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AIRSTRIKES HIT 2 HOSPITALS,
SCHOOL IN NORTHERN SYRIA
Turkish medics carry a wounded
Syrian boy to a hospital in Kilis,
Turkey, on Monday. An airstrike
in the northern Syrian province of
Idlib destroyed a clinic supported
by Doctors Without Borders on
Monday, killing and wounding
several people, the group said.
See story on Page 5.
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GAO: Pentagon has no idea how often military hazing occurs
‘ We learned that despite having anti-hazing policies
BY DAN L AMOTHE
The Washington Post
Five years ago, 21-year-old Marine
Lance Cpl. Harry Lew kept falling asleep
while on guard duty, a major gaffe for an infantryman in a war zone. His sergeant told
two other Marines in his unit that “peers
correct peers,” and so Lew was forced to
do pushups, crunches and other exercises
in the middle of the night while wearing
body armor, according to a Marine Corps
investigation of the incident. Soon after,
Lew turned his gun on himself and ended
his life.
in place, these policies are unevenly implemented and
done with little oversight.
’
Lew’s suicide jump-started a debate:
What constitutes hazing in the military,
and what should the Pentagon do to crack
down on the practice?
Lew’s case generated significant inter-
Rep. Judy Chu
D-Calif.
est in Washington in part because of his
aunt: Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif. She pressed
successfully for an independent investigation by the Government Accountability Office, saying that the stories of her nephew
and other victims of hazing — generally
described as abusive behavior meant to
correct a mistake or earn one’s way into a
group — showed the military clearly needed to make improvements.
The GAO released the investigation’s
findings last week, reporting that the services have no uniform way of tracking the
practice and unclear definitions of what
constitutes hazing in the first place. About
12 percent of rank-and-file servicemembers surveyed believe that hazing was going
on in their unit, the organization said.
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Pentagon cites N. Korean missile threat
BY TONY CAPACCIO
Bloomberg
North Korea continues to develop a mobile intercontinental
ballistic missile that “would likely be capable of reaching much
of the continental United States,”
the Pentagon said in a new report
to Congress on the secretive regime’s military capabilities.
The KN-08 missile would have
an estimated range of more than
3,400 miles, and North Korea
already has six “road-mobile”
launchers for it, according to
the annual report delivered to
congressional committees Friday and obtained by Bloomberg
News. A mobile missile can be
harder to track than a silo-based
weapon, although the threat from
the KN-08 depends on whether
it’s “successfully designed and
developed,” the Defense Department cautioned.
The new report, reaffirming a
judgment about the KN-08 made
by the Pentagon in 2013, arrives
amid rising tensions after North
Korea conducted a nuclear test on
Jan. 6 and launched a long-range
rocket on Feb. 7. South Korea and
the United States have said they
will begin talks about deploying
an American ballistic missile interceptor system known as Thaad
on the Korean peninsula.
In the U.S., the House sent
legislation to President Barack
Obama on Friday authorizing
new sanctions against North
Korea. The measure, H.R. 757,
would impose sanctions against
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individuals, companies and foreign governments that contribute
to North Korea’s nuclear program
and ballistic missile development.
It also would penalize those who
send luxury goods enjoyed by the
regime’s elite or aid in its censor-
ship or human rights abuses.
Other sections of the Defense
Department report said that
North Korea:
Is pursuing the capability
to launch ballistic missiles from
submarines.
Views offensive cyber operations as a tool “it can employ with
little risk from reprisal attacks,
in part because its networks
are largely separated from the
Internet.”
ay consider the use of chemical and biological weapons.
U.S. intelligence on Kim Jong
Un’s reclusive regime in North
Korea depends in part on watching the country’s annual military
parade. Four missiles on KN-08
launchers in an October parade
were “noticeably different” from
those shown off before.
“ICBMs are extremely complex systems that require multiple flight tests to identify and
correct design or manufacturing
defects,” the Pentagon report
said. Without flight tests, its current reliability “as a weapon system would be low.”
Pentagon officials outlining
a proposed $583 billion defense
budget on Tuesday emphasized
that North Korea now looms as the
prime nuclear threat to the U.S.,
with the KN-08 viewed as its potentially most dangerous weapon.
Vice Adm. James Syring, director of the Missile Defense Agency, revealed that concern about
the KN-08, not missiles launched
from silos, was behind the decision in 2013 by then-Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to expand a
force of 30 missile interceptors
based in Alaska and California to
44 by next year.
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Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un has praised scientists
involved in the country’s recent rocket
launch that he said struck a “telling blow”
to enemies and ordered them to press ahead
with more launches, state media reported.
Earlier this month, North Korea ignored repeated international warnings and
launched what it said was an Earth observation satellite aboard a rocket. Washington,
Seoul and others view the launch as a prohibited test of missile technology.
The North’s official Korean Central News
Agency said the ruling Workers’ Party on
Saturday gave a banquet in honor of those
who contributed to the Feb. 7 rocket launch.
In a speech, Kim said the launch gave
confidence and courage to his people and
dealt a “telling blow to the enemies seeking
to block the advance of our country,” KCNA
said, in an apparent reference to Seoul and
Washington.
Kim said the North’s launch decision was
made when “the hostile forces were getting
evermore frantic to suffocate” North Korea,
and called for launching more working satellites in the future.
The launch aggravated already-strained
ties between the rival Koreas. Last week,
Pyongyang expelled all South Korean workers from a jointly run factory park in the
North and put the area in charge of the military in retaliation for Seoul’s decision to suspend operations there.
The jointly run park employed about 54,000
North Koreans who worked for more than
120 South Korean companies, most of them
small and medium-size manufacturers.
While the Kaesong closure will hurt
North Korea, it is not critical to that nation’s
economy. North Korea gets the vast majority of its earnings from trade with China.
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MILITARY
Army seeks more
women, will adapt
physical testing
BY LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Beginning
this summer, a visit to a local
Army recruiting office will include a new set of gymnastic tests
to help determine what military
jobs a recruit is physically capable of performing.
Prospective soldiers will be
asked to run, jump, lift a weight
and throw a heavy ball — all to
help the Army figure out if the
recruit can handle a job with
high physical demands or should
be directed to a more sedentary
assignment.
The new tests come as the
Pentagon is opening all combat
posts to women, a process that involves setting physical standards
for every job that both men and
women will have to meet.
As part of the effort, the Army
will increase the number of female recruiters to better target
women. The goal will be to add
1 percent each year for the next
three years to get at least one
woman at each of the Army’s
more than 780 larger recruiting
centers across the country.
Right now, only about 750 of the
8,800 Army and Army Reserve
recruiters are women.
The head of U.S. Army Recruiting Command, Maj. Gen.
Jeff Snow, told The Associated
Press that adding more women
as recruiters will give female recruits someone more credible to
talk to about options for women
in the military and how an Army
career could affect married or
family life.
But he said getting that increase
will be tough because other commands across the Army are also
competing to get more women in
their units.
As women move into combat
roles, Army commanders want
to have women in leadership positions across the force to serve
as mentors and role models. In
particular, Army leaders want
more women as drill sergeants
and platoon sergeants as recruits
go through basic and advanced
training.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter
in December ordered the military services to allow women to
compete for all combat jobs. But
he and other military leaders
have been adamant that the physical standards for the jobs will not
be lowered to allow more women
to qualify.
Brig. Gen. Donna Martin,
deputy commander of Army Recruiting Command, said that despite the added recruiting efforts,
there may not be a flood of women
rushing to compete for combat
jobs. But she said the Army may
see an eventual increase in enlistments by women as they see the
array of options.
“I think it’s all about awareness — about a choice,” Martin
said. “It’s not forcing any women
to go into combat arms. It’s about
making them aware that this is a
choice.
“It’s the whole question of can
you have it all,” said Martin, who
has been in the Army for 29 years,
has been married for 21 years,
and has a 19-year-old son. “You
can have as much as you want.”
The new physical tests, according to Army leaders, will evaluate
all recruits — men and women —
and will judge their core strength
and endurance. Recruits still will
have to take the routine aptitude
tests and physical evaluations.
“By doing predictive tests, we
ROBIN TRIMARCHI, (C OLUMBUS, G A .) LEDGER-ENQUIRER /AP
A female soldier, center, who qualified for U.S. Army Ranger School, runs in place on the Darby Queen
obstacle course at Fort Benning, Ga., in April 2015. The Army is developing plans to recruit more
women and to use gymnastics tests to help determine all recruits’ physical capabilities.
BEBETO M ATTHEWS/AP
The Times Square military recruiting station displays insignia for
each military branch in New York.
can marry people up with those
specialties that physically they
should be able to do, which should
reduce attrition and be a better
fit for the Army,” Snow said. “It
is truly about the right person at
the right time with the right skill
sets to perform, and we think that
we’re setting them up for success
in that particular specialty.”
He added, however, that Army
leaders are trying to finalize what
scores will be needed to qualify
for a highly physical job and what
would limit recruits to less physical occupations.
While the tests coincide with
the campaign to bring women into
combat fields, military officials
note that setting specific physical
standards for all jobs may prevent some men from getting into
certain infantry or armor posts if
they don’t qualify.
The tests stem from the three
years of study the Army did as
it considered whether all combat
jobs, including grueling infantry,
Army and special operations careers, should be opened to women,
and what abilities recruits needed
to succeed at the more difficult
battlefront posts.
The questions also reflect concerns that women are injured at a
higher rate than men, even during the early days of enlistment.
Injuries or difficulties meeting
physical requirements often lead
many women and men to fail or
decide to leave the military.
The physical assessment test is
made up of four tasks: a standing
long jump; an interval, aerobic
run; a dead lift of weights; and a
seated power throw of a weighted ball. Snow said the tasks test
upper and lower body strength,
body core strength, endurance
and power.
He said it will cost about $3
million to get all the testing equipment to the Army’s 1,300 recruiting locations.
Hazing: GAO finds DOD, Coast Guard have ‘limited visibility’ over incidents
FROM FRONT PAGE
“We learned that despite having anti-hazing policies in place,
these policies are unevenly implemented and done with little
oversight,” Chu said. “In addition,
the standards among branches
can differ radically, with some
not even having a system for collecting data on hazing. We cannot
claim that any existing prevention and enforcement policies are
adequate without understanding
the full scope of the problem.”
The GAO carried out the investigation from April 2015 through
this month and found that the Defense Department and the Coast
Guard have “limited visibility”
over hazing incidents. For example, the Army, the Navy and
the Marine Corps track data on
hazing cases, but the data are
“not complete and consistent due
to varying tracking methods that
do not always include all reported
incidents,” the report said.
“For example, until October
2015, the Army tracked only
cases investigated by criminal
investigators or military police,
while the Navy required reports
on substantiated hazing cases
and the Marine Corps required
reports on both substantiated and
unsubstantiated cases,” it continued. “The Air Force and Coast
Guard do not require the collection of hazing incident data, and
instead have taken an ad hoc approach to compiling relevant information to respond to requests
for such data.”
The GAO also held focus groups
with Marines and sailors at Camp
Pendleton and Naval Base Coronado in California and found a
mixture of attitudes and frustrations. Notably, noncommissioned
officers “reinforced the suggestion that hazing definitions are
not sufficiently clear” to determine what is hazing and what is
not, the report said.
“The noncommissioned officers
we met with generally agreed that
the broad definition of hazing prevents them from effectively doing
their jobs, including disciplining
servicemembers, taking corrective action or administering extra
military instruction for fear of an
allegation of hazing,” the GAO
report said. “For example, noncommissioned officers during
one site visit said that a servicemember need only say ‘hazing’ to
prompt an investigation.”
When surveyed, however, more
than a third of male Marines (14
of 39) and nearly half of female
Marines (eight of 17) said they
had experienced hazing during
their military careers. About
a quarter of male sailors (10 of
40) and female sailors (four of
15) reported the same, the GAO
reported.
Clarence A. Johnson, the director of the Pentagon’s Office
of Diversity Management, said
in a response to the GAO’s preliminary findings included in the
final report that the Defense Department’s new policy on hazing
and bullying will help track cases
in the services. It was signed Dec.
23, less than a week after the
GAO released the draft report to
the Pentagon.
The GAO recommended that
the services “provide additional
clarification” to servicemembers
about what constitutes hazing,
and Johnson concurred. The services have been directed to revise training or to communicate
in some other way “further guidance on hazing policies.”
Lew’s case ultimately resulted
in the sergeant and a lance corporal being found not guilty of
any crime in courts-martial. A
second lance corporal was found
guilty of assault, and was sentenced to 30 days of confinement
and reduction in rank to private
first class.
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MILITARY
Navy considers electric
gun for new destroyer
BY DAVID SHARP
Associated Press
BATH, Maine — Development
of a futuristic weapon depicted in
video games and science fiction
is going well enough that a Navy
admiral wants to skip an at-sea
prototype in favor of installing
an operational unit aboard a destroyer planned to go into service
in 2018.
The Navy has been testing
an electromagnetic railgun and
could have an operational unit
ready to go on one of the new
Zumwalt-class destroyers under
construction at Bath Iron Works.
Adm. Pete Fanta, the Navy’s
director of surface warfare, has
floated the idea of foregoing the
current plan to put a prototype
on another vessel this year and
instead to put it directly on the
future USS Lyndon B. Johnson,
though no final decision has been
made.
“The Zumwalt-class is one of a
number of options being explored
for the electromagnetic railgun,”
said Lt. Cmdr. Hayley Sims, a
Navy spokeswoman. “Due to the
size, weight and power requirements, some platforms will be
better suited for the technology
than others.”
Railguns use electricity instead of gunpowder to accelerate
a projectile at six or seven times
the speed of sound — creating
enough kinetic energy to destroy
targets.
It’s literal whiz-bang technology that holds the possibility of
providing an effective weapon at
pennies on the dollar compared
with smart bombs and missiles.
There has been talk since the
inception of the Zumwalt program that the massive destroyers would be likely candidates for
the weapon because of its power
plant. The USS Johnson will be
the third and final destroyer in
the Zumwalt class.
The 600-foot-long warship uses
marine turbines similar to those
that propel the Boeing 777 to
help produce up to 78 megawatts
of electricity for use in propulsion, weapons and sensors. That’s
more than enough juice for the
railgun.
If it’s placed on the warship, the
system could replace one of the
forward turrets housing a 155mm
gun that fires rocket-propelled
projectiles.
For now, however, the official
plan remains for the railgun prototype to be tested aboard a joint
high-speed vessel this year. But
U.S. Navy photo courtesy of General Dynamics Bath Iron Works
The future USS Zumwalt conducts at-sea tests and trials on the
Kennebeck River in December.
there are concerns that the plan
may be pushed back into 2017,
and Fanta suggested skipping it
altogether.
The railgun, along with laser
weaponry, are two futuristic
technologies that Fanta said have
evolved from scientific research
to practical engineering.
The Navy is interested in those
weapons — along with smart munitions that can improve existing
naval guns — because of their low
cost as well as lethality.
“The Navy is determined to
increase the offensive punch of
the surface warships,” said Loren
Thompson, a defense analyst
at the Lexington Institute. “To
do that with a limited budget, it
needs to look at everything from
smart munitions to railguns to
lasers.”
The
railgun
discussion
isn’t widely known inside the
shipyard.
Bath Iron Works, a subsidiary
of General Dynamics, had no
comment.
Shipbuilder Charles Davis said
there was talk of a railgun when
the yard began work on the first
ship in the class, but he said there’s
been no discussion since then.
Runaway Army JLENS blimp was missing batteries
BY DAVID WILLMAN
Los Angeles Times
WASHINGTON — The blimp
that broke loose from an Army
facility in Maryland last fall,
wreaking havoc with its milelong tether, flew uncontrolled for
hours because someone neglected
to put batteries into its automatic
deflation device, Pentagon investigators have found.
The pilotless, radar-carrying
blimp was part of the troubled
JLENS missile-defense system,
which has failed to perform as
promised while costing the government more than $2.7 billion
since 1998.
The runaway blimp episode
was caused by a cascade of events
spanning 13 hours, according to
people familiar with the investigation, an overview provided to
congressional staff members and
a summary released by a military
spokeswoman.
The six-sentence summary of
the investigation said that “design,
human, and procedural issues all
contributed” to the mishap. Pentagon officials declined to release a
copy of the investigative report.
The blimp was one of two
moored at the Army’s Aberdeen
Proving Ground. On Oct. 28,
it was floating at an altitude of
about 5,200 feet when its tether
tore apart.
Fighter jets were scrambled to
track the blimp as it wafted over
Maryland and Pennsylvania, and
commercial air traffic had to be
diverted. The blimp’s tether damaged power lines, knocking out
electricity to 35,000 rural Pennsylvania residents. The tattered
blimp finally came to rest in high
trees in rural Moreland Township, Pa.
The incident made JLENS a
target of widespread ridicule and
provoked fresh questions about
the program.
JLENS — short for Joint Land
Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System — is
designed to provide early warning
of enemy cruise missiles, drones
or other low-flying threats.
The blimps, also called aerostats, can float as high as 10,000
feet. At that altitude, their powerful radar can see 340 miles in any
direction, farther than land- or
sea-based radar, according to the
system’s prime contractor, Raytheon Co.
The 7,000-pound aerostats are
anchored to the ground by 11/8inch-thick Kevlar tethers, which
also hold wiring for electricity.
The two blimps at Aberdeen
were participating in an “operational exercise” intended to test
the system’s ability to defend
the Washington area. The exercise was suspended after the
accident.
The sequence of events that
caused the blimp to break away
began when a pilot tube, a narrow,
18-inch-long device intended to
measure air pressure within the
blimp, malfunctioned. Ground
personnel failed to detect or address the problem, investigators
found.
Ordinarily, fans within the
blimp would activate in response
to a change in atmospheric conditions, such as increased winds.
But because the pilot tube failed,
the fans did not operate — and air
pressure within the blimp started
to drop.
The blimp turned so that it was
perpendicular to the prevailing
wind, instead of the desired parallel position. Gusts that reached
69 mph bent its vertical tail fins
JIMMY M AY, BLOOMSBURG (PA .) PRESS ENTERPRISE /AP
An unmanned Army surveillance blimp floats Oct. 28 while dragging
a tether line just north of Exchange, Pa. The blimp had detached
from its station at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.
out of their normal shape.
That made the blimp unstable
in the air, putting greater pressure on the mooring tether than
it was designed to withstand,
according to the investigative
documents.
Still, the blimp was equipped
with an automated device that
should have caused it to deflate
promptly and return to ground
within 2 miles. The device failed
to activate, because batteries had
not been installed as a backup
power source, according to people
familiar with the investigation.
Michael Kucharek, a spokesman for the North American
Aerospace Defense Command
and the U.S. Northern Command,
confirmed the lapse, saying, “The
lack of batteries prevented the
automatic rapid deflation device
from deploying.”
Military officials declined to
say who was responsible for fail-
ing to load the batteries. The
blimps were managed by Army
and contractor personnel.
The breakaway was the most
conspicuous of many setbacks for
JLENS, detailed in a Los Angeles
Times report published last September. In tests, the system has
struggled to track flying objects
and to distinguish friendly aircraft from threatening ones.
A 2012 report by the Pentagon’s Operational Test and Evaluation office faulted the system
in four “critical performance
areas” and rated its reliability as
“poor.” A year later, in its most
recent assessment, the agency
again cited serious deficiencies
and said JLENS had “low system
reliability.”
A spokesman for Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Carter “concurred” with a recommendation
from military officials to resume
the JLENS operational exercise.
“A thorough and complete test
will allow us to determine if this
technology will contribute to the
overall homeland defense architecture here in the National Capital Region,” said the spokesman,
Air Force Lt. Col. Tom Crosson.
Now it will be up to Congress
to decide whether to provide the
additional funds needed to return
JLENS to the skies. Military officials have privately told congressional staff they would like an
additional $27 million to restart
the operational exercise Oct. 1.
A spokesman for Sen. Barbara
A. Mikulski, of Maryland, the
ranking Democrat on the Senate
Appropriations Committee and a
supporter of JLENS, said the senator “is reviewing the findings of
the investigation as Congress examines next steps in funding for
the program.”
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Iraqis ponder
US elections
from distance
BY LOVEDAY MORRIS
The Washington Post
C OURTESY
OF THE
M AARA MEDIA C ENTER /AP
Syrian Civil Defense rescuers run from the site of an explosion near a hospital operated by an international medical charity in Maaret
al-Numan, Idlib, Syria, on Monday. Doctors Without Borders said the attack on the clinic supported by the group killed several people
and that more are presumed dead.
Hospitals, school hit by airstrikes
Dozens killed, wounded in ‘deliberate’ attacks in Syria blamed on Russia
BY BASSEM MROUE
Associated Press
BEIRUT — Airstrikes hit two
hospitals and a school in northern Syria, killing and wounding
dozens of people Monday, according to opposition activists
who said the strikes were carried out by Russian warplanes
supporting a major advance by
government troops.
According to the United Nations, close to 50 civilians were
killed in the attacks.
An airstrike in the province
of Idlib destroyed a makeshift clinic supported by the
international aid group Doctors Without Borders, while in
neighboring Aleppo province a
missile struck a children’s hospital in the town of Azaz, killing
at least five people and wounding dozens. A third air raid hit a
school in a nearby village, killing seven and wounding others.
Doctors Without Borders —
also known by its French acronym MSF — said in a statement
that the hospital in the town of
Maaret al-Numan was hit four
times in at least two attacks that
were minutes apart. It said at
least seven people were killed
and at least eight others were
“missing, presumed dead.”
“This appears to be a deliberate attack on a health structure,
and we condemn this attack in
the strongest possible terms,”
said Massimiliano Rebaudengo,
MSF’s mission chief. “The destruction of the hospital leaves
the local population of around
40,000 people without access
to medical services in an active
zone of conflict.”
The aid group said the hospital had 30 beds, 54 staff members, two operating theaters,
an outpatient department and
an emergency room. MSF has
been supporting the hospital
since September and covered
all its needs, including providing medical supplies and run-
Obama calls for end to
attacks on moderates
Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama spoke
with
Russian
President
Vladimir Putin to call for
an end to airstrikes against
moderate opposition forces
in Syria as a security conference in Munich discussed efforts to implement a truce in
that country’s five-year civil
war.
Obama, in Saturday’s
phone call, stressed the need
for quick humanitarian access to besieged areas and
a nationwide cessation of
hostilities, the White House
said in a statement released
Sunday. Obama emphasized
the importance of “Russia
playing a constructive role
by ceasing its air campaign
against moderate opposition forces,” according to the
statement.
The Kremlin said earlier
in an emailed statement that
Putin emphasized the importance of a united anti-terrorism front and close contacts
between Russian and U.S.
defense forces. The leaders
agreed to strengthen diplo-
ning costs, it said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said
Russian warplanes targeted the
makeshift hospital, destroying
it and killing nine people.
The opposition group, which
tracks both sides of the conflict
through sources on the ground,
said dozens were wounded in
the attack.
matic cooperation, according
to the email.
The call was made after
both countries’ top diplomats
cast doubt over their plan for
a Syrian truce less than a
day after it was agreed upon.
Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov gave the deal
less than a 50 percent chance
of success. U.S. Secretary
of State John Kerry said the
U.S. and Russian militaries
still needed to work out coordination that would allow
strikes on Syrian terrorist
groups without targeting the
“legitimate opposition.”
Outside powers in Syria’s
five-year conflict, including the U.S., Russia, Turkey,
Saudi Arabia and Iran, last
week backed a truce set to
start on Friday.
Peace efforts have intensified after nearly six months
of Russian bombing in support of Syrian President
Bashar Assad. The Syrian
regime, supported by Iranian and Hezbollah fighters,
is threatening to drive rebels
from Aleppo, once the country’s biggest city and now an
opposition stronghold.
Syrian troops have been advancing in the north under the
cover of Russian airstrikes in
recent weeks. The offensive has
been focused on Aleppo province, where troops are trying to
cut rebel supply lines to Turkey
and surround rebel-held parts
of Aleppo city, once Syria’s
largest.
On Monday, Syrian state TV
reported that pro-government
gunmen have entered western
parts of the northern town of
Tel Rifaat, where they were
fighting “fierce battles” against
insurgents. Tel Rifaat is a major
stronghold of militants fighting
to overthrow President Bashar
Assad.
Opposition activist Yahya alSobeih, speaking by phone from
Maaret al-Numan, said “the entire building has collapsed on
the ground. He said five people
were killed near the MSF clinic
and “all members of the medical team inside are believed to
be dead.”
Paramedics and volunteers
were working on removing the
rubble, he added. The four-story
building was once a cement
company but had served as a
makeshift clinic during the war,
al-Sobeih said.
The missile attack in Azaz,
near the Turkish border, killed
five people at the hospital, including three children and a
pregnant woman, and wounded
more than 30, the Observatory
said. Activist Bahaa al-Halaby,
who is based in the northern
city of Aleppo, said the hospital
was struck by a missile and that
10 people were killed.
Abdulrahman
al-Hassan,
chief liaison officer at the Syrian Civil Defense, a group of first
responders known as the “White
Helmets,” said the women’s
hospital in Azaz was hit by two
surface-to-surface missiles. He
added that some 10 people were
killed and many were wounded.
“We think it is Russia because
the photos of the missiles have
Russian language (and) because we haven’t seen this kind
(of missile) before the Russian
intervention,” he said.
In Turkey, the private Dogan
news agency reported that more
than 30 of those wounded in Russian airstrikes in Azaz, primarily children, were transferred to
a hospital in southern Turkey.
BAGHDAD — A constant flow
of sweet tea and tobacco fuels
the clusters of patrons inside the
Iraqi capital’s historic Shahbandar cafe. They jostle for space
like the faded pictures of old
Baghdad that clutter the walls.
But customers don’t come here
for the refreshments. They come
for the conversation. It has been a
gathering place for Baghdad’s intelligentsia for almost a century.
As the U.S. presidential nomination races heat up, candidates
have sparred over their past positions on intervention in Iraq and
their plans to tackle the Islamic
State group. If the American air
campaign continues, the next
person to sit in the White House
will become the fifth consecutive
U.S. president to bomb Iraq.
Here, among the bubbling
water pipes at Shahbandar, there
is an acute awareness that the
new president will also play a
role in shaping their lives — from
6,000 miles away.
Hashim al-Bayati, 62, a civil
engineer who frequents the cafe
most weeks, is relieved it looks
unlikely to be another Bush, with
Jeb Bush finishing fourth in New
Hampshire.
“We are fed up with the Bush
family, come on. No more Bushes, please,” he said. He recalled
George H.W. Bush’s “betrayal”
when he urged Iraqis to rise up
against Saddam Hussein after
the Gulf War in 1991 but then did
not support them. The death toll
reached the tens of thousands.
“Unfortunately, they cheated
us,” Bayati said, adding that
George W. Bush was even more
damaging in his handling of
the fallout from the 2003 invasion. He said he has little faith
that any president will improve
things for Iraq.
“They have the problem as
Iraq, the same faces coming
again and again, the same families, Bushes and Clintons,” he
said. “They exported a copy of
this system to us.”
As with other customers here,
mention of other candidates
draws a blank stare.
And what of Trump?
“He’s a funny character. I don’t
know how the American people
can accept this kind of person.
It’s unfortunate,” Bayati said.
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Antonin Scalia died of natural
causes and no autopsy was necessary, a
judge has told The Associated Press.
Scalia’s family didn’t think a private autopsy was necessary and requested that
the jurist’s body be returned to Washington as soon as possible, said Chris Lujan,
a manager for Sunset Funeral Homes in
Texas. The body was returned to Virginia
late Sunday.
Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara told the AP on Sunday that she consulted with Scalia’s personal physician and
sheriff’s investigators, who said there were
no signs of foul play before concluding that
he had died of natural causes. Scalia, 79,
was found dead in his room at a West Texas
resort ranch Saturday morning.
The owner of Cibolo Creek Ranch said
the justice seemed his usual self at dinner
the night before he was found “in complete
repose” in his room.
John Poindexter told reporters that Scalia was part of a group of about 35 weekend
guests. The group had dinner Friday night,
and Scalia was his “usual, personable self,”
Poindexter said. Scalia retired about 9
p.m., saying he wanted a long night’s sleep,
according to Poindexter.
In the nation’s capital, where flags flew
at half-staff at the White House and Supreme Court, the political arguing soared,
raising the prospect of a court short-handed for some time.
The Senate’s Republican leader, backed
largely by his party’s White House candidates, essentially told a Democratic president in his final year in office not to bother
asking lawmakers to confirm a nominee
for the lifetime seat.
Scalia’s colleagues praised his brilliance
and grieved his death. Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg said she and Scalia “were best
buddies” for more than 30 years.
President Barack Obama ordered flags
to be flown at half-staff at the high court,
where Scalia served for three decades, and
at other federal buildings throughout the
nation and at U.S. embassies and military
installations throughout the world.
The campaign-year political heat has
risen over the vacancy on the nine-member
court. At issue is whether Obama should
make a nomination and the Republicanled Senate should confirm that choice in an
election year.
Obama pledged a nomination “in due
time.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., thinks it should wait for the
next president.
The Constitution gives the Senate “advice and consent” powers over a presidential nomination to the Supreme Court.
But the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which would hold hearings on a nominee, said it would be “sheer
dereliction of duty for the Senate not to
have a hearing, not to have a vote.”
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., told CNN that
he believes McConnell is “making a terrible mistake. And he’s certainly ignoring
the Constitution.”
2016 vote
takes on
even more
meaning
Into the mosh pit: Republican
campaign talk getting nastier
BY NANCY BENAC
Associated Press
BY JULIE PACE
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The unexpected death of Supreme Court
Justice Antonin Scalia, and the
immediate declaration from Republicans that the next president
should nominate his replacement,
adds even more weight to the decision voters will make in November’s general election.
Candidates in both parties
moved quickly to reframe the
election as a referendum on the
nine-member high court’s future.
“Two branches of government
hang in the balance, not just the
presidency but the Supreme
Court,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said
in the latest Republican debate,
held in South Carolina just hours
after word came out Saturday
about the death of Scalia, a hero
of conservatives during his nearly
30 years on the Supreme Court. “If
we get this wrong, if we nominate
the wrong candidate, the Second
Amendment, life, marriage, religious liberty, every one of those
hangs in the balance.”
Democrat Hillary Clinton painted a similarly stark scenario.
“If any of us needed a reminder
of just how important it is to take
back the United States Senate and
hold onto the White House, just
look at the Supreme Court,” Clinton said.
She has said the court’s makeup
is crucial to preserving abortion
rights and the legality of gay marriage nationwide.
The court now is divided between four liberal and four typically conservative justices.
President
Barack
Obama
pledged to nominate a replacement in “due time,” even after
BRENNAN LINSLEY/AP
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia speaks to an audience gathered at
the University of Colorado in Boulder on
Oct. 1, 2014. He died over the weekend.
JOHN BAZEMORE /AP
Republican presidential candidates observe a moment of silence
Saturday for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia during the
Republican presidential debate in Greenville, S.C.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell, R-Ky., said that responsibility should fall to the winner of the 2016 election.
Obama could try to force a
nominee through the Senate this
year. Even if that were to happen, a confirmation vote probably
would be months away, leaving
the Supreme Court in the center
of the campaign during the nomination process.
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who served in the
Cabinet of President George W.
Bush, said Monday that Obama
has an obligation to select a replacement for Scalia, telling CNN
that “the president has to do his
job.” Gonzales said that the Senate, likewise, has a role and should
weigh Obama’s choice “on its own
calendar.”
With three other justices over
the age of 75, the next president
could have other vacancies during
his or her tenure, even if Obama
fills Scalia’s seat.
It’s unclear how the new focus
on the Supreme Court might
affect voters’ decisions in an
election that has seen unconventional candidates such as Donald
Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., challenge their parties’
establishments.
Sanders easily defeated Clinton
in the New Hampshire primary
and finished a close second in the
Iowa caucuses. Trying to counter
his momentum, Clinton has urged
voters to consider which candidate
is most electable in November.
With the balance of the Supreme Court now potentially on
the line, Clinton and her allies are
certain to increase their warnings
about the risk of sending a self-declared democratic socialist to face
a Republican in the fall.
Among Republicans, Florida
Sen. Marco Rubio, former Florida
Gov. Jeb Bush and Ohio Gov. John
Kasich are casting themselves as
candidates who could appeal to
swing voters in the general election and put the Republicans in
position to guide the next court
nominations.
WASHINGTON — In 2011,
eyebrows shot up when former
vice presidential candidate Sarah
Palin used a salty acronym —
WTF — to mock the policies of
President Barack Obama.
How quaint.
Five years later, Donald Trump
has blown right past acronyms.
He’s in a profanity-laced campaign for the Republican nomination that has seen multiple
candidates hurl insults and disparaging remarks at one another
and their critics.
In recent days, Trump has
publicly lip-synced the F-bomb,
blurted out the S-word more than
once, hurled an offensive term for
coward at a rival, Sen. Ted Cruz,
of Texas, and fired a steady string
of put-downs at other candidates
whom he labels pathetic, liars,
losers, nasty, evil and more.
While Trump started it, other
GOP candidates have jumped
right into the rhetorical mosh pit,
readily trading versions of “liar,
liar” in Saturday night’s venomous debate.
Cruz has said Trump is “losing it,” called out his “Trumpertantrums”
and
dismissed
the billionaire’s insults as
“hysterical.”
Before exiting the race, New
Jersey Gov. Chris Christie predicted that he could beat Hillary
Clinton in a debate, promising,
“I’ll beat her rear end on that
stage,” and tormented fellow Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, of
Florida, as a fragile “boy in the
bubble.”
Even Jeb Bush, whose 90-yearold mother recently complained
that he was too polite, belatedly
joined in.
Bush, a favorite target of
Trump’s taunts, tweeted back:
“You aren’t just a loser, you are
a liar and a whiner” — this, after
weeks of calling him a “jerk.”
It’s not that politicians are typically paragons of proper speech
and etiquette. They’ve just tended to keep their name calling and
coarseness off-mic.
Now, it’s on the podium — and
by design.
“There’s a general taboo-breaking that allows more and more of
it to happen faster and faster,”
said Robert Lane Greene, author
of “You Are What You Speak,” a
book
about
the
politics
of language.
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does
it, eyebrows
breaking
go up and
that allows people
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more and concerned,
then the
more of it but
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to happen doing it is less
faster and eye-opening.”
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faster.
playing to votRobert Lane ers who have
Greene a disdain for
author of “You anything asAre What You sociated with
Speak” the establishment, including the whole
idea of appearing “presidential,”
said Norman Ornstein, an American Enterprise Institute scholar
who’s been watching presidential
politics for decades.
That makes it hard for Trump’s
rivals to fight back using traditional tactics.
“If you are trying to be a boxer
playing by Marquess of Queensberry rules and you’re coming up
against a mixed martial arts guy
who doesn’t even abide by the
rules of mixed martial arts, do
you sink to that level?” Ornstein
asked. “There’s no easy way to
respond, because if you’re trying
to show you’re different from this
vulgar guy, then he’s going to beat
you up.”
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Strongmen to predominate at Asia summit
BY M ATTHEW PENNINGTON
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A coup leader with a penchant for song. A sultan with a taste for the high life.
A ruthless prime minister with 31
years on the job. A former furniture salesman. A communist politburo veteran. A prime minister
trying to shake off a $700 million
financial scandal.
When President Barack Obama
welcomes Southeast Asian leaders for a shirt-sleeves summit set
to begin Monday in California,
he’ll have some interesting dining companions.
U.S. officials say the unprecedented
gathering,
running
through Tuesday, is the culmination of Obama’s seven-year effort
to engage with the Asia-Pacific
region, a strategic push that
China views as an attempt to contain its rise.
For the first time, the American president has invited to the
United States all the leaders
from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, a
diverse and democratically challenged 10-nation grouping. The
meeting place is the sprawling
Sunnylands estate where Obama
hosted an ice-breaking summit
with Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013.
During two days of discussions
and a working dinner, the leaders
plan to discuss economic cooperation and trade, and security
issues.
ASEAN was founded in the
1960s as an anti-communist bloc.
It now straddles all of Southeast
Asia and has become a fulcrum
of U.S. outreach in Asia. That
includes its push for adherence
to international law in the South
China Sea, where disputes between China and its neighbors
have stoked tensions.
But the U.S. faces an uphill battle to forge unity among ASEAN’s
members, which includes poor
nations, such as Cambodia and
Laos, that are heavily influenced
by China and are not party to the
dispute. Others members, such
as Vietnam and the Philippines,
have been strongly critical of
China after confrontations near
contested islands.
James Clapper, the director
of U.S. national intelligence, told
Congress last week that ASEAN
cohesion is challenged by “varying threat perceptions of China’s
regional ambitions and assertiveness in the South China Sea.”
Another challenge for the U.S.
lies in promoting a “rules-based
order” in a region with a very
mixed record on democracy and
rule of law.
Several of the invitees have not
come to power through free, fair
elections.
They include Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who
took power in a May 2014 coup,
has cracked down on critics and
dissidents and repeatedly pushed
back the date for new elections. In
the meantime, he has penned the
lyrics to a tune called “Returning
Happiness to the People,” often
played on state-controlled media.
Hun Sen from neighboring
Cambodia is making his first official U.S. visit as leader, although
he’s been prime minister since
1985. He has used a combination
of guile and brute force to stay in
power, including a violent coup in
1997. In recent months, he has intensified pressure on the political
opposition.
Daniel Russel, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia, defended the
invitations, saying the U.S. is not
going overboard by rolling out the
red carpet for “problematic leaders.” He said discussions at Sunnylands will be an opportunity to
promote U.S. values and respect
for human rights.
“Hun Sen isn’t going to hear
it from his subordinates. Gen.
Prayuth isn’t going to hear it
from his colleagues, but they will
and do hear from (Secretary of
State) John Kerry, from Barack
Obama,” Russel told reporters.
“It’s important for there to be real
communication here.”
Human Rights Watch, however, said inviting unelected leaders
represents “an unearned diplomatic reward.” In a pre-summit
report surveying the record of
ASEAN members, it concluded
most “have an extraordinarily
poor human rights record.”
Among the 10 nations, only Indonesia and the Philippines are
widely regarded as being open
democracies. Vietnam and Laos
have communist governments
SUSAN WALSH /AP
Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, seen shaking hands with President Barack Obama in Manila,
Philippines, in November, is among the leaders attending the ASEAN summit in California this week.
that prohibit political dissent,
while tiny oil-rich Brunei is governed by the vastly wealthy Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, one of the
world’s few remaining hereditary
leaders.
In 2014, Bolkiah introduced
Shariah criminal law that calls
for punishing adultery, abortions
and same-sex relationships with
flogging and stoning, an action
that prompted a Hollywood boycott of the Beverly Hills Hotel,
which he owns.
Also attending is Malaysian
Prime Minister Najib Razak, who
has been dogged by a scandal
over a state investment fund and
accusations of a lavish lifestyle.
From neighboring Indonesia
comes President Joko Widodo, a
more down-at-heels leader who
rose from being a furniture seller
to running the world’s fourthmost populated country.
Four of the invitees are “lame
ducks” with little time left in office, like Obama. At least one of
them, from Myanmar, is skipping
the summit and sending a deputy
instead.
Sunnylands roster of rich,
famous about to get longer
BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Associated Press
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif.
— The guest list at Sunnylands reads like a roster of the
rich and famous, from years
past to today: Frank Sinatra,
Bob Hope, Fred Astaire, Bing
Crosby, Warren Buffet, Bill
Gates and Queen Elizabeth II,
to name a few.
President Barack Obama
will add more names to the
VIP record Monday when he
turns the 200-acre California
desert estate into a center of
international diplomacy and
welcomes Southeast Asian
leaders for a two-day summit
about economic and regional
security issues.
In years past, Obama has
flown to the annual summits
of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Last fall
in Malaysia, he invited the 10
member countries to meet on
U.S. soil for the first time, part
of his effort to sharpen the
U.S. policy focus on the fastgrowing Asia-Pacific region.
While leaders from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand, Brunei,
Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar
and Cambodia will be seeing
Sunnylands for the first time,
Obama has increasingly used
the estate’s tranquil setting as
a place to conduct U.S. foreign
policy.
Ben Rhodes, the president’s
deputy national security adviser, said Obama enjoys having more free-flowing talks
with fellow leaders “out of the
bubble” of Washington.
Cancer patients snagged in health law’s tangled paperwork
BY R ICARDO A LONSO -Z ALDIVAR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Walt Whitlow was
under treatment for cancer when he got an
unwelcome surprise.
His financial assistance under the Affordable Care Act got slashed. That meant
his premium quadrupled and his deductible went from $900 to $4,600.
Hundreds of thousands of people lose
subsidies under the health law, or even
their policies, when they get tangled in a
web of paperwork problems involving income, citizenship and taxes. Some are
dealing with serious illnesses like cancer.
Advocates fear the problems, if left unre-
solved, could undermine the nation’s historic gains in health insurance.
Ana Granado was scheduled for reconstruction after breast cancer surgery when
she was notified that her coverage would
be canceled because of questions about her
immigration status. Legal aid attorneys
got that cleared up quickly, but Granado’s
financial assistance for her premiums was
suspended.
Lynn Herrin got irritated when she had
to pay $700 to the IRS after it determined
she got too big a tax credit for premiums
under the health law.
Because she was also having trouble
finding a doctor who accepted her insurance, Herrin canceled. It was a costly mis-
take. She was diagnosed with oral and neck
cancer and depleted her family savings to
pay for treatment.
Not every case is as distressing, but coverage disruptions due to complex paperwork requirements seem commonplace
in the health law’s system of subsidized
private insurance, which covers about 12.7
million people.
The government says about 470,000
people had coverage terminated through
Sept. 30 last year because of unresolved
documentation issues involving citizenship and immigration. During the same
time, more than 1 million households had
their financial assistance “adjusted” because of income discrepancies. Advocates
say “adjusted” usually means the subsidies
get eliminated.
Pressured by a Republican-led Congress hostile to the health care overhaul,
the Obama administration is highly sensitive to criticism that some people may be
getting benefits they’re not legally entitled
to. But Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell recently acknowledged the paperwork tangle is more likely
to trap the innocent than fraudsters.
The administration has made customer retention a priority, and Burwell said
she’s focused on making the system less
challenging for consumers eligible for
benefits.
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Mystery
malady
M ANUEL BALCE C ENETA /AP
Dr. Argye Elizabeth Hillis, right, of John Hopkins Hospital, helps patient Robert Voogt communicate with a speech device on Sunday in Washington. Voogt suffers from primary
progressive aphasia, a brain disorder that affects the ability to speak.
Little-known disorder primary progressive aphasia robs patients of words
BY L AURAN NEERGAARD
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A mysterious brain
disorder can be confused with early Alzheimer’s disease although it is robbing
patients not of their memories but of the
words to talk about them.
It’s called primary progressive aphasia,
and researchers said Sunday they’re finding better ways to diagnose the little-known
syndrome. That will help people whose
thoughts are lucid but who are verbally
locked in to get the right kind of care.
“I’m using a speech device to talk to
you,” Robert Voogt, of Virginia Beach, Va.,
said by playing a recording from a phonesized assistive device at a meeting of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. “I have trouble speaking,
but I can understand you.”
Even many doctors know little about this
rare kind of aphasia, abbreviated PPA, but
raising awareness is key to improving care
— and because a new study is underway to
try to slow the disease by electrically stimulating the affected brain region.
PPA wasn’t identified as a separate disorder until the 1980s, and while specialists
estimate thousands of Americans may have
it, there’s no good count. Families may not
even seek care because they assume a loved
one’s increasingly garbled attempts to communicate are because of age-related dementia, said Dr. Argye Elizabeth Hillis, of
Johns Hopkins University. Often, it’s when
those people reach neurologists who realize
they aren’t repeating questions or forgetting
instructions that the diagnosis emerges.
“Nobody’s talking to them, nobody’s
involving them. It’s very sad,” said Dr.
Margaret Rogers of the American SpeechLanguage-Hearing Association. Yet for
many, “they can handle their own finances,
they can drive, they can appreciate music.
There’s a lot that still works for them.”
Speech and language are hugely complex. Just to speak requires activating 100
muscles between the lungs and lips to produce at least 14 distinct sounds per second,
said Dr. Joseph Duffy, of the Mayo Clinic.
Stroke or brain injury patients often
have trouble making sounds or retrieving
words. PPA occurs for a different reason,
because the brain regions that control language become diseased and degenerate,
resulting in communication difficulties
that may mimic broader dementia.
Special MRI scans can tell the difference, Hillis said. They also can help identify whose aphasia will worsen faster, and
who has a subtype that can morph to become Alzheimer’s-like, where they eventually do lose memory and the ability to
understand language.
Standard language therapy has patients
match pictures to the correct words, to
keep the wiring involved as active as possible. Now, Hillis’ team is testing whether
a kind of brain stimulation that sends electrical signals through the skull can rev up
the effects of that treatment.
In the first 19 patients tested, people did
better retrieving the right words for about
two months after receiving the electrical
stimulation than when they received sham
zaps with their regular therapy, Hillis reported Sunday. They were more able to
name objects they hadn’t practiced, and
brain scans showed better connectivity in
the affected region. It will take far more
study to prove whether the treatment produces lasting effects, she cautioned.
Until there’s better medical treatment,
Voogt illustrates how assistive communication devices can help patients’ quality of
life.
Now 66, Voogt was diagnosed 10 years
ago with a form of PPA that makes him unable to say words even though he can understand and type them via email, text or
his assistive device. He owns a brain-injury
rehabilitation center, and knew how to
track down a specialist for diagnosis when
he first had trouble retrieving words.
Sunday, Voogt patiently answered Hillis’ questions by typing into a device called
the MiniTalk, or calling up verbal phrases
he’d pre-programmed into it. Asked to say
“dog,” Voogt forced out only a garble. But
asked what cowboys ride, he typed horses
and the device “said” the word.
Voogt typed that he started relying on the
device in 2012, but lives independently and
travels internationally. Asked how difficult
the loss of language is to live with, he typed
out a pretty bad rating — 70 percent.
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MIT students seeking suicide solutions
BY COLLIN BINKLEY
Associated Press
STEVEN SENNE /AP
Massachusetts Institute of Technology students, clockwise from left,
Linda Jing, of San Gabriel, Calif.; Nikhil Buduma, of San Francisco;
and Andy Trattner, of Portland, Ore., use their computers on Feb. 1
to work on an anonymous texting site they created called Lean On
Me in response to several campus suicides.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — After
seven suicides in two years, students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are looking
for their own solutions to prevent
more deaths.
The school unveiled a sweeping plan to bolster mental health
last fall, adding staff psychologists
and expanding counseling hours,
among other measures. But students have added their own ingenuity in recent months, starting
a wave of grassroots projects intended to defuse the stress of campus life before it leads to a crisis.
One group of students launched
a texting hotline called Lean On
Me this month, letting students
chat anonymously with trained
student volunteers about anything
that’s troubling them. Other students plan to install artificial light
boxes on campus, meant to treat
depression that can take hold during dreary months.
By her count, sophomore Izzy
Lloyd has handed out more than
4,000 specially made wristbands
that say TMAYD. It’s short for
“tell me about your day,” a message that aims to get students
talking with one another. Lloyd
started the project last year after
two freshman classmates took
their own lives in the same week.
“It’s suicide prevention by com-
Amid budget cuts, police across the
US deal with deteriorating vehicles
BY DAVE COLLINS
Associated Press
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Holes
in the floorboards. Cracks in
fenders and bumpers. Metal that
sticks out of torn seats and rips
uniforms. Gas gauges that don’t
work. Radio equipment that
malfunctions. Occasional breakdowns. Peeling paint.
And then there’s the time a detective heading to a call took a
turn and the steering wheel came
off. He managed to avoid an accident, and no one was hurt.
These are New Haven’s police
cruisers.
“It’s embarrassing,” said Officer Craig Miller, president of the
local police union. “It’s unsafe for
our patrol officers and unsafe for
the community.”
The police union, frustrated
by years of cruiser problems and
city funding cuts that have slowed
purchases of new vehicles, filed a
complaint with the state Board
of Labor Relations in September,
saying the poor condition of the
fleet is creating unsafe work conditions. The matter is currently in
mediation.
Police and city officials, meanwhile, announced plans last month
to replace the department’s 44
cruisers over the next few years.
They also say city mechanics in-
spect vehicles in the police fleet
two to three times a year to make
sure they’re safe.
New Haven appears to be an
extreme example of police departments nationwide that are
dealing with deteriorating vehicles and
budget
It’s unsafe cuts.
for our patrol In Pueblo, Colo., 75
officers
of the 100
and unsafe
marked
police
for the
vehicles
community. are more
Officer Craig than
5
Miller years old,
police union 51
have
president more than
100,000
miles on
them, and one — a 2000 Ford
Crown Victoria — is approaching
200,000 miles, the Pueblo Chieftan reported last month.
Trenton, Ohio, officials have
proposed a special police levy,
some of which would be used
to replace some police cruisers
that are more than 10 years old,
The Journal-News reported last
month.
Of the more than 800 police
vehicles in Tucson, Ariz., more
than half have more than 80,000
miles — the recommended maxi-
‘
’
mum in some industry standards
— and more than 70 are at least
10 years old, KOLD-TV and the
Arizona Daily Star reported. Officials said a five-year replacement budget was cut in 2008 and
they replace cruisers when they
can get the money.
In New Haven, the Finance
Committee of the city’s Board
of Alders is expected later this
month to consider a master lease
plan that would allow the police
department to buy 12 vehicles a
year, in addition to the 12 a year
already in the budget.
City officials also are asking
alders to increase the vehicle and
maintenance budget by $150,000
to a total of $450,000 a year, to
provide stable funding for vehicle
replacement.
“There is no disputing many of
these vehicles are in need of replacement or repair,” said Officer
David Hartman, the department’s
spokesman. “Out of necessity,
we’ve retained many that are
well past their prime. The reason
is simply budgetary.”
While city officers are driving
troubled cruisers, Police Chief
Dean Esserman and four assistant chiefs have newer sport utility vehicles.
Esserman
declined
to
comment.
munity building,” said Lloyd, 19.
“We’re showing people who may
feel like they have nothing left that
they have a world of people who do
care about them.”
Other projects take a lighter
tone, like the new MIT Puppy Lab
that will bring therapy dogs to
campus this semester.
Campus
officials
recently
awarded almost $50,000 in grants
to support campus projects meant
to improve mental health. They
say the new work is a reflection of
MIT’s culture, marked by a drive
to solve problems. Students said
they’re also meeting a demand for
services that were missing on the
campus of 11,000 students.
“If we really solved the problem,
we wouldn’t be running into this
same cycle of mental illness that
we’ve been seeing,” said Nikhil
Buduma, who graduated last year
and founded Lean On Me with two
current students. The hotline, he
added, lets students get help anonymously and avoid stigmas tied to
mental illness.
Across the country, experts say,
college students are playing a bigger role in suicide prevention. And
more often, schools welcome that
kind of help.
“We have found time and again
that students listen to students before they listen to anyone else,”
said Nance Roy, clinical director
at the Jed Foundation, a nonprofit
group based in New York that
works to prevent suicide among
college students. “These issues
can no longer just fall to the counseling center.”
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Bosnia submits
application to EU
BY A IDA CERKEZ
Associated Press
SARAJEVO,
Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnia handed in its
application for European Union
membership Monday, hoping to
catch up with its neighbors on the
EU path but confronting the reality that many in the country have
grown tired of waiting for jobs
and prosperity and are already
voting with their feet.
President Dragan Covic submitted the application to Dutch
Foreign Affairs Minister Bert
Koenders in Brussels. The Netherlands currently holds the EU
presidency.
“There is no way back for Bosnia-Herzegovina. We must catch
up with our neighbors,” Covic
said. He said the country will
speed up the required reforms in
the expectation that the EU will
grant the country candidate status in 2017.
Bosnia first knocked on the EU
door in 2008 when it signed a Stabilization and Association Agreement with the bloc 13 years after
the end of the bloody conflict
that left the country ethnically
divided. But unresolved wartime
quarrels have hindered the necessary reforms as Bosnian Serbs
feared for their autonomy within
Bosnia.
That frustrated the Muslim
Bosniaks and some Bosnian Croats, who felt they were hostages to
the Serb lack of will to reform the
country at least enough to attract
foreign investments that would
kick-start the economy.
The stalemate has produced an
unemployment rate of more than
40 percent and a general feeling
of apathy among Bosnians. Every
year, tens of thousands decide to
leave the country.
In 2014, about 68,000 Bosnians,
mostly aged between 25 and 40,
permanently left the country of
3.8 million. For 2015, the figure
will be 20 to 30 percent higher,
parliamentarian Senad Sepic told
The Associated Press.
“The very substance that
should be building this country is
leaving,” he said.
Things only started moving
with the EU application in 2014,
when Bosnian Serbs
split their
There is
beno way back votes
tween two
for Bosniablocks
Herzegovina. — one that
favors the
We must
reforms
and
one
catch up
that conwith our
tinues to
neighbors.
pursue a
Dragan Covic separate
president of Bosnia Serb state.
Pro-EU
Serb officials managed to push for the required reforms, enabling Bosnia
to submit Monday’s application.
“It is a day of celebration for
all of us,” said a joint statement
from the EU’s foreign policy
chief, Federica Mogherini, and
EU Enlargement Commissioner
Johannes Hahn. “Only 20 years
ago, it was in the Balkans where
one of the most awful pages of
European history was written.”
But the recent progress comes
too late for many. They are choosing to run toward the EU rather
than limp there with Bosnia.
Poland says
US senators
misinformed
BY VANESSA GERA
Associated Press
‘
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A MEL EMRIC /AP
German language teacher Bahrija Zunic works with students at the
Goethe Institute in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Friday. Bosnia is seeking
European Union membership as a high unemployment rate is driving
many citizens to seek work in Germany and other countries.
“Just from the town of Livno,
60 families left in January 2016
alone,” Sepic said. Livno is a town
in the south of the country with
9,000 residents.
Germany is looking for 40,000
medical workers each year, so in
the past two years the number of
applicants for German-language
courses at the Goethe Institute
in Sarajevo has doubled, and it
keeps growing.
Amer Cekic, 20, a student of political science, attends the course
because he believes it will help
him find a job in Germany.
“I feel I have no future here,”
he said.
In Sepic’s constituency of Cazin
in the northwest of the country, the number of first-graders
was down in 2015 by 40 percent
compared with 2011. If the trend
continues, there will be no first
graders at all by 2022, Sepic said.
“And if there are no people
left here, then the whole story of
EU membership is pointless,” he
said.
Former Israeli PM begins prison term for bribery
BY TIA GOLDENBERG
Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert started serving a 19-month
prison sentence for bribery and
obstruction of justice on Monday,
becoming the first Israeli premier
to be imprisoned and capping a
yearslong legal saga that forced
him to resign in 2009 amid the last
serious round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Olmert walked into the Maasiyahu prison in central Israel hours
after he released a video making a
last-minute plea to Israelis meant
to salvage his legacy. In the video,
he appealed to the nation to remember his peacemaking efforts
as leader and denied any wrongdoing in the bribery conviction
against him.
The 3½-minute video, released by his office and filmed at
his home a day earlier, shows a
weary-looking Olmert. He says it
is a “painful and strange” time for
him and his family and that he is
paying a “heavy” price. He added,
however, that he has accepted the
sentence because
“no
man is above
the law.”
“At
this
hour, it is
important
for me to
say again …
I reject outright all the
corruption
Olmert
allegations
against me,”
Olmert said in the footage. He
said that in hindsight, the Israeli
public might view the charges
against him and the seven-year
legal ordeal that enveloped him in
a “balanced and critical way.”
“I hope that then many will
recognize that during my term
as prime minister, honest and
promising attempts were made to
create an opening for hope and a
better future of peace, happiness
and well-being,” he said.
Olmert, 70, was convicted in
March 2014 in a wide-ranging
case that accused him of accepting
bribes to promote a controversial
real estate project in Jerusalem.
The charges pertained to a period
when he was mayor of Jerusalem
and trade minister, years before
he became prime minister in
2006, a point he reiterated in his
video statement Monday.
He was initially sentenced to six
years in the case, but Israel’s Supreme Court later upheld a lesser
charge, reducing the sentence to
18 months. That was extended by
a month earlier this year for pressuring a confidant not to testify in
multiple legal cases against him.
Olmert is also awaiting a ruling
in an appeal in a separate case in
which he was sentenced to eight
months in prison for unlawfully
accepting money from a U.S.
supporter.
Israel has sent other senior of-
ficials to prison, including Moshe
Katsav, who held the mostly ceremonial post of the country’s president and who is now serving a
seven-year prison term for rape.
But having the once-popular
Olmert behind bars was met with
mixed emotions by many Israelis, who viewed the milestone as a
proud moment for Israel’s robust
justice system but also a sorrowful one.
“When you look at a person
like this, who is the salt of the
earth, who is so talented, who is
so charming, who is so capable,
the fact that he is going to prison
is something sad,” Dan Margalit,
a columnist with the daily Israel
Hayom and a former Olmert confidant, told Israeli Army Radio.
Olmert was forced to resign in
early 2009 amid the corruption allegations, which undermined the
last serious round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and cleared
the way for hard-liner Benjamin
Netanyahu’s rise to power.
WARSAW, Poland — Polish
leaders say that three U.S. senators who have expressed concerns about the rule of law in
Poland are misinformed about
the country and do not have the
right to lecture Warsaw about its
internal affairs.
The bipartisan group of senators — John McCain, R-Ariz.,
Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., and
Richard Durbin, D-Ill. — sent a
letter last week to Polish Prime
Minister Beata Szydlo expressing
their concern that the new laws
affecting the constitutional court
and public media “could serve to
diminish democratic norms, including the rule of law and independence of the judiciary.”
The senators, who described
themselves as “friends of Poland,”
urged the Warsaw government to
“recommit” to shared Western
democratic values.
Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski lashed out Monday
against the suggestion that anything is amiss in Poland and said
the letter is the “result of a lack of
knowledge
about what
is happening
in
Poland
and was inspired
by
people who
wish Poland
harm.”
Waszczykowski
spoke as he
Szydlo
was headed
to Washington for meetings and
said he would address the matter
with U.S. officials.
The letter follows similar criticism from European leaders and
underlines how deeply Poland’s
international standing has deteriorated since the right-wing Law
and Justice party won parliamentary elections last year.
After taking power in November, Szydlo’s government moved
quickly to change laws on the
Constitutional Tribunal and the
public media.
The law on the constitutional
court limits the high court’s
power to strike down legislation
that might be unconstitutional,
while the media law gives the
government greater powers to
control public broadcasters.
“An erosion of democracy in
Poland would undermine liberal
institutions that have successfully expanded prosperity, peace,
stability and tolerance within
Europe at a time when these institutions are greatly needed,”
the senators wrote to Szydlo last
week.
In a reply, Szydlo said her government’s changes to the court
were simply a corrective to attempts by the previous government to control the court. She also
said the American politicians do
not have the right to be “lecturing
and imposing actions on the internal affairs of my fatherland.”
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Kerry notes friendly ties
in first visit to Albania
BY K AREN DEYOUNG
The Washington Post
TIRANA, Albania — “I am here
because we are friends, we are
allies,” Secretary of State John
Kerry said on Sunday during his
first, brief visit to this small Balkan nation.
The friendship between the
United States and Albania, a NATO
member, has been solidified in recent years by the country’s strong
support for U.S. counterterrorism
efforts in the Middle East, its participation in the anti-Islamic State
coalition and in NATO’s operations in Afghanistan, and its willingness to take in more than 1,000
members of the exile Iranian opposition group known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK.
Long considered one of the
most corrupt and crime-ridden
countries in Europe, Albania is
undergoing governance, law enforcement and judicial reforms to
boost its application for membership in the European Union and to
increase international investment.
This year, the Obama administration is spending $25 million to assist those efforts.
Returning to the United States
after four days of Syria-related
meetings in Munich, Kerry made
a four-hour stop here to meet with
Prime Minister Edi Rama, civil
society representatives and opposition leaders whose support
is crucial to completion of the
reforms.
“The evidence is clear that
Albania is moving in the right
direction,” Kerry said in a joint
appearance with Rami. “That
begins with an awareness of the
need to combat corruption, and
I am heartened that essential
reforms are underway.” Kerry
declared himself “impressed”
with approval of legislation that
bars those with criminal records
from participating in the political
system.
Rama noted that Albanians are
“today more respected than any
time in their history,” a status that
he said would not have been possible “without the United States by
our side.”
Albania, with an arsenal of
Russian-made weaponry dating
from the era of the Soviet Union,
has donated about 1,500 tons of
small arms and ammunition to
the peshmerga, the Iraqi Kurdish
force fighting against the Islamic
State. In 2013 and 2014, up to 140
would-be terrorists are believed
to have traveled to Syria from Albania, a Muslim majority country.
Last year, a senior State Department official said, that number
was believed to have dropped to
zero.
The official, speaking on the
condition of anonymity under
rules set by the State Department,
described the Albanians as “regional heavyweights” in efforts
to counter extremist propaganda
and recruitment in the rest of the
Balkans.
4 US journalists arrested
in Bahrain, witnesses say
BY JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates
— Four American journalists who
were covering the anniversary
of Bahrain’s 2011 uprising have
been arrested amid a long crackdown on dissent in the tiny island
nation, witnesses said Monday.
Bahraini officials declined to
immediately comment on the arrests. The U.S. Embassy in Manama said in a statement Monday
it was “aware of the arrest of four
U.S. citizens in Bahrain” on Sunday but that it could not discuss
the case due to privacy concerns.
The identities of the journalists
and whether they worked for a
specific media outlet was not immediately clear. Photographs of
the reporters working in Sitra, a
largely Shiite community south of
the capital that has seen repeated protests, circulated on social
media, including one image of a
woman being filmed while speaking to a masked protester.
On Sunday, police arrested a
photographer working with the
group, the two witnesses said.
Later that night, police surrounded the area with checkpoints and
arrested the other three, the witnesses said. The witnesses spoke
to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity for fear of
being arrested.
The 2011 protests in Bahrain,
which is home to the U.S. Navy’s
5th Fleet, were the largest of the
Arab Spring wave of demonstrations to rock the Gulf Arab states.
They were driven by the country’s
Shiite majority, who demanded
greater political rights from the
Sunni-led monarchy.
But while changes swept across
the region, Bahrain’s own protests were put down after Saudi
Arabia and the United Arab
Emirates sent in reinforcements.
Bahrain blamed regional Shiite
power Iran for stirring up the
demonstrations, though a government-sponsored investigation
into the unrest said there wasn’t
“a discernable link” between the
protests and the Islamic Republic
based on the information the government gave them.
L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO/AP
Pope Francis celebrates a Mass on Sunday in Ecatepec, Mexico. Hundreds of thousands of people
gathered for the Mass, expected to be the biggest event of the pope’s five-day trip to Mexico.
As Catholics dwindle, Pope
lauds indigenous in Chiapas
BY NICOLE WINFIELD
AND SONIA P EREZ D.
Associated Press
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS
CASAS, Mexico — Pope Francis
is celebrating Mexico’s Indians
on Monday with a visit to heavily
indigenous Chiapas state, where
he will preside over a Mass in
three native languages thanks to
a new Vatican decree approving
their use in liturgy.
But the visit, at the midway
mark of Francis’ five-day trip to
Mexico, is also aimed at boosting
the faith in the least Catholic state
in Mexico.
History’s first Latin American pope already has issued a
sweeping apology for the Catholic Church’s colonial-era crimes
against the continent’s indigenous. On Monday, he’ll go further
by celebrating their culture in
ways the local church hierarchy
often has sought to play down, in
a clear demonstration of his belief
that Indians have an important
role to play in Mexico today.
“I ask you to show singular
tenderness in the way you regard
indigenous peoples and their
fascinating but not infrequently
decimated cultures,” Francis told
Mexico’s bishops Saturday in a
speech outlining their marching
orders. “The indigenous people of
Mexico still await true recognition of the richness of their contribution and the fruitfulness of
their presence.”
The Mexican hierarchy has
long bristled at the region’s “Indian church,” a mixture of Catholicism and indigenous culture that
includes pine boughs, eggs and
references to “God the Father
and Mother” in services. It was
a tradition that was embraced by
the late bishop of San Cristobal de
las Casas, Samuel Ruiz, who ran
afoul of both the Mexican church
and the Vatican at times for his
use of the local ways.
Monday’s Mass will include
readings, prayers and hymns in
the three main indigenous languages of Chiapas: Tzeltal, Tzotzil
and Chol, which are spoken by
just over 1 million people, according to Mexico’s latest census. The
Vatican has said the pope would
present the official decree authorizing the languages to be used,
some 50 years after the Second
Vatican Council paved the way
for Mass to be celebrated in the
vernacular rather than in Latin.
“Vatican II in liturgy finally
comes to Chiapas,” said the Rev.
Manuel Dorantes, an assistant
Vatican spokesman who is from
Mexico.
Despite the pope’s overture,
residents of Chiapas said they believe Francis is coming mostly to
confirm their faith, not their status as indigenous.
“It doesn’t matter that I’m indigenous; I think it’s more that I’m
Catholic,” said Emanuel Gomez,
22, a Tzotzil who planned to attend the Mass. “The pope comes
to encourage our hearts and faith
as Catholics.”
He added, though, that the
visit would “lift us up so we don’t
feel scorned by the powerful and
rich.”
According
to
government
statistics, about 46 percent of
Mexicans were living in poverty
in 2014. That number surges in
Chiapas, where some 76 percent
were living in poverty, 32 percent
in extreme poverty.
Francis has insisted that his
is a “poor church, for the poor,”
and was expected to address the
problems of poverty and marginalization Monday. After the Mass,
Francis was scheduled to hear
testimony from a handful of Chiapas families about the hardships
they face.
“He comes to redeem an entire
struggle by the people,” said the
Rev. Marcelino Perez, an indigenous priest who will translate the
pope’s homily into Tzotzil during
the Mass.
Francis’ visit comes amid
strong challenges to the church in
the southern state, including huge
inroads by evangelical Protestants who have helped turn Chiapas into the least Catholic and
one of the most Protestant and
evangelical in Mexico. According to the 2010 census, Chiapas
was 58 percent Catholic, compared with a national average of
83 percent.
Relations between the two
groups haven’t always been
smooth.
In some communities, residents have expelled or ostracized
any inhabitant who converts to
Protestantism, often taking their
lands or possessions, or denying
them access to basic services like
water or electricity.
Francis has close personal
friendships in the evangelical and
Protestant communities, but it
was unclear how he might tackle
the Protestant-Catholic divide in
Chiapas.
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$900 million in liquid meth
seized by Australian police
Associated Press
SYDNEY — Australian law
enforcement agencies discovered
$900 million worth of methylamphetamine hidden in imported
boxes of silicon bra inserts and
art supplies in the country’s largest haul of the illicit drug in its liquid form, officials said Monday.
Four Hong Kong passport
holders were arrested in Sydney
last month over the import from
China of 190 gallons of the drug,
which is commonly known in
Australia as ice, police said in a
statement.
The liquid form of the drug
Australian
law
enforcement
discovered
the meth
hidden in
imported
boxes of
silicon bra
inserts.
could
have made
about 1,100
pounds of
high-grade
crystal
meth, Australian
Federal
PoliceCommander
Chris
Sheehan
said.
Officials
also seized 4.4 pounds of the crystalized form of the drug.
Justice
Minister
Michael
Keenan said that the operation used information gathered
through new cooperation between Australian Federal Police
and China’s National Narcotics Control Commission. The
Australian and Chinese agencies had established a joint task
force in November to investigate
criminal syndicates trafficking
methamphetamine.
“This largest seizure of liquid
methylamphetamine to date is
the result of organized criminals
targeting the lucrative Australian
ice market from offshore,” Keenan told reporters.
The four will appear in a Syd-
RICK R YCROFT/AP
Australian Police officers stand by a display of confiscated
methylamphetamine in Sydney on Monday.
ney court next month charged
with importing and manufacturing commercial quantities
of illegal drugs. Each suspect
faces a potential life sentence if
convicted.
Keenan said the methamphetamine seizure was one the largest
hauls of illicit drugs in Australian
history.
Body, money
found on US
cargo plane
in Zimbabwe
BY FARAI MUTSAKA
Associated Press
BEN CURTIS/AP
Leading opposition leader and presidential candidate Kizza Besigye, center, is arrested by Ugandan riot police after he attempted to walk
with his supporters along a street in downtown Kampala, Uganda, on Monday.
Ugandan presidential candidate arrested while campaigning
BY RODNEY MUHUMUZA
AND BEN CURTIS
Associated Press
KAMPALA, Uganda — A Ugandan opposition leader running for president was arrested Monday while campaigning in the capital,
raising tensions ahead of elections widely
seen as close.
Kizza Besigye was arrested Monday afternoon in Kampala, where he was holding his
last rallies ahead of elections on Thursday.
Associated Press journalists saw police
whisk away Besigye on a truck as he tried to
address a crowd. Police also fired tear gas.
Besigye is a four-time presidential candidate who used to be Ugandan President Yow-
eri Museveni’s personal physician. Besigye
broke ranks with Museveni 15 years ago, saying Museveni was no longer a democrat.
Recent opinion polls show Museveni in a
tight race with Besigye, who is promising to
run a more efficient government.
Ahead of elections, there has been a substantial rise in the number of police deployed
around Kampala, which is seen as an opposition stronghold. Museveni said he will deploy
the military to protect the peace during the
elections and has threatened to “smash” those
who threaten national security.
“The bottom line is no one can play around
with the security of Uganda when I am president,” the 71-year-old leader said during a tele-
vised debate with his challengers Saturday.
Critics and opposition activists are concerned the military will be used to intimidate
opposition supporters during and after the
elections.
Uganda has not had a peaceful transfer of
power since the country’s independence from
Britain in 1962. Museveni himself took power
by force in 1986.
The U.S. is urging the government and
electoral authorities “to ensure a level playing field and transparent process, including
through fair application of the law, so that all
candidates have an equal opportunity to express their views and voters have the opportunity to hear them.”
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe aviation authorities impounded a U.S.-registered cargo
jet with a dead body and millions
of South African rand on board, a
senior official said Monday.
Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe general manager David
Chawota confirmed a plane registered with Western Global Airlines was impounded at Harare
International Airport on Sunday.
A website says Western Global
Airlines is based in Estero, Fla.
“The case is now in the hands
of the state. It involves nationals
and property of other countries,
so I am no longer qualified to give
much detail but, yes, we impounded the plane on Sunday,” Chawota
told The Associated Press.
“The crew requested to land
for refueling but our ground-handling personnel discovered blood
leaks and became suspicious.
Talk to the police for more details,” he said, refusing to give details about the crew or the cargo.
Police spokeswoman Charity
Charamba said she did not have
the facts of the case yet.
The state-run Herald newspaper, quoting unnamed sources,
reported on Monday that the MD11 trijet was traveling from Germany to South Africa “stashed
with millions of rands.” At today’s
exchange rate, 1 million rand is
worth $62,500.
The crew, according to the
Herald, includes two Americans,
a South African and a Pakistani.
The U.S. Embassy said it does
not yet have a comment on the
matter. Several U.S. Embassy
vehicles were seen at the airport
Monday morning.
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Love in the age
of computers
Afghan civil activist Hadi Sadiqi
chats on Facebook with his
wife, Maleka Yawari, in Kabul,
Afghanistan. Sadiqi met Yawari on
Facebook.
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Many Afghans are turning to social media to meet romantic partners
BY LYNNE O’DONNELL
Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan civil activist Hadi Sadiqi
had long been using social media
to share news, commentary and
his own musings on politics when
he got into a heated exchange
with another member of his Facebook forum.
Sadiqi and Maleka Yawari took
their argument offline, and soon
their exchanges grew more personal, with articles and opinion
pieces giving way to photographs,
love letters — and eventually
wedding vows.
“Turns out we’re both from the
same district in Ghazni province,
but we’d never met or even heard
of each other,” Sadiqi said.
That’s not unusual in Afghanistan, a deeply conservative
country where women are still
largely confined to the home
and arranged marriages are the
norm. Fifteen years after the
overthrow of the Taliban, women
are still killed by relatives over
An Afghan shopkeeper accesses Facebook from a smartphone.
Using social media allows young Afghans to circumvent the strict
segregation of the sexes in their conservative society.
‘ Finding a suitable marriage partner in this conservative society
is a real challenge. The Internet provides a level of safety and
security, protecting a couple’s social dignity and providing a
precious way for young people to meet each other.
’
Maqsood Akbari
doctor from Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, who courted his wife on Facebook
alleged sexual indiscretions — in
what are known as “honor killings” — and unmarried lovers
can be stoned to death by their
neighbors.
But social media is allowing
more and more young people
to safely meet outside society’s
strict confines.
Sadiqi said the families were
surprised by the secret romance
— conducted on Facebook as he
was living in Kabul and Yawari
was completing an economics degree in neighboring Kazakhstan.
“But they agreed immediately,
and a year ago we got married,”
he said.
The trend is mainly limited to
the urban middle class. Only 10
to 20 percent of Afghans have access to the Internet, according to
Roshan, the country’s top telecom
provider. But Afghanistan is currently rolling out a 3G network,
and as smartphones become
more affordable, Internet access
is projected to rise, including in
remote areas of the mostly rural
country.
Although coverage is limited,
there are no official government
restrictions on the Internet in Afghanistan, making it an outlier
in a region where governments
closely monitor and restrict access. Neighboring Pakistan recently lifted a three-year ban on
YouTube after Google created a
special version for the country.
Beijing’s draconian “great firewall of China” has been in place
for more than a decade, and Iran
blocks Facebook, Twitter and
YouTube.
Facebook is widely used in
Afghanistan, while WhatsApp,
Viber, Skype and Instagram are
also popular.
Kabul-based media consultant
Ben Bruges said Afghanistan has
seen a “big generational change,”
with youth using technology their
parents don’t understand to “escape the traditional conservative
confines.”
“It might be possible for more
young people to talk to each other
online than would be possible
in their daily lives, given the restrictions on the genders talking
to each other in Afghanistan,” he
said.
Maqsood Akbari, a doctor from
the northern city of Mazar-iSharif, agrees. He courted his
wife secretly on social media
after meeting her in a library in
2008.
“Finding a suitable marriage
partner in this conservative society is a real challenge,” Akbari
said. “The Internet provides a
level of safety and security, protecting a couple’s social dignity
and providing a precious way
for young people to meet each
other.”
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BUSINESS/WEATHER
HSBC decides not to move HQ to Asia
BY DANICA K IRKA
Associated Press
LONDON — Britain’s biggest
bank is staying put.
HSBC Holdings plc said it will
keep its headquarters in London,
ending a 10-month process in
which one of the world’s largest
financial companies considered
moving to Hong Kong to get closer to its center of gravity in fastgrowing Asian economies.
“I think we’ve ended up with
the best of both worlds,” HSBC
chairman Douglas Flint told the
BBC on Monday. “A pivot to Asia,
led from London.”
Flint said that HSBC was, at
its heart, a bank focused on trade
and investment flows. Sidestepping concerns about the recent
volatility in Asian markets, Flint
said it had been a privilege to
choose between two of the world’s
great financial centers and that
the decision was not based on
short-term market dynamics.
“The U.K. is one of the most
globally connected economies in
the world with a fantastic regulatory system and legal system and
immense experience in dealing
with international affairs,” he
said.
The bank launched the review
last April in light of regulatory
and tax changes implemented by
the U.K. after the 2008 financial
crisis. Particularly problematic
was a 2010 tax on a bank’s global
balance sheet, which penalized
those with global operations such
as HSBC and Standard Chartered. Fears that Britain would
vote to leave the European Union
also heightened concerns.
HSBC’s decision was a relief
to the government, which feared
losing a pillar of Britain’s financial world — and the signal it
would send more broadly for the
economy at a time of heated debate about whether or not to leave
the EU. The thought of losing one
of London’s financial icons had
sent the government into panic.
“It’s a vote of confidence in
the government’s economic plan,
and a boost to our goal of making
the U.K. a great place to do more
business with China and the rest
of Asia,” the Treasury said in a
statement after HSBC’s decision.
Campaigners who want the
country to leave the EU argued the
decision proved that big financial
institutions would not be frightened off by a leave vote. But Flint
told the BBC that the bank has the
ability to move people from London to Paris, if necessary, for the
bank’s wholesale operations.
Investec banking expert Ian
Gordon, who thought a move was
in the bank’s interest, suggested
it was dangerous to trust political
promises that won’t be enacted
until after the next election. Concerns about slowing economic
growth in China and market volatility around the world may have
persuaded HSBC to stay with the
status quo, Gordon said.
“I’m sure that a perception of
market and political volatility
would have been a consideration
against moving,” he said.
The bank’s decision came after
a complicated process that took
longer than expected, but speculation increased in the days before
the company was set to report its
earnings Feb. 22.
HSBC still believes its commercial future lies in the growing
wealth of Asia. Almost two-thirds
of the bank’s pretax profit came
from Asia in the first nine months
of 2015, compared with 19 percent from Europe.
It has offices in 72 countries and
territories in Asia, Europe, the
Americas, the Middle East and
North Africa. It claimed assets of
$2.5 trillion as of September.
Many Western banks are interested in expanding operations in
Asia, but HSBC has the advantage of already having a major
presence there. Founded in Hong
Kong in 1865, when the city was a
British colony, the bank financed
growing trade between China and
Europe and was originally known
as the Hongkong and Shanghai
Banking Corp.
EXCHANGE RATES
Military rates
Euro costs (Feb. 15)..........................$1.1582
Dollar buys (Feb. 15) ........................€0.8634
British pound (Feb. 15) ........................ $1.49
Japanese yen (Feb. 16) ...................... 112.00
South Korean won (Feb. 16) .......... 1,177.00
Commercial rates
Bahrain (Dinar) ....................................0.3770
British pound ....................... $1.4473/0.6910
Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.3826
China (Yuan) ........................................6.4973
Denmark (Krone) ................................6.6986
Egypt (Pound) ...................................... 7.8332
Euro ........................................ $1.1144/0.8973
Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................. 7.7863
Hungary (Forint) ................................. 277.63
Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.8956
Japan (Yen)........................................... 114.37
Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.2986
Norway (Krone) ...................................8.6438
Philippines (Peso)................................. 47.37
Poland (Zloty) .......................................... 3.95
Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ........................... 3.7505
Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.4004
South Korea (Won) ..........................1,210.54
Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9878
Thailand (Baht) ..................................... 35.62
Turkey (Lira) .........................................2.9524
(Military exchange rates are those
available to customers at military banking
facilities in the country of issuance
for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the
Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For
nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e.,
purchasing British pounds in Germany),
check with your local military banking
facility. Commercial rates are interbank
rates provided for reference when buying
currency. All figures are foreign currencies
to one dollar, except for the British pound,
which is represented in dollars-to-pound,
and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.)
INTEREST RATES
Prime rate ................................................ 3.50
Discount rate .......................................... 1.00
Federal funds market rate ................... 0.36
3-month bill ............................................. 0.35
30-year bond ........................................... 2.60
WEATHER OUTLOOK
TUESDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
WEDNESDAY IN THE PACIFIC
TUESDAY IN EUROPE
Misawa
36/27
Kabul
53/28
Seoul
43/25
Baghdad
78/51
Kandahar
64/31
Kuwait
City
79/53
Mildenhall/
Lakenheath
42/30
Brussels
41/28
Bahrain
72/57
Riyadh
77/49
Lajes,
Azores
60/57
Doha
77/56
Busan
48/31
Tokyo
57/36
Iwakuni
48/35
Guam
86/75
Sasebo
48/38
Ramstein
42/28
Pápa
49/41
Stuttgart
37/32
Aviano/
Vicenza
50/41
Naples
69/53
Morón
53/37
Djibouti
84/27
Osan
43/24
Sigonella
66/55
Rota
56/39
Okinawa
61/53
The weather is provided by the
American Forces Network Weather Center,
2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
Souda Bay
75/60
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Hi: Sun., 94, Thermal, Calif.
Lo: Sun., -40, Mount Washington, N.H.
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Beetle Dune brings sporty toughness to coupe
BY L ARRY PRINTZ
Tribune News Service
Since its rebirth in 1998, the
Volkswagen Beetle has been the
subject of a key question for those
possessing a Y chromosome: Are
you man enough to drive one?
Its Hello Kitty styling is a bit
emasculating.
This is no small thing.
While the Beetle was originally
created under the auspices of the
Nazi party and engineered by
Ferdinand Porsche, its popularity in the 1960s came about — improbably enough for a product
created by anti-Semites — at the
hands of a bunch of Jewish mad
men on Madison Avenue. And
while the Beetle was a hot seller
back then, the current car’s sales
are much like the car itself, a faint
reminder of the original.
Of course, much has changed
since Hitler’s “Strength Through
Joy Car” captured the imagination of ’60s-era car buyers who
had become bored by Detroit’s
offerings. Where Americans, especially young ones, were once
infatuated with coupes, they
are now fascinated by utility
vehicles.
So if you’re trying to sell a
coupe, why not tart it up to give
it a more utility-like appearance?
Makes sense, right?
Of course it does.
That’s why we now have the 2016
Volkswagen Beetle Dune, which is
based on the Baja Bugs that first
ventured off-road into the dunes
of the West Coast some 40 years
ago. But unlike those bugs, which
were born in the aftermarket, the
Beetle Dune comes straight from
the factory with some rather butch
accoutrements, none of which is
much use off-road.
It starts with a more sporting
appearance, which includes wheel
arches accented in black trim,
polished aluminum sills, revised
front fascia with a large air intake, and a ride height that’s been
raised 0.2 inches. The rear track
is also 0.2 inches wider, which
along with LED lights, a rear
spoiler and 18-inch wheels, lends
the Dune a tougher look for those
who have always liked the Beetle
but couldn’t bring themselves to
buy a car that’s so huggable.
Even the colors are palatable,
with the Dune being offered in
three colors: pure white, deep
black pearl and sandstorm yellow. If you choose the yellow,
which looks like deli mustard, the
hue is continued inside.
Other special interior amenities
include heated front sport seats
with orange stitching, a unique
instrument cluster and a leatherwrapped steering wheel. Like
other Beetle models, the Dune
features the newest Volkswagen
infotainment system, which features a 6.3-inch touchscreen and
VOLKSWAGEN /TNS
The 2016 Volkswagen Beetle Dune, beefed-up and off-road inspired, is athletic and agile — especially for urban duties. Interior amenities
include heated front sport seats, a unique instrument cluster and a leather-wrapped steering wheel.
a proximity sensor that pulls up
essential on-screen buttons when
it senses a hand nearby. It’s a
huge improvement over the previous system and, along with the
multi-function steering wheel,
proves to be one of the industry’s
better systems. Best of all, it supports Apple CarPlay, Android
Auto and MirrorLink smartphone
integration.
And, as with other Beetles,
you’ll find the Dune’s basic package familiar. This is a two-andtwo coupe with good room for two
people, along with two more very
understanding friends or family members. The seats are fairly
comfortable, although more side
bolstering would be nice. Headroom is generous; legroom is as
well, but using the latter eliminates back seat legroom.
Being that modern-day Beetles
are stylish hatchbacks, not notchbacks like the rear-engined original, they offer decent cargo space,
but the rounded sheet metal robs
the car of some its practicality.
But if you want more practicality, you can always just buy a Golf.
As it turns out, the Beetle Dune is
little more than a Golf with a little
more ride height. Like the Golf
and Jetta, the Dune is powered
by a 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine
rated at 170 horsepower and 184
pound-feet of torque and mated to
a six-speed automatic transmis-
2016 Volkswagen
Beetle Dune
sion. An automatic post-collision
braking system is standard, which
applies the brakes if the car senses that a collision is imminent. In
addition, the Beetle comes with
stability control, a host of air bags
and other safety systems.
Of course, if you were expecting the Beetle Dune to behave
differently than other Beetles,
you’d be mistaken.
The Dune’s added ride height
doesn’t detract from the Beetle’s
well-tuned suspension, which offers up an absorbent ride and the
steadfast demeanor you’d expect
of a German car. Deteriorating roads are handled in stride,
without additional body motions
or rocking. There is some body
lean in corners, but it’s mild, and
comes on progressively. The Beetle Dune feels athletic and agile,
especially for urban duties, with
a fairly good turning radius for a
front-driver. Road noise is noticeable, especially at highway speed,
although engine noise is minimal.
The engine and transmission are
responsive, and the driveline is
never lacking for power, particularly with the transmission in post
mode. It’s a package that’s easy to
live with and love, and offers the
Beetle buyer something unique.
And its added ride height will be
appreciated by those who live in
snowier climes.
Engine: Turbocharged 1.8-liter
four-cylinder.
Horsepower: 170.
Torque: 184 pound-feet.
Wheelbase: 100 inches.
Length: 168.7 inches.
Weight: 3,093 pounds.
Environmental Protection Agency
rating (city/highway): 25/34 mpg.
Base price: $23,995.
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration safety rating: 5
stars.
TNS
For now, you can only get the
Dune as a coupe; a convertible
will come later in the model
year.
And while the car may recall
the Beetles that plied the beaches
of Baja, its biggest market may be
in the northern tier of states.
But is it butch enough for bros?
That’s up to you and your ego.
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AMERICAN ROUNDUP
Ex-officer guilty of one
charge in confrontation
— A suburMI DETROIT
ban Detroit police sergeant accused of robbing three
THE CENSUS
$2M
The amount left to a Catholic order by a Kansas City woman who worked as a teacher and lived on a pension.
Anna Kurzweil, who died at 100, donated the money to the Society of Jesus, also known as Jesuits. Relatives said
the money had to be result of wise investing because Kurzweil never earned more than $20,000 per year as a
teacher and then lived on a monthly pension of $1,000 while she cared for her mother.
men suspected in the theft of his
daughter’s cellphone was cleared
of all but one charge at the end of
his second trial.
A jury convicted former St.
Clair Shores officer Michael Notoriano on Friday of willful neglect
of duty. It acquitted him of armed
robbery, unlawful imprisonment,
assault and ethnic intimidation.
A mistrial was declared last
year.
The charges stemmed from
July 2013, when authorities said
Notoriano’s 16-year-old daughter and a friend biked to a Detroit gas station. They said a man
threw the daughter to the ground
and robbed her. Notoriano and
then-Detroit police Sgt. David
Pomeroy traced the phone and
confronted the men.
Pomeroy was sentenced last
year to probation for failing to uphold the law.
Police: Teen set fellow
student’s hair on fire
SHIRLEY — Police
NY
said a teenage boy is
accused of setting a fellow student’s hair on fire at a school on
Long Island.
Suffolk County police said the
13-year-old was arrested after
the Friday morning incident at
the William Paca Middle School
in Shirley.
Investigators said the 14-yearold girl whose hair was set ablaze
did not need to go to a hospital.
They said a teacher put out the
fire.
Officials with the William
Floyd School District said the girl
declined medical attention and
went home with her parents.
Defendant again swears
at judge at sentencing
WILLOUGHBY — A
northeastern
Ohio
man apparently is making it a
habit of yelling at a judge who’s
sentenced him twice in the past
six years.
The News-Herald in Willoughby reported that John Macko
swore at a Lake County judge and
called him a “heartless individual” just before he was sentenced
last week to 24 years in prison.
Macko stood up and repeatedly
swore at the judge six years ago
when he was sentenced for illegally having a gun and violating
his parole.
A jury in January convicted
Macko of aggravated burglary
and impersonating an officer for
an incident four months after he
was released from prison..
OH
Police: Man delivered
papers while very drunk
PAW PAW — A man
delivering newspapers
in a southwestern Michigan community created his own headline.
The sheriff’s department in
Van Buren County said it arrested a driver whose blood-alcohol
level was more than five times
MI
A NDREE K EHN, THE LEWISTON (M AINE) SUN -JOURNAL /AP
Making a splash
Jordan Cargill skims across a hole cut in the ice of Andrews Pond at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, on Friday. The puddle jump, an
annual event held at Bates College, had plenty of enthusiasm despite the cold temperature.
the legal limit.
The incident occurred Thursday afternoon in Paw Paw
Township, 20 miles southwest of
Kalamazoo. Deputy Brian Matthews stopped a 44-year-old man
who was driving on a road that
was temporarily closed.
The deputy found open beer
in the vehicle. Records show the
Paw Paw man has three prior
convictions for drunken driving.
Police chase ends with
one car in frozen pond
SIOUX FALLS — AuSD
thorities in Sioux Falls
said a police chase ended Friday
after the fleeing driver wound up
in a frozen pond.
The Argus Leader reported
the pursuit began on Interstate
29 after a South Dakota Highway
Patrol trooper attempted to pull
over a vehicle for speeding.
Troopers said the vehicle did
not stop and led authorities on a
pursuit before eventually driving
into a frozen retention pond.
Trooper Kristoff DeKramer
said the driver was not injured
and was arrested. Several charg-
es are pending, including aggravated eluding and speeding.
Dinosaur bones headed
for university museum
POCATELLO — Bones
from three types of
meat-eating dinosaurs are coming to the Idaho State University
Museum of Natural History.
Senior collections manager
Mary Thompson told the Idaho
State Journal that the fossilized
bones unearthed on the IdahoWyoming border likely will arrive sometime next year.
Experts said the discovery in
the Caribou-Targhee National
Forest includes three new types
of theropods. The experts said
they are smaller members in a
dinosaur family that includes Tyrannosaurus rex.
ID
Students get therapy
dog to keep in class
CLIVE — Fourth-graders
IA
at Clive Learning Academy are getting a new addition,
and this one has four legs.
Des Moines television station
KCCI reported that a goldendoodle named Bogey is the school
district’s first therapy dog.
It took some convincing by the
students before administrators
signed off on the dog. But the kids
did their research, sharing that
therapy dogs have been shown
to help students manage anxiety,
improve test scores and lessen
bad student behavior.
The students of the Learning Academy finagled the dog
by promising to take care of it.
They’re not only going to be in
charge of feeding, walking and
cleaning up after Bogey, they
raised the $2,300 to pay for him.
Officer recovering after
being dragged by car
EASLEY — A South
SC
Carolina police officer
is recovering from injuries suffered after he was dragged by a
car previously stopped for a license plate violation.
Multiple news organizations
reported the driver of the black,
four-door Audi involved in the
Friday incident in Easley was
being sought.
Easley Police Chief Tim Tollison didn’t identify the officer,
but said he suffered only minor
scrapes after being dragged several feet.
Tollison said the officer was
standing next to the car when the
driver grabbed the officer’s arm
through the car’s window and
drove off.
Artists asked to design
submarine sculptures
GROTON — Artists in
southeastern Connecticut are being called upon to design sculptures of submarines for
a public art project celebrating
100 years of subs in the Groton
area.
The Connecticut Sub Trail will
showcase 20 miniature fiberglass subs, each about 5 feet long.
They’ll be officially displayed at
the Groton 4th of July Parade.
Art teacher Joy Supples proposed the idea. Supples works for
Ella T. Grasso Southeastern Connecticut Technical High School.
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Film’s $135M soars past expectations, sets records
BY TRE’VELL A NDERSON
Los Angeles Times
M ARVEL , TWENTIETH C ENTURY FOX /AP
“Deadpool,” starring Ryan Reynolds, sent a strong message to
the industry over the weekend with a much larger than expected
$135 million opening — R-rated films can be profitable.
“Deadpool,” Marvel’s R-rated twist on superhero
movies, grossed an estimated $135 million in the
U.S. and Canada in its first three days, all but ensuring that the film will more than double analysts’ estimates of $70 million in ticket sales for the four-day
Presidents Day weekend.
The antihero Deadpool (played by Ryan Reynolds) flew past former box-office champ “Kung Fu
Panda 3” plus new releases “How to Be Single”
and “Zoolander 2,” the latter of which finished well
below expectations in fourth place.
The massive opening for “Deadpool” places the
film ahead of the previous record holder for not only
Presidents Day weekend but also all February openings, “Fifty Shades of Grey,” which debuted to $85.2
million last year. “Deadpool” also stands as the biggest opening for any R-rated movie, surpassing the
$91.8 million launch of “The Matrix Reloaded” in
2003.
“Every once in a while, something comes along
that hits a nerve and becomes instantly in the cultural zeitgeist,” said Chris Aronson, head of domestic distribution at 20th Century Fox. “That’s what
‘Deadpool’ has done.”
The action-comedy stars Reynolds as Wade
Wilson, who acquires self-healing powers after
being diagnosed with cancer. Reynolds first appeared as Deadpool in Fox’s 2009 “X-Men Origins:
Wolverine.”
“Deadpool” isn’t a typical Valentine’s weekend
flick, but Aronson says it is a love story at its core.
“In a way, it is a (romantic comedy), but just not
in a way you’ve seen before,” he said. “We’ve taken
the rom-com world and comic books and put them
together.”
The production budget for “Deadpool” was $58
million, relatively low for a superhero film.
Fox’s “Kung Fu Panda 3” slid to second place in
its third week. It pulled in an estimated $19.7 million
through Sunday. The studio projects it will pass the
$100 million mark domestically on Presidents Day.
The film already has made more than $100 million
in China.
Coming in third was “How to Be Single.” The
R-rated comedy took in an estimated $18.8 million
through Sunday. It should meet analyst projections
of $21 million to $23 million in domestic ticket sales
by the end of the holiday.
“How to Be Single” centers on new college graduate Alice (played by Dakota Johnson), who breaks
off her four-year relationship to explore life in New
York City. Once in the Big Apple, her party-girl coworker Robin (Rebel Wilson) vows to teach her how
to be single. Leslie Mann plays Alice’s sister, Meg,
who is on the fast track in her career. But she’s feeling qualms about not being married or having children and fears time is running out.
The movie, which cost $37 million, also stars
Damon Wayans Jr., Anders Holm and Jason Mantzoukas as some of the men who come into the women’s lives.
“Zoolander 2,” released 15 years after the first
film, debuted in fourth place. It pulled in an estimated $15.7 million from Friday through Sunday and
will likely finish the four-day weekend with about
$18 million in ticket sales, far below projections of
$25 million.
‘Revenant’ dominates at BAFTAs
From wire services
“The Revenant,” the stark
and brutal tale of adventure and
survival, on Sunday was named
outstanding film of 2015 at the
British Academy Film Awards,
better known as the BAFTAs.
It was no surprise that Leonardo DiCaprio won lead actor for his
performance in “The Revenant”
as a frontiersman who survives a
vicious bear attack and searches
for his son’s murderer. He already had won the Golden Globe
and Screen Actors Guild Award
for the role and is the favorite to
win at the Oscars.
The film’s director, Alejandro
G. Iñarritu, also won the BAFTA
in his category Sunday. Emmanuel Lubezki won the BAFTA
for cinematography for “The
Revenant,” and the film picked
up its fifth BAFTA in the sound
category.
“Room” star Brie Larson won
lead actress for her turn as young
woman held captive with her son
in a shed for years. Larson, who is
nominated for an Oscar, also has
won Golden Globe and Screen
Actors Guild honors.
Supporting
performance
awards Sunday went to Mark Rylance for “Bridge of Spies” and
Kate Winslet for “Steve Jobs.”
“Mad Max: Fury Road” won
four BAFTAs: editing, costume
design, production design, and
makeup and hair.
‘Spotlight,’ ‘Big Short’
win Writers Guild awards
Oscar contenders “Spotlight”
and “The Big Short” won the top
awards for screenwriting from
the Writers Guild of America at a
ceremony Feb. 12 that was held in
Los Angeles and New York.
“Spotlight,” about the Boston
Globe’s effort to uncover a priest
sex-abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, won for best original
screenplay. The writers are Josh
Singer and Tom McCarthy.
“The Big Short,” about the
2008 financial crisis, won for
best adapted screenplay. Writers Charles Randolph and Adam
McKay wrote a screenplay adapted from the book of the same title
by Michael Lewis.
In the television categories, the
now-concluded AMC series “Mad
Men” won for drama. The HBO
series “Veep,” about the exploits
of politician Selina Meyer, won
for comedy.
Next Star Wars starts
filming, adds del Toro
“Star Wars: Episode VIII” has
begun filming and has added
Benicio del Toro and Laura Dern
to its cast.
The Walt Disney Co. announced
Monday that “Episode VIII”
started principal photography at
London’s Pinewood Studios on
Monday. Written and directed by
Rian Johnson, the Star Wars sequel is set for release in December 2017.
Also joining the returning cast
members is newcomer Kelly
Marie Tran.
The production start announcement was accompanied by a brief
video that showed shooting picking up right where “The Force
Awakens” left off, with Johnson
directing Mark Hamill (Luke
Skywalker) on a remote island off
the coast of Ireland.
Author Pat Conroy has
cancer, promises fight
Author Pat Conroy says he has
pancreatic cancer, but promises
he will fight the disease hard and
finish a novel he owes his fans.
The 70-year-old South Carolina
novelist made the announcement
Monday on his Facebook page.
Conroy didn’t give many details about his diagnosis, including a prognosis.
But he promised to “fight it
hard” and told his fans “I owe you
a novel and I intend to deliver it.”
C HRIS PIZZELLO, INVISION /AP
‘ I am the father of mankind. More men
have come up to me and said, “Lionel,
I have made love to you many times.”
’
Lionel Richie
On his reputation for crooning baby-making music. Richie was honored
Feb. 13 in Los Angeles as the MusiCares Person of the Year.
Conroy has written a dozen
books including “The Prince of
Tides” and “The Great Santini.”
Other news
Actress Jennifer Lawrence
is donating $2 million to Kosair
Children’s Hospital, a Louisville,
Ky., hospital where she visited
sick youngsters during a recent
holiday trip home. Lawrence is
urging others to match her gift.
Singer Charles Kelley of the
country group Lady Antebellum
and his wife, Cassie, announced
the birth of their first child, Ward
Charles Kelley, Feb. 11.
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Special to The Washington Post
A
fter Justice Antonin Scalia’s
death Saturday at 79, the Supreme
Court is now evenly divided between four liberal justices and
four conservatives, even with Anthony
Kennedy’s occasional swings. What a moment for Scalia to depart: The court faces
a wild array of closely divided decisions. It
is an election year. And President Barack
Obama has stacked the lower circuit courts
with Democrats. Obama has been chewing
on his legacy for months. Fate has handed
him the opportunity of any presidency —
to swing the balance of the Supreme Court
from conservative to liberal.
Scalia weighed heavily on the conservative tilt of the current court, registering
as more conservative even than other Republican justices in every field except on
international and defense issues. There is
no other justice whose replacement would
more profoundly affect the court’s orientation. The court’s docket this term shows
a clear intent to rule on some of the most
contentious issues in society: abortion,
unionization, presidential power, affirmative action, political representation. Nothing in the presidential election in the fall
matters more than the ability to shape the
court. Now everyone should know that,
including an incumbent who once taught
constitutional law.
Any nominee, of course, would have to
be confirmed by the Republican-controlled
Senate. Leaders there, and also most GOP
presidential candidates, are already making clear that they intend to block Obama.
But they may not realize that leaving Scalia’s seat vacant plays right into his hands.
The court is not yet halfway through
the 80 or 90 cases it deals with each term,
but many of the most contentious have already been heard. Normally, justices meet
the week a case is argued, and vote on the
outcome. So they have most likely already
voted on pending cases on apportionment
and affirmative action, for example. But
weeks or months can go by while the justice assigned the opinion circulates drafts.
Any justice can change his or her vote at
any point during that process, and often
does. It’s all very hush-hush, so there is no
way to tell how far along the cases Scalia
heard are in the pipeline.
There is no constitutional provision, no
case law and no official policy about what
the court should do with cases that have
been argued and voted on when a justice
dies. If the vote in a case that hasn’t yet been
handed down was 5-4, as one might expect
with these controversial rulings, can Scalia cast the deciding vote from beyond the
grave to change the way America chooses
every legislature in the land or integrates
its public universities? A court that cares
about its image and constitutional role
will not rule in the name of a majority that
counts on a deceased justice, especially
on the core issues of American social life.
Such decisions are so unprecedented they
would make Bush v. Gore look like responsible judicial behavior. Chief Justice John
Roberts, who in matters entirely internal
to the court like this wields some extra
power, is known for his concern for institutional prestige, and he would be right to
weigh in against issuing opinions based on
what Scalia did in past conferences.
So in the cases that Scalia was already a
part of, what’s most likely is that the court
will do what it has done in the rare, similar
circumstances in the past, when important
cases like abortion were argued and the
personnel on the court changed or where
a predictable swing justice was out sick:
They will order the cases argued again
and voted on again.
AP
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia — shown in 2004 — died Saturday at 79.
Of course, the justices will also continue
to hear future arguments, but upcoming
closely decided cases — such as the abortion case out of Texas also widely predicted
to lead to a 5-4 vote — will now be tied, 44. In this term’s contentious, controversial
docket, split decisions are inevitable. The
court can reargue the pending cases and
hear the upcoming ones, but they will be
too divided to decide anything truly sweeping. Unresolved cases will stack up.
That means only Congress and the
White House can resolve the deadlock.
And Obama has the power there, even
though Republicans control the Senate. By
Saturday evening, Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had already said
the vacancy shouldn’t be filled until the
next president is in office, 11 months from
now. “The American people should have a
voice in the selection of their next Supreme
Court justice,” he said. “Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a
new president.” But the GOP might soon
reconsider if they see the implications of
refusing to allow Obama to replace Scalia.
A divided court leaves lower court rulings
in place. And the lower courts are blue.
Nine of the 13 U.S. Courts of Appeals have
a majority of Democratic appointees. That
means liberal rulings conservatives were
hoping the Supreme Court would overturn
remain law. So if Scalia had cast the deciding vote on a case before he died, but the
court rehears it and divides 4-4, that would
leave the lower court decision in place.
That’s what would happen with a proposal
to apportion Congress in an entirely new
way that would heavily favor Republican
districts, which was argued recently. The
lower court (in this case a district court
that went directly to the Supreme Court
for technical reasons) tossed the plan out;
conservatives had been hoping the justices
would restore it.
The situation is not always good for liberals. Abortion, in a case that has not yet
been argued, was subjected to the most
onerous restrictions by the normally conservative Fifth Circuit. If the court deadlocks, most of the abortion clinics in Texas
would close. On immigration, the court had
announced it would take up another case
from the Fifth Circuit over whether Obama
has the power to stop breaking up families
by ordering the government not to deport
millions of undocumented immigrants; the
lower court ruling blocked Obama’s order,
so a tie wouldn’t change that.
Most of the country, though, is governed
by appeals courts dominated by Democrats. The suit against Obama’s environmental initiative, which the Supreme Court
just stayed, came from the liberal District
of Columbia Circuit, which had unanimously refused to grant the stay. Now the
Obama administration can simply have the
Environmental Protection Agency come
up with a slightly different new plan and
run to the liberal D.C. courts to bless it and
refuse to stay it. It’s unlikely the now-divided Supreme Court would come up with
a majority to stay the new rules: The vote
to stay the old ones was (naturally) 5-4.
That’s why the effect of an equally divided court has enormous potential to
strengthen Obama’s hand in dealing with
the Republican Senate in picking a replacement. Even if the GOP blocks his nominee,
the policy outcomes would be very similar
to what they’d be if the court had a liberal
majority. The institutional cues for Obama
are completely different than for the court.
The Constitution clearly assigns the task of
nominating judges to the president — with
the Senate’s advice and consent, to be sure,
but for most of American history, presidents got a fair amount of deference. Acting politically is consistent with occupying
elected office, so that’s what Obama should
do. Political considerations, after all, are
what motivate Republicans to pledge to
block nominees before any have been announced. This is the moment for Obama to
assert his political prerogatives as firmly
as his opponents always seem to do.
Right now, McConnell sounds like he
doesn’t recognize the peril his party is in.
If Obama signals that he’s willing to take
advantage of the situation by taking actions
like passing new environmental rules or
moving for rehearing in the pending cases,
he’ll put pressure on the Senate by getting
what he wants without his court pick. Twothirds of the people in the country live in
blue-court America.
So maybe someone like D.C. Circuit
Judge Sri Srinivasan — confirmed 97-0
just three years ago — will look better to
the Senate than nearly a year of living with
the appellate courts going wild while the
cat’s away. Imagine the glee in the mostreversed circuit court in the nation, the
liberal Ninth, which will now be able to tell
Arizona and Alaska what to do without fear
of contradiction. If Obama really cares
about that legacy, nothing would establish
it more firmly than using his unexpected
advantage to appoint someone who will
one day be as much of a hero to liberals as
Scalia was to conservatives.
Linda Hirshman is the author of “Sisters in
Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader
Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and
Changed the World.”
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Volvo, XC60, 2011 $23500.00
Low mileage, U.S. Spec., T6
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Autos for Sale
- Germany
142
Volkswagen,
GTI,
2013
$27000.00 Wolfsberg edition,
low miles, dealer kept. Winter &
Summer tires and rims, new
Clarion Navigation, DVD, CD,
Bluetooth, automatic transmission, sport mode, shift panels.
Fast. However, great gas mileage. Steel grey metallic, 2 door
hatchback, sunroof. Great car!
015202668023
Volkswagen,
GTI,
2013
$27000.00 Wolfsberg edition,
low miles, dealer kept. Winter &
Summer tires and rims, new
Clarion Navigation, DVD, CD,
Bluetooth, automatic transmission, sport mode, shift panels.
Fast. However, great gas mileage. Steel grey metallic, 2 door
hatchback, sunroof. Great car!
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Volkswagen , Passat TDI SEL
Premium 4dr Diesel , 2013
$16000.00 Original Owner: US
Silver - 2013 Volkswagen with
perfect maintenance records by
local VW Germany and New All
Weather Tires. We are with the
State Dept. moving back Stateside, thus in need to sell our
great Passat; as we cannot take
to our next assignment. Optional
Equipment Cargo Area Floor
Mat Vinyl
ubber Floor Mats Rear Spoiler
First Aid Kit Single DC Player +
SDCard Brand NEW Pirelli
Cinturato P7 All-Season Radial
1
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Tire
235 ⁄25R18
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- Germany
142
VW, GTI, 2013 $25000.00
Wolfsberg edition, low miles,
dealer kept. Winter Summer
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Navigation, DVD, CD, Bluetooth,
automatic transmission, sport
mode, shift panels. Fast. However, great gas mileage. Steel
grey metallic, 2 door hatchback,
sunroof.
Great
car!
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Collectibles
Furniture
360
Router, Belkin N150 $5.00
Belkin router, excellent condition.
Box,
CD,
included.
[email protected]
510
Bed $75.00 Single Bed. Solid
wood with like new mattress.
[email protected]
Obituaries
750
Passing of a loved one?
You can place an Obituary in
Stars and Stripes. Call us at:
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no voice mail
350
Four old GE Postcards (dates:
1936 X 2 & 1941 X2) $10.00
The postcard set is unique for its
timeâÄ”two mailed shortly before World War II, two during the
war. The mailing dates and
locations from where the cards
were sent are: 1. 18 May 41.
Bad Eilsen, in northern GE 2. 4
Dec 1936, from Dresden, in
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Dresen 4. 15 Feb 41, from
Kufstein, in Bavaria (southern
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collector's items and wonderful
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016
SCOREBOARD
Sports
on AFN
Go to the American Forces
Network website for the most
up-to-date TV schedules.
myafn.net
Auto racing
Can-Am Duel 1
NASCAR Sprint Cup
After Sunday qualifying; race Thursday
At Daytona International Speedway
Daytona Beach, Fla.
Lap length: 2.5 miles
(Car number in parentheses)
1. (24) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet,
196.314.
2. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet,
195.682.
3. (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford,
195.118.
4. (21) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 194.746.
5. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 194.675.
6. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 194.523.
7. (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 194.46.
8. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 194.104.
9. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet,
193.936.
10. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 193.878.
11. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 193.665.
12. (44) Brian Scott, Ford, 193.332.
13. (59) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet,
192.604.
14. (7) Regan Smith, Chevrolet,
192.542.
15. (34) Chris Buescher, Ford, 192.365.
16. (32) Bobby Labonte, Ford, 191.808.
17. (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 191.436.
18. (15) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet,
191.249.
19. (98) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 190.375.
20. (23) David Ragan, Toyota, 189.068.
21. (30) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 187.282.
22. (4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet.
Can-Am Duel 2
NASCAR Sprint Cup
After Sunday qualifying; race Thursday
At Daytona International Speedway
Daytona Beach, Fla.
Lap length: 2.5 miles
(Car number in parentheses)
1. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 196.036.
2. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 195.207.
3. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet,
194.839.
4. (19) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 194.662.
5. (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 194.51.
6. (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 194.25.
7. (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet,
194.099.
8. (95) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 193.936.
9. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 193.753.
10. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet,
193.399.
11. (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet,
192.938.
12. (93) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota,
192.686.
13. (83) Michael Waltrip, Toyota,
192.406.
14. (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet,
192.291.
15. (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet,
191.583.
16. (46) Michael Annett, Chevrolet,
191.302.
17. (38) Landon Cassill, Ford, 191.192.
18. (26) Robert Richardson Jr., Toyota,
190.496.
19. (35) David Gilliland, Ford, 189.35.
20. (40) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet,
181.163.
21. (78) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota.
22. (14) Brian Vickers, Chevrolet.
Deals
Sunday’s transactions
BASEBALL
American League
TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms
with RHP Steve Johnson on a minor
league contract.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Placed F
Marian Hossa on injured reserve. Recalled C Vincent Hinostroza from the
Rockford (AHL).
DALLAS STARS — Recalled LW Curtis
McKenzie from Texas (AHL).
College baseball
Sunday’s scores
SOUTH
Anderson (SC) 6, Augusta 2
Limestone 5-12, LIU Post 3-11
North Alabama 7, Spring Hill 4
SOUTHWEST
Park 5, Austin College 4
College basketball
Sunday’s men’s scores
EAST
Albany (NY) 108, Maine 64
Mass.-Lowell 96, UMBC 92
Rider 77, Niagara 59
St. Peter’s 61, Canisius 57
Stony Brook 59, New Hampshire 58
Syracuse 75, Boston College 61
Temple 77, South Florida 65
UMass 108, Duquesne 99, OT
Vermont 92, Hartford 81
SOUTH
Miami 67, Florida St. 65
Millsaps 86, Berry 62
North Carolina 85, Pittsburgh 64
Sewanee 65, Rhodes 53
MIDWEST
Evansville 74, Loyola of Chicago 73
Illinois St. 75, Bradley 60
Iowa 75, Minnesota 71
Michigan St. 88, Indiana 69
FAR WEST
Arizona 86, Southern Cal 78
UCLA 78, Arizona St. 65
Utah 88, Washington St. 47
Sunday’s women’s scores
EAST
Canisius 71, Marist 69
Drexel 66, UNC Wilmington 60
Fairfield 80, Monmouth (NJ) 70
George Washington 72, Dayton 62
Hartford 52, Vermont 50, OT
Lehman 69, CCNY 58
Maine 65, Albany (NY) 53
Manhattan 56, Siena 49
New Hampshire 49, Stony Brook 46
Ohio St. 77, Penn St. 63
Providence 61, Creighton 59
Quinnipiac 65, St. Peter’s 53
Rider 76, Niagara 72
Seton Hall 60, Villanova 50
St. John’s 63, Georgetown 55
Towson 62, Coll. of Charleston 51
Soccer
CONCACAF Women’s Olympic
qualifying
FIRST ROUND
Top two nations in each group advance
GROUP A
GP W D L GF GA Pts
United States
2 2 0 0 6 0
6
Mexico
2 1 0 1 6 1
3
Costa Rica
2 1 0 1 9 5
3
Puerto Rico
2 0 0 2 0 15
0
Wednesday, Feb. 10
At Frisco, Texas
Mexico 6, Puerto Rico 0
United States 5, Costa Rica 0
Saturday, Feb. 13
At Frisco, Texas
Costa Rica 9, Puerto Rico 0
United States 1, Mexico 0
Monday, Feb. 15
At Frisco, Texas
Mexico vs. Costa Rica
United States vs. Puerto Rico
GROUP B
GP W D L GF GA Pts
Canada
2 2 0 0 11 0
6
Guyana
2 1 0 1
2 6
3
Trinidad
2 1 0 1
2 7
3
Guatemala
2 0 0 2
2 4
0
Thursday, Feb. 11
At Houston
Trinidad and Tobago 2, Guatemala 1
Canada 5, Guyana 0
Sunday, Feb. 14
At Houston
Guyana 2, Guatemala 1
Canada 6, Trinidad and Tobago 0
Tuesday, Feb. 16
At Houston
Trinidad and Tobago vs. Guyana
Canada vs. Guatemala
SEMIFINALS
Winners qualify
Friday, Feb. 19
At Houston
Group B winner vs. Group A second
place
Group A winner vs. Group B second
place
CHAMPIONSHIP
Sunday, Feb. 21
At Houston
Semifinal winners
Boxing
Fight schedule
Feb. 16
At Las Vegas, Alexis Santiago vs. Erik
Ruiz, 10, bantamweights.
Feb. 18
At The Hangar, Costa Mesa, Calif., Sergey Kuzmin vs. Rodney Hernandez, 10,
heavyweights; Dmitry Bivol vs. Darnell
Boone, 10, light heavyweights.
Feb. 19
At Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, N.J. ,
Adam Lopez vs. Mario Munoz, 10, junior
featherweights.
Feb. 20
At Oberhausen, Germany, Fedor Chudinov vs. Felix Sturm, 12, for Chudinov’s
WBA World super middleweight title.
Golf
UConn 85, Temple 60
UMBC 68, Mass.-Lowell 52
Virginia 61, Boston College 50
SOUTH
Auburn 80, Florida 58
Delaware 69, William & Mary 53
Florida St. 94, North Carolina 63
Georgia 58, LSU 47
Georgia Tech 77, Clemson 48
James Madison 57, Hofstra 42
Kentucky 71, Vanderbilt 55
Millsaps 58, Berry 46
Northeastern 67, Elon 61
Pittsburgh 59, Virginia Tech 48
Rhodes 68, Sewanee 50
Richmond 62, VCU 50
Syracuse 55, NC State 52
Tulane 76, SMU 64
W. Kentucky 80, Marshall 76
Wake Forest 64, Duke 58
MIDWEST
DePaul 102, Butler 63
Indiana 67, Wisconsin 57
Indiana St. 68, Drake 53
Marquette 74, Xavier 69
Maryland 79, Northwestern 70
Michigan 68, Purdue 61
Missouri 69, Arkansas 48
Missouri St. 59, Bradley 56
N. Dakota St. 74, Nebraska-Omaha 67
N. Iowa 61, Illinois St. 35
Nebraska 73, Michigan St. 66
Notre Dame 90, Miami 69
S. Illinois 66, Evansville 63
Wichita St. 65, Loyola of Chicago 62,
OT
SOUTHWEST
Oklahoma 74, Texas 56
FAR WEST
Arizona St. 63, Stanford 61, OT
California 75, Arizona 56
Fresno St. 65, Nevada 56
IUPUI 67, Denver 54
Oregon 77, Colorado 70
Oregon St. 72, Utah 53
Southern Cal 64, Washington St. 62
UCLA 63, Washington 59
Tennis
Memphis Open
Sunday
At The Racquet Club of Memphis
Memphis, Tenn.
Purse: $693,425 (WT250)
Surface: Hard-Indoor
Singles
Championship
Kei Nishikori (1), Japan, def. Taylor
Fritz, United States, 6-4, 6-4.
Doubles
Championship
Mariusz Fyrstenberg, Poland, and
Santiago Gonzalez, Mexico, def. Steve
Johnson and Sam Querrey (4), United
States, 6-4, 6-4.
Argentina Open
Sunday
At Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Purse: $598,865 (WT250)
Surface: Clay-Outoor
Singles
Championship
Dominic Thiem (5), Austria, def. Nicolas Almagro, Spain, 7-6 (2), 3-6, 7-6 (4).
Doubles
Championship
Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah (1), Colombia, def. Inigo Cervantes,
Spain, and Paolo Lorenzi, Italy, 6-3, 6-0.
AMRO World Open
Sunday
At Ahoy’ Stadium
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Purse: $2.05 million (WT500)
Surface: Hard-Indoor
Singles
Championship
Martin Klizan, Slovakia, def. Gael Monfils (5), France, 6-7 (1), 6-3, 6-1.
Doubles
Championship
Nicolas Mahut, France, and Vasek
Pospisil, Canada, def. Philipp Petzschner,
Germany, and Alexander Peya, Austria,
7-6 (2), 6-4.
St. Petersburg Ladies Open
Sunday
At Sibur Arena
St. Petersburg, Russia
Purse: $687,900 (Premier)
Surface: Hard-Indoor
Singles
Championship
Roberta Vinci (2), Italy, def. Belinda
Bencic (1), Switzerland, 6-4, 6-3.
Doubles
Championship
Martina Hingis, Switzerland, and Sania Mirza (1), India, def. Vera Dushevina,
Russia, and Barbora Krejcikova, Czech
Republic, 6-3, 6-1.
Taiwan Open
Sunday
At The Yang-ming Tennis Center
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Purse: $426,750 (Intl.)
Surface: Hard-Indoor
Singles
Championship
Venus Williams (1), United States, def.
Misaki Doi (2), Japan, 6-4, 6-2.
Doubles
Championship
Chan Hao-ching and Yung-jan (1),
Taiwan, def. Eri Hozumi and Miyu Kato,
Japan, 6-4, 6-3.
Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
PGA
Sunday
p-Pebble Beach Golf Links, Yardage:
6,816; Par: 72
m-Monterey Peninsula Country Club,
Shore Course, 6,914; 71
s-Spyglass Hill Golf Club, 6,953; 72
Pebble Beach, Calif.
Purse: $7 million
Final
V. Taylor, $1,260,000 70p-68s-67m-65—270 -17
P. Mickelson, $756,000 68s-65m-66p-72—271 -16
Jonas Blix, $476,000 67m-69p-67s-69—272 -15
H.Iwata, $308,000 66m-66p-69s-72—273 -14
F. Jacobson, $308,000 65p-69s-68m-71—273 -14
P.Reed, $243,250
72s-65m-73p-65—275 -12
J. Rose, $243,250
66s-68m-72p-69—275 -12
R. Castro, $203,000 66p-70s-67m-74—277 -10
Bill Haas, $203,000 69s-68m-69p-71—277 -10
B. Koepka, $203,000 68s-70m-69p-70—277 -10
Jason Day, $143,500 71s-66m-68p-73—278 -9
L. Glover, $143,500 73p-66s-72m-67—278 -9
J.B. Holmes, $143,500 66s-72m-70p-70—278 -9
M. Jones, $143,500 68p-70s-67m-73—278 -9
C. Smith, $143,500 64m-75p-69s-70—278 -9
J. Walker, $143,500 72s-71m-63p-72—278 -9
T. Aldridge, $101,500 70s-72m-68p-69—279 -8
J. Herman, $101,500 69m-67p-72s-71—279 -8
S. Kang, $101,500
72s-60m-70p-77—279 -8
K.Streelman, $101,500 70s-71m-69p-69—279 -8
B. Burgoon, $72,800 64m-76p-72s-68—280 -7
S. Cink, $72,800
70p-68s-72m-70—280 -7
P. Harrington, $72,800 68m-71p-67s-74—280 -7
S. Levin, $72,800
66p-73s-72m-69—280 -7
J. Spieth, $72,800
71s-69m-74p-66—280 -7
L. Donald, $52,850 70s-69m-69p-73—281 -6
M.Hubbard, $52,850 70p-66s-70m-75—281 -6
C. Reavie, $52,850 63m-70p-71s-77—281 -6
D.vanderWalt, $52,850 66p-76s-69m-70—281 -6
D. Hearn, $44,450
67m-70p-71s-74—282 -5
J. Kokrak, $44,450 72m-74p-67s-69—282 -5
Danny Lee, $44,450 71s-66m-74p-71—282 -5
Nick Taylor, $44,450 71s-68m-72p-71—282 -5
S. Marino, $39,550 71p-72s-70m-70—283 -4
S. Bertsch, $33,775 66p-75s-72m-71—284 -3
L. Guthrie, $33,775 72m-70p-70s-72—284 -3
Si Woo Kim, $33,775 70p-70s-72m-72—284 -3
Sean O’Hair, $33,775 67m-72p-75s-70—284 -3
B. Snedeker, $33,77572s-71m-70p-71—284 -3
Will Wilcox, $33,775 71p-73s-68m-72—284 -3
R. Barnes, $22,652 65m-70p-73s-77—285 -2
S. Bowditch, $22,652 68p-72s-74m-71—285 -2
Alex Cejka, $22,652 70s-71m-72p-72—285 -2
Tom Hoge, $22,652 69m-73p-69s-74—285 -2
D.Johnson, $22,652 70s-73m-71p-71—285 -2
A. Loupe, $22,652
68m-72p-72s-73—285 -2
S. Lowry, $22,652
71m-72p-71s-71—285 -2
R. Palmer, $22,652 72p-69s-71m-73—285 -2
Pat Perez, $22,652 69m-71p-73s-72—285 -2
K. Stanley, $22,652 71p-73s-68m-73—285 -2
A. Baddeley, $16,380 69s-70m-73p-74—286 -1
J. Byrd, $16,380
70m-68p-73s-75—286 -1
J. Dufner, $16,380 71m-74p-69s-72—286 -1
D.Fathauer, $16,380 76p-67s-71m-72—286 -1
J. Gore, $16,380
66m-74p-74s-72—286 -1
B. Hurley III, $16,380 68m-71p-73s-74—286 -1
Colt Knost, $16,380 72p-72s-68m-74—286 -1
J. Bohn, $15,610
71m-73p-66s-77—287 E
Brian Gay, $15,610 72p-74s-68m-73—287 E
T. Aiken, $15,050
68s-73m-72p-75—288 +1
Zac Blair, $15,050 70p-73s-71m-74—288 +1
A. Connelly, $15,050 70p-73s-71m-74—288 +1
D. Pride, $15,050
71m-75p-68s-74—288 +1
R. Ruffels, $15,050 67p-70s-73m-78—288 +1
T. V.Aswegen, $15,050 75m-69p-70s-74—288 +1
D. Love III, $14,490 74s-68m-71p-76—289 +2
P.Malnati, $14,490 73p-73s-68m-75—289 +2
R. Gibson, $14,280 67s-73m-74p-76—290 +3
Jerry Kelly, $14,140 71s-69m-74p-78—292 +5
Made cut did not finish
M.A. Carballo, $13,300 69m-71p-75s—215 E
Tom Gillis, $13,300
67m-76p-72s—215 E
J.J. Henry, $13,300
70p-73s-72m—215 E
Kelly Kraft, $13,300
73s-72m-70p—215 E
A. Landry, $13,300
70m-73p-72s—215 E
H. Mahan, $13,300
70p-73s-72m—215 E
H. Norlander, $13,300 70m-75p-70s—215 E
R. Oppenheim, $13,300 73p-74s-68m—215 E
D.A. Points, $13,300
74s-69m-72p—215 E
John Rollins, $13,300 72m-68p-75s—215 E
B. Watson, $13,300
73s-68m-74—p215 E
Chubb Classic
Champions Tour
Sunday
At TwinEagles Golf Club (Talon Course)
Naples, Fla.
Purse: $1.6 million
Yardage: 7,176; Par: 72
Final
Bernhard Langer, $240,000 62-66-73—201 -15
Fred Couples, $140,800
68-70-66—204 -12
Scott Dunlap, $95,467
69-66-70—205 -11
Jesper Parnevik, $95,467 69-69-67—205 -11
Kenny Perry, $95,467
68-67-70—205 -11
Todd Hamilton, $57,600
Scott Hoch, $57,600
Brandt Jobe, $57,600
Jeff Maggert, $43,200
Wes Short, Jr., $43,200
Michael Allen, $34,000
Tom Pernice Jr., $34,000
Joey Sindelar, $34,000
Kevin Sutherland, $34,000
David Frost, $28,000
Mark O’Meara, $28,000
Stephen Ames, $22,528
Lee Janzen, $22,528
Steve Lowery, $22,528
Loren Roberts, $22,528
Rod Spittle, $22,528
Jay Haas, $18,080
Gene Sauers, $18,080
Bart Bryant, $16,400
Jeff Sluman, $16,400
Joe Durant, $14,560
Scott McCarron, $14,560
C. Montgomerie, $14,560
Tom Byrum, $10,864
Marco Dawson, $10,864
Fred Funk, $10,864
Paul Goydos, $10,864
Tom Lehman, $10,864
Dick Mast, $10,864
Larry Nelson, $10,864
Jerry Smith, $10,864
Esteban Toledo, $10,864
Bob Tway, $10,864
Woody Austin, $8,160
Brad Bryant, $8,160
Doug Garwood, $8,160
Mark Brooks, $7,200
Tom Kite, $7,200
Corey Pavin, $7,200
Billy Andrade, $5,760
Tommy Armour III, $5,760
Mike Goodes, $5,760
John Huston, $5,760
Duffy Waldorf, $5,760
Willie Wood, $5,760
Gary Hallberg, $4,480
Scott Verplank, $4,480
Carlos Franco, $3,680
Sandy Lyle, $3,680
Rocco Mediate, $3,680
Larry Mize, $3,680
Ian Woosnam, $3,680
Jose Coceres, $2,720
Wayne Levi, $2,720
Scott Parel, $2,720
Craig Parry, $2,720
Tom Purtzer, $2,720
Kirk Triplett, $2,720
Grant Waite, $2,720
Jay Don Blake, $2,080
Mike Grob, $1,840
Jeff Hart, $1,840
Brad Faxon, $1,600
John Cook, $1,504
Fuzzy Zoeller, $1,408
Bobby Wadkins, $1,312
P.H. Horgan III, $1,216
Bob Gilder, $1,120
Mark Wiebe, $1,056
Mark Calcavecchia, $992
Don Bell, $896
Mike Springer, $896
Gary Koch, $800
John Harris, $736
70-68-68—206 -10
68-72-66—206 -10
70-69-67—206 -10
67-72-68—207 -9
70-66-71—207 -9
68-69-71—208 -8
69-70-69—208 -8
71-67-70—208 -8
68-71-69—208 -8
71-67-71—209 -7
69-68-72—209 -7
70-73-67—210 -6
69-71-70—210 -6
68-72-70—210 -6
69-73-68—210 -6
71-69-70—210 -6
66-74-71—211 -5
71-73-67—211 -5
70-68-74—212 -4
69-70-73—212 -4
70-70-73—213 -3
73-69-71—213 -3
70-71-72—213 -3
71-72-71—214 -2
72-71-71—214 -2
71-73-70—214 -2
71-72-71—214 -2
73-71-70—214 -2
69-70-75—214 -2
73-70-71—214 -2
71-73-70—214 -2
71-72-71—214 -2
74-73-67—214 -2
70-69-76—215 -1
70-72-73—215 -1
69-75-71—215 -1
75-69-72—216 E
70-73-73—216 E
75-72-69—216 E
69-71-77—217 +1
73-72-72—217 +1
72-71-74—217 +1
75-71-71—217 +1
73-73-71—217 +1
72-71-74—217 +1
72-74-72—218 +2
71-77-70—218 +2
71-75-73—219 +3
73-73-73—219 +3
73-71-75—219 +3
75-69-75—219 +3
72-73-74—219 +3
75-74-71—220 +4
71-70-79—220 +4
71-74-75—220 +4
76-70-74—220 +4
74-74-72—220 +4
76-72-72—220 +4
70-70-80—220 +4
71-73-77—221 +5
73-72-77—222 +6
73-73-76—222 +6
75-76-72—223 +7
78-74-72—224 +8
76-71-78—225 +9
74-74-78—226 +10
79-77-71—227 +11
78-74-76—228 +12
79-73-77—229 +13
78-73-80—231 +15
75-77-80—232 +16
80-77-75—232 +16
77-76-80—233 +17
79-79-81—239 +23
Tshawne Open
European Tour
Sunday
At Pretoria Country Club
Pretoria, South Africa
Purse: $1.14 million
Yardage: 7,063; Par: 70
Final
Charl Schwartzel, S. Africa 71-64-66-63—264
Jeff Winther, Denmark
73-66-69-64—272
Anthony Michael, S. Africa 64-69-71-70—274
Dean Burmester, S. Africa 70-68-68-69—275
Richard Sterne, S. Africa
68-70-69-68—275
Justin Walters, South Africa 71-68-71-65—275
Zander Lombard, S. Africa 72-67-63-74—276
Jamie McLeary, Scotland
68-70-69-69—276
Brett Rumford, Australia
75-67-68-66—276
Haydn Porteous, S. Africa 70-66-68-73—277
Brandon Stone, South Africa 71-70-70-66—277
Jaco van Zyl, South Africa 66-72-72-67—277
Gary Boyd, England
71-69-71-67—278
Seve Benson, England
73-66-71-69—279
George Coetzee, S. Africa 68-72-68-71—279
Dylan Frittelli, South Africa 68-69-74-68—279
David Horsey, England
71-71-69-68—279
Matthew Nixon, England
71-71-69-68—279
Chris Paisley, England
70-69-72-68—279
Toby Tree, England
70-71-65-73—279
Also
Daniel Im, United States
68-68-74-74—284
Bobby Wyatt, United States 71-68-71-74—284
Jason Knutzon, U.S.
69-74-72-75—290
AP sportlight
Feb. 16
1961 — Elgin Baylor of Los Angeles
scores 57 points to lead the Lakers over
the Detroit Pistons 129-106.
1967 — Rick Barry of the San Francisco
Warriors scores 52 points against Chicago at Fresno for his second consecutive
50-point game.
1970 — Joe Frazier retains his world
heavyweight title with a fifth-round
knockout of Jimmy Ellis.
1972 — Wilt Chamberlain of the Los
Angeles Lakers becomes the first player
in NBA history to reach the 30,000 point
mark during a 110-109 loss to the Phoenix Suns.
1992 — Martina Navratilova becomes
the career singles titles leader by beating Jana Novotna in three sets in the
final of the Virginia Slims of Chicago.
Navratilova, with her 158th career singles championship, passes Chris Evert,
who retired in 1989.
1992 — Chicago’s Michel Goulet becomes the 17th NHL player to score 500
goals, getting one in the first period of
the Blackhawks’ 5-5 tie with Calgary.
1997 — Jeff Gordon, 25, becomes the
youngest winner of the Daytona 500 after Dale Earnhardt crashes 12 laps from
the end to prolong his Daytona 500 jinx.
2001 — Philadelphia coach Larry
Brown earns his 1,000th professional
win, including his ABA record. Brown,
1,000-707 overall, ranks third on the career list behind Toronto’s Lenny Wilkens
and Miami’s Pat Riley. Allen Iverson’s 42
points leads the 76ers to a 108-93 win
over the Los Angeles Clippers.
2004 — Pittsburgh loses an NHL-record
12th straight home game, 8-4 to Toronto.
2013 — American teenager Mikaela
Shiffrin becomes the youngest woman
in 39 years to win the slalom title at
the world alpine championships held
in Schladming, Austria. At the age of 17
years, 340 days, Shiffrin edges local hope
Michaela Kirchgasser. The only slalom
world champions younger than Shiffrin
were Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein in
1974 and Esme Mackinnon of Britain in
1931.
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NHL
Scoreboard
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
GP W L OT Pts
Florida
56 32 18 6 70
Detroit
56 29 18 9 67
Boston
56 30 20 6 66
Tampa Bay
55 30 21 4 64
Montreal
56 27 25 4 58
Ottawa
57 25 26 6 56
Buffalo
57 23 28 6 52
Toronto
54 20 25 9 49
Metropolitan Division
Washington
54 40 10 4 84
N.Y. Rangers
56 32 18 6 70
New Jersey
57 29 21 7 65
N.Y. Islanders
54 29 19 6 64
Pittsburgh
54 28 19 7 63
Carolina
56 25 21 10 60
Philadelphia
55 24 21 10 58
Columbus
57 23 28 6 52
Blues 2, Lightning 1
GF
158
145
172
147
155
163
136
132
GA
133
143
157
135
152
181
160
156
181
163
127
157
141
137
131
148
125
143
130
140
139
149
148
178
Western Conference
Central Division
GP W L OT Pts GF GA
56 36 15 5 77 184 152
59 36 18 5 77 163 137
58 32 17 9 73 143 138
59 29 26 4 62 158 164
56 26 21 9 61 149 149
55 23 22 10 56 135 140
55 25 27 3 53 142 160
Pacific Division
Los Angeles
55 33 19 3 69 153 131
San Jose
54 29 20 5 63 160 146
Anaheim
54 27 19 8 62 125 130
Arizona
55 25 24 6 56 145 169
Vancouver
55 22 21 12 56 131 152
Calgary
54 25 26 3 53 146 162
Edmonton
57 22 29 6 50 143 171
Note: Two points for a win, one point
for overtime loss.
Saturday’s games
Winnipeg 2, Edmonton 1, SO
New Jersey 2, Philadelphia 1, OT
Boston 4, Minnesota 2
Nashville 5, Florida 0
Carolina 6, N.Y. Islanders 3
Columbus 4, Ottawa 2
Toronto 5, Vancouver 2
Dallas 4, Washington 3
Anaheim 3, Chicago 2, OT
San Jose 4, Arizona 1
Sunday’s games
Buffalo 4, Colorado 1
New Jersey 1, Los Angeles 0
Detroit 6, Boston 5
St. Louis 2, Tampa Bay 1
N.Y. Rangers 3, Philadelphia 1
Monday’s games
Detroit at N.Y. Islanders
Anaheim at Calgary
Pittsburgh at Florida
Dallas at Nashville
Toronto at Chicago
Montreal at Arizona
Minnesota at Vancouver
Tuesday’s games
Philadelphia at New Jersey
Los Angeles at Washington
Winnipeg at Carolina
Boston at Columbus
Buffalo at Ottawa
San Jose at Tampa Bay
Dallas at St. Louis
Anaheim at Edmonton
Dallas
Chicago
St. Louis
Colorado
Nashville
Minnesota
Winnipeg
Sunday
Rangers 3, Flyers 1
Philadelphia
0 0 1—1
N.Y. Rangers
1 0 2—3
First Period—1, N.Y. Rangers, Brassard
19 (Yandle, Girardi), 5:08.
Third Period—2, N.Y. Rangers, Stepan
11 (Zuccarello, Girardi), 10:34. 3, N.Y.
Rangers, Stepan 12 (Zuccarello, Brassard), 13:54 (pp). 4, Philadelphia, Schenn
16 (Voracek, Gostisbehere), 19:50 (pp).
Shots on Goal—Philadelphia 9-6-7—22.
N.Y. Rangers 9-12-9—30.
Power-play opportunities—Philadelphia 1 of 5; N.Y. Rangers 1 of 4.
Goalies—Philadelphia, Mason 13-15-7
(30 shots-27 saves). N.Y. Rangers, Lundqvist 28-14-4 (22-21).
A—18,006 (18,006). T—2:36.
St. Louis
0 1 1—2
Tampa Bay
0 0 1—1
Second Period—1, St. Louis, Fabbri 13
(Stastny), :36.
Third Period—2, St. Louis, Berglund 4,
17:41. 3, Tampa Bay, Kucherov 23 (Johnson, Hedman), 19:08.
Shots on Goal—St. Louis 4-10-7—21.
Tampa Bay 12-11-15—38.
Power-play opportunities—St. Louis 0
of 3; Tampa Bay 0 of 3.
Goalies—St. Louis, Elliott 14-7-6 (38
shots-37 saves). Tampa Bay, Bishop 2216-3 (21-19).
A—19,092 (19,092). T—2:31.
Red Wings 6, Bruins 5
Boston
3 1 1—5
Detroit
2 3 1—6
First Period—1, Boston, Marchand 28
(Connolly), :08. 2, Detroit, Zetterberg 11
(Abdelkader, DeKeyser), 2:44. 3, Boston,
Trotman 2, 2:58. 4, Boston, Eriksson 19
(Krejci, Hayes), 12:59. 5, Detroit, Datsyuk
10 (Abdelkader, Richards), 14:46 (pp).
Second Period—6, Detroit, Helm 6
(Ouellet, Marchenko), 3:13. 7, Detroit,
Datsyuk 11 (Richards, Zetterberg), 6:38
(pp). 8, Detroit, Helm 7 (Marchenko,
Quincey), 11:01. 9, Boston, Seidenberg 1
(Spooner), 11:23.
Third Period—10, Boston, Kemppainen
2 (Marchand, Krejci), :38 (sh). 11, Detroit,
Zetterberg 12 (DeKeyser, Datsyuk), 7:37.
Shots on Goal—Boston 6-6-10—22. Detroit 9-18-8—35.
Power-play opportunities—Boston 0
of 2; Detroit 2 of 5.
Goalies—Boston, Rask (24 shots-19
saves), Gustavsson 10-4-1 (11:01 second,
11-10). Detroit, Mrazek 22-10-5 (22-17).
A—20,027 (20,027). T—2:33.
Roundup
Devils 1, Kings 0
Los Angeles
0 0 0—0
New Jersey
1 0 0—1
First Period—1, New Jersey, Schlemko
7 (Zajac), 5:19 (pp).
Shots on Goal—Los Angeles 9-7-12—
28. New Jersey 8-5-5—18.
Power-play opportunities—Los Angeles 0 of 1; New Jersey 1 of 3.
Goalies—Los Angeles, Enroth 4-5-1 (18
shots-17 saves). New Jersey, Kinkaid 4-51 (28-28).
A—16,514 (17,625). T—2:24.
Sabres 4, Avalanche 1
Colorado
0 1 0—1
Buffalo
3 0 1—4
First Period—1, Buffalo, Eichel 17, 2:02.
2, Buffalo, Kane 16 (Reinhart, Gorges),
4:42. 3, Buffalo, Reinhart 17 (R.O’Reilly,
McCabe), 17:14.
Second Period—4, Colorado, E.Johnson
8 (Grigorenko, Iginla), 2:35.
Third Period—5, Buffalo, Foligno 7
(R.O’Reilly), 18:10 (en).
Shots on Goal—Colorado 11-11-13—35.
Buffalo 8-7-6—21.
Power-play opportunities—Colorado
0 of 6; Buffalo 0 of 3.
Goalies—Colorado, Varlamov 21-15-3
(2 shots-0 saves), Pickard (4:42 first, 1817). Buffalo, Lehner 3-4-1 (35-34).
A—19,070 (19,070). T—2:25.
Scoring leaders
Through Feb. 14
GP
59
56
57
56
54
53
51
54
57
55
53
57
55
Patrick Kane, Chi
Jamie Benn, Dal
Erik Karlsson, Ott
Tyler Seguin, Dal
Evgeny Kuznetsov, Was
Sidney Crosby, Pit
Nicklas Backstrom, Was
Joe Pavelski, SJ
Artemi Panarin, Chi
Blake Wheeler, Wpg
Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy
Taylor Hall, Edm
Anze Kopitar, LA
4 tied with 49 pts.
G
33
29
11
30
15
24
17
25
18
15
21
18
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CARLOS OSORIO/AP
Red Wings defenseman Mike Green, left, and left wing Justin Abdelkader, right, battle with Bruins center
David Krejci for the puck during the first period of Sunday’s game in Detroit. The Red Wings won 6-5.
A PTS
45 78
34 63
52 63
32 62
41 56
29 53
36 53
27 52
34 52
37 52
30 51
32 50
34 50
Red Wings hold off Bruins
Associated Press
DETROIT — The way both
teams were scoring, Pavel Datsyuk couldn’t help reaching this
milestone.
Needing one point to make it to
900 in his NHL career, Datsyuk
had two goals and an assist Sunday to lead the Detroit Red Wings
to a 6-5 victory over the Boston
Bruins. Henrik Zetterberg and
Darren Helm also scored twice
each for the Red Wings in a game
that felt like a throwback to a
more high-scoring era.
“It looked like 1986,” Detroit
coach Jeff Blashill said.
Both teams blew two-goal
leads before Danny DeKeyser’s
shot from the point deflected past
goalie Jonas Gustavsson at 7:37 of
the third period. Zetterberg was
credited with the goal, and the
Red Wings held on to their 6-5
lead the rest of the way.
Boston’s Brad Marchand set a
franchise record for fastest goal
by scoring 8 seconds into the
game, and Zach Trotman, Loui
Eriksson, Dennis Seidenberg and
Joonas Kemppainen also scored
for the Bruins.
Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask was
pulled after allowing five goals on
24 shots. It was the second time
in three games he allowed five
goals.
Marchand opened the scoring
with a wrist shot after the Bruins
won a faceoff in the Detroit zone.
Boston’s previous team record for
fastest goal at the beginning of a
game was 9 seconds, by Fleming
Mackell in 1953.
Rangers 3, Flyers 1: Derek
Stepan scored twice in the third
period to lead host New York past
Philadelphia.
Derick Brassard scored early
and Henrik Lundqvist stopped 21
shots to help the Rangers improve
to 5-0-1 in their last six games.
Brayden Schenn spoiled Lundqvist’s shutout with 9.7 seconds
left with his 16th goal of the season, but the Flyers lost for the
fifth time in six games. Steve
Mason finished with 27 saves.
Devils 1, Kings 0: Keith
Kinkaid made 25 saves for his
first NHL shutout, and David
Schlemko scored in New Jersey’s
victory over visiting Los Angeles.
New Jersey won its third
straight to pass the idle New York
Islanders for third place in the
Metropolitan Division.
Blues 2, Lightning 1: Robby
Fabbri and Patrik Berglund
scored on breakaways and Brian
Elliott stopped 37 shots in St. Louis’s victory over host Tampa Bay.
Elliott allowed only Nikita Kucherov’s goal in the final minute.
Sabres 4, Avalanche 1: Sam
Reinhart had a goal and an assist as part of a three-goal first
period, leading host Buffalo past
Colorado.
Jack Eichel, Evander Kane and
Marcus Foligno also scored and
Robin Lehner made 34 saves to
help Buffalo snap an 0-6-4 skid
against Colorado.
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Shiffrin victorious
in first race since
injuring her knee
BY DANIELLA M ATAR
France and 0.50 ahead of MarieMichele Gagnon of Canada as
several of her rivals struggled in
CRANS-MONTANA, Switzer- difficult conditions.
land — Mikaela Shiffrin is defiThree of the top 10 after the
nitely back.
first run did not finish: Michelle
Two perfect runs saw the Gisin, Petra Vlhova and Erin
American win a women’s World Mielzynski. Lila Lapanja of the
Cup slalom by almost a half-sec- United States also skied out.
ond on Monday in her first race
“That was a tough race, tough
after two months out with injury.
for all the girls,” Shiffrin said.
Crossing the line smiling after “Some of the girls had really bad
her second run, Shiffrin turned visibility. I had OK visibility, I
to look at the timings board then was struggling to see but at least
put her head in her hands at the I could see a bit. I’m relieved
realization she had won.
with the luck of having better
“I came in blind a little bit,” she visibility.
said. “I knew my training skiing
“I was at the top, looking at the
was some of the best
start and I was thinkI was doing but I just
ing, ‘Oh it doesn’t look
wasn’t sure. It was kind
It was kind too bad.’ Then I closed
of close your eyes and
my eyes for about a
of close
go, see what happens at
minute, visualizing the
your eyes
the end of the run.
course, and then when
“I didn’t know what
I opened them again I
and go,
to expect from the rest
was like, ‘Hey, where
see
what
of the girls. I was just
did the slope go?’”
watching on television
happens at
World Cup slalom
and wasn’t sure of the
leader Frida Hansdotthe
end
of
pace. I could see it but
ter finished sixth, 5.89
the run.
it’s different from being
behind Shiffrin. The
there.”
Mikaela Shiffrin Swede has 545 points,
It was Shiffrin’s first
Winner of the 99 more than secondrace since tearing a
World Cup slalom best Veronika Velezligament in her right
Zuzulova of Slovakia,
knee in December. The
who was 10th.
Olympic and world slalom chamShiffrin, who has won the past
pion started skiing again only two three titles, is 245 points behind
weeks ago.
Hansdotter. There are only two
Shiffrin won two slaloms in slalom races left along with a parAspen, Colo., and both by big allel event this month in Stockmargins, before the training mis- holm that counts in the slalom
hap in Sweden. She has won her standings.
“The slalom globe’s out. I’m
last six slaloms stretching back to
going to focus on GS a little bit
last season.
This was Shiffrin’s 18th win on now, try to see how quickly I can
the circuit, moving her level with get back, see how many points I
Tamara McKinney for the sec- can get overall,” Shiffrin said.
Shiffrin is targeting the super
ond-most wins by an American
woman. She turns 21 next month. G and super combined in SolLeading after the first run, deu at the end of the month, but
Shiffrin finished 0.45 seconds added, “That depends how trainfaster than Nastasia Noens of ing goes.”
Associated Press
PHOTOS
BY
ERIC RISBERG /AP
Vaughn Taylor follows his shot from the 17th tee of the Pebble Beach Golf Links during the final round
of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament Sunday in Pebble Beach, Calif. Taylor won
the tournament by one stroke over Phil Mickelson.
Taylor rallies for Pebble win
Earns first victory in a decade
on Mickelson’s missed putt
’
BY DOUG FERGUSON
Associated Press
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — The celebrity portion
of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am was supposed to
end on Saturday. And then came a script right out of
Hollywood, starring Vaughn Taylor as himself.
His victory over Phil Mickelson — also playing
himself in this drama by the sea — sounds like pure
fiction.
Taylor is a 39-year-old who had gone just more
than 10 years since his last victory and had not held
a full PGA Tour card for the last three years. He
once played in a Ryder Cup. Now he was trying to
find his way back on the Web.com Tour, which included trips to Panama and Colombia the last two
weeks, where he packed a golf bag with a kickstand
because it was lighter and would spare him excess
baggage fees.
Yes, that’s life in the other world of golf.
Taylor was so sick last week in Colombia from
something he ate that he was throwing up in his
hotel room, praying for it to stop. He withdrew the
next day and flew to Pebble Beach — it was cheaper
than going home to Augusta, Georgia — to see if he
could get in the tournament as an alternate.
He did. And he played well. Starting the final
round, he was six shots behind Mickelson and hopeful of a top 10 so he could get into the next PGA Tour
event in Los Angeles without having to rush down
there and try to qualify Monday.
Taylor ran off four straight birdies starting on the
13th hole, the last one a 30-foot putt on the tough
16th green that sent Taylor running around the
green and high-fiving whoever was in his way. It
was the first time he had the lead.
Taylor closed with a 7-under 65 after missing
birdie chances of 12 feet and 10 feet on the final two
holes. He had a feeling it would cost him, especially
when Mickelson birdied the 17th with a clutch putt
and was just short of the green on the par-5 18th in
two, 60 feet from the hole.
He chipped to 5 feet and needed that birdie putt to
force a playoff.
Taylor was listening for the cheers of Mickelson’s
birdie. He was expecting the cheers. Instead, he
heard groans when Mickelson’s short putt spun out
on the left edge of the cup.
“Just absolutely amazing,” Taylor said of his oneshot victory over Mickelson, a five-time major cham-
‘
Phil Mickelson reacts after missing a birdie
putt on the 18th green during the final round of
the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf
tournament Sunday.
pion already in the World Golf Hall of Fame. “Didn’t
know if it would ever happen again, to be honest.
And I can’t believe it actually happened today.”
The 45-year-old Mickelson closed with a 72. Winless since the 2013 British Open, he missed a chance
to match Mark O’Meara’s record of five victories in
the event.
Champions Tour: At Naples,Fla.,Bernhard Langer
won the Chubb Classic for his 26th PGA Champions
Tour title, closing with a 1-over 73 for a three-stroke
victory.
Seven strokes ahead after opening with rounds of
62 and 66, the 58-year-old German star finished at
15 under 201 at TwinEagles. Fred Couples had a 66
to finish second.
European Tour: South Africa’s Charl Schwartzel
ran away with the Tshwane Open, shooting a 7under 63 for an eight-stroke victory in Pretoria,
South Africa..
Schwartzel finished at 16-under 264 in the European Tour event at Pretoria Country Club. Denmark’s Jeff Winther was second after a 64.
JEAN -C HRISTOPHE BOTT, K EYSTONE /AP
Mikaela Shiffrin competes during an alpine ski women’s World Cup
slalom in Crans Montana, Switzerland, on Monday. Shiffrin won in
her first race after being out two months with an injury.
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Arizona tops USC
for Pac-12 lead
BY BOB BAUM
Associated Press
C HARLIE NEIBERGALL /AP
Iowa forward Dom Uhl drives to the basket past Minnesota guard Ahmad Gilbert, left, during the second
half Sunday in Iowa City, Iowa. Iowa won 75-71.
Roundup
No. 4 Iowa holds off Minnesota
Associated Press
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Last season, a rough start might have
derailed Jarrod Uthoff’s entire
night.
Now, as a senior, Iowa’s leading
scorer barely flinched.
Uthoff was held scoreless for
nearly 17 minutes to open the
game, but finished with 24 points,
15 rebounds and six blocked shots
to help the fourth-ranked Hawkeyes hold off skidding Minnesota
75-71 on Sunday.
“I thought he was great for this
reason,” Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said, “he started slow and
he continued to be aggressive. I
think that’s been the evolution of
him as a player. We needed him to
do that today.”
Peter Jok scored 27 points to
lead the Hawkeyes (20-5, 11-2),
who rebounded from Thursday’s
loss at Indiana to regain sole possession of first place in the Big
Ten.
Nate Mason had 14 points for
Minnesota, which has lost 14
straight games. The Gophers (619, 0-13) extended their worst
start ever in conference play.
Uthoff became the third Big
Ten player in the last 20 years
to have 20 points, 15 rebounds
and five blocked shots in a game,
joining Minnesota’s Joel Pryzbilla (2000) and Purdue’s JaJuan
Johnson (2011). He’s the first
Iowa player with 20 points and
15 boards since 2003. The 15 rebounds were a career best.
Uthoff helped secure the victory for the Hawkeyes with a big
dunk, three blocks and a pair of
free throws in the final 1:17.
Iowa’s top scorer at 18.6 points
per game, Uthoff missed his first
seven shots. But he took over during a pivotal first-half stretch.
He scored nine straight points
going into halftime, helping the
Hawkeyes end the first half on a
12-2 run to regain the lead. The
forward got on the board with a
pair of drives, then connected on
a 30-foot three-pointer.
“It was a big momentum changer,” Uthoff said.
Minnesota cut Iowa’s lead to
66-64 on two free throws by Joey
King with 2:58 remaining, but the
Gophers went 2-for-8 from the
field in the final 2 minutes.
Minnesota has lost seven of its
last eight games by eight points or
fewer.
“Now is not the time to crush
them, but to be there for them,”
coach Richard Pitino said. “I really can’t worry about yesterday. I
can’t worry about the future. I just
have to worry about here and now
and just be there for my guys.”
No. 8 Michigan State 88, Indiana 69: Denzel Valentine had
30 points and 13 assists, and Matt
Costello scored a career-high 22
points and grabbed 11 rebounds
in host Michigan State’s victory
over Indiana.
The Spartans (21-5, 8-5 Big Ten)
closed the first half with a 9-0 run
to take a one-point lead. They had
a 24-3 run to go ahead by 17 midway through the second half.
Indiana’s Yogi Ferrell was limited to nine points, eight below
his scoring average and one more
than his season low.
Max Bielfeldt scored 10 of his
15 points in the first half for the
Hoosiers (20-6, 10-3).
No. 9 North Carolina 85, Pittsburgh 64: Brice Johnson scored
19 points to lead a dominating
offensive performance for host
North Carolina.
Marcus Paige added 15 points
for the Tar Heels (21-4, 10-2 Atlantic Coast Conference), who
shot 59 percent.
UNC used a 13-0 second-half
burst to blow the game open. UNC
finished with 26 assists on 32 baskets, 24 points off turnovers and
scored 16 fast-break points after
managing a combined five in the
past two games.
Michael Young and James Robinson each scored 15 points to lead
Pitt (17-7, 6-6), which shot 37 percent and committed 19 turnovers.
No. 12 Miami 67, Florida State
65: Sheldon McClellan scored 20
points and Miami fought off a
second-half rally from host Florida State.
The Hurricanes led by four
with less than a minute remaining when Dwayne Bacon’s threepointer brought the Seminoles to
66-65. After Davon Reed missed a
three, Florida State had a chance
to go ahead but Devon Bookert
was short on a three-pointer from
the corner.
Ja’Quan Newton hit one of two
free throws for Miami, leaving
Florida State one last chance, but
Malik Beasley missed a 30-footer
that would have won it.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Arizona
finds itself in a familiar spot — at
the top of the Pac-12 standings.
Gabe York scored 17 points and
the No. 17 Wildcats moved into
a share of the conference lead
with an 86-78 victory over No. 23
Southern California on Sunday.
Allonzo Trier scored 12 of his 14
in the second half as the Wildcats
(21-5, 9-4) held off a rally by the
Trojans (18-7, 7-5), who were swept
over the weekend in the desert.
Bennie Boatwright, scoreless
in Friday night’s loss at Arizona
State, had 18 points for USC.
Arizona led by as many as 19 in
the first half and was up 16 at halftime. USC rallied to cut it to 70-68
with 6:40 to play, but the Trojans
missed their next nine shots and
the Wildcats pulled away.
Ryan Anderson added 14 points
for Arizona, and Mark Tollefsen
scored 11 of his 13 in the first
half. Jordan McLaughlin had 15
for USC.
Arizona began the weekend
two games behind first-place Oregon, but the Ducks were swept at
California and Stanford, and the
Wildcats beat both Los Angeles
schools.
“We expect ourselves to be at
the top and competing for the
title,” Anderson said. “This is
what we have done the last couple
of years, this is what we plan to do
this year.”
Arizona has won five in a row
since losing at home to Oregon, a
game that broke the Wildcats’ 49game winning streak at McKale
Center.
But coach Sean Miller was not
pleased with the way his team
played in the second half. Putting
together a complete game, he said,
has been a problem all season.
“Our first half was excellent
basketball,” Miller said, “but
we’re trying to put both halves together and we have just not been
that team this season. We have to
eventually become that team because when we get in those elimination moments — you lose and
you go home — we’re going to go
home.”
Arizona never trailed but had
to weather a furious USC rally.
Trailing 46-30 at halftime,
the Trojans outscored Arizona
23-9 to cut the lead to 70-68 on
McLaughlin’s three-pointer with
6:40 to play.
Dusan Ristic and Kaleb Tarczewski each sank a pair of free
throws, Trier hit a three-pointer
as the shot clock wound down and
Kadeem Allen made a driving
floater in a 9-1 spurt that put the
Wildcats back in control 79-69
with 3:36 to play.
The Trojans went 6:07 without
a field goal before Boatwright’s
three with 33 seconds left.
“I thought the difference in the
game down the stretch was that
we missed a lot of easy shots and
they made a couple of tough ones,”
USC coach Andy Enfield said.
“To win on the road, especially a
place as tough as McKale Center,
against a top 15 team in the country, you need to make those shots
in the last 5 minutes.”
It looked like a blowout in the
first half.
The Wildcats, who lost 103-101
in four overtimes at USC on Jan.
9, took apart the Trojans’ zone defense, shooting 54 percent to lead
46-30 at the break.
Leading just 22-18 eight minutes into the game, the Wildcats
outscored the Trojans 21-6 over
the next 10 ½ minutes. Tollefsen
scored 11 in the run, capped by
his tip-in that put Arizona up 4324 with 1:39 left in the half.
Boatwright sank a pair of jumpers to cut the lead to 43-28, then
York — under severe duress at the
top of the key — hit a falling-away
three-pointer as the shot clock expired. A 10-footer by McLaughlin
at the halftime buzzer made it a
16-point lead at the break.
RICK SCUTERI /AP
Arizona guard Allonzo Trier, right, shoots on Southern California
guard Jordan McLaughlin during the second half Sunday, in Tucson,
Ariz. Arizona defeated Southern California 86-80.
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HIGH SCHOOL/MLB
Harper, Nats head
to camp, look to
forget about 2015
BY HOWARD FENDRICH
Associated Press
MIRANDA FINO/Special to Stars and Stripes
Kubasaki’s Skylor Stevens tries to drive around
CAJ’s Takero Muari during Kubasaki’s 67-21
round-robin victory on Monday.
MIRANDA FINO/Special to Stars and Stripes
CAJ’s Mieko Yamamoto is caught between Seoul
American’s Renee Thompson, left, and Latisha
Dolford while battling for a rebound on Monday.
Far East scoreboard
Wrestling
Monday at Osan Air Base, South Korea
Double-elimination
(manner of victory not available)
First round
115 pounds – Zack Kline (ASIJ) def. Luis
Velez (Kub); Keonte’ Robertson (Zama)
def. Skye Williams (Yok); Peter Kim
(Seoul) def. Keili Chatfield (Osan); Liam
Knowles (Edg) def. Seth Crisp (Kad).
122 – Kade Sundvall (Edg) def. Adam
Trujillo (Kad); Carter Whitton (Zama)
def. Michael Hoffman (Yok); Jonathan
Brumfield (Hum) def. Noah Okada (CAJ);
Julian Falcon (ASIJ) def. Aiyana Clayborne
(Osan).
129 – Dan Frazier (Kad) def. John Fraipont (ASIJ); Logan Lumabas (King) def.
Colton Tweedell (Hum); Eric Guzman
(Seoul) def. Mason Mori Graydon (Perry);
Jeremiah Ramos (Kinn) def. Yeol Ryoo
(CAJ); Joshua Figueredo (Kub) def. Bryce
Dellafosse (Yok).
135 – Cody Dettman (Osan) def. Imani
McDonald (Hum); Anthony Macaluso
(Kub) def. Elijah Senegar (King); Devoney
Stanley (Kinn) def. Julian Johnson (ASIJ);
Emerson Gaume (Yok) def. Joseph Friend
(Seoul).
141 – Vincent Soiles (Kinn) def. Javin
O’Hara (Hum); Gavin Duenas (Kub) def.
Kyle Reedy (CAJ); Zenon Sadler (ASIJ)
def. Michael Shields (Edg); Kameron
Leon Guerrero (Yok) def. Andrew Jenkins
(Perry); Jack Newton (Seoul) def. Jackson
Newsom (Osan); Sam Lopez (Kad) def.
David Robinson (King).
148 – David Rix (Seoul) def. Brandon
Lynn (Kub); Sky Phillips (Edg) def. Andrew
Edgardo Borrero (Perry); Callum Marshall
(CAJ) def. Shota Nichols (ASIJ).
158 – Cole Grimes (Yok) def. Jessica
Brantley (Zama); Hunter Corwin (Kad)
def. Austin Adkins (King); Jason Augusto
DeGrace (Perry) def. Jonathan Orr (Kub);
John Michael Medallo (Daegu) def. Sean
Larson (Edg).
168 – Brendan Miracle (Kub) def. Lewis
Daniel Billups (Perry); Mitchell Krcelic (St.
M) def. Gabriel Schmidt (CAJ).
180 – Noah Dobberfuhl (ASIJ) def. Jonathan Axel Balmeo (Osan); Samuel Preston
(Zama) def. Nilay Hingarh (St.M); Tristan
Laliberte (Yok) def. Jessica Figueroa
(Daegu); Peyton Harp (Kad) def. Andrew
Tyes (King).
215 – Brandon Rothe (Seoul) def. Eugene Williamson (Osan); Thomas Grespan (ASIJ) def. Alek Gomez (Kad).
Second round
101 – Egan Sadler (ASIJ) def. Cael Bowen (Kinn); Eshan Singhi (St.M) def. Ryan
Oh (Seoul).
108 – Lucas Wirth (Kinn) def. Cameron
Mister (Yok); Austin Martino (Kad) def.
Djoy Gomez (Edg); Jordan Van Druff (CAJ)
def. Jonathan Filer (Seoul); Tatsuhito Matsumoto (St.M) def. Kyan McCarty (Kub).
115 – Kline def. Chon Dareing (Kinn);
Michael Yoshino (CAJ) def. Robertson;
Rio Lemkuil (St.M) def. Peter Kim (Seoul);
Kaiwan Taylor (King) def. Liam Knowles
(Edg).
122 – Chang Young Lee (St.M) def. Peter Petracca (Seoul) def. Sundvall (Edg)
def. Whitton; Kristian Palmer (Kub) def.
Brumfield; Jianni Labato (Kinn) def. Julian
Falcon (ASIJ).
129 – Graydon def. Tweedell; Ryo Osawa (St.M) def. Dan Frazier (Kad); Guzman
def. Lumabas; Jeremiah Ramos (Kinn)
def. Ryu Patterson (Zama); Figueredo def.
Kane Phillips (Edg).
135 – Jackson Edmonds (Edg) def. Dettman; Stanley def. Macaluso; Parker Corwin (Kad) def. Christopher Lynch (Perry);
Ryan Vasconcellos (St.M) def. Gaume.
141 – Kyle Reedy (CAJ) def. Shields;
Jenkins def. Newsom; Itsuki Shibahara
(St.M) def. Soiles; Duenas def. Sadler;
Leon-Guerro def. Newton; Lopez def. Ariana Zemke (Zama).
148 – Kazuho Kawashima (St.M) def.
Rix; Darius Swenson (Kinn) def. Phillips;
Hunter Lane (Daegu) def. Callum Marshall (CAJ); Jason Bland (Kad) def. Alex
Alexander (Yok).
158 – JinHwi Park (CAJ) def. Grimes;
Corwin def. Austin Koslow (St.M); Kasey
Walker (Kinn) def. DeGrace (Perry); Jarek
Bartel (Seoul) def. Medallo.
168 – Dom Santanelli (Kad) def. Romero Harris (Daegu); Leon Williams (King)
def. Christian Schmitz (Osan); Ty Dotson
(Yok) def. Miracle; Mitchell Krcelic (St.M)
def. Ethan Olson (Kinn).
180 – Dwayne Lyon (Kinn) def. Gary
Turner (Kub); Preston def. Dobberfuhl;
Lawrence Yamaguchi (CAJ) def. Laliberte;
Patrick Sledge (Edg) def. Harp.
215 – Caleb Sablan (Kub) def. Zachary
Dignan (Zama); Rothe def. Shane Koslow
(St.M); Sam Michelsen (Yok) def. Reese
Franklin (Edg); Kent Jenista (Kinn) def.
Grespan.
Heavyweight – Cody Taylor (Kub) def.
Sean Metellus (Yok); def. Connor Knight
(Seoul) def. Dorian Dillon (Edg).
Third round
101 – Demetrio DeLaRosa (Kad) def.
Sadler; Singhi (St.M) def. Corrine Nepaial
(Yok).
108 – Wirth def. Martino; Matsumoto
def. Van Druff; McCarty def. Filer.
115 – Knowles def. Veliz; Kim def. Williams; Robertson def. Chatfield; Dareing
def. Crisp.
122 – Trujillo def. Falcon; Brumfield def.
Hoffman; Whitton def. Okada; Petracca
def. Clayborne.
129 – Phillips def. Fraipoint; Graydon
def. Patterson; Ryoo def. Lumabas; Dellafosse def. Frazier.
135 – Gaume def. McDonald; Lynch def.
Senegar; Maculuso def. Johnson; Dettman def. Friend.
141 – Zemke def. O’Hara; Reedy def.
Newton; Jenkins def. Sadler; Robinson
def. Soiles.
148 – Alexander def. Lynn; Phillips def.
Nichols; Medallo def. Brantley.
158 – DeGrace def. Adkins; Koslow def.
Orr; Grimes def. Larson.
168 – Billips def. Schmitz; Harris def.
Schmidt; Harp def. Balmeo.
180 – Hingarth def. Laliberte; Dobberfuhl def. Figueroa; Turner def. Tyes.
215 – Williamson def. Franklin; Gomez
def. Dignan.
Fourth round
115 – Kline def. Yoshino; Lemkuil def.
Taylor; Knowles def. Kim; Dareing def.
Robertson.
122 – Young Lee def. Sundvall; Labato
def. Palmer; Trujillo def. Brumfield.
129 – Whitton def. Petracca; Osawa def.
Guzman; Figueredo def. Ramos; Graydon
def. Phillips; Ryoo def. Dellafosse.
135 – Edmonds def. Stanley; Vasconcellos def. Corwin; Lynch def. Gaume;
Macaluso def. Dettman.
141 – Duenas def. Shibahara; Lopez
def. Leon-Guerro; Reedy def. Zemke; Robinson def. Jenkins.
148 – Kawashima def. Swenson; Lane
def. Bland; Marshall def. Alexander; Rix
def. Phillips.
158 – Corwin def. Park; Bartel def.
Walker; DeGrace def. Medallo; Koslow
def. Grimes.
168 – Santanelli def. Williams; Dotson
def. Krcelic; Miracle def. Olson; Billups
def. Harris.
180 – Lyon def. Preston; Sledge def.
Yamaguchi; Harp def. Hingarh; Turner
def. Dobberfuhl.
215 – Rothe def. Sablan; Jenista def.
Michelsen; Grespan def. Williamson; Gomez def. Koslow.
Heavyweight – Chris Deibel (Kinn) def.
Taylor; Knight def. Siu Fuimaono (Kad).
Fifth round
101 – Bowen def. Nepaial; Sadler def.
Oh.
108 – Van Druff def. McCarty; Martino
def. Mister.
115 – Knowles def. Taylor; Dareing def.
Yoshino.
122 – Palmer def. Trujillo; Sundvall def.
Whitton.
129 – Ramos def. Graydon; Guzman
def. Ryoo.
135 – Corwin def. Lynch; Stanley def.
Macaluso.
141 – Reedy def. Leon-Guerro; Shibahara def. Robinson.
148 – Bland def. Marshall; Swenson
def. Rix.
168 – Krcelic def. Miracle; Williams
def. Billups.
180 – Yamaguchi def. Harp; Preston
def. Turner.
215 – Michelsen def. Grespan, Sablan
def. Gomez.
Heavyweight – Fuimaono def. Dillon;
Taylor def. Metellus
Basketball
Boys Division I
Monday at Camp Foster, Okinawa
Pool A
Kubasaki 64, American School of
Bangkok 46
American School In Japan 59, Christian Academy of Japan 40
American School of Bangkok 64, ASIJ
62 OT
Kubasaki 67, CAJ 21
Pool B
St. Mary’s 66, Kadena 63 OT
Seoul American 81, Kinnick 49
Seoul American 59, Kadena 31
St. Mary’s 72, Kinnick 47
Boys Division II
Monday at Yokota Air Base, Japan
Pool A
Yokota 72, Perry 40
Edgren 61, Osan 32
Yokota 68, Zion 17
Edgren 70, Perry 67
Osan 59, Zion 47
Pool B
Humphreys 61, Zama 27
EJ King 46, Daegu 28
Humphreys 46, Okinawa Christian 40
Daegu 49, Zama 43
Okinawa Christian 45, King 41
Girls Division I
Monday at Camp Foster, Okinawa
Round robin
Kadena 40, Kubasaki 16
Amerian School In Japan 19, Kinnick
15
Seoul American 27, CAJ 23
Seoul American 27, Kinnick 26
Kubasaki 33, ASIJ 29
Kadena 42, CAJ 11
ASIJ 45, Seoul American 29
Kadena 42, Kinnick 18
Kubasaki 25, CAJ 18
Girls Division II
Monday at Marine Corps Air Station
Iwakuni, Japan
Pool A
Perry 35, Sacred Heart 21
Zama 42, Osan 25
Osan 41, Sacred Heart 38
Pool B
Edgren 45, King 26
Yokota 51, Humphreys 25
King 29, Humphreys 18
WASHINGTON — As they
try to erase the memory of
2015 and get started on 2016 at
spring training, the best news
for the Washington Nationals is
that unanimous NL MVP Bryce
Harper is still around.
“Sky’s the limit. I don’t think
he’s going to do anything but continue to do what he’s done. He’s
even got room to get better. That’s
the scary part,” backup Clint
Robinson said. “Bryce hasn’t
even hit his full potential yet, I
don’t think. You can always get
better at things, even though it
may seem like he can’t.”
After batting .330 with 42 homers and 99 RBIs, while leading
the majors in slugging percentage (.649) and on-base percentage (.460) and finishing second in
runs (118), Harper — who turned
23 in October — already is generating speculation about how much
he might command when eligible
for free agency after 2018.
“That’ll play out when it does,”
Harper said. “I’m just worried
about this year and the next couple years.”
When the Nationals begin reporting to Viera, Fla., this week,
much of the attention will be on
Harper, of course, but also on
what’s new — and what isn’t.
After the team didn’t come
close to expectations by going
83-79 and missing the playoffs
last season, manager Matt Williams was fired. Things got ugly
at the end, too, with closer Jonathan Papelbon grabbing Harper
by the throat in a dugout scuffle
between the teammates during a
game in September.
Dusty Baker was hired to replace Williams, and while there
were some changes made to the
roster, it was mostly tinkering,
rather than major moves.
Some other things to know
about the Nationals heading into
spring training:
Who’s gone: A bunch of familiar faces are no longer around,
including starter Jordan Zimmermann, shortstop Ian Desmond,
reliever Drew Storen, center
fielder Denard Span, third baseman Yunel Escobar and pitcher
Doug Fister.
Murphy arrives: The biggest
arrival is second baseman Daniel
Murphy, who homered in a record
six consecutive postseason games
and was voted the MVP of the NL
Championship Series for the New
York Mets. He also made key errors in two World Series games.
Similar lineup: Other than the
additions of Murphy and outfielder Ben Revere, the lineup remains
very similar to a year ago. The
difference, the Nationals hope, is
that folks such as Anthony Rendon (311 at-bats in 2015), Jayson
Werth (331) and Ryan Zimmerman (346) will be healthier.
Rebuilt bullpen: Washington
traded Storen to Toronto for Revere, and opted to keep Papelbon,
while reconstructing the middle
relief corps, adding Trevor Gott,
Oliver Perez, Yusmeiro Petit
and Shawn Kelley. “We feel good
about where we’re at in the bullpen,” GM Mike Rizzo said.
Scherzer, Strasburg and Co.:
Rizzo did not add any starters,
other than Bronson Arroyo coming off Tommy John surgery, so
he is hoping he can count on Joe
Ross, Tanner Roark and Gio Gonzalez to fill in the innings after the
1-2 combination of Max Scherzer
— who threw two no-hitters last
season — and Stephen Strasburg.
A LEX BRANDON /AP
The best news for the Washington Nationals as they head to spring
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Rookie: 20-year-old Elliott youngest to sit on Daytona pole
FROM BACK PAGE
“I don’t know if this opportunity has
sunk in yet, much less sitting on the pole
for the Daytona 500,” Elliott said.
The 20-year-old has the ride of a lifetime, taking the seat from retired fourtime champion Jeff Gordon at Hendrick
Motorsports. Gordon was in the broadcast
booth at Daytona, calling the shots as the
No. 24 went around the track without him
for the first time since 1992.
Elliott has some practice following the
great ones: His father, Bill, is a two-time
Daytona 500 champion.
“The manner which (he) went about his
business, I think is really special,” Chase
said.
Without showing the pressure on the
track that comes with the ride, Elliott’s top
speed was 196.314 mph and he outran 43
others in front-row qualifying Sunday. He
also showed
that Hendrick cars
I don’t know if
could
be
contenders
this opportunity
again after
has sunk in yet,
taking
a
much less sitting backseat to
Joe Gibbs
on the pole for
Racing and
the Daytona 500. Team PenChase Elliot ske in 2015.
NonetheNASCAR Sprint Cup rookie
less,
the
Gibbs cars
continued their strong opening to Speedweeks by putting Matt Kenseth on the
front row for the Daytona 500. It came on
the heels of Denny Hamlin’s victory in Saturday night’s exhibition race and showed
that the team hasn’t lost a step since Kyle
Busch claimed the Sprint Cup title in
November.
Busch was fourth fastest in Sunday’s
time trials, with Carl Edwards ninth and
Hamlin 10th. JGR was the only multicar
team to put all of its cars in the top 10.
But Gibbs cares little about the buildup
to the Feb. 21 season opener. Year after
year, his drivers prove to be the best of
the bunch during Speedweeks but come
up empty in the main event. He reminded
Hamlin of that in victory lane Saturday
night.
“I said, ‘Try and get us a 500, will you?’”
Gibbs said. “It’s been 23 years since we
were able to win one.”
JGR won its only Daytona 500 in 1993
with Dale Jarrett, and Gibbs doesn’t miss
an opportunity to remind his current drivers of the drought.
“I’ve got to tell you, the 500 is just hard
to win,” Gibbs said. “That’s where we come
at it. So many things can happen. You can
have really good cars, and we feel like we
have had those, but it’s a tough race to win.
I’d love to get another one.”
The rest of the Daytona 500 field will be
set in Thursday’s two qualifying races.
Elliott won the pole at 20 years, 2 months
and 17 days, besting 2014 pole-sitter Austin Dillon’s mark of 23 years, 9 months and
27 days.
Gordon already sounded like a seasoned
pro in the Fox Sports broadcast booth, asking his replacement how he could keep his
momentum headed into “The Great American Race.” Gordon was a three-time Daytona 500 winner and won a pair of poles in
the 24. Elliott’s speed earned team owner
Rick Hendrick his 10th overall pole in the
Daytona 500.
NASCAR ditched its knockout group
qualifying format for Daytona for single
cars making one qualifying lap.
After 44 drivers had a scheduled turn,
the 12 fastest advanced to the second
round. The two fastest drivers in the second round set the front row.
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Matt Kenseth, left, and Chase Elliott hold their trophies after they qualified for the top two starting positions in the NASCAR
Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on Sunday in Daytona Beach, Fla.
NASCAR disallows qualifying
times for Harvick, Vickers
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR has
disallowed Daytona 500 qualifying runs
by Stewart-Haas Racing teammates Kevin
Harvick and Brian Vickers.
During post-qualifying inspections
Sunday, officials
determined that
the track bars on
the cars were not
in compliance with
specifications. Harvick’s No. 4 Chevrolet and Vickers’ No.
14 Chevy will have
to start at the rear in
Harvick
their qualifying races
Thursday. Vickers is
filling in Tony Stewart while the three-time
NASCAR champion recovers from a broken
vertebra.
Martin Truex Jr., who like Harvick was
one of four drivers racing for the championship in last year’s finale, did not make
a qualifying attempt because a roof flap
of his No. 78 Toyota was out of compliance, and the team could not fix it within
Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kenseth, Elliott,
Kyle Busch, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Austin
Dillon, Jimmie Johnson, Ryan Blaney,
Denny Hamlin, Carl Edwards, Kurt Busch
and Joey Logano advanced.
Other things to know about qualifying:
a designated five-minute window. He also
will start one of the qualifying races from
the back.
“They didn’t like
the way it was
landing when it
went down,” crew
chief Cole Pearn
said. “I don’t know,
it was that way the
whole way down pit
road. I’m not sure
what the problem
was, it could have
been easily fixed
Vickers
but either way they
decided to put it on
the five-minute clock
when we were down there at the end. I
don’t know why we had to run it back here
because there was no way we were going
to get back here and get back out in time.”
NASCAR said the violations “will be
discussed further,” meaning penalties and
fines could be handed down.
— Associated Press
Who’s in: Wood Brothers driver Ryan
Blaney and BK Racing’s Matt Dibenedetto
secured spots in the Daytona 500 as the
two fastest open team drivers. NASCAR’s
new charter system, which guarantees 36
cars a starting spot in each race, shut out
Scoreboard
Daytona 500 Qualifying
After Sunday qualifying; race Sunday
At Daytona International Speedway
Daytona Beach, Fla.
Lap length: 2.5 miles
(Car number in parentheses)
1. (24) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 196.314.
2. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 196.036.
Daytona 500
AFN-Sports
6 p.m. Sunday CET
3 a.m. Sunday JKT
the Wood Brothers because it had been 10
years since it ran a full season. Blaney ran
16 races for the Woods last year and failed
to qualify for three others because rain
washed out the session. He won’t have to
worry about a spot next week.
Who’s left: With two spots remaining,
Josh Wise, Michael McDowell, Reed Sorenson, Robert Richardson Jr., David Gilliland
and Cole Whitt all have to race their way
into the field. The top open finisher in each
qualifying race will make the Daytona 500.
Like father, like son: The Elliotts became the fourth father-son combination to
earn the Daytona 500 pole, joining Richard
Petty (1966) and Kyle Petty (1993), Bobby
Allison (1981) and Davey Allison (1991),
and Dale Earnhardt (1996) and Dale Earnhardt Jr. (2011). Bill Elliott, a two-time
Daytona 500 champion, landed the pole in
1985, 1986, 1987 and 2001.
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George scores 41
to cap comeback
Pacers star finishes just one basket shy
of Chamberlain’s All-Star Game record
BY JON K RAWCZYNSKI
Associated Press
TORONTO — So many of Paul
George’s All-Star teammates and
opponents were on the floor 18
months ago, the night his career
was put in peril by a gruesome
leg injury in a scrimmage with
USA Basketball.
It has been a long, difficult road
back to the rising star he was before a bone in his right leg popped
through his skin on that August
night in Las Vegas. Surrounded
by so many of those elite faces
again in Toronto on Sunday night,
George has never looked more
like the player that has made the
Indiana Pacers relevant again.
Truth be told, he looked even
better.
George led all players with 41
points and made nine three-pointers in the East’s 196-173 loss to
West, finishing one basket shy of
breaking Wilt Chamberlain’s single-game All-Star scoring record.
“For me to be here just being
back as an All-Star was special.
But to be able to put on a show and
have fun and enjoy this moment,
get back to playing how I play
pre-injury is special,” George
said. “I’ve just been blessed. I’m
very thankful and very grateful.”
Oklahoma City guard Russell
Westbrook won the MVP award
with 31 points in the victory, but it
was George who stood out above
all of the game’s best players,
just like he did before his right
leg awkwardly hit the basketball
stanchion in that USA scrimmage, bringing tears to his teammates’ eyes.
“I had a hard-fought summer,
hard-fought rehab year,” George
said. “It was just a very upward
climb. It took every day and really every moment of rehab to
get through it. There were a lot of
days where I felt like I was down
and out, but just stayed with it.”
Thanks to George’s emergence
as one of the NBA’s young stars,
the Pacers had climbed up the
Eastern Conference ladder to
assert themselves as legitimate
challengers. George had a great
chance to be in Team USA’s plans
for the London Games, but his
leg snapped grotesquely and had
manywondering if he would ever
play again.
He missed all but six games last
season, but his ability to return
even for the end of the season was
a shock in and of itself. Playing in
those games gave him a chance to
get a little bit of confidence back,
to believe that returning to basketball’s highest level was possible, and he took off like a rocket
at the start of this season.
While he was injured, George
worked on two of his game’s
weaknesses — ball-handling and
perimeter shooting. He returned
this season a more well-rounded
player and averaged 29.5 points,
8.2 rebounds and 4.3 assists in the
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AP
first month of the season. Those
numbers have dipped expectedly
as the season has worn on, but
George has his swagger back.
“He’s back,” Pelicans star Anthony Davis said. “The way he
shoots the ball, the way he attacks
the rim, his game is very unique.
Basically he was showing guys tonight that he’s back to rare form.”
On a night where all eyes started on Lakers star Kobe Bryant in
his 18th and final All-Star Game,
they couldn’t help but drift on to
George as the shots kept falling
and the ball kept finding him.
Both teams broke the previous
record for points in a game, with
the West eclipsing the previous
mark with eight minutes to go
in the fourth quarter. Defense
wasn’t an afterthought, it was
never even considered — except
in the final 30 seconds.
Sitting on 41 points, George
had the ball on the right wing,
needing one bucket to surpass
Chamberlain’s mark set in 1962.
That’s when Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green
got right in George’s face, hounding him all over the court in the
only possession of defense played
the entire game.
“We don’t want any records
like that broken on us,” Green
said with a chuckle. “Just trying
to contest the shot.”
Kobe treated to special dinner
Platini
appeals ban
BY TIM R EYNOLDS
Associated Press
Associated Press
ZURICH — Suspended UEFA
President Michel Platini walked
into FIFA headquarters on Monday to appeal his eight-year ban
over a $2 million payment approved by Sepp Blatter.
The ex-FIFA presidential hopeful denies wrongdoing and is challenging the sanctions imposed in
December after an ethics committee hearing he refused to attend.
“They were already saying everything in newspapers so it was
not worth going to hear what was
already in the papers,” Platini said
of his previous strategy. “Now it’s
the appeals commission, so we’ll
see what happens, but maybe it’s
not over.”
FIFA’s ethics committee found
Platini guilty of accepting gifts,
conflicts of interest and breaching loyalty and general conduct
rules. He was fined $81,000.
Ethics judges said Platini’s law-
C HRIS YOUNG, THE CANADIAN PRESS
The Eastern Conference’s Paul George, of the Indiana Pacers, scores on the Western Conference’s
defense Sunday in Toronto. George scored 41 points to lead all players in the West’s 196-173 win.
WALTER BIERI, K EYSTONE /AP
Suspended UEFA President
Michel Platini smiles as he
arrives at FIFA headquarters in
Zurich, Switzerland, on Monday.
yers’ argument was “not convincing” that a verbal contract entitled
him to get uncontracted salary in
2011 for work as Blatter’s presidential adviser from 1999-2002.
The FIFA appeals committee,
which rarely overturns rulings,
could give its verdict this week.
Blatter’s appeal of his eightyear ban is to be heard Tuesday,
10 days before the FIFA election
congress he hopes to attend to see
his successor chosen.
TORONTO — The moment
Kobe Bryant will savor most
from his final All-Star weekend
was one the world never saw.
There were plenty of highlights
to cherish, actually. The way his
daughters beamed when they got
to meet and take a picture with
Stephen Curry after the game. A
conversation with Michael Jordan. Getting sought out by Magic
Johnson for a talk about legacy.
Private chats with teammates
in the locker room, which he enjoyed tremendously.
But the quintessential one to
Bryant came in the wee hours of
Sunday morning inside a rentedout restaurant, where he was the
guest of honor at a celebration arranged by Chris Paul, Carmelo
Anthony and Dwyane Wade.
Bryant was publicly serenaded
all weekend, and having 20,000
fans chant his name left him
beaming. Having three longtime
rivals quietly pay tribute meant
even more.
“It was really special,” Bryant
told The Associated Press on Sunday night after scoring 10 points in
his last All-Star appearance, a 196173 win for the West over the East.
“Those are the things you don’t
get a chance to hear when you’re
competing against each other. To
hear those stories now, you have
such a deep sense of appreciation
and such a brotherhood from all
the years of competing against
each other. It just felt good.”
They gave him silly gifts. They
presented him with a giant bottle
of wine, a 1996 vintage in a nod to
his rookie season. And they told
Bryant what he meant to them.
The dinner was secret, superexclusive, invitation-only. It’s
something the trio started doing
last season at All-Star weekend,
calling the gathering the Gentleman’s Supper Club. This year, the
group wanted Bryant to be tied
into it somehow.
So after All-Star Saturday festivities ended, the group headed
out to the party that mattered
most. Dinner was a fish dish, and
it wasn’t served until after 2 a.m.
The wine and spirits were flowing long before that.
But to those who were there, it
was most memorable.
“Respect,” Wade said. “That’s
what it was. It was about respect,
ours for him and the respect he’s
given us. I just wanted to tell
him that his respect meant a lot,
means a lot, to my career. I went
down a list of moments, gave people insight on Kobe and the way
he thinks. It was just appreciation, man. His drive, his competitiveness, it helped me early in my
career because I wanted to be on
his level.”
Bryant hasn’t always had the
tightest relationships with NBA
peers. He’s never been the sort
that needs tons of friends, and
his competitive juices sometimes
kept him from allowing himself
to get close with too many people.
“This is amazing,” Bryant said
at the restaurant, glass in hand.
“I’m not the most social person,
so to get this from you guys means
absolutely everything to me.”
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NBA
Scoreboard
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
W
L
35
17
32 23
23
32
14 40
8 45
Southeast Division
Atlanta
31
24
Miami
29
24
Charlotte
27
26
Washington
23
28
Orlando
23 29
Central Division
Cleveland
38
14
Indiana
28 25
Chicago
27 25
Detroit
27
27
Milwaukee
22
32
Toronto
Boston
New York
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Pct
.673
.582
.418
.259
.151
GB
—
4½
13½
22
27½
.564
.547
.509
.451
.442
—
1
3
6
6½
.731
.528
.519
.500
.407
—
10½
11
12
17
Western Conference
Southwest Division
W
L Pct
San Antonio
45
8 .849
Memphis
31
22 .585
Dallas
29
26 .527
Houston
27
28 .491
New Orleans
20
33 .377
Northwest Division
Oklahoma City
40
14 .741
Portland
27
27 .500
Utah
26
26 .500
Denver
22
32 .407
Minnesota
17
37 .315
Pacific Division
Golden State
48
4 .923
L.A. Clippers
35
18 .660
Sacramento
22
31 .415
Phoenix
14 40 .259
L.A. Lakers
11 44 .200
Sunday’s game
All-Star Game: West 196, East 173
Monday’s games
No games scheduled
Tuesday’s games
No games scheduled
Wednesday’s games
No games scheduled
Thursday’s games
Utah at Washington
Chicago at Cleveland
San Antonio at L.A. Clippers
Friday’s games
Dallas at Orlando
Detroit at Washington
New York at Brooklyn
Miami at Atlanta
Toronto at Chicago
Minnesota at Memphis
Philadelphia at New Orleans
Indiana at Oklahoma City
Houston at Phoenix
Golden State at Portland
Denver at Sacramento
Boston at Utah
San Antonio at L.A. Lakers
GB
—
14
17
19
25
—
13
13
18
23
—
13½
26½
35
38½
Sunday
All-Star Game
West 196, East 173
WEST ALL-STARS — Bryant 4-11 1-2 10,
Leonard 8-15 0-0 17, Durant 11-18 0-0 23,
Westbrook 12-23 0-0 31, Curry 10-18 0-0
26, Thompson 3-11 0-0 9, Harden 8-14 0-0
23, Davis 12-13 0-0 24, Paul 5-7 0-0 14, Aldridge 2-8 0-0 4, Green 2-6 0-0 4, Cousins
5-5 0-0 11. Totals 82-149 1-2 196.
EAST ALL-STARS — James 6-13 0-0 13,
George 16-26 0-0 41, Anthony 6-11 0-0 13,
Lowry 5-13 0-0 14, Wade 4-7 0-0 8, DeRozan 9-15 0-1 18, Wall 10-14 0-0 22, Millsap
1-6 0-0 3, Thomas 4-11 0-0 9, Gasol 3-7 3-4
9, Drummond 8-11 0-0 16, Horford 3-3 0-0
7. Totals 75-137 3-5 173.
West All-Stars
40 52 53 51—196
East All-Stars
43 47 46 37—173
Three-point goals—West All-Stars 3180 (Harden 7-12, Westbrook 7-17, Curry 613, Paul 4-6, Thompson 3-10, Cousins 1-1,
Bryant 1-5, Leonard 1-6, Durant 1-8, Green
0-1, Aldridge 0-1), East All-Stars 20-59
(George 9-19, Lowry 4-12, Wall 2-4, Horford 1-1, Millsap 1-2, Thomas 1-5, Anthony 1-5, James 1-5, Drummond 0-1, Wade
0-1, Gasol 0-1, DeRozan 0-3). Rebounds—
West All-Stars 65 (Westbrook 8), East AllStars 67 (Drummond 13). Assists—West
All-Stars 51 (Paul 16), East All-Stars 34
(Lowry 10). Total Fouls—West All-Stars 8,
East All-Stars 8. A—18,298 (19,800).
All-Star MVPs
2016 — Russell Westbrook, Oklahoma
City
2015 — Russell Westbrook, Oklahoma
City
2014 — Kyrie Irving, Cleveland
2013 — Chris Paul, LA Clippers
2012 — Kevin Durant, Oklahoma City
2011 — Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers
2010 — Dwyane Wade, Miami
2009 — Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers; and
Shaquille O’Neal, Phoenix
2008 — LeBron James, Cleveland
2007 — Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers
2006 — LeBron James, Cleveland
2005 — Allen Iverson, Philadelphia
2004 — Shaquille O’Neal, LA Lakers
2003 — Kevin Garnett, Minnesota
2002 — Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers
2001 — Allen Iverson, Philadelphia
2000 — Tim Duncan, San Antonio; and
Shaquille O’Neal, LA Lakers
1999 — No game.
1998 — Michael Jordan, Chicago
1997 — Glen Rice, Charlotte
1996 — Michael Jordan, Chicago
1995 — Mitch Richmond, Sacramento
1994 — Scottie Pippen, Chicago
1993 — Karl Malone and John Stockton, Utah
1992 — Magic Johnson, LA Lakers
1991 — Charles Barkley, Philadelphia
1990 — Magic Johnson, LA Lakers
Bryant leaves as All-Star winner
Kobe bids farewell in highest-scoring game ever; Westbrook named MVP
BY BRIAN M AHONEY
Associated Press
TORONTO — Kobe Bryant
exited the All-Star Game for the
final time to watch Russell Westbrook and Stephen Curry wrap
things up with three-pointers.
Bryant’s gone, and these young
guys are good.
Bryant said his All-Star Game
goodbye and the next generation
of the West’s best sent him off a
winner, rolling to a record-setting 196-173 victory over the East
on Sunday night.
“It was fun,” Bryant said. “I
had a blast playing with those
guys, laughing and joking with
them on the bench.”
The first All-Star Game outside
the U.S. was the highest-scoring
ever. Bryant didn’t provide much
of the offense but many of the
memories.
“To see him now, it’s like the
passing of a generation,” West
coach Gregg Popovich said. “He’s
been such an iconic figure for so
long, and he passes it on to that
other group of young guys that
you saw out there tonight.”
Bryant finished with 10 points,
so few that he lost his career lead
in All-Star scoring to LeBron
James.
But Westbrook scored 31 points
in his second straight All-Star
MVP performance and Curry
added 26 — the final three on a
42-footer. Anthony Davis had 24
on 12-for-13 shooting and Kevin
Durant chipped in 23.
Paul George finished with 41 for
the East, tying Westbrook’s total
from last year in New York that
was one off Wilt Chamberlain’s record. John Wall added 22 points.
James finished with 13 points,
just enough to move ahead of Bryant for most ever in the All-Star
Game. James has 291, while Bryant, who is retiring after this season, leaves with 290.
He checked out with 1:06 left to
cheers and hugs from his fellow
All-Stars who now put up points
in bunches the way Bryant did for
so long.
Bryant had seven assists and
six rebounds, but shot 4-for-11 in
a game where there isn’t really
much defense and had never been
less. The 369 combined points
were 48 more than last year’s record, and both clubs blew away
the previous individual team record of 163.
But people just wanted to see
Bryant play, not necessarily play
well.
“We all at one point in our life
wanted to be Kobe in our driveways somewhere,” the East’s
Dwyane Wade said. “We watched
him growing up and we wanted to
pay respect to him.”
The pregame was a celebration
first of Canada, then of Bryant.
A video message from Dr.
James Naismith, the Canadian
who invented basketball in the
early 1890s, was followed by
player introductions by two-time
M ARK BLINCH, THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP
The Western Conference’s Kobe Bryant, of the Los Angeles Lakers, waves to the crowd as he leaves the
All-Star Game during second half Sunday in Toronto. It was Bryant’s final All-Star Game before retiring.
NBA MVP Steve Nash and Grammy winner Drake. Canadian
Nelly Furtado sang her country’s
national anthem.
Then it was time for two video
tributes for Bryant, whose 18 AllStar selections are second only to
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Bryant
thanked his millions of fans as
the other All-Stars lined up in the
background to salute him.
“I know it’s been overwhelming for him over this year, but our
fans across the world and here in
the States and here in Toronto,
as well, has just been paying so
much respect,” James said. “It’s
all well-deserved.”
Toronto hosted the very first
NBA game on Nov. 1, 1946. Neither Naismith nor anyone who
saw that game would recognize
the way it looked Sunday.
Curry and Durant launched
shots from spots where only
buzzer-beating heaves were once
attempted, and Westbrook put
together another combination of
speed and force that turned it into
a rare All-Star blowout in the second half.
The West has won five of the
last six even without longtime
mainstay Bryant, who hadn’t
played since 2013 because of injuries. But players like Westbrook,
Durant and Curry are more than
ready to shoulder the load.
At 37, Bryant has trouble
keeping up with the youngsters
— especially the real young ones.
Chris Paul’s son stole the ball
from him as Bryant warmed up
for the second half.
But he was the star without
playing a starring a role. He had
said he didn’t want players forcing
him the ball in an effort to make
him the MVP — he’s already got
four of them in this game — but
he was never far from the center
of attention.
The West led 92-90 at the break,
both teams surpassing the previous record of 89 points in a half.
The game goes back to the U.S.
next year, and for the first time
since 1997 won’t have Bryant. He
made his All-Star debut in New
York in 1998, a game also remembered for Michael Jordan’s last
with the Chicago Bulls.
Jordan, now chairman of the
Hornets, was on hand Sunday for
a ceremonial passing of the AllStar torch from Toronto to Charlotte, the 2017 host.
Paul finished with 14 points
and 16 assists and is the leader in
All-Star assists per game. DeMar
DeRozan scored 18 points for
the East and Kyle Lowry had 14
points and 10 assists as both Raptors played well in front of their
home crowd.
“I think everybody got the feel
of the energy that we witness
every single night when we play
as Raptors players,” DeRozan
said. “I think all the guys really
got insight on how in tune the city
of Toronto and all of Canada is to
basketball.”
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is
on
Rookie Elliott becomes
youngest to land top
spot in Daytona 500
BY DAN GELSTON
Associated Press
At top, Chase Elliott
crosses the finish line to
qualify for the pole position in
the NASCAR Daytona 500 on
Sunday in Daytona Beach, Fla.
Elliott, left, is the youngest driver
to ever win pole position in
NASCAR’s premier race.
PHOTOS
BY
JOHN R AOUX /AP
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.
hase Elliott was too young to really remember celebrating in victory lane with his father, dressed in a shirt that
matched Bill Elliott’s firesuit and a little finger pointed
toward the sky because daddy was No. 1.
But here’s a father-son snapshot Chase can savor forever: “Awesome Bill” waiting with a big embrace Sunday at Daytona International Speedway for the son who proved he’s capable of following
in some Hall of Fame footsteps.
Elliott kept the No. 24 Chevrolet on the pole for the second
straight Daytona 500, with the rookie becoming the youngest driver to land the top spot in NASCAR’s biggest race.
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