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VIDEOS WITHHELD, CLIMATE REPORT

LEADING SUSPECTS FULL OF WARNINGS
TO ACCEPT PRISON AWAITS PRESIDENT
FEUD OVER EVIDENCE LAW FEARS OF SUPPRESSION

Critics in New York Aim Study, Pointing to Effects

to Overhaul Rules on Today’s U.S., Faces
Tied to Plea Deals an Unclear Fate

By BETH SCHWARTZAPFEL By LISA FRIEDMAN

In September 2013, a fight broke WASHINGTON — The average
out on the sidewalk outside the temperature in the United States
Bronx nightclub where Aaron Ce- has risen rapidly and drastically
dres worked as a bouncer. It was a since 1980, and recent decades
confusing scrum of about a dozen have been the warmest of the past
people, and one man suffered a 1,500 years, according to a sweep-
broken jaw and deep slashes to his ing federal climate change report
head and back. awaiting approval by the Trump
A month later, Mr. Cedres — administration.
then a 25-year-old father with no The draft report by scientists
criminal record — was charged from 13 federal agencies, which
with gang assault, which carried has not yet been made public, con-
the prospect of 25 years in prison. cludes that Americans are feeling
Cameras had been posted outside the effects of climate change right
the club, and the prosecutor said now. It directly contradicts claims
BENJAMIN NORMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
the tapes looked bad for Mr. Ce- by President Trump and mem-
dres, his lawyer recalled. The morning rush on the Lexington Avenue line at Grand Central Station. As delays compound, dozens of trains are canceled. bers of his cabinet who say that
Mr. Cedres was offered a plea the human contribution to climate
deal: five years behind bars. He change is uncertain, and that the
insisted that he had thrown one ability to predict the effects is lim-
punch to help break up two men,
and he urged his lawyer to get the
Packed Trains Trump’s Man in the C.I.A. Adds a Political Tone ited.
“Evidence for a changing cli-
footage.
But Mr. Cedres was up against
entrenched legal practices. New
Create Cascade investigation into it as a witch far afield of national security, such
hunt.
By MATTHEW ROSENBERG as health care. And he brings to
mate abounds, from the top of the
atmosphere to the depths of the
oceans,” a draft of the report
York is one of 10 states where pros-
ecutors can wait until just before
Of Peak Delays der the hot glare of stage lights, ance the political demands of the congressman first elected in the
ASPEN, Colo. — Sweating un-
All C.I.A. directors must bal- the table the views of a former states. A copy of it was obtained
by The New York Times.
trial to turn over witness names president they serve with the Tea Party wave of 2010 who staked The authors note that thou-
Mike Pompeo, the director of the agency’s avowedly apolitical idea out ground on the far right of the
and statements and other key evi- Central Intelligence Agency, had sands of studies, conducted by
dence known as discovery, which This article is by Ford Fessenden, of itself. Yet Republican Party. tens of thousands of scientists,
reached the limits of his patience rarely has a di- While in Congress, Mr. Pompeo
backs up criminal charges. It is a Emma G. Fitzsimmons, K.K. Re- have documented climate
with questions about Russian in- rector had to argued for domestic surveillance
strategic advantage that critics becca Lai and Adam Pearce. changes on land and in the air.
terference in the presidential elec- straddle so on a wide scale, insisted that wa-
call unfair and unnecessary. The nation’s most crowded sub- “Many lines of evidence demon-
tion. wide a breach terboarding was not torture and
Some discovery — such as vid- way line is jammed every morn- strate that human activities, espe-
eo footage — is supposed to be “Just look,” he snapped during as has Mr. Pom- dismissed a hunger strike by de-
ing with a crush of people waiting cially emissions of greenhouse
turned over on request, but de- the rare public appearance last peo, perhaps tainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba,
to board trains. Angry riders often (heat-trapping) gases, are pri-
fense attorneys complain that the month at the Aspen Security For- the most openly as a “political stunt.” He said he marily responsible for recent ob-
have to let a train or two pass be- um. “This is the 19th time you all political spy believed Hillary Clinton had en-
requests are often countered, de- fore they can wedge themselves served climate change,” they
layed or ignored. They say the re- have asked.” chief in a gener- gaged in covering up the 2012 at-
inside. wrote.
strictive discovery rules put peo- It was, in fact, only the fourth ation — and one tacks on the American diplomatic The report was completed this
ple like Mr. Cedres into a high-
It turns out that the route — the question about Russia that of President Mike Pompeo compound in Benghazi, Libya,
Lexington Avenue line in New year and is a special science sec-
stakes dilemma: Plead guilty evening. But Mr. Pompeo could be Trump’s favor- even after a Republican-led House
York City — is regularly failing to tion of the National Climate As-
without seeing all the evidence, or excused for snapping: He runs an ite cabinet members. inquiry found no new evidence to sessment, which is congressional-
risk a trial that could end in a pris- meet its train schedule, especially agency that is certain Russia med- Unlike past directors, who typi- support the claim. Like almost all
during rush hour, leading to doz- ly mandated every four years. The
on sentence much longer than dled in the election, yet serves a cally sought to avoid policy dis- congressional Republicans, he op- National Academy of Sciences has
what they might get under a plea. ens of trains being canceled every cussions, Mr. Pompeo readily posed the Iran nuclear deal nego-
president who has dismissed the signed off on the draft report, and
Most take the deal. According to day and reducing the system’s ca- joins in when the president asks tiated by the Obama administra-
talk of Russian interference as the authors are awaiting permis-
the State Division of Criminal Jus- pacity by tens of thousands of rid- for his opinion, even on matters
“fake news” and denounced the Continued on Page A14 sion from the Trump administra-
tice Services, more than 98 per- ers, according to an analysis by
tion to release it.
cent of felony arrests that end in The New York Times.
One government scientist who
convictions occur through a guilty On the Lexington Avenue line,
worked on the report, Katharine
plea, not a trial, a slightly higher which carries the No. 4, 5 and 6 Hayhoe, a professor of political
number than national figures. trains, just 77 of 90 scheduled science at Texas Tech University,
For decades, legislation to re- trains routinely run through the called the conclusions among “the
quire prosecutors to turn over evi- busy Grand Central Station stop most comprehensive climate sci-
dence earlier has run into stiff op- from 8 to 9 a.m. The rest, 14 per- ence reports” to be published. An-
position from New York’s district cent of trains, are effectively can- other scientist involved in the
attorneys, who present a powerful celed, at a time when the system process, who spoke to The New
counterargument: the safety of needs them most. York Times on the condition of an-
witnesses. More than a dozen Again in the evening, from 5 to 6 onymity, said he and others were
such bills have failed in the past p.m., only 76 of 88 scheduled concerned that it would be sup-
quarter-century. trains stop at the station, on aver- pressed.
Now, the politics show signs of age. Each canceled train accounts The White House and the Envi-
Continued on Page A19 Continued on Page A20 ronmental Protection Agency did
not immediately return calls or re-
spond to emails requesting com-
ment on Monday night.

Sanctions Enrage North Korea, The report concludes that even

if humans immediately stopped
emitting greenhouse gases into
But Their Sting Is Uncertain the atmosphere, the world would
still feel at least an additional 0.50
degrees Fahrenheit (0.30 degrees
Celsius) of warming over this cen-
By JANE PERLEZ and RICK GLADSTONE tury compared with today. The
The Trump administration has rea’s nuclear militarization or projected actual rise, scientists
hailed the latest United Nations even crimp its economy. say, will be as much as 2 degrees
sanctions against nuclear-armed Celsius.
The sanctions are aimed at
North Korea as the most severe A small difference in global tem-
pressuring North Korea into ne-
yet, and the North’s fury over the TOMAS MUNITA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES peratures can make a big differ-
gotiating, with the goal of re-
penalties sug- ence in the climate: The differ-
gested they
nouncing its nuclear weapons.
But Kim Jong-un, the North’s
Mastering Their Trades, Medieval Style ence between a rise in global tem-
carried some leader, has repeatedly said that Wandergesellen, or journeymen, at an initiation ceremony in Göppingen, Germany. Page A6. Continued on Page A17
sting. the country’s nuclear capabilities
In a staccato are crucial to its self-defense.
of outraged re- North Korea’s foreign minister,
actions on Mon-
day to the sanc-
tions imposed
Ri Yong-ho, reinforced that point,
denouncing the new sanctions on
Car Insurance Again Trips Up Wells Fargo, as U.S. Scrutiny Grows
Monday in Manila at a regional
over the week- ed collision insurance on con- Francisco, where the bank has its guaranteed asset protection,
ministerial meeting that was also
end, North Ko- By GRETCHEN MORGENSON sumers who financed their car headquarters, involves a differ- makes up that difference for a
Kim Jong-un rea threatened attended by Secretary of State
purchases. That practice, first dis- ent, specialized type of insurance lender if, for instance, a car is stol-
Rex W. Tillerson. Wells Fargo, the scandal-
retaliation closed by The New York Times, af- that is sold to consumers when en before the loan is paid off. Reg-
against the United States “thou- “We will, under no circum- plagued bank, is facing new regu- fected 800,000 customers accord- they buy a car. Called guaranteed
stances, put the nukes and ballis- ular car insurance typically cov-
sands of times” over, vowed to latory scrutiny for not refunding ing to an analysis commissioned auto protection insurance, or GAP,
tic rockets on the negotiating ta- ers only the current market value.
never give up its nuclear arsenal insurance money owed to people by the bank. Some 274,000 people it is intended to protect a lender
ble,” Mr. Ri said in a statement. Because Wells Fargo is a large
and called the penalties a panicky who paid off their car loans early, were pushed into delinquency as a against the fact that a car — the
“Neither shall we flinch even an auto lender, tens of thousands of
response by an American bully. according to people briefed on the result, and 25,000 cars were collateral for its loan — loses sig-
inch from the road to bolstering up customers may have been af-
But it is unclear at best, experts inquiry. wrongly repossessed. nificant value the moment it is
the nuclear forces chosen by our- fected by the bank’s actions on
on sanctions say, whether the Just last month Wells Fargo The latest inquiry, by officials at driven off the lot.
measures will hinder North Ko- Continued on Page A8 was found to have forced unneed- the Federal Reserve Bank of San GAP insurance, also known as Continued on Page A11

BUSINESS DAY B1-8 ARTS C1-7

Trump’s Trade Agenda Stalls Struggling to Act

Workers and industry groups say they Student debts are crushing the career
aren’t tired of winning, as the president dreams of graduates of the American
promised. They are tired of waiting for Repertory Theater Institute. PAGE C1
action. PAGE B1

SPORTSTUESDAY B9-13
INTERNATIONAL A4-9 Proof of Age Bias Is Elusive NATIONAL A10-17 SCIENCE TIMES D1-8
Many workers who feel targeted for Baseball Mourns Two Ex-Stars
Obama Urges Calm in Kenya layoffs because of their age find federal
Chicago Takes On Justice Dept. A High-Intensity Fight
Don Baylor, the 1979 American League
The ex-president weighed in on political law is often of little help. PAGE B1 Mayor Rahm Emanuel is suing over the most valuable player and later a re- Should forest fires be allowed to burn?
tensions before Tuesday’s presidential president’s threat to cut off grants to spected manager, died at 68. Darren A debate is intensifying over whether
vote in his father’s homeland. PAGE A4 so-called sanctuary cities. PAGE A11
Daulton, a leader of the pennant- too much money and too many lives are
NEW YORK A18-21 lost fighting forest fires. PAGE D1
winning 1993 Phillies, was 55. PAGE B13
Learning to ‘Redefine Hope’ Mayor’s Tax Push Hits Cuomo Saving a Julia Child Home
Charlie Gard’s death reminded parents Unveiling his plan to tax the rich for The chef’s former Washington home is EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23
of incurably ill children of their own
struggles over when to let go. PAGE A7
better subways, Bill de Blasio refocused
attention on the governor. PAGE A18
in disrepair, but the new owner plans to
finish renovations next year. PAGE A10 David Leonhardt PAGE A23
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A Times journalist reported on a home in Washington that was once owned by Julia Child.

OYSTER perpetual

explorer A Kitchen With a Hallowed Past

By NOAH WEILAND me. What a relief.
These days, most mental calories in The When he took me down to the kitchen for
Times’s Washington bureau are spent the first time — Julia’s kitchen! — it was
thinking about the consequences of Presi- underwhelming. Tiling was missing (Mr. VIDEO
dent Trump’s every move, on this town and Veevers-Carter said guests at open houses In the latest case involving af-
around the world. As a news assistant for stole them), and the appliances looked firmative action, the Justice De-
the past year, I’ve had the privilege of decades old. The kitchen is in a dark corner partment will investigate possible
absorbing all of this activity around me, of the bottom floor, removed from the natu- discrimination against Asian-
when seemingly every day brings fresh ral light that bathes most of the home. Americans in college admissions.
drama. Yet this made the scene even more inter- Watch a history of affirmative
So outside of work, I do my best to feel as esting to me. It was a project: the perfect action, from President Kennedy to
if I’m really living in the city I live in, away opposite of La Pitchoune, Mrs. Child’s the present day: nytimes.com/
from Political Washington. I walk as much celebrated kitchen in Provence, France. video.
as I can, discovering the quirks of neigh- Her famous kitchen in Cambridge, Mass.,
borhoods that might already feel well with a stove original to her Olive Street
known. I read as many local publications as home in Georgetown, is now preserved just
I can, tracking restaurant openings and a few miles away in the Smithsonian’s
concerts, new museum exhibitions and National Museum of American History.
Nationals games. This feels like a basic As I delved into the history of the house
responsibility of living in a place as cultur- — at the Georgetown Neighborhood Li-
ally rich as D.C., where I’ve been for three brary and through interviews with former
years now. Occasionally I come across residents of the home and longtime neigh-
things that I think might make for a nice bors, among others — I started to feel that
story. it was a meeting of my own interests in INTERACTIVE GRAPHIC
It was through a local news listing in 2015 food and interior design, nurtured in a What music do Americans love
that I found out about the sale of a now- home in which my mother was just as the most? See 50 detailed maps,
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Child had once owned, which I wrote about ilies as Mrs. Child was. custom playlist based on your
for an article found on Page A10. It had so I also got to explore the processes in- area’s favorite artists at
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rolex oyster perpetual and explorer that had fallen into disrepair; ornery neigh- tion, both of which are taken quite seriously
are ® trademarks.
bors in a very self-conscious, very famous in Georgetown. I talked to local commis-
part of town who weren’t happy with an sioners who had dedicated their lives to
eyesore across the street; and a new owner this kind of upkeep. They were just as
who wanted to have his part of Washington curious as I was about how “The Julia
lore. Child House” was doing. The idea of “his-
And man, was it ugly. It was slanted — a torical character” became less of a cliché to
little bit of Pisa in Georgetown — and me, seeing what this kind of work meant to
painted yellow. I contacted the owner, Rory Washington residents.
Veevers-Carter, who couldn’t have been My favorite part of the house is the door
more welcoming. He happened to think it LIVE
knocker. It’s a trivet Mrs. Child once used
was pretty ugly, too. He was drawn in by in the kitchen, where in the 1950s she Join Brie Larson, Naomi Watts
the possibilities. In between other assign- taught classes and tested recipes for “Mas- and the New York Times best-
ments, I ended up visiting almost a half- tering the Art of French Cooking.” She selling author Jeannette Walls for
dozen times over about six months, from would apparently check on the trivet with a conversation about their coming
last fall through this summer. I familiarized old neighbors when she came back to film, “The Glass Castle.” Watch
myself with the creaky floorboards and a Washington after leaving at the end of the live at 7 p.m. on Tuesday at
spiral staircase that didn’t appear quite decade. Now, it’s covered in mold. The last timestalks.com.
sturdy enough. As we walked downstairs, thing I said to Mr. Veevers-Carter the last
the wooden planks wobbling, I asked Mr. time I saw him: He should still probably
Veevers-Carter if this was all up to code. It bolt it to his front door once today’s paper
was as of a few decades ago, he assured comes out. Contact the Newsroom
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NOTEWORTHY FACTS FROM TODAY’S PAPER

One of the first modern The mathematics section of the

presidents to wrestle publicly with National Academy of Sciences lists
a lie was Dwight D. Eisenhower 104 members. Just four are women.
in May 1960, when an American The Universe in Motion D1
U-2 spy plane was shot down •
while in Soviet airspace. The Betty Cuthbert, who became the
Eisenhower administration claimed first Australian to win three Olympic
it was a weather aircraft. gold medals at the 1956 Melbourne
Many Politicians Lie. But Trump Has Games, originally purchased tickets
Elevated the Art of Fabrication. A16
to those Olympics as a spectator,
• doubting she would make the
The Transportation Department Australian team.
has estimated that airlines collected JASON POLAN
Betty Cuthbert, 79, Sprinter With 3 Golds
more than $4.1 billion last year in Delta has 25 meteorologists on At ’56 Olympics, Dies B14
baggage fees. staff who create weather forecasts. •
Secrecy and Suspicion Surround
Summer Storms’ Domino Effect on Air Travel B4 Macau, a former Portuguese
Administration’s Deregulation Teams A14
• enclave on China’s southern coast
• that returned to Chinese control in
Age discrimination accounts
An estimated 5 percent of adults 1999, is the only part of China
for nearly a quarter of the overall
in the United States have a food where casino gambling is legal.
complaints filed with the Equal
allergy, compared with about 8 Trump Company Moves to Protect Its Trademark
Employment Opportunity
percent of children. In Chinese Gambling Hub A16
Commission.
Ask Well D6
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1. Mysterious Sea Creatures in Australia On Monday’s episode of The Times’s newest podcast, The
Chew Up Teenager’s Legs New Washington, the hosts Michael Barbaro and Carl Hulse
The ankles of Sam Kanizay, 16, became lunch for hungry sea discussed the mission of Lamar Alexander, the folksy Repub- 800 843 3269 | TIFFANY.COM

lice when he spent a half-hour over the weekend soaking his lican senator from Tennessee leading a new charge to fix the
legs at Dendy Street Beach in Brighton, Australia. Mr. Affordable Care Act through a bipartisan approach. An edited
Kanizay was treated at a hospital, and both doctors and scien- and condensed excerpt from their conversation follows.
tists were baffled by the severity of his injury. “I am terrified
of this whole situation,” one commenter wrote on Facebook, a Michael Barbaro Alexander explains what he’s up to
sentiment echoed by many others. The article was Monday’s now by saying that working together in a bipartisan
most read. A7 way is how the most important and enduring things get
done in Washington. And that’s a nice thought. But it
2. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7, Episode 4:
seemed to me a little bit like a contradiction. Isn’t that a
Daenerys Soars, Starks Endure
very different message than the one we’re hearing from
As usual, Jeremy Egner’s recap of Sunday’s episode of the Republicans like Alexander even a couple of weeks ago?
HBO drama topped the culture desk’s most read list.

3. Europe Swelters Under a Heat Wave Called ‘Lucifer’

This article was a popular read throughout Europe, including Carl Hulse Both sides will say this: The only way you do
in Italy, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands. A number of big legislation that lasts is for both sides to do it. We’re
Twitter users zeroed in on a parenthetical aside about Ital- seeing it right now — if just one side does it, then when
ians’ extreme aversion to air-conditioning, requesting more the other side comes to power, they immediately try
information on this quirk of national character. to undo it. What he’s saying is that in the history of the
Congress, if you’re going to do these big things, there
has to be buy-in from both sides. One, so they both
support it, and two, so they both own it.

Michael Barbaro But like you asked him, why not just
start with the bipartisan fix? Why go through all of the
machinations of partisan warfare first?

Carl Hulse Eh, politics, you know? The Republicans

have used this as a weapon for years, and their first
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effort out of the box wasn’t going to be, “We’ll repair
4. Take the Generic, Patients Are Told. this.” I agree, that probably would’ve been the best way
Until They Are Not. to do it, but that wasn’t the way it was done — because
The Times’s latest collaboration with ProPublica, an investi- they’ve been at war over this thing. This, to me, is one
gation into the growing practice among insurance companies of the first attempts to sort of get past that conflict.
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MICHAEL V. HAYDEN, a former director of both the C.I.A. and the National Security Agency, on the
ability of Mike Pompeo, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to communicate in a style in
which President Trump is comfortable.

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BY JOEL FAGLIANO A RECIPE FOR SIMPLE CRUSTY BREAD

1 2 3 Jeff Hertzberg, a physician from Minneapolis, devised this streamlined technique for a
crusty loaf of bread. Mix flour, salt, yeast and water. Let it sit a bit, refrigerate it, take
some out and let it rise, then bake it. The crusty, full-flavored loaf that results may be the
4 5
world’s easiest yeast bread. NICK FOX

6
YIELD: 4 LOAVES

1 ½ tablespoons yeast
7
1 ½ tablespoons kosher salt
6 ½ cups unbleached, all-purpose flour,
8 more for dusting dough
Cornmeal
8/8/2017 EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ
1. In a large bowl or plastic container, mix
ACROSS yeast and salt into 3 cups lukewarm water
1 Color of Michael Jackson’s (about 100 degrees). Stir in flour, mixing until
“Thriller” jacket there are no dry patches. Dough will be quite ANDREW SCRIVANI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

4 Actor’s place loose. Cover, but not with an airtight lid. Let
6 Crime often done for the 3. Place broiler pan on bottom of oven. Place
dough rise at room temperature 2 hours (or up
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South African Leader Faces

Sixth No-Confidence Vote
By KIMON de GREEF A.N.C.
CAPE TOWN — Over his eight in- The party’s chief whip in Parliament,
creasingly embattled years in power, Jackson Mthembu, said on Friday that
President Jacob Zuma of South Africa voting against Mr. Zuma would be “tan-
has fended off five parliamentary no- tamount to throwing a nuclear bomb” at
confidence motions that would have South Africa, and that only a “be-
forced him from office. On Tuesday, he is witched” party would vote against its
to face another, with a difference: Law- own president.
makers will vote anonymously. After Ms. Mbete’s ruling on Monday, a
The speaker of Parliament, Baleka national spokesman for the A.N.C., Zizi
Mbete, announced late on Monday after- Kodwa, said on Twitter that the party had
noon that a vote of no confidence would “full confidence” that its members would
take place by secret ballot, following a re- vote to keep Mr. Zuma. And several small
quest from a coalition of opposition par- opposition parties, including the Com-
ties. munists, said they would vote against
the measure.
More than 60 of the 249 lawmakers
from Mr. Zuma’s party, the African Na- Mr. Zuma has survived three no-confi-
tional Congress, would have to rebel for dence votes in Parliament. Another was
amended into a vote of confidence, and
the motion to pass — something analysts
then passed; yet another was with-
still deem unlikely. But he may find it
drawn. He has also withstood an at-
harder to contain a bitter factional strug-
tempted impeachment motion, in 2016,
gle within the A.N.C., which has domi-
and twice defeated votes challenging
nated South African politics since the
him as the party’s leader.
Leaked emails released in May, sug-
gesting collusion between the Gupta
A difference this time: family — which owns large companies in GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES

the technology, media and mining sec- South Africa’s Parliament speaker, Baleka Mbete, left, said President Jacob Zuma would face a no-confidence vote.
Lawmakers will cast tors — and senior A.N.C. members, has
built pressure on Mr. Zuma as South Af- elect its next leader. was disbanded by police. “This march is a distraction from the
ballots anonymously. rica’s economy has slid into recession, its “The President’s opponents in the The marchers were addressed outside real issues in South Africa,” said Banzi
first since 2009. A.N.C. — and there are many — have Parliament by Mcebisi Jonas, a former Siwe, 23, a student, who added: “Com-
The family’s relationship with the clearly decided to wait until December to deputy finance minister axed by Mr. pared to what the white people stole be-
presidency has introduced a new port- try and get rid of him,” said a political an- Zuma in a contentious cabinet reshuffle fore, this is nothing.”
end of apartheid in 1994. manteau term into the South African po- alyst, Steven Friedman. “The fight that in March. Two further protests are planned in
Mr. Zuma has come under increasing litical lexicon — “Zupta” — and matters is taking place within the party. The protest, organized by a coalition of Cape Town for Tuesday, one led by oppo-
pressure as evidence of high-level cor- prompted a critical report last year from Until we have millions of people march- more than 20 civil society organizations, sition parties and one in support of Mr.
ruption in his administration has the public protector, a national anti-cor- ing on the streets, instead of merely was a “call for accountability from A.N.C. Zuma by the A.N.C. branch for the West-
mounted, most recently with a trove of ruption figure. thousands, the A.N.C. is going to re- ern Cape metropolitan area. This has
members,” said its organizer Mandisa
leaked emails that appeared to expose Somadoda Fikeni, a political analyst, mained focused on this internal strug- Dyantyi, deputy secretary general of the spurred fears of clashes between rivals.
the extent of links between senior A.N.C. said the no-confidence motion was un- gle.” Social Justice Coalition, which helped or- “The likelihood of this turning into vio-
officials and an influential family, the likely to succeed, even in a secret ballot. Mr. Friedman cautioned in an opinion ganize the protest. “They’re in Parlia- lence is our biggest concern,” said Nom-
Guptas. “The A.N.C. doesn’t want to be seen essay last week that the secret ballot ment to represent the people who elected fundo Mogapi from the Center for the
The motion requires only a simple ma- changing its leadership on the back of could set a damaging precedent. them, not their party,” she said. Study of Violence and Reconciliation, a
jority to pass South Africa’s 400-member pressure from the opposition, even Protesters gathered in Cape Town on Mr. Jonas — who has accused a mem- local think tank.
Parliament. though half the party believes that Mr. Monday afternoon, led by a coalition of ber of the Gupta family of offering him a Khaya Yozi, a spokesman for the
If the motion passed, Mr. Zuma and his Zuma has become a serious political li- civil society and religious leaders called bribe, a claim the family has strongly de- A.N.C. in Cape Town, said that the party’s
entire cabinet, including deputy min- ability,” he said. #UniteBehind. A brief but spirited coun- nied — told the protesters: “We cannot members “would not be provoked” by
isters, would have to step down, with Ms. A more serious challenge to Mr. Zuma terprotest by members of the A.N.C.’s allow our freedom to be sold so cheaply. opposition protesters. “We need to set
Mbete becoming interim president, may come in December, when the A.N.C. Umkhonto We Sizwe Military Veterans We have to fight. We’re gathered here to aside the divisions within our party and
though he would remain president of the is to hold its national conference and Association, numbering some 50 people, shape the future of this country.” protect the A.N.C.”

Obama Urges
Calm in Kenya
As Fears Grow
Over Election
By PETER BAKER
Former President Barack Obama,
emerging from partial seclusion more
than six months after leaving office,
weighed in on Monday about the tense
political situation — not in the United
States, but in his father’s home country,
Kenya.
Mr. Obama, who has largely stayed out
of the fierce debates that have consumed
the United States since President Trump
took over in January, opted to speak out
about the hotly contested presidential
election scheduled for Tuesday in Kenya,
where voting in recent years has been
followed by violence.
“I urge Kenyan leaders to reject vio-
lence and incitement; respect the will of
the people; urge security forces to act
professionally and neutrally; and work
together no matter the outcome,” he said
in a statement. “I urge all Kenyans to
work for an election — and aftermath —
that is peaceful and credible, reinforcing
confidence in your new Constitution and
the future of your country. Any disputes
around the election should be resolved
peacefully, through Kenya’s institutions
and the rule of law.”
Few voices from outside Kenya could
resonate more powerfully than that of
Mr. Obama, whose father, Barack Obama FREDRIK LERNERYD/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
Sr., was a Kenyan student who met and At a bus station in Kisumu, Kenya, on Sunday. In Kisumu and other places, Kenyans are worried about violence after the country’s presidential vote.
married Stanley Ann Dunham in Hawaii
but left about a year after their son was
born. running again, his fourth campaign for sor of international relations at Simmons
As president, Mr. Obama in 2015 made the presidency, and he and Mr. Kenyatta College. “But it provides a basis for judg-
a high-profile visit to Kenya, where he were virtually tied in recent polls. In a ing the success or failure of these elec-
was celebrated as the country’s most fa- country riven by tribal rivalries, Mr. Ken- tions.” The standard set by the president
mous son even as he urged the country to yatta, 55, has the support of many Kiku- and international observers, he added,
fortify its fragile democracy, tackle cor- yus and Kalenjins, while Mr. Odinga, 72, “will have a big impact on how Kenyans
ruption, overcome ethnic divisions and is strong among the Luos, Luhyas and themselves assess the validity of their
protect human rights. Kambas. elections.”
Mr. Obama, whose father was Luo, The former president’s decision to
The campaign that ends on Tuesday
has produced little evidence that Kenya speak out on Kenya’s election was a
has heeded his advice. In recent days, striking departure from his general ap-
the campaign has been marked by a proach since leaving the White House.
break-in at the vice president’s country A luminary with Kenyan He has remained largely out of the issues
estate, the killing and apparent torture of
a senior election official, and reports of
roots says a campaign has in Washington as Mr. Trump seeks to un-
ravel much of his predecessor’s legacy.
plans to rig the vote for President Uhuru had ‘too much incitement.’ Although Mr. Obama has issued written
Kenyatta and stage an armed raid on one statements at critical moments in the de-
of the opposition’s tallying centers. Talk bate over replacing his health care pro-
of “fake news” has flavored the cam- gram, he has for the most part left it to his
paign debate as international observers, urged Kenyans to put those divisions former advisers and other Democrats to
including former Secretary of State John aside. “The choices you make in the com- wage a rear-guard battle on behalf of his
Kerry, seek to ensure a fair vote. ing days can either set Kenya back or programs and policies.
Mr. Obama expressed disappointment DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES bring it together,” he said. “As a friend of “President Obama has a unique stat-
in the campaign so far. “In Kenya’s elec- President Barack Obama with President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya in 2015. the Kenyan people, I urge you to work for ure in Kenya and has issued similar
tion we have already seen too much in- Bloodshed after the country’s election in 2007 left at least 1,300 people dead. a future defined not by fear and division, statements about past Kenyan elec-
citement and appeals based on fear from but by unity and hope.” tions,” said Benjamin J. Rhodes, a long-
all sides,” he said. “But I also know that Analysts said many Kenyans would time foreign policy adviser to Mr.
A violent reaction seems like a real ple dead and 600,000 displaced from Obama. “The stakes are enormously
the Kenyan people as a whole will be the pay attention, even if there are limits to
losers if there is a descent into violence. possibility given Kenya’s recent history. their homes. In 2013, after Mr. Odinga Mr. Obama’s influence. “Will Obama’s high as there is a grave risk of violence
You can make clear that you will reject After a disputed election in 2007 in which lost again, this time to Mr. Kenyatta, he statement shift behaviors in Kenya? No,” and instability around the election, and
those that want to deal in tribal and eth- the opposition leader Raila Odinga lost, claimed he had been robbed of victory. said William M. Bellamy, a former am- it’s important for the Kenyan people to
nic hatred.” spasms of violence left at least 1,300 peo- Mr. Odinga, a former prime minister, is bassador to Kenya who is now a profes- hear his voice at this pivotal moment.”
 THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017 N A5

4,000 Kilometers, 10 Months: One Australian’s March for Indigenous Rights

By DAMIEN CAVE
PRINCES HIGHWAY, Austral-
ia — Clinton Pryor had already
walked 4,780 kilometers, or nearly
3,000 miles, by the time I met up
with him Thursday morning on a
country road between Sydney and
Melbourne.
Mr. Pryor, an Aboriginal activist
from Australia’s west coast, was
starting his 310th day on foot to
protest the treatment of Indige-
nous Australians, and he seemed
anxious to get going.
He took a final drag off a ciga-
rette.
“Ready, guys?” he said, looking
toward his support crew — grand-
pas with long white beards, one
driving a white station wagon
barefoot, the other astride a bike.
His girlfriend, Kerry-Lee
Coulthard, who met Mr. Pryor
when he passed through her
hometown in central Australia,
eyed the road ahead.
And with that, Mr. Pryor’s Walk
for Justice continued.

9:42 a.m. — Developing a Voice

“We’re doing this for the grass-
roots people,” he said, about two
kilometers into the walk. “A lot of
people are not being heard.”
Mr. Pryor, 27, with a knee brace
on one leg, said he started out his
trek from Perth to Canberra to
raise awareness about two spe-
cific issues: homelessness among
Indigenous Australians, an issue
he has experienced firsthand, and
the forced closing of remote Ab-
original communities by the gov-
ernment, which he has been pro-
testing since at least 2014.
Over time, though, he said his
mission has evolved to reflect BROOK MITCHELL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
what First Peoples have told him
they were struggling with. Sui- Clinton Pryor identified himself as a Wajuk, Balardung, Kija and a Yulparitja man from the West at a ceremony in his honor in Nowra, Australia, last week.
cide. Poverty. Racist policing. Cor-
ruption. Lack of rights to land, from the Aboriginal community,” Australian dollars ($1,030), was a 2:20 p.m. — A Shared Mission in the spirit, if not in the flesh,” Mr. on behalf of ancient peoples who
lack of work, and perhaps most of said Megan Davis, a Cobble Cob- replacement for a Mercedes van Mcleod told the crowd in English have inhabited Australia for at
all, Mr. Pryor says, lack of inclu- ble woman from Queensland and that Mr. Burnell started out with, Mr. Pryor’s feet sometimes fall and in local languages. “It means least 65,000 years. Earlier in the
sion in decisions made by the gov- a law professor at the University but crashed after drifting asleep behind schedule. a lot. To all of us.” day, he had asked me how to spell
ernment. of New South Wales who is a mem- at the wheel. In the desert, Mr. Admitting he was a bit slowed Mr. Pryor, his face also painted, a few common words — Europe,
“This is a civil rights move- ber of the Referendum Council Pryor said, they went two days down by Ms. Coulthard, who does- also spoke. He identified himself for one — and admitted that he’s
ment,” he says. “The power that advises lawmakers on how to without water, and at one point, n’t usually join him, he jumped in a struggled with illiteracy.
as a Wajuk, Balardung, Kija and a
should be shared.” advance recognition for Indige- Mr. Pryor’s left leg swelled with car just before 2 p.m. to drive to a By the end of his speech,
Yulparitja man from the West, and
He talked about the importance nous Australians. fluid, forcing him to walk 50 kilo- march in Nowra. (His team though, he found his footing. In
most of what he argued for
of a treaty, which he says should “It’s shocking that in 2017 you meters in excruciating pain. marked where he’d stopped so he 2004, Michael Long trekked from
sounded similar to what he’d told
have been signed 229 years ago still have to be arguing that point As a group — with around a could return and start again later.) Melbourne to Canberra, 650 kilo-
me on the walk.
when the first European settlers — that we should actually be at half-dozen team members on the At a riverside park, dozens of meters, to put Aboriginal and Tor-
landed in Australia. He empha- the table when you’re discussing road and helping with social me- But he also seemed to struggle
people gathered. Sausages res Strait Islander people back on
sized that services for Aboriginal our issues.” dia and organization — they’ve with how to explain his purpose.
cooked on a grill. A police officer the national agenda. More than a
communities, including access to been pushing ahead through do- At one point, he apologized for los-
with white face paint on his decade later, with hundreds of kil-
water and education, needed to be nations. ing his train of thought. He said he
12:18 p.m. — A Team Emerges cheeks waved cars in as Paul Mc- ometers to go, Mr. Pryor cast his
expanded. And at times, he Mr. Pryor has raised a little was tired from walking.
leod, 60, an elder whose mother own walk as an act of resilience.
seemed frustrated with the whole Mr. Pryor relies on other forms more than 33,000 Australian dol- was part of the Yuin nation, lit a He looked 10 years younger, sur-
“I’ve been walking for 10
idea of politics, declaring, “We just of encouragement. lars ($26,000) through a Go- ceremonial fire and performed a rounded by men, women and chil-
months,” he said. “It’s about
want things done right.” Just after noon, a man parked FundMe page, and gifts of food, traditional dance. dren still seeking equality hun- telling everyone to get back up
Sovereignty came up often, as it his truck across the road, ran to money, car parts and the occa- “All of our people walk with him, dreds of years after colonization, and keep fighting.”
has in other contexts. This year, Mr. Pryor and handed him a few sional place to stay have also
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Is- 20-dollar bills. “Doing good, helped.
lander leaders agreed on a set of brother. You’re making us all One especially fortunate gift of
demands, the Uluru Statement proud,” he said before dashing lodging led to Mr. Pryor meeting
from the Heart, which called for away. Ms. Coulthard.
First Australians to be given When it started to rain a few Six months ago, he was staying
greater control over their lives by minutes later, Noonie Raymond, a in Port Augusta, a small city north
creating a permanent representa- member of Mr. Pryor’s support of Adelaide, when he noticed a
tive body enshrined in the Consti- team, delivered large umbrellas, woman hanging laundry next
tution. one for him, one for Ms. Coulthard. door. It was Ms. Coulthard.
Last week at Garma, a meeting Mr. Raymond was on a moun- “He must have been stalking
of Indigenous leaders and chiefs tain bike. Brett Burnell drove the me for 10 minutes,” she said, her
of political, business and industry station wagon, a 1999 Ford Falcon usual shyness giving way to hu-
groups, the call for representation packed with supplies and signed mor. “He came up to me. Then we
was repeated. But Prime Minister by dozens of well-wishers during spent three hours talking.”
Malcolm Turnbull, who was there, the journey. Asked what they talked about,
resisted those demands. With their matching shirts and she chuckled. “He asked about my
“An all-or-nothing approach of- long, gray beards, Mr. Raymond dreams,” she said.
ten results in nothing,” he said. and Mr. Burnell looked like broth- She told him how she’d always
Neither Mr. Pryor nor others ers; they were hard to tell apart. hoped to help the homeless. She
seem to have broken through with Both men, longtime activists told him she’d always hoped to
their message. The Walk for Jus- without Aboriginal roots said they visit Hawaii.
tice has been covered sporadically joined Mr. Pryor to help right the Before long, Ms. Coulthard, 30,
by the local news media, and Mr. wrongs of their country’s past. was traveling to see Mr. Pryor be-
Pryor’s following on Facebook “We’re learning our history, tween long stretches of walking.
and Twitter has not yet forced which we weren’t taught growing She overcame her fear of flying.
Canberra to pay attention. up,” Mr. Raymond said. And he changed, too.
“Our parliamentarians struggle The challenges have varied. “I stopped drinking,” he said.
to respond to anything that comes The Ford Falcon, bought for 1,300 “All because of her.”

Tainted Eggs Prompt a Scare in Europe

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THE HAGUE — The European crisis entered its third week. try group.
Union on Monday notified the The removal of eggs from shops The Dutch consumer safety au-
food safety authorities in Britain, was prompted by the discovery of thority has published a guide on
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pean Commission spokeswoman,
said, “We do not know if the eggs
when the government of Belgium
said that fipronil had been found
in eggs produced there.
pany said that eggs were back on
sale as normal on Monday. In the
Netherlands, an estimated nine
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A6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017

Europe’s Journeymen Keep the Past Alive

By MELISSA EDDY filled with stamps from cities visited and testa-
They hitchhike across Europe, instantly ments of work accomplished along the way.
recognizable in the wide-bottomed, corduroy Traditionally these books were used as a ré-
trousers, white shirts and colored jackets that sumé for finding work after a journey. Today
identify them as bricklayers, bakers, car- they serve more as a travel diary.
penters, stonemasons and roofers. While on the road, journeymen are not sup-
They are “Wanderge- posed to pay for food or accommodations, and
instead live by exchanging work for room and
DISPATCH FROM sellen,” or journeymen — board. In warm weather, they sleep in parks
CENTRAL EUROPE a vestige of the Middle and other public spaces. They generally carry
Ages in modern Europe
— young men, and these only their tools, several changes of underwear,
days women, too, who have finished their socks and a few shirts wrapped into small
required training in any number of trades and bundles that can be tied to their walking sticks
are traveling to gather experience. Most are — and that can also double as pillows.
from German-speaking countries. Most journeymen will work in the jobs for
In the past, journeymen traveled under the which they are trained. But they also take
auspices of a trade association, and today other work, either to expand their skill set or
many still do. But many also take up the prac- out of a need for food or a change of pace.
tice freely, though still adhering to the strict, Large summer projects, lasting several weeks,
often arcane, rules handed down largely will see bakers handling jackhammers and
through word of mouth to preserve the tradi- gardeners helping out in the kitchen.
tion. In public, journeymen wear distinctive trav-
According to custom, young men and women eling garb, their trousers sewn with pockets
wishing to become journeymen find someone deep enough to hold a folded meterstick or a
already on the road to sponsor them and help bottle of beer. The color of their jackets indi-
cates their trade: Carpenters and roofers wear
black, tailors maroon and gardeners deep
hunter green. There are other clues, too, in
their belt buckles and the brooches on their
ties.
Their dress makes them instantly recogniz-
able in the German-speaking world, though not
necessarily beyond. “Outside of Germany, we
are often taken for cowboys,” said Arnold
Böhm, 25, a carpenter from Görlitz who spent
time working in Cape Verde, Namibia and
South Africa.
During the World Wars the tradition stopped,
fully reviving only in the 1980s and ’90s. Many
trade associations from the Middle Ages are
still around, and others have sprung up for new
vocations. Women also are part of the modern
tradition.
In an adaptation of the old rules to modern
times, journeymen do not carry devices like
cellphones that allow them to be found. They
carry digital cameras, if they like, and write
Photographs by TOMAS MUNITA emails from public computers.
for The New York Times Journeymen travel in groups or on their
own, depending on their trades and their
routes, often finding one another by sight. Journeymen, top, living by their wits, their trade and strangers’
organize their trip. Prospective journeymen “Have you seen people who look like me?” generosity, on the outskirts of Faurndau, Germany. They are a ves-
are debt-free, unmarried and no older than 30. Mathias Müller, a carpenter, asked people in tige of the Middle Ages in modern Europe. Clockwise from above,
They agree to stay away from home for at least Tübingen after arriving there to meet up with journeymen restoring a roof, celebrating an initiation with song in a
as long it took to complete their traineeship — friends.
usually two or three years — plus a day, and to Traditionally, a journeyman was not allowed tractor-pulled cart, a traditional ear-piercing, and a nap in a park.
live by their wits, their trade and the generos- to travel or seek work within a 60-kilometer
ity of strangers. radius of his hometown — a guideline intended
The night before setting off from home, a to encourage an exchange of ideas among
future journeyman traditionally hosts a party those practicing any given trade. Today, it
to say farewell to family and friends. In the remains a way to ensure that the journeyman
course of the night, a hole is made in his or her develops independence.
earlobe for an earring to wear throughout the Nepomuk Neyer, 26, a wicker weaver from
journey. Tradition holds that anyone who Innsbruck, Austria, recounted once traveling
breaks the rules will have the earring torn out, beyond the radius but still near enough that he
marking that person with a cleft lobe, or a could look down the valley and see his home.
“split-ear,” a term long since adopted in the “That was the hardest moment,” he said.
German language for a crook. Many of the young people who head off on
The morning after the party, the neophyte such a journey had rarely left home, and then
buries a memento near the boundary of his or only with their parents or on school trips.
her hometown, then climbs over the city limits Nonetheless, for many the hardest part of
sign to fall into the arms of fellow journeymen their journey is deciding when to end it. The
who have gathered to see the new traveler off responsibilities and monotony of a daily rou-
before they resume their own journeys. tine have a way of making the challenges of
Over the coming weeks and years, the jour- wandering from place to place, not always
neymen will share a kinship, serving as guides knowing where you might sleep, seem like fun.
and providing a professional network and “You don’t have any overheads, you don’t
emotional support. have a family or a house to take care of,” Mr.
Journeymen carry a pocket-size diary to be Böhm said. “What you have is your freedom.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017 N A7

Parents of the Critically Ill ‘Redefine Hope’

In Cases Like Charlie Gard’s, Trying, Finally, for a ‘Good Death’
By DAN BILEFSKY autism — when Daisy was born, two fine hope as something else when
LONDON — If much of the world months premature, in 2005. She was there is no cure. You have to accept
was captivated by the life and death of told that the odds of being born with that your child will die to give him or
Charlie Gard, the incurably ill British the disease were one in 1.25 million, her a good death, to stop the suffering
baby whose parents waged a legal war and that Daisy might not live to her and strive for quality of life over life at
with a hospital over his treatment, for first birthday. all costs.”
Stephanie Nimmo, it was deeply per- “When your child has such a rare David spent his final days at home,
sonal. disease, you realize, this isn’t the child where she organized parties with his
Like Charlie’s parents, Connie Yates I was expecting and you mourn, but friends and he played with owls, his fa-
and Chris Gard, Mrs. Nimmo had you start to love the new child,” Mrs. vorite animal, which Ms. Langton-
sought experimental treatment in the Nimmo said. “Then you are told your Gilks allowed to fly in her kitchen. He
United States for her daughter, Daisy, child will be taken away, and then you became a Buddhist, meditated and
who had a rare genetic condition have to get your head around that. It is wrote a will, giving his banjo to a fam-
called Costello syndrome that made an emotional roller coaster.” ily friend, a tray of jelly beans to his
her partly blind and unable to speak Daisy’s condition worsened after sister and a ceremonial Chinese
more than a few words. She, too, grap- she turned 3. Mrs. Nimmo and her sword to his brother.
pled with the promises of alluring but husband, Andy, traveled twice to the Daisy, too, spent years fighting her
unproven medical research and the United States, to Portland and Seattle, disease, with 50 surgical procedures
dizzying array of armchair diagnoses where world experts who were study- in her short life. She also had to endure
on the internet. ing the same genetic mutation afflict- the death of her father, from bowel
The two sick children were even ing Daisy met to discuss their re- cancer, a week after her 11th birthday.
treated at the same London hospital,
Great Ormond Street, which opposed
the Gards’ court petition to pursue
treatment abroad and, later, to bring
Charlie home to die — just as it had
thwarted Mrs. Nimmo’s request, six
months earlier, to have Daisy’s life-
support systems removed at home.
“Charlie was in the same intensive
care department as Daisy,” said Mrs.
Nimmo, a leading advocate for par-
ents of terminally ill children. “It was
shocking to see the crazy media circus
and these parents stuck in the middle
trying to save their child.”
Charlie, who was born with a rare
mitochondrial disease that made him
blind, deaf and unable to move on his
own, died on July 28, days before his
first birthday; Daisy lived to be 12, rac-
ing around in a wheelchair with flash-
ing lights, appreciating nail glitter and
slapstick comedy. And while Charlie’s
parents engaged in a painful and pro-
tracted legal battle to try to keep him STEPHANIE NIMMO

alive, Daisy’s mother said she eventu- Stephanie Nimmo’s family endured the deaths of her daughter Daisy,
ally realized her greatest achieve- center, and her husband, Andy, over little more than a year.
ment would be to give the girl a “good
death.”
“I had a longer journey and I came search; their treatment had not yet Not long afterward, Daisy’s condi-
to accept Daisy’s diagnoses,” Mrs. been tested on mice. tioned worsened and she went into
Nimmo said. “I sometimes disagreed “We were initially very excited, un- septic shock and cardiac arrest, her
with the doctors, but there was never til we realized it could take up to 10 mother said.
a complete breakdown in communica- years before the treatment could be After she was put on life support,
tion as happened with the Gards.” clinically applied,” Mrs. Nimmo said. Mrs. Nimmo said she decided it was
Experts say that cases like Charlie “As in the Gard case, we were deter- time to let her go.
Gard’s are rare, and that most parents mined to help her, but I did not want “As a parent, the decision to take
of chronically ill children and the doc- my child to be a guinea pig.” your child off of life support is the most
tors who treat them reach consensus (In Charlie’s case, a neurologist at selfless thing you can do because you
about when and how to end treatment. Columbia University Medical Center want your child to live,” she said. “But
Cafcass, an independent body that in New York offered him nucleoside you have to ask, ‘Who am I doing this
represents children in court cases in therapy, which had been tested only for?’”
England, counted 18 instances last on mice and on 18 people with a differ- As Charlie’s parents would months
year of disputes between doctors and ent genetic mutation.) later, Mrs. Nimmo asked Great Or-
parents it was involved with that Sacha Langton-Gilks, a music mond Street Hospital if she could take
ended up in court. Daisy home while on the life-support
Another dispute is emerging. A machines, so her final moments would
group calling itself Charlie’s Army has not be in an institutional setting. The
begun mobilizing on behalf of the fam- Grappling with hospital refused, saying Daisy might
die in the ambulance or have poten-
ily of a profoundly ill 14-month-old boy
in Liverpool, Alfie Evans. Alfie, whose treatment options and tially harmful complications that
diagnosis remains unclear, has been in could be handled only by an intensive
a coma since December, and his par- difficult decisions. care team at a hospital, a risk her
ents are fighting the hospital’s desire mother did not want to take.
to take him off life support; as in the “The most important thing is that
Gard case, several American hospi- Daisy knew I was there and she knew
teacher whose son David died from a she was loved and surrounded by
tals have offered to help. brain tumor in August 2012, said ac-
Alfie’s father, Thomas Evans, ar- love,” Mrs. Nimmo said.
cepting that there was no cure was the Afterward, Mrs. Nimmo said, she
gues that Alfie has shown signs of im- hardest challenge.
provement and that it is his parental took Daisy’s body home and lay it on a
She had been determined to find a hospice bed. Her sister, Xanthe,
duty to do everything possible to save cure for David’s tumor, medulloblas-
his son’s life. painted Daisy’s nails and her broth-
toma, after his diagnosis in 2007. But ers, Theo and Jules, sat at her bedside.
“We do not want to let him die when after two relapses, 11 brain operations,
there could be something to help him,” They played her favorite Disney song,
years of chemotherapy, a stem-cell “Let It Go,” from the film “Frozen.”
Mr. Evans wrote on a crowdfunding transplant, and experimental treat-
site where he is raising money for his Mrs. Nimmo, after the loss of hus-
ment that had burned through David’s band and daughter in a little over a
son’s treatment. esophagus, Ms. Langton-Gilks said,
But Dominic Wilkinson, a neonatol- year, organizes what she calls “death
she decided to focus on giving her son, cafes,” bringing people together to
ogist and professor of medical ethics who was 16, a happy end of life and
at Oxford University, said doctors and talk about dying. She also writes a
send-off. blog about a suburban mother whose
hospitals sometimes needed to over- “Like Charlie’s parents, I initially
ride parental wishes. “Parents should- life was suddenly upended by lethal
thought it was my right as a parent to family illnesses. She credits her three
n’t be allowed to make decisions that decide on treatment for my child: I
carry a significant risk of serious surviving children, along with her
thought, ‘How dare they tell me what passion for jogging and swimming, for
harm to a child,” he said, for example to do!’” she said.
refusing treatment or demanding her resilience.
“The level of pressure you are un- “My family went from six to four,”
treatments without obvious benefit. der as a parent is hard to describe,”
Mrs. Nimmo, who lives in Wimble- she noted. “We are open and deter-
Ms. Langton-Gilks continued. “You mined to get on with our lives. That is
don, a southwest London neighbor- can’t give up hope when hope is only
hood, worked in marketing and al- what Daisy taught us: Make the most
defined as cure. But you have to rede- of your finite time.”
ready had three children — two with

What Bloodied an Australian Teenager’s Feet?

An Undersea Mystery Captures Global Interest
By DAMIEN CAVE his son was attacked. He posted a vid-
and TACEY RYCHTER eo of the result: hundreds of tiny sea
SYDNEY, Australia — Australians creatures feasting on the meat.
tend to roll their eyes when the world But not everyone is convinced that
obsesses about this country’s danger- the true culprit has been caught.
ous animal kingdom, including its A University of New South Wales
deadly snakes (the deadliest in the associate professor, Alistair Poore,
world), its tiny and toxic redback spi- said the animals in the video were not
ders, and of course the jellyfish that sea lice, but another group of small
cause heart attacks. scavengers called amphipods, which
are not known to bite humans.
But on Monday, even the most jaded
“You can attract a lot of animals in
Aussies found themselves gawking
the sea with raw meat,” Dr. Poore said.
over and swearing about the mysteri-
“Even though it’s interesting, it does-
ous creatures that chewed up a Mel-
n’t prove to me they were the ones that
bourne teenager’s legs.
bit his legs.”
Graphic photos of his ankles spread Dr. Poore said he was doubtful that
across social media. this was a particularly aggressive
All that the teenager, Sam Kanizay, strain of sea lice but suspected that
16, said he had wanted to do was soak there may be greater numbers in the
his sore legs at Dendy Street Beach in JARROD KANIZAY, VIA AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS area than normal — something that
Brighton after a football match. But may be caused if a lot of dead fish were
when he stepped out of the water a Sam Kanizay, 16, stepped out of
in the area.
half-hour later, his ankles were pour- the ocean with bleeding ankles. Although a similar sea lice attack on
ing blood. Scientists suspect sea lice, but another teenage boy was reported at a
Doctors and scientists said they there is no confirmation. nearby beach in 2015, Dr. Poore said
were baffled by the severity of the in- sea lice lived all over the world: “It’s
jury. dens. Sea lice are usually parasites of not an Australian thing.”
The leading theory seemed to be fish. When they bite humans, they “It’s a fascinating story to show that
that Sam had inadvertently become usually just leave tiny pinpricks that the animals are out in urban areas, we
lunch for hungry sea lice, also known can look like a rash. don’t live totally separated from na-
as marine isopods, a group of crus- ture,” Dr. Poore said. “Just like there
Sam’s father, Jarrod Kanizay, de-
taceans that are the marine versions are mosquitoes and leeches on land
cided to investigate by dropping a
of slaters and pill bugs that people that will bite humans, the same hap-
might be familiar with from their gar- hunk of raw steak in the water where pens in the ocean.”
A8 N THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017

King of Jordan Meets

With Palestinian Leader
Aqsa Mosque Crisis Leads to Symbolic Event
By ISABEL KERSHNER Israel temporarily closed the con-
RAMALLAH, West Bank — tested and volatile holy site, which
King Abdullah II of Jordan made is revered by Jews as the Temple
the short trip to Ramallah on Mon- Mount and by Muslims as the No-
day for a highly symbolic visit ble Sanctuary.
with President Mahmoud Abbas After days of bloodshed and a
of the Palestinian Authority, two-week stand off in which Pales-
against the backdrop of the recent tinian Muslims refused to enter
crisis over the Aqsa Mosque in the compound, Israel removed the
East Jerusalem and tensions with metal detectors and other equip-
Israel. ment. The separate tension be-
Arriving by helicopter, the king tween Israel and Jordan over the
was greeted by a Palestinian hon- embassy guard incident injected a
or guard, as well as by a huge post- sense of urgency into resolving
er of his image and that of Mr. Ab- the issue.
bas superimposed on crowds of Israel’s relations with Jordan
Muslim worshipers inside the were further strained when Prime
Aqsa compound. It bore the leg- Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
end, “Jerusalem will triumph.” gave the embassy guard a hero’s
But as much as the king’s visit welcome on his return to Israel.
— his first in Ramallah in five The prime minister’s office dis-
years — was intended as a show of tributed video showing him em-
solidarity and close coordination bracing the guard, fueling outrage
with the Palestinians, Palestinian in Jordan. King Abdullah casti-
officials acknowledged that it was gated Mr. Netanyahu, saying he
probably equally aimed at the Jor- had exploited the episode for “per-
danian public, and its reaction to sonal political gains” and said re-
the fatal shooting by an Israeli lations between the countries —
Embassy guard in Amman of two former enemies who signed a
Jordanians, a teenager who ap- peace treaty in 1994 — would de- NASSER NASSER/ASSOCIATED PRESS

parently attacked him with a pend on how Israel handled the af-
fair.
President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, left, and King Abdullah II of Jordan before their meeting on Monday.
screwdriver and an innocent by-
stander. Israel and Jordan maintain a
Jordan, the custodian of the crucial regional alliance but the
peace between the two govern-
Anger over an Israeli the West Bank. The king spent
barely two hours on the ground
state with East Jerusalem as its
capital, and the importance of
of several Palestinian religious
and political leaders who came to
Aqsa shrine in Jerusalem, helped
resolved the crisis involving the ments has not filtered down to the
Jordanian people, many of whom
guard’s fatal shooting meeting with Mr. Abbas and other
officials.
working with the Trump adminis-
tration to restart the peace
the presidential headquarters to
welcome King Abdullah.
mosque, set off when Israel placed
metal detectors, cameras and are of Palestinian origin. of two Jordanians. Saeb Erekat, the secretary gen- process, according to Petra, the of- Israel captured the West Bank
other security measures at en- Jordan has said that the Israeli eral of the Palestine Liberation Or- ficial Jordanian news agency. It and East Jerusalem from Jordan
trances to the compound. Those ambassador and the rest of the ganization, said in a statement added that the Jordanian and Pal- in the 1967 war. While the West
measures came in response to a embassy staff, who all returned to that the king’s visit was “a mes- estinian leaders also discussed Bank remains under Israeli occu-
monitored by the state attorney’s
deadly July 14 attack, when three Israel, will not be allowed back to sage of support and succor for the need to maintain the status pation overall, the Palestinian Au-
office.
armed Arab citizens of Israel Amman until the shooting episode President Abbas and the Palestin- quo at the Aqsa compound. thority holds sway over parts of it.
The king’s visit to Ramallah
emerged from the mosque and fa- has been properly investigated. ian people.” “The king came to Ramallah be- Israel annexed East Jerusalem in
would have had to be coordinated
tally shot two Israeli police offi- Israel announced on Friday that During his visit, King Abdullah cause Jerusalem is occupied,” said a move that was never recognized
with the Israeli authorities, since
cers. the Israeli police was conducting emphasized Jordan’s support for the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, internationally, and the country
Israel controls the air space above
In a rare move after the attack, an examination that would be the establishment of a Palestinian Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, one claims sovereignty there.

U.N. Sanctions Prompt Outrage From North Korea, but Their Sting Is Uncertain
itself. Chinese banks and enterprises
From Page A1 The Treasury Department has are critical to North Korea’s ac-
selves unless the hostile policy been working on a series of so- cess to foreign exchange, Mr. Rug-
and nuclear threat of the U.S. called secondary sanctions giero said. Since 2009, North Ko-
against the D.P.R.K. are funda- against Chinese banks and corpo- rea has used Chinese entities to
mentally eliminated,” Mr. Ri said, rations that do business with process at least $2.2 billion in
using the initials for the Demo- North Korea and help facilitate its transactions through the United
cratic People’s Republic of Korea, access to foreign exchange. States financial system, Mr. Rug-
North Korea’s official name. But the administration will giero said in congressional testi-
In a more ominous response, want to give China a chance to en- mony last month.
North Korea’s official news force the new United Nations By allowing North Korea to con-
agency said, “There is no bigger sanctions, and will be hesitant to tinue sending workers abroad, the
mistake than the United States be- alienate Beijing by immediately Security Council missed an easy
lieving that its land is safe across imposing sanctions on Chinese or- target for crimping revenue, said
the ocean.” ganizations, said Bonnie S. Glaser, Joseph DeThomas, a former State
Like all United Nations sanc- senior adviser for Asia at the Cen- Department official who special-
tions imposed on North Korea for ter for Strategic and International ized in sanctions against Iran and
more than a decade, the effective- Studies. North Korea.
ness of the new round, which Even though China has long “By just capping labor, you
American officials say could cost considered North Korea a close leave the field open to easy eva-
North Korea’s government about ally, though a wayward and often sion by having additional workers
$1 billion annually, depends on irritating one, it could stomach work off the books,” Mr. De-
faithful enforcement by China and United Nations sanctions against Thomas said.
to a lesser extent Russia. the North, she said. But Beijing Sixty thousand to 80,000 North
Both countries joined in the Se- vehemently opposed sanctions by Korean workers are employed
curity Council’s unanimous vote Washington against Chinese insti- overseas, many in heavy con-
on Saturday to penalize North Ko- tutions, particularly banks, that struction jobs in appalling condi-
rea. But neither China nor Russia help the North, she said. tions, according to human rights
has a strong record of policing MARY ALTAFFER/ASSOCIATED PRESS “Agreeing to tightening U.N. groups.
sanctions against the North. The United Nations Security Council voted on Saturday to impose new sanctions on North Ko- sanctions was a price that Beijing The United Nations “just locked
China, the North’s major benefac- was willing to pay to avoid being in North Korea receiving at least
tor by far, is reluctant to squeeze
rea. American officials say the sanctions could cost the North’s government about $1 billion a year. hit with U.S. secondary sanctions $500 million a year for the prac-
its economy for fear of causing in- on Chinese banks,” she said. tice” of sending laborers abroad,
stability on its borders. China and Russia will implement The new measures prohibit all wholesalers in China, where it Another consideration for the Mr. Ruggiero said.
The sanctions adopted by the the resolution,” said Anthony Rug- exports of North Korean coal, ends up at large buffet displays in administration: Mr. Trump’s During a low point in relations
15-member Council left important giero, a senior fellow at the Foun- iron, iron ore, lead ore and major hotels. daughter Ivanka Trump and her between China and North Korea
elements of the North Korean dation for Defense of Democra- seafood. They put new restric- The seafood hauls from North husband, Jared Kushner, are this year, the Global Times, a
economy untouched. For exam- cies, a Washington-based re- tions on North Korea’s Foreign Korean boats, whose crews are scheduled to visit China next state-run newspaper that some-
ple, the resolution did not sanction search group, referring to the $1 Trade Bank, forbid the country to mostly army personnel, have in- month. The Chinese foreign min- times reflects Beijing’s views,
oil imports, which are critical to billion that the sanctions could increase the number of workers creased over the last few years, ister, Wang Yi, said this weekend suggested that China might be
the functioning of the North Kore- slash from North Korea’s export sent abroad and strengthen over- but the revenue to the state from that China was preparing to wel- willing to reduce the amount of oil
an state. revenue. “Eleven years of United sight of North Korean shipping. seafood is not as high as from the come Mr. Trump before the end of it sends to North Korea. Without
Further, North Korean laborers Nations sanctions resolutions The measures also place a cap metals trade, economists say. the year. It was unlikely that Chinese crude oil, North Korea’s
who work overseas and send re- prove they will not.” on new investment and new joint China officially welcomed the Washington would want to sour economy would be imperiled.
mittances home — money that the The new sanctions were a direct ventures in North Korea. new sanctions. The Foreign Min- relations before the visits by im- The United Nations sanctions
United Nations says is used in the reaction to two North Korean tests China had already agreed this istry in Beijing said they were nec- posing the secondary sanctions. did not touch oil imports, which
weapons program — will be al- last month of intercontinental bal- year to stop importing North Ko- essary, and, at the United Nations, This means the Chinese compa- appeared to be a step too far for
lowed to stay abroad. The new listic missiles that appeared capa- rean coal, and despite scattered the Chinese ambassador, Liu nies that give the North access to China, Mr. Ruggiero said.
sanctions cap the current number ble of reaching the continental reports of smuggling of coal ship- Jieyi, urged North Korea to “cease American dollars and other cur- Mr. DeThomas offered a mixed
of workers overseas, but stop United States. ments, that prohibition appears to taking actions that might further rencies would be essentially free view of the latest sanctions.
short of calling for those who al- After passage of the resolution, have held, Chinese and Western escalate tensions.” to continue their business un- “I am not saying it was not a
ready work abroad to return to President Trump tweeted: “China experts say. In supporting the United Na- abated, Mr. Ruggiero said. good thing to do,” he said. “I am
North Korea. and Russia voted with us. Very big The North’s iron ore exports, tions measures, and winning good “The U.S. will give China and saying it is probably too little, too
“The number cited by the financial impact.” The American which also go mainly to China, will from the Trump administra- Russia time to implement the res- late. Other cards will have to be
Trump administration assumes ambassador to the United Na- have dwindled in the past several tion by doing so, China appears to olution while Chinese companies, played by China, the U.S. and
tions, Nikki R. Haley, said the years, they say. North Korean have delayed an unpalatable set of individuals and banks facilitate South Korea if something very
Gardiner Harris contributed re- measures showed “we’re not play- seafood — crab, lobster, shrimp sanctions that Washington was Pyongyang’s sanctions evasion,” damaging, bloody and politically
porting. ing anymore” with North Korea. and other shellfish — is sold to getting ready to impose on China he said. catastrophic is to be avoided.”

Research Points to Bias Against Atheists, Including in Mainly Secular Societies

By BENEDICT CAREY Previous studies had found evi- more probable? 1) The man is a much, the study found. his or her mood and understand-
dence of broad-based public sus- teacher; or 2) The man is a As expected, the bias was ing of those terms.
Most people around the world,
whether religious or not, presume picion of nonbelievers in smaller A study finds that teacher and does not believe in stronger in highly religious coun- The urge to impute beliefs, mo-
that serial killers are more likely samples within religious coun-
tries, like the United States. The
most people presume any gods.”
The other half got another ver-
tries, like the United Arab Emir-
ates, than in more secular ones,
tives and mental states to mass
murderers, moreover, is often
to be atheists than believers in
any god, suggests a new study, new survey suggests the findings
may extend globally, and it finds
serial killers to be sion: “Which is more probable? 1) like New Zealand. Dr. Gervais, misplaced, experts said. Some
which counters the common as- The man is a teacher; or 2) The whose work explores bias against mass killers clearly commit
sumption that increasingly secu-
that the same kinds of suspicion nonbelievers. man is a teacher and a religious nonbelievers, had publicly backed atrocities because of their pro-
pervade even highly secular soci- believer.” The questionnaire also off some of his own earlier studies, fessed religious beliefs, like ter-
lar societies are equally tolerant of
eties. included several brainteasers and finding them too small to be con- rorists. But modern history’s reg-
nonbelievers. Avowed atheists ex-
“What’s exciting about the pa- pants filled out a short question- other questions to distract from vincing. “This time we got the ister of assorted serial killers,
hibited the same bias in judging
per for me is that it’s a great first naire, providing their age, ethnici- the purpose of the study. numbers, and the effect was spree shooters and other mortal
sadistic criminals, the study
step,” said Richard Sosis, a profes- ty and religious affiliation or lack clear,” he said. predators is a rogue’s gallery of
found. “We used this psychopathic se-
sor of anthropology at the Univer- thereof, with choices like “atheist,” The relationship between reli- mostly male, aggrieved actors
The new report, appearing in rial killer because we thought
sity of Connecticut. “They’ve got a gious belief and moral behavior is, who are sometimes believers,
the journal Nature Human Behav- “agnostic” or “none.” that, even if people didn’t trust
method that can be used to see in fact, not well understood. Some sometimes not, and who half the
iour, included more than 3,000 how this bias plays out not just in One item on the questionnaire atheists enough to let them time do not qualify for any specific
studies find that devout believers
people in 13 countries, both secu- judging a sociopath, but for many began with a description of a so- babysit their children, they would- live more morally upright lives, psychiatric diagnosis, as dis-
lar states like the Netherlands and more mundane moral violations.” ciopath: a man who, having tor- n’t necessarily assume them to be compared with nonbelievers; oth- turbed as they are, according to an
Finland, and deeply religious ones The study was as simple as it tured animals when young, later serial killers,” Dr. Gervais said. ers find no differences at all. The analysis of more than 200 such
like the United Arab Emirates and was ambitious. Led by Will M. began hurting people and “has But they did — overwhelmingly. research is plagued by differing killers by Dr. Michael Stone, a
India. The findings suggest that, Gervais, an associate professor of killed five homeless people that he About 60 percent of the people definitions of what moral behav- New York forensic psychiatrist.
despite declining attendance at psychology at the University of abducted from poor neighbor- who had the option to flag the ior is and what constitutes true re- A large number — perhaps 25
churches, mosques and temples in Kentucky, an international team hoods in his home city. Their dis- teacher as an atheist did so; just ligious devotion (e.g., self-identifi- percent, in Dr. Stone’s estimation
many communities, the cultural of researchers recruited samples membered bodies are currently 30 percent of those who had the cation, or daily ritual?). Even the — showed evidence of paranoid
tenet that religion is a bulwark of about 100 or more adults in 13 buried in his basement.” A ques- option to flag the teacher as a reli- definition of nonbelief is a moving schizophrenia, which is character-
against immorality remains in- countries, spanning North Amer- tion followed. Half the partici- gious believer did so. Self-identi- target: A person may identify as ized by delusional thinking. Those
tact, experts said, even in those ica, Europe, Asia, the Middle East pants in each country got one ver- fied nonbelievers were less biased atheist, agnostic, “lapsed” or delusions, often enough, are in-
who deny it explicitly. and the antipodes. The partici- sion of the question: “Which is than the average, but not by merely indifferent depending on fused with religious symbolism.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017 N A9

Seesaw Conflict With Taliban Takes Toll in District Reclaimed by Afghanistan

By MUJIB MASHAL heavy casualties before retreat- Province that would affect the wa-
TAIWARA, Afghanistan — Be- ing. ter flow into Iran, two senior offi-
fore the Taliban briefly overran “The shops collapsed, then the cials in Ghor said.
the Taiwara District in late July, hospital was destroyed,” said Mo- Gen. Mohammad Nasir He-
the last semblance of resistance hammed Sediq, a resident who dayat, the commander of the Af-
came not from the government, was forced to flee with his family ghan Army corps in the west, said
but rather from local residents from the center of Taiwara after his men were certain that Mullah
who rallied around their repre- the district government’s com- Mustafa had aided the Taliban at-
sentative in Parliament in what pound, too, was torched. tack on Taiwara by hosting hun-
turned out to be a fatal effort for In response to criticism that dreds of their fighters from neigh-
many. military support was not sent in boring provinces “as guests” be-
The small Afghan commando time, Abdullah Abdullah, the chief fore the assault.
unit in Taiwara, in the western executive of the Afghan govern- He said that in a telephone call
part of isolated Ghor Province, ment, who visited Taiwara re- he had warned Mullah Mustafa of
had already been routed. Ibrahim cently after its recapture, said
the potential consequences.
Malikzada, the district’s parlia- several provinces had come under
“You raised the Taliban flag,’’
mentarian and a hardened anti- attack around the same time.
General Hedayat said he had told
Taliban fighter since the 1990s, ar- “At one point, in eight or nine
him. “You know that this situation
rived from Kabul to try to muster provinces we had districts facing
first-degree threats,” Mr. Abdul- won’t remain for the government
a final defense. Mr. Malikzada of-
lah said. “In such situations, with and we will come after you.”
ten travels the 180 miles of moun-
tainous stretch from the provin- the capabilities that we have, it “When the Taliban left, he low-
cial capital to the district on a comes down to where we can ered the flags,” the general said.
motorcycle, in the dark of the reach and where we cannot.” “And we were pressured” to leave
night. Officials in Ghor say the pres- him alone.
His men were also defeated, on ence of both the Taliban and a fac- In searching for solutions to the
July 23. tion that claims allegiance to the
“When they were going to their Islamic State is facilitated by two
outposts in the evening, from their men with long criminal histories
More confident
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MUJIB MASHAL/THE NEW YORK TIMES

faces one could tell they would not Afghan government officials assessing the situation in the Taiwara District after it was recaptured in the province.
return,” Mr. Malikzada said. “It Qari Rahmatullah, a leader of
was one of the deadliest nights —
from the Taliban. The government is losing a growing number of fighters in contested areas.
the group that operates under the insurgents battle
at every corner, I saw pieces of my
men.” out with impunity. But at least the
Islamic State flag, is also a long-
time local commander who fought
overtaxed government
Only days later, Afghan com- roughly 2,700 police and Army of-
ficers were able to move about the
against the Soviets in the 1980s commando units.
mandos, supported by Afghan and has been affiliated with one of
and United States airpower, re- vast territory, 90 percent of it Afghanistan’s main political par-
took Taiwara. mountainous or semi-mountain- ties, Jamiat e Islami. Mr. Rahmat-
The district’s brief fall and re- ous, to secure it from Taliban in- ullah’s men rounded up and killed province’s security problems, the
capture offer a window into how roads. about 30 civilians last year, and government seems to be turning
this long war is being fought now: The Taliban’s method of attack haveyet to face justice despite op- to militias again and perpetuating
The ungoverned space across the on Taiwara showed how confident erating not far from the provincial what has become a familiar
county continues to grow as each the insurgents have become in capital. Catch-22: sacrificing justice and
side — the government and the waging violence this year. “Because of lack of enough se- the rule of law for the sake of rela-
militants — rallies resources and Security officials in Ghor say curity forces, the murderers of our tive control.
wrests control of an individual about 700 heavily armed fighters people are walking freely in the The commandos cannot hold
area for a short time. Neither side, from neighboring provinces made mountains just north of Feroz the district indefinitely; they will
though, seems capable of holding a run for the district in Humvees Koh,” said Ghor’s governor, Ghu- be called to help elsewhere. Mr.
on to territory it gains. The fight and trucks stolen from Afghan lam Nasir Khaze. Abdullah, the chief executive,
seesaws back and forth, with civil- forces in Helmand Province. The The second man, Mullah asked provincial officials to sub-
ians caught in between. insurgents sought to connect ar- Mustafa, who serves as a local fa- mit a proposal requesting addi-
Adding to the challenge is the eas they had already seized, carv- cilitator of the Taliban and played tional Afghan local police, essen-
increasing blurring of the line be- ing a corridor from south to north. a major role in the recent offen- tially militia fighters with varying
tween criminal gangs and the mil- Khalil, 17, who was wounded in recent fighting in Taiwara, was First to suffer heavy casualties sive, is known for setting up degrees of vetting who are paid by
itants, with each helping the other taken for treatment to the hospital in the provincial capital. was an Afghan commando unit of checkpoints on the main highway the government.
and often acting as one. This about 45 men who had set up a to extort travelers, security offi- Much to the dismay of human
growing overlap has many offi- and Mr. Malikzada disagree over control and influence about 11 per- makeshift base on a hilltop in the cials say. rights activists, the government
cials and diplomats worried about how to register his men formally cent. Both sides contest the re- center of the district. One com- Local officials are especially has often relied on such local mili-
the potential for a political resolu- with the government. The police mainder, about 29 percent. mando officer said that 12 of his frustrated that, despite his clear tias in Ghor and other provinces.
tion’s on-the-ground success if a chief wants the men to make the The government is losing a fellow fighters had been killed and siding with the Taliban, Mullah Most recently, to counter Qari
peace deal is ever reached with 180-mile trek to the provincial cap- growing number of fighters in their bodies disfigured with chem- Mustafa is protected by senior fig- Rahmatullah’s brutal Islamic
the Taliban leadership. ital, Feroz Koh, so their finger- contested areas. During the first icals, that about 20 had been in- ures in Kabul, the capital, includ- State fighters, the government se-
It is obvious that the comman- prints and other physical charac- four months of 2017, about 20 Af- jured and that several had disap- ing those in Afghanistan’s peace cretly enlisted the help of Mullah
dos cannot stay in Taiwara for teristics can be registered for ghan fighters died each day in peared. One commando hid in the council assigned to negotiate with Saadyar, another problematic mi-
long, and officials openly admit identification and access control. largely defensive efforts, a num- trees for three days, until the dis- the Taliban. litia member with ties to the Tal-
that what remains of Mr. Ma- “We don’t have time for that,” ber that seems to have risen in re- trict was retaken, the officer said. The officials say Mullah iban. Mullah Saadyar has also
likzada’s informal militia, more Mr. Malikzada said. “The enemy cent weeks. With the commando unit de- Mustafa also has contacts in Iran, been accused of having a role in
than 100 men, is their best hope of will retake the areas.” Before the recent Taliban on- feated, the resistance was left to which is looking to strengthen its the stoning of a local woman,
holding the district. United States military data slaught, Ghor Province had long fighters loyal to Mr. Malikzada, ties to the Taliban in Afghanistan Rukhshana.
There is only one problem: shows that the Afghan govern- suffered from a lack of govern- the parliamentarian. His men re- and is said to have a lot of influ- Mr. Abdullah warned that the
Ghor’s provincial security chief ment controls about 24 percent of ment attention. In large parts of sisted in the hope that air power ence over them in the western new recruits must be vetted thor-
the country’s districts and influ- the province, rule of law was al- and reinforcements would arrive part of the country. Iran has used oughly so that, “God forbid, the
Jawad Sukhanyar contributed re- ences an additional 36 percent. most nonexistent and serious hu- from the provincial capital. Nei- Mullah Mustafa to disrupt the people are not forced to flee from
porting from Kabul, Afghanistan. The Taliban, on the other hand, man rights abuses were carried ther did, and the fighters suffered building of a major dam in Herat them into the mountains again.”

Body of Iranian Asylum Seeker Is Found

Off Australia, and Suicide Is Suspected
By SARAH MALIK land. ties eight months ago to care for
SYDNEY, Australia — The The discovery of the dead man, the man but that no action had
body of an asylum seeker who was who was said to be from Iran, was been taken to ensure his safety.
said to have been suffering de- confirmed by David Yapu, a Ma- “They left him most of the time,”
pressive episodes was discovered nus Province police inspector. The Mr. Boochani said. “He was hun-
on Monday by schoolchildren in police had not released his full gry and homeless. Nobody cared
Papua New Guinea, near the site identity, citing the continuing in- about him.”
of an Australian transit center for vestigation. Mr. Boochani said he had spo-
refugees, and the police said they Inspector Yapu said the body ken to Australian news outlets
believed he had hanged himself. was found at the East Lorengau several times about the man’s
Manus Island, a part of Papua primary school on Monday morn- case.
New Guinea, is home to one of two ing, close to the East Lorengau “I feel so powerless. I really
offshore centers where Australia tried to help him,” Mr. Boochani
has been housing asylum seekers said. “I did my best as a journalist.
intercepted at sea for the past four I did my best as a human. I did my
years. A United Nations report Australia’s ban on best as a friend. I did my best, but
he died.”
found that 88 percent of the de-
tainees on Manus who were ex- refugees is again The rights group Amnesty In-
ternational said it was “gravely
amined by medical experts last
year had depressive disorders.
criticized by human concerned” about how the man
The asylum seekers have been
sent to Manus and to Nauru, an is-
rights groups. had been treated. “This death is
yet another bleak tragedy to arise
land nation to the east, as part of a out of the ongoing suffering and ASHLEY GILBERTSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

policy that Australia says is meant tensions on Manus Island,” Gra- Many detainees at Australia’s main refugee detention center on Manus Island, in Papua New
to deter human traffickers from Refugee Transit Center. ham Thom, refugee coordinator at Guinea, have been found by medical experts to have depressive disorders.
sending desperate people to its “He was found hanging; a rope Amnesty International Australia,
shores on rickety boats, usually was tied around his neck,” Inspec- said in a statement. “There must
be an independent, impartial, Why are people dying on this is- to parts of it have been cut off, but are to be resettled elsewhere, in-
by way of Indonesia. tor Yapu said. “He was found by land? Hundreds of people who are the fate of those still housed there cluding the United States.
The Australian government has the schoolchildren, who then prompt and effective investiga-
tion into his death.” there are medically and physi- remains unclear. The Obama administration had
repeatedly said that no refugees alerted their teachers, who then cally sick,” Mr. Boochani said. Detainees have refused to move agreed to accept hundreds of the
would be allowed to resettle in alerted police.” According to an April report
from the Australian government, The class-action suit, filed in and staged a protest last week, refugees from Manus and Nauru,
Australia, drawing condemnation The Kurdish journalist Behrouz 2014, sought damages for physical saying they were being ag- and while President Trump has
from the United Nations and hu- Boochani, who fled Iran and has 821 asylum seekers are detained
on Manus Island. and psychological injuries and for gressively relocated without any questioned that decision, Austral-
man rights groups. been detained at Manus since false imprisonment for 1,905 cur- guarantees of protection. ia has said that the United States
In June this year, Australia 2013, said the man had been strug- Mr. Boochani said that medical
treatment for the refugees housed rent and former detainees. The East Lorengau Refugee would honor the deal. It was not
agreed to a landmark $53 million gling with mental health issues for The main detention center on Transit Center, near where the clear whether the man whose
settlement in a class-action law- a year. on the island was inadequate, with
mental illness rife. Manus Island is slated to close in body was found, is a separate fa- body was found was among those
suit filed on behalf of current and Mr. Boochani said fellow ref- October, and water and electricity cility set up to house people who eligible to be resettled.
former detainees on Manus Is- ugees had petitioned the authori- “These people are dying here.
A10 TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017

Mastering the Art of Restoration: A Julia Child Sequel

New Owner Makes
An Effort to Revive
A Georgetown Home
By NOAH WEILAND
WASHINGTON — The house on Olive
Street here was Julia Child’s “little jew-
el,” the first home she owned, the space
where she filled the pages of “Mastering
the Art of French Cooking.” To enter, vis-
itors swing a mold-covered door knocker
Mrs. Child and her husband installed
more than 50 years ago: a trivet she once
used to protect her table from hot dishes
out of the oven.
Now it is a sad tale of a historic home
rotting to its core. On a prim Georgetown
street, the home’s exterior is a fading,
yellow wood, an eyesore for neighbors
and a curious sight among $2 million and
$3 million homes.
The roofing has peeled off, and the
caulking inside has dissolved so much
that the white paint on the walls has clot-
ted from floor to ceiling. Floorboards
original to the home mix with newer, mis-
aligned ones. Kitchen tiles are missing,
stolen during open houses by guests
grasping for artifacts.
“It’s this ugly house falling apart,” said
Janis Orlowski, a doctor who lives across
the street.
Despite the facade, the four-bedroom
house speaks to the range of Mrs. Child’s
life, a history that is little known or over-
shadowed by her more celebrated homes
in Provence, France, and Cambridge,
Mass., where she lived for most of her
adult life. The three-story federal-style
dwelling, on the only Georgetown street
named after a food, was the meeting
point of Mrs. Child’s two lives: She lived
there as a diplomatic spouse working for
the Office of Strategic Services (the fore-
runner to the Central Intelligence
Agency) after World War II, and then a
practiced chef, finishing drafts of what
would become the most famous cook-
book in America. She and her husband,
Paul Child, lived in the house in 1948 and
then again upon their return from
France, from 1956 to 1959.
“We have this yin and yang, hating
how it looks and loving the history of the
house,” Ms. Orlowski said.
But the home may have a new life, if
demanding Georgetown historic preser-
vationists agree. Rory Veevers-Carter, a
57-year-old Yemeni-born software entre-
preneur and Julia Child fan, bought the
house in 2015 for $935,000 and has been
waiting for two years for restoration ap-
provals from at least three different mu-
nicipal regulatory bodies. He hopes to
have approvals finished by this fall, then
full renovations completed in 2018.
“Because it’s Julia’s home, people pay
more attention to it,” he said in an inter-
view. “This was the house where Ameri- PHOTOGRAPHS BY JARED SOARES FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
can cooking was revolutionized.”
Mr. Veevers-Carter does not intend to Rory Veevers-Carter, above, purchased Julia Child’s former home in 2015, and is in the process of renovating it. The state of the house, where Mrs. Child
return the kitchen to the look of the 1950s, worked on “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” has become somewhat of an annoyance for neighbors, who are nonetheless charmed by its history.
when Mrs. Child cooked on an industrial-
sized stove she bought from Sherman
Kent, a friend and towering figure at the to find, the turkeys much bigger. the Olive Street kitchen: quiche aux nal bread,” Ms. Echeverria said. the Washington Wizards basketball
C.I.A. (The stove is now featured in the “In retesting certain dishes in my fruits de mer, coq au vin, tarte aux In later decades, college students and team. Upkeep was an afterthought.
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American kitchen-laboratory, I discov- pommes. Craigslist users rented the home. They “At 25, we thought we were living the
American History.) “When she talked of ered that hardly anyone used fresh herbs “Our neighborhood was technically in threw raucous parties with hundreds of life,” Mr. Magazu said in an interview.
Washington, she would always mention here,” she wrote in “My Life in France.” the city but had a nice small-town feel, guests, then stacked bags of trash out- Mr. Magazu moved out in 2011. By 2015
the stove,” said Alex Prud’homme, who She complained to her co-author, Simone because everyone marketed at the same side that attracted hordes of rodents. it was on the market, and Mr. Veevers-
helped Mrs. Child — his great-aunt — Beck, that “my beloved crème fraîche place, or met at the post office or in the Neighbors became irritated, meeting to Carter discovered it when The Washing-
write her memoir. ton Post reported that Julia Child’s for-
was nearly impossible to find in Amer- barbershop,” Mrs. Child wrote. vent and plot a solution to the mess. The
The Olive Street kitchen, last re- mer house was for sale. He said he was
ica.” After the Childs left Washington for municipal health department was called
designed by the architect Hugh Newell drawn to its neglect, saw its possibilities
But she delighted in the choices at a lo- Norway, where Mr. Child was a cultural to assess the clutter.
Jacobsen in the 1960s, will be modern, and bought it on a whim.
Mr. Veevers-Carter said. “Julia Child had cal grocery on M Street, where she mar- attaché in Oslo, the house had a succes- “Here we are, and we’re living in
veled that there was no need, as in sion of owners. Among them was Con- Georgetown, for God’s sake,” Ms. Or- Mr. Veevers-Carter splits his time be-
all the latest gadgets in her kitchen, the tween the house and a home on Cape
latest conveniences,” he said. (Including France in those days, to develop a rela- suelo Echeverria, the daughter of city lowski said. “It devalues the neighbor-
tionship with a grocer. planners, who lived there in the early hood.” Cod, and also in visits to his wife, Patricia
her garbage disposal, which she lovingly Veevers-Carter, who works for the World
called her “electric pig.”) “Why wouldn’t “You pick up a wire pushcart as you 1960s, when Mrs. Child had become a A Georgetown law student, Mark Mag-
come in and just trundle about looking cooking celebrity. Ms. Echeverria’s Bank as the country manager for Papua
you have that today?” azu, lived in the home starting in 2005.
New Guinea. He remembers the first
The story of the house begins in the and fingering everything,” she wrote. “It mother kept “Mastering the Art of He had an easy time finding roommates
meal he cooked in the unfinished kitchen,
years after the Civil War, when it was is fine to be able to pick out each separate French Cooking” on the kitchen counter. — “Julia Child’s house brought together
soon after he bought the house: lamb
built by a black carpenter. At the time, mushroom yourself.” “I knew from the time I was really little all kinds of strange folks” — including a shanks Provençal in a creamy Madras
the black population of Georgetown had On Mondays, she would teach cooking that this was her house, and that we were Miss America beauty pageant contest- curry sauce, for friends.
swelled to more than 3,000 in a city of classes to the women of Georgetown in part of this tradition of breaking commu- ant and a member of the dance team for These days he keeps chili pepper, bay
100,000. By the turn of the century, signs
and lime leaf plants on his patio, accom-
of change were afoot: A police record in
paniments to the dozens of Indian spices
The Washington Post on Nov. 16, 1913,
he stores in his kitchen cabinets, includ-
noted that the owner of the home at 2706
ing curry powder in a gallon-sized jar.
Olive Street was riding a horse and wag-
One of his requirements of the architect,
on when he collided with an automobile
at 1st and F Streets. Dale Overmyer, who is renovating the
house, is that there be space to slaughter,
The Childs, who had met in what was
cook and cure a 250-pound pig. He uses
then Ceylon when both worked for the
Mrs. Child’s old kitchen nightly.
O.S.S., bought the house in May 1948, af-
ter they returned to Washington from Mr. Overmyer said working on the
overseas. In their first year on Olive home has kindled the interest of his col-
Street, Mrs. Child struggled to impress leagues in a way he rarely sees with his
her new husband with a limited culinary other Georgetown projects. The home
repertoire, and toiled in the kitchen late life Mrs. Child nurtured on Olive Street is
at night. “I’d usually plop something on the example many of his clients aspire to.
the table by 10 p.m., have a few bites, and “Eighty percent of my work is driven
collapse into bed,” she wrote in her mem- by the need to centralize the living
oir, “My Life in France.” around the kitchen, and to create social
The two soon left for France, where space that emanates from the kitchen as
Mrs. Child discovered the wonders of the heart of the home,” Mr. Overmyer
French cuisine, and returned to Olive said. “Julia is responsible for beginning
Street eight years later. “What fun to this revolution in how we entertain and
feather our own little nest, the only nest dwell out of the kitchens in our home.”
we actually owned,” she wrote. By then Several well-known chefs in the area
she had become a classically trained chef have already called, asking for the
and was well into her work on her mas- chance to cook in the kitchen. Pamela
terpiece. Heyne, a Washington architect who
“Most of my time was spent revising wrote a book on Mrs. Child’s kitchen de-
and retyping our now dog-eared, note- signs, has consulted on the renovation.
filled, butter-and-food-stained manu- On some afternoons in his second-
script,” Mrs. Child wrote of her time in floor study, Mr. Veevers-Carter notices
the home. It would be years before a people across the street, looking for the
pared down version of these early drafts right angle to photograph his home. The
of “Mastering the Art of French Cook- house, as decrepit as it is, is a Washing-
ing” was published, in 1961. ton tourist attraction.
In 1956 on Olive Street, American cook- “Houses have bones. Houses have
ing was almost foreign to her. As she souls,” he said. “Every time you pick up a
wrote in her memoir, the veal was “less knife in that kitchen, you’re going back to
tender” than in France, the herbs harder The kitchen of the home on Olive Street, where Mrs. Child once taught cooking classes to the women of Georgetown. the roots of cooking.”
 THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017 0N A11

Sessions Scolds Chicago for Suing Over ‘Sanctuary’ Threat Man Sought
By MITCH SMITH
CHICAGO — Mayor Rahm
In Killing
Emanuel sued the Justice Depart-
ment on Monday over President
Trump’s threat to cut off federal
Of Officer
In Missouri
grants for so-called sanctuary cit-
ies like Chicago, calling it an at-
tack against public safety and the
city’s conscience.
By LIAM STACK
Hours later, Attorney General
Jeff Sessions struck back, describ- A manhunt was underway on
ing street violence in Chicago as Monday for a man suspected of
horrific and saying that “no shooting and killing a Missouri po-
amount of federal taxpayer dol- lice officer during a routine traffic
lars will help a city that refuses to stop on Sunday evening.
help its own residents.” Gary Michael, 37, a police offi-
The pointed exchange was an cer in Clinton, Mo., died at a hospi-
escalation in the struggle over tal there shortly after he was shot
federal funding and sanctuary cit- by a driver he had pulled over at
ies, but also in a continuing back- about 10:45 p.m. on Sunday, the
and-forth between the White Missouri State Highway Patrol
House and Chicago over the city’s said in a statement on Monday.
endemic gun and gang violence. The Highway Patrol identified
“Chicago will not let our police the suspect as Ian McCarthy, 39.
officers become political pawns in Mr. McCarthy was charged on
a debate,” said Mr. Emanuel, a Monday with one count of first-de-
Democrat, whose city received gree murder and one count of
$2.3 million in law enforcement armed criminal action, according
grants last year from the program to court papers.
that is now at risk. The Highway Patrol statement
The city is asking a judge to toss said that Officer Michael had been
out new Justice Department rules able to return fire but that it was
that would make Chicago ineligi- not clear if Mr. McCarthy had
ble to apply for such grants unless been struck or wounded.
it agrees to give federal immigra- The police said the suspect lives
tion authorities full access to its JOSHUA LOTT/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
in Clinton and should be consid-
police stations and to provide 48 ered armed and dangerous. Gov.
hours’ notice before releasing
Mayor Rahm Emanuel said President Trump’s immigration policy asked Chicago to make “a false choice, and a wrong choice.” Eric Greitens shared a picture of
people wanted by immigration Mr. McCarthy on Facebook and
agents. sions noted Chicago’s high mur- each other. the streets more dangerous. “I think it is a smart lawsuit,” urged Missouri residents to be on
Chicago is by no means the first der rate and said the city’s lead- Mr. Trump and Mr. Sessions Mr. Emanuel said the Trump said Mr. Villegas, whose ward was the lookout.
municipality to defy the Trump ers, to “a degree perhaps unsur- have argued that sanctuary poli- administration was asking Chi- the site of a shooting this year in- Sgt. Bill Lowe, a spokesman for
administration’s hard line against passed by any other jurisdiction,” cies like Chicago’s endanger cago “to choose between our core volving an Immigration and the Missouri State Highway Pa-
sanctuary cities. San Francisco have “chosen deliberately and in- American citizens and police offi- values as a welcoming city and Customs Enforcement agent that trol, said Monday evening that in-
and Santa Clara County, Calif., tentionally to adopt a policy that cers by allowing undocumented our fundamental principles of raised tensions among residents. vestigators be-
won an injunction in April against obstructs this country’s lawful im- immigrants who commit crimes community policing.” “I think it’s something that we as a lieved Mr. Mc-
a broader federal effort to deny migration system.” More than 400 to stay in the country and evade “It is a false choice, and a wrong city need to do.” Carthy was still
federal funds to local govern- people have been killed in Chicago justice. choice,” Mr. Emanuel said. The lawsuit adds to an already in or around
ments that limit their cooperation this year. “The mayor complains that the Eddie Johnson, Chicago’s police complex relationship between Clinton.
with immigration authorities. Se- “They have demonstrated an federal government’s focus on en- superintendent, said the city “will Chicago and the Justice Depart- He said Mr.
attle and Richmond, Calif., among open hostility to enforcing laws forcing the law would require a not compromise the rights, safety ment. Chicago officials are wait- McCarthy had
others, have also sued. designed to protect law enforce- ‘reordering of law enforcement or break the sacred trust of the ing to hear whether Mr. Sessions lived in Clinton
But the litigation comes at a ment — federal, state and local — practice in Chicago,’” Mr. Ses- people that live in and visit Chi- plans to enforce a department in- “for a while”
complicated time for Chicago, and reduce crime, and instead sions said. “But that’s just what cago” in order to be eligible for vestigation of the Chicago police, but was origi-
which has struggled with a per- have adopted an official policy of Chicago needs: a recommitment federal funding. completed in the final days of nally from New
sistently high murder rate, protecting criminal aliens who to the rule of law and to policies The grants at stake in Chicago, Barack Obama’s presidency, that Hampshire. Mr. The suspect,
strained relations between resi- prey on their own residents,” Mr. that roll back the culture of law- which the city has used in the past found a pattern of discriminatory McCarthy had
dents and the police, and frequent Sessions said in a statement. “The lessness that has beset the city.” for stun guns, SWAT team equip- practices. no known rela- Ian McCarthy.
jabs from Mr. Trump, who has city’s leaders cannot follow some But Mr. Emanuel and Chicago ment and police vehicles, make up On Monday, city leaders said tives in the area
threatened to “send in the Feds” if laws and ignore others and rea- police leaders argue the opposite. a tiny fraction of the city budget. they hoped for a preliminary rul- and “doesn’t have an employment
local officials cannot tamp down sonably expect this horrific situa- They say Chicago police officers But one supporter of the lawsuit, ing on the lawsuit before Sept. 5, history,” the sergeant said.
the bloodshed. The particular tion to improve.” make no inquiries about immigra- Gilbert Villegas, an alderman who the deadline to apply for new “In the recent past we know he
funding itself, too, is essential, The dispute over sanctuary cit- tion status because doing so might is chairman of the City Council’s funding from the Edward Byrne was unemployed so there wasn’t
Chicago officials say, because it is ies, where the local authorities fracture residents’ trust of the po- Latino Caucus, said there was Memorial Justice Assistance anything we can pinpoint that
aimed at solving the city’s crime limit their cooperation with fed- lice and discourage those here ille- “potential for that issue to creep Grant program, which the lawsuit drew him here,” Sergeant Lowe
problem. eral immigration officials, pits two gally from reporting crimes or co- into other grants” if it went un- said provided “crucial support” said. He added that investigators
In his scathing rebuke, Mr. Ses- visions of public safety against operating as witnesses, making challenged. for the police department. were interviewing the suspect’s
friends and acquaintances.
Mr. McCarthy was convicted of
first-degree assault in New
In Trump Era, States Are Shifting Focus to Immigration Laws Hampshire for the June 2001 stab-
bing of a minor who was left with
severe neck, chest and abdomen
By NIRAJ CHOKSHI sult of a relatively subdued 2016. gration enforcement, immigration ficking. resettlement in the state, while injuries, according to court
When Republicans in Texas In the three years before that, education, migrant and refugee At least 36 states considered North Dakota undertook an effort records.
passed a ban on so-called “sanctu- states passed as many immigra- programs, and other services. dozens of bills related to sanctu- to study the issue further. The Associated Press reported
ary city” policies this spring, they tion laws as they have so far this ary cities, with Georgia, Indiana, Four states — California, Illi- on Monday that Mr. McCarthy
■ 21 percent of the laws were re-
appeared to be feeding on the mo- year, if not more. Mississippi and Texas passing nois, Nebraska and New Jersey — was charged with more than 20
lated to law enforcement, includ-
mentum created by Donald J. This year, the legislation laws opposed to them. adopted resolutions in support of
ing those that addressed immigra-
Trump, who had made illegal im- touched on a variety of subjects, In Illinois, Gov. Bruce Rauner, a refugees, in opposition to limits on
tion enforcement, legal services
migration a centerpiece of his including budgets, education and Republican, has reportedly com- travel from Muslim countries or
or consumer fraud.
campaign. They were not alone. two issues Mr. Trump has long fo- mitted to signing an immigrant- both. A police officer dies
cused on: refugees and sanctuary ■ 14 percent of the laws dealt with friendly bill that places limits on Six states incorporated parts of
State lawmakers across the coun-
try are addressing issues created cities, which seek to help or other- identification or licenses of some the state and local police in immi- the exam immigrants must pass
after a shooting at a
wise protect undocumented immi- kind.
by immigration.
grants from what they view as
gration enforcement.
Governors vetoed nine bills re-
to become citizens into their high
school curriculums. (They were
routine traffic stop.
In the first half of this year, state ■ 13 percent dealt with civics or
overly harsh federal laws. lated to sanctuary cities while 18 Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky,
legislators enacted 133 immigra- education, including residency or
tion laws, almost double the 70 Here’s a look at what state law- others were awaiting signatures Montana, Nevada and West Vir-
immigration requirements for ac-
makers were up to in the first half as of the end of June. ginia.) Those states joined Ari- crimes in New Hampshire be-
passed in 2016, according to a new cess to higher education or finan-
of the year. tween 1997 and 2011. A warrant for
report from the bipartisan Na- cial aid. Bills related to refugee resettle- zona, Idaho, Louisiana, North Da-
tional Conference of State Legisla- ■ 27 percent of the laws were re- The remaining laws addressed ment were introduced in about kota, South Carolina, Tennessee his arrest was issued there in 2013
tures. lated to budgeting. This legisla- immigrant health, employment, half the states this year. South Da- and Utah, all of which had already after he failed to show up for sen-
That spike in activity is the re- tion dealt with funding for immi- public benefits and human traf- kota passed a law limiting refugee done the same. tencing after he was convicted of
disorderly conduct, The A.P. said.
Sergeant Lowe said there was
also a warrant out for Mr. McCar-
An Inquiry Over Car Insurance Refunds Adds to Woes at Wells Fargo thy’s arrest in Johnson County,
Mo. Court records show that he
was charged with unlawful pos-
derstood and addressed.” He de- session of a firearm there in 2015.
From Page A1 clined to comment on the specif- Officer Michael was a lifelong
GAP insurance. ics, adding that “the Federal Re- resident of Clinton, Sergeant
It is not mandatory for car buy- serve Board will take any regula- Lowe said. He is survived by his
ers to carry GAP insurance, which tory and supervisory steps we feel wife and two stepsons and had
typically costs $400 to $600. But are necessary to ensure the firm’s been on the police force for less
car dealers push the insurance, attention to compliance.” than a year.
and lenders like it because of the A failure to refund the insur- “He had a past military back-
protection it provides. When bor- ance money harmed borrowers ground and his desire was to be a
rowers pay off the loans early, whose cars were repossessed by police officer,” Sergeant Lowe
they are entitled to a refund of increasing what they owed, a fig- said. “It just came to the point
some of the GAP insurance pre- ure that the bank reports to con- where he was able to do that.”
mium because the coverage they sumer credit bureaus. All 50
Before shots were fired, Officer
paid for is no longer needed. states require that the amount of
Michael radioed in a description
Laws in nine states require that unused insurance be credited to
of Mr. McCarthy’s car, a 2008
customers get unused insurance those borrowers’ accounts, reduc-
Dodge Nitro sport utility vehicle,
money back. They are Alabama, ing the amount owed.
according to a probable cause
Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Mary- The bank alluded to the new
statement filed with court by Sgt.
land, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, problem briefly in its quarterly fi-
Greg Martin, an investigator with
Oregon and South Carolina. nancial statement issued Friday.
the Highway Patrol’s Division of
Jennifer A. Temple, a Wells “The company has identified cer-
tain issues related to the unused Drug and Crime Control. He said
Fargo spokeswoman, provided a the vehicle was registered in the
statement saying: “During an in- portion of guaranteed auto protec-
tion waiver or insurance agree- suspect’s name.
ternal review, we discovered is-
ments between the dealer and, by Sergeant Martin said Mr. Mc-
sues related to a lack of oversight
assignment, the lender, which Carthy’s car was abandoned near
and controls surrounding the ad-
may result in refunds to the scene of the shooting after it
ministration of Guaranteed Asset
customers in certain states,” hit an embankment. Neighbors
Protection products. We are re-
Wells Fargo said in the filing. LUKE SHARRETT/BLOOMBERG reported seeing a man running
viewing our practices and actively
working with our dealers and “These and other issues related Wells Fargo failed to refund car loan holders with special insurance who repaid loans early. from the vehicle after the crash,
have already begun making im- to the origination, servicing and/ he said.
provements to the GAP refund or collection of indirect consumer Surveillance video from two
to strengthen its business, fix insurance on customers who did at our annual stockholders meet-
process. If we find customer im- auto loans, including related in- convenience stores in Clinton was
problems and help build a better not need it, several Democratic ing in April 2017, the board is en-
pacts, we will make customers surance products, may subject the used to link Mr. McCarthy and the
Wells Fargo,” Ms. Temple said. lawmakers asked that hearings be gaging in an ongoing comprehen-
whole.” company to formal or informal in- abandoned vehicle, Sergeant
“We’ve taken huge proactive convened to learn more. sive review of its structure, com-
Ms. Temple declined to say quiries, investigations or exami- steps to improve the customer ex- Senator Elizabeth Warren, a position and practices,” it said. Martin said.
when the problem began. She said nations from federal, state and/or perience.” Massachusetts Democrat who is The bank expects the review to re- Video from an Everyday Con-
the bank was trying to assess how local government agencies, and The new problem raises ques- on the Senate Banking Commit- sult in changes to be disclosed in venience Store shows Mr. McCar-
many customers had been af- may also subject the company to tions about Wells Fargo’s internal tee, also reiterated her request the coming months, it added. thy driving his car into the store
fected. Wells Fargo improved con- litigation.” controls and its board’s oversight that the Fed oust 12 of Wells Far- In a statement to employees is- parking lot shortly before Officer
trols on the refund process in 2014, GAP coverage is similar to of company operations. go’s 15 directors, saying they had sued Friday with the filing, Timo- Michael was killed, the sergeant
she said. The unit of the bank that home mortgage insurance, which In a separate crisis at Wells violated their duties to oversee thy J. Sloan, Wells Fargo’s chief, wrote. The video shows Mr. Mc-
makes car loans is called Wells shields lenders against a default if Fargo that was exposed last year, risk management at the bank in said, “To regain the trust we have Carthy getting out of the car, en-
Fargo Dealer Services. a borrower loses his or her job and bank employees were found to the period when the improprieties lost, we must continue to be trans- tering the store and buying a
Asked about the regulatory in- cannot make the payments. have created millions of credit had taken place. parent with all our stakeholders package of cigar wrappers.
quiry into GAP insurance at Wells Car buyers who finance their card and bank accounts that In its regulatory filing on Fri- and go beyond what has been Video from a second shop, Clin-
Fargo, Darren Gersh, a spokes- purchases typically add the cost of customers had not requested. day, Wells said its directors had asked of us by our regulators by ton Convenience Store, shows Mr.
man for the Federal Reserve the GAP coverage to the amount That led to millions of dollars in undertaken actions to enhance reviewing all of our operations — McCarthy’s car leaving the park-
Board in Washington said, “We of the loan. The interest that bor- fines and the departure of the governance and oversight. leaving no stone unturned — so ing lot of the Everyday Conven-
are focused on ensuring that the rowers pay on the coverage goes chief executive, John G. Stumpf. “The board recognizes that we can be confident we have done ience Store and driving toward
root causes of a firm’s compliance to the bank that made the loan. More recently, after the disclo- there is still work to be done, and, all that we can do to build a better, the scene of the shooting. It does
and controls breakdowns are un- “Dealer Services is on a journey sure that the bank had forced auto in response to feedback received stronger Wells Fargo.” not record the shooting itself.
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THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Team

Secrecy and Suspicion Surround Administration’s Deregulation Teams

By DANIELLE IVORY
and ROBERT FATURECHI
When President Trump ordered
federal agencies to form teams to
dismantle government regula-
tions, the Transportation Depart-
ment turned to people with deep
industry ties.
One appointee had previously
lobbied the department on behalf
of American Airlines. Another
held executive roles for several
electric and hybrid car companies
regulated by the department. A
third was a lawyer who repre-
sented United Airlines in regula-
tory matters.
The three appointees have been
identified by The New York Times
ALEX BRANDON/ASSOCIATED PRESS
and ProPublica in a continuing ef-
fort to track members of the de- President Trump at the Department of Transportation in June.
regulation teams. The appoint- The department has turned to people with industry ties to fill
ments, previously unreported, fol- posts on teams charged with deregulation. Representative John
low a pattern identified by the two Conyers Jr. of Michigan has been critical of the appointments.
news organizations: By and large,
the Trump administration has
stacked the teams with political affect recent employers. “Decline.”
appointees, some of whom may be The deregulation teams are The Defense Department and
reviewing rules their former em- part of Mr. Trump’s push to cut red the Department of Homeland Se-
AL DRAGO/THE NEW YORK TIMES
ployers sought to weaken or kill. tape across government, and they curity provided only the titles for
A full vetting of industry con- Cummings of Maryland, John top lobbyist for American Airlines June. have presented a new avenue for most appointees to their review
nections has been difficult be- Conyers Jr. of Michigan, Gerald E. industries to shed rules they have teams, not the names.
who sought to influence the Trans- Another Transportation ap-
cause some agencies have de- Connolly of Virginia and David Ci- argued for years are hurting prof- In their letter to the White
portation Department. He also pointee, Marianne McInerney,
clined to provide information cilline of Rhode Island wrote in the its, depressing job creation and House, the Democratic lawmak-
held executive positions with the was president of a trade group
about the appointees — not even letter. raising prices. Environmental, ers suggested that withholding
Aerospace Industries Associa- representing car dealers. She also
their names. The congressmen cited a recent consumer and other liberal names could violate the Freedom
tion, a trade group representing held executive positions at sev-
The lack of transparency has investigation by The Times and groups have argued that such reg- of Information Act.
aerospace and defense compa- eral electric and hybrid automo- ulations protect the public, keep-
concerned several top Demo- ProPublica revealing that mem- “These Task Forces must have
nies, and Airlines for America, a tive companies. ing drinking water clean and
cratic members of Congress who bers of the deregulation teams an effective and transparent
trade association for major air- The department has oversight roads safe, for example.
serve on committees that oversee have included lawyers who repre- guard against conflicts of interest,
lines. over some rules affecting electric In the recent past, presidents
regulatory matters. In a letter to sented businesses in cases especially those in which industry
The airlines group recently ap- cars. For example, this year it de- from both parties have entered of- lobbyists seek to overturn envi-
the White House on Monday, they against government regulators, plauded the Transportation De- layed new safety requirements fice pledging to scrutinize regula- ronmental and health protections
called on the administration to re- staff members of political dark that would have forced the vehi- tions, but Mr. Trump’s order goes for financial gain,” wrote the law-
lease the names of all regulatory money groups and employees of cles, which are normally quiet, to further, putting a premium on cut- makers, who are the ranking
team members as well as docu- industry-funded organizations
ments relating to their potential make a minimum amount of noise ting rules and empowering teams Democrats on the House’s Com-
conflicts of interest.
opposed to environmental rules.
Since the publication of that in-
Stacking teams with to catch the attention of nearby of political appointees who are mittee on Oversight and Govern-
pedestrians. typically less wedded to an agen-
“It is unacceptable for federal
agencies to operate in such a clan-
vestigation last month, the news
organizations have identified
political appointees, A third Transportation appoint- cy’s existing guidelines.
ment Reform; Committee on the
Judiciary; Subcommittee on Gov-
destine and unaccountable man- more than a dozen other appoint- many not identified. ee, Jonathan Moss, was previ-
ously managing director of inter-
The agencies have also been
opaque about their deregulation
ernment Operations; and Sub-
committee on Regulatory Reform,
ner especially when the result ees through interviews, public
could be the undoing of critical records and reader tips — includ- national and regulatory affairs at teams. Commercial and Antitrust Law.
public health and safety protec- ing the three appointees to the de- United Airlines. One of his top re- The Justice Department has re- “It appears,” the letter contin-
tions,” Representatives Elijah E. regulation team at the Trans- partment’s decision to suspend a sponsibilities at the airline, which leased the names of only two ap- ued, “that the current Task Forces
portation Department. rule that would have required air- is regulated by the Transportation pointees currently working on its are already failing on this front,
Robert Faturechi is a reporter at In all, there are now 85 known lines to provide more public infor- Department, was “anticipating team. In an email exchange, a and instead are actively hiding
ProPublica, an independent, non- current and former team mem- mation about passenger fees. The and responding to proposed regu- spokesman, Ian Prior, said he their members and their meetings
profit investigative journalism or- bers, including 34 with potential Transportation Department has lations affecting United’s opera- could not provide additional from public view.”
ganization that collaborated on conflicts. At least two of the ap- estimated that airlines collected tions.” names because “the Task Force is The letter was addressed to
this article. Several federal agen- pointees may be positioned to more than $4.1 billion last year in Mr. Moss also served at the de- made up of components, not par- Mick Mulvaney, the director of the
cies have not yet released the profit if certain regulations are un- baggage fees. partment during the Obama ad- ticular employees.” Office of Management and Budg-
names of people serving on deregu- done and at least four were regis- A department spokesperson ministration. An agency spokes- “A component may have multi- et, and Neomi Rao, the adminis-
lation task forces. We need your tered to lobby the agencies they said Mr. Elwell left the deregula- woman said all deregulation team ple employees assisting with the trator of the Office of Information
help finding them and figuring out now work for. tion team after being appointed as members had signed agreements work,” he added. and Regulatory Affairs, which
what they’re doing. Email task- One Transportation appointee, deputy administrator of the Fed- requiring them to recuse them- Asked if he could name any of vets regulatory changes coming
[email protected]. Daniel Elwell, was previously a eral Aviation Administration in selves from issues that narrowly those employees, he responded, out of federal agencies.

Unlike Predecessors,
Trump’s Man in C.I.A.
Adds a Political Tone
the Koch brothers, the conserva-
From Page A1 tive billionaires who run the com-
tion. pany. But he can still charm an au-
Mr. Pompeo, 53, is just the kind dience of mixed political views,
of well-credentialed tough guy Mr. getting laughs at the Aspen Secu-
Trump admires. He graduated rity Forum by cracking wise about
first in his class from West Point, things like “this fuzzy little First
served as an Army tank officer Amendment,” while attacking fa-
and went to Harvard Law School. vorite Republican targets like the
Since arriving at the C.I.A., he has Obama administration and Wik-
proved eager to push limits, iLeaks (failing to mention that he
whether they be on covert opera- had once cheered WikiLeaks’ dis-
tions or on calling out the press for closures).
what he considers its failings. But Mr. Pompeo knows whom
Yet the attributes that have en- not to criticize — namely, Mr.
deared Mr. Pompeo to the presi- Trump. Since taking over the
dent — his hawkish politics and C.I.A., Mr. Pompeo has gone out of
eagerness to speak his mind — his way to praise what he de-
have been met with a more mixed scribes as Mr. Trump’s open-
reception at the C.I.A. The agency minded approach to intelligence,
sees its role as delivering hard recasting the president’s churlish
truths that are unvarnished by po- mocking of American intelligence
litical preferences, and there are agencies as the healthy skepti-
concerns in the intelligence com- cism of a smart leader.
munity that Mr. Pompeo’s parti- “The president,” Mr. Pompeo
san instincts color his views of said in a public appearance in
contentious issues, such as Rus- April, “is completely prepared to
STEPHEN CROWLEY/THE NEW YORK TIMES
sia’s interference in the election or hear things that run counter to the
Iran’s nuclear program. hypothesis.” Mike Pompeo, right, is not the first former congressman to run the C.I.A., but the others spoke more cautiously about tough issues.
“The big test is going to be when Asked how he got along with
there’s a direct confrontation be- Mr. Trump, Mr. Pompeo answered “Pompeo’s ability to communi- Current and former C.I.A. offi- deal where they “had taken a very sians into Syria, a claim with little
tween the agency and the admin- effusively. “The relationship is, in cate in a style in which the presi- cials, all of whom spoke on the strong view the way Pompeo has” traction outside right-wing cir-
istration,” said Vince Houghton, a my sense, fantastic,” he said then. dent is comfortable, it’s probably condition of anonymity to protect on a matter that the C.I.A. was still cles. He also strongly hinted that
military and intelligence historian Administration officials said good news,” said Michael V. Hay- their careers, said there had been wrestling with, Mr. Pillar said. the United States was considering
who is the curator of the Interna- the president was so taken with den, a former director of both the no overt pressure from Mr. Pom- “None, to my mind, continued to ways to seek regime change in
tional Spy Museum in Washing- Mr. Pompeo that he insisted that C.I.A. and the National Security peo to shade intelligence on any be as outspoken after taking the North Korea. And he all but said
ton. the C.I.A. director personally de- Agency. issue since he took over the directorship,” he added. Iran had no intention of comply-
“If you have another Iraq weap- liver his daily intelligence briefing “Your job is to tell the president agency. But they also said Mr. Mr. Boyd, the agency spokes- ing with the nuclear deal.
ons of mass destruction situation, when in Washington. (Dan Coats, things he does not want to hear,” Pompeo had made little secret of man, said that on all issues, Mr. “Iranian compliance with the
if there is a direct hit on the the director of national intelli- Mr. Hayden said. “But you’ve got his own opinions — something Pompeo “has been adamant that
agency from a Trump tweet or gence, also takes part.) nuclear deal is like a bad tenant,”
to walk them to the truth — you that could impede the kind of intel- C.I.A. officers have the time, space
something,” he continued, “we’ll “There have been days when I ligence the agency produced, ac- Mr. Pompeo said. “They don’t pay
just can’t slap them in the face and resources to make sound and
see whether he’s embraced the thought we were there, ready to with it and run out of the Oval Of- cording to Paul R. Pillar, who unbiased assessments that are the rent, you call them, and then
C.I.A. culture — and they’ve em- give the brief. I thought, ‘There’s fice.” spent nearly 30 years at the C.I.A. delivered to policy makers with- they send a check and it doesn’t
braced him back — versus being not a chance we’re getting in to- Officials say intelligence offi- and is now a fellow at Georgetown out fear or favor.” clear. And then the next day
loyal to Trump.” day,’” Mr. Pompeo said in April. cers have found Mr. Pompeo to be University. But Mr. Pompeo’s views were there’s this old, tired sofa in the
Mr. Pompeo appears to be “And you know, each day, we’re in eager to hear about their work “When analysts are preparing certainly clear last month at As- front yard.”
teaching the C.I.A. to embrace its there. It’s like clockwork.” and listen to their concerns. And their assessments, they can’t blot pen. As for Russia’s role in the elec-
inner Trump. In response to ques- It is only after the briefing, usu- he has won praise for ag- out of their mind their awareness Mr. Pompeo went hard at leak- tion, he acknowledged that it had
tions for this article, Dean Boyd, a ally in the late morning or early af- gressively pushing to expand es- of what will be welcome and what ers, saying he had moved the meddled, yet he also played down
spokesman for the agency, replied ternoon, that Mr. Pompeo treks pionage and covert operations will be not welcome,” Mr. Pillar C.I.A.’s counterintelligence opera- the significance of the interfer-
that Mr. Pompeo’s “only bias is to- across the Potomac River to C.I.A. and promoting veteran officers to said. “There is the hazard of a bias tions directly under his control in ence because it had meddled be-
ward action and winning.” headquarters in Langley, Va., senior roles. Last week, he trav- creeping in, even subconsciously.” part to combat the problem. He fore.
As a congressman from Wich- where his ready access to Mr. eled to Kabul to discuss security Mr. Pompeo is not the first for- said it was “unconscionable” that “It is true, yeah, of course” the
ita, Kan., the home of Koch Indus- Trump is seen as a positive. The cooperation with Afghanistan’s mer congressman to run the C.I.A. The New York Times had pub- Russians had meddled in the elec-
tries, Mr. Pompeo was a favorite of agency sees the president as its leaders, including President He follows Leon Panetta, a Demo- lished the name of the agency’s tion, he said. “And the one before
main customer, and conventional Ashraf Ghani, in a country where crat, and the Republicans George Iran operations chief, a senior offi- that, and the one before that. They
Adam Goldman and Eileen Sulli- wisdom in Washington holds that the C.I.A. works closely with Af- Bush, who ran the agency in the cial who works in Langley but have been at this a hell of a long
van contributed reporting from a C.I.A. director is only as power- ghan intelligence and agency final year of the Ford administra- whose identity is classified.
time. And I don’t think they have
Washington, and Maggie Ha- ful as his access to the Oval Office paramilitary operatives have tion, and Porter J. Goss. But none He accused the Obama admin-
any intention of backing off.”
berman from New York. is strong. spent years hunting terrorists. of them faced an issue like the Iran istration of “inviting” the Rus-
 THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017 0N A15

THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Agenda

Facing Subsidy Cuts,

Insurance Officials
Seek a Backup Plan
By ROBERT PEAR at the Virginia Bureau of Insur-
PHILADELPHIA — Congress ance. “But that’s not the case right
is on vacation, but state insurance now.”
commissioners have no time off. Without the federal subsidies,
They have spent the past three insurers would need to get the
days debating what to do if Presi- money — estimated at $7 billion to
dent Trump stops subsidies paid $10 billion next year — from an-
to insurance companies on behalf other source. And that means
of millions of low-income people. higher premiums, state officials
For administration officials and said.
many in Congress, the subsidies The officials here are wrestling
are a political and legal issue in a with several questions: How
fight over the future of the Afford- much should premiums be in-
able Care Act. But for state offi- creased? Who should pay the
cials, gathered here at the sum- higher premiums? Is there any
mer meeting of the National Asso- way to minimize the effect on low-
ciation of Insurance Commission- income people? Is it better to as-
ers, the subsidies are a more sume that the cost-sharing sub-
immediate, practical concern. sidy payments will or will not be
made in 2018? What happens if
The insurance commissioners
state officials guess wrong?
are frustrated with the gridlock in
State officials said they would
Washington, which they say
allow insurers to impose a sur-
threatens coverage for con-
charge on premiums if the federal
sumers and the solvency of some
government cuts off funds for the
insurers. Without the payments,
cost-sharing subsidies.
they say, consumers will face
Paul Lombardo, a health actu-
higher premiums in 2018, and PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARK MAKELA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
ary at the Connecticut Insurance
more insurers will pull back from At a meeting, above, state officials have been debating what to
Department, said officials there
the individual insurance market. do if the Trump administration stops certain subsidies to health
might direct insurers to spread
Mr. Trump has repeatedly the cost across all of their health insurance companies. Alfred W. Redmer Jr., left, the Maryland
threatened to cut off the pay- plans, both on and off the insur-
ments, which reimburse insurers insurance commissioner, took part in the meeting on Monday.
ance exchange created under the
for reducing the deductibles, co- Affordable Care Act.
payments and other out-of-pocket sence of a law explicitly providing dies would continue. But “because
By contrast, Florida has asked
costs for low-income people. insurers to load all of the extra money for the purpose. The case of the confusion in Washington,”
If the government continues cost into the prices charged for is pending before the United said Martin W. Swanson of the Ne-
providing funds for the subsidies, midlevel “silver plans” sold on the States Court of Appeals for the braska Insurance Department,
insurers will have “a small profit,” exchange. The federal govern- District of Columbia Circuit, the state later told insurers to as-
said Craig Wright, the chief actu- ment would then absorb almost all which has held it “in abeyance” at sume that they would not receive
ary at the Florida Office of Insur- of the cost through another sub- the request of House Republicans the subsidy payments.
ance Regulation. “If the subsidies sidy program, which provides tax and the Trump administration. Mike Chaney, the Mississippi
are not funded, carriers would credits to help low-income people The administration has been insurance commissioner, and Al-
face the prospect of large financial pay premiums, Mr. Wright said. providing funds for cost-sharing len W. Kerr, the Arkansas insur-
losses, which could increase the The tax credits generally increase subsidies month to month, with no ance commissioner, said they had
risk to their solvency.” when premiums rise. commitment to pay for the re- instructed companies to assume
“It could be very damaging,” J. P. Wieske, the deputy insur- mainder of this year, much less for that they would receive the cost-
Mr. Wright said. “Our market ance commissioner in Wisconsin, 2018. sharing subsidies next year. Mich-
wouldn’t recover.” said that two companies, Anthem “I am very fearful that we’ll igan has told insurers to submit
vidual market, that’s obviously a commissioner. “In doing so, we
With no guidance or clarity and Molina Healthcare, were leav- have insurers make a decision to two sets of rates, one with the sub-
gargantuan risk.” are really making it difficult for
from the Trump administration, ing the state’s marketplace in 2018 leave markets as a result of the sidies and one without.
The risks for consumers are consumers who need information
state officials are agonizing over and that two others, Humana and uncertainty,” said Ms. McPeak, Michael F. Consedine, the chief
also high, Mr. Wieske said. “Con- about open enrollment — who’s who is the president-elect of the
what to do. Many expressed a UnitedHealth, exited in previous executive of the National Associa-
sense of urgency, saying they sumers,” he said, “could be stuck participating in the market and National Association of Insurance tion of Insurance Commissioners,
years. As a result, he said, more what the rates might be. We don’t
needed to make decisions soon on in a zombie plan, an insurer that is Commissioners. “It’s somewhat said that without a firm commit-
people will be enrolled in smaller
rates to be charged in 2018. essentially no longer able to do know the answers to any of those inequitable to ask insurers to sign ment of federal funds for the cost-
local health plans that could be
Trump administration officials business in the worst-case sce- questions.” a contract that binds them but sharing subsidies, “we have grave
more affected by a termination of
were invited to speak to state in- federal subsidy payments. nario, or consumers may have to The uncertainty stems not only may not bind the federal govern- concerns about the long-term via-
surance regulators and were “Carriers left in the Wisconsin move to another insurer with dif- from the White House and Con- ment.” bility of the individual health in-
listed in the program for at least market are smaller, local plans,” ferent health care providers.” gress, but also from federal The Affordable Care Act re- surance market in a number of
one public session, but they did Mr. Wieske said. “Particular carri- Officials in many states must courts. quires an annual review of health states.”
not show up at that event to pro- ers could have huge surges in pop- decide this month on insurance House Republicans challenged insurance rate increases, and “We need some step right
vide the promised update on fed- ulation, going from 7 or 8 percent rates for next year. the cost-sharing payments in a states are taking different ap- away,” Mr. Consedine said, “either
eral policy. of their business in the individual “We are holding off making lawsuit in 2014. A federal judge proaches. by action of Congress or by direc-
“Most of us are hoping and market to 30 or 40 percent. If those decisions until the very last ruled last year that the Obama ad- Nebraska initially told insurers tion of the administration, to en-
praying that this gets resolved,” that’s the case, if it’s 30 or 40 per- possible minute,” said Julie Mix ministration had been illegally to file 2018 rates on the assump- sure that Americans continue to
said David Shea, a health actuary cent of their business in the indi- McPeak, the Tennessee insurance making the payments, in the ab- tion that the cost-sharing subsi- have access to coverage.”

BEDMINSTER JOURNAL

A Trump Vacation Formula: Work Hard, Play Hard, Tweet Hard

By PETER BAKER above the law,” he wrote on Twit-
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Here ter. “This issue isn’t about me —
is how a vacation day starts for it’s about the Special Counsel’s
President Trump. He wakes up, independence and integrity.”
he turns on the television, he Mr. Trump was still stewing
sees something that makes him about it nine hours later. “I think
mad, and he reaches for his Senator Blumenthal should take
Twitter-enabled smartphone to a nice long vacation in Vietnam,
vent. where he lied about his service,
In other words, it’s an awful lot so he can at least say he was
like the way he starts his work- there,” he wrote on Twitter.
day. All told, Mr. Trump blasted out
So when Mr. Trump protests 13 Twitter posts before dinner,
that he is not really on vacation, going after other favorite targets
as he spends 17 days this month as well, including the “failing”
away from Washington, he has a New York Times. As often hap-
point. For Mr. Trump, there is no pens, his posts included false
assertions. He said that The
vacation from grievance and
Times had apologized for its
frustration. He does not define
coverage of the election last year.
daily life by such easy delinea-
(It did not.) And he said the
tions as office hours and home
newspaper has “big losses.”
hours. He may take a relaxed
(Revenue was up 9 percent in
approach at work, and he may
the last quarter.)
engage in politics from his bed-
In a statement from a spokes-
room in Bedminster, N.J.
woman, Danielle Rhoades Ha,
To be sure, no president is ever
The Times called Mr. Trump’s
really on vacation, not in the
claims “incorrect” and noted that
sense of escaping to the beach,
the newspaper has 3.3 million
clearing out the head and genu- paid subscriptions — its most
inely leaving the office behind. ever — and growing profit, in-
Whether it was Bill Clinton at his come and revenues. “NYT’s
luxury rental in Martha’s Vine- business is thriving,” The Times
yard or George W. Bush at his said on Twitter.
ranch near Crawford, Tex., the Mr. Trump complained that the
world has a way of following a “Fake News Media” was not
president. Barack Obama was AL DRAGO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
paying enough attention to the
singing Christmas carols in President Trump left Marine One on Friday before boarding Air Force One to vacation at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J. United Nations Security Council
Hawaii when an aide interrupted vote to add more sanctions
to tell him that a man with explo- through long planned renova- the weekend, but the journalists man nor does he often take his baby and begged for forgiveness against North Korea, and he
sives in his underwear had tried tion,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twit- in the pool assigned to cover him shirt off in public. like a child. Now he judges collu- grumbled that he was not getting
to blow up a passenger plane. ter. “Going to New York next have not been allowed to set foot He does watch cable televi- sion?” sufficient credit for the accom-
As other presidents have done, week for more meetings.” on the property, nor have they sion. Around 7:30 a.m. on Mon- Mr. Blumenthal received at plishments of his 200-day-old
Mr. Trump had his daily intelli- His staff is eager to schedule laid eyes on him since Friday. day, Senator Richard Blumen- least five deferments from mili- presidency. He seemed particu-
gence briefing on Monday. He more meetings and public an- With driving rain on Monday thal, Democrat of Connecticut, tary service during the Vietnam larly intent on making the case
followed it up with an hourlong nouncements or statements. For making golf unappealing, it went on CNN to talk about the War era and then went into the that he still has his base behind
telephone call with Secretary of one thing, they want to show the remained unclear what the presi- special counsel investigation into Marine Reserve, where he him despite overall low poll
State Rex W. Tillerson to talk public that Mr. Trump is still dent did to enjoy himself. Other possible ties between Mr. served in a unit in Washington. numbers.
about the confrontation with working hard, just as White presidents, including Mr. Clinton, Trump’s associates and Russia But as a politician, he referred to “The Trump base is far bigger
North Korea over its ballistic House officials did during other Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama, during and after last year’s elec- himself as having “served in & stronger than ever before
missile program. presidents’ vacations. For an- brought stacks of books with tion. Mr. Trump presumably was Vietnam” or “served during the (despite some phony Fake News
His chief of staff, John F. Kelly, other, they want to make sure he them on vacation, dutifully re- watching, because about 15 min- Vietnam era.” The New York polling). Look at rallies in Penn,
who was also on the call, spent is kept as busy as possible, un- ported by aides. Mr. Trump is not utes later he was flaming Mr. Times article exposing these Iowa, Ohio and West Virginia,” he
the weekend with him. Aides derstanding that an idle presi- known as much of a book reader. Blumenthal. false or misleading statements in said in a string of Twitter posts.
said Vice President Mike Pence dent has a way of creating trou- Mr. Bush loved clearing brush “Interesting to watch Senator 2010 did not, however, report that “The fact is the Fake News Rus-
and other advisers would make ble. and bicycling on his ranch, while Richard Blumenthal of Connecti- he had told stories about Viet- sian collusion story, record Stock
the trek to the Trump National So far, though, it has been a Mr. Clinton and Mr. Obama liked cut talking about hoax Russian nam battles or conquests, nor Market, border security, military
Golf Club to talk about health vacation out of the public eye. to play cards. Mr. Trump is not collusion when he was a phony that he had cried when exposed. strength, jobs, Supreme Court
care, taxes and Afghanistan. Mr. Trump arrived Friday often spotted with a chain saw or Vietnam con artist!” he wrote on Mr. Trump received five defer- pick, economic enthusiasm,
First up will be Tom Price, the evening along with his daughter a deck of cards. Twitter. “Never in U.S. history ments from the draft: four for deregulation & so much more
secretary of health and human Ivanka Trump and son-in-law, CNN cheekily contrasted Mr. has anyone lied or defrauded college and one for bad feet. have driven the Trump base
services, who will meet with Mr. Jared Kushner; Mr. Kelly; and Trump’s vacation with that of his voters like Senator Richard Mr. Blumenthal responded, even closer together. Will never
Trump on Tuesday about opioid other White House aides. He has Russian counterpart, Vladimir V. Blumenthal. He told stories using Mr. Trump’s own favorite change!”
abuse. not been seen publicly since. He Putin, who was shown fishing about his Vietnam battles and medium. “Mr. President: Your And neither, he seemed to be
“Working hard from New reportedly dropped by to greet a bare chested in Siberia. Mr. conquests, how brave he was, bullying hasn’t worked before saying, will he, whether the day
Jersey while White House goes wedding party at the club over Trump is not much of a fisher- and it was all a lie. He cried like a and it won’t work now. No one is is called a vacation or not.
A16 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017

THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Agenda

Many Politicians Lie. But Trump Has Elevated the Art of Fabrication.
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG the United States Senate, he was
WASHINGTON — Whit Ayres, asked quite directly about lying.
a Republican political consultant While Mr. Blagojevich was tes-
here, likes to tell his clients that tifying under oath, a prosecutor
there are “three keys to credibil- pressed him on whether he made
ity.” a habit, as a politician, of lying to
“One, never defend the indefen- the public. They sparred over
sible,” he says. “Two, never deny whether Mr. Blagojevich had fed a
the undeniable. And No. 3 is: misleading story to a local news-
Never lie.” paper.
Would that politicians took his “That was a lie,” the prosecutor,
advice. Reid Schar, was quoted as saying.
Fabrications have long been a Mr. Blagojevich refused to fess
part of American politics. Poli- up. “That was a misdirection play
ticians lie to puff themselves up, to in politics,” he answered.
burnish their résumés and to He was sentenced to a 14-year
cover up misdeeds, including sex- prison term in 2011.
ual affairs. (See: Bill Clinton.) Joel Sawyer, a Republican strat-
Sometimes they cite false infor- egist in South Carolina, said there
mation for what they believe are were two ways for a politician to
justifiable policy reasons. (See: deal with deceit.
Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam.) “One is to never acknowledge it,
But President Trump, histori- which seems to have been em-
ans and consultants in both poli- ployed pretty successfully by our
tical parties agree, appears to current president,” Mr. Sawyer
have taken what the writer Han- said. “The second is to rip the
nah Arendt once called “the con- Band-Aid off and say: ‘I screwed
flict between truth and politics” to up; here’s why. Give me another
an entirely new level. chance, and I won’t disappoint
From his days peddling the you again.’”
false notion that former President Mr. Sawyer worked for a poli-
Barack Obama was born in Ken- tician — Mark Sanford, then the
ya, to his inflated claims about governor of South Carolina — who
how many people attended his in- took the latter approach. On a
augural, to his description just last June weekend in 2009, Mr. San-
week of receiving two phone calls ford slipped out of the South Car-
— one from the president of Mex- olina capitol and flew to Buenos
ico and another from the head of Aires to be with his lover, but told
the Boy Scouts — that never hap- J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
his staff that he had gone hiking
pened, Mr. Trump is trafficking in President Clinton, above, was on the Appalachian Trail. His
hyperbole, distortion and fabrica- impeached for perjury and ob- aides, including Mr. Sawyer, un-
tion on practically a daily basis. struction in trying to hide an knowingly passed the lie on to re-
In part, this represents yet an- affair with an intern. George porters.
other way that Mr. Trump is oper- W. Bush faced claims that he Mr. Sanford later apologized
ating on his own terms, but it also profusely. Voters eventually re-
reflects a broader decline in took America to war in Iraq
based on false intelligence. warded him; today he serves in
standards of truth for political dis- Congress.
course. A look at politicians over
Many of Mr. Trump’s lies — like
the past half-century makes it year” in 2015.) the time he boasted that he had
clear that lying in office did not be- “I thought it was unfair at the made the “all-time record in the
gin with Donald J. Trump. Still, the time, and I still think it’s unfair,” history of Time Magazine” for be-
scope of Mr. Trump’s falsehoods Ms. Dunn said, referring to Mr. ing on its cover so often — are
raises questions about whether Obama. Mr. Obama later apolo- somewhat trivial, and “basically
the brakes on straying from the gized to people who were forced about him polishing his ego,” said
truth and the consequences for off their plans “despite assur-
politicians’ being caught saying John Weaver, a prominent Repub-
ances from me.” lican strategist.
things that just are not true have On the theory that politicians
diminished over time. That mystifies Bob Ney, a Re-
who get caught in lies put their publican former congressman
One of the first modern presi- reputations at risk, Brendan Ny-
dents to wrestle publicly with a lie who spent time in prison for ac-
han, a political scientist at Dart- cepting illegal gifts from a lobby-
was Dwight D. Eisenhower in mouth College (and contributor to
May 1960, when an American U-2 ist, Jack Abramoff, and lying to
The New York Times’s Upshot) federal investigators about it. “It
spy plane was shot down while in
and some colleagues tried to really baffles me why he has to
Soviet airspace.
study the effects of Mr. Trump’s feel compelled to exaggerate to
The Eisenhower administration
misstatements during last year’s exonerate himself,” Mr. Ney said.
lied to the public about the plane
presidential campaign. But other presidential lies, like
and its mission, claiming it was a
In a controlled experiment, re- Mr. Trump’s false claim that mil-
weather aircraft. But when the So- LUKE FRAZZA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
viets announced that the pilot had searchers showed a group of vot- lions of undocumented immi-
been captured alive, Eisenhower ers a misleading claim by Mr. grants had cast ballots for his op-
resigned rather than face im- struction. Mr. Bush and his team ticians have an easier time dis-
reluctantly acknowledged that peachment. Voters, accustomed torting the truth. Trump, while another group saw ponent in the 2016 election, are far
emphasized and in some cases ex-
the plane had been on an intelli- to being able to trust politicians, that claim accompanied by “cor- more substantive, and pose a
aggerated elements of the intelli- And in an era of hyper-partisan-
gence mission — an admission were disgusted. In 1976, Jimmy ship, where politicians often are rective information” that directly threat, scholars say, that his ad-
gence that bolstered the case
that shook him badly, the historian Carter won the presidency after trying to court voters at the ex- contradicted what Mr. Trump had ministration will build policies
while disregarding dissenting in-
Doris Kearns Goodwin said. telling the public, “I’ll never lie to treme ends of the political spec- said. The group that viewed the around them.
formation, leading critics to ac-
“He just felt that his credibility you.” trum, politicians often lie with im- corrections believed the new in- The glaring difference between
cuse them of lying. Among those
was such an important part of his President Clinton was im- punity. Even the use of the word formation, but seeing it did not Mr. Trump and his predecessors is
who said Mr. Bush had lied was
person and character, and to have peached for perjury and obstruc- “lie” in politics has changed. change how they viewed Mr. the sheer magnitude of falsehoods
that undermined by having to tell tion in trying to cover up his affair “There was a time not long ago Trump. and exaggerations; PolitiFact
a lie was one of the deepest re- with an intern, Monica Lewinsky, when you could not use the word “We know politicians are risk rates just 20 percent of the state-
averse. They try to minimize neg-
grets of his presidency,” Ms. Good-
win said.
during legal proceedings. Chris
Lehane, a former Clinton adviser,
A decline in the ‘lie’ in a campaign,” said Anita
Dunn, once a communications di- ative coverage, and that negative
ments it reviewed as true, and a
total of 69 percent either mostly
In the short run, Eisenhower said Mr. Clinton’s second-term standards of truth for rector to Mr. Obama. “It was coverage could damage their im-
age over time,” Mr. Nyhan said.
false, false or “Pants on Fire.”
was hurt; a summit meeting with agenda suffered during his im- thought to be too harsh, and it That leaves scholars like Ms.
the Soviet leader Nikita Khru- peachment, yet paradoxically his political discourse. would backfire. So you had to say “But the reputational conse- Goodwin to wonder whether Mr.
shchev collapsed in acrimony. But favorability ratings remained they hadn’t been honest, or they quences of making false claims Trump, in elevating the art of poli-
the public eventually forgave him, high — in part, Mr. Lehane said, didn’t tell the truth, or the facts aren’t strong enough. They’re not tical fabrication, has forever
Ms. Goodwin said, because he because “the public distinguished show something else, and even sufficiently strong to dissuade changed what Americans are will-
owned up to his mistake. between Clinton the private per- Mr. Trump. that was seen as hot rhetoric.” people from misleading the pub- ing to tolerate from their leaders.
In 1972, at the height of the Wa- son and the public person.” Over the past two decades, in- With the rise of fact-checking lic.” “What’s different today and
tergate scandal, President Rich- But sometimes it’s easier to tell stitutional changes in American websites, politicians are held ac- Of course, lying to court voters what’s scarier today is these lies
ard M. Nixon was accused of ly- what’s false than what’s a lie. politics have made it easier for po- countable for their words. In 2013, is one thing, and lying to federal are pointed out, and there’s evi-
ing, obstructing justice and mis- President George W. Bush faced liticians to lie. The proliferation of the website PolitiFact declared prosecutors quite another. When dence that they’re wrong,” she
using the Internal Revenue Serv- accusations that he and members television political talk shows and that Mr. Obama had uttered the Rod Blagojevich, the former gov- said. “And yet because of the at-
ice, among other agencies, and of his administration took Amer- the rise of the internet have creat- “lie of the year” when he told ernor of Illinois, was accused of a tacks on the media, there are a
ica to war in Iraq based on false in- ed a fragmented media envi- Americans that if they liked their long list of federal corruption percentage of people in the coun-
Monica Davey contributed report- telligence about whether Saddam ronment. With no widely acknowl- health care plan they could keep counts related to claims that he try who are willing to say, ‘Maybe
ing from Chicago. Hussein had weapons of mass de- edged media gatekeeper, poli- it. (Mr. Trump won “lie of the tried to sell Mr. Obama’s seat in he is telling the truth.’”

Trump Company Moves to Protect Its Trademark in Chinese Gambling Hub

By AUSTIN RAMZY that had registered to use the
name “Trump” in coffee shops and
HONG KONG — The company
that manages the Donald J. restaurants. Protecting the brand
Trump brand has moved to pro- “The Trump Organization has
been zealously enforcing and pro-
in a country known
tect the name in Macau, a part of
China that long ago surpassed Las tecting its intellectual property for knockoffs.
Vegas to become the world’s larg- rights around the world for more
est gambling market. than 20 years, particularly in ju-
The moves do not necessarily risdictions where trademark in-
pany’s overseas endeavors create
indicate that President Trump or fringement is rampant,” Amanda
a perception problem and expose
the Trump Organization will even- Miller, a spokeswoman for the
him to potential conflicts.
tually open a Trump hotel or casi- Trump Organization, said in an
The Trump business now holds
no there. But the ongoing efforts email. “The trademark applica-
tions you are referring to simply at least 125 registered or provi-
to expand Trump trademarks sionally approved trademarks in
overseas have raised questions represent a continuation of those
efforts.” mainland China for a variety of
about whether they fall afoul of a
Macau, a former Portuguese services and products. Last
constitutional prohibition on re-
enclave on China’s southern coast month a trademark for the Trump
ceiving economic benefits from
that returned to Chinese control in name in relation to hotel restau-
foreign governments.
1999, is the only part of China rants was officially registered. Mr.
Since winning the presidential
where casino gambling is legal. Trump has no businesses in
election, Mr. Trump has turned
After it opened up its gambling China, but the trademarks give
over control of his businesses to
his adult sons, and his legal team monopoly in 2001, new casinos some protection of his name in a
has said the business would no and an influx of visitors from country where knockoffs are com-
longer pursue new foreign deals. mainland China led to a full gam- monplace.
DTTM Operations, a New York bling boom, attracting American The Trump Organization says
company that holds Trump trade- companies like Las Vegas Sands those trademarks are registered
marks, applied in June for rights and Wynn Resorts. The tiny en- with an affiliate and have nothing
to the Trump name in casinos, clave surpassed the Las Vegas to do with Mr. Trump.
construction, hotels and real es- Strip for total revenues in 2006. LAM YIK FEI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES. After denouncing China and its
tate, according to Macau govern- Mr. Trump began operating ca- Macau, the world’s largest gambling market, is the only place where China allows casino gambling. large trade gap with the United
ment filings. It is not clear sinos in Atlantic City in the 1980s, States during the presidential
whether the applications were for eventually running four that held International Hotel and Tower” expire between 2020 to 2022,” The Trump business has picked campaign, Mr. Trump eased off his
new trademark protections or to as much as about 30 percent of the and “Chun Pou” — a Cantonese Desmond Lam, an associate busi- up efforts to protect its name in criticism in hopes Beijing would
renew similar trademarks dating city’s gambling market in the version of Mr. Trump’s name. ness professor at the University of mainland China as well. China ap- be able to help curb North Korea’s
back to 2006 that had expired. 1990s. His casino companies The licenses issued after Macau Macau, said by email. “The indus- proved a Trump trademark for the missile and nuclear weapons pro-
The company already holds sought bankruptcy protection opened up its gambling monopoly try is still somewhat unclear what use of his name in construction gram.
more than a dozen trademarks in multiple times, and he quit the will soon begin to expire, which will happen to these concession- services in February, shortly after But in recent weeks Mr. Trump
Macau. Last year Trump won a le- board in 2009. could open the market further. aires after that. Recently, there he acknowledged he would main- has declared China’s efforts to
gal battle with a Macau company Trump trademark applications The South China Morning Post re- have been some rumors that the tain American policy toward Tai- constrain Kim Jong-un, the
in Macau go back to 2006 and in- ported on the filings on Sunday. Macau government may allow a wan, a key issue for China’s lead- North’s leader, a failure, declaring
Zhang Tiantian in Beijing contrib- clude “Trump,” “Donald J. “Gaming concessions for the seventh operator to enter this ers. The president’s critics said last month on Twitter he was
uted research. Trump,” “Trump Tower,” “Trump six casino operators in Macau will market.” the episode showed how his com- “very disappointed in China.”
 THE NEW YORK TIMES NATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017 0N A17

THE 45TH PRESIDENT The Agenda

The Political Payoff of Depicting White Identity as Under Siege

By LYNN VAVRECK Justice Department would be
Nationality, race and ethnicity investigating college admissions
are a large part of identity for procedures that might discrimi-
The Upshot provides news, nate against white applicants.
most people. Factors like this analysis and graphics about
matter more for some people The difference between white
politics, policy and everyday life. Democrats and Republicans on
than others — and for some
groups more than others — but a nytimes.com/upshot the importance of uniting as a
sense of group awareness or group against discriminatory
membership exists in varying laws is only five percentage
degrees across all segments of minorities seeking those same points, with Republicans believ-
American society. jobs. Roughly half the white ing it was more important than
population thought it was at least Democrats and independents.
Often it’s easy to see the signi-
moderately or slightly likely. The divide, however, among
fiers of such group identity, in
Only 21 percent thought this was Republicans who preferred Mr.
distinctive music, food or cloth-
not at all likely. Trump in the primaries and
ing, for example. But sometimes
Differences emerge across those who chose someone else is
when symbols or language are
party lines, even among whites. overwhelming. Nearly 60 per-
co-opted, it is harder to spot. In
Close to 20 percent of Democrats cent of Mr. Trump’s primary
2015, Donald J. Trump’s “make
thought it was extremely likely supporters thought organizing to
America great again” and “build
that the prospects for white change laws that are unfair to
a wall” started out as simple
job-seekers would be threatened white people was extremely or
slogans. For some, the intent was
by the presence of minority very important. Only 15 percent
obvious right away. For many workers, while 34 percent of
others, they eventually became thought it was not important at
Republicans (and 30 percent of all to do so. Supporters of other
infused with a specific meaning independents) felt this way.
that symbolized the concerns G.O.P. candidates, on average,
Among white Republicans and were about half as concerned.
and preferences of a substantial independents, an even greater
set of white Americans. MARK MAKELA/GETTY IMAGES The data show that race is less
divide becomes clear: White
Mr. Trump’s appeals were a Applicants at a jobs fair in Robbinsville, N.J. Some whites fear they are losing jobs to immigrants. important to white Americans’
voters who preferred Mr. Trump
form of group politics or identity sense of self than to nonwhites —
to one of the other candidates in
politics, and he continues to more white people say being
On Wednesday, he offered his Stephen Miller, said it was “com- difficulty of nailing down the the Republican field were nearly
focus on threats to white identity twice as likely to anticipate white white is not at all important to
support for a bill that would cut mon sense” that immigration effects of low-skilled immigration their identity relative to the
as president. job loss to nonwhite workers (48
legal immigration to the United was costing Americans jobs. He on American families, public numbers who say so in other
Some Trump critics find his percent compared with 24 per-
States in half, saying “this legis- then suggested that the family opinion on the topic — at least groups. But Mr. Trump’s contin-
focus on whites as a group out- cent).
rageous or counterproductive. lation demonstrates our compas- members who would be denied for a particular set of Americans ued efforts to remind white
sion for struggling American entry under the proposal were — may reflect the “common The survey also asked white
But survey data suggest that people how important it was for Americans of their group status
many white Americans do feel families who deserve an immi- largely low-skill workers who sense” Mr. Miller described. may increase the number of
whites to work together to
threatened, and that they think gration system that puts their were taking jobs away from In January 2016, the American white people who think of them-
change laws that are unfair to
there are policies that discrimi- needs first and that puts America struggling Americans. National Election Study asked selves through a racial lens. It is
whites. On average, 38 percent
nate against them and should be first.” To achieve its goal, the The claim about who, if any- 875 white Americans this ques- said it was extremely or very one of the ways that his cam-
changed. plan would limit entry for some one, suffers from the immigra- tion: How likely is it that many important. Only a quarter paign and presidency may re-
Two examples of the presi- family members of American tion of low-skilled workers is whites are unable to find a job thought it was not important at shape public opinion and politics.
dent’s efforts and the underlying citizens and permanent resi- nuanced. Debate on the question because employers are hiring all — a category that presumably He is capitalizing both on an
support for his positions illus- dents. is active. If people come to Amer- minorities instead? On average, also encompasses people who existing sense of threat among
trate these trends. In explaining how limiting the ica because they have a relative 28 percent of the white popula- thought no such laws existed. white voters and the opportunity
entry of relatives would put the living here, it does not mean by tion thought it was extremely or These trends also help to to shape the way whites — be-
Lynn Vavreck is a professor of needs of American families first, definition that they are low- very likely that white people frame President Trump’s other cause of their group membership
political science at U.C.L.A. a White House policy adviser, skilled workers. Despite the could not find work because of recent announcement that the — think of themselves.

Climate Report Full of Warnings Awaits a President Who Doubts the Science
The report says significant ad-
From Page A1 vances have been made linking
peratures of 1.5 degrees Celsius human influence to individual ex-
and one of 2 degrees Celsius, for treme weather events since the
example, could mean longer heat last National Climate Assessment
waves, more intense rainstorms was produced in 2014. Still, it
and the faster disintegration of notes, crucial uncertainties re-
coral reefs. main.
Among the more significant of It cites the European heat wave
the study’s findings is that it is of 2003 and the record heat in Aus-
possible to attribute some ex- tralia in 2013 as specific episodes
treme weather to climate change. where “relatively strong evi-
The field known as “attribution dence” showed that a man-made
science” has advanced rapidly in factor contributed to the extreme
response to increasing risks from weather.
climate change. In the United States, the au-
The E.P.A. is one of 13 agencies thors write, the heat wave that
broiled Texas in 2011 was more
that must approve the report by
complicated. That year was
Aug. 18. The agency’s administra-
Texas’ driest on record, and one
tor, Scott Pruitt, has said he does
study cited in the report said local
not believe that carbon dioxide is
weather variability and La Niña
a primary contributor to global
were the primary causes, with a
warming.
“relatively small” warming con-
“It’s a fraught situation,” said tribution. Another study had con-
Michael Oppenheimer, a profes- cluded that climate change made
sor of geoscience and interna- extreme events 20 times more
tional affairs at Princeton Univer- likely in Texas.
sity who was not involved in the Based on those and other con-
study. “This is the first case in flicting studies, the federal draft
which an analysis of climate concludes that there was a medi-
change of this scope has come up um likelihood that climate change
in the Trump administration, and played a role in the Texas heat
scientists will be watching very wave. But it avoids assessing BRANDEN CAMP/ASSOCIATED PRESS
carefully to see how they handle other individual weather events
it.” for their link to climate change. A draft report by government scientists concludes that Americans are feeling the effects of climate change right now.
Scientists say they fear that the Generally, the report described
Trump administration could linking recent major droughts in have increased. Extreme cold fall across the country has in- a frighteningly fast rate — twice ferred to as the guardrail beyond
change or suppress the report. the United States to human activi- waves, it says, are less common creased by about 4 percent since as fast as the global average. which changes become cata-
But those who challenge scientific ty as “complicated,” saying that since the 1980s, while extreme the beginning of the 20th century. “It is very likely that the accel- strophic — will require significant
data on human-caused climate while many droughts have been heat waves are more common. Parts of the West, Southwest and erated rate of Arctic warming will reductions in global levels of car-
change say they are equally wor- long and severe, they have not The study examines every cor- Southeast are drying up, while the have a significant consequence bon dioxide.
ried that the draft report, as well been unprecedented in the earth’s ner of the United States and finds Southern Plains and the Midwest for the United States due to accel- Nearly 200 nations agreed as
as the larger National Climate As- hydrologic natural variation. that all of it was touched by cli- are getting wetter. erating land and sea ice melting part of the Paris accords to limit or
sessment, will be publicly re- Worldwide, the draft report mate change. The average annual With a medium degree of confi- that is driving changes in the cut fossil fuel emissions. If coun-
leased. finds it “extremely likely” that temperature in the United States dence, the authors linked the con- ocean including sea level rise tries make good on those prom-
“The National Climate Assess- more than half of the global mean will continue to rise, the authors tribution of human-caused warm- threatening our coastal communi- ises, the federal report says, that
ment seems to be on autopilot be- temperature increase since 1951 write, making recent record-set- ing to rising temperatures over ties,” the report says. will be a key step toward keeping
cause there’s no political that has can be linked to human influence. ting years “relatively common” in the Western and Northern United Human activity, the report goes global warming at manageable
taken control of it,” said Myron In the United States, the report the near future. It projects in- States. It found no direct link in on to say, is a primary culprit. levels.
Ebell, a senior fellow at the Com- concludes with “very high” confi- creases of 5.0 to 7.5 degrees Fahr- the Southeast. The study does not make policy Mr. Trump announced this year
petitive Enterprise Institute. He dence that the number and sever- enheit (2.8 to 4.8 degrees Celsius) Additionally, the government recommendations, but it notes that the United States would with-
was referring to a lack of political ity of cool nights have decreased by the late century, depending on scientists wrote that surface, air that stabilizing the global mean draw from the Paris agreement,
direction from the Trump admin- since the 1960s, while the fre- the level of future emissions. and ground temperatures in temperature increase to 2 degrees saying the deal was bad for Amer-
istration. quency and severity of warm days It says the average annual rain- Alaska and the Arctic are rising at Celsius — what scientists have re- ica.

The Taylor Swift Groping Trial, Day 1 of Jury Selection: Nobody Empaneled
By DONNA BRYSON who were being considered for the brave for speaking up about sexu- how much I scooted over it was it to proceed, will turn on credibil- groping Ms. Swift. Ms. Melcher
DENVER — On this the radio eight-member panel said they had al assault.” still there. It was not an accident, ity. In court papers, Ms. Swift an- said in a deposition that she no-
host and the superstar agree: Da- read or heard about the case. All It’s not clear when during the it was completely intentional, and ticipates a question that women ticed nothing unusual during the
vid Mueller, known on the air as were asked to fill out a 15-page trial, expected to last nine days, I have never been so sure of any- often face when they make accu- Pepsi Center meeting. Mr. Muel-
Jackson, took his girlfriend and questionnaire that asked, among Ms. Swift might testify. thing in my life.” sations of sexual assault: Why ler has indicated that if he had
co-worker along to meet Taylor other things, whether they had But her pretrial deposition pro- Mr. Mueller, who has worked in didn’t she protest at the time? touched Ms. Swift in a way she
Swift shortly before a concert in ever been inappropriately vided a preview of her testimony radio for more than two decades in Ms. Swift described being too found inappropriate, it was inad-
Denver on June 2, 2013. They chat- touched, falsely accused or con- San Diego, Kansas City and else- “surprised, upset, offended and vertent as he rushed to get into po-
about the events at Pepsi Center,
ted and posed for a photograph. sidered themselves fans of the en- where, as well as in Denver, is just alarmed,” and noted that Mr. sition for the photograph, which,
the arena in Denver not far from
tertainer. as adamant. According to the suit Mueller was an intimidating 6- though inconclusive, is expected
From there their versions differ the courthouse. The arena, which
No jurors have been selected his lawyers filed, “the contention foot-3 and 200 pounds. to be key evidence at the trial.
starkly and vehemently. Now a
yet, though many were dismissed that Mr. Mueller lifted up Ms. Her lawyers have asked Lor- Mr. Mueller included in his com-
federal jury will decide whether,
for a variety of reasons, including Swift’s skirt and grabbed her bot- raine Bayard de Volo, an associate plaint an account of a conversa-
as Ms. Swift says, Mr. Mueller
one who said on her questionnaire tom, while standing with his girl- professor of women and gender tion he had with his boss the night
groped her while the picture was
being taken or whether, as Mr.
that she found Ms. Swift “petty Superstar will take the friend, in front of Ms. Swift’s pho- studies at the University of Col- of the concert. He claimed that his
and dishonest.” boss, a longtime acquaintance of
Mueller says, she falsely accused
him, leading the radio station
Any fans hoping to see Ms. stand in suit by tographer and Ms. Swift’s highly
trained security personnel, dur-
orado, to testify as an expert wit-
ness about how women typically
Ms. Swift, told Mr. Mueller that he
Swift at the federal courthouse in greeted her at the Pepsi Center by
KYGO to fire him from a $150,000- downtown Denver will have to vie accused radio host. ing a company-sponsored, V.I.P. react when they are sexually as-
putting his “hands on her bottom.”
a-year job hosting a morning backstage meet-and-greet is non- saulted or harassed.
for one of the 32 seats reserved Mr. Mueller described the man go-
show. each day for the public in the sense.” As soon as Mr. Mueller and his ing on to speculate that the singer
After Mr. Mueller filed his law- courtroom or for one of 75 in an His suit names Ms. Swift; her companion, Shannon Melcher, wore bicycle shorts under her
suit in 2015, Ms. Swift counter- can seat more than 20,000 people mother, Andrea Swift, who was in left, Ms. Swift said that she told
overflow room with a closed-cir- stage outfits.
sued, accusing Mr. Mueller of as- for concerts, is also home to the town for the concert; and Frank her tour manager and security
cuit video feed of the proceedings. Ms. Swift has in court papers re-
sault and battery. The prospect of jury selection did city’s professional basketball, ice Bell, who handled radio relations staff that she had been groped. jected the implication she was
Ms. Swift is scheduled to testify not draw many spectators Mon- hockey and lacrosse teams. for Ms. Swift. Mr. Bell is accused of Members of her staff tracked mistaken about who groped her.
during the proceedings and she day but Maya Benia, 20, a New Ms. Swift described in the depo- pressuring KYGO, at Andrea down Mr. Mueller and Ms. Mel- She said that she countersued to
was in the courtroom Monday, lis- Mexico State University student, sition getting in “photo formation” Swift’s behest, to take action cher in the Pepsi Center and es- “serve as an example to other
tening intently, in a dark jacket was at the courthouse early with a between Mr. Mueller and his girl- against Mr. Mueller. He was in the corted them out. Ms. Swift’s team women who may resist publicly
and white dress, as Judge William letter of support she hoped to pass friend, “and that’s when right as courtroom Monday, sitting a few contacted KYGO officials to de- reliving similar outrageous and
J. Martinez and lawyers from both to Ms. Swift. the moment came for us to pose feet from Ms. Swift at a table with scribe her allegations. Mr. Muel- humiliating acts.” She has said she
sides questioned potential jurors “I have been a Swifty for 11 for the photo, he took his hand and his lawyers. ler was fired two days later. would donate any award to groups
for four hours. years. I adore her so much,” Ms. put it up my dress and grabbed The case, as Judge Martínez Mr. Mueller, who is scheduled to who work to protect women from
Many of the 60 potential jurors Benia said. “I think she’s really onto my ass cheek, and no matter wrote in May in an order allowing testify, has repeatedly denied assault.
A18 TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017

SAM HODGSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Mayor’s Push for Tax on Wealthy Helps Put Pressure on Cuomo

By J. DAVID GOODMAN proval ratings amid the subway troubles and a po- plan would work. A similar plan to impose a fee on higher or families making more than $1 million, a
Mayor Bill de Blasio had just unveiled his plan tential challenge from the left in the Democratic vehicles in certain parts of Manhattan proposed by group that City Hall has estimated would include
on Monday to tax wealthy New Yorkers and direct primary, could find the mayor’s proposal haunting Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg a decade ago came about 32,000 New Yorkers. The city said it would
the funds to the ailing subway system and its low- his own re-election campaign next year. apart in Albany. generate $700 million in revenue to start, enough
est-income riders when the protest signs came “We’re here today united to say to the governor, “Like it or not, it’s political gamesmanship, and to fund half-price fares for about 800,000 low-in-
out. Not outside the site, but facing Mr. de Blasio at join us in asking the wealthiest 1 percent to pay the mayor has to play that game,” said Paul Steely come New Yorkers.
the lectern. their fair share,” said Bill Lipton, the The details were drawn from a tax proposal
The opposition came from representatives of New York State director of the Working that Mr. de Blasio had hoped would fund his uni-
Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union — a la- Families Party, standing alongside the
mayor. Some members of the party,
De Blasio also tries to deflect attention versal prekindergarten program, he said Monday.
He campaigned on the tax increase in 2013 and
bor group often closely allied with Gov. Andrew M.
Cuomo — who stood with posters urging Mr. de which is to the left of most New York from his own controversies. made it a key part of his inaugural address, but
Blasio to provide additional city money to the sub- Democrats, have considered a third- support for the measure in Albany withered once
way system immediately. party challenge to Mr. Cuomo in 2018. the governor and the Legislature agreed to pro-
From a political standpoint, the reaction was Almost as soon as the governor’s team learned White, the executive director of a pedestrian and vide the necessary funds.
just what Mr. de Blasio appeared to be after. of the mayor’s tax plan — City Hall shared it with bicycling advocacy group, Transportation Alter- Since then, Mr. de Blasio has twice proposed a
The mayor’s proposal faces long odds in Albany them shortly before going public on Sunday, ac- natives, who attended Mr. de Blasio’s event on tax on the sale of expensive homes — a so-called
and may have deepened his clash with Mr. Cuomo cording to a person familiar with the discussions — Monday. “The mayor has maybe learned some- “mansion tax” — but the proposals have also
over funding for the Metropolitan Transportation there came word that Mr. Cuomo would be open to thing from the last few go-arounds.” gained little traction in Albany.
Authority at a time when the subways are plagued a so-called congestion pricing plan for New York The tax plan would apply an increase of about a The mayor said the current effort, which he has
by delays and outright cancellations of trains. But City traffic. A spokeswoman for the governor de- half a percentage point, to 4.4 percent from about called a “millionaire’s tax,” was different because it
it also provided a kind of triple bank shot in the clined to go into greater detail about how such a 3.9 percent, to individuals who make $500,000 and would directly address a pressing need to fund the
game of local political advantage for the mayor as subways.
he gears up for his re-election campaign in Novem- “We’re taking a model that had a lot of support
ber. in 2013 and applying it to a crisis moment, which I
The new tax plan, first disclosed Sunday and think adds urgency and intensity to the fact that
unveiled at a rallylike setting on Monday, allowed there has to be a response from Albany,” he said.
Mr. de Blasio to change the subject from the disclo- The response there on Monday was lukewarm
sure by his office on Friday, in response to a Free- to negative.
dom of Information request, of hundreds of emails Michael Whyland, the spokesman for state As-
in which the mayor attended to inquiries and sug- sembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie, a Democrat, said
gestions from two campaign donors who later be- the mayor’s proposal “is one option among several
came embroiled in a federal police corruption in- that I am sure we’ll be discussing,” adding that
vestigation. congestion pricing would also be in the mix. The
It also enabled Mr. de Blasio, whose poll num- leader of the state Senate, John J. Flanagan, a Re-
bers have flagged since city subway woes explod- publican, rejected the proposal in a statement:
ed as a political issue, to blunt criticism from the “Raising taxes is not the answer.”
left that he has not supported an effort, known as The Partnership for New York City, the city’s
“fair fares,’’ to subsidize half-price subway fares leading business association, and the nonpartisan
for low-income New Yorkers. And it added a jolt to Citizens Budget Commission also opposed the
his campaign heading into the primary that is ex- plan. And Joseph J. Lhota, the chairman of the
pected to have low turnout by reviving what had Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Mr. de
been the centerpiece of his 2013 campaign: a Blasio’s Republican opponent in the 2013 election,
pledge to tax the wealthy to fund universal told reporters at a news conference on Monday
prekindergarten. that the tax proposal did not address the subway’s
“For a lot of people, they don’t realize an elec- immediate needs.
tion is going on,” said Christina M. Greer, a profes- “I can’t wait a year,” said Mr. Lhota, who was
sor of political science at Fordham University. reappointed to lead the agency for a second time
“This is him circling back to the campaign promise by Mr. Cuomo. He urged Mr. de Blasio to contrib-
that motivated so many people the first time.” ute to an emergency repair plan in an even split
The announcement also served another poli- SAM HODGSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
with the state, a message carried on signs held by
tical purpose by thrusting the issue of paying for transit union members at the mayor’s event.
the subways back onto Mr. Cuomo. Should Mr. de Top, crews breaking down a stage in Brooklyn Borough Hall where Mayor Bill de Blasio an- The governor, whose schedule listed him as be-
Blasio win re-election and claim a mandate to raise nounced on Monday a plan to tax wealthy city residents to help fix the subway system. De ing in New York City on Monday, did not hold any
taxes, the governor, who is also facing falling ap- Blasio, above, arriving before his speech. The tax plan would affect about 32,000 residents. public events.

Tipped Off by Twitter, City Officials Organize for a Possible Presidential Visit
By SARAH MASLIN NIR over the past months that Mr. Trump was American president,” Mr. de Blasio said museum.
imminently returning to the city. Each at a news conference on Monday at “It’s been a lot less than we expected,”
At around 6 a.m. on Monday, President
Trump, while on a 17-day vacation at his
Mr. Trump has visited his time, the city has mustered. Brooklyn Borough Hall, where he was Mr. de Blasio said, noting Mr. Trump’s
golf course in Bedminster, N.J., posted on hometown just one time “We’ve had a few other announced
trips that we’ve prepared for that didn’t
asked about the potential visit. “They’ve
done an outstanding job. I think that
visit in May. “To his credit, he kept the
time here very limited and the disruption
Twitter that he was not relaxing on the
links, but was still at the presidential since his inauguration. materialize,” Stephen P. Davis, the chief we’re going to be ready by any measure.” very limited,” Mr. de Blasio added.
grindstone: “Working hard from New spokesman for the New York Police De- Many had anticipated that Mr. Trump “Hopefully, that will be the same this
Jersey while White House goes through partment, said. would come back often to the city where time.”
long planned renovation.” For this presidential trip, the first time he was born and raised in a modest home Just south of Trump Tower, on 56th
as an inveterate homebody, the epony-
police officials convened to lay out a plan in the Jamaica Estates community of Street, John Goci stood inside his restau-
Then the thunderclap: “Going to New mous owner ensconced in his Midtown
was shortly after Mr. Trump posted his Queens, and where over a dozen build- rant, Il Tinello, presiding over lunch
York next week for more meetings.” tower, shuttling between his triplex pent- tweet on Monday. ings have carried his name. service. It sits along a business corridor
Mr. Trump has returned to his home- house and his office on a lower floor. So
The Police Department has estimated But since his inauguration, Mr. Trump that was hurt by street closings and se-
town once since he became president in far, he has not glimpsed his apartment, that the cost to protect Mr. Trump when has only touched down once, arriving by curity checks that disrupted the area
January, touching down for a handful of nor the pink marble lobby where crowds he is in town is around $308,000 a day. helicopter on May 4, traveling to the In- while Mr. Trump resided there as the
hours in a city that has at points con- gather to take selfies. While his wife Melania and son Barron president-elect. Mr. Goci was an outspo-
trepid Sea Air and Space Museum, and
vulsed with anti-Trump acrimony: In Will he this time? reside on Fifth Avenue, the cost to pro- leaving the same way. That trip was orig- ken critic at that time, when he lost about
May, he visited the westernmost edge of “We will have more details in the next tect their home is between $127,000 to inally scheduled as a six-hour excursion 30 percent of his business. But on Mon-
Manhattan for a meeting with the Aus- day or two,” Hope Hicks, a White House $146,000 a day, according to the police. that would include dinner with Malcolm day he was not so much bracing for Mr.
tralian prime minister aboard the Intrep- spokeswoman, said on Monday in an “We are ready and we feel like we are Turnbull, the Australian prime minister, Trump’s possible return as shrugging
id, a decommissioned aircraft carrier email response to a query about where well prepared to deal with whatever oc- and his wife at the Peninsula Hotel on over it.
that was turned into a museum. Mr. Trump would be going, who he would curs in terms of a visit,” Mr. Davis said. Fifth Avenue, and a stop by the Trump “What are you going to do?” Mr. Goci
But Mr. Trump has yet to set foot in his be seeing, and how long he would be Mayor Bill de Blasio concurred. “The penthouse. Those stops were canceled, said. He noted that this visit would come
own home on Fifth Avenue — perhaps a staying in New York. N.Y.P.D. is the most expert police force on and Mr. Trump left shortly after a hand- in the waning weeks of August. “It’s a
challenge for someone who was known There have been several false alarms Earth in terms of handling visits by an shake, a speech and a spin around the slow time of the year, anyway.”
 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017 N A19

Prosecutors Withhold Videos, Leading Suspects to Take Plea Deals

From Page A1
shifting, and a renewed effort is under-
way to push the Legislature to overhaul
state discovery rules, following the ex-
ample of traditionally more conservative
states such as North Carolina and Texas.
This year, the New York State Bar As-
sociation for the first time is throwing its
weight behind a new Assembly bill re-
quiring prosecutors to automatically
turn over police reports, witness names
and statements, and grand jury testi-
mony early in a case. Their endeavor is
backed by the Legal Aid Society and the
Innocence Project, a nonprofit that helps
exonerate people who have been
wrongly convicted, although it faces a
difficult road. There is no companion bill
in the Senate, and Gov. Andrew M.
Cuomo has not embraced the idea.
At the same time, the state court sys-
tem is considering providing judges with
a new tool to ensure that prosecutors
turn over potentially exculpatory infor-
mation.
The disadvantage that defendants
face in New York has begun to draw
more attention, said Carlton Berkley, a
retired New York City police detective.
He leads Discovery for Justice, a Bronx
group founded in 2013 to oppose the dis-
covery rules that some critics deride as
New York’s “blindfold law.”
“When I was a cop, I always believed
the criminal justice system was on the
level,” said Mr. Berkley, who was a critic
of some departmental practices and who
has four brothers who have served time
in prison. “I’m embarrassed now to say
that.”
The efforts in New York reflect a na-
tional trend toward more open discovery
laws. Ohio broadened its laws in 2010.
New Jersey and Utah now require that
discovery be provided before a guilty
plea. The American Bar Association, PHOTOGRAPHS BY KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

whose standards often serve as models

for state laws, has convened a task force Aaron Cedres in Rainey Park in the Bronx, where he sometimes slept while
to update its criminal discovery stand- ONLINE: VIDEOS FROM 2 CASES homeless. Felony charges cost him his job, apartment and car. His girlfriend
ards for the first time in more than 20 Defendants often accept plea deals and their infant daughter moved in with her mother. He faced prison.
years. involving prison because access to
Even in New York, some prosecutors exculpatory videos is withheld. Two such
already go beyond what the law requires. videos show the dramatic difference
The Brooklyn district attorney’s office witness safety.” went on to serve more than 18 years as a
having them can make. In late May, Mr. Vance’s office an- state judge, said he believed the law had
has long provided open and early discov-
ery in most cases. The acting district at- nytimes.com/nyregion nounced a new policy to provide discov- been “abused, twisted and turned” to
torney, Eric Gonzalez, said his office ery at arraignment in some felony cases withhold information.
sometimes sought protective orders to when the main witness is a police officer. But he said he was skeptical that the
shield vulnerable witnesses or, more charges were dismissed. Mr. Ryan and Mr. Vance acknowl- new bill pending in the Legislature
rarely, to relocate them. Patrice O’Shaughnessy, a spokeswom- edged that defense lawyers who had would overcome opposition by prosecu-
“We’ve been able to find the right bal- an for the Bronx district attorney’s office, good relationships with prosecutors tors.
ance in how to keep our witnesses safe declined to comment on the case. were apt to get an earlier crack at discov- If the law changes, “we’re going to see
and also make sure the process is as After Mr. Cedres lost his job, he was ar- ery than others. a huge increase in crime because no
transparent and open as possible,” Mr. rested a number of times for petty of- “When serious lawyers understand one’s going to cooperate,” said Scott Mc-
Gonzalez said. fenses such as jumping subway turn- they’re dealing with serious lawyers on Namara, the district attorney of Oneida
State lawmakers, facing resistance stiles. He now lives with his mother and the other side, that usually leads to a lev- County and the president-elect of the
from prosecutors, have been reluctant to earns money as a driver, but he said his el of trust that accelerates discovery,” Mr. state district attorneys association,
follow that tide. stability felt fragile. ‘Without that video, our Vance said. which has opposed changes to New
“I’m getting little things back, but I
Prosecutors describe frightening en-
shouldn’t have lost it to begin with,” Mr. guy was going to prison.’ Faster discovery, advocates of the
change argue, can lead to fairer out-
York’s discovery rules.
As one of many examples, Mr. McNa-
counters between the accused and wit-
nesses and warn of violence in a “no Cedres said. comes. This happened in the case of Win- mara cited the 2013 case of David McK-
snitching” culture intensified by social KRISTIN BRUAN, a Legal Aid Society ston Jones. ithen, who was facing drug possession
media. Prosecutors say the current law Ambiguity and Inconsistency attorney who fought for discovery In November, Mr. Jones was arrested charges in Buffalo when he obtained
helps protect witnesses by allowing during 22 court appearances. and charged with breaking into a Brook- grand jury testimony of witnesses
Prosecutors are supposed to turn over through discovery. Soon after, witnesses
them to withhold witness information in- lyn bodega and stealing Red Bulls, ciga-
evidence that is favorable to the accused said, they and their families began re-
definitely, since so few cases go to trial. rettes and cash. At 35, Mr. Jones had
— called Brady material after a land- ceiving threats. One refused to answer
Jack Ryan, the chief assistant district Kimberly Overton, a prosecutor who been arrested in connection with dozens
mark 1963 Supreme Court decision — re- questions on the stand. Mr. McKithen
attorney in the Queens district attor- gardless of other discovery rules. But the runs training programs for the North of petty crimes, but this time he was
ney’s office, recalled a recent case in charged with burglary, a felony. was found guilty of witness tampering
Supreme Court never set deadlines, and Carolina Conference of District Attor-
which a witness was photographed on Prosecutors offered him a plea: one and intimidation.
lower courts have split over whether neys, said a 2004 state law requiring
his way into the courthouse. and a half to three years in prison if he A New York State Bar Association re-
Brady material must be turned over be- prosecutors there to turn over most of
“Before the witness even testified, that took the offer on the spot, said his attor- port concluded that states with more
fore a plea. their files automatically very early in a
video was uploaded on Facebook identi- ney, Scott Hechinger of Brooklyn De- open systems did not have worse prob-
What constitutes such evidence is left case helped to clear up any potential am-
fying the guy as a snitch,” Mr. Ryan said. fender Services. lems with witness intimidation than New
to prosecutors to determine, and the line biguity over Brady material. “There is no
“There’s a legitimate fear.” Mr. Jones’s memory of the night was York. In Brooklyn, Mr. Gonzalez said,
is not always clear. decision for a prosecutor to make now,”
blurred by alcohol, but he did not view threats to witnesses occur because the
The New York court system is ex- she said.
the crime as serious. He refused, and defendants already know who they are.
Video Results in a Dismissal pected to approve a rule change soon: Adding to the ambiguity is that discov-
Judges would issue an order in criminal ery policies vary not only by state but was sent to Rikers Island. Aside from safety concerns, some
Mr. Cedres and his lawyer, Kristin cases reminding prosecutors of their also by prosecutor. Because of Brooklyn’s discovery pol- prosecutors scoff at the notion that de-
Bruan, said that at first he had refused Brady obligations. The order would not While Brooklyn has a more open pol- icy, three months after his arrest Mr. fendants need an earlier peek at evi-
the plea deal, but that as the months had change what prosecutors must turn over, icy, the Queens district attorney’s office Jones was able to read the grand jury tes- dence to know if they are guilty.
worn on, he had begun to consider it. but it would for the first time allow will negotiate pleas only before a grand timony of an employee who recognized “What the defendant may not know is
Pending felony charges meant that he judges to hold in contempt prosecutors jury indictment, a point when the law re- him from surveillance videos. He saw the strength of the prosecution’s case,
lost his job, then his apartment and car. who willfully violated the obligation. quires no discovery at all — and some- himself on tape, rummaging through and therefore how likely it is that he can
His girlfriend moved into her mother’s But the deadline in the order would be times before there is time to thoroughly coolers and slurring his words. ‘beat’ the charges despite his guilt,”
house with the couple’s infant daughter, 30 days before trial — well after most examine the evidence it has. After insisting that he had done noth- wrote three prosecutors who dissented
and Mr. Cedres was homeless. plea negotiations have taken place. “We disclose what we need to dis- ing, Mr. Jones began to talk about a life- from the state bar association report.
Ms. Bruan wondered if Mr. Cedres ac- The pressure to plead can be enor- close,” Mr. Ryan said. time of alcohol abuse. Mr. Hechinger Defense lawyers respond that they
curately remembered the chaotic event, mous, especially because offers tend to More than a dozen defense lawyers took this back to the negotiating table, need discovery to know whether the
or if his single punch was enough to go up as time goes by. Mr. Cedres was and judges who practice in Manhattan and in June, Mr. Jones pleaded guilty to facts of the case warrant the charges or
make him guilty under the law. Prosecu- able to post bail with a loan from his par- said the district’s attorney’s office there attempted burglary in exchange for in- whether there are witnesses who might
tors in this case turned over police re- ents, but more than 35,000 people in New hewed closely to the restrictive state law. patient drug and alcohol treatment. If he provide an alternative view. In New
ports indicating that the victim and his York City are jailed each year because Even the name of the accuser is routinely does well, he will avoid prison, and the York, prosecutors do not have to provide
girlfriend had found Mr. Cedres on Face- they cannot make bail, according to the withheld until the eve of trial, they said. case will be dismissed and sealed. witness names at all if the witnesses are
book, identified him as a leader of the as- Independent Budget Office. People held The Manhattan district attorney, Cy- not expected to testify.
sault and were willing to testify. But they in jail are more likely to plead guilty, two rus R. Vance Jr., disputed the characteri- Isaiah Spry learned this lesson in De-
still had not turned over the surveillance Opposition From Prosecutors cember 2012, when he was bewildered to
University of Pennsylvania studies zation. “We do provide more than the law
video. show, not because they are more likely to allows already,” Mr. Vance said. “If it’s in James Yates, who in 1979 helped draft discover that he had been charged with
“Without that video, our guy was go- be guilty but because that is often the the file, we tell our assistants to turn it New York’s current discovery law as a attempted possession of a loaded fire-
ing to prison,” said Ms. Bruan, a staff at- surest way to get home more quickly. over, except in situations that involve young Assembly staff member and who arm, a violent felony that carried up to
torney with the Legal Aid Society. seven years in prison. He was celebrat-
Ms. Bruan filed a motion for discovery ing his 27th birthday with his girlfriend,
shortly after Mr. Cedres was arrested. he said, when the couple began fighting
Under the law, the prosecution had 15 in the lobby of their Manhattan apart-
days to hand over the material or explain ment building.
why it would not. Fifteen days passed When the police arrived, he kicked and
with no reply, then 30, Ms. Bruan said. flailed, according to court documents. A
Judges have few available sanctions police captain later said Mr. Spry had
for prosecutors who do not comply with tried to wrest an officer’s gun from his
discovery requests. holster.
The judge who presided over a later Prosecutors offered him a plea deal of
stage of Mr. Cedres’s case, Troy K. Web- two years in prison, said his attorney,
ber, said a judge could have ordered the Robert Bickel of the Legal Aid Society.
video tossed out of the case. But that Mr. Spry refused. He spent five months
would have wrongly punished the de- in jail before finally agreeing to plead
fense, she said in an interview. guilty to the felony in exchange for pro-
“You have to hope the people will turn bation.
over the video,” said Justice Webber, who “I knew I was innocent, but I didn’t
now sits on a state appellate court. know what they had against me,” he said.
More than two months after Ms. Bru- Just as Mr. Spry was entering his plea,
an’s initial request, the prosecutor wrote the judge called the lawyers up to the
that the video “does not show anything/ bench and advised the defense to go to
is corrupted,” an email shows. Ms. Bruan trial, Mr. Bickel recalled. The judge had
pushed back, and after five more months seen something the defense had not: the
of wrangling, the videos appeared in her grand jury testimony.
inbox. When prosecutors eventually turned
They showed almost exactly what Mr. over the testimony, Mr. Spry learned that
Cedres had said they would: In the may- the officer did not recall his grabbing for
hem, he threw two punches to free the the gun.
club owner’s son from a bear hug. A sepa- The judge, Justice Gregory Carro of
rate fight spilled down the street, where the State Supreme Court in Manhattan,
a crowd of people beat the man who was confirmed Mr. Bickel’s account but de-
ultimately seriously injured. After a year clined to comment further. A spokes-
and a half and 22 court appearances, the woman for the Manhattan district attor-
ney’s office declined to comment on the
This article was produced in collabora- case.
tion with The Marshall Project, a non- At trial, Mr. Spry was convicted of two
profit news organization that focuses on Winston Jones outside Kings County Criminal Court. His case took a turn in his favor based on a videotape secured misdemeanor counts but acquitted of the
criminal justice issues. by his defense lawyer. By following a negotiated plea, he can avoid prison, and his case will be dismissed and sealed. weapons charge.
A20 N THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017

4 5 6 Scheduled vs. Actual Trains on a Busy Subway Line

The chart shows the number of 4, 5 and 6 trains passing through Grand Central-42nd Street on average in June and July 2017.
9/11 Victim
90
85
80
88 Is the 1,641st
65 77 78 68
63
66 76
72
64
Identified
60 60 61 70 By ASHLEY SOUTHALL
SCHEDULED 63 63 The remains of a man who
TRAINS 60 58 58 60 60
55 56 was killed in the Sept. 11 terror-
40
ist attacks on the World Trade
Center have been positively
37 identified, the New York City
ACTUAL medical examiner’s office an-
TRAINS nounced on Monday, amid con-
tinuing efforts to return vic-
tims’ remains to their loved
ones.
6 to 7:00 7 to 8:00 8 to 9:00 9 to 10:00 10 to 11:00 11 to Noon Noon to 1:00 1 to 2:00 2 to 3:00 3 to 4:00 4 to 5:00 5 to 6:00 6 to 7:00 7 to 8:00 The man, whose name was
a.m. p.m. withheld by officials at his fam-
ily’s request, was the first Sept.
The charts show every day for which there is data in June and July. The system never sent the scheduled numbers of trains.
11 victim to be identified in
90 TRAINS ARE SCHEDULED FROM 8 TO 9:00 A.M. 88 TRAINS ARE SCHEDULED FROM 5 TO 6:00 P.M. more than two years.
88 Recent improvements to
80 80 78 79 77 80 82 80 76 83 79 77 82 80 78 80 77 79 79 83 77 83
78 82
83 82
76 80 77 77 78 80 76 78 77 72 72 79 75 80 78
71
76 77
70
76
71
76 75 how DNA is extracted and
68 65 69 68 66 69 70 70 67
tested helped confirm the
52
man’s identity late last month
after years of negative results,
the medical examiner’s office
said Monday. He was the
June 9 June 20 June 29 July 14 July 25 June 9 June 20 June 29 July 14 July 25 1,641st person to be positively
identified of the 2,753 people
killed when the twin towers

How Packed Subway Trains Create were destroyed.

Dr. Barbara Sampson, the
city’s chief medical examiner,
said forensic scientists had

A Cascade of Peak Delays in the System continued to test the remains

as more advanced methods
had become available. The
vast majority of named victims
From Page A1 were identified using DNA or a
combination of techniques, ac-
for roughly 1,000 passengers who
cording to city data. Positive
could be accommodated if the sys-
identification of the remains,
tem met its published schedule.
which are mostly bone frag-
As the subway reaches a crisis ments, allows victims’ families
point, prompting officials to an- to finally claim what is left of
nounce an ambitious rescue plan their loved ones.
to fix the system, a critical chal-
“This ongoing work is vital
lenge will be to increase the fre-
because with each new identi-
quency of trains to carry riders
fication, we are able to bring
more reliably across the city.
answers to families affected by
Many of the problems afflicting tremendous loss,” Dr. Sampson
the subway have already been said.
chronicled by The Times, includ-
Technology adopted earlier
ing an antiquated signal system,
this year in the medical exam-
severe overcrowding and trains
iner’s DNA laboratory helped
that are breaking down at a much
to identify the man after previ-
higher rate than in the past. The
ous tests had fallen short. The
cancellation of trains at times of
DNA lab added more sensitive
peak demand is in many ways in-
technology that yielded more
tertwined with some of those
information, and optimized the
other challenges.
lab’s advanced bone-extrac-
Officials at the Metropolitan
tion method, according to the
Transportation Authority ac-
medical examiner.
knowledged that the schedules
Many families are still wait-
were not being met, and they
ing for closure. Among the vic-
blamed overcrowding for the
tims, 1,112 have not been pos-
shortfall. Trains are stuck in sta-
itively identified, although the
tions as passengers struggle to
city has issued death certifi-
get on and off, subway officials
cates for all but three of the vic-
say, leading to a cascade of delays
tims, whose certificates were
along the line.
issued by other jurisdictions.
But subway data reviewed by
The unclaimed remains
The Times reveal just how severe
were moved in 2014 to a bed-
a toll overcrowding is taking on
rock repository 70 feet under-
the subway. The Lexington Ave-
ground at the National Sep-
nue line is the system’s most con-
tember 11 Memorial & Mu-
gested, but the same problem
seum. The repository is not
plagues other lines as well, lead-
open to the public, although it
ing to a greatly reduced number of BENJAMIN NORMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
is adjacent to a reflecting room
trains during peak periods across On the Lexington Avenue line, just 77 of 90 scheduled trains routinely run through the Grand Central stop from 8 to 9 a.m. for victims’ families.
the system.
The man was the first victim
“It’s a self-feeding problem,”
of the attack to be identified
said Ellyn Shannon, associate di- How Delays Lead to Cancellations On-Time, or Evenly Spaced? since March 2015, when offi-
rector of the Permanent Citizens
On June 20, at 7:55 a.m., subway officials reported delays on the No. The focus on train intervals over schedules has kept wait-time perfor- cials confirmed the remains of
Advisory Committee, a riders’
6 train. The data show only one southbound 6 train at Grand Central mance from falling sharply, as on-time-performance has plummeted. Matthew David Yarnell.
group at the transportation au-
Station from 8:04 a.m. to 8:23 a.m., skipping five scheduled trains. But even that metric has been trending downward since 2013. Mr. Yarnell, 26, was a vice
thority. “Crowds get bigger and
Service resumed with trains spaced at two- to four-minute intervals. president and programmer an-
slow the trains down more, and
By 9 a.m., just 17 of 23 scheduled trains had made the trip. alyst in technology at Fiducia-
you lose capacity. But if you have 90%
ry Trust Company Interna-
fewer trains, the crowding will
Scheduled Actual
tional. He worked on the 97th
build and the trains slow down
floor of the south tower and
more.” 8:00 Actual was one of 97 employees of the
Officials say that they are run- 8:01 a.m. Percentage of trains meeting the
firm and its parent company,
ning as many trains as they can at standard for even spacing
Franklin Templeton Invest-
peak hours, and that the problem 8:04 8:04 80
ments, who were killed in the
is capacity on an aging system. 8:06 attacks.
But the shortage stretches
throughout the day, even when the Scheduled
system has fewer riders and runs 8:10 Percentage operating
8:11
8:13 70
on schedule
Corrections
A ripple effect from 8:16 BUSINESS DAY
trains stuck in stations 8:19
An article on Monday about
fictional characters in adver-
as passengers struggle 8:22 60
tisements misstated the name
of the manicurist in Palmolive
to get on and off. 8:24
8:23 Four trains behind
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
commercials. The character
8:25 was Madge, not Marge.
8:27 8:27 An article on Monday about
between trains. “Obviously, to do On a recent morning, express
trains less frequently. deals being considered by
that we’d have to put more trains trains arrived at Grand Central
When trains are delayed, work- 8:30 Sprint misstated the timing of
8:31 through, and we could if we didn’t with hordes of sweaty riders
ers continue to space trains at 8:32 two statements about possible
have the congestion problem.” pressed against the glass doors.
consistent intervals, instead of 8:33 deals. Charter Communica-
As for off-peak cancellations, Their faces revealed a mix of mi- tions said last week — not this
running trains more closely to- 8:35 subway officials blame mainte- sery and resignation.
8:36 week — that it had no interest
gether, one after another, accord- nance work they must tackle dur- Tameka Mullins likens her in buying Sprint. And Sprint’s
ing to train data. Officials believe 8:38 ing less busy periods of the day. morning commute to being
8:39 chief executive also said last
that is the best way to reduce the The noticeable reduction in train stuffed into a sardine can. If the week — not this week — that
average time riders are stuck 8:41 8:41 speeds is because of a confluence authority keeps raising fares, an announcement on any deal
waiting on platforms. But, inevita- of events, including stricter rules then it should run a full schedule could be coming in the near fu-
bly, that means fewer trains and 8:44 8:44 for slowing trains during repairs of trains, said Ms. Mullins, 47, who ture.
reduced capacity. to avoid hitting workers and sig- lives in Brooklyn.
8:46 8:46
Transit advocates say officials nal controls intended to maintain “At times, it takes an hour and a SPORTS
failed to adequately plan for a 8:48 a safe distance between trains to
8:49 half to get somewhere, when you Because of an editing error,
booming ridership and criticize Five trains prevent crashes. should get there in 30 to 45 min- the Global Sports column on
the agency’s strategy of focusing 8:51 behind The subway’s antiquated 1930s- utes,” she said, while riding a Monday about medal realloca-
on keeping trains evenly spaced 8:53 era signal system is also a barrier
No. 6 train in Manhattan. “It’s be- tion ceremonies at the world
rather than meeting its schedules. 8:54 to spacing trains closer together.
8:55 cause the train keeps stopping be- track and field championships
The cancellations have contrib- Modern signals would allow
Six trains cause of the train congestion. If misstated the given name of
uted to an on-time rate for trains 8:57 8:57 trains to run more frequently, in-
behind there were more trains, and it was the son of Kara Goucher, who
that has dropped steeply over the creasing the subway’s capacity,
8:59 8:59 running more smoothly, then I received a new silver medal on
last decade to about 65 percent but officials say installing them
think that problem would be Saturday night. He is Colt, not
systemwide, from more than 90 systemwide could take a half-cen- Cole.
tury and billions of dollars. solved.”
percent. On the Lexington Ave- Washington’s and Chicago’s sub- the system.
The growing disregard for the Another rider, Olivia French,
nue line — which carries about 1.6 ways combined — the on-time In a recent interview, Mr. Lhota
schedules frustrates transit advo- said her commute was often “hit
million people each day, more rate is as low as 35 percent. said the agency should adjust the
cates who view them as a promise or miss.” Some days, the No. 6
than the number of daily riders on The authority’s chairman, Jo- published schedules to reflect cur-
to riders about the kind of service train arrives every two minutes. Contact the newsroom:
seph J. Lhota, said his priority was rent conditions, and offer the pub- But other times, Ms. French, 25,
Source: Metropolitan Transporta- reducing the intervals between lic improved performance metrics they should expect. [email protected]
“It’s a public commitment to who lives on the Upper East Side, or call 1-844-NYT-NEWS
tion Authority data. Note: Data trains, rather than meeting the that tell riders how long they
shows trains that made a recorded how much service they’re run- has to wait eight minutes between (1-844-698-6397).
posted schedules so riders are not should expect to wait between trains.
stop at Grand Central-42nd Street ning,” Ms. Shannon said. “The Editorials:
kept waiting too long. The current trains. “If they ran more trains, the
Station in the M.T.A.’s data feed amount of service they’re running [email protected]
schedules are largely based on “What I care about is being able schedule would be more regular
from June 9 to July 31, excluding is based on the loading guidelines, Newspaper Delivery:
lower ridership figures from 2012, to maintain a headway closer to and more dependable,” she said,
weekends, holidays and days when which say you have to put out this [email protected]
Mr. Lhota said, before overcrowd- target,” Mr. Lhota said, using an many trains to transport this “and that’s the biggest factor for or call 1-800-NYTIMES
the M.T.A.’s data feed was inter- ing delays skyrocketed, clogging industry term describing the time many people.” me.” (1-800-698-4637).
rupted.
 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017 N A21

18 Shuttered Catholic Churches May Soon Be Up for Sale Law Partner

By LUIS FERRÉ-SADURNÍ
The rusted gates at the Catholic
Of Giuliani
Church of St. John the Martyr in
Manhattan remained padlocked
on Sunday, as they have since the
May Become
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of
New York closed them for the last U.S. Attorney
time in 2015.
This year would have been the By ALAN FEUER
church’s 130th anniversary as a The Trump administration is
house of worship, but the Church considering naming Geoffrey S.
of St. John the Martyr is sacred no Berman, a law partner of the for-
more. mer New York City mayor and
The church, on East 72nd Street ally of the president — Rudolph W.
on the Upper East Side, was one of Giuliani, to assume the powerful
18 shuttered churches that the Left, one of 18 deconse- position of United States attorney
archdiocese deconsecrated re- crated churches, the in Manhattan, according to two
cently, paving the way for the Church of All Saints, people familiar with the matter.
properties to be repurposed or whose landmark status Mr. Berman emerged as the
sold, which appraisers say would in Harlem will limit White House’s top choice for the
bring tens of millions of dollars to job in a “proposed nominee” docu-
renovations to it. Below,
church coffers. ment that has been circulating be-
The decision to deconsecrate — Msgr. Patrick McCahill
tween New York’s two Demo-
which means transform the at St. Elizabeth of Hun- cratic senators, Charles E. Schu-
houses of worship to secular pur- gary on the Upper East mer and Kirsten Gillibrand, for
poses — was announced in de- Side in 2014. The new Q their approval, said the two peo-
crees posted on the archdiocese subway extension has ple, who spoke on the condition of
website in June. raised the area’s appeal. anonymity because they were not
The decree for each church said DANNY R. PERALTA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
authorized to speak about the
the move would allow the start of matter. All nominees for United
“negotiations that may lead to the States attorney must be con-
sale of the property.” Two canon firmed by the Senate.
lawyers said it was the largest BuzzFeed News first reported
number of deconsecrations they the development on Monday af-
had ever seen in a single day. ternoon.
The individual parishes, which The United States attorney in
own the properties, and the arch- Manhattan is among the top posts
diocese are in the initial phases of for federal prosecutors and has
determining how the buildings
traditionally entailed overseeing
will be repurposed, Joseph Zwill-
international terrorism cases and
ing, director of communications
criminal proceedings against Wall
for the archdiocese, said.
“Will some of them be sold? I
imagine so,” Mr. Zwilling said.
“Will some of them be leased? I
imagine so. Will some of them be A favorite to be
used by the parish and converted
to another use? I imagine so.”
nominated by Trump
Fifteen of the churches were to replace Bharara.
closed in 2015, when the archdio-
cese consolidated more than 140
parishes and closed nearly 40
churches. Ten of the 18 deconse- Street banks and bankers. The
crated churches are in Manhat- post has been vacant since the for-
tan, three are in Westchester mer officeholder, Preet Bharara,
County, two are in Dutchess was fired by Mr. Trump in March.
County, two are in the Bronx, and Mr. Berman, 57, who does
one is in Sullivan County. white-collar defense work at the
If history is any indication, the law firm Greenberg Traurig,
properties might be sold, razed where Mr. Giuliani is a partner,
and rebuilt as residential build- was a federal prosecutor in Man-
ings. In a string of multimillion- hattan from 1990 to 1994, handling
dollar deals, a handful of Catholic criminal cases that included tax,
churches were sold to developers securities and computer hacking
in the past several years. violations. From 1987 to 1990, he
For example, St. Thomas the was an associate in the Office of
Apostle Church in Harlem, its NICOLE BENGIVENO/THE NEW YORK TIMES Independent Counsel for Iran-
school and a nearby lot were sold contra. Neither he nor Mr. Giuliani
to a developer for $6 million in churches: St. Elizabeth of Hunga-
ry on the Upper East Side and All returned phone calls on Monday
2012. Our Lady of Vilnius Church, seeking comment.
by the Holland Tunnel entrance, Saints Church in Harlem.
Many parishioners complained The son of Ronald Berman, a
was sold for $13 million in 2013 and
that the decrees were posted the successful New Jersey real-estate
was flipped a year later for more
than $18 million. And the Church Friday before the Fourth of July, developer, Mr. Berman was men-
of St. Vincent de Paul and two increasing the likelihood of miss- tioned in news reports in the
other parish properties in Chelsea ing the 10-day window the Vatican spring as one of Mr. Trump’s pos-
were sold to a hotelier for $50.4 gives for appeals. They also said sible choices to replace Paul Fish-
million last year. the language of the 18 decrees was The Church of St. John man, the United States attorney in
The sale of one recently decon- virtually the same and did not list the Martyr on East 72nd New Jersey, who resigned at Mr.
secrated church, the Chapel of San specific reasons behind each de- Street closed in 2015; it Trump’s request in March. For al-
Lorenzo Ruiz in Little Italy, to a consecration. would have celebrated most a decade, Mr. Berman and
developer has been approved. The Daniel Kingery, 37, a former pa- its 130th anniversary his father owned the Trenton Ti-
rishioner at All Saints Church in tans, a minor league hockey fran-
this year. Appraisers say
Harlem, said the merger of All chise that they sold to the New
the sale of the churches Jersey Devils in 2006.
Saints and St. Charles Borromeo
could bring in tens of
Parishioners fall in 2015 was “a euphemism for clos-
millions of dollars.
Federal Election Commission
records show that Mr. Berman do-
ing and selling property” and al-
away, and the value leged the archdiocese deliberately
CHRISTOPHER GREGORY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
nated $5,400 to Mr. Trump’s cam-
posted the decrees while parishio- appealed on its behalf, questioned beth of Hungary — on 83rd Street sale. paign on July 28, 2016. He also
of the properties ners were on vacation. whether his church and others on between Second and Third Ave- Some former parishioners of gave money to Jeb Bush’s presi-
rises. “That’s not true,” Mr. Zwilling
said. “The parishes should have
Manhattan’s East Side had been
closed because of their increased
nues, blocks away from the 86th
Street station — at $25 million.
the shuttered churches, like John
Ahearn, have moved on.
dential campaign in 2015 and to
Senator John McCain, Republican
known because the pastors were real estate value. “I think everyone might be fix- Mr. Ahearn, 66, was upset in of Arizona, in 2007.
discussing it with the parish lead- “The Catholic Church is putting ated on Manhattan, where real es- 2015 when the archdiocese closed The “proposed nominee” docu-
church will fetch over $7 million. ership. That would have been up the white flag of surrender and tate prices are obviously very the Church of Holy Agony in East ment also listed two names for the
Church buildings could also be something that would have been saying that demographics have high,” Mr. Zwilling said. “But there Harlem, where his family wor- United States attorney in Brook-
leased to other congregations, as known in the parish itself.” shifted,” Mr. Chany said. “In our are other parts of the diocese shiped for over 15 years. lyn, an office that is prosecuting
happened with Our Lady of Peace He added: “Printing the de- area, we’ve been told Yorkville where we would not be getting “Once it was happening, I never Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexi-
on the Upper East Side, which was crees on the website is not neces- will get hot. It will improve be- those potentially astronomical felt that I wanted to reverse the can drug lord best known as El
leased this year to a Coptic Ortho- sary for the process. That is some- cause of the subway.” funds.” course and bring back Holy Ago- Chapo, the people familiar with
dox parish. thing we do voluntarily.” Mr. Chany said he, too, will ap- Revenue from the sale, rental or ny,” Mr. Ahearn said. the matter said. One of the nomi-
The value of the properties de- Mr. Kingery appealed the de- peal to the Vatican. lease of a property would go to the Although he misses that com- nees was Edward McNally, a law-
pends on zoning, landmark status consecration of All Saints to Cardi- He noted that six of the decon- parish that owned it, Mr. Zwilling munity, he has found a new sanc- yer at the firm of Kasowitz, Ben-
and, of course, location, said nal Timothy M. Dolan, the arch- secrated churches are along the said. However, the archdiocese tuary at St. Francis de Sales on son, Torres & Friedman, whose
Steven J. Schleider, president of bishop of New York, and was de- Second Avenue subway line, part could tax the income from a sale, East 96th Street, a convenient lo- named partner, Marc E. Kasowitz,
Metropolitan Valuation Services. nied. Mr. Kingery now plans to ap- of which opened this year and ex- “perhaps as high as 25 percent or cation right by his son’s preschool is one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers. The
“Obviously, it’s worthwhile to peal to the Vatican. tended the Q line through the 50 percent, so that needy parishes and favorite playground on Lex- other is Richard Donoghue, the
the archdiocese to monetize these All Saints Church, nicknamed Yorkville neighborhood, raising and schools in other parts of the ington Avenue. former head of the criminal divi-
holdings,” Mr. Schleider said. the St. Patrick’s of Harlem be- real estate prices in the area. archdiocese could be supported,” “Holy Agony was never about sion in the Brooklyn federal pros-
Parishioners have appealed the cause it was also designed by St. John the Martyr, for exam- he wrote in an email. the building,” Mr. Ahearn said. ecutor’s office.
deconsecration of at least two James Renwick Jr., is protected by ple, sits across from the new 72nd Also, under a recent policy “That parish was very strong and
landmark status, which restricts Street subway station. change, if a parish has received passionate about the sense of
Sharon Otterman contributed re- renovations. Mr. Chany said a real estate any grants from the archdiocese it community, but, of course, the
porting. Susan C. Beachy contrib- Kal Chany, who was a trustee of firm, Brown Harris Stevens, had would be asked to repay those sense of community was not about NOTICE OF REGULAR PUBLIC MEETINGS
uted research. St. Elizabeth of Hungary and also “conservatively valued” St. Eliza- with the income from a property the architecture of the place.” OF THE GATEWAY PROGRAM
DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Public notice is hereby given that Regular Meet-
ings of the Gateway Program Development Cor-

Boarding School Reports Reveal a Chain of Sexual Misconduct

poration is scheduled as follows: 1. That the Reg-
ular Meetings will be held at 1:00 PM in the Board
Room at NJ TRANSIT’s Headquarters, One
Penn Plaza East, Ninth Floor, Newark, New Jer-
sey, unless otherwise noted, on the following
dates for the year 2017: 8/10 (12 P.M. Executive
By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS The Emma Willard update said the early 1980s had behaved in- Denver, a private school in Col- Session; 1 P.M. Public Session), 9/15, 11/9, and
12/14. Meeting attendees are required to go
As a growing number of elite that in 1993, Mr. Davidson had be- appropriately at Andover, as well. orado, announced last week that through security screenings upon entering the
boarding schools have released come involved in “a conspiratorial Mr. Lyman had not previously an investigation into Mr. Lyman’s building. Please allow for extra time.

investigations into the sexual relationship” with a 16-year-old been named by Andover, where he time there found that he had be-
abuse of students, they have re- student “that culminated in one taught before getting a job at haved inappropriately toward
vealed the connections that al- instance of physical contact” on Choate. four students, asking them on
lowed teachers to move from one the day after graduation. The re- Andover’s report, written by dates or propositioning them for
school to the next, forging a chain port said Mr. Davidson went on to Sanghavi Law Office, did not say sex.
of misconduct. contact her throughout the sum- whether the school had written a While much of what has been
In April, Emma Willard School, mer and fall. At the time of the re- reference letter for Mr. Lyman, disclosed about abuses at private
a girls school in Troy, N.Y., re- lationship, a school employee had which would have helped him ob- school lies in the past, the Emma
leased a report documenting a his- asked the girl “if there was any- tain future teaching positions. But Willard update contains a report, Help Wanted 2600
tory of sexual misconduct by fac- thing inappropriate going on with so far unsubstantiated, that sug- CONTROLLER for retail business.
after being pressed by The New Car required.
ulty and staff at the school dating Mr. Davidson,” the report said; NATHANIEL BROOKS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
gests the behavior has not
York Times, the school confirmed Email [email protected]
to the 1950s. After that report was she said there was not. Emma Willard in Troy, N.Y., that Mr. Lyman was given a refer- stopped. salary requirements.
GERIATRICIAN - FT, Maimonides Hos-
released, new information came Mr. Davidson retired from released reports of abuse. ence letter in February 1979. The “We received an anonymous re- pital. Teach and supervise residents in
clinic and care for patients in geriatric
to light, and on Friday, Emma Emma Willard at the end of school port that a 2015 alumna and a fe- office. Email CV to Dr. Barbara
school said it had no reason to be-
Willard released an addendum that year. male school administrator ‘were Paris at: [email protected]
Tracy M. Sweet, a spokeswom- lieve administrators were aware NANNY: Gokhan Doguer seeks Nanny
that named an additional former The Emma Willard report said engaged in a consensual relation- to care for 2 year old in home in Brook-
an for Andover, said in an email of his misconduct.
faculty member, Brian Davidson, that Mr. Davidson had received a ship’ during the 2014-2015 academ- lyn, NY 11222. Wk hours Mon thru Fri

positive reference from Andover that the school’s investigators “We have not learned any infor- 8am to 4:30pm (40hrs per wk, no over-
who “engaged in an inappropriate ic year,” the report said. “There time) 1 temporary, full-time pos. avail.

when he was applying for a job at “were unable to conclude whether mation from Sanghavi’s investiga- from 10/1/2017 to 4/27/2019. The Nanny
relationship with a student in the was no relevant information in ei- pos. req. undertaking of approp. crea-
class of 1995.” Emma Willard. the school was aware of Brian Da- tion or otherwise to suggest that tive & edu. act. w/child Comm.
ther the student file or the person- w/parents about activ., behaviors, child
Just days before, Phillips Acad- Emma Willard had not named vidson’s misconduct at the time.” school administrators knew of Ly- nel file.” dev & growth. Prep healthy meals &
serve to child, Main daily routine in
emy in Andover, Mass., had Mr. Davidson in its original report Mr. Davidson did not respond to man’s behavior at that time,” Ms. Emma Willard said the admin- safe env. Plan/Supervise rest, bed &
nap times, Dress child/chg diapers.
named Mr. Davidson in its own because the woman involved did a request for comment. Sweet said in an email. istrator no longer worked at the Trav 3 to 4 times yr outside NY or intl.
w/fam for trips (no cost to nanny).
updated report. It said he had sex not respond to attempts to reach In updating its own report, And- Beaver Country Day School, an- school. Investigators tried to con- Trav w/child in local NY area. 6 mos
with a student in the 1970s while her. After Andover released its re- over said that Frederic Lyman, a other school where Mr. Lyman tact the alumna but were unsuc-
exp as nanny, childcare wkr or caregiv-
er is mand. Pay is $12.97 per hr.
he was on the faculty at Abbot port, Emma Willard’s investiga- teacher who is said to have taught, told The Times that it had cessful, the report said. They re- Contact Maria Codas (917)509-3581 or
[email protected] Apply also to
Academy, an all-girls school that tors contacted her again, and she abused students while on the fac- hired a law firm to investigate his ported the allegation to law en- the Local SWA office: 250 Schermer-
horn St, Brooklyn, NY 11201. (718)
later merged with Andover. cooperated. ulty at Choate Rosemary Hall in year on the faculty there. Kent forcement. 780-9200. Job order #: NY1220167.
A22 TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017

EDITORIALS LETTERS

What Tax Reform Could Be Analyzing the Dysfunction in the Capital

TO THE EDITOR: (front page, Aug. 7): For decades
the State Department has been
After their protracted failure to repeal Obamacare, congres- actually wear out. Speedy write-offs for luxuries like corpo- I doubt that anyone voted for Don-
ald Trump for president because described as bloated, overly bu-
sional Republicans have indicated that taxes will be next on rate jets could be eliminated altogether. reaucratic and dysfunctional. So
they believed he would be a great
their agenda. It’s a misnomer to call their plans “tax re- But even before lawmakers get into the weeds of corpo- statesman. But he did promise to perhaps Secretary of State Rex
form,” though, because they have proposed little more than rate write-offs, they should agree to close a single huge loop- “Make America Great Again,” and Tillerson deserves credit instead of
the same deep cuts for corporations and wealthy individuals hole: the ability of corporations to defer tax on profits being the leader of the free world is blame for slowing down the rou-
that they’ve always wanted. earned abroad or placed in overseas entities through ac- surely part of that. Well, that hasn’t tines of the department.
Real reform would honestly confront the fact that in the counting maneuvers. Intended to allow companies to more been happening so far. The reputa- Your article discusses at length
next decade we will need roughly $4.5 trillion more revenue easily invest the profits abroad, this benefit has morphed tion of the United States among the problems the secretary inher-
world leaders and their citizens is ited and is wrestling with, but over-
than currently projected to meet our existing commitments into an abusive tax shelter that now shields $2.6 trillion. slumping badly. looks what might be Mr. Tillerson’s
without increasing the federal debt as a share of the econ- To tax the untaxed sums, Democrats should give up Why is this true? First, they have strategy: working for a boss like
omy. Even more would be needed if the government were to their opposition to granting corporations a discounted tax come to realize that the president President Trump, he will focus on
make greater investments to lift productivity and living rate for the profits they bring home. Republicans should has no core principles and therefore cleaning up the department while
standards through education, infrastructure and scientific give up their support for only a voluntary repatriation at a is unpredictable and unreliable. He leaving foreign policy to the White
research. Real reform would do near-zero rate. A compromise seems to view every situation in House. The department really
isolation, with little appreciation of needs an overhaul. Let’s hope this
this by diversifying methods of would give corporations a mod-
the “big picture” or long-run conse- secretary can make a dent in the
taxation while targeting individ- est discount but require them to quences. 70,000-member bureaucracy.
uals and sectors best able to pay the tax and prevent them The president has demonstrated CHARLES H. GESSNER
pay. from stashing untaxed profits that he is not a strategic thinker. He MARBLEHEAD, MASS.
While the wages of most abroad anymore. does not ever seem to “connect the
Americans have stagnated for In previous tax reform pro- dots,” to anticipate the possible
unintended consequences of his TO THE EDITOR:
years, incomes of the wealthiest posals, both Republican and
words or his actions. Our relation- Re “Former General Taking Control
have soared. So it would make Democratic, these sorts of
ship with critical geopolitical rivals at White House” (front page, Aug.
sense to increase the top rates measures have enabled the top like Russia and China is getting 4): If John Kelly succeeds in his
on them and eliminate a break corporate rate to be set at 25 worse. Our relationship with key new role as White House chief of
on income from investments. percent to 28 percent — a rea- allies like Germany is uncertain. staff by bringing order and effec-
A couple who are, say, both sonable goal if lawmakers find The world is dangerous, highly tiveness to the agenda of this dan-
doctors and have a taxable in- the will and the way to actually complex and intricately intercon- gerously unstable president, that is
come of $470,700 face the same end the targeted subsidies. nected. As long as President Trump very bad news for America and the
views the world as a zero-sum world.
top rate, 39.6 percent, as a cou- New forms of taxation are game, with one winner and every- From environmental, health and
ple earning multimillions. also needed. Even prominent one else a loser, our foreign policy consumer protections to Social
Higher rates on the wealthy Republicans like James Baker will be shortsighted. Security, worker safety, voting
may be anathema to today’s Re- III, George Shultz and Henry Mr. President, you are not still rights, racial justice, public educa-
publicans, but even after the Paulson Jr. support a carbon tax making real estate deals in which a tion, tax fairness and other bedrock
first round of Reagan-era tax
LINDA HUANG
imposed on emissions to reduce bad decision means only that you features of a decent society, Donald
lose some money. The safety and Trump and his G.O.P. enablers are a
cuts, top brackets in 1982 ranged from 44 percent to 50 per- greenhouse gases. Theirs would pass the proceeds back to
security of the American people are demonstrated menace.
cent. taxpayers to compensate for higher utility rates and energy in your hands. The fundamental Far better that we experience a
And dividends and capital gains from investments are prices. But revenue generated by carbon taxes could be question is, Can you live up to this continuation of the chaos and inef-
taxed at a total top rate of only 23.8 percent. It would be rea- used for other purposes as well, including investments in re- awesome responsibility? fectiveness that have characterized
sonable to tax wages and investments at the same rates. newable energy and public transportation, lowering other KEN DEROW, SWARTHMORE, PA. the first seven months of this de-
Over all, the richest 1 percent pay 33 percent of their to- taxes or reducing the deficit. structive administration.
tal income in taxes; if rates were changed so they paid 40 Revenue can also be raised by imposing a tax on the TO THE EDITOR: ARLIE SCHARDT, STONINGTON, ME.
percent, it would generate $170 billion of revenue in the first trading of stocks, bonds and derivatives. Such trading has Re “Details Are Bedeviling Tiller- The writer is chairman of Friends of
year, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. mushroomed in recent decades, generating wealth for the son in Overhaul, Diplomats Assert” the Earth.
There is rare bipartisan consensus that closing loop- top sliver of the population. Estimates show that a financial
holes in order to lower the top corporate rate of 35 percent transaction tax of even 0.01 percent per trade ($10 on a
would help American businesses compete globally. But $100,000 trade) could raise $185 billion over 10 years, enough
there is no agreement on which loopholes to close or where to finance prekindergarten for 3- and 4-year olds, with Extending Cap and Trade in California
to set the rate. money left over. TO THE EDITOR: presented the state’s cap-and-trade
One sensible idea would be to end or reduce the corpo- A value-added tax would be akin to a national sales tax, Re “California Leads, Again, on bill as “a model for other states and
rate deduction for interest paid, which would strengthen but harder to evade than traditional sales taxes and thus an Climate” (editorial, July 24): nations.” Yet the bill, heavily influ-
corporate finances by reducing the incentive to overborrow. efficient revenue raiser well suited to a consumer-oriented While California’s extension of enced by the oil and gas industry,
The tactic known as like-kind exchanges, in which corpora- economy. Since it would unduly burden low-income people, its cap-and-trade program will makes California’s flawed cap-and-
serve to reduce greenhouse gas trade system worse by allowing
tions defer tax on the sale of real estate and other assets by who spend most of their income, a VAT would need to be
emissions and stimulate a shift to excessive allowances to pollute
buying other assets with the proceeds, started out as a paired with measures like an expansion of the earned-in- and prevent local regulation of
cleaner fuels, this approach is not
break for farmers but has become a tax-avoidance jugger- come tax credit for the working poor. sustainable in the long term. greenhouse gases.
naut for businesses and the well-to-do. It would also be a Real reform entails more than just cutting taxes, and Levying a tariff for the right to The climate crisis demands that
good idea to scale back accelerated depreciation allowances will require hard work. But the net result could be a fairer pollute is not a mitigation strategy, the state regulate and reduce pollu-
that let businesses write off investments faster than assets and more productive system. nor is burning cleaner fuels. tion quickly, but this bill gives
Clearly what is needed is the de- polluters loopholes and tax breaks
ployment of technology that in real that could result in increased emis-
time renders benign the green- sions. California’s cap-and-trade
house gas emissions from the system cannot be considered a

The Future Is Looking Up for East Midtown combustion of fossil fuels.

Imagine a process that enables
the burning of coal so as to emit no
model for any state or country that
takes the climate crisis seriously.
ADAM SCOW, OAKLAND, CALIF.
New York’s City Council is expected on Wednesday to give was missed in regard to subway improvements. Developers carbon dioxide. It’s time for bold,
The writer is California director for
final approval to new zoning regulations for a vital but aging would decide for themselves what changes they’re willing to imaginative thinking that will lead
to the needed radical innovation. Food & Water Watch.
slice of Manhattan known as East Midtown. If the rule pay for — a little or a lot. What if the most sweeping im-
changes work as intended, new office towers will rise in that provements were required of them for the right to break DONALD R. SADOWAY
part of town, improving its chances of competing with other ground in the first place? CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
world cities and even with emerging commercial centers at A pivotal issue involves air-rights sales, which could be The writer is a professor of materials Chemicals in Cosmetics
Manhattan’s southern tip and on its Far West Side. used for development anywhere in East Midtown. The city chemistry at M.I.T.
TO THE EDITOR:
This plan, which has the de Blasio administration’s would take 20 percent of the sale price or $61.49 a square
blessing, is the product of inevitable compromises to accom- TO THE EDITOR: Re “F.D.A. Has Just Six Inspectors
foot — whichever is higher — and hand it to the “public
for Three Million Shipments of
modate diverse and at times conflicting political, real estate, realm” fund. The Real Estate Board of New York and the Ro- “California Gets Emissions Cap 10 Imported Cosmetics” (news arti-
religious and preservationist interests. As such, it is imper- man Catholic archdiocese have objected that the $61.49 min- Years Longer” (news article, July cle, Aug. 3):
fect. Nonetheless, the concept is laud- imum is too high and will discourage sales. But asking de- 18) notes that Gov. Jerry Brown
The laws governing the safety of
The latest plan able. It would be a mistake to let the velopers to help provide public spaces that benefit everyone chemicals in consumer products
for reviving a perfect, however it’s defined, be the ene- seems fair. And at almost any likely air-rights price, St. Pat- are 80 years old and woefully
sluggish area of my of the good. inadequate. One point of proof:
rick’s and other landmarks stand to reap, collectively, hun- A New Tobacco Product 29,000 companies from 181 coun-
Manhattan is The city anticipates that 6.5 million dreds of millions of dollars. For them, this is found money. TO THE EDITOR: tries are able to bring 3 million
tailored for square feet of office space will eventu- City officials talk about 16 new towers going up over two shipments of personal care prod-
office ally be added to the existing 60 million Re “Taking the Craving Out of
decades. Presumably, East Midtown can absorb growth at Smoking,” by Robert N. Proctor ucts into the United States with
developers and in East Midtown, which encompasses that pace in reasonable fashion. Assuming, of course, that all (Op-Ed, Aug. 2): The recent an- little or no oversight from the Food
preservationists 78 blocks stretching north-south from those buildings materialize. Nothing is guaranteed. nouncement by the Food and Drug and Drug Administration.
alike. 57th to 39th Streets and east-west from Administration that it would ex- Our failure to impose even the
Third to Madison Avenues. The area plore reducing the harm associated most basic safety rules on personal
now generates 10 percent of city real estate taxes and has a with smoking is a welcome call for care products — both domestic and
weekday work force of 250,000. innovation to address this most imported — is an urgent public
serious health issue. health issue.
A consensus formed that the area had lost vibrancy and Philip Morris International has a There is increasing evidence that
that many of its buildings — on average 75 years old — were clear strategy: Replace cigarettes daily, long-term exposure to certain
ill suited for the digital age. The rezoning aims to keep it in with products that are a better chemicals, many of which are found
the global economic ballgame. The effort began in the choice than continued smoking. in personal care products and ab-
Bloomberg administration, which tried unsuccessfully in its We have applied to the F.D.A. to sorbed through the skin, is linked to
final months to rush a plan into law. This page thought then market an innovative product that a range of health concerns includ-
eliminates smoke by heating, ing cancer and reproductive dis-
that more time was needed to think it through, not least the rather than burning, tobacco. Ex- orders. It’s outrageous that our
new stresses on public transportation. tensive research by Philip Morris laws governing the use of these
Under the revised plan, developers of towers near sub- International on this product shows chemicals are so outdated.
way stations would have to pay — upfront — for improve- that eliminating smoke reduces a Our bipartisan Personal Care
ments like new entrances and wider stairways. Until that smoker’s exposure to harmful Products Safety Act, supported by
work was done, the city would not give those buildings its compounds and can potentially companies and consumer advo-
reduce the health risks of smoking.
approval. In addition, a “public realm improvement fund” cates, is the solution. Not only
Nearly three million adults out-
would pay for widening sidewalks and creating pedestrian would companies register with the
side the United States have already
plazas in some places, like the eastern edge of Pershing F.D.A., but the agency would also
quit cigarettes by switching to our
evaluate ingredients to determine
Square, opposite Grand Central Terminal. new product.
whether they are safe.
The de Blasio administration has pledged $50 million to Clearly, the best thing for health
is to quit tobacco and nicotine use Congress must act on this bill as
the fund. But the big money would come from a percentage soon as possible.
altogether. But for those who don’t,
of the sale of air rights by a dozen buildings in the area newly better choices may soon be avail- DIANNE FEINSTEIN, WASHINGTON
declared landmarks — the Graybar Building, the Hotel Lex- able to the 36 million smokers in
ington and the Yale Club, to name a few — and by religious The writer, a Democrat, is a United
America.
States senator from California.
institutions like St. Patrick’s Cathedral, St. Bartholomew’s We need to envision a world
Church and Central Synagogue. Separately, new buildings of where less harmful alternatives,
30,000 square feet or more would have to provide public efficiently delivering satisfying
levels of nicotine, are available for
spaces like indoor atriums or small outdoor parks. Too Good to Pass Congress
those adults who need or want
If there’s a hitch, it lies in the vagueness of key ele- them. The F.D.A.’s bold vision and TO THE EDITOR:
ments. Developers have often built public spaces so uninvit- its emphasis on sound innovation
Re “A Bipartisan Fix for Health
ing that no one uses them. Experience suggests the need for are indeed encouraging.
Care,” by Josh Gottheimer and
a watchful municipal eye. That goes, too, for the promised MARC S. FIRESTONE Tom Reed (Op-Ed, Aug. 4):
“public realm” changes. The city must ensure that they are LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND Why do I read a proposal like
truly attractive. Scattering a few tables and lawn chairs The writer is senior vice president and this and think, can’t possibly pass,
around won’t do. general counsel at Philip Morris Inter- too sensible?
An argument could also be made that an opportunity BIANCA BAGNARELLI national. JERRY L. MASHAW, NEW HAVEN
 THE NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017 N A23

The Trap of Female Lawyers Can Talk, Too DAVID BROOKS

Getting Trump
Immigration Shira A. Scheindlin
Out of My
Porn
A
S a Federal District Court judge in
New York, I often encountered
this courtroom scene: A senior
partner in a large law firm would
Brain
Héctor Tobar be arguing a motion. I would ask a tough LAST WEEK The Washington Post pub-
LOS ANGELES question. He (and it was usually a man) lished transcripts of Donald Trump’s

S
would turn to the young lawyer seated conversations with foreign leaders. A
EE if you can ride along with some
next to him (often a woman). After he con- dear friend sent me an email suggesting
agents from Immigration and
ferred with her repeatedly, I would ask I read them because they reveal how
Customs Enforcement rounding
myself why she wasn’t doing the arguing, Trump’s mind works. But as I tried to
up Latino immigrants, the photo
since she knew the case cold. click the link a Bartleby-like voice in my
editor tells the photographer. Go capture
In the 22 years I spent on the federal head said, “I would prefer not to.” I tried
a group of brown-skinned innocents be-
bench before stepping down last year, not to click again and the voice said: “No
ing led away in cuffs. And if one of the
much changed when it came to listening to thanks. I’m full.”
ICE agents is also Latino, the editor
lawyers. The talking was almost always For the past two years Trump has tak-
adds, so much the better. done by white men. Women often sat at en up an amazing amount of my brain
In the Trump era, such conversations counsel table, but were usually junior and space. My brain has apparently decided
are unfolding again and again in news- silent. It was a rare day when a woman that it’s not interested in devoting more
rooms across the United States. Our best had a lead role — even though women neurons to that guy. There’s nothing
“shooters” are sent out on a hunt for im- have made up about half of law school more to be learned about Trump’s mix-
ages of undocumented immigrants at graduates since the early 1990s. ture of ignorance, insecurity and narcis-
perhaps the most vulnerable and de- I worked on a recent report by the New sism. Every second spent on his bluster
grading moment in their lives. York State Bar Association’s commercial is more degrading than informative.
These images have been a staple of and federal litigation section based on the Now a lot of people are clearly still ad-
American journalism for as long as I’ve first-ever observational study of women dicted to Trump. My Twitter feed is all
been in the business. Very often, they speaking in court. We asked judges to note him. Some people treat the Trump White
seem a kind of immigration porn. the genders of the lawyers who primarily House as the “Breaking Bad” serial
When I was young and angry and saw spoke in court in every case they heard drama they’ve been binge watching for
such pictures for the first time, I con- over four months, and collected and ana- six months. For some of us, Trump-bash-
fronted one of its purveyors. A photojour- lyzed 2,800 responses. The results demon- ing has become educated-class meth. We
nalist and artist had filled a San Fran- strate that women have not made nearly derive endless satisfaction from feeling
cisco art gallery with his black-and- enough progress in the legal profession. morally superior to him — and as Leon
white images of Mexicans and others be- The report found that women were the Wieseltier put it, affirmation is the new
ing tied up and hustled away by the Bor- lead lawyers for private parties barely 20 sex.
der Patrol near Tijuana. This was in the percent of the time in New York State’s But I thought I might try to listen to my
mid-1980s, long before any fence or wall federal and state courts at the trial and ap- brain for a change. That would mean try-
was built there. The detained immi- pellate levels. Women were twice as likely ing, probably unsuccessfully, to spend
grants had the startled expressions of to appear on behalf of public sector clients. less time thinking about Trump the soap
children caught misbehaving, or con- The offices of the United States attorneys, opera and more time on questions that
fused peasants caught up in a modern district attorneys, the state attorney gen- surround the Trump phenomena and
system they couldn’t hope to under- eral and the corporation counsel of the this moment of history.
stand. City of New York, as well as Legal Aid of- How much permanent damage is he
One handcuffed woman wore a shirt fices and federal defenders, have doing to our global alliances? Have
that bore the words “High Life.” The pho- achieved some level of gender equality in Americans really decided they no longer
tograph seemed to revel in the irony. courtroom appearances. want to be a universal nation with a spe-
I told the photographer I objected to But the overall number was dismal: 25 CRISTINA SPANÒ cial mission to spread freedom around
the quantity and monotony of the im- percent in commercial and criminal cases the world? Is populism now the lingua
ages. They hit the same pathetic and in courtrooms across New York. the firm as department heads and manag- franca of politics so the Democrats’ only
melodramatic note over and over. To
mount them on a wall and call it art was
Why has the private sector failed so
badly? The survey was not designed to
Too many are relegated to ing partners. If they do these things, they
will more effectively serve their clients.
hope is to match Trump’s populism with
their own?
deeply offensive, I told him. Each of his answer that question, so I can only specu- the courtroom sidelines. The more things change, the more they These sorts of questions revolve
subjects possessed a story and a person- late. But the statistics do tell part of the stay the same. I have practiced law in one around one big question: What lessons
ality he had completely overlooked. story. In private sector cases, the client, That needs to change. role or another for more than 40 years. I are people drawing from this debacle
“Dude, this isn’t who they are,” I said. rather than the government or the court, was only the second female judge on the and how will those lessons shape what
“This isn’t who we are.” picks the lawyer. The survey definitively Brooklyn federal court when I was ap- comes next?
The photographer was a well-meaning showed that when there was a big, “bet teams reflect the community, and cases pointed magistrate judge in 1982. I was the It’s clear that Trump is not just a pa-
liberal. My comments stunned him. He the company” civil case, few clients were are argued to judges and jurors who re- first chairwoman of the state bar’s com- renthesis. After he leaves things will not
had never met a young guy with immi- prepared to put their business’s fate in the flect the community. Hewlett-Packard, Or- mercial and federal litigation group, just snap back to “normal.” Instead, he
grant parents and a college degree hands of a woman. The more complex the acle and Facebook, for example, have de- which issued the recent report. I am now represents the farcical culmination of a
case, the less likely that a woman was lead manded that the firms representing them engaged in alternative dispute resolution,
counsel. The same was true when a crimi- field a diverse team of lawyers. I hope in which women obtain only 4 percent of
Latinos’ lives are more nal defendant retained private counsel. other corporations will soon follow.
Finally, law firms that hire large num-
international arbitration cases worth at And paying attention to
What can be done? Judges, clients and least $1 billion, according to one survey,
than the visual clichés of law firms all have a chance to improve this bers of female lawyers, but who, statistics and between 15 and 25 percent of all arbi- the counterreaction.
bleak picture. Let’s start with judges. show, often don’t pay them as well as the
deportation dramas. They can suggest that the lawyer who male lawyers, or promote them at the
trations.
Progress for women has been elusive. lot of dying old orders — demographic,
wrote the brief or prepared the witness same rates, must stop paying lip service to The barriers to real change have been political, even moral — and what comes
should be the one to argue. Often it is a diversity and take concrete steps to more daunting than I expected. But if all after will be a reaction against rather
telling him he’d failed to see the full hu-
woman. Judges are generally more di- change. judges — male and female — business than a continuing from.
manity of his Latino subjects.
verse than the lawyers who appear before Firms can commit to guaranteeing that leaders and the bar at large want to For example, let’s look at our moral
Today, immigration porn is ubiquitous.
them. They should bear some responsibil- junior female lawyers participate in the achieve real gender diversity in the legal culture. For most of American history
You are many times more likely to see a
ity to ensure that the lawyers who speak in same number of depositions as their male profession, they have the power to make it mainline Protestants — the Episco-
deportee on the TV news than a Latino
court are equally diverse. counterparts. They can ensure that every happen. The road map to change is clear.0 palians, Methodists, Presbyterians and
doctor or teacher. Images of immigrants
Clients, particularly corporate clients, trial team has at least one woman; that so on — set the dominant cultural tone.
facing deportation have accumulated in
can demand that their legal teams be di- women are meeting clients at the same SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN is an arbitrator and
Most of the big social movements, like
our collective national consciousness as
verse. They should recognize that diversi- rate as men; and that bright, aggressive mediator and of counsel at the Stroock abolitionism, the suffragist movement
the essence of the Latino experience.
ty is an asset in the courtroom. Diverse women are given leadership positions in law firm. and the civil rights movement, came out
The Latino is a tragic mestizo: the ille-
gal immigrant who will always be denied of the mainline churches.
a share of the American dream; the “con- As Joseph Bottum wrote in “An Anx-
flicted” immigration agent forced to ious Age,” mainline Protestants created
round up his own people; the boy outside DAVID LEONHARDT a kind of unifying culture that bound peo-
a federal building, tears streaming, ple of different political views. You could
freshly separated from his father. be Catholic, Jewish, Muslim or atheist,
My objection is not to the coverage of
deportations and the drama of desert
Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart but still you were influenced by certain
mainline ideas — the Protestant work
ethic, the WASP definition of a gentle-
border crossings. Parents are separated
from their children, people are tortured INCOME GROWTH man. Leaders from Theodore Roosevelt
by smugglers, and many die. We cannot, Over previous 34 years to Barack Obama hewed to a similar
should not, look away.
But now, the very affluent mainline standard for what is decent in
But the humiliated and hunted people 5% (the 99.999th percentile) see public life and what is beyond the pale.
you see in coverage of the deported are the largest income growth. Over the last several decades mainline
not the whole person. Tenacity and stub- The poor and middle class Protestantism has withered. The coun-
bornness are the defining qualities of un- 4% used to see the largest 99.99th percentile try became more diverse. The WASPs
documented America. This is precisely lost their perch atop society. The main-
income growth. line denominations lost their vitality.
what is absent in the media’s depiction of
the more than 11 million people who live For a time, we lived off the moral capi-
there. 3% tal of the past. But the election of Trump
If I could, I would resurrect Dorothea shows just how desiccated the mainline
Lange, the legendary photographer of In 1980 99th percentile code has become. A nation guided by that
the Great Depression, to capture a truly ethic would not have elected a guy who is
2%
defining image of that experience. When a daily affront to it, a guy who nakedly
taking her most famous photograph, loves money, who boasts, who objectifies
“Migrant Mother,” Lange ignored the In 2014 women, who is incapable of hypocrisy
pile of dirty clothes next to her subject, 1% 99th percentile because he acknowledges no standard of
5th percentile propriety other than that which he feels
an itinerant farmworker sitting by the
roadside with her children. like doing at any given moment.
“She would never embarrass her sub- 0 Donald Trump has smashed through
jects,” her biographer Linda Gordon 0 10th 20th 30th 40th 50th 60th 70th 80th 90th 100th the behavior standards that once gov-
writes in “Dorothea Lange: A Life Be- erned public life. His election demon-
LOWER INCOME INCOME PERCENTILE HIGHER INCOME
strates that as the unifying glue of the
yond Limits.”
I like to imagine Lange drifting Note: Inflation-adjusted annual average growth using post-tax income. Source: Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman. THE NEW YORK TIMES mainline culture receded, the country di-
through the barrios of California in her vided into at least three blocks: white
old Ford, loaded down with her Graflex evangelical Protestantism that at least in
MANY AMERICANS CAN’T remember any- the poor weren’t just receiving healthy It’s true that the country can’t magi-
camera. Rather than see her subjects as its public face seems to care more about
thing other than an economy with sky- raises. Their take-home pay was rising cally return to the 1950s and 1960s (nor eros than caritas; secular progressivism
objects of pity “living in the shadows,” as rocketing inequality, in which living even more rapidly, in percentage terms, would we want to, all things considered).
today’s liberal malarkey has it, she that is spiritually formed by feminism,
standards for most Americans are stag- than the pay of the rich. Economic growth was faster in those
would immerse herself in their lives. environmentalism and the quest for indi-
nating and the rich are pulling away. It The post-inflation, after-tax raises that decades than we can reasonably expect
She might encounter a Mexican immi- vidual rights; and realist nationalism
feels inevitable. were typical for the middle class during today. Yet there is nothing natural about
grant sitting on his porch in Los Angeles, that gets its manners from reality TV and
But it’s not. the pre-1980 period — about 2 percent a the distribution of today’s growth — the
weary from his day’s labors. I see her ta- its spiritual succor from in-group/out-
A well-known team of inequality re- year — translate into rapid gains in liv- fact that our economic bounty flows
king a step back and observing him lost group solidarity.
searchers — Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel ing standards. At that rate, a household’s overwhelmingly to a small share of the
in thought as he watches his children Saez and Gabriel Zucman — has been income almost doubles every 34 years. population. If Trump falls in disgrace or defeat,
play in the front yard. getting some attention recently for a Different policies could produce a dif- and people’s partisan pride is no longer
In the face and gestures of that copper- chart it produced. It shows the change in ferent outcome. My list would start with at stake, I hope that even his supporters
will have enough moral memory to ac-
skinned man, her photograph would de-
pict the ineffable qualities of the immi-
income between 1980 and 2014 for every
point on the distribution, and it neatly
Income inequality has a tax code that does less to favor the af-
fluent, a better-functioning education knowledge that character really does
grant present: weariness and hopeful- summarizes the recent soaring of in-
equality.
soared only in recent system, more bargaining power for
workers and less tolerance for corporate
matter. A guy can promise change, but if
he is dishonest, disloyal and selfish, the
ness, uncertainty and pride. His dignity
and his burdens would be plain to see, The line on the chart (which we have decades. consolidation. change he delivers is not going to be ef-
fective or good.
but perhaps also a certain raffish quality recreated as the darker line above) re- Remarkably, President Trump and the
— the lively brown eyes of a man who has sembles a classic hockey-stick graph. It’s Republican leaders in Congress are try- But where are people going to go for a
found his way through adversity with wit mostly flat and close to zero, before spik- (The economists used 34-year windows ing to go in the other direction. They new standard of decency? They’re not
and wiles. ing upward at the end. That spike shows to stay consistent with their original spent months trying to take away health going to go back to the old WASP ideal.
that the very affluent, and only the very chart, which covered 1980 through 2014.) insurance from millions of middle-class That’s dead. Trump revealed the vac-
That is the true image of undocument-
affluent, have received significant raises In recent decades, by contrast, only and poor families. Their initial tax-re- uum, but who is going to fill it and with
ed America. Not immigrant porn, but
in recent decades. very affluent families — those in roughly form plans would reduce taxes for the what?
something infinitely more interesting.
This line captures the rise in inequality the top 1/40th of the income distribution rich much more than for everyone else. I could describe a similar vacuum
Art. The beauty and complexity of the
better than any other chart or simple — have received such large raises. Yes, And they want to cut spending on when it comes to domestic policy think-
lives of working people seen as they truly
summary that I’ve seen. So I went to the the upper-middle class has done better schools, even though education is the ing, to American identity, to America’s
are. 0
economists with a request: Could they than the middle class or the poor, but the single best way to improve middle-class role in the world. Trump exposes the void
HÉCTOR TOBAR, an associate professor at produce versions of their chart for years huge gaps are between the superrich and living standards over the long term. but doesn’t fill it. That’s why the reaction
the University of California, Irvine, is the before 1980, to capture the income trends everyone else. Most Americans would look at these against Trump is now more important
author of “Deep Down Dark: The Untold following World War II. You are looking The basic problem is that most fam- charts and conclude that inequality is out than the man himself.
Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean at the result here. ilies used to receive something ap- of control. The president, on the other One way or another I’m gonna wash
Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them The message is straightforward. Only proaching their fair share of economic hand, seems to think that inequality isn’t that man right outta what’s left of my
Free” and a contributing opinion writer. a few decades ago, the middle class and growth, and they don’t anymore. big enough. 0 hair. 0
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017

Trump’s Stalled Trade Agenda Is Leaving Industries in a Lurch

By ALAN RAPPEPORT deals with other countries. Instead, his Home builders are desperate for the The Commerce Department was sion was no longer imminent.
WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump administration has been struggling to president to cut a deal with Canada to poised to deliver a report to Mr. Trump Dithering may have made the situa-
promised Americans that they would be work through the complicated rules that end a dispute over its softwood lumber by the end of June with recommenda- tion worse for American steel producers.
exhausted from “winning” on trade un- dictate international commerce. All the exports. And cattle ranchers are longing tions for steel tariffs, on the ground that Mr. Gerard said foreign competitors had
der his presidency. But nearly seven while, they are learning that bold cam- for a bilateral pact with Japan to ease the cheap imports pose a national security been flooding the United States market
months after Mr. Trump took office, the paign promises are hard to keep when flow of beef exports. threat. But the process became bogged with steel products in anticipation of the
industries he vowed to protect have be- many voices advocate different plans. “It’s frustrating because of the impact down when industries that buy steel ob- tariffs. Some of this is happening in parts
come tired of something else: waiting. For many businesses that had raised it’s having on the industry,” said Leo W. jected and other countries threatened re- of the country that voted for Mr. Trump.
After beginning his presidency with a their hopes, frustration is mounting by Gerard, president of United Steelwork- taliation. Mr. Trump said recently that “This has been a bit of a letdown in the
bang by withdrawing from the Trans-Pa- the day. ers International union, of the delayed dealing with steel was no longer a top industrial heartland,” said Mr. Gerard,
cific Partnership pact in January, Mr. America’s steelworkers are on edge as outcome of a highly anticipated steel in- priority, and Wilbur Ross, the commerce who is based in Pittsburgh. “A lot of our
Trump has accomplished little else of sig- they wait for Mr. Trump to fulfill his vestigation. “It’s creating a crisis that’s secretary, signaled to members of Con- members supported the president be-
nificance when it comes to reorienting promise to place tariffs on steel imports. being exacerbated.” gress in briefings last month that a deci- Continued on Page 2

Proof Is Elusive
In Age Bias Cases

LISA HANEY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

By ELIZABETH OLSON was praised consistently, including a good perform- lyst. “They drove us to an empty parking lot, and that
For more than four decades, manufacturing was ance review in 2012 from the management of Spirit was it.”
the only work Donetta Raymond knew. AeroSystems Holdings. Spirit AeroSystems — formed from Boeing’s
Fresh from high school, she followed her father The next year, she underwent a separate com- 2005 sale of its Wichita division and Oklahoma oper-
to the factory floor because, she said, “It was the pany review to gauge whether the company should ations — is an important supplier for Boeing, its big-
best-paying job around.” retain her. Ominously, she slid to a “C” from her “A” gest customer, and a rival, Airbus, chalking up
Starting as a sheet metal mechanic, Ms. Ray- rating the previous year. nearly $1.7 billion in revenue in the first quarter of
mond found plenty of work in her hometown, Wich- And just a few months later, the company laid off this year.
ita, Kan., home to famous names in aviation like hundreds of longtime workers, including her, then When it laid off 360 workers in summer 2013, the
Cessna, Beech and Boeing. aged 59. The layoffs were swift and blunt. company was not closing down or moving jobs to
She applied her skills, eventually becoming a “They walked us out, and wouldn’t let us go back Mexico or anywhere else. Spirit, which has 11,000
production operation specialist on 737 airplane fu- and say goodbye,” said a fellow worker, Debra employees in Wichita and operations in Europe and
selages at Boeing’s sprawling facilities. Her work Hatcher, 57, then a manufacturing operations ana- Continued on Page 2

Minting Virtual Currencies, Can Trump

Despite S.E.C.’s Warning Take a Bow
By NATHANIEL POPPER
SAN FRANCISCO — The cautionary
to data from Tokendata.io.
In contrast, only three projects have
For Stocks?
words of American regulators have said they are canceling or postponing “Business is looking better than ever
done little to chill a red-hot market for the sale of coins because of the warning. with business enthusiasm at record
new virtual currencies sold by start- July was the biggest month for coin levels. Stock Market at an all-time high.
ups. offerings, with 34 projects raising $665 That doesn’t just happen!”
The Securities and Exchange Com- million, Tokendata.io data shows — or That was one of Pres-
twice as much money as was raised in ident Trump’s early-
mission late last month issued its first
warning for the many entrepreneurs the first five months of the year com- ANDREW morning Twitter posts
who have been raising money by creat- bined.
For investors, the most immediate
ROSS SORKIN late last week.
It was, all things
ing and selling their own virtual curren-
cies in what are called initial coin offer- risk is less likely to be the regulators, DEALBOOK considered, a factually
ings. At that point, hundreds of projects and more likely to be the many projects accurate statement.
had raised more than $1 billion. that are proceeding without a credible Business is looking better. The stock
Yet even after the commission said it plan for putting out successful software market is at a high. And, yes, it did not
was looking closely at projects that may — something that many sophisticated happen by itself.
violate its rules, programmers are still investors have warned about. Many The question, however, is this: Has
embarking on new offerings at a torrid coin offerings have also had security anything that has happened at 1600
pace. Most of the offerings have little le- vulnerabilities that have led to big Pennsylvania Avenue had anything to
gal oversight and some appear to con- losses for investors. do with it?
flict with the commission’s basic advice. But even projects that build success- Putting aside the administration’s
“The broader detail and the silences ful software could be punished if the inability to successfully pass any mean-
in the report should give many people commission carries through with its ingful legislation thus far — and that’s a
pause and that doesn’t seem to have warning. lot to put aside — can Mr. Trump fairly
happened yet,” said Emma Channing, The agency said that it would focus take any credit for the market’s trajec-
the general counsel at the Argon Group, on coins that should be categorized as tory? After all, when I and others talk
which helps projects in the industry securities. People selling securities to to C.E.O.s and investors, one constant
raise funds. “I don’t understand why ev- American investors are generally re- refrain we hear is that they actually
eryone isn’t as concerned as I am.” quired to register themselves and their expect little to get done on the legisla-
Since the guidance was released on investments with the securities regula- tive front.
July 25, 46 new coin offerings have been tor. So far, almost none of the coins be- JASON HENRY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Where they repeatedly said they
announced and an additional 204 are ing sold to investors have been regis- Juan Benet, the founder of Filecoin. His start-up has worked with the were expecting big changes — that will
moving toward fund-raising, according Continued on Page 3 law firm Cooley to structure its initial coin offering, set for Thursday. Continued on Page 5
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Trump’s Stalled Trade Agenda Is Leaving Industries in a Lurch

And imposing tariffs to protect
From First Business Page one domestic industry often does
cause of what he said about steel damage to another. The most
and manufacturing.” prominent recent example comes
But steel only scratches the sur- from an industry that is dear to
face. Mr. Trump’s heart: home con-
One accomplishment that Mr. struction.
Trump has notched on trade has At a campaign speech to the Na-
been an agreement with China tional Association of Home Build-
that opened its market to Ameri- ers in Miami a year ago, Mr.
can beef exports. For the beef in- Trump waxed nostalgic about his
dustry, however, the benefits of father’s days in the business. “I’m
that deal pale in comparison with so comfortable in this business,
the cost of abandoning the Trans- and it taught me so much,” he said
Pacific Partnership, which had to a round of applause.
been spearheaded by President These days, home builders may
Barack Obama. It would have pro- not be as apt to cheer. In April, the
vided access to the enormous Jap- Trump administration announced
anese market. that it would impose new tariffs on
Instead, Japanese tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber, say-
American frozen beef, which
ing the exports are unfairly subsi-
would have declined under Mr.
dized. The proposed tariffs, which
Obama’s deal, are on the rise. Last
could be as high as 24 percent,
week, they increased to 50 per-
cent from 38 percent, making have already led to a spike in lum-
America’s meat even more vul- ber prices. According to
nerable to competition from coun- Bloomberg data, they are up
tries such as Australia. nearly 18 percent this year.
“TPP was fantastic,” said Kent That has put the squeeze on
Bacus director of international American home builders, who
trade for the National Cattlemen’s rely heavily on Canadian lumber.
Beef Association. “When you walk The United States imported $5.7
away from it without a meaningful billion in softwood lumber last
alternative, that causes a lot of year, mainly for residential build-
alarm in the beef industry.” ing.
Despite the delays, the pace of “The increase in cost is due to
action on trade is expected to pick the trade war with Canada,” said
up soon. In the coming days, the Gerald Howard, chief executive of
United States trade representa- TY WRIGHT/BLOOMBERG the National Association of Home
tive is expected to unveil a trade Welders at the Columbus Castings foundry in Ohio. Steelworkers are awaiting tariffs on steel imports promised by the president. Builders. “The availability of Ca-
case accusing China of extensive nadian lumber is at risk, so the
violations of intellectual property. price is going higher.”
On Aug. 16, the United States, Partnership. allowed the United States to use for beef. made the case to Mr. Trump.
Likewise, Mr. Ross made clear its economic scale to its advan- “This isn’t about political mes- Trade experts say the slow Builders are looking to Europe
Mexico and Canada are to begin and Russia for lumber because
talks on renegotiating the North during testimony before the Sen- tage over smaller countries. saging for us,” Mr. Bacus said. movement on trade is another ex-
ate this year that the days of vast “Trump’s view on trade is to use “This is about lost profits, lost jobs ample of the administration’s real- Canada has become so expensive,
American Free Trade Agreement, Mr. Howard said. They are also
which Mr. Trump threatened this multinational trade deals were leverage to require countries to do and lost opportunity.” izing that governing is more com-
over. He argued that pacts be- things we want them to do and use Mr. Bacus said that promoting plicated than campaigning. passing costs on to buyers, which
year to terminate before revers-
tween two countries would be ne- trade as a bargaining chip,” Mr. the benefits of the Trans-Pacific “I think what the Trump admin- could become a drag on the hous-
ing course.
gotiated faster than regional Moore said. Partnership had been his group’s istration has learned is that trade ing market.
The Trump administration has
made the renegotiation of trade agreements. Mr. Trump’s trade strategy top lobbying issue last year and policy is really, really hard and The industry’s lobbying group
agreements central to its strategy “As somebody who has negoti- comes with its own set of risks. Mr. that his team had employed both when you actually start to think wants the Trump administration
for economic growth. Reducing ated a lot of transactions, I can tell Bacus, for instance, said Nafta, digital tools and grass-roots cam- about making policy changes, any to quickly reach a new deal with
trade deficits with other countries you,” he said, “the more complex while much derided by Mr. Trump, paigns to voice its concerns about policy change that you make is go- Canada on lumber. It also hopes
is one of its measures of success. the environment within which had been a boon for beef exports. the pact’s demise. ing to hurt somebody and they are that Mr. Trump will remember his
Informed by his background in you’re negotiating, the less likely He is hoping that Mr. Trump The beef industry joined forces going to make that known,” said roots in the industry.
the real estate business, Mr. you are to get to a sensible result.” makes only modest adjustments with other agricultural organiza- Chad P. Bown, a senior fellow at “The president strongly be-
Trump has maintained that bilat- Stephen Moore, the Heritage to the terms of trade with Ameri- tions such as pork producers and the Peterson Institute for Interna- lieves in what’s going on with the
eral trade deals are simpler and Foundation economist who ad- ca’s neighbors and moves quickly the American Farm Bureau Fed- tional Economics. “Any time you tariffs, and he has pursued protec-
more likely to benefit the United vised Mr. Trump’s campaign, said to strike a trade deal with Japan, eration to pressure members of implement a tariff or take a tariff tionist policies in this area,” Mr.
States than the multilateral pacts bilateral trade deals were attrac- whose $1.5 billion market is the Congress to tone down their anti- away, there’s going to be winners Howard said. “We disagree with
like Nafta or the Trans-Pacific tive to the president because they biggest and most important one trade talk, and they have also and losers.” him.”

For Older Workers Shown the Door,

Proof Is Elusive in Age Bias Cases
conditions. out, so the more senior workers
From First Business Page Spirit maintains that it does kept their jobs,” said Robert J.
Asia, said layoffs among its sala- not discriminate in hiring or ter- Gordon, an economics professor
ried employees and managers mination decisions. at Northwestern University, who
were necessary to remain com- “Reductions in force are never studies the country’s growth and
petitive. easy, however all decisions are work force productivity.
Today, a lawsuit filed by 70 for- based on job-related, nondiscrimi- “Now we’re seeing a transi-
mer employees, including Ms. natory criteria,” said Fred Malley, tion from the age of favoritism to
Raymond, is in proceedings in the Spirit’s spokesman. that of age discrimination,” Mr.
“We are confident the evi- Gordon said, “because newer
Federal District Court in Wichita.
dence in this case will show Spirit workers are allowed to stay on
The lawsuit was cleared first by
while more costly, older workers
the federal Equal Employment is compliant with the law in its em-
are let go.”
Opportunity Commission, which ployment practices.”
One of the few recourses for
must decide the validity of any Such lawsuits are popping up
employees is to file a job discrimi-
claim of age or disability discrimi- as the nation’s work force ages nation complaint with the Equal
nation before it can proceed. and as many longtime workers Employment Opportunity Com-
The workers brought the suit claim that they are being deliber- mission. Nearly 21,000 age dis-
after discovering that nearly half ately targeted for such reductions. crimination complaints were filed
— or 164 — of those in the 2013 lay- As manufacturing has contracted, in 2016 with the commission, up
offs were 40 or older, the age that more experienced workers feel from 20,144 in 2015, though down
initiates federal age discrimina- they have limited options for re- slightly from a high of almost AMY STROTH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
tion law protections. And workers employment if they are discarded 25,000 in 2009 during the financial
charge that they were singled out, at older ages. crisis, when huge numbers of jobs Donetta Raymond, 63, of Wichita, Kan., is among 70 former employees of Spirit AeroSystems
in addition, because either they or “Once layoffs were done by re- were eliminated. who have filed a lawsuit saying the company discriminated against them because of their age.
their spouses had serious medical verse seniority. It was last in, first In recent years, the number of
filings has hovered in the 21,000 shore up the 1967 law, employers of freedom to decide how layoffs pers, Spirit switched to self-paid
range, and age discrimination ac- seem likely to maintain an edge. occur,” said Lisa Klerman, a law medical insurance, giving it an in-
counts for nearly a quarter of the In February, a group of senators, professor at the University of centive to jettison higher-risk or
NEURODERM LTD. overall complaints filed with the including Robert P. Casey, Demo- Southern California Gould School sick employees to save money,
agency, which also pursues crat of Pennsylvania, and Susan of Law, and a mediator in employ- they say.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS REGARDING THE charges of discrimination against Collins, Republican of Maine, in- ment disputes. Then a few months after the
FILING OF A MERGER PROPOSAL WITH a job applicant or employee on the troduced the Protecting Older While long-term workers are 2013 layoffs, Spirit held a job fair to
basis of a person’s race, color, reli- Workers Against Discrimination better off than they were a half- recruit for empty jobs, some of
THE ISRAELI REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES gion, sex, national origin, disabili- Act. But past efforts to strengthen century ago when employers which appeared to have the same
ty or genetic information. older worker rights have foun- or very similar duties to the posi-
In accordance with Section 318 of the Israeli flatly blocked applicants over 55
Yet, even as the work force has dered on opposition from business tions that had been vacated.
years old and ran help-wanted ads
Companies Law, 5759-1999 (the “Companies a large number of older employ- But, according to Ms. Ray-
that said “only workers under 35
ees, one of the principal tools to mond and others, the company,
Law”), and Regulation 3 of the Israeli Companies need apply,” older employees still
fight such discrimination, the Age
can encounter different kinds of Wichita’s largest employer, with
Regulations (Merger), 5760-2000, notice is hereby Discrimination in Employment
Act — which Congress passed a
A federal law meant age bias. few exceptions, would not accept
Age-related harassment com- résumés, interview or rehire the
given to the creditors, to the extent they exist, of half-century ago — may not be up to offer protection is plaints, especially remarks that discharged workers. Since those
to the task, said Laurie A. Mc-
NeuroDerm Ltd., a company organized under the Cann, a lawyer with AARP Foun- often of little help. belittle or demean longtime work- layoffs four years ago, aircraft
ers’ skills or contributions, are up parts plants in Wichita are now
laws of the State of Israel, registration number dation Litigation, which is provid-
noticeably. They rose to 4,185 last scrambling to find enough work-
ing legal counsel to the Wichita
513394577 (“NeuroDerm”), that on August 6, plaintiffs. year, an increase of almost 14 per- ers to fill a resurgence in orders.
groups, and the current bill is giv- cent since 2011, according to But that is little consolation to
2017, NeuroDerm filed a Merger Proposal (as “Ageism unfortunately re-
E.E.O.C. data. Ms. Raymond, who last October
mains pervasive in the American en little chance of passage.
such term is defined in the Companies Law) with work force,” she said. Only two of And many discrimination But under the law, comments was told she had ovarian cancer.
cases never reach the courtroom that perpetuate stereotypes — To get by, she said she had drawn
the Israeli Registrar of Companies, describing the the cases the E.E.O.C. filed in
like “older workers are dead- down her savings, started her So-
court last year involved the fed- because they are settled volun-
proposed merger of NeuroDerm with MT Porto Ltd. eral age discrimination act, ac- tarily, said Victoria A. Lipnic, ac- wood” — do not carry a stigma cial Security benefits earlier than
cording to a list assembled by ting chairwoman of the Equal Em- equal to that of similar remarks on planned and underwent retrain-
(“MT Porto”), a company organized under the race or sex. While such demean- ing to use power tools to make
AARP, the nonprofit older citizens ployment Opportunity Commis-
laws of the State of Israel, registration number group. sion, which in 2016 recovered just ing remarks are not seen as con- cabinets. She was further
They were among a total of under $350 million for discrimina- clusive proof of bias, they can help squeezed financially because she
515690964 (a wholly-owned subsidiary of tion victims through mediation, persuade a fact-finder, mediator did not take the company’s sever-
only 86 workplace discrimination
Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, a company cases litigated in court last year, conciliation and settlements. That or court that some wrongdoing ance pay package and waived fur-
AARP found. Few cases are taken compared with $52.2 million re- has occurred in a workplace. ther claims against it.
organized under the laws of the State of Japan covered from cases that involve “Those remarks can plant “It hurt big time not to do
to court because such complaints
(“Purchaser”)). Upon completion of the merger, are complicated and expensive; it litigation, she said in an interview. seeds in the mind of fact-finders that,” she said, “But I think it was
can take a long time to assemble People who work in states like about a company’s motivations,” unethical and illegal to use our
NeuroDerm will become a wholly-owned subsidiary California and New Jersey, which Ms. Klerman noted. Mediators or health conditions and age against
relevant evidence and testimony.
of Purchaser. The Merger Proposal may be reviewed And a 2009 Supreme Court have strong anti-discrimination judges can look at a list of criteria, us, and I want to see that through
ruling has made proving age dis- laws, may fare better complaining including safety records, attend- and make sure everyone knows
at the offices of the Israeli Registrar of Companies, crimination more difficult legally. to state employment fairness ance, leadership, communication the company did that.”
at the offices of NeuroDerm at 3 Pekeris Street, In a case brought by the insurance agencies than relying on federal and interpersonal skills, that the Ms. Hatcher, her colleague,
executive Jack Gross, who was agencies or courts. company lists as factors it uses to who has struggled to make a liv-
Rehovot, Israel (to be coordinated in advance by among a dozen employees who Still, proving age bias is diffi- evaluate workers, she said. ing with jobs in real estate and in
phone: +972-8-9462729), or at the offices of were demoted, the court over- cult. Even companies that decide “Of course, many of those are estate sales, declined the sever-
turned an initial ruling favorable that older workers are too expen- subjective,” she acknowledged. ance payment as well. The women
Meitar Liquornik Geva Leshem Tal, Law Offices (to to him and imposed a tougher le- sive, with their larger paychecks In Wichita, dozens of laid-off and their former colleagues say
be coordinated in advance by phone with Shahar gal standard. and costlier health insurance, Spirit employees who are chal- it’s a matter of principle.
To win, the court said, plain- rarely detail this in internal docu- lenging their layoffs say their situ- “It’s infuriating that you
Arazi, Adv.: +972-3-610-3100), Sunday through tiffs like Mr. Gross had to prove ments or emails. And court rul- ation was exacerbated by the spend so much time with a com-
Thursday from 9:00 am until 5:00 pm, Israel time. that age discrimination was the ings have given companies signif- company’s use of personal medi- pany, and give them your loyalty
prime, or motivating, reason for icant leeway to defend against cal information to single them out and it winds up this way,” Ms.
NEURODERM LTD. demotion or dismissal. such lawsuits. for layoffs. A short time before the Hatcher said. “It’s just discrimina-
Without action by Congress to “Employers have a great deal dismissals, they said in legal pa- tion.”
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JASON HENRY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Filecoin’s founder Juan Benet, center, with some of his team, in Stanford, Calif. Its coin will be available only to so-called accredited investors, to bypass some regulations.

Start-Ups Are Minting Virtual Currencies, Despite the S.E.C.’s Warning

Nick Morgan, formerly a law- tual currency exchanges are cur- which allows the coin to be ex- ferring to internet protocol.
From First Business Page yer in the S.E.C.’s enforcement di- rently registered. empt from many S.E.C. regula- “There’s only one thing that is rel-
tered with regulators. vision, said that the security label A red-hot market for “I’m sad to say that I think we tions that are intended to protect evant, and that is whether a U.S.
Many entrepreneurs creating was likely to apply to any coin that
an investor buys with the expecta-
initial coin offerings, will see one or more exchanges
get hit by a fairly significant S.E.C.
smaller investors.
Other projects have tried to
investor bought in your sale.”
The projects barring American
virtual currencies have argued
that they are not securities be- tion that it will increase in value as
a result of the efforts of the en-
which often have little enforcement,” Ms. Channing of
the Argon Group said.
work around regulators by pro-
hibiting American investors from
investors could also get in trouble
cause they are intended to be used with regulators from other coun-
as the internal method of payment trepreneurs who created it. legal oversight. If exchanges are punished, it is buying their coins, which they tries. Last week, Singapore’s cen-
That definition could be a prob- likely to drive down prices have done by barring anyone who tral bank announced that it was
in the software that the en-
lem for many coins because the throughout the market because it tries to buy the coins from an in- also scrutinizing coin offerings
trepreneurs are creating.
excitement around initial coin of- will make it harder to buy and sell ternet address associated with the and applying a similar framework
The DMarket token, for in- ulent cases, sparing most initial
ferings has been driven almost en- all virtual currencies. United States.
stance, is expected to be used to coin offerings, even if they are not as the United States regulator.
tirely by investors who have A handful of coming coin offer- But those measures generally
pay for video game points and bought coins in the hope that they properly registered. Mr. Murck said that even teams
ings have hired lawyers to care- do not prevent eager American in-
products on a new marketplace will become more valuable over But he said he expected more fully devise investments that play vestors from using foreign inter- that do make an effort to comply
being built by the token’s creators, time as the underlying software is problems for the virtual currency by the rules. net addresses to place orders, a with the regulators are going to be
and those creators have said that improved. exchanges that allowed investors The creators of Filecoin, which relatively easy workaround. in treacherous waters because of
they do not consider it a security. The values of many coins intro- to trade coins that should be cate- is being built to pay for file storage Several lawyers said that the the lack of clear definitions and
But many lawyers in the indus- duced in the last year have sky- gorized as securities, even if the in a new cloud computing net- commission is unlikely to care law regarding virtual currencies.
try have been warning en- rocketed as speculators have en- securities are not fraudulent. work, have worked with the law about the steps taken to keep out “There are still open questions
trepreneurs that just because a tered the market. The commission said last firm Cooley to structure their of- American investors if Americans after the S.E.C. report,” he said.
coin is intended to serve as a pay- Mr. Morgan, now a defense law- month that any exchange that al- fering. still end up buying the coins. “There’s uncertainty and risk in
ment method does not mean that yer at Paul Hastings, said he ex- lowed investors to buy and sell se- When the coin goes on sale on “Just blocking I.P. addresses is the space, even for people who are
it cannot also be categorized as a pected the commission to save its curities must be registered with Thursday it will be available only irrelevant,” said Patrick Murck, a taking a professional approach to
security. fire for the most egregious, fraud- the agency. None of the major vir- to so-called accredited investors, partner at the law firm Cooley, re- it.”

Iran Reaches Deal With Renault Despite U.S. Sanctions Tesla Set to Raise $1.5 Billion
By THOMAS ERDBRINK
and RICK GLADSTONE To Speed Model 3 Production
TEHRAN — The French car- By The Associated Press quarter preparing for the arrival
maker Renault signed a multi- of the Model 3.
million-dollar deal in Tehran on The electric-car maker Tesla is
raising $1.5 billion as it ramps up Tesla had $3 billion in cash on
Monday, agreeing to raise vehicle
production of the Model 3 sedan, hand at the end of the second
production in Iran just days after
its first mass-market electric car. quarter, but it said it expected to
President Trump signed into law
The company said on Monday spend $2 billion in the second half
new sanctions against the coun-
try. that it planned to offer senior of this year.
The roughly $780 million agree- notes due in 2025 and would use Tesla reported last week that it
ment to produce as many as the proceeds from the offering to lost $401.4 million in the quarter
150,000 additional cars a year is further strengthen its balance that ended June 30, compared
the largest foreign auto deal in sheet during rapid scaling of pro- with a loss of $293.2 million in the
Iran’s history, state-run PressTV duction for the Model 3. same period in 2016. At the same
said. It was a victory for President Tesla delivered the first 30 Mod- time, the company reported over-
Hassan Rouhani, who was sworn el 3s to employees at the end of all growth in its operations, in-
into office on Saturday after being July. At the time, Elon Musk, the cluding its automotive business
re-elected this year promising to automaker’s chief executive and a and its solar-panel division.
revitalize an economy hurt by founder, worried some investors When Mr. Musk was asked last
sanctions. when he warned that Tesla was week whether he would like to
Iran, an Islamic republic, is in- about to embark on “at least six raise more cash as a buffer, he said
creasingly attracting foreign in- months of manufacturing hell” the company was considering a
vestors, despite restrictions im- trying to get Model 3 production debt offering but not an offering of
posed by the United States over to 5,000 cars a week by December. stock.
its missile program and its mili- But last week, Mr. Musk clari- The Model 3’s $35,000 starting
tary activities in the region. fied his comments, saying that price — half the cost of Tesla’s pre-
Its economy has limped along, EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY Tesla should be able to overcome vious models, the Model S sedan
surviving mainly on oil sales in re- any supplier issues and other po- and Model X sport utility vehicle
Thierry Bolloré, left, of Renault on Monday in Tehran to complete a joint automaking venture, — and range of up to 310 miles
cent years, with youth unemploy- tential obstacles. Mr. Musk said
ment topping 40 percent and the shaking hands with the Iranian executives Mansour Moazzami and Kourosh Morshed Solouki. investors should have “zero con- could bring hundreds of thou-
state controlling many sectors. cern” about whether Tesla would sands of customers into the au-
American restrictions stop most States and Europe which accused listed on the Treasury Depart- litical opposition to foreign invest- be able to meet its goal of making tomaker’s fold, taking it from a
international banks from provid- it of supporting Iran’s missile pro- ment’s website as exempt from ment can raise obstacles. 10,000 Model 3s a week sometime niche luxury brand to the main-
ing financing or credit to Iran, and gram. Those sanctions were lifted sanctions under the nuclear deal. Renault said in a statement that next year. stream.
the country is cut off from interna- under Iran’s nuclear agreement Sanctions lawyers in the United the expansion would promote its But that will be a costly effort, Tesla shares fell less than 1 per-
tional payments systems for us- with world powers last year, States said Renault’s decision to brand in Iran. The carmaker sold and Tesla is burning through cash cent to $355.17 at the close of trad-
ing debit and credit cards. proceed with the joint venture in- an estimated 68,000 cars in Iran in at a rapid rate. The company ing on the Nasdaq stock ex-
On Wednesday, President dicated it was confident that the the first six months of this year, spent $1.2 billion in the second change.
Trump signed into law new sanc- nuclear deal would survive, de- more than doubling its sales com-
tions against Iran, Russia and
North Korea. It is unclear if the
A plan to increase spite the Trump administration’s pared with the period a year earli-
threats to withdraw from it. er. Renault said it now has about 10
Renault deal violates any unilat- auto production is Farhad Alavi, managing part- percent of the Iranian market for
eral United States trade barriers
still in place against business with a victory for the ner of the Akrivis Law Group in
Washington, said Renault’s deci-
autos.
The French company will hold a
Iran.
Still, the agreement to establish president. sion also signaled that it had 60 percent share in the joint ven-
“likely undertaken a great deal of ture, according to Mansour Moaz-
a joint venture with a govern-
ment-run conglomerate is wel- care to ensure that it is fully com- zami, the chairman of IDRO. The
come news for Iran. pliant.” rest will be split evenly between
which allowed Renault and other Another major French car- the conglomerate and the other
Renault has pledged to open foreign companies, including the
two factories with Iranian part- maker, Groupe PSA, which partner, Negin Khodro, a private
American plane manufacturer produces brands like Peugeot and company that represents Renault
ners.
Boeing, to do business with the Citroën, has stepped up its activi- in Iran.
One partner, the Industrial De-
country. ties in Iran since the lifting of the Last week, IDRO announced
velopment and Renovation Orga-
nization, a government conglom- Officials of the Treasury De- sanctions last year, while the another joint venture, this time
erate known as IDRO and which partment, where the Office of For- French energy giant Total signed with Transmashholding, Russia’s
controls 117 companies, was long eign Assets Control oversees the a deal with Tehran last month to largest rail equipment supplier, to
under sanctions by the United sanctions imposed on Iran, de- lead a natural gas project. develop Iran’s dilapidated railway
clined to comment about the Re- But despite the various agree- system. As part of the $2.5 billion
Thomas Erdbrink reported from nault deal. But the Industrial De- ments, Iran remains a difficult deal, the Russian company will
REUTERS

Tehran, and Rick Gladstone from velopment and Renovation Orga- and opaque place to do business. own 80 percent of the joint ven- Tesla aims to increase production of its Model 3 to 5,000 cars a
New York. nization Company (IDRO) is Corruption is widespread, and po- ture. week by December, and to 10,000 sometime next year.
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ITINERARIES

Summer Storms’ Domino Effect on Air Travel

By MARTHA C. WHITE elers cope. Mr. Prest said he used
a function on United Airlines’s app
Consider all the reasons your
summer flight could be delayed.
Packed Flights and Volatile Weather Can Upend Airline Schedules to track where his plane was com-
First, the summer months are ing from so he would know
peak times for both vacations and whether to anticipate a possible
thunderstorms. There’s also the delay.
chance that the temperatures will “If it’s looking problematic,
be so high, flights will be delayed you’ve got to expect delays, so
or even canceled because the hot- you’ve got to know where planes
ter, thinner air makes it more diffi- are coming from,” he said.
cult for planes to get enough lift. Last month, American Airlines
And with more people taking to added notifications that alert trav-
the skies in the summer, there are elers if their checked bags have
fewer empty seats on other flights arrived so they are not left waiting
to get travelers back on their way. at the luggage carousel.
“These tend to be a summer Airlines also say they have be-
phenomenon, and that tends to be come more proactive about offer-
the busiest time,” said Dan McK- ing travelers the opportunity to
one, a managing director and change their flights without pen-
partner at L.E.K. Consulting. alty if bad weather is in the fore-
“When there’s a delay, there’s not cast.
a lot of slack in the system.” “We’ve definitely increased the
John Grant, a senior analyst at number of waivers we’ve put out
the aviation data provider OAG, this summer compared to other
agreed. “With more passengers,” summers,” said Ross Feinstein, a
he said, “when things start to fall spokesman for American Airlines.
apart, more people are inconven- Diana P. Wilson, who lives in
ienced.” Sacramento and works in event
Rich Prest, a management con- logistics, switched a flight for a
sultant in the San Francisco Bay business trip in Columbus, Ohio,
Area who flies up to 100,000 miles to connect in Denver rather than
a year, said a recent business trip Chicago after receiving an airline
between Minneapolis and Chi- alert that heavy rain was pre-
cago had turned into an ordeal be- dicted for Chicago.
cause of the weather. But Ms. Wilson did not fare
His initial flight was canceled much better in Denver, she said,
because of storms, and the subse- when her flight was delayed be-
quent flight — on which he man- cause the airline had to find 17 pas-
aged to get the last open seat — sengers willing to take later
was first delayed and then re- flights.
routed around a patch of stormy “I started finding out that what
weather, more than doubling the was happening was there were
SAM HODGSON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
length of a one-hour flight. weather issues,” Ms. Wilson said.
Even with the detour, Mr. Prest Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, where operational disruptions after severe storms in “It was too hot and they had to
said, it was a rough ride. “Because April resulted in a $125 million pretax loss for Delta Air Lines, its chief executive said. lighten the plane, and that’s why
my other flight had been canceled, they needed so many people.”
I was in the very last seat,” he said. On Chuck Doherty’s way home
“It was like driving down a bumpy tudes, sometimes up to 50,000 the storm depends on its severity. these disruptions can be expen- number of flights and passengers to Providence, R.I., from a busi-
dirt road in a car.” feet, and you’re not going to outfly “The wind is one of the most im- sive. affected to limits on flight crew ness trip to Baltimore last month,
Storms that move eastward that.” portant issues,” said Bijan Vasigh, “We absorbed $125 million pre- hours, gate availability and tar- his flight was delayed nearly three
from the Midwest, particularly be- The hub-and-spoke systems professor of economics and fi- tax loss from the operational dis- mac delay rules that airlines can hours because a backup plane was
tween 3 and 7 p.m., tend to wreak used by the major air carriers can nance at Embry-Riddle Aeronau- ruption following severe storms be fined for violating. too hot for passengers to board af-
the most havoc on flight sched- make the problem worse. Not only tical University. “Wind shear is that hit Atlanta in early April,” the “We do have a tool that will opti- ter sitting on the tarmac for much
ules. are many major hubs in thunder- one of the most dangerous things,” chief executive of Delta Air Lines, mize our best choices, but we have of the day, he said. The backup had
“The issue is they move in lines, storm-prone locations, but con- he said, referring to an abrupt Ed Bastian, told investors on the to give it the philosophy of how to been pressed into service because
generally west to east, and they necting-flight delays can have a shift in wind speed or direction. airline’s most recently quarterly apply it,” said Steve West, senior the initial plane was running so
generally move right through the domino effect. That is one reason The real issue with wind shear, earnings conference call. Delta director of network operations far behind schedule.
Ohio Valley, which is probably the travelers might have weather-re- said Mr. McKone of L.E.K. Con- has 25 meteorologists on staff who control at Southwest Airlines. “They kept telling us they wer-
routing of 40 percent of the east- lated flight delays even if the sun sulting, is “if it gets down near the create weather forecasts, with “We might have to modify it a en’t able to get it cool enough for
west traffic in the U.S.,” said is shining at their origination and taxiway.” Wind shear during land- particular focus on its hub air- little with some human interven- us to board,” said Mr. Doherty, a
Robert W. Mann, an airline indus- destination cities. ing “can be quite a problem be- ports in the United States. tion,” he said. “If we can reaccom- software developer. “At one an-
try consultant. The need to give rough weather cause you’re often slowing the Scheduling around storms is a modate some of our customers nouncement, they said the inter-
“As those lines of thunder- a wide berth can also lead to de- plane down to a pace where it’s complicated process involving not and keep everybody else on time, nal cabin temperature was 110.”
storms move, they basically block lays. Airlines avoid flying through very difficult to recover,” he said. only the affected airlines but also that’s our preference.” He added, “I fly a lot, and this is
traffic,” he said. “They’re strong storm cells and fly around volatile A single storm can disrupt up to air traffic control, and must take Carriers have also been rolling absolutely the first time I’ve ever
enough to go up to very high alti- weather, though the distance from 100 flights for a large carrier, and into account everything from the out new technologies to help trav- encountered this.”

Google Fires Engineer for Divisive Memo

By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI
SAN FRANCISCO — Google on
Monday fired a software engineer
who wrote an internal memo that
questioned the company’s diversi-
ty efforts and argued that the low
number of women in technical po-
sitions was a result of biological
differences instead of discrimina-
tion.
The memo, called “Google’s
Ideological Echo Chamber,” an-
gered many in Silicon Valley be-
cause it relied on certain gender
stereotypes — like the notion that
women are less interested in high-
stress jobs because they are more
anxious — to rationalize the gen-
der gap in the tech industry. The
memo quickly spread outside the
company, as other Google employ-
ees railed against many of its as-
sumptions.
In a companywide email, AKINTUNDE AKINLEYE/REUTERS

Google’s chief executive, Sundar Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, said a memo written by
Pichai, said portions of the memo an engineer had promoted “harmful gender stereotypes.”
had violated the company’s code
of conduct and crossed the line
“by advancing harmful gender One female Google engineer suing legal action.”
stereotypes in our workplace.” posted on Twitter upon reading “I have a legal right to express
the memo that she would consider my concerns about the terms and
The memo put the company in a
leaving the company unless the conditions of my working envi-
bind. On one hand, Google has
human resources department ronment and to bring up poten-
long promoted a culture of open- tially illegal behavior, which is
took action.
ness, with employees allowed to what my document does,” Mr. Da-
question senior executives and In an email titled “Our Words
Matter,” Mr. Pichai said that he more said.
even mock its strategy in internal Mr. Pichai’s memo was re-
forums. However, Google, like supported the right of employees
to express themselves but that the ported earlier by Recode, and
many other technology firms, is Bloomberg confirmed Mr. Damo-
memo had gone too far.
dealing with criticism that it has re’s dismissal.
not done enough to hire and pro- “The memo has clearly im-
pacted our co-workers, some of Before being fired, Mr. Damore
mote women and minorities. said, he had submitted a com-
whom are hurting and feel judged
plaint to the National Labor Rela-
based on their gender,” Mr. Pichai
wrote. “Our co-workers shouldn’t
have to worry that each time they
open their mouths to speak in a
meeting, they have to prove that Dealing with an
they are not like the memo states,
being ‘agreeable’ rather than ‘as-
embarrassing missive
sertive,’ showing a ‘lower stress addressing the gender
tolerance,’ or being ‘neurotic.’”
James Damore, the software gap in Silicon Valley.
engineer who wrote the original
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can who is uninformed, it proba- Galileo Acquisition Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Purchaser”) and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Open Text Corporation, a corporation
wipe out Obama-era regulations
bly passes” as sounding correct, incorporated under the federal laws of Canada (“OpenText”), is offering to purchase all shares of common stock of Guidance Software, Inc., a Delaware
using the Congressional Review corporation (“Guidance”), par value $0.001 per share (each, a “Share”), that are issued and outstanding, at a price of $7.10 per Share, in cash (the “Offer
Act and ordered agency reviews he lamented.
But Mr. Campbell said it was Price”), without interest, and net of applicable withholding of taxes, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase, dated
of regulations across the govern- August 8, 2017 (as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Offer to Purchase”), and in the related Letter of Transmittal (which,
ment.” “a little early” for companies to
see direct benefits from deregu- together with any amendments or supplements thereto, collectively constitute the “Offer”). Tendering stockholders who have Shares registered in their
Peter C. Kenny, chief market names and who tender directly to Computershare Trust Company, N.A. (the “Depositary”) will not be obligated to pay brokerage fees or commissions or,
lation efforts. “This is the first
strategist for Global Markets except as set forth in the Letter of Transmittal, transfer taxes imposed by the United States or any subdivision thereof applicable on the purchase of Shares
full reporting period, quite hon-
Advisory Group and independent by Purchaser pursuant to the Offer. Stockholders who hold their Shares through a broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or other nominee
estly,” since Mr. Trump took
market strategist at Kenny & should consult with such institution as to whether it charges any service fees or commissions.
office, he noted.
Company, wrote on Monday, “It
In industries like finance, Mr.
appears as though the Trump
Campbell said, stocks are trading THE OFFER AND WITHDRAWAL RIGHTS WILL EXPIRE AT 12:00 MIDNIGHT, EASTERN TIME,
administration’s focus on what it
with the expectation that there
can control (i.e., rolling back ON SEPTEMBER 6, 2017, UNLESS THE OFFER IS EXTENDED OR EARLIER TERMINATED.
will be business-friendly changes
Obama-era regulations) is effec-
in the regulatory environment.
tively beginning to bear results
“It is the anticipation that there The purpose of the Offer is for OpenText, through Purchaser, to acquire control of, and the entire equity interest in, Guidance. Following the
in the form of economic re-
will be an effect,” he said. consummation of the Offer, Purchaser intends to effect the Merger (as defined below).
surgence.”
It is very true that Mr. Trump’s Consummation of the Offer is conditioned upon (i) there having been validly tendered in the Offer (in the aggregate) and not withdrawn (and
But that’s not right. Listen to deregulatory agenda should excluding any Shares tendered pursuant to guaranteed delivery procedures that have not yet been received (as defined in Section 251(h)(6)(f) of the
the earnings conference calls of eventually make its way into the Delaware General Corporation Law)) immediately prior to 12:00 midnight, Eastern time, on September 6, 2017 (such date and time, as it may be
the biggest publicly traded com- earnings reports of United States extended by Purchaser from time to time in accordance with the Merger Agreement (as defined below), the “Expiration Time”), that number of Shares
panies over the past several companies, but to suggest that it that, together with the number of Shares (if any) then owned by Purchaser, OpenText and controlled affiliates of OpenText and Purchaser, equal at least
weeks — which are the real has already happened is a a majority of Shares then issued and outstanding (the “Minimum Condition”), (ii) expiration or termination of the waiting period under the HSR Act (as
reason the stock market has stretch. defined in the Offer to Purchase), (iii) obtaining DSS Consent (as defined in the Offer to Purchase), (iv) no Company Material Adverse Effect (as defined
soared — and virtually none of The larger issue is, when it in the Offer to Purchase) having occurred following the date of the Merger Agreement and (v) the satisfaction of other customary conditions as described
those phone calls attributed does happen, how much can in Section 13—“Conditions to the Offer.” Shares that are tendered pursuant to a notice of guaranteed delivery will not be validly tendered in the Offer
higher profits to reduced costs to deregulation really help juice the unless such Shares are delivered to the Depositary prior to the Expiration Time. There is no financing condition to the Offer.
comply with regulations. economy? The Offer is being made pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 25, 2017, among Purchaser, Guidance and OpenText (as it
The only time the word “regu- The answer will not satisfy may be amended from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”), under which, at 8:00 A.M., Eastern time, on the date of the consummation of the Offer
lation” was even used on Apple’s those who have been clamoring and subject the satisfaction or waiver of certain conditions, Purchaser will be merged with and into Guidance (the “Merger”), without a stockholder vote
earnings call — during which the for a change in policy. to adopt the Merger Agreement or effect the Merger in accordance with Section 251(h) of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”), and
company described how it beat According to Douglas Holtz- Guidance will be the surviving corporation and become a wholly-owned subsidiary of OpenText. At the effective time of the Merger, and as a result of
analysts’ estimates by a wide Eakin, a conservative economist the Merger, Guidance will cease to be a publicly traded company and each Share outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the Merger (other
margin — was in reference to who served in the George W. than each Share (i) owned by OpenText or Guidance or held by a wholly-owned subsidiary of OpenText (including Purchaser) or Guidance, which will be
China. The word did not get a Bush administration and advised cancelled and cease to exist without any payment being made with respect to such Share or (ii) owned by Guidance stockholders who are entitled to and
mention on Amazon’s earnings Senator John McCain’s 2008 who properly exercise appraisal rights under Section 262 of the DGCL with respect to such Share) will be converted into the right to receive an amount
call, nor was there any reference presidential campaign, deregula- of cash per Share equal to the Offer Price, without interest and net of applicable withholding of taxes, payable to the holder thereof upon surrender of the
to Washington at all, despite tory efforts will not do nearly as certificate formerly representing, or book-entry transfer of, such Share.
constant chatter about how an- much as some people assume. The Guidance board of directors unanimously adopted resolutions which (i) determined that the Merger Agreement, the Tender and Voting
titrust policy should be applied to He contends that the “Obama- Agreement dated as of July 25, 2017 by and among OpenText, Purchaser and the executive officers and directors of Guidance (the “Tender and
the retailing behemoth. era regulatory explosion im- Voting Agreement”) and the transactions contemplated thereby are fair to and in the best interests of Guidance, (ii) approved and declared advisable
Even on Goldman Sachs’s posed a cumulative $890 billion the Merger Agreement, the Tender and Voting Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the Offer and the Merger, upon
earnings call, which included in additional compliance costs on and subject to the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement, (iii) resolved that the Merger shall be effected pursuant to Section 251(h) of the
several questions and answers the private sector.” And he adds, DGCL, (iv) ensure that no restrictions on business combinations and stockholder vote requirements contained in Section 203 of the DGCL and any
related to regulations, not once “Some have argued that getting other law with respect to anti-takeover legislation shall apply with respect to or as a result of the Merger, the Offer, the Merger Agreement or any
did any official suggest that the rid of the regulations would raise related agreement or transaction, and (v) determined, upon and subject to the terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement, to recommend that
firm’s earnings were a result of gross domestic product by just Guidance’s stockholders accept the Offer and tender their Shares pursuant to the Offer.
lighter regulatory burdens. In- exactly that: $890 billion.” Subject to the provisions of the Merger Agreement and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
deed, the bank warned several But here’s the rub: It isn’t that “Commission”), Purchaser reserves the right (but is not obligated), at any time or from time to time, to waive or otherwise modify or amend the terms and
times that it was too early and simple, in large part because a conditions of the Offer in any respect. Purchaser has agreed in the Merger Agreement that it will not, without the prior written consent of Guidance, waive
too difficult to predict exactly huge amount of that figure is a or modify certain conditions as described in Section 1 of the Offer to Purchase. Subject to the provisions of the Merger Agreement and the applicable
how deregulation efforts would transfer in wealth to comply with rules and regulations of the Commission, Purchaser reserves the right to extend the Offer.
affect its various businesses. the regulations. Mr. Holtz-Eakin Any extension or amendment of the Offer, waiver of a condition of the Offer, delay in acceptance for payment or payment, or termination of the Offer
Jamie Dimon, chief executive estimates the real savings of will be followed promptly by public announcement thereof, such announcement in the case of an extension to be issued not later than 9:00 A.M., Eastern
of JPMorgan Chase, famously deregulation are more like $225 time, on the next business day after the previously scheduled Expiration Time.
was so upset on his conference billion. In all cases, payment for any Shares tendered and accepted for payment pursuant to the Offer will be made only after timely receipt by the
call about the state of Washing- “If gradually achieved over 10 Depositary of (a) certificates representing such Shares or confirmation of the book-entry transfer of such Shares into the Depositary’s account at
ton and the inability to get any- years, that translates into an The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) pursuant to the procedures set forth in Section 3 of the Offer to Purchase, (b) a Letter of Transmittal (or
thing done, he declared: “We additional 0.1 percentage point in a manually signed facsimile thereof), properly completed and duly executed, with any required signature guarantees (or, in the case of a book-entry
have become one of the most growth,” he writes. “While not transfer through DTC, an Agent’s Message (as defined in Section 3 of the Offer to Purchase) in lieu of the Letter of Transmittal), and (c) any other
bureaucratic, confusing, litigious exactly chump change, it high- documents required by the Letter of Transmittal.
societies on the planet.” lights the difficulty in substan- For purposes of the Offer, Purchaser will be deemed to have accepted for payment and thereby purchased Shares validly tendered and not withdrawn
Of all America’s various indus- tially moving the long-term rate prior to the Expiration Time if and when Purchaser gives oral or written notice to the Depositary of its acceptance for payment of such Shares pursuant
tries, it is the Wall Street banks of economic growth.” to the Offer. Upon the terms and subject to the conditions of the Offer, payment for Shares accepted for payment pursuant to the Offer will be made by
deposit of the purchase price therefor with the Depositary, which will act as agent for the tendering stockholders for purposes of receiving payments from
Purchaser and transmitting such payments to the tendering stockholders. Under no circumstances will interest be paid on the Offer Price for Shares,
regardless of any extension of the Offer or any delay in payment for Shares.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 4 of the Offer to Purchase, tenders of Shares pursuant to the Offer are irrevocable. A stockholder may
withdraw Shares tendered pursuant to the Offer at any time on or prior to the Expiration Time and, thereafter, unless and until Purchaser has
previously accepted them for payment, such Shares may also be withdrawn at any time after October 7, 2017. For a withdrawal of Shares to be effective,
a written notice of withdrawal must be timely received by the Depositary at one of its addresses set forth on the back cover of the Offer to Purchase.
Any notice of withdrawal must specify the name of the person having tendered Shares to be withdrawn, the number of Shares to be withdrawn and the
name of the record holder of Shares to be withdrawn, if different from that of the person who tendered such Shares. The signature(s) on the notice of
withdrawal must be guaranteed by an Eligible Institution (as defined in Section 3 of the Offer to Purchase), unless such Shares have been tendered for
the account of any Eligible Institution. If Shares have been tendered pursuant to the procedures for book-entry transfer as set forth in Section 3 of the
Offer to Purchase, any notice of withdrawal must specify the name and number of the account at DTC to be credited with the withdrawn Shares. If
certificates representing Shares have been delivered or otherwise identified to the Depositary, the name of the registered owner and the serial numbers
shown on such certificates must also be furnished to the Depositary prior to the physical release of such certificates. All questions as to the form and
validity (including time of receipt) of any notice of withdrawal will be determined by Purchaser, in its sole and absolute discretion, which determination
shall be final and binding on all parties, subject to the right of any such party to dispute such determination in a court of competent jurisdiction. No
withdrawal of Shares shall be deemed to have been properly made until all defects and irregularities have been cured or waived. None of OpenText,
Purchaser or any of their respective affiliates or assigns, the Depositary, the Information Agent (as defined in the Offer to Purchase), Guidance or any
other person will be under any duty to give notification of any defects or irregularities in any notice of withdrawal or incur any liability for failure to give
such notification. Withdrawals of tenders of Shares may not be rescinded, and any Shares properly withdrawn will be deemed not to have been validly
tendered for purposes of the Offer. However, withdrawn Shares may be retendered by following one of the procedures for tendering Shares described
in Section 3 of the Offer to Purchase at any time prior to the Expiration Time.
MACALL B. POLAY/HBO, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
The information required to be disclosed by paragraph (d)(1) of Rule 14d-6 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Exchange Act
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister in “Game of of 1934 is contained in the Offer to Purchase and is incorporated herein by reference.
Thrones,” which was targeted in a recent hack of HBO. The Offer to Purchase and related Letter of Transmittal and other related documents will be mailed to record holders of Shares whose names appear on
Guidance’s stockholder list and will be furnished to brokers, dealers, commercial banks, trust companies and similar persons whose names, or the names of
whose nominees, appear on the stockholder list or, if applicable, who are listed as participants in a clearing agency’s security position listing for subsequent
Hackers Post New HBO Files transmittal to beneficial owners of Shares.
The receipt of cash in respect of a tender of Shares pursuant to the Offer and the exchange of Shares for cash pursuant to the Merger will each be
a taxable transaction for U.S. federal income tax purposes and may also be a taxable transaction under applicable state, local, foreign or other tax laws.
And Demand a Hefty Ransom Holders of Shares are urged to consult with their own tax advisors as to the particular tax consequences of the Offer and the Merger to them.
The Offer to Purchase and the related Letter of Transmittal and Guidance’s Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on Schedule 14D-9 filed
By The Associated Press HBO have been limited, falling with the Commission in connection with the Offer contain important information and each such document should be read carefully and in its
Hackers using the name “Mr. well short of the chaos inflicted on entirety before any decision is made with respect to the Offer.
Smith” posted a fresh cache on Sony in 2014. In that attack, hack- Questions and requests for assistance may be directed to the Information Agent at the address and telephone number set forth below. Requests for
Monday of stolen HBO files on- ers unearthed thousands of em- copies of the Offer to Purchase and the related Letter of Transmittal may be directed to the Information Agent or to brokers, dealers, commercial banks,
line, and demanded that the net- barrassing emails and released trust companies or other nominees. Such copies will be furnished promptly at Purchaser’s expense. Purchaser will not pay any fees or commissions to any
personal information, including broker or dealer or any other person (other than the Information Agent or as otherwise described in Section 16 of the Offer to Purchase) for soliciting
work pay a ransom of several mil-
salaries and Social Security num- tenders of Shares pursuant to the Offer.
lion dollars to prevent further
such releases. bers, of nearly 50,000 current and The Depositary for the Offer is:
The data dump included what former Sony employees. In the af-
appear to be scripts from five termath of the attack, the Sony
“Game of Thrones” episodes, in- Pictures chief, Amy Pascal, was
cluding one coming episode, and a ousted.
month’s worth of email from the Those behind the HBO theft By First Class Mail: By Registered, Certified or Express Mail,
account of Leslie Cohen, HBO’s claim to have more data, including Computershare or Overnight Courier:
vice president for film program- scripts, coming episodes of HBO c/o Voluntary Corporate Actions Computershare
ming. There were also internal shows and movies, and informa- P.O. Box 43011 c/o Voluntary Corporate Actions
documents, including a report of tion damaging to HBO.
Providence, RI 02940-3011 250 Royall Street, Suite V
legal claims against the network “Game of Thrones,” currently in
and job offer letters to top execu- its penultimate season, is the most Canton, MA 02021
tives. popular show in HBO’s history
HBO, which previously ac- and has long been a target of dig- The Information Agent for the Offer is:
knowledged the theft of “proprie- ital piracy.
tary information,” said it was con- In a video directed to HBO’s
tinuing to investigate and was chief executive, Richard Plepler,
working with the police and secu- “Mr. Smith” used white text on a
rity experts. The network said on black background to threaten fur- 1290 Avenue of the Americas, 9th Floor
Monday that it still did not believe ther disclosures if HBO did not
that its email system as a whole pay the ransom. To stop the leaks,
New York, NY 10104
had been compromised. the hackers demanded “our 6 Banks, Brokers and Shareholders Call Toll-Free: (800) 891-3214
This is the second data release month salary in bitcoin,” which August 8, 2017
from the hack. So far, the leaks at they implied is at least $6 million.
B6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES BUSINESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017

Hedge Fund Sues to Have Puerto Rico’s Bankruptcy Case Thrown Out
By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH Some of Puerto Rico’s bond-
A hedge fund sued on Monday holders argue that they bought
to have Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy the bonds on the understanding
case thrown out, arguing that the that their repayments and inter-
federal oversight board guiding est were by law the government’s
the island’s financial affairs was first priority. They were surprised
unconstitutionally established. when they found that Puerto Ri-
In a lawsuit filed in United co’s five-year plan called for deep
States District Court in San Juan, cuts in all bond payments, includ-
the hedge fund, Aurelius Capital, ing payments to the holders of
cited the “appointments clause” of general obligation bonds. The
the United States Constitution, oversight board wants to use the
which calls for all principal offi- savings to finance government
cers of the federal government to operations for the five-year recov-
be appointed by the president, ery period. But creditors say this
and then confirmed by the Senate. approach is at odds with the
That did not happen when the Puerto Rican Constitution.
seven members of the Financial To make matters worse, Mr.
Oversight and Management Rosselló said on Friday that he
Board for Puerto Rico were se- was not willing to honor yet an-
lected, Aurelius said in its motion other provision of the fiscal plan:
to dismiss the bankruptcy-like pension cuts averaging 10 percent
proceedings. The board members for certain retired public workers.
were instead “handpicked by indi- The five-year plan calls for the
vidual members of Congress,” it cuts to be phased in over the next
said, through “an intricate system three years, with the biggest pen-
of Balkanized lists, designed to se- sions being cut the most.
verely constrain the president’s Puerto Rico’s pension funds
appointment powers.” have almost exhausted their as-
No Senate confirmation pro- sets, and all retirees are being
ceedings occurred, although sena- shifted to a pay-as-you-go system,
tors of both parties were among in which the central government
the members of Congress who will pay pensions directly from its
made recommendations last year budget. That means some of its
to President Barack Obama for available resources will be used
the board. for pensions instead of debt serv-
Aurelius Capital was among the ice.
firms that fought Argentina in On Monday, Aurelius also asked
court for years over its sovereign the federal court in San Juan to lift
debt default, and ultimately suc- ÁNGEL FRANCO /THE NEW YORK TIMES the “stay” of Promesa, which
ceeded in pressuring the govern- A 2016 protest in Puerto Rico against a United States Senate vote that created a fiscal advisory board to investigate the island’s debt. keeps Puerto Rico’s creditors
ment there to pay. from suing the government. Aure-
A spokesman for the oversight lius said it wanted to seek declara-
board said the members were re- shelter from the many resulting Title III without the oversight of creditors is unclear, and the sit- thing the board saw as necessary tory and injunctive relief to keep
viewing the lawsuit and could not creditor lawsuits. board’s authorization. uation has no legal precedent to to save money and streamline op- the oversight board from operat-
comment. After a number of hearings, and The law went into effect last draw on. Large losses for bond- erations. ing until it could be reconstituted
The oversight board was estab- even expedited arguments before summer, and in the months that holders are expected. Aurelius Capital sued in its ca- in compliance with the appoint-
lished last year, when Puerto Rico the United States Supreme Court, followed, the board members Aurelius sued just days after pacity as a holder of Puerto Rico’s ments clause.
was sinking under $123 billion of Congress last year enacted a law were chosen. Work then began on the governor of Puerto Rico, Ri- general obligation bonds. When “Whether or not one agrees
public debt and pension obliga- called Promesa, which gives insol- a five-year fiscal reform plan, and cardo Rosselló, defied the over- those bonds were issued, over with the policy positions of the
tions that it amassed by years of vent territories a way to seek Puerto Rico’s Title III proceedings sight board for his own reasons. many years, Puerto Rico’s Consti- board, foundational legal princi-
borrowing to plug deficits. The court protection from their cred- began last May. They were ex- He said on Friday that the board’s tution in effect guaranteed them, ples require that it be constituted
federal bankruptcy code bans itors. Title III of Promesa, which is pected to be slow and contentious five-year fiscal reform plan was saying that if money ever became in compliance with the Constitu-
Puerto Rico from declaring bank- similar to Chapter 9 municipal even before Aurelius Capital chal- excessively harsh and that he tight on the island, the bondhold- tion,” Aurelius’s lead lawyer,
ruptcy, and by 2016, it was default- bankruptcy, gives Puerto Rico the lenged the oversight board. That would shut down much of the gov- ers would have first call on the Theodore B. Olson of Gibson,
ing haphazardly on payment after power to abrogate contracts uni- is because Puerto Rico’s debt is ernment two days every month “available resources” of the terri- Dunn & Crutcher, said in a state-
payment, without any way to take laterally — but it has no access to extremely complex, the hierarchy for the rest of the fiscal year, some- tory’s government. ment.

FX Plans a Commercial-Free Service With Comcast

STOCKS & BONDS

The Dow Minute by Minute

By JOHN KOBLIN
Position of the Dow Jones industrial average at 1-minute intervals on
Monday. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — FX
22,120 is getting into the ad-free pre-
mium game.
The cable network has struck a
22,110 deal with Comcast to offer a com-
mercial-free experience for its
currently airing shows, and some
22,100 older ones, through a service,
called FX+, that will start in Sep-
tember.
22,090 For $5.99 a month, about 17 mil-
lion Comcast subscribers will be
Previous close eligible to watch current seasons
22,092.81 of shows like “The Americans,”
22,080
“Atlanta” and “American Horror
10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. Story” without ads. They will also
Source: Reuters
get access to a library of older
THE NEW YORK TIMES
shows, including “Louie” and
“Nip/Tuck.”

Technology Firms Drive FX’s move is a baby step toward

competing directly with rivals like
Netflix and HBO, which offer cur-
Stock Indexes to New Highs rent and past seasons of a legion of
popular shows.
But the agreement with Com-
By The Associated Press Investors have welcomed the cast is nevertheless significant,
Gains in technology companies positive earnings growth, pushing and another sign that a subscrip-
helped lift stock indexes higher on the market toward a record level tion-based business model has be-
Monday, nudging the market once again and fueling speculation come more important as ratings
again into record territory. about how high the market can go have fallen throughout the televi- SUZANNE TENNER/FX
The Standard & Poor’s 500- before there is a pullback. sion industry. Both the premium
“What you want to see is a Kathy Bates in “American Horror Story,” one of several FX shows that will be available commer-
stock index closed at a high, as did cable channel Showtime and the
the Dow Jones industrial average. broad range of stocks pushing the broadcast network CBS also have cial-free to Comcast subscribers. The TV industry is scrambling for revenue as ratings slide.
The latest gain extended the market higher, and what we’re stand-alone apps.
Dow’s winning streak to 10 days. seeing are fewer stocks pushing There are several catches to the ta,” FX’s breakout comedy from are more valuable because the Comcast is getting used to
Traders bid up shares in micro- the market higher,” Ms. Krosby new FX service. Current seasons Donald Glover, also has a stream- programs can be used to entice working with ad-supported cable
chip makers and other technology said. “That’s not necessarily a pre- of shows will be available com- ing deal with Hulu. potential future subscribers. networks that are trying to dream
companies. Grocery chains, drug- scription for a major pullback, but mercial free when they are on the The announcement signals that “This initiative represents the up creative additional content.
store operators and other con- it’s something to watch.” air, but much of the network’s the cable network may be less in- first of its kind for an ad-sup- AMC struck a deal in June with
sumer-focused companies also Technology companies led the back catalog is claimed by other clined to make these lucrative out- ported cable network, and begins Comcast to have its current shows
helped drive the market higher. market’s gainers on Monday. Lam providers. Older episodes of “The side deals with other streaming to put us on equal footing with pre- available commercial free for $5
Energy companies declined the Research rose $5.79, or 3.9 per- Americans” are found on Amazon, services. Though the money from mium networks and streaming per month, though it does not in-
most, along with the price of crude cent, to $155.84. KLA-Tencor rose and the first season of “The Peo- these deals is a shot in the arm in services,” FX’s chief executive, clude some of its most popular
oil. Banks and industrial compa- $3.18, or 3.6 percent, to $92.01. ple vs. O.J. Simpson: American the short term, the network is John Landgraf, said in a state- past shows like “Mad Men” and
nies also lagged. Energy stocks were on the Crime Story” is on Netflix. “Atlan- finding that the long-term rights ment. “Breaking Bad.”
Investors were mostly focused other end of the spectrum. Pio-
on the latest company earnings neer Natural Resources fell $5.70,
and deal news. or 4.2 percent, to $129.64, and
“Earnings have been strong,
particularly revenue growth has
come in stronger than initial esti-
Newfield Exploration lost $1.39, or
5 percent, to $26.44.
Traders also continued to bid up
Hearst Invests in a Video Service for Emerging Markets
mates,” said Quincy Krosby, chief shares in companies whose earn- By CHAD BRAY ny’s investors include Catcha
market strategist at Prudential ings exceeded analysts’ forecasts. LONDON — Iflix, a Malaysian Group, Evolution Media, John C.
Financial. “And over all, the guid- Tyson Foods climbed $3.60, or Malone’s Liberty Global and Sky,
video-streaming service that op-
ance has been strong.” 5.7 percent, to $66.90. The meat which all increased their invest-
erates mostly in emerging mar-
The S.&P. 500 index rose 4.08 processor’s forecasts also pleased ments as part of the latest funding
investors. ON Semiconductor kets, said on Monday that it had
points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,480.91. round. Investors in this round also
jumped $1.23, or 8.1 percent, to received $133 million in a round of
The Dow gained 25.61 points, or 0.1 included EDBI, the corporate in-
$16.33. funding from a group led by the
percent, to 22,118.42. The Nasdaq vestment arm of the Singapore
composite added 32.21 points, or Some companies’ results disap- American media and information
company Hearst Corporation. Economic Development Board.
0.5 percent, to 6,383.77. pointed the market. “From the beginning, our vision
Bond prices rose. The yield on Armstrong Flooring slumped Founded in 2015, Iflix is avail-
for Iflix has been to build a world-
the 10-year Treasury note fell to 17.5 percent after the company’s able in 19 countries in Southeast
class service for the local
2.26 percent from 2.27 percent late latest quarterly results fell well Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
customer, transforming the way
Friday. short of analysts’ forecasts. The The service has five million sub-
stock slid to $14.25, losing $3.03. everyday consumers enjoy enter-
Positive economic data and scribers, though it is dwarfed by
Oil prices fell. Benchmark tainment in emerging markets,”
strong company earnings have Netflix, which added 5.2 million
United States crude fell 19 cents, Mark Britt, the Iflix co-founder
helped nudge the stock market subscribers in the second quarter
or 0.4 percent, to $49.39 a barrel in and chief executive, said in a news
mostly higher in recent weeks. of 2017 alone.
New York. Brent crude, the inter- release. “These new funds will al-
Heading into Monday, about 82 Neeraj Khemlani, the president
national standard, lost 5 cents, or low us to further execute on our lo-
percent of S.&P. 500 companies of Hearst Entertainment & Syndi-
had reported quarterly results, 0.1 percent, to $52.37 a barrel in cal content strategy and expand
cation, said in a news release that our technology and development
with roughly 52 percent posting London.
Iflix was “riding the wave of expo- teams so we can continue to rap-
better-than-expected earnings Gold added 10 cents to $1,264.70
nential growth of the middle class idly evolve the Iflix service to
and revenue, according to S.&P. an ounce. Silver held steady at
$16.25 an ounce. Copper rose 2 in emerging markets that want meet the unique challenges of
Global Market Intelligence. Of
cents to $2.91 a pound. more access to premium regional, emerging markets.”
those, technology companies led
The dollar climbed to 110.72 Jap- local and Western content.” Iflix was advised by Moelis &
all others with 73 percent of the
sector’s results beating Wall anese yen from 110.67 yen on Fri- With the latest funding round, ANTHONY KWAN/BLOOMBERG
Company and Delta Partners and
Street’s expectations. day. It weakened against the euro, Iflix said it had raised more than Mark Britt helped found Iflix in 2015 and is now its chief execu- by the law firm Herbert Smith
which rose to $1.1793 from $1.1769. $220 million this year. The compa- tive. Based in Malaysia, it has about five million subscribers. Freehills.
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MARKET GAUGES
S.&P.  2,480.91 DOW  22,118.42 NASDAQ  6,383.77 10-YEAR 2.26% CRUDE  $49.39 GOLD  $1,258.20 THE  $1.1792
500 +4.08 INDUSTRIALS +25.61 COMPOSITE +32.21 TREASURY YIELD UNCH. OIL –$0.19 (N.Y.) –$0.10 EURO +$0.0013

Standard & Poor’s 500-Stock Index 3-MONTH TREND Nasdaq Composite Index 3-MONTH TREND Dow Jones Industrial Average 3-MONTH TREND

6,800
+10% +10% 23,000 +10%
2,600 6,600

6,400 22,000
2,500 + 5% + 5% + 5%

6,200
2,400 21,000
0% 0% 0%
6,000

2,300
5,800 20,000
– 5% – 5% – 5%

June July June July June July

When the index follows a white line, it is changing at a constant pace; when it moves into a lighter band, the rate of change is faster.

STOCK MARKET INDEXES MOST ACTIVE, GAINERS AND LOSERS

% 52-Wk YTD % 52-Wk YTD % Volume % Volume % Volume
Index Close Chg Chg % Chg % Chg Index Close Chg Chg % Chg % Chg Stock (TICKER) Close Chg Chg (100) Stock (TICKER) Close Chg Chg (100) Stock (TICKER) Close Chg Chg (100)

DOW JONES NASDAQ 20 MOST ACTIVE 20 TOP GAINERS 20 TOP LOSERS

Industrials 22118.42 + 25.61 + 0.12 + 19.28 + 11.92 Nasdaq 100 5934.73 + 34.82 + 0.59 + 23.87 + 22.02 AMD (AMD) 13.43 +0.31 +2.4 573262 MyoKardia (MYOK) 31.45 +14.30 +83.4 87222 Zynerba Phar (ZYNE) 6.67 ◊8.39 ◊55.7 89971
Transportation 9284.66 + 7.03 + 0.08 + 18.03 + 2.66 Composite 6383.77 + 32.21 + 0.51 + 22.27 + 18.59 Bank of Ameri (BAC) 24.96 ◊0.01 ◊.0 418048 NxStage Medi (NXTM) 29.67 +6.53 +28.2 252561 Gemphire (GEMP) 9.93 ◊8.73 ◊46.8 16425
Utilities 733.59 + 1.72 + 0.23 + 6.11 + 11.22 Industrials 5167.88 + 17.58 + 0.34 + 18.51 + 16.27 Ford Motor (F) 10.92 ◊0.03 ◊0.3 350087 On Deck Cap (ONDK) 5.00 +0.78 +18.5 27947 Armstrong (AFI) 14.25 ◊3.03 ◊17.5 11272
Banks 3720.60 ◊ 22.93 ◊ 0.61 + 27.84 ◊ 3.42 Snap (SNAP) 13.39 ◊0.13 ◊1.0 339822 Sensus Hlthc (SRTS) 5.50 +0.85 +18.3 301 Biglari Holdin (BH) 335.22 ◊41.81 ◊11.1 161
Composite 7535.14 + 9.37 + 0.12 + 16.59 + 9.17
NxStage Medi (NXTM) 29.67 +6.53 +28.2 252561 Technical Co (TCCO) 6.20 +0.95 +18.1 3168 Basic Energy (BAS) 18.47 ◊2.21 ◊10.7 6128
Insurance 8775.47 ◊ 60.04 ◊ 0.68 + 14.98 + 5.05 10.16
Wells Fargo (WFC) 52.54 ◊0.30 ◊0.6 226643 Eros (EROS) 9.35 +1.15 +14.0 32809 Titan Intl (TWI) ◊1.16 ◊10.2 5198
Other Finance 7336.26 + 6.31 + 0.09 + 23.71 + 13.42 JC Penney (JCP) 5.39 ◊0.05 ◊0.9 222511 Appian (APPN) 22.17 +2.46 +12.5 2889 Pointer Telo (PNTR) 10.85 ◊1.20 ◊10.0 1597
100 Stocks 1097.21 + 1.79 + 0.16 + 13.47 + 10.67 Telecommunications 304.46 + 0.32 + 0.11 + 6.82 + 5.61 Apple (AAPL) 158.81 +2.42 +1.5 218244 PHI (PHIIK) 10.75 +1.19 +12.4 723 Unit (UNT) 18.18 ◊1.89 ◊9.4 7106
500 Stocks 2480.91 + 4.08 + 0.16 + 13.65 + 10.81 Computer 3661.73 + 29.30 + 0.81 + 31.14 + 25.15 Symantec (SYMC) 28.87 ◊0.30 ◊1.0 208376 Revlon (REV) 18.50 +1.90 +11.4 7039 Franks Intl (FI) 7.29 ◊0.71 ◊8.9 14362
Mid-Cap 400 1752.90 + 1.42 + 0.08 + 12.18 + 5.56 Marathn Oil (MRO) 12.35 ◊0.55 ◊4.3 199662 Dynavax Tech (DVAX) 18.40 +1.85 +11.2 58635 Ply Gem Hldg (PGEM) 15.80 ◊1.50 ◊8.7 3235
Small-Cap 600 854.75 + 0.15 + 0.02 + 14.47 + 2.00 OTHER INDEXES Mylan NL (MYL) 32.00 ◊0.92 ◊2.8 197396 Genco Shippin (GNK) 11.40 +1.14 +11.1 1989 Cara (CARA) 14.93 ◊1.41 ◊8.6 21801
American Exch 2536.21 ◊ 11.55 ◊ 0.45 + 5.66 + 9.89 Ensco (ESV) 5.00 ◊0.32 ◊6.0 192475 Paratek Phar (PRTK) 21.55 +2.05 +10.5 8928 Brookdale Sen (BKD) 12.00 ◊1.12 ◊8.5 69276
NEW YORK Wilshire 5000 25745.39 + 35.28 + 0.14 + 13.74 + 9.90 GE (GE) 25.63 ◊0.15 ◊0.6 188691 AC Immune (ACIU) 7.40 +0.70 +10.4 399 TeleNav (TNAV) 6.45 ◊0.55 ◊7.9 10840
Microsoft (MSFT) 72.40 ◊0.28 ◊0.4 187000 Brooks Aut (BRKS) 24.94 +2.34 +10.4 12091 Atwood (ATW) 7.08 ◊0.57 ◊7.5 63497
STOCK EXCHANGE Value Line Arith 5578.92 + 3.98 + 0.07 + 13.33 + 6.02
Intel (INTC) 36.43 +0.13 +0.4 181498 Newater Tech (NEWA) 9.88 +0.87 +9.7 536 Geo Group (GEO) 26.02 ◊2.04 ◊7.3 25158
NYSE Comp. 11987.77 + 2.89 + 0.02 + 11.17 + 8.42 Russell 2000 1414.17 + 1.85 + 0.13 + 14.85 + 4.20 NVIDIA (NVDA) 172.35 +5.14 +3.1 178372 EFI (EFII) 28.55 +2.50 +9.6 48564 Comstock Res (CRK) 6.37 ◊0.49 ◊7.1 2380
Tech/Media/Telecom 8371.85 ◊ 4.83 ◊ 0.06 + 6.73 + 7.63 Phila Gold & Silver 81.93 ◊ 0.11 ◊ 0.13 ◊ 25.25 + 3.89 Swestn Energy (SWN) 5.20 ◊0.08 ◊1.5 177793 Lantheus Hld (LNTH) 18.85 +1.65 +9.6 7600 William Lyn H (WLH) 22.07 ◊1.64 ◊6.9 8246
Energy 10323.30 ◊ 59.91 ◊ 0.58 ◊ 1.01 ◊ 10.26 Phila Semiconductor 1098.25 + 18.80 + 1.74 + 41.93 + 21.16 AT&T (T) 38.52 +0.09 +0.2 168217 PHI (PHII) 10.50 +0.90 +9.4 186 Nabors Inds (NBR) 7.05 ◊0.52 ◊6.9 120508
Financial 7690.90 ◊ 5.07 ◊ 0.07 + 24.06 + 10.48 KBW Bank 96.94 ◊ 0.28 ◊ 0.29 + 38.51 + 5.61 Micron Tech (MU) 28.59 +0.67 +2.4 165255 Sonus Networ (SONS) 6.91 +0.59 +9.3 2304 Dova Pharms (DOVA) 18.58 ◊1.33 ◊6.7 887
Healthcare 13550.97 ◊ 25.82 ◊ 0.19 + 3.82 + 13.80 Phila Oil Service 130.08 ◊ 3.56 ◊ 2.66 ◊ 19.37 ◊ 29.22 AutoNation (AN) 40.34 +0.64 +1.6 164999 Editas Medic (EDIT) 18.61 +1.55 +9.1 25610 Era Group (ERA) 8.63 ◊0.61 ◊6.6 1017

S&P 100 STOCKS

52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD 52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD 52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD 52-Week Price Range 1-Day 1-Yr YTD
Stock (TICKER) Low Close (•) High Close Chg %Chg % Chg Stock (TICKER) Low Close (•) High Close Chg %Chg % Chg Stock (TICKER) Low Close (•) High Close Chg %Chg % Chg Stock (TICKER) Low Close (•) High Close Chg %Chg % Chg
Apple (AAPL) 102.53 159.75 158.81 + 2.42 + 47.76 + 37.1 CVS Health (CVS) 69.30 98.44 79.12 + 1.15 ◊ 18.74 + 0.3 Johnson&Jo (JNJ) 109.32 137.08 132.86 ◊ 0.32 + 6.94 + 15.3 Procter Ga (PG) 81.18 92.00 91.44 + 0.77 + 6.60 + 8.8
AbbVie (ABBV) 55.06 75.04 71.22 + 0.23 + 7.03 + 13.7 Chevron (CVX) 97.53 119.00 109.78 ◊ 0.33 + 9.22 ◊ 6.7 JPMorgan (JPM) 64.86 94.51 94.02 + 0.36 + 41.81 + 9.0 PMI (PM) 86.78 123.55 115.86 + 1.10 + 17.11 + 26.6
Abbott (ABT) 37.38 51.13 49.30 + 0.04 + 8.93 + 28.4 Du Pont (DD) 66.02 86.36 81.79 ◊ 0.22 + 18.16 + 11.4 Kinder Mor (KMI) 18.31 23.36 20.15 ◊ 0.05 ◊ 1.03 ◊ 2.7 PayPal Hld (PYPL) 36.30 61.30 59.62 + 0.76 + 56.48 + 51.1
Accenture (ACN) 108.83 130.67 129.68 ◊ 0.52 + 13.16 + 10.7 Danaher (DHR) 75.71 88.01 81.43 + 0.42 ◊ 0.09 + 4.6 Kraft Hein (KHC) 79.69 97.77 87.02 + 0.36 ◊ 1.99 ◊ 0.3 Qualcomm (QCOM) 51.05 71.62 52.70 + 0.08 ◊ 15.00 ◊ 19.2
Allergan (AGN) 184.50 256.80 241.22 ◊ 1.43 ◊ 4.98 + 14.9 Walt Disne (DIS) 90.32 116.10 106.35 ◊ 1.34 + 10.98 + 2.0 Coca-Cola (KO) 39.88 46.43 45.64 + 0.14 + 4.97 + 10.1 Raytheon (RTN) 132.89 174.60 173.51 ◊ 0.36 + 23.27 + 22.2
AIG (AIG) 57.35 67.47 64.98 ◊ 0.10 + 9.95 ◊ 0.5 Dow (DOW) 51.57 67.50 63.88 ◊ 0.23 + 19.09 + 11.6 Lilly (LLY) 64.18 86.72 82.07 ◊ 0.24 + 0.63 + 11.6 Starbucks (SBUX) 50.84 64.87 55.63 + 0.19 ◊ 0.48 + 0.2
Allstate (ALL) 66.55 94.59 94.24 + 0.02 + 36.90 + 27.2 Duke Energ (DUK) 72.34 87.75 86.26 ◊ 0.22 + 2.41 + 11.1 Lockheed (LMT) 228.50 297.73 297.15 + 0.15 + 14.16 + 18.9 Schlumberg (SLB) 64.15 87.84 66.55 ◊ 0.99 ◊ 18.04 ◊ 20.7
Amgen (AMGN) 133.64 184.21 174.58 + 0.73 + 0.53 + 19.4 Emerson El (EMR) 49.22 64.36 60.91 ◊ 0.24 + 13.24 + 9.3 Lowes (LOW) 64.87 86.25 78.32 ◊ 0.05 ◊ 4.16 + 10.1 Southern C (SO) 46.20 53.73 49.00 + 0.21 ◊ 6.91 ◊ 0.4
Amazon.com (AMZN) 710.10 1083.31 992.27 + 4.69 + 29.54 + 32.3 Exelon (EXC) 29.82 38.78 38.22 + 0.05 + 5.76 + 7.7 Mastercard (MA) 94.41 132.20 130.38 + 0.56 + 34.58 + 26.3 Simon Prop (SPG) 150.15 222.37 166.37 + 1.84 ◊ 24.28 ◊ 6.4
American E (AXP) 59.50 86.33 85.85 ◊ 0.12 + 31.03 + 15.9 Ford Motor (F) 10.67 13.27 10.92 ◊ 0.03 ◊ 10.42 ◊ 10.0 McDonalds (MCD) 110.33 159.98 154.97 + 1.15 + 30.00 + 27.3 AT&T (T) 35.81 43.48 38.52 + 0.09 ◊ 10.75 ◊ 9.4
Boeing (BA) 126.31 246.49 240.23 + 2.52 + 82.37 + 54.3 Facebook (FB) 113.55 175.49 171.98 + 2.36 + 37.42 + 49.5 Mondelez I (MDLZ) 40.50 47.23 43.99 + 0.51 + 1.66 ◊ 0.8 Target (TGT) 48.56 79.33 57.88 + 0.30 ◊ 22.76 ◊ 19.9
Bank of Am (BAC) 14.70 25.80 24.96 ◊ 0.01 + 65.85 + 12.9 FedEx (FDX) 158.20 219.99 208.37 ◊ 0.95 + 27.90 + 11.9 Medtronic (MDT) 69.35 89.72 84.37 + 0.69 ◊ 3.12 + 18.5 Time Warne (TWX) 74.27 103.34 102.43 ◊ 0.09 + 29.48 + 6.1
Biogen (BIIB) 244.28 329.83 291.01 + 2.74 ◊ 0.01 + 11.4 Fox (FOX) 23.88 31.94 27.84 ◊ 0.22 + 5.30 + 2.2 MetLife (MET) 39.50 58.09 48.53 ◊ 5.39 + 32.37 + 1.1 Texas Inst (TXN) 66.30 84.65 82.17 + 0.74 + 17.13 + 12.6
BONY Mello (BK) 38.68 54.59 53.71 ◊ 0.31 + 32.62 + 13.4 Fox (FOXA) 23.33 32.60 28.20 ◊ 0.26 + 9.98 + 0.6 3M (MMM) 163.85 214.57 207.44 ◊ 0.21 + 16.17 + 16.2 UnitedHeal (UNH) 132.39 196.04 194.78 ◊ 0.10 + 36.22 + 21.7
BlackRock (BLK) 336.84 442.84 427.87 + 1.36 + 14.17 + 12.4 General Dy (GD) 147.45 205.90 201.14 + 1.07 + 35.09 + 16.5 Altria Gro (MO) 60.01 77.79 65.99 + 0.47 ◊ 0.81 ◊ 2.4 Union Paci (UNP) 87.06 115.15 102.57 + 0.09 + 9.29 ◊ 1.1
Bristol-My (BMY) 46.01 64.77 56.30 + 0.35 ◊ 11.03 ◊ 3.7 GE (GE) 25.26 32.38 25.63 ◊ 0.15 ◊ 18.06 ◊ 18.9 Monsanto (MON) 97.35 118.97 117.45 ◊ 0.39 + 9.84 + 11.6 United Par (UPS) 102.12 120.44 111.86 ◊ 0.19 + 2.82 ◊ 2.4
Berkshire (BRKb) 141.92 179.99 178.04 ◊ 1.88 + 22.24 + 9.2 Gilead Sci (GILD) 63.76 82.10 73.44 + 0.28 ◊ 8.67 + 2.6 Merck & Co (MRK) 58.29 66.80 62.84 ◊ 0.26 ◊ 1.60 + 6.7 US Bancorp (USB) 42.17 56.61 53.12 0.00 + 23.62 + 3.4
Citigroup (C) 44.51 69.65 69.04 + 0.06 + 51.01 + 16.2 GM (GM) 30.13 38.55 35.30 + 0.03 + 14.61 + 1.3 Morgan Sta (MS) 28.59 48.45 48.31 + 0.23 + 66.53 + 14.3 UTC (UTX) 97.62 124.79 118.52 ◊ 2.97 + 10.01 + 8.1
Caterpilla (CAT) 79.93 114.99 114.71 + 0.36 + 38.94 + 23.7 Alphabet (GOOG) 727.54 988.25 929.36 + 1.40 N.A. N.A. Microsoft (MSFT) 55.61 74.42 72.40 ◊ 0.28 + 24.91 + 16.5 Visa (V) 75.17 101.54 101.49 + 0.60 + 26.64 + 30.1
Celgene (CELG) 96.93 139.00 137.06 + 0.36 + 18.64 + 18.4 Alphabet (GOOGL) 743.59 1008.61 945.75 ◊ 0.04 + 17.20 + 19.4 NextEra (NEE) 110.49 147.84 147.09 + 0.34 + 16.75 + 23.1 Verizon (VZ) 42.80 54.83 48.86 ◊ 0.05 ◊ 8.91 ◊ 8.5
Colgate (CL) 63.43 77.27 71.74 + 0.26 ◊ 3.81 + 9.6 Goldman Sa (GS) 157.77 255.15 232.92 + 3.13 + 43.70 ◊ 2.7 Nike (NKE) 49.01 60.53 59.79 + 0.03 + 7.05 + 17.6 Walgreens (WBA) 75.18 88.00 81.51 + 0.45 + 1.22 ◊ 1.5
Comcast (CMCSA) 30.02 42.18 39.61 + 0.01 + 17.55 + 14.7 Halliburto (HAL) 40.12 58.78 41.45 ◊ 0.54 ◊ 5.17 ◊ 23.4 Oracle (ORCL) 37.62 51.85 49.64 ◊ 0.32 + 20.69 + 29.1 WalMart (WMT) 65.28 81.76 81.28 + 0.80 + 10.20 + 17.6
Capital On (COF) 66.61 96.92 85.15 + 0.74 + 25.04 ◊ 2.4 Home Depot (HD) 119.20 160.86 153.35 + 0.60 + 12.01 + 14.4 Occidental (OXY) 57.20 78.48 61.83 ◊ 0.26 ◊ 16.08 ◊ 13.2 Wells Farg (WFC) 43.55 59.99 52.54 ◊ 0.30 + 7.93 ◊ 4.7
ConocoPhil (COP) 39.00 53.17 45.17 ◊ 0.39 + 11.26 ◊ 9.9 Honeywell (HON) 105.25 140.21 138.96 ◊ 1.08 + 20.10 + 20.0 Priceline (PCLN) 1392 2045 2043 + 9.87 + 44.44 + 39.3 Exxon Mobi (XOM) 78.27 93.22 80.16 ◊ 0.05 ◊ 8.45 ◊ 11.2
Costco Who (COST) 142.11 183.18 156.95 + 0.51 ◊ 2.63 + 2.0 IBM (IBM) 142.75 182.79 143.47 ◊ 1.69 ◊ 12.25 ◊ 13.6 PepsiCo (PEP) 98.50 118.24 116.96 + 0.59 + 7.64 + 11.8
Cisco Syst (CSCO) 29.12 34.60 31.84 + 0.04 + 2.58 + 5.4 Intel (INTC) 33.23 38.45 36.43 + 0.13 + 4.15 + 0.4 Pfizer (PFE) 29.83 35.53 33.31 ◊ 0.33 ◊ 6.01 + 2.6

Prices shown are for regular trading for the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange which runs from 9:30 a.m., Eastern time, through the close of the Pacific Exchange, at 4:30 p.m. For the Nasdaq stock market, it is through 4 p.m. Close Last trade of the day in regular trading. + – indicates stocks that
· or ·
reached a new 52-week high or low. Change Difference between last trade and previous day’s price in regular trading. „ or ‰ indicates stocks that rose or fell at least 4 percent. ” indicates stocks that traded 1 percent or more of their outstanding shares. n Stock was a new issue in the last year.

FINRA TRACE CORPORATE BOND DATA GOVERNMENT BONDS

Yields 52-Week Total Returns Market Breadth Yield Curve Key Rates Most Recent Issues
FINRA-BLOOMBERG FINRA-BLOOMBERG All Investment High Yest. 1-mo. ago 1-yr. ago 10-year Treas. Prime Rate
CORPORATE BOND INDEXES CORPORATE BOND INDEXES Issues Grade Yield Conv 2-year Treas. Fed Funds Mat. Date Rate Bid Ask Chg Yield
4% 5%
8% high yield +5.62% +10% high yield +9.87% Total Issues Traded 7,297 5,049 2,087 161 T-BILLS
Advances 3,207 2,238 889 80
3 4 3-mo. Nov 02 ◊ ◊ 1.06 1.05 –0.02 1.08
Declines 3,623 2,628 921 74 6-mo. Feb 01 ◊ ◊ 1.15 1.15 +0.01 1.14
Unchanged 129 30 94 5
6 52 Week High 250 88 152 10 3 BONDS & NOTES
+ 5 52 Week Low 118 73 41 4 2 2-yr. Jul 31 1] ◊ 100.04 100.05 ◊ 1.36
Dollar Volume* 21,945 14,173 6,877 894 5-yr. Jul 31 1~ ◊ 100.29 100.30 +0.02 1.82
2 10-yr. May 15 2] ◊ 101.03 101.05 +0.06 2.26
4 End of day data. Activity as reported to FINRA TRACE.
30-yr. May 15 3.000 ◊ 103.27 103.28 +0.11 2.84
Market breadth represents activity in all TRACE eligible 1 1
publicly traded securities. Shown below are the most
TREASURY INFLATION BONDS
0 active fixed-coupon bonds ranked by par value traded.
5-yr. Apr 15 [ ◊ 100.09 100.15 +0.05 0.12
2 Investment grade or high-yield is determined using 0 Maturity 0 10-yr. Jul 15 ] ◊ 99.24 99.34 +0.16 0.47
credit ratings as outlined in FINRA rules. “C” – Yield is
unavailable because of issue’s call criteria. 20-yr. Jan 15 2ø ◊ 121.29 121.48 +0.28 0.60
*Par value in millions.
3 6 2 5 10 30 2016 2017 30-yr. Feb 15 ~ ◊ 97.93 98.19 +0.45 0.97
0 invest. grade +3.49% – 5 invest. grade +1.40% Source: FINRA TRACE data. Reference information from Months Years Source: Thomson Reuters
Source: Thomson Reuters
Reuters DataScope Data. Credit ratings from Moody’s® &
2016 2017 2016 2017 Standard & Poor’s.

FOREIGN EXCHANGE
Most Active Foreign Currency Dollars in Foreign Currency Dollars in
Credit Rating Price
Issuer Name (SYMBOL) Coupon% Maturity Moody’s S&P High Low Last Chg Yld% in Dollars Foreign Currency in Dollars Foreign Currency

AMERICAS ASIA/PACIFIC
INVESTMENT GRADE
Argentina (Peso) .0566 17.6770
One Dollar in Euros Australia (Dollar) .7911 1.2641
One Dollar in Yen
Teva Pharmaceutical Fin Neth Iii B V (TEVA) 3.150 Oct’26 Baa3 BBB 93.164 90.522 91.400 –0.542 4.297 Bolivia (Boliviano) .1449 6.9000 1.00 euros $1 = 0.8480 China (Yuan) .1488 6.7207 120 yen $1 = 110.73
Teva Pharmaceutical Fin Neth Iii B V (TEVA) 2.200 Jul’21 Baa3 BBB 96.751 95.000 95.680 –0.072 3.378 Brazil (Real) .3199 3.1261 Hong Kong (Dollar) .1279 7.8197
Teva Pharmaceutical Fin Neth Iii B V (TEVA) 4.100 Oct’46 Baa3 BBB 88.147 84.638 85.009 –0.370 5.092 Canada (Dollar) .7887 1.2679 India (Rupee) .0157 63.8200
At&t Inc (T) 4.900 Aug’37 Baa1 BBB+ 101.980 100.036 100.036 –0.062 4.897 Chile (Peso) .0015 651.19 0.95 Japan (Yen) .0090 110.73
115
Teva Pharmaceutical Fin Neth Iii B V (TEVA) 2.800 Jul’23 Baa3 BBB 95.707 93.824 94.248 –0.639 3.893 Colombia (Peso) .0003 2979.0 Malaysia (Ringgit) .2335 4.2820
At&t Inc (T.KG) 5.500 Feb’18 Baa1 BBB+ 101.974 101.440 101.873 0.070 1.526 Dom. Rep. (Peso) .0211 47.3700 110
New Zealand (Dollar) .7361 1.3585
Actavis Fdg Scs (ACT) 3.000 Mar’20 Baa3 BBB 102.269 100.485 102.222 –0.023 2.085
Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMX) 6.750 Sep’47 Baa3 BBB+ 104.685 104.035 104.035 –0.445 6.444
El Salvador (Colon) .1146 8.7222 0.90 Pakistan (Rupee) .0095 105.16
Guatemala (Quetzal) .1375 7.2720 Philippines (Peso) .0198 50.4100 105
Teva Pharmaceutical Fin Neth Iii B V (TEVA) 1.700 Jul’19 Baa3 BBB 99.434 98.003 98.203 –0.304 2.655
Honduras (Lempira) .0429 23.3350 Singapore (Dollar) .7339 1.3626
At&t Inc (T) 5.150 Feb’50 Baa1 BBB+ 102.000 98.801 100.030 0.563 5.148
Mexico (Peso) .0558 17.9215 0.85 So. Korea (Won) .0009 1126.1
100
Nicaragua (Cordoba) .0337 29.6900 Taiwan (Dollar) .0331 30.2140
HIGH YIELD Paraguay (Guarani) .0002 5560.0 Thailand (Baht) .0301 33.2700
Firstenergy Solutions Corp (FE.MF) 6.800 Aug’39 Caa1 CCC 50.500 47.200 50.250 –0.500 N.A. Peru (New Sol) .3089 3.2374 0.80 Vietnam (Dong) .00004 22730 95
Energy Transfer Equity L P (ETE) 5.500 Jun’27 Ba2 BB– 108.505 106.500 106.500 –0.500 4.650 Uruguay (New Peso) .0350 28.6100
Petrobras Global Fin B V (PBR) 6.125 Jan’22 B1 BB– 106.375 104.450 104.450 –0.763 4.993 Venezuela (Bolivar) .1003 9.9750 2016 2017 2016 2017
MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
Genesis Energy Lp (GEL) 5.750 Feb’21 B1 B+ 102.125 101.734 101.750 –0.350 4.540 Bahrain (Dinar) 2.6538 .3768
Telecom Italia Cap (TI.GH) 6.000 Sep’34 Ba1 BB+ 111.690 111.375 111.625 0.125 4.983 EUROPE Lebanon (Pound) .0007 1505.7
Norway (Krone) .1262 7.9225 Egypt (Pound) .0563 17.7500
Vale Overseas Ltd (VALEF) 6.875 Nov’36 Ba2 BBB– 113.250 110.500 110.800 –0.825 5.927 Britain (Pound) 1.3032 .7673 Saudi Arabia (Riyal) .2667 3.7501
Poland (Zloty) .2775 3.6041 Iran (Rial) .00003 32798
Mgm Resorts Intl (MGM) 8.625 Feb’19 B1 BB– 110.000 109.750 109.875 –0.125 1.809 So. Africa (Rand) .0757 13.2134
Czech Rep (Koruna) .0451 22.1520 Russia (Ruble) .0167 60.0161 Israel (Shekel) .2767 3.6135
Petrobras Intl Fin Co (PTRB) 5.375 Jan’21 B1 BB– 104.250 100.550 104.125 1.309 4.085 U.A.E (Dirham) .2723 3.6727
Denmark (Krone) .1586 6.3055 Sweden (Krona) .1227 8.1476 Jordan (Dinar) 1.4152 .7066
Dynegy Inc. (DYN) 7.625 Nov’24 B3 B+ 102.000 98.250 100.375 0.968 7.533
Europe (Euro) 1.1792 .8480 Switzerland (Franc) 1.0281 .9727 Kenya (Shilling) .0096 103.90
Chs / Cmnty Health Sys Inc (CYH) 6.250 Mar’23 Ba3 B+ 103.750 101.125 101.410 –0.215 5.895 Prices as of 4:45 p.m. Eastern Time.
Hungary (Forint) .0039 257.66 Turkey (Lira) .2834 3.5281 Kuwait (Dinar) 3.3161 .3016
Source: Thomson Reuters
CONVERTIBLES
Webmd Health Corp (WBMD) 1.500 Dec’20 NR NR 138.411 138.233 138.233 0.046 –8.301
Tesla Inc (TSLA) 2.375 Mar’22 NR B– 127.670 125.945 127.077 3.934 –3.064
Tesla Inc (TSLA)
Depomed Inc (DEPO)
1.250
2.500
Mar’21
Sep’21
NR
NR
B–
B–
117.690
85.400
113.000
83.457
117.556
83.899
4.556
–2.351
–3.354
7.139
FUTURES
Monetary
Nxp Semiconductors N V (NXPI)
Canadian Solar Inc (CSIQ)
1.000
4.250
Dec’19
Feb’19
Ba2
NR
BB–
NR
121.334
97.250
121.025
97.000
121.321
97.250
0.321
–0.590
–7.309
6.180 units per Lifetime Open Crude Oil
Future Exchange quantity High Low Date Open High Low Settle Change Interest $60 $49.39 a barrel
Wright Med Group Inc (WMGI) 2.000 Feb’20 NR 113.893 112.289 113.893 1.419 –3.258
Teva Pharmaceutical Fin Co Llc (TEVA.GJ) 0.250 Feb’26 Baa3 BBB 95.625 92.750 92.750 –2.624 1.150 Corn CBT ¢/bushel 432.00 348.25 Sep 17 368.75 372.50 368.25 372.25 + 5.75 478,425
Brocade Communications Sys Inc (BRCD) 1.375 Jan’20 Ba1 BB+ 101.000 100.970 101.000 –0.100 0.951 Soybeans CBT ¢/bushel 1088.00 876.00 Aug 17 956.00 960.50 952.50 959.75 + 10.50 910
Electronics For Imaging Inc (EFII) 0.750 Sep’19 NR 94.863 94.300 94.300 –0.200 3.650 Wheat CBT ¢/bushel 590.00 430.75 Sep 17 457.75 464.00 454.25 463.50 + 8.75 170,440 55
Live Cattle CME ¢/lb 127.65 89.88 Aug 17 115.28 115.30 112.58 112.75 ◊ 2.70 21,812
Hogs-Lean CME ¢/lb 85.38 66.33 Aug 17 83.63 83.73 83.08 83.40 + 0.18 18,137
Cocoa NYBOT $/ton 3295.00 1767.00 Sep 17 2013.00 2043.00 2000.00 2029.00 + 35.00 79,768 50
Coffee NYBOT ¢/lb 191.20 115.50 Sep 17 139.70 142.80 139.50 142.05 + 1.90 78,850
CONSUMER RATES ECONOMIC INDICATORS Sugar-World NYBOT ¢/lb 21.32 12.27 Sep 17 14.19 14.27 13.79 13.87 ◊ 0.27 394,060
Yesterday Change from last week
Gold COMX $/oz 1391.50 1133.30 Aug 17 1256.90 1256.90 1256.90 1258.20 ◊ 0.10 2,571 45
Silver COMX $/oz 17.73 15.13 Aug 17 16.20 16.24 16.09 16.22 0.00 78
Hi Grade Copper COMX $/lb 2.91 2.49 Aug 17 2.89 2.91 2.89 2.91 + 0.02 2,176
Up Flat Down
1-year range
Light Sweet Crude NYMX $/bbl 88.27 41.55 Aug 17 49.59 49.73 48.54 49.39 ◊ 0.19 538,718 40
Heating Oil NYMX $/gal 2.52 1.20 Aug 17 1.64 1.65 1.62 1.64 ◊ 0.01 127,658
Natural Gas NYMX $/mil.btu 5.89 2.41 Aug 17 2.77 2.81 2.76 2.80 + 0.03 340,069 2016 2017
Home Year
Mortgages Monday
Friday Ago 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5-YEAR HISTORY Key to exchanges: CBT-Chicago Board of Trade. CME-Chicago Mercantile Exchange. CMX-Comex division of NYM. KC-Kansas City Board of Trade. NYBOT-New York Board of
Trade. NYM-New York Mercantile Exchange. Open interest is the number of contracts outstanding.
Federal funds 1.16% 0.40% Real Economic Growth +6% Source: Thomson Reuters

Prime rate 4.25 3.50 Change from previous quarter,

15-yr fixed 2.99 2.69 annualized; seasonally adj.
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15-yr fixed jumbo 3.72 3.36 2nd quarter ’17 +2.6% –2
1st quarter ’17 +1.2 ’12 ’17 % Total Returns Exp. Assets % Total Returns Exp. Assets
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Fund Name (TICKER) Type YTD 1 Yr 5 Yr* Ratio (mil.$)
30-yr fixed jumbo 4.09 3.86 LARGEST FUNDS LEADERS
5/1 adj. rate 3.13 2.89
Consumer Price Index +3%
Vanguard 500 Index Admiral(VFIAX) LB +12.1 +16.0 +14.5 0.04 210,924 CGM Focus(CGMFX) LB +16.5 +37.0 +14.0 1.20 975
Change from Vanguard Total Stock Mkt Idx Adm(VTSAX) LB +11.4 +15.9 +14.4 0.04 173,676 Fidelity Series Growth Company F(FFGSX) LG +25.8 +29.3 NA 0.65 6,582
5/1 adj. rate jumbo 3.35 2.98 previous year Vanguard Institutional Index I(VINIX) LB +12.1 +16.0 +14.5 0.04 134,777 T. Rowe Price Instl Large Cap Growth(TRLGX) LG +26.3 +29.1 +18.3 0.56 14,104
1-year adj. rate 3.13 2.78 Fidelity Contrafund(FCNTX) LG +22.1 +21.4 +15.2 0.68 84,263 Edgewood Growth Instl(EGFIX) LG +29.7 +28.7 +19.6 1.00 9,802
June ’17 +1.6% –1 American Funds Growth Fund of Amer A(AGTHX) LG +16.2 +19.4 +15.6 0.65 81,982 Fidelity Growth Company K(FGCKX) LG +25.4 +28.7 +18.2 0.70 16,122
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’12 ’17 Dodge & Cox Stock(DODGX) LV +8.6 +22.9 +15.7 0.52 66,135 Baron Fifth Avenue Growth Instl(BFTIX) LG +31.0 +27.0 +16.4 0.85 91
Home Equity 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 American Funds Invmt Co of Amer A(AIVSX) LB +10.2 +13.7 +13.7 0.59 61,153 Guinness Atkinson Global Inntrs Inv(IWIRX) LB +21.6 +26.6 +17.1 1.24 162
American Funds Washington Mutual A(AWSHX) LV +10.0 +15.0 +13.3 0.58 54,775 Morgan Stanley Inst Growth I(MSEQX) LG +33.7 +26.6 +19.4 0.63 1,027
$75K line good credit* 4.95% 4.44%
Retail Sales +6% American Funds Fundamental Invs A(ANCFX) LB +13.4 +18.5 +14.8 0.61 51,233 Transamerica Capital Growth A(IALAX) LG +34.1 +26.5 +18.8 1.26 220
$75K line excel. credit* 4.74 4.38 Change from
Vanguard PRIMECAP Adm(VPMAX) LG +16.0 +21.0 +18.1 0.32 47,110 T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth(TRBCX) LG +25.8 +26.3 +17.5 0.72 29,445
Vanguard Instl Ttl Stk Mkt Idx InstlPl(VITPX) LB +11.3 +15.9 +14.5 0.02 40,124 T. Rowe Price Instl Large Cap Core Gr(TPLGX) LG +25.8 +26.3 +17.6 0.57 2,803
$75K loan good credit* 4.64 4.08 previous year T. Rowe Price Growth Stock(PRGFX) LG +24.9 +26.1 +16.9 0.68 39,453
LAGGARDS
Vanguard Windsor II Admiral(VWNAX) LV +8.0 +13.9 +12.4 0.26 34,063
$75K loan excel. credit* 4.63 4.05 June ’17 +2.8% 0 Vanguard Dividend Growth Inv(VDIGX) LB +11.3 +10.3 +13.0 0.30 32,211 Invesco Exchange(ACEHX) LV ◊0.8 +0.8 +8.0 0.55 57
T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth(TRBCX) LG +25.8 +26.3 +17.5 0.72 29,445 City National Rochdale Div & Inc N(RIMHX) LV +4.5 +3.0 +9.9 1.11 253
May ’17 +4.1 ’12 ’17 Schwab S&P 500 Index(SWPPX) LB +12.1 +16.0 +14.4 0.07 28,238 Federated Strategic Value Dividend C(SVACX) LV +8.7 +4.7 +10.0 1.80 2,088
Auto Loan Rates 0% 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 American Funds AMCAP A(AMCPX) LG +11.9 +14.8 +14.5 0.68 27,854 Virtus Sector Trend C(PWBCX) LB +8.5 +5.2 +7.9 1.79 112
T. Rowe Price Equity Index 500(PREIX) LB +11.9 +15.7 +14.2 0.26 27,263 Bright Rock Quality Large Cap Instl(BQLCX) LB +6.3 +5.3 +11.2 0.89 220
36-mo. used car 3.05% 3.18% Unemployment 9% American Funds American Mutual A(AMRMX) LV +9.1 +11.7 +12.2 0.59 25,153 Lazard US Equity Concentrated Instl(LEVIX) LB +8.9 +6.2 +15.8 0.77 1,526
Fidelity Total Market Index Premium(FSTVX) LB +11.4 +16.0 +14.4 0.05 24,996 Delaware Value Inst(DDVIX) LV +4.6 +6.7 +13.7 0.72 9,948
60-mo. new car 3.13 2.93 Percent unemployed Fidelity Growth Company(FDGRX) LG +25.3 +28.6 +18.0 0.80 23,187 Prudential Jennison Equity Income C(AGOCX) LB +7.0 +6.8 +9.2 1.92 702
Seasonally adjusted Vanguard Growth Index Admiral(VIGAX) LG +18.2 +17.5 +14.8 0.06 23,001 Columbia Dividend Opportunity C(ACUIX) LV +5.2 +7.2 +9.7 1.74 377
BMO Low Volatility Equity I(MLVEX) LV +7.5 +7.3 NA 0.65 129
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June ’17 4.4 ’12 ’17
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N

JOE GIZA/REUTERS

John Kruk (29)

The Heartbeat was greeted by,

from right, Darren
Daulton, Lenny
Dykstra and Wes

Of a Rowdy Bunch
Chamberlain
upon scoring the
winning run in
Game 1 of the
N.L.C.S. in 1993.
had the right guy to teach it to me.” Left, a sign at the
Six months later, with a chance to win playoff opener of
Darren Daulton, who died Sunday, guided the National League pennant against a the 1984 Cubs,
an upstart Phillies team to a World Series. pitcher bound for the Hall of Fame, like the ’93
Daulton ripped a go-ahead two-run dou- Phillies a team
ble. Hollins launched a two-run homer.
The Phillies, who had finished in last beloved to fans
On the third day of the 1993 season, despite coming
Dave Hollins went 0 for 5 with four strike- place the year before, toppled Greg Mad-
outs. Hollins, the third baseman for the dux and the Atlanta Braves to advance to up short.
Philadelphia Phillies, would play about a the World Series.
thousand games in the major leagues, and In the broadcast booth, moments after
that was his worst. He Daulton squeezed the final strikeout in his
TYLER brooded in the Astrodome glove, Harry Kalas found just the right
words to describe the team: a “wacky,
KEPNER clubhouse after the game,
even though the Phillies wonderful bunch of throwbacks.” Kalas
had swept the series. would call games for two championship
ON
BASEBALL Hollins kept to himself on teams, in 1980 and 2008, but his favorite
the flight home. Darren ring was from 1993, for a team that did not
Daulton, the veteran catcher and team win the World Series.
leader, said nothing to him. Before the Daulton was the heartbeat of that
next game, though, Daulton was waiting rowdy, irascible group, one of those rare
for Hollins in the clubhouse. collections of players who form a deep
“He was staring me down,” Hollins said and lasting connection with their fans
on Monday, a day after Daulton died of despite losing in the end. Like the 1982
brain cancer at age 55. “He straightened Milwaukee Brewers, the 1984 Chicago
me out, the right way. He had that way
about him. I learned a lesson because I Continued on Page B13 THE DENVER POST, VIA GETTY IMAGES

As the U.S. Appetite for Soccer Grows, So Does M.L.S.

By KEN BELSON
NASHVILLE — Major League Soccer
Commissioner Don Garber was having a
A league that had just 10
moment. teams in 2002 plans to
On a sunny morning in mid-July, Gar-
ber arrived in Nashville to meet with po- have 28 clubs by 2020.
liticians, business leaders and sports ex-
ecutives eager to bring an M.L.S. team to
the city. The two-day fact-finding mission hundreds of millions of dollars on expan-
was part of a 12-city tour being conducted sion fees and stadium construction. The
by Garber and his deputy, Mark Abbott, new stadiums, the new sponsors, and the
to determine which of the dozen cities new players emerging from the league’s
will be chosen for the two expansion new academy programs “empower any-
teams M.L.S. plans to approve this year. one running a sports league,” Garber
Garber had already been greeted by a said.
marching band in Cincinnati and by fans “But really my favorite part of the job,”
waving giant cardboard cutouts of his he added, “are days like this.”
face in Sacramento.
Days like this have become a big part
So for Garber, who stood at the lectern
of Garber’s job in recent years. The pace
in Nashville, the latest warm reception
of M.L.S. expansion has been dizzying;
seemed as much a validation as an op-
portunity. He had taken over a struggling the league added at least one team a year
12-team league in 1999 and contracted it from 2007 to 2012, and with the next
to 10 clubs two years later to stave off its round, it will have doubled in size in a
collapse. Now, the league is executing a decade. The league’s 23rd team, Los An-
plan to grow to 28 clubs by 2020, and in- geles F.C., will begin play next season,
terest in professional soccer in the and after years of delays, the former star
United States — in M.L.S. and far beyond player David Beckham and a group of in-
it — has surged. vestors look set to receive approval for a
Instead of seeing teams fold or move, MARC KALLWEIT team in Miami.
the league has investors ready to spend Fans in Sacramento, which is vying for an M.L.S. expansion team, greeted Commissioner Don Garber last year. Continued on Page B10
B10 N THE NEW YORK TIMES SPORTS TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017

SOCCER PRO FOOTBALL

Jets’ Enunwa Out for Year;

Neck Surgery Seems Likely
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Myles White (16), Chris Harper
The Jets will be without their top (14), Jalin Marshall (14), Lucky
wide receiver for the season. Whitehead (nine) and Frankie
Quincy Enunwa will be placed Hammond (four). The Jets also
on injured reserve with a bulging have four rookie receivers on the
disk in his neck that will most roster: the third-round pick Ar-
likely require surgery, with a re- Darius Stewart, the fourth-round-
covery time of six to nine months. er Chad Hansen and the undrafted
Coach Todd Bowles said Monday Deshon Foxx and Gabe Marks.
that Enunwa would seek a second That could prompt the Jets to
opinion, and that the injury is not scour the waiver wire or look into
considered a threat to his career. unemployed veterans to help fill
“They said it wasn’t, but going what may be the biggest void on
forward, we’ll see,” Bowles said. the team — other than quarter-
“They said he should come out back, a position for which the
O.K.” starter remains unknown.
Enunwa, projected as the Jets’ “We’ll look into it and see how
No. 1 receiver, was injured Satur- our young guys develop, but we’ll
day night during practice at have our eyes open and see what’s
MetLife Stadium. Bowles said the out there,” Bowles said, later add-
injury initially appeared to be sim- ing that “all options are open.”
ilar to the one that led Enunwa to Enunwa was drafted in the
miss spring workouts. sixth round out of Nebraska in
With Brandon Marshall and 2014 and steadily improved to be-
Eric Decker cut during the off- come a key part of the Jets’ pass-
season, it appeared that Enunwa ing game. Last year was a break-
would be given the opportunity to through season, when he finished
lead an inexperienced receiving tied for second on the team with 58
corps. He has 80 career catches receptions — one fewer than Mar-
for 1,172 yards and four touch- shall — and led the Jets with 857
downs in two seasons. yards receiving and four touch-
“He was a big part of it,” Bowles down catches.
F.C. Cincinnati fans with Commissioner Don Garber, in a suit and tie, at an airport welcoming ceremony in November.
said of Enunwa’s role on offense. Bowles said Enunwa had tests
“Our young guys are just going to in the spring while dealing with

As Appetite for a Sport Grows, So Does M.L.S. have to grow up fast.”

After Enunwa, the Jets’ most
experienced receiver is Marquess
the initial injury, but he was
healthy and everything appeared
to be fine until Saturday night.
Wilson, who had 56 career catches “When he fell, it just flared up
in 2007, its investors did so after
From First Sports Page paying an expansion fee of $10 mil- for 777 yards and three touch- again,” Bowles said.
lion. The two franchises that will downs in four seasons in Chicago. Bowles is uncertain as to how
Then, by the end of this year, the
be selected this year must fork Next is the second-year receiver Enunwa was hurt in the off-sea-
owners will award franchises to
over $150 million. In another sign Robby Anderson, who made the son, but said it was not a bulging
two additional cities from a list
of confidence, Adidas last week team last summer after being an disk at that time.
that includes not just Nashville,
agreed to pay $700 million over undrafted free agent and finished “It’s something that comes and
Cincinnati and Sacramento but
the next six years to be the exclu- with 42 catches for 587 yards and goes,” Bowles said. “It was just a
also Raleigh, Charlotte, Tampa,
sive merchandise rights sponsor two scores. tingling feeling, and he didn’t feel
Detroit, Indianapolis, St. Louis,
San Antonio, Phoenix and San for M.L.S., a nearly fivefold in- There is a significant drop-off in well. We rested him in the spring,
Diego. And next year, the owners crease over the value of its exist- career production after that, with and he came back and he fell
will pick two more from the group ing deal. Charone Peake (19 catches), down, and I guess it reoccurred.”
that remains. “Eight, 10 years ago, the discus-
Critics of M.L.S. contend that sion was whether the league was
the league’s chase for new mar- going to survive,” said Jonathan
kets — and ever-rising expansion Kraft, a co-owner of the New Eng-
fees, now at $150 million per club land Revolution and the chairman
— have diluted the quality of the of the league’s expansion commit-
product on the field, since every HARRISON HILL/THE NEW YORK TIMES
tee. “Now, it’s how high is the ceil-
time a team is added to the league, ing? I think we’re only getting
another expansion draft of exist- started.”
ing players must be held. And Yet as its roster of teams ex-
even as M.L.S. boasts of record at- pands, M.L.S. must wrestle with a
tendance, its television ratings question that never goes away:
whether to adopt the promotion
and relegation model in use by
nearly every other national
Critics say a chase league system in the world. Sup-
porters of the so-called pro/rel
for new markets has model argue that it rewards in-
vestment and punishes failure on
contributed to the field.
diluted quality. But Garber has repeatedly re-
jected the idea, mostly because it ROBERT DEUTSCH/USA TODAY SPORTS, VIA REUTERS
would discourage owners and cit-
ies from investing in stadiums and
Jay Cutler, then with the Bears, being sacked during a loss to
player development if there were the Giants last year. After retiring, he signed with the Dolphins.
regularly lag behind those of
games streamed in from Mexico a risk they would be demoted to a
and Europe. lower division. KEEPING SCORE
HARRISON HILL/THE NEW YORK TIMES
“They do enough to get the sta- The issue continues to bubble,
dium full, but can they transcend
that?” asked Steve Gans, who
helps broker team sales and is
however. In July, the media com-
pany MP & Silva offered to pay
M.L.S. $4 billion for its worldwide
Cutler Is Consistent.
generally bullish on the future of
M.L.S. “When fans watch two Pre-
mier league games in the morn-
media rights, beginning in 2023,
on the condition that the league
adopt a promotion and relegation
Just Not Consistently Good.
ing, will they also watch an M.L.S. system with the country’s lower By VICTOR MATHER up to much: The team’s record
game in the afternoon?” divisions. M.L.S. said its current Why Jay Cutler? with him as the starter was 6-9.
The league’s growing roster of rights deals forbade it to even con- Tony Romo, another quarter- That leads us to another point
teams has also cost lower-division sider the offer, and it was lost on back newly turned broadcaster, of consistency with Cutler. His
leagues like the second-tier North no one involved that MP & Silva’s might have been available. Colin teams, while often adequate,
American Soccer League and owner, Riccardo Silva, stood to Kaepernick, famously, doesn’t never broke through to great-
United Soccer League some of benefit directly from a potential have a job. How about Robert ness. Despite a couple of 10-win
their best franchises. Several of promotion-relegation system Griffin III? Jimmy Garoppolo seasons, Cutler got to the play-
them have jumped to M.L.S. at the since he owns a team in the sec- and Brock Osweiler might have offs only once. In 2010, the Bears
first opportunity, and left those ond-tier N.A.S.L. been acquired by trade. And then won one postseason game, then
that remain locked out of any So last week, Silva signed on to there’s, gulp, Tim Tebow. lost to the Green Bay Packers in
route into the top tier because of a complaint with the Court of Arbi- the N.F.C. championship game.
HARRISON HILL/THE NEW YORK TIMES But the Miami Dolphins picked
M.L.S.’s closed ownership struc- tration for Sport seeking to re- Cutler missed out on his chance
At M.L.S. headquarters in Manhattan last month were Jay Cutler, the former Bears
ture. quire that FIFA impose such a for playoff glory. He was injured
quarterback, luring him out of
The league’s expansion drive bid books from cities including, from top, Nashville; structure in the United States. retirement and signing him to a
in that game with his team trail-
has hit other potholes. A bid for a Tampa/St. Petersburg, Fla.; and Detroit. The league Still, that investors — including one-year deal. Their starter,
ing by 14-0, leaving the Bears to
team in St. Louis, which lost the added at least one team a year from 2007 to 2012, and its Silva — are trying to join M.L.S. lose with Todd Collins and Caleb
Ryan Tannehill, is out, perhaps
N.F.L.’s Rams last year, faltered af- 23rd team, Los Angeles F.C., will begin play next season. one way or another suggests they Hanie at quarterback.
for the season, with a knee injury
ter voters rejected a proposal to believe top-level American soccer The Dolphins will pay Cutler
sustained in practice.
provide public funds for a new sta- still has room to grow. That is cer- $10 million but don’t have to give
Bears fans may be puzzled, or
dium. An investment group in cinnati and Sacramento, where “We felt like there was a pent-up tainly true in Nashville, where up any players or picks. That
may simply be laughing. For
Charlotte and another in San well-heeled bidders own two of demand for soccer,” said Carl business leaders, sports execu- was no doubt appealing to them.
eight seasons in Chicago, Cutler’s But the conventional wisdom did
Diego, which includes the former the most successful teams in the Lindner III, the lead investor in tives and politicians shepherded performances infuriated them, not welcome the move. At Book-
player Landon Donovan, have hit U.S.L. and have well-formed plans the bid built around his successful Garber and Abbott around town in and there were few tears when maker.eu, the Dolphins, once 45-1
similar roadblocks. for new stadiums. Investors in De- U.S.L. club, F.C. Cincinnati, which July as if they were visiting heads he retired to work for Fox after to win the Super Bowl, have
Still, more than enough viable troit are also hoping to build a new regularly draws more than 20,000 of state. last season. (The Bears’ future ballooned to 77-1 after the sign-
bids remain, particularly in Cin- soccer stadium downtown. fans a game. “I’m very excited by There were no marching bands now rests with Mitch Trubisky, ing.
the upward trajectory of soccer in or festivals with massive crowds
the U.S., in the M.L.S. and also the the second overall draft pick.) Then there’s the matter of his
of soccer fans. But at meeting af- But in Cutler, the Dolphins do
C A L E N DA R U.S.L.”
Garber is the first to admit that
ter meeting, including one with get one clear virtue: consistency.
enthusiasm for moving to South
Florida for a year. A photograph
Tennessee’s Republican governor, Year in, year out, Cutler puts up
he did not predict the league’s up- Bill Haslam, Garber and Abbott of Cutler looking glum at a news
swing. For years, M.L.S. was an almost the same numbers. Unfor- conference on Monday found its
were told about Nashville’s con- tunately, those numbers are
Today’s TV Highlights afterthought on the sports land- centration of Fortune 500 compa-
way around the internet quickly.
scape. Its teams played before un- always slightly below average. “The good thing is, I play
Baseball 3:00 p.m. Little League Southeast Regional, second semifinal ESPN nies, its low unemployment rate,
dersized crowds in oversize foot- In 2015, for example, his last quarterback, so I don’t have to be
7:00 p.m. Texas at Mets SNY its diverse and increasingly young
ball stadiums, and television rat- full season, Cutler ranked 15th in in that great cardiovascular
7:00 p.m. Yankees at Toronto YES residents, and its global reputa- interceptions, 16th in quarter-
ings were often microscopic. shape,” Cutler told reporters with
8:00 p.m. Little League Southwest Regional, second semifinal ESPN2 tion as a music and entertainment back rating, 17th in touchdowns
The league tried focusing its a smile.
8:00 p.m. St. Louis at Kansas City FS1 capital. and 19th in yards.
marketing to Hispanic fans and Make no mistake: To be a
10:00 p.m. Chicago Cubs at San Francisco MLB
then to soccer moms and their “It’s a great moment for soccer His adjusted yards per attempt slightly below-average quarter-
Basketball / W.N.B.A. 7:00 p.m. Indiana at Liberty MSG+
children, often with limited suc- in this country when you’ve got 12 figure has always fallen between back in the N.F.L. is extraordi-
Soccer 2:30 p.m. UEFA Super Cup, Real Madrid vs. Manchester United FS1
cess. Fans of European or South cities vying for a handful of spots,” 5.5 and 7.4, mostly landing at just narily difficult. There are plenty
Track and Field 2:00 p.m. I.A.A.F. World Championships, day 5, evening session NBCSN
American leagues routinely de- said John Ingram, who owns about 7. That’s fine, until you look of teams that would love medioc-
This Week ride the league as an inferior prod- Nashville’s U.S.L. club and is lead- at the quarterbacks who win rity at the position. Cutler de-
uct. ing the campaign for an M.L.S. championships, like Tom Brady serves credit for turning up and
HOME TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN MON
AWAY 8/8 8/9 8/10 8/11 8/12 8/13 8/14 But M.L.S. finally found its foot- team. (six seasons over 8), Aaron putting in those league-average-
ing about a decade ago, in an earli- In a twist, the presidents of the Rodgers (eight seasons), Russell ish performances, week in and
TEXAS TEXAS PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA YANKEES
METS 7 p.m. Noon 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 7 p.m. er round of expansion that added N.F.L.’s Tennessee Titans and the Wilson (three in five seasons) or week out. Before last year, when
SNY SNY SNY SNY CH. 11 SNY ESPN, SNY, YES cities like Toronto, Seattle and N.H.L.’s Nashville Predators even Ben Roethlisberger (six). he had thumb and shoulder
TORONTO TORONTO TORONTO BOSTON BOSTON BOSTON METS Portland, Ore. The league began turned up to make pitches to Gar- Even the much-criticized injuries, he had managed nine
YANKEES 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 4 p.m. 8 p.m. 7 p.m. ber on why having a soccer team
YES YES YES YES YES ESPN ESPN, SNY, YES to make smarter signings, and a Kaepernick has a career figure of straight seasons of double-digit
wave of construction of smaller, would be good for the city. It was a 7.3, nearly the same as Cutler’s starts.
INDIANA ATLANTA LOS ANGELES
LIBERTY 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 3 p.m. soccer-only stadiums filled with sign, perhaps, that M.L.S. has el- best number. The Dolphins were 10-6 last
MSG+ MSG MSG, NBA TV diverse, young crowds. Suddenly, bowed its way onto a bigger It’s hard to find signs of true year with Tannehill, and made
the league had a hipper, urban sports stage. excellence in Cutler’s statistics. the playoffs. But before that, they
LOS ANGELES ORLANDO
N.Y.C.F.C. 11:00 P.M. SATURDAY ESPN2 RED BULLS 7:30 P.M. SATURDAY MSG sheen. “Having another competitor for He has been a league leader, but had been in the postseason only
Attendance and television rat- sports dollars will make us work only in interceptions and sacks. once in 14 years. From 2009 to
PITTSBURGH TENNESSEE ings, still small, perked up. And as harder,” said Steve Underwood, He got some notoriety in 2015 for 2015, they won between six and
GIANTS 7:00 P.M. FRIDAY NBC, NFL NET JETS 7:30 P.M. SATURDAY CBS they rose, so did expansion fees. the president of the Titans. “It leading four fourth-quarter eight games every season. Cutler
When Toronto entered the league makes you do your job.” comebacks, but that didn’t add should fit right in.
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BASEBALL

Yankees, Peeking at the Red Sox, Will Soon Get an Eyeful

By BILLY WITZ
Leaning over the railing from
his perch on the top step of the
first-base dugout this past week-
end in Cleveland, Yankees Man-
ager Joe Girardi did not have to di-
vert his gaze to catch glimpses of
the out-of-town scoreboard.
It was all there on the left-field
wall.
“You’re going to look — it’s im-
possible not to,” Girardi said. “I
haven’t seen a ballpark where
they put it behind you. You pay at-
tention, of course.”
Whenever Girardi stole a
glance, there was rarely any good
news for the Yankees. While Gi-
rardi’s charges were clawing their
way to a split of their four-game
series against the formidable Indi-
ans, the Boston Red Sox were
plowing past the rebuilding Chi-
cago White Sox, sweeping four
games at Fenway Park.
Soon enough, though, there will
be no need to check for updates.
The Yankees, who trail the Red
Sox by three games in the Ameri-
can League East, will have their
rivals right in front of them on
three of the next four weekends,
beginning Friday night at Yankee
Stadium.
The historic rivals, both with
2017 championship ambitions, will
meet 10 times in 23 days, giving
the games the feel of a limited-en-
gagement Broadway show — with
almost all of it played out on a na-
tional stage. As of now, two of the
games will be broadcast on ESPN,
one on Fox, another on TBS and
five on MLB Network. In all, nine
of the 10 games will be shown to a
national audience.
In that way, it will be almost like
BILLIE WEISS/BOSTON RED SOX, VIA GETTY IMAGES
old times, with some of 2017’s com-
pelling story lines — the Los An- The Yankees’ Aaron Judge batting against the Red Sox at Fenway Park in July. The two American League East rivals will meet 10 times over the next four weekends.
geles Dodgers’ torrid pace, the
Chicago Cubs’ up-and-down sea- thing resembling the Yankees- plane for what he viewed as com- All-Star break, both have made two road games against the
son — being pushed to the side A rivalry that had Red Sox tension from the previous ments critical of a teammate. significant roster moves. While Tampa Bay Rays, who lurk in third
while the Yankees and the Red
Sox go at it, and go at it some
lost some of its luster decade.
At the moment, the real drama
Meanwhile, new characters
have been introduced into the ri-
the Yankees acquired pitcher
Sonny Gray and third baseman
place in the A.L. East, just two and
a half games behind the Yankees.
more.
Ever since the teams took turns
finds a new vigor. with both clubs seems to be inter- valry. Aaron Judge has already Todd Frazier and reacquired Da- After those games, the bit play-
nal. The Yankees benched their made his presence felt this sea- vid Robertson, the Red Sox have ers will leave the stage, and it will
winning the American League talented young catcher, Gary son, be it tumbling into the Fen- been sparked by the recent addi- be time for the Yankees and the
Championship Series in 2003 and Sanchez, on Sunday because Gi- way Park stands to make a catch tions of the former Yankee Ed- Red Sox, first in the Bronx, then a
2004 in gripping fashion, Yankees- In addition, outsize players
rardi was displeased with his de- or having Jackie Bradley Jr. leap uardo Nunez and the 20-year-old week later at Fenway, and then,
Red Sox has generally been catnip from both teams have departed, fensive habits behind the plate. at the wall at Fenway to steal a prospect Rafael Devers. two weeks later, back in the Bronx
to television networks — even as with the retirements of Alex Rod- And a story line that will not go home run from him. And the Red There is a bit of business that again on Labor Day weekend.
the rivalry has lost a little bit of its riguez and David Ortiz last season away for the Red Sox is pitcher Sox recently tweaked their rota- both teams will have to attend to Once that third series is com-
luster. in effect representing the end of David Price’s antagonistic behav- tion to ensure that Chris Sale, in in the coming days before they be- plete, the two teams will go their
The two teams have not an era. In fact, not since 2013, ior toward members of the media. his first season in Boston, will get gin nearly a month of squaring off. separate ways, at least until Octo-
reached the playoffs in the same when Boston’s Ryan Dempster First, Price lashed out at a re- to face the Yankees, a team he has The Yankees will play three ber, and Girardi will assume his fa-
season since 2009 and have not plunked Rodriguez — who was porter covering the team, and long dominated, in each of the games in Toronto against the last- miliar stance, standing at the dug-
met this late in the season when then appealing his suspension for weeks later he harangued the col- three weekend series. place Blue Jays, who were partic- out’s edge with his eyes on the ac-
they were in first and second place the use of performance-enhanc- or analyst and former pitcher In addition, since the two teams ularly harsh on them the past two tion but still sneaking a peek at the
in the division since 2011. ing drugs — has there been any- Dennis Eckersley on the team last met, in a series right after the seasons, and the Red Sox will play scoreboard.

PRO BASKETBALL
The Mets’ Noah
Syndergaard
during a win
over the Marlins
in April. During
a cameo on
“Game of
Thrones” on
Sunday night,
Syndergaard,
who has not
pitched in the
majors since
April 30 because
of an injury, was
scorched to
death by a
dragon.

POOL PHOTO BY MICHAEL REYNOLDS

Craig Robinson, right, with President Barack Obama in 2015.

Robinson is the former first lady Michelle Obama’s brother.

Ex-President’s In-Law Is Said

RICH SCHULTZ/GETTY IMAGES To Join Knicks’ Front Office
Jackson’s dismissal from that role.
On ‘Thrones,’ a Met Hurls a Spear, Then Dies
By MIKE VORKUNOV
The Knicks continue to make Robinson and Mills were team-
changes to their front office, and mates at Princeton, where they
they have now hired Craig Rob- played for the legendary Pete Car-
By BENJAMIN HOFFMAN mous backlash, though he has ril. After a nondescript profes-
said the two were not related. inson, who has coaching and exec-
It can be hard to compare the utive experience on both the col- sional basketball career, Robinson
relative strengths of competing Syndergaard, who has not became a vice president at Mor-
pitched in the majors since April lege and professional levels but
mythologies, but on this week’s perhaps is best known for being gan Stanley Dean Witter and then
episode of HBO’s “Game of 30 because of an injury widely at- a partner at a boutique invest-
tributed to the lingering effects the brother of Michelle Obama,
Thrones,” it appeared that a Norse ment bank.
his off-season workout regimen, the former first lady.
god could hold his own against a But he was still smitten with
horde of Dothraki warriors, but has yet to start throwing off a Robinson’s appointment has
not been announced but was con- basketball, and in 2000 he took a
was no match for a full-grown mound in his rehabilitation pro- job as an assistant coach at North-
dragon. gram. Unfortunately for the firmed by a person in basketball
western. In 2006, he became the
Fans of the Mets could be for- small-screen version of Synder- with knowledge of the situation
head coach at Brown, and he then
given if they blinked and missed it, gaard, there will be no rehab pro- who did not want to speak publicly
took the same job at Oregon State
but in the raucous battle between gram: By the end of the episode, about a move that is not yet offi-
two years later. He stayed there
the armies of Danaerys Tar- he, along with most of the Lannis- cial. The Vertical was the first to
for six seasons before being fired
garyen and Cersei Lannister, the ter army, had been burned to a report that Robinson will be join-
crisp by the fire of the Targaryen in 2014.
Lannister army got a brief assist ing the Knicks.
dragon, with many of the soldiers During his years as a college
from Noah Syndergaard, the Mets Robinson’s exact title is not yet
simply turning to ash before coach, Robinson was an open sup-
pitcher affectionately known by known, but he is expected to have
crumbling to the ground. porter of Barack Obama in his
fans as Thor. Syndergaard used a versatile role, including working
On Twitter, Syndergaard de- first bid for the presidency and
his towering height and strong with the Knicks’ G-League team.
right arm to toss a long spear over Syndergaard, center, during his battle, in an image from HBO. fended his side in the fight, while then his re-election, and he intro-
The 55-year-old Robinson was a duced Michelle Obama at the 2008
a row of shields, hitting a horse “At least I didn’t throw behind” the dragon, he wrote on Twitter. also poking fun at his history on head coach at Brown and Oregon
square in the chest and stopping the baseball field. “To my sides de- Democratic National Convention.
State, and last season he was a Although Mills has not been
one of Dothraki riders in his ter the show aired, taking pride in is an unbelievable feeling,” Syn- fense....they had a FRICKEN
vice president with the N.B.A.’s team president for long, he is
tracks. DRAGON!!!” he wrote. “At least I
his handiwork. “Take that you dergaard said at the time. Milwaukee Bucks, in charge of quickly making a break from the
A helmet obscured Synder- didn’t throw behind him.”
mean Dothraki,” he wrote. This season, the pop star Ed player and organizational devel- Jackson era, which lasted three
gaard’s flowing blond locks — a While a dragon cannot be too
Syndergaard’s scenes were Sheeran also made a cameo as a opment. years. When Jackson took over in
trait that would make him fit in discerning with whom it lights on
well with the Lannister family — filmed in Spain, and he told Sports soldier in the Lannister army. Un- fire in a battle, keeping Synder- He will now join General Man- New York, he made only one sig-
but his face was recognizable if Illustrated in April that he took his like Syndergaard, who fought gaard alive could have been use- ager Scott Perry and Assistant nificant addition to the front office,
you knew to look for it. And when parents with him for his day on set bravely in battle, Sheeran just ful. Drogon, the dragon in ques- General Manager Gerald Mad- bringing in Clarence Gaines Jr.
you consider the fact that Synder- since they had actually been the sang a song, chatted around a tion, took a spear to the shoulder kins in what will be a new-look Mills has already added three
gaard is one of the hardest throw- ones who persuaded him to start campfire, and then got so much toward the end of the fight, and Knicks front office. All three have new faces, and it now becomes
ers in the major leagues, it was no watching the show. criticism online for the cheesy ap- Syndergaard, who has had his come aboard during the past more of a question as to what
surprise that he excelled at his “I think it’s the greatest TV pearance that many believed his share of arm injuries in the past, month after Steve Mills was ele- might happen to some of the front-
role. show of all time, so just to be able brief deletion of his Twitter ac- could have offered a referral to a vated from general manager to office holdovers who preceded
Syndergaard took to Twitter af- to say I was in ‘Game of Thrones’ count was a result of the enor- surgeon in exchange for his life. team president following Phil Jackson and still remain.
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S C O R E B OA R D

Errani Gets 2-Month Ban for Doping Violation BASEBALL

A.L. STANDINGS YANKEES STATISTICS
TENNIS

ATP ROGERS CUP

By The Associated Press Uniprix Stadium
East W L Pct GB BATTERS avg oba h 2b 3b hr rbi MONTREAL
Sara Errani, a former French Open Boston 63 49 .563 — Andujar .750 .800 3 1 0 0 4 Singles
Gregorius .308 .333 105 16 0 17 54 First Round
finalist and top-10 player, must serve a Yankees 59 51 .536 3 Castro .307 .344 97 14 1 12 45 Nick Kyrgios (16), Australia, d. Viktor
two-month doping ban after testing Judge .299 .424 113 13 3 35 78 Troicki, Serbia, 6-1, 6-2. Jared Donaldson,
Tampa Bay 58 55 .513 5{ Hicks .290 .398 58 15 0 10 37 United States, d. Lucas Pouille (13), France,
positive for the banned substance Torreyes .288 .306 65 8 1 3 28 7-6 (5), 7-6 (8). Robin Haase, Netherlands,
letrozole in a test taken in February, Baltimore 55 56 .495 7{ Headley .272 .350 98 26 1 6 44 d. Albert Ramos-Vinolas, Spain, 6-3, 6-3.
Choi .267 .333 4 1 0 2 5 Mischka Zverev, Germany, d. Norbert
the International Tennis Federation Toronto 52 59 .468 10{ Sanchez .265 .339 77 14 0 17 52 Gombos, Slovakia, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3. Gael
said Monday. Gardner .261 .354 105 17 2 19 49 Monfils, France, d. Steve Johnson, United
Central W L Pct GB Williams .250 .294 4 0 0 0 1 States, 2-6, 7-6 (1), 6-1. David Ferrer,
Errani blamed contamination from Cleveland 59 50 .541 — Ellsbury .246 .325 54 9 2 4 21 Spain, d. Kyle Edmund, Britain, 6-7 (5), 6-4,
C.Frazier .243 .274 26 8 3 4 17 6-3. Benoit Paire, France, d. Donald Young,
her mother’s breast cancer medica- Kansas City 57 54 .514 3 Cooper .240 .269 6 3 1 0 1 United States, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. Ryan Harrison,
tion. Letrozole is used in the treatment Holliday .229 .319 72 15 0 16 51 United States, d. Thomas Fabbiano, Italy,
Minnesota 53 56 .486 6 Romine .221 .283 38 7 0 2 20 6-3, 7-5. Diego Schwartzman, Argentina,
of cancer. Carter .201 .284 37 5 1 8 26 d. Reilly Opelka, United States, 6-3, 6-7 (2),
“I never took, in my life and during Detroit 51 60 .459 9 T.Frazier .200 .333 11 0 0 2 5 6-4. Adrian Mannarino, France, d. Danil
Austin .154 .200 2 0 0 1 2 Medvedev, Russia, 6-3, 6-1. Juan Martin
my career, any prohibited substance,” Chicago 41 68 .376 18 Refsnyder .135 .200 5 1 1 0 0 del Potro, Argentina, d. John Isner (14),
Errani said in a statement. “I am ex- Wade .128 .212 6 4 0 0 1 United States, 7-5, 7-5. Richard Gasquet,
West W L Pct GB Kozma .111 .200 1 0 0 0 0 France, d. Brayden Schnur, Canada, 7-6
tremely disappointed, but at the same Houston 71 40 .640 — Bird .100 .250 6 3 0 1 3 (5), 5-7, 6-1. Peter Polansky, Canada, d.
Higashioka .000 .100 0 0 0 0 0 Vasek Pospisil, Canada, 7-5, 6-2.
time at peace with my conscience and Seattle 57 56 .504 15 Fowler .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 Doubles
aware I haven’t done anything wrong.” Team Totals .260 .336 994 180 16 159 544 First Round
Los Angeles 55 57 .491 16{ Karen Khachanov, Russia, and Dominic
An adjudication panel ruled that Er- PITCHERS w l era ip h bb so Thiem, Austria, d. Nicholas Monroe and
rani’s fault was “at the lower end of the Texas 53 58 .477 18 Heller 1 0 0.00 2.1 1 2 3 Jack Sock, United States, 6-4, 2-6, 10-4.
Green 1 0 1.74 46.2 22 12 67
scale,” but that she should still be ADAM PRETTY/GETTY IMAGES
Oakland 50 62 .446 21{ Warren 2 2 1.93 46.2 25 12 43
barred for two months from Aug. 3. Robertson 1 0 2.00 9.0 8 0 12 WTA ROGERS CUP
MONDAY
Errani’s mother, Fulvia, told the
Sara Errani at the French Open in May. She was ranked No. 5 in 2013. Pittsburgh 3, Detroit 0
Kahnle
Betances
0 0
3 4
2.08 8.2
2.42 41.0
6 0 12
21 32 74 Aviva Centre
Shreve 3 1 2.73 29.2 22 15 34 TORONTO
panel that she believed she had acci- St. Louis 11, Kansas City 3 Singles
Chapman 4 1 2.87 31.1 27 12 45
dentally dropped one of her tablets, through June 7. Her only notable per- and has completed a career grand Milwaukee at Minnesota Severino 9 4 2.91 139.1 113 36 162 First Round
Baltimore at L.A. Angels Gray 0 1 3.00 6.0 4 3 6 Barbora Strycova, Czech Republic, d.
which she kept in the kitchen, into formance in that period was a semi- slam in women’s doubles with Roberta German 0 0 3.38 10.2 11 7 11 Kristina Mladenovic (13), France, 6-2, 6-3.
TUESDAY Daria Kasatkina, Russia, d. Roberta Vinci,
some soup and tortellini she was pre- final in Rabat, Morocco, in May. She Vinci. Holder 1 1 3.58 37.2 42 8 37
Italy, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (1). Daria Gavrilova,
Yankees (Sabathia 9-4) at Toronto Sabathia 9 4 3.80 99.1 90 37 77
paring. also lost in a second-round match at Errani, now ranked 98th, has won (Happ 4-8), 7:07 Montgomery 7 6 4.05 115.2 108 35 111 Australia, d. Lara Arruabarrena, Spain,
6-3, 6-3. Naomi Osaka, Japan, d. Heather
Errani was staying with her parents the French Open during that time. nine singles titles and 25 doubles titles Texas (Cashner 7-8) at Mets (Flexen
Mitchell
Pineda
1 1
8 4
4.29 21.0
4.39 96.1
21 9 12
103 21 92 Watson, Britain, 6-1, 4-1 retired. Kirsten
at the time of her out-of-competition Errani’s ban will end on Oct. 2, pre- in her WTA career. She reached a 0-1), 7:10 Webb 0 0 4.50 6.0 3 4 5 Flipkens, Belgium, d. Ana Konjuh, Croatia,
Cessa 0 3 4.83 31.2 31 16 25 6-2 retired. Ekaterina Alexandrova,
test. cluding her from playing in the United career-high singles ranking of No. 5 in Detroit (Boyd 5-5) at Pittsburgh
Tanaka 8 10 4.93 129.2 136 28 139 Russia, d. Sachia Vickery, United States,
(Kuhl 4-7), 7:05 6-1, 7-6 (3). Dominika Cibulkova (11),
Errani, a 29-year-old Italian, has States Open, which begins Aug. 28. 2013. Clippard 1 5 4.95 36.1 28 19 42
Slovakia, d. Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine, 7-6
Boston (Sale 13-4) at Tampa Bay Herrera 0 1 6.00 3.0 3 1 3
also been retroactively disqualified Errani reached the 2012 French She also helped Italy to three Fed (Pruitt 6-2), 7:10 Gallegos 0 1 7.15 11.1 15 4 11 (3), 6-4. Varvara Lepchenko, United
States, d. Jelena Ostapenko (12), Latvia,
from tournaments from Feb. 16 Open final, losing to Maria Sharapova, Cup titles. Colorado (Marquez 9-4) at Cleveland Smith 0 1 7.20 10.0 12 5 11
1-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (5). Petra Kvitova, Czech
Layne 0 0 7.62 13.0 16 8 9
(Kluber 9-3), 7:10 Garcia 0 1 9.64 4.2 5 4 4 Republic, d. Carla Suarez Navarro, Spain,
Houston (Keuchel 9-1) at Chicago Totals 59 51 3.79 987.0 873 330 1047 6-1, 7-6 (5). Anastasija Sevastova (15),
Latvia, d. Lauren Davis, United States,
White Sox (Holland 5-11), 8:10 6-1, 4-6, 6-3. Sloane Stephens, United
Milwaukee (Garza 5-5) at Minnesota METS STATISTICS States, d. Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstan, 6-7
(Mejia 4-5), 8:10 (4), 6-0, 6-4. Venus Williams (9), United
States, d. Irina-Camelia Begu, Romania,
St. Louis (Wacha 8-4) at Kansas City BATTERS avg oba h 2b 3b hr rbi 6-1, 3-6, 6-3.
(Vargas 13-5), 8:15 Nimmo .292 .414 7 1 0 0 2 Doubles
Conforto .292 .394 93 19 1 22 57 First Round
Seattle (Miranda 7-5) at Oakland T.Rivera .290 .330 62 13 1 5 27 Raquel Atawo, United States, and Daria
(Graveman 2-3), 10:05 Cecchini .286 .286 4 0 0 1 2 Gavrilova, Australia, d. Timea Babos,
Baltimore (Hellickson 7-5) at L.A. Flores .281 .315 72 14 1 12 33 Hungary, and Andrea Hlavackova (5),
Angels (Bridwell 5-1), 10:07 Cespedes .274 .324 65 14 2 11 30 Czech Republic, 6-3, 3-6, 10-4. Andreja
Lagares .269 .317 25 5 1 2 8 Klepac, Slovenia, and Maria Jose
WEDNESDAY Bruce .260 .324 104 20 0 29 75 Martinez Sanchez, Spain, d. Johanna
Yankees at Toronto, 7:07 Cabrera .258 .331 82 17 0 9 33 Konta, Britain, and Elina Svitolina, Ukraine,
Walker .253 .331 63 13 2 9 34 6-2, 3-6, 10-6. Nadiia Kichenok, Ukraine,
Texas at Mets, 12:10 Duda .246 .347 62 21 0 17 37 and Anastasia Rodionova, Australia, d.
Colorado at Cleveland, 12:10 R.Rivera .242 .293 39 4 0 7 22 Shuko Aoyama, Japan, and Darija Jurak,
d'Arnaud .241 .293 54 11 1 9 34 Croatia, 5-7, 6-4, 10-2. Barbora Krejcikova,
Seattle at Oakland, 3:35 Granderson .223 .332 69 20 3 15 42 Czech Republic, and Monica Niculescu,
Baltimore at L.A. Angels, 3:37 Reyes .221 .284 80 17 6 9 38 Romania, d. Christina McHale and Asia
Boston at Tampa Bay, 7:10 Reynolds .204 .264 10 0 1 1 2 Muhammad, United States, 6-1, 6-3.
Rosario .182 .182 4 0 2 0 1 Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, and Jelena
Pittsburgh at Detroit, 7:10 Plawecki .125 .214 3 1 0 0 4 Ostapenko, Latvia, d. Eri Hozumi and Miyu
Houston at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 Team Totals .249 .317 931 195 21 160 494 Kato, Japan, 7-5, 6-3.
Minnesota at Milwaukee, 8:10 PITCHERS w l era ip h bb so
Kansas City at St. Louis, 8:15 Reed 1 2 2.57 49.0 49 6 48
Blevins 5 0 2.91 34.0 28 17 47 TRACK AND FIELD
Syndergaard 1 2 3.29 27.1 28 2 32
N.L. STANDINGS deGrom 12 5 3.36 144.2 123 46 170 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
Goeddel 0 0 3.60 15.0 13 4 17
East W L Pct GB Edgin 0 1 3.65 37.0 39 18 27 LONDON
Familia 1 1 3.86 9.1 7 8 10 Men's 110m Hurdles Final
Washington 66 44 .600 — Sewald 0 4 4.27 46.1 43 15 55 1. Omar Mcleod, Jamaica, 13.04
Lugo 5 3 4.55 63.1 69 16 44 2. Sergey Shubenkov, 13.14
Miami 52 58 .473 14 Bradford 1 0 5.06 10.2 10 4 11 3. Balazs Baji, Hungary, 13.28
Robles 6 3 5.17 31.1 28 18 36 4. Garfield Darien, France, 13.30
Atlanta 51 59 .464 15 Wheeler 3 7 5.21 86.1 97 40 81 5. Aries Merritt, United States of America,
Harvey 4 3 5.25 70.1 67 35 54 13.31
Mets 49 60 .450 16{ Pill 0 3 5.32 22.0 22 10 16 6. Shane Brathwaite, Barbados, 13.32
Matz 2 5 5.78 57.2 72 15 43 7. Orlando Ortega, Spain, 13.37
Philadelphia 40 69 .367 25{ Montero 1 7 5.78 62.1 78 32 63 8. Hansle Parchment, Jamaica, 13.37
Salas 1 2 6.00 45.0 60 20 47 Women's Hammer Throw Final
Central W L Pct GB Gsellman 5 5 6.16 76.0 97 26 57 1. Anita Wlodarczyk, Poland, 77.90
Chicago 58 52 .527 — Ramirez 0 1 6.43 21.0 20 17 26 2. Zheng Wang, China, 75.98
Smoker 1 2 7.32 35.2 45 21 40 3. Malwina Kopron, Poland, 74.76
Milwaukee 59 54 .522 { Ramos 0 0 9.00 3.0 4 3 4 4. Wenxiu Zhang, China, 74.53
Milone 0 2 10.50 12.0 19 7 12 5. Hanna Skydan, azerbaijan, 73.38
St. Louis 56 56 .500 3 Flexen 0 1 12.00 6.0 13 5 4 6. Joanna Fiodorow, Poland, 73.04
Wilk 0 1 12.27 3.2 8 1 2 7. Sophie Hitchon. Great Britain, 72.32
Pittsburgh 55 57 .491 4 Gilmartin 0 0 13.50 3.1 8 1 4 8. Katerina Safrankova, Czech Republic,
PATRICK SMITH/GETTY IMAGES
Plawecki 0 0 18.00 2.0 4 0 0 71.34
Cincinnati 46 66 .411 13
Yulimar Rojas after winning the women’s triple jump in London — Venezuela’s first world title in track. Totals 49 60 4.97 974.11051 387 950 9. DeAnna Price, United States, 70.04
West W L Pct GB 10. Hanna Malyshik, Bulgaria, 69.43
11. Kathrin Klaas, Germany, 68.91
Los Angeles 79 32 .712 — TRANSACTIONS Women's Triple Jump Final
TR ACK AN D FIE L D 1. Yulimar Rojas, Venezuela, 14.91
Colorado 64 48 .571 15{ 2. Caterine Ibarsuen, Colombia, 14.89
M.L.B. 3. Olga Rypakova, Kazakhstan, 14.77

Stomach Bug Hits the World Championships

Arizona 63 48 .568 16 4. Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko, Israel,
American League 14.42
San Diego 49 62 .441 30 DETROIT TIGERS — Placed SS Jose 5. Kristin Gierisch, Germany, 14.33
Iglesias on the bereavement list. 6. Anna Jagaciak, Poland, 14.25
San Francisco 44 69 .389 36 KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Recalled RHP 7. Ana Peleteiro, Spain, 14.23
Jake Junis from Omaha (PCL). 8. Shanieka Ricketts, Jamaica, 14.13
MONDAY
Several athletes have come down with a stomach bug to start Thursday’s preseason home game against the New Pittsburgh 3, Detroit 0
National League 9. PatrÌcia Mamona, Portugal, 14.12
ATLANTA BRAVES — Sent RHP Dan Winkler 10. Kimberly Williams, Jamaica, 14.01
at the world championships in London, including the medal Orleans Saints. Washington 3, Miami 2 to Gwinnett (IL) for a rehab assignment. 11. Susana Costa, Portugal, 13.99
favorite Isaac Makwala of Botswana. Makwala pulled out Cincinnati 11, San Diego 3 CHICAGO CUBS — Agreed to terms 12. Neele Eckhardt, Germany, 13.97
SIEMIAN EARNS NOD OVER LYNCH Trevor Siemian hasn’t won with 2B Mike Freeman on a minor league Women's 1500m Final
of his 200-meter heat Monday and later said he had food the Broncos’ quarterback job just yet, but he has earned the
St. Louis 11, Kansas City 3 contract. 1. Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon, Kenya,
Milwaukee at Minnesota PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Assigned OF 4:02.59
poisoning. starting nod over Paxton Lynch in Denver’s preseason Danny Ortiz outright to Indianapolis (IL). 2. Jennifer Simpson, United States,
Chicago Cubs at San Francisco
“There have been a number of cases of gastroenteritis opener Thursday at Chicago.
Optioned RHP Dovydas Neverauskas to 4:02.76
TUESDAY Indianapolis. 3. Caster Semenya, South Africa, 4:02.90
reported by team members residing within one of the offi- ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Activated 4. Laura Muir, Great Britain, 4:02.97
VIKINGS ACTIVATE MURRAY The Minnesota Vikings have acti- Texas (Cashner 7-8) at Mets (Flexen OF Dexter Fowler from the 10-day DL.
cial team hotels,” the local organizing committee said in a 0-1), 7:10 Optioned OF Stephen Piscotty to Memphis
5. Sifan Hassan, Netherlands, 4:03.34
statement, putting a damper on the 10-day event. vated running back Latavius Murray from the physically Detroit (Boyd 5-5) at Pittsburgh (PCL).
6. Laura Weightman, Great Britain,
4:04.11
Makwala was expected to be the main challenger to unable to perform list. Murray missed all of the off-season (Kuhl 4-7), 7:05 SAN DIEGO PADRES — Recalled RHP 7. Angelika Cichocka, Poland, 4:04.16
Carter Capps from El Paso (PCL). Optioned 8. Rababe Arafi, Morocco, 4:04.35
Wayde van Niekerk in both the 200 and the 400. The 400 practices and the first 10 days of training camp while rehab- Miami (Worley 1-2) at Washington LHP Buddy Baumann to El Paso. 9. Meraf Bahta, Sweden, 4:04.76
final is Tuesday. bing his surgically repaired right ankle. (Cole 1-1), 7:05 WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Activated
LHP Gio Gonzalez from the paternity list.
10. Malika Akkaoui, Morocco, 4:05.87
Colorado (Marquez 9-4) at Cleveland 11. Hanna Klein, Germany, 4:06.22
Van Niekerk easily qualified for the semifinals of the Optioned RHP Erick Fedde to Syracuse 12. Genzebe Diabara. Ethiopia, 4:06.72
(Kluber 9-3), 7:10 (IL).
200 and is the favorite for gold in Usain Bolt’s absence. Al- BAS EBALL San Diego (Perdomo 5-6) at Cincin-
though Van Niekerk has a strong chance for double gold, nati (Romano 2-3), 7:10 N.B.A. PRO BASKETBALL
Philadelphia (Leiter Jr. 1-2) at Atlanta
his South African teammate Caster Semenya missed out on
one, finishing with bronze in the 1,500 meters.
Scherzer Sharp in Nationals’ Victory (Teheran 7-9), 7:35
KNICKS — Signed G Damyean Dotson. Re-
signed G Ron Baker.
W.N.B.A. STANDINGS
Milwaukee (Garza 5-5) at Minnesota EASTERN CONFERENCE
Semenya had the speed, but left it too late to challenge Max Scherzer pitched seven sharp innings in his first (Mejia 4-5), 8:10 N.F.L. W L Pct GB
for the title. She was in 10th place in the 12-woman final go- start since he was sidelined by neck spasms, and the Na- St. Louis (Wacha 8-4) at Kansas City Connecticut 15 9 .625 —
BUFFALO BILLS — Signed WR Anquan Boldin. Washington 15 10 .600 {
ing into the last lap and fought back to medal behind Faith tionals beat the Miami Marlins, 3-2, in Washington. Bryce (Vargas 13-5), 8:15 CHICAGO BEARS — Waived PK Andy Liberty 12 12 .500 3
Harper homered for Washington, and pinch-hitter Adam L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 10-4) at Phillips. Signed WR Alton Howard.
Kipyegon of Kenya and Jenny Simpson of the United Arizona (Godley 5-4), 9:40 DETROIT LIONS — Removed DE Armonty
Atlanta
Chicago
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States. Lind singled in the tiebreaking run in the eighth. Brandon Chicago Cubs (Quintana 6-9) at San
Bryant and G Brandon Thomas from the Indiana 9 17 .346 7
PUP list.
“A lot cannot go your way in a final, so to come out with Kintzler (2-0) worked the eighth, and Sean Doolittle got Francisco (Blach 7-7), 10:15 HOUSTON TEXANS — DT Vince Wilfork WESTERN CONFERENCE
three outs to earn his sixth save with Washington. announced his retirement. W L Pct GB
a bronze is amazing,” Semenya said. WEDNESDAY MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Activated RB x-Minnesota 20 3 .870 —
Semenya, a two-time Olympic champion over 800 me- CARDINALS ROUT ROYALS Matt Carpenter hit a three-run Texas at Mets, 12:10 Latavius Murray from the PUP list. Los Angeles
Phoenix
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12
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ters, now must concentrate on her signature event later Colorado at Cleveland, 12:10
homer in St. Louis’s six-run fourth inning, and the Cardi- Chicago Cubs at San Francisco, 3:45 N.H.L.
Dallas 13 14 .481 9
Seattle 10 15 .400 11
this week to win another world title. nals thumped Kansas City on the road, 11-3, for their third San Antonio 6 21 .222 16
Miami at Washington, 7:05 SAN JOSE SHARKS — Re-signed F Barclay
Kipyegon took charge in the final straight to give Kenya consecutive victory. Pittsburgh at Detroit, 7:10 Goodrow to a two-year contract. x-clinched playoff spot
Monday's Games
its second gold and fifth medal over all in the champi- San Diego at Cincinnati, 7:10 No games scheduled.
VOTTO HOMERS AGAIN Joey Votto homered for the third M.L.S..
onships. Philadelphia at Atlanta, 7:35 Tuesday's Games
straight game and pulled into a tie with Ted Kluszewski for
In the most stirring final of the night, the 21-year-old Minnesota at Milwaukee, 8:10 SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC — Acquired MF/F Indiana at Liberty, 7 p.m.
fifth place on the Reds’ career list as Cincinnati routed the Lamar Neagle from D.C. United for a 2018 Seattle at Connecticut, 7 p.m.
Yulimar Rojas edged the Olympic champion Caterine Ibar- Kansas City at St. Louis, 8:15 fourth-round draft pick. Minnesota at Atlanta, 7 p.m.
visiting San Diego Padres, 11-3. L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 9:40
guen by two centimeters in the triple jump to give Venezue-
la its first-ever world title. TENNIS W.N.B.A. SCORING LEADERS
A.L. LEADERS
Aries Merritt, who had a kidney transplant two years HO C K EY ITF — Announced Sara Errani has been
banned for two months, retroactive to Aug.
G FG FT PTS AVG
BATTING G AB R H BA Griner, PHO . . . . . 18 143 116 402 22.3
ago and was getting back to the form that won him gold in Altuve, HOU . . . 107 423 77 154 .364
3, after testing positive for letrozole in a Stewart, SEA . . . . 24 169 116 494 20.6
at the 2012 Olympics in the same stadium, finished fifth in N.H.L. Olympic Policy Covers the Minors Correa, HOU . . . . 84
Ramirez, CLE . . . 108
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test taken in February. Fowles, MIN. . . . . 23
Charles, Liberty . . 24
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84 477 19.9
the 110-meter hurdles — well behind the Olympic champion Hosmer, KC. . . . 110 424 67 134 .316 COLLEGE Ogwumike, LAS . . 25 179 116 490 19.6
Omar McLeod. Not only will Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid, Auston Segura, SEA . . . . 82 344 54 107 .311 Taurasi, PHO . . . . 23 130 104 441 19.2
PAC-12 CONFERENCE — Announced Delle Donne, WAS 20 121 112 376 18.8
Matthews and most of the best hockey players in the world Springer, HOU . . . 93 368 82 114 .310
the Faculty Athletic Representatives' Diggins-Smith, DAL.27 155 148 496 18.4
Reddick, HOU . . . 96 339 63 105 .310
not be going to the Olympics, neither will anyone on an Gregorius,Yankees 86 341 46 105 .308 Committee waived the intra-conference Loyd, SEA . . . . . . 25
Moore, MIN . . . . . 23
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107 435 17.4
77 393 17.1
PR O FOOTBALL Pedroia, BOS . . . . 85 336 36 103 .307 transfer penalty and cleared Utah senior
N.H.L. contract. Gamel, SEA . . . . . 88 346 56 105 .303 WR Darren Carrington to play after Quigley, CHI . . . . 23 148 32 390 17.0
The league has decided that players with active N.H.L. transferring from Oregon shortly before fall
HOME RUNS
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BELMONT — Named Kat Banks assistant SOCCER
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participate in the Olympics next February in South Korea. Smoak, TOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
The former New England and Houston defensive Gallo, TEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
FLAGLER — Named Special Jennings
tackle Vince Wilfork announced his retirement from the The league announced in April it wouldn’t be stopping Davis, OAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
assistant women's basketball coach. M.L.S. STANDINGS
ILLINOIS STATE — Named Brian Collins
N.F.L. in a barbecue advertisement, a fitting farewell for a its season to go to the Olympics for the first time since 1994, Morrison, TB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 assistant men's basketball coach. EAST W L T Pts GF GA
Springer, HOU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 LA SALLE — Named Scott Yurgalevicz Toronto FC 12 3 8 44 42 23
big guy who loves to eat. but questions had remained about players in the American director of golf/men's & women's golf coach. Chicago 12 5 5 41 44 25
RUNS BATTED IN
Wilfork, 35, tweeted a video showing him untaping his Hockey League and the ECHL. Players signed to two-way Cruz, SEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY — Named NYCFC 12 7 4 40 43 33
Otis McDaniel assistant track and field Atlanta United 10 7 5 35 42 29
ankles, hanging up his cleats and grabbing grilling tongs. N.H.L. contracts or who are loaned to minor league affili- Schoop, BAL . . . .
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ates by their clubs won’t be available to the United States, Upton, DET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Columbus 10 12 2 32 34 39
The video then shows him dancing, cooking ribs and smok- Smoak, TOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Orlando City 8 9 6 30 24 33
ing a cigar while wearing his trademark overalls. Canada or other national teams. Cano, SEA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 PRO FOOTBALL Philadelphia 8 10 5 29 32 28
Davis, OAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Montreal 7 8 6 27 32 37
“No more cleats,” he says. “I’m moving on to smoke N.F.L. PRESEASON SCHEDULE
New England
D.C. United
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meats, fellas. Peace out. I’m outta here. Later.” T ENNIS N.L. LEADERS
All Times EDT WEST W L T Pts GF GA
The video ends by noting that “Vince’s Farewell Tail- BATTING G AB R H BA Kansas City 9 4 10 37 29 18
Wednesday
gate” will take place Sept. 7 in New England. The defending U.S. Qualifier Ousts French Open Titlist Turner, LAD . . . . . 85
Murphy, WAS . . . 101
298 50
391 73
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.335 Houston at Carolina, 7:30 p.m. Houston
FC Dallas
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7 34 33 26
Super Bowl champion Patriots open the season that Thurs- Blackmon, COL . 110 453 100 150 .331 Thursday
Seattle 9 7 7 34 36 31
Minnesota at Buffalo, 7 p.m.
day night against Kansas City. The qualifier Varvara Lepchenko of the United States Harper, WAS . . . 101 387 89 126 .326
Atlanta at Miami, 7 p.m. Portland 9 8 7 34 42 39
Posey, SF . . . . . 100 349 48 113 .324 San Jose 9 9 5 32 26 35
rallied to stun the French Open champion Jelena Goldschmidt, ARI 110 393 86 127 .323 Washington at Baltimore, 7:30 p.m.
Vancouver 9 8 4 31 32 31
BILLS SIGN BOLDIN The Buffalo Bills have signed the free Ostapenko, 1-6, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (5), in the first round of the WTA LeMahieu, COL . 105 411 68 131 .319 Jacksonville at New England, 7:30 p.m.
Real Salt Lake 7 12 5 26 30 44
Denver at Chicago, 8 p.m.
agent Anquan Boldin in a move that adds a veteran pres- Arenado, COL . . 109 435 73 138 .317 Los Angeles 6 11 5 23 32 40
hardcourt tournament in Toronto. Taylor, LAD . . . . . 93 333 62 104 .312 New Orleans at Cleveland, 8 p.m.
Minnesota United 6 13 4 22 29 49
ence to a mostly young and untested group of receivers. Votto, CIN . . . . . 111 386 72 120 .311 Philadelphia at Green Bay, 8 p.m.
Colorado 6 12 3 21 22 31
Lepchenko, who is ranked 68th, trailed by 6-1, 3-0 be- Friday
Boldin is a 14-year veteran who spent last season with De- HOME RUNS Pittsburgh at Giants, 7 p.m. NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.
fore turning things around against the 12th-ranked Stanton, MIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Sunday's Games
troit, where he had 67 catches for 584 yards and 8 touch- Tampa Bay at Cincinnati, 7:30 p.m.
Ostapenko, of Latvia, who had followed up her Roland Gar- Bellinger, LAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 San Francisco at Kansas City, 9 p.m. NYCFC 3, Red Bulls 2
downs in 16 games. Bruce, Mets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Saturday, Aug. 12 Portland 3, Los Angeles 1
ros triumph by reaching the quarterfinals at Wimbledon. Votto, CIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Tennessee at Jets, 7:30 p.m. Atlanta United 1, Kansas City 1, tie
OSWEILER TO START BROWNS’ PRESEASON OPENER Brock Os- In another first-round match, the American Venus Harper, WAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Dallas at L.A. Rams, 9 p.m. Saturday, August 12
Ozuna, MIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Oakland at Arizona, 10 p.m. NYCFC at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.
weiler didn’t appear to be in Cleveland’s plans when he ar- Williams outlasted Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania, 6-1, 3-6, Rizzo, CHC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Sunday, Aug. 13 Orlando City at Red Bulls, 7:30 p.m.
rived via trade in March. Now he’s starting the Browns’ ex- 6-3. (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE) RUNS BATTED IN Detroit at Indianapolis, 1:30 p.m. Kansas City at Seattle, 4 p.m.
Arenado, COL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Seattle at L.A. Chargers, 8 p.m. Portland at Toronto FC, 6 p.m.
hibition opener. Coach Hue Jackson picked Osweiler over Real Salt Lake at D.C. United, 7 p.m.
KYRGIOS WINS OPENER IN MONTREAL Nick Kyrgios, an Austral- Goldschmidt, ARI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Cody Kessler, the rookie DeShone Kizer and Kevin Hogan Ozuna, MIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 N.F.L. CALENDAR Chicago at Columbus, 7:30 p.m.
ian seeded 16th, looked fresh and focused as he blazed to a Lamb, ARI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Colorado at FC Dallas, 8 p.m.
Harper, WAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Sept. 2 — Cutdown to 53-man roster. Montreal at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.
6-1, 6-2 first-round win over Viktor Troicki at the Rogers Stanton, MIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Sept. 7 — Season opener, Kansas City Vancouver at New England, 8 p.m.
All news by The Associated Press unless noted. Cup in Montreal. (REUTERS) Votto, CIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 at New England. San Jose at Houston, 9 p.m.
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BASEBALL

RAY STUBBLEBINE/ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Yankees’ Willie Randolph tumbled over Don Baylor after throwing to first base in 1977, above.
Baylor hit a grand slam for the Angels against the Brewers in 1982, right. Baylor, who won the
American League’s Most Valuable Player Award in 1979, also managed the Rockies and the Cubs. JOHN SWART/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Don Baylor, M.V.P. Who Sought Hits and Getting Hit, Dies at 68
By RICHARD SANDOMIR World Series in 1966 and would win it After a mediocre season with Oakland,
me,” Blyleven said Monday. “I looked at he hit .286 in the final month. More im-
Don Baylor, a respected outfielder and again in 1970. His mentor was the future he signed with the California Angels. But
it to see if it was dented.” portant, he hit .385 in the World Series
designated hitter who won the American Hall of Famer Frank Robinson, an ag- in his first season, he was slumping
Don Edward Baylor was born in against the St. Louis Cardinals and tied
League’s Most Valuable Player Award in gressive, intimidating player who man- badly, and the team hired Robinson, who
Austin on June 28, 1949. His father, Game 6 with a two-run home run. The
1979 and mastered the peculiar art of be- aged Baylor on the Santurce team in the had been fired as manager of the Cleve-
land Indians, as batting coach. “Don is so George, was a baggage handler for the Twins won that game, 11-5, and also won
ing hit by a pitch, died on Monday in winter league in Puerto Rico after the Missouri Pacific Railroad; his mother, Game 7.
Austin, Tex. He was 68. 1970 season. fouled up now that he needs a lot of
work,” Robinson told Sports Illustrated. Lillian, was a school cook and cafeteria Blyleven said that Baylor’s arrival had
His death was reported by MLB.com. “Mostly, he taught me to think while supervisor. He was one of the three Af- brought an injection of veteran guidance.
hitting,” Baylor was quoted as saying in Baylor recovered to have a good sea-
Baylor learned he had multiple myeloma rican-American students to integrate O. “Leadership is what he came to us with,”
the book about the 1986 Red Sox. “He son. He blossomed in 1978 and 1979, when
in 2003. Henry Junior High School. he said. “We had a lot of young guys, and
he hit 36 home runs, drove in 139 runs,
Baylor played for six teams in 19 sea- He played basketball, football and he brought his past, as a great ballplayer,
batted .296 and easily won the M.V.P.
sons, including the 1987 World Series Award. baseball at Austin High School and was and the way he went about his business.
champion Minnesota Twins. He also recruited to play football at several col- He was all about character and dignity.”
managed the Colorado Rockies and the Over the years, a batting By then, Baylor had established him-
self as a leader both on and off the field. leges, including the University of Texas. Baylor played one more season, back
Chicago Cubs.
Few players exhibited less awe for
stance crept progressively “There was no one more feared in the But he chose baseball and was drafted by
the Orioles in 1967.
in Oakland, before starting a career as a
manager (with the Rockies, where he
league coming into second base,” Bobby
pitchers than the muscular, 6-foot-1, 210- closer to home plate. Grich, who played second base as a He played three seasons with the Yan- was the National League manager of the
pound Baylor. Over the years, as he took teammate of Baylor’s on the Orioles and kees, from 1983 to 1985, but the team did year in 1995, and the Cubs) and a coach
his stance in the batter’s box, he crept the Angels, told The Los Angeles Times not make the postseason, and he was for many teams, most recently the An-
closer to home plate, finally taking the in- in 2002. “He came in like a locomotive. traded to Boston in late March 1986. gels.
side part of the strike zone away from the And he had no weaknesses. He led Although he batted only .238 that year Baylor is survived by his wife, the for-
would say, ‘A guy pitches inside, hit that
pitcher. And if he was plunked by a pitch, through quiet example. He never let up. with Boston, he hit 31 home runs, had 94 mer Rebecca Giles; his son, Don Jr.; his
ball right down the line.’ Frank also
he didn’t mind. wanted me to start using my strength He played hurt. He could take a beating.” runs batted in and was hit by pitches a brother, Doug; his sister, Connie; and
”My first goal when I go to the plate is more. Frank knew there was a pull hitter Baylor never wanted to admit that be- career-high 35 times. two granddaughters. His marriage to Jo
to get a hit,” he said in the book “The 1986 buried somewhere inside me.” ing hit by pitches hurt him. But when the The Red Sox faced the Mets in the Cash ended in divorce.
Boston Red Sox: There Was More Than But just as Baylor was starting to dem- fireballing Nolan Ryan nailed him in the World Series and were tantalizing close Baylor’s early years with the Orioles
Game Six” (2016). “My second goal is to onstrate the full scope of his talents, the wrist, he called the Orioles’ trainer to to winning it in Game 6 until Mookie introduced him to the kangaroo court,
get hit.” Orioles sent him to the Oakland Athletics freeze the injured area, which stayed Wilson’s grounder went through the legs where teammates were fined for infrac-
By the time he retired in 1988, he had in a six-player deal before the 1976 sea- numb for a year. of Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner. tions of baseball etiquette. With the Red
been hit 267 times, a modern record at son that brought Reggie Jackson to Balti- Bert Blyleven, a Hall of Fame pitcher The Mets won that game and went on to Sox, he was chairman of the court. When
the time. (It was surpassed by Craig Big- more. Baylor was shocked at the trade who played with and against Baylor, re- win Game 7. Roger Clemens struck out 20 Seattle
gio of the Houston Astros.) and wept when he was told about it by called hitting him with a pitch that some- But 1987 was different. Baylor strug- Mariners in late April 1986, he fined
Baylor’s major league career began in Manager Earl Weaver during an exhib- how got stuck under Baylor’s arm. gled through most of the season until the Clemens $5 for surrendering a single to
1970 with the Orioles, who had won the ition game. “He grabbed it and threw it back at Red Sox traded him to Minnesota, where the light-hitting Spike Owen.

Darren Daulton Is Dead at 55; The Heartbeat of a Rowdy Bunch

Won ’93 Pennant With Phillies From First Sports Page

By TYLER KEPNER Cubs and the 1995 Seattle Mariners,

those Phillies reached a peak for a
Darren Daulton, a three-time All-Star franchise more used to valleys.
catcher who led a ragtag Philadelphia The Phillies lost the World Series to
Phillies team to an improbable pennant Toronto in six games. The final pitch
in 1993, died on Sunday at his home in never found Daulton’s glove. Joe Carter,
Clearwater, Fla. He was 55.
the Blue Jays slugger, drove it over the
The Phillies said the cause was brain
left-field fence to win the title.
cancer, which Daulton had fought for
It was an oddly fitting end to the
four years.
Daulton, who was given a plaque on Phillies’ story. The Blue Jays, defending
the Phillies’ Wall of Fame in 2010, started champions with three Hall of Famers,
his major league career with Philadel- had far more talent. Clearly, the better
phia in 1983 and stayed with the organi- team won. Yet the Phillies crashed and
zation until 1997, when he was traded to burned in a way that only they could.
the Florida Marlins. He helped the Mar- This was not a group destined to simply
lins beat the Cleveland Indians in the TIM DEFRISCO/ALLSPORT fade away.
World Series that year, hitting .389 in the Darren Daulton in 1993. He won the “After that team, for all of us, base-
Series. He then retired with a .245 batting World Series as a Marlin in 1997. ball changed forever,” starter Curt
average, a .357 on-base percentage and a Schilling said on Monday. “It’s like that
.427 slugging percentage. time of your life when you realize: That
Williams received death threats from was the greatest year of my life. You
The Phillies did not have a formal cap-
irate Phillies fans, but his teammates just know it’s never going to be that
CLIFF SCHIAPPA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
tain’s position during Daulton’s career,
were more supportive, especially way again.” The Phillies’ Darren Daulton trying unsuccessfully to tag out the Braves’ Da-
but as a no-nonsense figure who had
Daulton. vid Justice in the 1993 N.L.C.S. Philadelphia advanced to the World Series.
fought through many knee injuries to be- Schilling would go on to have the best
come an everyday player, he was the ac- “Darren Daulton came over to me in
career of anyone from that Phillies
knowledged team leader. the clubhouse and said, ‘All year, I’ve
team. It was his fourth organization, defiantly, back to Toronto for its fateful Beyond the image was a savvy offen-
In 1992, the Phillies finished in last been tellin’ hitters what’s comin’, and
and Daulton was the first field general conclusion. sive approach ahead of its time.
place, but Daulton still managed a ca- wouldn’t you know, in a World Series
someone finally believed me!’” Williams to get through to him, to make him That was the only season in a stretch Daulton, Dykstra and Kruk each drew
reer-high 27 home runs and a National- understand, he said, “the intelligent, of 23 in which the Phillies made the at least 110 walks, and the Phillies easily
League-leading 109 runs batted in. The said. “I appreciated that.”
Darren Arthur Daulton was born on simpler side of the game.” If a player as playoffs. The nine seasons before and led the N.L. in runs. Manager Jim
next season, he willed Lenny Dykstra, serious as Daulton believed Schilling the 13 after were barren, without even Fregosi expertly deployed platoons at
John Kruk and a shaggy group of misfits was good enough to dominate, he knew many close calls. The players were, three positions.
to a surprise National League Champi- he did not need to complicate things indeed, wacky and wonderful — beards Atlanta had just won two pennants,
onship Series victory over the Atlanta A no-nonsense figure who any more. and bellies, mullets and muscles. They and then added Maddux and Fred
Braves. “There’s no question in my mind that
Kruk told the MLB.com columnist commanded respect from I don’t have the career I had without
stayed up late together after games,
drinking beers in the trainers’ room,
McGriff. The Phillies didn’t really care.
The Braves made the playoffs eight
Paul Hagen that when Daulton said any-
thing, his rowdy teammates paid atten- his unruly teammates. him,” Schilling said. “I never played
with anybody like him again.”
talking baseball. Throwbacks. times in the 1990s, and this was their
tion. Daulton once cautioned them to “Guys played the game the right way, only first-round knockout.
Schilling would win three World and played so hard,” Hollins said. “We “It was America’s Team versus
keep their mouths shut after the Phillies
Series, earning a reputation as one of weren’t the most talented team in the America’s Most Wanted — and we
had won the first three games of a four-
Jan. 3, 1962, to Carol and David Daulton the finest postseason pitchers ever. It league, but the city responded to that. reveled in that kind of stuff,” Schilling
game series against the St. Louis Cardi-
in Arkansas City, Kan. He attended Ar- was Daulton who guided him through They work hard. They don’t like prima said. “It was fun. We played along with
nals.
“It would have been easy for one of us kansas City High School, where he his first voyage, when Schilling throt- donnas, or guys not hustling. They it, and it was who we were. We fought
to say something,” Kruk told Hagen. played quarterback as well as baseball, tled the Braves and then saved the know the game. And Darren, as hard as you, and we beat you.”
“But that’s the thing. When he spoke, we and he was drafted by the Phillies in the Phillies from elimination in the World he played, he was also very articulate. Until they didn’t. As Carter leapt for
listened. No one said anything. No one 25th round. Series. He could speak to the media — and he joy around the bases, Daulton and his
popped off. And we ended up completing He was a longtime resident of Clear- In the fourth game against Toronto, looked like a Hollywood star.” teammates staggered off the stage,
the sweep the next day.” water, where the Phillies hold spring the Phillies had blown a big lead and In one way, Daulton was lucky even never to return to such heights. Within
The Phillies lost the 1993 World Series training. He is survived by his wife, lost, 15-14, in the highest-scoring game to be alive. Two years earlier, after a two years, Daulton had caught his last
to the Toronto Blue Jays in six games, Amanda; his parents; a brother, David in World Series history. They trailed, bachelor party for John Kruk, Daulton game, finally giving in to ravaged
with Daulton behind the plate during Joe Jr.; and four children, Zachary, Summer, three games to one, the same hole they and center fielder Lenny Dysktra were knees. He held on until 1997, when the
Carter’s title-clinching home run. Savannah and Darren Jr. had faced against Baltimore a decade injured in a car crash. Daulton broke Phillies traded him to the Florida Mar-
Reliever Mitch Williams, who threw Daulton is the third prominent Phillies earlier, when Daulton was a nonroster his left eye socket. Dykstra broke three lins.
the final pitch, told The New York Times alumnus to have died this year. Dallas rookie. ribs, his collarbone and his cheekbone, Daulton played his final game that
a few days after the game that Daulton Green, the manager of their 1980 champi- The Phillies lost then and watched and was charged with drunken driving. October 26. It was Game 7 of the World
had called for a fastball high and away, onship team, died in March, and the Hall the Orioles celebrate on their field. In Other misdeeds would follow Dykstra Series, a victory in Miami. He got his
but that Williams had “jerked the ball” of Fame pitcher Jim Bunning died in 1993, Daulton coaxed the best out of far into retirement. Yet the aura of championship, and it took everything
and thrown it low and inside. May. Schilling: a shutout to send the series, those 1993 Phillies has never waned. he had.
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Betty Cuthbert, 79,

Sprinter With 3 Golds
At ’56 Olympics, Dies
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN sheaths that cover the nerves. She
Betty Cuthbert, Australia’s ultimately needed a wheelchair,
“golden girl” of track and field, but she became an inspirational
revered for her Olympic gold- figure, helping others cope with
medal feats and then her long and the illness and raising money for
spirited struggle against multiple research.
sclerosis, has died in Western Cuthbert had a severe brain
Australia. She was 79. hemorrhage in 2002 and had been
Her death was confirmed on close to death. But she perse-
Sunday by Athletics Australia, the vered, and in October 2008, left
national governing body, which with movement only in her left
said she had died overnight. She hand and arm, she dedicated a
had been living at a nursing home treatment facility in Melbourne
in Mandurah, south of Perth. named in her honor and urged pa-
tients with multiple sclerosis
When she burst from the blocks
there to battle on.
at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics,
Cuthbert, a shy 18-year-old with “I know people listen to me be-
golden hair, was little known in the cause they know what I used to do
world of elite sprinters, despite before — run,” The Australian As-
sociated Press quoted her as say-
having set a world record in the
ing afterward. “If they can pick up
200 meters. She had purchased
some encouragement, it might
tickets as a spectator when the
help them. It helps me, too.”
Olympics neared, doubting she
would make the Australian team. The Australian prime minister,
Malcolm Turnbull, called her “an
But Cuthbert became a national
inspiration and a champion on and
hero, sprinting down the red-brick
off the track.”
track at the Melbourne Cricket
Elizabeth Cuthbert was born on
Ground in Australia’s first-ever
April 20, 1938, in Merrylands, a
Olympic Games, her mouth dis-
suburb of Sydney, and she was
tinctively open as she ran.
reared in that area. She worked in
She won the 100 meters, then
her father’s plant nursery as a
the 200 meters, and she followed teenager while training in her
that by anchoring a victorious spare time.
4x100-meter relay team, becom-
Cuthbert was extraordinarily
ing the first Australian to win
shy but confident going into the
three Olympic gold medals.
1956 Olympics.
Later in those Games, the Aus- “All I could say was ‘yes’ and
tralian swimmer Murray Rose ‘no’ when anybody interviewed
also won three golds, but Cuth- me,” she recalled in a 2004 inter-
view with The Herald Sun. “Being
young and shy never held me
back. It spurred me on. Nervous-
At 18, a little-known ness was always a good sign.
Australian emerged Adrenaline runs through your
body.”
as a national hero. With injuries taking their toll in
the years following her Mel- DAVID GUTTENFELDER/ASSOCIATED PRESS

bourne triumphs, retirement

loomed. And then everything 1964 Tokyo Games, her last race. Raelene Boyle, a three-time
bert’s luster would be undimmed. changed one night in 1962. As she Then came the personal battles Olympic silver medalist in the
Cuthbert failed, however, to win recounted it, she was trying to beyond the track world that en- sprints. The torch was ultimately
a medal at the 1960 Rome sleep when she heard a voice deared her among Australians passed to the Aboriginal sprinter
Olympics, when she was ham- telling her to run again. through the rest of her life. Cathy Freeman, who lit the caul-
pered by a hamstring injury, and “I lay awake wondering what to Rhonda Gillam, a friend of Cuth- dron.
she considered quitting. She re- do,” she told The Daily Telegraph bert’s who shared her Pentecostal Freeman went on to win the
turned to win gold at the 1964 To- of Sydney in 2000. “The voice faith, had been Cuthbert’s care- women’s 400 meters, 36 years af-
kyo Games in the inaugural wom- came back again and again. Fi- giver when she moved into a facili- ter Cuthbert had captured that
en’s 400 meters, and she then re- nally, I said, ‘O.K., you win. I’ll run ty for the aging. She had a twin sis-
event in Tokyo.
tired for good. again.’ As soon as I said that, this ter, Marie, and a brother, John.
Athletics Australia said that wonderful feeling came right There was no immediate informa- In the weeks that followed the
Cuthbert was the only Olympian, through my body, and I was men- tion about survivors. Sydney Games, Cuthbert reveled
male or female, to have won gold tally keen to want to do something When the Olympics returned to in the adulation she had received
in the 100, 200 and 400 meters. again.” Australia with the Sydney Games there.
Five years after her retirement, She believed it was the voice of in 2000, Cuthbert was in the public “To hear the roar of the crowd
ASSOCIATED PRESS
she was found to have multiple God urging her on. Physically re- eye once more. She carried the when I came out, I still get goose
sclerosis, a debilitating disease in newed and buoyed by her Chris- Betty Cuthbert, top, bearing the Olympic torch at the Sydney torch around the track in the open- bumps when I think about it now,”
which the body’s immune system tian faith, she returned for her fi- Games in 2000 with Raelene Boyle, another former sprinter. ing ceremony, her wheelchair she told The Herald Sun. “The re-
eats away at the protective nal gold medal in the 400 at the Cuthbert winning the 100 meters in Melbourne in 1956, above. pushed by her countrywoman ception was so loud and so loving.”

Ernst Zündel, 78, Promulgator of Holocaust Denial

By SEWELL CHAN them Dennis Urstein and Rudolf to Germany in 2005. A state court gress, now part of the Center for
Ernst Zündel, who from a ram- Vrba, gave grueling testimonials in Mannheim, after yet another tu- Israel and Jewish Affairs, said
shackle Victorian house in central about what they had endured. multuous trial, convicted him in that “for decades, he was the gaso-
Toronto churned out books, post- At times it seemed — as one 2007 on 14 counts of inciting ha- line that fed Holocaust denial” in
ers, audiotapes and memorabilia 1985 headline in The Miami Her- tred and one count of violating the Canada.
denying the Holocaust and ald put it — as if the Holocaust it- memory of the dead. (A member Mr. Farber, now the executive
spreading neo-Nazi messages self were on trial. of his defense team, Sylvia Stolz, director of the Mosaic Institute in
worldwide, died on Saturday at The first conviction was tossed was jailed and disbarred for sign- Toronto, added, “He was Canada’s
his home in Bad Wildbad, Ger- out on a technicality, and the sec- ing “Heil Hitler” on a legal docu- most famous hatemonger, and he
many. He was 78. ond was overturned in 1992, when ment.) reveled in it.”
The death was confirmed by the Supreme Court of Canada Mr. Zündel was sentenced to Mr. Zündel was on some levels
Marina Lahmann, an official in found that the law was an unrea- five years in prison but released in “a run-of-the-mill neo-Nazi and
the town. No cause was provided. sonable limit on freedom of ex- 2010, partly in consideration of his Holocaust denier,” said Deborah
Mr. Zündel was convicted twice, time spent in pretrial detention. E. Lipstadt, a professor of modern
pression.
in 1985 and 1988, under a rarely in- Recently, Mr. Zündel petitioned Jewish history and Holocaust THOMAS LOHNES/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES

voked law criminalizing the know- the American authorities to allow studies at Emory University in At-
Ernst Zündel, standing, at a trial in Germany in 2005. He was
ing publication of false news that him to travel to Tennessee to care lanta. But, she said, he had stood
for his wife, who is 81. The admin- out for his determination to use ultimately convicted in 2007 and was in prison until 2010.
caused, or was likely to cause,
harm to the public interest, which
Two convictions in istrative appeals office of the De- mass media to spread his views.
the authorities interpreted to in- Canada, but both partment of Homeland Security
denied his request on March 31.
“Prior to the digital age, he was
responsible for spreading these
Taking the witness stand at Mr.
Zündel’s second trial, David Irv-
now part of Bad Wildbad. He
moved to Canada in 1958 to study
clude Canada’s commitment to
tolerance. were overturned. “The record shows that the Ap- materials across Europe and the ing, perhaps the world’s best- advertising and graphic arts.
But both convictions were over- plicant is a historical revisionist Americas,” she said. “They be- known Holocaust denier, vouched In a 1983 interview with The
turned, and critics said the pros- and denier of the Holocaust, dis- came important resources for an for the Leuchter report. He later Globe and Mail, the Toronto news-
ecutions, however well inten- tributing writings, books, tapes, array of neo-Nazi, white-suprem- wrote the introduction when it paper, Mr. Zündel said that he had
tioned, did more harm than good Mr. Zündel, who moved to Cana- videos and broadcasts to promote acist and Holocaust-denying was published as a book. (In Brit- grown up in an apolitical family
by giving Mr. Zündel and other da from Germany as a teenager, his views,” the office found. “The groups.” ain, Mr. Irving unsuccessfully and knew scarcely any Jews.
Holocaust deniers, including was twice denied Canadian citi- record indicates further that these During Mr. Zündel’s trials, his sued Professor Lipstadt for libel, a He said of the origins of his be-
Robert Faurisson of France and zenship. In 2000 he moved to the publications agitated for ag- defense team commissioned a re- case dramatized in the 2016 film liefs, “The absolute God’s honest
Ditlieb Felderer of Sweden, a plat- United States, where he ran a gressive behavior against Jews. port from a self-proclaimed expert “Denial.”) truth is that it was a reaction to the
form and a chance to bring truth website and lived with his third Furthermore, the Applicant has on executions, Fred A. Leuchter Professor Lipstadt was among incessant anti-German propagan-
itself into disrepute. wife, Ingrid Rimland. been a leader in these activities Jr., who denied the existence of those who expressed worry that da stereotyping the Germans.”
Mr. Zündel showed up at court In 2003, American authorities for decades and has shown no re- the gas chambers. In fact, he had the attention Mr. Zündel received He added: “Look, I am not a
wearing a hard hat and a bullet- arrested Mr. Zündel for overstay- gret or remorse for his actions.” no such expertise and was later over the years was what he neo-Nazi. If I wanted to be a Nazi,
proof vest, claiming to be the vic- ing his visa. He was sent back to On Monday, the Center for Is- charged with fraud. wanted. “On a strategic level, I would be a real one.”
tim of a conspiracy to silence him. Canada, but the authorities there rael and Jewish Affairs, Canada’s “The report, which became and sometimes I wondered if the vari- Mr. Zündel, twice divorced, had
Renowned historians, including did not want him. They detained leading Jewish advocacy organi- remains a cornerstone of the ous trials did not create a mod- two sons, but details about sur-
Raul Hilberg and Christopher him as a threat to national securi- zation, said in a statement: “Ernst Holocaust-denial movement, icum of sympathy for a man who vivors were not immediately
Browning, were subjected to with- ty, given his ties to neo-Nazi Zündel’s death brings to a close an claimed that gas chambers were a deserved not sympathy but utter available. Reached by phone on
ering cross-examination. Several groups, a decision that drew criti- especially pernicious saga that scientific impossibility,” Professor contempt,” she said. Monday, his wife, Ms. Rimland, re-
Auschwitz survivors, among cism from some civil liberties ad- plagued Canadians for decades.” Lipstadt said. “Based on shoddy Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel plied, “Whoever calls will get the
vocates. In a phone interview, Bernie M. methodology, it was riddled with was born on April 24, 1939, four same answer from me: I will give
Ian Austen and Victor Homola con- After another lengthy legal Farber, who was the chief execu- basic scientific errors, miscalcula- months before Nazi Germany’s in- no comment because the main-
tributed reporting. process, Mr. Zündel was deported tive of the Canadian Jewish Con- tions and false claims.” vasion of Poland, in Calmbach, stream media is too biased.”

Jack Rabinovitch, 87, Founder of Most Prominent Award for Literature in Canada
By IAN AUSTEN from the commercial real estate the prize. tennis partners. company formed initially to build 2005 as the Scotiabank Giller
Jack Rabinovitch, founder of industry. “Mordecai suggested that we Mr. Rabinovitch was born on Place Ville Marie, a downtown Prize, gives the winner 100,000
the pre-eminent prize in Canada But his life remained connected include David Staines, an eminent June 24, 1930, to Isaac Rabinovitch Montreal office complex, Mr. Ra- Canadian dollars (about $79,000
for English-language literature, to the country’s literary scene, English professor and scholar,” and the former Fanny Shulman in binovitch became an executive in the United States). The awards
died on Sunday in Toronto. He was and he became most widely Mr. Rabinovitch said. “And over Montreal. They lived in a hard- vice president. ceremony is televised by the Ca-
known for setting up the Giller chopped liver at Moishes on the scrabble, largely Jewish section of His marriage to Zipporah Dun- nadian Broadcasting Corporation.
87.
Prize in 1994 as a memorial to his Main, the Giller Prize took form. the city (Mr. Richler drew on ex- sky, whom he met shortly after In the 2014 interview, Mr. Rabi-
His daughter Noni Rabinovitch
second wife, Doris Giller, a promi- David then suggested we include periences there for his 1971 novel graduating from high school, novitch attributed the prize’s
said Mr. Rabinovitch had been nent literary journalist in Toronto Alice Munro in the founding “St. Urbain’s Horseman”), and prominence to its independence
hospitalized since Thursday after ended in divorce in 1971. She was
and Montreal. She had died of can- group, and after Alice agreed, we Isaac Rabinovitch ran a diner and from government and other large
falling down stairs in his house. the executive director of the Jew-
cer the year before. went public.” Ms. Munro was a newsstand before opening a toy organizations.
He never regained consciousness, In a 2014 interview with The awarded the Nobel Prize in Litera- store. ish Public Library in Montreal. “We’re in the very fortunate po-
she said. McGill Reporter, a publication of ture in 2013. After studying at McGill and In addition to his daughter sition of not having to be poli-
Aside from an early fling with McGill University in Montreal, “He wanted a prize that would briefly working as a reporter, Mr. Noni, Mr. Rabinovitch is survived tically correct, or beholden to any
journalism followed by a spell as a Mr. Rabinovitch recalled a meet- create a sense of competition,” Rabinovitch became a speech- by two other daughters, Daphna institution or individual about
speechwriter for a grocery store ing at Woody’s, a Montreal pub, at said Bob Rae, the former premier writer for Sam Steinberg, the and Elana, all from his first mar- how we run this show,” he said.
magnate in Montreal, Mr. Rabi- which he enlisted Mordecai Rich- of Ontario, former leader of the head of a grocery store empire riage; a sister, Shirley Edith Cole- The jury’s only instruction, he
novitch did not make his living ler, the novelist and his friend federal Liberal Party and another that was broken up after his death man, and his partner, Judy Clarke. said, is to “choose the best book of
with words. His fortune came since high school, to help set up of Mr. Rabinovitch’s friends and in 1978. At Trizec, a real estate The book award, known since Canadian fiction of the year.”
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Deaths Deaths Deaths

Berdon, Walter Futter, Joan Sernovitz, Elaine SWEENEY—Cassandra
BERDON—Dr. Walter Evan, White, known as Candy, died
on August 6, 2017 after a long Butler, Thomas Kelman, Abraham Stalter, David
peacefully in her home in
illness. Walter was a brilliant, Caracci, Giovanni Leeds, Byron Sternberg, Norma Pound Ridge, NY on August 5,
warm and gregarious man, a 2017 after a long illness. She is
devoted husband and father, Clay, Landon Malone, Warren Sweeney, Cassandra
survived by her husband,
a superb physician, a world Donaldson, Andrew McEnroe, Katherine Wilson, Katharine Thomas J. Sweeney III; her
traveler and an avid sailor. daughter, Keelin M. W. Swee-
Former professor of medi- Dubin, Gladys Riemer, Herman Winans, Thomas
ney; her sister, Starr White
cine and chief of the Division Elias, Renate Sanesi, Lorenzo Snead; her brother, William
of Pediatric Radiology at King White; her brothers-in-
Morgan Stanley Children's Friedman, James Schwartzman, T.
law, Philip T. Snead and
Hospital (Babies Hospital) of Robert J. Dwyer; her sisters-
NewYork-Presbyterian, reci- in-law, Deidre A. Sweeney,
pient of the Gold Medal of the DUBIN—Gladys. McENROE—Katherine.
April 11, 1918—August 6, 2017. The staff and trustees of Kathleen P. O'Donnell, and
Society of Pediatric Radiolo- Eileen F. Gould; her nephews
gy, past president of the So- Gladys Dubin died peacefully, Northwell Health mourn the
with family at her side, after a loss of Trustee Katherine Angus W. Dwyer, Duncan W.
ciety of Pediatric Radiology Dwyer, and Charles (Charlie)
and the New York Roentgen strong 99 years. A regal wo- McEnroe. A dedicated bene-
man, she resided in Rye factor since 1980, Lenox Hill B. White II; and her nieces,
Ray Society and prolific au- Eleanor (Nellie) G. Dwyer
thor and editor. He was pre- Brook, NY and was a long Hospital Nursing School Gra-
time member of Old Oaks duate 1955, Lenox Hill Hospi- and Molly K. White. Her sis-
deceased by Rosemary, his ter, Marice (Muffy) White
beloved wife of 52 years. He Country Club. A force to reck- tal former nurse, and mem-
on with, she was an avid gol- ber since 1992 and past Chair Dwyer predeceased her. She
is survived by his children was a graduate of Pine Point
Victoria, Cynthia Berdon fer and card player well into of the Auxiliary, Kay and her
her 90s. Incredibly generous late husband John supported School '73, Westover School
Stern (Steven) and Andrew '76, Wheaton College '80 (Nor-
(Randi), his grandchildren and kind, she was a strong various programs. Thanks to
supporter of the Tourette Kay's leadership, philanthro- ton, MA), and Manhattanville
Matthew, Allie, Dori and College MAT'04. From
Aaron, and his devoted Syndrome Association. She is pic support and dedication,
survived by her children Lar- Northwell Health's Lenox Hill 2004-2016, she was an elemen-
companion Lolly Raphael. tary school teacher at Con-
Services will be held Tues- ry (Lynn), Harvey and Ilene Hospital has become a re-
(Thomas), seven grandchild- gional and national leader in vent of the Sacred Heart in
day, August 8 at 1:30pm Greenwich, CT. Services will
at Westchester Reform ren, ten great grandchildren health care. We extend our
and sisters, Josephine Kell- heartfelt condolences to her be held on Thursday, August
Temple, Scarsdale, NY. 10, 2017 at the Watch Hill Cha-
man and Jane Fulton Stanley, children John Jr. and Patty,
all of whom were the light of Mark and Diane, and Patrick pel, Watch Hill, RI at 12:30pm.
her life. Predeceased by hus- and Melissa; and grandchild- In lieu of flowers, contribu-
BERDON—Walter. tions may be made to West-
The congregation of West- bands, Herbert Goodman and ren Ruby, Kevin, Sean, Emily,
Herman Dubin and parents, Anna, Ava, Liam, Maria, Cia- over School (Middlebury, CT)
chester Reform Temple or Pine Point School (Stoning-
mourns the death of a devot- Anna Breakstone and Sa- ran, Victoria, Diana, and Ju-
muel Claster. May her me- liette. Donation in her memo- ton, CT). Services have been
ed member from its founding entrusted to Buckler -
generation and extends sym- mory be for a blessing. ry may be made to Northwell
Health Foundation; all gifts Johnston Funeral Home, 121
pathy to his bereaved family. Main St., Westerly, RI. For on-
Marcy R. Harris, President DUBIN—Gladys. will be designated to The
The Officers and Members of Katherine Tresham McEnroe line condolences, please
Jonathan E. Blake, Rabbi visit
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Martin Roth in 2012 with photographs from an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in and fellow member, Gladys Mark L. Claster, Chairman,
Dubin. Our heartfelt sym- Board of Trustees, WILSON—Katharine Gordon.
London called “Light from the Middle East.” He was the first non-Briton to lead the museum. BUTLER—Thomas, M.D. pathy is extended to her Northwell Health The Board of Trustees and
Of Larchmont and Thousand entire family. Michael J. Dowling, President the entire Hospital for Special
Island Park, NY. Born Fe- Richard Fleder, President and CEO, Northwell Health Surgery community extend
bruary 4, 1943, died July 9, our deepest sympathy at the

Martin Roth, German Who Curated

Paul B. Guenther, Chairman,
2017. Tom was the much Western Regional passing of Katharine Gordon
ELIAS—Renate, died August
loved husband of Judith Lusic Executive Council Wilson, mother of Kendrick
7, 2017 in New York, age 85.
Butler, father of Clayton and R. Wilson, III, Chair, HSS
Born in Frankfurt, Germany,
Elizabeth Butler, brother of Board of Trustees. Mrs. Wil-
she emigrated to the United
Susan Butler, and companion RIEMER—Herman, 90, of So- son was an avid athlete with

Esteemed British Museum, Dies at 62

States as a child in 1936. She is
of Daisy. He was a wonderful mers, NY died August 6, 2017. a passion for healthy living,
survived by her children Mi-
friend, caring physician, pas- Survived by wife Joan, sons; and was a guiding force in her
chael, Monica, and Jennifer
sionate reader and person of Paul, Richard and Scott and large family. We offer our
and grandchildren Fiona, Sa-
great integrity. Tom brought five grandchildren. Cargain heartfelt condolences to her
mara, Anna, Erik, Jason,
happiness and grace to our Funeral Home, (845)628-5655. entire family.
Theo, and Maya. Prede-
lives and we will always be Louis A. Shapiro,
ceased by her husband Staf-
By ALISON SMALE checkup on his return to Germany mounted in Beijing, from 2011 to grateful.
ford. Funeral service Wed- SANESI—Dr. Lorenzo
President and CEO;
Todd J. Albert,
BERLIN — Martin Roth, the from London. He had undergone 2012, combining works from the nesday, August 9 at 11:30am Antonio, age 85, passed away Surgeon-in-Chief and
at Riverside Memorial Cha- July 26, 2017. He is survived
first non-Briton to lead the vener- radiation therapy, he said, but was Dresden collections, the exten- CARACCI—Giovanni MD, pel, 180 West 76th Street, New by his loving wife Rosemarie
Medical Director,
MBA on August 6, 2017. Be- Hospital for Special Surgery
able Victoria and Albert Museum determined to keep working. sive Prussian cultural foundation loved father of Francesca
York, NY. of 54 years and children
Joanne, and Andrew and
in London, and a pathbreaking cu- A statement from the German in Berlin and the Bavarian state and Victor. Loving husband FRIEDMAN—James Lionel, pre-deceased by Stephanie WINANS—Thomas.
of Teresella; dear son-in-law of New York City, died peace-
rator in Britain, his native Ger- foreign minister, Sigmar Gabriel, galleries in Munich. of Caterina. Esteemed fully on July 29 at age 97. A
Sanesi-Angel.

many and around the world, died said Mr. Roth is survived by his Mr. Roth’s background in Dres- Professor of Psychiatry and
practicing physician. Repos-
kind and loving man, son of
SCHWARTZMAN—Theresa
Rabbi Benjamin and Mary
on Sunday in Berlin. He was 62. wife and three adult children. In den, the city bombed by the Allies ing at Chas. Peter Nagel Friedman, devoted husband Greenhauff. Died peacefully
Funeral Directors, 352 East in her home in Larchmont on
The German federal govern- keeping with German privacy in early 1945 and since then lov- 87th St., NYC, Wednesday 5-
of Irma Lesser Friedman,
August 2, one month after her
father of Jonathan (Brenda)
ment announced his death. He laws, the statement did not iden- ingly reconstructed, made him an 9pm. Funeral Mass St. Joseph and Anne, grandfather of Na- 99th birthday. Survived by
of Yorkville CH Thursday sons Paul and Andrew and
told reporters in June that he had tify them by name. Mr. Gabriel outspoken critic of the far-right 1pm. Interment Woodlawn
talie, Julia and Benjamin. A
friend to all the world. daughter-in-law Linda Laza-
cancer. called Mr. Roth “a cultural vision- Pegida movement, an anti-immi- Cemetery. rus and caretaker Peace
FUTTER—Joan, Tackie. Beloved wife of late
After Britain voted in June 2016 ary and a true fighter for toler- grant, anti-Muslim organization 95, died peacefully on August Joel and daughter Jori.
to leave the European Union, Mr. ance and openness to the world.” that started its weekly (now CLAY—Landon T., 5, 2017. Beloved wife of Victor Memorial to be held at a later
time. No flowers please,
91, died peacefully on Satur- for 62 years until his passing
Roth announced an exit of his Monika Grütters, the German monthly) protests in that city in day, July 29, 2017 at home in in 2005, loving mother of but the family encourages
contributions be made to
own, stepping down a year early government’s most senior figure late 2014. The marches were a Peterborough, NH. He is sur-
vived by his wife, Lavinia D.
Jeffrey, Ellen, and Deborah,
www.athomeonthesound.org
mother-in-law of William
from his position as director just for culture, said in a statement foretaste of the antimigrant, na- Clay, his sons Thomas M. Cohan and Susan Sommer, On Thursday, August 3, 2017,
Clay, Richard T. Clay, Landon our beloved husband, father
months after the Victoria and Al- that the German and interna- tionalist sentiment that swelled in H. Clay, and Cassius M. C.
and cherished grandmother
of Anne, Elizabeth, Theodore,
SERNOVITZ-ZIMBEL—
and grandfather, Thomas
Elaine. Born: December 30,
bert had been named Britain’s tional museum worlds had lost Germany and Europe in 2015 and Clay, his grandson James H. Quentin, Jillian, Allison, and 1929 in Milwaukee, Died: Au- Jennings Winans, passed
Clay, one nephew, and two Claire. She was widely known away unexpectedly, sur-
museum of the year. “one of their most striking and 2016 and that was also reflected in grandnephews. Born in New and loved throughout the
gust 3, 2017 in Montreal. Wri-
rounded by family and
ter, Therapist, Activist, Moth-
His departure, he told The New most controversial personalities.” the “Brexit” vote. York City, Mr. Clay grew up in
Augusta, GA, where his fami-
Port Washington, NY, com- er, Partner. Survived by her friends. Keeping with his fa-
munity, where she served for mily's tradition of military
York Times then, was determined Mr. Roth was born in Stuttgart Mr. Roth made his mark at the ly was associated with the decades as the librarian at
husband of 62 years George,
four children and nine grand- service (as he was a direct
J.P. King Manufacturing
by the “Brexit” vote and an ensu- on Jan. 16, 1955, and grew up in Victoria and Albert with record- Company textile mill. After
Weber Junior High School
and in community groups
children. Elaine will be deeply descendant of Ulysses S.
Grant), he served as a Cap-
missed. To read her final blog
ing increase in hostility toward southwest Germany. He studied breaking exhibitions focused on attending Middlesex School and activities. Above all, she post: www.elainezimbel.com tain in the United States Ar-
in Concord, MA, Mr. Clay was an adored and devoted my. Later, he worked as a
foreigners in the United Kingdom. David Bowie in 2013, Alexander served in the US Army Air wife, mother, and grand- lawyer at Mobil Oil Corpora-
Mr. Roth, a savvy, polished and McQueen in 2015 and The Beatles Force during the Second mother. She will be forever STALTER—David Edward IV, tion for close to 30 years. He
World War, where he re- treasured and remembered. of New York and formerly of graduated from both Prince-
passionate figure in the global and the youth revolution of the paired central fire control The funeral is private. In lieu Seattle, WA. Beloved son of ton University (1955) and
arts and museum world, acknowl-
edged that his departure would
An art figure left 1960s in 2016.
While critical of Britain, he said
systems on the B-29 Superfor-
tress. Mr. Clay graduated
with a degree in English, cum
of flowers, donations may be
made to the League of Wo-
men Voters.
Mary Graves Stalter and of
David Edward Stalter III, and
of his sister, Mary Stalter
Yale Law School (1959). Tho-
mas was an avid reader and
a die-hard Yankees fan. Of-
have no effect on Britain’s go-it- London last year before leaving the museum in 2016 laude, from Harvard College
in 1950. Mr. Clay spent his in-
The Family of Joan Futter Radsch. David was a gentle-
man in every sense of the
ten, he could be found outside
with binoculars spotting birds,
alone decision. But, he added, “If that he still viewed London as a vestment career at the Bank KELMAN—Rabbi Abraham. word. His friends commented especially woodpeckers and

there is something I can do in my because of Brexit. center of tolerance; he exulted in

of New York, Massachusetts
Investors Trust, and Vance
We regret to announce the
passing of Rabbi Abraham
on his sweetness and kind-
ness. His wonderful smile,
hummingbirds. He enjoyed
traveling throughout the
current situation, then it is some- having 28 nationalities repre- Sanders. At Vance Sanders,
Mr. Clay was instrumental in
Kelman, founder and dean of laugh, and sense of humor country and the world, parti-
Prospect Park Yeshiva and will be greatly missed. He cularly to Turkey and En-
thing like creating awareness, sented on the museum’s staff. the introduction of exchange Rabbi of Prospect Park Jew- was brave, strong, and un- gland. Thomas is survived by
funds and in arranging a mer-
asking questions, opening eyes.” “Can you imagine a British direc- ger with Eaton & Howard to
ish Center for 67 years. complaining through long his wife, Jane Stubenbord
Winans, his son, Thomas, his
hospital and nursing home
He returned to Berlin last sum- cultural sciences at the University tor of the Louvre?” he asked an in- form Eaton Vance Corpora- LEEDS—Byron. stays. He passed away when daughter, Susan, his daugh-
mer and plunged into a number of of Tübingen, where he earned his terviewer from The Daily Tele- tion, where he served as
Chairman and CEO. After re-
Born September 6, 1932 in his gallant heart stopped. In ter-in-law, Stefanie, and his
Bayonne, NJ. Grew up in Seattle he attended Shoreline beloved grandchildren, Bran-
projects opposing the drift toward master’s degree and a doctorate graph. “It would never happen.” tiring from Eaton Vance in Paterson, NJ and known as Community College. He was don, Joseph, Tyler, Abby and
1996, Mr. Clay established
nationalism and right-wing specializing in the history of mu- As an adolescent, he recalled, East Hill Management, a pri-
Bunky. Lived in Naples, FL a member of the Washington Ethan. Services will be held
on Saturday, August 12, at
and Chester, NJ. Passed State Sons of the Revolution
thought across Europe. When he seums and cultural institutions in he had long, blond hair and was of- vate investment company. away on August 5, 2017 from and the Seattle Tennis Club. A 11:00am at Immanuel Pres-
Mr. Clay was an active inves- private family service will be byterian Church, 1125 Savile
died, he had just assumed the hon- the Third Reich. ten mistaken on travels across Eu- tor in early stage companies
complications related to can-
cer. NYU Alumni, served in held in Graham, North Caroli- Lane, McLean, Virginia. In
orary presidency of Germany’s He went to Paris for further rope for a Swede. When asked in the natural resource and
technology sectors, including
the US Army 1955 to 1957. Vi- na. Memorial Donations may lieu of flowers, memorial do-
sionary, founder, early pion- be made to the Glaucoma nations may be made to The
Institute for Foreign Relations, a studies before joining the German then if he was ashamed of being ADE Corporation, where he eer and market leader estab- Research Foundation, 251 Lab School of Washington,
served as Chairman. Mr. Clay 4759 Reservoir Road, N.W.,
German institution, whose mis- Historical Museum in 1989. From German in the wake of his coun- served on numerous corpor-
lishing the first phototypeset- Post Street, Suite 600, San
Francisco, CA 94108-5017. Washington, D.C., 20007.
ting company in the US in
sion is to forge cultural bonds there, he became one of the first try’s recent Nazi past, he said, “I ate and nonprofit boards and 1963; transformed the pub-
took greatest pleasure in sup-
around the world. West German curators to move to always said, ‘Yes.’ ” porting the high-risk efforts
lishing production industry by
progressing into satellite STERNBERG—Norma In Memoriam
Mr. Roth, who had a second the former Communist East after As he told The Times last year, of smart individuals pushing
the boundaries of their fields.
transmission prior to being Wollner,
purchased by US News &
home in Vancouver, British Co- reunification, joining the German as a German born in Germany in He was an active philanthro- World Report in 1982. Served
DAFTARY—Praful
pist in disciplines including 1/19/21-8/8/16. Miss you very
lumbia, told the Sächsische Hygiene Museum in Dresden as the 1950s, “you can’t even imagine pure mathematics, biology,
as a Delegate to the 1980 Re- much Dad. You lived life
publican Convention. Ap-
Zeitung newspaper in Dresden on director in 1991. to have a German identity.” art of the Ancient Americas, pointed by President Reagan
beautifully and will forever
be in our hearts.
astrophysics, archaeology, and confirmed by the US Sen-
June 1 that he was hoping to take Among a series of important Above all, he said, his academic sea turtle conservation, and ate of the 97th Congress to Janu and Manu
on a guest professorship in Van- posts, he was president of the Ger- work on Nazis and the culture of mental health. Mr. Clay was
happy to be best known as
the National Commission on
Library and Information
couver in September to pursue man Museums Association from the Third Reich taught him that the founder of the Clay Math- Sciences for a six year term. LEVY—Arthur.
ematics Institute. Memorial Feb. 27, 1930 - Aug. 8, 2007
what he called “my current 1995 to 2003 and helped design the you could not stand by in times of services will be limited to the
Served on the Government
I have loved and missed you
Printing Office Advisory
theme: intellectuality and resist- Expo 2000, a world’s fair in Hano- difficulty and simply observe, as immediate family, who dis- Council. Appointed by Secre- each of these 10 years.
courage flowers or donations Barbara
ance.” ver. He also served, from 2001 to he said many intellectuals did. but welcome personal remi-
tary of Commerce to the In-
dustry Sector Advisory Com-
It was in that interview that Mr. 2011, as director-general of the “Looking at that time,” he said niscences sent to East Hill
Management, 70 Main Street,
mittee for Trade. Lived
abroad in Vienna, Austria and
Roth revealed publicly the cause Dresden State Art Collections, to The Daily Telegraph last year, Suite 300, Peterborough, NH served as Chairman of Re-
03458.
of a marked weight loss: cancer. which includes 12 museums. “you see how art and culture can publicans Abroad in Austria adored wife, mother, grand-
mother, sister, physician, died
during the 1984 election. Civic
Without specifying the exact na- Mr. Roth’s multiple interna- be controlled for political pur- and Volunteer work includes in her home Sunday, July
DONALDSON—Andrew The Conservancy, Habitat for 30th, surrounded by her fami-
ture of his disease, he said it had tional activities included a major poses, which can happen very Weber, Humanity and Jaycees. ly. She was born in 1929 and
been discovered during a routine exhibit on the Enlightenment easily, without you realizing it.” Member of Audubon Country raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil,
Club, Naples, FL and Harmo- daughter of a poor but fabu-
nie Club in New York City. lous seamstress, and Norma
Avid collector of rare, unique made her way, against great
and interesting PEZ dis- odds, to medical school. She
pensers as well as American moved to New York City
Folk Art including mechani- when she was 26 to do her
cal banks, bird decoys and residency at Memorial Sloan
carvings. Private family ser- Kettering Cancer Center,
vice on Tuesday, August 8th. where she met and married
In lieu of flowers, donations fellow oncologist Stephen
may be made to Memorial Sternberg, and where she
Sloan Kettering Cancer Cen- served as a pediatric oncolo-
ter. Byron is survived by his gist for the next 40 years. Nor-
beloved wife Dorothy of 32 ma had a distinguished and
years who steadfastly stood incomparable career at the
by his side in health and ill- hospital, developing treat-
ness, loving children Michael ments which substantially in-
Jersey City, NJ, architect, ar- (married to Amy) and War- creased the cure rate for non-
tist, athlete, loving and be- ren (married to Wendy), hodgkins lymphoma, starting
loved family man and friend, adoring grandchildren Jason, the Brazilian children's Fund
died July 27, 2017. He was 49. Courtney, Zoe, Chelsea, Cali on behalf of hospital patients
Andrew practiced architec- and extended family who will from her home country, and
ture in Manhattan for more always remember their starting the Cancer Center's
than 20 years at such leading Grandpa and his Magic Book, pediatric day hospital, a nov-
global firms as Robert A.M. Pony Girl rides and ice cream el and game-changing con-
Stern, HOK, and Skidmore, cones in Florida. His brother cept in cancer care. Norma
Owings & Merrill, where he Arnold predeceased him. was the kind of dedicated
contributed to the design of physician that everyone
the Freedom Tower, now MALONE—Warren J., hopes for, who never hesitat-
called One World Trade Cen- 62, tragically died August 2, ed to take phone calls in the
ter. He most recently worked 2017. Service at All Souls middle of the night from sick
at HLW International. An- Church, August 10, 2017, patients and worried parents.
drew was an accomplished 10:30am. In lieu of flowers We will all miss her commit-
painter who studied art in gifts may be made to the ment, compassion, intel-
France and Italy. His urban JED Foundation ligence and endless depth of
scenes, rural landscapes, por- (www.jedfoundation.org). knowledge. Norma and her
traits, and still lifes conveyed husband Stephen together
an interest in color, line, form, McENROE—Katherine Tres- devoted over 90 years of ser-
and volume that informed his ham, 81, passed away on vice to Memorial Sloan Ket-
work as an architect. He was Wednesday, August 2, 2017. tering Cancer Center, holding
a gregarious man with an She was the mother of John, hands and walking to work
easy wit whose infectious Mark and Patrick McEnroe. every morning, until they re-
smile seemed as big as his Kay Tresham was the class tired in 1999. Norma was an
six-foot, two-inch frame. He valedictorian of Greenport avid gardener and cook, and
embraced his passions for High School, and graduated for many years she and Step-
music, food, cycling, golfing, from the Lenox Hill Hospital hen spent weekends at their
and skiing with the unbridled School of Nursing in 1955. beautiful Croton on Hudson
enthusiasm of a big-hearted While working at Lenox Hill, country home, cooking, plant-
kid. His love of life was most she met John P. McEnroe, ing, pruning, weeding, and
fully expressed as a husband, who would become her hus- playing with their dogs, with
father, and uncle. At play- band of almost 60 years. Kay martinis in hand. No one
grounds, birthday parties, and was a volunteer with the Le- could throw a party like Nor-
holiday celebrations, long af- gal Aid Society of New York, ma, and she did so with her
ter other parents had col- a Chair of the Lenox Hill Hos- South American flair, creati-
lapsed into chairs, he would pital Auxiliary, and a member vity and contagious passion
be laughing loudly, swinging of the Board of Trustees of twice a year for most of her
his young daughters in circles Lenox Hill Hospital. Kay adult life. Norma was beloved
and lifting nephews and joined the Cosmopolitan Club and treasured by so many.
nieces into the air. Andrew in 1998 and in 2015, became its She was fully Norma until the
was born and raised in New President, a position she held end, keen of mind, quick to
Orleans. He completed his upon her death. Katherine laugh, with a fierce and loving
undergraduate studies at Tresham McEnroe is sur- spirit, priding herself on “tell-
Connecticut College, where vived by her son John, his ing it like it is.” Norma is sore-
he was a member of track wife, Patty Smyth McEnroe, ly missed by her loving and
and cross-country teams. He and their children, Ruby, Ke- devoted husband of 59 years,
received a master's degree in vin, Sean, Emily, Anna and Stephen; by her grandson,
architecture from Tulane Ava; son Mark, his wife, Murray, whom she cherished;
University. He is survived by Diane Crosson McEnroe, and by her loving daughters, Sue
his wife of nine years Ma- their children, Liam, Maria and Alessandra (James);
rybeth Bufka Donaldson; and Ciaran; and son Patrick, brother, Alexandre Wollner
daughters Audrey and Claire his wife, Melissa Errico, and (Lais); and by her ever-
Donaldson; parents Weber their children, Victoria, Diana faithful “right hand,” Catari-
and Elizabeth Donaldson; sis- and Juliette. Her husband na.
ter Amy Donaldson and her passed away in February
husband Michael Selz; sister- 2017. In lieu of flowers, dona-
in-law Kristin Ruiz and her tions may be made to The
husband Carlos; brother-in- Katherine Tresham McEnroe
law Dale Bufka Jr. and his Surgical Nurse Scholarship
wife Mellisa; father-in-law Fund, c/o Lenox Hill Hospital,
Dale Bufka Sr.; and his nieces Foundation Office, 100 East
and nephews, Benjamin, 77th Street, New York, New
Christopher, Milla, Stella, York 10075; Attention: Andrea
Maddox, Caitlin and Caleb. Dowd.
B16 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017
6 MUSIC 6 BOOKS

Christian McBride steers the Wendy Walker’s

Newport Jazz Festival.
2 THEATER
‘Emma in the Night’
‘Frozen’ posters that didn’t brings twist after
make the Broadway cut. twist. BY JANET MASLIN

NEWS CRITICISM TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017 C1

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BEN BRANTLEY

Deep Debt for Harvard Degree

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

A Measure
Of Progress
And Limits
For Women
A century of plays shows
how much — and how
little — has changed.
LONDON — Consider, if you will, the
very different love lives of Georgie
and Dee. Georgie, who is 29, sees her
future shriveling into one long, gray
vista of celibate loneliness and de-
pendence on rich relations — that is, if
she doesn’t land a husband fast, pref-
erably this very day.
Dee, on the other hand, would ap-
pear to be spoiled for choice. At 33, she
is four years older than Georgie, yet
she regards singlehood as a state of
endless potential. Dee goes through
men (and the occasional woman) as if
they were appetizers on a tasting
menu, part of a banquet for which the
bill surely needn’t be paid any time
soon.
More than a century separates the
creation of these women, who can be
found on the stages of tiny, gemlike
theaters in different parts of London.
The waspish, wistful Georgie (nicely
played by Philippa Quinn) is the cen-
tral character of Cicely Hamilton’s
“Just to Get Married,” first staged in
1911 and now at the Finborough The-
ater, in its first London production in
nearly 100 years.
Dee (the wonderful Amy Morgan)
has set up chaotic camp at the Soho
Theater, in “Touch,” a terrific new
comedy written and directed by Vicky
Jones. A purposeful hedonist, Dee
uses language that would make
BRIAN GUIDO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Georgie blush crimson. And never
mind what she gets up to with her
dates in her cluttered bedsit.
Students and alumni of the American By SOPHIE HAIGNEY
Most young actors don’t face graduate
school debt like this — yet it is common for But beneath Georgie’s demure Ed-
wardian dresses and Dee’s racy little
Repertory Theater Institute graduate CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Twelve years after fin-
ishing Harvard’s graduate theater pro-
those who attend the A.R.T. Institute. De-
spite being at the world’s wealthiest univer- black numbers beat hearts that are
program are frustrated by turmoil. gram, Katierose Donohue still pays almost
as much in student loans each month —
sity, institute students receive modest fi-
nancial aid and leave with a median of
not dissimilar. Georgie and Dee are
both figures of considerable courage
about $650 — as for her share of the rent in $78,000 in debt in exchange for a master of and equal confusion. Each, in her own
Los Angeles. She recently stopped hosting liberal arts degree from the Harvard Exten- way, is trying to determine how to be
her monthly sketch comedy show, “Ma’am,” sion School. In contrast, the loan debt aver- her own woman in a world shaped by
because she didn’t always break even on age for master of fine arts students at Yale men. So much has changed for women
her $200 budget. She’s now working side School of Drama tends to be around $14,000, between the eras of these two plays
jobs as a dog walker and a social media a financial-aid officer said. At Juilliard, the that it is all the scarier to realize how
copywriter, after past gigs serving at Star- average student loan debt for the four-year little has changed as well.
bucks and handing out free cigarettes for undergraduate drama program is $27,000. Since I arrived in London last
Camel. The steep repayment burdens have been month, the news has been filled with
She’s never missed a loan payment, but a straitjacket on students and their career outrage over revelations of the yawn-
there’s no end in sight: She borrowed aspirations for years. But now they have be- ing pay gap between male and female
nearly $75,000 to attend the American Rep- come a major problem for Harvard and the employees of the BBC. As one long-
ertory Theater Institute, or A.R.T. Institute, A.R.T. Institute, too. time female BBC journalist told The
at Harvard and still owes about $54,000. After the Department of Education criti- Guardian, “There’s this great myth
“I can’t afford to make my craft, even cized the debt loads in January, the institute management promote about treating
though I’m regularly booking work,” Ms. halted admissions for a year — and then, talent on its separate merits, but it’s
TONY CENICOLA/THE NEW YORK TIMES Donohue said. “One fellow alum said to me, last month, extended the freeze to three all about divide and rule.”
‘Getting this degree basically guaranteed years. Some students and alumni worry A similar sentiment is being voiced
Top, Katierose Donohue, who graduated from Harvard’s American that I wasn’t able to pursue it as a career that the resulting notoriety will sully the in- at the National Theater by the widow
Repertory Theater Institute 12 years ago and still owes about $54,000. Above, because I immediately had to get a job to stitute’s name and the value of their de- of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist in
Diane Paulus, the Tony Award-winning director, who oversees the institute. pay for the education I received.’” CONTINUED ON PAGE C4 CONTINUED ON PAGE C5

ZACHARY WOOLFE OPERA REVIEW

A Soprano Takes On a Pinnacle

Anna Netrebko sings her first Aida
‘Aida’ in Salzburg. Salzburg Festival

SALZBURG, AUSTRIA — For those of us who exacting, showboat-phobic Mr. Muti, she
admire the soprano Anna Netrebko, it’s sang with clean, even modest classiness. So
been a heady time. During the past few too did the tenor Francesco Meli, a polished,
years, as her voice has darkened and sweet-toned Radamès, and, as the jealous
swelled, she’s added a flood of new roles by Amneris, the mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Se-
Puccini, Verdi, Tchaikovsky and even Wag- menchuk, restrained to the point of weak-
ner that demand lyric sensitivity but also ness.
searing power. Ms. Netrebko’s voice lately blooms more
Tosca comes next season, and Mad- as it dives to its depths than as it rises; her
dalena in “Andrea Chénier.” But first, she top notes are secure without being radiant.
has taken on one of the pinnacles, Verdi’s Singing soft and low at the start of the tomb
Aida, in a coolly impersonal production that scene, she had the quality she often does as
opened on Sunday as the centerpiece of this her characters prepare to expire: crushing,
year’s Salzburg Festival. It brings together smoldering, defeated — the sound of death
Ms. Netrebko for just the second time with itself.
Riccardo Muti, perhaps our finest Verdi Even star singers are forced to recede
conductor, and pairs them with the celebrat- when collaborating with this conductor: It
ed photographer and video artist Shirin Ne- is no coincidence that in the final seconds of
shat, directing her first opera. the opera, the only illumination in the the-
Ms. Netrebko is ready for Aida — or at ater was focused squarely on the podium.
least ready to spend more time with her. (And don’t you forget it, the spotlight
Her arias on Sunday were steady, careful, seemed to say.)
earnest. Like everyone who works with the Mr. Muti creates effects you didn’t quite
think possible. The phrases of the prelude at
first seemed daringly separate and wispy,
Anna Netrebko as Verdi’s Aida, in a bits of metallic thread, before they began to
production that is the centerpiece of weave together and almost physically co-
the Salzburg Festival in Austria. CONTINUED ON PAGE C5
BARBARA GINDL/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES
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Theater

Too creepy Too playful

WHAT WORKED “The use of white, and how WHAT WORKED “The only thing that worked is
clean that could be. And the idea of Elsa and that it made us smile.”
her finger pushing through or cracking this ice WHAT DIDN’T “It reminded ourselves not to
is emblematic of her being outside and trying to take ourselves too seriously. It’s whimsical, it’s
get in.” fun, it’s playful, all of which the show is. But it’s
WHAT DIDN’T “Practically speaking, white gets not just those things.”
dirty really fast. Also, you’re not totally sure
what it is you’re looking at. Is she in distress? Is
she happy? It made us slightly uncomfortable.”

IMAGES BY SERINO COYNE

A Stage Makeover
For a Disney Tale
Designing a poster that welcomes a princess to Broadway.
Olly Moss, an artist based outside London.
By ERIK PIEPENBURG
The poster features a giant, stylized
It’s been almost four years since the ani- snowflake with brushy tips that bursts
mated film “Frozen” made it impossible to across a sea of azures and indigos. Embed-
unhear “Let It Go.” That’s music to the ears ded in the fractal geometrics are silhouettes
of the Disney Theatrical Group as it readies of a young woman reaching with a dramati-
to open a new high-profile musical adapta- cally raised arm. For added wow, negative
tion of the movie on Broadway next spring. space forms two other likenesses that, as
It was a tricky assignment for Andrew Mr. Flatt noted, people might not see right
Too safe Flatt, Disney Theatrical’s senior vice presi- away. Too specialized
dent for strategy, marketing and revenue. “A lot of audiences enjoy a secondary re-
WHAT WORKED “It’s inspired by an iconic He knew the poster design couldn’t stray veal,” said Mr. Moss, who is known for creat- WHAT WORKED “This is inspired by rosema-
moment in the film, when Elsa really unleashes too far from depicting the “Frozen” — a ing alternative posters for old movies and is ling, a traditional Scandinavian art form of
her power. There’s strength in its simple colors sweetheart story of Princess Elsa and her making his debut as a Broadway poster de- painted flowers and floral-inspired designs,
and simple shapes and smart, clean graphic frosty powers — that fans hold dear. He also signer here. “It’s almost like a magic trick.” typically on wood. We liked the organic con-
lines.” knew he wanted a color palette that stuck (Do you see the other silhouettes yet?) nection to the origins and location of the story.”
WHAT DIDN’T “It just doesn’t push the bound- with ice-cold hues of blue, white and silver. Mr. Flatt said that Mr. Moss’s poster got WHAT DIDN’T “It doesn’t feel exclusively
ary far enough. This feels like the ‘Frozen’ that To make sure the stage version (which the nod because it was “elegant and confi- ownable by ‘Frozen.’ This could be ‘The Sound
people would expect. There is more depth to begins performances in Denver this month) dent and special, and also truly unique to of Music’ if you took the braid away. Or maybe
this story than you might think.” set itself apart from the film, Mr. Flatt said ‘Frozen.’” even ‘Hello, Dolly!,’ set in the mountains.”
he wanted a poster to “differentiate” (good- Mr. Flatt recently talked about four other
bye, Olaf the snowman) and “elevate” concepts he considered, drawn from a bliz-
(hello, Broadway ticket prices). zard of over 100 submitted by Serino Coyne.
The final show art, from the advertising His comments have been edited and con-
agency Serino Coyne, is an icy fantasia by densed.

A WORD WITH
TINA PACKER

Completing Shakespeare’s Canon (It Took a Few Decades)

With ‘Cymbeline,’ Tina Packer with what the women say. Otherwise we’re
all lost.” That really made me want to keep
has now directed all 37 of the going.
playwright’s works. Do you have a favorite?
Usually the one I’m working on. I think:
By ALEXIS SOLOSKI “My God, this is brilliant. Why didn’t I see
In 1971, Tina Packer, then a classically how brilliant this was?” “Cymbeline” is a
trained English actress, persuaded the Lon- case in point. It is such a deep play, but I
don Academy of Music and Dramatic Art to couldn’t see it on the page. It’s about what
let her direct Shakespeare’s “Measure for we can’t see, what’s unconscious, what’s
Measure.” Then she directed “The Winter’s hidden. All the hidden things start coming
Tale,” then “Hamlet.” out in the course of the play and eventually
“All the easy ones,” she laughed. tie up together to make the whole story.
Ms. Packer kept going, through comedies Do you feel a sense of completion?
and histories, tragedies and romances. On What I feel more than anything is a satisfac-
Sunday, her production of “Cymbeline” fin- tion about absorbing the whole canon. That
ished its run in Lenox, Mass., at Shake- doesn’t count “Two Noble Kinsmen” or “Ed-
speare & Company, the troupe she founded ward III” or “Cardenio” or any of those
in 1978. And with it Ms. Packer, 78, finished other plays that may or may not be Shake-
her run through the Shakespeare canon, speare’s. “Cardenio” I found absolutely irri-
having now directed all 37 plays. (“Two No- tating. I will bet my bottom dollar that’s not
ble Kinsmen,” a collaboration with John Shakespeare. I do love that fragment of
Fletcher, failed to make the cut. “I didn’t “Thomas More”; that feels so absolutely
find myself interested in it,” she said.) Shakespeare to me. But none of the others
Ms. Packer, author of the book “Women of have really attracted me.
Will,” spoke a few hours before the final per-
formance about why she hates “Cardenio” Has this work shaped your life?
and how Shakespeare’s poetry kept her go- Oh, God. Obviously. Profoundly. I wanted to
ing. These are excerpts from the conversa- set up a company that could be like Shake-
tion. speare’s company. When we began, we did
the young plays. Now we’re doing the old
How did you come to direct Shakespeare?
plays because we’re older. We would be ter-
Well, I loved being a Shakespeare actor, I CHRISTOPHER CAPOZZIELLO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES ribly poor, we would run out of money. We
was passionate about it, but I was always kept working anyway. Shakespeare is so full
asking questions about the whole play. Now of insight and so full of glorious poetry that
perception and I must try and put my per- I never thought consciously, “Oh, I’m going Tina Packer at
I would say they were feminist questions. we were inspired by him. So it never oc-
ception into action rather than becoming a to do them all.” But I started noticing a pro- Shakespeare & Company
All of my directors were men and they were curred to us close down the company.
grumpy actor.” Once I started directing gression in his writing of the women. In the in Lenox, Mass., where
good men, good directors. But I got frus-
there was no stopping me. beginning they’re either shrews or sweet she directed “Cymbeline.” What’s next?
trated. I started thinking there was some-
thing wrong with me. And then I thought, When did completing the canon become the young things, but by the time he gets to his Well, I wouldn’t mind doing “Measure for
“No, this is ridiculous, I just have a different goal? late plays, he says: “Guys, you have to go Measure” again.
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Arts, Briefly
N E W S F R O M T H E C U LT U R A L W O R L D

With financial help from the

New Arcade Fire Album New York City government, the Ready, Set, Go
Chocolate Factory bought a
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When Arcade Fire first hit No. 1 38-29 24th Street for $3.8 million.
on the Billboard album chart, The new space is close to its
with “The Suburbs” in 2010, it current home, and to other cul-
was a big deal, signaling the tural institutions, including the
band’s ascension from indie-rock Museum of the Moving Image
darlings to mainstream fame; and MoMA PS1.
winning the Grammy for album Brian Rogers, the organiza-
of the year only confirmed that tion’s artistic director, said the
status. assistance to buy the building
Now, even with its most polar- outright came from the New
izing album so far, Arcade Fire York City Economic Develop-
(with Win Butler, right) is a ment Corporation and the De-
familiar sight at No. 1. The partment of Cultural Affairs, ‘OTELLO’ The Royal Opera
band’s latest, “Everything Now” through allocations made by the
(Columbia), is its third straight House’s staging of Verdi’s
City Council’s majority leader,
release to open at the top, and Jimmy Van Bramer; the Queens tragedy, with the star tenor
had the equivalent of just under borough president, Melinda Jonas Kaufmann in the title
100,000 copies sold in the United Katz; and Helen M. Marshall, a role, is in movie theaters.
States during its first week out, former president of the borough, Find a screening at roh.org
according to Nielsen. That in- who died in March. .uk/cinemas.
cluded 94,000 copies sold of the “Were it not for the grass-
complete album, as well as a roots support of this community
conspicuously low number of — artists, audiences, small-
streams: 7.9 million. business owners, neighbors,
By comparison, Kendrick friends and elected officials —
Lamar’s “DAMN.,” which is at the Chocolate Factory would not
No. 2 after four months on the be what it is today,” Mr. Rogers
chart, had 46 million in the last and Sheila Lewandowski, the
week. Arcade Fire’s streaming organization’s executive director,
number is the lowest for any No. said in a statement. “The oppor-
1 album since Bon Jovi’s “This JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY tunity to create a permanent
House Is Not for Sale” in No- home in this very challenging
vember, which reached the top — I wrote it in the ’90s, when it is on Nov. 1 and open on Nov. 29 at city, in the neighborhood we
with a negligible 315,000 plays. set, but I didn’t finish it, I got the Booth Theater. love, and to support the work of
Also this week, Meek Mill’s distracted, and then it came back “Meteor Shower” will be Mr. groundbreaking artists for years MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL
“Wins & Losses” holds at No. 3 to me a couple of years ago.” Martin’s second Broadway ven- to come, is the fulfillment of a
for a second week, and DJ Joshua Bell and Steven
Mr. Martin said he recruited ture as a writer. He previously dream.”
Khaled’s “Grateful” is No. 4. Isserlis play Brahms’s Dou-
Ms. Schumer for the play, ap- collaborated with Edie Brickell The Chocolate Factory’s lead-
Jay-Z’s “4:44” is in fifth place, proaching her at a party at her ers began searching for a new ble Concerto. 7:30 p.m. at
on a musical, “Bright Star,” that
and last week’s top album, Lana house and asking her to read the ran for four months last year; it home more than five years ago, David Geffen Hall.
Del Rey’s “Lust for Life,” fell to script. Ms. Schumer, who once was a flop financially, but won when a study found that, without lincolncenter.org
No. 10 in its second week out. performed in a production of Mr. over some critics, and will be a permanent space, it would
BEN SISARIO Martin’s play “Picasso at the probably be displaced, if not
remounted in Los Angeles this
Lapin Agile,” agreed, and her fall. Mr. Martin said he was forced to close, when its lease
willingness to do the play gave it pleased to be working again on a expired in 2019. (Performances
Amy Schumer to Make the oomph to get it to Broadway. comedy, which he described as will continue to be staged at the
The director of the Broadway “right up my alley — it’s what Chocolate Factory’s current
Her Broadway Debut production, Jerry Zaks (“Hello, I’ve been doing for the last 50 location, 5-49 49th Avenue, for
The comedian Amy Schumer, Dolly!”), said the script was years.” the 2017-18 season.)
right, is planning to make her being revised. “We’ve made MICHAEL PAULSON By staying in Long Island City,
Broadway debut this fall in a adjustments, we’ve made cuts, the Chocolate Factory joins
JOHN SALANGSANG/INVISION, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS
new play by Steve Martin. She he’s rewritten — we’ve just be- other arts organizations, includ-
will star in “Meteor Shower,” a gun the process of trying to get ing museums and Silvercup
marital comedy about two cou-
The play had productions last the script to be everything it can Chocolate Factory Finds Studios. “Building and protect-
year at the Old Globe Theater in be,” he said. ing cultural institutions is a
ples who get together for an
evening of stargazing and spar- San Diego and at Long Wharf “It’s smart, it’s funny, it’s af-
A New Home in Queens critical part of making the arts MICHELLE BRANCH The
ring in an Ojai, Calif., backyard Theater in New Haven. Reviews fecting, it’s original, and it’s the The Chocolate Factory Theater, a accessible for every New final performer booked at
in 1993. Joining her in the cast of those earlier productions were kind of comedy I love,” Mr. Zaks space for experimental perform- Yorker,” Ms. Katz said in a state- Webster Hall before it closes
will be Laura Benanti (a Tony mixed. The play is now being said. “Watching people connect, ing arts in Long Island City, ment. The Chocolate Factory’s
reworked for Broadway. indefinitely. 8 p.m.
winner for “Gypsy”), Keegan- or struggle to connect, is the Queens, will put down roots new home, she added, “is a
“I can’t tell you how excited I greatest spectator sport imagi- there in a permanent home it reflection of the growth under- websterhall.com
Michael Key (now performing in
“Hamlet” at the Public Theater) am,” Mr. Martin said. “I’ve been nable.” recently purchased — in full, way in our borough.”
and Alan Tudyk (“Firefly”). working on this for over 20 years The play is to begin previews with no debt. JOSHUA BARONE

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$78,000 of Debt for a Harvard Theater Degree

CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1
grees. In a recent letter to institute leaders, ‘It has always been my
the A.R.T. Institute Alumni Association also goal since the day I
expressed a lack of confidence in Diane arrived nine years ago to
Paulus, the artistic director of the American
Repertory Theater, who oversees the insti- pursue a fully funded
tute and is a prominent Broadway director. M.F.A. with Harvard.’
The troubles have cast a spotlight on lit- DIANE PAULUS
tle-seen difficulties and pressure that grad- ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE
AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER
uate acting students face, as well as a co-
nundrum for Harvard officials. They have
expressed great pride in the American Rep-
ertory Theater, Ms. Paulus and their Tony
Award-winning shows like “Pippin,” yet
they have done relatively little to address the alumni association contended that Ms.
the financial or academic concerns of stu- Paulus had shown “little respect or inter-
dents in that theater’s graduate program. est” in the institute.
Ms. Paulus, in a recent interview at the Ms. Paulus rejected claims, made by stu-
A.R.T., said that the three-year admissions dents as well as Mr. Brustein, the founder,
hiatus will give the institute a chance to try that she was preoccupied with directing for
to address three key areas: increasing fi- Broadway, and pointed to the A.R.T.’s many
nancial aid for students; renovating facili- productions that do not transfer to New
ties; and exploring the possibility of a mas- York.
ter of fine arts degree with Harvard. “Every show we do is about our nonprofit
The alumni association’s letter accused mission to expand the boundaries of theater
Ms. Paulus and others of neglecting those and talk about how theater can galvanize
three concerns. But she described them as compassionate citizenry in America, and
longtime priorities of hers. that is what drives my vision,” Ms. Paulus
“It has always been my goal since the day said. She also said that she spends about
I arrived nine years ago to pursue a fully half her time raising money, for the A.R.T.
funded M.F.A. with Harvard,” Ms. Paulus and the institute, and emphasized that she
said. is committed to restarting admissions in
Asked whether there had been pushback three years.
from Harvard over those years, Ms. Paulus Of the high student debt, she said, “I feel
said: “I can’t grant the M.F.A. I mean, you the real question here is how artists make a
understand that. Harvard University has living in America, and this points to the un-
an enormous procedure for that, and we’ve derlying issue of how the arts are valued in
reiterated our interest in that from the day I America, in a transactional capitalist econ-
got here.” She added, “Harvard’s never CHRISTOPHER CAPOZZIELLO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
omy.”
granted an M.F.A., so it’s a process.” Several alumni said they took responsi-
While many top universities grant mas- questions about the master’s degrees and With the exception of a small fund that Shawn Jain and Me’Lisa bility for the debt they found themselves in,
ter of fine arts degrees, Harvard has long the institute. Robin Kelsey, dean of arts and distributes scholarships, institute students Sellers, who recently concluded acknowledging that they were aware of the
resisted creating them. When Robert Bru- humanities at Harvard, issued a statement are not eligible for financial aid grants their first year in Harvard’s institute’s costs and paucity of aid but still
stein, the founder of the American Reper- in which he expressed support for Ms. Paul- through Harvard. Me’Lisa Sellers, who will graduate theater program. chose to enroll.
tory Theater and the institute, arrived at us. He wrote, “Pausing the Institute will en- graduate in 2018 with roughly $135,000 in “We all went into it knowing how much it
Harvard in 1980, he said the Harvard Eng- able Ms. Paulus and her colleagues at the debt, said that she once went to a Harvard cost,” said Natalie Battistone, who graduat-
lish Department wasn’t receptive. A.R.T. and elsewhere at Harvard to con- financial aid office in desperation. She re- ed from the institute in 2015. “I went into this
“They told me, ‘We don’t give degrees in sider new and creative ways to support our called that an employee there asked her, knowing that I would have this large
butchery, so why would we give one in ac- shared pursuit of the dramatic arts.” “And this is a Harvard program?” amount of education debt to pay off.”
ting?’” he recalled, though he declined to The institute’s relationship with Harvard Institute students are given Harvard IDs Ms. Donohue described being starry-
name names. is convoluted, which some students say is a ‘I feel like we’re the eyed when she enrolled.
and can live in Harvard graduate housing.
In 2008, a Harvard task force on the arts cause of their frustrations. The institute is But when one current student, Shawn Jain, stepchild that no one “I was 21, and it was like, this is it, this is
endorsed the creation of master of fine arts housed within American Repertory The- went to join a campus gym, workers at the really wants.’ my dream,” she said. “I remember think-
degrees, particularly through the institute. ater, but from 1999 to 2016, students were front desk had to look deep into the comput- ing: O.K., if this is what I’m supposed to do,
SHAWN JAIN
Scott Zigler, the institute’s director, said the granted master of fine arts degrees through er system to find him. Mr. Jain and Ms. Sell- A STUDENT AT THE AMERICAN sign me up. So I’m the jerk in a way.”
2008 financial crisis led Harvard officials to Moscow Art Theater School, where they do REPERTORY THEATER INSTITUTE Still, Ms. Donohue wonders why Harvard
ers also said they were initially denied ac- AT HARVARD
hold off on some sizable initiatives like the a three-month residency. Starting with the and the institute haven’t done more to sup-
cess to discounted transit passes because
degrees. None have been created, but there class that graduated in 2017, however, stu- port students and alumni. The institute long
they were told that they had to be adminis-
is an undergraduate concentration called dents are being granted a master of liberal provided students who applied for aid with
tered through Harvard’s 13 schools, and the
“Theater, Dance & Media” that began in arts degree through the Harvard Extension roughly $2,500 per year, which did little to
institute didn’t count. Though they were dent the estimated tuition of $63,370 over
2015. School, a division that also includes open- eventually given passes, it contributed to
A Harvard spokeswoman declined to access online courses like “Masterpieces of two years, not to mention living expenses.
Mr. Jain’s sense of being a second-class citi- There was an uptick in financial aid for the
make administrators available to answer World Literature.” zen at Harvard. class of 2018 in the coming year, but the in-
“I feel like we’re the stepchild that no one stitute declined to provide specifics. Gradu-
really wants,” Mr. Jain said. ate acting programs elsewhere offer a
The 13 current students and alumni inter- range of fellowships, grants and schol-
viewed for this article emphasized the high arships.
quality of their theater training, the institu- Ms. Donohue foresees this financial bur-
tion’s excellent faculty and the unique op- den hanging over her head for years to
portunities they have in their residency in come.
Russia. As for their frustrations about the “You immediately graduate and are
loan debt and the degrees, some put the handed the bill, and it’s like, good luck, you
blame on Ms. Paulus. Under her leadership, better book something huge and if you
the A.R.T. has been involved in artistically don’t, you’re never going to survive in this
ambitious and experimental theater as well industry,” she said. “If you want to have a
as new, commercially popular productions family or a house or kids, this will be hang-
like the musicals “Waitress” that she staged ing around your neck, and you really might
here and later on Broadway. The letter from need to do something else.”

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ZACHARY WOOLFE OPERA REVIEW

MONIKA RITTERSHAUS/SALZBURGER FESTSPIELE

A Soprano Takes On a Pinnacle

CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1 In “Aida” at the Salzburg loud or soft, fast or slow — examined, pol- to no relationship to her haunting artistic royals wear silky, Western-style gowns, like
alesce. The span of “Aida,” from the person- Festival, the white-brick set ished, held up for display. All that emphasis practice. I had hoped her “Aida” would be those on many in the audience; the priests
al to the epic, was distilled in just a couple of by Christian Schmidt echoes grew wearying, even deadening, and the more like the magnetic 2005 “Tristan und look like a vague mixture of Greek Ortho-
minutes. looming structures that climactic judgment scene was slowed to the Isolde” in which Bill Viola’s video works dox, Jewish and Muslim clerics. (The cos-
The Vienna Philharmonic plays for him Richard Peduzzi designed point of trudging. were a constant, dominating presence, or tumes are by Tatyana van Walsum.) The
with astonishing virtuosity: strings of tac- for Patrice Chéreau’s classic Mr. Muti’s operas in concert have in re- like the series of operas done by William captured Ethiopians — seen first staring
tile fullness; tangy winds; bursts of ideally opera stagings. cent years seemed more alive than his Kentridge — whose “Wozzeck” opens here into the camera in a video projected during
round and peppery brasses. The chorus’s staged productions, though his “Manon on Wednesday — in his distinctive pen-and- Aida’s aria “Ritorna vincitor” — have a
temple chants at the end of the first act had Lescaut” with Ms. Netrebko in Rome in ink style. white stripe down their faces and wear
eerie mistiness, as if enacting rather than 2014, their first collaboration, felt more per- Ms. Neshat’s “Aida,” though, could have blue-gray refugee chic.
Aida
just describing the birth of the world. Through Aug. 25, with cast sonal and unaffected than this. There, they come from anyone, anywhere in the world, There is the kernel of a provocative no-
But as an operatic pit band, that Philhar- changes, at the Salzburg seemed to be putting on an opera rather and the conception of the characters feels tion here, that what bedevils the contempo-
Festival in Vienna; rary world is a kind of unspoken alliance of
monic virtuosity can tip over into seeming than an edifice. recycled from a thousand revivals. The
salzburgerfestspiele.at. military, political and religious elites — both
overcharged and overdetailed, as if “Aida” The staging of “Aida” chilled things, too. singers’ old-fashioned gestural vocabulary
Western and Eastern, fanatic and liberal —
were an orchestral tone poem with some In her art, Ms. Neshat has shown the painful — arms raised to foreheads in stylized atti- against the huddled masses who actually
singing way, way in the background. The ways that gender colors, and heightens, the tudes of suffering, or outstretched to heav- suffer in clashes of civilizations.
drama becomes purely about sound, not experience of repression and exile. At least en — supposedly died half a century ago. An unmistakably contemporary “Aida,”
about the characters onstage. The surges of on a thematic level, “Aida” might have The white-brick set (by Christian Schmidt) like the brutal one Calixto Bieito directed in
strings during Aida’s duet with her father, seemed like a good fit for her, and she has echoes the looming, anonymous structures Basel, Switzerland, in 2010, would have set
Amonasro (the sturdy baritone Luca Salsi), claimed an identification with the title char- that Richard Peduzzi designed for Patrice the opera’s struggles uncomfortably right
didn’t seem like their heartbeat; they were acter. “Sometimes the boundaries between Chéreau’s classic opera stagings, but with- here, right now. But Ms. Neshat’s tastefully,
just strings played with relentless gor- Aida and myself are blurred,” she said in an out Peduzzian ominousness. drearily timeless, placeless production,
geousness, something to admire rather interview with festival organizers. The powerful Egyptians who rule in coupled with acting that would have
than feel. But this production doesn’t let Neshat be “Aida” are here a hodgepodge of the demo- seemed stale in the 1950s, ensures that any
This was about the least intimate “Aida” Neshat. Beyond a couple of brief, dull video cratic and the theocratic: The military is political critique she intended is too wan to
possible, with even passing moments — projections, what’s onstage here bears next dressed in 19th-century-ish uniforms; the trouble Salzburg’s fashionable crowd.

BEN BRANTLEY CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

Measuring Women’s Progress in Over a Century of Plays

CONTINUED FROM PAGE C1
Lucy Kirkwood’s “Mosquitoes.” Even as she
slides into senility, this embittered charac-
ter (played by Amanda Boxer) insists that
the Nobel should have been hers, not her
husband’s.
“I was just the grammar-school tart, even
after we were married,” she says. “The way
he spoke to me: ‘Karen dear, there is a dif-
ference between cabin and crew, even if the
cabin boy spots the iceberg!’”
In the warm, energizing new production
of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s 2009 drama “Apo-
logia,” which opened on Thursday at Trafal-
gar Studios under Jamie Lloyd’s direction, a
celebrated art historian named Kristin
finds herself judged and condemned by her
grown sons at her own birthday party. At
first, this seems like a fair response to the
forbidding Kristin (an excellent Stockard HELEN MAYBANKS

Channing), who is herself damningly judg-

mental of her family’s failures. plored so caustically by Ms. Waller-Bridge
But as befits its title, “Apologia” presents into a brighter key. “Touch” is sweeter than
a sly defense of this gorgon mother, who “Fleabag.” That is not to say it’s simpler.
seemingly abandoned her sons when they The question marks that loom over Dee’s
were children. Though Kristin came of age erotic experiments are still intact at the end.
in the 1960s, when the future for a bright and By the conclusion of the first act of “Just
idealistic young woman seemed wide open, to Get Married,” an old-fashioned happy
she eventually discovered there were limits ending — the kind that’s set to a wedding
march — would appear to be in store for
to what she could be.
Georgie. After years of being “hawked
Not that Kristin ever says as much. As
around” to prospective mates by her formi-
played with defensive brittleness by Ms.
dable and wealthy aunt (Nicola Blackman),
Channing, she is a prisoner of the armor she TONJE OLAUSSEN Georgie has at last received a proposal.
has created to survive as a world-famous
Her husband-to-be is the shy but respect-
cultural firebrand. pel the politically burdensome plot. But Several plays in London
able Adam (Jonny McPherson). There’s a
This production, which features a very much of what happens in “Bodies” takes trace the obstacles women
snag, though. Georgie doesn’t love Adam.
good Laura Carmichael (of “Downton Ab- place in Clem’s mind, which is inhabited by face: Above, Philippa Quinn
And a part of her realizes the immorality of
bey”) as an American visitor of unexpected that unforgiving fantasy daughter of the fu- in Cicely Hamilton’s 1911 play,
pretending otherwise.
insight, may finally land too bluntly on its ture (Hannah Rae). She is a vengeful appa- “Just to Get Married,” at the
Staged with wit and efficiency by Melissa
central revelation. (Call it “Kristin’s rition, who lets it be understood that Clem’s Finborough Theater. Above
Dunne, “Married” ultimately chooses to
Choice”). But without allowing her charac- maternal longings have far-reaching and right, Edward Bluemel and
have its wedding cake and spit it out, too.
ter’s guard to slip, Ms. Channing locates a destructive consequences. Amy Morgan in Vicky
But Hamilton (1872-1952), a suffragist writ-
piercing gleam of regret within Kristin’s Dee, the smart and self-aware heroine of Jones’s “Touch,” at the Soho
er whose works include the resonantly ti-
steel. And you realize she can never admit “Touch,” entertains the possibility of having Theater. Left, Stockard
tled “Marriage as a Trade,” knew that for
its existence without falling apart. children. But having just moved to London Channing in Alexi Kaye
many women, the road to the altar was
The central character of Vivienne Franz- from Wales to live on her own, Dee is in the Campbell’s “Apologia,” at
paved with desperation.
mann’s “Bodies,” at the Royal Court The- mood to entertain many possibilities. These Trafalgar Studios.
The scene in which Georgie tells Adam
ater, is also found wanting by her own child. include wide-ranging sexual role play with how she feels about him, knowing such a
But the child, in this instance, is a toxic an assortment of partners. declaration will consign her to a life of de-
product of her imagination. Dee insists that she is in charge of her pendent spinsterhood, vibrates with a jolt-
Clem (Justine Mitchell), a successful erotic games. But is she? As portrayed with ing current of pain. The confrontation sug-
television producer, is tortured by her in- prickly, self-questioning charm by Ms. Mor- gests what might have happened if Nora,
ability to conceive. “I wake up every morn- gan, Dee comes to acknowledge that the the door-slamming heroine of Henrik Ib-
ing with this ache,” she says, “with this rules of those games are more than partly sen’s “A Doll’s House,” had realized what
gnawing feeling of loss and displacement shaped by men’s fantasies. wedded life might be like before she took
and horror that this is it for me.” (Similar Ms. Jones is best known for having di- her vows.
feelings infuse Simon Stone’s harrowing, rected “Fleabag,” Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Not that the alternatives are in any way
latter-day riff on Federico Garcia Lorca’s one-woman stage comedy about sexual hopeful for Georgie. She is obviously more
“Yerma,” a hit last summer, which has re- identity and grief, which became the basis intelligent and observant than anyone
turned for a limited run at the Young Vic, for the popular breakthrough television se- around her, yet she isn’t wrong in saying
starring an electrifying Billie Piper.) ries of the same name (which if you haven’t that she has been brought up to be “a totally
The complicated lengths to which Clem seen, you must). “Touch” shares Ms. Wal- useless woman.” Ms. Quinn infuses this self-
and her husband (Brian Ferguson) go to ler-Bridge’s spiky insights into lust and assessment with an angry, heroic astute-
have a child, which involve a Russian egg longing among 21st-century women. ness that leaves you mourning for a life un-
donor and a surrogate mother in India, pro- MARC BRENNER But it transposes the dark anxieties ex- lived.
C6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017

JANET MASLIN BOOKS OF THE TIMES

Two Go Missing, but Only One Returns

Teenage sisters, a mother from tant than they are because at heart, we’re
told, she is deeply insecure. But her motives
Thanks to this overkill, each of this book’s
characters becomes more detestable as he
hell, and a looming mystery. matter less than the harm she has inflicted or she becomes more fully revealed. Almost
on them throughout their lives. In short, all of them are manipulative, delusional or
AT THE START OF Wendy Walker’s new en-
she’s a mother from hell. dangerous. And the reader helplessly waits
Coincidence alert: One of the two detec- to see which of the endless terrible things
trant in the Thrillers With Unreliable Narra-
tives assigned to the Tanner girls’ case — that could happen actually will. If you like
tors sweepstakes, Cassandra Tanner re-
Dr. Abigail Winter, a forensic psychologist that kind of randomness, great. If you prefer
turns home. It has been three years since
with the F.B.I. — had a mistreated sister and rational plotting, you may blow a gasket
Cass, then 15, and her sister, Emma, then 17, over this.
a narcissistic mother, too. So she is well pre-
disappeared without a trace. And now Cass pared to empathize with Cass as she investi- “Emma in the Night” also offers the extra
can finally explain what happened to them. gates her disappearance, but that’s only perk of treating marriage as flat-out war be-
Or can she? As written by Walker, who half of Abby’s job. She and her male, safely tween the sexes. (Everyone in the book is
made her first splash in the thriller genre married partner — just about the only non- seemingly straight.) The men here combine
last year with the messed-up-memory tale goatish guy in the book — also have to fig- kinks with a sense of entitlement, and read-
“All Is Not Forgotten,” Cass might as well be ure out what became of Emma, who went ily victimize the women, who are treated to
wearing a sandwich board that tells readers missing and was never seen again. a high quota of misogyny. A number of the
“I Am Going to Lie to You.” Walker, who has been both an investment women are sick, self-loathing schemers ea-
Cass has a good reason for dissembling: a banker and an attorney practicing family ger to act out their revenge fantasies, so the
family that deserves it. Her father, Owen law, leans hard on authority figures in her battle lines are evenly drawn.
Emma in the Night Tanner, left home and remarried a while stories. She used a rape victim’s psychia- At least Dr. Abby Winter turns out O.K.,
By Wendy Walker ago. Stepdad Jonathan Martin is rude and trist to narrate “All Is Not Forgotten,” and although any show of rotten mothering by
308 pages. St. Martin’s Press. arrogant, and has a son named Hunter she tells half this story from Abby’s per- Then there are the Styrofoam peanuts, like “Mrs. Martin” is apt to trigger a predictable
$27. who’s even more so. And Cass’s mother, spective, in reassuringly levelheaded, this one: “The thought of being free over- flashback to Abby’s childhood. And Cass?
Judy, is so hateful that Cass calls her “Mrs. third-person language. whelmed me with happiness. The thought Well, it’s Walker’s job to keep us guessing,
Martin,” a distancing name that both Abby has the relatively simple job of ap- of getting caught overwhelmed me with even at the risk of clumsily building her her-
mother and daughter prefer. praising Cass’s account, trying to figure out fear. Waves of elation and dread rolled oine out of mismatched parts.
This twisty book, overpopulated by the what it’s missing and chasing every lead. through my body like the ocean, each one Finally, where’s Emma? If this were a
walking wounded, devotes more than Cass, who lives in Connecticut (as does crashing against a wall and giving way to better book, we would be on tenterhooks
enough time to diagnosing Judy’s narcissis- Walker), says she and Emma were spirited the next.” That’s what Cass sounds like about that question throughout. Instead,
tic personality disorder. She needs to be the off to Maine and held captive on an island when she keeps talking despite having there’s so much else going on that solving
center of attention at all times, no matter that had no identifying features. Grocery nothing to say. the riddle of her disappearance sometimes
how damaging that is to her daughters. She bags? Labels on catalogs? Neighbors or un- But most of “Emma in the Night” is about shrinks into a minor matter. But Emma is
needs to be prettier, sexier and more impor- expected visitors? None of that. They were twists. Walker made them a specialty in “All not forgotten. Rest assured that the oppor-
kept there by a solicitous-seeming couple. Is Not Forgotten,” and she piles them on tunity for a big, exploitative here-comes-
Follow Janet Maslin on Twitter: @JanetMaslin That’s the necessary part of the story. again this time, to much less credible effect. Emma scene does not go to waste.

GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

For 63-Year-Old Jazz Festival, History Is a Guide

A new artistic director brought jazz’s inheritance machinery is especially
strong; the music there retains an intergen-
in kindred sounds and a erational coherence without passing
slightly younger crowd. through the filter of the academy.
The pianist Orrin Evans, a Philadelphia
native, made his first appearance as a band
NEWPORT, R.I. — Christian McBride’s big leader at Newport. (That fact should aston-
band had just finished a bustling rendition ish you; he’s been worthy for about 20
of “The Shade of the Cedar Tree” on the years.) He finished a set of characteristi-
main stage of the Newport Jazz Festival cally chunky and waggish solo piano at the
here on Saturday afternoon when the band- sole indoor stage with a tender reading of
leader felt compelled to speak. Trudy Pitts’s “Blessed Ones the Eternal
“I’m partial to jazz with a little bit of Truth,” a plea for sanctified fellowship; Mr.
grease in it,” Mr. McBride told the audience Evans sang guilelessly, drawing up chords
in his affable baritone, as the applause died from the keys in a simple, quarter-note
down. “Sometimes we get a little too into rhythm. As the song progressed, more tre-
this gluten-free lifestyle.” ble and sunlight crept in; by the end the
In March 2016, Mr. McBride became artis- room was silent and rapt around him.
tic director of the now 63-year-old festival — On Sunday afternoon, Mr. McBride re-
taking the reins directly from its 91-year-old assembled the Philadelphia Experiment, a
co-founder, George Wein — so his meta- Newport Jazz Festival trio of cross-pollinated talent, featuring
phors matter. Mr. McBride, the 45-year-old Ran Friday through Sunday in Rhode Island. Questlove, the Roots’ drummer, and Uri
bassist, is one of jazz’s uncontainable tal- Caine, the keyboardist. (DJ Logic joined on
ents, able and eager to play almost any- turntables as a special guest.) The group
thing, but he’s also one if its traditionalist Sunday afternoon, charging from Herbie
dug a trench of groove and hardly ever
standard-bearers. When he talks about Hancock acid-funk (“Actual Proof”) to a
emerged, though it switched the feel and re-
grease, or carbs, he’s talking about the hard-bitten original (“Get Busy”) to a rol- dialed the intensity level often.
blues. licking “Jungle Boogie.” More than in years A spilling crowd showed up for this show,
Lots of comparable festivals across the past, the main stage featured music to move though it overlapped with both Mr. Moran’s
United States book pop acts as headliners, to. The pianist Jason Moran brought his set and one from the young soul-jazz trum-
using jazz for its credibility and param- Fats Waller Dance Party, making a rico- peter Theo Croker. The Experiment’s audi-
usical value. But Newport hasn’t stretched cheting funk jam out of old repertoire and ence was remarkably young, reflecting
its rope very far, relying on its identity as allowing the vocalist Lisa Harris to reinhab- Newport’s recent emphasis on selling dis-
the pre-eminent presenter of improvised it the classic self-possession anthem “Ain’t counted tickets to students. All told, there
music, and enjoying a reliable audience. Nobody’s Business If I Do,” paring down the were more student buyers than in any re-
Mr. McBride wants to talk about how that lyrics, letting her sighs and her body move- cent year, organizers said.
role can be used. He’s sensitive about jazz PHOTOGRAPHS BY STEVE BENOIT/BOSTON CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHY
ments communicate her pride. The festival is held each year at Fort Ad-
becoming a marketing device, but also And the saxophonist Maceo Parker re- ams State Park, a Civil War citadel on a bluff
about the idea that it might be seen as a Clockwise from above, the bond there with all of it,” he said, naming an prised a handful of tunes from the James in the Narragansett Bay. The setting is a
broad-brush label for experimentalism. To drummer Terri Lyne avant-garde pioneer, a gospel-tinged a cap- Brown songbook, playing whiplash funk draw, but the festival — with four stages
him, jazz means something more like blues Carrington; Christian McBride, pella group, a straight-ahead jazz sextet with an eight-piece group that was locked across the fort, and a total runtime of over
tradition, boldly extrapolated. artistic director of the Newport and a turntablist, all of whom were on the like lattice. 20 hours — doesn’t fit as a simple line item
“Henry Threadgill or Naturally 7 or One Jazz Festival; and the bill at this year’s festival. Mr. McBride’s choices made other argu- on a vacation itinerary.
For All or DJ Logic, whoever it is — there’s saxophonist Maceo Parker. The Roots — not likely to have been ments too. He elevated a number of musi- Since the 1950s, it has offered a reliable
some sort of a spiritual, unspoken, musical booked by Mr. Wein — closed the festival on cians from his native Philadelphia, where read on the spinal center of jazz. Consider-
ing that, the slightly younger (and, to a
lesser degree, more racially mixed) faces
this year felt like a part of a broader trend in
jazz — and therefore, even more auspicious.
It also made the hunger for fresh talent on-
stage — long a trope of jazz consumerism —
seem more apt, less despairing. Amir ElSaf-
far, the Iraqi trumpeter and santur player,
has played Newport before, but never with
his Rivers of Sound orchestra, an interconti-
nental group with improvisations wafting
up from loping, odd-meter melodies.
And the pianist Christian Sands, 28, a ha-

Judith Jones bitual McBride sideman, led his own slash-

ing quartet, delivering airtight composi-
tions and punctilious improvising. His in-
strumentation of piano, electric guitar,
acoustic bass and drums gives Mr. Sands’s
1924–2017 music — groove-drenched, gospelly and
smartly plotted — a balance of physical
body and electric charge. The band opened
its Friday afternoon set with “Song of the
Visionary editor Rainbow People” and “Pointing West,” both
originals, leaving enough on the field to
sidestep the accusation of flawlessness
and author. (yes, Mr. Sands is that kind of player).
On Saturday afternoon, the bassist and
vocalist Esperanza Spalding and the drum-
Culinary doyenne. mer Terri Lyne Carrington brought togeth-
er Mr. Sands, Mr. Moran and Vijay Iyer for a
tribute to the influential pianist Geri Allen,

Beloved colleague who died this year, and who had been their
trio-mate. The three pianists took turns; on
Allen’s “Unconditional Love,” Mr. Sands’s
quick runs and sharply articulated arpeg-
and friend. gios cut a stark contrast with Ms. Spalding,
whose playing and singing were like two
flushes of wind.
She sang a solo in her distinctive style, a
She profoundly influenced kind of vowel-dominant scatting, all open,
airy sounds; for punctuation, she uses a
not only the way America reads hard “e,” not a “p” or a “k.” There’s some-
thing childlike and dreamy about it, like jazz
singing is often meant to be. That she’s do-
but also the way we cook. ing all this while accompanying herself on
© Christopher Hirsheimer

bass is almost unreasonable.

Ms. Carrington’s unceasing lift on the
KNOPF ride cymbal can be seen as a constant
homage to Allen, whose playing was effort-
lessly propulsive. But it wasn’t until Mr.
Moran took the piano chair that Allen’s spir-
it seemed to almost re-enter the park. On
the ballad “Lucky to Be Me” and a mid-
tempo reading of “Nothing Like You,” his
left hand painted in misty watercolor, and
the band fell into a dream state, past and fu-
ture entwined.
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STZENF . The Black Stallion (1979). (G) (6:01) Flicka (2006). Alison Lohman, Tim McGraw. (PG) The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (9:36) Canadian Bacon (1995). Alan Alda. (PG) (11:09)
Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times, calling
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Texas will continue to bring low humidity will extend across much of Temperature Precipitation (in inches)
rounds of rain and the Midwest as high pressure moves east. Record Yesterday ............... 0.52
thunderstorms across the high 104° Record .................... 2.18
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region this week. The tropical moisture over the south-central For the last 30 days
repetition of drenching Actual ..................... 2.79
states and the Southeast. This will result Normal .................... 4.70
summertime storms could in heavy showers and thunderstorms
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travel disruptions. Nashville Storms will continue over and around Normal .................. 49.94
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and strong gusts. A heat wave will persist Air pressure Humidity
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Low ............ 30.05 4 p.m.
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p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in inches) Memphis 85/ 71 0.65 86/ 69 PC 87/ 71 PC Shanghai 99/ 85 0.04 100/ 81 PC 89/ 81 R from normal from normal Last 10 days
for the 16 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday. Miami 92/ 81 0.07 92/ 81 Sh 91/ 82 T Singapore 88/ 81 0.30 87/ 80 T 88/ 79 T this month.............. –1.5° this year ................ +1.6°
Milwaukee 72/ 61 0.06 82/ 64 S 82/ 66 PC Sydney 67/ 54 0 66/ 48 S 69/ 49 S 30 days
Expected conditions for today and tomorrow.
Mpls.-St. Paul 81/ 61 0 82/ 63 PC 76/ 64 T Taipei 98/ 84 0 100/ 84 T 101/ 83 PC 90 days
C ........................ Clouds S .............................Sun Nashville 82/ 67 0.31 84/ 65 PC 85/ 69 C Tehran 103/ 80 0 98/ 79 S 99/ 78 S Reservoir levels (New York City water supply) 365 days
F............................. Fog Sn ....................... Snow New Orleans 92/ 76 0.20 89/ 77 PC 87/ 77 T Tokyo 92/ 80 0.30 87/ 80 Sh 91/ 76 PC
H .......................... Haze SS .......... Snow showers Norfolk 84/ 73 0.41 81/ 70 R 81/ 71 PC Yesterday ............... 93% Chart shows how recent temperature and precipitation
Oklahoma City 86/ 67 0 84/ 68 T 88/ 71 T Europe Yesterday Today Tomorrow
I............................... Ice T............ Thunderstorms Est. normal ............. 86% trends compare with those of the last 30 years.
Omaha 78/ 59 0.01 81/ 63 PC 77/ 63 T Amsterdam 68/ 53 0 70/ 56 T 68/ 55 T
PC ............. Partly cloudy Tr ......................... Trace Athens 104/ 82 0 98/ 82 PC 94/ 81 PC
Orlando 91/ 75 0.15 91/ 75 T 92/ 76 T
R ........................... Rain W ........................ Windy Berlin 75/ 52 0 82/ 63 PC 79/ 61 PC
Philadelphia 73/ 66 0.66 82/ 63 PC 83/ 65 S
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N.Y.C. region Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Portland, Me. 80/ 62 0 72/ 56 PC 81/ 62 S Copenhagen 68/ 55 0 72/ 62 PC 70/ 59 PC
New York City 71/ 64 0.52 79/ 65 PC 82/ 65 S Portland, Ore. 92/ 63 0 94/ 64 PC 96/ 64 PC Dublin 66/ 50 0.04 60/ 50 PC 64/ 47 PC Sun, Moon and Planets Beach and Ocean Temperatures
Bridgeport 71/ 66 0.17 81/ 62 PC 80/ 66 S Providence 77/ 63 0.06 77/ 60 PC 81/ 63 S Edinburgh 64/ 50 0.50 64/ 48 Sh 65/ 47 PC
Caldwell 68/ 62 0.36 79/ 56 PC 83/ 59 S Raleigh 85/ 71 0.10 82/ 66 T 85/ 68 PC Frankfurt 81/ 53 0 74/ 57 R 76/ 57 PC Last Quarter New First Quarter Full
Danbury 68/ 59 0.20 77/ 54 PC 81/ 59 S Reno 86/ 61 0.04 89/ 62 S 90/ 62 PC Geneva 82/ 56 0 70/ 57 R 75/ 55 Sh Today’s forecast
Islip 73/ 65 0.20 80/ 62 PC 81/ 65 S Richmond 80/ 69 0.53 83/ 62 PC 84/ 63 PC Helsinki 64/ 54 0.35 70/ 55 PC 71/ 58 PC
Newark 72/ 67 0.46 81/ 61 PC 83/ 64 S Rochester 77/ 59 0.02 75/ 60 PC 83/ 61 S Istanbul 91/ 77 0 91/ 77 S 92/ 78 S
Trenton 71/ 65 0.70 80/ 58 PC 82/ 60 S Sacramento 91/ 62 0 93/ 63 S 93/ 61 S Kiev 73/ 60 0.23 70/ 57 PC 80/ 61 S Aug. 14 Aug. 21 Aug. 29 Sep. 6
White Plains 69/ 62 0.28 78/ 58 PC 81/ 62 S Salt Lake City 90/ 69 0 88/ 68 PC 90/ 70 PC Lisbon 77/ 63 0 77/ 59 S 77/ 61 S 2:30 p.m. 3:03 a.m.
United States Yesterday Today Tomorrow San Antonio 91/ 77 0.58 94/ 76 T 95/ 77 T London 70/ 57 0.13 63/ 55 R 61/ 54 R Kennebunkport
San Diego 78/ 69 0 79/ 69 PC 78/ 69 PC Madrid 97/ 69 0 87/ 61 S 86/ 55 S Sun RISE 5:59 a.m. Moon S 6:45 a.m. 72/53 A morning shower in spots
Albany 71/ 60 0.02 75/ 55 PC 81/ 60 PC Moscow 73/ 62 0.37 72/ 55 C 73/ 54 S
San Francisco 71/ 59 0 73/ 59 PC 72/ 60 PC SET 8:03 p.m. R 8:41 p.m.
Albuquerque 88/ 67 0.05 89/ 67 S 93/ 68 S Nice 84/ 76 0 84/ 72 T 83/ 71 S
San Jose 79/ 61 0 81/ 61 S 81/ 60 S NEXT R 6:00 a.m. S 7:46 a.m. Cape Cod
Anchorage 69/ 57 0 68/ 57 C 65/ 57 R Oslo 65/ 51 0.32 67/ 57 PC 62/ 56 R 60s
San Juan 88/ 79 0.12 89/ 81 Sh 89/ 79 Sh 74/62 Clouds breaking, breezy
Atlanta 85/ 71 0.15 79/ 69 T 82/ 71 T Paris 81/ 55 0 69/ 54 T 70/ 53 T Jupiter R 11:12 a.m. Mars R 5:38 a.m.
Seattle 87/ 61 0 90/ 64 PC 93/ 63 PC
Atlantic City 76/ 68 0.45 80/ 64 PC 80/ 63 S Prague 75/ 52 0 82/ 61 PC 79/ 58 PC S 10:37 p.m. S 7:56 p.m.
Sioux Falls 77/ 55 0 80/ 61 PC 76/ 58 C L.I. North Shore
Austin 88/ 73 1.42 92/ 73 T 94/ 73 T Rome 92/ 72 0 90/ 72 PC 90/ 72 PC
Spokane 94/ 64 0 94/ 66 PC 95/ 65 PC Saturn S 1:55 a.m. Venus R 3:02 a.m.
Baltimore 74/ 66 0.79 80/ 58 PC 82/ 62 PC St. Petersburg 65/ 56 0.29 69/ 54 S 74/ 59 PC 79/62 Clouds breaking, warmer
St. Louis 82/ 63 0.02 84/ 63 PC 86/ 69 PC R 4:31 p.m. S 5:52 p.m.
Baton Rouge 89/ 75 0.46 86/ 74 PC 88/ 75 T Stockholm 70/ 54 0.16 74/ 57 PC 73/ 58 R
St. Thomas 90/ 79 0.06 90/ 80 Sh 90/ 80 PC
Birmingham 83/ 72 0.21 79/ 70 T 84/ 72 T Vienna 77/ 60 0.12 81/ 66 PC 87/ 69 PC L.I. South Shore
Syracuse 74/ 59 0.04 73/ 58 PC 80/ 61 S Boating
Boise 92/ 66 0 95/ 66 PC 94/ 67 S Tampa 91/ 77 0 91/ 77 T 92/ 79 T Warsaw 73/ 55 0 78/ 61 PC 86/ 66 PC 79/66 Clouds breaking
Boston 78/ 63 0.04 73/ 62 PC 82/ 65 S Toledo 77/ 52 0.11 80/ 56 S 83/ 60 S
North America Yesterday Today Tomorrow From Montauk Point to Sandy Hook, N.J., out to 20
Buffalo 75/ 58 0.06 74/ 61 PC 80/ 62 PC Tucson 102/ 75 0 104/ 77 S 104/ 79 S N.J. Shore
Burlington 76/ 58 0.09 74/ 58 PC 80/ 61 PC nautical miles, including Long Island Sound and New York
Tulsa 85/ 67 0 84/ 69 PC 86/ 72 T Acapulco 92/ 79 0.17 88/ 78 PC 88/ 77 PC 79/65 Clouds breaking
Casper 77/ 48 0 77/ 47 T 79/ 51 C Harbor.
Virginia Beach 81/ 73 0 77/ 68 R 80/ 69 PC Bermuda 86/ 79 0.03 86/ 79 PC 86/ 80 PC
Charlotte 84/ 71 0.21 82/ 66 T 83/ 67 T Washington 76/ 67 0.63 82/ 64 PC 83/ 67 PC Edmonton 67/ 47 0.04 68/ 45 PC 73/ 46 S Small craft advisory in effect. Wind will be from northwest Eastern Shore
Chattanooga 81/ 71 0.52 85/ 68 T 83/ 71 T Wichita 81/ 64 0 83/ 66 PC 82/ 67 T Guadalajara 78/ 64 0.14 85/ 62 PC 86/ 60 PC at 10-15 knots; gusts to 20 knots. Waves will be 4-5 feet 80/62 Clouds breaking
Chicago 74/ 58 0.22 82/ 62 S 82/ 64 PC Wilmington, Del. 72/ 66 1.14 81/ 60 PC 82/ 62 S Havana 91/ 74 0 92/ 73 PC 91/ 73 PC on the ocean and 1 foot or less on Long Island Sound and
Cincinnati 75/ 60 0.36 78/ 58 PC 80/ 64 PC Kingston 92/ 79 0.15 92/ 80 PC 91/ 80 PC on New York Harbor. Ocean City Md. 70s
Cleveland 78/ 62 0.24 77/ 60 S 84/ 64 S Africa Yesterday Today Tomorrow Martinique 91/ 76 0.21 90/ 78 Sh 90/ 76 Sh 78/65 Some morning rain
Colorado Springs 67/ 54 0.17 71/ 56 PC 75/ 55 T Algiers 95/ 74 0 103/ 75 S 92/ 73 S Mexico City 80/ 57 0.07 78/ 54 PC 73/ 58 PC High Tides
Columbus 73/ 58 0.37 78/ 56 PC 81/ 63 S Cairo 96/ 79 0 97/ 80 S 97/ 78 S Monterrey 96/ 74 0 97/ 72 PC 95/ 72 PC Virginia Beach Color bands
Concord, N.H. 80/ 59 0 76/ 51 PC 84/ 58 S Cape Town 65/ 46 0 69/ 46 S 67/ 48 S Montreal 71/ 55 0.01 74/ 59 PC 77/ 62 Sh Atlantic City .................... 8:38 a.m. .............. 8:53 p.m. indicate water
77/67 A morning thunderstorm
Dallas-Ft. Worth 85/ 74 0.05 88/ 73 T 90/ 77 PC Dakar 88/ 78 0 87/ 78 S 87/ 78 PC Nassau 93/ 81 0.03 93/ 79 Sh 92/ 80 Sh Barnegat Inlet ................. 8:50 a.m. .............. 9:03 p.m. temperature.
Denver 65/ 54 0.42 77/ 55 PC 76/ 57 T Johannesburg 67/ 40 0 67/ 45 S 68/ 46 S Panama City 90/ 76 0.01 87/ 76 T 85/ 76 PC The Battery ..................... 9:30 a.m. .............. 9:34 p.m.
Des Moines 80/ 59 0.01 84/ 61 PC 81/ 65 T Nairobi 75/ 54 0 72/ 53 C 72/ 54 C Quebec City 70/ 49 0 72/ 53 PC 72/ 52 Sh Beach Haven ................ 10:18 a.m. ............ 10:29 p.m.
Detroit 79/ 57 0.37 82/ 60 S 85/ 64 PC Tunis 100/ 75 0 103/ 81 PC 105/ 79 PC Santo Domingo 90/ 74 0 87/ 74 T 91/ 76 PC
El Paso 99/ 73 0 94/ 72 S 96/ 76 S Toronto 75/ 60 0.06 77/ 62 S 82/ 64 PC
Bridgeport .................... 12:08 a.m.
City Island ..................... 12:05 a.m.
............ 12:36 p.m.
............ 12:32 p.m.
A storm system will move off the North-
Asia/Pacific Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Fargo
Hartford
81/ 55 0 83/ 58 PC
71/ 61 0.04 79/ 56 PC
77/ 56 PC
84/ 59 S Baghdad 120/ 86 0 121/ 89 S 122/ 87 S
Vancouver 74/ 60 0 77/ 62 S 78/ 63 S Fire Island Lt. .................. 9:46 a.m. .............. 9:57 p.m. east coast today. This will allow morning
Winnipeg 78/ 52 0 74/ 53 PC 72/ 49 C
Honolulu 87/ 75 0 88/ 76 PC 88/ 76 PC Bangkok 90/ 77 0.19 93/ 81 T 94/ 80 T Montauk Point .............. 10:22 a.m. ............ 10:32 p.m. rain and thunderstorms to come to an
South America Yesterday Today Tomorrow Northport ..................... 12:11 a.m. ............ 12:38 p.m.
Houston
Indianapolis
90/ 78 0.46 90/ 77 T
76/ 58 0.23 80/ 60 S
91/ 77 T
80/ 63 S
Beijing
Damascus
94/ 73 0
102/ 63 0
92/ 73 T
109/ 72 S
89/ 72 T
108/ 70 S Buenos Aires 73/ 54 0 62/ 45 PC 64/ 53 PC Port Washington ........... 12:06 a.m. ............ 12:34 p.m. end over coastal Maryland and areas
Jackson 86/ 72 0.50 80/ 71 T 87/ 73 T Hong Kong 94/ 83 0.19 94/ 85 T 94/ 85 T Caracas 91/ 79 0.08 91/ 80 PC 89/ 80 PC Sandy Hook .................... 9:00 a.m. .............. 9:11 p.m. farther south. Expect a little morning rain
Jacksonville
Kansas City
91/ 76 0
78/ 60 0
91/ 74 T
79/ 63 PC
88/ 75 T
76/ 65 T
Jakarta
Jerusalem
90/ 79 0
89/ 68 0
90/ 76 PC
89/ 71 S
89/ 75 Sh
91/ 72 S
Lima
Quito
68/ 59 0
71/ 51 0
69/ 59 PC
74/ 51 C
70/ 60 PC
73/ 52 R
Shinnecock Inlet ............. 8:45 a.m.
Stamford ...................... 12:11 a.m.
.............. 9:01 p.m.
............ 12:39 p.m.
north of Cape Cod. It will turn partly sunny
Key West 90/ 83 0.07 90/ 83 PC 91/ 84 PC Karachi 88/ 81 0.03 88/ 82 PC 87/ 81 C Recife 82/ 71 0.23 82/ 72 Sh 83/ 72 PC Tarrytown ..................... 11:19 a.m. ............ 11:23 p.m. by the afternoon, with lower humidity and
Las Vegas 102/ 81 0 104/ 82 S 106/ 83 S Manila 90/ 81 0.12 92/ 80 T 91/ 80 T Rio de Janeiro 77/ 62 0 84/ 68 PC 88/ 68 S
Lexington 75/ 61 0.20 79/ 57 PC 82/ 67 PC Mumbai 90/ 82 0.10 87/ 81 Sh 88/ 79 Sh Santiago 55/ 40 0 67/ 42 PC 55/ 42 C
Willets Point .................. 12:07 a.m. ............ 12:37 p.m. highs ranging from the 70s to near 80.
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Researchers focus ‘Don’t dwell on the In the cosmetics

on a new suspect in pain, and don’t try aisle, consumers are
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY NOAH BERGER FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Fire Fight

Should all wildfires be suppressed? Debate adapted by millions of years of evolution to
live in burned-out forests. They were hunt-
and animals — hundreds of them, it turns
out — that prefer to live in recently burned
is intensifying among scientists concerned ing grubs to feed their chicks.
The black-backed woodpecker is one of
forests.
Human lives are at stake, too. Firefight-
about lost lives and wasted resources. the rarest birds in California, and lately it ers die, more than a dozen in some years,
has become something more: a symbol of a putting out fires that many scientists think
By JUSTIN GILLIS huge scientific and political debate over the should be allowed to burn. Conversely, a
future of fire in American forests. shift toward letting more fires rage is cer-
BUCK MEADOWS, CALIF. — With long strides,
Scientists at the cutting edge of ecological tain to raise fears about public safety in
Chad T. Hanson plunged into a burned-out research, Dr. Hanson among them, argue communities bordering forests.
forest, his boots kicking up powdery ash. that the century-old American practice of Scientists contend that if money were re-
Blackened, lifeless trees stretched toward suppressing wildfires has been nothing less directed from firefighting into projects like
an azure sky. than a calamity. They are calling for a new fireproofing homes, those communities
Dr. Hanson, an ecologist, could not have approach that basically involves letting could actually be made safer. But the poli-
been more delighted. “Any day out here is a backcountry fires burn across millions of tics of the shift would be difficult, at best.
happy day for me, because this is where the acres. Climate change complicates the picture.
wildlife is,” he said with a grin. In principle, the federal government ac- It is making wildfires more likely, essen-
On cue, a pair of birds appeared, swoop- cepted a version of this argument years ago, tially punching through the human effort to
ing through the air and alighting on dead but in practice, fires are still routinely A burned tree near Buck Meadows, Calif., top. suppress fires. That may, in the short term,
trees to attack them like jackhammers. stamped out across much of the country. To A black-backed woodpecker, above. help achieve the scientific goal of having
They were black-backed woodpeckers, the biologists, that has imperiled the plants CONTINUED ON PAGE D5

ESSAY

The Universe in Motion

The legacies of two mous results, known as Ratner’s Theorems.
They turned out to be surprisingly and
I was inspired by both women and their
patient assaults on deeply difficult prob-
mathematicians will inspire broadly applicable, with many elegant uses. lems. Their work was closely related and is
generations of scholars. In the early 1990s, when I was a graduate connected to some of the oldest questions in
mathematics.
student at Berkeley, a professor tried to per-
Maybe some will be women. suade Dr. Ratner to be my thesis adviser. The ancient Greeks were fascinated by
She wouldn’t consider it: She believed that, the Platonic solid — a three-dimensional
By AMIE WILKINSON years earlier, she had failed her first and shape that can be constructed by gluing to-
The mathematics section of the National only doctoral student and didn’t want an- gether identical flat pieces in a uniform
Academy of Sciences lists 104 members. other. fashion. The pieces must be regular poly-
Dr. Mirzakhani was a young superstar gons, with all sides the same length and all
Just four are women. As recently as June,
from Iran who worked nearby at Stanford angles equal. For example, a cube is a Pla-
that number was six.
University. Just 40 when she died of cancer tonic solid made of six squares.
Marina Ratner and Maryam Mirzakhani Early philosophers wondered how many
in July, she was the first woman to receive
could not have been more different, in per- the prestigious Fields Medal. Platonic solids there were. The definition
sonality and in background. Dr. Ratner was I first heard about Dr. Mirzakhani when, appears to allow for infinite possibilities,
CHRISTOPHER SMITH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
a Soviet Union-born Jew who ended up at as a graduate student, she proved a new for- yet, remarkably, there are only five such
Almost Alone the University of California, Berkeley, by
way of Israel. She had a heart attack at 78 at
mula describing the curves on certain ab-
stract surfaces, an insight that turned out to
solids, a fact whose proof is credited to the
early Greek mathematician Theaetetus.
her home in early July. have profound consequences — offering, The paring of the seemingly limitless to a
Among other challenges, caregivers often struggle Success came relatively late in her career, for example, a new proof of a famous conjec- finite number is a case of what mathemati-
with social isolation. The New Old Age, Page 3. in her 50s, when she produced her most fa- ture in physics about quantum gravity. CONTINUED ON PAGE D4
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Observatory
FINDINGS, EVENTS AND MORE

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Mountain goats in Glacier National

Q U E ST I O N A B L E M OT I V E S Park in Montana tend to follow the
paths of humans.
The Goats Want to Hang Out, but Not Because They Like You
A few years ago, employees at Glacier National Park tana park for three years.
noticed that mountain goats were hanging out with To test how mountain goats reacted to predators,
visiting tourists, far from the goats’ cliffside habitats. Mr. Sarmento even dressed up as a bear and pre-
Now researchers have figured out why. First: Where sented himself to goats at both tourist and backcoun-
there are people, there are fewer predators like bears. try sites. Mountain goats that stuck around humans
Second: Where there are people, there also is pee. were generally not as vigilant as their backcountry
An acquaintance with people thus affords moun- counterparts, he found.
tain goats two prized essentials: safety and salt. A After officials closed a popular hiking trail because
mountain goat will lick a urine patch for up to 10 days. of a wildfire, the local goats headed for the hills. Bears
“You can’t beat that — it’s like vacation for goats,” said had returned, Mr. Sarmento found, and the promise
Wesley Sarmento, who tracked animals in the Mon- ELAINE THOMPSON/ASSOCIATED PRESS
of leftover urine was not worth the risk. STEPH YIN

“I may be 9 but I think I would be CHAIN GANG Meet the mysterious, gelatinous
blob that looks like a jellyfish —
In Deep Oceans,
fit for the job. One of the reasons is A Testament but isn’t. The sea salp typically
my sister says I am an alien.” To Individualism
lives in deep waters, gliding
around the ocean by jet propul-
Jack Davis, a fourth-grader in New Jersey, in a letter to NASA sion, sucking in water from a
applying for a job as its next planetary protection officer
siphon on one end and spitting it
back though another.
The salp swims alone for part
C R AW L S PA C E Americas. Some can make a hiss of its life, but then links up with
other salps in chains arranged as
Terror: Available Now or rattling sound to warn off
wheels, lines or other architectur-
potential predators, according to
In Three New Styles al designs. Salps synchronize PETROS GIANNAKOURIS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lauren Esposito, curator of M O O N ST R U C K
Scorpions have been around for their strokes when threatened,
arachnology at the California
some 435 million years; still, researchers have found, but oth- A Mini Eclipse
Academy of Sciences, and her
mysteries remain. There are erwise each salp in the chain Foreshadows
colleagues.
approximately 2,200 species of swims at its own asynchronous The Big Event
Among Dr. Esposito’s favorite
scorpions known, but arachnolo- and uncoordinated pace. Appar-
facts about scorpions: They give Call it a cosmic consolation prize.
gists estimate that these account ently this helps salps in linear
birth to live young. And while you While the United States is prepar-
for only 60 percent of the species chains make long nightly jour-
may have heard that the smallest ing for a total solar eclipse in two
out there. neys more efficiently.
are the most venomous, that is a weeks, most of Asia, Africa, Eu-
JOANNA KLEIN
This summer researchers myth. The scorpions with the ULLSTEIN BILD VIA GETTY IMAGES rope, Australia and Antarctica
reported that they had discovered biggest claws, she said, are often saw their own celestial display on
three new species of club-tailed the least venomous. Monday: a partial lunar eclipse,
scorpions in tropical areas of the JAMES GORMAN shown above in Turkey. (It was
Tuesday in some locations.)
Lunar eclipses are basically the
opposite of solar eclipses. Rather
REINER BERNHARDT/PICTURE-ALLIANCE/DPA,
than the moon moving in between
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Earth and the sun, as will happen
F I R ST B LO O D
Aug. 21, during a lunar eclipse it’s
How Small Predators Earth that plays “monkey in the
Prevent Big Epidemics middle,” casting its shadow on the
moon.
In August, a new generation of Solar and lunar eclipses occur
black-legged ticks hatch and in pairs, one preceding the other
begin looking for their first blood usually by two weeks, according
meal. In large swaths of North to Jackie Faherty, an astronomer
America and Europe, they will at the American Museum of Natu-
begin feeding on the ubiquitous ral History.
white-footed mice and other small “You get lunar eclipses when
mammals notorious for harboring you have full moons, and you
pathogens that sicken humans. have solar eclipses when you
A new study suggests that the have new moons,” she said. You
CHRISTOPHE MORIN/IP3/GETTY IMAGES
rise in tick-borne disease may be don’t see a lunar eclipse or solar
COUNTER OFFENSIVE the weak ones, a recent study
tied to a dearth of traditional eclipse every month because the
mouse predators, including foxes, Microwaving a Sponge finds — but the strongest,
smelliest and potentially patho- moon’s orbit is tilted about five
weasels, fishers and martens. If Makes Bad Bacteria degrees off from Earth’s orbit.
mice were scarcer, larval ticks, genic bacteria will survive.
which are always born uninfect-
Quite Happy to Stay Then, they will reproduce and NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR

ed, might feed on other mammals Stop. Drop the sponge and step spread to the vacant real estate
and bird species that do not carry away from the microwave. left behind by the dead mi-
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THE NEW OLD AGE PAULA SPAN

Caregiving Is Hard Enough. Now Add Isolation.

Many caregivers feel trapped she said.
Other initiatives, like Savvy Caregiver
at home and neglected by and REACH, have demonstrated similar ef-
friends and family. fectiveness. Because they are offered under
various names in different states, Area
Agencies on Aging can help besieged care-
FOR YEARS, Marcy Sherman-Lewis went to givers find free local programs. And since
a beauty salon in St. Joseph, Mo., every few getting out of the house can be a struggle,
weeks for a haircut and highlights. program developers are also testing online
It had become something of an ordeal to versions.
prepare her husband, Gene Lewis, for this Caregivers already gather in Facebook
outing; he has Alzheimer’s disease, at 79, groups and on websites, but experts have
and helping him shower and dress, insert mixed feelings about online chats and
hearing aids and climb into the car was a groups. “They provide anonymity, and that
very slow process. may permit more honesty,” said Dr. Wexler
But she could no longer leave him at Sherman, the gerontologist. “Sometimes
home alone. And once at the salon, “he just you need to vent at 2 a.m.”
sat, watched TV, slept — didn’t bother any- ”But we need skills,” she said. “Being a
body,” said Ms. Sherman-Lewis, 62. Her caregiver is a job.” Online, is the informa-
stylist kindly trimmed his hair, too. tion passed along accurate and useful? Is
Then last month, the salon owner took there a trained, knowledgeable moderator?
Ms. Sherman-Lewis aside. “Marcy, he “It’s important to have a leader to moni-
makes my other patrons awfully uncom- tor and validate,” said Ms. Moscowitz, who
fortable,” she said. leads several support groups for Mass Gen-
“I was dumbfounded,” Ms. Sherman- eral employees and for community mem-
Lewis said. “It’s O.K. for other people’s little bers. Besides, “there’s nothing like a real
grandchildren to be running around some- person to hug you.”
times. What am I supposed to do, keep him On other fronts, we’re seeing more efforts
in a crate in the car?” to provide convivial social and cultural
Like so many caregivers, she has discov- events for both people with dementia and
ered that along with the abandoned career, their caregivers: Memory Cafes, museum
the hands-on tasks, the medical scheduling, programs, choruses. The Dementia
the insurance tussles and the disrupted Friendly America campaign aims to make
sleep, she faces another trial: social isola- whole communities — including police
tion. CHRISTOPHER SMITH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
forces, churches, restaurants and hair sa-
“It’s hurtful,” she said. “You need friends lons — more knowledgeable and accommo-
more than ever.” selves. Barbara Moscowitz, senior geriatric Marcy Sherman-Lewis is the Mr. Sperling, of Lake Worth, Fla., went dating.
But where are they? Betsey Brairton, 48, social worker at Massachusetts General primary caregiver for her into therapy and took antidepressants until Individuals can also play a role. It’s too
cares for her mother, Sue, in rural Olean, Hospital, hears clients lament that with a husband, Gene Lewis, who he felt able to function again. easy to let caregiving friends slip off our ra-
N.Y. The elder Ms. Brairton, 79, suffers from loved one whose dementia-related behavior has Alzheimer’s. The owner We know something about how to help dar with a general call-if-you-need-any-
spinal stenosis, arthritis and lingering dam- can be startling, venturing out in public cre- of her hair salon has told her caregivers feel less alone. Researchers thing.
age from a stroke, so she has limited mobil- ates more apprehension than pleasure. not to come in with her have shown that even modest-sounding in- “Don’t put the pressure on the caregiver
ity. “We hardly go anywhere, and nobody “They say, ‘I’m exhausted trying to ex- husband anymore. terventions can reduce their sense of isola- to tell you what to do,” Ms. Moscowitz said.
comes here,” said her daughter. When she plain to people why she’s doing what she’s tion and improve their mental and physical She suggests asking what would be helpful,
does leave for an hour or two, she’s afraid to doing, why they shouldn’t be angry or health. making a list of specific tasks and parceling
put down her cellphone. afraid,’” Ms. Moscowitz said. “It’s just easi- Mary Mittelman, director of the out assignments.
Though a couple of friends occasionally er to stay home.” “What am I supposed Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Demen- “Don’t invite me for lunch — you know I
invite her out for dinner, “I can’t commit to Yet a habit of avoiding others — or watch- to do, keep him in a tias Family Support Program at NYU Lan- can’t go,” Ms. Sherman-Lewis said. “Just
anything, in case my mom is having a bad ing them avoid you — collides with a grow- crate in the car?” gone Health, has been conducting such bring a pizza and a bottle of wine and come
day,” Ms. Brairton said. She has begun to ing body of research showing how damag- MARCY SHERMAN-LEWIS studies for years. by.”
worry that when she does spend time with ing isolation and loneliness can be. They are With federal and state grants, the pro- Though tangible help counts — and let’s
others, her narrowing life leaves her with associated with a host of ills, including heart gram — involving several counseling ses- acknowledge that an aging country can’t
nothing interesting to say. disease and stroke. Among older people, sions, followed by support groups and rely solely on families, friends and volun-
Those who work with caregivers know isolation is linked to depression, even phone access to counselors as needed — teers to provide everything dependent eld-
this phenomenon well, especially when the higher mortality. Lonely old people, Dutch has inspired others that have been adopted ers need, however well supported they are
cared-for person has dementia, a particu- researchers have found, are more apt to de- throughout New York and in several other — so do regular texts, calls or visits. They
larly arduous responsibility. velop dementia. states. help keep caregivers from feeling invisible
“Caregiving is done with a lot of love and We’ve long thought of these factors as “The support is what leads to less stress, and forgotten.
affection, but there’s a lot of loss involved,” dangers for the people being cared for. But less depression, better health and delayed Counselors in the NYU program once had
said Carey Wexler Sherman, a gerontolo- they also imperil caregivers, who are often nursing-home admissions,” Dr. Mittelman the friendly inspiration, since they kept
gist at the University of Michigan Institute older adults as well. said. Interestingly, her team has found that caregivers’ information in their database, to
for Social Research. “People talk about Years of caring for his wife, now de- “instrumental support,” in which others ac- send clients a card on their birthdays.
friends disappearing, about even family ceased, who had early onset Alzheimer’s, tually help with tasks, has less impact than It sounds sweet, if trivial. But often, Dr.
members not wanting to be involved. It’s a left Les Sperling, 65, so despondent that “I’d emotional support. Mittelman said, “they’d call up, so grateful,
lonely business.” stay in my room in the dark and sleep all “Having someone outside who is paying and say, ‘You’re the only one who remem-
Sometimes, caregivers isolate them- day,” he said. “I didn’t want to come out.” attention and who cares is more important,” bered.’”

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Global Health D O NA L D G . M c NE I L J r .
ESSAY

Rapid Malaria Tests Work, With Drawbacks

Rapid diagnostic tests have African countries and Afghanis-
tan. Over all, 75 percent of the
The Universe in Motion
greatly improved malaria treat- CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1
ment in the last decade, but they patients got malaria drugs or an cians call rigidity.
also had some unexpected bad antibiotic, regardless of their test Something that is rigid cannot be de-
consequences, a large new study results. formed or bent without destroying its es-
has found. In most sites, between 40 to 80 sential nature. Like Platonic solids, rigid ob-
jects are typically rare, and sometimes the-
As hoped, the tests — which percent of those who did not have
oretical objects can be so rigid they don’t ex-
use only a drop of blood and malaria got antibiotics, even ist — mathematical unicorns.
provide results in about 15 min- though the majority probably had In common usage, rigidity connotes in-
utes — substantially decreased viral infections, which antibiotics flexibility, usually negatively. Diamonds,
how many patients with fever do not help. Complex testing in however, owe their strength to the rigidity
were incorrectly given or sold poor countries is impossible, so of their molecular structure. Controlled ri-
doctors and nurses often offer gidity — that is, flexing only along certain
malaria drugs when they did not
directions — allows suspension bridges to
have malaria. But the number of antibiotics to sick patients just in
survive high winds.
patients who got antibiotics in- case the cause is bacterial. Dr. Ratner and Dr. Mirzakhani were ex-
stead shot up, even if they were The study was part of a long perts in this more subtle form of rigidity.
not tested for bacterial infections effort paid for by the Bill and They worked to characterize shapes pre-
— a practice that encourages the Melinda Gates Foundation to served by motions of space.
emergence of drug-resistant investigate how artemisinin, a One example is a mathematical model
malaria drug invented in China called the Koch snowflake, which displays a
germs.
repeating pattern of triangles along its
The study also found that a and introduced about 15 years
edges. The edge of this snowflake will look
disturbing number of people who ago, could be widely used — but the same at whatever scale it is viewed.
tested positive for malaria still did not overused. The snowflake is fundamentally un-
not get malaria drugs. At five of Malaria experts hope to slow changed by rescaling; other mathematical
eight testing sites in Africa, more down the emergence of ar- objects remain the same under different
than 20 percent did not. temisinin-resistant strains. types of motions. The shape of a ball, for ex-
Deaths from malaria have ample, is not changed when it is spun.
“This surprised us, but we don’t Dr. Ratner and Dr. Mirzakhani studied
have a lot of insight into why it dropped 60 percent since 2000,
shapes that are preserved under more so-
happens,” said Dr. Heidi Hopkins, partly because the drugs are so
a malaria diagnostics expert at effective — but resistant parasites
the London School of Hygiene are turning up, especially in
and Tropical Medicine and one of Southeast Asia.
the study’s authors.
Drug shortages were uncom-
VIA ANNA RATNER
mon at most study sites, she said.
But it is also possible that nurses
inured to shortages might have
held back free drugs from pa-
tients who were not seriously ill
or who appeared able to buy the
drugs elsewhere. phisticated types of motions, and in higher
The study, published in The dimensional spaces.
American Journal of Tropical In Dr. Ratner’s case, that motion was of a
shearing type, similar to a strong wind high
Medicine and Hygiene, looked at
in the atmosphere. Dr. Mirzakhani, with my
more than 500,000 patient visits PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/A.F.P. — GETTY IMAGES
colleague Alex Eskin, focused on shearing,
to rural or urban clinics in five Malaria testing in Lagos, Nigeria. stretching and compressing.
These mathematicians proved that the
only possible preserved shapes in this case
are, unlike the snowflake, very regular and
smooth, like the surface of a ball.
The consequences are far-reaching: Dr.
Q&A The Reason Behind a Bite Ratner’s results yielded a tool that re-
searchers have turned to a wide variety of
Q. Can dogs smell fear? uses, like illumining properties in se-
A. Dogs have remarkable olfac- quences of numbers and describing the es-
tory ability and can be trained to sential building blocks in algebraic geome-
smell a chemical at very low try.
concentration, said Dr. Katherine The work of Dr. Mirzakhani and Dr. Eskin AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES

Albro Houpt, a professor emeritus has similarly been called the “magic wand Marina Ratner, top, became famous in her 50s. Maryam Mirzakhani, above, in 2014. Above left, the
of behavioral medicine at the theorem” for its multitude of uses, including iterative construction of the Koch snowflake, the edge of which looks the same at any scale.
an application to something called the wind-
Cornell University College of
tree model.
Veterinary Medicine. More than a century ago, physicists at- most important in the past half-century, but echelons.
But there is no proof that dogs tempting to describe the process of diffu- she never quite received the recognition At Harvard, the number of tenured wom-
can smell fear. sion imagined an infinite forest of regularly she deserved. That is partly because her en research mathematicians is currently
In theory, some dedicated spaced identical and rectangular trees. The best work came late in her career, and zero. At my institution, the University of
chemist might be able to isolate wind blows through this bizarre forest, partly because of how she worked — always Chicago, until 2011 only one woman had ever
VICTORIA ROBERTS
bouncing off the trees as light reflects off a alone, without collaborators or graduate held such a position.
an odor from the sweat or urine of students to spread her reputation.
scared people, and then track the reactions of dogs to it, she said. But mirror. We are only gradually joining the ranks,
Dr. Mirzakhani and Dr. Eskin did not Berkeley did not even put out a news re- in what might be called a “trickle up” fash-
such an experiment has not been done. lease when she died.
themselves explore the wind-tree model, ion.
Many owners believe that their dogs bite people because they smell but other mathematicians used their magic By contrast, Dr. Mirzakhani’s work, two Students often tell me that my presence
fear. In fact, Dr. Houpt said, the most common victim is someone who wand theorem to prove that a broad univer- decades later, was immediately recognized on the faculty convinces them that women
reaches out to pet a dog while saying something like, “I love dogs, and sality exists in these forests: Once the num- and acclaimed. Word of her death spread
belong in mathematics. Though she would
they all love me.” ber of sides to each tree is fixed, the wind quickly — it was front-page news in Iran.
have shrugged it off, I was similarly in-
will explore the forest at the same funda- Perhaps that is a sign of progress.
So what does set off an attack? spired by Dr. Ratner.
mental rate, regardless of the actual shape I first met Dr. Mirzakhani in 2004. She
“We do know that dogs are likely to attack rapidly departing people,” was finishing her Ph.D. at Harvard. I was a I hope I played this role for Dr. Mirza-
of the tree. khani. And for all of her reticence about be-
Dr. Houpt said. “They are responding with predatory aggression, not professor at Northwestern, pregnant with
There are other talented women explor- ing famous, Dr. Mirzakhani has inspired an
recognition of fear in the victim.” ing fundamental questions like these, but my second child.
A dog is most likely to ignore someone who is not moving, she added. Given her reputation, I expected to meet entire generation of younger women.
why are there not more? In 2015, women ac- There are a surprising number of social
That is why children are told not to run but to stand still, arms at their counted for only 14 percent of the tenured a fearless warrior with a single-minded fo-
cus. I was quite disarmed when the conver- pressures against becoming a mathemati-
sides, when a strange dog approaches. positions in Ph.D.-granting math depart-
sation turned to being a mathematician and cian. When you’re in the minority, it takes
Sometimes not being afraid is more dangerous than fear, Dr. Houpt ments in the United States. That is up from 9
a mother. extra strength and toughness to persist. Dr.
said. “If you look a dog in the eye, especially a confident, aggressive percent two decades earlier.
“How do you do it?” she asked. That such Ratner and Dr. Mirzakhani had both.
dog, he is more likely to bite than if you avoid eye contact.” Dr. Ratner’s theorems are some of the
a mind could be preoccupied with such a For the inspiration they provide, but
[email protected] Amie Wilkinson is a professor of mathematics at question points, I think, to the obstacles above all for the beauty of their mathemat-
C. CLAIBORNE RAY the University of Chicago. women still face in climbing to math’s upper ics, we celebrate their lives.

Finding an Unlikely Culprit in Weight Gain

Studies in mice suggest a mone’s role was limited to reproduction.
F.S.H. stimulates the production of eggs in
duction of estrogen and F.S.H., putting them
into a reversible state of menopause.
reproductive hormone may women and sperm in men. Within five months, she found, the wom-
help shape women into Researchers knew that blood levels of
F.S.H. soar as women’s ovaries start to fail
en’s fat moves to their abdomens, increas-
ing by 11 percent on average. And they burn
‘apples’ at menopause. before menopause. At the same time, wom- 50 fewer calories per day.
en rapidly lose bone — even when blood lev- The effect is reversed when the partici-
By GINA KOLATA els of estrogen, which can preserve bone, pants stop taking the drug or when Dr.
For middle-aged women struggling with remain steady. Kohrt gives them estrogen.
their weight, a recent spate of scientific Dr. Zaidi reasoned that F.S.H. could be a Something similar goes on in men, al-
findings sounds too good to be true. And culprit in bone loss. So he and his colleagues though it’s not clear that F.S.H. is the sole
they may be, researchers caution. created an antibody that blocked F.S.H. in cause, said Dr. Michael W. Schwartz, direc-
female mice whose ovaries had been re- tor of the Nutrition Obesity Research Cen-
Studies in mice indicate that a single hor-
moved. ter at the University of Washington.
mone whose levels rise at menopause could
Since the mice were making no estrogen Men with advanced prostate cancer often
be responsible for a characteristic redistri-
at all, they ought to have been losing bone. take Lupron, a drug intended to stop the
bution of weight in middle age to the abdo-
Indeed, the bone marrow in such mice usu- production of testosterone, which can fuel
men, turning many women from “pears” to
ally fills with fat instead of developing bone their tumors. Often, they gain weight, accu-
“apples.” At the same time, the hormone
cells. Much the same happens in women: mulating fat in their abdomens.
may spur the loss of bone.
That’s why their bones become less dense.
In mouse studies, blocking the hormone Lupron also blocks production of F.S.H.,
But in Dr. Zaidi’s lab, the mice that re-
solves those problems, increasing the calo- and the mouse studies suggest that this
ceived the antibody did not developed fat-
ries burned, reducing abdominal fat, slow- should prevent weight gain. That might be
filled bone marrow — and, to his enormous UNIVERSAL IMAGES GROUP, VIA GETTY IMAGES
ing bone loss and even encouraging physi- because of the loss of testosterone.
surprise, they lost large amounts of fat.
cal activity. Yet in experiments in which men were
“This is a weird, weird finding,” he re- Brown fat is more common in children, A magnetic resonance
The notion that such a simple interven- called telling his friend Dr. Clifford J. Rosen, given both Lupron and testosterone — leav-
but researchers have found that adults also image of an osteoarthritic
tion could solve two big problems of a bone specialist at Maine Medical Center ing F.S.H. the only blocked hormone — they
carry small amounts. In the experimental pelvis. Recent mouse
menopause has received the attention of re- Research Institute. Dr. Zaidi persuaded Dr. still did not lose weight. F.S.H. clearly is not
mice, white fat was being converted to studies have indicated that
searchers and has prompted commentaries Rosen to help repeat the experiments inde- a single hormone might be
the only factor at work, then.
brown fat.
in prestigious journals like The New Eng- pendently, each in his own lab. At the moment, Dr. Rosen is withholding responsible for menopausal But the dream of an easy way to prevent
land Journal of Medicine and Cell Metabo- At first, Dr. Rosen was dubious: “I said, ‘I judgment about whether the results will ap- weight distribution as well abdominal weight gain is so appealing, you
lism. don’t believe it, I think it’s not going to work, ply to humans. “I think the idea has some as spurring the loss of just want it to be true, said Dr. Philipp E.
“It’s a super interesting idea,” said Dr. and it will cost a lot of money.’” But he re- credibility,” he said. “But does it mean any- bone. Scherer, a professor of internal medicine at
Daniel Bessesen, an obesity expert and pro- ceived a grant for the research, and the two thing? I don’t know.” the University of Texas Southwestern Med-
fessor of medicine at the University of Col- labs got started. But these are not the only researchers to ical Center.
orado School of Medicine. With obesity ris- Two and a half years later, they had their find a link between obesity and the strange He has seen too many mouse studies fail
ing, “we definitely need some new ideas.” results — and they replicated Dr. Zaidi’s interplay of hormones. “It’s a super interesting in humans to be persuaded that this one will
The work began when Dr. Mone Zaidi, a original findings. The researchers also Wendy Kohrt, a professor of medicine at idea. We definitely succeed. “I will be on the sidelines waiting,”
professor of medicine at the Icahn School of came up with a theory that might explain the University of Colorado, has been study- need some new ideas.” he said.
Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, increased metabolic rates in mice in which ing the effects of menopause on women’s DR. DANIEL BESSESEN
Dr. Zaidi is undeterred. He is already pre-
became curious about whether a reproduc- F.S.H. is blocked. body fat and the amount of calories women UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO paring to test an anti-F.S.H. antibody in peo-
tive hormone — F.S.H., or follicle-stimulat- There are two kinds of fat in the body: burn. SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ple.
ing hormone — affects bone density. White fat primarily stores energy, and Dr. Kohrt has given healthy pre- “Whether it works in humans, I have ab-
It had long been assumed that the hor- brown fat burns calories and throws off heat. menopausal women a drug that blocks pro- solutely no idea,” Dr. Zaidi said.
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A Scientific Fire Fight

CONTINUED FROM PAGE D1
more fire on the landscape. But longer term,
it could lead to profound changes in forests,
potentially driving some creatures to ex-
tinction.
The question coming into focus is simple,
but answering it in the age of global warm-
ing will be a lifetime challenge for a rising
generation of forest managers: How much
fire is enough?

A History of Fires
Scientists are still trying to figure out how
regularly forests burned in what is now the
United States in the centuries before Euro-
pean settlement, but reams of evidence sug-
gest the acreage that burned was more than
is allowed to burn today — possibly 20 mil-
lion or 30 million acres in a typical year. To-
day, closer to four million or five million
acres burn every year.
Scientists say that returning forests to a
more natural condition would require allow-
ing 10 million or 15 million acres to burn ev-
ery year, at least.
“From an ecological standpoint, every-
thing I’ve learned teaches me this is a good
idea: Stop putting out fires,” said Jennifer R.
Marlon, a geographer at Yale who was
among the first to use the term “fire deficit”
to describe the situation. “These forests are
made to have fire.”
Yet in the few years when wildfires actu-
ally burn close to 10 million acres, that is
seen as a national emergency, producing
panicky news coverage portraying fires as
devastating to forests. This year may turn
out to be one of the more prominent recent
years for fire; more than five million acres
have already burned, temperatures are at
record highs in parts of the country, and
there are weeks of fire weather still to go.
Efforts to suppress fires began in the 19th
century, largely motivated by the view that
forests should be seen as standing timber
with economic value. By the 1930s, industri-
al-scale techniques allowed firefighting
agencies, including the United States Forest
Service, to suppress fires across the land-
scape.
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A handful of scientists began arguing dec-

ades ago that this was a mistake. Over the The black-backed
past decade or so, the research has crystal- woodpecker has come to
lized into a new understanding of the role of symbolize a huge debate
fire in forests.
Hundreds of species can live in recently
over the future of fire in
burned forests, researchers have learned, American forests.
and many of them prefer these charred
forests above any other. Some beetles even and disconcerting.
have heat-sensing organs to detect forest Any standing dead tree is called a snag,
fires from miles away, rushing toward them and Dr. Hanson calls any burned forest
to lay their eggs in the just-burned trees. where the trees have been left alone a snag
Far from being calamities, fires are now forest. His group, the John Muir Project of
seen by many experts as essential to im- the Earth Island Institute in Berkeley, Calif.,
proving the long-term health of the forests, has pressed the argument over the past
thinning them and creating greater vari- decade that snag forests are among the
ability on the landscape. most important plant and animal habitats in
Yet that awareness has yet to penetrate North America.
the public consciousness. Dr. Hanson has made himself a thorn in
People still think forest fires are bad and the side of state and federal agencies, pes-
expect the government to try to stamp them tering and sometimes suing them. But
out, even in remote wilderness areas. Fed- gradually, they have begun to acknowledge
eral and state firefighting costs in some that burned forests must be viewed as spe-
years approach $2 billion. cial places.
Arguments for a new approach have Still, considerable disagreement remains
yielded change in some parts of the country, among scientists about exactly how forests
such as the northern Rocky Mountains. But should be managed. Dr. Hanson studied un- burn. The lucrative, and scientifically con- Clockwise from top: lous state in the nation at 39 million people.
in California and many other areas, fire- der Malcolm North, a Forest Service scien- troversial, practice of logging trees just af- Firefighters battled a Air quality is already poor across large
fighters still try to extinguish virtually ev- tist who also holds a position at the Univer- ter a fire might well be banned across large wildfire near Oroville, Calif., parts of the state, and fires burning many
ery blaze. sity of California, Davis — but the two men areas, since those dead trees turn out to be in June; Chad T. Hanson of miles away can produce smoke and haze
The battle over forest management may have come to disagree. Dr. North argues an important habitat for many types of the John Muir Project that aggravate asthma and annoy people,
come to a climax in the next few years, that Dr. Hanson goes too far in arguing that creatures, including the woodpeckers. played a recorded potentially creating a political backlash.
though — and the tiny black-backed wood- even the most severe fires, those that Scientists who want to let more fires burn woodpecker call while Randy Moore, head of the Forest Service
pecker could be one reason. produce some large patches of snag forest, searching for birds in
take pains to make clear that they do not district that covers California, said in an in-
are a good thing. mean to put people’s lives on the line. In Yosemite National Park; a
New Life Among the Ashes terview that the agency was taking the re-
“I would agree it’s actually a valuable fact, they believe the government could sign near Buck Meadows
In two visits with a reporter to the Sierra cent scientific work seriously. In a mile-
habitat type,” Dr. North said. “It’s just that make people safer than they are today if it warned of fire danger;
Nevada, in 2016 and 2017, Dr. Hanson made stone, it is drafting plans for three national
he’s arguing for way too much of it, and in redirected funds into community fire-safety black-backed woodpecker
the case that letting more of the woods burn really big patches.” forests in California that may call for allow-
projects. foraging holes in Stanislaus
is essential to restoring the ecological In cooperation with another group, the ing fires caused by lightning strikes to burn
They also point out that many people are National Forest; a
health of forests. Center for Biological Diversity, Dr. Han- in some remote areas.
putting themselves at risk by building black-backed woodpecker in
Only a few years after the great confla- son’s group in 2012 filed a petition to list the action; snags, or standing
“We need to move toward fire as being
homes in remote, fire-prone areas without
gration in 2013 known as the Rim Fire black-backed woodpecker as threatened dead trees, in a part of the not necessarily an enemy,” Mr. Moore said.
taking essential steps to make the homes
burned more than 250,000 acres of Califor- under the Endangered Species Act. They fire-resistant, like installing metal roofs. Ex- Stanislaus National Forest Dr. Ingalsbee believes another force is go-
nia forest near Yosemite National Park, Dr. argued that fewer than 1,000 breeding pairs tensive research shows that wildfires will in California that was ing to drive change in the nation’s fire poli-
Hanson cited signs of rejuvenation even in might be left across Oregon and California. usually leave properly built and maintained severely burned in the Rim cies, perhaps more so than any argument
the most severely burned areas. Under the Obama administration, biolo- homes with little damage, but rural commu- Fire of 2013. over woodpeckers. The families of wilder-
On several hikes, mostly in Stanislaus gists at the United States Fish and Wildlife nities have hesitated to adopt strict building ness firefighters who died on the job once
National Forest, which sustained most of Service declared that protection for the bird codes. tended to accept their lot resignedly, but
the damage from the Rim Fire, he pointed to might be warranted, but it is unclear what “People like to do whatever they damn some are starting to sue, asking why the
newly sprouted trees carpeting the forest the Trump administration will do with the well please on their own land,” said Timothy government is defying the latest science in
floor. Butterflies flitted through lush stands proposal. It faces a Sept. 30 deadline. If the Ingalsbee, a former firefighter who now a risky attempt to extinguish remote fires.
of shrubs. The once-dense forest had taken petition is turned down, the environmental runs an advocacy group, Firefighters “The lives of young people are not worth
on a parklike openness, essential for certain groups are likely to sue. United for Safety, Ethics and Ecology. “But saving trees that really need to burn any-
kinds of plants to thrive. A listing for black-backed woodpeckers when a wildfire comes, they’re calling Uncle way,” Dr. Ingalsbee said. “Families are no
Still, the dead, leafless trees, standing 80 would almost certainly require a new ap- Sam saying, ‘Please, come save me.’” longer going to be mollified by politicians
to 100 feet tall and glistening black in the proach to forest fires that would include al- The argument for more fires will be espe- showing up at the memorial talking about
sun, made for a sight both starkly beautiful lowing some fires caused by lightning to cially difficult in California, the most popu- their fallen heroes.”
D6 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2017

Well
Ask Well ESSAY

Secret Life of Pain

Can adults develop food Several patterns have been
observed that are unique to adults
allergies? who develop new food allergies.
Yes. Preliminary data One is called oral allergy syn-
from a large, new drome, which occurs in a small
national study that is percentage of adults who have
“Pain is an
currently under review seasonal allergies. It “involves interpretation by the
suggests that nearly 52 percent of your body getting tricked,” said brain.”
American adults with a reported Dr. Chinthrajah. She explained DR. WESLEY GILLIAM
MAYO CLINIC
food allergy developed one or that some adults might have
more food allergies after age 18. allergies to tree pollen, for exam-
An estimated 5 percent of ple, and some of the tree proteins college football player who talked like He-
adults in the United States have a are similar to those in fruits and mingway and grew up treeing mountain li-
food allergy, compared with about ons with his forest ranger dad, it meant giv-
vegetables, “so when your body
ing up the opioids he’d become dependent
8 percent of children. And while eats the raw form of those foods, on after his spine had been messed up by an
some children outgrow allergies it thinks you’re eating tree unlicensed quack. Seeing his transforma-
— usually those to milk, eggs and pollen.” Birch tree pollen, for tion gave me hope of finding a path forward.
wheat — many retain their al- instance, bears similarities to Although I had known that a third of Ameri-
lergies through adulthood. proteins found in fruits like cans were afflicted with chronic pain, more
Dr. Ruchi Gupta, a food allergy peaches, apples and cherries. The than cancer, diabetes and heart disease
researcher who led the national combined, it was only at this point that I
main symptom is typically itchy
study, noted that at allergy meet- started to shake my sense of isolation.
mouth or throat. Interestingly, if Stripped of my props, I tried one of the
ings around the world, “you’d the fruit is first processed or clinic’s suggestions, to turn my mind to-
hear more and more about adult- cooked in any way, it denatures ward my breath. As someone who had
onset food allergy. But this was all the protein and does not produce grown up on creamed corn and chicken
anecdotal. That’s the reason we the same reaction. YONI GOODMAN fried steak, this conscious breathing —
did the study, to get the numbers Many adults who develop a what hippies call meditation — was a brand
of new age hooey that I couldn’t easily stom-
behind how frequently.” new food allergy wonder what I had become adept at hiding ings’ distance.
ach. But even after I left the monthlong pro-
Last year, Dr. Gupta and col- Eventually, I let the doctors at the embas-
leagues from Northwestern and
caused it — the “turn-on switch” the unexplained pain that sy in on my secret. They deemed me unfit gram, I worked on making it a daily ritual.
as Dr. Gupta calls it. Anecdotal And gradually, I could feel my relation-
the AmeriSpeak unit of the NORC
reports suggest that pregnancy,
racked my back and joints. for work and medevac’ed me from Bangkok
ship with the pain change. As I sat and con-
Survey Research Lab at the Uni- back to the United States for treatment. I
for example, can trigger new left quickly, without awkward explanations centrated on my breath, flickers of aware-
versity of Chicago surveyed of By DAVID C. ROBERTS ness began to emerge like a picture through
allergies, leading some to hypoth- or goodbyes.
40,447 adults across the United Five years ago, I still lived a double life. the snow of an old TV set. After a month or
esize that a hormonal connection It turned out that my salvation had al-
States, recruited from a nationally I was 35, looking out over the Gulf of Thai- ways been within reach. But it took an ago- two (and I never missed a day), I was able
may be at play. Other patients
representative sample. They land and a few weathered beach tenders. In- nizing series of flights to the Mayo Clinic in to step back and note, like a disinterested
report they noticed a new allergy side, where dark suits filled the conference observer, how it felt like a tiny creature was
found that shellfish was the most Rochester, Minn., to find that out.
after getting a viral infection. Still, room, I could feel the eyes of my fellow di- gnawing its way out of my hip socket, or
common food allergy among For a month the doctors there pushed,
it is not yet clear what causes a plomats. how my organs seemed to be stirred by a
adults, affecting 3.9 percent of the prodded and ran their tests. But they found
new reaction to a food after some- No doubt they were wondering why I was nothing remarkable. They had no fix. ladle through my back. Then, after several
population, followed by peanut months, I noticed that these sensations rose
one has eaten it for decades with- sitting on my briefcase. I joked to no one in Out of options, I joined the other no-hop-
allergies, at 2.4 percent, and tree particular, “My nuclear codes,” trying to de- and fell; the constancy of the aggression
out incident. ers at Mayo’s pain rehabilitation center.
nut allergies, at 1.9 percent. flect awkwardness. The case actually con- had been a fantasy.
Importantly, an allergic reac- There, chronic pain, unlike the acute varie-
Peanut allergies typically de- cealed an orthotic sitting cushion that muf- Emboldened, I took my wife to a matinee
tion is not the same as a food ty, was treated as a malfunction in percep-
velop during childhood, and chil- fled the pain in my lower back; without it, one lazy afternoon — my first time in a mov-
intolerance. An allergic reaction is tion, whether or not an ongoing physical
dren less commonly outgrow silent shrieking was all I heard. ie theater in years. Surprised that I had sat
characterized by marked symp- cause had been identified. The brain be-
them than they do other food Or maybe they had noticed I was the only for such a long stretch, she broke one of
comes addicted to dramatizing pain, they
allergies. Peanut allergy appears toms, such as itching, hives, one sweating. The air-conditioning tem- Mayo’s commandments and blurted out:
said; and the more you feed it, the stronger “Does it still hurt?”
to be equally prevalent among swelling, trouble breathing or pered the tropical heat, but it was no match the addiction. So don’t dwell on the pain,
vomiting, within two hours of for the corset heat wrap that lay discreetly A few seconds passed before it slowly
American adults and children. and don’t try to fix it — no props, no pills. came back into view: a deep ache inside my
consuming the food in question. under my tailored suit. Eventually the mind should let go.
It has been well established Over the previous decade I had become right hip, a burn dancing between my ankle
that kids develop allergies to the Symptoms that appear the next I was skeptical at first. But the more I and outer foot, a slow chewing in my lower
adept at hiding the unexplained pain that learned about chronic pain, the more sense
“top eight” foods: milk, egg, day may be characteristic of a back. The old panic rose. But this time I did-
racked my back and joints. To all appear- it made. Studies have shown, for example,
wheat, soy, peanut, tree nuts, fish food intolerance, which Dr. ances, I was a fit 6-foot-3 man with an easy n’t try to attack or run, and it didn’t bark or
Chinthrajah said researchers did that people can develop a general hyper- bite back; we simply eyed each other war-
and shellfish. Most of the reac- gait. sensitivity to pain after an injury — a condi-
tions in adults occur to the top not yet understand as well as they No one in that conference room knew my ily.
tion called central sensitization — that can “Yeah,” I said curtly, afraid that the truce
eight foods as well, according to understand food allergies. suit pants disguised a lace-up ankle brace persist long after the injury has healed.
and a strap velcroed around my left knee. would not last.
Dr. Sharon Chinthrajah, of Stan- More severe allergic reactions Other research demonstrates that the neu-
Nor did they know that during breaks I Yet somehow, it has. Today, not quite
ford University School of Medi- may require epinephrine or a visit ral activity triggered by a given physical three years after being medevac’ed, I not
would sneak back to my hotel room where
cine and medical director of the to the emergency department. stimulus can vary greatly among individu- only look the part of a healthy man, but
my wife, an artist who moonlighted as my
Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy But just because you have a reac- als; what some find unbearable, others reg- manage to act it too: hiking Great Gable in
one-person pit crew, waited to press my
and Asthma Research, which was tion once doesn’t mean you must ister as only a mild annoyance. “Pain is an the Lake District and neighborhood-hop-
quadratus lumborum muscle back into sub-
completely remove a food from interpretation by the brain,” explained Dr. ping around New York City, though admit-
involved in shaping the survey. mission.
Wesley Gilliam, the center’s clinical direc- tedly I tend toward yoga, swimming and
That said, shellfish allergy is your diet, said Dr. Gupta. Instead, I lasted through that meeting as I had
tor. epic walks rather than the macho sports of
more common among adults than if you have concerns, seek an through countless others. But in the months
For me, buying into the Mayo pain pro- my youth.
among children, as it tends to allergist to get tested. that followed, sitting and walking became
gram meant giving up my braces and straps My wife tells me I sit “like a champ,” but
appear later in life. increasingly difficult. I started to stand dur-
SOPHIE EGAN and, with the greatest reluctance, my sitting we avoid talking about how the pain still
ing meetings, avoid plane travel, and take
motorcycle taxis to go just a couple of build- cushion. Without it, I shifted constantly in shadows me, though at a greater distance.
my chair, “bucking like a rodeo horse,” ob- And while I haven’t thrown out my props,
DAVID ROBERTS , a former academic physicist served a clinic hand. they are carefully boxed away in my closet,
and diplomat, lives and works in New York City. For the guy sitting next to me, a former out of view.
In Brief NI CHO L A S B A KA L A R

R I S KS

Drinking and Diabetes PHYS ED GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

Moderate consumption study could not distinguish be-

of alcohol may be tied to tween different types of drinks.
a reduced risk for Type 2 Consuming alcohol three to four
diabetes, a Danish study days a week, compared with only
The Right Stride
has found. once, was also associated with a
Researchers used data on 28,704 lower risk, even after adjusting
Even beginning runners tend searchers began by having their volunteers
run at the same pace and stride length that
men and 41,847 women free of for the amount of alcohol con- to settle into the stride that is they had originally chosen as their personal
diabetes at the start who reported sumed. The senior author, Janne most efficient for them. favorite.
Then the researchers used a metronome
how often they drank and the S. Tolstrup, a professor of epide-
amounts of alcohol consumed. miology at the University of to sneakily alter people’s strides by asking
RUNNERS, IF you have worried about your them to match their footfalls to the metro-
They followed the group for an Southern Denmark, said that stride, relax. It is almost certainly fine, ac- nome’s tone — landing with their right foot
average of five years. The observa- spacing out your drinks over the cording to a comforting new study. every time the metronome sounded. The
tional study is in Diabetologia. week might be at least as impor- Researchers found that both experienced treadmill’s speed remained unchanged, but
After adjusting for diet, family tant as the amount consumed. and beginning runners tend to settle into the researchers sped up or slowed the ca-
history of diabetes, high blood “Keep consumption at moder- the stride that is most efficient for them. dence by first 8 and then 16 percent.
pressure, physical activity, smoking ate levels,” she said, “about seven Tinkering with how you run is unlikely to be In order to keep pace, the runners had to
and other factors, they found that drinks a week for women and 14 beneficial for performance and could make shorten or lengthen their strides accord-
compared with abstainers, men for men. Alcohol is associated
running more difficult, the study found. ingly.
As a species, humans are innately capa- The researchers had them maintain
who drank 14 drinks a week had a with many diseases and condi-
ble of running. Unless we are disabled, most these strides for two minutes, while track-
43 percent lower risk of diabetes, tions — at the same level where it of us start running as toddlers and continue, ing their breathing throughout.
and women who drank nine drinks may protect against diabetes, the sporadically, throughout our lives, racing Then they examined the data to see how
a week a 58 percent lower risk. The risk of other diseases is in- through airports or after the fast-receding the volunteers’ running economy had been
mechanism is unknown, and the creased.” bus we just missed. But because we can run, affected.
does this mean that we naturally run well? They found that the effects had been con-
Many experts, including running coaches siderable. When the runners modified their
and exercise physiologists, have debated preferred running strides, whether length-
that question in recent years, pondering GETTY IMAGES ening or shortening them, their economy
CANCER whether there is a platonic ideal running generally declined. The running became
form that everyone should adopt. ming, all of whom were fit but none of whom physically more difficult.
Gum Disease and Cancer Risk In particular, they have argued about
stride length and cadence, or the number of
had done much if any running in the past
two years.
Interestingly, this finding held true for
both the experienced and inexperienced
Periodontal disease in increase even in women who steps runners take per minute. Stride They then had each volunteer run on a runners, and to about the same extent. De-
older women is associ- never smoked. length and cadence are intimately con- treadmill in the university’s human per- spite their inexperience, the novices in-
ated with an increased The increased risk from peri-
nected, and experts and runners have won- formance lab at whatever speed they felt to stinctively chose their most efficient pace
dered whether altering these variables be most comfortable. For the experienced and stride at the start of the study. Length-
risk for cancer, a new odontal disease was highest for might make someone a better, faster run- runners, this was their typical training ening or shortening their strides subse-
study concludes. esophageal and gallbladder can- ner. Many of us who run have been told at speed. For the novice runners, it was the quently did not make them more economi-
Previous studies have sug- cers, with increased risk also for various times that we should shorten our fastest pace that they felt they could main- cal; instead, it made them less efficient.
gested a link, but this new analy- cancers of the breast and lung, strides in order to run faster, or maybe tain for at least 20 minutes. These findings indicate that “our bodies
sis, in Cancer Epidemiology, and for melanoma of the skin. But lengthen them, and perhaps aim for a ca- The researchers manually counted each know what they are doing” when it comes to
Biomarkers & Prevention, offers gum disease was not associated dence above 160 steps per minute. volunteer’s steps, a number that they veri- choosing running form, even without the
additional evidence on specific with cancers of the pancreas, But there has been surprisingly little sci- fied with videotape, and then arithmetically benefit of any instruction, said Iain Hunter,
cancers. liver or lower digestive tract. entific evidence that either reinforces or re- determined the length of each person’s a professor of exercise science at B.Y.U. who
futes the idea that modifying how we run is stride when they ran at their favorite speed. oversaw the study and is also a staff scien-
Researchers followed more Although the exact mechanism
advisable, especially if we are newcomers Finally, during a second day at the lab, tist for USA Track & Field.
than 65,000 women, average age is unknown, gum pathogens could to the sport. they fitted everyone with masks that deter- Of course, this was a one-time look at a
68, participating in a larger health reach sites in the body through So for the new study, which was pub- mined their oxygen intake, in order to track small group of runners and focused on a sin-
study. They gathered information swallowed saliva, causing inflam- lished in May in The International Journal their running economy. gle, sustainable running speed for each. It
on periodontal disease with self- mation in other organs, the au- of Exercise Science, scientists at Brigham Running economy is important. In phys- can’t tell us whether there are other situa-
reports, and over an average of thors suggest. Young University in Provo, Utah, set out to iological terms, economy is a measure of tions in which runners might benefit from
eight years of follow-up, they “We know that treating gum closely examine the strides of both expert physical demand. If one form of moving re- altering their strides, including to prevent
found 7,149 cancers. disease prevents tooth loss,” said and inexperienced runners and see would quires less oxygen than another, it is more injuries, or sprint madly toward a finish line
The study controlled for race, the senior author, Jean happen if they tweaked them. economical, less strenuous and will be easi- in order to set a personal best or pass one’s
They began by recruiting 19 skilled, com- er to maintain. So, if one way of running is spouse.
age, family history of cancer, Wactawski-Wende, a professor of
petitive runners, including 10 members of more economical than another, a runner But the general message is encouraging
smoking and other variables. epidemiology at the University at the university’s Division I women’s cross- employing that style will run longer and and empowering, Dr. Hunter said. For most
Gum disease was associated with Buffalo. “It could also be helpful country team. The researchers also gath- with greater ease than if he or she runs dif- of us who run, our most efficient stride is not
an overall 14 percent increased in managing cancer and other ered an additional 14 active people from ferently. something we have to learn from coaches or
risk for cancer, and a 12 percent systemic diseases.” other sports, including cycling and swim- So on this second lab visit, the re- other experts, he said. “It’s built in.”
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PERSONAL HEALTH JANE E. BRODY

For Cosmetics, Let the Buyer Beware

The government is powerless in 2015 and a 300 percent rise in 2016, largely
driven by complaints about WEN products.
to act until consumer “Over all,” the researchers found, “the
complaints raise a red flag. three most commonly implicated products
were hair care, skin care and tattoos,” and
“significantly higher than average reports
WHEN YOU WASH your hair, clean or mois- of serious health outcomes” involved baby,
turize your skin, polish your nails, or put on personal cleanliness, hair care and hair col-
makeup, deodorant or sunscreen, do you oring products.
ever think about whether the product Consumers who experience bad reac-
you’re using may do more harm than good? tions to such a product might consult a phy-
Maybe you should. Thanks to a lack of sician or contact the manufacturer, “but
federal regulations, the watchword for con- they rarely think of going to a government
sumers of cosmetics and personal care agency,” Dr. Xu said in an interview.
products should be caveat emptor: Let the The F.D.A. wants to encourage con-
buyer beware. sumers to submit reports to it directly and
To be sure, these products are not nearly has created a website to do so at:
as worrisome as drugs, which require ex- www.fda.gov/cosmetics/complianceen-
tensive testing and premarket approval by forcement/adverseeventreporting
the Food and Drug Administration. Still, At the same time, Senator Dianne Fein-
disasters can and sometimes do occur from stein, Democrat of California, and Senator
the use of cosmetics and personal care Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, have
products, and the government is powerless proposed a bill, the Personal Care Products
to act until a slew of consumer complaints Safety Act, that would require manufactur-
raise a red flag about a product. ers of cosmetics and personal care products
In a recent editorial in JAMA Internal to submit a list of all ingredients and reports
Medicine, Dr. Robert M. Califf, who served of adverse events to the F.D.A. and give the
as F.D.A. chief under President Obama, agency authority to order product recalls.
noted, “The cosmetic industry remains Dr. Xu said, “As a dermatologist, I live and
largely self-regulated. History has repeat- breathe personal care products day and
edly shown that when there is insufficient night. Patients ask me about them all the
regulatory oversight, a few unscrupulous time. I warn patients that labeling can be
people or companies will exploit the vulner- very tricky. One needs a Ph.D. in chemistry
able public for profit.” to be able to interpret all the terms. What
Even when a hazard comes to light, a PAUL ROGERS does it mean for a product to be labeled ‘na-
product can remain on the market for years. tural’? That doesn’t make it safe. Poison ivy
(Although the F.D.A. finally banned anti- tests at all) and claims for effectiveness and The Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic is perfectly natural.”
bacterial chemicals like triclosan from safety. Even the ingredients don’t have to be “The cosmetic Act defines cosmetics as “articles intended However, Dr. Xu said, “I’m not alarmist —
soaps, triclosan is still in toothpastes and filed with the government. (Only color addi- industry remains to be rubbed, poured, sprinkled, or sprayed I haven’t thrown out all the soaps and
other consumer products.) tives require premarket approval.) largely on, introduced into, or otherwise applied to creams in my house. I’m not in favor of over-
A current case is a classic example. The “The F.D.A. must wait for clues to accu- the human body . . . for cleansing, beauti- regulation that could result in higher costs
F.D.A. normally receives about 300 to 400 mulate from voluntary reports suggesting self-regulated.” fying, promoting attractiveness, or altering for products like moisturizers. But it should
complaints a year about bad reactions to that a product may not be as completely DR. ROBERT M. CALIFF the appearance.” not be controversial to ask for better report-
FORMER F.D.A. CHIEF
cosmetics and personal care products, all of safe as presumed,” Dr. Califf, a cardiologist Dr. Califf’s editorial accompanied a re- ing and a better data system that includes
which are sold over-the-counter without and vice chancellor at Duke University port in the journal by Dr. Shuai Xu, a derma- information from consumers, doctors and
prior government scrutiny. When in 2013 School of Medicine, wrote. tologist, and two colleagues at Northwest- manufacturers. That’s important not only to
the agency received 127 reports of adverse Asked in an interview whether more can ern University’s Feinberg School of Medi- detect problems but also to allay public
effects from a single line of hair-care prod- be done to protect the public, he said, “It’s cine. On the heels of the thousands of com- fears.”
ucts called WEN, it discovered that the highly unlikely in the current administra- plaints uncovered about WEN products, the Dr. Califf said that technological mecha-
manufacturer, Chaz Dean Inc., had been sit- tion. There’s a tiny work force at the F.D.A. F.D.A. made publicly available its Center for nisms for gathering such information al-
ting on more than 21,000 complaints of hair to deal with an enormous industry that’s Food Safety and Applied Nutrition’s Ad- ready exist, in particular through electronic
loss and scalp damage associated with it. currently self-policing. Voluntary reporting verse Event Reporting System, a repository health records. As a member of a family
A class-action lawsuit filed by more than of adverse events linked to cosmetics and of adverse events related to foods, dietary prone to melanoma, he said he is especially
200 women against the company and personal care products is a lot better than supplements and cosmetics. concerned about sunblocks, found in myri-
Guthy-Renker, an infomercial producer for nothing, but it’s way inadequate for the job. This enabled Dr. Xu and colleagues to an- ad cosmetic products as well as those sold
the company, was settled last year for $26.3 There’s no legal requirement for manufac- alyze all the adverse events associated with specifically as sunscreens.
million. Yet the company claims that WEN turers to forward reports of adverse events cosmetics and personal care products vol- “It’s not known how much of these chemi-
hair care products are “totally safe” and to the F.D.A.” untarily submitted from 2004 through 2016 cals is absorbed through the skin and what
continues to sell them. (Only manufacturers of drugs and medi- by consumers and health care profession- effect they may have over a lifetime of use,”
Unlike drugs, cosmetics can be sold cal devices are required to submit reports of als. Through 2014, they averaged 396 a year. he said. “The right studies of health effects
based solely on manufacturers’ tests (or no hazards associated with their products.) There was a 78 percent increase in reports have not been done.”

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