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MILITARY
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Enlisted service members work-
ing in intelligence and information
technology are more likely to find
higher paying civilian jobs than
troops in the combat arms or med-
ical and transportation fields, ac-
cording to a newly released study
from Rand Corp.
“We can see from this work that
there are certain types of occupa-
tions that seemed to have lower
earnings, and that therefore would
be the best places to concentrate
[transition resources],” said Char-
les Goldman, senior economist and
lead author on the study titled
“Navigating a Big Transition: Mil-
itary Service Members’ Earnings
and Employment After Active-Du-
ty Service.”
By matching more than 1 million
military service records from 2002
to 2010 with tax records from the
U.S. Social Security Administra-
tion, researchers tracked the first
three years that troops are out of
the military to see how the newly
separated veterans’ income fared
over time and compared to their fi-
nal pay on active-duty service.
It can take several years to ac-
quire this type of data because it
has to be scrubbed to protect peo-
ple’s privacy, Goldman said.
Though it is a decade old, he be-
lieves there is still value in under-
standing trends and patterns to in-
form policy decisions and resource
allocation.
Outside of military occupations,
the 72-page report also breaks
down how wages vary in regard to
gender, time of service, deploy-
ment history and discharge status.
While men serving in the Army
as human intelligence operators
Study trackswhich militaryjobs have bestearning power
BY ROSE L. THAYER
Stars and Stripes
SEE STUDY ON PAGE 3
KABUL, Afghanistan — The
cool 1960s-style lines of the Ariana
Cinema’s marquee stand out over
a traffic-clogged roundabout in
downtown Kabul. For decades,
the historic cinema has enter-
tained Afghans and borne witness
to Afghanistan’s wars, hopes and
cultural shifts.
Now the marquee is stripped of
the posters of Bollywood movies
and American action flicks that
used to adorn it. The gates are
closed.
After recapturing power three
months ago, the Taliban ordered
the Ariana and other cinemas to
stop operating. The Islamic mili-
tant guerrillas-turned-rulers say
they have yet to decide whether
they will allow movies in Afghan-
istan.
Like the rest of the country, the
Ariana is in a strange limbo, wait-
ing to see how the Taliban will
rule.
The cinema’s nearly 20 employ-
ees, all men, still show up at work,
logging in their attendance in
hopes they will eventually get
paid. The landmark Ariana, one of
PHOTOS BY BRAM JANSSEN/AP
Gul Mohammed, who works as a host in the Ariana Cinema, poses for a photograph in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 4.
Silent movies
Now ordered to stop operating under Taliban rule, a Kabul cinema awaits its fate BY LEE KEATH
AND BRAM JANSSEN
Associated Press
Abdul Malik Wahidi, who sells tickets at Ariana Cinema, browsesthrough unsold tickets in Kabul, Afghanistan.
AFGHANISTAN
SEE CINEMA ON PAGE 5
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BUSINESS/WEATHER
NEW YORK — The National La-
bor Relations Board has confirmed
that a group of Amazon workers in
Staten Island, N.Y. has withdrawn
its petition to hold a vote to union-
ize.
The move comes less than two
weeks before the labor board was
expected to hold a hearing to deter-
mine whether there was sufficient
interest to form a union at the Ama-
zon distribution center.
NLRB spokesperson Kayla Bla-
do declined to elaborate the reason
for the pullback. But she noted
workers can refile a petition.
Union organizers had said in late
October that it delivered more than
2,000 signed union-support cards
to the NLRB’s Brooklyn office after
launching the effort in April. That’s
a major step in authorizing a vote
that could set up the first union at
the nation’s largest online retailer.
As part of its petition to hold a
vote, organizers must submit sig-
natures from at least 30% of the
roughly 5,500 employees who the
union says work at four adjoining
Amazon facilities that it seeks to
represent under collective bar-
gaining.
This is the second unionizing at-
tempt in the past year at Amazon.
Workers in Alabama resoundingly
defeated an attempt earlier this
year, but organizers there are ask-
ing federal officials for a do-over.
The Retail, Wholesale and De-
partment Store Union is leading the
effort in Alabama. The union drive
in New York City is working with-
out the help of a national sponsor.
NY Amazon workers withdraw petition to unionizeANNE D’INNOCENZIO
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averaged a first-year civilian sala-
ry of $49,503, an infantryman and
medic earned about $21,680 and
$21,569, with those amounts back
to 2013, according to the report.
Those military jobs that launch
into higher civilian wages typically
have more transferable skills,
Goldman said. Looking at enlisted
health care fields, such as combat
medic, those skills typically trans-
fer to the role of emergency med-
ical technician, which is a low-pay-
ing job in the civilian sector.
Given the time frame of the data,
he also thinks the ongoing wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan and the
growth in civilian contractor jobs
requiring a top-secret security
clearance might have benefited
troops serving in intelligence and
information technology positions.
People who hold that level of clear-
ance typically earn higher wages,
Goldman said.
Each of the services has made
substantial improvements to their
transition programs since the time
period for this data, but Goldman
said he still believes it shows in-
sight into how and where to focus
those programs and resources.
Some of those changes include
new programs to help troops earn
civilian certifications through
their military jobs and allowing
more time before separation to
prepare resumes, look for employ-
ment and participate in special-
ized training through partnerships
with corporations, businesses and
trade organizations.
Looking ahead, Goldman said
future research could use this data
to focus in on those time periods
where changes were made to tran-
sition programs to see what impact
they had.
Better civilian employment
helps with recruiting and reten-
tion, but also the Pentagon’s bot-
tom line, he said. The Defense De-
partment paid more than $900 mil-
lion annually in unemployment to
former service members during
the early 2010s when the country
experienced a “weak job market
following the Great Recession,”
according to the report, which cit-
ed the Congressional Budget Of-
fice.
“These costs have come down
markedly in recent years, perhaps
because of a strong job market and
deliberate introduction of creden-
tialing, employment training and
transition assistance programs.
Nonetheless, the U.S. economy
goes through cycles, and (as this
report is being prepared in 2020) a
very negative cycle could just be
beginning with the economic con-
sequences of the coronavirus pan-
demic, highlighting the impor-
tance of maintaining and targeting
transition support,” according to
the report.
During the three years that re-
searchers tracked veterans’ in-
come, their pay did increase on av-
erage, but many were starting out
at an income less than what they
made in the military. Determining
why this occurred is slightly be-
yond the purview of this data, be-
cause the civilian income data
didn’t show researchers whether
veterans were working full-time,
part-time or perhaps going to
school. It just showed the amount
of money that they brought home.
“People can have an anecdotal
sense that there’s a lot of money to
be made in civilian life,” Goldman
said. “Our analysis shows that for
many members, their incomes are
better when they’re on active duty,
and that actually making this tran-
sition to civilian life is a significant
challenge.”
Study: Transferable skills, clearances play a part FROM PAGE 1
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MILITARY
WASHINGTON — The new leader of the Okla-
homa National Guard issued a memo Thursday
ordering that no troops will be required to take a
coronavirus vaccine despite a mandate from the
Pentagon requiring it, according to a news re-
port.
Oklahoma Adjutant General Thomas Manci-
no updated the Oklahoma National Guard’s vac-
cination policy as one of his first acts in the job,
noting “no negative administrative or legal ac-
tion will be taken” against Guard members who
decline the coronavirus vaccine, The Oklaho-
man reported Friday.
The decision comes after Defense Secretary
Lloyd Austin in August issued a mandate requir-
ing all service members to get the vaccine or be
separated from the military for failing to obey a
lawful order.
The Oklahoma National Guard declined to re-
lease Mancino’s memo to Stars and Stripes on
Friday.
However, it was unclear Friday whether the
Oklahoma National Guard can override the Na-
tional Guard Bureau’s federal mandate that re-
quires all Guard members to be fully vaccinated
by June 30, 2022, said Air Force Sgt. Matt Mur-
phy, a bureau spokesman.
“It’s a legal gray area that would have to be re-
viewed by our lawyers,” he said.
The National Guard serves in state and feder-
al capacities, which complicates the issue, Mur-
phy said.
“This is where the difference between Title 32
and Title 10 becomes a real, becomes an issue,”
Murphy said. “In most instances, the guardsmen
are in their Title 32 capacity, which means
they’re on state duty. In order to be federalized,
they have to be on Title 10.”
Title 10 of the U.S. Code gives the National
Guard Bureau authority to issue its mandate for
Guard troops activated for federal missions,
while Title 32 gives an individual statethe power
to issue rules when Guard troops are operating
under the state’s authority.
The National Guard Bureau’s vaccination
deadline is different than the deadlines set by the
Air Force and Army. The Air Force and Army
require Guard airmen and soldiers to comply
with their Nov. 2 and Dec. 15 respective vaccina-
tion deadlines to be mobilized on federal orders
— more than six months before the bureau’s
deadline.
“We have requirements in order to meet read-
iness standards,” Murphy said. “We have to
comply with whatever the active-duty Air Force
and active-duty Army requirements are.”
The Air Force does not separate the vaccina-
tion rates of service components, though about
92.8% of all Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air
National Guard airmen were vaccinated as of
Tuesday, according to the service. Army Nation-
al Guard vaccination rates were unavailable Fri-
day.
Mancino’s memo came on his second day as
adjutant general. On Wednesday, Gov. Kevin
Stitt, a Republican, replaced Maj. Gen. Michael
Thompson, who had been a vocal proponent for
coronavirus vaccinations, with the 35-year Na-
tional Guard veteran, according to The Oklaho-
man.
Okla. Guard adjutant general cancelsvaccine order despite DOD mandate
ANDREW LAMOREAUX/Air National Guard
Airman 1st Class Thadyn DuPont, an aerospace medical technician with the 137th SpecialOperations Medical Group, prepares to administer a coronavirus vaccine to an OklahomaNational Guard soldier at the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Norman, Okla., on Jan. 15.
BY CAITLIN DOORNBOS
Stars and Stripes
A Fort Hood soldier was indict-
ed Wednesday on a charge of
murder in the death of a fellow
soldier who was the mother of his
child.
Cpl. Nakealon Keunte Mosley,
24, was indicted by a grand jury
in Bell County, Texas, which is
located just outside the Army
base in central
Texas, accord-
ing to online
court records.
He is charged
with shooting
Sgt. Francine
Martinez, 24,
on Sept. 4 fol-
lowing an argu-
ment outside of
a nightclub in Killeen, Texas. Af-
ter two weeks in the hospital,
Martinez died Sept. 16.
Mosely was initially charged
with aggravated assault of a fam-
ily member, and he has been in
Bell County Jail since Sept. 5 with
his bond set at $505,000, accord-
ing to online jail records. His ar-
raignment for the enhanced
charge is scheduled for Dec. 16.
In the days before the shooting,
Martinez had filed a petition to
establish paternity for the cou-
ple’s child, according to Bell
County court records. The case
was closed Sept. 22.
Both soldiers had previously
served at Fort Carson, Colo., be-
fore arriving at Fort Hood, ac-
cording to their service records.
There is no record of a military
protective order being filed be-
tween the two and neither Mosley
nor Martinez have ever been
charged with any wrongdoing
based on an investigation from
Army Criminal Investigation Di-
vision, said Jeffrey Castro, a
spokesman for the division.
Army special agents from the
division are assisting the Killeen
Police Department with their in-
vestigation, he said.
Witnesses of the shooting told
Killeen police officers that Mose-
ly and Martinez had been roman-
tically involved in the past and
had a child together, according to
an arrest affidavit for Mosely.
The two soldiers ran into each
other at a Killeen nightclub on
Sept. 4, which led to an argument
in the parking lot, according to
the affidavit. As Martinez left in
one vehicle, Mosely followed in a
separate vehicle and fired gun-
shots at Martinez’s vehicle, police
said.
Fort Hood
soldier
indicted
in murder BY ROSE L. THAYER
Stars and Stripes
Mosley
PAGE 4 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • Sunday, November 14, 2021
MIDEAST
DUBAI, United Arab Emir-
ates — The top U.S. Air Force
general in the Mideast said Sat-
urday that American airmen
would continue to be stationed in
the region even as military plan-
ners consider competition with
China and Russia as Washing-
ton’s next major challenge.
Speaking to journalists ahead
of the Dubai Airshow, Lt. Gen.
Gregory Guillot acknowledged
that presence “could adjust” af-
ter the U.S. withdrawal from Af-
ghanistan in August. The U.S.
Air Force operates a major base
in nearby Qatar, which oversaw
operations in Afghanistan, as
well as Iraq and Syria.
“But I don’t see any scenario
where the United States does not
have an important role,” Guillot
said.
Guillot’s comments come as
tensions remain high between
Iran and the U.S. after years of
confrontations following then-
President Donald Trump’s deci-
sion to unilaterally withdraw
America from Tehran’s nuclear
deal with world powers. Israel
meanwhile is suspected of
launching a series of attacks tar-
geting Iran’s atomic program.
As talks over the deal remain
stalled, Iran elected a hard-line
protege of the country’s su-
preme leader as president and
has itself seized vessels at sea
and is suspected of launching
drone attacks.
Guillot several times declined
to directly attribute recent
drone attacks in the region to
Iran, though he acknowledged
the rising number of such as-
saults in the region.
“The collaborative defense of
multiple countries, you know, in
the region is going to be our key
to detecting those and staying
one step ahead of the threat as it
evolves,” he said after appear-
ing at the Dubai International
Air Chiefs’ Conference.
Russia is expected to display
its Sukhoi Su-75 Checkmate
fighter jet at the Dubai Airshow
this week. It’s a direct competi-
tor to the American F-35 fighter,
which the United Arab Emirates
has been trying to buy since dip-
lomatically recognizing Israel
last year. That sale has slowed
under President Joe Biden’s ad-
ministration.
Asked about the Checkmate,
Guillot said he hoped that U.S.
allies and partners would use
equipment that would be “inte-
roperable” with the American
military. He said buying the
Russian fighter “absolutely”
would affect that.
During his presentation, Guil-
lot displayed a graphic that in-
cluded the Israeli flag among
others in the region. The Amer-
ican military now considers Is-
rael as falling under U.S. Central
Command due to the recent rec-
ognition deals. Bahrain and the
UAE just conducted a joint drill
with the U.S. Navy and Israel in
the Red Sea.
Guillot said air drills with Is-
rael and those nations could
happen as well.
Air Force: US toretain presencein Middle East
BY JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press
JERREHT HARRIS, U.S. AIR FORCE/AP
The crew of a U.S. Air Force B1B Lancer display their mascot from the cockpit window during a flight overkey maritime chokepoints in the Mideast with allies including Israel on Oct. 30.
SANAA, Yemen — Forces loyal to Ye-
men’s internationally recognized govern-
ment have withdrawn from the strategic
port city of Hodeida, allowing the rebels to
retake their positions, Yemeni officials and
the U.N. said.
The Joint Forces, backed by the United
Arab Emirates, said late Friday they rede-
ployed troops from Hodeida because there
was no need to stay in the city amid a U.N.-
brokered cease-fire deal.
They criticized the government for not al-
lowing them to retake control of the city
from the Houthi rebels. The Joint Forces
say the rebels repeatedly violated the 2018
deal that ended their offensive against Ho-
deida.
A U.N. mission observing the cease-fire
said government-allied forces have with-
drawn from their positions in the city and
areas south of the city and the Houthis have
taken over the vacated positions. It said it
wasn’t notified before the withdrawal.
In 2018, heavy fighting erupted in Hodei-
da after government forces backed by a
Saudi-led coalition moved in to wrest con-
trol of the strategic port city from the
Houthis.
After months of clashes, the warring
sides signed a U.N.-brokered agreement in
December 2018 that included a cease-fire in
the city and an exchange of more than
15,000 prisoners.
The deal, seen as an important first step
toward ending the broader conflict, was
never fully implemented.
Yemen’s war began with the 2014 take-
over of the capital of Sanaa by the Houthis,
who control much of the country’s north. A
Saudi-led coalition launched a bombing
campaign months later, determined to re-
store the government and oust the rebels.
The grinding regional proxy war has
killed tens of thousands of civilians and
fighters. The war also created the world’s
worst humanitarian crisis, leaving millions
suffering from food and medical care short-
ages and pushing the country to the brink of
famine.
The Joint Forces said they recognized the
mistake of remaining in defensive positions
without fighting in Hodeida as other gov-
ernment-held areas face intensified attacks
by the Houthis.
In recent months, the Houthis have at-
tacked government forces in different ar-
eas, including the provinces of Shabwa,
Bayda and Marib, despite calls by the U.N.,
U.S. and others to stop fighting and engage
in negotiations to find a settlement to the
conflict.
Forces exit,rebels retakeYemeni city
BY AHMED AL-HAJ
Associated Press
HANI MOHAMMED/AP
People inspect the site of a Saudiled coalition airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, on Thursday.
KHAR, Pakistan — A roadside bomb ex-
ploded in a tribal district that borders Af-
ghanistan on Saturday, killing two police,
authorities said.
Abdus Samad Khan, Bajur District police
chief, said the two constables were on secu-
rity duty near the Raghan Dam when un-
known assailants detonated the bomb re-
motely, killing them both. He said a search
for those involved was under way.
No one immediately claimed responsib-
ility for the attack in northwestern Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa province.
Bajur served as a sanctuary for the mil-
itant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan —
the Pakistani Taliban — until the area was
cleared of militants in military operations in
recent years. The TTP was involved in at-
tacks on security forces in the past but the
group is currently in peace talks with the
government. A monthlong cease-fire was
announced Tuesday.
Also on Saturday, a home-made bomb
rigged to a parked motorcycle, exploded
near a market in the southwestern city of
Quetta, wounding five people. Police officer
Asmat Ullah said a girl and a police consta-
ble were among the wounded. He said the
minor was in critical condition but her
mother was stable.
No one immediately claimed responsib-
ility for the attack.
Roadside blastkills 2 police inNW Pakistan
Associated Press
Sunday, November 14, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 5
only four cinemas in the capital, is
owned by the Kabul municipality,
so its employees are government
workers and remain on the pay-
roll.
The men while away the hours.
They hang out in the abandoned
ticket booth or stroll the Ariana’s
curving corridors. Rows of plush
red seats sit in silent darkness.
The Ariana’s director, Asita
Ferdous, the first woman in the
post, is not even allowed to enter
the cinema. The Taliban ordered
female government employees to
stay away from their workplaces
so they don’t mix with men, until
they determine whether they will
be allowed to work.
The 26-year-old Ferdous is part
of a post-2001 generation of young
Afghans determined to carve out a
greater space for women’s rights.
The Taliban takeover has
wrecked their hopes. Also a pain-
ter and sculptor, she now stays at
home.
“I spend time doing sketches,
drawing, just to keep practicing,”
she said. “I can’t do exhibitions
anymore.”
During their previous time in
power from 1996-2001, the Tali-
ban imposed a radical interpreta-
tion of Islamic law forbidding
women from working or going to
school — or even leaving home in
many cases — and forcing men to
grow beards and attend prayers.
They banned music and other art,
including movies and cinema.
Under international pressure,
the Taliban now say they have
changed. But they have been
vague about what they will or
won’t allow. That has put many Af-
ghans’ lives — and livelihoods —
on hold.
For the Ariana, it is another
chapter in a tumultuous six-dec-
ade history.
The Ariana opened in 1963. Its
sleek architecture mirrored the
modernizing spirit that the then-
ruling monarchy was trying to
bring to the deeply traditional na-
tion.
Kabul resident Ziba Niazai re-
called going to the Ariana in the
late 1980s, during the rule of Sovi-
et-backed President Najibullah,
when there were more than 30
cinemas around the country.
For her, it was an entry to a dif-
ferent world. She had just mar-
ried, and her new husband
brought her from their home vil-
lage in the mountains to Kabul,
where he had a job in the Finance
Ministry. She was alone in the
house all day while he was at the
office.
But when he got off work, they
often went together to the Ariana
for a Bollywood movie.
After years of communist rule,
it was a more secular era than re-
cent decades, at least for a narrow
urban elite.
“We had no hijab at that time,”
said Niazai, now in her late 50s, re-
ferring to the headscarf. Many
couples went to the cinema, and
“there wasn’t even a separate sec-
tion, you could sit wherever you
wanted.”
At the time, war raged across
the country as Najibullah’s gov-
ernment battled an American-
backed coalition of warlords and
Islamic militants. The mujahe-
deen toppled him in 1992. Then
they turned on each other in a fight
for power that demolished Kabul
and killed thousands of people
caught in the crossfire.
The Ariana was heavily dam-
aged, along with most of the sur-
rounding neighborhood, in the
frequent bombardments and gun-
battles.
It lay abandoned in ruins for
years, as the Taliban drove out the
mujahedeen and took over Kabul
in 1996. Whatever cinemas sur-
vived around Kabul were shut-
tered.
The Ariana’s revival came after
the Taliban’s ouster in the 2001
U.S.-led invasion. The French
government helped rebuild the
cinema in 2004, part of the flood of
billions of dollars of international
aid that attempted to reshape Af-
ghanistan over the next 20 years.
With the Taliban gone, cinema
saw a new burst of popularity.
Indian movies were always the
biggest draw at the Ariana, as
were action movies, particularly
those featuring Jean-Claude Van
Damme, said Abdul Malik Wahi-
di, in charge of tickets. As Afghan-
istan’s domestic film industry re-
vived, the Ariana played the hand-
ful of Afghan movies produced
each year.
They had three showings a day,
ending in the mid-afternoon, at 50
afghanis a ticket — about 50 cents.
Audiences were overwhelmingly
men. In Afghanistan’s conserva-
tive society, cinemas were seen as
a male space, and few women at-
tended.
Wahidi recalled how he and oth-
er staffers had to preview all for-
eign films to weed out those with
scenes considered too racy — with
couples kissing or women show-
ing too much skin, for example.
Letting something slip through
could bring the wrath of some mo-
vie-goers. Offended audiences
were known to hurl objects at the
screen, though it didn’t happen at
the Ariana, Wahidi said. He re-
membered one patron at the Aria-
na, outraged by a scene, storming
out and shouting at him, “How can
you show pornography?”
Ferdous was appointed as the
Ariana’s director just over a year
ago. She previously led the Kabul
municipality’s Gender Equality
division, where she had worked to
gain equal pay for women employ-
ees and install women as senior of-
ficers in the capital’s district po-
lice departments.
When she came to the Ariana,
the male staff were surprised,
“but they have been very cooper-
ative and have worked well with
me.”
She focused on making the cine-
ma more welcoming to women.
They dedicated one side of the au-
ditorium for couples and families
where women could sit. Those en-
tering the cinema had to be patted
down by guards as a security mea-
sure, and Ferdous brought in a fe-
male guard so women patrons
would feel more comfortable.
Couples began coming regular-
ly, she said. In March 2021, the
cinema hosted a festival of Afghan
films that proved very popular, at-
tended by Afghan actors who held
talks with the audiences.
Now it has all been brought to a
halt, and the Ariana’s staff is left
not knowing their fate. The male
employees have received part of
their salaries since the Taliban
takeover. Ferdous said she has re-
ceived no salary at all.
“It is women who suffer the
most. Women are just asking for
their right to work,” she said. “If
they are not allowed, their eco-
nomic situation will only get
worse.”
Inanullah Amany, the general
director of the Kabul Municipal-
ity’s cultural department, said
that if the Taliban do ban movies,
the Ariana’s employees could be
transferred to other municipal
jobs. Or they could be dismissed.
The staff said they couldn’t even
guess what the Taliban will de-
cide, but none held out much hope
they would allow movies.
That would be a loss, said Rah-
matullah Ezati, the Ariana’s chief
projectionist.
“If a country doesn’t have cine-
ma, then there’s no culture.
Through cinema, we’ve seen other
countries like Europe, U.S. and In-
dia.”
Cinema: Employeesleft to await their fateFROM PAGE 1
PHOTOS BY BRAM JANSSEN/AP
Rahmatullah Ezati plays back a film roll in the projectionist room of the Ariana Cinema in Kabul,Afghanistan on Nov. 8. The staff still show up at work every day hoping they will eventually get paid.
A staff member walks in the hallways of the Ariana Cinema.
AFGHANISTAN
KABUL — A bomb exploded on
a mini-bus Saturday on a busy
commercial street in a Kabul
neighborhood mainly populated
by members of Afghanistan’s mi-
nority Hazara community, emer-
gency workers and the bus driver
said. At least one person was killed
and five wounded.
Workers with the ambulance
teams at the scene told The Asso-
ciated Press that the blast ap-
peared to have been caused by a
bomb on the bus.
The bus driver, speaking to the
AP at the hospital, said that at one
point during his route, a suspi-
cious man got onto the bus and a
few minutes later, the explosion
went off at the back of the bus.
The driver, who goes by a single
name Murtaza, said he saw two
passengers with their clothes on
fire falling out of the back of the
vehicle while other passengers es-
caped out the front.
The spokesman for Afghanis-
tan’s ruling Taliban, Zabihullah
Mujahid, told the AP that a fire
broke out on the mini-bus and
caused an explosion, killing one
person and wounding another.
Photos from the scene showed
the burning wreckage of a vehicle
with a pall of smoke rising into the
air. The explosion took place on
the main avenue running through
Dashti Barchi, a sprawling neigh-
borhood on the west side of Kabul
largely populated by Hazaras.
Afghanistan’s Hazaras, who are
mostly Shiite Muslims, have been
the target of a brutal campaign of
violence for the past several years,
blamed on Islamic State. Militants
have carried out several deadly at-
tacks in Dashti Barchi, including a
2020 attack on a maternity hospi-
tal.
Blast on bus in Afghan capital kills at least 1 person and wounds 5Associated Press
PAGE 6 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • Sunday, November 14, 2021
VIRUS OUTBREAK
WASHINGTON — A federal
court declined Friday to lift its
stay on the Biden administration’s
vaccine mandate for businesses
with 100 or more workers.
The New Orleans-based 5th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
granted an emergency stay last
Saturday of the requirement by
the federal Occupational Safety
and Health Administration that
those workers be vaccinated by
Jan. 4 or face mask requirements
and weekly tests.
Lawyers for the Justice and La-
bor departments filed a response
Monday in which they said stop-
ping the mandate from taking ef-
fect will only prolong the CO-
VID-19 pandemic and would “cost
dozens or even hundreds of lives
per day.”
But the appeals court rejected
that argument Friday. Judge Kurt
D. Engelhardt wrote that the stay
“is firmly in the public interest.”
“From economic uncertainty to
workplace strife, the mere specter
of the Mandate has contributed to
untold economic upheaval in re-
cent months,” wrote Engelhardt,
who was appointed to the court by
President Donald Trump in 2018.
At least 27 states have filed legal
challenges in at least six federal
appeals courts after OSHA re-
leased its rules on Nov. 4. The fed-
eral government said in its court
filings Monday that the cases
should be consolidated and that
one of the circuit courts, where a
legal challenge has been filed,
should be chosen at random on
Nov. 16 to hear it.
Administration lawyers said
there is no reason to keep the vac-
cine mandate on hold while the
court where the cases ultimately
land remains undetermined.
Court declines to lift stay on vaccine orderAssociated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Cali-
fornia is among three U.S. states
now allowing coronavirus booster
shots for all adults even though
federal health officials recom-
mend limiting doses to those con-
sidered most at risk.
The nation’s most populous
state, along with Colorado and
New Mexico, instituted their pol-
icies to try to head off a feared
surge around the end-of-year holi-
days when more people are gath-
ering inside.
Colorado and New Mexico have
among the nation’s highest rates
of new infections, while California
— lowest in the nation earlier this
fall — now joins them in the “high”
tier for transmission, according to
the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lu-
jan Grisham signed an executive
order Friday expanding eligibility
for COVID-19 booster shots. Her
state health department’s acting
secretary, Dr. David Scrase, said
rising case numbers have some
hospitals in New Mexico over-
whelmed.
“COVID-19 is incredibly oppor-
tunistic and it’s our job to ensure
that the virus has fewer and fewer
opportunities to spread,” Scrase
said. “If it’s time for you to get a
booster, please do so right away.”
President Joe Biden’s adminis-
tration had sought approval for
boosters for all adults, but U.S.
Food and Drug Administration
advisers in September decided it
isn’t clear that young healthy peo-
ple need another dose. They in-
stead recommended boosters only
for those over 65 and younger peo-
ple with certain underlying health
conditions or whose jobs are high
risk for the virus.
In California, state Public
Health Officer Tomás Aragón
sent a letter to local health officials
and providers saying they should
“allow patients to self-determine
their risk of exposure.”
“Do not turn a patient away who
is requesting a booster” if they are
age 18 and up and it has been six
months since they had their sec-
ond Moderna or Pfizer vaccine or
two months since their single
Johnson & Johnson shot, he wrote.
He told pharmacies to prioritize
boosters to those in skilled nursing
or assisted living facilities due to
waning immunity from the earlier
shots. But generally, providers
“should not miss any opportunity”
to give vaccines to the unvaccinat-
ed or boosters to everyone else
anytime they visit a drug store,
hospital or medical office.
In Colorado, where some hospi-
tals are stretched to the breaking
point, Gov. Jared Polis signed an
executive order on Thursday to
expand use of booster shots. A day
later he had a dire warning for the
roughly 20% of eligible people in
his state who have yet to get a sin-
gle dose.
“We wouldn’t even be here talk-
ing about this if everyone was vac-
cinated,” the Democratic gover-
nor said at a news conference. “If
you are not vaccinated, you’re go-
ing to get COVID. Maybe this
year, maybe next year.”
Officials in Colorado, California
and New Mexico said they have
ample supplies of vaccines to pro-
vide initial vaccinations and
boosters to all who want them.
Calif., Colo. and N.M.expand booster access
BY DON THOMPSON
Associated Press
JEFF GRITCHEN/AP
Nurse Mary Ezzat prepares toadminister a Pfizer COVID19booster shot, on Aug. 19, at UCIMedical Center in Orange, Calif.
WASHINGTON — The govern-
ment on Friday directed nursing
homes to open their doors wide to
visitors, easing many remaining
pandemic restrictions while urg-
ing residents, families and facility
staff to keep their guard up against
outbreaks.
The new guidance from the
Centers for Medicare and Medi-
caid Services instructs nursing
homes to allow visits at all times
for all residents. Facilities will no
longer be able to limit the frequen-
cy and length of visits, or require
advance scheduling. Although
large groups of visitors are dis-
couraged, nursing homes won’t be
allowed to limit the number of
loved ones and friends who can
pay a call on residents.
Many states and communities
are still grappling with COVID-19
surges driven by the aggressive
delta variant, but the most recent
government data show that cases
among residents and staff have
continued to decline after rising
earlier in the summer and fall.
Nationally, vaccination rates
average 86% for nursing home
residents and 74% for staff, al-
though that can vary dramatically
from state to state and facility to
facility. Many nursing homes are
rushing to provide booster shots
for their residents. Staffers were
recently required by the govern-
ment to get vaccinated.
This “gets us the closest to pre-
pandemic visitation that we’ve ev-
er been since the beginning of the
pandemic,” said Jodi Eyigor, di-
rector of nursing home quality
and policy for LeadingAge, an in-
dustry group that represents non-
profit facilities.
“But it doesn’t mean that the
pandemic is over and that COVID
is not circulating,” Eyigor added.
“The nursing homes, the residents
and their loved ones are all going
to have to work together to make
sure that visits are occurring and
they are occurring safely.”
The federal guidance draws a
line on visits by people who have
tested positive for COVID-19 or
meet the criteria for quarantine.
Nursing homes should not allow
visitors who test positive to enter.
But residents can still receive
visits if their facility is in the midst
of an outbreak investigation or if
they themselves are under special
precautions to prevent COVID-19
transmission. In such cases, resi-
dents and visitors must wear
masks and protective gear.
It was unclear Friday how the
new federal guidance would work
with local and state requirements
that may be more restrictive.
ROGELIO V. SOLIS/AP
Jim Young, a Navy veteran, kisses his daughter Holly Hurst, without the use of protective garments at theMississippi State Veterans Home in Collins, Miss., as part of Operation “Family Reunion,” on April 1.
Nursing homes can now lift mostCOVID-19 restrictions on visits
BY RICARDO
ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Associated Press
“But it doesn’t mean that thepandemic is over and that COVIDis not circulating.”
Jodi Eyigor
director of nursing home quality and policy for LeadingAge
Sunday, November 14, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 7
NATION
WASHINGTON — Like Her-cules and his 12 labors, Demo-crats’ $1.85 trillion package of so-cial and climate initiatives seemsafflicted by a maddening paradeof hurdles. Looming ahead is theCongressional Budget Office,which could cause problems thatwould be messy but probably sur-mountable.
The office, created in 1974 asCongress’ nonpartisan fiscalscorekeeper, is working on a 10-year cost estimate of the bill andits component spending and taxproposals. The key question politi-cally is how close the measurecomes to paying for itself with sav-ings, like President Joe Biden andtop Democrats claim it does.
Here’s a guide to understandingthe numbers blizzard that theCBO is about to unleash:
A big deal for moderatesAfter months of backbiting and
bargaining among Democrats,House Speaker Nancy Pelosi andSenate Majority Leader ChuckSchumer are confronting thesame stubborn problem. Facingunbroken Republican opposition,Democrats can lose no votes in theSenate and just three in the Houseto pass their mammoth bill.
That gives Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and his moderate Housecounterparts significant leverage.Among other things, the centristswant the measure’s savings —chiefly tax increases on wealthypeople, big corporations and com-panies doing business abroad — tofully pay for its family services,health care and environment pro-
grams.
Five moderates blocked the
House from voting on it earlier
this month. They demanded to
first see the CBO’s official esti-
mate of the bill, mainly to see if the
agency thinks it would worsen al-
ready huge federal deficits. Many
centrists are from districts where
accusing Democrats of aggravat-
ing budget shortfalls is easy fod-
der for GOP campaign attacks.
Will the CBO help Dems?Maybe, eventually.
The budget office has released
estimates on pieces of the 2,100-
page legislation. It has promised
overall figures “as soon as practi-
cable, but the exact timing is un-
certain.”
In a reassuring report for Dem-
ocrats, Congress’ Joint Committee
on Taxation, which works with the
CBO and produces nonpartisan
estimates about tax legislation,
said earlier this month the mea-
sure would raise $1.5 trillion in
new revenue over the next dec-
ade. That alone would cover most
of the legislation’s cost.
Yet there’s another complica-
tion.
Dueling numbersUnlike the White House’s early
estimate, the CBO’s score may
show the bill isn’t fully paid for. It
follows stricter rules for making
calculations than the White
House, which — no matter which
party holds the presidency — al-
most always produces rosier num-
bers than the CBO.
For example, the White House
estimated that by increasing IRS
tax enforcement, mostly aimed at
the highest earners, by $80 billion
over 10 years, the bill would raise
$480 billion in additional revenue.
Under guidelines the CBO fol-
lows, it’s not expected to credit the
bill with any savings from tougher
tax audits. In any event, the bud-
get office projected in September
that giving the IRS $80 billion
would yield just $200 billion in ad-
ditional revenue.
Congress will find a wayEven if the CBO’s numbers
aren’t great, there’s reason to be-
lieve the bill would survive. When
lawmakers have reached a politi-
cal consensus to do something,
bad budget numbers seldom up-
end it.
Democrats know that sinking
legislation carrying Biden’s top
domestic priorities would threat-
en disaster in next year’s congres-
sional elections. At key moments
like that, Congress is renowned
for its political and budgetary dex-
terity.
Though the CBO’s numbers de-
termine a bill’s official price tag,
Democrats could simply talk in-
stead about better figures from
the White House or elsewhere to
paint a brighter fiscal picture.
That’s what Republicans did in
2017 when they claimed their
huge tax cut would pay for itself,
even though the CBO projected it
would worsen deficits by well over
$1 trillion.
If the bill’s savings fall short but
Democrats find the political
payoff for passage irresistibly
strong, they might decide to swal-
low some red ink and insist the bill
would bolster the economy. The
CBO said the bipartisan $1 trillion
infrastructure bill, which Biden
plans to sign Monday, will in-
crease deficits by $256 billion over
the next decade, but almost all
Democrats and some Republicans
backed it anyway.
If needed, Democrats could
tweak some of the measure’s tax
provisions to raise more revenue.
Moderates could try forcing pro-
gressives to accept additional
spending reductions in a bill that’s
already been squeezed down from
an earlier $3.5 trillion price tag.
That would encounter stiff resist-
ance from progressives who saythey’ve compromised enough.
The gimmicksThe huge bill has plenty of pro-
visions that help keep its price tagin check.
Many of its priorities don’t startimmediately or are temporary,even though Democrats hopethey’ll eventually be made perma-nent. Since the cost of legislation ismeasured over 10 years, that ef-fectively makes those programsseem more affordable.
More generous tax credits forchildren and many low-incomeworkers are extended for just oneyear. Subsidies for buying privatehealth insurance would last fouryears, while free universal pre-school and bolstered child carebenefits would run for six years.New Medicare hearing benefitswould begin in 2023, paid familyleave in 2024.
The nonpartisan Committee fora Responsible Federal Budget,which advocates fiscal discipline,has estimated that the measure’soverall price tag could exceed $4trillion if its temporary programswere made permanent.
Dem’s $1.8T billat stake as CBOchecks numbers
BY ALAN FRAM
Associated Press
SUSAN WALSH/AP
President Joe Biden walks out of the White House toward Marine One on the South Lawn of the WhiteHouse in Washington, on Friday, as he heads to Camp David for the weekend.
WASHINGTON — Steve Ban-
non, a longtime ally of former
President Donald Trump, has
been indicted on two counts of
criminal contempt of Congress
after he defied a subpoena from
the House committee investigat-
ing the Jan. 6 insurrection at the
U.S. Capitol.
On Friday, the Justice Depart-
ment said Bannon, 67, was indict-
ed on one count for refusing to
appear for a deposition last
month and the other for refusing
to provide documents in re-
sponse to the committee’s sub-
poena. He is expected to surren-
der to authorities on Monday and
will appear in court that after-
noon, a law enforcement official
told the AP. The person was
granted ano-
nymity to dis-
cuss the case.
The indict-
ment comes af-
ter a parade of
Trump adminis-
tration officials
— including
Bannon — have
defied requests and demands
from Congress over the past five
years with little consequence, in-
cluding during Democrats’ im-
peachment inquiry. President
Barack Obama’s administration
also declined to charge two of its
officials who defied congression-
al demands.
Attorney General Merrick
Garland said Bannon’s indict-
ment reflects the Justice Depart-
ment’s “steadfast commitment”
to the rule of law. Each count car-
ries a minimum of 30 days of jail
and as long as a year behind bars.
The indictment came as a sec-
ond expected witness, former
White House Chief of Staff Mark
Meadows, defied his own sub-
poena from the committee on
Friday and as Trump has escalat-
ed his legal battles to withhold
documents and testimony about
the insurrection.
If the House votes to hold
Meadows in contempt, that rec-
ommendation would also be sent
to the Justice Department for a
possible indictment.
Democrats who voted to hold
Bannon in contempt praised the
Justice Department’s decision,
saying the charges reinforce the
authority of Congress to investi-
gate the executive branch and
signal potential consequences
for those who refuse to cooper-
ate.
“The days of defying subpoe-
nas with impunity are over,”
tweeted House Intelligence
Committee Chairman Adam
Schiff, who sits on the Jan. 6 pan-
el and also led Trump’s first im-
peachment inquiry. “We will ex-
pose those responsible for Jan 6.
No one is above the law.”
Meadows and Bannon are key
witnesses for the panel, as they
both were in close touch with
Trump around the time of the in-
surrection.
Meadows was Trump’s top
aide at the end of his presidency
and was one of several people
who pressured state officials to
try and overturn the results. Ban-
non promoted the Jan. 6 protests
on his podcast and predicted
there would be unrest. On Jan. 5,
he predicted that “all hell is going
to break loose.”
Steve Bannon indicted for defying Jan. 6 subpoenaAssociated Press
Bannon
PAGE 8 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • Sunday, November 14, 2021
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — With
eight weeks to go until Christmas,
tensions were running high at one
of Vermont’s oldest toymakers. As
hammers fell on hardwood and
machine tools cut train engines,
managers gathered around a table
to confront a daunting list of unfil-
led orders.
“We need 32 sets of chess piec-
es. I don’t have 32 sets,” assembly
supervisor Anne Cummings told
half a dozen colleagues, sparking a
quick discussion of when the items
might appear.
“Umm, hobby horses? We’ll
want at least three to get finished
by tomorrow at the latest,” process
engineer Adam Rainville told the
workshop foreman.
Unlike much of the toy industry,
Maple Landmark isn’t suffering
from a lack of imported materials
as global supply lines buckle. The
maker of wooden toys gets nearly
all its lumber from nearby mills
and has little trouble buying lac-
quer, paint and sandpaper from its
Vermont suppliers.
As it fields an unprecedented
crush of orders, the main factor
holding it back is a shortage of
workers.
“We’re just really, really busy
and hiring workforce is a chal-
lenge,” said Mike Rainville, who
founded the business 40 years ago.
“We could use more in assembly.
We can use more in the shop. I
mean, really, any production posi-
tion we can probably use help in.”
Rainville has been trying for
weeks to hire three or four work-
ers to add to his crew of 46, but
competition is fierce. The cheese
factory up the road has eight open
positions. The cidery next door
and the teddy bear factory on
Route 7 have large “Help Wanted”
signs outside. Maple Landmark
has raised its average wage rate by
more than 7% over the last year,
Rainville said — the average pro-
duction worker earns over $15 an
hour — but some local companies
with deeper pockets are offering
signing bonuses, a perk Rainville
said he can’t afford to match.
With an unemployment rate of
only 2.9%, Vermont is an extreme
example of a problem plaguing
employers across the country. In
some regions, a shortage of work-
ers is more challenging to Christ-
mas preparations than the global
scarcity of semiconductors or the
cargo deluge overwhelming ports.
A nationwide shopping spree is
exacerbating the strain on compa-
nies like Maple Landmark. Flush
with cash from nearly two years of
forgoing restaurant meals and
travel, Americans are bingeing on
products — electronics, clothes,
gifts and anything else they can
click into an online shopping cart.
In September, household
spending on goods was 14% higher
than it was as the pandemic was
beginning in February 2020, ac-
cording to David Wilcox, an econ-
omist with the Peterson Institute
for International Economics. If
normal pre-pandemic trends had
continued, demand for goods
would be only 5% higher now, he
said.
Maple Landmark felt the surge
as soon as it began. In early 2020,
Rainville was grumbling to his
staff about the surplus of Chinese
checkers sets gathering dust in in-
ventory. But by April and May, as
Americans were trapped indoors
under lockdown, “we sold hun-
dreds of them,” he said.
A rush of online orders last year
nearly made up for the collapse in
Maple Landmark’s sales to shut-
tered retailers. Now, with many
shops having reopened, “we’re
getting hit from all sides,” Rain-
ville said. “Every week we are fall-
ing further behind our incoming
orders.”
Recently, the company stopped
taking Christmas orders from new
retailers so it could focus on its ex-
isting retail clients.
Maple Landmark has searched
for workers the conventional way
— with posts on the employment
website Indeed.com — and the
quirky Vermont way, with a sign
near its kindling pile behind the
shop.
The company leaves wood
scraps there for anyone to take.
This summer, Rainville tacked a
piece of paper to the shed: “Help
Wanted. Employees get dibs on
scrap wood! Apply inside.”
That brought in a few candi-
dates, leading to one hire. But oth-
er interviews led nowhere, per-
haps because workers have so
many choices, Rainville said.
“People come in thinking that,
gosh, making toys, that sounds like
fun,” he said. “Once they take a
tour through the shop or some-
thing, they say, ‘Okay, this is
work.’ And then, maybe if we had
interest, we’d call them in for a
second interview and they don’t
respond.”
It’s also hard to find people good
at working with their hands, Rain-
ville said, a phenomenon he attri-
butes to the decline in farming life,
which taught people to fix and
build things.
Vermont demographics — an
aging population and a shrinking
workforce — were already work-
ing against employers before the
pandemic. With the new con-
sumption surge, competition for
workers has become extreme.
At Maple Landmark, soaring
demand and a lack of workers this
summer stripped the company of
its inventory, leaving it with little
to fill the holiday rush. As a result,
the woodworkers are making
things to order as purchases roll
in.
One of the company’s biggest
sellers is the “name train” — a
chain of brightly colored letters on
wheels that spell a child’s name,
between an engine and a caboose.
Letters are everywhere in the
workshop — an automated ma-
chine cutting a tray of O’s, a work-
er putting wheels on a carton of
red H’s.
At her station downstairs, Rain-
ville’s mother, Pat Rainville, who
works in production, motioned to-
ward a wall of shelves that should
have been stuffed with boxes hold-
ing every letter in a variety of
hues. But many of the shelves
were empty.
Things got so bad over one re-
cent weekend that even the letter
Q was in short supply, Mike Rain-
ville said. “We know we’re low
when even Q’s run out.”
Toymaker struggles to find workersBY JEANNE WHALEN
The Washington Post
PHOTOS BY IAN THOMAS JANSENLONNQUIST/For The Washington Post
Maple Landmark employees piece together “name trains,” one of the company’s most popular products,in Middlebury, Vt.
Mike Rainville, founder of Maple Landmark, on the shop floor.
NATION
WASHINGTON — Americans
quit their jobs at a record pace
for the second straight month in
September, while businesses
and other employers posted a
near-record number of availa-
ble jobs.
The Labor Department said
Friday that 4.4 million people
quit their jobs that month, or
about 3% of the nation’s work-
force. That’s up from 4.3 million
in August. There were 10.4 mil-
lion job openings, down from
10.6 million in August, which
was revised higher.
The figures point to a historic
level of turmoil in the job market
as newly-empowered workers
quit jobs to take higher pay that
is being dangled by increasing-
ly-desperate employers in need
of help. Incomes are rising,
Americans are spending more
and the economy is growing, and
employers have ramped up hir-
ing to keep the pace. Rising in-
flation, however, is offsetting
much of the pay gains for work-
ers.
It is typically perceived as a
signal of worker confidence
when people begin to leave the
jobs they hold. The vast majority
of people quit for a new position.
Competition for workers is
particularly intense for retailers
and delivery companies, partic-
ularly as they staff up for what is
expected to be a healthy winter
holiday shopping season.
Online giant Amazon is hiring
125,000 permanent drivers and
warehouse workers and offers
pay between $18 and $22 an
hour. It’s also paying sign-on bo-
nuses of up to $3,000.
Seasonal hiring is also ramp-
ing up. Package delivery compa-
ny UPS is seeking to add 100,000
workers to help with the crush of
holiday orders, and plans to
make job offers to some appli-
cants within 30 minutes.
Americans quit their jobs at record pace for 2nd monthAssociated Press
Sunday, November 14, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 9
NATION
ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. —
Ricky Wright points to the bank of
a creek to show one way his home-
town has been affected by climate
change. Many banks have eroded
or collapsed, and now some favor-
ite fishing spots that were once on
solid ground are reachable only by
boat.
Wright is part of the Gullah
Geechee, a group of Black Amer-
icans who descended from slaves
and live off the coasts of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
and Florida. The community that
has endured for centuries is now
imperiled by a combination of ris-
ing seas devouring their land,
higher temperatures changing
how they farm and fish, and de-
structive storms threatening their
way of life.
“I would say (it’s) depressing to
lose places like that, especially if
you grew up there,” said the 65-
year-old fisherman, who noted
other changes, like the great white
shark migrating to waters off St.
Helena Island. “It’s scary.”
The risks to the Gullah Geechee
and other communities have in-
tensified enough to raise a star-
tling question: Should some pop-
ulated places simply be aban-
doned to nature? One strategy
gaining traction is so-called man-
aged retreat, which is the planned
relocation of vulnerable people.
“This is a huge issue. By my
reckoning, there will be 30 million
people who are displaced by mid-
century, and there will be mass
migrations in the United States,”
said Stephen F. Eisenman, direc-
tor of strategy for the Anthropo-
cene Alliance, a climate and envi-
ronmental justice group. The big-
gest question is whether the re-
treats are planned and methodical
or unplanned and chaotic.
The issue also raises concerns
about economic fairness in this
landscape that is home to Hilton
Head Island, a popular destina-
tion for well-heeled tourists visit-
ing its many resorts.
While the Gullah Geechee are
told to think about moving, the ho-
tels stay open and industry gets
new permits, said Harriet Festing,
co-founder of the alliance. “So
there’s a lot of distrust of govern-
ment intention and the messages
that are coming to them.”
Forms of managed retreat have
existed in the U.S. since at least
1989, when the Federal Emergen-
cy Management Agency began
buying properties in flood-prone
areas. Parts of Louisiana, Wiscon-
sin and Illinois have used planned
relocation to try to save communi-
ties from flooding and rising seas.
With help from government
buyouts, some communities sim-
ply move to nearby areas that are
less prone to disaster. Others mi-
grate to different parts of the
country or different countries al-
together.
But buyouts aren’t the only
component. Other strategies in-
clude restoring habitats, replac-
ing concrete-laden areas with
green space and using zoning laws
to limit development in troubled
places.
Parts of Florida, California and
New York could someday need to
use the same strategy.
“Imagine New York City over
the next hundred years shifting its
density north. It could happen,”
said A.R. Siders, an assistant pro-
fessor at the University of Dela-
ware’s Disaster Research Center.
One reason why the idea is met
with resistance is because of its
name. “Managed retreat” is too
technical for some and too defeat-
ist for others. Proponents are
starting to adopt other language,
including planned relocation and
climate migration.
But regardless of what it’s
called, more and more communi-
ties have considered some version
of the idea, especially, Siders said,
in the aftermath of major disasters
such as Hurricane Sandy.
The concept “pushes us to do
better adaptation,” she said. “But
it’s also a challenge because it
scares people. They get scared
that they’re going to be forced out
of their home.”
In a study published in Science
Advances in 2019, Siders and oth-
er researchers found that FEMA’s
buyout program was more likely
to help wealthier, more densely
populated counties. But even
within those communities, FEMA
buyouts were concentrated in less
affluent, less densely populated
areas with lower English profi-
ciency and more racial diversity.
Environmental activist Hilton
Kelley has been trying for years to
get federal assistance to relocate
himself and members of his com-
munity from Port Arthur, Texas.
Port Arthur is closer to the Gulf
Coast than much of Houston, and
both communities have been rav-
aged by hurricanes over the last
20 years. But Houston has re-
ceived more attention and more
money for relocation because of
its vastly larger population, he
said.
“This town has been devastat-
ed,” he said. “But we’ve never got-
ten our fair shake when it comes to
giving support to vulnerable pop-
ulations, particularly the low-ly-
ing communities of color.”
Many people in Port Arthur are
ready to relocate if help were
available and they could take the
lead in planning the move, Kelley
said. But that’s not the case in oth-
er cities.
A recent World Bank report
predicts that 200 million people
around the globe will be forced to
move because of climate change
by 2050. Other countries have al-
ready begun planning massive re-
locations, including Jakarta and
the Marshall Islands.
The process is “extremely com-
plex, and there is a high risk that it
leaves communities even worse
off than they were before,” said
Ezekiel Simperingham, global mi-
gration lead for the International
Federation of the Red Cross and
Red Crescent and Red Crescent
Societies.
Among the Gullah Geechee, big
storms have become familiar. At
least seven named storms have
struck the region of the Southeast
U.S. where they live, including
Hurricane Matthew in 2016, Irma
in 2017 and Dorian in 2019.
But the idea of abandoning their
historical home is a nonstarter for
many of the Gullah Geechee.
“The only way I’m going to relo-
cate is when I meet my demise,”
Wright said.
Marquetta Goodwine, a com-
munity leader on the island known
as “Queen Quet,” said the Gullah
Geechee are inextricably linked to
the land.
“I’m not running. I don’t come
from the stock of people who run,”
she said. “I come from the stock of
people who fight, people who hold
on, people who stand for what they
believe in. And we are rooted in
this soil.”
Communities consider ‘managed retreat’
PHOTOS BY REBECCA BLACKWELL/AP
Corey Alston works on a special order sweetgrass basket that will take him months to complete, as hewaits for customers at a stand selling woven baskets handmade by his family in the Gullah Geecheetradition, at the Charleston City Market, in Charleston, S.C., on Oct. 28.
Marquetta Goodwine, a local community leader who is also known as“Queen Quet,” speaks about issues affecting the Gullah Geecheecommunity, on St. Helena Island, S.C., on Oct. 29.
Gullah Geechee community elder Sandra Boyd, also known as “MamaSasa,” throws a flower into the Atlantic Ocean during a ceremony heldto honor the African ancestors who made the Middle Passage inHunting Island State Park, on Hunting Island, S.C., on Nov. 1.
Many neighborhoods affected byclimate change are urged to move
BY DREW COSTLEY
AND SETH BORENSTEIN
Associated Press
PAGE 10 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • Sunday, November 14, 2021
WORLD
BANGKOK — A court in mili-
tary-ruled Myanmar on Friday
sentenced U.S. journalist Danny
Fenster to 11 years in prison with
hard labor, the maximum penalty
under three charges, despite calls
by the United States and rights
groups for his release.
It was the harshest punishment
yet among the seven journalists
known to have been convicted
since the military
ousted the elect-
ed government of
Nobel laureate
Aung San Suu
Kyi in February.
Fenster, the
managing editor
of the online
magazine Fron-
tier Myanmar, still faces additional
terrorism and treason charges un-
der which he could receive up to
life in prison.
The court found him guilty on
Friday of spreading false or inflam-
matory information, contacting il-
legal organizations and violating
visa regulations, lawyer Than Zaw
Aung said.
Fenster wept after hearing the
sentence and has not yet decided
whether to appeal, the lawyer said.
The harsh penalty is the ruling
military’s latest rebuff of calls from
around the world for a peaceful end
to Myanmar’s political crisis. The
government is refusing to cooper-
ate with an envoy appointed by
Southeast Asian governments to
mediate a solution, and has not
bowed to sanctions imposed by the
United States and several other
Western countries.
U.S. State Department spokes-
person Ned Price in a statement
called Fenster’s sentencing “an un-
just conviction of an innocent per-
son.”
Price added: “The United States
condemns this decision. We are
closely monitoring Danny’s situa-
tion and will continue to work for
his immediate release. We will do
so until Danny returns home safely
to his family.”
U.N. human rights chief Mi-
chelle Bachelet said Fenster’s con-
viction and harsh sentence “is em-
blematic of the wider plight of jour-
nalists in Myanmar who have been
facing constant repression since
the Feb. 1 military coup.”
According to Bachelet, at least
126 journalists, media officials or
publishers have been detained by
the military since the military
seized power and 47 remain in de-
tention, including 20 charged with
crimes.
Nine media outlets have had
their licenses revoked, 20 others
have had to suspend operations,
and dozens of journalists remain in
hiding due to outstanding arrest
warrants, she said.
“Journalists have been under at-
tack since Feb. 1, with the military
leadership clearly attempting to
suppress their attempts to report
on the serious human rights viola-
tions being perpetrated across
Myanmar as well as the extent of
opposition to the regime,” Bachelet
said. “Myanmar has quickly re-
verted to an environment of infor-
mation control, censorship and
propaganda seen under military
regimes in the past.”
“I urge the military authorities to
immediately release all journalists
being detained in relation to their
work,” she said, stressing that peo-
ple are being deprived “of life-sav-
ing information.”
Court in Myanmargives US journalist11 years in prison
Fenster
BY GRANT PECK
Associated Press
MOSCOW — Russia sent para-
troopers to Belarus on Friday, in
a show of support for its ally amid
tensions over migrants and refu-
gees amassing on the Belarus-
Poland border, but two of the
Russian soldiers were killed in a
parachute accident.
The Russian Defense Ministry
said that as part of joint war
games, about 250 Russian para-
troopers jumped from heavy-lift
Il-76 transport planes into the
Grodno region of Belarus, which
borders Poland.
The ministry said in a state-
ment later that the two para-
troopers’ parachutes collided in a
gust of wind and deflated. It
noted that one of the soldiers
tried to use a reserve chute but
the altitude was too low for it to
deploy. Both died of their injuries
in a hospital.
The ministry said that the
paratroopers who took part in the
drills re-boarded the transport
planes and flew back to Russia af-
ter the exercise.
The Belarusian military said
the exercise involving a battalion
of Russian paratroopers was in-
tended to test the readiness of the
allies’ rapid response forces due
to an “increase of military activ-
ities near the Belarusian border.”
It said the drills that involved
Belarusian air defense assets,
helicopter gunships and other
forces envisaged targeting ene-
my scouts and illegal armed for-
mations, along with other tasks.
Last week, Russia sent nucle-
ar-capable strategic bombers on
patrol missions over Belarus for
two straight days. Russia’s depu-
ty U.N. ambassador, Dmitry Pol-
yansky, told reporters at U.N.
headquarters in New York that
the flights came in response to a
massive buildup on the Polish-
Belarusian border.
Russia strongly supported Be-
larus amid a tense standoff as
thousands of migrants and refu-
gees, most of them from the Mid-
dle East, gathered on the Belaru-
sian side of the border with Po-
land in hopes of crossing into the
European Union.
The Belarusian Defense Minis-
try accused Poland of an “un-
precedented” military buildup
on the border, saying that migra-
tion control did not warrant the
concentration of 15,000 troops
backed by tanks, air defense as-
sets and other weapons.
“I’d like to warn hotheads not
to overestimate their capabili-
ties,” Defense Minister Viktor
Khrenin said Friday. “Language
of ultimatums, threats and black-
mail is not acceptable. Belarus
armed forces are ready to re-
spond harshly to any attacks.”
2 killed in Russian paratrooperaccident during drills in Belarus
BY VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press
PHOTOS BY BELARUSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY PRESS SERVICE/AP
Russian paratroopers jump from military helicopters during joint military exercises Nov. 12 near theborder with Poland, Belarus.
Russian and Belarusianparatroopers load into militaryhelicopters near the border withPoland, Belarus.
White House press secretary
Jen Psaki expressed gratitude
Friday to the “vast majority” of
APEC members who support the
U.S. as host of the 2023 gathering,
but declined to name the lone
country that had yet to agree to
the U.S. bid. She was optimistic
that the matter can be resolved.
“Our hope is certainly that we
move past this impasse, that it is
resolved and that we can continue
the positive momentum on eco-
nomic cooperation through
APEC,” Psaki said.
In a White House statement is-
sued after the meeting, Biden fo-
cused on deepening economic
WELLINGTON, New Zealand
— Pacific Rim leaders agreed to
do all they can to improve access
to coronavirus vaccines and re-
duce carbon emissions, but failed
to reach agreement on whether
the U.S. should host talks in two
years’ time.
U.S. President Joe Biden and
Chinese President Xi Jinping
were among those taking part in
the online meeting of 21 leaders at
the end of the annual Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation forum on
Saturday, which was being hosted
virtually by New Zealand.
The focus was on areas in which
the unlikely mix of leaders could
find common ground. But the fail-
ure of the group to endorse a U.S.
bid to host APEC in 2023 pointed
to some of the divisions that lie
just beneath the surface.
New Zealand Prime Minister
Jacinda Ardern said she expected
APEC would reach agreement
around the U.S. bid by the end of
the year, and said that the atmo-
sphere in the room was pragmat-
ic, despite the geopolitical ten-
sions.
“It was constructive, it was pos-
itive and convivial, and there was
a real common sense of purpose
among members,” Ardern said.
partnerships in the region with
the goal of fair and open trade,
and noted that America has ship-
ped 64 million vaccine doses to
APEC economies.
A joint statement by the leaders
said widespread access to vac-
cines is a priority.
“Because nobody is safe until
everyone is safe, we are deter-
mined to ensure extensive immu-
nization of our people against CO-
VID-19 as a global public good,”
the statement read.
The APEC leaders said they
supported efforts to share vac-
cines equitably and to expand
vaccine manufacture and supply,
including through the voluntary
transfer of vaccine production
technology.
The statement also said APEC
supports improving trade in CO-
VID-19 vaccines and related med-
ical products, including through
streamlined customs procedures.
APEC also said that climate
change posed “unprecedented
challenges” to the world.
“We acknowledge the need for
urgent and concrete action to
transition to a climate resilient fu-
ture global economy and appre-
ciate net zero or carbon neutrality
commitments in this regard,” the
statement read.
Pacific leaders agree on vaccines but not on US hosting APEC in 2023Associated Press
Sunday, November 14, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 11
AMERICAN ROUNDUP
Octogenarian fulfillsdream of being physicist
RI EAST PROVIDENCE —
An 89-year-old Rhode Is-
land man has achieved a goal he
spent two decades working toward
and nearly a lifetime thinking
about — earning his Ph.D. and be-
coming a physicist.
Manfred Steiner recently de-
fended his dissertation successful-
ly at Brown University in Provi-
dence. Steiner cherishes this de-
gree because it’s what he always
wanted — and because he over-
came health problems that could
have derailed his studies.
As a teenager in Vienna, Steiner
was inspired to become a physicist
after reading about Albert Ein-
stein and Max Planck. He admired
the precision of physics.
But after World War II, his
mother and uncle advised him that
studying medicine would be a bet-
ter choice in turbulent times. He
earned his medical degree from
the University of Vienna in 1955
and moved to the United States
just a few weeks later, where he
had a successful career studying
blood and blood disorders.
Beloved ‘Dolphin Tale’star mourned online
FL Parents, movie fans and
animal care workers are
among those taking to social media
to express their sorrow at the
death of Winter the dolphin, who
was under treatment for a suspect-
ed gastrointestinal infection at the
Clearwater Marine Aquarium.
Rescued from crab-trap rope
near Cape Canaveral, Winter was
fitted with a prosthetic tail and be-
came an inspiration to people with
disabilities and fans worldwide at
the aquarium where she lived for
15 years. Her story was told in the
hit 2011 movie “Dolphin Tale” and
a sequel featuring Hope, another
dolphin cared for at the aquarium.
More than 20,000 people have
already posted their condolences
on the aquarium’s Facebook page.
Many more posted on Twitter and
Instagram, including people who
tagged the stars of the movie —
Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd
and Harry Connick Jr.
Many of the Facebook posts in-
cluded photos and drawings from
visits with Winter through the
years. One mother posted a photo
of her young son curled up asleep
with a stuffed Winter toy, which
she said he embraced after she in-
formed him of the dolphin’s death.
Man says he killed 2women with meat cleaver
CA SANTA ANA — A
Southern California
man said he killed two women with
a meat cleaver after a New Year’s
Eve party while his wife and son
waited in a car outside.
Christopher Ireland, 42, of Hun-
tington Beach is charged with the
Jan. 1, 2017, murders of Yolanda
Holtrey, 59, and Michelle Luke,
49, and with setting fire to Hol-
trey’s Westminster home to de-
stroy evidence. He could face life
in prison if convicted.
Ireland’s wife worked with Hol-
trey and Luke at a department
store.
According to the Orange County
Register, Ireland said the killings
occurred after Holtrey caught him
having sex with Luke while Ire-
land’s wife and son, 11, were in a
car parked outside, waiting for
Ireland to leave.
Ireland testified that he killed
the women after they attacked
him, Holtrey with the cleaver and
later Luke with a kettlebell.
Program lets hunters helpfeed people in need
WV CHARLESTON — A
West Virginia pro-
gram allows hunters to help feed
families and individuals in need.
The Hunters Helping the Hun-
gry program is sponsored by the
West Virginia Division of Natural
Resources. The agency said the
program processes deer that are
donated.
More than 1 million pounds of
venison has been donated since
the program started almost 30
years ago. In 2020, 500 deer, total-
ing more than 20,000 pounds of ve-
nison, were donated.
University proposesveteran tuition rate
TN KNOXVILLE — The
University of Tennes-
see system is proposing a break
that would let military veterans at-
tend its campuses at the discount-
ed in-state tuition rate.
The university said the board
has shown support for President
Randy Boyd’s proposal and a re-
quest for approval from state law-
makers to make the change possi-
ble across the university’s system.
If it’s approved, the discount
would apply to military-affiliated
student groups starting next fall.
Police: Squatters buriedlong-dead homeowner
NV LAS VEGAS — Author-
ities in Las Vegas be-
lieve the body of a woman who
died unnoticed in 2018 remained
in her home for more than two
years until squatters found it, dis-
membered it and buried it in her
backyard, a television station re-
ported.
Lucille Payne’s remains were
found last April in a shallow grave
behind the home she purchased in
1999 in northwest Las Vegas,
KLAS-TV reported.
Las Vegas police have not iden-
tified suspects who authorities
said could face fraud or theft-re-
lated charges for selling Payne’s
car and improper burial for leav-
ing her body in a shallow grave.
“After finding her, the decision
was made between several people
that they were going to dismember
her body and bury her and then ba-
sically drain her finances and sell
off her belongings, fraudulently,”
homicide Lt. Ray Spencer told
KLAS-TV.
District resumes bookcheckouts after challenge
KS GODDARD — A Kan-
sas school district has
agreed to resume allowing its li-
braries to check out books that a
parent had challenged.
The Goddard district wrote in
an email that school principals and
librarians made the decision dur-
ing a meeting. The email encour-
aged parents to “contact them di-
rectly if they have questions about
the books being challenged na-
tionally,” The Wichita Eagle re-
ported.
Issues had arisen when one par-
ent in the Goddard district object-
ed to language he found offensive
in “The Hate U Give,” a novel
about the aftermath of a police of-
ficer killing a Black teenager. The
parent then submitted a list of 28
other books he questioned, and
district officials agreed to halt
checkouts and complete a review.
The email the district sent to
parents said not all of the chal-
lenged books were in school li-
braries. It did not say how many
were.
The district plans to review the
annual vetting process of library
books, the email said.
Museum relinquishesallegedly looted artifacts
CO DENVER — Prosecu-
tors have filed a com-
plaint in federal court seeking the
forfeiture of four Cambodian an-
tiquities that were sold to the Den-
ver Art Museum by a late art deal-
er accused of pillaging and illegal-
ly selling ancient artifacts.
The U.S. Attorney for the South-
ern District of New York filed the
complaint and the museum has
voluntarily relinquished posses-
sion of the artifacts, The Denver
Post reported.
The forfeiture stems from an in-
ternational investigation by a team
of journalists in October — known
as the “Pandora Papers” — that
revealed tax documents showing
how the world’s rich and powerful,
including the late art dealer Dou-
glas Latchford, hid assets and
shielded their wealth overseas.
Latchford was charged two
years ago with a host of crimes as-
sociated with pillaging and selling
artifacts. He died in August at 88
before he could stand trial.
WILFREDO LEE/AP
A young girl runs through an installation that creates music and lights up as you walk by during a preview of “NIGHTGARDEN: A Magical LightSpectacular,” at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, on Wednesday, in Coral Gables, Fla.
Lighting up the night
THE CENSUS
$2.2M The approximate monetary value of the marijuanafound stuffed in plastic bags in a U-Haul truck on In-
terstate 5 near Albany, Ore. In a news release, Albany Police said they arrestedVidal Gonzlaes-Tetlctle of Hermiston, Ore., and Jose Guadalupe-Alatorre, ofRedway, Calif. on suspicion of unlawful possession and delivery of marijuanaand criminal conspiracy. Members of the Linn Interagency Narcotics Enforce-ment Team who later searched the vehicle found 2,800 pounds of pot andcomponents to grow marijuana, according to police.
From wire reports
MUSIC
“Every sha-la-la-la, every wo-o-wo-o still shines,”
the Carpenters sang in “Yesterday Once More,”
their hit 1973 tribute to the songs of the past.
It could be the tagline of a new book on the
work of Richard and Karen Carpenter, which seeks to set aside
the noise surrounding the duo and focus on their harmonic cre-
ations.
“Carpenters: The Musical Legacy” (Princeton Architectural
Press), coming 50 years after the duo’s earliest hits, was co-writ-
ten by Richard Carpenter, along with Associated Press journalist
Mike Cidoni Lennox and Chris May.
Carpenter has passed on many retrospective projects, after fac-
ing decades of questions about his sister’s inner life and her death
in 1983 from heart failure, a complication of anorexia, at age 32.
This was a chance to do something different.
“It was the focus on the music itself;
that’s primarily it,” Carpenter told the AP
as he sat at his piano in his Southern Cali-
fornia home. “It touches on things that we
hadn’t touched on before or that if we had,
it had been ignored.”
It has the heft and visual history of a
coffee table book, but it’s also a nearly
note-for-note musical biography of the
pair that goes back to their childhood lives
in New Haven, Conn., where Richard
Carpenter found the seeds of the group’s
sound in his father’s records and a toy
jukebox.
He cites some unexpected influences,
including another man-and-woman duo,
Les Paul and Mary Ford, whose early
experimenting with vocal overdubs and
layered harmonies electrified him.
“It made a profound impression on me,
DAMIAN DOVARGANES, INVISION/AP
Richard Carpenter plays the piano at his home studio in Thousand Oaks, Calif., on Sept. 10. “Carpenters: The Musical Legacy,” a new book on the Carpenters meant to mark the50 years since legendary pop duo’s debut, was cowritten by Carpenter, along with Associated Press journalist Mike Cidoni Lennox and Chris May.
Building on their legacyBook gets close to the music that made Carpenters superstars
BY ANDREW DALTON
Associated Press
AP
Karen and Richard Carpenter pose withtheir Grammys at New York’s Felt Forumon March 14, 1972. The brothersisterduo won best pop vocal performance by agroup for “Carpenters.” SEE LEGACY ON PAGE 13
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Richard Carpenter poses with a copy ofhis new book, “Carpenters: TheMusical Legacy,” at his home Sept. 10.
that ooh-ah, ooh-ah. I was maybe 5 or
6,” Carpenter said. “I had no idea how
all this was done. I just knew it was
different and that I really liked it. And
many years later, of course, it came up
in my mind while I was arranging a lot
of things that I wrote the harmonies
for.”
He credits a less famous name with a
well-known sound, choral arranger
Judd Conlon, whose work appeared in
Disney’s “Peter Pan” and “Alice in
Wonderland.”
“His arranging style for multi-vocals
was tight,” Carpenter said. “They were
very close harmonies, which had a
great big effect on me.”
The book makes clear that their elab-
orate, multi-layered recordings were
made while the young duo maintained
a staggering schedule of touring and
television appearances.
It gives an accounting of nearly every
rainy day and Monday they spent in a
hectic 1970, the year “(They Long to
Be) Close to You” became their break-
through hit. Somehow amid it all they
recorded their third album, 1971’s
“Carpenters,” known to fans as the tan
album and regarded by many as their
best.
The Carpenters were often derided
as makers of schmaltzy throwaway hits.
But the book argues they were great
creators of fully formed albums, with
an incredible run of records between
1970’s “Close to You” and 1973’s “Now
& Then,” the concept album that solidi-
fied their global stardom.
“We had so many hit singles, and
usually right in a row, that we tended to
be dismissed again by our detractors as
a singles band,” Carpenter said. “We
sold millions of albums.”
Carpenter’s ear for finding hits, often
in unlikely places, was as essential as
his ear for making them.
He found “Superstar,” the Carpen-
ters song probably most beloved of
younger generations, when he heard
Bette Midler sing it on “The Tonight
Show.” He came across “We’ve Only
Just Begun” in a bank commercial
before they made it a hit.
When he heard them, he knew just
what to do with them.
“If the song hit me, whether it was
one of mine or say one that I’d heard,
like ‘We’ve Only Just Begun,’ or ‘Rainy
Days and Mondays’ or ‘Superstar,’ if
the song had it, my arrangement just
took place immediately,” Carpenter
said.
And he knew a song was useless if it
didn’t match his sister’s stunning alto
voice.
“I could give you a list of songs that I
heard on the radio that I went right out
and bought and yet knew would not
work for Karen and me,” he said. “That
we were brother and sister just had a
whole lot to do with it.”
He also reconsidered his musical
catalog on the forthcoming “Richard
Carpenter’s Piano Songbook.” He rei-
magines several of the band’s biggest
hits for solo piano on the album slated
for a January release.
Amid all the looking back, Carpenter
recently made his first visit in some 30
years back to what was once the studios
of A&M Records in Hollywood. It now
belongs to Jim Henson Company and
the Muppets, who have changed it very
little.
It was an emotional trip.
“We spent so much of our lives there
that it was just like returning home,” he
said.
Legacy: Richard Carpenter tookinspiration from diverse sourcesFROM PAGE 12
“If the song hit me, whether it was one ofmine or say one that I’d heard, like‘We’ve Only Just Begun,’ or ‘Rainy Daysand Mondays’ or ‘Superstar,’ if the songhad it, my arrangement just took placeimmediately.”
Richard Carpenter
MUSIC REVIEWS
ABBAVoyage (Capitol)
A bouncy, synthy
beat bridges the
decades and brings
ABBA into the pre-
sent.
“You look bewil-
dered,” Agnetha Fältskog sings above the
retro rhythm, “and you wonder why I’m
here today.”
Well, yes.
ABBA is back with its first album since
1981. While skeptics might ask why, the four
Scandinavian septuagenarians decided
why not, and “Voyage” does nothing to tar-
nish their legacy as global hitmakers.
The highlight, “Just a Notion,” comes
midway through the 10-song set. A backbeat
kicks in, followed by saxophones. The sing-
ers leap to a higher register, and pounding
piano chords help the arrangement bloom.
Sugar rush!
Alas, that brisk tempo is an outlier. Like
most of us whose heyday was in the 1970s,
ABBA has slowed down.
Ballads predominate, and the mood is
mostly melancholy as Fältskog and Anni-
Frid Lyngstad sing about relationships,
Christmas, freedom and a bee. There are
more tunes for Broadway than for Eurovi-
sion, and the album contains fewer hooks
than 2½ minutes of “Waterloo.”
Even so, Benny Andersson and Björn Ul-
vaeus remain remarkable craftsmen as
composers and arrangers, and the vocals of
Lyngstad and Fältskog — now pitched low-
er — still blend beautifully. After more than
40 years of silence, it’s nice to hear.
— Steven Wine
Associated Press
Diana RossThank You
(Decca/Universal
Music Group)
Diana Ross’ first
album in 15 years
cuts through our
present cynicism
and slices past the despair. “Thank You”
is a warm hug of music, less a tightly con-
structed pop vehicle than a mood.
“It never rains forever,” Ross sings in
one song. On another: “Turn it up / And
give love a chance.” On a third, she asks:
“What if we could find a way / To laugh,
love and pray?”
“Thank You” is a twinkling, blissful and
bubbly wave of optimism, like being in-
vited to a champagne party on a puffy
cloud. Our hostess is full of goodwill, her
voice warm and welcoming. There’s no
velvet rope. All are welcome.
The 13-track album finds Ross at the
intersection of ’70s disco, ’80s electronica,
’90s house and the production savvy of the
2020s. There are two speeds — twinkling
ballads and bootie-shakers.
With “In Your Heart,” Ross urges us to
“reach out and just touch somebody” — a
nod to her 1970 hit “Reach Out and Touch
(Somebody’s Hand).” She revisits the
opening lyrics of “The First Time Ever I
Saw Your Face” for “Beautiful Love.”
“Thank You” is Ross’ first collection of
original songs since 1999’s “Every Day Is
a New Day.” Cynics might dismiss it as
overly sentimental, but is that a serious
crime? She wants to say thank you, but we
should be the ones thanking her.
— Mark Kennedy
Associated Press
HansonAgainst the World
(3CG Records)
The guys from
Hanson are cele-
brating 30 years as
a band next year,
and if that makes
you feel old, it’s not their fault. They’ve
even put out an album to help you feel
young again.
The seven-track “Against the World” is
a rich and diverse group of songs that
showcase the brothers’ range, musician-
ship and influences — ones that leave
their monster sugar pop hit “MMMBop”
far in the rearview mirror.
The album kicks off with “Annalie,”
which has bright harmonies and guitar
work reminiscent of Paul Simon. “Don’t
Ever Change” has a rocking Cheap Trick
sound, which is probably because Rick
Nielsen of Cheap Trick plays guitar.
The rock-pop “Only Love” has an Eddie
Vedder-like vocal that transforms from a
dark, spare space into an arena singalong.
The Hansons’ harmonies are glorious in
the Queen-like “Stronger,” “One” is a nice
plea for unity and the anthem “Fearless”
leans on an orchestra as the brothers soar
above strings.
But the highlight is Isaac, Taylor and
Zac Hanson on the title track. “We belong
with the restless / Keep company with
rebels and with dreamers,” they sing.
“There’s equal scars from victory and
failure.” If it’s them against the world,
we’re on their side.
— Mark Kennedy
Associated Press
Nathaniel
Rateliff & The
Night Sweats The Future
(Stax/Concord)
We’re not sure
what the future
holds, but if it sounds anything like “The
Future,” we’re good. That’s the title of the
glorious new 11-track vintage R&B album
by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats,
bursting at the seams with fresh coolness.
“The Future” marks something of a
reunion for Rateliff & The Night Sweats,
who spent 2020 apart as the frontman
toured behind his solo folk album, “And
It’s Still Alright.” This is Rateliff’s first
album with the Night Sweats since 2018’s
“Tearing at the Seams.”
The Dylanesque title song leads to the
funky “Survivor,” the meditative “Face
Down In the Moment” and the soulful
“Love Me Till I’m Gone,” which has “A
Whiter Shade of Pale” vibe. Other high-
lights are “What If I” and the foot-stomper
“Love Don’t.” Each song feels like a com-
fortable pair of vintage jeans.
The Night Sweats’ horn players — An-
dreas Wild, Jeff Dazey and Daniel Harda-
way — are integrated beautifully, often
lifting and carrying the load.
The lyrics explore wary optimism in an
unforgiving world. “I’ve got the feeling
that I can heal,” Rateliff sings on “Oh, I.”
He and his band do exactly that on “The
Future.”
— Mark Kennedy
Associated Press
Sunday, November 14, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 13
In 1996, days after “The Fresh Prince of
Bel-Air” ended and shortly before “Inde-
pendence Day” almost destroyed the Earth,
Will Smith went to the opening of Planet
Hollywood in Sydney to seek the advice of
Arnold Schwarzenegger. What was the key
to his pharaonic success? “Think of yourself
as a politician running for Biggest Movie
Star in the World,” replied Arnie.
Smith was an excellent student. “I was
never promoting a movie,” he writes in his
new memoir, “Will.” “I was using their
$150,000,000 to promote
me.” The result: astrono-
mical success. In a Hol-
lywood — and a music
industry — that was
even whiter than it is
today, Smith’s bankabil-
ity was without prece-
dent or rival. “Men in
Black” and “Enemy of
the State”; Oscar nomi-
nations for “Ali” and
“The Pursuit of Happyness”; an unequaled
golden run, from “Men in Black II” through
“Hancock,” of eight consecutive movies
grossing more than $100 million.
And it’s hard to imagine a shrewder move
than publishing a memoir the same month
you release your biggest Oscar contender in
years (the tennis drama “King Richard”).
As most candidates know, a little vul-
nerability is also a vote-winner. And thus:
“What you have come to understand as ‘Will
Smith,’” he writes on Page 1, “the alien-
annihilating MC, the bigger-than-life movie
star, is largely a construction — a carefully
crafted and honed character — designed to
protect myself. To hide myself from the
world. To hide the coward.” This is the story
Smith wants to tell about his life: that of a
fierce drive for success rooted in powerful
feelings of inadequacy. Unfortunately, what
feels like real anguish — and the seed of a
worthwhile read — is repeatedly obscured
by braggadocio and pat moralizing.
Willard Carroll Smith Jr. was, like the
song says, in West Philadelphia born and
raised. His middle-class childhood was one
“of constant tension and anxiety,” lived in
fear of a violent alcoholic father. Young Will
developed the emotional acuity that would
serve him as an actor out of necessity; “a
missed glance or misinterpreted word could
quickly deteriorate into a belt on my ass or a
fist in my mother’s face.” After one of his
dad’s assaults on his mother, when Smith
was 13, he considered suicide.
After meeting DJ Jazzy Jeff, he decided,
against his mother’s wishes, to ditch plans
for college (Smith was good at math and
science) and try to be a hip-hop star. The
duo’s first hit dropped before Will had even
graduated, and he never looked back. He
became the first rapper to win a Grammy.
“Fresh Prince” ran for six seasons. His film
career is the stuff of legend.
There were errors, including a tax snafu
that left him with huge debts to the IRS, and
he’s candid about parenting and marital
mistakes (if coy about his and Jada Pinkett
Smith’s reported nonmonogamous dallianc-
es). Yet despite the book’s self-deprecating
setup, it’s Will the invincible who shines.
Will Smith memoira blend of hubris,hidden insecurities
BY CHARLES ARROWSMITH
Special to The Washington Post
This season is a bountiful one for new books for and
about military kids, with picture books and chap-
ter books for children to read independently or
enjoy with parents and siblings. Books about
military kids often focus — understandably — on deploy-
ment or moving, both important topics. But it’s refreshing
to find stories about military kids that depict their experi-
ences with more nuance, recognizing they have lives as
deep and wide as others their age. The lives of military kids
— new friends, new schools, getting through deployment
and other adventures — are well represented in this list.
“Make Your Bed with Skipper the Seal” by William H.
McRaven, illustrations by Howard McWilliam: This title,
which hits bookshelves Nov. 16, is based on a familiar
phrase from the author, a retired four-star admiral whose
“make your bed” advice in a commencement speech went
viral in 2014. In this picture-book version, Skipper the Seal
embarks on Navy SEAL training, where he and his fellow
recruits learn perseverance, dealing with failure and, of
course, to make their beds. McRaven, a former SEAL and
commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, said
he intended this book to encourage young readers to be-
come their best selves.
“I Move a Lot and That’s Okay” by Shermaine Parker-
Knights: Drawing on memories of her military childhood,
Parker-Knights tells her story to reassure military kids who
might not describe moving a lot as “okay.” The book is
about a young girl experiencing a new environment, lan-
guage and culture when her family moves to Naples, Italy.
The author said she wanted to share a message of resilience
to help military children overcome the obstacles of moving
and readjustment.
“The Islanders” by Mary Alice Monroe and Angela May:
This is a chapter book for middle-grade readers interested
in nature, conservation and adventure. The main character,
Jake, is a regular kid who happens to be from a dual-mil-
itary family — Army dad, Air Force mom. After his dad is
injured in Afghanistan, Jake goes to spend the summer
with his eccentric grandmother, where he meets a group of
kids very different from him and learns about caring for
nature and the nature of friendship. “The Islanders” came
out this summer. It is the first in a series about Jake and
friends, with the second installment, “The Islanders:
Search for Treasure” expected in 2022.
“¡Atrapa la estrella!” by Brenda Ehrmantraut, trans-
lated by Ana Stevenson and illustrated by Vicki Wehrman:
This Spanish picture book, which debuted in October, is a
contextual translation of Ehrmantraut’s “Night Catch,” a
favorite for kids going through deployment since its first
publication in 2005. Ehrmantraut wrote the book for her
Army brother’s family during a yearlong deployment, to
help them connect while they were apart. In the story, a
soldier and his son play an imaginary game of catch with
the North Star.
“Good Morning San Diego” (Good Morning Military
Books series) by Sarah Murphy and Amy Dobbins: Plenty
of new ideas were hatched during the pandemic lockdown,
and this new series is one of them. Murphy and Dobbins,
both military spouses, created the books to introduce kids
to various military duty stations. The authors say the Yoko-
suka book is about the Navy base there, but their other
titles are appropriate for kids in any military branch about
to move to one of those locations. The books also provide a
way for military kids living in those places to start con-
versations with extended family and faraway friends about
where they live.
“Fish in a Tree” by Lynda Mulally Hunt: This middle-
grade story came out in 2015 but is worth reading because
it includes something that is often overlooked—how succes-
sive school changes affect learning for military kids. Fifth-
grader Ally has a secret: She can’t read. Because of fre-
quent military moves and her clever use of classroom dis-
ruptions, Ally has been able to keep her secret from one
school to the next. Until a new teacher, Mr. Daniels, discov-
ers Ally is not a troublemaker but a bright girl who happens
to have dyslexia. Mr. Daniels helps Ally find effective ways
to learn and make friends. She realizes other kids in her
class need help and friendship too, and she doesn’t need to
keep her secret anymore.
Terri Barnes is a book editor and the author of “Spouse
Calls: Messages from a Military Life,” based on her long-
running column in Stars and Stripes. A collector and lover
of children’s literature, she has been known to give picture
books to everyone on her Christmas gift list. Contact her
online at terribarnesauthor.com.
Titles meant for military kids BY TERRI BARNES
Special to Stars and Stripes
BOOKS
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CROSSWORD AND COMICS
NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
CHOICE WORDS BY ALEX EATON-SALNERS / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ
41 ____ dish
42 Heath
43 Desperate
45 Traditional British
entree
48 Tries for a role
49 S.F. metro
50 ‘‘Hey . . . over here!’’
51 Derby lengths
53 Equivalent of the
Face With Tears of
Joy emoji
56 Give a buzz
61 Inconvenience
64 Execute, as a royal
of old
67 Classic concert
chambers
68 Noted U.S. rock
group?
70 Approximately
73 See captain?
74 Studio fixtures
76 ‘‘I’m game!’’
77 State of equilibrium
80 Code-cracking grp.
81 Match-ending rugby
call
82 Bygone sovereign
85 Dance-a-____
87 Build on
90 Military dismissal
96 ‘‘You game?’’
98 State to be the case
99 ____ Kornfeld,
music promoter for
Woodstock
100 Daddy-o
102 Great Basin native
103 Stun
104 Heavy weights in
Britain
106 ‘‘Murder, ____
Wrote’’
107 Samuel ____,
business partner of
Marcus Goldman
109 Gradually wear
away
111 Lipton competitor
113 Keypad triplet
115 Critical remark
116 Regardless of the
outcome
118 Hectic trip abroad
121 Card in a royal flush
122 Purposes
123 One runs from Me.
to Fla.
124 Seminoles’ sch.
125 ‘‘You betcha!’’
126 Northern ____
(curiously named
apple variety)
127 Have
128 Boggy expanse
DOWN
1 Fare that’s eaten
hands-free
2 Wanted badly
3 Mano a mano
4 Negligent
5 Silicon Valley’s ____
Research Center
6 Candy bit that comes
in a plastic roll
7 ‘‘Battlestar Galactica’’
robots
8 Clerical vestment
9 F, in music
10 Southern region of
Mesopotamia
11 Fabric options
12 Sense of self
13 Fluent speaker of
Elvish, say
14 Uttered a sound
15
16 Bugs
19 Relative of a bug
22 Churchill ____ Rooms
(London tourist
attraction)
23 Long ball
24 City with a Little
Havana
28 Nickname for José
31 Farthest down?
33 Anklebone
35 Least messy
39 Sorority member
40 Yang’s counterpart
44 ‘‘I Wanna Be
Sedated’’ band
46 Horrid
47 Maximum degree
49 The brainy bunch?
52 Profligate sort
54 Measures of electrical
resistance
55 One of the fire signs
57 Alveolar trill, as it’s
commonly known
58 Concept, in Cannes
59 Just in case
60 Glasgow gal
61 Mischief-makers
62 ____ court
63 Stage between larva
and imago
64 Consecrates
65 Act investigated
by an insurance
company
66 ____ ex machina
69 QVC alternative
71 Journalist Fallaci who
wrote ‘‘Interview
With History’’
72 Bindis, e.g.
75 Running behind
78 Kinda
79 Berate blisteringly
81 They can be wrinkled
or thumbed
83 Field that deals with
fields
84 The newest trend, in
slang
86 Inits. at Westminster
88 Trigger
89 Head for the hills?
90 Moved aside (for)
91 Cupidity
92 Changes from
commercial to
residential, perhaps
93 Words to live by
94 Wash out
95 Popular tick repellent
96 Piercing eye hue
97 Trial
101 ____ of Alexandria
(wonder of the
ancient world)
105 Clinch
108 Puerto Rico clock
setting: Abbr.
110 Ballpark figures, in
brief
112 Semiserious ‘‘Got it!’’
114 Places hangers hang
117 Guff
119 Distributor of
CARES Act funds
120 ____ Moines
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Alex Eaton-Salners is an in-house attorney for Western Digital, a technology company headquartered in San Jose, Calif. He has been a frequent crossword contributor to The Times since 2017. Alex also enjoys making different sorts of word puzzles. He has a book of diagramless crosswords scheduled for publication next spring from Puzzlewright Press. — W.S.
ACROSS
1 Action done while
saying, ‘‘Good dog’’
4 Mischief-makers
11 It might click for a
writer
14 Fall mo.
17 Kind to Mother
Nature
18 Harris in the Country
Music Hall of Fame
19 Living ____
20 Member of the
superfamily
Hominoidea
21 Noted Apple release
of 1968, to fans
23 Haphazard
25 Some crumbly blocks
26 Inits. for a theatrical
hit
27 Send away, in a way
29 Accomplished the
task
30 What wiggly lines
in comics may
represent
32 Cause of boom and
bust?
34 Convene for another
session
36 Up to it
37 What’s frequently
used by poets?
38 ‘‘To quote yours truly
. . . ’’
GUNSTON STREET
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Sunday, November 14, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 15
GADGETS & TECHNOLOGY
Silflower was among native plants that
blanketed the vast North American
prairie until settlers developed farms
and cities. Nowadays confined large-
ly to roadsides and ditches, the long-stemmed
cousin of the sunflower may be poised for a
comeback, thanks to solar energy.
Researchers are growing silflower at nine
solar installations in the Minneapolis area,
testing its potential as an oilseed crop. The
deep-rooted perennial also offers forage for
livestock and desperately needed habitat for
bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.
“We need a lot of plots spaced pretty far
apart to measure silflower’s effects on polli-
nators,” said crop scientist Ebony Murrell of
The Land Institute, a research nonprofit.
“The solar industry is interested in restoring
pollinator habitat. This seemed to be a good
partnership.”
Solar is a renewable energy source that can
help wean the world off fossil fuels that pro-
duce greenhouse gases. But it also could
benefit the environment and economy in
ways not as well known.
As the industry grows, solar arrays will
sprawl across millions of acres — wasting
farmland, critics say. But advocates see op-
portunities to diversify crop production and
boost landowner income, while repairing
ecological damage to ground plowed under or
paved over.
“There’s lots of spaces where solar could
be integrated with really innovative uses of
land,” said Brendan O’Neill, a University of
Michigan environmental scientist who’s mon-
itoring how planting at a new 1,752-panel
facility in Cadillac, Mich., stores carbon.
Elsewhere, solar installations host sheep
that reduce need for mowing. And research-
ers are experimenting with crop growing
beneath solar panels, while examining other
potential upsides: preventing soil erosion, and
conserving and cleansing water.
Buzz and fuzzAt Cascadilla Community Solar Farm in
upstate New York, sheep munch grasses
among solar panels while bees and butterflies
collect pollen from native flowers.
Cornell University researcher Niko Ko-
chendoerfer says initial data from her three-
year study shows light grazing — about eight
sheep per acre — produces abundant bees
and wildflowers, while keeping plants from
shading panels. Some rare bee species are
turning up.
Farmers get $300 to $550 per acre yearly to
graze sheep at solar sites, increasing farm
income while sparing them the cost of renting
or buying pasture, said Kochendoerfer, who
owns about 400 sheep with her fiance, Lewis
Fox. Grazing is less expensive than tradition-
al site management, she said.
Fox has sheep at solar sites from southern
Pennsylvania to Vermont.
“Certain times of the year ... the sites will
be like a butterfly house in a zoo — there’s
just butterflies everywhere,” he said.
Sheep are feeding at solar installations in
more than 20 states, said Lexie Hain, director
of the American Solar Grazing Association
and Fox’s business partner. It’s also happen-
ing in the United Kingdom, other parts of
Europe, Uruguay and Australia.
Vegetables in solar shadeIn Longmont, Colo., Jack’s Solar Farm
offers another example of solar meeting agri-
culture. Instead of wheat and hay as before,
the farm’s 24 acres host 3,276 panels, gener-
ating enough power for about 300 homes.
Beneath them grow tomatoes, squash, kale
and green beans.
Researchers are comparing vegetables
grown under panels six or eight feet off the
ground with others in open sunlight. Results
were mixed during the recently concluded
initial season, but shaded plants appeared to
have a longer growing season.
“We don’t have to leave the soils under-
neath our solar panels across our country
denuded or just left to weeds,” owner Byron
Kominek said. “Elevating the panels a little
bit more provides agricultural jobs as well as
an opportunity to do more with the land.”
“Agrivoltaics,” or growing produce be-
neath panels, is especially promising in hot,
arid regions, say experts who have planted
cherry tomatoes and peppers beneath them
at a University of Arizona laboratory.
Those crops usually match or exceed ones
in a traditional environment, according to the
team’s findings. With less direct sunlight,
they lose less water to evaporation, reducing
irrigation demand. And the plants keep pan-
els cooler, boosting performance.
How widely such farming could happen
remains to be seen, said Greg Barron-Gaf-
ford, a biogeography professor at Arizona.
Large-scale agriculture requires mechanized
planting and harvesting that might be diffi-
cult beneath panels.
“But the vast majority of farms across the
country are small farms that are breaking
even or losing money,” Barron-Gafford said,
adding that leasing land for solar energy
while still growing food could generate prof-
its.
Pollinator habitatWhile commercial prospects for agrivol-
taics are unknown, scientists say it’s certain
that solar grounds are ideal for native grasses
and flowers that draw pollinators, many fac-
ing extinction.
A team led by Oregon State University
researcher Maggie Graham reported this
year that bees and other insects visit plants
partly or totally shaded by panels. They also
may pollinate crops in nearby fields, boosting
yields.
Compared to farmland, solar sites planted
with pollinator-friendly native vegetation
would provide a three-fold increase in habitat
quality for pollinators, a recent Argonne
study concluded. Pollinator-friendly sites
would have two-thirds more carbon storage
potential, nearly one-fifth less water runoff
and 95% less soil erosion than traditionally
cultivated land, it said.
Many more nature-based solar gardens are
needed as global warming and species losses
accelerate, said Rob Davis, spokesman for
Connexus Energy.
Three years ago, he said, one of the Min-
neapolis co-op’s solar projects risked rejec-
tion by a suburban planning commission until
supporters brought up the pollinator benefits
and their visual appeal.
“The technology of solar energy is unfamil-
iar and foreign,” Davis said. “But everyone
understands what a meadow is.”
BRITTANY PETERSON/AP
Crops grow under solar panels at Jack’s Solar Garden Sept. 14 in Longmont, Colo. As panelsspread across the landscape, the grounds around them can be used for native grasses andflowers that attract pollinators such as bees and butterflies.
Solar: Good for more than energyFrom bees to sheep to crops,developers tout the multiplebenefits of panel installations
BY JOHN FLESHER
AND TAMMY WEBBER
Associated Press
HEATHER AINSWORTH/AP
Sheep graze at a solar farm at CornellUniversity Sept. 24 in Ithaca, N.Y.
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OPINION
Vice President Kamala Harris met
with French President Emmanuel
Macron on Wednesday in France
as part of the Biden administra-
tion’s push to smooth diplomatic relations
with the country. In September, a trilateral
deal between the United States, the United
Kingdom and Australia granted Australia the
ability to acquire nuclear-powered subma-
rines. The agreement cost France a deal to
build submarines with Australia. At the time,
Macron recalled the French ambassador to
the United States, but after a flurry of diplo-
matic activity, Ambassador Philippe Etienne
returned to Washington.
Neither the emotionally charged rupture
nor its rapid resolution surprised longtime
observers of French-U.S. relations. As NPR
reminded listeners in September, “France is
America’s oldest ally.” That is true. Certainly
the United States might not have won inde-
pendence from Britain without French sup-
port. Yet the relationship has been marked by
friction from the start.
Having cut his teeth fighting against the
French in the Seven Years’ War (1756-63),
George Washington was wary of the French-
men who flocked to his side in the early days
of the American Revolution. Writing from
Morristown, N.J., to Maj. Gen. William Heath
on July 27, 1777, Washington complained of
“the difficulty of giving employment to so
great a number of strangers, unacquainted
with our genius, language and customs.” He
added, “The inconvenience is very much in-
creased by the immoderate expectations,
which, almost every one of them, I have seen,
entertains, and which make it impossible to
satisfy them.” Translation: Washington was
facing a surfeit of French officers who, before
any formal agreement between France and
the United States, had crossed the Atlantic
expecting to be welcomed with open arms.
Finding themselves instead rebuffed by
the Army and maligned by the populace,
many soon made the return trip to France
bearing tales of American ingratitude.
One Frenchman did succeed in winning
Washington’s trust: the Marquis de La-
fayette, whose enthusiasm and dedication
made him an indispensable liaison between
France and the United States throughout the
War of Independence. When the two first
met, at Philadelphia’s City Tavern on July 31,
1777, Washington was perplexed that Con-
gress had awarded the rank of major general
to a 19-year old with no battlefield experience.
But Lafayette proved his mettle. He was
wounded at the Battle of Brandywine, suf-
fered through the bitter winter at Valley
Forge and, aided by Oneida allies, led a suc-
cessful retreat at Barren Hill. Washington
confessed to New York Rep. Gouverneur
Morris that “I do most devoutly wish that we
had not a single Foreigner among us, except
the Marquis de la Fayette, who acts upon very
different principles than those which govern
the rest.”
Yet, even Lafayette could not prevent mis-
communication and nationalistic pride from
scuttling the first attempted joint French-
American military action. When French
Adm. Charles Hector d’Estaing reached
American waters on July 5, 1778, he brought
with him 12 ships of the line, four frigates and
an uncommon certainty that his skills were
superior to those of his newfound partners.
By August, d’Estaing was tussling with Maj.
Gen. John Sullivan over who should lead and
who should follow in a planned land-and-sea
campaign against the British at Newport.
They ultimately agreed that Sullivan’s
ground troops and d’Estaing’s ships would at-
tack simultaneously. But Sullivan, learning
that the British were abandoning their posi-
tions, sent his men forward before notifying
d’Estaing. Seeing his own opportunity, d’Es-
taing sailed from the harbor to engage direct-
ly with a British fleet, leaving the Americans
with little naval defense. A sudden storm
sowed further confusion, stymying Sullivan’s
advance and battering the French ships,
which d’Estaing directed to Boston for re-
pairs. D’Estaing and Sullivan remained es-
tranged for weeks, as both sides drew upon
national stereotypes to accuse the other of
cowardice, ingratitude and worse.
Writing to Henry Laurens, president of the
Continental Congress, Sullivan complained
that d’Estaing’s departure had “revived all
those ancient prejudices against the faith and
sincerity” of the French. Sullivan was equally
direct with d’Estaing himself, opining that
“the honor of the French nation must be in-
jured by their fleet abandoning their allies up-
on an island, in the midst of an expedition.”
Lafayette took umbrage on behalf of his
countrymen. He wrote to Washington that
Sullivan and others, “forgetting any national
obligation” toward the French, “turned mad
at their departure, and wishing them all the
evils in the world did treat them as a generous
one would be ashamed to treat the most invet-
erate enemies.” Lafayette was more pointed
in his letter to d’Estaing, describing Ameri-
can generals as “people who explain away
their own stupidities by blaming them on the
[French] fleet.”
It took all of Washington’s diplomatic skills
to salvage the nascent alliance. Leaning heav-
ily on personal relationships, he soothed in-
jured feelings and reminded French and
Americans alike that their shared goal of de-
feating the British was more important than
the differences that separated them.
This amity, though, was short-lived. The
presidency of John Adams was marked by
such animosity between France and the Unit-
ed States that the period witnessed a “Quasi-
War.” Impoverished and isolated by years of
internal and external conflict, and stung by
the 1795 signing of the Jay Treaty restoring
friendly relations between the United States
and Great Britain, France began seizing
American merchant ships. Americans were
so concerned for the vessels’ safety that Con-
gress established the Department of the Navy
on April 30, 1798, to protect them.
Such episodes of French-American misal-
liance are not relegated to the distant past: in
2003, some members of Congress were so an-
gered by France’s opposition to the U.S.-led
invasion of Iraq that congressional cafeterias
banished the word “French” from their me-
nus. In their view, U.S. soldiers had come to
France’s rescue in two world wars; surely
France should support the United States after
the attacks of 2001. For a time, only “Freedom
Fries” and “Freedom Toast” were sold on
Capitol Hill.
Now that France’s ambassador is back in
his diplomatic residence in D.C., perhaps he
will find comfort in the portrait of Lafayette
that hangs on the wall of a ground floor recep-
tion area, watching silently over a Franco-
American relationship that remains just as
close, and just as vexed, as it has always been.
US, France have always had frictionBY LAURA AURICCHIO
Special to The Washington Post
Laura Auricchio, Dean of Fordham College at Lincoln Center, isthe author of “The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered.”
His father and most of his other
male relatives had fought in
World War II. So believing he,
too, had an obligation to serve his
country, Max Cleland joined the U.S. Army in
late 1965. He volunteered for duty in Vietnam
at the height of the war and on a final rescue
mission just days before his tour was supposed
to end, he picked up a grenade and it detonat-
ed, blowing off his right leg and his right arm;
within an hour, his left leg was amputated.
Obligation. Duty. Sacrifice. That is what the
life of Cleland was all about, but, as he would
be quick to tell you, those words are not just
about him. They define the countless men and
women who over the ages have answered
their country’s call to service. Cleland, 79,
whose remarkable career included service as
Georgia’s secretary of state for 14 years, lead-
ing the Veterans Administration and a term in
the U.S. Senate, died Tuesday at his home in
Georgia from congestive heart failure. There
is a special poignancy that his death came
days before Nov. 11, when the country honors
its veterans. Tributes poured in, including
from President Joe Biden who called Cleland
“an American hero whose fearless service to
our nation, and to the people of his beloved
home state of Georgia, never wavered.”
More than anyone, Cleland knew that ser-
vice and sacrifice don’t end on the battlefield
or date of discharge. As a triple amputee, he
struggled with challenges, both visible and
hidden. It took him 90 minutes each day to get
dressed. “The little things you and I never
think about, like buttons and ketchup pack-
ets,” former communications director Patri-
cia Murphy wrote in the Atlanta Journal-Con-
stitution, “were daily frustrations.” He used
his experience to advocate for veterans and
for people with disabilities.
When he lost his Senate seat in 2002 — after
Republicans disgracefully tried to impugn his
patriotism with an ad juxtaposing his picture
alongside images of Osama bin Laden and
Saddam Hussein — his dormant case of post-
traumatic stress disorder was triggered, send-
ing him back to Walter Reed Army Medical
Center where he had been treated nearly 40
years earlier after his loss of limbs. Com-
pounding his PTSD was his torment over hav-
ing voted for the Iraq War. He called it the
worst vote he had ever cast and said it was mo-
tivated by his effort to keep his reelection bid
politically viable.
Cleland said his recovery — through medi-
cation and counseling and spiritual help —
was aided by being among veterans from Iraq
and Afghanistan. Cleland’s regrets over voting
for a war in which so many felt the obligation,
heard the call of duty and sacrificed so much
should serve as a lesson to leaders who vote for
wars but don’t fight them. They should en-
deavor to assure that our country, despite its
divisions, remains worthy of those who serve.
Cleland embodied duty, sacrifice of those who serve Washington Post editorial
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SCOREBOARD
NFL
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
W L T Pct PF PA
Buffalo 5 3 0 .625 235 118
New England 5 4 0 .556 230 170
Miami 3 7 0 .300 177 252
N.Y. Jets 2 6 0 .250 144 251
South
W L T Pct PF PA
Tennessee 7 2 0 .778 255 211
Indianapolis 4 5 0 .444 245 213
Jacksonville 2 6 0 .250 132 209
Houston 1 8 0 .111 128 258
North
W L T Pct PF PA
Baltimore 6 3 0 .667 231 217
Pittsburgh 5 3 0 .625 161 169
Cincinnati 5 4 0 .556 236 203
Cleveland 5 4 0 .556 224 196
West
W L T Pct PF PA
L.A. Chargers 5 3 0 .625 199 201
Las Vegas 5 3 0 .625 196 189
Denver 5 4 0 .556 187 153
Kansas City 5 4 0 .556 221 227
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
W L T Pct PF PA
Dallas 6 2 0 .750 241 192
N.Y. Giants 3 6 0 .333 179 216
Philadelphia 3 6 0 .333 227 218
Washington 2 6 0 .250 156 227
South
W L T Pct PF PA
Tampa Bay 6 2 0 .750 260 183
New Orleans 5 3 0 .625 201 155
Atlanta 4 4 0 .500 175 220
Carolina 4 5 0 .444 171 183
North
W L T Pct PF PA
Green Bay 7 2 0 .778 199 180
Minnesota 3 5 0 .375 194 191
Chicago 3 6 0 .333 150 224
Detroit 0 8 0 .000 134 244
West
W L T Pct PF PA
Arizona 8 1 0 .889 277 155
L.A. Rams 7 2 0 .778 261 196
San Francisco 3 5 0 .375 185 202
Seattle 3 5 0 .375 181 169
Thursday’s game
Miami 22, Baltimore 10
Sunday’s games
Atlanta at Dallas Buffalo at N.Y. Jets Cleveland at New England Detroit at Pittsburgh Jacksonville at Indianapolis New Orleans at Tennessee Tampa Bay at Washington Carolina at Arizona Minnesota at L.A. Chargers Philadelphia at Denver Seattle at Green Bay Kansas City at Las Vegas Open: Cincinnati, Houston, Chicago, N.Y.
Giants
Monday’s game
L.A. Rams at San Francisco
NFL injury reportNEW YORK — The National Football
League injury report, as provided by theleague (DNP: did not practice; LIMITED:
limited participation; FULL: Full participa-tion):
SUNDAYATLANTA FALCONS at DALLAS COW-
BOYS — ATLANTA: OUT: CB Kendall Shef-field (hamstring). DOUBTFUL: DE JonathanBullard (concussion), LB Steven Means(knee), TE Lee Smith (back). QUESTIONA-BLE: DE John Cominsky (shoulder). LIMIT-ED: DE John Cominsky (shoulder). DALLAS:OUT: T Tyron Smith (ankle). QUESTIONA-BLE: QB Will Grier (knee), WR Cedrick Wil-son (shoulder). LIMITED: WR Amari Coop-er (hamstring). FULL: P Bryan Anger (NIR),DT Quinton Bohanna (illness), RB CoreyClement (illness), RB Ezekiel Elliott (knee),CB C.J. Goodwin (illness), S Jayron Kearse(shoulder), WR CeeDee Lamb (ankle), LSJake McQuaide (NIR).
BUFFALO BILLS at NEW YORK JETS —BUFFALO: OUT: LB Tremaine Edmunds(hamstring). QUESTIONABLE: RB ZackMoss (concussion). DNP: WR Stefon Diggs(NIR-resting player), DE Jerry Hughes(NIR-resting player). LIMITED: WR ColeBeasley (ribs). FULL: T Spencer Brown(back), S Jaquan Johnson (hamstring), CBTaron Johnson (concussion), TE DawsonKnox (hand). NEW YORK: DOUBTFUL: TChuma Edoga (knee), QB Zach Wilson(knee). QUESTIONABLE: RB Tevin Coleman(hamstring), WR Corey Davis (hip), DEShaq Lawson (hamstring), G Alijah Vera-Tucker (toe).
CAROLINA PANTHER at ARIZONA CARDI-NALS — CAROLINA: OUT: CB Rashaan Mel-vin (hand), CB Stantley Thomas-Oliver(toe). QUESTIONABLE: DE Brian Burns(foot), LB Frankie Luvu (knee). LIMITED: CBStephon Gilmore (quadricep). FULL: LBJermaine Carter (groin), DE MarquisHaynes (foot), CB C.J. Henderson (shoul-der), LB Shaq Thompson (knee). ARIZONA:OUT: RB Chase Edmonds (ankle), G JustinPugh (calf), RB Jonathan Ward (concus-sion), S James Wiggins (knee). QUESTION-ABLE: S Budda Baker (knee), C Max Garcia(Achilles), WR DeAndre Hopkins (hamstr-ing), WR Rondale Moore (neck), QB KylerMurray (ankle), DE Jordan Phillips (groin).FULL: T Kelvin Beachum (shin), TE DarrellDaniels (shoulder), WR A.J. Green (illness),TE Demetrius Harris (illness), LB JordanHicks (toe), WR Christian Kirk (thumb).
CLEVELAND BROWNS at NEW ENGLANDPATRIOTS — CLEVELAND: OUT: DE Takka-rist McKinley (groin). QUESTIONABLE: CBGreedy Williams (shoulder). DNP: WR Do-novan Peoples-Jones (NIR-personal). LIM-ITED: TE Harrison Bryant (thigh), DE Jade-veon Clowney (ankle/foot), DE Myles Gar-rett (foot), DE Malik Jackson (knee), WRJarvis Landry (knee), C J.C. Tretter (knee).FULL: QB Baker Mayfield (left shoulder/foot). NEW ENGLAND: DOUBTFUL: LB JamieCollins (ankle). QUESTIONABLE: P JakeBailey (right knee), LB Ja’Whaun Bentley(ribs), K Nick Folk (left knee), RB DamienHarris (concussion), WR N’Keal Harry(knee), LB Dont’a Hightower (ankle), GShaq Mason (abdomen), CB Jalen Mills(thigh), WR Gunner Olszewski (concus-sion), TE Jonnu Smith (shoulder), RB Rha-mondre Stevenson (concussion), LB KyleVan Noy (groin).
DETROIT LIONS at PITTSBURGH STEEL-ERS — DETROIT: OUT: K Austin Seibert(right hip), RB Jamaal Williams (thigh).QUESTIONABLE: LB Austin Bryant (shoul-der), T Taylor Decker (finger). FULL: CB A.J.Parker (neck). PITTSBURGH: OUT: WRChase Claypool (toe). FULL: DT IsaiahBuggs (hip), TE Eric Ebron (hamstring), CKendrick Green (hamstring), RB NajeeHarris (foot), DT Cameron Heyward (an-kle), QB Ben Roethlisberger (pectoral,right shoulder), LB Robert Spillane (ankle).
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS at INDIANAPO-LIS COLTS — JACKSONVILLE: QUESTIONA-BLE: RB James Robinson (heel). FULL: CBChris Claybrooks (concussion), DE AdamGotsis (NIR-resting player), LB Myles Jack(knee), QB Trevor Lawrence (ankle), TCam Robinson (back). INDIANAPOLIS:OUT: CB Xavier Rhodes (calf). QUESTION-ABLE: DT DeForest Buckner (back). FULL:TE Jack Doyle (NIR-resting player), WR T.Y.Hilton (concussion), LB Darius Leonard(ankle), G Quenton Nelson (ankle, toe), TBraden Smith (elbow), QB Carson Wentz(illness).
KANSAS CITY CHIEFS at LAS VEGASRAIDERS — KANSAS CITY: OUT: T LucasNiang (ribs), T Mike Remmers (knee).QUESTIONABLE: CB L’Jarius Sneed (ankle,wrist). FULL: T Orlando Brown (toe), FB Mi-chael Burton (pectoral), DE Frank Clark(abdomen, foot), WR Tyreek Hill (ankle,groin), DT Chris Jones (NIR-personal mat-ter, back), TE Travis Kelce (neck), CB ChrisLammons (quadricep), DT Derrick Nnadi(rib), LB Dorian O’Daniel (NIR-personalmatter, shoulder), DT Khalen Saunders(knee), G Joe Thuney (hand), S Armani
Watts (thigh). LAS VEGAS: OUT: S TyreeGillespie (hamstring), LB Nick Kwiatkoski(ankle). DOUBTFUL: CB Keisean Nixon (an-kle), CB Amik Robertson (hip). FULL: DTJohnathan Hankins (back), RB Josh Jacobs(knee), WR Hunter Renfrow (ankle), TEDarren Waller (NIR-resting player), LB K.J.Wright (shoulder).
MINNESOTA VIKINGS at LOS ANGELESCHARGERS — MINNESOTA: OUT: LB Antho-ny Barr (knee), DT Michael Pierce (elbow).QUESTIONABLE: CB Bashaud Breeland(groin). FULL: CB Cameron Dantzler (an-kle), CB Harrison Hand (ankle), LB EricKendricks (triceps), DT James Lynch (toe),T Olisaemeka Udoh (knee). LOS ANGELES:OUT: CB Ryan Smith (knee). DOUBTFUL: CBMichael Davis (hamstring), RB Justin Jack-son (quadricep). QUESTIONABLE: S NasirAdderley (ankle), WR Keenan Allen (knee),LB Joey Bosa (ankle), S Mark Webb (knee).FULL: TE Stephen Anderson (ankle), S Alo-hi Gilman (ankle), S Trey Marshall (ankle),CB Asante Samuel (concussion).
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS at TENNESSEE TI-TANS — NEW ORLEANS: OUT: T TerronArmstead (knee, shoulder), S ChaunceyGardner-Johnson (foot), RB Alvin Kamara(knee). QUESTIONABLE: DE Carl Grander-son (shoulder), WR Ty Montgomery(hamstring). TENNESSEE: OUT: S DaneCruikshank (knee), LB David Long(hamstring), CB Greg Mabin (ankle).QUESTIONABLE: LB Rashaan Evans (an-kle), WR Julio Jones (hamstring), DT TeairTart (groin). DNP: WR A.J. Brown (knee),QB Ryan Tannehill (illness). LIMITED: FBTory Carter (hip), LB Bud Dupree (knee),CB Chris Jackson (foot), LB Harold Landry(hamstring), DT Jeffery Simmons (ankle).FULL: G Nate Davis (concussion), LB NickDzubnar (knee), T Kendall Lamm (back), TTaylor Lewan (knee).
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES at DENVERBRONCOS — PHILADELPHIA: QUESTIONA-BLE: T Andre Dillard (knee), DE Josh Sweat(concussion). FULL: WR J.J. Arcega-White-side (ankle), DT Fletcher Cox (NIR-restingplayer), DT Javon Hargrave (shoulder), TLane Johnson (NIR-resting player), C Ja-son Kelce (NIR-resting player), CB AvonteMaddox (knee), S Rodney McLeod (neck),CB Darius Slay (hamstring), WR DeVontaSmith (elbow). DENVER: OUT: T GarettBolles (ankle), T Bobby Massie (ankle).QUESTIONABLE: DE McTelvin Agim (knee),RB Mike Boone (hip), LB Baron Browning(back), DE Shelby Harris (illness), TE Al-bert Okwuegbunam (knee), WR Tim Pa-trick (knee), LB Malik Reed (hip), G DaltonRisner (foot), S Caden Sterns (shoulder),CB Patrick Surtain (knee). FULL: WR Ken-dall Hinton (shoulder), DT Mike Purcell(thumb).
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS at GREEN BAYPACKERS — SEATTLE: OUT: CB BlessuanAustin (NIR-personal matter), S MarquiseBlair (knee). QUESTIONABLE: LB Cody Bar-ton (quadricep), DT Al Woods (NIR). GREENBAY: DOUBTFUL: T David Bakhtiari (knee),TE Dominique Dafney (hamstring), DEKingsley Keke (concussion). QUESTIONA-BLE: DT Kenny Clark (back), WR Equanime-ous St. Brown (ankle), CB Eric Stokes(knee). FULL: DT Kenny Clark (back), WREquanimeous St. Brown (ankle), CB EricStokes (knee).
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS at WASHING-TON FOOTBALL TEAM — TAMPA BAY: OUT:WR Antonio Brown (ankle), TE Rob Gron-kowski (back), CB Rashard Robinson(hamstring). QUESTIONABLE: CB Dee Dela-ney (ankle), WR Chris Godwin (foot), LB Ja-son Pierre-Paul (shoulder, hand). DNP: DTNdamukong Suh (NIR-resting player).FULL: RB Giovani Bernard (chest), CB DeeDelaney (ankle), DT Steve McLendon (NIR-resting player). WASHINGTON: OUT: WRCurtis Samuel (groin), CB Benjamin St-Juste (illness, concussion), DE MontezSweat (jaw). QUESTIONABLE: WR DyamiBrown (knee), T Samuel Cosmi (ankle), TESammis Reyes (hip). LIMITED: RB AntonioGibson (shin), G Brandon Scherff (knee),WR Cam Sims (hamstring). FULL: B WilliamJackson (knee).
MONDAYLOS ANGELES RAMS at SAN FRANCISCO
49ERS — LOS ANGELES RAMS: DNP: OLBrian Allen (elbow). LIMITED: OLB VonMiller (ankle), CB Darius Williams (ankle).FULL: RB Buddy Howell (ankle), OL AndrewWhitworth (rest)m, OLB Terrell Lewis(rest). SAN FRANCISCO: DNP: RB JaMycalHasty (ankle), DL Maurice Hurst (calf), CBDre Kirkpatrick (ankle), WF MohammedSanu Sr. (knee), S Tavon Wilson (foot), DLArik Armstead (neck), OL Tom Compton(NIR). LIMITED: DB Jimmie Ward (quadri-cep), TE George Kittle (calf), RB ElijahMitchell (rib), CB Emmanuel Moseley(neck), CB Josh Norman (rib), DL ArdenKey (oblique). FULL: C Alex Mack (NIR), TTrent Williams (NIR).
PRO FOOTBALL
Friday’s transactionsBASEBALL
American LeagueKANSAS CITY ROYALS — Named Keoni
De Renne assistant hitting coach, DamonHollins first base coach and Allan de SanMiguel strategist/bullpen catcher.
National LeagueSAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Agreed to
terms with manager Gabe Kapler on a con-tract extension through 2024.
BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association
NBA — Fined Utah C Rudy Gobert $35,000,F Joe Ingles $30,00 and G Donovan Mitchell$20,000 for their roles in an on-court alter-cation during Tuesday’s game vs. Indiana.Indiana C Myles Turner was fined $25,000for his role in the altercation.
FOOTBALLNational Football League
ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed LS BeauBrinkley to the practice squad. Placed LSKyle Nelson on practice squad injured res-erv.
ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed K Elliott Fryto the practice squad.
CAROLINA PANTHERS — Placed QB SamDarnold on injured reserve. Signed LB JoshWatson to the practice squad. ReleasedQB James Morgan from the practicesquad.
DENVER BRONCOS — Placed OL Austin
Schlottmann on the reserve/COVID-19 list.LOS ANGELES RAMS — Signed WR Odell
Beckham Jr.MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Placed DE Kenny
Willekes on the reserve/COVID-19 list.Signed DE Eddie Yarbrough.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Placed CBRashard Robinson on the reserve/injuredlist.
HOCKEYNational Hockey League
COLORADO AVALANCHE — ReassignedD Nate Clurman from Utah (ECHL) to Col-orado (AHL).
DALLAS STARS — Recalled F Jacob Peter-son from Texas (AHL). Sent Fs Blake Come-au and Tanner Kero to Texas.
FLORIDA PANTHERS — Sent D John Lud-vig to Charlotte (AHL).
MONTREAL CANADIENS — Recalled DMattias Norlinder from Laval (AHL).
NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Sent F RoccoGrimaldi to Milwaukee (AHL).
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS — Recalled GLouis Domingue from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL). Placed Ds Chad Ruhwedeand Parcus Pettersson on the COVID-19protocol list.
SAN JOSE SHARKS — Returned Cs SashaChmelevski, Joel Kellman, Ds Artemi Knia-zev, Jaycob Megna, Nicholas Meloche,Ryan Merkley and F John Leonard to SanJose (AHL).
VANCOUVER CANUCKS — Recalled DMadison Bowey from Abbotsford (AHL).
DEALS
Friday’s men’s scoresEAST
Boston College 85, Holy Cross 55 Boston U. 85, Gordon College 61 Cornell 90, Lafayette 85 Loyola (Md.) 75, SC State 65 Maine 71, Maine-Farmington 52 Manhattan 66, Fordham 60 Marist 82, Columbia 67 Marshall 96, Wright St. 88 Quinnipiac 103, Western New England 52 Rhode Island 83, Bryant 64 Rider 81, Coppin St. 69 Salisbury 91, Delaware St. 78 Utah St. 85, Richmond 74 Virginia Tech 77, Navy 57 West Virginia 74, Pittsburgh 59 Yale 91, UMass 71
SOUTHAlabama 104, S. Dakota St. 88 American U. 74, William & Mary 62 Appalachian St. 69, ETSU 67 Auburn 93, Louisiana-Monroe 65 Campbell 68, Hartford 67 Charlotte 76, SC-Upstate 64 Clemson 76, Wofford 68 Coll. of Charleston 86, Lipscomb 77 Duke 82, Army 56 East Carolina 83, Canisius 71 Elon 107, Randolph 62 FIU 111, Trinity (FL) 48 Furman 80, Louisville 72, OT George Mason 87, Penn 66 Georgia St. 83, Northeastern 64 Georgia Tech 77, Stetson 52 Kentucky 100, Robert Morris 60 LSU 84, Texas State 59 Longwood 80, Virginia-Lynchburg 46 Louisiana Tech 70, Jackson St. 68 Louisiana-Lafayette 66, Southern Miss.
45 Middle Tennessee 71, Bethune-Cook-
man 51 Mississippi 93, Charleston Southern 68 Nicholls 120, Carver 52 North Carolina 94, Brown 87 Presbyterian 73, VMI 72, OT Princeton 66, South Carolina 62 SE Louisiana 128, Southeastern Baptist
College 58 The Citadel 108, Morris College 67 UAB 85, Morehead St. 71 UNC-Greensboro 70, N. Kentucky 69, OT UNC-Wilmington 77, Guilford 68 Virginia 73, Radford 52 Wake Forest 87, W. Carolina 75
MIDWESTBowling Green 101, Ohio Wesleyan 60 Butler 85, Cent. Arkansas 53 Chicago St. 67, SIU-Edwardsville 56 E. Michigan 103, Illinois St. 98, 2OT Illinois 92, Arkansas St. 53 Indiana 85, N. Illinois 49 Iowa 89, UMKC 57 Iowa St. 60, Oregon St. 50 Kansas 88, Tarleton St. 62 Marquette 75, New Hampshire 70 Michigan St. 90, W. Michigan 46 Minnesota 73, W. Kentucky 69 Nebraska 74, Sam Houston St. 65 Northwestern 95, High Point 60 Ohio St. 84, Niagara 74 Purdue 92, Indiana St. 67 S. Illinois 73, Austin Peay 55 Saint Louis 86, E. Illinois 44 W. Illinois 91, Culver-Stockton 69 Wisconsin 72, Green Bay 34 Xavier 73, Kent St. 59
SOUTHWESTBaylor 87, Incarnate Word 60 Houston 79, Rice 46 Oakland 56, Oklahoma St. 55 Oklahoma 96, UTSA 44 Oral Roberts 121, Southwestern Chris-
tian 50 Texas A&M 81, Abilene Christian 80, 2OT
Texas Tech 88, Grambling St. 62 UALR 115, Champion Christian College
51 FAR WEST
Arizona 104, Rio Grande 50 BYU 66, San Diego St. 60 Colorado St. 91, Ark.-Pine Bluff 71 Dixie St. 83, S. Utah 76 Fresno St. 84, LIU 60 Grand Canyon 65, North Florida 51 Idaho 95, George Fox 85 N. Colorado 81, Hawaii 78 N. Dakota St. 60, Cal Poly 57 Oregon 86, SMU 63 Ottawa 72, Denver 71 Pepperdine 65, Idaho St. 60 Portland St. 100, Evergreen State 44 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 67, Texas Southern 58 San Diego 75, Nevada 68 Santa Clara 88, Stanford 72 UC Davis 84, E. Washington 76 UCLA 86, Villanova 77, OT Utah Valley 82, University of Antelope
Valley 48 Washington St. 79, Seattle 61
Friday’s women’s scoresEAST
American U. 59, Marist 52 Drexel 63, Saint Joseph’s 55 George Mason 53, Loyola (Md.) 51 Georgetown 86, Salem International 48 Lehigh 84, St. Peter’s 68 Maryland 88, Villanova 67 Monmouth (NJ) 57, Navy 46 Pittsburgh 72, Lafayette 63 Princeton 76, Delaware 56 Rhode Island 106, Merrimack 42 Rutgers 64, South Alabama 45 UMass 80, Harvard 71 Yale 63, Northeastern 60, OT
SOUTHAustin Peay 78, Pikeville 49 Coll. of Charleston 113, Pfeiffer 52 Columbia 87, Davidson 78 FIU 72, Florida Memorial 69 Florida Gulf Coast 70, Temple 53 Furman 68, Presbyterian 39 High Point 60, East Carolina 50 Louisiana Tech 95, LSU-Alexandria 48 Miami 55, Bethune-Cookman 43 Middle Tennessee 54, VCU 46 Mississippi St. 76, S. Dakota St. 71 NC State 90, Wofford 57 Stony Brook 82, Longwood 63 Tennessee 49, UCF 41 Tennessee St. 70, Georgia St. 67 Towson 87, Florida 70 UALR 56, Vanderbilt 40 UNC-Asheville 74, W. Carolina 72, OT W. Kentucky 86, NC A&T 76 Wake Forest 64, Cornell 42
MIDWESTCincinnati 72, Bellarmine 59 DePaul 87, Loyola Chicago 53 Duke 70, Dayton 56 Kansas St. 44, UT Martin 30 Marquette 90, NJIT 58 Oakland 77, Niagara 64 South Carolina 72, South Dakota 41
SOUTHWESTArkansas 96, Ark.-Pine Bluff 53 Cent. Arkansas 74, Hendrix 35 Lamar 107, Howard Payne 37 Oklahoma 101, Arkansas St. 89 Stephen F. Austin 73, Houston 52
FAR WESTArizona 61, Louisville 59, OT Colorado St. 61, N. Colorado 50 Denver 70, Missouri S&T 61 Minnesota 66, Arizona St. 59, OT New Mexico 96, Northern New Mexico 40 Oregon St. 82, Loyola Marymount 52 Portland St. 80, Dixie St. 52 Washington 57, San Diego 51 Washington St. 62, N. Arizona 54
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Houston OpenPGA Tour
FridayAt Memorial Park Golf Course
Houston, TexasPurse: $7.5 Million
Yardage: 7,412; Par: 70Partial Second Round (Suspended)
Martin Trainer 65-65—130 -10 Kevin Tway 67-64—131 -9 Adam Long 66-67—133 -7 Kramer Hickok 67-67—134 -6Adam Schenk 70-64—134 -6Scottie Scheffler 72-62—134 -6Wyndham Clark 66-69—135 -5Max McGreevy 68-67—135 -5Matthew NeSmith 68-67—135 -5Luke List 65-71—136 -4 Jhonattan Vegas 67-69—136 -4Sam Burns 70-67—137 -3
Pelican Women’s ChampionshipLPGA Tour
FridayAt Pelican Golf Club
Belleair, Fla.Purse: $1.8 million
Yardage: 6,353; Par: 70Second Round
Jennifer Kupcho 65-64—129 -11Lexi Thompson 65-64—129 -11Wei-Ling Hsu 66-64—130 -10Leona Maguire 62-68—130 -10Matilda Castren 67-64—131 -9Christina Kim 65-66—131 -9Sei Young Kim 64-67—131 -9Nelly Korda 65-66—131 -9Mi Hyang Lee 69-62—131 -9Maria Fassi 67-65—132 -8Danielle Kang 65-67—132 -8Jeongeun Lee6 68-64—132 -8
Schwab Cup ChampionshipChampions Tour
FridayAt Phoenix Country Club
PhoenixPurse: $2.5 million
Yardage: 6,853; Par: 71Second Round
Kirk Triplett 65-64—129 -13Steven Alker 66-65—131 -11Jim Furyk 65-67—132 -10Phil Mickelson 65-67—132 -10K.J. Choi 66-67—133 -9Stephen Ames 67-67—134 -8Brandt Jobe 66-68—134 -8Jerry Kelly 67-67—134 -8Brett Quigley 67-67—134 -8Vijay Singh 69-65—134 -8Darren Clarke 68-67—135 -7Fred Couples 66-69—135 -7
GOLF
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Friday’s scoresEAST
Fairmont St. 29, Wheeling Jesuit 14Rowan 35, College of NJ 21
SOUTHCincinnati 45, South Florida 28
FAR WESTBoise St. 23, Wyoming 13
PRO SOCCER
NWSL playoffsSunday, Nov. 14
SemifinalsOL Reign vs. WashingtonPortland vs. Chicago
Saturday, Nov. 20Championship
At LouisvilleSemifinal winners
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NHL/SPORTS BRIEFS
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Florida 14 10 2 2 22 54 38
Toronto 15 9 5 1 19 38 38
Detroit 15 7 6 2 16 43 48
Tampa Bay 12 6 3 3 15 36 37
Buffalo 13 6 5 2 14 39 38
Boston 11 6 5 0 12 31 33
Montreal 15 4 10 1 9 32 50
Ottawa 13 3 9 1 7 30 45
Metropolitan Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Carolina 12 10 2 0 20 42 23
Washington 14 8 2 4 20 48 35
N.Y. Rangers 13 7 3 3 17 33 37
Philadelphia 12 7 3 2 16 34 29
New Jersey 12 7 3 2 16 37 33
Columbus 11 7 4 0 14 35 32
Pittsburgh 12 5 3 4 14 38 37
N.Y. Islanders 11 5 4 2 12 27 29
Western Conference
Central Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
St. Louis 12 8 2 2 18 43 31
Minnesota 13 9 4 0 18 44 41
Winnipeg 13 7 3 3 17 43 36
Nashville 14 8 5 1 17 40 38
Colorado 11 5 5 1 11 37 37
Dallas 12 4 6 2 10 27 39
Chicago 15 4 9 2 10 33 51
Arizona 14 1 12 1 3 22 56
Pacific Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
Edmonton 13 10 3 0 20 54 38
Anaheim 15 8 4 3 19 52 43
Calgary 14 7 3 4 18 44 32
Los Angeles 14 8 5 1 17 40 34
Vegas 14 8 6 0 16 40 42
San Jose 13 7 5 1 15 37 35
Vancouver 14 5 7 2 12 36 43
Seattle 14 4 9 1 9 40 51
Friday’s games
Washington 4, Columbus 3 Buffalo 3, Edmonton 2 Philadelphia 2, Carolina 1 Toronto 2, Calgary 1, OT Chicago 2, Arizona 1
Saturday’s games
Boston at New Jersey Florida at Tampa Bay Los Angeles at Winnipeg Montreal at Detroit N.Y. Rangers at Columbus Pittsburgh at Ottawa Toronto at Buffalo St. Louis at Carolina Arizona at Nashville Philadelphia at Dallas San Jose at Colorado Minnesota at Seattle Vancouver at Vegas
Sunday’s games
Calgary at Ottawa Edmonton at St. Louis Montreal at Boston New Jersey at N.Y. Rangers Pittsburgh at Washington Vancouver at Anaheim
Monday’s games
Detroit at Columbus N.Y. Islanders at Tampa Bay
Tuesday’s games
Buffalo at Pittsburgh Calgary at Philadelphia Montreal at N.Y. Rangers N.Y. Islanders at Florida Nashville at Toronto Ottawa at New Jersey Arizona at St. Louis Edmonton at Winnipeg San Jose at Minnesota Detroit at Dallas Carolina at Vegas Washington at Anaheim
Scoring leaders
Through Saturday
GP G A PTS
Leon Draisaitl, EDM 13 14 14 28
Connor McDavid, EDM 13 9 16 25
Alex Ovechkin, WSH 14 12 12 24
Troy Terry, ANA 14 11 8 19
Evgeny Kuznetsov, WSH 14 5 13 18
Kyle Connor, WPG 13 10 8 18
R. Nugent-Hopkins, EDM 13 0 17 17
J.T. Miller, VAN 14 6 10 16
Brad Marchand, BOS 11 6 10 16
Anze Kopitar, LA 14 8 8 16
NHL scoreboard
Ex-Raiders coach Grudensuing NFL over emails
LAS VEGAS — Former Las Ve-
gas Raiders coach Jon Gruden has
sued Commissioner Roger Good-
ell and the NFL, alleging that a
“malicious and orchestrated cam-
paign” was used to destroy Gru-
den’s career by leaking old emails
he had sent that included racist,
misogynistic and homophobic
comments.
The suit was filed in district
court in Clark County, Nev., on
Thursday, exactly a month after
Gruden resigned as Raiders coach
following the publication of his
emails by the Wall Street Journal
and New York Times.
Gruden’s attorney, Adam
Hosmer-Henner, said in a state-
ment that the defendants “selec-
tively leaked Gruden’s private
correspondence to the Wall Street
Journal and New York Times in
order to harm Gruden’s reputa-
tion and force him out of his job.”
US high jumper to get
2012 Olympic goldLAUSANNE, Switzerland —
American high jumper Erik Ky-
nard will finally get his gold medal
from the 2012 London Olympics
after the IOC on Friday approved
reallocating some results from
those games because of doping
cases.
Kynard’s leap of 2.33 meters
placed second in London behind
Ivan Ukhov, who was proven
years later to have taken part in
the Russian state-backed steroid
doping program.
Ukhov was banned for four
years in 2019 at the Court of Arbi-
tration for Sport. He went back to
the same court last year for an ap-
peal hearing but failed to overturn
the ruling.
The International Olympic
Committee executive board on
Friday signed off on reallocating
the medals and final results for
five events from the London
Olympics, including men’s and
women’s high jump.
Hamilton gets qualifying
DQ, Verstappen finedSAO PAULO — Seven-time
world champion Lewis Hamilton
was disqualified from Friday’s
qualifying session at the Brazilian
Grand Prix after a technical in-
fringement by Mercedes in the
latest blow to the British driver’s
defense of his Formula One title.
The stewards’ decision forces
Hamilton to start Saturday’s
sprint race at Interlagos in last po-
sition. Red Bull driver Max Ver-
stappen was fined $57,200 Satur-
day at the event after video
showed the Formula One cham-
pionship leader touching the rear
wing of rival Hamilton’s car.
The Dutchman can appeal the
decision given by the stewards.
BRIEFLY
Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Alex
Ovechkin got his 742nd career
goal, Conor Sheary scored with
1:22 left and the Washington Cap-
itals beat the Columbus Blue Jack-
ets 4-3 Friday night.
Garnet Hathaway scored twice
to help Washington get its third
straight win. Ilya Samsonov stop-
ped 26 shots for his first win since
Oct. 29.
“You got to like the perseve-
rance, playing and traveling last
night, and guys stepping up and
getting it done in the third period,
and winning in regulation,” Capi-
tals coach Peter Laviolette said.
Sean Kuraly had two goals for
Columbus, and Gustav Nyquist al-
so scored. Joonas Korpisalo had
24 saves.
Ovechkin’s laser shot from the
right circle at 10:19 of the first pe-
riod tied the score 1-1 with his
league-leading 12th goal of the
season. Ovechkin broke a tie with
Bobby Hull for fourth on the
NHL’s all-time goals.
“It’s means a lot,” Ovechkin
said. “When you start playing
hockey, and you came to the NHL,
you never thought you’d be in that
position with those names. It’s a
special moment for me, my par-
ents, my brother, my wife, kids.”
Hathaway gave Washington a
2-1 lead 24 seconds into the second
period off a pass from Axel Jons-
son-Fjallby. He got his second of
the night and second of the season
on a breakaway at 7:23.
“The first three goals, we turned
the puck over three times,” Blue
Jackets coach Brad Larsen said.
“When you force plays against a
dangerous team, they make you
pay, and they did — three times.”
Sabres 3, Oilers 2: Dylan Co-
zens scored twice, including the
go-ahead goal, in a span of 5:14 and
host Buffalo snapped a 0-4-1 skid.
Anders Bjork also scored dur-
ing a second period in which the
Sabres overcame a 2-1 deficit after
Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl scored
two power-play goals. Dustin To-
karski stopped 33 shots — includ-
ing bang-bang chances by Drai-
saitl with 4:45 remining — for his
second win in seven starts.
The Pacific Division-leading
Oilers dropped to 10-3 in failing to
win 11 of their first 13 games of a
season for the first time in team
history.
Draisaitl improved his NHL-
leading total to 14 goals, and Con-
nor McDavid had an assist to ex-
tend his season-opening points
streak to 13 games, in which he
now has nine goals and 16 assists
for 25 points.
Maple Leafs 2, Flames 1 (OT):
Auston Matthews scored at 2:32 of
overtime and host Toronto beat
Calgary.
Ondrej Kase also scored, Wil-
liam Nylander had two assists and
Jack Campbell made 30 saves to
help the Maple Leafs win for the
seventh time in eight games.
Oliver Kylington scored for the
Flames, who have lost three
straight (0-2-1). Dan Vladar stop-
ped 35 shots.
Flyers 2, Hurricanes 1: Zack
MacEwen scored with 8:40 re-
maining and Philadelphia rallied
to win at Carolina.
Joel Farabee also scored in the
third period for the Flyers, who
had been shut out in their previous
game and couldn’t score in this
one until the final period. Carter
Hart stopped 39 shots for Phila-
delphia, which has won two of its
past three games.
MacEwen’s goal was his first in
10 games this season. Former
Hurricanes player Patrick Brown
picked up one of the assists on the
play.
Steven Lorentz scored for Car-
olina, off to a franchise-best start
to the season. It lost for just the
second time in 12 games.
Hurricanes goalie Frederik An-
dersen made 26 saves.
Blackhawks 2, Coyotes 1: Dy-
lan Strome scored the tiebreaking
goal midway through the third pe-
riod, Marc-Andre Fleury stopped
22 shots, and host Chicago beat
Arizona.
Alex DeBrincat also scored and
Patrick Kane had two assists as
the Blackhawks won their third
straight since Derek King re-
placed the fired Jeremy Colliton
as head coach last Saturday.
Andrew Ladd scored for the
Coyotes and Scott Wedgewood
had 27 saves. Arizona fell to 1-12-1
this season, including 0-8-1 on the
road.
PAUL VERNON/AP
Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin, right, chases the puck in front of Columbus Blue Jacketsdefenseman Vladislav Gavrikov during the Capitals’ 43 win Friday in Columbus, Ohio.
Ovechkin gets 742nd goal,Capitals beat Blue Jackets
Associated Press
NHL ROUNDUP
PAGE 20 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • Sunday, November 14, 2021
NBA
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
W L Pct GB
Brooklyn 9 4 .692 —
Philadelphia 8 5 .615 1
Toronto 7 6 .538 2
New York 7 6 .538 2
Boston 6 6 .500 2½
Southeast Division
W L Pct GB
Washington 8 3 .727 —
Miami 7 5 .583 1½
Charlotte 7 7 .500 2½
Atlanta 4 9 .308 5
Orlando 3 9 .250 5½
Central Division
W L Pct GB
Chicago 8 4 .667 —
Cleveland 8 5 .615 ½
Milwaukee 6 7 .462 2½
Indiana 5 8 .385 3½
Detroit 2 9 .182 5½
Western Conference
Southwest Division
W L Pct GB
Dallas 8 4 .667 —
Memphis 6 6 .500 2
San Antonio 4 8 .333 4
Houston 1 11 .083 7
New Orleans 1 12 .077 7½
Northwest Division
W L Pct GB
Utah 8 4 .667 —
Denver 8 4 .667 —
Portland 6 7 .462 2½
Oklahoma City 5 6 .455 2½
Minnesota 4 7 .364 3½
Pacific Division
W L Pct GB
Golden State 11 1 .917 —
Phoenix 8 3 .727 2½
L.A. Clippers 7 4 .636 3½
L.A. Lakers 7 6 .538 4½
Sacramento 5 8 .385 6½
Thursday’s games
Toronto 115, Philadelphia 109Indiana 111, Utah 100L.A. Clippers 112, Miami 109
Friday’s games
Charlotte 104, New York 96Cleveland 98, Detroit 78Boston 122, Milwaukee 113, OTPhoenix 119, Memphis 94Oklahoma City 105, Sacramento 103Brooklyn 120, New Orleans 112Portland 104, Houston 92Dallas 123, San Antonio 109Denver 105, Atlanta 96Golden State 119, Chicago 93Minnesota 107, L.A. Lakers 83
Saturday’s games
Miami at UtahMemphis at New OrleansPhiladelphia at IndianaWashington at OrlandoDetroit at TorontoBoston at ClevelandMinnesota at L.A. Clippers
Sunday’s games
San Antonio at L.A. LakersMilwaukee at AtlantaBrooklyn at Oklahoma CityGolden State at CharlottePhoenix at HoustonPortland at DenverChicago at L.A. Clippers
Monday’s games
Boston at ClevelandNew Orleans at WashingtonSacramento at DetroitIndiana at New YorkOrlando at AtlantaDenver at DallasHouston at MemphisMiami at Oklahoma CityPhoenix at MinnesotaToronto at PortlandChicago at L.A. Lakers
Scoreboard
8Points that Boston Celtics guard Den-nis Schröder had in overtime en routeto a season-high 38 points in histeam’s 122-113 win Friday night overthe Milwaukee Bucks.
SOURCE: Associated Press
BOSTON — When the Milwau-
kee Bucks scratched Giannis Ante-
tokounmpo 90 minutes before the
tipoff, Boston coach Ime Udoka
worried that his team would expect
an easy night against the rest of the
defending NBA champions.
It took the Celtics a while to snap
out of it.
“There’s always a natural let-
down. That was the message before
the game,” Udoka said after Boston
beat Milwaukee 122-113 in over-
time Friday night. “The other guys
are going to play hard and come in
with a ‘nothing to lose’ attitude, and
they did.”
Dennis Schröder scored a sea-
son-high 38 points — eight in over-
time — as the Celtics took advan-
tage of the reigning NBA Finals
MVP’s absence to pull away. Jay-
son Tatum scored 27 with 11 re-
bounds for Boston, which has won
four of five since opening the sea-
son 2-5.
Tatum said that hearing Anteto-
kounmpo was out, joining Khris
Middleton, made him “locked in
even more.”
“Guys played more free when
they know they’re going to get an
opportunity,” he said.
Jrue Holiday had 17 points and
13 assists, and Bobby Portis scored
22 for the Bucks. Grayson Allen
scored 21, hitting a pair of three-
pointers in the final 73 seconds of
regulation to send the game into
overtime.
But Schröder took over from
there, scoring six straight points to
turn a one-point lead into a run-
away.
“He got hot late, and we kind of
rode his hand there,” Udoka said.
“He had a great night tonight,
which we needed.”
After Antetokounmpo was
scratched with a right ankle sprain,
Arlington, Mass., native Pat Con-
naughton started in his place and
scored 15 points. Milwaukee lost
for the sixth time in its last nine
games. The game featured 22 lead
changes — and eight ties — in the
first 30 minutes before the Celics
went on a 13-2 run to turn a one-
point deficit into a double-digit
lead.
Warriors 119, Bulls 93:Stephen
Curry made nine three-pointers
and scored 40 points with his old
college coach from Davidson
cheering him on, Draymond Green
delivered another all-around effort
and Golden State beat Chicago for
its seventh straight victory.
Green added nine points, nine
rebounds and seven assists after
coming into the game questionable
with a bruised left thigh. The War-
riors improved to 11-1, wrapping up
a franchise-record eight-game
homestand.
Curry’s college coach from Da-
vidson, Bob McKillop, got to lead
his team through a practice at the
Warriors’ facility ahead of a game
Saturday at Chase Center against
San Francisco.
Nets 120, Pelicans 112: James
Harden highlighted a 39-point, 12-
assist performance with a game-
sealing 27-foot three-pointer with
29 seconds left and Brooklyn ral-
lied to win at New Orleans after
blowing a 21-point lead.
Kevin Durant scored 28 for the
Nets, who’ve won seven of their last
eight, and Joe Harris scored 24 af-
ter opening his night by hitting his
first seven shots, including six from
three-point range, to help hand the
Pelicans their ninth straight loss.
Timberwolves 107, Lakers 83:
Karl-Anthony Towns scored 18 of
his 29 points during his team’s
dominant third quarter, and Min-
nesota snapped its six-game losing
streak with a lopsided victory at
Los Angeles.
D’Angelo Russell had 22 points
against his former team and Pa-
trick Beverley added 11 points and
seven rebounds for Minnesota,
which seized control while outscor-
ing the Lakers 40-12 in the third as
the Timberwolves rolled to their
first win since Oct. 27.
Thunder 105, Kings 103: Lu
Dort stole the ball from De’Aaron
Fox, then drove and made a layup
with 1.7 seconds left to lift Oklaho-
ma City past visiting Sacramento.
The Kings’ Buddy Hield, the for-
mer University of Oklahoma star,
missed a three-pointer at the buzz-
er that would have won it for the
Kings.
Suns 119, Grizzlies 94: Devin
Booker and Jae Crowder scored 17
points each, Chris Paul added 15
points and 12 assists and visiting
Phoenix dominated Memphis for
its seventh straight victory.
Mikal Bridges had 13 points as
the defending Western Conference
champion Suns controlled the
game throughout, never trailing.
Phoenix held a double-digit lead
from the late stages of the first
quarter through the end of the
game.
Hornets 104, Knicks 96: Miles
Bridges scored 24 points, point
guard LaMelo Ball had a career-
high 17 rebounds to go with 12
points and nine assists and host
Charlotte overcame an early 16-
point deficit to beat New York.
Gordon Hayward added 22
points and seven assists, and Terry
Rozier had 18 points.
Trail Blazers 104, Rockets 92:
Damian Lillard scored 20 points,
CJ McCollum added 17 and Por-
tland cruised to a win at Houston
for its first road victory of the sea-
son.
The Trail Blazers are 1-6 on the
road and 5-1 at home. The Rockets
are the league’s only winless team
on the road at 0-7. They are an
NBA-worst 1-11.
Mavericks 123, Spurs 109:
Kristaps Porzingis had a season-
high 32 points, Luka Doncic had 32
points, 15 assists and 12 rebounds
and visiting Dallas routed San An-
tonio.
The Mavericks clinched the sea-
son series against their intrastate
rival with its third consecutive win
over the Spurs in the season’s first
12 games.
Nuggets 105, Hawks 96:Nikola
Jokic had 22 points, 19 rebounds
and 10 assists in his return from a
one-game suspension for his sec-
ond triple-double of the season,
leading host Denver past Atlanta.
Cavaliers 98, Pistons 78: Dari-
us Garland tied his season high
with 21 points and rookie power
forward Evan Mobley had 16 points
and seven rebounds, leading host
Cleveland past Detroit.
Celtics run past Bucks in OTSchröder scores 38 asBoston takes advantageof Giannis’ absence
Associated Press
MICHAEL DWYER/AP
The Boston Celtics’ Dennis Schröder shoots against the Milwaukee Bucks’ Bobby Portis in overtime.Schröder had a seasonhigh 38 points in the Celtics’ 122113 win Friday in Boston.
ROUNDUP
JEFF CHIU/AP
Golden State Warriors guardStephen Curry reacts aftershooting a threepointer. He had40 points in a win Friday over theChicago Bulls in San Francisco.
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL
DURHAM, N.C. — Wendell
Moore Jr. looked comfortable and
confident as a veteran captain in
Duke’s home opener. It certainly
helped having the ninth-ranked
Blue Devils’ famously rowdy fans
packed in again for the first time
in more than 20 months.
The junior forward posted only
the third triple-double of the Mike
Krzyzewski era to help Duke beat
Army 82-56 in Friday night’s
home opener.
Moore had 19 points, 10 re-
bounds and 10 assists to join big
man Shelden Williams (2006) and
forward RJ Barrett (2019) as the
only players to post a triple-double
in Coach K’s 42 seasons in Dur-
ham.
“He’s our leader,” Krzyzewski
said of Moore. “He’ll do anything
that we need to have done.”
Moore finished with just one
turnover in nearly 35 minutes.
“It all starts with my team-
mates,” said Moore said, who
needed IV fluids due to cramping
after Tuesday’s season-opening
win against No. 10 Kentucky in
New York. “They have instilled so
much confidence in me over this
preseason. I feel like I can do any-
thing with them behind me.”
Freshman Paolo Banchero add-
ed 18 points for the Blue Devils
(2-0), who are beginning their fi-
nal season under Krzyzewski. He
announced in June that he would
retire this spring and hand off to
associate head coach Jon Scheyer,
the former Duke player who sat
Friday to Krzyzewski’s immedi-
ate right on the bench.
This game matched Krzyzewski
against his alma mater and the
program he led before taking over
the Blue Devils in 1980. Duke
jumped out to a 10-0 lead and nev-
er trailed, but had issues putting
away the pesky Black Knights
(1-1).
Jalen Rucker scored 19 points to
lead Army, which trailed by be-
tween seven and 15 points much of
the way before the Blue Devils
stretched it out beyond 20 points
in the final 5 minutes.
Big pictureArmy: Picked to finish fourth in
the Patriot League, the Black
Knights hung around, both in
turning away Duke’s mini-bursts
but also in their inability to seri-
ously cut into the deficit after half-
time. Army shot 39% and made
just 5 of 22 three-pointers, while
committing 21 turnovers that led
to 27 points for the Blue Devils.
Duke: The Blue Devils’ season-
opening win against the Wildcats
in Madison Square Garden came
behind big performances from
freshman Trevor Keels and
Banchero (22 points). Banchero
followed with 12 rebounds, while
Keels had 10 points and six steals.
Returning home This was the first regular-sea-
son game for Duke with the Cam-
eron Crazies — the screaming and
chanting-in-unison fans —
jammed back into the courtside
bleachers since the March 2020
win against rival North Carolina.
That was five days before the CO-
VID-19 pandemic shut down the
sports world.
Moore, Bancherolead No. 9 Duke pastArmy in home debut
Associated Press
BEN MCKEOWN/AP
Army’s Jalen Rucker drivesagainst Duke’s Jeremy Roachduring the Blue Devils’ 8256win Friday in Durham, N.C.
LOS ANGELES — Two highly
ranked teams and a raucous
crowd packed into historic Pauley
Pavilion sure made it seem like it
was already March Madness.
It’s not just yet, although No. 2
UCLA backed up its Final Four
run last spring with an 86-77 over-
time victory against fourth-
ranked Villanova on Friday night.
“We love these games,” said
Johnny Juzang, the NCAA Tour-
nament star who scored 25 points.
“This is where we have the most
fun. It’s a blast.”
The Bruins overcame a 10-
point, second-half deficit before
taking control in overtime.
“They gutted it out and we
didn’t,” Wildcats coach Jay
Wright said.
Jules Bernard banked in a
jumper that tied it at 67 with 30
seconds to go to force overtime,
when more than 13,000 cheering,
chanting fans remained on their
feet until the final buzzer.
“We were relentless but their
efforts were relentless, too,”
UCLA coach Mick Cronin said.
“Nobody should have lost this
game.”
The Bruins looked they were
going to when they fell behind by
10. But they rallied over the final
5½ minutes of regulation while
holding Villanova at 67.
After getting to the line just sev-
en times in regulation, UCLA
made all 12 of its free throws in the
five-minute extra session, when
they outscored the Wildcats 19-10.
Caleb Daniels missed two
three-point attempts and Collin
Gillespie missed a layup before
Jermaine Samuels hit a three in
the closing seconds.
“They just made a lot of great
plays towards the end,” Samuels
said. “Those are the plays that
you’ve got to get and they got
them.”
Jaime Jaquez Jr. added 21
points and 13 rebounds and Ber-
nard finished with 16 points for the
Bruins (2-0).
Samuels scored 20 points and
Gillespie scored 18 points to lead
the Wildcats (1-1).
Villanova, the 2018 national
champion, had its share of sup-
porters under UCLA’s record 11
national championship banners.
“It was a great game,” Wright
said. “Great atmosphere. This
place is awesome.”
Cronin added, “I told Jay, ‘Let’s
just do it again tomorrow.’ Doesn’t
get much better than that.”
Neither team gave an inch until
midway through the second half.
Leading by one, the Wildcats
outscored the Bruins 11-2 to take
the game’s first double-digit lead,
60-50. Four different players
scored in the spurt, with Eric Dix-
on’s three-point play getting it go-
ing. Samuels dunked and Justin
Moore and Gillespie made con-
secutive three-pointers.
Three times the Bruins got
within two over the final four min-
utes — the last when Juzang made
a pair of free throws to trail 67-65.
The game was the earliest
matchup by date between AP top-
five teams at a campus site in the
history of the poll that began in
1948-49, according to ESPN Stats
&Info. It also was the first noncon-
ference matchup between two
top-five teams in Pauley Pavilion
since March 1, 1992, when then-
No. 4 UCLA lost to top-ranked
Duke.
MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ/AP
Villanova guard Caleb Daniels, right, tries to dribble pastto UCLA guard Jaime Jaquez Jr. during UCLA’s8677 overtime win Friday in Los Angeles.
Juzang leads No. 2 UCLApast No. 4 Villanova in OT
BY BETH HARRIS
Associated Press
AP Top 25 FaredFriday
No. 1 Gonzaga (1-0) did not play. Next:vs. No. 5 Texas, Saturday.
No. 2 UCLA (2-0) beat No. 4 Villanova 86-77, OT. Next: vs. Long Beach St., Monday.
No. 3 Kansas (2-0) beat Tarleton St. 88-62. Next: vs. Stony Brook, Thursday.
No. 4 Villanova (1-1) lost to No. 2 UCLA 86-77, OT. Next: vs. Howard, Tuesday.
No. 5 Texas (1-0) did not play. Next: atNo. 1 Gonzaga, Saturday.
No. 6 Michigan (1-0) did not play. Next:vs. Prairie View at Washington, D.C., Sat-urday.
No. 7 Purdue (2-0) beat Indiana St. 92-67.Next: vs. Wright St., Tuesday.
No. 8 Baylor (1-0) beat Incarnate Word87-60. Next: vs. Nicholls St., Monday.
No. 9 Duke (2-0) beat Army 82-56. Next:vs. Campbell, Saturday.
No. 10 Kentucky (1-1) beat Robert Morris100-60. Next: vs. Mount St. Mary's, Tues-day.
No. 11 Illinois (2-0) beat Arkansas St. 92-53. Next: at Marquette, Monday.
No. 12 Memphis (1-0) did not play. Next:vs. NC Central, Saturday.
No. 13 Oregon (2-0) beat SMU 86-63.Next: vs. BYU, Tuesday.
No. 14 Alabama (2-0) beat S. Dakota St.104-88. Next: vs. South Alabama, Tuesday.
No. 15 Houston (2-0) beat Rice 79-46.Next: vs. No. 25 Virginia, Tuesday.
No. 16 Arkansas (1-0) did not play. Next:vs. Gardner-Webb, Saturday.
No. 17 Ohio St. (2-0) beat Niagara 84-74.Next: vs. Bowling Green, Monday.
No. 18 Tennessee (1-0) did not play.Next: vs. ETSU, Sunday.
No. 19 North Carolina (2-0) beat Brown94-87. Next: at Charleston, Tuesday.
No. 20 Florida St. (1-0) did not play. Next:at Florida, Sunday.
No. 21 Maryland (2-0) did not play. Next:vs. Vermont, Saturday.
No. 22 Auburn (2-0) beat Louisiana-Mon-roe 93-65. Next: at South Florida, Friday.
No. 23 St. Bonaventure (1-0) did not play.Next: vs. Canisius, Sunday.
No. 24 UConn (1-0) did not play. Next: vs.Coppin St., Saturday.
No. 25 Virginia (1-1) beat Radford 73-52.Next: at No. 15 Houston, Tuesday.
Scoreboard
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Keve
Aluma made all 10 of his foul
shots and scored 20 points and
Hunter Cattoor scored 19 and
Storm Murphy 11 and Virginia
Tech beat Navy 77-57 on Friday
night.
The Hokies shot 50% (27-
for-54). Aluma made 10 of Virgin-
ia Tech’s 15-made foul shots.
Greg Summers’ layup 16 sec-
onds in gave Navy its only lead of
the game. Aluma scored a basket
and Cattoor sank a three-pointer
to start an 11-0 run.
Tyler Nelson scored 15 points
for Navy and Daniel Deavers and
Summers scored 10 apiece. Navy
missed 22 of 25 from beyond the
three-point line.
Virginia Tech (2-0) now has
won four straight against Navy
and moved its all-time record to
4-3 against the Midshipmen (1-1).
Navy hasn’t beaten Virginia Tech
since a 45-17 contest on January
27, 1937.
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SOCCER/COLLEGE FOOTBALL
CINCINNATI — Christian Pu-
lisic sent a message — with his
head and his undershirt.
Take that, Mexico. Pulisic and
the Americans are back atop the
region.
Pulisic scored on his very first
touch in the 74th minute, Weston
McKennie added a goal in the 85th
and the United States beat Mexico
2-0 Friday night in a World Cup
qualifier — the “Dos a Cero”
scoreline that became traditional
early in the 21st century.
When Pulisic scored on his first
touch five minutes after entering,
he ran to the endline and pulled up
his jersey to show the red-white-
and-blue clad fans.
“Man in the mirror,” was scrib-
bled in dark ink.
Earlier in the week, El Tri goal-
keeper Guillermo Ochoa was
quoted as saying: “Mexico is the
mirror in which the United States
wants to see itself.”
A night that began with smoke
— from fireworks during “The
Star-Spangled Banner” as LED
lights flashed through the stands
— ended with Michael Jackson’s
“Man in the Mirror” playing on
the public address system.
U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter said
Thursday that Ochoa’s remarks
showed ”that we have a long way
to go to get the respect of Mexico.”
Fans in the crowd of 26,000 at
new TLQ Stadium booed Ochoa
with every touch.
“I think you guys know the
message. I don’t need to, like,
speak on it too much,” Pulisic said.
“It’s just an idea that came in the
head.”
Tim Weah said he and defender
DeAndre Yedlin inspired Pulis-
ic’s shirt.
“Just to send a message,” Weah
said. “Before the game, Mexico
was talking a lot of smack. To shut
them up, we have to continue to
win games, continue to beat them.
That’s the only way we’re going to
earn their respect and get the
world’s respect.”
The win was the third this year
for the 13th-ranked Americans
over No. 9 Mexico following a 3-2
victory in the Nations League final
in June and a 1-0 victory in the
CONCACAF Gold Cup final in Au-
gust.
“To win three in a row is obvi-
ously amazing,” Pulisic said, “but
that doesn’t mean that it’s time to
be complacent or time to think,
‘Oh, we’re the best around.’ ”
Heated matches between Mex-
ico and the U.S. are the norm, and
this one ended with the U.S. a man
short after Miles Robinson — who
scored the Gold Cup goal — got a
pair of yellow cards.
“We fiercely dislike Mexico’s
soccer team, right, and we’re
fierce competitors and we want to
win every time on the field,” Ber-
halter said, making a point to dis-
tinguish Mexico’s team from its
people. “Afterwards, you shake
hands and you move on. We have a
lot of respect for them.”
The U.S. and Mexico have 14
points each, followed by Canada
with 13, Panama 11, Costa Rica,
Jamaica and El Salvador six each
and Honduras three.
Three nations from North and
Central America and the Carib-
bean qualify for next year’s tour-
nament in Qatar and the fourth-
place nation advances to a playoff.
The U.S. won four straight
home qualifiers against Mexico
by 2-0, all at Columbus, Ohio, be-
fore falling 2-1 in November 2016
at Crew Stadium. That led to the
Americans missing the 2018
World Cup.
Pulisic, one of the few hold-
overs, entered in place of Brenden
Aaronson in the 69th minute.
Since a high left ankle sprain on
Sept. 8 at Honduras, Pulisic had
been limited to a pair of late-
match appearances for Chelsea.
“I never had an injury like that,”
he said. “It was just dealing with
pain in different spots of my ankle.
And it was just about making sure
it was right and now I feel like it’s
in a good spot.”
Zack Steffen, in his second
straight qualifier in goal, kept the
game 0-0 when he dived to get his
left hand on a shot by a streaking
Hirving Lozano in the 18th. The
Americans outshot Mexico 18-8
but couldn’t break through.
Pulisic sparksUS past MexicoAmericans 3-0 against rivals this year
BY RONALD BLUM
Associated Press
JULIO CORTEZ/AP
The United States’ Weston McKennie, center, celebrates his goal with Tyler Adams, left, and ChristianPulisic during the second half of Friday’s World Cup qualifying match against Mexico in Cincinnati.
WORLD CUP QUALIFYING
JULIO CORTEZ/AP
U.S. goalkeeper Zack Steffenkept the game 00 when he divedto get his left hand on a shot by astreaking Hirving Lozano in the18th minute.
Jaren Mangham had two rushing TDs for
South Florida (2-8, 1-5), which has lost 19
consecutive games against teams ranked in
the top 20 since upsetting Notre Dame on
the road in October 2011. He has 15 touch-
downs on the ground this season, tied for
second-most in USF history.
Freshman Timmy McClain completed 16
of 29 passes for 245 yards. His 80-yard
hookup with Jimmy Horn Jr. got the Bulls
to 31-21 late in the third quarter, and he add-
ed a 2-yard TD run that the cut deficit to 38-
28 with six minutes to play.
“We’re not a good enough team right now
to kind of turn it on and turn if off,” USF
coach Jeff Scott said. “I’m proud of how this
group continues to fight, continues to play,
and eventually that’a going to pay off.”
Ridder had a 13-yard TD run, connected
on a 1-yard scoring strike to Tre Tucker, and
Alex Bales made a 27-yard field goal during
the second quarter as the Bearcats took a
24-7 lead.
After turning the ball over on its first and
fourth plays on offense, Cincinnati tied it at
7 when Ryan Montgomery scored on a 12-
yard dash with 2:57 left in the first. He had a
55-yard TD run with just over a minute re-
maining and finished with 72 yards on six
carries.
South Florida took a 7-0 lead midway
through the opening quarter when Mang-
ham had a 2-yard TD run.
The Bearcats limited USF to 39 first-half
yards.
Poll implicationsCincinnati will remain near the top in the
AP poll but it remains to be seen how the
voters will look at the relatively close win
over USF.
Special nightBulls G Michael Wiggs was honored on
senior night and then proposed to his girlf-
riend during the on-field pregame ceremo-
ny.
Noise: USF has lost 19 straight against teams in the top 20FROM PAGE 24
CHRIS O’MEARA/AP
Cincinnati head coach Luke Fickell talks to head linesman Baron Ballester during thesecond half of Friday’s game against South Florida in Tampa, Fla.
Sunday, November 14, 2021 • S T A R S A N D S T R I P E S • PAGE 23
NFL
GREEN BAY, Wis. — The status
of each team’s starting quarter-
back is the center of attention as
the Seattle Seahawks attempt to
beat the Green Bay Packers in
Lambeau Field for the first time in
over two decades.
Seattle’s Russell Wilson is prac-
ticing again after missing three
games with an injured finger on his
throwing hand that required sur-
gery. Green Bay’s Aaron Rodgers
isn’t practicing, but has expressed
optimism he will play Sunday after
a positive COVID-19 test prevent-
ed him from joining the Packers
(7-2) for their 13-7 loss at Kansas
City.
The earliest Rodgers could re-
join his teammates is Saturday,
which has created an unusual sce-
nario for Green Bay as it gets ready
for this game. Jordan Love contin-
ues to get the first-team reps in
practice while Rodgers participa-
tes in team meetings via Zoom.
“He’s been in every meeting
(virtually),” Packers coach Matt
LaFleur said of Rodgers. “He’s
been engaged. So, it’s just he’s not
with his guys out on the field. That’s
the dynamic that you never know.
But we’re fortunate to have a guy
that has got a ton of reps under his
belt, has played a ton of ball, so
we’re pretty confident that provid-
ed he checks out well, he can go out
there and play at a high level.”
One concern for Rodgers is a po-
tential rust factor after being away
from the team since the Nov. 3 re-
ports of his positive test. Rodgers
said Tuesday on “The Pat McAfee
Show” on YouTube and SiriusXM
that he had been doing yoga from
his Green Bay home and would
step up the level of his workouts as
the week progressed.
Packers wide receiver Davante
Adams played against Kansas City
and had six catches for 42 yards af-
ter missing a game because of CO-
VID-19. He acknowledged feeling
the effects from his time away.
“I don’t know how it’ll impact
Aaron or the quarterback posi-
tion,” Adams said. “It’s much dif-
ferent movements. But I definitely
was a little bit more taxed in the
game than I usually would be. It
kind of felt like Week 1 all over
again. Wasn’t anything crazy, and I
don’t think it was the COVID that
did it. It was more so me stationary,
not moving around for 10 days,
which doesn’t seem crazy, but
when you’re moving every day and
getting the conditioning that we get
as wideouts, you definitely notice a
difference.”
Wilson has been able to practice
this week and is hoping to play Sun-
day. The Seahawks (3-5) certainly
need him as they try to get back in-
to playoff contention after going 1-2
in the three games Wilson missed.
“I’m not 100% yet, but I’m pretty
dang close,” Wilson said. “I would
say I’m in the 90th percentile, if not
higher. I feel great. I’ve got great
conviction in what I’m doing and
how I’m doing it. My mindset’s bet-
ter than ever. I’m ready to roll and
ready to go.”
Seattle hasn’t won at Green Bay
since a 27-7 triumph in 1999. The
Seahawks have lost six regular-
season games and three playoff
contests at Lambeau Field since.
“I remember my first time going
there,” Seattle cornerback
Quandre Diggs said. “It’s probably
the only stadium I’ve ever taken
pictures in and was like, ‘Dang. I
get to play here.’ You always see
Sunday and ‘Monday Night Foot-
ball’ at Lambeau. Dang. That’s one
of those places I can tell my kids I
actually played in when they get ol-
der and understand about the
game.”
RICK SCUTERI/AP
Packers head coach Matt LaFleur talks with quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who tested positive two weeksago for COVID19. The earliest he could rejoin the team is Saturday.
QBs’ status dominates talkas Seahawks visit Packers
TED S. WARREN/AP
Seattle Seahawks quarterbackRussell Wilson is practicing againwith the team despite an injuredfinger on his throwing hand, but itisn’t definite he will play Sunday.
BY STEVE MEGARGEE
Associated Press Seattle Seahawks (3-5)
at Green Bay Packers (7-2)AFN-Atlantic
10:25 p.m. Sunday CET6:25 a.m. Monday JKT
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The
New England Patriots and Cleve-
land Browns have waded through
differing levels of adversity to
make it back above .500.
Cleveland (5-4) has lived
through quarterback Baker May-
field playing through left shoulder
issues and disgruntled receiver
Odell Beckham Jr. essentially
forcing his way out of town.
New England (5-4) has bounced
back from a 1-3 start and endured
some early growing pains by roo-
kie quarterback Mac Jones to
have a three-
game winning
streak that is its
longest since
Tom Brady’s fi-
nal season with
the Patriots in
2019.
It’s brought
both teams into a
matchup Sunday
that could have a
huge impact on which direction
they head over the remainder of
the season.
The spotlight will be on how
both offenses handle their running
games with Browns star Nick
Chubb being ruled out following a
positive COVID-19 test and the
status of New England leading
rusher Damien Harris also up in
the air after he began the week in
the concussion protocol.
Mayfield believes his team has
responded well to the challenges
they’ve faced thus far.
“We have a resilient group,” he
said. “Everybody has a role. ... Our
guys are bought in to be able to ac-
complish those roles, the job and
whatever they have to do to win the
game and help us win. That is just
the type of group that we have.”
Cleveland ranks first in the
league in rushing yardage (1,442),
average per attempt (5.3 yards)
and touchdowns (16). Chubb has
been the catalyst, ranking third in
the NFL with 721 rushing yards.
Now that he’s out, D’Ernest
Johnson will start again since Ka-
reem Hunt (calf) isn’t ready to
come back and is missing his
fourth straight game. Johnson ran
for a career-best 146 yards and a
TD in his first start against Denver
on Oct. 21.
“We are extremely confident in
D’Ernest. That has not been a
question yet,” Mayfield said.
Jones has impressed many
around the league with the poise
he’s shown through his first nine
NFL games. That list includes
Mayfield, who said Jones is play-
ing with the kind of on-field recog-
nition that is “rare to see for a guy
of that age.”
Jones has completed at least
70% of his passes in five of his first
nine games, the only rookie quar-
terback to do so. Still, it’s the work
ethic he’s shown to correct his mis-
takes that’s won over the Patriots
locker room.
“I think that’s what separates
the people that really do some spe-
cial things in this league, because
they truly respect football,” re-
ceiver Nelson Agholor said. “They
respect this opportunity and I
think he does that. Every miss or
every thing that he doesn’t see as
his best he takes hard.”
The Browns invested in a pro-
ven commodity this week.
Cleveland committed $104 mil-
lion in contract extensions to
guards Joel Bitonio and Wyatt
Teller, two versatile, athletic run
blockers who make the Browns’
powerful running game go.
Bitonio and Teller are at their
best on plays in which they pull —
go to the other side of the line — to
deliver blocks.
JACOB KUPFERMAN/AP
The status of New England Patriots running back Damien Harris wasup in the air after he started the week in concucssion protocol.
Browns, Patriotsenter matchup withuncertainty at RB
BY KYLE HIGHTOWER
Associated Press Cleveland Browns (5-4)
at New England Patriots (5-4)AFN-Atlantic
7 p.m. Sunday CET3 a.m. Monday JKT
Chubb
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TAMPA, Fla. — Desmond Rid-
der threw two touchdown passes
to break the Cincinnati career re-
cord and ran for a score to help the
No. 2 Bearcats beat South Florida
45-28 on Friday night.
Cincinnati (10-0, 6-0 American
Athletic, No. 5 CFP), one of four
unbeaten FBS teams, has started
the season with 10 consecutive
wins for just the second time in
school history. The Bearcats also
did it in 2009, when they got off to a
12-0 start.
“We know we’re still climbing
and when you’re climbing a
mound there’s going to be strug-
gles, there’s going to be obstacles
and we had some tonight,” Cincin-
nati coach Luke Fickell said. “I
thought Desmond Ridder had a
phenomenal night.”
Ridder broke the school record
with this 79th touchdown pass, a
21-yard strike to Josh Whyle early
in the third that made it 31-7. Gino
Guidugli, now Cincinnati’s quar-
terbacks coach and passing game
coordinator, had 78 scoring passes
from 2001-04.
“Something special, man,” Gui-
dugli said. “He’s earned that. It
just makes it that much more spe-
cial if your record is going to be
broken. I’m extremely happy for
him. I love him like a son.”
Ridder completed 31 of 39 pas-
ses for 304 yards, and ran for 65
yards on 13 carries. He brought
the record-breaking ball to his
postgame media session.
“I told everyone in the locker
room that this ball and this record
wasn’t just me,” Ridder said.
The Bearcats played without
running back Jerome Ford due to
a leg injury that happened during
last week against Tulsa. Ford has
888 yards and 15 rushing touch-
downs.
Bearcats keep making noise
PHOTOS BY CHRIS O’MEARA/AP
Above: Cincinnati quarterback Desmond Ridder rolls out against South Florida during the first half ofFriday’s game in Tampa, Fla. Right: South Florida quarterback Timmy McClain fumbles as he’s hit byCincinnati cornerback Ahmad Gardner during the first half. Cincinnati won 4528 to improve to 100.
Ridder breaks school recordfor TD passes as Cincinnatibeats USF to stay unbeaten
BY MARK DIDTLER
Associated Press DID YOU KNOW?
Cincinnati quarterback Desmond
Ridder broke the school record for
touchdown passes with this 79th
TD pass, a 21-yard strike to Josh
Whyle early in the third quarter.
Gino Guidugli, now Cincinnati’s
quarterbacks coach and passing
game coordinator, had 78 scoring
passes from 2001-04.
SOURCE: Associated Press
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