Massachusetts spent lesson health care in 2020 than2019, a result of the pan-demic and the first timesuch spending ever de-

creased. D1.

Police intensified a multi-state hunt for a man whoshot five homeless peoplein New York City and Wash-

ington, D.C., killing two. A2.

By Robert WeismanGLOBE STAFF

Twomonths after Medicare refused to cover

most patients eligible for a costly new Alzheim-

er’s treatment, called Aduhelm, the move has

sparked a battle over how much the federal

health insurance program can afford to pay for

biotech therapies that treat millions of older

Americans.

Some are nowwarning the finances ofMedi-

care, which insures 62.7 million US residents

age 65 and over, may be on a collision course

with a fast-expanding biopharma industry that

has built a business model around charging

sky-high prices for innovativemedicines.

“This was a wake-up call,” said Alicia Mun-

nell, director of Boston College’s Center for Re-

tirement Research, who coauthored a new re-

port on the financial implications of Aduhelm

for theMedicare program.

Citing a debate among scientists over

whether the Alzheimer’s treatment works,

Munnell said, “Medicare dodged a bullet on

this drug because the drug itself was controver-

sial. But the system is set up with no guard rails

and [coming medicines] could become a huge

financial burden.”

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50s flashforward

ByMike DamianoGLOBE STAFF

There’s one blunder sure to

snarl summer travel plans to

Nantucket: forgetful vacation-

ers failing to book ferry reser-

vations months in advance,

then having to scramble to fig-

ure out how to get themselves

— and their vehicles — to the

island.

This year, United Parcel

Service has joined their un-

lucky ranks.

During the early priority

booking window the Steam-

ship Authority makes available

to freight shippers, UPS ne-

glected to request reservations

for its trucks, said James Mal-

kin, a member of the Steam-

ship Authority’s governing

board. By the time the appar-

ent error came to light, ferries

to Nantucket for the busy sea-

son — fromMay to October —

were booked close to capacity

for large shipping trucks.

Now the Steamship Au-

thority and UPS are rushing to

make contingency plans, and

some Nantucket merchants

are starting to panic. Clothing,

UPS, Page A5

An oops by UPS has Nantucket frettingCarrier scurriesto get ferry slotsfor its packages

ERIN CLARK/GLOBE STAFF/FILE

The vehicle ferry is a lifeline for Nantucketers. The Steamship

Authority said UPS neglected to get reservations for the summer.

PHOTOS BY CRAIG F. WALKER/GLOBE STAFF

EmersonWise, 7, prepared her belongings before heading to Shaw Elementary School in Dorchester last week.

By Mark Landlerand David E. Sanger

NEW YORK TIMES

LONDON — Diplomatic activ-

ity quickened on multiple fronts

Monday as Russ ia ’s war on

Ukraine entered an uncertain

new phase, with Russian Presi-

dent Vladimir Putin’s forces wid-

ening their bombardment of Kyiv

and other cities, hundreds of ci-

vilians escaping the devastated

port of Mariupol, and the United

States warning China over its

deepening alignment with an iso-

lated Russia.

There were no breakthroughs,

either at the negotiating tables or

on the battlefield. But as the hu-

man cost of the war continued to

mount, the flurry of develop-

ments suggested that people were

groping for a way out of the crisis

— or, failing that, for ways to pre-

vent it from mutating into a wid-

er proxy war.

In Rome, President Biden’s top

national security aide, Jake Sulli-

van, met with a top Chinese for-

eign affairs official, Yang Jiechi,

to try to peel away one of Putin’s

few potential allies, after reports

— denied by Moscow and Beijing

— that Russia had sought military

aid from China, and that Chinese

leaders were open to such a re-

quest. Sullivan, a Biden adminis-

tration official said, had ex-

pressed “deep concerns” about

“China’s alignment at this time.”

Ukrainian and Russian offi-

cials held another round of direct

negotiations, adjourning without

UKRAINE, Page A7

abcdeT u e s d a y , M a r c h 1 5 , 2 0 2 2

By Matt StoutGLOBE STAFF

WORCESTER — Attorney General Maura

Healey for months kept the Democratic guber-

natorial primary in stasis as she weighed

whether to join the fray. Since she announced,

it’s taken only a few weeks for her to transform

it.

Healey has ridden a long-forming wave of

support to piles of cash, early endorsements,

and significant political capital. The field has

narrowed around her, creating a head-to-head

race with Sonia Chang-Díaz, a progressive

state senator and first-time statewide candi-

date. Longtime admirers who have cheered

Healey’s fast-moving rise within the party have

quickly fallen into her column, giving her

grassroots-level clout.

”I don’t want to sound premature, but it

seems over to me,” said Scott Ferson, who ad-

vised the since-shuttered gubernatorial cam-

paign of Danielle Allen. “Which is weird, be-

cause it’s March.”

Long sought in corners of the party, Hea-

ley’s candidacy quickly solidified into a front-

running campaign, reshaping a primary that

both holds historic possibilities and is sprout-

ing classic tropes of insider-outsider politics

and ideological gamesmanship.

It’s also being closely watched because the

primary winner is viewed as a heavy favorite in

the general election. With Governor Charlie

Baker’s decision to not seek reelection — and

GOVERNOR'S RACE, Page A8

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Residents retrieved belongings from an apartment building in a block

that was destroyed by an artillery strike in Kyiv on Monday,

POINT OF VIEW:

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

‘Brady changed the New

England sports universe.

He was a champion. He

was clutch. He was po-

lite. He was smart and

careful. ... Now he is just

annoying.’ C1.

By James VaznisGLOBE STAFF

Two third-graders at the P.A. Shaw

Elementary School in Dorchester, who

recently read the poem “Cedar Box” by

Nikki Grimes, took a

small cardboard box

slated for recycling

and made a memory

box of their own,

placing inside some

of their artwork. Oth-

e r s t u d e n t s , a t

NAvon’s and Andrew’s invitation, jubi-

lantly added family photos from an

autobiography project and other

items.

That memory box has taken on in-

creasing meaning for the third-grad-

ers as the Shaw community pushes

Superintendent Brenda Cassellius and

the School Committee to honor a

promise made years ago to make it a

full-fledged elementary school instead

of ending at grade 3.

Their plight, according to many

parents, teachers, and education ad-

vocates, exemplifies a troubling reality

across Boston Public Schools: Top offi-

cials through the years have made

many promises about facilities, but of-

SCHOOLS, Page A8

Failing marks on keeping promisesFrequent changes in BPS leadership, shiftin plans create limbo for students, parents

Shaw Elementary teacher Ilene Carver greeted Brenda

Ramsey and her daughter Emerson outside school.

THE GREAT

DIVIDE

Race, class, and

opportunity in

our schools

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GRANDRAPIDS,Mich. —

The trial of fourmen accused of

plotting to kidnapMichigan

Governor GretchenWhitmer

over her COVID-19 restrictions

didn’t resume as scheduled

Monday after someone tested

positive for the virus.

US District Judge Robert

Jonker did not identify the per-

son in his order Sunday, saying

only that an “essential trial par-

ticipant” tested positive over

the weekend. The trial might

resume Thursday.

The trial, which involves 18

jurors, four defendants, and a

raft of lawyers and support

staff, started last week in a win-

dowless courtroom in Grand

Rapids, Mich. The jury heard

some evidenceWednesday and

Thursday before going home

for the weekend.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Whitmer plot trialdelayed by COVID

CHICAGO—The father of a

3-year-old boy who accidentally

shot his mother to death in a

Chicago suburb has been de-

tained andwill likely face gun

charges, the community’s po-

lice chief saidMonday.

Dolton Police Robert Collins

Jr. said that investigators were

working with prosecutors from

the Cook County State’s Attor-

ney’s office to determine the ex-

act charges, but that there was

no indication that he fired the

weapon or even knew the boy

was holding the weapon at the

time of Saturday’s shooting.

“We do not have anything to

indicate that the dad fired the

weapon, so the avenue we are

pursuing is that the gunwas his

responsibility,” Collins said of

the father, whose name has not

been released. He added that he

expected charges would be filed

byMonday night or Tuesday

morning.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Father faces chargesin toddler shooting

NEWYORK—Ahighly re-

garded 87-year-old singing

coach has a traumatic brain in-

jury after a woman pushed her

to the ground just steps away

from herManhattan apartment

building Thursday night, police

and relatives said.

BarbaraMaier Gustern—

who once coached rock singer

Debbie Harry and the cast of

the 2019 Broadway revival of

themusical “Oklahoma!” —

was shoved from behind and

struck her head on the sidewalk

soon after leaving her home on

West 28th Street in Chelsea at

about 9:30 p.m., police said.

Friends described opening

the lobby door to find her cov-

ered in blood. Emergencymed-

ical responders were called.

Gustern was taken to a near-

by hospital and then trans-

ferred to BellevueMedical Cen-

ter, where doctors performed

emergency surgery to alleviate

brain swelling, her grandson,

AJ Gustern, said.

NEWYORKTIMES

Octogenarianattacked in NYC

Daily Briefing

TheNation

By Peter Hermannand JustinWm.Moyer

WASHINGTON POST

The search for a man who

police say fatally shot two home-

less people and wounded three

others in Washington, D.C., and

New York City intensified Mon-

day with authorities releasing a

video of a person of interest.

“We need everyone to take a

moment to watch the below vid-

eo,” D.C. police said in a tweet,

stressing urgency. Mayors in

both cities pleaded for homeless

residents to seek shelter and

held a joint news conference to

discuss the attacks Monday eve-

ning.

The new video from D.C. po-

lice shows a man walking under

street lamps along New York Av-

enue at about 3 a.m. on March

3, about an hour before police

said a homeless man was shot

and wounded on that same

street in Northeast Washington.

At one point, theman in the vid-

eo appears to be holding some-

thing in his right hand and eat-

ing with his left. He passes by a

lime green bicycle.

Meanwhile, police in D.C.

and New York have been reach-

ing out to unhoused individuals,

passing out fliers with informa-

tion about the attacks, connect-

ing people to shelters and other

services.

New York City Police Com-

missioner Keechant Sewell said

in a tweetMondaymorning that

officers were searching “block-

by-block.” She added, “We will

find him.”

In Washington, the shoot-

ings occurred in Northeast be-

tweenMarch 3 and 9, according

to police. In New York, the two

shootings occurred Saturday,

police there said.

The first incident in Wash-

ington took place at about 4

a.m. March 3. Police responded

to the 1100 block of New York

Avenue NE for the sounds of

gunshots. When they arrived,

they found a man with a gun-

shot wound. The victimwas tak-

en to a hospital for injuries that

were not life-threatening.

The next D.C. incident took

place at about 1:20 a.m. on

March 8, when a shooting oc-

curred near the 1700 block of H

Street NE. Police found a man

with an apparent gunshot

wound, who was later taken to a

hospital with injuries that were

not life-threatening. The victim

told police he had been shot

once in the hands and facewhile

standing on a street corner, ac-

cording to a police report. The

man said he ran south into a

gated construction area scream-

ing for help and heard another

burst of gunshots. Police said

the assailant shot at least five

more times but apparently

missed.

The most recent incident in

Washington happened at about

2:50 a.m. on March 9, police

said, near the 400 block of New

York Avenue NE. A member of

D.C. police was in the area and

witnessed a fire. D.C. Fire and

Emergency Medical Services

came to extinguish it. A further

investigation revealed a man

withno signs of lifewhowaspro-

nounced dead. The victim was

taken to the Office of the Chief

Medical Examiner. An autopsy

showed that he died of stab and

gunshot wounds. Police are in-

vestigating the incident as a ho-

micide. Police said they have not

been able to identify theman.

Joe Mettimano, president of

Central UnionMission, a shelter

near Union Station in D.C., said

the violence was yet another

problem unhoused people have

to battle amid freezing tempera-

tures, hunger, and the ongoing

pandemic.

“Now they have to fear being

murdered,” he wrote in an e-

mail. “Our shelter is open 24/7

to provide a safe place for the

homeless, but not all of these

folks are willing to stay in a shel-

ter; they are the ones most at

risk.”

Advocates say there was a

spike in violence against the

homeless last year, citing some

gruesome attacks in Colorado,

Washington state, andNewYork

City. They expected the trend to

continue in 2022.

Donald Whitehead, execu-

tive director of the National Co-

alition for the Homeless, told

theWashington Post that the in-

crease has been “a criminaliza-

tion of homelessness” that has

created “this culture of people

not being important.”

Last year in D.C., 69 people

died without having a perma-

nent home, advocates said. It

could not immediately be deter-

mined how many of those

deaths were linked to violence.

The administration of D.C.

MayorMuriel E. Bowser, a Dem-

ocrat, has struggled to address

homelessness and has em-

barked on a pilot initiative to

clean up encampments and fast-

track people into housing.

A recent Washington Post

poll found amajority of D.C. res-

idents support those efforts,

though they also gave themayor

low marks for building and

maintaining affordable housing.

In the New York incidents,

the Police Department andMay-

or Eric Adams, a Democrat, told

reporters that amanhadwalked

up to two homeless men sleep-

ing on the street in Lower Man-

hattan and opened fire.

One of themen died; the oth-

er was taken to a hospital, police

said.

The victims in New York

have not been publicly identi-

fied. It's unclear whether police

have been able tomake requisite

family notifications.

In explainingwhy the attacks

in both cities were linked, D.C.

police cited similarities in the

assailant’s actions, the circum-

stances of the victims, and evi-

dence recovered.

In a joint statement issued

late Sunday, Adams and Bowser

said: “The rise in gun violence

has shaken all of us and it is par-

ticularly horrible to know that

someone is out there deliberate-

ly doing harm to an already vul-

nerable population. As our law

enforcement agencies work

quickly with federal partners to

locate the suspect, we are also

calling on unsheltered residents

to seek shelter.”

Five homeless people shot in D.C., NYCPolice searchingfor gunman,release video

SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES

Police walked by Manny, who is homeless, on a street corner in Manhattan on Monday in New York City.

By Ellie Silverman, KarinaElwood, and Ian Duncan

WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — Police

blocked interstate exits inWash-

ington into downtown on Mon-

day as hundreds of trucks, cars,

and SUVs protesting the govern-

ment’s response to the pandem-

ic rode into the nation’s capital

to start a second week of dem-

onstrations.

Members of the “People’s

Convoy” and thousands of other

motorists encountered severe

backups Monday afternoon

when highway traffic that al-

ready was heavy only worsened

with the convoy’s arrival. The

convoy entered the city via the

14th Street Bridge on Interstate

395 amid a near-standstill, then

continued to Interstate 695 be-

fore crossing the Anacostia Riv-

er and returning to the Beltway.

Eastbound traffic crawled

along a four-mile stretch from

the Potomac River to Anacostia

in the middle of the day. The

D.C. detour represented an esca-

lation in the group's tactics after

an application by convoy leaders

for a nearly two-week permitted

protest on theNationalMall was

partially denied.

“I believe we’re making a

good statement today,” said one

truck driver whose journey was

livestreamed under the account

ZOT on YouTube. “We’re right in

the swamp now and creating a

horrible mess down here.”

Police asked for patience

amid the road closures along in-

terstate exits, saying authorities

were trying to prevent the con-

voy from leaving the highway.

“These rolling road closures

are occurring in real-time as

they are needed, and will be lift-

ed as soon as they are no longer

necessary,” said an alert from

D.C. Homeland Security and

Emergency Management. D.C.

police began to reopen exits at

about 3:30 p.m. as the convoy

departed the city.

On livestreams, truckers said

they never planned to leave the

highway and blamed police for

causing traffic disruptions. Alai-

na Gertz, a D.C. police spokes-

woman, declined to comment on

the decision to block exits, say-

ing the department doesn’t com-

ment on “operational tactics.”

The convoy, a group of truck-

ers and other drivers protesting

pandemic-related health mea-

sures, spent parts of most days

last week looping the Capital

Beltway as a form of protest, but

leaders had avoided bringing

the group into the city despite a

desire from some supporters.

After taking the weekend off

because of a snowstorm in the

region, convoy organizers an-

nounced Monday the group

would resume their Beltway

loop. They left the Hagerstown

Speedway in Maryland at about

10 a.m., but this time with add-

ed plans for a detour intoWash-

ington.

“Today we’re getting right

next to their walls,” said Mike

Landis, a People’s Convoy co-or-

ganizer. “We’re not going to go

in and throat-punch them just

yet, even though I know we

would all love to do that.”

Organizers decided to go

through the city to display “a

bigger presence,” convoy leader

Brian Brase said in an interview.

The detour brought the full

convoy into the District for the

first time since it began Feb. 23

in Adelanto, Calif., en route to

Hagerstown, where itsmembers

have been sinceMarch 4.

Convoy leaders say theywant

to hold lawmakers accountable

for the government’s pandemic

responses, saying they are frus-

trated with vaccination require-

ments for health workers, feder-

al employees, and military per-

sonnel intended to limit the

spread of the coronavirus.

Thoughmany pandemic-related

restrictions at state and local

levels have been blocked or re-

scinded, convoy organizers have

rallied supporters by calling

mandates an infringement on

their freedoms.

A broader range of grievanc-

es has also brought people to the

cause, evident in signs, flags,

and chants from drivers and

supporters in Hagerstown.

Some have expressed far-right

beliefs and misinformation that

equate mandates to slavery,

falsely claim “Trump won,” re-

ferring to the 2020 presidential

election, and repeat QAnon con-

spiracies.

The People's Convoy had also

hoped to hold a nearly two-week

permitted trucker protest on the

Mall starting Monday, but the

application was partially denied

because of other events already

booked during that time frame,

according to National Park Ser-

vice records.

The Park Service was work-

ing with the group on another

date, location, and the condi-

tions for the protest when the

People’s Convoy withdrew the

application Sunday night, ac-

cording to Park Service spokes-

manMike Litterst.

It’s unclear whether the Peo-

ple’s Convoy will again bring its

protest into Washington, D.C.,

or hold a permitted demonstra-

tion in the future.

Police block exits as convoy drives through D.C.Permit for aprotest onMallpartially denied

RICKY CARIOTI/WASHINGTON POST

Supporters cheered and waved as the “People’s Convoy” departed Hagerstown Speedway for

the Capital Beltway on Friday in Hagerstown, Md.

BROOKLYNCENTER,

Minn. — Plans to take down a

memorial at the suburbanMin-

neapolis intersection where

DaunteWright was fatally shot

by a police officer are on hold

after his family complained.

Wright’s mother, Katie

Wright, said she and her hus-

band, Aubrey, will meet with

Brooklyn Center city manager

Reggie Edwardson after Ed-

wards informed them of plans

to take down thememorial.

DaunteWright, was killed

after Brooklyn Center officers

pulled over the 20-year-old

Blackman for having expired li-

cense tags. Kim Potter, the for-

mer police officer who fatally

shotWright, was sentenced last

month to two years in prison.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Wright family balksat memorial plan

TUE SDAY, MARCH 1 5 , 2 0 2 2 T h e B o s t o n G l o b e A3

CAIRO—More than a

dozen United Nations agen-

cies and international aid

groups saidMonday that

161,000 people in war-torn

Yemen are likely to experi-

ence famine over the second

half of 2022, a fivefold in-

crease from the current fig-

ure.

The stark warning came

in a report by the Integrated

Food Security Phase Classifi-

cation, or IPC, ahead of an

annual fund-raising confer-

ence that the United Nations

is hosting onWednesday.

The IPC is a global partner-

ship of 15 UN agencies and

humanitarian organizations

working in Yemen and fund-

ed by the European Union,

the USAID, and UKAID. It

tracks andmeasures food in-

security in conflict-stricken

regions.

The report underscores

the dire situation in the

poorest Arab nation that

plunged into civil war for in

2014, when Yemen’s Iran-

backedHouthi rebels took

control of the capital, Sanaa,

andmuch of the country’s

north, forcing the govern-

ment to flee to the south,

then to Saudi Arabia.

A Saudi-led coalition en-

tered the war inMarch 2015,

backed at the time by the

United States, in an effort to

restore the internationally

recognized government to

power. The war has deterio-

rated largely into a stalemate

and caused one of the world’s

worst humanitarian crises.

“These harrowing figures

confirm that we are on a

countdown to catastrophe in

Yemen, andwe are almost

out of time to avoid it,” said

David Beasley, head of the

World Food Program.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

160,000 Yemenisare facing famine,UN report says

GENEVA—Nearly all the

world’s countries kicked off a

United Nations-backedmeet-

ingMonday aimed at prevent-

ing the loss of biodiversity,

seen as critical to avoiding the

extinction of many vulnerable

species, the emergence of

pathogens like the coronavi-

rus, and the damage to both

lives and livelihoods of people

around the world, Indigenous

peoples in particular.

The two-weekmeeting of

over 190 countries on the Con-

vention on Biological Diversity

will be the last gathering of its

kind before amajor confer-

ence in the comingmonths in

Kunming, China, that will try

to adopt an international

agreement on protecting bio-

diversity.

“We have this one goal,

which is to bend the curve on

biodiversity loss and really to

build that shared future to live

in harmony with nature in the

long term,” the convention’s

executive secretary, Elizabeth

MarumaMrema, said.

Possible diplomatic fallout

fromRussia’s invasion of

Ukraine lurked in the back-

ground, potentially denting

any prospects of global unity

on the issue. Russian delegates

who had planned to attend

had their travel plans canceled

amid the closure of much of

Europe’s airspace to flights

fromRussia after the invasion,

organizers said.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

UNmeeting pushes to preserve biodiversity

Daily Briefing

By Catrin EinhornNEW YORK TIMES

A tree planted for every T-

shirt purchased. For every bottle

of wine. For every swipe of a

credit card. Trees planted by

countries to meet global pledges

and by companies to bolster

their sustainability records.

As the climate crisis deepens,

businesses and consumers are

joining nonprofit groups and

governments in a global tree

planting boom. Last year saw

billions of trees planted in scores

of countries around the world.

These efforts can be a triple win,

providing livelihoods, absorbing

and locking away planet-warm-

ing carbon dioxide, and improv-

ing the health of ecosystems.

But when done poorly, the

projects can worsen the very

problems they were meant to

solve. Planting the wrong trees

in the wrong place can actually

reduce biodiversity, speeding ex-

tinctions, and making ecosys-

tems far less resilient.

Addressing biodiversity loss,

already a global crisis akin to cli-

mate change, is becoming more

and more urgent. Extinction

rates are surging. An estimated

million species are at risk of dis-

appearing,manywithin decades.

And ecosystem collapse doesn’t

just threaten animals and plants;

it imperils the food and water

supplies that humans rely on.

Amid that worsening crisis,

companies and countries are in-

creasingly investing in tree

planting that carpets large areas

with commercial, nonnative spe-

cies in the name of fighting cli-

mate change. These trees sock

away carbon but provide little

support to the webs of life that

once thrived in those areas.

“You’re creating basically a

sterile landscape,” said Paul

Smith,who runsBotanicGardens

Conservation International, an

umbrella group thatworks to pre-

vent plant extinctions. “If people

want to plant trees, let’s also

make it apositive forbiodiversity.”

There’s a rule of thumb in the

tree planting world: One should

plant “the right tree in the right

place.” Some add, “for the right

reason.”

But, according to interviews

with a range of players — scien-

tists, policy experts, forestry

companies, and tree planting or-

ganizations — people often dis-

agree on what “right” means.

For some, it’s big tree farms for

carbon storage and timber. For

others, it’s providing fruit trees

to small-scale farmers. For oth-

ers still, it’s allowing native spe-

cies to regenerate.

The best efforts try to address

a range of needs, according to

restoration experts, but it can be

hard to reconcile competing in-

terests.

“It’s kind of the Wild West,”

said Forrest Fleischman, a pro-

fessor of environmental policy at

the University ofMinnesota.

There is not enough land on

Earth to tackle climate change

with trees alone, but if paired

with drastic cuts in fossil fuels,

trees can be an important natu-

ral solution. They absorb carbon

dioxide through pores in their

leaves and stash it away in their

branches and trunks (though

trees also release carbon when

they burn or rot). That ability to

collect CO2 is why forests are of-

ten called carbon sinks.

In Central Africa, TotalEner-

gies, the French oil and gas gi-

ant, has announced plans to

plant trees on 40,000 hectares in

the Republic of Congo.

But scientists warn that the

plan may be an example of one

of the worst kinds of forestation

efforts: planting trees where

they would not naturally occur.

These projects can devastate bio-

diversity, threaten water sup-

plies, and even increase temper-

atures because, in some cases,

trees absorb heat that grasslands

— or, in other parts of the world,

snow—would have reflected.

Plantingtrees isboominggloballySome fear it mayhurt biodiversity

PROTESTS

IN SUDAN — People

took part in ongoing

demonstrations calling

for civilian rule and

denouncing the military

administration in

Sudan’s capital

Khartoum on Monday.

Security forces opened

fire as protesters in

several cities across the

northeast African

nation marched against

military rule and a

worsening economic

situation, witnesses

said.

TheWorld

By Keith BradsherNEW YORK TIMES

BEIJING — Several of Chi-

na’s largest factory cities have

ordered a lockdown, halting

production of Toyota cars and

Apple iPhones. Theaters, cine-

mas, and many restaurants

have closed in Shanghai. The

northeastern province of Jilin

on Monday banned its 24 mil-

lion residents from leaving the

province or traveling between

cities.

China is grappling with its

largest surge of COVID-19 in-

fections since the coronavirus

first emerged more than two

years ago in central China. Sus-

tained outbreaks in two-thirds

of the country’s provinces are

proving the toughest test yet of

China’s zero-tolerance coronavi-

rus policy.

Even as countries in the

West are now loosening or

abandoning mask mandates

and other measures, Chinese of-

ficials are implementing some

of their most stringent meth-

ods. That is in large part be-

cause China can’t afford to lift

restrictions.

The government has been

concerned about comparatively

lower rates of vaccination

among China’s older adults. The

country also has far fewer inten-

sive care hospital beds com-

pared with its population than

most industrialized countries.

In China’s vast rural areas, hos-

pitals and medical facilities are

often basic, and a major out-

break could quickly overwhelm

hospitals.

The United States and other

Western countries have suffered

far higher rates of infection and

deaths over the past two years

than China and still have higher

rates now. But the seven-day av-

erage rate of new cases in main-

land China, now at 1,584, has

more than quintupled in recent

days.

Formany residents in China,

the rapid spread of the virus has

been unsettling.

“Because of the large num-

ber of cases in a short period of

time, it is inevitable that there

will be some panic all over the

country, and Shanghai is no ex-

ception,” Dr. ZhangWenhong, a

prominent infectious disease

expert in Shanghai, said in a

post on his socialmedia account

Monday.

China has responded to the

current surge in cases by mobi-

lizing its vast Communist Party

apparatus to deploy workers

and resources. In Jilin province,

where many cases have been re-

corded, workers are building

temporary facilities to house

thousands of people who test

positive. Across the country,

workers are corralling and test-

ing millions of citizens every

day. But that testing program is

starting to be overwhelmed.

“We have noticed that there

have been problems such as

long lines and slow test results

at many testing sites in the past

two days,” Lu Taohong, deputy

director of the Shanghai Munic-

ipal Health Commission, said at

a news conference Sunday

night.

China’s virus containment

strategy is focused on moving

quickly to lock down buildings

or neighborhoods. In response

to even a single case, officials

may seal all the entrances to a

store, office building or even

convention center. Everyone in-

side must then stay there for up

to several days as they are tested

for the coronavirus and sent in-

to isolation if their results are

positive.

In Shanghai, many foreign-

owned businesses stockpiled

mattresses last week in case

their employeeswere trapped in

their factories or their offices

this week. Multinationals there

then told their employees to

work from home this week.

In Guangzhou, the munici-

pal government Friday sealed

off the world’s largest conven-

tion center, whichwas holding a

beauty products exhibition. Vid-

eos circulating on Chinese so-

cial media platforms showed

crowds of stranded convention

goers milling around and look-

ing for exits in attempts to

evade the lockdown.

The outbreak’s rapid spread

and the government’s tough re-

sponse have left some residents

worried about the effect of lock-

downs on their livelihoods.

Li Yanhua, a grocery store

manager in Shanghai, was noti-

fied Saturday night that his

neighborhood was locked down

and that residents would have

to be tested for COVID.

“It was all of a sudden, we

are not even prepared — my

family has not enough vegeta-

bles and daily necessities,” Li

said. “My store is closed, but we

still need to pay rent.”

Still, such measures have al-

so been widely accepted as nec-

essary for the good of public

health.

COVID prompts lockdowns in ChinaLargest surgesince start ofpandemic

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Health workers tested those waiting in line at a COVID testing site on Monday in Beijing.

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SAN JUAN—Activists sup-

porting same-sexmarriage in

the Cayman Islands and Ber-

muda received a heavy blow

Monday following a ruling by a

top appeals court in London.

The United Kingdom’s Privy

Council, which serves as the fi-

nal court of appeals for several

islands in the Caribbean, sided

with the government of Bermu-

da, which had fought a local

Supreme Court’s decision to al-

low gaymarriage.

The Privy Council also ruled

that gay people don’t have the

right tomarry in the Cayman Is-

lands based on its Constitution.

“I’m in shock,” Leonardo

Raznovich, a local activist, said.

“The decision is an affront to

human dignity.” He said he

plans to fight the decision.

Caribbean activists had

hoped for a favorable ruling to

help sway public opinion in a

largely conservative region

where colonial anti-sodomy

laws remain on the books and

same-sexmarriage is rarely

considered a right.

“It’s taken us some time to

get here,” said Billie Bryan,

founder and president of

Colours Cayman, a nonprofit

LGBTQ group. “We’ve had to

jump over a few hurdles. It

would definitely act as a beacon

of hope for the entire region.’’

ASSOCIATED PRESS

UK court blocks gay marriage for Cayman Islands and Bermuda

LONDON—Britain’s Su-

preme Court onMonday re-

fused the latest appeal by

Julian Assange, the embattled

WikiLeaks founder,

to prevent his extra-

dition to the United

States.

The announce-

ment was a blow to

Assange, coming just

months after a high

court said he would

be able to appeal a

decision by a lower

court that would al-

low for his extradi-

tion.

The Supreme Court said it

had refused permission to ap-

peal “because the application

does not raise an arguable

point of law.”

Barry Pollack, an American

lawyer for Assange, con-

demned the ruling. “It is ex-

tremely disappoint-

ing that the UK Su-

preme Court is

unwilling to hear an

appeal of an issue

that the UKHigh

Court had already

deemed to be of

great public impor-

tance,” Pollack said.

“Mr. Assange will

continue the legal

process fighting his

extradition to the

United States to face criminal

charges for publishing truthful

and newsworthy information.”

NEWYORK TIMES

Assange loses bid to halt extradition

Julian Assange

faces espionage

charges in the

United States.

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By Steve PeoplesASSOCIATED PRESS

NEWYORK—MarylandGov-

ernor Larry Hogan is planning

trips to Iowa and New Hamp-

shire. Representative AdamKin-

zinger, an Illinois Republican, is

considering a rough timeline for

a potential presidential an-

nouncement. And allies of Repre-

sentative Liz Cheney, aWyoming

Republican, are openly talking

up herWhiteHouse prospects.

More than two years before

the next presidential election, a

shadow primary is already be-

ginning to take shape among at

least three fierce Republican

critics of former president Don-

ald Trump to determine who is

best positioned to occupy the an-

ti-Trump lane in 2024.

Their apparent willingness to

run — even if Trump does, as is

widely expected — represents a

shift from previous years when

“Never Trump” operatives failed

to recruit any GOP officeholders

to challenge the incumbent pres-

ident. But with the 2024 contest

almost in view, the question is

no longer whe ther one o f

Trump’s prominent Republican

critics will run, but how many

will mount a campaign and how

soon they will announce.

Those close to Cheney, Ho-

gan, and Kinzinger expect one of

them, if not more, to launch a

presidential bid after the 2022

midterms. Although all three are

nationally known to some de-

gree, their goal would not neces-

sarily be to win the presidency.

Above all, they want to hinder

Trump’s return to the White

House, at least compared with

2020, when his allies cleared the

field of any Republican oppo-

nents and persuaded some

states to cancel primary contests

altogether.

“It’s there as an option, but it’s

not necessarily because this is all

some big plan so I can be in the

White House,” Kinzinger told the

Associated Press when asked

about his timeline for deciding

on a presidential run. “It’s look-

ing and saying, ‘Is there going to

be a voice out there that can rep-

resent from that megaphone the

importance of defending this

country anddemocracy andwhat

America is about?’ There certain-

ly, I’m sure within the next year

or so, will be a point at which you

have tomake a decision.

“If it’s notme doing anything,

certainly we’ll be all in for who-

ever can represent us,” Kinzinger

said.

Republican primary voters

are expected to have other op-

tions.

Several former Trump loyal-

ists who have emerged as on-

again, off-again Trump critics are

also eyeing the GOP’s next presi-

dential nomination. Among

them: former New Jersey gover-

nor Chris Christie, former vice

president Mike Pence, Florida

Governor Ron DeSantis, and for-

mer UN ambassador Nikki Ha-

ley. But most in this group have

offered Trump far more praise

than criticism, leaving the likes of

Cheney, Hogan, and Kinzinger as

the only consistent Trump antag-

onists in the 2024 conversation.

The range of prospects sug-

gests an openness within the

GOP to move past Trump and

his divisive politics, even as

many Republican voters suggest

they would like to see him run a

third time.

About 7 in 10 Republicans

said the former president should

run again in 2024, according to a

CBS poll last month. Among the

most common reasons cited:

He’s the best GOP candidate and

has the best chance of winning.

Lest anyone question his in-

tentions, Trump told thousands

of supporters Saturday night in

South Carolina, “Wemay have to

run again.” He remains the most

popular figure among Republi-

can voters and plans to use the

upcoming midterms to keep

bending the party in his direc-

tion.

But those close to Cheney,Ho-

gan, andKinzinger insist a signif-

icant number of less vocal Re-

publican voters are eager tomove

past Trump, especially after he

inspired the Jan. 6, 2021, attack

on the US Capitol. After all, 10

Republican representatives voted

to impeach Trump and seven Re-

publican senators subsequently

voted to convict him.

Anti-Trump Republicans line up for 2024 shadow primaryCheney, Hogan,Kinzinger couldlaunch bids

ByMariana AlfaroWASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — Virginia

Thomas, the wife of Supreme

Court Associate Justice Clarence

Thomas, for the first time has

publicly acknowledged that she

participated in the Jan. 6, 2021,

“Stop-the-Steal” rally on the El-

lipse that preceded the storming

of the Capitol by a pro-Trump

mob, raising questions about the

impartiality of her husband’s

work.

In an interview with the con-

servative outlet TheWashington

Free Beacon publishedMonday,

Thomas, who goes by Ginni, said

she was part of the crowd that

gathered at the Ellipse that

morning to support President

Trump. Trump was claiming

falsely that widespread voter

fraud delivered the presidency to

Democrat Joe Biden — a false-

hood he continues to repeat.

Thomas said she was at the

rally for a short period of time,

got cold, and went home before

Trump took the stage at noon

that day.

“I was disappointed and frus-

trated that there was violence

that happened following a

peaceful gathering of Trump

supporters on the Ellipse on Jan.

6,” the conservative activist told

the publication. “There are im-

portant and legitimate substan-

tive questions about achieving

goals like electoral integrity, ra-

cial equality, and political ac-

countability that a democratic

system like ours needs to be able

to discuss and debate rationally

in the political square. I fear we

are losing that ability.”

A spokeswoman for the Su-

preme Court did not immediate-

ly respond to a request for com-

ment.

In February 2021, Thomas

apologized to her husband's for-

mer law clerks after a rift devel-

oped among them over her elec-

tion advocacy of Trump and en-

dorsement of the Jan. 6 rally that

led to violence and death at the

Capitol.

The siege by the pro-Trump

mob trying to stop the confirma-

tion of Biden's electoral college

win left the Capitol vandalized

and resulted in the deaths of five

people and injuries to 140mem-

bers of law enforcement.

“I owe you all an apology. I

have likely imposed on you my

lifetime passions,” Thomas

wrote to a private Thomas Clerk

World e-mail list of her hus-

band’s staff over his three de-

cades on the bench.

As an outspoken conserva-

tives activist, Ginni Thomas has

drawn scrutiny to her husband’s

work on the court and his impar-

tiality, most recently in connec-

tion to the Jan. 6 attack and the

House select committee tasked

with investigating the riot.

While Ginni Thomas's activ-

ism has, in multiple instances,

overlapped with cases decided

by her husband, her connection

to the rally that preceded the in-

surrection has reignited fury

among his critics, who say it il-

lustrates a gaping hole in the

court's rules: Justices essentially

decide for themselves whether

they have a conflict of interest.

Thomasadmits tobeing atD.C. rallyJustice’s wifecondemns violence

By Apoorva MandavilliNEW YORK TIMES

Australian regulators have

approved a simple drug combi-

nation as an effective cure for a

form of malaria in children ages

2 to 16, opening the door to ap-

provals in other countries and

heralding a new weapon in the

battle against a deadly disease.

The drug is a single dose of

tafenoquine (brand name

Kozenis), administered along

with the traditional chloroquine

treatment. The approval was an-

nounced Monday by the non-

profit Medicines for Malaria

Venture, which helped develop

the drug.

Tafenoquine, made by Glaxo-

SmithKline, can cure a type of

malaria caused by Plasmodium

vivax, which is most common in

South and Southeast Asia, South

America, and the Horn of Africa.

The drug will be submitted

for approval in nine countries, as

well as to the World Health Or-

ganization, according to George

Jagoe, an executive vice presi-

dent at the Medicines for Malar-

ia Venture.

Malaria is among the deadli-

est of infectious diseases. In

2019, there were 229 million

new infections and 558,000

deaths.

Most of these deaths are in

sub-Saharan Africa, home to a

form of the malaria parasite

called Plasmodium falciparum.

A majority of the fatalities occur

in children younger than age 5.

P. vivax causes up to 5million

malaria infections every year;

children ages 2 to 6 are four

times as likely as adults to con-

tract the disease.

P. vivax can also hide out in

the liver, triggering relapses

months or even years after the

initial exposure. These episodes

can lead to severe anemia, last-

ing brain damage, and death.

“That’s the trademark of

vivaxmalaria,” Jagoe said.

Most treatments, including

chloroquine, are directed at the

blood stage of the parasite, and

so cannot prevent recurrence of

the infection and its associated

symptoms. But tafenoquine goes

after the sleeper colonies in the

liver. In combination with chlo-

roquine, tafenoquine can deliver

what scientists call a “radical

cure.”

“Today, we have a tool to put

a stop to the relentless relapse

both for adults and children —

we are one step closer to defeat-

ing this disease,” David Reddy,

the chief executive of the Medi-

cines for Malaria Venture, said

in a statement.

Researchers evaluated differ-

ent dosages of the drug, based

on weight, for children ages 2 to

15 who weighed at least 22

pounds. The investigators re-

cruited 60 children with P. vivax

malaria from three sites in Viet-

nam and one in Colombia.

The children all got a single

dose of tafenoquine and a course

of chloroquine administered ac-

cording to local or national

guidelines for the treatment of

the active blood stage infection.

About 62 percent of the chil-

dren reported some side effects,

a percentage similar to that seen

in adults and adolescents, the re-

searchers reported. None of the

side effects were severe, al-

though the treatment caused

vomiting in about 1 in 5 of the

children.

At four months, the efficacy

of the treatment in preventing

recurrence was 95 percent, simi-

lar to the efficacy in adults and

older adolescents.

Novel malaria treatment for children gets first approval

BRIAN ONGORO/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE VIA GETTY IMAGES

Unlike the pictured vaccine that prevents infection, a new

treatment seeks to cure children afflicted with malaria.

As former president Donald

Trump continues to tease a fu-

tureWhite House bid, a pro-

Democratic su-

per PAC has ac-

cused him of

violating feder-

al campaign laws by raising and

spendingmoney for a runwith-

out officially filing his candida-

cy.

In its complaint filedMon-

day with the Federal Election

Commission, American Bridge

accused Trump of “illegally us-

ing his multicandidate leader-

ship PAC to raise and spend

funds in excess of Commission

limits for the purpose of advanc-

ing a 2024 presidential cam-

paign.’’ The super PAC says that

includes “payments for events at

Trump properties, rallies featur-

ingMr. Trump, consulting pay-

ments to former Trump cam-

paign staff, and digital advertis-

ing aboutMr. Trump’s events

and his presumptive 2024 oppo-

nent.”

Alleging that Trump has al-

ready privately decided to

mount a 2024 campaign, Ameri-

can Bridge says he was then ob-

ligated to file a candidacy intent

statement within 15 days of re-

ceiving contributions ormaking

any expenditure over $5,000.

‘‘Trump has played footsie

with the Federal Election Cam-

paign Act for months,” the group

saidMonday, noting that the

former president, through his

Save America PAC, has spent

more than $100,000 per week

on Facebook ads “and has con-

sistently raisedmore than $1

million per week— a clear viola-

tion of campaign finance law

and precedent established by

the Federal Election Commis-

sion.”

American Bridge wants the

FEC to compel disclosure of

Trump’s expenditures and fine

him “themaximum amount per-

mitted by law.”

Taylor Budowich, a Trump

spokesman, said the complaint

was withoutmerit and he ac-

cused Democrats of resorting to

“cheap gimmicks.”

Trump isaccused ofcampaignviolations

POLITICAL

NOTEBOOK

“Our country is spiraling into

disaster because of the Demo-

crats’ failures, and instead of re-

versing course to provide need-

ed relief to American families,

they are busy filing frivolous

complaints that have zeromer-

it,’’ he said.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Idaho Legislature OK’s bill to

ban abortion after 6 weeks

The IdahoHouse onMonday

approved a Republican bill that

would ban abortions after six

weeks of pregnancy, becoming

the first state to copy parts of the

restrictive Texas law that has

bannedmost abortions in the

state. The vote was 51-14.

The Idaho Senate approved

the bill earlier this month. The

measure heads to Republican

Governor Brad Little, who has

supported similar abortion bans

but has not commented on this

particular bill, which includes

exceptions for rape, incest, and

medical emergencies.

Idaho’s current law allows for

abortions until a fetus is viable

outside the womb, around 22 to

24 weeks. Another six-week

abortion ban in Idaho has been

stalled since it was passed and

signed by Little last spring, re-

quiring a favorable court ruling

on a similar law elsewhere in the

country before it can take effect.

WASHINGTON POST

Group sues Okla. governor

over birth certificate order

OKLAHOMACITY—A na-

tional civil rights group sued

Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt

onMonday over his decision to

prohibit the state from issuing

birth certificates listing a nonbi-

nary option or allowing trans-

gender people to change their

gender designation.

The lawsuit was filed in US

District Court for the Northern

District of Oklahoma in Tulsa by

attorneys for Lambda Legal on

behalf of a transgender woman

and two transgendermenwho

live in Oklahoma. Defendants

include Stitt, interim commis-

sioner of health Keith Reed, and

state registrar of vital records

Kelly Baker.

“Having a birth certificate

that reflects who I am as a hu-

man being is crucial and can

present a basic issue of safety for

me,” plaintiff Rowan Fowler, a

transgender womanwhowants

to correct her birth certificate

that currently indicates that her

gender is male, said in a state-

ment. Stitt spokeswoman Carly

Atchison declined to comment

on the lawsuit.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Democratic suit challenges

lack ofMissouri Housemap

JEFFERSONCITY,Mo. —A

lawsuit filed on behalf ofMis-

souri voters by Democratic at-

torneys is asking a court to in-

tervene in the state’s stalled re-

districting process and draw

newUSHousemaps that can be

used in this year’s elections.

As ofMonday,Missouri was

one of only a few states that had

yet to enact new congressional

districts following the 2020 cen-

sus. The lawsuit contends it’s

unconstitutional to use the

maps enacted a decade ago, be-

cause some districts now have

tens of thousandsmore resi-

dents than others due to popula-

tion shifts.

When districts don’t have

equal populations, votes cast

from districts with fewer people

carrymore weight than those

from heavily populated districts,

according to the lawsuit filed

late Friday in Cole County Cir-

cuit Court by five voters from

overpopulated districts.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Charges against Russian in

Giuliani-tied case unsealed

NEWYORK—ARussian ty-

coon whose name arose promi-

nently in the illegal political con-

tribution case against two asso-

ciates of Rudy Giuliani was

secretly charged with conspiracy

last year in a New York court,

prosecutors revealedMonday.

Conspiracy and illegal cam-

paign contribution charges that

were lodged against AndreyMu-

raviev in September 2020 in

Manhattan federal court were

unsealed by prosecutors who

told a judge that the business-

manwas not in custody andwas

believed to be in Russia.

An indictment returned

againstMuraviev in September

said some ofMuraviev’s money

was used for political contribu-

tions and donations aimed at

launching a business to acquire

US retail cannabis andmarijua-

na licenses, but the source of the

funds was disguised as coming

from the Giuliani associates, Lev

Parnas and Igor Fruman.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

MAKING THE ROUNDS — Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson met with Senator Patty Murray, Democrat

from Washington, in her office on Capitol Hill Monday. Brown Jackson continued to meet with Senate members ahead

of her confirmation hearings, which begin next week in Washington.

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televisions, hardware, bath-

room tiles, most things that can

fit in a box usually reach the is-

land on a UPS truck.

“It ’s going to put us in a

world of hurt,” said Shantaw

Bloise, business manager at the

Nantucket Chamber of Com-

merce.

UPS is the biggest carrier of

standard deliveries to the

wealthy enclave, Bloise said. “I

can’t imagine how we’ll be able

to function just relying on DHL,

FedEx, and the Postal Service.”

Stephanie Correia, who runs

Stephanie’s, a clothing and

home goods store on Main

Street, said she relies on UPS for

most of her inventory. And in

the summer, when she makes

approximately 75 percent of her

annual profits, it’s essential

those goods arrive. She relies on

UPS for deliveries to her home,

as well.

For an island community 30

miles out to sea, she said, “it’s a

lifeline for business, for home-

owners, for Amazon.”

Failing to make ferry reserva-

tions is practically an unthink-

able error for residents andmer-

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chants, she said.

“You cross your T’s and dot

your I’s,” Correia said. “I’ve been

in business for 26 years, and I’ve

never seen anything like this.”

The Steamship Authority has

a system in place that is meant

to ensure this type of disruption

— first reported by Nantucket

Magazine— never occurs.

Every fall, the authority

sends a packet of paperwork to

freight shippers. The companies

return the paperwork with their

requests for ferry reservations

for their following summer. That

way, spots for the shippers’

trucks can be reserved before

booking is opened to the public

in January.

Last fall, UPS didn’t respond,

Malkin said. When the Steam-

ship Authority reached out to

ask why not, it didn’t immedi-

ately hear back. “Someone at

UPS dropped the ball,” he said.

At some point —Malkin said

he’s not quite sure when — “the

light bulbwent off” andUPS dis-

covered the error and scrambled

to grab whatever reservations

they could. The shipping compa-

ny has secured some summer

slots for its eighteen-wheelers —

the vehicles it uses to transport

deliveries to its Nantucket distri-

bution center. “But they don’t

have what they need,” Malkin

said.

A spokesperson for UPS said,

“UPS has ferry reservations and

is working on other transporta-

tion options to ensure packages

are delivered on time to the is-

land during the busy summer

season.”

Some on the island have a

sense that all will work out in

the end.

“In Nantucket, if you make

enough noise, they deal with it,”

said William D. Cohan, a writer

who owns a house on the island.

“The summer folks are going to

have to get their twee outfits

they ordered from Hermès on-

line.”

Vanessa Moore, a customer

service representative at Nan-

tucket Housefitters, said she is

sure the Steamship Authority

will find a way to solve the prob-

lem. “Usually they’ll put another

ship on” in the case of a schedul-

ing disruption, she said.

But the authority says adding

capacity might not be possible.

“We’re basically at the maxi-

mumnumber of routes right now

in terms of the number of boats

and the number of crew mem-

bers,” said SeanDriscoll, a spokes-

man for the authority. “There

might be a couple of trips here

and there we can add, but not on

any kind of systemic basis.”

“There’s no secret tunnel for

the freight shippers,” he said.

One problem is that traffic to

the island has increased during

the pandemic, with pent-up va-

cation demand combining with

a surge of city dwellers lured by

the chance to work remotely.

“The reservations for this

year exceeded any prior year by

significant percentages,” Malkin

said.

UPS appears not to have a

problem with its ferry reserva-

tions for Martha’s Vineyard,

even though bulk reservations

for both islands are typically re-

quested on the same form.

Driscoll, the authority’s spokes-

man, said that itmay be easier to

resolve a scheduling issue on the

Martha’s Vineyard route, which

has more trips and more boats.

(He said he was speaking gener-

ally because he was not permit-

ted to comment on a specific

customer.)

On Nantucket, disruption in

UPS’s service, if it is not resolved

by May, is expected to hit retail-

ers and households the hardest.

The island’s only hospital relies

on FedEx for supplies. Food, fu-

el, and large shipments, such as

refrigerators, are typically han-

dled by other carriers.

“We get two UPS deliveries a

day,” said Moore, of Nantucket

Housefitters. “Our clients won’t

be getting the tiles for their bath-

room floors.”

Bloise, of the Chamber of

Commerce, said “people are go-

ing to have to get creative.” One

store owner, whose vendors are

based in New York, told Bloise

she is considering bringing her

goods to the island herself.

But creativity can only take

one so far. For tourists who miss

the winter booking rush, there

are workarounds.

“You take the fast ferry and

leave your car in Hyannis,” said

Cohan, the island homeowner.

“But having the UPS guy leave

his truck andwalk onto the ferry

with his packages isn’t going to

work.”

Nantucket merchants fear UPS missed the boat on packages

CRAIG F. WALKER/GLOBE STAFF FILE

UPS, which relies on ferry service from Hyannis, is the

biggest carrier of standard deliveries to Nantucket.

Public healthmeasures to

stop the spread of COVID-19

had an unintended consequence

across Latin

America and

Southeast Asia

in 2020: Den-

gue virus infections were pre-

vented in hundreds of thou-

sands of people, according to a

study published in The Lancet

this month. The research offers

clues for new strategies to com-

bat a dangerous tropical disease

that had been infectingmore

people each year.

The research found amarked

decline in infections fromApril

2020 acrossmany regions where

dengue is spread bymosquitoes;

the study estimates that there

were 720,000 fewer dengue cas-

es globally in the first year of the

pandemic because of restric-

tions onmovement.

“We found really unexpected

net benefits from COVID restric-

tions that are going to help us

better fight dengue in the fu-

ture,” said Dr. Oliver Brady, an

epidemiologist at the London

School of Hygiene and Tropical

Medicine whowas the senior

author of the study.

More than 5million people

were infected with dengue— al-

so known as “breakbone fever”

for the severe joint andmuscle

pain it causes — in 2019.

Brady said that, early in the

pandemic, he and other infec-

tious disease researchers feared

disaster, as resources were di-

verted to COVID-19, and other

disease control measures — such

as spraying formosquitoes —

were interrupted.

School closures, in particular,

appear to have played a key role

in cutting dengue cases. The

main dengue vector, Aedes ae-

gypti mosquitoes, are daytime

feeders. Most dengue-control

programs focus on people’s

houses, spraying to kill mosqui-

toes andmonitoring for stand-

ing water that could breed them,

under the assumption that’s

where transmission happens.

NEW YORK TIMES

Millions likely to fall off

Medicaid after emergency

Asmany as 16million low-

income Americans, including

millions of children, are des-

tined to fall off Medicaid when

the nation’s public health emer-

gency ends, as states face a her-

culeanmission to sort out who

no longer belongs on rolls that

have swollen to record levels

during the pandemic.

The looming disruption is a

little-noticed side effect of the

coronavirus crisis, and it is stok-

ing fears among some onMedic-

aid and their advocates that vul-

nerable people who survived the

pandemic will risk suddenly liv-

ing without health coverage

The unprecedented work

that lies ahead will wind down a

profound, temporary change

Congress made toMedicaid, the

nation’s largest public health in-

surance program, early in the

pandemic.

The first coronavirus relief

law, inMarch 2020, offered

states a bargain to help them

cope with the sudden spurt of

Americans losing jobs and

health benefits that accompa-

nied the worst public health cri-

sis in a century: The federal gov-

ernment would give states extra

money to help pay forMedicaid

if they promised not tomove

anyone off the program as long

as the emergency lasted.

WASHINGTON POST

US Capitol complex takes

steps toward reopening

WASHINGTON—House and

Senate officials are considering a

phased reopening of the Capitol

beginningMarch 28 after shut-

ting down the complex due to

the coronavirus pandemic.

SinceMarch 12, 2020, mem-

bers of the general public have

been restricted from entering

the Capitol complex. Only law-

makers, staff, the credentialed

Capitol press corps, and those

deemed to be official visitors

have been allowed to enter.

OnMonday, staffers for the

House Administration and Sen-

ate Rules Committees, the

House and Senate Sergeants at

Arms, andmembers of the US

Capitol Police discussed a draft

plan for the reopening, accord-

ing to a person familiar with the

meeting whowas not authorized

to speak publicly.

The proposal, which has not

been finalized, lays out a three-

phase plan for reopening the

complex to visitors and the gen-

eral public.

The first phase would begin

onMarch 28. It would allow for

the resumption of staff-led tours,

with a limit of 15 people per

tour. Visitors on official business

also would be allowedwith a 15-

person limit. And Capitol tours

for K-12 students would resume.

WASHINGTON POST

Hong Kong leader says it

can’t achieve strict strategy

Hong Kong is struggling to

get a handle on its worst corona-

virus outbreak since the start of

the pandemic, warning that it

doesn’t have the testing capacity

to carry out the strict strategy

handed down by Beijing.

In themainland cities of

Shenzhen and Shanghai, offi-

cials imposed restrictions on

millions of people within days of

local outbreaks to test every resi-

dent. But Hong Kong’s chief ex-

ecutive, Carrie Lam, noted on

Monday that her city doesn’t

have the same ability.

The difference amounts to

resources and systems of gover-

nance, Lam said. Shenzhen and

Shanghai can test millions of

people a day; Hong Kong’s

health officials can only test be-

tween 200,000 and 300,000 peo-

ple a day.

HongKong, one of the last

places in theworld that are still

trying to get rid of the virus in-

stead of livingwith it, has report-

edmore than 700,000 cases and

4,066 deaths since late January.

NEW YORK TIMES

Four House Democrats test

positive after party retreat

At least four House Demo-

crats have said that they tested

positive for the coronavirus after

a party retreat held last week in

Philadelphia.

RepresentativeMadeleine

Dean of Pennsylvania an-

nounced her positive result on

Monday, Representatives Zoe

Lofgren of California and Kim

Schrier ofWashington on Sun-

day, and Rosa DeLauro of Con-

necticut on Saturday.

All four representatives said

that they were vaccinated and

boosted andwere experiencing

onlymild symptoms. All four at-

tended the House Democratic

Caucus’s retreat in Philadelphia

last week, according to a person

in attendance.

It was the caucus’s first major

in-person event in three years.

NEW YORK TIMES

UK to end all COVID travel

rules ahead of Easter break

LONDON—Britain’s govern-

ment saidMonday all remaining

coronavirusmeasures for travel-

ers, including passenger locator

forms and the requirement that

unvaccinated people be tested

for COVID-19 before and after

their arrivals, will end Friday to

make going on holiday easier for

the Easter school vacation.

The announcement came as

coronavirus infections were ris-

ing in all four parts of the UK—

England, Scotland,Wales, and

Northern Ireland— for the first

time since the end of January.

The number of hospital patients

with COVID-19 is also going up.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

France lifts COVID rules on

unvaccinated, mask-wearing

PARIS— France liftedmost

COVID-19 restrictions onMon-

day, abolishing the need to wear

facemasks inmost settings and

allowing people who aren’t vac-

cinated back into restaurants,

sports arenas, and other venues.

Themove had been an-

nounced earlier this month by

the French government based

on assessments of the improving

situation in hospitals and fol-

lowing weeks of a steady decline

in infections. But in recent days,

the number of new infections

has started increasing again.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

COVID restrictions prevented dengue infections in 2020

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Medan, Indonesia, last month.

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By Max Bearakand Isabelle Khurshudyan

WASHINGTON POST

LVIV, Ukraine — Emptying a

museum is a gargantuan task,

and the entire workforce of the

Andrey Sheptytsky National

Museum in Lviv had been at it

for a week before the final piece

— a century-old portrait of the

museum’s namesake — was tak-

en down, leaving the last of its

walls bare.

Ihor Kozhan, the director of

the grand gallery opposite Lviv’s

opera house, explained the rush.

“There is an egomaniac in

Moscow who doesn’t care about

killing children, let alone de-

stroying art,” he said. “If our his-

tory and heritage are to survive,

all art must go underground.”

Across Ukraine, artists, gal-

lerists, curators, and museum

directors are desperately but

carefully unhooking, wrapping,

and stashing away the country’s

hefty cultural endowment as

Vladimir Putin’s onslaught clos-

es in. Statues, stained-glass win-

dows, and monuments are be-

ing covered with shrapnel-proof

material. Basement bunkers are

crammed with paintings.

As Russian bombardments

have so far been heavier in the

eastern half of the country, two

of Ukraine’s richest cities in

terms of cultural heritage, Lviv

and Odessa, have had the bene-

fit of extra time. Volunteers in

the latter, for instance, took days

to stack hundreds of sandbags

around a monument to the

Duke of Richelieu, a Frenchman

who was one of the cosmopoli-

tan port city’s founders. Just his

head and his outstretched right

arm remain uncovered.

Kyiv and Kharkiv, the coun-

try’s two biggest cities, were

struck early in the war and have

already suffered devastating

losses.

The windows of Kharkiv’s

main art museum have been

blown out , subject ing the

25,000 artworks inside to freez-

ing temperatures and snow for

weeks. The city’s opera and bal-

let theaters were extensively

shelled.

Twenty-five works by one of

Ukraine’s most celebrated paint-

ers, Maria Prymachenko, famed

for her colorful representation

of Ukrainian folklore and rural

life, were burned when Russians

bombed the museum housing

them in a town outside Kyiv.

Other museums in the capital

are boarded up, their works still

inside because those who would

have evacuated them have fled.

“City centers are seriously

damaged, some of which have

sites and monuments that date

back to the 11th century,” Laza-

re Eloundou, the director of the

United Nations’ world heritage

program, told reporters last

week. “It is a whole cultural life

that risks disappearing.”

The deliberate destruction of

a country’s or culture’s heritage

is a considered a war crime, but

UNESCO has not yet canceled

its next summit, which is sched-

uled to take place in Russia.

As Russian troops attempt to

encircle Odessa, the Fine Arts

Museum there has encircled it-

self with razor wire.

“Trust me, it looks really wild

to me, too,” said Kirill Lipatov,

the museum’s director of sci-

ence.

As in Lviv’s museums, the

walls inside are now bare, Lipa-

tov said, but he declined to re-

veal whether its most valuable

works had been evacuated out-

side of the city. Some of the piec-

es were painted inside themuse-

um — an ornate palace dating

back to the 1820s — and have

never left it, including iconic

19th-century Russian works by

Ivan Aivazovsky and Ilya Repin.

“The first thought that came

to mind for me is that a Ukraini-

an museum is protecting Rus-

sian masterpieces from Russian

aggression,” Lipatov said. “I

can’t wrapmy head around it.”

Even as they struggled to be-

lieve it, museum directors also

said their plight was hardly un-

familiar. Ukraine has been

stripped of artwork by invaders

multiple times over the past cen-

tury.

After Russia’s invasion and

annexation of Crimea in 2014,

dozens of works that were locat-

ed on the peninsula were trans-

ferred to Russian museums.

DuringWorldWar II, thousands

of works were taken by Nazi sol-

diers to Germany. A portrait of

Yakov Galkin, the director who

evacuated Odessa’s Fine Arts

Museum during World War II,

hangs in Lipatov’s office.

Saving art was secondary on-

ly to saving lives, many of those

interviewed said, becauseUkrai-

nians’ pride in their culture

serves as a deep well of inspira-

tion for its resistance to inva-

sion. Putin has made it clear

that he considers Ukraine to be

part of greater Russia, a conten-

tion artists here say denies

Ukraine’s distinct heritage.

“With each invasion, some

loss of culture is inevitable,” said

Taras Voznyak, director of the

Lviv National Art Gallery. “Putin

knows that without art, without

our history, Ukraine will have a

weaker identity.”

MU S E U M S T H R E A T E N E D

A besieged nation scrambles to shield its cultural heritage

KASIA STREK FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

An archbishop’s portrait was taken down from the walls in

the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv.

By Mstyslav ChernovASSOCIATED PRESS

MARIUPOL, Ukraine — A

wounded pregnant woman who

was taken on a stretcher from a

maternity hospital that was

bombed by Russia last week has

died, along with her baby, the

Associated Press has learned.

Images of the woman, whom

the AP has not been able to

identify, were seen around the

world, personifying the horror

of an attack on civilians.

She was one of at least three

pregnant women tracked down

from thematernity hospital that

was bombarded Wednesday in

the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.

The other two survived, along

with their newborn daughters.

In video and photos shot af-

ter the hospital attack, the

wounded woman stroked her

bloodied lower left abdomen as

emergency workers carried her

t h r ou gh t h e r ubb l e , h e r

blanched face mirroring her

shock at what had just hap-

pened.

It was among the most bru-

tal moments so far in Russia’s

now 19-day-old war in Ukraine.

The woman was taken to an-

other hospital, closer to the

front line, where doctors tried

to save her. Realizing she was

losing her baby, medics said, she

had cried out to them, “Kill me

now!”

Dr. Timur Marin said Satur-

day that the woman’s pelvis had

been crushed and her hip de-

tached. Her baby was delivered

via caesarean sec t ion but

showed “no signs of life,” he

said.

They tried to save the wom-

an, and “more than 30 minutes

of resuscitation of the mother

didn’t produce results,” Marin

said. “Both died.”

In the chaos after the air-

strike, medical workers did not

get her name before her hus-

band and father took away her

body. Doctors said they were

grateful that she didn’t end up

in the mass graves being dug for

many of Mariupol’s dead.

Accused of attacking civil-

ians, Russian officials claimed

the maternity hospital had been

taken over by Ukrainian ex-

tremists to use as a base, and

that no patients or medics were

left inside. Russia’s ambassador

to the UN and the Russian Em-

bassy in London falsely de-

scribed the images as fakes.

Associated Press journalists,

who have been reporting from

inside blockaded Mariupol

since early in the war, docu-

mented the attack and saw the

victims and damage firsthand.

They shot video and photos of

several bloodstained, pregnant

mothers fleeing the blown-out

maternity ward as medical

workers shouted and children

cried.

The team tracked down

some of the victims Friday and

Saturday after they were trans-

ferred to another hospital on

the outskirts of Mariupol. The

port city on the Sea of Azov has

been without supplies of food,

water, power, or heat for more

than a week. Electricity from

emergency generators is re-

served for operating rooms.

As survivors described their

ordeal, explosions shook the

walls, causing medical workers

to flinch. Shelling and shooting

in the area is sporadic but re-

lentless. Emotions ran high,

even as doctors and nurses fo-

cused on their work.

Another pregnant woman,

Mariana Vishegirskaya, gave

birth to a girl on Thursday. She

recounted the bombing as she

wrapped her arm around her

newborn daughter, Veronika.

Af ter photos and video

showed her navigating down

debris-strewn stairs in her pol-

ka-dot pajamas while clutching

a blanket, Russian officials

falsely claimed she was an actor

in a staged attack.

“It happened on March 9 in

Hospital No. 3 in Mariupol. We

were lying in wards when glass,

frames, windows and walls flew

apart,” said Vishegirskaya, who

has blogged on social media

about fashion and beauty.

“We don’t know how it hap-

pened. We were in our wards

and some had time to cover

themselves; some didn’t,” she

said.

Her ordeal was one among

many in the city of 430,000 peo-

ple, which has become a symbol

of resistance to Russian Presi-

dent Vladimir Putin’s war in

Ukraine.

The failure to fully capture

Mariupol has pushed Russian

forces to broaden their offensive

elsewhere in Ukraine. The city

is a key to creating a land bridge

from the Russian border to the

Crimean Peninsula, which Mos-

cow annexed from Ukraine in

2014.

In a makeshift new materni-

ty ward in Mariupol, each new

birth brings renewed tension.

“All birthing mothers have

lived through so much,” said

nurse Olga Vereshagina.

A third pregnant woman

seen by AP lost some of her toes

in the bombing, and medical

workers performed a caesarean

section on her Friday.

Her baby was rubbed vigor-

ously to stimulate any signs of

life. After a few tense moments,

the baby began to wail.

Cheers resonated through

the room amid the cries of the

girl, who was named Alana. Her

mother also cried and the medi-

cal staff wiped tears from their

own eyes.

C I V I L I A N S

Pregnant woman,her baby die afterattack, medics sayBombardment ofmaternity facilityled to iconic image

EVGENIY MALOLETKA/ASSOCIATED PRESS

In one of the war’s most searing images, emergency workers and volunteers carried an injured pregnant woman last week.

By Karla AdamWASHINGTON POST

LONDON— In the middle of

the night, protesters on Monday

broke into a white stucco man-

sion in central London belong-

ing to the family of a Russian oli-

garch, unfurled a Ukrainian

flag, and declared the property

‘‘liberated’’ and ready for refu-

gees.

The mansion belongs to the

family of Oleg Deripaska, an oil

andmetals tycoon who was add-

ed to the UK sanctions list last

week alongside his former busi-

ness partner Roman Abramov-

ich and five others in the British

government’s most aggressive

crackdown yet on Russian elites

it says have close ties to Russian

President Vladimir Putin.

A spokeswoman for Deripas-

ka, Larisa Belyaeva, said the

house belongs to members of

theDeripaska family rather than

to him personally. She added

that the family was ‘‘appalled at

the negligence of Britain’s justice

system.’’

The occupation ended Mon-

day evening when four protest-

ers who remained on the balco-

ny were arrested after an hours-

long standoff with London’s

Metropolitan Police. But the sei-

zure of the home along what the

tabloids have dubbed ‘‘billion-

aire row’’ reflects an idea floated

by British politicians in recent

weeks to turn palatial properties

owned by sanctioned Russian

elites into effective refugee shel-

ters.

‘‘I want to explore an option

which would allow us to use the

homes and properties of sanc-

tioned individuals for as long as

they are sanctioned for humani-

tarian and other purposes,’’

housing minister Michael Gove

told BBCNews on Sunday.

But the government can’t just

take away the house keys. Ana-

lysts say property seizure is dif-

ferent from applying sanctions

and freezing assets. Sanctioned

oligarchs are allowed to live in

their homes. Gove conceded his

proposal would be legally chal-

lenging, but he said it was some-

thing the UK government was

investigating.

‘‘We are saying, ‘You’re sanc-

tioned, you’re supporting Putin,

this home is here, you have no

right to use or profit from it,’’’ he

said. ‘‘If we can use it in order to

help others, let’s do that.’’

London Mayor Sadiq Khan

echoed that ideaMonday, telling

ITV News that the ‘‘goldbricked’’

London homes of Russian oli-

garchs could be used to help

with the refugee crisis. ‘‘For

some time I’ve been complain-

ing about the number of homes

in our city owned by Russian oli-

garchs close to Putin that have

stood empty gathering dust at a

time when we have a housing

crisis,’’ Khan said.

Finding ways to help support

Ukrainian refugees might go

over well with the British public,

as more than three-fourths of

surveyed Brits say they support

the United Kingdom resettling

some Ukrainian refugees. Brit-

ain has so far granted around

4,000 visas to Ukrainian refu-

gees, a fraction of what other

European countries are doing.

Until now, only those with

family ties to the United King-

dom could apply for a visa. On

Monday, the government

launched a second route, called

‘‘Homes for Ukraine,’’ that will

allow the British public to offer

rooms to any Ukrainian refugee.

More than 43,000 British resi-

dents signed up to take part in

the first five hours of the website

going live.

It would not be impossible

for the British government to

seize the properties of sanc-

tioned oligarchs to help refu-

gees, but there are legal hurdles.

‘‘These assets have been fro-

zen, they haven’t been confiscat-

ed. They still belong to the same

people. They have just been fro-

zen so they can’t be sold,’’ said

Tom Keatinge, director of the

center for financial crime and

security studies at the Royal

United Services Institute, a

think tank based in London.

Oligarchs can be served with

an ‘‘unexplained wealth order,’’ a

power introduced in 2018 that

allows the British courts to com-

pel a target to reveal the sources

of their riches. If the state can

make a case that a property was

purchased with the proceeds of

corruption, then they can seize

the property. This takes time,

money, and lawyers.

Sanctions don’t provide the

due process needed to confiscate

assets, Keatinge said. ‘‘We need

to be very careful we don’t de-

scend into the authoritarian

thuggishness that inhabits coun-

tries where the rule of law

doesn’t exist,’’ he said. ‘‘You can’t

go around expropriating assets

off of people where we claim

they are connected with the Pu-

tin regime. That is not what you

do in a democracy.’’

S A N C T I O N S

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CRISIS IN UKRAINE

signs of progress, although

they agreed to meet again Tues-

day. The negotiations unfolded

against a backdrop of thunder-

ous Russian artillery strikes

that led United Nations Secre-

tary-General António Guterres

to declare Ukraine was “being

decimated before the eyes of

the world.”

An uncharacteristically an-

gry Guterres accused Russia of

attacking 24 health facilities

and leaving hundreds of thou-

sands of people without water

or electricity. Having once pre-

dicted there would be no war in

Ukraine, he now warned there

could be a calamitous cascade

of world hunger and food infla-

tion because Ukraine is one of

the world’s foremost grain pro-

ducers.

The impact on civilians, Gu-

terres said, was “reaching terri-

fying proportions.”

In one of dozens of episodes

of violence, a missile slammed

into an apartment block in a

once-tranquil Kyiv neighbor-

hood just after dawn Monday,

when many residents were

asleep.

“We do not have a military

target near us,” said Yuriy Yur-

chik, 30. “We did not think we

ourselves would be a target.”

Yet amid the drumbeat of

horror, there were also glimpses

of resilience. Hundreds escaped

Mariupol by car, according to

the local government, even as a

convoy of vehicles carrying

food, water, and medicine tried

to find a safe path through the

battle that has been raging

around that southeast port city

almost since the war began.

Relatives of those still living in

Mariupol said fleeing seemed to

offer the best, perhaps only,

chance for survival.

“I do not believe the human-

itarian convoy will be a big

help,” said Olexander Kry-

voshapro, a humanitarian ac-

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tivist whose parents were in

Mariupol. “Too many people

are still there. And this once

beautiful, big, and constantly

developing city is now com-

pletely destroyed. It is not pos-

sible to live there anymore.”

An estimated 400,000 peo-

ple are trapped in Mariupol,

which is entering its second

week without heat, food or

clean water. Attempts to reach

the city and evacuate people

have failed day after day amid

heavy fighting. The convoy en

route Monday was carrying 100

tons of relief supplies, officials

said.

Russia has been laying siege

to the city, a major industrial

hub on the Azov Sea, creating a

humanitarian catastrophe that

led the International Commit-

tee of the Red Cross to issue an

urgent appeal for a cease-fire.

“Dead bodies, of civilians

and combatan t s , r ema in

trapped under the rubble or ly-

ing in the open where they fell,”

the ICRC said.

Casualty figures are difficult

to confirm in the conflict. The

United Nations has estimated

that at least 596 civilians have

been killed, but that figure is

considered low because of the

organization’s inability to gain

access to all areas of fighting.

The Ukrainian government

estimated more than 2,500 peo-

ple have died in Mariupol alone

— nearly double the estimate

from just a day earlier.

The hundreds who managed

to get out Monday morning left

in 160 cars and their escape

was kept secret until they were

deemed a safe distance away,

according to Ukrainian offi-

cials. They were still on the

move Monday afternoon, their

exact location and route a se-

cret.

The group was expected to

reach the city of Zaporizhzhia,

where they will be given access

to first aid and accommoda-

tions. If they do get there, it

would offer a glimmer of hope.

With mass graves now being

used to bury the dead in Mari-

upol and international aid

groups warning that large num-

bers of people are on the verge

of starvation, it remains exceed-

ingly difficult to get an accurate

picture of what was happening

there.

The split-screen images of

slow-moving diplomacy and

sudden, brutal attacks on many

civilian targets underscored the

challenges of finding an accept-

able off-ramp for Putin, even af-

ter a campaign that, by nearly

all accounts, has gone far worse

for Russia than expected.

The Kremlin, confronting a

remarkably determined Ukrai-

nian resistance and heavy loss-

es on the battlefield, vowed to

carry out its subjugation of the

country “in full” and on its orig-

inal schedule. (It is unclear

what that schedule is, although

Russia denied, until just before

the invasion, that it had any

p l an t o s end t r oop s i n t o

Ukraine.) Russian officials have

tried to portray their military’s

failure to capture most major

cities in Ukraine as an act of re-

straint.

In Moscow, a state television

employee burst onto the live

broadcast of Russia’s most-

watched news show Monday

evening, yelling “Stop the war!”

and holding up a sign that said

“They’re lying to you here,” in

an extraordinary act of protest.

T h e w o m a n , M a r i n a

Ovsyannikova, worked for

Channel 1, the state-run televi-

s ion channel whose news

broadcast she stormed, accord-

ing to a Russian rights group

that is giving her legal support.

The group also released a video

in which Ovsyannikova says she

is “deeply ashamed” to have

worked to produce “Kremlin

propaganda.”

The news show, “Vremya,” is

among the Kremlin’s flagship

propaganda outlets, watched by

millions of Russians every eve-

ning.

Ovsyannikova was detained

at a small police station at Mos-

cow’s Ostankino broadcasting

center, according to OVD-Info,

an activist group that supports

Russians detained for protest-

ing. More details on her condi-

tion were not immediately

available.

On Monday, Putin spoke

again with Israeli Prime Minis-

ter Naftali Bennett, continuing

Israel’s efforts to mediate. The

90-minute call focused on the

possibility of a cease-fire, a se-

nior Israeli official said, and fol-

lowed a call between Bennett

and Ukrainian President Volod-

ymyr Zelensky on Saturday.

The prospect of China’s in-

volvement in support of Russia,

however, raises the risks of a

conflict that has already threat-

ened to pull in the West. It

would blunt the impact of a

trans-Atlantic campaign to iso-

late Russia, relieving some of

the economic pressure on Putin

and giving him a potential sup-

plier of weapons to counteract

those flowing in to Ukrainian

troops from the United States

and other NATO countries.

“ I t rea l l y r i sks making

Ukraine a proxy conflict in

what could be a broader geopo-

litical competition between

China and Russia on the one

side with the US and its allies

on the other,” said Evan Me-

deiros, a professor of Asian

Studies at Georgetown Univer-

sity and former China policy-

maker in the Obama adminis-

tration.

Clearly, the leak of the intel-

ligence that Russia sought Chi-

na’s help was designed to pres-

sure both sides. It was humiliat-

i n g f o r P u t i n , w h o i s

enormously sensitive to sugges-

tions that he is the junior part-

ner in the relationship between

Moscow and Beijing.

But it also places China in a

hard spot. Just before Russia’s

invasion, Chinese Foreign Min-

ister Wang Yi left no doubt that

Beijing opposedmilitary action.

“The sovereignty, indepen-

dence, and territorial integrity

of any country should be re-

spected and safeguarded,” he

said. “Ukraine is no exception.”

If China providedmilitary or

economic support, it would be

violating that principle and risk

being associated with the car-

nage now underway. The White

House has made clear it would

respond to any effort to bail out

Russia.

“Support of any kind,” said

Biden’s spokesperson, Jen Psa-

ki, “there would be consequenc-

es for that.”

Russia keeps up attacks in Ukraine as two sides hold talks

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Ukrainian border with Poland in Medyka. More than 2.8 million refugees have fled Ukraine.

By Gal Tziperman LotanGLOBE STAFF

Ahead of the virtual speech of

President Volodymyr Zelensky of

Ukraine to the US Congress

Wednesday, members of the

Massachusetts delegation spoke

of possible paths to aid for the

country, as it continues to resist

an invasion from Russian troops

that beganmore than two weeks

ago.

Congress members expressed

solidarity with Zelensky and the

Ukrainian people and de-

nounced the bloodshed and de-

struction caused by troops of

President Vladimir Putin of Rus-

sia, but some said it is unclear

whether Putin’s ambitions can

be contained by economic mea-

sures or if military action will be

necessary.

Senator Elizabeth Warren

said the US approach of leaning

heavily on economic sanctions

to discourage an invasion that

“could escalate into full-scale

world war” is new and untested.

“The economic sanctions, for

the first time ever, involve coun-

tries all around the world, and

have cut Russia off from the for-

mal banking system,” the Cam-

bridge Democrat said, speaking

at an unrelated news conference

near the Lower Neponset River.

“This is extraordinary. Nothing

like this has happened before.”

The goal is to make sanctions

hurt enough that Putin feels the

war is no longerworth the effort,

Warren said. She pointed out

that private companies are al-

ready pulling out of business

dealings in Russia. The next

step, she said, might be making

sure Russia cannot use crypto-

currency to work around the

sanctions.

“Three-quarters of all of the

ransomware attacks come

through Russia, so they’re good

at being able to hide money and

use illicit activities for helping

support the economics of the

country,” she said. “This is a real

problem. North Korea has al-

ready been using crypto, for ex-

ample, in order to evade eco-

nomic sanctions around the

world.”

Last week the US Senate ap-

proved $13.6 billion in military

and human i t a r i an a id to

Ukraine as part of a $1.5 trillion

omnibus spending bill. Almost

half of that money, $6.5 billion,

will go directly to the US Depart-

ment of Defense, and the rest

will be spread among other

agencies, like the US Agency for

International Development.

Representative Stephen

Lynch said he was horrified to

see the images coming out of

Ukraine.

“I think it’s a question of how

much slaughter and how much

violence against civilians in

Ukraine the world community

will tolerate,” Lynch said. “I un-

derstand thatUkraine is not part

of NATO, but they are part of the

human race, and there is a wider

and deeper obligation that we

have to protect innocent chil-

dren and families.”

The South Boston Democrat

lauded the Biden administration

for sending aid and resources to

Ukraine without deploying US

troops there.

“But again, things are grow-

i n g wo r s e b y t h e hou r i n

Ukraine,” Lynch said. “And

there’s an ultimate point at

which, I think, either under the

UN banner or the NATO banner,

the free world will be forced to

respond.”

Lynch and Warren made

their remarks near the end of a

news conference at which offi-

cials announced that the EPA

has designated a 3.7-mile stretch

of the Lower Neponset River a

Superfund site.

Representative Lori Trahan

said in a statement Monday that

she hoped to hear updates from

Zelensky on efforts to get civil-

ians who are trapped in cap-

tured cities to safer places, and

more about the condition of

Ukraine’s 15 active nuclear reac-

tors.

“I expect that when President

Zelensky addresses Congress on

Wednesday, we’ll hear the same

message we heard from him a

week ago: Putin is failing, and

the Ukrainian people are more

committed to defending their

freedom and the future of their

democracy than ever before,” the

Westford Democrat said.

Representative Richard Neal,

chairman of the House Commit-

tee on Ways and Means, called

Zelensky and the Ukrainian peo-

ple “inspirations for the world”

and said he was looking forward

to hearing him speak.

“ V l a d i m i r P u t i n h a s

launched a brutal, unprovoked

assault on a free people,” said

Neal, a Democrat from Spring-

field, in a statement Monday.

“The world has witnessed what

has happened and it is atrocious.

There are but a handful of na-

tions that are supporting Vladi-

mir Putin, but the civilized

world is adamantly opposed to

what he is doing.”

Gal Tziperman Lotan can be

reached at gal.lotan@globe.com.

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the potential for a Trump-

backed Republican nominee to

emerge in his place — the non-

partisan Cook Political Report, a

national handicapper, called the

governor’s seat Democrats’ “best

pickup opportunity” in the

country.

Both Democrats running

would be barrier breakers as the

first woman to be elected gover-

nor, the first openly gay gover-

nor (Healey) or the first Latina

and Asian-American governor

(Chang-Díaz). The winner

would face one of two Republi-

cans: Geoff Diehl, a Trump-

backed former state lawmaker,

or Chris Doughty, a Wrentham

businessman and first-time can-

didate.

There’s also widespread be-

lief among party activists and

strategists that Healey, a South

End Democrat, will win the par-

ty’s endorsement at its June

convention, where activists and

party insiders weigh in on their

preferred candidates. A candi-

date must win 15 percent of the

vote there to make the Sept. 6

primary ballot, and the one with

the majority of delegate votes

can tout being the party’s en-

dorsed pick.

It would both be a show of

strength against an opponent

courting the party’s most liberal

blocs, and something Martha

Coakley, Healey’s predecessor

and the party’s gubernatorial

nominee in the last open-seat

contest in 2014, failed to do.

“She’s checked every single

box that youwant a campaign to

check at this point,” Mary Anne

Marsh, a Democratic strategist

who is not working with either

campaign, said of Healey. “She

made her name on grass-roots

campaigning, putting together a

statewide organization in a car

driven by [now state representa-

tive] Dylan Fernandes. It’s com-

pound interest, and it’s really

starting to pay off.”

But while her campaign is

long on advantages, it has, to

date, been short on specifics.

Appearing at a Worcester Dem-

ocratic caucus early this month,

Healey emphasized the impor-

tance of investing in mental

health and child care — with lit-

tle specificity of how — during

an almost breathless 90-second

stump speech; hers was the only

statewide candidate address not

to test timekeepers’ two-minute

limit.

It’s in that void, Chang-Díaz

and her supporters argue,

uGOVERNOR'S RACEContinued from Page A1

where the Jamaica Plain Demo-

crat has an opening. Chang-

Díaz, who launched her cam-

paign in June, has quickly

staked out the progressive terri-

tory, pledging to support a sin-

gle-payer health care system, a

fare-free public transit system,

and tuition-free public college.

They are areas where Healey

said she backs more investment

or attention but does not em-

brace Chang-Díaz’s more pro-

gressive pronouncements.

The race has evolved into

one “being definedmore so than

any other race on ideological

terms,” said Ben Downing, a for-

mer state senator who ended his

own gubernatorial bid in De-

cember.

“You have Sonia as the pro-

gressive standard-bearer, the

darling of the liberal activists

and if the election were on Twit-

ter, that is probably the best pri-

mary she can have,” he said.

“And Maura I know would push

back against being described as

more moderate in her messag-

ing or otherwise. But I don’t

think any of us have a clear an-

swer for: on day one, Governor

Healey does . . . what?”

Healey’s deep ties and broad

name recognition have also

made her the race’s establish-

ment candidate. It’s a quirky

narrative shift from just eight

years ago when she first ran for

attorney general as a plucky —

and then formidable — outsider

against a veteran former state

lawmaker.

The anti-establishment angle

is one Chang-Díaz’s supporters

have embraced, too, even if it-

self is somewhat an odd fit. A

seven-term senator, Chang-Díaz

has served in a Beacon Hill

elected office longer than Hea-

ley has.

“She is kind of the outsider.

On paper it just might not look

that way,” said Watertown’s

Democratic Town Committee

chairman Will Pennington. At

the city’s Democratic caucus

this month, Chang-Díaz sup-

porters won 26 of the 27 dele-

gate spots. “Sonia is taking on

the establishment, which for the

activists and delegates in Water-

town, it appeals to them.”

Chang-Díaz’s campaign said

it envisions a path to victory by

“expanding the electorate,” in-

cluding by targeting the roughly

one million voters who showed

up for the 2020 state primary

but did not vote in 2014, a mid-

term year when the governor’s

seat was last open, according to

a memo circulated among sup-

porters.

It also cited other progres-

sive candidates — US Represen-

tative Ayanna Pressley, former

Suffolk district attorney Rachael

Rollins, and Senator Edward

Markey — who won on the

strength of organizing and “run-

ning on their values.”

Chang-Díaz also rejects the

idea that people have been wait-

ing for, and are ready to anoint,

Healey as their gubernatorial

pick, saying it belies what most

voters care about.

“Ultimately, this race is going

to be won by the whole elector-

ate, the people in the state,”

Chang-Díaz said, running down

a long list of obstacles — traffic

congestion, crushing debt, ris-

ing housing costs — for which

residents have long sought solu-

tions. “When you talk about

waiting, that’s the waiting most

voters do. It’s not for X, Y, or Z

candidate for governor. It’s not,

who has beenmaking themoves

and lining up establishment

support to run for governor.”

Democratic voters’ choices

have nevertheless tapered.

Downing, the first Democrat to

officially enter the race last win-

ter, ended his campaign after

struggling to raise enough mon-

ey to sustain a statewide opera-

tion. Allen, a Harvard professor

and first-time candidate, fol-

lowed seven weeks later, la-

menting that the party’s caucus

process pushes out political nov-

ices.

The caucuses, which ran for

several weeks and ended over

the weekend, determine which

party activists will serve as dele-

gates at the June convention in

Worcester.

While the race has thinned,

Healey raised nearly $1 million

in the first seven weeks after she

entered the race, helping push

her campaign account to nearly

$4.3 million by the end of Feb-

ruary —more than 10-fold what

Chang-Díaz had.

In Brookline, Healey’s sup-

porters made up the entire 48-

person slate of delegates, said

Cindy Rowe, the town’s Demo-

cratic Committee chairwoman.

Over the weekend, Healey re-

portedly swept the delegate

count in the Boston’s Ward 9,

which is directly adjacent to

Chang-Díaz’s ward. And in

Fitchburg, while delegates were

impressed with Chang-Díaz,

many Democratic activists in

the city are backing Healey, said

PatriciaMartin, the city’s Demo-

cratic Committee chairwoman.

“She has every right to run

for any position she wants to

run,”Martin said of Chang-Díaz.

“But we’ve known Maura. We

don’t know [Chang-]Díaz.”

In Worcester, supportive del-

egates praised Healey’s reputa-

tion as a Donald Trump bird

dog, joining or leading dozens

of lawsuits against the former

president’s administration. Oth-

ers say they’ve simply been sup-

porters for years, making the

embrace of her gubernatorial

campaign natural.

Marc Provencher, a 57-year-

old Worcester delegate, said he’s

viewed Healey as a candidate

for higher office since hearing

her speak at the 2014 state party

convention in Worcester. At the

time, he said, he was genuinely

split on supporting her or then-

candidate Warren Tolman for

attorney general.

“As soon as she was done

[speaking], I didn’t need to hear

anymore,” said Provencher, a

“TeamHealey” button pinned to

his shirt. “I thought, ‘This is the

person who can go a long way.

This is the rising star in the

state.’”

Matt Stout can be reached at

matt.stout@globe.com. Follow

him on Twitter @mattpstout.

Democratic primary for governor quickly thins

PHOTOS BY JOHN TLUMACKI/GLOBE STAFF

Maura Healey hugged an attendee at a Democratic caucus event in Worcester on March 5.

Senator Sonia Chang-Díaz spoke with Democrats at the Worcester event.

ten the follow-through is slow or

nonexistent, especially as the

district has cranked through

four superintendents in the last

eight years and now is looking

for a new one.

In the end, plans repeatedly

change and timelines get pushed

back, leaving schools in limbo

and sometimes feeling betrayed

when the district reverses course.

Often it’s the students, they say,

who pay the biggest price.

If the Shaw can’t persuade the

system’s top brass to expand to

sixth grade like most other Bos-

ton elementary schools, that

memory box will commemorate

the third-graders’ final year there.

“The school district promised

they would give us a fourth

grade, but they broke their

promise. That hurts our hearts,”

NAvon wrote to the Globe in a

letter-writing campaign. “That’s

why me and my friend Andrew

made a memory box so no one

will forget their friends.”

Sharra Gaston, a district

spokesperson, said BPS is “work-

ing with the Shaw School com-

munity to determine the best op-

tions for their school.”

“We are assessing expansion

options and will be happy to

share updates as they become

available,” she said.

The poor planning comes

even though the school system

has been operating under a 10-

year facilities plan known as

BuildBPS. The plan has been

widely criticized by parents,

uSCHOOLSContinued from Page A1

teachers, and education activists

for omitting concrete details on

when projects will happen, inac-

curately projecting enrollment,

and failing to adequately investi-

gate the depth of building ne-

glect.

Instead, critics say, the dis-

trict continues to manage facili-

ties with a crisis-response men-

tality without thinking through

the viability of the solutions they

pitch.

“That is one of the reasons

why a lot of families have lost

trust in BPS,” said City Councilor

JuliaMejia, who chairs the coun-

cil’s Education Committee.

Ironically, when the School

Committee voted in fall 2013 to

reopen the Shaw the following

September after closing it in

2009, at least onemember, Clau-

dio Martinez, raised questions

about whether district leaders

were promising families too

much amid a spate of ever-

changing facility plans.

“How many of those promis-

es were [kept] by this School

Committee?” he asked.

Facility problems — and the

mixed messaging around them

— have only intensified since

then. Among them:

R In October, BPS told three

elementary schools, including

the Sumner in Roslindale where

Mayor Michelle Wu sends her

children, that it would not add a

sixth grade, leaving students in

limbo. After protests, BPS gave

them a sixth grade.

R In September, students and

staff at the Edward M. Kennedy

Academy for Health Careers be-

gan classes in a rundown ele-

mentary school after BPSmoved

too slowly on finding a perma-

nent home after their long-term

lease expired at Northeastern

University.

R And in May, BPS notified

families at the Jackson Mann

K-8 in Allston it was pulling two-

year-old plans to extensively ren-

ovate their building and instead

would close the school, angering

families.

The School Committee in De-

cember ordered Cassellius to de-

velop a new plan, but it remains

unclear where it’s headed, now

that she is leaving.

A cornerstone of BuildBPS is

supposed to be shifting grade

configurations so most primary

schools end at grade 6 or 8 and

that most secondary schools be-

gin at grade 7 or 9. The idea is to

provide consistency and reduce

school transfers.

Despite that goal, BPS decid-

ed in 2018 to freeze the Shaw’s

expansion at grade 3, even

though the School Department

website continues to say the

school will expand.

Disappointment over the bro-

ken promise has prompted par-

ents to pull their children out of

BPS after finishing at the Shaw.

Tiffany Vassell, who led the

school’s parent group for five

years, is now sending her daugh-

ter, a fourth-grader, to a private

school. She said she would rath-

er have her at the Shaw, noting

that during the pandemic the

teachers ensured that her

daughter got her work done

while Vassell was working the

night shift as a nurse.

“I just feel like the love and

care are always there,” she said.

“I want other kids in the com-

munity to have that experience.”

The Shaw community in re-

cent months stepped up its ad-

vocacy, turning out for School

Committee meetings where the

students have given impas-

sioned testimony that has cap-

tured the hearts of many other

parents, advocates, and even

some school officials.

A rally is being planned at the

schoolWednesdaymorning.

Parents are worried BPS

might be quietly planning to

close the school, because the

proposed budget for next year

calls for cutting a third-grade

classroom.

Shaw’s enrollment has been

dropping, and parents say its

frozen expansion is deterring

new families. State data poten-

tially back that up: When offi-

cials decided to halt the expan-

sion during the 2017-18 school

year, enrollment peaked at 256

students and has fallen to 154

this year. BPS also is grappling

with a dramatic enrollment de-

cline districtwide.

Deb Shea said she enrolled

her daughter, who is now in the

second grade at the Shaw, under

the belief it would be expanding.

She says she’s been thrilled with

the education her daughter has

received and notes it’s one of the

few BPS schools with a librarian.

Her daughter, she said, has

been studying immigration and

has been coming home with

books on the topic and has been

working onwriting and structur-

ing paragraphs, being more ex-

pansive in her writing, and get-

ting evidence fromdifferent texts.

“My daughter really wants to

stay,” she said.

For Brenda Ramsey, the

Shaw has been a lifeline for her

family. They were homeless at

the start of the pandemic and

staying with other family mem-

bers. Teachers personally deliv-

ered aWi-Fi hotspot and, after a

first-grade teacher noticed her

youngest daughter was Zooming

classes from bed because she

didn’t have a desk, the school got

her one. The staff eventually

helped Ramsey secure a housing

voucher, ending about three

years of homelessness.

It was heartbreaking, she

said, when her older daughter

left the Shaw after third grade.

Ramsey didn’t like the other

available options in BPS so her

daughter now attends a charter

school.

“It’s more than a school; it’s a

true community,” Ramsey said of

the Shaw. “I would hate for it to

go away because BPS can’t keep

its promises. I don’t think BPS

realizes the position they put

families in when they put us in

limbo like this. All we are asking

at the Shaw is to make decisions

with us and not for us.”

James Vaznis can be reached at

james.vaznis@globe.com.

Revolving door atop district frustrates students, parents

CRAIG F. WALKER/GLOBE STAFF

Nisariah Wise watched her little sister Emerson prepare her

lunch at home before heading to Shaw Elementary School.

The race has evolved into one ‘being defined more so than any other raceon ideological terms.’

BEN DOWNING, former state senator who ended his own gubernatorial bid

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a premium rollback, drugmaker

Biogen axing hundreds of jobs,

and the White House mounting

a new push to rein in the cost of

prescription drugs.

The federal insurance pro-

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prices for gene therapies and

other drugs that treat relatively

smaller numbers of patients

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matter of time before an effec-

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widespread condition such as

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cans. That would strain the bud-

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The heart of the problem, ac-

cording to BC’s report, is that,

unlike private health insurers,

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“Medicare faces an uncertain fi-

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In the run-up to the midterm

elections, the Aduhelm saga

could add urgency to the issue of

rising drug prices — especially at

a time when higher prices at the

gas pump and the supermarket

are also draining the wallets of

older Americans on fixed in-

comes.

Mike Festa, director of AARP

Massachusetts, which repre-

sents 750,000 residents, is “sick

and tired of these high drug

costs” and wants to give Medi-

care the power to bargain with

manufacturers. “The pressure

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Food and Drug Administra-

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Aduhelm in December over the

objection of some FDA officials

and independent advisers who

argued it showed unclear bene-

fits and posed safety risks, such

as brain bleeding, in clinical

studies. Biogen initially priced

the drug at $56,000 per patient

annually, before cutting the

price in half in response to a

public outcry and slower-than-

expected uptake.

Then, in January, the federal

Centers forMedicare andMedic-

aid Services decided it would pay

only for beneficiaries who enroll

in follow-up clinical trials. The

capacity of the trials effectively

excludemore than 1million peo-

plewhowould have been eligible

for the drug. That marked the

first time in its 57-year history

theMedicare agency limited cov-

erage for an FDA-approved

drug. The ruling was prelimi-

nary, with a final determination

expected in April.

Some of the most expensive

targeted therapies are paid for

under Medicare Part B, the pro-

gram that covers treatments,

like Aduhelm, administered

through infusion in medical of-

fices. (Pills from pharmacies are

covered under anotherMedicare

program, Part D.) The agency

boosted Part B monthly premi-

ums for most beneficiaries this

year by $21.60 to $170.10, the

largest dollar increase ever, part-

ly to establish a reserve for antic-

ipated Aduhelm payouts.

The higher premium was set

before Medicare restricted

Aduhelm coverage. Now, se-

niors’ groups like AARP are

pressing the agency to pare back

the premium. A spokeswoman

said Medicare is reviewing the

premium but has not set a time-

frame for a decision.

Pushback is also coming

from another direction. A

strange-bedfellows alliance of

drug makers and patient advo-

cates is just as fired up about

Medicare’s move to deny cover-

age for the vast majority of the

seniors who they said could ben-

efit from Aduhelm. They worry

more broadly about losing ac-

cess to high-priced lifesaving or

life-extending treatments still

under development in the biop-

harma pipeline.

On Tuesday, a contingent of

Alzheimer’s patients and family

members, along with advocates

for patients with other condi-

tions, plans to demonstrate out-

side the Washington offices of

the Department of Health and

Human Services, which runs

Medicare.

Sue Peschin, president of the

Alliance for Aging Research, a

sponsor of the protest, said the

Medicare ruling creates a trou-

bling precedent that could let

the agency limit whom it covers

for other treatments, she said.

“It’s really medically unethi-

cal to require [Medicare] benefi-

ciaries to enter into a clinical

study in order to get coverage,”

Peschin said. Because of the way

clinical trials are designed, she

cautioned, many Medicare-in-

sured residents who take part

will get a placebo rather than the

drug.

Medicare’s ruling also sent a

jolt of anxiety through the drug

industry, including the burgeon-

ing biotech hub in Cambridge’s

Kendall Square. Many startups

there are bankrolled by venture

capital investors who place huge

financial bets on risky scientific

approaches, expecting outsized

returns if their drug candidates

prove to be effective.

Biogen, which developed

Aduhelm, was once the largest

biotech in Massachusetts. Earli-

er this month, executives at the

company, which sunk billions of

dollars into research and devel-

opment, said they’re cutting

$500 million a year — and re-

portedly up to 1,000 jobs, in-

cluding most of their Alzheim-

er’s team — as a result of the

Medicare ruling.

But drug makers rattled by

Medicare’s decision may soon

have a bigger problem: In his

State of the Union message,

Biden’s call for legislation that

would let Medicare negotiate

prices with drug makers seemed

to breathe new life into a long-

running effort. Until now, that

issue has languished in Congress

despite support at times by ev-

eryone from Senator Bernie

Sanders of Vermont to former

president Donald Trump.

Any law that empowers

Medicare to haggle with drug

makers would have profound

implications for the biopharma

industry — and for Medicare,

which paid out $37 billion

through Part B for prescription

drugs in 2019, according to the

Kaiser Family Foundation. Oth-

er nations that negotiate with

drug companies often pay sub-

stantially less for the same

drugs.

Medicare’s bills from roughly

1 million seniors with mild cog-

nitive decline who are eligible

for Aduhelm, at its reduced price

of $28,200 per patient, would

have totaled $23 billion annual-

ly, the BC report calculated.

That’s eight times what the

Part B program spends on its

current most costly drug, Eylea

for macular degeneration, and

two-thirds of what it now spends

on all medicines. (Medicare cov-

ers 80 percent of the cost of

these treatments, so patients are

responsible for the balance out

of pocket or through supplemen-

tal insurance plans.)

The biopharma industry has

lobbied aggressively against al-

lowing Medicare to negotiate

prices, arguing countries where

governments haggle with drug

makers, such as Germany or the

United Kingdom, ration thera-

pies or limit access to revolution-

ary drugs.

“It’s really hard for any com-

pany, anybody, to negotiate with

the federal government,” said

Brian Newell, deputy vice presi-

dent of public affairs at the Phar-

maceutical Research andManu-

facturers of America. “It’s take it

or leave it. That’s not the way to

solve the problem.”

The trade group, known as

PhRMA, has presented a pack-

age of alternative proposals to

address the price burden on se-

niors, including a guarantee that

Medicare will pay the lowest

price drug makers to negotiate

with private insurers, and an an-

nual cap on what beneficiaries

pay for the typically lower-priced

pills and other meds covered by

Part D.

Drug makers say the finan-

cial incentives built into their

business model have catapulted

the United States into a leader-

ship role in drug discovery. They

also cite the rollout of innovative

treatments that, while costly,

save the health systemmoney in

the long term. Drugs that cure

the Hepatitis C virus, for exam-

ple, eliminate the need for liver

transplants.

“We don’t want to create an

environmentwhere it’s harder to

bring these drugs to the market

or create barriers to getting

them,” Newell said.

RobertWeisman can be reached

at robert.weisman@globe.com.

Follow him on Twitter

@GlobeRobW.

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EditorialJOAN VENNOCHI

Kevin Garnett’s retired No. 5

had barelymade it to the TD

Garden rafters when the for-

mer Celtic’s story of competi-

tive greatness and commit-

ment to excellence was eclipsed by a bigger

story: TomBrady’s announcement that he’s

un-retiring, after amere 40 days.

“These past twomonths I’ve realizedmy

place is still on the field and not in the

stands,” the legendary quarterback, who left

the New England Patriots to play for the

Tampa Bay Buccaneers, wrote on Twitter.

“That time will come. But it’s not now.” Hav-

ing cut professional ties with the New Eng-

land sports world, maybe Brady didn’t know

it was Garnett’s bigmoment; ormaybe he

just didn’t care. Either way, his timing gave

the impression that, at 44, TomBrady is all

about TomBrady— and all about keeping

his identity as the greatest quarterback of all

time in the present tense, not the past.

He’s not the first or last person to define

themselves by work while dreading retire-

ment and the threat of obscurity that goes

with it. “I used to be someone,” a former poli-

tician toldme the other day, half-jokingly,

half-mournfully. Clearly, Brady does not

want to be in that “used to be someone” cate-

gory.

Given the consensus that he still has the

athletic skill and competitive drive to do the

job he loves, why not continue? Still, the

sequence of Brady’s February announcement

that he was hanging up his cleats, followed

quickly by rumors that he really wasn’t leav-

ing football, followed by Sunday night’s

tweet about a triumphant return, felt con-

trived and a little sad. This is amanwho

appears to have everything: fame, fortune,

seven Super Bowl wins, plus a loving family.

Yet, he still craves an eighth Super Bowl ring

in a sport that puts him at great risk of bodily

injury. Beyond that, he also craved a dramat-

ic pseudo-exit and equally dramatic reentry,

which came at Garnett’s expense.

Of course, whatever attention Brady gets

is determined by themedia. After Brady’s

tweet, social media exploded with “wows”

and other expressions of shock and awe. For

a time, at least on Twitter, Brady’s announce-

ment even seemed to overshadow the ongo-

ing horror in Ukraine, where President Vo-

lodymyr Zelensky— also 44— is fighting for

his country’s survival. Brady’s return was a

diversion from something too terrible to con-

template — awar that’s annihilating cities,

towns, and the people who live in them. Lo-

cally, Brady’s news also diverted attention

fromGarnett, and that’s too bad.

I’m no expert on basketball or Garnett.

But duringmy pandemic-induced quest for

entertainment, I watched the Showtime doc-

umentary “Kevin Garnett: Anything Is Possi-

ble,” which tells the story of his remarkable

journey and legacy. He was the first high

school player to be drafted by the NBA in 20

years. While playing for theMinnesota Tim-

berwolves, he became a superstar. But it

wasn’t until he came to the Boston Celtics

that he became a champion, by helping the

teamwin the 2008 title.

As a player, Garnett was known for his

grit, unvarnished emotion, and commitment

to greatness. During Sunday night’s celebra-

tion of his number being retired—which I

watched on TV—hewas passionate, funny,

profane, and very real. His intensity as a

player is saluted by teammates, coaches, and

fans; yet during a Q. & A. with former Celtic

teammate Brian Scalabrine, Garnett was also

asked how he controlled that intensity. Gar-

nett acknowledged he had to learn “to con-

trol the energy. Nobody tells you how to use

your superpower.” Did anyone, including

Brady, ever think his intensity needed to be

checked, whether he was tossing a football

into the end zone or a tablet on the sidelines?

Intensity may be viewed differently when it

comes packaged in a nearly seven-foot-tall

Black basketball player like Garnett versus a

white quarterback like Brady.

Garnett retired from the NBA in 2016. At

45, he has the peace and satisfaction that

comes with recognition of past glories. As he

turns 45, Brady has every right to seek future

glory. But the next time he retires shouldn’t

be a big deal — to anyone but Brady.

Joan Vennochi can be reached at

joan.vennochi@globe.com. Follow her on

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Brent Renaud didn’t set out to be amartyr. He was in Ukraine to dowhat journalists do— get the story,tell it well, and bring home the re-alities of a war being fought far

from these American shores.He paid for that commitment to the truth—

that desire to get it right —with his life when hewas gunned down over the weekend at amili-tary checkpoint in Irpin, a town on the outskirtsof Kyiv. He was there shooting a documentaryon the global refugee crisis for Time Studios.An award-winning documen-

tary filmmaker who, with hisbrother Craig, had covered thewars in Iraq and Afghanistan, theviolence perpetrated by drug car-tels inMexico, and the earth-quake in Haiti, Renaudwas a Nei-man Fellow at Harvard in 2019.“I don’t think we are adrena-

line junkies like some of the warcorrespondents whowe know,”Brent Renaud told an interviewerfor Curatormagazine in 2009.“We don’t seek out the dangerousassignments. But once we arecommitted to a story, we are will-ing to do whatever it takes to tellthat story.”It’s something of a journalists’

creed that simply becomesmoredangerous when bullets are flyingand bombs are going off.Wounded in the same Russian

attack that killed Renaudwas fel-low journalist Juan Arredondo. Arredondo’sevacuation by Ukrainianmedics as he clutchedhis camera to his chest on the stretcher —filmed by a crew from the German newspaperBild— speaks to that creed and that mindset.Renaudwas the second journalist to be killed

in the Ukraine war. Yevhenii Sakun, a TV cam-eraman, was one of five people killed when Rus-sian forces fired on the Kyiv TV tower onMarch1, according to the Committee to Protect Jour-nalists.Two Sky News journalists were shot early in

the invasion in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, theirinjuries not reported until the twowere safelyevacuated. Russian troops shot at and robbed afreelance Swiss journalist near the village ofVodyano-Lorino in southern Ukraine onMarch6, CPJ notes on its website.Meanwhile, the committee also reports that

at least 150 of Russia’s few remaining indepen-dent journalists have fled Russia in recent daysin the wake of Russian President Vladimir Pu-tin’s latest efforts to stamp out anything resem-bling truthful reporting of the war in Ukraine orthe protests within Russia.Many have landed in the former Soviet re-

publics of Latvia, Lithuania, and Georgia —where Russian remains a common language—to set up operations in exile and try to gathernews fromUkraine and inside Russia and get itback to those within their home country, where

now anything other than Putin’s propaganda ishard to find.It takes a special kind of courage to carry on

nomatter what.It takes a special kind of courage to enter a

war zone where, from the very start, none of therules have applied, where “PRESS” on the backof a flak jacket might as well be a bull’s-eye.Brent Renaud had that kind of courage—

and a generous helping of heart as well. He wasnot alone in his mission to bring the world thestories of ordinary people caught up in extraor-dinary times. Hundreds of others remain com-mitted to that task— and today continue to puttheir lives on the line to bring those stories tolife, to share themwith the world.Renaudwill bemissed and he will bemourn-

ed. But the work goes on, and we are grateful tothose who remain to do it.

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The world bears witnessto unfolding war crimes

Vladimir Putin has joined the pantheon of all-time geopoliti-

cal monsters, including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot,

and SlobodanMilosevic.

Let there be nomistake.With the shocking campaign to

destroy a sovereign, peace-loving democratic nation that

wants nothing to do with Russia, Putin can be characterized

as nothing other than a war criminal. This has been a com-

pletely unprovoked, manufactured crisis.

One appropriate redress at a given point would be the In-

ternational Court of Justice, where Putin can stand aligned

with some of the notoriousmurderers in our civilization. One

of the principal charges at the Nuremberg trials, which could

readily be raised here, references one who engages in the

planning, preparation, initiation, and waging of a war of ag-

gression. Such would seem to be a perfect fit.

The behavior of Putin is difficult to describe, and what he

has done and continues to do to the Ukrainian people is

breathtakingly horrifying. One can only wonder what else he

might be planning to undertake given his naked exercise of

unbridled power. That, of course, could well be a step toward

oblivion.

Whoever thought we would be bearing witness in real

time to what the start ofWorldWar II looked like?

THOMAS A. KENEFICK

Springfield

Re “Ukraine crowd-sources evidence of war crimes” (Editori-

al, March 11): Indeed, the Russian leadershipmust be prose-

cuted for their war crimes in Ukraine. Russia alsomust be

made to pay reparations for the deaths and injuries and

property damage the country has willfully wreaked.

I cannot fathomwhy Russia is causing such destruction.

How does it fit in Vladimir Putin’s endgame to cause such

deep resentment in 40million fellow Slavs right on Russia’s

border?Whatever the purpose, Russiamust bemade to pay.

DON CARLSON

Boston

As a graduate of Newton SouthHigh School and a third-gen-

eration Newtonite, I’m disappointed that the city’s land use

policies continue tomake it difficult for young families to call

Newton home (“Newton schools may cut 74 positions,” Met-

ro, March 10).While state legislation such as the recently

passedHousing Choice bill and efforts by local advocates are

moving things in the right direction, it remains easier to

build a newMcMansion than a duplex or fourplex, let alone

an apartment building, inmost of Newton.With housing

prices continuing to rise, it’s no wonder that enrollment at

Newton Public Schools is dropping. I hope local policymak-

ers will keep working tomake Newton amore inclusive city.

CLIFF BARGAR

San Francisco

Given housingwoes, it’s nowonderNewton school enrollment is dropping

Thank you to DerekMong for his moving reflection on the

poetry of public transportation (“Poetry — and democracy—

inmotion,” Ideas, March 6).

It tookme back to the early 1990s, when I commuted on

the 1 bus onMass Ave. One day I overheard a driver from an-

other bus reporting on the radio, “Umm, there seems to be a

snake on this bus. . . . " We passengers all got quiet listening

to the snake report as we rumbled along. I never found out

the end of the story. I assume the snake was caught.

Lately I have foundmyway to a carpool. No snake re-

ports, but there has been plenty of poetry and drama—

shared shock at news on the radio, or sharedmisery when

the traffic is bad. Gas prices are rising; the climate conse-

quences of somany of us driving alone are dire; but the bus,

the train, the carpool are all available to us, especially now

that pandemic conditions are better. If you can, take the bus,

and if you can’t, at least don’t drive alone.

AsMong writes, “We’re in this together.”

MARY MEMMOTT

Framingham

Public, or at least shared,transportation: our great connector

As a former resident ofWashington, D.C., I have seen how

the Capitol Police prepare for “largely nonviolent” protests.

Formy own safety during protests I attended, I learned to

watch for large groups of cops and avoid them, and to recog-

nize street medics and legal observers in a crowd.

Media coverage of the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, was extremely

frustrating forme. Hour after

hour, I watched, perplexed,

wondering where all the cops

were. It didn’t look like D.C. Ac-

cording to the Government Ac-

countability Office’s report (“Bet-

ter training urged for Capitol Po-

lice,” Page A2,March 8), Capitol

Police’s plans “focused on a

manageable, largely nonviolent

protest at the Capitol.”

If antifa demonstrators had

arrived in the same numbers,

the Capitol Police would have

been perfectly capable of re-

sponding “effectively and effi-

ciently” to the “threat environ-

ment.” Yet somehow officers

“felt discouraged or hesitant to

use force” this time, though they

had information that “protesters

could be armed andwere plan-

ning to target Congress.”

Bottom line, it should be very

clear that while the GAO’s rec-

ommendationsmight help pre-

vent a similar event in the future, they are not an explanation

for the Capitol Police’s lack of response on that day.

TIM CLARK

Lawrence

Get to the heart of why Capitol Policedidn’t gird for Jan. 6 riot

If antifademonstratorshad arrived inthe samenumbers, theCapitol Policewould havebeen perfectlycapable ofresponding‘effectively andefficiently’ tothe ‘threatenvironment.’

An incident lastWednesday at a Tijuana

port of entry at the US-Mexico border ex-

poses the federal government’s incoher-

ence and hypocrisy when it comes to the

treatment of migrants fleeing violence

and seeking asylum in the United States.

A Ukrainianmother and her three children escap-

ing the Russian invasion tried to apply for US asylum

at the Tijuana port of entry but were turned away by

border officials. The reason for the rejection was Title

42, the nearly two-year-old Trump-era policy that effec-

tively closed the border to the vast majority of asylum

applicants. The incident provoked outrage and dismay

among immigration attorneys and advocates whowere

helping the family. Thanks to their advocacy andme-

dia spotlight, the family was admitted the next day on

a humanitarian exception in California, where they re-

portedly have family who are US citizens.

Tragically, that family is not the only one from

Ukraine trying tomake it to the United States viaMex-

ico. Reports on the ground from refugee advocates

suggest a surge of Ukrainian asylum seekers is begin-

ning, andmost of them are getting promptly rejected.

(Some, like that Ukrainian family in Tijuana, are start-

ing to get approvals for humanitarian exemptions after

receiving help from local activists.)

With that backdrop, President Biden said on Friday

that he “will welcomeUkrainian refugees—we should

welcome them here with open arms if they need ac-

cess.” But that is not happening at our southern border.

Moreover, the arrival of Ukrainian refugees at the bor-

der also raises questions about disparate treatment of

other asylum seekers fromHaiti and Central America

who have been systematically turned away formonths

at the same spot. Naturally, there are different levels of

violence and hardship faced by people all over the

world, but if border officials can process someUkraini-

an families fleeing war, they can certainly begin pro-

cessing all othermigrants so they can apply for asy-

lum.

Ultimately, the new and urgent dynamic at the bor-

der puts pressure on the Biden administration to final-

ly end Title 42. The cost of keeping the policy, whose

public health purpose was never justified by scientists

and experts, is too high: The United States is neglect-

ing its moral and legal international obligations and is

puttingmigrants in danger by sending them back to

harm.

Biden’s insistence on keeping the policy in place

seems evenmore unconscionable in the face of his ad-

ministration’s recent decision to end it for unaccompa-

niedminors. Granted, the announcement about the

exception forminors came Saturday, after a ruling

from a Texas court essentially forced the government’s

hand. And as reported by BuzzFeed last week, the

Biden administration is apparently preparing to un-

wind Title 42 in April. It alsomay very well be that

Biden is hoping the courts will make the decision to

end the policy first, allowing him to save political face

given hard-line Republicans’ support formaintaining

the closed border— a position based on nothingmore

than fearmongering.

An exemption from Title 42 would not have been

approved for that family of four in Tijuana had they

not been fromUkraine, according to local advocates

who formonths have been watching border officials

reject Haitian, African, and Central American refugees.

In fact, the approval rate for Title 42 exemption re-

quests is roughly 25 percent for all nationalities except

Haitians, for which the approval rate is about 14 per-

cent, according to data reported by Vice News and ob-

tained from the border nonprofit Al Otro Lado.

So will it be the Ukrainian refugee crisis that finally

puts the nail in the coffin of Title 42?Will it take the

plight of white, European refugees for the government

— and the American public — to care about what’s

happening to asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border?

Biden needs to restore the United States’ core humani-

tarian values to our asylum system, so cruelly corrupt-

ed and exploited by Donald Trump and hisminions.

The desperation of migrants fleeing violence knows no

boundaries, skin color, nor place of origin.

Marcela García can be reached at

marcela.garcia@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter

@marcela_elisa and on Instagram@marcela_elisa.

MARCELA GARCÍA

Ukrainian refugees arrivingat the US-Mexico borderraise questions for Biden

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Ukrainian citizens walk along with an advocate (right) on the Mexican side of the border after being

rejected from entering the United States under Title 42 by Customs and Border Protection

authorities, at the San Ysidro crossing port, in Tijuana, Mexico, on March 9.

By Tara D. Sonenshine

It is estimated that 36million

Russians use TikTok, the social

media app that delivers enter-

taining and informational short

videos. That explains, in part,

why the Biden administration last week

brought 30 social media influencers onto

a Zoom call for a briefing about Ukraine.

The hope is that many Russian TikTok

users will be able to access social media

and influence their fellow citizens on

Russia’s invasion of sovereign Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin un-

derstands the influence of social media.

He shut down foreignmedia and blocked

Instagram as ofMonday, leaving his own

population in the dark. Meanwhile, news

outlets inside Russia have been instruct-

ed not to say anything about Ukraine. In-

dependent news stations have been shut

down, and even state-runmedia staff

have walked off the job.

The efforts to engage social media

won’t stop Putin’s army from bombing

Kyiv, targeting civilians, and occupying

an independent nation. Russian critics of

the war, many of whom bravely took to

the streets at the start of the invasion,

have been imprisoned. Their voices, for

now, have been silenced. They sit in Rus-

sian jails or under house arrest, awaiting

trials while Russian operatives track their

families.

But where social media andmedia

writ large will matter is in the days and

months ahead, when a Russian occupa-

tion of Kyiv will run headlong into public

opposition fromwithin Russia and from

around the world. Occupying a nation is

expensive and deadly. As the economic

pain of sanctions grows real for ordinary

Russian citizens, the best hope is that

critics within Putin’s circle will feel em-

powered to resist the authoritarian rule

that is ruining their nation. That is the

moment when social media can pene-

trate the iron curtain and inspire resis-

tance.

Putin’s propaganda has limited value.

It can galvanize people to support a pho-

ny war for a brief period. But as losses of

Russian troopsmount and the bodies

come home, information will seep out,

and those who can gain access to their

mobile phones will learn about the war

crimes committed by their government.

Young peoplemay rise up and risk their

lives as they come to understand the false

narrative of a dictator who has silenced

opposing views and imprisoned dissi-

dents.

Unfortunately, the fight over “truth”

all over the world, aided and abetted by

social media platforms spreading false

information, has had a corrosive effect on

citizens everywhere. Even in the United

States, there is a basic lack of trust and

confidence in government and theme-

dia, making it harder, in a time of war, to

convince people about facts on the

ground; this will be especially true for

those in totalitarian societies, where in-

formation is tightly controlled. But the

truth does, eventually, come to the sur-

face, and themessage will get out that

what Russia is doing is criminal and di-

sastrous.

This war has raised the stakes for ev-

eryone, everywhere. Information from

Ukraine has come steadily and constant-

ly, galvanizing citizens in every corner of

the globe. Correspondents are reporting

live from the ground. Refugees are post-

ing video diaries. Ukrainian officials are

tweeting from shelters. The sounds of

shelling in Kyiv can feel deafening even

for those of us thousands of miles away.

The Biden administration is right to

keep social media influencers in the loop

on the war, in the hopes that some Rus-

sians, through VPN technology or by oth-

er means, will be able to download news

about what Russia is really doing in

Ukraine rather than accept Putin’s propa-

ganda or remain in the dark. Information

energizes public sentiment. Energizing

global opinion against Russia and in fa-

vor of Ukraine will continue if the

wall-to-wall reporting, on all platforms,

continues.

Tara D. Sonenshine is professor of

practice of public diplomacy at the

Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

She served as US undersecretary of state

for public diplomacy and public affairs

from 2012 to 2013.

Social media can help stop the spreadof misinformation — and Putin

The Biden administration is right to keep socialmedia influencers in the loop on the war.

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New way of countinglowers COVID deathsThe state’s official tally of COVID-

19 deaths dropped by more than

3,700 in data released Monday

under a new counting method

that Massachusetts health offi-

cials say more accurately reflects

the pandemic’s impact. The new

method is applied retroactively

back to March. B3

By Dan AdamsGLOBE STAFF

Computer hackers made off

with highly sensitive personal re-

cords on more than 164,000 job-

seekers and license applicants in a

virtual “smash and grab” attack

last November on Creative Servic-

es Inc., a Massachusetts company

that conducts background checks

on everyone from marijuana en-

trepreneurs to state employees,

university faculty members, and

workers at nuclear facilities.

The Mansfield firm said its se-

curity team was still investigating

the motive and identity of the

hackers behind the incident,

which executives only disclosed in

regulatory filings and letters to cli-

ents in February.

An attorney for Creative Servic-

es said the company was offering

two years of free credit monitoring

and other support to those affect-

ed, since the stolen records includ-

ed names, Social Security num-

bers, driver’s licenses, and other

identifying information that could

enable fraud.

“We worked diligently to find

out what information was affected

andmade sure to contact the indi-

viduals involved,” the attorney,

Paul Ferrillo, said in an interview.

He added the firm has since taken

steps to secure its computer net-

work against further “smash and

grab” attacks; Creative Services

was also targeted by hackers in Au-

gust, according to state filings.

The company has long con-

ducted background checks for em-

ployers, institutions, and govern-

ments across the country, and the

hack did not appear to target any

particular sector. Locally, Boston

University said some students and

faculty may have been affected,

while state contracting records in-

dicate Creative Services has been

retained by various agencies in re-

cent years, including the Depart-

ment of Public Health.

However, a major slice of Cre-

ative Services’s business in recent

years has come from legalmarijua-

na.Most states with regulated can-

nabis markets require investors,

executives, and workers in the in-

dustry to pass thorough back-

ground checks that include re-

HACKERS, Page B4

Hackershit firmin ‘smashand grab’Creative Servicessays 164,000 werevictims of attack

By Emma Platoffand DannyMcDonald

GLOBE STAFF

Members of the public and some

elected officials Monday pushed back

on Mayor Michelle Wu’s proposal to

restrict the hours when protesters

may demonstrate at private residenc-

es, with some warning of First

Amendment violations and raising

the specter of lawsuits even as Wu’s

administration insisted the measure

was on solid legal ground.

Wu, whose quiet Roslindale home

has become the site of near-daily 7

a.m. protests over her vaccine man-

dates, last month pitched a city ordi-

nance that would bar demonstrations

at any private home between 9 p.m.

and 9 a.m.

More than two dozen people testi-

fied at a spirited virtual hearing held

by the Boston City Council Monday,

with most speakers opposing the

mayor’s proposal. Among them were

several people who routinely protest

outsideWu’s home in the early-morn-

ing hours, who defended their right to

be there and characterized her neigh-

borhood as a crucial venue for voicing

their dissent.

“Feelings are not facts, and rights

are not negotiable,” said Shana Cot-

tone, a Boston police sergeant who

was placed on leave during an inter-

nal affairs probe after playing a lead-

ing role in organizing protests against

Wu’s mandates. “Our rights to consti-

tutionally demonstrate are not some-

thing that should be negotiated or leg-

islated through ordinance.”

Some of Wu’s neighbors spoke to

the other side of the issue at the hear-

ing, describing the frequent protests

as deeply disruptive to their morning

routines.

The debate over Wu’s protest pro-

HEARING, Page B4

Wu’s proposed protest restrictionsmeeting resistance on, off council

By John R. EllementGLOBE STAFF

The owner of the stolen car used to breach the Chanel store

in a smash-and-grab robbery on Newbury Street last week is

nowwondering if his insurance companywill help him get back

on the road as a full-time Uber driver — or leave him on the

hook for the costs of the crime.

Amir Forghany was at a McDonald’s restaurant early Friday

in Somerville when he twice left the engine running on his Nis-

san Altima as he stepped inside to pick up two separate delivery

orders, he said in a telephone interviewMonday. There was no

problem the first time he went inside and left the engine run-

ning.

But the second time?

“The car was gone,” he said. “I couldn’t believe this was hap-

pening.”

He called Somerville police and reported the car missing. He

did not hear anything else until Friday when a Boston police of-

ficer contacted him, a conversation that Forghany has commit-

ted tomemory.

“We found your car,” the officer told him.

“Yes!” Forghany responded. “I was totally elated.”

“It’s in a store,” the officer said.

“OK.What store?” Forghany asked.

“No, it’s literally in a store,” the officer told him. “The rob-

bers used it to ram inside a store.”

Forghany’s elation was immediately replaced by disappoint-

ment and a renewed sense of being violated.

Police said Monday the search for the thieves — witnesses

described a man and a woman running away from the shat-

tered store about 4:30 a.m. Friday and then getting into an SUV

being used as a getaway car — is continuing. The thieves stole

some 20 handbags from the international fashion store where

such items cost thousands of dollars each.

A department spokesman, Sergeant Detective John Boyle,

said Monday the investigation is ongoing and no arrests have

beenmade.

STOLEN CAR, Page B4

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B

A few hours after thenews of Brent Renaud’sdeath in Ukraine brieflycaptured the world’s at-tention Sunday, TomBrady announced hewas coming out of re-tirement.It goes without say-

ing which story got more attention.That’s no knock on Brady. It’s just a

reality in a celebrity-obsessed culture,where theminute details of the lives ofprofessional athletes, movie stars, andthose who are, through sheer chance,born into either literal or figurative royalfamilies are heaped on an audiencemore comfortable with distraction thanthe disturbing images of injustice andhuman suffering.It was a steely determination to bring

that suffering to a wider audience, a fer-vent belief that showcasing just howhorrible or apathetic human beings canbe toward one anothermight somehowlead to less of it, that animated Brent Re-naud, gave him purpose, and which ulti-mately cost him his life at the age of 50.Renaud, a documentary filmmaker,

was shot dead, and a photojournalistfriend and colleague, Juan Arredondo,was shot and wounded, reportedly byRussian soldiers, as they drove througha suburb of Kyiv. Renaud and Arredondowere 2019 classmates as Nieman Fel-lows at Harvard University.Renaudwas in Ukraine, where nearly

3million people have fled Russia’s inva-sion, for a film he wasmaking about theglobal plight of refugees. It was part of awider body of work in which he lookedat the impact that intolerance and disas-ters, both natural and human-made,have on ordinary people.Renaud and his brother, Craig, made

films that won prestigious awards, thekind that get little attention compared toan Oscar or a Super BowlMVP trophy.But those who know Brent Renaud

say accolades didn’t motivate him. Tell-ing stories about the human conditiondid. He humanized the often-over-looked, be it a grunt fromArkansas sentto fight in Iraq, a rural meth addict, Hai-tians left destitute by an earthquake.One of themost celebrated films he

and his brothermade, “Last ChanceHigh,” was about a high school in Chica-go where dedicated staff worked withtroubled poor kids on whom everybodyelse had given up. That film capturedthe essence of his work: that no one isdisposable, that everyone is capable ofredemption, that every life matters, nomatter the numbers in their bank ac-count or zip code.Journalists are always looking for a

lead, to start their stories. AnnMarieLipinski, the Nieman curator, says BrentRenaud led with empathy.“Brent believed in loving his sub-

jects,” Lipinski said. “It goes againstjournalistic convention. That’s just whoBrent was.”Hemarveled at the courage of ordi-

nary people in extraordinary circum-stances, those who leave their nativecountries, trying to find a better life,those who stand their ground and callout injustice in their own communities.He grew up in Arkansas, and after

George Floyd wasmurdered inMinne-apolis by a police officer, he went to Har-rison, Ark., considered a haven for whitesupremacists, where amostly whitegroup of Black LivesMatter protestersmarched by a contingent of white na-tionalists and armedmilitia members.In a piece about the protest he wrote

for the Globe, Renaud described watch-ing a 22-year-old Black woman namedMayaHood address the gathering on theimportance of not remaining silent inthe face of injustice. He consideredHood’s impromptu speech among thebravest things he had ever witnessed.His work often took him to some of

themost dangerous places on earth. Hedid so knowing the risks, trying tomini-mize them asmuch as possible. He diedcovering a war, but to describe him as awar correspondent is too limiting. Hewas a humanity correspondent.According to the United Nations, 55

journalists were killed doing their jobsin 2021, the lowest toll in a decade. Thewar in Ukraine will drive those numbersup.Truth is the first casualty of war.

Those determined to tell it, like BrentRenaud, are often next in line.

Kevin Cullen is a Globe columnist. Reachhim at kevin.cullen@globe.com.

Coveringhumanity

Kevin Cullen

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Comfort Zone PAGE B6

Car stolenandwrecked, owner leftwithbillsUber driver whose vehicle was used in Chanel heist wonders how he’ll get back on road

‘The car wasgone. I couldn’tbelieve this washappening.’AMIR FORGHANY,

an Uber driver whose car

was stolen when he went into

a restaurant to pick up a

delivery order

NOT YOUR USUAL

MATH LESSON —

Tim O’Leary (top),

principal of Roxbury

Prep Middle School,

had a face full of

shaving cream after

allowing students

who could recite the

most digits of the

mathematical

constant Pi to throw

pies in his face in

celebration of Pi

Day. Emeliz (in right

photo) reacted after

hitting fifth-grade

history teacher, Matt

Reid, in the face

with a pie.

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B O S T O N

Inmate convicted of vandalizing jailADorchester man serving an eight-to-10-year prison sentence for

gun offenses linked to the nonfatal 2016 shooting of a Boston po-

lice officer was convicted Friday of causing a “violent altercation”

at the Nashua Street Jail, authorities said. A BostonMunicipal

Court jury found Grant Headley, 33, guilty of disturbing a correc-

tional institution and vandalizing jail property, Suffolk District

Attorney Kevin R. Hayden said in a statementMonday. Headley

had been convicted in June 2021 ofmultiple gun charges but ac-

quitted of shooting a police officer. On July 16, 2018, at the jail,

Headley “berated” a sheriff’s officer and refused orders to either

return to his cell or continue his dinner. He threatened and spat

at officers, who then restrainedHeadley and began to escort him

from the unit, prosecutors said. Headley broke away and kicked a

door, shattering riot glass valued at roughly $2,000, according to

the statement. JudgeMarkHart Summerville sentencedHeadley

to 2½ years, following the completion of his eight- to 10-year

state prison sentence, according to the statement. Headley is cur-

rently incarcerated atMCI-Norfolk, records show.

Warren endorses Arroyo inDA race

Senator ElizabethWarren has endorsed Boston City Councilor

Ricardo Arroyo in the race to succeed Rachael Rollins as Suffolk

district attorney, Arroyo’s campaign announcedMonday. Arroyo,

who is in his second term on the council, is a former public de-

fender and an advocate on the council for police reform. “Ricardo

is an experienced and compassionate public servant and attorney

with an unwavering commitment to justice,”Warren said in a

statement released by Arroyo’s campaign. “As a public defender

and Boston City Councilor, Ricardo has worked tirelessly to ad-

dress systemic racial and class inequities,’’ Warren said. “With Ri-

cardo as District Attorney, Suffolk County will help lead the fight

for equal justice by combating racial and class disparities in our

criminal justice systemwhile supporting people’s safety, dignity,

and wellbeing.” Arroyo announced his candidacy last month for

the role as prosecutor for Boston, Chelsea, Revere, andWinthrop.

So far, Kevin Hayden, appointed by Governor Charlie Baker to

complete Rollins’s term, which expires later this year, has also an-

nounced he is also seeking the post.

BPS employee arraigned

An employee at a public school in Dorchester for grades six

through 12 was arraignedMonday on charges that he requested

and received “sexual images” from aminor, the Suffolk district at-

torney’s office said. Ernest Logan, 31, a technician at TechBoston

Academy, appeared in theWest Roxbury Division of BostonMu-

nicipal Court on two counts of lascivious posing a child in a state

of nudity, the district attorney’s office said in a statement. Bail

was set at $3,000 and Loganwas ordered to stay away from the

victim andwitnesses, as well as the victim’s home and school, the

district attorney’s office said. He is due back in court April 27. A

child’s relative reached out to police after finding “concerning

communications” between the alleged victim and Logan, who

was known to the family through his job at TechBoston Academy,

the district attorney’s office said. “Logan allegedly encouraged the

victim to send him sexual images, requests with which the victim

complied,” the statement said. Boston Public Schools said the de-

partment could not comment on the specifics of the incident. An

attorney representing Logan had no comment.

WA LT H AM

Car rolls into trench; driver escapesA drivermanaged to escape unscathed after rolling a car into a

trench at a construction site inWaltham onMondaymorning, of-

ficials said. Fire crews responded at 10:17 a.m. to the intersection

of Summit andHammond streets, where a car had rolled into a

trench dug so that workers couldmake repairs to the street, Dep-

uty Fire Chief Richard Grant said. Grant said one of two steel

plates that covered the hole had beenmoved to the side. As the

car attempted to pass by, its front tire went in, and it rolled hood-

first into the hole, Grant said. The drivermanaged to get out of

the car and refused treatment, Grant said. There were no inju-

ries, and the car was extracted from the hole, officials said.

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Today is Tuesday, March 15,

the 74th day of 2022. There are

291 days left in the year.

Birthdays: Actor Judd Hirsch

is 87. Jazz saxophonist Charles

Lloyd is 84. Grateful Dead bass-

ist Phil Lesh is 82. Beach Boys

singer Mike Love is 81. Rock

singer-musician Sly Stone is 79.

Rock guitarist-singer Ry Cooder

is 75. Model Fabio is 61. Sugar

Ray singer Mark McGrath is 54.

Rock musician Mark Hoppus is

50. Actor Eva Longoria is 47.

Black-eyed Peas rapper-musi-

cian will.i.am is 47. Linkin Park

DJ Joseph Hahn is 45. Rapper

Young Buck is 41.

ºIn 44 B.C., Roman dictator

Julius Caesar was assassinated

by a group of nobles that includ-

ed Brutus and Cassius.

ºIn 1820,Massachusetts lost

over 30,000 square miles of land

asMainewas granted statehood,

the 23rd state in the union.

ºIn 1917, Czar Nicholas II

abdicated in favor of his brother,

Grand Duke Mikhail Alexan-

drovich, who declined the

crown, marking the end of im-

perial rule in Russia.

ºIn 1965, President Lyndon

B. Johnson, addressing a joint

session of Congress, called for

new legislation to guarantee ev-

ery American’s right to vote; the

result was passage of the Voting

Rights Act of 1965.

ºIn 1972, “The Godfather,”

Francis Ford Coppola’s epic

gangster movie based on the

Mario Puzo novel and starring

Marlon Brando and Al Pacino,

premiered in New York.

ºIn 2005, former WorldCom

chief Bernard Ebbers was con-

victed in New York of engineer-

ing the largest corporate fraud

in US history. (He was later sen-

tenced to 25 years in prison.)

ºIn 2011, the Syrian civil

war had its beginnings with Ar-

ab Spring protests across the re-

gion that turned into an armed

insurgency and eventually be-

came a full-blown conflict.

ºIn 2017, for the second

time, a federal court blocked

President Trump’s efforts to

freeze immigration by refugees

and citizens of some predomi-

nantlyMuslim nations.

ºIn 2019, a gunman killed

51 people at two mosques in

Christchurch, New Zealand,

streaming the massacre live on

Facebook. (Brenton Tarrant, an

Australian white supremacist,

was sentenced to life in prison

without parole after pleading

guilty to 51 counts of murder

and other charges.)

ºIn 2020, the Federal Re-

serve took massive emergency

action to help the economy

withstand the coronavirus by

slashing its benchmark interest

rate to near zero and saying it

would buy $700 billion in trea-

sury and mortgage bonds. After

initially trying to keep schools

open, New York City Mayor Bill

de Blasio said the nation’s larg-

est public school system would

close in hopes of curbing the

spread of the coronavirus. Gov-

ernor Charlie Baker ordered all

Massachusetts schools to close

for three weeks and limited res-

taurants to takeout and delivery

services.

ºLast year, a poll from the

Associated Press-NORC Center

for Public Affairs Research

found that 42 percent of Repub-

licans said they probably or defi-

nitely would not be vaccinated

against COVID, compared with

17 percent of Democrats.

This day in history

PHOTOS BY JESSICA RINALDI/GLOBE STAFF

Mayor Michelle Wu grabbed a piece of paper before it became litter during a press conference concerning the EPA’s formal

announcement it had designated a 3.7-mile stretch of the Lower Neponset River a Superfund site.

By Gal Tziperman LotanGLOBE STAFF

Standing by a tall, sculptural

bridge that spans a narrow

length of the Neponset River in

Mattapan Monday, Environ-

mental Protection Agency re-

gional administrator David

Cash encouraged a group of re-

porters and elected officials to

close their eyes and listen.

“I hear the breeze blowing

through this exquisite spot,”

Cash said. “What an amazing

day it is today.”

After years of local advocacy,

the EPA designated a 3.7-mile

stretch of the Lower Neponset

River a Superfund site, Cash

formally announced at a press

conference where he was joined

by Senator Elizabeth Warren,

Representatives Ayanna Press-

ley and Stephen Lynch, and

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu,

among other officials.

The designation will begin a

cleanup process that may last

decades, undoing the industrial

pollution that plagued the river

for more than a century.

The river winds fromMother

Brook in Hyde Park to the Wal-

ter Baker Dam in Dorchester,

dividing Milton and Mattapan

on the way. It was polluted by

mills and manufacturing plants

that lined its banks for much of

the 19th and 20th centuries,

and it is now one of 12 new Su-

perfund sites, joining more

than 1,300 other locations on

the Superfund National Priori-

ties List. The list includes 33

other sites in Massachusetts.

“This is a win-win for the

communities who value recreat-

ing on the river, families who

live in the area, and the wildlife

that depend on it,” Cash said,

“because we now have a mecha-

nism to address the contamina-

tion in the sediment that has

plagued this river for decades.”

Pressley noted that national-

ly, more than 9,000 federally

funded public housing projects

are a mile or less from a Super-

fund site. This has a dispropor-

tionate effect on poor people

and on people of color, she said.

“None of these injustices

have happened overnight,”

Pressley said. “They’re the re-

sult of generations of intention-

al policy violence and chronic

disinvestment. We know that to

combat decades of environmen-

tal racism, we must prioritize

environmental justice, which is

intrinsically linked to racial

health and economic justice.”

The bottom of the river is

now heavy with polychlorinated

biphenyls, or PCBs, the carcino-

genic materials that were com-

mon in electrical equipment, lu-

bricants, and hydraulic fluids

from 1929 until their produc-

tion was banned in 1979.

“Decades o f indus t r ia l

dumping have polluted this wa-

ter and transformed something

joyful and beautiful into some-

thing dangerous,”Wu said. “The

chemicals in this river can have

serious impacts on physical

health and on reproductive

health, and affect our young

people’s cognitive development

and learning.”

There is no danger to the

people who currently use the

Lower Neponset River Trail, a 5-

mile greenway often full of peo-

ple jogging, biking, or walking

their dogs, said Ian Cooke, exec-

utive director of the Neponset

River Watershed Association.

But swimming in the river, com-

ing into contact with the pollut-

ed mud lining its banks, and

eating the fish that live in the

river can be dangerous, he said.

If portions of the cleanup

pose more of a risk to local com-

munities and people who use

the trail, Cash said, the EPA will

alert residents and try to miti-

gate those risks, possibly by

temporarily closing the area off.

Scientists with the EPA plan

to collect samples from the river

this fall to assess the extent of

the pollution. Meanwhile, the

EPA’s enforcement division,

along with the Justice Depart-

ment, will investigate which

companies were responsible for

the pollution.

The cleanup could take de-

cades to complete and cost tens

of millions of dollars, EPA offi-

cials told the Globe. Exactly

how long it will take, and how

much money it will cost, is un-

clear.

Designating the river a Su-

perfund site will give access to

federal funding, along with sci-

entific and legal assistance.

“This is not one-and-done

funding,” Warren said. “We

have Superfund sites all across

the Commonwealth and all

across the nation, and they are

all underfunded. ... We know

we have the money to get this

one done. But we will continue

to try to keep more and more

resources into the Superfund

project overall.”

Lynch noted that communi-

ty members have been asking

for help in cleaning up the river

for decades. Legislators were

aware of the issue as early as

1995, he said.

“The first studies we com-

missioned at the federal level

were done in 2002,” Lynch said.

“So you sometimes see how

long these things can take.”

Gal Tziperman Lotan can be

reached at gal.lotan@globe.com

or at 617-929-2043.

Activists hail EPA ruling on NeponsetCleanup of rivermay take decades

The stretch of the Lower Neponset River that was declared a Superfund site has been subject

to industrial pollution for a century as mills and manufacturing facilities lined its banks.

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DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF

PAT GREENHOUSE/GLOBE STAFF

By Emily SweeneyGLOBE STAFF

More than 30 people have

died in car crashes in Maine so

far this year, a “staggering in-

crease” from this point last

year, officials said Monday.

In January, there were 13 fa-

talities in car crashes, com-

pared to 7 in 2021. In February,

there were 14 fatalities, com-

pared to 11 a year earlier. So far

in March, there have been five

deaths, the same as this time in

2021.

“That is a concerning trend,

given 2021 ended as one of our

safest years,” state officials said

in a statement.

“If we keep this up, we are

on course for a very deadly

spring here in Maine.”

In 2021, there were 153

statewide fatalities from car

crashes.

This winter, contributing

factors in the fatal crashes in-

cluded unsafe speeds, reckless

driving, alcohol and drug-im-

paired driving, and not wearing

seat belts, officials said.

“Make safety for yourselves,

and all others sharing the road

with you, your top priority,”

Lauren Stewart, the state’s

highway safety director, said in

a statement.

“No one typically plans to be

involved in a serious injury or

fatal crash when they leave one

destination for another. How-

ever, you can always plan to be

a safe driver.”

Officials reminded drivers to

be cautious, slow down, and

wear seat belts.

“Be a defensive driver al-

ways engaged in the act of driv-

ing, being alert, and looking

out for the other cars on the

road,” officials said in the state-

ment. “Just drive! Everything

else can wait.”

Emily Sweeney can be reached

at emily.sweeney@globe.com.

Follow her on Twitter

@emilysweeney and on

Instagram@emilysweeney22.

Fatal carcrashessurge inMaine

By Nick StoicoGLOBE CORRESPONDENT

The state’s official tally of

COVID-19 deaths dropped by

more than 3,700 in data re-

leased Monday under a new

counting method that Massa-

chusetts health officials say

more accurately reflects the

pandemic’s impact.

The state reported 19,981

con f i rmed and probab l e

COVID-19 deaths as of Sunday,

down from 23,751 onMarch 10.

The data Monday included nine

new confirmed COVID deaths,

bringing the total to 18,886, and

no new probable deaths, leaving

that total at 1,095.

The change comes after the

Department of Public Health

announced last week it would

narrow the state’s definition of a

COVID-related death for people

who tested positive for COVID

but did not have the virus listed

as the cause of death on their

death certificate. State health of-

ficials said they expected the

new method would cut the

number of deaths by about

3,700.

Under the new system, any

person who dies within 30 days

of a COVID-19 diagnosis is re-

corded by the state as having

died from COVID, except in cas-

es for which another cause of

death is clear. The previous

method counted anyone who

died within 60 days of a COVID-

19 diagnosis.

COVID deaths can be count-

ed beyond the 30-day window if

COVID-19 or an “equivalent

term” is listed on the death cer-

tificate, or if investigators con-

clude the death was coronavi-

rus-related. The new systemwas

recommended by the Council of

State and Territorial Epidemiol-

ogists, which helps establish

uniform methods for states to

track and record various diseas-

es.

During a press briefing last

week, state epidemiologist Dr.

Cather ine Brown said the

change is “an absolutely critical

step in improving our under-

standing of who COVID has im-

pactedmost significantly during

the pandemic.”

“Prior to the CSTE definition,

states did not have a nationally

recommended definition for

COVID-19 deaths and, as such,

have been using a variety of pro-

cesses and definitions to count

their deaths,” Brown said in a

statement Thursday. “In Massa-

chusetts, our definition has con-

sistently been broader than

most other states. After a deep

dive into our data and reviewing

thousands of death certificates

we recognize that this updated

definition gives us a truer pic-

ture ofmortality associated with

COVID-19.”

The new method is also be-

ing applied retroactively back to

March 2020, when the pandem-

ic first gripped the state. The

state said last week that 4,081

deaths that were previously

counted as being associated

with COVID would be removed

from the official tally, while

about 400 deaths not previously

counted, but identified through

matching death certificates with

medical records, would be add-

ed.

Dr. Sabrina Assoumou, an

assistant professor of medicine

at Boston University School of

Medicine and an attending phy-

sician in the section of Infec-

tious Diseases at Boston Medi-

cal Center, said the new system

will improve accuracy in calcu-

lating the virus’s impact, partic-

ularly when comparing Massa-

chusetts with other parts of the

country.

“This is sort of a precarious

time with COVID, especially as

we’re seeing cases starting to go

up in Europe, and they’re high

in Asia,” she said in a phone in-

terview. “Keeping track of all

those metrics is going to be im-

portant, so it is important we

get it right as wemove forward,”

she said.

Nick Stoico can be reached at

nick.stoico@globe.com. Follow

him on Twitter @NickStoico.

New counting method lowers Mass. COVID deaths by 3,700March 20, 2020

85

1

As of July 13, 2021, the state reports coronavirus statistics Monday-Friday.

SOURCE: Mass. Department of Public Health GLOBE STAFF

Mass. COVID-19 cases

Mass. COVID-19 deaths

1,520 new

9 new

Confirmed, by date case was

reported to the state

(Cumulative total: 1,549,684)

Confirmed, by date death was

reported to the state

(Cumulative total: 18,886)

March 14

In Mass:

Seven-day

average

positivity

rate:

1.51%

Patients with

COVID-19

currently in

hospitals:

236

IN TRIBUTE TO AND IN AID

OF UKRAINE — Christine Gatti

(top photo) arranged sunflowers

before Mayor Michelle Wu and

others attended an unveiling of

Ukrainian flags at Statler Park

in Boston on Monday.

Meanwhile, medical supplies

were stockpiled for Ukraine.

Meg Femino (right in left

photo), vice president of

emergency management with

Beth Israel Lahey Health;

Patrick Kiley (center),

emergency management

coordinator with Conference of

Boston Teaching Hospitals; and

Maura Hughes, CEO Boston

MedFlight, inventoried and

catalogued the donations from

member hospitals of Doctors

Collaborating to Help Children.

The supplies are being stored in

a hanger at Boston MedFlight in

Bedford.

By AmandaMilkovitsGLOBE STAFF

PROVIDENCE—ARhode Is-

land woman who lied about be-

ing a cancer-stricken decorated

Marine combat

veteran was ar-

rested Monday

o n f e d e r a l

c h a r g e s o f

fraud involving

m o r e t h a n

$200,000 from charities.

Sarah Jane Cavanaugh, 31,

who had been the commander of

North Kingstown Veterans of

Foreign Wars Post 152 until the

allegations surfaced in late Janu-

ary, was arraigned in US District

Court on four felony charges.

The US attorney’s office is

charging her with using another

person’s military discharge cer-

tificate, the DD-214 form, aggra-

vated ID theft, fraudulently

holding herself out as a recipient

of a Purple Heart and Bronze

Star, and using communications

in furtherance of fraudulent ac-

tivities.

Cavanaugh had allegedly

used the discharge certificate of

an actual Marine, who is now a

civilian working for the US Navy

in Newport, R.I., and who had

happened to visit the Veterans

Affairs Medical Center in Provi-

dence where she was working.

The discharge certificate had

been falsified with her name.

“In all the years I’ve been do-

ing this, I’ve seldom seen a

fraudulence scheme so wide-

ranging,” Assistant US Attorney

Ronald Gendron toldMagistrate

Judge Lincoln D. Almond. “It

seemed any pot of money out

there that she placed her hands

on, she used fraud to try to ac-

quire it.”

Cavanaugh’s defense attor-

ney, Kensley Barrett, said she

was trying to sell her home in

Warwick for restitution for the

alleged victims.

Almond released Cavanaugh

on $50,000 unsecured bond,

saying he did not believe shewas

a danger to the community, with

supervision by court pretrial ser-

vices. The magistrate ordered

Cavanaugh into mental health

treatment, to not possess weap-

ons, and not to travel outside of

Rhode Island.

Cavanaugh’s alleged schemes

were first uncovered by some of

the people and organizations

that help veterans in need — be-

cause they’d believed at first that

she was one of them.

Kate Mannion, co-host of the

podcast Zero Blog Thirty, first re-

vealed the alleged deception on

her Jan. 31 show. Mannion said

she had sent the HunterSeven

Foundation a donation for the

woman, whom she believed had

been wounded by a roadside

bomb blast. Cavanaugh had told

a story about serving tours in

Iraq and Afghanistan, then be-

ing diagnosed with stage 4 lung

cancer in September 2019. Ca-

vanaugh’s description ofmetallic

particles in her lung, specific to a

blast from an improvised explo-

sive device, sounded similar to

stories of other military person-

nel who’d been injured in battle

and suffered from cancer, Man-

nion said.

Mannion said HunterSeven

sent her a letter and was return-

ing her donation to Cavanaugh,

saying that “everything was a

lie.”

Mar ine Ma jo r Thomas

Schueman, founder of the non-

profit veterans’ group Patrol

Base Abbate, told Task & Pur-

pose that Cavanaugh told him

she was dying of cancer from

toxic exposure to burn pits.

Schueman said that Cavanaugh

showed him with a DD-214 that

was ultimately found to be rid-

dled with disparities.

Cavanaugh wasn’t a Marine

and wasn’t suffering from can-

cer, but she used those stories to

defraud well-intentioned people

near and far, Gendron said.

“These are people that trust-

ed her, that she met on a daily

basis sometimes, face to face.

Sometimes they were employ-

ees, people who she may have

met through her fraudulent ac-

ceptance in the VFW, people she

met through charities. She pur-

ported to be a Marine who was

injured while serving the coun-

try in combat and had cancer,”

he said.

Through the investigation

that began with questions from

HunterSeven, Special Agent

Thomas Donnelly of the Depart-

ment of Veterans Affairs, Office

of the Inspector General uncov-

ered an alleged web of lies.

Cavanaugh had used the ID

of an actual Marine — a man

who is now working as a civilian

with the US Navy in Newport,

according to an affidavit sup-

porting an arrest warrant. The

former Marine told Donnelly

that he recognized his signature

on the discharge certificate that

Cavanaugh was passing off as

her own.

With his ID, Cavanaugh

claimed she had served from

2009 to 2016, was wounded in

action in Iraq and Afghanistan,

and had been honorably dis-

charged as a corporal, the affida-

vit said.

AmandaMilkovits can be

reached at

amanda.milkovits@globe.com.

Follow her on Twitter

@AmandaMilkovits.

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posal spotlights the competing

pressures facing public officials

in this time of heightened politi-

cal tension: respecting protest-

ers’ First Amendment rights and

maintaining a good quality of

life in city neighborhoods. That

debate, taking place across the

country, has sparked moves in

other cities as well as legislation

on Beacon Hill that would pro-

hibit demonstrations within 100

yards of elected officials’ homes.

Courts have held that limited re-

strictions on the time, place, and

manner of protests can be con-

stitutional under certain circum-

stances. To be lawful, protest

limitations must be applied and

enforced equally, not weap-

onized only against demonstra-

tors with a certain point of view,

legal experts said.

Wu has argued the ordinance

would preserve peace and quiet

without infringing on protesters’

right to demonstrate. In a letter

to the council, Wu’s legal team

asserted that should it pass, the

ordinance “will be in confor-

mance with law.”

“Limited restrictions on tar-

geted residential picketing are a

lawful method of pursuing the

significant governmental inter-

est of protecting residential pri-

vacy, tranquility, and quality of

life,” wrote Adam Cederbaum,

the city’s corporation counsel.

But skeptics, including some

members of the City Council, ar-

gued that Wu’s proposal seemed

motivated by and targeted at the

protesters outside her house in

the mornings, not aimed equally

at all demonstrations.

Other councilors distin-

guished between the demonstra-

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tions outside Wu’s home and

protests elsewhere in the city or

against other elected officials,

suggesting the current situation

requires further restrictions.

“The demonstrations under

the white mayors was profes-

sional, it was respectful. And the

demonstration out in front of

Mayor Wu’s home was personal,

it was vindictive, it was mean-

spirited,” Council President Ed

Flynn said. “A lot of this has to

do withMayorWu being a wom-

an and Mayor Wu being a wom-

an of color.”

The proposed ordinance is a

long way from becoming law.

City councilors will discuss its

details in a working session be-

fore taking a vote on whether to

adopt it or not. And several

councilors expressed significant

concerns about the proposal,

warning that its enforcement

could disproportionately impact

communities of color and that it

threatens an important demo-

cratic value.

“Protests are meant to be dis-

ruptive,” said City Councilor

Kendra Lara. “And as people

who are in power we don’t get to

tell our constituents when it’s

appropriate or when it feels

good or when it’s best for us that

they show up to protest.”

And she argued that while

the ordinance does not specifi-

cally name them, it is directly

aimed at the protesters outside

Wu’s home.

“It is not content-neutral. It

was written as a response to a

specific kind of protest,” Lara

said.

Despite the opposition, the

ordinance appears to have a

good chance of passing. Several

influential members of the coun-

cil argued in favor of its provi-

sions, including Ricardo Arroyo

and Flynn.

The protests against Wu have

continued even as the city begins

to roll back some of its COVID-

19 restrictions. Just last week,

Boston public health officials

voted to rescind the city ’s

COVID-19 public health emer-

gency on April 1 and took their

first crucial step toward ending

the mask requirement in city

schools. A proof-of-vaccine man-

date for restaurants, gyms, and

entertainment venues was lifted

last month as the city’s COVID-

19metrics improved.

But Wu’s push for a vaccine

mandate for city workers — the

measure that has sparked per-

haps the most vehement pro-

tests against her — continues.

Last month, city authorities said

they were filing an appeal of a

court ruling that blocked en-

forcement of the requirement

for a trio of public safety unions.

The mandate has yet to be en-

forced amid the legal battle and

other delays.

On Friday morning, protest-

ers disrupted what was intended

to be a light Instagram live ap-

pearance whenWu joined a pub-

lic works crew fixing a pothole in

Charlestown. What appeared to

be at most a handful of demon-

strators, some of whom held

signs, showed up with a mega-

phone, chanting “Shame on

Wu!”

The heckling continued as a

crew shoveled asphalt into a cav-

ity in the road. At times during

the 11-minute livestream, the

demonstrators’ voices drowned

out Wu, who was asking public

works employees questions

about the work.

Among the shouts: “She

doesn’t care about constituents!”

“Fake smile Michelle, fake smile

Michelle!” “Unmask the kids!”

“You’re a carpetbagger from Chi-

cago!”

The proposed ordinance

would not affect marches or pro-

tests passing through residential

areas, just demonstrations that

are directed at individual resi-

dences or residents. If it passes,

violators could be punished with

a fine of $100 for the first of-

fense, $200 for the second of-

fense, and $300 for the third or

subsequent offenses.

If passed, Wu’s proposal

would effectively delay by two

hours the permissible start time

of the noisy demonstrations out-

side her home. Currently, Bos-

ton’s local restrictions on noise

effectively restrict demonstra-

tors from loud protests before 7

a.m. or after 11 p.m.

The protesters outside Wu’s

home stop shouting after the

mayor departs for City Hall.

Since she typically leaves before

9 a.m., the ordinance could

mean the protesters have no op-

portunity to loudly demonstrate

while she is still home.

Protests also are supposed to

remain quieter than 70 decibels,

a threshold neighbors say the

demonstrators outside Wu’s

home often exceed.

Emma Platoff can be reached at

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Demonstrators yelled at the vehicle carrying Boston Mayor Michelle Wu in her Roslindale neighborhood on Jan. 25.

views of their criminal re-

cords, civil legal history, and

even social media postings.

InMassachusetts, the Canna-

bis Control Commission man-

dates that practically everyone

associated with a licensed pot

business pay Creative Services

for such a background check. In

February, the independent state

agency notified 1,982 licensees

and workers who received a

background check between No-

vember 2018 and last fall that

their informationmay have been

compromised in the breach. A

further 75 com-

mission staffers

were also affect-

ed , a spoke s -

woman said.

“We’re doing

everything we

can to work with

companies . . .

and prevent it

from happening

aga in ,” S teve

Hoffman, the

commiss ion’s

chair, told re-

porters after a

me e t i n g l a s t

week.

The commission has paid

Creative Services just under

$70,000 so far this fiscal year, a

spokeswoman said, though the

company has likely raked in far

more in fees paid by Massachu-

setts marijuana license appli-

cants and employers hiring new

workers — each background

check costs several hundred dol-

lars, according to applicants.

Marijuana entrepreneurs

were frustrated by the hack, not-

ing the state doesn’t offer them

any choice in background check

providers and that it took several

months for Creative Services to

notify them of the breach via

snail mail. They also said that,

beyond standard identity theft,

they were concerned about po-

tential leaks of private letters in-

cluded in their files explaining

the circumstances of past arrests

or criminal charges that are oth-

erwise sealed from public view.

And then there were the awk-

ward calls to warn investors in

their companies about the

breach.

“The conversation is, ‘hey,

thanks for believing in my com-

pany — by the way, you might

uHACKERSContinued from Page B1

want to look at your credit histo-

ry,’ ” said Noni Goldman, a can-

nabis consultant and executive

for several licensed marijuana

operators in Massachusetts. “It’s

annoying and a little ridiculous.

It’s only because we followed the

rules and sent all this informa-

tion that we were targets. Every-

one assumed this was totally pri-

vate communication with [Cre-

ative Services].”

In the context of recent

megahacks that have seen at-

tackers download millions of re-

cords at once, 164,000may seem

like relatively small potatoes.

Still, Bob Rudis, the chief data

scientist at digital

s e c u r i t y f i rm

Rapid7, urged

people affected by

the breach to take

it seriously and

use the offered

free services to se-

cure their identi-

ties and bank ac-

counts.

“There’s a lot

of what we call

‘breach fatigue’ —

I probably ge t

four to 10 notices

a year myself,” he

said. “But 164,000 represents a

lot of human beings, and getting

their names, dates of birth, So-

cial Security numbers, and driv-

er’s licenses ismore than enough

to do a ton of financial damage.”

Rudis said it was most likely

that the attackers were seeking

those “basic” pieces of informa-

tion as a means to steal money,

though he acknowledged there

is a small risk that someone

could obtain the data dump

from a hacker forum and comb

through it to find the more de-

tailed narratives submitted by

some cannabis applicants in an

effort to extort them.

Creative Services was found-

ed in 1976 by Alan Sklar, who

began his career as a private in-

vestigator. The company previ-

ously made headlines in 1991,

when two of its employees were

chargedwith burglarizing the of-

fice of a Rochester, N.Y., attor-

ney. Sklar at the time disavowed

their conduct and said he had

suspended the investigators.

Dan Adams can be reached at

daniel.adams@globe.com.

Follow him on Twitter

@Dan_Adams86.

Computer hackershit Mansfield firm

Marijuanaentrepreneurswere frustrated,noting the statedoesn’t offerthem a choice inbackgroundcheck providers.

A spokesperson for Uber said

the company has reached out to

Forghany.

“Mr. Forghany’s report is tru-

ly distressing. We’ve been in

touch with him to offer support

and are standing by to assist law

enforcement with their investi-

gation,” the spokesperson said in

an e-mail.

According to Boston police re-

cords, two high-end stores in

close proximity to Chanel in the

BackBaywere targetedby smash-

and-grab thieves three times since

last June—but none involved us-

ing a car as a battering ram.

Thieves smashed their way

inside the Burberry’s store in

June and December and made

off with an undetermined

amount of items, police wrote in

the reports. Both incidents took

place in the predawn hours and

in both cases glass doors or win-

dows were broken by the thieves

in order to get inside. The

Chanel and two Burberry rob-

beries all took place between

4:35 a.m. and 5:55 a.m., accord-

ing to police records.

Earlier this month, someone

tried to break into the Tiffany &

Co. jewelry storeusingabrick,but

the effort failed when the attack

failed to smash the window open

around2:17 a.m., policewrote.

uSTOLEN CARContinued from Page B1

Forghany said that since po-

lice allowed the car to be extri-

cated from the Chanel store, he

has amassed a towing fee of

$150, a daily storage fee of $35

and is now the owner of what is

essentially a worthless car, even

though it might be repaired if he

had $2,000 or so needed to cover

the costs.

He doesn’t have that kind of

cash, and Forghany isn’t sure it

would be a wise use of money

anyway.

Forghany said he was hoping

to restart his job as an Uber driv-

er by recoveringmoneyunder his

car theft insurance policy from

his insurer, Safety Insurance.

But, he said, he was told by a

claims representative that since

the car was recovered, it can no

longer be covered by his theft

policy and he won’t qualify for

the $2,000 payment.

And, the claims representa-

tive told him, that because the

car smashed into a building, it’s

would only be covered if there

was a collision policy in place.

Forghany did not have one.

A Safety Insurance spokes-

woman saidMonday as a matter

of company policy, they do not

comment on pending coverage

claims.

“I likeworking forUber. You’re

your own boss and you make

good money,” Forghany said. “I

need money to put a down pay-

ment on a decent car. My credit

score is bad. Cars are expensive.”

A friend has created a Go-

FundMe fund-raiser for Forgha-

ny called “Help Amir Rebuild.”

“It is truly heartwrenching to

see something this terrible hap-

pen to someone who is so amaz-

ingly caring and giving,” orga-

nizer Steven Murnane wrote.

“Without his car, Amir cannot

make an income through Uber-

ing as he has since he arrived in

Massachusetts and I know he

would give his last dollar to help

others, so I hope you can help

him out, every dollar helps.”

By Monday, $295 had been

donated.

Forghany,who seems to be in-

herently optimistic, found some

good news when it comes to the

cost he is bearing because of the

theft of his car. “One good news

is that, most likely, I’m not going

to be sued by the store,” he said.

He also insisted he wanted to

send a message to anyone who

would read about the incident.

“Don’t leave your car run-

ning,” he said.

John R. Ellement can be reached

at john.ellement@globe.com.

Stolen car’s ownerhopes togetbackonroad

DAVID L RYAN/GLOBE STAFF

Police outside Chanel on Newbury Street in Boston where a

vehicle crashed into the front entrance for a smash and grab.

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LEGAL NOTICE OF COURTPROCEEDINGS

Higgins, PlaintiffV

City of Melrose et al

United States District CourtDistrict of Massachusetts,

BostonFile # 19-12547

12/18/2019

Plaintiff claims city with ob-struction of justice in abovenamed trial

MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE

By virtue of and in execution of the Power of Sale con-tained in a certain Mortgage dated August 31, 2005 givenby Ella L. Staples, recorded with the Suffolk County Registryof Deeds at Book 38184 on Page 200 of which Mortgagethe undersigned is the present holder for breach of theconditions of said Mortgage and for the purpose of fore-closing, same will be sold at Public Auction at 12:00 PM onthe 22nd of March 2022 at 27 Crossman Street, Boston, MAall and singular the premises described in said Mortgage

to wit:

The land with buildings thereon being Lot 6 shown on aplan entitled “Plan on Land in Boston, Dorchester” datedSeptember 30, 1955, Walter J. Luby, Surveyor, recordedwith Suffolk Registry of Deeds at the end of Book 7108 andbeing more particularly bound and described as follows:

NORTHEASTERLY: by Crossman Street, fifty (50) feet;

SOUTHEASTERLY: by Lot 7 as shown on said plan, one hun-dred (100) feet;

SOUTHWESTERLY: by land now or formerly of Mary Merola,fifty (50);

NORTHWESTERLY: and by Lot 5 as shown on said plan, onehundred (100)feet.

Containing according to said plan, 5000 square feet of land.

Being the same premises conveyed to Ella L. Staples bydeed of Norma Eastwick dated August 3, 2005 and record-ed in book 37728 page 302 of the Suffolk Registry of Deeds.The premises are to be sold subject to and with the ben-efit of all easements, restrictions, building and zoning laws,unpaid taxes, tax titles, water bills, municipal liens and as-sessments, rights of tenants and parties in possession.

The Mortgagee reserves the right to postpone the sale toa later date by public proclamation at the time and dateappointed for the sale and to further postpone at any ad-journed sale date by public proclamation at the time anddate appointed for the adjourned sale date.

In the event that any successful bidder at the foreclosuresale shall default in purchasing the within described prop-erty according to the terms of this Notice of Sale and/orthe terms of theMemorandum of Sale executed at the time of the foreclo-sure, the Mortgagee reserves the right to sell such propertyby Foreclosure Deed to the second highest bidder, that thesecond highest bidder shall deposit with the Mortgagee’sattorneys, Shaheen Guerrera & O’Leary, LLC, 820A TurnpikeStreet, North Andover, Massachusetts 01845, the amountof the required deposit as set forth herein within three (3)business days after written notice of default of the pre-vious highest bidder and title to such property shall beconveyed to said second highest bidder within twenty (20)days of said notice.

TERMS OF SALE:

Cashier’s or certified check in the sum of TEN THOUSANDDOLLARS AND 00 CENTS ($10,000.00) as a deposit mustbe shown at the time and place of the sale in order toqualify as a bidder (the mortgage holder and its designee(s)are exempt from this requirement); high bidder to signMemorandum of Sale upon acceptance of bid; high bidderwill be required to increase the deposit to equal 10% ofthe purchase price within 5 days of the auction; balanceof the purchase price is to be paid by certified check orcashier check on or within thirty (30) days from the dateof the sale payable to “Shaheen Guerrera & O’Leary, LLC”,at 820A Turnpike Street, North Andover, MA 01845 or suchother time as may be designated by the mortgagee. The de-scription of the premises contained in said mortgage shallcontrol in the event of an error in this publication.

Other terms if any, to be announced at the sale.

Affinity Federal Credit UnionPresent Holder of said Mortgage,By its Attorneys,Shaheen Guerrera & O’Leary, LLC820A Turnpike StreetNorth Andover, MA 01845978-689-0800

Public hearings will beheld on Tuesday, March 22,2022 at 7:00 PM, beforethe Land Use Committeeof the Newton City Councilfor the purpose of hearingthe following petitionsat which time all partiesinterested in the items shallbe heard. Notice will bepublished Tuesday, March8, 2022 and March 15, 2022in The Boston Globe andWednesday, March 16, 2022in the Newton Tab, with acopy posted on the city’swebsite at www.newtonma.gov and in a conspicuousplace at Newton City Hall.Please Note: This meetingwill be virtual and canbe attended by desktop,laptop, tablet or phone byvisiting the following link:h t tp s : / /u s 0 2w e b. z o om.us/j/84810198672 or bycalling +1 646 558 8656US (New York) and usingthe Meeting ID: 848 10198672 a final agenda will beposted on Friday, March 18,2022 at the following link:https://www.newtonma.gov/government/city-clerk/city-council/-folder-1031. If theGovernor’s Order suspendingcertain provisions of openmeeting law is rescinded,this meeting will be heldon the Second Floor of CityHall, 1000 CommonwealthAvenue, Newton. Please callthe Clerk’s office at 617-796-1210 for more information.

Petitionto allow an oversized internalaccessory apartment andextend a nonconformingtwo-family use at 350 CabotStreetPETER LEIS and JENNIFERSTORO petition for SPECIALPERMIT/SITE PLAN APPROVALto create an oversizedinternal accessory apartmentwithin one of two dwellingunits and further extend thenonconforming two-familydwelling use at 350 CabotStreet, Ward 2, Newton, onland known as Section 22Block 19 Lot 05, containingapproximately 12,594 sq. ft.of land in a district zonedSINGLE RESIDENCE 2. Ref:Sec.7.3.3,7.4,3.4.1,7.8.2.C.2,6.7.1.D.2 of Chapter 30 of theCity of Newton Rev ZoningOrd, 2017.

Petition to alterand extend a nonconformingresidential use and extend anonconforming side setbackat 2-4 Auburndale AvenueBERNARDO and LISA MARZILLIpetition for SPECIAL PERMIT/SITE PLAN APPROVAL to alterand extend a nonconformingresidential use and constructa rear addition to the existingdwelling, to allow a 2.5story building, to allow abuilding with 36’ in height,and to further extend anonconforming side setbackat 2-4 Auburndale Avenue,Ward 3, on land known asSection 33 Block 23 Lot 13,containing approximately11,702 sq. ft. of land in adistrict zoned BUSINESS USE1. Ref: Sec. 7.3.3, 7.4, 4.4.1,7.8.2.C.2, 4.1.2.B.3, 4.1.3of the City of Newton RevZoning Ord, 2017.

Request For ProposalsThe Worcester Community Action Council, Inc.’s (WCAC)Department of Energy Weatherization Assistance Program(DOEWAP) is currently accepting proposals for the follow-ing activities: Full Service Residential Weatherization Con-tractors: including cellulose/fiberglass insulation, blowerdoor assisted air sealing, general carpentry and energyefficiency related repairs; Electrical Contractors: Knob andTube Wiring inspection and mitigation, bath fan/wholehouse fan installation. To obtain a procurement package,please contact the Energy Department at Worcester Com-munity Action Council, Inc., 484 Main Street, 2nd floor,Worcester MA 01608-1810. Inquiries may be made by call-ing Mary Knittle at (508) 508.754.1176 x 115. Completedpackages must be received at WCAC Inc., 484 Main StreetWorcester MA 01608-1810 no later than 4:30 pm on Thurs-day, March 31st, 2022. This advertisement is subject in allrespects to the terms and conditions of the Request forProposals. Small and minority owned businesses are en-couraged to respond. AA/EOE. Marybeth Campbell, Execu-tive Director, WCAC March 11, 2022

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question to loveletters@globe.com.

Q. I met this guy three years back in high school

and we only dated for about six months. We kept

making up and breaking up countless times until

we broke up for good. The reason was that he had

been trying to get back together with his ex, who

apparently dumped him (I don’t know why). He

even said bad things about me to the girl, trying to

get her attention, which she did not give him. He

also said negative things about me to other people

— that I was grumpy and boring.

But I haven’t forgotten him or stopped thinking

about him. I never text or call him, but I consider

it. I don’t know if I think about him because of all

the painful things he did to me or because it’s love.

He, too, seems to have not forgotten about me. He

still makes contact now and then, and our conver-

sation gets ... cozy. He once suggested that we get

back together, and even though I felt tempted, I re-

jected him. I thought to myself that taking him

back would be too big a risk because he causedme

somuch pain.

Truth is, I feel attached to him. I still feel like I

want to be with him because I can’t be with any-

body else. I mean, I tried moving on but with ev-

eryone I engage with, I see incompleteness, like

there’s always something they don’t have that only

he has. At this moment, I’m bewildered. I don’t

know if I want to be with him or not. What I know

is that I always think of him, and whenever he

texts, I feel happiness. Would it be the right thing

to get back with him or I should deal with this in

another way?

TEMPTED

A. I dated (if one could call it that) someonewhen I

was around your age who seemed very into me ...

except that he wasn’t, or at least not enough. We

were so perfect together, if I ignored the fact that

he knew I wasn’t what he wanted. He was very

honest about that; he loved me, but not enough in

a romantic way. Nor was he ready to have a serious

relationship with anyone at that age.

That tiny gap betweenwhat we had andme get-

ting everything I wanted— that pocket of rejection

— made this guy seem like a soul mate, or like a

prize to be won. If only I could get him past that

doubt, it would be ... (drum roll) ... amazing.

But then one day I was like, huh, everything

he’s said is true.He likesme, but not enough—and

that’s OK. Then, suddenly, I wasn’t into him

enough either. I stopped communication, which

made him sad, but at least I had clarity. Looking

back, we did click in big ways, but part of the rea-

son he felt so importantwas the rejection. It made

any attention from him seem too important. It

made the goodmoments seem like love.

You and I are not the same, and who knows

what your guy is doing. All I know is that when you

say everyone else makes you feel incomplete, I

want to remind you that this man’s feelings for you

are also incomplete. He’s never been all in.

I see two options. One is to talk to him about

what happened in your relationship and ask about

his intentions now. Maybe he’s sorry about the

childish way he handled your affection. But if he

has no remorse for that and has no idea what he’s

hoping for now, you can let go. There’s no room for

“I just like to show up when I feel like it.” Make

sure you ask clear questions, and stay transparent

about your feelings and concerns.

The other option is to write down what he’s ac-

tually earned from you (very little, I assume), and

then let go. Make the decision final. It might save

you some time. MEREDITH

READERS RESPOND:

Anyone who says bad things about you to his ex

and others has no redeeming qualities. Being re-

jected is painful enough. This guy is just cruel. You

said his ex would not give him the attention he

wants. Be like her!

MIDGE-

“I tried moving on but with everyone I engage

with, I see incompleteness.” No, incompleteness is

the on-and-off-again relationship you hadwith this

guy from high school. You two were not meant to

be. He’s a manipulator. Completely disengaging

from him, knowing you’re susceptible to his ma-

nipulations, is the only healthy way to deal with

this.

BIGSIGH

From what you describe, you should not get

back together with this ex. Maybe after you re-read

this letter, you’ll know that.

CUPPAJOESEATTLE

Send your own relationship and dating questions

to loveletters@globe.com. Catch new episodes of

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LOVE LETTERSBY MEREDITH GOLDSTEIN

He was bad to mebut I still want him

TV CRITIC’S CORNERBY MATTHEW GILBERT

More than ever, movie and especially TV audi-

ences have the power. We get to choose what we

want to see, whenwewant to see it, and where.

But are we powerful enough to bring a show

back from that special heaven made for canceled

series? Yes, we are indeed, at least sometimes.

PBS’s “Masterpiece” is premiering a second sea-

son of “Sanditon” this week, after it was left for

dead.

The show, a loose adaptation of Jane Austen’s

unfinished last novel, ended on a very non-Auste-

nesque cliffhanger, and loyal viewers were en-

raged when the cancellation was announced. A

large group of fans calling themselves the “Sandi-

ton Sisterhood” launched a campaign, signatures

were obtained, social media was mobilized, and

at least one stunt — a portrait of two characters

and the words “WHOWILL #SAVESANDITON”

in the sand on the UK beach where the showwas

filmed—was pulled.

And so Sunday at 9 p.m. on GBH 2, the story

returns, this timewithout themale romantic lead

from season one, Theo James. Instead, Charlotte

Heywood (RoseWilliams) gets a few new love in-

terests, while other subplots, including a poison-

ing and the arrival of Charlotte’s sister, swirl

around her.

“Sanditon,” written by Andrew Davies, is pret-

ty bland, to be honest, and predictable, too. And

it gets further and further from a story that Aus-

ten would tell. But for period drama addicts and

Anglophiles, it’ll do.

Among the other shows that fans have helped

to bring back, for another season or for a movie:

“Ray Donovan,” “Sense8,” “Jericho,” “Timeless,”

“Reaper,” “VeronicaMars,” and “Nashville.”

‘Sanditon’ returns, thanks to the power of its fans

JOSS BARRATT @ RED PLANET

Rose Williams (left) and Crystal Clarke in season two of “Sanditon” on “Masterpiece.”

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mance is yet another reminder

of the wealth and depth of the-

atrical talent at Boston-area uni-

versities, not to mention the cal-

iber of training they are receiv-

ing there.

Created by Lynn Ahrens

(book and lyrics) and Stephen

Flaherty (music), a songwriting

teamwho are uncommonly ad-

ept at sketching character in

song, “Once on This Island”

won the 2018 Tony Award for

best revival of a musical. It’s

based on “My Love, My Love: Or

The Peasant Girl,” a 1985 novel

by Trinidad-born author Rosa

Guy that was a retelling of Hans

ComfortZone

By ChristopherWallenbergGLOBE CORRESPONDENT

InHeidi Schreck’s “What the Constitu-

tionMeans toMe,” the playwright and

actress re-created a prize-winning

speech she had given as a teenager,

which allowed her to travel around the

country and earnmoney for college. The play

morphs from her channeling that speech into a

potent dissection of the virtues, flaws, and lim-

its of America’s foundational charter as well as

its dramatic impact on four generations of

women in her family. A touring production pre-

sented by the Huntington Theatre Company,

starring Cassie Beck, is playing at the Emerson

CutlerMajestic Theatre throughMarch 20. As

the play draws to a close, the character of Heidi

faces off in a debate with a real-life high school-

er, played in alternating performances by Los

Angeles teenagers Jocelyn Shek and Emilyn Tof-

fler, as they argue whether to keep the Constitu-

tion and try to improve it — or abolish it and

create a new Constitution that fixes its flaws

and also includes “positive rights” for educa-

tion, health care, andmore. Over Zoom, Shek

and Toffler, both experienced debaters, shared

their thoughts about the play and the Constitu-

tion.

Q.How did you first get interested in debate?

Jocelyn Shek: I first got involved in debate

when I was only in fifth grade. I was one of

those people whowhen an adult talks to you, I’d

freeze up and, like, run behindmy parents. I

signed up for debate because I wanted to get

out of my comfort zone, and I thought it would

be fun to research different topics.

Emilyn Toffler: I joined the debate team in

10th grade, but the coach got really sick. So we

were trying to find a new person to take over,

and then I got bullied by one of the guys on the

team for being trans, so I was like, “I’m not do-

ing this anymore,” and I left. When COVID hit, I

took an online debate class, and I had a really

good time doing it. The new coach [at my high

school] is really awesome. I’ve always been

more of a “dinner table debater,” asmymom

calls it. When I was 8, mymomwas like, “You

should be a lawyer.”

Q.What do you love about debating?

ET: I don’t like to think of myself as a com-

petitive person. But you putme on the debate

stage, and it’s like a switch is flipped and I be-

come a completely different human being. I

love doing heckles and POIs, which is a point of

information [questions or statements addressed

to the judge or opponent to support your side of

the debate], and just completely debunking an

argument.

JS: Tournaments and stuff are fine. You get a

lot of adrenaline, and I like speakingmy opin-

ions. But the lead-up to a tournament and do-

ing debate prep and research on a topic, that’s

my favorite part — just having that time to ex-

plore different facets of the world.

Q.Howmuch of the show is scripted and how

much of it is off the cuff?

ET: The debate is scripted. But, for example,

I was really distraught over the things happen-

ing in Texas and in Florida in regards to trans

and queer kids. So Heidi talked tome andwas

like, “Hey, you know, let’s add something in this

part of the debate, so that way we can talk

about this because it’s really important to you

and your voice needs to be heard on this issue,

and it needs to be in the play.” She’s really open

with us, and if we need anything, she’s always

there for us.

JS: I started with the show in January of

2020 when I was a freshman. So I’ve seen a lot

of the changes that have beenmade, and that’s

something I appreciate — that she tries to keep

it fresh. It stays in themoment. Heidi gives us a

lot of flexibility to say what we want to say and

change our thoughts to what’s relevant now.

Q.What about the playmoves you so profound-

ly?

JS:Heidi’s story and her family’s story is

heartbreaking, and there’s really something in

the show for everyone.

ET: I just love howHeidi tells her story with

somuch grit and determination. She wants to

move this country forward andmake sure that

everyone’s voice is being heard, because she’s

trying to be inclusive of all people while discuss-

ing these issues, which I think is really ground-

breaking.

Q.What’s one insight you’ve learned about the

Constitution in doing this play?

ET:Nothing is set in stone. I think the goal of

the document is to change. It was tomake

changes as generations went on and to be a

Constitution that works for all people. I think

that’s a beautiful thing about the document, no

matter its flaws. It truly does have that power.

JS: Themain thing that I’ve gathered is truly

the extent to which the Constitution and the

governmentmore broadly affects everybody’s

lives. Talking to people who have seen the show,

people from all walks of life, they’ve been able

to share what the Constitutionmeans to them

and how it affects them, and it really propels me

to want to helpmake change in the world and

to do things that will improve everyone’s lives.

Q. You andHeidi engage in a debate about

whether to keep or abolish the US Constitution.

What’s your personal viewpoint?

ET:Keep it. We have 330million people who

live in this country, and none of them can agree

on anything. I just think it would be too crazy

and impossible to write a new Constitution.

And if people start looking at it in shades of

gray and not so black-and-white, I think we are

on our way tomaking proper updates. We can

make it a positive rights document. It’s just go-

ing to take time.

JS: I personally lean towards abolish. I defi-

nitely agree with the things that are said in the

show. Like how the Constitution was originally

created as a tool of justice for whitemenwho

owned property, and that included enslaving

people. So I think that we should just tear it all

down and start over. It’s really hard to amend

the Constitution, especially with how divided

everyone is now.

Interview has been edited and condensed.

ChristopherWallenberg can be reached at

chriswallenberg@gmail.com.

What ‘Constitution’means to this pair

of young actorsReal-life high school debaters Jocelyn Shek and

Emilyn Toffler dissect the document

THEATER

JOAN MARCUS PHOTOS

Jocelyn Shek and(from far left)Emilyn Toffler,

Mike Iveson, andCassie Beckin a touringproductionof“What theConstitution

Means To Me.”

NILE SCOTT STUDIOS

By Don AucoinGLOBE STAFF

Yourmood is as gray

as the skies of

March.When it

comes to the pan-

demic, you’re wea-

ry beyond words. As you cling to

the promise of Opening Day at

Fenway Park— the true start of

spring— you just need a way to

get through themiserable pres-

ent.

Well, let me direct you to

SpeakEasy Stage Company’s

“Once on This Island.” If not a

complete cure for the existential

blahs, or what Cole Porter called

“the old ennui,” it’s still a dose of

pretty powerful medicine, ad-

ministered with brio by director

Pascale Florestal and a cast as

spirited as they are skilled.

To be sure, the story of “Once

on This Island” is a tragic one. A

musical fable about an idealistic

peasant girl in Haiti who sacri-

fices herself to save an aristo-

cratic youth only to be betrayed

by him, “Once on This Island”

has issues of colonial exploita-

tion and class inequities very

much on its mind. Florestal,

who is Haitian-American, does

not shrink from them.

Yet there’s a unquenchable

exuberance to “Once on This Is-

land,” and, frequently, enchant-

ment. At the glowing center of

SpeakEasy’s production is Peli

NaomiWoods as Ti Moune, who

believes the power of death is no

match for the power of love.

A senior at Boston Conserva-

tory at Berklee, Woods is slated

to graduate inMay with a BFA

inmusical theater. But I can’t

for the life of me imagine what

she’ll have left to prove to the

BoCo faculty after “Once on This

Island.”

Surrounded by a cast that in-

cludes some of Boston’s most

stellar musical performers,

Woods seems wholly at home in

the lead role from the instant

she bursts through the door on

Erik D. Diaz’s set and rushes to

center stage.

Soaring into a show-stopping

“Waiting for Life,” Woods holds

notes longer than seems hu-

manly possible, then builds

from that first scene to a por-

trayal of Ti Moune that achingly

blends innocence, ardor, and

anguish.Woods’s terrific perfor-

Christian Andersen’s “The Little

Mermaid.”

Though the island’s name is

not given in themusical, it’s re-

ferred to as “the jewel of the An-

tilles,” which Haiti was once

called. The island is riven by dis-

tinctions along lines of class and

skin color. Power and wealth re-

side with the lighter-skinned in-

habitants of the island, the

Beauxhommes, while the dark-

er-skinned residents are peasant

laborers.

Whatever their station, all

are subject to themoods and

whims of the gods: Asaka,

Mother of the Earth (Yewande

Odetoyinbo); Agwe, God ofWa-

ter (Davron S. Monroe); Erzulie,

Goddess of Love (Christina

Jones); and, preening like ama-

levolent emcee, Papa Ge, the De-

mon of Death (MalikMitchell).

When the gods generate a

catastrophic storm, the orphan

TiMoune is saved by Agwe, af-

ter which she is cared for by

TonTon Julian (Anthony Pires

Jr.) andMama Euralie (Lovely

Hoffman). Years later, when Ti

Moune has grown, she falls in

love with one of the Beauxhom-

mes, Daniel (Kenny Lee), the

son of a wealthy landowner.

(Lee sings well — his rendition

of “Some Girls” casts a spell —

but he needs to project more

personality in his non-singing

scenes). When Daniel is in a car

crash, Ti Moune nurses him;

with Papa Ge preparing to claim

the lad, shemakes a fateful bar-

gain with the Demon of Death.

Somber stuff, to be sure, but

the overall mood of “Once on

This Island” is defiantly, joyous-

ly affirming. The show’s empha-

sis on celebrating life is bol-

stered by Jazelynn Goudy’s viv-

idly expressive choreography,

whichmanages to be both fluid

and precise, and is well-execut-

ed by a cast that also includes

Kira Troilo (as Daniel’s haughty

betrothed), ReaganMasso (play-

ing Ti Moune as a child), Jona-

than Gallegos, Kira Sarai Help-

er, and Becky Bass.

SpeakEasy’s longtime home

in the Calderwood Pavilion’s

Roberts Studio Theatre has

been reconfigured so that the

audience is grouped on three

sides, and director Florestal

gives them plenty to look at as

well as to hear, with evocative

touches that range from a pa-

rade of twirling, silver-fringed

umbrellas to white masks held

by the cast in front of their faces

that evoke the French coloniz-

ers.

“Once on This Island”

amounts to a taking-back of the

island’s narrative. Florestal’s

production reinforces through

song, dance, and sheer force of

energy the notion that — to bor-

row from “Hamilton” — it mat-

ters greatly who lives, who dies,

who tells your story. Especially

that last one.

Don Aucoin can be reached at

donald.aucoin@globe.com.

Follow him on Twitter

@GlobeAucoin.

The death-defying feats of a buoyant ‘Once on This Island’S TAG E R E V I EW

ONCE ON THIS ISLAND

Book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens.

Music by Stephen Flaherty.

Based on the novel “My Love, My

Love: Or, The Peasant Girl,” by

Rosa Guy. Directed by Pascale

Florestal. Music direction by

David Freeman Coleman.

Choreography by Jazelynn

Goudy. Presented by SpeakEasy

Stage Company. At Roberts

Studio Theatre, Calderwood

Pavilion, Boston Center for the

Arts. Through April 16. Tickets

start at $25. At 617-933-8600,

www.SpeakEasyStage.com

Peli Naomi Woods in

SpeakEasy Stage’s “Once on

This Island.”

JOHN RAOUX/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Josh Donaldson (left) and Isiah

Kiner-Falefa will give the

Yankees’ infield a new look.

JAE C. HONG/ASSOCIATED PRESS

J.C. Jackson had eight interceptions last season,

one more than the entire Chargers secondary.

Garnett wasn’t interested.

Sunday, at Garnett’s jersey retirement

ceremony, seemed like the right time.

Three weeks ago, Allen, Garnett, and

Pierce were in Cleveland, members of the

NBA’s 75th Anniversary Team honored at

All-StarWeekend.

In a large room adjacent to the playing

floor at RocketMortgage FieldHouse, the

honorees whowere present weremingling

and taking pictures.

The Lakers legends, the former 76ers

stars, the Oakland point guards— Jason

Kidd, Damian Lillard, and Gary Payton—

were among the groups gathering for pho-

to opportunities.

One photo that made it to only Pierce’s

phone was one of himself, Garnett, and Al-

len, all smiling.

On Feb. 21, Pierce posted 10 photos

from the event on Instagram. Pierce in-

cluded the Big Three photo sixth, forcing

his followers to look through nearly the en-

tire gallery before finding the gem.

“That was intentional,” Pierce said. “I

wanted to warm everybody up and then

when they got to that one, they [were] like,

‘oh!Wow!’ That was the one everybody

commented about.”

It was the first sign that the division

was dissipating, that Garnett was warming

up. The 15-time All-Star doesn’t do any-

thing by accident or just to be polite; he

took that photo, and smiled, because he

knew how important the reunification was

to Celtics fans and even themselves.

Allen acknowledged he was hurt by all

the friction. He signed with the Heat as a

business decision. He felt it was time to

move on after it appeared he would be

playing behind Avery Bradley and Jason

Terry if he accepted a two-year contract of-

fer at the 11th hour fromDanny Ainge.

“That was a goodmoment for us, All-

StarWeekend,” Allen said. “[Garnett] and I

actually exchangedmessages the week af-

ter. I knew at least he wasmoving in the

ON BASKETBALL, Page C5

It had been seven years since Ray Allen

walked into TDGarden. After leaving the

Celtics for theMiami Heat in 2012, he

didn’t feel welcomed as a player, and he

didn’t feel comfortable coming back after

retirement.

He considered returning for Paul

Pierce’s jersey retirement four years ago

but decided against it. The issues with

Kevin Garnett were still simmering and

despite efforts fromDoc Rivers to bring

the band back together for that occasion,

Gary Washburn

ON BASKETBALL

Allen, Garnett finally settle decade-long rift

FORTMYERS, Fla. — Yankees

general manager Brian Cashman

compared the post-lockout frenzy

of signings and trades to trying to

drink from a firehose.

He took a big gulp Sunday, help-

ing put together a five-player deal

with the Twins that brought hard-

hitting third baseman Josh Don-

aldson to New York.

Toronto took a swig Saturday by

adding lefty Yusei Kikuchi to its ro-

tation on a $36million deal.

The Red Sox? They’ve tried two

cautious sips so far with the sign-

ings of lefty relievers Jake Diekman

andMatt Strahm.

More is needed. Three teams

from the American League East

qualified for the playoffs last sea-

son, and it would have been four

under the 12-team format in place

for this season.

Red Sox chief baseball officer

Chaim Bloomwas right onMonday

when he described the AL East as

the best division in sports, not just

baseball.

For his team to keep up, it’ll

take more than two bullpen arms.

The Sox need another hitter, pref-

erably an outfielder, andmore

pitching help.

During a 24-minute press con-

ferenceMonday, Bloomwas careful

not to raise expectations. But it’s

hard to deny the Sox are well posi-

tioned to make a significant move.

They returnmost of the key

players from a team that won 92

ON BASEBALL, Page C2

Peter Abraham

ON BASEBALL

Time forSox to takesome bigswings

Closing in?DeBrusk’s last go-

round with Bruins be-

fore trade deadline? C3

Big lossPadres shortstop Tatis

(wrist) could miss up

to three months. C3

Monday winAustralian Smith sur-

vives to win The Play-

ers Championship. C6

Cool on iceArlington advances to

first state final in girls’

hockey. Schools, C8

INSIDE

Tom Brady an-

nounced Sunday

night that he is

coming back to

football. He is go-

ing to play quar-

terback for the

Tampa Bay Buc-

caneers. He did

this 41 days after telling us that he

was done with football, after tell-

ing us he was done with the Buc-

caneers.

Brady changed the New Eng-

land sports universe. He was a

champion. He was clutch. He was

polite. He was smart and careful.

When the game was on the line,

he was the greatest performer this

side of Bill Russell.

Now he is just annoying. He

won’t go away. He is an insatiable,

passive-aggressive attention hog.

Please, Tom. Stop.

Sure, we’ll watch. And Brady

probably will be great again at the

age of 45. He takes care of his

body and knows how to protect

himself on the field. He plays the

quarterback position like a man

playing a video game from his

couch. Brady can still be great.

But what about dignity? What

about all the stuff Tom said about

being done and needing time to be

with his family? Are we watching

the midlife crisis of one of the

SHAUGHNESSY, Page C4

Brady’s act has becometiresome and annoying

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By JimMcBrideGLOBE STAFF

Mr. INT just might have to

change his nickname to Mr. Mon-

eybags.

Pro Bowl cornerback J.C. Jack-

son is switching coasts, agreeing

Monday to a five-year deal to join

the Los Angeles Chargers.

According to a league source,

the soon-to-be former Patriot’s con-

tract is worth $82.5million, includ-

ing $40million in guaranteedmon-

ey over the first two years. He will

receive salaries of $28 million, $12

million, $14.375 million, $12.025

million, and $14.1million.

Shortly after news of the deal

broke, Jackson, who uses themoni-

ker Mr. INT on social media,

changed his Twitter avatar to a pic-

ture of him in a Chargers uniform

with the caption “J.C. Jackson LA

bound.’’

“Love LA. Love Cali,’’ Jackson

told NBC Sports Boston. “Not only

that, the defense, I think I can add

some value to that defense. That’s a

stacked group and imagine me

[joining] . . . It’s going to be scary.’’

He was widely considered the

top cornerback on the market and

now joins a defense that already

boasts several impact stars in line-

backer Khalil Mack, edge rusher

Joey Bosa, and safety Derwin

James.

Jackson has been one of the top

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RichHill faced a recognizable but invisible

opponent.

“Juan Soto, 1-and-2,” Hill announced.

Hill’s breaking ball fell off the plate out-

side. Soto, the pitcher’s imagined adversary in

this roughly 60-pitch bullpen session at

Champion Physical Therapy and Perfor-

mance inWaltham, took the pitch. The count

went to 2-and-2 against the lefthanded slug-

ger of the Nationals.

Hill, wearing shorts and sneakers while

throwing off a portable mound that had a siz-

able hole in front of the rubber, received the

ball from catcher Thomas Joyce, aMerrimack

alumnus who plays professionally in Germa-

ny. The lefthander quick-pitched a slow side-

arm curveball that dropped over the inside

corner of the plate.

After a quick nod of affirmation, Hill re-

turned to the rubber to face the next imagi-

nary hitter.

Out of the ordinary

This session took placeMarch 10, one day

before Hill turned 42. Starting pitchers such

as Hill, who signed a one-year, $5million deal

with the Red Sox in December, typically are

making their second or third spring training

start by now.

But Hill wasn’t in FortMyers, Fla. While

negotiations continued between league offi-

cials and the players union— resulting in a

new collective bargaining agreement just

hours later — the owner-imposed lockout re-

mained in place, leaving players on their own.

SoHill remained at home in the Boston

area. Tuesdays and Thursdaysmeant work-

outs at the facility inWaltham.Mondays and

Fridaysmeant throwing into a net in his ga-

rage, where Hill keeps the door closed to

spare hisMilton neighbors the grunts and ex-

pletives that accompanymany of his pitches.

He wasn’t bothered by the alteration to his

preparation, but the lockout hardened his

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Lefthander Rich Hill, reacquired by the Red Sox in December, stayed sharp during the lockout by throwing to imaginary hitters at a Waltham facility.

Still going strongHill, 42, gets themost ofworkouts

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Rich Hill kept his nose (and his chin) to the grindstone to make

certain he’d be ready when spring training finally began.

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Kiké Hernández, who split time in the infield and outfield last season, has an audience while fielding grounders on artificial turf Monday.

feelings about the business of the game.

“MLB lies as easy as they breathe,” he

said. “They don’t care [about players].

They don’t care at all. But that doesn’t

deter me from loving the game. I love

the game. But when I see the business

side, it’s like that tinted window. You

just don’t really want to look through

it.”

On this morning, Hill arrived for his

workout at 9:30 and trudged through

the slushy remnants of the previous

day’s snowfall, committed to his routine

yet uncertain about how much longer

he’d have towait before heading to Flor-

ida.

Early in his career, Hill might have

panicked about the disruption. He

might have felt compelled to follow the

few other New Englanders in the big

leagues who had already departed for

Arizona or Florida to continue their

preparations. He certainly would have

been wherever he thought a teamwant-

ed him to be, whenever it thought he

should be there.

But not now. Hill took comfort in his

knowledge of himself, knowledge about

what he needs to do to prepare for a sea-

son regardless of the environment. The

point crystallized while he prepared at

home in 2020 after the pandemic shut

down his sport. Work, Hill realized

more clearly, can fall into the rhythms

of his family life rather than frame

them.

“I wish I had that mind-set when I

was younger,” said Hill. “I always

thought, ‘All right, they want us down

there, I’ve got to get down there because

you’re the good soldier,’ as opposed to

understanding, ‘They don’t give a [ex-

pletive] about you,’ as we’re seeing now

throughout this [negotiation].”

Hill had no doubt that he’d be able to

stay ready through his work at home.

He planned to use his decades of experi-

ence to ensure he’d be ready to throw

two innings whenever hemight be sum-

moned.

Staying in shape

Hill’s first stop at Champion PT was

in the training room, where he was

greeted by ownerMike Reinold, the for-

mer Red Sox head trainer and current

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White Soxmedical adviser.

Reinold and Hill met in 2010, when

Hill came to the Red Sox at a career na-

dir, roughly a year removed from shoul-

der surgery. He’d been released by the

Cubs, Orioles, and Cardinals in a two-

year span. While working through inju-

ries, Hill lost confidence and pitched

with anxiety rather than conviction.

Under Reinold, whowas the Red Sox

trainer when Hill pitched for the team

from 2010-12, Hill rebuilt strength in

his shoulder, only to tear his ulnar col-

lateral ligament early in 2011. He

worked his way back with Reinold and

has now pitched formore than a decade

since his arrival in Boston.

“[Reinold] has kept my shoulder in

incredible shape,” said Hill. “If it wasn’t

for him and his shoulder program, to be

quite honest, I don’t know if I’d still be

still be pitching.”

Reinold’s first inquiry was about the

pitcher’s lower back, where he’d felt a

twinge about three weeks earlier while

lifting weights.

“The little tweaks here and there,

you’re always questioning, especially for

me now at 42,” said Hill. “You tweak

your back, you’re like, ‘Is that going to

be something that’s only going to be two

days or is this going to be two months?’

”

This back issue occurred in the for-

mer camp. Still, Reinold and Hill want-

ed to prevent any recurrences.

Reinold applied steaming-hot pads

to Hill’s back, then inserted small pins

into the pitcher’s back for dry needling

and electrode stimulation. AsHill lay on

his stomach on a training table, he and

Reinold exchanged notes about the few

players who’d been in New England in

the winter but had recently left for

warmer climates.

A jersey signed for Reinold by Jon

Lester was aboveHill’s table, prompting

appreciation for the recently retired Sox

and Cubs pitcher’s longevity.

“Most people end up retiring be-

cause it’s too much work,” said Reinold,

noting a distinguishing trait of Lester’s.

“They could probably still pitch, but it’s

a lot of work.”

Is that a thought for Hill?

“I do enjoy the work,” he said. “I

think the one thing that changes a lot as

you get older is family. That does

change a lot of things, the dynamic that

it’s not just about you.

“Have I given [retiring] any thought?

I haven’t really, because when you do it,

it’s permanent.”

Reinvention

The fact that Hill regained his career

footing as a reliever with the Red Sox

from 2010-12 when he was in his early

30s was remarkable in its own right. He

then pitched for Cleveland in 2013, pin-

balled from theRed Sox (minor leagues)

to the Angels to the Yankees in 2014,

and spent the first half of 2015 with the

Nationals’ Triple A team before getting

released.

At 35, most assumed that would be

the end. Hill bristled when acquain-

tances asked if he’d decided what he’d

do next.

“‘I’m not going to do anything else,”

Hill recalled thinking. “This is what I

wasmeant to do.”

That summer, Hill spent the better

part of two months out of organized

baseball. He didn’t merely try to hold

on. He reinvented himself.

He had spent most of the previous

five years as a journeyman sidearm re-

liever. While working on his own after

the Nationals released him, Hill re-

turned to throwing over the top, build-

ing up his pitch count with the idea that

he could start again. Two starts with the

independent league Long Island Ducks

— 11 scoreless innings with 21 strike-

outs — underscored the notion, leading

the Red Sox to sign the lefty to a minor

league deal.

He connected with Brian Bannister,

who was about to transition to a role as

Red Sox director of pitcher develop-

ment, and mental skills coach Bob

Tewksbury. Bannister gave Hill what

the pitcher calls the freedom to be cre-

ative, encouraging him not to stick to a

fixed notion of how often to throw a

fastball and instead let his instincts and

feel for his incredible curveball guide

how he attacked hitters.

Tewskbury helped Hill attain a new

level of competitive relentlessness.With

nothing to lose, Hill suddenly under-

stood that he hadmuch to gain.

“Now you have the analytics and the

conviction,” said Hill. “When you have

those two coming together, wow, that’s

a superpower.”

Called up for four big league starts as

a 35-year-old in 2015, Hill submitted a

performance with the Sox (1.55 ERA,

36 strikeouts in 29 innings) that started

a third career act as a starter. The 2022

season will be the fourth straight in

which Hill is the oldest starting pitcher

in the majors. The first time he takes

the mound for the Sox, he’ll become the

oldest pitcher in the team’s uniform

since Tim Wakefield retired after the

2011 season.

Variety is the key

Hill contemplated that path as he

went through the roughly one hour in

the training room and then in the gym

leading up to his bullpen session.

This was not a live batting practice

session. There were no big league-cali-

ber hitters around, and most local col-

lege programs were on the road.

Hill doesn’t believe he needs hitters

in the box, however. He has sufficiently

honed his understanding of what the

ball feels like coming out of his hand

that he can simulate a live batting prac-

tice.

He mentioned a study that com-

pared basketball players who practiced

shooting free throws with others who

merely visualized doing so; both groups

improved at roughly the same rate.

Hill dragged the portable mound in-

to position, and after warming for sev-

eral minutes — first with two baseballs

that were heavier than regulation, then

with a standard ball — he climbed the

slope.

While he threw almost all fastballs

and curveballs (a changeup did make

an appearance), Hill created tremen-

dous variety in how he attacked the ses-

sion.

He varied the pace of his delivery, al-

tering his stride into a quick pitch, exag-

gerating and then minimizing his leg

kick, and alternately throwing over the

top and sidearm. Though he mostly set

up on the third base side of the rubber,

he sometimes moved to the first base

side, particularly against imagined

lefthanded opponents.

“It’s all about angles,” Hill said, not-

ing the array of possibilities that opens

when moving 17 inches from one side

of the rubber to another.

After he dropped down with a side-

arm pitch, Hill recalled a conversation

with Ichiro Suzuki when the two were

teammates with the Yankees in 2014.

Hill asked Suzuki whether he preferred

to face lefties who threw over the top or

from the side. No contest, Suzuki in-

formed Hill. Sidearm was more diffi-

cult.

“You’re literally throwing from be-

hind,” said Hill. “That’s pretty damn dif-

ficult to hit.”

Over the session, Hill outlined differ-

ent scenarios — a 3-and-2 pitch to a

righty, a 1-and-2 pitch to a lefty, the at-

bat with Soto. Each came with a differ-

ent range of possibilities, Hill adjusting

enough variables to turn his two prima-

ry pitches intomore than a dozen looks.

“All that stuff — leg kick, slow down,

speed up, get the ball and go — that’s

why I don’t like the pitch clock,” said

Hill. “It screws up all the artistry of a

pitcher — and a hitter. There’s no com-

petition. It’s robotic.

“Let’s say it’s a 2-and-2 count, we’re

in a big part of the game, and I have the

ball. I’m in control of everything right

now. But if a stupid clock is ticking

down, the crowd is going crazy, you’re

playing to the crowd, you step up, ready

to pitch, now he steps out. It’s just great

theater. We’re losing that. We’re losing

that because of a [expletive] pitch clock.

I think it’s stupid.”

Despite the absence of a spotlight,

Hill expressed satisfaction that each

pitch came with purpose and meaning.

He believed he’d taken another key step

in preparing himself for the season.

The bullpen session was followed by

another hour of work, with Hill going

through a checklist of strength training

exercises. As he awaited updates about

whether the lockout might be nearing

its end, Hill took satisfaction in the ef-

fort he’d put into being prepared when-

ever a baseball seasonmight beckon.

“You do have to enjoy the work,” he

said. “You’ve got to love it — because it’s

easy to start sitting back. Cake tastes

pretty good.”

For now, there is more work. Cake

can wait.

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At 42, Hill knows how to maximize workouts

games last season and finished two victories short

of theWorld Series.

They also have roughly $110 million dropping

off the payroll after this season and a much-im-

proved farm system.

“We want to be nimble enough to take advan-

tage of all opportunities,” Bloom said.

The Sox are at Fred Astaire levels of nimble-

ness these days. No deal is out of their reach. They

can, and should, be going after free agents such as

Kris Bryant, Nick Castellanos, Carlos Correa,

Jorge Soler, and Trevor Story and/or using their

prospect depth to make trades to improve the ro-

tation.

That the new collective bargaining agreement

raised the thresholds of the competitive balance

tax makes that even easier.

“It opens more options for us maybe than

we’ve been working with the last couple of years,”

Bloom acknowledged. “What we should be trying

to do is use all our resources to be as great as we

can, whatever that means.

“Especially looking ahead, flexibility is impor-

tant because it gives you access to the whole

menu.”

Bloomhas donewhat the Red Sox asked of him

in his nearly 2½ years on the job. He has gotten

the payroll under control, improved how the team

develops players, and worked the margins to

bring low-cost talent into the organization.

His most expensive signing to date was an

$18.75 million extension for Matt Barnes, and his

longest commitment was two years plus an option

for Hirokazu Sawamura.

Now is the time to flip the switch and add an-

other prominent player, especially with Xander

Bogaerts, Nate Eovaldi, J.D. Martinez, and Chris-

tian Vázquez all potentially gone after this season.

Signing Bryant, Castellanos, or Soler would

add power to an outfield that for now projects to

have Jackie Bradley Jr., Kiké Hernández, and Alex

Verdugo.

Or sign Story to play second base and serve as a

hedge for Bogaerts opting out after the season.

I asked Bloom if the Sox needed another out-

fielder. He started to say “yes” before stopping.

“We would like to add position players,” he

said. “We do have flexibility, versatility where it al-

lows us to get creative. We have opportunities to

boost our outfield in some way.”

Hernández’s defensive versatility allows the

Sox the option of adding an infielder or an out-

fielder. They could sign a free agent to play left

field — Castellanos would be my choice — move

Verdugo to right field (where he played well in

2020) and use Bradley in center.

“The short answer is there’s definitely opportu-

nity out there,” Bloom said. “It’s a lane for us to

make this team better.”

Then hit the gas and get in that lane. The com-

petition in the AL East is already there.

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Time for Sox tomake big deal

By Peter AbrahamGLOBE STAFF

FORTMYERS, Fla. — J.D. Martinez had the op-

tion to opt out of the final year of his contract with

the Red Sox and become a free agent. But the

deadline tomake that decision was in early No-

vember.

He declined. Fourmonths later, baseball went

to a universal designated hitter as part of the new

collective bargaining agreement.

That would have createdmore opportunities

forMartinez had he been a free agent. But he ex-

pressed no regretsMonday.

“I think Imade the right decision personally,”

Martinez said. “I’m excited to be here. I think this

team has a chance to win again.”

Martinez will make $19.375million this sea-

son, so there’s no reason to be too regretful.

But 41-year-old Nelson Cruz just signed a one-

year, $15million deal to DH for the Nationals. In

this market, the 34-year-oldMartinez would have

cashed in.

Martinez will benefit from the universal DH.

He started 18 interleague games as an outfielder

last season and had an .806 OPSwith one home

run.

He had a .945 OPS in 113 games as a DH and

hit 26 home runs.

Martinez has playedmore games for Boston

(498) than he did for Detroit (458), where his ca-

reer took off from 2014-17.

“I’ve loved it here the whole time,” he said. “I’ve

expressedmy feelings to the front office. I love the

group here . . . I get along great with everybody

and I think it’s a first-class organization.”

Martinez even enjoys the criticism that comes

with playing for the Red Sox.

“It’s passion,” he said. “When I first came here

everybody was, ‘Will you be able to handle it? The

media and fans and everything?’ But there’s no-

body harder onme thanmyself.”

In 2018, Scott Boras negotiated a series of opt-

outs inMartinez’s contract. None were used. He

now hopes to stay with the Sox andwill leave that

to Boras to work out.

“I would love it . . . I would love to finishmy ca-

reer here,” Martinez said.

Barnes is open to closing again

Matt Barneswas an All-Star closer in 2022

then left off the roster for the American League

Championship Series. He experiencedmore set-

backs in half a season than he had previously in

his career.

But when he asked if he was ready to close

again for the Sox, Barnes didn’t pause.

“Yes,” he said.

Chaim Bloom and Alex Corawill let that deci-

sion play out. But Barnesmade it clear he wants

the job back.

Barnes feels he put toomuch pressure on him-

self to be “the backstop” of the bullpen. He went

fromworking quickly and effectively to slowing

down and pitching tentatively.

Barnes lost his job. Then came a case of

COVID-19 that kept him off the field entirely.

“Baseball is a very humbling game,” he said.

“You can’t ride the waves in this game, it’s going to

eat you alive if you do. You have to try and stay as

flat and neutral as possible and take it day by day

. . . it was tough, I’m not going to lie to you.”

Barnes said he pitched off amound 15 times

while waiting for the lockout to end but has yet to

face hitters. The plan is for him to do that once be-

fore getting in an exhibition game.

NESN to air a dozen

NESNwill air 12 of the Red Sox’ 19 Grapefruit

League games, producing eight home games and

airing the feeds of four road games.

The first gamewill be Thursday’s opener at Jet-

Blue Park against the Twins. The games on Friday

(Rays), Saturday (at the Twins), and Sunday (Ori-

oles) also will be on. All start at 1:05 p.m.

Devers gets somework in

Monday’s workout was largely voluntary after

the players took their physicals. Rafael Devers

headed out to Field 1 behind the clubhouse to take

groundballs and hit. The 25-year-old third base-

man appears to be in good shape . . . Chaim Bloom

on the idea that unvaccinated players may be ineli-

gible to play in Toronto this season: “We’re still

getting our arm around all the nuances of that. It

should go without saying: anything that can keep

our players off the field is going to concern us.We

have been andwill continue to be staunch advo-

cates for vaccinations. Of course we will continue

to do everything we can to encourage everybody to

get vaccinated.” . . . The first full-squad workout

will be Tuesday. As in 2020, the Red Sox will have

an organization-widemeeting in JetBlue Park at

10 a.m. Reporters will be prohibited from using

the press box during themeeting . . . Two pitchers

recovering from Tommy John surgery, BryanMata

and James Paxton, played catch during the work-

out. Paxton is on track for a July return.

Peter Abraham can be reached at

peter.abraham@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter

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By Kevin Paul DupontGLOBE STAFF

CHICAGO—These next three

games, beginning Tuesday night here

against the Blackhawks, could serve as

Jake DeBrusk’s farewell tour with the

Bruins.

The 25-year-old forward asked to be

dealt months ago, a request that became

public in November, and now it’s up to

GM Don Sweeney to decide whether to

move the former first-round pick prior

toMonday’s NHL trade deadline (3

p.m.) or keep him aboard a roster that

has been a sizzling 10-2-2 (.786) over the

last month.

The clock’s ticking.Will Jake go or

will he stay now?

Meanwhile, theman of the 3 p.m.

hour again onMonday chose not to talk

about his current situation vis a vis the

deadline. Per a club spokesperson, he

declined a Globe request for an inter-

view on the subject after the club’s brief

afternoon workout, saying that he felt

there was nothing to gain from talking

about it.

DeBrusk wentmonths without talk-

ing to themedia, but finally started to

say a fewwords after his recent shift to

the first line, where he has been playing

of late with BradMarchand and Patrice

Bergeron.

The little he has spoken, DeBrusk has

focused solely on his game, noting to a

Globe reporter on a recent road trip that

he would have to “plead the fifth” when

asked questions about the reasons for

wanting to leave.

These records are difficult to track

down, but it’s believed to be the only in-

cident in which a Canadian-born NHL

player has chosen not to incriminate

himself when just shooting the breeze in

a hockey rink and not under oath in a

US court of law.

Which is to say it’s a new and curious

NHL.

DeBrusk, 0-0—0 andwith only three

shots the past three games, was an ini-

tial force on his new line withMarchand

and Bergeron, which debuted when the

club opened a six-game road trip in Seat-

tle. He went 6-2—8 over the six games,

the best goal scorer on the longest trip of

the year, raising his profile as a legit

NHL scorer and in turn giving Sweeney

some string and beads to shop in the

trademarket.

Sweeney, whowouldn’t say boo if he

just acquired ConnorMcDavid, doesn’t

necessarily feel any trade pressure.

The final math aside, the Bruins are

assured a playoff spot, be it a wild card

or otherwise, and they are now bearing

down on the likes of Toronto and Tampa

Bay in the Atlantic Division. There’s re-

ally no pressure until the playoffs open

the first week ofMay.

To delete DeBrusk from themix now,

Sweeney would risk disrupting a roster

that is delivering at its best all year.

In 10 of the last 14 games, the Bruins

have allowed the opposition 00:00min-

utes in lead time and they’ve held a 47-

30 scoring advantage. The trip in which

DeBrusk regained his hot handwas also

the timeframe in which Bruce Cassidy

settled on Jeremy Swayman as his No. 1

tender.

Things are quite good behind the B.

All of which will bring a team into

the United Center Tuesday night that, at

least from among the stick-carrying

rank and file, is anxiety-free as the dead-

line approaches.

“The only guy is obviously Jake, and

obviously he’s aware of [the deadline]

and asked [to be traded],” Cassidy said.

“So I imagine he has some emotions that

the other guys don’t. I think every guy in

that roomwould prefer to stay here—es-

pecially the way team’s going now.”

Cassidy, like DeBrusk, has said very

little about the winger’s desire to leave.

According to the coach, they haven’t

talked about it here in the leadup to the

deadline.

“I talk to him about his game and

that’s it,” he said. “I don’t get into the

business side with him. I think his game

has been good. His second effort on the

puck has been there. He’s drawing pen-

alties. He’s trying to complement those

guys.”

The line has not scored a goal in the

last three games. Marchand has chipped

in with a lone assist, collecting 10 shots.

Bergeron, who remained off skates here

and took amaintenance day of rest, has

picked up two assists while landing 16

shots.

“I know as a line they haven’t scored

a lot,” noted Cassidy. “But not for lack of

chances and effort—the other night [vs.

Arizona] was a good example of that.

They all could have scored a goal. It’s go-

ing to happen.”

Following here, the Bruins will face

theWild in St. Paul onWednesday

night, then the Jets Friday night inWin-

nipeg. Then the clock ticks down to

Monday.

“Like I said, as long as [DeBrusk] is a

Boston Bruin and playing his game,

helping us win, he’ll stay in that spot,”

said Cassidy. “If that changes, well, I

guess we can talk about it then, right?”

Right for today.We’ll see about to-

morrow.

PC’s Callahan signs

Mike Callahan’s college career

wrapped up Saturday with Providence’s

4-2 loss to UMass in the Hockey East

quarterfinals, and onMonday the Bru-

ins announced they signed the Franklin-

raised blueliner to a two-year contract.

Callahan, drafted by the Coyotes, is

expected to join the AHL Providence

Bruins under an amateur contract, and

his two-way NHL deal, worth amax

$1.85million, will kick in this fall. He is

guaranteed $140,000 if he were not to

make the NHL roster over the next two

seasons.

The Bruins acquired Callahan’s

rights last month, sending the Coyotes a

seventh-round draft pick in 2024.

“A really good two-way player,” said

Sweeney. “Heady. He plays second-unit

power play, primarly penalty killing, has

length in his transition game. Overall,

he’s smart, a leader [at PC] as a captain

. . . probably a little bit in the style of

[Urho] Vaakanainen in that sense, a

two-way guy that canmove pucks, and

we’ll see where we go. He’s excited about

the development part of it.”

BRUINS NOTEBOOK

Is this DeBrusk’s farewell tour?

thoploulos said it became clear to him

Sunday night that Freeman wasn’t

coming back. At that point, he went af-

ter Olson.

A career .295 hitter, Freeman sur-

passed 20 homers eight times with a

career-high 38 in 2019. Freeman has

had a pair of 100-RBI seasons, and

three others where he drove in more

than 90 runs. He won the NLMVP

award in 2020, finished in the top 10 of

the balloting five other times, in addi-

tion to claiming three Silver Slugger

awards and a Gold Glove.

Olson is a two-time Gold Glove win-

ner with a .252 career average, 142

homers, and an .859 OPS over six sea-

sons. The 27-year-old hit 39 homers

and drove in 111 runs last season, fin-

ishing eighth in ALMVP voting. He’s

under team control through 2023.

Alonso not hurt in crash

Mets first baseman Pete Alonso

said he was unhurt when his car

flipped over in an accident in Tampa

on Sunday while he was on his way to

camp. The All-Star slugger said his wife

Haleywas in the car behind his and no-

tified authorities.

“Tome this is just really special to

be here,” Alonso saidMonday. “This is

a really special spring training because

yesterday was a really close experience

to death. My car flipped over probably

about three times and a guy ran a red

light, T-bonedme, and to me I’m just

really thankful to be alive. I’m really

thankful that I’m healthy. I’m very

thankful to be here.”

Also, Mets ace Jacob deGrom said

he intends to exercise his right to opt

out of his contract to become a free

agent after the season.

He would give up a $33.5 million

salary for 2023, part of a deal that car-

ries a $32.5 million club option for

2024.

The 33-year-old righthander, a two-

time Cy Young Award winner, said he

wants to remain with theMets.

Koufax to get statue

Dodgers legend Sandy Koufaxwill

join fellowHall of Famer Jackie Robin-

sonwith a bronze statue at Dodger Sta-

dium, with the club saying the unveil-

ing will be June 18 before a game

against Cleveland.

Robinson was inducted into the

Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. Koufax

followed in 1972 at age 36, making him

the youngest player to enter the Hall,

after finishing his career with a record

of 165-87 and a 2.76 ERA, as well as

2,396 strikeouts, 137 complete games,

and 40 shutouts.

He was the first MLB pitcher to toss

four no-hitters, including a perfect

game, during his 12-year career.

Koufax pitched onWorld Series

champion teams in 1955, ‘59, ‘63, and

‘65. He was a three-time Cy Young

Award winner and a two-timeWorld

Series MVP.

Ozuna addresses arrest

Braves outfielderMarcell Ozuna

says he has addressed teammates and

is sorry to fans for his arrest last year

on charges of aggravated assault by

strangulation and battery after police

officers said they witnessed him attack-

ing his wife. Ozuna returned to the

team this week for the first time since

his May 29 arrest. He was placed on

administrative leave duringMajor

League Baseball’s investigation and

missed Atlanta’s World Series champi-

onship run last fall. MLB suspended

the 31-year-old retroactively for 20

games under its domestic violence poli-

cy in November. Meanwhile, star out-

fielder Ronald Acuña Jr. also returned

to the Braves this week after tearing his

right anterior cruciate ligament in July.

Asked where he is with his power and

strength, the 2018 NL Rookie of the

Year estimated he’s at 95 percent and

said he’s resumed baserunning and de-

fense drills but will wait for the green

light from trainers andmedical staff

before returning to game action . . .

TheMariners acquired All-Star out-

fielder JesseWinker and third base-

man Eugenio Suárez from the Reds for

pitcher Justin Dunn, outfielder Jake

Fraley, top pitching prospect Brandon

Williamson, and a player to be named

to the Reds. Winker is coming off the

best season of his career after hitting

.305 with 24 home runs and 71 RBIs.

Suárez hit just .198 in 2021 but still

added 31 home runs and 79 RBIs . . .

TheWhite Sox agreed to a two-year,

$17million contract with righthanded

reliever Joe Kelly and a one-year, $3

million with righthander Vince Ve-

lasquez. Kelly went 2-0 with a 2.86

ERA and two saves in 48 appearances

for the Dodgers last year. Velasquez

was 3-9 with a 6.30 ERA in 25 appear-

ances and 21 starts for the Phillies and

Padres.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

San Diego Padres All-Star shortstop

Fernando Tatis Jr. likely will need sur-

gery for a broken left wrist and could

miss up to three months, general man-

ager A.J. Preller saidMonday.

Tatis apparently suffered the injury

early in the offseason and felt it when

he began preparing for spring training,

Preller said.

Reports surfaced in December that

Tatis suffered scrapes on his hand and

knee in amotorcycle accident in his na-

tive Dominican Republic. Tatis said he

felt pain in the wrist shortly afterward,

but thought it was from bruises.

He said the injury was a surprise

and it got worse as he began taking

swings to get ready for spring training,

which was delayed because of the lock-

out.

“It’s bad. It’s terrible. I feel like ev-

erybody is disappointed, especially

me,” Tatis said. “We have a pretty good

chance this year as a team. I just want

to be out there for my teammates and

for the fans.”

The injury is a blow to a team that

was looking for a fresh start following a

brutal late-season collapse that left

themwith yet another losing record.

Tatis, 23, had a series of injuries to

his left shoulder last year, when he still

led the NL with 42 home runs in 130

games and finished third in balloting

for the NLMVP after batting .282 with

97 RBIs and 25 stolen bases last year.

He signed a 14-year, $330million con-

tract during spring training last year.

Braves acquire Olson

Freddie Freeman’s tenure with the

Braves appears to be over after the

World Series champions acquired All-

Star first basemanMatt Olson from the

Athletics for a package of four players,

including young outfielder Cristian

Pache.

Oakland also receives minor league

catcher Shea Langeliers and right-

handers Ryan Cusick and Joey Estes.

Langeliers was ranked as Atlanta’s No.

2 prospect by Baseball America, one

spot ahead of Pache, with Cusick ninth

and Estes 14th.

Freeman was the 2020 NLMVP and

a five-time All-Star over 12 seasons

with Atlanta, and his outspoken leader-

ship proved critical on last year’s cham-

pionship team.When rosters unlocked

Thursday, reports indicated the Dodg-

ers or Yankees were hotly pursuing the

lefthanded slugger.

Atlanta general manager Alex An-

MLB NOTEBOOK

Tatis Jr. (broken wrist) could miss three monthsPadres shortstopwilllikelyhave surgery

R When, where: Tues-day, 8:30 p.m., at UnitedCenter, Chicago.R TV, radio: NESN, WBZ-FM (98.5).R Goals: Alex DeBrincat34, Brandon Hagel 20,Patrick Kane 19.R Assists: Kane 49, SethJones 36, DeBrincat 21.R Goaltending: Marc-An-dre Fleury (19-20-4, 2.92GAA), Kevin Lankinen (3-7-4, 3.60).R Head to head: This isthe second and finalmeeting. The Bruinswon the first, 4-3, lastThursday at TD Garden.R Miscellany: Kane re-corded three assists inSaturday’s 6-3 win overOttawa, moving intosecond place on Chica-go’s all-time points list(behind Stan Mikita) . . .The Blackhawks have al-lowed three or moregoals in nine straightgames . . . D ConnorMurphy (upper body)left Saturday’s gameand is day to day.

Blackhawksthumbnails

COYOTES 5, SENATORS 3

Arizona.........................2 1 2 — 5Ottawa .........................2 0 1 — 3

First period — 1. Ottawa, Norris 23(Tkachuk), 2:39. 2. Arizona, Crouse 16(Kessel, Galchenyuk), 7:49. 3. Arizona,Crouse 17 (Gostisbehere, Keller), 9:00(pp). 4. Ottawa, Norris 24 (Stuetzle),14:01 (pp). Penalties — Tkachuk, Ott(cross check), 8:45. Chabot, Ott (knee-ing), 11:29. Ritchie, Ari (hooking),13:57. Kessel, Ari (hooking), 16:42.Second period — 5. Arizona, Crouse

18, 16:12. Penalties — Ritchie, Ari(roughing), 14:53.Third period — 6. Ottawa, CBrown 9

(Tkachuk, Zub), 7:30. 7. Arizona,Schmaltz 17 (Keller), 7:46. 8. Arizona,Hayton 5 (Moser, Schmaltz), 19:12(en). Penalties — Capobianco, Ari(hooking), 20:00.Shots on goal — Arizona 6-3-6 — 15.

Ottawa 15-17-11 — 43.Power plays — Arizona 1-2; Ottawa

1-3.Goalies — Arizona, Wedgewood 10-

13-3 (43 shots-40 saves). Ottawa,Gustavsson 3-10-1 (14 shots-10 saves).Referees — Chris Lee, Chris Schlenk-

er. Linesmen — Bevan Mills, DerekNansen.A — 9,201 (19,153). T — 2:22.

LEADERS

Not including yesterday’s gamesSCORING

G A Pts.McDavid, Edm .................32 51 83Huberdeau, Fla................18 65 83Draisaitl, Edm..................39 42 81Gaudreau, Cgy.................26 52 78Matthews, Tor.................45 32 77Kaprizov, Min ..................30 43 73Kadri, Col..........................22 51 73Ovechkin, Was ................36 35 71Miller, Van........................24 46 70Connor, Wpg....................37 32 69Rantanen, Col ..................28 41 69Tkachuk, Cgy...................27 41 68Kane, Chi ..........................19 49 68Panarin, NYR....................16 52 68

NHLEASTERN CONFERENCE

ATLANTIC GP W L OL Pts. ROW GF GA

Florida 59 40 13 6 86 38 245 173Tampa Bay 59 38 15 6 82 36 200 171Toronto 59 37 17 5 79 35 219 181

METROPOLITAN GP W L OL Pts. ROW GF GA

Carolina 59 41 13 5 87 40 198 139Pittsburgh 60 36 15 9 81 34 197 160NY Rangers 59 37 17 5 79 33 180 154

WILD-CARD GP W L OL Pts. ROW GF GA

Boston 59 36 18 5 77 34 180 160Washington 60 32 18 10 74 30 197 169

Columbus 60 30 27 3 63 26 199 222NY Islanders 56 24 24 8 56 23 152 157Detroit 59 24 28 7 55 21 170 221New Jersey 59 22 32 5 49 20 179 208Buffalo 60 20 32 8 48 18 162 212Ottawa 59 21 33 5 47 20 157 194Philadelphia 59 18 30 11 47 18 148 206Montreal 59 16 35 8 40 14 147 224

WESTERN CONFERENCE

CENTRAL GP W L OL Pts. ROW GF GA

Colorado 60 42 13 5 89 39 233 170St. Louis 59 34 17 8 76 32 211 165Minnesota 58 34 20 4 72 29 218 193

PACIFIC GP W L OL Pts. ROW GF GA

Calgary 59 36 16 7 79 34 204 143Los Angeles 61 33 20 8 74 30 178 173Edmonton 59 32 23 4 68 29 193 187

WILD-CARD GP W L OL Pts. ROW GF GA

Nashville 59 34 21 4 72 32 190 166Vegas 61 32 25 4 68 28 192 183

Dallas 57 32 22 3 67 29 170 169Vancouver 60 29 24 7 65 26 173 174Winnipeg 60 27 23 10 64 26 182 187Anaheim 62 27 25 10 64 23 180 197San Jose 58 26 25 7 59 24 154 182Chicago 60 22 30 8 52 19 161 208Arizona 59 19 36 4 42 18 153 213Seattle 61 18 37 6 42 16 159 220ROW — Regulation plus overtime wins

THE PLAYOFF FORMAT

Eight teams in each conference qualify. The top three teams fromeach division comprise the first six spots. The two remaining teamswith the most points, regardless of division, qualify for the final twowild-card spots.

MONDAY’S RESULT

Arizona 5 at Ottawa 3

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Boston at Chicago 8:30 Pittsburgh at Nashville 8

Dallas at Toronto 7 Detroit at Edmonton 9

Arizona at Montreal 7 New Jersey at Vancouver 10

Anaheim at NY Rangers 7 Colorado at Los Angeles 10:30

NY Islanders at Washington 7 Florida at San Jose 10:30

Vegas at Winnipeg 8

SUNDAY’S RESULTS

At Pittsburgh 4 Carolina 2 At Columbus 6 Vegas 4

At Buffalo 5 Toronto 2 At NY Islanders 4 Anaheim 3

Winnipeg 4 at St. Louis 3 (OT) At Colorado 3 Calgary 0

Montreal 4 at Phila. 3 (OT) Tampa Bay 2 at Vancouver 1

Nashville 6 at Minnesota 2 At Los Angeles 3 Florida 2 (SO)

C4 Sports T h e B o s t o n G l o b e TUE SDAY, MARCH 1 5 , 2 0 2 2

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Mac Jones (left) will have Brian Hoyer to lean on for another year, particularly important with the losses on the Patriots’ coaching staff.

greatest athletes we have ever seen?

After a Patriot career he conducted with

class and good old-fashioned Gary Cooper hu-

mility, Brady has morphed into an attention-

seeking carnival act on a par with Deion Sand-

ers, Brett Favre, Dennis Rodman, and the

manager who couldn’t quit, Billy Martin.

It feels like, somewhere along the line, Bra-

dy acquired a neediness gene from his long-

time boss, Bob Kraft.

Brady is atop the pantheon of Boston’s all-

time sports greats, but none of them went

through this identity crisis at the end of their

careers. Ted Williams hit a homer in his final

at-bat, then announced it was over after the

game. Teddy Ballgame’s farewell was covered

by John Updike, who has never been com-

pared to Jim Gray.

Russell won his 11th championship in 13

seasons and left without so much as a voice-

mail or Post-It note. Russell announced his re-

tirement in Sports Illustrated and we never

saw him again. Carl Yastrzemski played forev-

er, then went all Garbo on us. Larry Bird re-

turned from Barcelona with his gold medal in

the summer of ‘92, quietly walked into Red

Auerbach’s office, and said he was done. Larry

today is harder to find than Jimmy Hoffa.

Tom is the opposite. Tom just can’t quit us.

After 40 days and nights, he has come down

from themountain, Moses-style. He wants you

to fawn over him. He wants Stephen A. Smith

and Skip Bayless to argue about him on TV. He

has his own high-end production company,

bombarding us with tweets, Instagrams, pod-

casts, and silly staged interviews with suckup

Gray. He’s making amovie about himself, for

gosh sakes.

It appears to some of us that Tom just

couldn’t stand to be out of the spotlight one

minute longer. There was just too much talk

about Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson.

Maybe Tom was hoping the Bucs would let

him out of his deal and allow him a free agent

courtship frenzy. Maybe Tampa Bay called his

bluff, held him to his contract, and gave him

no place else to go, like Richard Gere in “An

Officer and a Gentleman.”

So instead of “time to focus my time and

energy on other things that require my atten-

tion” (part of Brady’s thousand-word “done

with football” statement), Tom is back to take

care of “unfinished business.”

I don’t know about you, but I feel played. I

am out. Done. Won’t get fooled again.

Brady is still the GOAT (Greatest Of All

Time), but he is also an old goat, the high

school hero who’s still living on the glory days

while the rest of us have gotten on with our

lives. Hope Tom can still go out on top and

doesn’t finish with a Willie Mays 1973 World

Series, flopping-around-the-outfield moment.

Hope Brady is never an over-the-hill Muham-

mad Ali, getting pummeled by Larry Holmes.

One last thing, while I’m venting.

Is it just me or does it seem as if Brady’s big

announcements have been recklessly parsed

out, ever-oblivious to other events of the day?

Brady is the guy who announced he was leav-

ing the Patriots on March 17, 2020, while we

were reeling in America’s first days of the coro-

navirus crisis. Then, in the throes of the pan-

demic, Brady allowed his company to sell a

product that claims to enhance immunity.

Now we get Tom coming out of his 40-day

retirement, on the night the NCAA basketball

brackets are announced, on the same day Kev-

in Garnett’s No. 5 was raised to the rafters in

the Garden.

Evidently, when you are Tom Brady, there is

no other.

Here’s hoping he remembers to mention

the Patriots and the fans of New England next

time he retires.

Dan Shaughnessy is a Globe columnist. He

can be reached at

daniel.shaughnessy@globe.com. Follow him

on Twitter @dan_shaughnessy.

uSHAUGHNESSYContinued from Page C1

Brady’s acthas becomeannoying

takeaway guys in the NFL since Bill

Belichick signed him as an undrafted

free agent out of Maryland in 2018.

His 25 interceptions are tied for most

by a player in his first four seasons in

the league. Jackson had eight inter-

ceptions in 2021, one more than the

entire Chargers secondary.

He has a knack for always being

around the ball, and as Belichick said

last November after Jackson picked

off a tipped ball in the end zone, “you

leave any trash laying around, he’s go-

ing to pick it up.’’

Jackson thanked the Patriots for

the “experience” of playing here.

“Got a chance towin a Super Bowl.

Got to playwith great players, play for

uJACKSONContinued from Page C1

one of the best coaches in Coach [Bill]

Belichick. I want to thank them for

everything they did for me,’’ he told

NBC Sports Boston.

Safety Adrian Phillips, who spent

the last two seasons playing with

Jackson in the Patriots secondary

tweeted, “Hell yea JC … much de-

served!!! #elite.’’

Jackson, 26, adjusted to the Patri-

ots system quickly upon arriving as a

rookie, withmany veterans, including

Devin McCourty, mentioning his

competitiveness and ability to defend

deep passes during training camp.

“J.C. has natural hands and tracks

the ball well,’’ Belichick said last year.

“He has great hand-eye coordination.’’

Just two seasons ago, the Patriots

boasted one of the top 1-2 punches at

cornerback with Stephon Gilmore

and Jackson. Gilmore was traded to

the Panthers last season and is also on

the free agent market.

Jackson emerged as a No. 1 cor-

nerback last season, helping lead the

Patriots to a top-five defense that

helped the franchise to a 10-7 record

and a return to the playoffs after a

one-year absence.

Now Jackson will play in a second-

ary with James, Asante Samuel Jr.,

and Michael Davis — and in an AFC

West division loaded with top quar-

terbacks. The Chiefs have Patrick Ma-

homes, the Broncos have Russell Wil-

son, and the Raiders have Derek Carr.

The Chargers finished 9-8 and

missed the playoffs last season and

opponents converted 49.5 percent of

their third downs against them.

Chargers coach Brandon Staley

made it clear during the Scouting

Combine two weeks ago that his club

would be in themarket for a corner.

“You’re in five defensive backs 65

percent or more, so corner is definite-

ly going to be something we’re look-

ing at,’’ he said. “We’re always going to

be looking at it as long as I’m the head

coach. You’re aware of these receivers

that we have to defend.’’

The Patriots have Jalen Mills, Jon-

athan Jones, Myles Bryant, Joejuan

Williams, and Shaun Wade on the

cornerback depth chart.

JimMcBride can be reached at

james.mcbride@globe.com. Follow

him on Twitter@globejimmcbride.

CB Jackson departs for $82.5m deal with Chargers

Tell the truth. Were

you among them?

Were you among

themany around

here who were too

busy yelping about

perceived slights to

pick up on all the

clues about Tom Bra-

dy’s comeback that were right there in

his “retirement” announcement six

weeks ago?

This fool right here was, at least in

those early hours when it appeared

that Brady’s unparalleled NFL career

was indeed over at age 44, after (deep

breath) 710 touchdown passes (play-

offs included, because the playoffs al-

ways must be included to even begin to

tell Brady’s story), 290 wins (playoffs

included, because . . . you know), 22

seasons, 10 Super Bowl appearances,

and seven Super Bowl victories.

When Bradymade his eight-slide

announcement in an Instagram post

Feb. 1, the immediate response in New

England was not a collective “thank

you” to him for his leading role in the

greatest dynasty in NFL history, but a

combination of curiosity and anger

about why he excluded the Patriots

from his salutations.

The needy, jilted how-could-you-for-

get-us-Tom? reaction was kind of pa-

thetic — he had already warmly and

graciously saluted Robert Kraft, Bill

Belichick, countless teammates, and

Patriots Nation when he announced he

wasn’t returning inMarch 2020— and

it distracted us from picking up on and

parsing something else far more inter-

esting that he didn’t say in his an-

nouncement: the word “retirement.”

It’s amusing to look at his statement

now, which hinted at finality but never

actually confirmed it, and look at all

the ways he wrote around that most

important word:

“I am not going to make that com-

petitive commitment anymore . . . ”

“But, right now, it’s best I leave the

field of play . . . ”

“As said, I am going to take it day by

day . . . ”

As it turns out, “day by day” lasted

for a whole 40 days before Brady an-

nounced Sunday night that he would

be coming out of a retirement that he

never really confirmed in the first

place. The revelation of his return

wasn’t quite as succinct as Michael Jor-

dan’s “I’m back” upon rejoining the

Bulls in 1995, but it was considerably

more on point than his “competitive

commitment”/hiatus announcement.

“These past twomonths I’ve real-

izedmy place is still on the field and

not in the stands,” he wrote. “That time

will come. But it’s not now. I love my

teammates, and I love my supportive

family. Theymake it all possible. I’m

coming back for my 23rd season in

Tampa. Unfinished business LFG.”

The timing of Brady’s announce-

ment might have been a surprise — it

came down at 7:13 p.m., smack-dab in

the middle of NCAA basketball bracket

chatter and in the moments after Kevin

Garnett’s wonderful number retire-

ment ceremony at TD Garden— but

the news itself was not.

It was not more than a few days af-

ter all the breathtaking highlight reels

aired and flowery farewell columns (hi

there) were written that the rumors

that Bradymay play again ignited, and

it was then that most of us realized that

he never actually said he was retired.

Reports popped up that he might

try to leverage his way to the Niners

(his boyhood team) or Dolphins (no

idea what he’d want to do with them).

If there is any surprise in this, it’s

not that he’s back. It’s that he’s back

with the Bucs, particularly since coach

Bruce Arians has come across at times

as envious of the credit Brady receives

for the team’s success.

Don’t know about you, but I’m glad

he’s back, especially if it means he’ll

spend less time hocking crypto and

NFTs (wishful thinking, probably). The

NFL is better when he’s in it; I’m al-

ready looking forward to showdowns

in 2022 withMatthew Stafford, Patrick

Mahomes, and Joe Burrow. It will be

fun to watch him extend the gap be-

tween himself and every other quarter-

back in NFL history in the record

books and on the field. You just know

Aaron Rodgers hates this.

There are really only two potential

downsides to this: It reignites theWho

Deserves More Credit? silliness regard-

ing Brady and Bill Belichick’s roles in

the Patriots dynasty. Onemore time for

all the old times: The Patriots had the

greatest quarterback and coach in NFL

history at the same time. It doesn’t hap-

pen without either of them. Anyone

who understates Belichick’s role either

has an agenda, a very short memory, or

didn’t knowwhat they were watching.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

The other potential downside: An

ugly ending. Brady will be 45 and the

oldest starting quarterback in NFL his-

tory when the Bucs open the season in

September. It’s possible he loses a few

miles off the fastball, or takes a hit

(where have you gone, Ali Marpet?)

that ends up abbreviating his season.

But this is Tom Brady we’re talking

about, and the best bet is to assume

he’ll be as sharp as he was last season,

when he should have won the NFL

Most Valuable Player award. And we all

remember another famous statement

he once made, one in which he did use

the R word: “When I suck, I’ll retire.”

Don’t know about you, but I’m

starting to think neither will ever hap-

pen.

Chad Finn can be reached at

chad.finn@globe.com. Follow him on

Twitter@GlobeChadFinn.

It wasn’t a slight — just a sleight of handChad Finn

By JimMcBrideGLOBE STAFF

The Patriots took care of some in-

house business Monday, locking up

some familiar faces by agreeing to

terms with veterans Matthew Slater

and Brian Hoyer, a league source con-

firmedMonday.

The Patriots also signed veteran

interior offensive lineman James Fer-

entz to a one-year deal, and NFL Me-

dia reported they retained kicker

Nick Folk with a two-year, $5 million

extension.

In addition, a league source con-

firmed Ted Karras, who started the fi-

nal 14 games in 2021, including the

last dozen at left guard, is poised to

sign a three-year, $18 million deal

with the AFC champion Bengals

Wednesday — the first day contracts

can become official.

Unlike 2021 when New England

made the biggest early splashes

across the league when the “legal

tampering” window of free agency

unofficially opened, it was J.C. Jack-

son (Chargers) and Karras who

scored some of the biggest contracts.

The signings of Slater and Hoyer

were expected and necessary.

Slater, a 10-time special teams Pro

Bowler and three-time Super Bowl

champion, is one of the most decorat-

ed and respected players in franchise

and league history.

A locker room leader seemingly

since he landed in Foxborough as a

fifth-round pick out of UCLA in 2008,

the likely future Hall of Famer will

play his 15th season on a one-year,

$2.62 million fully guaranteed con-

tract.

He has been elected New Eng-

land’s special teams captain for 11

straight seasons.

Hoyer, who proved to be a key

member of Mac Jones’s support sys-

tem, agreed to a two-year contract

worth up to $3 million to back up

Jones.

Hoyer, who will be heading into

his 14th season, was an important

mentor and sounding board for Jones

as the first-round pick navigated his

way through his rookie season.

“Brian’s been a really close friend

of mine since I’ve gotten here, and I

know he’s older than me, and he

might be closer in age to his son, Gar-

rett, but he’s still a really good men-

tor, and he just does a great job every

week,’’ Jones said in October. “He’s su-

per supportive of me and trying to

help me in any way he can, and, you

know, he’s hard on me sometimes,

which is good. So he holds me to a

high standard, and then he also has

fun and enjoys the game, so he’s been

around for a long time, and I think all

the quarterbacks in our room have

done that, and Brian is just a great ex-

ample of a great team leader and a

great team player. If he ever needs to

get in there, I know he’s going to do a

great job, so he’s always ready, and

I’m just happy to be able to learn from

him and just be in the same room as

him.’’

With multiple changes to the

coaching staff, particularly on the of-

fensive side, havingHoyer aboardwill

help make any transition easier for

Jones.

Hoyer, who has thrown for 10,631

yards and 53 touchdowns in 75 ca-

reer games, knows this offense like

the back of his hand and can take

over if anything should happen to

Jones.

Ferentz has bounced between the

active roster and practice squad the

last few seasons, providing valuable

depth and could be poised for a big-

ger role with Karras headed out of

town.

He started back-to-back games at

left guard inWeeks 5 and 6 doing yeo-

man’s work New England’s offensive

line ravaged by illness and injuries.

Patriots agree to terms with Slater, HoyerFerentz is signed,but Karras departs

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direction of letting bygones be bygones. Once I

knew we were talking and I was going to be on

his show, when I had time. I wasn’t worried

about it.”

Those moments of disregard after Allen

signed with Miami affected him, including

when he attempted to slap hands with the Celt-

ics’ bench players in their opening night

matchup in October 2012. Rivers cooperated.

Garnett ignored him.

“The first game that we played, when he

wouldn’t shake my hand in Miami, I didn’t

want that feeling anymore,” Allen said. “That

was a terrible feeling. [But] I wasn’t worried

about that anymore. I knew that once we got to

the [the back room at TD Garden], this was a

moment to celebrate him, let him know I was

here to support him.”

Allen and Garnett didn’t meet during their

years in the NBA. They were both prep stand-

outs in South Carolina, andmet as teenagers.

“I don’t think about 2009, 2010, ’11, any of

those years, I think about ’93, ’92, I still re-

member him as Kevin, the kid that was trying

uON BASKETBALLContinued from Page C1

to hit on my sister and ask her out on a date,”

Allen said. “And we used to go up to Columbia

and practice against the kids from [the Univer-

sity of South Carolina]. That’s the guy I always

remember.

“Forme, to have some sense of humility and

of normalcy, you can’t ever think about these

great moments like this because you have to

think where you come from. That has allowed

us to get to this level.”

A few years ago, Allen and Pierce, who were

never really at odds but had been icy since Al-

len’s Boston departure, made up and discussed

their issues.

Pierce said after that hemade it his purpose

to reunite the Big Three, but Garnett would

take time to convince.

“Any time after that, Paul and I when we

saw each other, it was like nothing has

changed; we were trying to raise our kids and

make them productive members of society, I

just had never had that opportunity around

Kevin, I hadn’t seen him at all,” Allen said. “It

took All-Star Weekend and then being here [to

make it happen].”

Allen said he felt left out not only by the

feud with Garnett, but with the Celtics, be-

cause of the unsavory receptions he received as

a member of the Heat, getting booed every

time he touched the ball in his comeback

game.

“I don’t like being on the outside,” he said.

“There’s so many people here that I love, that I

spent time with, that have been part of the

family. The people that you know in this build-

ing, I see them on TV. They’re etched in my

mind, when it comes to my time spent here in

Boston. To not be able to connect with them, it

was tough forme.

“Just because I moved away doesn’t mean

that relationship, that friendship ends. It did

center around Kevin and myself because I did

get the sense that the people here [in Boston]

felt how Kevin felt. Once he accepted me, then

the people accept me, that was the sense. I was

glad that we could do that and people could see

and people could say we won with this guy in

2008, and that’s what matters most.”

GaryWashburn is a Globe columnist. He can

be reached at gary.washburn@globe.com.

Follow him on Twitter@GwashburnGlobe.

Garnett’s big day brings back the Big Three

FROM WIRE SERVICES

Mitch Trubiskywill get a chance to kick-

start his career in Pittsburgh, and attempt to

replace a likely Hall of Famer in the process.

A person with knowledge of the deal told

the Associated Press that the veteran quarter-

back and the Steelers have agreed to terms on

a two-year contractMonday that will give

Trubisky a chance to compete for the open

starting job following Ben Roethlisberger’s re-

tirement in January.

The person spoke to the AP on the condi-

tion of anonymity because the deal was not yet

official.

Trubisky, 27, joins the Steelers after spend-

ing 2021 backing up Josh Allen in Buffalo fol-

lowing a flame out in Chicago. The second

overall pick in the 2017 draft spent four un-

even seasons with the Bears, going 29-21 as a

starter while passing for 10,652 yards with 64

touchdowns against 38 interceptions.

Trubisky joins a quarterbacks room that in-

cludes longtime Pittsburgh backupMason Ru-

dolph. The team is also expected to bring back

Dwayne Haskins, who served as Pittsburgh’s

third quarterback last season.

Panthers opening up room

The Panthers released cornerback A.J.

Bouye and defensive endMorgan Fox in salary

capmoves, openingmoremoney for their po-

tential pursuit of Texans quarterback Deshaun

Watson.

Both Bouye and Fox were due roster bonus-

es of slightly more than $2million next week

and themoves will save the teammore than

$6.5million in salary cap space in 2022.

The Panthers are nowmore than $32mil-

lion under the cap.

Jaguars to getWRKirk

No one should be calling Jaguars general

manager Trent Baalke a clown right now.

Baalke and the Jaguars agreed to sign Ari-

zona receiver Christian Kirk, Washington

guard Brandon Scherff, Atlanta linebacker

Foyesade Oluokun and Jets defensive tackle

Folorunso “Foley” Fatukasi, according to a per-

son familiar with negotiations.

The four big-time additions are expected to

fill huge holes for Jacksonville, which has lost

35 of its last 41 games and is in rebuilding

mode again under Baalke and new head coach

Doug Pederson.

Kirk will replace DJ Chark as the team’s No.

1 receiver and should immediately become

quarterback Trevor Lawrence’s top target.

Kirk caught 236 passes for 2,902 yards and 17

touchdowns in four years with the Cardinals.

Jacksonville is giving Kirk a four-year, $72

million contract that could be worth up to $84

million, the person said. The deal includes a

$20million signing bonus.

Scherff, an All-Pro selection in 2020, will

step in at right guard in place of free agent AJ

Cann and allow Ben Bartch to switch sides and

fill Andrew Norwell’s spot.

Jacksonville allowed 32 sacks in Lawrence’s

rookie year. Keeping him upright and sur-

rounding himwithmore weapons were among

the goals for Baalke and Pederson heading into

free agency and the draft. When healthy,

Scherff has proven to be one of the league’s

premier guards.

WRLandry released by Browns

Jarvis Landry helped the Browns rebuild

from the NFL’s bottom floor. They’ll now try to

stay relevant without him.

Cleveland released the five-time Pro Bowl

wide receiver in a tough but necessary cost-

cuttingmove after the invaluable Landry be-

came too expensive to keep.

One of the league’s steadiest pass catchers,

the 29-year-old Landry was instrumental in

the Browns’ turnaround after the teamwent

just 1-31 in the two seasons before he arrived

via trade from theMiami Dolphins in 2018.

During four seasons with the Browns, Lan-

dry had 288 receptions for 3,560 yards and 15

touchdowns. He added four rushing TDs and

threw for a score. Landry’s the only player in

league history to record at least 70 receptions

in each of his first seven seasons.

Berrios to return to Jets

The Jets re-signed All-Pro kick returner

Braxton Berrios to a two-year, $12million

deal, keeping the versatile wide receiver after a

breakout season.

The deal includes $7million fully guaran-

teed, according to Berrios’s agent Drew Rosen-

haus.

The Jets also agreed to terms with former

49ers guard Laken Tomlinson on a three-year

contract, according to a person with direct

knowledge of the deal. Themove addresses

one of New York’s biggest offseason needs.

ESPN reported the contract for Tomlinson

is worth up to $41.2million and includes $27

million guaranteed.

Dolphins add QB Bridgewater

Among the wishes for the Dolphins in free

agency: keeping pass rusher Emmanuel Og-

bah, along with adding a running back and up-

grading in the quarterback room.

The Dolphinsmoved quickly to check all

those boxes.

Miami native Teddy Bridgewater agreed to

come home, presumably to be Tua Ta-

govailoa’s backup at quarterback. Bridgewater

agreed to a one-year deal, according to a per-

son with direct knowledge of the negotiations

who spoke on condition of anonymity to The

Associated Press because the contract has not

been finalized.

The Dolphins will become Bridgewater’s

fifth NFL team and his fourth in the past four

years. He went 7-7 in 14 starts for Denver this

past season, plus has played for Carolina, New

Orleans andMinnesota.

Ogbah has agreed to a four-year contract

that could be worth $65million, and running

back Chase Edmonds has agreed to a two-year,

$12.6million deal. Bothmoves were con-

firmed by agent Drew Rosenhaus, who repre-

sents both players.

DE Reddick heading to Eagles

Haason Reddick is going home to boost the

Eagles’ pass rush.

A person with knowledge of the deal told

the Associated Press that Reddick and the Ea-

gles agreed to terms on a $45million, three-

year contract that includes $30million guar-

anteed with amaximum value of $49.5mil-

lion.

Reddick, who played at Temple and grew

up in Camden, N.J., had 11 sacks for Carolina

last year. A first-round pick by Arizona in

2017, Reddick had 12½ sacks for the Cardi-

nals in 2020. Listed as a linebacker, Reddick

should be used as an edge rusher.

Preston Smith backwith Pack

The signed outside linebacker Preston

Smith to a contract extension and released

outside linebacker Za’Darius Smith and offen-

sive lineman Billy Turner in a flurry of moves

before the start of the free-agency period.

Releasing Za’Darius Smith and Turner cre-

ates about $19million in cap savings for the

Packers, who had entered the week about $46

million over the cap. But it leaves Green Bay

without two veterans who played key roles in

helping the Packers win three straight NFC

North titles.

Za’Darius Smith, 29, had a combined 26

sacks for the Packers from 2019-20 before a

back injury caused him to play just one regu-

lar-season game and one playoff game last

year. Turner, 30, made a combined 43 regular-

season starts and five playoff starts during his

three-year Green Bay tenure.

Bengals pick up two for OL

The Bengals went right to free agency for

their biggest area of need, agreeing to con-

tracts with a pair of offensive linemen.

People with knowledge of the deals con-

firmed to the Associated Press that the Bengals

reached agreements with Buccaneers guard

Alex Cappa and offensive lineman Ted Karras,

formerly of the Patriots.

RB Connerwith Cardinals

The Cardinals are bringing back James

Conner on a three-year deal, rewarding the

running back for a stellar 2021 season that in-

cluded a franchise-record 18 total touchdowns.

Conner was a huge part of the Cardinals’ of-

fense last season with 752 yards rushing and

375 yards receiving.

Seahawks keep S Diggs

The Seahawks retained one of their most

important free agents, agreeing to terms with

free safetyQuandre Diggs on a new contract,

according to a person with knowledge of the

deal.NFLNetwork reported the agreement of a

three-year deal is worth up to $40million for

Diggs.

NFL NOTEBOOK

QB Trubisky headed to SteelersPanthers in hot pursuitof Texans QBWatson

FILE/CHARLES KRUPA/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ray Allen (second from right) was in Cleveland to celebrate being a member of the NBA all-time top 75 team at All-Star Weekend.

HAWKS 122, BLAZERS 113

PORTLAND

FG FT Reb

Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt

Elleby .......29 1-2 4-4 3-13 5 4 6Watford ...39 9-19 2-2 4-9 2 3 22Eubanks...30 7-10 2-2 3-10 2 1 16Williams...36 8-17 2-5 0-3 6 3 20Hart .......... 38 11-21 5-7 1-7 4 1 31Brown....... 13 1-1 0-0 0-3 2 2 2Dunn......... 20 1-6 0-0 0-5 3 6 2Johnson....23 3-8 0-1 0-5 1 2 6Hughes.....13 3-4 0-0 0-1 0 3 8Totals ....... 44-88 15-21 11-56 25 25 113

FG%: .500, FT%: .714. 3-pt. goals: 10-24,.417 (Elleby 0-1, Watford 2-4, Eubanks 0-1,Williams 2-6, Hart 4-7, Dunn 0-1, Johnson 0-1,Hughes 2-3). Team rebounds: 6. Team turn-overs: 21 (29 pts.). Blocks: 9 (Watford 4, Eu-banks, Williams, Brown 2, Johnson). Turn-overs: 20 (Elleby 3, Watford, Eubanks 3, Wil-liams 5, Hart, Brown 2, Dunn 4, Johnson).Steals: 4 (Eubanks, Williams, Dunn 2).

ATLANTA

FG FT Reb

Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt

Huerter ....36 6-15 0-0 1-4 2 3 14Hunter...... 34 6-17 5-6 1-3 0 0 20Capela......28 4-12 0-0 5-16 0 4 8Wright...... 30 0-3 4-4 1-4 4 0 4Young....... 39 15-31 11-11 2-6 12 1 46Bog-danovic ...

.24 2-13 4-4 2-3 6 1 9

Okongwu .20 3-5 6-7 3-7 0 4 12Williams...16 2-6 0-0 0-1 3 1 4Knox II........ 7 0-3 0-0 2-3 1 0 0Luwawu-Cabarrot .

... 8 2-4 0-0 0-2 0 1 5

Totals ....... 40-109 30-32 17-49 28 15 122

FG%: .367, FT%: .938. 3-pt. goals: 12-48,.250 (Huerter 2-9, Hunter 3-9, Wright 0-2,Young 5-14, Bogdanovic 1-8, Williams 0-2,Knox II 0-1, Luwawu-Cabarrot 1-3). Team re-bounds: 10. Team turnovers: 4 (7 pts.).Blocks: 6 (Huerter, Hunter 2, Capela 2,Wright). Turnovers: 4 (Young 3, Williams).Steals: 13 (Hunter 2, Capela, Wright 3, Young,Bogdanovic 2, Okongwu, Williams 3). Techni-cals: .

Portland......................34 33 17 29 — 113Atlanta ........................29 29 31 33 — 122

A — 16,432 (18,729). T — 2:23. Officials —Kane Fitzgerald, Lauren Holtkamp, MousaDagher.

NUGGETS 114, 76ERS 110

DENVER

FG FT Reb

Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt

Je.Green...21 3-3 0-0 1-4 1 2 6Gordon.....20 3-6 0-0 1-3 2 1 7Jokic ......... 34 8-16 5-7 1-13 8 1 22Morris.......34 5-10 1-2 0-3 6 2 11Barton ......32 7-14 3-4 1-3 2 2 20Hyland......31 7-14 3-5 0-4 2 0 21Rivers .......19 1-2 1-2 1-1 2 3 4Ja.Green...23 5-6 0-0 1-8 1 5 10Forbes ...... 12 2-5 0-0 0-0 1 3 5Cousins ....14 3-6 0-0 0-3 4 5 8Totals .. ..... 44-82 13-20 6-42 29 24 114

FG%: .537, FT%: .650. 3-pt. goals: 13-33,.394 (Gordon 1-3, Jokic 1-3, Morris 0-2, Barton3-6, Hyland 4-9, Rivers 1-2, Forbes 1-3, Cous-ins 2-5). Team rebounds: 2. Team turnovers:14 (16 pts.). Blocks: 3 (Gordon, Jokic 2). Turn-overs: 14 (Je.Green 2, Gordon, Jokic 5, Barton,Hyland, Rivers 2, Forbes, Cousins). Steals: 8(Je.Green, Jokic 2, Morris, Rivers 2, Ja.Green,Cousins). Technicals: Cousins, 7:04/4th. Fla-grant fouls: Ja.Green, 3:13/4th.

PHILADELPHIA

FG FT Reb

Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt

Thybulle...26 4-7 0-0 2-5 3 4 9Harris .......37 4-9 0-2 1-7 1 1 10Embiid...... 36 11-20 9-10 3-9 4 5 34Maxey ......42 7-13 3-4 0-3 3 2 19Harden.....39 6-11 11-12 0-9 11 1 24Jordan ...... 12 1-6 1-2 3-6 0 2 3Niang........ 25 2-12 2-2 1-4 1 2 8Green........ 14 0-5 0-0 0-4 2 0 0Milton......... 8 1-1 0-0 1-1 0 0 3Totals .. ..... 36-84 26-32 11-48 25 17 110

FG%: .429, FT%: .813. 3-pt. goals: 12-33,.364 (Thybulle 1-3, Harris 2-4, Embiid 3-3,Maxey 2-6, Harden 1-4, Niang 2-10, Green 0-2,Milton 1-1). Team rebounds: 7. Team turn-overs: 13 (14 pts.). Blocks: 6 (Thybulle 2, Em-biid 2, Harden, Jordan). Turnovers: 13 (Thy-bulle 2, Harris, Embiid 5, Harden 4, Niang).Steals: 8 (Thybulle 6, Harris, Embiid). Techni-cals: Harden, 7:04/4th.

Denver.........................22 31 28 33 — 114Philadelphia ...............37 21 30 22 — 110

A — 21,444 (20,318). T — 2:20. Officials —Eric Lewis, JB DeRosa, Matt Boland.

HORNETS 134, THUNDER 116

CHARLOTTE

FG FT Reb

Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt

Wshingtn .30 3-9 0-0 2-5 1 0 6Bridges.....30 11-15 0-0 0-3 6 1 27Plumlee....28 2-3 1-3 3-11 8 1 5La.Ball ......30 6-13 4-4 0-4 7 3 21Rozier....... 32 11-17 4-4 0-6 4 3 30McDniels..13 1-5 0-0 1-2 0 2 2Harrell ......18 1-2 3-3 0-0 2 4 5Martin ......21 4-6 2-2 0-0 0 0 11Oubre Jr...17 4-9 2-5 1-4 1 2 11Thomas....17 4-10 0-0 1-1 4 1 12Richards..... 2 1-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 2Thor............ 2 1-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 2Totals .. ..... 49-92 16-21 8-37 33 17 134

FG%: .533, FT%: .762. 3-pt. goals: 20-35,.571 (Washington 0-3, Bridges 5-6, La.Ball 5-8,Rozier 4-8, McDaniels 0-1, Martin 1-1, OubreJr. 1-4, Thomas 4-4). Team rebounds: 5. Teamturnovers: 5 (6 pts.). Blocks: 7 (Plumlee 4,Harrell, Oubre Jr., Thomas). Turnovers: 5(Plumlee, La.Ball 3, Rozier). Steals: 12 (Wash-ington 2, Bridges, Plumlee, La.Ball 2, Rozier 2,Martin 3, Oubre Jr.). Technicals: def. 3-sec-ond, 9:31/1st.

OKLAHOMA CITY

FG FT Reb

Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt

Mann........30 4-12 2-2 2-5 6 0 13Bazley ......35 10-18 1-2 0-4 4 0 25Sarr...........32 2-5 3-4 3-7 3 3 7Maledon...31 2-9 2-2 2-7 4 2 6Gilgeous-Alexnder .

.36 12-20 5-5 2-8 5 5 32

Poksvski...27 6-11 3-4 3-5 5 1 17Roby ........... 9 0-0 0-0 0-4 0 4 0Waters III.24 2-8 0-0 0-6 2 2 4Krejci........15 4-7 0-0 1-3 2 2 12Totals .. ..... 42-90 16-19 13-49 31 19 116

FG%: .467, FT%: .842. 3-pt. goals: 16-44,.364 (Mann 3-6, Bazley 4-9, Sarr 0-1, Maledon0-4, Gilgeous-Alexander 3-7, Pokusevski 2-5,Waters III 0-6, Krejci 4-6). Team rebounds: 8.Team turnovers: 18 (27 pts.). Blocks: 3 (Sarr,Roby, Waters III). Turnovers: 18 (Mann, Baz-ley 2, Sarr, Maledon 2, Gilgeous-Alexander 3,Pokusevski 6, Waters III, Krejci 2). Steals: 4(Mann, Maledon, Waters III 2).

Charlotte.....................29 36 37 32 — 134Oklahoma City...........41 23 27 25 — 116

A — 15,810 (18,203). T — 2:08. Officials —Bill Kennedy, JT Orr, Phenizee Ransom.

T’WOLVES 149, SPURS 139

MINNESOTA

FG FT Reb

Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt

A.Edwrds .30 2-7 0-0 2-3 3 2 5McDniels..32 4-7 2-2 0-4 1 1 11Towns ...... 36 19-31 15-16 2-17 3 5 60Russell...... 29 8-12 0-0 1-2 6 1 19Beverley...30 5-8 7-8 1-4 8 3 20Beasley ....19 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0Nowell......25 6-8 3-4 1-6 3 2 15Prince....... 28 5-9 1-2 0-4 4 5 13Knight......... 8 3-7 0-0 0-0 0 1 6Okogie........ 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0Totals .. ..... 52-90 28-32 7-40 28 20 149

FG%: .578, FT%: .875. 3-pt. goals: 17-33,.515 (A.Edwards 1-2, McDaniels 1-3, Towns 7-11, Russell 3-5, Beverley 3-4, Beasley 0-1,Nowell 0-1, Prince 2-6). Team rebounds: 7.Team turnovers: 16 (20 pts.). Blocks: 3 (A.Ed-wards, McDaniels, Beverley). Turnovers: 15(A.Edwards 2, McDaniels, Towns 6, Russell,Beverley, Nowell 3, Knight). Steals: 8 (A.Ed-wards, McDaniels, Towns, Russell 3, Bever-ley, Prince). Technicals: Towns, 6:36/2nd. Fla-grant fouls: Towns, 9:20/3rd.

SAN ANTONIO

FG FT Reb

Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt

Richrdsn ..23 1-3 0-0 0-3 1 1 2K.Johnsn ..37 13-21 3-4 2-8 4 4 34Poeltl ........29 9-12 3-4 2-4 1 5 21Vassell ..... 31 6-12 3-3 1-3 3 0 17Murray.....36 10-20 9-10 0-4 12 4 30Jones ........ 16 1-4 0-0 2-2 7 4 2Walker IV.26 8-12 3-3 0-3 2 1 22Primo........ 17 1-2 1-2 1-3 1 1 3Collins ...... 19 2-7 0-0 1-5 2 3 5Wieskmp ...3 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 1 0Landale ...... 3 1-2 0-0 0-1 0 0 3Totals .. ..... 52-97 22-26 9-36 33 24 139

FG%: .536, FT%: .846. 3-pt. goals: 13-35,.371 (K.Johnson 5-9, Vassell 2-6, Murray 1-5,Jones 0-1, Walker IV 3-5, Primo 0-1, Collins1-4, Wieskamp 0-2, Landale 1-2). Team re-bounds: 8. Team turnovers: 15 (18 pts.).Blocks: 11 (Poeltl 3, Vassell 3, Murray, Collins4). Turnovers: 15 (Richardson 3, Poeltl, Vas-sell 2, Murray 5, Walker IV, Primo, Collins 2).Steals: 5 (Richardson 2, Vassell 2, Murray).Technicals: Collins, 6:52/3rd.

Minnesota ..................40 35 46 28 — 149San Antonio ...............32 41 33 33 — 139

A — 14,143 (18,797). T — 2:26. Officials —Ben Taylor, Tre Maddox, Danielle Scott.

NBAEASTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct. GB Streak Home Conf.

Miami 45 24 .652 — L 1 24-9 29-13*Milwaukee 42 26 .618 2½ L 1 24-12 26-18Philadelphia 41 26 .612 3 L 1 19-15 25-16*Chicago 41 26 .612 3 W 2 25-10 26-17Boston 41 28 .594 4 L 1 24-12 30-16Cleveland 39 29 .574 5½ W 1 21-11 23-18

*Toronto 37 30 .552 7 W 3 17-15 23-19Brooklyn 35 33 .515 9½ W 3 14-18 25-18Atlanta 34 34 .500 10½ W 3 22-13 21-22Charlotte 34 35 .493 11 W 2 16-17 21-22

*Washington 29 37 .439 14½ L 3 17-17 22-21New York 28 40 .412 16½ L 2 13-19 14-26Indiana 23 46 .333 22 L 1 15-19 11-34Detroit 18 50 .265 26½ L 3 11-23 14-27Orlando 18 51 .261 27 L 1 8-24 10-33

WESTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct. GB Streak Home Conf.

p-Phoenix 54 14 .794 — W 1 29-8 31-9Memphis 47 22 .681 7½ W 3 24-10 31-14*Golden State 46 22 .676 8 W 3 28-7 28-16*Utah 42 25 .627 11½ W 1 24-10 28-15Dallas 42 26 .618 12 W 2 23-12 30-15Denver 41 28 .594 13½ W 1 20-13 25-19

Minnesota 39 30 .565 15½ W 1 22-12 26-18LA Clippers 36 35 .507 19½ L 1 20-14 21-24*LA Lakers 29 38 .433 24½ L 1 20-16 16-26New Orleans 28 40 .412 26 W 1 16-19 19-22

Portland 26 41 .388 27½ L 1 17-18 11-30San Antonio 26 42 .382 28 L 1 13-21 16-22*Sacramento 24 45 .348 30½ L 4 15-20 17-28Okla. City 20 48 .294 34 L 6 9-26 14-30Houston 17 51 .250 37 L 2 10-22 9-34* — Not including late gamep — Clinched playoff berth

THE PLAYOFF FORMAT

The top six teams in each conference qualify; the next four teams will partici-pate in a play-in tournament at the end of the regular season.

MONDAY’S RESULTS

At Cleveland 120 LA Clippers 111 (OT) Washington at Golden St.

At Atlanta 122 Portland 113 Chicago at Sacramento

Denver 114 at Philadelphia 110 Milwaukee at Utah

Charlotte 134 at Okla. City 116 Toronto at LA Lakers

Minnesota 149 at San Antonio 139

TUESDAY’S GAMES

Memphis at Indiana 7 Detroit at Miami 7:30

Brooklyn at Orlando 7 Phoenix at New Orleans 8

SUNDAY’S RESULTS

Dallas 95 at BOSTON 92 At Atlanta 131 Indiana 128

At Brooklyn 110 New York 107 At New Orleans 130 Houston 105

LA Clippers 106 at Detroit 102 Memphis 125 at Okla. City 118

Philadelphia 116 at Orlando 114 (OT) At Phoenix 140 LA Lakers 111

CAVALIERS 120, CLIPPERS 111

LA CLIPPERS

FG FT Reb

Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt

Batum... 33 2-8 0-0 0-4 6 1 6Coffey... 40 7-20 1-2 1-3 2 4 19Zubac.... 36 10-15 4-4 7-14 4 6 24Kennard 40 5-12 3-3 0-2 4 4 14Mann..... 45 7-21 2-4 1-10 4 3 18Hrtnstn . 20 5-5 0-0 2-6 3 3 10Boston .. 21 4-11 1-1 0-0 3 1 11Hood ..... 11 0-2 0-0 1-1 2 2 0Ojeleye . 20 3-4 2-3 0-3 1 0 9Totals .... 43-98 13-17 12-43 29 24 111

FG%: .439, FT%: .765. 3-pt. goals: 12-36, .333 (Batum 2-7, Coffey 4-11, Ken-nard 1-5, Mann 2-7, Boston Jr. 2-4,Hood 0-1, Ojeleye 1-1). Team re-bounds: 9. Team turnovers: 11 (9 pts.).Blocks: 8 (Batum, Coffey, Zubac 2,Mann 2, Hartenstein, Ojeleye). Turn-overs: 10 (Batum 3, Zubac 3, Kennard,Hartenstein, Hood, Ojeleye). Steals: 5(Batum 2, Kennard, Mann, Harten-stein).LA Clippers ....... 27 30 24 25 5 — 111Cleveland .......... 33 23 31 19 14 — 120

A — 18,742 (20,562). T — 2:30. Offi-cials — Tiven, Ervin, Nansel.

CLEVELAND

FG FT Reb

Min M-A M-A O-T A F Pt

Stevens. 13 2-5 0-0 0-4 1 4 5Mrkknn. 46 5-9 3-4 1-9 1 2 17Mobley . 40 13-22 3-6 3-6 1 1 30Okoro.... 39 4-6 11-13 1-5 5 4 20Garland. 46 8-21 4-4 0-2 13 2 24Davis....... 6 0-0 0-0 1-1 1 0 0LeVert... 25 5-10 0-0 2-7 3 2 11Love ...... 18 4-11 2-3 2-9 0 2 13Godwin. 12 0-0 0-0 0-1 1 0 0Osman.... 8 0-0 0-2 0-0 1 0 0Windler. 12 0-2 0-0 2-5 1 2 0Totals .... 41-86 23-32 12-49 28 19 120

FG%: .477, FT%: .719. 3-pt. goals: 15-30, .500 (Stevens 1-1, Markkanen 4-6,Mobley 1-3, Okoro 1-1, Garland 4-9, Le-Vert 1-2, Love 3-6, Windler 0-2). Teamrebounds: 12. Team turnovers: 12 (15pts.). Blocks: 4 (Mobley 2, Okoro,Goodwin). Turnovers: 11 (Stevens,Markkanen, Mobley, Okoro, Garland 3,Love 3, Goodwin). Steals: 7 (Mark-kanen, Mobley 2, Okoro, Garland,Goodwin, Windler).

C6 Sports T h e B o s t o n G l o b e TUE SDAY, MARCH 1 5 , 2 0 2 2

Start times for second games at sites are approximate

FIRST FOUR (PLAY-IN GAMES)Dayton, Ohio

16 Texas A&M-CC (23-11)

16 Texas So. (18-12)

Tuesday, 6:40 p.m.

Midwest

12 Indiana (20-13)

12 Wyoming (25-8)

Tuesday, 9:10 p.m.

East

16 Bryant (22-9)

16 Wright St. (21-13)

Wednesday, 6:40 p.m.

South

11 Notre Dame (22-10)

11 Rutgers (18-13)

Wednesday, 9:10 p.m.

West

1 Gonzaga (26-3)

16 Georgia St. (18-10)

Thursday, 4:15 p.m.

8 Boise St. (27-7)

9 Memphis (21-10)

Thursday, 1:45 p.m.

FIRST ROUNDSeed/team

1 Arizona (31-3)

16 Wright St./Bryant

Friday, 7:27 p.m.

8 Seton Hall (21-10)

9 TCU (20-12)

Friday, 9:57 p.m.

5 Houston (29-5)

12 UAB (27-7)

Friday, 9:20 p.m.

4 Illinois (22-9)

13 Chattanooga (27-7)

Friday, 6:50 p.m.

6 Colorado St. (25-5)

11 Michigan (17-14)

Thursday, 12:15 p.m.

3 Tennessee (26-7)

14 Longwood (26-6)

Thursday, 2:45 p.m.

7 Ohio St. (19-11)

10 Loyola Chicago (25-7)

Friday, 12:15 p.m.

2 Villanova (26-7)

15 Delaware (22-12)

Friday, 2:45 p.m.

1 Kansas (28-6)

16 Texas So./Texas A&M CC

Thursday, 9:57 p.m.

8 San Diego St. (23-8)

9 Creighton (22-11)

Thursday, 7:27 p.m.

5 Iowa (26-9)

12 Richmond (23-12)

Thursday, 3:10 p.m.

4 Providence (25-5)

13 South Dakota St. (30-4)

Thursday, 12:40 p.m.

6 LSU (22-11)

11 Iowa St. (20-12)

Friday, 7:20 p.m.

3 Wisconsin (24-7)

14 Colgate (23-11)

Friday, 9:50 p.m.

7 USC (26-7)

10 Miami (23-10)

Friday, 3:10 p.m.

2 Auburn (27-5)

15 Jacksonville St. (21-10)

Friday, 12:40 p.m.

5 UConn (23-9)

12 New Mexico St. (26-6)

Thursday, 6:50 p.m.

4 Arkansas (25-8)

13 Vermont (28-5)

Thursday, 9:20 p.m.

6 Alabama (19-13)

11 Rutgers/Notre Dame

Friday, 4:15 p.m.

3 Texas Tech (25-9)

14 Montana St. (27-7)

Friday, 1:45 p.m.

7 Michigan St. (22-12)

10 Davidson (27-6)

Friday, 9:40 p.m.

2 Duke (28-6)

15 Cal St. Fullerton (21-10)

Friday, 7:10 p.m.

1 Baylor (26-6)

16 Norfolk St. (24-6)

Thursday, 2 p.m.

8 North Carolina (24-9)

9 Marquette (19-12)

Thursday, 4:30 p.m.

5 Saint Mary’s (25-7)

12 Wyoming/Indiana

Thursday, 7:20 p.m.

4 UCLA (25-7)

13 Akron (24-9)

Thursday, 9:50 p.m.

6 Texas (21-11)

11 Virginia Tech (23-12)

Friday, 4:30 p.m.

3 Purdue (27-7)

14 Yale (19-11)

Friday, 2 p.m.

7 Murray St. (30-2)

10 San Francisco (24-9)

Thursday, 9:40 p.m.

2 Kentucky (26-7)

15 Saint Peter’s (19-11)

Thursday, 7:10 p.m.

FIRST ROUNDSeed/team

SECOND ROUND REGIONALS REGIONALS SECOND ROUND

West

San Francisco

East

Philadelphia

South

San Antonio

Midwest

Chicago

REGIONAL FINALS REGIONAL FINALS

NCAA

men’s bracketPortland, Ore.March 19

BuffaloMarch 19

San DiegoMarch 20

Greenville, S.C.March 20

Fort WorthMarch 19

Portland, Ore.March 19

MilwaukeeMarch 20

IndianapolisMarch 19

San DiegoMarch 20

PittsburghMarch 20

IndianapolisMarch 19

PittsburghMarch 20

Fort WorthMarch 19

BuffaloMarch 19

MilwaukeeMarch 20

Greenville, S.C.March 20

New Orleans

SEMIFINALSAND FINALS

NCAA MEN’S BASKETBALL

By Trevor HassBOSTON.COM STAFF

As the celebration he had envisioned count-

less times unfolded around him, Ed Cooley felt a

sense of nostalgia.

After clinching the Big East regular-season ti-

tle with a win over Creighton Feb. 26, the Provi-

dence men’s basketball coach took a moment to

detach himself from the chaos and reflect on the

days when he would sneak in through the back

door to catch PC games as a kid. The lifelong Fri-

ar fan couldn’t help but beam at how far the pro-

gram has come.

“Wow,” he thought to himself. “Anything’s

possible.”

“I wasn’t standing there as the coach,” Cooley

said. “I was standing there as the young boy who

had a dream and a vision to one day be part of

something.”

The Friars (25-5, 14-3) are at the tail end of

one of the most historic seasons in program his-

tory. They’ve made deep runs in March before,

but they’ve never pieced together a regular sea-

son quite like this one. Picked to finish seventh

in the conference’s preseason poll, they relied on

a savvy, senior-laden group.

“I felt like that was a slap in the face,” gradu-

ate transfer Al Durham said. “They didn’t re-

spect us or respect our team, so it created a fire

for us to prove that we’re supposed to be where

we are today.”

Despite losing in the Big East tournament

semifinals, Providence enters the NCAA Tourna-

ment as a No. 4 seed. The Friars play No. 13

South Dakota State Thursday at 12:40 p.m. in

Buffalo.

Whatmade this season different? Here’s what

the players had to say.

Nucleus largely stayed intact

Back in ninth grade, when Roxbury’s A.J.

Reeves first met Cooley, he was struck by the

coach’s sincerity and earnestness right away. Fol-

lowing a standout career at Brimmer and May,

Reeves had lofty goals when he arrived at Provi-

dence as the No. 6 shooting guard in his class.

While the 6-foot-6-inch Reeves flashed his po-

tential, the Friars were stuck in themiddle of the

pack in his first season, finishing 18-16 overall

and 7-11 in the Big East in 2018-19. A slight im-

provement to 19-12, 12-6 came before COVID-

19 took away the 2020 NCAA Tournament, and

last year, the team took a step back at 13-13, 9-

10.

Reeves was well aware of how the transfer

portal can change fortunes, but he chose to stay.

He believed in the connections he had built.

He wasn’t the only player to make that deci-

sion.

Nate Watson and Noah Horchler elected to

stay another year after graduating, and senior

Ed Croswell and redshirt junior Jared Bynum al-

so came back.

And it all worked out: Watson led PC in scor-

ing, averaging 13.8 points per game. Bynumcon-

tributed 12.7 and Reeves 10.

“I felt like we had unfinished business here,”

Reeves said. “I didn’t want to leave on a sour

taste. I felt like we could do something special.”

New faceswho fit their style

To complement that deep core, Providence

added two key grad transfers — Durham from

Indiana and JustinMinaya from South Carolina.

Cooleywanted players whowere older, battle-

tested, and tough, and Durham and Minaya fit

those criteria perfectly. Assistant coach Ivan

Thomas had recruited Durham out of high

school, and the Friars had a relationshipwith the

staff at South Carolina.

Durham is Providence’s second-leading scor-

er, contributing 13.4 points per gamewhile lead-

ing the team inminutes. He called it a “no-brain-

er” to come to Providence and said it “felt like

home” right away.

Minaya is another key part of the rotation,

contributing nearly six rebounds per game while

eating upminutes. The fit made complete sense.

“It felt natural,” Reeves said. “It didn’t feel

forced. It didn’t feel like anybody had an ego. Ev-

erybody just wanted to go out as a winner. They

came in, and it was just instant stars and sparks.

“We knew we had something. You could see

early on that we jelled together.”

The art of winning close games

Providence finished 10-1 in nonconference

play, and six of the 10 wins came by 11 points or

fewer. The Friars established themselves early on

as a team that thrives under pressure.

Cooley compiled a chart with 74 late-game

scenarios: 15 seconds left, down 3, with one free

throw remaining; 40 seconds left, up 3, sideline

out; you name it. The team’s experience meant

the learning curve wasn’t as steep, and they

could handle the prep work.

Quickly, those late-game situations came into

play, and it was a trend that couldn’t be ignored.

Providence opened conference play with a 4-

point win over Connecticut, and followed it up

with a 5-point win over SetonHall.

Of the 14 conference wins, 11 came by 10

points or fewer. There was the 3-point OT win

over DePaul. A 1-point victory over Butler. And a

triple-overtime thriller against Xavier, a 7-point

victory. And then came the chance to clinch their

first Big East regular-season title, against Creigh-

ton on Senior Night.

The Friars played one of their best games of

the season en route to a 72-51 win. They had to

wait a few extra minutes when a beer spilled on

the court, but they had waited decades, so they

didn’t mind the brief holdup.

The celebration matched the mood, as fans

stormed the court, players hugged one another,

and Cooley was bathed in Gatorade.

“It’s something that we’ll remember here for

years,” Durham said.

After Big East breakthrough,Providence’s sights set higher

By Doug FergusonASSOCIATED PRESS

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla.

— Cameron Smith made the lon-

gest week at The Players Cham-

pionship worth the wait.

In a dynamic conclusion to

five days of bad weather and

high drama, Smith one-putted

eight of his last nine holes with

his pure stroke and delivered one

of the gutsiest shots of his career

for the cushion he needed to

win.

Leading by two on the par-3

17th hole, 135 yards to the hole

on an island green, Smith split

the difference in the 12 feet that

separated the flag from the wa-

ter. The ball ended up 4 feet

away and the Australian made

his record-tying 10th birdie of

the round.

Turns out he needed it. Smith

punched out from the pine straw

right of the 18th fairway all the

way into the water. After a penal-

ty drop, his 60-yard wedge spun

next to the hole to 3 feet for a bo-

gey and a 6-under-par 66, giving

him a one-shot victory over Anir-

ban Lahiri of India.

Lahiri, who started the final

round with a one-shot lead, bird-

ied the 17th and needed one

more to force a playoff. He came

up short of the green, and his

pitch was below the cup all the

way. He closed with a 69.

Paul Casey shot 69 and was

the victim of a horrible break on

the 16th hole when hewas in po-

sition to edge closer to the lead.

Smith, who finished at 13-un-

der 275, won for the second time

this year, and the fifth time in his

PGA Tour career, and picked up

$3.6 million from the $20 mil-

lion purse, the richest in golf.

This was about more than

money, more than the three-year

exemption he earned to the four

majors and a five-year exemp-

tion on the PGA Tour.

This was asmuch about fami-

ly. Smith, so unflappable in the

tense pressure that featured 26

holes on Monday, choked up

when he talked about his mother

and sister, whom he had not

seen in more than two years be-

cause of travel restrictions Down

Under during the pandemic.

Smith makes his home down

the road in Jacksonville Beach,

and he happily went to the air-

port this week for a special re-

union.

They watched him capture

the biggest prize in golf next to

themajors.

“It’s really cool to have them

here,” Smith said. “My main pri-

ority was to hang out with them.

Golf was second. It’s nice to see

them and nice to get a win for

them.”

Lahiri’s only big mistake was

a tee shot into a palmetto bush

on the par-3 eighth, forcing him

to take a drop near the conces-

sion area that led to double bo-

gey. It was the only shot he

dropped all day, and his best fin-

ish on the PGA Tour came with a

$2.18million consolation prize.

Casey, meanwhile, was the

victim of bad luck. He was two

shots behind and in the same

group as Smith when he looked

to have a big advantage on the

par-5 16th. Smith duck-hooked

his tee shot into the pines. Casey

drilled his drive down the mid-

dle. But the ball took one last roll

in the rain-soaked fairway, right

into another player’s pitchmark.

Instead of a mid-iron into the

par 5, he had to punch it out

short.

Then, he was inches away

from getting relief from a sprin-

kler head near the green and had

to scramble for par. Smith

punched out to the fairway and

matched the par.

They headed to the 17 th,

where Smith’s 9-iron was bolder

than he wanted.

“I’d be lying if I didn’t push it

a little bit,” he said.

No matter. He got the birdie,

got the win and moved to No. 6

in the world.

So concluded a week like no

other on the TPC Sawgrass,

where so much rain early in the

week meant the first round last-

ed 54 hours and 16minutes, fin-

ishing on Saturdaymorning.

The wind that fo l lowed

wreaked havoc on half the field.

The bone-chilling temperatures

Sunday made it tough on every-

one. It was the first Monday fin-

ish since 2005 at The Players.

Smith made it memorable for so

many other reasons.

Smith survives at PlayersHe one-putts 8of his last 9 holes

LYNNE SLADKY/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Cameron Smith shot a final-round 6-under 66 to win The Players Championship at 13 under.

TUE SDAY, MARCH 1 5 , 2 0 2 2 T h e B o s t o n G l o b e Sports C7

Start times for second games at sites are approximate

FIRST FOUR (PLAY-IN GAMES)

16 Incarnate Word (13-16)

16 Howard (20-9)

Wednesday, 7 p.m., at Columbia, S.C.

Greensboro

11 DePaul (22-10)

11 Dayton (25-5)

Wednesday, 9 p.m., at Ames, Iowa

Greensboro

16 Mt. St. Mary’s (16-12)

16 Longwood (21-11)

Thursday, 7 p.m., at Raleigh, N.C.

Bridgeport

11 Florida St. (17-13)

11 Missouri St. (24-7)

Thursday, 9 p.m., at Baton Rouge, La.

Spokane

1 South Carolina (29-2)

16 Howard/Incarnate Word

Friday, 2 p.m.

8 Miami (20-12)

9 South Florida (24-8)

Friday, 11:30 a.m.

FIRST ROUNDSeed/team

1 Stanford (28-3)

16 Montana St. (22-12)

Friday, 10 p.m.

8 Kansas (20-9)

9 Georgia Tech (21-10)

Friday, 7:30 p.m.

5 Virginia Tech (23-9)

12 Fla. Gulf Coast (29-2)

Friday, 2:30 p.m.

4 Maryland (21-8)

13 Delaware (24-7)

Friday, 5 p.m.

6 Ohio St. (23-6)

11 Missouri St./Florida St.

Saturday, 2:30 p.m.

3 LSU (25-5)

14 Jackson St. (23-6)

Saturday, 5 p.m.

7 Utah (20-11)

10 Arkansas (18-13)

Friday, 5:30 p.m.

2 Texas (26-6)

15 Fairfield (25-6)

Friday, 8 p.m.

1 N.C. State (29-3)

16 Longwood/Mt. St. Mary’s

Saturday, 2 p.m.

8 Washington St. (19-10)

9 Kansas St. (19-12)

Saturday, 11:30 a.m.

5 Notre Dame (22-8)

12 Massachusetts (26-6)

Saturday, 7:30 p.m.

4 Oklahoma (24-8)

13 IUPUI (24-4)

Saturday, 10 p.m.

6 Kentucky (19-11)

11 Princeton (24-4)

Saturday, 4 p.m.

3 Indiana (22-8)

14 Charlotte (22-9)

Saturday, 1:30 p.m.

7 UCF (25-3)

10 Florida (21-10)

Saturday, 3:30 p.m.

2 UConn (25-5)

15 Mercer (23-6)

Saturday, 1 p.m.

5 North Carolina (23-6)

12 Stephen F. Austin (28-4)

Saturday, 7:30 p.m.

4 Arizona (20-7)

13 UNLV (26-6)

Saturday, 10 p.m.

6 Georgia (20-9)

11 Dayton/DePaul

Friday, 7:30 p.m.

3 Iowa St. (26-6)

14 UT Arlington (20-7)

Friday, 10 p.m.

7 Colorado (22-8)

10 Creighton (20-9)

Friday, 1:30 p.m.

2 Iowa (23-7)

15 Illinois St. (19-13)

Friday, 4 p.m.

1 Louisville (25-4)

16 Albany (23-9)

Friday, 6 p.m.

8 Nebraska (24-8)

9 Gonzaga (26-6)

Friday, 3:30 p.m.

5 Oregon (20-11)

12 Belmont (22-7)

Saturday, 5:30 p.m.

4 Tennessee (23-8)

13 Buffalo (25-8)

Saturday, 3 p.m.

6 BYU (26-3)

11 Villanova (23-8)

Saturday, 1 p.m.

3 Michigan (22-6)

14 American (23-8)

Saturday, 3:30 p.m.

7 Mississippi (23-8)

10 South Dakota (27-5)

Friday, 1:30 p.m.

2 Baylor (27-6)

15 Hawaii (20-9)

Friday, 4 p.m.

FIRST ROUNDSeed/team

SECOND ROUND REGIONALS REGIONALS SECOND ROUND

GreensboroGreensboro, N.C.

WichitaWichita, Kan.

SpokaneSpokane, Wash.

BridgeportBridgeport, Conn.

REGIONAL FINALS REGIONAL FINALS

NCAA women’s

bracketColumbia, S.C.March 20

TucsonMarch 21

Ames, IowaMarch 20

Iowa CityMarch 20

Louisville, Ky.March 20

Knoxville, Tenn.March 21

Ann Arbor, Mich.March 21

Waco, TexasMarch 20

Stanford, Calif.March 20

College Park, Md.March 20

Baton Rouge, La.March 21

Austin, TexasMarch 20

Raleigh, N.C.March 21

Norman, Okla.March 21

Bloomington, Ind.March 21

Storrs, Conn.March 21

Minneapolis

SEMIFINALSAND FINALS

Karl-Anthony Towns had a career-high 60

points — the most scored in the NBA this season

— and the Timberwolves outlasted the Spurs,

149-139, at San Antonio Monday night. Towns

shot 19 for 31 and grabbed 17 rebounds in sur-

passing his previous best of 56 points against At-

lanta on March 28, 2018. Lakers star LeBron

James and Hawks point guard Trae Young previ-

ously shared league-high honors this season with

56 points. Minnesota’s 7-foot All-Star capped his

dazzling performance by draining a 3-pointer

with 1:39 remaining.

Nets fined $50k over IrvingThe NBA fined the Brooklyn Nets $50,000 for

letting Kyrie Irving into their locker room during

a game in which he was unable to play because

he is not vaccinated against COVID-19. Irving

was a spectator at Barclays Center on Sunday, sit-

ting across from the Nets bench for Brooklyn’s

110-107 victory over the New York Knicks. There

is no longer a mandate that fans be vaccinated to

enter the arena, but there is still one requiring it

for someone who works there. After the Nets

game ended, he walked off arm-in-armwith Kev-

in Durant, who had scored a season-high 53

points, toward the locker room. The league said

in a statement that the Nets violated New York

City law and league health and safety protocols

by permitting Irving to come into the locker

room. Unlike the stands, the locker room is con-

sidered part of the team’s workplace environ-

ment.

NH L

Leafs’Matthews suspendedNHL leading goal scorer Auston Matthews

will miss the Toronto Maple Leafs’ next two

games after being suspended for cross-checking

Buffalo’s Rasmus Dahlin in the neck. Matthews

retaliated against Dahlin by shoving his stick up-

ward into the Sabres defenseman’s neck late in

theHeritage Classic outdoor game Sunday. Buffa-

lo won, 5-2, to hand Toronto a fourth loss in six

games despite Matthews scoring his 45th goal of

the season. The 24-year-old will forfeit $116,403

in salary as part of the suspension, which the

NHL’s department of player safety announced.

Matthews and Dahlin were each given a two-

minute minor penalty for cross-checking in the

aftermath of the incident. This is Matthews’ first

career suspension.

T E N N I S

Nadal wins,Medvedev slipsRafael Nadal is still perfect in 2022. The Span-

iard defeated 27th-seeded Daniel Evans, 7-5, 6-3,

in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open, im-

proving his record to 17-0 this year in pursuit of

an ATP Tour-leading fourth title. Nadal tied Rog-

er Federer (2018) and Pete Sampras (1997) for

the third-best overall start to a season in the

Open era that began in 1968. Daniil Medvedev’s

rise to No. 1 in the world came crashing down in

a 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 loss to Gael Monfils. Medvedev

needed to reach the quarterfinals in the desert to

stay at the top, where he replaced Novak Djok-

ovic. “Is it better to be No. 1 for let’s say one week

in your life or never touch it?” Medvedev said.

“You know, I think it’s still better to at least touch

it.” Djokovic will reclaim the No. 1 ranking next

week. The Serb is unvaccinated, so he wasn’t al-

lowed to enter the United States to play at Indian

Wells or the upcomingMiami Open.

S K I I N G

Shiffrin readies for Cup duelWarming up to their duel this week for Alpine

skiing’s World Cup overall title,Mikaela Shiffrin

was faster than Petra Vlhova in downhill train-

ing. The downhills onWednesday are the first of

the four-raceWorld Cup Finalsmeeting for wom-

en and men to decide the giant crystal globe tro-

phies that are the sport’smost coveted prize. Shif-

frin, a three-time overall winner, has a narrow

56-point lead over defending champion Vlhova

with a maximum 400 to be won this week. Both

have rarely raced downhill this season and nei-

ther has a top-15 finish — the level needed to

score at the finals. Race winners get 100 points,

16 are awarded for 15th place. Shiffrin has the

stronger track record in super-G that is raced on

Thursday, also at Courchevel before moving to

nearby Meribel for technical disciplines. Vlhova

has been the standout in slalom, scheduled on

Saturday, and locked up that discipline title in

January before also taking gold at the Olympics.

The season-ending giant slalomon Sunday is per-

haps the toughest discipline to call. Shiffrin

placed 18th at the Olympics onemonth ago.

SportsLog

Timberwolves star Towns scoresseason-best 60 in win over Spurs

NCAA WOMEN’S TOURNAMENT

By Greg LevinskyGLOBE CORRESPONDENT

With the first-round matchups set for the

NCAA Division 1 women’s basketball tournament,

there are plenty of players with local ties set to

compete.

Representing a range of teams, from top seeds

to one-bid conference champions, here are 10

players withMassachusetts ties to watch.

1. Aliyah Boston, South Carolina

One of the best players in the nation and the

two-time reigning Lisa Leslie Center of the Year,

Boston is averaging 16.8 points, 12.0 rebounds,

and 2.6 blocks per game. The 6-foot-5-inch for-

ward lived with her aunt inWorcester duringmid-

dle and high school, which played an important

role in her basketball exposure and her path to

stardom at South Carolina.

The top overall seed Gamecocks (29-2) will play

Friday against the winner of the First Four game

between Howard and IncarnateWord.

2. Araion Bradshaw, Dayton

The Boston native prepped at Thayer Academy

before starting her career at South Carolina. The

5-6 guard transferred to Dayton after a season. A

three-time Atlantic 10 All-Defensive pick and the

2020-21 conference Player of the Year, Bradshaw

is averaging 6.1 points and 5.2 rebounds per

game.

No. 11 seed Dayton (25-5) plays No. 6 seed De-

Paul in the First FourWednesday.

3. Katie Benzan, Maryland

Benzan, a Wellesley native and Noble &

Greenough graduate, played her first three colle-

giate seasons close to home, at Harvard. She trans-

ferred to Maryland last year and played an extra

year of eligibility granted to all student-athletes

because of the pandemic.

The 5-6 guard is averaging 10.5 points and 3.9

assists per game for the No. 4 seed Terrapins

(21-8), who play No. 13 seed Delaware Friday.

4. Sam Breen, UMass

The Atlantic 10 Player of the Year, Breen led the

Minutewomen in scoring (16.9) and rebounds

(10.3). The 6-1 graduate student is a semifinalist

for the Becky Hammond Mid-Major Player of the

Year award.

No. 12 seed UMass (26-6) plays No. 5 seed

Notre Dame Saturday.

5. Caroline Ducharme, UConn

AMilton native andNoble &Greenough gradu-

ate, Ducharme carved out an important role in her

first year with the Huskies, garnering All-Big East

Second Team and All-Big East Freshman honors.

The 6-2 guard is averaging 11.2 points and 3.6 re-

bounds per game

The No. 2 seed Huskies (25-5) play No. 15 seed

Mercer Saturday.

6. Grace Heeps, Albany

The 5-11 junior guard, a Northfield Mount

Hermon graduate, spent her freshman season at

UMass before transferring to Albany. Heeps has

started in all but one of her 49 appearances with

the America East champion Great Danes (23-9), a

No. 16 seed, who play No. 1 seed Louisville Friday.

7. Brianna Herlihy, Villanova

Herlihy won twoMIAA state championships at

Braintree before starting her Villanova career. The

6-foot forward is averaging 10.9 points and 8.2 re-

bounds as a sixth-year grad student for the No. 11

seedWildcats (23-8), who playNo. 6 seed BYU Sat-

urday.

8. Sydney Lowery, Fairfield

After playing three seasons at Boston College,

the 5-10 guard opted out of the 2020-21 season be-

fore enrolling at Fairfield as a graduate transfer.

Lowery averages 9.3 points and 3.6 rebounds per

game for the No. 15 seed Stags (25-6), who play

No. 2 seed Texas Saturday.

9. Masseny Kaba, Central Florida

A Dorchester native and Cathedral graduate,

Kaba is a fifth-year member of the Knights. The

6-3 forward averages 9.8 points and 5.9 rebounds

per game. Central Florida (25-3), a No. 7 seed,

plays No. 10 seed Florida Saturday.

10. Vanessa Udoji, Howard

The Randolph native and Northfield Mount

Hermon graduate, a 5-10 forward, transferred to

Howard as a graduate student after starting her

career at Quinnipiac. The No. 16 seed Bison (20-9)

play fellowNo. 16 seed IncarnateWord in the First

FourWednesday.

SpottingMass. ties in this field

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The Nets might not be laughing after a $50k

fine from the NBA over Kyrie Irving (right).

C8 Sports T h e B o s t o n G l o b e TUE SDAY, MARCH 1 5 , 2 0 2 2

TransactionsBaseball

Baltimore: Signed C Robinson Chiri-nos on a one-year contract.Chi. White Sox: Signed P Vince Ve-

lasquez on a one-year contract. SignedP Joe Kelly on a two-year contract.NY Yankees: Placed P Zack Britton

on the 60-day IL.Seattle: Signed LHPs Kyle Bird,

Roenis Elias, RHPs Matt Festa, AsherWojciechowski, Patrick Weigel and INFErick Mejia on minor league contracts.Toronto: Named Casey Candaele

field manager for Buffalo (Triple-AEast), Cesar Martin field manager forNew Hampshire (Double-A Northeast),Brent Lavalee field manager for Van-couver (High-A West), Donnie Murphyfield manager for Dunedin (Low-ASoutheast), JoseMayorga field manag-er for Florida Complex League and An-dy Fermin field manager for DominicanSummer League.San Francisco: Signed P Jakob Junis

on a one-year contract. Signed P Car-los Rodon on a two-year contract.Washington: Signed RHPs Victor

Arano, Cade Cavalli, Carl Edwards Jr.,Jefry Rodriguez, Jackson Rutledge, Jor-dan Weems, LHPs Luis Avilan, AlbertoBaldonado, Matt Cronin, Cs TaylorGushue, Chris Herrmann, Drew Millas,Israel Pineda, INFs Jackson Cluff, Mai-kel Franco, Jake Noll, Adrian Sanchez,Dee Strange-Gordon, Richard Urena,Andrew Young and OF Gerardo Parraon minor league contracts.

NFLArizona: Signed RB James Conner on

a three-year contract.Carolina: Released CB A.J. Bouye and

DL Morgan Fox.Chicago: Signed DT Larry Obunjobi

to a three-year contract.Cincinnati: Signed G Alex Cappa to a

four-year contract. Signed OL Ted Kar-ras to a three-year contract.Cleveland: Released WR Jarvis Lan-

dry.Detroit: Re-signed LB Alex Anzalone,

Ss Jalen Elliott, C.J. Moore and LBShaun Dion Hamilton. Signed S TracyWalker to a three-year contract.Green Bay: Released LB Za'Darius

Smith and G/T Billy Turner. Signed LBPreston Smith to a contract extension.Houston: Re-signed TE Anthony Au-

clair.Jacksonville: Signed LB Foyesade

Oluokun to a three-year contract.Signed G Brandon Scherff to a con-tract.LA Rams: Re-signed OL Joseph

Motebloom to a three-year contract.Miami: Signed RB Chase Edmonds

on a two-year contract. Re-signed DEEmmanuel Ogbah to a four-year con-tract.New England: Re-signed WR Mat-

thew Slater to a contract.NY Giants: Signed WR Robert Foster

to a contract. Re-signedWR C.J. Board.Pittsburgh: Signed QB Mitchell

Trubisky to a two-year contract.Seattle: Signed S Quandre Diggs on

a three-year contract extension. Re-signed CB Sidney Jones to a one-yearcontract.Tennessee: Re-signed TE Geoff

Swaim to a one-year contract. Re-signed C Ben Jones to a two-year con-tract.

NHLArizona: Reassigned RW Hudson

Fasching to Tucson (AHL). PromotedLW Michael Carcone from Tucson.Boston: Signed D Micahel Callahan

on a two-year, entry-level contract.Carolina: Reassigned D Jalen Chat-

field to Chicago (AHL).Dallas: Reinstated D Andrej Sekera

from injured reserve.San Jose: Recalled LW John Leonard

from San Jose (AHL).Tampa Bay: Recalled F Boris Ka-

tchouk from Syracuse (AHL).AHL

Grand Rapids: Recalled LW PatrickCurry from Toledo (ECHL) and as-signed LW Hayden Verbeek to Toledo.Milwaukee: Reassigned RW Zach So-

low to Florida (ECHL) on loan.Providence: Reassigned G Jeremy

Brodeur to Maine (ECHL) on loan. Re-leased D Zach Malatesta from a pro-fessional tryout contract (PTO).Stockton: Recalled D Greg Moro

from Kansas City (ECHL) from loan.NWSL

Portland: Re-signed F Sophia Smithto a three-year contract.

Ski conditionsNEW HAMPSHIRE

Attitash — machine groomed, - new,21-21 base, 43-68 trails, 5-9 liftsBlack — variable conditions, 3-0 new,12-22 base, 23-45 trails, 3-5 liftsBretton Woods— powder, - new, 18-30base, 61-98 trails, 5-10 liftsCannon—packed powder, - new, 16-58base, 71-97 trails, 6-11 liftsCranmore—packed powder, - new, 18-22 base, 44-57 trails, 3-7 liftsCrotched — machine groomed, - new,30-30 base, 22-26 trails, 3-5 liftsDartmouth Sk iway — machinegroomed, - new, 25-25 base, 7-28 trails,4-4 liftsGunstock — machine groomed, - new,52-55 base, 40-48 trails, 7-7 liftsKing Pine — machine groomed, - new,18-30 base, 17-17 trails, 4-5 liftsLoon—machine groomed, 0-0 new, 32-41 base, 49-61 trails, 8-10 liftsMcIntyre — machine groomed, - new,20-42 base, 9-11 trails, 4-4 liftsMount Sunapee—machine groomed, -new, 33-33 base, 51-66 trails, 8-10 liftsPats Peak — machine groomed, - new,18-32 base, 28-28 trails, 4-11 liftsRagged — machine groomed, 0-0 new,20-32 base, 29-57 trails, 5-5 liftsWaterville Valley—machine groomed,- new, 20-30 base, 61-61 trails, 6-12 liftsWildcat — variable conditions, - new,12-12 base, 26-48 trails, 3-5 lifts

VERMONTBolton Valley — powder, - new, 12-18base, 50-71 trails, 5-6 liftsBromley — machine groomed, - new,20-28 base, 39-47 trails, 2-9 liftsBurke—powder, - new, 12-25 base, 35-50 trails, 4-4 liftsJay Peak — powder, 3- new, 20-42base, 78-81 trails, 9-9 liftsKillington — machine groomed, 0-0new, 30-30 base, 140-155 trails, 20-22liftsMad River Glen — packed powder, -new, 6-14 base, 60-60 trails, 3-5 lifts

Latest lineSports Betting LineCollege Basketball

TuesdayFavorite Line UnderdogAt Texas Sthern...3½ ....Texas A&M-CcAt Oklahoma............6 ...Missouri St.AteAt Vcu.......................6 .............PrincetonAt Vanderbilt...........4 ................BelmontAt N. Texas..............9 ..............Texas St.At Xavier................12 ..............Cleve. St.At Utah State...........5 .................OregonAt Texas A&M.......20 ...................AlcornIndiana......................4 ........At WyomingAt Colorado..............4 ......................SaintAt Wash. State........3 ..........Santa Clara

NBATuesday

Favorite Line UnderdogAt Indiana.........OFF ..............MemphisBrooklyn..............10½ ...........At OrlandoAt Miami...........OFF ..................DetroitAt NOLA............OFF ................Phoenix

NHLTuesday

Favorite Line Underdog LineAt Montreal....-164 Arizona..........+136At Wshngton..-162 N.Y.......... IslandersAt N.Y Rngrs.. -220 Anaheim........+180At Toronto......-150 Dallas.............+126At Winnipeg....OFF Las Vegas........OFFPittsburgh.......-114 At Nashville....-105Boston.............-174 At Chicago....+147At Edmonton..-284 Detroit............+229At Vancouver.-162 New Jersey....+134Colorado.........-205 At LA..............+168Florida.............-230 At San Jose...+188

AHLEASTERN CONFERENCEAtlantic DivisionW L OL SL Pts. GF GA

Springfield.... 31 17 5 2 69 176 171Providence ... 28 17 3 3 62 160 140Hartford ........ 27 18 5 2 61 155 151Charlotte....... 31 22 4 0 66 193 170Hershey......... 29 21 4 3 65 164 153WB/Scran. .... 25 23 4 4 58 153 172Bridgeport .... 23 25 5 4 55 159 173Lehigh Val. ... 20 25 7 3 50 144 178

North DivisionUtica .............. 34 12 6 0 74 186 142Toronto ......... 26 20 3 1 56 170 169Belleville ....... 27 22 1 0 55 157 156Laval.............. 26 21 3 0 55 164 166Rochester ..... 28 23 4 2 62 188 207Syracuse....... 25 21 6 2 58 161 175Cleveland...... 21 23 6 4 52 150 181

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

Chicago......... 34 10 5 5 78 178 137Manitoba ...... 30 17 2 2 64 159 141Milwaukee.... 30 21 4 3 67 173 172Gr. Rapids..... 25 23 5 2 57 149 160Rockford ....... 23 23 3 1 50 142 160Iowa............... 23 24 5 2 53 149 158Texas............. 21 22 5 5 52 162 176

Pacific DivisionStockton........ 34 9 4 1 73 174 128Ontario.......... 33 11 4 3 73 203 158Colorado ....... 29 17 4 3 65 178 154Bakersfield ... 24 15 4 5 57 155 143Abbotsford ... 26 19 3 1 56 164 144Henderson.... 24 20 3 1 52 145 145San Diego ..... 21 25 2 0 44 140 154Tucson........... 17 27 4 1 39 130 194San Jose........ 18 29 2 1 39 157 210

NOTE: Two points are awarded for awin, one point for an overtime or shoo-tout loss. Top four teams in each divi-sion advance to playoffs.

SUNDAY'S GAMESCleveland 4.............................Rockford 1Bridgeport 3.......................Providence 0WB/Scranton 4.......................Hartford 2Grand Rapids 2........................Chicago 1Henderson 6.................................. Iowa 1Hershey 2........................Lehigh Valley 0Syracuse 4............................Rochester 3Abbotsford 5..........................Colorado 4

MONDAY'S GAMESBakersfield at Stockton....................9:30

TUESDAY'S GAMESRockford at Cleveland...........................7Utica at Belleville....................................7Manitoba at Abbotsford......................10

WEDNESDAY'S GAMESHartford at Syracuse.............................7Texas at Grand Rapids..........................7Bridgeport at Springfield.................7:05Milwaukee at Chicago...........................8San Jose at Tucson...........................8:30Bakersfield at Stockton....................9:30Henderson at San Diego.....................10Manitoba at Abbotsford......................10

THURSDAY'S GAMESHershey at Toronto...........................1:30Providence at Charlotte........................7

PGA

PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP

At TPC Sawgrass,Yardage: 7,256; par: 72

Cameron Smith...69-71-69-66–275 -13Anirban Lahiri.....67-73-67-69–276 -12Paul Casey...........70-69-69-69–277 -11Kevin Kisner........68-74-68-68–278 -10Keegan Bradley..72-71-68-68–279 -9Doug Ghim...........70-70-68-72–280 -8Russell Knox........71-71-68-70–280 -8Harold Varner III 69-69-72-70–280 -8Adam Hadwin.....72-72-70-67–281 -7Viktor Hovland....71-73-68-69–281 -7Dustin Johnson...69-73-76-63–281 -7Sepp Straka.........69-74-71-67–281 -7Daniel Berger......67-75-70-70–282 -6Tyrrell Hatton.....70-73-69-70–282 -6Russell Henley....69-73-72-68–282 -6Max Homa...........72-73-71-66–282 -6Shane Lowry.......73-70-67-72–282 -6Keith Mitchell......67-72-74-69–282 -6Taylor Pendrith...68-71-74-69–282 -6Brendan Steele...73-69-69-71–282 -6Erik van Rooyen.71-67-74-70–282 -6Tommy Fltwd......66-73-72-72–283 -5Patton Kizzire.....68-76-72-67–283 -5Joaquin Niemann67-73-73-70–283 -5Kevin Streelman.73-71-66-73–283 -5Sam Burns...........68-69-71-76–284 -4Corey Conners....70-69-75-70–284 -4Sergio Garcia......71-71-71-71–284 -4Alex Noren...........69-75-71-69–284 -4Doc Redman........71-70-72-71–284 -4Patrick Reed........73-70-68-73–284 -4Will Zalatoris.......69-71-70-74–284 -4Abraham Ancer..68-71-74-72–285 -3Joel Dahmen........70-71-71-73–285 -3Tom Hoge............66-71-72-76–285 -3Rory McIlroy........73-73-73-66–285 -3Sebastian Munoz70-73-65-77–285 -3Pat Perez.............70-72-75-68–285 -3Ian Poulter...........73-70-71-71–285 -3Seamus Power....71-71-73-70–285 -3Justin Thomas.....72-69-72-72–285 -3Kramer Hickok....67-75-71-73–286 -2

Soccer

MLS STANDINGS

EASTERN CONFERENCEGP W D L Pts.

Columbus .................. 3 2 1 0 7Philadelphia.............. 3 2 1 0 7NY Red Bulls ............. 3 2 0 1 6D.C. United................ 3 2 0 1 6Atlanta ....................... 3 2 0 1 6Chicago...................... 3 1 2 0 5NYCFC........................ 3 1 1 1 4Orlando...................... 3 1 1 1 4New England ............ 3 1 1 1 4FC Cincinnati ............ 3 1 0 2 3Toronto FC ................ 3 0 1 2 1Inter Miami CF ......... 3 0 1 2 1Charlotte FC.............. 3 0 0 3 0CF Montreal .............. 3 0 0 3 0

WESTERN CONFERENCEGP W D L Pts.

LAFC........................... 3 2 1 0 7Real Salt Lake........... 3 2 1 0 7Austin......................... 3 2 0 1 6Colorado.................... 3 2 0 1 6LA Galaxy .................. 3 2 0 1 6Portland..................... 3 1 2 0 5Minnesota ................. 3 1 2 0 5FC Dallas.................... 3 1 1 1 4Houston ..................... 3 1 1 1 4Nashville SC.............. 3 1 1 1 4Seattle........................ 3 1 0 2 3Sporting KC............... 3 1 0 2 3San Jose..................... 3 0 1 2 1Vancouver................. 3 0 1 2 1

SUNDAY’S RESULTSAt Atlanta 2......................Charlotte FC 1Minnesota 1................at NY Red Bulls 0

REVOLUTION SCHEDULE

MARCHDate Opponent Time

Sat., 5 FC Dallas..........................1:30Sat., 12 Real Salt Lake.................7:30Sat., 19 at Charlotte FC....................7

APRILSat., 2 NY Red Bulls ...................7:30Sat., 9 at Inter Miami CF ...............3Sat., 16 Charlotte FC....................7:30Sat., 23 at D.C. United .................7:30Sat., 30 Inter Miami CF ...............7:30

MAYSat., 7 Columbus ........................7:30Sun., 15 at Atlanta .............................2Sat., 21 at FC Cincinnati ..................6Sat., 28 Philadelphia....................7:30

JUNESun., 12 at Sporting KC.....................3Wed., 15 Orlando............................7:30Sun., 19 Minnesota ............................8Sun., 26 at Vancouver.......................8

JULYSun., 3 FC Cincinnati ..................7:30Sat., 9 at NYCFC..............................1Sat., 16 at Philadelphia ...............7:30Sat., 23 at Columbus ...................7:30Sat., 30 Toronto FC ...........................8

AUGUSTSat., 6 at Orlando.......................7:30Sat., 13 D.C. United......................7:30Wed., 17 at Toronto FC .................7:30Sat., 20 at CF Montreal ...............7:30Sun., 28 LA Galaxy .............................8Wed., 31 Chicago............................7:30

SEPTEMBERSun., 4 NYCFC...................................8Sat., 10 at NY Red Bulls ..............TBAWed., 14 at Houston ......................TBASat., 17 CF Montreal ....................7:30

OCTOBERSat., 1 Atlanta ..................................1Sun., 9 at Chicago.......................TBA

ECHLEASTERN CONFERENCE

North DivisionReading............32 12 6 72 194 151Newfoundld.....32 16 3 67 200 146Trois-Rivieres..24 22 3 52 177 186Worcester........24 22 4 54 183 184Maine................24 24 4 54 166 188Adirondack......23 29 2 48 162 203

South DivisionAtlanta..............35 18 3 74 177 144Florida ..............32 17 4 72 192 150Jacksonville.....32 19 2 68 154 131Orlando ............29 24 4 62 158 179Greenville.........23 24 4 53 149 154Norfolk .............20 30 2 45 145 202S. Carolina.......18 33 6 42 141 194

WESTERN CONFERENCECentral Division

Toledo ..............37 15 1 77 208 156Fort Wayne......30 20 5 66 206 175Cincinnati.........30 23 3 63 197 183Wheeling..........30 24 1 61 190 187Iowa..................26 24 6 59 183 202Kalamazoo.......27 27 0 54 168 188Indy...................23 27 2 51 169 181

Mountain DivisionUtah ..................35 21 2 73 200 189Rapid City........29 20 4 66 186 179Idaho.................30 26 2 63 174 156Tulsa.................27 25 2 58 166 180Allen..................24 23 6 55 176 187Wichita.............24 24 8 56 164 182Kansas City .....27 29 3 58 175 203

NOTE: Two points are awarded for awin, one point for an overtime or shoo-tout loss. Top four teams in each divi-sion advance to playoffs.

SUNDAY'S GAMESAdirondack 5...............................Maine 2Atlanta 3..............................S. Carolina 1Greenville 2.......................Jacksonville 0Newfoundland 5............Trois-Rivieres 4Reading 3...............................Wheeling 2Fort Wayne 5........................Cincinnati 2Idaho 5........................................Toledo 3

MONDAY'S GAMESNo games scheduled

TUESDAY'S GAMESOrlando at Atlanta.......................10 a.m.Tulsa at Kansas City.........................8:05

WEDNESDAY'S GAMESKalamazoo at Cincinnati.......10:35 a.m.Adirondack at Maine.............................7Worcester at Trois-Rivieres..................7Greenville at S. Carolina..................7:05Jacksonville at Florida......................7:30Reading at Norfolk............................7:30Wichita at Allen.................................8:05

Tennis

BNP PARIBAS OPEN

At Indian Wells Tennis Garden,Indian Wells, Calif.Men’s singlesThird Round

Carlos Alcaraz (19), def. RobertoBautista Agut (15), 6-2, 6-0; Gael Mon-fils (26), def. Daniil Medvedev (1), 4-6,6-3, 6-1.

Bautista Agut-AlcarazBautista AgutAlcaraz

1st-serve percentage.............68 631st-serve winning pct............47 852nd-serve winning pct...........29 50Aces.............................................0 4Double faults.............................3 2Winners.......................................- -Unforced errors......................... - -Break points...........................0-1 5-9Receiving points................12-43 26-44Net points................................... - -Total points won.....................30 57

Women’s singlesThird Round

Maria Sakkari (6), def. Petra Kvitova(27), 6-3, 6-0; Veronika Kudermetova(21), def. Marie Bouzkova, 6-4, 0-2; Dar-ia Saville, def. Mertens Elise (20), 6-3,4-6, 6-3

Sakkari-KvitovaSakkariKvitova

1st-serve percentage.............56 591st-serve winning pct............96 552nd-serve winning pct...........50 40Aces.............................................5 1Double faults.............................0 5Winners.......................................- -Unforced errors......................... - -Break points...........................4-7 0-2Receiving points................25-49 11-45Net points................................... - -Total points won.....................59 35

ScoreboardY Y Y

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8:30

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MIN

7:30

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10:00

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NBCSB

SAC

10:00

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DEN

8:00

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OKC

8:00

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PUMAS†

10:15

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7:00

Ch. 38

Home games shaded For updated scores: bostonglobe.com/sports

Radio: Bruins, Celtics, and Revolution, WBZ-FM 98.5: *WROR-FM 105.7; †CONCACAF Champions match

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6:40 p.m. NCAA: Texas A&M-CC vs. Texas South. truTV

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7 p.m. NIT: Missouri State at Oklahoma ESPN

7 p.m. NIT: Princeton at VCU ESPNU

9 p.m. NIT: Alcorn State at Texas A&M ESPN2

9 p.m. NIT: Cleveland State at Xavier ESPNU

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9:10 p.m. NCAA: Indiana vs. Wyoming truTV

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8:30 p.m. Boston at Chicago NESN

TENNIS

1 p.m. BNP Paribas Open Tennis

(schedule subject to change)

MARK STOCKWELL FOR THE GLOBE

Senior goaltender Elise Rodd made 19 saves to backstop

Arlington to a 2-1 win over Shrewsbury in the semifinals.

mates and the rest of my team,”

said Krepelka, who plays on

Arlington’s top line with her

sister, Julia, a freshmanwith

31 points (11 goals, 20 assists),

and senior co-captain Gabby

Russo, the team’s second-lead-

ing scorer with 13-23—36 to-

tals. Julia assisted onMaddie’s

second goal.

Division 2 State

Algonquin/Hudson 3, Med-

field 2 (OT)—Emily Johns

fired home the winner high

gloveside on a two-on-none

rush in overtime, lifting the

10th-seeded Titans past No. 22

Medfield in a Division 2 semifi-

nal at Loring Arena in

Framingham.

Algonquin (18-3-2) will play

Canton, a 2-1 winner over

Natick, Sunday at TD Garden.

“My one thing was to score

and put the puck in the net,”

said Johns, a sophomore from

Clinton. “My coaches kept say-

ing to keep at it . . . Finally, it

worked.”

The Titans won their sec-

ond consecutive tournament

game in overtime.

“It was a one bounce game

and that was our bounce,” said

Algonquin coachMike Hodge.

“Themessage was just to dig

deep. Find whatever ounce you

have andmake it happen.”

Canton 2, Natick 1—Two

years after having to settle for a

state co-championship banner

because of the pandemic’s can-

cellation of the state tourna-

ment, Canton will get the

chance to carouse Causeway

Street after all. The ninth-seed-

ed Bulldogs outlasted fifth-

seeded Natick, 2-1, in a Divi-

sion 2 semifinal at Gallo Arena.

“We were really sad about

it, that was a great team back

then,” said Canton senior co-

captain Tess Khoury, one of the

players deprived of an opportu-

nity to skate at the Garden in

2020. “But we didn’t dwell on

the past, we looked forward.

We believe in each other.”

Senior co-captain Audrey

Koen factored in both goals for

the Bulldogs (18-6), scoring at

8:48 of the first and assisting

on sophomore Anna Lehan’s

game winner at 8:04 of the sec-

ond against the Redhawks (15-

7-2).

Junior Carolyn Durand

made 17 saves for the Bulldogs

in the win.

CamKerry reported from

Loring Arena in Framingham.

By Jake LevinGLOBE CORRESPONDENT

Not until the clock struck

0:00Monday night could the

Arlington girls’ hockey team

fully comprehend the historic

achievement for the program.

With her 19th and final

save of the night at the buzzer,

senior captain Elise Rodd de-

nied a desperation heave from

the neutral zone by Shrews-

bury freshman defender Yas-

mineMcKenzie, preserving a

2-1 Division 1 semifinal win for

Arlington at Gallo Arena in

Bourne.

The thrilling victory vaulted

the second-seeded Spy Ponders

(22-1-1) into their first state fi-

nal. Arlington will play the

Austin Prep/Acton-Boxbor-

ough winner Sunday at TD

Garden.

JuniorMaddie Krepelka

scored both goals, raising her

season total to 32, and an even

50 points. She opened with a

rip at 14:42 of the first period

and scored again just 1:48 into

the third period, which stood

as the winner after Taylor

Ryder scored at 4:30 for the

sixth-seeded Colonials (16-7-1).

“She is definitely a game

changer,” Arlington coach Jeff

Mead said of Krepelka. “We

have a player like that who can

finish, and we have really good

goaltending, we’ve got a few

good senior defensemen, but

she’s the backbone of our

team.”

In a game with no penalties

and thus no power-play oppor-

tunities for either team, Kre-

pelka’s goal late in the first pe-

riod carried a fair amount of

weight for the Ponders in a

game deprived of anymomen-

tum swings.

“It’s pretty amazing, but I

couldn’t do it without my line-

MIAA GIRLS’ HOCKEY SEMIFINALS

Arlington in D1 finalNo. 2 seed holdsoff Shrewsbury

Schools

BASKETBALL

MIAA TournamentBOYS

DIVISION 1Wed., March 16 — Semifinals

Newton North vs. Andover at WoburnHigh School, 7:15; Springfield Centralvs. BC High at Worcester State Univer-sity, 7:15.

TBA — FinalDIVISION 2

Tue., March 15 — SemifinalsNorwood vs. Burlington at WorcesterState University, 7.

Wed., March 16 — SemifinalsScituate vs. Malden Catholic at Taun-ton High School, 6:30.

TBA — FinalDIVISION 3

Tue., March 15 — SemifinalsNorton vs. St. Mary’s at Woburn HighSchool, Woburn, 7:15; Watertown vs.TechBoston at Framingham HighSchool, 7:15.

TBA — FinalDIVISION 4

Wed., March 16 — SemifinalsWahconah vs. Randolph at WorcesterState University, Worcester, 5;Snowden vs. Saint Joseph Prep at Wa-tertown High School, 6:30.

TBA — FinalDIVISION 5

Tue., March 15 — SemifinalsPaulo Freire vs. Taconic at WahconahRegional, Dalton, 5.

Wed., March 16 — SemifinalsBaystate Academy vs. Maynard atWorcester North, 7:15.

TBA — FinalGIRLS

DIVISION 1Tue., March 15 — Semifinals

Springfield Central vs. Wachusett atWorcester State University, 5; CentralCatholic vs. Andover at TewksburyHigh School, 7.

TBA — FinalDIVISION 2

Tue., March 15 — SemifinalsOliver Ames vs. Medfield at QuincyHigh School, Quincy, 5.

Wed., March 16 — SemifinalsWhitman-Hanson vs. Norwood at Quin-cy High School, 6:30.

TBA — FinalDIVISION 3

Tue., March 15 — SemifinalsBishop Fenwick vs. St. Mary’s at Wo-burn High School, 5; Rockland vs. Med-way at Quincy High School, 7:15.

TBA — FinalDIVISION 4

Tue., March 15 — SemifinalsSouth Hadley vs . Amesbury atFramingham High School, 5.

Wed., March 16 — SemifinalsMillbury vs. Lunenburg at North High,Worcester, 5.

TBA — FinalDIVISION 5

Tue., March 15 — SemifinalsHopedale vs. Springfield Internationalat Worcester State University, 6;Taconic vs. Hoosac Valley at Wahcon-ah Regional, Dalton, 7:15.

TBA — Final

HOCKEY

MIAA TournamentBOYS

DIVISION 1Tue., March 15 — Semifinals

Arlington vs. Xaverian at Loring Arena,Framingham, 7:30; BC High vs. St.John’s Prep at Tsongas Center, Lowell,7:45.

Sun., March 20 — FinalTBA vs. TBA at TD Garden, Boston,TBA.

DIVISION 2Mon., March 14 — Semifinals

Tewksbury 3............................Duxbury 3Tue., March 15 — Semifinals

Canton vs. Gloucester at Tsongas Cen-ter, Lowell, 5:30.

Sun., March 20 — FinalTBA vs. TBA at TD Garden, Boston,TBA.

DIVISION 3Mon., March 14 — Semifinals

Marlborough 3.......................Lynnfield 2Tue., March 15 — Semifinals

Hanover vs. Scituate at Gallo Arena,Bourne, 5:15.

Sun., March 20 — FinalTBA vs. Marlborough at TD Garden,Boston, TBA.

DIVISION 4Mon., March 14 — Semifinals

Watertown 4........................Stoneham 3Tue., March 15 — Semifinals

Sandwich vs. Norwell at Gallo Arena,Bourne, 7:30.

Sun., March 20 — FinalWatertown vs. TBA at TD Garden, Bos-ton, TBA.

GIRLSDIVISION 1

Mon., March 14 — SemifinalsArlington 2.........................Shrewsbury 1

Tue., March 15 — SemifinalsActon-Boxborough/Bromfield vs. Aus-tin Prep at Loring Arena, Framingham,5:30.

Sun., March 20 — FinalArlington vs. TBA at TD Garden, Bos-ton, TBA.

DIVISION 2Mon., March 14 — Semifinals

Algnqn/Hdsn 3.......Medfld/Nrtn 2 (OT)Canton 2......................................Natick 1

Sun., March 20 — FinalAlgonquin/Hudson vs. Canton at TDGarden, Boston, TBA.

R For updated scores and highlights,go to bostonglobe.com/sports/high-schools.

Colleges

BASKETBALL

Ntl. Invit. TournamentMEN

Tue., March 15 — First roundMissouri St. vs. Oklahoma, 7; Bel-

mont vs. Vanderbilt, 7; Princeton vs.VCU, 7; Texas State vs. North Texas, 8;Alcorn St. vs. Texas A&M, 9; Oregon vs.Utah State, 9; Cleveland State vs. Xavi-er, 9; St. Bonaventure vs. Colorado, 11;Santa Clara vs. Washington St., 11.Wed., March 16 — First round

Dayton vs. Toledo, 7; Mississippi St.vs. Virginia, 7; Towson vs. Wake For-est, 7; Northern Iowa vs. Saint Louis, 8;Nicholls vs. SMU, 8; Long Beach Statevs. BYU, 9; Iona vs. Florida, 9.

WOMENWed., March 16 — First round

Kent State vs. Youngstown State,5:30; Holy Cross vs. Columbia, 7;Campbell vs. Liberty, 7; So. Illinois vs.Purdue, 7; Ball State vs. Marquette, 8;Grand Canyon vs. New Mexico, 9.

Thu., March 17 — First roundNorfolk St. vs. Drexel, 6; Maine vs.

Boston College, 7; Houston vs. Louisi-ana Tech, 7; Kansas City vs. NorthernIowa, 7; Fairleigh Dickinson vs. SetonHall, 7; Alabama vs. Troy, 7; Jackson-ville St. vs. Tulane, 7:30; Minnesota vs.Green Bay, 8; Drake vs. Missouri, 8;Tulsa vs. North Texas, 8; Air Force vs.San Francisco, 8; Tennessee Tech vs.SMU, 8; Ohio vs. South Dakota St., 8;Murray St. vs. Vanderbilt, 8; Idaho St.vs. Wyoming, 8:30; San Diego vs. Cali-fornia Baptist, 9; Wofford vs. MiddleTenn., 9; Long Beach State vs. OregonSt., 10.

Fri., March 18 — First roundQuinnipiac vs. URI, 6; Stony Brook vs.

VCU, 6; Bucknell vs. Fordham, 7; Hous-ton Baptist vs. Toledo, 7; Old Dominionvs. Towson, 7; UC Irvine vs. UCLA, 9:50;Colorado St. vs. Portland, 10.

CBI TournamentSat., March 19 — First round

IPFW vs. Drake, 12; UNC Asheville vs.Stephen F. Austin, 2:30; California Bap-tist vs. Middle Tenn., 5; Rice vs. Ohio,7:30.

Sun., March 20 — First roundUNCW vs. VMI, 12; No. Colorado vs.

Fla. Atlantic, 2:30; Boston University vs.UNCG, 5; Troy vs. Abilene Christian,7:30.

NBAGLSUNDAY'S GAMES

Iowa 97.............................Austin 91 (OT)Maine 125.........................Wisconsin 103Memphis 118.............Agua Caliente 114Santa Cruz 110........G League 107 (OT)

MONDAY'S GAMESOklahoma City 130...Salt Lake City 117Lakeland 116..................Windy City 107College Park at Westchester................7Iowa at Texas..........................................8Rio Grande Valley at Birmingham.......8

TUESDAY'S GAMESDelaware at Cleveland..........................6Greensboro at Grand Rapids................7Austin at Birmingham............................8Sioux Falls at Texas...............................8Santa Cruz at Agua Caliente..............10

WEDNESDAY'S GAMESLong Island at Westchester......11 a.m.Delaware at Cleveland..........................6Capital City at Motor City.....................7Wisconsin at College Park....................7Greensboro at Windy City....................8Salt Lake City at Memphis...................8South Bay at Iowa..................................8

THURSDAY'S GAMESFort Wayne at Raptors........................12Lakeland at Maine..................................7

WINSLOW TOWNSON FOR THE GLOBE

Watertown’s Anthony Venezia (left) celebrates after Mason

Andrade scored the winning goal in the third period.

By Jim ClarkGLOBE CORRESPONDENT

After splitting a pair of

games in theMiddlesex Free-

dom this season, and then the

first two periods ofMonday

night’s Division 4 boys’ hockey

semifinal, there were no secrets

forWatertown and Stoneham.

“That teamwas in our way

to get to the Garden,”Water-

town coach John Vlachos said.

“Our dreamwas to get to the

Garden.”

The second-seeded Raiders

will be doing just that. Senior

captainMason Andrade

knocked home a reboundwith

11:15 to play andWatertown

survived a huge push fromNo.

3 Stoneham for a 4-3 victory at

Tsongas Center.

Watertown (14-9-1) will face

the winner of Tuesday’s semifi-

nal between No. 1 Norwell and

No. 4 Sandwich.

On the winning goal, An-

drade started the play in the

defensive zone by chipping the

puck out to Alec Banosian at

the blue line. Banosian rushed

up the left wing, around a fall-

en Stoneham defender, and

then cut tight to the left post.

His initial shot was stopped,

but Andrade was in the right

spot to knock home the re-

bound.

“It just popped out quick, so

I wanted to shoot it quick, be-

cause the goalie wasn’t ready

for it,” Andrade said.

After Banosian and Stone-

ham’s Jack Heneghan traded

goals in the opening half of the

first period,Watertown struck

for a pair 53 seconds apart.

Banosian (two goals, assist) fol-

lowed up after Anthony Venez-

ia misfired on a shot, thenMi-

chael Cormier took a pass in

the high slot and wristed it

home tomake it 3-1 after one.

Stoneham (15-9) came out

blazing in the second period

and pulled even on goals from

Kolby Horgan on a rebound at

9:35, and Danny Storella (goal,

two assists) on a two-on-one

rush at 12:11.

The Spartans cranked up

the pressure the rest of the pe-

riod, but junior goalie Casey

Williams (28 saves) and the

Watertown defense prevented

further damage going into the

third.

“They did a great job getting

back into the game, but it was

tied,” Vlachos said. “We said to

[the players], whoever won

that 15minutes was going to

get to the Garden. They were

ready to go.”

Division 2 State

Tewksbury 4, Duxbury 3 (2

OTs)—Nick Dicioccio deliv-

ered for Tewksbury with 43.3

seconds left in double over-

time, cementing a victory to

cap a thrilling, back-and-forth

battle with Duxbury at Loring

Arena in the Division 2 state

semifinals.

The top-seeded Redmen

(21-2-0) are onto their first

state final since 2019. Seven

players on this teamwere on

the roster three years ago when

Tewksbury lost to Canton at TD

Garden. Now, the Redmen are

hoping to either get another

crack at the Bulldogs or finish

the task against Gloucester.

“It’s been in the back of our

minds that we want to get

there again,” Tewksbury coach

Derek Doherty said. “These

guys have been working hard

all year long and playing tough.

I’m pretty proud of them to-

night.”

Division 3 State

Marlborough 3, Lynnfield 2—

Senior forward Noah Lind

scored the winning goal 58 sec-

onds into the third period to

lift the top-seeded Panthers

past the No. 4 Pioneers at Tson-

gas Center.

Lind’s goal camemoments

after Lynnfield goalie Phineas

Mitchener stonedMarlbor-

ough’s dynamicMarcus Chrisa-

fideis on a breakaway in the

opening 30 seconds of the

third.

“That could have been a big

momentum swing for [Lynn-

field],” Marlborough coach

Mike O’Brien said. “Then Noah

comes right back . . . Any feel-

ing of maybe a letdown for us

withMarcusmissing that, in-

stantly turned into a positive

for us.”

Chrisafideis, who had a five-

goal game earlier in the tourna-

ment and entered the night

with 36 this season, certainly

did his share of the damage. He

combined with Jeremy Lacroix

andMark Evangelous for a pair

of goals 1:54 apart late in the

second as the Panthers (21-1-1)

erased an early deficit and took

a 2-1 lead into the third.

Trevor Hass reported from

Loring Arena in Framingham.

MIAA BOYS’ HOCKEY SEMIFINALS

Watertown realizes dream, onto D4 final

TUE SDAY, MARCH 1 5 , 2 0 2 2 T h e B o s t o n G l o b e C9

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IN LOVING MEMORY OF

MARGARET L. MOULTON

OCTOBER 10, 1937 -

MARCH 15, 2015

SADLY MISSED BY

SON STEPHEN, BROTHERS,

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Age 101, died Mar. 10,

2022, former surgeon and

taught at Harvard Medical

School.

Husband of the late Rachel (Rock)

Achenbach, father of Eric Achenbach,

Carolyn Ingraham, Jef Achenbach,

Sue Achenbach, Ellen Lewis and

Tom Achenbach and his wife, Nancy.

Visitation will be held on Thurs., March

17, 2022, from 12PM to 2PM at C.R.

Lyons and Sons, Funeral Directors,

28 Elm St., DANVERS. All other

services are private. In lieu of flowers,

donations may be made in Dr. Hart’s

name to Doctors Without Borders at

https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.

org or World Central Kitchen at

https://donate.wck.org . Full obituary,

directions and condolences, are

available at www.lyonsfuneral.com

ACHENBACH, Hart

Of Rockland, passed away on March

11, 2022 at the age of 80. She was the

daughter of the late Mary (Bernard)

and Walter Smith.

Ann was born in Boston and raised

in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood.

She was a graduate of St. Mary’s High

School in Brookline. On October 24,

1964 she married the love of her life

Thomas V. Curran. The two settled in

Rockland, where they would raise their

family.

Ann had remarkable generosity.

She always cheered others on with

encouraging words, and she sure

was a spitfire of a woman. She was a

dog person and had many pets over

the years. Ann loved nothing more

than spending time with her family -

especially her grandchildren.

Ann was the loving wife of the

late Thomas V. Curran. Mother of

Thomas G. Curran of Brockton and

Matthew Curran and wife Erin of

East Bridgewater. Grandmother of

Taryn, Mari, Jack, and Meryl. Great-

grandmother of Alby, Cosmo, Maksim,

Lukas, and Duke. Sister of Mary

Boehl, Phyllis Bowlen, the late Francis

McHugh and the late Walter Smith.

Visiting Hours will be held on

Thursday, March 17 from 4:00PM-

7:00PM at the Sullivan Funeral Home

in ROCKLAND, 45 E. Water Street. A

Funeral Mass will be held at 10:30AM

on Friday, March 18 at St. Bridget’s

Church in Abington, 455 Plymouth

Street. Burial will immediately follow at

Hanover Center Cemetery.

CURRAN, Ann

Sullivan Funeral Homes

Rockland, MA

(781) 878-0920

Of Danvers, age 93, died

March 9, 2022. Career

military of the United

States Navy, serving in both the Korean

& Vietnam Wars. Former Business

Education Teacher at Lexington

High School and employee of the

IRS. Deeply devoted to his family

& church community. Leo was the

loving husband of Priscilla Howland

(Wheeler) Curda of Danvers; father

to Thomas Curda, Katherine Shin

& husband Young Shin, Elizabeth

Curda & husband Jonathan Bender,

and Andrew Curda. In addition, he

leaves his grandchildren, Leah & Owen

Bender; his sister, Mary Kelsoe; and

nieces Sandra Jones & Mary Kay Swift;

and his sister-in-law, ElisabethJane

Wheeler. Relatives and friends are

invited to attend Leo’s Funeral Service

which will be held from Maple Street

Congregational Church, 90 Maple St.,

Danvers on Saturday, March 26th at

11 A.M. Burial will be private. Visiting

Hours in O’Donnell Cremations –

Funerals – Celebrations, 167 Maple

St. (Rte. 62), DANVERS on Friday,

March 25th from 4 to 7 P.M. In lieu

of flowers, donations in Leo’s memory

may be made to the Maple Street

Congregational Church, 90 Maple

St., Danvers, MA 01923, the Danvers

YMCA, 34 Pickering St., Danvers, MA

01923 or to the Danvers Historical

Society, 11 Page St., Danvers, MA

01923.

CURDA, Leo Joseph

www.odonnellfuneralservice.com

Of Allston, passed away on March

10, 2022. Beloved wife of the late

Joseph Kelly. Devoted mother of

Maryann Santisi and her husband

John of Norwood and the late Linda

Kelly-Keener. Loving grandmother of

Alison Keener Joseph Santisi and his

wife Amy, and Jack Santisi. Great-

grandmother of Luca Santisi. Sister of

Stella Cioffi, Josephine Fusco, Thelma

Stoddard and the late Mary Vardenski,

Angie Riccio, Constance Williams,

Aurella Barrasso, Anthony and Livio

Torrone. Funeral from the Lehman

Reen & McNamara Funeral Home,

63 Chestnut Hill Ave. (nr Brighton

Courthouse), BRIGHTON on Friday,

March 18th at 9am. Followed by a

Funeral Mass in St. Anthony Church,

43 Holton St., Allston at 10am.

Relatives and friends are kindly invited

to attend. Interment Newton Cemetery.

Visiting Hours on Thursday, March

17th from 4-8pm in the funeral home.

For directions and guestbook, please

visit www.lehmanreen.com

KELLY, Lydia M. (Torrone)

Lehman ReenMcNamara

Brighton 617 782 1000

In East Boston, formerly of Brighton,

passed away peacefully in her sleep

on March 11, 2022. Loving daughter

of Paul J. McGee of Plymouth and the

late Catherine (Foley) McGee. Devoted

sister of Joan McGee of Boston,

Catherine McGee of CO and Pauline

Doris of NH. Stepsister of Michael

McGee of Duxbury, Timothy McGee of

Needham and step-daughter of the late

Jane McGee. Also survived by many

nieces, nephews and cousins. Funeral

from the Lehman Reen & McNamara

Funeral Home, 63 Chestnut Hill Ave.

(nr. Brighton Courthouse), BRIGHTON

on Saturday, March 19th at 9:30am.

Followed by a Funeral Mass in St.

Columbkille Church, 321 Market Street,

Brighton at 10:30am. Relatives and

friends are kindly invited to attend.

Interment Private. Visiting Hours

on Friday, March 18th from 5-7pm

in the funeral home. For directions

and guestbook, please visit www.

lehmanreen.com

McGEE, Madeline C.

Lehman ReenMcNamara

Brighton 617-782-1000

Of Everett and Chelsea,

born in County Cork,

Ireland, March 13, 2022

at the age of 100. Beloved aunt of

Robert Baker, Jr. of Rockland, Lisa

Avitabile-Baker of Marshfield, William

R. Carafa, Jr. and his wife Linda of

Chelsea, Barbara Ciovacco of Everett.

Sister of the late Robert E. Baker, Sr.

and his wife Dorothy Baker and Bruce

Baker. Sister-in-law of Joyce Baker of

NH. Cherished great-aunt of Brian and

Candace Baker, Stephanie Baker, Ian

and his wife Gina Baker, Nicole Baker

and Alex Clifford, Hope Drysdale and

her husband Stephen, Scott Baker and

his wife Alison, Jennifer Carafa, Amy

Almas and her husband Dennis, Laura

Ciovacco, Charles Ciovacco and his

wife Marianne, Marianne Ciovacco,

Christine Elliott and her husband Paul,

Caryn Antonelli and her husband Greg

and several other great nieces, great

nephews. Also lovingly survived by

numerous longtime friends. Retired

administrative assistant for Stone and

Webster Engineering Corp, dedicating

35 years of service. Relatives and

friends are kindly invited to attend

Visiting Hours in the Carafa Family

Funeral Home, 389 Washington Ave.,

CHELSEA on Wednesday, March 16th

from 3:00 – 6:00 P.M. Funeral from the

funeral home on Thursday at 8:30 A.M.

followed by a Mass of Christian Burial

at the Blessed Mother of the Morning

Star Parish, Our Lady of Grace, 59

Nichols St., Chelsea at 10:00 A.M.

Services will conclude with interment

in the family lot at Woodlawn Cemetery

in Everett. In lieu of flowers, donations

in Ada’s memory may be made to the

above named Church or a charity of

one’s choice. We encourage family and

friends to visit carafafuneralhome.

com to offer condolences by means

of the online guest book or to send a

personalized sympathy card.

BAKER, Adelaide G. “Ada”

CARROLL, Charles M.

Age 87, of Cohasset, passed

away peacefully on March

13, 2022 at home. Loving

husband of 60 years to Lorraine M.

(Mitchell) Carroll. Devoted father of

Edward M. Carroll and wife Kirsten of

Downers Grove, IL, and Lorraine A.

Tarpey and husband Paul of Cohasset.

Adoring grandfather of Kevin Carroll

and fiancée Meghan LeMay, Kathleen

Carroll, Colin Tarpey and fiancée

Jessica Ball, and Brendan Tarpey.

Brother of the late Edward, Robert and

Donald Carroll. Also survived by many

nieces and nephews.

After attending high school, Charlie

entered the U.S. Marine Corps and

served during the Korean War. After his

service, Charlie became a Detective for

the Boston Police Department, attached

to the FBI. He also was the resident

agent for Major League Baseball rep-

resenting the Boston Red Sox. Charles

loved to travel and was a wonderful

grandfather to his grandchildren.

Family and friends are invited to

Visiting Hours on Wednesday, March

16, 2022 from 4-7 pm in McNamara-

Sparrell Funeral Home, 1 Summer

Street, COHASSET, MA. 02025. A Mass

of Christian Burial will be celebrated

on Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 11

am in St. Anthony Church, 2 Summer

St., Cohasset, MA. 02025. Interment

Woodside Cemetery, Cohasset. In lieu

of flowers, donations to honor Charles

may be made to Doug Flutie Jr. Foun-

dation for Autism, 1661 Worcester Rd.,

Suite 205B, Framingham, MA 01701.

For an online guestbook, please visit

www.mcnamara-sparrell.com

Age 90, of Marblehead.

Father of Michael A.

MacIver of Lynn and

MaryAnne MacIver McMaster of

Swampscott. Grandfather of Aidan J.

McMaster of Swampscott. Husband

of Barbara MacIver and Stepfather of

Steve Howe of Weymouth. He is also

survived by cousins and other relatives

in Scotland. He was a professor at

Salem State University for fifty-one

years where he taught history, political

science, sociology and anthropology.

He also served as the first Director

of Social Service and Director of the

Community Involvement Program.

He previously taught at Brewster

Academy and Marblehead High School.

Originally from Lakeport, NH, the

son of Mary and Alexander MacIver,

he served in the U.S. Army during the

Korean War and after graduated from

University of New Hampshire, summa

cum laude, and Brown University. He

was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and

many other honorary Societies. He was

the author of many books, articles and

short stories. We will always carry your

memory in our hearts.

Visiting Hours: Visiting Hours will

be held at the Murphy Funeral Home,

located at 85 Federal Street, SALEM

on Thursday, March 17th from 4 to 7

PM. Masks are required while inside

of the funeral home. A Funeral Mass

will be held at Our Lady Star of the

Sea Church, Marblehead on Friday,

March 18th at 10:30 A.M. For more

information or online guestbook,

please call 978-744-0497 or visit www.

murphyfuneralhome.com

MacIVER, Kenneth Angus

Age 75, of Wilmington,

formerly of Somerville,

passed away peacefully

at home with his family at his side

on March 13, 2022. John was the

devoted father of Jason Mainini &

his wife Christin and Robin Abbott &

her husband Alan all of Wilmington.

Loving “Papa” of Dylan Mainini, Austin

and Rylie Abbott. Beloved son of the

late Charles and Frances (Gibbons)

Mainini; dear brother of Nancy Russell

& husband Brandon of Ohio, Lynn

Williams & husband Mike of New

London, NH, Charles Mainini & wife

Loxi Calmes of Grantham, NH and

the late Richard Mainini. John is also

survived by his former wife and friend

Cynthia Bouley as well as his nieces,

nephews and their families.

Visiting Hours: Visiting Hours

will be held at the Nichols Funeral

Home, 187 Middlesex Ave. (Rte. 62),

WILMINGTON, MA, on Thursday,

March 17th from 4:00-7:00 p.m. A

Graveside Service with Military Honors

will take place on Friday, March 18th

in the Veteran’s Section of Wildwood

Cemetery, 233 Middlesex Ave.,

Wilmington, MA at 10:00 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, donations in

John’s memory may be made to Troop

56 BSA, 87 Church St., Wilmington,

MA 01887.

John proudly served in the United

States Army during the Vietnam

War and was awarded the Purple

Heart. He was also very active with

the Wilmington Boy Scouts Troop

56 and served on the Yankee Clipper

Committee for 28 years.

MAININI, John C.

Nichols Funeral Home

978-658-4744

www.nicholsfuneralhome.com

Passed away on March 11, 2022 at the

age of 69. Ed is survived by his children

Keri Morrison and her husband Eric

Morrison, Maureen Melone and her

husband Scott Melone, and Michael

McVinney; his grandchildren Caitlin,

Ryan, Ariana and Andrew; and his

former wife Nancy (Goodman) Inglis.

Ed’s family welcomes you to share

a story or memory of Ed sent to P.O.

Box 743, Norwell, MA 02061. Obituary/

guestbook: https://www.quealyandson.

com/

Visiting Hours: Per Ed’s wishes, all

services will be held privately.

McVINNEY, Edward Francis

Longtime Watertown resident, age 85,

died peacefully at home surrounded by

her family on March 12, 2022. Beloved

wife of the late Alexander Cetrone.

Devoted mother of LuAnn Cetrone and

Diane Calix and her husband Henry, all

of Watertown. Loving “Nana” to Ally

and Serena Calix. Dear sister of Marie

Kerzwick, Elizabeth Palumbo and her

husband Richard and the late Frances

Pewtherer and Ricky Tuliper. She will

also be missed by her many nieces

and nephews. Jeannie loved spending

time with her granddaughters, more

than anything. She may now rest in

peace with her late husband Ally, the

love of her life. Visiting Hours in the

Magni FH, 365 Watertown St. Rt. 16,

NEWTON, Thursday, March 17 from

4-8PM and again, Friday morning at

9:30AM followed by a Funeral Mass

at 10:30AM in Our Lady Help of

Christians Church, 573 Washington

St., Newton. Burial, Newton Cemetery.

Instead of sending flowers, donations

may be made to Massachusetts Down

Syndrome Congress, 20 Burlington Mall

Road #261, Burlington, MA 01803.

CETRONE, Jean A.“Jeannie” (Tuliper)

Andrew J. Magni & Son FH, Newton

www.magnifuneralhome.com

Passed away on March 13, 2022 at

the age of 73, in his hometown of

Randolph, MA. After a long, well-

fought battle with serious medical

issues over the past few years he has

finally found his peace. Vin never left

a room without making at least one

person laugh. He was told multiple

times to make a book with all the

stories and jokes he had to share. The

ones close to him heard many of the

same stories and jokes enough that they

could recite with him. His pride was

and always will be his family. He was

a loving husband to Debra MacIsaac

LaFond; father to Alec, Leigh, Marissa,

and Laureen LaFond; son to Gertrude

and Wilfred LaFond; brother to Phil,

Linda, and Barbara LaFond; uncle to

many nieces and nephews; and friend

to many. Visiting Hours will be held

at the Hurley Funeral Home, 134 So.

Main St. (Rt. 28), RANDOLPH on

Wednesday, March 16th from 5-7pm.

Relatives and friends are respectfully

invited to attend. A Graveside Service

will be held on Thursday, March 17th

at St. Mary’s Cemetery, Randolph at

10am.

LaFOND, Vincent H. “Vinny”

Of Topsfield, entered into rest at his

home on Monday, March 14, 2022 at

the age of 88, surrounded by his loving

family. Beloved husband of Dolores

J. Gibeley, with whom he shared 13

children and 69 wonderful years of

marriage. Devoted father of Estelle

Colgan (Robert), Joseph Gibeley

(Dawn), Jeffrey Gibeley, Wendy Werner

(Adam), Elizabeth Nordin (Ron), Alison

Gibeley, Alan Gibeley (Christina),

Mark Gibeley, Melissa Korcak (John),

Stephanie Maloney (Matthew), Monica

Sunderland (Todd), the late Amy

Jill Ogden and the late Cindy Lyn

Gibeley. Cherished grandfather of

thirty grandchildren and five great-

grandchildren. He was the loving

brother of Fay Myers (Elliott), Sandra

Esbitt (Alan), and the late Albert

Gibeley, and the dear son of the late

Joseph and Esther Gibeley.

Bob grew up in Peabody, graduating

from Peabody High School in 1952

where he met his high school

sweetheart and future wife, Dolores

Cashman. He followed his passion for

retail and joined his father operating

a haberdashery in downtown Salem.

Over the decades, Bob grew the

business into the North Shore’s iconic

clothing store, GIBLEES Menswear.

When Bob was not engaging with his

customers, many of whom he held

as close friends, he enjoyed spending

time with his dynamic family. As the

family’s core, Bob’s quiet strength was a

pillar of support in the lives of his loved

ones. Always with a smile on his face

and a twinkle in his eye, his presence

was magnetic; a force that will be

greatly missed.

A Funeral Service for Bob will be

held on Wednesday, March 16, 2022

at 12:30PM Stanetsky-Hymanson

Memorial Chapel, 10 Vinnin Street,

Salem, MA 01970. The funeral service

will be livestreamed for those who

cannot attend in person. Interment

will follow at Sons of Jacob Cemetery,

16 Buxton Road, Danvers, MA 01923.

In lieu of flowers, expressions of

sympathy may be made in Bob’s

memory to a charity of your choice.

To view the livestream or to register in

the online guestbook, please visit www.

stanetskyhymansonsalem.com.

GIBELEY, Robert Y.

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By Joseph P. FriedNEW YORK TIMES

Bernard W. Nussbaum, who

as President Bill Clinton’s first

White House counsel became a

lightning rod in a rash of bitter

controversies that plagued Clin-

ton early in his administration,

died on Sunday at his home in

Manhattan. Hewas 84.

The cause was heart disease,

his son Frank said.

Mr. Nussbaum was a corpo-

rate lawyer in New York and an

old friend of the first lady, Hil-

lary Clinton, when her husband

named him to the counsel post

after being elected as a Demo-

crat to his first term in 1992.

Mr. Nussbaum served for 14

months, resigning at Bill Clin-

ton’s request amid relentless at-

tacks on the Clintons over a se-

ries of imbroglios, starting with

a failed Arkansas land venture in

which they had taken part years

before they reached the White

House — an episode known as

the Whitewater affair. Then

came the suicide of the deputy

counsel, Vincent W. Foster Jr.,

giving rise to official inquiries

and fevered conspiracy theories.

And finally there was the FBI’s

agreement to a White House re-

quest for files on dozens of Re-

publicans whom the bureau had

screened for White House jobs

in past administrations.

The episodes drew accusa-

tions of wrongdoing from Re-

publican critics and right-wing

enemies of the Clintons as well

as expressions of concern by

many people without a partisan

or ideological agenda. And Mr.

Nussbaum’s aggressive efforts to

protect the president and first la-

dy only added fuel to the attacks

and doubts.

His critics accused him of ob-

structing justice. His supporters

backed his argument that hewas

doing what any good lawyer

would do.

But even some of his support-

ers said Mr. Nussbaum— a fast-

talking New Yorker whose tough

legal tactics hadmade him high-

ly prized by corporate clients in

high-stakes litigation — had

failed to recognize a key reality:

that fiercely insisting on a cli-

ent’s privacy rights and nondis-

closure privileges could be short-

sighted when the client was a

top elected official seeking the

public’s trust.

After departing from the

White House, Mr. Nussbaum

agreed that the legal playing field

he had encountered inWashing-

tonwas far different from the one

on which he had thrived in his

home city, NewYork.

There, he said, lawyers fo-

cused on fighting to the fullest

for their clients, but inWashing-

ton the main concern was how

things looked.

Bernard William Nussbaum

was born in Manhattan on

March 23, 1937, to Feivel and

Molly (Weintraub) Nussbaum,

immigrants from Poland. He

grew up on the Lower East Side

of Manhattan. His father was a

garment presser who became a

union business manager, and he

had met Molly, who worked in a

different garment factory,

through the labormovement.

Mr. Nussbaum graduated

from Columbia University, in

1958, and from Harvard Law

School, in 1961.

In 1963, he married Toby

Sheinfeld, who died in 2006. He

married Nancy Kuhn in 2008.

She died last year. In addition to

his son Frank, Mr. Nussbaum

leaves another son, Peter; a

daughter, Emily Nussbaum; a

stepson, Bill Kuhn; a brother,

Martin; and six grandchildren.

After law school, Mr. Nuss-

baum was an assistant US attor-

ney in Manhattan for several

years before joining the New

York law firm of Wachtell, Lip-

ton, Rosen &Katz in 1966.

He briefly returned to the

public arena in 1974, when he

served as a senior counsel on the

House of Representatives Judi-

ciary Committee as it investigat-

ed theWatergate scandal. It rec-

ommend that theHouse impeach

President Nixon, but Nixon re-

signed before the House could

act. While working for the com-

mittee, Mr. Nussbaum befriend-

ed one of the young lawyers as-

sisting him,Hillary Rodham.

After, he returned to his law

firm in New York and remained

in private practice until Bill Clin-

ton brought him to the White

House almost 20 years later.

The Whitewater controversy

stemmed from an ultimately un-

successful land-development

partnership that the Clintons en-

tered into in 1979, while Bill

Clinton was governor of Arkan-

sas, with the owner of a savings

and loan association, James B.

McDougal, and his wife, Susan.

After Bill Clinton became

president, the Clintons’ roles in

the venture became a focus of

scrutiny and accusations. Among

the issueswerewhether they had

been involved in their partners’

illegally channelingmoney to the

financially sinking enterprise

and whether Bill Clinton had

personally benefited from those

moves. The Clintons denied in-

volvement in the fraud; they said

they had lost tens of thousands of

dollars in the project.

Mr. Nussbaum was criticized

for suggesting that the Clintons

resist turning over Whitewater-

related documents to investiga-

tors. The critics also contended

that private meetings Mr. Nuss-

baumhadwith Treasury Depart-

ment officials during an investi-

gation into the savings and loan

amounted toWhite House inter-

ference with the inquiry.

Mr. Nussbaum said that the

meetings were simply intended

to learn, for his client, where the

inquiry stood. Bill Clinton pub-

licly said inMarch 1994 that Mr.

Nussbaum had done nothing

wrong in the matter, though he

allowed that the meetings might

have left an impression of im-

propriety. The next day, he asked

Mr. Nussbaum to resign.

The Whitewater inquiry was

pursued initially by a special

prosecutor appointed by Attor-

ney General Janet Reno and lat-

er primarily by Kenneth W.

Starr, a Republican appointed by

a three-judge panel. The Clin-

tons were never charged with

any crimes, though it was Starr’s

contention that Bill Clinton had

obstructed the investigation.

The McDougals and 12 oth-

ers were ultimately convicted in

the affair. Bill Clinton pardoned

Susan McDougal before he left

office in 2001. James McDougal

died in prison in 1998.

Foster was found fatally shot,

gun in hand, in a suburban Vir-

ginia park in July 1993, and the

Justice Department began an in-

vestigation. Conspiracy theories

soon began to surface.

Some of the most zealous

contended that Foster had been

murdered and that his body had

been moved to the park to stage

it as a suicide because, the theo-

ry went, as a former partner of

Hillary Clinton’s in a Little Rock

law firm that had performed

work for the savings and loan, he

had information that would tie

the Clintons to Whitewater

criminality.

Starr and his predecessor as

special counsel, Robert B. Fiske

Jr., both found after separate in-

quiries that Foster had killed

himself in the park because he

was deeply depressed amid the

growing pressures of his job.

BernardW. Nussbaum,Clinton counsel, at 84

DAVID SCULL/NEW YORK TIMES/FILE 1995

Mr. Nussbaum’s aggressive legal defense of Bill Clinton was

criticized by some because of the appearance it gave.

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Friday, March 11, 2022 peacefully at

her home in Brockton.

She was the daughter of the late

Charles and Sylvia Rubenstein; loving

and devoted wife of Jerry Porro; mother

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Porro and his wife Kathryn, of Bridge-

water; grandmother of Carmello, Reese,

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March 17, 2022 from 9:00 to 11:00 am,

with a Celebration of Life beginning

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BROCKTON. Interment will follow in

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tion Service.

Of Dorchester, passed away

peacefully at home on

March 12, 2022. Beloved

husband of the late Ruth T. (Maloney)

Sullivan. Loving father of Edward

& his wife Kathryn Sullivan of CT,

James & his wife Maureen Sullivan of

Plymouth, Maureen & her husband

Mark Delorey of Weymouth, Eileen &

her husband Christian VanDerslice of

Braintree, Julie & her husband Arthur

Perham of Weymouth, Joseph & his

wife Leann Sullivan of Westwood,

and the late Paul Sullivan. Adoring

grandfather of 18 grandchildren and

one great-grandson. Cherished brother

of Helen Collins, Rev. Francis Sullivan,

and the late Catherine, Joseph, James,

and Dorothy (Griffin); and brother-in-

law of Francis Maloney and Richard

Griffin. Beloved uncle of many nieces

and nephews. Edward was a proud

veteran of the United States Navy.

Visiting Hours at the John J. O’Connor

& Son Funeral Home, 740 Adams St.

(near Gallivan Blvd.), DORCHESTER,

Wednesday from 4-8pm. Funeral

Mass at St. Ann’s Church, Neponset

Thursday morning at 10am. Relatives &

friends are respectfully invited. In lieu

of flowers, donations may be made in

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Catholic Academy, 239 Neponset Ave.,

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We regret to announce the death

of Brother Michael J. Miller, Sr.

on March 11, 2022.

Visitation will be Wednesday,

March 16th from 4-8pm at

Dennis Sweeney Funeral Home,

Quincy, MA.

Funeral Mass will be Thursday,

March 17th 10am at Holy Trinity

Parish Church of Most Blessed

Sacrament in Quincy, MA.

Thomas P. Kerr, Jr., Business

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Daniel E. Coady, President

Of Worcester/Holden, age 97, former

resident of Roslindale, passed away

peacefully in the comfort of her home,

surrounded by her family on, Saturday,

March 12, 2022. She was the beloved

wife of the late Charles M. O’Neill,

Sr. Relatives and friends are invited

to gather with her family from 4 to 7

p.m. on Wednesday, March 16 in the

Miles Funeral Home, 1158 Main Street,

HOLDEN. A Mass of Christian Burial

will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. on

Thursday, March 17 in the Notre Dame

du Lac Chapel, 555 Plantation Street.

Worcester. A complete obituary will

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Timothy D. Morgan – Bus. Mgr.

Of Billerica. It is with a broken heart

that the family of Joseph G. Miele

announce his unexpected death at

home on Sunday, March 13, 2022. He

was 61 years old. He leaves the love

of his life, his wife Donna (Murdock)

Miele.

Joseph was born in Boston, MA

on October 5, 1960, a son of the late

Anthony Benedict Miele and the late

Miriam (Arpin) Miele.

He attended the Stoneham public

schools and after graduation attended

Northeastern University and graduated

receiving his Bachelor’s Degree.

Joseph worked for USPS for 42 years

in the Newton Highlands Office in

Boston where he will be missed by his

many longtime customers and friends.

He was an avid sports fan and loved

the Boston Bruins, the Minnesota

Vikings and the New England Patriots.

In addition to his wife, Donna, he

is survived by his sons, Scott Miele,

Bryan Nobile and Eric Stokowski; and

his sister Sheryl Miele; as well as his

lifelong friend Pete Dugan. He was

the brother of the late Robert J. Miele.

He is also survived by his beloved

companion, his dog, Sophie, and

predeceased by his “Good Good Little

Seger Boy.”

Visiting Hours: You are invited

to his Calling Hours on Wednesday,

March 16, 2022, from 4:00 P.M.- 7:00

PM. His Funeral Mass will be offered

on Thursday, March 17, 2022 at St.

William’s Church, 1352 Main Street,

Tewksbury, MA at 10:00 A.M. Burial

will be at St. Mary’s Cemetery, 90 River

Road, Tewksbury.

In honor of his brother-in-law and

friend, ISFC (Ret.) William B. Smith

and the late Ret. SS Gerald P. Moran, in

lieu of flowers, please make donations

to the Wounded Warrior Project, PO

Box 758516, Topeka, KS 66675-8516.

MIELE, Joseph G.

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MURPHY, Tim

In Rockport - TimMurphy, retired

restaurateur, longtime Rockporter,

and unsurpassed Red Sox fan, died

suddenly at his home on March 12.

Tim was the second oldest of the seven

children of Jeremiah V. and Kather-

ine (“Kay”) Murphy. He graduated

from Rockport High School in 1971

and attended St. Michael’s College in

Vermont. He maintained many lifelong

friendships. Tim loved Rockport and its

people and was widely known for his

warm personality and his strong views

on national politics. He was a great

believer in democracy and a champion

of the underdog. He was a devoted son,

brother, uncle and granduncle. He is

survived by his mother, Kay, of Rock-

port; his brothers, Jerry (wife, Mary) of

Swampscott; Sean (Deirdre) of Quincy;

and Paul (Marybeth), of Rockport; his

sisters Betsy Blodgett and Kathy Burley,

both of Gloucester; and many nephews

and nieces. He is predeceased by his

father, his brother, Kean and Kean’s

wife, Andrea.

After nearly 102 years on this earth,

Margaret M. Nugent (née Coefield) left

us on Feb. 17, 2022. She was born in

St. John’s, Newfoundland, on March 9,

1920, to Edward and Frances Ronayne

Coefield. The family later moved to

Maryland and New Hampshire, where

Margaret attended the Pinkerton

Academy in Derry. She graduated from

Dorchester High School for Girls in

1937 and attended stenotype school in

the evenings in Boston for two years.

Margaret also took classes at Quincy

Junior College, Massasoit Community

College, and Bridgewater State College

and held various administrative

positions in the medical and legal fields.

She was a waitress at Anthony’s Pier 4

for several years in Boston, during their

heyday, in addition to a myriad of other

jobs to support her family. Eventually,

Margaret moved to Hingham, MA, to

raise her five children. After they left

for school, she spent quiet moments

playing the piano and tending to

her garden. Margaret’s children,

grandchildren, and great-grandchildren

became her proudest achievement;

she cherished and celebrated their

accomplishments, no matter how small

they seemed. They felt safe and loved in

her fiercely protective, highly observant

presence, and knew she treasured the

time they spent together.Margaret was

also an accomplished photographer.

She brought her camera on trips

to Europe and Mexico, developing

images at the dark room in her house

and winning awards with her Boston

and South Shore camera clubs. Even

more award-winning in the eyes of her

family: her baking, with key lime pie,

rhubarb pie with homemade whipped

cream, and strawberry shortcake as her

specialties. She also had a soft spot for

her two dogs, Shannon and Charlie,

and birds. Margaret often took her

relatives to Mass Audubon properties

and saved leftovers in foil to later feed

to her winged friends. There was no

better place for her to enjoy nature than

Martha’s Vineyard, where she moved

later in life to be closer to her family

and to consistently beat them at gin

rummy. She even brought some of her

bulbs and rose bushes from Hingham

to her house in Edgartown and not

only adopted but mastered various

technologies to stay in touch with

family members. When asked if she

had a secret to reaching 100, Margaret

responded, “I don’t know, but I eat a

lot of butter and sugar.” Her resilience,

strong will, creativity, and love and

pride for her family shone through

in all that she did. She is survived

by her children Thomas Nugent,

Gail Vaughan, and John Nugent; her

grandchildren Carl Goodman Jr., Aimee

Debaun, Phoebe Hunley, Rachael

Vaughan Rodick, Cameron Nugent,

Alex Nugent, and Zoë Nugent; and her

great-grandchildren Carl Goodman, III,

Tayla Goodman, Perry Bauer, Shiloh

Hunley, Shimon Hunley, Savanna

Ruzzano, and Gia Ruzzano. She was

predeceased by her children Anne

Nugent Goodman and Robert Nugent,

Jr. and her grandchild Miles Nugent.

A Memorial Service will be held at St.

Paul’s Parish in Hingham on March

19th at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers,

donations can be made to The Mother

Teresa Foundation or Edgartown

Council on Aging. Condolences may be

mailed to the family at P.O. Box 219,

Edgartown, MA, 02539. “Many women

have done excellently, but you surpass

them all.” Proverbs 31:29

NUGENT, Margaret

Chapman Funerals & Cremations,

Martha’s Vineyard

Age 86, of Medford. Entered Eternal

Rest, March 14, 2022. Devoted husband

of the late Eileen (Azaroff) Shapiro.

Beloved father of Loren & Allison

Shapiro, Richard & Deborah Shapiro

and Michael & Marlene Shapiro.

Cherished grandfather of Ethan, Talia,

Jason, Jillian, Lindsey, Daniel and

Aaron. Dear brother of Herbert Shapiro

and Joel Shapiro. Services at Temple

Shalom, 475 Winthrop St., Medford

on Wednesday March 16 at 1:30 PM.

Interment in Everett. Condolence calls

may be made following the interment,

Wednesday at Temple Shalom, Medford

and Thursday at Three Squares, 669

Highland Ave., Needham (across from

Temple Beth Shalom) from 7-9PM. In

lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy

may be made to Cystic Fibrosis

Foundation, 220 North Main St. #104,

Natick, MA 01760 and Temple Shalom,

475 Winthrop St., Medford, MA 02155.

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Of Tewksbury, formerly of Malden &

Delray Beach, FL, entered Eternal Rest

on March 13, 2022. Devoted wife of the

late Martin H. Oxman. Beloved mother

of Jeffrey & Diane Oxman and Barbara

& Larry Michaud. Adored grandmother

of Brian, Lisa, Kristina, Jason, Jessica,

Michael, Steven, Andrew, and David.

Cherished great-grandmother of

Addison, Jake, Mason, Jared, Marina,

Ethan, Eiley, Maya, David, William,

Chad, Amanda, Corinne, Carter,

Kaitlyn, Aidan, and Max. Service at

Goldman Funeral Chapel, 174 Ferry

Street (off Route 60), Malden on

Wednesday, March 16th at 11:00 AM.

Interment at Lebanon Tiferet Shalom

Cemetery, Peabody. In lieu of flowers,

expressions of sympathy may be

made to a charity of one’s choice. For

directions or online condolences go to:

OXMAN, Zelda (Rosenthal)

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Of Winthrop, March 10, 2022. Devoted

wife of the late Ronald Harris. Loving

mother of Robert DiPierro and his

companion Sara Batres and Tianna

Russo and her companion Brandon

Fornaro all of Winthrop. Dear sister of

William Keith of Winthrop. Beloved

daughter of the late Evelyn M. (Rowe)

and Reginald A. Keith.

Visiting Hours: Family and

friends are cordially invited to attend

the Visitation from the Ernest P.

Caggiano and Son Funeral Home,

147 Winthrop St., WINTHROP on

Wednesday, March 16, 2022 from

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will be held in the funeral home

immediately following the Visitation

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By Anna KisselgoffNEW YORK TIMES

Yuriko Kikuchi, who under

the single name Yuriko was a

leading dancer in Martha Gra-

ham’s company from the 1940s

to 1967 and then a keeper of

Graham’s flame through her de-

manding teaching and outstand-

ing revivals of early Graham

works, died March 8 in New

York. She was 102.

Her death was confirmed by

her daughter, Susan Kikuchi

Kivnick.

An ultimate multitasker,

Yuriko was associated with the

Graham fold for more than 50

years. She founded a student

company, the Martha Graham

Ensemble, in 1983 and ran it un-

til 1993. (Graham died in 1991.)

She also carved out a career

as an independent modern

dance choreographer whose

themes were sometimes related

to her Japanese heritage. She

was imbued with a powerful

clarity in her dancing, which

could turn into delicate fluidity

in her own choreography.

Yuriko developed another ca-

reer after she performed in the

original cast of the 1951 Broad-

way musical “The King and I.”

She starred in a dancing role as

the runaway slave Eliza in “The

Small House of Uncle Thomas,”

a faux-naïf ballet based on “Un-

cle Tom’s Cabin.” The choreogra-

phy was by Jerome Robbins,

who asked her to reproduce it in

later productions of the musical,

which she did for more than 20

years. Yul Brynner, the show’s

original male star, asked her to

direct the entire musical in Lon-

don. She then directed a produc-

tion in Japan.

She also appeared in the

1955 film version of “The King

and I.” When she directed sever-

al other productions of themusi-

cal, which is set in Siam (now

Thailand), she cast Asian Ameri-

cans as most of the Siamese

characters; earlier productions

had primarily used white actors

for those roles.

Yuriko Amemiya was born

Feb. 2, 1920, in San Jose, Calif.,

to Japanese immigrants from

middle-class families. Her moth-

er, Chiyo (Furuya) Amemiya,

was a midwife who opened her

own clinic; her husband, Mor-

ishige Amemiya, who had im-

ported ostrich feathers for wom-

en’s hats, became the clinic’s

manager.

Tragedy struck with the flu

pandemic of 1918. By 1923, her

father had died of the disease, as

had her two sisters, at ages 1 and

5. Resolved to save her remain-

ing child, her mother sent

Yuriko, at 3, to live with relatives

in Japan. It was the beginning of

a lonely childhood that im-

proved only when Yuriko was 6

and returned to California to live

with her mother and her new

stepfather, Shoji Kinoshita.

Yuriko’s mother enrolled her

in a local dance studio, where

she learned everything from tap

to ballet. It was Kinoshita who

suggested that on a forthcoming

visit to Japan, Yuriko look up

Japanese experimental dancer

Konami Ishii, who had visited

the family in California.

During that trip, in 1929,

Yuriko’s mother and her hus-

band decided to end their mar-

riage, but Yuriko’s mother left

her in Japan, where she attend-

ed a high school for genteel girls.

There she learned to sew, a skill

that later aided in helping Gra-

ham and her designer, Edythe

Gilfond, make costumes.

Yuriko also studied dance

with Ishii and performed with

her well-known troupe of young

dancers. Japan was hardly de-

void of experimental dance, as

its choreographers were heavily

influenced by visiting German

expressionist dancers. Those

Japanese dancers then became

mentors to practitioners of Bu-

toh, which would become the

new Japanese avant-garde in the

1980s.

Yuriko, however, found her

true path in dance when she re-

turned to California in 1937. Ac-

cording to Emiko Tokunaga, her

biographer, Yuriko never forgot

that she was an American. Her

mother now lived in Los Ange-

les, which was awash in com-

mercial dance studios where

young women trained to per-

form inmoviemusicals.

But Douglas Mitsuhashi, her

mother’s new husband, intro-

duced her to more artist ic

friends, including modern danc-

er Myra Kinch, who later ap-

peared often at the Jacob’s

Pillow festival in the Berkshires.

Through Kinch, Yuriko met a

kind and brilliant teacher, Doro-

thy Lyndall, who taught ballet

and modern dance. Yuriko be-

came a member of her company

and was encouraged to choreo-

graph. Tired of having her sur-

name misspelled, she began us-

ing Yuriko as her professional

name.

During World War II, she,

along with many others of Japa-

nese ancestry, was detained in a

federal internment camp. While

at the Gila River Relocation

Camp on the Pima Indian reser-

vation in the Arizona desert, she

obtained permission to run a

dance school. When she was re-

leased in 1943, Clara Clayman, a

relief counselor, advised her to

go to New York City to study

modern dance.

When Yuriko arrived in New

York, she knocked on Graham’s

studio door. When Graham

asked where she came from, ac-

cording to her biographer, she

replied, “My name is Yuriko and

I come from an Arizona concen-

tration camp, where I spent al-

most 18months.”

While in New York, Yuriko

met Charles Kikuchi, who had

been interned in a different relo-

cation camp. They married in

1946.

Kikuchi, who became a psy-

chiatric social worker, died in

1988. In addition to her daugh-

ter, Yuriko leaves her son, Law-

rence Kikuchi, and three grand-

children.

Yuriko, 102, keeper ofMartha Graham’s flame

By Kirsten GrieshaberASSOCIATED PRESS

BERLIN — Leon Schwarz-

baum, a survivor of the Nazis’

death camp at Auschwitz and a

lifelong fighter for justice for

the victims of the Holocaust,

has died. He was 101.

Mr. Schwarzbaum died early

Monday in Potsdam near Ber-

l i n , t h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l

Auschwitz Committee reported

on its website. No cause of

death was given.

“It is with great sadness, re-

spect and gratitude that Holo-

caust survivors around the

world bid farewell to their

friend, fellow sufferer and com-

panion Leon Schwarzbaum,

who in the last decades of his

life became one of the most im-

portant contemporary witness-

es of the Shoah,” the committee

said.

Mr. Schwarzbaum was the

only one of his family to survive

the concentration camps at

Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and a

subcamp Sachsenhausen, the

Auschwitz committee said.

He became known to a wid-

er audience when film director

Hans Erich Viet made a movie

in 2018 about his life. “The Last

of the Jolly Boys” was shot with

Mr. Schwarzbaum himself at

original locations.

Mr. Schwarzbaum was born

in 1921 to a Polish-Jewish fami-

ly in Hamburg in northern Ger-

many. He grew up in Bedzin,

Poland, from where the family

was deported to Auschwitz in

1943 after the ghetto there was

dissolved.

After the war, he lived in

Berlin for many years where he

worked as an art and antiques

dealer. He was married twice,

but had no children, daily

newspaper Bild reported.

We l l i n t o h i s 9 0 s , Mr.

Schwarzbaum still appeared on

German television to speak

about the unbearable sufferings

he lived through at Auschwitz

and the other concentration

camps he was deported to. He

also visited schools in Germany

regularly to tell the children

about his life.

“Especially in his last years,

Leon Schwarzbaum was driven

again and again by the urge to

remember his parents who

were murdered in Auschwitz

and all the other victims of the

Holocaust. He spoke on their

behalf,” said Christoph Heub-

ner, the executive vice presi-

dent of the Internat ional

Auschwitz Committee.

“But he was also driven by

his anger at the fact that so few

SS perpetrators ever saw the in-

side of a German courtroom,’’

Heubner added, referring to

the Nazis’ brutal paramilitary

organization.

In 2016, he gave testimony

at the trial against former

Auschwitz death guard Rein-

hold Hanning in Germany.

In an 2019 interview with

the Associated Press at his Ber-

lin apartment, which was cov-

ered with paintings and old

back-and-white pictures of his

35 relatives who perished in the

Holocaust, Mr. Schwarzbaum

expressed deep worry about the

reemergence of antisemitism

across Europe.

“If things get worse, I would

not want to live through such

times again,” he said. “I would

immigrate to Israel right away.”

In a letter of condolence to

Mr. Schwarzbaum’s widow,

German President Frank-Wal-

ter Steinmeier said that “we are

losing a wonderful human be-

ing and an important eyewit-

ness to history.”

“Leon Schwarzbaum experi-

enced himself what it means

wh en a c r im i n a l r e g ime

suspends human rights and

human dignity,” Steinmeier

said, praising him for testifying

about “Germany ’s darkest

period” after the war and warn-

ing about the dangers of far-

right extremism and xenopho-

bia.

Auschwitz survivor Leon Schwarzbaum, at 101

MARKUS SCHREIBER/AP FILE

Mr. Schwarzbaum, photographed in his home in Berlin in 2019, fought for justice for victims of the Holocaust.

ByMatt SchudelWASHINGTON POST

Bruce Duffy, whose first nov-

el, ‘‘The World As I Found It,’’

was a challenging and ambitious

exploration of the life of Ludwig

Wittgenstein and other philoso-

phers and one of the most cele-

brated literary debuts of the

1980s, died Feb. 10 at a hospice

center in Rockville, Md. He was

70.

He had brain cancer, said his

daughter Lily Duffy.

Mr. Duffy, who lived in the

Maryland suburbs his entire life,

was 36 when he published ‘‘The

World As I Found It’’ in 1987.

The novel, nearly 600 pages

long, examined the complicated

ideas and even more complicat-

ed life of Wittgenstein, the Vien-

na-born philosopher whose

studies of logic made him one of

the greatest thinkers of the 20th

century.

It took Mr. Duffy more than

seven years to do the research

and writing. The idea for the

novel grew from a few stray facts

he learned about Wittgenstein,

who was born in 1889, re-

nounced his family’s wealth and,

for a 10-year period, gave up the

study of philosophy. Three of his

brothers died by suicide.

Mr. Duffy had never visited

Austria or Cambridge, England,

where Wittgenstein spent much

of his life. Yet he inhabited that

world each day at 4 a.m., when

he rose to write before going to

his day job at a consulting com-

pany.

‘‘You know, you don’t always

have a choice of what you’re go-

ing to write,’’ he told The Wash-

ington Post in 1987. ‘‘So, I said ...

I don’ t care what anybody

thinks. Whether it’s publishable

or not, I’m going to write it.’’

Mr. Duffy sought to bring

drama and passion to the heady

life of Cambridge philosophers,

including Bertrand Russell and

G.E.Moore.

Mr. Duffy took his title from a

phraseWittgenstein had written

in the only book of philosophy

he published during his lifetime,

then painted an elaborate por-

trait over the known biography:

Wittgenstein once worked as an

aeronautical engineer, studied at

Cambridge, fought on the Rus-

sian front during World War I,

retreated for long periods to ru-

ral Norway and Austria, and

practiced architecture in Vienna

before returning to Cambridge

in the late 1920s.

‘‘In the collective memory of

those who knew him,’’ Mr. Duffy

wrote of Wittgenstein, ‘ ‘ he

w o u l d b e c om e s o r t o f a

splatched and angled concatena-

tion of images, wishes, evasions,

running feuds, regrets.’’

In a review in the Los Angeles

Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning

critic Richard Eder wrote, ‘‘It is

hard to knowwhich is more out-

sized; the talent of Bruce Duffy,

the author, or his nerve.’’

Even critics who complained

that some passages were over-

written, or that the dialogue did

not sound realistic, said there

was much to sa lute in Mr.

Duffy’s effort.

‘‘If this novel fails,’’ author

Frederic Raphael wrote in the

Sunday Times of London, ‘‘it

fails with a certain magnifi-

cence.’’

Mr. Duffy received a Guggen-

heim fellowship, a Whiting

Award for emerging writers and

a two-book contract for his next

novels. He appeared on talk

shows, lectured onWittgenstein,

and the BBC optioned the novel

for a project that never came to

fruition.

Critics praised the expansive

scope and vision of Mr. Duffy’s

first novel, noting that he had

defied the standard practice of

publishing a loosely autobio-

graphical, coming-of-age story.

In 1997, his second novel, ‘‘Last

Comes the Egg,’’ came out: a

loosely autobiographical, com-

ing-of-age story about a boy

from suburbanMaryland whose

relationship with his father fal-

Bruce Duffy, novel exploredlife of great philosopher

ters after the death of his moth-

er.

The book “crashed and

burned,’’ inMr. Duffy’s words.

He started and abandoned

another novel, bought out his

publishing contract, and went to

work as a corporate speechwrit-

er. Finally, he found another his-

torical subject for a novel, the

19th-century French poet Ar-

thur Rimbaud, and in 2011 pub-

lished a novel based on his short,

tempestuous life, ‘‘Disaster Was

MyGod.’’

He contemplated themalevo-

lent forces in Rimbaud’s life that

led Rimbaud to renounce poetry

at 21, move to Africa and de-

clare, ‘‘Art is stupid and a lie and,

above all, useless.’’

Bruce Michael Duffy was

born June 9, 1951, in Washing-

ton, D.C., and grew up in Garrett

Park, Md. His father was a car-

penter and builder, and his

mother was a homemaker who

died when Bruce, an only child,

was 11.

Mr. Duffy considered his

mother’s death, of complications

from appendicitis, the formative

event of his childhood, leading

him to question the purpose and

meaning of life. He determined

to become a writer and studied

English at the University of

Maryland, graduating in 1973.

He started a novel, which he

threw away, before discovering

Wittgenstein and writing ‘‘The

World As I Found It.’’

Mr. Duffy was overcome by

‘‘an incredible sense of mastery,’’

while writing the book, he told

The Post in 1987. ‘‘I would feel

as if I were standing up in a kind

of control tower, and somebody

else was writing. I’d be at once

feeling emotional about the

characters and at the same time

feeling a tremendous emotional

distance from them, a kind of

towering resignation before it

all. And that was a wonderful

feeling.’’

In 1999, author Joyce Carol

Oates hailed ‘‘The World As I

Found It’’ as ‘‘one of the most

ambitious first novels ever pub-

lished.’’

Mr. Duffy’s marriage to Mari-

anne Glass ended in divorce.

Survivors include his wife of 16

years, Susan Segal; two daugh-

ters from his first marriage, Lily

Duffy and Kate Duffy; a stepson,

Sam Kupfer; and a granddaugh-

ter.

‘‘Some people say he should

have written more,’’ novelist and

journalist Bob Shacochis told

Washingtonian in 2011. ‘‘Bruce

has written one great book, one

of the best books by anybody of

my generation. In this country,

there is a ghost brigade of really

good writers who get little or no

notice. Bruce is a captain in that

brigade.’’

STEPHEN VOSS

Mr. Duffy was known for his critically acclaimed novel, “The

World As I Found It,” which focused on Ludwig Wittgenstein.

By Noel SichalweASSOCIATED PRESS

LUSAKA, Zambia — Zambia

has declared seven days of na-

tional mourning following the

death of the country’s fourth

president, Rupiah Banda, at the

age of 85.

Mr. Banda, who was presi-

dent from 2008 until 2011, died

after a long battle with colon

cancer, his son Andrew Banda

has confirmed.

President Hakainde Hichile-

ma declared the period of na-

tional mourning and said that

Mr. Banda’s state funeral will be

held Thursday and he will be

buried Friday at the presidential

burial site at Embassy Park.

Hichilema had visitedMr. Banda

a day before his death on Friday

last week.

Mr. Banda became president

following the death of his prede-

cessor Levy Mwanawasa who

had earlier brought him out of

political retirement to become

vice president.

Mr. Banda’s political activism

began when he was a youth and

was involved in demonstrations

calling for Zambia’s indepen-

dence from Britain, which was

achieved in 1964. He later

served as a diplomat and a soc-

cer administrator.

Mr. Banda was known for a

warm personality that helped

himto lead thenationwhenZam-

bia needed a unifier upon the un-

expected death ofMwanawasa.

“When President Mwanawa-

sa died, we needed someone to

unite the nation and his [Mr.

Banda’s] personality fitted him

to become president,” he said.

Civil society activist Laura

Miti tweeted, “the death of presi-

dent Rupiah Banda feels like be-

ing orphaned or when the last of

your parents’ siblings dies…who

will be the adult in the room?”

Rupiah Banda, formerpresident of Zambia, at 85

SUSAN WALSH/AP POOL/FILE

Mr. Banda was praised as

being a unifier for Zambians.

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cept her insurance, despite Tufts saying on its web-

site that they were in-network.

Sheila’s mother, Eileen Lawlor, of Quincy,

jumped in to help, spending long hours online and

on the phone trying to remove bureaucratic obsta-

cles that were blocking her daughter’s treatment.

On two occasions, Lawlor had extended phone

conversations with Tufts representatives who

checked and rechecked the status of the two thera-

pists and insisted they were in-network, just as the

website said.

The Tufts representatives gave Lawlor their

names and call reference numbers and urged her

to havemanagers of the group practice call them

to verify.

But LifeStance Health, whichmanages DeBon-

is’s therapists, seemed equally sure the therapists

were not in-network.

LifeStance, one of the nation’s largest providers

of outpatient mental health care, recently took

over the South Shore group practice that included

the two therapists.

Tufts, too, is growing. It recently merged with

Harvard PilgrimHealth Care to form

Point32Health, which hasmore than 2million

members, the second-biggest health insurer in the

state after Blue Cross Blue Shield ofMassachu-

setts.

While Lawlor toggled back and forth between

Tufts and LifeStance looking for a solution, DeBon-

is went without treatment for weeks.

Finally, unable to clear the impasse, Lawlor

contactedme.

“To say that this is causingmy daughter great

anxiety is an understatement,” she wrote tome.

“We are at wit’s end.”

What happened in this case is an example of

how the actions (and inactions) of large insurers

and large corporations can have serious conse-

quences for people like DeBonis.

When it became apparent to Tufts and LifeS-

tance that DeBonis wasmissing needed treatment,

someone should have stepped forward to figure

out why and fixed it.

Here’s some of the back-and-forth:

In a Feb. 14 e-mail, a LifeStancemanager told

Lawlor that he had confirmed “withmy directors”

that DeBonis’s therapists were not in-network and

that the Tufts website was apparently wrong.

But Lawlor then talked to a Tufts representative

on the phone whowas so sure the therapists were

in-network that she offered to call LifeStance while

Lawlor remained on the phone. But the hold time

THE FINE PRINT, Page D4

By Jessica BartlettGLOBE STAFF

Massachusetts spent $1.5 billion less

on health care in 2020 than 2019, the

first time health care spending de-

creased since state officials began track-

ing the information in 2013.

The decrease came as health care in-

stitutions halted elective procedures

and patients canceled screenings and

other preventive appointments out of

fear of catching COVID-19. Experts said

spending would surge back in the near

future, as hospitals grapple with the

consequences of delayed care.

“We’re trying to constrain the

growth of health care spending, [but]

not the way that it happened in 2020,”

said Ray Campbell, executive director of

the state’s Centers for Health Informa-

tion and Analysis, which released the

report. “What you saw was a very indis-

criminate approach.”

The new data show that Massachu-

setts’s total health care expenditures de-

clined 2.4 percent to $62.6 billion be-

tween 2019 and 2020. The figure in-

cludes all costs of medical expenses and

other payments to providers, all patient

cost sharing such as deductibles and co-

pays, and costs associated with private

insurance.

The totals for 2020 include millions

in supplemental MassHealth payments,

but due to the timing of the awards, do

not factor in billions in federal relief.

Had federal funding — including $1.9

billion to acute care hospitals and

$168.6 million for hospital-associated

physician groups — been accounted for,

total health care spending would have

risen slightly from the $64.1 billion in

2019 to $64.7 billion in 2020, still one

of the lowest increases in spending the

state has seen since it began tracking

the data.

The state has sought for a decade to

constrain health care spending, and has

at times struggled to hold industry play-

ers to nomore than 3.1 percent growth.

Yet in a year when the state successfully

exceeded that goal, the reasons why

may wreak havoc down the line.

“You saw decreased screenings, and

you hear about the studies that are

starting to show the health consequenc-

es of all the reduced screenings and pre-

ventive procedures,” Campbell said. “It

was a success as a cost control from that

perspective, but I think what it showed

HEALTH CARE, Page D4

Health

care cost

fell amid

COVIDReport says statespending was $1.5bin first year, but isexpected to surge

For several years, Sheila DeBonis relied

on two trusted therapists in a South

Shore group practice for mental health

services. Her parents’ health insurance

covered the cost of her treatment.

But in early January DeBonis turned

26, whichmeant she could no longer be

on her parents’ insurance. (Health insurers are le-

gally mandated to allow families to include adult

children on their plans only through age 25.)

DeBonis’s employer did not offer insurance so

she went on the state Health Connector to find a

plan. She needed one that included her therapists.

To her great relief, DeBonis found an affordable

plan offered by Tufts Health Plan that listed on its

website the names of her therapists as being in-

network.

She signed up and paid her first monthly pre-

mium, thinking there would be no interruption in

her therapy.

But then themanagers of the group practice

that included her therapists said it would not ac-

Sean P. Murphy

THE FINE PRINT

Unhealthy treatmentA communications breakdown between insurance companies

caused a gap in crucial mental health therapy

MATTHEW J. LEE/GLOBE STAFF

Eileen Lawlor (right) and her daughter Sheila DeBonis picked a new health insurance plan based on its in-network status for two mental

health therapists DeBonis had been seeing. But then the providers’ network group denied her coverage.

By Anissa GardizyGLOBE STAFF

Gillette has not cut ties with Russia,

even as the country ’s invasion of

Ukraine has prompted other large

firms to halt or scale back business op-

erations there.

The Boston-based shaving giant has

a manufacturing facility in St. Peters-

burg where it makes more than 70

products, from disposable razors and

double-edge blades to packaging. The

plant accounts for nearly three quarters

of the shaving product market in Rus-

sia.

Last week, Gillette’s parent compa-

ny, Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble,

said it halted all “new capital invest-

ments” in Russia, as well as advertising

and promotional activity. The conglom-

erate — which owns consumer goods

brands such as Tide, Swiffer, and Crest

— said it is “significantly reducing” its

Russian production to “basic health,

hygiene and personal care items need-

ed by the many Russian families.”

It is not clear how Gillette products

will be affected, but Kara Buckley, a

spokesperson for P&G, said the firm’s

grooming segment, which includes Gil-

lette and Venus, would be “highly

Despite invasion, Gillettehasn’t cut ties with Russia

streamlined.”

Many P&G brands, from those that

sell razors to deodorant to tampons,

could fall under the “basic health, hy-

giene, and personal care” category. P&G

has a Russian manufacturing facility in

Novomoskovsk, where it makes fabric,

home, and baby products for brands in-

cluding Tide and Pampers.

In the last month, corporations

fromMcDonald’s to Starbucks to Airb-

nb have halted their operations in Rus-

sia.

GILLETTE, Page D4

ADOBE

Gillette makes more than 70

products in its St. Petersburg plant.

By Jon ChestoGLOBE STAFF

When David O’Neill took over as president ofMass

Audubon nearly two years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic

had just hit the state. But the fight for land preservation

dollars was well underway.

In the ensuing two years, those two issues became in-

tertwined. Environmental advocates such as O’Neill ar-

gued that the pandemic underscores the need to protect

the state’s open spaces, which proved their immense

worth when indoor recreation opportunities were es-

sentially shuttered.

The job required O’Neill to quickly get up to speed

on the Byzantine world of Massachusetts state govern-

ment. His career had been in theWashington, D.C., ar-

ea, most recently as chief conservation officer at the Na-

tional Audubon Society. (With its $37million annual

budget and 125-year history, Mass Audubon is the largest

and oldest independent affiliate of the national group.)

O’Neill said the state Legislature only set aside about $15

million for land preservation in the first round of allocating

federal American Rescue Plan Act funds. Now,Mass Audubon

and several other like-minded environmental groups are

gearing up for round two.

“We just think this was a big miss,” O’Neill said. “We

saw communities that were struck by COVID in the

harshest ways are often the communities that have

the least amount of open space . . . I often say nature

has been a prescription for COVID. It’s certainly a

prescription for better health and a cleaner envi-

ronment.”

BOLD TYPES, Page D2

Press is on for more parks funding

CHRIS MORRIS FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE

Mass Audubon president David O’Neill argued the pandemic

underscores the need to protect open spaces.

BOLD TYPES

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TALKING POINTS

CASINOS

Commissionimposes newconditions onEncore

TheMassachusetts Gaming Commission onMonday voted to impose several new condi-

tions toWynn Resorts’ license to operate the Encore BostonHarbor casino in Everett, in

reaction toWynn’s plans for an events venue across Broadway from the casino and an

overhead walkway that could connect the two sites. The conditions include promising

that any venue in the development would have fewer than 1,000 ormore than 3,500 tick-

eted seats, essentially matching limits in state law for entertainment venues built within

casinos. Any bookings for the new venue could not include restrictions barring entertain-

ers from performing elsewhere in the state, according to the new conditions, andWynn

would submit any proposals it makes for future developments in Everett’s Lower Broad-

way urban renewal area to the gaming commission for further review.Wynn is fine with

the changes and a company spokesman said it is pleased with the commission’s decision;

the commission opted against including any property across the street as part of the actu-

al casino footprint that it regulates, a decision that could have imposed additional securi-

ty- and safety-related rules for that development. In December,Wynn had raised concerns

among rival theater operators after proposing an 1,800-seat venue there, and eventually

revised its plans to keep it under 1,000 seats in size. Wynn is also building a 20,000-

square-foot restaurant space and a 2,300-car parking garage across the street, and has

long-term plans to develop hotels and other businesses in that area. — JONCHESTO

CRYPTOCURRENCY

Convicted drugdealer to forfeit$2 million inbitcoin

Aman convicted of drug charges in federal court in Boston has been ordered by a judge to

forfeit about $2million worth of bitcoin, the first judicial forfeiture of cryptocurrency in

the federal District ofMassachusetts, prosecutors said. Binh Thanh Le, 25, of Brockton,

described by prosecutors as the leader and organizer of a sophisticated drug trafficking

operation that did its business on the darkWeb, was also sentenced last week to eight

years in prison, according to a statement from the US attorney’s office in Boston. Le was

indicted in June 2019. According to court records, he received large quantities of drugs in

themail from international sources, including ecstasy, Ketamine, and Xanax. The drugs

were sold on the darkWeb and shipped to customers throughout the United States,

prosecutors said. Le was arrested inMarch 2019 when hemet with undercover agents at

a Norwood hotel to exchange $200,000 worth of Bitcoin for cash.More than 42 pounds of

ecstasy, almost 15.5 pounds of Ketamine, nearly 2 pounds of cocaine, andmore than

10,000 counterfeit Xanax pills were seized during the investigation. He pleaded guilty in

September. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

UKRAINE

Citigroupexpands itswithdrawalfrom Russia

Citigroup, the US bankwith the largest presence

in Russia, said it would broaden its planned

withdrawal from the country because of the war in

Ukraine. Citi, which announced plans in April to

sell its Russian consumer division, will “expand

the scope of that exit process to include other lines

of business,” Edward Skyler, the bank’s executive

vice president for global public affairs, said in a

statement. The bank will reduce its operations in

Russia and unwind its exposure in the country,

which includes consumer and corporate loans and other financial products. The bank

will stop seeking new business or clients in Russia and is helpingmultinational

corporations unwind their operations there, Skyler said. —NEWYORKTIMES

PHARMECEUTICALS

Sanofi’s breastcancer drugfails trial

Sanofi’s experimental medicine amcenestrant failed in a clinical test for breast cancer,

dealing a blow to one of the French drugmaker’s potential blockbusters. The patients

who got the drug, rather than endocrine treatment, didn’t live longer without the disease

progressing— a key benefit measure known as progression-free survival — in the phase 2

trial, Sanofi saidMonday. Themedicine is one of six products Sanofi has touted as

“potentially transformative” and prioritized. — BLOOMBERGNEWS

INTERNATIONAL

CriminalchargesbroughtinWirecardcollapse

German prosecutors have charged the former chief executive of payments company

Wirecard and two other formermanagers with fraud and false accounting in connection

with the firm’s collapse last year amid allegations that much of its revenue and assets

were faked. Prosecutors inMunich saidMonday that former chief executiveMarkus

Braun (left) signed off on financial reports he knewwere false. They said the firm booked

nonexistent revenue it attributed tomultiple partnerships in other countries and used

fake documents to show it had funds that it did not. The firm’s former head of accounting

and themanaging director of a Dubai-based subsidiary also were charged. The fraud cost

banks $3.4 billion in loans and writedowns, according to the prosecutors’ statement. One

of the central figures in the case, the company’s former chief operating officer Jan

Marsalek, is being sought by authorities, prosecutors said. — ASSOCIATED PRESS

UKRAINE

Pfizer to haltdrug trials inRussia, donateprofits toUkraine

Pfizer said it would no longer start new clinical

trials in Russia and that it would donate all

profits from its subsidiary in the country to

Ukraine relief causes. At the same time, the drug

maker said in a statement that it will continue to

supplymedicines to Russia, out of fear that

vulnerable patients such as children and elderly

people who rely on its therapies could be harmed

by any halt. The company “concluded that a

voluntary pause in the flow of ourmedicines to Russia would be in direct violation of our

foundational principle of putting patients first,” according to the statement. Pfizer said it

doesn’t own or operate anymanufacturing sites in Russia and plans to cease planned

investments with local suppliers. — BLOOMBERGNEWS

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

Panasoniclooking for sitefor US batteryfactory

Panasonic is engaged in talks over the site for a newUS factory

that would supply Tesla and potentially other electric-vehicle

manufacturers with next-generation lithium-ion batteries,

people familiar with thematter said. The longtime Tesla

supplier is looking at several locations for themultibillion-

dollar factory, including one in Oklahoma and another in

Kansas, the people said, asking not to be identified because the

discussions are confidential. The plant could begin operating as

soon as 2024, they said. — BLOOMBERGNEWS

GOVERNMENT

Democrats wantprobe of USPSpurchaseof gas-poweredmail trucks

House Democrats are asking the US Postal

Service’s inspector general to investigate the

agency’s decision to replace its mail-truck

fleet with almost all gasoline-powered

models, a move that paved the way for a

contract withWisconsinmilitary truck

maker Oshkosh Corp. worth asmuch as $6

billion. The Postal Service violated legal

environmental requirements in its decision

to tomove forward with the plan, the

lawmakers wrote in a letterMonday to Inspector General TammyWhitcomb. They asked

for an investigation into whether the agency complied with national law in its

environmental rationale underpinning the decision. — BLOOMBERGNEWS

Mass Audubon was one of

eight organizations that coau-

thored a letter last week to the

top budget writers in the Legis-

lature, including ways and

means co-chairmen Representa-

tive AaronMichlewitz and Sen-

ator Michael Rodrigues.

The letter urges them to in-

clude at least $210million for

investments in open space in

the next round of rescue plan al-

locations.

In that letter, the environ-

mental groups cite a December

report fromUMass Donahue In-

stitute that showsMassachu-

setts ranks last out of all states

on per-capita spending of state

and local governments for parks

and recreation.

“Massachusetts is a leader in

so many areas,” O’Neill said.

“But I think we’re falling flat on

the commitment to our parks

and our open spaces.”

Shipping up to . . .Southeast AsiaState officials initially hoped

to persuade Israeli cargo com-

pany Zim Integrated Shipping

Services to open up a US head-

quarters in Boston. But what

eventually happened— the an-

nouncement last week that Zim

will launch a weekly shipping

route between Boston and Viet-

nam—will likely provide a big-

ger boost to the local economy

than a new office ever could.

Michael Benezra, a former

aide in Israel’s Ministry of For-

eign Affairs, said top executives

from Zim visited Boston in De-

cember 2019 at the request of

Zeev Boker, then Israel’s Consul

General in Boston. Senator Nick

Collins, who cochaired the Leg-

islature’s export committee at

the time, was Zim’s primary

point of contact amongMassa-

chusetts government officials.

That’s according to Benezra,

who nowworks at Colette Phil-

lips Communications and over-

sees the nonprofit GK Fund for

entrepreneurs of color.

Kraft Group executives had

also had some early discussions

with Zim about opening the

trade route, he said. Zim’s visit

involved a trip to the State

House, a tour of the Conley Ter-

minal in South Boston (in Col-

lins’ district), and a dinner at

Boker’s home attended by Col-

lins andMike Kennealy, Gover-

nor Charlie Baker’s top econom-

ic development aide.

Zim ended up keeping its US

headquarters in Norfolk, Va.

But the trade link with Vietnam

will be crucial for New England

companies that rely onmanu-

facturing partners in that coun-

try.

“This puts Boston and New

England on the map, as . . . a

port of call,” Collins said. “This

is a big victory.”

Healey shifts focus toa new sort of degreeAfter six years focused on

four-year degrees while presi-

dent of Babson College, Kerry

Healey is taking on a different

kind of educational mission

now. This one, she argues, could

be just as important for career

development as the business de-

grees from Babson.

Kerry now leads theMilken

Center for Advancing the

American Dream, based in

Washington. The center last

week announced it has teamed

up with online class provider

Coursera and Google to offer

free certificate classes for up to

200,000 students over the next

three years. These certificates

could be used to land a wide

range of tech jobs, such as those

in data analytics and IT

support, at big employers such

as Google and IBM.

Healey said she became in-

trigued by the possibilities of

online learning while at Babson,

although the focus there was on

traditional college courses. But

certificate programs, she said,

can be life-changing, particular-

ly for people who have not at-

tended a four-year college or

who are trying to make a career

uBOLD TYPESContinued from Page D1

transition.

“A number of employers are

coming together and realizing

the opportunities created by

these shorter, skills-based edu-

cational courses,” Healey said.

“This really is just an extraordi-

nary moment, making this kind

of training available at scale.”

FirstLight takesa swing at windFirstLight Powermakes

most of its money in hydroelec-

tricity, but also has branched

out into solar power and battery

storage. Now, the Burlington

energy company is looking to

capitalize on the offshore wind

gold rush as well.

FirstLight, it turns out, is an

investor with a team led by In-

vernergy, the only US company

to land an offshore wind lease in

the recent New York Bight auc-

tion held by the Department of

the Interior. In total, six bidding

teams committed to $4.4 billion

for lease areas southeast of New

York City, higher than any other

previous offshore auction, in-

cluding those for oil and gas

leases. (The Invernergy team

paid $645million for its spot.)

FirstLight chief executive

Alicia Barton spent several

years prodding the Trump ad-

ministration to open up the

New York Bight for offshore

wind leases in her previous job,

leading the New York State En-

ergy Research and Develop-

ment Authority. It didn’t hap-

pen until a wind-friendly presi-

dent, Joe Biden, moved into the

White House.

“We fought hard to open up

the Bight for a long time,” Bar-

ton said. “This outcome really

reinforces the potential we

knewwas there.”

Longtime friends,and now coworkersSharon Torgerson and Sandy

Lish became good friends at

Brookline High School. As they

went on to successful public re-

lations careers, they often

turned to each other for advice.

But three-plus decades passed

before they ended up actually

working together.

Torgerson recently leftMass

General Brigham to join The

Castle Group, the 30-person PR

and events agency that Lish co-

owns withWendy Spivak in

Charlestown. Around the same

time, Castle hired Taylor Con-

nolly,who previously worked

with John Barros’ mayoral cam-

paign after six years at City Hall.

Castle used their arrival to tout

its newly expanded public af-

fairs practice.

Lish said Castle has engaged

in public affairs (that is, work-

ing to influence public policy

debates, outside of direct lobby-

ing) for much of its 25-year exis-

tence, but never really labeled it

as such.

Live events ended early in

the pandemic, but Lish said

Castle quickly pivoted to online

programs, starting with one for

Keith Motley and the Urban

League of Eastern

Massachusetts. That helped

stabilize the events side of the

business, while the PR side took

off. As a result, overall revenue

grew by about 25 percent from

2019 to 2021. That growth

enabled Castle to expand its

team. Now that two people with

solid government experience

are on board — Torgerson spent

three years with the Baker

administration, plus a

temporary return engagement

to help in the early days of the

pandemic — it makes sense to

wave the public affairs flag.

Torgerson and Lish can final-

ly bounce ideas off each other in

the same office, and even in the

same car when they commute

together.

“We have rules in the car,”

Lish said. “If we drive in togeth-

er, Sharon’s not allowed to tell

me how to drive unless I’m

about to do something very

dangerous.”

Jon Chesto can be reached at

jon.chesto@globe.com. Follow

him on Twitter@jonchesto.

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US-listed Chinese stocks resumed

a steep selloff on Monday as concerns

about Beijing’s close relationship with

Russia added to losses spurred by its

crackdown on tech giants and the

growing risk of US de-listings.

The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China

index declined 12 percent to its lowest

level since July 2013, adding to last

week’s rout. American depositary re-

ceipts of e-commerce giant Alibaba

Group Holding Ltd. and rival JD.com

Inc. dropped at least 10 percent each,

while Pinduoduo Inc. tumbled 21 per-

cent. Search-engine operator Baidu

Inc. fell 8.4 percent. Alibaba has tum-

bled more than 30 percent this year,

its lowest level since June 2016.

The slump followed a report that

Russia had asked China for military

assistance for its war in Ukraine. Even

as China denied the report, traders

worried that Beijing’s potential over-

ture toward Vladimir Putin could

bring a global backlash against Chi-

nese firms, even sanctions. The US

and China were to hold their first

high-level, in-person talks since the

invasion onMonday.

Other negative headlines included

Tencent Holdings Ltd. reportedly fac-

ing a possible record fine for viola-

tions of anti money-laundering rules,

as well as the lockdown of Shenzhen

for at least a week after virus cases

doubled nationwide.

“There’s horrible, awful sentiment

around China,” said Vital Knowledge’s

Adam Crisafulli. “De-listing fears and

renewed COVID pressures delivered a

double-whammy to the few bulls left.

There’s wholesale liquidation and

even optimists think the space is just

too hard right now. Valuationsmay be

cheap and the PBOC is one of the few

central banks easing policy, but this

isn’t enough.”

Adding to the sentiment, JPMor-

gan Chase & Co. analysts downgraded

Chinese Internet stocks to sell-equiva-

lent ratings, including JD.com, Aliba-

ba, and Tencent, calling them “unin-

vestable” in the near-term. “Due to

rising geopolitical and macro risks,

we believe a large number of global

investors are in the process of reduc-

ing exposure to the China internet

sector, leading to significant fund out-

flows,” the firm wrote in a March 14

report.

In Asian trading Monday, the

Hang Seng China Enterprises index

posted its biggest drop since Novem-

ber 2008, while the Hang Sang Tech

index tumbled 11 percent in its worst

decline since the gauge was launched

in July 2020. That wiped out $2.1 tril-

lion in value since a year-earlier peak.

“While it is tempting to call for a

bottom after such a heavy selloff, we

believe the valuation is not low

enough to argue everything bad has

been priced,” said Leonardo Pellandi-

ni, a strategist at Bank Julius Baer.

Last week, the risk of Chinese

firms de-listing from the United

States, together with added regulato-

ry concerns and the exclusion of a

company from aNorwegian sovereign

wealth fund, sparked a rout in the

Golden Dragon Index, which tracks

American depository receipts of Chi-

nese firms. The gauge fell 18 percent

last week to close at the lowest level

since September 2015.

The largest China tech exchange-

traded fund in the United States has

erased all the gains since its debut in

2013. The KraneShares CSI China In-

ternet Fund, a $4.9 billion ETF that

invests in Chinese tech companies,

has slumped over 40 percent this year,

erasing all the gains, including divi-

dend payouts, since it started trading

nine years ago.

“The issue right now is the lack of a

positive catalyst in China with regula-

tory noise continuing to create an

overhang on ADRs,” said Sharif Farha,

a portfolio manager at Safehouse Cap-

ital. “In the short term we think over-

all Chinese equities will continue to

face selling pressure. Longer term, the

strong will survive and likely get

stronger, bigger.”

Chinese stocks

in US markets crash

after selloff in Asia

By Rachel SiegelWASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — Sarah

Bloom Raskin’s nomination to

the Federal Reserve Board ap-

peared all but doomed on Mon-

day after Senator Joe Manchin

III ofWest Virginia, a key Demo-

cratic vote, said he opposed her

because of her stance on energy

in an era of inflation.

“I have carefully reviewed

Sarah Bloom Raskin’s qualifica-

tions and previous public state-

ments,’’ Manchin said in a state-

ment Monday. “Her previous

public statements have failed to

satisfactorily address my con-

cerns about the critical impor-

tance of financing an all-of-the-

above energy policy to meet our

nation’s critical energy needs. I

have come to the conclusion that

I am unable to support her nom-

ination to serve as a member of

the Federal Reserve Board.’’

Raskin’s nomination to the

job of vice chair for supervision

— the Fed’s top banking regula-

tor — was already under pres-

sure, as Republicans initially op-

posed her candidacy over her fo-

cus on climate change and its

threat to financial stability.

But in recent weeks, her path

forward hung in the balance af-

ter Republicans on the Senate

Banking Committee boycotted

her confirmation vote, pointing

to her time on the board of a Col-

orado payments firm that got ac-

cess to a Fed payments systems

during her tenure on the compa-

ny’s board. The boycott has held

up not only her path forward,

but votes on President Biden’s

other picks for the Fed.

So far, the White House and

Democrats on the Senate Bank-

ing Committee have stood up for

Raskin’s Fednominationmay bethreatenedManchin sayshe opposes herstance on energy

Sarah Bloom

Raskin’s path to

the Fed

nomination got

bumpy after

Republicans on

the Senate

Banking

Committee

boycotted her

confirmation

vote, pointing

to her time on

the board of a

Colorado

payments firm

that got access

to a Fed

payments

systems during

her tenure on

the company’s

board.

Raskin, saying Republicans’ fixa-

tion on this part of her record is

a ploy to stall her nomination in-

definitely. But after losing Man-

chin’s support, shewould face an

extremely fraught, if not impos-

sible, path to confirmation in a

tightly divided Senate.

In a statement, White House

spokesman Chris Meagher not-

ed Raskin won bipartisan sup-

port for her roles at the Fed and

the Treasury. “She has earned

widespread support in the face

of an unprecedented, baseless

campaign led by oil and gas

companies that sought to tar-

nish her distinguished career,’’

Meagher said. “We are working

to line up the bipartisan support

that she deserves, so that she can

be confirmed by the Senate for

this important position.’’

Senator Patrick J. Toomey,

Republican from Pennsylvania,

and other GOP lawmakers have

attacked her view the Fed should

domore tomitigate the financial

risks of climate change, includ-

ing by potentially changing the

way it regulates energy produc-

ers. Manchin is adding his high-

profile voice to those warning

the Fed against tackling climate

issues.

In her writing and public re-

marks, Raskin has highlighted

the economic and financial sta-

bil ity risks tied to climate

change. In a column published

in September, she wrote that ‘’fi-

nancial regulators must reimag-

ine their own role so that they

can play their part in the broad-

er reimagining of the economy.’’

Raskin’s supporters want to

see the Fed thoroughly evaluate

how more intense and frequent

climate disasters, from wildfires

to hurricanes, could harm the

health of banks or ricochet

through the financial system.

They are also hoping the Fedwill

move toward encouraging banks

to reduce their exposures to cli-

mate risks. Democrats hoped

Raskin would bring expertise to

climate policy issues. But they al-

so note that Raskin’s views are

not out of step with Fed chair Je-

rome Powell or others.

Now, with Raskin’s nomina-

tion compromised, Democrats

and the White House will have

to weigh whether to select a new

candidate or try to confirm

Biden’s other picks. The Republi-

can boycott has kept Powell from

being renominated, and Fed

governor Lael Brainard from be-

ing elevated to vice chair. Biden’s

nominees for two seats on the

Fed board — economists Lisa

Cook and Philip Jefferson — also

have yet to be confirmed.

Republicans on the Banking

Committee, led by Toomey, have

said they would readily vote on

Powell’s renomination and the

other nominees. That leaves

Democrats to decide whether to

siphon off Raskin’s nomination

and move forward with the rest

of the slate.

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Stocks lost more ground, crude oil prices fell, and bond yields

rose sharplyMonday as anxiety over the war in Ukraine and

an upcoming Federal Reservemeeting on interest rates keep

global financial markets on edge. Oil prices tumbled to take

some pressure off the high inflation sweeping the world, with

a barrel of US crude falling toward $100 after touching $130

last week.Markets have careened in recent weeks amid

uncertainty about whether the economymay be heading for

a toxic combination of stagnating growth and persistently

high inflation. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused prices

to surge for oil, wheat, and other commodities produced in

the region. That in turn has led to sharp day-to-day and hour-

to-hour reversals across markets, as expectations for

worsening inflation rise and fall. The wide expectation is that

the Fed will raise its key short-term interest rate by a quarter

of a percentage point onWednesday. It would be the first

increase since 2018. If it’s too passive, high inflation could

becomemore permanent. The Fedmay also givemore details

about how it will put into reverse themassive bond-buying

program it ran during the pandemic to keep long-term rates

low, economists at BofA Global Research wrote in a report.

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is that there are unintended

consequences and costs when

you don’t do it the right way.”

In 2020, hospitals and physi-

cian practices suffered the great-

est financial hits as people large-

ly avoided seeking medical care,

even as COVID cases rose and at

times overwhelmed facilities.

Spending on hospital inpatient

services declined 1.8 percent to

$11.6 billion, and spending on

hospital outpatient services de-

clined 11.1 percent to $10.2 bil-

l i on . Phys i c ian spending

dropped 12 percent to $8.5 bil-

lion.

Lower spending decimated

the margins of acute care hospi-

tals.

The average total margin —

all operating and nonoperating

revenue minus expenses — was

negative 4.5 percent in fiscal

2020. COVID rel ie f funds

pushed hospitals back into the

black to an average 2.6 percent

margin, which was still almost a

percentage point lower com-

pared to the prior year.

Fewer people at hospitals

and doctor’s offices translated

into less business for other parts

uHEALTH CAREContinued from Page D1

of the health system. As hospi-

tals discharged fewer patients,

nurs ing home occupancy

dropped from 86.9 percent to 75

percent. That figure was com-

pounded by high numbers of

nursing home deaths due to

COVID.

One of the only areas with in-

creased spending was prescrip-

tion drugs. Before rebates, phar-

macy spending grew 8.2 percent

to $11.4 billion — the highest

growth in the last three years.

Even after rebates, in which

drugmanufacturers sendmoney

back to insurers to reduce the

cost of medications, pharmacy

spending increased 7.7 percent

to $8.9 billion, faster than the

national spending growth of 3

percent.

Campbell said many pre-

scriptions were filled on a 90-

day supply instead of a 30-day

supply during the pandemic, in-

creasing spending.

Pharmacies also remained

available during the pandemic

despite shut downs elsewhere,

and telehealth helped ease ac-

cess to prescriptions.

MassBio, an industry lobby-

ing group for drug manufactur-

ers, defended the spending, and

faulted the agency for not doing

more to highlight its rebate lev-

els.

“In 2020, when people could

not or would not visit their doc-

tors for regular or preventative

care, the one constant that kept

them healthy and out of the hos-

pital was their continued ability

to access the medicines they

needed to keep them healthy,”

said Joe Boncore, chief executive

of MassBio, in a statement. “Un-

fortunately, this report does not

measure healthcare spending

that is saved because of prescrip-

tion drug uptake and adher-

ence.”

Pharmaceutical Research

and Manufacturers of America,

a national lobbying group, said

the increases represent upticks

in demand and utilization, while

nationally prices for medicines

fell.

The group also seemed skep-

tical that spending on prescrip-

tions increased so significantly,

given that, nationally, spending

increased an average of 3 per-

cent.

Insurers reaped the benefits

of overall decreased spending.

With premium rates set before

the pandemic, and utilization

and spending substantially less,

average insurer gains increased

from $4 per member per month

to $19 per member per month.

Those gains were even after in-

surers handed out mandated re-

bates and voluntary premium

credits.

In a statement from the Mas-

sachusetts Association of Health

Plans, which represents 17 in-

surers in the state, president Lo-

ra Pellegrini pointed out that in-

surers spent to stand up tele-

health coverage options, and

that insurers issued $60 million

in premium rebate checks. She

said the focus should remain on

reigning in pharmaceutical

spending.

“As we emerge from the chal-

lenges of the COVID-19 pan-

demic, action must be taken to

address continued increases in

prescription drugs and provider

prices, and we must hold all en-

tities accountable for cost

growth, enhance competition,

and correct market dysfunc-

tion,” she said.

Jessica Bartlett can be reached at

jessica.bartlett@globe.com.

Follow her on Twitter

@ByJessBartlett.

Health care spending fell in 2020

Leveraging the Gil lette

brand name to put pressure on

Russia would have been effec-

tive, said John Guilfoil, member

of a Massachusetts-based public

relations firm who teaches at

Northeastern University. But

ceasing operations might not be

so easy, he said, especially for a

business that is intertwined

with the global economy and

provides essential items.

“They have to balance be-

tween supporting sanctions,

and overall a message of sup-

port... but their productsmay be

responsible for health and well-

ness of the average Russian,”

said Guilfoil. “To flip a switch

may very well be impossible and

do a lot of harm.”

London-based Unilever,

which sells Dove soap and Hell-

mann’s mayonnaise, said last

week that it would stop import-

ing and exporting products with

uGILLETTEContinued from Page D1

Russia. The company added

that it would not advertise, “in-

vest any further capital,” or prof-

it from its business there as a re-

sult of the Ukrainian invasion.

But like P&G, Unilever said it

plans to continue supplying “ev-

eryday essential food and hy-

giene products made in Russia

to people in the country.”

Gillette’s St. Petersburg man-

ufacturing plant makes more

than 185.6 million products a

year, which are exported to

more than 50 counties. Unlike

Unilever, P&G did not comment

on whether it would halt Rus-

sian imports and exports.

“The vast majority of the

products we make in Russia are

sold in Russia,” another P&G

spokesperson wrote in an e-

mail. “For Gillette, those are

lower-cost double-edge blades

and basic disposable razors.”

It isn’t clear how— or wheth-

er — P&G’s actions will affect

Gillette in Russia, but Guilfoil

said halting sales would send an

“extraordinary message to the

average Russian that something

is wrong.”

“Certainly, it is expensive and

costly to cut yourself off from

one of the largest countries in

the world,” he said. “[But] histo-

ry shows us that there is a tangi-

ble, corporate social responsibly

benefit to doing these things.”

Whether Gillette’s operations

in Russia spark backlash from

consumers in other countries

depends on how closely the

company’s statement is scruti-

nized by customers, he said.

“As of right now, P&G has

done enough to make the right

lists,” he said.

And “people associate the

Gillette name with Boston” —

not Russia — “mainly because of

the football stadium,” Guilfoil

added.

Anissa Gardizy can be reached

at anissa.gardizy@globe.com.

Gillette hasn’t cut ties to Russia

trying to get through to Life-

Stance was too long, and the

representative gave Lawlor her

information to pass along to

LifeStance.

Pressed again for more infor-

mation, the LifeStancemanager

responded in a second e-mail to

Lawlor on Feb. 24 that the com-

pany’s “benefits verification

team” had determined that the

therapists were not in the Tufts

network.

The LifeStancemanager said

the company’s contracts with

Tufts did not include the partic-

ular plan DeBonis was on,

“Tufts Health Direct.”

“Our clinicians cannot bill

visits under Tufts Direct plans,”

themanager wrote.

After receiving that e-mail,

Lawlor called Tufts again, and

was assured by a different repre-

sentative that DeBonis’s thera-

pists were in-network.

Lawlor wrote back to the

uTHE FINE PRINTContinued from Page D1

LifeStancemanager that Tufts

had confirmed her information

and that “you should be accept-

ing this insurance without ques-

tion.”

After getting no further re-

sponse, Lawlor turned tome.

A day after I got involved by

making inquiries of Tufts and

LifeStance, Tufts e-mailedme a

statement clearing the way for

Sheila to resume her therapy.

“We have been in contact”

with Sheila to let her know that

her therapists “are in network”

and that she can see them “at

this practice,” the Tufts state-

ment said.

“We have also been in touch”

with LifeStance and this issue

has now been resolved,” Tufts

said.

Sowhere had things gone

wrong? Turns out that Tufts and

LifeStancewere in negotiations

on a new contract but had not fi-

nalized it when Tufts premature-

ly said on its website that DeBon-

is’s therapists were in-network.

The contract has since been

finalized but it was not when

LifeStance told DeBonis that her

therapists were not covered.

Later, Tufts acknowledged its

mistake, saying it had “incor-

rectly listed” the therapists as in-

network.

“Upon learning of this issue,

we worked quickly to update

our contract with LifeStance to

add this product and these pro-

viders were added to the Tufts

Health Direct network.

“We apologize for the incon-

venience this caused ourmem-

ber and we are pleased it has

been quickly resolved,” Tufts

said.

DeBonis and Lawlor said, to

them, it didn’t feel “quickly re-

solved.” It felt exhausting and

long overdue, they said.

Got a problem? Send your

consumer issue to

sean.murphy@globe.com.

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Eileen Lawlor (left, with her daughter, Sheila DeBonis) was repeatedly assured by her

daughter’s insurer that two mental health therapists DeBonis had been seeing were in

network, only to be told by the therapists’ management that they were not.

By Larry EdelmanGLOBE COLUMNIST

Massachusetts employers

slowed hiring in January

amid a surge in COVID-19

infections caused by the

Omicron variant.

Employers added 10,600

jobs in the first month of the

year, down from a revised

increase of 14,500 in De-

cember, the Executive Office

of Labor and Workforce De-

velopment said on Monday.

The state’s unemploy-

ment rate rose to 4.8 percent

in January from a revised

4.6 percent in the previous

month. The national jobless

rate was 4 percent in Janu-

ary.

Twenty-four months af-

ter the first COVID shut-

downs, the Massachusetts

job market had yet to return

to its pre-pandemic vibran-

cy. There were 131,000 few-

er jobs in January than in

February 2020, while the

jobless rate was 1.9 percent-

age points higher.

In a positive sign, the

state’s labor force expanded

significantly in January,

with 15,700 workers either

finding a job or starting to

look for one. It was the larg-

est increase since September

2020, and may indicate that

the labor shortage that has

frustrated employers since

before the pandemic is eas-

ing. At 3.77 million partici-

pants, the labor force was

just shy of its February 2020

mark.

Employment gains in

January were led by the pro-

fessional and business ser-

vices sector, which added

5,600 jobs.

Leisure and hospitality

companies added 3,800 po-

sitions, though employment

in the sector remained 14

percent lower than at the

pandemic’s start. Construc-

tion firms added 1,400 jobs.

Health and social servic-

es shed 2,200 jobs in Janu-

ary.

The number of jobs cre-

ated in December was re-

vised significantly lower be-

cause of annual year-end re-

v i s i o n s a n d u p d a t e d

population controls from

the US Census Bureau. The

jobless rate was revised

higher. In all, the Census re-

vised some data going back

to 2017.

Larry Edelman can be

reached at larry.edelman@

globe.com. Follow him on

Twitter @GlobeNewsEd.

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Total for March 2.1”

Normal for March 7.8”

Season total 54.0”

Season normal 49.2”

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Degree days HeatYesterday 24

Monthly total 381

Normal to date 405

Season total (normal) 4004 (4346)

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tonight’s lows.

Cities Forecast high and low temperatures and conditions

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Small craft advisory Gale warning Storm warning

Weather Dense fog

Visibility 1/16 of a mile

Wind west at 44 m.p.h.

High/low temperature 12/0

Snow depth at 5 p.m. 9.0”

(5 p.m. yesterday)

Yesterday’s high/low 52°/29°

Sunrise 6:56 a.m.

Sunset 6:50 p.m.

Moonrise 4:01 p.m.

Yesterday 0.00”

Precip days in March 7

Month to date 1.19”

Norm. month to date 1.78”

Year to date 8.13”

Norm. year to date 8.38”

(valid at 5 p.m. yesterday)

High tides

Old Orchard ME10:02 10:36

Hampton

Beach NH 10:16 10:50

Plum Island 10:19 10:50

Ipswich 10:01 10:35

Gloucester 10:08 10:41

Marblehead 10:08 10:41

Lynn 10:17 10:48

Scituate 10:12 10:45

Plymouth 10:14 10:46

Cape Cod

Canal East 9:57 10:30

Cape Cod

Canal West 8:53

Falmouth 9:52 10:25

Hyannis Port 10:55 11:34

Chatham 10:57 11:36

Wellfleet 10:22 10:55

Provincetown 10:10 10:42

Nantucket

Harbor 10:57 11:33

Oak Bluffs 10:42 11:00

New Bedford 6:50 7:08

Newport RI 6:43 7:01

Boston high 10:08 10:41

Height 9.4 8.7

Boston low 3:51 4:28

Height 1.5 0.6

Boston Harbor NW 6-12 kts. 1-2 ft. 56/42

East Cape

Cod Canal NW 7-14 kts. 1-3 ft. 53/40

Buzzards Bay SW 6-12 kts. 1-2 ft. 53/41

Martha’s

Vineyard SW 7-14 kts. 1-3 ft. 53/41

Nantucket SW 7-14 kts. 1-3 ft. 50/41

Provincetown NW 7-14 kts. 1-3 ft. 49/38

TODAY: More clouds will move in through the day

with some rain showers in southern Vermont and New

Hampshire. Some rain and snow at night.

TOMORROW: Sunshine will return and it will be

a very pleasant, mild afternoon. Remaining dry into

the nighttime hours.

EXTENDED: A storm passing to the

southeast could brush southeastern areas

with a little rain or drizzle. Dry elsewhere.

Turning out warm Friday.

New England forecast

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Atlanta 65/53 R 61/51 R

Atlantic City 64/41 Pc 63/45 S

Charlotte 68/50 Pc 62/50 Sh

Chicago 55/42 C 65/48 Pc

Dallas 68/47 S 78/53 S

Denver 68/37 S 54/29 C

Detroit 53/38 C 62/47 Pc

Fort Myers 86/70 T 82/68 T

Los Angeles 79/55 Pc 81/57 S

Miami 82/74 T 84/72 T

New Orleans 75/56 T 71/54 Pc

New York City 61/46 Pc 61/47 S

Philadelphia 67/44 Pc 69/48 S

Phoenix 86/59 S 85/58 S

Salt Lake City 59/40 C 52/31 C

San Francisco 63/48 Pc 63/48 S

Seattle 51/42 Sh 53/42 C

Washington 69/46 Pc 71/51 S

Beijing 68/39 Pc 53/36 C

Cancun 86/69 T 87/70 Sh

Mexico City 80/50 C 76/52 Sh

Montreal 37/27 C 42/37 Pc

Toronto 37/33 C 48/42 C

Vancouver 51/41 Sh 51/42 Pc

Jerusalem 44/35 Sh 48/34 S

London 58/45 Pc 57/38 C

Moscow 35/20 S 31/16 C

Paris 58/47 R 67/49 C

Rome 60/42 C 60/44 Pc

San Juan 84/73 S 84/73 S

Stockholm 47/28 S 47/31 Pc

Tokyo 68/50 R 65/51 Pc

Another mild day

is on the way with

intervals of clouds and

sunshine. More clouds

around tonight with a couple

of showers around, especially

early.

TODAY

54-59

40-45

With clouds and show-

ers around, it will be a

noticeably cooler day

as a storm passes to

the northwest. Clouds and a

shower at night.

High pressure offshore

will bring a good

deal of sunshine and

another pleasant, mild

afternoon. Mainly clear and not

that cold during the night.

A storm passing by

to the southeast will

bring clouds and a

shower or two cannot

be ruled out. Mostly cloudy and

quite mild at night.

SATURDAY

A southwesterly flow

will develop ahead of a

storm moving into the

Great Lakes, bringing

in warm air and some sunshine.

Showers move in at night.

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Optimism is fine, at least until they start transporting

animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral. But too much optimism

can ruin a makeable contract.

Against today’s four hearts, West led the king of spades.

East signaled with the 10, and West continued with the ace

and jack. South ruffed, drew trumps and led a diamond to

dummy’s jack.

The finesse won, and things were going so well that South

had a fit of optimism. He came to his ace of clubs and led

a second diamond to the queen. Alas, East discarded, and

South couldn’t bring in the diamonds. He tried a club to his

queen, and West took the king and 10. Down one.

If the lie of the diamonds had been friendly, South could

have made an overtrick. Instead, he could and should have

played safe for the contract.

After the jack of diamonds wins, dummy should lead a

low diamond. West wins but has no good return. If he leads

another diamond, South takes the queen, ace and the good

fifth diamond, winning 10 tricks.

DAILY QUESTION You hold: ♠ A K J ♥♥ 6 5 2 ♦♦ K 10 8 7

♣ K 10 2. You open one diamond, your partner responds

one heart, you bid 1NT and he tries two spades. What do

you say?

ANSWER: Partner’s second bid — a “reverse” by responder —

is forcing. To persist in notrump is tempting, but your duty

is to show a tolerance for his first suit. Bid three hearts.

Your partner can still try 3NT if his pattern is almost bal-

anced and his hearts are not robust.

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3 ♦♦ Pass 3 ♥♥ Pass

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Opening lead — ♠ K

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ROSE IS ROSE by Pat Brady & Don Wimmer

ADAM@HOME by Rob Harrell

MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM by Mike Peters

BIZARRO by Wayno & Piraro

ZIPPY “Zippy’s Playlist” by Bill Griffith

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Because there is aMoon Alert to-

day occurring in a hidden part of

your chart, this is an excellent day

formeditation, yoga or any quiet

activity that helps calm yourmind

andmakes you feel more ground-

ed. Restrict spending to food and

gas. Tonight: You win!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Relations with friends as well as

members of groups will be friend-

ly and, possibly, more frank than

usual because of today’sMoon

Alert. Nevertheless, don’t volun-

teer for anything or agree to any-

thing important. Tonight: Enjoy

solitude.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

You are high-viz today, which

means other people notice you

more than usual, especially boss-

es, VIPs and the police. Because of

theMoon Alert, youmightmake a

mistake or be confused. Don’t vol-

unteer for anything.Wait until to-

morrow tomake any kind of com-

mitment. Tonight: Be friendly!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Today there is aMoon Alert in ef-

fect all day, which will allow you

to explore ideas you don’t normal-

ly consider. It will make it easier

for you to listen to people whose

views are different from yours.

Nevertheless, wait until tomorrow

to agree to anything important.

Tonight: You’re admired.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

TheMoon Alert today, which is in

effect all day, takes place in your

House of Other People’s Money.

This means this is a poor day to

make decisions about shared

property, taxes, debt or insurance

issues. Do your research, but wait

until tomorrow to sign on the dot-

ted line. Tonight: Explore!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

Relations with partners and close

friends will be fuzzy today because

there is aMoon Alert happening

all day long opposite your sign.

This will promote honest and

open conversations, but they

might be confusing. Don’t hold

anyone to anything today. All bets

are off until tomorrow. Tonight:

Check your finances.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

Issues at workmight be clouded

and confused because of today’s

Moon Alert. Expect shortages and

delays. Carry on with business as

usual as best you can, but wait un-

til tomorrow tomake important

decisions. Tonight: Cooperate.

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Inc.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday,

March 15, 2022:

You are hardworking and respon-

sible. You are also very persuasive.

You are a caring person and al-

ways helpful to others. This year

there is a strong focus on personal

responsibility and service to oth-

ers, which is why youmust take

excellent care of yourself. In fact,

some of youmight even consider a

makeover.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

There is aMoon Alert today,

whichmeans refrain from spend-

ingmoney, except on food and

gas. However, this particular

Moon Alert is in a creative part of

your chart, whichmeans your ar-

tistic energy will soar! Use this

however you can. You are the arti-

san of the zodiac. Tonight: Get or-

ganized.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

You can best use today’s energy to

hunker down at home and relate

to family in a genuine, more open

way. That’s because all of today is

aMoon Alert, which will encour-

age you to let your hair down and

tell it like it is. Postpone important

decisions until tomorrow. To-

night: Be creative.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

This is a loosey-goosey day! There

is aMoon Alert all day, which

mightmake you feel indecisive

and unsure of what to do next. It’s

a good day to explore new ideas as

well as brainstorm thoughts with

others.Wait until tomorrow to

settle on anything. Tonight: Home

and family.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

Do be aware of the restrictions of

today’sMoon Alert, because it is

taking place in yourMoney

House. Restrict spending to food

and gas. Postpone important deci-

sions and financial matters until

tomorrow. Tonight: Learn some-

thing new.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

Today, virtually all day, there is a

Moon Alert in Leo! This means

yourmind is freewheeling and

soaring like a helium balloon cut

free in the sky. You will more easi-

ly grasp creative ideas because you

can think outside the box. But

wait until tomorrow to agree to

anything important. Tonight:

Take care of your possessions.

HOROSCOPE

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every

3X3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. Puzzle difficulty lev-

els: Easy on Monday and Tuesday, more difficult on Wednesday

and Thursday, most difficult on Friday and Saturday. Tips and

computer program at www.sudoku.com.

SUDOKU

5 4 9 3

9 5 8

8 6 3 7 9

2 6

1 7 6 3

9 5

6 4 7 8 2

2 1 6

1 3 2 4