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o study of ancient Tellurian civilization can be com- nplete without an examina- tion of political philosophy, for the Tellurians (a/k/a “Earth-peo- ple,” a/k/a Homo sapiens — see Encyclopedia Da’ev Navorsh, vol. A. Barton Hinkle IX, part 6) were a fundamentally [email protected] political species, whose social or- ganization depended heavily on American society often was a ri- a system of hierarchy, command, otous cacophony of demands, and obedience in which the na- explicit or implicit, for the dimin- tion-state reigned supreme. ishment of liberty (albeit, always, Scholars today consider the somebody else’s). apex of Tellurian civilization be- Perhaps this is best demon- fore the Great Cataclysm to be strated not through generalities the nation-state of the United but through a close reading of States of America, and it is there primary sources. that we can observe the highest Consider “In Clash Over flourishing of two Tellurian ide- Health Bill, a Growing Fear of als, liberty and equality. Ameri- ‘Junk Insurance’ ” — an article cans believed that these ideals appearing in The New York Times stood in tension: that an increase in July of 2017 C.E. on the Tel- in one must necessarily pro- lurian calendar, during one of duce a decline in the other. Such America’s many arguments over was the limit of Tellurian under- the provision of medical care. standing 4 million years ago. The thrust of the article was a Yet within that limited under- phillipic against a proposal to standing lay an asymmetry. For let insurance companies sell while all believed in the ideal policies that did not cover all the of equality — and none argued conditions they were required for an intentional reduction in to cover under a national law human equality — the same did known as the Affordable Care not hold true of liberty. Indeed, hinklE, Page E4

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PROSPERITY STUDENT NEEDS Tax reform is School discipline key to renewing disparities require

Today, The Times-Dispatch in- American spirit more attention troduces Capitol Report, with col- umns from 7th District Rep. Dave he United States has the world’s larg- y mother, a special education Brat, a Republican, and 4th District est and most diverse economy, built teacher, taught me that public Rep. Donald McEachin, a Demo- Tand powered by the indomitable Mschools have a responsibility to lift crat. Between their districts, the American entrepreneurial spirit. Why don’t up all of our children and provide them two congressmen represent most we have the world’s best, most economi- with the tools to succeed. No exceptions. of greater RVA in the U.S. House of cally competitive tax code? Every student deserves to receive a great Representatives. We plan to make The last meaningful reform to the IRS Dave education from great teachers in a sup- A. Donald the report a monthly feature in code was 31 years ago, but now there is the Brat portive environment — regardless of that McEachin Sunday Commentary. McEachin opportunity to pass real tax reform that student’s race, family income, background, and Brat will choose which topics encourages economic growth and creates special needs, or other traits. they want to tackle. On occasion, more jobs and higher wages. We can accomplish this if When children have special needs or face unique chal- they may decide to address the we focus on allowing the free market to do what it does lenges, our school systems should make special efforts to same issue, but often they will not best — generate growth, create jobs, and increase pros- be even more supportive, responsive, and attentive. The — as is the case today. perity for every American. goal is to educate and build students up so they can be- I witnessed this firsthand when I worked at the World come productive members of our society and the leaders BraT, Page E6 McEachin, Page E6 THURSDAY RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH  Richmond.com Sports Editor: Mike Szvetitz SECTION S March 16, 2017 NCAA TOURNAMENT PREVIEW (804) 649-6456  [email protected]

The Cavaliers, Hokies and VCU Rams begin their road trips today in search of each school’s first men’s national championship

TODAY’S FIRST-ROUND GAMES (all times p.m.) VCU VCU VS. SAINT MARY’S EAST REGION coach 7:20 p.m. in Salt Lake City Will Wade No. 1 Villanova (31-3) CBS No. 5 Virginia (22-10) truTV Page S3: The Rams look to reach second weekend of NCAA No. 16 Mount St. Mary’s (20-15) 7:10 No. 12 UNC Wilmington (29-5) 12:40 tournament forfor the fi fir rsstt time since their 2011 Final FourFour run.run. No. 8 Wisconsin (25-9) CBS No. 4 Florida (24-8) truTV No. 9 Virginia Tech (22-10) 9:40 No. 13 ETSU (27-7) 3:10 VIRGINIA VVSS.. UUNNCC WWIILLMMIINNGGTTONON 12:40 p.m. in Orlando, Fla. SOUTH REGION MIDWEST REGION Page S4: Clash of contrasting styles today when the Cavs’ Pack-Line defense meets the Seahawks’ press. No. 4 Butler (23-8) TNT No. 4 Purdue (25-7) truTV No. 13 Winthrop (26-6) 1:30 No. 13 Vermont (29-5) 7:27 VIRGINIA TECH VS. WISCONSIN No. 5 Minnesota (24-9) TNT No. 5 Iowa State (23-10) truTV approx. 9:40 p.m. in Buffalo, N.Y. No. 12 Middle Tennessee (30-4) 4 No. 12 Nevada (28-6) 9:57 Page S5: The Hokies are no strangers to the style of play utilized by the Badgers, whom Virginia Tech WEST REGION guard Seth Allen calls “a Big Ten version of Virginia.”

No. 5 Notre Dame (25-9) truTV No. 1 Gonzaga (32-1) TBS No. 12 Princeton (23-6) 12:15 No. 16 South Dakota St. (18-16) 2 NCAA MEN’S TOUR No. 4 West Virginia (26-8) truTV No. 8 Northwestern (23-11) TBS NAMENT ALSO INSIDE THE TOP SEEDS No. 13 Bucknell (26-8) 2:45 No. 9 Vanderbilt (19-15) 4:30 Villanova EAST REGION Page S2: Michael Phillips continues his The de fending cham- pions enter the ncaa 2017 to urnament with few No. 6 Maryland (24-8) TNT No. 7 Saint Mary’s (28-4) TBS apparent State of the State series, this time weaknesses. The Wildcats won the Big east tournament and also no tched asking coaches around the No. 11 Xavier (21-13) 6:50 No. 10 VCU (26-8) 7:20 nonconference vic tories overpurdue,notre dame and Virginia. commonwealth what will shape the No. 3 Florida State (25-8) TNT No. 2 Arizona (30-4) TBS Gonzaga NCAA WEST REGION sport of in the This finally may be the se ason Mark Few gets TO No. 14 Fla. Gulf Coast (26-7) 9:20 No. 15 North Dakota (22-9) 9:50 Gonzaga URNEY to a Final Four. coming seasons. The Bulldo gs are tal- ented and deep — five players average double figur es in scoring, led by West coastconference pl Page S6: Your preview to the rest of the ayer of the year nigel GU Williams-Goss. IDE Who will shineshine bright bright Kansas est, tournament, including top national MIDWEST REGION rise to the totopp inin Phoenix? Phoenix? Todayat Richmond.com The Jayhawks won their 13 players and coaches to watch, potential th straight Frank Mason III regular-season Big 12 championship >>KANSAS . Led by Frank Mason iii and The senior guard from upsets and upstarts and much more. star pe Looking to stay updated with the madness? We will have you freshman Josh Jack tersburg is the Jay- son, hawk they often overcame big s’ top scorer at 20.8 deficits. does that mean , dishes they are out 5.1 assis battle teste d or ts and grabs covered as the next three weeks of the NCAA tournament unfold. sus 4.1 rebounds. Mason ceptible to an up set? Page S7: UC Davis wins in its first NCAA shoots 48.7 percent North Ca SHINING STARS from the floor and from rolina Key pl 3-point range and is SOUTH REGION ayers worth watching when the road to Phoenix tips off the playmaker who led tournament appearance, ousting North See more stories, notes and video from the Cavaliers’ stop in Orlando. Want to today: ♦ knock off the Tar Kansas to its record 13th heels? Be tter try to limit straight Big 12 title. he them on the glass. unc also is one of the mo Carolina Central in a First Four game. Also, ranks no . 1 in the st Also, get updates throughout today’s games involving state teams. country clutch players in the in rebounding margin nation, the kind of late- at plus-12.7 (no other game go-to guy e tea very local connections to teams in this year’s m is even at plus-10) team wants. and fir st in offensive re- bounds per At Twitter, get the latest news by following @RTDSports, game (15.8). ♦ — The Associated tournament and a closer look at the mind Press Monte Morris, Iowa Stat , e. Few pl ayers in , the Purdue. The 6-foo Villanova. Nigel Williams-Go country ha ve played t-9, The 6-foo ss, @TimPearrellTD, @RTD_MikeBarber and @Szvetitz. 250-pound so t-5 senior as well as the senior phomore guard and Big east Gonzaga. after starring games of the West Region. power fo point guard in the rward is a bas- at Washington his fir past ketball junkie at heart player of the year does st FIRST- month. Morris, who is two seasons, the guard who honed his skills all the little things for averaging 16 by averaged 16.7 ROUND .3 points becoming a the defending champi- points, 5.7 FiLe pho Tos and 6.1 assis ts, is the workaholic. ons. hart a rebounds and 4.7 assis By The Make your picks for the NCAA tournament at Richmond.com/Contests. UPSE he emer veraged 18 ts asso TS? ged as the .6 ciaTed ♦ biggest reason the run- points and 6.5 rebounds for the Bulldogs on his away choice as Big press Page S8: The NCAA women’s Division I Here are three up se cyclones look so dan- Ten and joined Kerry Kittl way to Wcc player of ts you player of the es can bet your brack gerous in a tournament year and is (1 the year honors. he fin- et on: the only division i pl 994-95) as the lone You could win great prizes, including a chance at $1 million for a where strong gu ayer Wildcats ished the regular ard pl ay to av to amass 1,800 season No. 12 Middle is paramount. erage more than 18 11th in the nation in POTENTIAL CINDERELLAS bracket and stars from mid-major points, 700 rebounds, Te points and 12 rebounds free thr nnessee over 250 assis ts ow shooting These are the be this season. and 150 at 90 st bets out of No. 5 Minne sota steals. .3 percent. the underdo all perfect bracket. You have until 15 minutes before the first game begins. Midd gs to reach the Sweet 16: conferences worth watching. le Tennessee won its second straight conference usa No. 13 tour- East Tennessee St nament championship EAST REGION ate and is one of the be The Buc st caneers force turno transition teams in the vers at a prolific percent), grab roughly three-quarters rate (2 2 country, scoring 1.18 rebounds and of opponent constrict tea s’ points per poss ession within the arc. The one ms to just 45 per cent concern off the br eak (top 4 is their 3-point de for the Buc caneers fense, percent in the nation). Justin Jack which isn’t as robust as the son, team’s other de fensive attribut The Blue raiders also North Carolina. , UCLA. The so es because eTsu is The Giddy Pott focused on cr eating hal boasted a plus-108 6-foo pac-12 pl ayer of the s, Middle , f-court chaos that open t-8 junior said his year Tennessee. Ken- perimeter looks are a nec turnover differential. impr arrived at ucLa with The junior tuck essary by product. ovement is a result guard ca y. a 6-foo t-3 fr esh- plenty of hype and lived n not only run of a revamped mentality the man guard, Monk led No. 10 Oklahoma up to it this team in transition, he after lessons lea season, has a the sec in scoring at 21.2 No. 12 State rned leading the nation in as- lethal no-dribble Princeton over No . 7 from workouts points per ga WE for nBa sis jumper (41 for 90 me.he bur st ST REGION Michigan teams. The ts with 7.8 per game , 68.3 to prominence in his 11th acc pl ayer effective field go Mitch hender oklahoma state le of the to pa ce the nation ’s al colleg son’s squad shar es d the year averages 18.3 percentag e game when he dame many traits with notre nation in offense top-scoring tea e) and a de ft , the Tiger s’ opening-round opponent (124.8 points. m at 91.3 touch around the scored 47 points to lead . The Tigers points per 100 poss points per basket. are perime ter-oriented — 46 per es- game. the Wildcats past cent of sions) with Jawun unc. are from deep their at tempts ev — The Associated , and the team converts 38 per ans, Press and The those sho cent of Jeffrey carroll and phil Washington Po ts — and thanks to pr st style of inceton’s methodical Forte all averaging more play, that shooting accuracy to keep pa forces an opponent than 10 points (1 ce on the other side 9.0, lenging since this is the of the ball, which is chal- 17.4 and 13.3 points, THINGS TO stingie WATCH assembled in his six st defense hender respectivel se son has y). Michigan, Double down asons in the ivy League. meanwhile, is one of a record the worst offensive 10 double-digit seeds Coaching bloodlines re won fir st-round No. 12 Ne bounding teams this games in last north vada inside, paGe e5 RTD Associate Editor: Bob Rayner • (804) 649-6073 • [email protected] ••• Rightfulplace Congress shouldn’t impeach Trump, Commentary but it should ignore him. SECTION E • Richmond Times-dispaTch • sunday, ocTobeR 15, 2017 • RICHMOND.COM

TRAUMA SURGERY IN SOUTH SUDAN

By DavID EllIott and medical aid to the fledgling nation. Editor’s note: Dr. David Elliott is a Richmond trauma surgeon and an That did not apply to my em- Army veteran. Today’s Commentary features the first in a two-part series ployer, Médecins Sans Frontières about his work in war-riddled South Sudan, saving limbs and lives as (Doctors Without Borders or MSF). a member of a Doctors Without Borders team in Juba, that country’s Instead of abandoning the city, capital city. MSF expanded its presence in Juba. That’s how I ended up there. Once it heard about and confirmed n the first day of our ing second thoughts about volun- the large number of casualties in commute, the primary teering for this job. the UN refugee camp, MSF acted sights that struck me It was July 17, 2016: one week quickly. were the piles of dead after civil war had re-erupted in Marc, our head of mission (MSF bodies lining both Juba, South Sudan’s capital city. “Big Boss” in country), contacted sides of the street. My Nearly 300,000 had died in the war relevant agencies in the Jebel ofellow commuters — Marc (from since 2013, shattering two years camp to confirm the casualties, ar- Holland), Thomas and Laura (from of fragile peace inside the planet’s range facilities to use for a hospital, France) — had warned me about newest nation. Two million peo- and get permission to construct a the smell. They hand-cranked their ple had fled South Sudan due to trauma center there. windows closed and advised me to the fighting and a similar number A few more phone calls to MSF do the same. On one corner, filled were internally displaced: home- headquarters in New York and body bags — stacked three-high less “refugees” within their own France assured delivery of an en- in haphazard disarray — awaited country. tire operating theater (OT) suite in pickup like the weekly garbage. Corruption and thirst for power 24 hours: everything from operat- A Jeep-like military vehicle, between rival ethnic groups ing table, sterile instrument sets, bristling with grim-faced cam- sparked the initial conflict. These bandages, IV fluids, all the way ouflaged soldiers brandish- latest Juba clashes arose between down to toilet paper and paper ing Kalashnikovs and opposing tribal factions within clips. howling war chants, South Sudan’s army over mere ru- Meanwhile, Laura at MSF’s passed us from the mors of a coup: during a three-day human resources section recruited opposite direction period, at least 300 had died and the people to run the trauma cen- at high speed. countless scores were injured, in- ter. Currently working a few hours At this cluding 60 innocent civilians in a away in another project, I was point, I UN refugee camp at Jebel, where tapped first to lead the start-up began much of the fighting had occurred. facility’s clinical services. I didn’t hav- As an upshot to the fighting, hesitate; my training and experi- 40,000 had fled Juba, including ence as an Army trauma surgeon most personnel of the interna- made me salivate at the opportu- tional humanitarian agencies nity (I’ve since learned excessive that provided food, education, EllIott, Page E4

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OUTRAGE Make America not so nauseating t’s frankly disgusting the songs sung about him for de- way the press is able to manding investigations into re- ‘Iwrite whatever they want porters and for suggesting that to write,” said President Trump people he considers less patri- on Wednesday, “and people otic than him should be fired. should look into it.” They say it’s a free country and Amen, brother! It’s down- all that, but come on. You have right abominable that people A. Barton Hinkle to draw the line somewhere. [email protected] in the media can just spout off The president shouldn’t the first thing that comes into stop there, though. Many other their heads with no concern have different opinions than he things are not just frankly dis- for veracity or the potential for does about certain issues, and gusting, but honestly nauseat- harm. What do they think this who show it by not standing ing, and Trump should use his is, a personal Twitter account? up for the national anthem the bully pulpit to draw more at- 2011/the assOciated press The president also is re- way they have been required to tention to them, too. And not Now this guy deeply understood america’s bun/wiener equity dilemma, pulsed by those jerks in the do since way back in 2009. just women’s suffrage or this unlike a certain other PotUS we know. Don’t get it? Read the column, bub. National Football League who Trump deserves to have epic HINklE, Page E6