
tackler in each of the past two
seasons and made the Pro Bowl
last season.
l ETC.: The NFL has created a
sportsmanship award to be voted
on by league players.
Commissioner Roger Goodell
announced the award, with each
team nominating one of its players
during the season. A panel of former players will select eight finalists from the 32 nominees.

TH E IN S ID ER

Excerpted from
washingtonpost.com/insider

No structural damage
for McCoy, tests reveal
The neck injury that knocked Colt
McCoy out of the final two
minutes of Sundays loss to the St.
Louis Rams is not believed to be
serious, and the possibility
remains that the quarterback
could play this week, a person
with knowledge of the situation
said Tuesday morning.
Test results revealed no
structural damage. But McCoys
availability will hinge largely on
how quickly the soreness in his
neck subsides, and how quickly
he regains full range of motion.
The coaching staff isnt expected
to have a full idea of whether
McCoy can or will start until later
in the week.
McCoy suffered the injury after
getting sacked by Robert Quinn
with 6 minutes 54 seconds left in
the game. Center Kory
Lichtensteiger appeared to snap
the ball sooner than McCoy and
some of the other linemen
expected. McCoy had to quickly
pick the ball up off the ground,
and Quinn fired off the line before
left tackle Trent Williams had
even flinched, expecting a
different snap count.
Quinn hit McCoy from behind,
and his arm came down on the
lower right side of McCoys neck.
McCoy got up and continued to
play the final three plays of that
possession and two more plays on
the next series before leaving the
game.
McCoy had tests conducted at a
hospital close to FedEx Field
immediately after the game. He
underwent more testing Monday
morning and met with specialists
Monday afternoon.
McCoy on Monday morning
still suffered from stiffness in his
neck and soreness. He had to turn
his whole body to look to the left
or right rather than just turning
his head. But he said he said he
wasnt able to fully describe the
feeling or degree of pain.
Coach Jay Gruden said that
Robert Griffin III likely would
start if McCoy was unable to play.

Season takes its toll

As he took the podium for
Mondays news conference,
Gruden looked haggard and
beaten. As he answered questions
and tried to come up with
answers to his teams many

JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST

The Redskins will know later in the week whether quarterback Colt
McCoy, who suffered an injured neck vs. the Rams, can play Sunday.

problems, it was evident that the

pressure from the losses and
uncertainty at quarterback have
started to take a toll.
With each loss comes another
round of negative reports about
the dysfunction within the
organization. Some of them,
Gruden acknowledges, are true
and he tries to offer the best
assessment possible. Others he
tries his best to quash and
provide the truth.
Its just another December for
the Redskins, their fans and local

media. But for Gruden, the circus

has proven bigger and more
draining than he expected when
he took the job, he admitted.
Its a little bit more than I
expected, yes, if thats the
question, Gruden said. I
understand that there are stories
to be had, and if you look around
every corner, you can find a story
about somebody negatively if you
want to. We try to stay positive
and upbeat, and I try not to let the
stories get to me or this team.
Mike Jones

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NFL REWIND
NFC EAST

AFC EAST

DALLAS (9-4)
September
7: San Fran., 17-28
14: at Tennessee, 26-10
21: at St. Louis, 34-31
28: New Orleans, 38-17
October
5: Houston, 20-17
12: at Seattle, 30-23
19: N.Y. Giants, 31-21
27: Washington, 17-20
November
2: Arizona, 17-28
9: at Jacksonville, 31-17
16: Bye
23: at N.Y. Giants, 31-28
27: Philadelphia, 10-33
December
4: at Chicago, 41-28
14: at Philadelphia
21: Indianapolis
28: at Washington

PHILADELPHIA (9-4)
September
7: Jacksonville, 34-17
15: at Indy., 30-27
21: Washington, 37-34
28: at San Fran., 21-26
October
5: St. Louis, 34-28
12: N.Y. Giants, 27-0
19: Bye
26: at Arizona, 20-24
November
2: at Houston, 31-21
10: Carolina, 45-21
16: at Green Bay, 20-53
23: Tennessee, 43-24
27: at Dallas, 33-10
December
7: Seattle, 14-24
14: Dallas
20: at Washington
28: at N.Y. Giants

NEW YORK (4-9)

September
8: at Detroit, 14-35
14: Arizona, 14-25
21: Houston, 30-17
25: at Wash., 45-14
October
5: Atlanta, 30-20
12: at Philadelphia, 0-27
19: at Dallas, 21-31
26: Bye
November
3: Indianapolis, 24-40
9: at Seattle, 17-38
16: San Fran., 10-16
23: Dallas, 28-31
30: at Jackson., 24-25
December
7: at Tennessee, 36-7
14: Washington
21: at St. Louis
28: Philadelphia

WASHINGTON (3-10)
September
7: at Houston, 6-17
14: Jacksonville, 41-10
21: at Phila., 34-37
25: N.Y. Giants, 14-45
October
6: Seattle, 17-27
12: at Arizona, 20-30
19: Tennessee, 19-17
27: at Dallas, 20-17
November
2: at Minnesota, 26-29
9: Bye
16: Tampa Bay, 7-27
23: at San Fran., 13-17
30: at Indy., 27-49
December
7: St. Louis, 0-24
14: at N.Y. Giants
20: Philadelphia
28: Dallas

BUFFALO (7-6)
September
7: at Chicago, 23-20
14: Miami, 29-10
21: San Diego, 10-22
28: at Houston, 17-23
October
5: at Detroit, 17-14
12: New England, 22-37
19: Minnesota, 17-16
26: at N.Y. Jets, 43-23
November
2: Bye
9: Kansas City, 13-17
13: at Miami, 9-22
24: N.Y. Jets, 38-3
30: Cleveland, 26-10
December
7: at Denver, 17-24
14: Green Bay
21: at Oakland
28: at New England

NEW ENGLAND (10-3)

September
7: at Miami, 20-33
14: at Minnesota, 30-7
21: Oakland, 16-9
29: at Kan. City, 14-41
October
5: Cincinnati, 43-17
12: at Buffalo, 37-22
16: N.Y. Jets, 27-25
26: Chicago, 51-23
November
2: Denver, 43-21
9: Bye
16: at Indy., 42-20
23: Detroit, 34-9
30: at Green Bay, 21-26
December
7: at San Diego, 23-14
14: Miami
21: at N.Y. Jets
28: Buffalo

MIAMI (7-6)
September
7: New England, 33-20
14: at Buffalo, 10-29
21: Kansas City, 15-34
28: at Oakland, 38-14
October
5: Bye
12: Green Bay, 24-27
19: at Chicago, 27-14
26: at Jackson., 27-13
November
2: San Diego, 37-0
9: at Detroit, 16-20
13: Buffalo, 22-9
23: at Denver, 36-39
December
1: at N.Y. Jets, 16-13
7: Baltimore, 13-28
14: at New England
21: Minnesota
28: N.Y. Jets

NEW YORK (2-11)

September
7: Oakland, 19-14
14: at Green Bay, 24-31
22: Chicago, 19-27
28: Detroit, 17-24
October
5: at San Diego, 0-31
12: Denver, 17-31
16: at N. England, 25-27
26: Buffalo, 23-43
November
2: at Kansas City, 10-24
9: Pittsburgh, 20-13
16: Bye
24: at Buffalo, 3-38
December
1: Miami, 13-16
7: at Minnesota, 24-30
14: at Tennessee
21: New England
28: at Miami

KEVIN C. COX/GETTY IMAGES

Aaron Rodgers passed for 323 yards and three touchdowns in Green Bays 43-37 victory over Atlanta on Monday night.

AFC NORTH

NFC NORTH
CHICAGO (5-8)
September
7: Buffalo, 20-23
14: at San Fran., 28-20
22: at N.Y. Jets, 27-19
28: Green Bay, 17-38
October
5: at Carolina, 24-31
12: at Atlanta, 27-13
19: Miami, 14-27
26: at N. England, 23-51
November
2: Bye
9: at Green Bay, 14-55
16: Minnesota, 21-13
23: Tampa Bay, 21-13
27: at Detroit, 17-34
December
4: Dallas, 28-41
15: New Orleans
21: Detroit
28: at Minnesota

GREEN BAY (10-3)

September
4: at Seattle, 16-36
14: N.Y. Jets, 31-24
21: at Detroit, 7-19
28: at Chicago, 38-17
October
2: Minnesota, 42-10
12: at Miami, 27-24
19: Carolina, 38-17
26: at N. Orleans, 23-44
November
2: Bye
9: Chicago, 55-14
16: Philadelphia, 53-20
23: at Minnesota, 24-21
30: New England, 26-21
December
8: Atlanta, 43-37
14: at Buffalo
21: at Tampa Bay
28: Detroit

DETROIT (9-4)
September
8: N.Y. Giants, 35-14
14: at Carolina, 7-24
21: Green Bay, 19-7
28: at N.Y. Jets, 24-17
October
5: Buffalo, 14-17
12: at Minnesota, 17-3
19: New Orleans, 24-23
26: at Atlanta, 22-21
November
2: Bye
9: Miami, 20-16
16: at Arizona, 6-14
23: at N. England, 9-34
27: Chicago, 34-17
December
7: Tampa Bay, 34-17
14: Minnesota
21: at Chicago
28: at Green Bay

MINNESOTA (6-7)
September
7: at St. Louis, 34-6
14: New England, 7-30
21: at New Orleans, 9-20
28: Atlanta, 41-28
October
2: at Green Bay, 10-42
12: Detroit, 3-17
19: at Buffalo, 16-17
26: at Tampa Bay, 19-13
November
2: Washington, 29-26
9: Bye
16: at Chicago, 13-21
23: Green Bay, 21-24
30: Carolina, 31-13
December
7: N.Y. Jets, 30-24
14: at Detroit
21: at Miami
28: Chicago

NFL power rankings

Each week na ona NFL wr er Mark Maske prov des h s rank ng and commen ary on a 32 eams wh e Ne Greenberg m nes he
me r cs o genera e an e c ency based Fancy S a s power rank ng o h s own D ve deeper da y on wash ng onpos com/spor s
1. Packers, 10-3 PREVIOUS: 1
They keep winning, but theres no room to coast with the Lions
right on their heels in the NFC North. FANCY STATS: 1
2. Patriots, 10-3 PREVIOUS: 2
The Patriots remain in control of the race for the No. 1 playoff
seed in the AFC and finish with three divisional games against
the Dolphins, Jets and Bills. FANCY STATS: 2
3. Broncos, 10-3 PREVIOUS: 3
Theyve won three straight games despite the fact Peyton
Manning hasnt had a 300-yard passing performance in any of
them. FANCY STATS: 3
4. Seahawks, 9-4 PREVIOUS: 7
Watch out. The Seahawks are back. The defense perhaps is not
quite at last seasons level, but it isnt that far away. FANCY STATS: 4
5. Colts, 9-4 PREVIOUS: 4
Andrew Luck wasnt that good Sunday in Cleveland, but he
delivered late and the Colts escaped with a victory, aided by the
Browns ill-fated decision to start Brian Hoyer at QB. FANCY STATS: 5
6. Lions, 9-4 PREVIOUS: 8
Calvin Johnson has not been at his best for much of an injuryplagued season. But if hes back to being himself, the Lions
become even more dangerous. FANCY STATS: 10
7. Cowboys, 9-4 PREVIOUS: 10
The Cowboys have another chance at the Eagles on Sunday. With
the NFC East lead at stake, they have to hope QB Tony Romo
plays far better than he did on Thanksgiving. FANCY STATS: 8

NFC SOUTH
ATLANTA (5-8)
September
7: New Orleans, 37-34
14: at Cincinnati, 10-24
18: Tampa Bay, 56-14
28: at Minnesota, 28-41
October
5: at N.Y. Giants, 20-30
12: Chicago, 13-27
19: at Baltimore, 7-29
26: Detroit, 21-22
November
2: Bye
9: at Tampa Bay, 27-17
16: at Carolina, 19-17
23: Cleveland, 24-26
30: Arizona, 29-18
December
8: at Green Bay, 37-43
14: Pittsburgh
21: at New Orleans
28: Carolina

NEW ORLEANS (5-8)

September
7: at Atlanta, 34-37
14: at Cleveland, 24-26
21: Minnesota, 20-9
28: at Dallas, 17-38
October
5: Tampa Bay, 37-31
12: Bye
19: at Detroit, 23-24
26: Green Bay, 44-23
30: at Carolina, 28-10
November
9: San Fran., 24-27
16: Cincinnati, 10-27
24: Baltimore, 27-34
30: at Pittsburgh, 35-32
December
7: Carolina, 10-41
15: at Chicago
21: Atlanta
28: at Tampa Bay

CAROLINA (4-8-1)
September
7: at Tampa Bay, 20-14
14: Detroit, 24-7
21: Pittsburgh, 19-37
28: at Baltimore, 10-38
October
5: Chicago, 31-24
12: at Cincinnati, 37-37
19: at Green Bay, 17-38
26: Seattle, 9-13
30: New Orleans, 10-28
November
10: at Phila., 21-45
16: Atlanta, 17-19
23: Bye
30: at Minnesota, 13-31
December
7: at New Orleans, 41-10
14: Tampa Bay
21: Cleveland
28: at Atlanta

TAMPA BAY (2-11)

September
7: Carolina, 14-20
14: St. Louis, 17-19
18: at Atlanta, 14-56
28: at Pittsburgh, 27-24
October
5: at New Orleans, 31-37
12: Baltimore, 17-48
19: Bye
26: Minnesota, 13-19
November
2: at Cleveland, 17-22
9: Atlanta, 17-27
16: at Washington, 27-7
23: at Chicago, 13-21
30: Cincinnati, 13-14
December
7: at Detroit, 17-34
14: at Carolina
21: Green Bay
28: New Orleans

NFC WEST
ARIZONA (10-3)
September
8: San Diego, 18-17
14: at N.Y. Giants, 25-14
21: San Fran., 23-14
28: Bye
October
5: at Denver, 20-41
12: Washington, 30-20
19: at Oakland, 24-13
26: Philadelphia, 24-20
November
2: at Dallas, 28-17
9: St. Louis, 31-14
16: Detroit, 14-6
23: at Seattle, 3-19
30: at Atlanta, 18-29
December
7: Kansas City, 17-14
11: at St. Louis
21: Seattle
28: at San Fran.

SEATTLE (9-4)
September
4: Green Bay, 36-16
14: at San Diego, 21-30
21: Denver, 26-20
28: Bye
October
6: at Washington, 27-17
12: Dallas, 23-30
19: at St. Louis, 26-28
26: at Carolina, 13-9
November
2: Oakland, 30-24
9: N.Y. Giants, 38-17
16: at Kan. City, 20-24
23: Arizona, 19-3
27: at San Fran., 19-3
December
7: at Philadelphia, 24-14
14: San Fran.
21: at Arizona
28: St. Louis

SAN FRANCISCO (7-6)

September
7: at Dallas, 28-17
14: Chicago, 20-28
21: at Arizona, 14-23
28: Philadelphia, 26-21
October
5: Kansas City, 22-17
13: at St. Louis, 31-17
19: at Denver, 17-42
26: Bye
November
2: St. Louis, 10-13
9: at New Orleans, 27-24
16: at N.Y. Giants, 16-10
23: Washington, 17-13
27: Seattle, 3-19
December
7: at Oakland, 13-24
14: at Seattle
20: San Diego
28: Arizona

ST. LOUIS (6-7)

September
7: Minnesota, 6-34
14: at Tampa Bay, 19-17
21: Dallas, 31-34
28: Bye
October
5: at Philadelphia, 28-34
13: San Fran., 17-31
19: Seattle, 28-26
26: at Kansas City, 7-34
November
2: at San Fran., 13-10
9: at Arizona, 14-31
16: Denver, 22-7
23: at San Diego, 24-27
30: Oakland, 52-0
December
7: at Washington, 24-0
11: Arizona
21: N.Y. Giants
28: at Seattle

8. Cardinals, 10-3 PREVIOUS: 13

Its now a two-team race in the NFC West, and the Cardinals
steadied themselves with Sundays win over the Chiefs following
consecutive losses. FANCY STATS: 7
9. Steelers, 8-5 PREVIOUS: 14
The Steelers have spent the last five games alternating wins and
losses. Theyll need some consistency if theyre going to emerge
from the tough AFC North race. FANCY STATS: 12
10. Chargers, 8-5 PREVIOUS: 9
What once looked to be a brutal closing stretch to the regular
season against the Broncos, 49ers and Chiefs doesnt
appear quite as imposing now. Peyton Manning hasnt been at
his best lately, and the Niners and Chiefs are having major
issues. FANCY STATS: 11
11. Ravens, 8-5 PREVIOUS: 16
LB Terrell Suggs said following the defeat to San Diego the
Ravens would be fine if they won the remainder of their regular
season games. That seems entirely possible. The Jaguars,
Texans and Browns remain. FANCY STATS: 9
12. Bengals, 8-4-1 PREVIOUS: 5
This team is tough to figure out. A 21-point loss at home to the
Browns, three straight wins on the road. Then another 21-point
loss at home Sunday to a divisional foe, this time the Steelers.
FANCY STATS: 14

16. Dolphins, 7-6 PREVIOUS: 11

The loss at home Sunday to the Ravens dimmed the Dolphins
playoff prospects considerably. Theyre behind a trio of 8-5 teams
in the race for two AFC wild-card spots. FANCY STATS: 15
17. Bills, 7-6 PREVIOUS: 12
Kyle Orton more than doubled Peyton Mannings passingyardage output Sunday while throwing nearly three times as
many passes. It still wasnt enough. FANCY STATS: 18
18. Vikings, 6-7 PREVIOUS: 23
Rookie QB Teddy Bridgewater tossed a game-winning, 87-yard TD
pass in overtime on which he correctly identified a blitz and
audibled to a screen to WR Jarius Wright. FANCY STATS: 20
19. 49ers, 7-6 PREVIOUS: 15
Colin Kaepernick is not solely to blame for his teams struggles,
but his production clearly is down recently. FANCY STATS: 17
20. Chiefs, 7-6 PREVIOUS: 18
The five-game winning streak that put the Chiefs at 7-3 and in the
thick of the AFC playoff chase is a fading memory. FANCY STATS: 16
21. Browns, 7-6 PREVIOUS: 19
Johnny Manziel is the best choice at QB. Coach Mike Pettine
should have made the move last week. FANCY STATS: 21
22. Panthers, 4-8-1 PREVIOUS: 25
Theyre still very much alive in the NFC South race, only a halfgame out of first place. Cam Newtons status following a Tuesday
car accident is a big unknown though. FANCY STATS: 26

24. Saints, 5-8 PREVIOUS: 22

Their sudden inability to win at the Superdome is stunning. The
Saints have lost their last four home games. FANCY STATS: 24
25. Bears, 5-8 PREVIOUS: 24
A .500 season remains possible but seems increasingly unlikely.
The Bears have lost consecutive games and will be without WR
Brandon Marshall for the rest of the season. FANCY STATS: 23
26. Giants, 4-9 PREVIOUS: 30
The victory Sunday at Tennessee was the Giants first win since
Oct. 5. Rookie WR Odell Beckham Jr. is doing more than making
highlight-worthy catches. FANCY STATS: 25
27. Raiders, 2-11 PREVIOUS: 32
If they were trying to impress Jim Harbaugh as their potential
coach-to-be, they might have done it Sunday. FANCY STATS: 27
28. Buccaneers, 2-11 PREVIOUS: 26
The Bucs are three games out of first place and in contention for
the top pick in the draft. Thats the NFC South. FANCY STATS: 29
29. Jets, 2-11 PREVIOUS: 27
The Jets gave a decent effort for Coach Rex Ryan on Sunday at
Minnesota but yet again found a way to lose. This season cant
end soon enough for them. FANCY STATS: 28
30. Redskins, 3-10 PREVIOUS: 28
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14. Texans, 7-6 PREVIOUS: 17

Houstons impressive turnaround suggests first-year Coach Bill
OBrien is doing a very good job, while receiving relatively little
national acclaim for it. FANCY STATS: 13

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15. Rams, 6-7 PREVIOUS: 20

The Rams have had consecutive shutout wins over the Raiders
and Redskins not the greatest competition, perhaps, but still a
significant accomplishment for the defense. FANCY STATS: 19

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NFC LEADERS
PASSING
Att-Cmp
A. Rodgers, GBY ........ 416/276
Romo, DAL ................. 350/242
Brees, NOR ................ 538/373
C. Palmer, ARI ............ 224/141
M. Ryan, ATL ............. 504/330
R. Wilson, SEA ........... 372/236
Cutler, CHI ................. 494/330
E. Manning, NYG ........ 482/303
Sanchez, PHL ............. 195/121
M. Stafford, DET ........ 494/304
K. Cousins, WAS ........ 204/126
Au. Davis, STL ........... 284/180
Kaepernick, SNF ........ 409/248
Glennon, TAM ............ 203/117
Bridgewater, MIN ...... 310/192

RECEIVING
No
Ju. Jones, ATL ....................... 93
J. Nelson, GBY ....................... 78
G. Tate, DET .......................... 84
Maclin, PHL ........................... 74
D. Bryant, DAL ...................... 73
Cobb, GBY .............................. 69
Jeffery, CHI ........................... 73
De. Jackson, WAS ................. 47
M. Evans, TAM ...................... 57
Boldin, SNF ............................ 72
Cal. Johnson, DET ................. 57
V. Jackson, TAM ................... 60
G. Olsen, CAR ........................ 71
K. Benjamin, CAR .................. 59
Beckham Jr., NYG ................. 59
Ma. Bennett, CHI ................... 77

Yds
1428
1265
1186
1109
1034
980
949
942
935
897
882
861
850
848
829
821

TD
35
25
28
11
25
17
26
23
10
18
10
12
16
10
10

Avg
15.4
16.2
14.1
15.0
14.2
14.2
13.0
20.0
16.4
12.5
15.5
14.4
12.0
14.4
14.1
10.7

Int Rate
3119.0
8108.8
12 98.8
3 95.6
11 95.5
5 95.2
15 91.7
13 88.0
7 88.0
10 87.8
9 86.4
9 85.1
10 85.1
6 83.3
8 82.4
LG
79
80
73
68
68
70
74
81
56
37
67
50
38
51
59
37

TD
6
12
3
10
10
10
8
5
10
4
6
2
6
9
6
6

RUSHING
D. Murray, DAL ....................
L. McCoy, PHL .....................
M. Lynch, SEA .....................
A. Morris, WAS ...................
Forte, CHI ............................
Lacy, GBY ............................
Ma. Ingram, NOR .................
Gore, SNF ............................
R. Wilson, SEA ....................
J. Bell, DET ..........................
A. Ellington, ARI .................
S. Jackson, ATL ...................
Mason, STL .........................
R. Jennings, NYG .................
Jon. Stewart, CAR ...............

No Yds
320 1606
259 1068
235 1042
218 899
214 854
188 843
182 810
193 775
101 727
182 664
201 660
175 652
142 628
156 603
116 563

KICKOFF RETURNS
No
B. Cunningham, STL .............. 24
B. Ellington, SNF ................... 17
Dw. Harris, DAL .................... 23
J. Ross, DET ........................... 18
C. Patterson, MIN ................. 30
Ch. Williams, CHI .................. 24
Hester, ATL ........................... 37
S. Patton, TAM ...................... 18
Roberts, WAS ....................... 23

Yds
684
453
593
458
750
579
891
416
521

Avg
5.0
4.1
4.4
4.1
4.0
4.5
4.5
4.0
7.2
3.6
3.3
3.7
4.4
3.9
4.9

LG TD
51 9
53 4
33 9
30 7
32 6
37 7
31 6
28 2
52 5
57 6
22 3
55 6
89 3
18 4
69 3

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Avg LG TD
28.5 75 0
26.6 38 0
25.8 42 0
25.4 36 0
25.0 49 0
24.1 101 1
24.1 48 0
23.1 28 0
22.7 45 0

INTERCEPTIONS
No.
Quin, DET.........................................................................5
Ras. Johnson, ARI ........................................................... 4
H. Smith, MIN..................................................................4
Ihedigbo, DET..................................................................4
4 more tied with..............................................................4

PASSING
Att-Cmp
P. Manning, DEN ........ 496/332
Roethlisberger, PIT .... 510/339
P. Rivers, SND ............ 441/302
Brady, NWE ............... 496/321
Luck, IND .................... 544/337
Fitzpatrick, HOU ........ 306/194
Flacco, BAL ................ 439/281
Tannehill, MIA ........... 457/305
Ale. Smith, KAN ........ 389/254
K. Orton, BUF ............. 348/225
Dalton, CIN ................. 394/251
D. Carr, OAK ............... 473/286
Hoyer, CLE ................. 426/236
Bortles, JAX ............... 379/232
G. Smith, NYJ ............ 287/166

Pct Yds
66.9 3910
66.5 4055
68.5 3407
64.7 3560
61.9 4305
63.4 2453
64.0 3258
66.7 3044
65.3 2657
64.7 2355
63.7 2891
60.5 2676
55.4 3196
61.2 2466
57.8 1778

RECEIVING
No
An. Brown, PIT .................... 105
Hilton, IND ............................ 78
Dem. Thomas, DEN ............... 90
E. Sanders, DEN .................... 86
D. Hopkins, HOU .................... 64
Gronkowski, NWE ................. 73
A. Green, CIN ......................... 56
Smith Sr., BAL ...................... 61
Edelman, NWE ...................... 85
S. Watkins, BUF .................... 58
K. Allen, SND ......................... 74
A. Hawkins, CLE .................... 56
Sanu, CIN ............................... 53
LaFell, NWE ........................... 57
Ma. Floyd, SND ...................... 42
And. Johnson, HOU ............... 69

Yds
1375
1295
1266
1208
1090
997
910
889
884
822
765
756
754
753
743
737

TD
36
29
26
30
36
17
22
21
16
14
15
17
11
10
8

Avg
13.1
16.6
14.1
14.0
17.0
13.7
16.3
14.6
10.4
14.2
10.3
13.5
14.2
13.2
17.7
10.7

Int Rate
11105.7
8103.0
11100.6
7100.2
13 98.8
8 95.9
9 94.5
9 92.6
6 92.2
7 89.2
13 84.7
11 78.3
12 76.4
16 71.4
12 68.0
LG
54
73
86
48
76
46
81
80
69
84
35
65
76
56
59
26

TD
11
7
10
7
6
10
6
6
3
5
4
2
5
7
5
2

RUSHING
L. Bell, PIT ...........................
Forsett, BAL ........................
A. Foster, HOU ....................
J. Charles, KAN ...................
L. Miller, MIA ......................
Je. Hill, CIN ..........................
Ivory, NYJ ............................
C.. Anderson, DEN ...............
D. Robinson, JAX .................
Chr. Johnson, NYJ ...............
Bernard, CIN ........................
T. West, CLE ........................
Crowell, CLE ........................
Sankey, TEN ........................
T. Richardson, IND ..............

No Yds
242 1231
192 1080
204 1028
172 898
162 782
152 729
162 714
119 594
135 582
125 558
142 557
148 556
121 529
131 499
142 475

KICKOFF RETURNS
No
Jac. Jones, BAL ..................... 26
Ad. Jones, CIN ....................... 19
J. Landry, MIA ....................... 26
K. Davis, KAN ........................ 23
Todman, JAX ......................... 34
Harvin, NYJ ........................... 18
L. Washington, TEN .............. 20
L. Murray, OAK ...................... 19
Br. Tate, CIN .......................... 17

CINCINNATI (8-4-1)
September
7: at Baltimore, 23-16
14: Atlanta, 24-10
21: Tennessee, 33-7
28: Bye
October
5: at N. England, 17-43
12: Carolina, 37-37
19: at Indianapolis, 0-27
26: Baltimore, 27-24
November
2: Jacksonville, 33-23
6: Cleveland, 3-24
16: at N. Orleans, 27-10
23: at Houston, 22-13
30: at Tampa Bay, 14-13
December
7: Pittsburgh, 21-42
14: at Cleveland
22: Denver
28: at Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH (8-5)
September
7: Cleveland, 30-27
11: at Baltimore, 6-26
21: at Carolina, 37-19
28: Tampa Bay, 24-27
October
5: at Jacksonville, 17-9
12: at Cleveland, 10-31
20: Houston, 30-23
26: Indianapolis, 51-34
November
2: Baltimore, 43-23
9: at N.Y. Jets, 13-20
17: at Tennessee, 27-24
23: Bye
30: New Orleans, 32-35
December
7: at Cincinnati, 42-21
14: at Atlanta
21: Kansas City
28: Cincinnati

HOUSTON (7-6)
September
7: Washington, 17-6
14: at Oakland, 30-14
21: at N.Y. Giants, 17-30
28: Buffalo, 23-17
October
5: at Dallas, 17-20
9: Indianapolis, 28-33
20: at Pittsburgh, 23-30
26: at Tennessee, 30-16
November
2: Philadelphia, 21-31
9: Bye
16: at Cleveland, 23-7
23: Cincinnati, 13-22
30: Tennessee, 45-21
December
7: at Jacksonville, 27-13
14: at Indianapolis
21: Baltimore
28: Jacksonville

JACKSONVILLE (2-11)
September
7: at Philadelphia, 17-34
14: at Wash., 10-41
21: Indianapolis, 17-44
28: at San Diego, 14-33
October
5: Pittsburgh, 9-17
12: at Tennessee, 14-16
19: Cleveland, 24-6
26: Miami, 13-27
November
2: at Cincinnati, 23-33
9: Dallas, 17-31
16: Bye
23: at Indianapolis, 3-23
30: N.Y. Giants, 25-24
December
7: Houston, 13-27
14: at Baltimore
18: Tennessee
28: at Houston

INDIANAPOLIS (9-4)
September
7: at Denver, 24-31
15: Philadelphia, 27-30
21: at Jackson., 44-17
28: Tennessee, 41-17
October
5: Baltimore, 20-13
9: at Houston, 33-28
19: Cincinnati, 27-0
26: at Pittsburgh, 34-51
November
3: at N.Y. Giants, 40-24
9: Bye
16: New England, 20-42
23: Jacksonville, 23-3
30: Washington, 49-27
December
7: at Cleveland, 25-24
14: Houston
21: at Dallas
28: at Tennessee

TENNESSEE (2-11)
September
7: at Kansas City, 26-10
14: Dallas, 10-26
21: at Cincinnati, 7-33
28: at Indy., 17-41
October
5: Cleveland, 28-29
12: Jacksonville, 16-14
19: at Wash., 17-19
26: Houston, 16-30
November
2: Bye
9: at Baltimore, 7-21
17: Pittsburgh, 24-27
23: at Phila., 24-43
30: at Houston, 21-45
December
7: N.Y. Giants, 7-36
14: N.Y. Jets
18: at Jacksonville
28: Indianapolis

AFC WEST

AFC LEADERS

Pct Yds
66.3 3652
69.1 2923
69.3 3983
62.9 1626
65.5 3802
63.4 2729
66.8 3446
62.9 3340
62.1 1500
61.5 3644
61.8 1710
63.4 2001
60.6 2910
57.6 1417
61.9 2136

CLEVELAND (7-6)
September
7: at Pittsburgh, 27-30
14: New Orleans, 26-24
21: Baltimore, 21-23
28: Bye
October
5: at Tennessee, 29-28
12: Pittsburgh, 31-10
19: at Jacksonville, 6-24
26: Oakland, 23-13
November
2: Tampa Bay, 22-17
6: at Cincinnati, 24-3
16: Houston, 7-23
23: at Atlanta, 26-24
30: at Buffalo, 10-26
December
7: Indianapolis, 24-25
14: Cincinnati
21: at Carolina
28: at Baltimore

AFC SOUTH

23. Falcons, 5-8 PREVIOUS: 21

Some very good teams have gone to Lambeau Field and lost this
season. And so have the Falcons. FANCY STATS: 22

13. Eagles, 9-4 PREVIOUS: 6

The down side of the Eagles fast-break offense: If theyre not
getting first downs, their offense is off the field quickly and the
pressure on their defense is immense. FANCY STATS: 6

BALTIMORE (8-5)
September
7: Cincinnati, 16-23
11: Pittsburgh, 26-6
21: at Cleveland, 23-21
28: Carolina, 38-10
October
5: at Indianapolis, 13-20
12: at Tampa Bay, 48-17
19: Atlanta, 29-7
26: at Cincinnati, 24-27
November
2: at Pittsburgh, 23-43
9: Tennessee, 21-7
16: Bye
24: at N. Orleans, 34-27
30: San Diego, 33-34
December
7: at Miami, 28-13
14: Jacksonville
21: at Houston
28: Cleveland

Yds
819
596
776
676
872
443
470
429
373

Avg
5.1
5.6
5.0
5.2
4.8
4.8
4.4
5.0
4.3
4.5
3.9
3.8
4.4
3.8
3.3

LG TD
81 5
52 8
51 8
63 9
33 6
62 6
71 5
26 4
41 4
47 1
89 5
29 3
35 8
22 2
27 3

Avg LG TD
31.5 108 1
31.4 97 0
29.8 74 0
29.4 99 1
25.6 40 0
24.6 65 0
23.5 50 0
22.6 38 0
21.9 31 0

INTERCEPTIONS
No.
Gipson, CLE......................................................................6
B. Grimes, MIA................................................................5
M. Adams, IND................................................................5
Skrine, CLE ...................................................................... 4
McKelvin, BUF.................................................................4

DENVER (10-3)
September
7: Indianapolis, 31-24
14: Kansas City, 24-17
21: at Seattle, 20-26
28: Bye
October
5: Arizona, 41-20
12: at N.Y. Jets, 31-17
19: San Fran., 42-17
23: San Diego, 35-21
November
2: at N. England, 21-43
9: at Oakland, 41-17
16: at St. Louis, 7-22
23: Miami, 39-36
30: at Kan. City, 29-16
December
7: Buffalo, 24-17
14: at San Diego
22: at Cincinnati
28: Oakland

OAKLAND (2-11)
September
7: at N.Y. Jets, 14-19
14: Houston, 14-30
21: at N. England, 9-16
28: Miami, 14-38
October
5: Bye
12: San Diego, 28-31
19: Arizona, 13-24
26: at Cleveland, 13-23
November
2: at Seattle, 24-30
9: Denver, 17-41
16: at San Diego, 6-13
20: Kansas City, 24-20
30: at St. Louis, 0-52
December
7: San Fran., 24-13
14: at Kansas City
21: Buffalo
28: at Denver

KANSAS CITY (7-6)

September
7: Tennessee, 10-26
14: at Denver, 17-24
21: at Miami, 34-15
29: New England, 41-14
October
5: at San Fran., 17-22
12: Bye
19: at San Diego, 23-20
26: St. Louis, 34-7
November
2: N.Y. Jets, 24-10
9: at Buffalo, 17-13
16: Seattle, 24-20
20: at Oakland, 20-24
30: Denver, 16-29
December
7: at Arizona, 14-17
14: Oakland
21: at Pittsburgh
28: San Diego

SAN DIEGO (8-5)

September
8: at Arizona, 17-18
14: Seattle, 30-21
21: at Buffalo, 22-10
28: Jacksonville, 33-14
October
5: N.Y. Jets, 31-0
12: at Oakland, 31-28
19: Kansas City, 20-23
23: at Denver, 21-35
November
2: at Miami, 0-37
9: Bye
16: Oakland, 13-6
23: St. Louis, 27-24
30: at Baltimore, 34-33
December
7: New England, 14-23
14: Denver
20: at San Fran.
28: at Kansas City

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2014

EZ

D5

M2

PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL

Wall emerging as elite player and leader

NBA ROUNDUP

James paces Cleveland

to eighth straight win

WIZARDS FROM D1

seven rebounds. He became just

the second NBA player in the last
five years to record such a stat line.
It was the fourth game this season
and the third straight that the
6-foot-4 Wall fell just two or three
rebounds short of a triple-double.
He didnt play the fourth quarter
in one of those four games a
30-point rout of the Denver Nuggets on Friday.
Through 20 games, the fifthyear floor general, often miffed
over his standing among the
leagues hierarchy, has unquestionably cemented himself as one
of the sports elite point guards on
both ends of the floor.
Offensively, Wall has entrenched himself among the
leagues best passers. He was always content with creating for
others, but with an improved supporting cast surrounding him he
has taken the selflessness to the
next level. He has exuded more
patience and improved his ability
to dial back his unmatched jets.
He changes pace and ventures
into the lane at will for kickout
passes to open shooters. He is
averaging a team-best 18 points
per game but is forcing fewer
shots.
Entering Tuesdays slate of
games, he led the NBA in assist
percentage, which measures the
percentage of teammates field
goals that the player assisted, at
47.5 percent. He was tied for second in assists per game (10.4), tied
for second in secondary assists per
game (2.2), second in points created off assists per game (24.5) and
third in assist opportunities created per game (19.8).
Im just reading defenses better, Wall said. Just everything. I
think my whole games improved,
just looking at how my game was
my rookie year. Not going 100
miles per hour all the time. I can
hit floaters, I can hit jump shots,
and my decision-making is better.
Its all those little things. All those
intangibles.
Defensively, Wall is, as he and
Wittman often put it, the head of
the snake. His pressure is the
turbine for the Wizards fourthranked defense based on points
allowed per 100 possessions. He
has always possessed the skills,
but this season he has exerted the
effort steadily and with fewer lapses.
Real plus-minus (RPM), a stat
created by ESPN, estimates Wall
has had the best defensive impact
among point guards this season.
His 2.83 defensive RPM is significantly better than second-ranked

CAVALIERS 105,
RAPTORS 101
A SSOCIATED P RESS
LeBron James acknowledged
that it didnt look good for the
Cleveland Cavaliers on Tuesday
night.
As usual when his team is in
trouble, he did something about
it.
James scored 35 points, making the tiebreaking three-pointer with 48 seconds remaining,
and Cleveland rallied to beat the
visiting Toronto Raptors, 105101, for its eighth straight win.
Toronto, which has the best
record in the Eastern Conference, went ahead midway
through the first quarter, built
the lead to 14 points late in the
third and still led by 10 with
about eight minutes to play.
I guess it was a little desperation, James said. You get down
on your home floor 13, 14 points,
you go out there and control
what you can control. Thats how
hard you play, how hard you
defend. The defense got our offense going.
Jamess jumper from the top
of the key gave Cleveland a 10299 lead and tied him with Mark
Price for the franchise record for
three-pointers at 802. James
scored 10 points in the fourth,
when Cleveland held Toronto to
13 points.
That was a tough, hard victory, Cleveland Coach David Blatt
said.
The Cavaliers havent lost
since falling 110-93 to the Raptors at Quicken Loans Arena on
Nov. 22, after which James said
they were fragile. Cleveland
got a measure of revenge with a
105-91 win in Toronto on Friday.
The Raptors built a doublefigure lead Tuesday, but couldnt
hang on in the teams third
matchup in 18 days.
l JAZZ 100, SPURS 96:
96: In Salt
Lake City, Derrick Favors scored
21 points, Gordon Hayward added 20 and Utah snapped a ninegame losing streak by surprising

TONI L. SANDYS/THE WASHINGTON POST

An emotional John Wall leaves the court Monday at Verizon Center in the wake of the death of his
cancer-stricken friend Damiyah Telemaque-Nelson, 6. This game was really meant for her, Wall said.

WIZARDS NEXT THREE

at Magic
Today, 7 p.m.
(Comcast SportsNet)

vs. Clippers
Friday, 7 p.m.
(Comcast SportsNet)

vs. Jazz
Sunday, 6 p.m.
(Comcast SportsNet)
Radio: WNEW (99.1 FM), WFED (1500 AM)

Elfrid Payton of the Orlando Magics 2.24, and his overall RPM of
2.92 is fifth among players at his
position. Walls defensive impact
is also evident in a more traditional way: He is second in the NBA
with 2.2 steals per game and has
had seven blocks in the Wizards
last five games.
Im just trying to be more
consistent on that end of the

floor, Wall said. Last year I

showed a lot of what I can do
when Im committed to it. Coming in, I was more of a gambler,
reaching, going for extra things.
Just sticking to the concepts and
the basics, opportunities come to
you. This team goes as far as I go
how I lead them on the defensive and offensive end.
In an on-court interview show
on the arenas big screen following the Wizards marathon victory over the Celtics, Paul Pierce
called Wall a potential MVP.
Center Marcin Gortat took to
Twitter on Friday night to declare
to his nearly 68,000 followers
that Wall is the best point guard
in the NBA. He did not waver
Monday night.
John was truly amazing, Gortat said. Im glad that he had a
game like that. He kind of backed
what I posted on Twitter a few
days ago. He is definitely the top
point guard in the league right
now. He is playing tremendous

basketball.
But Walls mind wasnt on basketball Monday. It was on his little buddy Miyah, whom he met in
March and introduced to Nicki
Minaj when he heard Miyahs wish
was to meet the hip-hop star and
have one of her signature pink
wigs. Within a couple weeks, Miyah met Minaj and had her own
pink wig.
But Wall and Miyah stayed in
touch. And on the day Miyah
passed away, Wall paid homage
the best way he knew how, with a
win and a memorable performance as he continues his rise
among basketballs elite.
This game was really meant
for her, Wall said.
jorge.castillo@washpost.com

the defending NBA champions.

Enes Kanter added 12 points and
15 rebounds for his fourth double-double of the season for
Utah, which lost all four games
against the Spurs last season.
Tim Duncan had 23 points
and 13 rebounds for San Antonio, which played without point
guard Tony Parker.
l PELICANS 104, KNICKS 93:
93:
Tyreke Evans scored 27 points,
Anthony Davis added 18 points
and three blocks, and New Orleans handed visiting New York
its ninth straight loss.
Amare Stoudemire scored 26
points and Carmelo Anthony
had 17 for New York, which fell to
4-19 with what was also their
10th straight road loss.
l THUNDER 114, BUCKS 101:
101:
Kevin Durant scored 23 points
in his first home game of the
season, and Oklahoma City beat
Milwaukee.
Durant, who missed the first
17 games with a broken bone in
his right foot before playing
three games on the road, added
nine rebounds and seven assists.
Russell Westbrook scored 28
points for the Thunder, which
has won five of six after starting
the season with a 3-12 record.
The Bucks have lost five of six.
l TRAIL BLAZERS 98, PISTONS 86:
86: LaMarcus Aldridge
had 23 points and 11 rebounds,
Wesley Matthews scored 19
points, and visiting Portland
won its fifth consecutive game
while handing Detroit its 13th
straight loss.
The defeat was one short of
the Pistons franchise record, set
in 1979-80 and tied in 1993-94.
Greg Monroe had 22 points and
10 rebounds for Detroit, which
only got 40 points from its starters.
l HEAT 103, SUNS 97:
97: In
Phoenix, Chris Bosh scored 10 of
his 34 points in the fourth quarter, including seven straight
down the stretch, and Miami
snapped a four-game losing
streak.
l GRIZZLIES 114, MAVERICKS 105:
105: Marc Gasol scored 30
points, Mike Conley added 22
and host Memphis withstood 18
Dallas three-pointers.

After rehab, Bryant deals with losing

BRYANT FROM D1

those cold-blooded turnaround

jumpers and leading the NBA in
scoring and total minutes at age
36 after coming back from both a
ruptured left Achilles and a fractured left kneecap. When asked if
he has found any gratification in a
campaign that has started with so
much frustration, Bryant replied,
For not having played for a season, yeah.
Bryants ornery determination
drove him to get back on the court
following two injuries that each
could have been considered career-ending, or at the very least
expedited retirement. In many
ways, his play this season is an
embodiment of the same defiance
that he showed in April 2013,
when he seemingly tried to heal
his shredded heel in his mind and
still got up to shoot those free
throws. The crack in his knee,
which came six games after he
fought back to play last December, was deflating but again didnt
destroy him.
To say it was like climbing
Mount Everest is an understatement. It was really, really a bear.
Really a bear, Bryant said of the
challenging rehabilitation required to get back on the court
both times. One of those situations, you cant be driven from
outside influences, because its
such a long process. It has to
come from within. And I found
beauty in the process of it. I was
consumed by little goals. Walking. Then toe raises, and I tried to
chop it down to small pieces.
But no way did Bryant push his
body through such grueling limits to return to a team that currently has the second-worst record in the Western Conference,
has already witnessed three season-ending injuries and is relying
on a patchwork supporting cast
of journeymen and castoffs.
Bryant said visions of being
back on a championship team
drove him during his darkest
days on the road to recovery. But
after missing out on a marquee
free agent last summer, the Lakers actually need to lose big because they only have top-five protection on a lottery pick that
would otherwise go to Phoenix as

part of that horrifyingly bad Steve

Nash trade.
Im a true competitor, Bryant
said. When I say that, I mean,
when things are difficult, I compete even harder. I dont run from
that. Thats not okay. You cant be
competitive when things are going well. When things are going
bad, you have to be equally competitive, if not more so.
Bryant has certainly had his
moments in which he mocked
Father Time, but he has also had
performances in which old age
laughed back. He became the
oldest player to have a triple-double with at least 30 points, 10
rebounds and 10 assists in a Nov.
30 win over Toronto. He also
scored the fewest points of any
player over 35 to take at least 35
shots in a game, needing 37 shots
to score 39 points in a Nov. 4 loss
to Phoenix. He became the first
player in NBA history with
30,000 points and 6,000 assists
but also broke John Havliceks
record for most missed shots ever.
And he has easily taken more
shots than any player in the
league but has only made at least
half of his field goal attempts
twice.
Bryants game is a throwback
to an era of isolations and turnaround fadeaways from midrange, a time before hand-checking became illegal and one-onone skill was required for domination. Now the NBA has shown
that the most explosive offensive
teams move the ball, relentlessly
attack the rim and shoot threepointers with abandon. The game
is moving on but Bryant stubbornly refuses to let go and
audiences remain captivated by
the show.
The biggest question going
into the season was, can he still
play at a high level? That questions been answered, Lakers
Coach Byron Scott said, and I
mean answered big-time.
Bryant has been left to carry
the mantle for an organization
that has fallen on hard times,
either by misfortune, mismanagement, or to some, the mere
presence of No. 24. He continues
to declare that his loyalty is to one
of the leagues most storied franchises and that he wont abandon

it for an individual chase for more

rings.
Ive been in this situation before. I dont fret about it. I dont
think nothing about it, Bryant
said. Ive seen, where it seems
like this organization is in dire
straits and then all of a sudden,
we make a couple of moves, make
a couple of trades and boom,
were right back in it. So I just stay
patient.
That doesnt make the losing
any more tolerable. Scott said he
exchanges text messages with
Bryant after almost every tough
loss, sometimes until 2 a.m. or 3
a.m.
I finally text him and say, Go
to bed, Scott said with a laugh,
because Im hurting just like hes
hurting. Thats the thing that I
love about him. Thats the reason
its easier to deal with. . . . I think
anybody whos been winning,
whos won championships, when
you lose, it should hurt. I know
No. 24 hurts.
But Scott is confident the pain
will be temporary for him and
Bryant after hearing the plan
Lakers owner Jim Buss and General Manager Mitch Kupchak
have for the organization. If their
strategy works out, Scott feels the
Lakers might be able to keep
Bryant beyond 2016, when his
current two-year, $48 million
contract expires.
I think if we put something
together that excites him, I think
we have a real good chance to say,
Play another year. Give it another
shot. Thats what we plan to do,
Scott said.
The Lakers will eventually
need to map out a future that
doesnt include Bryant. He also
isnt going to overstay his welcome as the franchise enters another phase.
If I want to play, Ill play. I tend
to make my own decisions, Bryant said. I mean, right now, Id
say no. Its just a feeling. If I want
to go through the process that I go
through now of getting ready
every single day the amount of
commitment that it takes, its
nuts. If I want to continue to do
that, then I will. If I dont, I dont.

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SCOREBOARD
PRO FOOTBALL

HOCKEY

NFL

NHL

JETS 5, STARS 2

NFC

EASTERN CONFERENCE

WINNIPEG ............................... 2
DALLAS .................................... 1

EAST
W
Philadelphia .................... 9
Dallas .............................. 9
N.Y. Giants ...................... 4
Washington .................... 3
SOUTH
W
Atlanta ............................ 5
New Orleans ................... 5
Carolina ........................... 4
Tampa Bay ...................... 2

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343
293
244
PF
328
333
269
237

PA
309
301
326
346
PA
342
359
341
348

NORTH
W
Green Bay ..................... 10
Detroit ............................ 9
Minnesota ....................... 6
Chicago ........................... 5

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265
263
281

PA
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224
281
378

WEST
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Arizona ......................... 10
Seattle ............................ 9
San Francisco .................. 7
St. Louis .......................... 6

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PCT.
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PF
275
322
244
285

PA
238
235
268
285

EAST
W
New England ................. 10
Miami .............................. 7
Buffalo ............................ 7
N.Y. Jets ......................... 2

L
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314
281
214

PA
267
260
241
349

SOUTH
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Indianapolis .................... 9
Houston .......................... 7
Tennessee ....................... 2
Jacksonville .................... 2

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314
220
199

PA
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260
374
356

NORTH
W
Cincinnati ........................ 8
Pittsburgh ....................... 8
Baltimore ........................ 8
Cleveland ........................ 7

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362
356
276

PA
289
319
255
270

WEST
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Denver ........................... 10
San Diego ........................ 8
Kansas City ..................... 7
Oakland ........................... 2

L
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293
291
200

PA
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272
241
350

AFC

MONDAYS RESULT
at Green Bay 43, Atlanta 37
THURSDAYS GAME
Arizona at St. Louis, 8:25
SUNDAYS GAMES
Washington at N.Y. Giants, 1
Jacksonville at Baltimore, 1
Oakland at Kansas City, 1
Pittsburgh at Atlanta, 1
Miami at New England, 1
Houston at Indianapolis, 1
Green Bay at Buffalo, 1
Tampa Bay at Carolina, 1
Cincinnati at Cleveland, 1
Denver at San Diego, 4:05
N.Y. Jets at Tennessee, 4:05
San Francisco at Seattle, 4:25
Minnesota at Detroit, 4:25
Dallas at Philadelphia, 8:30

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at Baltimore ...............
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at Indianapolis ...........
Cincinnati ...................
at New England .........
at Carolina .................
at Kansas City ............
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Houston
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Miami
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at Buffalo
Minnesota
at Tennessee
at San Diego
San Francisco
Dallas

MONDAYS GAME
New Orleans ..............

at Chicago

SECOND PERIOD

SHOTS ON GOAL

THIRD PERIOD

WINNIPEG ............................. 12
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DALLAS .................................. 10
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Power-play opportunities: Winnipeg 1 of 4; Dallas 1 of 5.
Goalies: Winnipeg, Hutchinson 6-1-2 (28 shots-26
saves). Dallas, Lehtonen 10-7-5 (17-14), Rynnas (7:34
second, 15-13). A: 15,987 (18,532). T: 2:30.

Scoring: 6, Minnesota, Koivu 5 (Zucker), 2:51. 7, Minnesota, Haula 3 (Carter, Spurgeon), 11:03. 8, Minnesota,
Vanek 3 (Parise, Suter), 11:48. 9, Minnesota, Niederreiter 12 (Vanek, Suter), 15:27.

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BUFFALO ................................. 4
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Power-play opportunities: Los Angeles 0 of 2; Buffalo 1
of 4. Goalies: Los Angeles, Quick 11-7-4 (16 shots-15
saves). Buffalo, Enroth 7-10-1 (34-34).

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17:17.

SHOTS ON GOAL
N.Y. ISLANDERS .................... 11
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MINNESOTA ............................ 3
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Power-play opportunities: N.Y. Islanders 1 of 5; Minnesota 1 of 5. Goalies: N.Y. Islanders, Johnson 5-4-0 (30
shots-25 saves). Minnesota, Backstrom 4-2-1 (19-15).
A: 18,904 (17,954). T: 2:36.

BLACKHAWKS 3,
DEVILS 2 (SO)
CHICAGO ............................ 0
NEW JERSEY ..................... 1

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Scoring: 1, New Jersey, Tootoo 2 (Bernier), 15:11.

SECOND PERIOD
Scoring: 2, Chicago, Bickell 4 (Sharp), 10:55.

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CANADIENS 3, CANUCKS 1
VANCOUVER ........................... 0
MONTREAL .............................. 0

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SECOND PERIOD
Scoring: 1, Montreal, Gallagher 8 (Pacioretty, Gilbert),
6:56. 2, Vancouver, Dorsett 4 (Hansen, Bieksa), 11:56
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Scoring: 3, Montreal, Plekanec 9 (Andrighetto, Sekac),
15:44. 4, Montreal, Pacioretty 13 (P.Subban), 19:59 (en).

SHOTS ON GOAL
VANCOUVER ........................... 6
5
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MONTREAL .............................. 7
13
5 25
Power-play opportunities: Vancouver 0 of 2; Montreal 0
of 5. Goalies: Vancouver, Miller 16-6-0 (24 shots-22
saves). Montreal, Price 15-8-1 (16-15).

PHILADELPHIA .................. 1
COLUMBUS ........................ 1
UNDERDOG
Arizona

Scoring: 4, Dallas, Roussel 6 (Jo.Benn, Demers), 3:29. 5,

Winnipeg, Lowry 3 (Frolik, Chiarot), 7:22. 6, Winnipeg,
Lowry 4 (Pardy, Halischuk), 9:41. 7, Winnipeg, Frolik 6
(Wheeler, Stuart), 19:20 (sh).

SHOTS ON GOAL

GA

4
5

Scoring: 1, N.Y. Islanders, Grabner 2 (Lee, Reinhart),

8:31. 2, N.Y. Islanders, Nelson 13 (Leddy, Tavares), 17:15
(pp). 3, N.Y. Islanders, Martin 3 (Hickey, Visnovsky),
17:47.

Scoring: 1, Buffalo, Ennis 8 (Moulson, Stafford), 4:00

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THIRD PERIOD

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Scoring: 1, Winnipeg, Perreault 4 (Little, Byfuglien), 5:23

(pp). 2, Dallas, Seguin 22 (Spezza, Ja.Benn), 9:09 (pp). 3,
Winnipeg, Wheeler 9 (Ladd, Byfuglien), 14:01.

LOS ANGELES .......................... 0

BUFFALO ................................. 0

N.Y. ISLANDERS ...................... 3

MINNESOTA ............................ 0

FIRST PERIOD

SABRES 1, KINGS 0

GA

MAPLE LEAFS 4, FLAMES 1

CALGARY ................................. 0
TORONTO ................................ 1

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FIRST PERIOD
Scoring: 1, Toronto, Holland 7 (Clarkson, Lupul), 10:46.

SECOND PERIOD
Scoring: 2, Toronto, van Riemsdyk 11 (Kadri, Phaneuf),
2:51 (pp).
Scoring: 3, Calgary, Granlund 4 (Giordano, Brodie), 3:48
(pp). 4, Toronto, Kessel 14 (van Riemsdyk), 19:20 (en). 5,
Toronto, Santorelli 5 (Kadri, Phaneuf), 19:56 (en).

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TORONTO ................................ 8
13
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Power-play opportunities: Calgary 1 of 3; Toronto 1 of 2.
Goalies: Calgary, Hiller 9-7-1 (27 shots-25 saves).
Toronto, Bernier 11-6-3 (33-32).

FIRST PERIOD
Scoring: 1, Columbus, Jenner 5 (Dubinsky, Wisniewski),
12:34 (pp). 2, Philadelphia, B.Schenn 8 (Giroux, Streit),
17:53 (pp).

SECOND PERIOD

PREDATORS 3,
AVALANCHE 0

Scoring: 3, Columbus, Hartnell 6 (Foligno, Johnson),

10:39 (pp).

NASHVILLE .............................. 1
COLORADO .............................. 0

THIRD PERIOD

FIRST PERIOD

Scoring: 4, Philadelphia, B.Schenn 9 (Voracek, Couturier), 19:04.

Scoring: 1, Nashville, Forsberg 12 (Bourque, Jones),

2:23.

OVERTIME

THIRD PERIOD

Scoring: 5, Columbus, Connauton 1 (Johansen), 1:58.

Scoring: 2, Nashville, Bourque 1 (Ribeiro), 18:10 (en). 3,

Nashville, Neal 10 (Ribeiro, Forsberg), 19:02 (en).

SHOTS ON GOAL
PHILADELPHIA .................. 5
6
8
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COLUMBUS ........................ 9
8
5
2 24
Power-play opportunities: Philadelphia 1 of 4; Columbus
2 of 4. Goalies: Philadelphia, Mason 5-9-4 (24 shots-21
saves). Columbus, Bobrovsky 9-8-1 (21-19). A: 14,196
(18,144). T: 2:29.

Scoring: 3, New Jersey, Gionta 2 (Bernier, Severson),

2:31. 4, Chicago, Keith 6 (Hossa, Toews), 16:47.

SHOOTOUT
Chicago 2 (Toews G, Kane G), New Jersey 0 (Havlat NG,
Jagr NG).

SHOTS ON GOAL
CHICAGO ............................ 9
17
8
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NEW JERSEY ................... 10
7
6
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Power-play opportunities: Chicago 0 of 3; New Jersey 0
of 1. Goalies: Chicago, Darling 4-1-0 (24 shots-22 saves).
New Jersey, Kinkaid 0-1-1 (39-37).

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COLORADO .............................. 8
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Power-play opportunities: Nashville 0 of 6; Colorado 0 of
2. Goalies: Nashville, Rinne 18-5-1 (26 shots-26 saves).
Colorado, Pickard 3-5-0 (34-33).

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MOUNT ST. MARYS 67
Mount St. Mary's (2-5)
Miller 4-10 1-2 12, Graves 0-2 1-2 1, Martin 7-14 0-0 19,
Robinson 3-8 0-0 8, Krajina 3-8 0-0 6, Sallah 2-3 0-2 4,
Ashe 2-12 1-2 7, Nwandu 2-5 1-1 5, McManimon 0-2 0-0
0, Glover 0-2 0-0 0, Howard 1-1 0-0 3, Brown 0-0 0-0 0,
Danaher 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 25-68 4-9 67.
Notre Dame (9-1)
Auguste 7-12 5-7 19, Jackson 6-10 1-1 15, Grant 8-13 0-0
19, Connaughton 2-4 0-0 4, Vasturia 7-7 2-2 19, Torres
1-2 0-0 2, Farrell 0-2 0-0 0, Katenda 1-3 0-0 2, Burgett 2-2
0-0 4, Gregory 0-0 0-0 0, Geben 0-1 4-4 4, Colson 2-5 1-2
5. Totals 36-61 13-16 93.
Halftime: Notre Dame 52-27. Three-point goals: Mount
St. Marys 13-35 (Martin 5-9, Miller 3-8, Robinson 2-4,
Ashe 2-8, Howard 1-1, Krajina 0-1, McManimon 0-2,
Glover 0-2), Notre Dame 8-14 (Vasturia 3-3, Grant 3-7,
Jackson 2-3, Connaughton 0-1). Fouled out: None.
Rebounds: Mount St. Marys 31 (Sallah 5), Notre Dame
41 (Auguste 8). Assists: Mount St. Marys 16 (Robinson
5), Notre Dame 16 (Grant, Jackson, Vasturia 3). Total
fouls: Mount St. Marys 16, Notre Dame 8. A: 6,647.

Loyola (Md.) (3-6)

Rassman 0-6 2-2 2, Gregory 7-9 0-2 14, Walker 4-10 2-3
12, Laster 1-9 0-0 2, Hubbard 0-7 0-0 0, Gorski 1-2 1-1 3,
Mancini 0-1 0-0 0, Brito 1-2 0-0 2, Tuohy Jr. 0-1 0-0 0,
Bishop 0-1 2-2 2, Staubi 0-0 0-0 0, Barnard 1-5 3-6 5,
Forney 0-0 0-2 0. Totals 15-53 10-18 42.
Saint Joseph's (5-4)
Miles 3-7 2-3 9, Bembry 8-11 3-5 21, Baumann 1-3 0-0 2,
Wilson 4-10 4-4 13, Demery 3-7 1-3 7, Maschmeyer 0-0
0-0 0, Newkirk 1-3 3-4 5, Brown 0-3 1-2 1, Booth 0-0 0-0
0, Romeo 0-0 2-2 2, Casper 2-4 1-2 6, Thompson 1-1 0-0 2,
Williams 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 23-49 17-25 68.
Halftime: Saint Josephs 28-24. Three-point goals:
Loyola (Md.) 2-16 (Walker 2-4, Tuohy Jr. 0-1, Gorski 0-1,
Mancini 0-1, Brito 0-1, Rassman 0-2, Laster 0-2, Hubbard
0-4), Saint Josephs 5-13 (Bembry 2-2, Casper 1-2, Miles
1-3, Wilson 1-4, Newkirk 0-2). Fouled out: Brown.
Rebounds: Loyola (Md.) 32 (Gregory 8), Saint Josephs
38 (Bembry 7). Assists: Loyola (Md.) 2 (Hubbard,
Rassman 1), Saint Josephs 11 (Wilson 4). Total fouls:
Loyola (Md.) 20, Saint Josephs 17. A: 3,743.

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Three-point Goals: New York 9-19 (Calderon 2-2, Prigioni

2-3, Anthony 2-4, J. Smith 2-6, Hardaway Jr. 1-2,
Shumpert 0-2), New Orleans 4-15 (Babbitt 2-6, Rivers
1-1, Evans 1-2, Holiday 0-1, Anderson 0-5). Fouled Out:
Stoudemire. Rebounds: New York 39 (Anthony 8), New
Orleans 51 (Asik 14). Assists: New York 19 (Calderon 6),
New Orleans 22 (Holiday 7). Total Fouls: New York 20,
New Orleans 14. Technicals: New Orleans defensive
three second. Flagrant Fouls: Davis. A: 13,789 (16,867).

GRIZZLIES 114,
MAVERICKS 105
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DALLAS: Parsons 10-18 4-5 30, Nowitzki 4-17 3-3 11,

Chandler 0-1 0-0 0, Nelson 6-9 2-2 18, Ellis 1-11 0-0 2,
Wright 2-2 1-2 5, Harris 2-4 1-2 6, Crowder 5-6 0-0 13,
Barea 7-16 0-0 17, Villanueva 1-1 0-0 3, Smith 0-0 0-0 0.
Totals 38-85 11-14 105.
MEMPHIS: Allen 5-8 3-3 13, Randolph 6-18 5-6 17, Gasol
9-14 12-13 30, Conley 9-13 2-2 22, Lee 2-5 0-0 4, Prince
4-9 1-1 11, Leuer 1-4 0-0 3, Udrih 4-7 1-2 10, Carter 1-7
0-0 3, Koufos 0-0 1-2 1, Calathes 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 41-85
25-29 114.
Three-point Goals: Dallas 18-40 (Parsons 6-10, Nelson
4-6, Crowder 3-3, Barea 3-8, Villanueva 1-1, Harris 1-3,
Ellis 0-3, Nowitzki 0-6), Memphis 7-14 (Prince 2-3,
Conley 2-4, Leuer 1-1, Udrih 1-1, Carter 1-4, Lee 0-1).
Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Dallas 52 (Chandler 9),
Memphis 46 (Randolph 13). Assists: Dallas 19 (Nelson,
Nowitzki 4), Memphis 20 (Gasol 6). Total Fouls: Dallas
22, Memphis 17. Technicals: Chandler, Memphis Coach
Joerger. A: 16,512 (18,119).

THUNDER 114, BUCKS 101

MILWAUKEE ...................... 31
OKLAHOMA CITY ............... 26

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MILWAUKEE: Antetokounmpo 4-11 8-11 17, Parker 7-13

1-2 15, Sanders 2-7 2-2 6, Knight 2-10 3-4 9, Mayo 6-13
6-6 18, Pachulia 3-5 1-1 7, Dudley 4-9 0-0 8, Middleton
2-7 3-4 7, Bayless 3-6 5-5 11, Marshall 1-3 0-0 3. Totals
34-84 29-35 101.
OKLAHOMA CITY: Durant 7-11 8-8 23, Ibaka 5-5 5-5 15,
Adams 2-5 0-0 4, Westbrook 8-16 12-15 28, Roberson 1-3
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Morrow 3-5 0-0 6, Jackson 8-14 0-0 18, Thomas 0-0 0-0 0,
Smith 1-1 0-2 2. Totals 41-82 28-34 114.
Three-point Goals: Milwaukee 4-21 (Knight 2-6, Antetokounmpo 1-2, Marshall 1-3, Bayless 0-1, Middleton
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2-7, Jones 1-3, Durant 1-5, Roberson 0-1, Morrow 0-1,
Westbrook 0-2, Lamb 0-2). Fouled Out: Mayo, Morrow.
Rebounds: Milwaukee 39 (Antetokounmpo 7), Oklahoma
City 64 (Durant, Perkins 9). Assists: Milwaukee 19
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0-4, Butler 0-4). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Portland
53 (Aldridge, Lopez 11), Detroit 57 (Drummond 15).
Assists: Portland 25 (Lillard, Blake 6), Detroit 23
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Sunday, Feb. 8: vs. Panama at Carson, California
Friday, March 27: at Denmark
Tuesday, March 31: at Switzerland
Wednesday, April 15: vs. Mexico
Friday, June 5: at Netherlands
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TORONTO: Ross 8-13 1-1 18, A.Johnson 5-10 0-0 10,

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2-5, Love 1-5, Irving 1-5, Jones 0-2). Fouled Out: None.
Rebounds: Toronto 43 (Valanciunas 15), Cleveland 40
(Love 9). Assists: Toronto 26 (Lowry 14), Cleveland 27
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Hoyas welcome
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Capitals center Brooks Laich, center, celebrates his second-period goal that put Washington up 3-2
against the Tampa Bay Lightning. It was his third goal of the season and second in the last two games.

Capitals net third straight win

CAPITALS FROM D1

ters and the hosts had amassed

the Eastern Conferences best
home record, seeking validation.
Over the past week, they had
toppled Carolina and New Jersey,
two teams with losing records,
and no team carrying playoff aspirations would consider this
noteworthy.
But behind forward Brooks
Laichs go-ahead goal during the
second period, three penalty kills
that followed, forward Troy Brouwers tight-wire act on the rush
his first five-on-five score since
late October the Capitals and
Holtby extended their mutual
winning streaks to three games
by becoming just the fifth visiting
team to win in Tampa this season.
I think we see that when we
play the way we need to play, we
can play with the top teams,
Coach Barry Trotz said. Theyre
good benchmarks for us.
Washington arrived with confidence, having already beaten the
Hurricanes and Devils on the
road without Alex Ovechkin or
Nicklas Backstrom registering
points, which had previously happened in consecutive wins just
once in their careers. Tuesday
night, it took 40 seconds for
Ovechkin to make an impact.
On his first shift, three pulverizing hits already behind him,
Ovechkin waited in traffic while
forward Tom Wilson circled the
puck behind the net. When Wilsons pass threaded a seam,
Ovechkin pounded his 13th goal
of the season past Lightning netminder Ben Bishop and ended a
four-game scoring drought.
It set the tone, Trotz said.
Our big guys showed up tonight
and scored some goals for us.
After Tampa Bay found its tying goal when a wrist shot deflected up off forward Brian Boyles
stick, Holtby turned into a human
barricade. He deflected pucks
away with little movement except

CAPITALS NEXT THREE

vs. Blue Jackets
Tomorrow, 7 p.m.
(Comcast SportsNet)

vs. Lightning
Saturday, 7 p.m.
(Comcast SportsNet)

at Panthers
Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.
(Comcast SportsNet Plus)
Radio: WJFK (106.7 FM), WFED (1500 AM)

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TAMPA BAY ............................ 1

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Scoring: 1, Washington, Ovechkin 13 (Wilson, Carlson),
:40. 2, Tampa Bay, Boyle 6 (Hedman, J.Brown), 13:49. 3,
Washington, Niskanen 2 (Backstrom, Johansson), 14:23
(pp). Penalties: J.Brown, TB (boarding), 6:58; Wilson,
Was (roughing), 13:53; Paquette, TB, served by Morrow,
double minor (roughing), 13:53.

SECOND PERIOD
Scoring: 4, Tampa Bay, Stamkos 17 (Callahan, Hedman),
:47. 5, Washington, Laich 3 (Ward), 4:36. Penalties:
Backstrom, Was (hooking), 9:11; Wilson, Was (roughing), 11:32; Schmidt, Was (elbowing), 15:44.

THIRD PERIOD
Scoring: 6, Washington, Brouwer 7 (Johansson, Kuznetsov), 10:52. 7, Tampa Bay, Filppula 5 (Johnson,
Hedman), 19:56. 8, Washington, Ovechkin 14 (Backstrom), 19:59 (en). Penalties: None.

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shots-33 saves). Tampa Bay, Bishop 16-5-2 (34-30). A:
17,109 (19,204). T: 2:28.

a simple leg kick. He snared shots

from midair then flipped them
inside his glove, a nonchalance
teammates had come to associate
with Holtby at his stingiest. He
rescued Washington from a harrowing end to the first period and
helped snuff three penalties during the second.
They usually say your goalie
has to be your best [penalty killer], Holtby said. I dont really
believe that. I think it takes all
five.
In what defenseman Brooks
Orpik called their most complete

effort of the season, the Capitals

twice lost one-goal leads then
answered.
The public address announcer
had barely finished declaring
Boyles goal before Tom Wilson
goaded Tampa Bays Cedric Paquette into a four-minute roughing penalty on the ensuing faceoff. Wilson received a two-minute
roughing penalty too, so the
crowd cheered, then cheered
again when they heard Boyles
name. But as the announcer continued to talk, defenseman Matt
Niskanen cranked a one-timer for
his second goal of the season and
hushed the building.
After Steven Stamkos whipped
his 250th career goal past Holtby
just 47 seconds into the second
period, Laich scored on a hot-potato effort near the crease that
pushed the Capitals ahead, 3-2.
Soon, Washington arrived at its
long stretch of tempting fate,
when it needed Holtby most.
Nicklas Backstrom took a hooking penalty. Wilson was whistled
for roughing. And when Nate
Schmidt entered the box for an
illegal elbow, Washington never
seemed more fragile as Valtteri
Filppula flung a shot from close
range that struck the far post.
The Capitals had another 30
seconds left before Schmidt was
released and another 20 minutes
of regulation remaining against
the Eastern Conferences best
home team. They needed Brouwers goal, 10 minutes 52 seconds
into the final period, as a buffer.
They withstood Filppulas facesaving score with 2.9 seconds left,
then returned the favor as Ovechkin scored again into an empty
net with time expiring.
But now, as white and blue
sweaters dove into the crease,
Holtby felt the puck strike his
back and flipped over. Validation,
resting beneath the bearded netminder nicknamed Holtbeast,
had arrived.
alex.prewitt@washpost.com

NHL ROUNDUP

Toews, Kane lift Chicago in shootout

BLACKHAWKS 3,
DEVILS 2 (SO)
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Jonathan Toews and Patrick
Kane scored in a shootout, and the
Chicago Blackhawks rallied late in
Newark, N.J. to earn their seventh
straight victory with a 3-2 win over
the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday
night.
Bryan Bickell and Duncan
Keith had goals in regulation for
Chicago, whose winning streak
matches the NHL high for this
season. Scott Darling made 22
saves, including two stops in the
shootout.
The loss spoiled the first NHL
start for Devils goalie Keith Kincaid, who made 37 saves, but was
no match for the Chicago stars in
the shootout.
l BLUE JACKETS 3, FLYERS 2
(OT): Kevin Connauton scored his
first goal of the season off a lead
pass from Ryan Johansen 1 minute
58 seconds into the overtime period to lift host Columbus past Philadelphia for its fourth straight
win.
Johansen took a drop pass and
waited for Connauton to slip past
Matt Read. He then fed a pass to
Connauton for the high shot that
beat Steve Mason.
Boone Jenner scored in his ca-

reer-best fourth straight game,

and Scott Hartnell also had a goal.
Sergei Bobrovsky made 19 saves.
l SABRES 1, KINGS 0: Tyler Enniss third-period, power-play goal
lifted Buffalo to a home win over
Los Angeles.
Jhonas Enroth made 34 saves
for his first shutout since April 13,
2013, and the Sabres kept up their
home mastery of the Kings. Los
Angeles is 1-11-1-1 in its last 14
games in Buffalo.
Jonathan Quick had a shutout
streak of 119 minutes 54 seconds
against Buffalo snapped by Ennis.
Quick blanked the Sabres on Oct.
23 in Los Angeles.
l CANADIENS 3, CANUCKS 1:
Tomas Plekanec scored the goahead goal late in the third period
to lead host Montreal past Vancouver.
Brendan Gallagher and Max Pacioretty also scored for the Canadiens, who snapped a three-game
losing streak.
Derek Dorsett scored for and
Ryan Miller made 21 saves as Vancouver finished a 3-3-1 road trip.
Plekanec scored the tiebreaking goal with 4:16 remaining after
tipping a beautiful pass from Sven
Andrighetto.
l WILD 5, ISLANDERS 4: Nino
Niederreiter tapped in the goahead goal with 4:33 left and
capped a furious comeback by
Minnesota in a win over New York
in St. Paul, Minn.
The Wild trailed 3-0 after the

first period and 4-1 at the second

intermission, but they were fired
up midway through the game. Defenseman Keith Ballard was sent
to a hospital after his head
bounced hard on the ice, following
a hit from Matt Martin.
l MAPLE LEAFS 4, FLAMES 1:
Jonathan Bernier stopped 32
shots, James van Riemsdyk scored
the winning goal early in the second period and host Toronto beat
Calgary.
Peter Holland scored midway
through the first period and Phil
Kessel and Mike Santorelli had
empty-net goals in the games final
minute for the Maple Leafs.
l JETS 5, STARS 2: Rookie
Adam Lowry scored twice in the
second period to lead Winnipeg
past host Dallas.
Mathieu Perreault, Blake
Wheeler and Michael Frolik also
scored for the Jets, and Michael
Hutchinson stopped 26 shots.
Tyler Seguin had his NHL-leading 22nd goal and Antoine Roussel also scored for the Stars.
l PREDATORS 3, AVALANCHE
0: Filip Forsberg scored the gamewinner 2:23 into the first period,
Pekka Rinne had 26 saves and
Nashville won on the road against
Colorado.
Gabriel Bourque and James
Neal had empty-net goals in the
final two minutes of the game for
the Predators.
Calvin Pickard had 33 saves for
the Avalanche.

G ENE W ANG

Georgetown students have

plenty on their minds and schedules this week because of first-semester exams and term papers.
Members of the schools mens
basketball team not only have
those academic responsibilities
but also a game smack in the
middle of this most demanding
time.
And its not just any adversary
but a long-awaited rematch
against 10th-ranked Kansas,
which had its way with the Hoyas
last season, 86-64, at historic Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kan.
Georgetown typically does not
schedule this level of opponent
during exams, but logistics regarding arena availability dictated terms this season, according
to Coach John Thompson III.
The Hoyas fourth all-time meeting with the three-time national
champions is Wednesday night
at Verizon Center, which under
other circumstances likely
would be filled for a game of such
magnitude.
But the timing is anything but
ideal, and players indicated they
were uncertain about robust student attendance.
So much of the lessons
learned in that gym, in this sport,
in any sport, carry over throughout life, and life isnt always convenient, Thompson said. You
cant always schedule things
when you want them, so just the
understanding thats life. Life
comes at you that way, and you

have to be prepared, and you still

have to perform in all areas.
Georgetown, which is receiving votes in the Associated Press
top 25 poll, has been doing mostly just that over the first seven
games. Among its rsum-building wins was a 66-65 victory in
overtime against then-No. 18
Florida in the first round of the
Battle 4 Atlantis in the Bahamas
during Thanksgiving week. The
Hoyas (5-2) subsequently pushed
then-No. 2 Wisconsin to the wire
before losing, 68-65, and fell to
No. 15 Butler, 64-58.
Georgetown had more than a
week off before facing Towson on
Sunday afternoon in the first
game of a doubleheader in the
20th annual BB&T Classic at
Verizon Center. There was discussion among the team about
the perils of overlooking the Tigers with Kansas looming, but its
focus did not waver from tip-off
to final buzzer en route to a 78-46
result that was the Hoyas most
lopsided this season.
Theres certainly no concern
whatsoever about taking the Jayhawks lightly. Kansas (6-1) has
won five in a row, including 61-56
against then-No. 20 Michigan
State. The only loss for the second-winningest mens college
basketball program in Division I
history was to top-ranked and
reigning national champion
Kentucky, 72-40, in the second
game of the season.
You can see why theyre always in the [NCAA] tournament, said Georgetown senior
center Joshua Smith, a transfer
from UCLA who will be playing
Kansas for the fourth time in his
career. Theyre always playing
hard. Theyre always physical.
They have a great coach. Theyre
not going to give us anything. We

have to go out and take it.

Last season the Hoyas shrunk
amid a packed gym, falling behind by 10 at halftime and coming out on the short end of virtually every major statistical category. Georgetown also had
three players foul out, including
Smith, within four minutes of
one another late in the second
half.
Smith finished with five
points and no rebounds in 19
minutes. The only Hoyas player
on the current roster who scored
in double figures in that game is
DVauntes Smith-Rivera. The junior guard had 12 points, five
assists and four rebounds. No
other Georgetown player scored
more than nine points in part
because of a lack of quality depth.
The script is much different
this season, with Thompson having been able to substitute liberally thanks to a highly regarded
freshman class and a top senior
reserve in Aaron Bowen. The athletic forward is averaging nearly
17 minutes per game, second
among bench players to freshman forward Paul White (23.6).
In all the Hoyas have nine
players averaging at least 13 minutes per game.
Its a special team, senior forward Mikael Hopkins said.
Weve got a lot of talented players who can score the ball. I think
the way we get better is to keep
defending, keep closing out, not
allow a team to get a three-point
shot off, and rebounding. If we
do those things, were going to
have a pretty good year.
gene.wang@washpost.com

No. 10 Kansas at Georgetown

Today, 7 p.m., Verizon Center.
TV: Fox Sports 1.

Jones, Colonials continue strong start

GW 72,
GEORGETOWN 60
BY

G ENE W ANG

George Washingtons Jonquel

Jones was relegated to little more
than a spectator in the first half
of Tuesday nights game against
Georgetown, with foul trouble
plaguing the junior forward during the opening few minutes at
Smith Center.
When Jones finally got a
chance to contribute, the Riverdale Baptist product and transfer from Clemson showed the
tremendous promise forecasted
for her as a preseason first-team
all-Atlantic 10 selection. The 6foot-4 native of the Bahamas
practically took over the game
during a decisive stretch in the
second half, scoring nine
straight points and blocking a
shot that led to a fast-break basket by teammate Caira Washington (Georgetown Day).
The Colonials never looked
back on the way to a 72-60 victory
that was their fifth in a row and
extended their best start since
2006-07, when GW began 7-1 and
advanced to its first of two consecutive NCAA tournament regional
semifinals. GW (7-2) also ended a
three-game skid against its crosstown rival, beating the Hoyas for
the first time in 10 years.

Jonquel cant be very productive as an assistant coach on the

bench, Colonials Coach Jonathan Tsipis said. I challenged
her at halftime and told her Id
get her small blows, but when
you play three minutes in the
first half, you better be ready to
go for a long period of time in the
second, and I thought she exerted herself on both ends. I
thought that was the difference
in the game.
Jones finished with 15 points,
all in the second half, shot 7 for 10
and added nine rebounds and
three blocks. She got plenty of
help from sophomore guard
Hannah Schaible, who scored a
career-high 17 points. Schaible
also grabbed a season-high 10
rebounds as part of an imposing
team effort that had GW ahead in
that category, 54-38, including
22-10 offensively.
GW did commit 19 turnovers
but managed to weather some
spotty ballhandling without
starting point guard Lauren
Chase (Riverdale Baptist). The
senior, who matched a career
high with 22 points in the Colonials last game against Fresno
State, absorbed a jarring blow
during shootaround Tuesday
morning, and Tsipis held her out
for precautionary reasons.
Sophomore Shannon Cranshaw started in place of Chase,
scoring 12 points with five rebounds and five assists but four

turnovers.
Coach, like he said, he definitely challenged me after the
first half to just come out and be
aggressive and be ready for as
long as possible, Jones said. So
that was one of the things that
kind of pushed me a little bit
more coming into the second
half, and also just watching my
teammates play. They were out
there playing with intensity and
playing hard, and I just wanted
to be able to go back out there
with them.
With Jones in the middle, the
youthful Hoyas (2-8) were unable to continue their strong inside play that led to a 22-10 advantage in points in the paint
during the first half.
Sophomore forward Faith Woodard led the Hoyas with 15
points and nine rebounds, and
junior forwards Dominique Vitalis and Brittany Horne each
chipped in 14 points.
For us its growth. Its continual growth against a very good
team, Georgetown first-year
Coach Natasha Adair said. Our
schedule has not been forgiving,
but all of this is in preparation in
my opinion for something bigger. We want to make sure when
we go into conference, we will
have seen every offense, every
defense, every style of play, and it
gives our young players experience.
gene.wang@washpost.com

NATIONAL ROUNDUP

Rozier powers No. 4 Cardinals in rout

LOUISVILLE 94,
INDIANA 74
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Terry Rozier scored 26 points
and grabbed six rebounds as No.
4 Louisville thumped Indiana,
94-74, on Tuesday night in the
Jimmy V Classic at Madison
Square Garden.
The Cardinals (8-0) also got
outstanding performances from
Montrezl Harrell, who had 21
points and 11 rebounds, and
Chris Jones, who had 24 points,
nine rebounds and six assists.
James Blackmon Jr. led the
Hoosiers (7-2) with 18 points.
Louisville overpowered Indiana down low, outrebounding
the Hoosiers by a 52-34 margin.
l VILLANOVA 73, ILLINOIS
59: Dylan Ennis scored 18 points
to lead the No. 7 Wildcats over
the Fighting Illini at the Jimmy
V Classic.
Darrun Hilliard and Daniel
Ochefu both contributed 12
points for Villanova (9-0).
Malcolm Hill scored 20 points
for Illinois (7-2). Leading scorer
Rayvonte Rice shot 4 of 13 and
scored just 10 points.
Villanova went on a 15-4 run
after Ochefus layup at the 6minute 21-second mark of the
second half and then slowly

pulled away.
l WICHITA ST. 77, SETON
HALL 68: Ron Baker scored 22
points, Fred VanVleet added 18
points and eight assists and the
No. 11 Shockers handed the visiting Pirates their first loss.
Darius Carter had 16 points
and 12 rebounds for Wichita
State (6-1), which used a big
first-half run to seize control.
Isaiah Whitehead scored 23
points and Sterling Gibbs added
19 for Seton Hall (7-1).
l ARIZONA 87, UTAH VALLEY
56: Freshman Stanley Johnsons
14 points led a balanced attack
for the No. 3 Wildcats in Tucson.
Rondae
Hollis-Jefferson
scored 12 points and pulled
down 10 rebounds, and Dusan
Ristic scored 13 points for Arizona (9-0). Ristic and Johnson
each had seven rebounds.
The Wildcats have won 36
straight regular season non-conference victories, the longest
streak in the nation.
l IOWA
STATE 73, MISSOURI-K.C. 56: Bryce DejeanJones scored 22 points for the
host No. 14 Cyclones, who
opened the game on a 24-9 run.
Monte Morris scored 13
points with five assists for Iowa
State (6-1). Frank Williams had
14 points for the Kangaroos
(3-7).
l NOTRE DAME 93, MOUNT
ST. MARYS 67: Jerian Grant,

Zach Auguste and Steve Vasturia scored 19 points each to lead

the No. 25 Fighting Irish in
South Bend, Ind.
Vasturia made all seven of his
field goal attempts, including a
trio of three-pointers. Auguste
pulled down eight rebounds for
Notre Dame (9-1), which used a
30-4 run to turn the game into a
blowout before halftime.
Chris Martin scored 19 points
for the Mountaineers (2-5).
l NAVY 84, VMI 66: Tillman
Dunbar scored 26 points and
Kevin Alter and Zach Fong added 14 apiece as the Midshipmen
beat the visiting Keydets.
Brandon Venturini had 10 rebounds and eight assists for
Navy (3-8), which enjoyed a 4429 rebounding advantage.
QJ Peterson scored 23 points
for VMI (4-6), which was outscored 13-2 over the final four
minutes of the game.

Texas A&M women top SMU

Courtney Williams scored 21
points, Jordan Jones had 16 and
the fourth-ranked Texas A&M
women beat Southern Methodist, 70-62, in Dallas.
The Aggies and No. 16 Georgia are the only Division I womens teams with a 10-0 record.
Destynee
Hives-McCray
scored 15 points for the Mustanges (4-5).

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2014

HIGH SCHOOLS
NONLEAGUE BOYS BASKETBALL

HIGH SCHOOLS

Bruins topple No. 15 Bulldogs

Butler said his sister Natalie,

who was the Big East freshman
of the year at Georgetown and
has since transferred to Connecticut, helped him polish his
game over Thanksgiving.
I wasnt scoring a lot tonight, so James helped me out
there, Jones said. I think weve
got a great chemistry of being
able to throw it down low.
I know where hes going to
be, he knows where Im going to
be, and it worked tonight.
gabe.hiatt@washpost.com

Enabosi accelerates her game to lift Falcons

BY

I SABELLE K HURSHUDYAN

In one swift play, Nicole Enabosi flashed everything she was

capable of. She made a steal,
barreled down the court, went
up for a layup and drew a foul on
the successful shot. A cheerleader helped up the Good Counsel
senior forward, who was all
smiles. She high-fived her teammates and took her position at
the free throw line, mouthing
Yes, to the bench.
Fortunately for No. 14 Good
Counsel, Enabosi was full of
those moments against No. 4 St.
Johns on Tuesday night. Her
25-point performance gave the
Falcons a 67-49 home win in
Olney in their Washington Catholic Athletic Conference opener.
Im a senior, and this is one of
our last times playing St. Johns,

Enabosi said. I needed to gear it

and floor it, so I just, I guess,
went crazy.
Good Counsel never trailed,
jumping out to a 7-0 lead. When
St. Johns cut the deficit to six
late in the first quarter, Enabosi,
a 6-foot-1 Delaware recruit, stole
the show. She scored back-toback layups on fast breaks after
intercepting Cadets passes.
Her hot streak continued into
the start of the second quarter,
as she reeled off 11 straight
points to extend the Falcons
lead to 27-12. Twelve of her 16
first-half points came in the
second quarter, and the Falcons
cruised to a 44-24 halftime lead.
She was in the flow, Good
Counsel Coach Tom Splaine
said. When shes doing that,
shes a game-changer.
Enabosi started the game
cold. The lone senior in a starting lineup dominated by sophomores, she found her rhythm
when the Cadets threatened the
Falcons lead late in the first
quarter. Enabosi noticed St.

Johns kept passing to the right

side, so she put herself in position to make steals, which created scoring opportunities.
Enabosis presence inside
opened up the perimter, and
guards Lindsey Pulliam and Mariah Gray finished with 12 and
nine points, respectively.
My team really helped me,
Enabosi said. I wasnt doing as
well as I wanted to in the first
quarter, and they were just
pumping me up the whole time.
St. Johns, the runner-up in
the conference last season, has
struggled through its first few
games. Amari Carter, a firstteam All-Met last year and Penn
State recruit, is sidelined with a
knee injury, and sophomore
starter Niya Beverley was also
injured. Sarah Overcash and
Kennedy Fairfax both finished
with nine points for the Cadets.
Theyll be better the next
time we play them, Splaine
said. But well enjoy this tonight.
isabelle.khurshudyan@washpost.com

NONLEAGUE GIRLS BASKETBALL

AACS 63,
MEADE 48
BY

D ANIEL G ALLEN

When the final buzzer sounded on Annapolis Area Christians

63-48 victory over Meade, Eagles guard Taylor Murray didnt
stop running. She had played
the entire game, stealing moments of rest during the breaks
in play, but after jogging
through the handshake line, she
made a beeline straight for the
locker room.
It was time for the standout
seniors choir practice.
Murray, a Kentucky recruit,
has a packed schedule in her
final year of high school, but it
hasnt stopped her dominance
on the court. In her teams fifth
straight victory to start the season, Murray once again filled up
the stat sheet with 36 points on
9-of-22 shooting, 10 rebounds,
eight steals and five assists.

B (3-1) : Bell 15, Wright 15, Leder 14, Gear 10, Walker 9,
Baumgardner 8, David 6, Tangelo 2. Totals 27 19-25 79.
C (0-2) : Yazdani 18, Gertler 8, Silver 6, Rumfola 4, Harris
3, Njumbe 3, Wilson 3, Kamara 2. Totals 17 6-13 47.
Halftime: Bullis, 37-25.
Three-point goals: B 6 (Wright, Leder 3, Baumgardner 2);
C 7 (Yazdani 4, Silver, Rumfola, Wilson).

SF (2-1, 0-0) : Williams 12, Bey 9, Jones 7, Young 4,

Gamble 3. Totals 9 15-20 42.
FH (2-1, 0-0) : Worman 16, Femi 13, Luethke 10, Harris 9,
Scott 5, Jones 3, Jones 2, Petros 1, Wertzberger 1. Totals
21 13-10 72.
Halftime: Flint Hill, 35-25.
Three-point goals: SF 2 (Bey 2); FH 5 (Worman, Luethke
2, Scott, Jones).

I was out there playing and

just having fun, Murray said. Its
my last year. Im just going out
there and doing whatever I can
and just working with my teammates and finding them and making shots and stuff. Its teamwork.
Though Murray scored eight
points in the first quarter, it
looked as if her effort could have
been in vain for Annapolis Area
Christian (5-0). Meade (1-1) was
efficient early, led by Alexis Jackson and Bria Gates, and took an
18-15 lead after the period.
But in the second quarter, the
Eagles zone defense and their
taller interior players started to
give the Mustangs trouble.
Meade scored only three points
in the second quarter all of
them by Jackson, who finished
with a team-high 19 points
and Annapolis Area Christian
took a 31-21 lead into halftime.
We started a little jumbled,
Eagles senior Jordyn Hursh
said. But then we started to
settle down and we really started to work together and look at
the whole view of things.

The Eagles staved off any

Mustangs comeback attempt after halftime and held a lead of
five points or more for the whole
second half. Any time Meade
seemed poised for a run, Murray
would poke the ball away for a
steal or come out of a scrum with
a rebound or find a player such
as Hursh (nine points) for an
open shot.
Annapolis Area Christian
Coach Victor Watson was worried that his teams four games
last week, including three in
three days, wore the team down
and contributed to its slow start.
But the Eagles energy and resilience showed in the second half.
And it started and ended with
Murray.
Its crazy, Hursh said. You
respect her so much. Its really
hard not to rely on her because
you get the ball and youre like,
Oh, I know shes right there. But
she really helps you become
such a great player. She works
off of your weaknesses, and its
really neat playing with her.
daniel.gallen@washpost.com

POTOMAC VALLEY
JEWISH DAY 72, GRACE BRETHREN 65
GB (1-1, 0-0) : Fuller 20, Grey 15, Fourth 12, Bond 8,
Cheek 7, Brown 3. Totals 22 19-27 65.
JD (3-0, 3-0) : Kuhnreich 26, Knapp 22, Shorr 9, Kalender
5, Schacter 5, Halpern 4, Ungar 1. Totals 25 21-32 72.
Halftime: Jewish Day, 38-22.
Three-point goals: GB 2 (Grey, Fourth); JD 1 (Kalender).
Rebounds: JD 32 (Kuhnreich 4, Knapp 14, Kalender 8,
Schacter 2, Halpern 4).
Assists: JD 15 (Kuhnreich 3, Knapp 6, Shorr 3, Kalender,
Halpern 2).

COVENANT LIFE 51, HEBREW ACADEMY 48 (2

OT)

NONLEAGUE

W (1-1, 1-0) : Speight 32, Hill 12, Johnson 4. Totals 11

24-32 77.
D (0-1, 0-1) : Simpson 18, Polite 13, Newkirk 10. Totals
16 8-19 68.
Halftime: DuVal, 32-31.
Three-point goals: W 2 (Speight, Johnson); D 1 (Simpson).

FREDERICK 57, CROSSLAND 55

WTW (2-2) : Ayoub 25, Bowles 15, Johnson 13, Wilson

12, Maloney 3, Pacheco 2. Totals 26 9-14 70.
SL (3-1) : Kamga 29, Pearl 20, Cherry 7, Chustz 7,
Aghayere 5, Hawkins 3, Copeland 2, Gryski 2. Totals 28
13-17 75.
Halftime: South Lakes, 27-26.
Three-point goals: WTW 9 (Ayoub 7, Bowles, Maloney);
SL 6 (Kamga, Pearl 2, Cherry, Chustz, Hawkins).
Assists: SL 1 (Chustz).

LAKE BRADDOCK 65,

NO. 15 WESTFIELD 52

C (1-1) : Sellman 13, Landis 8, Diggs 7, Middleton 7,

Hedrick 6, Scott 6, Brown 4, Williams 4. Totals 0 0-0 57.
Halftime: 29-29.
Three-point goals: F 4 (Sellman 3, Landis).
Rebounds: F 28 (Sellman 2, Landis 4, Middleton 2,
Hedrick 3, Scott 6, Brown 4, Williams 7).
Assists: F 16 (Sellman 6, Landis 3, Diggs 5, Williams 2).

HERITAGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY (MD.) 75,

FRIENDSHIP COLLEGIATE 64
HCA (2-0) : Scott 18, Fleming 15, Collins 10, Fleming 9,
Logan 5, Harrington 2. Totals 19 18-27 75.
FC (2-3) : Scrivner 13, Weaver 12, Brown 11, Grissom 6,
Morgan Jr. 5, Pearson 4, Boulware 3, Hines 3, MobleyReid 3, Gordon 2, Hardy 2. Totals 25 9-14 64.
Halftime: Heritage Christian Academy (Md.), 42-32.
Three-point goals: HCA 3 (Fleming 2, Collins); FC 5
(Scrivner 2, Weaver 2, Hines).

STONE BRIDGE 73, CHANTILLY 39

C (0-2) : Carmichael 10, Conwell 10, Melnyk 4, Reed 4,
Imperial 3, Nas 3, Caslavka 2, Ford 2, Madawo 1. Totals
15 6-10 39.
SB (1-2) : Barnes 29, Jolly 18, Jachimowski 6, Vandermeulen 6, Bohanon 5, Howard 3, Albizo 2, O'Day 2, Rody
2. Totals 33 1-2 73.
Halftime: Stone Bridge, 40-14.
Three-point goals: C 3 (Conwell 2, Imperial); SB 6
(Barnes, Jolly 4, Howard).
Rebounds: SB 32 (Barnes 10, Jolly 2, Jachimowski 5,
Vandermeulen 3, Bohanon 6, Albizo 4, Rody 2).
Assists: SB 17 (Barnes, Jolly 10, Jachimowski, Vandermeulen, Albizo 3, Rody).

W (2-1) : Francis 16, Francis 16, Scanlon 12, Scanlon 12,

Williams 10, Williams 10, Lawless 7, Lawless 7, Sheahan
4, Sheahan 4, Scruggs 3, Scruggs 3. Totals 38 12-16 52.
LB (2-1) : Butler 21, Butler 21, Pelham 18, Pelham 18,
Bishop 11, Bishop 11, Jones 7, Jones 7, Johnson 5,
Johnson 5, Lynch 3, Lynch 3. Totals 44 30-40 65.
Halftime: 30-30.
Three-point goals: W 16 (Francis 4, Francis 4, Scanlon 2,
Scanlon 2, Lawless, Lawless, Scruggs, Scruggs); LB 12
(Pelham 2, Pelham 2, Bishop, Bishop, Jones, Jones,
Johnson, Johnson, Lynch, Lynch).

FIELD 72,
WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL 66

NO. 16 MARET 60, GEORGETOWN DAY 54

GIRLS' BASKETBALL

M (5-0, 2-0) : Garza 28, Steiner 13, Vereen 13, Peltier 4,

Davis 2. Totals 23 12-19 60.
GD (2-2, 0-0) : Koubek 13, Calbos 11, Connors 10, Palmer
10, Contee 7, Wyner 3. Totals 21 2-6 54.
Halftime: Maret, 39-18.
Three-point goals: M 2 (Steiner 2); GD 10 (Koubek 3,
Calbos 3, Connors 2, Contee, Wyner).

EASTERN 52, NO. 17 WAKEFIELD 51

W (1-1) : Tham 20, Treakle 11, Walton 11, Allen 4, Cooper
4, Sentayhu 1. Totals 14 20-28 51.
E (2-1) : Picket 15, Edwards 10, Johnson 9, Broadus 6,
Ford 6, Greene 6. Totals 21 6-13 52.
Halftime: Eastern, 25-24.
Three-point goals: W 3 (Walton 2, Allen); E 4 (Picket,
Johnson, Ford 2).
Rebounds: E 19 (Picket 5, Edwards 8, Broadus 2, Ford,
Greene 3).
Assists: E 7 (Broadus 3, Ford 2, Greene 2).

MONTGOMERY
KENNEDY 77, BLAIR 67
B (1-1) : Cobb 21, Arredondo 11, Canary 10, Johnson 9,
Williams 8, Harris 4, Joseph 2, Sangare 2. Totals 23
14-23 67.
K (1-0) : Wilson 27, Mustamu 25, Pelap 6, Schroeder 6,
Tavarez 6. Totals 24 18-23 77.
Halftime: Kennedy, 35-25.
Three-point goals: B 7 (Arredondo 3, Canary 2, Williams
2); K 4 (Wilson, Mustamu 3).

PAINT BRANCH 54, NORTHWOOD 36

NW (0-2) : Leveill, Jr. 13, Ashengo 12, Coram 4,
Richardson 3, Brent 2, Mbaye 2. Totals 12 12-24 36.
PB (2-0) : Morton 25, Burns 9, Adebesin 7, Jones 7, Remy
4, Conrad 2. Totals 21 11-18 54.
Halftime: Paint Branch, 25-15.
Three-point goals: PB 1 (Burns).

SPRINGBROOK 61,
BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE 46
B-CC (1-1) : Byer 16, Caputo 13, Carter 8, Tores 7, Alexis
2. Totals 19 6-14 46.
S (1-0) : Brown 18, Burton 16, Seck 14, Walker 11, Dyson
2. Totals 25 6-8 61.
Halftime: Springbrook, 32-27.
Three-point goals: B-CC 2 (Carter 2); S 5 (Brown 4,
Walker).

EINSTEIN 67, SHERWOOD 60 (OT)

S (1-1) : Williams 20, McCants 19, Moore 10, Levy 7,
Jacob 2, Sussman 2. Totals 19 20-23 60.
E (1-1) : Bowen 18, Rhames 18, Hayes 14, Ford-Brown 7,
Kilgore 4, Reynolds 4, Lodge 2. Totals 26 5-19 67.
Halftime: Sherwood, 30-27.
Regulation: 52-52.
Three-point goals: S 2 (McCants 2); E 10 (Bowen 4,
Rhames 4, Hayes, Ford-Brown).
Rebounds: E 30 (Bowen 2, Rhames 5, Hayes 5, FordBrown 3, Kilgore 2, Reynolds 10, Lodge 2, Curtin).
Assists: E 14 (Rhames 5, Hayes 3, Ford-Brown, Kilgore 3,
Reynolds 2).
N (1-0) : Zamena 19, Gaines 13, Fairfax 11, Ofori 8, Pinto
8, Biakapia 6, Woodard 3, Jones 2, Mbayo 1. Totals 25
12-26 71.
SV (0-2) : Craig 28, Simpson 19, Price 8, Milburne 6,
Matthew 4, Dantzler 2, Robinson 2, Nelson 1. Totals 26
14-27 70.
Halftime: Seneca Valley, 26-22.
Regulation: 63-63.
Three-point goals: N 9 (Zamena 4, Gaines 3, Pinto,
Woodard); SV 4 (Simpson 2, Price 2).

PRINCE GEORGE'S
BLADENSBURG 82, OXON HILL 67
B (1-0, 1-0) : Obike 23, Allen 13, Soumah 13, DevonishPrince 8, Galloway 5, Jenkins 5, Bellinger 4, Martyn 4,
Wade 4, Gallman 3. Totals 32 12-20 82.
OH (0-1, 0-1) : Myles 28, Moss 22, McBeth 7, Ross 6,
Floyd 2, Washington 2. Totals 23 14-22 67.
Halftime: Bladensburg, 41-34.
Three-point goals: B 6 (Obike 2, Allen, Soumah 2,
Gallman); OH 7 (Myles 2, Moss 5).
Rebounds: B 61 (Obike 9, Allen 5, Soumah 5, DevonishPrince 3, Galloway 11, Jenkins 2, Bellinger 4, Martyn 17,
Wade 4, Gallman).
Assists: B 8 (Allen 2, Devonish-Prince 3, Jenkins 3).

BOWIE 64, C.H. FLOWERS 52

B (1-0, 0-0) : Gray 17, Barnes 16, Drayton 6, Bryant 5,
Lomax 5, Appiah-kubi 4, Clemons 4, Robinson 4, Haynes
2, Mills 2. Totals 22 18-24 64.
CHF (0-1, 0-0) : Bullock 10, Ogonyoye 4, Wayne 4,
Campbell 3, Wourman 2. Totals 10 0-4 52.
Halftime: 0-0.
Three-point goals: B 3 (Gray 2, Lomax); CHF 3 (Bullock 2,
Campbell).

NORTHWESTERN 84, PARKDALE 65

P (1-0, 0-1) : Butler 14, Boyd 13, Johnson 8, McCoy 8,
Williams 8, Ashkar 5, Camara 5, Rankin 2, Aboko 1,
Robinson 1. Totals 18 24-31 65.
N (1-0, 1-0) : White 26, Warrick 20, Belle 12, Jamison 11,
Robinson 6, Turner 4, Akoto 2, Kaujao 2, Kinney 1. Totals
29 19-26 84.
Halftime: Northwestern, 30-20.
Three-point goals: P 5 (Butler 2, Johnson, Williams 2); N
7 (White 2, Warrick 4, Belle).
Rebounds: N 11 (Jamison 11).

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GC (2-2, 0-0) : Norman 10, Gittings 8, Baxter 6, Hill 6,
Ezeani 4, Perigard 3, Paschal 2, Valle III 2, Jones 1,
Nannen 1. Totals 17 5-10 43.

WIS (0-1) : Ostry 26, Rovani 14, Freeman 10, Omorogieva 10, Dawes 2, Driscoll 2, Lilienthal 2. Totals 23
12-16 66.
F (1-3) : Weissler 24, Macklin 21, Madan 16, Duncan 8,
Ward 3. Totals 25 19-25 72.
Halftime: Washington International, 36-28.
Three-point goals: WIS 8 (Ostry 4, Rovani 4); F 3
(Macklin, Duncan, Ward).

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Sheppard 4, Robbins 3, Cheatham 2, Krahling 2, Mpamaugo 2, Wood 2. Totals 17 14-21 49.
GC (2-1, 0-0) : Enabosi 25, Pulliam 12, Gray 9, Riley 6,
Burgess 5, Mayfield 4, Phillips 4, Broder 2. Totals 27 7-13
67.
Halftime: Good Counsel, 44-24.
Three-point goals: SJ (Fairfax); GC 6 (Enabosi, Pulliam,
Gray 3, Burgess).

NO. 6 EDISON 57, NO. 11 MADISON 54

E (1-0) : Graves 18, Hendrick 17, Moses 11, Eversole 5,
Potts 4, Cochraham 2. Totals 18 20-43 57.
M (0-2) : Koshuta 14, Hermes 12, McWeeney 12, Miskell
8, Simpson 7, Tremba 5. Totals 22 10-20 54.
Halftime: Edison, 26-21.
Three-point goals: E (Hendrick); M 4 (Hermes,
McWeeney 2, Tremba).

NO. 7 PAINT BRANCH 80, NORTHWOOD 28

PB (2-0) : Harris 39, Ashe 14, Ngwafang 11, French 4,
Pierre 4, Arah 2, McClaney 2, Padgett 2. Totals 0 0-0 28.
Halftime: Paint Branch, 37-13.
Three-point goals: NW 5 (Harris 3, Ashe 2).

NO. 9 C.H. FLOWERS 70, BOWIE 37

CHF (1-0, 0-0) : Boykin 26, Boykin 26, Eggleston 14,
Eggleston 14, Hill 6, Robinson 6, Robinson 6, Chickester
4, Ezenwajaku 4, Ezenwajaku 4, Parks 4, Warren 2,
Warren 2. Totals 41 26-12 70.
B : Stevens 10, Stevens 10, Garvin 9, Garvin 9. Totals 16
6-8 37.
Halftime: C.H. Flowers, 36-17.
Three-point goals: CHF 10 (Boykin 2, Boykin 2, Eggleston
3, Eggleston 3).

NO. 12 WHITMAN 67, ROCKVILLE 38

W (2-0) : Meyers 20, Niles 12, Knox 10, Hatch 9, Poffley
7, Fleck 3, Magliato 3, Meyers 2, Hosker 1. Totals 25
13-20 67.
R (0-2) : Carmona 15, McTighe 8, Akpaete 6, Hailstock 6,
James 2, Gee 1. Totals 12 12-25 38.
Halftime: Whitman, 25-16.
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Bladensburg 82, Oxon Hill 67
Bowie 64, C.H. Flowers 52
Clarksburg 74, Damascus 49
Douglass 57, Crossland 55
Einstein 67, Sherwood 60 (OT)
Eleanor Roosevelt 69, Suitland 65 (2OT)
Gaithersburg 77, Poolesville 52
Gwynn Park 72, Fairmont Heights 65
Kennedy 77, Blair 67
Largo 78, Forestville 52
Northwest 71, Seneca Valley 70 (OT)
Northwestern 84, Parkdale 65
Potomac (Md.) 76, Friendly 68
Quince Orchard 60, Blake 56
Richard Montgomery 58, Wheaton 31
Springbrook 61, Bethesda-Chevy Chase 46
Whitman 51, Rockville 42
Wise 77, DuVal 68
Wootton 75, Walter Johnson 54
Paint Branch 54, Northwood 36
Surrattsville 70, Central 61
Frederick 57, Crossland 55
VIRGINIA
Edison 71, Madison 68
Hayfield 72, Falls Church 55
Herndon 57, Washington-Lee 55
Mount Vernon 72, West Potomac 63 (OT)
Potomac Falls 79, Heritage 57
West Springfield 46, McLean 30
Fairfax 76, Jefferson 39
Lake Braddock 65, Westfield 52
Yorktown 46, Oakton 42
Robinson 46, South County 45
South Lakes 75, W.T. Woodson 70
Stone Bridge 73, Chantilly 39
Champe 64, Woodgrove 55
PRIVATE
Covenant Life 51, Hebrew Academy 48 (2OT)
Flint Hill 72, Sidwell Friends 42
Gonzaga 69, McNamara 61
Landon 70, Don Bosco 33
Maret 60, Georgetown Day 54
Montrose Christian 76, The Heights 51
O'Connell 78, St. Mary's Ryken 44
Washington Christian 57, Saint Anselm's 40
Carroll 48, Bishop Ireton 41
Jewish Day 72, Grace Brethren 65
St. Andrew's 71, Potomac School 42
St. John's 74, Good Counsel 43
Field 72, Washington International 66
OTHER
Bullis 79, Churchill 47
Eastern 52, Wakefield 51
Freedom-South Riding 56, Spring Mills (W.Va.) 45
Heritage Christian Academy (Md.) 75, Friendship Collegiate 64
McKinley 67, National Collegiate 58 (OT)
Riverdale Baptist 83, Westlake 64

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H.D. Woodson 66, Richard Wright 20

NO. 14 GOOD COUNSEL 67,

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SA (6-0, 1-0) : Adkison 29, Duruji 18, Law 8, Stewart 7,

Mureson 4, White 3, Brown 2. Totals 23 19-23 71.
PS (3-1, 0-1) : Robinson 16, Newsome 8, Davis 7, Caskin
3, Harris 3, Lazris 3, Dwyer 1, Martin 1. Totals 12 13-26
42.
Halftime: St. Andrew's, 28-19.
Three-point goals: SA 6 (Adkison 5, Stewart); PS 5
(Robinson 2, Davis, Caskin, Harris).

NO. 9 WISE 77, DUVAL 68

SOUTH LAKES 75,

NO. 13 W.T. WOODSON 70

ST. ANDREW'S 71, POTOMAC SCHOOL 42

CL : . Totals 0 0-0 51.

H (2-1, 2-0) : Pinchot 14, Levieddin 13, Mellman 11,
Eisenstadt 7, Eagle 3. Totals 15 13-23 48.
Halftime: Covenant Life, 17-15.
Regulation: 37-37.
OT 1: 45-45.
Three-point goals: H 5 (Pinchot 3, Levieddin, Eisenstadt).

SMR (3-3, 0-2) : . Totals 0 0-0 44.

O (4-0, 1-0) : Adams 18, Sun 16, King 15, Gaskins 10,
Fragala 5, Barry 4, Lewis 3, Stevenson 3, Baucum 2,
Djonkam 2. Totals 30 15-25 78.
Halftime: O'Connell, 38-16.
Three-point goals: O 3 (King, Fragala, Stevenson).
Rebounds: O 40 (Adams 5, Sun 9, King 2, Gaskins 4,
Fragala, Barry 4, Lewis, Stevenson, Baucum 4, Djonkam
9).
Assists: O 10 (Adams 4, Sun 2, King, Gaskins 2, Fragala).

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CROSSLAND 46 DOUGLASS 28

LARGO 76 FORESTV LLE 65

MC (3-0) : DePollar 22, Moore 11, Fisher 10, Oliver 6,

Taylor 6, Bartley 5, Jones 4, Queen 4, Wilson 4, Thomas
3. Totals 30 7-10 76.
TH (0-1) : Harrell 21, Salmon 15. Totals 13 5-7 51.
Halftime: Montrose Christian, 38-30.
Three-point goals: MC 8 (DePollar 6, Moore 2); TH 5
(Harrell 4, Salmon).

NORTHWEST 71, SENECA VALLEY 70 (OT)

Murrays 36 points power weary Eagles

BI (1-3, 0-2) : Wilder 10, Brooks 8, Walker-Chambers 7,

Cordoba 6, Dinh 3, Schmelzer 3, Everett 2, Harold 2.
Totals 17 3-5 41.
AC (3-2, 1-0) : Fennell 15, Thomas Jr. 15, George 8,
Beverley 6, Carter 2, Turner 2. Totals 15 16-22 48.
Halftime: Bishop Ireton, 20-17.
Three-point goals: BI 4 (Walker-Chambers, Cordoba,
Dinh, Schmelzer); AC 2 (Fennell, Beverley).

FLINT HILL 72, SIDWELL FRIENDS 42

NO. 10 O'CONNELL 78,

ST. MARY'S RYKEN 44

showed signs of rust. Late in the

third quarter, the 6-7 wing player stole the ball and glided on a
breakaway to the rim, but he
couldnt convert the dunk. Reserve David Lynch popped a
three-pointer immediately afterward to give Lake Braddock
(2-1) a brief lead.
Butler, a 6-8 junior center,
owned the paint with touch and
finesse, shaking off defenders,
sinking short jumpers and providing the perfect complement
to Jones.

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NO. 8 MONTROSE CHRISTIAN 76,

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MAC

W (1-1) : Alston 15, Wallace 11, Tyler 9, Espeleta 8, Ware

7, English 4, Johnson 3, Ledbetter 3, Skinner 2, Stanford
2. Totals 23 14-27 64.
RB (8-2) : Abrom 31, Wormley 19, Ogbuagu 12, Williams
10, Hammond 5, Dupree 4, Merriman 1, Savage 1. Totals
28 23-31 83.
Halftime: Riverdale Baptist, 40-26.
Three-point goals: W 4 (Wallace 2, Espeleta, Ware); RB 4
(Abrom 3, Hammond).
Rebounds: RB 30 (Abrom 4, Wormley 6, Ogbuagu 12,
Williams, Hammond, Dupree 4, Merriman, Savage).
Assists: RB 19 (Abrom 4, Wormley 6, Ogbuagu 2,
Hammond 2, Dupree 2, Merriman 3).

James Butler (21 points) rises for a shot against Michael Scruggs
for the Bruins, who held Westfield to four fourth-quarter points.

SJ (1-2, 0-0) : Dowtin 22, Cowan Jr. 11, Budrys 9, Hylton

9, Saulny 6, Sykes 6, Wood 5, Long 3, Mona 2, Bryan 1.
Totals 29 8-16 74.
Halftime: St. John's, 39-20.
Three-point goals: GC 4 (Norman 2, Hill 2); SJ 8 (Dowtin
4, Cowan Jr., Hylton, Wood, Long).

F (0-1, 0-0) : Hill 15, Ford 13, Gordon 13, Edmonds 7,

Andrade 6, Brunson 3, Byrams 3, Bell 2, Epps 2, Johnson
2, Sewell 2. Totals 26 9-15 68.
P (2-0, 0-0) : Broddie 20, Davis 17, Lawson 13, Green 8,
Rose 7, Smith 6, Wilson 5. Totals 21 28-39 76.
Halftime: Potomac (Md.), 48-31.
Three-point goals: F 7 (Hill 3, Ford, Gordon 3); P 6
(Broddie 2, Davis 2, Lawson, Wilson).
Rebounds: P 30 (Broddie 2, Davis, Lawson 2, Green 5,
Rose 5, Smith 8, Wilson 7).
Assists: P 9 (Broddie 3, Davis, Lawson, Green 2, Rose,
Smith).

NO. 7 RIVERDALE BAPTIST 83,

WESTLAKE 64

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GOOD COUNSEL 67,

ST. JOHNS 49

NO. 4 GONZAGA 69, MCNAMARA 61

NO. 5 POTOMAC (MD.) 76, FRIENDLY 68

G ABE H IATT

By the end of Tuesday nights

home game against Westfield,
Lake Braddock senior Reagan
Jones had given the Bruins
blood from his brow and his
bottom lip.
In the final five minutes of a
65-52 home win over the 15thranked Bulldogs in Burke, Jones
met a trainer at the sideline and
flipped his lower lip, showing a
cut that stained his white and
purple jersey after taking an
elbow in the teeth. Late in the
first quarter, the 6-foot-6 forward was poked in the eye and
lost a contact lens.
Even as a cyclops, Jones
stayed in the game and collected 13 rebounds. With Jones
providing extra opportunities
on the glass, front-court partner
James Butler scored 21 points,
sophomore Corey Pelham
scored 18 and the Bruins dealt
the Bulldogs their first loss of
the season.
Suck it up, Jones said he
heard from Coach Brian Metress. If you can see the rim,
barely, youre playing. And I
didnt want to sit out.
Westfield (2-1) got out to a
fast start behind junior guard
Blake Francis, who hit three of
the Bulldogs first four shots,
including two three-pointers.
I dont think we knew he
could shoot or he was left-handed, so we were just playing that
really poorly, Metress said.
Francis finished with 16
points, but the Bruins found
ways to frustrate him in the
second half. After starting the
second quarter trailing by seven
points, Lake Braddock forced
ties at the end of the second and
third periods.
With the game even at 48 at
the beginning of the final quarter, the Bruins locked in on
Francis and Paul VI transfer
Tyler Scanlon, who was playing
in his Bulldogs debut after the
end of football season, to hold
Westfield to four points in the
final eight minutes.
Scanlon tallied 12 points but

TOP 20
BM (1-2, 0-0) : Moultrie 29, Watson 12, Green 11,
McClure 7, Dixon 1, Fields 1. Totals 19 18-27 61.
G (2-1, 0-0) : Miller 22, Lykes 20, Stewart 12, Scott 6,
Dread 5, Greenwood 4. Totals 24 16-28 69.
Halftime: Gonzaga, 27-21.
Three-point goals: BM 5 (Moultrie 4, Green); G 5 (Miller,
Stewart 2, Scott 2).
Rebounds: G 29 (Miller 10, Lykes, Stewart 9, Scott 2,
Dread 3, Greenwood 4).
Assists: G 10 (Miller, Lykes 5, Dread, Greenwood 3).

LAKE BRADDOCK 65,

WESTFIELD 52
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BOYS' BASKETBALL

MARYLAND
Bethesda-Chevy Chase 51, Springbrook 30
Bladensburg 44, Oxon Hill 40
Blair 43, Kennedy 36
Central 46, Surrattsville 45
Eleanor Roosevelt 74, Suitland 47
Gwynn Park 84, Fairmont Heights 21
Largo 76, Forestville 65
Paint Branch 80, Northwood 28
Parkdale 59, Northwestern 32
Potomac (Md.) 40, Friendly 39
Quince Orchard 44, Blake 39
Richard Montgomery 48, Wheaton 22
C.H. Flowers 70, Bowie 37
Crossland 46, Douglass 28
Damascus 45, Clarksburg 34
Poolesville 57, Gaithersburg 44
Whitman 67, Rockville 38
Walter Johnson 72, Wootton 58
Wise 63, DuVal 55
VIRGINIA
Centreville 67, Marshall 27
Champe 46, Briar Woods 41
Edison 57, Madison 54
Hayfield 34, Falls Church 23
Heritage 41, Potomac Falls 32
Herndon 56, Washington-Lee 37
Oakton 64, Yorktown 39
South County 34, Robinson 26
South Lakes 66, W.T. Woodson 33
T.C. Williams 59, Wakefield 44
Westfield 51, Lake Braddock 44
Chantilly 60, Stone Bridge 38
Mount Vernon 43, West Potomac 39 (OT)
PRIVATE
Covenant Life 37, Hebrew Academy 21
Flint Hill 55, Maret 42
Good Counsel 67, St. John's 49
Middleburg 50, Madeira 25
National Cathedral 59, St. Stephen's/St. Agnes 28
Paul VI Catholic 50, Elizabeth Seton 35
Sidwell Friends 56, Holton-Arms 42
St. Mary's Ryken 65, O'Connell 63
Bishop Ireton 70, Carroll 65
Holy Child 69, Georgetown Day 46
Jewish Day 56, Grace Brethren 48
Episcopal 59, Potomac School 37
OTHER
Annapolis Area Christian 63, Meade 48
MATHS 66, Anacostia 61
McKinley 53, National Collegiate 10
St. Frances 79, Arundel 29

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Special to The Washington Post

ts 5 a.m. on a dark, rainy November in the Rockwellworthy hamlet of Warrenton, Va. Buttery yellow light
shines through the garage-door windows of what was
once an Esso gas station, refracting off the downpour.
Though the day hasnt begun for most people, Red Truck
Bakery is already humming.
The cozy kitchen is rich with the aroma of maple
syrup and toasting pecans, which dot the pumpkin
muffins almost ready to come out of the oven. Just-baked
croissants, scones and muffins cool on racks, while a batch of
sunflower wheat bread rises in a plastic bin. A rustic mix of
classic country and vintage rock, including Johnny Cash and Neil
Young, pours out of small speakers.
At the center worktable, Brian Noyes, his apron dusted with
flour, rolls out pie crusts and sets them into pans.
Red Trucks owner and head baker, Noyes works with simple
efficiency, even as he frequently breaks into a boyish smile. From
picking up a square of dough to adding the finished shell to his
mounting pile earmarked for Thanksgiving, the whole process
takes less than two minutes. The secret is to not stretch the

RED TRUCK

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Amid the busy stollen season, Brian
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location and expand his brand

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vegetables, sheer bounty
create a loyal following

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Special to The Washington Post

Kaz Okochi of Kaz Sushi Bistro in the

District is a regular at H-Mart, the
Korean supermarket that Washingtonians know well. Thats no surprise.
Many Asian-restaurant chefs frequent
the chain, which, like others of its kind,
carries goods from all over the Far East.
What was surprising for Okochi was
to run into his friend and fellow restaurateur Michel Richard at the Asian
market, the French chef s hands full of
groceries. He had no idea what they
were, Okochi told me by phone recently. He just bought them to experiment.
For me, that anecdote captures the
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Va., shop almost
daily. LEFT: The
bakerys signature
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And theres no better place to do that

than the Asian supermarkets in the
Washington suburbs. Especially the
grand ones, such as Chinese-owned
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new location in the Eden Center; Chinese-owned Great Wall in Falls Church
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Call me lazy. No, wait: Just call me very

busy. That sounds like a much better
explanation for why I love having groceries delivered to my front door instead of
wasting time dealing with the crazy parking lots, crowded aisles, long checkout
lines and heavy supermarket bags myself.
And Im not the only one. Online grocery shopping services from in-store
pickup for pre-ordered items to same-day
home delivery are booming among
convenience-hungry customers.
Granted, its still only a tiny part of the
$600 billion food-and-beverage business,
but some huge companies are betting that
we lazy/busy people occupy a profitable
niche thats about to grow even larger. The
market research experts at Packaged
Facts estimate that online grocery sales
will top $23 billion this year and quadruple to nearly $100 billion by 2019.
National behemoths like Amazon, WalMart and Google have thrown their
weight and money into the game, as have
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Spicy Mango Shrimp

3 or 4 servings

MINUTES

Its a good week

to keep weeknight
meals simple and
light. If the toasted coconut garnish is not to your
Bonnie S. liking, substitute
Benwick
toasted pine nuts
or slivered almonds.
Serve with steamed rice.
Adapted from a recipe in
Sunset Magazine.
INGREDIENTS
1/4 cup shredded, unsweetened
coconut
1 to 2 large, firm mangoes
1 medium yellow onion
2 cloves garlic
1/2 cup loosely packed fresh basil
1 lime
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1/2 to 1 teaspoon crushed red
pepper flakes
2 tablespoons low-sodium soy
sauce
12 ounces peeled, deveined large
raw shrimp (26 to 30 count)

STEPS
Preheat the oven to 300 degrees.
Spread the coconut on a small
baking sheet. Toast for 5 to 10
minutes, until lightly browned. Turn
off the oven.

Meanwhile, peel the mangoes. Cut

enough small pieces to yield 2 cups;
reserve/freeze the rest for another
use. Cut the onion into 1/2-inch
pieces. Mince the garlic. Coarsely
chop the basil leaves, discarding the
stems. Cut the lime in half.
Heat the oil in a large nonstick
skillet over medium heat. Once the
oil shimmers, add the onion and stir
to coat. Cook for about 8 minutes,
stirring a few times, until softened
and beginning to color. Stir in the
garlic, crushed red pepper flakes (to
taste) and the soy sauce, then
squeeze the juice of 1/2 lime over the
mixture.
Stir in the shrimp; cook for about 3
minutes, stirring a few times, just
until they turn pink and opaque. Stir
in the basil.
Add the mango, stirring to
incorporate. Cook just until the fruit
has warmed through. Sprinkle with
the toasted coconut; divide among
individual plates. Squeeze some of
the remaining lime half over each
portion. Serve right away.
Nutrition | Per serving (based on 4): 230
calories, 19 g protein, 19 g carbohydrates, 9
g fat, 3 g saturated fat, 135 mg cholesterol,
320 mg sodium, 3 g dietary fiber, 13 g sugar

Bonnie S. Benwick tested this

recipe. Questions? E-mail her:
food@washpost.com. Have a quick
dinner recipe that works for you?
Send it along, too.

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Gifts for the wine lovers stocking

Wondering what
to give the wine
lover on your list
DAVE
this holiday
MCINTYRE
season? Here are a
few suggestions,
as well as pointers on what to
avoid.
Wine. Sure, but which ones?
Unless you are intimately
familiar with your recipients
taste and cellar collection, you
risk the ultimate disappointment
of Oh, how nice when you
present your gift. (Not that wine
fiends are inherently snobbish
just that wine preference is
rather personal.) Why not take
the pressure off yourself and let
someone else make the choice? If
you know your friends favorite
wine store, go there and ask one
of the stores specialists to select
wines to fit your friends taste
and your budget. Or go to your
own favorite retailer and
describe the wines youve
enjoyed with your friend. The
retailers will enjoy the challenge,
and your friend will appreciate a
curated selection.
A wine club membership.
The most interesting club Ive
seen is Le Metro. Wine.
Underground, which I wrote
about in March. Subscribers pay
$175 per month or quarter for a
delivery of six bottles of wine
with a unifying theme;
information about each is
presented in attractive graphics
and tasting notes. A one-month
trial subscription is also
available. Le Metros proprietor,
Aaron Epstein, does an excellent
job of finding small-production,
high-quality wines that are not
readily available in stores. His
selections will challenge and
excite even the most jaded of
wine lovers.
For more modest gifts, ask
your retailer to recommend a
grower champagne, one
produced by small farmers
rather than by the large
champagne houses. (Though to
be honest, any champagne will
be welcome in a wine lovers
cellar.) Or go for a fortified wine
such as Madeira or port; aged
tawny ports such as Taylor
Fladgate 10 Year Old (about $30)
or 20 Year Old (about $50) are
surefire winners. A more modest
Late Bottled Vintage port will
always be welcome as well.
Think outside the wine box
and go for a craft whisky. Wine
lovers always appreciate a
change of pace, and todays craft
distillery movement offers a
wide variety of choices, with a
good chance youll find
something your friend has never
tasted.
Glassware is a possibility.
Consider a set of two Riedel
Veritas champagne glasses ($70),
which I wrote about last week.
Glassware is tricky, however:
Those who are new to wine
might appreciate a set of decent
stems or even a nice decanter,
while longtime wine lovers
probably have already invested
heavily in good glasses.
I would wave you away from
gadgetry, such as wine aerators
that promise to age a wine in
minutes or magic wands that
chill wine quickly. We can
remember to put wine in the
refrigerator. Definitely not those
wine charms designed to
distinguish my glass from yours
no one can ever remember
who has the fleur de lys or the
starfish. (Sharpies, people! They

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listed store and might be sold at additional stores. Prices are approximate. Check
Winesearcher.com to verify availability, or ask a favorite wine store to order through a
distributor.

Its the season for enjoying a

variety of wines, so here are some
more sparklers for your holiday
celebrations, plus two delicious
reds.
D.M.
Piper Heidsieck Brut
rr1/2
Champagne, France, $50
A classic champagne, it has treefruit flavors, crisp minerality and a
satisfying, palate-invigorating
finish. Alcohol by volume: 12
percent.
Washington Wholesale in the District:
Available at Burkas Wine & Liquor, Calvert
Woodley, Circle Wine & Liquor, Trader Joes,
Whole Foods Market (various locations).
Reliable Churchill in Maryland: Available at
Bay Ridge Wine & Spirits in Annapolis,
Cranbrook Liquors in Cockeysville, Dawsons
Liquors in Severna Park, Midway Discount
Liquors in Joppa, Ole Federal Hill Liquors and
Wells Discount Liquors in Baltimore, Pine
Orchard Liquors in Ellicott City, Total Wine &
More (Laurel, Towson), Town & Country
Liquors in Owings Mills.

Stolpman Vineyards Estate

Grown Syrah 2011/2012
rr1/2
Santa Ynez Valley, Calif. $32
This excellent syrah from Santa
Barbara County is a bit gangly at
first, but it opens nicely to reveal
blueberry and cherry fruit with an
earthy edge. I tasted the 2011 most
recently, while the distributor
recently began selling the 2012; no
worries, as this winery is
consistently good. ABV: 14.1
percent.

If you had asked

me this time last
year whether I
considered
German to be a
particularly
Joe Yonan vegetarianfriendly cuisine, I
WEEKNIGHT
VEGETARIAN
would have
laughed. My
opinion wouldnt
have been based on any actual
travel to Germany, only on
some limited experiences in
German restaurants (including
mounds of smoked sausages
ingested in central Texas). But
since when does the lack of
substantive research get in the
way of a knee-jerk reaction?
Anyhow, that was all before I
knew the name Tim Mlzer.
Hes a chef, author and TV host

in Germany whose new book,

Green Box, has been taunting
me from a position on my desk
for almost six months now. Hes
not vegetarian, and neither is
his Hamburg restaurant,
Bullerei, but his passion for
cooking vegetables radiates
from the books colorful pages.
Ive bookmarked almost a
dozen recipes to try cabbage
with pappardelle squares,
lemon salad with ricotta cakes,
broccoli cannelloni but the
book didnt make the leap from
desk to kitchen until I needed a
nice, easy soup to soothe me
after too many weeks of
indulgent holiday meals.
Mlzers approach is to give
basic-seeming dishes a wow
factor, a punch of flavor from an
unexpected source. For the

chickpea soup that caught my

attention, for instance, he
spikes the base with a little
jalapeo and deepens it with
curry, but the transformative
touch is a mound of pan-fried
sauerkraut, spiced with
coriander and rounded out with
a pinch of sugar, that goes on
the soup after its pureed.
The liquid seemed a little too
far on the thin side in
consistency, not flavor until
the sauerkraut came into play.
After I sank it into the brothy
soup and stirred in a dollop of
yogurt, it was just what I
wanted: hearty, nutty, with a
pungent tartness. Easy to sip
but with a little something to
chew on, too. German
vegetarian: Who knew?
joe.yonan@washpost.com

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Purple Hands Pinot Noir 2013

rr
Willamette Valley, Ore. $24
Can we ever have too much Oregon
pinot noir? Not in my book. While
most Oregon wineries are selling
the fantastic 2012 vintage, the
Purple Hands winery alerts us that
2013 will offer lots of pleasure, too.
This is simple, youthful and
straightforward, but also rich and
delicious. ABV: 12.5 percent.
M Touton: Available in the District at
Cleveland Park Wine and Spirits. Available in
Maryland at Beer, Wine & Co. in Bethesda,
Decanter Fine Wines in Columbia, Highland
Wine & Sprits, Ladys Liquors in La Plata, Old
Farm Liquors and Westridge Liquors in
Frederick, Rollins Beer-Wine-Deli in Rockville,
Silesia Liquors in Fort Washington, Wine Bin
in Ellicott City, Wine Harvest in Potomac; on
the list at Grill 620 in Ellicott City. Available in
Virginia at Chain Bridge Cellars and the
Vineyard in McLean; on the list at Tempo in
Alexandria.

Mont Marcal Cava Brut Reserva

2011
rr
Penedes, Spain, $15
Cava is a great
bargain bubbly, made
in the champagne
style. Inexpensive
ones ($10 and under)
tend to be good, while top-end
producers such as Mont Marcal
make wines with depth and
complexity. I recommend any cava
by this producer. ABV: 12 percent.

La Jara Sprizzter
r
Veneto, Italy, $8
La Jara produces
excellent organic
prosecco. The
Sprizzter is the
winerys stab at a
wine cocktail: a mix of sparkling
wine, water and fruit flavoring, in
two varieties. The Rosso blend is
raspberry-scented; the citrusy
Bianco tastes like Sprite on
steroids. Both are juicy, slightly
sweet and fun, ideal for cocktails,
punch or sangria, or just for sipping
over ice with a twist of orange. My
mother-in-law loved them. Maybe
Bartles & Jaymes were onto
something after all. ABV: 5 percent.

Country Vintner: Available in the District at

Calvert Woodley, Rodmans; on the list at
Vidalia, Woodward Table. Available in
Maryland at Adega Wine Cellars in Silver
Spring, Belby Discount Beer & Wine in
Rockville, Georgetown Square Wine and Beer
in Bethesda, I.M. Wine in Fulton, Orion Wine
& Sprits in Frederick. On the list in Virginia at
Gypsy Soul in Merrifield.

Dionysus: Available in the District at

Cleveland Park Wine and Spirits, Moms
Organic Market, Rodmans, U Street Wine &
Beer. Available in Maryland at Balduccis in
Bethesda, Moms Organic Market (Rockville).
Available in Virginia at Balduccis (Alexandria,
McLean), Moms Organic Market (Alexandria,
Herndon, Merrifield), Unwined (Alexandria,
Belleview).

wash off!) Such gewgaws tend to

clutter a wine lovers kitchen
cabinets and drawers. And
maybe skip the signs that say
things like We serve only the
finest wines. Did you bring any?
and instead go for an
infographic poster from
Winefolly.com.
Corkscrews are definitely
useful. If youve noticed your
friend or relative struggling with
one of those clumsy angel-wing
openers (the ones that look like
theyre doing jumping jacks), by
all means buy them a nice
waiters corkscrew: the kind with
a small blade to cut the bottles
foil cap and a lever to grip the
bottles lip while extracting the

cork. The best ones have a

curved handle, a serrated blade
that actually cuts the foil and an
articulated lever that helps
extract longer corks without
breaking them in two. Wine
lovers can never have too many
corkscrews; we always misplace
them or have them confiscated
at airports.
Yes, its the thought that
counts. But these pointers might
lead you to a more thoughtful
gift that your friends will
appreciate and, perhaps, invite
you to enjoy.

Country Vintner: Available in the District at

Ace Beverage, Calvert Woodley, Cork & Fork,
Pearsons, Schneiders of Capitol Hill.
Available in Virginia at Balduccis (Alexandria,
McLean), Grape+Bean, Norms Beer & Wine
in Vienna, Unwined (Alexandria, Belleview).

From a German chef, vegetables that wow

Chickpea Soup With

Fried Sauerkraut
4 servings (makes about 6 cups)

This simple, soothing soup

gets its complex flavor from the
brilliant addition of pan-fried
sauerkraut.
Serve with rustic bread and
a crisp salad.
MAKE AHEAD: The soup,
without the sauerkraut or yogurt, can be refrigerated for up
to 1 week or frozen for up to 6
months. Defrost and reheat before adding the sauerkraut and
yogurt. The fried sauerkraut
can be refrigerated for up to 3
days; warm before adding to
the soup.
Adapted from Green Box,
by Tim Mlzer (Mosaik Verlag/
Prestel Publishing, 2014).
INGREDIENTS
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1 medium leek (white part only),
halved lengthwise, rinsed and thinly
sliced
1 clove garlic, thinly sliced
1 jalapeo pepper, stemmed,
seeded and finely chopped
13/4 cups (151/2 ounces) cooked or
canned no-salt-added chickpeas,
drained and rinsed
1 teaspoon mild curry powder
41/4 cups store-bought or
homemade vegetable broth
1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt, plus
more to taste
2 cups sauerkraut, squeezed of as
much liquid as possible
1 teaspoon coarsely ground
coriander seed
1/4 teaspoon sugar
1/2 cup whole-milk yogurt (may
substitute low-fat), for garnish

STEPS
Pour 2 tablespoons of the oil into
a medium saucepan over medium
heat, and when it shimmers add the
leek, garlic and jalapeo. Cook,
stirring frequently, until the
vegetables are tender, 4 to 6
minutes.
Reserve 2 tablespoons of the
chickpeas; pour the rest into the
saucepan, along with the curry
powder. Cook for another few
minutes, stirring frequently, until the
chickpeas become dry and the curry
is very fragrant.
Add the broth and 1/4 teaspoon of
the salt; increase the heat to
medium-high and bring to a boil,
then reduce the heat to medium or
medium-low so the liquid is barely
bubbling. Cook uncovered, for 10

DEB LINDSEY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

minutes, until the chickpeas are

very tender and the flavors have
melded. Taste, and add salt if
needed. Use an immersion (stick)
blender to puree until smooth. The
soup will not be thick.
While the soup is cooking, pour
the remaining 2 tablespoons of oil
into a large skillet over medium-high
heat. Add the sauerkraut, coriander
and the reserved 2 tablespoons of
chickpeas and cook, stirring
frequently, until the sauerkraut is
lightly browned, 3 to 4 minutes. Stir

in the sugar and the remaining 1/4

teaspoon of salt, and remove from
the heat.
To serve, divide the soup among
bowls. Place one-quarter of the
sauerkraut mixture at the center of
each portion, along with a dollop of
yogurt. Serve hot.
Nutrition | Per serving: 270 calories, 7 g
protein, 28 g carbohydrates, 16 g fat, 2 g
saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 1,510 mg
sodium, 8 g dietary fiber, 7 g sugar
Recipe tested by Joe Yonan; e-mail
questions to food@washpost.com

food@washpost.com
McIntyre blogs at dmwineline.com. On
Twitter: @dmwine.

FOOD

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Once youre past the potpie, Cafe Deluxe disappoints

If you sampled
only the chicken
potpie at Cafe
Deluxe in the
FIRST BITE
West End, chances
are youd be up for
another whirl with the fifth area
branch of the American bistro.
Fifteen dollars buys you a
Superdome of puff pastry
stretched across a steamy interior
of grilled chicken bites, celery,
carrots, onions and asparagus,
everything bound in a cream
sauce laced with sherry. A sprig of
rosemary embedded in the
golden crust adds a jaunty touch
to the strapping main course.
The restaurant is the first in
the group to surface in a hotel,
the Hilton Garden Inn, and thus
the only cafe responsible for
room service and banquets.
While the menu is similar to

Tom
Sietsema

SARAH L. VOISIN/THE WASHINGTON POST

The areas newest branch of Cafe Deluxe, in the Districts West End,
offers bright, comfortable surroundings that the food cant match.

those of the Cafe Deluxes found

in Bethesda, Cleveland Park,
Gaithersburg and Tysons Corner,
it isnt a mirror image. The West
End branch features a few dishes
its siblings dont (New York strip
steak, seared ahi tuna with
mango salsa) and dropped a
couple of Deluxe staples, among
them seafood linguine and the
tilapia club sandwich.
A gallerys worth of French
liquor posters shows a lack of
design imagination on the walls.
But I appreciate the streams of
light that pour through the
restaurants broad windows on
two sides and a dining room
outfitted with booths that afford
their inhabitants both comfort
and a sense that their
conversation wont be overheard
by strangers. (Tall backs and
frosted-glass dividers between

the cushioned seats help.) The

hotel lobby flows into a marbletopped bar that you wouldnt
mind drinking at if your room
upstairs wasnt ready.
The servers wont have to
explain the restaurants concept
or suggest you get several plates
to share your meal with others at
the table. Cafe Deluxe is all about
the familiar: deviled eggs, Caesar
salad, short ribs, roast chicken
and meatloaf thats most
interesting for its
accompaniment of buttery, skinon mashed potatoes
And thats part of the problem:
Diners have to hunt to find
something to praise. The best
part about the ahi tuna tacos is
the black beans and corn inside
the chewy wrappers. (The
dominoes of fish prove dry.) Once
you taste the mushy crab cakes,

your fork will focus solely on the

flat pucks coleslaw partner on
the plate. What doesnt taste like
leftovers smacks of having come
from a freezer case. Or worse:
The blond crust on the flatbreads
resembles baked Play-Doh.
Beyond the potpie and maybe
a pot of steamed mussels, the
cooking here will make you wish
you were taking lunch or dinner
across the street, at the vastly
superior Westend Bistro.
As at the other restaurants in
the local collection, this one
offers something for everyone, as
long as everyone isnt fussy.
Deluxe? Hardly.
tom.sietsema@washpost.com
2201 M St. NW. 202-524-7815.
cafedeluxe.com. Dinner entrees,
$12.95 to $24.95.

A little country bakery with growing ambitions

RED TRUCK FROM E1

dough, or it will just pull back in

the oven, he says as he uses his
left thumb and index finger to
crimp the crust. That creates
uneven edges.
Noyes, 57, and his small staff
are in the midst of their holiday
rush. Theyve already made close
to 900 pies for Thanksgiving
salted caramel apple, pecan,
pumpkin not to mention 400
sugar cookies shaped like turkeys, autumn leaves and squirrels, plus all the baked goods they
normally offer. Now theyre baking another 700 pies, 400 rumsoaked fruitcakes, more cookies
shaped like angels, snowflakes
and red pickup trucks carrying
Christmas trees and dozens of
German stollen breads with almond-paste cores. We brush
them really well with hot clarified
butter, says Noyes of the latter.
It soaks right through and seals
every crevice, which adds that
rich, buttery flavor and prolongs
the longevity.
Getting all the orders finished
in time means everyone will be
working long hours until Christmas. Its a grueling schedule, and
its about to get even more hectic.
After plans for a second location
in Little Washington, Va., fell
apart, Noyes is aiming to open a
larger Red Truck Bakery in nearby Marshall. I toyed with the
idea off and on for a long time, he
says. I didnt want to make a
move just to get more space,
though. It had to make sense, so I
was very cautious.
The newest bakery will take
over a pair of conjoined historic
buildings on Main Street that
were once home to the Old Salem
restaurant. The 4,000-squarefoot space is being transformed
into a cafe, commissary kitchen
(to serve both locations) and
shipping center, since Noyes estimates that 40 percent of the
bakerys sales are from online
purchases. (During the Christmastime frenzy, Noyes has to
wheel cartloads of baked goods
over to an ancillary packing and
shipping center down the street
from the Warrenton location.)
The menu will expand beyond
whats offered in Warrenton. Noyes intends to serve breakfast
sandwiches, pre-made meals he
has dubbed RoadFood such as
wild mushroom lasagna and
chicken potpie a slew of housemade spreads and dips, and coffee and espresso from Counter
Culture.
After he finishes outlining
these plans, all the while rolling
out pie crusts, he pauses for a
moment. I kinda wish I started
my career as a baker a little
earlier, he admits wryly. Theres
so much ahead of us, moving on
to a second location and whatev-

Amelia Capezio, 1, and sister Kate Capezio, 4, of Warrenton sample

Christmas cookies at Red Truck Bakery.

fixtures. If all goes according to

plan, doors will open to customers early this spring.
The new Red Truck might
mark the beginnings of an epicurean hub in Marshall. Husbandand-wife team Neal and Star
Wavra, who managed the Ashby
Inn until May of this year, have
bought the 18th-century house
across the street. They are turning the onetime inn and tavern
into a farm-to-table restaurant,
which they hope to open this
spring or early summer. Neal

PHOTOS BY KATHERINE FREY/THE WASHINGTON POST

Red Truck Bakery occupies a former Esso service station in Warrenton, Va. In the spring, owner Brian
Noyes plans to open a larger bakery, to include a cafe, in nearby Marshall.

ers after that. I wish I was in my

30s doing that, instead of at the
other end of the spectrum.
Noyes grew up in Monterey,
Calif., and later moved south to
Corona del Mar in Newport
Beach, Calif. His first forays into
baking were in his 20s, when he
engaged in a cross-country bakeoff
with
his
Clearwater,
Fla.-based uncle, Stan Noyes, as
they worked to perfect a pair of
bread recipes. Brian would send
his uncle the latest bread and its
recipe; his uncle would respond
with comments on the recipe
marked in red pencil and a new
loaf. They ultimately nailed a
sunflower wheat, plus a harvest
wheat punctuated with golden
raisins, dried cranberries and
walnuts, both of which are mainstays at the bakery today.
For a long time, Noyes was
simply a passionate home baker.
His first career was as an art
director for The Washington Post,
Preservation magazine and
Smithsonian magazine. (He
keeps a foot in that field by doing
all the design work for the bakery.) While continuing that profession, he took intensive courses
on breadmaking and pastrymaking at the Culinary Institute of
America in Hyde Park, N.Y.; classes at LAcademie de Cuisine in
Gaithersburg, Md.; and a course
on Mexican cooking with Rick
Bayless in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Through all that, I learned delicate French pastry making, but I
like the clunkier, rustic stuff, says
Noyes. It has more character, is a
little more fun and its not so
highfalutin. I try not to get too
fussy.
In 2006, after buying a farmhouse in nearby Orlean, Va., with
his now-husband Dwight McNeill, Noyes began baking breads,
pies and granola on Friday
nights. The next morning, he

The bakerys caramel apple pie. Workers made close to 900 pies for
Thanksgiving and will turn out hundreds more this month.

would hop into a cherry red 1954

Ford pickup truck, which hed
bought from designer Tommy
Hilfiger, and delivered his goods
to local shops and markets in
Fauquier County. The treats were
a hit. People would start showing up and waiting for the red
truck long before the stores
opened, Noyes remembers. So he
began gathering investors and
looking for a space for a bricksand-mortar venture. Nothing
quite fit.
Serendipitously, Noyes experienced a king-making stroke of
luck two years later. New York
Times food writer Marian Burros
sampled his wares at a picnic, fell
in love and wrote him up. Our
Web site went from 24 hits one
day to 57,000 the next, Noyes
says. Thats when I realized we
really needed to find a place.
The arrival of Butch Zarr, who
ambles into the bakery wearing a
tan Hawaiian shirt and a Vietnam veteran Purple Heart baseball hat, gives Noyes pause.
Youve got to meet this guy, he
tells me. He was our very first
customer, so he gets free coffee
for life. Its a great deal for us
since he doesnt live here anymore.
The onetime regular now resides in Beaumont, Calif., where
he laments he hasnt found a
replacement for Red Truck Bakery in his morning routine.
Theres just nothing like it, says
Zarr. I cant get pumpkin pie out
there, either. Not of that caliber.
He points to one sitting in the
bakery case, a small crust cutout
of a pickup truck sitting at its
orange center.
The constant stream of customers over the course of the
morning speaks to the bakerys
fervent following and illustrates
one reason why Noyes chose to
open in Warrenton. We needed
the safety and embrace of a small
town with a captive audience, he
says.
The recession forced his original investors to back out, but that
didnt deter the determined baker. He decided to cash out his life
savings and retirement accounts
to open Red Truck Bakery on his
own. His conversation with McNeill about this alternative plan
was not a real happy one, but he
bought into it, says Noyes.
It wasnt a decision made out
of good common sense; it was
made out of passion, says McNeill. You dont open a bakery if
you want to retire early.
In March 2008, Noyes took
over the old Esso station to begin
restoring and transforming the
nearly 90-year-old building. To
help out his partner, McNeill, a
talented designer, offered to take
on the project for free. In return,
I got all the granola I could eat
and a bottomless cup of coffee,
he says.
Now a principal at McNeill
Baker Design Associates in Arlington, McNeill is in charge of
the newest bakery. Hell be com-

pensated this time around, and

there are now investors backing
Noyes up, softening the personal
financial impact on the couple.
McNeills vision for the new venture is village modern with dark
hardwood floors, beadboard on
the wall and vintage lighting

Wavra says he is excited to have

Noyes as a neighbor. I dont see it
as a competition, he says. Im
sure hell be at my place all the
time, and Ill always be sitting in
his.
food@washpost.com
Martell is co-author of The Founding
Farmers Cookbook (Andrews
McMeel, 2013) and blogs at
nevinmartell.com. On Twitter:
@nevinmartell. Noyes will join
Wednesdays Free Range chat at
noon: live.washingtonpost.com.

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land and Virginia. These establishments provide food adventures (foot-long okra! live snails!)
and eye-opening bargains.
The variety of sauces and
jarred pastes is truly wondrous,
not to mention the entire aisles
devoted to dried mushrooms and
noodles. Whether imported from
China, Korea, Thailand or Japan,
all the Asian goodness on the
shelves seems to coexist in perfect
harmony.
It also can be confusing. Janet
Yu, chef and owner of Hong Kingstyle Hollywood East Cafe in
Wheaton; Aulie Bunyarataphan,
chef and owner of Mama Rouge
Southeast Asian Bistro in Georgetown; and chef Okochi all shop at
the Korean or Chinese supermarkets for ingredients that suit their
own cuisine. As your Ethnic Market Scout, I decided to include all
those different cuisines under
one rubric, as Asian supermarkets.
The following items and ways

Andrea Nguyen, creator of

the Asian Market Shopper
app, will join Wednesdays Free
Range chat.

to use them are just a start. Youll

find thousands of other exciting
foods on your visits. Do as chef
Richard does: Grab a few mystery
ingredients and start experimenting.
Fermented bean pastes are
popular in East and Southeast
Asia. Japanese miso can add a
savory umami-rich flavor to many
foods, from soups to salad dressings and chocolate desserts. It
comes in a variety of colors
white through yellow and to
brownish-red and it can be
mild and almost sweet, or salty
and strongly flavored. Okochi
prefers Marukome, a Japanese
brand of miso. Korean miso
(doenjang) is chunky, with whole
beans in it, and has a more pronounced flavor. Chinese fermented black bean sauce (douchi) is
often flavored with ginger, chili

pepper, garlic and/or soy sauce

and is excellent in stir-fry and
stews.
Ive found the white miso to be
especially versatile, with a nutty
flavor that complements dressings and highlight nuts and chocolate even in desserts, as in a
hazelnut, chocolate and miso
cake.
When experimenting with
miso, add it spoon by spoon,
tasting along the way to discover
what works for you. Mix a little
miso with mayonnaise for a more
flavorful sandwich spread. Blend
it with butter to brush on fish or
vegetables. Use it to glaze chicken, and stir it into mushroom
soup or any stew.
Soy sauce. The neat rows of
bottles that stretch down a long
aisle in an Asian market pose a
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Which one will work best? How
many kinds are good to have on
hand? Light (regular) soy sauce is
well established in America, but
its a good idea to try the Chinese
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little spicy thanks to the wasabi,

and it works well not only with
rice but also sprinkled over salads
and mixed into mayonnaise for
sandwiches and salads. A dash of
furikake in scrambled eggs makes
them divine; add one teaspoon
for every two eggs.
Fruits and vegetables. Besides low prices, the freshness
and variety of what youll find at
Asian markets are hard to beat.
Look for Thai, Chinese and Indian eggplants, purple and white
yams, long beans, bok choy tips,
mustard greens, Chinese broccoli
and lotus root; rambutan, prickly
jackfruit, pink and green dragon
fruit, litchi, guava and even a
reasonably priced prickly pear.
Fresh turmeric root. A member of the ginger family, turmeric
root has the same anti-inflammatory powers. It can elevate any
dish to the next level, including
stews, rice, marinades and veggie
smoothies. Grate it into any dish
that calls for ground turmeric
(one to two inches of the root for
every teaspoon of ground turmeric). Don food-safe gloves to han-

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Typical of the areas Asian supermarkets, Great Wall in Falls Church

has a wide selection of produce, at top, and carries enough varieties
of soy sauce, above, to fill several shelves.

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caramel or molasses, or the thick

soy sauce that has even more
sugar and a very intense. Yu prefers the Hong Kong brand Koon
Chun, which is hoisin-like.
Japanese soy sauce is mild and
has a rounder taste than Chinesemade soy sauce. Okochi prefers
the Japanese brand Yamasa. Chef
Bunyarataphan recommended
using Thai black soy sauce (not to
be confused with the Chinese
dark sauce), which adds a nice
dark color even to quick stir-fry
dishes.
Seaweed. You can find it dried,
roasted, powdered and, on occasion, fresh. Sprinkle the last over
eggs instead of or in addition to
salt. Add it to veggie smoothies; it
will enhance the flavor the way
salt does. Sprinkle roasted, shredded seaweed over salads, or simply snack on it. Hydrate dried
seaweed and add it to salads with
cucumber and radish. Use the
fresh kind to make seaweed salad.
Gluten-free noodles. Among
the dozens of types available in
Asian supermarkets, fresh and
dried, many are gluten-free.
Buckwheat noodles, like the Japanese soba and Korean vermicelli,
pair well with heavy tomato sauces. Rice noodles, fresh and dried,
work well in soups and salads.
For the adventurous palate:
fresh Chinese tofu noodles, Korean sweet potato noodles, Vietnamese tapioca noodles and
black fern root noodles (the last is
a vegetarian answer to squid ink
noodles). All have a delicate texture that will work best in salads
and soups or with a light sauce.
Rice cakes. Short logs of rice
dough are used just like gnocchi
and are another great gluten-free
option. They are available in the
refrigerated and freezer sections
of Korean supermarkets and, just
like gnocchi, should be cooked in
boiling salted water before serving with your favorite Italian/Korean sauce.
Tofu skin. The skins (sold in
sheets) come fresh or dried. They
are used for making spring rolls
but are easy to adapt for Italian
(think lasagna sheets) or Balkan
(instead of phyllo dough) cuisine,
with the added benefits of extra
protein and no carbs.
Japanese rice seasoning.
Called furikake, the blend usually
contains sesame seeds, shaved
dried fish and seaweed. Wasabi
fumi furikake is especially good: a

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New Harbor ....................... $6.99
Oyster Bay ......................... $7.99
Ponga.................................. $7.99
Babich ................................. $8.99

Nobilo $8.99 ........ Icon $12.99

Kim Crawford................. $11.99
Matua $9.99 ..... Mohua $9.99
Villa Maria ......................... $9.99

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Cono Sur Pinot Noir........... $6.99 Rutherford Ranch Cab.. $15.99
Terrazas & Navarro Correas
Alexander Valley Cab... $16.99
Malbec............................... $6.99 La Gerla Rosso................ $16.99
Avalon Cabernet................ $7.99 Seghesio Zinfandel......... $16.99
Les Arromans Rouge........ $7.99 Ridge 3 Valleys ............ $17.99
Apothic............................... $8.99 Estancia Meritage........... $19.99
Las Rocas Garnacha........... $8.99 MacMurray PN............... $19.99
Josh Cab............................. $9.99 Beringer Knights Valley. $20.99
Breca ............................... $11.99 Avignonesi Vino Nobile.. $24.99
Concha y Toro Gran Reserve
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Carmenere...................... $11.99 Sperino
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Tarima Hill Monastrel.... $11.99 Mt.Veeder Cab...............
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Tres Picos Garnacha....... $13.99 St. Cosme CNP................ $42.99
Stags Leap Cab .............. $49.99
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Catena Malbec................ $15.99 Silver Oak Alexander... $59.99
Decoy Cab........................ $15.99 Don Melchor .................. $79.99
CHAMPAGNE & SPARKLING SALE
Segura Viudas................... $6.99 Trouillard Brut................. $21.99
Bolla Prosecco..................... $7.99 Nicolas Feuillatte
Cupcake Prosecco............... $7.99 Brut NV............................ $26.99
Rufno Prosecco................. $8.99 Schramsberg................... $27.99
Biutiful Brut........................ $9.99 Laurent Perrier
Zardetto Prosecco.............. $9.99 Brut NV............................ $31.99
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Gloria Ferrer Brut........... $14.99 Veuve Clicquot ............... $41.99
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Dom. Carneros ............... $20.99 Dom Perignon ............. $139.99
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2014

TO DO

WEDNESDAY
COOKING DEMONSTRATION:
Ideas for the holiday buffet, with tips
on how to stage the buffet table,
how to keep things hot and what to
avoid. Includes samples of dishes
and recipes. Noon-1:30 p.m. $35.
Brookside Gardens, 1800 Glenallan
Ave., Wheaton. 301-962-1400.
www.brooksidegardens.org..
www.brooksidegardens.org
HOLIDAY AFTERNOON TEA: With
seasonally inspired treats including
candy-cane puffs, mini chestnut
rum yule logs and gingerbread men.
12:30-4:30 p.m. $51. Willard
InterContinental Hotel, 1401
Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-6289100. washington.intercontinental.
com/food-drink/peacock-alley-tea..
com/food-drink/peacock-alley-tea

THURSDAY
AN EARLY AMERICAN
CHRISTMAS: A history of American
Christmas traditions and food, with
a tasting. 6-7:30 p.m. $20.
Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW.
202-337-2288.
www.dumbartonhouse.org..
www.dumbartonhouse.org
DRINK LAB: Dan Searing leads a
class on holiday punches. 7:30-9
p.m. $60 per class or $150 for the
series. Union Market, 1309 Fifth St.
NE. 202-548-2450.
www.cordialwine.com..
www.cordialwine.com
HOLIDAY TEA & TOUR: Traditional
English tea served in the dining
room of the historic home of Gen.
George C. Marshall, decorated for
the holidays. 2 p.m. $30 per person.
George C. Marshall International
Center at Dodona Manor, 217
Edwards Ferry Rd., Leesburg. 703777-1301. www.georgecmarshall.
org/Holiday-Tea-at-the-Marshalls..
org/Holiday-Tea-at-the-Marshalls

SATURDAY
CRAFT FAIR AND BEER TASTING:
Sponsored by Town Center Market
and Wilfords Upholstery at the
Brentwood Arts Exchange Holiday
Craft Fair. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free
admission; beer tasting $5 or free
with $50 purchase. Brentwood Arts
Exchange at Gateway Arts Center,
3901 Rhode Island Ave., Brentwood.
301-277-2863. arts.pgparks.com/
Our_Facilities/Brentwood_Arts_
Exchange_Gateway_Arts_Center.htm..
Exchange_Gateway_Arts_Center.htm
HOLIDAY CHOCOLATE TRUFFLE
DEMO: Two-course lunch featuring
champagne and a demonstration of
chocolate trufflemaking by pastry
chef Melanie Parker. 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
$50, including lunch, a glass of
champagne and a box of six truffles.
Blacks Bar & Kitchen, 7750
Woodmont Ave., Bethesda. 301652-5525.
www.blacksbarandkitchen.com..
www.blacksbarandkitchen.com
NUTCRACKER TEA PARTY:
Afternoon tea with costumed
characters from The Nutcracker.
Includes a ballet performance. 2
p.m. $59; $49 for children.
Salamander Resort and Spa, 500 N.
Pendleton St., Middleburg, Va. 703771-1522. teaparty@loudounballet.
org.. www.loudounballet.org
org
www.loudounballet.org..
YULE LOG CLASS: The pastry team
at Gaylord National Resort leads
classes on making yule log cakes,
also known as buche de Nol. 1011:30 a.m. $49 (a breakfast buffet is
included in the cost and begins at
8:30 a.m.). Gaylord National Resort
and Convention Center, 201
Waterfront St., National Harbor.
301-965-4000.
www.gaylordnationaltickets.com..
www.gaylordnationaltickets.com

SUNDAY
3 STARS ARTISTS & ARTISANS
HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA: An
annual gathering held among the
tap room tanks at 3 Stars Brewing
featuring samples of rare seasonal
ales, treats from local vendors, DJs
and artists painting murals on the
brewery walls. 1-6 p.m. $10. 3 Stars
Brewing, 6400 Chillum Pl. NW. 202670-0333. www.3starsbrewing.com
www.3starsbrewing.com..
CULINARY WOMEN IN WORDS:
Regional cookbook authors,
including Carla Hall, Cathy Barrow
and The Posts Bonnie S. Benwick,
hold a holiday book sale and signing
and serve food to benefit
scholarship programs of the
Washington Chapter of Les Dames
dEscoffier. 3-6 p.m. $25 in
advance; $35 at door. Salon ILO,
1637 Wisconsin Ave NW. 202-9732168. www.LesDamesDC.org
www.LesDamesDC.org..
SANTA BRUNCH: All-you-can-eat
brunch includes a glass of
champagne, soft drinks, a visit from
Santa Claus and live holiday music.
11 a.m.-2 p.m. $35 adults, $17.50
children, free for younger than age
4. Indigo Landing, 1 Marina Dr.,
Alexandria. 703-548-0001.
www.indigolanding.com..
www.indigolanding.com

MONDAY
HOLIDAY TAP TAKEOVER AND
CAN DRIVE: The fourth annual can
drive at ChurchKey features 50
holiday beers on tap, including
spiced Christmas Bomb from
Oklahomas Prairie Artisan Ales and
a version of Danish brewer
Mikkellers Santas Little Helper,
aged in cognac barrels. 4 p.m. Free.
ChurchKey, 1337 14th St. NW. 202567-2576. www.churchkeydc.com
www.churchkeydc.com..
Christian Hettinger
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Climens (Magnum) 2003 .... 96 WS.... 199.00
Climens 2005...................... 97 WA.... 110.00
Climens (Half Bottle) 2009... 97 WA....... 59.99
Climens 2009...................... 97 WA.... 110.00
Clos Haut Peyraguey (Half Bottle) 2009.....93 WS....... 26.99
Coutet (Half Bottle) 2005 ...92+ WA....... 29.99
Coutet 2005 ......................92+ WA....... 57.99
Coutet (Half Bottle) 2007.....95 WS....... 34.99
Coutet (Half Bottle) 2009.... 95 WA....... 39.99
Coutet 2009 ........................ 95 WA....... 79.99
Coutet (Half Bottle) 2010.... 95 WA....... 34.99
Coutet 2010 ........................ 95 WA....... 69.99
Coutet (Half Bottle) 2011.....97 WS....... 39.99
De Fargues 2001 ............ 93 WA.... 119.00
De Fargues (Half Bottle) 2007.... 97 WA....... 79.99
Doisy-Dane (Half Bottle) 2010...94 WS....... 24.99
Doisy-Dane LExtravagant (Half Bottle) 2010.... 97 WS.... 219.00
Doisy-Vdrines 2007.....93+ WA....... 39.99
Domaine de lAlliance (500ml) 2010...90-92 WA....... 26.99
Du Cros - Loupiac (500ml) 2011 ........... 16.99
Guiraud (Half Bottle) 2011...97 WS....... 29.99
Nairac (Half Bottle) 2007...92+ WA....... 44.99
Raymond Lafon (Half Bottle) 2007... 93 WA....... 29.99
Raymond Lafon (Half Bottle) 2009 ... 93 WA....... 24.99
Rieussec (Half Bottle) 2009.... 97 WA....... 42.99
Rieussec 2010 ............... 93-96 WS....... 99.00
Sigalas Rabaud (Half Bottle) 2009 .... 95 WA....... 29.99
Suduiraut (Half Bottle) 2001 ... 98 WA....... 79.99
Suduiraut (Half Bottle) 2010...94-96 WA....... 39.99
Yquem 1996 ................... 95 WA.... 269.00
Yquem (Magnum) 1997 ...... 96 WA.... 699.00

Most Popular Imports

Alamos Malbec ....................................... 6.99
Rebate 2 Bot $6 4 Bot $12 6 Bot $18

Calandray Reserve......................................... 9.99

Cousino Macul Antiguas Cab Chard..... 9.99
Cruythoff Chenin Blanc ................................ 7.49
Domaine Guillaman Gascogne .............. 7.99
Domaine Guillaman Frisson ................ 11.99
Domaine Pouy Gascogne......................... 6.99
Monte Antico .............................................. 8.99
Grand Ribe CDR Centenaire ....................... 12.99
Kris Pinot Grigio............................................... 10.99
Lopez Haro Rioja Crianza.............................. 9.69
Mezzacorona Pinot Grigio........................... 6.99
Rebate 1 Bot $3 2 Bot $6 3 Bot $10

Penfolds Koonunga Shiraz/Cab........................ 6.99

Picpoul de Pinet........................................ 7.99
Rufno Orvieto Chianti Pinot Grigio........... 6.99

1.75 Liter Sale

Malt Scotch Sale

Small Batch Bourbon & Rye

Champagne & Sparkling Sale

Scotch Irish

Aberlour 12 Year .................................. 44.99

Aberlour 16 Year .................................. 74.99
Aberlour ABunadh............................... 72.99
Ardbeg 10 Year ..................................... 49.99
Ardmore ............................................... 52.99
Auchentoshan 12 Year....................... 39.99
Balvenie 12 Year................................... 51.99
Balvenie 14 Year................................... 59.99
Balvenie 15 Year................................... 89.99
Bowmore 12 Year ................................ 39.99
Bowmore 15 Year Darkest.................... 64.99
Bruichladdich Scottish Barley............. 54.99
Bunnahabhain 12 Year ...................... 59.99
Caol Ila 12 Year..................................... 49.99
Cardhu 12 Year...................................... 34.99
Clynelish 14 Year.................................. 43.99
Cragganmore 12 Year ........................ 43.99
Dalmore 12 Year................................... 47.99
Dalwhinnie 15 Year............................. 42.99
Glen Grant 10 Year.............................. 37.99
Glen Grant Majors Reserve ................ 29.99
Glenddich 12 Year ............................ 44.99
Glenddich 15 Year ............................ 56.99
Glenkinchie 12 Year............................ 44.99
Glenlivet 12 Year.................................. 43.99
Glenlivet 15 Year.................................. 53.99
Glenmorangie 10 Year....................... 34.99
Glenmorangie Nectar ........................ 75.99
Glenmorangie Ruban Lasanta........ 44.99
Glenrothes Reserve............................. 44.99
Highland Park 12 Year ....................... 47.99
Lagavulin 16 Year ................................ 59.99
Laphroaig 10 Year................................ 39.99
Laphroaig 10 Year Cask....................... 59.99
Laphroaig Quarter Cask....................... 53.99
Macallan 10 Year.................................. 49.99
Macallan 12 Year.................................. 54.99
Oban 14 Year ......................................... 54.99
Old Pulteney 12 Year.......................... 39.99
Port Charlotte Scottish Barley ........... 54.99
Springbank 10 Year............................. 55.99
Talisker 10 Year..................................... 49.99
Talisker Storm....................................... 53.99
Tomatin 12 Year.................................... 27.99
Tomatin 15 Year.................................... 41.99

Angels Envy Bourbon ........................ 41.99

Bakers 7 Year ....................................... 43.99
Basil Hayden 93 Proof........................ 39.99
Belle Meade ....................................... 37.99
Belle Meade Sherry Cask 9 Year......... 79.99
Bookers 7 Year..................................... 52.99
Bulleit 90 Proof ..................................... 26.99
Bulleit 10 Year 90 Proof......................... 38.99
Elijah Craig 12 Year............................. 29.99
Evan Williams Single Barrel ............... 29.99
Few Bourbon 93 Proof ....................... 47.99
Filibuster Single Batch......................... 36.99
Four Roses Small Batch....................... 31.99
Four Roses Single Barrel...................... 38.99
Jack Daniels Gentleman .................... 25.99
Jack Daniels Single Barrel.................. 46.99
Knob Creek 100 Proof 9 Year .............. 24.99
Knob Creek Single Barrel 9 Year ......... 34.99
Makers Mark 46 94 Proof.............. 34.99
Michters Single Barrel......................... 39.99
Ridgemont Reserve 8 Year ............. 26.99
Russells Reserve Single Barrel......... 42.99
Smooth Ambler 7 Year...................... 29.99
Wild Turkey Rare Breed....................... 34.99
Wild Turkey Ky Spirit Single Barrel ...... 44.95
Woodford Reserve........................... 31.99
Woodford Reserve Double Oaked ... 49.99
Angels Envy Rye................................ 64.99
Bulleit Rye............................................. 26.99
Catoctin Creek Rye ........................... 34.99
Few Rye .................................................. 59.99
High West Rendezvous Rye.................. 48.99
Knob Creek Rye .................................. 32.99
Redemption Rye................................. 25.99
Redemption Rye 7 Year ...................... 74.99
(ri) Rye................................................... 37.99
Russells Reserve Rye....................... 33.99
Smooth Ambler Rye 7 Year ............... 34.99
Templeton Rye .................................... 38.99
WhistlePig Rye 10 Year........................ 64.99

Champagne

Grants Johnnie Dewars

Walker Blk 12 Year

20.98 53.99 49.99

Clan
MacGregor Chivas Dewars
Regal 29.49

15.99 48.69

Johnnie
Walker
Red

Cutty Sark Glenddich

White Horse 77.99

23.99

28.99

76.99

Reb 3 Bot $15

Glenlivet 6 Bot $40 8 Bot $60

Inver
House Bushmill
Lauders 35.99

13.99

Famous
Grouse

Jameson

28.77

36.99

$3 Reb=10.99

Vodka
Grey Goose

Bowmans 48.49

8.88

42.99

Smirnoff

16.88

Belvedere Reb. 3 Bot $15

Zelko

6 Bot $40 8 Bot $60

Ketel One

9.49

37.99

Svedka
Absolut Sobieski
12.49
$5 Reb=7.49
16.99

Burnetts

Reb 3 Bot $15

6 Bot $40 8 Bot $60

Up To $40 Reb

26.49

$5 Reb=11.99

Reb 3 Bot $10 6 Bot $25

Fleischmanns

10.69

Russian
Standard

$3 Reb=7.69

Luksusowa

16.69

25.99 Three
$3Gordons
Reb=11.99
Olives
Pinnacle Stolichnaya 19.49
$5 Reb=14.49
14.99
26.99

Skyy

Gilbeys Titos

11.99 27.29 19.99

Gin

Fleischmanns Bombay Booths

Sapphire

9.88 29.99 17.88

$3 Reb=6.88

Reb 1 Bot $8 2 Bot $20

Burnetts

13.99
$2 Rebate
=11.99

Rebate 3 Bot $5 6 Bot $11 12 Bot $24

12.99

Bombay Seagrams Cognac Armagnac Calvados

23.99 15.99
$7 Reb=8.99

Gilbey's

Shotre Shiraz Quartage ........................... 13.99

Cognac

New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc Tanqueray Gordons Beefeater

Kim Crawford........................................... 11.99
Matua................................................................ 9.99
Mohua............................................................... 9.99
Monkey Bay ................................................. 6.99
New Harbor .................................................. 6.99
Nobilo ............................................................... 7.99
Rebate 3 Bot $5 6 Bot $11 12 Bot $24

Oyster Bay ..................................................... 8.99

Villa Maria .................................................. 10.99

29.99 15.99 24.99

Reb 3 Bot $15

$3 Rebate=12.99
6 Bot 40 8 Bot $60

$8 Reb=16.99

Canadian Bourbon Blend

Canadian
Kentucky Woodford
Gentleman
Mist 59.99
45.99
9.88

11.88

Knob Creek

$3 Reb=6.88

Old
Grand
Dad

20.98

Bulleit
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Apothic Red White............................... 8.99

BV Coastal Cab Chard Merlot Pinot ..... 5.99
Beringer Founders................................. 6.99
Beringer White Zinfandel ....................... 4.79
Beringer Napa Chardonnay.................... 9.99
Blackstone Merlot Cab Chard......... 6.99
Bogle Chard Sauv. Bl. Merlot ............. 8.99
Bogle Cab Zin O.V. Petite Sirah ........ 10.99
Byron Pinot Noir Santa Barbara............. 14.99
Cambria Katherines Chardonnay......... 13.99
Castle Rock California Chardonnay Pinot Noir .... 7.99
Cline Zinfandel Viognier Rose ............ 8.99
Cline Zin Ancient Vines Cashmere R & W..... 12.99
M & M Rebate 1 Bot $2 2 Bot $6

Clos du Bois

7.49

Chardonnay...........................
Cabernet Merlot ............................9.99
M & M Reb 3 Bot $5 6 Bot $11 12 Bot $24

Columbia Crest Two Vines .................. 6.49

Columbia Crest Grand Estates Chard Cab Merlot .... 7.99
Edna Valley Chardonnay ....................... 8.99

M & M Reb 3 Bot $5 6 Bot $11 12 Bot $24

Franciscan Chardonnay ....................... 11.99

Franciscan Cabernet............................ 17.99
Hess Chardonnay ..................................... 8.99
Hogue Chard Sauv Bl Cab Mer Rieslings ....... 6.99
Chardonnay...........................

9.79

Kendall-Jackson Sauvignon Blanc ...... 9.99

Kendall-Jackson Grand Reserve Chardonnay...... 14.99
La Crema Monterey Chardonnay ......... 13.99
La Crema Monterey Pinot Noir............. 15.99
J Lohr Riverstone Chardonnay ................. 9.99
J Lohr 7 Oaks Cab Los Osos Merlot .... 11.99
Louis Martini Sonoma Cabernet ........ 12.99
Rebate 2 Bot $4 6 Bot $15 12 Bot $36

Mark West Pinot Noir Chardonnay..... 8.99

Rebate 3 Bot $5 6 Bot $11 12 Bot $24

Matanzas Creek Sauvignon Blanc .... 12.99

Menage a Trois Red White ............... 7.99

Meridian
Chardonnay...........................

4.69

Mirassou Pinot Noir Chardonnay ........ 6.99

Mondavi Private Selection...................... 6.99
Rebate 3 Bot $5 6 Bot $11 12 Bot $24

Mondavi Woodbridge ............................ 4.79

Rebate 12 Bot $18 = 3.29 Bot

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Spiced winter warmers from Mexico that border on eggnog

Ive started to
think that the true
song of the
M. CARRIE
ALLAN
holidays isnt
Jingle Bells or
Silent Night. Its
the theme from Jaws.
It starts in November, the
ominous motif (duh nuh) not yet
recognized, as I think vaguely
about cards and gifts, and
fantasize that this year we might
just skip the craziness and spend
the week in Mexico. Around
early December (duh nuh) comes

Spirits

the realization that Im behind in

my shopping (duh nuh). I stay
late at the office and work
weekends (duh nuh) so that just
maybe, Ill get enough done to
take a real break at the holidays.
Then duh nuh nuh nuh nuh
nuh NUH NUH NUH, its upon
us. It cannot be escaped. Its too
late for Mexico. Instead, its trips
to the mall to get screamed at
over parking spaces, busting our
gift budget, frantically searching
for presents that never seem
adequate to sentiment. The cards

will never arrive by Christmas.

Nothing is finished; the house is
a wreck. The only wrapping
paper we have is pirate-themed.
The dog has eaten tinsel and is
pooping silver in the back yard,
and suddenly I am living a
Cathy cartoon.
Every year, I swear itll be
better. Ill start earlier. Ill handmake gifts, hang a wreath on the
door, gather with loved ones to
watch Its a Wonderful Life and
Die Hard, the way the baby
Jesus would want.

Every year I fail, and my

fantasy of Christmas in Mexico
returns. My parents lived there
before I was born, and there is a
little island, part fishing village,
part beach town, off the coast of
Cancun that we visited as kids
and that my husband and I
occasionally go back to. Being
there the clear beauty of the
water, the sense of breathing
deeper reminds me of how I
felt as a child at candlelit Mass
on Christmas Eve: All is calm. All
is bright.

Particularly, Ive long wanted

to be there for Los Posadas,
celebrations in the nine days
leading up to Christmas, where
people reenact the holy familys
search for a place to stay in
Bethlehem. Even if youre
immune to Christian
iconography, if youre remotely
aware of the terrible violence
that parts of Mexico have been
experiencing over the past
decade, its hard not to be moved
by a ceremony where people,
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out the basic human search for a

safe place in the world.
Because of my daydreams of a
feliz navidad, when I ran across a
recipe for rompope (rom-POpay), both my Mexico-fantasizing
and cocktail-geek sides were
intrigued: Rompope is a Mexican
version of eggnog.
Many European-influenced
traditions are variations on
eggnog. The Dutch have
advocaat, the Germans eierlikr,
the French lait de poule (hens
milk). The Spanish who
colonized Mexico had ponche de
huevo (egg punch).
In the convents around
Mexico during the colonial era,
the nuns became serious cooks,
says Pati Jinich, author of Patis
Mexican Table and host of the
PBS series of the same name. The
church was a major power, and it
was in the kitchens of the
convents that traditional
Spanish recipes started to take in
local ingredients; many Mexican
classics like mole poblano and
chiles en nogada supposedly
came from the convents.
Rompope reportedly was
invented in the convent of Santa
Clara, in Puebla. Puebla is
known as the city of sweets,
Jinich says, and the nuns had a
reputation for an incredible
sweet tooth. . . . They brought all
the Spanish recipes, the flans
and the sweets made with
almonds . . . and started mixing
the Spanish recipes that were
heavy on the sugar and milk
which was very uncommon for
Mexico with Mexican
ingredients.
Originally, Jinich says, the
nuns would serve rompope only
at fancy dinners, to archbishops
and politicians, but as less
financial support came from
Spain, the nuns started to sell it
at the door of the convent. Now it
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consistent across recipes, but
spices and liquors vary. The
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peel and ground almonds; the
nuts bring both flavor and a
thick, creamy texture, much the
way nuts and seeds thicken
many classic moles.
The recipe I tested (find it at
washingtonpost.com/recipes) is
from Maria del Mar Sacasas
Winter Cocktails, and it makes
for a lovely drink, but
experiment with other flavors; I
boosted the lemon and orange,
and Jinich says she uses nutmeg
and cinnamon in hers. One of
her favorite ways that her family
served rompope was to cut up
fresh mango, pour the rompope
over it and serve it very cold,
turning a drink into a luxurious
dessert.
For those who dont do the
raw-egg thing, by the way, theres
another Mexican-inflected
holiday indulgence. This one is
from Brook Vandecar, beverage
director at Rosa Mexicano, for
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Horchata is a traditional drink
typically made of rice, nuts or
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orgeat, the almond syrup
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chili-infused tequila. The recipe
(also at washingtonpost.com/
recipes) can be served warm or
cold and, like the best eggnogs,
comes across creamy, luxurious
and full of holiday warmth.
Feliz navidad, and heres a
toast: Wherever and whoever
you are, may you have peace and
a warm, safe space this season.
food@washpost.com
Allan is a Takoma Park writer and
editor; her Spirits column appears
every few weeks. Follow her on
Twitter: @Carrie_the_Red.

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for Google Express
members ($10 a month or
$95 a year), free same-day
or overnight delivery on
orders over $15; $3 for
those under $15.

Starts at $5 and goes up,

depending on distance
traveled and demand. (Ours
came to $14.25.) Theres
also a 9 percent service
fee.

$3.87 on a $20 minimum

order.

SPECIALTY

Focuses on healthful and

locally sourced foods,
meaning you wont find
most of the big, familiar
corporate name brands.
About a third of its 8,000
products are from local
suppliers. The company
plans to add recipes and
menu-planning to its Web
site next year.

A tested, curated selection

of easy recipes plus menuplanning tools to help
families more easily provide
home-cooked meals.

Fast, flexible delivery times,

even up to midnight
depending on the hours of
the store youre ordering
from.

In addition to
nonperishable groceries
from Giant and Costco,
delivers from other stores
including Barnes & Noble,
Walgreens, Kohls and
Staples.

Postmates uses a
smartphone app and a
network of couriers to offer
one-hour delivery of
groceries, as well as items
from restaurants and retail
stores. In our area,
groceries can be ordered
from Whole Foods and
Trader Joes.

Klink sells beer, wine,

liquor, soft drinks, mixers
and ice to District residents
age 21 and older.

Easy-to-use Web site. Good

selection of organic and
specialty-diet products
(gluten-free, dairy-free); one
of few services delivering to
communities outside the
Beltway.

You can customize your

weekly menus; good
selection of recipes.

Easy-to-use Web site; onehour, two-hour or same-day

delivery; choice of six area
grocery stores: Whole
Foods, Yes! Market, Harris
Teeter, Safeway, Costco and
Magruders.

Delivers daily within a fourhour window up to 10 p.m.;

only nonperishables, so
groceries can be left
outside your door.

Delivers daily and within an

hour of ordering; once a
courier has accepted your
order, their name and photo
pop up on your phone, and
you can track their progress
on a map.

Theres no markup on
prices; its a great way to
get booze for a party
delivered promptly.

Delivers only Monday to

Friday; no same-day
delivery, but most orders
delivered next day.

Confusing Web site;

partnered with Peapod so
restricted to products
available at Giant, which
doesnt always carry all
recipe ingredients.

Some items can be marked

up 20 percent; no delivery
outside the Beltway.

Need eggs and milk? Youre

out of luck.

The fees can add up. A $50

order at Whole Foods
became $75 once peaktime delivery fee, service
fee and tip were added.

For wine in particular, the

selection is somewhat
limited.

Order placed at noon Friday

for Reston address could be
delivered only on Tuesday;
delivery person arrived 30
minutes early, so no one
was home yet.

Peapod delivered broken

eggs; Giant didnt have the
halibut needed for one of
the recipes.

None. One of the easiest

order and delivery
experiences of those we
tested.

None. Even sent two people

to deliver entire order
because one item was
available only at another
store.

Nothing major. Delivery

time was a little over an
hour, probably because the
courier had to make some
substitutions for items that
were shown on the app but
werent available in the
store. Still, she made sure
we got everything on the
list.

PROS

For home delivery, $12 to

$15; if picked up at nearby
locations, free for orders
over $50, otherwise $3;
unlimited free deliveries
with Relay Doorstep
membership for $30 a
month.

CONS

postmates.com

GLITCHES

www.google.com/
shopping/express

None.

Services deliver
groceries and liquor
right to your door
Costco to provide the groceries,
which are bought and then delivregional companies including Reered by a fleet of couriers, often
lay Foods, which began four years
within an hour or two. Even the
ago in Charlottesville and now
ride-sharing company Uber is ofserves eight Virginia cities, the
fering a 10-minute delivery of
Washington metro area, Baltiwhat it calls essentials for your
more and North Carolinas Ramedicine cabinet or pantry, inleigh-Durham.
cluding batteries, Tylenol, chips,
Even Washingtons Metro syssoda, contact lens solution and
tem sees grocery delivery as a
condoms.
potentially lucrative source of revWho uses these services the
enue. The transit agency reportedmost? For Relay Foods, its family is considering a six-month pilot
lies with younger children who
program in which riders could
want to skip going to the grocery
order groceries onstore with toddlers,
line from Giant, and
says Sarah Yates, the
Peapod would deliver
companys vice presithem to one of three
dent of marketing.
Metro stops, three
Erika Hard, Instacdays a week.
arts D.C. manager,
Not that getting
says the service is
groceries delivered is
popular with young
a brand-new idea. Esprofessionals in the
tablished companies
city and with single
like Peapod and
parents and busy
FreshDirect
have
families in the subbeen doing it in a limurbs. Plus, a lot of
ited number of cities
businesses use us to
for a decade or more.
make Costco runs for
And there was e-groparties.
cery company WebThere are obvious
van, which debuted
advantages to paying
INSTACART
with a splash in 1999,
someone else to
only to crash and Instacart offers a
schlep your groceries.
smartphone app.
burn two years later.
Aside from saving
But this time
you time, gasoline
around, companies are taking a
and aggravation, it keeps you from
different tack. Some, like Google
making impulse buys that can
Express and Wal-Mart, are delivdrive up your grocery bill. It also
ering only nonperishable items,
can be worth it if its hard for you
doing away with the hassle and
to get around or to manage those
expense of having to keep foods
heavy shopping bags, as an 80safely chilled. AmazonFresh,
year-old friend reminded me. And
which tested its delivery system
you dont have to pay for a memfor several years on the West Coast
bership to Costco to get food and
and just recently expanded to wine from there delivered by some
Brooklyn and Philadelphia, delivof these local services.
ers groceries from its own netBut there are also disadvantagwork of warehouses.
es. To begin with, it can be expenOthers, like Instacart and Postsive. A one-hour grocery delivery
mates, partner with such chains
from Whole Foods on I Street NW
as Whole Foods, Harris Teeter and
to a friends apartment on Van
DELIVERY FROM E1

PHILIP MONTGOMERY/GOOGLE

Google Express began deliveries in New York in May and expanded to the Washington area in October.

Ness Street NW via Postmates cost

me $75: $50 for the grocery items
plus a $14.25 delivery fee, a 9
percent service fee and a tip for the
affable courier. Also, someone
needs to be home to sign for the
groceries if your order includes
perishables.
And if the market is out of an
item or a reasonable substitute
(most services let you indicate an
acceptable alternative), youre
still stuck. Ditto if your Peapod
guy breaks your eggs, as mine did,
and wont bring back another dozen. In that case, you might have to
do the unthinkable: Go to the
grocery store yourself.
food@washpost.com
Sagon, a former Food section staff
writer, is a senior health editor at
AARP.com.

PHOTOS BY JEFFREY MACMILLAN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Arianna Wilson, at left, makes a

delivery for Postmates, whose
customers use a smartphone
app, above, to order groceries
from two supermarket chains as
well as items from restaurants
and retail stores.

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Pork meets grapes

in an elegant dance

Ethnic Market Scout

Hazelnut, Chocolate
and Miso Cake

Pork and fruit is

one of those
classic Fredand-Ginger,
peanut butterand-jelly
Ellie
combinations. It
Krieger
makes perfect
sense, as the
NOURISH
sweetness of the
fruit brings out
the succulence of the meat and
enhances its subtly rich, earthy
flavor.
You typically see pork paired
with apple. But over the years I
have enjoyed experimenting by
partnering pork with different
fruits, including mango and
pear. My latest favorite comes
from my discovery of the
delights of roasting grapes,
which involves just tossing
them in a little oil and popping
them in the oven for 20
minutes. The result is
stunning; they add an element
of surprise to the plate.
For this recipe, you add
unadorned red seedless grapes
to a skillet in which a pork
tenderloin marinated in a
sweet-savory teriyaki sauce
has been browned. You give the

12 to 16 servings
(makes one 5-by-10-inch loaf)

Miso, Japanese fermented

bean paste, adds a nutty-umami
flavor to dishes. Its only natural
that it works so well in this hazelnut cake.
MAKE AHEAD: The cake
can be wrapped in plastic wrap
and stored at room temperature
for up to 5 days or frozen for up
to 1 month.
Miso is available in Asian supermarkets and at health food
supermarkets.
From Washington caterer
Vered Guttman.
INGREDIENTS
2 cups skin-on hazelnuts
8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted
butter, at room temperature, plus
more for the pan
11/2 cups sugar
3 large eggs
3 tablespoons white miso (see
headnote)
1 cup flour
11/2 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons Dutch-process cocoa
powder
1 cup heavy cream

grapes a little roll around the

pan to coat them with the
browned bits and juices from
the meat. Then the whole
skillet goes in the oven for 18
minutes. In that time, the pork
is cooked to juicy perfection,
and the grapes flavor is
concentrated and deepened.
Yet the fruit remains plump
and juicy, and provides a
healthfully sweet
accompaniment.
Because pork tenderloin is
so lean, nearly as lean as
skinless chicken breast, it is an
ideal good-for-you protein
option, and therefore its
important not to overcook it.
You want it to have a slight
blush at the center. Serve it
with a simple green salad and
some crusty bread for an easy
and surprisingly elegant
weeknight meal.
food@washpost.com
Kriegers most recent cookbook is
Weeknight Wonders: Delicious
Healthy Dinners in 30 Minutes or
Less (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2013). She blogs and offers a
weekly newsletter at
www.elliekrieger.com.

STEPS
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Spread the hazelnuts on a baking
sheet; roast for 15 minutes, shaking
the baking sheet twice during
roasting. Let them cool completely.
Finely grind the hazelnuts in a food
processor or a blender (in pulses).
Dont over-process the hazelnuts, as
they will release fat and could turn to
hazelnut butter.
Generously grease a 5-by-10-inch
loaf pan with a little butter, then line
it with parchment paper, leaving the
two long sides of paper overhanging
the edge of the pan. (They will be
used to help lift out the cake).
Combine the 8 tablespoons of
butter and the sugar in the bowl of a
stand mixer or a handheld electric
mixer; beat on medium speed for a
few minutes, until creamy. Stop to
scrape down the bowl. Add the eggs
one at a time, beating until well
blended. Stop to scrape down the
bowl. Add the miso; beat briefly on
medium speed until incorporated.

PHOTOS BY DEB LINDSEY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Combine the ground hazelnuts,

flour, baking powder and cocoa
powder on a sheet of wax paper. On
low speed, add that mixture to the
mixing bowl in three additions,
alternating with the heavy cream;
start and end with the hazelnut-flour

mixture. Pour the batter into the pan,

smoothing it evenly. Bake (at 350
degrees) for 60 to 65 minutes or until
a cake tester inserted into the center
of the loaf comes out clean.
Transfer the pan to a wire rack to
cool for 10 minutes, then lift out the

cake and place it on the rack. Cool

completely before serving.
Nutrition | Per serving: 320 calories, 5 g
protein, 29 g carbohydrates, 22 g fat, 8 g
saturated fat, 35 mg cholesterol, 140 mg
sodium, 2 g dietary fiber, 20 g sugar

DEB LINDSEY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

Parsnip, Carrot and Turmeric Root Soup

With Goat Cheese Dumplings
8 servings

Heres an ultra-smooth soup brightened with easy-to-make

dumplings.
Fresh turmeric root will add depth and a touch of spiciness (it
comes from the ginger family) to any dish, together with the wonderful turmeric aroma. It will also stain everything it touches, so wear
gloves, and dont use plastic dishes when handling it, because those
will stay yellowish forever.
From Washington caterer Vered Guttman.
INGREDIENTS

parts only, for garnish

For the soup

For the dumplings

1 tablespoon olive oil, plus more for

drizzling
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1 medium yellow onion, chopped
1 pound carrots, scrubbed well and
cut into 1-inch chunks
12 ounces parsnips, peeled and cut
into 1-inch chunks
One 4-inch piece fresh turmeric root,
peeled and cut into 1/4-inch slices
4 cups water (may substitute
vegetable broth or chicken broth)
1 teaspoon kosher salt
2 teaspoons toasted cumin seed, for
garnish
1/4 cup chopped scallions, green

5 ounces fresh goat cheese

1 tablespoon olive oil
16 to 24 four-inch square wonton
wrappers
Salt, for the cooking water

STEPS
For the soup: Combine the
tablespoon of oil and the butter in a
large pot over medium-high heat. Add
the onion and stir to coat; cook until
golden, 3 to 5 minutes. Add the
carrots, parsnips and turmeric root
slices; cook for 1 minute, then add the
water. Once the mixture comes to a
boil, reduce the heat to medium-low,
cover and cook for 30 minutes.

Stir in the salt, then use a stick

(immersion) blender to puree the soup
until its smooth and creamy.
While the soup is cooking, make the
dumplings: Combine the goat cheese
and oil in a bowl.
Line a baking sheet with parchment
paper. Put a small bowl of water next
to it, along with a small pastry brush.
Lay one wonton wrapper on a clean,
dry work surface so that it looks like a
diamond, with one point facing you.
Put a spoonful of goat cheese at the
center. Brush a little water on the
wrappers surface all around the
filling. Fold up the bottom point so it

covers the filling, then fold the left side

and the right side, leaving a pointed/
triangle top. Transfer to the baking
sheet; repeat with the remaining
wrappers and filling. Wrap the baking
sheet in plastic wrap and refrigerate
until ready to serve.
Bring 2 quarts of salted water to a
boil in a large pot over high heat. Just
before serving, reduce the heat to
medium, and gently cook the
dumplings for 2 minutes. While the
dumplings are cooking, divide the
soup among warmed soup bowls. Top
each portion with 2 (16-count total) or
3 (24-count) dumplings. Garnish with
a sprinkling of toasted cumin seed
and scallion. Drizzle with oil and serve.
NOTE: To toast cumin seed, heat a
small dry skillet over medium heat.
Add the seeds and toast, shaking the
pan occasionally, for 1 to 2 minutes,
until fragrant. Transfer to a heatproof
bowl to cool completely.
Nutrition | Per serving: 280 calories, 9 g
protein, 29 g carbohydrates, 15 g fat, 6 g
saturated fat, 25 mg cholesterol, 450 mg
sodium, 6 g dietary fiber, 6 g sugar
Recipes tested by Vered Guttman; e-mail
questions to food@washpost.com

on washingtonpost.com/recipes
l Roasted Eggplant Noodles With
Seaweed and Tahini

Roasted Teriyaki
Pork Tenderloin
With Grapes
4 servings

Here, roasted grapes give a

fresh twist to the classic fruitand-pork pairing.
From registered nutritionist and cookbook author Ellie
Krieger.
INGREDIENTS
1/4 cup low-sodium soy sauce
2 tablespoons firmly packed dark
brown sugar
2 tablespoons rice wine or dry
sherry
2 tablespoons unseasoned rice
vinegar
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon peeled and grated
fresh ginger root
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
flakes
1 pork tenderloin (about 11/4
pounds), trimmed of visible fat and
silver skin
1 tablespoon canola oil
3 cups red seedless grapes

STEPS

sugar, rice wine or sherry, rice

vinegar, garlic, ginger and crushed
red pepper flakes in a gallon-size
zip-top bag. Add the pork tenderloin
and seal, pressing as much air out
of the bag as possible. Massage to
coat, making sure the sugar has
dissolved. Let the pork sit at room
temperature for 1 hour, or
refrigerate it for up to 4 hours.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Heat the oil in a large, ovenproof
skillet over medium-high heat.
Remove the pork from the
marinade and pat it dry with paper
towels, then place it in the skillet;
discard the marinade. Sear the
meat for 6 minutes, turning it two
or three times to brown it all over.
Remove the skillet from the heat.
Add the grapes to the skillet,
arranging them around the pork
and turning them in the skillet a bit
so they become coated with the
pan juices. Transfer the skillet to
the oven; roast for 18 to 23
minutes, or until an instant-read
thermometer registers 145
degrees.
Let the meat rest for 5 minutes
before slicing thinly. Serve the pork
with the grapes alongside.
Recipe tested by Helen Horton; e-mail
questions to food@washpost.com

Combine the soy sauce, brown

Red Truck Bakery

Red Truck Bakerys
Almond Stollen
56 servings
(makes four 4-by-7-inch loaves)

The results of this recipe are

meant for sharing with very
good friends. Brian Noyes says
he has repeat customers every
year who have his stollen
shipped across the country.
This is a rich bread, so slice it
thinly (about a half-inch or so)
and serve. Its great with coffee
and tea.
MAKE AHEAD: The filling
can be assembled and refrigerated a day or two in advance. The
pre-ferment sponge needs to
rest for 30 minutes, the dough
needs to rest for 30 minutes and
the formed loaves need to rest
for 20 minutes. Wrapped in
plastic or in a tightly sealed plastic bag, the stollen can be kept at
room temperature for several
weeks, or they can be frozen for
up to 1 year.
From Noyes, owner of Red
Truck Bakery in Warrenton, Va.
INGREDIENTS

For the filling

1 cup (8 ounces) almond paste
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 large egg white

RED TRUCK BAKERY

At Red Truck Bakery, workers roll the

fruity, nutty bread dough around an
almond paste mixture, above, to form
stollen. At right, the baked loaf.
DEB LINDSEY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

13/4 cups sliced almonds

For the pre-ferment sponge

3/4 cup whole milk, at a warm room
temperature
5 teaspoons active dried yeast
11/2 cups bread flour
1/8 teaspoon salt

For the dough

1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon (1
ounce) almond paste
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Finely grated zest of 1 orange,
mashed to a puree
21/2 tablespoons granulated sugar
16 tablespoons (2 sticks) unsalted
butter, cut into chunks, at room

temperature
13/4 cups bread flour
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup candied orange peel or a
mixture of candied orange and
candied lemon peel
1 cup dark raisins
1 cup golden raisins
11/4 cups sliced almonds

For assembly
1 cup clarified butter, warmed (or
melted butter, strained to remove the
solids)
11/4 cups granulated sugar
11/4 cups confectioners sugar

STEPS
For the filling: Combine the almond
paste and sugar in the bowl of a
stand mixer or handheld electric
mixer; beat on medium speed until
well combined, then gradually add
the egg white and beat until well
incorporated. Stop to scrape down
the bowl.
Add the sliced almonds; beat on low
speed just until evenly distributed,
taking care not to crush them
completely. Divide the mixture into
four equal sections, then roll each
one into a rounded log thats 5
inches long. If not using the same
day, wrap well in plastic wrap and
refrigerate.

For the pre-ferment sponge:

Combine the milk, yeast, bread flour
and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer
or handheld electric mixer. Beat on
low speed until well incorporated,
then cover with plastic wrap and let
sit at room temperature for 30
minutes.
For the dough: Combine the almond
paste, vanilla extract, orange zest
and about one-third of the granulated
sugar; beat on medium-low speed
until incorporated, then add the
remaining sugar and beat on
medium-low speed until blended.
Stop to scrape down the bowl. On
medium-low speed, gradually add the
butter, beating just until it is
incorporated; do not over-mix.
Switch to a dough-hook
attachment, if you have one. Add the
pre-ferment sponge, the bread flour
and the salt; beat on low speed for 4
minutes, then increase the speed to
high. Beat for 2 minutes. Cover the
bowl with plastic wrap and let the
dough rest for 30 minutes (room
temperature).
Uncover the bowl and add the
candied fruit, raisins and almonds.
Mix on the lowest speed for up to two
minutes to evenly distribute; dont
over-mix (you dont want to chop up
the raisins and almonds).
On a clean countertop or large
cutting board, divide the dough into
four balls of equal size. Use your
hands to pat each ball into an oval
about 8 inches long by about 6
inches wide. Place an almond filling
log in the center lengthwise, and
wrap the sides up tightly around the

log, almost like a soft taco, pinching

the sides together the entire length.
Pat the seams out smoothly, then flip
the loaf over and flatten it slightly
(youll have a stollen thats shaped
like a flat football); the finished size
will be about 4 inches wide by 7
inches long by 2 inches high.
Position oven racks in the upper
and lower thirds of the oven; preheat
the oven to 350 degrees. Line two
baking sheets with parchment paper.
Transfer two stollen to each of the
prepared baking sheets. Let them
rest in a slightly warm area, such as
the stove top, for 20 minutes (or a
little longer if your oven is not up to
temperature after 20 minutes). Bake
for 25 to 30 minutes or until golden
brown. The stollen will not rise much.
Let the loaves cool slightly, then rub
off any burnt nuts and raisins. Brush
on the warm clarified butter, covering
every bit of the stollen including the
bottom, sides and nooks and cracks.
Whisk together the granulated
sugar and confectioners sugar in a
medium bowl. Immediately sprinkle
some of it over each buttered stollen
on the top, bottom and sides, taking
care not to break the warm loaves;
there should be enough to coat each
loaf completely.
Once the stollen have completely
cooled, wrap each one in plastic
wrap, then enclose each one in a
plastic bag.
Ingredients are too variable for a meaningful
analysis.
Recipe tested by Jane Touzalin; e-mail
questions to food@washpost.com