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Pakistani Disney
fertilizer cancels
gets U.S.
interest hotel
Afghan insurgents using
ammonium nitrate to
project
build weapon of choice
SETBACK FOR
BY G REG J AFFE NATIONAL HARBOR
To grasp the severity of Lt. Pr. George’s counting
Gen. Michael D. Barbero’s $40-
fertilizer-bomb problem, it helps on resort development
to consider some much bigger
numbers. BY T HOMAS H EATH
Barbero heads a U.S. military
command, with an annual budg- Walt Disney Co. announced
et of about $2.8 billion, that was Friday that it had canceled plans
created to stem U.S. casualties to build a 500-room resort hotel at
from insurgent bombs. In just National Harbor, dealing a blow
the past few months, he has to an ambitious project that is
shelled out $24 million for a new seen as an integral part of the
hand-held ground-penetrating economic future of Prince
radar, $33 million for mini-sur- George’s County.
veillance robots and $19 million The Disney brand was expect-
MATT MCCLAIN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
for bomb-resistant underwear. ed to catapult National Harbor
The insurgent’s weapon of Dennis Park picks out a 40-inch Samsung flat-screen TV at a Fairfax Best Buy. The store opened to Black Friday shoppers at midnight. and Prince George’s to a higher
choice in Afghanistan is at the class of national tourist destina-

Thanksgiving’s fade to Black

other end of the price spectrum: tion. In the Washington region,
a plastic jug filled with ammoni- the harbor is billed as one of the
um nitrate fertilizer. So far this few places people can shop, see a
year, these cheap, hard-to-detect show, host a large business con-
bombs have wounded about ference and have plenty of afford-
3,200 U.S. soldiers and Marines, For shoppers, it’s the usual Friday frenzy — with a Thursday head start able options to stay overnight
up 22 percent from 2010, accord- within walking distance.
ing to the Pentagon. BY D ANIELLE D OUGLAS Three Musketeers bar. The loss hits home just as the
“We are sweeping more and AND S TEVEN O VERLY “I saw a good deal and didn’t development, majority-owned by
more of this stuff off the battle- want to pass it up,” said Marin, the Peterson Cos., was recovering

N
field,” Barbero said of the fertiliz- ever mind early-bird spe- 47, of Falls Church. “I’m miss- some positive buzz. It got off to a
er bombs. “But it just keeps cials. Night-owl deals may ing Thanksgiving with my fam- slow start in 2008, running im-
coming, and it keeps growing.” now define Black Friday. ily, but it’s just one year. I can mediately into a severe economic
Almost all of the ammonium Retailers, jockeying for sales be forgiven for that.” downturn.
nitrate used in the Taliban’s amid forecasts of tepid growth, Jennifer Yoo, 21, had her “We are disappointed,” Jon Pe-
bombs comes from two big fertil- opened their doors as early as Thanksgiving feast — complete terson, senior vice president of
izer plants across the border in 9 p.m. Thursday. And consum- with ham, turkey, mashed pota- the Peterson Cos., said Friday. But
Pakistan. Barbero concluded ers, despite pessimism about toes and corn bread — deliv- he added that “there was always a
that the best way to slow the the economy, came out in ered curbside by her brother to little bit of uncertainty” over
Taliban killing was to make it droves. the Best Buy in Germantown. whether Disney would follow
harder for the insurgents to If the signs of an enthusias- And with her mother as compa- through after the company
obtain the fertilizer, which is tic response are confirmed, re- ny in line, her quest for the bought the land.
banned in Afghanistan because tailers will probably continue television was a family affair. Prince George’s and the Peter-
it can be made into explosives. their invasion of Thanksgiving, “I always told myself I would son Cos. had ballyhooed Disney’s
In August, the general called opening stores as some families never be one of the crazy May 2009 purchase of 11 acres for
Fawad Mukhtar, the chairman of are still polishing off their people outside Best Buy, but I $11 million as a validation of their
SARAH L. VOISIN/THE WASHINGTON POST
the Fatima Group, which owns turkey dinners, analysts and proved myself wrong this year,” vision for the 300-acre site.
the fertilizer plants, and asked to company officials said. Gavin Daniels avoided the crowds, opting for the members-only said Yoo, a Gaithersburg resi- The county, which borders the
meet with him in Pakistan. Parking lots at Toys R Us Black Room at the Georgetown boutique Lost Boys. dent who had been in line since District on the east, is home to
Mukhtar replied that Barbero stores here and around the 7 p.m. Wednesday. many prosperous African Ameri-
country were packed before launched campaigns calling on could buy two TVs — a 42-inch Knowing that there are peo- cans and to the Washington Red-
fertilizer continued on A4 doors opened Thursday eve- retailers to leave Thanksgiving and a 55-inch — and a stereo ple willing to skip turkey and skins’ FedEx Field. But unlike
ning. Lines snaked around Tar- alone, but consumers may have system. stuffing for a flat-screen TV or neighboring Montgomery County
get and Best Buy locations by shown that no time is a bad He and four friends slept in a an Xbox video game console and Northern Virginia, it has
the afternoon, with some shop- time to shop. tent outside the store Wednes- appears to be encouraging ear- struggled to draw the big-name

Virginia pers camping out on sidewalks

since Wednesday.
Throughout the week, some
Javier Marin was first in line
at the Best Buy near Tysons
Corner. He had waited since
day night. On Thursday morn-
ing, his wife brought him
scrambled eggs for breakfast.
lier openings each year. Last
year, Toys R Us became one of
national businesses that often
contribute to robust tax bases.
That is why National Harbor, in
will be key store workers and families 4 p.m. Wednesday so that he His Thanksgiving dinner was a shopping continued on A6
disney continued on A11

in federal
debt debate IN SUNDAY’S POST UNCHARTED REVOLT

Republicans seek to cut

Egypt’s divide:
government funding, but
state relies heavily on it
Islamist vs. liberal
Ultraconservative seeks to bridge gap
BY M ICHAEL A . F LETCHER
BY E RNESTO L ONDOÑO alcohol and tobacco, and they
As he campaigns for his old believe that women should wear
Senate seat, George Allen is ham- cairo — Days after Egyptians veils and niqabs, the black cloth
mering a theme that has served drove their longtime president that covers the face below the
Virginia Republicans well in re- from power in February, Moham- eyes.
cent elections: He wants to lower mad Tolba ordered a latte at an Pariahs under the secular, au-
taxes and reduce government upscale coffeehouse and waited tocratic, military-backed govern-
spending. to see whether his scraggly beard ments that ruled Egypt for 60
“It’s clear to everyone outside was still radioactive in the new years, Salafists have emerged
of Washington that government Egypt. publicly in recent months in
spending is out of control,” Allen The Fiction Issue Tales of the holidays Merce Cunningham’s vision As his troupe He got a grudging welcome, numbers that have startled and
said. “The families, businesses that touch on yearning, survival, memory ends its Legacy Tour, six dancers reveal and that was enough to prod the frightened liberal Egyptians. But
and Virginia all know how to live and the inspirational. MAGAZINE how he moved them. SUNDAY ARTS 32-year-old information technol- Tolba believes that winning wider
within their means, and it’s time ogy executive — a conservative acceptance will require building
that the federal government does Islamist with a look that many greater trust.
the same.” associate with extremism — into “You have a very good product
It is the kind of message that an effort to bridge a divide that and a terrible salesman,” Tolba
has helped the state’s Republi- threatens to splinter the Egyptian said of the challenge facing
cans capture the governor’s man- revolution. Salafists.
sion, three congressional seats His journey since has tracked Whether Islamists can seize
and control of the legislature in the shifting moods of an upheaval the moment, he believes, will
the past three elections. that toppled President Hosni depend on their ability to dispel
But Virginia’s recent political Mubarak but remains unfinished. the notion that most dogmatic
behavior is at odds with its heavy Last week, he found himself in Muslims are militant troglodytes
economic reliance on federal Tahrir Square, with men young who want to take over the govern-
spending. No state has a higher and old, secular and religious, ment and impose strict moral
share of its economy fueled by lobbing stones in clashes with codes on this nation of 82 million.
federal procurement. And Vir- riot police — a role he had always At stake, he believes, is wheth-
ginia is second, behind Alaska, in vowed to avoid. er Islamists will manage to re-
the per-capita flow of federal Tolba is a Salafist, an adherent insert themselves into main-
money to its borders. of an ultraconservative view of stream Egyptian society without
Altogether, federal spending Islam that is the norm in Saudi
accounted for 38 percent of the Arabia and has a following in egypt continued on A10
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Big airlines getting rid of small jetliners as fuel costs soar
Water-pump failure wasn’t cyberattack
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Agreement to curb HFCs not reached
Occupy protesters shop for chance to meet Bachmann at mall A18 sions are on the rise worldwide, 10 percent between 2006 and to survive,” Zaelke said.
in part because they serve as a 2010. The greenhouse-gas poten- He added that although the
China, India object to substitute for ozone-depleting cy of HFC-134a is 1,440 times United States pushed hard for
The World Montreal Protocol plan chemicals already eliminated un- stronger than that of carbon di- the measure, “technocrats move
Laws to rein in Russian pretrial jailing ignored A8 der the pact. oxide. at a very deliberate pace. If you
Anti-terror campaign dividing Somalis, Kenyan hosts A9
backed by 108 countries Although 108 of the treaty’s 197 Durwood Zaelke, president of want to speed it up, you have to
Egypt’s military rule exposes divisions A10 signatories backed the proposal, the Institute for Governance and move it to a heads-of-government
Detained U.S. students leaving Egypt A10 BY J ULIET E ILPERIN it failed to pass because China Sustainable Development, a level.”
Mysterious explosions pose dilemma for Iran A11 and India objected. The chemi- Washington-based nonprofit Delegates did agree to provide
Digest Negotiators wrapped up a cals, which are used in refrigera- group, said in a phone interview $450 million in funding between
Military pledges support for regime A8 meeting in Bali on Friday without tion, air conditioning and insu- that low-lying countries will suf- 2012 and 2014 to help developing
agreeing to rachet down the glob- lating foams, are increasingly fer from sea-level rise and other nations switch to alternative
Economy & Business al use of ozone-depleting chemi- popular in developing countries climate effects unless the world chemicals.
cals called hydrofluorocarbons such as India. The measure moves quickly to cut HFCs. Phas- Many private companies have
Europe’s soaring borrowing rates pose further risk A12 (HFCs), which are a growing would have capped the total pro- ing out these chemicals could cut already agreed to phase out their
For U.S. stocks, a rough week amid Europe crisis A12 contributor to climate change. duction of HFCs in 2014 and then the equivalent of 100 million tons use of HFCs.
D.C. charity takes a hit A13 Officials from the United lowered it by 15 percent every of carbon dioxide by 2050 and A year ago, 400 major compa-
Digest States and the Federated States of three years for the next 30 years. account for as much as 8 percent nies — including Coca-Cola, Pep-
U.K. strike could cause 12-hour airport delays A12 Micronesia pushed for a phase- According to a new report by of greenhouse-gas reductions siCo, Unilever and Wal-Mart —
down in the use of HFCs, which the U.N. Environment Pro- needed by mid-century. announced that they would stop
are used as industrial refriger- gramme, the most abundant of “China and India need to show using HFCs in new equipment by
ants, as part of the 1987 Montreal these gases, called HFC-134a, in- they can be leaders rather than 2015.

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POLITICS & THE NATION
NYPD-FBI tensions flare up over recent terror cases
FEDERAL OFFICIALS EXPRESS DOUBTS
City goes after bomb plot suspect on its own
BY J ERRY M ARKON to carry out an attack and the
strength of the case, which is being
When terrorists toppled the prosecuted by the Manhattan dis-
World Trade Center on Sept. 11, trict attorney’s office. They said
2001, the New York Police Depart- Pimentel had been under the in-
ment vowed to take extraordinary fluence of narcotics and that a
measures to prevent the next at- police informant — who allegedly
tack. accompanied Pimentel as he
“We couldn’t just say, ‘Well, bought bombmaking supplies —
we’ll let the federal government had participated in the plot. That,
take care of it,’ ” said Deputy Com- they said, made it possible for
missioner Paul J. Browne. “When Pimentel to argue that he was
you have 3,000 New Yorkers mur- entrapped.
dered, you can’t say, ‘We’re going The officials, who spoke on the
to defer that whole responsibility condition of anonymity because
elsewhere.’ ’’ the investigation is ongoing, said
In the past decade, the NYPD the case reflects a broader frustra-
has built up a smothering anti-ter- tion among some in the FBI. Al-
rorism apparatus, with more than though NYPD personnel assigned
1,000 officers working counterter- to the FBI’s task force concurred
rorism, radiation detectors in- with the decision about Pimentel,
stalled in the city and detectives they said, the NYPD’s Intelligence
assigned to 11 locations overseas. Division took the case to the dis-
The powerful police presence, trict attorney.
unprecedented in a U.S. city, has “There are always going to be
led to periodic rivalries with the tensions because agencies are
federal agency charged with pro- made of human beings,” a federal
tecting Americans from domestic agent said, “but is the solution to
attacks: the FBI. Those tensions carve out a piece of your agency
have flared twice recently, includ- and start autonomously working
ing when an FBI-led task force terrorism investigations? What
questioned the evidence against sense does that make?’’
two men charged in May by state A second federal agent said:
prosecutors with telling an NYPD “The [NYPD] intelligence division
undercover detective about their is an empire unto itself, and one
desire to attack synagogues. hand doesn’t necessarily know
This week, New York City offi- what the other is doing. They’re
cials held a news conference to trying to have it both ways, and
announce the arrest of Jose Pi- that is flat-out wrong.”
mentel, an accused al-Qaeda sym- But the second agent added
pathizer charged with plotting to that in the Pimentel case, “in a
bomb police and post offices and sense, the system worked. The
U.S. troops returning home. Miss- case didn’t disappear, and nobody
ing from the tableau were the fed- got hurt.’’
eral agents and prosecutors who Browne, the NYPD deputy com-
typically lead major terrorism missioner, rejected the criticism
probes. That’s because the FBI-led and said local officials are confi-
Joint Terrorism Task Force, in con- dent the case is strong. He said
sultation with the Manhattan U.S. that police used at least four confi-
attorney’s office, decided the case dential informants and undercov-
was not currently prosecutable in er police officers over 31 months of
federal court. interactions with Pimentel and
In interviews, federal law en- that separate witnesses “heard
forcement officials expressed and saw [Pimentel] talk, then act
doubts about Pimentel’s capacity in building bombs to kill Ameri-
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Jose Pimentel, 27, is accused by
New York officials of plotting to
bomb post offices, police and
U.S. troops. Federal officials
declined to prosecute the case.
cans.’’
“These critiques are trying to
undermine a success,” Browne
said. “We had someone making a
bomb and saying they were going
to blow it up in New York City. The
NYPD is intent on stopping that,
regardless of how it’s prosecuted.’’
He said that police give the FBI
-led task force first crack at terror-
ism leads and that the overall rela-
tionship between the two agen-
cies, although it has endured some
“rough spots,” is “much improved
recently.”
“We are adding value, big time,
in terms of counterterrorism,”
Browne said.
Joan Vollero, a spokeswoman
for the Manhattan district attor-
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as did Ellen Davis, a spokeswoman
for Preet Bharara, the U.S. attor-
ney in Manhattan.
FBI-NYPD relations, vital to
protecting the nation’s largest city,
are by no means dysfunctional.
Officials in both agencies say they
work together smoothly in most
instances, including the investiga-
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New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly displays parts of a mock-up of a pipe bomb. Kelly
launched the NYPD’s counterterrorism effort not long after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
led task force “was consulted, and
the decision was made to bring the
matter to the Manhattan district
attorney’s office for prosecution,”
said Supervisory Special Agent
Timothy Flannelly, a spokesman
for the FBI’s New York Field Office.
Paul Bresson, a Washington-
based FBI spokesman, said the
overall FBI-NYPD relationship is
strong. “In the big picture, we both
understand that the threat re-
mains very real, the stakes are
high and we have to get it right
every day. So we work together
regularly,” he said.
“But you want law enforcement
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through different lenses. That’s
healthy,” Bresson said.
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lice Commissioner Raymond W. ed States, court documents said.
Kelly launched it not long after Lori Cohen, an attorney for Pi-
Sept. 11, 2001. The FBI froze Kelly’s mentel, said that she will mount “a
department out of two New York- zealous defense” and that “it is
related terrorism investigations, interesting that the FBI decided
officials said in 2008, and initially not to go near this case.”
would not let NYPD detectives on Federal officials said that deci-
the FBI task force read the bu- sion was not the FBI’s alone and
reau’s case files. that if state prosecutors had also
“People have information, and taken a pass, they would have
they want to control information,” monitored Pimentel to make sure
Kelly said in a 2008 interview. In he wasn’t a threat.
September, Kelly told CBS News’ “Would we have picked it up
“60 Minutes”: “We couldn’t rely on and prevented something bad
the federal government alone. I from happening at all costs? Abso-
believed that we had to create our lutely,’’ said one federal official,
own counterterrorism capacity.” who spoke on the condition of
Pimentel, 27, has pleaded not anonymity to discuss internal de-
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did not need to travel. He was
planning to visit the United
States to drop off his son at
college and promised to stop by
Barbero’s office in Arlington. The
two met for about 30 minutes.
Barbero told the Pakistani
businessman that the fertilizer
from his plants was responsible
for most of the U.S. deaths in
Afghanistan. Mukhtar countered
that less than 1 percent of his
product fell into insurgents’
hands and was fashioned into
bombs. The vast majority of the
fertilizer was used for farming;
people depended on his product
to eat and live.
“He is not a radical,” Barbero
said of Mukhtar. “I think he
wants to be part of the solution.”
Mukhtar declined an inter-
view request for this article. A
spokesman for the Fatima Group
praised Barbero’s efforts in an
e-mail. “I am sure that a person
of his experience and caliber can
be very effective in dealing with
the issue of IED related inci-
dents,” he said, using the abbre-
viation for improvised explosive
device.
The brief office visit was the
beginning of Barbero’s months-
long immersion in the global
fertilizer industry. He and his
staff have studied how the am-
monium nitrate fertilizer is
made, how it can be processed
into a bomb and how it might be
modified to make it less danger-
ous or more detectable by U.S.
and Afghan troops at border
crossings.
A week after his meeting with
Mukhtar, Barbero flew to Denver
to address a global conference of
ammonium nitrate plant manag-
ers. His speech included a plea
for help and warnings of onerous
regulation if industry executives
did not find ways to make ammo-
nium nitrate fertilizer less useful
as a weapon.
The plant managers reacted
coolly. “They told me how hard it
was to make it non-detonable,”
Barbero said. “I said I got it. But
you need to start working on it.”
Last week, Barbero’s com-
mand, the Joint IED Defeat Or-
ganization, organized its own
fertilizer conference at a hotel in
Arlington. About 120 industry
executives, agronomists, chem-
ists and military officers met for
three days. Mukhtar’s Fatima
Group sent a representative from
its plant in Pakistan’s Punjab
province.
Almost immediately, the in-
dustry executives raised doubts
that there was anything they
could do to help the military. The
amounts of fertilizer the Taliban
were using to make their bombs
— about 480,000 pounds of am-
monium nitrate a year — seemed
minuscule when compared with
the global industry’s annual out-
put.
“I appreciate the gravity of the
situation,” said Donald Thomas,
an executive with Illinois-based
CF Industries. “I have a son-in-
law who is a lance corporal in the
Marines. But when I look at the
volumes [in insurgent bombs], it
is nothing. It is two rail cars out
of millions of tons.”
“I think you need to talk to
your son-in-law,” said Bob Best,
the top fertilizer expert on Bar-
bero’s staff. “That 480,000
pounds is a big number to him.”
In the summer, the 59-year-
old chemist visited the Fatima
Group’s fertilizer plant in Multan
to understand how the company
made and distributed its prod-
uct.
“It was amazing for me,” re-
called Best, who said he received
a warm reception from the
plant’s technical staff.
A few days after his trip, a
Pakistani newspaper alleged that
Best was a CIA operative and
said that U.S. officials were using
a diplomatic facade to “secure
niches for their spies and hit men
in and around Multan.” Best said
the allegations are untrue.
At the November conference,
Best described how the Taliban
convert fertilizer into explosives,
a process he has studied for years
by making and detonating crude
bombs himself.
The first step is to remove
calcium carbonate, which the
industry began adding to ammo-
nium nitrate fertilizer in the
1970s to make it less explosive.
Taliban bombmakers remove the
calcium by pouring the fertilizer
granules into a large pot of hot
water. The insoluble calcium car-
bonate sinks to the bottom of the
container.
The insurgents then dry the
ammonium nitrate solution. The
final product, which looks like
laundry detergent, is packed in
yellow plastic jugs. Blasting caps
are fashioned out of ballpoint
pens or glass tubes full of acid.
The bombs contain no metal,
making them exceptionally hard
to detect.
Best flashed a picture of one of
the Taliban’s bomb-making fac-
tories on a large screen for the
conference participants. “What
you are seeing is a few guys living
in a mud hut with no electricity,”
he told the crowd.
A few minutes later the confer-
ence broke into working groups.
The teams’ task was to find easy,
quick and cheap ways to modify
the fertilizer so it would be
harder to make into a bomb.
Some groups talked about
adding pink or yellow dyes to the
fertilizer to make it easier to spot
at border crossings. One team
debated whether there was a way
to add an effervescent substance
to the bags of calcium ammoni-
um nitrate so that when insur-
gents placed the granules in
water they would get a fizzy
mess. Another group suggested
putting radio frequency identifi-
cation tags in the bags so that
they could be tracked as they left
the factory.
The most promising solution,
recommended by all four work-
ing groups, involved adding coat-
ed urea fertilizer granules to the
bags of ammonium nitrate. The
combination of urea and ammo-
nium nitrate has a strong affinity
for water and would be very
difficult for insurgents to dry
into an explosive powder.
The urea additives would not
stop the insurgents from pro-
cessing the fertilizer into bombs,
but it would complicate their
task and potentially make the
blast less potent.
On the conference’s last day,
groups reported their findings
and the attention shifted to Fati-
ma Group representative Far-
rukh Qureshi, the sole Pakistani
at the conference.
A British military officer at the
conference suggested that only
the Fatima Group plants should
have to change their method of
production because they were
the lone source of the problem in
Afghanistan.
“It is a near-monopoly,” the
British officer said. “And if those
two plants would adjust their
processes, it would make it very
difficult for the insurgent to shop
around.”
Qureshi bristled at the sugges-
tion that Pakistan plants were
the only problem. “There is a lot
of trade taking place with India.
There is Iran and Indonesia,” he
said. “And I am not even discuss-
ing about the former Russian
states. . . . The extremists will
find ways to get calcium ammo-
nium nitrate. These are very
smart people.”
Another conference partici-
pant suggested banning ammo-
nium nitrate in Pakistan and
forcing farmers to shift to other
kinds of fertilizer, such as urea,
which is used heavily in the
United States and is harder to
make into a bomb.
Qureshi said that Pakistan’s
impoverished subsistence farm-
ers would need expensive ma-
chinery to spread urea. Ammoni-
um nitrate fertilizer is spread by
hand and is better suited to
Pakistani soil. “Our customers
are very change-sensitive and
very cost-sensitive,” he said.
A few minutes later, the con-
ference ended. Barbero’s com-
mand will pay for some quick
studies in the next few months to
determine whether adding coat-
ed urea granules, dyes or radio
tags to the ammonium nitrate
bags really will mean fewer
bombs.
The goal is to have any poten-
tial solution in place at the
Fatima Group plants before the
2012 summer fighting season in
Afghanistan.
jaffeg@washpost.com
Correspondent Karin Brulliard in
Islamabad contributed to this report.
grass crunches underfoot as Da-
vid Barfield walks through his
45-acre Christmas tree farm
pointing at evergreens covered
with brittle, rust-colored needles.
“Dead tree, dead tree, dead
tree,” he says, shaking his head at
dry timber he had hoped would
be chopped down by parents
with excited children.
Instead, Mother Nature deliv-
ered the Grinch in the form of a
historic drought that has killed
thousands of trees across Texas
and Oklahoma. Some died of
thirst. Others were destroyed by
wildfires, whose breadth and in-
tensity were magnified when
wind swept the flames across
parched landscape.
Most farmers plan to import
trees from North Carolina to
supplement any they have left,
said Marshall Cathey, president
of the Texas Christmas Tree
Growers Association. They say
they aren’t planning to raise
prices because consumers are
reluctant to pay more than $40
or $50 for a Christmas tree,
especially in a poor economy.
But families hoping for a
homegrown tree to cut down will
have a harder time finding one,
and farmers are struggling. Pos-
sibly most painful for these grow-
ers are the deaths of the youngest
saplings, which guarantee the
drought’s effect will be felt for
years to come.
Jean Raisey, 79, who has run a
Christmas tree farm in Purcell,
Okla., with her husband since
1985, lost 90 percent of her trees.
“The other 10 percent are dying
now,” she said.
Cathey, who owns the 50-acre
Elves Farm in Denison, Tex., said
long stretches of triple-degree
heat harmed the trees as much as
the lack of rain.
In Texas, less than 11 inches of
rain fell this year, compared with
an annual average of almost 24
inches. In Oklahoma, there has
been about 18.7 inches of rain
this year compared with a long-
term average of 30 inches.
It takes three to five years to
grow an evergreen to a market-
able size.
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Water-pump
failure wasn’t
cyberattack
BY E LLEN N AKASHIMA

A water-pump failure in Illinois

that appeared to be the first for-
eign cyberattack on a public utility
in the United States was in fact
caused by a plant contractor trav-
eling in Russia, according to a
person familiar with a federal in-
vestigation of the incident.
Investigators analyzed log files
and connections to foreign Inter-
net protocol addresses within the
utility’s computer system, said the
source, who was not authorized to
speak for attribution. “No indict-
ors of malicious activity were
found” in the computer system of
the Curran-Gardner Townships
Public Water District in Spring-
field, the source said.
The contractor, who had re-
mote access to the computer sys-
tem, was in Russia on personal
business, the source added.
The suspicion of foreign hack-
ing was raised in a preliminary
report by the Illinois Statewide
Terrorism and Intelligence Center
that was obtained by a control
systems industry expert. The ex-
pert, Joe Weiss, alerted the news
media to the suspected intrusion.
But officials at the Department
of Homeland Security, which over-
sees industrial control system cy-
bersecurity, cautioned from the
outset that the report contained
“no credible, corroborated data.”
The water pump in question
had been experiencing problems,
turning on and off and eventually
failing, water district board mem-
bers said. The pump has malfunc-
tioned several times in recent
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years, a DHS official said.
DHS was alerted to the Illinois Aurelia Morales waits with granddaughter Angelica Morales, 2, at the Mall at Prince Georges in Hyattsville as Angela Morales, Angelica’s mother, tries to squeeze their Black
report on Nov. 16. At the water Friday haul into their car. Aurelia eventually had to call her uncle to come help. 6 For more on Black Friday, including photos and video, visit washingtonpost.com/blackfriday.
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industrial control system experts

More stores are opening doors on Thanksgiving night

to the water plant on Sunday to
investigate, according to a DHS
bulletin. FBI officials also took
part in the inquiry, which includ-
ed interviewing personnel and
collecting logs for analysis. The shopping from A1 said Ken Homa, professor of Holiday sales can account for
agencies concluded that there was marketing at Georgetown Uni- upward of 40 percent of retailers’
no malicious or unauthorized traf- the first big-box chains to launch versity’s McDonough School of annual total and represented
fic from Russia, as stated in the its Black Friday specials at Business. “Next year, we’re likely nearly 20 percent of the retail
preliminary Illinois report. 10 p.m. Thursday. This year, to see everybody doing this. . . . industry’s total intake last year,
Plant and federal officials are Wal-Mart matched the move. The guys with the first opportu- according to the National Retail
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pump’s failure. even earlier, at 9 p.m. book are likely to take share Merchants entered this holi-
nakashimae@washpost.com “This is just the beginning,” away from their competitors.” day season with the European
debt crisis, weak U.S. economic
growth and failed “supercom-
mittee” talks threatening to sour
consumers on spending. Some
surveys show that a large num-
ber of households believe it is a
bad time to spend.

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Laws to rein in Russian pretrial jailing ignored
Detention system is often used to extract bribes and enforce widespread corruption
B Y K ATHY L ALLY
IN MOSCOW

O
ver the past 18 months, Presi-
dent Dmitry Medvedev has
signed two laws meant to rein
in Russia’s notorious pretrial
detention system, an institu-
tion often used to extract bribes and
enforce widespread corruption. He has
been trying to make the country more
governable and conducive to business.
Medvedev sought to discourage police,
prosecutors and judges from jailing busi-
nesspeople on false charges, often in
return for bribes from competitors bent
on destroying a rival.
But the system quickly proved itself
more powerful than the president. The
laws were ignored. Yet another of Medve-
dev’s promised reforms would go unkept,
and Russians would remain fearful of
their courts and police.
The failed attempt to strengthen the
rule of law illustrates an odd paradox:
Even as the government has grown more
authoritarian, it has become less capable
of exerting its will over the vast bureau-
cracy beneath when that bureaucracy has
other interests.
“Of course, they can say whatever they
want,” said Yana Yakovleva, who leads
Business Solidarity, an organization that
fights for the rights of Russian business-
people. “But there is not a single agency
not poisoned with corruption here, and
they will listen to what they’re told only if
it’s profitable or when their fear is stron-
ger than the desire for money.”
When a compliant judge denies bail,
detention gets a businessman out of the
way while his company is stolen. It’s a
powerful tool for corrupt officials to ex-
tract a bribe: Pay up or go to jail. Detain-
ees are held in intolerable conditions.
The water is usually undrinkable — the
fortunate use electric coils brought by
relatives to boil it. Cells are damp and
dark. Medical care is routinely denied.
Many suffer, and for no reason. Last
year, according to court records, 404,333
people were convicted of economic
Inmates in Russian pretrial detention centers often have little space and are kept
under worse conditions than prisoners who have been convicted of a crime. This
photo was taken by an inmate, using a cellphone.
COURTESY OF THE GULEVICH FAMILY
Natalia Gulevich, shown before she was
charged with not paying a bank loan.
crimes, but only 146,490 received prison
terms. The rest paid fines or got suspend-
ed sentences. At the same time, 59 people
died in Moscow’s pretrial prisons, half a
dozen more than the year before.
“We can say one thing for sure,” said
Valery Borshchev, the head of a public
commission that monitors prison condi-
tions in Moscow. “The president’s initia-
tives are not working.”
Problems remain
With Medvedev’s new laws in place,
lawyers and human rights activists
thought the legal system would throw off
COURTESY OF ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT MONITORS
Gulevich, 52 — with attorneys, Anna Stavitskaya, left, and Andrei Shtankoawaits — appears for a court hearing in Moscow in
October. Gulevich, who has been in jail since December 2010 awaiting trial, has gone into kidney failure.
some of the practices left 20 years ago by
the Soviet Union, where detention nearly
always meant guilt and punishment, trial
or not, and private business, illegal until
the late 1980s, remained suspect.
They thought that Stanislav Kankia,
47, a businessman accused of fraud after
he had a falling-out with his partners,
would be freed. He has been in jail for a
year, and four strokes have left him brain
damaged, barely able to talk and partly
blind. On Oct. 24, a court, saying his
health was fine, ruled that there were no
grounds to release him.
Natalia Gulevich, 52, has been in pris-
on for 11 months because of an unpaid
bank loan. Her lawyer said the real cause
was raiders trying to seize office build-
ings she owned. She has gone into kidney
failure, and this month, a Moscow court
agreed to allow bail — if she posted a
$3.5 million bond within a week. The
Itar-Tass news agency called the amount
unprecedented in Russia, and her law-
yers said she could not possibly come up
with that much money.
Gulevich’s husband and family mem-
bers put up their cars, apartments and
other property, but it was not enough.
“Investigators told her to plead guilty,
and she would be freed,” said Zoya Sveto-
va, a journalist and activist. “She refused.”
This week, Gulevich was finally hospi-
talized — after the European Court of
Human Rights in Strasbourg told the
Russian government to provide her with
immediate medical treatment.
Russia has the world’s second-highest
rate of incarceration, behind the United
States. The United States has an even
higher rate of pretrial detention, with
jails full of poor people unable to afford
bail, usually on charges involving drugs
or violence. The difference is that Tom
DeLay awaits money-laundering charges
in freedom while Maxim Petlin, a city
councilman in the city of Yekaterinburg,
languishes in pretrial detention, accused
of bribery. His supporters say his real
crime is that he’s a liberal politician who
is critical of the authorities.
Pretrial detention has been under
scrutiny here since Sergei L. Magnitsky, a
lawyer who accused officials of a
$230 million tax fraud, was charged by
those same officials with the crime. He
died on Nov. 16, 2009, at age 38 in
Moscow’s Butyrka prison.
While he was in detention, investiga-
tors tried to force him to implicate his
employer, Hermitage Capital, a Western
investment fund. He refused and was
denied treatment for pancreatitis and
beaten before he died. Borshchev and his
commission investigated Magnitsky’s
death at Medvedev’s behest, but the find-
ings went right to the officials who were
implicated in the death.
Two prison doctors are being investi-
gated in connection with Magnitsky’s
death, not the officials who pursued him
and dictated the conditions of his con-
finement.
Yakovleva, who became an activist af-
ter refusing to pay a bribe and spending
seven months in jail, said that’s what
happens across the country — com-
plaints about abuse or corruption are
automatically sent to the authorities in-
volved.
“Who is the creator of this wonderful
situation?” she asked rhetorically, saying
it was put in place by the Bolsheviks in
the 1930s to silence complaints about
collectivization.
Two laws passed
In April 2010, Medvedev signed a law
calling for bail or release on personal
recognizance for economic crimes and, in
January, signed another law stipulating
that seriously ill detainees need not await
trial in jail.
Yelena Panfilova, who monitors cor-
PHOTO BY ILYA VASYUNIN/TVDOZHD.RU
ruption as director of Transparency In-
ternational in Moscow, said this month
that corruption has grown more en-
trenched in Russia over the past decade.
If businesspeople once gave bribes volun-
tarily, perhaps to get a permit faster, now
payoffs have become required. Those
who refuse to pay often find themselves
in jail, despite the new laws.
“It’s in the hand of judges,” she said,
“and they have other incentives.”
Judges don’t even pretend they’re in-
dependent, said Stanislav Dmitrievsky,
an activist in the city of Nizhny Novgorod.
“Those who tried are no longer judges.
They’ve been disqualified.”
The country is run, he said, by making
sure everyone is guilty of something.
“Then they’re easy to manage.”
Borshchev and Lyubov Volkova, an-
other member of the prison-monitoring
commission, visited Baltimore jails in
June, a tour arranged by the bilateral
presidential commission, a vehicle of the
reset of relations between the United
States and Russia.
“What I liked about Baltimore was the
good legal regime,” he said. “There’s not
the arbitrariness we have here.”
The food and hygiene was far better
than in Moscow, he said, but not all was
perfect. “As we walked along, we could
see someone on the toilet,” he said.
“That’s a violation of European conven-
tions.”
Volkova said some things have
changed since the early days of capital-
ism in the 1990s, when business disputes
were settled by picking up a gun and
killing someone. Now they’re settled by
getting an investigator to issue a warrant.
“Prisons are a tool for taking a business
from an entrepreneur,” she said. “They’re
destroying the middle class of Russia,
while real criminals happily serve their
sentences with rosy cheeks.”
lallyk@washpost.com

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SYRIA YEMEN THAILAND

Military pledges Rival army units A Thai health

support for regime
The Syrian military vowed Fri-
day to “cut every evil hand” that
targets the country’s security, a
defiant stance by the regime as it
faces the possibility of sweeping
economic sanctions from the
Arab League.
The military statement could
signal darker days to come in an
eight-month revolt against Presi-
dent Bashar al-Assad that is
turning more violent by the day.
Until recently in the uprising,
most of the bloodshed occurred
as security forces fired on mainly
peaceful protests. But there have
been growing reports of army de-
fectors and armed civilians fight-
ing Assad’s forces — a develop-
ment that some say plays into
the regime’s hands by giving gov-
ernment troops a pretext to
crack down.
On Friday, the military blamed
terrorists for an attack a day ear-
lier in Homs, saying six elite pi-
lots and four technical officers
were killed in an ambush.
The Arab League gave Syria a
24-hour deadline to agree to an
observer mission or face sanc-
tions, a humiliating blow to a na-
tion that was a founding member
of the Arab coalition. But the Fri-
day afternoon deadline passed
with no agreement. Instead,
Arab League Secretary General
Nabil Elaraby received a letter
from Syria seeking more details
about the proposed observer
mission and its legal status.
— Associated Press
clash in capital
Heavy fighting between rival
army units shook Yemen’s capital
Friday, killing two soldiers in
what could signal the start of a
power struggle just days after au-
tocratic President Ali Abdullah
Saleh agreed to end his 33-year
rule.
The clashes pitted Central Se-
curity Forces commanded by
Saleh’s nephew, Col. Yehia Saleh,
against troops from the 1st Ar-
mored Division, headed by Maj.
Gen. Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, who
defected and joined the protest-
ers in March.
The units have clashed in the
past, but Friday’s fighting was
the first showdown since Saleh
signed a U.S.-backed proposal
Wednesday in the Saudi Arabian
capital, Riyadh. Under the deal,
Saleh ceded power to Vice Presi-
dent Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi,
who is to swear in a unity gov-
ernment in 30 days; elections are
to be held in 90 days. In return,
Saleh and his family received im-
munity from prosecution.
Also Friday, opposition parties
that signed the deal selected Mo-
hammed Basindwa as prime
minister, said opposition leader
Abdullah Obal.
— Associated Press
MALI
Tourists are targeted
in Timbuktu attack
Gunmen burst into a restau-
rant Friday in Mali’s most fa-
mous city, Timbuktu, and
grabbed four tourists, executing
one when he refused to climb
into their truck, said a witness
and an official who inspected the
body.
The armed men entered the
Amanar restaurant about 2:30
p.m. and pointed their guns at
four diners, said Moussa Boubac-
ar, a restaurant customer. The
four went outside with the gun-
men, who directed them to enter
a vehicle. One of the tourists re-
fused, Boubacar said, and the
kidnappers opened fire, killing
him on the spot.
The tourists’ nationalities
could not be confirmed, but wit-
nesses described them as Euro-
pean.
Until a few years ago, Timbuk-
tu was one of the most visited
destinations in Africa. But be-
cause of kidnappings by a local
affiliate of al-Qaeda, the city is
one of many former tourist desti-
nations in Mali that foreign em-
bassies have deemed too danger-
ous.
— Associated Press
Moroccans go to polls: Moroc-
worker fumigates
a submerged
neighborhood on
the outskirts of
Bangkok, where
residents have
endured high
water levels for
weeks. Since
July, more than a
fifth of the
country's
64 million people
have been
affected by the
record flooding,
Thailand’s worst
in more than 50
years.
ALTAF QADRI/ASSOCIATED PRESS
cans cast ballots for a new Parlia- American soldiers in Afghani-
ment in elections — inspired by stan and for allegedly aiding al-
the Arab Spring — that faced a Qaeda said he has appealed to
boycott by democracy campaign- the Netherlands’ Supreme Court
ers who say the ruling monarchy to prevent his client’s extradi-
isn’t committed to real change. A tion. The 24-year-old suspect,
moderate Islamist party and a identified under Dutch privacy
pro-palace coalition led by the laws only as “Sabir K.,” was in-
finance minister are competing dicted by a federal grand jury in
for the top spot, but a key test for New York on June 22. But his ex-
the authorities’ legitimacy will tradition case was held behind
be voter turnout. closed doors in the Netherlands,
and no information about it was
Dutch terrorism suspect resists released until his attorney, Andre
extradition: A lawyer for a Dutch Seebregts, sought publicity.
man wanted by the United States
on suspicion of trying to kill — From news services
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2011
Anti-terror campaign dividing Somalis, Kenyan hosts
Crackdown on Islamist
militant group centers
on Somali enclaves
BY S UDARSAN R AGHAVAN
nairobi — On a recent night,
Kenyan security forces rounded
up 43 people, including women
and children, in the Somali en-
clave of Nairobi known as East-
leigh. The ethnic Somalis spent
five days in an overcrowded cell
without access to a lawyer or being
formally charged.
“They accused us of being al-
Shabab sympathizers,” recalled
Mohamed Noor, a Somali journal-
ist, referring to the al-Qaeda-
linked Islamist militia. “They said
they would chase us out of the
country.”
Since entering neighboring
Somalia last month to fight al-Sha-
bab, Kenyan security forces have
launched a parallel campaign on
their own soil to diffuse the mili-
tia’s networks here. As a result of
that crackdown, ethnic Somalis
have been mistreated and in some
cases beaten, arbitrarily arrested
and deported, according to hu-
man rights groups, Somali com-
munity leaders and witnesses.
“The Kenyan authorities
should not use the current mili-
tary operation as an excuse to
clamp down on the rights of peo-
ple within [Kenya’s] borders,” said
Daniel Bekele, Africa director of
Human Rights Watch, the watch-
dog group.
Today, many ethnic Somalis,
mostly refugees who have fled So-
malia’s civil conflicts, are living in
a state of apprehension. Hate
speech and xenophobia are on the
rise, Somalis said in interviews.
They are afraid to leave their
homes at night, and some have
even sent their children back to
Somalia to prevent them from be-
ing picked up in Kenyan security
sweeps.
The concerns come as anti-
Somali feelings have been grow-
ing over the past year in this East
African nation. Many Kenyans say
Somalis, who make up roughly 8
percent of the country’s popula-
tion of 40 million, have taken over
the economy, driven up real estate
prices and made Kenya less se-
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A strike inside Kenya is a real
possibility. In July 2010, the militia
orchestrated bombings in the
Ugandan capital, Kampala, killing
dozens watching the soccer World
Cup. The group said the attacks
were retaliation for Uganda’s
backing of an African Union
peacekeeping mission in Somalia.
Militia leaders have vowed to at-
tack Kenya in a similar fashion
unless it pulls its troops out of
Somalia.
Growing scrutiny
Security now is tight around the
capital. Guards are posted at
malls, restaurants and bars,
searching cars and frisking cus-
tomers for bombs. Plainclothes in-
telligence agents patrol down-
town, seeking out anyone who
looks suspicious. That often
means anyone who appears to be
ethnic Somali, Somalis said in in-
terviews.
Somalis have also been ha-
rassed in other areas of Kenya.
According to a statement by Hu-
man Rights Watch, “Kenyan mili-
tary personnel arbitrarily de-
tained and mistreated civilians”
on Nov. 11 in the town of Garissa.
SIMON MAINA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE VIA GETTY IMAGES
A witness said “soldiers picked
Eastleigh, a neighborhood of Nairobi, is known for its ethnic Somali population. Discrimination against Somalis in Kenya is growing, up people who looked Somali, beat
community leaders say, as Kenyan security forces try to flush out members of the Somalia-based Islamist militant group al-Shabab. them and forced them to sit in
dirty water while interrogating
Now, the military operation has July report that there were “exten- them.”
made the atmosphere even more sive Kenyan networks linked to In Eastleigh, scrutiny of Soma-
tense, Somali community leaders al-Shabaab, which not only recruit lis is growing. Police have in-
say. Last month, Kenya’s assistant and raise funds for the organiza- creased identification checks of
internal security minister, Orwa tion, but also conduct orientation Somalis. If they don’t have proper
Ojode, informed the parliament and training events inside Kenya.” refugee documents, Somali com-
that the offensive would be cou- In particular, U.N. investigators munity leaders said, they face de-
pled with the alleged that a Kenyan youth cen- portation — unless they can afford
“mother of all operations” in Nai- ter, headquartered in a slum next a bribe. The Yahye Human Rights
robi to flush out al-Shabab mem- to Eastleigh, was a front for the Foundation, a Somali activist
bers and keep the capital safe. He militia. group, said it has helped 85 Somali
singled out Eastleigh. Somali community leaders ac- refugees get out of jail this month.
“This is like a big animal with knowledged that there are al- Sha- Most Somalis expect the crack-
the tail in Somalia, and the head of bab loyalists in Eastleigh and oth- downs to intensify the longer Ken-
the animal is here in Eastleigh,” he er Somali enclaves. They quickly ya wages war inside Somalia, and
told lawmakers. added, however, that most Soma- especially if many Kenyan soldiers
lis detest al-Shabab but neverthe- die. That could drive angry and
‘Fed up with the fanatics’ less face discrimination because disaffected Somalis to support the
KHALIL SENOSI/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Some Somalis have welcomed of their ethnicity. militia, some say.
the Kenyan raids on their en- “The xenophobia is dividing Police patrol outside a Nairobi pub where a suspected grenade blast Noor, the journalist, said that
claves. Al-Shabab loyalists, they two populations who have lived injured more than a dozen people. Somalis have been beaten, jailed while he was in jail he overheard
say, have given their community a together peacefully for a long and unfairly deported in security sweeps, human rights groups say. some young Somalis who had
bad reputation. “People are fed up time,” said Ali Isak, 28, a leader of been caught along with him in the
with the fanatics, those who har- Somali Youth for Peace and targeted by security forces, the “The Somali community fears sweep.
bor the terrorists,” said Moham- Change, an activist group in East- Kenyans have mostly restrained an al-Shabab retaliatory strike “They said, ‘We are civilians. We
med Hussein Abukar, a spokes- leigh. themselves. Still, suspicions of more than Kenya’s military opera- are innocent. If we are prosecuted
man for Ahlu Sunna Wal Jamaa, a Rashid Abdi, a Somalia expert Somalis have deepened, and a tion,” Abdi said. “They fear that in an illegal way, the only way we
Sufi Muslim force fighting al- with the International Crisis harsher crackdown could come in could provoke similar sort of can get revenge is to join al-Sha-
Shabab. Group, said that while some So- the weeks and months ahead, he attacks on their community by the bab,’ ” Noor recalled.
The United Nations said in a malis have been mistreated and said. Kenyan government.” raghavans@washpost.com
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A10
TURMOIL IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Egypt’s military rule
exposes divisions
Appointment of new
prime minister draws
dual demonstrations
BY L EILA F ADEL
cairo — Egypt’s embattled mili-
tary rulers appointed a new prime
minister Friday as fiery crowds of
supporters and opponents took to
the streets, exposing the severity
of a split over the leading role of
the nation’s long-revered armed
forces on the eve of parliamentary
elections.
As the largest crowd of the
week-long protests gathered in
central Cairo’s Tahrir Square to
demand that Egypt’s military
chiefs step aside, thousands of an-
gry Egyptians demonstrated near
downtown in support of the gen-
erals and “stability.” A small pro-
military group also turned out in
the port city of Alexandria, where
pitched clashes between anti-mili-
tary council protesters and secu-
rity forces continued.
“Legitimacy is not in Tahrir,” the
military supporters in Cairo
yelled. “O freedom, where are you?
The people want the fall of Tahrir.”
Meanwhile, tens of thousands
of protesters poured into Tahrir
Square, the birthplace of what
most are calling Egypt’s unfin-
ished revolution. They rejected
the appointment of Kamal el-Gan-
zouri, 78, who had served as prime
minister during Hosni Mubarak’s
presidency. He was asked to form a
new cabinet to replace the care-
taker government that resigned
this week amid deadly clashes be-
tween security forces and rock-
throwing demonstrators.
The military chiefs chose Gan-
zouri after holding intensive dis-
Ultraconservative Muslims in Egypt seek to dispel liberals’ fears
egypt from A1
building popular support for a
new crackdown by the authori-
ties. A first test will come next
week with Egypt’s first post-
Mubarak elections.
Into the public eye
As the son of well-off secular
parents, Tolba is better suited
than most to narrow the gap
between liberals and Islamists —
groups that have for decades been
wary of each other.
Salafists say at least a few
million Egyptians follow their
brand of Islam, but estimates vary
because for decades many have
taken pains to conceal their ad-
herence to the movement.
Salafists tend to be more dogmat-
ic than members of the Muslim
Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest Is-
lamist movement, but the two
movements support similar polit-
ical goals: policies that are more
closely in line with Islamic law.
(Both are made up of Sunni Mus-
lims, divided by a centuries-old
schism from the Shiite branch of
Islam dominant in Iraq and Iran.)
When Tolba sat down at a
Costa Coffee shop in Cairo that
day in late February, the plain-
clothes state security agents who
hassled bearded men under
Mubarak’s regime were nowhere
in sight. But stares from fellow
patrons in skinny jeans or suits
made him feel unwelcome.
“The guy serving me coffee and
the other guests were feeling un-
comfortable, and they were look-
ing at me in a very bad way,” Tolba
said. “I started talking to people
and making jokes.”
Some warmed up to him,
which planted the seed for what
became known as Salafyo Costa,
or the Costa Salafis. Tolba and
some friends created a Facebook
page to encourage Egyptians of
all backgrounds to have coffee
with Salafists. It soon spun into a
thousands-strong lively online fo-
rum for debate over politics, for-
eign policy and religion.
Tolba said he believes that a
large number of Egyptians will
gravitate toward Salafism now
that Islamists have greater free-
doms, but he insists that such a
trend ought to happen organical-
ly rather than by force.
“You should not enforce teach-
ings on others,” he said at a Costa
Coffee one afternoon this sum-
mer. “Let the crowds decide what
they want. At the end of the day,
we will accept what the people
say.”
As Salafyo Costa gained popu-
larity, Tolba adapted the logo of
the British coffee chain, which
has three coffee beans, to depict a
bearded man. He made a short
EZ SU KLMNO SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2011
cussions with more prominent fig-
ures such as Amr Moussa, the
former Arab League chief, and
Mohamed ElBaradei, a Nobel
Peace Prize laureate who formerly
headed the International Atomic
Energy Agency. Both turned down
the job after demanding broad
powers, according to political fig-
ures briefed on the meetings.
In Washington, the White
House called Friday for the new
government to be “empowered
with real authority immediately”
and for elections to go ahead “ex-
peditiously,” leading to a full trans-
fer of power to a civilian govern-
ment. The U.S. administration has
been hesitant to fully support pro-
testers against the Egyptian mili-
tary, an institution that receives
billions of dollars in U.S. aid.
“The U.S. talks about democra-
cy and justice, but on the ground
they don’t support it,” said Mo-
hammed Kenawi, a doctor in Tah-
rir Square. “The U.S. is only wor-
KHALIL HAMRA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
ried about their little child, Israel.”
Kenawi said he had not slept in Protesters, including a man holding up tear gas canisters, chant slogans and wave national flags during a rally in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
days as he treated patients who
lost eyes from birdshot or choked ers during the demonstration, ing political crisis just three days would hand some of their authori- hammed Hussein Tantawi, said
on tear gas, and fended off an which organizers dubbed “last before landmark parliamentary ty to him. the ruling Supreme Council of the
attack on the field hospital. chance Friday.” elections are scheduled to begin. The Muslim Brotherhood’s po- Armed Forces did not want to stay
Aiming to prevent Ganzouri But protester Ibrahim Moham- The government announced Fri- litical party, Freedom and Justice, in power. He said he could not
from entering the cabinet build- med appeared traumatized, reel- day that the first stage of parlia- appeared to be one of the few form a new cabinet until after
ing, hundreds marched to the site ing from the killings and beatings mentary elections would allow groups satisfied with Ganzouri’s Monday’s elections.
and started erecting tents. Revolu- he said he saw committed by riot people to vote over two days. appointment. The group decided But demonstrators and opposi-
tionary youth movements de- police over the past week. If the The military chiefs had scram- not to participate in the opposi- tion politicians said the council’s
clared ElBaradei the head of a military chiefs cede power, he bled to find someone to agree to tion demonstrations, which choice showed that it still did not
“national salvation government.” said, they know that they — like take over as prime minister before prompted other revolutionaries to understand their demands.
ElBaradei prayed in Tahrir Square their former boss, deposed presi- Monday’s elections. The cabinet accuse it of political opportunism. “This is not an old people’s revo-
on Friday with the protesters. dent Mubarak, before them — will that resigned this week was seen “There is no other choice. If lution,” said Islam Gamal el-Sha-
After a week of bloodshed, the probably have to stand trial for the as weak and subservient to the Ganzouri has the full authority, hed, 23, a medical student work-
square was calm Friday, having deaths of protesters. military council that took power this will be good,” said Essam el- ing in a makeshift clinic in Tahrir
regained its carnival-like atmos- “We want someone accepted by after the winter uprising that oust- Erian, vice president of the Free- Square. “Ganzouri played his part
phere. Members of the country’s the square, not someone from the ed Mubarak on Feb. 11. dom and Justice party. “A real cabi- in the old government. We need a
secular elite were among the old regime,” Mohammed said. Ganzouri would have “full pow- net must come after the elections.” strong government to stand up to
throng of sympathizers who The brutal crackdown on pro- ers to help him fulfill his duties In a televised news conference the military council.”
joined the hard-core demonstra- tests across the country has left at with complete efficiency,” the Friday, Ganzouri appeared anx- fadell@washpost.com
tors, many of whom view Tahrir as least 41 people dead and more state-run Middle East News Agen- ious. He assured the nation that he
a battleground they need to hold. than 3,000 injured. The violence cy reported. It was unclear wheth- accepted the job only after Egypt’s Special correspondent Ingy Hassieb
The only bangs were firecrack- has mired the nation in a deepen- er that meant the military rulers military chief, Field Marshal Mo- contributed to this report.
ing these flags?” Cairo, Maksoud officiated at a
One of the men looked con- large mosque that was so full
fused and replied that he had some attendees had to pray out-
been asked to wave it, Tolba said. side. As the gray-bearded, limp-
As the sun rose, massive ing cleric departed, devotees
crowds began chanting: “The crowded around, trying to kiss his
people want Islamic law!” A ven- hand.
dor sold photographs of slain Maksoud said Egypt must be
al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Lad- ruled in a way consistent with
en. sharia law. Although sharia has
Fuming, Tolba left the square. long been a bedrock of the Egyp-
“All of us are feeling so down,” tian constitution, he said, the
he said a few days later. “We look government for decades has
like the guys that came, but they largely ignored it. As an example,
don’t represent us.” he said, wearing the veil should
It wasn’t the only time Tolba be mandatory for women.
has felt on the outside looking in. Alcohol, he added, should not
Several traditional Salafists re- be consumed in public venues.
fused to meet with him, thinking “Egyptian people love Islam, and
his movement was flippant and they are calling for Islam,” he said.
offensive to the old guard. Al-
though many Christians joined With every rock, hope
the group, some remain wary of The prospect that well-orga-
all Salafists, such as the members nized Islamist parties could dom-
of a church who agreed to let him inate politics is widely believed to
speak at a service, only to cancel have been the main reason
at the last minute. Egypt’s military chiefs have been
reluctant to cede power to elected
ERNESTO LONDONO/THE WASHINGTON POST A spiritual awakening officials. The lengthy transition
Mohammad Tolba, shown leading a prayer, founded Salafyo Costa, named after a coffeehouse chain. His Tolba was not born into a time frame they proposed, which
effort to mainstream Salafism is an attempt to bridge a gap that threatens Egypt’s revolutionary goals. Salafist family. During his late would have put off presidential
teens and early 20s, he said, he elections until at least 2013, was
video meant as a metaphor for the visions were exposed. In some in the square, along with many sometimes drank and partied one of the catalysts of fresh pro-
transition on which Egypt was cases, violence erupted, most others who had participated in heavily. He met his wife, Doaa tests that began more than a week
about to embark. poignantly in a spate of deadly the revolt. On a sweltering eve- Yehia, 26, in 2000 at a poetry club. ago and have plunged the country
In the clip, five men represent- clashes between Salafists and ning, bearded men and women in He didn’t have a beard then. She into new chaos.
ing different classes of Egyptian Coptic Christians. niqabs talked politics. wore a veil but not a niqab. When Tolba was among a small group
society show up to claim owner- “All parties were scared of each Shimaa Mahmoud, 33, a teach- a close mutual friend was killed in of protesters attempting to set up
ship of a small shop in a rundown other, until they started working er who has been a Salafist for 11 a car accident, the two experi- a permanent camp in Tahrir last
Cairo neighborhood. The men toward one goal,” Tolba said. “We years, said she was looking for- enced a spiritual awakening and week when riot police tried to
initially quarrel over who is the are trying to bring the spirit of ward to being governed by a gradually became Salafists. dislodge them using tear gas and
legitimate owner but agree to Tahrir Square from the revolution parliament dominated by Isla- Tolba said he was shaken and rubber-coated bullets. For the
work together after they realize back.” mists. saddened by the attacks of Sept. first time in his life, Tolba said, he
the shop is in ruins. “People suffered a long time 11, 2001, which occurred shortly felt compelled to respond violent-
That was what Egyptians did ‘Real democracy is in Islam’ under the government,” she said. after he became a Salafist but had ly.
during the 18-day revolt that Tahrir has often served as neu- “Now it’s time to taste real democ- no bearing on his transformation. Along with others, both liber-
forced Mubarak to step down on tral ground for debating the role racy. Real democracy is in Islam.” The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan als and Islamists, he charged
Feb. 11. Soon after the ouster of of Islam in post-revolutionary Rageh Abou Khatwa, 31, an- that were launched in response, toward the line of policemen,
their common enemy, societal di- Egypt. In July, Tolba set up a tent other relatively recent convert to however, have hardened his views armed only with stones. Despite
Salafism, said there is virtually no toward the West. Attacks against the hail of birdshot and clouds of
talk about militancy among peo- American soldiers fighting in for- tear gas, the feeling was cathartic,
ple of his generation. Pointing to a eign lands, he said, are justified. Tolba said.
Detained U.S. students leaving Egypt group of older bearded men from Soon after his first beard grew “It was very spiritual, very in-
the Gamaa Islamiya, which out, Tolba said, he was stopped at spiring,” Tolba said afterward.
kansas city, mo. — The mother of American University student waged a violent campaign against police checkpoints and airports “Every time I went to the front
Derrik Sweeney said Friday that he and two other American the Egyptian government in the and interrogated about his faith. lines, I was recalling every inci-
students arrested during a protest in Cairo had reported they were 1980s and 1990s, he said the He was asked which mosques he dent of injustice. With every rock,
en route to the airport to leave Egypt for home. group represented a closed chap- prayed at and which clerics he I was hoping for a better future
Joy Sweeney said the three students were scheduled to fly from ter in Egyptian history. looked up to. Feeling ostracized, for my children.”
Cairo to Frankfurt, Germany, late Friday. “Using violence did not achieve he took a job in Sudan. A day later, when security
She said her son would fly from there to Washington on Saturday anything,” he said. “Nobody is “They were treating me like a forces charged into the square,
and then on to St. Louis, where he would arrive late Saturday. calling for this type of violence monster,” he said, referring to Tolba was among those beaten
Sweeney said she was “ecstatic” and planned to make her son a anymore.” authorities in Egypt. with clubs. He was left for dead in
belated Thanksgiving dinner. Days later, tens of thousands of Also demonized was his favor- a pile of corpses and wounded
The three college students, who were studying at the American Islamists from across the country ite Salafist cleric, Mohamed Ab- people near a travel agency. Next
University in Cairo, were arrested Sunday on the roof of a university streamed into Tahrir Square for a del Maksoud. to him was a young, unveiled
building near Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Officials accused them of demonstration to decry what Is- Maksoud was arrested several woman who he thinks died.
throwing firebombs at security forces fighting with protesters. lamist groups called an attempt times under Mubarak’s regime Before losing consciousness,
Sweeney, 19, is from Jefferson City, Mo. The two other students by the military and liberal leaders because he often criticized the he said, the woman asked a po-
are Gregory Porter, 19, of Glenside, Pa., and Luke Gates, 21, of to legally enshrine secular princi- government in his sermons. liceman dragging a corpse:
Bloomington, Ind. Egypt’s state-run Middle East News Agency said ples before elections are held. When the cleric was not incarcer- “Aren’t you Egyptian, too?”
officials had confiscated a backpack containing molotov cocktails Some started waving the black ated, his supporters would orga- londonoe@washpost.com
when the three were detained. The young men said the backpack flag associated with violent jihad, nize quick, clandestine prayers,
belonged to Egyptian classmates. commonly used by al-Qaeda. announcing the location via text Portraits of change
An Egyptian court ordered their release Thursday. “What the hell are you doing?” message 30 minutes in advance. 6To read previous installments from
— Associated Press Tolba demanded. “This is not On a recent Friday morning in this occasional series, go to
Afghanistan. Why are you hold- 6th of October City, a suburb of washingtonpost.com/arabupheaval.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2011 KLMNO EZ M2 The World A11

A Nov. 12 explosion at a Revolutionary Guard Corps missile base

near the city of Malard, west of Tehran, killed at least 21 people.

Mysterious
explosions pose
dilemma for Iran
raised in Iran by what industry
Leaders cite accidental experts say is a fivefold increase
in explosions at refineries and
causes, but suspicions gas pipelines since 2010. PHOTOS BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

of sabotage linger
BY T HOMAS E RDBRINK
tehran — A massive blast at a
missile base operated by Iran’s
Revolutionary Guard Corps
nearly two weeks ago was the
latest in a series of mysterious
incidents involving explosions at
natural gas transport facilities,
oil refineries and military bases
— blasts that have caused dozens
of deaths and damage to key
infrastructure in the past two
years.
Iranian officials said the Nov.
12 blast at the missile base was
an “accident,” and they ruled out
any sabotage organized by the
United States and its regional
allies. The explosion on the Sha-
hid Modarres base near the city
of Malard was so powerful that it
shook the capital, Tehran, about
30 miles to the east.
Despite the official denial of
foreign involvement in the latest
blast, suspicions have been
Explaining the increased
number of industrial incidents is
proving to be a predicament for
Iranian leaders, who do not want
to appear vulnerable at a time
when Israeli leaders have been
debating military intervention
against Iran over its controver-
sial nuclear program.
Officials have blamed indus-
trial accidents for most of the
blasts, saying they were caused
by such deficiencies as “bad
welding” or “substandard manu-
facturing.” But media restric-
tions and the lack of independ-
ent investigations have made it
hard to verify the claims.
One oil expert said that in-
creasingly strict sanctions pro-
hibiting Western companies
from maintaining key installa-
tions in Iran could also be to
blame.
“Now, many projects are fin-
ished by Iranian companies
without observing safety stan-
dards,” said Reza Zandi, an Irani-
an journalist who specializes in
energy issues.
The funeral of Gen. Hasan Moghaddam, a Revolutionary Guard Corps commander, who was killed in the explosion at the missile base.
“There is clearly an increase in
incidents in recent years,” said
Mohammad Abumohsen, an in-
spector of oil and gas pipelines.
At least 17 gas pipeline explo-
sions have been reported since
last year, compared with three in
2008 and 2009. At the same time,
nearly a dozen major explosions
have damaged refineries since
2010, but experts say it is compli-
cated to determine the cause of
such incidents.
In the United States, Republi-
can presidential contenders have
called for President Obama to
start covert action against Iran
because of its refusal to stop its
uranium-enrichment program.
U.S. officials suspect the pro-
gram is aimed at producing fis-
sile material for nuclear weap-
ons. Iran insists that it wants
only to make its own fuel for
nuclear power plants.
Suspicions that covert action
might already be underway were
raised when four key gas pipe-
lines exploded simultaneously in
different locations in Qom prov-
ince in April. Lawmaker Parviz
Sorouri told the semiofficial
Mehr News Agency that the
blasts were the work of “terror-
ists” and were “organized by the
enemies of the Islamic Republic.”
Iran in recent years has im-
proved its ability to hunt spies,
using reviews of travel and ex-
pense records to round up Irani-
ans suspected of selling informa-
tion to U.S., British and Israeli
intelligence services, the Associ-
ated Press reported Monday.
In May, Intelligence Minister
Heidar Moslehi announced the
arrest of 30 “CIA spies” who he
said had been recruited to map
out Iran’s energy infrastructure.
“One of their main objectives
was carrying out sabotage activi-
ties,” Moslehi said, according to
the semiofficial Fars News Agen-
cy.
Iran’s parliament launched an
investigation into the blast at the
missile site but did not issue any
findings this week as promised.
One lawmaker, Mohammad Ka-
zem Hejazi, said revealing such
information might give away se-
crets to the “enemy,” the Iranian
Labor News Agency reported
Tuesday.
“We are not ruling out sabo-
tage in the Malard missile base,”
said one source close to the
Revolutionary Guard Corps,
speaking on the condition of
anonymity because of the sensi-
tivity of the subject. “It is not
impossible to bribe a single per-
son into doing something bad.”
On Wednesday, an explosion
rocked a stronghold in southern
Lebanon of Iran’s regional ally,
Hezbollah, which is widely be-
lieved to be supplied with Irani-
an missiles capable of hitting
major urban centers in Israel.
Hezbollah did not comment on
the cause of the blast but denied
that it occurred at one of the
group’s arms depots, Beirut’s
Daily Star newspaper reported.
Iran has accused the United
States and Israel of organizing
the assassinations of three nu-
clear scientists in Tehran since
2010. The government has also
blamed both countries for a
computer virus called Stuxnet,
which President Mahmoud Ah-
madinejad acknowledged had
disabled centrifuges used to en-
rich uranium.
In a sign that relations be-
tween Iran and the West are
further deteriorating, Iran’s par-
liament voted Wednesday to con-
sider expelling the British am-
bassador to Tehran. The prelimi-
nary vote came after Britain on
Tuesday joined the United States
and Canada in adopting new
financial sanctions against the
Islamic republic. If carried out,
an expulsion could prompt other
European countries to withdraw
their ambassadors, diplomatic
sources said.
erdbrinkt@washpost.com

‘Timing isn’t’ right’ for National Harbor project, Disney says

disney from A1
southern Prince George’s, has be-
come so important. If its 8 million
square feet of residential, office,
retail and hotel space are fully
developed, the venture could gen-
erate $100 million or more a year
in tax revenue, Peterson said.
But the harbor has had mixed
success in persuading national
retailers to open stores there and
has faced some head winds in
encouraging families to buy con-
dominium units there. It is not
readily accessible by Metro or by
car from Northern Virginia and
parts of Maryland. With only one-
third of the development com-
pleted, about $2.2 billion has
been spent.
County officials and the Peter-
son Cos. had staked a lot on the
Disney project.
sions to repurchase the Disney
parcel and reincorporate it into
the developer’s long-term stra-
tegic plan for National Harbor.
Despite his disappointment at
Disney’s pulling out, Peterson
said, “We will take this in stride
and move on to other opportuni-
ties. . . . We have the flexibility to
change uses overnight.”
Emphasis on growth
County Executive Rushern L.
Baker III (D) has made drawing
businesses to Prince George’s his
top priority in his first year in
office. Baker successfully lobbied
the County Council to create a
$50 million Economic Develop-
ment Incentive Fund for his ad-
ministration to provide lucrative
incentives to companies that con-
sider relocating to or opening op-
erations in Prince George’s.
this news,” Baker spokesman
Scott Peterson said about the Dis-
ney decision. “We expect National
Harbor to continue to grow as a
regional and national convention
and visitor destination. The Baker
administration remains commit-
ted to aggressively pursuing eco-
nomic development opportuni-
ties at National Harbor and
throughout Prince George’s
County.”
The county has had some good
news of late.
Several stores and restaurants
were expected to open before the
end of the year at National Har-
bor, including the House of Jon
Lei Atelier, a bridal and special
event salon; Scented Organic Ar-
tisan Pure, a bath and body bou-
tique; Nando’s Peri-Peri, a restau-
rant; Dandelion Patch, a statio-
nery store; and ChiDogO’s, a hot-
Peterson Cos. is also in a joint
venture with the Bozzuto Group, a
Maryland development company,
to build the Esplanade, a 371-unit
mixed-use apartment project.
National Harbor already has
six hotels and is anchored by the
Gaylord National Resort and
Convention Center, which has an
18-story glass atrium, 2,000 hotel
rooms and 470,000 square feet of
meeting space.
Big changes
Disney, which has made signifi-
cant changes since it bought the
land more than two years ago,
said National Harbor did not fit in
with its current lineup of projects.
Since signing the agreement,
Disney bought the global theme
park rights to “Avatar,” the hugely
successful motion picture direct-
ed by James Cameron. It also
broke ground this year on its
$4.4 billion Shanghai Disney Re-
sort — making a big bet on the
Chinese market.
“Given the full slate of expan-
sion currently underway at Walt
Disney Parks and Resorts, the
timing isn’t right to proceed with
another new project of this scale,”
Disney spokeswoman Kristin
Nolt Wingard said in a statement
Friday.
This was not the first time Dis-
ney abandoned plans to bring its
brand to the Washington region.
In the 1990s, the company
planned to build a history-
themed park, called Disney’s
America, on farmland near the
Manassas Civil War battlefield. It
scrapped the project after several
months because of local opposi-
tion. Disney’s National Harbor
project would not have included a
theme park.
Jay Rasulo, former chairman
of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts,
who is now chief financial officer
of Walt Disney Co., said in May
2009 that it was likely that his
company would go ahead with the
resort. But Rasulo was careful
back then to say that the project
wasn’t a sure thing.
He said Disney had to weigh
“lots of factors in the coming
months and the coming years”
before deciding to break ground.
heatht@washpost.com

Chairman Milton V. Peterson,
who has invested hundreds of
millions on National Harbor,
wooed Disney for several years
and hosted Disney’s chief execu-
tive, Robert A. Iger, on a visit to
the site.
Disney’s parcel sits on a rise at
the top of a tree-lined promenade
named American Way. It looks
Besides promoting National
Harbor, Baker has tried to spur
growth around the county’s 15
Metro stations, which have drawn
far less development than some
Metro stations elsewhere. But one
of the most promising prospects
fell through over the summer
when a long-running effort by
Prince George’s failed to lure the
Hadeed
dog restaurant.
More stores and restaurants
are scheduled to open at the har-
bor next year, including Wolfgang
Puck Catering and Redeye Grill.
By then, about 85 percent of the
retail space at the complex will be Oriental Rug & carpet Cleaning
occupied.
Peterson said National Harbor R e s tor at io n & R e pa i r
is breaking ground next year on a

north toward the District and
overlooks the National Harbor
complex and the Potomac.
The Peterson Cos. is in discus-
headquarters of the U.S. Depart-
ment of Health and Human Ser-
vices from Montgomery.
“We are very disappointed with
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388,000-square-foot Tanger Out-
lets center. Tanger Outlets is
known for housing the likes of
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new york — Former FBI direc-
tor Louis J. Freeh has been tapped
to be the trustee for MF Global’s
Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. The
U.S. Trustee for the New York
region requested court approval
for the appointment, according to
documents filed Friday.
MF Global and a committee of
its creditors asked the court on
Monday for permission to name a
trustee so that the company can
get a binding commitment for
financing while it is in bankrupt-
cy and recover funds left after its
customers are paid back.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge
Martin Glenn in New York grant-
ed the motion Tuesday and or-
dered U.S. Trustee Tracy Hope
Davis to appoint a trustee for the
case.
Davis selected Freeh, a former
federal judge who served as direc-
tor of the FBI from 1993 to 2001.
Freeh is chairman of Freeh Group
International Solutions, a global
risk-management firm.
Freeh must obtain a bond of no
less than $26 million as part of his
appointment, according to a sepa-
rate court filing on Friday.
Freeh also was hired this week
to conduct a probe of the child
sex-abuse scandal at Pennsylva-
nia State University. Additionally,
the Educational Testing Service of
Princeton, N.J., and the New York-
based College Board retained his
firm to review security for the SAT
college admissions test.
MF Global collapsed after mak-
ing a disastrous bet on European
debt. It filed for U.S. bankruptcy
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DOWN 25.77, 0.2% V NASDAQ 2441.51
DOWN 18.57, 0.7%
Playing on the floor
Children frolic on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
during its annual Kids Day on Friday. The Fresh Beat Band, a
preschool­set musical group featured on the Nickelodeon
television network, was on hand to ring the opening bell. At
right, James Sciulli plays with a phone during the event.
For U.S. stocks, a rough week amid Europe crisis
BY R ITA N AZARETH
U.S. stocks fell, capping the
worst Thanksgiving week drop
since 1932 in the Standard &
Poor’s 500-stock index, as S&P
cut Belgium’s rating and a report
said Greece is demanding that
private investors accept larger
losses on their debt.
Financial stocks in the S&P
500 rose 0.4 percent as a group,
trimming an earlier gain of 2
percent. Chevron and Hewlett-
Packard slid at least 1.5 percent to
pace losses in the Dow Jones
industrial average. Sears Hold-
ings lost 1.3 percent, while Wal-
Mart Stores rose 0.4 percent on
Black Friday, traditionally the
biggest U.S. shopping day of the
year.
The S&P 500 declined 0.3 per-
cent, to 1,158.67, falling for a
seventh straight day, the longest
streak since August. The Dow
retreated 25.77 points, or 0.2 per-
cent, to 11,231.78. The U.S. stock
market was closed Thursday for
Thanksgiving, and trading ended
at 1 p.m. Friday. About 3 billion
shares changed hands on U.S.
exchanges, the lowest volume
since Nov. 26, the day after
Thanksgiving last year.
The S&P 500 has fallen 4.7
percent since Nov. 18, capping a
second week of losses, as the
burden of government debt grew
AVIATION
U.K. strike could
cause 12-hour delays
Passengers arriving at Lon-
don’s Heathrow Airport on
Wednesday will have to wait up
to 12 hours to clear immigration
if a strike by customs staff pro-
ceeds, the operator of Europe’s
busiest airport warned as the
government said it will ensure
U.K. borders are safe.
Normand Boivin, chief oper-
ating officer of Heathrow, wrote
to airlines to ask them to cut
loads in half to avoid “gridlock.”
Gatwick Airport, about 45 miles
south of Heathrow, has asked
airlines to help passengers
switch flights.
Passengers will be forced to
stay on planes as lines become
too long for terminal buildings
and “this in turn would quickly
create gridlock,” Boivin wrote in
a letter posted on Heathrow’s
EZ M2
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
V S&P 500 1158.67
DOWN 3.12, 0.3%
around the world. Stocks re-
versed gains Friday as Reuters
reported that Greece is demand-
ing that new bonds issued to
Web site.
Unions representing border
staff, teachers, health workers
and civil servants are planning
strikes to protest plans to make
government employees retire
later and contribute more
toward their pensions.
British Airways, Cathay Pa-
cific Airways and Virgin Atlantic
said they will allow passengers
to re-book flights free of charge.
— Bloomberg News
SAFETY
Chevy Volt batteries
being investigated
A safety investigation of the
lithium-ion batteries in General
Motors’ Chevrolet Volt is under-
way to assess the risk of fire in
the electric car after a serious
crash, the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration
said Friday.
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investors as part of a debt swap
have a net present value of 25
percent, lower than the “high 40s
the banks have in mind.” Bel-
DIGEST
One Volt battery pack that
was being closely monitored fol-
lowing a government crash test
caught fire Thursday, the safety
administration said, and an-
other crash-tested battery emit-
ted smoke and sparks.
GM, which was informed of
the investigation Friday, said the
Volt “is safe and does not pre-
sent undue risk as part of nor-
mal operation or immediately
after a severe crash.”
The fires are in addition to a
battery fire in a crash-tested Volt
six months ago.
The NHTSA learned of a pos-
sible fire risk involving damaged
Volt batteries in June when a
fire erupted in a Volt that was
being stored in a parking lot at a
test facility in Burlington, Wis.
The car had been subjected to
a side-impact crash test more
than three weeks earlier, during
which the battery was damaged
and its coolant line ruptured.
— Associated Press
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gium’s credit rating was cut one
step to AA by S&P, which said
bank guarantees, political insta-
bility and slowing economic
growth will make it difficult to
reduce the nation’s debt load.
“The demands of Greece now
totally change the game,” Mark
Grant, a managing director at
Southwest Securities in Fort Lau-
derdale, Fla., said in an e-mail.
“The situation can no longer be
called voluntary by any stretch of
the imagination.
“The equity markets in the
United States may test the lows
again as there is increasing con-
cern of a major recession in
Europe.”
Banks had the biggest gain in
the S&P 500 among 24 industries,
rising 1 percent. Wells Fargo
jumped 1.3 percent, to $23.51.
BB&T rose 0.6 percent, to $21.17.
Some of the biggest American
companies fell Friday. Chevron
retreated 1.6 percent, to $92.29.
Hewlett-Packard declined 1.5 per-
cent, to $25.39.
A measure of retailers in the
S&P 500 fell 0.8 percent, the
second-biggest decline among 24
industries. Sears Holdings slid 1.3
percent, to $58.40. Wal-Mart rose
0.4 percent, to $56.89. Ama-
zon.com, the biggest Internet re-
tailer, slumped 3.5 percent, to
$182.40.
— Bloomberg News
ALSO IN BUSINESS
l AT&T said it plans to sue the
Federal Communications Com-
mission if the agency doesn’t let
the company withdraw its appli-
cation to buy a smaller rival for
$39 billion. The FCC is obligated
by its own rules to honor AT&T’s
move to rescind its application
to acquire T-Mobile USA, Wayne
Watts, general counsel for AT&T,
said Friday in a blog entry. AT&T
and T-Mobile parent Deutsche
Telekom withdrew their FCC ap-
plications Thursday after agency
Chairman Julius Genachowski
asked fellow commissioners on
Tuesday to send the deal to a
hearing, signaling an attempt to
scuttle the merger. Agency
spokeswoman Tammy Sun
called AT&T’s move “a request”
that the FCC “will consider.”
l Two Chicago exchanges, the
CME Group, which owns the
Board of Trade and the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange, and CBOE
Holdings, have threatened to
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Europe’s soaring
borrowing rates
pose further risk
THREAT MOST DIRE IN ITALY
Less-troubled nations also taking debt-crisis hits
BY N EIL I RWIN
Europe’s debt crisis is going
from bad to worse.
The borrowing rates for trou-
bled — and even not-so-troubled
— European governments soared
again Friday, heightening the
danger of an all-out collapse in
Europe’s common currency. It
comes as political leaders across
the continent are pointing at each
other as they call for action to
avert a worse outcome.
The danger is most pressing in
Italy, where the rate the nation
must pay to borrow money for a
decade rose Friday for the fifth
straight day, to 7.23 percent from
6.64 percent a week ago. The
increase came in an auction of
new bonds for which demand was
weak — pushing the rate the Ital-
ian government must pay to bor-
row money for two years up four-
tenths of a percentage point, a
remarkably big one-day jump, to
7.5 percent.
With debt totaling 120 percent
of Italy’s economy, higher rates
could create a dangerous, self-re-
inforcing spiral for the country —
the higher its borrowing costs, the
more onerous the interest pay-
ments. That in turn increases the
likelihood of economy-cratering
tax increases and spending cuts
or a catastrophic default.
Over recent days, the sense of
impending threat has even
spread to nations that have gener-
ally sound finances. Standard &
Poor’s cut its long-term credit
rating for Belgium to AA on Fri-
day from AA+, expressing con-
cern that the nation may have to
engage in costly bank bailouts
that will strain its finances.
Nations that have seen a sharp
run-up in their borrowing costs in
recent days also include France,
Austria and Finland.
Investors are selling off bonds
of almost all European nations
out of fear that a self-reinforcing
cycle is taking hold in which high-
er borrowing costs further strain
governments’ finances, threaten-
ing losses among the banks that
own government debt and fur-
ther slowing an economy that is
already on the brink of recession.
When this same set of circum-
stances has developed in the past
two years, some combination of
stronger European nations and
the European Central Bank has
acted to promise a wall of money
to stop the cycle in its tracks.
Today, however, “it appears Eu-
rope’s fiscally stronger sovereigns
are reaching their limits in terms
of supporting their fiscally weak-
er counterparts,” said Piero Ghez-
zi, an economist at Barclays Capi-
tal.
In other words, after creating
and then expanding the size of the
European Financial Stability
Fund, and after almost 200 billion
euros’ worth (or more than $260
billion) of bond purchases by the
ECB, both the governments and
the central bank are saying “no
more” until Italy and other weak-
er countries make major changes
to their tax and regulatory sys-
leave Illinois unless they’re giv-
en significant tax breaks. They
say a big tax increase enacted
this year and what they say are
inequalities in the tax code have
forced them to pay an outsize
share of the state’s corporate in-
come taxes. Illinois lawmakers
this week are expected to con-
sider special deals to cut the ex-
changes’ tax bills, and the price
tag for the financially strapped
state, where the unemployment
rate is just over 10 percent,
could reach well into the hun-
dreds of millions of dollars.
l Iceland’s government denied
Chinese billionaire investor
Huang Nubo permission to pur-
chase land in the island’s north,
saying such a transfer of proper-
ty would be “incompatible” with
the country’s laws. Huang,
through his company Beijing
Zhongkun Investment Group,
was planning to build a resort
with a hotel, golf course and
racecourse on 116 square miles
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tems.
European leaders have, howev-
er, been discussing in more detail
ways they might integrate their
fiscal policies more extensively.
Successfully doing so could instill
investor confidence and give the
ECB greater comfort in using its
power to print money to backstop
the continent’s finances.
But many residents of the
countries involved are reluctant
to back their neighbors’ debts. A
poll by the German television net-
work ZDF found that 79 percent
of Germans opposed jointly is-
sued euro bonds, according to the
Associated Press, compared with
15 percent who favored the idea.
Mario Draghi, who began his
tenure as president of the ECB
less than a month ago, has been
reluctant to engage in open-end-
ed purchases, for fear that they
would come at the cost of the
central bank’s independence and
spark inflation in the longer run.
A senior ECB official on Friday
argued that the solution to the
crisis lies in European nations
linking their tax and spending
policies more closely to each oth-
“Europe’s fiscally
stronger sovereigns are
reaching their limits in
terms of supporting their
fiscally weaker
counterparts.”
Piero Ghezzi, economist at Barclays
Capital
er.
“To ensure fiscal discipline, all
planned deficits of more than
3 percent of GDP and those in
excess of a country’s medium-
term objective would need to be
approved by all euro-area govern-
ments,” Jose Manuel Gonzalez-
Paramo, a member of the ECB
executive board, said at a speech
in London.
In the near future, investors
will be carefully watching sched-
uled auctions of Italian bonds on
Monday and Tuesday and Span-
ish bonds on Thursday. If buyers
show up as usual and buy the
bonds at reasonably normal pric-
es, it could help instill confidence.
By contrast, if buyers eschew the
auctions, driving the prices of the
bonds down and interest rates up,
the crisis could deepen.
European Union finance min-
isters will be meeting Tuesday,
but analysts lacked confidence
that they will make progress on
the core issues facing Europe.
“They seem set to focus on
long-term governance and sanc-
tions to prevent this situation
from arising again instead of giv-
ing troubled governments im-
mediate relief,” said John Hig-
gins, an economist at Capital Eco-
nomics.
irwinn@washpost.com
he hoped to buy from a group of
farmers for $8.8 million.
l President Hugo Chavez’s gov-
ernment began repatriating Ven-
ezuela’s gold reserves from Eu-
ropean banks Friday as the first
shipment arrived on a flight
from Paris. Chavez announced
in August that his government
would retrieve more than 211
tons of gold held in U.S. and Eu-
ropean banks. The leftist presi-
dent has said his decision to re-
patriate the gold reserves is
aimed at helping to protect the
oil-producing country from eco-
nomic troubles in the United
States and Europe. Chavez’s op-
ponents have called the plan
costly and ill-advised.
— From news services
COMING NEXT WEEK
l In Sunday Business: If 2010
was the year of the iPad, then
2011 was the year of the tablet.
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D.C. charity takes a hit

Hillcrest Children’s Center victim of Ponzi scheme, SEC says
BY D AVID S . H ILZENRATH court records, mail sent to Gi- members “asked probing ques-
braltar Asset Management tions” such as how could Gibral-
When a District-based chil- Group was returned as undeliv- tar produce such favorable re-
dren’s charity was trying to shel- erable. turns in the weak financial mar-
ter its endowment from the stock No one answered the door kets of mid-2008, and if Gibral-
market turmoil of 2008, Garfield Friday at the North Bethesda tar’s strategy was so good, why
Taylor offered what seemed to address listed for Taylor in the weren’t other investment advis-
his prospective clients like a Hillcrest and SEC lawsuits. ers using it?
can’t-lose proposition. Someone retrieved a note The Taylor responded that the
Taylor and his firm, Gibraltar Washington Post left there, but “covered call” strategy was very
Asset Management Group, no one responded. complicated, the suit said.
pitched a complex investment An upset client told the SEC
strategy that would generate an about the possible scam a year Winning trust
annual return of 20 percent ago, according to a lawyer and a Reassured by Taylor’s talk of
without jeopardizing the money financial adviser assisting the thorough market research and
invested, according to Hillcrest investor. The SEC’s civil com- trading devices such as stop-loss
Children’s Center. plaint against Taylor and his firm mechanisms, the Hillcrest board
“The beautiful thing about our gives no indication that any new decided to make a trial invest-

Virginia GOP targets federal

equity option trading strategy is investors were drawn in since ment — a $1.2 million loan, the
that we totally control our down- then. The fraud, which was un- suit said.
side risk,” Hillcrest alleged that der way by 2005, collapsed in fall As Hillcrest viewed it, Gibral-
Gibraltar said in a slide presenta- 2010, the SEC said. tar paid the monthly interest and

funding, a key to state economy tion. The charity’s principal, one

virginia from A1
The tension between Vir-
ginia’s economic reliance on fed-
eral spending and its support for
candidates who are determined
to cut it is likely to be the
defining political issue in the
coming election year. The failure
of a special congressional com-
mittee to agree on a plan to
reduce the federal debt by at
least $1.2 trillion over the next
decade probably will leave it to
the 2012 presidential election to
decide how the problem is ad-
dressed.
Nowhere will that debate be
more crucial than in Virginia.
The state is home to more than
two dozen military installations,
huge federal agencies, prosper-
ous clusters of civilian contrac-
tors that depend on federal pro-
curement money, and a host of
shipbuilders and other defense
firms.
“Virginia is particularly vul-
nerable to federal budget cuts,”
said Stephen S. Fuller, a George
Mason University professor. “Ev-
erybody is concerned about
that.”
When asked about his support
of government spending cuts
and Virginia’s reliance on federal
funding, Allen said the state
should avoid the most damaging
impact of any reductions be-
cause its “capabilities converge
with the top responsibility of our
government: defense and na-
tional security.”
Yet the supercommittee fail-
ure is supposed to trigger
$1.2 trillion in spending cuts
beginning in 2013 — half of
which would be to the defense
budget. Those reductions would
come on top of $450 billion in
Pentagon spending reductions
that Congress previously ap-
proved.
Some lawmakers, concerned
about the impact those automat-
ic cuts would have on national
security and the jobs that help
provide it, have suggested trying
to prevent them by disabling the
debt-reduction trigger. But Presi-
dent Obama has threatened to
veto any effort to back out of the
reductions.
“If you look at these cuts, it is
not just the amount of the dollars
that is a concern, but also the
arbitrary way the cuts are done,”
said Rep. J. Randy Forbes (R-Va.),
whose district includes huge mil-
itary installations in Hampton
Roads. “The worst thing you can
do is reach up and pull a figure
and say you are going to cut
without any strategic review.”
Effect on state
In a report outlining the im-
pact of just one portion of possi-
STEPHANIE KLEIN-DAVIS/ROANOKE TIMES VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
George Allen, a former senator and Virginia governor, greets
employees of Dynax America, an auto parts plant near Roanoke.
Hampton Roads area.
That swath of the state in-
cludes key elements of the coun-
try’s most crucial national secu-
rity infrastructure: the CIA head-
quarters, the Pentagon, the FBI’s
training center in Quantico and a
series of military installations,
well as many high-tech firms that
are critical to the government’s
operation, and ending in the
Navy and shipbuilding hub at the
mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.
Holding their breath
Defense-oriented firms such
as Spectrum in Newport News
have experienced almost nothing
but good times in recent years —
something that could abruptly
change if the amount of federal
money is severely crimped.
Started by Air Force veteran
Jeffrey Wassmer in 1999, Spec-
trum has prospered atop a wave
of national security spending. In
the past dozen years, the compa-
ny has grown from three to 350
employees. Annual revenue has
skyrocketed to nearly $50 mil-
lion. Spectrum workers, on aver-
age, earn more than $80,000 a
year.
It is the kind of economic
success story that has helped
Virginia weather the recession
far better than most of the coun-
try. But the good times could be
ending.
“I really think our time is
coming,” said Wassmer, Spec-
trum’s president and chief execu-
tive. “There are going to be
“Virginia is particularly
vulnerable to federal
budget cuts. Everybody
of the slides allegedly promised,
“will stay intact.”
But by mid-2009, Hillcrest
SEC official Stephen L. Cohen
said the case serves as a remind-
er to investors.
“There really isn’t any such
passed the test. In hindsight,
Hillcrest describes the trial peri-
od as a ploy to win its trust.
In early 2009, the suit said,
made a startling discovery. As it thing as . . . an investment that Hillcrest made a series of pay-
said in a court filing, the vast has zero risk with a high reward,” ments increasing its investment
majority of the $8 million it had he said. to $8 million. The new payments
invested with Taylor was gone. The Hillcrest board, whose were made via a “convoluted and
Hillcrest was one of about 130 members had no special experi- complicated investment struc-
investors in what the Securities ence managing institutional in- ture” Gibraltar had proposed
and Exchange Commission now vestments, identified potential involving three companies set up
alleges was “a classic Ponzi investment advisers through specifically for the purpose, and
scheme” — a financial scam built personal acquaintances, the non- Hillcrest paid the final install-
on illusion. Last week, the SEC profit group’s lawsuit said. One ment around May 13, 2009, the
sued Taylor for fraud, saying that member of the board had invest- suit said.
he blew clients’ money on risky ed with Taylor. But by April 2009, even before
trades and misappropriated mil- A marketing document that it put in the final $1 million,
lions of dollars. Gibraltar Asset Management Hillcrest was concerned. The
Group gave Hillcrest said its nonprofit group had not received
Financial setback advisory board included Barron any monthly statements for the
Hillcrest’s plan to build a larg- H. Harvey, dean of the business new account, and Taylor was
er facility was halted, and its school at Howard University. refusing to provide them, the suit
ability to aid troubled D.C. fami- In an interview this week, said.
lies faced new limits. Harvey said his name was used When he finally complied in
“I was devastated,” Juanita without his permission. He said June 2009, the suit said, the
Price, Hillcrest’s executive direc- he was approached to be a mem- statements showed that Taylor
tor, recalled in an interview this ber of the advisory board and and Gibraltar had made wire
week. attended a meeting and a dinner transfers removing millions of
Hillcrest has survived its fi- but then told Taylor that he dollars from the account.
nancial setback, but the money it wasn’t interested. “Perhaps I am not fully under-
lost would have enabled it to do The marketing document also standing what is going on here,”
more to help people in need, said cited Taylor’s experience at Fan- Hillcrest board member Elaine
ing federal spending. Price, who joined the nonprofit nie Mae, the mortgage funding Crider wrote in a July 2009
“If you are asking if people group after it had decided to company that is now a ward of e-mail to her colleagues, “howev-
were voting to slash the national invest with Taylor. the government. As short-term er, why would our fund ever be
defense of the country in the way Founded two centuries ago to funding manager at Fannie Mae, below 8 million?”
the supercommittee trigger care for orphans, Hillcrest pro- Taylor “was responsible for issu- “If our funds have gone below
would have it done, I would say vides mental health and other ing approximately one trillion 8 million,” she added, “ it seems
there is no evidence to suggest social services. On Thanksgiving dollar [sic] in short term debt something is terribly wrong.”
that is what they were voting for,” eve, staff members were deliver- annually,” the document said. In a July 2009 memo to the
he said. ing food baskets to needy fami- In an e-mail, a Fannie Mae Hillcrest board, Taylor “admitted
If federal procurement is hit, it lies, Price said. spokeswoman declined to com- . . . to making numerous pay-
would hurt the defense equip- Hillcrest put its story on the ment on Taylor’s employment. ments to himself and Gibraltar
ment manufacturers as well as public record in January, when it In presentations to Hillcrest’s from the Trading Account as
federal-related firms in Northern sued Taylor for fraud. By then, of board in 2008, Taylor and his profits,” the suit said.
Virginia. the $8 million it had invested associates said they used “a pro- “Taylor closed the memoran-
“We’re already seeing con- with Taylor — about half of its prietary trading strategy,” the dum by stating, ‘we are confident
tracts delayed,” said Wassmer, endowment — only $200 re- suit said. that we can bring the account
the founder of Spectrum. “In this mained, according to the lawsuit. “Gibraltar managers make back to the $8,000,000 within
environment, our main client Two months ago, a court clerk money trading equity options in the next 60 to 90 days,’ ” and he
seems hesitant to commit.” declared Taylor in default in the UP, DOWN or SIDEWAYS mar- promised that Hillcrest’s money
Hillcrest suit, saying he appar- kets,” one of their PowerPoint “will be paid back,” the suit said.
Vulnerabilities remain ently had not defended himself slides allegedly said. hilzenrath@washpost.com
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the state.” who was elected in 2009 — just ment functions such as educa- 3.875 $776 3.875 $860 3.875 $989 3.875 $1,210 3.875 $1,661 4.250 $2,140 4.250 $2,357 4.250 $2,694 4.250 $3,272 4.250 $4,456
4.000 $788 4.000 $871 4.000 $1,000 4.000 $1,220 4.000 $1,671 4.375 $2,172 4.375 $2,387 4.375 $2,723 4.375 $3,300 4.375 $4,482
The heavy flow of federal mon- one year after Obama became tion, law enforcement and health 4.125 $800 4.125 $882 4.125 $1,011 4.125 $1,231 4.125 $1,680 4.500 $2,204 4.500 $2,418 4.500 $2,752 4.500 $3,328 4.500 $4,508
ey into Virginia is one reason the the first Democratic presidential care. So the shape of any poten- 4.250 $812 4.250 $894 4.250 $1,022 4.250 $1,241 4.250 $1,690 4.625 $2,237 4.625 $2,449 4.625 $2,781 4.625 $3,356 4.625 $4,535
4.375 $824 4.375 $905 4.375 $1,033 4.375 $1,252 4.375 $1,700 4.750 $2,269 4.750 $2,480 4.750 $2,811 4.750 $3,384 4.750 $4,561
state’s unemployment rate never candidate since Lyndon B. John- tial budget cuts matters almost 4.500 $836 4.500 $917 4.500 $1,044 4.500 $1,262 4.500 $1,710 4.875 $2,302 4.875 $2,511 4.875 $2,841 4.875 $3,412 4.875 $4,587
4.625 $848 4.625 $929 4.625 $1,055 4.625 $1,273 4.625 $1,720 5.000 $2,335 5.000 $2,543 5.000 $2,871 5.000 $3,440 5.000 $4,614
exceeded 7.2 percent, even as the son to win in Virginia — has as much as the size. 4.750 $861 4.750 $941 4.750 $1,066 4.750 $1,283 4.750 $1,730 5.125 $2,369 5.125 $2,575 5.125 $2,901 5.125 $3,468 5.125 $4,640
national rate peaked at 10.1 per- called continued federal deficits If the federal reductions come 4.875 $873 4.875 $953 4.875 $1,078 4.875 $1,294 4.875 $1,740 5.250 $2,402 5.250 $2,607 5.250 $2,931 5.250 $3,497 5.250 $4,667
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“Opal” the turkey is petted during a Vegan
Thanksgiving at Poplar Springs Animal Sanctuary
on Poolesville on Nov. 21.
Better to skip meat altogether
Regarding the Nov. 20 Food story “Is vegan turkey
good enough to gobble?”:
Staff writer Tim Carman’s quip that “there’s the
issue of the fossil fuels required to produce these
R&D darlings” was misleading, as making vegan
mock meats requires far fewer fossil fuels than
raising and killing animals, even the “organic,
free-range” variety.
Also, undercover investigations into hatcheries,
factory farms, stockyards and slaughterhouses by
groups such as Compassion Over Killing, Mercy for
Animals and the Humane Society of the United
States have revealed a disturbing pattern of sadistic
treatment by workers toward turkeys and other
farmed animals.
It will truly be a day of thanks for all sentient
beings if we simply leave them off our plates by going
vegetarian. It’s easier now than ever.
Caroline J. Cherry, Bethesda
The writer markets a meat-free regimen called VeryVeg-
elicious.
Good day for Potemkin
The Nov. 20 Outlook section contained two
seemingly unrelated history reviews by Marc Fisher
(“Lost Washington, D.C.”) and Kathy Lally (“Cathe-
rine the Great”). In a delightfully serendipitous
merging, both referenced Potemkin villages. While
Fisher bemoaned “that peculiar Washington sur-
gery, the facade-ectomy,” which typically results in a
“stunningly unimaginative office block right behind
and above a Potemkin front,” Lally assured us that
“the supposedly fake ‘Potemkin’ villages” built by
Gregory Potemkin to impress his lover, Catherine
the Great, were indeed real. Russian to judgment?
Douglas M. Pollock, Oakton
THE WASHINGTON POST
Map rap
I read the Nov. 20 Commuter page article “A
driver’s guide to using the ICC” and found Robert
Thomson’s answers to basic questions expected of
readers to be very helpful. The one item glaringly
missing, however, was a map of the road itself.
Listing intersections and showing a photo of a
section of road is not very useful in visualizing the
totality of the road’s course, including the new
sections that opened this week. I shouldn’t have to
seek out an online map for the most important ICC
question of all: Where does it take me?
Jim Reagan, Herndon
Truth in reporting on the deficit
In the Nov. 22 front-page article “Inertia weighs
on the markets,” in a discussion of whether to extend
the payroll tax cuts, we are informed, “Many Repub-
licans are resistant to measures that would widen
the deficit further.” However, at last check, Republi-
cans in both houses support renewing the George W.
Bush tax cuts for 2013, deficits be damned.
In the spirit of The Post’s dedication to correcting
errors quickly, the statement should be amended to
read: “Many Republicans are resistant to measures
that would widen the deficit further and through
which the benefits do not accrue primarily to the
wealthy and large corporations.”
Robert Hamberger, Vienna
The ombudsman’s verdict
Ombudsman Patrick Pexton’s Nov. 20 column,
“For George Will, politics gets personal,” was a
superb investigative piece regarding whether op-ed
columnist George F. Will should have been more
forthcoming regarding his wife’s work with Republi-
can candidates. Pexton concluded that Will’s col-
umns were largely unaffected and that while Will
could have communicated her involvement earlier,
there was no intentional deception.
Excellent ombudsman columns are frequently
not recognized as such when they come to a “not
guilty” verdict and particularly when, as in this case,
they come to a verdict tantamount to “innocence.”
Congratulations to Patrick Pexton for his excel-
lent work and to George F. Will for his rare
combination of political perspicacity and integrity.
Richard E. Vatz, Towson
Vatz has taught courses on media criticism at Towson
University for almost two decades.
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On gender, setbacks and progress
I was enjoying KidsPost’s review
of various games and toys available
this holiday season until I got to the
sections labeled “Just for boys” and
“Just for girls” [“Play list,” Sunday
Style, Nov. 20].
What possible reason could there
be for classifying toys in this way?
Why not let children and adults read
the descriptions and form their own
conclusions? What about the boy
who might actually enjoy Twisted
Critters and might now feel like a
freak because his interests aren’t in
line with your categorizations? The
girl who wants a Beyblade Triple
Battle Set but is embarrassed be-
cause you’ve deemed it “just for
boys”?
This type of gender stereotyping
is just plain wrong, and there’s no
justification for it. As a society we are
confronted with gender stereotyp-
ing every day, and the effects are
insidious.
There’s no downside to not cate-
gorizing things in this way, but the
ramifications of gender stereotyping
are significant. Could we at least
keep this issue out of the kids sec-
tion?
Elaine Pirozzi, Washington
l students are female. Furthermore,
As a senior applying to colleges, I
was disappointed by an offhand
remark in the Nov. 20 Food article “A
bird in hand” regarding gender dis-
Protesters march along the Key Bridge in Washington on Nov. 17.
A ‘milestone’ of two months?
I saw that in the Nov. 18 Metro
section, The Post called the “two-
month anniversary” of the Occupy
movement a “milestone” [“Protest-
ers mark Occupy milestone with
A review with
too much punch
How nice for Ann Hornaday
[“Nuanced story is pitch perfect,”
Style, Nov. 20]. In her review, she
wrote of being surprised while
watching the new George Cloo-
ney film, “The Descendants”:
“Robert Forster, as Matt’s fa-
ther-in-law, nails one of the film’s
most memorable scenes when he
delivers a perfectly timed punch,
all the more surprising for being
preceded by the blunt warning,
‘I’m going to hit you.’ ”
Too bad for everyone else who
read her review, who won’t be at
all surprised because Hornaday
(and her editors) neglected to give
a spoiler alert.
Jo Spiegelman, Derwood
A dissent on the matters of Presidents Jefferson and Cleveland
Paul Farhi slipped his own ru-
mors into his Nov. 20 Outlook com-
mentary, “Why conservatives rule
the e-mail rumor mill,” when he
referred to media-generated rumors
such as “Thomas Jefferson’s secret
love child” and “Grover Cleveland’s
out-of-wedlock offspring.”
In a parenthetical, he added:
“Both won elections despite the sto-
ries, which in Jefferson’s case were
very likely true.” He left in doubt the
Twisted Critters Lizard qualifies as a toy “just for girls.”
tribution.
The story flippantly described a
3:1 male-to-female turkey ratio as
“worse than MIT!”
However, the makeup of the Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology
Class of 2015 paints quite a different
picture: A full 45 percent of the
this is an accurate representation of
the undergraduate college as a
whole.
MIT has made an admirable ef-
bridge march,” Metro, Nov. 18].
A milestone? Really? But then I
read further and realized that the
whole article was about “hundreds
of protesters,” hardly significant
You say vegetable, I say fruit
A Nov. 22 letter writer [“How
many tomatoes in a pizza pie”]
stated: “Few people would argue
rumor about President Grover
Cleveland but accepted the truth of
the rumor about our third president.
Cleveland’s case went beyond ru-
mor. He admitted to an affair with
the mother and, unsure whether the
child was his, provided for him until
he was adopted.
As for Jefferson, no contempo-
rary witness records so much as a
glance between him and his slave
Sally Hemings in the 35 years of her
EZ RE
fort in recent years to equalize the
gender distribution of its classes
without sacrificing quality. I know it
is all too easy to stereotype, but
women are interested (and excel) in
science, technology, engineering
and mathematics (the STEM fields),
too.
Kathleen L. Xu, Bethesda
l Couldn’t the model at least have
I was aghast at the Nov. 17 article
and illustration “A suitable muse.”
The professional woman of today
RICKY CARIOTI/THE WASHINGTON POST
for any Washington event. The
whole story seemed like an inflated
attempt to legitimize a gaggle of
misfits in search of a cause.
Tony Santucci, Washington
that half a tomato is not a good,
solid serving of vegetable.”
I’m sure that the last time I
presence at Monticello, as reported
in the recently published “The Jef-
ferson-Hemings Controversy: Re-
port of the Scholars Commission.”
Despite the beliefs of some histori-
ans, the possibility of a sexual rela-
tionship cannot be established when
there is a total lack of evidence of
personal contact. Nothing in the
selective arrangement of circum-
stances advanced by those who
claim paternity ever puts Jefferson
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does not need to be placed on display
on the front of the Style section of
The Washington Post in her under-
garments with optional pearls.
If we need help to mix and match
our clothing for the business arena,
then we can go to the Ann Taylor
store; we do not need to cut out
paper dolls.
been pictured in a chemise instead
of her bra and panties?
Joanne Liebig, Ashburn
Wrong place
for flippancy
As director of a therapeutic
arts program for persons with
mental illness, I found The Post’s
“Celebvocate” coverage of Glenn
Close’s speech at the Reserve Offi-
cers Association [Reliable Source,
Nov. 17] in regard to destigmatiz-
ing mental
health treat-
ment to be both
insensitive to
those with
mental illness
and embarrass-
ing to The Post.
Close ap-
pears to be a
serious actress
and a serious
advocate for
the rights of the
mentally ill. Glenn Close
Her sister has a
mental illness, as the article stat-
ed. For The Post to comment in
such an offhand way about the
superficialities of show biz is be-
neath its readers and certainly
beneath Glenn Close.
I am grateful to Close for her
continuing efforts. I hope that her
example will encourage others to
speak out on this topic and that
our newspapers will give it the
serious attention it deserves.
Sally Brucker, Silver Spring
JAMES M. THRESHER/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
checked, the tomato was a fruit,
not a vegetable.
Paul McCoy, Severn
and Hemings together.
It is ironic that Farhi would lump
all the e-mail attacks on Democrats
as a “carnival of nonsense” and then
endorse what may be the worst
calumny in U.S. history as true.
Richard E. Dixon, Clifton
The writer is editor of Jefferson Notes,
the newsletter of the Thomas Jeffer-
son Heritage Society, which spon-
sored the Scholars Commission
report.
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Victory for the apparatchiks
With its maps and voters manipulated, Virginia’s elections are a travesty.
S
TATE LEGISLATIVE elections in Virginia
have come to bear a certain resemblance
to what passed for voting in the old Soviet
Union. There, candidates, unopposed and
endorsed by the Communist Party, rou-
tinely ran up victories with 99 percent of the vote,
although voters had the theoretical right to cast a
“no” ballot. In Virginia’s elections this month, the
competition wasn’t much tougher.
As we reported on the eve of the elections, just
27 of the 100 contests for Virginia’s House of
Delegates featured a Democrat and a Republican.
That was bad enough. In the election, the winner
trounced the loser by a margin of about 10
percentage points or more in all but five races
statewide. In other words, 95 percent of the state’s
House races were either uncontested or blowouts.
Races for the state Senate weren’t much more
spine-tingling. Although there were Democrats
and Republicans on the ballot for 25 of the 40
seats, just six races ended up being remotely close.
If the two major parties’ leaders are intent on
Ready for
its close-up
The Supreme Court should end
the ban on cameras in its court.
I
N MARCH, the Supreme Court is scheduled to
hear one of its most important cases in years:
a constitutional challenge to President
Obama’s signature health-care program.
The case should also be its most closely watched
— literally. It would be a fitting vehicle for the
court’s first televised argument.
We have long urged the justices to allow
cameras in the court. Supreme Court arguments
generally focus on issues of national importance,
typically involve the best lawyers in the country
and rarely, if ever, raise the kinds of privacy or
safety concerns that crop up in lower courts,
where the identity of witnesses and jurors may
sometimes need to be shielded.
The court has firmly resisted, arguing that
allowing televised proceedings could compromise
decorum and change the nature of the sedate
proceedings because lawyers — and perhaps even
justices — might be tempted to ham it up. Some
critics worry that broadcasts could encourage
outbursts from audience members. Others say
that cameras would make justices more recogniz-
able to the public, increasing security concerns
and infringing on privacy. Still others worry that
media outlets could take sound bites out of
context. Finally, some believe that the public
would not be able to make sense of the complicat-
ed proceedings.
These are not arguments for banning cameras;
they are arguments for banning virtually all
coverage of the court and the justices. No reason-
able person would accept that.
It is hard to imagine the court losing control
over its proceedings. Imagine the embarrassment
— and the risk to future business — for a
grandstanding advocate who has to be reined in
by the justices. Worse yet, such foolishness could
Reducing rape behind bars
The Obama administration seems to be dragging its feet on crucial prison reforms.
T
HIS MUCH IS welcome: The long and
inexplicably arduous process of crafting
regulations to reduce rape and sexual
abuse behind bars is finally nearing com-
pletion. But questions remain about whether the
reforms proposed by the Obama administration
will suffice to shield incarcerated men, women and
children from this particular brand of brutality.
The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003
(PREA) was, especially by today’s standards, a
remarkable bipartisan effort. Ideological oppo-
sites Frank Wolf (R-Va.) and Bobby Scott (D-Va.)
joined in the House, as did Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)
and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) in the Senate, to
sponsor a bill that rejected the notion that sexual
abuse is an unavoidable byproduct of incarcera-
tion. Lawmakers from both chambers unanimous-
ly recognized that such abuse is an unacceptable
lapse in institutional order that scars its victims
for years and undermines their chances of reinte-
grating into society.
A commission established by Congress took six
TAKING EXCEPTION
The wrong stance on how to handle suspected terrorists
The Nov. 20 editorial “Congress’s overstep on tions and federal courts work.
terrorism” got it mostly right. The Senate deal
requiring military detention of suspected terror- interrogated by domestic law enforcement
ists who are not U.S. citizens is deeply flawed agents. Informed of his Miranda rights, he
and should be rejected. Federal law enforcement cooperated with police. And unlike the dozens of
officials have been incredibly
effective at investigating and The Abdulmutallab case have languished in legal limbo
prosecuting terrorism cases.
Limiting the role of these tal- showed how well federal was brought to trial less than
ented, experienced profes-
sionals in the battle against prosecutions work.
terrorism makes no sense.
The Post missed the mark, however, when it
trial and is awaiting sentencing. This case
accused the Obama administration of “reflexive- provides further evidence in support of The
ly turning to the federal courts before fully Post’s conclusion: Congress should not preclude
considering military options.” As evidence, The reliance on federal courts as a tool in our
Post curiously cited the case of “underwear counterterrorism efforts.
bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Yet that
case demonstrated how well federal prosecu- The writer is president of the Constitution Project.
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emulating the stolid Soviet apparatchiks of old
and establishing a parody of democracy, they’re
making fine progress.
The noncompetition is the direct result of
computer-assisted gerrymandering carried out
this year by Republican grandees (in the House)
and their Democratic counterparts (in the Sen-
ate). Rejecting calls for a nonpartisan reform of
the redistricting process, the pols picked their
voters and drew their maps based on maximum
self-interest, aiming mainly to protect incum-
bents. In the large majority of cases, it worked,
leaving manipulated voters to cast all but mean-
ingless ballots in what amounted to cartographi-
cally rigged elections. Who could be surprised by
the wretchedly low turnout — scarcely more than
26 percent?
Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R), as a candidate
for election in 2009, said he favored nonpartisan
redistricting that would do away with the blatant
gerrymandering that has come to characterize
elections in most states. His position was a
The Supreme Court has never allowed the use of cameras at its proceedings.
in some instances cost lawyers their case if they
fail to address and rebut substantive concerns
about the matter at hand. And there is a simple
cure for that rare lawyer who refuses to stop the
antics: loss of argument time or removal from the
court.
C-SPAN, which provides an invaluable service
by televising congressional hearings and other
public affairs programming, has offered to broad-
cast the health-care proceedings, which have been
allotted 5½ hours of argument time. “We believe
the public interest is best served by live television
coverage of this particular oral argument,”
C-SPAN Chairman Brian P. Lamb wrote in a Nov.
years to study the matter, and in 2009 it issued
compelling and thorough recommendations. Un-
fortunately, the Justice Department duplicated
much of the panel’s work, which delayed the
crafting of regulations. The department missed
the June 2010 deadline by which new rules were to
be implemented; it is now poised to deliver
proposed regulations to the Office of Management
and Budget, which has roughly 90 days to review
the recommendations before they become final.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has em-
braced a number of important reforms, including
some that have been opposed by the corrections
industry. These include: a zero-tolerance policy for
rape and sexual abuse behind bars; a prohibition
on cross-gender pat-downs and strip searches of
juveniles; background checks for corrections offi-
cers to ferret out past incidents of inmate abuse; a
requirement that every corrections facility desig-
nate an on-site PREA coordinator; and the conclu-
sion that PREA covers not just rape but a broader
category of sexual abuse, as well.
Mr. Abdulmutallab was apprehended and
Guantanamo prisoners who
for years, Mr. Abdulmutallab
two years after his crime. He
pleaded guilty to all counts on
the second day of his October
Virginia Sloan, Washington
reversal from his previous stance — a reflection,
he said, of serious thought.
We took Mr. McDonnell at his word. But when
it came to the hard part — the politics — he
punted. Rather than propose and push a serious
alternative, the governor put forward a plan
designed for failure. He created a toothless
advisory commission on redistricting whose rec-
ommendations, predictably, were ignored by both
parties.
Mr. McDonnell’s empty campaign promise,
combined with the deeply ingrained institutional
bias of both parties to maintain their grip on
power, are to blame for voting results that
discredit the state and reflect contempt of the
political class for the electorate. The system yields
candidates who appeal to the extremes, in order
to win primaries, and see no advantage in
courting the middle — a recipe for a very low
brand of politics. Perhaps Virginians should start
addressing their political leaders with a new
honorific: Comrade.
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15 letter to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. “It is a
case which will affect every American’s life, our
economy, and will certainly be an issue in the
upcoming presidential campaign.”
If a live broadcast is objectionable, the justices
should allow the proceedings to be taped for
broadcast later. And if that’s too much, the justices
at least should permit live audio broadcast of the
argument or, as they have done with other
high-profile cases in recent years, agree to a
same-day release of the audio recording of the
proceedings. The fortunate few who are able to
secure seats in the courtroom should not be the
only witnesses to history.
But Mr. Holder and the department have been
reluctant to take steps that would ensure the
spirit, as well as the letter, of PREA is faithfully
followed. For example, the department should
mandate that cross-gender pat-downs and strip
searches of adults, as well as cross-gender observa-
tion of inmates in bathroom facilities, are used
only when necessary. Correctional facilities
should be required to keep tabs on sexual assaults
and how they are dealt with, but they should not be
permitted to exclusively police themselves; they
should be subject to outside audits. Mr. Holder
also should recommend that immigration deten-
tion centers be covered by the regulations; every-
one in government custody — regardless of the
type of institution — should be protected against
rape and sexual abuse.
Once these resolutions are enacted, it will likely
be years before the Justice Department revisits
them, making much more important that whatev-
er it submits is as comprehensive and strong as
possible.
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Ethically challenged voters?
I admire The Post for consistently exposing
corruption in government at all levels. But it missed
the mark with the Nov. 23 editorial “Maryland’s
ethics crucible,” which advocated structural ethics
reforms and punishment for Maryland state Sen.
Ulysses Currie (D-Prince George’s). Isn’t it obvious
that having an ethical government requires voters
who show a preference for ethics?
It seems clear that voters demonstrate a prefer-
ence for politicians who are not honest with them
and who reward their supporters regardless of
whether those rewards are ethical or even legal. It is
also clear that voters in some jurisdictions do not
show much disinclination to vote for politicians
merely because they are criminals or are charged
with crimes, as Mr. Currie was. Mr. Currie’s “defend-
ers” contend, according to the editorial, that he is
“pleasant, doltish, disorganized and well liked.”
Since when are these qualifications for high political
office?
None of the reforms that the editorial advocated
would have altered Mr. Currie’s conduct, nor will
they deter future corrupt officials. The laws we
already have are more than sufficient. What we need
is better voters.
David R. Godofsky, Oakton
Speed, slow down, speed
I have followed the recent letters [“Whose right to
speed?,” Nov. 21] about speed cameras and note that
one key point has been left out of the discussion: Are
the cameras effective?
I, too, have been caught by the camera on Georgia
Avenue in Olney, but that doesn’t stop me from going
to Olney now that I know where the camera is. There
are also two sets of cameras on Randolph Road in
Wheaton. The speed limit at both locations is 35
mph, and drivers on Randolph Road usually travel at
40 to 50 mph until they get to the cameras. At that
point, they slow down, almost to a crawl, until they
are out of the camera’s range, at which point they
speed up again to 45 to 50 mph.
If the purpose of the cameras is to make drivers
slow down for the hundred or so yards that they are
within a camera’s range, then they are successful. If,
however, the cameras are designed to make drivers
obey the established speed limit on a road, then they
are failures. Once a driver knows where a camera is,
it becomes a no-brainer. You slow down until out of
range, and then it’s pedal to the metal until the next
one.
Sheldon Goldberg, Silver Spring
Don’t blame Iowa
Regarding Richard Cohen’s Nov. 22 op-ed col-
umn, “Something rotten in Iowa”:
The primary election schedule is not perfect, and
there are reforms that can be and have been made to
it, but it is not reasonable to blame Iowa’s small
population for not producing Mr. Cohen’s ideal
candidate. Letting larger states such as Arizona and
Florida vote first, as he suggested, would allow the
narrow interests of those Southern-tier states to run
roughshod over smaller ones. In the end, the
primary system would be no less rotten but simply
biased in another way.
Dallas Baker, Arlington
Maltreating malpractice cases
Michelle Andrews’s Nov. 21 Health article, “Judge
devises model for resolving medical malpractice
cases more quickly,” addressed New York Judge
Douglas E. McKeon’s attempt to streamline malprac-
tice lawsuits.
This process circumvents pesky, little procedural
things like discovery. The judge acts as a mediator,
encouraging early settlements before a trial. But the
need for efficiency must be tempered by concerns for
justice. The discovery process is essential to reach-
ing a fair settlement. Plaintiffs use discovery to build
a case against the defendant. Without discovery, the
defendant holds all the cards. The plaintiff enters
into the fight blindfolded, but the defendant knows
its own conduct.
Serious redistribution of judicial resources
should be legislative. The New York court’s actions
have dramatically affected the proceedings of mal-
practice claims. Many lives will be affected by the
actions of a non-elected administrative judge.
Erik Bergenthal, Pittsburgh
The ICC: More speed, less fuel
The Nov. 22 front-page article “New Intercounty
Connector strains Md.’s coffers” did not discuss fuel
savings. I have used the ICC between Gaithersburg
and Georgia Avenue, and I have used noticeably less
fuel in my pickup truck.
When gas is at $4 a gallon, the fuel savings help
cover the cost of the tolls. Less driving time and
constant speed must save fuel.
Bill Parker, Gaithersburg
Stymied by the Stevens case
Did I really read that the prosecutors in the
corruption trial of the late Alaska senator Ted
Stevens shouldn’t themselves be prosecuted for
serious misconduct
“because the judge
did not issue a clear
order telling them to
properly handle evi-
dence and witnesses”
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erly handle evidence
and witnesses? I hope that all prosecutors don’t need
to be ordered by a judge to do their duty.
Ken Pieper, Burke
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COLBERT I. KING
See something,
say something?
W T
hen Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez alleg-
edly fired an assault rifle at the White
House on Nov. 11, he had no chance of
killing President Obama, who was not in the
nation’s capital. It is, however, the thought that
counts.
Shootings at the White House are rare, so this
most recent incident, and the circumstances sur-
rounding it, tend to concentrate the mind wonder-
fully. There are good reasons to believe that others
knew or had reason to suspect that when Ortega-
Hernandez left his home in Idaho, he was up to no
good with respect to the president of the United
States.
Ortega-Hernandez, who was arrested Nov. 16 and
charged the next day with attempting to assassinate
the president, apparently was so obsessed with
hatred for Barack Obama that he drove across the
country for a chance to act on his contempt. That’s
the conclusion to be drawn from the federal arrest
warrant and criminal complaint filed against him in
the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
He’s now slated to undergo a psychological evalu-
ation before his next court hearing, which is sched-
uled for Monday.
Beyond the question of motive is the issue of
means.
How did this 21-year-old, who was reportedly on
two years’ probation for resisting arrest and ob-
structing justice stemming from an arrest for pos-
session of drug paraphernalia, get his hands on a
Romanian semiautomatic assault rifle with a large
scope mounted on it, as the complaint says? Or on
the three magazines loaded with 7.62 x 39 mm
cartridges, or the several boxes of similar cartridges
that federal agents say they found in his car?
Even more intriguing is why Ortega-Hernandez
was not brought to the attention of authorities
when, as the federal complaint asserts, three wit-
nesses in Idaho knew of his intent to harm the
president. Knowing that Ortega-Hernandez had
both a motive and the means to endanger the
nation’s chief executive, why did they apparently
hold their tongues?
The federal complaint sheds light on what they
knew.
After the shooting, federal agents interviewed
three individuals in Idaho. One, identified in the
complaint as “W-4,” said he knew Ortega-Hernandez
well.
According to the complaint, W-4 said Ortega-Her-
nandez had “increasingly become more agitated”
against Washington and was “convinced that the
federal government is conspiring against him.” W-4
told the agents that Ortega-Hernandez wanted to
“hurt” the president and said that Ortega-Hernan-
dez referred to Obama as “the anti-Christ.”
W-4 also told the federal agents that Ortega-Her-
nandez owned a gun that he kept in his room. W-4
said that after Ortega-Hernandez left Idaho, W-4
looked in Ortega-Hernandez’s room for the gun and
did not find it. In other words, W-4 knew that
Ortega-Hernandez wanted to hurt Obama and that
he had left town, probably with a weapon, yet W-4
seems to have done nothing.
Also according to the complaint, another Idaho
resident, identified as “W-6,” advised agents that in
the past several months, Ortega-Hernandez had told
W-4 that he, Ortega-Hernandez, “needed to kill him
[Obama]” Despite hearing that threat against
Obama, W-6 also apparently stayed mum.
Next comes Idaho witness “W-7,” who the com-
plaint says has known Ortega-Hernandez for more
than six years.
W-7 said that he or she knew Ortega-Hernandez
owned an “AK-47 like gun” with a “scope like thing”
on its top. W-7 disclosed that over the past year,
“Ortega-Hernandez’s opinion and comments re-
garding the government and Obama have gotten
worse” and that the suspect “was very specific that
Obama was the problem with the government.”
W-7 told authorities that he or she knew Ortega-
Hernandez was “preparing for something” and that
Ortega-Hernandez believed Obama was “the devil.”
W-7 said that Ortega-Hernandez “will not stop until
it’s done,” noting that he had said that Obama
“needed to be taken care of.” That notwithstanding,
it seems, W-7 kept quiet.
What’s that saying — If you see something, say
something? Oh yeah, that applies to more than
foreign terrorists.
Why didn’t the three Idaho witnesses try to stop
Ortega-Hernandez? Why didn’t they tell the authori-
ties what they knew?
If this case runs its course through the courts,
Ortega-Hernandez may well be found mentally ill
and taken off the streets, ostensibly for treatment.
But what about those who knew or suspected he
was up to something yet did nothing? Could it be
that they didn’t care? Did they share Ortega-Hernan-
dez’s toxic views of Washington and Obama? We
need answers.
How many others hear expressions of hatred and
ill wishes for the president, yet aren’t the least bit
bothered?
How many would look the other way if they
thought the target was Barack Obama?
How many others like Ortega-Hernandez . . . and
his Idaho enablers . . . are out there?
kingc@washpost.com
ALEXANDRA PETRI
The GOP debate: A show about nothing
“H
ey, did I miss anything?” people often ask,
dashing in late on a night when their
favorite show is airing.
The answer, for this week’s CNN National Security
Debate, was “No.”
This was an uninspired mid-season episode that
was probably necessary to advance the plot. But there
were no real cliffhangers, except at the very end,
when Rick Santorum began to say something about
militant socialists and radical Islamists in South
America bonding together to destroy our way of life.
But no one pays attention to his subplot, anyway.
This debate was like watching a figure skater fail to
qualify for medals. It was perfectly fine. Nobody fell.
No one exploded in flames. In fact, the most exciting
part of this debate was what didn’t happen. Herman
Cain didn’t bring up 9-9-9. Perhaps this was a good
thing.
The definition of a successful day, when it comes to
national security, is a day on which nothing too
eventful happens. Sure, there’s the color scale of
KLMNO
Drawing Board
Increasing and Decreasing Threat-i-ness, ably repre-
sented Tuesday night in some of the candidates’ ties,
but, by and large, you try to avoid excitement.
This is not to say the debate was devoid of
moments. Santorum said that Africa was a country. (I
think, after the success of that flub two debates ago,
each of the recurring characters is contractually
obligated to reprise it at least once, as long as the
show runs.) Michele Bachmann referred to a mysteri-
ous entrepreneur named Steve Gates. Newt Gingrich
made the somewhat wild-eyed suggestion that we
could collapse the price of oil within a year by
boosting U.S. production. Rick Perry said he favored
the Monroe Doctrine, but you had the sense that it
was only because he thought she was so good in
“Some Like It Hot.”
The camera kept cutting to Ron Paul for no
apparent reason. This was especially exciting be-
cause people often began their sentences with “I
agree with Ron Paul,” and he sometimes got a
terrified, harried look as they began industriously
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BY JOEL PETT FOR THE LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER
BY OHMAN FOR THE OREGONIAN
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shoveling words into his mouth, the look a hedgehog
gets when it is crossing the road and catches sight of
an approaching steamroller.
Other than that, the episode was very routine and
somewhat dry. If this debate walked into a bar with
the other debates, it would have to work pretty hard
to induce anyone to take it home. It’s a six, at best, and
some of these things have been eights. Even Herman
Cain’s referring to moderator Wolf Blitzer as “Blitz”
wasn’t enough to redeem the evening.
Perhaps the trouble was that homeland security
inspired only occasionally substantive answers. You
had the sense that everyone was debating with an eye
on the clock. Cain said at one point that, when it
comes to deciding whether to continue foreign aid,
“it depends upon priorities. . . . It may be worthwhile
to continue. It may not,” which is a polite way of
saying, “I am unprepared for this question; kindly
ask someone else.”
Jon Huntsman kept saying that the real national
security threat was the economy, which seems like
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MATT MILLER
Good questions
from China
he Chinese official was perplexed.
“It seems clear that taxes have to go up as a
share of GDP and spending has to go down.
When is that going to happen?”
We were in a seminar room at the Chinese
Executive Leadership Academy in Shanghai. It’s
kind of an executive MBA center where rising
Communist Party leaders come for training. I was
there two weeks ago speaking about the future of
capitalism. Since China holds more than $1.1
trillion of U.S. debt, the group was keen to learn
when they could expect the United States to get its
fiscal house in order.
I gave them the answer I generally give these
days when asked that same question at home.
Given Republicans’ denial about the need for taxes
to rise as we double the number of seniors on
Social Security and Medicare, and Democrats’
denial about the need to slow the growth of these
huge programs as part of an overall fix, I
explained, “We probably won’t get serious about
taking these steps until our Chinese creditors tell
us we have to.”
They laughed. But after the laugh you could tell
my hosts also felt empowered. They have reason to
feel that way. Yet from the U.S. point of view, it’s not
only not funny, it’s surreal.
According to the International Monetary Fund,
China’s GDP per capita is about $8,400. The United
States’s is about $48,000. How can a country nearly
six times richer be relying on a country so poor to
help finance its current consumption?
Maybe supercommittee members can answer
that one as a bonus take-home essay question now
that they’ve flunked the in-class test.
Related surreal question: What does it say when
Europe, where most nations have per-capita in-
comes ranging from $35,000 to $45,000, is also
passing the tin cup to much poorer China in an
attempt to backstop its recklessly leveraged banks
and governments?
What more proof do we need of the decadence of
the Western governing class?
You try sitting in Shanghai and listening to these
questions and see if you don’t feel the same
dawning sense that we’re squandering a precious
inheritance.
“Is our money safe?”
“Is the Fed going to inflate so much that China
gets back worthless dollars?”
“What do you think about moving beyond the
dollar as the major reserve currency?”
You can see where this is headed.
I felt like I was in that brilliant “Saturday Night
Live” sketch from November 2010, which lam-
pooned President Obama’s joint press conference
with Chinese president Hu Jintao. Obama starts
by mentioning the many topics he raised with Hu,
including China’s need to revalue its currency and
address human rights, in a tone roughly similar to
the one the real Obama sounded last week on his
Asian tour, when he said China needed to “pick up
the pace” of reform and “act like a grown-up.”
“President Obama is absolutely correct. In our
meeting, we spoke candidly about a wide array of
issues, everything under the sun,” Hu says through
a translator. “The only thing we didn’t talk about is
the matter of your country owing China a great
deal of money. . . . I kept waiting for you to bring it
up, and when you didn’t, I thought to myself, Did
they already pay us back and I just forgot? Or
perhaps the money arrived after I left for this
conference. But I checked with my office and they
haven’t received it.”
Obama repeatedly tries to reassure the Chinese
leader.
“The U.S. fully intends to honor its debts.”
“So, did you bring the check?” Hu asks.
“I promise you, you’re going to get your money.”
“All right,” Hu says equably, “then that’s good
enough for me. But say, do you mind if we turn off
the lights. . . . I like to have the lights off when
someone is doing sex to me!”
And there I was in Shanghai saying, “Your money
is safe, not to worry, it’s all going to work out.” Life
imitates “Saturday Night Live.”
The Chinese long believed that, however suspect
we American capitalists might be, we certainly
knew how to run a productive economy. Now, while
they still admire much about our innovative energy
and dynamism, they’ve become convinced since the
2008 meltdown that we plainly don’t know how to
run a sound financial or banking system. And now
it appears we can’t manage a budget, either.
China’s leaders, for all their flaws, are out to
reclaim a great civilization’s place as a cultural and
economic pacesetter. The way they see it, the
Chinese were waylaid on a 200-year detour as the
West surged ahead, but they’re coming back to their
rightful place.
China’s governing class has its eye on history.
Ours has its eye on the next election and next
quarter’s earnings. If the time horizons remain this
different, and the stewardship gap this huge, who’s
a better bet to come out stronger in the decades
ahead?
Matt Miller is a senior fellow at the Center for American
Progress and co-host of public radio’s “Left, Right &
Center.” He writes a weekly online column for The Post.
one of those tricks students are advised to whip out
on the essay section of exams if they are unfamiliar
with the question being posed.
Mitt Romney continued to inspire aggressive
indifference in everyone around him, except Perry,
who seemed to notice for the first time that Mitt has
been repeating a line about magnets and immigra-
tion at every debate. As a result, he appeared
momentarily terrified that he was stuck in some
horrifying recurrent nightmare in which he shows up
at a Republican debate for which he is unprepared.
But even he wasn’t so bad. Pity. Train wrecks are
fun to watch. This was no train wreck.
All in all, it was the sort of episode where they
announce that no one is going home, and you shrug
and admit that that probably makes sense. Cut to
commercial.
I, for one, am starting to be impatient for the finale.
Alexandra Petri writes the ComPost blog at
washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost.
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Occupy protesters shop for chance to meet Bachmann at mall

A SSOCIATED P RESS
Republican presidential candi-
date Michele Bachmann met with
anti-Wall Street protesters Friday,
but not necessarily by choice —
the protesters won the right to
meet her up close by buying her
book at a Black Friday book sign-
ing.
Heavy security kept a close eye
on the protesters who showed up
at the public event at the Mall of
America in Bloomington, Minn.,
where the Minnesota congress-
woman was signing copies of
“Core of Conviction,” her autobi-
ography, in a private area of the
megamall. At least a dozen mem-
bers from the Minnesota offshoot
of the Occupy Wall Street move-
ment bought copies so they could
approach her.
Several uniformed and plain-
clothes officers prevented the
protesters from bringing in signs
and let them into the room one at
a time. Bachmann foes and fans
alike were subject to bag searches
and pat-downs before entering.
Reporters were not allowed in the
room when the protesters came
through.
Other offshoots of the original
Occupy Wall Street movement
also used the biggest shopping
day of the year as a means of
voicing their concerns.
In Pennsylvania, Occupy Har-
risburg protesters showed up at
Capital City Mall dressed as zom-
bies to protest the consumerism
of the celebrated day.
The Capital City Mall bans out-
fits that hide a person’s face. Ac-
cording to police, only one pro-
tester refused to wash off the
zombie makeup and was arrested
and charged with misdemeanor
trespassing.
The remainder of the
protesters, minus face paint,
walked peacefully through the
mall.
In Oklahoma, a group of Occu-
py OKC activists showed up at a
Wal-Mart to protest the large
wage disparity between store
workers and corporate officers.
Occupy OKC participant Mark
Faulk said 10 members of the
group were arrested for disorder-
ly conduct early Friday after con-
ducting a group chant inside the
store in an Oklahoma City suburb.
Faulk contended that police
used excessive force by tackling
and handcuffing participants
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ON FAITH THE DISTRICT

Obituaries Maggie Daley, 68, the wife of
former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, was a
steady force in her husband’s rocky tenure. B4
Going out? We can help.
The guide has recommendations for
what to do this weekend, and the
Capital Weather Gang tells you how
the weather will factor in.
‘Least’ is more
To articulate its moral priorities in these days of
political stalemates and widening income gaps,
the American left might look to the most unlikely of
places. B2
Robbers targeting cabdrivers
Since mid-October, police detectives have
received 11 reports of cabdrivers being robbed or
carjacked, and they think that the same men are
responsible for several of the attacks. B3

Allen’s other campaign: Making NFL picks Md., Va.

Senate candidate finds
time to predict games
on ESPN radio show
BY B EN P ERSHING
If this whole politics thing
doesn’t work out, George Allen
probably shouldn’t try to make a
living betting on football games.
Allen — the former governor,
senator and University of Vir-
ginia quarterback — is hard at
work running to succeed retiring
Sen. James Webb (D-Va.). That
contest, in which he is the front-
runner for the Republican nomi-
nation and likely to face former
governor Timothy M. Kaine (D),
is close to a full-time job.
Yet Allen still finds time every
Friday evening to make some NFL
picks, calling in to “The Tony
Mercurio Show” on ESPN Radio
(94.1 FM) in Hampton Roads to
banter with the host, an old
friend, and predict the winners
for a few football games, as well as
the coming weekend’s NASCAR
race. Allen has been making picks
on Mercurio’s show since 1997.
Much like the Redskins, Allen
started this season promisingly.
He picked four out of five NFL
games correctly in Week 1 and five
of eight in Week 2. But after that
9-4 start, Allen went 22-25 for the
next nine weeks. Through last
Sunday, he was 31-29 on the sea-
son, a 52 percent success rate.
Unlike most office NFL pools,
Allen does not use point spreads;
he simply guesses the winner. He
usually picks only five games per
week, although there is a degree
of difficulty — he and Mercurio
tend to focus on the most inter-
esting and competitive matchups
rather than the easiest ones to
predict.
Overall, Allen could have
achieved nearly the same record
by flipping a coin.
“It shows that even someone
governors
who’s been immersed in football
his whole life can’t pick the win-
ners all the time,” said David G.
compete
Schwartz, director of the Center
for Gaming Research at the Uni-
versity of Nevada at Las Vegas.
overseas
Fortunato Pena, chief technol-
ogy officer of the betting pool site
BetChamp.com, analyzed Allen’s TRIPS DESIGNED
picks using point spreads. If Allen
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TO LURE INVESTORS
had simply picked the favorite in
each of those 60 games to win George Allen’s weekly picks are
outright, Pena said, he would posted in a special section of his
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allen continued on B3 “George’s Sports Corner.”

BY A ARON C . D AVIS

For the second time this year,

Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDon-
nell (R) and Maryland Gov. Mar-
tin O’Malley (D) have nearly
crossed paths on overseas trips
aimed at opening new markets
and luring foreign investment to
rival sides of the Potomac.
O’Malley departed for India on
Friday for a six-day trade mission,
less than a week after McDonnell
concluded meetings in many of
the same Indian cites. The gover-
nors’ globetrotting — complete
with stops for McDonnell in Isra-
el and O’Malley in Qatar — follow
a similar series of mano-a-mano
trade missions for the two to
China in May and June.
Aides to McDonnell and O’Mal-
ley have maintained that the close
timing of the trips has been coin-
cidental. But there’s little doubt
that as the U.S. economic malaise
continues, a growing number of
governors have embraced the role
of economic ambassador — even
as the benefits of such trips re-
main a matter of debate.
For McDonnell and O’Malley,
who have both taken steps sug-
gesting national political ambi-
tions, the trips have also pro-
duced fodder for critics who say
the excursions are designed at
least in part to pad the two gover-
nors’ political résumés.
“Certainly, the governors who
take trips abroad, and who com-
ment on foreign affairs, these
governors seem to have more
PHOTOS BY BILL O'LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST ambition to climb to higher of-
The Rev. Stephen Gentle talks with Kay Kluckhohn in the National City Christian Church, an institution that has faced numerous problems. “These last few years fice,” said Lucas McMillan, a po-
have been extremely difficult,” he says. “But we have seen the congregation come together like we have not seen in a long, long time.”
india continued on B6

Congregation finds D.C. agency

strength in crisis tightening
oversight of
National City Christian Church’s members unite in wake of scandal and money woes HUD projects
BY D EBBIE C ENZIPER
BY D EL Q UENTIN W ILBER ministry and staff.
Some members left the congregation, Concerned about the pace and
The Rev. Stephen Gentle stood at the and others spoke of closing the church’s price of construction projects for
pulpit of his historic District church doors. But a core group refused to quit. the poor, the new director of the
Sunday and urged his congregation to Whether it was fixing choir chairs, an- D.C. Department of Housing and
give thanks — for the good and the bad. swering phones, cleaning the sanctuary Community Development has
“We have had to learn to give thanks and or pulling weeds and planting flowers on shuffled staff, set strict building
praise to God,” Gentle said, “as we have church grounds, dozens of congregants deadlines and made sweeping
been meeting one challenge after an- banded together. In some ways, the changes to how the embattled
other, after another.” fallout from the scam has made National agency does business with devel-
To Gentle and others at National City City stronger. opers.
Christian Church, the past few years have “These last few years have been ex- Three managers have been
been a never-ending crisis. Like many tremely difficult,” Gentle said. “But we removed in recent months, and
downtown churches, it has seen its have seen the congregation come together five new ones will be brought in
membership and fundraising dwindle. like we have not seen in a long, long time.” to help overhaul the department,
The church was rocked by a former National City, the nearly 170-year-old which oversees federally funded
pastor’s plagiarism in 2003. Then, Au- flagship congregation of the 660,000- affordable-housing construction
gust’s earthquake caused tens of thou- member Christian Church (Disciples of in the District. Developers will be
sands of dollars in unsightly damage that Christ), routinely drew 800 people to required to have a documented
the church cannot afford to repair. worship on Sundays in the 1950s and track record, adequate financial
Worst of all, the congregation’s leaders 1960s. President James A. Garfield backing and the ability to finish
have had to spend the past three years preached from its pulpit, and President construction within two years.
unwinding an $850,000 embezzlement National City has faced a former pastor’s plagiarism, an August earthquake that Lyndon B. Johnson regularly attended “This is something that should
scam that drained National City’s budget caused expensive damage, and an $850,000 embezzlement scam that drained its be a no-brainer,” said John E.
and forced the church to cut back on its budget and forced the church to cut back on its ministry and staff. church continued on B2 Hall, who was named agency
director by Mayor Vincent Gray
(D) earlier this year. “But it was
all about, ‘OK — we have this
money; let’s spend it.’ ”
Aruban prosecutors can’t keep Md. suspect jailed any longer, judge rules When Hall took over, the agen-
cy was struggling to account for
old projects and find new ones. A
BY J USTIN J OUVENAL Robyn Gardner, Giordano’s attor- Aug. 5, three days after he told position to collect a $1.5 million extended a handful of times as the Washington Post investigation in
ney said. authorities that the 35-year-old travel insurance policy on Gard- probe has unfolded. May found that the D.C. agency
A judge in Aruba on Friday If prosecutors are unsuccessful Frederick County woman disap- ner, and they said there were Attorneys for Giordano have had subsidized poor-performing
denied prosecutors’ request to in appealing the ruling, the Gaith- peared while they were snorkel- discrepancies in his story. In the said that there is no evidence developers with money from the
hold Gary Giordano for 30 more ersburg man could be released ing off the coast of Aruba. Her past, Aruban Solicitor General linking him to a crime. U.S. Department of Housing and
days as authorities continue to from an Aruban jail Tuesday and body has not been found. Taco Stein has called Giordano a “This is completely justified,” Urban Development’s construc-
investigate the August disappear- could leave the island. Authorities have focused on “suspect in a suspicious death.”
ance of his traveling partner, Giordano, 50, was detained on Giordano because he was in a Giordano’s detention had been release continued on B3 hud continued on B6
B2 EZ SU KLMNO SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2011

ON FAITH
Finding
strength LISA MILLER

in hardship Seeking justice

church from B1
services. But at a recent Sunday service at
the majestic church on Thomas Circle,
about 125 worshipers, many of them retir-
ees, sat scattered among 62 pews.
The scam only exacerbated National
City’s problems. It came just a few years
after the congregation was embarrassed by
news that its pastor, the Rev. Alvin O’Neil
Jackson, had plagiarized sermons delivered
by another minister. Jackson left the church
and was replaced in early 2006 by Gentle, a
soft-spoken pastor of a Florida church.
Gentle’s mission, as many members saw it,
was to help heal the reeling church.
For a few years, Gentle made progress.
But the church was tested again in 2008,
when its leaders found discrepancies in
financial records. At first, they thought their
chief financial officer, Jason T. Reynolds,
was simply a bad bookkeeper. Then they
realized Reynolds had stolen about
$850,000 in church money to buy cars,
flat-screen TVs and jewels.
At one point, Reynolds gave Gentle and his
sixth-grade son two tickets to a Washington
Wizards game. Gentle realized later that
Reynolds’s tickets had been financed by his
church.
“I was literally sick to my stomach when I
realized that,” said Gentle, 51, who would
testify at Reynolds’s trial. In August, Reyn-
olds was convicted of 12 fraud-related
charges, and Gentle wrote a letter to the
federal judge on the eve of sentencing that
described the “pain, distrust and financial
hardship” that had been inflicted on his
church. On Nov. 9, Reynolds was sentenced
to more than eight years in prison.
The scheme, which ran from 2002
through 2008, clobbered the church’s fi-
nances. Reynolds had covered up his theft
by shifting money from one account to
another but had left many invoices unpaid.
The church was forced to dip into its
endowment to pay a $40,000 electric bill or
face darkness. It had to cut back on its
ministry, including slashing a popular sum-
mer-enrichment program for kids. Gentle
and church leaders cut the institution’s $2.4
million budget in half. One-third of its 21
workers were laid off.
The church’s endowment, also battered
by a bad economy, fell from $8.4 million in
2007 to its current level of $4.8 million.
At meetings, members vented about their
next steps, even wondering whether they
should shutter the congregation. In the end,
members and Gentle say, their choice was
obvious: They would not surrender to a
crime.
“We felt very strongly that as a church of
God, how dare we even think about closing
the doors?” said Loretta Tate, the congrega-
tion’s lay leader.
Soon after learning that her church was
in financial trouble, Kathleen Swihart, a
staffer who had looked after elderly and sick
On Faith Local
Excerpts from voices.washingtonpost.com/onfaith
for ‘the least of these’
A
s the American left contin-
ues to seek a coherent way
to articulate its moral pri-
orities in these days of political
stalemates and widening income
gaps, it might look to the most
unlikely of places — the academy
— for guidance and inspiration.
At elite universities and semi-
naries thrives a constituency of
African American intellectuals
who fiercely contend that the
American conversation needs to
stay focused on justice — specifi-
cally, for those whom the Bible
calls “the least of these.”
Cornel West, who was arrested
at an Occupy Wall Street protest,
is perhaps the most visible. But
there is also James Cone of the
Union Theological Seminary,
whom the New Yorker profiled in
2008 as an intellectual influence
on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright —
the controversial pastor emeritus
of President Obama’s church in
Chicago. And there is Eddie
Glaude of Princeton, who last
year wrote a red-hot essay for the
Huffington Post called “The
Black Church is Dead.”
And there is Obery Hendricks,
a Bible professor at Union whose
book, “The Universe Bends
Toward Justice,” was published
this month. (The title borrows
from an often-used phrase by the
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.). In a
series of interconnected essays
on subjects ranging from gospel
music to supply-side economics,
PHOTOS BY BILL O'LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST
Hendricks rails against the con-
The National City Christian Church has been “meeting one challenge after another,” the ventional hypocrisies in public
Rev. Stephen Gentle says. moral and religious discourse.
According to Hendricks’s bib-
parishioners for more than 20 years, ap- over by volunteers. To thank the pantry’s lical exegesis, Jesus was a class
proached Gentle — and laid herself off unpaid workers, another crew recently re- warrior. Jesus said, “Woe to you
because she knew the church was going to modeled the drab windowless space, with its who are rich,” Hendricks wrote.
be strapped for money. The same afternoon, stained walls and leaky pipe, leaving it clean “Wealth becomes unjust for Je-
the 78-year-old started volunteering, con- and brightly painted. sus when it is used in an unjust
tinuing to help the elderly while also taking On Monday, four volunteers were expect- fashion, or for unjust ends, or
shifts at the church’s front desk, which is ed to help decorate the sanctuary for when it is greedily accumulated
now staffed by a rotating squad of con- Christmas; 18 turned up. “It just warms your and not shared with those in
gregants. heart,” said Collins, choking up as she need of material assistance.”
Barbara Collins, a retired teacher and watched congregants fluff artificial Christ- Undergirding Hendricks’s ar-
longtime church member, began recruiting mas tree limbs and place red and white guments are three provocations.
volunteers. They spent months reupholster- poinsettias in the choir loft. 3 Political conservatives who
ing dozens of church chairs. They published Off to the side was Gentle, who stopped by call themselves Christians but
the weekly bulletin and monthly newsletter. to check on the volunteers’ progress. A day oppose government programs
When the cleaning and grounds crews were earlier, he had spoken from the pulpit about that help the poor are not, in any
eliminated, volunteers began scrubbing the faith, hope, betrayal by a trusted employee meaningful way, Christian.
church and cutting grass. Over two summer and giving thanks “even in times of hardship 3 The Jesus of the Gospels
Saturdays, they planted dozens of impatiens like the embezzlement and theft.” was concerned, first and fore-
and mums to form a cross on the front lawn. As he watched the volunteers scurry most, with rectifying the inequi-
The food pantry, which serves the area’s about, the pastor said nothing. ties of society where some people
poor, had once been overseen by staffers. He just smiled. had too much stuff, and others
Like so many other duties, it soon was taken wilberd@washpost.com had too little.
3 Anodyne religiosity, wheth-
er on the left or the right, has
nothing to do with true Christi-
anity, which is a call to action
rooted in love.
“Liberals,” he told me over
coffee in San Francisco this
month, where we were attending
a meeting of the American Acad-
emy of Religion, “have ceded the
moral ground and the religious
ground to the Christian con-
servatives who violate the very
faith they purport to support.”
Hendricks knows that he and
his colleagues will be labeled
radicals and communists, but he
doesn’t care. He is not a commu-
nist, he writes, because although
he does support what he calls
“distributive justice” (the distri-
bution of material goods as well
as “psycho-emotional” goods,
such as stability and peace of
mind), he also advocates for the
private ownership of property.
Having worked on Wall Street
for nearly a decade, Hendricks
deals fluently with the various
economic vogues of the past cen-
tury. And he remains proud of
his “radical” bona fides: As a
young man, he was a black na-
tionalist, a follower of Amiri Ba-
raka, and he continues to insist
on the importance of the legacy
of Wright who, despite his public
implosion before Obama’s elec-
tion, led “an extraordinary min-
istry.” (One other biographical
tidbit, perhaps not relevant to
this piece but interesting: Hen-
dricks was “very, very good
friends” with Anita Hill in the
early 1980s, when she worked for
Clarence Thomas: “She would
come home fuming and fussing
about the sexual harassment she
experienced at work,” he told
me.)
What Hendricks is really say-
ing is that the same biblical argu-
ments that undergirded the
fights against slavery and for civ-
il rights are relevant now as ar-
guments in opposition to a cul-
ture or a political party that
would deny any of its citizens
equal access to life, liberty or the
pursuit of happiness.
The gospels, he writes, speak
of a love “that must move us to
struggle each and every day, each
in our own way, to re-create the
kind of world in which the chil-
dren of our neighbors can have
every good that we seek for our
own.” Whoever refuses to consid-
er the least of these lives in viola-
tion of the Golden Rule, he says.
Politicians have to be prag-
matic, but preachers and profes-
sors do not. The social justice
message of the black church,
framed by culture’s outsiders and
forged through hardship, might
help guide the diffuse and dis-
consolate left through troubled
times.

I love the images associated
with Thanksgiving — home,
hearth, New England, New World
— all of those Norman Rockwell
drawings. For some of us, they are
sappy. I am drawn to them and
the strong feelings of sturdiness,
affection, support and comfort
that they evoke.
I ask myself each year: For
what am I thankful? I slowly
count the blessings of a family
that I love, work that inspires me,
colleagues from whom I learn
and with whom I feel a bond of
trust and support. I take none of
these for granted.
I go further. I am thankful to
live in a country that has afforded
me such amazing opportunities.
The new expression is that the arc
of history is a long one. No one
knows that better than America’s
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Jews. Jews, in fact, are living
testimony to that long arc. We are
living in a moment in time that
allows us to witness simultaneous
miracles: the freedom and
exuberant success that American
pluralism has afforded us and the
independent sovereignty of a
Jewish nation, the State of Israel.
The generation of Jews that
experienced the before and after
of both of these miracles is now
our most valued: senior citizens.
The generation of Jews who came
to these shores as European
immigrants, as well as all those
who remember the world before
1948, carry with them a
transformative period of our
history — living memories that
echo the redemptive passages of
our liturgy: “Who is like you, our
God, among the gods that are
worshiped . . . performer of great
wonders? Blessed are you, God,
who has redeemed Israel.”
A question we might ask
ourselves is what do we need to
do, so that we might cherish these
gifts. In other words, how do we
not take it all for granted?
For me, faith plays a large part
in nurturing a soul of gratitude.
We are the recipients of such
gifts; knowing that we are
extremely lucky and blessed to
come by them is what a life of
faith is about. Each of us is here
because someone who came
before took a chance and was also
blessed with great luck.
Nothing happens by itself.
Israel is here because people had
a dream, and then millions
sacrificed to make it happen.
None of us acts alone. That very
long arc of history is itself a
testament to our past; it beckons
us to forge the ancient covenant
we have inherited.
Finally, I wonder why we are
not more passionate advocates
for a welcoming immigration
policy. If we are anything, we are
a nation of immigrants. We honor
our past when we each work to
ensure that every generation of
immigrants is welcomed to share
the promise of the land. The
signers of the Mayflower
Compact dedicated themselves to
“just and equal laws . . . for the
general good.” What can we do to
carry out a tradition that, at this
season especially, seems at the
heart of what our nation is about?
Rabbi Daniel G. Zemel is the rabbi at
Temple Micah in Washington.
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On Faith
Excerpts from voices.washingtonpost.com/onfaith
Catholic Mass
changes take hold
On Saturday evening,
beginning with the Sunday Vigil
Mass of the Advent Season,
Roman Catholics in the United
States will fully implement the
use of their new Roman Missal.
It is the book that contains the
instructions for conducting the
celebration of the Mass (also
referred to as the Eucharist) and
the prayers that are said by both
the priests and people
throughout the liturgical life of
the Church.
Up until now, Catholics have
either read or heard about the
new translations’ arrival through
a variety of means including
parish bulletins and newspaper
articles, sermons, and small-
group discussions.
The Mass — as Roman
our English language to move
both heart and mind to God.
These new words offer us
glimpses into our scriptural
heritage, the truths of our faith,
and our spiritual connection to
our Lord Jesus. These new words
will help us all to pray better.
Priests and congregations
alike have new words and
responses to say. In our pews,
there will be a card or book that
shows the new words. The
priests actually have the biggest
adjustments. Yet it will not be
too difficult for them either.
Priests will have to pay attention
to the new words and the book’s
directions and layout, but only a
few prayers in the book are used
at any given time for a Mass.
Human minds become used
to routines, so we might easily
slip back into our old way of
saying things. That’s fine. Just

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Quake’s aftershocks continue Authorities probe robberies, carjackings of taxis

BY M ARTIN W EIL
Weeks after last summer’s his-
toric earthquake, the ground in
central Virginia continues to
shake.
On Wednesday, three months
to the day after the magnitude 5.8
quake that was centered near
Mineral, Va., the town’s surround-
ings experienced what appeared
to be at least the 50th aftershock.
The U.S. Geological Survey re-
ported Wednesday’s event as a
magnitude 2.0 quake, centered
about six miles south of Louisa.
A 2.1 aftershock was reported
near Louisa at 12:25 a.m. Nov. 21,
and two more occurred on Nov. 20
about five miles from Mineral.
The largest of the seven most
recent aftershocks, a magnitude
2.4 on Nov. 19, was about five miles
south of Louisa. That event was
felt in the Washington area.
Among the quake’s stronger after-
shocks was a magnitude 3.0 on
Oct. 12 and a 3.4 on Sept. 1.
Both nuclear reactors at Do-
minion Virginia’s North Anna
Power station were shut down
after the quake. Unit 1 began pro-
ducing electricity Nov. 15, and the
second unit reconnected to the
grid Nov. 22, Dominion said.
weilm@washpost.com
Men often used
the same tactics in
11 incidents, police say
BY M ATT Z APOTOSKY
District police detectives are
looking for at least two men who
hail cabs in the city so they can
rob the drivers.
Since mid-October, police
have received 11 reports of cab-
drivers being robbed or car-
jacked, and they think the same
men are responsible for at least
some of the incidents, said Cmdr.
George Kucik, who heads the
department’s Criminal Investiga-
tions Division.
In many cases, Kucik said, the
robbers use the same tactic: They
enter the cab posing as travelers
in need of a ride and then rob the
driver. Because of that — and
because many of the robberies
happened in close proximity to
one another — investigators
think a small group is responsi-
ble for at least some of the cases,
Kucik said.
In a news release, police also
said many of the robberies had
occurred near Metro stations.
Kucik declined to say which ones.
“We do believe that some of
them are potentially linked to the
same group doing it,” Kucik said.
“There are similarities to a lot of
them.”
Kucik said the robberies have
involved two to four men, al-
though a woman appeared to be
involved in one incident. In some
cases, he said, they show a weap-
on; in others, they don’t.
In some cases, he said, the
cabdrivers were carjacked. Kucik
declined to give precise details of
each incident, saying that doing
so could compromise the investi-
gation.
The most recent robbery oc-
curred this week, he said.
Anyone with information
about the robberies is asked to
call the police at 202-727-9099 or
888-919-2746. Tipsters can also
text information to police by
sending a message to the number
50411.
In a news release, police also
advised people to call 911 should
they see any cab with its emer-
gency 911 beacon activated.
zapotoskym@washpost.com

DIGEST

THE REGION Fredys Castillo-Giron, 41.

Muslim group seeks
probe of threats
A Muslim civil rights group is
asking the FBI to investigate a se-
ries of threatening posts on an an-
ti-Islam Web site.
One visitor to the Bare Naked
Islam Web site said he passes a
Northern Virginia mosque and
urges Christians to “kill every
Muslim twice.” An effort to get
comment from the site’s author
did not succeed.
Council on American-Islamic
Relations spokesman Ibrahim
Hooper said the comments differ
from most rhetoric against Mus-
lims online because they routine-
ly make explicit calls for violence.
— Associated Press
MARYLAND
Police identify man
struck, killed by car
Authorities identified the man
fatally struck by a car at a Hyatts-
ville Home Depot on Thursday as
Police have said the driver of
the car, a 79-year-old Hyattsville
man, blacked out after a medical
emergency. Castillo-Giron and
five other s were taken to a hospi-
tal, where he died.
— Matt Zapotosky
MARYLAND
2 dead in shootings
in Prince George’s
Two people were killed in vio-
lent incidents Friday night in
Prince George’s County, police
said.
They said a man with a gun was
shot by an officer after he ap-
proached police in a threatening
manner about 6 p.m. in the 21000
block of Aquasco Drive in the
Aquasco area. Police were sent
there in response to a report of a
man who wished to kill himself.
In the second incident, a man
was shot fatally in the 9400 block
of Adelphi Road about 8:30 p.m.
Police were investigating whether
the man was killed by robbers.
— Clarence Williams
George Allen’s weekly NFL picks prove only so-so
allen from B1
have gotten 37 games right rather
than 31.
Allen’s football career ended in
college, but his family is NFL
royalty. His father, George H. Al-
len, coached the Los Angeles
Rams and Washington Redskins
and is a member of the Pro Foot-
ball Hall of Fame. His brother,
Bruce Allen, is now the Redskins’
general manager.
Many politicians commonly
deploy sports metaphors, but few
can go toe to toe with Allen,
author of the 2010 book, “What
Washington Can Learn From the
World of Sports.” He sprinkles
sports references into nearly ev-
ery speech and conversation, and
his weekly picks are posted in a
Md. man
might leave
special section of his campaign
Web site dubbed “George’s Sports
Corner.”
Despite that background, Al-
len’s record this season doesn’t
“It’s something that he’s passionate about and he’s
sharing with the voters.”
David G. Schwartz of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada
stack up well against those of
some other prominent prognosti-
cators.
Each week, ESPN publishes
picks on its Web site from eight of
the network’s NFL reporters and
analysts. Unlike Allen, they guess
every game, not just the handful
most worth watching.
Through Week 11 of the NFL
season, the worst ESPN picker,
reporter Chris Mortensen, still
had 59 percent of the games right.
The best of the bunch, former
NFL defensive back Eric Allen (no
relation), was nailing 66 percent
of his picks.
Allen’s picks aren’t restricted
to football. He and Mercurio also
select three NASCAR drivers each
week and pit their choices against
each other. Last week, Allen cor-
rectly picked Tony Stewart to win
the Ford 400 at Homestead.
And he branches out into other
sports, guessing some winners
during the baseball playoffs and
giving some after-action analysis
following the first week of college
football games.
Luckily for Allen, no money is
riding on these picks. And given
the popularity of the NFL and
office pools, the weekly exercise
gives him something in common
with many Virginians.
“It’s something that he’s pas-
sionate about and he’s sharing
with the voters,” Schwartz said. “I
don’t think that’s a bad idea.”
Ben.Pershing@wpost.com
said.
Stein said that the investiga-
tion remains active. This week, he
said, Dutch divers combed the
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Former first lady of Chicago was steady force for city
BY A SSOCIATED P RESS
Maggie Daley, 68, the wife of
former Chicago mayor Richard
M. Daley and a promoter of the
city’s cultural and educational
programs, died Nov. 24 in Chica-
go, family spokeswoman Jacque-
lyn Heard told the Associated
Press.
In June 2002, doctors diag-
nosed Mrs. Daley with breast can-
cer.
When Richard Daley was elect-
ed to his first term as Chicago’s
mayor in 1989, he thanked his
wife in his acceptance speech,
calling her “the best campaigner
in the family.”
During his 22 years in office,
MAURICE CHASE, 92
For ‘Father Dollar Bill,’
his mission was helping
poor of L.A.’s skid row
BY E LAINE W OO
Nearly every Sunday morning,
Thanksgiving and Christmas for
almost three decades, the man
called Father Dollar Bill, Father
Dollar or just D.B. — for Dollar
Bill — showed up on a Los
Angeles skid-row sidewalk. He
was a white-haired man in a red
sweater and a Notre Dame cap,
his pockets jammed with crisp,
green bills, which he handed out
until the money was gone.
Father Maurice Chase didn’t
mind what name the destitute
men, penniless mothers, people
in wheelchairs, drug addicts and
ex-cons called him. He didn’t care
how they planned to spend the
money. Nor was he bothered by
the criticism that other skid-row
service providers sometimes
voiced: that he was a self-promot-
ing attention hound whose hit-
and-run assistance had little, if
any, enduring effects on the des-
perate people who gathered for
his handouts, blessings and hugs.
“I’m out here to tell people I
love them and God loves them,”
he told the Los Angeles Times
several years ago. “I met Mother
Teresa in Mexico City once, and
she told me to touch the poor. Do
you hear that? Touch the poor.”
Father Chase died Nov. 20, four
days before Thanksgiving, at his
Los Angeles home. He was 92 and
had cancer, said his nephew Rob-
ert Boyd.
In an era of multimillion-
dollar agencies for the homeless,
Father Chase was an anomaly.
“Maury Chase just planted his
feet right on the sidewalk, the last
place on Earth where the poorest
of the poor can live,” said Alice
Callaghan, founder of the skid-
row advocacy center Las Familias
del Pueblo. “He didn’t attempt to
single out the undeserving poor
Frank LaMacchia
ECONOMIST
Frank LaMacchia, 89, a retired
State Department economist,
died Oct. 29 at Collington Life
Care Community in Mitchellville.
He had complications from a
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Richard Daley would routinely
tear up when he spoke about his
wife. They had met while he was
campaigning for the Illinois Sen-
ate and were married in 1972.
Eventually, their partnership be-
came a steady force for the city
during his at-times turbulent two
decades at the helm of the nation’s
third-largest city.
In the years after the diagnosis,
Mrs. Daley was in and out of the
hospital and had many setbacks
to her health. All the while, she
maintained a public life as Chica-
go’s first lady.
When she first learned she had
breast cancer, Mrs. Daley said she
was shocked. “But you pick up
and you move on. . . . I’m not alone
from the deserving poor; I’m sure
he handed money out to thieves.
But it wasn’t the dollar that
mattered. It was the gift of hu-
man love.”
Boyd said he did not know how
much money his uncle had dis-
tributed since the mid-1980s,
when he began soliciting dona-
tions from wealthy benefactors
such as Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra,
Jackie Autry, Merv Griffin and
Vin Scully. The amount reached
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Each Sunday, Father Chase usual-
ly handed out $2,000 to $2,500.
On Thanksgiving and Christmas,
he doled out as much as $15,000.
He began his direct charity
when he was a fundraising assis-
tant to the president of Loyola
Marymount University in Los
Angeles. His job was to loosen the
purse strings of potential donors
to the Catholic university.
Through his friendship with
actress Irene Dunne, he hit the
Los Angeles party circuit and
became known as “the society
priest,” a description that was not
entirely complimentary. He took
press kits about his fundraising
to parties and was frequently
mentioned in society columns.
To make sure his accomplish-
ments were duly recorded, he
sent news clippings and photo-
graphs of himself to the obituary
editor of the Los Angeles Times
to help the newspaper prepare its
write-up.
Father Chase came up with his
skid-row charity after contem-
plating the instructions of Loyola
Marymount’s president, Father
Donald P. Merrifield, who hired
him in 1985. Merrifield told him:
“I’m sending you out among the
rich and famous. You better have
a balance in your life.”
After every high society event,
Father Chase sent letters to the
stroke, his daughter Karen Hart-
nett said.
Mr. LaMacchia worked for the
State Department from 1948 to
1968 and served in Kenya, South
Korea, Iraq, Germany and pres-
ent-day Zimbabwe.
A former resident of Chevy
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OBITUARIES
CHARLES REX ARBOGAST/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Maggie Daley, shown in 2007,
was active in children’s causes.
Father Maurice Chase gives $20 to Virginia Mendez in Los Angeles in 2004. The Roman Catholic priest
was sometimes accused of being an attention hound in his practice of handing out cash to the needy.
potential donors he had met,
telling them how wonderful their
party was. Then he pointed out
that many people were less fortu-
nate and needed their help. The
society mavens usually wrote
back and included a check for the
priest’s nonprofit skid-row min-
istry.
This wasn’t the life his lawyer
father had envisioned for him.
Born in Dinuba, Calif., on March
17, 1919, Father Chase had intend-
ed to follow his father’s career
path. After graduating from the
University of California at Los
Angeles, he studied law at UC-
Berkeley’s Boalt Hall. He was
president of his class but left
after two years to enter the
priesthood.
In 1953, after completing his
studies at St. Paul’s College in
Washington, he was ordained by
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, one
of the first televangelists.
After seminary, Father Chase
Chase, he moved to Pinellas Park,
Fla., in the mid-1970s. He re-
turned to the Washington area
and settled at Collington in 2010.
Frank Richard LaMacchia was
born in New York City and was a
Navy veteran of World War II. In
1945, he graduated from George
here. There are a lot of people who
have experienced this,” she said in
the weeks after the diagnosis.
Mrs. Daley was active in Gal-
lery 37, which educates and em-
ploys young people in the arts,
and she was a champion of the
educational program After
School Matters.
She also had held a paid posi-
tion as president of Pathways
Awareness Foundation, a non-
profit organization that aims to
teach parents about disabilities
affecting children.
Although her husband could be
prickly, particularly with the me-
dia, Mrs. Daley became a beloved
figure. She declined most inter-
view requests, saying she did not
worked at Sacred Heart Church
in Palm Desert, Calif., where he
met the Eisenhowers and other
famous retirees. Seeking a more
cosmopolitan experience, he
moved to Los Angeles in the
mid-1960s.
He began every trip to skid row
with a prayer about serving the
poor: “When you have done it to
the least of men, you have done it
to me.” Then he went to the bank
to withdraw stacks of new dollar
bills.
“Everything is so dirty on skid
row,” he told the Los Angeles
Daily News in 2004. “I want to
give them something fresh and
new.”
He drove a small white Toyota,
sometimes festooned with Amer-
ican flags. When he arrived out-
side the Fred Jordan Missions on
skid row, a long line of people
would be waiting.
He had a system: women with
children and the disabled first,
Washington University, and he
later did graduate study in eco-
nomics at GWU and at American
University.
He enjoyed reading and the
opera.
His wife of 66 years, Lillian
Terrono LaMacchia, died in 2009.
want to talk about herself, but she
was gracious and smiling with
reporters, typically saying only
that she was feeling “just fine”
when asked about her health.
Born Margaret Corbett, she re-
ceived a bachelor’s degree in his-
tory from the University of Day-
ton and held honorary degrees
from Columbia College Chicago
and Catholic Theological Union.
Survivors include her husband
and three children. A 33-month-
old son, Kevin Daley, died of com-
plications related to spina bifida
in 1981.
Mrs. Daley’s daughter, Lally,
had moved up her wedding from
New Year’s Eve to Nov. 17 so her
mother could fully participate.
DAMIAN DOVARGANES/ASSOCIATED PRESS
then everyone else. Most people
got a dollar, but if they had
special needs, Father Chase gave
more — $5, $20, sometimes $100.
He found several trustworthy
men to keep the line orderly and
act as his guards. He said he once
fended off a knife attack and was
punched in the stomach, but
such acts of aggression were rare.
When he reached his 80s, he
began to agonize about who
would continue his work after he
died. “Every priest I know has to
be in church on Sunday,” he said
several years ago.
Willie Jordan of Fred Jordan
Missions said he planned to hand
out dollar bills to the 700 or 800
homeless people expected for the
annual Thanksgiving meal.
“We want everyone to remem-
ber him,” Jordan said of Father
Chase. “I dare say we will not see
his kind again.”
Survivors include two sisters.
—Los Angeles Times
Survivors include four daugh-
ters, Linda LaMacchia of Takoma
Park, Christine Battle of Oxnard,
Calif., Diane LaMacchia of Oak-
land, Calif., and Karen Hartnett
of Bowie; eight grandchildren;
and eight great-grandchildren.
— Bart Barnes
SF 5x5
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2011
DEATH NOTICE
BARLEY
MELVA GENEVIEVE BARLEY
On Monday, November 21, 2011,
of Silver Spring, MD. Beloved wife
of the late John J. Barley; sister
of Vadna Fern Bowser and the
late Cleman Bowser, Owen Bows-
er, Arthur Bowser, Gladys Meyers
and Bernadine Watkins. Also survived by many
nieces and nephews. A memorial service
will be held at Inter-Faith Chapel, 3680 South
Leisure World Blvd, Silver Spring, MD, on Sat-
urday, November 26, at 1 p.m. Inurnment
Fairview Cemetery, Martinsburg, PA on Sunday,
November 27, at 1 p.m. In lieu of flowers
memorial contributions may be made to Mont-
gomery Hospice Society, 1355 Piccard Dr.,
Suite 100, Rockville, MD 20850.
www.COLLINSFUNERALHOME.com
BROOKS
CORA A. BROOKS (Age 93)
Died peacefully on November 22, 2011. Sur-
vived by children, Patricia A. Fisher and Carlton
L. Fisher; other family and friends. Service Mon-
day, November 28, 10 a.m. at Contee AME Zion
Church, 901 Division Ave., NE, Washington, DC.
BULLOCK
EDITH HOLMES BULLOCK (Age 95)
Peacefully on Thursday, November 17, 2011.
Loving wife of the late Deacon Parker W.
Bullock, Sr.; devoted mother of Edith Minor
(Charles), Parker Bullock, Jr. (Brenda) and
Christopher Bullock (Sheila). Also survived by
five grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, a
host of other relatives and friends. Friends
may visit with the family from 9:30 a.m. until
time of service, 10:30 a.m., Monday, November
28 at Beulah Baptist Church, 5820 Dix St.,
N.E. Rev. Marcus E. Turner, Sr., officiating.
Interment Quantico National Cemetery. Ser-
vices by HENRY S. WASHINGTON & SONS.
CARPENTER
OLIVE CARPENTER (Age 86)
On Sunday, November 20, 2011 of Fairfax, VA.
Beloved wife of the late James D. Carpenter.
She is survived by several nieces and nephews
and dear friends Millie and Ernie Pappas.
Friends may call on Monday, November 28,
2011 from 11 a.m. to 12 noon at Murphy Falls
Church Funeral Home, 1102 W. Broad St., Falls
Church, VA where a Service will be held at 12
noon. Interment to follow at National Memorial
Park. Memorial contributions may be made to
Capital Caring Hospice, 2900 Telestar Court,
Falls Church, VA 22042.
CRENNAN
KEITH WILLIAM CRENNAN (Age 44)
Died Monday, November 21, 2011 in The Vil-
lages, FL of natural causes relating to diabetes.
Beloved son of William and Barbara Crennan of
Springfield, VA; loving brother of Kathleen Leith
and Christopher Crennan of Springfield, VA;
devoted uncle of three nephews and a niece.
Keith graduated from Orange Hunt Elementary
School in Springfield,VA and Lake Braddock
Secondary School in Burke, VA. Keith has a
BS, with Honors, in TV & Communications
from Adelphi University on Long Island, NY.
He worked for 10 years as a TV Producer
and Director for some VA Public Service TV
stations in Northern VA. After that he worked
in Network TV News production for variety
of organizations in the Washington, DC area
including CNN and ABC Network News, plus
Mid East TV.
A visitation will be held Monday, November
28, 2011 at DEMAINE FUNERAL HOME, 5308
BACKLICK RD., SPRINGFIELD, VA from 6 p.m.
until time of prayer service at 8 p.m. In lieu
of flowers, contributions may be made to the
American Diabetes Association.
www.demainefunerals.com
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DERX
LAWRENCE E. DERX "Larry"
Of Brookeville, MD suddenly Monday, Novem-
ber 21, 2011. Beloved husband of Betty Derx;
father of Shelly (Bill) Andrews, Marty Derx, Lisa
Derx (Dan Miles), Beth Derx, and Donna (CJ)
Dorman; granddaddy of Emma, Kyle and Sam
Andrews, Jack and Joey Dorman. Larry spent
25 years in restaurant management with the
Marriott Corporation managing Hot Shoppes,
Hogates and Smithsonian Restaurant locations.
After retiring, Larry worked as a Mortgage
Originator with several mortgage companies
including First Washington Mortgage and most
recently with A. Anderson Scott in Rockville,
MD. Friends may call at Collins Funeral Home,
500 University Blvd., West, Silver Spring, MD
on Sunday, November 27 from 2 to 4 and 7
to 9 p.m. Funeral Mass on Monday, November
28, 12 noon at St. Peter's Parish, Olney, MD.
DOLAN
EUGENE T. DOLAN
LT. COL. USMC (Ret.)
On Monday, November 21, 2011 of Falls
Church, VA. Beloved husband of Peggy Anne
Dolan. Loving father of Nancy, Kathy and her
husband Stephen, Skip and his wife Nancy,
Betsy, Joe and his wife Cara, and Megan.
Brother of Ned Dolan and also survived by
11 grandchildren. Mass of Christian Burial will
be offered on Monday, November 28, 2011
at 10 a.m. at St. James Catholic Church,
103 North Spring Street, Falls Church, VA.
Interment to be held at a later date at Arlington
National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial
contributions may be made to The Wounded
Warrior Project, 4899 Belfort Road, Suite 300,
Jacksonville, FL 32256 or Catholic Charities
Diocese of Arlington, 200 N. Glebe Road, Suite
506, Arlington, VA 22203. Arrangements by
Murphy Falls Church Funeral Home.
FREDERICK
FLORA VIRGINIA FREDERICK (Age 95)
Of Solomons, Maryland formerly of Colonial
Beach, Virginia, passed away Monday, Novem-
ber 21, 2011 at the Solomons Nursing Center.
Beloved wife of the late Robert Paul Frederick
and loving mother of Pamela Newman and
the late Barbara Wallingford; sister of Elizabeth
Jurney, Doris Rayle, Preston Harbin. Her broth-
ers Buddy and Earl predeceased her. She is also
survived by her grandchildren, Kimberly, David,
Denise, Rob and Nicole, great grandchildren,
other family and friends. Family will receive
friends at the Lee Funeral Home Calvert, PA
8200 Jennifer Lane, (Rt. 4 and Fowler Rd)
Owings, MD on Sunday November 27 from 2 to
4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Funeral services will be held
on Monday 11 a.m. at St. James Parrish, 5757
Solomons Island Road, Lothian MD. Interment
Cedar Hill Cemetery.
GERO
MICHAEL W. GERO
On November 22, 2011 at his home. Beloved
husband of 43 years of Dottie Clemmer Gero;
dear son of Earle and Lois Gero; loving father
of Dawn Gero (Adam) Seidman and Kimberly
Gero (Angel) Ledezma; cherished grandfather
of Delaney G. and Reese G. Seidman; loved
brother of Deborah Swift and predeceased
by Cheryl Smither and Steven Gero; brother-
in-law of Albert, Jr. (M. Christine) and Arthur
Clemmer. Also survived by many nieces and
nephews. Friends may call at the Hines-Rinaldi
Funeral Home, 11800 New Hampshire Ave.,
Silver Spring, MD on Monday, November 28
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. where services will begin
at 1 p.m. Interment at Parklawn Memorial
Park. In lieu of flowers, contributions may
be made to the American Lung Association
www.lungusa.org. Please sign and view the
family guestbook at:
www.hinesrinaldifuneralhome.com.
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DEATH NOTICE
GOLDING
HAROLD F. GOLDING
On Saturday, November 12, 2011 HAROLD F.
GOLDING of Silver Spring, MD. Beloved hus-
band of the late Elizabeth H. Golding; loving
father of Mark F. (Beth) Golding, Wayne E.
Golding, Glenn W.D. (Carolyn) Golding; brother
of the late William C. Golding; brother-in-law
of Katharine Golding; grandfather of Matthew
J. Golding, Christopher P. Golding, Kaitlyn E.
Golding. A Memorial Service will be held on
Saturday, December 3, 11 a.m. at National
Presbyterian Church, 4101 Nebraska Ave., NW,
Washington, DC. The committal service will
be held on Tuesday, November 29, 2 p.m. at
Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery, Cheltenham,
MD. Please arrive by 1:30 p.m. Memorial con-
tributions may be made to www.gideons.org.
Arrangements by HINES-RINALDI FUNERAL
HOME, INC.
HAWKINS
ALFRED HAWKINS, JR.
Suddenly departed this life on Saturday,
November 19, 2011. He is survived by his
mother, Avis Hawkins; one sister, Gayle Wash-
ington; one brother, Jonathan Hawkins; three
nieces, one nephew, other relatives and
friends. Services will be held on Monday,
November 28, visitation, 10 a.m.; funeral ser-
vice to follow at 11 a.m. at Plymouth Con-
gregational Church, 5301 North Capitol St.,
N.E. Interment Lincoln Memorial Cemetery.
Arrangements provided by JOHN T. RHINES
FUNERAL HOME.
HENDERSON
ARTHUR HENDERSON, JR.
On Saturday, November 19, 2011, the beloved
father of Sharon Henderson, Walter Hender-
son, Virginia Reed and Roberta Henderson.
Also survived by eight grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren; brother, Alvin Henderson
and sister, Ann Parker. He was preceded in
death by his wife of 49 years, Charlotte Buckley
Henderson.
Art served in the Army for four years during
World War II. Following the War, Art graduated
from Georgia Tech with a Master of Mechanical
Engineering degree. He began work at the
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
in 1949 and continued with the agency when
it became the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration in 1958. He retired from NASA
in 1989. He loved his family, his church, reading
and singing.
The family will receive friends at Demaine
Funeral Home, 320 South Washington Street,
Alexandria, Virginia from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m.
on Friday, November 25. A funeral service will
be held at Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church,
2001 Sherwood Hall Lane, Alexandria, Virginia,
at 1 p.m., Saturday, November 26, 2011 fol-
lowed by interment at the Old Presbyterian
Meeting House Cemetery in Alexandria, VA.
HOPPER
WILLIAM DAVID HOPPER
Died peacefully on November 22, 2011 at his
home with his family by his side. David was
born in Ottawa, Canada in 1927. He was a
prominent agricultural economist respected
worldwide for his significant contributions to
international development. He completed his
Ph.D. at Cornell University and taught at Guelph
University and the University of Chicago. Doing
graduate work in rural India in the 1950's, David
developed a passion for improving opportuni-
ties for economic growth through focused
use of science and technology. He sustained
his love for South Asian countries and their
cultures throughout his life. He served as the
first President of the International Develop-
ment and Research Center in Ottawa, Cana-
da and the World Bank's Vice President for
South Asia and Senior Vice President for Policy
Planning and Research. He served on the
board of directors of several organizations
including the Rockefeller Foundation. He is
survived by his wife of 37 years, Ruth; daughter
Ann Fraser; son Ian Hopper; grandchildren
Samuel and Sandra and four step-children.
A private memorial service will be held. A
celebration of his life is planned for friends and
colleagues at a later date. The family asks that
in lieu of flowers, contributions be made to the
Alzheimer's Foundation.
O'CONNELL
MILDRED BLANCHARD O'CONNELL
Of Falls Church, VA died peacefully at home
with family by her side on November 22,
2011. Beloved wife of the late Francis A.
O'Connell; loving mother to son, Kevin and
his wife, Becky of Columbia, SC and son,
Michael and his wife, Gigi of Clifton, VA;
and sister of Barbara Blanchard of Westford,
MA. Mildred was preceded in death by her
husband, Francis and sister, Hilda Hanson.
Mildred is also survived by niece, Candis
Burnett; nephews, Kurt Hanson and Keith
Hanson and his, wife Debbie; five grand-
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HUNTER
CHARLES RAPHAEL HUNTER "T-Man"
On Sunday, November 13, 2011.
He is survived by his daughter,
Sa'Niya Mapp; brother, Jeffery
Hunter-Butler; mother, Lisa M.
Hunter; and a host of other rel-
atives and friends. Viewing, 10
a.m.; service, 12 Noon at Union
Temple Baptist Church, 1225 W St., S.E., Mon-
day, November 28, 2011. Interment Heritage
Memorial Cemetery, Waldorf, MD. Services
entrusted to HORTON FUNERAL HOME.
JONES
KELSEY A. JONES
Brothers of Metro Area Chapters
of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
are requested to assemble at
10:15 a.m. for the Omega Service
at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, November 29 at Israel
Metropolitan CME Church, 557 Randolph
Street, N.W., Washington, DC. Brother Jones
passed on November 18, 2011.
Bro. Leroy Lowery, Pres.,
Mu Lambda Chapter
Bro. Tony Hawkins, Chaplain
KEAGY
FRANCIS R. KEAGY (Age 92)
Francis Keagy was ushered into the presence
of the Lord on November 22, 2011. Born in
York, PA on September 9, 1919, he is survived
by his beloved wife of 66 years, Dorothy
Wentz Keagy; daughters, Joyce White and Beth
Powell; and grandchildren, Kathryn Somers
and Sheri and Ryan Powell. Francis graduated
from Nyack College in 1942, served in the U.S.
Army during WWII and worked as a proofreader
for the Government Printing Office. Family and
friends are invited to a viewing from 10 to
10:45 a.m., his Life Celebration from 11 a.m.
to noon, followed by a reception at Immanuel
Bible Church, 6911 Braddock Rd, Springfield,
VA 22151 on Monday, November 28. Interment
will take place Tuesday, November 29 in York,
PA. Email condolences may be sent to:
adamsgreen.com
KIMMEL
ERMA S. KIMMEL
September 1, 1928 - November 24, 2011
Beloved and cherished by all who knew her.
Services were held at National Funeral Home
and King David Memorial Gardens. Shiva will
be observed at the Ackerman/Stone Home in
Alexandria, VA. In lieu of flowers, the family
requests that contributions be made in Erma’s
memory to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospi-
tal. For more information, go to:
www.nationalfh-mp.com
KING
JOHN THOMAS KING
On Wednesday November 23,
2011, John Thomas King of Ocean
Pines MD. Beloved husband of
Joan King; loving father of Dave
King (Laura), Crystal Palacios and
Kevin King (Trish); brother of Ethel
Stack, Hazel Jenkins and Juanita Levers. Also
survived by seven grandchildren. Friends may
call at Devol Funeral Home, 10 East Deer Park
Drive, Gaithersburg, MD on Monday, November
28, 2011 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., where
services will be held at 11 a.m. Interment
Parklawn Memorial Park, Rockville, MD. Please
sign family guest book at:
www.DeVolFuneralHome.com
KNIGHT
DELEATRICE ANN KNIGHT
The beloved mother of Alton D.
Taylor (Demetria) and Angel D. Tan-
ner (Cedric) quietly passed away
on November 19, 2011. She is
also survived by her siblings, Calvin
(Grace), Phillip (Pamela) and Tulo-
ria; grandchildren, Allante, Alisha and Deyonna;
special friend, Germaine Stoddard and a host
of other relatives and friends. The family will
receive friends on Monday, November 28, 2011
at 10 a.m. at Holy Christian Missionary Baptist,
5110 Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue, N.E.,
Washington, DC 20019.
children, Shannon, Brent, Becca, Kaitlin and
Ryan; three great-grandchildren, numerous
grand-nieces and grand-nephews.
Mildred was born in Lowell, MA on April 11,
1924 and graduated from Westford Academy
in 1941. Upon graduation from high school,
she moved to Hartford, Connecticut to work
in the Pratt & Whitney aircraft plant to
support the WWII war effort. Mildred attend-
ed nursing school at Memorial Hospital in
Worchester, MA from 1943 - 1946 and grad-
uated as a registered nurse. She married
Francis A. O'Connell in 1947 and her late
husband's job with American Airlines
brought her to Arlington, VA in 1952 where
she worked as a nurse at Arlington Hospital.
Mildred was devoted to her children, grand-
children, sisters, nephews and nieces and
loved camping in New England, going to
the beach and her cabin on Tupper Lake.
A service was held on Friday, November
25 at 4 p.m. at the Bruen Chapel United
Methodist Church, 3035 Cedar Lane, Fairfax,
Virginia, 22031. In lieu of flowers the family
requests that you make a donation to Vitas
Innovative Hospice Care, 1604 Spring Hill
Road, Suite 450, Vienna, VA 22182. Mildred
will be buried at the Fairview Cemetery
in Westford, MA. The family will hold a
memorial graveside service in Westford, MA
in the spring.
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LUDTKE
HENRIETTA LUDTKE
On November 22, 2011. Widow of the late
William Ludtke; mother of Deborah C. Mar-
quardt and her husband, Ray; grandmother
of Jennifer Marquardt-Leach. Funeral services
will be held at the Village at Rockville Chapel,
9701 Veirs Dr., Rockville, MD 20850 on Monday,
November 28 at 11 a.m. with a visitation at 10
a.m. Interment Parkwood Cemetery, Baltimore,
MD. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions
may be made to the Village at Rockville.
LYONS
SUSAN MERRITT LYONS (Age 65)
On November 22, 2011 of Fairfax, Virginia.
Devoted daughter of Edna K. Lyons; loving
sister of David P. Lyons, James H. Lyons, Jr.,
Edward P. Lyons, Wendy A. David and Paula
L. Humelsine. Also leaves her faithful K-9 com-
panion, Spice. Services will be private. Condo-
lences to the family may be expressed at:
www.eackles-spencerfuneralhome.com
MIMS
HUBERT DOUGLAS MIMS "Doug"
Hubert Douglas Mims, known as “Doug”, from
Fayetteville, West Virginia, peacefully passed
on Thursday, November 17, 2011. He is sur-
vived by his five children: Hubert, Jr., Nicole,
Phyllis, Timothy and Kevin; 15 grandchildren;
11 great-grandchildren; a sister, Sharon Mims
and a cousin, Edmonia Newman. Retired from
Metro Transit Authority. Visitation on Monday,
November 28, 2011 at 12:30 p.m., service at
1:30 p.m. at J.B. Jenkins Funeral Home, 7474
Landover Road, Hyattsville, MD.
NISSON
CALVIN JOHN NISSON (Age 87)
On Sunday, November 20, 2011,
of Silver Spring, MD. Beloved hus-
band for 57 years of Mary Richards
Nisson; father of Grant (Debbie),
Julie Farrell (Jimmy), Keith (Kelly),
Todd (Erin), Marie and Paul
(Pamela); brother of Art, Ron, the late Al,
George, and Bob. Also survived by eight grand-
children, Sheila, Kerry, Tommy, Kyle, Calvin,
Kirk, Collette, and Calissa. Relatives and
friends may call at Collins Funeral Home, 500
University Boulevard, West, Silver Spring, MD,
(Valet Parking), Monday, November 28, 3 to
5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial
at Shrine of St. Jude, 12701 Veirs Mill Road,
Rockville, MD, on Tuesday, November 29, at
11 a.m. Interment Gate of Heaven Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to the
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington,
4103 Benning Road, NE, Washington, DC
20019.
www.COLLINSFUNERALHOME.com
NORFOLK
CAROL JANE NORFOLK (nee SIMON)
Died on the morning of Thursday, November
24, 2011, at her home in Annapolis, Maryland,
after a long illness. A retired realtor, mother,
wife and a much-loved grandmother, Carol was
born on March 7, 1944 to Kenneth and Jane
Simon of Kane, Pennsylvania. She attended
nursing school, and in 1966 married William
E. Norfolk, with whom she settled in Upper
Marlboro, Maryland. The couple had two
daughters, Allison, born in 1966, and Stacy,
born in 1969. William and Carol divorced in
1991. Carol was a devoted mother who tire-
lessly supported her daughters in any endeavor
they pursued. She was a cheerleading com-
missioner when they were cheerleaders and
a softball coach when they played softball.
She worked a part-time job to pay for tennis
lessons. When her daughters were grown she
became an accomplished realtor thanks to
her people skills and her talent for sales. She
was such a hands-on nana she even cut the
umbilical cord of her first grandchild, Tyler,
and derived enormous satisfaction from all six
of her grandchildren, to whom she enjoyed
reading, talking and teaching how to knit.
A patriot and sports fan, Carol rooted for
the Penn State Nittany Lions, the Washington
Redskins and the Baltimore Ravens. She is
mourned by her soulmate and best friend,
Jeff Musgrove. Predeceased by her brother,
Kenneth, she is survived by her former hus-
band, William; her daughter, Allison and her
son-in-law, Beau; her daughter, Stacy and her
son-in-law, Shaun; and her six grandchildren,
Tyler, Madison, Ethan, RJ, William and Christo-
pher. A memorial service will be held at 1:30
p.m. on Monday, November 28 at Lakemont
Memorial Gardens in Davidsonville, Maryland.
PEYTON
JANNIE PEYTON
On Friday, November 18, 2011. Survived by
a son; three grandchildren; 11 great-grandchil-
dren; two great-great-grandchildren. Mrs. Pey-
ton will lie in state at Antioch Baptist Church,
1105 50th St. NE, Monday, November 28, from
10 a.m. until Service at 11 a.m. Interment
Lincoln Memorial Cemetery. Services by
STEWART.
DEATH NOTICE
MUELLER
Dr. GERT HARALD MUELLER
Professor emeritus at American University,
died at 6:20 a.m., October 23, 2011, at Grand
Oaks assisted care facility in Washington,
DC. He was 89 years old. He is survived by
his first cousin, Solveig Woelfel of Frankfurt,
Germany. In his trust he wrote, “ I have
no children, living or deceased. My friends
have been family to me.” Dr. Mueller was
born in Dresden, Germany, on July 20, 1922.
After WWII he was admitted to the Freie
University of West Berlin. He received his
Ph.D. from the University of Munich on March
29, 1954. He subsequently returned to Berlin
to pass his first state examination, which
entitled him to teach history, philosophy, and
French in the German Gymnasial system,
where he taught from 1954 to 1962.
DEATH NOTICE
PRINKEY
KENNETH M. PRINKEY
The officers and members of
Patuxent Lodge #218 A.F. & A.M.
are hereby notified of the passing
of our Brother on November 21,
2011.
Terry L. Royce, P.M., W.M.
Melvin E. Harrison, P.M., Secy.
PROCTOR
MARY ANNE PROCTOR (Age 72)
Of Queenstown, MD died on November 19,
2011. Loving wife of Robert Proctor of Queen-
stown; mother of Betsy Wyatt (Matthew) of
Rockville and Jennifer Nicholson (Robert) of
Rockville, MD; grandmother of Erin, Brian,
Amanda, Brandon and Cole; and sister of
Betsy Yancy and Billie Dismer both from Char-
lottesville, VA. Services will be private. Contri-
butions may be made in Mary’s name to the
National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Maryland
Chapter, 2219 York Road, Suite 302, Timonium,
MD 21093. www.fhnfuneralhome.com.
SICKLE
CONSTANCE Z. SICKLE
Our beautiful and always smiling great-
grandmother, grandmother and mother
passed away peacefully surrounded by
her family on Friday, November 25, 2011.
She is survived by her daughter, Sandy
Galkin; her grandchildren, Jill and Marc
Broder, Danny Galkin, Steve and Stacey
Galkin; and her beloved great-grandchil-
dren, Devin, Max, Willie, Melissa, David,
Jeremy, Zachary and Sydney. She will be
greatly missed by all of those whose
lives she touched. There will be a private
family graveside service Sunday morning.
Shiva will be held at the home of Jill and
Marc Broder on Sunday, November 27,
2011 starting at noon. Donations should
be made to American Cancer Society.
Services under the direction of Edward
Sagel Funeral Direction, Inc.
STEINMAN
CHRISTINA KIRK STEINMAN
Died peacefully in her home on November
18, 2011 after a long struggle with cancer.
A cherished mother and friend, Christina was
cared for lovingly by her family and “acquired
family” in her final months of life.
Born November 6, 1949 in Providence, Rhode
Island, Christina moved to Washington, DC
in 1972. While working as a congressional
legislative assistant, she enrolled in night class-
es and received her Masters in Public Admin-
istration from George Washington University.
She became a lobbyist for the National Associ-
ation of Regional Councils and later joined the
audit and consulting firm Deloitte & Touche.
Twenty years later, she retired as a National
Director, heading Deloitte’s Aviation and Trans-
port Services Industry Practice.
Christina was a passionate traveler, an avid
reader and a life-long student. She volunteered
in literacy training and served as a board
member with New Futures, an organization
that helps disadvantaged youth gain access
to higher education. A vibrant and spirited
woman, Christina’s compassion and warmth
will never be forgotten.
Christina is survived by her son, Andrew, of
New York City, and his wife, Julia Sandler. She
is also survived by her extended family in
Rhode Island and many dear friends.
A service will be held on November 29, 2011 at
10:30 a.m. at St. Paul’s Rock Creek Episcopal
Parish on Rock Creek Church Rd. & Webster St.
NW, Washington D.C.
In lieu of flowers, contributions in Christina’s
memory may be made to Sibley Memorial
Hospital Foundation, http://www.Sibleyfoun-
dation.org/contributing.html.
VALENTINO
EMILY VALENTINO (Age 95)
On Wednesday, November 23, 2011 of Arling-
ton and Falls Church, VA. Wife of the late
Joseph Valentino; loving mother of Peter, Paul
and his wife Mary Valentino. Also survived
by 11 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren.
Friends may call at the MURPHY FUNERAL
HOME of ARLINGTON, 4510 Wilson Blvd. on
Sunday, November 27 from 4 to 6 p.m. Mass of
Christian Burial will be offered at the Cathedral
of St. Thomas More, 3901 Cathedral Lane,
Arlington, VA on Monday, November 28 at
10:30 a.m. Interment Columbia Gardens Ceme-
tery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made
to The Multiple Sclerosis Society.
IN MEMORIAM
HEMBY
JOSEPH and MILDRED HEMBY
"We miss you, beloved Daddy, Mother, siblings
Ernest and Norman Hemby. "LORD, Thy King-
dom Come." Amen, to Eternal Life and the New
Earth. Jesus said, "Watch and Pray".
II Peter 3:8 - 13
The Hemby Family
DEATH NOTICE
After having spent four years as a private
scholar, he accepted a call as an assistant
professor at the University of Pittsburgh,
where he taught sociology from 1968 to
1972. In 1973, he accepted a position at
the American University in Washington, DC.
where he taught sociology until his retire-
ment in 1991. As an emeritus professor, he
remained active in pursuing his research and
writing on sociological theory right up to the
time of his death.
Dr. Mueller was a thinker of the first order and
a scholar in the classical mold whose breadth
of knowledge reflected a singular dedication
to those thinkers who came before him.
His work in Analytical Sociological Theory
was the fruit of over 50 years of scholarly
research leading to exhaustive studies in
religion, philosophy, history, and sociology.
The body of Mueller's work bears witness
to a life-long passion for uncompromising
scholarship and intellectual craftsmanship in
the pursuit of sociology as a rigorous science.
Professor Mueller left a substantial body of
his own original work in analytical sociological
theory, much of which remains unpublished.
A selection of these manuscripts can be
found on the American University Sociology
Department website. He had over 75 pub-
lished journal articles and one published
book entitled: Sociology and Ontology: The
Analytical Foundations of Sociological Theory,
University Press of America, 1989.
Viewing services were held at Joseph
Gawler's Funeral Home the week of October
25 . He will be greatly missed by his students,
friends and colleagues who knew and loved
him.
EZ RE
IN MEMORIAM
NABRIT
Roberta Jacquelynn Harlan Nabrit
August 15, 1934 - November 26, 2008
Love forever, Jim
DEATH NOTICE
ADAMS
JAMES ROBERT ADAMS (Age 93)
On November 23, 2011 of natural causes of
Potomac, Maryland. Mr. Adams was born in
Baltimore, MD, the only son of Louis and
Gertrude Adams. At the age of 11, he and his
family moved to Aberdeen, MD, to the shores
of Bush River, where he developed lifelong
passions for swimming, boating, fishing, and
hunting. Trained as an account, he joined
the FBI in 1939 and spent the next three
decades as an FBI agent investigating crime.
During WWII, he was assigned to the New
York City office, where he helped support
the war effort. There, he met Kathryn "Kay"
Edmonds, an FBI stenographer from Oklahoma.
They were married in 1947 in New York.
Their first child, James R. Adams Jr., was
born in 1949 and daughter, Marilyn R. Adams
followed in 1955, after Mr. Adams transferred
to the FBI's Washington, DC headquarters. In
Washington, Mr. Adams rose to rank of section
chief. He worked numerous high profile cases,
including the 1969 murder of United Mine
Workers leader, Joseph "Jock" Yablonski and
his family in Clarksville, PA, which led to
the convictions of former UMWA president,
W.A. "Tony" Boyle and several others. Mr.
Adams left the bureau in 1974, after 35 years
of service. He spent his retirement fishing
on the Chesapeake Bay in his beloved boat,
the Kay-Jim, spending time with friends and
traveling. Wife Kay Adams preceded him in
death in 1995. He is survived by son, Jim Jr. of
Elkton, MD; daughter, Marilyn; and grandson,
Patrick Farie of McLean, VA. Friends will be
received at PUMPHREY'S BETHESDA-CHEVY
CHASE FUNERAL HOME, 7557 Wisconsin Ave,
Bethesda, MD 20814 from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m.
on Sunday, November 27. A service will be
held at Potomac Presbyterian Church, 10301
River Road, Potomac, MD 20854 on Monday
November 28, 2011 at 1 p.m.
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ANDERSON
THELMA BERNICE ANDERSON
Suddenly on November 21, 2011 at
Southern Maryland Hospital. The
beloved wife of the late Graham
Anderson; and mother of the late
Lorraine and Carroll. She is sur-
vived by children, Joyce, Graham
and Alan Anderson. She is also survived by
three daughters-in-law, Jacqueline, Merciel and
Joan Anderson; 10 grandchildren and 11 great-
grandchildren. The family will receive friends
on Monday, November 28, 2011 at 9 a.m. until
time of service, 10 a.m. at POPE FUNERAL
HOMES, Forestville Chapel, 5538 Marlboro
Pike. Interment at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery.
BILLUPS
LAMARR Q. BILLUPS, III
Of Falls Church, VA passed away at Virginia
Medical Center on November 11, 2011. Born
October 28, 1952, LaMarr had a deep and
abiding love for his family, was a caring and
loyal friend, and was a valued leader and
colleague.
LaMarr was born, raised and educated in
Chicago, IL. A graduate of Cathedral High
School, he received a BA in Sociology and
Education from Loyola University of Chicago
(1974) followed by a MA in Public Policy-
Criminal Justice from University of IL at
Chicago (1977). He lived in Madison, WI for
over 30 years, interrupted by a brief stay
in Washington, D.C. when he worked for WI
Senator Russell Feingold. LaMarr and his
wife returned to the DC area in 2007 to work
at Georgetown University.
For most of his career, LaMarr worked in
government and higher education. He began
his government service with the State of
Wisconsin, which included over seven years
as a Career Executive & Senior Administra-
tive Officer for the WI Dept. of Industry, Labor
and Human Relations (1985-1992). LaMarr
left state government to work for Senator
Russell Feingold (1993-1995) as Senior
Legislative Assistant, assisting the Senator in
a range of domestic policy areas.
LaMarr began his career in higher education
at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
During over 11 years (1996-2007) as Senior
Special Assistant for Local Government and
Community Relations, he represented two
chancellors and the university on a range
of issues, including community, economic
development, and education issues. LaMarr
was UW’s key liaison with local governments,
neighborhood associations, non-profit orga-
nizations and the business community.
LaMarr’s final years were spent at George-
town University (2007-2011) as Assistant
Vice-President for Business Planning Policy,
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where he worked to implement George-
town’s mission, strategic goals, and values
in the University’s business relationships
with its institutional partners. As chair
of the Licensing Oversight Committee and
Advisory Committee on Business Practices,
he helped implement the University’s Just
Employment Policy to provide employees
and fulltime contract workers fair and com-
petitive compensation packages and pro-
moted fair employment practices in the
manufacture of collegiate clothing. He also
chaired the University’s annual Martin Luther
King, Jr. celebration.
He represented both the UW and George-
town as a member of the Board of the
Workers’ Rights Consortium, an independent
monitoring group that advances anti-sweat-
shop initiatives. He was a member of Madi-
son’s Edgewood College Board of Trustees
and the Loyola University Chicago National
Alumni Board of Directors. He served on
the boards of numerous civic organizations
while in Madison, among them the Urban
League of Greater Madison and the Madison
Cultural Arts District, the operating board for
the Overture Center for the Arts.
LaMarr is survived by his wife, Sheryl Billups;
daughter, Rachel Montgomery; father,
LaMarr Billups Senior; brother, Bernard
Maston; two nieces, Roshawn Dubois and
LaVonne Maston-Fisher and family; nephew
Marcus Maston; life long friend/sister Gale
Spencer and son, Alex; second cousin,
Alberta Williams; stepson, Mitchell Head and
wife, Lisa; his extended family of nieces,
nephews and cousins; and his sisters-in-law
and families..
He was preceded in death by his beloved
mother, Margie Billups, brothers, Jerome
and James Maston, and mother-in-law Lillian
Smith.
A memorial service will be held on Thursday,
December 1, 2011 at Dahlgren Chapel of
the Scared Heart, Georgetown University
campus, at 4 p.m., with reception following.
Donations in memory of LaMarr Q. Billups
can be made to any of the following:
•Georgetown University Medical Center,
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Institute
•Georgetown University 1789 Scholarship
Imperative
Both via the Georgetown University website
at www.georgetown.edu
•Inova Health System Foundation, Inova
Heart and Vascular Institute
Make checks payable and mail to Debbie
Campbell, Director, Transplant and Disease
Management, Inova Fairfax Hospital; IHVI,
3300 Gallows Rd., Falls Church, VA 22042-
3300. Please indicate donation is in memory
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B6
What Friday was is the kind of day
Saturday will be. That is, warm for late
November and mostly sunny, too. Highs
could touch 70 in some places and should
reach the 60s elsewhere. A few clouds will
show up Saturday afternoon and evening.
Downtown lows in the middle 40s.
Md., Va. governors
compete overseas
for foreign investors
india from B1
fice,” said Lucas McMillan, a po-
litical science professor at Land-
er University in South Carolina
and author of a forthcoming
book that analyzes the economic
effects of 12 years of international
trade missions by governors.
“In general, these trips are
good. The face-to-face and pres-
ence of a governor is sometimes
actually needed to open up and
bring out some opportunity,” Mc-
Millan said. “But there is a lagged
effect, often in years, in both in
attracting foreign investment
and in promoting U.S. products
abroad. The benefit is not im-
mediate.”
McDonnell left for India early
this month, saying he wanted to
“tell Virginia’s story” as the most
business-friendly state in the
union and hinted this week as his
trip concluded that the visit
would soon produce an an-
nouncement regarding a new
auto manufacturing facility, as
well as other economic develop-
ment.
McDonnell spent much of his
time in India promoting the
state’s wine, film and tourism
industries. He hosted wine tast-
ings with some of India’s top
wine critics, hoteliers and others
who might be interested in im-
porting it. He also met with
education and political leaders,
and opened an agricultural trade
office in New Delhi to promote
Virginia wood products, apples,
processed foods and soybean oil.
In interviews before he left,
O’Malley, who is taking a delega-
tion of more than 100, said he
would take a different tack. In his
trip, which is also the first to
India by a sitting Maryland gov-
ernor, O’Malley said he would
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seek to harness the state’s grow-
ing number of high-tech, bio-
tech, life science and cyber firms
to attract Indian start-ups, in-
vestment and collaboration.
O’Malley has roughly 36 meet-
ings planned, and representa-
tives from more than 40 busi-
nesses, most with strong connec-
tions to India, are on the list of
those accompanying the gover-
nor. First lady Catherine Curran
O’Malley, a District Court judge,
also has meetings planned aimed
at beginning a judicial exchange.
The delegation also includes
Montgomery County Executive
Isiah Leggett, Prince George’s
County Executive Rushern L.
Baker III and House Majority
Leader Kumar P. Barve (Mont-
gomery), who in 1990 became the
first Indian-American elected to
a state legislative body.
For Leggett and Montgomery
officials, it’s the latest in a lengthy
effort to bolster the county’s busi-
ness image globally, having al-
ready made trips to South Korea,
China, Israel and India.
Robert L. Walker, assistant sec-
retary for international opera-
tions with Maryland’s Depart-
ment of Business and Economic
Development, said six to 12 deals
with Indian firms are close to
being finalized and will be an-
nounced during or after the trip.
Following O’Malley’s Asia
trade mission, he touted promis-
es he said would bring $85 mil-
lion in direct foreign investment
to Maryland, including dozens of
jobs with a Chinese biotech firm.
McDonnell did not announce any
deals following his trip in May.
O’Malley’s China visit, which
cost more than $100,000, also
came under scrutiny in connec-
tion with a Washington Post re-
port that revealed a Maryland
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casino developer has since
sought Chinese investments in
an Anne Arundel County slots
facility in exchange for EB-5 Vi-
sas for Chinese nationals.
Walker cautioned that the
deals announced from the India
trip would probably be smaller,
given the state’s relatively new
relationships with governments
and businesses there.
Unlike in China, where Mary-
land has maintained a trade of-
fice for about 15 years, the state
closed its India outpost during
the recession for budget reasons.
It then reopened it in Delhi in
2009 as one of several “contin-
gency” trade offices. The others
are in Russia, Colombia, South
Korea, Taiwan and the Western
Balkans.
The India office consists of one
contract employee, Sanjiv Khan-
na, and Maryland pays him hour-
ly, typically for part-time work to
help companies in the state that
are trying to enter or research
Indian markets, Walker said.
A PowerPoint presentation
about the trip that O’Malley’s
administration has circulated in
recent weeks begins with several
slides titled “Why India?” Among
other economic indicators, India
was Maryland’s 11th largest ex-
port market last year, and trade
between the two increased nearly
17 percent from 2008 to 2010.
By McMillan’s analysis, O’Mal-
ley’s administration has done one
important thing to help ensure a
governor’s trade mission is suc-
cessful: prepared.
Walker, Rajan Natarajan, the
state’s deputy secretary of state,
and others traveled to India in
August to scout sites, cities and
companies.
“We’ve been working on this
for six months,” Walker said. “We
hope it creates a lot of opportuni-
ties to open a lot of doors, either
to convince those who have a
presence here to expand it, or for
those who do not to consider
Maryland as their global gateway
to the United States.”
davisa@washpost.com
Staff writers Laura Vozzella and
Victor Zapana contributed to this
report.
D.C. agency alters procedures
for HUD-funded projects
hud from B1
tion fund, including a nonprofit
group that promised to deliver
dozens of units in Southeast but
years later had built nothing.
The agency also used HUD
money to bail out a developer
who had purchased apartment
complexes riddled with leaks,
sewage backups and buckling
stairwells; three of the sellers
had been previously convicted in
a sweeping housing-fraud scan-
dal.
At the same time, the District
faced losing $11 million in HUD
funding because housing offi-
cials had failed to earmark the
money to new projects.
Similar problems vex local
housing agencies across the
country.
Since 1992, HUD’s HOME In-
vestment Partnerships Program
has provided $32 billion in an-
nual grants to local agencies, but
The Post found that hundreds of
HOME-funded construction
projects showed signs of delay or
were in limbo.
In recent months, Congress
has held oversight hearings. In a
spending bill passed earlier this
month, it required a series of
changes at HUD to more rigor-
ously track federal money. This
month, HUD proposed strength-
ening its rules for the first time
since 1996 to better oversee thou-
sands of projects nationwide.
The District, which received
about $8 million this year in
HOME funding, has long faced
criticism about its projects.
On his first day on the job in
April, Hall met with top HUD
officials to discuss the HOME-
funded deals identified by The
Post. “Evidently, something had
been broken,” he said. “I knew
that I had my work cut out for
me.”
Hall, 40, had helped run two
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OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
John E. Hall took over as
director of the D.C. Department
of Housing and Community
Development earlier this year.
nonprofit community develop-
ment groups in Texas before
joining HUD as a financial man-
ager and field officer director in
the District and Richmond.
At the helm of the D.C. hous-
ing agency, which has had more
than 20 directors in the past 30
years, Hall said he immediately
told staff workers that the agency
would no longer simply cut
checks and hold ribbon-cuttings.
Instead, it would place an em-
phasis on tracking the pace of
construction, reporting accurate
information to HUD and requir-
ing developers to justify expens-
es.
Since then, the District has
repaid $4.5 million in HUD fund-
ing spent on three projects de-
tailed in The Post’s investigation.
Hall also launched eight projects
that are expected to create more
than 400 units. With a total
development cost of $112 mil-
lion, the projects will receive
$19 million in HOME funds.
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A federal HUD official called
the push “long overdue.”
“Since 2009, we’ve been work-
ing with the District to tackle
these issues head on, and it’s
precisely why we’re proposing
new rules to demand more ac-
countability from local jurisdic-
tions and the developers they
work with,” HUD spokesman Bri-
an Sullivan said in a statement.
“We recognize that [the District]
has long struggled with manage-
ment problems and any effort to
overcome these chronic deficien-
cies is both welcome and long
overdue.”
Hall said that there is more
work ahead: He wants his staff to
routinely inspect completed af-
fordable-housing units to make
sure they are safe and well-main-
tained.
“We’re in the nation’s capital,”
he said. “There’s no reason why
we shouldn’t be the best.”
Local housing advocates have
taken notice. Hall recently at-
tended a celebration of District
tenants who received loans from
the agency to buy their apart-
ment buildings. Hall “used every
last dollar and made it work,”
said Farah Fosse of the nonprofit
Latino Economic Development
Corp.
D.C. Council member Jim
Graham (D-Ward 1) said that
when Hall was still working at
HUD, Hall stepped in to push for
repairs on a distressed apart-
ment building in Columbia
Heights. “He was no-nonsense,”
Graham said. “I think he’s in a
perfect place to understand the
issues and move them forward.”
Gray also said that Hall is
moving in the right direction. “I
have full confidence that he will
continue to meet the challenges
of improving the agency to better
serve District of Columbia resi-
dents.”
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SUNDAY ARTS
Disciples of dance giant
recall avant-garde life
As Merce Cunningham’s troupe
prepares to disband, former
company members recall
the late choreographer.
COMING SUNDAY
BOOK WORLD
Nabokov’s
brother, in
the shadow
of a genius
BY D ENNIS D RABELLE
T
he title of Paul Russell’s splendid
new novel, “The Unreal Life of
Sergey Nabokov,” hints at its con-
tents. Sergey Nabokov was the 11-
months-younger brother of the great
Vladimir, who called his first novel writ-
ten in English“The Real Life of Sebastian
Knight.” Only a few pages into what
Russell has set up as Sergey’s (fictional)
autobiography, supposedly penned in
Berlin during the later years of World
War II, we learn why the narrator might
have considered his life “unreal”: He was
homosexual at a time when that orienta-
tion tended to be greeted with, at best,
condescension and, at worst, persecu-
tion.
Drawn by an efflorescence of the fine
arts, gay men and
lesbians gravitated
to Paris and to a less-
er extent Berlin dur-
ing the 1920s, when
and where the most
vivid sections of
“The Unreal Life”
take place. The het-
erosexual Vladimir
went into exile for a
different reason. The
Nabokovs were Rus-
THE UNREAL sian aristocrats, for
LIFE OF whom there was no
SERGEY place in the new So-
NABOKOV viet Union.
By Paul Russell In Paris, Sergei
Cleis. 381 pp. Diaghilev was stag-
Paperback, ing ballets, and Jean
$16.95 Cocteau was excel-
ling at just about ev-
erything: drawing
pictures, designing sets, writing novels
and making films, even as he broke in one
male lover/protege after another, includ-
ing Sergey. The young narrator is not
himself a genius, or even unusually tal-
ented at any of the arts. But he does
recognize greatness, and courtesy of his
fellow Russian exiles, he is soon rubbing
shoulders with the likes of Picasso, Ger-
trude Stein, Stravinsky and others.
In this way, “The Unreal Life” bears a
resemblance to Woody Allen’s movie
“Midnight in Paris.” But whereas “Mid-
night in Paris” is all charm and whimsy,
“The Unreal Life” incorporates many
dark features, such as Sergey’s lifelong
stutter, which can put people off before
they have properly met him; and the rise
of Nazism, a movement whose hateful-
ness extends to gays.
At the same time, however, Russell
solves a problem that defeated Allen. In
“Midnight in Paris,” the parodying dia-
logue assigned to Fitzgerald, Hemingway
and Picasso is brilliantly apt, while
Stein’s speech lacks the head-scratching
repetitions that coil through her books.
Russell, though, captures the Stein style
beautifully, as in this reply to a help-me
letter from Sergey, sent from Berlin late
in the war: “Miss Stein knows she knew
you but no longer knows how she knew
nor when nor where nor why she knew
you when she knew you. Nonetheless she
wishes you the very best.”
At the heart of “The Real Life” lies
Sergey’s relationship with his genius of a
brother, whose combination of innate
reserve, single-mindedness about mak-
ing the most of his literary gift, and
book world continued on C2
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I feel old and sad. ... I look at
old pictures of myself and see a
much more energetic, fun and happy
person. How can I snap out of this?”
A reader seeks Carolyn Hax’s advice, C4
BECOMING
MARILYN
Michelle Williams finds a connection to a Hollywood icon
BY J OHN D E F ORE
Special to The Washington Post
IN NEW YORK
A
ny sane actress would be apprehensive
about playing Marilyn Monroe, as Mi-
chelle Williams does in “My Week With
Marilyn.” The icon’s shoes are awfully hard
to step into — and filling other garments is even
more intimidating.
“I miss those hips,” Williams admits wistfully,
referring to the padding that convincingly gave the
waifish actress Monroe’s famous curves. She first
tried gaining weight for the part, De Niro-style, but
found the pounds went more to her face than her
hips. It took low-tech movie magic, not Method
acting, to fill out those glittering evening gowns.
Sitting in a suite at the Waldorf Astoria, a cloud
of Old Hollywood glamour lingers around the
actress, even if, wearing a simple dress and boyish
haircut, she herself has returned to Earth. (How
old-school is the Waldorf ? On the 39th floor, the
PLAYING A LEGEND: Michelle Williams has gone from teen star
to respected indie actress, but she says she needed extra support
to tackle the role of Marilyn Monroe in “My Week With Marilyn.”
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CrosSynergy is right inside
Just turn the page for today’s puzzle. C2
windows still open.) Hotel staffers have left a
photo for her, of Monroe at a 1957 gala in a Waldorf
ballroom — it’s one more reminder that, unlike
previous roles she was able to create in private,
this one belongs to the world.
“The other characters I’ve played, they exist in
my imagination,” she muses. “There are ways to
keep a connection with them, to never really have
to say goodbye totally, but the world doesn’t offer
them up as often.”
One assumes that’s even true of a role Williams
played for six years: Jen Lindley, the “Dawson’s
Creek” character who made her famous. Williams
has done a remarkably good job of segueing from
TV teen drama to being seen as one of her
generation’s most serious film actresses — earning
williams continued on C3
S P E C I A L A D V A N C E
TONIGHT
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THEATER REVIEW
In children’s
tale, honor and
integrity prevail
C ELIA W REN
BY
Special to The Washington Post
R
elationships are tricky enough in
normal circumstances — imagine
how tough they are when you’re
invisible. That’s the plight of Achak, the
good-looking young hunter who’s a major
character in “The Rough-Faced Girl,” the
amiable current offering from Synetic
Family Theater. After Achak is mobbed by
female admirers, his sister places him un-
der a protective spell. Suddenly, ordinary
folk can’t see him.
The adventures of Achak and of the
Rough-Faced Girl — who’s so good and
steadfast that she can see him — unspool in
gentle, lissome fashion in this children’s
entertainment, which uses Synetic’s signa-
ture wordless-storytelling style to recount
a Native American myth. On a set fur-
nished with little more than billowy white
drapes and a monkey bar, the performers’
dancelike movements, agile acrobatics,
and expressive and funny miming conjure
up a world of magic and human foibles.
The story — adapted and directed by
Elena Velasco — also drives home some
unobjectionable messages: that empathy,
courage and integrity are important, and
that appearances aren’t everything.
These morals are principally embodied
by the Rough-Faced Girl (Jade Wheeler),
whose name refers to the scarring she
suffers while tending the fire at the bid-
ding of her imperious sister, Takhi (Jessica
Thorne). Needless to say, Achak (Joshua
Rosenblum) sees past these superficial
blemishes, as does his sister, Nadie (Tori
Bertocci), a shaman. The Rough-Faced
Girl’s ultimate romantic triumph gives
the tale a Cinderella twist, but this heroine
is refreshingly active, pursuing her soul
mate through a forest with hostile spirits
and rescuing him from lonely invisibility.
Wheeler ably traces the maturing of the
Rough-Faced Girl from days of klutzy,
wide-eyed toddler-dom (chasing a butter-
fly; making inadvertent noises during a
hunt) to humble, patient adulthood. As
the noble-hearted but mischievous
Achak, the compelling Rosenblum gets to
have more fun, especially when his char-
acter takes advantage of his invisibility by
teasing his dimwitted female groupies
(portrayed by various performers). At one
point, Achak is roped into a multi-charac-
ter chase that incorporates leapfrog and
ranges into the audience seating area.
Another particularly active scene involves
aerial gymnastics on the drapery.
Ratcheting up the suspense quotient is
the production’s sound design, with its
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credit.) But the snazziest effect in the
production occurs when three members of
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orange fabric with quivering, flamelike
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glowing embers. It’s a nifty sequence: You
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staying dangerously close to the hearth.
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The Rough-Faced Girl
Adapted and directed by Elena Velasco; set
design, Phil Charlwood; costumes, Azura Hassan
and Anna Blanchard; lighting, Lawson Earl. With
Michaela Rothschild and Randy Snight.
Recommended for age 4 and older. 50 minutes. At
Synetic Family Theater, 4041 Campbell Ave.,
Arlington. 800-494-8497 or
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Mitch Albom’s “Have a Little Faith” (Sunday on ABC at 9 p.m.).
HIGHLIGHTS
A single mom and a writer
arrange a house swap in cities
across the country to get away
from drama in the original movie
“Trading Christmas” (Hallmark
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When a single father’s young
daughter asks Santa for a new
mom in the original movie “Dear
Santa” (Lifetime at 8), a lonely 24-
year-old woman decides to take
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Sunday talk shows:
“Ideas in Action With Jim
Glassman” (MPT at 8:30 a.m.)
has Matthew Rojansky, deputy
director of the Russia and Eurasia
program at the Carnegie
Endowment for International
Peace; the Hudson Institute’s
David Satter; and the Brookings
Institution’s Clifford Gaddy.
“Fox News Sunday” (Fox at 9)
with Chris Wallace will host
Republican presidential
candidate Jon Huntsman and
Sens. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.)
and Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.).
“White House Chronicle”
(WETA at 9) has Larry Graham,
president of the National
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“The Chris Matthews Show”
(NBC at 10) hosts the Daily Beast’s
Andrew Sullivan, NBC’s Kelly
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and the Chicago Tribune’s
Clarence Page.
“This Is America With Dennis
Wholey” (WHUT at 10) visits
Singapore and interviews
Education Minister Heng Swee
Keat, Housing and Development
Board chief executive Cheong
Koon Hean and national water
agency chief executive Khoo Teng
Chye.
‘Nabokov’ imagines life for
younger brother of a genius
book world from C1
discomfort with homosexuality
only deepened the misery that
often gripped Sergey as a boy. In
one of their increasingly rare
meetings as adults, Sergey con-
fesses to having always felt he
lived in Vladimir’s shadow: “I
know I was born too soon. I know
I followed you too quickly into
this world. It’s neither my fault
nor yours. But from the begin-
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The most moving relationship
portrayed in “The Unreal Life,”
though, is that of Vladimir and
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will return in February.
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Stepping into “I lived on people’s

tographers has been torturous.
After the death of Heath Ledger,
her onetime romantic partner
and the father of her daughter,
the early days when I was work-
ing on my Marilyn,” she says, “if I
had seen how bad I probably was,
I don’t know if I would have been

Marilyn’s shoes compliments, Williams was stalked by paparaz- able to go forward.”

williams from C1
Oscar nominations for “Broke-
back Mountain” and “Blue Valen-
tine” while forming relationships
with indie auteurs like “Wendy
and Lucy” director Kelly Reich-
ardt.
But unanimous critical respect
didn’t keep her from suffering
deep self-doubt on the set of this
film, which chronicles the mak-
ing of the Monroe/Laurence Ol-
ivier comedy “The Prince and the
Showgirl.” (Kenneth Branagh
plays Olivier.) Whether out of
worry over her own performance
or in subconscious emulation of
Monroe — who suffered crippling
insecurities about her acting —
Williams says she continuously
zi. Asked whether her experience But Williams compares her
kind words. with media scrutiny prepared her own learning process to her
at all for playing the world’s daughter’s lovely but awkward
An approving most-watched woman, she takes first stabs at making words of
“pretty daunting at first,” though, a long pause. She speaks about squiggles on paper. “It’s impor-
they also offered a temporary glance would last how, for a time, the relentless tant to allow yourself to make
respite from self-doubt. “When pursuit made her question mistakes, and to not get too hung
you’re singing and dancing, your me days.” whether acting was a career con- up on them. It’s good to remem-
head turns off. Your critical brain ducive to raising a child who was ber that the beginning of every-
is not allowed any room. Because Michelle Williams, “a good person, a happy person.” thing is ungainly and shouldn’t
you’re, you know, you’re basically on filming “My Week She says, surprisingly, that she be seen.”
trying to do this” — she pats her With Marilyn” didn’t really consider the correla- After all, sometimes those un-
head and rubs her stomach si- tion between her life’s experi- gainly attempts at self-invention
multaneously. ences and Monroe’s. But she sug- produce a Marilyn Monroe.
There was only one moment at gests that having survived that style@washpost.com
which the actress was really able period without abandoning act-
to accept the illusion of herself as ing may have left her “willing to DeFore is a freelance writer.
Monroe. Photographer Brigitte take on a big challenge.” As mod-
Lacombe was on the set (at est as she is, Williams seems
Pinewood Studios near London) satisfied with the result. My Week With Marilyn
and visited Williams in her “If I had seen myself back in Opened Wednesday at area theaters.
dressing room — the same dress-
ing room Monroe used while
MATT SAYLES/ASSOCIATED PRESS
shooting “Prince and the Show-
girl.”

“HHHH. A GREAT, BIG JOY.”

felt intimidated and “more de- “She came and documented
pendent on people than I have in the entire [makeup] process,
the past.” from me sitting down in the Olly Richards, EMPIRE
“I lived on people’s compli- morning, going through the Olly Richards, EMPIRE

ments, kind words,” she says. “An three-hour transformation, and

approving glance would last me
days.”
When complimented on the
way she brought a couple of
Monroe’s famous song-and-
dance numbers to life, she re-
sponds with delight and convinc-
ing humility. Though her earliest
experience as a child actor was in
musical theater, Williams says
flatly that she’s “not a singer or a
dancer.”
If the musical sequences were
then as Marilyn — which was one
of Marilyn’s very favorite things
to do, to have her picture taken,
because she got such confirma-
tion of her existence and her
beauty. And when I saw those
photos, I thought” — she whis-
pers now, as if marveling at a rare
creature — “Oh, there she is!
There she is!”
Although Monroe loved being
photographed, Williams’s own
real-world experience with pho-
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Adapted from a recent online
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Hi, Carolyn:
I feel old and sad. I don’t look
like I once did, I haven’t
accomplished some things I
wanted to accomplish by now, I
don’t have as much money to do
the things I once enjoyed doing
(travel), and I just feel very blah. I
look at old pictures of myself and
see a much more energetic, fun
and happy person. How can I snap
out of this?
Depressed
The description you just gave
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10:30
Tower Heist (PG-13) 12:15-2:55- Immortals (R) 10:55-4:25-10:05-
5:30-8:10-10:40
J. Edgar (R) Closed Caption: 4:05 Hugo 3D (PG) 10:10-1:15-4:20-
Puss in Boots (PG) 11:40-4:20
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D
Christmas (R) (!) 9:40-12:15
J. Edgar (R) 1:05-7:05-10:05
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 11:15- 4:15-7:15-9:50-12:30
12:00-12:40-2:00-3:00-4:00-5:00- Happy Feet Two: An IMAX 3D
6:10-7:00-8:00-9:00-10:00-10:45- Experience (PG) 10:45-1:20-4:10-
12:00-12:40
Hugo (PG) 9:40-12:30
Arthur Christmas (PG) 4:10-
9:50-12:10
Jack and Jill (PG) 1:00-3:15-
5:40-8:20-10:35-12:45
Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 12:30-
3:20-6:30-8:50-11:10
The Muppets (PG) (!) 11:20-
12:50-2:15-3:40-4:50-6:40-7:30- Immortals 3D (R) 1:35-7:35
9:10-10:15-12:35
Smithsonian - Lockheed Martin
IMAX Theater
601 Independence Avenue SW Happy Feet Two (PG) 9:00-
To Fly (NR) 10:20-1:05-4:55
Legends of Flight 3D (NR) 10:55- Tower Heist (PG-13) 5:55-8:25-
12:30-1:40-3:20
something that’s valuable to you,
vs. an accounting of butt-saggage
and money-drainage and gold-
star deprivation.
So make some new goals out
of the raw material of what you
actually have vs. what you think
you should have.
If you can’t find energy to
make even small changes, then
consider that it’s not about
perspective so much as brain
IMAX: Hubble 3D (NR) 11:30-
2:20-4:00
Smithsonian - Samuel C.
Johnson IMAX Theater
10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dinosaurs 3D: Giants of Patago- Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) 9:30-
nia (NR) 2:15-6:00
Grand Canyon Adventure: River 3:30-4:00-4:30-6:25-7:00-7:25-
at Risk 3D (NR) 11:10-3:50
Born To Be Wild IMAX 3D (G)
10:15-1:15-6:40
Tornado Alley 3D (NR) 12:15-
2:50-4:55
U.S. Navy Memorial Burke Theater
701 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
At Sea (NR) (!) 10:00-12:00-2:00
West End Cinema
2301 M Street NW
The Women on the 6th Floor (Les
femmes du 6eme etage) (NR)
3:15-9:30
The Conquest (La conquête)
(NR) 12:50
Drive (R) 9:50
Margin Call (R) 12:30-3:00-
5:20-7:40
Midnight in Paris (PG-13) 12:10-
2:40-7:15-9:15
The Swell Season (NR) 5:30-7:30
The Way (PG-13) 5:00
MARYLAND
AFI Silver Theatre Cultural Center
8633 Colesville Road
My Week with Marilyn (R) (!)
12:40-2:45-4:50-7:05-9:15
Paulwaat (NR) 10:30AM
Martha Marcy May Marlene (R)
3:05-5:10-7:20-9:25
Margin Call (R) 10:35-12:50
The Wizard of Oz (1939) (G)
10:30-12:45-11:30
Labyrinth (PG) 12:00AM
The Sound of Music (G) 3:00
80 Days (80 Engunean) (NR) 6:30
Kidnapped (Secuestrados)
(NR) 8:45
Who Can Kill A Child? (¿Quién
puede matar a un niño?) (NR)
10:45
AMC Columbia 14
10300 Little Patuxent Parkway
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG)
12:55-6:30
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) 11:00- 1:20-4:35-7:20-10:15
1:45-4:25-7:20-9:55
Immortals (R) 10:20-4:05-10:05 4:20-7:00-9:45
Hugo 3D (PG) 10:35-4:35-8:00-
11:00
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) 10:00-
1:00-4:00-7:00-10:00
Jack and Jill (PG) 10:15-12:50- 10:50-1:40-4:20-7:10-10:00
3:20-5:50-8:20-10:55
Happy Feet Two: An IMAX 3D
Experience (PG) (!) 11:30-2:10- Immortals (R) (!) 7:55-10:45
4:50-7:30-10:10
Puss in Boots (PG) 10:05-3:10- 12:30-3:00-5:30
8:10
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D
Christmas (R) 9:40-11:30
The Descendants (R) 10:15-1:15-
4:15-7:15-10:15
Puss in Boots 3D (PG) 12:40-
5:40-10:35
Immortals 3D (R) 1:10-7:05
J. Edgar (R) 10:25-1:30-4:35-
7:40-10:50
Hugo (PG) 1:35
Happy Feet Two (PG) 10:10-
3:40-9:10
Tower Heist (PG-13) 10:50-1:40- Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 10:10-
4:45-7:45-10:40
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 10:30- The Muppets (PG) (!) 11:00-1:45-
1:25-4:30-7:25-10:30
The Muppets (PG) (!) 10:10-
11:10-12:55-1:55-3:50-4:40-6:45- 2:50-5:15-7:40-10:20
7:35-10:45
AMC Loews Center Park 8
4001 Powder Mill Rd.
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!)
1:20-6:30
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) (!)
Immortals (R) (!) 10:30-4:15-
10:05
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 10:00-
8:00-10:00-10:45
The Muppets (PG) (!) 11:00-1:50-
4:20-6:50-9:30
Jack and Jill (PG) 10:15-12:45-
3:00-5:30-7:45-10:15
Tower Heist (PG-13) 4:30-7:15-
Puss in Boots (PG) 11:15-2:00
Immortals 3D (R) (!) 1:15-7:10
Arthur Christmas (PG) (!) 11:45-
5:00-9:50
Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 10:45-
3:50-9:00
AMC Loews Rio Cinemas 18
9811 Washingtonian Blvd.
11:35-5:10-10:20
11:30-2:00-4:45-7:20-9:45-12:25
12:40
7:30-10:40
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) 11:00-
2:00-5:00-8:00-11:00
The Muppets (PG) 10:40-1:25-
6:45-9:25-11:50
Puss in Boots (PG) 10:35-3:05-
7:40-12:05
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D
Christmas (R) 6:15-8:30-10:50
The Descendants (R) 11:05-1:55-
4:50-7:50-10:35
Puss in Boots 3D (PG) 12:55-
5:20-9:55
My Week with Marilyn (R) 11:15-
1:50-4:35-7:05-9:40-12:15
Hugo (PG) 9:15-12:05-3:10
2:20-7:45
10:55
EZ
CAROLYN HAX
J. Edgar (R) 9:05-12:15-3:30-
6:30-9:35
Arthur Christmas (PG) 10:20-
12:50-3:25
10:05-10:25-12:30-1:00-1:30-
9:30-10:00-10:30-12:20
The Muppets (PG) 11:40-2:25-
5:15-8:15-10:45
Jack and Jill (PG) 9:45-12:00-
2:30-4:40-7:10-9:20-11:50
AMC Loews St. Charles Town Ctr. 9
11115 Mall Circle
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!)
1:20-6:45
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) (!)
11:45-4:45-10:10
Immortals (R) (!) 11:30-2:05-4:55
Hugo 3D (PG) (!) 10:05-3:35-
6:30-9:30
Puss in Boots (PG) 10:30-3:00-
7:30
Puss in Boots 3D (PG) 12:45-5:20
Immortals 3D (R) (!) 7:45-10:30
J. Edgar (R) 9:45
Hugo (PG) (!) 12:50
Arthur Christmas (PG) (!)
2:15-7:35
Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 10:20-
4:15-9:15
Tower Heist (PG-13) 11:10-1:50-
4:35-7:10-9:55
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 10:00-
1:00-4:00-7:00-10:00
The Muppets (PG) (!) 10:45-1:30-
4:20-7:20-10:20
Jack and Jill (PG) (!) 10:15-12:30-
3:10-5:30-7:55-10:20
AMC Loews White Flint 5
11301 Rockville Pike
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) 9:50-
2:50-7:50
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) 12:05-
5:05-10:00
Tower Heist (PG-13) 8:05-10:40
Puss in Boots (PG) 10:20-12:40-
3:05-5:35
Arthur Christmas (PG) 9:40-
2:35-7:35
Happy Feet Two (PG) 12:20-
5:20-10:30
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) 10:35-
The Muppets (PG) 10:05-1:00-
AMC Magic Johnson Capital
Center 12
800 Shoppers Way
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!)
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) (!)
1:30-7:00
Puss in Boots (PG) (!) 10:00-
Puss in Boots 3D (PG) (!) 11:10-
1:30-4:00-6:30-9:00
Immortals 3D (R) (!) 11:50-2:45-
5:40-8:25-11:00
Arthur Christmas (PG) (!) 10:45-
4:15-9:45
Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 10:20-
1:10-3:50-6:40-9:30
Tower Heist (PG-13) (!) 10:30-
1:05-3:40-6:20-9:10
J. Edgar (R) (!) 10:00-1:00-4:10-
7:30-10:40
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
11:00-1:00-2:00-3:50-4:50-6:50-
7:50-9:50-10:50
4:30-7:20-10:10
Jack and Jill (PG) (!) 10:05-12:20-
Academy Stadium Theaters
6198 Greenbelt Rd.
Tower Heist (PG-13) 11:55-
5:05-9:30
Puss in Boots (PG) 11:45-2:10- Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 12:00-
4:25-6:55-9:20
Arthur Christmas (PG) 11:35-
1:50-4:15-6:45-9:10
Happy Feet Two (PG) 12:10-2:25- The Muppets (PG) (!) 12:00-2:25-
4:50-7:00
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG)
11:40-2:05-4:20-6:40-9:00
Immortals (R) 2:35-7:40-10:15
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) 11:30-
12:05-2:00-2:35-4:30-5:05-7:05-
7:40-9:35-10:15
The Muppets (PG) 11:35-1:50-
4:30-7:20-10:15
Bow Tie Annapolis Mall 11
1020 Annapolis Mall
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG)
10:50-1:30-4:10-6:50-9:40
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) 10:40- The Descendants (R) 10:45-
1:10-3:50-6:40-9:30
The Twilight Saga: Break-
ing Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13)
9:20-10:00-11:00-11:30-12:00-
1:00-2:00-2:30-3:00-4:00-5:00-
5:30-6:00-7:00-8:00-8:30-9:00-
10:00-11:00
The Muppets (PG) 10:10-11:10-
12:40-1:50-3:30-4:40-6:10-7:30-
8:50-10:20
Jack and Jill (PG) 9:30-11:50-
2:10-4:30-7:10-9:50
Arthur Christmas (PG) 9:40-
12:10-2:50-5:40-8:10-10:40
Happy Feet Two (PG) 11:40-2:20- The Muppets (PG) 11:45-2:05-
5:10-7:50-10:30
Thomas & Friends: Day of the
Diesels (G) 10:00AM
Bow Tie Harbour 9
2474 Solomons Island Road 2:20-4:25-6:35-8:45
Immortals (R) 2:35-9:20
Hugo 3D (PG) 11:30-2:20-5:10- 4:00-6:05-8:15-10:15
7:50-10:30
We Bought a Zoo (PG) 7:00
Tower Heist (PG-13) 12:50-3:50- The Twilight Saga: Breaking
6:30-9:10
Puss in Boots (PG) 11:20-1:30- 1:30-3:50-6:05-8:10-10:20
3:40-6:10-8:40
The Descendants (R) 11:00-
12:00-1:40-2:40-4:20-5:20-6:50- Puss in Boots (PG) 11:45-1:45-
8:00-9:40-10:40
My Week with Marilyn (R) 11:50- Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 11:30-
2:30-5:00-7:20-9:50
J. Edgar (R) 1:00-4:00-7:10-10:10 Immortals (R) 6:05-8:10-10:20
Hugo (PG) 10:30-1:10-4:10
RE
chemistry. As always, the rut that
resists your every effort to
maneuver out of it is one to
discuss with your doctor.
Dear Carolyn:
Friends invited me to their out-
of-town wedding, without a plus-
one. I went, looking forward to
seeing our mutual friends and
celebrating the couple together.
But, the couple seated me with
none of the people I knew . . . for
an uninterrupted, 10-course
dinner that lasted nearly seven
hours. By the time we were
allowed to get up and talk to
anyone else, it was all I could do
to drag my butt back to the hotel.
On top of everything, I’m on a
very limited budget so it
additionally stinks to know I sank
this year’s vacation money into
one night of interminable,
agonizing small talk.
I assume it’s totally out of line
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D
Christmas (R) 10:00
Immortals 3D (R) 12:10-6:40
Cinemark Egyptian 24 and XD
7000 Arundel Mills Circle
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG)
10:50-11:45-2:20-4:15-5:10-7:05-
8:05-10:45
Real Steel (PG-13) 1:05
Hugo 3D (PG) 12:15-3:25-6:35-
9:45
We Bought a Zoo (PG) 7:10
Jack and Jill (PG) 11:55-2:35-
5:05-7:30-9:50-12:20
Tower Heist (PG-13) 11:50-2:45-
5:20-7:50-10:20
Paranormal Activity 3 (R) 10:15
In Time (PG-13) 10:55-1:40-4:20-
10:00-12:35
Puss in Boots (PG) 11:20-1:40
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D
Christmas (R) 10:45-4:20-6:45-
9:20-11:45
Puss in Boots 3D (PG) 4:00-
6:40-9:00
Immortals 3D (R) 11:10-12:05-
1:55-2:55-4:30-5:40-7:20-8:25-
10:10-11:25
J. Edgar (R) 12:45-3:50-6:55-
10:00
Happy Feet Two (PG) 10:00-
12:40-1:35-3:25-6:10-8:50-9:30
Hugo (PG) 11:05-2:30-5:35-
8:45-11:55
Arthur Christmas (PG) 11:25-
2:10-4:50-7:40-10:30
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) 10:00-
10:30-11:00-11:30-12:00-12:30-
1:00-1:30-2:00-2:25-3:00-3:30-
4:05-4:35-5:00-5:30-6:00-6:25-
7:00-7:35-8:00-8:30-9:05-9:35;
10:05-10:35-11:05-11:30-12:05-
12:30
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) 10:25-
1:10-4:05-6:50-9:40
The Muppets (PG) 10:15-11:15-
12:10-1:15-2:15-3:15-4:25-5:15-
6:15-7:15-8:15-9:15-11:15
Hoyt’s West Nursery Cinema 14
1591 West Nursery Rd.
Tower Heist (PG-13) 11:10-1:40-
4:50-7:25-10:10-12:25
Puss in Boots (PG) 11:05-1:15-
3:30-5:45-8:00-10:15
J. Edgar (R) 12:00-3:10-6:15-9:20
Hugo (PG) 11:00-1:45-4:30-
7:15-10:00
Arthur Christmas (PG) 11:00-
1:20-3:40-6:05-8:20
Happy Feet Two (PG) 11:50-2:15-
4:45-7:10-9:30-11:45
A Very Harold & Kumar Christ-
mas (R) 10:35
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG)
11:05-1:30-3:55
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) 12:05-
2:30-4:55-7:20-9:50-12:10
Immortals (R) 1:10-3:50-6:30-
9:15-11:50
Hugo 3D (PG) 6:25-9:05-11:30
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) 11:00-
11:45-12:45-1:35-2:25-3:25-4:15-
5:05-6:20-7:05-7:50-9:00-9:45-
10:30-11:35-12:15
The Muppets (PG) 11:15-1:50-
4:25-7:00-9:35-12:05
Jack and Jill (PG) 11:55-2:20-
4:35-6:55-9:10-11:25
Kentlands Stadium 10
629 Center Point Way
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!)
1:00-4:00-6:30-8:45
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 12:00-
1:00-2:30-4:00-5:00-6:30-7:30-
8:50-10:00
Dolphin Tale (PG) 11:45AM
Tower Heist (PG-13) 12:10-
2:25-9:55
Moneyball (PG-13) 2:10-4:45-
7:20-9:50
The Ides of March (R) 5:10-7:35
2:30-5:00-7:20-9:30
Arthur Christmas (PG) (!) 12:05-
2:35-5:10-7:25-9:30
5:10-7:25-9:35
J. Edgar (R) 1:00-4:00-7:00-9:45
Jack and Jill (PG) 12:10-2:35-
5:10-7:30-9:50
Landmark Bethesda Row Cinema
7235 Woodmont Avenue
Anonymous (PG-13) 1:25-6:45
Take Shelter (R) 10:50-4:10-9:35
Like Crazy (PG-13) 11:00-1:10-
3:20-5:30-7:45-9:55
Martha Marcy May Marlene (R)
11:25-1:50-4:30-7:10-9:40
Oranges and Sunshine (NR) 2:30
11:45-12:30-1:30-3:15-4:15-5:15-
6:00-7:00-8:00-8:45-9:45
Melancholia (R) 11:10-2:15-
5:15-8:15
My Week with Marilyn (R) (!)
11:30-2:20-4:45-7:30-9:50
Show Times Shown For Today Only
Marlow 6 Theatre
3899 Branch Ave
Immortals (R) 12:30-2:50-5:00-
7:15-9:30
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) 12:40-
3:00-5:20-7:45-10:10
4:20-6:40-9:00
Puss in Boots (PG) 12:15-2:10-
4:05-6:00-8:00-9:55
Arthur Christmas (PG) 12:05-
Happy Feet Two (PG) 12:00-2:00-
Montgomery Royal Theatres
11006 Viers Mill Road
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 11:15-
Jack and Jill (PG) 12:00-2:00-
4:00-6:05-8:05-10:05
3:45
1:50-4:00-6:05-8:10-10:15
The Muppets (PG) (!) 11:30-1:40-
3:50-6:10-8:15-10:15
KLMNO
Arthur Christmas (PG) (!) 11:45-
1:45-3:50-6:05-8:10-10:10
P and G Old Greenbelt
129 Centerway
J. Edgar (R) 1:45-4:30-7:20-9:50
Regal Bethesda 10
7272 Wisconsin Avenue
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!)
11:30-2:00-6:50
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) (!)
12:00-2:20-6:55
Hugo 3D (PG) (!) 11:00-1:45-
7:20-10:10
Tower Heist (PG-13) 11:00-1:20-
3:50-6:40-9:15
Moneyball (PG-13) 9:00
Puss in Boots (PG) 11:15-1:30-
4:10-6:30
J. Edgar (R) 1:00-4:00-7:00-10:00
Hugo (PG) 4:30
Arthur Christmas (PG) 4:40-9:25
Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 4:25-9:20
Immortals (R) 12:20-2:40-5:05-
7:40-10:20
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 11:10-
1:50-4:45-7:30-10:15
The Muppets (PG) (!) 11:45-2:10-
4:30-7:10-9:30
Jack and Jill (PG) 11:20-1:40-
4:20-6:45-9:40
Regal Cinemas Bowie Crossing Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 1:10-
Stadium 14
15200 Major Lansdale Boulevard The Twilight Saga: Break-
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!)
11:15-1:40-4:15-6:45-9:15
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) (!)
11:40-2:15-7:25
Hugo 3D (PG) (!) 1:10-4:05-6:55- Jack and Jill (PG) 12:20-3:40-
10:00
Immortals 3D (R) (!) 12:20-3:00- Arthur Christmas (PG) 5:10-10:00
5:30-7:55-10:30
Tower Heist (PG-13) 11:25-2:00- 4:50-7:30-10:10
4:45-7:35-10:10
Puss in Boots (PG) 11:50-2:10-
4:30-7:20
J. Edgar (R) 1:00-4:00-7:10-10:15 Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!)
Hugo (PG) 9:30
Arthur Christmas (PG) 4:50-9:50 11:50-4:45-9:50
Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 12:30-
2:55-5:20-7:50-10:15
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 11:00- Experience (PG) (!) 12:00-2:30-
11:30-12:50-1:50-2:20-3:40-
4:40-5:10-6:30-7:30-8:00-9:20-
10:20-10:45
The Muppets (PG) (!) 11:05-
12:00-1:45-2:30-4:25-5:05-7:00- Tower Heist (PG-13) 12:10-2:40-
7:40-9:35-10:10
Jack and Jill (PG) 12:40-3:30-
6:00-8:20-10:40
Regal Cinemas Germantown J. Edgar (R) 12:30-6:40-9:40
Stadium 14
20000 Century Boulevard
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!)
11:30-2:00-4:30-7:00-9:30
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) (!)
4:55-9:50
Immortals 3D (R) (!) 1:45-4:20- Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 11:10-
6:50-9:20
Hugo 3D (PG) (!) 12:30-3:20-
6:10-9:00
Tower Heist (PG-13) 2:10-4:35- We Bought a Zoo (PG) 7:00
7:10-9:55
Puss in Boots (PG) 12:55-3:30- 2:10-3:50-4:50-6:35-7:40-10:10
5:50-7:55
J. Edgar (R) 4:15-7:15-10:15
Hugo (PG) 10:10
Arthur Christmas (PG) 11:40-
2:15-7:20
Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 12:15-
3:00-5:30-8:00-10:30
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 11:45- Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 11:45AM
12:35-1:50-2:45-3:55-4:40-5:40- Immortals (R) 11:30AM
6:45-7:30-8:40-9:45-10:20
Jack and Jill (PG) 3:25-5:55-8:15 5:10-7:30
The Muppets (PG) (!) 11:00-
12:00-1:30-2:30-4:00-5:00-6:30- Arthur Christmas (PG) (!)
7:35-9:15-10:05
Regal Cinemas Majestic
Stadium 20 & IMAX
900 Ellsworth Drive
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!)
12:50-3:20-5:45-8:10-10:30
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) (!)
12:45-3:15-5:35-7:55-10:20-12:35
Hugo 3D (PG) (!) 1:25-4:20-7:00-
10:25
Happy Feet Two: An IMAX 3D
Experience (PG) (!) 11:40-2:05-
4:25-6:50-9:15-11:35
Puss in Boots 3D (PG) (!) 12:35-
5:00-9:45-11:50
The Muppets (PG) Closed
Caption: (!) 12:15-2:45-5:15-7:45-
10:15-12:45
Immortals 3D (R) (!) 11:25-2:10-
4:30-9:45-12:15
Tower Heist (PG-13) 11:45-2:15-
4:55-7:25-9:55-12:20
Puss in Boots (PG) 2:50-7:20
The Descendants (R) 12:25-3:00-
4:50-5:40-7:35-8:25-10:10-10:55
J. Edgar (R) 12:05-3:05-6:10-
9:10-12:10
Hugo (PG) 11:35-2:25-5:10-8:05
Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 11:05-
12:20-1:35-2:35-4:00-6:20-8:40-
11:00
Arthur Christmas (PG) 11:10-
1:45-4:10-6:35-8:55-11:20
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 11:00-
12:00-12:30-2:00-2:40-3:10-4:45-
5:20-6:00-7:30-8:00-8:50-10:05-
10:40-11:10-12:05-12:50
Jack and Jill (PG) 1:10-3:45-
5:55-8:20-10:35-12:40
We Bought a Zoo (PG) 7:00
The Muppets (PG) (!) 11:30-1:00-
1:55-3:35-4:35-6:15-7:05-8:45-
9:40-11:15-12:15
Regal Hyattsville Royale
Stadium 14
6505 America Blvd.
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!)
1:25-3:55-7:05-9:35
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) (!)
1:50-7:30
Hugo 3D (PG) (!) 1:20-4:20-7:20-
10:10
Immortals 3D (R) (!) 1:15-5:00-
7:45-10:25
Tower Heist (PG-13) 1:35-4:35-
8:00-10:30
Puss in Boots (PG) 1:05-4:00-
7:15
for an invited guest to make
demands about seating
arrangements. Does that mean
the only courteous way to avoid
this in the future is to decline
weddings to which I’m invited
solo? I am usually so happy to do
stuff on my own — but “on my
own” typically doesn’t mean
“trapped for the duration of a
transatlantic flight with 11
people you don’t know, but who
all know one another.”
Stranded
Please write this off as one
bad deal, and don’t apply its
lessons to future events. I’m
sorry — I’ve been to that
wedding once.
That said, you do have some
options for next time.
First, when an event is going
to wipe out your vacation
money, ask yourself which will
haunt you longer: skipping a
J. Edgar (R) Closed Caption:
2:05-6:50-9:55
Hugo (PG) 9:40
Arthur Christmas (PG) 4:30-10:00
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 1:00-
1:30-2:00-3:45-4:15-4:45-6:40-
7:10-7:40-9:45-10:15-10:45
Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 1:55-
4:55-7:35-10:05
The Muppets (PG) (!) 1:10-1:40-
3:50-4:50-7:00-7:50-9:50-10:20
Jack and Jill (PG) 1:45-4:05-
7:25-10:35
Regal Rockville Stadium 13
199 East Montgomery Avenue
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!)
11:40-2:05-4:40-7:20-9:40
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) (!)
11:50-2:20-7:40
Immortals 3D (R) (!) 12:00-2:30-
5:20-7:50-10:40-11:15
Hugo 3D (PG) (!) 12:10-3:10-
6:50-9:50
Tower Heist (PG-13) 12:50-3:20-
6:20-9:10
J. Edgar (R) Closed Caption: 3:50
Puss in Boots (PG) 1:50-4:10-
6:30
J. Edgar (R) 12:40-7:10-10:20
The Descendants (R) 12:30-3:30-
6:40-9:30-11:45
3:35-6:10-8:50
ing Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!)
1:00-2:00-4:00-5:00-7:00-8:00-
10:30-11:35
Hugo (PG) 9:00-11:50
6:00-9:20
The Muppets (PG) (!) 11:30-2:10-
Regal Westview Stadium 16
5243 Buckeystown Pike
11:30-2:00-4:30-7:00-9:35
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) (!)
Hugo 3D (PG) (!) 1:40-4:35-7:35-
10:35
Happy Feet Two: An IMAX 3D
5:00-7:30-10:00
Immortals 3D (R) (!) 12:20-3:00-
10:45
5:20-8:00-10:55
J. Edgar (R) Closed Caption: 3:40
Puss in Boots (PG) 11:55-2:05-
4:20-6:45-9:20
Hugo (PG) 9:10
Arthur Christmas (PG) 11:05-
1:25-2:15-4:10-7:10
Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 11:00-
1:30-4:00-6:30-9:00
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
11:45-12:50-1:50-2:20-3:30-4:40-
5:10-6:20-6:50-7:20-7:50-9:05-
9:40-10:20-10:50
The Muppets (PG) (!) 11:40-1:10-
Jack and Jill (PG) 1:00-3:20-
5:40-8:10-10:30
Rivertowne 12 Cinemas
6075 Oxon Hill Road
The Twilight Saga: Break-
ing Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!)
11:30AM
The Muppets (PG) (!) 12:30-2:50-
Jack and Jill (PG) 11:45AM
11:55AM
The Movies at Montgomery Mall
7101 Democracy Blvd.
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG)
1:30-8:45
Happy Feet Two (PG) 11:00-
4:00-6:30
The Muppets (PG) 11:15-1:45-
4:15-6:45-9:15
Arthur Christmas (PG) 10:40-
1:15-3:40-6:10-8:30
UA Snowden Square Stadium 14
9161 Commerce Center Drive
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!)
12:00-2:30-5:00-7:50-10:30
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) (!)
11:20-2:00-7:10
Hugo 3D (PG) (!) 1:10-4:25-7:40-
9:55-10:40
Immortals 3D (R) (!) 11:50-2:40-
5:20-8:00-10:45
Tower Heist (PG-13) 12:30-3:20-
6:10-8:40
J. Edgar (R) Closed Caption: 3:30
Puss in Boots (PG) 12:35-3:50-
6:30
Desi Boyz (NR) 12:20-3:10-
6:00-8:55
J. Edgar (R) 12:10-6:40-10:10
Arthur Christmas (PG) 4:30-9:40
Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 10:55-
1:30-4:00-6:50-9:20
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 11:00-
1:20-1:50-4:10-4:40-7:00-7:30-
8:50-9:50-10:20
The Muppets (PG) (!) 11:05-12:25-
1:40-3:25-4:20-6:25-7:20-9:10
Jack and Jill (PG) 1:00-3:40-
6:20-9:00
VIRGINIA
AMC Courthouse Plaza 8
2150 Clarendon Blvd.
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) (!)
1:15-6:30
Immortals (R) 11:30-5:00-10:20
Hugo 3D (PG) (!) 10:10-3:45-
6:40-9:30
The Muppets (PG) (!) 11:00-1:40-
4:20-7:00-9:40
Immortals 3D (R) 2:20-7:50
Hugo (PG) (!) 1:00
Arthur Christmas (PG) (!) 10:45-
4:00-9:00
Tower Heist (PG-13) (!) 2:10-7:20
The Ides of March (R) (!) 10:00-
12:20-2:45-5:15-7:40-10:00
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2011
milestone, or killing yourself to
show up for a dud? There are
friends worth untold hassles to
support, and then there are the
rest. It’s okay to give your polite
regrets for the expensive or
otherwise inconvenient
invitations from the rest.
Second, with your closest
friends, it is okay to make non-
high-maintenance, non-guilt-
inducing inquiries about events
you plan to attend solo. For
example, you can remind
someone that since you’re
without a wingman, any
indulgence on the seating chart
will be rewarded with your
eternal gratitude, possible
karmic notice and a bottle of
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Tower Heist (PG-13) 2:00-4:35-
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Arthur Christmas 3D (PG)
1:55-9:45
The Muppets (PG) (!) 11:00-
11:45-12:35-1:45-2:30-3:20-4:30-
A Very Harold & Kumar Christ- In Time (PG-13) 11:10AM Immortals (R) 11:25-2:20-5:00- 5:00-6:15-7:15-8:00-8:55-10:00
mas (R) 11:15-4:45-9:50 The Twilight Saga: Breaking 8:05-10:45 Regal Fox Cinemas
Jack and Jill (PG) 12:10-2:30- Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 9:55- Hugo 3D (PG) 12:45-3:50-6:55- 22875 Brambleton Plaza
4:40-7:10-9:20 1:00-2:30-4:00-7:00-10:10-12:55 9:50 Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!)
The Muppets (PG) (!) 9:45-11:00- The Twilight Saga: Break-
AMC Hoffman Center 22 12:10-2:50-5:30-8:00-10:30
206 Swamp Fox Rd. 12:30-1:45-3:10-4:25-5:50-7:10- ing Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) Puss in Boots 3D (PG) (!) 11:00-
8:25-9:50-11:00-12:25 11:00-12:00-1:00-1:45-2:45-3:45-
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!) 1:50-9:20
Airbus IMAX Theater 4:30-5:30-6:30-7:15-8:15-9:15-
10:10-12:50-3:30-6:10-8:50-11:30 10:00-11:00 Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) (!)
14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway 11:10-1:50-5:00-7:40-10:15
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) (!) The Muppets (PG) 11:30-2:10-
10:50-1:30-4:10-6:50-9:30-12:10 Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag 4:50-7:35-10:15 Happy Feet Two: An IMAX 3D
Immortals (R) 10:55-1:40-4:20- (G) 12:00-3:35 Experience (PG) (!) 11:40-2:20-
Jack and Jill (PG) 12:15-3:00-
9:50-12:30 Legends of Flight (NR) 11:25- 4:50-7:30-10:00
5:25-7:50-10:10
Hugo 3D (PG) (!) 11:25-2:30-5:35- 3:00 Immortals 3D (R) (!) 1:00-3:40-
Tower Heist (PG-13) 7:55-10:30 10:25
8:40-11:50 Hubble (G) 2:00
Puss in Boots (PG) 11:45-2:00- Hugo 3D (PG) (!) 12:50-3:50-
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Happy Feet Two: An IMAX 3D 4:10-6:45-9:05
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 10:00- Experience (PG) 5:40-7:40-9:40 7:10-10:05
10:35-1:00-1:35-4:00-4:35-7:00- Tornado Alley (NR) 10:25-1:00- J. Edgar (R) 12:30-4:00-7:30- Tower Heist (PG-13) 11:15-2:00-
7:35-10:00-10:35 10:40 5:10-7:50-10:20
4:35
We Bought a Zoo (PG) (!) 7:00 Arthur Christmas (PG) 11:15- Puss in Boots (PG) 4:40-6:50
Alexandria Old Town Theater 4:40-7:10
The Muppets (PG) Closed J. Edgar (R) 11:20-2:40-6:10-9:50
815 1/2 King St Happy Feet Two (PG) 11:05-1:40-
Caption: (!) 9:45-12:35-3:25-6:15- Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 10:45-
9:05-11:55 Immortals (R) 1:00-3:10-5:20- 4:15-7:00-9:35
8:00-10:00 1:20-4:00-6:30-9:00
Happy Feet Two: An IMAX 3D $3.00 upcharge applies to Rave
Reserved The Twilight Saga: Breaking
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5:20-8:00-10:40 Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 1:00- Rave Motion Pictures Fairfax
3:20-5:30-7:50-10:00 12:40-1:40-2:30-3:30-4:30-5:20-
Puss in Boots (PG) 10:20-3:00- Corner 14 6:20-7:20-8:10-9:10-10:10
7:55 Bow Tie Cinemas Reston Town 11900 Palace Way Hugo (PG) 8:30
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Center 13 Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) 10:30- Jack and Jill (PG) 1:10-4:20-
Christmas (R) 10:45-1:10-3:35- 11940 Market Street 12:15-1:00-4:00-7:30-9:40-12:10 6:40-9:30
5:55-8:20-10:50 Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) Immortals (R) 10:45-1:30-4:50- Arthur Christmas (PG) 12:30-
The Descendants (R) (!) 11:05- 10:30-12:50-3:20-6:00-8:30
2:05-4:55-7:50-10:45
8:05-10:45
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) 10:40- Hugo 3D (PG) 11:20-2:30-5:30-
3:10-6:00
We Bought a Zoo (PG) 7:00
Puss in Boots 3D (PG) 12:40- 3:40-6:10 8:35-11:40 The Muppets (PG) (!) 10:50-
Hugo 3D (PG) 10:00-1:00-3:50- We Bought a Zoo (PG) 7:00
5:30-10:20 12:20-1:30-3:00-4:10-5:40-7:00-
Immortals 3D (R) 9:35-12:20- 6:40-9:30 Tower Heist (PG-13) 10:35-1:20- 8:20-9:40
3:05-5:50-8:30-11:15 The Twilight Saga: Breaking 4:10-7:25-9:55-12:26
Regal Kingstowne 16
Arthur Christmas (PG) (!) 9:30- Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) 11:00- Moneyball (PG-13) 8:10-11:05
12:00-1:50-2:50-4:40-5:40-7:30- In Time (PG-13) 10:20-1:05- 5910 Kingstowne Towne Center
12:00-2:40-5:25-8:05-10:50
Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 11:20- 8:30-10:30 4:10-10:50 Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!)
11:00-1:25-3:55-6:25
2:00-4:30-7:20-10:05 The Muppets (PG) 11:40-2:20- Like Crazy (PG-13) 11:45-2:00-
Tower Heist (PG-13) 10:40-1:20- 5:00-7:40-10:20 5:05-7:40-10:10-12:30 Puss in Boots 3D (PG) (!) 4:25
4:00-6:40-9:20-12:00 Puss in Boots (PG) 11:20-1:30- Puss in Boots (PG) 11:25-2:05- Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) (!)
11:05-1:30-4:00-6:35-9:00
J. Edgar (R) 12:05-3:15-6:35-9:45 4:00-6:20 4:25-6:50-9:30-11:55
Hugo (PG) (!) 9:50-12:55-4:05- J. Edgar (R) 1:00-4:10-7:20-10:30 Puss in Boots 3D (PG) 10:15- Immortals 3D (R) (!) 12:30-10:30
7:10-10:15 Hugo (PG) 8:40 1:15-3:45 Hugo 3D (PG) (!) 11:15-2:05-4:55-
7:55-10:45
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Arthur Christmas (PG) 1:10-8:50 Immortals 3D (R) 8:40-11:20
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 9:25- Happy Feet Two (PG) 11:10-1:40- My Week with Marilyn (R) 11:10- Jack and Jill (PG) Open Caption:
1:45
11:15-11:45-12:25-2:10-2:45- 4:20-7:00-9:40 1:45-4:20-7:15-9:50-12:20
Tower Heist (PG-13) 11:50-2:15-
3:20-5:10-5:45-6:25-8:10-8:45- Tower Heist (PG-13) 10:10-12:40- J. Edgar (R) 10:10-1:25-4:40-
9:25-11:10-11:45-12:25 3:00-6:50-9:20 7:45-10:55 7:35-10:15
Puss in Boots (PG) 11:25-2:10-
The Muppets (PG) (!) 11:10-2:00- Moneyball (PG-13) 12:30-7:00 Hugo (PG) 10:40-1:50-5:00-
4:50-7:40-10:30 Thomas & Friends: Day of the 8:00-11:00 6:55
Jack and Jill (PG) 9:40-12:10- Diesels (G) 10:00AM Arthur Christmas (PG) 11:30- J. Edgar (R) 12:35-3:35-6:40-9:40
2:25-5:00-7:25-9:55-12:20 Miracle on 34th Street (1947) 2:10-3:00-4:45-5:35-7:50-10:20 A Very Harold & Kumar 3D
Christmas (R) (!) 8:55
AMC Loews Shirlington 7 (NR) 11:00AM Hugo 3D (PG) 10:00-1:10-4:15-
The Descendants (R) 11:10-1:50-
2772 South Randolph St. Immortals (R) 11:30-2:00-4:30- 7:30-10:30
7:10-9:50 J. Edgar (R) 10:10-1:25-4:40- 4:30-7:20-10:10
Mozart’s Sister (Nannerl, la Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 12:10-
Soeur de Mozart) (NR) 11:35- The Twilight Saga: Breaking 7:45-10:55
2:30-4:55-7:25-10:00
5:00-10:15 Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) 4:10-9:50 $3.00 upcharge applies to Rave
Reserved Hugo (PG) 10:05
The Way (PG-13) 11:00-1:40- Jack and Jill (PG) 10:00-12:20-
2:40-6:30-9:00 The Twilight Saga: Break-
4:30-7:15-9:50 Regal Ballston Common 12
ing Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!)
Like Crazy (PG-13) 11:20-1:50- Cinema Arts Theatre 671 N. Glebe Road
11:00-12:00-12:45-1:40-2:40-
4:10-7:10-9:25 9650 Main St Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!) 3:30-4:20-5:20-6:20-7:05-8:05-
Martha Marcy May Marlene (R) Martha Marcy May Marlene (R) 12:40-3:10-5:00-5:40-8:10-10:00 9:05-9:55-10:45
11:40-2:20-4:50-7:40-10:05 4:45-9:30 Puss in Boots 3D (PG) (!)
Arthur Christmas (PG) 12:05-
Take Shelter (R) 11:05-1:55-4:40- The Women on the 6th Floor (Les 2:30-4:50 2:50-5:15-7:40
7:20-10:00 femmes du 6eme etage) (NR) Moneyball (PG-13) 1:00-4:10- Jack and Jill (PG) 11:30-4:10-
7:10-10:10
Margin Call (R) 2:30-7:50 10:00-12:10-2:30-7:20 6:50-9:15
The Descendants (R) (!) 11:30- The Descendants (R) 9:45-10:05- Puss in Boots (PG) 2:00-4:20-
We Bought a Zoo (PG) 7:00
2:10-4:45-7:30-10:10 12:05-12:20-2:25-2:40-4:55-5:05- 6:40-9:10 The Muppets (PG) (!) 11:20-
7:30-7:50-9:50-10:10
My Week with Marilyn (R) (!) 50/50 (R) 2:40-5:10-7:35-10:15 12:20-1:55-3:00-4:35-5:35-7:10-
11:10-1:45-4:20-7:00-9:20 Melancholia (R) 10:10-1:15-4:15- The Descendants (R) 1:40-4:40- 8:10-9:50-10:40
7:10-9:45 7:20-7:50-9:55-10:30
AMC Potomac Mills 18 Regal Potomac Yard 16
2700 Potomac Mills Circle My Week with Marilyn (R) 9:55- Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 1:10-
12:00-2:15-4:30-7:40-9:40 2:10-4:00-6:50-7:30-9:30 3575 Jefferson Davis Highway
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!)
J. Edgar (R) 10:15-1:00-4:00- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!)
9:50-3:40-9:10 11:05-1:30-4:20-7:10-9:50
7:00-9:55 Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 12:50-
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) (!) 1:20-1:50-2:20-3:40-4:10-4:40- Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) (!)
11:10-2:00-4:40-7:30-10:10 Cobb Village 12 Leesburg
5:10-6:30-7:00-7:40-8:00-9:20- 11:30-2:10-4:50-7:20-9:55
Immortals (R) 2:10-8:00 1600 Village Market Boulevard
9:50-10:20 Hugo 3D (PG) (!) 12:40-3:55-
Hugo 3D (PG) (!) 11:20-2:40- The Muppets (PG) 11:00-1:40-
6:50-9:55
5:50-8:50 4:25-7:00-9:40 Regal Cinemas Manassas
In Time (PG-13) 7:45-10:45 Stadium 14 & IMAX Immortals 3D (R) (!) 11:50-2:20-
The Twilight Saga: Breaking 5:00-10:30
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 10:00- Immortals 3D (R) 11:20-2:00- 11380 Bulloch Drive
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!) Tower Heist (PG-13) 12:10-2:40-
12:20-1:00-3:30-4:00-6:20-7:00- 4:55-7:40-10:15
9:20-10:00-10:50 11:40-2:20-5:00-8:00-10:40 5:10-7:35-10:00-12:00
Hugo (PG) 11:00-1:50-4:50 J. Edgar (R) Closed Caption: 3:25
Happy Feet Two: An IMAX 3D Arthur Christmas (PG) 11:15- Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) (!)
Puss in Boots (PG) 12:20-3:05-
Experience (PG) (!) 10:20-1:20- 1:45-4:15 11:10-1:50-7:20
4:20-7:20-10:20 Hugo 3D (PG) (!) 10:30-1:30-4:30- 5:25-7:45-10:15
Happy Feet Two (PG) 11:05- J. Edgar (R) 12:25-6:25-9:30
Puss in Boots (PG) 12:10-5:20 7:10-10:10
1:35-4:00 Hugo (PG) 12:00-3:10-6:10-9:05
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Puss in Boots (PG) 12:00-2:20- Happy Feet Two: An IMAX 3D Arthur Christmas (PG) 1:05-3:50-
Christmas (R) 10:45 5:00 Experience (PG) (!) 11:00-1:40-
6:40-9:20-11:45
The Descendants (R) (!) 9:55- Puss in Boots 3D (PG) 7:25-9:50 4:20-7:00-9:40 Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 12:50-
12:50-3:50-6:50-9:50 Immortals 3D (R) (!) 12:30-3:20-
Immortals 3D (R) 11:20-2:00- 3:40-6:30
Puss in Boots 3D (PG) 9:35- 4:55-7:40-10:15 5:40-8:20-10:50
A Very Harold & Kumar Christ-
2:50-8:05 J. Edgar (R) 12:30-3:40-7:05-10:20 Tower Heist (PG-13) 5:30-8:10- mas (R) 9:10-11:30
Immortals 3D (R) 11:15-5:00 10:30
The Twilight Saga: Breaking The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Arthur Christmas (PG) (!) 9:40- Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) 11:35- Puss in Boots (PG) 11:50-2:30-
5:10-7:30 Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 11:00-
12:35-3:25-6:10-9:00 1:00-2:25-4:05-5:20-7:15-8:15- 11:40-1:10-1:50-2:30-4:00-4:40-
Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 12:40- 10:10-10:55 J. Edgar (R) 12:20-3:00-6:10-8:50
5:20-6:55-7:30-8:00-9:40-10:20-
6:30 Tower Heist (PG-13) 11:40-2:30- Hugo (PG) 9:30 11:00-12:00
Tower Heist (PG-13) 11:00-2:20- 5:05-7:50-10:30 Arthur Christmas (PG) 12:00-
2:40-4:50-9:50 We Bought a Zoo (PG) 7:30
5:05-7:55-10:35 Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG)
Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 10:00- Jack and Jill (PG) 12:55-3:20-
J. Edgar (R) 10:30-1:45-5:10-8:20 6:50-9:20 6:05-8:10-10:35
1:00-3:40-6:20-9:00
Hugo (PG) (!) 10:10-1:10-4:10- Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) The Muppets (PG) (!) 11:00-
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
7:10-10:15 6:45-9:15 12:30-1:20-3:30-4:10-6:20-7:00-
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Hugo 3D (PG) 11:45-2:45-7:35- Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 10:20- 9:00-9:35-11:55
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 10:50- 10:35 11:20-1:20-2:00-4:00-4:40-6:40-
7:40-8:40-9:20-10:20 Tally Ho Theatre
11:30-1:50-2:30-4:50-5:30-7:50- Jack and Jill (PG) 11:50-2:10-
Jack and Jill (PG) 10:40-2:50- 19 West Market Street
8:30-10:50 4:45-7:20-9:45
The Muppets (PG) (!) 9:30-10:40- 5:20-7:50-10:00 The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Manassas Cinemas The Muppets (PG) (!) 10:10-12:10- Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 12:00-
12:30-1:40-3:20-4:45-6:40-7:40- 8890 Mathis Ave.
9:40-10:40 12:50-3:10-3:50-6:00-6:50-9:10 2:30-5:00-7:30-9:45
Jack and Jill (PG) 10:15-12:45- The Muppets (PG) (!) 11:45-2:05- Regal Countryside 20 The Muppets (PG) (!) 11:45-2:15-
3:10-5:40-8:10-10:30 4:20-6:40-9:00 4:45-7:00-9:15
45980 Regal Plaza
Arthur Christmas (PG) (!) 12:15- UA Fairfax Towne Center 10
AMC Tysons Corner 16 2:25-4:35-6:45-8:50 Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!)
11:30-2:05-4:40-7:20 4110 West Ox Road
7850 Tysons Corner Center Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 12:00-
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!) 2:10-4:15-6:20-8:30 Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) (!) Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) (!)
11:05-1:35-4:05-6:50-9:25 1:10-3:50-4:50-6:30-9:10
10:15-4:05 The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) (!) Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 12:30- Immortals 3D (R) (!) 1:40-4:35- A Very Harold & Kumar 3D
11:30-4:55-9:55 2:50-5:10-7:30-9:35 10:20 Christmas (R) (!) 10:00
Hugo 3D (PG) (!) 1:15-4:15-7:10- The Descendants (R) 12:30-3:20-
Immortals (R) 1:25-7:05-12:15
Phoenix Theatres Worldgate 9 10:05 7:00-9:50
Hugo 3D (PG) (!) 10:30-1:20-4:40- 13025 Worldgate Drive
7:45-10:35 Puss in Boots 3D (PG) (!) Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 11:30-
Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG) 2:30- 4:25-9:20 12:20-2:10-3:00-5:40-7:20-8:10
The Twilight Saga: Breaking
7:40-10:00 Tower Heist (PG-13) 11:35-2:15- The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 10:45-
11:25-12:15-1:40-3:15-4:50- Arthur Christmas 3D (PG) 2:20- 4:55-7:35-10:15 Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 11:00-
5:30-6:15-7:50-8:35-9:20-10:50- 7:25-9:50 J. Edgar (R) Closed Caption: 9:40 11:50-12:40-1:50-2:40-3:30-4:40-
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Puss in Boots (PG) 11:25-1:55- 5:30-6:40-7:30-8:20-9:40-10:30
11:30-12:10
Jack and Jill (PG) 10:25-12:45- Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) 11:20- 6:55 The Muppets (PG) (!) 10:50-
12:45-2:10-3:40-5:00-6:30-7:50- Desi Boyz (NR) 1:00-3:45-6:40-
3:05-5:25-8:00-10:15-12:30
Happy Feet Two: An IMAX 3D
9:15-10:25 9:30
12:10-1:40-3:10-4:30-6:50-7:40-
9:30-10:20
Experience (PG) (!) 9:10-12:00- The Muppets (PG) 11:30-2:00- J. Edgar (R) 11:50-3:25-6:35 Jack and Jill (PG) 12:00-2:30-
2:35-5:20-7:55-10:25-12:50 4:30-7:00-9:25 A Very Harold & Kumar 3D 5:00-7:50-10:10
Puss in Boots (PG) 11:35-4:30- Tower Heist (PG-13) 7:15-9:45 Christmas (R) (!) 9:55 University Mall Theatre
9:35 Puss in Boots (PG) 11:45-2:15-4:45 Hugo (PG) 12:10-3:10-6:10-9:05 10659 Braddock Road
Immortals 3D (R) 1:50-7:35
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Arthur Christmas (PG) 12:05-
Dolphin Tale (PG) 12:20-2:35-4:50
Christmas (R) 9:25-11:45 J. Edgar (R) 4:20-10:10 2:40-5:15-7:50-10:25
Johnny English Reborn (PG)
The Descendants (R) 10:20-1:15- Arthur Christmas (PG) 11:55-4:40 Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 12:30-2:45-5:00
4:10-7:15-10:00-12:40 Happy Feet Two (PG) 12:05-5:10 12:20-1:10-2:55-3:50-5:30-6:30-
Contagion (PG-13) 7:40-9:50-
Puss in Boots 3D (PG) 9:15- Sri Rama Rajyam (NR) 12:00- 8:10-9:00
12:00
1:50-7:20 3:10-6:40-10:40 The Twilight Saga: Breaking The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Immortals 3D (R) 10:40-4:20-9:40 Solo: The Solid Love Story (NR) Dawn - Part 1 (PG-13) (!) 11:10-
(R) 12:00AM
J. Edgar (R) 10:05-1:05-4:15- 11:40-3:20-6:50-10:50 11:55-12:40-1:20-2:00-2:45-3:30- Footloose (PG-13) 7:15-9:35-
7:40-10:40 Rave Motion Pictures 4:10-4:50-5:35-6:20-7:00-7:40- 12:00
Hugo (PG) (!) 9:25-11:50 Centreville 12 8:25-9:15-9:50-10:30
Real Steel (PG-13) 4:30-7:30-9:55
Jack and Jill (PG) 12:25-3:00-
Arthur Christmas (PG) (!) 9:00- 6201 Multiplex Drive
5:25-7:55-10:20
The Mighty Macs (G) 12:10-2:25
2:10-7:25-12:20 Happy Feet Two in 3D (PG)
Happy Feet Two (PG) (!) 1:10-6:45 11:50-2:30-5:10 We Bought a Zoo (PG) 7:00
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Coach Mark Turgeon, right, and The Insider Key matchups, injury reports and more to get you ready for Redskins at Seahawks. The No. 1 Tigers
Maryland see lead dwindle vs. overcome an early 14-0
Florida Gulf Coast, but take heart AllMetSports.com More coverage, plus photo galleries and video, from this weekend’s games. deficit to overwhelm No. 3
from small improvements. D3 Arkansas and reach the
Capitals Insider Get ready for tonight’s game in Buffalo and chat while you watch. SEC title game. D6
Win hurts for Cavs guard
Virginia cruises past Green Bay,
but Sammy Zeglinski is frustrated I missed two weeks already and I couldn’t stand seeing my team going to
after aggravating an injury to his
right ankle. D4 battle without me.” Redskins left tackle Trent Williams, who expects to play Sunday despite a knee injury. D3

VIRGINIA VS. VIRGINIA TECH

3:30 p.m., WJLA-7, WMAR-2

Upstarts
to the finish
Cavaliers aim for ACC title game trip, and
a chance to narrow state gap with Hokies

BY S TEVE Y ANDA AND M ARK G IANNOTTO

T
hree weeks ago, it was brought to
Virginia Coach Mike London’s
attention that only two ACC
Coastal Division teams could
reach the conference title game
by winning their remaining regular season
contests: his Cavaliers and four-time ACC
champion Virginia Tech.
“Maybe a couple years from now you talk
about winning out and running the table
and controlling our own destiny,” London
said then. “That’s for teams that have been
there and done that.”
Since then, London’s program has ven-
tured into something of a time warp. These
are still the Cavaliers who have neither
been there nor done that, yet they continue
to perform like the team many people in
and around the program expected to see
not this season, but several years from now.
After all, Virginia had lost twice as many
games as it had won over the previous three
seasons.
On Saturday, the No. 24 Cavaliers will
virginia continued on D6

PHOTO OF VIRGINIA’S MICHAEL ROCCO AND MIKE LONDON BY JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST

Caps come undone Terps have suffered

in loss on home ice
RANGERS 6,
CAPITALS 3
Washington allows
4 goals in 2nd period
BY K ATIE C ARRERA
There wouldn’t be any bailout
plan for the Washington Capitals
on Friday afternoon as they be-
came a product of their own mis-
takes.
The New York Rangers took
advantage of bad turnovers to
capture a 6-3 win against a Capi-
tals squad that tried to make
overly complicated plays once it
fell behind.
Ruslan Fedotenko scored a
pair of goals and Rangers captain
Ryan Callahan recorded three as-
sists to boost an 18-save perform-
ance by goaltender Henrik Lun-
dqvist and overwhelm the home
team. Goals by Troy Brouwer,
John Carlson and Alex Ovechkin
— his first tally of the season at
Verizon Center — weren’t nearly
enough in a game plagued by
defensive miscues.
After playing a scoreless, even-
keeled first period the Capitals
fell into what has become a char-
acteristic rut. A five-minute lull at
the start of the second period
yielded three New York goals and
set the Capitals on their heels.
“We got scored on in bunches
again,” Brouwer said. “We’ve got
to find a way to make sure that
we’re composed, we’re playing
sound hockey when we get scored
on. We had a couple shifts where
we came out and had some good
capitals continued on D2
through this before
Team hopes to avoid
another 10-loss season
in finale at N.C. State
BY E RIC P RISBELL
Some Maryland players said it
felt like a dark cloud hovered
over their team house during the
entire 2009 season. Heart-
wrenching losses, unforeseen in-
juries and overall misfortune
marred a 10-loss season that they
felt was the worst football experi-
ence they would ever endure.
Then came this season.
A loss Saturday at North Car-
olina State would give Maryland
(2-9, 1-6 ACC) its second 10-loss
JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST season in the past three years.
Michal Neuvirth reacts after giving up his third goal in a span of
4:18 in the second period. He allowed six goals on 33 shots. Maryland at N.C. State 12:30 p.m., WTTG-5, WJZ-13
All factors considered, some vet-
erans have said this season has
been worse than the 2009 sea-
son that nearly cost then-coach
Ralph Friedgen his job.
Starting quarterback C.J.
Brown, who redshirted during
the 2009 season, said this sea-
son has been a bigger disap-
pointment because “it’s always
harder when you are actually on
the field trying your best and
you are still coming up short.
But a losing season is a losing
season any way you look at it.”
Compared with 2009, expec-
tations were higher for this
year’s team under first-year
Coach Randy Edsall. The Terra-
pins returned several key play-
ers, including quarterback Dan-
ny O’Brien, the reigning ACC
maryland continued on D5

HIGH SCHOOL PLAYOFFS, D7–D8

Maryland 4A: No. 3 Quince Orchard,

No. 5 Old Mill advance to state final. D7
Maryland 3A: No. 14 River Hill and
No. 20 Thomas Johnson to meet for title. D7
Virginia AAA Division 5: Devin Vandyke leads
No. 13 S. County past No. 10 Yorktown. D8
SCORES
[3] Quince Orchard 23, [12] C.H. Flowers 12 [20] T. Johnson 12, [9] Huntingtown 3

[5] Old Mill 49, Catonsville 20 [13] South County 37, [10] Yorktown 13

[7] Briar Woods 21, Powhatan 7 [14] River Hill 41, Aberdeen 7
SOUTH COUNTY PHOTO BY TRACY A. WOODWARD/THE WASHINGTON POST
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DIGEST HOCKEY

AUTO RACING

NASCAR gives
Busch $50,000 fine
events,” Pericak said. “I’m not
saying there was or wasn’t one
here. But when you get a search
warrant that’s sealed, it re-
Caps break down in second period of loss
mains sealed until a court un- capitals from D1 tally a little bit and on the score-
NASCAR fined Kurt Busch seals it.” board.”
$50,000 on Friday for his poor The Post-Standard newspa- shifts, then they score a goal and At the start of the third, Wide-
behavior during the Sprint Cup per reported that four state they’re back in our zone, we lose man carried the puck into the
finale last weekend at Home- troopers stood at the end of the our momentum.” offensive zone and tried to deke
stead-Miami Speedway. driveway at Fine’s home in sub- The Rangers’ first goal, by Mari- his way through the Rangers’ top
NASCAR cited both an ob- urban DeWitt. . . . an Gaborik 3 minutes 37 seconds defensive pairing of Dan Girardi
scene gesture Busch made in- Notre Dame basketball star into the second, was the result of a and Ryan McDonagh. They
side his car and his being ver- Tim Abromaitis is out for the turnover by Carlson inside the of- stripped him of the puck and sent
bally abusive to a reporter. season after he tore the anterior fensive blue line. The puck hopped the rush the other way where Cal-
“Kurt Busch showed disre- cruciate ligament in his right over the Washington defense- lahan threaded a pass through
spect toward a media member, knee during practice. The 6- man’s stick, giving Derek Stepan a Hamrlik that Brad Richards fin-
an incident that followed simi- foot-8 fifth-year senior is ex- chance to pick it up and set off on a ished to make it 5-2.
lar inappropriate media con- pected to have surgery in the two-on-one with Gaborik, who That would be the final shift for
frontations earlier in the sea- next two weeks. ripped a one-timer into the right Hamrlik and Wideman, who were
son,” NASCAR said in a state- Abromaitis averaged 15.4 corner of the cage. benched for the remainder of the
ment announcing the penalty. points and six rebounds last When rookie forward Cody game. Each finished with a mi-
Busch had a transmission season. He received an MBA Eakin took an untimely holding nus-3 rating.
problem early in Sunday’s race from Notre Dame in May. . . . penalty, New York needed only Ovechkin and Fedotenko would
JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST
that sent his car to the garage. An ESPN spokesman said Ur- nine seconds of power-play time later add goals, but as Washington
His in-car camera caught him ban Meyer will not appear on before a shot by Artem Anisimov Joel Ward attempts to redirect the puck against Rangers goalie heads to Buffalo for the second
making an obscene gesture dur- the network this weekend after found its way through traffic in Henrik Lundqvist, who made 18 saves in beating the Capitals. half of a back-to-back on Saturday
ing that time. the former Florida football front and eluded Michal Neuvirth night, the lesson that lingers is one
While his team made repairs, coach requested he be taken off (27 saves) to make it 2-0 before can’t happen.” Nov. 8 against Dallas. of trying to keep things simple.
Busch waited to be interviewed his assignment. seven minutes elapsed in the peri- Washington finally responded But Washington couldn’t parlay “We’ve got to get it through to
by an ESPN reporter and a fan Several media outlets have od. 58 seconds after Fedotenko’s goal. those goals into more steady de- them that the risk isn’t worth the
videotaped Busch being verbal- reported that Meyer is set to be- The Rangers weren’t finished. The play started with a big hit by fensive play. Dennis Wideman and reward,” Capitals Coach Bruce
ly abusive while waiting to go come the new coach at Ohio Less than two minutes later, Mar- Ovechkin on Gaborik that drew Brouwer lost a battle in the corner Boudreau said. “When we get into
live. State. cus Johansson tried to skate the Brian Boyle to the star Ranger’s to New York’s duo of John Mitchell these spells — the Toronto game,
That video was posted on An ESPN spokesman posted puck through the middle of his defense. With two New York for- and Carl Hagelin, who dug the this game, the Winnipeg game —
YouTube. Penske officials and on his Twitter account: “Urban own zone but turned it over when wards distracted along the left- puck out and sent it to Boyle in the that it’s not worth it. You live to
Busch apologized in separate Meyer won’t be appearing on pressured by Callahan, making side boards, Nicklas Backstrom left faceoff circle. Neuvirth made fight another day. You get it deep,
statements. ESPN this weekend. He re- way for an easy shot by Fedotenko, picked up the puck and fed Carl- the initial save but the rebound you win the battle and eventually
“Unfortunately, our result in quested off his studio assign- who made it 3-0 with his first goal son for a shot from the slot. Brou- ricocheted off Roman Hamrlik’s something good will happen.”
the season-ending race at ment and we obliged.” of the contest. wer shoveled in the rebound. stick back to Boyle, who scored to Capitals notes: Mike Green
Homestead on Sunday was not Meyer has been working as a In a span of 4:18, New York Carlson redeemed himself fur- make it 4-2 with just more than missed a seventh consecutive
what we had hoped for as a game analyst this season for claimed firm control. ther for the costly mistake that led three minutes remaining in the game with a strained right groin
team,” he said. “In my frustra- ESPN, and the rest of his usual “I think we try and we work to the game’s first goal when he period. muscle. The defenseman hasn’t
tion with the loss of my trans- broadcast team will be covering hard but not hard enough. Every ripped a shot from the high slot “Us just having the small lapses, skated since Nov. 11. . . .
mission early in the race, I let the Buckeyes’ game against time we made a mistake it ended past Lundqvist while on a power I think, is just a little hurtful at John Erskine didn’t play for a
my emotions get the better of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Sat- up in a goal,” Johansson said. “Just play 12:52 into the period. The goal times,” Capitals forward Joel Ward third straight contest after falling
me. I regret having done this urday. . . . lost control of the puck. I wanted made it 3-2 and snapped the Capi- said. “The fact that we’ve been on his surgically repaired left
and apologize to the sponsors Miami football Coach Al to give it to my winger, I fanned on tals’ 0-for-32 drought on five-on- giving up those opportunities at shoulder.
of Penske Racing, to NASCAR, Golden has agreed to a four- it and it’s a very bad play and it four power plays dating from crucial times . . . has hurt us men- carrerak@washpost.com
its fans, to the media and in year extension, keeping him un-
particular, Dr. Jerry Punch.” der contract through Feb. 1,
Penske officials said earlier 2020. The Hurricanes an- NHL STANDINGS AND SUMMARIES
this week that Busch’s “inap- nounced the move in the fourth
propriate actions” were being quarter of a season-ending 24- EASTERN CONFERENCE RED WINGS 3, BLACKHAWKS 6, DUCKS 5 LIGHTNING 2,
reviewed internally. 17 loss to Boston College. . . . SOUTHEAST W L OL PTS. GF GA BRUINS 2 (SO) PANTHERS 1 (OT)
Patrick Sharp scored the tying and
The Virginia women’s soccer Florida 12 6 4 28 63 54 Pavel Datsyuk and Todd Bertuzzi go-ahead goals in a 2:01 span early in Steven Stamkos scored a power-
TENNIS team lost to host Florida State, Washington 12 8 1 25 69 68 scored in the shootout to lift Detroit to the third period to complete his sec- play goal 2:29 into overtime, lifting
Top-ranked Novak Djokovic 3-0, in an NCAA tournament Tampa Bay 10 9 2 22 57 68 a win over Boston, snapping the Bru- ond career hat trick, and Chicago Tampa Bay past Florida.
Winnipeg 9 9 4 22 64 70 ins’ 10-game win streak. Datsyuk and rallied for a victory over foundering The Panthers’ Tomas Fleischmann
was eliminated from the ATP quarterfinal. The Cavaliers (17- Carolina 8 12 4 20 57 79
World Tour Finals in London 5-2) were making their first trip Valtteri Filppula scored in regulation Anaheim. and the Lightning’s Vincent Lecavalier
ATLANTIC W L OL PTS. GF GA to help the Red Wings win their fourth scored in regulation.
after Tomas Berdych rallied to the quarterfinals since 2005. straight and eighth in 10 games. CHICAGO .................................. 2 0 4— 6
Mathieu Garon stopped 23 shots for
from a set and a break down to Senior goalie Chantel Jones fin- Pittsburgh 13 6 4 30 73 56 ANAHEIM ................................ 3 1 1— 5
Philadelphia 13 6 3 29 80 66 FIRST PERIOD
Tampa Bay, which snapped a two-
beat David Ferrer, 3-6, 7-5, 6-1, ished with five saves against the N.Y. Rangers 11 5 3 25 54 43
DETROIT ............................ 1
BOSTON ............................. 0
1
1
0
1
0—
0—
3
2 game losing streak. Jose Theodore
Scoring: 1, Ana, Ryan 6 (Perry, Lydman), 1:14. 2, Ana,
and grab the last semifinal spot Seminoles (18-6-1). New Jersey 12 8 1 25 55 55 FIRST PERIOD Cogliano 5 (Selanne, Koivu), 2:13. 3, Chi, Sharp 8 had 29 saves for Florida.
at the season-ending tourna- N.Y. Islanders 5 11 4 14 38 66 Scoring: 1, Det, V.Filppula 5 (Zetterberg, White), 12:43.
(J.Toews, Kane), 6:09. 4, Ana, Selanne 8 (Beauchemin,
Fowler), 14:36 (pp). 5, Chi, Bolland 7 (Brunette, Kruger), TAMPA BAY ...................... 0 0 1 1— 2
ment. Djokovic lost to fellow MISC. SECOND PERIOD 17:38 (pp). FLORIDA ............................ 0 1 0 0— 1
NORTHEAST W L OL PTS. GF GA
Serb Janko Tipsarevic earlier in New York Rangers forward Toronto 13 8 2 28 74 73
Scoring: 2, Bos, Paille 3 (Horton), 4:05. 3, Det, Datsyuk 6 SECOND PERIOD SECOND PERIOD
(Bertuzzi, Franzen), 4:40.
the day to finish round-robin Andre Deveaux was suspended Boston 13 7 1 27 71 45
Scoring: 6, Ana, Ryan 7 (Sbisa, Getzlaf), 8:41. Scoring: 1, Fla, Fleischmann 10 (Weiss), 12:38.
THIRD PERIOD THIRD PERIOD
play with a 1-2 record — more three games without pay by the Buffalo 12 9 1 25 62 60 Scoring: 4, Bos, Bergeron 5, 7:52. Scoring: 7, Chi, J.Toews 11 (Keith, Stalberg), 1:04. 8, Chi,
THIRD PERIOD
Scoring: 2, TB, Lecavalier 10 (St. Louis), 8:59.
matches than he lost in the first NHL for an illegal check to the Montreal 10 10 3 23 58 56 SHOOTOUT Sharp 9 (J.Toews, Stalberg), 1:32. 9, Chi, Sharp 10
(J.Toews), 3:33. 10, Chi, J.Toews 12 (Keith, Leddy), 9:22 OVERTIME
seven months of the year — but head of Florida Panthers for- Ottawa 10 10 2 22 65 76 Det 2 (Datsyuk G, Hudler NG, Bertuzzi G), Bos 1 (Seguin (pp). 11, Ana, Perry 9 (Koivu), 19:52. Scoring: 3, TB, Stamkos 12 (St. Louis, Bergeron), 2:29
NG, Peverley NG, Horton G).
would have gone through to the ward Tomas Fleischmann in SHOTS ON GOAL (pp).
WESTERN CONFERENCE SHOTS ON GOAL
last four if Ferrer had beaten their game Wednesday. . . . CENTRAL W L OL PTS. GF GA DET ..................................... 6 14 10 1 — 31
CHICAGO .................................. 9 17 16 — 42 SHOTS ON GOAL
ANAHEIM .............................. 12 5 11 — 28 TB ....................................... 7 13 8 3 — 31
Berdych in the late match. Two days after winning for Chicago 13 7 3 29 77 73
BOS .................................. 13 10 18 2 — 43
Power-play: Chi 2 of 7; Ana 1 of 3. Goalies: Chi, Crawford FLA ..................................... 5 13 6 0 — 24
Power-play: Det 0 of 3; Bos 0 of 2. Goalies: Det, Howard
the first time in its 17-year his- Detroit 13 7 1 27 61 48 12-5-1 (43 shots-41 saves). Bos, Rask 3-3-1 (31-29). A:
10-6-2 (28 shots-23 saves). Ana, Hiller 5-10-4 (33-28), Power-play: TB 1 of 2; Fla 0 of 4. Goalies: TB, Garon 4-3-1
Ellis (3:33 third, 9-8). A: 17,174 (17,174). T: 2:32. (24 shots-23 saves). Fla, Theodore 9-4-3 (31-29). A:
COLLEGES tory, American Samoa’s nation- St. Louis 12 8 2 26 55 48 17,565 (17,565). T: 2:33.
17,380 (17,040). T: 2:21.
Authorities involved in a sex- al soccer team stretched its un- Nashville 10 7 4 24 57 57
ual-abuse investigation of Syra- beaten run to two games. Columbus 6 13 3 15 53 73 DEVILS 1, ISLANDERS 0 PENGUINS 6, SENATORS 3 BLUES 2, FLAMES 0
cuse assistant men’s basketball The team, led by former D.C. NORTHWEST W L OL PTS. GF GA Petr Sykora scored and Johan Hed- Chris Kunitz, Tyler Kennedy, Steve Brian Elliott stopped 24 shots in his
coach Bernie Fine carried out a United coach Thomas Rongen, Minnesota 13 6 3 29 52 47 berg made 23 saves to earn his Sullivan and Evgeni Malkin scored third shutout this season, David Back-
search at his home but declined earned a 1-1 draw with the Cook Edmonton 12 8 2 26 62 53 second shutout of the season and the within a seven-minute stretch of the es added a goal and an assist and St.
to comment on what they were Islands late Thursday. . . . Vancouver 12 9 1 25 66 57 19th of his NHL career to lead New first period to power Pittsburgh. Louis beat Calgary.
looking for. Joseph “Bud” Lewis, the golf Colorado 9 12 1 19 56 68 Jersey to a win over New York. Sykora Sidney Crosby had three assists for Alex Pietrangelo also scored for the
Calgary 8 12 1 17 45 58
New York State Police said professional who was the lon- scored with a snap shot during a the Penguins in his third game back Blues, who are 6-1-2 since Ken Hitch-
troopers were called to assist gest serving and oldest living PACIFIC W L OL PTS. GF GA power play with 5:47 remaining in the from concussion-like symptoms. cock took over as coach.
the U.S. attorney’s office at the member of the PGA of America, San Jose 13 5 1 27 58 43 second period. The Devils have won The Flames, who have been
OTTAWA .................................... 1 1 1— 3
search. Assistant U.S. Attorney has died. He was 103. The Shelly Dallas 13 8 1 27 59 61 four of their last six games. The PITTSBURGH ............................. 4 1 1— 6 blanked three times in 21 games, got
Los Angeles 11 7 4 26 54 53 Islanders have lost four in a row. In 22 stops from Miikka Kiprusoff.
William Pericak said he “can’t Funeral Home said Lewis died that stretch, New York has been out-
FIRST PERIOD
Backes gave the Blues a 1-0 lead
Phoenix 11 7 3 25 58 56 Scoring: 1, Ott, Daugavins 3 (Smith, Karlsson), 1:19. 2,
confirm or deny” an investiga- Tuesday of natural causes. Anaheim 6 12 4 16 48 71 scored, 16-3. Sykora’s power-play goal Pit, Kunitz 8 (Crosby, Engelland), 1:46. 3, Pit, Kennedy 3 with a short-handed goal, powering
tion. Lewis became a PGA mem- was his fifth of the season. He (Martin, Fleury), 3:25. 4, Pit, Sullivan 4 (Malkin, Crosby),
his way past the Flames’ TJ Brodie.
One point awarded for overtime losses. 7:21 (pp). 5, Pit, Malkin 7 (Letang, Crosby), 9:11.
“We don’t comment on ber in May 1931 and was the snapped a bullet over Al Montoya’s SECOND PERIOD CALGARY ................................. 0 0 0— 0
whether or not search warrants first to reach 80 years of mem- glove from the slot. Scoring: 6, Pit, Dupuis 5 (Asham, Kennedy), 3:45. 7, Ott, ST. LOUIS ................................. 1 0 1— 2
are being executed — we only bership. SATURDAY’S GAMES Cowen 2 (Alfredsson, Foligno), 15:46.
NEW JERSEY ........................... 0 1 0— 1 FIRST PERIOD
Washington at Buffalo, 7
comment at the time of public — From news services N.Y. Islanders at New Jersey, 1
N.Y. ISLANDERS ...................... 0 0 0— 0 THIRD PERIOD Scoring: 1, StL, Backes 8 (Shattenkirk), 10:39 (sh).
Scoring: 8, Pit, Staal 11 (Kennedy, Martin), 8:41. 9, Ott,
SECOND PERIOD THIRD PERIOD
Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers, 2 Condra 2 (Foligno, Lee), 16:29.
Scoring: 1, N.J., Sykora 5 (Larsson, Henrique), 14:13 Scoring: 2, StL, Pietrangelo 4 (Steen, Backes), 13:17.
Edmonton at Colorado, 7 (pp). SHOTS ON GOAL
TELEVISION AND RADIO Winnipeg at Boston, 7 OTT ............................................ 9 11 7 — 27 SHOTS ON GOAL
SHOTS ON GOAL PIT ........................................... 12 15 13 — 40 CALGARY ................................. 9 4 11 — 24
Pittsburgh at Montreal, 7 NEW JERSEY ........................... 5 11 7 — 23 Power-play: Ott 0 of 4; Pit 1 of 5. Goalies: Ott, Anderson STL ........................................... 5 13 6 — 24
NHL Florida at Tampa Bay, 7 N.Y. ISLANDERS ...................... 8 6 9 — 23 9-7-1 (8 shots-4 saves), Auld (9:11 first, 32-30). Pit, Power-play opportunities: Calgary 0 of 4; StL 0 of 1.
Nashville at Detroit, 7 Power-play: N.J. 1 of 2; N.Y. 0 of 4. Goalies: New Jersey, Fleury 12-3-2 (27-24). A: 18,610 (18,387). T: 2:26. Goalies: Calgary, Kiprusoff 8-9-0 (24 shots-22 saves).
7 p.m. Washington at Buffalo » Comcast SportsNet, WFED (820 AM, 1500 AM) Hedberg 7-4-1 (23 shots-23 saves). N.Y. Islanders, StL, Elliott 9-1-0 (24-24). A: 19,150 (19,150). T: 2:22.
Dallas at Phoenix, 8 Montoya 2-3-1 (23-22). A: 15,358 (16,234). T: 2:22.
Vancouver at San Jose, 10
SOCCER Chicago at Los Angeles, 10:30 FLYERS 3, CANADIENS 1 JETS 3, HURRICANES 1 MAPLE LEAFS 4,
10 a.m. English Premier League, Newcastle at Manchester United » ESPN2 STARS 3 (SO)
SUNDAY’S GAMES Claude Giroux had two goals, back- Evander Kane and Andrew Ladd
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL up Sergei Bobrovsky made 23 saves each scored to lead Winnipeg over Joffrey Lupul scored in the third
Carolina at Ottawa, 5
St. Louis at Columbus, 6 and Philadelphia beat Montreal. Carolina. Bryan Little added an emp- round of the shootout to send Toronto
Philly Hoop Classic, James Madison vs. Pennsylvania » Comcast to a victory over Dallas. Lupul was the
7 p.m. Calgary at Minnesota, 6 Jakub Voracek also scored for the ty-net goal with nine seconds left to
SportsNet Plus lone scorer in the shootout, firing a
Toronto at Anaheim, 9 Flyers, who got all of their offense in seal the victory.
9:30 p.m. Great Alaska Shootout » MASN the second period. Bobrovsky im- Chris Mason made 19 saves for the shot through the pads of Stars G Kari
10:30 p.m. Las Vegas Invitational » ESPN2 proved to 5-1-1. Giroux now has 29 Jets, who have earned points in five Lehtonen.
Midnight Great Alaska Shootout » MASN CAPITALS’ NEXT THREE points (13 goals, 16 assists) on the straight games. Winnipeg hadn’t won TORONTO .......................... 2 0 1 0— 4
season. He entered the game second on the road since Nov. 3. DALLAS .............................. 1 1 1 0— 3
COLLEGE FOOTBALL at Sabres in the league behind Toronto’s Phil FIRST PERIOD
WINNIPEG .............................. 1 1 1— 3
Noon Cincinnati at Syracuse » MASN
Tonight, 7 p.m. Kessel. Petteri Nokelainen scored and CAROLINA .............................. 0 1 0— 1 Scoring: 1, Dal, Nystrom 6 (Ryder, Ja.Benn), 4:03. 2, Tor,
Comcast SportsNet Carey Price made 33 saves. Crabb 4 (Phaneuf, Colborne), 10:55. 3, Tor, Phaneuf 3
Noon Georgia at Georgia Tech » ESPN FIRST PERIOD (Liles, Lupul), 14:53 (pp).
Noon Iowa State at Oklahoma » FX MONTREAL .............................. 1 0 0— 1 Scoring: 1, Win, Kane 9 (Oduya), 14:46. SECOND PERIOD
Noon Michigan State at Northwestern » Big Ten Network PHILADELPHIA ........................ 0 3 0— 3 SECOND PERIOD Scoring: 4, Dal, Nystrom 7 (Dvorak, Ja.Benn), 4:38.
FIRST PERIOD Scoring: 2, Car, Tlusty 4 (Bra.Sutter, McBain), 5:17. 3,
Noon Ohio State at Michigan » WJLA (Channel 7), WMAR (Channel 2) vs. Blues Win, Ladd 8 (Bogosian, Antropov), 6:25.
THIRD PERIOD
Noon Rice at SMU » Comcast SportsNet Tuesday, 7 p.m. Scoring: 1, Montreal, Nokelainen 1 (Gill, Gorges), 18:14. Scoring: 5, Tor, MacArthur 8 (Connolly, Kulemin), 6:55. 6,
THIRD PERIOD Dal, Dvorak 2 (Ribeiro, Larsen), 12:47.
Noon Rutgers at Connecticut » ESPN2 Comcast SportsNet SECOND PERIOD
Scoring: 4, Win, Little 6 (Bogosian, Mason), 19:51 (en). SHOOTOUT
Scoring: 2, Philadelphia, Giroux 12 (Carle), 13:11. 3,
Maryland at North Carolina State » WTTG (Channel 5), WJZ (Channel 13), Philadelphia, Voracek 4 (Timonen, Coburn), 17:45. 4, SHOTS ON GOAL Tor 1 (Kessel NG, Colborne NG, Lupul G), Dal 0 (Eriksson
12:30 p.m.
WWXT (92.7 FM), WWXX (94.3 FM), WTEM (980 AM) Philadelphia, Giroux 13 (Coburn, Voracek), 19:54. WIN ....................................... 14 13 3 — 30 NG, Ja.Benn NG, Ribeiro NG).
CAR ......................................... 7 4 10 — 21
Virginia Tech at Virginia » WJLA (Channel 7), WMAR (Channel 2), vs. Penguins SHOTS ON GOAL SHOTS ON GOAL
3:30 p.m. MONTREAL .............................. 8 5 11 — 24 Power-play: Win 0-1; Car 0-4. Goalies: Win, Mason
WJFK (106.7 FM), WSPZ (570 AM) Thursday, 7 p.m. 2-2-0 (21 shots-20 saves). Car, Ward 8-9-3 (29-27). A: TOR .................................... 7 8 6 2 — 23
PHILADELPHIA ........................ 5 18 13 — 36 DAL .................................... 7 8 14 0 — 29
3:30 p.m. Alabama at Auburn » WUSA (Channel 9), WJZ (Channel 13) Comcast SportsNet Power-play: Montreal 0 of 5; Philadelphia 0 of 4. Goalies:
15,718 (18,680). T: 2:12.
Power-play: Tor 1 of 4; Dal 0 of 4. Goalies: Tor,
3:30 p.m. Duke at North Carolina » Comcast SportsNet Montreal, Price 9-8-3 (36 shots-33 saves). Philadelphia, Gustavsson 7-4-0 (29 shots-26 saves). Dal, Lehtonen
Bobrovsky 5-1-1 (24-23). A: 19,991 (19,537). T: 2:18. 13-4-1 (23-20). A: 18,532 (18,532). T: 2:44.
3:30 p.m. East Carolina at Marshall » CBS Sports Network
3:30 p.m. Illinois at Minnesota » Big Ten Network
3:30 p.m. Purdue at Indiana » Big Ten Network RANGERS 6, CAPITALS 3 OILERS 5, WILD 2 BLUE JACKETS 5, SABRES 1 CANUCKS 5, COYOTES 0
Penn State at Wisconsin » ESPN, WWXT (92.7 FM), WWXX (94.3 FM), WTEM N.Y. RANGERS ......................... 0 4 2— 6 Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored twice, Rick Nash scored twice and Curtis
3:30 p.m. WASHINGTON ......................... 0 2 1— 3 Vancouer G Cory Schneider got his
(980 AM) Ryan Smyth had a goal and two Sanford was again solid in goal as
FIRST PERIOD
second shutout in a row — this time,
3:30 p.m. Oregon State at Oregon » ESPN2 assists, and Edmonton beat Minneso- Columbus sent Buffalo to a third he needed just 21 saves against
Scoring: None.
3:30 p.m. Vanderbilt at Wake Forest » ESPNU
Penalties: Sauer, NYR (high-sticking), 5:10; Semin, Was
ta. Taylor Hall and Shawn Horcoff also straight loss. Phoenix’s anemic offense.
4 p.m. New Mexico State at Louisiana Tech » MASN (hooking), 8:56; Boyle, NYR (tripping), 9:25; Hamrlik, scored for the Oilers, who won for the Mark Letestu, Marc Methot and Vancouver, in its third win in a row,
Florida State at Florida » ESPN2, WWXT (92.7 FM), WWXX (94.3 FM), WTEM Was (holding), 15:31; Ovechkin, Was (roughing), 17:56. first time in 18 games in Minnesota R.J. Umberger also scored for the
7 p.m. SECOND PERIOD
scored three goals in a 2:12 span early
(980 AM) dating from Jan. 6, 2007. Edmonton Blue Jackets, who broke out with in the second period. Ryan Kesler had
Scoring: 1, N.Y. Rangers, Gaborik 10 (Stepan, Anisimov),
7 p.m. Mississippi at Mississippi State » ESPNU 3:37. 2, N.Y. Rangers, Anisimov 2 (McDonagh, Girardi),
has won three of four overall. their highest goal output and largest a goal and an assist and Sami Salo
7:30 p.m. Washington State at Washington » Versus 6:52 (pp). 3, N.Y. Rangers, Fedotenko 2 (Callahan), 7:55. margin of victory this season. and David Booth also scored in the
4, Washington, Brouwer 6 (Carlson, Backstrom), 8:53. 5, EDMONTON ............................. 2 1 2— 5
7:45 p.m. Clemson at South Carolina » ESPN Washington, Carlson 4 (Johansson, Orlov), 12:52 (pp). 6, MINNESOTA ............................ 1 1 0— 2 outburst. It was Vancouver’s most
BUFFALO ................................ 0 1 0— 1
8 p.m. Notre Dame at Stanford » WJLA (Channel 7), WMAR (Channel 2) N.Y. Rangers, Boyle 2 (Mitchell, Hagelin), 16:49. FIRST PERIOD COLUMBUS ............................. 2 3 0— 5 lopsided win this season.
Penalties: Eakin, Was (holding), 6:43; Sauer, NYR
10:30 p.m. UCLA at Southern California (joined in progress) » Comcast SportsNet (holding), 12:09. Scoring: 1, Edm, Smyth 12 (Eberle, Peckham), 5:15. 2, FIRST PERIOD
Edm, Nugent-Hopkins 9 (Gagner, Belanger), 16:29 (pp). VANCOUVER ........................... 0 3 2— 5
THIRD PERIOD Scoring: 1, Col, Letestu 3 (Johansen, Tyutin), 10:50. 2, PHOENIX .................................. 0 0 0— 0
3, Min, Setoguchi 7 (Koivu, Spurgeon), 19:50 (pp). Col, Nash 6 (Wisniewski, Carter), 16:19 (pp).
GOLF Scoring: 7, N.Y. Rangers, Richards 7 (Callahan, Girardi), SECOND PERIOD SECOND PERIOD
4:15. 8, Washington, Ovechkin 8 (Backstrom, Brouwer), SECOND PERIOD
10:30 p.m. PGA Tour, Mission Hills World Cup » Golf Channel 5:57. 9, N.Y. Rangers, Fedotenko 3 (Callahan, Richards), Scoring: 4, Min, Bouchard 2, 9:00. 5, Edm, Hall 7 (Gilbert, Scoring: 3, Col, Methot 1 (Wisniewski, Dorsett), 4:17. 4, Scoring: 1, Van, Salo 5 (H.Sedin, D.Sedin), 5:01. 2, Van,
11:40. Horcoff), 15:29. Col, Umberger 3 (Johansen), 4:29. 5, Buf, Leopold 5 Kesler 4, 6:33. 3, Van, Booth 3 (Kesler, Bieksa), 7:13.
Penalties: Knuble, Was (holding), 12:36; Del Zotto, NYR THIRD PERIOD (Kassian, Regehr), 8:01. 6, Col, Nash 7 (Carter, Nikitin), THIRD PERIOD
BOXING (high-sticking), 16:21. 14:07.
Scoring: 6, Edm, Horcoff 7 (Hemsky, Hall), 7:28. 7, Edm, Scoring: 4, Van, Lapierre 4, 12:51. 5, Van, Burrows 7
Junior middleweight championship, Saul Alvarez vs. Kermit Cintron » SHOTS ON GOAL Nugent-Hopkins 10 (Eberle, Smyth), 18:37 (en). SHOTS ON GOAL (Hodgson), 13:47.
10:30 p.m. N.Y. RANGERS ......................... 8 15 10 — 33 BUFFALO ................................ 6 13 10 — 29
HBO SHOTS ON GOAL SHOTS ON GOAL
WASHINGTON ......................... 8 9 4 — 21 EDMONTON ............................. 8 10 11 — 29 COLUMBUS ........................... 15 10 9 — 34 VANCOUVER ......................... 15 11 11 — 37
Power-play opportunities: N.Y. Rangers 1 of 5; Washing- MINNESOTA .......................... 13 6 13 — 32 Power-play: Buf 0-3; Col 1-5. Goalies: Buf, Enroth 7-3-1 PHOENIX .................................. 4 6 11 — 21
ton 1 of 4. Power-play opportunities: Edm 1 of 4; Min 1 of 4. (18 shots-14 saves), MacIntyre (4:30 second, 16-15). Power-play: Van 0 of 5; Phoenix 0 of 3. Goalies: Van,
Goalies: N.Y. Rangers, Lundqvist 8-4-3 (21 shots-18
only from Comcast.
Goalies: Edm, Khabibulin 9-4-2 (32 shots-30 saves). Min, Col, Sanford 3-0-2 (29-28). A: 16,705 (18,144). T: 2:17. C.Schneider 5-4-0 (21 shots-21 saves). Phoenix, Smith
saves). Washington, Neuvirth 2-4-1 (33-27). Harding 6-2-1 (28-24). A: 18,092 (18,064). T: 2:21. 10-4-3 (37-32). A: 14,569 (17,135). T: 2:22.
A: 18,506 (18,398). T: 2:26.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2011
NBA, players resume labor discussions
Talks to save 66-game
season center on settling
antitrust lawsuits
BY B RIAN M AHONEY
new york — NBA owners and
players met for more than 11
hours Friday in an attempt to end
the 148-day lockout in time to
save the league’s Christmas Day
schedule.
That deadline has created a
sense of urgency because the
Dec. 25 schedule is traditionally a
showcase for the league. This
season’s three-game slate was to
include Miami at Dallas in an
NBA finals rematch, plus MVP
Derrick Rose leading Chicago
into Los Angeles to face Kobe
Bryant and the Lakers.
After a meeting earlier this
week, the sides have returned to
the table for more discussions.
Commissioner David Stern has
said the league needs about 30
NFL NOTEBOOK
Suh chastised by team
for stomping incident
A SSOCIATED P RESS
The Detroit Lions publicly
chastised star defensive tackle
Ndamukong Suh after he was
ejected during a Thanksgiving
loss to Green Bay for stomping at
an opposing player.
“The on-field conduct exhibit-
ed by Ndamukong Suh that led to
his ejection from yesterday’s game
was unacceptable and failed to
meet the high level of sportsman-
ship we expect from our players,”
the team said in a statement Fri-
day night. “Ndamukong has made
many positive contributions to
the Lions on and off the field. We
expect his behavior going forward
to consistently reflect that high
standard of professionalism.”
In a statement on his Facebook
page that appeared about the
same time, Suh said: “My reaction
on Thursday was unacceptable. I
made a mistake, and have learned
from it. I hope to direct the focus
back to the task at hand — by
winning.”
It could be several days before
Suh finds out the cost of his action
in Detroit’s 27-15 loss to the Pack-
ers. An NFL spokesman said plays
from Week 12 looked at for poten-
tial discipline won’t be reviewed
until all games are completed.
Suh was ejected after tangling
with Packers offensive lineman
Evan Dietrich-Smith. After being
pushed off Dietrich-Smith, Suh
stepped down hard with his right
foot, appearing to make contact
with Dietrich-Smith’s right arm.
After the game, Suh said he was
trying to keep his balance while
freeing himself from the brief
scuffle. He apologized to team-
mates, coaches and fans for “al-
The Insider
Excerpts from washingtonpost.com/football-insider
Injury report is
looking more upbeat
Washington Redskins Coach
Mike Shanahan said nine injured
players all are probable for Sun-
day’s game against the Seattle Sea-
hawks, marking the first time in
weeks Washington won’t find it-
self without starters at multiple
key positions.
Trent Williams (strained knee
ligament) will start at left tackle
despite being hobbled all week.
“I feel good. I’m going to give it
a go. I can’t complain,” said Wil-
liams, who will wear a brace on his
knee. ”I fully anticipate [starting].
It’s very important to me. I missed
two weeks already and I couldn’t
stand seeing my team going to
battle without me.”
Meanwhile, wide receiver San-
tana Moss (hand) is expected to
start after four weeks on the side-
line. Other banged-up players list-
ed as probable for the Redskins
are right tackle Jammal Brown
(groin), safeties LaRon Landry
(Achilles’ tendon) and DeJon
Gomes (knee), left guard Maurice
Hurt (knee), backup tackle Sean
Locklear (ankle), cornerback Josh
Wilson (hamstring) and backup
linebacker Keyaron Fox (infec-
tion).
The only players who are ques-
tionable for Sunday’s game are
wide receivers Niles Paul (turf toe)
and Donte Stallworth (foot).
“It was encouraging,” Shana-
han said. “It’s been a week of heal-
ing, but we looked pretty good
PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL
days from an agreement to when
games could be played.
Participating in the talks for
the league were Stern; deputy
commissioner Adam Silver;
Spurs owner Peter Holt, the
chairman of the labor relations
committee; and attorneys Rick
Buchanan and Dan Rube. The
players were represented by the
former heads of the players’
union, executive director Billy
Hunter, President Derek Fisher,
Vice President Maurice Evans,
attorney Ron Klempner and
economist Kevin Murphy.
The discussions between rep-
resentatives of the owners and
players are now centered on
settling their lawsuits: The play-
ers filed an antitrust lawsuit
against the league in Minnesota,
and the league filed a preemptive
suit in New York, seeking to
prove the lockout was legal.
Because the union disbanded,
it cannot negotiate a new collec-
tive bargaining agreement, but
the settlement talks could lead to
that. The CBA can only be com-
PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL
lowing the refs to have an oppor-
tunity to take me out of this game,”
but insisted he didn’t intentional-
ly step on anyone.
“People are going to have their
own opinions — that’s fine,” he
said. “The only [people] that I
really care about are my team-
mates, my true fans and my coach-
es and their opinions, and that’s
where it lies.” . . .
Detroit running back Jahvid
Best, who is bothered by concus-
sion problems and hasn’t played
since Oct. 16, will be placed on
season-ending injured reserve.
l EAGLES: Quarterback Mi-
chael Vick, bothered by two bro-
ken ribs, has thrown for a second
straight day but did not take part
in any practice drills and is listed
as questionable for Sunday’s game
with the New England Patriots.
Wide receiver Jeremy Maclin
(hamstring), cornerback Nnamdi
Asomugha (knee) and backup of-
fensive lineman King Dunlap
(concussion) also could miss Sun-
day’s game.
l BROWNS: Running back
Peyton Hillis, who has missed the
past six games with a severely
strained left hamstring, could re-
turn Sunday at Cincinnati.
Browns Coach Pat Shurmur
had ruled Hillis out when the
week began, but he practiced Fri-
day for the first time since Nov. 4.
In addition, the Browns will
have running back Montario
Hardesty, who has missed the past
three games with a calf injury.
Shurmur wouldn’t say who
among Hillis, Hardesty or fill-in
Chris Ogbonnaya would start.
l VIKINGS: Running back
Adrian Peterson is listed as doubt-
ful for Sunday’s game at Atlanta
today, so hopefully there are no
setbacks.”
For the Seahawks, starting
quarterback Tarvaris Jackson
(pectoral) and wide receiver Sid-
ney Rice (foot) are each probable
to play.
Carroll on Davis
Seattle Coach Pete Carroll is
less than two years into his second
stint in the NFL, but he’s plenty
familiar with at least one Redskins
player.
Playing his high school ball in
Ohio, Fred Davis lined up every-
where: wide receiver, running
back, safety and quarterback. Car-
roll recruited him to Southern Cal-
ifornia in 2004 and Davis was
starting for the Trojans at tight
end by his sophomore season. Car-
roll says Davis’s potential was al-
ways easy to recognize.
“When we were recruiting him,
we thought he was going to be a
No. 1 draft pick,” he said. “When
we saw him and looked at his
potential, that’s why we went after
him.”
Davis eventually was a second-
round pick to Washington in 2008
and has since started 31 games. It’s
probably not too surprising, con-
sidering what he did in college. He
left USC as the school’s all-time
leader in career receiving yards
and career touchdowns by a tight
end.
“He was one of the best tight
ends in the country coming out,”
Carroll said. “Big, strong, fast,
KLMNO
pleted once the union has re-
formed.
There are still a handful of
issues relating to spending rules
for teams that must be worked
out — issues that have been an
obstacle to a new deal since the
lockout began July 1. Players fear
that owners’ desires to curb
spending by the big-market
teams would limit their options
as free agents.
Talks last broke down Nov. 14
when players rejected the own-
ers’ proposal that included open-
ing a 72-game schedule on Dec.
15, announcing instead they were
disbanding the union, giving
them a chance to win several
billion dollars in triple damages
in an antitrust lawsuit.
On Monday, a group of named
plaintiffs including Carmelo An-
thony, Steve Nash and Kevin
Durant filed an amended federal
lawsuit against the league in
Minnesota, hoping the courts
there will be as favorable to them
as they have been to NFL players
in the past.
Detroit’s Ndamukong Suh pleads his case with referee Terry
McAulay after being ejected for unsportsmanlike conduct Thursday.
because of a high ankle sprain.
Peterson hasn’t practiced after
hurting his left ankle in last week’s
game in Oakland. Toby Gerhart
would start in his absence.
l PACKERS: Outside lineback-
er Erik Walden was arrested on
suspicion of felony domestic vio-
lence/substantial battery and will
remain in the Brown County
(Wis.) Jail until at least Monday.
Walden allegedly assaulted his
live-in girlfriend at the couple’s
apartment in Lawrence near
Green Bay. Because of the Thanks-
giving holiday, the Brown County
Court is closed for the weekend, so
Walden will remain in jail.
The Packers issued a statement
saying the organization “is aware
of the situation involving Erik
Walden. We are in the process of
gathering more information and
will refrain from making any fur-
ther comment.”
l CHIEFS: Quarterback Kyle
Orton joined the team after get-
ting picked up off waivers from
Denver on Wednesday and was
expected to participate in his first
tough, all of that stuff. I think it’s
marvelous that he’s been able to
transition into this kind of a play-
er. I mean, he’s a focal-point player
on an NFL team. I think it’s awe-
some.”
Davis is the Redskins’ leading
receiver this year with 636 yards
on 49 catches. He’s the most con-
sistent part of an injury-plagued
offense and a player opposing foes
have to plan for each week.
“I’m laughing — we’re game-
planning for Freddy. ‘Where is he?
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eral victories over the owners in
federal court in Minnesota, most
recently when U.S. District Judge
Susan Richard Nelson issued a
temporary injunction this sum-
mer that lifted the NFL’s owner-
imposed lockout. That decision
was stayed and eventually over-
turned on appeal by the 8th
Circuit in St. Louis.
The legal system could take
months to resolve, so both sides
repeatedly have said the only way
to reach a deal that would save
the season is through bargain-
ing. The 1998-99 lockout reduced
that season to 50 games. It was
settled shortly after the new year
and play started in February.
This season games have been
canceled through Dec. 15, but in
reality another week probably
already has been lost, given the
time needed to write and ap-
prove a new collective bargain-
ing agreement, have a free agen-
cy period, hold training camps
and play exhibition games.
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practice Friday night. He will have
the opportunity to compete for
the starting job but is not expected
to be ready to play Sunday.
l TITANS: Linebacker Barrett
Ruud was ruled out for Sunday’s
game against his former team,
Tampa Bay, because of a groin
injury. Rookie Colin McCarthy is
questionable with a knee injury
but is expected to start in Ruud’s
spot. Quarterback Matt Hassel-
beck worked fully Friday and is
probable to start.
l RAMS: St. Louis placed right
tackle Jason Smith (concussion,
neck injury) and wide receiver
Mark Clayton (knee injuries, ten-
dinitis) on injured reserve.
l JAGUARS: Jacksonville
placed cornerback Derek Cox on
injured reserve with a knee injury,
the third defensive starter lost in
the past two weeks. Defensive
linemen Terrance Knighton and
Matt Roth have been ruled out for
Sunday’s game against Houston.
Aaron Kampman also is question-
able because of a hamstring inju-
ry.
He’s over here. He’s doing this. He’s
doing that.’ They’re doing a fantas-
tic job of utilizing him,” Carroll
said.
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Maryland’s James Padgett (11 points) drives to the basket against
Florida Gulf Coast. The Terrapins face Illinois (5-0) on Tuesday.
Small progress
for Terps in win
MARYLAND 73,
FLA. GULF COAST 67
Stoglin scores 24
despite late struggles
BY L IZ C LARKE
For a basketball team with as
many shortcomings as short-
handed Maryland, progress isn’t
going to come in giant strides. It
will come in much smaller incre-
ments.
Friday at Comcast Center,
Maryland took a baby step for-
ward, fending off a second-half
rally by Florida Gulf Coast to
prevail, 73-67.
While Maryland did not trail
after a three-pointer by walk-on
Jonathan Thomas gave it a 14-11
lead, what had the makings of a
rout turned into a nail-biter.
Two things happened after
Maryland (3-2) jumped to a 16-
point lead — neither of them
encouraging for first-year Coach
Mark Turgeon. The Terrapins
got overconfident and careless
on both ends of the court. And
Florida Gulf Coast (2-4) ramped
up its defensive pressure, which
utterly stymied the Terps.
The Eagles made more shots
from the field (26 to Maryland’s
23), but Maryland pulled out the
victory thanks largely to Terrell
Stoglin’s determination to get to
the free throw line.
Stoglin was ragged from the
stripe, missing 6 of 8 free throws
in the final 75 seconds. Chalk it
up to sheer fatigue from slashing
past so many big defenders in a
furious effort to create plays.
“We felt like we had the game
[won] because we were up by so
much,” said Stoglin, who led all
scorers with 24 points, half of
which were earned at the free
throw line. “I was telling the
guys in the huddle, ‘It’s not over!’
And they came back.”
It was another lesson for the
young Maryland team, which
moves on to a far tougher oppo-
nent, hosting Illinois (5-0) Tues-
day as part of the ACC/Big Ten
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Challenge.
While Turgeon didn’t hide his
aggravation over his team’s
lapse in the last 10 minutes, he
made clear that he was proud of
his players’ overall effort and the
strides they had made since los-
ing two of three games in last
week’s Puerto Rico Tip-Off.
“Defensively we were much
better,” Turgeon said. “Our tran-
sition defense was much better.
And I was really pleased at the
start of the second half, the way
we built that [lead] up. If we had
just handled the pressure . . .
and then we got fatigued.”
Added senior guard Sean
Mosley: “We executed our of-
fense a lot better than we did in
Puerto Rico. We played together
more so as a team. And we did
the little things coach has been
on us about” — rebounding and
team defense, in particular.
Mosley finished with six
points, seven rebounds and
three assists despite rolling an
ankle during the game. James
Padgett was the only Terrapins
player other than Stoglin in dou-
ble figures (11 points).
Turgeon make a few notable
tweaks to his rotation, starting
6-foot-10 center Berend Weijs
for the first time this season.
And he rewarded John Aus-
lander with a season-high 20
minutes, praising Auslander’s
work ethic in practice and his
command of the plays.
A 6-foot-7 sophomore, Aus-
lander started the season as a
walk-on but has since been
awarded a scholarship, bringing
the Terps’ ranks of available
scholarship players to eight.
Weijs got a tip-in followed by a
nifty turnaround jumper on an
inbounds play, and the an-
nounced crowd of 12,080
cheered, the Terps up 52-36 with
a little more than 13 minutes
remaining.
But just when the game
seemed in hand, the Eagles went
on a 9-2 run. They trailed by four,
70-66, with 47 seconds left.
“It’s a steppingstone,” Mosley
said. “We just have to take small
steps to be where we want to be.”
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Virginia Tech’s Erick Green (11) and Jarell Eddie take to the air to thwart a shot by Oklahoma State’s Keiton Page at Madison Square Garden.
NATIONAL MEN
Hokies bounce back in a New York minute
VIRGINIA TECH 59,
OKLAHOMA ST. 57
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Virginia Tech was facing what
was almost a must-win game in
late November.
The Hokies had lost to No. 5
Syracuse in the semifinals of the
NIT Season Tip-Off and were try-
ing to hold on for a win in the
third-place game over Oklahoma
State.
“This time of the year it’s really
just about trying to develop an
identity,” Virginia Tech Coach Seth
Greenberg said. “We had three
freshmen — two or three fresh-
men on the court at the same time.
Finding a way to win this game
with that young a team and get-
ting them to better understand
how to play hard right now —
that’s the process we’re going
through.”
Erick Green scored 18 points
and Virginia Tech, despite not
making a field goal over the final
6½ minutes, beat Oklahoma
State, 59-57, on Friday.
The Hokies (4-1) went 10 of 17
from the free throw line over the
final 6 minutes 1 second to hold off
the Cowboys (3-2), who got within
two points twice.
“I’m proud of the team and how
hard we worked,” said Green, a
junior. “The hard work has paid
off. We still have a lot of work to do
but I’m really proud of the guys.”
Dorian Finney-Smith, who fin-
ished with 10 points and 14 re-
NATIONAL WOMEN
Ogwumike’s 34 points lead
Cardinal past Musketeers
STANFORD 80,
XAVIER 64
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Nnemkadi Ogwumike scored a
season-high 34 points and
opened the second half by domi-
nating under the basket Friday,
leading No. 3 Stanford to an
80-64 victory over Xavier in
Cincinnati.
The Cardinal (4-1) shook off a
10-point loss at No. 2 Connecti-
cut on Monday and a slow first
half against Xavier (1-3), which
trailed by only a point at the
break.
Ogwumike powered inside for
bank shots and putbacks during
a 19-5 run that put Stanford in
control early in the second half,
when she scored 11 of Stanford’s
first 15 points.
She also finished with a game-
high 13 rebounds.
Lynette Holmes led Xavier
with 18 points.
The schools have played in
each of the last three seasons,
with Stanford winning all three.
The series started with a memo-
rable moment for both pro-
grams: Jeanette Pohlen’s layup
at the buzzer giving Stanford a
55-53 win in the NCAA tourna-
ment region final in 2010.
l U-CONN. 74, FAIRLEIGH
DICKINSON 28: In Storrs, Conn.,
Brianna Banks scored 17 points
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bounds, hit a three-pointer with
6:49 to play to give Virginia Tech a
49-40 lead. Two free throws by
Jarell Eddie kept the Hokies up
53-44 with 5:27 left.
Oklahoma State scored the next
seven points to get to 53-51 with
3:37 left on a drive by Jean-Paul
Olukemi. The other time the Cow-
boys got within two was the final
margin on a three-pointer by
Keiton Page with 1.4 seconds left.
Markel Brown had 14 points
and 10 rebounds for Oklahoma
State.
“We just went out and played
hard,” Brown said of the come-
back. “Got back in the game, did
the things that we needed to do
right, defensive transition and
cutting down turnovers.”
Virginia Tech, which lost, 69-58,
to No. 5 Syracuse in the semifinals,
took the lead for good with a 14-0
run that gave the Hokies a 21-12
lead with 6:40 left in the first half.
The Hokies, who led 32-23 at
halftime, are 7-2 at Madison
Square Garden since Greenberg
became coach in 2003.
“Thanksgiving parade is great.
There’s nothing better than Madi-
son Square Garden,” Greenberg
said. “But going home 0-2, that
would have been tough. Now we
have a chance to build on it.”
l CENTRAL FLORIDA 68, CON-
NECTICUT 63: Marcus Jordan and
Keith Clanton each scored 20
points, and the Knights rallied to
upset the No. 4 Huskies in the
semifinals of the Battle 4 Atlantis
in Paradise Island, Bahamas.
Jordan, son of Hall of Famer
Michael Jordan, also had seven
rebounds and seven assists for
and the No. 2 Huskies extended
their NCAA-record home win-
ning streak to 87 games with a
win over the Knights in the
World Vision Classic.
Kaleena Masqueda-Lewis add-
ed 11 points and nine rebounds
for the Huskies (4-0), who
jumped out to a 44-5 halftime
lead and went on to the rout.
Stephanie Isaacs and Erika
Livermore had six points each
for Farleigh Dickinson (1-4).
l NOTRE DAME 80, USC 58:
Skylar Diggins scored 22 points
and Natalie Novosel added 17 to
help the No. 4 Fighting Irish beat
the Trojans in the Junkanoo Jam
tournament in Freeport, Baha-
mas.
The Irish (4-1) will play No. 7
Duke on Saturday night in the
Freeport Division championship
game.
Notre Dame turned up its
defense and held USC (1-3) to one
field goal over the final 7 minutes
34 seconds of the first half.
l DUKE 97, GARDENER-
WEBB 31: Tricia Liston scored 23
points to help the No. 7 Blue
Devils rout the Runnin’ Bulldogs
in the Junkanoo Jam
Chloe Wells added 14 points,
making all five of her shots —
including three three-pointers.
Elizabeth Williams had 13 points
and Shay Selby 11 for the Blue
Devils (5-0).
Duke will face fourth-ranked
Notre Dame for the champion-
ship Saturday night.
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Central Florida (4-1), which trailed
by 17 early in the second half.
Clanton finished with six re-
bounds and two steals.
Jeremy Lamb had 15 points for
defending national champion
Connecticut (5-1), which lost for
the first time since March 5
against Notre Dame.
Coach Jim Calhoun said it was
one of the most “surreal” perform-
ances he has seen at U-Conn. “I
can’t be more disappointed in how
we played,” he said. “Nobody
stepped up and it was a complete
disaster for us.”
l NORTH CAROLINA 87,
SOUTH CAROLINA 62: Harrison
Barnes scored a game-high 21
points and Kendall Marshall had
six steals and 14 assists as the
top-ranked Tar Heels (5-0) won in
the third round of the Las Vegas
Invitational. They’ll play UNLV in
Saturday’s final.
l OHIO STATE 80, VAL-
PARAISO 47: William Buford
scored 17 of his 25 points in the
second half and the No. 3 Buck-
eyes rolled in Columbus, Ohio.
Aaron Craft added 15 points and
eight assists for Ohio State (6-0),
which tuned up for a visit from
No. 6 Duke on Tuesday.
l SYRACUSE 69, STANFORD
63: Kris Joseph had 18 points and
eight rebounds and the No. 5 Or-
ange (6-0) closed the game on a
15-3 run, defeating the Cardinal
(5-1) to win the NIT Season Tip-
Off. Joseph had 38 points and 19
rebounds in the two games and
was selected the MVP.
l LOUISVILLE 59, OHIO 54:
Kyle Kuric scored 16 points and
Gorgui Dieng grabbed a career-
Stanford’s Nnemkadi Ogwumike, right, goes up for a shot against
Xavier’s Jessica Pachko. She finished with a season-high 34 points.
l TEXAS A&M 71, TEMPLE
59: Adaora Elonu scored a ca-
reer-high 23 points to help the
No. 5 Aggies (5-0) withstand a
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high 16 rebounds to lead the No. 7
Cardinals (5-0) at home in Rick
Pitino’s 250th victory as Louis-
ville’s coach.
l FLORIDA 107, JACKSON-
VILLE 62: In Gainesville, Fla., Ken-
ny Boynton scored 22 points, Erv-
ing Walker added 21 and the No. 10
Gators (4-1) dominated from the
opening tip, allowing little chance
for a repeat of last year’s upset win
by the Dolphins in Gainesville.
l WISCONSIN 66, BRADLEY
43: Ryan Evans, Jordan Taylor and
Josh Gasser had 15 points apiece
and the No. 11 Badgers (5-0) scored
18 points off of turnovers in the
Chicago Invitational Challenge in
Hoffman Estates, Ill. Wisconsin
faces BYU in Saturday’s final.
l XAVIER 70, GEORGIA 58: In
Cincinnati, Tu Holloway over-
came a sore shooting hand and
scored 12 points, leading a bal-
anced offense that carried the No.
12 Musketeers to victory.
l PITTSBURGH 78, PENN 58:
In Philadelphia, Khem Birch had
15 points and 10 rebounds, Ashton
Gibbs scored 16 points and the No.
17 Panthers (4-1) pulled away in
the second half.
l VANDERBILT 95, MON-
MOUTH 73: John Jenkins scored
18 points, and Jeff Taylor and Brad
Tinsley each added 16 to help the
No. 18 Commodores (5-1) win in
Nashville.
l HARVARD 46, FLORIDA
STATE 41: Brandyn Curry had six
points, five assists, and five steals
to help the Crimson surprise the
No. 22 Seminoles (5-1) in the semi-
finals of the Battle 4 Atlantis. Har-
vard (5-0) will face Central Florida
in Saturday’s final.
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second-half run by the Owls (2-3)
and turn back Temple in the
Junkanoo Jam tournament in
Freeport, Bahamas.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2011
Zeglinski is
hurt again,
but Cavs roll
VIRGINIA 68,
GREEN BAY 42
X-rays are negative
on senior’s ankle
BY S TEVE Y ANDA
charlottesville — When
the final horn sounded on Vir-
ginia’s 68-42 win over Green
Bay on Friday night, fifth-year
senior guard Sammy Zeglinski
immediately left the bench. He
had aggravated a right ankle
injury midway through the sec-
ond half and had not returned.
And though he was the first
player on either team to head
through the tunnel that leads
to the locker rooms at John
Paul Jones Arena, he was still
hobbling down the hallway
minutes later, the last one to
make it back. Zeglinski’s post-
game status was both encour-
aging — X-rays were negative —
and, in his words, “dishearten-
ing” for a Cavaliers squad that
could use his steadying hand
on both ends of the floor.
Zeglinski said he “definitely”
would play Tuesday night when
Virginia (5-1) hosts No. 15
Michigan in the ACC-Big Ten
Challenge. But he acknowl-
edged he has grown tired of
having to make such pro-
nouncements.
After dealing with an assort-
ment of injuries (ankle, knee
and hip) throughout his colle-
giate career, Zeglinski had said
on the team’s preseason media
day last month that it was the
healthiest he had ever been. On
Friday, it was suggested to
Zeglinski that he had jinxed
himself.
“I guess,” he responded. “I
just don’t understand.”
His most recent injury origi-
nated Nov. 5 during a pre-
season scrimmage at John Paul
Jones Arena against Baylor.
Zeglinski said he came down
on someone’s foot and suffered
a sprained ankle. He sat out the
first two games of the season.
In the closing minutes of his
season debut Nov. 18 against
Texas Christian at the Paradise
Jam in the U.S. Virgin Islands,
an opposing player landed on
the injured ankle, causing the
pain to flare up once more.
Zeglinski continued to play
during the tournament,
though, as Coach Tony Bennett
noted, “he was laboring.”
It wasn’t until Thursday’s
practice that Bennett noticed
AREA ROUNDUP
Mincy’s hot shooting
keeps U-Md. unbeaten
MARYLAND 84,
FIU 52
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Laurin Mincy’s hot shooting
helped the Maryland women’s
basketball team put away Flori-
da International on Friday in
Miami.
Mincy hit consecutive shots
behind the arc during a four-
minute span late in the first half
that helped No. 8 Maryland ex-
pand a one-point lead into dou-
ble-digits. The Terrapins were
not threatened afterwards in an
84-52 victory.
“The two threes were really
crucial,” Mincy said. “I think it
kind of put a dagger on them,
although they kept playing.”
Mincy and Lynetta Kizer
scored 15 points each to lead
Maryland (6-0). The Terrapins
expanded a 44-30 lead at half-
time with an 18-7 spurt in the
opening 6 minutes 41 seconds of
the second half.
“I love the fact that we’re real-
ly unselfish with the inside-out-
side game,” Maryland Coach
Brenda Frese said.
Thomas finished with 12
points and Tianna Hawkins
scored all 13 of her points in the
first half.
Kizer became the 19th player
to score 1,300 points in school
history. Jerica Corley scored 19
of her 24 points in the first half to
lead Florida International (2-3).
“For the most part they are
better than we are but they are
not 32 points better,” Florida
International Coach Cindy Rus-
so said. “We looked a little pa-
“a little snap” in Zeglinski’s
step, and so the coach elected
to start Zeglinski for the first
time Friday night.
While Zeglinski’s shot was
off (1 for 4 from the field), he
helped the Cavaliers jump out
to a 20-point lead. Virginia,
which entered the night in an
offensive slump, shot 51.1 per-
cent from the field against the
Phoenix.
“For me, I’m just looking to
drive and kick to my shooters,
so there’s really no difference
when [Zeglinski] is in the game
or when somebody else is in the
game,” junior point guard Jon-
tel Evans said. “I take that back.
The only difference is his expe-
rience out there. He knows
what to do in certain situa-
tions.”
Green Bay (2-4) cut Vir-
ginia’s lead to 10 by halftime,
and Zeglinski was on the floor
to start the second half. Just
more than 31/2 minutes after the
break, the Cavaliers led by 20
once more.
Virginia received a scoring
boost off the bench from sopho-
more guard KT Harrell, who
recorded 14 points. It was Har-
rell who Zeglinski had replaced
in the starting lineup.
With just more than 12 min-
utes to play, sophomore for-
ward Akil Mitchell pulled down
a defensive rebound and land-
ed on the outside of Zeglinski’s
right foot, which stretched his
interior ankle tendons. Zeglins-
ki immediately asked to be
removed from the game and
limped off the floor. He did not
return.
Afterward, fifth-year senior
forward Mike Scott — who
finished with 15 points and 10
rebounds, both game highs —
said he was not worried about
Zeglinski’s health. He has seen
Zeglinski deal with injuries be-
fore.
“He’ll be at practice tomor-
row,” Scott said.
Bennett, Green Bay’s all-time
leading scorer who coached
against his alma mater for the
first time, was less definitive.
“KT gave us a nice lift,”
Bennett said. “We’ve got five
guys — I hope we’ve got five
guys — that can play those
three perimeter spots, and
they’re all going to have their
opportunities. Some nights it’s
going to be KT. Some nights it’s
going to be someone else. And
it’s just going to be the ability to
play and be ready when you’re
called upon.”
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thetic at times.”
l TEXAS 79, VIRGINIA 53:
Sophomore Chassidy Fussell
scored 30 points as the No. 24
Longhorns breezed past the No.
22 Cavaliers in the Waikiki
Beach tournament. Texas (3-1)
rolled to a 43-25 halftime lead
after it led by 26 in the first half.
Senior Ariana Moorer led Vir-
ginia (4-1) with 17 points.
l AMERICAN 55, AUSTIN
PEAY 54: Sophomore Alexis
Dobbs scored 15 points for the
Eagles (4-2) in the Cal Poly tour-
nament. Senior Jasmine Rayner
scored 12 points as a reserve for
the Lady Govs (2-2).
l ST. MARY’S 60, VIRGINIA
TECH 47: The host Gaels (3-2)
led by 22 in the second half, then
held on against the Hokies (2-3)
in the semifinals of the St. Mary’s
tournament. Sophomore Monet
Tellier had a game-high 23
points for the Hokies.
Navy men fall at Albany
Gerardo Suero scored 21
points and Logan Aronhalt add-
ed 18 to help Albany beat visit-
ing Navy, 69-62.
Albany (3-3) held a 37-30 lead
with more than 18 minutes re-
maining in the second half. But
the Great Danes went on a 22-9
run to take a 59-39 lead with
9:43 left to play. During the run,
Aronhalt hit two three-pointers
and made two free throws.
Suero’s jumper capped the
run and his two free throws with
4:11 remaining in the game end-
ed a 9-1 run for the Midshipmen.
Navy (2-4) fought back, narrow-
ing the lead to 62-58, but Suero
made six free throws in the final
2 minutes and accounted for
Albany’s final 12 points.
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Maryland’s C.J. Brown has 497 yards rushing for the season, a school record for a quarterback. Quarterback Michael Rocco has been at the forefront of Virginia’s resurgence over the past month.

Maryland at North Carolina State No. 24 Virginia vs. No. 6 Virginia Tech
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Records: Terrapins 2-9, 1-6 ACC; Wolfpack 6-5, 3-4. Records: Cavaliers 8-3, 5-2 ACC; Hokies 10-1, 6-1.
TERPS LIMP INTO FINALE were returned for touchdowns. The one constant LOGAN THOMAS VS. MICHAEL ROCCO 870 rushing yards and 41 catches this year, and has
Don’t expect C.J. Brown to be hesitant to run has been lineman Joe Vellano, who leads the The two Lynchburg, Va., quarterbacks never become Rocco's security blanket. Last week,
even though he is Maryland’s lone healthy nation in tackles by a lineman (7.8 per game). faced each other in high school, which puts their Florida State held Jones to just 14 yards rushing,
scholarship quarterback. With 110 yards rushing Injuries have continued to take a toll on a defense battle Saturday in an even bigger spotlight. but it became a moot point when he caught nine
last week against Wake Forest, Brown raised his that has used a different starting lineup in every Thomas has become the Hokies’ most valuable passes for 62 yards and a touchdown. The
season total to 497, a school single-season record game. Linebacker Alex Twine could miss his offensive weapon of late with 20 total touchdowns Cavaliers also have capable backups in freshmen
for a quarterback. Wide receiver Ronnie Tyler did second straight game with an undisclosed injury. and just two interceptions since Virginia Tech’s Kevin Parks and Clifton Richardson to provide a
not make the trip because of academic issues. Maryland’s defense has been one of the nation’s only loss of the year against Clemson. Rocco, change of pace.
Wide receiver Kevin Dorsey is questionable with worst (115th) against the run, but N.C. State has meantime, has been at the forefront of the
an undisclosed injury. And center Bennett Fulper struggled to run the ball, ranking 109th. Cavaliers’ resurgence over the past month, RED ZONE IS KEY
will miss his second straight game with a extending plays with his feet and avoiding For all the prolific numbers Virginia Tech’s
hamstring injury. The Wolfpack defense is tied for PENALTIES FLAGGING? turnovers since Coach Mike London decided to offensive stars have put up this year, the Hokies
eighth nationally in sacks per game and leads the After setting a school record for penalties (102) abandon the two-quarterback system he used are No. 99 in the country in red zone offense, with
ACC in turnovers gained (31). No team in the last season, Maryland is tied for fourth nationally earlier in the year. just 31 touchdowns in 57 trips inside an opponent’s
nation has more interceptions, and cornerback in fewest penalties per game. But the Terrapins 20-yard line. Virginia’s defense, on the other hand,
David Amerson leads the nation with 11 will need more than disciplined, heady play to CAVS’ BACKFIELD BLISS ranks fifth in the country (teams have scored
interceptions. snap their seven-game losing streak. N.C. State, a Virginia running back Perry Jones is the most touchdowns just 46 percent of the time in the red
capable yet erratic team, is trying to be the fourth dynamic part of the Cavaliers’ offense, Hokies zone). Virginia Tech’s defense isn’t far behind,
REASONS FOR HOPE ACC team — Georgia Tech, Virginia and Wake defensive coordinator Bud Foster said this week, ranking No. 9 in terms of red zone defense, so the
As bad as Maryland’s defense has been, there Forest the others — to become bowl eligible and he’s counting on linebackers Jack Tyler and team that can break through those trends will
have been some positives. The unit is tied for 23rd against the Terrapins. Tariq Edwards to makes Jones’s life difficult likely come out on top.
nationally with 23 takeaways, including three that — Eric Prisbell Saturday. The 5-foot-8 tailback leads Virginia with — Mark Giannotto

TODAY’S TV GAMES

NOON AFTERNOON NIGHT

Noon No. 25 Georgia Tech vs. No. 13 Georgia » ESPN
Noon Connecticut vs. Rutgers » ESPN2
Noon No. 17 Michigan vs. Ohio State » WJLA-7, WMAR-2
Noon No. 12 Oklahoma vs. Iowa State » FX
Noon Northwestern vs. No. 11 Michigan State » Big Ten Network
Noon Syracuse vs. Cincinnati » MASN
Noon Southern Methodist vs. Rice » Comcast SportsNet
12:20 Kentucky vs. Tennessee » pay-per-view
12:30 North Carolina State vs. Maryland » WTTG-5, WJZ-13
12:30 Western Kentucky vs. Troy » pay-per-view
The biggest reason for Michigan’s turnaround this season under
first-year Coach Brady Hoke has been its defense, which was
something of a tragicomedy under former coach Rich Rodriguez
and defensive coordinator Greg Robinson. After allowing 35.2
points per game last season, the Wolverines are sixth nationally in
that category this season (15.6 points per game).
“I think that players understand that after a while that my job is
to tackle the football,” defensive coordinator Greg Mattison told the
Detroit Free Press this week.
So there you have it: Because they finally were reminded that
tackling is at least somewhat crucial to winning football games, the
Wolverines have been pretty stout.
Now Michigan hosts Ohio State, which has outscored the
Wolverines, 100-24, in the past three meetings but enters Saturday’s
game averaging only 24.3 points (tied for 84th nationally) and 315
yards (108th) per game. . . .
Entering Friday, five of the eight Big East teams (double-
checking: yes, still eight teams as of 1:48 p.m. Friday) had two
conference losses, meaning the race to a wholly undeserved BCS
bowl berth is still up for grabs (Louisville clinched at least a share of
the title with a win over South Florida on Friday afternoon). Two of
those teams — Rutgers, which travels to Connecticut; and
Cincinnati, which visits Syracuse — play in the early going.
*Check with your cable or satellite provider; the Big Ten Network televises multiple games in the same time slot, but not all cable and satellite providers air all of them.
2 Utah State vs. Nevada » pay-per-view
3:30 Auburn vs. No. 2 Alabama » WUSA-9, WJZ-13
3:30 No. 24 Virginia vs. No. 6 Virginia Tech » WJLA-7, WMAR-2
3:30 No. 9 Oregon vs. Oregon State » ESPN2
3:30 No. 15 Wisconsin vs. No. 20 Penn State » ESPN
3:30 Indiana vs. Purdue » Big Ten Network*
3:30 Minnesota vs. Illinois » Big Ten Network*
3:30 Wake Forest vs. Vanderbilt » ESPNU
3:30 North Carolina vs. Duke » Comcast SportsNet
3:30 Marshall vs. East Carolina » CBS Sports Network
4 Louisiana Tech vs. New Mexico State » MASN
For the fourth straight season, the Auburn-Alabama game has
BCS title game implications, as the Crimson Tide can remain in the
hunt for a spot in the championship race with an Iron Bowl win.
Last year, it was Auburn that had high hopes that were bolstered in
a 28-27 win after the Tigers came back from 24-0 down.
It’s a rivalry so silly that an Alabama fan is awaiting trial on
felony charges after he allegedly poisoned a few trees in Auburn’s
sainted Toomer’s Corner.
Also silly: Over its last 11 games against FBS opponents, Alabama
has allowed only 42.8 rushing yards per game, 471 total rushing
yards and two rushing touchdowns. Auburn running back Michael
Dyer, who has an SEC-best 2,287 rushing yards over the last two
years, might struggle. . . .
Two spots in conference title games are up for grabs, as plucky
Virginia hosts Virginia Tech with the ACC Coastal Division on the
line and Wisconsin hosts Penn State to see who represents the Big
Ten Leaders Division in the inaugural conference title game.
Badgers junior running back Montee Ball, who should be getting
more Heisman consideration than he has, leads the nation with 30
touchdowns and has scored at least two touchdowns in every game
this season, but the Nittany Lions are third in the nation in scoring
defense (allowing 13 points per game)
7 Florida vs. Florida State » ESPN2
7 Mississippi State vs. Mississippi » ESPNU
7:30 Washington vs. Washington State » Versus
7:45 No. 14 South Carolina vs. No. 18 Clemson » ESPN
8 No. 4 Stanford vs. No. 22 Notre Dame » WJLA-7, WMAR-2
10:30 No. 10 Southern Cal vs. UCLA » Comcast SportsNet (joined in progress)
11 Hawaii vs. Tulane » pay-per-view
The main portion of the regular season ends with a mess of
rivalry games, “mess” being the appropriate word when Mississippi
and Florida are involved. The 2-9 Rebels visit Mississippi State
for the Egg Bowl in the final game for Coach Houston Nutt, who
won’t be back next season. It got so bad for Ole Miss that LSU was
taking a knee with five minutes left in last week’s 52-3 de-pantsing.
Florida-Florida State would have been a great matchup if the
year was 1996, when Steve Spurrier was at his trolling best and
before Bobby Bowden started wearing that hat from the J.
Peterman catalogue. But alas, both teams enter the game unranked
for the first time since 1986. Florida State is coming off a baffling,
somewhat insane loss to Virginia, while Florida lost four in a row
earlier this season for the first time since 1988 and struggled
mightily with Furman (of the FCS Furmans) last weekend.
Hey, look, South Carolina-Clemson: ranked rivals playing each
other! Oh wait, the Tigers lost to middling North Carolina State last
weekend, and embarrassingly so (37-13, and it wasn’t that close).
Yuck.
So your game of the evening is Stanford-Notre Dame, as Andrew
Luck plays his final home game before heading off to lead a terrible
NFL team. He’ll also look to breathe some life into his somewhat
flagging Heisman hopes with a big-time performance on national
television.
— Matt Bonesteel

Terrapins are out to avoid second 10-loss season in three years

maryland from D1
rookie of the year, and a first-
team all-ACC performer in line-
backer Kenny Tate, from a team
that finished 9-4 in 2010.
Maryland’s 2009 team had to
replace 30 seniors from the team
that finished 8-5 with a victory in
the Humanitarian Bowl. Place
kicker Nick Ferrara said this
season has felt worse because the
team has worked harder this
season than it did in 2009. Line-
backer Demetrius Hartsfield said
the team “gave up” in just one
game this season, the 38-7 loss to
Temple on Sept. 24.
“When you invest a lot and
don’t win,” Edsall said, “it should
rip you apart.”
The 2009 team had several
near misses. It dropped a one-
point game to Middle Tennessee
State. There was a two-point loss
to Boston College, a three-point
loss at Florida State and a seven-
point loss at North Carolina
State.
And who could forget the four-
point loss at Duke, a game played
in a torrential downpour? Fried-
gen repeatedly said half-jokingly
in 2009 that it only rained when
Maryland was on offense.
This season, Maryland has lost
seven straight games, the last six
by double digits. A double-digit
loss Saturday would mark the
first time in school history that
the Terrapins have dropped sev-
en straight in one season by at
least 10 points.
“They are in a situation that
they have nothing to lose,” said
North Carolina State Coach Tom
O’Brien, whose team will become
bowl eligible with a win. “They
can play this game anyway they
want. This is their bowl game.”
In total, Maryland’s offense in
2009 was worse statistically than
the offense has been this season.
And, much like this season’s
defense, the 2009 bend-but-
don’t-break defense struggled
mightily.
There are other similarities. At
this point in 2009, opponents
had outscored Maryland by an
average score of 32.4 to 21.7. This
season, opponents have out-
scored the Terrapins 32.3 to 21.5.
The hallmark of both seasons:
injuries. In 2009, the offensive
line was decimated by injuries
and quarterback Chris Turner
had little time to operate in the
pocket. This season, aside from
O’Brien breaking his arm two
weeks ago against Notre Dame
and the season-ending injury
suffered by lineman Andrew
Gonnella, it has been the defense
that mostly has been ravaged by
injury.
In all, eight potential starters,
including the entire linebacking
unit, have been sidelined for at
least three games. The Terrapins
have lost 46 man-games among
potential defensive starters.
“Obviously injuries didn’t help
us at all, and a lot of different
depth changes on the defensive
side,” defensive lineman Joe Vel-
lano said.
For some players, the extent of
the struggles this season has
been hard to accept because of
how the season started, with a
nationally televised win over Mi-
ami on Labor Day night. The
offense moved the ball through-
out — although it struggled to
convert in the red zone — and the
defense proved opportunistic.
“First game was huge for the
‘buy-in’ factor,” Vellano said.
“And I thought we played well
against West Virginia, especially
in the second half. Self-inflicted
stuff has really been our down-
fall.”
After the Miami game, senior
wide receiver Ronnie Tyler said,
the Terrapins did not think they
would lose a game. As it turned
out, they head into their season
finale having not beaten another
Football Bowl Subdivision team
since that Labor Day victory.
Edsall said this adversity will
ultimately toughen the resolve of
players. Unfortunately, the veter-
ans have already been through it,
two years ago.
“No one wants to go out los-
ers,” Brown said. “We’re going to
have a losing record, it’s not the
season we wanted. But sending
the seniors out on top and maybe
busting [N.C. State’s] bowl eligi-
bility would definitely lighten
the mood a little bit.”
prisbelle@washpost.com
D6 EZ M2 KLMNO SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2011

COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD

ROUNDUP FOOTBALL

‘The Boot’ NFL

INJURY REPORT
SUNDAY’S GAMES
NCAA
Bowling Green 42, Buffalo 28
Temple 34, Kent St. 16
Boston College 24, Miami 17
NO. 1 LSU 41,
NO. 3 ARKANSAS 17
ARKANSAS .............................. 0 14 3 0 — 17

fits LSU, WASHINGTON REDSKINS

AT SEATTLE SEAHAWKS (-31/2), 4:05
Redskins: QUEST.: WR Niles Paul (toe), WR Donte’
Stallworth (foot). PROB.: T Jammal Brown (groin), LB
Louisville 34, South Florida 24
UCF 31, UTEP 14
N. Illinois 18, E. Michigan 12
Toledo 45, Ball St. 28
LSU ........................................... 0 21
Ark: J.Wright 13 pass fr. Wilson (Hocker), 14:54 second.
Ark: Highsmith 47 fumble return (Hocker), 12:11 second.
LSU: Hilliard 6 run (Alleman), 5:15 second.
LSU: Mathieu 92 punt return (Alleman), 3:24 second.
3 17 — 41

Mathieu
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Tyrann Mathieu channeled
his best Billy Cannon imitation
and top-ranked LSU was on its
way to another runaway victory
in the biggest game at Tiger
Stadium in a half-century.
Mathieu returned a punt 92
yards for a score and the Tigers
punished third-ranked Arkan-
sas with 286 yards rushing in a
41-17 victory on Friday.
“I could hear my teammates
in my ear saying, ‘Man, we need
you to go make a play,’ ” Mathieu
said. “I was able to help the
momentum really go in our
favor.”
LSU wiped out a 14-point
deficit and secured a spot in the
Southeastern Conference cham-
pionship game against Georgia.
Kenny Hilliard, Spencer Ware
and Jordan Jefferson all scored
on the ground for LSU (12-0, 8-0
SEC). The Tigers are 12-0 for the
first time in team history.
A win over the Bulldogs
would assure the Tigers their
third trip to the Bowl Champi-
onship Series title game in nine
seasons. Though at this point,
LSU might be able to get there
even if it loses.
Arkansas took a surprising
14-0 lead on Tyler Wilson’s
touchdown pass to Jarius
Wright and Alonzo Highsmith’s
47-yard fumble return.
LSU stormed back by scoring
41 of the next 44 points.
The rivalry game known as
the battle for “The Boot,” a
trophy in the shape of Arkansas
and Louisiana, marked the first
time two teams ranked in the
top three had met in Death
Valley since 1959, when Can-
non’s 89-yard punt return lifted
Top-ranked LSU shows off “The Boot” trophy following its win
over No. 3 Arkansas. The Tigers are 12-0 for the first time.
No. 1 LSU to a 7-3 win over No. 3
Mississippi.
Cannon also made a game-
sealing tackle on defense late in
that game. Mathieu, who was
playing safety instead of corner-
back much of the game because
of Eric Reid’s injury the previous
week, had defensive highlights
of his own. He forced two fum-
bles, one of which he recovered.
His strip of running back
Dennis Johnson in LSU territo-
ry late in the first half set up a
touchdown drive that put the
Tigers ahead to stay.
l NEBRASKA 20, IOWA 7:
Junior running back Rex Burk-
head started the week with his
right foot in a walking boot and
finished it by running for 160
yards and a touchdown on a
school-record 38 carries for the
22nd-ranked Huskers (9-3, 5-3
Big Ten).
“A little sore — definitely a
little sore,” Burkhead said after
the game. “It feels good. It was a
great win. To see the seniors go
out in that fashion. That’s the
best thing.”
Burkhead pounded away at
visiting Iowa’s defense four or
five yards at a time and looked
like his old self after being held
to a season-low 36 yards in last
week’s loss at Michigan.
After quarterback Taylor
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Martinez tweaked his left ankle
on a first-quarter run, offensive
coordinator Tim Beck told Burk-
head that he would be the main
man against the Hawkeyes (7-5,
4-4). Nebraska has nine or more
wins in each of Coach Bo Pelini’s
four seasons and for the 38th
time in 42 seasons. Hawkeyes
Coach Kirk Ferentz said Nebras-
ka never allowed his team to
establish an offensive rhythm.
“They played a game you
would script out if you were
them,” he said. “We weren’t up
to the challenge today.”
l HOUSTON 48, TULSA 16: A
tough schedule has given Gold-
en Hurricanes Coach Bill Blan-
kenship a good perspective on
whether the eighth-ranked Cou-
gars deserve a spot in the BCS.
“They have to go win a confer-
ence championship, but they
are well deserving of a BCS
bowl,” Blankenship said. “We
were playing pretty good com-
ing in here and they shut us
down pretty well.”
Tulsa (8-4, 7-1 Conference
USA) has lost to four teams
ranked in the top 10 at the time.
For the visiting Cougars (12-0,
8-0), senior Case Keenum threw
for 457 yards and five touch-
downs and Patrick Edwards fin-
ished with 181 yards receiving
and four scores.
London Fletcher (ankle), LB Keyaron Fox (infection), S W. Michigan 68, Akron 19
Colorado 17, Utah 14 LSU: Shepard 9 pass fr. Jefferson (Alleman), :59 second.
DeJon Gomes (knee), G Maurice Hurt (knee), S LaRon Ark: FG Hocker 29, 7:42 third.
Landry (Achilles), T Sean Locklear (ankle), WR Santana LSU: FG Alleman 21, 2:14 third.
Moss (hand), T Trent Williams (knee), CB Josh Wilson LSU: Ware 7 run (Alleman), 11:04 fourth.
(hamstring). Seahawks: QUEST.: DT Alan Branch (an- NO. 8 HOUSTON 48, LSU: Jefferson 48 run (Alleman), 10:09 fourth.
kle), CB Byron Maxwell (ankle). PROB.: S Atari Bigby TULSA 16 LSU: FG Alleman 37, 5:08 fourth.
(hamstring), DE Anthony Hargrove (hamstring), QB A: 93,108.
Tarvaris Jackson (pectoral), WR Ben Obomanu (knee,
HOUSTON ................................ 6 7 14 21 — 48 ARKANSAS LSU
ankle), WR Sidney Rice (knee).
TULSA .................................... 10 0 6 0 — 16 First Downs .......................................... 11 26
CLEVELAND BROWNS TU: Carter 11 pass fr. Kinne (Fitzpatrick), 9:16 first. Return Yards ........................................... 0 115
AT CINCINNATI BENGALS (-7), 1 HU: Edwards 5 pass fr. Keenum (kick blocked), 6:39 Punts-Avg. ..................................... 5-50.4 2-42.0
Browns: OUT: LB Quinton Spears (hamstring), S T.J.
Ward (foot, finger). QUEST.: RB Montario Hardesty
first.
TU: FG Fitzpatrick 52, 1:14 first.
Fumbles-Lost ...................................... 4-2 3-1
Penalties-Yards ................................ 5-36 6-34
(calf), RB Peyton Hillis (hamstring), RB Owen Marecic HU: C.Sims 20 pass fr. Keenum (M.Hogan), 4:13 sec- Time Of Possession ......................... 22:51 37:09
(head), DE Jayme Mitchell (ankle), T Tony Pashos ond.
(ankle), DT Brian Schaefering (ankle). PROB.: LB Auston HU: Edwards 33 pass fr. Keenum (M.Hogan), 12:08 RUSHING
English (knee), T Shawn Lauvao (knee), QB Colt McCoy
(right shoulder), DE Jabaal Sheard (thigh), DE Emmanu-
third. Ark: Johnson 10-31, B.Green 5-23, Wingo 4-16,
TU: FG Fitzpatrick 36, 8:06 third. Bran.Mitchell 1-(minus 6), Wilson 8-(minus 17). LSU:
el Stephens (foot), TE Benjamin Watson (elbow). TU: FG Fitzpatrick 51, 7:02 third. Hilliard 19-102, Ford 11-96, Jefferson 7-53, Ware 8-37.
Bengals: DOUBT.: DE Carlos Dunlap (hamstring), TE
Donald Lee (foot). PROB.: CB Nate Clements (knee), S
HU: Edwards 38 pass fr. Keenum (M.Hogan), 1:23 third.
HU: Hayes 1 run (M.Hogan), 11:17 fourth. PASSING
Chris Crocker (knee), QB Andy Dalton (right shoulder), HU: J.Johnson 8 pass fr. Keenum (M.Hogan), 7:16 Ark: Wilson 14-22-1-207. LSU: Jefferson 18-29-1-208.
CB Brandon Ghee (groin), WR A.J. Green (knee), DE fourth.
Michael Johnson (shoulder), CB Adam Jones (groin), LB HU: Edwards 14 pass fr. Turner (M.Hogan), 6:18 fourth.
RECEIVING
Ark: Childs 3-40, Adams 3-35, Hamilton 2-75, Gragg
Dontay Moch (not injury related), DT D. Peko (foot), LB
Vincent Rey (hamstring), T A. Whitworth (thigh).
A: 29,015. 2-35, J.Wright 2-27, Johnson 2-(minus 5). LSU: R.Randle
HOUSTON TULSA 9-134, Beckham 3-27, Shepard 2-13, Peterson 2-9, Boone
BUFFALO BILLS AT NEW YORK JETS (-9), 1 First Downs ......................................... 24 18 1-17, Ware 1-8.
Bills: OUT: K Rian Lindell (shoulder), WR Naaman
Roosevelt (shoulder), S George Wilson (neck). PROB.: T
Return Yards ........................................ 48 0
Punts-Avg. ..................................... 6-36.0 6-46.5
Demetrius Bell (shoulder), WR Stevie Johnson (shoul- Fumbles-Lost ...................................... 1-1 2-1
der), WR David Nelson (illness). Jets: QUEST.: WR NO. 22 NEBRASKA 20,
Jeremy Kerley (knee), RB LaDainian Tomlinson (knee).
Penalties-Yards ................................ 7-50
Time Of Possession ........................ 29:50
2-9
30:10 IOWA 7
PROB.: DE Mike DeVito (knee), DT Marcus Dixon
(shoulder), DT Kenrick Ellis (ankle), T D’Brickashaw RUSHING IOWA ....................................... 0 0 0 7— 7
Ferguson (ankle), RB Shonn Greene (rib), LB David HU: C.Sims 12-48, Hayes 12-36, Welford 4-12, Turner NEBRASKA .............................. 0 10 3 7 — 20
Harris (groin), T Wayne Hunter (hamstring), C Nick
Mangold (ankle), TE Matthew Mulligan (hip), LB Calvin
2-(minus 1), Keenum 3-(minus 11). TU: Watts 16-62,
Douglas 8-48, Kinne 13-44, A.Singleton 4-6, Carter 1-1.
Neb: FG Maher 40, 11:22 second.
Neb: Reed 6 pass from Martinez (Maher), :32 second.
Pace (groin), S Brodney Pool (knee), RB Bilal Powell
PASSING Neb: FG Maher 21, 4:42 third.
(illness), QB M. Sanchez (neck), G Matt Slauson (knee).
HU: Keenum 33-46-0-457, Turner 2-2-0-17. TU: Kinne Neb: Burkhead 2 run (Maher), 11:25 fourth.
Iowa: Coker 2 run (Meyer), 3:26 fourth.
ARIZONA CARDINALS AT ST. LOUIS RAMS (-3), 1
Cardinals: OUT: LB Joey Porter (knee), S Kerry Rhodes
19-38-2-176.
A: 85,595.
(foot). QUEST.: CB Michael Adams (hamstring), TE Todd RECEIVING IOWA NEBRASKA
Heap (hamstring), TE Rob Housler (groin), T Brandon HU: Carrier 9-68, Edwards 8-181, J.Johnson 7-106, First Downs ......................................... 18 25
Keith (head), QB Kevin Kolb (toe). PROB.: DT Darnell C.Sims 4-51, Hayes 4-44, E.Smith 1-16, Beall 1-5, Wel- Return Yards ........................................ 18 1
Dockett (groin), LB Paris Lenon (groin), RB LaRod ford 1-3. TU: James 4-43, Carter 4-42, Watts 4-24,
Stephens-Howling (shoulder), RB Beanie Wells (knee). Sears 3-33, Burnham 3-30, Douglas 1-4.
Punts-Avg. ..................................... 7-41.1
Fumbles-Lost ...................................... 1-1
7-41.9
2-0
Rams: OUT: DT Justin Bannan (shoulder), LB Josh Hull
(hamstring). QUEST.: WR Danario Alexander (ham-
Penalties-Yards ................................ 5-50 9-74
Time Of Possession ........................ 22:13 37:47
string), LB James Laurinaitis (foot), DE Chris Long TEXAS 27, TEXAS A&M 25
(ankle), RB Carnell Williams (calf). PROB.: TE Lance RUSHING
Kendricks (head), CB Justin King (knee), WR Austin Late Thursday I: Coker 18-87, Vandenberg 4-4, McNutt 1-0, Team
Pettis (knee). 1-(minus 3). Neb: Burkhead 38-160, Abdullah 12-35,
TEXAS ...................................... 0 7 17 3 — 27 Martinez 4-20, Legate 1-5, Aa.Green 2-3, Marlowe 2-3.
HOUSTON TEXANS (-61/2)
AT JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS, 1 TEXAS A&M ........................... 10 6 0 9 — 25 PASSING
Texans: DOUBT.: TE Garrett Graham (hamstring). TAM: Malena 7 pass from Tannehill (Bullock), 11:31 I: Vandenberg 16-35-1-182. Neb: Martinez 12-22-0-163.
QUEST.: DE Tim Bulman (calf), RB Lawrence Vickers first.
(hamstring). PROB.: LB Mister Alexander (shoulders), TAM: FG Bullock 49, 5:40 first. RECEIVING
CB Jason Allen (knee), LB Bryan Braman (thigh), RB TAM: FG Bullock 52, 10:50 second. I: K.Davis 4-41, McNutt 4-29, Fiedorowicz 3-41, Coker
James Casey (chest), TE Owen Daniels (knee), LB Tim Tex: Irby 41 pass from Shipley (Tucker), 9:10 second. 3-39, Herman 1-22, Martin-Manley 1-10. Neb: K.Bell 5-
Dobbins (hamstring), WR Andre Johnson (hamstring), S TAM: FG Bullock 29, 4:18 second. 93, Enunwa 3-41, Kinnie 2-11, Burkhead 1-12, Reed 1-6.
Danieal Manning (ankle), NT Earl Mitchell (ankle), LB
Jesse Nading (shoulder, hip), LB DeMeco Ryans (shoul-
Tex: Byndom 58 int. return (Tucker), 11:06 third.
Tex: FG Tucker 23, 7:44 third.
der), DE Antonio Smith (shoulder). Jaguars: OUT: DT Tex: C.Johnson 1 run (Tucker), 4:04 third.
WEST VIRGINIA 21,
Terrance Knighton (ankle), DE Matt Roth (concussion). TAM: FG Bullock 32, 5:56 fourth.
QUEST.: DE Aaron Kampman (hamstring). PROB.: RB TAM: Fuller 16 pass from Tannehill (pass fail), 1:48 PITTSBURGH 20
Brock Bolen (calf), DE John Chick (abdomen), WR Brian fourth.
Tex: FG Tucker 40, :00 fourth.
Robiskie (hamstring), WR Cecil Shorts (hamstring), T PITTSBURGH ......................... 14 3 3 0 — 20
Guy Whimper (thigh). A: 88,645. WEST VIRGINIA ...................... 0 7 7 7 — 21
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS TEXAS TEXAS A&M Pitt: Z.Brown 1 run (Harper), 9:05 first.
AT TENNESSEE TITANS (-31/2), 1 First Downs ......................................... 12 22 Pitt: Bennett 6 run (Harper), 2:14 first.
Buccaneers: DOUBT.: DE Michael Bennett (groin). Return Yards ...................................... 153 55 WVU: Bailey 63 pass fr. G.Smith (Bitancurt), 7:31 sec.
QUEST.: LB Adam Hayward (foot), S Tanard Jackson
(hamstring), LB Dekoda Watson (groin). PROB.: DT
Punts-Avg. ................................... 11-34.5
Fumbles-Lost ...................................... 1-1
8-41.9
1-1
Pitt: FG Harper 30, 2:53 second.
Pitt: FG Harper 27, 11:29 third.
Albert Haynesworth (knee), DT Brian Price (forearm), T Penalties-Yards .............................. 10-70 10-117 WVU: Alston 8 run (Bitancurt), 8:59 third.
Jeremy Trueblood (knee). Titans: OUT: LB Barrett Ruud Time Of Possession ........................ 30:52 29:08 WVU: Alston 1 run (Bitancurt), 6:10 fourth.
(groin). QUEST.: DE Karl Klug (knee), LB Colin McCarthy A: 60,932 fourth.
(knee), DE Derrick Morgan (ankle), T Michael Roos RUSHING
PITTSBURGH WEST VIRGINIA
(groin), T David Stewart (calf). PROB.: G Eugene Amano UT: Brown 17-39, McCoy 7-25, C.Johnson 6-9, Goodwin First Downs ................................... 17 16
(hip), K Rob Bironas (back), QB Matt Hasselbeck (right 2-6, Hills 1-3, Monroe 2-3, Ash 2-1. UT A&M: Malena Return Yards ................................. 15 23
25-83, Tannehill 8-21.
elbow). Punts-Avg. ............................ 10-42.8 8-46.0
CAROLINA PANTHERS (-3) PASSING Fumbles-Lost ............................... 1-0 3-3
AT INDIANAPOLIS COLTS, 1 UT: McCoy 16-27-0-110, Shipley 1-1-0-41, Onyegbule 0- Penalties-Yards ......................... 9-60 4-20
Panthers: DOUBT.: LB Omar Gaither (knee). QUEST.: WR 1-1-0. UT A&M: Tannehill 20-49-3-224. Time Of Possession ................. 36:27 23:33
Legedu Naanee (ankle), LB Jason Phillips (calf). PROB.:
LB James Anderson (ankle), LB Dan Connor (shoulder), RECEIVING RUSHING
DE Charles Johnson (shoulder). Colts: OUT: TE Dallas UT: Goodwin 8-60, Shipley 3-34, Irby 2-44, Davis 1-7, PIT: Bennett 16-69, Z.Brown 15-67, Schlieper 0-18,
Clark (fibula), QB Peyton Manning (neck). DOUBT.: T Joe Onyegbule 1-4, Hills 1-3, Brown 1-(minus 1). UT A&M: C.Davis 2-11, Jones 3-1, Sunseri 22-(minus 7). WVU:
Reitz (knee). QUEST.: RB Joseph Addai (hamstring), S Fuller 7-107, Malena 4-16, R.Swope 3-33, Branda.Jack- Garrison 11-55, Alston 11-34, Austin 1-19, G.Smith 7-5.

Virginia looks for a big gain

virginia from D1
host No. 6 Virginia Tech, an
in-state rival the Cavaliers have
not conquered since 2003. The
winner will have run the figura-
tive table and thus advance to
face 18th-ranked Clemson in
next Saturday’s ACC champion-
ship game.
When asked what he would
have said had he been told two
years ago that Virginia would be
on the brink of playing for a
conference title in 2011, Chris
Slade, a former Cavaliers line-
backer and current sideline re-
porter for the program’s radio
broadcasts, responded: “You’re
crazy. You’re on drugs. You been
drinking too much. I never in a
million years would have
thought that.”
But this fall — London’s sec-
ond at the helm — the Cavaliers
(8-3, 5-2 ACC) have rewritten a
script laid out not only by their
coach, but by nearly every ratio-
nal follower of the program.
Slade said he figured Virginia
would go 7-5 at best this season.
The Cavaliers already have
snapped nearly every negative
trend associated with their pro-
gram at the season’s outset. They
won consecutive ACC games for
the first time since 2008. They
won in November for the first
time in four years. They defeat-
ed Florida State in Tallahassee
for the first time ever. They are
bowl-eligible. They remain in
the hunt for a Bowl Champion-
ship Series bid on the final
Saturday of the regular season.
Said Virginia Athletic Direc-
tor Craig Littlepage, “Honestly, I
would not have been able to
make that prediction” in Au-
gust.
Closing the gap?
When London took over in
December 2009, many observ-
ers figured Virginia would be
able to revitalize its standing in
recruiting circles and compete
with Virginia Tech for the state’s
top high school talent in short
order. That London and his as-
sistants have done so has not
been a surprise.
But a win Saturday over the
Hokies (10-1, 6-1) — who have
won 11 of their past 12 meetings
against Virginia — would be
astonishing, primarily because
of the wide range of ramifica-
tions.
According to Richard Mor-
gan, the football coach at Oscar
Smith High in Chesapeake, Va.,
a Virginia triumph over Virginia
Tech would enable the Cavaliers
to craft a new message to re-
cruits: “See, we have closed the
gap. We’re the same as Tech
now.”
Conversely, Morgan said, “if
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Mike London has his upstart
Cavaliers one win from the
ACC championship game.
Virginia Tech wins the game,
they’re going to say: ‘There’s still
a difference between us, guys.
Come to Virginia Tech and play
for the [ACC] championship.’ ”
Beyond recruiting, a Virginia
win on Saturday would further
its efforts to reverse the prevail-
ing notion that it has been irrel-
evant in recent years. Cavaliers
wide receivers coach Shawn
Moore described the game in
terms of the possibility of a
“program-changing victory.”
One reason the Hokies say
they are taking Virginia more
seriously this year is the recent
play of Virginia sophomore
quarterback Michael Rocco,
who has thrown seven touch-
downs and one interception
since being handed the full reins
of the offense in late October.
“I’m just going off the past
games that we won and knowing
that every year they come after
us and we come out on top,”
Virginia Tech senior safety Ed-
die Whitley said. “It is different
this year for their team because
in past years they didn’t really
have a quarterback that was that
good, but this year they have a
quarterback that is playing real
good right now, is hot and is real
confident.”
Virginia wide receiver Kris
Burd said he and the 11 other
fifth-year seniors on Virginia’s
roster talk often about their
class’s legacy and the degree to
which Saturday’s game will ce-
ment it.
“To get us to an ACC champi-
onship game and just go out
there and beat Tech, that’s some-
thing that hasn’t been done
around here in a long time,”
Burd said. “It will be something
that will be remembered and be
just an echoing part of history.”
Even through a narrow-angle
lens, defeating the Hokies would
be significant for London and
his fast-rising program. Under
longtime Coach Frank Beamer,
Virginia Tech has developed
into a perennial national title
contender. Since joining the
ACC in 2004, the Hokies have
won four conference titles and
have dominated the Cavaliers
on the field. They are the stan-
dard by which everything foot-
ball in the state of Virginia is
measured.
So the Cavaliers’ win over
then-No. 12 Georgia Tech was
nice, and their victories at Mi-
ami and at Florida State were
impressive, as well.
But, as Morgan said: “For
Coach London and his staff, [the
Virginia Tech game] is an oppor-
tunity to really put a stamp on
and solidify: ‘We’ve made it.
We’ve arrived. Now let’s go even
to the next level.’ ”
Steady upward progress
Many observers feel there is a
measure of legitimacy to Vir-
ginia’s numerous accomplish-
ments this season, something
that will be driven home should
the Cavaliers upset Virginia
Tech.
“The win over Florida State
made people go, ‘Wow, they’re
actually having a surprisingly
good year,’ ” said ESPN college
football analyst Rod Gilmore,
who will call Saturday’s Com-
monwealth Cup. “If they beat
Virginia Tech, that’s the tipping
point where folks will go: ‘Wow,
[London] has really done a great
job. He beat Florida State, Mi-
ami, Georgia Tech and Virginia
Tech with a team that was 4-8
last season?’ He’s in line to get a
lot of coach of the year awards if
that happens.”
That’s not to say the efforts of
London, his staff and his players
will be disregarded should Vir-
ginia not prevail against the
Hokies. Scott Stadium is sold
out for the first time in two
years, and those fans will watch
two ranked in-state Football
Bowl Subdivision programs
square off, the first time that’s
been the case since 2007.
Publicly, London has avoided
explicitly stating whether Vir-
ginia’s on-field product has de-
veloped at a faster rate than he
had anticipated. All he’ll allow is
that he’s “pleased.”
“What you see as a coach
when you watch is guys execut-
ing the game plan, and you see
that confidence that’s kind of
exuding from them,” London
said Monday. “It’s a great thing
to see that the maturity part
starts to catch up to the execu-
tion part. Because sometimes it
hasn’t always been that way.”
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Yanda reported from Charlottesville.
Giannotto reported from
Blacksburg, Va.
Stevie Brown (hamstring), TE Brody Eldridge (hand), son 2-35, Nwachukwu 2-23, Hicks 1-5, Lamothe 1-5. PASSING
WR Anthony Gonzalez (groin), CB Terrence Johnson PIT: Sunseri 12-23-1-137. WVU: G.Smith 22-31-0-244.
(ankle), LB Adrian Moten (not injury related), DT Drake
Nevis (back). RECEIVING
COLLEGES PIT: Street 4-50, Bennett 2-23, Shanahan 2-18, Jones
MINNESOTA VIKINGS AT ATLANTA FALCONS (-91/2), 1
Vikings: OUT: S Husain Abdullah (concussion), CB Chris 1-22, H.Graham 1-14, C.Davis 1-6, Z.Brown 1-4. WVU:
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL Austin 10-102, Urban 4-41, Bailey 3-80, McCartney 3-5,
Cook (not injury related), G Anthony Herrera (knee).
DOUBT.: RB Adrian Peterson (ankle), TE Kyle Rudolph Va. Tech def. Virginia 25-20, 25-22, 21-25, 19-25, 15-9 De.Brown 1-9, Garrison 1-7.
(quadriceps). QUEST.: WR Percy Harvin (ribs), TE
Visanthe Shiancoe (hamstring). PROB.: DT Christian
Ballard (hamstring), LB Erin Henderson (hamstring), T BASKETBALL
Charlie Johnson (Achilles), QB Christian Ponder (knee),
S Jamarca Sanford (hamstring). Falcons: OUT: CB Kelvin
Hayden (toe). QUEST.: T Sam Baker (back), CB Brent NCAA MEN MARYLAND 73,
Grimes (knee), DT Vance Walker (groin). PROB.: DE John FLORIDA GULF COAST 67
Abraham (not injury related), G Justin Blalock (ankle), AREA
Cal Poly 62, Morgan St. 61
TE Tony Gonzalez (not injury related), WR Julio Jones
(hamstring), LB Curtis Lofton (ankle), C Todd McClure James Madison 86, Rider 69 Florida Gulf Coast (2-4) Fieler 2-7 0-0 4, Cantinol 1-4 0-2
(not injury related), S William Moore (quadriceps), DT Louisiana Tech 73, Md.-Eastern Shore 54 2, Comer 7-12 2-4 16, Varidel 2-4 0-0 5, Brown 4-10 3-4
11, Holmes 3-9 2-4 8, Thompson 3-7 6-9 12, Cvjeticanin
Corey Peters (knee). UDC 83, Flagler College 70
Fresh Coast Classic -- semifinal 1-7 0-0 3, Murray 3-3 0-0 6. Totals 26-63 13-23 67.
CHICAGO BEARS AT OAKLAND RAIDERS (-4), 4:05 Maryland (3-2) Mosley 3-6 0-0 6, Padgett 4-5 3-4 11,
Bears: OUT: QB Jay Cutler (right thumb). DOUBT.: CB
Bowie State 76, Cheyney 70
EAST Weijs 3-6 1-2 7, Faust 3-12 2-2 8, Stoglin 5-13 12-21 24,
D.J. Moore (ankle). PROB.: WR Devin Hester (shin), S
Brandon Meriweather (concussion). Raiders: OUT: QB
Bucknell 62, Princeton 56 Parker 1-1 2-5 5, Auslander 3-5 0-1 6, Thomas 1-1 0-0 3,
Pittsburgh 78, Penn 58 Pankey 0-3 3-4 3. Totals 23-52 23-39 73.
Jason Campbell (collarbone), WR Jacoby Ford (foot), RB Rhode Island 85, Hofstra 73 Halftime: Maryland 34-27. Three-point goals: Florida
Darren McFadden (foot), DE Jarvis Moss (hamstring).
QUEST.: WR Darrius Heyward-Bey (neck), DE Lamarr
Robert Morris 51, La Salle 44 Gulf Coast 2-19 (Varidel 1-1, Cvjeticanin 1-6, Thompson
0-1, Comer 0-1, Holmes 0-2, Brown 0-4, Fieler 0-4),
SOUTH
Houston (knee), S Michael Huff (ankle), CB Chris Clemson 59, Furman 49 Maryland 4-13 (Stoglin 2-7, Parker 1-1, Thomas 1-1,
Johnson (groin, hamstring), RB Taiwan Jones (ham- Mosley 0-1, Faust 0-3). Fouled out: Murray. Rebounds:
string), S Mike Mitchell (ankle), WR Denarius Moore
Florida 107, Jacksonville 62
Louisville 59, Ohio 54 Florida Gulf Coast 42 (Fieler 8), Maryland 37 (Mosley 7).
(foot), DT Richard Seymour (knee), RB Manase Tonga
(knee). PROB.: C Samson Satele (concussion).
Mississippi 64, Miami 61 (OT) Assists: Florida Gulf Coast 9 (Comer, Thompson 3),
Maryland 13 (Faust 4). Total fouls: Florida Gulf Coast 25,
Mississippi St. 76, UT-Martin 50
DENVER BRONCOS AT S.D. CHARGERS (-6), 4:15 NC State 82, Elon 67 Maryland 18. Technical foul: Thompson. A: 12,080.
Broncos: PROB.: S David Bruton (Achilles), S Brian
Dawkins (ankle), TE Daniel Fells (concussion), RB Willis
MIDWEST
BYU 76, Nevada 55
McGahee (hand), TE Julius Thomas (ankle), CB Cassius Longwood 70, Prairie View 67 NCAA WOMEN
Vaughn (hamstring). Chargers: OUT: DE Luis Castillo Marshall 73, Cincinnati 69 (OT)
(tibia), WR Malcom Floyd (hip), T Marcus McNeill Northwestern 63, Stony Brook 58 AREA
(neck). DOUBT.: G Tyronne Green (hand), G Louis Ohio St. 80, Valparaiso 47 American U. 55, Austin Peay 54
Vasquez (ankle). QUEST.: CB Marcus Gilchrist (ham- Wichita St. 68, UAB 46 Cal Poly Thanksgiving Invitational
string), LB Shaun Phillips (foot). PROB.: LB Bront Bird Wisconsin 66, Bradley 43 American 55, Austin Peay 54
(ankle), DE Jacques Cesaire (knee), TE Antonio Gates
(not injury related), RB Ryan Mathews (knee).
Xavier 70, Georgia 56
SOUTHWEST
EAST
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS (-31/2) Iowa St. 64, Providence 54
Army 71, Manhattanville 40
Florida 85, La Salle 74
FAR WEST
AT PHILADELPHIA EAGLES, 4:15
MVSU 90, Tennessee St. 89 (2OT)
LIU 81, Charlotte 72
Lafayette 66, Wagner 55
Patriots: OUT: LB Dane Fletcher (thumb), LB Brandon
Spikes (knee). QUEST.: WR Deion Branch (hip), S Patrick UNLV 66, Southern Cal 55 Niagara 61, Bucknell 55
Washington 88, Houston Baptist 65 Princeton 53, Davidson 44
Chung (foot), G Dan Connolly (groin), LB Gary Guyton
(shoulder), S James Ihedigbo (shoulder), T Matt Light 76 Classic — Semifinals UConn 74, Fairleigh Dickinson 28
(ankle), CB Devin McCourty (shoulder), WR Chad Boston College 66, UC Riverside 62, OT
Saint Louis 80, Villanova 68
SOUTH
Ochocinco (hamstring), WR Taylor Price (hamstring), Alabama 62, Seton Hall 56 (OT)
WR Matthew Slater (shoulder), T Sebastian Vollmer New Mexico 72, Washington St. 62 Florida Gulf Coast 81, Richmond 67
Battle 4 Atlantis — Semifinals
(back). PROB.: G Brian Waters (knee), WR Wes Welker
(knee). Eagles: OUT: T King Dunlap (concussion). Harvard 46, Florida St. 41
Kentucky 73, Sam Houston St. 52
Louisiana Tech 84, Old Dominion 71
DOUBT.: WR Jeremy Maclin (hamstring, shoulder). UCF 68, UConn 63 Louisville 85, Florida St. 76
QUEST.: CB Nnamdi Asomugha (knee), CB Dominique Consolation Bracket NC A&T 67, Siena 53
Rodgers-Cromartie (ankle), QB Michael Vick (ribs). Coll. of Charleston 68, UNC Asheville 66 Nebraska 72, Florida A&M 64
UMass 89, Utah 75
PROB.: WR DeSean Jackson (foot).
Dick's Sporting Goods NIT — Championship
Rutgers 59, Georgia Tech 40
Wake Forest 83, Jacksonville 54
PITTSBURGH STEELERS (-101/2) AT K.C. CHIEFS, 8:20
Steelers: QUEST.: WR Arnaz Battle (hamstring), LB
Syracuse 69, Stanford 63 MIDWEST
Third Place Cincinnati 51, Chattanooga 50
Stevenson Sylvester (calf), LB LaMarr Woodley (ham- Virginia Tech 59, Oklahoma St. 57 Dayton 94, Buffalo 74
string). PROB.: LB James Harrison (back), S Troy
Polamalu (ribs), QB Ben Roethlisberger (right thumb),
Old Spice Classic — Semifinals
Dayton 56, Fairfield 49
Kansas 90, Lamar 40
Marquette 71, Prairie View 51
WR Emmanuel Sanders (knee). Chiefs: OUT: G Ryan Lilja Minnesota 76, Indiana St. 69 Ohio St. 84, Stony Brook 37
(head). QUEST.: DE Glenn Dorsey (knee), S Jon McGraw Consolation Bracket
(shoulder), LB Demorrio Williams (groin). Arizona St. 84, Wake Forest 56
Stanford 80, Xavier 64
Toledo 69, Indiana 58
MONDAY’S GAME DePaul 76, Texas Tech 70 SOUTHWEST
Arkansas 69, Grambling St. 49
N.Y. GIANTS AT NEW ORLEANS SAINTS (-7), 8:30
Yale 80, Houston 62
Giants: OUT: T Will Beatty (eye, back). DNP: LB Michael VIRGINIA 68,
Boley (hamstring), RB Ahmad Bradshaw (foot), WR FAR WEST
GREEN BAY 42 Arizona St. 51, Illinois 50
Mario Manningham (knee), S Derrick Martin (ham-
string). LIMITED: T Kareem McKenzie (toe), DE Justin Michigan 69, Washington St. 39
Green Bay (2-4) Turner 0-2 2-2 2, Brown 3-10 3-3 9,
Tuck (ankle, shoulder), DE Osi Umenyiora (knee). FULL: Armstead 0-3 0-1 0, Baker 3-8 0-0 7, Sykes 3-6 5-6 11,
N. Colorado 71, Air Force 51
Oregon 89, UC Irvine 77
RB D.J. Ware (concussion). Saints: DNP: DE Turk
McBride (ankle). LIMITED: LB Jonathan Vilma (knee).
Johnson 4-6 0-0 9, Humphrey 0-0 0-0 0, Williams 2-6 0-0
4, Cerroni 0-2 0-0 0, Mays 0-2 0-0 0, Cougill 0-3 0-0 0,
Tulane 45, Idaho St. 37
Utah 64, Detroit 55
FULL: DE Cameron Jordan (hand). Heuer 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 15-50 10-12 42. TOURNAMENTS
Virginia (5-1) Scott 6-9 3-5 15, Sene 3-4 2-2 8, Evans 2-4
3-3 7, Harris 2-3 3-4 8, Zeglinski 1-4 0-0 2, Browman 0-0
Junkanoo Jam-Freeport — First Round
Duke 97, Gardner-Webb 31
STANDINGS 0-0 0, Vozenilek 0-1 1-2 1, Brogdon 0-3 2-2 2, Harrell 5-8 Notre Dame 80, Southern Cal 58
3-4 14, Ak. Mitchell 3-5 2-3 8, Rogers 0-2 0-0 0, Atkins Nugget Classic — First Round
NFC 1-1 0-0 2, Johnson 0-1 1-4 1. Totals 23-45 20-29 68. Nevada 71, Butler 69
EAST W L T PCT. PF PA Halftime: Virginia 33-23. Three-point goals: Green Bay
2-11 (Baker 1-1, Johnson 1-2, Cougill 0-1, Brown 0-1,
Penn St. 66, Iowa St. 59
Dallas .............................. 7 4 0 .636 270 225 Omni Hotels Classic — First Round
N.Y. Giants ...................... 6 4 0 .600 228 228 Sykes 0-1, Cerroni 0-1, Williams 0-1, Armstead 0-1, Colorado 60, Valparaiso 32
Heuer 0-2), Virginia 2-8 (Harris 1-1, Harrell 1-2, Brogdon
Philadelphia .................... 4
Washington .................... 3
6
7
0
0
.400
.300
237
160
213
205 0-1, Rogers 0-2, Zeglinski 0-2). Fouled out: None.
Wisconsin 71, Montana St. 61
Vanderbilt Tournament — First Round
Rebounds: Green Bay 26 (Williams 4), Virginia 37 (Scott Oklahoma 76, Liberty 45
SOUTH W L T PCT. PF PA
10). Assists: Green Bay 3 (Cougill 2), Virginia 11 (Evans
5). Total fouls: Green Bay 22, Virginia 18. A: 9,113.
Vanderbilt 81, Lipscomb 39
New Orleans ................... 7 3 0 .700 313 228 Woodland Hills Holiday Inn Classic — First Round
Atlanta ............................ 6 4 0 .600 235 213 West Virginia 63, UCLA 54
Tampa Bay ...................... 4
Carolina ........................... 2
6
8
0
0
.400
.200
182
225
268
286
VIRGINIA TECH 59,
OKLAHOMA ST. 57
NO. 8 MARYLAND 84, FIU 52
NORTH W L T PCT. PF PA Virginia Tech (4-1) Davila 1-5 0-0 2, Finney-Smith 2-8
Green Bay ..................... 11 0 0 1.000 382 227 4-8 10, Eddie 0-4 4-4 4, Hudson 2-13 3-4 7, Green 6-12 5-7 Maryland (6-0) Mincy 4-4 5-6 15, Barrett 1-1 1-2 3,
Chicago ........................... 7 3 0 .700 268 207 18, Brown 3-7 1-4 8, Raines 1-3 1-2 3, Garland 2-4 0-0 4, DeVaughn 3-4 1-2 7, Hawkins 6-6 1-2 13, Thomas 5-9 2-2
Detroit ............................ 7 4 0 .636 316 246 Barksdale 1-1 1-1 3. Totals 18-57 19-30 59. 12, Austin 0-0 0-0 0, Moseley 3-7 0-0 8, Townsend 1-1
Minnesota ....................... 2 8 0 .200 200 271 Oklahoma St. (3-2) Olukemi 6-11 1-3 13, Jurick 2-3 0-0 4, 0-0 2, Kizer 4-7 6-9 15, Rodgers 1-3 0-0 3, Bays 1-4 4-4 6.
Guerrero 1-5 1-3 3, Page 3-8 3-4 11, Brown 6-12 6-7 19,
Nash 0-3 0-0 0, B. Williams 0-1 1-2 1, Dowell 0-2 2-2 2,
Totals 29-46 20-27 84.
Fiu (2-3) Labady 1-3 1-2 3, Hutlassa 4-17 2-2 13, Coley
WEST
San Francisco .................. 9
W L
2
T
0
PCT.
.818
PF
262
PA
161
Cobbins 2-4 0-0 4. Totals 20-49 14-21 57. 8-21 7-9 24, Mansare 1-2 2-2 4, Miloglav 1-2 0-0 2,
Halftime: Virginia Tech 32-23. Three-point goals: Vir- Ashmore 1-3 0-0 2, Idom 2-8 0-0 4, Oritsesan 0-1 0-0 0,
Seattle ............................ 4 6 0 .400 168 209 ginia Tech 4-16 (Finney-Smith 2-4, Green 1-1, Brown Durant 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 18-57 12-15 52.
Arizona ........................... 3 7 0 .300 190 236
St. Louis .......................... 2 8 0 .200 120 247
1-3, Garland 0-1, Eddie 0-3, Hudson 0-4), Oklahoma St. Halftime: Maryland 44-30. Three-point goals: Maryland
6-10 (Mincy 2-2, Moseley 2-4, Kizer 1-1, Rodgers 1-3),
3-17 (Page 2-6, Brown 1-4, Olukemi 0-1, B. Williams 0-1,
Dowell 0-2, Guerrero 0-3). Fouled out: Davila, Olukemi. FIU 4-25 (Hutlassa 3-10, Coley 1-6, Miloglav 0-1, Labady
AFC 0-2, Idom 0-6). Fouled out: None. Rebounds: Maryland 35
Rebounds: Virginia Tech 45 (Finney-Smith 14), Okla-
homa St. 37 (Brown 10). Assists: Virginia Tech 7 (Brown, (Hawkins 9), FIU 23 (Hutlassa 7). Assists: Maryland 25
EAST W L T PCT. PF PA
New England ................... 7 3 0 .700 293 203 Davila, Eddie, Finney-Smith, Green, Hudson, Raines 1), (Barrett 10), FIU 9 (Coley 6). Total fouls: Maryland 15,
Oklahoma St. 9 (Brown, Dowell, Jurick, Page 2). Total FIU 15. A: 334.
N.Y. Jets ......................... 5 5 0 .500 228 217
fouls: Virginia Tech 20, Oklahoma St. 25. A: NA.
Buffalo ............................ 5 5 0 .500 237 253
Miami .............................. 3 8 0 .273 212 206
ALBANY (NY) 69, NAVY 62 NO. 24 TEXAS 79,
SOUTH W L T PCT. PF PA NO. 22 VIRGINIA 53
Houston .......................... 7 3 0 .700 273 166 Navy (2-4) Loupos 0-0 0-0 0, Avila 5-11 2-6 12, Brickman
3-7 0-0 8, Roberts 3-6 2-2 8, Sugars 3-11 6-7 14, Wyatt Texas (3-1) Anderson 1-5 0-0 2, Gayle 1-1 1-3 3, Fussell
Tennessee ....................... 5
Jacksonville .................... 3
5
7
0
0
.500
.300
203
125
195
180 0-0 0-0 0, Alter 0-2 2-2 2, Wynn 1-1 0-0 2, C. Smith 1-1 9-16 8-10 30, Fontenette 4-7 2-4 11, Reed 1-2 4-5 6,
Indianapolis .................... 0 10 0 .000 131 300 0-0 2, W. Smith 1-2 0-0 2, Jackson 5-9 0-0 12. Totals Enemkpali 1-1 2-2 4, Bass 2-3 2-3 6, Peoples 2-6 1-2 7,
22-50 12-17 62. Major 0-1 0-0 0, Hartung 2-7 6-6 10. Totals 23-49 26-35
Albany (NY) (3-3) Devlin 5-6 1-2 12, Metcalf 1-1 0-2 2, 79.
NORTH W L T PCT. PF PA
Baltimore ........................ 8 3 0 .727 272 182
Aronhalt 6-13 2-2 18, Black 6-12 0-0 16, Suero 5-11 10-11
21, Gibson 0-1 0-0 0, Rowley 0-0 0-0 0, Watts 0-0 0-0 0,
Virginia (4-1) Crosby 4-7 2-3 12, Egwu 0-0 0-1 0, Moorer
6-16 5-11 17, Franklin 1-12 4-4 7, Shine 0-2 0-0 0,
Pittsburgh ....................... 7
Cincinnati ........................ 6
3
4
0
0
.700
.600
220
236
179
195
Guerrier 0-2 0-0 0, Puk 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 23-46 13-17 69. Thompson 1-1 1-2 3, Wolfe 0-1 0-0 0, Gerson 3-8 0-0 6,
Halftime: Albany (NY) 32-26. Three-point goals: Navy Pitts 2-5 2-7 6, McCall 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 18-53 14-28 53.
Cleveland ........................ 4 6 0 .400 145 193 6-17 (Jackson 2-3, Sugars 2-5, Brickman 2-5, Avila 0-1, Halftime: UT43-25. Three-point goals: UT 7-22 (Fussell
WEST W L T PCT. PF PA
Roberts 0-1, Alter 0-2), Albany (NY) 10-24 (Black 4-9, 4-9, Peoples 2-6, Fontenette 1-3, Bass 0-1, Major 0-1,
Aronhalt 4-11, Suero 1-1, Devlin 1-1, Gibson 0-1, Anderson 0-2), Virginia 3-13 (Crosby 2-4, Franklin 1-4,
Oakland ........................... 6 4 0 .600 235 254 Guerrier 0-1). Fouled out: None. Rebounds: Navy 26 Moorer 0-1, Gerson 0-4). Fouled out: Shine. Rebounds:
Denver ............................. 5 5 0 .500 205 247 UT 40 (Hartung 8), Virginia 24 (Pitts 5). Assists: UT 15
San Diego ........................ 4 6 0 .400 236 259
(Avila 9), Albany (NY) 32 (Metcalf 10). Assists: Navy 9
(Avila, Roberts 3), Albany (NY) 13 (Black 8). Total fouls: (Fontenette 6), Virginia 6 (Moorer 2). Total fouls: UT 21,
Kansas City ..................... 4 6 0 .400 144 252 Navy 15, Albany (NY) 16. A: 3,037. Virginia 27. Technical fouls: UT Bench, Crosby.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2011
ALLMETSPORTS.COM
4 STAR OF THE NIGHT
Straight possessions No. 7 Briar Woods held
Powhatan on fourth down in a 21-7 Falcons
win that advanced them to the Va. AA Region
II Div. 4 state semifinals. One stop came on
fourth and two at the Briar Woods 11.
2 the Patriots’ single-season rushing record; he’s at
Players who carried for Kettle Run in a 21-16
victory over Liberty
MARYLAND 3A
SEMIFINAL
Anderson
thinks of
dad, and
triumphs
T. JOHNSON 12,
HUNTINGTOWN 3
BY J OSH B ARR
While his teammates
jumped, danced, hugged and
celebrated their team’s biggest
victory in many years, Richy
Anderson stood on the muddy
field, hugged assistant coach
Darrick Scott and started
bawling.
This was a moment Ander-
son had dreamed about, hav-
ing played a significant role
and scoring the first touch-
down as 20th-ranked Thomas
Johnson beat No. 9 Hunting-
town, 12-3, in a Maryland 3A
semifinal on Friday night. An-
derson just wished he could
have shared the night with his
father, Richie, the former
Sherwood High and Penn
State standout who now is an
assistant coach for the Kansas
City Chiefs.
“I’ve gone through a hard
time lately,” said Anderson,
who holds a scholarship offer
from Maryland. “It’s my junior
year, a big year. But that’s his
job. It’s what he loves.”
Anderson had a 43-yard
kickoff return and a nifty 11-
yard punt return in the first
quarter. It was after the 6-foot,
190-pounder — who splits
time between wide receiver
and tailback — broke several
tackles during a 16-yard run
that one Thomas Johnson as-
sistant coach turned to an-
other and said, “Richy is on a
mission tonight.”
Three plays later, Anderson
took a handoff to the right and
burst in the end zone for a
three-yard touchdown and the
Patriots had a lead they did not
relinquish against the Hurri-
canes (11-2).
Brandan Berney rushed for
118 yards and wide receiver
Nate Hairston made a juggling
catch for a 24-yard touchdown
pass from quarterback Heath
Dahlgren late in the third
quarter. Anderson finished
with 46 yards rushing and
caught a 24-yard pass as
Thomas Johnson advanced to
the Maryland 3A final against
14th-ranked River Hill (11-2)
on Dec. 3 at M&T Bank Stadi-
um in Baltimore.
The victory continued a
stirring run for the Patriots
(10-3), who lost three consecu-
tive games in midseason and
needed help on the final day of
the regular season just to qual-
ify for the playoffs. Their
coach, Ben Wright, has said he
will leave the Frederick school
at the end of this season, his
26th at the school.
Wright said the team’s
struggles were in part due to
concerns over playing time
and offensive touches, with a
lineup full of playmakers.
Those issues have been cast
aside and now Thomas John-
son has one more week of
practice. And Anderson had to
rearrange his holiday travel
plans this past week. Instead
of going to Kansas City on
Monday to visit his father, he
plans to fly out Saturday
morning for the Chiefs’ game
Sunday against Pittsburgh.
“He misses him, I’m sure he
does, like any kid if your dad is
not there,” Wright said. “We
try to love him up as much as
we can.”
barrj@washpost.com
“Richy is on a mission
tonight.”
Unidentified assistant coach to a
colleague on the Huntingtown
sideline during Thomas Johnson’s
victory
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BRITT TO ANNOUNCE SOON?
Photo galleries: Check out
In a season full of huge performances, Rob Chesson
kept at least one in his pocket for Friday’s Maryland
Terrapin red or Tar Heel blue? It’s believed
that Gonzaga All-Met guard Nate Britt is I slideshows from South County’s win at
Yorktown and Quince Orchard’s win over
4A semifinal against previously unbeaten down to Maryland or North Carolina, and
C.H. Flowers.
Catonsville. The Old Mill senior had a career-high he will announce his decision Tuesday,
312 yards and seven touchdowns in the fifth-ranked according to his father, Nate Sr. Britt, one Video: See highlights of South County-
Patriots’ 49-20 win. He broke the state single-
season mark for touchdowns with 49 and broke
of the nation’s top juniors, said earlier he
wanted to see how new Terps Coach Mark
D Yorktown and QO-Flowers, plus check
out Thursday’s Turkey Bowl.
Turgeon interacted with his players. UNC
2,539 yards and counting heading into Friday’s 4A
final against No. 3 Quince Orchard.
Coach Roy Williams has been to Gonzaga
twice to see Britt work out, and Britt was in 6 Rankings: Check out The Post’s
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Chapel Hill for Midnight Madness.
PHOTOS BY TONI L. SANDYS/THE WASHINGTON POST
Quince Orchard’s Mark Green, who scored two touchdowns, reaches but is just short of the goal line during the third-ranked Cougars’ 23-12 victory over No. 12 C.H. Flowers.
MARYLAND 4A SEMIFINAL
Green powers Cougars into state title game
carries to lead the third-ranked with a nifty 42-yard screen pass Billy Plante,
QUINCE ORCHARD 23, Cougars into the Maryland 4A reception and run by junior full- left, and
C.H. FLOWERS 12 state final with a 23-12 win over back Tyrell Williams, who fin- Spencer
No. 12 C.H. Flowers. The heavy ished with 142 receiving yards. Trach
workload against the Jaguars But two plays later, C.H. Flowers celebrate
Senior running back gave Green a punishing 249 car- (9-4), which fumbled on its open- after the
rushes for 279 yards ries on the season.
“Offseason, I worked my butt
ing drive at the goal line, scored
on a 66-yard run by speedy run-
Cougars
nailed down
off,” said Green, a 5-foot-9, 175- ning back Edwin Walker, who a spot in next
BY J AMES W AGNER pound senior. “Every single day I finished with 125 rushing yards. week’s 4A
was here after school working With a 7-6 lead early in the title game
Quince Orchard running back out. I never took a day off — even second quarter, Green started against Old
Mark Green bounced through when it was cold outside I’d still finding a groove. On Quince Or- Mill.
ladders, ran with a parachute on run this track. It’s all about com- chard’s next drive, he took a hand-
his back or five-pound weights mitment and dedication.” off, bounced to the right side and
strapped to his legs through much After ending C.H. Flowers’s im- scored on a 14-yard run. McPherson. But Green pounded slowly. Quince Orchard Coach
of the last offseason. He did agility probable playoff run, undefeated With 28 seconds left in the half, out key yards when the Cougars Dave Mencarini then walked up
drills, lifted weights and circled Quince Orchard (13-0) will face Green scored on a 39-yard run up needed him to, getting the ball on to hug him.
the school’s track. The goal was to undefeated No. 5 Old Mill on Fri- the middle that included a spin 27 snaps over the final two quar- “This guy got himself in unbe-
be playing a meaningful game in day at Baltimore’s M&T Bank Sta- move at the 10. That score gave the ters. lievable shape for his senior year,”
December, and Friday night that dium. It will be Quince Orchard’s Cougars a 20-6 lead at the half. After shaking hands with C.H. Mencarini said. “. . . He is a very
goal was realized. first appearance in the state final The Jaguars’ defense stiffened Flowers players, Green walked different player. One of the best
Green scored two touchdowns since winning it in 2007. in the second half, yielding only a gingerly toward his team’s post- ever.”
and ground out 279 yards on 43 The Cougars took a 7-0 lead 34-yard field goal by Chris game huddle. He crouched down wagnerjames@washpost.com
ROUNDUP
been the foundation of the defending state Huntingtown, 12-3, on Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. at a 14-0 lead.
NO. 5 OLD MILL 49, champions throughout the season, re- M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. After Kent Island closed to 14-6 in the
CATONSVILLE 20 grouped and returned to form the rest of the “They were [playing man defense] the third quarter, Smith scored on a one-yard
way, setting up the offense with short fields entire game so we were just flying at them,” run late in the fourth quarter to seal the
The Patriots advanced to their second and stuffing Powhatan’s offense for the final Vaughn said. “We ran a lot of different victory.
Maryland 4A final in three seasons on the three quarters in Ashburn. The result was a formations to keep them off guard and “We had some other opportunities early
strength of a career night from running second straight region title for the Falcons found the holes.” that may have taken a little bit of pressure
back Rob Chesson. The senior rushed for (12-1). The Eagles (10-3) managed only three off us down the road, but [Kent Island]
312 yards and seven touchdowns on 24 Thomas Mitchell’s 44-yard bootleg run first downs, and didn’t have any until the fought and made plays when they had to,”
carries in a resounding win in Millersville. for a touchdown caught the Falcons off fourth quarter. River Hill had seven sacks. Pinkney said. “It’s a good feeling. I’m really
Old Mill (13-0) will face No. 3 Quince guard and gave Powhatan (10-3) the early happy for the coaches and the whole com-
Orchard (13-0), which beat No. 12 C.H. lead, but Briar Woods responded with two munity.”
Flowers, 23-12, in the other 4A semifinal, on touchdowns in the second quarter — the
Friday at 7:30 p.m. at M&T Bank Stadium in second coming on a 36-yard Trace McSorley DOUGLASS 22,
Baltimore. pass to Cam Serigne. Then, after the Briar KENT ISLAND 6 NO. 19 KETTLE RUN 21,
Chesson scored touchdowns on five of Woods defense stopped the Indians on
Old Mill’s seven first-half possessions, in- back-to-back possessions deep inside their Emmanuel Smith rushed for two touch- LIBERTY 16
cluding four runs of at least 27 yards. He own territory, Alex Carter’s 69-yard touch- downs and Josef Hinnant rushed for one as
rolled up 264 rushing yards by halftime and down run sealed the win. the visiting Eagles won a Maryland 2A Senior quarterback Mac Graham rushed
punctuated his performance with two sec- The Falcons will travel on Dec. 3 to the semifinal on Friday night in Stevensville. for 170 yards and two first-half touchdowns
ond-half scores. winner of Saturday’s Region I final between The Eagles (11-2) will play Middletown to lead the Cougars to a win over Fauquier
“I didn’t know I was going to come out Courtland (8-3) and Grafton (8-3) . (12-1) in the championship game on Dec. 3 at County rival Liberty in the Virginia AA
and perform like this,” Chesson said. “I 7 p.m. at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. Region II Division 3 championship in
knew I was going to come out here and do Middletown beat Edmondson, 48-8, in the Nokesville.
my job, but to put numbers up like this when other semifinal. It will be the first title game With the Eagles’ defense keying on junior
I thought it was going to be a dogfight, it NO. 14 RIVER HILL 41, appearance for Douglass since 1975; the running back Joshua Tapscott, Graham car-
shows hard work pays off.” ABERDEEN 7 Eagles had lost seven times in the semifinals ried the ball 22 times, including 58- and
Catonsville finished 12-1. since then. 11-yard scoring runs. Another touchdown
Senior quarterback Raamah Vaughn “We’ve all been dreaming about it,” Doug- run that could have sealed the win for the
rushed for three touchdowns and passed for lass Coach J.C. Pinkney said. “We’ve been so Cougars (13-0) with less than three minutes
a fourth to lead the Hawks to a dominating close for so long. This group of guys, no one remaining was nullified by penalty.
NO. 7 BRIAR WOODS 21, win in a Maryland 3A semifinal in Clarks- thought that they would have the opportu- Liberty (10-3) drove from its 8-yard line
POWHATAN 7 ville. nity to do that. This group came together. to the Kettle Run 34 before throwing a third
Junior running back Evan Griffin added They love football. They love practice. They straight incompletion as time expired.
The Falcons fell victim to a big running two rushing touchdowns for River Hill don’t complain. It’s not hard to coach these Fourth-year program Kettle Run will host
play early on for the second time in as many (11-2), which will advance to the state title guys.” either York (11-0) or James Monroe (11-0) at
weeks and entered the second quarter of game for the first time since it won consecu- Hinnant started things off Friday with a 1:30 p.m. next Saturday in a state semifinal.
Friday’s Virginia AA Region II Division 4 tive Maryland 2A championships in 2007 nine-yard touchdown run and subsequent Those teams meet in the Region I champi-
final trailing the visiting Indians. and 2008. The Hawks will face No. 20 two-point conversion run. Later in the first onship Saturday.
But the Briar Woods defense, which has Thomas Johnson (10-3), which beat No. 9 quarter, Smith scored on an 84-yard run for — From staff reports
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HIGH SCHOOLS

BOX SCORES SCORES

MARYLAND 2A FOOTBALL
DOUGLASS 22, KENT ISLAND 6
VIRGINIA
DOUGLASS (11-2) ................... 14 0 0 8 — 22 Amelia 40, Manassas Park 12
KENT ISLAND (11-2)................. 0 0 6 0 — 6
D: Hinnant 9 run (Hinnant run) MARYLAND 1A — SEMIFINALS
D: E Smith 84 run (run failed) Dunbar (Balt.) 42, Overlea 6
KI: Malecki 10 run (kick failed) Perryville at Fort Hill
D: E Smith 1 run (E Smith run)
MARYLAND 2A — SEMIFINALS
Douglass 22, Kent Island 6
MARYLAND 3A Middletown 48, Edmondson-Westside 8
NO. 14 RIVER HILL 41, ABERDEEN 7 MARYLAND 3A — SEMIFINALS
River Hill 41, Aberdeen 7
ABERDEEN (10-3) ..................... 0 0 7 0 — 7 Thomas Johnson 12, Huntingtown 3
RIVER HILL (11-2)................... 14 6 14 7 — 41
RH: Vaughn 43 run (Grove kick) MARYLAND 4A — SEMIFINALS
RH: Grove 36 pass from Vaughn (Grove kick) Old Mill 49, Catonsville 20
RH: Vaughn 3 run (kick failed) Quince Orchard 23, C.H. Flowers 12
RH: Griffin 35 run (Grove kick)
A: Carpenter 81 pass from Faulcon (Bonsall kick) VIRGINIA AA REGION II DIVISION 3 — FINAL
RH: Vaughn 5 run (Grove kick) Kettle Run 21, Liberty 16
RH: Griffin 25 run (Grove kick)
RUSHING LEADERS: A: Warfield 2-25. RH: Wells 18- VIRGINIA AA REGION II DIVISION 4 — FINAL
105, Griffin 8-97, Vaughn 10-84. Briar Woods 21, Powhatan 7
PASSING LEADERS: A: Faulcon 6-14-0 69. RH: Vaughn
1-6-0 36. VIRGINIA AAA NORTHERN REG. DIV. 5 — FINAL
RECEIVING LEADERS: A: Carpenter 3-84. RH: Grove 1- South County 37, Yorktown 13
36.

NO. 20 THOMAS JOHNSON 12,

NO. 9 HUNTINGTOWN 3 SCHEDULE
THOMAS JOHNSON (10-3)....... 6 0 6 0 — 12
HUNTINGTOWN (11-2)............. 3 0 0 0 — 3 TODAY’S GAMES
H: Barrett 36 field goal FOOTBALL
TJ: Anderson 3 run (kick failed)
TJ: Hairston 24 pass from Dahlgren (run failed) TOURNAMENTS
RUSHING LEADERS: TJ: Berney 21-118. H: Fletcher 17- Virginia AAA Northern Region Division 6
117. At Westfield HS
PASSING LEADERS: TJ: Dahlgren 6-11-0 70. H: Piazza Final
7-17-2 88. Centreville vs. Westfield, 1:30
RECEIVING LEADERS: TJ: Hairston 3-43. H: Woodburn Virginia AAA Northwest Region Division 5
2-21. At North Stafford
Final
Brooke Point vs. North Stafford, 2
Virginia AAA Northwest Region Division 6
MARYLAND 4A Final
NO. 5 OLD MILL 49, CATONSVILLE 20 Battlefield at Hylton, 1

CATONSVILLE (12-1) ................ 0 7 7 6 — 20 BOYS' BASKETBALL

OLD MILL (13-0)...................... 14 20 8 7 — 49 PRIVATE
OM: Chesson 27 run (Hannon kick) John Paul the Great at Sidwell Friends, 11:30
OM: Chesson 1 run (Hannon kick) OTHERS
C: Lane 3 run (Medinger kick) Georgetown Day at Bell, 2
OM: Chesson 50 run (kick failed) Spalding at Blair, 12
OM: Chesson 33 run (Hannon kick) Georgetown Day vs. Washington Latin at Bell, 5:30
OM: Chesson 38 run (Hannon kick) GIRLS' BASKETBALL
OM: Chesson 5 run (Kess pass from Shields)
PRIVATE PHOTOS BY TRACY A. WOODWARD/THE WASHINGTON POST
C: Hylton 22 run (Medinger kick)
OM: Chesson 6 run (Hannon kick) Severn at McDonogh, 7
C: Carter 47 pass from Jones (kick failed) St. Mary's-Annapolis at St. Paul's, 11 Devin Vandyke, center, worked at Best Buy from 10:30 p.m. until 2:30 a.m. before powering South County to a region championship.
RUSHING LEADERS: C: Hylton 7-65, Lane 18-62. OM: OTHERS
Howard at Georgetown Visitation, 12
Chesson 24-312, Holbrook 11-53.
PASSING LEADERS: C: Jones 4-8-1 59. OM: Shields 1- Spalding at South River, 11 AAA NORTHERN REGION DIVISION 5 FINAL
6-0 23.

Vandyke’s Black Friday special spurs Stallions

RECEIVING LEADERS: C: Carter 1-47. OM: Wagner 1-
23. NEXT WEEKEND’S GAMES
FOOTBALL
NO. 3 QUINCE ORCHARD 23,
NO. 12 C.H. FLOWERS 12 FRIDAY
C.H. FLOWERS (9-4) ................. 0 6 0 6 — 12 MARYLAND 4A FINAL
QUINCE ORCHARD (13-0)......... 7 13 3 0 — 23 At M&T Bank Stadium, In Baltimore
QO: Williams 42 pass from Plante (McPherson kick)
CHF: Walker 66 run (kick failed)
No. 3 Quince Orchard vs. No. 5 Old Mill, 7:30 SOUTH COUNTY 37,
QO: Green 14 run ( kick)
QO: Green 39 run (kick failed)
SATURDAY
MARYLAND 2A FINAL
YORKTOWN 13
QO: McPherson 34 field goal
CHF: Payne 28 pass from Holland (run failed) At M&T Bank Stadium, In Baltimore
RUSHING LEADERS: CHF: Walker 18-125. QO: Green Douglass vs. Middletown, 3:30
43-279. MARYLAND 3A FINAL BY P AUL T ENORIO
PASSING LEADERS: CHF: Holland 8-21-3 113. QO: At M&T Bank Stadium, In Baltimore
Plante 11-14-0 191. No. 20 Thomas Johnson vs. No. 14 River Hill, 3:30
RECEIVING LEADERS: CHF: Payne 3-78. QO: Williams
6-142. VA. AAA DIVISION 6 SEMIFINALS
On the night before his team’s
Centreville-Westfield winner at Hermitage, TBA biggest game of the season,
Oscar Smith at Battlefield-Hylton winner, TBA
VIRGINIA AA REGION II South County senior Devin Van-
VA. AAA DIVISION 5 SEMIFINALS
DIVISION 3 Hanover at No. 13 South County, 1:30
dyke showed up for work at Best
NO. 19 KETTLE RUN 21, LIBERTY 16 Brooke Point-North Stafford winner at Norcom-Phoebus Buy at 10:30 p.m. for a Thanks-
winner, TBA
LIBERTY (10-3) ......................... 0 10 0 6 — 16 giving night shift and stayed
VA. AA DIVISION 4 SEMIFINALS
KETTLE RUN (13-0)................... 7 7 7 0 — 21
No. 7 Briar Woods at Courtland-Grafton, TBA until 2:30 a.m. before heading
KR: Graham 58 run (Szklennik kick)
L: Morris 29 field goal VA. AA DIVISION 4 SEMIFINALS home.
KR: Graham 11 run (Szklennik kick) James Monroe-York at No. 19 Kettle Run, TBA He got just three hours of
L: Howard 10 pass from Longerbeam (Morris kick)
KR: Tapscott 50 run (Szklennik kick) sleep and then reported to the
L: Howard 3 run (pass failed)
LEADERS Stallions’ locker room at 7 a.m.
RUSHING LEADERS: L: Howard 20-61. KR: Graham 22-
170, Tapscott 18-104. Friday to trade his blue work
PASSING LEADERS: L: Longerbeam 9-15-1 173. KR:
Graham 2-7-0 38.
Top Rushers Att Yds TD uniform for a white South Coun-
RECEIVING LEADERS: L: Howard 5-96. KR: Parker 1-27. R. Chesson, Old Mill 312 2,549 48 ty jersey.
Virginia AA Region II Division 4 K. Jones, Bullis 236 2,098 30
D. Fletcher, Huntingtown 274 1,885 27
That afternoon, the Virginia
NO. 7 BRIAR WOODS 21, POWHATAN 7 J. McPhearson, Ann. Area Christ. 167 1,852 25 Tech-bound linebacker made it
POWHATAN (9-3) ..................... 7 0 0 0 — 7 M. Green, Quince Orchard 292 1,841 25 a Black Friday for No. 10 York-
BRIAR WOODS (12-1)............... 0 14 0 7 — 21 N. Lewnes, St. Mary's-Annapolis 261 1,791 13 town, registering three sacks, a
P: Mitchell 44 run (Malcolm kick)
BW: McSorley 6 run (Clements kick)
A. Reid, Friendship Collegiate 225 1,705 15 forced fumble, a fumble recov-
K. Anderson, Westfield 232 1,665 24
BW: Serigne 36 pass from McSorley (Clements kick)
BW: Carter 69 run (Clements kick) D. Paye, Hammond 178 1,630 18
ery and two blocked punts to With 3:24 left in the fourth quarter, South County’s Ryan Taylor and Vandyke blocked Yorktown’s
RUSHING LEADERS: P: Brown 25-68. BW: Colder 20-84, A. Squire, Suitland 205 1,611 20 lead the 13th-ranked Stallions extra point attempt. The Stallions next will host a Division 5 state semifinal on Dec. 3.
Carter 3-80.
PASSING LEADERS: P: Mitchell 4-16-0 60. BW: Mc- Top Passers Comp-Att Yds TD to a 37-13 win in Arlington and
Sorley 4-14-0 69. A. Nelson, Heritage 177-299 2,902 31 give the Lorton school its first he’ll find out when he reads his backer Oren Burks caused a the board, too.”
RECEIVING LEADERS: P: Drew 2-48. BW: Carter 2-22,
Serigne 2-47. C. Cox, South River 195-341 2,875 32 Virginia AAA Northern Region paper tomorrow.” fumble that Vandyke recovered In the fourth quarter, line-
Z. Deutel, Brooke Point 158-271 2,702 37 Division 5 championship. Pannoni would have little to at the Yorktown 39-yard line. backer Timmy Hunt’s 65-yard
C. Henderson, W. Pot. 148-283 2,403 27
VIRGINIA AAA NORTHERN C. Papadopoulos, Woot. 198-298 2,283 18
South County (10-3) will host complain about. With Vandyke Six plays later, quarterback interception return touchdown
REGION DIVISION 5 T. Quigley, Lake Braddock 188-333 2,250 20 a Division 5 state semifinal on leading the way against York- Shane Foley plunged in from and Vandyke’s second punt
NO. 13 SOUTH COUNTY 37, M. Callahan, Northwest 185-307 2,244 26 Dec. 3 against the winner of the town (12-1) — which entered the one yard to make it 10-0. block, which was recovered by
NO. 10 YORKTOWN 13 C. Hibbs, Arundel 152-240 2,175 28 Central Region final between game undefeated and averaging Vandyke blocked his first Burks in the end zone, sealed
SOUTH COUNTY (10-3)............. 0 17 7 13 — 37 C. Clark, Edison 126-260 2,135 25
YORKTOWN (12-1) ................... 0 0 7 6 — 13
Hanover and Atlee. 41 points per game — South punt with 25 seconds left in the the outcome.
A. Dombkowski, R.View 160-263 2,075 18
SC: Ferguson 39 field goal Top Receivers Rec Yds TD
Following a week of practice County’s defense continued its half, giving South County the They were the eighth and
SC: Foley 1 run (Ferguson kick)
SC: Basnight 3 run (Ferguson kick) T. Quigley, Lake Braddock 71 1,111 12
in which Stallions Coach Gerry phenomenal play. ball at the Patriots 18-yard line, ninth return touchdowns of the
Y: Stewart 45 interception return (Hitt kick) C. Brooks, Wootton 71 892 9 Pannoni said an under-the- The Stallions’ starting unit and the Stallions needed just season for the Stallions.
SC: Rector 15 run (Ferguson kick)
SC: Hunt 65 interception return (Ferguson kick) K. Moore, Wakefield 65 1,028 9 weather Vandyke had struggled, did not surrender a touchdown two plays to increase the lead to Lifting the championship tro-
SC: Burks recovered blocked punt in end zone (kick R. McCarter, Park View 65 937 9 the standout certainly didn’t — it has yet to do so in the 17-0. phy wasn’t the end of the day for
failed) S. Whitmore, Washington-Lee 62 654 1
Y: Stewart 18 pass from Smith (kick failed) inform his coach he would be postseason — and forced three “We average about four turn- Vandyke, though.
M. Finney, Heritage 60 1,090 13
RUSHING LEADERS: SC: Rector 8-63, Basnight 12-58.
Y: Browne 6-32. K. Taylor, Lee 55 1,061 7
working the late shift the night turnovers along with the two overs a game,” senior defensive “Now I’m going to go home,”
PASSING LEADERS: SC: Ferguson 1-1-0 23, Foley 5- M. Strange, South River 54 1,075 13 before a 1:30 p.m. kickoff. blocked punts. back Andrew Rector said. “They he said. “And then go back to
12-1 83. Y: Smith 9-21-2 108.
RECEIVING LEADERS: SC: Ferguson 3-57, Josephs 3- T. Jenkins, West Potomac 53 1,060 13 “No, I didn’t tell him,” Van- Holding a 3-0 lead late in the help us out; if our offense is work.”
49. Y: Stewart 3-36. B. Szoka, Loudoun County 52 966 14 dyke said, chuckling. “I guess first quarter, South County line- struggling, we can put points on tenoriop@washpost.com

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Montgomery Co. Potomac 492 & 907 sf, 1st class, newly renov,

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Potomac Open 1-3 $1,838,800
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NATIONAL HARBOR IS 87% SOLD OUT!
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Just blocks to Potomac Village, this
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301 309-9500
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LORTON GOOD RATE
This "Painted Lady of Garrett Park" is CINDY SOUZA 301-332-5032 1 Bedroom Residences from $284,900 1850, 3000, 5400,8400 sq.ft. with
only 5 yrs young & perfectly blends Long & Foster
the Old Victorian look w/all the
240-497-1934
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desired modern conveniences,
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this JonMark home offer hi-ceilings 1200 &1500 sq. ft. with office.
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HOUSE: Sun 3-6. 505 East Braddock Annandale McLean Prince William Co. Fauquier Co., VA Farms, Sale Waterfront, Rent automatic payment for
Road #803. Or call 703-548-0660.
VA Warrenton $312,000 APPOMATTOX COUNTY, VA - 48 your Washington Post
Fairfax County McLean/Tyson's Corner All Brick Villa By Owner Acres, over 3,000 ft state road subscription.
Gaithersburg $749,800
Give Thanks - You've Found VA Annandale SAT 11/26 399900 Park Crest - Spectacular new Prince William $312,000/Offer 3 br, 2 1/2 bath, 1st
flr MB, Gas FP, View of Mtn's from
frontage, creek runs thru property,
new survey, joins State Forest, near Home delivery
the Perfect Home!
The wraparound deck of this 4BR/
3605 Terrace Drive, 703-352-4663 condos from the $300's to over
$1 million. New Models Open!
Deck,HW flrs on Main level. W/O Holiday Lake, just off Hwy 24. Great
is convenient. Visit
Hunting! Owner Financing. $95,000
4 full BA Colonial offers the per-
fect spot to enjoy the sunrise or
Alexandria If only you had home delivery.
Bsmt. Walking distance to shopping
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the sunsets. Perfectly maintained & 1-800-753-POST SF
Sales Office Open Daily from 11-6.
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14809 Bayview Drive, 703-352-4663 Waterfront, Rent subscriberservices SF
sited on a gorgeous 1/2 ac lot in Sales by The Mayhood Co. EHO
Quail Run! Don't miss this! 12901
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Daniel Boyle 240-506-0829 Del Ray Sat 11/26 569900 Ask me about home delivery! Wake up to home delivery. Ask me about home delivery! If only you had home delivery. Home. 2.5 hrs from DC. 1800 sq If you don’t get it, you don’t get it. If only you had home delivery.
Cindy Souza 301-332-5032 1310 Commonwealth Avenue, ft on 6 acres, pre foreclosure. Must SF
Long & Foster 240-497-1700 4bd/3ba brick end unit 703-352-4663 1-800-753-POST SF 1-800-753-POST SF 1-800-753-POST SF 1-800-753-POST SF sell! FSBO $265,900. 304-703-1542 S087 1x24 1-800-753-POST SF