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US-Iraqi military alliance not broken, but showing strain

BY SAMYA KULLAB there said, came not from the constellation and intensified demands that American sociated Press — a sign that authorities AND QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA of militant sleeper cells embedded in the troops leave the country. are serious about rethinking the strategic Associated Press landscape but further afield in Iran. Since then, Iraqi leaders have scaled relationship. U.S. forces in Iraq have been on guard back the saber-rattling rhetoric. But be- At stake are vital U.S.-provided weap- BAGHDAD — A new watchtower rose for retaliation by Iran or its Shiite militia hind closed doors, the bitterness has poi- ons, military technologies and aircraft over an American military base in north- allies since the U.S. killed Iran’s top gener- soned the partnership. The government that have been key in countering the ern Iraq, and cranes lifted hefty slabs of al in Iraq with an airstrike in Baghdad last told the Iraqi military not to seek U.S. help threat of ISIS militants trying to make concrete to reinforce the barricades in month. The Jan. 3 strike also fueled a wave in operations fighting Islamic State, two a comeback in northern and western beefed-up protections. The danger, soldiers of outrage among Iraq’s Shiite leadership senior Iraqi military officials told The As- SEE ALLIANCE ON PAGE 7 PAGE 2 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 BUSINESS/WEATHER EUROPE GAS PRICES EXCHANGE RATES

Country Super E10 Super unleaded Super plus Diesel Military rates Switzerland (Franc)...... 0.9751 Germany $2.718 $3.135 $3.388 $3.219 Azores -- -- $3.379 -- Euro costs (Feb. 7) ...... $1.1279 Thailand (Baht) ...... 31.13 Change in price -5.1 cents -3.9 cents -3.8 cents -5.4 cents Change in price -- -- -3.8 cents -- Dollar buys (Feb. 7) ...... €0.8866 Turkey (Lira) ...... 5.9882 British pound (Feb. 7) ...... $1.33 Netherlands -- $3.816 $4.026 $3.984 Belgium -- $2.878 $3.196 $3.217 (Military exchange rates are those Japanese yen (Feb. 7) ...... 107.00 Change in price -- -2.5 cents -2.0 cents -5.7 cents Change in price -- No change No change No change available to customers at military banking South Korean won (Feb. 7) ...... 1,153.00 facilities in the country of issuance U.K. -- $3.045 $3.298 $3.129 Turkey -- -- $3.189 $3.020* Commercial rates for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the Change in price -- -3.9 cents -3.8 cents -5.4 cents Change in price -- -- -3.8 cents -5.4 cents Bahrain (Dinar) ...... 0.3770 Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For British pound ...... $1.2954 nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e., Canada (Dollar) ...... 1.3293 purchasing British pounds in Germany), China (Yuan) ...... 6.9686 check with your local military banking Denmark (Krone) ...... 68008 facility. Commercial rates are interbank PACIFIC GAS PRICES Egypt (Pound) ...... 15.7698 rates provided for reference when buying Euro ...... $1.0987/0.9101 Country Unleaded Super unleaded Super plus Diesel Hong Kong (Dollar) ...... 7.7630 currency. All figures are foreign currencies Japan -- $3.179 -- $3.009 South Korea $2.539 -- $3.209 $3.039 to one dollar, except for the British pound, Change in price -- -4.0 cents -- -5.0 cents Change in price -5.0 cents -- -4.0 cents -5.0 cents Hungary (Forint) ...... 306.94 Israel (Shekel) ...... 3.4303 which is represented in dollars-to-pound, Okinawa $3.519 -- -- $3.009 Guam $2.519** $2.939 $3.189 -- Japan (Yen) ...... 109.93 and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.) Change in price -4.0 cents -- -- -5.0 cents Change in price -5.0 cents -4.0 cents -4.0 cents -- Kuwait (Dinar) ...... 0.3042 INTEREST RATES Norway (Krone) ...... 9.2410 Philippines (Peso)...... 50.75 Prime rate ...... 4.75 * Diesel EFD ** Midgrade Poland (Zloty) ...... 3.87 Discount rate ...... 2.25 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ...... 3.7515 Federal funds market rate ...... 1.50 For the week of Feb. 7 - 13 Singapore (Dollar) ...... 1.3856 3-month bill ...... 1.53 South Korea (Won) ...... 1,184.18 30-year bond ...... 2.13 WEATHER OUTLOOK FRIDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST FRIDAY IN EUROPE SATURDAY IN THE PACIFIC

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BY COREY DICKSTEIN from the language department space operations to officially ning transfer processes.” Stars And Stripes at the Air Force Academy, from transfer into the new service by Thompson also said planners the Defense Language Institute the end of 2020, according to the are deciding on criteria for how WASHINGTON — The newly and they have conducted crowd- report provided to Congress on Space Force members will be established Space Force will sourcing with troops expected to Monday and obtained by Stars judged for promotion, as airmen grow from one member to an es- transfer into the Space Force to and Stripes. The officials expect will compete with longtime mem- timated 15,000 to 16,000 troops in determine what their service’s space operators now serving in bers of the Army and the Navy, the coming years, but it remains equivalent will be to soldiers, sail- the Army and Navy will begin which use different criteria for SETH ROBSON/Stars and Stripes unclear what Space Force mem- ors, airmen, Marines and Coast transferring into the Space Force advancing their troops. bers will be called. Guardsmen. A space operations occupational in fiscal year 2022. While troops working in space Space Force planners are tak- They have made a few deter- badge . The transfer process is some- operations, which includes space ing the naming of their troops minations on what Space Force what complicated, and Thompson intelligence, space engineering, very seriously, said Air Force Lt. members will not be called. medical, logistics and security said it will take some time to sort space communications, and space Gen. David Thompson, who is as- Thompson ruled out naming them troops, Thompson said. it out to ensure it is done smoothly acquisition, among other jobs, signed as the vice commander of “spacemen” or “space cadets.” But it will still be months be- and “everyone gets paid,” once it will be expected to transfer into the Space Force. He declined to identify names fore the Space Force has actual is completed. the Space Force, they will not be “It’s something we’ve spent that officials are considering. troops. Now, about 16,000 per- The report lays out the trans- forced to do so, Thompson said. some serious time and energy on,” It is just one aspect of many sonnel — about 3,400 Air Force fer process for troops who will “As a general principle, if you Thompson told reporters Wednes- unknowns that remain in the de- officers, 6,200 enlisted airmen join the Space Force: “To do so, are in space operations — offi- day at the Pentagon. “There are a velopment of the first new mili- and some 8,000 civilians — are those members will formally cers or enlisted members — the couple of really strong options on tary service established since the assigned to the Space Force but resign their commission or ter- assumption and the expectation what we might be called and some Air Force’s creation in 1948. The remain a part of the Air Force. minate their enlistment with the is that you will transfer into the pretty strong opinions. What we’d service aims to be much smaller To date, only one person has Air Force, Army, or Navy, and re- Space Force,” he said. “For those like to do is ensure we’ve thought than the others, built almost ex- been officially transferred into commission or re-enlist into the who may not want to for various as broadly as we can … and con- clusively of forces focused en- the Space Force — the Chief of Space Force,” the report states. reasons we’ll have mechanisms sider what that ought to be before tirely on space operations. It will Space Operations Gen. Jay Ray- “Planners are actively developing in place.” we land on it.” rely heavily on the Air Force to mond. But officials expect about specific processes and conditions [email protected] Planners have sought guidance provide support troops, such as 6,000 troops from the Air Force’s that must be met before begin- Twitter: @CDicksteinDC Submarine builder to hire thousands as production ramps up

Associated Press seen since the Cold War, Graney said. WARWICK, R.I. — Defense As the company has grown in contractor General Dynamics recent years, some attack sub- Electric Boat will need to hire marines have been delivered thousands more employees over to the Navy late and there was the next decade as it ramps up a welding issue in 2018 with a submarine production, the com- pany’s president said Monday. subcontractor. Electric Boat President Kevin Electric Boat is focused on the Graney met with elected officials training of new employees and in Connecticut and Rhode Island supervisors to emphasize the company’s culture, and reaching MICHAEL MURPHY/U.S. Air Force for an annual legislative update. The company’s headquarters is in out to the growing supplier base A B-52H Stratofortress from the 69th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron prepares to depart Andersen Air Groton, Conn., and its manufac- to ensure quality, Graney said. Force Base, Guam, on Tuesday . turing facility is in North Kings- Because it will be challenging to town, R .I . hire the number of employees the At the Warwick, R .I., meeting, company needs, with the right Graney said the company cur- mindset and attention to detail Air Force B-52 bombers train rently has nearly 17,000 employ- for the work, it is doing more out- ees, of which 70% are based in reach to schools to get students Connecticut — a level of employ- interested in shipbuilding, be- with fighters and Japanese allies ment not seen since 1993. Electric ginning in elementary school, he Boat will need about 20,000 em- added. “It is a generational challenge BY SETH ROBSON Center commander. “Joint and multinational inte- ployees around 2030 to build two when you think about what we Stars and Stripes gration provides an excellent opportunity for our classes of submarines. That will are all doing,” he said after the Airmen to maintain their readiness and hone their require hiring about 18,000 peo- meeting. “We’re pushing this en- A pair of B-52H Stratofortress bombers flew global strike capability.” ple to increase the headcount and terprise faster than it has been alongside Japanese and American fighters in a col- The Guam-based bombers are assigned to the account for attrition, he added. pushed in 40 years. And so it is lective show of force Monday near Misawa Air Base 69th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron out of Minot Electric Boat currently builds absolutely the challenge of a life- in northeastern Japan. and deployed to the region as part of the 15-year-old Virginia-class fast-attack subma- time for anybody who’s really in- The strategic bombers from Andersen Air Force continuous presence mission, officials said. rines under a teaming agreement volved with these programs.” Base, Guam, and Minot Air Force Base, N.D., “These missions routinely operate throughout with Newport News Shipbuild- trained with six Misawa-based 35th Fighter Wing ing in Virginia. The U.S. Navy Graney seemed confident in the region in accordance with international law and Electric Boat’s ability to meet the F-16s and 45 Japan Air Self-Defense Force planes, norms,” the statement said. awarded the largest shipbuilding contract in its history in Decem- challenge, saying that “failure is including F-2s, F-4s and F-15s, Pacific Air Forces U.S. Strategic Command has conducted bomber officials said in a statement Wednesday. ber, ordering nine more attack not an option.” task force missions since 2014 as a sign of commit- The bombers are part of a combined Continuous submarines for a total of $22.2 Democratic Gov. Gina Rai- ment to collective security, and to integrate with Bomber Presence and Bomber Task Force mission, billion. mondo, who attended the meet- combatant commands. The first such mission in- the officials said. U.S. Strategic Command’s bomber Electric Boat is the prime con- ing, promised to continue helping cluded B-52Hs and B-2 Spirits traveling from the forces regularly train with allies and partners, dem- tractor for a new class of ballistic- Electric Boat find the talent it continental United States to Joint Base Pearl Har- onstrating U.S. capability to command, control and missile submarines, the Columbia needs, using the state’s job train- conduct bomber missions around the world. bor Hickam in April 2014, officials said. class. Construction is expected to ing programs and partnerships “This mission demonstrates the flexibility, long “Strategic bomber missions enhance the readi- begin on the first ship, out of 12, with local schools. Rhode Island reach and responsive nature of our bomber force as ness and training necessary to respond to any po- in October. Democratic U.S. Reps. Jim Lan- we continue to assure our allies and deter aggres- tential crisis or challenge across the globe,” officials With both submarine classes gevin and David Cicilline said sors globally,” said Maj. Gen. James Dawkins Jr., said in the statement. under construction, it will be a they’d continue advocating for 8th Air Force and Joint-Global Strike Operations [email protected] level of submarine production not submarine funding in Congress. PAGE 4 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 MILITARY House panel scolds DOD over inaction on special needs effort

BY ROSE L. THAYER Stars and Stripes After accusing officials in charge of the military’s Excep- tional Family Member Program of “happy talk,” but no action, Rep. Jackie Speier vowed Wednesday to bring them back to Capitol Hill David Sewell every three months until they’ve met all the recommendations Army veteran David Sewell, seen after surgery in 2013, said he was made by a government watchdog diagnosed that year with mesothelioma from asbestos. He believes two years ago. he was exposed to asbestos during remediation work at Camp “We are going to be hawks Walker, South Korea. on this,” said Speier, D-Calif., chairwoman of the subpanel on military personnel for the House Vets: Asbestos removal to Armed Services Committee. Wednesday’s hearing was the blame for health problems first time in more than a decade that the committee had heard Austin Carrigg Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif. about the program, which is a BY SETH ROBSON Daegu spokesman Cameron mandatory enrollment program It provides many support ser- military family enrolled in the Stars and Stripes Porter. for service members who have a vices, including relocation ser- program in the last three months. “Prior to being contacted by family member requiring special- vices, outreach with stakeholders Only Jennifer Stewart, manager Former soldiers who say they Stars and Stripes, we were not ized medical care, treatment pro- and has staff attend meetings to of the Marine Corps’ EFMP had. were sickened by a botched asbes- aware of any individuals who grams or educational services. create education plans with area Kelly also agreed with recom- tos remediation project in South were expressing specific health While the program is meant to school systems. mendations to get families placed Korea two decades ago want the concerns related to that project,” ensure that those service mem- Speier told Carolyn Stevens, on the wait list for services before Army to find and warn others he said in an email Jan. 16. bers receive duty assignments director of the Defense Depart- they move to a new location and who may have been exposed to Porter recommended that vet- to locations where those special ment’s Office of Military Family to grant additional pay to service the carcinogen. erans who suspect they have been needs can be met, testimony from Readiness Policy, that doing so members who choose to leave A 1996 inspection of U.S. bases affected by the program should two military spouses with chil- would “solve a lot of our prob- their families behind to take as- on the peninsula found asbestos contact their local Veterans Af- dren in the program and three lems,” because “they obviously signments that advance their in 200 buildings. fairs medical facility. representatives from military get it.” careers, but in an area located “Experts say dozens of build- Sewell said that between 60 advocacy groups depicted that While the Marine Corps only too far from the treatments their ings on bases across South Korea and 70 U.S. and South Korean the program is failing in several has about 11,000 families en- special needs family members might be contaminated with bro- workers were still in the build- ways. About 135,000 military rolled in the program, it has 107 require. ken pieces of asbestos, resulting ing, which included a large room family members are enrolled in full-time staff members dedicat- These are “easy fixes,” he said. in crushed, airborne fragments full of computers and commu- the program, as of April 2019. ed to it. Meanwhile, the Army has [email protected] that can be deadly if inhaled,” nications equipment known as Army spouse Austin Carrigg 119 employees for about 54,000 Twitter: @Rose_Lori said a Stars and Stripes report the Theater Network Operations described in her testimony how families. published May 28, 2000. Support Center, when workers her husband was assigned to Joint The Marines provide families Twenty years later, veterans started to remove the asbestos. Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., and special education attorneys to who worked in a building at Camp “There was white powder all the couple was told that the ser- help when public schools deny Walker, where the Army removed over the floor and desks,” he said. vices needed for her two children federally mandated services and asbestos, believe they may have “Halfway through the project, who are in the program would be also ensure that EFMP staff been exposed to toxic dust. they moved employees from the available. Once they moved there, communicate with families in David Sewell, 59, worked in the back of the building into a tent the family learned the wait list the program quarterly. No other building as a noncommissioned because we complained that we for some services was more than branch has a blanket communica- officer with the 36th Signal Bat- couldn’t breathe.” a year. tion requirement. talion from 1994-2000 and was The asbestos was stacked in “When a baby is 3 months old, Engaging families remained an still working there as a network front of the building after it was 18 months is a very long time to important aspect to repairing the security civilian contractor when removed, Sewell said. wait,” she said. program for lawmakers as they the asbestos was removed, he “Dust blew across the base into A 2018 Government Account- grilled officials. Speier pledged to said. family housing,” he said. “It’s ability Office report found that fix the program this year, begin- Sewell said that he was diag- pretty scary stuff.” the Defense Department needs ning with town halls that would nosed with mesothelioma from Carl Turnbow, 61, of Sweetwa- better oversight of the program allow people from the overflow asbestos exposure in 2013. ter, Texas, who did several tours and provided three recommenda- crowd in attendance for Wednes- “I’m lucky I am not dead,” he of duty in South Korea between tions. While the Defense Depart- day’s hearing to share their own said in a telephone interview last 1980 and 2000 as an Army NCO, ment allows each service branch stories about EFMP. month. was working for a contractor in to implement its own EFMP, there “We’re going to change this Treatment for the disease in- the Camp Walker building when is no standardization or perfor- system so it’s responsive to the volved the removal of his gall the asbestos was removed. mance measurement structure, families,” she said. “Words don’t bladder and about 450 tumors The signals personnel found said Jackie Nowicki, director of have any weight unless they are from his stomach and liver, eight themselves surrounded by plas- K-12 education for GAO and the followed up with actions. You can chemotherapy sessions and a tic sheeting, but their workspaces report’s author. Her testimony fo- all say you’re here for families, month in a hospital, said the dis- were full of dust from the work, cused on the report and the vari- but unless we’re going to show abled retiree living in Cumming, he recalled. ations in support between each it with action, we’re not going to Ga. “We were sitting there cough- service branch. achieve that result.” Sewell believes that he was ing,” he said. “DOD relies on each military The ranking Republican on the exposed to asbestos during the Partway through the work, the service to implement its policy on subcommittee, Rep. Trent Kelly Camp Walker remediation work. staff moved to a tent beside the support for families with special of Mississippi, agreed that fami- He said that the Army should building, Turnbow said. needs,” she said. “In doing so, lies are the most important aspect reach out to U.S. and South Kore- Turnbow, who still works in the they also rely on each military of the program — not processes. an personnel who were working Camp Walker signals building, service to determine the extent “What we’re talking about are in the building during the asbes- has had his own health issues, al- to which its assistance to families people,” he said. “And we’re talk- tos removal. though it’s not clear whether they with special needs complies with ing about those very most vulner- “All the people who worked in were caused by asbestos expo- this policy.” able people we should be helping. that building need to know they sure. He’s had a kidney removed Based on data in the report We shouldn’t be making it harder. were exposed to asbestos and be and several cases of skin cancer and testimony provided during We should be making it easier.” checked,” he said. in recent years, he said, and doc- the hearing, the Marine Corps Kelly then quizzed the six De- The asbestos abatement hap- tors have also found nodules on model for EFMP was held up fense Department and service pened from October 2000 to May his lungs. as the one that should be imple- branch officials to see whether 2001, said U.S. Army Garrison [email protected] mented across the other services. they had personally spoken to a Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 5 EUROPE Aviano to receive more COLA, others less after survey

BY NANCY MONTGOMERY Livorno and Sigonella were Stars and Stripes each down two points. Ghedi and Naples had no change. VICENZA, Italy — Aviano air- Each point corresponds to a men got a boost in their living al- different dollar amount depend- lowance this month, while most ing on a service member’s rank, other service members in Italy length of service and number of will see theirs cut next month. family members. The adjustments in the cost- One COLA point for an E-6 of-living allowance, the nontax- with 10 years of service and three able payment designed to offset dependents for this year is about higher overseas prices of goods $34.50 a month, OSD said. One and services, ranges from a neg- COLA point for an O-3 with 10 ligible amount to hundreds of dol- years of service and three depen- lars a month. dents is about $44. The increase began Feb.1 for The adjustments mean that an NANCY MONTGOMERY/Stars and Stripes Aviano-based troops. The de- Aviano E-6 would see an extra creases for troops in Gaeta, Sigo- $69 a month and the officer would Vicenza commissary shoppers said that convenience and brand names were primary reasons they did nella, Livorno and Vicenza will see $88 more a month. most of their shopping on base. be effective March 1, an Office of The Vicenza E-6 would see the Secretary of Defense memo $138 less a month, and the officer That survey is coupled with an chelle Ortiz, the base librarian. of the convenience. stated. would receive $176 a month less. annual market basket survey that “When are they going to tell us?” “It’s just easier,” said Georgia Defense Department civilian Service members receiving prices about 120 goods and ser- Abbey Halley said that she Emmons, a military spouse. post allowance, which is based on an increase will receive the full vices bought off base. The prices was unsure how much she and Officials with OSD and Com- State Department data and calcu- amount in the first eligible pay are then compared with average her staff sergeant husband were mand Navy Region Europe, Af- lated differently, is not affected. period, while decreased will be U.S. costs for equivalent items. getting in their COLA, but that Gaeta was hit hardest with a phased into paychecks. If the overseas market basket it sounded like the adjustment rica, Southwest Asia, the COLA six-point decrease in the COLA The changes come after troops cost is greater than the average would cost them “a little chunk.” Italy Allowance Coordinator, did index, followed by Vicenza, down and family members completed U.S. cost, a COLA is paid. Neither woman nor two oth- not return emails and phone calls four points, both because of “sig- the Living Pattern Survey, which “While decreases are not de- ers in the commissary had taken for comment, including on how nificant (price) decreases in the is generally done every three sired, all COLA changes … are the Living Pattern Survey, which many surveys were filled out. groceries, clothing, phone and years, this fall. data-based and calculated using complied data that reduces the al- The OSD memo said that transportation categories,” the The survey asks service mem- the same methodology,” the OSD lowance, they said. “overall minimum sample sizes memo said. bers or spouses which local stores memo stated. They said that in their experi- to statistically validate the survey Aviano’s index increased two they shop in, what they bought Some Vicenza commissary ence, Italian groceries, clothes points, largely because of a cost and the percentage of goods they shoppers said Thursday that they and other items’ prices hadn’t results were attained.” increase in “the telephone/inter- buy there or from the commis- were unaware of the changes. gone down. But all said that they [email protected] net category.” sary and exchange. “It’s going down?” said Mi- shopped mostly on base because Twitter:@montgomerynance PAGE 6 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 MILITARY Esper sets focus for 2021 budget request

BY COREY DICKSTEIN clear forces, seen as the country’s Stars And Stripes No. 1 deterrent. It would also focus on strengthening missile defense for the WASHINGTON — The Penta- U.S. homeland. gon’s proposed budget for fiscal year The request includes funding for 2021 is meant to ensure the Defense the expected build out of the Space Department can compete militar- Force, which was established in late ily with its great-power competitors 2019 with plans to grow to more than China and Russia, Defense Secretary 10,000 troops through the next five Mark Esper told senior leaders in a years. It also funds efforts to create a memorandum. “Joint Warfighting Concept,” meant The budget request, expected to to allow the military services and be unveiled Monday, “supports irre- their weapons systems to work better versible implementation of the [2018] together on the battlefield. National Defense Strategy” by build- The request would divert funding ing a path to a more modern, combat- from older “legacy” weapons systems ready force, Esper wrote in the Jan. that the U.S. military has used for de- 27 memo. The memo was sent to the cades in order to better fund emerging civilian secretaries of the Pentagon’s technology, including hypersonic and three military departments and their directed energy weapons, artificial in- top deputies, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, telligence and autonomous platforms. and the four-star commanders of the In the memo, Esper calls for grow- 11 combatant commands. ing American partnerships in the Esper singled out four primary Indo-Pacific region, considered areas for those individuals to focus on critical to counter China’s growing during congressional testimony to de- economic and military influence JASON ISAACS/U.S. Navy fend the forthcoming budget request: across the globe. He also commits to  It would invest heavily in increas- “forming an enduring Middle East The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Rafael Peralta fires its Mark 45 5-inch ing military combat readiness and coalition.” gun last month during a scheduled deployment to the Indo-Pacific. modern weaponry needed against a The proposed budget supports on- near-peer adversary. going audits and reviews of the De-  It would strengthen and build fense Department meant to “free up military partnerships and alliances time, money and manpower,” Esper Navy swaps sub for destroyer around the world. wrote. It includes reforms to the  It w o u l d r e f o r m t h e P e n t a - so-called Pentagon Fourth Estate, gon for “greater performance and organizations within the Defense in change of spending plan accountability.” Department not directly tied to the  It would support troops and their military departments. Esper wrote it families. would “constrain the growth” of the BY TONY CAPACCIO That’s about four years earlier than the Navy’s “Each component should ensure department’s non-warfighting agen- Bloomberg public plan and more than 20 years earlier than that [those] themes are incorporated cies and activities to find savings “to a previous schedule. The Pentagon is bolstering the number of war- into oral and written statements to our put back into lethality.” Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly and ships the Navy will seek in its fiscal 2021 budget oversight committees,” Esper wrote The 2021 budget proposal would Defense Secretary Mark Esper reached agree- in the memo, which was obtained by also advocate for “robust pay” and request after the White House complained an ment on the new budget proposal, which came Stars and Stripes on Wednesday. benefits needed to attract and retain initial proposal was too low to meet President as Senate Armed Services Committee Chair- The Pentagon on Monday is ex- the best people for the military, Esper Donald Trump’s long-term target, according to man James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, pected to unveil its fiscal year 2021 wrote. It would include improvements officials. spearheaded a successful effort to boost funding budget proposal and the budgets for to and increased oversight of priva- In the budget proposal expected Monday, the for the National Nuclear Security Administra- each of its military services as part tized, on-base military housing. It Navy will request funding for eight ships, up tion by about $2.5 billion to nearly $20 billion. of the White House’s budget proposal also would support on-base child care from seven in a draft service request in mid- To meet that goal, the Pentagon shifted about rollout. The overall budget is expect- facilities and professional licensing December. The new request for the fiscal year $1.6 billion of the proposed funds away from the ed to be about $740 billion, which was and education programs for military starting Oct. 1 includes two Arleigh Burke-class submarine program. The remaining defense agreed to last year by Congress as spouses, he wrote. destroyers built by General Dynamics Corp., dollars were shifted from other areas. part of a two-year budget deal. The Esper’s memo makes no mention one more than the service proposed seeking in The funding shift likely won’t sit well with enacted Pentagon budget for fiscal of President Donald Trump’s bor- the December draft. Armed Services Democrats Jack Reed of Rhode year 2020 was about $730 billion. der wall initiative. Last year, Trump The Navy’s proposal indicates it was unable Island, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and The 2018 National Defense Strat- moved about $7.2 billion from Penta- to add a second Virginia-class submarine, for Tim Kaine of Virginia. The Virginia-class sub- egy directs the Pentagon to prioritize gon counterdrug and construction cof- a total of two, instead of the additional guided- marine is made jointly in Connecticut and Vir- power competition with rivals China fers to be used to fund a barrier along missile destroyer. That move to swap the sub for ginia by General Dynamics and Huntington and Russia over other global threats, the U.S.-Mexico border. The issue, the destroyer came after the Pentagon, under Ingalls Industries Inc. including international terrorism — strongly opposed by Democrats, was pressure from the Office of Management and A significantly expanded naval fleet was a long the top focus of the U.S. military. among the primary reasons the 2020 Budget to bolster funding for the agency that key campaign promise of Trump’s in 2016. The It outlines a need for modern weap- Pentagon budget was not approved manages nuclear weapons, shifted about $1.6 Navy’s proposal in December targeted a 287- ons to deter aggression from those by Congress until December, three billion in proposed funding away from the sub- ship fleet by fiscal year 2025 — the last year of a nations, which have spent heavily months into the fiscal year. marine program for that effort, according to potential second Trump administration, accord- in recent years to build forces more The Department of Homeland Se- officials. ing to the budget office. But that level, which in- capable of competing with Ameri- curity last month asked the Pentagon The overall request will help the Navy get cluded the decommissioning of 12 warships to can troops and closely watched U.S. to build about 270 miles of border wall marginally closer to Trump’s long-term goal save money, would be well below the long-term tactics in the long wars in Iraq and this year, but officials at DHS and the of creating a 355-ship fleet. The service was 308-ship target set by the Obama administra- Afghanistan. Pentagon have not identified publicly pressed by the White House budget office in tion, the budget office said in a memo obtained Esper wrote the forthcoming bud- how much that is expected to cost. December to accelerate its ship-building plans by Bloomberg News. get request would prioritize new [email protected] to show it could achieve a fleet of that size “in- The service currently has 293 deployable spending to modernize the U.S. nu- Twitter: @CDicksteinDC cluding manned and unmanned ships, by 2030.” vessels. Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 7 MIDEAST Alliance: Iraqi officers say full US withdrawal would bring a setback in military capabilities

FROM FRONT PAGE could cripple Iraq’s economy. do,” said a senior army intelli- Iraq. The prospect of losing that Instead of directly pushing gence official. help is one reason why Iraqi poli- for U.S. withdrawal, Iraq’s gov- The Iraqis also rely on U.S. ticians have cooled their demands ernment appears to be quietly military expertise to maintain for American forces to go imme- distancing itself on the ground. their American-made F-16 fight- diately. Senior Iraqi military offi- Though the U.S. announced joint er aircraft. cials oppose a withdrawal. operations against ISIS had re- Iraq’s Kurdish and the major- “To us the American presence sumed, Iraq has been unclear. ity of Sunni factions oppose an is like the electricity network in The Iraqi military announced the American withdrawal. Many a house,” said a brigadier general end of the pause on Jan. 30, but Sunnis consider the U.S. pres- stationed in western Iraq, speak- a military spokesman rescinded ence as a bulwark against both ing on condition of anonymity the claim in remarks to state tele- ISIS and Iranian power. because he was not authorized vision. It was not followed up with “If the Americans go out then to speak to media. “If the light is a clarification. On at least two oc- we will be attacked by everyone, turned off the whole place goes casions in January, U.S. officials and by everyone I mean [ISIS], dark.” said they expected the pause the government, the militias and would be lifted imminently. In the wake of the U.S. strike the parties,” said Abu Ahmad, a Two Iraqi military officials and ADRIAN WEALE/DOD that killed Iran’s Maj. Gen. Qas- grocery shop owner in the Old a militia commander said this sem Soleimani and a senior Iraqi City of Mosul, which was overrun U.S. soldiers provide armed overwatch at the U.S. Embassy week that the government told militia commander, Iraq’s parlia- by ISIS in 2014. “It is the U.S. that compound in Baghdad last month. Instead of directly pushing for ment passed a nonbinding resolu- its military not to seek assistance U.S. withdrawal, Iraq’s government appears to be quietly distancing from the U.S.-led coalition in anti- keeps them away from swallow- tion demanding the government itself on the ground. ISIS operations and to minimize ing Mosul.” force out the Americans. Tens of cooperation. The three spoke on thousands marched in an anti- condition of anonymity because U.S. rally inspired by a radical they were not authorized to talk cleric, while Iraq’s outgoing pre- to the press. mier, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, openly “Until now, we have not asked stated that the troops must go. the Americans to provide assis- American forces had to halt tance, we rely on our capabilities joint operations with the Iraqi to pursue [ISIS] elements. The military against ISIS after the presence of the Americans in the strike, a pause that would last joint operations is only formal,” a for three weeks. In the interim, senior military intelligence offi- the U.S. troops fortified bases cial told The Associated Press. against potential retaliation by Another of the officials, a Iran or Iraqi Shiite militias — like commander in Iraq’s elite U.S.- the new tower and beefed-up bar- trained Counter-Terrorism Ser- ricades at a base visited recently vices in western Anbar province, by the AP in the northern Iraqi said some training continues, but city of Irbil. “as for military operations and About 5,200 U.S. soldiers are carrying out operations, there is stationed in Iraqi bases to sup- no support.” port local troops fighting ISIS No coalition airstrikes have militants, part of a larger inter- been carried out against ISIS national coalition invited by the since the killing of Soleimani, Iraqi government in 2014. said coalition spokesman Myles But since then, Western offi- Caggins. In contrast, 45 strikes cials say Iraqi authorities have were conducted in Iraq in Octo- taken no concrete measures to ber and November. “The Iraqis hasten a withdrawal plan. have not requested assistance “I’d say with virtually all of with airstrikes in recent weeks the Shiite political party leaders while our operations are paused,” there’s been behind closed doors Caggins said. and in private meetings a much U.S. Marine Gen. Frank McK- more thoughtful approach on how enzie, the top American com- they deal with this and a desire mander for the Middle East, met on their part to maintain a rela- Tuesday with Iraqi leaders and tionship and a coalition partner- acknowledged that joint military ship that they regard as essential operations and training have for Iraq,” said a U.S. official, who been scaled back, although he spoke on condition of anonymity said U.S. special operations forc- in line with regulations. es are doing some missions with In a Cabinet session, Abdul- Iraqi commandos. Mahdi said it was up to the next “We’re still in a period of tur- government to see through bulence. We’ve got a ways to go,” Parliament’s resolution. Prime he said. Minister-designate Mohammed A full-scale U.S. withdrawal Allawi, a former communications would bring a major setback in minister, has not made his policy Iraqi capabilities to fight ISIS known. that Iraqi military officers ac- Western diplomats were told knowledge. The U.S. withdrew that Iraq had formed a commit- from the country in 2011, only for tee to study the issue of Ameri- the Iraqi military to collapse in ca’s troop presence in Iraq, but the face of the 2014 blitz by ISIS two Iraqi officials said there was that overran the north and west. no official sign off from Abdul- As a result, the government in- Mahdi formally creating such a vited the Americans back. committee. James Jeffrey, spe- “The Iraqi forces present in cial envoy for the global coalition western Iraq need continuous air to defeat ISIS, said, speaking of support and logistical support,” the committee, “there has not said the CTS official. “These are been any real engagement,” in re- provided to us by coalition forces, marks to reporters in Washington especially the U.S. If they are on Jan. 23. taken out, we will be paralyzed.“ Washington has responded to “The battle against [ISIS] is be- Iraq’s requests to initiate troop coming increasingly technologi- withdrawals with blunt refusal, cal, and we don’t own any of these even threatening sanctions that technologies. Only the Americans PAGE 8 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 MILITARY Report: Heavy forces better at deterring strife

BY JOHN VANDIVER achieving deterrence was con- Stars and Stripes nected to “heavy ground forc- es,” which included armored STUTTGART, Germany — units and those with air defense Ground troops based overseas capabilities. with tanks and artillery are bet- “The effects of these two types ter at preventing conflict than of forces were almost consistently their light infantry counterparts, positive, strongly statistically sig- a study said after examining nificant, and robust to multiple more than 70 years of military model specifications,” the report MARTIN EGNASH/Stars and Stripes deployments to determine what said. The U.S. tank team fires at targets from its M1A2 Abrams tanks during the Strong Europe Tank best deters adversaries. There was less evidence to Challenge in Grafenwoehr, Germany, in 2018. Heavy ground forces based overseas are the best at In its report — “Understand- show that mobile, rotational forc- deterring conflict, according to a new Rand Corp. study. ing the Deterrent Impact of U.S. es deter as effectively. A possible Overseas Deployments” — the reason is they “represent a lesser war,” the report said. signal of commitment,” Rand among security analysts, poli- research group Rand Corp. also degree of high-level or long-term Rand said more analysis is said. “Similarly, ground forces’ cymakers and some lawmakers, found that when the military U.S. commitment or possibly be- needed to understand why that vulnerability when stationed who have questioned the costs of surges forces toward a flashpoint, cause measuring their effects is could be the case, but one pos- overseas also represents a strong maintaining big bases abroad. it’s rare for fighting to break out. more difficult,” the report said. sibility is that light forces repre- signal of resolve.” In military circles, the discus- “Despite these risks, the histor- Light ground forces, which sent “a more rapidly deployable The Rand report comes as the sion centers on whether it’s bet- ical record suggests that very few include airborne and special op- capability that provokes U.S. ad- Pentagon is reviewing whether ter to rely on a rotational model crises escalate when the United erations units stationed inside the versaries without representing commands overseas are re- that moves large numbers of States deploys forces to the cri- borders of the ally or partner to sufficient capabilities to deter.” sourced to deal with the mili- U.S.-based troops back and forth sis region … These effects are be defended, could be counter- The analysis also showed “little, tary’s top priority of countering overseas, or to instead support particularly strong for ground productive to deterrence, Rand if any, evidence for the deterrent China and Russia, even as thou- forces, where no crises have es- said. impact of air and naval forces,” sands of troops remain on alert permanent bases. calated to major confrontation Those units were “associated the report said. in the Middle East amid tensions Other analysts contend that or war, and for air forces, where with an increased likelihood of “Because air and naval forces with Iran. long-range strike capabilities are only one crisis has escalated,” the militarized disputes, including can be relatively easily rede- For decades, the value of basing enough to deter aggressors. report said. those of both lower and higher ployed between theaters, their large numbers of troops overseas [email protected] The clearest evidence for intensity, though not including presence represents a weaker has been a source of fierce debate Twitter: @john_vandiver Chico finds Man charged with hiring home with Marines to get immigrants BY ALEX RIGGINS An attorney for the defendant US troops The San Diego Union-Tribune did not immediately respond Wednesday night to a message SAN DIEGO — Federal pros- seeking comment. in Poland ecutors have filed a conspiracy According to prosecutors, in- charge against a man accused of vestigators first became aware of BY IMMANUEL JOHNSON recruiting and paying Marines the scheme involving the Camp Stars and Stripes and other United States citizens Pendleton personnel on July 3, to transport unauthorized im- when U.S. Border Patrol agents BEMOWO PISKIE TRAIN- migrants throughout San Diego ING AREA, Poland — Two years arrested two Marines for alleg- County shortly after they crossed edly picking up three unauthor- ago, he was a no-name stray who’d /Stars and Stripes IMMANUEL JOHNSON from Mexico into the U.S. ized immigrants near Jacumba bark from a distance at American The charge against Francisco Hot Springs. soldiers every time they’d step off Chico poses for a photo at Bemowo Piskie Training Area in Orzysz, Saul Rojas-Hernandez is connect- During questioning, those two this base in northeastern Poland. Poland. He is allowed into barracks on base where he is treated like ed with a scheme that entangled Marines said a man they knew as Today, the friendly mongrel has a distinguished guest. some two dozen Camp Pendleton “Rojas” had paid them, “recruit- a name, all of his shots, a place of Marines, at least 13 of whom left ed them and organized the smug- his own, all the food he can eat petition and as soon as we stepped will run with them until they are off base, there was a little white the Corps in the wake of human gling operation,” according to a and plenty of service members to done,” Foote said. dog in the distance barking. It trafficking and drug accusations. probable cause statement writ- pat and play with him. When the time comes for the looked like Chico from the movie Military prosecutors dropped ten by Katelyn Thompson with “Chico always brings joy to the sniper section to leave Bemowo ‘Friday,’ ” he said. most of the charges in the high- the Naval Criminal Investigative soldiers, and during every rota- Piskie, they’ll pass the torch for The mutt of indeterminate par- taking care of Chico to the incom- profile case late last year after Service. tion there’s a different group that a judge ruled the mass arrest of entage now had a name. A per- ing unit. One of the Marines identified takes care of him,” said Gosia 16 Marines in front of their 800- sonalized doghouse near one of Around 700 U.S. troops began a Rojas-Hernandez when shown Sobolewska, a linguist who works person battalion last summer was a photo lineup, according to the the barracks soon followed. six-month rotation at the Bemowo with the NATO Enhanced For- The dog is allowed to enter unlawful. document. Piskie Training Area last month ward Presence mission that the the barracks and is recognized Rojas-Hernandez is accused Over the next few months, Bor- as part of a mission to strengthen U.S. troops are supporting. by higher leadership as a distin- of conspiring with the Marines der Patrol agents arrested several NATO’s eastern flank and deter Chico came into the lives of guished guest. and others to transport the un- other U.S. citizens who gave the the U.S. soldiers at Bemowo “I have heard from some of the Russian aggression in Europe. authorized immigrants within name “Rojas” when identifying Piskie around two years ago, said soldiers that Chico reminds them The training area is in the village the U.S. “for financial gain,” ac- who had recruited and paid them Cpl. Zachary Foote with the 3rd of home, of their own pets,” Sobo- of Orzysz, about 50 miles from cording to a criminal complaint to pick up unauthorized immi- Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment lewska said. the Russian military exclave of filed last month in U.S. District grants near the border, according sniper section, supporting the He also helps soldiers main- Kaliningrad. Court. NBC7 first reported the to the statement. In some cases, EFP. tain their fitness levels. “When- [email protected] charge against Rojas-Hernandez those people also picked Rojas- “We were taking part in a com- ever he sees someone running, he Twitter: @Manny_Stripes on Wednesday. Hernandez out of a photo lineup. Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 9 WAR/MILITARY Ramped up raids net 8 ISIS members in Syria

BY CHAD GARLAND eration, hundreds of Kurdish-led Syria has proceeded uninterrupt- Stars and Stripes SDF commandos and coalition ed in recent weeks,” Hill said in forces raided several compounds the statement. U.S.-backed forces in Syria Jan. 31 to isolate and capture an About 500 American troops captured eight Islamic State ISIS sleeper cell, the coalition remain in Syria, mostly in the group fighters and affiliates, said. northeast, to help combat a po- along with weapons, documents But first, they danced. A 19- tential ISIS resurgence. The U.S. and military equipment, during second military video shows the troop presence is about half of a large-scale operation along- troops kitted up and performing what it was in October before the side American special operations a “motivational, pre-mission amp U.S. pulled out of northern areas troops last week, the military said up,” said Army Capt. Charlie near the border with Turkey in Thursday. Boisner, a spokesman for the task advance of a Turkish incursion. The coalition and Syrian Dem- ocratic Forces have stepped up force. That move did not significantly efforts to stop a potential ISIS re- Footage also shows U.S. mine- affect ISIS capabilities, CENT- surgence in the country’s north- resistant ambush-protected vehi- COM officials told the Defense eastern provinces of Deir al-Zour cles alongside SDF armed trucks, Department Inspector General in and Hassakeh, conducting “mul- and a bearded man in what looks a report published this week. tiple raids each week,” Special like a U.S. uniform with an Amer- Still, based on its online claims, ican flag patch interviewing a the group appeared to increase Operations Joint Task Force-Op- DVIDS SCREENSHOT eration Inherent Resolve said in a detainee. its attacks from about 55 a month statement. Air Force Maj. Gen. Eric T. to 66 after the incursion, the De- U.S.-backed forces in Syria captured eight affiliated with the Islamic The news came as U.S. Central Hill, commander of the coalition’s fense Intelligence Agency told State group, along with weapons, documents and equipment, during Command warned that ISIS “re- special operations task force, the IG. an operation Jan. 31, the military said Thursday. mains cohesive,” with a war chest credited the SDF with conducting On Wednesday, Ambassador of hundreds of millions of dollars “intelligence-driven operations” James F. Jeffrey, the U.S. special “slight increase,” the attack lev- frey, who last month said that available to it following the Octo- to take ISIS fighters off the bat- representative on Syria and envoy els remain “fairly low.” 14,000 to 18,000 ISIS fighters ber killing of ISIS founder Abu tlefield and “keeping pressure on to the anti-ISIS coalition, pushed “We are not concerned beyond remain. Bakr al-Baghdadi. ISIS networks.” back on reports of increased ISIS our normal level of concern about [email protected] In last week’s clearance op- “The defeat ISIS mission in activity, saying that despite a the need to defeat ISIS,” said Jef- Twitter: @chadgarland Afghan media outlets protest curtailed info access

BY RAHIM FAIEZ es, backed by United States allies, chief information commissioner, I head of the Nai Supporting Open pervasive challenge for Afghani- Associated Press continue to fight the Taliban, who have witnessed the media’s access Media group, said that access to stan, they justify existing limita- today control or hold sway over to information being restricted information has been worst in the tions by the persistent dangers KABUL, Afghanistan — An nearly half of Afghanistan. by key government institutions,” last five years and that the situa- and violence the country faces, Afghan media watchdog urged The Taliban stage near-daily said Afzali. “Unfortunately, the tion is now critical. and warn that a return of the Tal- the government on Wednesday to attacks targeting government heed a demand for more media forces and officials, as well as trend continues.” Even as authorities concur that iban regime could do away with freedoms after local media outlets those seen loyal to the govern- Abdul Mujeeb Khalvatgar, access to information remains a many hard-won freedoms. said in a statement that authori- ment, and scores of civilians get ties were increasingly curtailing killed in the crossfire, as well their access to information. Sayed Ikram Afzali, the head as in anti-Taliban operations by of Integrity Watch Afghanistan, the Afghan forces. The U.N. has said that there is a good law in called for all sides in the protract- place guaranteeing the media’s ed conflict to take better care to ability to work and access infor- avoid civilian casualties. mation, but that the government Meanwhile, the U.S. is engaged has failed to provide enough in on-again-off-again talks with funding and institutional support the Taliban, led by U.S. envoy to implement it. Zalmay Khalilzad, to find a ne- The joint media statement, un- gotiated end to Afghanistan’s veiled at a protest rally in Kabul 18-year war that would allow the on Tuesday, comes against the U.S. to bring home about 13,000 backdrop of relentless violence American soldiers. across the country. Afghan forc- “Throughout my tenure as the

US conducts test of unarmed Minuteman 3 missile system

Associated Press spare missile from storage to validate flight worthiness of new VA NDENBERG AIR FORCE or replacement components. That BASE, Calif. — An unarmed differs from test launches that Minuteman 3 intercontinental use randomly selected operation- ballistic missile was launched al missiles. from California early Wednes- Modernization programs are day on a test flight to a target in essential to sustaining the aging the Pacific Ocean, the Air Force Minuteman 3 weapon system, Col. Global Strike Command said. Omar Colbert, the 576th Flight The missile blasted off at 12:33 Test Squadron commander, said a.m. from Vandenberg Air Force in a statement. Base and its reentry vehicle trav- The launch was conducted from eled 4,200 miles to the Kwajalein the 341st Missile Wing at Malm- Atoll in the Marshall Islands as strom Air Force Base, Mont., the part of a developmental test, the 90th Missile Wing at F.E. Warren command said from Barksdale Air Force Base, Wyo., and the Air Force Base, La. 91st Missile Wing at Minot Air Developmental tests use a Force Base, N.D. PAGE 10 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 NATION Trump unleashes fury in wake of acquittal

BY JILL COLVIN, JONATHAN LEMIRE been put through a terrible ordeal by you’ when you know that is not so,” he said, AND ZEKE MILLER some very dishonest and corrupt people,” in a reference to Pelosi, who has offered Associated Press Trump said at the annual event. His airing that message for the president when the of grievances came hours before his East two leaders have sparred publicly. WASHINGTON — Exulting in his im- Room address. The House speaker shook her head at peachment acquittal, President Donald T “They have done everything possible various points during Trump’s remarks, rump took a scorched-earth victory lap to destroy us and by so doing very badly but did not appear to interact with Trump Thursday, unleashing his fury against hurt our nation,” said Trump, who trium- personally. Earlier she had offered a prayer those who tried to remove him from of- phantly held up copies of two newspapers fice while looking ahead to his reelection with banner “ACQUITTED” headlines as for the poor and the persecuted. campaign. he took the stage. She said later that Trump’s remarks Trump, speaking to a room full of sup- His remarks were especially jarring and were “so completely inappropriate, espe- porters at the White House, declared the cially at a prayer breakfast.” She took par- PATRICK SEMANSKY/AP whiplash-inducing coming after a series impeachment proceedings a “disgrace” of Scripture-quoting speeches, including ticular issue with his swipe at Romney’s and complained anew that it was “a very President Donald Trump pauses as he a keynote address by Arthur Brooks, a faith and said that yes, she does pray for unfair situation,” echoing his broadsides speaks in the East Room of the White Harvard professor and president of a con- the president. hours earlier that stunned the crowd at an House on Thursday. servative think tank, who had bemoaned a His comments were a clear sign that the annual prayer breakfast. “crisis of contempt and polarization” in the post-impeachment Trump is emboldened “It was evil, it was corrupt,” Trump de- and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, nation and urged those gathered to “love like never before as he barrels ahead in his clared at the White House. “This should and staunch House allies including Reps. your enemies.” reelection fight with a united Republican never ever happen to another president, Jim Jordan, Devin Nunes and Minority “I don’t know if I agree with you,” Trump Party behind him. ever.” Leader Kevin McCarthy. said as he took the microphone, and then And it stood in stark contrast to the apol- “We went through hell, unfairly. We did Earlier, speaking from a stage where he he proceeded to demonstrate it. ogy offered by Bill Clinton in the aftermath nothing wrong,” he continued. was joined by congressional leaders, in- “I don’t like people who use their faith As Trump spoke, nearly every inch of cluding Democratic House Speaker Nancy as justification for doing what they know is of his own impeachment acquittal in 1999. the East Room was packed with support- Pelosi, who led the impeachment charge wrong,” he said in an apparent reference to Clinton said then in a White House ad- ers. Among them: Republican senators who against him, Trump shattered the usual Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, a longtime Trump dress: “I want to say again to the American cast some of the votes to acquit him, Ma- veneer of bipartisanship at the National critic who cited his faith in becoming people how profoundly sorry I am for what jority Leader Mitch McConnell and Rep. Prayer Breakfast in Washington. the only Republican to vote for Trump’s I said and did to trigger these events and Chuck Grassley, several Cabinet members, “As everybody knows, my family, our removal. the great burden they have imposed on the including Attorney General William Barr great country and your president have “Nor do I like people who say ‘I pray for Congress and on the American people.” Impeachment takeaways

BY MATTHEW DALY acting in the interests of their Senate Republicans are all hiding AND ERIC TUCKER constituents and their conscience, the truth,” Schumer said, adding Associated Press and they reacted with outrage that Trump tried to “blackmail a when Democratic Rep. Adam foreign country to interfere in our WASHINGTON — The Repub- Schiff, the lead impeachment elections.” lican-controlled Senate acquitted manager, cited a media report President Donald Trump on two claiming that a person close to Not impeachable impeachment charges Wednes- Trump had warned Republicans day amid Republican complaints their “head will be on a pike” if Republicans voted to acquit about what they called a rushed they voted against the president. Trump, but many wanted to be process and Democratic claims Trump has already shown his on record as frowning on his con- that Trump is a threat to democ- power to cast out dissident Repub- duct. Perhaps the most promi- racy. The, three-week trial pro- licans. Former Sens. Bob Corker nent example was retiring Sen. ceeded largely of Tennessee and Jeff Flake of Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, ANALYSIS along partisan Arizona decided not to run for who voted against hearing from lines, with just witnesses but called out Trump’s reelection rather than face voters one senator — actions as “inappropriate.” SUSAN WALSH/AP after clashing with Trump. Republican Mitt Romney of Utah Other Republicans followed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walks through the Capitol — breaking with his party. McConnell delivers suit, insisting that their votes following a vote in the Senate to acquit President Donald Trump on Takeaways from just the third against witnesses or in favor of both articles of impeachment. impeachment trial of a president Senate Majority Leader Mitch acquittal should not be interpret- in U.S. history: McConnell. R-Ky., again proved ed as approval of his actions. ing Trump on a charge of abuse of appointed in his conduct or disap- “I do not believe that the House himself Trump’s most important power also denied Trump’s cam- proved of it, but that it was up to has met its burden of showing that Iron grip on GOP ally. He led a drive to deny Dem- paign a frequent talking point of voters to decide Trump’s fate in the president’s conduct — how- ocrats any opportunity to call asserting that he had full support November. Some Republican senators ever flawed — warrants the ex- witnesses before the Senate and of Republicans in the House and Alexander said House pros- expressed reservations about treme step of immediate removal worked closely with the White Senate during a strictly partisan ecutors had proved the charges Trump’s conduct; some even from office,” said Sen. Susan Col- House in shepherding the case against the president, but said went so far as to say that House lins, R-Maine. drive to remove him. to acquittal, fulfilling a pledge they didn’t rise to an impeachable Democrats successfully made “Our country is already too Romney voted to acquit Trump he made before the trial to “take offense. their case against him. Nonethe- deeply divided and we should be on the second article of impeach- my cues from the president’s less, Trump’s acquittal was never working to heal wounds, not cre- ment, obstruction of Congress, “The question is not whether lawyers.” truly in doubt in the Senate. Even ate new ones. It is better to let the joining his 52 GOP colleagues. the president did it,” but whether McConnell slammed House Republicans who disapproved of people decide,“ added Sen. Rob Romney, a Mormon, cited his the Senate should decide what Democrats’ drive to impeach Trump’s dealings with Ukraine Portman, R-Ohio. religious faith and the signifi- to do about it, Alexander said — the heart of the House im- Trump as “the most rushed, least cance of the impeachment oath last week in becoming the deci- peachment charges — said his fair and least thorough” in histo- Romney stands alone taken by senators to render “im- sive vote against witnesses and conduct did not merit making ry. He said the two impeachment partial justice” on impeachment. documents. him the first president ever re- charges against Trump — that he In an unlikely twist, Romney, “The grave question the Consti- “I believe the Constitution pro- moved from office. abused his power and obstructed the GOP’s unsuccessful 2012 tution tasks senators to answer is vides that the people should make In ways unimaginable when Congress’ ensuing investigation presidential nominee, was the whether the president committed that decision in the presidential he was first elected as a politi- — are “constitutionally incoher- only Republican senator to break an act so extreme, so egregious, election.” cal newcomer, Trump has come ent” and don’t “even approach a ranks in the impeachment trial that it rises to the level of a high Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alas- to utterly dominate the GOP. Re- case for the first presidential re- and favor removing Trump from crime and misdemeanor,” Rom- ka, called the president’s ac- publican lawmakers bow to his moval in American history.” office. The well-mannered patri- ney said in a floor speech. “Yes, tions “shameful and wrong.” But overwhelming popularity with Senate Democratic leader cian Romney stood alone in his he did.” she said the proper response to the party’s base. “It’s not a party Chuck Schumer of New York ac- vo t e t o ou s t a R epubl ic a n pr e s ide nt Trump’s behavior was “not to of ideas or ideology anymore. It’s cused McConnell and his GOP who seldom hides his contempt Let voters decide disenfranchise nearly 63 mil- a cult of personality,” tweeted colleagues of sweeping Trump’s for the senator and the establish- lion Americans” — who voted for Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn. misconduct under the rug. “The ment Romney symbolizes. Many senators who voted to Trump in 2016 — by removing Republicans insisted they were administration, its top people and Romney’s support for remov- acquit Trump said they were dis- him from the ballot. Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 11 NATION DNC calls for ‘recanvass’ of Iowa results

Associated Press tum heading into subsequent pri- mary contests. WASHINGTON — The chair- The two early leaders are sepa- man of the Democratic National rated by 40 years in age and con- Committee called on Thursday flicting ideology. for a “recanvass” of the results Sanders, 78, a self-described of Monday’s Iowa caucus, which democratic socialist, has been a was marred by technical prob- progressive powerhouse for de- lems and delays. cades. Buttigieg, 38, a former “Enough is enough,” party municipal official, represents the leader Tom Perez wrote on Twit- more moderate wing of the Dem- ter. He said he was calling for ocratic Party. Buttigieg is also the the recanvass in order to “assure first openly gay candidate to earn public confidence in the results.” presidential primary delegates. With 97% of precincts report- Campaigning in New Hamp- ing, Pete Buttigieg, a former shire, Sanders on Thursday mayor of South Bend, Ind ., and called the Iowa Democratic Par- Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders are ty’s management of the caucuses nearly tied. a “screw-up” that “has been ex- The technical glitches plagu- tremely unfair” to “all of the can- ing the first contest on the 2020 didates and their supporters.” nominating calendar have made Both Buttigieg and Sanders an already complicated candidate have declared victory. The As- selection process even more com- sociated Press has not called the plicated, forcing state officials to race. apologize and raising questions Updated results released about Iowa’s traditional prime Wednesday showed Massachu- spot in picking nominees. setts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, for- The caucus crisis was an em- mer Vice President Joe Biden and barrassing twist after months of MARY ALTAFFER/AP Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar promoting Iowa as a chance for trailing. Democrats to find some clarity Democratic presidential candidate former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, center, poses for The deadlocked contest gives in a jumbled field. Instead, after photographs with attendees during a town hall Wednesday in Concord, N.H. both Buttigieg and Sanders a a buildup that featured seven burst of momentum as they seek rounds of debates, nearly $1 bil- tabulate the results of the contest. nouncement and tried to inject an we can’t have that.” to pull away from the crowded lion spent nationwide and a year The app was rolled out shortly be- added dose of chaos. Trump and Much of the political world has field. of political jockeying, caucus day fore caucusing began and did not his allies have repeatedly insinu- already shifted its attention to Their strength in Iowa put ended with no winner and no of- go through rigorous testing. ated, without offering proof, that next-up New Hampshire, which them in the crosshairs of rivals ficial results. A coding error yielded prob- the Democratic establishment holds the first primary election in as the race shifted to New Hamp- Iowa marked the first contest lematic results Monday. And wants to deny Sanders a victory the Democrats’ 2020 nomination shire. Biden, who fell far short of in a primary season that will span backup phone lines for reporting at any cost. fight on Tuesday. expectations in Iowa, cast both all 50 states and several U.S. ter- the outcomes were jammed, with Trump campaign communi- The chaos surrounding the Buttigieg and Sanders as risky ritories, ending at the party’s na- many placed on hold for hours in cations director Tim Murtaugh reporting breakdown has under- choices for Democrats, given the tional convention in July. order to report outcomes. tweeted that Perez’s announce- mined the impact of Iowa’s elec- former mayor’s relative inexpe- At issue was an app that the President Donald Trump’s ment “translated” to “Bernie tion, which typically rewards rience and the senator’s descrip- Iowa Democratic Party used to campaign seized on Perez’s an- looks like he’s taking the lead and winners with a surge of momen- tions of himself as a socialist. Sanders: In New Hampshire, Biden Campaign seeks to be ‘Comeback Kid’ Associated Press impact of Iowa on his 2020 effort. He began to more aggressively raised $25M SOMERSWORTH, N.H. — Joe criticize his rivals as he sought a Biden entered the Democratic reboot. in January presidential race as a favorite, The campaign, he said, “took a the candidate with the longest re- gut punch,” but it would be pre- Associated Press sume, a network of establishment mature to write him off. donors and a pitch that he could “I’m not going anywhere,” MANCHESTER, N.H. — Ber- win the kind of voters who would nie Sanders says he raised a Biden said. “And I’m counting on defeat President Donald Trump. New Hampshire. We’re going to whopping $25 million in Janu- Now, humbled by a disappoint- ary and will use his presidential come back.” ing showing in the Iowa caucuses, His word had echoes of Bill campaign’s flush bank account to Biden is hoping for something increase television and digital ad- Clinton in 1992, when he de- STEVEN SENNE/AP quite different: that New Hamp- vertising in 10 states. clared himself “the Comeback shire will make him the second The Vermont senator spent $50 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., kisses Kid” after finishing second to coming of “the Comeback Kid.” million during the final three his wife Jane O’Meara Sanders at a rally Wednesday in Derry, N.H. Democratic Sen. Paul Tsongas of New Hampshire is known for months of 2019 and finished the Massachusetts. knocking down front-runners, year with $18.2 million in cash on cratic primary’s Super Tuesday, 2020’s most aggressive campaign Biden has a number of hurdles hand, putting him in a stronger on March 3. The campaign also for president,” Shakir said in a usually with candidates carry- in New Hampshire if he wants to position than many of his rival plans to spend $5.5 million on statement, saying the campaign ing an insurgent torch, like Gary make a comeback a reality. candidates even before his lat- television and digital ads in eight is “in a strong position to compete Hart in 1984, John McCain in His campaign event Wednes- est bonanza last month. Partial new states voting then: Arkansas, in states all over the map.” 2000 and Bernie Sanders in 2016, day was only his fifth in the state results show Sanders in a near Colorado, Massachusetts, Minne- January was the Sanders cam- instead of steadying a slipping since the start of the year. Last tie for first with Pete Buttigieg, sota, North Carolina, South Caro- paign’s best fundraising month candidate’s fate. Hillary Clinton month, Biden had the fewest New the former mayor of South Bend, lina, Tennessee and Utah. to date, featuring donations from was an exception in 2008, but Hampshire events of any of the Ind., in Monday’s leadoff Iowa And Sanders will expand ad 648,000 people, including 219,000 she lost the nomination to Barack candidates regarded as being in caucuses. New Hampshire holds buys the campaign already made new donors, the statement said. Obama. the top four in the race. its primary next Tuesday. in California and Texas, the two Since announcing his presi- The former vice president made The 77-year-old Biden also Sanders’ campaign manager, largest states voting on Super dential campaign in February light of the Iowa results as he hasn’t been making time in recent Faiz Shakir, announced Thurs- Tuesday. 2019, Sanders has raised more campaigned in New Hampshire weeks for one of the traditions day that his candidate will im- “Bernie’s multiracial, mul- than $121 million, built on dona- on Tuesday. But he told voters New Hampshire voters are most mediately increase staffing in tigenerational, people-driven tions from more than 1.5 million in Somersworth on Wednesday fond of: taking questions from the states that vote during the Demo- movement for change is fueling people. that he wouldn’t sugarcoat the audience in town hall settings. PAGE 12 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 NATION Governors warn of Medicaid cuts from Trump rule

BY RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR of the state financing but said it Associated Press has to lead to better value and im- proved care for Medicaid benefi- WASHINGTON — Governors ciaries. Under the proposed rule, of both major political parties “we are increasing transparency, are warning that a little-noticed integrity and clarity,” she said. regulation proposed by President An agency spokesman said the Donald Trump’s administration rule is not intended to reduce could lead to big cuts in Medicaid, Medicaid payments. reducing access to health care for But the policy comes from an MARK LENNIHAN/AP low-income Americans. administration that has repeat- The arcane fiscal accountabil- edly moved to scale back Medic- Model Lauren Marie Young arrives to testify at Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial Thursday in New York. ity rule proposed by the Centers aid. Trump has tried to repeal the for Medicare and Medicaid Ser- program’s Obama-era expansion, vices, or CMS, would tighten fed- supported block grants that would eral oversight and approval over cap federal spending, and allowed Prosecutors rest case after complex financing strategies states to impose work require- states have long used to help pay ments on Medicaid recipients. for their share of the $600 billion The latest proposal could lead program. Also targeted are cer- Weinstein accuser returns to cuts of $37 billion to $49 billion tain payments to hospitals that a year in total Medicaid spending, treat many low-income patients. Associated Press women’s recollections of encoun- Additional women, including Public comments closed last or 6% to 8% of program funds, ters that in some cases are more Young, have been allowed to testi- NEW YORK — Prosecutors week amid a chorus of criticism according to a study by Manatt than a decade or two old. fy as prosecutors attempt to show in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial from hospitals, nursing homes, Health consultants for the Amer- Weinstein, 67, maintains that there was a practiced method to rested their case Thursday after insurers, doctors, and advocates ican Hospital Association. Pay- any sexual encounters were Weinstein’s attacks, including in- more than two weeks of testi- for the poor. ments to hospitals could be cut as consensual. viting women to his hotel room to Against the backdrop of an elec- much as 17%. mony punctuated by harrowing The criminal charges at the discuss business, then disrobing tion year, governors are warning A CMS spokesman said the accounts from six women who trial in New York City are based and demanding sexual favors. the administration of potentially agency doesn’t believe those es- say he ignored pleas of “no, no, on two allegations: that Weinstein Her testimony bookended that dire consequences. timates are credible. In the rule, no” and excused his behavior as raped a woman in March 2013 of the first accuser to testify, ac- “States may be unable to ad- CMS says that the fiscal impact a Hollywood norm. and that he forced oral sex on an- tress Annabella Sciorra, who equately fund their Medicaid of its plan is “unknown.” Critics “The people rest, judge,” As- other woman in 2006. alleges Weinstein barged into programs, which could lead to say the agency did not do a full sistant District Attorney Joan The allegations against Wein- her apartment in the mid-1990s, unintended consequences that analysis. Illuzzi-Orbon said, moving the stein helped fuel the #MeToo threw her on a bed and raped her would negatively impact Medicaid If the federal government cur- closely watched celebrity trial movement. If convicted, he as she tried to fight him off by beneficiaries across the country,” tails financing methods states one step closer to a verdict. could spend the rest of his life in kicking and punching him. wrote Govs. Kate Brown, D-Ore., now rely on, governors would Now Weinstein’s lawyers will prison. In between, jurors heard simi- and Charlie Baker, R-Mass., in of- have to seek broad tax increases, start calling witnesses of their Prosecutors ended their case lar stories of Weinstein ingratiat- ficial comments on behalf of Na- cut payments to hospitals and own. They haven’t said whether after the last of the other accusers ing himself with much younger tional Governors Association. doctors, reduce benefits, restrict Weinstein himself will testify. allowed to testify finished telling women, appearing to show inter- But CMS administrator Seema eligibility, or some combination Doing so could bring big risks be- jurors about about an encounter est in helping their careers before Verma says the vast health care of such measures. States can set cause prosecutors would be able with the disgraced movie mogul getting them into a hotel room or program needs closer scrutiny their own Medicaid policies with- to grill him about each of the al- in 2013. an apartment and violating them. and has expressed concerns in federal requirements. legations that jurors have already Lauren Marie Young, a model Most were aspiring actresses. about “shady” financing schemes The Trump administration heard about in vivid detail. from suburban Philadelphia, tes- Sciorra was a star on the rise. that abuse the system and drive says it is closely reviewing some Among the witnesses the de- tified that Weinstein invited her to Another, the 2006 accuser Mimi up taxpayer costs. 4,000 comments and will consid- fense is expected to call is a his Beverly Hills hotel room, lured Haleyi was looking at the time to In a statement Wednesday, er feedback before it decides on psychologist who specializes in her to the bathroom, stripped off get more involved in behind-the- Verma said her agency recog- next steps. No timetable has been human memory. The defense is his clothes, pulled down her dress scenes aspects of the entertain- nizes the “critical importance” announced for a final decision. looking to raise doubts about the and groped her breast. ment business. Feds investigate Mississippi prisons conditions after string of deaths

BY MICHAEL BALSAMO Some of the inmate deaths in ernment to step in and do what AND EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS ‘ Mississippi’s prisons are overcrowded, recent weeks happened during the Mississippi Department of Associated Press confrontations between inmates. Corrections has failed to: end understaffed, and aren’t safe for anyone. ’ Some were suicides. the violence and ensure humane JACKSON, Miss. — The Jus- Lisa Graybill Violence is a recurring prob- living conditions,” Graybill said. tice Department has opened a deputy legal director for Southern Poverty Law Center lem in Mississippi prisons, where “Dozens have died and hundreds civil rights investigation into the many jobs for guards are unfilled. of others live in squalid condi- Mississippi prison system after Officials with the state Depart- tions with standing sewage in a string of inmate deaths in the are adequate health care and sui- The Wilkinson facility holds ment of Corrections have said freezing temperatures as a result past few months, officials said cide prevention services. state prisoners, and the state pays for years that it’s difficult to find of ... Mississippi’s neglect. Missis- Wednesday. The investigation by the Justice a private company, Management people to work as guards because sippi’s prisons are overcrowded, Federal prosecutors are look- Department’s civil rights division & Training Corporation, to oper- of low pay, long hours and dan- understaffed, and aren’t safe for ing into conditions at four state will focus on conditions at the ate it. gerous conditions. anyone.” prisons after the deaths of at least Mississippi State Penitentiary at The use of such investigations The deputy legal director for Health department inspections 15 inmates since late December. Parchman, the South Mississippi examining the patterns and prac- Southern Poverty Law Center, show Parchman has had long- The investigation is examining Correctional Institution, the Cen- tices of law enforcement agen- Lisa Graybill, said in a statement standing problems with broken whether state corrections offi- tral Mississippi Correctional Fa- cies has been curtailed under the Wednesday that Mississippi pris- sinks and toilets in cells, holes in cials are adequately protecting cility and the Wilkinson County Trump administration compared ons “have a brutal history rooted cell walls, widespread mold and prisoners from physical harm Correctional Facility, the Justice with their use during the Obama in slavery and convict leasing.” mildew in showers, and sanita- and will look into whether there Department said. administration. “It is time for the federal gov- tion problems in kitchens. Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 13 NATION Photos of global ‘king tides’ show changing climate

BY GILLIAN FLACCUS there in 2017. Associated Press The group’s efforts have since grown into a smartphone app that DEPOE BAY, Ore. — Tour- uses crowdsourcing to gather im- ists, nature lovers and amateur ages and pinpoint flooding. scientists are whipping out their “What we’re finding is there’s /AP cameras to document the effects a real appetite for this data. A lot GILLIAN FLACCUS of extreme high tides on shore- of the localities here are putting An extreme high tide floods parts of the harbor in Depoe Bay, Ore., on Jan. 11, during a “king tide” that lines from the United States to together comprehensive plans coincided with a big winter storm. New Zealand, and by doing so are for sea-level rise, and I’m getting helping better predict what rising calls from them saying, ‘Do you Modeling shows Oregon could ex- sea levels will mean for coastal have data? Do you have photos?’ perience sea-level rise of as little communities around the world. That’s what we’re going for.” as a foot or as great as 6 feet in a A network of volunteer photog- The first of these King Tide worst-case scenario, he said. raphers fans out around the globe Projects involving the public Some of these King Tide Proj- during so-called king tides to cap- began in 2009 in Australia. The ects, like the one in Oregon, are ture how high the waterline gets idea has since spread to more run by nonprofit groups, while and where the water goes. They than a dozen coastal states in the others are in partnership with then upload the images — many U.S., British Columbia, New Zea- state and local governments. with geolocation data embedded land, Mauritius and beyond. They all have the same goal: to — for use by scientists, policy- King tides occur about twice a educate the public and provide a makers and even city planners as year in coastal areas worldwide clear-eyed assessment of how cli- they study and prepare for the ef- when the sun and moon align to mate change will affect everyday fects of climate change. The pho- enhance the gravitational pull life, from flooded intersections to tos show where flooding occurs that produces normal, daily tides. cows grazing in knee-high salt- on specific roads, or give clues These super-high tides came into water, to popular beaches swal- about whether it’s safe to build sharp focus in January, when one lowed by waves. new housing, for example, near arrived in Oregon on the same /AP “A lot of the conversation an eroding bluff. day as a major winter storm, cre- BEN SHEERAN, KING TIDES AUCKLAND around climate change was what “For us, the king tide offers a ating 15- to 20-foot waves and a Boats sit swamped by flooding from a king tide in February 2018, in was happening far away and not look at where the water will be massive swell that sucked a man Milford Marina, Auckland, New Zealand. about what people were going in about 2050, about a foot to a and his two young children out to to be experiencing in their own foot and half above normal water sea. The woman who called 911 to document this winter’s final affect coastal communities — and lives,” said Marina Psaros, who levels,” said Skip Stiles, execu- had been photographing the tides king tide Feb. 8-10 off the U.S. warmer oceans and bigger storms helped develop California’s King tive director of Wetlands Watch, a from her yard for the Oregon West Coast, followed by one in could amplify those changes, said Tides Project. “The goal of the nonprofit that helped recruit 700 King Tides Project. The children, New Zealand on Feb. 12. Peter Ruggiero, interim execu- project was to get people thinking people to document a king tide ages 4 and 7, died. Flooding from king tides is a tive director of the Oregon Cli- more about climate change local- in Norfolk, V a., for the first time Citizen scientists are preparing preview of how sea level rise will mate Change Research Institute. ly instead of just polar bears.” Vt. lawmakers propose bill to decriminalize prostitution

BY LISA RATHKE Rep. Selene Colburn, the bill’s to a committee on Wednesday. above ground, and help prevent stances: they’re homeless, they’re Associated Press lead sponsor, thinks a related pro- “Right now sex workers really sex workers from being assaulted, experiencing disabilities, they’re posal will have a better chance at feel that they cannot access police exploited and trafficked and keep trans and they’re experiencing MONTPELIER, Vt. — Some movement this year. It would give protection,” said Colburn, a Pro- them from facing punishment for Vermont lawmakers hope to make discrimination in the workplace,” immunity to people who were gressive from Burlington. “There breaking the law. prostitution safer and remove the said Nina Luo, an organizer with victims of or witnessed a crime are tons of statistics about the vio- Advocates see the bills as start- stigma that often prevents sex Decrim NY, a group working to while engaged in prostitution or lence, the high levels of violence, ing a discussion and say that with workers from seeking police pro- decriminalize the sex trades in sex trafficking so they can re- and sex assault that people who more education there’s a pos- tection and health care. New York City and the state. A bill introduced last month port it to law enforcement. The engage in sex work experience.” sibility for additional states and Currently, prostitution is legal by four female legislators would bill also calls for the creation of a The push in Vermont is part of jurisdictions to propose decrimi- decriminalize prostitution, while panel to make recommendations a small but growing movement to nalizing prostitution. only in Nevada, where it’s permit- the state would maintain its laws on modernizing Vermont’s prosti- decriminalize prostitution that “A lot of people doing sex work ted in licensed brothels in eight against sex trafficking. tution laws. That bill was referred advocates say will bring sex work are trading sex out of circum- counties. Judge rules against women seeking admission to Yale fraternities

BY DAVE COLLINS education. forward toward trial: an allega- filed by Yale and the fraternities. said they believe this was the Associated Press U.S. District Judge Victor Bold- tion that school officials failed “The gender exclusive nature first lawsuit by students against en in Bridgeport issued the ruling to act when informed by one of of the Fraternity Defendants is at a university seeking to “gender HARTFORD, Conn. — A fed- Jan. 30 in the lawsuit filed last the plaintiffs that she and other the root of the Plaintiffs’ alleged integrate” fraternities. eral judge has dismissed nearly year by three women who attend women had been groped against hostile educational environment Messages seeking comment all claims in a lawsuit that sought Yale. They sued nine fraternities their will at a fraternity party in claim,” Bolden wrote in his rul- were left with the three plaintiffs, to force all-male fraternities at and Yale in response to alleged 2016. ing. “But ... Congress has ex- Ry Walker, Anna McNeil and Eli- Yale University to admit women, sexual assault, harassment and Bolden cited an exemption in pressly limited Title IX and made ana Singer. Their lawyer, David saying both fraternities and so- discrimination at the all-male so- the federal Title IX gender equal- the membership practices of the Tracey, said, “We are disappoint- rorities are specifically excluded cial organizations. ity law in dismissing most of the Fraternity Defendants beyond ed with the outcome of the motion from a federal law that bans dis- The judge allowed only one lawsuit’s claims. The ruling came Title IX’s scope.” to dismiss and we are currently crimination based on gender in claim against Yale to continue in response to motions to dismiss Lawyers for the women have evaluating our next steps.” PAGE 14 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 NATION US dairy farmers looking for any tech edge

BY IVAN MORENO Associated Press PICKETT, Wis. — At Rosen- dale Dairy, each of the 9,000 cows has a microchip implanted in one of its ears that workers can scan with smartphones for up-to-the-minute information on how the animal is doing — every- thing from their nutrition to their health history to their productiv- ity. Feed is calibrated to deliver a precise diet and machines handle the milking. In the fields, drones gather data that helps bump up yields for the row crops grown to feed the animals. Technology has played an im- portant role in agriculture for years, but it’s become a life and death matter at dairy farms these days, as low milk prices have ratcheted up pressure on farmers to seek every possible efficiency to avoid joining the thousands of operations that have failed. “If I use 100 bags of seed on a field and I change the way I distribute the seed, I can yield more without a single extra dol- lar of input,” said Matt Wichman, Rosendale’s director of agrono- my. Such tools “are becoming so economically viable that anybody that’s of a decent scale is adopting these,” Wichman said. /AP Technology can mean survival, PHOTOS BY MORRY GASH but it involves a perilous gamble: Cows are milked on a large carousel at the Rosendale Dairy in Pickett, Wis. , where each of the 9,000 cows has a microchip implanted that Will the machines produce sav- workers can scan to track the animal’s nutrition , health history and productivity. ings fast enough to cover the debt they incur? Dairyland,” the toll has been par- cents per month per cow. “The last five years have re- ticular severe. Though California Hallett said that he wishes he ally been treacherous,” said produces more milk, Wisconsin could afford to update his cow Randy Hallett, who has 85 cows has more dairy farms than any stalls, but that getting credit from in Casco, Wis. , and has spent other state. And more than 1,600 banks is difficult because they $33,000 on new milking equip- of those have gone under in the consider bigger operations less ment. He would invest more if his past three years. risky. operation could afford it. But there “Who do you think they’re “I broke even, mostly,” Hallett are reasons said. to believe going to work with to keep them The dairy industry is caught in that the afloat?” Hallett said. a vise between consumer trends worst might The University of Wisconsin and competition. Americans are be over, hopes to help with a project that buying less milk as changing said Jim would integrate all of the data tastes steer them to milk substi- Ostrom, that farms collect each day on tutes from soy and almonds, or a partner cows’ production, feed and health, to entirely different drinks like at Milk among other things. flavored water. Two big milk pro- Source, the Integrating the data and using cessors, Dean Foods and Borden company artificial intelligence and ma- Dairy Co., filed for bankrupt- that owns Wichman chine learning “would be very cy protection in the past three Rosendale. helpful to farmers making the months, undone by declining de- In November, milk prices in Wis- best decisions every single time” mand and also pressured by big consin rose to $22.40. Nationwide, competitors like Walmart, which they reached $21, finally above in real time, said Victor Cabrera, opened its own milk processing the $18 price point that Stephen- the professor at the University of plant in 2018. son cited as a general benchmark Wisconsin-Madison, who is lead- And then there are milk for producers turning a profit. ing the project. He’s collecting prices. With dairy prices outside of data from five farms now and After hitting a historic high in farmers’ control, they have to expects to have the project com- 2014 of more than $26 per 100 focus on controlling costs. That’s Rosendale Dairy herd specialist Chema Ortiz looks at a cow’s stats pleted in three years. pounds on the strength of mas- where technology comes in. A ro- on his app . Farmers could tell whether to sive buying from China, the bot- tary milking parlor can handle keep breeding an animal or let it tom fell out. When China stopped 10 cows a minute and can sense went out of business because it pounds, others need $21 because go. its milk-buying spree, there was when an udder is empty so that couldn’t find enough workers and of their debt load. “I’d use it yesterday if I had already oversupply from both cows aren’t overmilked, which could not afford a robotic milking Sometimes the way to survive it,” said Mitch Breunig, who is American and European Union can harm their health. But a ro- system. is to join forces with neighbors. contributing data from his farm, producers, said Mark Stephenson, botic milking system can run Wisconsin leads the nation Hallett shares some advanced Mystic Valley Dairy, where he director of dairy policy analysis in farm bankruptcies with 45 machinery with a neighboring more than $200,000. has 460 cows. at the University of Wisconsin. “It can be very difficult for a Chapter 12 filings from July 2018 farmer, like a combine and plant- He said that sometimes it’s Prices fell to $17.30 by the smaller farm to afford this tech- through June 2019, according to ing equipment. And, fortunately, following year, and for produc- nology because you need a larger the American Farm Bureau Fed- some technology isn’t expensive. weeks before he can pinpoint how ers, it’s been mostly misery ever operation to spread those expens- eration. Minnesota was not far Hallett’s cows carry the same mi- much milk a cow produced on a since. Nationwide, the number es across,” said Liz Binversie, an behind with 31 during that time. crochips as Rosendale uses, so he particular day and how much it of dairy farms dropped from agriculture educator in Brown Because of debt, the cost of pro- can know from his office the milk ate. 40,199 in 2017 to 37,468 in 2018. County for the University of ducing milk varies among farms. weight for each cow and whether “I think it doesn’t matter what In Wisconsin, a state that takes Wisconsin extension office. She While some farmers can break a particular cow had less milk size your farm is, it’s information pride in its image as “America’s said she knows of one farm that even at a price of $18 per hundred that day. The chips cost about 12 you need to know,” he said. Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 15 VETERANS VA chief wants to re-examine sexual assault claim

BY STEVE BEYNON a new investigation, saying there gress’ Women Veterans Task Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, the secretary’s letter to Takano Stars And Stripes is no intention to reopen the case. Force, said she was sexually for making “unsubstantiated went public. “Reaching a decision “The investigation is closed,” assaulted at the VA hospital in claims.” to close the investigation with no WASHINGTON — A high- said Fred Washington D.C. This spurred an “We believe that VA is a safe criminal charges does not mean profile case of a congressional Baker, the unexpected public brawl between place for all veterans to enter and that the underlying allegation is staffer claiming she was sexu- IG’s director Wilkie and Rep. Mark Takano, receive care and services, but the unsubstantiated.” ally assaulted at a Department of of communi- D-Calif., and the VA inspector unsubstantiated claims raised by Takano in his own statement Veterans Affairs hospital could cations. “We general after the VA secretary you and your staff could deter our said Wilkie calling out of a con- be re-examined after VA Sec- have spoken gressional staffer was “shocking- questioned the veracity of Gold- veterans from seeking the care retary Robert Wilkie said he is to all rel- ly tone-deaf” and “outrageous” stein’s allegations. they need and deserve,” Wilkie unhappy with the results of the evant par- and an example illustrating how investigation. ties and have Goldstein, who serves in the wrote in a letter to Takano in female veterans’ concerns are “I’m not satisfied with the reso- received all Navy Reserve, said she was as- January. often dismissed by the VA. lution...I have to know, Ms. Gold- necessary saulted Sept. 20 by a man inside VA Inspector General Michael Wilkie’s comments that he the front atrium at the VA hospi- Missal said the secretary was stein has to know, our women information Wilkie might take a second look at the veterans have to know our facili- about the tal. Goldstein told The New York wrong to characterize Goldstein’s case come amid a news report ties are safe,” Wilkie said Tues- case. We are not working with Times that a man slammed her allegation as unsubstantiated. from Axios that VA Deputy Sec- day to reporters. “We’re going anyone to seek additional infor- below the waist and told her, “You “Neither I nor my staff told you retary James Byrne’s firing to make a renewed push to get mation at this time.” look like you could use a good or anyone else at the department Monday was due to the perceived answers.” Authorities declined to file time.” that the allegations were unsub- botched Goldstein investigation. But the VA Inspector General’s charges after Andrea Goldstein, Wilkie scolded Goldstein and stantiated,” Missal wrote in a let- [email protected] Office dismissed Wilkie’s call for the senior policy adviser for Con- Takano, chairman of the House ter to Wilkie immediately after Twitter: @StevenBeynon Cost, amount of use of VA Mission Act program still uncertain

BY NIKKI WENTLING could not forecast the cost. Con- ter asked whether that would be budget looks solid.” get for community care. Then-VA Stars and Stripes gress needs to know its funding enough, Richard Stone, executive Under the old Veterans Choice Secretary David Shulkin went to requirements, he said, especially in charge of the Veterans Health Program, which was replaced by Congress on three separate in- WASHINGTON — Eight since President Donald Trump’s Administration, replied: “I think the Mission Act, the VA repeat- stances in 2017 asking for more months after the Department of budget proposal for the agency in you asked the key question that Veterans Affairs launched a new fiscal 2021 is expected to be un- keeps me up at night.” edly ran out of funding in its bud- money to keep it viable. program to connect veterans with veiled next week. Stone said the VA is waiting to private-sector doctors, the agency “Eight months into the new tally reimbursement claims from doesn’t know how many appoint- community care program, the VA private-sector providers in order ments have been completed or has not provided — or cannot pro- to determine how many appoint- how much it’s costing taxpayers. The VA Mission Act, a biparti- vide — the number of referrals ments were completed and at san measure intended to expand that have become appointments,” what cost. He provided the com- veterans’ access to private doc- Tester said. “And thus, I don’t see mittee with a rough estimate: tors, was the subject of a con- how we can figure out how many about $1 billion to $1.1 billion gressional hearing Wednesday. dollars are associated with those each month spent on outside care. Members of the Senate Veterans appointments and whether the At that rate, the program should Affairs Committee quizzed VA of- usage is in line with what you es- fall within its funding levels, he ficials for nearly two hours about timated when this program was said. Stone promised Tester he the program’s cost, use and ongo- set up.” would return every quarter with ing implementation. Congress provided about $15 an update. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said billion for community care in “I’m as frustrated as you are,” he was frustrated that the VA the VA’s latest budget. When Tes- Stone said. “But at this point, our Navy vet convicted for hiding mental health

BY STEVE BEYNON the federal prosecutors said the sonally believe the condition is. Stars and Stripes medical forms, which are used Beyer faces up to five years in to evaluate whether a pilot has prison and a $250,000 fine, plus WASHINGTON — A Navy credentials to fly, ask very clearly veteran was found guilty for con- about mental health conditions restitution for each violation. His cealing his depression disorder — not a pilot’s opinion on the di- sentencing hearing is scheduled from the Federal Aviation Ad- agnosis or how severe they per- for April 22. ministration on pilot medical cer- tification forms, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Nicholas Beyer, 34, of Discov- ery Bay, Calif., was convicted on two counts of making false state- ments to the FAA and two counts of falsifying, concealing, or cov- ering up material facts. In civilian pilot medical certi- fication applications submitted to the FAA in 2016 and 2018, Beyer lied about never being diagnosed with any mental health disorders, despite a major depressive disor- der diagnosis from the Depart- ment of Veterans Affairs in 2016, for which he received disability pay. Beyer was also receiving dis- ability compensation for knee and back injuries, which he did disclose. Beyer’s lawyer argued he con- cealed his depression because he felt the VA over-diagnosed him, court records show. However, PAGE 16 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 NATION Sores, lower numbers likely not lionfish’s end

BY JANET MCCONNAUGHEY much nonexistent now.” Associated Press Alexander Q. Fogg, a study co-author and marine resources NEW ORLEANS — A new dis- coordinator for the Okaloosa ease has caused open sores that County, Fl a., Board of County can eat into the muscles of inva- Commissioners, regularly catch- sive lionfish and appears to have es lionfish to help control their contributed to an abrupt drop in numbers and to sell as food. He their numbers in the northern said that his diving partner, Josh Gulf of Mexico, scientists re- Livingston of Dreadknot Char- ported Tuesday. But they hasten ters, first noticed sick or injured to say that it’s probably far from the end of the showy invader with lionfish off of artificial reefs near long, venomous spines. Destin, Fla., on Aug. 5, 2017. Lionfish may even be bouncing “He said he noticed a lot of back already, said University of fish had wounds. I dismissed it,” Florida doctoral student Holden Fogg recounted. But every dive Harris, lead author of the article that day brought up fish with le- published online in Scientific Re- sions. Out of 503 lionfish, 201 had ports. Numbers of the smallest li- ulcers. onfish taken by spearfishers were The University of Florida put a way down in 2018, indicating a first report about the ulcers on- possible reduction in spawning, line in September 2018. but were rising late that year and “We’re still trying to figure out in early 2019, he said. what’s going on,” said Roy P.E.

“It’s too early, really, to say if PHOTOS BY ALEXANDER Q. FOGG/AP Yanong, of the Tropical Aqua- that’ll become a full population culture Laboratory at the univer- recovery,” he said. Two lionfish in April 2019 at an artificial reef off of Destin, Fla. A disease that caused open sores sity’s program in fisheries and It’s an interesting develop- on many lionfish in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean appears to have contributed to a drop in their aquatic sciences. Tests for molds, ment, said Matthew Johnston, a numbers, according to a study published Tuesday. bacteria and viruses didn’t indi- Nova Southeastern University cate a likely culprit, he said. researcher who has written sci- One problem, he said, is that entific papers about invasive lion- the sores were open to microor- fish but had not known about the ganisms in the water and en route lesions or population changes. to a lab. Finding fish in a very “We’ve always been wonder- early stage of the process would ing if they’re ever going to reach probably help, but that itself has their limit in certain locations,“ been a problem, he said. he said. “To date, it seemed the Environmental factors could populations just kept getting larg- also be a major cause, Yanong er and larger.” said. Other possible causes could One reason that lionfish are a include physical trauma and par- problem outside of their native asite infection, National Oceanic Indo-Pacific is that their hunting and Atmospheric Administration method was new to their adopted spokeswoman Allison Garrett territory, so their prey hadn’t said. evolved countermeasures. “They’ve pretty much colo- “It could be a combination,” nized the entire Caribbean and Johnston said . “They’re over- An lionfish caught in Destin, Fla., Gulf of Mexico and up the East crowded, they’re competing for with an open sore. Coast of the U.S. up to about Cape A lionfish cooked for a lionfishing event in Florida. food ... and the gene pool’s really Hatteras,” Johnston said. “But it’s shallow.” just about impossible to estimate vehicles in a 7,70 0 -square-mile numbers fell in 2017 and 2018. da. Commercial landings fell 52% Harris said that researchers how many there are. They’re area of the Gulf of Mexico that “The magnitudes of the de- from 2017 to 2018. And, though had two big worries when report- found very deep and in lots of has been regularly surveyed for a clines were striking,” Harris lionfish tournament catches rose ing about the sores: that people places we can’t look easily.” wide variety of species since the said. each year, spearfishers had to might think lionfish were un- Researchers measured the Gulf BP oil spill in 2010. They looked at The densities shown in under- hunt more reefs to find them. safe to eat, and that they might of Mexico changes in a number of the weight of lionfish that landed water vehicle footage dropped One of the spearfishers who think that nature had ended the ways besides the proportion of in commercial fishing trips and about 75%, said co-author Wil- first brought the lesions to light invasion. little lionfish in spearfishers’ to- at numbers of fish taken per reef liam F. Patterson III, an associ- said that lionfish numbers on his “The densities have gone down tals. They analyzed videos taken in lionfishing contests. ate professor of marine fisheries hunting grounds have stayed low, in some places,” he said. “We by remotely operated underwater And by all of those measures, ecology at the University of Flori- although the sores seem “pretty don’t know if they’ll stay down.” Zoo Miami welcomes pair of baby meerkats

Associated Press — Gizmo, Joe and Diego — who share the habitat, Magill said. MIAMI — Zoo Miami is wel- Yam Yam arrived at the zoo coming two meerkat pups born Jan. 18 and that are being raised from Busch Gardens in 2012, and by their mother, an 8-year-old the brothers came to Miami from named Yam Yam. Brevard Zoo in 2018. Any one of The pups opened their eyes last the brothers could be the pups’ week and have been exploring father, Magill said. their habitat, gradually moving Magill said the zoo’s website further and further away, Ron has a meerkat webcam that al- Magill, the zoo’s communications lows people to catch a glimpse of director, said in an email. the babies as they explore their Meerkats are born blind and habitat. helpless, but zoo staff kept a Meerkats are omnivores from hands-off approach to allow the mongoose family and are RON MAGILL, ZOO MIAMI/AP them to bond with their mother found in desert and other arid en- Two newborn meerkat pups walk around their habitat this week at the zoo in Miami. and three unrelated brothers vironments of South Africa. Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 17 PAGE 18 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 AMERICAN ROUNDUP

‘Bag Full of Drugs’ label leads to arrests

MIAMI — Two men FL charged with drug traf- ficking could have done a better job hiding their wares than using a package labeled “Bag Full of Drugs,” Florida authorities said. Ian Simmons and Joshua Re- inhardt, both 34, were pulled over in Santa Rosa County after a trooper clocked them going 95 mph , according to a Florida High- way Patrol arrest report. The trooper determined that Reinhardt was the subject of an active felony warrant for violation of probation in Orange County. He requested backup. A Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s deputy arrived to assist, and a K-9 alerted to the presence of contraband in the vehicle, the ar- rest report said. Authorities found approximately 75 grams of meth- amphetamine, 1.36 kilograms of the date-rape drug GHB, 1 gram of cocaine, 3.6 grams of fentan- yl, 15 MDMA tablets and drug paraphernalia. Man accused of stealing from scholarship fund

BLOOMFIELD TOWN- MI SHIP — A man was charged with stealing $697,000 from a scholarship fund for cad- dies at one of Michigan’s most exclusive golf clubs, authorities said . Problems were discovered last summer during a review of the ALAN WARREN, THE (OWENSBORO, KY.) MESSENGER-INQUIRER/AP Oakland Hills Caddie Scholar- ship Trust, the Oakland County sheriff’s office said. Here is the steeple Craig Maass, 60, was president of the trust. He was charged last Matt Hayden, left, of Hayden Precision Welding, directs Patrick Wilson and Nathaniel Krampe as they position a copper-plated 45-foot week with six counts of embez- church steeple onto a truck flatbed after its removal from the bell tower at St. Martins Catholic Church in Owensboro, Ky. The steeple will zlement and remains in jail on a be replaced with a 16-gauge high-polished stainless steel steeple in about two months, according to the Rev. Pat Bittel. $700,000 bond. to identify a man they say got a THE CENSUS Venice Taylor, 41, was taken School removes dolls of job at a gas station and proceeded into custody hours later, during a black figures from racks to steal $17,000 worth of mer- The weight in pounds of shark fins seized at a Miami traffic stop in Kinston, news out- chandise and cash on his first, port, officials said. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lets reported. EAST LANSING — A and only, solo overnight shift be- said the shipment of dried fins arrived in 18 boxes and Khloe McNeal, 24, of Kinston MI performing arts cen- fore disappearing. 1.4K was believed to have originated in South America, and was found on a sidewalk with ter at Michigan State University The man also stole his employ- likely bound for Asia. Officials estimated the total com- severe burns on her upper body removed a gift shop display fea- ment folder, which contained mercial value to be between $700,000 and $1 million. The fins are often turned after a bystander flagged down turing dolls depicting prominent his personal information, so the into shark fin soup, considered a Chinese delicacy. a police officer, interim Kinston black figures that were hanging store’s owner does not even know Police Chief Tim Dilday said. from a tree-like rack, said school the worker’s name, Hamden po- McNeal was able to tell police lice said in a statement . that she was driving and came to officials, who added that they will itored by the veterinary team. Area jail confiscated 200 gallons provide racial bias training for The owner told investigators he a stop when a man approached used an app to view the store se- of prison-made liquor that in- her car, threw a flammable liquid workers and volunteers. mates were making for a Super University spokeswoman Emily curity cameras and noticed that Thieves target property on her and set her on fire. Inves- the new employee had left. Bowl party, a sheriff’s official Gerkin Guerrant apologized in in self-storage units tigators said they don’t think Tay- The owner went to the store and said. a statement, adding that “people lor knew the victim. determined that the worker had Deputies found the liquor Satur- were hurt and offended” regard- FAIRBANKS — stolen lottery tickets, 89 boxes day at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin less of the intent of the display at Thieves targeting self- Man sues police, city of cigarettes and money worth a AK storage units in Fairbanks stole before Super Bowl Sunday when the Wharton Center for Perform- total of more than $17,000. for forced urinal licking ing Arts. more than a half-million dol- the San Francisco 49ers lost 31-20 to the Kansas City Chiefs, Sgt. Ray The felt ornaments hung from lars in property in the last three HONOLULU — A home- Animals safe after a Kelly, spokesman for the Alameda the tree-shaped rack depicted months, according to Alaska State less man is suing the Ho- County Sheriff’s Office said. HI figures such as former President fire in zoo building Troopers. nolulu Police Department and the Known as “pruno,” the illicit B a r ack Oba m a , f i r s t l ady M ichel le Ten to 15 units were hit at mul- city after he said officers forced alcoholic beverage is fermented Obama and Prince. Graduate stu- KANSAS CITY tiple storage facilities, KTVF-TV him to lick a urinal in a public dent Krystal Rose Davis-Dunn, MO — The Kansas City reported. In one case, thieves from leftover fruit, sugar and restroom. who came to the center for a jazz Zoo said all animals are “safe took precious metals valued at juice with a little bread to pro- Samuel Ingall was seeking concert after a day of meetings and accounted for” after a fire in more than $300,000. vide the yeast and made in sealed shelter in the restroom in Janu- with university leaders to discuss a building that houses bat-eared At one storage business, thieves plastic bags. ary 2018 when one of the officers boosting equality and diversity foxes, meerkats and other small broke into one storage unit and told him in an “aggressive tone” on campus, asked employees if African animals when they aren’t knocked down walls to access Police arrest man they that the “only way he could avoid in their outdoor enclosures. they saw anything wrong with other units, said trooper Sgt. arrest was by licking the urinal in Zoo spokeswoman Sarah Gay say set woman on fire the displays, but they did not. Brian Zeisel. the bathroom,” the lawsuit said. said the zoo’s security team was Another officer stood in the Police: Man stole $17K notified after the blaze started in Prison guards find liquor KINSTON — Police an external heating source out- NC in North Carolina ar- doorway, propping open the door, in goods on solo shift side the building. She said that ahead of Super Bowl rested a man accused of dousing then closed it so they wouldn’t be crews responded quickly and the a woman in flammable liquid caught on video, according to the HAMDEN — Police in animals were moved to another DUBLIN — Deputies and lighting her on fire while she lawsuit . CT Connecticut are trying building, where they will be mon- CA at a San Francisco Bay drove alone in her car. From wire reports Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 19 PACIFIC China opens 2nd hospital, deaths top 560

BY KEN MORITSUGU group of patients is expected to Associated Press start taking the drug on Thurs- day. Word of the trials had boost- BEIJING — China on Thurs- ed the stock price of the drug’s day finished building a second maker, American biotechnology new hospital to isolate and treat company Gilead Sciences Inc. patients of a virus that has killed Antivirals and other drugs can more than 560 people and contin- reduce the severity of the virus, ues to spread, disrupting travel and people’s lives and fueling but “so far, no antivirals have been economic fears. proven effective,” said Thanarak A first group of patients was ex- Plipat, a doctor and deputy direc- pected to start testing a new an- tor-general of Thailand’s Disease tiviral drug, as China also moved Control Department of the Health people with milder symptoms Ministry. He said there were a lot into makeshift hospitals at sports of unknowns, “but we have a lot of centers, exhibition halls and other hope, as well.” public spaces. China’s National Health Com- The health care system in the mission said the number of infect- central city of Wuhan, where the ed patients who were “discharged outbreak was first detected in De- and cured” stood at 1,153 as of cember, has been overwhelmed Thursday. Details weren’t given, with the thousands of ill patients. but milder cases have been seen A new, 1,500-bed hospital spe- in younger, healthier people. The cially built for virus patients new virus is in the coronavirus opened days after a 1,000-bed family that includes MERS and hospital with prefabricated wards SARS, and it causes fever, cough and isolation rooms began taking and shortness of breath, and in patients. severe cases, pneumonia. Other treatment centers had CHINATOPIX/AP China has strongly defended tight rows of simple cots lining its epidemic control measures, cavernous rooms. And Wuhan A medical worker in a protective suit walks by patients who have been diagnosed with the coronavirus as had another 132 quarantine sites they settle in at a temporary hospital on Wednesday, in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province. including locking down several with more than 12,500 beds, ac- cities in central Hubei province, cording to the official Xinhua cluding two deaths in Hong Kong all travelers entering Hong Kong speak with them over their de- where the outbreak has been con- News Agency. and the Philippines. from the mainland starting Sat- mands. It estimated 7,000 were centrated. More than 50 million Chinese health authorities re- Hospital workers in Hong Kong urday, but the government has re- on strike and said those who were people are under virtual quaran- ported 563 deaths and another demanding a shutdown of the fused to seal the border entirely. working were worried about their tine in Hubei, but outlying cities, sharp jump in the number of border with the mainland were A Hong Kong medical union safety. towns and villages have enacted confirmed cases to 28,018. Out- on strike for a fourth day. Hong warned that its 20,000 members Xinhua said clinical trials for varying restrictions and other side mainland China, at least 260 Kong’s leader Carrie Lam an- could resign en masse if the city’s the antiviral drug Remdesivir countries have severely restrict- cases have been confirmed, in- nounced a 14-day quarantine of Hospital Authority refuses to have been approved and the first ed travel to and from China. Luxury cruise ends in quarantine

Associated Press Japan and Hong Kong who are to social media to highlight kind- caught in the drama and fear nesses by the crew and to com- YOKOHAMA, Japan — David Abel’s 50th wedding anniversary about the fast-spreading new plain about dwindling medicine, luxury cruise began with him eat- type of coronavirus. Tests are the quality of the food and the ing his fill and enjoying the sights still pending on some passengers inability to exercise or even leave of East Asia. and crew who have symptoms or their cabins. It’s ending with him quaran- had contact with infected people. On the World Dream ship quar- tined in his cabin aboard the “It’s not going to be a luxury antined in Hong Kong, its more Diamond Princess for two extra cruise; it’s going to be like a float- than 3,600 passengers and crew weeks, eating a “lettuce sand- ing prison,” Abel said on Face- were being screened because wich with some chicken inside” book from the ship in the port of eight passengers on an earlier Yokohama, outside Tokyo. voyage had the virus. EUGENE HOSHIKO/AP and watching 20 infected people escorted off the ship, heading for As Japanese officials loaded Hong Kong officials said more A passenger stand outside on the balcony of the cruise ship hospitals for treatment. the ship with supplies Thursday than 5,000 passengers on three Diamond Princess anchored at the Yokohama Port on Thursday, in Abel is among hundreds of pas- to make the quarantine as bear- voyages beginning Jan. 19 may Yokohama, near Tokyo. sengers on two cruise ships in able as possible, passengers took have been exposed. Nebraska base is 6th approved to house quarantined travelers

BY CAITLIN M. KENNEY tagon statement. Esper approved according to Army Lt. Col. Chris be promoted to sergeant, Ingalsbe at Camp Ashland for passenger Stars And Stripes the request Monday. Mitchell, a Pentagon spokesman. said. The course takes place about briefings, as well as office space Other military bases approved Camp Ashland is a Defense once a month on the installation. for HHS personnel and equip- WASHINGTON — Camp Ash- to house evacuees are: March Air Department-owned installation During the winter months, ment through the end of the land in Nebraska was approved Reserve Base, Calif.; The 168th leased to the state of Nebraska, Camp Ashland conducts less month. by Defense Secretary Mark Regiment, Regional Training according to the Pentagon. training than it does during the The evacuees will be housed Esper as the sixth military base Institute at Fort Carson, Colo.; The site is used as a state Na- summer months. in three buildings, while HHS that can be used to house quar- Travis Air Force Base, Calif.; tional Guard training area for Ingalsbe said he believes this, personnel will use three smaller antined travelers due to the coro- Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, personnel from the National as well as the installation’s avail- buildings for administrative and navirus, the Pentagon announced Guard, active-duty Army troops ability of buildings, might be a and Marine Corps Air Station logistical work, Ingalsbe said. Wednesday. Miramar, Calif. There are now and Army Reserve, according reason why it was picked to house HHS personnel are respon- The Department of Health and 98 people who were evacuated to Maj. Scott Ingalsbe, the state evacuees. sible for the care, transportation Human Services sent Esper a re- from China at March Air Reserve public affairs officer for the Ne- Service members would be quest for assistance to house up to Base. braska National Guard. separated from the areas where and security of evacuees at all the 75 people at Camp Ashland, a Na- On Wednesday, about 350 peo- There are about 180 soldiers at evacuees are planned to be military bases, and Defense De- tional Guard base located about ple on two planes that the State Camp Ashland — mostly active- housed and the agencies will be partment personnel will not be in 30 miles from Omaha, for over- Department evacuated from duty troops with some National operating, Ingalsbe said. He did direct contact with them, accord- seas travelers who might need to Hubei province were taken to Guard and reservists — attend- not know exactly when evacuees ing to the Pentagon statement. be quarantined when they arrive Travis Air Force Base and Ma- ing a 23-day basic leader course will arrive. [email protected] from China, according to a Pen- rine Corps Air Station Miramar, for Army specialists who want to Esper also approved a building Twitter: @caitlinmkenney PAGE 20 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 WORLD Passengers cite fast descent in Istanbul crash Associated Press “It was a very turbulent flight. The plane touched down with dif- ISTANBUL — Passengers who ficulty. It was very speedy com- lived through the crash landing in pared to other flights,” he said, Istanbul that killed three people adding that “a ’Welcome to Is- and left a Turkish plane crum- tanbul’ announcement was made pled into pieces say the plane’s after the wheels touched down.” descent felt unusually fast. He said the plane sudden- Engin Demir, who was injured ly swayed left and right, then in the crash, told NTV television dipped to the left to fall into the that he really noticed the speed steep ditch. He said the impact ANTONIO CALANNI/AP as the Boeing 737 operated by flipped the seats in front of him A firefighter inspects a derailed train carriage, near Lodi, northern Italy, on Thursday. low-cost Pegasus Airline landed completely around. He said he at Sabiha Gokcen Airport on pressed to get out since he feared Wednesday evening. the plane could explode. Coming in amid strong winds “There was panic and shouting. High-speed train derails in Italy and heavy rain, the plane overshot Everyone was calling for help. I the runway. It skidded about 165 got out of the plane on my own, Associated Press to 200 feet before it dropped into with a broken arm, I (climbed) ment happened. He said it was work car, the out-of-control en- a 98-foot high ditch, according to unclear if that was a factor in the gine car clipped an unoccupied 30-40 meters. I heard announce- OSPEDALETTO LODIGIA- the city’s governor, Ali Yerlikaya. train going off the tracks. Pros- railways building in its runaway ments that the plane could ex- NO, Italy — A high-speed pas- The 11-year-old plane broke into ecutors and railroad experts are path, ripping away part of an ex- plode,” he said. senger train derailed in northern three pieces, forcing passengers investigating. terior wall of a railways mainte- The plane, carrying 177 pas- Italy before dawn Thursday and to squeeze out through cracks sengers and six crew members Italian news channel Sky TG24 nance building, photos indicated. and climb out onto its damaged its detached engine slammed into said the work occurred on a track The engine car ended its fatal from the western Turkish city a work train car on an adjacent wings. In addition to the deaths, of Izmir, included people from switch area not far from the de- trajectory, flipped around 180 180 people were injured, authori- track, ripped away part of a build- railment site. degrees. 12 countries. Yerlikaya, speak- ing wall and flipped around. Two ties said. ing early Thursday, said all the State railways said the two Authorities said the crash oc- “With the speed, I think it was train workers were killed and 28 fatalities were train engineers. curred about 20 minutes after injured were stable but four had people were injured, authorities not able to stop. It all happened in significant injuries. He did not Prefect Marcello Cardona said the train had left Milan heading said. 2-3 seconds,“ Demir said from his elaborate. The three dead were another railroad worker, part of south toward Bologna. The state-railway Freccia hospital bed in Istanbul. Turkish citizens. the cleaning staff, was seriously “The engine car derailed, Rossa train went off the rails on Demir said he was trapped for Pegasus Airlines CEO Mehmet injured. One passenger was seri- detached completely and kept the heavily used Milan-Bologna a while by plane debris falling T. Nane told a press conference ously injured and 26 other pas- going,” Girolamo Fabiano, a line about 5:30 a.m. while travel- from the luggage compartment. in Istanbul that the black boxes sengers suffered less serious railroad police official told state ing at a speed of nearly 180 mph, “There were screams and were retrieved and were being injuries, authorities said. radio. “Then the second car de- Civil Protection chief Angelo shouts. I tried to calm people deciphered. “The engine car kept going, railed, ending up almost on its around me. Help soon arrived,” “It’s not easy to speak here Borrelli told state radio. 100 meters, at high speed,” Car- side.” he said. when there are deaths, damages, Girolamo Fabiano, a railroad dona told reporters at the crash Cardona said it was fortunate Another survivor, Alper Kulu, injuries,” Nane said, choking up. police official, said work had site, near the town of Ospedaletto that, due to the early hour, the told the DHA news agency the He said Pegasus will work to heal been done during the night on the Lodigiano. train wasn’t crowded. Police said flight was “abnormal from the the wounds caused by the deadly stretch of track where the derail- Besides striking the isolated it had about 30 passengers. start to the finish.” landing. NASA’s Koch, crewmates back from space Merkel condemns governor’s Associated Press Koch, who grew up in Jack- sonville, N.C., and now lives near election with far-right help MOSCOW — NASA astronaut the Gulf of Mexico in Galveston, Christina Koch, who has spent Texas, with her husband, Bob, Associated Press nearly 11 months in orbit on the and many on the center-right told The Associated Press last said that accepting votes from longest spaceflight by a woman, BERLIN — Chancellor Angela landed safely in Kazakhstan month that taking part in the first AfD — whether or not they were all-female spacewalk was the Merkel condemned as “inexcus- solicited — broke a taboo and was on Thursday along with two of highlight of her mission. able” the election of a new Ger- unacceptable. Kemmerich was her International Space Station Koch said she and fellow NASA man state governor with the help holding out Thursday against crewmates. astronaut Jessica Meir appreci- of the far-right as well as her own mounting pressure to resign. The Soyuz capsule carrying ated that the Oct. 18 spacewalk party, and said Thursday that the The state legislature elects the Koch, along with station Com- result must not stand. governor. The Left Party finished mander Luca Parmitano of the “could serve as an inspiration for Wednesday’s surprise elec- first in the election, followed by European Space Agency and the future space explorers.” tion of Thomas Kemmerich, a AfD and Merkel’s center-right Russian space agency Roscosmos’ Parmitano and Skvortsov spent member of the small pro-busi- Christian Democratic Union. Alexander Skvortsov, touched 201 days in space. ness Free Democrats, to lead the Kemmerich’s Free Democrats, down southeast of Dzhezkazgan, After preliminary medical eval- eastern state of Thuringia has uations, the crew will be flown by who are traditional allies of the Kazakhstan, at 3:12 p.m. . SERGEI ILNITSKY, POOL/AP turned into a major embarrass- CDU, only just mustered enough Koch wrapped up a 328-day Russian helicopters to the city of ment for Germany’s mainstream support to enter the legislature, mission on her first flight into U.S. astronaut Christina Koch Karaganda in Kazakhstan. Koch center-right parties and revived with five of its 90 seats. space, providing researchers the gestures shortly after landing in and Parmitano will then board a questions about the future of the CDU leaders called for a new opportunity to observe the effects Kazakhstan on Thursday. NASA plane bound for Cologne, country’s governing coalition. election in Thuringia. Annegret of long-duration spaceflight on a Germany, where Parmitano will Kemmerich narrowly defeated Kramp-Karrenbauer, who suc- woman. The study is important up as support crew helped her get be greeted by European space a left-wing incumbent after the ceeded Merkel as party leader in since NASA plans to return to out of the capsule and placed her officials before Koch proceeds far-right Alternative for Germa- 2018, said local CDU lawmakers the moon under the Artemis pro- in a chair for a quick post-flight home to Houston. ny, or AfD, voted for him instead acted against instructions from gram and prepare for the human check-up alongside her crew- Skvortsov will be flown to the of its own candidate in the state the national leadership in voting exploration of Mars. mates. Russian space officials Star City Cosmonaut Training legislature. Left-leaning parties for Kemmerich. Koch smiled and gave a thumbs- said they were in good shape. Center outside Moscow. 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‘Birds of Prey’ benefi ts from Joker breakup Movie review, Page 28

Associated Press reporter Jake Coyle shares his picks — Pages 22-23 Making the case for each Best Picture nominee — Pages 24-26 The problem for multiple-category darling ‘Parasite’ — Page 27

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Ahead of the 92nd Academy Awards, Associated Press fi lm writer Jake Coyle shares his predictions for a ceremony with a lot of locks, but the potential for a few surprises

BEST PICTURE

The nominees: “Ford v Ferrari,” “The Irishman,” “Jojo Rabbit,” “Joker,” “Little Women,” “Marriage Story,” “1917,” “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood,” “Parasite”

Will win: “Parasite” ; Should win: “Parasite”

Should have been a contender: “The Last Black Man in San Francisco”

The last-arriving contender, Sam Mendes’ World War I Neon fi lm “1917,” has seemingly, fi ttingly run away with it. The Screen Actors Guild showed that “Parasite” has perhaps top-prize winner of the Producers Guild, the Directors Guild the most important vote in the actors (they make up the and the BAFTAs, “1917” is the clear favorite. But I think largest percentage of the fi lm academy), and academy Bong Joon-ho’s universally beloved “Parasite” could pull membership has also grown more international in recent off an upset that would rank alongside the underdog win of years. The time may be right for the fi rst foreign-language “Moonlight” three years ago. Taking best ensemble from the fi lm to win best picture, and “Parasite” deserves it. BEST ACTRESS BEST ACTOR

The nominees: Cynthia Erivo, “Harriet”; Scarlett The nominees: Antonio Banderas, “Pain and Glory”; Johansson, “Marriage Story”; Saoirse Ronan, “Little Leonardo DiCaprio, “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood”; Women”; Charlize Theron, Adam Driver, “Marriage Story”; “Bombshell”; Renee Zellweger, Joaquin Phoenix, “Joker”; Jonathan “Judy” Pryce, “The Two Popes”

Will win: Renee Zellweger Will win: Joaquin Phoenix

Should win: Saoirse Ronan Should win: Adam Driver Should have been a Should have been a contender: Alfre Woodard, contender: Andre Holland, “Clemency” “High Flying Bird” Zellweger Phoenix Zellweger is already a winner for Best actor is the year’s most “Cold Mountain” in 2004. But her competitive category. The next fi ve fragile yet powerhouse performance options — including Adam Sandler as Judy Garland in “Judy” is that (“Uncut Gems”) and Eddie Murphy irresistible thing: a comeback (“Dolemite Is My Name”) — are story. The part reverberates with equally good. Phoenix has been the Zellweger’s own history; she and clear front-runner for some time, Garland are both former American sweethearts. She’s a fi ne choice, for his morose yet limber Joker. But but the verve and velocity of Driver’s performance in “Marriage Ronan’s great performance in “Little Story” is the real show-stopper here; Women” shouldn’t be overlooked. Ronan a more nuanced and rewarding Driver Formidable as this category is, it performance that culminates beautifully iStock would have been better with Woodard’s fully inhabited, in song and tears. A shout-out also to Holland, whose devastatingly still performance as a prison warden in the guileful, fast-talking NBA agent in “High Flying Bird” felt like spare “Clemency.” a thrilling fast break. CONTINUED ON PAGE 23 Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 23 WEEKEND: ACADEMY AWARDS PREVIEW

FROM PAGE 22 Best supporting actress The nominees: Kathy Bates, “Richard Jew- ell”; Laura Dern, “Marriage Story”; Scarlett Johansson, “Jojo Rabbit”; Florence Pugh, “Little Women”; Margot Robbie, “Bombshell” Will win: Laura Dern Should win: Laura Dern Should have been a contender: Zhao Shuzhen, “The Farewell” Dern has won every precursor award ahead of the Oscars, and is poised to win her fi rst Dern Academy Award. That’s cause for celebration. Her fearsome divorce For past winners, the moments after attorney in “Marriage Story” is indelible, particularly her fabulous monologue on the double standards of modern marriage. But this their name was called out are a blur category is also missing some worthy actresses, including Jennifer Lopez (“Hustlers”) and Shuzhen, who played the grandmother in Lulu Wang’s tender family drama “The Farewell.” BY MIKE CIDONI LENNOX editing award. But ... opera singers book them- Best supporting actor Associated Press selves up for three years, four years in advance. So, he didn’t. And who did? Richard Pryor, who I just The nominees: Tom Hanks, “A Beautiful Day t happens in an instant: The envelope is think was a genius,” Thelma Schoonmaker, the fi lm in the Neighborhood”; Anthony Hopkins, “The opened, a name is called and the Oscar editor on “Raging Bull,” recalled. Two Popes”; Al Pacino, “The Irishman”; Joe winner’s life and career are changed “And, so, he mangled my name. It was wonder- Pesci, “The Irishman”; Brad Pitt, “Once Upon a forever. Time ... in Hollywood” I ful. He absolutely destroyed my name. And I was To some, the fi rst moments after an Academy such a fan of his that when I went up on the stage, Will win: Brad Pitt Award win felt like an out-of-body experience Should win: Brad Pitt I grabbed his hand. ... And I think he might have — it came as a shock, the memory is a blur, they just recently been burned from freebasing. I don’t Should have been a contender: Wesley felt disoriented. Snipes, “Dolemite Is My Name” know. And I grabbed his hand and I just said, ‘Oh, Dozens of Oscars will be bestowed on Sunday my God. I’m such a huge fan of yours.’ I’d sort of Nothing is more certain this year than Pitt’s at the Dolby Theatre. Some, like Antonio Ban- win for “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood,” a Pitt forgotten. deras, Scarlett Johansson, Cynthia Erivo and movie that perfectly showcases Pitt’s sly charisma. His march toward “And so that was a great, wonderful moment. Jonathan Pryce, have their fi rst shot at winning. his fi rst acting Oscar has been fun, too, in a string of acceptance However, I won, De Niro won, and we were wait- Here’s how fi ve winners remember their fi rst speeches fi lled with memorable one-liners. The talent in this category ing backstage for Marty. And he never came. He whirlwind moments after hearing “And the is extraordinary — Pesci or Hanks would win most years — but it’s didn’t win. And that was possibly the worst night still a shame there wasn’t room for Snipes’ irresistible prima donna Oscar goes to ... ” and their name. of my life.” actor-turned-director in “Dolemite Is My Name.” Setting Oscar down ‘Russell Crowe said don’t cry if you Best director Shortly after receiving the best supporting get up there’ The nominees: Martin Scorsese, “The Irish- actor statuette for “Little Miss Sunshine” from presenter Rachel Weisz in 2007, Alan Arkin set The 2003 Oscars were a family affair for Nicole man”; Todd Phillips, “Joker”; Sam Mendes, Kidman, who brought her parents and daughter to “1917”; Quentin Tarantino, “Once Upon a Time it down on the stage and reached into his coat pocket. “I know you’re not supposed to read, but the ceremony. ... in Hollywood”; Bong Joon Ho, “Parasite” Denzel Washing- Will win: Sam Mendes I would be totally incoherent if I didn’t,” Arkin said before delivering his speech. ton announced the Should win: Martin Scorsese best actress cat- Should have been a contender: Marielle “Acting for me has always been, and always will be, a team sport,” Arkin said. egory and when he Heller, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” called out her name, Mendes appears the favorite here for the tech- Years later, he recalled how otherworldly the moment felt. Kidman reached out nical acumen of his seemingly-one-take “1917.” Mendes to hug her mother The pristine command of Bong would be a better “I remember it vividly. You leave your body and somebody else takes over and that’s what it fi rst. She then choice, but so would the colossal achievement of Scorsese in “The turned to her father Irishman.” Marielle Heller (“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”), was like for about three days. I wasn’t there. I was somewhere else. I don’t know where I — I and daughter seated whose talent with performance and authenticity doesn’t announce in the second row. itself and is underappreciated, deserved to be among the nominees. didn’t know where I was,” Arkin said. “My body was — in two different places.” “Russell Crowe Original screenplay said don’t cry if you ‘Nice to meet you’ get up there, and The nominees: “Knives Out,” Rian Johnson; “Marriage Story,” now I’m crying,” Lupita Nyong’o was already an awards season Noah Baumbach; “1917,” Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns; Kidman said before darling by Oscar night in 2014, earning praise “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood,” Quentin Tarantino; “Parasite,” thanking “The for her performance in “12 Years a Slave.” Kidman Bong Joon Ho, Jin Won Han Hours” fi lmmakers. She covered Will win: “Parasite” Asked about the moment last month, Kidman her face when Should win: “Marriage Story” said she remembered “just sort of being in absolute her name was Should have been a contender: “Pain and Glory,” Pedro shock, total shock. I was very young and, so, I was announced as Almodovar like kind of — like it was all swirling around me. best supporting A screenplay win for “Parasite” would signal a real chance for a “I remember my mom and my dad being there, actress winner best-picture victory. But also worthy here are two deeply personal and I just remember it as one of the greatest mo- as those around scripts: Baumbach’s stirring portrait of divorce “Marriage Story” ments in my life.” and Almodovar’s unfortunately overlooked “Pain and Glory,” a sub- her, including lime, autobiographical work. John Travolta, ‘Denzel was my focal point’ Brad Pitt and her Adapted screenplay brother, rushed to When Jordan Peele won the best original screen- congratulate her. play Oscar in 2018, it was Kidman who called his The nominees: “The Irishman,” Steven Zaillian; “Jojo Rabbit,” “I remember name. Taika Waititi; “Joker,” Todd Phillips, Scott Silver; “Little Women,” being very dis- The audience im- Greta Gerwig; “The Two Popes,” Anthony McCarten oriented and then mediately leapt from Will win: “Jojo Rabbit” Liza Minnelli their seats, includ- Should win: “Little Women” ing fellow nominee grabbed me and Should have been a contender: “The Laundromat,” Scott Z. Burns Nyong’o Greta Gerwig. They gave me the big- Waititi’s clever, poignant script for the Nazi Germany coming-of- remained standing gest hug. And I was like, ‘Wonderful. Thank you. age romp “Jojo Rabbit” appears to have the edge here. Yet, Gerwig’s as Peele accepted Nice to meet you,’ ” Nyong’o recalled, laughing. script inventively pulled apart Louisa May Alcott’s much-adapted his trophy and novel — only to put it back together again. ‘He never came’ began speaking. “I remember International film The elation that comes with an Oscar win can getting on stage The nominees: “Corpus Christi,” Jan Komasa; “Honeyland,” be short-lived when the movie’s fellow nominees and looking down Tamara Kotevska, Ljubo Stefanov; “Les Miserables,” Ladj Ly; “Pain are passed over. and people were and Glory,” Pedro Almodovar; “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho That was the case in 1981, when Martin standing, which was Will win: “Parasite” Scorsese’s “Raging Bull” tied for the most nomi- crazy. And right Should win: “Honeyland” nations with “The Elephant Man.” down the middle Should have been a contender: “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” First, the ceremony was delayed because was Denzel Wash- This will be an easy win for “Parasite,” with potentially bigger of an assassination attempt against President Peele ington,” Peele said, awards to come. But little in this awards season was more disap- Ronald Reagan. noting that Washington was clapping enthusiasti- pointing than the lack of attention for Celine Sciamma’s “Portrait of “It was quite extraordinary because Reagan cally. “That’s like the craziest thing in the world. a Lady on Fire.” The period French romance narrowly missed out on had been shot and so they postponed the Oscars He’s, you know, he’s it. So, you know, that was being France’s submission. (France instead chose “Les Miserables.”) and Luciano Pavarotti was supposed to give the — Denzel was my focal point.” PAGE 24 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 WEEKEND: ACADEMY AWARDS PREVIEW ‘Marriage Story’ Noah Baumbach managed to make a movie about a divorce that left viewers feeling ... good? “Marriage Story,” on its surface, is a close-up look at one of life’s most stressful events. But it’s also a show- case for some powerhouse acting, as the protagonists begin their separation at a simmer before things get very real and intense. Usually we can go into Oscars season having a sense of how many people watched the best picture nominees. That’s more complicated this year, as two Washington Post writers make their case of the fi lms were released by Netfl ix. So while “Mar- riage Story” did play in theaters, many more may have watched it on the streaming platform, which is notori- for this year’s 9 best-picture candidates ously opaque about its streaming data. Total nominations: Six (picture, best actor, actress, supporting actress, original score and original screen- play). Taika Waititi, Synopsis: A New York couple — playwright Char- right, writes, lie and actress Nicole — go through separation and directs and divorce while navigating how their family can fi nd co-stars in a path forward. Nicole wants to move with their son “Jojo Rabbit,” back to Los Angeles, where she is from and has greater a World War II career prospects, while Charlie confronts the reality satire about a that their marriage is over. German boy Directed by: Noah Baumbach, who also wrote the (Roman Griffi n screenplay. Davis) whose Starring: Adam Driver as Charlie, Scarlett Johans- imaginary son as Nicole and Laura Dern in a supporting role as friend is Adolf divorce attorney Nora Fanshaw. Hitler (Waititi). Why it could win: Critics loved “Marriage Story,” Co-starring hailing it as a moving drama that, according to Scarlett Washington Post fi lm critic Ann Hornaday, is also an Johansson. “observant, compassionate fi lm, full of deep feeling 20th Century Fox and tenderness.” The acting in particular has received plenty of acclaim; the fi lm’s two leads have received several nominations at various award shows for their respective roles. And Dern is already considered the main contender for best supporting actress. The theme of divorce is about as universal as it gets, given the country’s divorce rate, and the stars at the center of the fi lm certainly don’t hurt its chances. ‘Jojo Rabbit’ and Sam Rockwell in supporting roles as Hitler and a Why it couldn’t win: Sorry, “Marriage Story” fans, Hitler Youth leader, respectively. Fox Searchlight marketed “Jojo Rabbit” as an “anti- but with “1917,” “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood” Why it could win: “Jojo Rabbit” won the Toronto and “Parasite” in the running, Baumbach’s feature hate satire” — a disclaimer suggesting that the distributor International Film Festival’s audience award when it expected some blowback. That’s understandable, given isn’t considered a front-runner. premiered in September, an accolade often used to pre- Despite all the hype around “Roma” last year, Net- the fi lm’s risky premise: the story of a Hitler Youth whose dict Oscar nominees. Of the past 12 festivals, 11 fi lms imaginary friend is, well, Adolf Hitler. Some festivalgoers fl ix has not yet won a best picture, and it’s unlikely that that won TIFF’s audience award have also received in Toronto, where the fi lm premiered in September, also an intimate fi lm like this will be the one to do it. best picture Oscar nominations; four (“Green Book,” anticipated controversy. But the resulting back-and-forth While “Marriage Story” has received plenty of nom- over whether the twee treatment worked was largely limit- “12 Years a Slave,” “The King’s Speech” and “Slumdog inations at other award ceremonies, it hasn’t picked up ed to critics and cinephiles, many of whom found the fi lm, Millionaire”) ended up winning. many prizes for overall best picture. (The World War I despite its edgy premise, to be quite tame in execution. The feel-good nature of “Jojo Rabbit” also works saga “1917” won best drama at the Golden Globes.) After the initial buzz died down, “Jojo Rabbit” re- in its favor, as the academy tends to embrace movies — Elahe Izadi emerged as a talker when it landed multiple Oscar about people overcoming their differences. It could nominations in January, including best picture. But the also be seen as the fi lm that made supporting actress feel-good fl ick is up against award season giants such as Johansson a double nominee, given that she was all but “1917” and “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood,” not to guaranteed to land a nod for her leading role in Noah mention the stealth awards magnet “Parasite,” which has Baumbach’s “Marriage Story.” won a number of critic and industry accolades. Why it might not win: “1917” and “Once Upon a So does it stand a chance? Let’s take a closer look. Time ... in Hollywood” are the front-runners this year, Total nominations: Six (picture, supporting actress, and even if the preferential ballot works in another adapted screenplay, fi lm editing, costume design and fi lm’s favor, it probably wouldn’t be “Jojo Rabbit.” The production design). fi lm isn’t quite an underdog, but it isn’t a polarizing Synopsis: Jojo Betzler, a 10-year-old German boy in the force like “Joker,” either. It falls somewhere in the Hitler Youth, reconsiders his blind adherence to the Nazi middle. doctrine after discovering his mother, Rosie, has been hid- “Jojo Rabbit” earned mixed reviews from crit- ing a Jewish teen, Elsa, in their attic. ics. Some praised its boldness and the sincerity of its Directed by: Taika Waititi, who wrote an adaptation of empathetic mission. Those who didn’t love it pointed to Christine Leunens’ book “Caging Skies.” tonal inconsistencies and often compared it to Roberto Starring: Roman Griffi n Davis as Jojo, Scarlett Johans- Benigni’s Holocaust dramedy, “Life Is Beautiful.” Netflix son as Rosie and Thomasin McKenzie as Elsa, with Waititi — Sonia Rao

‘Parasite’ giving it all away. So we’ll just say this: The fi lm begins Korea and Seoul in particular, but its themes about class, with the son of a working-class family (the Kims) agree- struggle and human dignity are universal. “Parasite” “Parasite,” a deliciously dark and haunting dramedy ing to tutor the daughter of a wealthy family (the Parks), received no acting nominations, but it made history as from Korean director Bong Joon-ho, has become one of and then follows what happens as the families become the fi rst foreign-language fi lm to win best ensemble at the the most buzzed-about movies of the year since its U.S. increasingly intertwined. “Parasite” does not fi t neatly Screen Actors Guild Awards. That considerably boosted release in October. into any particular genre; there’s dark humor, suspense, its chances for Oscar love come Sunday. According to Box Offi ce Mojo, “Parasite” has earned drama and some horror elements. Why it wouldn’t win: Perhaps the biggest barrier for more than $129 million internationally and $31 million Directed by: Bong Joon-ho, who also co-wrote the “Parasite” is a cultural and linguistic one: No foreign- at the American box offi ce , impressive for a foreign-lan- screenplay with Han Jin-won. language fi lm has ever won best picture, although several guage fi lm. And now it has several Oscar nominations in Starring: The cast represents a massive ensemble ef- have been nominated in years past. “Roma” in 2019 was hand, including for the biggest prize of the night. fort, with leading man Song Kang-ho as the Kims’ father; considered the fi lm to beat; “Green Book” took home the Despite South Korean cinema’s growing stature, Lee Sun-kyun as the Parks’ father; Cho Yeo-jeong as the Oscar instead. “Parasite” is the fi rst fi lm from that country to receive Parks’ mother; Choi Woo-shik as the Kims’ son; Park So- The lack of acting nominations could also spell doom best picture and best international fi lm consideration at dam as the Kims’ daughter; Lee Jung-eun as the Parks’ for its chances (only 11 other fi lms have ever won best the Oscars . housekeeper; and Chang Hyae-jin as the Kims’ mother. picture without receiving nominations in any acting cat- Let’s break down “Parasite’s” chances. Why it could win: Simply put, “Parasite” is one of the egories). In the end, Oscar voters may opt instead to give Total nominations: Six (picture, directing, fi lm editing, year’s best-reviewed movies. It has a 99 percent on Rotten the best international fi lm feature Oscar to “Parasite” international feature fi lm, production design and original Tomatoes, the highest number of any best picture nomi- and show best picture love to another movie. screenplay). nee. It also took home the Palme d’Or at Cannes. — Elahe Izadi Synopsis: “Parasite” is diffi cult to describe without The genre-bending fi lm may be specifi c to South MORE NOMINEES ON PAGE 25 Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 25 WEEKEND: ACADEMY AWARDS PREVIEW

‘Joker’ the fi lm’s nods to 1970s-era Martin Scorsese, the acad- ‘Ford v Ferrari’ emy may embrace Phillips’ homage to an Oscar-winning “Joker” is easily the most divisive fi lm nominated for director (who happens to be one of his competitors in this “Ford v Ferrari” has been heralded as a captivat- best picture this year. Despite an onslaught of criticism category). ing sports drama, as a stellar buddy fi lm starring about its realistic portrayal of extreme violence — at the “Joker” is a violent movie. Counterintuitively, that Christian Bale and Matt Damon, and, for those hands of an angry white man — the thriller clearly found could help its chances for Oscar gold. The fi lm’s fans reasons combined, as the premier dad movie this an audience. “Joker” captivated viewers on the festival have embraced its parallels with a world that feels in- award season. It hasn’t, however, been described as circuit, winning the prestigious Golden Lion at the Ven- creasingly fractured. As veteran fi lm critic Sonny Bunch a movie likely to win the Oscar for best picture. ice Film Festival. It also became the fi rst R-rated fi lm to wrote recently, “ ‘Joker’ has won hearts and minds But the academy has surprised us before. “Ford surpass $1 billion at the global box offi ce. around the globe because it so strikingly refl ects the v Ferrari” follows American automotive designer The plaudits have continued into awards season, with unsettled moment in which we live.” Carroll Shelby (Damon) and British driver Ken “Joker” leading the nominations for the Oscars — and Why it might not win: While the academy has become Miles (Bale) as they team up to design a racecar the ceremony’s U.K. equivalent, the BAFTA awards. more receptive to comics as source material in recent for Ford Motor, whose egotistical chief executive, (The fi lm, nominated for 11 BAFTAs, won three on Feb. years, “Joker” may still take a hit for its association with 2.) How might the controversial fi lm fare on Sunday? Henry Ford II, is hellbent on beating Enzo Ferrari’s the DC Comics universe (even as Phillips and comic-book Let’s break it down. team at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race. It’s based on fans insist it is not a comic-book movie). It also Total nominations: 11 (picture, adapted screenplay, a true story, which the Oscars tend to love. So we doesn’t help that “Joker” is up against Sam cinematography, original score, fi lm editing, sound ask: Is that enough? Mendes’ “1917,” precisely the type of editing, sound mixing, makeup and hairstyling, Fasten those seat belts and join us as we take a visually arresting war movie the costume design, leading actor, director). academy tends to favor. closer look at the fi lm’s chances. Synopsis: Arthur Fleck — a mentally ill, Total nominations: Four (picture, fi lm editing, You can expect a slew of wannabe comedian who has been ignored and think pieces regardless of how sound editing and sound mixing). shunned by society — unleashes vengeance Synopsis: Ford hires Shelby and Miles to design “Joker” fares on Oscar night. on an increasingly chaotic Gotham City as And in that way, “Joker” a car that will help it beat Ferrari at Le Mans. The his clown-faced alter ego: Joker. men bond as they overcome obstacles, of both the has already won what the Directed by: Todd Phillips (of “The fi lm’s troubled protago- mechanical and personal sort, on their journey to Hangover” fame), who co-wrote the screen- nist was after all along the climactic 1966 race. play with Scott Silver. — our attention . Directed by: James Mangold, working with a Starring: Joaquin Phoenix as Fleck, — Bethonie Butler script by Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth Robert De Niro as Murray Franklin, Zazie and Jason Keller. Beetz as Sophie Dumond, Frances Conroy Starring: Bale and Damon, with Tracy Letts and as Penny Fleck, Brett Cullen as Thomas Jon Bernthal in supporting roles as Ford and Ford Wayne. executive Lee Iacocca, respectively. Why it could win: “Joker” features Why it could win: “Ford v Ferrari” isn’t just a several elements that are appealing to thrilling movie. It’s also a sports drama that aims academy voters. For one, Phoenix underwent to go further by focusing on the heart and drive of a staggering physical transformation — in- its characters, particularly the friendship between cluding marked weight loss — that the actor Miles and Shelby. After seeing it at the Telluride later said helped him channel Fleck’s descent Film Festival, Variety’s Peter Debruge noted that into psychological madness. And because acade- the genre’s best movies “aren’t so much about the my voters have been historically averse to standard sport as they are the personalities, and these two go comic-book fare, there’s something to be said for big with their performances.” the fi lm’s function as a Joker origin story that Why it might not win: Though some best picture gives occasional nods to the villain’s comic- book roots without being beholden to winners — “Spotlight,” “Moonlight” and “The Warner Bros. Shape of Water,” to name a few — have played at them. While some critics have derided Pictures Telluride in recent years, “Ford v Ferrari” isn’t poised to join that list. Whereas this might have been the sort of fi lm ‘Little Women’ to win best picture years ago, the academy seems more likely to go with Producers Guild Award win- Although “Little Women” is nominated for six Acad- ner “1917” or Golden Globe winner “Once Upon a emy Awards, the fi lm has gotten more attention for a Time ... in Hollywood” this year. (The surprise win nomination it didn’t receive: Greta Gerwig was left off would be Screen Actors Guild Award winner “Para- the best-director list. Given that there are only men in site.”) “Ford v Ferrari” doesn’t have much to say the category, the snub sparked a larger conversation about the shocking lack of recognition for female direc- about war, or about Hollywood in 1969. It does have tors in Oscar history. Only fi ve female directors have a little to say about the evils of capitalism — Letts’ been nominated (including Gerwig for “Lady Bird” in character is more of a Big Bad than anyone at Fer- 2018), and Kathryn Bigelow is the only woman who has rari — but, on the whole, “Ford v Ferrari” is just ever won. fun. Critics and voters were pleased by Saoirse Ronan’s — Sonia Rao nod for lead actress for her role as Jo, the fearless March sister determined to be a writer, as well as newcomer Florence Pugh’s nomination for Amy, who had a more nuanced take on the divisive character from Louisa May Alcott’s original novel. The movie, released on Christmas Day, clearly connected with audiences, as it has made more than $95 million domestically and $148 million worldwide. Here’s what you need to know about “Little Women’s” chances at the Oscars: Total nominations: Six (picture, lead actress, sup- porting actress, adapted screenplay, costume design and original score). Synopsis: Based on Alcott’s 1868 novel about four sisters coming of age in Civil War-era Massachusetts, Gerwig breathes new life into the story (which has been adapted many times over) with a version that jumps back and forth in time. The same elements are all there, how- ever, from Jo’s fraught relationship with Laurie to poor, sweet, doomed Beth. Columbia Pictures Directed by: Greta Gerwig, who also adapted the screenplay. From top: Laura Dern, Saoirse Ronan, Eliza Scanlen, Starring: Saoirse Ronan as Jo; Florence Pugh as Amy; Emma Watson and Florence Pugh star in “Little Women.” Emma Watson as Meg; Eliza Scanlen as Beth; Timothee Chalamet as Laurie; Laura Dern as Marmee; Meryl Why it might not win: It hasn’t seen the kind of buzz Streep as Aunt March. throughout award season that many other front-runners Why it could win: There’s a ton of goodwill for the have — and in fact has been snubbed by some of the movie, which received glowing reviews and left many other major award shows. (Only Ronan and the score viewers in tears, particularly readers with deeply nos- received nods at the Golden Globes, and it had zero nomi- talgic memories of the book from their younger years. nations at the SAG Awards.) Plus, there are the disheart- It’s also the type of fi lm that the academy typically loves: ening reports that male voters aren’t bothering to watch based on a novel; a period piece; a family drama; gorgeous the movie ... because it has the word “women” in the title? — Emily Yahr 20th Century Fox costumes; the presence of Saoirse Ronan (this is her fourth acting nomination by age 25); and Meryl Streep. MORE NOMINEES ON PAGE 26 PAGE 26 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 WEEKEND: ACADEMY AWARDS PREVIEW

Sony Pictures Entertainment-Columbia Pictures “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood” is up for 10 Oscars. ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Quentin Tarantino doesn’t make traditional “Oscar movies.” His nine fi lms to date are fi lled with violence, cursing, politically incorrect observations, more violence, more cursing and a good deal of pulp. Despite that, he’s won two Academy Awards for best original screenplay. And this year presents his best chance to fi nally nab the top prize with his sentimental ode to the industry, “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood.” The movie doesn’t just depict the Hollywood of the 1960s, it downright glamorizes it. One sequence fi nds us at the Playboy Universal Pictures Mansion, decked out for a party, as Steve McQueen smokes a joint and slyly watches Sharon Tate dance. Our characters drive ‘1917’ Starring: Dean-Charles Chapman as Lance Cor- down the Sunset Strip, visit the Spahn Movie Ranch and dine at El poral Blake and George MacKay as Lance Corporal Coyote. The whole thing is a shot glass full of nostalgia for anyone From “The Hurt Locker” to “Platoon” to “Law- Schofi eld, with a supporting cast rounded out by who’s spent time in Los Angeles, particularly during the latter half rence of Arabia,” war movies have a history of Andrew Scott, Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin Firth, of last century. It doesn’t hurt that the movie is funny, well-crafted and, in a strange turn for the auteur, sweet. winning best picture (along with a glut of other Mark Strong and Richard Madden. Is that enough? awards) at the Oscars. That bodes pretty well for Why it could win: Let’s set aside the fact that this Total nominations: 10 (picture, director, actor, supporting “1917,” the World War I epic directed by previous is a prestige war movie, something of a nectar for actor, original screenplay, cinematography, sound mixing, sound Oscar winner Sam Mendes and shot by cinematog- academy voters. Let’s also set aside that Mendes editing, costume design, production design). rapher Roger Deakins, who is widely considered to dedicated the fi lm to his grandfather, who inspired be the best in the business. The two made the movie Synopsis: A washed-up actor (who lives next to Roman Polanski it. The fi lmmakers spent months speaking to the and Sharon Tate) and his stunt double stare down the end of their appear as if it was shot in a single take, earning a press about the actual creation of the movie, and tremendous amount of praise from critics. careers in 1969, as the Manson Family cult continues to grow. “1917” is the rare instance in which the behind-the- Directed by: The movie also comes with a compelling back- Quentin Tarantino scenes stories are actually interesting. Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton, Brad Pitt as Cliff story, complete with the sort of sentimentality the The movie is shot to look like it’s happening in real Booth and Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate, with a supporting cast academy gobbles up: Mendes’ grandfather Alfred time, which required the entire fi lm to be painstak- rounded out by Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Oly- fought in World War I and would tell stories of ingly outlined beforehand. Mendes and his team set phant, Julia Butters, Damian Lewis and Bruce Dern. his time serving. One of these tales found Alfred up camp in an enormous fi eld and mapped out the Why it could win: The academy has a soft spot for movies that delivering a message across no man’s land, the entire fi lm, plunking down different colored fl ags present Hollywood in a good light. In the past, we’ve seen fi lms area between the warring trenches. “That image to show where this actor or that camera should be like “Argo” and “The Artist” earn the top prize against arguably of him, that little man alone in that vast emptiness, when shooting commenced. The dialogue was pre- better fare, probably because they bathe Tinseltown in a golden stuck with me,” Mendes told The Washington Post. cisely timed; the sets built with a set of strict guide- light. Well, “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood” does that and “And when I came to have the courage to sit down lines in place. The movie is a true technical feat. more, correcting a historical atrocity while romanticizing the and write my own script, that was the story I felt Why it might not win: The movie didn’t receive movie industry of the 1960s. Toss in a few movie stars and a killer compelled to tell.” a wide release until January, long after the other soundtrack, and we’ve got a real contender on our hands. Total nominations: 10 (picture, director, score, eight contenders began marinating in the public. Why it might not win: The movie ends with a quick but intense original screenplay, cinematography, visual effects, Historically, that places it at something of a disad- bout of pulpy violence, the kind generally found in the sort of genre sound mixing, sound editing, production design, vantage, one that might be somewhat mitigated by fare that hasn’t historically resonated with the academy. Such makeup and hairstyling). the barrage of press preceding its initial, limited gore (along with a nearly comedic amount of strong language) Synopsis: Two young British soldiers are December release. It’s also been criticized for being isn’t uncommon in Tarantino fi lms, but it’s also a major reason ordered to abandon the trenches and enter enemy more of a technical achievement than an emotional his movies tend not to earn best picture. Still, “Once Upon a Time territory to deliver a message calling off an attack one, which could prove problematic, depending on ... in Hollywood” is arguably his warmest, most traditional fi lm. on a German platoon. how many voters agree with that statement. Perhaps in this instance, nostalgia will outweigh the brutality. Directed by: Sam Mendes — Travis M. Andrews — Travis M. Andrews

‘The Irishman’ Total nominations: 10 (picture, director, supporting fi nds himself at the end of his life, picking out his own actor for Joe Pesci and Al Pacino, adapted screenplay, casket. As he shares his story, it feels in some ways like a It’s fairly wild that when discussing legendary direc- cinematography, visual effects, costume design, produc- refl ection of Scorsese’s own career. The actors he worked tor Martin Scorsese’s newest movie, the fi rst thing that tion design, fi lm editing). with again and again — Pesci, De Niro, Keitel — are all springs to mind is Netfl ix. Yet here we are. Ever since the Synopsis: A young Irish American World War II vet there. The themes from his former movies — the role of streaming service began creating original fi lms, it’s des- and truck driver named Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) organized crime, the plight of Italian and Irish immi- perately wanted an Oscar. What better way than fi nanc- begins working for the Mafi a as a hit man in the 1950s. grants, the exploration of Catholicism — are all there. ing an old master’s 3 ½-hour personal epic He eventually becomes the personal bodyguard to Team- But this time, it holds an added weight. about the death of union leader Jimmy sters leader Hoffa and fi nds his loyalties split. Houses are This movie feels like the work of a director trying to Hoffa? Cue “The Irishman.” painted. make sense of it all, of his characters’ lives and careers As with the service’s other Oscar Directed by: Martin Scorsese, working from a along with his own. plays — “Marriage Story,” “The Two screenplay by Steven Zaillian, which was based on the Why it might not win: Two major factors work against Popes” and “Dolemite Is My Name” book “I Heard You Paint Houses” by Charles Brandt. the movie here. The fi lm’s notable length (210 minutes!) — we don’t really have a sense of Starring: De Niro as Sheeran, Pacino as Hoffa and presents a barrier to entry for some viewers, and there’s the movie’s popularity, since Netfl ix Pesci as Russell Bufalino, with a supporting cast no way to know if academy voters actually watch all of famously doesn’t release hard num- rounded out by Harvey Keitel, Ray Romano, Anna the nominated movies. bers. It certainly generated an awful lot Paquin and Bobby Cannavale Then there’s the Netfl ix of it all. The movie didn’t of attention before it was even released: Why it could win: Aside from the fact that it’s spend much time in theaters, meaning many voters the return of Joe Pesci, the de-aging an excellent fi lm, “The Irishman” in- probably saw it for the fi rst time on a small screen, which technology used on its primary actors. But cludes many qualities the acad- could affect how they feel about it. There’s also a larger is any of that enough for an Oscar? emy rewards. It’s directed cultural war at play. Netfl ix is a disrupter, intent on by a living legend and stars changing the ways the movie industry has operated for In Martin Scorsese’s three more in what feels like decades. Some academy voters — most of whom skew “The Irishman,” Al Pacino a fi nal statement of sorts. older — might resent the new kid on the block. Even such portrays former Teamsters The entire movie is told names like Scorsese, Pesci, De Niro and Pacino might not president Jimmy Hoffa. from the perspective of prove sweet enough to quell their bitterness. NETFLIX/TNS the main character, who — Travis M. Andrews Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 27 WEEKEND: ACADEMY AWARDS PREVIEW

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nated there, both coming in the only two years in the fi lm academy announced plans to create an Oscar for expanded best picture era in which academy members “outstanding achievement in popular fi lm” that would could vote for 10 movies on their ballots. stand apart from the traditional best picture award. The This is what happens when you add Oscar categories. popular fi lm Oscar proved so unpopular that the idea was Movies are marginalized, excluded from the category soon shelved. And, lo and behold, voters nominated sev- everyone cares most about — best picture — and shunted eral commercial hits for best picture, including “Black aside to the kids’ table. Filmmakers still earn an Oscar, Panther,” “A Star Is Born” and “Bohemian Rhapsody.” yes. But the awards aren’t on an equal footing. Basi- This year, in the wake of the directors branch failing cally, it’s the equivalent of a participation trophy in youth (again) to nominate women, the idea was fl oated that the With 6 nominations, ‘Parasite’ sports, a pat on the head and a juice box. Oscars should mirror the Directors Guild of America and I’m thinking about this in a year in which Bong Joon create an award for best director of a fi rst feature. The Ho’s masterpiece, “Parasite,” could become the fi rst for- DGA’s 2020 fi rst-timer class includes three women. is going to win (at least) one eign-language fi lm to win the Academy Award for best pic- And while I understand the impulse to make Oscar ture. And it probably would win if there wasn’t a separate voters expand their ideas about what constitutes an Oscar. Will it be the right one? Oscar category for foreign-language movies, the newly awards-worthy movie, I don’t think the solution is to cre- rechristened “international feature fi lm,” that “Parasite” ate a separate, lesser award. Jordan Peele won the DGA’s BY GLENN WHIPP will almost assuredly take. fi rst-feature prize two years ago for “Get Out.” He was “I really like ‘Parasite,’ Los Angeles Times also nominated in the main category. Which trophy do COMMENTARY but I love ‘The Irish- you think he really wanted to take home? man’ too,” one Oscar early two decades ago, DreamWorks was on Animators didn’t want a separate Oscar in 2001. voter told me. “If a roll at the Oscars, winning two best picture Katzenberg was livid when “Shrek” failed to earn trophies in a row — “American Beauty” and there weren’t two categories, I guess I’d have a harder choice. But the way it stands now, I can a best picture nomination. Last year, the producers “Gladiator” — and believing it had another sure- N vote for both and hopefully see Bong Joon-ho of Sony Pictures Animation’s hit “Spider-Man: Into fi re nominee with the computer-animated hit “Shrek,” a and Martin Scorsese on the stage.” the Spider-Verse” thought their movie was good fi lm that studio co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg loved so It makes you wonder how many people felt the enough to earn a best picture nomination. I told them much that he premiered it in competition at Cannes, the same way last year when Alfonso Cuaron’s I agreed — but that if the academy ignored Pixar’s fi rst animated fi lm since 1953’s “Peter Pan” to do so. “Roma” won Oscars for foreign-lan- daring, inventive “Inside Out,” what chance did “Shrek” didn’t win the Palme d’Or. And it didn’t earn a guage feature, cinematography and Spidey have? best picture nomination either, a shocking outcome for a director, but lost to “Green Book” The answer to pushing the Academy movie that DreamWorks campaigned for relentlessly. for best picture. Now, I know some to make better choices isn’t more Oscar The “Shrek” snub stung. But, in retrospect, it shouldn’t voters who couldn’t get past the categories. It’s fewer. That way, maybe have been much of a surprise. It coincided with the four-minute opening sequence of “Parasite’s” Bong could take the stage at same year that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Yalitza Aparicio mopping the court- the Dolby on Sunday not in the middle of Sciences gave animated feature fi lms their own Oscar. yard. But given Cuaron’s two key the ceremony, but at the very end, when Guaranteed a place in this separate, though less presti- victories, it’s not a leap to imagine everyone’s paying attention. gious category, academy members could go ahead and that it might have won best picture ignore the green ogre and vote instead for movies like “A had some voters not decided that The Korean-language fi lm “Parasite” Beautiful Mind,” “Gosford Park” and “In the Bedroom.” one feature fi lm Oscar was reward is nominated in six Academy Award No animated movie has ever won the best picture enough. categories, including best picture and Oscar. In fact, since the academy gave the form its own Every year, there’s talk of adding director for Bong Joon-ho, top right. category, just “Up” and “Toy Story 3” have been nomi- more Oscar categories. In 2018, the NEON/AP photos PAGE 28 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 WEEKEND: MOVIE REVIEW

Sweet but psycho Harley Quinn and her girl gang are lovable in cheerful ‘Birds of Prey’

BY KATIE WALSH is Harley’s new girl gang, who band Tribune News Service together against the sinister Roman Sionis, aka Black Mask (Ewan Mc- he best thing to come out Gregor). Although Harley typically of 2016’s much-derided DC prefers to commit crime than fi ght it, antihero team-up “Suicide for these girls (and that guy), she’ll TSquad” was Margot Rob- make an exception. bie’s inspired take on Harley Quinn, Christina Hodson’s script is a the self-proclaimed “Joker’s girl” madcap, irreverent roller coaster and quirky chaos clown. Robbie’s ride, the story relayed in a loopy, Quinn, with her colorful pigtails and looping, nonlinear fashion through baseball bat, instantly became an Harley’s hyperactive storytelling icon, a perennial Halloween cos- style. She bounces back and forth tume, eclipsing even her lesser half, through time, taking a few tangents Jared Leto’s heavily tattooed Joker. to wax poetic about the beauty of But enough about him; the Joker is a bodega bacon, egg and cheese so 2019. 2020 is Harley Quinn’s year. sandwich (relatable), list each of her And in the wake of her breakup, enemies and their grievances with she’s back and better than ever with her and relish in the memories of a brand-new girl gang in the bril- some of her best butt-kickings. She liant, breakneck “Birds of Prey (And clearly sees herself as Gotham’s own the Fantabulous Emancipation of “Atomic Blonde,” and the eye-pop- One Harley Quinn).” ping fi ght choreography proves she Director Cathy Yan soars with her is. The action sequences are breath- stylish sophomore feature, which takingly balletic and bruising. If it is colorful, campy and cheerfully seems like Harley could take John brutal, a perfect refl ection of Harley Wick in a fi ght, that’s because she herself. Robbie, as usual, tears into can: “John Wick” director Chad the role with a wide-eyed gusto that Stahelski consulted on some of the is equally childlike and unhinged. fi ght sequences. Shot by Matthew With her Betty Boop accent, wacky Libatique, the action is crispy clean wardrobe and gymnastic facility among all the sparkles, smoke and with a bat, Harley is one lovable decaying carnival rides. psychopath. It’s impossible not to “Birds of Prey” is a circus for the root for her, even as she’s reduc- senses, but the performances give ing chemical factories to clouds of the fi lm its heart and humor. Every rainbow-colored smoke, gleefully performer knows what movie they’re dropping hordes of police offi cers in, with Robbie’s winking, wild per- with shotgun blasts of glitter and formance creating a safe space for demolishing bad guys with roller experimentation. The wonderfully skate high kicks to the face. Robbie powerful Smollett-Bell is a breakout, makes Harley a bedeviling, beguil- but Ewan McGregor’s outlandishly ing antiheroine, not just any old campy turn as the sniveling Sionis crazy ex-girlfriend. is a hoot and a half, easily stealing “Birds of Prey” is also the cin- the show. Yan has delivered a riot- ematic introduction to the other ous rodeo that is “Kill Bill” meets birds in the fl ock, the beloved comic “Coffy.” It’s a tribute to the cutest, characters Black Canary (Jurnee kookiest clown in the comics, and a Smollett-Bell), styled as a butt-kick- ing blaxploitation queen, and Hunt- perfect distillation of her character: ress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), a sweet, sour and sassy in all the right mysterious yet neurotic assassin out ways. for vengeance. Along with renegade “Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous cop Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)” is rated R for strong violence and language and precocious pickpocket Cas- throughout, and some sexual and drug sandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco), this material. Running time: 109 minutes.

In “Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn),” the female superhero, played by Margot Robbie, gets her own spinoff. Warner Bros. Pictur es/AP Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 29 WEEKEND: FOOD & DINING Europe Toasted nuts add nice pop of flavor

BY ELIZABETH KARMEL Associated Press I sometimes joke and say that as a South- ern cook, I use pecans like other chefs use salt and pepper. That is to say, on just about everything. I love pecans and every other nut because they add a crunchy texture and an earthy, sweet — nuttier — fl avor to food. Most of the time, I lightly toast my nuts to enhance their fl avor. And I’m not alone: Many recipes that call for nuts, also call for toasting the nuts because it makes such a difference in the overall fl avor of the dish. Toasting or lightly roasting nuts removes all the raw green, slightly astringent fl avors that you taste when they are uncooked. This is especially true with walnuts. Almonds, hazelnuts and pecans are crisp and lightly caramelized, and you can’t stop eating them when they are roasted — likewise peanuts. Even seeds are so much better with a little heat to bring out their deeper, more nu- anced fl avors. Think sesame seeds, pine nuts, pumpkin seeds and sunfl ower seeds. PHOTOS BY IMMANUEL JOHNSON/Stars and Stripes The volatile oils are released and the seeds are lightly browned, making them taste so A half-liter of draft Pilsner Urquell beer (left) is a good start to a meal of wild boar with rose hip sauce and bread dumplings much more fl avorful. (top right) and a slice of Sacher torte with a dollop of whipped cream (bottom right) in the Na Spilce restaurant in the brewery’s I learned to toast nuts from my mother, old fermentation room in Pilsen, Czech Republic. and she learned from her mother. You toast nuts on a cookie sheet (or sheet pan) in a preheated oven set on a low heat. The low heat is crucial because nuts burn both easily and quickly. This is due to the high Better at the source percentage of oil in the nuts. Pecans burn particularly fast and can go from deliciously lightly toasted to inedible and acrid in a matter of a minute. So, it will come as no surprise that my Have a drink at Pilsner Urquell, home of the original light beer pet peeve is the way so many popular food people today demonstrate toasting nuts. The BY IMMANUEL JOHNSON fi rst time that I saw someone “toast” nuts in Stars and Stripes a skillet on top of the stovetop, I was fl abber- AFTER gasted. Because the heat is direct, it heats he Czech Republic is the metal pan and that heat is transferred to known for its capital, HOURS the surface of the food making contact with Prague; King Wenceslas in CZECH the pan. The side of the food exposed to the Tthe Christmas carol; tennis direct heat will continue to cook. player Martina Navratilova; rising REPUBLIC I am sure everyone can relate to how easy up against communist rule in 1968; it is to burn food in a skillet on the stovetop. and, to some, including me, Pilsner And, the more delicate the food, the faster it Urquell lager. served in a breadcrust bowl or beef broth with liver dumplings, I went happens. That is what happens to the nuts. “Urquell” is German for “origi- Even if you shake the pan, you will end up nal source,” and Pilsner Urquell straight into a main course of wild boar with rose hip sauce — like with some parts of the nuts still raw and is said to have inspired more than some parts — the parts that touch the bot- two-thirds of all beers labeled pils, sweet gravy with cranberries — served with bread dumplings. It tom of the pan — with burned edges. And pilsner or pilsener, according to the that means you will be adding burned, acrid offi cial Pilsner Urquell brochure. exploded with fl avor. Other menu offerings included fl avor to your dish. Before pilsner, beer drink- Maybe the problem is in our terminology. ers only had dark, heavy, cloudy marinated pork ribs or a breaded pork cutlet with homemade potato As recipe writers, we tell people to “toast” beers to slake their thirst. When salad, but I highly recommend the their nuts, and we really should be telling golden, clear, blonde pilsner was boar. them to “roast” their nuts. If you cook with fi rst brewed in 1842, its light taste Dessert, on the other hand, was nuts and seeds a lot, you have probably quickly won followers in Europe not so great. The Sacher torte already fi gured out that the best way to and America, where it was widely The outside of the Pilsner Urquell brewery . — layered chocolate cake with a toast them is in an oven. But if you are still duplicated, eventually giving rise fondant-like chocolate icing and a toasting them on the stovetop, you will love to a popular U.S. brew known for dollop of whipped cream — tasted the oven method. Not only do you get better its Clydesdale horse mascots and as if it had been sitting out for part PILSNER URQUELL results, it is also easier, and you don’t have Super Bowl ads. of the day. When someone told me to tend to it as much. Pilsen is about 90 minutes east that Sacher Torte, which takes its When I toast nuts, I place a sheet of of Grafenwoehr and Vilseck. Once name from the Hotel Sacher in BREWERY AND parchment paper on a sheet pan and pour there, head to the Pilsner Urquell Vienna, where it was fi rst made in the nuts on top. I spread them out so that brewery near the Radbuza River to 1832 — 10 years before pilsner was NA SPILCE they are in a single layer and place them in sample a few beers and have a meal invented — is traditionally dry, I a preheated 250-degree oven. This is a low in the Na Spilce restaurant. When wondered if my slice was the origi- Address: U Prazdroje 7, 304 97 Pilsen, Czech temperature, but I fi nd that the higher I set I went, the place was full of locals nal one. Republic the temperature, the higher the chances and tourists. The other two dessert options Hours: Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; of burning the nuts. I check on them after I started my meal off with a half- when I was at Na Spilce were pan- Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday, 11 5 minutes because smaller nuts takes less liter of Pilsner Urquell, but you can cakes with blueberry cream and a.m.-10 p.m. time to toast than larger nuts, and I don’t also try Volba sladku (the brewer’s apple strudel with nuts. My meal Prices: Between $9 and $13. Beers are about want them to burn. choice), radler (beer and Sprite) and beer cost just under $15, and $1-$3. Most nuts take 8-10 minutes to toast, but or Gambrinus, which is unfi ltered the service was friendly and fast, Menu: Czech, English and German. Carry- often the smell of roasting nuts is a sign that lager. I determined that beer tastes giving me plenty of time afterward out is available. they are done. It’s important to check them better when you drink it where it to check out the rest of what Pilsen Phone: +420 377 062 755. Reservations are as soon as you smell them because they can was brewed. has to offer. available. burn before you know it! For maximum After opting to forgo the start- [email protected] — Immanuel Johnson crunch, let the nuts cool before using them ers, which included goulash soup Twitter: Manny_Stripes in your recipe. PAGE 30 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 WEEKEND: TRAVEL Europe Memorializing the fallen ‘Stumbling stones’ embedded in Kaiserslautern sidewalks tell passersby of victims of Nazi regime

BY KARIN ZEITVOGEL of history even German friends were unaware of. Stars and Stripes There’s the story of Bertha Wertheimer, a Jewish girl who suffered from depression who was mur- he next time you’re in Kaiserslautern, look dered at a “Toetungsanstalt,” or killing center, as down at the sidewalks. part of the Aktion T4 program. People with mental Embedded in them are scores of small illness and physical handicaps died by what was Tbrass plaques that memorialize the mil- euphemistically called “involuntary euthanasia” lions of victims of the Nazi regime. When the sun under Aktion T4. hits them or Kaiserslautern’s ubiquitous winter Barbara Lippert, a Jehovah’s Witness, starved to rain collects on them, the plaques, called Stolper- death in 1944 in the sanatorium she was interned in steine, glisten and catch the eye. eight years earlier. Wilhelm Otto Dinges, an unem- Stolpersteine means “stumbling stones,” and ployed 17-year-old, was conscripted into the Reich you’re meant to stumble over them with your gaze Labor Service in 1935 and then sent to Buchenwald and read the text written on them. Each one mea- under the “work-shy” program. He died there sures around 4 x 4 inches and includes a person’s when he was 21. name, the year they were born, when, where and, Their and other life stories are told in a few often, how they died. Most start with the men- words on Stolpersteine in Kaiserslautern and in tion “Here lived” in German and are laid directly more detail online, thanks to volunteers who have outside the last place the person lived of their own researched and written up many of the victims’ free will. biographies. One cluster of the small memorials on Al- German artist Gunther Demnig said he was leestrasse, just off Eisenbahnstrasse, stopped me in inspired to create Stolpersteine by a Talmudic my tracks when I was out running a few weekends teaching that says a person is only forgotten when PHOTOS BY KARIN ZEITVOGEL/Stars and Stripes ago. The weather-worn Stolpersteine have lost a their name is forgotten. Nearly 21 years after he The Stolperstein on Laendelstrasse in Kaiserslautern, Germany, bit of their sheen, but their message still took my laid the fi rst Stolperstein in 1991, Demnig spent breath away. They memorialize the family of Dr. for Wilhelm Otto Dinges, who was conscripted into Nazi Germany’s much of Wednesday morning digging paving slabs forced labor program when he was 17 and out of work. Paul Tuteur, a successful lawyer before the Nazis out of sidewalks in downtown Kaiserslautern and came to power. As many Jewish parents did in fi lling the spaces they occupied with 22 shiny new 1930s-era Germany, Tuteur and his wife Charlotte memorial stones, bringing the total number of gave their two children to a family in Belgium for Stolpersteine in Kaiserslautern to 152. MORE INFO safekeeping in 1938, before they fl ed to England There are also Stolpersteine in around 1,200 the following year. The parents tried to bring their other German cities, towns and villages, and in 22 Countries with Stolperste- daughter and son to England, but after the Nazis in- other European countries, and Demnig is laying ine: Austria, Belgium, Cro- vaded Belgium in 1940, they lost contact with them. more stones around Germany this month, includ- atia, the Czech Republic, The parents’ stones say “Ueberlebt,” German for ing in Heidelberg next week. Last month, he laid Finland, France, Germany, survived. The stones remembering their children, stones in Italy, including Naples. Greece, Italy, Hungary, Carola and Claus, say “murdered in Auschwitz.” So next time you’re in a European city and you Lithuania, Luxembourg, Paul and Charlotte Tuteur returned to Kaiserslaut- see something on the pavement glinting in the sun Moldova, the Netherlands, ern after the war and he resumed his legal career. or shimmering under raindrops, look down. It may White roses acompany the Norway, Poland, Romania, But, heartbroken by the loss of his children, he be a Stolperstein inviting you to stumble over it and Stolpersteine laid Wednesday Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, soon stopped working and died in 1952. linger for a moment to read its simple inscription, on Eisenbahnstrasse in Spain, Switzerland and Other Stolpersteine I’ve come across hold equally keeping alive the memory of one of the millions of Kaiserslautern memorializing the Ukraine. gut-wrenching stories, some recalling chapters victims of the Nazi regime. Strauss family. Online map showing where many of Kaiser- slautern’s Stolpersteine are: tinyurl.com/qppvkuh Biographies online of some of the people remem- bered on Stolpersteine in Kaiserslautern, currently in German only: tinyurl. com/wt3oey7 Calendar of Stolperstein layings in 2020: stolperste- Four of the Stolpersteine that ine.eu/en/timetable were laid on Wednesday outside Gunther Demnig’s Stolper- a business on Eisenbahnstrasse stein site: stolpersteine.eu in Kaiserslautern are in memory — Karin Zeitvogel of the Strauss family.

Four Stolpersteine on Alleestrasse in Kaiserslautern remember the Tuteur family. The word “ueberlebt” — German for survived — is inscribed at the bottom of the parents’ stones, while the inscription on the Artist Gunther Demnig applies concrete to Stolpersteine he’s just stones of Carola and Claus, their children, says, “Murdered at Auschwitz.” placed Wednesday on Baumstrasse in Kaiserslautern. Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 31 TRAVEL PICKS Carnival comes to Italy February signals carnival time throughout much of Europe, and Italy’s no exception. Much of the country’s festivities play out over several weeks. Here are fi ve highly regarded carnivals : Acireale: This Baroque city in the Province of Catania is home to what’s widely considered one of the most evocative carnivals in all Sicily. Stunning papier-mache creations that change year on year mock politicians and other prominent fi gures, while other fl oats aim instead for beauty, taking Karen Bradbury advantage of fl owers and lighting effects. Bands and folk dancing add to the atmosphere, and young visitors will enjoy the fun fair. Catch processions of fl oats moving through the city streets on Feb. 9, 16 or 23. Other carnival highlights include concerts and spectacles of light and sound on most weekends. Festivities close with additional fanfare Feb. 25. See the program at carnevaleacireale.it Ivrea: Carnival celebrations in this city in the Piedmont Region north of Turin feature a static cast of historical characters . The carnival’s high point is its famed Battle of Oranges. This histori- cal re-enactment of an uprising sees orange throwers, who are on foot, take on the forces repre- senting the Napoleonic troops, who stand atop carts. Outsiders can take part in the citrus food fi ght as well. Battles take place Feb. 23-25. All visitors pay an admission fee on these days. Online: storicocarnevaleivrea.it Madonna di Campiglio: The Habsburg Carnival re-creates the splendor of the Court of the Emperor Franz Josef and of Princess Sissi. Action plays out both downtown and on the sur- rounding ski slopes Feb. 23-28. Dates to mark are Feb. 24, when the court’s arrival in the town center is feted from 6 p.m.; Feb. 26, when the ski instructors of the town descend the slopes while holding lit torches aloft at 6:45 p.m.; and Feb. 27, when costumed characters take to the slopes. Online: tinyurl.com/ vf3bk4q Viareggio: The stars of Tuscany’s most famous carnival celebrations are the huge papier- mache caricatures lampoon- ing politicians, celebrities and others. See them atop the fl oats in one of the parades along the beachfront promenade on Feb. 9, 15, 20, 23 and 25. Fireworks follow on Feb. 20 and 25. Online: viareggio.ilcarnevale.com Venice: The Carnevale di Venezia is best known for its costume contests and lively parties. Festivities this year run Feb. 8-25, highlights of which include the parade of beautifully costumed young ladies as part of the Festa della Marie from 2:30 p.m. Feb. 15; costume competi- tions held daily on the Piazza San Marco Feb. 16-23; The Flight of the Angel at noon on Feb. 16; and the Flight of the Lion at 5 p.m. Feb. 25. Online: carnevale. venezia.it PAGE 32 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 WEEKEND: QUICK TRIPS Pacific

The Miyako Islands, a series of eight islands southwest of Okinawa, are a must see for anyone stationed in Okinawa or Japan.

PHOTOS BY AYA ICHIHASHI/Stars and Stripes

A gift from Mother Nature Snow-white sandy beaches meet the deep blue sea at the Miyako Islands

BY AYA ICHIHASHI side-by-side and connected by Stars and Stripes bridges to Irabu. I stopped at Sankakuten, he snowy beaches of the 17 End and Toguchi beach Miyako Islands are a for amazing photo ops. A new change to the beige-or- airport opened last April on Shi- Tange sand on the main moji, and visitors can check the island of Okinawa, and the sun fl ight schedule to take photos of refl ected off the powdery white airplanes landing at the airport. sand contrasts sharply with the My next stop is Sunayama blue ocean to compose a beauti- beach. Suna means sand and Doug’s Burger on Miyako Island ful scene. yama means mountain in is known for its mouth-watering Three Miyako beaches are in Japanese. It is rough to go up and burgers, which pairs well with Sankakuten offers astonishing views of Irabu Island, but visitors Japan’s top 10 on Trip Advisor down the steep sand hill, but the delicious rosemary fried potatos must be careful because there are no railings. Travelers Choice 2019. Yonaha- view from the top is breathtak- and crispy onion rings. maehama beach, or Maehama ing. A short tunnel goes through for short, was voted No. 1. Its the dome-shaped rock on the ON THE QT beach stretches for two miles; so convenient to drive around the beach. Many visitors take photos the water is crystal-clear layers islands. in front of the rock. of turquoise. I often spot happy By the time I fi nish taking 100 Yoshino beach, Aragusuku DIRECTIONS couples there taking wedding photos or splashing in the water, beach and Imgya Marine Garden day photos. I am ready for lunch. My recom- Miyako is 175 miles southeast of are popular snorkeling spots as Miyako’s beaches are amazing. mendation is Doug’s Burger. Naha, Okinawa, and is a 30-min- the water is relatively shallow Visiting the islands must be on It is amazing. I usually order a ute fl ight from Naha airport. and safe for a family with small your bucket list while you’re sta- cheeseburger, which costs 1,030 tioned on Okinawa or in Japan. yen ($9.40) with a drink, and children. All three conveniently TIMES The Miyakos are eight inhab- delicious rosemary fries on the offer showers and public bath- rooms. Open year-round. ited islands, fi ve of which are side (790 yen). Visiting the Miyako Islands is a If you are a serious snorkeler connected by bridges. About Whoever thought of deep-fry- must while stationed in Okinawa or diver, I strongly recommend 55,300 residents live on the is- ing the rosemary is a genius. It or Japan. COSTS lands, which are about 175 miles is a tad pricey, but it’s a worth going on the Yabiji snorkeling tour boat. Yabiji coral reef is Airfare starts at $50, one way, southwest of Naha, Okinawa. A the expense. Also, Doug’s onion with an early-purchase discount 30-minute fl ight from Naha costs rings are the crispiest, crunchi- north of Ikema Island, about a 30-minute drive from the through JAL/JTA or ANA web- as little as 5,500 yen, about $50. est onion rings I have ever eaten sites. Sunayama Beach ranked sec- in my life. airport. ond in Japan on the Trip Advisor After the delicious meal, it is The reef stretches 10 miles FOOD poll last year, and Aragusuku time to go over to Irabu Island. north to south, about four miles beach ranked 10th. I suggest Irabu Bridge opened in 2015, and east to west. Many shops offer a Try Miyako soba (starts at women wear a bathing suit it connects Irabu with Miyako. half-day or all-day tour depart- 500 yen or $4.50) to see if you under a sundress and carry a Until then, residents and visitors ing from Hirara Port or Ikema like Okinawa soba style. Bring few bottles of water and a towel, had to take a ferry. At 2.2 miles Port. I usually go at least once enough cash to cover your stay. because you never know when long, it is the longest toll-free while staying on Miyako. you’ll want to jump in the water bridge in Japan. Mother Nature offers so much INFORMATION in Miyako. As soon as the bridge was on these islands. Don’t miss out. A short tunnel goes through a Online: en.miyako-guide.net I usually get a rental car as opened, everybody fell in love [email protected] dome-shaped rock, a popular soon as I get there because it is with Irabu. Shimoji Island is Twitter: @AyaIchihashi photo spot on Sunayama Beach. — Aya Ichihashi Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 33 WEEKEND: TRAVEL Pacific Visiting Tokyo? How to ride the train like a local

BY TAYLOR TURNER exchange your money in the air- The Washington Post port so that you can arrive into the city with Japanese yen. If you’re traveling to Tokyo and want to navigate the city like Grab a snack before a local, consider riding Tokyo’s leaving the airport train system. The author of The Washington Post’s Tokyo City Japanese convenience stores are Guide, Yukari Sakamoto, says open 24 hours a day. You can Tokyo’s public transportation pick up snacks in the airport for can take you from major tourist your one-hour ride into the city. sites to the mountains, beaches Purchase a Suica card and local neighborhoods with shops that have been around for Before leaving the airport, buy a hundreds of years. Suica card. A Suica card is a pre- Sakamoto showed us how to paid card you can use to ride the get from Narita International local trains and buses in Tokyo. iStock Airport to Tokyo Station. Saka- A Suica card can also be used at convenience stores. If you want to travel like a local in Tokyo, consider using the train system. Grab your ticket, climb aboard moto suggests that if you are and go anywhere from local neighborhoods to the mountains. riding the train for the fi rst time Determine which trains in Japan, it’s important to be considerate of the people around will get you into the city Make sure eating is you. Don’t talk loudly, don’t take There are many ways to get into allowed on the train up too much space, and if you are the city from Narita Internation- You cannot eat on the local trains traveling with a backpack during al Airport. The Narita Express in the city. However, if there is rush hour, it is polite to put the has trains to Tokyo with re- a tray to pull down on the local backpack in front of you so as not served seats that leave every 30 express trains, then eating on minutes. You can purchase your to disturb the people behind you. board is allowed. Here are some other things to ticket at a kiosk in the airport, keep in mind: and there’s an English button for Transfer to the local Consider shipping assistance. trains at Tokyo Station your suitcase Keep your tickets handy Once you arrive at Tokyo Station, You will have two tickets for the use your Narita Express ticket Traveling with luggage in Tokyo Narita Express. Be sure to pick to exit the turnstile, then look for can be challenging. Baggage them up on the other side when the local trains. They will take delivery services are available you insert them into the turnstile you around the city. Use your to ship your suitcases directly to to enter the boarding area. You Suica card to ride. your hotel. This is an overnight will also need your tickets to exit delivery service, so be sure to the train area once. Board the local train keep your toiletries. Examine the ground of the Get cash before you Read your train ticket platform to see where to stand to Your train car number will be board the local trains. Keep your iStock leave the airport listed on your ticket. Follow the ears open for the overhead signal Not a lot of shops take credit signs on the platform to board that alerts you when a train is When taking the train, speak softly and keep belongings contained cards, so it’s a good idea to and take your seat. approaching. to avoid disturbing the passengers around you. Your travel insurance might not cover you for a coronavirus outbreak

BY CATHARINE HAMM (for coronavirus) under most standard fall by the wayside. If you decide you don’t want to risk (fi ll Los Angeles Times travel insurance policies,” Kasara Barto “Comprehensive travel insurance in the blank for anything that you con- of Squaremouth.com, a travel insurance plans can cover prepaid, nonrefundable sider problematic) or you just don’t think You were supposed to be going to China, comparison site, said. “Virus outbreaks do expenses such as hotels, tours, fl ights, the trip sounds fun anymore, if you have but coronavirus has scared you and you not fall under the standard cancellation etc.,” Meghan Walch, product manager for CFAR, it should have you covered. want to cancel. “I have travel insurance,” reasons on most travel insurance.” InsureMyTrip, said in an email. Is there another option? you say to yourself. “No problem.” But didn’t the Centers for Disease What if I have insurance and get sick Not really. “If your concern is cancel- Not so fast. Even if you have travel Control and Prevention tell travelers with coronavirus? ing your trip due to fear of traveling and insurance, you might not be covered. they should “avoid non-essential travel” The good news about coverage in that potentially contracting the coronavirus, The standard wisdom about travel to China? case is bad news for you: If you contract then ... CFAR is the only way to protect insurance: It covers what has happened to Yes, but in terms of insurance, Square- coronavirus before you travel or while your prepaid, non-refundable trip cost,” you, not what might happen to you. mouth noted, travelers “are not prevented you’re traveling, your care probably will Walch of InsureMyTrip said. The World Health Organization on Jan. from” going. be covered if you have standard travel What else should I consider when 30 declared it a public health emergency of international concern. And the U.S. The World Health Organization has insurance. The key word is “probably.” contemplating a trip anywhere coronavi- Department of State has raised the threat called the outbreak an international Why probably? rus is present? level to 4 for China: Do not travel. “Travel- health emergency. Does that change the Many insurers set a deadline — a date The Centers for Disease Control and ers should be prepared for travel restric- dynamics of insurance coverage? before which you might be covered, but Prevention says there is no prevention for tions to be put into effect with little or no No, insurance experts say, because now after which you won’t be. In other words, this type of coronavirus. Absent that, it advance notice,” the newest warning says. coronavirus is not unexpected. The risk is if your insurer says you’re not covered suggests washing your hands and keep- Travelers who had booked trips or are there and not a surprise. if you bought your policy after a certain ing them away from your eyes, nose and considering them must now face diffi cult What if my fl ight was canceled and I date, take that to heart. mouth; avoiding sick people; staying home questions, partly because their health and had prepaid, nonrefundable plans, such That’s because coronavirus is now a if you’re unwell; covering your nose and safety could be at risk and partly because as hotels or day trips? Do I get money “foreseen circumstance” — that is, people mouth with a tissue if you sneeze; and their investment in a vacation may be back? now know about it. making sure you disinfect anything you or threatened. Here’s what we know so far: Maybe. Many airlines are cutting back Is there anything I can do to be cov- people around you have touched. Question: Are such outbreaks as or canceling service in the face of this ered for a trip I wanted to make but now Symptoms of coronavirus include fever, coronavirus covered by regular travel outbreak. (Some airlines are refunding am not sure about? cough and shortness of breath, according policies? money; others are giving a credit or waiv- There is one kind of travel insurance to the CDC. You may experience those Answer: Doubtful. “Unfortunately, ing change fees.) Regardless, canceled that can help: cancel-for-any-reason, or symptoms as soon as two days after you’re there is limited cancellation coverage service means other prepaid plans would CFAR, insurance. It means what it says: exposed and as long as two weeks later. PAGE 34 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 WEEKEND: GADGETS GADGET WATCH CamRanger 2 makes image downloads faster and easier

BY GREGG ELLMAN normal battery wouldn’t last Tribune News Service long enough. I needed another solution. friend of mine in the After speaking with the owner tech world always uses of the company, he told me that the expression “bigger, all I had to do was connect a por- Abetter and faster” when table external USB battery (not he describes a new product he included). Once connected, that likes. solved my issue, since I couldn’t I’m going to borrow his line to change the CamRanger’s battery describe the CamRanger 2 for during the game. The battery digital SLR cameras, because level is displayed in the app. this new wireless tethering and Another feature that makes remote camera control for work- this a great tool for wireless ing with large images is indeed photography is setting it up. I DAVID J. PHILLIP/AP bigger, better and faster at deliv- didn’t time the setup exactly, but Quarterback Patrick Mahomes, left, not only won the Super Bowl with the Chiefs last Sunday. He also ering pictures quickly from your it didn’t take long. Once you have showed that gracing the cover of Madden’s NFL video game doesn’t have to mean misfortune. camera. it powered In recent up, it works years, one of up to fi ve the biggest times faster obstacles than previ- Did Mahomes end professional ous models photographers on dual-band faced was Wi-Fi getting images (2.4 and 5 out of high- GHz) with the ‘Madden Curse’? end digital a 500-foot SLR cameras TNS range. Choose wirelessly as they CamRanger in are captured. And The CamRanger 2 for digital your wireless BY ELISE FAVIS use a headline that called it The Madden Jinx, while most of the SLR cameras sends images settings on a The Washington Post instead of The Madden Curse, which is how it’s new cameras do wirelessly from camera to laptop, tablet described throughout the piece. Ultimately, the have Wi-Fi capa- computer or printer. or smartphone, he Madden Curse didn’t bear that name Curse prevailed. bilities, it’s often then enter your when it claimed its fi rst victim. Shortly The piece ran in ESPN The Magazine in 2002, not a smooth process when you password. after gracing the European cover of Mad- and it resonated with more readers than Roenigk consider the size of these image You’ll need the free CamRang- den NFL 99, Garrison Hearst broke his T could have ever imagined. Today, sports fans fi les, and the distance they need er 2 companion app, which works ankle. In the years to come, Hearst would be fol- and gamers alike debate the Madden Curse, a to be moved from camera to a on iOS, Android, macOS and lowed by a slew of football players facing injuries phenomenon that has endured for two decades computer or printer. Windows. The app downloads and disappointing performances the season after and claimed the likes of then-Atlanta Falcons Full disclosure, I work as a RAW and JPG images, has live- appearing on the game franchise’s cover. quarterback Michael Vick, former Philadelphia professional photographer; it’s all view, RAW or quick-RAW mode, The trend of misfortune was spotted early by Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb and Seattle I’ve done for more than 30 years, social media upload, edit/crop an ESPN copy editor in 2002. She pitched a story Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander. so I speak from experience about image capabilities, and view and about it for ESPN The Magazine. Upon its publi- The curse this challenging issue. options change camera settings, cation, the Madden Curse was born. was a scourge While testing the CamRanger to name a few of the features. “I had just started at ESPN,” said Alyssa that appeared to 2, I put it through two vastly dif- The power button is on the side Roenigk, now a senior writer at ESPN. “I was a annually plague ferent assignments. The fi rst was with the USB and Ethernet ports. young copy editor and of course, wanted nothing players until this a corporate holiday event, where Fold-out antennas are on top, and more than to be writing stories for the magazine. year. Kansas City I had my assistant shoot images there are also low indicator lights I’ve never been a gamer myself, but the Madden Chiefs quarter- and had the CamRanger 2 send for power and connections. game, when I was in college, my roommates were back Patrick them to me wirelessly (about 50 If your camera is supported obsessed with it.” Mahomes graced feet separated us). Once I got the by the CamRanger 2, that means When her roommates played Madden 97, 98 the cover of Mad- images, I had to make 4x6-inch you have a USB connection, and 99, Roenigk would take out her notebook to den 20. And his prints for employees before they which can be different depend- jot down notes, using the game as practice for her most impressive left the event. ing on the camera. That connec- goal of becoming a sports reporter. She developed achievement, in a After just a few minutes with tion is how your images are sent an affi nity for the games, which helped her learn season in which the CamRanger 2, I knew this from the camera to the Cam- NFL offensive and defensive alignments and he led three was a game-changer. Images Ranger 2 and then to your laptop, patterns. It was another type of pattern that she double-digit quickly fl owed into my computer, tablet or smartphone. observed that helped get her published. comebacks in the immediately available to be You have several options for Starting in 2001, Electronic Arts (EA), the playoffs to win printed, which was exactly what actually mounting the CamRang- publisher of the Madden series, started putting the Super Bowl last Sunday night, may have been I needed. er 2 to your camera. I used the athletes on all of its covers, including the Ameri- besting the Curse. Mahomes became the second The second test was the real new CamRanger Hotshoe mount can release of the game, replacing the former Madden cover athlete to win the Super Bowl, but one. I mounted the CamRanger (where you would put a fl ash), broadcaster and series namesake John Madden. when Rob Gronkowski won it with the Patriots in 2 while my camera was mounted but there are other options avail- Roenigk recalls her peers eagerly anticipating 2017, he missed the game with an injury. in the rafters of an arena over a able. You can use a mounting each cover reveal, and she wondered whether But did Mahomes break the curse for good? basketball hoop during a college clamp, thread it to the camera’s there could be a story there. Asked if she thinks the curse will continue despite game. I’ve done this many times standard tripod mount or even “I remember thinking, ‘OK, there’s got to be Mahomes’ victorious play, Roenigk said “yes,” over the years, and I often ran keep it in the included hard pro- something to write about there,’ ” she said. “Do noting some players have ducked the associated into issues if I attempted to go tective case and use a carabiner the fi rst two guys have something in common?” injuries and statistical downturns before 2020. the wireless route to move the to attach it to your camera strap. It turns out they did. The second player, Daunte “I do think in some respects Drew Brees would high-resolution images at the Whatever works for your situa- Culpepper, experienced a knee injury the year be the fi rst athlete I consider having broken the volume, speed and distance that tion, as long as the USB cable is following his cover appearance. When she found curse,” she said. “But also, yes, I do think the I needed them. connecting the two. out Marshall Faulk would be next on the cover, curse will continue.” One great feature of the 4.2- The CamRanger 2 has a built- she started to cook up a pitch for the editors at When Roenigk interviewed Faulk for her initial by-2.7-by-1.2-inch, 5.6-ounce in SD/SDHC/SDXC memory ESPN The Magazine. magazine story, she couldn’t have anticipated how CamRanger 2 is that it has is a card slot that can store your “I’d grown up with the Sports Illustrated cover Faulk’s career prospects would pivot after his removable 3300 mAh recharge- images. They can also be viewed curse,” Roenigk said. “And so I said, ‘OK, there’s appearance. The season of his cover appearance, able Lithium-ion battery, which in the app, while the card serves a good chance, just statistically, that if you have a Faulk suffered an ankle injury, hobbling off the is good for about fi ve hours of as a backup. good enough season, a season that would land you fi eld, and missing multiple games. use. But since I was working in Bigger, better, faster. on the cover of this video game, that the next year “The question I asked Marshall Faulk in it is, the rafters of an arena, I had to Online: camranger.com; is not going to be statistically as good.’ ” ‘Are you nervous about the Madden curse?’ ” Roe- set it up long before anyone else $349.99. A full list of supported The pitch was approved, and an argument nigk recalls. “And he says, ‘No way; you’re just was there; I needed it powered cameras is on the CamRanger ensued about the name: Her editors wanted to trying to start something.’ And I guess I did.” up for about seven hours. Its site. Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 35 WEEKEND: LIFESTYLE

iStock Life looks better on paper Young and old alike turn to paper planners for comfort, mindfulness

BY KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press n a digital and increasingly paperless age, fans of paper planners remain enthusiastic Iand steadfast. “There’s something comforting about using a planner. It’s very per- sonal, and apart from the cacophony of screens,” says Jennie Tung, executive editor at Martha Stewart Living, adding that paper planners have “a retro appeal.” “The act of writing things down by hand slows you down and makes you more mindful,” she says. “A paper planner becomes a personal record, and for some people it’s almost like a diary.” Many paper planners today are so well-designed that they become a way to make a statement, she says. “They are beautifully designed objects that are a joy to hold and use,” she says. And contrary to what one might imagine, many of the biggest fans of paper planners aren’t older people who grew up with them, but a younger generation embracing their comfortable vibe. According to Stephanie Fleming, co-founder of Me & My BIG Ideas, which makes The Happy Planner, “the age de- mographic is around 25 to the early 40s range, with a lot of movement toward college-age women.” “I had imagined younger people preferring digital planners, but younger generations really want to slow down a bit,” Fleming says. “Having everything at their fi n- gertips is not necessarily making people happy. There’s something PHOTOS BY THE HAPPY PLANNER/AP about going back to basics.” A variety of planners The Happy Planner company has available in 2020. It’s a digital and increasingly paperless “A lot of people are looking for age. But fans of paper planners remain as enthusiastic and steadfast as ever. some digital detox,” she adds. Tung notes that paper planners now come in an array of designs She admits that “digital calendars and can be carried around all day. ‘ The act of writing are nice because they keep your A few brands described as chic and desk uncluttered,” but adds, “people well-designed by the pros at Martha things down by hand do engage more when they write Stewart Living include Smythson, slows you down and things down.” Appointed and Sugar Paper, as well Paper planners range from mini- as the “bare bones but gets the job makes you more malist versions costing a few dollars done” paper planners from Roll- mindful. to fancy planners for over $100. bahn. ’ And there’s always the option of All the planners offered by The Jennie Tung using both digital and paper in some Happy Planner feature encouraging Executive editor at combination. words and positive messaging for Martha Stewart Living In the meantime, paper still has those working toward health well- a place with many people trying to ness, career or fi nancial goals, for keep a complicated life in order. example. “A planner is not just about being Says Fleming: “When I sit down And with their accompanying a calendar. It’s about so much more on a Sunday and plan my week in The Happy Planner company has planner stickers and customizable than that,” Fleming says. “There’s my planner, it’s registering things in a wide assortment of planner extension packets, they can be a cre- the aspect of focus and creativity, in a way it doesn’t if it’s on my phone or stickers available in 2020. ative outlet akin to scrapbooking. addition to productivity.” computer.” PAGE 36 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 WEEKEND: MUSIC Finneas: The man behind Billie Eilish is more than just her brother; he’s also co-writer, producer

BY ALLISON STEWART Special to The Washington Post he December morning that Gram- my nominations were announced, Finneas O’Connell woke up early. TThe 22-year-old had produced and co-written all the tracks on “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”, the full- length debut by his sister, Billie Eilish. That album helped establish Eilish, now 18, as one of pop’s brightest and biggest new stars in 2019, which also made Finneas one of the /AP most sought-after producers. The idea that WILLY SANJUAN, INVISION Billie Eilish, left, and her brother Finneas O’Connell perform Jan. 23 at the 2020 Spotify Best New Artist Party at at least one of the siblings might be nomi- The Lot Studios in West Hollywood, Calif. nated for a Grammy award didn’t seem out of reach. two who was a singer or a songwriter, I’d be like, ‘I don’t dred thousand. They weren’t Bieber YouTube numbers, know what to do; my son has this crazy talent.’ They were where you’d put up a Justin Timberlake cover and you’d Eilish wound up with six nominations, and Finneas kind of like, ‘Oh, yeah, you’re the mom, you can’t possibly get 15 million. We appreciated every step of the way.” with fi ve, including album of the year, record and song of know.’ And I’d be like, ‘I think I do know.’ ” Finneas enlisted a manager he knew, and Eilish began the year for the hit “Bad Guy” (which he co-wrote), and When Finneas was 12, he attended a songwriting class talking to record labels. In many stories, this is where producer of the year (non-classical). They dominated the taught by Baird, a musician in her own right. Everything things would begin to break apart, where the prospect awards Jan. 26. clicked into place. “It’s as if she handed him a songwrit- of money and fame could have ruined everything. If the A few weeks after that nominations morning, Finneas ing Rubik’s Cube, and he solved it in three seconds,” O’Connells had been friends instead of siblings, they is sitting in a coffee shop in the Los Feliz section of Los Patrick says. might have fallen out. A romantic couple might have Angeles, the upscale neighborhood where he just bought Afterward, he began to get serious about making broken up. But Finneas and Eilish, who grew up close music and eventually formed a pop-rock group called a house, and he still can’t believe it — even though he and were still stuck living together, had almost no choice can actually kind of believe it. He’s at that place, in the the Slightlys. They performed around town, made an EP and played a local Warped Tour date one summer after but to carry on as a team. Finneas accompanied Eilish to late-early stages of fame, where everything good seems meetings, and they’d talk about it on the way home. They possible and nothing too calamitous or traumatizing or winning a battle of the bands contest. Finneas, who was 15, assumed that the show would be the highlight of his had a management team who was invested in their joint weird has happened. He’s genuinely open and friendly, success, which helped. But if they’d had different repre- and appears to go unrecognized by everyone but Shakey life. “Even that one day was so heatstroke-y, and so hectic sentation? Finneas doesn’t even want to think about it. Graves, a musician friend he runs into on the street. and stressful that I was like, ‘This thing I thought was my That a team of A-list writers and producers was not In October, Finneas released “Blood Harmony,” a lifelong dream is not my dream at all,’ ” he recalls. seven-song EP that was mostly cobbled together in dress- brought in to oversee Finneas — or get rid of him entirely ing rooms and tour bus lounges and hotel rooms when he — is remarkable. In a darker timeline, Eilish, having was on the road with Eilish. It’s a sleek, striking work, ‘It’s me being of service used “Ocean Eyes” to get a label deal, would go off to poppier and more linear than “When We All Fall Asleep.” to whatever she needs. make her debut album with Max Martin, while her broth- In its own offhand way, “Blood Harmony” is more er, the musical Rubik’s Cube-solver, went back to upload- commercial, though it doesn’t need to be. His sister’s Whenever duty calls, ing tracks to SoundCloud in his childhood bedroom. “In success has changed the topography of Finneas’ life in al- I say, “Yep. Let’s go.” the alternate reality where I wasn’t involved at all, and I’d most every conceivable way. Mostly, it has freed him. He ’ been, like, just sweating my way through, trying to have can make any kind of music he wants, and never needs Finneas a music career for years? And then my sibling had one to have a hit in his life. He can take or leave the parts of Brother, co-writer and producer and I wasn’t involved at all? I think I’d be very tortured fame he doesn’t want, unlike his sister, who is stuck with for Billie Eilish by it,” he says. “But the fact that we’ve had one in tandem all of it. makes a lot of sense.” “She walks around, and because there’s a billboard of The main reason their partnership has endured, her face on Sunset Boulevard, people really recognize O’Connell thinks, is that Eilish is uncomfortable with the her,” he says. “In my perfect world, I get to be a profes- traditional way pop music gets made: An artist enters sional musician and still go to Trader Joe’s.” For celebri- the studio with a proven hitmaker, who is usually older, Finneas also did some acting, appearing in a 2013 fi lm, ties in Los Angeles, being able to go to Trader Joe’s is usually male and often someone she doesn’t know. They the ultimate dividing line, like still being able to take “Life Inside Out,” opposite Baird (the movie’s co-writer), and also on “Modern Family.” He did four episodes of discuss whatever is going on in her life, and the hitmaker the subway is for celebrities in New York. Eilish usually uses these fi laments of ideas to weave together a song. needs security to go anywhere. “Glee” during its fi nal season, which he described as feeling like the new kid in class the week school let out. Eilish hated this. “Billie doesn’t actually like recording “I think she does really well with it, and she’s very sessions at all,” Finneas says. “We like making music deserving of the adulation that her supporters give her,” “I defi nitely felt like I’m part of the end of this seminal thing,” he recalled. “It’s so funny to be doing your fourth together. She doesn’t like going to some big studio and Finneas says. “I’m maybe a little less cut out for that level having them pretend to be a therapist for a couple hours. of white-hot, kids-chasing-you-through-an-airport, ‘Hard episode of a show and everybody’s weeping, and it’s like, So by default, we always make the good stuff together.” Day’s Night’-level stuff.” their 130th episode.” Finneas has been working on a full-length debut album Finneas grew up in the Highland Park area, where When Finneas was 18, he wrote a song for the Slightlys of his own for what seems to him like forever. “Blood his parents were working actors who taught their chil- called “Ocean Eyes.” In that early incarnation, “it sound- dren at home (there were two bedrooms; they co-slept). ed a lot like Soundgarden,” he says. “It was a big, soaring Harmony” was hard enough to put together, but an album “We were a very crunchy, sort of hippie-dippy family,” electric guitar and drum record. It was the wrong outfi t has to be a statement of purpose, and it’s been slower Finneas recalls. for that song.” going than he’d hoped. “We have never put any kind of emphasis on getting a “Ocean Eyes” wound up being right for Billie. They He’ll be with Eilish when she tours the world this year, job and making a living,” says his father, Patrick. “If we worked on the track together — Finneas produced and working on the album in his spare moments. While it’s modeled anything, it was being broke and artsy.” wrote it, Billie sang it. In November 2015, they posted the not something he takes for granted, the longer they work Finneas began playing instruments and writing songs song, by then a disassembled, darkly evocative ballad, to together, the more it feels to him like a partnership that when he was very young. It didn’t take long for his par- SoundCloud and watched as it started to fi nd an audience. could last. Eilish might take a bigger role in the produc- ents to realize he was special. “Patrick and I would hear “The best part about it was it was such baby steps, tion of her work going forward, he thinks. Everything something, and walk into the room and go, ‘Who wrote comparatively,” Finneas says. “The fi rst night was a else, they’ll fi gure out as they go along. that?’ ” his mother, Maggie Baird, recalls. “And he’d go, thousand streams, and we were like, ‘Oh my God!’ Then a “It’s me being of service to whatever she needs,” he ‘I wrote that.’ Every time. I remember telling a person or week later, it was 10,000, two weeks later it was a hun- says. “Whenever duty calls, I say, ‘Yep. Let’s go.’ ” Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 37 WEEKEND: MUSIC & REVIEWS Weathering hearing loss

Huey Lewis, shown Oct. 2, releases Huey Lewis’ heart beating on new album, Broadway musical his latest album, “Weather,” Feb. 14. BY MARK KENNEDY onstage. Associated Press “Supportive is the word I would say he’s been the BRIAN ACH, INVISION/AP most: Game to try anything, and game to see some- here’s mixed news when it comes to Huey thing work or not work,” Usifer says. He and Lewis Lewis these days. The good part is that the also wrote the new song “Be Someone” specifi cally ’80s hitmaker and his band have their fi rst for the musical, something the younger man calls the new album in 19 years and a jukebox stage “ultimate thrill.” musical. Usifer has worked with Lewis after the TThe bad news? He might not be able to hear all of it. Meniere’s disease diagnosis and says the The 69-year-old frontman for Huey Lewis & The two have managed to work out a way to News was jolted in 2018 when he was diagnosed with a communicate about the music. “I give disorder of the inner ear called Meniere’s disease. him so much credit for being so open It brings hearing loss, vertigo, ringing in the ear and and brave about it,” he says. “He comes a feeling of fullness. How much Lewis hears on any to rehearsals and he’s a happy, positive day depends on the day, and there’s often a low roar. guy who’s really thrilled to be there. “My hearing fl uctuates episodically,” he says. “Usu- For whatever he’s going through out- ally it’s only bad for a week. But, I mean, really bad, side of that, he allows the process to where I’m almost deaf. And then it gets like it is now, still be productive and positive.” which is just sort of bad. But I can’t seem to stabilize.” The musical and the album have Lewis isn’t letting the disease stop him from making kept Lewis busy and kept his mind off music, with a new Huey Lewis & The News album his hearing loss. He relies on hearing called “Weather” out on Valentine’s Day and hopes for aids that play tones. When he puts a Broadway run of the musical “The Heart of Rock & them on and hears fi ve, he’s good. Roll.” As Lewis sings in one new song: “Though I ain’t Bad days are when he can only hear getting any younger / I’m a long way from done.” one. “I try and stay creative,” he says. “I also remind “The fi rst two months were myself I don’t have cancer yet.” His mind takes him suicidal. I mean, I literally would to contemporaries like Tom Petty and Glenn Frey, a friend. “There’s many, many people worse off than me contemplate my demise,” he says. so it’s important to be thankful for just everything I “I’d think, ‘Man, this is horrible. I have.” can’t live like this.’ Tinnitus roar- “Weather” offers an assortment of styles, from ing in my head and couldn’t hear honky-tonk and blues to ballads and the band’s signa- anything. But, you know, you can ture horn-drenched upbeat, humorous pop. (One song get used to almost anything.” name-checks Sleep Number beds.) Music is still coming out of The opener, “While We’re Young,” shows Lewis ad- him, thankfully. On the album, justing to late middle-age, with the line, “Tell the kids Lewis wrote a very personal song we’ll be late / and we’ll need time to recuperate.” about his love affair with music “What do you write about when you’re my age? I called “One of the Boys.” mean, it’s got to be age appropriate,” he says. “You He was asked to write the song can’t write about cars and girls anymore. You know for Willie Nelson, and said he really what I mean?” didn’t think much of it. “Then weeks The album will transport fans to a time when Lewis later for some reason, I just woke and his band blazed up the charts with hits like “The up with this song completely in my Power of Love,” “I Want a New Drug,” “Hip to Be head,” he says. Square” and “Stuck with You.” It’s a twangy tune with lyrics about Lewis hopes fans will soon hear those songs again the singer being 9 or 10 when he saw when the jukebox musical “The Heart of Rock & Roll” his very fi rst band. “I knew imme- fi nds its next stop. The show, which has an original diately, that’s where I wanted to be story unconnected to Lewis, broke the record for high- / with them boys up on the stand / est gross per performance at San Diego’s Old Globe playing in a honky-tonk band,” go theater in 2018. Lewis hopes it gets to Broadway. the lyrics. Nelson never record- He’s had a hand in helping the music along, making ed it, but Lewis still loved it so sure the songs were handled properly. “I didn’t want he added it to “Weather.” them to be too cringe-worthy,” he says. Lewis tweaked “When I fi nished writing it, I some lyrics to make them able to be sung by different realized, ‘Oh my God. It’s my people and in contexts he never anticipated, crediting life story. It’s exactly my life music supervisor and orchestrator Brian Usifer for story,’ ” he says. “It was one creatively reworking his tunes for a word-driven show. of the things that just came Usifer, a songwriter himself as well as the music through me and I real- director of “Kinky Boots” and “Frozen” on Broadway, ized, ‘Oh my gosh. This grew up as a fan of Lewis’ music and was bowled over came from somewhere when Lewis trusted him to change it to make it work deep.’ ”

Kesha “I don’t do that Dustbowl Revival positive. dance,” she warns us There’s the wistful High Road (Kemosabe/RCA Records) on the new album. Is It You, Is It Me (Thirty Tigers) balladry of “Mirror,” Kesha’s new album starts out on a “I only do my own Eclectic roots rockers Dustbowl Re- a sad but ultimately portentous and soaring note with the dance.” vival declare what they’re up to vividly encouraging song singer on the opening song “Tonight” in It wouldn’t be a on “Just One Song,” a cut from their new that is probably the full Broadway mode, belting out “Take Kesha record without album, “Is It You, Is It Me.” album’s best cut. me out toooonniiiigghht.” But 40 seconds funny recorded vi- “I can turn it around, I can right a There’s the horn-in- in, it dissolves into a messy club banger gnettes — in one, the wrong, give me just one song,” intones fused and pulsating complete with random expletives, crowd Spice Girls are gently mocked — or bi- lead singer Z. Lupetin with typically soul- “Enemy,” where Liz Beebe sings about screams, a lost phone and the singer high zarre songs that are strangely addictive, ful, understated charm. a contentious relationship that’s built and drunk as she readies to hit the town. like the utterly oddball, tuba-led “Potato It’s practically a mission statement, a around the desire to let things lie. In other words, welcome back, Kesha. Song (Cuz I Want To).” That’s not to mean declaration of the purpose that animates Then there are the more upbeat num- “High Road” is Kesha at her wonder- she can’t drop the zaniness and deliver a the band’s fourth album from start to bers, like “Just One Song” and the closer, fully anarchic, tipsy, profound and goofy devastating emotional punch, as in “Fa- fi nish: Dustbowl Revival wants to cheer “Let It Go.” It bears only a passing simi- best. Few artists can portray themselves ther Daughter Dance,” a heartbreaking you up. larity to the “Frozen” anthem, and feels as silly, airy party girls and then utterly ode to living without a parent. Over 13 songs, the Los Angeles-based personal enough to stand on its own. subvert that very image, all in the same — Mark Kennedy ensemble works in a wide range of musi- — Scott Stroud song. Associated Press cal styles, most of them accentuating the Associated Press PAGE 38 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 WEEKEND: BOOKS ‘Knock at the Door’ explores PTSD, families

BY ERIN ARVEDLUND and wouldn’t venture more than 10 miles Trevor Manion Foundation, have co-au- hensible to have to do that (grieve) again. I The Philadelphia Inquirer from the home she shared with her hus- thored a new book, “The Knock at the pushed away everything I was feeling.” band and children. Door: Three Gold Star Families Bonded Then she said, came “the empty time.” efore she lost her brother in Iraq That Christmas, she retreated to her by Grief and Purpose” (Hachette), that “What’s not talked about are the days in 2007, Ryan Manion had no bedroom and began hyperventilating. It describes the unique experience of losing and months and years that come after the experience of wrenching loss. was time to admit a loved one to war. death of a loved one. That’s when I had B “I used to watch horrifi c news she was not OK. “Amy, she’s very much a type-A to process a lot of my grief. When I look stories with a distant fascination,” think- Finally, she personality,” said Manion. “I found it back, I wouldn’t classify what was hap- ing those types of tragedies happened to sought the help fascinating when she told me how, after pening in the fi rst days and months after other people, she said. of a therapist. she lost Brendan, she let herself go. A big Travis was killed as ‘grieving.’ It was just And then, on April 29, 2007, U.S. Marine The diagnosis wake-up call was when she was staying in processing and shock.” Then everyone Corps 1st Lt. Travis Manion died in com- — post-traumatic her apartment with her two dogs, closed walks away, “and you say, ‘I have to deal bat in Anbar province near Fallujah. stress disorder off from the world. Her dogs were going to with this now.’ But then my mom died.” “My brother’s death changed me,” said — outraged her. the bathroom in her house and she didn’t The PTSD “wasn’t easy for me to put the 40-year-old native of Doylestown, Pa. To vent, she called care.” in the book. I don’t take it lightly. After With her family, she launched The Travis Amy Looney Hef- Heather Kelly was newly married when Manion Foundation, run by her mother, fernan, who had her Marine husband Robert was killed by being upset initially, it helped me under- Janet. been married to an IED. She would often ask herself, “If stand that I’m not necessarily comfortable When her mother died of cancer in her brother’s best you got hit by a bus on the highway today, showing my emotions. Others fi nd it easier April 2012, Manion took over the founda- friend, Brendan Looney, a U.S. Navy Seal would you care?” to talk to a therapist. I feel uncomfortable tion’s operation. She trained for and ran who died in combat in 2010. For Manion, the initial years after los- when people see me cry.” marathons to raise money to support it Thus began many conversations be- ing her brother were “marked by endless, Manion points to the humanity and while trying to build her own identity as tween Manion and Heffernan about grief, furious motion,” she said, adding that, “in grief therapy she’s encountered with a “tough, capable, resilient woman. For a loss, and healing. They were joined by many ways it served me. Until it didn’t.” widows and family members of veterans long time, I had lied to myself about how Heather Kelly, whose Marine husband, In retrospect, she said, “When my mom through the Travis Manion Foundation. happy and fulfi lled I felt.” Robert Kelly, was killed in combat in got sick, I still hadn’t dealt with the loss of And helping others has given these In truth, she had begun having panic 2010. my brother. After she died, everything hit women a new way to honor the fallen. attacks, had become too terrifi ed to drive, The women, who had met through the me like a freight train. It was incompre-

Golden in Death A Cold Trail Consider This The Good Killer The Big Goodbye J.D. Robb Robert Dugoni Chuck Palahniuk Harry Dolan Sam Wasson Lt. Eve Dallas is back again A cold case pulls homicide Palahniuk, the eccentric Iraq vet Sean Tennant and With great style and lyricism, in the 50th book in the long- detective Tracy Crosswhite into bestselling novelist who brought Molly Winter have been hap- Sam Wasson’s nonfi ction account running “In Death” series . The a deep look into her past in Dugo- us “Fight Club” and other dark pily living an anonymous life in of the making of the neo-noir prolifi c Nora Roberts, writing ni’s latest mystery. stories that developed cultlike a Houston suburb, following a classic fi lm “Chinatown” (1974) the series under a pen name , Crosswhite returns to the followings, has set out to dissect specifi c set of rules to keep them focuses on four of Tinseltown’s pulls off the page-turning tri- small town of Cedar Grove with effective writing in his latest incognito. Then Molly travels denizens on the cusp of realizing fecta again: an edge-of-your-seat her husband, Dan, and their new book, a memoir that recounts his to Montana for a yoga retreat their California dreams when murder mystery sprinkled with a baby. The town holds a rough adventures and misadventures in and Sean goes to the mall to buy the Manson family unleashed its storybook romance and a team of past for her. Crosswhite’s sister the publishing world. shoes the same day that unstable nightmare. cops worth rooting for. was murdered while they were Along with mechanics (writing Henry Keen begins shooting Screenwriter Robert Towne “Golden in Death” explores both in high school. Tracy is crisp dialogue, adding texture to people. Sean’s training kicks in cast a nostalgic eye on the the deadly side of grudges. The supposed to relax with her child narrative, varying the voice), he and he shoots Henry. prewar L.A. of his youth as he fi rst victim is beloved pediatri- while her husband works on a offers “a couple of surefi re strat- Sean tries to slip away un- conceived a detective story for cian Kent Abner . One day, a legal matter involving a real egies for selling books to Ameri- noticed, but his actions were his best friend, Jack Nicholson. peculiar packaged arrives: a estate deal in the town. Of course cans,” taking on tired formulas captured by many cellphones. The idea of a throwback mystery cheap wooden box with a golden when a mystery comes calling, His actions make national news and trite plot lines — something eventually captured the interest egg tucked inside. Moments after she can’t resist. and he’s hailed a hero, attracting the sometimes shocking Palahn- of Paramount’s brash produc- prying the egg open, Abner’s A reporter investigating a cold attention he cannot afford. tion head, Robert Evans. In turn, iuk can’t be accused of. throat closes, his eyes burn and case from a few months prior The police need to talk to Sean Evans brought in his director He also shares his disdain for he collapses on the fl oor. to the death of Tracy’s sister is to clear up the case, but he is also from another hit, “Rosemary’s Eve’s investigation into killed in a house fi re. Forensics overpriced writing workshops being hunted by people from his Baby,” Roman Polanski. Abner’s death keeps leading to discovers arson and learns that that tend to be no more than past. Small-time hoodlum Jimmy If the Oscar-winning “Chi- dead ends, and then another she was dead before the fi re therapy sessions full of disin- Harper wants revenge on Sean natown” is indeed “the best person is killed by the same toxic started. The chief asks Tracy to genuous back-patting. because his brother, Cole, died American screenplay written golden-egg package. Both vic- investigate, and she soon discov- The memoir comes in chapters fi ve years ago when committing during the ’70s,” Wasson does tims are connected to a private ers that the woman had uncov- he calls “Postcards From the a robbery with Sean. Wealthy art it justice by following Towne’s high school. ered some new leads. Tour.” Each Postcard reinforces dealer Adam Khadduri wants the method of constructing fi nely Roberts began writing the “In Dugoni blends the best ele- the message just discussed. valuables that the two men stole. detailed, lively backstories of all Death” series in 1995. Her intri- ments of a classic small-town Whether you’re inspired to im- A savvy FBI agent and a Hous- characters, major and minor. It’s cate character development and mystery with a legal thriller to prove your own writing or simply ton detective also are in pursuit. impossible not to fall for this love powerful storytelling give fans craft a compelling tale. His char- like to revel in the art behind “The Good Killer” expertly letter to a love letter that pastes and newcomers the ability to acters and vivid setting drop the your favorite authors’ work, this delves into each character’s together the often sticky collage drop into the series at any point reader right into the emotional tamed-down, reined-in Palahn- psyche, showing the humanity in of how talent plus perseverance and escape into Eve’s world. heart of the story. iuk is insightful. each. can equal a classic fi lm. — Sophia Rosenbaum — Jeff Ayers — Ginny Greene — Oline H. Cogdill — Douglass K. Daniel Associated Press Associated Press Star Tribune (Minneapolis) Associated Press Associated Press Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 39 WEEKEND: TELEVISION & DVD NEW ON DVD

“Ford v Ferrari”: It’s 1963, and a livid Henry Ford II (Tracy Letts) demands new ideas from ‘It’s my privilege’ his employees, as the car manu- facturer isn’t what it used to be in stature. Ford Vice President Lee Iacocca (Jon Bernthal) pitches Joe Pesci’s return to the screen says a lot about why he acts an idea to fuel the company into the racing world to increase sales, with a subsequent at- BY TRAVIS M. ANDREWS Upon a Time in America,” “Man on Fire” and even “Home Alone” tempt to acquire the sleek and The Washington Post while continuing to work with Scorsese in such classics as “Goodfel- glamorous but broke Ferrari, the las” and “Casino.” longtime winner of the 24 Hours uch ado has been made about various facets of Mar- Did he enjoy it, though? of Le Mans race. A furious Enzo tin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” from its marathon When the man won an Oscar for his work in “Goodfellas,” he Ferrari (Remo Girone) backs run-time of 3 ½ hours to the uncanny technology gave the most memorable speech in the award’s history — apologies out of the deal after Iacocca says used to de-age its stars to the fact that most viewers to Matt Damon and Ben Affl eck. It was fi ve words long. Not one of his team would not be allowed will watch the master director’s epic on Netfl ix in- them was wasted. Mstead of in a movie theater. Heck, even Scorsese’s feelings on Mar- to participate in the race and “It’s my privilege. Thank you.” instead sells to Fiat, further an- vel movies — spoiler alert: He’s not fond of them, a fact that should Sure, he later said the short speech derived from the fact that he gering Ford. The CEO declares shock just about no one but seemed to shock everyone — entered the didn’t expect to win, but it certainly seems like he might have been they’ll a build a car that will beat dialogue surrounding this fl ick. happier at Amici’s. Ferrari once and for all. In all this, we’ve collectively overlooked one of the most exciting Then the typecasting began. He’d always played Mafi a types, But although the film’s title aspects of the movie: the Joe Pesci of it all. Because Joe Pesci is generally unhinged psychopaths who went from zero to murder frames one rivalry, Ford’s back, baby! in a second fl at. That Italian Brooklyn accent. That kinetic internal company drama is its Look, we pop culture writers love to declare that some- energy packed into his short frame, ready to furiously driving force. However, its styl- one’s having some sort of renaissance, which we often explode. That near-manic voice. All of it combined beauti- ish and gorgeous filmmaking celebrate by taking an actor’s name and adding -aissance fully and terribly in the hands of a skilled director. That’s from director James Mangold to it. That’s how this very reporter came to write about what makes his “You think I’m funny? Funny how, like and cinematographer Phedon the Keanussaince and the Goldblumaissance, even a clown” speech so powerful in “Goodfellas” and Papamichael, and the script by though Keanu Reeves and Jeff Goldblum never his lawyer such a hilarious fi sh out of water in “My Jez Butterworth, John-Henry actually disappeared for a signifi cant portion of Cousin Vinny.” Butterworth and Jason Keller, time. Because, not to lift up the curtain too high, Soon, though, every time any second-rate direc- manage to provide a very human actors rarely actually go quiet for long, so every tor needed a “Joe Pesci type,” they simply typecast story amid all the metal. “comeback” tends to be a somewhat contrived way Joe Pesci. After “8 Heads in a Duffel Bag” and “Gone Also available on DVD: of saying that someone is suddenly receiving attention Fishin’,” the man was done. “After She Wakes”: A griev- again. In his own quiet way, Pesci showed a fortitude most ing mother and daughter develop It may seem, at fi rst glance, like Pesci is one such don’t possess. He walked away. He walked away disturbing sleep issues after a case. He’s been a constant in many of our lives. to play jazz and golf — which sounds fantas- tragic death. Can you count how many times you’ve tic, without a doubt — but he stepped away “Greener Grass”: Two soccer seen Pesci’s face on your television in nonetheless. And he was serious about it. moms (Jocelyn DeBoer and those decades? If you’re anything like Famously, back when Louis C.K. was be- Dawn Luebbe) grapple with their the rest of us lazy early-afternoon loved, the comedian attempted to get Pesci relationships as they watch their or late-night cable surfers, then just to star in his Web series “Horace & Pete.” sons play in this campy comedy. between “Goodfellas,” “My Cousin The semiretired actor not only turned “Hell on the Border”: Ex-slave Vinny” and “Home Alone” that num- down the offer but told the comedian that Bass Reeves (David Gyasi) be- ber probably fl irts with triple digits. he should try a different line of work comes the first black deputy U.S. But truth is, Joe Pesci is literally because he was terrible at stand-up. marshal in Arkansas. having a comeback. Since 1998, he’s He made a surprising appearance “In Fabric”: A newly single appeared in three major projects: in a Google commercial during woman (Sidse Babett Knudsen) a small role in 2006’s “The Good 2019’s Super Bowl LII, but even finds a show-stopping red dress Shepherd,” the second fi lm direct- that spot played with the idea that carries a nefarious curse in ed by his friend Robert De Niro; of a Pesci drought. The ad this horror comedy. 2010’s “Love Ranch,” about the found Pesci watching a “Line of Descent”: Three couple who opened the fi rst legal modern-day version brothers fight for control of their brothel in Nevada; and (his voice of “Home Alone,” Delhi crime family. Brendan in) 2015’s animated “A Warrior’s though when his Fraser, Prem Chopra and Abhay Tail.” (For comparison, in 1992 “big scene” arrives Deol star. alone, he appeared in four we never actually see “Preacher - The Final Sea- movies and a TV show). him. son”: The apocalypse looms in In some ways, his entire life He didn’t return the fourth season of the AMC se- seems like a Sisyphean ex- Eric Charbonneau in a major project until ries based on the DC Comics title ercise in attempting to avoid he could do something he with the same name. The cast working as an actor. felt was important, or at least until he was includes Dominic Cooper, Joseph The New Jersey-born Italian pestered enough. He reportedly turned down Gilgun and Ruth Negga. American actor entered show a role in “The Irishman” a whopping 40 times “Roma”: In 1970s Mexico business earlier than most of us before De Niro persuaded him to join. “We’re City, a domestic worker (Yalitza enter school. As a 5-year-old, he acted in plays friends and he loves Marty and I said, ‘Come Aparicio) takes a trip with one of around New York City. By 10, he regularly appeared on, this is it, let’s do it, let’s try and do it,’” De her bosses (Marina de Tavira) on TV’s “Startime Kids,” a variety show. Meanwhile, Niro told the Hollywood Reporter. “He understood ; and her kids. In Spanish, Mixtec he continued focusing on music. As a teenager, he in- he loves Marty and wanted the experience of work- and other languages with Eng- troduced his friends Tommy DeVito and Frankie Valli ing with him again and me and Al.” lish subtitles. to Bob Gaudio. The three, of course, went on to found “The Irishman” is about growing older, perhaps “Swamp Thing: The Complete the Four Seasons. growing irrelevant, and looking back at all of the Series”: Dr. Abby Arcane must The sad irony lies in the fact that he might have been choices that make up a life. It’s about time and save the town of Marais after happier if none of this occurred. With good intentions, regret. Pesci gives a phenomenal performance as a deadly threat emerges from his blue-collar father, Angelo, forced showbiz upon him, Russell Bufalino, a mobster who takes hit man Frank the swamp in this DC Universe and he always sounded resentful of his path. Sheeran (De Niro) under his wing. Unlike the charac- series starring Crystal Reed. “My father would push me to do it, as everyone pushes ters of his past, Pesci’s Bufalino is a somewhat quiet, “The Great War”: A group of their kids, which I don’t agree with. I grew up in the extraordinarily measured man. Business is business, U.S. soldiers fighting in World business. I had no choice,” he told the New York Times in but there’s no personal score settling, no nonsense. War I must save a platoon after 1992. “My father loved me so much that he did not want After nearly a decade, Pesci returned with the most crossing enemy lines. me to be a laborer or anything. I don’t know if it’s the thoughtful, restrained performance of his career. “Shutter Island”: Being re- right thing to do — push your kids into something and So naturally, journalists would want to ask the actor leased on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray then stay on them until they do it. Let them pick what about his time off-screen. But that certainly doesn’t for its 10th anniversary, the 2010 they want to do.” mean he wants to refl ect on those years publicly. Per- Martin Scorsese film follows a In fact, after a brief stint in Hollywood, during haps nothing sums up Pesci’s attitude toward Hollywood U.S. marshal and his partner which he appeared in the 1975 indie “The Death Col- more than a recent Q&A session at the New York Film (Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark lector,” Pesci packed up and moved to the Bronx to Festival, where a panel moderator said to him, “I’m Ruffalo) who head to a remote manage a restaurant named Amici’s. That little movie caught the wondering if you could talk about coming on board this asylum from where a murderer eye of Scorsese and De Niro, however, and he was pulled back into project ... It’s been a while since you appeared in a fi lm.” is said to have escaped. show business with his role in “Raging Bull.” “No,” Pesci fl atly replied. “I don’t know what to say.” — Katie Foran-McHale /TNS At that point, he became a bona fi de actor, nabbing parts in “Once After a brief pause, he added, “Thank you for asking.” PAGE 40 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 WEEKEND: HEALTH & FITNESS Rx for the underappreciated doctor Patients with a dose of respect, understanding could make physicians’ jobs easier

BY EVE GLICKSMAN instead of waiting for offi ce hours were asked to diagnose symptoms primary care setting where doctors The Washington Post when calls are screened by the front- after reading vignettes. Half of the are in shorter supply and can refer desk staff.” vignettes contained neutral symptom diffi cult patients to another physician. as that a grin- Doctors may pay the price for a descriptions and the rest included the To straddle the line, Greenberg and-bear-it disgruntled patient regardless of same symptoms plus details about tells patients to “adapt to the culture expression your whether it is deserved. A patient can the patient behaving badly — yelling of medicine.” That means treating doctor fl ashed destroy a doctor’s reputation with about the waiting time, for instance, your appointment like a business when greeting bad reviews of the practice across the or questioning the doctor’s compe- meeting where the physician is the you? web. Another physician regretfully tence. The doctors misdiagnosed authority. WIn what may be a well-kept pro- declined an interview for this article the diffi cult patient from 6% more “Bring a list of no more than three fessional secret, physicians dread on the advice of lawyers; one of his for simple symptoms to 42% more in items,” she recommends. “(Tell the encounters with about 15% of their patients is suing him now. complex cases. doctor) ‘We have only 15 minutes but patients. In 1978, the New England “It takes extra effort,” says Jeffrey Authors of the second study at- if we can cover this, it would mean a Journal of Medicine published what L. Jackson, an internist and professor tributed the errors to “resource lot to me.’ ” has become a classic on the subject: of medicine at the Medical College depletion.” Instead of devoting full The trick is to be a squeaky wheel, “Taking Care of the Hateful Patient.” of Wisconsin, to deal with diffi cult attention to analyzing symptoms, but not require too much grease. “Admitted or not,” wrote the author, patients. “I sit at my desk and gather their mental energy was diverted by If you bring in information from a psychiatrist James E. Groves, “the my thoughts before I call them in.” the challenging behavior. The doctors Google search to discuss, don’t make fact remains that a few patients His research, however, shows that were more likely to recall patients’ the physician feel devalued or second- kindle aversion, fear, despair or even physicians practicing longer found poor conduct than the clinical par- guessed, Schuermeyer says. “Ask the downright malice in their doctors.” fewer patients diffi cult because they ticulars when asked about the cases physician, ‘What do you think about For physicians, these suck-the- had developed better interpersonal later. The effect of disruptive behav- this source?’” life-out-of-you patients are needy, skills. But that still leaves patients ior would be much greater during an Insisting on tests against the demanding and forever unhappy with with personality or somatic (feel- actual exam, the researchers say. doctor’s judgment can backfi re, too, their care. ing extreme anxiety about physical So how much can you challenge a she adds. Incidental fi ndings from “When one of their symptoms is re- symptoms) disorders who defy any physician without risking substan- unnecessary procedures can lead to lieved, another mysteriously appears behavioral strategy, he says. dard care or becoming the hateful potentially injurious and costly tests. in its place,” Groves writes about one Engaged patients typically have patient of medical journals? Physicians also appreciate patients variation of what British physicians the best outcomes, but not when the “Patients should err on the side of who keep emotions in check. No cry- call “heartsink patients.” doctor has to take slow, deep breaths being assertive. They are not there ing, venting, or soul-searching. “Low-level torture (death by a mil- before seeing them. to please the physician,” says Joy L. “That’s what therapists are for,” lion little cuts),” write the authors of Doctors try to put personal feelings Lee, assistant professor at Indiana says Greenberg, observing that many “Managing Diffi cult Interactions with aside, but it’s hard to do when they University School of Medicine and patients have unrealistic expectations Patients in Neurology Practices.” feel overwhelmed or victimized, says researcher at Regenstrief Institute. about empathy from their physicians. They may order the doctor to perform Isabel Schuermeyer, a psychiatrist at But Lee, who has studied what makes Being rude or complaining endless- diagnostic tests, prescribe medica- Cleveland Clinic. some patients “favorites,” notes that ly won’t get you far, either. Refrain tions or make referrals, none of which “As the physician’s exhaustion in- being respectful and understanding from calling the offi ce several times are medically necessary, they say. creases with each request, the a doctor’s limits will get your calls a day or after hours unless it is an They have the attitude: “I bought you. care and well-being of the returned quicker. emergency. Know that angry emails It is my right.” patient may no longer The meek do not win in health to the doctor or offi ce staff members Take it down a notch to everyday be the primary focus,” care, echoes San Francisco will go into your permanent medi- thoughtlessness. One internist asking she writes. clinical psychologist Tamara cal record and brand you as “that for confi dentiality described a patient Two companion McClintock Greenberg. At patient” forever. who called her offi ce emergency line studies in BMJ the same time, “It can be “In the hyperactive culture of med- at 2:52 a.m. She returned the call Quality and Safety hard to know how much to icine, doctors are not rewarded for immediately only to fi nd he needed concluded the push back when we don’t good customer service,” Greenberg routine prescriptions. The kicker? His same. Disruptive feel like we’re getting says. Thank your provider for seeing pharmacy didn’t open until 9 a.m. patient behavior the care we need,” she you or bring food to the medical staff, “This happens fairly frequently,” led to errors when writes in her book, “When she suggests. Being a jerk may not af- she says. “Some patients seem to residents and Someone You Love Has fect the level of care you receive, she know they will get a callback right medical trainees a Chronic Illness.” This says, “but if you want to hedge your away if they call the emergency line in the Netherlands tends to matter most in the bets, be kind.”

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iStock THE MEAT AND POTATOES OF LIFE If your Lisa Smith Molinari Not likely to become child is Florence Nightingale hen I took my husband to the hospital for hip- replacement surgery recently, I envisioned myself playing the part of Florence Nightin- Wgale during his post-operative convalescence at home: propping his pillows, retrieving fresh ice packs, depressed delivering steaming bowls of soup and neatly quartered sandwiches, topping off his water with candy-striped bendy straws. But instead, a few days after Francis’ release from the hospital, my inspiration to lovingly nurture began to de- grade into the bitter resentment of an indentured servant. Things you should know: Admittedly, we had both been naive about what to ex- pect. I had undergone several surgical procedures as an adult, but my husband had not gone under the knife in our fi rst, you are not a failure 27-year marriage. Francis had always over-dramatized his cold symp- toms, sneezes, coughs, aches and pains. And he talked too BY NEHA CHAUDHARY that her son was depressed made In fact, the sooner mental illness much about the details of his upcoming hip procedure Special to The Washington Post her feel like a failure. She had been is addressed, the better. to anyone who would listen. But despite clear signs that feeling isolated from her friends, It’s critical to refl ect on your own Francis would “milk it,” I had believed that I would swell woman walked into an wondering what they would think feelings so they don’t get in the way. with only nurturing feelings during his convalescence. emergency room with her if they knew. She had become less Finding out your child struggles Not so much. Annoyance had crept into my brain early 13-year-old son, her lips intimate with her partner, spending with their mental health isn’t easy, on, like a slowly infecting virus. Apursed. He was there for most nights thinking about what she and there are likely going to be “Achh ... unnghf ... shhhhoooo,” Francis groaned and a psychiatric evaluation for suicidal could have done differently for her tough emotions involved. But just huffed with the slightest movements. The fi rst few days thoughts that he had voiced to his son. She eventually reached for a because your child is depressed, after hip replacement surgery, this was to be expected. school counselor. After my evalua- tissue and quietly agreed with the that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a But on day four, the noises became more frequent and tion of her son, I sat down with her treatment plan. refl ection on you or your parenting dramatic, and were accompanied by more extreme facial to talk. She didn’t look pleased. “I For parents who have a child ability. expressions. In front of the young nurses in the hospital, hope you’re here to tell me you’re struggling with mental illness, the Some parents struggle with feel- Francis had been all smiles and bravery. But at home, a discharging him,” she said. “We most important thing to remember ings of guilt, and others feel help- permanent grimace was interrupted only by face-con- have to get to soccer practice in an is that you are not alone. According less, distraught, scared or confused. torting winces, angry purses and theatrical fl inches. hour.” to the National Alliance on Mental Some might even feel relieved, I offered food, drinks, ice, medications and ambulatory “Actually, I’m here to tell you Illness, 17 percent of kids ages 6 to knowing that it’s not them but some- assistance, but Francis’ needs seemed to multiply as his about your son’s depression,” I said 17 experience some sort of mental thing medical for which they can mobility improved. A week after surgery, he started to to her gently. I told her he had been health disorder, and 50 percent of seek help. demand that my daughter or I tuck him into bed nightly. struggling for the past few months all mental illness starts by age 14 Whatever the feelings may be, Although he had an entire set of medical assistance tools, and that the past week had been (75 percent by age 24). it’s critically important for parents elongated shoehorns, sock-aids and grabbers, every day especially tough. to recognize them so that they he found new tasks to add to my responsibilities. What was hardest to tell don’t come out in ways that “Unghff ... can ... annnggg ... you ... fffwhooo ... get ... her, however, was how far the According to the National inadvertently harm the child shhhhwhoo ... the ... unghfff ... light?” Francis huffed at depression had gotten. “For Alliance on Mental Illness, or keep them from getting me, dramatically extending a quivering hand toward his the past few days, he has been help. Parents should be warned nightstand, his fi ngers mere inches from the lamp switch. feeling like he doesn’t deserve 17 percent of kids ages 6 that emotions often do impair Initially, guilt forced me to push annoyance away. But to be alive,” I said. “I’d like to to 17 experience some sort judgment and cloud decision- soon, the grunts, groans, grimaces and grievances be- refer him for hospitalization to came too much. “Isn’t he supposed to be getting better?” I of mental health disorder, making, as many studies have get more help in a safe setting, thought in frustration, dreaming of a tropical escape. shown. It’s best to anticipate because what’s going on here and 50 percent of all mental Then one night, the unfi ltered observations of our teen this and leave the treatment is perfectly treatable, and he daughter fi nally addressed the elephant in the room. illness starts by age 14. decisions to the professionals. doesn’t need to struggle this Francis was emitting his usual cacophony of noises on Recognize where you can be way anymore.” the couch, and in the middle of it all, he belched. If your child is struggling, here’s the most helpful — and leave the “Safe setting?” she shouted. “Ghfff, unngh, ahhhh, hhheee, whooo,” he went on like what you need to know and how you rest to the experts. “Home is a safe setting! And that’s a one-man band, when there came a rumbling from deep where I’m taking my kid right can be most supportive in their time You are the expert on your child. in his gut, followed loudly by, “BUURRPP. ... tsssseeeee,” now!” She pulled out a notebook of need: Your clinician is the expert on as if the valve had been pressed on a pressure cooker. from her handbag to show me the Mental illness is just like any treatment for your child’s condi- “Wow, Dad,” Lilly piped up, “you’re actually good at appointments she had made for him medical illness. tion. To be the most helpful, focus beat boxing!” She proceeded to imitate the whole thing to see a new therapist. She reviewed It can’t always be prevented, but on helping the clinician understand with uncanny accuracy and hand gestures. He tried to the activities she had scheduled it can be treated. the ins and outs of who your child is resist it, but Francis’ grimace melted into a chuckle, and I so that he could feel connected to The brain is an organ, just like and what’s going on with them. How laughed, too. peers, get exercise and stay healthy. anything else in the body. Some- would you describe their personali- Lilly, who had sensed the tension between us, offered to “I’m doing all the right things, and times your kids are going to fall ty? Their strengths and weaknesses? take “tuck in” duties for the night. She walked her grunt- my kid is fi ne,” she said. “How dare sick. And, just as you would take Whom do they connect with? Whom ing father up the stairs to our bedroom, while I melted you tell me he’s not safe?” your child to see a doctor to get do they look up to? How do they talk into the couch, blissfully alone. I leaned in closer. “You are, in treated for a broken arm, a seizure about the future, if at all? A timeline Soon, I heard creaking fl oorboards and music ema- fact, doing all the right things. disorder or pneumonia, you can here is particularly helpful; try nating from upstairs, followed by shouts and laughter. I You’re a loving parent, taking take them to see a doctor when describing when you fi rst noticed walked up to fi nd that Lilly had asked the Alexa on my all the right steps to protect your things go wrong with their brains. that your child was not seeming like bedroom dresser to “Play ‘Eye of the Tiger’ by Survivor” kid. But sometimes even the best At the end of the day, a lot of ill- himself. These are the things you to motivate Francis to remove his own socks and get him- parents can’t save their kids from nesses are genetic, and no matter can provide to best equip your clini- self into bed without assistance. their depression, anxiety or other your environment, no matter how cian with the information they need. “C’mon Dad! You can do it!” she blared, punching and mental health symptoms. If he were much you nurture your kid, some- Your clinician will make a diag- kickboxing the air. here for an asthma attack, would times the nature part — the genes nosis and recommend a treatment A few days and a few more doses of much-needed you keep him from getting the treat- — will win. Sometimes no amount plan that’s in your child’s best inter- comic relief later, Francis began showing signs of im- ment he needs?” Her face softened, of parenting books, organic food or est. Although the idea of leaving provement. Although he now claims to be developing a and she burst into tears, slowly breaks from screen time will help. this to the professionals may seem cough that could prolong our misery, we all know now shaking her head. And that’s OK. As long as you are daunting, keep in mind they’ve that laughter truly is the best medicine. The more I sat with her, listening, able to acknowledge mental illness often had a decade or more of train- Read more of Lisa Smith Molinari’s columns at: the more she shared. She admit- for what it is, you’ll be able to help ing . You and your child aren’t alone themeatandpotatoesoflife.com ted that the idea of acknowledging address it sooner rather than later. in this, after all. Email: [email protected] PAGE 42 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 WEEKEND: CROSSWORD AND COMICS NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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BY JAKE COYLE Associated Press Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska were in a hard-to-reach area of Northern Macedonia — about as far from the Oscars as possible — when they came upon the beekeeper who would be their subject in their acclaimed documentary “Honeyland.” While working on a short video commissioned by a na- ture conservancy project, the filmmakers met Hatidze Muratova, a middle-aged woman who ekes out a hard- scrabble and solitary existence harvesting honey with an- NEON/AP cient, sustainable methods across the craggy mountainous landscape of the former Yugoslav republic while caring Hatidze Muratova of Macedonia is the focus of the Academy Award-nominated documentary “Honeyland.” for her half-blind and bedridden mother in a modest home without electricity. both the increasingly boundless nature of documentary film, which won several top prizes at last year’s Sundance In Muratova, they recognized not just a noble, almost filmmaking and the specific greatness of “Honeyland.” Film Festival, has so resonated. The neighbors — Hussein timeless figure of environmental symbolism but an inspir- The film tracks Muratova’s life, including astoundingly Sam, his wife and their seven children — aren’t exactly ing character deserving of attention. Muratova hadn’t set intimate scenes with her mother, Nazife, and her sustain- villains; they’re doing their best while saddled with debts out to live in near isolation; while her village dwindled, she able methods of wild beekeeping. Muratova takes half of and many mouths to feed. stayed behind to care for her mother. “Honeyland” is, in a the honey and leaves the other half for the bees, a balance “It shows how greediness works on a very basic level,” way, her liberation. says Stefanov. “It’s a community of three people. It would “This woman is somebody who is a true talent and a be the same if you had thousands with an optimal liveli- great lover of humans,” Kotevska said in an interview by ‘ Life conditions brought her where hood and somebody came and said, ‘Hey, I will give you phone alongside Stefanov. “She’s an extrovert. But life con- she is. She was trapped in that life. more.’ That sentence is the strongest reason why we are ditions brought her where she is. She was trapped in that facing what we are today. life. When we showed up, it was a way of freedom for her. When we showed up, it was a way “What we found in this community is something that is It was a way of expressing her life and her story to us.” everywhere in the world,” he adds. Of all the personalities that will be coming to the Acad- of freedom for her. It was a way of It took an unusual amount of dedication to capture that emy Awards on Sunday, few can hold a candle to Hatidze. expressing her life and her story. community. Stefanov and Kotevska used an off-road ve- She will be there, the filmmakers say, in what promises ’ hicle to reach Muratova’s home and in two- to three-day to be both an astounding culture clash and a triumphant Tamara Kotevska on beekeeper Hatidze Muratova of Macedonia stretches stayed in tents nearby while shooting. In winter, moment for a humble, heroic woman who never sought the it was too cold the stay the night. They spent three years spotlight. filming and accumulated more than 400 hours of footage. In Macedonia, Kotevska says, she’s living the role of “a Most strikingly, Muratova often spoke Turkish, includ- national hero.” “People are obviously tired of fake heroes ing in the scenes with her mother, a language that the that are beyond everyone,” says Kotevska. that allows the combs to continue and flourish. But when a Macedonian filmmakers don’t speak. They were often “Honeyland” has already made history. It’s the first chaotic and unruly family of nine moves in next door and shooting purely from a visual standpoint. film ever nominated for both best documentary and best tries to crudely practice beekeeping with less patience, “Honeyland,” which is currently streaming on Hulu and international film, the category formerly dubbed best for- “Honeyland” becomes a starkly simple environmental available to rent on Amazon, has tried to funnel some of its eign language film. The dual honors make “Honeyland” a allegory. success back to its subjects. Jars of honey are for sale with quietly revolutionary Oscar nominee, one that speaks to Stefanov believes this elemental conflict is why their proceeds going to Muratova and the Sam family. ‘Spartacus’ star Kirk Douglas dies at 103

BY DENNIS MCLELLAN boxer in the 1949 drama “Champion.” list by giving blacklisted writer Dalton Los Angeles Times Douglas later received Oscar nomina- Trumbo screen credit under his own name tions for his performances as an opportu- for his work on the 1960 Roman-Empire Kirk Douglas, the dimple-chinned nistic movie mogul in the 1952 drama “The epic that starred Douglas as the gladiator- screen icon who was known for bringing Bad and the Beautiful” and as tormented trained slave revolt leader. an explosive, clenched-jawed intensity to artist Vincent van Gogh in the 1956 bio- In acknowledgment of a career that a memorable array of heroes and heels graphical drama “Lust for Life.” spanned more than 60 years and more in films such as “Spartacus” and “Cham- “I have never felt any need to project a than 80 films, Douglas was honored late pion” and for playing an off-screen role certain image as an actor,” Douglas wrote in life with numerous major awards: The AP as a maverick independent producer who in “The Ragman’s Son,” his bestselling American Film Institute’s Life Achieve- helped end the Hollywood blacklist, has 1988 autobiography. “I like a role that is ment Award, a Kennedy Center Honor, a Father-son actors Kirk Douglas, left, and died. He was 103. Michael Douglas are shown n New York in stimulating, challenging, interesting to Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Douglas, who continued to act occasion- 1976. Kirk Douglas died Wednesday. ally after overcoming a stroke in 1996 that play. That’s why I’m often attracted to Award and an honorary Oscar for his “50 impaired his speech, died Wednesday in characters that aren’t likable.” years as a creative and moral force in the Broadway before receiving a call from Los Angeles, surrounded by family, his son Never a fan of the Hollywood studio motion picture community.” Hollywood for the 1946 melodrama “The Michael said in a statement. system — he likened the standard seven- As a child, Douglas developed an early Strange Love of Martha Ivers.” “To the world he was a legend, an actor year studio contract to slavery — Douglas sense of the direction his life might take. Parts in a half-dozen films followed, and from the golden age of movies who lived launched his own independent production “I have always wanted to be an actor, I then came his Oscar-nominated starring well into his golden years, a humanitar- company in 1955. believe from the first time I recited a poem role as ambitious fighter Midge Kelly in ian whose commitment to justice and the Named after Douglas’ immigrant moth- in kindergarten about the Red Robin of the 1949 drama “Champion.” causes he believed in set a standard for all er, the Bryna Co. produced a number of Spring. They applauded. I liked that sound. Among Douglas’ more than 20 film of us to aspire to,” Michael Douglas said on films in which Douglas starred, including I still do,” he wrote in his autobiography. credits in the ’50s are “Young Man With Instagram. director Stanley Kubrick’s landmark anti- After serving in the Navy during World a Horn,” “The Glass Menagerie,” “Ace in The stage-trained Douglas earned the war film, “Paths of Glory,” “The Vikings” War II, Douglas replaced Richard Wid- the Hole,” “Detective Story,” “The Jug- first Oscar nomination of his long acting and “Spartacus.” mark in the role of an Army lieutenant gler,” “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” and career playing one of the post-World War II As executive producer of “Spartacus,” in the Broadway comedy “Kiss and Tell.” “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” (with fre- era’s antiheroes: the ruthlessly ambitious Douglas helped end the Hollywood black- He had a few more brief appearances on quent co-star Burt Lancaster). PAGE 44 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 OPINION Max D. Lederer Jr., Publisher Lt. Col. Sean Klimek, Europe commander Lt. Col. Richard McClintic, Pacific commander Dems paving Trump’s road to reelection Caroline E. Miller, Europe Business Operations Joshua M. Lashbrook, Pacific Chief of Staff BY DAVID VON DREHLE results of Monday’s caucuses blew a giant born barely halfway to term. Advances in The Washington Post hole in the party’s claims to hyper-compe- extreme neonatology kept her alive. How tence. Swing voters might be susceptible to would Democrats react to this cute little EDITORIAL f, next January, Donald Trump takes the message that a party unable to count darling whose existence blurs the distinc- the presidential oath for a second votes in Keokuk should not be encouraged tion between life in and out of the womb? Terry Leonard, Editor time — an unwelcome prospect to [email protected] to redesign the entire economy. Rather than poke the usual verbiage at Ime — his road to reelection will have When, eventually, the votes are counted, the wing of the Democratic Party that em- Robert H. Reid, Senior Managing Editor started in these busy, perhaps fateful, few Democrats should be chagrined by the braces the label of “democratic socialism,” [email protected] days of early February, when Trump’s au- mediocre turnout. All those candidates Trump introduced Venezuelan opposition Tina Croley, Managing Editor for Content dacious flair for self-promotion converged spending all those millions and all the talk leader Juan Guaido, whose quest to unseat [email protected] with the bumbling of Democrats to pro- about anti-Trump energy produced only his country’s socialist government had the duce an explosive campaign launch. the usual attendance on caucus day. entire Congress on its bipartisan feet. Now Managing Editor for Presentation Sean Moores, There was the verdict on impeachment. Then there’s Trump. His State of the [email protected] Democrats are left to explain why ousting No, not the Senate’s verdict, which was as Union speech was a lethally effective ex- socialists is good policy for Venezuela while Joe Gromelski, Managing Editor for Digital predictable as tomorrow’s sunrise — es- ploitation of the presidential bully pulpit. electing them — the democratic variety, pecially after House Democrats made the [email protected] Did he overstate his accomplishments? anyway — is right for the United States. disastrous decision to halt their investiga- Yes. Did he understate the record of his Viewers were left to wonder: Why tion and present a gapingly incomplete re- predecessor? Yes. Is that unusual in a cam- wouldn’t Pelosi applaud money for his- BUREAU STAFF cord to unwelcoming Senate Republicans. paign-year State of the Union? No. torically black colleges and universities? There was just no time to seek court orders Europe/Mideast But no previous address so cunningly What’s her beef with a service member Erik Slavin, Europe & Mideast Bureau Chief for further evidence, the Democrats ur- gently explained. And then they frittered adapted the ancient ritual of a formal who returns from deployment to hug his [email protected] speech to the visceral medium of televi- kids? Where’s her feeling for the brother of +49(0)631.3615.9350; DSN (314)583.9350 away a whole month before presenting their articles of impeachment. sion. A former TV star himself, Trump a man killed by an undocumented crimi- Pacific The key verdict is the one rendered understands that people don’t just listen to nal? All of these visuals could be explained Aaron Kidd, Pacific Bureau Chief by the court of public opinion. Accord- what the president says. They also watch in policy terms, but as Ronald Reagan once [email protected] the reactions in the room. He engineered confided to his diary, “If you’re explaining, +81.42.552.2511 ext. 88380; DSN (315)227.7380 ing to the venerable Gallup Organization, Trump’s approval rating was a dismal 39 the speech to force his opponents to react you’re losing.” Washington percent around the time news broke of in potentially self-defeating ways. I won’t be surprised if the next Gallup Joseph Cacchioli, Washington Bureau Chief his shady dealings with Ukraine. The last Some examples. Rather than give the poll finds a Trump bump from the con- [email protected] president below 40 percent at that point in usual conservative lip service to school fluence of these events. If so, he’ll be in (+1)(202)886-0033 his first term was Jimmy Carter, who was choice, Trump illustrated the issue by in- positive territory for the first time — a po- Brian Bowers, Assistant Managing Editor, News troducing a young African American girl sition of relative strength for which Demo- [email protected] bounced after one term. By the end of the impeachment debacle, though, Trump was in the gallery and announcing that she was crats will share a large part of the blame. CIRCULATION at 49 percent — the highest level of his getting a scholarship to attend her pre- They misjudged impeachment, misman- presidency so far and at least three points ferred school. What would House Speaker aged Iowa and unwittingly co-starred in a Mideast higher than Barack Obama could claim in Nancy Pelosi, Calif., and her fellow Demo- Trump infomercial. Robert Reismann, Mideast Circulation Manager early February of his reelection year. crats do, applaud for the happy child and The great mistake of 2016 was to un- [email protected] [email protected] Some on the left have talked about im- risk offending their public school-teacher derestimate Trump as an innovative cam- DSN (314)583-9111 peaching Trump again. You have to won- base or sit on their hands and look like a paign force. Time is running out to avoid der if they’re secretly on his payroll. bunch of Scrooges? a repeat. Europe Onto this smoldering rubble the Iowa Rather than deliver the GOP boilerplate David Von Drehle is a Washington Post columnist. Karen Lewis, Community Engagement Manager Democratic Party tossed a gasoline bomb. on abortion, Trump introduced a pro-life [email protected] He is the author of “Rise to Greatness: Abraham [email protected] Their shocking inability to tabulate the mom and her 2-year-old daughter, who was Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year.” +49(0)631.3615.9090; DSN (314)583.9090 Pacific Mari Mori, [email protected] +81-3 6385.3171; DSN (315)227.7333 Trump riding high, but it’s a long way to Election Day CONTACT US BY CARL P. 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peachment drama was sputtering to an end What newspapers and the starting gun for the 2020 election season was about to go off in Iowa (or, as it happened, to pathetically misfire). With are saying at home all the Democratic candidates opposed to Trump’s immigration policies, what better The following editorial excerpts are se- time to remind his followers that Trump lected from a cross section of newspapers was still standing guard at the gates? throughout the United States. The editori- Yet the latest ban makes as little sense als are provided by The Associated Press as the first one, and it stands to do far and other stateside syndicates. more harm than good. A 2018 study by the libertarian Cato Institute found that the Trump’s address did little to Trump administration’s “extreme vetting” defuse charged atmosphere of travelers and immigrants, of which the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune travel ban is a centerpiece, would not sig- nificantly reduce the already minuscule Amid an impeachment effort meant to risk of imported terrorism achieved by remove him from office and a re-election visa reforms after 9/11, but would come at campaign meant to return him, President exponentially greater cost. The risk of any Donald Trump gave his third State of the Union Address on Tuesday night. American being killed in the United States The extraordinary circumstances were by a refugee or immigrant is negligible, apparent in the setting. Over his left shoul- Cato found. der sat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Apart from the cruelty of barring thou- who resisted impeachment until allega- sands of family reunifications, the new tions demanded Congress do its constitu- his speech. “I disrupted the State Of the Union and restrictions could actually hurt the Ameri- tional duty. In front of him was his right Even beyond the military and economic was detained because I let my emotions get can economy. The ban is certain to strain flank: Republican lawmakers defending might and rich alliances, America’s great- the best of me. I simply want to be able to relations with the newly listed countries. the president, including a House minor- est advantage is its system of governance, deal with the reality of gun violence and Five of them, including Nigeria, which has ity that voted unanimously not to impeach which when done right is still an idea and not have to listen to the lies about the 2A as Africa’s largest economy, are being avidly him, and a Senate majority that acquitted ideal for the world — a truth Trump and happened tonight. courted by China as part of its “Belt and the president the next day. Congress must ensure. Otherwise, the “I should not have yelled out. I am Road Initiative,” and could well conclude It was a night that laid bare the nation’s great American comeback is just a slogan, thankful for the overwhelming support that China is a more trustworthy and pre- deep partisan divide, with Trump not not a reality. that I am receiving. However, I do owe my dictable partner than the United States. shaking Pelosi’s hand and the speaker end- family and friends an apology. I have tried Adding ignorance to insult, Trump has ing the evening by ripping up her copy of Distraught Fla. father should to conduct myself with dignity throughout consistently misrepresented the diversity the address. this process and I will do better as I pursue lottery program, from which he is now ex- And it was hardly the combination of in- receive forgiveness he seeks gun safety.” cluding Sudan and Tanzania, as a means gredients for the compromise, or even co- Miami Herald Guttenberg was immediately comforted for poor countries to dump people they mity, that’s needed for bipartisan action on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s act of re- by followers who assured him: don’t want on the United States. In fact, key issues that are too pressing to await a bellion during President Donald Trump’s “No apology needed.” the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is presidential campaign, including work on State of the Union address Tuesday night Except maybe one from the White administered by the State Department to lowering health care costs. came from her sense of political savvy. House. increase immigration from countries with Like presidents preceding him, Trump Fred Guttenberg‘s act of rebellion came low rates of immigration, and candidates appropriately declared the state of the from the heart, a heart in pain, a heart ir- Adding 6 nations to travel must have at least the equivalent of a high union “stronger than ever before” — at revocably broken. school diploma or two years of work expe- least economically, if not politically. In And it seemed particularly heartless for limit list is politics as policy rience to qualify. particular, the record-low unemployment him to be removed from the balcony gal- The New York Times The veneer of process and rationale over rate, especially for communities of color, lery by security after he shouted out in the Last Friday, with Americans focused on the latest travel ban cannot conceal its fun- is an accomplishment all should laud and name of his slain daughter when Trump President Donald Trump’s impeachment damental malice. look to build upon. failed to address any attempt on his part to trial, the coronavirus and the Iowa caucus- But in a speech touted by the White confront gun violence in America. es, the Trump administration announced it Black History Month still House as “the great American comeback,” Guttenberg’s daughter Jaime was killed was adding six more countries to the list in the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman of those whose citizens face travel restric- needed, still appreciated the president overstated the strength of Valdosta (Ga.) Daily Times the ongoing recovery and ignored the cost Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Pe- tions to the United States. The given reason of the country’s relatively tepid economic losi had invited him to attend the State of was that those nations were not sufficiently Black History Month has a history of its growth. Just last week, the Congressional Union speech. screening people who sought to come to own. Budget Office reported that 2019 GDP The pain of Jaime’s death has turned America. The commemorative month was founded growth was 2.3%, its slowest since 2016 in Guttenberg into a well-known gun control The six countries affected when the trav- more than 100 years. an era Trump described in his inaugural activist. He keeps his daughter’s name el ban takes effect on Feb. 22 are Sudan, In 1915, 50 years after President Abra- address as “American carnage.” alive by reminding us how senselessly she Tanzania, Eritrea, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan ham Lincoln issued the Emancipation More troubling, the CBO reported that died in our own backyard. and Nigeria. All have sizable, if not major- Proclamation that abolished slavery in the annual budget deficit soared past $1 Who can blame him. He speaks for the ity, Muslim populations — in Myanmar’s America, Black History Month was created trillion, a figure that will increase to an millions of Americans who have been af- case, Muslims are a minority that is se- as a way to acknowledge black Americans. average $1.3 trillion per year from 2021 to fected by gun violence. verely repressed. According to the act- Attempting to recognize all African 2030. The Republican tax cut was a major Tuesday, as Trump finished saying, “So ing secretary of homeland security, Chad Americans who achieved greatness in contributor, and Trump is campaigning on long as I am president, I will always protect Wolf, these countries fell short in new vet- their field is impossible. The contributions a promise of even more cuts with no clear your Second Amendment right to keep and ting criteria for “terrorists and criminals of black Americans is as broad, as vast and strategy for covering the lost revenue. bear arms,” Republicans began to cheer. attempting to enter the United States.” as diverse as the nation. Alacrity over the deficit and other threats Guttenberg, sitting with the South Florida The restrictions differ — Sudan and Some people still like to deride the need to America’s security, like climate change, delegation, likely fumed at the president’s Tanzania are barred from the “diversity for a Black History Month. Why don’t we should create bipartisan consensus, not total dismissal of America’s gun-violence visa” lottery, while the other countries have a White History Month, they ask? the gridlock gripping Washington. But the problem. face a suspension of entry for immigrants. History books and curriculum have president, who has called global warming As the cheers quieted, Guttenberg could Travel for tourism and reasons other than largely been written by white people, and a “hoax,” ignored it in his address just as be briefly heard in the chamber saying: immigration remains open — a curious thus reflect a homogeneous perspective he has in his administration. And while “victims of gun violence like my daughter gap if the purpose of the restrictions is to that has excluded the contributions of Trump is correct that the country must …” keep out potential terrorists. blacks, women and other minorities. Argu- not take a “socialist” turn, capitalism’s Security came and took Guttenberg away It may be that the countries do somehow ably, every month is White History Month. enduring scourge of increasing inequality as the shocked delegation sitting around fall short in vetting would-be emigrants. Still, eventually, our country might reach threatens the nation’s social fabric. him watched him be led off. And since the conservative-controlled Su- the point we no longer need to call attention Rather than offering a vision for immi- As the commotion to remove Guttenberg preme Court upheld Trump’s ban on travel to the achievements of any specific race or gration reform that could fuel future eco- played out, Pelosi can be seen looking in from several predominantly Muslim coun- ethnic group. But we’re not there yet. nomic growth, Trump continued to paint his direction. tries — Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Soma- For the fourth year, the newspaper’s those not born in this country as a threat. By the end of Trump’s address, Pelosi, lia and Chad (later removed from the list) SunLight Project team interviewed sev- Instead of searching for common ground who had apparently had enough, dramati- — as well as Venezuela and North Korea in eral community leaders and residents to on the Second Amendment, the president cally ripped up her copy of the speech, later June 2018, the new ban would most likely discuss the importance of the civil rights ignored the scourge of gun violence. telling reporters that it was “the courteous survive legal challenge. But it doesn’t take movement, current race relations and Security threats from nation-states and thing to do given the alternatives.” a lot of intuition to guess that security is not other aspects that could easily fit into the stateless actors alike are omnipresent, too, Trump had refused to shake Pelosi’s foremost on the president’s mind. character of Black History Month. and while the commander in chief cor- hand earlier, she who, after all, initiated Blocking the immigration of people of And while the stories are shared during rectly credited the unrivaled U.S. armed impeachment proceedings against him. color, Muslims or non-English speakers has the month, readers will hopefully realize forces, the soft power of diplomacy and Obviously, tensions were raging like a been among the most frequent of Trump’s an overriding truth. alliances are more important than ever teenager’s hormones all evening. pitches to his base, and the timing for a These are not black stories. They are the — something the president should priori- A contrite Guttenberg apologized on new ban was propitious. It was the third stories of our neighbors and friends. They tize even if he gave the issue short shrift in Twitter early Wednesday: anniversary of his first travel ban, the im- are American stories. PAGE 46 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 47 PAGE 48 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 49 PAGE 50 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 51 PAGE 52 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 53 PAGE 54 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 SCOREBOARD

Sports College basketball Pro basketball Pro football Wednesday’s men’s scores Randolph Macon 83, Bridgewater (Va.) 69 NBA XFL on AFN SC-Aiken 81, Francis Marion 80 EAST Southern Wesleyan 90, Emmanuel 65 EASTERN CONFERENCE East Division Adelphi 95, American International 92, OT St. Leo 71, Tampa 46 Atlantic Division W L Pct PF PA Albany (NY) 62, Binghamton 49 UNC-Greensboro 88, The Citadel 68 W L Pct GB DC 0 0 .000 0 0 American 62, Navy 54 UNC-Pembroke 93, Flagler 69 Toronto 37 14 .725 — New York 0 0 .000 0 0 Go to the American Forces Arcadia 94, ALVR 88, 2OT Urbana 62, Davis & Elkins 61 Boston 35 15 .700 1½ St. Louis 0 0 .000 0 0 Babson 90, MIT 85, OT Va. Wesleyan 73, E. Mennonite 49 Philadelphia 31 20 .608 6 Tampa Bay 0 0 .000 0 0 Network website for the most Bethany (WV) 53, Thiel 49 Vanderbilt 99, LSU 90 Brooklyn 23 27 .460 13½ West Division up-to-date TV schedules. Boston U. 80, Army 66 Virginia 51, Clemson 44 New York 15 36 .294 22 W L Pct PF PA Bowie St. 69, Elizabeth City St. 67 Virginia St. 87, CLAF 81 Southeast Division Dallas 0 0 .000 0 0 myafn.net Bridgewater (Mass.) 86, Salem St. 74 W. Carolina 78, Samford 70 Miami 34 15 .694 — Houston 0 0 .000 0 0 Cairn 92, St. Elizabeth 77 Washington & Lee 77, Shenandoah 72 Orlando 22 29 .431 13 Los Angeles 0 0 .000 0 0 Catholic 70, Elizabethtown 67 Wofford 79, VMI 73 Washington 17 32 .347 17 Seattle 0 0 .000 0 0 Centenary (NJ) 76, Baptist Bible (Pa.) 62 Young Harris 90, Clayton St. 70 Charlotte 16 35 .314 19 Saturday’s games Tennis Christopher Newport 93, St. Mary’s MIDWEST Atlanta 14 38 .269 21½ Seattle at DC (Md.) 63 Adrian 92, Kalamazoo 83 Central Division Los Angeles at Houston Cobleskill 56, Wells 52 Albion 76, Hope 68 Milwaukee 43 7 .860 — Sunday’s games Colgate 81, Lehigh 51 Augustana (Ill.) 79, Wheaton (Ill.) 68 Indiana 31 20 .608 12½ Tampa Bay at New York Cordoba Open College of NJ 90, Montclair St. 85 Blackburn 75, Iowa Wesleyan 59 Chicago 19 33 .365 25 St. Louis at Dallas Wednesday DeSales 73, FDU-Florham 65 Bluffton 66, Mount St. Joseph 53 Detroit 19 34 .358 25½ Saturday, Feb. 15 At Estadio Mario Alberto Kempee Dean 83, Eastern Nazarene 82 Butler 79, Villanova 76 Cleveland 13 39 .250 31 New York at DC Tampa Bay at Seattle Cordoba, Argentina Delaware Valley 65, Misericordia 64 Calvin 79, Olivet 53 WESTERN CONFERENCE Carroll (Wis.) 69, North Park 47 Sunday, Feb. 16 Purse: $546,355 Dist. of Columbia 64, Mercy 63 Southwest Division Drew 82, Moravian 68 Carthage 81, Elmhurst 77 W L Pct GB Dallas at Los Angeles Surface: Red clay Cornell (Iowa) 77, Monmouth (Ill.) 69 St. Louis at Houston Men’s Singles East Stroudsburg 99, Bloomsburg 88 Houston 32 18 .640 — Emerson 102, Wheaton 76 Drake 73, Bradley 60 Round of 16 Dallas 31 20 .608 1½ Fairmont St. 79, Glenville St. 77 Duquesne 82, Saint Louis 68 Memphis 26 25 .510 6½ Andrej Martin, Slovakia, def. Carlos Farmingdale St. 82, Manhattanville 76, OT Finlandia 91, GOG 77 Taberner, Spain, 6-3, 7-6 (7). San Antonio 22 28 .440 10 Gannon 74, Edinboro 47 Fort Wayne 75, W. Illinois 69 New Orleans 20 31 .392 12½ Deals Pablo Cuevas (6), Uruguay, def. Gianlu- Geneva 65, Waynesburg 63 Grinnell 101, Beloit 81 ca Mager, Italy, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (2), 6-1. Northwest Division Grove City 74, Chatham 65 Hanover 74, Franklin 53 Denver 36 16 .692 — Corentin Moutet, France, def. Guido Gwynedd-Mercy 93, Marywood 74 Heidelberg 85, John Carroll 83, OT Wednesday’s transactions Pella (2), Argentina, 6-7 (4), 7-5, 6-3. Utah 32 18 .640 3 Hilbert 86, D’Youville 72 Illinois Wesleyan 76, Millikin 74 Oklahoma City 31 20 .608 4½ Round of 16 Hood 95, Messiah 72 Indiana St. 68, Chicago 39 Portland 23 28 .451 12½ BASEBALL Gonzalo Escobar, Ecuador, and Ariel Juniata 60, Goucher 52 Knox 88, Illinois College 84 National League Minnesota 15 35 .300 20 CHICAGO CUBS — Signed RHPs Jason Behar, Uruguay, def. Sander Gille and Jo- KC 85, Cazenovia 83 Manchester 84, Defiance 77 Pacific Division ran Vliegen (2), Belgium, 3-6, 6-3, 11-9. Keene St. 83, Plymouth St. 77, OT Marietta 82, Capital 62 Adam, Oscar De La Cruz, Brandon Mor- L.A. Lakers 38 11 .776 — row, Caleb Simpson and Ben Taylor; LHPs Albert Ramos-Vinolas, Spain, and Kings (Pa.) 73, Eastern 63 Minnesota 70, Wisconsin 52 L.A. Clippers 35 15 .700 3½ Marco Cecchinato, Italy, def. Treat Con- Missouri St. 80, Illinois St. 60 Rex Brothers, Danny Hultzen and Tyler Kutztown 72, Millersville 68 Phoenix 20 31 .392 19 Olson; INFs Carlos Asuaje, Corban Jo- rad Huey, Philippines, and Nathaniel Le Moyne 78, St. Rose 75 Missouri Western 81, Lincoln (Mo.) 71 Sacramento 19 31 .380 19½ Lammons, United States, 6-4, 3-6, 10-6. seph and Hernan Perez; OFs Noel Cuevas Lincoln (Pa.) 69, St. Augustines 67 Mount Union 85, Muskingum 63 Golden State 12 40 .231 27½ and Ian Miller; and Cs Jhonny Pereda and Maximo Gonzalez, Argentina, and Loyola (Md.) 74, Holy Cross 60 N. Dakota St. 86, Omaha 78 Tuesday’s games Fabrice Martin (1), France, def. Pablo Josh Phegley to minor league contracts. Lycoming 79, Lebanon Valley 77, OT N. Iowa 63, Valparaiso 51 Milwaukee 120, New Orleans 108 CINCINNATI REDS — Signed RHP Pedro Andujar, Spain, and Horacio Zeballos, Ar- Maine-Presque Isle 74, Maine Maritime 62 Notre Dame 80, Pittsburgh 72 Houston 125, Charlotte 110 Strop to a one-year contract. Designated gentina, 6-3, 6-2. Mansfield 88, Lock Haven 84, OT Oberlin 67, Ohio Wesleyan 60 Denver 127, Portland 99 RHP Sal Romano for assignment. Fernando Romboli and Thiago Mon- Marymount 75, Cabrini 72 Purdue 104, Iowa 68 L.A. Lakers 129, San Antonio 102 COLORADO ROCKIES — Signed RHP teiro, Brazil, def. Alessandro Giannessi Mass. College 83, Fitchburg St. 80 Ripon 82, Lake Forest 70 Wednesday’s games Ubaldo Jimenez, C Drew Butera and INF and Gianluca Mager, Italy, walkover. Mass.-Dartmouth 82, E. Connecticut 79 Rose Hulman 78, Anderson (Ind.) 64 Detroit 116, Phoenix 108 Chris Owings to minor league contracts. Men’s Doubles Medaille 95, Pitt.-Bradford 76 S. Illinois 64, Evansville 60, OT Brooklyn 129, Golden State 88 PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Signed INF Quarterfinals Mercyhurst 68, Seton Hill 39 St. Norbert 90, Lawrence 79 Toronto 119, Indiana 118 Logan Forsythe, RHP Blake Parker, RHP Matwe Middelkoop, Netherlands, and Mitchell 72, Becker 48 St. Thomas (Minn.) 84, Hamline 68 Boston 116, Orlando 100 Anthony Swarzak and RHP Trevor Kelley Marcelo Demoliner (3), Brazil, def. Fed- Morrisville St. 72, SUNY-IT 69 Transylvania 90, Earlham 71 Atlanta 127, Minnesota 120 to minor league contracts. erico Gaio, Italy, and Pedro Martinez, Mount Aloysius 74, Franciscan 60 Trine 91, Alma 78 Oklahoma City 109, Cleveland 103 PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Signed OF Spain, 7-6 (5), 6-2. Mount St. Vincemt 69, Sarah Lawrence 52 Wilmington (Ohio) 85, Otterbein 80 Memphis 121, Dallas 107 Solomon Maguire. New England 98, Endicott 93 Wis.-Eau Claire 78, Wis.-Oshkosh 76 Denver 98, Utah 95 BASKETBALL Open Sud de France New England Coll. 79, Elms 63 Wis.-Platteville 83, Wis.-La Crosse 75 L.A. Clippers 128, Miami 111 National Basketball Association Norwich 78, Lesley 67 Wis.-River Falls 96, Wis.-Stout 77 Thursday’s games NBA — Announced four-team trade. Wednesday OldWestbury 79, SUNY Maritime 76 Wis.-Stevens Pt. 74, Wis.-Whitewater 72 Orlando at New York Houston Rockets acquired Fs Robert At Palais des Sports de Gerland Pace 53, New Haven 48 Wittenberg 100, Denison 59 Covington and Jordan Bell from Minne- New Orleans at Chicago sota, plus Golden State’s 2024 second- Montpellier, France Penn St. Behrend 76, Alfred St. 58 Wooster 76, Kenyon 57 Philadelphia at Milwaukee Penn St.-Abington 78, Penn College 64 SOUTHWEST round pick from Atlanta; Hawks got Cs Purse: Euro524,695 San Antonio at Portland Clint Capela and Nene from Houston; Surface: Hardcourt indoor Penn St.-Harrisburg 91, Lancaster Incarnate Word 72, Sam Houston St. Houston at L.A. Lakers Bible 65 71, OT Denver got F Gerald Green from Houston, Men’s Singles Friday’s games the Rockets’ 2020 first-round pick and Round of 32 Pitt.-Greensburg 99, Penn St.-Altoona 79 Lamar 74, Cent. Arkansas 67 Dallas at Washington Pitt.-Johnstown 103, California (Pa.) 94 Oklahoma St. 72, TCU 57 F Bates-Diop, G Shabazz Napier and C Adrian Mannarino, France, def. Alexei Memphis at Philadelphia Noah Vonleh from Minnesota; Minnesota Popyrin, Australia, 6-0, 6-7 (7), 6-0. Providence 73, Creighton 56 Stephen F. Austin 70, Nicholls 64 Atlanta at Boston Texas A&M-CC 69, McNeese St. 62 got Brooklyn’s 2020 first-round pick and Feliciano Lopez, Spain, def. Ugo Hum- Purchase 84, St. Joseph’s (LI) 79 Detroit at Oklahoma City FAR WEST F Evan Turner from Atlanta, plus G Malik bert (8), France, 6-4, 6-1. Ramapo 79, Kean 43 Toronto at Indiana Beasley, F Jarred Vanderbilt and C Juan- Rhode Island Coll. 94, S. Maine 80 Baldwin Wallace 80, Ohio Northern 67 Houston at Phoenix Richard Gasquet, France, def. Gilles Cal Poly 92, Long Beach St. 75 cho Hernangomez from Denver. Simon, France, 6-4, 6-4. Roger Williams 79, Salve Regina 74 Miami at Sacramento ATLANTA HAWKS — Waived C Chan- Rowan 97, Stockton 76 Cal St.-Fullerton 61, UC Riverside 48 Portland at Utah dler Parsons. Round of 16 Rutgers-Newark 65, William Paterson 53 Utah St. 69, UNLV 54 Gregoire Barrere, France, def. Grigor Saturday’s games FOOTBALL S. Connecticut 95, NYIT 61 Milwaukee at Orlando National Football League Dimitrov (4), Bulgaria, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 7-5. Scranton 66, Susquehanna 62, OT Vasek Pospisil, Canada, def. Denis AP Men’s Top 25 schedule Dallas at Charlotte ARIZONA CARDINALS — Named Brent- Seton Hall 78, Georgetown 71 New York at Detroit son Buckner defensive line coach, Jim Shapovalov (3), Canada, 6-2, 6-3. Shippensburg 83, West Chester 58 Friday’s game Men’s Doubles Brooklyn at Toronto Dray offensive quality control coach, Slippery Rock 71, Clarion 64 No. 9 Maryland at No. 20 Illinois New Orleans at Indiana Mark Naylor assistant strength and con- Round of 16 Springfield 105, Coast Guard 99, 2OT Saturday’s games ditioning coach and Derius Swinton as- Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski (4), L.A. Clippers at Minnesota St. Anselm 86, Assumption 67 No. 1 Baylor vs. Oklahoma State L.A. Lakers at Golden State sistant special teams coach. Promoted Britain, def. Julian Knowle and Dennis St. Bonaventure 72, George Washing- No. 2 Gonzaga at Saint Mary’s Charlie Bullen to outside linebackers Novak, Austria, 6-1, 6-0. No. 3 Kansas at TCU Denver at Phoenix ton 47 San Antonio at Sacramento coach, Don Shumpert to offensive assis- Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, Pakistan, and St. Joseph’s (NY) 71, Merchant Marine 68 No. 4 San Diego State at Air Force tant coach and Spencer Whipple to as- Dominic Inglot, Britain, def. Damir Dzum- No. 5 Louisville vs. Virginia Sunday’s games St. Thomas Aquinas 73, Molloy 68 Boston at Oklahoma City sistant wide receivers coach. hur, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Alexander Stevens Tech 82, Wilkes 72 No. 6 Dayton vs. Saint Louis LAS VEGAS RAIDERS — Named Rod Bublik, Kazakhstan, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 12-10. No. 7 Duke at North Carolina Chicago at Philadelphia Stevenson 77, Albright 70 Memphis at Washington Marinelli defensive line coach and Aus- Quarterfinals Stonehill 85, Bentley 65 No. 8 Florida State vs. Miami tin King offensive quality control coach. Nikola Cacic, Serbia, and Mate Pavic, No. 10 Villanova vs. No. 12 Seton Hall New York at Atlanta Signed RB Jalen Richard to a two-year Stony Brook 77, Mass.-Lowell 70 Utah at Houston Croatia, def. Nicolas Mahut, France, and Suffolk 85, Rivier 61 at Wells Fargo Center contract extension. Kevin Krawietz (1), Germany, 6-4, 7-5. No. 11 Auburn vs. No. 18 LSU L.A. Clippers at Cleveland NEW YORK GIANTS — Name Freddie TCNJ 77, Rutgers-Camden 64 Miami at Portland Tomislav Brkic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Tusculum 78, Virginia-Wise 68 No. 13 West Virginia at Oklahoma Kitchens tight ends coach, Jerry Schup- and Ante Pavic, Croatia, def. Jurgen Mel- UMBC 70, Hartford 59 No. 14 Oregon at Oregon State linski quarterbacks coach, Burton Burns zer, Austria, and Edouard Roger-Vasselin Vermont 77, Maine 52 No. 15 Kentucky at Tennessee NBA leaders running backs coach, Tyke Tolbert wide (3), France, 6-4, 2-6, 10-7. W. New England 126, Gordon 109 No. 16 Michigan State at Michigan receivers coach, Marc Colombo offen- W. Virginia St. 96, West Liberty 93 No. 17 Iowa vs. Nebraska Scoring sive line coach, Ben Wilkerson assistant Maharashtra Open WV Wesleyan 90, Notre Dame (Ohio) 63 No. 21 Creighton vs. St. John’s G FG FT PTS AVG offensive line coach, Derek Dooley se- Washington & Jefferson 82, Westmin- No. 22 Penn State vs. Minnesota Harden, HOU 47 485 495 1684 35.8 nior offensive assistant coach, Stephen ster (Pa.) 74, OT No. 23 Arizona vs. UCLA Antetokounmpo, MIL 46 510 292 1384 30.1 Brown offensive assistant coach, Bobby Wednesday No. 24 Colorado vs. Stanford Lillard, POR 49 458 344 1453 29.7 Blick offensive quality control coach, At Balewadi Stadium Wentworth 75, Curry 61 Sean Spencer defensive line coach, Kev- Wesley 83, Neumann 62 Sunday’s games Beal, WAS 42 415 287 1225 29.2 Pune, India No. 19 Butler at Marquette Young, ATL 46 421 343 1341 29.2 in Sherrer inside linebackers coach, Bret Purse: $546,355 West Virginia 76, Iowa St. 61 Bielema outside linebackers/senior as- Westfield St. 97, Worcester St. 87 No. 25 Houston vs. Wichita State Doncic, DAL 43 408 296 1238 28.8 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Leonard, LAC 38 363 236 1040 27.4 sistant coach, Jerome Henderson defen- Men’s Singles Wheeling Jesuit 71, Charleston (WV) 66 sive backs coach, Anthony Blevins assis- Wilson 67, Bryn Athyn 58 Wednesday’s women’s scores Booker, PHX 47 430 311 1261 26.8 Round of 32 Westbrook, HOU 42 425 216 1107 26.4 tant defensive backs coach, Jody Wright Taro Daniel, Japan, def. Sasikumar Worcester Tech 102, Clark 62 defensive assistant coach, and Mike Yeshiva 82, Mount St. Mary 65 EAST Davis, LAL 42 384 294 1108 26.4 Mukund, India, 6-2, 7-6 (7). Binghamton 58, Albany (NY) 42 James, LAL 47 452 180 1185 25.2 Treier defensive quality control coach. York (Pa.) 85, Salisbury 78 Retained special teams coach Thomas Round of 16 Fordham 60, Rhode Island 50 Rebounds Ricardas Berankis (2), Lithuania, def. SOUTH McGaughey and assistant special teams Anderson (SC) 81, Newberry 78 Maine 70, Vermont 59 G OFF DEF TOT AVG Cedrik-Marcel Stebe, Germany, 7-6 (2), Stony Brook 89, Mass.-Lowell 69 coach Tom Quinn. Augusta 77, Lander 71 Drummond, DET 48 219 537 756 15.8 PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Agreed to 6-1. UMBC 56, Hartford 47 Gobert, UTA 47 173 507 680 14.5 Jiri Vesely, Czech Republic, def. Salva- Barry 86, Florida Tech 84 Wichita St. 85, Temple 75 terms with general manager Kevin Col- Barton 90, Mount Olive 81 Whiteside, POR 47 188 465 653 13.9 bert on a one-year contract extension. tore Caruso (7), Italy, 7-6 (5), 6-4. SOUTH Capela, HOU 39 168 369 537 13.8 Yuichi Sugita (5), Japan, def. Viktor Belmont Abbey 107, Christendom 61 Dayton 55, Davidson 49 HOCKEY Catawba 95, Wingate 91 Antetokounmpo, MIL 46 111 497 608 13.2 National Hockey League Troicki, Serbia, walkover. George Mason 73, UMass 56 Sabonis, IND 47 153 442 595 12.7 BUFFALO SABRES — Recalled F Scott Ilya Ivashka, Belarus, def. Stefano Covenant 72, Maryville (Tenn.) 70, OT New Orleans 88, Houston Baptist 84, OT ETSU 80, Chattanooga 64 Vucevic, ORL 39 104 320 424 10.9 Wilson from Rochester (AHL). Assigned F Travaglia (3), Italy, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3). Stephen F. Austin 78, Nicholls 61 Adebayo, MIA 49 125 385 510 10.4 Jean-Sebastien Dea to Rochester. Emory & Henry 78, Roanoke 77 Texas A&M-CC 73, McNeese St. 59 Men’s Doubles FIU 69, FAU 50 Thompson, CLE 48 199 300 499 10.4 DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled LW Round of 16 Troy 77, Louisiana-Monroe 65 Assists Taro Hirose and D Gustav Lindstrom Ferrum 60, Guilford 53 VCU 57, Richmond 42 Robert Lindstedt, Sweden, and Robin Florida 81, Georgia 75 G AST AVG from Grand Rapids (AHL). Placed C Frans Haase (1), Netherlands, def. David Pel MIDWEST Nielsen and D Mike Green, retroactive to Florida Southern 97, Lynn 92 Cent. Michigan 66, N. Illinois 60 James, LAL 47 502 10.7 and Sander Arends, Netherlands, 6-7 (5), Furman 79, Mercer 57 Young, ATL 46 414 9.0 Jan. 20, on injured reserve. 6-3, 10-8. Iowa St. 74, Oklahoma St. 63 WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reas- Houston Baptist 79, SE Louisiana 76 Kansas St. 84, Texas Tech 70 Doncic, DAL 43 373 8.7 Jonathan Erlich, Israel, and Andrei Johnson C. Smith 71, Shaw 65 Rubio, PHX 42 361 8.6 signed D Martin Fehervary and G Vitek Vasilevski (3), Belarus, def. Matt Reid Kent St. 61, Bowling Green 47 Vanecek to Hershey (AHL). King (Tenn.) 106, Erskine 102, 2OT Miami (Ohio) 92, Toledo 83 Simmons, PHI 49 402 8.2 and James Duckworth, Australia, 4-6, 6- Lees-Mcrae 102, North Greenville 89 Lillard, POR 49 389 7.9 SOCCER 3, 10-8. Ohio 75, E. Michigan 65 Major League Soccer Lincoln Memorial 90, Lenoir-Rhyne 78 SOUTHWEST Graham, CHA 51 391 7.7 Purav Raja and Ramkumar Ramana- Westbrook, HOU 42 310 7.4 FC CINCINNATI — Signed M Adrien Re- Louisville 86, Wake Forest 76 Abilene Christian 84, Northwestern St. 69 gattin. than, India, def. Egor Gerasimov, Belarus, Lynchburg 73, Randolph 55 Baylor 97, Kansas 44 Brogdon, IND 36 265 7.4 and Sumit Nagal, India, 7-6 (6), 6-3. LA GALAXY — Signed D Nick DePuy Mars Hill 74, Carson-Newman 65 Cent. Arkansas 53, Lamar 29 FG Percentage from LA Galaxy II (USLC). Andre Begemann, Germany, and Ro- Mary Washington 80, S. Virginia 73 Houston 55, SMU 53 FG FGA PCT main Arneodo, Monaco, def. Nicholas SEATTLE SOUNDERS — Signed D Yei- Memphis 79, Temple 65 Incarnate Word 77, Sam Houston St. 74 Gobert, UTA 279 406 .687 mar Gomez Andrade from Union de Monroe and Jackson Withrow, United Mississippi 84, South Carolina 70 Oklahoma 68, West Virginia 58 Holmes, SAC 204 309 .660 Sante Fe (Argentina). States, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 10-8. NC State 83, Miami 72 UCF 62, Tulsa 49 Allen, BKN 217 334 .650 TENNIS Christopher Rungkat, Indonesia, and North Georgia 90, Georgia Southwest- FAR WEST Capela, HOU 244 388 .629 International Tennis Federation Andre Goransson, Sweden, def. Denys ern 77 Boise St. 67, Wyoming 48 Clarke, MEM 216 349 .619 ITF — Suspended Abigail Spears 22 Molchanov, Ukraine, and Cheng-Peng Northwestern St. 73, Abilene Christian 69 California Baptist 55, CS Bakersfield 53 Whiteside, POR 307 504 .609 months after a positive drug test from Hsieh (4), Taiwan, 3-6, 6-4, 10-8. Nova Southeastern 89, Rollins 85 Fresno St. 79, Colorado St. 61 Adams, OKC 198 330 .600 the 2019 U.S. Open. The ban, backdated Benoit Paire and Antoine Hoang, Palm Beach Atlantic 87, Embry-Riddle 86 Nevada 71, Air Force 67 Valanciunas, MEM 303 512 .592 to Nov. 7 when Spears was provisionally France, def. Rohan Bopanna and Arjun Piedmont 65, Brevard 61 UC Santa Barbara 67, UC Irvine 57 Simmons, PHI 327 560 .584 suspended, ends at midnight on Sept. 6, Kadhe, India, 3-6, 7-5, 10-7. Queens (NC) 88, Coker 56 UNLV 69, Utah St. 45 Adebayo, MIA 298 514 .580 2021. Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 55 OLYMPICS Tokyo seeking to allay fears of virus’ impact

BY STEPHEN WADE Associated Press DID YOU KNOW ? TOKYO — Tokyo Olympic and Five Olympic Games have been Paralympic organizers again canceled, all because of world tried on Thursday to allay fears wars. The 1916 Summer Games MARKUS SCHREIBER, ABOVE, AND VICTOR R. CAIVANO, BELOW/AP that the 2020 Games could be were canceled for World War I postponed or canceled by the fast- Above: South Korea’s Ryu Han-su competes against Azerbaijan’s Rasul Chunayev during the bronze and the 1940 and 1944 Summer spreading virus from China. medal round of the men’s Greco-Roman 66-kg wrestling competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Games and Winter Games were Tokyo Olympic CEO Toshiro Rio de Janeiro. Below: With the Olympics six months away, Nenad Lalovic, the president of wrestling’s canceled because of World War II. Muto, who on Wednesday said he international governing body, says the sport is positioned for growth. was “seriously worried” the virus SOURCE: Olympics.com could disrupt the Olympic and Paralympics, backtracked a day business as usual,” Spence said. later and was more cautious in The Olympics open on July 24, Wrestling chief says sport is a news conference with officials and the Paralympics follow on from the International Paralym- Aug. 25. Both events are expe- pic Committee. riencing record ticket demand, “In order to avoid any misun- in prime position for growth which could begin to shift the lon- derstanding, I would like to say that the Olympic and Paralympic ger the virus threat spawns un- BY ERIC OLSON A new computerized draw pro- Games will be held as scheduled,” certainty. It’s a similar story with Associated Press cess will be used in Tokyo to set Muto said, adding people need to hotel demand. up the brackets. Lalovic said he remain “coolheaded.” Toshiaki Endo, a vice president With the Olympics six months has been pleased with a relatively of the organizing committee, ear- away, the president of wrestling’s Craig Spence, the spokesman new system for selecting refer- for the IPC, was even more direct lier in the week said organizers international governing body says ees just minutes before matches. “are facing all sorts of problems the sport is on a solid foundation with the Olympics opening in just The system takes into account the under six months — and the Para- including coronavirus infections, and positioned for growth. nationalities of referees and ath- cyber security and transporta- Nenad Lalovic took over lead- lympics in just under seven. letes and other factors, such as re- “One thing I am noticing at tion systems.” ership of United World Wrestling ligion, in order to avoid potential Some Olympic and Paralym- seven years ago, shortly after the the moment is fear is spreading conflicts of interest. quicker than the virus, and it is pic qualifying events around sport was targeted for elimina- The sport’s exposure has in- the globe have been canceled or tion from the Olympics in 2020. important that we quell that fear,” creased because of video stream- Spence said. postponed by the virus outbreak. Lalovic led the campaign to ing and increased television Travel restrictions also compli- save wrestling and has overseen On Thursday, Japan confirmed coverage. In June, United World 45 cases of the virus but no deaths cate matters, particularly for a modernization of the ancient Wrestling and India-based Sporty China’s large Olympic and Para- sport. have been reported. Tokyo Olym- Solutionz signed a six-year agree- lympic delegations. Opportunities for women on pic officials said they have estab- ment to promote wrestling on the There is also the question of and off the mat have increased. lished a task force to focus on the Indian subcontinent on broadcast housing 11,000 Olympic ath- Technology has been embraced. virus and have been repeating and digital mediums. letes safely in the Athletes Vil- Stars are being promoted like cency by the sport’s governors. for a week that the games will go UWW Ranking Series events, lage. The number is smaller for never before. There also was a lack of diversity ahead as planned. where wrestlers earn points that the Paralympics, but still in the “Altogether we have had a huge in leadership at the international Despite the assurances, ques- affect their world rankings, have thousands. impact on the development of and national levels, and rules tions keep coming with organiz- The Olympics have been can- our sport,” he said. “This is why and scoring were hard to under- been well-attended throughout ers saying they are deferring to celed during wartime, and faced we are really confident we are stand for casual fans and needed the world and have helped top the World Health Organization boycotts in 1980 and 1984. The a very good part of the Olympic to be revised to encourage faster wrestlers build their brands, for advice. movement.” action. Lalovic said. “We need to put things into event has grown rapidly in the The 2016 Olympics in Rio de Women’s wrestling, which en- Lalovic said he is monitoring perspective, and until the World decades since, driven by multi- Janiero featured engaged, large tered the Olympics in 2004, will the fallout of the Russian doping Health Organization tells us oth- billion dollar television contracts crowds and captivating perfor- get the big stage in Tokyo. Japan scandal. The World Anti-Dop- erwise, we will proceed with and billions more from sponsors. mances by, among others, Abdul- is the dominant nation in wom- ing Agency last month banned rashid “Russian Tank” Sadulaev, en’s wrestling, having taken 11 of Russia’s name and flag from the Americans Kyle Snyder and 18 gold medals in the last three Olympics and other major events Helen Maroulis, and Cuban Olympics. A women’s gold medal for four years as punishment for Greco-Roman star Mijain Lopez match will be featured to end six altering data on athlete blood Nunez. of the seven days of the tourna- tests. Russia is planning to appeal Lalovic said the sport’s turning ment, assuring capacity crowds the sanctions at the Court of Ar- point was the 2015 world cham- at the Makuhari Messe venue. bitration for Sport in time for the pionships in Las Vegas. The pre- United World Wrestling and Olympics. sentation was polished, fitting of a national federations have hosted Lalovic said UWW, like other major international competition, forums to encourage women to sport federations, has put an em- with big video boards and other become referees and coaches and phasis on educating wrestlers amenities for the fans and spa- to serve in leadership positions. about the risks of doping. He said cious warm -up areas, nutritious “When you speak about wom- doping cases involving wrestlers food, reliable transportation and en’s wrestling, it is not less spec- have declined since 2013. The top medical care for the wres- tacular than men’s wrestling,” frustration with doping, he said, tlers. That was in stark contrast Lalovic said. “We have more is that there often are bad influ- to the previous year’s champion- countries coming in with women’s ences surrounding wrestlers. ships in Uzbekistan. wrestling like China, Mongolia, “We have the problem of the en- India. In the beginning, the most tourages you can’t underestimate Prior to Lalovic’s arrival in /AP 2013, the International Olympic successful were Scandinavian while we are fighting against KYODO NEWS Committee proposed kicking countries. Since then, Japan has doping,” Lalovic said. “For the Chief Executive Officer Toshiro Muto, right, and Craig Spence, head wrestling out of the games, alleg- invested a lot in that style and the fight to be successful, we insist on of communications of the International Paralympic Committee, ing mismanagement and compla- result is visible, of course.” education of the athletes first.” attend a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday. PAGE 56 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 HIGH SCHOOLS: DODEA EUROPE Girls basketball 3 squads try to stay unbeaten

BY GREGORY BROOME Stars and Stripes

Planning to be an undefeated team is a great way to not become one. Expecting to win each time your team steps on the court, however? Now that’s a plan. The Division I Stuttgart Panthers, the Division II Aviano Saints and the Division III Spangdahlem Sentinels have all arrived at this late juncture of the 2019-20 DODEA Europe girls basketball without a loss, divi- sional or otherwise. And the coach of each team agrees on the best way to achieve that kind of success. “An undefeated season can never be planned,” Spangdahlem coach Chris How- ard said. “We just take what we learn each week from playing and try to get better at CHRISTOPHER DENNIS/Stars and Stripes doing it against the competition.” Aviano, having just knocked off one of its Stuttgart’s Olivia Sullens, left, maneuvers around Lakenheath’s Amy Burger on February 2 at RAF Lakenheath, England. biggest divisional challengers in a week- end sweep of Naples, is thrilled to be alone But those unavoidable bouts of adversity won every game by double-digit margins. in the regular season. atop the Division II standings. can be overcome with the right attitude. “They set extremely high standards for “They realize that everyone will have Jones and the Saints staff direct their themselves, so when they go out on the “Having an undefeated record was never played everyone,” Hess said. “So teams athletes to “play as winners, command re- floor, they expect to win,” Hess said. “They in the forefront of our focus this season. will make adjustments when they play us, spect on the court, and play our game,” she are not cocky or conceited. They just ex- Ultimately making improvements from and we will make adjustments, as well.” said. pect nothing less from themselves.” the previous season was our top priority,” Above all, none of DODEA Europe’s cur- Howard’s Sentinels, meanwhile, have As successful as their seasons have been rent unbeaten teams expect their records Monique Jones said. “Being the team to been faced with a string of injuries over to date, a looming challenge faces each of beat is definitely an accomplishment.” to count for anything when the tournament the last few weeks that threatened to end DODEA Europe’s divisional frontrunners: gives every team in the brackets a fresh Even the Panthers, the three-time de- their perfect start. But Spangdahlem transferring their momentum into the gru- shot at a championship. In short, even a fending champions and the heavy favorite turned those problems into opportunities eling European tournament. team that has had its fill of regular-season to prolong their reign this season, have as players seized the chance to expand Jones cited the challenge of preparing success has to enter the playoffs hungry avoided the topic throughout the winter. their games. her team “mentally and physically” for “Having an undefeated season has never “The players have had to work together the tournament’s packed schedule, which for more. been a goal,” Stuttgart coach Robin Hess to fill in or do more and work with different includes a grueling preliminary round fol- “As we look to the tournament, can we said. “Being undefeated has never entered skill sets or just take over a different role in lowed by, if all goes well, season-defining continue to learn from each other,” How- any conversation that we have had togeth- the offense or defense,” Howard said. semifinal and championship games. ard said, “and maintain a flexibility to play er because the team knows that anything The Panthers have leaned on their Hess said the Panthers’ goal is to “stay the game at a winning level?” can happen on any given day against any championship pedigree to power through a focused” as they encounter more seasoned [email protected] given team.” dominant regular season in which they’ve versions of the teams they’d already beaten Twitter: @broomestripes Weekend peek Wrestling, basketball seasons reach stretch drive

BY GREGORY BROOME enheath and SHAPE and Divi- still a week and a half away, but Stars and Stripes sion III Alconbury, AFNORTH this weekend’s slate represents and Baumholder. the last full weekend of regu- The final act of the 2019-20 Reigning large-school dynasty lar-season action. A handful of DODEA Europe winter sports Stuttgart plays host to the central matchups from Feb. 11 to 15 de- season began last weekend with region’s sectional qualifier. Kai- fine the final path to the Feb. 19- the European championship serslautern and Wiesbaden will 22 tournaments. meet in marksmanship. Now bas- provide the Division I resistance As is DODEA Europe’s tradi- ketball and wrestling are in view while small schools Hohenfels tion, the latter stretch of the sea- of the finish line. and Spangdahlem continue their son will see most teams stay close The regular season is over in to home for regional matchups wrestling, leaving only two week- Division III rivalry. ends of season-defining postsea- Finally, Aviano plays host to a before gathering in Germany for son matches on the mats. This southern sectional that looks sim- the postseason. Among the key weekend holds the first stage in ilar to the average regular-season matchups are an anticipated Di- the form of three sectional meets meet with Naples, Sigonella, Vi- vision I boys rematch between spanning DODEA Europe’s geo- cenza and Spanish neighbor Rota Wiesbaden and Black Forest, a graphic footprint. Division I on hand. Ankara and German Division III girls showdown be- power Ramstein begins its ongo- Division I entry Vilseck, both of tween contenders AFNORTH ing quest for a European team which have dropped in on Italian and Ansbach and the latest edi- title in Brussels, where it will fill meets during the regular season, tions of the eternal Kaiserslaut- BRIAN FERGUSON/Stars and Stripes the northern brackets alongside are set to visit again Saturday. ern-Ramstein rivalry. the host Brigands and five other Kaiserslautern’s Danny Aldana pins Stuttgart’s Carter Hanes during a The DODEA Europe girls and [email protected] schools, including Division I Lak- tournament Saturday at Kaiserslautern High School, Germany. boys basketball tournaments are Twitter: @broomestripes Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 57 HIGH SCHOOL/NBA/MLB Source: Wolves, Warriors swapping Wiggins, Russell

Associated Press of what the Heat are giving up in the deal, and that a third team — Oklahoma City, in a package that MINNEAPOLIS — In a swap of high scorers, the would include Danilo Gallinari potentially headed Minnesota Timberwolves acquired D’Angelo Rus- to the Heat — was still in play. Oft-injured forward sell on Thursday from the Golden State Warriors for Justise Winslow said he was part of the deal and was Andrew Wiggins, according to a person with knowl- headed to Memphis, the former Heat starter reach- edge of the trade. ing out to fellow former Duke players Tyus Jones The person spoke to The Associated Press on the and Grayson Allen with a message. condition of anonymity because the deal had yet to Jones and Allen are both members of the Griz- be finalized by the NBA with a few hours remaining zlies. Winslow has missed much of this season with before the deadline. ESPN first reported the trade, a bone bruise in his back. which also includes additional players and draft In other NBA news: picks. A person familiar with the trade says the Phil- Russell had been on Minnesota’s radar for months, a dynamic point guard in his fifth season in adelphia 76ers have acquired Glenn Robinson and the league after going as the second overall pick in Alec Burks from the Golden State Warriors in ex- the 2015 draft. change for draft picks. The first choice that year was Timberwolves cen- Expected to contend for an Eastern Conference ter Karl-Anthony Towns, a friend of Russell around championship, the Sixers have slumped and are in whom the front office has been trying to rebuild sixth place in the standings entering Thursday’s the roster. Minnesota will be Russell’s fourth NBA games. The Sixers hope to strengthen their bench team. He averaged 23.6 points per game for the in- with the move. The Sixers will send Golden State a jury-wrecked Warriors. 2020 second-round pick via Dallas, a 2021 second- Wiggins, the first overall selection in the 2014 round pick via Denver and a 2022 second-round draft, never fulfilled his potential with the Wolves, a pick via Toronto. shooting and slashing wing with the athleticism and Robinson, in his second stint with the Sixers, av- frame to dominate on the perimeter. He’s averaging eraged 12.9 points and shot 40% from three-point DAVE ORNAUER/Stars and Stripes 22.4 points this season. range. Burks averages 16.1 points and shoots 37.5% Yokota’s Hana Robbins tries to shoot against Kinnick’s Madelyn from three-point range. The move puts the Six- Gallo. Both teams are playing in the DODEA Japan tournament. Memphis shipping Iguodala to Miami ers roster at 15, meaning two players will have to go before the trade deadline to fit in Robinson and MIAMI — A person familiar with the negotia- Burks. DODEA Pacifi c weekend peek tions says Andre Iguodala is A person familiar with the negotiations says headed to Miami after the Heat center Dewayne Dedmon is returning to the Atlanta and Memphis Grizzlies agreed Hawks in a trade that sends center Alex Len and Wednesday night on his long- forward Jabari Parker to the Sacramento Kings. Zama boys seek to awaited trade. The Kings also are giving the Hawks two second- As part of the deal, Iguodala round picks. agreed to a two-year extension, Dedmon is returning to Atlanta, where he enjoyed equal girls’ success with the second of those years his two most productive seasons, from 2017-19. The being a team option, according trade also satisfies his wish to leave Sacramento. to the person who spoke to The Dedmon was fined $50,000 on Jan. 2 for making BY DAVE ORNAUER Rands said. Associated Press on condition public his desire to be traded by the Kings. Stars and Stripes One of the more decorated girls Iguodala of anonymity because the trade Dedmon has averaged 5.1 points and 4.9 rebounds players, reigning Far East D-II has not been finalized. while starting in only 10 games for the Kings this YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan – Most Valuable Player Chloe Ster- The person also said Miami season. He averaged a career-best 10.8 points with Much attention has been focused ling, has played pickup games and Memphis were still working to complete terms 7.5 rebounds for Atlanta in the 2018-19 season. on Zama’s girls basketball team with the boys and says they stand in the last year. a good chance at going far. Well, what about the Trojans “They played together a lot be- boys basketball team? The foot- fore the season, they’ve developed ball team took its first Far East some good chemistry, they have a A’s Fiers eager to move on from scandal Division II title in six years; so, very talented team and they have why not count the boys basketball a lot of potential,” Sterling said. Associated Press team in the title mix? While the DODEA Japan OAKLAND, Calif. — Mike Fiers and his Oakland At 9-5 this season entering this crown is a nice prize to capture, Athletics might have reason to be downright mad. week’s DODEA Japan tourna- it also serves as the final tune-up They won 97 games each of the past two seasons ment at Yokota, the Trojan boys before the Far East tournaments to finish as the second-place team in the AL West say they’re aiming for the same Feb. 20-22, boys at Humphreys behind the Houston Astros, whom Fiers called out thing starting this week. and girls at Kadena. in November in a story by The Athletic for a sign- “We have our eyes on the prize,” “This is a chance to not only see stealing scheme that led to season-long MLB sus- first-year Trojans head coach how well you do against every- pensions for Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow William Guion said Tuesday, body locally, but an opportunity and manager AJ Hinch. The Astros then fired both. two days before the tournament to see how you’re going to stand Fiers said the team had used a camera in center tipped off at Yokota Air Base. and your last chance to make ad- field to steal signs. It’s expected to be a wide-open justments before Far East,” King Alex Cora was dismissed by the Boston Red Sox BEN MARGOT/AP chase in the boys six-team field, boys coach Travis Elliott said. after Commissioner Rob Manfred identified him as with defending champion Kinn- As for Zama’s girls, unbeaten in “an active participant” in the cheating scandal as Pitcher Mike Fiers and the Athletics might have ick and last year’s runner-up E.J. 14 games, they enter the tourna- then-Astros bench coach. Cora led Boston to a title reason to be mad. They won 97 games each of King also in the chase. Yokota ment as the prohibitive favorite. the following year, in 2018. the past two seasons to finish as the second-place stands to have an outside shot at But Sterling said just a win-loss The Mets also cut ties with manager Carlos Bel- team in the AL West behind the Houston Astros, winning the title on home turf. record alone won’t be enough. tran, who played for the Astros in 2017. Hired this whom Fiers called out in November in a story by Winning Far East and DODEA “We still stay humble,” Sterling offseason, Beltran was let go before ever managing The Athletic for a sign-stealing scheme. Japan titles the past year-plus has said. “We know there’s a lot to a game for New York. given a significant boost to the do, a lot we have to fix. We don’t A’s manager Bob Melvin and teammates applaud- “I want them to be ready for the season,” Fiers morale of Zama’s sports teams stop at one championship. We just ed Fiers. said. “For me it’s all about getting ready for the sea- and the school in general, boys keep trying to be our best.” “As time goes on, he’ll be revered for doing this, son, playing baseball and not being a distraction to assistant coach Jeremy Rands The tournament began Thurs- for making the game a better place,“ Melvin said. this team.” said. day and continues through Satur- Fiers insisted at Fan Fest that he is moving for- Shortstop Marcus Semien will look to build mo- “The school feels good overall day’s girls final at 2 p.m. and the ward, declining to address anything regarding what mentum from a career season that included being and that carries over to basket- boys final at 3:30 p.m. he did by speaking out or even his role cleaning up top three in the AL MVP voting. He was rewarded ball, how they play and the at- [email protected] the sport. with a new $13 million, one-year contract to avoid titude they bring to the court,” Twitter @daveornauer He said he owes that to his teammates. arbitration, a raise of $7.1 million. PAGE 58 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 HOCKEY US settles score, tops Canadian women

Associated Press VA NCOUVER, British Colum- bia — Hilary Knight and her U.S. teammates carried a decade-old grudge into Game 4 of their Ri- valry Series with Canada, and settled an old score. The Americans earned a 3-1 win over Canada and took a 3-1 lead in the five-game series. Knight set up Hayley Scamurra for the winning goal in the third period and added an empty-net- ter to seal the victory, quieting the pro-Canada crowd at Rogers Arena. Knight said that her mind was on her experience at the 2010 Winter Olympics, when Canada’s women won gold the last time the two teams faced each other in

Vancouver. GRAHAM HUGHES, THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP “Had some back and forth after the gold-medal loss with the fans Since assuming the starting role, Blue Jackets goaltender Elvis Merzlikins is 12-2-0, including four shutouts. up here,” she said. “We were told to go back to our country and die, NHL scoreboard so I took it pretty personally. “It’s salt from 10 years ago, but obviously a celebration. There’s Blue Jackets climbing in Metro a lot of passion and I think that’s Eastern Conference Atlantic Division what brings out the best of both BY MITCH STACY GP W L OT Pts GF GA teams.” Associated Press Boston 55 33 10 12 78 183 138 Tampa Bay 53 33 15 5 71 192 147 Dani Cameranesi also scored Florida 52 29 17 6 64 188 171 for the U.S. Jocelyne Larocque COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Co- Toronto 54 28 19 7 63 194 181 Montreal 55 25 23 7 57 172 170 scored for Canada. lumbus Blue Jackets were tanking Buffalo 53 23 23 7 53 151 167 Goalie Katie Burt, making her fast two months ago. Ottawa 53 18 24 11 47 144 179 Detroit 54 12 38 4 28 111 207 first start for the U.S. national They were 11-14-4, had lost four Metropolitan Division in a row and timely goals were Washington 54 36 13 5 77 197 160 team in more than a year, record- Pittsburgh 52 33 14 5 71 176 142 ed the win in net. as scarce as winter sunshine in Columbus 54 29 16 9 67 144 135 Columbus. Hopes for a fourth N.Y. Islanders 51 30 15 6 66 150 139 The teams were playing for Philadelphia 53 29 17 7 65 170 157 the second time in three nights straight playoff appearance were Carolina 53 30 20 3 63 169 145 slipping away. Coach John Tor- N.Y. Rangers 52 26 22 4 56 171 169 after Canada got its first win of New Jersey 52 18 24 10 46 141 190 the series, a 3-2 overtime victory torella was exasperated, and the on Monday in Victoria. The U.S. organization was starting to look Western Conference opened the series with a 4-1 win to developing next year. Central Division Near the bottom of the Met- GP W L OT Pts GF GA in Hartford, Conn., and and a 2-1 St. Louis 54 32 14 8 72 174 153 ropolitan Division and 11 points Dallas 53 30 18 5 65 142 136 win in Moncton, New Brunswick, Colorado 51 29 16 6 64 188 150 in December. from a playoff spot on Dec. 9, the Chicago 54 25 21 8 58 161 168 Blue Jackets walloped the divi- Nashville 52 25 20 7 57 171 172 Troy Ryan, who took over as Winnipeg 54 26 23 5 57 159 166 Canada’s head coach in Janu- sion-leading Washington Capitals Minnesota 52 24 22 6 54 160 174 5-2. That started an 18-2-5 run Pacific Division ary, kept his lines the same on Vancouver 54 30 19 5 65 177 163 Wednesday after getting the win that has fans hopeful of a potential Edmonton 53 28 19 6 62 170 165 playoff run. Vegas 55 27 21 7 61 170 166 two days earlier in his first game JAY LAPRETE/AP The way it happened made Arizona 55 27 21 7 61 155 148 behind the bench. Canada’s only Calgary 54 27 21 6 60 147 166 the turnaround even more The Blue Jackets’ Oliver Bjorkstrand, left, has been on a scoring San Jose 54 23 27 4 50 139 178 change came in net, where Emer- Anaheim 53 22 26 5 49 137 163 improbable. tear, with five goals and one assist in the past 10 games. He leads ance Maschmeyer took over for Los Angeles 54 19 30 5 43 133 171 The Blue Jackets were plagued Columbus with 17 goals and has 28 points. Note: Two points for a win, one point Ann-Renee Desbiens. for overtime loss. Top three teams in by injuries in December and Jan- “It’s a work in progress, right?” each division and two wild cards per uary, with as many as 10 regular The Blue Jackets returned from ing with Columbus in January conference advance to playoffs. said Ryan. “We’re trying to have Wednesday’s games players sidelined. Lines were their NHL-mandated break by 2018 had spent most of his time in N.Y. Rangers 5, Toronto 3 a little bit of a shift to offense, and patched together with players who picking up three points in a road Cleveland. Boston 2, Chicago 1, OT that takes some time. Thursday’s games started the season in Cleveland back-to-back and moved into third “That’s the most enjoyable part Anaheim at Montreal “I still saw some good things with the team’s AHL affiliate. place in the rugged Metropolitan of coaching, when you’re develop- Detroit at Buffalo out there tonight. They’re trying Los Angeles at N.Y. Islanders Then came more bad luck. Goal- Division. Oliver Bjorkstrand, pre- ing people and you’re pushing and New Jersey at Philadelphia to implement some things that viously a steady presence but far you’re tugging and you’re kicking Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay tender Joonas Korpisalo, who had Vegas at Florida we’ve been working on in prac- gotten hot enough to be selected from a star, is on a scoring tear. and you’re hugging and you’re Colorado at Ottawa tice. As we work on the details, I Vancouver at Minnesota for the NHL All-Star Game, in- “I think winning breeds confi- doing all the things to try to help Winnipeg at St. Louis think the execution will follow.” jured his left knee during a shoot- dence,” Columbus captain Nick people to perform,” said Tortorel- Carolina at Arizona U.S. coach Bob Corkum did Nashville at Calgary out with Chicago on Dec. 29. That Foligno said. “I think when you’re la, who is being talked about as a San Jose at Edmonton some line juggling after Monday’s set the stage for rookie Elvis Mer- a team finding ways to win or at candidate for his third Jack Adams Friday’s games loss, and his speedy new combina- Anaheim at Toronto zlikins, who was 0-4-4 and en- least feeling positive about your Award as coach of the year. Buffalo at N.Y. Rangers tion of Kendall Coyne Schofield, sconced on the bench. game, it’s amazing what that does He keeps warning, though, that Detroit at Columbus Minnesota at Dallas Brianna Decker and Cameranesi Merzlikins helped provide the for you. You don’t feel like you’re there is still much work to be done Saturday’s games looked dangerous early. fireworks on New Year’s Eve carrying a piano on your back and with this team. Ottawa at Winnipeg Arizona at Boston The trio combined to open the when he turned in a 36-save per- your confidence comes with that.” “What happened is we win a Colorado at Columbus scoring at 8:19 of the first period. formance in a 4-1 win over Florida Aside from Merzlikins, rook- few games and you think we have Los Angeles at New Jersey N.Y. Islanders at Tampa Bay After a shot attempt by Decker and former Blue Jackets star goal- ies Emil Bemstrom, Eric Robin- all the answers,” he told reporters Nashville at Edmonton bounced off the end boards, Cam- ie Sergei Bobrovsky. Since assum- son and Vladislav Gavrikov have recently. “We don’t have all the Philadelphia at Washington Pittsburgh at Florida eranesi bounced the puck off the ing the starting role, he’s 12-2-0, emerged as key contributors. So answers. This year is no different Toronto at Montreal Dallas at St. Louis back of the skate of Maschmeyer including four shutouts, and has has 5-foot-5 NHL journeyman from any other. Every year brings Calgary at Vancouver and into the net. become a fan favorite. Nathan Gerbe, who since sign- different problems.” Carolina at Vegas Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 59 NHL Seattle’s scouts focus on future New franchise laying groundwork

BY TIM BOOTH the players. How they play with Associated Press the puck on their stick. How they interact with teammates on the SEATTLE bench. How they work on both ohn Goodwin had the ends of the ice. honor of being the first and Ultimately, they will use that it was a bit unnerving. information to make projections J He was a pro scout rep- about how the players may fit on resenting a franchise without a a team in less than two years. nickname “With what you’re doing for an and nearly existing franchise, you’re looking two years for perhaps a specific player in a away from specific role. Whereas now we’re having a ros- looking, I wouldn’t say for specif- ter — with ic players, but players with skills TED S. WARREN/AP an arena and abilities and characteristics still under Ron Francis talks to reporters in Seattle on July 18 after he was introduced as the first general manager that we want,” said Dave Hunter, construction for Seattle’s yet-to-be-named NHL expansion team. Seattle begins play in the 2021-22 season. — and walk- who is based in Boston. ing into an “So, as opposed to looking for was part of the group that met are kind of new to this and how cy, we can do that with as much a third-line left wing who is ag- Granato NHL arena in Seattle along with Goodwin, everything works,” Goodwin education about the players as for the first gressive and can kill penalties, Hunter, Stu Barnes and Cammi said. possible.” time on behalf of Seattle’s expan- we’re looking for a player that Granato. Seattle’s primary goal for the While most of the focus is on sion team was daunting. can skate, be creative, has a good They reviewed players. They first year is building the data- the NHL product, the scouts have “I got there about two hours be- hockey sense. It’s not a specific talked about their reports and base of information that existing also been tasked with watching fore. They weren’t even open yet, role. Whereas I think with an the kind of data being sought franchises already have in hand. AHL games. That reason is two- so I waited,” Goodwin recalled. existing franchise, a lot of times, by a front office made up of GM Some of that info is readily avail- fold: there are plenty of younger By now, seeing the Seattle not all the time, but a lot of times Ron Francis, assistant GM Ricky able, but there are specific things players looking for a shot at the scouts show up in places like To- you’re looking for specific players Olczyk and director of hockey Seattle is looking to build into its AHL level who could fit into Se- ronto, Boston, Dallas, or Vancou- that will fill a role.” strategy and research Alexandra player profiles tied in with Man- attle’s plans, and Seattle will have ver is no longer a novelty. They Last week, Seattle’s five pro Mandrycky. drycky’s focus on analytics. its own AHL franchise in Palm are part of the NHL landscape. scouts — who estimate they’ve They also conducted a mock “We have a base of nothing Springs, also beginning in 2021. But when Goodwin or any of seen hundreds of NHL and AHL draft of the players they would right now when you talk about The goal by the time the expan- his counterparts show up, they games combined already — gath- like to see on the ice when Seattle compiling data of NHL players, sion draft arrives is for the scouts are scouting a different game ered just a couple of blocks away plays that first game in October AHL players, amateur players,” to have seen more than 2,000 than their colleagues around the from where their team will drop 2021. Mandrycky said in a September games combined, with reports league. the puck for the first time 20 Realistic? Absolutely not. But interview with the AP. “So a lot from each one. While scouts from the other months from now. the exercise was a small reward of the two years has to be spent “How many people get a chance 31 franchises may be looking at Less than a week later they for the work being done toward making sure you have the right to be from almost not day one, but another team’s power play or the were down to four after Ulf Sam- that expansion draft. infrastructure in place so as we from the first group?” Goodwin way it rotates its lines, Seattle’s uelsson left to take a head coach- “It’s going to be a really good get to making decisions on the said. “You don’t get that opportu- scouts are specifically looking at ing position in Sweden. But he learning curve for the guys that expansion draft and free agen- nity very often in any sport.” League’s first black player still working to fight racism

Associated Press O’Ree credits Aliu for finding racial slurs. the fortitude to come forward. O’Ree is most saddened when OTTAWA, Ontario — Willie “I believe he did the right O’Ree is hopeful that one day he hears of young players having thing,” O’Ree said. “He felt with- sports will be free of racism and to deal with racism. His message in his heart, within his mind this bigotry, yet thinks it’s still a long to them is simple. way off. is what he should have done and “Stay focused,” he said. “Names The 84-year-old O’Ree, the he went out and did it. I speak will never hurt you unless you let first black player in the NHL, of racism, prejudice and bigotry them. If people can’t accept you took part in the league’s Black and ignorance. It happens all the for the individual you are, then History Month Tour in Ottawa, time. Not only in sports, but gen- that’s their problem. .” which features a mobile curated eral life. I’ve had racial remarks O’Ree said the most lasting museum displaying the history of and racial slurs directed at me in change will likely come as more black hockey players. the gas station or in a drugstore black players and players of color O’Ree endured a great deal of or in a mall. It’s just because the get the opportunity to move into color of your skin. racism. He played for the Boston more prominent positions within “The one thing I learned from Bruins from 1958-61. He said he the game itself. (Martin Luther King Jr.) is don’t is saddened it continues today. “There’s room there for coach- “It’s not only happening in judge a person by the color of their skin, but by the content of es, managers, linesmen, refer- hockey, it’s happening in football JEFFREY T. BARNES/AP their character and there’s a lot of ees,” O’Ree said. “Just set your and baseball and other sports,” goal and work towards it. the Hall of Famer said Monday. Blue Jackets defenseman Seth Jones is one of the few black players truth to that.” “Those players of color and “Now we’re concentrating on in the NHL. Willie O’Ree, who broke the color barrier in the NHL, is The latest incident of racism in black players are there because hockey because the sport has working to eliminate racism in all sports. hockey took place just a couple very few black players and play- of weeks ago in the AHL when a they have the skills and abilities ers of color playing in it. I’m it’s going to take a long time. It’s League’s Rockford Ice Hogs. Aliu player was suspended five games to be there. If they didn’t have disappointed in that there’s still not going to happen overnight.” played seven games in the NHL for using a racial slur. the skills, they wouldn’t be there. players out there that have to look Racism was brought to the with the Calgary Flames and is The fact these incidents contin- They have the skills and the abil- at a person and judge them by the headlines in November after currently playing for HC Litvinov ue to take place frustrates O’Ree, ity to be there and they can’t help color of their skin. Akim Aliu came forward about in the Czech Extraliga. but he feels hockey is moving in their color. They just want to be “We’ve taken one step forward racial slurs he endured from Aliu’s comments led to Peters the right direction with fines and accepted as another player and and two back. I believe we’re head coach Bill Peters while both resigning as head coach of the suspensions being given to those, this is the way I think it should working in the right direction, but were with the American Hockey Flames. both on and off the ice, who utter be. ” PAGE 60 F3HIJKLM •STARS AND STRIPES• Friday, February 7, 2020 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SIGNING DAY Too big to fail: Powerhouse programs load up Six schools sign 22 of the 31 5-star recruits

BY RALPH D. RUSSO For the second time in three seasons, Associated Press 247 Sports crowned Georgia the recruit- ing champion, with Alabama and Clemson McKinnley Jackson, a huge and talented close behind. defensive tackle from Mississippi, was one Looking at the top 100 players rated by of the few five-star recruits whose college 247, again a handful of schools cleaned up. choice was a mystery going into signing Georgia (11), Alabama (10), Clemson (10), day. LSU (9) and Ohio State (7) signed 47 of “I’ll keep this short, simple and sweet,” them. Jackson said during a news conference By landing Jackson, Texas A&M became Wednesday at George County High School the sixth school with more than four top in Lucedale, Miss . “For the next three to 100 players in its new freshman class, The four years, I’ll be attending Texas A&M.” The five-star prospect picked the Aggies Aggies came away with six, which means over Alabama and LSU, allowing one more 53% of the top 100 players signed with just school to break into a small group that six schools. landed the majority of the top available Last year, seven schools signed at least players. Signing day is typically about the five of the top 100 for a total of 48 players. KEN RUINARD, THE (ANDERSON, S.C.) INDEPENDENT MAIL/AP rich getting richer, and this year the best Five more schools landed four top-100s. classes were especially top-heavy. In 2018, eight schools had at least five Clemson head football coach Dabo Swinney got commitments Wednesday from five According to 247 Sports’ composite top-100 signees and five schools (Geor- five-star recruits. It is the hightest-rated class Swinney has had. rankings, there were 31 five-star prospects gia, Ohio State, LSU, Clemson and Texas) in this year’s class. Six schools signed 22 signed 46 of those players. That year, 12 of early signing period, but never actually sitting just a few feet away. of those players. Clemson led the way with the 29 five-stars signed with either Geor- signed a national letter of intent. Burch never made an announcement nor five as part of the highest-rated class coach gia (7) or Clemson (5). At a signing day ceremony Wednesday at did any interviews, simply saying: “For the Dabo Swinney has ever signed. Alabama There was one notable player who is Hammon School in Columbia, S.C., Burch next three or four years I’ll be with my and Georgia each landed four five-star leaving people guessing. had only a Gamecocks hat. South Carolina friends.” When South Carolina posted a players. National champion LSU, Ohio Five-star defensive end Jordan Burch coach Will Muschamp, whose son plays on list of 21 signees a few hours later, Burch’s State and Oregon each had three. committed to South Carolina during the the same high school team with Burch, was name was not among them. SEC BIG TEN BIG 12 ACC PAC

Georgia leads conference: The Ohio State, Penn State and Oklahoma adds two 4-star de- Miami lands top safety: Avan- Oregon gets boost by adding Southeastern Conference domi- Nebraska dominate: The Buck- fenders: The Conference cham- tae Williams was committed to Jones: The Ducks locked up most nated the recruiting landscape eyes are back on top in Big Ten pion Sooners got the signatures of the Hurricanes three years ago, of their stellar recruiting class even more than usual this year. recruiting, with Ryan Day wrap- a pair of four-star defenders, and then decommitted, then seemed during the December early sign- As the remaining unsigned ping up his first full signing class new Baylor coach Dave Aranda like he would ultimately be head- ing period. football prospects finalized their Wednesday with a letter of intent signed a two-sport player that ed to Florida. Oregon got a huge boost college plans Wednesday, the from the two-time Michigan high plans to throw and hit for the And then he pulled off a sign- Wednesday when Jayson Jones, SEC had six of the nation’s top school player of the year. Bears. ing-day shocker on Wednesday. a 6-foot-6, 340-pound defensive eight classes, according to com- Michigan, Penn State and Ne- While Big 12 teams were like Williams, the No. 2-ranked lineman, announced he signed posite rankings of recruiting sites braska followed Ohio State in the most Power Five schools in se- safety in the nation according with the Ducks after initially compiled by 247Sports. Big Ten composite rankings com- curing most of their classes dur- to most rankings, is headed to committing to Alabama. The rankings included No. 1 piled by 247Sports. ing the early signing period about Miami after all as a capper to a Jones, from Calera, Ala., opted Georgia, No. 2 Alabama, No. 4 The conference has nine teams seven weeks ago, there were still big offseason of movement by the not to sign with the Crimson Tide LSU, No. 6 Texas A&M, No. 7 among the top 40 nationally for a few spots to fill Wednesday on Hurricanes. Miami had chased in December to explore his op- Auburn and No. 8 Florida. Only the first time, including five in what used to be the biggest re- Williams — a four-star player tions. He decided the best one Clemson at No. 3 and Ohio State the top 25 — Ohio State (No. 5), cruiting day. from DeLand, Fla. — for years was to play for Mario Cristobal in at No. 5 broke things up. Michigan (No. 14), Penn State Oklahoma, which in December and in the end, the relationships Eugene. The SEC last had as many as (No. 15), Nebraska (No. 20) and signed 21 players after its fifth forged by Hurricanes assistants “The journey has been long, 3 six teams in the top eight in 2014, Wisconsin (No. 25). Big 12 title in a row and before such as Ephraim Banda won out. years to be exact,” Jones said on when it had seven of the top nine Last year was the first time its fourth College Football Play- Orange insurance: Syracuse fi- Twitter. “It’s been a lot of fun, but classes. The SEC had seven of the since 2010 that Ohio State’s class off appearance, added defensive nally has some insurance behind everything comes to an end. I’ve top 10 classes this year, with Ten- was not judged best in the Big end Reggie Grimes from Tennes- starting quarterback Tommy De- done a lot of meditating, praying nessee moving up during the late Ten. The Buckeyes were transi- see and cornerback Joshua Eaton Vito with the signings of 6-foot-4 and I’ve made my decision. I will signing period to grab 10th place. tioning from Urban Meyer to Day from Houston to its 2020 class. prospects Jacobian Morgan, of be attending the University of Holding the line: Georgia need- and slipped to third behind Mich- Aranda has been on the job in Canton, Miss., and Dillon Mar- Oregon.” ed to replenish the depth on its of- igan and Penn State. Waco, Texas, for only three weeks kiewicz, of McKinney, Texas. Herm’s touch: Herm Edwards fensive line. Left tackle Andrew Dantonio fallout: Three-star after Matt Rhule’s departure The Orange were hurting be- and Arizona State had another Thomas, right tackle Isaiah Wil- running back Jordon Simmons from the Big 12 runner-up Bears hind DeVito, especially after the solid recruiting run in 2019-20, son and guard Solomon Kindley of Power Springs, Ga., delayed for the NFL. The first-time head departure of backup Clayton landing the nation’s 24th recruit- left school early to enter the NFL his signing a day after Michigan coach got an assist from Baylor Welch, a junior college transfer ing class and fourth in the Pac-12. Draft. Versatile lineman Cade State coach Mark Dantonio an- baseball coach Steve Rodriguez who exhausted his eligibility. The Sun Devils signed a pro- Mays transferred to Tennessee. nounced his retirement after 13 for one of his five signees. Leaving Virginia: Virginia Tech gram-record 10 top-100 recruits The Bulldogs signed offensive seasons. Quarterback Blake Shapen added two players to its class, and had a superb recruiting year tackle Broderick Jones and cen- The Spartans signed 19 play- is also a top shortstop prospect which is ranked at or near the in California, landing 12 players ter Sedrick Van Pran on Wednes- ers in December and added two from Evangel Christian Academy bottom of the conference by many from the neighboring state. day. Although both already had more Wednesday to what, at No. in Shreveport, L a. The nephew of recruiting services. “Home base is Arizona. First verbally committed to Georgia, 10 in the Big Ten, is their lowest- pro golfer Hal Sutton also plans to Coach Justin Fuente welcomed base is California,” co-defensive they visited other schools after ranked class since the 2007 group play baseball for the Bears. running back Raheem Blacks- coordinator and recruiting coor- former offensive line coach Sam assembled during the John L. Texas has elite class: Even hear of Philadelphia and wide dinator Antonio Pierce said. Pittman was named Arkansas Smith-to-Dantonio transition. though the Longhorns lost out receiver Dallan Wright of Saluda, The Sun Devils got a boost on head coach. Fear the turtle: Maryland has Wednesday on a big in-state S.C., to a now 17-member incom- Wednesday’s signing day, when Evans’ uncertainty: Five-star a top-six class in the Big Ten for cornerback recruit who picked ing class. tight end Jake Ray flipped on his running back Zachary Evans, the second time in three years, Missouri, Texas had the Big 12’s The Hokies’ class, however, commitment to UNLV to head to ranked 16th in the 247Sports com- largely because of the surprise highest-ranked recruiting class includes just one player from the desert. posite, remained unsigned late December signing of five-star by 247Sports. Texas was ninth Virginia, long a stronghold of the Stumbling Trojans: Southern Wednesday after being linked to wide receiver Rakim Jarrett. nationally, and Oklahoma 11th. school in Blacksburg, in 6-foot-4 California was once one of the top a few different SEC programs. The 6-foot, 208-pound Jarrett, TCU was listed third among defensive back Lakeem Rudolph recruiting programs under for- Georgia never confirmed out of St. John’s College High in Big 12 teams by 247Sports, fol- from Virginia Beach. mer coach Pete Carroll. whether he signed with the Bull- Washington, D.C., is the top slot lowed by West Virginia, Okla- Virginia coach Bronco Menden- The Trojans slipped this year dogs in December. Evans also receiver prospect in the country. homa State, Iowa State, Texas hall signed 13 players in the early under Clay Helton, landing a 13- visited both Tennessee and Ole He de-committed from LSU in Tech, Kansas State, Baylor and period and two more Wednesday, player class that was 54th nation- Miss. what was then a big surprise. Kansas. but none from the state. ally and 10th in the Pac-12. Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 61 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Gonzaga: The International House of Hoops No. 2-ranked Bulldogs feature six players from five countries

BY TIM BOOTH Saint Mary’s, takes the top spot. Associated Press Six players from five different countries are on the roster. The SPOKANE, Wash. — Assistant dominant conversation inside the coach Tommy Lloyd has been to palatial locker room could be any so many countries looking for the mix of languages all bonded to- best international talent during gether by a game that has become his 19 seasons on the Gonzaga far more international. staff. So many passport books “This was kind of born out of ne- filled. So many stamps. cessity. We wanted to keep grow- “I had a cool one from Zimba- ing the program and we needed bwe. They had a sticker and you to recruit at a higher level,” Lloyd had to pay $20 cash when you said. “Eastern Washington is a got in the country in U.S. dollars. great place, but it’s not necessar- That’s how crazy it was,” Lloyd ily a hotbed for basketball talent. said. “That’s going back 20 years So we had to think outside the or something.” box, so we started investing time Today the travel is less exten- and resources and developing re- sive, a little less exotic for Lloyd. lationships overseas.“ But the influence of international Those relationships have yield- players on Gonzaga’s roster re- ed a bounty of stars. It’s started in mains strong. the early 2000s with Turiaf, the Going back to the days when gregarious forward from Marti- Ronny Turiaf was one of the best nique who has become an ambas- players in the country, there’s al- sador for the school in basketball ways been a bit of an internation- circles. Other standouts like J.P. al flavor to the Bulldogs’ roster. Batista (Brazil), Przemek Kar- Countries like Martinique, Bra- nowski (Poland), Elias Harris JEFF CHIU/AP zil, Germany, Russia and France (Germany), Domantas Sabonis Leading Gonzaga scorer Filip Petrusev, left, of Serbia celebrates with Martynas Arlauskas of Lithuania — to name a select few — have (Lithuania) and Rui Hachimura and teammates during a Jan. 30 game against Santa Clara, where Petrusev had a career-high 31 points. had some of their best end up (Japan) have also cycled through playing in little Spokane, Wash., Spokane. Serbia. Starters Killian Tillie and for the school with the funny- And that list doesn’t include the Joel Ayayi make up the French ‘ I don’t think anybody ever feels like sounding name. large number of Canadians like contingent. Martynas Arlaus- But this year, with the Zags Robert Sacre, Kevin Pangos and kas (Lithuania), Pavel Zakharov they’re an outsider because in their own ranked No. 2 in the country Kelly Olynyk. (Russia) and Oumar Ballo (Mali) way, everybody’s kind of an outsider. heading into this week’s games This year’s group includes are on the Bulldogs bench. ’ against Loyola Marymount and leading scorer Filip Petrusev of Petrusev is averaging 17 points Tommy Lloyd per game and had a career-high Gonzaga assistant on his team’s international players 31 points last week against Santa Clara. “I’ve changed a lot of teams, couple of years apart but attended things at school, all those little and being the foreign kid and the same academy in France. new things to get used to. ... But being accepted like this and just “I just knew it was in a small Tommy always makes sure ev- everybody welcoming me like city up there in the cold,” Ayayi eryone is feeling great.” this, it’s never happened,” said said pointing and laughing. Lloyd has tried his best to make Petrusev, who grew up in Serbia Ayayi has developed at Gonza- the transition as easy as possible. before finishing his high school ga. He averaged just 5.6 minutes There’s support staff on campus, career playing in Florida. “It was per game as a redshirt freshman but even more important is hav- the quickest settle in for me. The last season. This year, he is play- ing the lineage of international guys made it look like I had been ing nearly 30 minutes per night, players so lessons can be passed here a year before I came. I think averaging 11.2 points and is sec- from one class to the next. the culture here — a lot of inter- ond on the team in rebounding. “I know the international guys national guys so we can relate to “At the beginning people think look after each other and try each other — but the domestic it’s harder on the court. But you to help each other acclimate as guys understand us, too, and they come here and struggle on the quick as they can,” Lloyd said. “It do an amazing job of just bring- court, it’s almost better than off goes to having a diverse locker ing us into their culture.” the court. Because off the court room. We have so many different Petrusev was drawn to Gonza- there are so many things you guys from different cultures that ga by its success developing post have to figure out,” Ayayi said. it’s a really comfortable place and YOUNG KWAK/AP players for the NBA, like Olynyk “You may really struggle in I don’t think anybody ever feels Gonzaga assistant coach Tommy Lloyd, right, greets forward Pavel and Sabonis in recent years. practice, but you better enjoy it like they’re an outsider because Zakharov, of Russia . In his 19th season as Mark Few’s top assistant Ayayi first became aware of because when you get out of prac- in their own way, everybody’s at second-ranked Gonzaga, Lloyd has become the conduit for the Gonzaga when Tillie committed tice it’s worse. You have the lan- kind of an outsider. That’s kind of Zags’ international expansion. to joining the Zags. The two are a guage barrier, you have so many what makes it work.”

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BY DOUG FERGUSON I was playing. And then I get on Associated Press the golf course and I start not seeing what I want to have hap- PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Op- pen but more what I don’t want timism is never in short supply to have happen,” Mickelson said. for Phil Mickelson, and it was “My inability to kind of control especially high when he left the my thoughts was getting the best Monterey Peninsula last year of me the first few weeks. And I with his 44th career PGA Tour was able to identify the problem victory and his fifth title in the and then fix it and start to con- AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. trol my thoughts a little bit better, He had the entire year ahead of control my visualization, and I hit him. a lot of good shots thereafter.” It didn’t turn out the way he For everyone, there will be imagined. plenty of good visualization this “After I won last year, I knew I week, with a forecast of sunshine, was going to go out and just crush although temperatures will re- the rest of the year,” Mickelson main in the 50s. Players will take said Wednesday. “And the rest of sun over a few extra layers for the year crushed me.” warmth rather than a rain suit. It wasn’t that he failed to win “When the sun shines, there’s again — no shame in that after no better place on the golfing turning 49 and competing against planet to be,” Graeme McDowell an increasingly younger PGA said. Tour — he only cracked the top Three of the more intrigu- 20 one time, at the Masters. ing players in the field all have JOEL MARTINEZ/AP The Presidents Cup, which Saudi connections — Mickelson, Canada’s Christine Sinclair, front left, celebrates with teammates after scoring against St. Kitts and Nevis dates to 1994, was played without McDowell and Dustin Johnson. during a CONCACAF women’s Olympic qualifying match Wednesday in Edinburg, Texas. him for the first time. And by the McDowell won the Saudi Interna- end of the year, he was out of the tional by two shots over Johnson, top 50 in the world for the first with Mickelson in third. All three time in 26 years. flew across 12 time zones to take “I didn’t play up to my level of part in a tournament with heri- expectation, and it just kind of tage and beauty. snowballed and got worse,” Mick- “The win last week was impor- Canada’s Sinclair finds elson said. tant at a lot of levels, just to get me He returns to Pebble Beach back up the rankings, get me back with his optimism still strong. in a couple of the WGC events — Mickelson has shied away from which is really important — the a previous guarantee of reaching major championships, and get me 50 wins on the PGA Tour. With back in the right direction again,” age comes a dose of reality. But McDowell said. “Ticked a lot of herself in the spotlight he likes the way he is swinging. boxes and hopefully I can use it He likes the way he is thinking as a springboard to kick on for a BY ANNE M. PETERSON in the annual Algarve Cup tour- again. And he picked up some big year, big season ahead.” Associated Press DID YOU KNOW ? nament in Portugal. She’s a vet- momentum from finishing third McDowell’s victory got him eran of five World Cups and three last week in Saudi Arabia. back into the top 50 in the world CARSON, Calif. Canada striker Christine Sinclair Olympics. It was particularly refreshing for the first time since 2015. hristine Sinclair says has scored the most international Canada surpassed expectations because Mickelson had missed Johnson is a two-time winner at she’s sorry she hasn’t goals of any soccer player in with a bronze medal at the 2012 gotten back to all the the cut in Palm Springs and San Pebble Beach who is approaching history. Her 186 goals eclipsed London Games. Sinclair set a re- Diego, the first time in his long the one-year anniversary of his well-wishers who C the mark of 184 set by Abby cord with six goals in the tourna- career as a pro he had missed the last victory, an alarming develop- reached out after she set the in- Wambach of the United States. ment, including three goals in a cut in consecutive events to start ment given a skill set that leads ternational goals record. heartbreaking 4-3 semifinal loss the year. many players to believe he’s still Canada’s veteran striker didn’t SOURCE: Associated Press to the eventual gold medalist U.S., “I was really excited about how the best in the game. get much time to celebrate or re- to win the tournament’s Golden flect last week after she scored a Steve Nash to tennis great Billie Boot. pair of goals in an Olympic quali- Jean King. Nike designed a spe- Four years later in Brazil, the fying tournament match. cial pair of Canadian red soccer Canadians captured the bronze For Sinclair, there’s a big- cleats, complete with maple leaf again by defeating the home ger task at hand at the moment accents. FIFA President Gianni country. Afterward, it was re- — leading Canada back to the Infantino penned a congratula- Olympics. tory letter. And of course, Wam- vealed that Sinclair had lost her Canada is among the teams that bach sent Sinclair a video tribute. father just a few months before will play Friday in Carson, Calif., “I still have people to get back the tournament. Intensely pri- in the semifinals of the CONCA- to, I hope they understand. I’ll get vate, she hadn’t spoken about it. CAF Women’s Olympic Qualify- back to them over the next couple Canada was knocked out of last ing tournament. Canada won its of days,” she said. “A big thank summer’s World Cup in the round group and will face Costa Rica, you to everyone that reached out. of 16 after making the semifinals while runner-up Mexico will face I’ll get back to you, I promise.” in 2015 — when Canada hosted the defending World Cup cham- It was a lot of attention for the the event. pion U.S. team. soft-spoken Sinclair, who fa- Along the way, the goals kept The winners Friday will earn mously prefers staying out of the coming. the region’s two berths in this spotlight. “It was probably about two summer’s Tokyo Games. The Sinclair is probably America’s years ago when I thought, I’m championship match is Sunday. best-known non-U.S. women’s healthy, the team’s doing really Sinclair, 36, has 186 career soccer player. She was on the well, that I started to realize, goals, now an ongoing record University of Portland’s two ‘Wow this actually might hap- after she passed American Abby NCAA championship teams and pen — unless I go into a mas- Wambach’s previous mark (184) has played since 2013 for the sive slump, which happens for a among men and women last Portland Thorns of the National striker,’ ” she said after breaking week. Women’s Soccer League. Wambach’s record. “But yeah, I’d The accolades flooded in from She’s widely known in Canada. probably say about two years ago ALEX GALLARDO/AP an array of admirers, from Ca- She’s been a standout on the Ca- that it started to hit me that this Phil Mickelson finished last season outside the top 50 golfers in the nadian Prime Minister Justin nadian national team since 2000, was something that was possible world for the first time in 26 years. Trudeau to former NBA guard when she led it with three goals and might happen.” Friday, February 7, 2020 •STARS AND STRIPES• F3HIJKLM PAGE 63 AUTO RACING Looming: ’20 schedule adjustments just the start

FROM BACK PAGE shifts: Phoenix will host the championship- deciding finale in November, Martinsville Speedway got both a night race and the penultimate playoff race, Daytona gave up its traditional July Fourth weekend to In- dianapolis Motor Speedway (and will now host the final regular season race) and Pocono Raceway is going to host two Cup Series races in one weekend. NASCAR was able to make those chang- es despite five-year contracts that had given track owners stability. But fans have complained about the stale schedule and 2020 was NASCAR’s first chance to make even small changes. The contracts ex- Above: Christopher Bell, seen celebrating pire this year, and in Victory Lane after winning NASCAR NASCAR will essen- Xfinity Series race in November, will be in tially have the abil- a race for top Cup rookie alongside two- ity to reconfigure the time Xfinity Series champ Tyler Reddick entire schedule for and Cole Custer. The trio competed for 2021. NASCAR, a pri- the Xfinity title the last two seasons. France vate company owned by the France family, Left: 2017 Cup champ Martin Truex Jr. last year swallowed is congratulated by team owner Joe Gibbs, International Speedway Corp., giving right, in Victory Lane after winning a Jim and his niece, Lesa France Kennedy, Cup Series race last spring. NASCAR’s the power to do just about anything they season officially opens Sunday, Feb. 16, want. with the Daytona 500. “It makes a big difference,” Jim France AP PHOTOS said of the merger. “It gives us an opportu- nity to respond quicker to the changing en- Ganassi, who lets him race sprint cars; vironment out here with the economy and move to Stewart-Haas Racing and drive all the things that are going on that impact for Tony Stewart, who may be even more motorsports. It was a major big step that lenient than Ganassi has been; or he can we needed to make probably for quite a scale back the extracurricular racing and while.” drive for Hendrick. NASCAR this year will debut a new Larson has won just six career Cup sponsorship model in which the elite Cup races, but is considered to be the best of Series will not have a single entitlement NASCAR’s next generation and is only partner. The Winston Cup/Nextel Cup/ 27. His courtship and ultimate decision Sprint Cup/Monster Energy Cup will be will likely impact all other major driver just the Cup Series going forward, with “premier partners” Busch Beer, Coca- I feel like I’ve been a bit out of character negotiations. Cola, GEICO and Xfinity taking on large and a bit focused on a number, a statistic It’s a full house at Joe Gibbs Racing, roles. — and I’ve never in my life been that way. which put three Toyotas in the final four As Jim France and Lesa France have I’ve never raced that way.“ last season and returns its entire lineup, found their footing, the stock car series “”I’m out there one final time,“ he added. with Christopher Bell finally earning his has shown flexibility, too: After acknowl- “This is just one final time, and it feels so promotion to the Cup Series in a satellite edging the rules package was a bust at good to be able to let go of that chasing ride for Leavine Family Racing. It was the short tracks and road courses, NASCAR part.” only place to put Larson’s sprint car-loving did an about-face and made changes for The chase will be on for drivers hoping buddy, who was ready for the big leagues those specific venues. to fill Johnson’s seat at Hendrick Motors- but stuck in Gibbs’ crowded system. Adapting to it all will be Johnson, who ports. Alex Bowman is also in a contract Bell will be in a race for top Cup rookie said this year will be his last as a full-time year driving Rick Hendrick’s No. 88, alongside two-time Xfinity Series cham- NASCAR driver. His 19th season will be meaning two top seats at an elite team are pion Tyler Reddick and Cole Custer. The his last attempt to win a record eighth Cup in rare play. trio raced each other for the Xfinity title championship, but Johnson said he has Among the drivers in a crowded free the last two seasons. shaken off the pressure of chasing Rich- agent pool are former series champion The race for the final four slots at Phoe- ard Petty and Dale Earnhardt and plans to Brad Keselowski and teammate Ryan nix is wide open, assuming teams figure enjoy his time in the No. 48 Chevy. Blaney, who were both involved in a major out how to match Gibbs on the track. Busch “I’ve been able to have some Team Penske offseason shakeup. Look- hasn’t missed a beat and spent a decent clarity and to really un- ing for a spark after failing to get any of part of January in a sports car, making his derstand it on a deeper its cars into the championship-deciding debut at the prestigious Rolex 24 at Day- level,“ said Johnson, finale, Penske swapped the crew chiefs for tona in his own attempt to stay sharp. now 44. “One thing all three of its drivers, two of whom are in His push for title No. 3 begins with the that I’ve come to contract years. Daytona 500, a race he has never won. grips with and “I personally needed to be challenged,“ Busch was second to teammate Denny I’m enjoying Keselowski said. “A lot of us were pretty Hamlin in last year’s 1-2-3 Gibbs sweep, letting go of is: comfortable and this certainly removes and he very much wants to win the race any feeling of comfort.” himself. Seven-time Kyle Larson is considered the top free Busch gets to show what he’s got starting Cup champion agent in this year’s pool and he likely Sunday with both an exhibition race and Jimmy Johnson has three options: He can stay with Chip qualifying for the Daytona 500. S TARS AND STRIPES Friday, February 7, 2020 F3HIJKLM High-scoring swap Source: Warriors trading Russell SPORTS to T-Wolves for Wiggins » NBA, Page 57

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2020 season will bring long overdue tweaks as Joe Gibbs Racing pursues another year of remarkable success

BY JENNA FRYER ily business in August 2018, Jim France has been Above: Team owner Joe Gibbs. JGR Associated Press a steady guide for a series trying to stop a slide in won a record 19 of 36 races last season, with driver Kyle Busch, DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. every important metric. Attendance and televi- below, earning the team its he sky isn’t falling — or at least it doesn’t sion ratings may have finally bottomed out, but fifth Cup Series title. feel that way — as NASCAR heads into sponsorship dollars AP photos the first of two seasons full of change. ‘ are as hard to find as We’re really ever and cost cutting is In the three months since Kyle Busch getting some won his second championship, NAS- a major priority across CART took its awards ceremony to Nashville, Tenn., momentum the entire industry. and was eagerly embraced. The Hall of Fame cer- back. It’s So the last full season for emony last month focused on Joe Gibbs and his elite exciting now, seven-time NASCAR cham- organization, which won a record 19 of 36 races last going into this pion Jimmie Johnson is also season as Busch earned Joe Gibbs Racing its fifth coming year. ’ the last year for the current Cup Series title. race car. The “Next Gen” car Jim France is on schedule to race in 2021, Drivers will return to the track at Daytona In- NASCAR Chairman ternational Speedway on Saturday and the season- and the project is expected opening Daytona 500 is Feb. 16. to trim millions from team budgets because its parts and pieces will require a “We’re coming off of a very good year, I felt like smaller workforce. last year, where we’re really getting some momen- Even before that, NASCAR for 2020 made long tum back,” NASCAR Chairman Jim France said. overdue tweaks to the schedule with a few seismic “It’s exciting now, going into this coming year.” Since replacing his nephew as head of the fam- SEE LOOMING ON PAGE 63

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